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seemingly for the purpose of restoring
the allied line in that section of the
battle front The attack at Port-a-
Binson, however, had another object
German troops were reported early in
the week at Marfaux and Pourcy,
northeast Of Chatillon and south of the
western spurs of Rheims mountain. A
considerable success near Chatfllon
would put them in a pocket within the
withdrawal to new lines further back
toward the middle of the German
salient.
West Of Port-a-Binson the Germans
hold the north bank of the Marne for
a considerable distance, and the
French apparently have struck at. the
angle between the German line along
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CLERK UNION WILL
WATCH FOOD COST

Efforts to stop food profiteerine in
Washington will be made by the Ma
tional Federation Of Federal EN-
ployes in cooperation with the food
administration.
Every government worker is to be
asked to consider himself a commit
tee Of one to detect profiteerfnR.
Blanks for making reports will be
furnished thousands Of clerks. The
eye, of the federal employe is to be
on the food dealer constantly, and
where profiteering is discovered or
only suspected the cases will be re-
ported to the food administration for
action.
Agreement at Conference.
This plan Of cooperation was agreed
on at a conference lasting more than
tween Clarence r. Wilson, food adj
ministrator, and the food COMMITTEES
Of the National Federation of Fe,feral i
Employees. headed by Acting Presi-
dent John 8. Beach
The committee is going to co-oper-
spects. It is going to get a line on
the prices charged Wholesalers by
producers. It wants to size nm tSs
profits Of the producer. the WHOLESALER
and the retailer. to sec which class
Of food dealers ts getting the better
Of the prevailing high prices.
The committee also intends to study
the food situation SO Thoroughly az 10
be in position to advise with Mr
Wilson each week regarding the fair
price list. In this respect it nis
to render particularly valuable assist
ance. n
Nearly every phase of the food sit-
uation was discussed at the confer-
ence and plans for the fullest co-op-
Grafton devised.
Both Mr.. Wilson and members Of the
committee today said that the confer
ence had been q most satisfactory one
and that beneflciaH results were ex-
pected to grow out of it. Thomas J,
Quinn of the federation, who fs q
member Of the committee, said that
the investigation OF prices charged
wholesalers by the farmers and pro-
ducers would start immediately.
Mr.. Wilson announced this morning
that he has invited the federal en-
ployes to name representative tc
serve on the fair price committee OF
the food administration.
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Progress ssScored BothPoints
---Heapy Enemy Attacks
Are Expected.
AMERICANS CLEAR WOODS
BELOW FERE-EN- TARDENOLS
ny the Associated Press,


Shifting their blows the southern of the between
SCISSORS and Rheims the French have struck the German line
the south side of the Marne and about mile
south of the village of Chation 1t officially reported from
Paris that the French lines advanced that point
Farther east Champagne sector the of Gen
Gouraud by local operation south of Montague Sans Nom
mountain without name) have pressed forward half
mile along front of almost two miles
Along the side of the German salient reported
that French and Americans attacking the enemy this
Ing centeng their efforts the work of clearing the Germans
of the wooded the south and southwest of Fereen
Tardenos This said to have been nearly accomplished
In spite of the general expectation that the Germans
fighting the southern side of the salient
of their armies and the savagng of the supplies piled up
along the Marne preparation for the great offensive which be-
July 5 there appears be disposition the part
the military consider the possibility of Ger
attack somewhere the battle line between scissors and
Rheims
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of the door, reached through the
opening and fired one shot at his sis-
ter-in-law, who had sought refuge
in a corner between the tub and rear
wall.
MT. Schorb, who was just getting
up, secured water pitcher and went
in defense of his daughter, meeting
the armed man and smashing the
pitcher over his head. Harry Vogel
fired one shot at Schorb. the bullet
entering his leg and inflicting pain
full wound
Leaving the house Harry vogel
went out the back way. having pre-
viously taken poison, 1t is believed.
as he was holding his hand on his
stomach and displaying evidences Of
severe pain. Neighbors ran to the
scene of the shooting and one of
them telephoned police Headquarters
and the fifth precinct, Capt Mulhall.
responding from the precinct and De-
tectives Boyle and Burlingame from
headquarters.
IT saw him going across the lot"
Joseph Howard told the three officers
from No. s, and search for vogel in
the thick weeds quickly ended in
Waters finding the dead body.
Taken to Hospital.
A physician from Casualty hospital
examined Harry Vogers body and
pronounced life extinct He then went
to the house, pronounced John vogel
dead and took the wounded father
of Mrs. voge1 to the hospital. where
the bullet was removed from his leg.
Coroner hewitt visited the C street
house and examined the bodies of the
two men on the floor in the kitchen,
Harry's body having been taken there
from the lot where 1t was found, and
read two notes taken from the pocket
Of the slayer. statement in one Of
them that he had ended it alF' con-
yincing him that the staying was pre-
meditated.
DR.. Nevitt said he was certain John
received three wounds, however, one
in the right ae siae ans ana % Two IN the shoul;
directly against the shirt when the
wound in the side waa inflicted. he
stated, powder marks on the shirt
40 showing. DR.. hewitt ssaid he would
<fS-,- T)r,evvr
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tHe Ilver ana that TOM the Marne To-
ward Rheims.
Signs Of Renewed Offensive.
The stubborn manner in which the
enemy has been fighting and his fail
ure to attack on some other sector. it
is contended, points to the fact that
the Germans are committed to a re-
newed offensive along the Marne in
the hope Of still winning 2 victory
there.
Along the British front near ArraS
and Lens and al9ng tAs SpRHe sector
British raiding parties have been ac.
tive at various points along thsff
lines.
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By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY ON
THE AISNE-MARNE FRONT, July 81
The Franco-American forces on the
front northeast of Chateau Thierry have
driven the Germans almost entirely out
of the wooded area which they have
been so stubbornly defending The al
lied pressure is being constantly main
tanned, and early today the punishment
of the enemy by artillery fire was re-
sumed with added vigor. Under the
cover of the guns the Franco-American
IL oops again began crawling forward
The advance is bringing the allies
still nearer to the important road juno
tion Of Fere-en-Tardenois. 1t is being
carried out through the remainder OF
the dense woods in this region and over
the rain-soaked fields and hills on their
ontakirts. Slowly retreating the Ger
mans are stubbornly fighting as they
retire.
Offensive Slows Down.
By the Associated Press.
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY ON
THE AISNE-MARNE FRONT. July rs.
3 n.m.-The allied offensive has slowed
down. but has not been checked. Franco
American troops today forced back the
Germans a bit farther north. The
1reater part of the fighting is taking
6iace in the big forests north Of the
Marne and along the western flank OF
the salient
chine guns and strong infantry de-
70 tachments, left the northern edges OF
the Fere, Tournelle and Ris forests
ana hattled cleverly and stubbornly to
hold the advancing allies until more
nrooress could be made in the trans
porfafion Of their supplies, guns and
renerai stores. But despite the oppo-
sition some ground was gained.
The woods tonight have almost been
freed of Germans. The Fere-en- Tar
denois road extending from the front
already is under such q fire from the
artillery as to make 1t useless as a
SUNNY artery. With further slight
nmsh forward by the allied troops
Eere-en-Tardenois will become un-
tenabie. Villemontoire has been re-
stored to the allied line. and from 1t
the allied artillery can easily reach
the Germans near Fere-en-Tardepois.
Enemy Dead Cover Ground.
The American troops. advancing
.,onr the Marne, have discovered
hundreds Of dead Germans The VIC
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FINLAND PREFERS KING
TO GERMAN governor

PARIS. July 27.-The crown Of Fin
land has been offered to Duke Adolph
Friedrich Of Mecklenburg-S -Schwerin.
and he has accepted. says a Zurich
dispatch to Le Journal The offer was
made by a deputation from the Fin
nish landtag.
The duke will return with the depu-
tation aboard Finnish warship. The
coronation. the dispatch adds, will
take place within few weeks.
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Family trouble" was the state
ment of Mrs. Louise Catherine vogel
1922 C street southeast, explaining
a tragedy in her home this morning
shortly before o'clock. Her hus-
band. John Edward vogel. thirty
nine years old. was shot in the body
by his brother. Harry vogel. forty
nine years old, and killed almost in
stantly.
Mrs. voge1 was pursued to the
bathroom on the second floor. where
her brother-in-law kicked a panel
from the fastened door and shot at
her. He then shot Karl Schorb. six
ty-f1ve years old. Mrs. vogers father
in the leg. swallowed poison, went
about one hundred feet from the back
gate and dropped dead.
Inc two Vogels and Frank. third
brother. were employed as wagon
drivers for the Carry Ice Cream
Company.
Early in the week John made an
accusation against his brother Harry,
and ordered him from the house, the
latter leaving Wednesday and return
ing the next day to get his effects.
Nothing further was heard from him
until this morning, when he appear
ed at the house and asked for some
tools. wanting to get them before
Johns family moved from the house
today, he stated. The household ef-
fects were packed ready to be moved
to Congress Heights, where Mrs.
Schofb. mother of Mrs. John Vogel,
resides.
Unable to Warn Husband.
John vopel was seated in Al. rear
room. used as kitchen and dining
room, when his brother appeared. His
wife admitted the brother Harry.
John directed his wife to go up
stairs and get the tools. AS the wife
passed her brother-in-law she saw
in the latter's hands revolver, hut
was unable to warn her husband be-
fore the shooting started. The first
bullet probably ended Johns life.
Mrs. Vogel ran through the hallway
and upstairs to the second floor, en-
tering the bathroom and closing and
fastening the door behind her. An in
slant later Harry kicked out c panel
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Finland Headtated.

l.-a,- saSsssx591kbAAo 4ASo&tuSSo.
It was reported early in May that
negotiations were IN progress to offer
the Finnish crown to Duke Adolph
Friedrich. Within the past week.
however. dispatches from Scandinavia
said that the Finnish landtag had re-
monarchy under a German king.
Duke Adolph Friedrich was born in
Schwerin in 1873. He is a colonel in
the Prussian guard and served for q
time as governor of Togoland The
duke is,an uncle of the reigning grand
duke of Mecklenburg-schwerin and is
unmarried.
Offered King or Governor.
STOCKHOLM, July 26.-The Nya
Dagligt Allehanda says Germany has
made serious representations amount
ing to an ultimatum to Finland for
the purpose of securing the establish
ment of a monarchy there. In these
representations, the newspaper ad-
vices from Finland say Germany re-
calls her services in behalf of safety
and order in the country which comes
under the German sphere of influence
and forms a link of her Russian Baltic
policy.
Germany maintains in the represen-
land would fall victim to disor-
ganization and entente intrigue and
this Germany would never allow. The
newspaper adds that the Finnish
landtag on reassembling a few days
hence must adopt monarchy or Ger
many will appoint a military gov
ernor.
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WEATHER.

Partly cloudy tonight and tomor-
. row; little change in temperature.
Temperature for twenty-four hours
ending noon today: Highest, 80, at
4:3o pm. yesterday: lowest, II. at
z am. today.
Full report on page 8.
Evening star., 1918-07-27
ALL|EDA AID TO RUSS
IS YET UNDECIDED
Four Nations, Including ia
pan, Interchanging Views.
Reach No Conclusion.

Allied military aid to Russia is still
under discussion and an agreement has
Tot yet been reached.
Interchange of views continues be-
tween at least four allied nations. in
cluding Japan. and the United States.
That, is the sum total Of the author
lied information to be had from the
State Department. Widely divergent
articles appearing in various papers to-
day were characterized at the depart
ment not only as speculative and with
out foundation. but, in some cases, as
tending to provide Germany with useful
propaganda
Preliminary discussions relating to
joint action of the cobelligerents are so
delicate that they cannot be carried on
by town meeting plan." it was stated
today.
1t is regarded as perfectly legiti-
mate to speculate about and discuss
the attitude OF this government about
Siberia and Russia. but any further
guesses about the attitude of this
country or Of other nations, in SO
far as they involve the other nations,
are considered a violation of the vol
untary censorship which has been SO
closely followed by most newspapers
since the war began.
Snao,1a<;ou rrnhoYroo,
It was indicated plainly that many
of the speculations that have ap-
peared about the projected aid to
Russia in conjunction with the allied
powers have been embarrassing to the
government. A statement appearing
in one newspaper to the effect that
"Japan's reply is admittedly disap-
pointing" to officials of this govern
ment was said to have been made
without any intimation or comment
from officials of the State Department
that such was the case.
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Submarine Left Behind.

lcontinued on Second Page. }
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Czecho- -slovaks Take simbirsk.

Cxecho-Slovak troops have captured
the Important town Of Simbirsk. about
500 miles east Of Moscow, according to
an olElcial telegram from Moscow ro-
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{Gonttuued On Second RaEG
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The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to
the use for republication Of all news dispatches
credited to it or not otherwise credited in this
paper and also the local news published herein.
All rights Of publication of special
dispatches herein are also reserved.
The Brinkley argus., 1918-05-24
FORD CAR BRINGS A SHOWER BATH
 EVERY AFTERNOON
Babies Grow Winter as Doctor and Nurse Serve Daily Baths From
 Door to Door.

Good morning. We have come to give the children their bath," this, of course, said in good French. Then from off the motor car slides . porta. ble shower bath, carried into the house by doctor and nurse.
 For the next half hour that little cottage boasts of bathroom in active service, for when the water Is heated the blessing of warm, clean shower pumped by the doctor falls on the head of Young France. while the nurse scrubs religiously and the darkening water bears witness of a whiter, clean. CT child.
 And as you might we'll imagine, tho kiddies like it, except the last cold dash that the doctor slyly engineers by quickly transferring the supply pipe into bucket of cold water-for hygienic effect.
 And what a blessing 1t is to these meek, tortured people. who for months have been without all of life's com- forts and most of life's necessities, to be ministered to in this fashion
 It Is perhaps understandable to them that "les Americains" out ot sheer pity might offer them that mea- ger thing that civilization calls "char- lty." But to be clothed, fed, sheltered and cheered as they have been by our Red Cross is more than they can un. derstand.
 For they have seen great miracle grow out of the darkest pit of human experience. They have seen bright light out of which has stepped the ministering angel who has taught them to smile again. They are no longer sick. They are no longer cold nor hun. gry, and now, wonder of wonders, this same good friend has contrived In some magic way-within the sound of the guns-to give them-baths.
The Brinkley argus., 1918-05-24
Ones Career.

Strictly speaking, every life is a career because it is a course that is run from start to finish, but as gen orally used the term implies an un- usual life record, something excep- tional and out of the ordinary, says a professor. Childhood is a period of life, but it is not a career. Ones career is the life one lives and the record one makes whether it becomes known to the public or not. The term public career is applied to lives large ly spent in the public service.
The Brinkley argus., 1918-05-24
H. M. Cooley w. K. Penix W. K. Stuck }. w. Gholson J. K. Gregson L. Ellison
Earliest Clocks.

The earliest clocks built in the balance model of those in use today viz.: a train of wheels actuated by a spring or weight and provided with a governor which regulates the speed would seem to have come into use in Europe during the thirteenth cen tury. The next example of the bal ance clock was that put up in the clock tower of Westminster in 12SS with six big golden bells which were afterward melted and sold by Henry VIII.
The Brinkley argus., 1918-05-24
K. l.. Westbroohe A. L. Malone A. E. LOckhart C. J. Chapin Archer Wheatley C. w. CulbersOn
 Jonesboro, Ark. Daily Tribun
He Was a Rov

Little George was getting ready for school one day, when it was just about to rain. He was told to take his um- brella with him. He didn't like the idea, and after awhile replied, Mot for mine; that's too womanish."
The Brinkley argus., 1918-05-24
Great AtTnospE1ere.

Everyone can enter into u. rII phere of greatness, and gam ,r 'srir It is simply a question o1 oe. ,ou, the best things, and in our ,r,aDD IF attain them.-Hamilton W. Y
The Brinkley argus., 1918-05-24
Buddhist Custom.

It is said that a custom peculiar to Buddhists is that of wandering about the country with hammer and chisel and carving holy symbols upon rocks by the wayside.
The Brinkley argus., 1918-05-24
rn Min a Friend,

To be little more patient ,. more loving, a little more gen., sy,, generous with the sullen' " sst friend, is practically the 9nis Y win him.
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TO THE VOTERS OF ARKANSAS

Believing that when offers for pubic of1ce, especially for the exalted position of governor of our state the people entitled to know what manner of man he is Believing that should be consid- cred in connection with the governorship of our state unless his private character is unimpeachabe and his reputation stainless deem it duty to call the attention the citizenship of state to the facts hereinafter set out concerning L. c. Smith, candidate for governor in the coming primary election.
 In the first place, beg to remind the voters that this man Smith is the who in the campaign two years ago for the office based his candidacy almost solely upon his support of the whskey interest and who advocated the repeal of the statewide prohi- bition law his principal claim for support This question having been overwhelmingly decided against him in that election, he is now contending that the whskey question has no place in the present contest We submit that if he should be elected it would furnish tremendous encouragement to the hangers and sup porters of the infamous liquor traffic, and in all prob ability would result in another contest upon that tiOn
 We now believe it our duty to say to the people that this man Smith has three living wives His first wife, whom he married November 1Sth 1S75 bore him several children. Secured divorce from him up on a complaint the 18th day of February 1910, in which she alleges his cruelty and infdety. Copy of the de- be found on page 157 and 130, Chancery Re cord M of the Records of Arkansas County
 In the suit for divorce brought by his first wife, in the complaint plaintiff made the following alega ons as to her conduct and the conduct of the defend ant:
 Tt is with measure of pardonable pride
 that she and does point to 34 years of
 her married life and association with the
 defendant and her family, and that during
 all that time she lived every day and every
 hour of 1t life of cOnSecrated devotion 10
 her husband and children, enduring with
 patient forbearance, perfect meekneSS and
 silence all of the tOs strifeS, hardShpS and
 sorrows incident to the home life, bearing
 with Christian fOrtitude, as best she could,
 many indigneS and experiences of deep
 humiliation brought into her life and into
 her heart and home by the needless unnec
 essary, unprovoked and uncaled for acts
 and conduct of the defendant
 And again she alleges that defendant guilty of:
 "Praccing in many ways, deliberately
 and purposely a systematic course of inn
 morality, publicly privately and many
 occasions recently, before bringing of this
 suit, abusing and insulting the plaintiff,
 grossly humiliating her and causing her to
 feel keenly a sense of humiliation and
 shame rendering her life and her condition
 unbearabe and intolerable in the extreme
 She further alleges follows:
 During the past several months before
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the filing of this complaint the defendant
 has grown to be absolutely unmindfu of
 his duty to the plaintiff, and has repeatedly,
 in the most cruel and |. heartless e:a manner,
 at home in the privacy of the home. but for
 several months before the filing of the com
 plaint has given and paid marked public
 community where they live. meeting with
 her at other places outside of the community
 publicly and privately, finally declaring to
 the plaintiff by his own words that he made
 his arrangements to live with said
 and not the plaintiff and that !aa he he did not
 did for the other woman and by his
 numerous acts and deeds and studied and
 persistent course of conduct toward the
 merous and nameess ways woundng her
 sesess' sorrow info s her heart f and fife e until s she
 live or abide with him as her husband" Thereafter he was again married, and his second wife, Ida M Smith, secured divorce November 2nd, 1917, and decree for almony in the of s105O925 This decree is Record in Chancery Record o, page 91, of the Records of Arkansas County, Arkansas. Thereafter the following appeared in the Arkansas Dem ocrat
 Former Candidate for Governor Weds
 Judge L. c. Smith and Miss Lottie Montgomery married Dec. 22nd near Hamburg-To New Orleans on Honeymoon.
 "Pine Buff, Jan. 22nd.-(Special)-
 has reached here that Judge L. c. Smith of
 Dewitt, late candidate for governor, who
 will probably be candidate for the office
 
 county, to Miss Lottie Montgomery, daught-
 of MT. and Mrs. M w. Montgomery, by
 the Rev. J. M Eselle, Sunday December
 23rd Judge Smith and his bride left for
 honeymoon trip to New Orleans
 We again want to call attention to the fact that this peaceful citizen has been twice convicted by jury upon the charge of carrying a pistol, appears in Criminal Record B, page 3 and 170 Arkansas County, Arkansas. These facts be confirmed by securing copies from O. D. LaForgus Circuit Clerk of Arkansas County.
 We have certified copies of the court records in these which will be glad to show to any person calling for We understand that if should misrepresent the facts in statement like this would be guilty of libel, and invite the closest investigation to the trouth of the above charges. We submit that it would be the greatest calamity that has beallen the State of Arkansas for the whskey forces to again obtain control of the state and in view of the record made by this man in his last campaign and in his past life, ask and all to join in repudiating the who has been guilty of such conduct, and yet he still has the efrontery offer himself for the highest position our gift We again submit that it is insult to the intelligence of the good people of the State of Arkansas.