> CLOUDS RAIN
DEATH UPON
THE CURIOUS
Attacking in Waves, So High
They Appeared as Tiny
Specks, Germans Kill
76, Wound 174.
SINGLE BOMB KILLS 33
French and English Flyers From
Across Channel, Account for
Three Invaders—List
Dead to Grow.
Berlin, May 28.—German air squad
rons yesterday dropped bombs on Do
ver and Folkestone, the war depart
ment announced today.
A Town on the Southeast Coast of
England, Friday Evening, May 25, (via
London, May 26.)—The most ambitious
airplane raid yet undertaken by the
Germans on Great Britain occurred
here late this afternoon, while the
streets were crowded with shoppers,
promenaders and workers returning to
their homes. The raiders dropped a
large number of bombs, apparently in
haphazard fashion, from a mile or two
above the town, killing 76 persons,
mostly women and children, and in
y juring nearly 175 more.
Sun Hides the Leader.
The first raider to arrive was the
leader of a squadron of five. It was
flying at such height that it could not
be seen against the brilliant sunlight,
which flooded the cloud flecked sky,
except by trained observers with good
glasses. The raider was followed by
the other four at a slightly lower ele
vation. They sailed in a bee line
across town, dropping bombs continu
ously.
Many persons in the streets first
learned of the air raid when they
heard explosions of bombs around
■' them. The zone in which the bombs
were dropped cut a wide swath across
the city with the chief damage in the
shopping and residential districts. The
bombs, which were of large size, de
molished completely houses and small
shops which they struck.
Raiders Come in Waves.
The first squadron of five airplanes,
was followed after short intervals by
a second squadron and then a third and
fourth, each of which repeated the tac
tics of the first group.
The worst damage done was from a
group of bombs which struck the busi
ness thoroughfare thronged with peo
y pie. At one spot 16 women, eight men
4 and nine children were killed and 42
1 persons were injured.
As soon as the raiders had dropped
their bombs they turned homewards,
probably aware they would face an at
tack from entente allied airplanes,
which would be sent against them from
the other side of the English channel.
Tiie Rritish and French airplanes met
the Germans on the way and spirited
air fighting occurred with the result
that three of the raiders were shot
down.
The number of fatalities is likely to
si;ow :i considerable increase as many
■ f tlie injured are reported by the of
ficials of the local hospitals to he in a
i ritical condition.
Spent Hours in Cellars.
Reports this evening from the sur
•ounding district indicated there was
some bombing of neighboring villages,
even some distance inland. These
bombs mostly were dropped as the
German airplanes were making a wide
circle to approach this town from the
land side. The interval of compara
tive quiet after the departure of each
squadron of raiders were only broken
by tiie sound of distant firing of naval
guns out at sea, and were even more
harrowing to the populace than were
(he brief periods when the bombs
actually were bursting in the town.
After each visit the people in shelters
nr cellars asked each other whether
.'his was the last. Hours after the last
raider had gone many people kept to
their shelters in belief that mure raid
ers were coming.
There was much employment for
, voluntary relief workers this evening.
The hospitals were crowded not only
with injured, but with women and
children suffering from shock, while
the police and constables had their
hands full patrolling the devastated
districts and doing the gruesome work
of rescue, identification and hundreds
af odds and ends which such a crisis
brings to an unprepared.
London. May 28.—German airships to
the number of about 16 raided south
east England on Friday evening, ac
cording to an official statement issued
today. Seventy-six persons were
killed and 174 persons injured. Three
of the German airships were shot
down.
Airplanes Brought Down.
The raiding air craft which were
brought down were airplanes.
Nearly all the damage occurred in
nne town where some bombs fell in
the streets, causing considerable cas
ualties among the civilian popula
tion.
Of the killed, 27 were women and 2.1
were children, while 43 women and 13
children were injured.
Fly at Great Height.
Witnesses of the German air raid
U‘ S. Troops
Spot AttiJa 1
And Europe £
Washington, D. C„ May 28.—"If, as
has been announced, the first American
troops sent to Fiance are to undergo in
tensive training in the great military
camp at Chalons, tl\ey will learn the
trade of modern trench warfare in one
of the most historic regions of Europe,"
says a war geography bulletin issued by
the National Geographic society, at
Washington.
"The great camp of Chalons lies mid
way between the now shattered city ot
Rheims and the great champagne trade
center, Chalons-sur-Marne. Paris is
(less than 100 miles in an airplane to the
west.
"The camp embraces nearly five
square miles and was established 60
years ago .by Napoleon II. It was here
that Marshal MacMahon (afterward
.president of the French republic)
formed the .army of Chalons after the
describe the first appearance of the
hostile as flying at a great height to
ward the coast in formation of fives The
first lot appeared over the town and
dropped a shower of bombs on the
shopping center. This was followed in
quick succession by other groups
which emptied their load of bombs
haphazardly on the startled inhabit
ants and on the outlying vullages. The
visit was short and hostile machines
were flying very high. British air
planes promptly went up in pursuit of
yiem and a regular pitched battle oc
curred over the sea in which the fleeing
enemy machines were obviously worst
ed.
Out to Watch, Killed.
A correspondent in a southeastern
coast town says the weather was fine
when the raid occurred and the Gor
man machines looked like silver specks.
During the bombardment, which was
intensely violent for a quarter of an
hour, the raiders dropped a large num
ber of high explosive bombs.
The greatest damage was done in the
main business street. The establish
ment of a fruit merchant was entirely
demolished. At this particular spot the
bodies of men and women and the car
i casses of horses were lying about the
street at the end of the raid. The people
killed were mostly those who ventured
to watch the raiders.
This is the second German air raid
on England within three days. On
Wednesday night four or five German
aircraft flew over the eastern English
Counties and dropped a number of
bombs, killing one man. For six prev
ious months no attack on England bad
been made from the air following two
disastrous raids in which three Zeppe
lins were destroyed.
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FRENCH MAKE PROGRESS.
Paris, May 28.—Further progress
was made by the French on the Cham
pagne front during the night. Two
German counter attacks were repulsed
and 120 prisoners taken, the war offle*
announced this morning.
Move to Nearer Trieste and
Capture 3,500 Mere Aus
trians, Taking
Trenches.
Rome, May 28.—The Italians have
captured 3,500 more prisoners on the
Carso plateau, the war office an
nounces. Heavy fighting continues.
The Italians made important progress
in the coastal region in the direction of
Trieste. They carired trenches from the
mouth of Timavo river, on the Gulf of
Trieste, to a point east of Jamiano and
also the heights between Frondar and
Medeazza.
The Italians also made progress east
of Boscomalo. in the region of Casta
navizza, north of Tivoli and in the
Plava zone.
The statement says the number of
prisoners taken on the Julian front
from May 14 up to yesterday is 22,419.
ONLY U. S. GAN SAVE
WORLD FROM KAISER
Baker Says Allies Were Near
Exhaustion When U. S.
Ehtered War.
Washington. D* C.. May 26.—Mem
bers of the cabinet and others actively
engaged in the conduct of the war out
lined war aims and needs to a meeting
of editors of the country’s technical
and trade publications.
The food situation was presented by
Herbert C. Hoover, who will be named
fobd administrator. The country, lie
said, faces a war that probably will
last from two to five years.
The allies' grain needs this year.
Mr. Hoover said, will amount to aboui
1,000,000,000 bushels. America and
Canada with increased crops can fur
nish 80 per cent of this without de
privation, but the allies must have, he
declared, at least 80 per cent.
Secretary Dine, In setting forth the
purposes of the United States in enter
ing the war, said:
“We are fighting feudalism. The
German ruler is willing to go to any
length to see a feudalistic system es
tablished. Our interest as a nation
and as a democratic people is involved
in the war. The power that would do
tilings that have been done would, if
England were conquered, demand
Canada, and we would live in haunting
! fear the rest of our lives.
Seciotary Baker declared the out
come of this war would show whether
the world is really progressing.
Every resource oT the allies. Mr.
Baker said, was near exhaustion when
the United States entered the war.
There is no way to secure permanent
peace, he declared, except through
I exercise of the superior power of the
| United States.
JAPS OPP.OSING SUBS.
Tokio, May 2B.—delayed)—The ad
miralty announces that Japanese
squadrons are operating in the south
Pacific and in the Mediterranean sea
against enemy submarines.
to Train on
vVas Beaten
>aved451 A.D.
first reverses of the French in the war
of 1 870. and from this camp that he
marched to the Meuse and was subse
quently surrounded try the Germans
and forced to surrender at Sedan.
“Chnlons-sur-Marne, the city of 30,
000 inhabitants from which the camp
derives its name, will ever be associated
in the minds of enlightened people*
with the great battler of Chalons, in 451
A. J>. This battle was fought by the
Romans and Visigoths as allies against
the devastating hordes of Huns under
Attila.
‘'Attila'H host is said to have num
bered 700,000, but the Huns were driven
back ae.ross the Rhine after sustaining
losses variously estimated at from 100,
000 to 300,000 warriors. This battle set
tled the fate of western Kurope, insur
ing the perpetuation of its control by
Christian races."
! 60MPERS SAYS VALETS
MAKE LABOR SHORT
Urges Eiijht-Hour Day Be Ex
tended, Rather Than Given
Up, for Best Results.
Washington. D. (\. May 28. Waste
nf labor through irregular employment
and maintenance of ':nw numbers of
valets and t’lunkios are responsible tor
the present apparent labor shortage,
Samuel* (Compels, president <>f the
American Federation of Labor, declared,
today. Ho recommended that instead of
lengthening working hours to meet
government war demands employers
take greater care t,o provide steady em
ployment and wealthy persons reduce
t heir'corps of servants.
‘The experience of (Trent Britain un
der war conditions,” he declared,
‘'proves conclusively that the wisest
plan not only from the standpoint of
production, but from that of maintain
ing the virility of our nation, is to con
tinue the eight-hour day wherever it
has been established and to establish it
where it does not already prevail.”.
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DESPITE CHECKS
Demands Apparently Can’t Be
| Satisfied, But Prices, Econ
omy and Weather Oper
ate Against Retailers.
--
j New York. May 28.—Rradstreet.’s
I Bays:
, Distributive trade lags under check
reins imposed by inordinately high
I prices, particularly of food, uriseaaon
! ably cool weather and the practice oi
I economy, but the country’s leading in
dustries, confronted as they are by de
mands that seem insatiable, proceed tc
I new high ground, while the crop situa
tion has taken on a better color and
the stock market reflects more con
fident optimism. Moreover, evidence
developing from day to day indicates
that the industries, instead of getting
a respite from overwhelming activity,
will undergo further straining to care
for the needs of war. The iron, steel,
textiles, fuel, lumber, shipbuilding and
machinery trades loom large in point
of activity, with the signs pointing to
even greater pressure. Car shortages
, still cause complaint, the lumber, flour
milling and coal industries being spe
cially hampered. Bank clearings. $f>,
(119.598,000, an increase of 20.9 per cen
, over last year.
16ERMAiti DEFEATED
| AT SEA, HE INSISTS
' French Minister of Marine Says
Enemy Was Foiled in Sea
Fight, May 20.
i Paris, May 28.—The ministry of
marine lias issued the following state
ment in regard to the naval engagement
between French and German destroyers
off the coast of Flanders, May 20:
j "According to a fuller report of the
! engagement on May 20, off Flanders
I bank, the enemy, superior in force to
the French flotilla, opened fire first.
I but. seeing the French torpedo boats
bearing down upon him with the inten
_ tion of hoarding, he retired at high
’ sjieed toward his base. The firing lasted
for about a quarter of an hour. Lieut
enant liijot, commanding the Bouclier.
i and the navigation officer were killed.
I Ensign Peyronnet. although wounded
in six places, one would being serious,
took over command during the end of
the action and brought the ship back
j to Dunkirk.
j "One of our ships succeeded in
I avoiding a torpedo fired against her
j by skillful handling. Attempts made
I by the enemy to throw our ships into
confusion by false signals failed to’
* work. The French flotilla suffered
only slight damage and dominated the
i adversary, who gave up the object with
which he set out.
| An official statement issued by the
! French admiralty on May 20, stated
j that a flotilla of German destroyers
I had been driven back to its base by a
I patrol of four French torpedo boats.
| The German official statement declared
! that the French craft were repeatedly
• hit and that the German ships were
j uninjured.
SATURDAY WORSHIPERS
EXONERATED BY COURT
Des Moines, la., May 28.—Sixty-three
Jewish merchants of the city woo kept
their stores open Sunday after observ
ing Saturday as their Sabbath were
found not guilty of violating the Sun
day blue laws by Judge Joe Meyer in
municipal court today.
Judge Meyer held that the intent o’
the legislature wus not to punish those
who conscientiously observed the sev
enth day of the week as their day of
rest and that in this case the defendants
had conscientiously observed their Sab
bath. the 24 hours from Friday at Sun
set until Saturday at sunset.
CHINA TO SEND RED
CROSS TO FRENCH FRONT
i’ekin. May 28.—Plans to send a Chi
nese Red Cross contingent to the Euro
pean battle fronts to assist the Ameri
can and allied Red Cross workers are
being considered here today. Following
a suggestion from President Chin, of
the Chinese society, with headquarters
ut Shanghai. President Ld Yuan-hung
has passed favorably on the idea and
ordered the finance department to fur
nish the necessary money.
BAFF MURDER WITNESS,
STATE’S STAR, ESCAPES
New York, May 26.—Carmine De
Paola, one of the star witnesses for the
state in the P>al'f murder case, escaped
from the house of detention early to
day. The police believe it is significant
that l)e Paola should flee the day after
Jack Rigatta, a suspect In the case,
was arrested In Ia>s Angeles. It wat
lie Paola who told the police how the
alleged Raff murder money was paid,
his story resulting in the arrest of the
five men so far indicted and awaiting
trial.
+4 4 4»44“l44f
4 ♦
■4 “TIRED FEELiNG” GETS 4
4 800.000 BRAZILIANS. U. S. 41
(4 DISEASE STUDENTS FIND. 4
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Rio de Janeiro, May 28.—Eight
hundred thousand Brazilians have
"that tired feeling” today. Accord
ing to the Rockefeller institute
commission, which is studying
tropical diseases here, there are
that number of "ankylostomiase"
cases in the state of Rio de Janeiro.
This ailment is known as hook
worm in the United States. When
members of the commission tried
to doctor tlie natives they fled into
the Jungle, believing they were go
ing to he taken for military duty.
26 KNOWN DEAD
I KANSAS STORM
Tornado Wrecks Village and
Rich Farming Country
After a Day of
Sunshine.
Wichita, Kan.. May 28.—The dean,
list as a result of yesterday’s tornado
near here stood at 24 shortly after
noon today, the figures having been
compiled from reports from the
stricken district.
These showed 12 to have been killed
at Andale, a small town 23 miles north
west of here, nine in the country dis
trict near Sedgewick, two near Newton
and one near Elbing. Eleven were said
to be injured seriously at Andale.
Tlie country between Andale and
Newton was pierced by a patli from a
quarter to half mile wide where
the twister ground everything in its
path either to death or to inanimate
destruction. Sedgwick barely escaped
from the storm's fury.
• So suddenly did the tornado arise
and so well did it do its work, that
telephone and telegraph lines were
broken before word could be sent ahead
of the impending danger.
The Dead.
The identified dead include:
AGNES RAUSCH, aged 23.
GRANDPA" HEIGER.
MRS FRANK HEIGER.
FRANCES HEIGER
MRS. ALEX SCHMIDT.
IRENE SCHMIDT, aged 4.
JOE MERTES, aged 13.
MRS. JOHN KLEIN and three child
ren.
NICK CORDELL, aged SO.
HENRY RAUSCH.
MINNIE SOMERHAUSER, aged IS.
HENRY BACH.
MRS. JOE SOMERHAUSER, of An
dale, who died after reaching Wichita.
Wichata.
ELMER CORKLB and 9-yc-ar-old
daughter.
MRS. MAR KBS.
JOHN NORRIS.
MRS. HOWARD TANNER.
---TANNER, six-mocths-oid
infant.
--Finn. 10 years old, adopted
daughter of William Finn.
Hired man on Trowbridge farm.
PENCE COBLE. Jr.
The Fatally Injured.
Those whose condition appears hope
less age:
John Heiger and his aged mother;
infant son of Alex Schmidt, Mary
Heiger, John Ruscher, Mrs. J. A.
Fischer. i
U. S. R POSITS
M BNS IN BANKS
Places $128,593,000, Raised
by Short Term Notes, With
Subscribing Institutions.
Washington, D. C., May 28.—Tlie
treasury today began the practice of
redepositing a portion of the proceeds
obtained from certificates of indebted
ness by placing $128,592.0011 among the
various banks and trust companies
which subscribed to the latest offer
ing of $200,000,000 in short term certi
ficates of indebtedness.
The practice is in line with tlie an
nounced policy of returning to the
money markets such funds as are not
immediately needed to finance war
needs. Most of the banks taking the
deposits are in New York and the east,
BANKSTO iSSUE
LOAN CERTIFICATES
Payment on Liberty Bonds May
Be Made at $10 Each Un
der New Plan.
__________ *
Washington, May 28.—All federal re
serve hanks are working upon a plan to
issue memorandum certificates of $10
denomination to prospective purchasers
of small amounts of Liberty loan bonds
to enable them to pay for the bonds by
installment.
GERMANY ACCUSES U. S.
OF INCITING RUSS TO WAR
Washington. D. C.. May 26.—An of
ficial translation of an article by
George Barnhard. in the Vossiche Zei
tung, of May 21. made public today by
the government, shows Germany's ef
fort to minimize the importance to
Russia of America's assistance. The
article says In part:
•■'America has expressly stipulated
that the financial assistance to be giv
en to Russia shall be used only for
war purposes. This is merely continu
_g the French financial policy of in
citing Russia to war. N'ot a penny of
American money is to be used in Rus
sia for Industrial purposes or to heal
Russia's wounds. Now Germany, on
th* other hand not only offers peace
to Russia in which no reservations
lurk, but stands ready to lend her
Russian neighbors the necessary finan
cial aid to rebuild Russia industrially."
GERMANS TAKE 544
FRENCH PRISONERS
Berlin, May 28.—The Germans yes
terday improved their positions on the
Cbemin lies Dames, on the Aisne
front, taking 644 French prisoners. Un*
war office announced today.
I
CZAR AND WIFE
HOE POTATOES
Soldiers Watch Form
er Ruler and Wife
At Work.
Fetrograd, May 28.—Mr. and Mrs.
Nicholas Romanoff, with tho former
czarevitch, and the other little Roman
offs, are planting and hoeing potatoes
in the park where they used to deal
out life and death to Russians.
Soldiers and civilians line the fence
around the palace and peer through the
steel bars, watching the former rulers
of Russia in a "back to the soil” move
ment.
BEGIN HUNT
FOR SPY IN
HIGH PLACES
Washington, D. C., May 28.—Official
Investigation was under way today tc
uncover whether the leak on the sail
ing of American destroyers to the Wat
zone was on this side of the Atlantic
or whether German spies got it in Eng
land. Admiral Sims has positively re
ported that the German admiralty
knew of the departure of the ships ant
their port of arrival four days ahead
of time and had opportunity to mine
1 their path.
Some navy official* are inclined tn
suspect the German spy system is
England, despite the statement of Sec
retary Daniels that the incident em
phasized the fact that the German spy
system still was at work In this coun
try. If the information was sent frorr
the United States it was made doubly
difficult because it had to pass the of
ficial censorship.
it was stated officially today that
only a few officers in the office of Ad
miral Benson, chief of operations, knew
the destination of the destroyers. The
commanders themselv es were ignorant
of the port until they opened settled
orders probably 12 hours at sea.
Four days before the American de
stroyer flotilla arrived abroad, Berlin
knew it was on the way and to what
port it was going, and the day before
the vessels steamed into Queenstown,
German submarines had strewn mines
about the harbor entrance.
Men now in custody operated when
the United States was a neutral. Spying
now is a very different thing and is
likely to lead to the gallows instead of
to comfortable detention quarters.
TRY TO BOMB FACTORY.
Dos Angeles, Cal., May 28.—Two men,
supposedly spies or dynamiters were
discovered on the fire escape of the
Glenn Martin Aeroplane company plant
early this morning and fired upon a
national guardsman. He gave chase,
but the men escaped. One carried a
bundle which is supposed to huve been
a bomb. The factory is working night
and day on war airplanes and supplies.
SPIES NEAR WIRELESS.
Fortsmouth. Fa., May 28.—Fifteen
shots were exchanged here early today
according to reports received of a brush
between guards at the government
wireless station at Virginia and s-a '
posed enemy agents.
WAR TAX ON AUTOS
IS PLACED ON OWNERS
Factory Duty Eliminated by
Senate Finance Committee
—Income Tax Changed.
Washington, May 28.—Elimination of
the 5 pet* cent, manufacturing tax on
automobiles in the war tax bill as
passed by the House and substitution
of a license tax, at a rate yet to be fixed,
upon motor vehieles, payable by those
having possession was decided upon to
day by the Senate flnmiee committee.
The income tax section as first
drawn, including the 2 per cent, normal
tax and the House committee’s sur
taxes. also were adopted by the Senate
committee. It struck out. however, the
increased surtaxes on incomes over
$40,000 added In the House on amend
ments by Representative Denroot, of
Wisconsin. ,
The Senate committee also rejected
the tax on motor cycles and on auto
mobile. motor cycle and bicycle tires
and tubes.
SUB TRIPS TO U. S,
NOT MADE PUBLIC
McAdoo Says U-Boats Have
Crossed the Atlantic Without
Mention Being Made.
Kansas City, Mo., May 28.—Secretary
William O. McAdoo, of the treasury
department, appealed to business men
and bankers here to subscribe to the
Liberty loan because it would insure
the greatest amount of service possible
by American troops sent to Europe.
Submarines have crossed the Atlan
tic ocean of which no mention has been
made in news dispatches, Secretary Mc
Adoo told an audience at Kansas City.
Kan. His remark tame while he was
speaking of the fact that new inven
tions. principally the undersea craft
and the airplane, had destroyed Amer
ican isolation and made possible attacks
from overseas.
The remark was unexplained and he
made no farther reference to it, either
in his speech or in private talks later.
DES MOINES GETS LAND
FOR BIG TRAINING CAMP
Dea Moines, la., May 28.—The Great
er lies Moines club yesterday secured
an option on 2.4D3 acres of land mat
Camp Dodge to be used as a camp foi
soldiers of the Thirteenth division. With
the 1,000 acres of land in Camp Dodge
already at the disposal of the govern
ment this will he sufficient for the
needs of all the troops.
Colonel Morgan of the United States
army Is expected here Monday, fp- of
ficial inspection of the tract.
I'jiii1'1' ■■■■iggggggi
GOETHALS IN
CONTROL GF
SRIPPLANS
Statements in Recjard to Hope
lessness of Wooden Boats
Plan Show He, Not.
Denman, Rules.
RAP AT LEADER IS SEEN
Triumph Over Plans for Wood
en Ships Believed to Mean
Canal Builder Wins
Struggle.
Washington, D. May-28.- Genera'
Gocthals' declaration in favor of 3.000,
000.000 tons of steel ships in 18 months
and that wooden ships are hois less, ns
made in New York lust night, attracted
much notice here today, liis utter
ances are regarded as a sharp rap at
the federal shipping board and the
more so as lie said he regarded all
boards as iong. narrow Und wooden
The wooden ship program which
General Gocthals declared hopeless
was the plan of Chairman Denman.
General Gocthals' statements are
taken here to moan that hr. and not
Tinman, has got control of the shipping
construction situation.
New York. May 28.--MCJ. Gen.
George W. Ooethais. speaking in
formally at the annual dinner litre of
the iron and Steel institute, declared
that the proposal to build 1,000 3,000
ton wooden ships In 18 months "is
simple hopeless.” For that reason, he
said, it had become necessary to turn
to steei as well as wood.
"I found that contracts for wooden
ships had beer, let in all directions, but
was unaldq to find plans or specifica
tions. When you consider that the
birds are now nesting In the trees that
will go to build those ship*—ships that
must attain a speed of 10% knots ami
several additional knots to escape sub
marines—the proposition is simply
hopeless.”
"1 called on Mr Farrell, of the United
States Steel corporation, and I asked
him if it was not possible to turn to
steel. He assured me It would be pos
sible. I announced it and I asked per
mission to turn to steel as well as
wood. I finally got permission. Fifty
million dollars were appropriated for
these ships from the sale of Panama
canal bonds, but no effort has yet been
made to sell those bonds. Money is as
necessary as anything else. I began a
campaign for money and as I regard
all hoards as long, narrow and wooden,
and being a firm believer in absolute
authority in all undertakings. 1 wanted
money and authority.
“This in now being discussed in the
House committee on appropriations,
and 1 have been promised the money in
10 days or two weeks.
“I had a second conference with Mr.
Farrell and he promised to see the
program if we turned to the steei. and
he promised also to turn out 3,000.000
tons of steel ships in 18 months.
SPECIAL EFFORTS TO
PRCJTECT^CANAL MADE
Washington, t). C.. May 28.—Panama
cartal officials are taking every precau
tion to protect the approaches to the
waterway from possible enemy activi
ties. All boats are prohibited from en
tering or remaining in a wide restricted
area embracing the mouth of Balboa
harbor except by special permission.
Violators are warned that they may b
IIred upon.
BAR DELUXE TRAINS,
OBSERVATION GARS
Bail Service to Be Gut to Bobo
at Chicago Meeting,
June 5.
—
San Francisco, Cal., Mai 38.—Offici
als of the Southern Pacific, Western
Pacific and Santa Fe railroads re
ceived notification today that railroad
traffic executives of all railroads west
of the Mississippi river will meet in
Chicago June 5. to consider details of
curtailment of through train service to
meet war emergency requirements.
Among the leading questions for dis
cussion it was announced, will be elim
ination of buffet and observation cars,
coordination of express and mail ser
vice. reduction of overland service to
actual need, simplification of dining
car service and lengthening running
time of trains.
There is no place for de luxe trains
on the American railroads now. offi
cials stated today.
ALL NORTH AMERICA
UNITED, BALFOUR SAYS
Toronto, May 26. -Arthur J. Balfour.
British foreign minister arrived from
Niagara Falls this afternon. He was
vociferously cheered by thousands of
persons. He was greeted on behalf of
the city by Mayor Church, and an es
cort of royal dragoons accompanied
hint to Queen's park where the recep
tion ceremonies were held.
Addresses were presented to Mr. Bal
four by Premier Hearst on behalf of
province and by the mayor in behalf of
the city.
"I have left on the other side of the
border a nation of friends,” said the
Mr Balfour. ”1 come into Canada, to
a great free country, composed not only
of friends bat of countrymen. We
think the same thoughts, we live in the
same civilization, we belong to the
same empire, and if anything could
have eementeed more closely the bonds
of the empire, if anything could haye
made I1S feel that we were indeed of one
flesh and one blood with one common
purpose, if anything could have ce
mented these feelings, is is conscious
ness that now for two years and a half,
we have been engaged in this great
snuggle, in which, I thank Cod, all
Nuith America is now as one.”
OIL KING'S FRIEND DIES.
Tarrytown, N. Y„ May 28.-»«oo*#e
Ferguson, an ice merchant, who had
been one of the intimate friends of
John I>. Rockefeller for years, though
his natural ability of relating humor
ous stories that made the financier
laugh, died today at his home in Pn
cantico Hills. He was 63 years okL