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Evening journal., 1918-10-11
PROBABLY KILLED
BY MOTOR TRUCK
B. F. Barrett, of Elsmere
Found Unconscious at
Linden and Union
IS IDENTIFIED
BY BOND RECEIPT

Benjamin F. Barrett, aged 42 years.
OF Elsmere, was fatally injured shortly
after 6 o'clock this morning at Linden
and Union streets and died at the po-
lice headquarters Of the Lynch Con-
struction Company at Front and Union
streets before an ambulance could be
called to take him to a hospital. Death
was due to a fractured skull. He had
evidently been run down by a motor
truck while on his way to work.
Barrett was found lying alongside a
bicycle at $50 o'clock by Walter For
wood. an emplOye Of the Lynch Con-
struction Company who reported TO
Police officer Dawson at the construc-
ton companys operation. The officer
had the injured man carried to the Of
flee and a call was sent for the Phoenix
ambulance but when 1t arrived the man
had died. A Liberty Loan card, made
out in the name OF Benjamin f. Bar
rett, Elsmere, found In his clothing, es-
tablished his identity.
Barrett's body was removed TO the
morgue here where It was later claimed
and local detectives were assigned to
the case at once by Chief Of Police
Black. The wheel on which Barrett had
been riding 10 his work at the Trump
Brothers Machine Shops was badly
dented, showing that the motor car
that had run him down was proceed
ing in westerly direction as he was
riding north on Union street.
Barrett was married and is survived
by his wife and three small children
their ages being ~ years, 2 years and
an infant 2 months old.
The local police are bending every ef-
fort to locate the car that ran the man
down
Evening journal., 1918-10-11
.DU POINT COMPANY
Takes S5,OOO.OOO
Of LIBERTY LOAN
New Castle Must Sell ST.
692.760 of Bonds to.
Make Quota
ALL Who CAN MUST
DOUBLE SUBSCRIPTIONS

The T. i. dupont de NemOurs and
Company has given us a SubScrip-
tion OF 1--WE million dollars (S5,OO0,-
00O) 10 the Fourth Liberty Loan.
This amount will be cleared through
Wilmington banks but should be
credited to the whole State Of Della
ware i'm the following amounts;
$500, 900 to New Castle County,
100000 10 Kent County.
S5S0,0O0 10 Sussex County.
New Castle County has a quota OF
81, 2,f92, $50. Thus far there have been
cleared through our headquarters,
including the amounts reported this
morning, S5,O23,S $50.
We feel enough unreported sub
scriptions mhy be depended upon TO
increase this amount TO $500, 900.
S5,5O0,000 and the $500, 900 will OF
course make S9,3O0,O0O.
To make our quota therefore we
must sell S2,S92, 760 during the next
week.
So many people are sick-sO many
are nursing those who are Slck-sO
many fear they will be strieken-we
AItA VIC HAuoN aRBNaA ~ AAN NCNN
agOus and patriotic Delawareans,
who already have done so much, TO
do more.
ALL WHO CAN MUST DOUBLE
THEIR SUBSCRIPTIONS-The well
must take the place of the sick. The
banks offer liberal terms and one
should be willing TO borrow and
buy more.
We propose that we publish each
day special Honor List" Of those
who subscribe additionally because
of the many sick who cannot"
All such subscriptions should be
reported promptly TO headquarters
I'm order that their names may be
listed.
We hope for a patriotic overflow
ing.
Delaware must take its quota.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE,
Henry p. Scott, Chairman.
Plans for a successful finish to IN
Fourth Liberty Loan campaign in Ne'
Continued on Page TwO.)
Evening journal., 1918-10-11
Greatest Defensive System in Mill
tdry History is Falling Today
Like a House of Cards Before the
Greatest Offensive Forces of All
Times. Allied Armies StUeep Foe
Back on Every Front in Most De-
cisiUe Battle of the War

The greatest defensive system IN military hssory
falling like house of cards before the greatest oensivs
forces of all time.
Along the whole 2oo-mie front from Lens to Verdm,
the Germans giving way in the worlds biggest battle
With the enemy on the verge of rout between
Lens and ST. Quentin, falling back in the Champagne and
Argonne regions and withdrawing between Rheims and
Laon Marshal Foch hss suddenly struck the very apex
of the gigantic salient extending from Cambria to Verdun
The French War Office announced that IN this
assault directed the heart of the great ST. Goban
s the village of servss has been captured. This brings
the French to within ess than two miles of the village
of st. Cobain.
Military authoritie. agree that fall of ST. Coban mas
M recognized the grestest natural defense the
front, would precipate disaster which would utterly
split the German armies and probably throw hundreds of
thousands of the enemy into trap from which there
would be escape.
The British, French and Americans in Picardy with
the Hindenbwg defenses far behind them, rapidly
bearing down the next German defensive system-the
Vaenciennes line. They within ten miles of Valen-
ciennes four miles of Douai less than FIVE miles from
Lille and a similar distance from Guise.
The French and Americans in the Champagne-Ar-
gonne region have swept notbward through the Agonne
massif until they now control the important Grandpre
pass through the forest and the outskirts of Grand
pre- itself The French have made extensive gains,
of the forest while the Americans continuing their
advance between the forest and the Meuse occupying ad
ditiona portions of the Kriemhlde line.
The greatest air raid in history carried out in
this region and the back areas Yesterday Four hundred
and fifty French, Italian and American planes partic
pated under American direction. With the machines
engaged in regular pursuits, than 900 Allied planes
in the air at time.
Northwest of Rheims the French and Italians are
pushing eastward both sides of the Chemn-
and have showed the Germans completely the Ose
canal This operation is slowly eliminating the salient
below Laon and Craonne by driving the southwestern
face.
In the Balkans, French and Serbian troops Fro
crossing northward toward Nsh and westward toward
the Ausrans who are rereatng before the Italians m
Albania
Evening journal., 1918-10-11
INFLUENZA GRIP
ON CITY Seems
TO Be breaking
us. Public Health Service
Doctors Come to Help
Local Physicians
BOZ DEATHS IS
THE OFFICIAL LIST

Tue outlook Is brighter for Whining
ton; today shows the first large de-
crease in new cases Of Spanish influenza
since the outbreak Of the epidemic, and
health officials are regarding the situa-
ton with optimism.
Three doctors OF the United States
Public Health Service, sent by Surgeon
General Rupert Blue. reached Whining
ton this morning and went promptly TO
work 10 help the Oyerburdened city
physicians, who have not yet been able
20 answer all the calls for aid.
Dr.. G. r. Woodwork and Dr. stephen
NJ. 'Weyer, Of Kansas City, and Dr..
Abram Warder, OF Virginia, the three
physicians sent by the Government
reached the city late last night and re-
ported this morning at the Board OF
Health Offices. They were then taken In
the automobile Of II. T. Price, member
OF the Board OF Assessment, out 10 the
Country Club Emergency Hospital,
where they made the acquaintance OF
local doctors. One OF the Government
doctors may be stationed at the Coun-
try Club later. but for the present all
three are making calls at private homes.
This morning ten calls came Int tne
Board OF Health offices before 70
O'Clock. from people who could not get
medical aid.
The good news that the promised help
was actually on the way was received
CONTINUED From First Page.
,ast night by United states Senator
Willard Salisbury in the following tel
washington, D. c., Oct. 10.
Senator Willard Salisbury,
wilmington, Del.
''Doctor Abraham S. Warder, Jr., Is
leaving Washington night train Tor
Wilmington. This in addition TO Doc
tors Woodwork and Weyer also leay'
'ng tonight.
aSIgned BLUE, SUPERINTENDENT.
Senator Salisbury has worked inde-
atigably and persistently TO secure the
loctors for Wilmington.
An interesting item Of the health sta
,Istics is that only the normal number
n deaths, thirty-four, occurred In the
,ity last week, from causes other than
Continued on page twoJ
Evening journal., 1918-10-11
SERGT. J.A Higgins
IS DEATH VICTIM
Young Soldier Succumbs to
Pneumonia After Brief
Illness
IN THE SERVICE
SINCE LAST SPRING

Sergeant Joseph A. Higgins. son Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward A. Higgins, No.
405 Washington street died last night
at Edgewood Arsenal, Md, from pneu-
monia. The disease developed a week
ago Thursday. Since then, Sergeant
Higgins has been in Q critical condition,
but made a brave fight for life which
the army doctor described as wonder
full" and thought might lead 20 his re-
c0very. His parents and his brother
Edward were with him at his death, re-
turning 10 Wilmington today.
Sergeant Higgins enlisted In the army
last spring, and was sent 10 Edgewood
Arsenal, where no has since remained.
He was detailed 10 special duty In line
with his profession, that OF electrical
engineer, H0 quickly won the esteem
and communication OF his superior OIL
GERS. receiving promotion and positions
OF increasing responsibility. Ho had
boen working very hard. IL VIII bo re-
membered that Sergeant Higgins was In
iured In an explosion on a submarine
chaser. In course OF construction, In
this city, last November, and he had
not fully recovered his strength when
he went to Edgewood.
Besides bis parents, he Is survived
by two brothers, Charles and Edward
r., and by a sister, Miss Ella NJ, Hig-
gins. In civilian life. he was the Sec
OF Edward r. Higgins
Continued ON Page Two,)
XSTr
Evening journal., 1918-10-11
HIS NECK BROKEN
BY TROLLEY RAIL
Henry Hall Instantly Killed
When Steel Drops
from Truck
VICTIM A STRANGER
IN WILMINGTON

Henry Hall, aged 40 years, employed
as laborer by the Brubaker Company
contractors, on Delaware avenue, was
instantly killed about 9 o'clock TINS
morning when a new street car rail
being lifted from a truck got beyond
the control Of the men handling 1t and
fell on Hall, breaking his neck. Inc
accident happened at Delaware avenue
and Franklin street. The body was
removed to the mOrgue.
Little is known here Of Hall. Efforts
made by the Coroner's office to locate
his friends or where he lived in this
city have so far failed.
Evening journal., 1918-10-11
SUNDAY GAS BAN
TO BE REMOVED
Provided Sufficient Stock
is on Hand After Next
Sunday
CARD SYSTEM
NOT CONSIDERED

The ban on "Gasolineless Sunday"
will be removed after October i3. II
sufficient gasoline is reported in stock
at that time, according to an announce
ment by the Fuel Administration at
Washington today.
The campaign Of advertising Is to be
launched appealing to the public to
Continued on Page Two.)
Evening journal., 1918-10-11
What To Do If You Have Influenza
BY The NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF ARMY NAVY DOC

If bed In a well ventilated
Keen fromo
knives forks handkcr-
Chiefs wash plates and
Evey of influenza should bed at under tho caro-
should
fever has disappeared and until conyacnee is well established
9Th o a
handk is
Gle should be well ventilated
There specific the disease should bo met az
SThe Avoid staying In bed
while actually Ill and until established
9The after effects of influenza tho disease Take care
yourself.
estry observe the rules and regulations fer the
control
Evening journal., 1918-10-11
NO LIRERTY LOAN PARADE.

The Liberty Loan Women Workers
will not hold the parade which they
had planned for tomorrow. Owing to
the epidemic conditions. IL was thought
unwise TO assemble crowds Of people
together, even outdoors. Consequently
the parade has been postponed without
date
Evening journal., 1918-10-11
LOST AND FOUND.

r osT-cAMEo BREAsTPIN on WE'D
IL nesday. $500 reward IL returned 70
312 Pennsylvania building or Evening
Journal Office. octlO-2t.
Continued - Page Twccty-two.l
Evening journal., 1918-10-11

BY the United Press.
WASHINGTON. Oct. ii.-That the
Kaiser and his militaristlc crew will at
tempt evasion and counter proposals
when they reply TO President Wilson's
peace note inquiries was the conviction
in well-informed circles here today.
According TO reports received here
the German reply will be submitted 10
the Reichstag-in order TO give IL the
semblance Of approved by the people,
and many careful observers OF German
practices believe the reply will run
about Ike thus:
Germany will accept the Presidents
fourteen points II they are made 70 ap-
ply TO Americas friends as well as hei
enemies.
Germany will evacuate Belgium ant
Northern France and draw all but
necessary police forces" out OF othe'
occupied territory, provided Greai
Britain evscuates the German colonies
and Japan gives up Kiao-Chau.
To the Presidents pointed inquiry as
10 Just whom Prince Max represented
in submitting his peace appeal, author
tiles look for some such reply as this;
Germany Is undergoing a political
revolution and in the process Of this
change, insofar as IL is possible for any
one man 70 speak for the people as a
whole, Prince Max so speaks. (Ohlcials
here believe Max will ask the Reich
stag either to approve his peace proffer
or TO give him vote Of confidence that
ne may "put over" this claim.)
That President Wilson will meter no
or quibbling over such eva
slons, II made, has been definitely as
sured. The Allies and America are the
shall dictate what shall
or shall not be done and are not sub
iect to the Kaiser's qualining demands.
As Secretary Lansing declared in an
address last night az Auburn, n. Y,
1--WE know the German military leaders
and their forces will be defeated" And
TO indicate this governments continued
TO see that the HohenzOl-
lerns get their dues" out Of the war,
Lansing stated:
when the time comes TO balance
Continued on page two.)
A feeling or security goes with
CLOVER DAIRY M1LK.-Adv.
Evening journal., 1918-10-11
BY the United Press

\
LONDON Oct 11-Futher progress IN Serbia was reported
Serbian today The statement said ut R7 of
Lpovtza and Kossantchieich had been reached.
Evening journal., 1918-10-11
WASHINGTON Sees
IN HUN
PEACE overture
Enemy Won't Evacuat e
France. He Says Until
Negotiations Are Begun
kaiser CALLS SESSION
OF CROWN council
By the United Press.

LONDON, Oct. 1f.-Germany's reply
TO President Wilson, according to an
Amsterdam dispatch TO the Express to-
day, quoting authoritative sources"
will be as follows;
Germany will evacuate Belgium and
France providing peace negotiations
start In a neutral country before the
evacuation is completed and providing
the Allies will give their assurance that
German territory including Alsace-Lor-
ralne and Polish Prussia, viii not be
demanded.
During the peace negotiations German
troops are to remain in Russia and
Rumania.
Evening journal., 1918-10-11
By the United Press

BY the United Press
LONDON, Oct. 11.-American troops completed the 1pg6e
of VauxAndgny and St Souplet south of lie Caeau ys
morning. Field Marshal Haig reported today.
Evening journal., 1918-10-11
BY JOHN DE GANDT

United Press Staff Correspondent
PARIS Oct II.-(IO20 A. M)-The Germans retyeat-
inc from Cambria in general 1ec
ton Of Denain and Valencennes
Cambria the Allies beyond Solesmes and lie Caeau
East of ST. Quentin, the French have reached Disc
auteve and nearing the Grandvery and Guisc region
The has set fire to Vouziere the important alsy
the edge of the Argonne Forest Farther
between the Agonne and the Meue the
is continuing.
BY the United Press
PARIS Oct 11-French troops maintained thu
retreang Germans fronts throughout night
office announced today.
Important gains made in Champagne Chemn
De DANES regions The French lines
miles of Vouzeres in the former district and within four
of Craonne in the latter Craonne practically encled
The French occupied Semide together with several other v
lagos of the Argonne.
Through the night maintained with the retrenpnS
different points 'front.'" the comnunIque
Noh of the Ane, occupied and passed Chivy snd III ~.
The Italians reached point south of Courecon w.. four
Chemn- -Des- Danes to the heights of Cerny-tnL~0
miles of Craonne, al, h.,k of tho Srdppe
lcoatinued ~ Tw0|
Evening journal., 1918-10-11

~ CLOVER DAIRY MILE, d
claf.nes. pssseurisea aHd nuEe,=Adv.
Evening journal., 1918-10-11

Unofficial reports state that the Ger
man reply already has been drafted at
a conference OF Chancellor Max, Vice
Chancellor Won Payer and the German
ministers and military representatives.
Evening journal., 1918-10-11
By the United Press.

By the United Press.
AMSTERDAM, Oct. if.-The Kaiser
has summoned to Berlin the sOvereigns
Of the German federal states, for q
crown council TO be held tomorrow be.
fore dispetching Germany's reply "a
President Wilson's note, according to Z
Cologne dispatch received here today.
Evening journal., 1918-10-11
TODAY,s TEMPERATURE.

At The Evening journal O1lce.
500 A. M....5S i0O0A. M......G
1901. p. M....73 100 p. M.......7s
Evening journal., 1918-10-11

sun AND TIDES.
Evening journal., 1918-10-11

A feeling or security goes with
GLOVER DAIRY MILK.-Adv.
Evening journal., 1918-10-11
A Message from the
President to You:
WEATHER

Fair tonight and Saturday;
not much change In tempera-
tere5 Light west Winds
Evening journal., 1918-10-11

Plans for a successful finish to the
Fourth Liberty Loan campaign in New
Continued on Page TwO)
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1918-12-04
MERCHANTS ARE ASKED TO
PICTURE WORLDS HUNGER

Columbia -Thanksgiying week this
year is set aside for food conserva.
ton, not for feaating. Tho Rood Ad.
ton is asking tho stores on
every business street in every city
and town in the United Stalos 30 pic
turo in hcir CNspIav wiadom, the
prodiGious task Of flooding tho Allied
world through tho coming yoor If that
should be necessary Fosters and win.
dow cardR OF special design have
been i%Wod by the Food Administra-
uon at Washington. Thaee aro avail.
aho TO every reeailor through tho
State Food Administrations It Ia
plannod TO naeke tho picture OF the
necessity SO roal that nobody can os-
Capo 1t, and TO this end tho co-opera.
ton of patriotic morchants tarough
out the nation is askod during Thanks.
giving week. 1t will be n IA essa8e OF
sacrifice and service. Merchants in
South Carolina who desire 10 aid In
this direction should Immediately com.
municate with 70. II. Norcom, State
Merchants Representative OF the
Food Administration, Colurnada, 9. c.,
and tho material for decorating their
windows will be sent FREQ on re.
quest.
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VAGRlNT THOUGHTS.
(By Rev. j. VI. .Steaaman.}

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Famine and Hunger
KNOW No Arlplistice
America is Pledged, War or Peace, to
Furnish Food to Miiiiohs of Allied
PeopieG Now in Misery, and the
Only Way TO Send It is to Save it.
America is Stii to Feed Hungry
World.

A hundred and eighty million pecplo
in hungry lands are looking to As,a,S
lea for food which no ot:lar pee.ple OK.
ccpt The American people oan give
them.
IN their misory ana fannie, Bel.
giUm, Northorn rraAue, Central Rus.
aia, Serbia. Montenegro, Poland, Ru-
mania and Armenia are already crying
aloud to America.
From America FOOD must 30. What
& sent must be saved.
Perhaps that is Americas mission
Peace or no peace, war or no war,
the American people must keep on
saving food
This is the message OF the United
States Food Administration, whose
leaders rculizc that the outcome OF
the present situation will only in.
crease the responsibilities Of the Uni.
ted States, no matter how events in
Europe turn.
Millions of people in territory that
has been occupied by the enemy are
in misery. Famine stalks abroad.
They must be fed
Under any circumstances, tho
American nation is bound by the
food pledge OF August, 1918. Tho
Allies were told: Make your plans
for Victory"
TO this victory, Americas contri.
button, among other things, will be
seventeen and one-haf million tons Of
iooa. America IS bound. The pledge
rs not broken oy the signing OF tho
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1918-12-04
HULLS ARE CHEAPER;
MEAL PRICE INCREASED

Columbfe. On account OF tho arm.
istice and the consequent cessation Of
demand for hull nbro by munitions
manufacturers. the price OF hr1ls has
been reduced by the Food Admins.
tration to SIG (. o. b. mills or $18 de.
Iivrred and In order to equalize this
Teductf"1 In price OF huils tho prioe OF
meal Is increased to s56. The price
OF eeed will remain unchanged.
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INSURANCE ASSOCIATION.
Organized 1892.
PROPERTY INSURED S2,5OO,OO

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WRITE OR CALL on the under
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We insure your property against de-
struction by
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And do so cheaper than any insurance
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Remember we are prepared TO prove
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Our association is now licensed to
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The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1918-05-22
LOCAL MAN
FORFEITS
$l,OOO|.B.0ND

Yesterday afternoon in the U. S
commissioners court, the $1,000 bond
Of Il, D, Bell was forfeited by j. w.
Speake when the defendant failed
to put in an appearance to answer
to charge Of disloyalty, insubordi-
nation and refusal of duty.
The case was set for 10 o'clock
yesterday morning, but was contin-
ued until o'clock when Bell did not
show up, it being the disposition Of
the court to give him another chance.
Deputy u. S. Marshal Dillon phoned
j. G. Wright, an attorney in Okla
homa City with whom he was advis-
ed Bell had business yesterday af-
ternoon. Wright stated that he
knew Bell but had not seen him
Therefore Deputy Dillon called the
bond in the court room and there
being no one to answer, Commission
er Speake declared the bond forfeit
ed and ordered the Farmers State
bank to hold $1,000 subject to the or
der of the United States district at.
tcrney at Muskogee.