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THE HAYS FEES FILE S3
JEWS ITEMS FROM
ALL OVER KANSAS
Happenings of More or Less
Interest Gathered From
Many Sources.
MANY Oil THE DELINQUENT LIST
Kansas Adjutant General Forwarding
Names to Washington For Action
May Be Blacklisted.
There are 4,249 delinquents in Kan
sas according to the cards now on
file in the office of Charles S. Huff
man, adjutant general.. With the last
draft call taking the current quota
of Class 1 men from the state, the
delinquent list assumes a new import
ance and the reports are being for
warded to Washington under General
Crowders orders as soon as they axe
complete from each county.
"If your boy is in service or train
ing and has never reported to his
local board and you have not informed-
your local board of his where
abouts, now is the time to prevent his
came being blacklisted with the war
department," advises Major R. Neill
Rahn, in charge of the selective ser
vice work.
"I am convinced that over half of the
men numbered in this delinquent list
are now in some branch of the serv
ice, but we have received no notice.
As a result they will be named delin
quent at Washington, for we have
been ordered to send in these lists. If
no report has been made on the man
we have no repoit to give. If the
man is later located in service, then
an explanation will be written after
the word 'delinquent' on the govern
ment records, but the word delinquent
will not be wiped out. If any mem
ber of your family is in service or
training he should be saved this hu
miliation by sending us notice of his
whereabouts so we can report to his
local board."
Women who have relatives nearer
than second cousins in the army, li
able to overseas service, are not eligi
ble for overseas services of the Amer
ican Red Cross, it has been an
nounced at Topeka by Horace L. Hall,
chairman of the local chapter. Mr.
Hall made this announcement to ex
plain why a number of women willing
to serve as Red Cross nurses in
France have not been accepted. He
explains the Red Cross has made this
rule because the knowledge that she
has a near relative on the firing line
would tend to prey on a woman's
mind, were she employed in a hos
pital at the front, and naturally would
render her work less efficient. This
condition has been proven through
the exeperience offered by the pres
ent war, to such an extent that the
Red Cross has made the rule irrevoc
able, despite the fact that it keeps
many trained nurses from overseas
service.
The Kansas Supreme Court hung a
service flag recently for the lawyers
of the state who are now in the
army. Across the court room, just in
front of the bench, hangs a big Amer
ican flag and beside it hangs the ser
vice flag. There are 169 stars on the
flag. It is probable that there are
more than this number actually in the
service, but the court has not been ad
vised of the names. D. A. Valentine,
clerk of the court, has prepared a
complete list of the soldier lawyers of
the state to be printed on the regular
roll of Kansas attorneys. The list
shows the name of the soldier, his
county, the branch of the service,
company and where he was stationed
July 1. '
A recent army casualty list shows
Lieut. Scott L. Lennen of Soldier,
Kas., died of wounds and Privates
James A. Dunham of Whiting, Kas.,
Roy I Finney of Cambridge, Kas.,
Joseph P. Meagher of Lillis, Kas., and
Charles E. Patterson of. Paola, Kas.,
killed in action. The following Kan
sas men were wounded severely: Pri
vates Jesse S. Gustin of Hanover,
Howard H. McGee of Olathe, Albert
T. Mayer of Westmoreland, Anthony
C. Rupp of Catherine and L. Trout
man of Lewis. Private E. E. Brunkow
of Wamego, Kas., is reported missing
in action.
While inspecting a shotgun a friend
was trading for near Lebo, Tom Mc
Reynolds was instantly killed by an
accfdental discharge. The charge en
tered McReynold's body just below
the heart and lodged in the spine. The
gun was in the hands of McReynolds'
brother-in-law. Both men are married
and were the best of friends. Each is
about 30 years old. They, had been
working with, a threshing crew that
day.
Walton W. Bell, son of Ben M. ,BeIl
of Marysville, who is a student at the
state agricultural college in his fourth
year, has received an appointment to
attend the officers' training camp at
Fort Sheridan, 111. He left for. the
camp recently.
J. F. Jarrell, general publicity agent
of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Railway, will leave the company's ser
vice August 1 and enter Red Cross
work, at the request of C. B.- Merriam,
director of the organization at nation
al headquarters,, Washington.
Entering the army as a private
eleven months ago, Ralph Forbarger,
an Atchison boy, - has been made a
lieutenant, according to word received
by his parents. He is a graduate of
St. Benedict's College there and for
merly worked for a telephone com
pany. Bank clearings at Wichita last week
were $16,020,924.55; the largest In the
history of Wichita,, and 10 million dol
lars more than a year ago. The In
crease is attributed to large sales of
wheat at high prices.- - ; '
In order to meet war conditions the
public utilities commission has fixed
new rates and laid : down, new rules
regarding the distribution of electric
power to the irrigation farmers by the
Garden. City Power Company. Many
farmers in the Arkansas valley near
Garden, City irrigate their farms by
means of electric power. The water
is lifted from wells by such power,
furnished by the Garden City power
plant, an adjunct of the beet sugar
factory.
The old rate to the farmers was 3
cents per kilowatt hour. The commis
sion had its experts investigate the
matter for months and found that it
was costing the company close to 4
cents per kilowatt hour to deliver the
juice at the pumps of the farmers.
To be exact, the cost was 3.8 cents.
So a new schedule was fixed permit
ting the company to charge 4 cents
per kilowatt for the first thirty hours
use of connected load; 3.9 cents per
kilowatt for the next fifty hours' use
of connected load and 3.8 per kilowatt
for all above eighty hours' use of con
nected .load.
The rate to Deerfield and Lakin for
lighting purposes was fixed at 4
cents per kilowatt hour and the rate
to Garden City for lighting purposes
was 2.5 cents, an increase of cent
over the old rates. Garden City
takes the current at the switchboard.
The current is delivered to the other
towns the same as it is to farmers.
Kansas is to lose another newspa
per editor in the war service. Robert
Good, editor of the Cawker City Ledg
er, expects to leave about August 1
to take up Y. M. C. A. work with the
American army in France. The per
sonnel board of the state Y. M. C. A.
held .a special session, after its week
ly list of accepted candidates had
been announced, and favorably con
sidered Mr. Good's application. Aside
from being father of seven children
and editor of a newspaper, Mr. Good
is superintendent of a Sunday school,
lieutenant in the state guards com
pany he organized, secretary of the
Cawker Commercial Club, chairman
of the four-minute men and director
of the community chorus which he
also organized.
President W. M. Jardine of the Kan
sas State Agricultural college in a
report to the state council of de
fenese at its quarterly meeting in To
peka declared that Kansas is produc
ing one-tenth of the wheat raised in
the entire country. President Jardine
estimated the Kansas yield at 92,000,
000 bushels and the national yield at
900,000,000 bushels, winter and spring
wheat combined. A seed survey by
the college last spring, participated
in by ninety-seven counties, served to
increase production. President Jardine
said. The college has developed 20,
000 busheds of wheat of high produc
tion strain to be used in fall planting.
It looked as though a sentence in
the state reformatory was about to
come between Sam Childs, a negro
youth, and a military career. He was
in class 1, up near the top of the list,
on the draft registration, when he
was convicted on June 20 of highway
robbery. But Governor Capper, at the
suggestion of the, Topeka draft board
No. 1, agreed that Sam should be of
more service in the army than in the
reformatory. So within three weeks
after Childs was convicted he was
transferred to Camp Funs ton on
strength of the governor's parole.
Dr. H. W. Horn of Wichita has been
appointed a major in the army medi
cal corps by Suigeon General William
C. Gorgas. Dr. Horn is a well known
surgeon. The doctor expects to leave
for his new work about August 1, but
whether he will be sent to France or
will be assigned to duties on this side
has not yet been announced. ,For the
last eight years Dr. Horn has been
chief surgeon of the Wichita hospital
and chief surgeon of the Kansas City,
Mexico & Orient railroad.
The Mitchell County chapter of the
Red Cross has closed its workrooms
until the first of September, having
completed the July quota of work.
Before the systeme of "giving out quo
tas was adopted this chapter had
been doing about twice the amount
of work asked.
Arch W. Bonnelel, formerly at city
fireman at Atchison, now with the
marines in France, is in a hospital
over there recuperating from breath
ing German gas.
Dr. C. L. Randall of Neodesha' has
received a - commission as captain in
the medical reserve corps.
At the request of the Tri-State
Safety and Sanitation Association,
composed of the mining operators of
Oklahoma, Kansas and Missouri, the
Baxter Springs Chamber of Com
merce, through its committee, will
make a drive to raise its monthly por
tion of the fund required by the Kansas-Oklahoma
Good Roads Association
to build und maintain the roads in
that mining district.
Harry McMillan of Minneapolis
died at Long Beach, CaL, recently.
Mr. McMillan was active in politics,
having represented Ottawa County in
the state senate for eight years. He
was mayor of Minneapolis seven
years and recently was grand chan
cellor of the Knights of Pythias in
Kansas.
Thomas Hooper, an old and wealthy
citizen of Coffeyville, was killed re
cently when his motor car was struck
by a Missouri Pacific train two miles
west of the city.
The Kansas Public Utilities Com
mission has granted permission,
to the express companies operating
in Kansas to bring the intrastate ex
press rates up to the schedule for in
terstate rates granted three years ago
by the Interstate Commerce Commis
sion. The application has been before
the utilities commission for some
months.
Adam Armbuster, a young farmer
near Ellis, is dead from the effects of
a kick in the stomach by a horse the
other dar
ALLIES CONTINUE '
ADVANCE QN HONS
Foch's Forces Penetrate Enemy
Line Two Miles Further
Near Montdidier.
TAKE MORE GUNS AND STORES
French, Americans and British- Tight
en Hold on Soissons-Rheims
Salient North of Marne.
Washington, July 24. The Entente
Allied troops on the Soissons-Rheims
salient continue to gain ground, both
on the western side of the battle front
and on the south along the Marne and
toward Rheims, notwithstanding the
increasing resistance of the Germans
and the bad weather that is prevail
ing on the southern part of the line.
While the latest gains recorded are
not as great, on the whole, as those
of previous days, they nevertheless
have added positions of strategic
value to the Allied line for the fur
ther prosecution of the efforts to
clear the territory of the enemy.
Much Loot Taken.
In the fighting more prisoners, guns
and war stores have fallen into the
hands of the American, Frcich and
British troops.
As a diversion, the French to the
northwest, midway between Soissons
and Amiens, have delivered a blow
against the German line which has
been productive of excellent results.
Striking on a front of about four
miles, General Foch's troops pene
trated the enemy lines for a distance
of about two miles and gained the
heights dominating the valley of the
Avre river and the plains beyond.
Fifteen Hundred Captured.
Fifteen hundred Germans were cap
tured by the French. The official
communication issued by the French
war office refers to this fighting as
a local question.
South of Soissons the drive of the
Franco-American forces toward Fere-en-Tardenois
has pushed further back
the Germans on both sides of the
Ourcq river. South of the river, not
withstanding fierce resistance, the Al
lied forces reached the railroad line
between Armentieres and Coincy, run
ning southward to Chateau Thierry,
and pressed on beyond it.
This advance brings the French and
American troops relatively to within
seven miles of Ferc-en-Tardenois and
also gives them a dominating posi
tion for big gun play over the eastern
section of the railway line running
from Armentieres to Fere-en-Tarde-nois.
Allies Continue to Gain.
Washington, July 23. Franco-American
troops, continuing their advance
south of the Ourcq river, crossed the
Soissons-Chateau Thierry road be
tween the Ourcq and the Clingnon
Sunday night, General Pershing re
ported today.
The towns of Bezu, Epieds and Char
teves have been occupied by the Al
lied troops. American troops also
have crossed the Marne and are oc
cupying towns on the north bank,
which, the communique says, had been
hastily evacuated by the Germans.
Hard Fighting at All Points.
London, July 23. Hard fighting is
proceeding in all sections of the line
from Soissons to Rheims, according
to dispatches reaching London this
afternoon, but always with the Allies
on the offensive and the Germans
fighting desperately to save what they
can before the onrush.
The French gathered up forty-five
more 'guns, including six of large cali
ber, in the fighting along the Marne,
where the Germans were compelled
to retreat very hastily, leaving behind
large quantities of material of all
kinds.
Although the Germans are fighting
bitterly along the bottom of the sa
lient, there are indications that they
realize that a retreat is inevitable, for
they are burning villages several
miles behind their lines, and there is
a great congestion of troops around
the top of the salient, which may in
dicate preparations for a new line.
With the district south of the Marne
cleared of Germans -the Allies are
busy constructing bridges and getting
large bodies of troops and supplies
across for pursuit.
Huns Fight Stubbornly.
The Germans undoubtedly will con
tinue to fight in the most stubborn
manner for the salient, but if things
continue to go well with the Allies in
their attack the enemy is likely to be
forced back to the line of the River
Vesle, which offers good defenses and
has good communications.
The Germans made several heavy
counter attacks on the western side
of the salient and the fighting appears
17 Killed in Collision.
Jackson, Mich., July 22. Seventeen
persons were killed and thirty others
injured, many seriously, when a Detroit-bound
limited passenger car and
a west-bound freight car collided
headon one mile west of Chelsea
Saturday.
Limited Military Service.
Washington, July 22. A call was
issued today by Provost Marshal
General Crowder for 10,000 white
registrants qualified for limited mili
tary service.
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., Wounded.
Oyster Bay, N. Y., July 22. Maj.
Theodore RoosevelL- Jr., has been
slightly wounded and taken to a hos
pital in Paris, according to a cable
message received by his father, CoL
Theodore Roosevelt, from his daughter-in-law,
Mrs. - Theodore Roose
velt, Jr.
Confirm -Quentin Roosevelt's Death.
Paris, July 22. German aviators
have dropped a. note into American
aviation . eamps confirming the death
of Lieut. Quentin Roosevelt. .
to be growing m Intensity all along:
this western tip. A German counter
attack near Grisollee won for the Ger
mans a slight advantage, but all these
moves are only In the nature of an
attempt to hold up the Allies tem
porarily. All these counter attacks
are costing the Germans heavily, as
they must be launched without ade
quate preparation, and on ground ill
adapted for the German purpose.
Huns Evacuate Chateau Thierry.
With the French Army in France,
July 22. On the main battle field be
tween the Aisne and the Marne the
Germans again have been driven back
a considerable distance. They have
been pushed back over the Soissons
Chateau Thierry Road at , several
points north of the Ourcq.
South of the river, under the com
bined pressure of French troops ad
vancing from the west and the Franco
American forces, who followed the
enemy across the Marne and who are
now pushing him northward, the Ger
mans fell back rapidly during the day,
and tonight the Allies were on a line
marked by the villages of La Croix.
Grisolles and Epimas, which means
an advance of five miles from the
west and three from the south.
Take 17,000 Prisoners.
Washington, July 22. Prisoners
captured by American troops alone
in the offensive on the Aisne-Marne
front up to an early hour Saturday
totaled by actual count 17,000, Gen
eral Pershing reported in his com
munique for yesterday, received to
night by the War Department. Cap
ture of 560 gun3 also is announced.
Despite counter attacks and rear
guard actions of a desperate nature,
the Americans advanced steadily
early yesterday, says the communique.
The towns of Courmelles, Rozet, St.
Albin and Maubry had been entered
by the Americans before 1 o'clock
Saturday morning.
With the American Army on the
Marne, July 22. The- French and
Americans have broken ' through the
German line northwest of Chateau
Thierry.
Advance More Than Three Miles.
The French and Americans, driv
ing the spearhead toward the north
east, have already advanced five kilo
meters (3 110 miles) at various
places.
The Allied troops have taken many
prisoners, including three officers,
who said that they were tired of the
war. American Infantrymen captured
two German 77s. Previous to the
breaking of the German lines the Al
lies battled with the desperate ma
chine gunners, who were mowed down
as the Allied re-enforcements arrived.
The German losses were terrible.
Allies Still Push On.
Washington, July 20. Notwithstand
ing the fact that the Germans have
thrown large re-enforcements into
the new battle line between Soissons
and the region of Chateau Thierry
they nowhere thus far have been able
to stem the tide of the onslaughts the
American and French troops are mak
ing against them.
Yesterday saw the Americans and
French batter their way further east
ward into the deep triangular salient
which has Soissons, Rheims and Cha
teau Thierry, as its points and suc
cessfully withstand a terrific counter
attack by the Germans on the plateau
southwest of Soissons, where the Al
lied guns dominate this important
strategic town.
TURNS DOWN A NOMINATION
Col. Roosevelt Refuses to Be Candi
date of New York Republicans
for Governorship.
Oyster Bay, July 23. Colonel Theo
dore Roosevelt issued a statement to
night in which he declared that under
no circumstances would he accept the
Republican nomination for governor
of New York.
The former President made his an
nouncement when he sent a telegram
to Attorney General Merton E. Lewis,
at Albany, in reply to a message which
Mr. Lewis sent several days ago of
fering to withdraw from the race if
the colonel would become a candidate.
In his telegram. Colonel Roosevelt
did not mention any of the subjects
which were taken up by the Repub
licans at their convention last week.
He did not refer to prohibition or
woman suffrage, nor did he propose a
candidate for governor.
CASUALTIES TOTAL 12,816
Washington, July 22. Casualties in
the army and marine corps overseas
increased 983 during the week, com
pared with 647 the previous week, and
aggregate 12,716 with the inclusion
of today's army list of 199 and the
marine corps list of twenty-six.
While the week's total casualties
were the largest announced for any
week since American troops have
been on the battle fronts, it is un
likely that any of the casualties which
have resulted from the heavy fight
ing in which the Americans have been
participating since last Monday are
included in the totals."
Calls Out 50,000 Negroes.
Washington, July 24. Fifty thou
sand negro registrants qualified for
general military service were called to
the colors today by Provost Marshal
General Crowder. They will entrain
between August 1 and 5.
Takes Over the Cape Cod Canal.
Washington, July 24. President
Wilson, by proclamation, assumed
control of the Cape Cod Canal, con
necting Cape Cod and Buzzards Bay,
Massachusetts, and directed the Rail
road Administration to operate it.
Won't Change Lumber Rules.
Washington, July 24. The War In
dustries Board today refused the re
quest of wholesale lumber dealers
that It modify the ruling of July 2,
which provided that no . manufacturer,
dealer or others should accept orders
for mill shipment above the maximum
price fixed on June 4. . ,
Berlin Has Typhoid Epidemic.
London, .July 24. A. serious out
break of typhoid has occurred in Ber
lin, the . Exchange. Telegraph corre
spondent at Amsterdam reports
SUBIiliK SINKS'
A FISHING VESSEL
Gloucester Schooner Destroyed
With Bomb Off the Eastern
Coast of Maine.
GREW REACHES SHORE SAFELY
Members, However, Were in Exhaust
ed Condition After Drifting for
Thirty Hours in Open Boats.
Kennebunkport, Me., July 24. Ger
man submarines have struck againof f
the New England coast. This time
an undersea raider sank with a bomb
the crack knockabout Gloucester fish
ing schooner, Robert and Richard,
near Cashe Bank, sixty-five miles east
by southeast of Cape Porpoise, on the
southeastern coast of Maine, at 10:30
o'clock yesterday morning.
This was approximately one. hun
dred miles north of the spot where a
U-boat sank fouor coal barges off Or
leans, Cape Cod, Sunday morning,
and the time was almost twenty-four
hours later to the minute than the
opening of the Cape Cod foray. The
crew of twenty-two escaped in dories.
There were no other ships in sight.
The last the fishermen saw of the
submarine she appeared to be rest
ing on the surface, with her nose
pointed south.
Crew Adrift Thirty Hours.
The weather was calm and fortu
nately remained so for the more than
thirty hours the men were adrift.
The dories were equipped with small
sails, as well as oars, and, taking ad
vantage of the light puffs of the
southerly winds, the little fleet head
ed for the Maine coast, keeping to
gether until 9 o'clock last night.
Small supplies of biscuit and water
had been placed in the dories.
In addition to the dory that reached
here tonight two arrived at Portland.
The three brough to land fourteen of
the crew. The others were unac
counted for at a late hour.
Hun Officer Lived in Maine?
Portland, Me., July 24. The coal
steamer Snug Harbor arrived here to
night with eleven men of the schooner
Robert and Richard, including Capt.
Robert Wharton of the schooner.
Wharton said the second officer of
the submarine, who boarded the
schooner, told him he had lived in
America for a number of years, and
had had a summer home in Maine
since 1896.
WILSON TAKES OVER WIRES
President Issues Proclamation Giving
Control of Telegraph and Tele
phone Lines to Burleson.
Washington, July 24. President
Wilson's proclamation taking over for
the duration of the war telegraph and
telephone lines was issued late today.
It didx not include radio systems and
ocean cable lines. Government opera
tion and, control begins midnight, July
31.
Supervision, control and operation
of the wire systems is placed under
the direction of Postmaster General
Burleson.
No explanation was forthcoming,
but it was assumed that control of
cables was not taken over because of
difficulties presented by - contracts
cable companies hold with foreign
governments. Radio systems already
are controlled by the Navy Depart
ment. May Keep Old Managers.
The President's proclamation pro
vides that the Postmaster General, if
he so elects, may administer the lines
through the owners, managers, boards
of directors or receivers. It provides,
further, that until the Postmaster
General directs otherwise, the present
managements shall continue.
The Postmaster General, in his dis
cretion, may hereafter relinquish in
whole or in part, to the owners any
telegraph or telephone system over
which he has assumed control.
FIX MAXIMUM FLOUR PRICES
Federal Food Administration An
nounces Quotations for Mills at
Various Centers to Govern Sales.
Washington, July 24. Fair, maxi
mum prices to govern the sale of flour
and other wheat milling products at
every milling point in the United
States have been fixed by the Food
Administration. Prices are based on
-a fixed quotation at seaboard points,
with freight deductions for interior
points. Jobbers' prices are to be not
more than 25 to 50 cents over deliver
ed cost, and retail prices not more
than $1.20 a barrel over cost.
Conservation of Turkeys Urged.
Washington, July 23. Pointing out
that the slaughter of broiler turkeys
is wasteful, the Food Administration
has appealed to hotels, clubs and res
taurants, to discontinue serving broil
ers. Farmers also were urged not to
sell turkeys until they are matured.
Whole Austrian Cabinet Out.
London, July 23. The entire Aus
trian cabinet - has resigned, says an
Exchange Telegraph dispatch from
Copenhagen. Emperor Charles, it is
added, ha3 accepted the resignations.
Court Refuses to Aid Mooney.
San Francisco, July 23. The Cali
fornia Supreme Court affirmed today
its preliminary order denying a new
trial to Thomas J. Mooney, now at
San Quentin State Penitentiary facing
a death sentence for participation In
the Preparedness Day bomb explo
sion here two years ago.
Destroyer Sinks a U-Boat.
London. July 23. The British de
stroyer Mars has sunk a German sub
marine, says an official statement is
sued today by the British admiralty.
t Major Baracca, the
t Leading Italian Ace
K
Major Baracca. the leading Italian
ace, has brought down his thirty-second
enemy plane, according to a re
cent dispatch from the front in Italy.
Major Baracca was recently decorated
with the gold military medaL
CHARGE GRAFT IN CONTRACTS
Department of Justice Report Dis
closes Extensive Qonspiracy in
Orders for Army Raincoats.
New York, July 23. Extensive con
spiracies involving bribery and graft
in connection with army contracts for
rubber raincoats sent to soldiers in
France were disclosed tonight by De
partment of Justice officials, simul
taneously with the arrest of seven
teen officers and employes of fifteen
manufacturing companies in New
York and Brooklyn on charges of bri
bery, fraud or conspiracy.
Army officers of the quartermaster's
corps involved in the graft now are
under surveillance and probably will
be arrested soon in Washington or
other cities where their duties as pur
chasing agents or inspectors take
them.
Hundreds of thousands of dollars of
raincoat contracts are tainted with
fraud, already uncovered by Depart
ment of Justice agents, and other dis
closures affecting army orders for
clothing, soldiers equipment, machin
ery and supplies and involving arrests
on criminal charges may be made
scon.
Moet army officers at whom the fin
ger of suspicion points are of the
lower ranirs, but a few of the rank of
major and colonel are said to be un
der investigation. Department of Jus
tice officials tonight declined to Indi
cate whether they believed any great
proportion of army contracts were ob
tained by bribery or other fraud, but
they declared many millions of dol
lars worth of goods have been de
livered on suspicious contracts.
Direct bribery of unnamed army of
ficers who had charge of letting con
tracts or Inspecting goods is charged
against a number of those just ar
rested. It was announced that in some cases
manufacturers intimidated military or
civilian inspectors of raincoats by
threatening to use influence in Wash
ington to obtain their dismissal If
they did not approve the coats manu
factured. Others practiced fraud by
secretly shifting rejected goods to
other plants to which inexperienced
inspectors or inspectors who would
"play the game," were assigned.
REPORTS SHIP IN DISTRESS
Nantucket, Mass., July 23. An air
plane, which landed at the village of
Wauwinet tonight, brought word that
a steamer was in distress near Great
Round Shoals about five miles off the
eastern end of the island. The vessel
was described as in need of immediate
assistance, but the nature of her in
juries was not disclosed.
After requesting that the Navy De
partment be notified and that word
be sent also to the nearest coast
guard station, the aviator ascended
and was lost to view.
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS
Five children ranging in age from
2 to 12 years were burned to death,
one other received fatal injuries, and
seven were less seriously hurt in a
fire which destroyed the Kent county
juvenile home just outside Grand Rap
ids, Mich., recently.
According to careful estimates war
ranting acceptance, says Renter's cor
respondent on the French front, the
Germans have employed between sixty
and seventy divisions since July 15
and have lost 180,000 men killed,
wounded and prisoners.
The War Finance Corporation wQ
advance funds through banks in the
Dallas. Kansas City and Minneapolis
federal reserve districts to farmers
and cattlemen whose production has
been hindered by drought, it was an
nounced by Governor Harding of the
federal reserve board.
Lieut. Donald II. Chalrton of Sul
phur Springs, O., and Lieut. Ivar Eu
gene Tinnerholm of Schenectady, N.
Y. were instantly killed at Taliaferro
Field, Fort Worth, Tex, when their
airplane fell in a spin.
Two officers belonging to Car
m tiers Field were killed in a 1,000
foot fall in a tail spin recently near
Benbrook, Tex. The dead are: Lieut.
Robert Yaraall Snyder of 719 College
avenue, Elmira, N. Y and LieuL Olaf
John Tanner of Moor head, Minn.
Both men were Instructors.
News of the shooting to death of
the former Russian emperor, Nicholas
Romanoff, is accepted -3 more than
probable - by the French authorities,
especially as it appears to be believed
la Germany. - '
GERHAtJS UNABLE
TO HOLD ALLIES
Franco-Americans Oust Huns
From Chatelet Wood and
Epled Village.
HEAVY FIGHTIHG CONTINUES
Von Boehm Making Desperate Efforts
to Extricate His Forces From
Jaws cf Pincers.
Washington, July 25. Violent Ger
man counter attacks and rear guard
actions in great strength still fail to
serve the German high command as
barriers to the advance of the Allied
troops on the Scissons-Rheims salient.
True, they have aided somewhat in
slowing down the fast pace set by the
Allies at the commencement of the
offensive, but nevertheless on the
three sides cf the now U-shaped battle
front further important gains have
been made.
Slew, But Sure.
Driving slowly, but surely, south of
Soissons the American and French
troops have pushed their fronts fur
ther eastward toward that part of the
Sosons-Chateau Thierry railway line
that is still in the hands of the enemy,
and further south, along both sides
of the Ourcq river and the road lead
ing to Fere-en-TaidenoIs, Germany's
great storehouse for the supply of her
troops to the south, important pene
trations into er.emy-held territory
have been made until the maximum
point where the "Allies are fighting
near Coincy is about ten and one-half
miles from their point of departure
last Thursday.
! Hun Army Withdrawing.
In the Marne region north of Cha
teau Thierry the Americans and
! French have met with the fiercest
I kind of resistance, for here the Ger
man machine gunners and infantry
men are striving bard to stay their
progress in an endeavor to extricate
large numbers of the German Sprees
who are in danger of capture, and also
to save part of the great number of
guns and quantities of war materials
which it is impossible to get out ex
cept by the high roads over the un
dulating and wooded country.
The advantage In the fighting, how
ever, has rested with the amalga
mated Allied troops, who have push
ed on northward past the village of
Epieds and ousted the Germans from
the greater part of the Chatelet for
est. In this region the Allies now
hold, the villages of Epieds and Trug-ny-Epieds,
which were captured by
the Germans and were recaptured
Wednesday in a counter attack by
the Americans. Pressing on north
ward the Allies have driven their
front beyond Courpoil, which lies
about six and one-half miles north
east of Chateau Thierry.
A BRITISH LINER TORPEDOED
The Justicia, 3234 Tons, Goes Down
Off Irish Coast Eleven Mem
of Crew Dead.
An Irish Port, July 25. The giant
White Star liner Justicia has been
torpedoed and sunk.
The Justicia was formerly the
Dutch steamer Statendam, which was
taken over by the British government
on the stocks at Belfast when she
was nearing -completion. She was a
vessel of 22.234 tons gross.
The Justicia carried a crew of be
tween six and seven hundred. Eleven
members of the crew are dead.
The story of the fight between the
German submarine and the Justicia,
if it could be told, would make one of
the finest stories in the annals of anti
submarine warfare.
A NEW DIVISION AT FUNST0N
Gen. March Announces That Six More
Organizations for Regular Army
Will Be Formed.
Washington, July 25. Gen. March,
chief of staff, announced today that
he had ordered six new Regular Army
Infantry divisions organized in this
country during July the Sth at Camp
Devens, Mass; the 10th at Meade.
Md.; 11th at Sheridan, Ala.; 12ih at
Custer. Mich.; 13th at Funston, Kas,
and 14th at Lewis, Wash,
Two regular infantry regiments will
form the nucleus of each new division.
Home guards have replaced regulars
at interior guard posts for this pur
pose and the regulars are now mov
ing to the camps designated. General
March said. Aside from the two in
fantry regiments of regulars, the di
visions will be composed of National
Army troops.
American Flier Killed in England.
London, July 25. Malcolm Cottoa
Brown of Chicago, an American avia
tion officer, has been killed while fly
ing near Gloucester. He was at a
great height when something weiit
wrong with the engine, causing the
machine to crash to the ground.
Fourth Loan Date Set.
Washington. July 25. The Treas
ury virtually has decided to hold the
fourth Liberty Loan campaign in the
3-week period between Saturday, Sep
tember 28 and Saturday. October 19.
A Memorial to American Aid.
Paris, July 25. The mayor cf Bor
deaux ha3 proposed to the municipal
council a plan for a permanent mem
orial of America's ain in the war. He
suggests that a replica of Bartholdi
statue of Liberty be erected in the
estuary of the Gironde River. '
Hollow Tiles on Preferred List.
Washington, July 25. Manufactura
of hollow tile Is in part a war Indus,
try and as such Is entitled to a placa
on the preference list for fuel tA
transportation.