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iff flftS Western Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia CLOUDY; PROBABLE SHOWERS today; FAIR tomorrow. Sun rises, sets, 6:38. Good Morning! An official commun- iq-ue is one of the few things that can keep secret. 5 4 73IU) VI" AT? XO. FRIDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 1G, 1914.

FOURTEEN PAGES. TWO CENTS. (TS jV7t UlU Jk Li t- 14 -1 111 1 Li Lf A LklD LzZ3 LizZIr Finn CLUBWOMAN'S Official Statements Ml ALFRED SANG WAR VICTIM AUSTRIAN. BRIBE CHARGE IS REPUDIATED French and British Army En Face of Suffrage Resolution. The resolution approving of equal suffrage, adopted by the federation, after expressing the conviction that action favorable to the suffrage propaganda "should come as a natural sequence to resolutions passed In previous years." Continues: Resolved, That the delegates here present give the cauw of political equality men and women moral support by recording their earnest belief In the of political equality regardless of sex.

The resolution was signed by Gertrude Diddle, Isabel Mcllhenny Nicholas, Katherlne C. Sparks, Elizabeth D. Thaw and Frances M. Akin. Protest of Antis.

The protest of the antis spread on the minutes of the federation Is as follows Whereas, The delegates to the Ptate Federation of Women's Chilis who voted In opposition to the resolution presented at this morning's session calling for an expression of opinion by delegates as Individuals realize that such a resolution is contrary to our constitution because this Is not an Institutiou of individuals as such. It is a federation of societies, as article 3 clearly indicates, and the delegates here are not acting in the capacity of individuals, but as representatives of their respective clubs, and they therefore cannot do what clubs, who are the real members of this body, are prohibited from doing: and Whereas, The language of article 2 clearly classifies the live political subject presented in the resolution regarding the granting of suffrage to women for the manifest reason that all cannot indorse It. Had there not been a single voice, instead of many, raised against the promotion or indorsement of this measure, it would have been sufficient to render such a resolution out of order. Therefore, be It Resolved, That we protest against said resolution. The protest was signed by Horace Brock, Mrs.

J. H. Reed, Mrs. John II. Ilerron, Miss Eliza Armstrong, Mrs.

Winslow Crannell, Miss Emmellne Pitt, Mrs. J. C. Clifford, Mrs. Samuel A.

Ammon, Mrs. George C. Burgwln and Mrs. E. B.

Flncke. Apparent Fall. RT lUELfiAUSEN RETAKEN PARIS, Oct. 15. Although the fall of Ostend appears to have become a certainty, the German sweep of the Xorth Sea coast io the west evidently has been circumvented by the success of the allies in driving a wedge between the army of General von Beseler and the forces of General von Kluck and von Buehm, which compose the German right of the main lino of the invaders in France.

Definite information from official sources regarding the movements and the strength of the armies engaged is lacking because of the extensive stringency of the censorship inaugurated with the development of the movement in the department du Xord in France and in West Flanders in Belgium, where the two great armies are reported to have met in a great pitched battle the greatest of the war in which the lighting already is reported severe. The official communique issued at Bordeaux at midnight tonight reports among other gains along the whole front the capture of Estaries, 13 miles west of Lille, and on the north bank of the Lys. ALLIES MAKE GAINS. This taken in connection with the previously reported occupation of Ypres, and today's unofficial announcement that the allies have retaken Lille, indicates remarkable advantage gained by the allies during the two days' lighting. Ypres is across the Belgian frontier, and the allies' front now extends from Arras through Armentiers to Ypres.

Fifteen miles west of the line lies llazebrouck and 20 miles behind it is Cassel, where the Germans, for a week by furious cavalry charges, have been trying to smash the allied lines. The occupation of the new French and British positions shows that the Germans have been driven back just this distance to the northward and that the allies are moving straight north to give battle to the Antwerp beleaguering army, which is moving to the westward. Xbrtheast of this position the Germans have made a corresponding advance, which is part of the converging movement upon Ostend. The army from Antwerp not only has occupied Bruges, only 15 miles from Ostend on the east" but has established a line swinging in an arc to the south and then to the west, with the vanguard of the German army occupying Thourout and Dixmunde, the latter but 10 miles from the coast and to the southwest of Ostend. In Thielt, 15 miles southeast of Bruges, a large force of Germans have tar ejoin Main Dstend's uu i m-r rrnto porta occupy Ypres and their line la be- CAPITAL IS CALLED FOR FEDERAL BANKS Simultaneous Opening of Twelve Institutions Decided by the Reserve Board WASHINGTON.

Oct. 15. The Federal reserve board took decisive action tonight, to hasten the opening of the 12 Federal reserve banks, by announcing it5? determination to call the first Installment of subscriptions to the capital of these banks. The call will be issued at once and the payments are due November 2. The board decided also that all 12 bank3 sha'l be opened simultaneously.

No date r. V. 1. naa cri aoi intr hm if L'3 i probably will be determined after the conference with representatives of the banks to be held here ea'ly next week. In view of today's action It was believed that the banks will be in operation by November 15.

At the conclusion of the meeting' of the board. Secretary McAdoo issued this statement: M'ADOO'S STATEMENT. "At the meeting of the Federal reserve board today it was determined to call the lirst installment of the capital stock of be payable on the nd of November. The 1 director. or each or the yz federal reserve banks have been called to meet the federal reserve board in Washington on the "Oth of October for a genera! discussion of the final details of the organization of the several Federal reserve banks.

After thart conference the definite date when the Federal reserve banks will be established for business will be announced. It i. the purpose of the board to have all of the Federal reserve banks open simultaneously." The first payment by each bank will amount to 1 per cent of its combined capital and surplus. "The total which may be required of each bank under the law is 6 per cent of its capital and surplus. One-half of this amount Is to be called by the reserve board at stated intervals and the remaining 3 per cent Is subject to call lf needed.

FRENCH. PARIS, Oct. 15. The official communication Issued by the French war otflce tonight nnyn: "The news of the day Indicates Kainn nl several points alonn the front. 'On the left nine, to the north of li.vs, we have taken Kwtalres.

On the center, to the north and east of Ithetms, we have made an advance of nearly two kilometers (about a mile and a iiarter). On the heights of the Mfuse and In the rejclon we have made tcalns to the French Coat of Arms. south of St. Mlhiel and near Marche-vllle." The day communication was: "In HelKlum, Oernian troops coming from Antwerp are marching toward the west, and the. tvenine of October they reached the ret; Ion of IiruKew ard Thlslt 4 15 miles southeast of Hrunes).

"On our left wine the enemy has evacuated the left bank of the Lys. Iletween the L.ys and the canal of La Kasses the situation shows no change. "In the retlon of Lens and between Arras and Albert our progress has been marked. "Between the Somme and the Olse there has been no change. The Germans have cannonaded our line without, however, delivering any infantry attacks.

'On the center between the Oise and the Meuse we have advanced in the direction of Craonne, "To the northeast of the highway from Flerry-a u-Bac to holms, and to the north of Prunay, in the direction of Heine, several German trenches have been taken. "Between the Meuse and the Moselle, after having repulsed during the night of October 13-14 certain attacks to the southeast of Verdun, our troops advanced on the fourteenth to the south of the highway from Verdun to Met. "On our right wing the partial offensive movement undertaken by the Germans In the Ban de Sapt, to the north of Saint Die, has been definitely checked. "In Itussla the fighting continues along the front, beginning in the vicinity of Warsaw, stretching along the Vistula and the San as far as Prcemysl, and further in a southerly direction as far as Dnelster. "There has been no change in East I'russla." RUSSIAN.

PETItOGH AD, Oct. 15. The Russian general staff iwsued the following statement today: "There is no change to report on the Rast Prussian and Central Vistula fronts. "South of Pra-emysl a Itussian column engaged and defeated the Austrinns, taking seven officers and soldiers prisoners and captur- ing many rapid-fire guns." Russian Coat of Arms. German Airman Drops Courteous Notification PARIS, Oct.

The Taube airman, vho visited Paris Monday, dropped a letter addressed to General Gallieni, naming several French officers who had been taken prisoners. The aviator added that he was fulfilling th of ficars' request in informing General Gallieni. He regretted that he was compelled also to drop bombs but, he concluded, "war is war." HENRY X. NICKERSON. bad luck to get hit by a Mexican bullet, but at that I was running no greater risk of injury 1n the navy than men employed in iniKs or cm raiiroa.U.'' jr fe( VIENNA.

Oct. 15 tvla wirele). "After the last unsuccessful attempt to force Praemysl on the southern side yesterday, the backward movement of the Russians from the fortress became great. "Our own cavalry has already reached the fortress from the west. The enemy, perplexed by the quickness of our operations in Russian Poland and Gnlicla, tried In lain to protect attacks on the fortress by detaching troops to the west which could not resist our approaching armies.

Austrian Coat of Arms. "The Fifth and Sixth Russian Infantry divisions were attacked by us at I.ancut and fled toward the San river. A division of Cossacks and a brigade of infantry, in strong positions east of Ilynew, on the San, were repulsed. Our troops are everywhere at the heels of the Russians. Count Berchtold." GERMAN.

BERLIN, Oct. 15, 5 p. m. (via London, Oct. 6, 12:50 a.

The following official report was received today from army headquarters "Four thousand prisoners were takes at Antwerp and 500 guns. An inspection that a large quantity of stores was left behind by the Belgians. "A new attack by the Russians in the direction of East Prussia has been repulsed and an advance of Russians, consisting of about eight army corps, between Warsaw '-3I German Coat of Arms. and Ivangorod, has been successfully met, with heavy losses to the SERVIAN. IVISII, Oct.

15. The following statement has been issued by the Servian war office i "On Sunday night the enemy attempted two attacks on the extreme right wing, Svornlk-LosnltBa, from which they were repulsed with heavy losses to the Anstrians. (Svornik is in Eastern Bosnia, on the river Drlns, which separates Bosnia from Austria. Losnltza is about 15 miles north of Svornik, on the Servian side of the Drina.) "On Monday morning the enemy attempted to attack the Servians twice on the left bank of the Save, in the direction of great little Zlngalla, but were repulsed on each occasion with great loss. Our artillery spread panic in the ranks of the enemy.

"There is nothing to report regarding happenings at other points on Monday except that the enemy on the front opened a violent artillery fire on our right wing, which our artillery soon reduced to silence." Portuguese Troops Are Sent to Africa NEW YORK, Oct. 15. Two expeditionary forces of Portuguese troops, for one of which English transports were used, sailed from Lisbon on September 10, to reinforce garrisons in Portuguese possessions in Africa, which adjoin those of Germany. This was made known today by C. Rangel de Sampaio.

Portuguese consul general at New York and is the first news to reach this country -of any actual military preparations by Portugal for the eventuality of that country's participation in th war. For Lack of Money Turkey Demobilizes LONDON, Oct. 15. A Central News dispatch from. Rome says: "According to a telegram from Constantinople, published here, Turkey has informed Germany that owing to lack of money she will have to demobilize her army." Princess Wants to Send Gifts to the Defenders L02VD02V, Oct.

15. Prtncess Mary has issued an appeal in which she says I want you all to help me send a Christmas present from the whole nation to every sailor afloat and every soldier at the front. On Christmas eve, when like the shepherds of old keep their watch, doubtless their thoughts will turn to home and loved ones left behind. Perhaps, too, they will recall the days when as children themselves, they were wont to hang vp their stockings wondering what the morrow had in store. "I am sure we will be happier on Christmas morning to ferf that we have helped by sending our little token of love and sympathy something useful or of permanent value, the making of which may be the means of providing employment in the trades adversely affected by the It is hoped that the apepal will result in the raising of 500,000 for the provision of gifts taking the form of an embossed brass tobacco or cigaret box, pipe and tinder lighter, and candies for the Indian troops.

BELGIUM Former Pittsburgher Dies of Wounds While Fighting for England. WELL KNOWN ENGINEER Alfred Sang, engineer, artist, musician and linguist, for several years one of Pittsburgh's best-known metallurgists, died last Tuesday from wounds suffered while fighting under the British flag in Belgium. This newa waa received In Pittsburgh yesterday afternoon by the Garland Corporation, of which he formerly wan vice president, and for which, for several years, he was a confidential agent in London. details have been received of the manner in which he met death, the brief cablegram merely announcing his death from wounds. It is not even known where he died, though it is supposed he succumbed in a Held hospital.

Mr. Sang enlisted in the English army at the first call for volunteers. Because of his familiarity with the topography of France and Belgium and hid linguistic ability, he was placed in the "intelligence corps" with the rank of lieutenant. WELL-KNOWN ENGINEER. He was widely known in the engineering profession both in Pittsburgh and throughout the United States, and several of his books on engineering and metallurgy are used throughout the country by American engineers.

His last work was on Corrosion," a subject in which he specialized. Mr. Sang in Paris in 1ST4, of English patVOPV- H'e father was a well-known He graduated from a leading Fre: clinical school. Shortly before eomiiN the United States, he married Miss Sarah Spang, daughter of Norman B. Spang, of the family which founded the Spang-Chalfant Company mills i-n Sharpsburg.

In 1900 Mr. Sang came to Pittsburgh, becoming a member of the Garland corporation. Until 1908, when his family went to Europe, Mr. Sang's residence was in Sewlckley. In June.

1909, he left Pittsburgh, going to Paris, thence to London. In London he formed the firm of Russell, metallurgical engineers, also acting as confidential agent of the Garland corporation. BELONGED TO CLTJBS. ivvla in Pittsburgh Mr. Sang was a member of the Engineers' Society of Western Pennsylvania, the American Society for Testing Materials, and of the Eleotro-Ohemlial Society, a national organization.

He also was a member of the Union Club. He leaves his widow and three children, Alfred, Elizabeth and Sarah, who have been in Switzerland several years, and a sister, Mrs. George Collins, formerly of this city, tmt now living Id'aiho. Mr. Sang rose rapidly in the engineering profession, and Pittsburgh engineers say had he lived he probably would have become a world-known scientist.

He was an accomplished musician, artist and linguist, speaking French, German, Spanish, Italian, English and Russian. He also was known as a contributor to trade journals awd a student of psychology. Or(Jer School Girls To Quit Sororities WASHINGTON, Oct. 15. Every American high school girl who belongs to a Greek letter worority and does not resign before November 15 wrill be barred from Joining such sororities when she enters college, under a resolution adopted here today by the thirteenth congress of the National Pan-Hellenic, representing 70,000 college isorority women.

The congress will meet next year in San Francisco. Mrs. J. H. Crann of Iowa, president, was in the chair today.

Delegates discussing high school sororities said that most high school girls are too young to be members of such secret organizations. Their conduct, leading to the formation of undesirable cliques, developed snobbishness in many instanceis, it was declared, and many of the 'glrla became members against the wishes and without (he knowledge of their parents. Austrian Battleship Burned on the Ways LONDON, Oct. 15. Fire in the government arsenal at Trieste, the principal seaport of Austria-Hungary on the Adriatic sea, has virtually destroyed an Austrian dreadnaught under construction there, according to a Central Newa dispatch from Rome.

Six torpedo boat destroyers also were damaged by the Are, which quickly enveloped the workshop. It is alleged that a quantity of woodwork In the arsenal was soaked with petrol. A number of workmen have been arrested. The arsenal is said to have been greatly damaged. Order 50,000 Stoves For Allies in Mercer SHARON, Oct.

13. The Reznor Stove Company, at Mercer, has j'Jst received an order for 50,000 sheet metal tent stoves to be used by the French and British soldiers during the winter campaign. The stoves are so built that Kerosene or gasoline can be burned in them. The order will keep the plant working night ana day until tlv order filled. Tener and Others Accused Write Federation That Statement Is False.

SUFFRAGISTS WIN FIGHT Objectors, However, File Stinging Objection as Minority Report. flufTrairtwt an 4 anti-suffragist claflhed In an oratorical charge and eountercharg' on the floor of the State Federation of Pennsylvania ffom'n convention In Memorial hall yesterday. The fight waged about a. resolution committing th federation to the votes-for-women propaganda. Trm assuredness of the proponents of the resolution of a sweeping triumph wu home out by the vote.

It was adopted by a majority which mad the antls gaap. When they recovered their mental poise the opponents of the ballot for womei euooeeded In bavin spread on the minute of the session a resolution of protest, signed by the leaders of the antls. one of whom. Mrs. Horace Brock of Lebanon, described the action of the federation as revolutionary and unconstitutional.

The amity of the preceding night, when the deJefrates broke bread In a great ban juet In which there wa no symptom of dlffrence of opinion, vanished noon after dlsousslon started on the suffrage resolution. Both sldas had able champions women who know how to talk and talk with a sting, was not long until cropped out In the arguments. The presiding officer managed to eup-press much of the biting criticism of the loaders of the rival campa. VITROHC SPEECH. The euffraglsta were led by Mrs.

Rudolph Blankenburg rf Philadelphia and Mrs. J. O. Miller. Mr.

Brock and Mrs. John B. Ilerron marshaled the antls. After the vote Mrs. Urork summed up the position of the antngonlsts of equal suffrage with the emphatic statement that 'the women of the federation have shown that they are unfit for the franchise by their action, which la both Illegal and tin constitutional." MYs.

Ben trice Forbes-Robertson Hale declared that opposition to woman suffrage "Is divided between a few comfortable, privileged people, chiefly women, distrustful of democracy because they sre conservative, and a eood many vicious people, chiefly men, distrustful of It because they are crooked." Mrs. Frank Goodwin met this assertion by the counter declaration that 'Vuffrage. lf it ever becomes a factor In the state or ra- (Continued on Pane Four.) Appealing to Spain To Fight With Allies 'WASHINGTON', Oct. JR. Appeals to Spain to take up arms -with Portugal on the side of England were described by officials at the Spanish embassy today as anti-government propaganda set on foot by the radical party.

This party, it was stated, opposed the campaign in Morocco on humanitarian ground, but now, Jnlntncr with the army officials, is urging that Spain espouse the cause of the allies. There Is, on the other hand, emb.wsy officials H-sserted, a strong pro-German feeling1 anions? many Spanish civilians with whom the historical sympathy of the two nations plays an important part. Statements that participation In the war by Portugal would mean an Invasion of Spain by the Germans were considered absurd by The officials. Spain, they added, had given no Intimation of any kind that she would alter her neutral attitude. Dying Man Accuses Woman of Murder LEBANON, Oct.

Irwin Shelly, 25 years oM. fori of a South Lebanon farmer, was found lylnar In the street here today esiifferinu: from a mortal imllet wound in his side. In an ante-mortem statement. Shelly accused Mrs. May years of having tired th shot.

Mrs. Kohl insist, that Shelly attempted to take his own life In her aiartmente in the presence of her 14-year-old daughter. coat shows turrts. Indicating that the shot wae fired at close range Mrs. Kohl has net been living with her husband, for several years.

British Saloon Hours Rigidly Restricted LOXnOX, Oct. The closing hour for restaurants, clubs and saloons, which had been fixed at the early stages of the var at ll o'clock at night, will be made lu o'clock, beginning Monday ne.rt. At Woolwich and Greenwich the closing hour will be 7 p. and the suggestion has been made that, no saloons reopen until JO o'clock in the oming instead of at If or 6, as at present. The curtailment of the night hours apparently is due to the desire of the authorities to keep drinking at a minimum.

Hero of Vera Cruz Here; He Has a New Timber Toe appeared, and at least 100,000 of the invaders are reported to have occupied Ghent. It is these two forces in great strength, but lacking elaborate intrenchments and fortifications, that mark the battle of the Aisne as one of the most stubborn struggles in the history of war, that are reported to have come in contact near the Belgian border in a terrific encounter of vast proportions which will decide the fate of the German plan to advance against the French channel ports. FORCED TO ABANDON. On the left bank of the Lys the Germans have been forced to abandon all their positions, according to official announcement from Bordeaux, and in the vicinity of Lens and between Arras and Albert the French have made considerable progress. The continued advance of the allies in this direction indicates that the German offensive here has been definitely checked.

An index of the severity of the engagements fought in the region of Arras is the report published today by the "France Du Nord," that between 12,000 and (Continued on Page Four.) With a brand new "tim-ber toe" strapped to what if left of his left leg, Henry Nehemiah Nickcivon. tirst-class hoa'n's mate, V. S. and hero of Vera Cruz, arrived in Pittsburgh today to take in duties at the navy recruiting station here. Xickerson left the vavy hospital in New York two (tayn ago.

"having been taken there shortly after the American bluejackets landed in the Mexican port. The one-legged sailor was the first man ment'oie4 for bravery in the dispatches of Admira' Fletcher. He Is one of the jiino to ba awarded a medal of honor and a catsh bonus of $1' each. Purine the flghtirg incident to the occupation of Vera Cruz he way wounded -six times. After receiving hib first three woundw he was sent to the rear for surgical attention.

As s.wm as he wats bandaged up he hurried to the front and wa.i wounded ti'ree more the last one making the amputation of his. eg necessary. A bullet also passed through his trigger finger ana his right ear. nar- rowly missing his bead. i ne io.v; or n.s leg ooeis not Dottier Nickerpon.

"Of course this putting on and taking off business is a nuisance," he says, "but as far ai? earning a living goes. I am as weM off as ever. I could retire right now if I wanted to, but I prefer remain in active service. 1 am a lot better off than a man who losses a leg in civil life. I get a month now and in IS years, when I can retire at full pay with "7 years- service, my saJary as a chief petty officer, which rank I will have attained by that time, wir.1 be a month.

I will also get a dis-ability pen sion of a month, making my total income a month. That is a lot better than some watchman's job, which is about the best a man losing a leg in civil life can get. Of cours I hMd tbe Developments of the War in the northwest of Belgium the Germans are rapidly brlngrliiK their tbr. roast. They have occupied IlriiKen, about 14 miles east of and have appeared at UlankenberKhe, on the North Sea, some 12 miles northwest of Ostend.

in the meantime, however, the allies have thrown a strong; line ont to the south with tne onjm i th Knalish channel. The allies within the next few days doubtless will le the scene of heavy fighting-if the reported plans of the Germans are carried out. The latest French official statement announces (trains on many points on the front. Including the tnklnK of Estaires, and advance of about two kilometers in the center to the north and east of Hheima and a further advance on the heights of the Meuse to the south of St. Mihiel.

Keinforcemcnts have reached both the Germans and the allies on their and left wlnitu respectively, and these need only to be placed In their proper positions on the front for the blow to be struck, which may prove to be a decisive stroke for one side or the other. That Emperor Villlam of Germany is following with sharpest Interest trie fortunes of his soldiers is indicated by the fact that his headquarters have been moved further iro France. The imperial German Chancellor, IJr. von Ilethmann-Ilollwen, and bis suite have arrived at Brussels,.