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1 d ' METAL PRICES lilt A fill 'dYfifd t "TW M TVlV " WEATHER FORECAST H 52j(f NEW YORK, July 9. Metal quotations for today M I I I 1 I 111 1 1 11 1 AW 1 I I I AW I II Weather Indications for Ogden and vicinity IH J ' -ppcrr99 ,ead 805c; spciter 8-5o8-7oc; VI JvlV Jv I VvP'yvVv VV iiVi sri!XtXht or wcdnesday? J : . O FEARLESS INDEPENDENT PROGRESSIVE NEWSPAPER jj Forty-eighth Year-No. 163. Price Five Cents OGDEN CITY, UTAH, TUESDAY EVENING, JULY 9, 1918. CITY EDITION 3 :30 P. M. 10 PAGES m ROME, July 9. The Allied offensive in Albania is con- wl turning, the war office announced today. New progress has I been made along the left wing, on the Adriatic coast, the land M forces being assisted by British monitors 03 The Ital ian infantry captured the town of Fieri and took Mt important heights. More than 1,300 prisoners were taken in , the advance. rm VIENNA, July 9, via London. The Entente pressure 'S aganist the Austrian lines in Albania is being continued by 1 forces advancing across the river Voyusa, according to today's fjl war office announcement. A gain of ground by the French m along the upper Devoli is reported. Fighting also is taking 19 place in the interior southwest of Berat. I !I(By the Associated Press.) French troops hit the German lines a smashing blow early this morning In the area almost directly north of Paris, where the Gentians were stop ped after five days of frighting in their thrust toward the capital in the last and least successful of all their 1918 offensives, about a month ago. The attack was delivered along a two and a half mile front and at some points General Petain's troops pushed into the enemy positions for the dis tance of a mile. Two farms were cap tured and a counter-attack, which was delivered against one of them, was re pulsed. Some 450 prisoners were taken. The area chosen for the blow was south of the Matz river region, north west of the Compicgnc forest on the front between Montdidier and the Oise. The point of the German wedge pro jected here in , the neighborhood of Antheull and it was to the west of this town, astride the Compiegne road, that the French drove in taking valuable high ground on both sides of the high The attacking forces were assisted by tanks. Apparently all the terrain I gained has been maintained intact. There has been considerable artil lery fighting and raiding along this front in the last few days, but this morning's was the first Infantry opera- r tion of note since the German's June offensive was crushed on the Matz. The new advance will serve still further to protect the important rall- : way junction at Estrees-St. Denis, which lies seven miles southwest of Antheuil. Further to the southeast along the line, the French continued to gain ad i ditional ground on the Marne front by ; forcing the Germans back further in the vicinity of the Chavigny farm. On the British front there were only raiding operations. The Ger mans, however, apparently are contem plating a further effort to regain the positions taken by the Australians with American assistance in the Am iens area south of the Somme. The German gUns last night vcre actively bombarding the British lines in this region. The French war office reports con siderable artillery activity to the west and north of Chateau Thierry on the Marne front. It is in this sector that the Americans are holding several miles of the line. ' French Attack Germans PARIS, July 0. French troops early this morning attacked the German lines on a front of about two and a half miles, west of Antheull, on the front between Montdidier and the Oise, 1 penetrating the enemy positions and : realizing an advance of a mile at cer i tain points, the war office announced today. A German counter-attack on the J French lines at the Loges farm in the area of this advance was repulsed, t he French entirely maintaining their gains. Prisoners were taken to the number of 450, including 1-1 officers. In the Longpont region east of the Retz forest the French increased their gains of yesterday and took additional prisoners. Tho statement reads: "Between Montdidier and the river Oise the French this morning carried out a local operation west of Antheuil on a front of four kilometers. The French troops, supported by tanks, pentrated the German lines, captured penetrated the German lines, captured and realized an advance of 1,800 mo tors at certain points. "A counter-attack at the Ferme des I-ogcs was repulsed the French main taining all their gains. Prisoners were taken to the number of -1 50, including fourteen officers. South of the Aisne the artillery duel K continued active throughout the night ? m the vicinity of Chavigny farm. The trench increased their advance at this I. Point, taking twenty prisoners includ ing one officer. "The artillery of both sides wasi active west and north of Chateau! folerry, notablv in tho vicinity of Hill I 201. , . ' ' i i "Patrols took prisoners in the Champagne, in the sector of Marquise and in the direction of Butto Chouain." British Take Prisoners LONDON, July 9. Raiding opera tions carried out last night by British troops in the region east of Arras net ted a few prisoners, the war office announced today. South of the Somme river the Ger man artillery has been displaying ac tivity in bombarding the positions re cently captured by Brjtish forces there. The statement reads: - "During the night London troops carried out a successful raid east of Arras capturing a few prisoners and a mactu'ne gun. "The enemy's arUllerj.:Jin.shfifljiac . tive against the positions recently cap tured by us south of the Somme." Morning Review of" War Situat.oni (By the Associated Press.) French troops again have been suc cessful in a resumption of the "nibbl ing" tactics which the allied command has followed while the Germans pre pare for a new blow. The fighting ac tivity on the western front, however, still is much localized. From fhp enemy lines come no indications that the Germans are about to strike. important positions, on a front of two miles to a depth of two-thirds of a mile, and 350 prisoners were taken by the French in the region of Long pont, northeast of Villers-Cotterets. The sector on which the gain was made is south of where the French last week made important local gains in the region of St. Pierre Agle and northward for six miles toward the Aisne. No counter-attacks have been made by the enemy, nor has he struck back at the Australians in their new positions astride the Somme. Germans Drilling and Instructing. For several weeks the Germans have been drilling and instructing special attacking divisions behind the German lines leaving the front positions to be guarded by mediocre troops. German aerial activity has decreased in tho last few days and it is probably the airmen also are making ready for the next onslaught. The German artillery fire has increased to above normal only on certain sectors. It is not unlikely the enemy will de pond upon the element of surprise In the impending blow, as he did on March 21 in the attack against the Chemin des Dames. While the Ger mans have been spreading reports of an attack against the British, it Is now known thoy have not constructed de fensive works on the front between Soissons and Rheims. Entente Airmen Keep Busy. Entente airmen are keeping up an active bombardment of tho anwi be hind the German lines. Britisl fiers again have invaded Germany, dro&iping bombs on Kaiserlautern, east of tyetz. and on Luxemburg. In aerial fighting, British and French airmen hawe ac counted for twenty-five German ma chines. Patrol activity and local operations are increasing In number on Ihe Ital ian mountain front. On the lower Piavc the Austrlans, it is estimated, lost 20,000 men killed, wounded and prisoners in the action last week in which they were driven back across the river, relieving somewhat the pressure against Venice. Austrlans Counter-Attacking. In western Albania, French and Ital -ian troops arc withstanding strong counter-attacks by the Austrlans. All positions have been maintained on tho heights of Bolnla and slight progress made elsewhere. Various reports of hnppenings In Russia in connection with tho murder of German ambassador Count von Mir bach lack official confirmation. Ger many, apparently, has not yet acted. An advance toward Moscow has not been reported although the Germans have largo forces of troops near Smol ensk, 250 miles west of Moscow. . ' WASHINGTON, July 9. An ad ditional credit of $10,000,000 was granted to Italy today by tho treasury department making a total of ?6fa'9, 000.000 for Italy and of ?6,091,590,000 loaned to the allies to date. Y- NIGHT NEWS SUMMARY. 4- WASHINGTON. Prices for cotton products showing rcduc- tions of from 20 to 30 per cent on . market quotations w'cre approved 4- by President Wilson. ST. LOUIS Bruce Cameron, superintendent of transportation for tho United Rairways com- pany, was Indicted in connection with the theft of a petition for a referendum vote on a franchise ordinance. -f NEW YORK. Dr. Edward A. 4- Rumley was arrested, on a charge -f of perjury in connection with the 4- charge that the New York Mail had been purchased with German 4-4- money. 4 4 4 4 BELLEVILLE, 111. Lieutenant 4 R, H. Fawcett, Alexandria, Va 4 4- was killed and Cadet Lester Cox 4 4 of New York was injured when 4 4 their airplane fell at Scottficld. 4 4 4 4444-444-444-444 tKT S. American Labor Delegates Tell British of America's War Aims and Activities. MASSES UNINFORMED Great Work Accomplished in Preparing for War Surprise to Many. LONDON, Monday, July S. Mem bers of the delegation sent to England by the Social -Democratic league of America made the following statement to the Associated Press today regard ing their conferences with representa tives of British labor and socialist or ganizations: "Wo have found intense interest in America's war activity and especially intlie jvaj ajnis.oLJxsldant-AVJlson-Wo" have found eagerness among all those to whom wo have talked to learn the position of American Socialists and a realization of the most impor tant, if not decisive part that must be played by American labor in the inter national labor movement. America's War Preparation a Surprise. "There have been many misunder standings to clear up and these arc by no means wholly on this side of the Atlantic. The extent of America's pre paration lor war and the solidarity of labor's position behind the nation in winning the war have been a source of great encouragement. In spite of all the publicity on these subjects the mass of the workers seem not to have known of what had really been accom-, plished. ' "Of oven greater importance as an element of encouragement to the So cialists and laborers of England is the story of progress which America is making toward democracy during tho war. The fact that labor is gaining in influence and improving Its condition In the midst of tho fighting is looked upon every where as the greatest se curity of America's claim to be fight ing for democracy." The committee is comprised of A. M. Simmons of Wisconsin and John Spar go, former members of tho executive committee of the Socialist party; Louis Ivopelin, editor of the New Ap peal, Alexander Howatt of Kansas, president of District 1-i of the United Mine Workers of America; John Ed ward Russell; Professor Edward H. Herron and Frank Bone. Before sailing for Europe, Mr. Sim mons, chairman, said the committee would present to European Socialists tho American interpretation of demo cratic Internationalism. Ho added that the committee was in entire agreement with tho program of peace formulated by President Wilson January S. Naval Airplanes Bombing German Works Constantly LONDON, July 9. British naval air planes in the period between July 4 and July 7 dropped six tons of explo sives on German works at Ostend, Zcebrugge and Bruges. Direct hits were observed on build ings and vessels. Fifteen German air planes wore destroyed and three others were driven down out of con trol. All the British machines returned. oo FINAL FIGURES ON COTTON CROP WASHINGTON, July 9. Final fig ures on the 1917 cotton crop, announc ed by the census bureau, place the production at 11,302,375, equivalent to 500 pound bales, tho smallest crop since 1909 excepting that of 1915. Sea 1 island cotton produced was 6696 bales. Notablo increase in production in Arizona and California was shown, California with 57.000 bales and Ari zona with 21,000 bales both growing 13,000 bales more than the previous i year. ' -j '. .. . ' ; Fastest and Most Mobile Machines Flown by Expert Pilots. WITH THE BRITISH ARMY IN FRANCE, Juno 28 (Corrcspondenco of the Associated Press.)1 While the main resistance to a great enemy drivo must necessarily come from the ar tillery and infantry, it is not always realized how much the allied air forces contribute to the work of applying the brakes to the German military ma chine. During the early stages of an offen sive the whole character of air fight ing changes. While maintaining recon naissance and bombing behind the enemy's lines, a great number of ma chines are sent up with a roving com mission to harass and impede the ad vance by causing tho maximum of In convenience. They attack cross roads and important junctions, they destroy dumps and transports and they dis perse concentrations of troops. For this work some of the fastest and most mobile of fighting machines are employed, flown by pilots specially trained for obstructive fighting. Tn modern war an advance must go by time table. An hour's delay in taking an objective, the result of an unex pected obstinate resistance at a vital point may lead Jo dislocation of the holo--ThxnrcriBift: - -J There can bo little doubt that the failure of the German high command to develop the initial advantages gain ed in the fighting this spring was due largely to tho splendid work done by the Entente airmen. oo U-BOAT MCE Loss of Munitions Ships Not Stopped, But Reduced Three-fourths. LONDON, Monday, July S The great body of the English nation fails to realize how near England came to irretrievable disaster because of tho German U-boats, said Frederick Georgo Kellaway, secretary to tho minister of munitions, speaking at Midlands today. Mr. Kellaway said: "The U-boat is still one of the greatest perils against which tho allies have to fight. Those who suppose wo shall over be able to abolish these risks are living In a fool's paradise. But, thanks to the navy, our losses are being brought to within limits which the allies can bear without flinching. Recent returns show the loss of mu nition ships from submarino warfare are only about a quarter of what they were when the U-boat campaign was at its height." oo Western Union Official's Tes timony on Telegraph Situa tion Given Behind Closed Doors. WASHINGTON, July 9. Senators demanding investigation bofore action on tho house resolution authorizing the president to take over telegraph, telephone, cable and radio lines, won a part victory today when 'the senate interstate commerco committee heard testimony, behind closed doors, on the tolegraph situation from President Carlton of tho Western Union Tele graph company. A decision regarding further hearings was deferrod. BILLY SUNDAY TO BE OPERATED ON ROCHESTER, Minn., July 9. Billy Sunday, the evangelist, came here to day to undergo an operation for hernia at a local hospital. Mrs. Sunday ac companies her husband. i ALLIES' HOPES TO BEREALIZED French Aviator Tells of Work Being Done in United States. PLANES GOING OVER Liberty Motor Ready and Ma chines Being Turned Out Very Rapidly. PARIS, July 9. Hopes founded on American aid to the Allies soon will be realized, says Captain Herteaux, the French aviator who has returned from a visit to the United States, in a statement to The Associated Press. Both American pilots ana American machines are coming overseas in large numbers. The captain said: "We now have several thousand trained American pilots in France. We have "not sufficient chaser planes to mount all these pilots but it is certain that America, alone, within a few months will be able to more than sup ply its aviators with machines. "The Liberty motor is now ready and machines fitted with it are being turned out rapidly. The American bombardment airplanes arc of the fin est quality and they are reaching the front regularly. "The day of errors in which we had our share is now over. The hopes which public opinion founded on American aviation soon will bo rea lized." rvn mm fixed Hearing of Charges of Perjury Against Enemy Mail Pub- lisherJDef erred Two Weeks. ' NEW YORK, July 9. With Dr. Ed-' ward A. Rumely, publisher of the New York Evening Mail under arrest charged with having financed the newspaper with German money, the question as to the future ownership and management of the newspaper was in abeyance today. It will be de cided in Washington at a conference tomorrow or Thursday between Henry L. Stoddard, chief bondholder of tho property, Paul Block, who is said to own $50,000 worth of the stock, and A. Mitchell Palmer, alien property, cus todian. Francis P. Garvin, investigator for the alien property custodian, announc ed that Messers Stoddard and Block would go to Washington to confer with Mr. Palmer and that "for the time being," 'these two would conduct the paper. All German equity in the prop erty would bo seized, according to law, he said, and meanwhile there was no reason why advortlsers and subscrib ers should not continue to do business with tho paper. Up until 1 p. m. today the oarly edi tion of the Evening Mail had not ap peared. It was explained that it had been delayed pending the preparation of statements in the case. While waiting for his bail to bo fur nished Dr. Rumely made a statement in which he asserted that the Mail's editorial policies, controlled wholly by himself, had'been squarply behind the government and that his return made to tho enfcmy property custodian would be found to bo truthful in evory re spect. Dr. Rumely declined to discuss his associations with formor Ambassa dor Bernstorff and Dr. Heinrich Al bert, through whom the Mail is alleg ed to have been financed, but added he might say something definite in this connection soon. Regarding tho Mail's war policies he said: "They have been under my absoluto and sole control. Tho paper, the edi torial pago in particular, has been an exposition of my attitude on public questions, uninfluenced by any consid eration other than my own judgment of what was tho right thing to do from tho standpoint of America's interest. "My return to the alien property cus todian regarding the notes which I personally had outstanding will, I am convinced, when all tho facts aro available, be found truthful in every respect." Shortly after tho arraignment of Dr. Rumely a federal grand jury began consideration of tho case. It was said many witnesses would be called. NEW YORK, July Assertions that Dr. Edward A. Rumely, publisher of tho Everiing Mall, placing all his records at the disposal of the depart ment of justico during personal visits to Washington, led to ball being fixed at $35,000 Instead of $50,000 as origin ally asked by federal counsel, when Dr. Rumely was arraigned today be fore United States Commissioner Hitchcock on a charge of perjury. Hearing in the case involving alle gations by tho government that the Mall is owned by tho German imperial government, was deferred for two weeks. Dr. Rumely was arrested yesterday after an investigation arising out of the investigation of records seized In this country from Hugo Schmidt who was Germany's fiscal agent in Amer ica. He had sworn to A. Mitchell Pal- 0. S. FIGHTING METHODS WIN Troops Go Ahead Under Bar rage and Give Germans Hot Reception. UNBEATABLE SCHEME Americans Whip the Huns in Open-field, Five and Six to One. CHICAGO, July 9. Sergeant Sam Barr, thirty years in the United States army and just returned from France after five months' service with the ex peditionary force, is in Chicago today. Speaking of his experiences he said; "Our methods of fighting differ from those of our allies. The' retreat from the thinly held first line trenches when a heavy barrage announces an attack. When the enemy has wasted his am munition and has taken the allied first trench tho allies rush In from the second In a counter-attack. We asked ourselves: Why go back then ahead through the barrage? So we decided we'd go ahead under the barrage and wait for them at the barbed wire. In our fights we met the Germans long before they expected us, killed a lot of them and scattered the remainder in the barbed wire. Then we went back and sat down while the machine gun men mowed them down in the wire. There is no way to beat this method of fighting. "In a clear field the American can whip the German up to five or six times his number. The German is well trained and fights hard but he does only what ho is told. When he reaches his objective, he doesn't know where to go from there. So we catch him at this point and he doesn't go from there until the grave section comes along." J00LHLl Charged With Conspiracy to Defraud Government of Their Income Taxes. BOSTON, July 9. William A. Eng lish and John H. O'Brien, members of the firm of English and O'Brien, Bos ton wool merchants, were arrested to da' on a federal indictment charging conspiracy to defraud the government of income taxes. The indictment alleg ed that tho shortage through improper accounting amounted to 250,000. Both pleaded not guilty and were held in. bonds of $25,000 each. Federal officials said it was the first case of the kind to be brought to the attention of the grand jury. With the arrest or English and O'Brien it became known that the government yesterday instituted a civil suit against them for the recover' of $2,000,000 damages to cover the amounts alleged to have been held back on income tax payments. Exam ination of the firm's records showed, federal authorities said, that two sets of books had been kept, one for exam ination by internal revenue exports and the other for the private informa tion ot the defendants. oo ANARCHY AND DEATHJEARED Germans Anxious Over Atti tude of People Toward Rule of German Officials. THE HAGUE, July 9 Germans re turning from Moscow, says the Vos slscho Zeltung, referring to the von' Mlrbach case, have expressed fear that complete anarchy there might endan ger persons who, in an orderly country, would bo safe from harm. It gives, the following alleged quotation from a speaker at a railway strike meeting in Moscow: "It is time to throw off tho noose von Mlrbach has put around our necks, otherwise a shameful death threatens us. Away with German capital ! Away with von Mirbach and his whole counter-revolutionary band!" mer, alien property custodian, that the Mail was American owned, whereas, inquiry by federal and state officials disclosed, according to tho Investiga tors, that German money purchased the newspaper and paid for its publi cation. Dr. Rumley objected through his counsel, Frederick J. Powell, to the higher amount of bail. Powell said tho defendant was a man of large resourc es handling considerable money for the Mail and having pledged his per sonal finances on the Mail's notes and was a man "of high reputation." During the period of investigation, eounsel said, Dr. Rumely supplied gov ernment agents with all tho informa tion in his possession placing copies of all his papers before the investigators and otherwise co-operating. EET I Many Killed and Injured H When Passenger H Trains Collide. H DOCTORS RUSHED I Six Passenger Coaches H Demolished and Fire H Starts in Wreckage. I NASHVILLE, Tenn., July 9. Two passenger trains on the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis railway collided early today near Bellemeade Park in tho western suburbs of Nash-) oia passenger coacnes in an were lH demolished and two cars of tho through train caught fire and wera burned. The wrecking crews and vol- unteers worked heroically in the wreckage to rescue the injured. Telephone reports from the scene: of the wreck are to-the effect that twenty-five .were killed-arid between fifty and seventy-five persons injured. The wreck occurred at 7:15 o'clock ten miles from Nashville. Every a IH vailable doctor and nurse has been rushed to the scene. One train was eastbound to Memphis and St. Louis and the other from Nashville to Mem- IH Both engines and baggage cars were completely wrecked. A combination coach on the local filled with white and negro passengers was ripped from IH end to end. Several coaches were telescoped anil passengers are being cut out with difficulty. Most of the dead, it is believed, arc negroes. At 10 o'clock about fori ty injured had reached the city hos- pital and several of the number had. died. Engineer David Kennedy, ot number one, was founder under a boi ler. It is believed he is fatally hurt. Two Pullman coaches escaped serious damage. The entire crew of number four wa3 NO DANGER OF I SUGAR FAMINE I Food Situation Generally De jH clared Better Than at Any Time Since U. S. En- tered War. jH WASHINGTON, July 9. Definite assurances that thero is no danger of a sugar famine were given by tho food administration today and the food. fl situation generally was declared to be better than at any, time since Ameri- ca undertook the feeding of the Allied IH The American public, however, will be expected to observe closely the new regulations limiting tho household per IH capita consumption of sugar to three lfl pounds monthly and to continue all IJ other conservation measures. What ever saving other than provided for in the regulations that may become IH necessary to remove all danger of famine, will be' done by manufacture jH It was pointed out today regarding the wheat situation that, even with lH the prospect of a 900,000.000 bushel wheat crop, there can be little if any lessening of present conservation measures. A re-assuring wheat re- (1 serve must be built up hero and abroad officials declare, and maintained a- 'H gainst a possible short crop next year. nH CAPTAIN WEBSTER DIES OF INJURIES PARIS, July 9. Captain Drew Web ster, an American infantry officer, suf fered severe injuries when a military automobile he was driving collided with another machine at Villers-Sous-Grous, according to tho Matin. Captain Wohster died in a hospital at Fontaine- lM blcau. ll Ten French officers who were in tho lH other car wore Injured,