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Weather Forecast
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ESTABLISHED 1871—Vol. 47; No. 201.
AUSTIN, TEXAS, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 14,1918.
BANDITS
VICTORY OF
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IN COTTON
TERRORIZE
GREATEST
FRONT FRENCH
ON ’CHANGE
TWO CITIES
IMPORT
GAIN TWO MILES
1
and Vesle,
Denver and Colorado Staff Chief Denounces
tion ■
30 YEARS
1
SENTENCE
FOR DEBS
A detec-
1
I. W. W. ORGAN
and the fact that the Gov-
"It Is believed that by this course.
EW."
(Continued on Page Six,
BRIDGEPORT
In the
BARNEY OLDFIELD
STRIKERS MAY
RESUME WORK LATE ISSUE OF
TWO SUBMARINE
strike will end next week.
The man-
BOATS SUNK BY
AMERICAN BARK
off
SHOP REMOVAL
M
e
E
I
ation
as a
of St. Mihiel Kiss Hands .
of American War Secretary
erty
) be
nion
s of
ith-
few
said
(Correspondence of AMoclaed Press.)
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMIES
ON THE BRITISH FRONT, Aug. 25~
The capture of a German battery by
two Brtish airplanes was one of the
unique incidents of the fighting in this
as well
my, and
sary ex-
I will be
1 a sup-
; scheme
By Associated Press-
DENVER, Colo., Sept. 14.—The kill-
ing of Patrolman Luther McMahill here
early today brought the casualties in-
flicted by the automobile bandits who
began terrorising Colorado Springs and
Denver yesterday to two police officers
LENINE PLANS
FLIGHT REPORT
FROM PETROGRAD
RAILROAD HEAD
FOUND DEAD OF
PISTOL WOUND
U. S. DETERMINED
ON REAL VICTORY
German Battery Captured
By Two British Airplanes
LOSES 511.50 BALE
IN FEW MINUTES
Committee From War
Board to Buy for
Government.
GETS SUSPENSION -aboprhortagoainvines
ARRESTS FOLLOW
FATAL FIGHTS
Springs Scenes of
Battles.
reported to have captured Simbirsk,
on the Volga, 105 miles southwest of
Zazan, and their cavalry is now pur-
suing the counter revolutionary forces.
#
March Says It Gives the
Allies Base for Fu-
ture Blows.
Two Police Officers Are
Killed and Four
Wounded.
'Announcement Basic
Price May Be Fixed
Is Cause.
killed, on pauiuiiy iutuiiy
and three slightly wounded.
Any Report to the
Contrary.
£ <
<1
“NATION” HELD-UP
FIVE CENTS THE COPY,
“Your Banners Shall Wave
Over Metz” Declares Foch
I people ‘
e of a
employ-
change
ave not
"I am the man you want.”
A woman was arrested at Sedalia,
who was said to be the one who was
with the party here yesterday when
the shooting occurred.
McMahill was killed at 4 o'clock this
morning, when he stopped to investi-
gate a closed automobile standing at
Sixteenth Avenue and Colorado Bou-
levard. His slayer escaped.
। Detective Chief John Rowan of Colo-
rado Springs was killed and Detective
stores, ।
y mak '
roperty *,
at this |
Town Taken in Lys Sector,
LONDON, Sept. 14-Pela aarsha
Hnig r rorces have occupied uchy-lez:
I In the Lys sector, according
to the official announcement Issued to-
day by the British war office.
Roverat attempts made by the Ger-
mans to recover their former position!
at douzenucoart and Havrincourt wor
unsuccessful.
In the course of the night a strong
__(Continued on Page six.)
on, commandeersd and driven twenty
miles into the country, where he and
Miss Gates were robbed and set down
on the prairie.
No Arrests Made.
( Mr. Otter said that atter transferring
several shotguns to his automobile ths
significant in view of the American
drive in Lorraine.
In Us message to Marshal Foch, the
Knights of Columbus pointed out that
Lafayette left his garrison at Meta to
help the American colonies
"It was from Metz that Iafayette
went to help your ancestors,"’ said the
marshal's reply, "and we shall one day
see your Victorious banner floating in
Metz."
By Associated Press.
AMERICAN ARMY IN LORRAINE,
Friday, Sept. 13.—The civilian popula-
tion of St. Mihiel almost wholly fem-
inine because of the forcible removal
of practically every male of military
age, welcomed Newton D. Baker, the
American Secretary of War, and Gen-
erals Pershing and Petain, when they
visited the village a few hours after
it was captured. The village was their
official host, but in reality they were
the guests of the women and children.
able supply, t
ernment, thi
points far remoevd from the center of
the village inhabitants hurried to get
a glimpse of the visitors. A military
band was brought up from the rear;
the Marsellaise was played and the ci-
vilians’ restraint in the presence of the
visitors broke down completely. Wom-
en crowded forward ostensibly to shake
the secretary’s hand, but instead they
kissed his hands and wept and then
they joined in a chorus of thankful-
ness. There were no speeches but
many times Secretary Baker respond-
ed briefly to expressions of gratitude
often times half hysterically uttered
by the women and children.
with the Allies, must act as a common
buyer for allied purposes, make it
necessary to secure some basis of dis-
tribution of all grades of cotton. Based
on the standard grades established by
the Department of Agriculture, an ef-
fort will be made to provide a way by
which the low grade cotton will be
brought to sale and use alorg with the
high grape cotton at reasonable and
just prices.
The American soldiers now in paris
are being lionised by the people of the
city, who top the men on the street
and grip their hands in congratula.
tion over the victory.
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New Attack Is Begun on Both Sides of Ailette and
Between Rivers Aisne
ten years in the Moundsville (w. Va.)
penitentiary on each of three counts
of the indictment by Federal Judge
D. C. Vestenhaver, here today. The
vance. General March, however, an-
nounced the composition of the stoft
whieh, under Genere ershlug, planned
and executed the movement.
of the investigation to be conducted by
the committee to be named by the in-
dustries board is to devise methods for
broadening the channels of distribution
and use of the great stock of low
grades of cotton.
The President’s statement follows:
“The demand for high grade cotton
which is out of proportion to the avail-
This staff is entirely different from
the general staff of the American Ex-
peditionary Forces, which remained in
be better protected than by continu-
ation of the present chaotic conditions
of the market.
"The plan is to create, subject to the
approval of the President, a cotton
committee, to devise methods for (a)
broadening the channels of distribution
and use of the great stock of low
grades now practically unmarketable,
(b) eliminating speculation and hoard-
ing. and (c) apportioning the foreign
orders.
"It may be part of this committee’s
duty to recommend basic prices on cot-
ton. If after investigation, it is found
necessary, a fair price will be fixed.
“During this investigation and to
avoid stagnation ,a separate commit-
tee of three is being set up with au-
thority to buy cotton for the use of
(Continued on Page Six.)
RULLETIN.
. .,PARIS, Sept. 14.—German prisoners taken
ing s forces since beginning of the American offensive in the St
Mihiel sector on Thursday are said to total 20,000,
C
by General Persk-
By Assoclatea Press
NEW. YORK, Sept. 14-—A cable-
gram from Marshal Foch, accepting
the marshal's baton offered him by
the Knights of Columbus, and prediet-
Ig further sunces.ee for the Ameri-
can army, has been received by James
A.Flahertx, supreme knight of the
nrkzatiom, it was announced last
night. A referenco made to Metz by
the Alites' chief may be rezardea us
be for
menta
■reality
he es-
ree to
I obtain
y been
n this
ufacturera offer to
man.
No further action looking to the re-
moval of shops and general headquar-
ters of certain Texas railroads will be
taken for the present declared B. F.
Bush of BL Louis to Chairman Allison
Mayfield of the Texas Railroad Com-
mission at the conference held by Mr.
Mayfield with Mr. Bush, regional di-
rector of railroads. This is the result
of the mission of Chairman Mayfield
to Ht. Louis. When the question of the
removal of shops and general hend-
uartets comes up for consideration In
he future, the Texas commislson and
the railroads will be given a full op-
portunitx to ODDOne any snob change.
By Associated Press.
NASHVILLE, Tenn., Sept. 14.—John
Howe Peyton, president of the Nash-
ville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway
Company, was found dead in his room
at his home here early today. At the
home it was announced that his body
area.. The airmen slatted fort
Ity horses being harneesed to •
tory of field guns. The airmen op
fire with their machine guns, stem
Ing the gunners and their horses
«uardd the gun« until the British
American Infantry came up
During the investigation a separate .-— —z-- - muui aor urre
committee of three, soon to be named, o"e sentence was also overruled,
will buy cotton for the United States Tha cnu ndmuta ------
Government and the Allies at prices
to be approved by the President. Since
most of the cotton of the country is
required for war uses, the Government
buying is expected to stabilize prices.
The President said that the purpose
I 11'0/1
r, are
les us
tizens
li thv
ucing
Ise of
I past
mitteo
ch in
Id it
hation
I tried
tAxes,
ard to
two days wiped out this salient, the
narrowest and most angular on the
entire western front. The operations
there, he said, not only, were a tribute
to the work of the staff, but to the in-
dividual soldier.
"It's hot stuff," he said warmly.
No report has yet come from General
Pershing identifying any individual
unit which partcpated jn -the ad-
reinstate every
By Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Sept. 14.—Four prom-
inent automobile race drivers were
suspended for varying periods at a re-
cent meeting of the American Auto-
mobile Association for competing in
unsanetioned race meets- The contest
board of the association disqualified
and permanently suspended Barney
Oldfield for competing in an tnsanc-
tioned track meet at Springfield, Ill.
Earl Cooper was disqualified and tem-
porarily suspended for a similar of-
fense- Al Cotey and Tom Allen also
were disqualified and indefinitely sus-
pended on like charges.
By Associated Press.
NEW ORLEANS, La., Sept. 14.—An-
nouncement by President Wilson that
if found necessary a basic price will
be fixed for cotton caused a wild open-
ing on the New Orleans cotton ex-
change today and in the first few min-
utes of trading prices dropped an aver-
age of 311.50 per bale. As compared
with closing prices yesterday, quota-
tiors ranged from 227 to 235 points
lower on the'active months. It was
the wildest drop ever recorded here in
a similar period of trading.
The President’s Statement.
Washington, Sept. 14.—President
Wilson announced yesterday that a
fair price for raw cotton will be fixed
if that should "be deemed necessary
after the committee to be appointed
by the war Industries board has com-
pleted its inquiry into the general cot-
ton, situation.
German Dieolpline Falling.
BRITISH HHADQUARTERS, Sept.
IS (Canadian Presa).The derman
are being steddily driven from all
ground where rear guard*'might pro-
longreststance in old defensive worke.
Hie first guards reserve division, much
denataa Nn. r/a. . ! .. *
Advance on Aisne Front.
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY ON
THE AISNE FRONT, Sept. 13. The
I American infantrymen, operating on
this front advanced their lines slightly
at several points southeast of Villers-
en-Prayeres, to the northwest of Re-
I villon, today. An American raiding
party was sent out against the enemy
to the cast of Villers-en-Prayeres be-
fore daylight today. The party brought
back a few prisoners,
There was the usual amount of ar-
tillery firing during the day.
Americana Are Lionized.
PARIS, Sept. 14.—The American
army's maiden effort as an independent
force in the world war is regarded by
'the rencn press and public as noth-
ing less than a master stroke. The
further details that have come through,
showing the extent of the ground
gained and the greatest number of
prisoners taken in two days on a rel-
THE STATESMAN
MEMBER or ASSOCIATED PRESS REcEIvIG COMPLen LEASED wiz nkponr
t
(
By Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Hept 1.-New York
poBtotrice authorities have held up the
distribution through the malls of the
Hept. 14 Issue of The Nation, a weekly
magazine published by Oswald Gar-
rison Villard, pending a decision from
the postortice authorities at Washing-
ton regarding certain utterances ap-
pearing in the publication of that date,
it was elated at the office of The
Nation today. The chief postoffice In-
spectors here refused to discuss it.
Jap Government Puts
Up All Salaries
)
By Associated Prem.
TOKIO, Hunday, Hept, & The as-
tounding Increase in the cost of living
continues to affect all aspects of life
and is generally attributed to the
overwhelming excess of exports. The
government has decided to meet the
grave economic problem by Increasing
all salaries 60 per cent and private
employers are following the govern-
ment's lead.
The government has inaugurated a
far-reaching investigation into eco-
nomie. labor and social problema
the 87th division now consist of one.
bamrynooeacen .with an o
Prisoners admit disaffection and
lack of discipline are growing at an
alarming rate in the German army and
desertions are on the increase.
A battalion of the 46th Infantry reg l-
ment, which has gained the name
Hons of Cambral," broke during our
ad ’"•nce recently across Santerr, and
fled to Neele, where they indulged in
looting, after which the remnants
straggled away.
By Associated Press.
WASHINGTON. Sept. 14.-rElimina-
tion of the St. Mihiel salient by the
first big American offensive and the
consequent reduction of that sector by
twenty-two miles, General March said
today, is of extreme importance In that
Baker Going to Paris.
PARIS, Sept. 14.-—Newton D. Baker,
American Secretary of War, who has
been on the American front since
Thursday morning watching the of-
fensive, will return to Paris tonight.
. , It is announced that he expects to
elr reliet’depart soon for England where he will
-a from remain for a short time.
tive was killed by them in Colorado
Springs yesterday.
Early this morning the automobile
containing the party with which the
Denver police exchanged shots last
night returned to a house on Capitol
Hill and in a hand-to-hand fight which
followed Policeman Carl Wilson was
shot in the hand and Policeman R.
Ryan was disarmed. The men then
re-entered their automobile and es-
caped.
Shortly after thoshgoting W. D, Ot-
ter of Chicago reported to the police
that while driving in an automobile
early last night with Mias'Gates, whose
home is in Texas, his car was stopped
by the bandits, two men and two wom-
By Associated Press.
BRIDGEPORT, Conn., Sept. 1’4.—
President Wilson’s letter to the Bridge-
port strikers was received today. The
sentiment of the strikers, who thronged
union headquarters, indicated that the
- - . , . It gives the Allies a much better base
one probably fatally wounded "for future offensive operations.*'
ree wonded A deten- General March paid high tribute to
the American forces, which in less than
IONDON, Sept. 14.2 (By the Associated Press, 1:30 p. m
General Pershing “ troops in their operation in the St. Mihiel seetor
wave increased the number of Germans captured to 15,000
French troops.began anew attaek at dawn this morning on
th* vJsk’lHver Ailotte River and between the River Aisne and
of The attack °l the Freneh forces in the direction of the forest
the81 dobain munaif, was progress-
and 8"" captured Mont Desiagoa
the ThneFrench also reached the edge of the town of Vailly on
East Texas and West Texas: To-
night and Bunday generally fair.
rough early agreements
NUMBER PRISONERS TAKEN AT ST. MIHIEL EXCEEDS 20,000
WILD D R 0 P Keeping With Joy People ~
By Associated Press.
LONDON, Sept. 14.—A shortage ot
labor by the withdrawal of large num-
bers of miners for the army is given
ns a cause for the decline in the out-
put of coal by a correspondent of
the Press Association, who has been
touring the coal areas investigating tha
coal shortage.
Aged women and girls crowded about
Secretary Baker and the two geenrals
accompanying him to express their
thanks and pay homage to their de-
liveries. It was not merely curiosity:
It was an emotional outburst following
almost three years of the conquerors’
suppression. The word was passed
about that the small civilian was the
American Secretary of War, whose
armies had accomplished thet-
and from half destroyed and
was not going through with the war,] Wounded Tell of Fight.
dospite the enlarged military progrm, PANIS, Sept. 14.—The rirst groups
This suggestion, he declared, was "pre-1 of wounded who arrived at an"eva
Poeroemen the chief of batto.Front TO
staff said, that such propaganda could I got their sufferings In their Joy over emIen
gain attention at a time when the|the beating the Germans had been
War Department had just secured in -1 Ki ven, says a correspondent of 1st Lb
creased limits for the draft ana was I t rie behind the fighting lines. A cap-
about to ask an additional 67,900,000,- 1 turea German officer when interto-
900 for the use of the military estab- i gated declared the Americans were
lishment during the present war. I "terrible adversaries,'' the correspond,
Al) reports from American forces at I ent says,
the front indicated high spirits and The wounded men in talking of the
enthusiasm throughout the whole army. lena«ement demcribed the fighting as
General March said the American sof-lot the severest sort, espeblally in the
dler quickly became imbued with this [•*"*• ot dense woods scattered about
spirit an xoon as he landed if he alalthe salient and also along the railroad
not possess it before. Ine scarcely two hours after the at- ------- ouue rusurveaivasion, much
The arrival abroad of the Fortieth 1AcK wan launched the Germans start- depleted, has been identified in the
Division, composed of California. Utah, I0Aa counter attack with three divis- Mosuvres sector and Austrian auer
New Mexico, Arizona and Colorado I ton", which, however, were unable to has been In action astride the AnV
troops which trained at Camp Kearney. I "oP,the American advance- rincourt-Flesqulere road
California, was announced. Part of the . orTThn. American troops," adds . tbs Three battalions of one resiment of
division now is In England, ornveryondntainrshowed, magniscent the 87h division now consist of on
------------ vraveY and dlsregard of danger. company each, with an averng. nt
Reuter's, Limited, learns that in or-
der to meet the growing demands for
coal for the army, navy and munitions
factories and for the Allies, arrange- AIN k NNIANT NNI
ments have been completed for the re- V ( I Al. I 11 11\J (IN
turn to the mines of all miners except V• IIV I IVT% VII
those of the highest physical category.
I who
mers
state,
ment
n in
By Associated Press.
CLEVELAND, Ohio, Sept. 14.— Eu-
gene V. Debs, charged with volation
of the espionage act, was sentenced to
EDITION
J' :
/
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ON ELEVEN MILE
The French advanced for a distance of between one and two
luiles in an eleven-mile front.
The attack was launched by the French at 5 o’clock thin morn-
iftalnsrtsonascmnapnrlppuvsdoam mdn
th Inaddition to the 15,000 Germans captured by the Americas in.
womy waga xungu '"I .a ' Mihiel salient, more prisoners are coming in. The inside
mmuerw tat the expeditionary head- of the Poeket has not been cleared, and it is expected that morn
General March pointed out in con-1 8unsW 1 0 taken.
Siji"havanernnn slommashn!the Khette manreounteraattackaagqinstthe Frenchmen advancing on
doned voluntarily, that no mention was , f 1: - . . . .Ppeared to have been weak, although the
made by the Germans of the big loss front line was strongly held.
°cptunerBt the saUent was Accom. Germar prisonerssay they had orders to hold at 0,1 costa,
pushed by quick, .harp blows on both „ In their attack south of the River Aisne, the French also made
flanks. General March explained. The satisfactory progress and captured prisoners, but details are lackine.
difficult terrain1 cohdraneg of densely The advance of the French threatens to turn the flank or the Ger-’
wooded hills intersected by numerous loan derensive positions on the Chemin-des-Damek, and it also en.
ravines. I dangers Laon. ’
General March laid particular em- n," 2 , , .. , ,
phasis on the determination of the —ne maximum depth of the new positions taken by the Ameyj.
Unotedstratgstongontirunnbaxeman can forces in the St. Mihiel sector is thirteen miles from the former
Ho referred to recent publications 1 1
which, he said, intimated that America I — O~--*......■ —-..................
auively small front, have more than
borne out the early expectations.
The American army han gained a
Eenuine yiotory at high speed,” says
critics' - mr the artillery
By Associated Press.
HAVANA, Hept 14*—Two enemy
submarines were sunk by an American
bark when she encountered them JOO
miles out from her dort of departure,
according to a story published In the
newspaper El Mundo today. No details
of the encounter are given.
The bark with 129 passengers on
board bound from an AtlanUc port of
the United States for Central America
took refuge in a uban port lids week
from a storm that Was sweeping across
her path The captain, according to
Kl Mundo, made a report in writing of
the encounter with the submarinen,
which was signed hy the passengera
By Associated Press.
BUTTE, Mont-, Sept. 14.—Federal
and city officials assisted by United
States cavalry stationed here early
today raided headquarters of the In-
dustrial Workers of the World and the
offices of the Butte Bulletin, a daily
newspaper, publication of which had
been forbidden by the Council of De-
fense.
FRENCH ATTACK FOLLOWS YANK VICTORY
There is still no direct news of the I
fate of the former empress and her I By Associated Press.
Swsdicharpordsgpashlad., STOCKHOLM, Sept. 14.-Bolshevik1
ter Tchitcherin has denied the report- forces, according to urgent telegrams
ed murders. I received here today from Moscow, aro
was found by a sister who went to
awaken him to greet a brother who had
just arrived.from Virginia.
He hAd been dead severat hours,
gggpgg ‘ ” ----.Death Was due to a pistol wound in
sentences will run concurrently. Mo- l the temple.
tion for a new trial was overruled and I -------------
an exception on behalf of the defend- g
“tdsmowe RAID OFFICE OF
The court admitted Debs to 610,0001 * ,VW VT
ban..with permission to leave the
Northern Federal District of Ohio only
to go to and remain at his home.
Bv Associntea pe „ I The entire staff of the paper from
LONDON d Press. H.nt n , Ithe editor and business manager down
s5srs*,“ niss,s
■? -s“
Erit a .8uMecta. he d prisoner in Rus- miners in the Butte district,
sia, but Indirect negotiations for their I ----------------
release are continuing. I
BOLSHEVIKI ARMY
"ii is Delevea mat oy inis course, ing the break-up of the Bolshevik re- I
both the producer and consumer will sime. Premier Lenine and War Min-1 npAYrpA gVIARTFAAIY
...... ister Trotzky, it is declared, made all AKN VKKBK
preparations a month ago to escape' •aAW• •N-AHAAVVA)
to Switzerland.
he city |
nd cor- 1
ards of |
nd lo- g
y being 1
iditions |
Ling the
3 prac- t
two men and their women companions
entered it, compelled him and Miss
Gates to crouch on the floor, and drove
twenty miles into the country, threat-
ening to kill them if they made any
outcry.
Two arrests were made early this
morning in the bandit hunt. Frank
Lewis was taken into custody at Pal-
mer Lake, twenty-five miles north of
here, as he was coming in a taxicab
from the north. The officers did not
know he was the man wanted until he
was lodged in the police station, when
he was identified by his photograph
and marks on his arm. Ho said to the
officers:
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