These are miscellaneous excerpts from THE WASHINGTON TIMES, Sunday, August 18, 1918:
PRESIDENT’S KIN GASSED AND SHOT
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 18—Lieut. Alexander Russell BOLLING, second cousin of Mrs. Woodrow WILSON, wife of the President, was gassed and wounded by shellfire in the offensive of July 18, according to a letter received by his parents, Major and Mr. R. H. BOLLING, of Chestnut Hill, today.
BOLLING, a grandson of the late Rear Admiral R. W. RUSSELL, was in the Medical Corps of the aviation section.
C. T. CLAYTON PROMOTED
The appointment of Charles T. CLAYTON, of Maryland, a chief of the Training and Dilution Service, Department of Labor, was announced today by Secretary of Labor WILSON. Mr. CLAYTON was formerly assistant director general of the United States Employment service.
JOYCE KILMER SLAIN
NEW YORK, Aug. 18—Joyce KILMER, well-known poet, has been killed in action in France, according to word received here. KILMER was a sergeant in the old sixty-ninth Regiment, now the 165th Division, which played such a heroic part in pushing the Germans back from the Marne to the Vesle. In a poem recently published here, KILMER visualized his own death on the battlefield. "There is on earth no worthier grave," he wrote.
SIX SOLONS IN LONDON
LONDON, Aug. 18—A party of six Congressmen has arrived here enroute to the battlefield, it was announced. They are James B. ASWELL of Louisiana, Alben W. BARKLEY of Kentucky, James H. MAYS of Utah, Charles H. RANDALL of California, Marvin JONES of Texas, and Milton H. WELLING of Utah.
CARNEGIE HERO ACCUSED
CUMBERLAND, Md., Aug. 18—Justice John J. DRESSMAN, who gave a hearing to George A. TROST, the Carnegie hero accused of causing serious injury to his wife from her jumping out of the automobile he was driving while alleged to have been speeding has withheld decision.
The testimony has been so conflicting that he will require additional evidence. Some witnesses for the State contended that TROST was driving recklessly and speeding, while others contended he was intoxicated. Dr. William R. HODGES, one of the State’s witnesses, who attended Mrs. TROST, declared that TROST was not intoxicated. Mrs. BRAMBLE, sister-in-law of the injured woman said that on numerous occasions when the family was out in the car, Mrs. TROST became nervous and at times it required two persons to hold her in the car. The case has been continued, pending the outcome of Mrs. TROST’s injuries.