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Charged With shooting Wife.

Bosris. July l9.-Frank II. Stoves, a
South $hd automobile dealer, was held
without bail to-day charged with muir
dering his wife by shooting at their
rels with his wits, Stoves asserted that
she had committed suicide In his absence
and that. he had. found her body on his
return home last night.
The sun., 1919-07-20
Youths Charged with Robbery.

Phillip McCahill. 81, 224 East Twenty
first street; Charles Mohr. 81, 222 East
Eighteenth street, and Nicholas Triolo,
u. 413 Second avenue, we're held in
$4,000 bail each for the Grand Jury yes
terday by Magistrate Mcclellan. They
colored attendant at the Metropolitan
Hospital on Blackwelrs Island, OF $40
on East Twenty-sixth street last Mon
day night
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for tn. need Of the soldiers 4 ssnds'witn
Oscar w. Riggs Of the Journal 81
Commerce has been helping the work
along, but now that the funds which
paid for the Gas formerly used are used
ur the loan ~ occasional automobiles Is
much needed.
The sun., 1919-07-20
ASKS ACTION ON COSTS.
consumers' Representative writes

Consumers' Representative "ro"
Petition to Congressman.
WASHINGTON. July 19.-Housewives
are rather fed up" with Congressional
Investigations of the high cost Of living
and would prefer enactment of remedial
legislation. Miss Jessie Haver, legisla-
tive representative OF the National Con-
sumers League, wrote to-day to Repre-
sentative Tinkham (Mass.).
Mr.. Tinkham has introduced bill ap-
propriating $4,000 for nationwide
inquiry into living costs.
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into my conduct at which he has been
limiting since last February
The statement continued
IT do not know what legal fees or
compensation Williams & Mullen may
ever they may have charged was for
their professional services. in which |
had no participation whatsoever. That
is all the foundation I can imagine for
Mr.. McFadden's insinuations which l
denounoe again as absolutely false and
which have all the appearance OF being
dictated by intense malice
"a Pennsylvania bank Of which Mr..
McFadden IL president has come under
my official notice in an unpleasant way
and 1 have expressed, both officially and
publicly. the opinion that Mr.. McFad-
den Is responsible for whatever uafor-
tunate conditions might there exist"
Comptroller Williams also called on
the chairman of the Senate Banking
Committee. which Is considering his re-
nomination, to summon Mr.. McFadden
before the committee Monday to make
his charges and give the Comptroller an
opportunity to reply.
RICHMOND, July 19.-Louis B. Will
Jams. brother OF Comptroller Williams,
to-day denounced the charges OF Rep
troller as untrue. He said the sum in
volved was 100000 instead OF 81, 200.-
900, as stated by Mr.. McFadden, and
that the Comptroller was in no way con-
cerned in the transaction.
The sun., 1919-07-20

Williams Bats McFadden.
In his statement Mr.. Williams said
he had been urging Mr.. McFadden by
direct letters TO him. made as singing
MS possible. 80 push the investigation
The sun., 1919-07-20

Or. James Francis Sullivan, formerly ply.
New York. and the Westchester County Hos.
pitai say.: MANY woman who is run.
down. eisilS tired out. nervous and irritable.
The sun., 1919-07-20

Greater Percentage Of Anaemia-Lack Of Iron
Makes Them Lose Much of Their Youth, Beaut
And Become Fretful, Nervous and Rundown
What Women Need Is Not Cosmetics or Stimulat
Drugs But Plenty Of Pure Red Blood, Rich In Iro
The sun., 1919-07-20

asked for an opinion was DR.. George H.
H Saker. formerly Phy;ieisn and Surgeon
who says: "Whst women need to put roses
in their cheeks and the springtime Of life
into their step is not cosmetics or slimu.
latng drugs but plenty Of rich pure blood.
Without it no woman can do credit TO her.
greatest of all strength and blood-buiiders,
and have found nothing in my experience
so effective for helping to make strong,
healthy. red-biooded women as Nuxsted
Iron.
hASvpAervlII Mons EnT1,sd Iron wAeh IL prsssrib.d
And rseomnsndsd show By physieisDs 10 not . sssrss
remedy but one which q we'll hDo~a drusgias ever
whss, Unnts the older inogasie Iron pfodaets II 10
easily ssilstsd docs not iniprs the tsssh msks th.s
black nor up.st the stomach. The manufsstuHn EuaI.
Aniss soeesssfa and satly ssilstoFy rssalta even
pssssd IL bI ely b. all sod dIaGSstA
New-York tribune., 1919-05-04

VERY soldier thinks his own
H outfit, that unit with which
A he met gloriously the ulti-
New-York tribune., 1919-05-04
"On Its Own"
Al Last

Three days later the French were
entirely withdrawn from the sec
tor, and for the first time the 77th
was entirely "on its own" in the
face Of the enemy.
Now began the grim business of
feeling out the enemy, testing his
strength, learning his disposition
and trying his mettle. The Ger
mans were doing the same thing.
The great game was to take prison
ers and to ambush and annihilate
patrols.
captain Blanton Barrett, of the
307th Infantry, the first officer the
division lost, was killed in one of
these enterprises. On July 21 he
led a raiding party Of ffty-four
men out into the enemy wire, which
had been previously cut. They en-
tered the woods beyond, and were
proceeding into the enemy trenches
when a bugle sounded and two
New-York tribune., 1919-05-04

companies of Germans. with ma
chine guns, rifles and grenades, at
tackled from two sides. The Amer
leans, fighting furiously, frustrated
the attempt to surround and capt
ure them, but only twenty-one got
back to their own lines, and most of
these were wounded.
The only captivcs made meantime
by the Americans were three Ger
mans, deserters, who threw away
their rifles and with hands uplifted
walked into their lines. Through in
formation elected from them, how
ever, it was possible to frustrate 2
number of cunning ambuscades laid
for the inexperienced New Workers.
During the period in the Baccarat
sector the various arms of the dj-
vision were practised continually
against the Germans, the signalmen
gaining experience in the use of all
means of communication, by tele-
phone, telegraph, wigwag, and by
messengers, dogs and carrier pig
cons. 1t was by means of pigeons
that Colonel Whittlesey maintained
communication with headquarters
when he was beleaugered for four
days by the surrounding Germans
in "The Pocket" last October.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-04

York drafted men went through the
submarine zone without sight of a
periscope. anG proceeded to the war
area in France via Liverpool. They
were fourteen days at sea, but were
given scant opportunity to get back
their land legs in England.
Germany was landing ponderous
blows upon the British and French,
and the Americans were needed, if
only to buck up morale. SO a brief
march from the landing stage to
the railway station was all the walk
ing they did in Liverpool. They
boarded the queer little side door
carriages of a number of British
troop trains, and next morning be-
fore daylight were in Dover. There
the men were quartered in barracks
for a few hours of rest. Then they
boarded swift Channel steamers, and
in less than three hours the New
York troops were at the quays of
Calais.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-04
First of ". A.
For France

A month later, General Bell hav-
ing been relieved on account of dis
ability, Brigadier General Evan M.
Johnson took command, and the
first contingent proceeded overseas.
That was March 27, 1918.
The Germans had begun their
final effort to smash the Allies be-
fore America could get into the
fight, and the 77th, trained to the
utmost by eight hours of drill a
day, for five months, was given the
honor Of being the first National
Army unit to be sent overseas.
Only the infantry brigades, the 153d
and 154th, went over. The artillery,
comprising the 152d Brigade, which,
because Of the unpreparedness Of
the country had been training part
Of the time with Quaker guns and
other substitutes for real material,
went over almost a month later, on
April "a, 1918, on the Lcviathan, the
monster German liner, which then
made her first trip to France.
The infantry regiments, the ma
chine gun battalions, and all the
units except the "wagon soldiers" "
went to the war zone by way Of
Liverpool. Guarded by destroyers
from the time they passed the
Statue of Liberty, which is the
symbol of their division, the New
New-York tribune., 1919-05-04
wire cage there, guarded by Indo-
Chinese and Annamite troops of the
French territorial army.
Taxi Drivers
In the Saddle

Training here was intensive also.
They went to work with French
.75s; that is, the 3O4th and 3O5th
did. The 306th was designated as
heavy artillery, to operate 155-cm.
howitzers, which did not arrive for
some time. After nearly month
on the range the entire brig
ade put on a great artillery parade
as part Of the American Inde-
pendence Day at Bordeaux, with
former New York City taxi drivers,
longshoremen and sewing machine
operators in the saddles of the gun
and caisSon teams.
Through May and June, while the
artillery was in the south of France,
the infantry brigade was putting
on the finishing touches in the north.
One of the big things was grenade
drill, and company of the 3O5th
Infantry sustained heavy casualties
one day through an accidental explo-
sion in it's ranks. Some twenty men
were killed or wounded.
During this period the 154th
Brigade, under General johnson,
was sent to the Arras sector as
New-York tribune., 1919-05-04
Major General Robert Alexander the 77ths Commander

ordered to rest camp at Pas~de-
Calais, but they got no rest. In
stead, on May 6, 1918, they were
started on months intensive
training in British war practice, un-
der the tutelage of the 39th British
Division. Instead of "Fall in"
"Squads right or left" and the other
familiar American commands on
the drill field, they had to learn 'In
two ranks, fall in" and the British
drill sergeant's way of doing things.
And they were put through eight or
ten mile hikes every day, within
sound of the guns hammering at
Mont KENNEL and Ypres.
Here the Germans. got first blood
from the division. Every moonlight
night their aerial raiders came
over. The men said it was. because
they knew the Americans had
landed and where they were billeted
Anyway, in one Of their first raids
bomb was dropped on division
headquarters and eight men were
lost.
Daily during the next four weeks.
in addition to the drills with rifles,
bayonets and gas masks, detach-
ments of men were sent to the Brit
ish front. They brought back two
clear impressions of the British
that they were splendid fighters and
that they would not let the war in
terfere with their tea at a p. m.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-04
Gathered From
Every Walk

From every walk was gathered
that day the youth to make up the
city's contribution to the yet nebu-
lous National Army. Some wore
their oldest clothes, some their best.
One young man reported in the
brilliant full dress uniform of a
marine, wearing a marksman's
medal, and one tall young steve
dore, who now lies in the Argonne,
was caught late at farewell party
and had to report in a dress suit
Still wearing a silk "kelly" and
swallowtail, he was one Of wood
cutting party next day at the camp,
and the worst of it was, it was a
rented dress suit at $3.50 a day.
Yaphank, in those now remote
days, resembled new oil town or
mining camp. The officers, them
selves civilians only a few weeks
before, had reported from Platts-
burg training camp and were still
going to school, learning the trade
of war, when the men began arriv-
ing.
Between that day and February
%, 1918, General Bell and his Off
GERS performed the task Of making
fighting men of the material given
them by the city. The unfit were
weeded out. The remainder, hun
dreds Of whom had been round
shouldered bookkeepers, or had The
curving backs of men who spent
their days cross-legged on tailors'
benches or at the whirring machines
of clothing factories, became 1.-the,
straight limbed and ruddy.
New York was given it's first and
only view of the transformation on
Washington's Birthday. General
Bell led his division in review on
Fifth Avenue. The day was cold;
the worst series of blizzards in the
citys history had just passed. 1t was
showing, and the breath of the
middle-aged colonels frosted their
grizzled mustaches as they led their
regiments between two densely
packed lines Of spectators
New-York tribune., 1919-05-04

While the infantry and machine
gunners were at Calais and Pas-de-
Calais, the artillery came di-
rect to France in the Leviathan,
also without sign of a submarine
landed at Brest, the pride of an
cient Brittany, and went to Pom
tanezin The present embarkation
camp of the Homecoming A. f. F.
was then principally noted for the
old, damp and spooky stone bar
racks where Napoleon once quar-
tered the forces with which he ex-
pected to invade England after his
navy had beaten the British fleet, a
feat it never performed. There
were rats in the barracks as big as
cats. The wagon soldiers also
averred that at night they could see
Napoleon himself striding about,
Enthusiastically Napoleon, but wearing
an unaccustomed uniform - the
overseas cap and the O. D. of the
American army.
Later, having been assigned to
training at Camp Souge, near Bor-
deaux, the artillery brigade passed
through regions of the ancient
province where no French was
spoken and the only language was
Gaelic, as pure as that practised by
the Irish nationalists.
At Camp Souge the troops got
their first sight of prisoners of war,
who were kept in a great barbed
New-York tribune., 1919-05-04
Fit For a
Harder Game

At the end of July the French
and American commanders consid-
cred the division fit to take it's place
beside veterans in the vital sectors
and try conclusions with the picked
divisions of the German army.
Ludendorff's final play for vic
tory had been checkmated by Foch.
He had passed the peak of his driv-
ing power. The turn of the Allies
at last had come, and the 18th was
destined to the Vesle. The Vesle
River resembles the Esopus. near
Kingston, which Judge Alton b.
Parker brought into some notice by
swimming in it while a candidate
against Colonel Roosevelt for the
Presidency in 1904. Compared to
what the division encountered on
the Vesle the Baccarat experience
was merely shadow boxing. Here
the men found the real thing-a
crack division of the Kaiser's I'M
perial Guard. They soon came to
call the position the Hell Hole Of
the Vesle." 1t was after the Ger
mans had been battered at Chateau
Thierry. They had begun to stag
ger and reel, but had plenty of fight
left.
The front lines of the sector as
signed to the 18th paralleed the
Vesle from Mont N0tre Dame to a
point near Fismes. BY August
the division was in motion toward
it, the infantry travelling in ca
mions driven by the squealing little
Chinese, who considered that driv-
ing meant only to step on the ac-
celerator and trust to luck. If d
man were bumped off when a ca
mion hit a shell hole he caught the
next one speeding by, or walked the
rest Of the way
The eth Regulars and the I'd
French Division were relieved, and
the 77th went into line August 10.
with headquarters at Chateau de
Fere. General Mangin was deliy-
ering his terrific smash at the Ger
mans, and the roar and. drumming
of the guns of all calibres were
in the ears of the newly ar
rived troops night and day. All
the regiments were under fire, and
on the first night, when the first re-
lief of the 153d Brigade tried to get
through the woods north of Cherry
Chartreuve, it encountered so great
a storm of shells and machine gun
bullets that it was forced, for the
first time, to dig in.
1t is no secret now that the di-
vision suffered unnecessarily on ac-
COntfOaoT M, ,,erf ,aooo
New-York tribune., 1919-05-04
First of National Army to Fight.
Longest in the
Fray

support for the British. At Doul-
lens, in the garden of which the
French and British met to finally
arrange for the unity of command
which made Foch marshal of all the
Allied forces, the brigade, still in it's
trains, was bombed by a German
flying circus. The train crew aban-
doned their posts, leaving the SOL
dlers to weather the storm, which
lasted an hour and did no material
damage.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-04
The First
Sector

The 77th Division was not only
the first National Army unit over
seas, it was also the first to take
over sector of the fighting line.
That was Baccarat, in the Luneville
region, south Of Strasbourg, the
now recovered capital of Lorraine,
where the French and Germans had
confronted each other in quiet
watchfulness for four years.
The infantry relieved the AID
Division in this sector, beginning
June 16. The artillery started north
the day after its July parade in
Bordeaux, and the division was COM
plete again for the first time since
it left the United States. Every
precaution had been taken to pre-
vent the Germans getting informa-
ton Of the fact that a new division
was coming into line, but they man.
aged it. somehow. That sector. ac-
cording to returned officers, was
filled with German spies. And on
July "a, when the relief had been
practically completed, the enemy,
as if awaiting that event, first dis
played from his observation bal
looms signs which read, "Goodby
42d; Hello 77th," and then showered
the newly arrived troops with phos.
gene and mustard gas. Clouds OF
sickly green phosgene spread over
! the ground occupied by the New
Workers. Shells heavy with the in
sidious mustard, which sears and
blisters after working its way
through q soldiers clothes, plopped
down in all parts of the area.
This sector afforded the division
its final war training. 1t was a
beautiful country of wooded hills,
but the troops had no time to ad-
mire terrestrial beauty. They were
in contact with the enemy under
the eyes of the French poilu, who,
while he was eager to help, was still
waiting to be shown how good a
soldier the American was.
The German was expected to put
on a "show' July 8. He usual
ly made an effort to disturb French
or British holidays, but he made no
effort to interfere with the Ameri-
can, and the French swapped
smokes and fluctuations with the
Americans on the 4th. On the 14th,
the Americans returned the compli-
ment.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-04
Tho Fought Hardest and Fartlest of A?-Ask the 77t
Next Phalanx i'm the Home.
Coming Hosts of
Heroes

women and solemn faced elderly
men. Every street resounded with
martial music, as young men walked
or rode behind bands of every
variety-brass, jazz, even fife and
drum, laboriously blown and beaten
by short-winded veterans of the
Civil War arrayed in their old union
regimentals, or the buff and blue
and cooked hat of Lexington Minute
mon
New-York tribune., 1919-05-04
Rest Camp,
But No Rest

The men soon found that most
of their training in the American
manual of arms and foot drill had
been useless. Their Springfelds
were taken from them, and they
we're given instead British Enfields
Furthermore, the two brigades were
New-York tribune., 1919-05-04

H outfit, that unit with which
A he met gloriously the ulti-
mate tests of manhood in
face of death, the best that ever
trod a battlefield since an unhappy
world invented war He wouldn't
be much of soldier if he didn't.
Whether it be his squad, or his COM
uany, regiment, brigade, division,
army corps or army, he unreservedly
declares and believes it the best
the best squad in the best company
of the best regiment, and so on.
So it is with the men of the 77th
Division, those "draftees" of Metro
politan New York, representing for
ty-two nationalities and racial stocks
and speaking a myriad of tongues,
who have been crowding back home
this last week for their Victory
Review and final goodby to SOL
diering. Eighteen months ago they
were a conglomerate mob of tailors,
scions of the colonial Dutch Square
heads" college men, stevedores,
subway diggers, millionaires, bank
ers, crapshooters, stuss players
and gunner. To-day, surviving vet
Grams of some of the fiercest battles
of the greatest war in history, they
are returning conscious of clean
fighting record that gives strength to
their claims of glory.
They are inclined to admit that
General Pershing was entirely cor
rect in crediting the whole Ameri-
can army with the feat Of finally
ending the war. They concede that
the 42d Division, with the old 69th
and its gallant crew of New York
Irish, was fine, hard-hitting divi-
sion. So was the 9th, the New
York National Guard unit. And
they also think that the 1st, I'd, Sd
asd 4th Regulars were there when
it came to infiicting, or standing up
under, punishment. But they are
convinced, nevertheless, that the
product of the melting pot which
the late Major General j. Franklin
Bell wrought into an effective fight
= ing machine at Camp Upton eigh-
teen months ago has a little edge
on them all.
Their demonstration runs some
thing like this:
(Which was the first National
Army Division in France and on the
fighting line? A-The 77th.
"What was the greatest battle Of
the war in which Americans took
part? A.-The capture of the For
est of Argonne.
who did it? A.-The 77th; it
was the only division that went
through the Argonne from end to
end.
(which of the American divisions
recovered the greatest stretch of
ground from the Germans? A.
The 77th; more than II kilometres,
80 of that distance being in the
Argonne.
What was the most amazing ex-
plot Of the American campaign in
France? A-The defence of the
Lost Battalion in the pocket of
the Argonne.
"To what division did the Lost
battalion belong? A.-The 77th"
And the men of the 308th Infan-
try score point over comrades of
the other regiments, for the Lost
Battalion commanded by Major,
afterward Lieutenant Colonel,
Charles Whittlesey, belonged to
that command.
The story of the 77th began
September 10, 1917. On that date
the first increment Of selected men
gathered up by the 189 draft boards
Of the city entrained for Camp
Upton. That day is we'll remem-
bered. Every station in all the bor-
oughs from which trains proceeded
to Yaphank, Long Island, was
thronged with weeping girls and
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Pensacola, April 21.-The spirit
market was firm 1T 81 la, with sales
Of Bar casks.
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Anita Stewart

definition, but Andrew Forester. her
husband, explodes society's upper crust
in proving his own theory.
The theme OF the story and screen
production, in which Miss Stewart re-
turns to the ranks Of stardom after an
absence of several months. is of the
modern problems of married life. the
division OF responsibilities. time and
activities between husband and wife.
the allegiance a wife nomina1ly owes
to her husband. and the extent of the
trust he can place in her.
With the ForresterSs Amy and An
drew, leaders in their social set, che
atmosphere Of the production is con-
fined to scenes and locations long ia
miliar to and patronized by New York g
ultra rich. The settings are necessarily
lavish and extrayagantly furnished. to
make accurate the replicas of the ac-
tual homes of the society persorages
they are intended to represent.