WEATHER. Member of the Associated Press The I .elated Pkn Is exclusively eatitled to Fair tonight and probably tomor¬ the noe for of all newa diapatcbea somewhat warmer. republication row; credited to It or not otherwise credited la this for hours Temperature twenty-four paper and also the local news published herein. ending 2 p.m. today: Highest, 74, at 2 at 5 a.m. All rights of publication of special p.m. today: lowest, 53. today. herein are also reserved. Full report on page 11. dispatches Closing New York Stocks, Page 11. Yesterday's Net Circulation, 103,006 No. 27,192. WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1918.SIXTEEN PAGES. TWO CENTS. EXPLOSION LEAVES 27NEWDEATHS YANKEES SWEEPING DOZEN TOWNS IN ON FOR BIG GAINS SHATTERED STATE SPREADINCAPITAL IN MEUSE REGION Dr. W. E. Turton, Vital Sta¬ Blast at Munition Plant at tistics Clerk, Succumbs Americans Already Have to Epidemic. Advanced More Than Mile. Morgan, N. J., Works Ruin 130 STREET CAR MEN for Miles Around. AMONG CITY'S STRICKEN Capture Several Towns. Commissioners Take More Measures to Prevent Spread of the FLANDERS COAST MANY WORKERS DEAD; MORE Disease. SOONFREE; Influenza continued to make alarm¬ FRENCH GAIN EVERYWHERE BLASTSFOLL0W;FIRESRAGING ing gains in the District today. Twenty-seven deaths were reported By the Associated Press. By thf» Assoriat^d I'n-ss. during- the last twenty-four hours, the PARIS, October 5, 1:10 p.m..American troops at¬ NEW YORK. October 5..After more than hours largest number for any similar period eighteen tacked this between the Meuse and the of terror, with scenes graphically resembling those in war- since the start of the epidemic. again morning Dr. W. E. Turton, clerk in the vital on an extended front. The advance at some devastated France, a dozen towns in northern New were Argonne Jersey statistics bureau of the health depart¬ in a shattered condition this afternoon as a of the has reached more than a mile, and several villages consequence ment, was among those who succumb¬ points munition disaster which visited the section last night with a trail ed to the disease. have been taken. of tremendous explosions and raging fires which continued Street car companies reported l.'IO throughout today. motormen and conductors incapaci¬ FOE FORCED TO QUIT VALUABLE GROUND. tated for work today as a result of STAY AT HOME TOMORROW By the Associated Press. At the of the the wide of the malady. This $i8,ooo.oou shell-making plant.one greatest sweep are into the a hundred cars .un¬ French and American troops smashing industries of its kind in the world.of T. A. Gillespie & Co., situ¬ left more than You are urged to remain at TROOPSAREMOVING manned. But the "staggered hour" home tomorrow afternoon. A and have forced the ated at N. as one of a of manufactories German positions in Champagne Morgan. I., community plan operated to reduce congestion volunteer canvasser will call at the normal rush hours. to withdraw from valuable in the hill producing ammunition for the American and allied armies, an greatly during your house to solicit your (sub¬ enemy ground from an unknown cause scattered firebrands Services. scription to the nation's fourth DESPITE EPIDEMIC near the river. explosion among Open-Air Church liberty loan. country Suippe tons of trinitrotoluol, the most powerful explosive known. Many churches will hold open-air Secretary of the Treasury Mc- East and west of the Argonne and northwest of Felt for Fifty Miles. hospitals at Elizabeth, Rahway and services tomorrow, according to re¬ Adoo* who will be one of the other towns. port made to Commissioner Brown- Plea of Democrats and Re¬ house-to-house canvassers, may Gen. March Accomplishes Rheims there has been heavy fighting to the advantage of Detonation followed upon detonation call on so to be swi these repea«f-dly shook thetercain More low. you, don't fall the allies. On the northern sectors hostilities Explosions Follow. The Commissioners have taken prac¬ for on hand to receive him and give Embarkations to France apparently for a radius o.' fifty miles, this urn tically all precautionary measures publicans, Respectively, by torv including New York CIO. where With bis? explosions still taking in the way of closing him your subscription. have down for the moment. were shaken and place at 10 a. surround- open to them quieted t.uildings gte m., shaking the ordinary channels through which Control of District Loan Divisions. shattered much as the I '1 towns. Vice President Yates of circulate. Congress. Liberty Rearranging over the of Blanc in the ^ herc the[7' influenza germs Committee. advancing northward heights Island explosion halbor J Gillespie Company save out the While today's death report was dis¬ By rocked tin? metropolis two yea. s as"- following- statement: "We cannot con- that the this ceive couraging, they believe steps Mont and the Medeah farm the French and Americans With the situation at Morp.n I how it can last much longer. taken to check the disease must soon afternoon such that firemen, soldiers, The large magazines of T. N. T. are in the situa- LEADERS IMPRESS VIEWS WAR NEWS HE SAYS fo,'ru t buried in a lead to an improvement GOOD, the Germans in the eastern of the hill sailors and civilirr. workers bank of the Cheesequake tion. placed part country impossible to penetrate to a /-on. crrek and we feel are safe." two miles of the llillespi. plant no « «fi¬ Perth Amboy and South Amboy about Moronvilliers in a dangerous position. To prevent nite estimate could hi- made of th» . saloons were dosed and the towns Cars Must Be Thrown Open- BY DAVID LAWRKXCE. Notwithstanding that there are 100,- I,it of who l.ist nu»nt were under control. State outflanked the enemy retired hurriedly toward the person,! perished military Commissioner Brownlow again to- CCopyright. 1018, by N. Y. Evening Post, Inc.) All 000 eases of influenza in the military being the I TO hours URGED STAY ai»l in guardsmen. nited States coast early morning ; attention of the man¬ River Arnes. west of the the French arc Th,' llamfs burned unoppostn «»t i '-ruri rds and a battery of field artillery day called the like the rich and camps in this country, the embarka¬ Just Suippe C.iUospic shops and w. r.- threatening were doing guard duty. agements of the street car companies Politics, proverbial tion of overseas toward the important height of Moronvilliers. with destruction two oth-r ^rcat Occasional explosions were taking operating in the District to his re¬ proverbial poor, is always with tis in troops continued last moving nition plants in the vicinity place this forenoon as far as two , sent them the first day of the but under the veneer of month at the rate of 250,000 a month. Germans in Salient. Pusli Into Kriemhild Positions. I'nollicial estimates |ila< oil .he di a ) miles awav from the Gillespie plant, quest Washington, HOMETOMORROW Deep nt upward of i::T. based upon staU" The people of l'erth Ambov. mo¬ influenza epidemic to keep the win¬ that much-abused term, "war service," Gen. March, chief of staff, announced Between the Suippe and Rheims to East of the forest, after having ments of who ciaimcd t further dows and doors of all cars transport¬ persons mentarily expecting "terrific The the west the Germans are still in a taken important positions, the Amer¬ knew of "f \ariousH,. explosions from trinitrotoluol maga- ing passengers open, and thu^ prevent it is less visible to the naked eye, today. total number embarked is icans are northward into bacilli and the indications are pressing groups of employes and tir.mr.i dur¬ seines, were leaving that city by the the spread of the germs and though not less powerful or assertive. over l,sr.0,000. deep salient, the Kriemliilil defense system. Tlie ing certs-VI periods of explosion. I h < j thousands. South Amboy was devas- of the disease among the passengers. 3,500 Bond Solicitors, Mr. that they will retire from it altogether CJerman defense is most stubborn, ni"l,t shift was known to number tated and deserted. The magazines. This, the Commissioner says, is im¬ Both parties arc theoretically resting The uninterrupted shipment of fight¬ on the | and health of¬ now that tliey have given way on the especially American right, but i-.m-i) persons, an.l the ones accounted which are buried alongside the creek, perative, the physicians on their arms while the loan McAdoo Will Make ing: men despite the prevalence of the is on the center and left the Americans for this afternoon were numbered contain a seven-day supply of T. N. T. ficers advising him that where cars liberty Included, eastern flank. The German position epidemic i3 made rear¬ are successfully following up their only in scores. While it was consid¬ T he actually known dead number are crowded, with closed windows and campaign goes on. After October 19. possible by being further endangered by the earlier gains. ered possible that the loss of life fourteen, their bodies having been re- no circulation of fresh air, the danger Personal Calls. ranging the units intended for trans¬ Attack northwest of Rheims. In tiwtto of St. would be found to be reckoned by the is just two weeks more.they will go at French thAjNSIMl Quentin covered. of contagion greatest. porting and picking out well men Gen. Berthelot Is attacking the Ger¬ the British and French continue hundreds, olficers of the <lillespie The military cordon thrown Open windows and all the fresh air it hammer and tongs.