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I 5 ll i if i THERE'S ONLY ONEWAY TO WIN 'WlkliJ Omaha' Daitly Bee , ". VOL. XLVII NO. 302. LOCKED ATMNE General. Foch, With American Aid, JFights' Enemy Jo Stand , still yVithout Losing Points ; of Strategic Value. ' - 'v By Associated Frew.)-. Washington, June 4. Vir tual admission that the third " German drive In the west has . been brought to a halt was seen here in tonight's official statement from Berlin. The brief announcement, without claim of advance, served to , convince officers here that for the present, at least, General Foch has fought the enemy to a standstill without the loss of any point of strategic value and.. without serious inroads on his . reserves. ' ' AMERICANS AID. American troops aided in the fight ing.JPrsumayxhey are part of Gen- eraf Pershing's main units originally - posted farther to the north. It may be, however, that they are a part of the - reinforcements that have been rushed over since the German high command ' determined to force the war to a con clusion in the hope that a decisive victory could be won before the Amer- ' ican army arrived in France. uvE ImJ II $) i!U o) uvum U uvJ 'LAls If HF .MIIFIFffllilSflGIW , From drives on wide fronts the v " German offensive in France has de teriorated into isolated attacks along f-Mir.Nwth .area between Soissons and Cha '' lean "Thierry and eastward on" the the Marne in the general direction, of Rheims. ...... - , -aV , Although in these attacks the en- ' emy still is using large effectives and great numbers of guns, hev is being held almost everywhere, from further progress and on various sectors com pelled to assume the defensive against ; li i i .i r -- vicious mows aeuverea Dy tne Araer- , ican, French and British troops.' - Thrown Back Across Marne. , The Americans on. the sectors X , where they are alone or brigaded with allied troops everywhere are lighting : with a spirit of abandon that places - them rightly in the category of vet erans. Near the Neuilly wood, which ' lies northwest of CJjateau Thierry and hi me point wnere me , drive has brought the enemy nearest Paris, the Americans beat off a strong German attack, and on the Marne at Jaul ' gonne, some six miles northeast of ' Chateau Thierry, "fighting shoulder to shoulder with the French, they aided 'forcing the first contingent of the eaemy to cross the Marne again to seek refuge on the northern bank of - the stream. In this last engagement the Germans suffered severe casual ties and also left 100 prisoners in the hands of the defenders of the line. Germans Capture Pernant. " Between the Aisne and Ourcq rivers the Germans have captured Pernant "and to the soutlyof that village the - French have ceded a little terrain. In the Ourcq valley they also took the town of N-euilJy-la-Poterie, seven and one-half rriiles northwest at Chateau Thierry, in fighting during which the place changed hands several times. In the region between the Oise and the A'sne the Germans have been un able to advance anywhere. The losses of the Germans near Pernant -were -extremely heavy, owing to the stub . born defense of the French, v .. There still is only moderate activity ( along the line held iy the British in Flanders and Picardy, where patrol activities and bombarding continue. On the Amiens front the Germans are heavily bombarding British positions. NORTH. CENTRAL - IOWA BECOMES ' j SEA OF WATER , Webster City, la., June 4. North central Iowa is a sea of water. Rivers : and creeks everywhere are out of their . banks. The government records in , this city show that 4.88 inches of rain have fallen in 24 hours. Train service' in all . directions has been abandoned. Hundreds of people have " been driven from their homes by the water. Much stock has been drowned; Newspaper Tax Proposed. Wsahington, - June ,4. Graduated taxes On newspapers and -periodicals based on the subscription prfce and circulation was propsed in a bill in troduced today by Representative Johnson of Washington, as a substi tute for the' postal zone rate system. Champ Clark Announces. ' Jefferson Cit3 , Mo., ' June 4. Champ Clark, speaker of the house of representatives, has filed his declara tion for renomination from the Ninth . Missouri congressional district, Eleven Vessels Sunkby.U-Baats Off U. Sr Coast . Washington, June 4. The official list of vessels sunk by the U-boats as given out tonight by the Navy department included seven schoon ers and four steamers as follows Schooner Edna, 325 tons; schoon cr Hattie Dunn, 436 tons; schooner Hauppauge, 1,500 tons; schooner Edward H. Cole, 1,791 tons; schoon er Isabel 6. Wiley, 776 tons; schoon er Jacob M. Maskell, 1,778 tons; steamship Winneconne, 1,869 tons; steamship Carolina, 5,039 tons; schooner Edward R. Baird,-Jr., 279 tons! steamship Herbert L. Pratt, 7,200 tons; raised and towed to port; steamship Texel. AMERICANS STOP; ONRUSHING HUNS AT RIVER MARNE s . - , ... Machine Gunners Win Honors in Defense of Chateau Thi erry; fridge Blown Up as Enemy Is Crossing. (By Associated Press.) . With the American Army in Pic ardy, June 4. American troops co-operating with the French west of Cha teau Thierry, north of the Marne the nearest and most critical point to Paris reached by the enemy, have brilliantly checked the onrushmg Ger mans, beaten off repealled attacks and inflicted severe losses, and are adding to the glory of American history. The troops began to arrive on the battlefront Saturday and participated in the hghnng almost immediately. They not only repulsed the Germans at every point at which they were engaged, but took prisoners, without having any prisoners it! turn taken by the Oermans,- v r :, 'Vi'. ..(.. ; France Electrified. ';.. The Americans entered the battle- front enthusiastically, eager to fight, after a long march. On their way to the battle line, they were cheered by the crowds in the villages throueh which they passed. Their victorious stand, with their gallant French al lies, so soon after entering the line has electrified all r ranee. The work of the American machine gunners was particularly noteworthy, There was at least one instance where an entire attacking party was wiped out. In stiffesi hand-to-hand fighting the Americans acquitted themselves in a manner which won the greatest praise irom tneir rrencn comrades. The most determined attack against the Americans occurred last night. rreceded by a heavy bombardment, the Germans came in waves. They penetrated the American trenches, but were quickly rejected, leaving many cieaa. . ... Two smaller attacks Monday and three Sunday had the same result. . Bridge Blown Up. In order to mask their movements at Chateau Thierry the Germans used smoke grenades, rendering shooting difficult for the defenders, and at the same time opened a severe bombard ment on the town. The enemy started across the bridge, but when many had reached the. center of the structure a terrific explosion behind them her alded the destruction of the central arch. Dozens of the Germans were hurled into the water, while, the few that reached the south side, were cap tured. ys The Americans, who - held the south end of. the bridge and banks of the river, covered the whole opera tion and protected the French troops while crossing before the explosion. The French officers fighting, with them declare that the Americans dis played wonderful qualities of cool ness and courage in the most diffi cult situation, and in the course of the trying struggle in the streets while afterward they, with their machine guns, prevented all attempts Nof the enemy to repair the bridge. Naval Expert Refutes German Stories of Submarine Cruisers (Bjr Associated London, June 4. Stories of Ger many s submarine cruisers may be dismissed, says Archibald S. Hurd, fidely known writer on naval sub jects, in an article appearing in the Daily Telegraph. "They are merely large submarines, such as we have seen building," he sys. "They do not represent a tri umph of German engineering any more conspicuous than a triumph our shipbuilders have achieved. It was be cause German submarines of about 800 tons could remain at sea only - short time, were very uncomfortable and the conditions were telling on the nerves of the crews that the enemy evolved a larger type modeled on the Deufschland. This type having been designed it was decided to in dulge in exaggeration in order to im press the world." ".What is the truth about the Ger OMAHA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE V 1 Sixteen Among Passengers Aboard Carolina Perish A fter Night in Heavy Storm Following Hun U-Boat Attack DEATH COMES TO FAIRBANKS AFTER SHORT ILLNESS Indiana Statesman, Former Vice President, Succumbs to Ailment Not Regarded Se Tious Until Recently; m (By Associated Fress.) Indianapolis, June 4. Charles War-' ren xFairbanks, former vice president of the United States and former United States senator for Indiana, died at his home here at 8:55 o'clock tonight. Death was due to intestinal nephritis, which has been a chronic ailment with him, but not regarded as particularly serious until recently. All members of the . former . vice presi dent's family) except Major Richard Fairbanks," who is in France, were at his bedside. .' Mr. Fairbanks was.a native of Ohio. but had made his home in Indianapolis since le4, shortly after his marriage to Miss Cornelia Cole, daughter of Judge P. B. Cole of Marysville. O. Union county, Ohio, was, Mr. Fair banks birthplace- and the date was May 11, 1852. Youth and earlv man hood were passed with assistive in "the work on his father's farm and attend ing the district school. Later he en tered Ohio Wesleyan university, which graduated him in 1872, when he was 20 years of age. In 1892 he was chairman of the In diana republican convention and de Iivered the keynote address. The fol lowing year he was made the unani mous choice of his party for United States senator. . Mr. Fairbanks was credited with much influence in bringing about the strong declaration for a eold standard at the republican national convention in 1896, where he was temnorarv chairman and where William McKin- ley was first nominated. As - n mamhfi. stf tU - -. - If. Fairbanks was active in nreoarini th Dingley tariff bill, in estahlishinir the gold standard and in delaying the dec laration of war against Spam in 1898. After the war he was a member of the American and British joint high com mission that settled various disputed questions. ' . " . : . In Vim Mr. Fairbanks wa? elected the vice presidency. Four later he was presented by his friends for the republican presidential nomi nation, and, although defeated, he tne only candidate who had hfiitift larger number of states than anv (Continued on Vtgt Two, Column One.) Press.) man j-submarines?" he continues. These 'cruisers' displace not 1 5,000 tons, but 2,000. They are not 450 feet long, but less than 300 feet.j Their speed on the surface is not 28 knots, but about 12 knots. When submerged they do not travel at the rate of 15 knots an hour, but approximately 10 knots or so. " - , "It happens that we have heard more about the operation's of the German submarines than about the British simply because ' the '. enemy offers few targets for our submarines, while we offer the enemy thousands of targets every week. The percent age of hits by our submarines is, in fact, about three times that of the Germans, which in itself indicates the high standard of efficiency of British fship design, construction and opera tion. Li Jif' ; I 0 ! THE WORLD WAR-FIGHT 17 OUT TO A FINISH Harrowing Tale of Sea Told by Steamer's Survivors; Girl Clinging to Two Drowned Men Rescued. - - SEA CALM AS BOAT SINKS Lashed to Fury by Gale and Occupants of Motor Boat Often Thrown Out. , (By Associated Press.) Lewes, Del., June 4. Nineteen sur vivors, passengers and crew of the steamship Carolina, were landed here today and brought a harrowing talc of the sea, the loss of 16 of their num ber and a remarkable rescue of a girl while they drifted Helplessly by on the ocean during a severe thunderstorm Sunday night' ''. ' Ten boats left the Carolina before it was sunk by the German submarine U-37. The 19 persons landed here were brought in by a British vessel that picked them up more than 25 miles off the Delaware capes. Submarine Identified as U-37. . "According to the survivors, the Carolina was warned late Sunday aft ernoon by wireless to look Out for submarines. The steamer was advised that a three-masted schooner had just been sunk and was cautioned not to show liglits. At 6 o'clock Sunday eve ning a submarine appeared above the surface close to tht Carolina.' It was about 350 feet long, survivors said( arid was identified as the U-37. . -"A Gennan officer, with an armed guard came alongside and gave orders to out1 captain to lower all boats and leave, the ship in 20 minutes," said one of the survivors. Ten Boats Lowered. "Ten boats were lowered and every body got in. There was little or no confusion. All the time the submarine lay as close as possible, its crew standing on deck, watching us. After the lifeboats had 'swung away from the Carolina, the German officers aboard the steamer hailed and ordered one to return. This frightened mafty iiy other lifeboats, but after a time we found out the reason for the action. In going through the steamer he found a fireman who had been left behind and he had ordered the lifeboat to return for him. "When his last boat was clear again, the Germans left the Carolina and in a few minutes the submarine shelled the ship seven times. Then it burst into flames. Boat Capsized in Storm. "After we had drifted for I do not know how long, a storm came. The gale kickedup a nasty sea. The boats pitched and soon became separated, and we, who were in a motor launch, seemed to e alone in the storm. Rougher and rougher became the water and the boat rolled and pitched. Finally it capsized and all of the 35 in it were thrown into the s$a. It was righted and caosized again, while we clung to it. This occurred several times. The storm passed and the sea began to cajm. It was pitch dark. Finally we kept the launch righted, but it was full of water. We clung to it and bailed' out the water with our hands. Some could not stand the strain, became exhausted and let go their hold and sank. It wa's terrible. We bailed out enough water to let one of us in. Then we bailed furiously and enough water was scooped out to per mit a second to get into the launch. We kept on bailing until the launch was able to bear the weight of a third and a fourth. . "We kept this up all mght until sides of the motor boat were able to get in. When the last was helped over the side we found there were but 19 of us. Sixteen had gone. v Girl Miraculously Saved. "With the coming of daylight the sea calmed. All hands came to the conclusion that all in the other boats had perished. Af(er a while an object was seen in, the water. There was no way to reach it as the launch had lost its gas oline and oars. The launch, however, drifted close and the survivors were startled to discover a girl alive cling ing to the bodies of two drowned men. The bodies were incased in life belts, but the girl wore none. She ap peared to be a good swimmer and with her own efforts and clinging to the two bodies for support, she man aged to remain afloat. The launch got near enough to her to effect lier rescue and she proved to be Elona .Donato Virola of Porto Rico. She is one of the two women landed. ' ; $he was one of those in the launch and became separated from it when it capsized. The identity of the two dead men is not known. Their bodies were left and the launch continued to drift until Monday afternoon, when it was picked up by the British vessel 5, 1918 12 PAGES - COL GRANT TO BE TRANSFERRED TO CANADIAN PORT Popular Omaha Officer Ordered to Report at Montreal to Take Charge of Em barkation., Colonel F. A.iGranr, commanding officer of the Omaha quartermasters corps, Tuesday received orders from the War department in Washington to report at Montreal. Can., to take A eharge of embarkation of troops and supplies. He will leave Omaha Thursday night. Many years of experience in trans porting soldiers and supplies for the United States government has fitted Colonel Frant for the important work he will do at the Canadian port. He has had charge of embarkation of troops and supplies in Manila, ' San Francisco, Seattle, New York harbor and in Newport News. Va. Service in Philippines. During the Spanish-American war he was commanding officer of all gun boats used to take possession of the rivers in the Philipppines. Col onel Grantlias little to say about his part of the war. When asked about it he admits casualty that "he was in the fray down there." History records show that his fearlessness and far sightedness saved the day for Ameri can troops many times. , His military record is long and honorable. He enlisted in May, 1898, and went immediately to the Philippines, where he stayed until the war was won. In 1901 he was made a captain in nthe quartermasters corps. In 1903 he was commissioned a major and in 1917, a colonel. He has been in Omaha the last year and, during that timt, the Omaha supply depot has grown into one of the largest army supply posts in this part of the country. Colonel Grant is prominent in the civil life of Om aha and his family, consisting of -Mrs. Grant and three daughters, are social favorites here. I - ' , ' - ' s - 4 TheT Bee Far in the Lead In Automobile Display Advertising . For the first five months of 1918 The Omaha , Bee led the field in automobile display, adver tising and was the : ' . - ' ONLY PAPER TO SHOW K GAIN In This Classification. Here Are the Figures in Inches : Wrfield Adv. Aeency Muaurementi for 191T.) " "(Haynei Adv. Company Measurement for 1918.) 1917. 1918. BEE ....... "..20,500 21,600 World-Herald ..21,030 - 20,551 News ..18,527 15,510 i BEE GAIN. . . . . : : . . 1,100 World-Herald Loss... . 479 x ; NewsLoss 3,017 , These figures are striking evidence of the buying power represented in The Bee clientele. Automobile men individually and collectively favor The Bee and agree that its readers constitute the real buying power 'of the community. ' y v KEffP YOUR EYE ON THE BEE. Improving Every Day. v Ol Tftli t NtWl Hindi. Puzzling Code Message Comes 1 To U, S, Captain An Atlantic Port, June f. The Merchants and Miners' line steam ship Grecian, which brought the crew of the sunken schooner Jacob M. Haskell to port was within sound of the firing as the German submarines carried on their work of destruction, although the U-boats were not sighted. Messages telling of the activities of the submersible were picked up by the Grecian soon after it sailed from Philadelphia, Captain Page was puzzled by t wireless message sent in a familiar code which read: "Three boats containing SO men from sunken ships 20 miles south eas.t of Barnegat." The message was not signed. TOLL OF DEAD AND MISSING- IN RAIDATSEA58 All These Were From Steam ship Carolina; 245 Survivors Being Towed to Port on Board Schooner. (Dy Associated Freii.) New. York, June 4.The toll of dead and missing from the raid of German submarines against shipping off the American coast apparently! stood tonight at 58, all from the steamship Carolina of the New York and Potto Rico line. Sixteen of this number are known to have perished when one of the ship's boats capsized in a storm Sun day night after" the vessel had been sunk. The fate ot the others is not known, but it Js hoped they have been picked up by a passing ship and will yet reach snore saieiy. Officers of the company have placid the number passengers aboard the Carolina, when, it was attacked 125 miles off Sandy Hook at 220 and the crew at 130, making 350 in all. Report Received from Captain. Captain Barbour of the Carolina re ported to the company today that he was on board the schooner Eva D. Douglass with 150 passengers and 94 of the crew. The schooner is be'ng towed t this port by a tug and i expected to arrive tomorrow morn ing. 1 . f A boat containing 28 survivors, Zl passengers and seven of the crew, ar rived at Atlantic City this afternoon. Another lifeboat with 18 passengers and one member of the crew arrived at Lewes, Del., with the report that j 16 of the 35 who had started from the ship, had lost their lives in the storm Sunday night. Empty Boat Picked Up. If the company's figures as to the number aboard the ill-starred liner are correct, this leaves 42 unaccounted for. That number might have been crowded into one lifeboat. The only npssible clue to their fate was found in the fact that an empty boat marked with the name of the Carolina was picked up at sea by a British steam ship which arrived here today. It had every evidence of having been rid dled by gunfire. It may have carried the passengers and sailors who still are missing. Coast Cities Darkened. While all the resources of the navv were engaged in a determined search for the sea raiders, coast cities made preparations for any emergency. All display lights were ordered cxtin guished in New York City. TWO CENTS. STEAMER Destroyer Interrupts Attack on French Tanker; At Least Two U-Boats at Work; '11 Vessels Sunk. . (By Aaaoelated Trem.) Washington, June 4. Enemy submarines still were operating off the American" coast today. -A French tank steamer, the Radioliene, first transatlantic craft to be attacked by the raiders, was saved from de struction at 9:30 a. m. today bv an ' American destroyer, 65 miles off the Maryland coast. , The same destroyer found the coasting schooner Edward R. Baird, jr., sinking after hav- mcr been bombed in the same vicinity, making seven schoon era and four steamers known' officially to have been sunk by the raiders. PATROLS CLOSING INr V Announcement by the Navy depart ment of these facts late tonight, dis closed that the "raid Jn American waters hsKTnot ended with yesterday's tale of destruction, , upsetting the theory tha the raiders probably were speeding homeward.- Coast patrol vessles had not acted on this theory. They are now closing in frorav all directions, on the scene of the raiders' last exploit, scouring: the sea tor further trace of enemy U-boats as they come. , - Secretary Daniels directed tonight, that the brief report from y the de stroyer be made public. The de stroyer itself, with two survivors from the Baird, a 279-ton craft, hailing from Wilmington, Del., was still hunting for the enemy. Destrower Rescues Radiolelne. The announcement, whlctt naval of ficers said contained all the depart ment knew about today's activities of the raiders, follows: ' ' , - "The Navy department has received a dispatch from a United States, de stroyer that at 9:30 o'clock this morn-, ing it interrupted an attack by an en emy submarine on the Frenchsteamer Radioleine about 65 miles off the Maryland coast. The destroyer, also took on board two men from the Ed ward Baird, jr., which was 'bombed and sinking. " "A later report was received stating that the Radioleine had arrived at an Atlantic port." Two U-Boats Identified. Reports from survivors who were aboard the vessels also established the fact that during the day that, at least two submarines have been at work in American waters. They . are the U-37 and the U-1S1, and a report to the Navy department shows that ? one of them, at least, had stores to last it three months. 1 Members of congress who conferred with Secretary Daniels today were convinced that everything possible j. was being done that could be done ' without lessening American efforts to crushthe enemy in France. The troops have gone forward with out delay. The raiders have created panic among coastwise shipping, but they have done, no military damans" whatever. v The picking up of a floatingNmine off the New Jersey shore was an nounced today by the Navy depart ment. Undoubtedly it was dropped by one of the enemy U-boats. Pos siblythe raider was closely, pursued arrd. thought to lay a trap for. its , pursuer. THIRTEEN IOWA SOLDIERS KILLED IN BATTLE MAY 27 . Des Moines, June 4. Thirteen Iowa ; soldiers, including five from Dubuque, three from Mason City, two from Des . Moines, two from Winterset and one , from Red Oak, were killed in" action' in France May 27, according to official notices received by relatives tonight. . , Captain E. O. Fleur, Des Moines, , and Lieutenant C. R. "Green, Winter-" set, are among the number. AH are of the Rainbow division. , . " PrinM vnn Rhnhaii Ravarian General, Killed in Battle Washington, June 4. A diplomatic dispatch from Switzerland today says ' that Prince von , Buchau.the com-:, manding general of a Bavarian di vision, has been killed in the fighting on the Marne. ' v - . Hatelt, Et 00. SAVED BY