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New-York tribune., 1918-05-30
100000 in Draft
To Be Called for
Limited Service
Those Rejected for Duty
at Front Will Do
War Work
5000 in First Summons
They Will Be Assigned to Pro-
duce More Spruce for
Aeroplanes

WASHINGTON, May 29.-Two hun
dred thousand men of drav age who,
because of minor physical defects have
been held by examining surgeons over
the country for limited military SER
vice. are to be employed in producing,
or handling equipment for the army.
Provost Marshal Genetal Crowder an
no2nced tonight that the army staff
corps will utilize the services Of these
registrants and thus reIease fighting
men for the front line.
General Crowder to-day issued the
first call under the new plan. Orders
went forth to governors of states for
upward of 5000 men for service in
spruce production for airplanes. The
men will be allowed to volunteer until
June 6. After that date a report will u.
made to the Provost Marshal General,
and. if there are not sufficient vo!un
teers. allotments will be made to the
various states to be filled py .nvoiur-
tary Indictment
Some 10000 men of the army now
are engaged in getting out spruce tim
ber in the Northwest. and the Signal
Corps constantly is increasing this
number Consequently the sending of
the new men to this field will consti-
tute no new policy, and it is under
stood that it has no relation to COM
plants that Industrial Workers of the
World there have retarded the output
of spruce.
Some twenty-four trades or classes,
including railroad, transport and con-
struction men, Office workers and la
borers, are desired for the spruce di-
vision. When this division has been
filled men will be called to fill other
staff services in the army until the
100000 total has been exhausted. No
indication was given as to when the
other calls will be made.
In statement announcing the new
plan General Crowder said the solu-
ton of the question OF what to do with
those men had been ''none of the great
problems of the drafe." Some of the
men, it was explained. have thumb,
a toe or eye missing, but almost every
one Of them is engaged in active bust
ness and thus were held to be of some
use IN the military establishment. Af-
ter months of study it was decided to
call them into branches of the army
engaged in producing equipment for
the fighting men.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-30
Americans Hold
Cantigny Positions,
Pershing Reports

WASHINGTON, May 29.-Consolida-
ton of positions taken yesterday by
the Americans in the Cantigny salient
and the rcpulse of renewed counter
attacks are announced in General Per
snlngs evening commuique, issued to-
night by the War Department. 1t also
tells of the repulse last night of three
raids in Lorraine, in which several
prisoners were taken and a number OF
the enemy killed. The dispatch fol-
lows:
I'm the Cantigny salient we have
consolidated our positions in spite of
heavy artillery and machine gun fire.
renewed counter attacks broke down
under our fire.
during the night, taking several pris-
oners and killing number of the
enemy. There and in the Woevre the
artillery of both sides has been CON
tinuously active.
ut is established that on May q
cur avators shot down two hostile ma
chimes instead of one as reported"
An addition to the communque for
yesterday. given out by the War De-
partment to-day, reports that two Ger
man patrol attacks on May 26 and q
were repulsed by American troops.
L:eutenants Rickenbacher and Camp
bell, American airmen, downed one
enemy machine while fighting six.
General Pershing cited an American
sergeant, who. although wounded, drove
OF an enemy patrol of four men.
The communique follows:
Section B. - Yesterday morning
three of our planes encountered four
hostile planes flying at 5000 meters in
the region of Montsec. In the fighting
which. ensued, Lieutenant Douglas
Campbell successfully attacked two of
the German machines. Of these, one
lost both wings and fell. This was re-
TERED to in yesterdays communique.
lE the same encounter, one of our
aviators was wounded, but succeeded in
making normal landing within our
lines.
yesterday morning in. sector re-
Gently taken over by our troops, an
American sergeant encountered a Ger
man patrol of four men, who had en-
tered one of our trenches during the
night. In fighting which ensued, our
sergeant, although receiving three
wounds, succeeded in driving out the
hostile patrol, which left grenadcs and
wire cutters behind.
I'm Lorraine, on the evening of MAY
26, hostile patrol attempted to pene-
trate our lines. 1t was driven off with
loss to the enemy, with five killed. Of
these, one was brought into our lines.
One OF our men was wounded.
This morning Lieutenant Ricken-
bacher and Lieutenant Campbell at
tackled group of six enemy planes
and brought one down out of control.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-30
Casualties Among Our
Fighting Men Abroad

WASHINGTON, May 2s.-The army
casualty list to-day contained thirty
names, divided as follows: Killed in
action, 8; died Of wounds, 8; died of
accident, L; died Of disease, 10; wound
ed severely, z, missing in action, 2.
The list follows:
lAu names not othcrmise marked nre Tins.
Of prtrates)
Killed in Action
MILVANE, Francis A., lieutenant oaa2
washington Boulevard. Indianapolis. Ind.
DAMESZKIV1CS. Piosupas. 27c7 Penn
Avenue, Pittsburgh
GGu9ToN, Jeseeh William. Evert, Mich.
Indianapolis, Ind. "
=, SlPHER. Gail A.. llc1 Fifth Avenue.
North. Great Falls. Mont.
Died of Wounds
DOLIN, James O. Foster, w Va.
EWING. George NJ. Auburn; Wash.
Gs;Et~ARlN. s;t~al. John p oTippecanbe City. Ohio.
SHULER. Findley M. Bryson City, N. c.
Died of Disease
:, JAMES, Harry D.. sl2 North Sixth Street,
Hannibal Mo.
BAKER. BAKER. Frank A.. Richmond, Va
strsR. BRuNDAGE. &C cle9 e. ;v 2724 Forty-seventh
HATCH. David. Lobdell. Miss
JACKSON. Edward. Greenwood, s. c..
JONES. Mack. Crawford, Miss.
LAWTON, Paul R.. Bellows, Vt
MLAUGHLIN. Charles W., Hutchinson,
MINI.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-30
Draft Will Call
Men Fl Since June
Without DELAY

Many of the men of twenty-one who
register June 5 will be called to the
colors almost Immediately. in the opin-
ion of draft officials. Some Of the
local boards in New York City are al
most drained of Glass men, while
others have completely exhausted their
Ia lists. These boards must depend
altogether on the newly registered men
in filling new quotas.
The present call for $4,000 men, all
of whom will have left the city for
camps by the end of the week, has
taken the last Of the physically fit un-
exempted men from manv districts.
Yesterday 1884 went to camp. it was
the largest number on any day since
the beginning of the draft
The only indications that the gov
ernment contemplates calling men
from Glass Z or any other deferred
class are in General Crowder's instruc-
tlons this week to local boards to i'm
Classes 2, SIX and 81 and Director
Conboy's intimation that industrially
exempt men in these classes will be
called for special work in the army if
Glass l cannot supply the 400 special
lists required.
Local boards have been going over
their lists since Monday, and present
indications are that the classes named
will not be touched Even if they are.
no. married men will be called. The
order will affect only few men of
special qualifications, who will be put
in the army to do the work they are
now doing in civil life.
1T was the original intention to have
these 400 specialists in the army by
next Saturday. This has been found
lmpracticable. Several days must
elapse before the reports of the local
boards as to the number of men avail
able can be tabulated and the men
chosen.
Of the 5,334 who entrained for camp
yesterday 920 went to Camp Sewer.
574 to Camp Hancock, l,O25 to Camp
Wadsworth and 2,815 to Camp linton.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-30
France Decorates
Miss Winifred Holt
F or Work for Blind

Miss Winifred Holt, of this city, who
has devoted her life to the blind has
just been decorated with the Gold
Medal of Foreign Affairs by France,
where she has established three eight
houses" or institutions for the re-
education of sightess soldiers.
Miss Hollis decoration was bestowed
with unusual ceremonies. General
Febrier, in making the presentation,
declared he did so in the name Of
President Poincare.
Picturing the optimism of her sight
less soldiers, Miss Holt said:
III wish you could see our men read
ing their Brailie books and singing
when we have to go to the cellar, to
the accompaniment of the long distance
cannon, which, from seventy miles
away, keeps sending us circumstantia!
evidence that we are at war.
This is our second week of bonn
bardment, so we are all used to it.
| feel that this is the third day of
Victory, though it will be a long pull
until it is completed"
New-York tribune., 1918-05-30

Avenue. Brooklyn 0'''"'''
WHITE. Orris A., Walker. CaI
Died of Accident
NV "AlI. William W., 81 Washington Ave-
nue.. Schenectady. N. Y
Severely Wounded
", ,CARMACK. John Frank, major sao5
"aSnington Avenue. st. Louis
', THORNTON. Cholmondeley. ]isutenant
Bennington, VT. "'''e'a"' T.
?, HANCOCK. Clarence. corporal. Grand
Haven. Mich "'a'u
G. MALEC: N;cholas, corr ,ral, 25o1 Maynard
Canada A'oer 1"'
COX. Jesse j.. Nashville, Fla.
-, ,MOORE', Frank. 30 Evergreen Street.
West Lafayette. Ind.
Missing in Action
PARKER, Raymond w., lieutenant XIX
South Elm Street. Champaign, I'M
SHARkEY. Eugene F., sergeant. os Ros+
Avenue. Ansonia, Conn. previously reported
wounded severely.
EPSTEIN. Louis, l25 Sge Street, Brook.
lyn. previously reported missing. now re-
ported as returned to his company.
Prisoners previously Reported
Missing)
HUNTER. Philip A., lieutenant. York.
-, PEDR1CK, Franklin Burche, lieutenant.
Washington.
EDENS. Louis NJ. lieutenant. Cabool. Mo.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-30

COnIfnued from page
tanks returned safely. At 1925 o'clock
the Germans began a bombardment,
dropping two shells minute. most of
them falling in ravine south of Can
tigny. Compared with this, the Ameri-
can guns fred six, four or two shots a
minute. The American barrage moved
forward 100 yards in two minutes and
then 100 yards in four minutes. The
infantry followed with clock-like pre-
cision.
The Americans penetrated the Ger
man position to a depth of nearly a
mile. Their artillery completely smoth-
cred the Germans The roar of the
American guns could be heard for
many miles in the rear. Several fires
are burning behind the German line.
The German prisoners include men
from a Bavarian and a Silesian regi-
| ment, some of them as young as seven
teen or eighteen and others between
clothed and appeared to be underfed.
The Germans trooped out of their
dug when they saw the futility Of
resistance, their hands held up, shout
ing, "Kamerad." Apparently they were
! glad to surrender One of them said
he did not want to fight, but had been
compelled to do so.
Cantigny Garrison Wiped Out
The garrison at Cantgny was all ac-
counted for. The men either surren-
dered or were killed. Many German
dead were strewn over the ground.
Tho old German lines formed an
angle, which has now been Strengthened
out. The Americans have obtained
high ground, commanding a section of
plateaulike country.
American aerial observers assisted
the French in directing the artillery
! fire.
The artillery preparation began at
5:45 o'clock, one hour before the in
| fantry went over the top. The lines of
Americans moved forward in perfect
order, the tanks in the lead The
| American artillery did magnificent
work.
Fierce hand-to hand fighting occurred
in Cantigny, which contained q large
tunnel and a number Of caves. The
/ tunnel sheltered hundred Germans.
The Americans hurled hand grenades $
like baseballs into these shelters.
Men sGo Forward Smilingly
An officer told the correspondent that
the Americans went forward smilingly,
but that at the same time their faces
reflected the traditional American grit
and determination.
Americas first offensive blow was
struck in mist. The twelve French
tanks which supported the American
infantry apparently did not have much
to do, as the American artillery al
ready had prepared the way. A bright
New-York tribune., 1918-05-30

Each contingent received a rousing
send off.
Manhattan men to the number of
2,525 marched through cheering crowds
along the downtown streets TO the
Cortlandt Street ferries. Wives. moth
ers and sweethearts marched with
them. The ferryhouse became dance
hall when the bands arrived. There
was plenty of time to dance. for over
in Jersey City the arrival Of large con-
tingents of drafted men from all sec
tions had tied up traffic and the Man
haitian men had to wait at the ferries
for some time.
Most of the Camp Upton contingents
cntrained at the Carlton Avenue yards
in Brooklyn, and there was little con-
fusion there. The police would not
allow civilians within two blocks of
the trains.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-30

ard Won Kuehlmann. the German For
eign Secretary, that the handing of =
Russian official memorandum. destined
for the German Foreign Office. to the
Socialist newspaper 'Vorwaerts' before
It reached the Foreign Office was due
to the error of secretary, who was
dismissed, it is understood that Adolf
Joffe, Russian Ambassador TO Ger
many, intends always to hand docu-
ments to the press when he believes it
is to the interest Of the German gov
ernmentto keep them secret.
1.-THE German newspapers are de-
rnanding that NJ. Joffe be handed his
passports" :"
New-York tribune., 1918-05-30
Secretary Baker
Shifts Criticism

Any ass gnment of Importance which
Wood may get in the future will be an
act of generosity, whose purpose will
be to prove that it was not the Ad
ministration but the American COM
mander at the front who baked the
nations desire to have the services of
the man who is, perhaps, its greatest
soldier. Some such evidence of good
ialth may be forthcoming.
The friends of Pershing here are not
we'll pleased to have the responsibility
In fact some OF them are outspoken in
their indignation. They describe the
action of the Administration in "duck-
ing from under" as cowardly. They
say that even if General Pershing did
refuse TO have General Wood the fact
ought TO have been treated as a con-
fdence by the War Department, that
General Wood ought not to have been
told and that the public ought not have
been told That rule has been observed
IN the case of General Sibert and cer-
tain other officers who have been un-
expectedly sent back from France.
irershing's friends insist that the pub
Tic should not have been set to uues-
tioning Pershing, his character and his
motives as they are likely to do now
that he has rejected Wood. They think
that the commander at the front is en-
TITLED to have the utmost support from
the War Department and the Admins
tration in this country.
And it is clear that in putting the
responsibility for rejecting Wood upon
fershlng the authorities have violated
one OF the first rules of good admins
tration. A good administrator either
disapproves the acts OF subordinates
or makes them his own. Mr.. Baker
General Pershings friends say. if he
were bigger and more courageous
man would have assumed full respon-
sibility. for the rejection of Wood and
never have disclosed Pershing's part
IN IT. AS il is he has shifted criticism
from the political establishment of the
country which can stand criticism to
the military establishment which ir
times like these should be kept free
from criticism.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-30
Britain and Germany
To Discuss Prisoners
By George F. Steward
Especial Gable to The Tribune)

AMSTERDAM, May 29.-The Dutch
Foreign Office is engaged in arranging
with the British ard German govern
ments the special points to be dis
cussed by the proposed, conference on
the exchange of prisoners of war.
1t was announced to-day that the
British and German governments have
intimated to the Dutch government
that they are ready to send delegates
to The Hague in short time.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-30
Washington Calls
Affair Unfortunate

And precisely what was Pershine's
part in the rejection of Wood? Wash
ington asks this question incredulously.
The list omitting Woods name is be-
yond question. There may have been,
moreover, supplementary communica-
ton from Pershing arriving late and
accounting for the singular circum-
stances Of Woods being relieved only
at the last moment, though this is in
dispute. But it is pointed out that
Secretary Baker was only recently in
France after Woods visit to the front
and in conference with Pcrshing. Did
that visit and the known attitude of
1ne Administration toward Wood in
nuencc the American commanding gen
eraig Persons who know the history
OF the army say that the omission OF
every every name omitted from Pershing's
hss except that of Wood is under
ssandable from a military point OF
y'ew But they see politics in the
emission of Woods name.
Washington opinion is that the in
t,dent Is unfortunate" unfortunate
IN cepriving the country of the best
New-York tribune., 1918-05-30
300 Soldiers Killed
In Air Raid on Douai

LONDON, May % Via Ottawa
The British are carrying out continu-
Gus air raids by day and night at diff
fcrent points behind the German lines
where there are dense concentrations
of troops.
A German prisoner says that in the
recent raid on Douai 800 soldiers were
killed or wounded and great amount
of damage was done.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-30
Plea Made in House
To Send Wood to Front

WASHINGTON. May ga plea that
Major General Leonard Wood be per-
mitted to go to France was made in
the House to-day by Representative
Mckenzie. of Illinois. Republican.
''One of the most inspiring instances
of the war" said he, "is the sight Of
that grizzled warrior standing at the
White House door, begging for a
chance to go to fight"
New-York tribune., 1918-05-30

wounded in the hospitals were heart
ened by the feat of their brothers in
arms.
Boys from the front with whom cor
respondents talked to-day were one i,
praise of their comrades. They said
that they knew there was a long way
to go. but the Americans had now
shown their mettle and if the Germans
attempt to overrun them they are going
to have the hardest time in their
lives
New-York tribune., 1918-05-30
Gen. Wood May Train
Men in Draft Armv

services of one who is at least an able
soldier, unfortunate. in revealing the
administration of the War Department
as timid and blundcring and unfort-
unate in raising questions about Per-
shing that ought not to be raised. Few
believe that the formal truth about the
list is acceptable is the whole truth.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-30
German Press Wants
Russian Envoy Ousted

LONDON. May ga dispatch to
the EXCHANGE Telegraph from Amster-
dam say
although he explained to DR.. Rich
New-York tribune., 1918-05-30
He Sought Such Duty and
Remains in Washington
Awaiting Orders
Responsibility for
Ban Put on Pershing
Administration AssumesAt-
,;tude That 1t Has Washed
Hands of Incident
Bv c. w. Gilbert

WASHINGTON, May 90. - General
wooo waited in Washington to-day tor
So orders :. MS new duties. 1t is ex-
r.cted those orders will send HIM to
io,e camp where he will have charge
3 .be training of future contlngents
e the National Army. He asked Tor
sucb duty, and he is likely to get 1t.
Tho Administration can afford to be
,:hora3 In fact, its whole open att'-
.,de toward him is cne of great fr'end-
uness and regret that its plans have
hsen interfered with by the unwilling
,.ss Of Pershing to have Wood at the
front.
Indeed. in those intimate circles
where public opinion is unoffic'al'y
made word goes forth that the Ad-
u,;n;stration is indignant at Pershing
for the issue that he has raised against
4 The Administration wished to use
Wood thought highly of his ability
and patriotism, speaks of him in terms
of the utmost confidence, but there
rss pershing. the obdurate Pershlng,
.,hose will it was not fitting to over
rule.
Pershing Blamed
For the Order
The desire in Administration circles
n nlace all the burden of responsl-
bilitv upon the shoulders of the Amer
;ean commander in France was per-
fectlv apparent to-day. The informa-
ton that it was Pershing who had
blocked Woods ambition to go to
France was permitted to leak out by
members of the Administration, not
officially, but in ways that are per-
fectly familiar to observers here. The
War Department showed that disposi-
ton which it has shown so many times
in the last few months to shelter itself
behind the name of the American gen
eral in France Apparently the Ad-
ministration feels that it has washed
its hands of Wood, now that it can
rlead his rejection by the army itself.
or rather by the commander Of the
army.
No unofficial person saw the list of
major generals agreeable. to Pershing
from which the names of Wood, Bell,
Barry, Scott and Morrison are said to
have been omitted; but every one who
had anything to do with informing the
public had its existence explained to
him "authoritatively." the country
was not to be left in doubt that Per-
shing did not want Wood, for the same
reason that the Admiristratio did not
want Wood at the beginning of the war
to wit, because he was hard man
to handle" Evidently the feeling of
those responsible for our military
policy is that the country in its loyalty
will be so unwilling to question any
act of Pershing that it will accept the
rejection of Wood without protest, and
that from now on the Wood issue is
dead.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-30
American Dash
Wins Cantigny
From Germans

Continued from page l
New-York tribune., 1918-05-30
Germans Routed
In Three Attacks
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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-12-20
LEFEVBRE
BEATS ECKLAND
Winner Wants Bout at the
Studorium; Keesaman De-
feats Grappler King.

In the main event OF Lieut. Mckay
program Thursday night at the motor
transport group. Camp Pershing, Ar
tie LeFebvre won all the way from
Eckland. who took the place Of Har-
ris. whom it was announced several
days ago would meet LeFebvre. Ar
tie started in ike he meant TO finish
the bout in the first stanza, but Eek
land proved game, getting up after
receiving what appeared 10 be a fin
ishing wallop LeFebvre led all the
way. outpointing and outfighting his
opponent. being awarded the decision
at the end of three rounds.
Grappler King, base hospital, who
was favorite over Hobart Keesaman,
motor transport corps. lost the first
fall in four minutes While Il took
Keesaman about three times as long
to secure the second fall. he appeared
TO be the master Of the situation at
most all stages OF the game. King. al
though the cleverer OF the two. being
unable TO do effective work against
keesaman's great strength.
The main events in boxing and
wrestling were each preceded by pre-
Inns which proved slow.
It is probable that LeFebvre viii
get a chance at the winner OF the
bout Either will show
whether LeFebvre IS a conner.