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ALLIES GAIN
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Landslide to Aldermanic Presi
dent at Convention at
Saratoga.
SLATE PUT THROUGH.
Seabury Creates Stormy Scene
by Attack on Tam
many. OpecUl From Buff r- -mltnt of Tb T'ta
Ins .i.Hd.l
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N. T.. July
Alfred K. Smith. President of the
New York Hoard of Aldermen, to
day received the Indorsement of tbo
Democratic Convention for Governor.
Whatever Influence Wllllnm Ran
dolph Hearst may have wielded with
Charles V. Murphy, leader of Tam
many Hall and head of tho Stato
emocruiic iorcca, was nwepi name
1st night when nn ultimatum was
srved by leaders of thlrty-tlvc up-
state counties that they would or-
Kanlzc an open revolt and put a ticket
of their own Into the field unless
Hearst wus eliminated entirely from
the race.
Smith' choice was made unani
mous, though I'utnam County, the
home of William Church Osborn, wns
recorded on the roll call as "not
voting:." Samuel Seabury cost one
half a vote for Mr. Osborn.
The rest of tho slato presented to
the convention went throufih un.uil
mously. It follows:
For Governor Alfred. E. Smith of
New York.
For Lieutenant Govomor Harry
C, Walker of Binghamton,
For State Comptroller Bird 3.
Coler of Brooklyn.
For Secretary of State Franklin
E. Bard of Gowanna, Erie County .
For Attorney General Charles
Morschauser of Dutchen County,
For State Engineer Dwinht B.
Ladue of Washington County,
For State Treasurer Jacob G.
Cohen of Westchester.
The ticket la absolutely void of
Hearst Influence. Hlrd S. Coler wan
named because John H. McCoocy,
Democratic loader of Kings County
a Hearst mun, did not want
him.
(As soon as the convention opened
Clerk Van Namce called the roll of
counties.
The first response, which came from
Albany, was made by William V.
Cooke, After a lengthy speech ho
named Alfred K. Smllh of Now York
and tho hall rang with cheers nnd
applause.
Cooko said the Democratic Party
needed a Governor who would
enforce tho pledges the party made In
last nitrht'H platform. Ho must bo a
man of force, ability and Integrity,
said Cooke.
"Dunne many years at Allium it
was m pleasure to wulrh one wn
always eommanded the respeet of
both friends mid foes, one who wa.s
declared l Ivlihu I toot at tho ("cm
Mltutmnni Convention lo possess one
of tho Keenest intellects on (iovern-
CContinucd on Fourth Vatf.)
Socliil .Vote.
Sir, and Mrs. William Itandolph
Hesrit leave for California to-morrow,
loto son tot several month. .
GOVERNOR UNANIMOUSLY
HEARS
ENTIRELY
NDORS
F
.NEXT LIBERTY LOAN DRIVE
I FROM SEPT, 28 TO OCT, 19
i
Treasury Practically Decided on
Three Weeks' Campaign for
Fourth Issue.
WASHINGTON. July IN. The
Treasury virtually has decided to hold
the Kounh Liberty Loan campaign in
tho three weeks' period between Satur
day, Sept. 2. and Saturday, Oct., 19,,
The length of the drive will bo re
duced from tho usual four wcoks, with
tho hope of averting the usual slump of
; lnterc.it In the middle of the campaign.
, Reasons pronrptmi; nffklals to ehooso
thesv dates Included the fact that far
' niers during October probably can make
'liberal subscriptions from harvest pro
ceeds and that It wus de.st ruble to end
, thp cnnip.tlgn a wn;k or two before tho
.November elections, Thou.nds of can
didates for office urc expected to en
roll as Liberty Loan speakers.
SUBMARINES CAN'T STARVE
BRITISH, ADMITS A GERMAN
Tell People Truth, Says Capt.
Persius, Summing Up 18th
Month of U Boat Warfare.
AMSTERDAM, July On the oc
casion of the eighteenth month of un
restricted submarine warfare, Capt.
Persius, writing In the Ilcrlln Tasc
blatt, said:
"We must admit that the fantastic
hopes entertained by soma hae fallen
disappointingly short of realization. It
is foolish to think our U boats can
starve Kngland. We most tell the
German people the truth."
DEAD AND MISSING
ON SAN DIEGO NOW SIX
Three Were Killed by Explosion
Which Caused Ship to Sink,
Says Secretary Daniels.
WASHINGTON, July 21. The num
ber of dead nnd missing from tho cruis
er San Diego, sunk last Friday off l'lro
Island, New York, has now been re
duced to six. Secretary Daniels said
to-day.
Three of tho six men wero killed by
the explosion which caused tho ship
to sink. Tho three men tll mlomng
nre Clyde ". Illiilne of !nmltu. C.-il :
John I'nul Harris of Cincinnati nnd An
drew Mumon of St. I'aul.
N. Y. CITY FLYER KILLED
ONJALIFORNIA FIELD
John Lawrence VkKenna Struck ui
Head by Wint; nf Plane as
Machine I auds.
H.VN DIKGO, Ca. , July ;'l - I'nite
John l.iwrenro MeKetina thlrt-fie
jeiir old, of New York Clly, ('tilted
States Army Aviation .Service, wns
killed at North Uland to-da whin the
wing of an ulrplnne struck luni on the
htud us the machine wuj laiuling.
. ron TIH5 NKHVKS
- , ., Hprfonl' Acid IMiMuliatu
Quick); UiuflcUl for nniUelir. Irrptrmnu,
SMITH
FORSAKEN
Liner Justicia, U.
Sunk in Fight With U Boats
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NEW YORK WOMAN I
AIDING WOUNDED IN
PARIS FINDS OWN SON:
Mis Cry of "Mother" Gives Her
Hirst News That He Had Been
Engaged in Battle.
PARIS, Tuesday, July 23.
ANEW YORK woman attached
to tho American Hod Crosi
happened to lo In Paris to
day and volunteered to help In tak
ing care of the wounded coming In
from the tmttlelleld. She was work
ing busily when btartlcd by a loud
cry of "Mother!"
Turning. fho saw her own son,
n young Lieutenant In the Ameri
can Army. Ho hud been wounded
in tho leg by shrapnel In the fight
ing on Monday. Tho first news sho
had had that her son was en
gaged in tho battlo wns when she
heard his cry. Sho obtained per
mission to accompany her son to
a hoipltal. After seeing that ho
was attended to sho went back to
tho station to cheer, as sho suld,
tho boys who hnd no hopo of llnd
Ing a mother to wcleomo them.
Tho mother Is a prominent so.
clnl worker In Now York and has
been doing Kcd Cross relief work
among tho refugees In Trance.
Her work usually Ueops her In the
south of Franco.
BETTING ALREADY ON SMITH
Ciiiiinlilntit-r Him iSllt.oiMI nf Tnm
liliili) Motif) Tlmt He'll Win.
Iere Guard, n handles mmv lug
hots on i he einh, ,i he has ln?en lotn
nilsslnned h a pimmm nt T. unman.
Hall man to iil.no IIO'iuo at eo,i
money that Mfrul K Smuh will be tlii
next Goernoi of N'e York
THE Mdltl.II THAVKI. BimRAD,
Xntit. rnlltKr (WorMI IIiUdii,
MOB Pw lUm. N. T. CHj,
IVMimm Ikrkun 4000.
Qck room far busao snd pwotb moa dsr sol
ntsht, ,Hntr im s4 Unlin' slwcks U
IN BATTLE TO-DAY;
AVALRY I
S. Troopship,
KAISER A WITNESS
TO PRINCE'S DEFEAT
BY U, S. AND FRENCH
Went to Champagne and Saw Mis
Son Get Worst Licking
Since Verdun.
WITH THE HIUTISH ARMIES IN
1'ItANCK. July 2( (United Press).
Tho Kaiser saw the German offensive
falter bofore tho Franco-American
dofenso In tho Champagne, then
break up and fall back before the
Allied counter-offensive, acvordlnff
to information received here to-day.
According to the reports, tho Kal.ie.i
planned to eo son Fritz well off on
his trip to Paris. What he did we
was tho Crown Prince getting the
worst licking he has received slnco
Verdun and morn Americans than
he ever wanted to believe wcro In
France.
NEW YORKERS WOUNDED
DOING RED CROSS WORK
Two Hit by Shrapnel During the
Franco-American Offensive,
but Will Recover.
PARIS, July 21 Three American Red
Cross workers have been wounded dur
ing the Franco-American counter
offensive.
Lieut. J. L. nutterfleld of New York
.1 rid W. A. I'm of Iluffulu an .imtiiil tm.e
driver, wire hit by shrapnel while at
tending wounded iirid..r shcllllro. The
were taken t) ''luntill. h"Miul an I
Hill re. .vor
Capt. Geo-ge K im iv wuin1rl u.
verci) III the lup iI.iiihk an air i.nd
D AGING
lXESULTS, Pago 2
ENTRIES, Page 2
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UC, KM lftiy
BEYOND THE TOWN OF
U. S. TRANSPORT
SUNK AFTER 19-HOUR FIGHT
WITH 8 ENEMY SUBMARINES
World's Fifth Biggest Liner
Was Returning After Land
ing 10,006 Americans.
LONDON, July 24. Tho giant Whlto
Star liner Justlclu, says a Hclfast de
spatch to-day, was sunk off the m-rth
Irish coast on Saturday morning lust.
The Justicia carried a crew of be
tween COO and "00.
Three toritdoes struck tho White,
Star liner Justicia Ik.-fore, sho went
I down, It wus learned to-day.
J The bio steamer fought eiflht Ger
man submarines from Friday after
, noon until she sank Saturday morn
inj.
Might U boats attacked the Justicia
ut 2.10 Friday afternoon. Two tor-
pedoo, of Hoven llred, struck the ship,
but she kept on her course.
Tho attack was renewed Saturday
morning. Three more torpedoes wero
llred. One of them struck her at 9.J0
and started her sinking.
Tho Justicia wns formerly the
Dutch steamer Stntendam, which was
taken over by the Hritfih Govern
ment on the stocks at Hclfast when
she was nearlng completion, Bhc
wns a vessel of 32,2.14 tons gross.
One of the crew of tho Justicia Is
quoted by the Holfiut Telegraph as
iiiwertlnK that of ten torpedoes fired
four wero exploded lay gunfire from
tho ship.
FIRST TORPEDO FAILED TO
SEND 8HIP DOWN.
The Hclfast Telegraph adds that
land had just been lost sight of when
a terrific explosion shook the Jus
ticia. The crow was speedily mus
tered on deck, but It was soon ns
eortainot that tho datnago was so
trivial that the liner would remain
afloat for a sulllclent period to cn
ablo hor to bo towed to port.
A tug pulled alongside tho liner for
this purpose when two more tor
pedoes were fired by a submarine
which had not been sighted.
Further attempts wero madi by
the submarine to torpedo the Justiei.i
during Friday night, but all failed,
nnd It was not until Saturday morn
Ing and after the submarine had ex
pended numerous torpedoes that t.i
destruction of tho ship was accom
plished. Then a torpedo struek the engine
room, causing a violent explosion.
The liner did not sink until 2
o'clock In the afternoon, und tho e
was plenty of time to transfer the
new to other tesculng ships.
AN IRISH PORT, July 21 (by the
Associated I'ress). Four hundred of
Hie crew of the lorpedovd llnur Jus
tin. i hae been landed oeie. The)
report that the liner was sunk after
,i twentj-four-huiir light with sub.
ni.irlnoH.
N.j passengers were lost md onl
ten uf tho crow were killed.
The first torpedo struck the engine
room und the ship then htopju'd.
Several other torpedoes were llnd,
(Continued oa Second I'ugc)
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15
10 CHECK ALLIES
Area Lost by Foe in Week,
Says March, Equals Flan
ders Gains in April.
WASHINGTON, July 2(. The ad
vance of tho Allied and American
forces around the Alsnn-Marno salient
has been practically steady for the
last two days, Gen. .March, Chief of
Staff, said to-day, despite th) fact
that fifteen fresh divisions of Herman
troops havo boon thrown nto the
fighting at Solsson.i and on the line
south of there,
On tho ithelms side of the salient
official reports show the enemy bus
been thrown back nn avorago dis
tance of a mllo and a half on a ten
mile front, despite heavily woodei'
country and high ground to aid his
defense.
The area lost by tho Gormnns dur
ing tho last week, tho General su'd,
about equals that gained by them on
tho Flanders front In April.
Tho Gcrmani are lighting desperate
ly to retain the slnglo railway lino re
maining In their hands over which
heavy material can bo removed us
they retreat, 5n. March said.
If that railway, running from
Fl.suicM to Fere-en-Tardenols, Is
reached by the Allied troops, (icn
March said, German forces remaining
in the salient will bo pocketed.
Tho French attack of yesterday
north of Montdldlcr on tho Plcardy
front Is viewed, Gen. March said, as
a local operation not directly in
volved In the stratugy of the Ai.ine
Mar no battlefront. It has great
value, how over, ho said, as It serves
to keep tho Germans guonnlng.
The t'hlcf of Staff s.ild the Ameri
can divisions mentioned last Satur
day us involved in thu lighting
still constantly onua'-i-d, He added n
additional American units to those
already known to be on the linn in
this region.
Gen. March announced that lie hail
urd'ti'd six new infantry divisions
oianUcd In thli countr) during July,
Mlntioiied rcspeetlvily at Camps
Huveiis, Mass , Mi ado, Mo ; Sheridai.,
Ala ; Custer, Mkli : Fiinston, Kan
s.ih and t. win, Washington
Two Itegiilar Infantry regiment,
will form the nucleus of curb ne v
division. Iloiiin Guards have re
pi, lied Regulars at inteilm ;iiarl
posts for this purpose, and the lligu
lars aii now moving to the cam
designated. Gm M.ireli iuid. sid"
from tho two inftinir) regiments f
Kegulars, the divisions will lio com
posed uf National Army troops.
o
Advtcs to tho.. wbo .nt la sell Ihilr
I.IIIKI1TV IIO.Nl Don't.
Adulfo to tho who mini Mil Oa to
ttlux JIulx A Co,, Si U j a4 bruxjKs-Air.
UTICA
NEW
DIVISIONS
OF GERMANS FAIL
ACTION
IC Utl V CVS
Chatelet Forest, Also on Line North
of Thierry, Cleared of Nearly All
Enemy Troops, While to North
ward Resistance Is Being Over
come by Franco-Americans.
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY ON'THE AISNE-MARNE
FRONT, July 24 (Awociated Pre) Along the line north of
Chateau-Thierry the Franco-American forces have driven the Ger
man, out of nearly all of the Chatelet Forest.
The Allied advance was made in considerable jumps in that
area. The Germans continuing: their rearguard fighting and de
pending much upon their machine guns. American cavalry was
used at one point in the operations.
Tii.i Is the first time American cavalry has been reported In
this war. A dosputch to tho United Trcsd says cavalrymen arc
aiding as Grenadiers nn horseback. ,
Further to the west the Americans gained the ascendancy
over the Germans and drove through beyond the town of Epied.i.
To the northward, the most intense resistance was offered
along the extended German right flank, but the reports are that
the Allies have made gains and that the Germans have been unablo
to halt the movement toward their lines of supplies.
STAND ON PRESENT LINE
ORDERED BY CROWN PRINCE;
OUTFLANKED NEAR OULCHY
Further Allied Successes in That Region
Would Imperil the 400,000 Germans in
the Rheims-Soissons Pocket.
PARIS, July 24 (United Press). French and American
troops, overcoming bitter resistance, are progressing northeast of
Chateau-Thierry and south of the Ourcq.
The enemy position at OuIchy-le-Chatcau (which already is
reported to have been rendered untenable by the Allies) is out
flanked. It is reported thnt the Crown Prince has suddenly changed
his plan and ordered the retreat to stop. He will, with fresh
troops, attempt to make a stand on his present line.
Further Allied successes under these conditions would im
peril more than 400,000 Germans in the Soissons-Rheims pocket,
as their forces within the salient have grown to that figure.
GERMANS ATTEMPT DRIVE
SOUTHWEST OF RHEUMS, BUT
ALLIES FORCE THEM BACK
Artillery Action Between the Aisne and the
Marno and in Neighborhood of Rheims.
FRENCH REPORT)
I'AKIS July 2t. The tk'riiians lust night delivered a counler-
attack upnn the Allied lines in the vicinity ot Vrignv, live miles southwest
of Klieims. The War Oilice announced to-day that the attack had been
repulsed.
There was great activity by the artillery during the night along the
from between the Aisne and the Marne and northeast toward Rhclnis,
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