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The Weather J'"f ! r, r Local thwnd hwea riMaj mI Sat urday except fair tauth prtlew variable winds ever northwest prtlr, . Highaat temperature yesterday, M de grees lowest, T3 degree . VOL. XXI, NO. 193. BtHL manm PLIES TIED Claims But One of Squadron of Six Escape Capture by Germans. ALL CREWS ARE .TAKEN PRISONERS j(Vr.shington Announces Five I Additional American Officers j in German Prisons. BERLIN (via London), July 11. Five American airplanes of a r.auadron of six. which started for a raid on Coblenz, fell into German . hands, according to general headquarters announce ment. The crews were taken prisoners. , . - WASHINGTON, - July 11. The names of five additional offi cers of the American army, held as prisoners in German camps, were made public by the war de partment, and include Lieuten ant Blanchard B. Battle, of Co lumbus, Georgia, who is at Camp Karlsruhe. , AMERICAN CONSUL AT TABRIZ AT TEHERAN WASHINGTON, July U afe ar- rival at Teheran of Oorten Padilocis. Unit State consul at Tabrla. -waA. announced today by the state depart menu Paddock left Tabrla more .than nonth ago, with a Party of Ameri can and ZMropeans when Tabrls was threatened by Turks, who afterward seized xthe Aznerlcan - consulate there and sacked .the American hospttal. ADVANCBF ITALIANS ON .AUSTRIANS UNCHECKED VT" AS lllNUT OK. July 11. An official dispatch from Rome today reports un checked the fedvance of the Italian troops In Albania, with Berat as an objective. From the Voyuss, the Ital ians have carried all positions to the Semenl in an advance of approxi mately 15 miles over a 50 mfle front. AUSTRIAN DETACHMENTS ARE DRIVEN BACK. ROME. July 11. Italian advanced posts at Cornone, on the Asiago pla teau, yesterday drove back Auetro Hungarlan detachments, says the Italian . . official statement today, recommending" military operations on the Italian mountain front. Artillery fire was lively in the Brent valley. On the remainder of the front there were the usual reconnoltermr end harrasslns actions. AGREE TO TAKING OVER TELEGRAPH By Associated Pre. WASHINGTON. July 11. Adoption tomorrow by the senate of the house resolution empowering the president to aoqulre all telegraph systems, and a summer vacation for congress, with the national war time prohibition post poned until after the recess, was a program framed today by congres sional leaders after an all day debate on the telegraph measure, during which prohibition leaders agreed to a temporary postponement of their measure. TO TAKE OVER WATERWAYS ! . ,,,,.-vt , , . - - - irme tactics oi jocai piunges in this to take over waterway transportation sectorf ff tne Germans hold off much development on the Mississippi and longer in launching their expected re Black Warrior rivers has been reached portecf renewed offensive, by the railroad administration, and the ! appointment of M. J. Sanders of Nwj Uri'lUlS A3 .VUV&CU e i Ul til's new enterprise is announced tonight. The Mississippi rlw south of St. Ioals Is specifically mentlonad In the announcement while the "Warrior river route connects the Birmingham dis trict in North Alabama with Mobile and New Orleans. No existing: facili ties are taken over by the order. NAVAL FLIER KILLED IN MIAMI WASHINGTON. July 11, Louis P. Mutty, a naval volunteer . chief quar termaster was killed by falling from a seaplane at Miami, Fla., July 9, the navy department announced today. His address was 03 Lincoln street, popular songs. ' FRENCH -JAN THE GERllS SUCCESSIVELY In Night Operations They Take Town and Chateau From Enemy's Possession. jHAIG'S FORCES ' PUSH FORWARD Americans on South and French on North Near Chateau Their ry Punish Boches Heavy By ASSOCIATED PRESS. Frenoh .' pressure aIorig a line from ; the Mar ne to' the Aisne, which began Stwo weeks ago as a series of local at ltd r lr r mm KAmin . wnlch are appreciable when viewed on the map. The town of Corey, easX of I Relz forest, was taken from the li- mans an1 st rn-n tr nnaltinna In thazv vicinity captured by a slow, method-1 icai advance that has been a source of t much annoyance to the enemy for sev- erahdays. As a result the French linK has straightened and advanced to high i ground lending Itself to defensive oper ations, r 4..., ' . , t . : v . Pnan.h ..it - llnlUn J.4n.l.. . . - "v.u uu iMimu ueutcnuicuis arc j steadily pushing the Austrian forces I back along the western slopes of mouu- i- tains paralleling the Albanian coast, Vienna admits allied success .in this quarter, and in mountain sectors of the northern Italian front, the Austrian units, which approached the Italian positions, were driven back. On the British front Australians have again penetrated German positions, capturing prisoners. The French ontlnued their Jamming tactics last night on the westerly side or tne Marne salient, southwest of Sois- B""s capiuring me lown ana railway taUon Corey and the farm and chateau of St. Paul, south of the town The gain of ground serves still fur ther to protect the" forest' or Villers Cotterests (otherwise called the Beia forest), which forms a bulwark ot tne defense of: Compiegne, (he lmpoutant French t base and railway junction on the east of that town. On the British front south, Field Mar shal Haig's forces pushed still further forward last night and won additional ground east of Villers Bretonneux. on the ridge which stands as an Important eastward defense of the allied base at Amiens. Raiding operations comprised the major portion of the activities on the remainder of the allied fronL The operations on the French iront. resulting In the capture of Corey, gains in interest In that It represented a ontinuation of a series of important local attacks on this front between ttJe Aisne and the Marne, begun by General Petain on Sunday. It Is along this line that the allies apparently count It quite probable that the Ger mans will resume the offensive. Sunday's attack took the form of a drive that carried the French line for ward two-thirds of a mile on a two mile front north of the Longpont re gion in this area. The gain was ex tended on Tuesday, while during the day of Wednesday the front of opera tions was shifted further south and the outskirts of Longpont "and Corey was readied. During last night, as today's state ment from Paris shows, the French made good their occupation of Corey and - drove In still further south on the line for a short distance. . . The net result, together with an earl ier operation, further north late In June, when a dangerous salient east of the Laveralne ravine which the Ger mans created in their Jun offensive, was wiped out, is that the French front now runs In almost a straight line along a series of strong positions lor a distano of approximately twelve miles from the Aisne southward to be low Corey. Between this and the American sec tor to the south, northwest of Chateau Thierry, there is still a westward ! bulge In the line. The French Dressnre inn thm nnrfH on1 th. A rA.inn th south, however, seems likely to re- suit In the wiping out of this salient Iby th continuation of the present en-' WOULD EVEN REFUSE TO TRADE WITH ENEMIES. MEMPHIS, July 11. The Memphis Cotton Exchange today unanimously adopted a resolution to expel any member whol for a period of ten years after peace is declared, engages in trade with persons who are enemies of the United States In the present DANES MAKE STRONG PROTEST TO BERLIN. STOCKHOLM. July 1 1. Represen tatives now in Copenhagen of the Esthonlan diet and the government have sent strong protest to. Germany against Germany's occupation policv and her oppression in the Baltic province. PENSACOLA, FLORIDA, FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 12, 1918. Not A Shipyard A Ship Factory fmmm """ mwmw mhm. mmm --mmm wmm mmm mm mm mmmmm wi m i mm mma-mnm , m, m , i . i -MH Bo - t if a l s ... )i & mi "ol 3 . AMERICAN SHIP CAPTAIN TAGS GIMAN U-BOAT PROWLING . SLINKER ENGAGED l SKIPPEROF U. ,8. CRAFT IN TWO-HOUR RUNNING. FIGHT, AND THEN VANISHED, " By Associated . Press. " (NEW YORK. July 11. A German submarine which attacked the Ameri can steamer X .ke Forest, 1.500 miles off Cape Henry, while she was return maufrpma recent voyage to "Europe Is believed to have "been junk by-Ahe steamer's guns after a .two hour , run ning fight, , according to information received here today in marine circles. Captain O. R. Johnson in command of the ship has been commended to the navy department for having sunk the boat, by officers associated with him. - , Details of the fight, however are un available. GERMANS DRIVE AUSTRIAN DREADNOUGHTS TO FATE ITALIAN ARMY HEADQUARTERS Wednesday, July 10 (By the Associ ated Press) Insistence by the German admiralty upon an Austrian naval ex pedition for the destruction of the nets In the straits of Otranto at the en trance to the Adriatic, and for an at tack on the allied naval forces were responsible for the departure from Pola of the two Austrian dreadnought3 which were torpedoed by the Italians in the Adriatic on June 10, according to Information gleaned from prisoners taken by the Italians In the recent fighting. It Is declared by Some of the prison ers that the second Austrian dread nought torpedoed was the Tegetthoft (Vienna admitted the loss of the Gzenet Tsthvan). They were unable to eay what the extent of the damage to the Tgettholt was, but declared it was certain she was badly crippled. CZECHO-SLOVAKS HOLD W. SIBERIA LONDON. July 11. Virtually all of Western Siberia Is controlled by Czecho Slovak control from Tchell ter dispatch, dated yesterday. The dispatch states the Bolshevtkl Is over thrown In the whole region from Tobolsk east of the Urals to Semipal atinsk, seventy-flve miles to the south east, and near the Chinese frontier. The trans-Siberian railway Is under Csecho Solovak control from Tcheli ablnsk to Krasnoyarsk, a distance of thirteen hundred miles. GERMAN MONEY WAS PLENTIFUL NEW YORK, July 11. The Busch family of St. Louis bought at least a million dollars worth of German war bonds which the government believes were sold in this country for propa ganda, and the purchase of the New York Evening Mall, and other newspa pers, according to a statement by Dep uty States Attorney General Becker who added- that probably more than one hundred million dollars worth are held in the United States. LIEUT. GOODYEAR LEAVES SHORTLY Lieutenant Frank E. Goodyear, of the aviation corps, is leaving Pensacola un der government orders, accompanied by Mrs. Goodyear. Lieutenant Goodyear and wife, who have made their home on the bayshore for some tim. have made a great many friends in Tensa- JcoIa, who will regret their departure. -The yards of the Submarine' Boat Corporation at Point Newark, N. J.!, showing the 28 shipyards In - which fabricated steel ships are; being made. In the center, Henry. R. Sutphen, who originated the Idea . of, making steel ships In pieces and assembling them like a skyscraper or a motor car. - tiUMPS FROM A WINDOW, CAUSING INSTANT DEATH MOBILE, Ala.. July 11. (Spe- ; cial) J. M. Johnson. of Gaines-, ville, Fla, -.war stamp worker, who. was ;arrested here on -charges ' preferrf d! by.a woman.' Is reported-' to twtTe'iaaaped -from a window In Birmingham, today, s causing his : death. .. ' - ' - - ; ' " " SPECULATING ON STRENGTH HIGH NAVAL FLEETS WASHINGTON, July 11 Allied and American naval officials are unable to form any accurate esti mate of the ' present strength of the German battle fleets. It was said today by Admiral Benson, chief of - naval operations. Not only are reports of what Germany has built, or . Is building, conflict ing, but every effort to secure positive Information . regarding the whereabouts .. and conditions of the Russian fleets In the Black and Baltic seas have failed. It is estimated, however, that if Ger many obtained all the . Russian war craft, and had succeeded In putting them Into fighting condi tion, she has been able to increase the strength of her , high fleet but twenty-five per cent Admiral Benson Is positive, though, of the ability of .allied fleets to deal with the enemy should he venture out. SUGAR BOARD IS APPOINTED WASHINGTON, July 11. President Wilson today created a sugar equali zation board to equalize the price of sugar to the consumer, In the face of prospects of Increase due to - the threatened shortage, and the board will have authority to acquire sugar even at a loss to the government and sell at a stabilized price. convalescents reach ft. Mcpherson hospital - Atlanta. July -11. Thirty convales cent soldiers from France arrived at Fort McPherson hospital today. Fifteen were white, and flften negroes. The three Georgians are Privates Laron Hall of Graham, Abraham Stuart of Onan cock, and Thomas Murphy of Feyette ville, among the whites. GREAT BRITAIN TAKES NO CHANCES WITH ALIENS IXN1X)K, July 11 A committee recommended to parliament today the immediate internment of every male enemy alien, over eighteen years, ex cept . those exempted for medical or other reasons, and repatriating all female enemy aliens - except those whose husbands are granted exemption from Internment. Other drastic steps were recommetid ed. iBde. FORCES BOLSHEVIST FORCES ROUT CZECHO-SLOVAK ARMY London, July 11. Bolsjheviki forces have taken the offensive against the Czecho-Slovak army In the Volga re gion and government troops have won great success, says a t Russian official statement, received from Moscow.. The Czecho-Slovaks In Siberia also are re ported retreating before a counter otfen sive of the BolshevlkL, i CHANGES NAME G. A. LUMBER CO BY UNCLE SAM AMENDED ARTICLES . OF. INCOR PORATION FILED YESTERDAY ' MAKE. BIG MILLVILLE PLANT . AMERICAN LUMBER CO. Amended articles of Incorporation, re corded in the office of James ' Macgib bon, clerk of the circuit court, change the name of; the German-American Lumber Company, recently taken into custody by. the government, to that of the- American Lumber. Company.- 'j This company was ' taken over'early in April by Vie .United States custodian of enemy alien property, W. R. Wilson, and the offices of the company moved to Millville. Florida; Mr. "Wilson and family moving to Panama City, near Millville, where they are making their home in. order that Mr. Wilson may keep closely in touch with government interests there. At the time the lumber company was commandeered by the government, th? officers were If. Kulenkampf, president; H. H. Boyer, "vice-president, and G. Rolfs, secrctary-treasureiy. The officers of the American Lumbr Company, re cently incorporated unJei the laws of the state, arc W. Pi. Wilson, president; Robert Bass, secretary-treasurer. . , The company is one of the wealthiest of Its kind ti the country, the former president, Mr. Kulenkampf, being a cousin of a wealthy German-American banker in Mew York, and, so rumor re ported at the time the company was taken over, a close friend of. the Ger man crown prince. The New York Kulenkampf, who is said to have largely financed the German-American Lumber Company, .has for years been closely associated with the kaisers interests in this country, and is said to have been his personal friend. lie was. re cently arrested in New York city -and Interned as a dangerous emissary of German interests. H. Kulenkampf was arrested some months ago and is now interned in Atlanta, Ga. At the time the concern was- taken ' over by the United States government it was as certained that the controlling Interests of the German-American Lumber Com pany were vested In a German prince. LARGE NUMBER HONOR MITCHEL NEW YORK. Jlllv 11 Vfalnr- Tnhn Purroy Mitchell, former mayor of New York, was laid to rest today in Wood- lawn cemetery here in the presence i of thousands of mourning citizens af ter a remarkable and impressive funeral attended by men prominent In world affairs, including former President Roosevelt, Joseph P. Tumul ty, . representinfl President Wilson; envoys from the war. and navy depart t ments, and official representatives of I England, FVance, Italy, Japan, Cuba and Persia. LEAVES FOR NEW YORK DURING WEEK Judge William B. Sheppard and his private secretary,' John Hargis An derson, will go to Xew York about the middle of next week, where the I distinguished Jurist expects to sit in a special term of the federal court for I the southern New York district, his I aid at this time being on account of ; the congested docket therel REPORT TWENTY-FOUR DEAD . . IV AIRPLANE A CO DENTS f -. i Washington,. July 11. Twenty-four fatalities In airplane accidents at flying fields in the United States for the three week period ending July C, are an- nounced by the wax department. HOLD UP AND SCHOOL HERE LOOT A TRA1W FOR TEACHERS Shoot Three Persons, Rifle Ex press and Mail Cars and Escape to Swamp. BELIEVED NOW ARE SURROUNDED Thought They "Shot Up" Train for no Other Reason Than to Terrify Passengers. PAOLA, Kas., July 11. A posse of two hundred men today was patroUing banks of the Maris de Cygne river near here' awaiting the signal to rush a large patch of timber -in which it was believed were hiding a dozen men who late last night held up a south bound Missouri Kansas and Texas passenger train at Koch siding south of Paola, shot three persons, looted the express and mail cars and made their escape. The posse Is composed of members of the county anti-horse thief Asso ciation' and home guards from Osawa tomic and Is led by County and rail road officials. The possemen were1 called together within an hour after news of the robbery became known and immediately started in pursuit of the fleeing bandits who left the scene of the holdup in automobiles. A report reaching here early today i was that the bandits, closely pursued j by the possemen abandoned their cars and took refuge In the timber which affords an excellent hiding place. Details of the robbery in which two of the train crew and a woman pas senger were wounded by bullets from the bandits' guns as related by rail way employes, seem to indicate the robbers "shot up" the train to .ter rorize the passengers and crew. No attempt was made to rob- the passen gers. "The train 'was flagged and the bandits swarmed about the engine forcing the engineer and fireman at the point of revolvers back Into the smoking car. f The door of the smoking and day coaches were locked ' and several of the robbers ran up and down the isles shooting Into the floor and through the roof, stray bullets from their guns striking fireman H. E. Car ter in the ankle and C. T. Itcher, the train auditor in the thigh. Others of the bandits boarded the mall and ex press cars, uncoupled them from the rest of the train and with their own men at the engine throttle ran out to the main line and backed north. As they passed the standing coaches they fired into the windows and it was then that Mrs. L. T. Williams of Achille. Okla., was wounded. When the two cars had been crip ped of . valuables, the bandits fled in motor cars, which had either been left nearby or brought up by confed erates. Members of the train crew started for this city and found the engine and two cars deserted. They ran back to the coaches, coupled up. the train and.,' proceeded with , the wounded to Parsons, Kas. The band Its are described as young men, al though all were masked. Their fa miliarity with the train schedule and their handling of the engine and de tached cars was the feature that at tracted the attention of railroad men as it was taken to indicate at least some of them had had railroad experi ence. One of the masked men was re ported to have warned a companion, "don't shoot that man; that's Jake Barkes." Barkes was a brakeman on the train. ROBBERS SECURE RATHER INSIGNIFICANT LOT OF LOOT MUSKOGEE, Okla., July 11 Ac cording to XV. P. Cotton. Kansas City, one of the mail clerks on the Missouri Kansas and Texas passenger train looted by bandits near Paola, Kas.. late last night, the robbers secured but an insignificant amount of money from the rifled mail and express ears. Four registered, packages, none of which is believed to have been valu able, were taken from the mall car. The small safe in the express car was taken from train, he said.n Cotton did not know what it contained. Lo cal express officials say. however that it probably contained nothing of value, since large amounts of money never are Shipped on that train, which makes Its entire trip to Muskogee during tho night. R. E. Cowan. Pullman conductor on the train, narrowly escaped death at the hands of the robbers, according to his story of the hold up, related to day. AS the robbery was In progress. Cowan raised his left hand to extin guish the light in the car. Intending to protect the occupants from the ban dits who were on guard outside. Be fore his Angers touched the switch he heard a warning from one of the outlaws, follcwed by a rifle shot; A window was " shattered by the bullet and a piece of flying glass cut above (Continued on Page 2) DO NOT FORGET THAT WAR 6A1XG8 STAMPS ARK NOT FOR CHILDREN ONLY, MOST OF THE SQUANDERING 13 DONB BT GROWU-UPS. PRICE FIVE CENTS Expenditures of Escambia Coun ty Board Public Instruction Being Kept Down. GOOD PROSPECTS FULL LIST TUTORS Salaries Will Be .Materially In "creased. However, to Meet Local Conditions. Kving to the fact that all expeml; tur s of the tscamhia county scinI board are beiDg kept at a minimum, m 'rtier to increase the sauries of the t!clufs, it is probable that no sum- mer .session of the county schools will be htld this year. A. S. Edwards, superintendent of pub- , lie instruction, stated yesterday that , , the prospect for teachers for the county schools in the fail is encouraging, and the complete list of ihe educatoTe for this section soon will have been -cunt-pMed. , The increase of from five to fiflotn per cent on salaries, authorized by tlx school board, raises the satarie of some of the primary teachers fruni 35 to ?45, snd other salaries have been Increased. Salaries . paid to the teachers of--thi higher graij average from $70 to s7. and, according to Mr. Kilwards, the!" salaries as now agreed upon by- tft i school board.; 'compare very favoiMhlv with olhrr !"v.1? in the staU -it ihe exception of such communities 'a- have a special schjjI tax district. "In order ,lo increase the salaries" of the teachers at-this 1 time," said Mr. Edwards, "it has been found-necessary-to cut all expenditures of evey ntuv tint could possihly be eliminated. Tlu Jsd'.ool fund of Escambia county tot! '. at -ul 1125,000,- this amount cyverindr the Mlarics. of - teach es, interest on ' j-lndtbtedness. "improvements.- reprtn--f : 1 buMdmgs, etc. J The- teachers of the county - mr 1 i .W one hundred and eishty-twn .iif. nf lorty-etgnt colored, inose sudsu tutfnr during the year bringing the' total. number to 277. Recently the school board, of whJrh C J. Levy is chairman, stated that nil positions held by the teachers of th public schools of Escambia county nS the close of the scholastio year, would be open to them if they wished to teach during the cominjec session. Super intendent Edwards staled that so fa1' there have been comparatively few resignations. MISS FRANCES L. BONIFAY, BELOVED BY ALL, EXPIRES .v '..- -. Pensacola suffered a distinct 'shovk yesterday In the death of Miss Frances Laura Bonifay, who died at the Pen&, cola hospital, after a critical illnes of a few days. While she had been In fill ing health for the past four months or more, her condition was not considered , alarming until veryreecntly, when she -" was removed from the home of her' mother, Mrs. E. C. Bonifay, on fcast Blount street, to the Pensacola hospital.' where her death occurred on Thursday morning at 8 o'clock. " - ', . Miss Bonifay, who is connected with Pensaeola's old Frenoh and Spanish families, has been for a number of years well known throughout this sec tion as a graduate nurse. Her first training was received at the old St. Anthony hospital, after which . he graduated from St. Joseph's hospital. Chicago. She is survived by two sisters. M!? Eugenia Bonifay and Mrs. W. F. Mon roe, and two brothers, T. H. Bonifay and Frank P. Bonifay. The funeral serviees will take place -on Saturday morning at 9 o'clock from the family residence, 13.6 Ea?t Biount street., the funeral cortege leaving the Sacred Heart church, where 1ii ser vices will take place ot :):.V) o'eloeV, with interment In St. John's cemetery. Following are the pall bearers: K, A. Nauss, Arthur V. Ilanney, of Outurv, T. W. Brent, Dr. W, D. Nobles, Dr. J. If. Pierpont and Joe Quina. . .7 MAY RECRUIT MALE STUDENTS .WASHINGTON July 11. Presi dent Wilson was today asked by the committee of emergency council of the national edacation-il association to endorse a campaign to recruit ma'i students for colleges, and to prevent, the present tendency of youns rnoa to leave colleges for military service. The committee announced a rtiftiri of the council will be held here Wed nesday when plans for the campaign may be formulated. AMERICANS ROUT PATROL OF SNOOPING GERMANS. WITH .THE .'AMERICAN F()RC.l ' ON THE MARNE. July 1 1 .- A larsrs German patrol attempted to raid Americans to identify new German units.