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r r Cu3 'l3' H 1 10 L - w.,,. i f ! ! ! The Weather 1 DO NOT FORGET THAT WAR savings stamps ars NOT FOR CHILDREN ONLY. MOST OF THE SQUANDERING IS DONE BY GROWN-UPS. re Ami-y Tuwdiy, except oMw hotr on the peninsular, tight west wnd. VOL. XXL NO. 182. PENSACOLA, FLORIDA, MONDAY MORNING, JULY 1, 1918. PRICE FIVE CENTS rrr I! '3 I- . 'V i' i in it i ft -4 aaiLY DOSES OF DEFEAT FOR MIES U. S. Italians Succeed in Wresting Severaiy alnable Positions FrontcAustrians. 409 PRISONERS ARE ROUNDED UP French and English Report Suc cesses, Former Reporting Capture of 265 Men. By Associated Press. ' Attacking Austro Hungarian Unea on the Aslago Plateau, the Italians have wrested Monte Di-valbella from the en emy, captured 409 proslners and., held their new positions against many re peated counter attacks. Further east, on the left bank of the Brenta river, tne Italians captured the height of Sassa Rosso, Just north of the village of Val Magna. French continue their nibbling tac tics along a line running northward from the Marne. Froiday they swept the Germans back from the environs of the Villers-Cotterets forest, and held ground taken. . Saturday night they suddenly attacked the German lines north of the Clignan .river and just to the left ef positions held by tne Amer icans In" that sector. Long ridge be tween the villages of Mosloy and Oassy Kn Valois was accupied and 265 pris oners taken. Further north, near St. Pierre Aigle, the French positions wer also improved by a local attack. The' British have repulsed an enemy assault In the neighborhooTof Merris. near where the Germans were driven tack east of Nieppe forest, Friday, and the British statement mentions .a heavy German- artillery fire before Amiens, near Albert, north of Scarpe, and near Arras and the region of Festubert northwest of- Lens. " , - MIOnTLY KXPECT GERMAN - - KtHlCfcS TO ATTACK AMERICANS By Associated Press. WITH THE AMERICAN FORCES ON THE MARNE, June 30. Movement of "troops and material!? north of Chateau Thierry, together with increased artil lery and aerial activity, form the basis f t a belief that Americans in this lo cality may be called upon to defend themselves tn the near future. 'Along strenmse of enemy troops and wtgon trains were observed In hte neighborhood of the Bonnes wood. There have been more han flfy enemy aeri.il lliKhts over the American lines rorthwes of Chateau Thierry in the List twenty-four hours, one German Machine was shot down by our anti a i r craft guns. Tor days the Americans . have been expecting the enemy, but have made ill preparations, anil Germans will get in exceedingly waivT reception. MIEMCAN PARTY CAPTURE THREE DOZEN GERMANS. WASHINGTON, June 30. Marked raiding and patrolling Saturday at sev eral points held by the American troops are reported in Gen. Pershing's communique receoved today at the war department. In Picardy a email detacn nient of Americans captured thlrtyrsix I risonerf. and inflicted severe losses on the enemv, while in the Vosges a German raidring party was repulsed, TOTAL OF 10.383 IN THE AMERICAN CASUALTY. WASHINGTON, June 30. Casualties in the American expeditionary forces thus far reported total 10,383, sum maries issued today by the war depart j 'ont and the Marne corps show. Of this number 9,131 are in the arr?y it ml 1202 in Marne corps. PROF. COLLIER NEW PRINCIPAL OF HIGH SCHOOL The county board of education Sat urday night selected Professor Collier of Decatur, Morgan county, Alabama, as principal to succeed Ross Rogers, resigned. Prof. Collier Is a graduate of How ard College, Birmingham, and is about 50 years ege. He has degrees of bachelor of science and bachelor of arts and 18 well known In educational circles in the south. He was- reommended to the board by Spright Dowell. state superintend ent of education of Alabama, who is again running for the office and has no opposition. MORE SURVIVORS BROUGHT TO PORT WASHINGTON. June SO. The ar rival at Hampton Roads of twenty more survivors of the British ship Iwinsk. torpedoed and Sunk seven hundred miles east of Delaware caPjM June IS. was reported today to the navy department. Among them was Lieutenant Ross Whltemarsh, U. S. X. Twenty-three members of the crew of J 43 are still missing. The men were picked up at sea by a naval vessel last Friday after ten days In an open boat. BO 1ft A P DESOLATE BARREMSTATE Furnishes an Eloquent Object Lesson in the Cost of Great .War. WAS UNTIL LATELY A GARDEN SPOT Nothing Much Left Since De parture of 750,000 Russians Who Resided There Year. LiONTXXN, June 30. (By Associated Press correspondent from Jassy)- Ru mania Is a desolate and barren coun try today an awful object lesson of the cost of war. - Two years ago it was one of the garden countries of the world, teeming ;l with agricultural wealth and prosperity. More than 750,000 Russian soldiers lived in It and on it for nearly a year, and they left very little behind them. " Anyone who has known Rumania as she was when peace was forced up on her by the Central , Powers, must be convinced that. , it will . be years before Germany can draw from, her fields and orchards any very valuable tribute. Nor is the German control of Ru mania's petroleum production likely to be a very profitable investment . for some time. In the--so-called "occupied territories.w the destruction of the . oil fields was so complete wtat Germany after fifteen months of effort, laable to measure her supplies from . this source in quarts. In the rest of Rumania, It, Is doubt ful If production can be much in creased beyond that of the past .year, and during the past year petroleum has been one of the scarcest arti cles in the country, obtainable only under personal and special license from the government. - During the middle the winter, the Associated Press correspondent made a tour of Inspection around per haps a. score of the r frontier towns where the largest i proportion of re fuse population had been dumped In the hurried retreat before the German hosts. Conditions were serious beyond description, but the major part of the suffering was due to famine rather than exposure. The shortage of food was such that in many instances refugees were seen in the fields eating or attempting to eat grass. . Terrible as . was the plight of the people of these refugee districts in war time: they can hope for little al leviation with the coming of a forced peace. Practically no harvests can be expected this year in these dis tricts, for no seed will be available, and moreover there are no agricul tural implements left, no any horses or draft animals of any, kind. Thou sands of Rumanian horses, died of starvation during the winter, for the peasant were too exhausted in caring for. their own needs to make any at tempt to provide ; for their beasts. Tn France the' horses would have been put to good use as meat for hu man food, but the Rumanian peasant has an abhorrence of horse flesh as meat. DEMONSTRATION AGENT'S REPORT The following report of the Miss Helen Carter, emergency home dem onstration agent, for the term of six months, from January 1 to June 30th, is a .follows: Number homes visited 114. (Number letters written 411. Number bulletins sent out 2.104. Number meetings held 129. Attendance at meetings 4,183. Tn May the women of Pensacola or ganized themselves into a body, Tho Escambia County Woman's Commit tee for War Wlork; with Mrs. J. "W. Kehoe as chairman. In June a canning centre was open ed twice a week, and on six days the last week. Total umber of cans sent out 1183 ATTEND BAPTIST STATE ASSEMBLY Rev.- J. A. Ansley, pastor of the First Baptist church, lea-ves Tuesday night for Lake City, where he will deliver lectures to the Baptists of the state who will assemble there on "Wlednesday for a session of several days. The lectures which Dr. Ansley proposed to deliver will be embellished with stereopticon slides, and are ex pected to be well received by the large gathering. DEBS ARRESTED FEDERAL CHARGE CLEVELAND, OHIO. June 30. Kugene V. Debbs, four times socialist candidate for presidency of the United States, was arrested here today by United States Marshal Lapp and Deputy Marshal Boehme as he was about to deliver a socialistic address. The arrest was made on a federal warrant in connection with the Debs speech at a socialist state convention in Canton, Ohio. June 16. HERO CITED FOR BRAVE - CAPTAIN AND MRS. JAMES OSCAR pREEN AND JAMES OSCAR GREEN III. NEW YORKJune 30. "Conspicuous gallantry in action" was the word the cables brought one Sunday to Mrs. 2 Rosamond Thioletwith five men of his command, separated from the rest Germans in a trench and -killed The word came justas, James Oscar Green III," to-be ihristraed.-- v Captain Green has never, seen his little son. v ; He was. graduated from West Point in the class of 1917, and Andrews, Rev. George R. Van A few short honeymoon days, and then Captain Green sailed away to France. And on the day the cable news came telling a bout ' Captain Green's gallantry, Dr. Van De Water was christening the little "I am proud of my husband wife. "And I am proud to be the "Because the country needed him, like many other young wives, I have had to give my hus band fo her service. If the country should ever need him, my baby son, when he grows to man hood, will be at her service." Not only the baby's father, but his grandfather, James Oscar Green I, are graduates of West Point. Mrs. Green hopes that baby James' Oscar , will go to the famous old army school too, and be a "Regular Army Man" like his father and grandfather. SENATOR BENJ: TILLMAN DYING IN WASHINGTON VETERAN MEMBER OF UPPER HOUSE FROM SOUTH CAROLINA SERIOUSLY ILL, AND PHYSI CIANS FEAR THE WORST. "WASHINGTON, June 30. Benja min R. Tillman, the veteran demo cratic senator from South Carolina, and chairman of the naval affairs committee, is seriously ill at his home here. His recovery la regarded by physicians as doubtful, as his left side is completely paralyzed and he has been suffering from a severe recurrent hemorraghe since last' Thursday. Senator Tillman was stricken with a hemorhage, the second he has suf fered, at the senate Thursday. His condition has grown worse since and he was unconscious almost all today. Members of the family wre summoned to his bedside and some have already arrived. About ten years ago he had a similar attack, which paralysed . his right side, but he recovered to a great extent. .. . As chairman of ' the senate naval committee, . Senator Tillma'n work has been regarded as of the "highest im portance, especially in connection with the navy's part in . the war.. He has been one of the most active members of the senate during the twenty-four years of continuance; service. . THIRTY EIGHT KILLED IN CRASH OF BUILDING. SIOUX CITY, June 30. The death roll in the Run" building disaster mounted rapidly today, reaching thirty-eight at seven this evening, with over a score still missing. The injured number thirty-three. 3F( I JEDE ON DAY BABY HASN'T SEEN IS CHRISTENED t v V c&V-w' i Cjbl "tCs.1 . v tnu VW.; Green, wife.of, Captain James or captured all of them. his-young wife was taking, to St. Andrew's Church her infant son, De Water, married him to Rosamond Walker. son at St. Andrews, "James Oscar Green III." and glad that he has distinguished himself," said Captain Green's mother of his little son. U. S. BLACKLIST JOLTS ANOTHER HOPE GERAMANS HUN PLANS FOR CONQUEST OF MEXICO BELIEVED TO HAVE ' BEEN IN FORMATIVE STAGE .UNTIL RECENTLY. CHniUAHIJA CITY. Mexico, June 30. The American blacklist has shat tered one of the German plans for the commercial conquest of 1 Mexico. Be fore the United States entered the war and prior to the last Mexican revolu tion German business organizations scattered throughout northern Mexi co gave evidence of the German in tention to exploit the Mexicon markets. One German wholesale hardware Arm started to establish branches throughout the state more, than" 40 years ago and, "at the outbreak of the revolutions, had branches in operation in Juarez, Casas Grandes. Santa.Ros alia, Ojinaga and other places with a parent store here. " While these houses were conducted on business lines, it is considered here as a signiflcent fact that all the Ger man consuls and vice consuls for this part of. Mexico were appointed -from among , the managers and assistant managers of this . concern. In Juarez. Casas Grandes and Santa Rosalia. th branch 'managers were also . German vice consul in Chihuahua City also be ing one of the managers of the parent store here. The vice consul in Juare was decorated by" the German Emperor for services rendered Germany on the border. -., '" When' the revolutions stated these German stores were the first to suffer because they were, well stocked wagons harness 'and other supplies needed by the revolutionists.,, The Juarez and (Continued on Page Eight.) jOscar Green, U. S. Army, who at of his company, encountered ten - w v - -.i. -' ' ,- V V , on the same day the rector of St. STATE COUNCIL DEFENSECALLED TO MEET JULY 5 " PLAN FOR CO-ORDINATION OF ALL ACTIVITIES IN FLORIDA WILL BE SUBMITTED J. G. PACE IS MEMBER OF BOARD. TALLAHASSEE, June 30 (Special) Governor Sidney J. Catts. chairman of the State Council of Defense, has arranged a meeting, to be held July fifth, in the Seminole hotel, Jackson ville, and at that meeting the State Council will be reorganized. Sometime ago the governor called on the Xational Council of Defense for assistance in forming an organiza tion according to the plans of the Na tional council. At the meeting to be held in Jacksonville, Major Rutledge Smith, of Nashville, Tennessee, the southern representative of the National ; Council will submit a plan for the co ordination of all the war activities of the state. The " following gentlemen representing every section of the State . have been appointed by the governor to serve as the State Council of Defense: Wi F. S to vail, editor Tampa Tribune. Lt. A. Whitney, St. Petersburg. W. G. Wells. - Arcadia J. H. Tucker. Orlando. R S. Hall, Ocala. A. B. Small,. Lake City. Dr. A- A. Murphee, Gainesville. D. M. Lowery. Tallahassee, Judge C. L Wilson, Marianna. R. E. L. McCaskelL DeFuniak Springs. ,'J. G. Pace, Pensacola.' W. R. Carter, Jacksonville. B. K. Hannafourde. Jacksonville. S. Bobo Dean. Miami. Dr. Lincoln Hulley, DeLand. In addition to these representative (Continued on Pagoe Eight) KIRKPATRIGK IN CHARGE DFiOTORSHIPIl REGISTRATIONS LOCAL YARD Pensacola Man Who Was Norai- nated in Late Primary j Gets AnDointment. 45 OTHER NAMES BEEN SELECTED Few Counties Have Not Been ; Provided With Registration j Because Lack of Nominees.. I TALLAHASSEE. June 30 (Speoial) Governor Catts appointed the fol lowing Supervisors of Registration for the various counties of the State to day. Appointments have not as ryet been made in a few of the Counties, because recommendations have not been made to the Governor. Those ap pointed are: Alachua W. O. Morris, Gainesville. Baker C. L. Rkoden, McCleny. Bay C. A. Mashburn, Panama City. Bradfore C. A. Knight, Starke. . Broward T. H. Menafee, Fort E-aud-erdale.' Calhoun John M. Hall, "Blounts town. Citrus W. J. Moore, Inverness. Clay W. XV. Carter, Green Cove Springs. ' Dade Carl Homer, Jr., Miami. DeSoto S. T. Langford, Arcadia. Duval F. M. Ironmonger, Jackson ville. Escambia-i-John A. Kirkpatrick, Pen sacola, Franklin John J. Berry, Apalachi cola. Gadsden M. F. Burghard, Qulncy. Hamilton Ww B. Frier, Jasper. Hernando John A. Sewell, Brooks ville. Hillsborough T. B. Smith. Tampa. Jackson N. L. Hart, Marianna. JeffersonHenry Wheeler. Drifton. Lafayette G. W. Hicks, Mayo. Lake H. J. Peter, Tavares. Lee G. E. Gerald. Ft. Myers. Leon F. C. Coles, Tallahassee. Leyy M. D. Graham. Bronson. , . 'Madison rBrince Rows, Madison. Manatee H. R. Currey, Bradentown. .Marion Dan Barco, Cotton P'.ant. Monroe Joseph Roberts, Key West. Nassau J. C. Jones, Callahan. Okaloosa J". Matthew Miller, Ror cas. Okeechobee M. S. Holmes, Okeecho. bee. Orange E. R. Bliss, Orlando. Osceola E. D. Katz, Kississmee. Palm Beach James J. Hunter, West Palmv Beach. Pinellas C. A. Wlllcox, Clearwater. . Polk P. W. Daniel, Bartow. Putnam Henis , Peterman. Palatka. St. Johns W. E. Cubbedge. St. Au gustine. Santa Rosa Putnam Jernigan, Mil ton. Sumter S. N. Graham, Bushnell. Suwannee W. M. Brown, Live Oak. Taylor Eli Dorman Perry. Volusia. I. C. Hughes, DeLand. Walton John L. Grice, Red Bay. Washington C. R. Melvln, Vernon. COMMITTEE GET TOGETHER TODAY A meeting of the general committee of foreign-born citizens, who are lending cooperation in the proper cele bration of national indepedence day next Thursday, will take place this afteroon at 4 o'clock,; In the office of Miyor Frank D. Sanders. All mem bers of the committee are urgently requested to be on hand for this meet ing, as at the session it is expected a special committee will present for approval and necessary endorsement a resolution, which is to be telegraphed to headquarters of the committee on public information, of which George Creel is chairman, said resolutions to convey the plans of Pensacola's foreign-born in the day's celebration, and also any words of encouragement for the winning of the war. Eventually this message will be personally trans mitted to the president. At a meeting last Friday, when prac tically the entire personnel was pres ent, a committee consisting of W. D. Howe, J. Geo. White and Nick Von Rossum, was named to prepare these resolutions. COTTAGE HILL GAVE $1,125 W. S. S. DRIVE COTTAGE HILL, June 30. Cottage Hill went over the top in the Stamp Drive. Sales reached $1,125. Only one party refused to purchase. We think this pretty good for a place of less than 100 population. Quiet Wedding. Mr. Shirley Pope and Miss Florence Hill were quietly married last Wed nesday afternoon at the home of th bride. Rev. Mr. Hammitt performed the ceremony. The happy couple wir make their home in Birmingham to the present. Pensacola Visitors. Misses Matilda Gear and Blancl Rudd are spending a few weeks " Pensacola. Mr. CaiT is marketing his pears Pensacola. LAUNCHING OF Expected the New "Maria" W ill Go Into the Water Early Ims Afternoon. FIRST OF SIX OF SUCH A TYPE Country's Independence Day Program Bested by Couple of Days by Pensacola Builders. Launching of the first of half a doz en Pensacola-botlt schooners will take place this afternoon at the . Bullock; shipyards, on the western bay front. and it was stated last night that all hataU things are in readiness for 'th new "Maria" to go overboard at a given surnal and an appointed time after dinner today. It is expected that the new craft will ,lip easily into the bay, and as the occasion had been planned to be without undue ceremony, no crowds are expected to view the feat. " At the present time, as told In Sun days Journal, there are more than i he new "Maria" being buuit atjth Bullock yards, but this craft, to go In to the water today, will mark the be ginning of hig things in an Industry which started with little contracts. Ail over the United State, thla weelc will be heard a splash which will rrobably in time reach the Kaiser's ears. This will be a Sort of a trump . card which Uncle Sam will play in the great war game in which he has , r-. taken a part for the past year or " more. Between 80 and 90 hulls, with an aggregate tonnage of 440.000, will go into the water. These will consist of steel ships, wooden ships and con crete ships, and these ceremonies will take place on the Atlantic and Pacific, the Great Lakes and on the Gulf of Mexico. That will be Thursday, July 4th,. but enterprising schooner-builder in Fansaoola sW-jAiat .week ahead -ef ; , time, and the vessel they put into the ' water today is or a type which will be followed by scores of others, not r7 few of which will be produced In lo. cal ya rds. ;; FORD ERECTING A FINE HOSPITAL! DETROIT. Mich., June SO. (By As sociated Press) One of the most com plete hospitals In the world, expected to take part in the work of rehabili tating American soldiers wounded overseas, is being erected here by Hen ry Ford, erected faster than the aver- i age building Is constducted in peace time, because of government coopera tion In the purchase of materials. On a 20-acre tract the hospital, which will bear Mr. Ford' name, will have floor space og 50.000 square feet. It will be a four story structure with the exception of the diagnostic build ing placed In the center which will go up to six stories. It will front 760 feet on the Grand Boulevard, Detroit's most popular autofobile drlvewayr end go back 250 feet. With 1,300 widows It will be Impos sible for a person anywhere' in the building, to get more than 24 feet away from the light. Forty porches will surround the structure and a roof gar den is to extend over the entire build ing. Mr. Ford is spending $3,000,000 on the institution. HOW SOLDIERS ; DtiUUME r IT 7 NE ORLEANS, June 30. CBy Asso ciated Press) Scores of young men. Informed by army and navy doctors that they were underweight have hied themselves to the Gulf coast and ex plained to hotel or boarding house pro prietors that the durationv of the war depended upon their gaining so many pounds in a certain length of time. AX. first of the boardig house and hotel proprietors were unenthuslasttc over the prospect of a disappointed would-be soldier or sailor and loss 01 patronage to their establishment. Later, according to those who hare returned, whenever a youth, rather pale and slim applied for board he was greeted with the question, "How much do you have to gain and when must you report?" "It's easy when you know hlrt" st boarding house proprietor explalssd. "They go out and swim in the Hit water., get an enormous eppetitt ind we feed them coarse, nourishing feod, nothing fancy. They gain seral pounds a day, some of them." J SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT OP FLAGLER ( COUNTY RESIGNS. TALLAHASSEE June 30 (Special) ovemor Sidney J. Catts accepted the signation. today, of Hon. B. F. Buch anan, superintendent of public Jnstruc :on. of. Flagler county. The resig uion becomes effective August first M. Hon. E. B. Loughridge, of Bun !1, was appointed to succeed Mr,