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Evening journal., 1918-05-01

and the drys had q out at the polls
Under The rev JerseT iioe-s:ss esffsslen law
in nine municipalities yesterday
The most exciting fights took place in
Montclair. Verona. Caldwell and South
Orange lMaplewood township in Is
sex county. All these places, with the
exception OF Verona went dry.
There was much excitement In Mont
clair while the vote was being counted
and il was not until The last district was
IN That the result was known Of the
3.292 votes cast. The drys got 1861 and
the VETS i,C3i, giving those who don't
wish booze sold In their town q ma
jority OF 80. Montclair practically has
been dry. since December last, as the
commissioners have refused to renew
eight hotel licenses and three held by
wholesalers
The Montclair VETS declined at a late
hour 20 give up The nght. saying that
the votes OF about 400 soldiers, yet TO
be received may tell a dincrcnt story.
The soldier ballots win be sent from the
various camps 90 the Secretary Of state
within thirty days.
The balloting in Caldwell resulted in q
victory for the drys by the narrow
margin OF g. The wells bet real money
that Caldwell would surely so wet
Verona Caldwells twin sister bor-
ough. gave a majority of p for the
wells Strangely enough, many Of the
leading VETS in Verona believed the bor-
ough would be carried by the drys.
The vote in Caldwell was 255 10 252
in favor of the no saloon folks, and the
vote in Verona was 236 and 20l in favor
Of the vets
The proprietors OF three licensed
places viii pull down their blinds, lock
their doors and so out Of business in
Caldwell, The birthplace Of Grover
Cleveland
Maplewood township South Oranse)
gave l36 for ihe drys and 2s5 for the
vets an emphatic temperance majority
Of ISL. As a result Of the election four
licenses now in existence win not be
renewed.
Four OF the nine towns in western
Essex county are now dry, North
Coldwell having voted out the saloon
April ~.
The victory for the drys in Caldwell
was due 20 the work Of women, who
met commuters at the station on their
return from business and hurried them
to the polls in Automobiles II is known
that thirty or forty commuters due on
the 635 favored a dry town. and the
women saw TO 10 that they got 10 the
polls before the closing hour T.
When it turned ont that the vets were
beaten by only three votes, the owners
Of the machines who loaned their cars
for the quick trips were greatly tickled
The disappointed vets went and had
something
Evening journal., 1918-05-01
PLAGUE DESTROYS
MORE THAN WAR

The pestilence is the pneumonia
plague-the most deadly Of the three
types. In the great Manchurian
epidemic seven years ago. out OF
1928 cases under observation In
the vicinity OF Mukden, there were
1892 deaths recorded u is highly
contagious, passed from human TO
human even by the breath The
disease develops in from four 10 six
days. No toxin has been developed
giving satisfactory immunity.
This Is the terrible pestilence
scourging Europe from the sixth
century down through the Middle
Ages.
It has always come out Of the
East I nthe fourth century. start
ing from much the same region now
being desolated by the plague, 1t
over-ran Europe Some parts lost
from two-thlrds tn three-fourths Of
their population: q per cent Of the
whole. or 100000 died IN the
sixteenth century it nearly depop-
ulaied China, and again spread
westward. But a hundred years
later Il began to die out in Europe
permanently, due TO improved
health control
Evening journal., 1918-05-01
Finish PLANT TO
AID SH|PBUILDERS
Westinghouse Company Of
ficially Ready to Supply
Power Machinery
SUFFICIENT ORDERS
FOR TWENTY MONTHS

II IS officially announced that the
Westinghouse plant at Essington for the
manufacture Of marine-power machin-
cry is complete and that the orders for
apparatus representing 100000 horse
power, equivalent to the equipment OF
about 800 steam vessels, will be filled
before the end Of 1919. The factory has
an estimated monthly production equal
TO about 5OO0-horsepower, so that or
ders on hand represent roughly twenty
months work.
Though tae plant is now officially
completed, II has been at work in parts
for long time. It has taken less than
eight months to complete the total con-
1 struction, and this job is said TO set up
a speed mark in the way Of American
factory construction. There are seven
large buildings, with a combined floor
space OF about thirty-flve acres, and
5000 operatives are required
The company acquired the Essington
property toward the close Of 1916. The
storage, house and pattern shop, with
hoor space OF flve acres, was completed
August 10, 1917. By November IS the
last building was finished, and on that
date the foundry went into commission.
the pattern shop having begun work
some time previously. In fact, somo
material for the Submarine Boat Corpo-
ration, Of New York, was delivered az
early as March 25 Of this year.
The foundry has a capacity OF 1000
900 pounds a month Other buildings
include the forging plant, powerhouse,
erecting shop and two machine shops.
each 750 by i25 feet. All buildings are
hreproof, with concrete roofs.
The entire property is 500 acres, Of
which no are included in the factory
/ site. The Pennsylvania Railroad is on
one side and the Reading on the other.
Tracks traverse the plant In all direc-
tions, all, even in the building, being Of
/ standard guage. The factory tracks
will eventually approximate forty-one
miles. II is known that the company Is
working on a housing proposition for its
employees, there being nearly 400 acres
/ In the property which could be turned
TO use in this direction
The output Of the factory will be the
/ Westinghouse-Me Melville-McAlpine steam
/ turbine reduction gear and other ma
/ rine-power appa atus. The whole plant,
which is a branch Of the East Pitts
/ burgh Machine Works, subsidiary TO the
/ Westinghouse Electric and Manufac-
/ turing Company, is regarded as a par
/ tlcularly important member Of the ship
building industry chain which has
/ grown up along the Delaware during
/ the last three years, and It is expected
10 play a large part in hedping equip
vessels built at Hog Island Gloucester,
J Chester, Bristol and this city.
Evening journal., 1918-05-01
CHESTER PIcKErs HrIn-

CHESTER Pa, May THE strike
situation at the Thurlow steel Works
was featured yesterday by the resump-
tion Of picketlng and the arrest Of
Harry Coson and Edward Cole They
are lodged in the City Hall Jail under
$1,000 bail The plant, engaged in max
ing shells for the Government. employs
about 400 men, and since the workers
voted a strike one week ago not a
wheel Of the shell machinery moved
until yesterday, when few men de-
serted the strike ranks and returned 10
work. John p. Curley, manager OF The
plant, and Sheriff Granger issued "a
statement yesterday calling upon the
Evening journal., 1918-05-01
"BEacEs Plague" Again Threatens the World
BY CHARLES c. HODGES
authority on Far East Affairs J

An enemy OF all mankind-the plague
born in Asia from ancient times-alike
threatens the Allies and our Teutonic
foes.
In the northern part OF China al
ready it has spread desolation Regions
/ have been deserted by panic-stricken
fleeing Chinese.
War, famine. and pestilence have
+ been the age-old cycle Of events. To-
day, the world is at war. Famine
/ presses upon all; It IS only by far
reaching measures that governments
are averting IT, Is pestilence, once
again rampant in the East, to follow
on the heels Of unparalleled strife and
threatening hunger
This fearful epidemic began its
march on China in the latter part OF
1871, first appearing IN southwestern
Mongoia-lyng between China proper
and Siberia
The plague broke out at a town
which had been the headquarters Of
the "Tou-li," or Independents, who
were plundering the country This is
one Of the three parts Of the world
where it Is endemic-present at all
times 70 speedily reached Paotow-
chen. where the death roll has been
high. Spreading from this center the
epidemic has extended through the
northwestern provinces.
Attempts made 10 keep the panic
stricken inhabitants from scattering
over the country failed. Victims. go
ing TO neighboring localities, died IN
the inns and along the roads, carrying
the plague up and down Mongolian bor-
der In both Chichi and Shansi, the
situation is serious. Places such as
Tokoto, Shihiaotze. Kangfanwyingtze
and Sianoor have been hard hit. Now Il
is sweeping toward the heart Of China
from Kweihuacheng and Fengchen In
Shansi, and u has jumped ever TO Nan
king in the great Yangisze Valley.
The virulence Of the disease is
frightful, one thousand deaths belng
reported in five days at the Shansi bor-
der town OF saratsi alons
Already there are entire villages
without one living human being, says
the RI Rev. L. Van Dyck, bishop over
the Belgian missions IN southwestern
Mongolia. I'm kianghunyaotze, one Of
our Christian villages, a young man
came to paotow-chen on December 10.
Soon he died. and on December q there
were already GO victims"
The Ignorant Chinese are attacking
those who wear the only protection
against the plague-masks not unlike
the anti-gas helmets worn by soldiers
on the West front. Medical experts
have been set upon as foreign doc
tors"
The Chinese government has become
aroused to the danger.
A plague commission OF 40 has been
Evening journal., 1918-05-01

to Kangchuang, Just north OF Nankow
Pass, where another seven take it into
Peking. Neither soldiers nor travellers
have been allowed TO go on the trains
out Of the plague area, nor are any
animals being brought into China's
capitol.
With a world OF nations at each
others throats, no one can tell where
this plague might end if it spread into
Siberia and through hapless Russia.
There, the horrors Of the Black Death
in the Middle Ages might be re-
enacted.
Evening journal., 1918-05-01
FLuE FIFE CALLs T1REMEN.

Slight damage was done at the home
Of Edward f. Hanna, Nos. s2s-3i JEFF
ferson street, shortly after o'clock last
Evening journal., 1918-05-01
Mn!lI IsnMnQIlInn
HEY HHMT OHIhL
AND MICHIGAN DRY
Sales End at Midnight,
Making Detroit Largest
Prohibition City
NEW YORK REPORTS
LESS DRUNKENNESS

CONCORD, N H.. May THE sale Of
liquor in New Hampshire, after having
been legalized for fifteen years, ceased
last night. In 1903 the Legislature cn-
acted an amendment to the prohibition
law, which had been in effect for q
generation. permitting towns and cities
BY local option elections to authorize
the sale Of intoxicants within their
limits. The Legislature OF 1917 repealed
this amendment. thus placing the whole
State under prohibition again
II was stipulated that by midnight Of
April 80 all alcoholic beverages must be
removed from saloons Many saloon
keepers cleared their shelves a day or
two in advance and ceased business.
Enforcement Of the new law has been
placed by the Governor and Council in
the hands OF the Rev. Jonathan Lewis.
OF Amherst. author Of the bill for the
repeal OF the local option amendment.
Municipalities under the law may
p issue licenses 10 druggists to sell alco-
hol for medicinal, mechanical and sac
ramental purposes only.
DETROIT. Mich May capacity
business in retail houses dealing in
package goods. famine prices for wines
and whiskies in cafes and barrooms and
s'no-beer' signs in many Of them mark
cd the last day OF the legal sale Of
liquor in Detroit and Michigan yester-
day.
The constitutional amendment making
Michigan a prohibition State became
operative at midnight last night BY the
terms Of the amendment the sale or
manufacture OF alcoholic beverages is
restricted to that required for medic
inal. mechanical and sacramontal pur-
lposes-
It Is estimated that approximately 80
per cent. Of the saloons i'm Detroit.
which after midnight became the largest
city In the United States dry by the
vote Of its citizens. went out Of busi-
ness for good last Saturday night.
NEW YORK. May i-Reckoned on the
basis OF records for the flrst quarter OF
1918, public intoxcation in New York
City win show a decrease Of so per
cent this year, according 10 a report
compiled by city statisticians just made
public
ut VIII be Of great interest to note
later on how the falling of in cases OF
public intoxicatien affect the number Of
arrests for other offenses," said the re-
port. 1t did not speculate on the reasons
for the decreased number OF persons
arraigned FOO intoxication
TRENTON. n j.. May i.-The vets
Evening journal., 1918-05-01

appeared on April 81. The men who are
supposed to have deserted are: Privates
Charles F. Johnson, aged 45 years, who
enlisted at New Castle on July i6, 1916,
and prior TO that time resided in York
lyn; George Anthony 26. who enlisted
at New Castle, August !, 1917, and was
former resident OF New Castle. and
Edward " Hayes, 30. who enlisted at
Evening journal., 1918-05-01

TRENTON. n. j.. May 1.-The vets
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night, when fire started from a fue in
a chimney in the rear Of the house.
District flremen responded to an alarm
from Box No. ii6.
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formed, headed by General Chang
Chao-tung The commissioners are SUI
pervising the establishment Of quaran-
tine stations 10 interrupt eastward
traffic
Evening journal., 1918-05-01

Board and rooms to let and houses 20
be sold will be advantageously adver-
tised in the Want Ads
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strikers to return and declaring thai
their conduct was giving comfort tC
the enemy.
Evening journal., 1918-05-01
SUSPECT THESE As DEsERTERs.

Onlcials Of the Local Exemption
Boards have received word that three
men connected with Company r. 59th
Pioneer Infantry at Camp Dix, had dis
Evening journal., 1918-05-01

Travollers are held SIX days Inc
interior cities are combating the pesti-
lence, the Tuchun Of Shansi closing all
gates out OF Taiyuan-fu, for instance,
except the northwest and southeast,
where the strict examination Of tray
elers is maintained.
Pestilence is being kept from reach
ing Peking along the Peking- -Kalgan
railway by stopping passenger traffic
and restricting the freight-which has
been resumed sectionally between Kali
gan and the capitol Seven railway
men, thoroughly examined, take a train
Evening journal., 1918-05-01

New Castle, July "a. 1917. and was also
a resident Of New Castle prior TO that
time.
Bisbee daily review., 1918-08-13

tackled the enemy and took Hallu. On both sides of the Amiens-Roye road we repuised enemy attacks.
 Between the Avre and the Disc rivers, strong enemy attacks continued until nightfall They were completely repulsed.
 The French suffered especially heavy losses near TillOly. By advanc- ing their artillery which Followed closely after their tanks, they tried to effect a bregk through here. Our in fantry and artillery shot the enemy to pieces before our. lines.
 Seventeen enemy airplanes and four captive balloons were shot down Fesuday. In July, 51S enemy air- planes were shot down by our air men on the German front and sixty nine by our anti-aircraft guns. Thirty six captive balloons also were shot down. Two hundred and thirty-nine of these airplanes are in our posses sion and the others were seen to fall inside the enemy's position. We lost 129 airplanes and sixty-three captive balloons in battle during the same period"
Bisbee daily review., 1918-08-13
LAUGH AND GROW FAT

Trimming with comedy, hearttugs,
 thrilling situations, dramatic suspense
 of a high order. capped by a powerful and logical climax, The Shooting of
 Dan McGraw.' % a Metro picturiZatiOn of
 Robert w. Services famous poem with Edmund Breese in the stellar role, will
 be the attraction today at the Central theater Made three years ago, this
 powerful picture is one of the few screen plays tO attain permanency in
 motion picture art. The story, bril-
 liant and masterful in it's conception, Ieyolyes around Jim Maxwell. his wife, Lou, their child, and the man known as Dan McGraw." The latter, while a guest of the Maxwells' in their hap py home, cOnvinces Lou that her bus band is unfaithful to her and per suades her to elope with him to Alas ka There she discovers the dispic- able natlTe cf her companion, and becomes 8 woman of the dance-halls, ready Co accept a strOnger's hospital fly or steal his poke" when he IS drunk The loss of her child. whom she believes to be dead, has stripped from her the last vestige of human feeling. Maxwell, now a wanderer, drifts to Alaska in search of gold.
 His daughter nell has grown mp and married the youth of her choice. Fate brings them Co gether. In the Nal mute saloon. Maxwell and his old en- Hmy. Dan McGraw, come face Co face. Lou is at one of the tables. Maxwell sits at a piano and pOurs fourth the tragedy Of his lonely life. Then he turns on the startled crowd in the place and tells them his story. How he and Lou and their daughter come together again is told in swift action of 9 thrilling and original nature.
Bisbee daily review., 1918-08-13
3OOTH CAVALRY WILL HOLD MOUNTED
 REVIEW
COL. HUGH D. BERKELEY AN NcES THAT ARIZONA'S OWN ORGANIZATION WILL PA RADE IN HONOR OF GENERAL PUBLIC AT 2:3O TODAY

DOUGLAS. Ariz., Aug l. - Col. Hugh D. Berkeley, commander of the 30Sth cavalry. "ArizOna's Own, % will extend a complimentary mounted review of the regiment at 2:30 O'clOc-. tomorrow afternoon to the people Of Douglas. The regiment will pass the reviewing stand at the city para at that hour, the officers and citizens. with their families and friends, who have been invited to occupy seats in the reviewing stand being the follow ing:
 Brig. Gen. D. c. Cabell, Col. J. |. Waterman, Col. J. D l. Hartman, Mayor w. NJ. Adamson, Robert Rae, E. R. Pirtle, J. T. Hood, C. O. Ellis, w. F Fisher, B. A. Packard, James Logic and George H Kelly.
 It will be the first and last mount ed review of the regiment because the 3OSth, according to reports, w'll soon go to San Diego to be converted into an artillery regiment.
 The purpose of the review is to show the people of Douglas that the regiment appreciates the courtesies extended to "ArizOna's Own" since it was organized about a year ago and especially the act of the citizens her in presenting the regiment with beautiful silk national and regimental colors. These will be carried with the regiment to France, and the regi- ment is very proud of them.
Bisbee daily review., 1918-08-13

crews of the fishing schoners Oldtlme and Cruiser probably were lost when their boats were sunk by gun fire without warning, according to the crew of the fishing schooner Mary Sennett, who were landed here tonight. The Sennett was also sunk by gun fire and shells were fired at the boats when they were putting away, the fisher men said.
 The Sennett, Oldtime and Cruiser were fishing ill the same neigh5Or- hood when the Sennett's lookout not iced two submarines several miles away AS the underwater boats Gp- parently were paying no attention to the fishermen, the Sennett's crew con tinued fishing after piting water and provisions in the boats as a precau- tionary measure.
 As they kept an eye on the strang- CTS, thinking they might be American boats, one of the submarines sub merged. The other took a wide cir cle around the little group Of three fishermen. The first intimation the fishermen had that the submarines were hostile was when a shell sudden y crashed into to side of the Oldtime. She turned over and sank so quickly that the Sennett's crew were certain the men could not have escaped.
 The Oldtime had hardly disappeared when a shell dropped alongside the Cruiser, immediately followe-; 3y an other shot which exploded on the water line. The little craft crumpled up and went down before the crew had a chance to jump for their lives.
 The Mary Sennett's men did not wait for a similar end They threw over their dories and tumbled in just as a shell crashed into her. She was heavily loaded and sank like stone.
 The Sennett's crew rOwed for 24 hours before they were picked up.
 As they were rowing away from their vessel the submarine fired four shots at their small boat, all of which missed.
Bisbee daily review., 1918-08-13
ADVANCE VERY RAPID

WITH THE FRENCH ARMY IN FRANCE, Aug 12 (Mornmg-by The Associated Press) Although the Ger mans have been reinforced and arc resisting more strongly between the Avre and the Disc, their fresh divi- sions have been unable entirely tO stop the advancing French who now have a firm hold on ThiescOurt Plateau. The French hold positions that command the only roads leading from Rove and RibecouTt, toward NoyOn over which the enemy can withdraw his artillery.
 The increasing difficulties attending their retreat are driving the Germans to desperate sacrifices in their efforts to check the allies advance around the positions the Germans hold on Thiescourt Plateau. Their losses are extremely heavy and their dead lie all over the field. They are found in shell hcles and hooks where they vainly sought protection from the French fire. Among them are some survivors, who are found in every possible hiding place.
 Privations were endured by the Germans in the front line recently. This was picturesquely evidenced by a letter found since the offensive be- gan. It was from an officer, who in formed his relatives in Germany that the French artillery had been furnish ing the only meat available by killing horses. Another officer wrote with pride and satisfaction that he was able to send along with his message of love and hope a sack of wheat he had just gleaned from an adjoining field
 A German wireless operator was found at the bottom of a well after the French had advanced over the enemy positions. As an evidence of the haste with which the enemy with drew it may be said that the entire mail of one regiment made up for transmission to Germany was cap tured at Ressons-Sur- Matz.
Bisbee daily review., 1918-08-13
SWEDISH STEAMER SUNK
(By Review Leased WireJ


 BOSTON, Aug 12.-The crew of the Swedish steamer Sydland, which was sunk by a German submarine August .S, southwest of Nantucket, were landed at this port today The Germans, in sinking this neutral ship. proceeded in a leisurely manner spending three CT four hours in examining the papers, in exploring her holds and in making ready the bombs which finally sank her. The Sydland was bound in ballast from Gothenburg, Sweden, to Hampton Roads. The Germans were courteous. the crew said, and told them 10 stock up their boats. with whatever proyis- ions and personal effects they wanted. The captain was allowed to retain his valuable navigating instruments and after the German commander had eX- pressed regret at being obliged to de- stroy the vessel. the men were ordered to the boats
Bisbee daily review., 1918-08-13
CASUALTY LIST

WASHINGTON, Aug. 12.-Additions 70 today's army casualty list of a fourth section Of ninety-eight names, made public today by the war depart meut increased the days total 10 4OS names. The navy department did not issue a marine list today. The army list was divided as follows:
 Kircd in action. g; died of wounds, @; died Of disease. 2; died Of acci- dCHd md other causes. i; wounded severely. 143: wounded. degree unde- termined, 161; missing in action, z; total, 4O3
 WASHlNGT0N. Aug. 12.-The army casualty list today included Ladd J. KChala, Granger, Texas; Randall L.. York, Giddings, Texas; Otto Nessel- beck. Paige, Texas. wounded, degree 
 Died from wounds:
 Lie enants Thomas D. Kern, Lex .ngton. Va: L,e B Kortz. Ford Dodge, Ia: Joseph c MacDon0ugh, New York; Benjamin H. Muller, Alma, Wis. Private Fen C. Gelder, Mooreland, Ia.
 Sc5gcants Robert D. Clark. Buchan- Can Va, Rirh-~d Parks, llliiay, Ga.
 Privatcs Frederick J. Anderson, ir., nrCotl-r: Vim. q. Boyle, Whitehall. N. T.. Oscar r. C0ley. Fort Payne, Ala: c Q P Davis. Maiden. N C.; Wa.t"~ Dilon. London Ohio: Louis 'Trr~it New York; Donald !. Gear '7rt sliroug Pa. Lc1aidas s. Hun l1y Holden. Mo. Geo r. Rutledee, 'arlrv. Ala. stephen r Ryan, Phila' lci1ril; H'ghcri C. Sitos. ANedowee, Ala. 1"rorh S'amilcr. New York.
 SC.crojy wounded in action,
 Arizona Man Wounded
 lieutenant Leo P. Kelly. Pueblo, Colo: Corpor7l Walter T. MCCaTty. Ariz.