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FUTURE WARS TO
BE FOUGHT IN AIR
DECLARES CAPROM
Famous Italian Inventor of Bombing Planes Makes Pre
diction Armies and Navies Will Be Helpless
Before Squadrons That Will Be Built;
Giant Airships Soon to Come.
Commander In Great
Drive of Allies
By Associated Press.
Paris, July 29. "Airplanes, carrying a hundred men and
equipped with engines equal in power to those in a medium
sized steamship, will be developed within three years," said
Gianni Caproni, inventor of the Caproni bombing planes, in an
interview today.
"The bombing planes now in use,' y-
Sienor Caorom continued, will be
f 1 i
mere dwaris compared witn most
to be developed. There is a surprise
in store for the Germans. Instead of
the 40 and SO machines necessary to
start on a bombing expedition, it will
be possible to do the same work with
a new machine as powerful as the
whole squadron."
Will Be Great Saving.
"The new machines will be much
taore efficacious and will prove a great
saving in operation. A trip across
the Atlantic could be accomplished
with the present day machines during
July, August and September and prob
ably October. The weather situation
would be unfavorable during the
other months of the year. Heavy
fogs make aerial navigation impos
sible. Aviators are unable to guide
themselves in a fog as it makes every
thing black. A trip across the ocean
at this time would have to be made
by way of New York, the Azores and
Portugal.
"The development of an aerial code
similar to the maritime code will be
necessary before there can be general
'navigation. There must be interna
tional signals like those at sea. aerial
laws and a whole volume of regula
tions for aerial transportation.
"The quick development of larger
machines is inevitable. At the begin
ning of the war the largest bombing
machine was of 100 horse power. Now
the largest bomber is of 1,000 horse
power.
Liberty Motor O. K.
"The Liberty motor will do. We
want'them now in large quantities. I
have seen them work and they are sat
isfactory for bombing machines.
Finer engines made with much more
intricate and specialized parts like a
watch cannot be made in large quan
tities but the Liberty motor can,
which is a big advantage.
"War of the future lies in the r.ir,
for when the big commercial planes
are developed they can easily be
turned into fighting machines with
powerful offensive propensities. Eng
land was able to defend herself with
a large navy but it will be necessary
in the future for nations to have large'
aerial forces.
Air Supremacy.
"Battleships will be no match for
the new aerial machines, which will
revolutionize warfare both on land and
sea. The activities of the fight forces
will be transferred to the air. Armies
and navies will be unable to battle
with the immense bombing machines
of the future.
"The world will look to America
for great developments in aviation be
cause she has unlimited resources
while European countries are impov
erished by long years of despoilation
and destruction. America will manu
facture large commercial machines
fl hey will be speedy and able to carry
a hundred tons instead of a thousand
pounds as now.
Signor Caproni is in Paris on gov
eminent business. He expects to
visit America, probably after the war.
His whole time is now devoted to war
purposes. He is not developing com
mercial machines.
Window Snipers Appear In
South Philadelphia Riot
Philadelphia, July 29. With the sa
loons in the affected area closed by
police orders and nearly 400 patrol
men on duty, comparative quiet pre
vailed tonight near the place where
three persons have been killed and
scores injured since early Sunday
morning in race riots. I he police
were augmented by tour companies
of home reserves.
lhe only disturbance tonight oc
curred when a negro shot a white
woman in the arm. Immediately a
crowd gathered and threatened the
negro, but the police managed to get
him safely to the police station.
Sporadic outbursts, in which one
negro was shot to death and others
badly beaten, occurred during the day.
A large number of arrests were made.
The majority of the 48 prisoners ar
rested yesterday were held in jail on
charges of inciting to riot. Assistant
Superintendent of Police Mills said
tonight if sniping from windows, con
tinued he would break into and search
every house in the affected area.
Will Ask McAdoo to Have
Keokuk Line Run to Omaha
Keokuk, la., July 29. As a result
of a meeting here today of prominent
Iowa and Illinois business men with
Judge F. T. Hughes, formei president
of the old Keokuk and western rail
road, a committee will be appointed
to present a petition to Director Gen
eral McAdoo in an effort to have the
old line put in condition, extended
and improved for a through route
from Lpgansport, Ind., to Omaha.
The object is to relieve rail conges
tion.
Godsol, Alleged Profiteer, t
Out on Habeas Uorpu? Writ
Lynn, Mass., July 29. Several
thousand employes of the General
tiectric company who had been on
strike here two weeks went back to
work today. When strike pickets tried
to persuade the men not to return,
several encounters resulted. The po
lice were obliged to use clubs in sev
eral instances and one man was taken
to a hospital.
The strike has seriously crippled
important war work.
State Employe Leaves.
Lincoln. Neb., July 29. (Special.)-
Miss Anne Tracy of Omaha, who has
been one of the stenographers in the,
office of Governor Neville, has been'
COVENTRY ARMS
STRIKERS DECIDE
TO RESUME WORK
Birmingham Munitions Men
Also Resume, Although Op
position to Embargo On
Labor is Unabated.
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AMERICAN AND
FRENCH TROOPS
PUSHJORWARD
Hammer Blows Against Ger
man Positions South of
Soissons Indicate New
Pincers Movement.
General Joseph Mangin, who is in
command of the Franco-American
forces in the great counter-offensive
in the west. General Mangin was sent
into temporary obscurity in the early
part of last year by a clique of dis
loyalists, after the big French spring
offensive between Soissons and
Rheims. Premier Clemenceau restored
General Mangin to important com
mands and he is directing the brilliant
fighting of the Franco-American
forces between the Aisnc and the
Marne.
Coventry, England, July 29. At a
mass meeting todav the strikers in
the munitions plants decided to re
sume work immediately.
Resume at Birmingham. i
Birmingham. July 29. The strikers
in munition works here returned to
their employment this morning. Al
though their hostility to the embargo
upon skilled labor is unabated, the
promise of an inquiry into the situa
tion has reconciled the strikers. Some
of them had a hostile reception from
the men and women who had re
mained at work.
It is expected that action taken by
the workers in Coventry and Birming
ham will have a soothins effect in oth
er districts.
Committee Postpones
Action on Liquor Tax
Washington, July 29. Decision
against any increase in passenger or
freight transportation taxes, majority
sentiment favoring a tax on both im
port and export trade if constitution
al and postponement of consideration
of increased taxes on liquors and
other beverages were announced to
day by the house ways and means
committee, which is framing the
$8,000,000,000 revenue bill.
Japan Eager to Receive
U. S. Decision on Siberia
London, July 29. Japan is anxious
ly awaiting President Wilson's reply
to her recent note concerning inter
vention in Russia, says a dispatch
to the Times from Tokio dated July
25. Owing to delays jn cable trans
mission, the reply was not expected
in less than a week from last Thursday.
Baker and Senate
Probing Criticism
Of De Haviland Plane
Washinpton, July 29. Criticisms by
General Pershing and others of the
De Haviland airplane now the prin
cipal output of American factories
are being investigated simultaneously
by Secretary Baker and the senate
committee inquring into the aircraft
production.
After Secretary Baker's statement
last week to senate committee mem
bers that General Pershing had sent
a cablegram criticising De Haviland
machines sent from this country sug
gesting changes and disapproving fea
tures both of design and construc
tion, the senate committee arranged
to reopen its hearings tomorrow for
further inquiry into the De Haviland
type.
Three army officers in charge of
testing De Haviland machines made
at the Wright plant at Dayton, O.,
have been subpoenaed to appear to
morrow. Weakness of the wing fabric, which
is said to have caused several fatal
accidents; wedvening of structural
parts by excess of steel bolts, and
deficient fuel capacity are known to
be some of the objections raised
against the American design.
Convoy System Efficient.
London, July 29. As an evidence
of the efficiency of the convoy sys
tem, it is pointed out that the propor
tion of ships lost to those convoyed
has been 59 per cent. In other words,
only one ship out of nearly 200 has
been lost.
By Associated Press.
Washington, July 29. -French and
American troops still were pressing
forward vigorously today the cam
paign that had up to this time suc
ceeded in ejecting the enemy from
more than half of the Aisne-Marne
salient. Belated announcement from
Berlin that further withdrawals had
been in progress since last Friday
night left it greatly in doubt as to
where the German high command
plans to make a stand.
The majority opinion among offi
cers here, however, was that a strong
line could not be set up short of the
Vesle river and that even there the
Franco-British positions about Rheims
would keep the German left flank in
constant danger. There was a strong
feeling that the eventual line result
ing from General Foch's bold coun
ter blows would be along the heights
of the Aisne.
As the line stood, according to the
last available reports tonight, it ap
peared certain that the evacuation an-'
nounced by the enemy had not been
completed. The salient has been re
duced until it no longer has anything
of the old wedge shape. The apex
has been driven in so that an irreg
ular line roughly paralleling the bois-
! sons-Rheims base has been created
Bitter Fighting.
The most bitter fighting recently re
ported is along the center of the ir
I regular line that now forms the front
between the enemy flank positions.
Franco-American forces were fighting
heicely with enemy rear guards here
at last accounts, and a crack division
of 1 russian guards had been hurled
against the American positions in a
counter anacK to cneck tneir prog
ress.
This suggested to observers here
that General Foch was seeking to
force a wedge into the very center of
the enemy's retreating lines, planning
to take the strong flank positions in
the rear and force an even more pre
cipitate withdrawal. There were
signs that a definite minor pocket was
being created by this thrust which
promised to crumple up the German
position west of Fere-en-Tardenois.
At the same time hammer blows
against enemy positions south of
Soissons indicated the beginning of a
pincer movement there as well.
Officials are elated at the fine show
ing which is being made by American
troops. The report that the Prussian
guard division had met a stone wall
defense, that gave not an inch to the
assault of these picked troops, added
to that feeling.
U. P. Earnings Jump.
New York. Tulv 29. G rns Jnrntnp
of the Southern Pacific company and
subsidiaries for 1917 amonntprl fn
$193,971,490, an increase of $.30,544,067,
or 18.69 per cent, exceeding all
previous records according to the de
tailed report issued today.
BAKER PLANS ON
ENLARGED ARMY
AS GERMANS FLEE
Good News No Cause for Letup
in War Preparations;
Crowder Reviewing
Man Power.
By Associated Press.
Washington, July 29. Secretary
Baker, following today's announce
ment of the valiant work of the
Americans on the Aisne-Marne sali
ent, indicated that the War depart
ment has no false conception of the
importance of present victories, en
couraging as they are. It is fully real
ized that the war is just beginning, so
far as the United States is concerned,
and that no effort must be spared to
speed up war preparations.
1 "The progress of the allied armies
in the Soissons-Rheims salient is con
tinuing," Secretary Baker said today.
"Substantial gains were made on both
Saturday and Sunday.
"It is fortunate our people are ac
cepting this success with a true
measure of its significance. It is, of
course, a cause for congratulation and
rejoicing, but would by no means jus
tify any relaxation of our effort. It
means that we must redouble our ef
fort." In support of this view there are
indications that Mr. Baker will discuss
with chairmen of the house and sen
ate military committees probably this
week his enlarged army project, upon
which he has been laboring for some
weeks.
Plans Not Complete.
Mr. Baker said today that his plans
were not quite completed.
The plans include primarily exten
sion of the age limits for draft liabil
ity, additional appropriations and an
army mobilization on an enlarged
scale. Already six new divisions have
been ordered formed in the United
States and others will be created at an
early date to supplement the flow of
men through the replacement division
machinery.
A careful review of the man power
situation has been made by Provost
Marshal General Crowder as the basis
of the recommendations on draft age
Order Sounds Death
Knell For Sombrero
For V. S. Men In England
London, July 29. The death knell
of the sombrero type of hat wh'.ch
has been a great favorite with
American soldiers in England is
sounded in a general order issued
by American headquarters. The or
der states that all officers and en
listed men on duty in England will
cease to wear the service hat after
August 1 and will turn in such hats
to the quartermaster.
The regulation headgear in the
future will be the "overseas cap,"
similar to that worn by British
aviators.
changes Mr. Baker will make. Gen
eral Crowder is credited with believ
ing that all men between 18 and 45
years should be brought within the
draft, but it appears probable that the
formal plans of the War department
will not go quite to that limit in either
direction. The age limits most gener
ally set by those endeavoring to de
termine in advance Mr. Baker's atti
tude are 19 to 6, inclusive. Lowering
of the draft age is expected to meet
with opposition in congress, although
raising of the age is said to be gen
erally favored.
Hobby Has Great Majority
In Race for Texas Governor
Dallas, Tex., July 29. Six demo
cratic congressmen had been renom
inated on the face of returns received
tonight from Saturday's democratic
primary in Texas. Latest figures
showed safe majorities for Represen
tatives Reyburn, "Hardy, Eagle, Wil
son, Blanton and Jones.
G A. Collins of Beaumont was
leading in the second district; C. S.
Briggs had a favorable margin of
more than 3,000 votes in the seventh;
the election of Carlos Bee in the
fourteenth was virtually certain and
in the sixteenth Z. C. Cobb had con
ceded the nomination of C. B. Hud
speth.
W. A. Johnson maintained his lead
for lieutenant governor and late re
turns failed to cut down the 170.000
majority of Governor W. I. Hobby
over former Governor Ferguson.
Celebrates 100th Birthday.
Beloit, Wis., July 29. George B.
Deyer celebrated his 100th, birthday
today. He was born on a farm near
Hartford, Conn. A daughter, Mrs.
Josephine G. Lowe, 78 years old, re
sides at Washington.
$200,000 Worth of Cars
Entered in Auto Races ;
Today at Mitchell, S. D
Mitchell, S. D., July 29. Ten driv
ers with machines, the value of whicl
totals $200,000, arrived here today tc
compete in the automobile races tc
be held here tomorrow.
Eight events, will be staged, includ
ing an Australian handicap race at 11
miles, in which all cars passed art
eliminated. Drivers entered includt
Lampskin, Boyd, Dashbach, Allen
Epperson, Davisson, Henderson
Young, Lecoq and Buchanon.
A feature of the program is a match j
between John Boyd, a millionaire oi! 1
man of Tulsa, Okla., with a twin six
Packard and R. Burr Lampskin o(
Chicago with his Sun Ray roamer.
Another feature will be the Aus
tralian handicap race, in which there
are four starters, starting at the four
equal points of the track. As a car
is passed it is eliminated and race
is limited to 10 laps of the one mile
track. The purse for this race if
$400.
The Weather
omparatWe I .oral Rooord.
1917.
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5
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ltlo,
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Highest yesterday 77
Lowest yesterday 6t
Mean temperature ....70
Precipitation T.
Temperature and rraelplUtion departure!
from the normal:
Normal tomperMur 7J
Deficiency for the day J
Total etcesa since March 1 581
Normal precipitation 12 Inch
Deficiency for the clay 13 Incli
Total. rainfall since March 1.....9.33 Inohea
Deficiency since March 1 ..8.71 Inches
Deficiency for cor. period. 1917.. 2.2 Inches
Deficiency for cor. period, 19D4..S.38 Inches
Report From Stations at 7 P. X.
Station. State Temp- Iliuh- Ralri-
of Weather. 7 p. m,
Cheyenne, clear 74
Davenport, clear 76
Denver, clear S3
Des Moines, clear. ...... .7
Undue City, part cloudy. 84
Lander, part cloudy. ., .84
North Flatte. clear 80
Omaha, clear 78
Pueblo, part cloudy 80
Rapid City, clear 80
Halt Lake, clear S3
Santa Fe, cloudy 72
Hherldan, clear 88
Sioux City, clear 78
Valentine, clear ........78
"T" Indicate! trace of precipitation.
I.. A. WELSH, Meteorologist.
cut. fall
7 .01
84 .02
84 T.
7 .00
88 . .01
88 .0
82 .00
77" T-
82 T.
80 T,
84 .00
7 T.
88 .00
78 .
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