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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1918-10-17
VOwerts States That ''The War Is Com
ing To An End, And In Such A Man
ner That No German Desires. Report
Of CapitulatiOn Premature.
Paper Comedies Defeat
(BY ASSOCIATED PRESSD

Amsterdam, Oct l1-NoerwaertS. the
famous Berlin newspaper. On Monday
printed the following: The war j. coming
~ m end i'll such manner a. M man IN
Germany desires. Let IL Say candidv
that during these terrible four wears the
aim ~ our efforts and sacrifices was I'D
prevent such an end"
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1918-10-17
Won Arnim's Retreat
Becomes A Rout
(BY ASSOCIATED PRESS.)

Paris. Oct. 1.-THE whole of the Ger
man army under General Won Arnim i re-
treating from the North sea 10 the region
of Lille They have been Leaten back and
overthrown by the Allied attacks today.
The retirement of the retreanng army l.
assuming proportions Of i rout- Seventeen
divisions comprise the army OF General
Won Arnim
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1918-10-17
Fire And Explosion
In Munitions Plant
(BY ASSOCIATED PRESS.>

Lyons. France. Oct l7.-Fire. followed
bv an explosion IN \ munitions factory ~
eleven o'clock lat night caused important
and material damage. Another and more
violent explosion occurred ~ midnight
when the magazine h'cw up. NJ lives were
lost. but \ few persons including fremen
were more Or less injured.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1918-10-17
State Buys Land
For Radeo School

Austin. Tex. Oct 1T.-Formai transfer
NJ tract Of 81 acres Of land situated
Just south Of Austin has Just been made
"a the state Of Texas for the use Ut the
University BY Harry Landa and wife Of
New BraunfelS, and others.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1918-10-17
German Resistance Is
Crumbling Entire Front
(BY ASSOCIATED PRESS.)

Paris, Oct. HERMAN resistance H.
except IN the Argonne and Champagne
regions. There the American and French
troops are engaged in desperate fighting.
The PruSsian guards are ceding ground
inch by inch, and are dying, but not sur
rendering. and are making great sacrifi-
ces in their effort to save their right
wing.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1918-10-17
Mrs. Adelaide Lyon
Dies In Chicago

Chicago. Oct. lT.-Mrs. Adelaide Lyon,
who died nj her west side home in this
city today was aged ninetytwo years
and leaves fifty two grandchildren, TWEEN
tv-six great grandchildren and nine great
great grandchildren. Eighteen Of her
great grandchildren are fighting with the
American forces in France
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1918-10-17
People Will Conclude Peace
LRY ASSOCIATED PRESS.l

Zurich. Oct. 1.-THE counts have de-
rlared for war. bht the REPRESENTATIVES
of the people will conclude a treaty Of
peace. '.and peacec." says the Arbeiter
Zeitung. the socialist newspaper Of Vienna
in current article On the situation. "cre-
ated BY Teutonic peace proposals and
answers 10 them"
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1918-10-17
Driving Germans
From Loan Pocket
(BY ASSOCIATED PRESS.)

Paris. Oct 17.-On the entire front be-
tween the O~e and the Serre rivers the
Germans are being driven from the pocket
north Of Laon. The French last night
maintained iontact with the enemy, in
flcting much damage and hastenlng the
retreat.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1918-10-17
Nearly Million British
Lives Sacrificed In War
tBY ASSOCIATED PRESS)

London. Oct. l7-Up 10 the present
nearly million British lives have been
sacrificed in the war. according 70 infor-
nation received BY the Reuters Limited.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1918-10-17
BRITISH GAINS NEAR LILLE
(BY ASSOCIATED PRESS.)

London, Oct. lizard fighting in
which the British forces engaged the enc
my last night southwest Of Lille resulting
in the British troops gaining much ground
in that sector. and the capturing of few
prisoners.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1918-10-17
GERMANY is BENDING,
SAYS SEC. LANSING

Washington, Oct. l1.-''Germany
D. bending. More pressure must be
brought D. force her ID surrender
and She will surely break" was the
statement made hv Secretary "a
State Lansing today in warning the
nation that the war w. not over. and
the fourth Liberty Loan must be u
success ~ this time. when every dol
lar ~ well ~ every man counts more
than ever before the bringing the
Huns ~ complete surrender.
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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1918-10-17
0-Germans
Leaving Serbia
tBY ASSOCIATED PRESSl

Paris, Oct. 1.-THE Au-tro- German
forces in western Serbia have retired IN
10 Montenegro. and have evacuated the
town Of Dakova. IN the Serbo- Montene-
gro frontier.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1918-10-17
Outbreaks Against Huns
Reported From Rumania
tBy ASSOCIATED PREss)

London. Oct. 17-Ontbrcak~ against
the Germans have occurred in northern
Rumania in the province ~ Moldavia
says \ dispatch from Zurich. The entire
population ha- suddenly assumed \ hos
tie attitude toward the German authorl-
ties.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1918-10-17
AIbert's Forces
Marching on Ostend
(BY ASSOCIATED PRESS.)

Belgium forces under the command Of
King Albert. have crossed the User river,
and are marching on Ostend.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1918-10-17
British Forces
Capture Lille

London. Oct lT.-I.ille ha~ been cap
tured IN the British troops. Lille ~ the
,arge~t city IN France which wa gained
bv the Germans. and W. one NJ the great
e~t forire~~e- guarding the French from
tier.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1918-10-17
Allies Capture
Twenty Villages
(BY ASSOCIATED PRESSl

London. Oct 11.-Briti~h forces entered
Courtrai during Yesterdays fighting. Over
twenty villages were captured bv the Al
he IN Belgium during the day
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1918-10-17

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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1918-10-17

ITIME TO BUY PUMPING MACHINERY
IN I-2 10 rs n. r. Fairbanks, Moore and
KreuQer Atlas Oil Engines In stock
CENTRIFUGAL PUMPS
w. n. PUTEGNAT CO.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1918-10-17

GERMANY'S POSITION Is DESPERATE

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New-York tribune., 1918-05-18
DR.. B. T. 7 erry Resigns
After Row With Coler
Brooklyn Pathologist Says the
New Administration Ham
pered His Work

DR.. Benjamin I. Terry, director of
the Brooklyn Laboratories of Pathology
since March 1, 1918, has resign ID be-
cause of differences with Commissioner
Coler of the Charities Department. DR..
Terry yesterday declared that his work
had been hampered and that he had not
been given "a fair deal"
"When the new city administration
came in things became so unpleasant
that I felt could no longer remain
in the city service and retain my self
respect" said DR.. Terry, $50 l got out"
Commissioner Coler explained that
DR.. Terry was zone of the men from
the Rockefeller Institute, who evil
IDENTIFY did not like the way we pro
posed to do things" The Commissioner
said that under the Mitchell admins
tration the laboratories were taken
away from the Kings County Hospital
and made separate department.. He
declared that he was simply putting
them back in the hospital where they
belonged. He denied that the city was
trying to reduce the number of it's
pathologists. He said that he was look
| ing for more pathologists, but that it
was difficult to get them now at any
price on account of the war.
Before entering the city service DR..
Terry was for seven years connected
with the Rockefeller Institute of Medi-
cal Research. He is now serving as an
instructor at the College of Physicians
and Surgeons.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-18
Arrest of Socialists
Assailed i'm Reichstaq

AMSTERDAM, May 1.-THE German
newspapers report strong Socialist
speeches in the Reichstag recently, de-
nouncing the arrests and Imprisonment
of Independent Socialists, and leading
to stormy scenes.
According to the Socialist newspaper
"Vorwaerts," Herr Hcrtzfeld, Social
ist Deputy, denounced the imprison-
ment of number of young men at
Dresden on treason charges Amid the
applause of fellow members of his
party and stormy Interruptions from
other sections of the house, he said:
by this sort of class justice the
Supreme Court is doing everything it
can to strengthen the power of the
military dictatorship"
Angry alterations also took place
between Socialist members and the
vice. president of the chamber. "Vor-
waerts" reports several members of
the Independent Socialist party as. hav-
ing been arrested within the last few
weeks at Cologne The men sentenced
at Dresden, with whose case Herr
Hertzfeld dealt, were apparently lnde-
pendent Socialists, as the Leipzip
"Volkszeitung" states that twelve In
dependent Socialists have been sem
fenced by Dresden court for high
treason, their terms ranging from two
to eight years in prison. They were
charged with circulating pamphlets
revolutionary in character.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-18
Mrs. Palmer Left
$500, 900 to Charities
Personal Property Is 1,600,-
600; Sons Get Income From
$2O.OOO,OOO Trust Estate

CHICAGO, May 1.-THE personal
property left by Mrs. Potter Palmer
the society leader who died last week
in Florida, was $1,600,000. This is ex'
elusive of the trust estate left by Mrs
Palmer's husband, which twelve years
ago was estimated at $s,00o,0o0. Mrs
Palmer's will was filed to-day.
The trust estate is now valued at be-
tween $2o,0oo,oo0 and $25,0oo,o0o. The
income from it, by Mrs. Palmer's death
goes to the two sons, Potter and Ho.
more.
Among the important charitable be
quests are: -, -,
To sons. to be used for philanthropy
100000. .o
To United Charities Of Chicago, $100,
900.
TO Art Institute, Chicago, art work:
worth 100000.
To the Chicago Commons Association
$4,000.
Mrs. Palmer bequeathed to her sis
ter, Ida Honore Grant, her share II
the estate of their father. Adrian c
Horiore, her brother and business man
ager. receives the Meadowsweet ranch
in Florida. Other Florida lands go tt
her sons. Annuities are given Nathan
iel X. Honore, brother ($5,000); Mrs
BENJAMIN l.. Honore, an aunt ($3,OOO)
William H. Hall, a cousin, of New Yorl
(S2,80O) and H. H Edmonds, Los An
Servants in her Chicago and Florida
names receive varying sums.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-18
Mrs. Fahnestock Wins
Retrial of Libel Suit
Case Against Author of Little
Lord Fauntleroy" Will
Be Heard Again

Mrs. Annie Prall Fahnestock, of
Washington, will have another oppor-
tunity to prove her allegation that
Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett Town
send. author Of "Little Lord Fauntle
roy" libelled her in a letter. The Ap-
pellate Division yesterday reversed the
action of the Supreme Court in dis
missing the $4,000 suit which Mrs.
Fahnestock brought
Mrs. Fahnestock married Archie Fab
nestock, whose mother is a sister of
Mrs Townsend, and the authoress wrote
letter in which she discussed this
marriage and many other things CON
cerning Mrs. Fahnestock, which the Ap-
pellate Division said was "most viru-
lent in character, filled with aspersions
upon the plaintiffs character and evil
IDENTIFY written for the purpose of hu-
initiating and insulting plaintiff and
holding her up to the contempt and
ridicule of those who might have an
opportunity of reading it,"
The higher court added that "the
whole tone of the letter is unmistaka-
BILE, its purport apparent and the malice
which pervades it is manifested in
every paragraph" The court held that
Mrs. Townsend could not claim privi-
lege in her defence, as she did not
write the alleged libelous letter in re-
ply to one directed to her.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-18
N. Y. Men Commissioned
Many Successfully Complete
Training Courses

WASHINGTON, May 17.-Commis-
sions issued to-day by the War Depart
ment to residents of New York included
the following enlisted men, who had
completed courses in Southern military
schools of aeronautics and were given
second lieutenancies in the aviation
section of the Signal Reserve Corps:
Byron Sherman Blair. 2o8 West 12sd
Street: Walter Daniel Clark, jr., Summit
Street, Flushing; Claude Alonzo Davis. 561
West l43d Street; Cary Freeman Denny, IS
Remsern, Street. Brooklyn: Clarence Eiroy
Donnelly. 317 West 1l9th Street; Joseph
Dowdall. 800 East 201st Street Arlo Ells-
worth .Garnsey. White Plains: Arthur Glenn
ent Mayer. 320 West 106th Street; Bert
Charles Schellenberg 22O Duffield Street.
Brooklyn, and Herbert Crommelin Smyth. ir..
347 West Seventy-frst Street.
Other New Workers commissioned
follow:
T. Passn,ore ,Berens. 143 East Forty-sixth
Street. major. Medical Reserve Corps Roy
William Hebard. SO Broad Street, captain.
Engineer Reserve Corps Hugh v. Conrad
l22 East Fortieth Street, captain, Ordnance
Reserve Corps. William w. c. Ruxton. l15
East Fifty-third Street. who qualified at a
National Guard training school, also was
commissioned second lieutenant to-day.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-18
Hotel Cashier Kills
Self and Wife by Gas
Couple Discovered Asphyxiat-
ed After Shortage of
$3.50 Is Found

Fearing arrest because shortage of
$3.50 had been found in his accounts as
cashier of the Great Northern Hotel, in
West Fifty-seventh Street, Frank Sou
kop, thirty-two, ended his life and that
of his wife, Winafred, twenty, by as
phyxiation yesterday in their apart
ment, 2444 Washington Avenue.
Lying on q mattress in the kitchen,
with FIVE jets in the gas range turned
on full force and the windows closed,
the couple were found last night by
Patrolman James and Patrick McNally,
an employe of the gas company. Ten
ants, who had smelled gas, had notified
the police.
According to the management of the
hotel, Soukop's accounts were found to
be short on Wednesday. When told
about it, it is said he admitted the
shortage, but could not explain it. A
further investigation Thursday showed
a shortage of $3.50. According to the
management Of the hotel it will not
total more than 81 1000.
II The police reported that the bonding
company had stated Soukop was short
$4,000. This was denied at the hotel.
Soukop was married on April /. His
sister said his wife was a Miss Goe-
decke. She did not know where the
young brides parents resided.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-18
Ex-Inspector Titus
Dies Of Pneumon;.
Retired Policeman Was Me-.
Der of Force More Than
TWENTY-FIVE Years

Former Police Inspector George !
Titus, who retired from the fore. 4.
1914. died Of pneumonia early vest.-
day morning at his home, sol Ws..
113th Street. He was sixty year. ia
and until a week ago was in exca,,s..
health and active in the affairs of ~.
detective agency he and former poi;.s
Captain Kelleher conducted at iss
Broadway. Ais
Inspector Titus was a member n ~.
force for more than a ouaster ~ :
century. Prior to joining it. he No.
practicing lawyer. Detective wcrs
interested him, and after becoming =
member of the force, he soon worl.s
his way into the detective burssss
From that time his advancement wss
rapid, except during the time Colarsi
Roosevelt was in the department
Both Inspector Titus and Georo.
McCluskey, who were two of the hest
known detectives in the city at that
time, incurred the displeasure of Com.
missioner Roosevelt and were sent t.
outlying precincts. They remaineS
there until he left the department
when they Immediately returned "a
headquarters.
The department record of Inspector
Titus was by no means a drab ons
Included in it was honorable mention
for clever detective work in the "truak
murder mystery" special mention for
heroism at the Crosby Street FIRE in
1903. A charge Of dereliction of duty
was brought against him at one time.
but he was cleared of it at the trial
Inspector Titus received a pension
Of s1,750 year on retirement. Hs
leaves widow, Mrs. Agnes Titus.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-18
Board of Estimate
Again Reverses Itself
1t Grants Permission to Gov
ernment to Build Spur
Track to Warehouse

The Board Of Estimate changed it's
official mind again yesterday, but this
time at the request of the Federal gov
ernment. The board granted permis-
sion to the government to build a spur
track on Tenth Avenue. between Six
teenth and Seventeenth Streets, to con-
meet with the new storage warehouse
of the Merchants Refrigerating Com
pany, most of which has been leased
by the government for the storage of
war supplies.
The permit was originally granted to
the New York Central Railroad, but the
company refused to execute the agree
ment because the city required the pay
ment Of 81 for each car moved on the
spur. The railroad claimed that such q
compensation would prove burdensome,
would be detrimental to shippers on
Manhattan Island, and would divert
traffic to adjacent points in New Jersey.
The permit TO the government is with
out compensation. The board had to
rescind its former action.
A copy OF letter addressed by Di-
rector General McAdoo to the COVER
nors of all the states, calling attention
to the fact that during Federal control
OF railroads the taxes against railroad
properties would be borne by the gov
ernment, and requesting that the tax
BURDEN upon the railroads be made as
light as is consistent with public in
tterests was referred to the department
IN the city government affected.
Controller Craig issued a statement
denying that he had withdrawn his OBJ
lection to the lease OF part Of the pier
at the foot of Fifth Street to the Paw
tucket and New York Transportation
Company. He wrote a letter to the
Sinking Fund Commission advising that
it reconsider its approval of the lease
as recommended by Dock Commissioner
Hubert.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-18
Moving Boxcar Scene
Of Desperate Battle
Three Employees of B. & o.
Accused of Freight Thefts
Are Caught

Following battle in moving
freight car. in which one man was
beaten into submission and two others
caught after they had risked death
in leap to the ground, three en-
ployes of the Baltimore & Ohio Rail-
road on Staten Island were arrested
yesterday, charged with stealing goods
from the Port Richmond station.
The men are: John McGinn, twenty
nine, IS Treadwell Avenue; Edward
Barton, twenty-seven, 80 Union Avenue,
and Louis Latouret, twenty-tw 1910
Castleton Avenue, all of Port Rich
Commissioner McGoldrick, Barton and
Latouret were held on $1,000 bail for
the grand jury McGinn demanded an
examination and was held on similar
bail. Two men who escaped, alleged
leaders of the gang, are being sought.
According to the police, the five men,
loaded with cigars. hosiery, underwear
and other goods, boarded the freight
train as it moved out of Port Rich
mond for New Brighton. NJ. J. Murphy,
superintendent of the roads police,
with several of his men, waiting on a
trestle mile from the station, leaped
into one of the open cars as the train
passed beneath them. The men re-
fused to surrender, and the fight fol-
lowed.
According to the roads police, thou
sands of dollars worth of goods have
been stolen when shipments have been
broken open. It has not been estab-
lished that the men under arrest were
connected with these thefts.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-18

more, but believe that the more in
telligent farmers. when they come to
examine the record Of the Whitman
administration, will discover that the
Republicans did we'll"
Supervisor W. I. Randall, Of Han
cock, Delaware County, who attended
the meeting in favor Of the Red Cross
campaign in Delhi, at which the Gov
ernor was the principal speaker, said
that the Governor made fine impress
sion.
"The gathering was very largely
made up cf village and farmer folk"
said Mr.. Randall. "They wanted to
hear the Governor. He gave straight
forward, patriotic address. and then
shook hands with every one. 1t is my
personal opinion that the Governor and
those who go on the state ticket with
him will have to do lot Of missionary
work among the farmers to insure the
success Of the Republican party next
fall. While look to see the Governor
win in the primaries and at the polls
in November, believe that he's got a
hard fight on hand"
New-York tribune., 1918-05-18
Speech Discredits
Sale of Loan Bonds
Chambers Says He Cannot Be-
lieve Banks Countenance
Their Disposal

t. ATLANTIC CITY, May 17.-William
Chambers, who presided to-day at the
opening session of the convention of
the Hotel Bankers Association in the
Hotel Chelsea, said that he sould not
credit reports that banks were respon-
sible for recent sales of Liberty bonds
of the third issue below par.
elf Liberty bonds were subscribed
for as matter Of patriotic enthusi-
asm,'' he said, "they ought to be held
as a matter of self-interest l have
no doubt that the bankers may be de-
pended upon to spread this gospel
among investors of the governments
Liberty issue. Already bonds of the
third Liberty Loan are selling below
par in Wall Street, and it has been ir-
responsibly reported in newspapers
that some of these sales were author
lied by banks. I cannot believe that
the banks are responsible.
"The financial question is one of
paramount Importance in modern war
fare. Shall we continue to raise money
by bonds in as great ratio as in the
past, or must there be an increase in
taxation?"
New-York tribune., 1918-05-18
United Hospital Fund,
$15O,O0O, Distributed
Amount Was Larger Than in
Any Previous Year

The United Hospital Fund made its
thirty-ninth annual distribution = d
money yesterday to the hospitals M
New York. This year $150,000 was 4.
vided among the institutions, $35,DOe
more than was ever distributed in sny
one year before.
The fund this year received increased
gifts from trade committees and the
women's auxiliary reported exactly
twice the amount of money gathered
last year.
The fund is distributed on the basis
of the actual free work done by each
hospital. The largest single contribu-
ton went to the Montehore Home,
which received s13.4o6.84. Other gifts
were s11,457.93 to Mt. Sinai Hospital,
$1O,311.38 to the New York Hospital
and $10,091.52 to st. Luke's Hospital.