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I a a the I THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK, MONDAY, 'AUGUST 19, 1918. HOW FOCH HAS LINKED UP PICARDY AND AISNE FRONTS COMBLES MCAE PERONNE DAMIENS OMOREUIL NESLE GROVE LA SERRE NOVON MANICALL OVINGRE COMPISONE (By the Associated Press.) Launching what may be described an extensive local attack, the French on Sunday evening broke through the German positions along the vital sector connecting the Marne and Picardy battlefields. This attack was over a front of apCarlepont, east of the Oise, to Fontenoy, on the Aisne, about six miles west of Soissons. It is officailly reported that an advance to a an average depth of 1.3 miles was made all along the front of attack.

A total of 1,700 prisoners is reported from Paris. It is reported from London that an exm treme penetration of two miles has been made. The villages of Nampcel and Nouvron-Vingre have been captured and the French have reached the southern edge of the ravine at Andignicourt, which is between Nampcel and Nouvron-Vingre. Since the situation along the Aisne and Vesle and in Picardy has seemed LEWIS BROADSIDE FOR GOV. WHITMAN Takes Form of Questionnaire and Asks If Governor Expects Hearst's Support.

Merton E. Lewis, who has recently been devoting most of his campaigning to attacks upon W. R. Hearst, turned his guns directly on Governor Whitman today, firing a questionnaire broadside into the Whitman trenches. Among the questions were: "When will the Governor tell the enrolled voters why he favors ratification of the Federal prohibition amendment without giviug the voters an opportunity to express their wishes on the subject? "When will the Governor tell his reasons for opposing the restoration of the State convention? "When will be tell what the arrangement was which led him to veto the moving picture censorship bill? Did Mr.

Hearst request the veto, directly or indirectly? "Is it true that the Governor participated in the preparation of the bill for the disposition of the water power created by the barge canal construction? Did he give an emergency message on the bill the day before final adjournment of the Legislature? What led him to veto the bill? When did he change his mind? Was the veto decided upon after an attack was made by Mr. Hearst in the American? "Is Governor still a candidate for the Presidential nomination? Does he expect Hearst's support. What did Mr. Brisbane say to the Governor in their recent interview at the Hotel St. Regis? Is the Governor a party to an arrangement under which attacks are made upon me by Mr.

Hearst's American? What is the Governor's attitude toward Mr. Hearst? ENSIGN HEALY SHOT AT CONEY BUNGALOW Ensign James Healy, 32 years old, of 212 Carroll street, and Maurice Grath, 34 years old, of 308 East Eighth street, Manhattan, received bullet wounds as the result of a shooting which occurred this morning at about 4 o'clock in one of the bungalows on Weber's Walk, Coney Island. Walter Kopel, who was on the beach, heard the shots sleeping, summoned the police. The injured are now in the Coney Island Hospital and told their stories to Detectives Blake and Ryan. They say that early today they a bungalow which adjoins theirs.

heard the scream of woman from da When they entered the bungalow the shots were fired, one of which hit Ensgin Healy the left cheek and the other hit McGrath in the right wrist. The police are investigating the story. BILL TO TAKE OVER ELECTRIC PLANTS Washington, August 19-To meet the urgent need for electric power in shipyards, munition factories and other war industries, a bill, approved by the War Industries Board, was introduced today by Representative Sims of Tennessee authorizing the President to construct power plants to meet immediate demands at Pittsburg. Philadelphia, New Jersey cities and other East. ern industrial centers, The bill also would authorize the President to take over privately-owned power plants, to increase their capacity or to require the owners to place all part of their power at the disposal of the Government.

An appropriation of $200.000.000 for construction, acquisition, maintenance and operation is proposed. BROOKLYN GIRL INJURED Greenwich, August 19-Miss Violet Maltz of 1875 Pitkin avenue, Brooklyn, sustained a fractured skull this morning when an automobile. owned by Ellas Shipley of Brooklyn, 111 which she and another young woman were riding. left the Boston Post road east of the Portchester Inn. Portchester, N.

and crashed into a telegraph pole. Miss Maltz had just reached out of the car and her head came in contact with the pole. The other occupants escaped injury. Miss Maltz is said to be in a critical condition. EL vear 55th year RAVEN-HALL CONFY ISLAND Adjoining Steeplechase Park Fifty Year 65th year 55th car SWEDEN IS ASKED TO AID REFUGEES NOW IN PETROGRAD Requested by U.

S. and Allies to Send Ships to Take Them Away. (By the Associated Press.) Washington, August 19-Sweden has been asked by the Swedish Consular Office at Moscow, acting for the American and Allied Consuls there, to send a ship to Petrograd to take away 200 refugees, or if this is impossible to obtain permission for these persons to pass through Finland. It is assumed here that the refugees are American and Allied citizens seeking to escape from Russia. Under date of August 1 the Swedish Consul General at Moscow reported that the German Government had refused safe conducts for any refugees, including Consular officers, and it was believed this refusal would stand until negotiations were concluded with England concerning the treatment of Germans in China.

A report, dated August 16. said the Bolsheviki authorities had agreed to permit the Consuls to depart and that the military missions of Great Britain and France were preparing to leave Moscow by way of Astrakan and Persia. When these dispatches were sent efforts still were being made to obtain the release of British and French citizens held as hostages by the Bolsheviki. Some were released several days ago, but nearly a hundred were held. The Swedish Consul General said the negotiations would be greatly facilitated if the Allies would promise protection to Soviets in northern Russia.

Chaos in Russian Cities. Long dispatches reaching the Department today through Swedish Foreign Office described the chaotic conditions existing in the Russian cities. Railway service between Moscow and Petrograd has been interrupted. On August 9 unusual measures were taken in Petrograd. In the afternoon of that day the German Embassy arrived from Moscow on two special trains.

A third train had 800 German soldiers in Russian uniforms, who had been in Moscow since the assassination of Count von Mirbach. Premier Lenine and Foreign Ministry Trotzky arrived in Petrograd on August 10 and unusual measures were taken at Kronstadt indicating that the Bolsheviki leaders were going there, as was reported I last week in press dispatches. German agents in Stockholm were quoted as saying on August 1 that the Germans were moving from Moscow, not because they were afraid, but because they felt certain of the fall of the Bolsheviki in the near future. They declared the Bolsheviki would probably be succeeded by Chernoff and his revolutionary party, who probably would summon at once a new constitutioned assembly which will be recognized by Germany. Says Soviet Regime Is for War.

Amsterdam, August 19-Telegraphing from Petrograd the correspondent of the Dusseldorf Nachrichten quotes the Russian newspaper Pravda as saying: "The Soviet government will declare war on the Entente Allied countries. Soviet officials have issued an appeal stating that Russia's position is alarming. "Russia's intervention in the war is necessary. The removal of the government to a safe place consequently nas been decided upon and Cronstadt (the de fortress of Petrograd) has been chosen as the seat of authority. All preparations have been made to move the Government offices there." The return to Berlin of Adolph Joffe, the Russian Ambassador Germany, after a stay of but one day at Moscow.

is puzzling the German papers. The Weser Zeitung of Bremen says that it is unable to understand a short stay at Moscow, inasmuch as had to report on a supplementary treaty to the Brest convention, which had been initiated at Berlin by representatives of both the Russians and Germans." Japanese Troops Delayed. Peking, August 19-The movement of Japanese troops from Changchun, on the Mukden-Harbin Railroad, to the Manchuria -Siberian front, has been further delayed. This delay is due to the demand made by the Japanese that and virtually control the operations of the Chinese Eastern Railway. The Chinese officials, supported by the Entente allied representatives in Peking, have declined to consent to the taking over of the railroad by Japan.

CAPT. BIDDLE BRINGS DOWN GERMAN PLANE Washington, August 19-Captain Charles U. Biddle of Andalusia, was the American aviator who brought down a German airplane in the Lorraine, mentioned in General Pershing's official communique of August 17. Additional details are contained in Section of the communique for that day, made public today. It follows: "Section B--The following details of the aerial combat referred to in Section A have been reported in Lorraine: "Captain Biddle brought down a Rumpler machine northwest of Bouxderes-Aux-Dames at 5:40 o'clock in the afternoon of August 16.

The observer was killed and the pilot wounded, but the machine landed intact." THREE MEATLESS DAYS WEEKLY IN VIENNA Washington, August 19-Three meatless days per week have been ordered by the municipal authorities at Vienna, according to an official dispatch today from Switzerland. The Austrian capital is reported threatened with complete exhaustion of its meat supply. PRESIDENT BEATS ADMIRAL Manchester, August 19- President Wilson, taking advantage of the continued fine weather, remained here today. He motored over to a golf course and defeated Rear Admiral Cary T. Grayson, his physician, in nine-hole match.

PRIZES FOR MRS. BANGS. Goshen, N. August 19--Charlotte Bangs of Brooklyn was awarded two first premiums for her exhibits in the food show at the Orange County fair at Chester. JOHN W.

DEVOY DIES; LIBRARY TREASURER Served 18 Years on Brooklyn Library Board--Also Treasurer of the Andrew Carnegie Commission of Brooklyn. John William Devoy, 54 years old, of 320 Adelphi street, treasurer of the Brooklyn Public Library Board for the past eighteen years and treasurer of the Andrew Carnegie Commission of Brooklyn for the construction of Carnegie libraries in this borough, died suddenly yesterday of heart trouble at Watertown, N. where he had been the summer. Mr. Devoy had apendins, member of the Queen of All Saints R.

C. Church, Lafayette and Vanderbilt avenues, for nearly thirty years, and arrangements John William Devoy. for his funeral will include a requiem mass in that church, with interment in Holy Cross Cemetery. Mr. Devoy is survived by his wife, Katherine Kelly; a son, J.

Edward Devoy, who is in the U. S. Navy Aviation Corps; two daughters, Miss F. Elizabeth Devoy and Mrs. Frank Allaire of Brooklyn.

and a brother. Charles S. Devoy, Transfer Tax Appraiser of Brooklyn. Mr. Devoy was born in New York City on July 13, 1854, and had been a resident of Brooklyn for forty-five years.

After graduating from the public schools he entered the Custom House brokerage business. He was one of the oldest and best known Custom House brokers in the city, having been in the business for thirtyseven years, and was senior member of the firm 'of Devoy Brothers in the Cotton Exchange building in Manhattan. Mr. Devoy was an active member of several fraternal organizations, chiefly the Royal Arcanum and the Catholic Benevolent Legion, in wheh latter body he was for several years a district deputy. He was a charter member of the Catholic Historical Society and was well-known generally in Catholic circles.

He was appointed in 1899 by Mayor Van Wyck as a member of the Brooklyn Public Library Board. and in 1900 was elected treasurer of the board. His services spreading public libraries throughout the city has been of an 1 energetic character, and when representatives of Andrew Carnegie were chosen to build Carnegie libraries in Brooklyn he was appointed, together with former Mayor David A. Boody, D. W.

McWilliams and R. Ross Appleton, to supervise the construction and equipment of the Carnegie libraries. Mr. Devoy was a trustee of the College of New Rochelle, and had served on many the city commissions under various administrat.ons. He was a member of the first Manhattan Bridge Commission, for acquiring land for bridge terminal between Flatbush avenue and Nassau street, and in subsequent proceedings.

BAKER AND MARCH DIFFER IN DRAFT OF 18-YEAR-OLD BOYS Continued from Page 1. by the Senate Committee, the Secretary said he could see no objection to it in view of the fact that the regulaing its provisions for revoking detions of the President are to be relied upon to carry it into to effect. Regardferred classification for men who refuse to work, he added: That seems to me to be entirely proper." In case of a strike, said, the President could determine whether suspension of work was "in good faith." and could defer suspending exemption of workmen. "Then you would be willing to use the draft regulations in industrial disputes?" Mr. Baker was asked.

"Yes, to a limited extent," the Secretary replied. Chairman Dent emphasized that the Thomas amendment was not a part of the Department's bill. "I have a very strong feeling against a slacker using exemption," the Secretary said, adding that even though the "work or fight" amendment was not recommended by the Department he thought it might be well for Congress to make such a declaration to deal with industrial slackers. When Representative Lunn of New York joined with Chairman Dent in opposing the Thomas amendment. Secretary Baker and also General Crowder pointed out that the amendment is not mandatory and that dis.

cretion is left to the President. Pointing out the existing "work or light" regulations involve conscription of labor. Mr. Baker declared that with men being drawn from the farms and industry, it is only fair to require a skilled man to work or fight. "The amendment seems to be entirely consistent with the policy the War Department is inforcing and is unobjectionable," he said.

"And am less disturbed because the attitude of labor as a whole is so fair and wholesome, helpful and patriotic." Extension of the draft age limits, Mr. Baker said, necessitates the bill's provision broadening draft boards power over "occupations and employments" as well as "industry, including agriculture." When committee members complained that too many men are being taken off farms. the Secretary said it is not intended to draft more farmers under the new law and that the present policy will continue. General Crowder pointed out that local boards are responsible for selecting men from farms. The law permitting men to be furloughed home for harvesting crops has not been used to any great extent, Mr.

Baker said. and has not been found very necessary. Secretary Morrison of the American Federation of Labor interrupted oppose the "work or fight amendment" of the Senate bill. "There is no question about labor going along with this Government," Mr. Morrison said.

"Labor is doing its level best but this amendment is nothing less than conscription of labor." Dr. John Joseph Keating, 42 years old, of 722A Union street, Brooklyn, died on Friday at Saranac Lake, N. after a long illness. Dr. Keating was formerly connected with the milk inspection service of the New York Board of Health as supervisor of milk inspectors, and latterly he had been private practitioner of medicine in Brooklyn.

He was born in New York City, the son of James P. Keating, of 1808 AveFlatbush, who was Highway Commissioner under Mayor Van Wyck in Manhattan Borough and who is widely known in Democratic politics. Dr. Keating was formerly a member of the Tammany Central Association. He was educated at the Baltimore Medical School, from which he graduated, and thereafter was connected with St.

Catherine's Hospital medical staff for a number of years. He left the service of the city to enter private practice. His funeral will be held tomorrow morning, with a requiem mass in the R. C. Church of St.

Stephen, East Twenty-eighth street, near Third avenue, Manhattan, interment following in Calvary Cemetery. Dr. Keating is survived by his father, three brothers -Stephen Richard J. D. and William F.

Keating-and two sistersMrs. Lillian A. Clark and Mrs. Thomas F. Murray.

LEVI BLUMENAU DIES; 10TH WARD PIONEER DR. J. J. KEATING DIES Reader of The Brooklyn Eagle More Than 55 Years and a Real Estate Dealer in Smith Street Since 1862. Levi Blumenau, 84 years old, one of the oldest real estate dealers in Brooklyn, and a resident at 151 Smith street, in the old Tenth Ward, for fiftysix years, died yesterday at his summer residence, 2674 Elmore place, Sheepshead Bay.

His funeral services will be held tomorrow afternoon, at 2 o'clock, in the Temple Beth Elohim, Eighth avenue and Garfield place, the Rev. Dr. Alexander Lyons officiating, and will be in Machpelah Cypress Cemeteterment Hills. Mr. Blumenau was a charter BLOCH PHOTO L.

BLUMENAU member of the Temple Beth Elohim and had been a member of its board of trustees for fifty-seven years. He is survived by two sons, Max andHerman Blumenau; eleven grandchildren and one great grandchild. Mr. Blumenau was born in Bunde, Germany, on March 5. 1834, and came to this country in 1855 in a sailing vessel, after a voyage across the Atlantic that lasted forty -nine days.

Soon after settling in the old Tenth Ward he started in the newspaper business on a small scale and built up a large route among the residents of the ward. Newspapers were not delivered at the stores in those days, and the proprietor of a small store had often to trudge many miles and carry home his own papers from the newspaper offices. Not only did Mr. Blumenau do this, but he was one of the first to inaugurate the system of delivering newspapers at his customers' own doors, with the result that he quickly overshadowed his rivals in the business. The Brooklyn Eagle was the only daily newspaper in Brooklyn when he started, and he sold and delivered them by hundreds to the old Tenth Warders every day.

Mr. Blumenau not only bought, sold and delivered his Eagles, but he became a thorough reader of this newspaper from the time he first came to Brooklyn, continuing to read it almost until the day of his death. It was from the columns of The Eagle that he first learned of the merits and possibilities of the real estate business, and he opened a real estate business at 161 Smith street, in 1862. He developed this business successfully and continued in it until he was 80 years old, when he retired and relinquished the business to his sons. Mr.

Blunenau was a member of all the prominent Hebrew organizations in Brooklyn. He had been vice prestdent of the Hebrew Benevolent Association for more than thirty years, and among other societies was an active member of the Hebrew Orphan Asylum and the Jewish Hospital. He was an old member of Fortitude Lodge, No. 10, F. and A.

and of the Brooklyn Masonic Veterans Asso. ciation. RUSSELLITE LEADERS HERE FROM ATLANTA FOR HUDGING'S TRIAL Van Amburgh and McMillan Have Gained Ten Pounds in Federal Penitentiary. Accompanied by Deputy Wardens J. D.

Jackson and J. W. Higgins of Atlanta Federal Prison, Treasurer William E. Van Amburgh of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society and Superintendent Alexander Hugh McMillan of the Bethel Home arrived in Brooklyn today to act as witnesses for William F. Hudgings, secretary of the Russellite organization, indicted for perjury.

When taken to the Federal Building the two Russellite officers, who were sentenced to twenty years imprisonment by Federal Judge Howe after conviction of violating the Espionage Act, were given a warm reception by fellow Russellites who occupied the whole of the big corridor outside the court room. Mac, as McMillan was called, seemed the more popular of the two, and men and women of the Russell faith crowded about him, patting him on the back and showering inquiries as to his health. In response McMillan said that he and Van Amburg are being treated well in prison and that each have gained ten pounds in weight. Van Amburg has lost much of his saintly appearance because, since his confinement, he has shorn off his patriarchal whiskers. The case against Hudgings was called before Judge Thomas Ives Chatfield, who, tanned from his vacation, seemed fit and eager for the hard work ahead of him.

Messrs. Sparks and Fuller appeared for gings and the case was put over until this afternoon when the trial date will be fixed. It is likely it will go on tomorrow. Judge Chatfeld said that he did not understand why Hudgings, in view of the fact that he is contempt and in jail, should be "tried until the contempt has been lifted. Mr.

Sparks explained the peculiar position that Hudgings is in. If he purges himself of the contempt he would be admitting the charge of perjury. But Mr. Sparks stated that inasmuch as Hudgings stoutly maintains that he never did see either Van Amburg or McMillan write that he will not change his testimony to that effect, given at the trial, for which he was indicted. To Start $100,000 Campaign The Brooklyn Home for Aged Men, now in it's fortieth year, is about to inaugurate a campaign for $100,000 to be known as the "The Memorial Endowment Fund of the Brooklyn Home for Aged Men." This is the first time that this institution has been compelled to call for public aid, always having been able since it started with five inmates.

to maintain itself by voluntary contributions from friends, but owing to the increased cost of maintenance the board has decided to organize this permanent trust fund. Charles A. Boody, president of the People's Trust Company, is to act as treasurer of the fund. ROBERT E. LEE GOES FREE Robert E.

Lee was arraigned before Magistrate McMahon in the Coney land court today on a charge of derly conduct. Lee claims to have been born on the famous general's birthday, January 19, and says he is a member of one of the First Families of Virginia. He has long white hair, a sharp goatee and a Southern drawl. His right arm is severed at elbow. This injury, he said, was received in the Spanish-American War.

He recited one of Robert Burns poems, "When a Man's a Man." Magistrate McMahon dismissed the case. WANT HANSON TO RUN Strong efforts are being made by the Democratic organization to induce Peter B. Hanson, Seventh District leader, to be the party candidate for Municipal Court Justice in the Second District, in place of John A. Valentine, who declined the designation on the ground that County Leader McCooey was "trafficking with the opposition." Hanson was still reluctant today to make the race and the conference which had been called at Democratic headquarters to name a substitute on the Valentine petitions adjourned without definite action. Another meeting will be held at the same place tomorrow noon.

The vacancy must be filled by midnight tomorrow. BOMB PROOF WINDOWS Something of what it would be like to have the war on this side of the water will be shown to New York during the week beginning Thursday, when the salesmen start out to sell $25,000.000 worth of War Savings Stamps, to help the city reach its quota of $100,000,000. Two hundred and fifty of the biggest windows in the city will be pasted over with wide strips of paper to represent the bomb protected windows of Paris. Job E. Hedges has been added to the list of speakers for the Carnegie Hall mass meeting, at which the opening gun of the campaign will be fired Wednesday night.

HURT BY STONE ON TRAIN. Tina Falanza, 26 years of 217 Van Brunt street, Brooklyn, was injured by a ow stone thrown through an open window of the train in which she was riding as it was pulling out of Hicksville, L. yesterday, and was cut in the left wrist. Foch Has Initiative-Will Keep It, Enemy Papers Admit Paris, August 19 (Havas Agency)The German press is attempting to reassure its public that a general retreat is necessary on the western front to allow General Ludendorff room to and to assume the initiative maneuver vast scale. A German retreat, on a the newspapers say, would be a direct result of the recent Allied successes.

The newspapers assert that even if the Germans receive reinforcements from Austria they have lost the power to command events, as Marshal Foch has the initiative and will keep it. German propaganda insists that the German General Staff will retain the INDIGESTION) 6 BELL-ANS Hot water Sure Relief INDIGESTION LECALFORTRUSTEES Our Cuaranteed Participating Mortgages have by a recent statute been made legal for trustees. You can now invest your trust funds in them as freely as your personal funds. LAWYERS TITLE TRUST COMPANY 160 Broadway, New York 188 Montague Bkn. 44 Court Bkn 383 E.

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Y. 160 Main White Plains, N. Y. HENRI BERGSON WILL SUCCEED ALBERT METIN San Francisco, August 19-Reports that M. Henri Bergson, French philosopher, had been tendered the post of civilian head of the French economic mission to Australia to succeed M.

Albert Metin, deceased, were confirmed today by M. Andrew Siegfried, secretary of the mission. NO DISROBING IN VAN to be approaching a deadlock indicating a return to the old trench warfare of the first two years of the war, an attack in the sector between en the Aisne and the Oise has been expected. This line is vital to the German positions on each side of it. If should be broken the whole German defensive scheme would be thrown out of joint.

While the front over which the assault was launched is short, compared with those of the Marne and Picardy drives, the success attained by the French appears to point to a possibility of Marshal Foch breaking the enemy's resistance by a flank attack instead of a direct assault against the strong positions now held by the Germans between Soissons and Rheims and between the Oise and the Ancre. The region in which the attack was made is quite rough and would seem to be well adapted to defensive warfare. It is intersected by ravines of some depth, and has high wooded ridges here and there. It is an extension of the hilly district along the Oise, where savage fighting has been going on for the past week. LIEUT.A.B.LAWRENCE UNDER FIRE 3 DAYS Now in Hospital, After Being Overcome-Carried Wounded Officer to Safety.

Mrs. Austin B. Lawrence, wife of Lieutenant Austin Lawrence of Amity street, Flushing, has received a cablegram from her husband, who is attached to the Infantry, stating that he is in a base hospital in France. He urges her not to worry, as he has not been wounded, but was overcome after having been under constant fire for forty-eight hours. From another source, however, it was learned that he remained at his station for three day's under constant LIEUT AUSTIN LAWRENCE ROE PHOTO bombardment by big shells, and when another officer was wounded, he carried him to safety.

They were knocked down and buried under a shower of dirt, but Lieutenant Lawrence succeeded in getting his man to a hospital. Lieutenant Lawrence's father. a well-known physician, died three weeks ago. His brother, Major George J. Lawrence, also of the 165th, was went to sector for its prewounded shortly, after that regiment liminary training.

Another brother is Lleutenant Andrew Lawrence, a member of the Signal Corps. Captain John Patrick Hurley of 129 Pierrepont street has also been mentioned for his bravery in dispatches from the front. He is also an officer in the 165th. HOLLER QUIT FOR HARMONY Fred G. Holler, who retired as An independent candidate for Assembly in the Democratic primaries in the Sixteenth A.

issued a statement today, stating that his withdrawal was in the interests of party harmony. "A primary contest," declared Holler, "of necessity creates animosities that in the case of a local elective office is injurious to the candidate on Election Day and realizing the necessity of electing a Democratic Legislature I have set aside personal ambitions to what I feel is my party duty. a State Committee. working hard to insure the success State ticket, requested me to make the sacrifice and under the circumstances I felt it incumbent on me to defer to their wishes and avoid a contest that might result in the loss of a Democratic Assemblyman." L. I.

SPY CASE "BUNK" The reported arrest near Camp Mills as spies of five men and one woman who were supposed to be working a system of communication with U-boats by means of carrier pigeons and a helicgraph was branded this afternoon as "pure buncombe" by a high Federal official, who declared that no arrests had been made a and that Captain Lear of the military police at Camp Mills, who took the six persons in custody, released them this morning. The six were victims of gossip and were taken in custody Saturday afternoon on A search warrant issued by Federal Commissioner Felix Reitschneider. CASTORIA For Infants and Children In Use For Over 30 Years Always bears I Signature the of Ask Policeman Patrick McNamara of the Coney Island Precinct if he has ever seeen a sand storm in a desert and he will reply that he has been through one. Yesterday, while endeavoring to stop a family by name of Yesel from Newark from disrobing in a motor van prior to taking a plunge in the surf, he and the family, the clothes, the sand and the van got mixed up in a free-for-all scrap and when the storm was over Mc4 Namara looked lik something that had come in with the tide. By that time other policemen arrived, and the Yesels, three of them, were taken to the station and locked up on a charge of disorderly conduct.

It was a bad day for spooners, also, Four were arrested on disorderly charges. They gave their names as Louis Waserman, 21, a salesman, of 53 Hamburg avenue, Paterson, N. Edna Ha Isaacson, 22, 736 DeKalb avenue; Hyman Rosenchranz, 26, 18 East 110th street, Manhattan, and Sadie Mermelstein, 18, 22 Willett street. to WIFE NO. 1 ASKS DIVORCE Elias Lazitsch, a shoe dealer of 925 Marcy avenue, who was twice tried on the charge of bigamy and acquitted by a jury, been named as defendant in a suit for divorce brought by his first wife, Anna Lazitsch, who turned up as mysteriously as she disappeared, but not until after Lazitsch had married Anna Lomade, a widow with three children.

Mrs. Lazitsch No. 1 applied to Justice Faber in Supreme Court today for alimony, naming the second wife as corespondent. Lazitsch opposed the petition, saying that his first wife abandoned him and their infant child and that he hunted high and low for her for more than six years. without avail.

Justice Faber reserved decision. To Arrange World's Series Cincinnati, Ohio, August' 19--It is possible that the National Baseball Commission will hold a meeting here today to take up matters in connection with the playing of the next world's series. Secretary Heydler of the National League is believed to be on his way to Cincinnati, while B. B. Johnson, president of the American League, is supposed to be en route here.

Neither had arrived this morning and Chairman Herrmann of the commission issued a statement to the effect that a brief meeting would be held today in case both men arrived. If not, the meeting would be postponed until they do arrive. DOG ATTACKS BABY OF 3. A dog made a vicious attack upon Helen Visharg, 3 years old, of 286 Wythe avenue, at Wythe and North First street, last evening. The animal sank its teeth child's arms and legs, and when her father, Walter Visharg, 28 years old, went to her aid the dog bit him in the right arm and leg.

Policeman Bracken of the Bedford avenue station beat off the brute with his nightstick. Ambulance Surgeon Ehrenberg of the Williamsburg Hospital cauterized the wounds of father and daughter. WINDOW CLEANER FALLS. Freeport, L. August 19 John Keller, a window cleaner, fell from the second story window sill of the building occupied by George Fyfe, Merrick Road, Freeport, on Saturday afternoon.

After being treated by Police Surgeon Harold French he was removed to his home. SEND FOOD FOR BOYS AND GUNS, LAST WORD FROM COL. LIEBMANN initiative by forcing premature engagements on the American army and thus wearing it out before it is fully prepared. Libre says that the American forces taking part in the Picardy offensive could not be compared in size with those of the French will soon have a first class in and British. It he says that America France and that it will army, airplanes which the German aviators will havo reason to fear.

Counter Propaganda Is Reventlow's Plea. Amsterdam, August 19 Count Ernst Von Reventlow, chief editorial writer of the Tages Zeitung of Berlin, recommends an "effective counteroffensive' against the extension of the propaganda contained in "masses of pamphlets spread over Germany, aiming at the confusion, excitement and incitement of the incompetent masses." Count Von Reventlow mentions a pamphlet entitled, "'The Happiness of the Future--A Peace League of Nations," and another containing articles, one of which praises the revelations of Prince Lichnowsky, while A third reproduces the letter from Dr. Wilhelm Muchlon, former director of Krupps, to former Imperial Chancellor Dr. Von Bethmann-Hollweg. Continued from Page 1.

hope some day to be able to tell you I have the eagles (insignia of colonel). I want to win them and feel that I deserve them. I wish you were here, but I know how much good you are doing there. Many times on Sunday morning I wish I could just go over and listen to you. "I trust that both you and Mrs.

Cadman are enjoying the best of health, and wish that you would remember me to her. "I will be very happy if in your leisure moments you will drop a line to me. You know a line from those at home means so much. It makes one think of other things than the constant roar of guns like the noise of Old Rip's bowling balls. And it also keeps one's heart soft and does not allow it to harden against fellow men, as the tendency is each day.

wishes "My best "Lieutenant "MORRIS most regards N. Colonel to cordially, all, LIEBMANN, 105th with Infan- best try, A. E. Dr. S.

Parkes Cadman. who was chaplain of the Twenty-third Infantry during the border campaign, paid a high tribute to Colonel Liebmann in a letter to The Eagle today. He writes: Dr. Cadman Writes Tribute. served with him on the Texan border in the Twenty-third Regiment, where he was universally beloved and respected.

His tireless labors, admirable administrative capacities, marked courtesy and unusual sense of justice were salient qualities which he displayed to the full while adjutant of the regiment. must be a source of consolation to those who held him dear that one so natively manly and virtuous should have lived his life in terms of honor and truth, and then have given it for the protection of right and freedom. As I think tonight of as we affectionately called him, I hear again the great words of a prophet of his own people, 'Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like He has bequeathed to his comrades of the National Guard and the Regular Army, to the youth of Brooklyn and the nation, the priceless legacy of a stainless example of I modest votion." but splendid integrity and de-.