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» M“S FIGHT ON RUSSIAN SOIL Effort ot Ocmutu Seems to be to Cut Line ot Communication to North j and Armies Operating in Austria— What Germans Think ot Their Russian Antagonists. Comparisons With Three Past Years and Per Cent, of Oop Ginned in Those Years Up to This Time. \ A dispatch from Petrograd describ ing the German attack on the Su- walki-Olita railroad, says that the Germans made Cilna their objective, disregarding Kovno, and attacked most stubbornly, finally retreating before Russian bayonet charges, but in order. The roads were covered with tier- man bodies, among them that of a gunner still bolding a shell in his arm. At Ossowiecz the Russians cap tured several heavy guns. A Ger man vanguard succeeded in con structing a pontoon bridge over the Niemen river but not a single Ger man wh<> crossed the river survived, every one being mowed down l?y in fantry fire which was supported by a hail of shrapnel from masked artil lery. erevflRus- rightR O () O The Germans made another at tempt to cross the river, advancing in dense columns but they were again repulsed, quick firing guns playing havoc with their crowded ranks'. The German batteries which had been supporting the infantry attack finally were silenced by Russian - artillery. The. enemy then retired for a dis tance of eight miles, pursued by Cos sacks who crossed the river by means of the pontoon bridge which the Ger mans had bililt. Another correspondent sends a de scription taken from a Kovno paper, of tho operations from September K to September 14, when Geh. Rennen- kampff retired from East Prussia in order to counteract the German ef fort to envelop his left. The account says: "The Germans made obstitnate ef forts to gain possession of the village of Rirkenfeld, where the Russians had strongly entrenched themselves, and thus make a breach in the center of the Russian army. The scene was indescribably terrible, as the Rus sian guns literally mowed down whole regiments,' and all German attacks were repulsed. "In the village of Darkebmen the fight assumed a form which it is dif ficult for the imagination to grasp Here the Russians had not merely to deal with the German troops, hut the entire German population of the vil lage, even the women and children, shot from windows, roofs, barns and cellars. The inhabitants had been firmed with rifles and Mauser pistols atjd the Russian troops in this place we\e compelled to defend themselves on tVo fronts. “Tlidugh the German attacks on Nordenfejd were brilliantly repulsed, the Russians were compelled to fall back on Marlampol. northeast of Su walk!, owing\o another German at tempt at a wid^ enveloping move ment. \ "To check this tr^> Russians open ed an attack from Marlampol. where they had intrenched themselves. The battle lasted two days, September If and 14. Around Marlampol the su perior tactics of the Russians com pelled the Germans to retire, the lat ter evacuating three lines o\in trenchments.",- The second cotton ginning report of the season, compiled from reports of bureau correspondents and agents throughout the cotton belt and issued at 10 a. m. Friday, announced that 3,381,863 bales of cotton, counting round as half bales, of the growth of lH 14 has been ginned prior to Sep tember 25. , This cohipares with 3,246,655 bales, or 23.2 per cent, of the entire crop, ginned prior to Septepber 25 last year, 3,007,271 bales, or 22.3 per cent, in 1912, and 3,676,5941 bales, of 23.6 per cent, in 1911. Included in the ginnings were 3,- 292 round bales, compared with 26,- 983 last year, 19,574 in 1912 and 27,918 in 191i. Sea island cotton included num bered 13,895 bales, compared with 10,570 bales to September 25 last year, 3,051 bales to 1912>^uid 11,807 bales in 1911. r ‘ Ginnings prior to September 25 by states, with comparisons for the past three years and the percentage of the entire crop ginned in those states prior to that date in the same years, follow: Alabama. Ginnings. Per Cent. s The above is an account of thw German efforts to invade Russian ter ritory. Previous to this the Russians had been driven out of German East Prussia in a campaign which is the most remarkable on record for the number of prisoners taken in so short a time and in field fighting. In less than three weeks, accordinir to Ger man official statements, Gen. von Hindenberg-niade prisoners of nearly 150,dolt Russians The first surprise the Russians gave to the Gerfnan military leaders was the aggressive way in which they pushed this campaign. It had been supposed rn the German military quarters that they would occbpy strong defensive positions behind the Vistula and other streams and await the attacks of the Germans and Aus trians. Instead of such strategy, how ever, they pushed into East Prussia in great numbers at a very early stage of the war and they are still moving forward in Galicia The next surprise was that the Rus sian generals no longer send their troops into battle in close formation as in previous wars, but have mod ernized their tactics and try, to util ize all the advantages of the ground. The shooting of the infantry, how ever, was found to be still very inef fective. With the field artillery the case is quite different. Its firing is remark ably good, and the unanimous verdict ot the German officers is embodied in the frequently heard words ‘'Hats .off to. the Russfhn gunners,” As a rule the first salvo of the battepies woujd fall short, the second would overshoot, but the .third would begin a frightful carnage among, the Ger man ranks unless^ they had changed their position meanwhile. One of the specialties, of the Russian artil ery was to locate and fire upon the German staff officers, with the result that these had frequently to change their positions. ^curate ’I HA fiFf-lifile Russian gunnery was considerably neutralized, however, by ♦he large proportion of shells which failed to explode. Artillery experts find a more probable explanation in • the marshy .nature of the terrain in many places along the Russian fron tier, tltf shells burying themselves in the soft earth vithont exploding. The Coiaacka have again proved ALLIES FORCES CONTINUE EN VELOPING lOTEIENT GERMAN ATTACK FIERCE Hattie Cry of Democracy, in Coming , . r ' T _ Fall Elections is Peace Policy of Woodrow Wilson. Von Kluck's Desperate Attack Upon French Forces is an Effort to Break Through Allies’ lines. Cutting Off the Troops Which Are Attempting to Outflank Him. 1914 . . . .. 392,655- o . . . V 1913 22.0 1912 . . .. .. 192,310 14.5' 1911 .. .. .. 360,244 21.2 Arkansas. 1914 99,179 .... 1913 , 6.8 1912 41,438 5.4 1911 43,626 4.8 Florida. 1914 ... .. ,. 25,388 .... 1913 16.367 24.5 1912 9,770 16 6 1911 21,510 22.8 Georgia. 1914 769,1 1 8 ' .... 1 913 20.9 1912 .. 272.335 15.0 1911 .. . .765,697. 27.4 IjOuUiana. 1914 94,173 1913 17.8 1912 73,992 19.7 1911 .. V. .. 89,069 23.4 Mississippi. • 1914 161,123 .... 1913 120,503. 9.6 1912" .. .. 5f,393 5.6 1911 96,829 8.3 North Carolina. 1914 .. 82.849 .... 1913 49,952 6.0 1912 101,683 11.2 1911 136,390 13.9 Oklahoma. 1914 109,050 1913 148,979 17.7 1912 77,394 7.7 1911 T 116,238 11.4 South Carolina. 1914 . . 298,581) .... 1913 .. 193,318 13.6 1 912 174,251 14.2 1911 338,090 20.0 Tennessee. 1914 16,033 1913 18,359 5.0 1912 990 0.4 1911 15,541 3.6 Texas. 1914 1,324,779 .... 1913 1,727.639 45.8 1912 2,002,975 43.1 1911 40.6 All -Other States. 1914 . . . . : . 8,924- ' . 1913 6,251 - 5.2 1912 2,740 3.0 1911 5,395 3.9 \ EDWARD CARSON DEFIANT. lister Mill Prevent Inclusion in we Rule Hill. Sir Edward Carson issued a state ment Monday aftbrnoon bitterly at tacking the BritisnXgovernment for pushing the home rule bill through while the country was aMvar and de claring that lister will invent her Inclusion within the scope ot the bill by force of arms if necessary) However, since the operation of the law has been suspended for the period of the war, the Ulster leade said there is no necessity for imme diate action, but he added: "When the war ends.the Unionist Council proposes to demand that the government repeal all sections of the home rule bill that apply to Ulster. If it does not then the Ulster provi sional government wilUdirect her vol unteers to prevent home rule ever be coming effective in Ulster.” The great effort of the Allies to envelop the German right may be said to be in operation again, and it is believed the whole French column from Roye northward to Arras is moving eastward against the German positions. The Germans have had a long time in-which to make their position se cure, so there is a lot of hard fighting ahead for both the attacking forces and the defenses. The defensive role is apparently being assumed by the invaders. The Germans describe themselves as “hammering the French positions at-numerous points by their heavy artillery. The attempts of the Allies to break through the German lines have been repulsed. The heaviest losses have been in the Argonne re gion. The Germans, according to their report, continue to make steady progress.” w The lighting in France, the siege of Antwerp, and tlje offensive opera tions under Gen. v'bn Hiudenberg, all going on at the same time, are taken in Berlin to indicate that the German army is not lacking in men. After having tried in vain recently in the north of France to break at Tracy-le-M»nt and then at Roye the strong line of the Allies, the Germans have renewed their fierce attacks be tween the latter city and the region of Arns. Their latest efforts, in which they have been hurling their forces against the French and Eng lish in trying to gain a decisive vic tory, have had no better results. The French, in an official state ment, frankly admit a slight falling back at the left of one of their de tachments. On the other hand, the Allies have not only successfully op posed the terrific onslaughts of the enemy at other points but have made gains as well. Gerald Morgan, a London Daily Telegraph correspondent, telegraphs from "a point in France”: "The farthest west of Gen. von Kluck's many lines of communication are the roads and railway lines which lead from St. Quentin to Cambrai Valenciennes, Mons and Brussels Next comes the line St. Quentin-Mau beuge-Charleroi-Namur, and after that the third and last, by way of Givet, Dinant, Namur and Liege “It is no secret that the French are threatening the first of these lines of communication, the one ('ambrai- Yalenciennes-Mons, for in their offi cial communiques they speak of their lines to the north being more and more extended. Little by little the buttle fronts again approach the fron tier, and the war is being carried hark to the inevitable battlefields of Belgium. yAn extended line of operations such as this is just as embarrassing to the Germans now as it was in their favor in August. Gen. von Kluck is himself in the meshes of the same net which lie set for the French, but the French, though their movements had to be swift, had a broad and open line of retreat, while that of Gen. von Kluck is narrow and dangerous. Gen von Kluck is, therefore, not trying to elude the meshes of this net, but to break through them. He is trying to break through in the angle of the rivers Aisne and Somme, in the neighborhood of Noyon and the Forest of De I.aigie. "The official communiques make no secret, either of the character or of the ferocity of the German attacks in tins direction,' and their object is of course, to divide the French arm and attack it in detail, meanwhile in flicting the severest losses possible on the British, who now are in a position on the very north brink of the River Aisne. “The question, therefore, reduces itself to this: Is Gen. von Kluck too big a fisli to be caught in the net Every day the net grows stronger ami every day is that much of a gain for tlift Allies, since the French are be ing daily reinforced. What Gen. von My friend Tom Pence, says Savo yard, chief of the publicity bureau of the Democratic national commit tee, has just published a very^ valu able work, “The Democratic Text book” for the year 1914. It is as full of facts as Mr. Dickens’ Grad- grind would have it be and its every chapter is an argument in support of the principles of the Democratic party and the policies of the Democratic president. It is a valuable book of reference and every Democrat who talks -politics with his neighbor should send t,p Democratic headquar ters in the Hibbs building, Washing ton, D. C., for a copy. The price is only a quarter of a dollar. On the outside front cover is a pic ture of Mr. Wilson and at the top are the striking and appealing exclama tions: "War in the East! Peace in the West! Thank God for Wilson!” That is history an dthat is argument. It is the Democratic case. that they are of .little value, accord ing to German officers, either for re- connoissanee w.ork or in fighting. Gh the other hand, the German officers speak more favbrably of the regular Russian cavalry. The conduct of the troops in the invasion of East Prus sia, particularly when together in larger units and under the command of higher officers, appears to have been in general excellent. They ap pear to have respected private prop erty and paid for supplies requisi tioned, even if payment was only in Russian script. Small detachments, on the contrary, seemed to have loot ed and burned. — * ' The Russian officers have by no means impressed the German artil lerymen favorably. It many cases it was remarked that they points in situations In the battlefield. It was also frequently charged in newspaper accounts and letters from soldiers-and officers that many Rus sian- officers lack courage. A. GA- man captain reports that‘he counted 150 dead Russians on the heights near Hohenstein, bat not one officer among them. Kluck can not do now he will find still harder to do as time goes by.’ Granville Fortesque, another Lon don correspondent, wires from “some point in France^.: “For two day& and nights the Ger mans have attacked with the fui*y of despair. Thdy have been jamming corps upon corps into the angle of the Allies’ line at Ribec&urt in a des pefat'e attempt to pierce it. .The ex treme German left has been denuded of troops that they may be thrown into this vortex, but it has been vain effort. The gray-coated soldiers have been led into the French field of fire like corn is fed into a hopper and they have been ground to dust "These violent counter attacks are the direct result of what might be called the present siege field opera tions. The German field fortifica lions have been splendidly planned and painstakingly constructed. Their trenches not only give shelter from the enemy’s projectiles, but from the elements. These bombproofs deflect the shells and keep out the rain, <old failed to I and w eather and ate heaiimiiit-i mcivirr — - - play an active part in the campaign Realization of this was brought^about by the recent suicidal counter attacks of the enemy.” LITE ill VIFE LEM IDttJUII It IECIME IDIGlil GOVERNMENT REPORTS SHOW 15,300,006 RALES. STRANGE CASE OF CRIME Losing Money in Mexico Eaton Bo- Hut comes Clerk in New York, Robs Apartments of Women He Meets Clandestfnely, in Order to Secure Money. Only a year ago, or less, the yaller newspapers and the jingo Republican statesmen were clamorous for war. Interpreted, their contention was that our country had too many strong, healthy, diligent, promising young men, just upon, or just across, the threshold of early manhood, and it was the duty of the Democratic ad ministration to summon more than half a million of them to the colors and wage war against Mexico. Though the soil of that land is as fertile as Goshen, it was urged that it should be further enriched by the blood of America’s best and bravest. Tens of thousands were to fall in bat tle and double as many were to die of disease. According to the preachments of the yallers and the jingoes there were not enough widows and orphans and sorrowful mothers and sisters in the land, that was athirst lor women's tears. The- country needed a great store of woe. There were not enough pensioners, not enough cripples. Too much steel was used in the plow shop and too little in the gun shop. Fac tory and mine and farm and count ing house were to be laid under con tribution to furnish "food for pow der” in • quarrel that meant brutal conquest, and nothing but brutal con quest. The public debt was too small. Contractors were not doing enough business and the yallers and the jingoes were running up and down the earth seeking market for their vast stores of merchantable patriotism. Moloch was to be an- throned and fire and sword carried to a helpless people beyond the Rio Grande. • • * Fortunately for our country, fortu nately for mankind, Woodrow Wilson was president and he was a wise man illustrative of that wisdom so lauded by the monarch who dwelt in cedar palace, sat on a throne of ivory and wore a crowd of jewels. Woodrow Wilson had read and pondered and was now to practice what Solomon said of Wisdom: “She is more precious than rubies; and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her. "Length of days in her right hand and in her left hand riches and honor. “Her ways are ways of pleasant ness, an dall tier paths are peace. We all remember the innumerable black lines that filled the horrid col umns of the yaller press. Had there been a bully or a weakling in the White House we would have sprung to war. True, victory would have resulted, but the national conscience would have been calloused and the national honor smirched. Thank God for" Wilson! , * * • How is it across the waters at the east where kaiser and czar and kings and chancellors have made the most deplorable w a<" and the most disas trous war of the ages? If we can place trust in the news from that conflict, at this moment, when the war is only seven weeks, old, there have been more than 500,000 casual ties in bloody battle. Belgium, th fairest land in Europe, is devastated her population slaughtered, her cities burned, her industries destroyed, and northern France has been visited by the same destruction. The Cossack is sweeping over central Europe bent on dealing death and ruin in his path. If Germany shall be forced to the defensive that grand country will be made a desert, her people butcher ed, her cities reduced to ashes, her fields devastated and misery her por tion for more than a generation What good can result, whoever emerges victor? The Duke of Wei lington, no mean judge, said that a great victory was the ipost mournful thing in the world except a great de feat. It looks as though it Is a fight to a finish and mankind will not re cover from the awful consequences in half a century. It will injuriously affect our country for at least a gen eration. There is only one>. ray of light upon a picture so dark—it may be the last war, heralding the civili zation of the vision of the Prophet of God: “The .wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid, and the calf and the young lion and the fatting together and a little child shall lead them.” - And for that consummation let all men and women- oc.fr nrava Escape From Fire. Two hundred and fifty students and teachers escaped from the barn Ing Normal College, at Livingston, Ala., Wednesday night. r And. let no good American neglect to thank God for Wilson. Washington, October 1. Blue Visits Spartanburg. Rupert Blue. Surgeon 6eneral of the United States public health ser vice, was in Spartanburg Sunday to Inspect the government pellagra h pital, which is being built there. Condition of Chop on Wee 73.3 Per cen by Stntee. In all the strange casese of crime which from time to time come to the attention of the New York police, there has never been one quite like th case of Herbert J. Eaton, who was mortally wounded in attempting to escape after robbing a woman's apart ment Wednesday night. Although for the last five years he has be«n considered an exemplary young man by his employers at the office of the Mumm Champagne and Importation company, he confessed Thursday that he had robbed the apartment of Mrs; Gertrude Pike. To a detective Saton admitted that he had palmed the key to Mrs. Pike’s apartment in picking up some articles that had dropped from her pocket- book while "he was taking her to her home on a Fifth Avenue bus on the day before the buarglary, and he con fessed that he had called her on the telephone and had offered to sell back her jewelry for |500, threatening to make "domestic trouble” for her if she notified her husband or the po lice. . His confession in the hospital has since revealed that while' he passed to his wife and among his friends, for a quiet, home-loving person who was getting along well in the world in a business way, his outward evi dences of his prosperity were obtain ed by robbing women whom he met clandestinely. Thousands of dollars worth of stolen jewelry were found hidden in queer places in his apartment. And all the time his young wife, believing in his honesty and ignorant of his acquaintance with the woman he robbed, lived happily with him, and even wore the gems and jewels he had stolen from other women. Mrs. Eaton was as much astonish ed as the searching detectives when a great quantity of jewelry and pawn tickets for stolen Jewelry were found in the apartment. Knowing that she was compromising her husband be yond repair, yet Impelled by deter mination to find .the full truth, she helped the detectives. The booty bud been hidden in al most inconceivable places. One piece was taken from behind a picture, an other from under the false bottom of fern dish hanging conspicuously Leaders of the movement to di»-. pose of the: vast cotton yield, which this year will be left in American hands because of the war in Europe, were given a more definite Idea Fri day of the size of the new crop when the department of agriculture an nounced it would amount to approxi mately 15,300,000 bales of &00 pounds each. Curtailed takings of foreign spin ners, who usually buy from eight to ten million bales yearly, already havo ’ resulted in the adoption of new meth ods for disposing of the 1914 crop, which present conditions indicate will be the second largest on record. Domestic consumption, usually ap proximately four and a half to five and a half million bales, is expected to be greatly increased thin.year by heavier exports of American cotton goods and the movement to stimu late their use at home. The condition of the cotton crop of the United States on September 25, was 73.5 per cent, of a normal, compared with 78 per cent, on Au gust 25, 64.1 per cent, last year, 69.6 in 1911, and 68.5 per cent., the average of the past ten years on Sep tember 25. This announcement was made at noon Friday by the crop re porting board, bureau of statistics. United States department of agricul ture, in its final condition report of the season, the condition being esti mated from reports of its correspon dents and agents throughout the cot ton belt. Comparisons of conditions by states follow: Sept. Aug. Sept. Ten- 25, 25, 25, year 1914 1914 >913 av. Virginia . . . 80 86 76 76 North Carolina 79 82 70 7S South Carolina 72. 77 71 72 Georgia . . . 81 81 72 72 Florida . . . 81 83 78 71 Alabama. -. . 78 77 67 69 Mississippi . . 68 75 «3 66 Louisiana . . 67 - 66 .60 62 Texas . . .70 79 63 67 Arkansas . . 69 75 43 68 Tennessee . . .70 7« 68 74 Missouri . . . .72 72 64 76 Oklahoma . . .80 80 42 66 California . . .96 98 100 •94 United States .73.5 78 64.1 68.5 from a chandelier, still another from the rear of a mirror. Eaton himself, on his bed In the hospital, told the detectives where they could find many pawntickets hidden in his bath room. In all this searching the police ob served Mrs. Eaton, and they watched her at the bedside of her husband. Their unanimous verdict, voiced by Capt. Alonzo Cooper of the Fourth Branch Detective Division, was: “If any woman evef was innocent that woman is.” Yet she lived well-—not luxurious ly. but very well—on the salary of a clerk in the offices of the Mumm Champagne and Importation com pany. How was it that she did not know ? the police asked. Her life, her past experiences, together with a woman's fine faith in her husband, afford their answer. When a girl she married Eaton in Wales. He was the son of a well-to-do man, and took her to a home suitable to one of posi tion in society. She lived well and happily with her husband. She be came accustomed to more than the mere comforts of life. in 1903 Eaton and another man bought a mine in Mexico, in the State of Chihuahua, and went to the mine to live. The partners prospered for five years. Mrs. Eaton had money for pleasures,, for trips, for enter tainments, for living as one of taste and zest for life desired to live. Her husband's prosperity became a nor mal and natural thing to her, some thing to be taken for granted. - Eaton’s partner was killed by In dians in 1908, and in the same year the mine began to fail. So, with-no further prospects in f Mexico, Eaton came to New York, But he found no mine in the city, he could not make the money easily, as he had made it. He had to work as a clerk, but lie did not tell his wife. His pride, or his affection for her, or his confidence •Four-year average. The crop reporting board'a final estimate of the size of this year’s crop will be announced Thursday, December 10, at 2 p. m LOOK FOR ADV1CB. London Expect* United States to Plaf Important Role for Peace. Since President Wilson made , bin statement that peace overtires vers premature at the time, ■■■Reii -offi cials have felt reassured and they , now express confidence that the Unit ed States will, at the proper time, exert its good offices to bring the war to a close under conditions Insuring permanent peace in Europe. High London officials Wednesday expressed condence that the Unite* States, after the continental com batants had become somewhat ex hausted by the struggle, would exert a powerful Influence for poaeo and make it possible to negotiate a treaty which would require European na tions to submit future differences to the United Statee for arbitration thus making recurrence of the war impos sible. REPUDIATES INTERVIEW. I Baron Yon Schoen “Emphatically” Denies Reported Statement. irr his ability—to rise, pernaps, all three together. Impelled him to rep resent to his wife that he was as well off as ever. But Eaton could not maintain his pose on the salary of a clerk. He had to make more moneq than he could earn as the employee of anoth er man. His pleasing personality and good address put opportunity in his way. He discovered that he was pleasing to women, that when he met them he soon became friendly to them, and was accepted without ques tion. He found that women liked him so well that they did hot ques tion him closely. They could talk more pleasantly to hinf about other things. , ‘ 0 - So, if the story told by the police is true, Eaton, a few years ago, decid ed to capitalize his social acconiplishv UJ'MffKy tli£ Women who re- nwnrs- ceived him so wdll pay in ways of which they never dreamed to.enable him to .maintain his appearance of prosperity. • Bat he never told his wife of his' plans, and be was care ful that .she had no cause to see or suspect a change in hip." * Mrs. Eaton saflr no. herious chgnge in his character or hahtta, and. as fc* always bad h«M prosperous she saw The Washington Post, which first printed the von Schoen interview, published the following card from him to-day: "Editor Post: I should be much obliged if you would kindly insert a notice in your to-morrow’s issue stat ing that the interview attributed to me and published in to-day’s Wash ington Post, is in no way correct. I emphatically deny that the views ex pressed therein confornj to the state ment I made.. Believe me, etc. Yours sincerely, “ Baron von Schoen, .‘‘Secretary to German Embassy.” no change in his financial position. The one thing that Eaton, according to the story, hadto alter was his habit of staying at home with' his wife all of the houri! free for making the acquaint--— ance of women whose apartments he intended to rob. So, he invented a companion who would call him from his home and named him "Col, Carter,” a retired English army officer. The “Colonel” was moral and refined, a perfectly safe companion, but had a weakness for billiards and a dislike ior visit ing. So Eaton never brought him home to his wife, but occasionally stayed out to play billiards with him. ~ Mrs. Eaton, as she had always be lieved her husband, believed in his mythical friend. “Col. Carter” was as real to her as any one. Her naive Her naiye credulity, is shown in her Innocent remark when reporters went to her on Thursday to. tell her of her husband's having bean, shot. “Her- bert fkreiy went out if highi,"^she said. *! .understood that he was out playing billiards with a frlead last night and I hare been waiting log him to retprn.” ■ . Would Hold leader, Thursday at la favor ef PhUllglae Ii