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Chicago examiner vol xiv no 233 a m tuesday Chicago september 19 191g tuesday btgiitend ptjtpt ovp pwt to cbicsiro and elsewherb c s tatttit offlc r*klljlli ujnui i^jli.ln 1 niburbo two cest3 sfrench push line to edge of combles capture trench system only 200 j meters from german base seize deniecourt berny and 1,600 captives continue drive fall of deniecourt opens way for move against chaulnes british win near thiepval;j berlin admits loss of towns london sept is â€” the french are in the outskirts of the city cf combles to-day they cap tured a knot of german trenches only 200 meters south of that im portant german base simultaneously the british driv ing against combles from the north west captured the quadrilateral a strong german redoubt between the bouleaux wood and ginchy and then smashed forward on a front of a mile penetrating the german posi tions to a depth of 1,000 yards deniecourt and berny have fallen to the french the last remaining link in the german chain of fortified villages that formed the southern line of the somme salient was won by general foch's troops late this afternoon after one of the fiercest battles fought on the western front paris announce capture of trenches on the verdun front the almost forgotten dead man hill oomed up suddenly in the official french com munique of to-night general nivelle's troops in the first attack reported on the left bank of the meuse in many weeks captured a german trench on the southern slopes of that height taking some prisoners the midnight report from paris follows to the north of the somme an energetic attack enabled us to con quer a knot of german trenches about 200 meters south of combles to the south of the somme the fighting continued with fury at den iecourt our infantry after having taken the village advanced about a kilometer towards the south in the direction of ablancourt simultane ous operations enabled ns to take a trench west of hergny afid dislodge the enemy from three little woods southeast of deniecourt as well as to occupy a number of trenches to the southwest french open way o attack chaulnes in capturing deniecourt and push ing their lines toward ablaincourt she french broke the last remaining mar in the jerman defense north of the line from barleux to chaulnes md cleared the way for a con entrated attack on the latter town the british en their part>beat off furious counter blows north of flers tillage adding to their own gains toward bapaume and taking a fur er part of the german trench sys lem eouth of thiepval the official press bureau in a re friew of the fighting of friday and saturday given out to-day makes the following observation the result of the fighting on the 15th and 16th is of great importance it probably was the most effective blow yet dealt to the enemy by the british troops the damage done to the morale of the enemy is probably greater than the seizure of the dom inating positions the afternoon report from general iaig follows south of the ancre we improved allies win on most fronts in day's action yesterdats important de â– "â– velopments in the european war western front french cap ture trench 200 yards from com â– bles and attack town take deniecourt and berny and ad vance two-thirds of a mile cap ture 1,600 prisoners british gain near courcelette berlin claims advantage on part of front eastern front berlin an nounces defeat of new russ drive oil halicz recapture of ground lost saturday with 3,500 prison ers and thousands of slav fatali ties petrograd claims advance against halicz-lemberg railway balkan fr 0 n tâ€”russo-rou manian troops make stand against bulgar-teuton drive in dobrudja on line from constanza to the danube bulgarians are trapped by serbians and retreat in utter rout allies now only nine miles from monastir capture of fio rina by french confirmed italian front third austrian line at monfalcone is broken by italians in fierce battling toward trieste serbs ex-queen in overalls sweeps hospital floors nathalia who effaced herself when war started to serve soldiers found in bordeaux by international news service paris sept is â€” the mystery re garding the whereabouts of ex-qae^n nathalia of serbia who disappeared at the outbreak of the war was cleared up to-day when she vras found working as a common serving woman in a big hospital in bordeaux while investigating the medical service of bordeaux jean de bonne fon a well-known catholic journal ist who used to attend the sparkling court ceremonies in belgrade during the reign of the last obrenjvltch found the queen sweeping the hospi tal floors when the war broke out the queen whose history is the most tragic story known to european history put ner lilace at biarritz in the hands of her friend princess ghika and ordered her to convert it into a war hospital as fcr me she added i am going to efface myself the times are so tragic that those who wore once rulers of mtn must aid them in all humility on tho same evening nathalia un attended even fcy a maid entrained lor an unknown destination and her suite had not heard a word of her eir.ee in the hospital where de bonnefon found her she volunteered her services under the assumed name oi nathalia kechoko which is her maiden name and for the last two jears she performed the mean est and most tiring duties when i last taw her at the bel grade court writes de bonnefon king milan's widow wore a blazing diadem and looked a haughty and queenly beauty she was attired in a purple velvet cloak line.l with ermine now she wore coarse hair covering the place where once rested a rowh and brown holland overalls instad of the purple cloak thaw avenges wound defeats two germans by international news service xew york sept 18 â€” mr and mrs benamin thaw of pittsburgh who have been at the front visiting their wounded son lieutenant william thaw of the french flying corps re turned to-day on the steamer lafay ette lieutenant thaw was shot through the left arm two german planes have fallen victim to his shots since his recovery he has been dec orated with the legion of honor u s weather forecast Chicago asd vicinity â€” fair tuesday and wednesday rising tem perature moderate southerly winds temperature for twentr-fonr ct^b ending sam - hlehemt 62 loiii-st 46 mean 54 normal temperature for the day 64 excexx nlnre january 1 sf>3 decrree precipitation for twnty-frmr hours pnrtinir nt 7 tv m nore ex'pss rinee tannair 1 0.02 inch ' highest viiri velocity sixteen miles per hour frrcm t t e nrnihivest it 0:48 a m narometrir pressure rmnred to sea lerel 7 a m so|3l : 7 p rn ao.ir f-i'nrise 5:34 ninset 6:33 moon rÂ«e 10:50 p m tuesday allies start fight to bar out u.s trade britain and france agree to commercial exchange as lon-i don replies to american protest washington believes england in tends to insist upon its cen sorship policy regarding post by international news service washington sept is â€” the plan of the allies to favor each other in the matter of exports and imports is already being put into effect france and england have made an arrange ment whereby goods on the prohib ited list in each country may be shipped in from the other country this reciprocal arrangement gives france and england privileges of exporting goods to each other which are denied to neutral nations includ ing the united states a cablegram from consul general skinner in london to the state de partment made public to-day says the french government has opened a special office in london for the granting of licenses for the impor i tation into france and algeria of british goods under import prohibi tions to those countries arrange ments have been made whereby french exporters of goods on the british prohibited list may apply to the french ministry of commerce for approval of applications which will then be transmitted to the british board of trade import restrictions department in paris thus enabling french exporters to overcome exist ing british restrictions mail note on way the news that great britain and france had already put their policy of trade discrimination into effect came simultaneously with the an nouncement that great britain's re ply to the american note of may 24 protesting against the seizure and censorship of neutral malls was dis patched from london to-day the opinion in administration circles is that the note will set forth these conclusions 1 thnt the british government i justified in continuing its present i censorship policy p that while maintaining its pres " ent policy great britain will modify its administration in such manner ns to ameliorate the situa tion arising from mail censorship trade envoy ix conference the first steps toward such amel ioration ww be taken by sir rich ard crawford commercial attache of the british embasscy when he goes to new york late this week to con fer with bankers and exporters over means of facilitating the dispatch of business mail no attempt was made to-day to minimize the embarrassment that will confront the united states from a direct refusal of the british gov ernment to i..lter its policy of mail censo.-ship in the note of may 24 the state department said only a radical change in the present british and french policy restoring the united states to its full rights as a neu tral power will satisfy this govern ment if as forecast the british govern ment refuses to change its policy a situation will be created which offi cials plainly admit will leave the united states only two courses of ac tion â€” submission or retaliation the entire situation is full of em barrassments the united states has consistently protested against cen sorship of the mails yet it has ap parently acquiesced in the plans an nounced by the british embassy of dealing directly with american citi zens to amend the administration of its policy i protest loses force in the case of the blacklist the united states protested yet it became a party to informal negotiations with the british government for release of the blacklisted firms which ha s been i made to appear in the light of a com promise much of the force of the american protest against england's latest trade restriction the rationing of holland and the scandinavian countries was lost through adoption of the plan of having american exporters get con sent of the british government before sending shipments to neutral coun ; tries if the united states makes protest against this plan it is placed in the position as one diplomatic official to day expressed it of disowning its own child Chicago nurses hurry to fight elgin typhoid hospitals overcrowded and pa tients placed in boiler rooms and laundry elgin is in the grip of the typhoid epidemic which now numbers 180 victims hospitals are crowded to overflowing and nurses have been called from Chicago r.nd surround ing towns to help fight the disease at the sherman hospitafthe laundry j.nd boiler rooms of an uncompleted ving have been pressed into service and twenty-five patients have been placed in the improvised wards a new theory as to the origin of the widespread scourge was rumored yesterday to the effect that arsenic rat poison had found its way into the drinking water at the rlgi.n na tional watch works where the dis ease broke out state health in spector p h cooney who is help ing city authorities ccmbat the dis ease denied this no room for more cases at the st joseph hospital thirty patients are being treated and for lack of room the doors have been closed to more this hospital has seventy-five patients in all while the sherman hospital accommodates eighty-five v hile locn.l physicians admit that the situation is still seri ous they believe that it is under control end that there is no danger of the epidemic spreading beyond elgin three deaths were reported yesterday making a total of thir teen awaiting friend but copettes arrest him all beau brummels are warned to forego posing at state and madison ctreets hearken paul s girten 1800 west madison street was standing on the forbidden spot yesterday when two young women approached they fluttered on either side of paul you're under arrest said one who was policewoman wightman what for asked mr girten for flirting replied the other circe who was policewoman crot they seized him and escorted him to the police station girten says he was out of work and waiting for a friend his is the first arrest since chief of police healey launched his flirt war inebriates home no place for sprinklers it's taboo on automatic sprinklers as far as officials of the washing tonian home 1533 west madison street are concerned the city wants the home officials to install a system for fire protection in an in junction petition filed yesterday against the city the officials say they care for inebriates and already have enough trouble watching ir rational and mischievous patients without putting on extra guarefs to prevent some of the patients from flooding the building by tampering with the sprinklers ann murdoch's dog barred by 2 hotels when miss ann murdock registered at the blackstone yesterday she in sisted that her pomeranian poodle be permitted to accompany her to her room the management refused ann picked up the pup and departed at the congress she met with the same objection but this time an estrange ment was effected so miss murdock who is a noted actress is at the con gress but her maid and poodle are located elsewhere broker schreiner's wife asks decree ten thousand dollars a year is her husband's earning capacity says mrs lulu p schreiner in a divorce suit against joseph o schreiner board of trade broker in her divorce suit filed yesterday in the superior court she asks provision from the 110.000 she charges cruelty and says that once he broke into her apartment with a hatchet and threateend to kill her and did demolish the furniture pfiffles pilfered love says husband to cabarcters he is known as pflf fles he is a loophound and gen erally known as a good fellow pfiffles is accused of winning the admiration of mazie c oleras she fairly idolized pfiffles gottfried gleras her husband alleges in a bill for divorce filed yesfcerday in the su perior court britain's new war monster from peoria ! 1,000 caterpillar tractors sent by american company trans formed into trench smashers u s army to be equipped with similar land dread naughts maker describes machines washington sept is â€” the gi gantic british armored motor cars used recently in the assaults on ger man trenches on the western front were made in peoria 111 and the principles used in their construction have been employed for years in tractors used on american farms these tanks as tho soldiers call them are of the caterpillar tractor type except for their armor their ma chine guns and their crews thou sands like them are in Ã¼be to-day in the united states in plowing digging ditches end other labors the united states army will be equipped soon with giant nrmnred cars equal in power and effectiveness to those now in use by the british on the french war front the ordnance bureau of the war department is having built such car the size and design is being kept ret by t'ne army men explains war terror general hugh l scott chief of the prrny staff admitted this much to night m si baker vice president of the holt manufacturing 1 company ex plained here to-day that it was ma chines made by his company at its peoria plant that had hurdled ger man trenches walked through for tsts and crawled over shell craters in the face of interne gun fire we have sold about 1,000 cater pillar tractors to the british govern ment said mr baker we have had nothing to do with putting armor on them or placing machine guns but some of our men at aldershot england recently were notified that the british government intended to armor some of the tractors and use them for work other than the usual towing of big guns so far as i know until the recent appearance of the motor cars the tractors were used only to t,ow big guns i understood germany used about forty of them before liege early in the war and recent photo graphs show that the british are using some of them now for the same purpose overcome anything it is true that these tractors can go ahead over almost anything ov through almost anything they can straddle a tvench go through a swamp roll over logs or climb through small craters like a car of juggernaut it looks uncanny to see them crawl along the ground just like a huge caterpillar in a thick i forest if they encountered trees | they could not brush out of their j way they coirid easily be used to ap i root them and clear their own paths | mr baker said the tractors sent to england weigh about 18,000 pounds each develop 120 horse-power and are built of steel the caterpillar feature he explained is of tho ut most importance speaking broadly the tractor crawls on two belts with corrugated surfaces on either side of the body the corrugated surface is on the ground on the inside of the belts on each side of the body are two lines of steel rails making four lines in all these rails are in short sections jointed and operate over a cogged mechanism that actually lays them down with their belt attachment as ! the tractor moves ahead and picks 1 them up again so that the car runs i on its own self-made track continu ously victim of grizzly dies from its bites codt wyo sept 18 jack welch the freighter who was killed by a grizzly bear in yellowstone park a few days ago was a victim of the animal's hunger instead of being killed while defending his supplies as at first reported welch and a comrade were sleeping when the bear seized welch and began eating him alive welches comrade took sides of bacon from their wagon and pelted the bear until he left welch and began to eat the bacon welch was then rescued but died two new blackmail arrests u s agents spirit witness away mrs noel loeb wife of little rock man is hidden in mystery by clabaugh's aids grace butler ar rested in east hearing begins today the campaign of federal officials against the blackmail syndicate made rapid progress yesterday investigation of the seven men and women captured in the spectacular raid on the tyson apartments in Chicago saturday night revealed new ramifications here are the latest developments 1 another woman mrs noel loeb wife of a court stenographer in lit â€¢ tie rock was hurried away from the tyson and secreted by federal operatives 2 dispatches from philadelphia told of the arrest of grace butler alias * grace israel alias sadie israel in connection with newly revealed ramifications of the syndicate's operations 3 william butler a member of the band under 15,000 bonds in phlla â€¢ delphia failed to appear when his trial was called there yesterday morning but was arrested in the afternoon after his bonds had been for feited 4 dozens of chicagoans communicated with hinton g clabaugh of the â€¢ department of justice to tell of operations of the blackmailers and to get his guarantee of protection from publicity as a result of telling their 3tories in this connection mr clabaugh said all names would be kspt secret on direct orders from washington 5 mrs regina klipper of new york started to Chicago to appear as â€¢ prosecuting witness at the preliminary hearing of the prisoners bs fore united states commissioner foote to-day 6 Chicago agents of the department of justice laid plans to apprehend â€¢ two Chicago women ana three men aside from those already in cus tody who have been active in the syndicate's operations 7 headquarters of the department of justice in washington was re â€¢ ported to have four women under surveillance in the east as poten tial members of the band 8 mary taub alleged member of the band who had written business â€¢ is good good luck to the syndicate was reported to have fled from st louis with her husband morris taub recently released after arrest as a pickpocket suspect 9 investigation begun of the connection of one of the men under ar â€¢ rest with the murderer of a blackmail expert who was slain in the west after quarrel over the division of spoils the removal of mrs loeb from the tyson apartments was a late afternoon occurrence tno federal operatives hurried her down the stairs and into a waiting taxicati where she was taken is still a mystery mrs loeb is expected to tell the plans made by henry russel and doc donchue to get her demands does mrs l'oeb's removal mean she is under arrest mr clabaugh was asked i can just say that she is accompanied by my men and is under strictest surveillance was his reply no details as to why she had been taken from the apartments was given by air cu'.baugh and the new hiding place was kept a jealously i guarded secret mrs loeb according to dispatches from little rock is the wife of a court ster.o^raphar there her maiden name was josie lowenstein and at the time of her marriage her home was in kansas city she has been married about five years but has spent most of her summers in Chicago her husband is now visiting in kansas city j two developments are interwoven butler was wanted for the swindling of mrs j boland winpenny of philadelphia and his trial was to have started yesterday hte had been at liberty on bonds of 15,000 and these when he failed to appear were declared forfeited five hours later butler was arrested and taken to the philadelphia offices of the department of justice then from cards found in his possession the federal officers learned where butler had been living and on searching the address found butler's wife she too is being held by the philadelphia officials five chicagoans are being watched tpo more women who arc believed to have lured wealthy male vie 1 tims and three additional women all chicagoans are being shadowed by federal operatives and may be arrested at any moment as members cf the alleged blackmailing syndicate chief clabaugh refused to divulge any information regarding their specific operations but asuertod he was so thoroughly convinced they had played a part m the various plots that he was keeping them constantly under surveillance he said he was awaiting developments before de ciding upon arrests meanwhile heads of the government investigating force at washing ton were telegraphing ageuts in all principal cites for reports on similar p'ots it was asserted that in all probability the same coterie accused of directing the syndicate in Chicago would be connected up with extor tion plots in western coast cities particularly in seattle where the gov ernment men tri*d and failed last spring to run down a supposed group of blackmailers two members still missing mr clabaugh said sufficient evidence had been obtained to assure the obstruction of justice charge preferred against the alleged ringlead ers of the plot but that he had been frustrated so far in attempts to find two of the alleged members of the coterie these are mary taub reported operating at st louis and george irwin one of the men under indictment agents of the department at st louis were ordered by telegraph to find the taub woman after twenty hours of searching they reported their belief that she had been informed of the Chicago arrests and dis appeared they failed to find either the voruan or her husband morris 500,000 private banker kills self fears ruin afieb five days run bypatrons joseph tuma unable to bow money to pay patrons stands on piling and fires bullet in brain body falling in lake wife who worked with finan cier declares she will pay all their depositors and the join her husband in death the deposits in the turns sav ings bank 4013 west twelfth street amounted to about 500 000 the cash on hand when thej doers opened for business yesterday morning was about 15,000 for five days the president anrt owner of this private bank â€” josoph tuma â€” had been watching tho...pro grejis of a run the depositors hÂ£i i become alarmed at the epidemi of i private bank failures he had hoped to stop it but it continued on sat urday seeing that his margin waa dangerously narrow he tried to t ar row 12,000 he failed yesterday morning the run continued after luncheon it continued the president went out â€” for a walk he said body falls into lake michigan and late in the afternoon he shot himself dead he had walked from the bank to the foot of wrightwood avenge there he climbed out on the piling at the water edge his body fell into the lake when they carried the news to mr emma tuma hi 8 widow she began t sob and reached into his desk i have nothing now to live for she said i may as well join him detective sergeants ryan o'don nell and gaynor were watching her closely and when she drew a revolver from the drawer and tried to place it to her head they took it away i will wait then she said wearily i will wait until the depositors ara paid â€” then i will join him whether the bank is solvent state attorney hoyne did not even try t guess last night the books were seized by assistant state's attorney a a arkin who states the ac counts were loosely kept to-day will be determined whether the sui cide of tuma was the tragic fore runner of another financial era the most serious of the lot | whole family \ worked in bank it was a family affair the bank â€” and the family was thrifty they all worked in the bank even the women and they all lived in the rooms above it they spent little but there were big loans â€” and tuma feared that if the run continued mucll longer he would be in trouble his surviving relatives assort vigorously that the ban will pay every dollar the police are guarding the vault under orders of the state's attorney tuma left a letter addressed to his wife whether he wrote it before leaving the bank or whether he stopped somewhere in the course of his afternoon walk and wrote it has not been learned little light is furnished by letter it was written in his native bo hemian but it threw little light on the tragedy when translated it served only to illustrate the state of mind of the writer the letter fol lows my dearest wife please don't blame me you know the best that i am myself guilty of everything that i am too much attached to others you know very well my thoughts have always been good you know tli t}c t 1 2iÂ£l t x was never a*fpaÃŸ /* continued on 2d page sth column continued on 2d page bth column m getting back that article which you were un fortunate to lose is almost an 0 assured fact when yap adver tise it in the examiner's lost and found columns the min ute you lose anything phone your ad to main 5000 final y edition

Chicago examiner vol xiv no 233 a m tuesday Chicago september 19 191g tuesday btgiitend ptjtpt ovp pwt to cbicsiro and elsewherb c s tatttit offlc r*klljlli ujnui i^jli.ln 1 niburbo two cest3 sfrench push line to edge of combles capture trench system only 200 j meters from german base seize deniecourt berny and 1,600 captives continue drive fall of deniecourt opens way for move against chaulnes british win near thiepval;j berlin admits loss of towns london sept is â€” the french are in the outskirts of the city cf combles to-day they cap tured a knot of german trenches only 200 meters south of that im portant german base simultaneously the british driv ing against combles from the north west captured the quadrilateral a strong german redoubt between the bouleaux wood and ginchy and then smashed forward on a front of a mile penetrating the german posi tions to a depth of 1,000 yards deniecourt and berny have fallen to the french the last remaining link in the german chain of fortified villages that formed the southern line of the somme salient was won by general foch's troops late this afternoon after one of the fiercest battles fought on the western front paris announce capture of trenches on the verdun front the almost forgotten dead man hill oomed up suddenly in the official french com munique of to-night general nivelle's troops in the first attack reported on the left bank of the meuse in many weeks captured a german trench on the southern slopes of that height taking some prisoners the midnight report from paris follows to the north of the somme an energetic attack enabled us to con quer a knot of german trenches about 200 meters south of combles to the south of the somme the fighting continued with fury at den iecourt our infantry after having taken the village advanced about a kilometer towards the south in the direction of ablancourt simultane ous operations enabled ns to take a trench west of hergny afid dislodge the enemy from three little woods southeast of deniecourt as well as to occupy a number of trenches to the southwest french open way o attack chaulnes in capturing deniecourt and push ing their lines toward ablaincourt she french broke the last remaining mar in the jerman defense north of the line from barleux to chaulnes md cleared the way for a con entrated attack on the latter town the british en their part>beat off furious counter blows north of flers tillage adding to their own gains toward bapaume and taking a fur er part of the german trench sys lem eouth of thiepval the official press bureau in a re friew of the fighting of friday and saturday given out to-day makes the following observation the result of the fighting on the 15th and 16th is of great importance it probably was the most effective blow yet dealt to the enemy by the british troops the damage done to the morale of the enemy is probably greater than the seizure of the dom inating positions the afternoon report from general iaig follows south of the ancre we improved allies win on most fronts in day's action yesterdats important de â– "â– velopments in the european war western front french cap ture trench 200 yards from com â– bles and attack town take deniecourt and berny and ad vance two-thirds of a mile cap ture 1,600 prisoners british gain near courcelette berlin claims advantage on part of front eastern front berlin an nounces defeat of new russ drive oil halicz recapture of ground lost saturday with 3,500 prison ers and thousands of slav fatali ties petrograd claims advance against halicz-lemberg railway balkan fr 0 n tâ€”russo-rou manian troops make stand against bulgar-teuton drive in dobrudja on line from constanza to the danube bulgarians are trapped by serbians and retreat in utter rout allies now only nine miles from monastir capture of fio rina by french confirmed italian front third austrian line at monfalcone is broken by italians in fierce battling toward trieste serbs ex-queen in overalls sweeps hospital floors nathalia who effaced herself when war started to serve soldiers found in bordeaux by international news service paris sept is â€” the mystery re garding the whereabouts of ex-qae^n nathalia of serbia who disappeared at the outbreak of the war was cleared up to-day when she vras found working as a common serving woman in a big hospital in bordeaux while investigating the medical service of bordeaux jean de bonne fon a well-known catholic journal ist who used to attend the sparkling court ceremonies in belgrade during the reign of the last obrenjvltch found the queen sweeping the hospi tal floors when the war broke out the queen whose history is the most tragic story known to european history put ner lilace at biarritz in the hands of her friend princess ghika and ordered her to convert it into a war hospital as fcr me she added i am going to efface myself the times are so tragic that those who wore once rulers of mtn must aid them in all humility on tho same evening nathalia un attended even fcy a maid entrained lor an unknown destination and her suite had not heard a word of her eir.ee in the hospital where de bonnefon found her she volunteered her services under the assumed name oi nathalia kechoko which is her maiden name and for the last two jears she performed the mean est and most tiring duties when i last taw her at the bel grade court writes de bonnefon king milan's widow wore a blazing diadem and looked a haughty and queenly beauty she was attired in a purple velvet cloak line.l with ermine now she wore coarse hair covering the place where once rested a rowh and brown holland overalls instad of the purple cloak thaw avenges wound defeats two germans by international news service xew york sept 18 â€” mr and mrs benamin thaw of pittsburgh who have been at the front visiting their wounded son lieutenant william thaw of the french flying corps re turned to-day on the steamer lafay ette lieutenant thaw was shot through the left arm two german planes have fallen victim to his shots since his recovery he has been dec orated with the legion of honor u s weather forecast Chicago asd vicinity â€” fair tuesday and wednesday rising tem perature moderate southerly winds temperature for twentr-fonr ct^b ending sam - hlehemt 62 loiii-st 46 mean 54 normal temperature for the day 64 excexx nlnre january 1 sf>3 decrree precipitation for twnty-frmr hours pnrtinir nt 7 tv m nore ex'pss rinee tannair 1 0.02 inch ' highest viiri velocity sixteen miles per hour frrcm t t e nrnihivest it 0:48 a m narometrir pressure rmnred to sea lerel 7 a m so|3l : 7 p rn ao.ir f-i'nrise 5:34 ninset 6:33 moon rÂ«e 10:50 p m tuesday allies start fight to bar out u.s trade britain and france agree to commercial exchange as lon-i don replies to american protest washington believes england in tends to insist upon its cen sorship policy regarding post by international news service washington sept is â€” the plan of the allies to favor each other in the matter of exports and imports is already being put into effect france and england have made an arrange ment whereby goods on the prohib ited list in each country may be shipped in from the other country this reciprocal arrangement gives france and england privileges of exporting goods to each other which are denied to neutral nations includ ing the united states a cablegram from consul general skinner in london to the state de partment made public to-day says the french government has opened a special office in london for the granting of licenses for the impor i tation into france and algeria of british goods under import prohibi tions to those countries arrange ments have been made whereby french exporters of goods on the british prohibited list may apply to the french ministry of commerce for approval of applications which will then be transmitted to the british board of trade import restrictions department in paris thus enabling french exporters to overcome exist ing british restrictions mail note on way the news that great britain and france had already put their policy of trade discrimination into effect came simultaneously with the an nouncement that great britain's re ply to the american note of may 24 protesting against the seizure and censorship of neutral malls was dis patched from london to-day the opinion in administration circles is that the note will set forth these conclusions 1 thnt the british government i justified in continuing its present i censorship policy p that while maintaining its pres " ent policy great britain will modify its administration in such manner ns to ameliorate the situa tion arising from mail censorship trade envoy ix conference the first steps toward such amel ioration ww be taken by sir rich ard crawford commercial attache of the british embasscy when he goes to new york late this week to con fer with bankers and exporters over means of facilitating the dispatch of business mail no attempt was made to-day to minimize the embarrassment that will confront the united states from a direct refusal of the british gov ernment to i..lter its policy of mail censo.-ship in the note of may 24 the state department said only a radical change in the present british and french policy restoring the united states to its full rights as a neu tral power will satisfy this govern ment if as forecast the british govern ment refuses to change its policy a situation will be created which offi cials plainly admit will leave the united states only two courses of ac tion â€” submission or retaliation the entire situation is full of em barrassments the united states has consistently protested against cen sorship of the mails yet it has ap parently acquiesced in the plans an nounced by the british embassy of dealing directly with american citi zens to amend the administration of its policy i protest loses force in the case of the blacklist the united states protested yet it became a party to informal negotiations with the british government for release of the blacklisted firms which ha s been i made to appear in the light of a com promise much of the force of the american protest against england's latest trade restriction the rationing of holland and the scandinavian countries was lost through adoption of the plan of having american exporters get con sent of the british government before sending shipments to neutral coun ; tries if the united states makes protest against this plan it is placed in the position as one diplomatic official to day expressed it of disowning its own child Chicago nurses hurry to fight elgin typhoid hospitals overcrowded and pa tients placed in boiler rooms and laundry elgin is in the grip of the typhoid epidemic which now numbers 180 victims hospitals are crowded to overflowing and nurses have been called from Chicago r.nd surround ing towns to help fight the disease at the sherman hospitafthe laundry j.nd boiler rooms of an uncompleted ving have been pressed into service and twenty-five patients have been placed in the improvised wards a new theory as to the origin of the widespread scourge was rumored yesterday to the effect that arsenic rat poison had found its way into the drinking water at the rlgi.n na tional watch works where the dis ease broke out state health in spector p h cooney who is help ing city authorities ccmbat the dis ease denied this no room for more cases at the st joseph hospital thirty patients are being treated and for lack of room the doors have been closed to more this hospital has seventy-five patients in all while the sherman hospital accommodates eighty-five v hile locn.l physicians admit that the situation is still seri ous they believe that it is under control end that there is no danger of the epidemic spreading beyond elgin three deaths were reported yesterday making a total of thir teen awaiting friend but copettes arrest him all beau brummels are warned to forego posing at state and madison ctreets hearken paul s girten 1800 west madison street was standing on the forbidden spot yesterday when two young women approached they fluttered on either side of paul you're under arrest said one who was policewoman wightman what for asked mr girten for flirting replied the other circe who was policewoman crot they seized him and escorted him to the police station girten says he was out of work and waiting for a friend his is the first arrest since chief of police healey launched his flirt war inebriates home no place for sprinklers it's taboo on automatic sprinklers as far as officials of the washing tonian home 1533 west madison street are concerned the city wants the home officials to install a system for fire protection in an in junction petition filed yesterday against the city the officials say they care for inebriates and already have enough trouble watching ir rational and mischievous patients without putting on extra guarefs to prevent some of the patients from flooding the building by tampering with the sprinklers ann murdoch's dog barred by 2 hotels when miss ann murdock registered at the blackstone yesterday she in sisted that her pomeranian poodle be permitted to accompany her to her room the management refused ann picked up the pup and departed at the congress she met with the same objection but this time an estrange ment was effected so miss murdock who is a noted actress is at the con gress but her maid and poodle are located elsewhere broker schreiner's wife asks decree ten thousand dollars a year is her husband's earning capacity says mrs lulu p schreiner in a divorce suit against joseph o schreiner board of trade broker in her divorce suit filed yesterday in the superior court she asks provision from the 110.000 she charges cruelty and says that once he broke into her apartment with a hatchet and threateend to kill her and did demolish the furniture pfiffles pilfered love says husband to cabarcters he is known as pflf fles he is a loophound and gen erally known as a good fellow pfiffles is accused of winning the admiration of mazie c oleras she fairly idolized pfiffles gottfried gleras her husband alleges in a bill for divorce filed yesfcerday in the su perior court britain's new war monster from peoria ! 1,000 caterpillar tractors sent by american company trans formed into trench smashers u s army to be equipped with similar land dread naughts maker describes machines washington sept is â€” the gi gantic british armored motor cars used recently in the assaults on ger man trenches on the western front were made in peoria 111 and the principles used in their construction have been employed for years in tractors used on american farms these tanks as tho soldiers call them are of the caterpillar tractor type except for their armor their ma chine guns and their crews thou sands like them are in Ã¼be to-day in the united states in plowing digging ditches end other labors the united states army will be equipped soon with giant nrmnred cars equal in power and effectiveness to those now in use by the british on the french war front the ordnance bureau of the war department is having built such car the size and design is being kept ret by t'ne army men explains war terror general hugh l scott chief of the prrny staff admitted this much to night m si baker vice president of the holt manufacturing 1 company ex plained here to-day that it was ma chines made by his company at its peoria plant that had hurdled ger man trenches walked through for tsts and crawled over shell craters in the face of interne gun fire we have sold about 1,000 cater pillar tractors to the british govern ment said mr baker we have had nothing to do with putting armor on them or placing machine guns but some of our men at aldershot england recently were notified that the british government intended to armor some of the tractors and use them for work other than the usual towing of big guns so far as i know until the recent appearance of the motor cars the tractors were used only to t,ow big guns i understood germany used about forty of them before liege early in the war and recent photo graphs show that the british are using some of them now for the same purpose overcome anything it is true that these tractors can go ahead over almost anything ov through almost anything they can straddle a tvench go through a swamp roll over logs or climb through small craters like a car of juggernaut it looks uncanny to see them crawl along the ground just like a huge caterpillar in a thick i forest if they encountered trees | they could not brush out of their j way they coirid easily be used to ap i root them and clear their own paths | mr baker said the tractors sent to england weigh about 18,000 pounds each develop 120 horse-power and are built of steel the caterpillar feature he explained is of tho ut most importance speaking broadly the tractor crawls on two belts with corrugated surfaces on either side of the body the corrugated surface is on the ground on the inside of the belts on each side of the body are two lines of steel rails making four lines in all these rails are in short sections jointed and operate over a cogged mechanism that actually lays them down with their belt attachment as ! the tractor moves ahead and picks 1 them up again so that the car runs i on its own self-made track continu ously victim of grizzly dies from its bites codt wyo sept 18 jack welch the freighter who was killed by a grizzly bear in yellowstone park a few days ago was a victim of the animal's hunger instead of being killed while defending his supplies as at first reported welch and a comrade were sleeping when the bear seized welch and began eating him alive welches comrade took sides of bacon from their wagon and pelted the bear until he left welch and began to eat the bacon welch was then rescued but died two new blackmail arrests u s agents spirit witness away mrs noel loeb wife of little rock man is hidden in mystery by clabaugh's aids grace butler ar rested in east hearing begins today the campaign of federal officials against the blackmail syndicate made rapid progress yesterday investigation of the seven men and women captured in the spectacular raid on the tyson apartments in Chicago saturday night revealed new ramifications here are the latest developments 1 another woman mrs noel loeb wife of a court stenographer in lit â€¢ tie rock was hurried away from the tyson and secreted by federal operatives 2 dispatches from philadelphia told of the arrest of grace butler alias * grace israel alias sadie israel in connection with newly revealed ramifications of the syndicate's operations 3 william butler a member of the band under 15,000 bonds in phlla â€¢ delphia failed to appear when his trial was called there yesterday morning but was arrested in the afternoon after his bonds had been for feited 4 dozens of chicagoans communicated with hinton g clabaugh of the â€¢ department of justice to tell of operations of the blackmailers and to get his guarantee of protection from publicity as a result of telling their 3tories in this connection mr clabaugh said all names would be kspt secret on direct orders from washington 5 mrs regina klipper of new york started to Chicago to appear as â€¢ prosecuting witness at the preliminary hearing of the prisoners bs fore united states commissioner foote to-day 6 Chicago agents of the department of justice laid plans to apprehend â€¢ two Chicago women ana three men aside from those already in cus tody who have been active in the syndicate's operations 7 headquarters of the department of justice in washington was re â€¢ ported to have four women under surveillance in the east as poten tial members of the band 8 mary taub alleged member of the band who had written business â€¢ is good good luck to the syndicate was reported to have fled from st louis with her husband morris taub recently released after arrest as a pickpocket suspect 9 investigation begun of the connection of one of the men under ar â€¢ rest with the murderer of a blackmail expert who was slain in the west after quarrel over the division of spoils the removal of mrs loeb from the tyson apartments was a late afternoon occurrence tno federal operatives hurried her down the stairs and into a waiting taxicati where she was taken is still a mystery mrs loeb is expected to tell the plans made by henry russel and doc donchue to get her demands does mrs l'oeb's removal mean she is under arrest mr clabaugh was asked i can just say that she is accompanied by my men and is under strictest surveillance was his reply no details as to why she had been taken from the apartments was given by air cu'.baugh and the new hiding place was kept a jealously i guarded secret mrs loeb according to dispatches from little rock is the wife of a court ster.o^raphar there her maiden name was josie lowenstein and at the time of her marriage her home was in kansas city she has been married about five years but has spent most of her summers in Chicago her husband is now visiting in kansas city j two developments are interwoven butler was wanted for the swindling of mrs j boland winpenny of philadelphia and his trial was to have started yesterday hte had been at liberty on bonds of 15,000 and these when he failed to appear were declared forfeited five hours later butler was arrested and taken to the philadelphia offices of the department of justice then from cards found in his possession the federal officers learned where butler had been living and on searching the address found butler's wife she too is being held by the philadelphia officials five chicagoans are being watched tpo more women who arc believed to have lured wealthy male vie 1 tims and three additional women all chicagoans are being shadowed by federal operatives and may be arrested at any moment as members cf the alleged blackmailing syndicate chief clabaugh refused to divulge any information regarding their specific operations but asuertod he was so thoroughly convinced they had played a part m the various plots that he was keeping them constantly under surveillance he said he was awaiting developments before de ciding upon arrests meanwhile heads of the government investigating force at washing ton were telegraphing ageuts in all principal cites for reports on similar p'ots it was asserted that in all probability the same coterie accused of directing the syndicate in Chicago would be connected up with extor tion plots in western coast cities particularly in seattle where the gov ernment men tri*d and failed last spring to run down a supposed group of blackmailers two members still missing mr clabaugh said sufficient evidence had been obtained to assure the obstruction of justice charge preferred against the alleged ringlead ers of the plot but that he had been frustrated so far in attempts to find two of the alleged members of the coterie these are mary taub reported operating at st louis and george irwin one of the men under indictment agents of the department at st louis were ordered by telegraph to find the taub woman after twenty hours of searching they reported their belief that she had been informed of the Chicago arrests and dis appeared they failed to find either the voruan or her husband morris 500,000 private banker kills self fears ruin afieb five days run bypatrons joseph tuma unable to bow money to pay patrons stands on piling and fires bullet in brain body falling in lake wife who worked with finan cier declares she will pay all their depositors and the join her husband in death the deposits in the turns sav ings bank 4013 west twelfth street amounted to about 500 000 the cash on hand when thej doers opened for business yesterday morning was about 15,000 for five days the president anrt owner of this private bank â€” josoph tuma â€” had been watching tho...pro grejis of a run the depositors hÂ£i i become alarmed at the epidemi of i private bank failures he had hoped to stop it but it continued on sat urday seeing that his margin waa dangerously narrow he tried to t ar row 12,000 he failed yesterday morning the run continued after luncheon it continued the president went out â€” for a walk he said body falls into lake michigan and late in the afternoon he shot himself dead he had walked from the bank to the foot of wrightwood avenge there he climbed out on the piling at the water edge his body fell into the lake when they carried the news to mr emma tuma hi 8 widow she began t sob and reached into his desk i have nothing now to live for she said i may as well join him detective sergeants ryan o'don nell and gaynor were watching her closely and when she drew a revolver from the drawer and tried to place it to her head they took it away i will wait then she said wearily i will wait until the depositors ara paid â€” then i will join him whether the bank is solvent state attorney hoyne did not even try t guess last night the books were seized by assistant state's attorney a a arkin who states the ac counts were loosely kept to-day will be determined whether the sui cide of tuma was the tragic fore runner of another financial era the most serious of the lot | whole family \ worked in bank it was a family affair the bank â€” and the family was thrifty they all worked in the bank even the women and they all lived in the rooms above it they spent little but there were big loans â€” and tuma feared that if the run continued mucll longer he would be in trouble his surviving relatives assort vigorously that the ban will pay every dollar the police are guarding the vault under orders of the state's attorney tuma left a letter addressed to his wife whether he wrote it before leaving the bank or whether he stopped somewhere in the course of his afternoon walk and wrote it has not been learned little light is furnished by letter it was written in his native bo hemian but it threw little light on the tragedy when translated it served only to illustrate the state of mind of the writer the letter fol lows my dearest wife please don't blame me you know the best that i am myself guilty of everything that i am too much attached to others you know very well my thoughts have always been good you know tli t}c t 1 2iÂ£l t x was never a*fpaÃŸ /* continued on 2d page sth column continued on 2d page bth column m getting back that article which you were un fortunate to lose is almost an 0 assured fact when yap adver tise it in the examiner's lost and found columns the min ute you lose anything phone your ad to main 5000 final y edition