THEBEE: OMAHA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1918.
RICKENBACHER
DOWNS 2 MORE
ENEMY PLANES
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Latest American Ace Is Lieut.
William Erwin, Who Has
Destroyed His Ffth
Machine.
Vith the American Army in
France, Oct. 11. The first Ameri
can aviation pursuit squadron com
pleted its 100th successive victory
Thursday night with a "Boche
itrafing raid," which netted six ma
chines. Of these, Lt. Edward Rick
enbacher of Omaha got two, bring
ing his official total to IS with three
more which probably will be con
5rmed soon.
' Lt. Hamilton Coolidge of Boston
and William rainier Bennettsville,
S. C, downed one between them;
Lt. Tames A. Meissner of Brooklyn,
Lt. Ralph A. O'N'eil of Nogales,
Ariz., and Lieutenant Waters, one
among them; Lt. Reed M. Chambers
of Memphis, Tenn., and Lt. Wilbert
W. White of New York, one each.
Observer Becomes Ace.
With the American Forces North
west of Verdun, Oct. 11. The latest
American ace is Lt. William Erwin,
who though an observer and there
fore not supposed to engage in fight
ing, has downed his fifth German air
plane. Lieutenant Erwin was men
tioned in army orders which have
been read to all the aviation units
for his latest performance.
The lieutenant was on an observa
tion trip with Lientenant Ester
brook, who also was cited, when
he met an enemy plane and forced
it to retire. A moment later he
met three Germans over Varennes.
broke up the formation and forced
it to retire. Then he ran into two
more German machines directing in
fantry liaison and finally a biplane
over Sommerance. Lieutenant Er
win wOHnded or killed the observer
of the biplane and therr Esterbrook
closed with the plane. It was sent
crashing down.
' ; Returning to his observation mis-
sionj Lieutenant Erwin carried it
out successfully, but on his return
met a single Halberstadt, which he
drove into flight.
Of his five victories, Lieutenant
Edwin gained one in the St. Mihiel
fighting and the other four during
the present actions northwest of
Verdun. All five have been official
ly confirmed. It has become a habit
with Lieutenant Edwin to engage as
many enemy planes as possible in
conjunction with his daily observa
tion work. N
Pittsburgh Doctor
Claims Discovery of
Cure for Influenza
l Pittsburgh, Fa., Oct. 11. Dr.
George F. Baer of the Homeopathic
, hospital staff here, announced this
r afternoon that he has found a suc-
cessful cure and preventative for
Spanish influenza.
In announcing the result of exper
' iments since the epidemic began, Dr.
Baer said the preparation used is
' not a scientific secret, but a combina-
tion of iodine and creosote.
.Washington, Oct. 11. Officials of
' . the public health service hesitate to
' express an opinion on the report
; from Pittsburgh of the discovery of
. a cure and preventative for Span-
ish influenza, but point out that
' ? , successful medical treatments and
t methods generally required long per
s iods to evolve and test.
Experimental work has been pro
reeding in public health laboratories
for some weeks in the endeavor to
develop serum or anti-toxins with
results which are not yet available
Tor the use of physicians.
Odd Fellows' Grand Lodge
At Lincoln Is Postponed
The meeting of 1,100 delegates of
the grand lodge of Independent
Order of Odd Fellows, scheduled for
October 14, 15, 16 and 17, at Lincoln,
was postponed for 30 days, Friday,
' by Dr. E. Arthur Carr, grand mas
ter, and the executive committee of
the grand lodge.
" Delegates have been notified by
wire of the postponement which w as
rendered necessary by the Spanish
influenza situation.
, Williams Held on Charge
,v j Of Passing Forged Checks
s Charles Witliams, 2819 North
v . Twenty-seventh street, was arrested
J . Friday night and charged with be-7-
ing a fugitive from justice, and with
'?.' forgery:
? . It is alleged 3Villiams has passed
' forged checks on trie Myers-Dil-
I j" Ion Drug company and other Omaha
" firms. He is wanted on like charges
' in' Ponchin, Neb, and Sioux City,
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; Water Extension at Ft. Crook
. Assured by War Department
1 Water extensions to Fort Crook
have been approved and the work
will be started and rushed according
to information received by Corn
s' missioner Manley at the Chamber
of Commerce. Acting Secretary of
' - War Crowell wired the information
to Omaha and said that active con
struction would be started itn
mediately. Earth Crust Trembles.
Washington, Oct. 11. An ex
tremely heavy earthquake, estimat-
ed to have been centered about 1,-
600 miles from W ashington and
. probably in Central America, .be-
gan at 10:20 a. m. today and the
:v tremors were continuing at 1:30 p.
m. The seismographs at George-
town university show the maximum
" shocks occurred at 10:31 a. m., with
the greatest disturbance east and
west. . -.: , .v ...
Vx f; i" , Doctor Gets "Flu."-
A W- .Davis,.' 3929 North
i. in. an ia i:imuucu iv'.ius
ftor"; has Been . carina tor from
10 48 .patients haying the disease.
More Than l$00fl00
Americans Are Now
Overseas for War
Washington, Oct. 11. American
troops sent overseas have passed
the 1,900,000 mark, General March
announced today, coupling his
statement with an urgent appeal
to the country to support the
Fourth Liberty loan.
The present is no time to hang
back, General March said, for the
maximum resources of the nation
and men and money must be
"hurled at the Hun" to make vic
tory certain, and while the move
ment of soldiers aero, the water
is continuing the War department
is preparing another 2,000,000 men
to follow the first 2,000,000.
The department has asked con
gress for $8,000,000,000 to carry
out its program, he added, and the
financial support of that program
must not be withheld by the nation.
135 WOMEN AND
CHILDREN AMONG
U-BOATVICTIMS
480 Persons Perish When Pas
senger Liner Leinster Is
Torpedoed and Sunk
in Irish Sea.
London, Oct. 11. According to
the latest estimate 480 persons per
ished when the passenger liner
Leinster was torpedoed and sunk
by a German submarine. The ves
sel carried 687 passengers and had
a crew of about 70 men.
Dublin, Oct. 11. Of ISO women
and children aboard the steamship
Leinster, when she was destroyed
by a German submarine, only 15
have been accounted for. Several
of these have died since they were
brought ito port.
After the Leinster had been struck
by the first torpedo, the submarine
fired a second torpedo. This mis
sile struck the vessel amidships, en
tered the engine room and caused
an explosion of the ship's boilers.
There was some confusion as the
passengers tried to enter the boats
and many persons were thrown into
the sea.
As soon as information regard
ing the Leinster's plight reached
Kingstown tugs and destroyers
hastened to the place.
Survivors said that the submarine
fired two torpedoes without warn
ing from a range of about ISO
yards.
Details of the lost and saved have
not yet beelie obtained. Captain
Birch, the Leinster's commander,
was among those lost.
Second Torpedo Disastrous.
Fourth' Engineer Jones said that
if the second torpedo had not struck
the Leinster, all on board except
those who had been directly killed
by the first torpedo probably would
have been saved, as there was plen
ty of time to launch the boats.
The explosion of the second tor
pedo, however, he said, blew the
ship up like matchwood.
Jones saved himself by jumping.
He was in the water one hour and
was clinging to a raft when res
cued by a destroyer.
The rescuing ships picked up
scores of persons from the water
where they were still clinging to
upturned boats, rafts and broken
timbers. The survivors were brought
to Kingstown; All were in a des
perate state as a result of their
hour's Exposure in the . rough sea.
A number of dead bodies also were
landed.
The Leinster was the fifth chan
nel boat sunk by submarines.
Survivors Parise Captain.
Among Americans on the'Lein
ster who escaped were J. M. Raf
ferty, D. J. Murphy, G. W. Rus
sell and Dwyer and
Hogan. All these are being cared
for at the soldiers "war hotel." The
fate of another American, John A.
Rose, has not been learned.
Three American Baptist ministers,
Truett, Hoyt and Francis, and a Mr.
Shields of Toronto, had booked pas
sage on the Leinster, but owing to
the bad weather had been unable to
leave Cork in time to catch the boat.
;'0ne More " $50 Bond
Is Slogan of League
To Enforce Peace
New York, Oct. 11. Liberty loan
subscription blanks carrying a mes
sage to President Wilson, General
Pershing and "the boys over there"
were sent today by the League to
Enforce Peace to its 250,000 mem
bers asking each to buy "one more"
$50 bond. The message reads:
"To President Wilson:
"Tell Pershing and the boys to
carry on until the German army is
licked to a flavescent frazzle and
Prussian militarism pulverized.
"Tell them that when they have
made the world safe we'll back you
up in your determination to keep it
safe with a league of free nations.
"Tell them that this is my sub
scription for one more bond of the
fourth Liberty loan and to take this
extra fifty dollars and wallop old
Hindenburg for me."
The card bears a coupon to be
cut off and mailed to William H.
Taft, president of the league, by
those who buy "one more bond"
and who send the message.
Von Berg Out of Teuton
Cabinet, is Berlin Report
Amsterdam, Oct. 10. The resig
nation of Herr von Berg, chief of
the German emperor's civil cabinet,
has been accepted, according to the
Vossische Zeitung of Berlin. He
will be succeeded by a personality
acquainted with parliamentary con
ditions ana usages, tne paper says.
'PERSONAL paragraphs.
MISSING FROM
Tl CON DEROGA
NUMBER 116
One Nebraskan and One lowan
Named in List of Men
Killed in U-Boat
Attack.
Washington, Oct. 11. Ten offi
cer4 and 106 enlisted men of the
American steamer Ticonderoga,
sunk by an enemy submarine Sep
tember 30, were reported missing in
an announcement today by the Navy
department. Lieutenants Frank L.
Miller, Oakland, Cal., and Julius H.
Fulcher, Frisco, N. C, were taken
prisoners by the U-boat crew.
Among the missing are John W.
Heater of Dawson, Neb., and John
M. Glynn of Davenport, la.
Three officers . and five enlisted
men were announced as, the only
known survivors of the Ticonderoga.
Survivors landed at an Atlantic
port, reported as numbering bout 25,
are believed Jo include members of
a detachment of soldiers detailed to
care for horses who were being
landed.
The navy announcement gave
merely the names of the crew of the
Ticonde cga reported to be miss
ing, saved and taken prisoner. No
details of the sinking of the Ticon
deroga, a vessel of 5,130 tons, form
erly the Gel-man steamship Camilla
Rickmers, nave been announced.
Survivors arriving in this country
said the ship was torpedoed when.
because of engine trouble, she fell
behind her convoy about 1,700 miles
off the Atlantic coast. After send
ing a torpedo crashing into the side
the submarine shelled the Ticon
deroga and her boats, killing and
wounding many.
Five Survivors Picked Up.
An Atlantic Port, Oct. 11. Five
more survivors of the steamship Ti
conderoga, formerly, the German
steamship Camilla Rickmers, tor
pedoed, while on her way to France,
arrived here late today on a British
steamship. " ' '
1 0 000 Civilians Freed
By Advancing British
And American Troops.
With the Anglo-American Forces
East of Cambrai, Oct. 11. Nearly
10,000 French civilians have been
liberated from the Germans by the
advancing British and Americans.
Four thousand civilians were
found in Bohain alone. They were
in a pitiful condition, having been
without food for three days when
rescued. Tears of joy coursed
down the emaciated cheeks of the
liberated men and women.
Two thousand five hundred civil
ians rescued from the Germans at
Caudry rushed from the town as
the British stormed toward it, wav
ing their arms and cheering.- Tears
of joy streamed down their thin
faces. Germans had robbed them
of all their belongings.
Overdue Steamer Thought
to Have Been Lost at Sea
San Francisco, Oct. 11. The
wooden steamer San Gabriel, 560
gross tons, which left here Septem
ber 11 for La Paz, lower California,
with a general cargo, is 30 days over
due at its destination, and tonight
was given up for lost by officials, of
the Gulf Mail .Steamship company.
The vessel was commanded by Capt.
Roger Allman and carried a crew of
19 men. It is believed the-vessel
foundered in a storm.
Arthur Brisbane Buys
The Evening Wisconsin
Milwaukee, Oct. 11. Arthur Bris
bane, editor of the Hearst news
papers and owner of the Wash
ington Times, today became the
ow?ier of the Evening Wisconsin.
Accused of Periling Dope..
Cia rence C. Green, a cook, living
at, 2840 Grant street, was arrested
with two and one-half ounces of
morphine in his possession, Friday
night. It is believed that he has
been peddling dope about the city
for some time.
QUARANTINE ON
"FLU" WILL NOT
BE OFF SUNDAY
Damp Weather Cause of In
crease in Number of Cases
Since Thursday; Five
More Deaths.
Returns from physicians on Span
ish "flu" cases indicate a slight in
crease during the last 24 hours.
Health Commissioner Manning es
timated 400 new cases, as against
300, in the previous 24 hours.
"Positively the closing order will
hold over Sunday and probably sev
eral days more. Conditions at this
time do not warrant making any
statement as to lifting the order,"
Five more deaths from this dis
ease increase the total to 24 for
Omaha- since the outbreak.
The health office has issued or
ders that public funerals are within
the prohibition against "public gath
erings." The health office requests the
names of physicians who do not
have as many influenza cases as they
can treat, as some physicians are
being overworked.
'FLU' EPIDEMIC
SHOWS NO SIGNS
OF ABATEMENT
Health Service Reports Do Not
Indicate That Malady Has
Even Reached Its
' Peak Yet.
Washington, Oct. 11. The epi
demic of Spanish influenza which
has reached practically every sec
tion of the country, continued to
day with no signs of abatement.
Detailed reports as to its spread
among the civilian population were
not available at the public health
bureau tonight, but officials raid
nothinsr had been received to indi
cate that the malady had even
reached its peak.
New cases of influenza in army
camps showed a slight decline' m
he 24 hours ending at noon today,
but pneumonia cases increased over
yesterday.
Influenza cases reported to the
turgeon general of the army num
bered 12,024, pneumonia cases 2,824,
enza, 2797 new caes of pneumon
ia, and 899 deaths.
The total number of influenza
and' deaths 892. Yesterday's reports
showed 12,321 new cases of influ
cases at camps since the beginning
of the epidemic has reached 23.1.
000, pneumonia cases, 27,907, and
deaths, 8,335. ,
1,066 New, Cases at Camp. Dodge.
Rapid spread of the epidemic was
reported at .Camp Travis, Tex., with
1,117 new cases; at Camp Dodge,
la., with 1,066, and at . Camp Mc
Arthur, Tex with 653. Camp Ful
ton, Kan., reported more than 51X1
new cases, Camp Taylor, Ky., 437,
and Camp Sheridan, Ala., 342. Mark
ed subsidence of the disease was
shown in reports received from sev
eral camps, including Camp Grant.
Pneumonia showed the greatest
increase today at Camp Dodge with
329. new cases, Camp Taylor 206,
Camp Funston 192and Camp Cus
ter. Mich., 160.
Qom for . Movie Fans.
New York, Oct. ll.rAS an aid to
the fight against the spread of in
fluenza throughout the country tn
i... jI.iriKii fintr icen-
cies comprising the National Asso
ciation of the Motion ricture In
dustry decided today not to fse
new moving picture reels to exhibit
ors from October 13 to November 9,
except that contracts for serial pro
ductions and animated new ( reels
will not be broken.
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