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CENTRAL CONTROL 0F MANUFACTURERS
 IS NOW A FACT
Applies United Military Command to Raw Mater
 ials and Products

Washington, Oct. 2.-The long planned centralized control of all the economic forces of the nations fight ing Germany is at last a fact.
 It applies the principles of the unified military command to raw materials, manufactured products. shipping, finance, food. and the ex- port and import relations of the United States and the o-belligerents
 Wilson's Idea.
 The great plan was worked out by President Wilson's "war cabinet" and the allied missions.
 It has been approved by the Presi- dent and the premiers of the entente nations.
 No announcements of it's consum- nation has been made here, in fact, it has rather been withehld from publicity.
 Some of it's details and the fact that it actually is in operation have become known through developments in Paris and London.
 Coordination of effort by the as-
 
 military and naval activity, amount ing to. centralized control is built around the five inter-allied councils War, Shipping, Munitions. Food and Finance.
 Started In Europe.
 Under these special bodies comple- tiOn of a common economic and in dustrial program is now being under. taken, principally in London and Paris and limited to the following cases:
 Where two or more governments are interested in supplies which must be transported overseas to supple ment deficiencies in local production or where several sources of supplies should be agreed upon, together with the allotment and method of their distribution or utilization; or where there might without agreement be competition between governments in procuring supplies or a wasteful du- plication of productive effort.
 The programs will be co-ordinat- ed with finance through the inter-al- lied finance committee; with ship ping through the interallied ship ping council and with export and inn port relations through an inter-alli- ed board made up of heads or rep- resentatives of the American trade board and similor departments of the other governments. Subordinate to the inter-allied councils are being organized commo- dity committees or executives.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-10-03
Continue Brilliant Attacks.

The continuation by the entente allied forces of their brilliant achie- vements in restoring Belgium Fland- CTS and the expulsion of the enemy from further territory in France from the region of Cambrai to Yer dun evidently has brought the Ger mans Ho the realization that the great bend in the line from Menin to the east of Arras is likely to prove another such trap as was the St. Mihel salient unless they are fast enough of foot to move east ward, giving up Lille, Lens anM Douai and straighten their line from the vicinity of Cambrai to Belgium.
 Keep Up Advances.
 On all other six battle fronts, from Belgium to Verdun the entente fore es are keeping up their successful advances, altho the Germans exery- where, except northwest of Rheims have materially stiffened their de- fense and are offering strong resist ance to further inroads into their territory.
 In Belgium Flanders the wedge of the Belgian, British and French troops have penetrated still farther eastward and sOutheastWard from Dixmude. and only few miles more will be required by the allied troops to give them positions by which Ostend, one of Germany's sea bases. will be made untenable. and, indeed, the entire North Sea coast now in German hands put in jeopardy.
 British warships are now violent lv bombarding the coast and the Germans are reported to be moving their heavy guns eastward, for fear of their capture.
 Many Towns Captured.
 Many additional towns have been captured by the allies in this region and numerous prisoners have been taken.
 The important railroad junction point of Roulers is all but in the hands of the allies, while southward from Roulers the British have cut the Roulers-Menin railway at two places and are in the process of in- vesting Menin.
 Hold All St. Quentin.
 The French are now in full pos session of St. Quentin and have passed on eastward.
 The entire Hindenburg system be- tween St. Quentin and Le Catelet has been completely smashed by Field Marshal Haigs forces. with whom the Americans are tJrigaded, and further ground has been won in the
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-10-03
LIBERTY LOAN
 SUBSCRIPTIONS
 REACHING TOP President Wilson Warns People Not to Be Too Exuberant Over War. TOTAL $411,142,O5O
 PLEDGES RECEIVED Must Get Daily Average of $3l5, 100000, Rate Loan
 Is Progressing.

Washington, Oct 2.-Presdent Wilson and other officials feel that the American people must exercise caution lest the good news from the battle fronts cause a relaxation of effort on behalf fthe Fourth Liberty loan.
 Thus far no such tendency has been noticeable and the campaign has been going with an enthusiasm comparable to that with which in. battle reports have been received.
 Official reports today from all fed eral reserve districts except Kansas City, which has not started taking subscription showed S4l1.142 .O5ll pledges actually received and accom- panied by payment of the ten nercent initial installment.
 ms covers receipts up to last night put does not include millions of dol lars Tn subscriptions of which the lnltlal payment has not been made or has been made but not yet reported offlclally. In order to raise six bi- lions, it would Be necessary to get daily average of $315 ,OOO,OOO and at this required rate, approximately billion dollars should have been sub- scribed by this time.
 Reported sales by districts were as follows:
 Boston $67,158,15O.
 New York, $139,418,5OO.
 Philadelphia, $23,O77, 300.
 Cleveland $16,213,1OO
 Richmond $14,158, ,75O.
 Atlanta, $1 $1,674,80O.
 Chicago. $27,052,750.
 St. Louis, $6O,97O,95O.
 Minneapolis, $18,448,75O.
 Dallas, $4,S12,4
 San Francisco, $37,955,9 ,950.
 In connection with the efforts to prevent slackening of campaign morale, it was citer today ytreasury officials that practically all of the six billion dollars to be raised will have been spent by the time it is re- ceived at the treasury
 The government is already paying out money at the daily rate of $5O,- OOO,OOO which is substantially the money to be raised in the fourth loan.
 Nearly $4,500 O00,O0O has been re- ceived in the last two months from sale of certificate of indebtedness but these securities are only temporary expedients to be paid cut of receipts from liberty bonds Consequently the government is already spending it's Fourth Liberty loan money.
 The total cost of eighteen months of war to October first was shown to be $18,896, ,945, ,O0O or three times as much as will be raised by the fourth loan.
 For this nations war activities $12,- 263, ,582,000 was spent and for loans to allies $6,527,914,0OO.
 Taxes have brought in $aH83, ,26G> 900, and Liberty loans or certificates of indebtedness about $13,0O0, ,0OO, ,O00.
 The harvest from war savings and thrift stamps has been $745, ,OOO.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-10-03
Civilian Population in Ger many and Austria Tired
 of Imposition.
MILITARY PARTIES
 POWER IS WANING
Emperor's Now Making Be- lated Attempts to Erect
 Democratic Rule.
By Associated Press.

Washington. Oct. 2.-Signs are multiplying in reports reaching the state department of the rapid weak. ening of the despotic control which the military elements in Germany and Austria have imposed on the ci- william population.
 American officials are becoming convinced that the imperial rulers have been forced to the conviction that if they are to preserve their dynasties they must yield to. the growing demands for the right of participation in the government dur ing this crisis.
 The military parties have retained their control only because of their asserted ability to secure military decision that would confirm Ger man supremacy.
 Power Is Waning.
 Now that the German armies are being defeated, and the nation Is confronted with an invasion and re- tribute justice for the wrongs it has inflicted, the influence of Pan-Ger- mans and military parties is waning and it is believed that, the two em- perors have decided that if they are to retain the support of the people they must turn to the civilian par. ties that have been demanding a voice in affairs. It was pointed out today that President Wilson has re- peatedly declared that with the mi litary rulers of the central powers convicted of broken faith and de. ceit, there can be no discussion o1 the peace for which the Germani( people apparently are clamoring. Related Attempts.
 Hense the belated attempts of the emperors to erect structure of reaI democratic government through tho creation of cabinets responsible tt the parliament in the hope that witt these the entente statesmen will bt ! willing to confer about peace. 1, Indications of such purposes ar, discerned by American officials il various utterances and acts of thu Continued from page three)
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A Great Big Smash.

Out flanked in Belgium and in tthe Champagne, the great German zone of defensive works known as
 the Hindenburg line already was be- coming untenable when Field Marshal Haig's men smashed through it to- day just north of St. Quentin The immediate investment of the city by French troops and the swift widening of the breach northward coupled with the continued rapid pro- gress of French. Belgian and British forces in Belgium, it is thought here, may possibly upset the whole German scheme of retirement which already 5 had begun on the Rheims front British penetration of the line, it was said, may furnish Marshal Foch swith means to embarrass the Ger
 man retreat, always with the nossi- sbility of precipitating vefitacse rout.
 < Ringed by a wall of victorious ene-
 mies over the whole front from the sNorth Sea to Verdun, the situation of sthe Germans is undoubtedly grave. s Menace to Communication. x The drive in Belgium is menacing Evital communications on one side #while American and French troops in ' the Champagne are surging forward { toward equally vital supply lines on @the other. The battle line is assuming gthe shape of vast trap and thrusts Kits jaw open to engulf the German 1armies.
 N The German leaders have seen their 8danger.
 N Will Evacuate Sub Base. E Official reports to the state depart SSment today indicated that evacuation aof the submarine bases on the Belgian $coast was imminent. X There also is conclusive evidence Ssthat the evacuation of the lines be- More Rheims is well under way. ss The question uppermost Tn the &minds of army officers here is wheth- S er the German high command has act Aed in time.
 M Caught in Traps. @ Announcement from Parls that r. sOOO prisoners were taken by the
 rench yesterday in operations be-
 Tween Vesle and the Aisne rivers is
 Significant of the difficulty of getting
 4roops back saely out of an abandon Nd fighting line.
 9s& There has been no hint of French
 attack on a large scale of this front
 and the Berlin statements have Characterised the movement as with.
 drawal.
 gS Only a narrow front as involved, Syet 2,O00 men left as rear guards i#were captured.
 N Charging Every Day. M To withdraw the whole 250 mile aaSfront where the allied and American %forces are charging forward day after Malay will be a stupendous task. With
 sconstantly increasing superiority of
 Rnumbers and gun power resting with :Marshal Foch, observers here believe SSthe retreat will be difficult beyond x words.
 # There is no possibility, it was said, \ of forecasting what may happen. x There are several places on the front where the situation aiNears particularly critical q Leave Belgian Coast. N Officers said evacuation of the A Belgian coast probably will be forced on the enemy in an efort to avert a more serious reverse in the Lille sec \ tor. l The British wing of the drive in
 Belgium is hammering at the vital
 Continued on page four)
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CAMP PIKE IS
 QUARANTINED

Little Rock, Ark, Oct. 2.-As re- suit of the influenza outbreak, Camp Pike was placed under quarantine to- day by Col. Chas. Miller, camp com mandant.
 The order mrohibits all gatherings of officers and men at Camp Enlisted men are forbidden to leave camp ex- cept. on written permission from headquarters.
 The camp surgeon today said that the situation as to influenza contin- ues unchanged and that the death rate is very low.
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NEW ORLEANS GOES
 COVER THE TtOP.''

New Orleans, La., Oct. 2.-New Dr. leans watched sixty three French For eign Legion veterans march through streets with American soldiers and sailors today then went out and sub scribed for three million four hun dred thousand Liberty bonds. This brings total subscribed seven mill lion four hundred thousand. French veterans greeted with cheers eyer where by thousands. Given American flag by Mayor Behrman and flowers by ladies.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-10-03
SEVEN THOUSAND TURKS
 GATHERED AT DAMASCUS

Associated Press.
 London, Oct. 2.-MOre than zoo Turks were made pri- Oners when General Allen. by's forces occupied Damas. GUS, the war office announced tonight.
 The statement says:
 "Palestine-TrO0ps Oi an Australian mounted division entered Damascus Monday night.
 "At six a. m. October 1, the city was occupied by the Bri- tish forces and by q portion of the Araby army of King Hussein.
 ''Over 1000 prisoners were taken.
 "After it's surrender, with the exception Of necessary guards, all the allied troops were withdrawn from the city for the time being.
 "The local authorities res. main responsible for it's ad-gl ministratiOn."
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-10-03
Foe Is In Nasty Retreat on Western Battle Front
 In France.
KEEP FRITZ ON
 MOVE EVERYWHERE
British Warships Violently Bombard North Sea
 Coast Positions

Again the Germans are in retreat on an important sector of the Wes- tern battle front in France.
 The scene of the new retrOgrade movement is a wide front north and south Oi La BaSSee canal.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-10-03
Hindenburg Line Disintag rated With Foe In Crit
 ical Situation.
BREACH WIDENED
 AT ST. QUENTIN
Teuton Armies Now Face Grave Situation Along Entire Line.

Washington, Oct. D. The German grip on Northern France and Belgium has been definitely broken.
 Even the most cautious mili- tary observers in Washington agreed tonight that the Hin denburg line was disintigrated and army officers centered their whole attention on the efforts of the German leaders to eXtricate their armies with out q crushing disaster.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-10-03
TURKEY MAKES MORE
 INDIRECT PROPOSA AIS,

London, Oct. 2.-(6:3O p.m.) Turkey has made further indirect approaches to the allies through financial chan nels which are being consider ed by the British war cabinet, the Standrad says it learns on good authority.
 Important developments, the newspaper adds, are expected.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-10-03

Continued on page eight
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WEATHER.

ARKANSAS Thursday and Friday Fair
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-25
CALLS OUR MEN 'MADLY
PLUCKY SPORTSMEN"
German Newspaper Writer Says,
1--WE Do Not Underrate the Enemy
From the New World"

Cnblexram to The Evening Star and
Chicago Daily News. Copyright, 1913.
By the Associated Press.
AMSTERDAM. Holland. March 25.-
DR.. Max Osborne, well known Berlin
theatrical critic, who is now war CORE
spondent for the Ullstein newspaper
concern, sends to the Vossische lei
tung a report on the American SOL
diers on the west front. 1t is the first
time that American soldiers have been
mentioned in German newspaper dis
patches. The writer says:
Our German troops. who have fought
against all the peoples of the world,
consider the American soldiers as phys
ica1ly strong young men, active and
well equipped. though entirely lacking
in experience in fighting as it is under
stood on the west front. They are very
plucky and anxious for action and are
always ready. day or night. for patrol
work We always notice their curious
felt hats-that is in no mans land. 1t
is always the same thing. AS soon as
these patrollers feel our fire their bat
tie fever is considerably reduced.
Our men consider them as madly
piucky sportsmen, but not as soldiers
In the sense we give the word. We do
not underrate the enemy from the new
world. but we feel ourselves in every
way superior. The prisoners make a
good impression Naturally none of
them has the least animosity against
Germany, and when asked why they are
fighting they answer Because Wilson
ordered u.s. They are all amazed at our
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d. s. MAY A|DTRAE
CANAL WAGE DISPUTE
Boetmen Seek More Pay, and Open
ing Of Season May Be Delayed.
No Boats Moved by Noon.

The United States government formal
ly has offered to arbitrate the WACO
controversy between the Canal Towage
Company and boatmen on the Chesa-
peake and Ohio canal, which threatens
a tie-up Of coal shipments via this wa
terway.
This,is the first labor question to be
taken up by the inland waterways COM
mittee appointed recently by Secretary
McAdoo. An encouraging inference is
drawn from the committees action by
advocates of the proposition Tor gov
eminent operation Of the canal.
Maj. S. W. Fox of the Engineer Corps
Of the Army, assigned to the committee
went to Sharpsburg Saturday afternoon
to confer with the boatmen. who want
Is cents a ton for hauling coal to
Washington from Cumberland. with an
allowance of one-half on all back
freight and 10 cents per ton additional
The company has offered to increase
the rate to 57k cents ton.
Maj. Fox urged the boatmen as a pa
trfotic duty to be ready for the sched-
submit their wage grievance to the
committee for arbitration. A similar
offer was communicated to the COM
pany. which at once agreed to the ar
Duration pian- me Doatmen TOOK the
matter under Amusement. They were
told that any rate the committee might
decide on would be retroactive, apply
ing from the date of the opening of the
canal
1t was said by officials of the canal
company today that they were not ad-
vised as to what would be the decision
OF the boa&men. and that the first boat
scheduled to leave Cumberland today,
had not been loaded up to noon. Indi-
cations were that the opening of the
season would be delayed.
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MAI. GEN. WOOD REPORTS
ON THE WAR IN FRANCE

Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood. sturdy and
bronzed. and showing no evidence Of
having been seriously affected by the
wound he received in a French trench by
the explosion of a mortar shell last Janu-
airy. visited the War Department today
and had a series Of conferences with vari-
Gus officials there regarding military con-
ditions in France. He declined to talk for
publication about the war situation in
France, saying that all he had seen and
learned was for the ears Of the mem-
bers of the general stan and the heads
of the War Department.
He declared that personally he felt
'fit." but that his actual physical condi-
ton cannot be determined officially I'M
til he is examined by the medical board.
That board will decide whether he is fit
for active service in the field in COM
mand of a corps or q division. He SEEM
ed quite up to all requirements from
the viewpoint Of the layman who saw
his energy and enthusiasm at the War
Department today.
Gen. Wood was called before the Sem
ate military committee late today to in
form the committee regarding the gen.
eral military situation, and especially
as to the American expeditionary force.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-25

LIEUT. SCE ~
r,.,. pr..>,, whe.>,er of
.sI 80. - ~. pr;,;.h
the American orahcn u .ne
Royal Flying Corps, a resfoent OF tne
District nearly all his life. was killed
in an accident somewhere ION the other
go, ,E,r-h "a the War Deu,rtment
has-annooncro-
RELATIVES or Lieut. Wheatiey nave
made unsuccessful efforts to obtain de-
tails from the War Department of how
,...,,,, a;s- rat bis death
MIS- L. See" Doll .. ."0
apartments, an aunt, Will leave tomor-
row morning for Detroit, Mich, where
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HUDSON MAXIM ON
| 74M|LE RANGE GUN
Possible, But Cost Too Expen-
sive for Utility, Ex-
pert Says.

Discussing the iong-range Smelling OF
Paris, Hudson Maxim. inventor of ex-
plosives and an authority On artillery,
in q signed statement given the New
York Sun. states that it is possible to
build such a gun. but that its cost
would be prohibitive in comparison
with it's accomplishments. He went
into detail with a description Of how
such a gun could be constructed-1oe
feet long and supported by trusses. like
q bridge.
Could Fire Few Shots.
Mr. Maxim was emphatic in his dec
laration that the building of such a
gun would be next to useless, measured
in military effectiveness. He said a
gun of the kind he imagined the Ger
mans must have. II they are firing into
Paris from front more than sixty
miles away, would weigh at least 500
tons and would be exhausted after
firing fifty shots.
A "Knock-Down'' Gun.
After a technical discussion of the
gun and it's projectile. Mr.. Maxim's
statement continues:
With a gun of 28-inch caliber made
from SO to 100 feet long. it would
be perfectly possible at maximum ele-
walton of forty-five degrees to get the
range attributed to the GermanA
The gun would probably be what is
generally designated as knock-down
gun-one shipped to the firing line
in sections and erected in place The
gun. however. would be so hong that 1t
would not support itself without droop-
ing. 1t would consequently have to be
supported by an external structure
like that used for supporting a bridge
In short, the mounting OF the gun
would be somewhat of a bridge build
er's job.
Best Powder Charge.
"Of course. any kind of approved
powder charge could be used. but the
best kind of powder charge for such a
gun would be a cordfte composition,
glycerin and so per cent guncotton,
made into long bars Of rods and multi
perforated transversely to the longi-
tudinal axis of the bars This would
give a minimum initial pressure and the
maximum final area exposed to the
flame of combustion just before the
complete consumption of the grain.
This would tend to keep the pressure
well up in the gun during it's entire
length.
"This gun when fired at a maximum
elevation of As degrees would throw the
|projectile above most Of the atmosphere
of the earth. so that at least half of the
travel of the projectile would be
through partial vacuum, and the total
resistance which the projectile- would
ene0anter in, say. sixty miles would not
be more than it would be in thirty
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-25

once damaging a machine in fight or
in landing.
Toward the close of 1917 he was
transferred to the American aviation
fields in Texas as an instructor, and
about the middle of January went over
to enter the fray.
When his parents last heard from him
he was in England waiting to be sent
to the front His relatives here today
said their great regret was that he was
killed before he had an oportunity to
deal a blow at the enemy.
Lieut.. Wheatley would have been
twenty-five years old next month had
he lived. He was unmarried.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-25

Bill Proposes Also Industrial Farm
for Colored Youtha.

Establishment Of . home or homes for
aged and infirm colored people and
working girls. and of an industrial
farm for aged people who must move
from the alleys on July. 1. and to pro-
vide work for the colored youths dur
ing the summer vacation. is the pur-
pose Of a bill introduced by Represent
alive Hull of Iowa which has been re-
ferred to the committee on public
buildings and grounds. This proposes