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War News.
French troops attacked over a front
of approximately three niiles between
Cutel and north of Mallly-Relneval
(In the Picardy sector), recently, ac-
cording to the war office statement.
The village of Coital, the Anchin
Farm and a number of strong German
positions were taken and five hundred
prisoners captured.
4 4 4
The French and Italians fighting in
Albania have carried their lines
steadily northward. The town of
Berat, the most Important point in
Southern Albania, has fallen into Al-
lied bands. It is reported that large
quantities of Austrian supplies stored
at Berat were destroyed by the re-
treating Austrians.
+ ♦ ♦
A large German patrol which at-
tempted to raid the American trenches
on the Marne front the other morning
was broken up and routed in confu-
sion, The Germans left several dead,
which aided the Americans in estab-
lishing the identification A new Ger-
man units.
+ + +
Italian troops on their offensive in
Albania continue to advance, says a
dispatch from Rome to the Central
News Agency. The Austro-Hungarians
are failing back on the Skumbi river,
twenty-five miles north of Berat.
+ + +
The most active area in the var-
ious theaters of the war is in Albania,
where the French and Italians are
continuing their successes against the
Austrians. While it is not expected
that far-reaching results will be
brought about by the offensive in this
section of the world, the movement
has in it possibilities which seem in-
teresting.
* * *
Where have been no events recently
of an unusual character along the
American-held sectors of the line, ex-
cept at Chateau Thierry, where Amer-
ican aviators have been active.
* * *
While waiting for the German high
command to show its hand in begin-
ning a new assault, the allied forces
on the Western front are giving the
enemy little opportunity to perfect
his arrangements for launching the
attack. From the Lys sector, on the
north, to the Champagne front, in
Eastern France, there has been sud-
den thrusts at the German lines, at
least one of which has made consid-
erable ground.
♦ ♦ ♦
While the fighting on the Mace-
donian and Albanian frontiers must
remain a side issue to the great bat-
tles that are expected momentarily In
France, and possibly Northern Italy,
the progress of the French and Ital-
ians along the Albanian coast brings
that theater of the war Into consid-
eration.
* ♦ *
Washington.
President Wilson vetoed the 28 mil-
lion dollar annual Agricultural Ap-
propriation bill because of the amend-
ment fixing the government guaran-
teed minimum wheat price at $2.(0
a bushel. He gave as one reason that
he did not believe the farmers of
America ’‘depended upon a stimula-
tion of price to do their utmost to
nerve the Nation and the world at
this time of crisis.”
4 4 4
A sensational warning by the Na-
tional Coal Association that booze is
really curtailing coal production gave
additional impetus to the movement
for prohibition of the liquor traffic
for the remainder of the war.
(• + +
The suspicion that Germany has an-
nexed the Russian navy, which would
make the aggregate strength of the
German navy 25 per cent greater
than that of the American navy, is
causing considerable uneasiness at
the Navy Department.
4 4 4
The War Department has issued
general orders, prescribing rules for
taking the votes of soldiers with the
American expeditionary forces and
suggesting that states desiring to give
soldiers voting privileges should
•mend their laws to meet the limita-
tions set forth.
4 4 4
Mme. Maria Botchkareva, colonel In
the Russian Army and former com-
mander of the famous Woman Bat-
talion of Death, discussed Russian
questions with President Wilson re-
cently at the White House.
+ + +
Domestic.
When the last of the July draft con-
tingent moves to camp late this month
the United States will have more
than 3 million men under arms in its
•rmy and navy.
+ 44
Without any demonstration, Eagle l,
the first of the submarine chasers tc
be built by Henry Ford for the gov-
ernment, was launched at Detroit re
cently. Several hundred workmen at
the submarine chaser plant witnessed
the launching.
4 4 4
Provost Marshal General Crowder
has issued a call for an additional
3,000 men from thirty-eight states to
produce spruce wood In Ihe forests of
the Northwest for airplane construc-
tion. From Class I only men who
are qualified for special or limited ser-
vice will be accepted.
4 4 4
Completion of twenty-three ships of
122,771 deadweight tons In the first
week of July made a total of 223 new
vessels built under the direction of
the shipping board. This aggregate
tonnage Is 1,(16,022. Of the new fleet
218 vessels already are In actual ser-
vice.
4 4 4
It Is now believed that fully one
hundred persons were killed in the
wreck of two Nashville, Chattanooga
ft St. Louis trains near Nashville,
Tenn., recently. Between twenty and
twenty-five of the victims are white
men and womb.
4 4 4
An observation balloon anchored
over the Bath Beacu naval training
station was struck by lightning at 9
o’clock at night and blew up In a burst
of flame. The balloon usually car-
ried two or more observers, but a re-
port to the police said no one was in
llie basket when it exploded.
4 4 4
An American liner front Chile, arriv-
ing at New York with eighty-five pas-
sengers and a cargo of 3,600 tons of
nitrate for munitions, was attacked
by a U-boat off Cape Henry the other
night. Two torpedoes were fired
without warning, but both missed by
a narrow margin.
4 4 4
A German submarine, which attack-
ed the American steamship Lake For-
est fifteen hundred miles off Cape
Henry while she was returning from
a recent voyage to Europe, Is be-
lieved to have been sunk by the
steamer's guns after a 2 hour running
fight, according to Information re-
ceived in marine circles at New York.
4 4 4
Southwest.
Adjutant Genera] Harley of Texas
ordered a detachment of twenty-five
rangers to proceed immediately to San
Jacinto county in East Texas to hunt
down a number of draft evaders, who
shot and killed Ranger Dudley White
of Austin and severely wounded Ran-
ger Walter Rowe of Fort Worth.
4 4 4
Lewis Gleason, 103 yearR old, died
recently at his home two miles north-
west of Lawton, Okla. Mr. Gleason
came from Vermont years ago and
waa of French descent. He was born
March (, 1815.
4 4 4
The preliminary estimate of the
Rice Millers’ Association, published
recently, gives the total rice acreage
In the South this year 1,130,717 acres.
4 4 4
Dr. Una Howe Hasskarl, wife of
Major Robert A. Hasskarl of the One
Hundred and Eleventh sanitary train,
Camp Bowie, Fort Worth, was killed
near Dallas, Tex., recently, when an
automobile in which she was riding
turned turtle and rolled into a ditch.
4 4 4
Three persons were shot and the
mail and express cars looted recently
when the southbound "Texas Special"
of the Missouri, Kansas ft Texas Rail-
road was held up by a gang of masked
men at Koch, Kan., a mile south of
Paola, forty-seven miles southwest of
Kansas City.
4 4 4
Tulsa’s war-savings stamp bank at
Fourth and Main, said to be the hand-
somest institution of the kind in the
West, will open for business in a few
days. All materials that went Into
the building and the labor were do-
nated.
4 4 4
Nat Hoffman, a white soldier, was
hanged at 5:45 o'clock the other morn-
ing at C'amp McArthur, near Wacc,
Texas. He was convicted of attack-
ing a Bchool girl last April.
4 4 4
Foreign.
The British fighting forces in
France now aggregate 2 million men,
says the Havas correspondent on the
British front. This equals the num-
ber on the front In 1917.
4 4 4
A proclamation has been Issued at
Dublin calling to the colors, under
penalty of an offense against the De-
fense of the Realm Act, all British
subjects liable to military service who
have come to Ireland to escape It.
4 4 4
Japan's reported decision refusing
to intervene in Siberia is authorita-
tively denied, according to a dispatch
from Tokio. It is added that the atti-
tude of Japan is unchanged and that
the feeling in unofficial circles there
is almost unanimous that it is unnec-
essary to send troops to Siberia at
present.
+ 44
Able bodied men selling insurance | An American naval launch, after
are classed as non-essentlally employ- aiding a French destroyer in towing
ed by the South Dakota Council of a disabled American seaplane to safe-
Defense in a supplemental order to ty, was sunk by German shore bat-
lts "work or fight” regulations issued teries, two of her crew probably
the other day. j drowning and two taken prisoner by
+ * + the enemy.
Taxes on luxuries and not it few 4. 4. 4.
necessities for the double barreled That a gas, or counter gas. has
purpose of filling the national war just been invented which will dissipate
chest and enforcing wrartlme economy or purify poison gas hurled into our
and thrift, are proposed in a list of linos by the Germans was the story
taxation suggestions submitted by the I told by several American soldiers who
Treasury Department to the ways .md arrived at an Atlantic port recently
means committee of the House. I aboard a French steamship.
KAISER PICKED THE WRONG
SPOT TO REOPEN HIS BIG
OFFENSIVE
65-MILE FRONT IS INVOLVED
In General Assault Which is Repulsed
•t All Points by French, American
and Italian Troops—Americans
Take Whole Brigade Staff.
With the American Army in France.
—The long delayed reopening of the
German offensive came at last, with
the brunt of the attack centered on
the American troops. The enemy is
making no headway.
The great German attack was
definitely held up on the whole front
east of Rheims five hours after It
was launched, and the only German
gainR worth in'entioning were In the
neighborhood of the Souain road and
Prunay, where they succeeded in
penetrating for about one and one-
half miles on a narrow front. At both
these points the French began strong
counter-attacks.
Marne Is Crossed.
On the front west of Rheims the
Germans had once more success, but
the only important gain to their credit
for the morning’s work was the cross-
ing of the Marne and a zone a little
more than a mile beyond on a front
of about ten miles. The Marne In
this district is only a small, shallow
river and can easily be crossed In
the early morning mists. Its loss to
the allies, however, deprives them of
a fairly valuable defensive land work.
The Germans launched their attack
on a front evidently extending from
north of Chalons In Champagne, west-
ward to beyond Chateau Thierry. The
Hun drive fell against the American
troops east of Rheims and west of
Chateau Thierry.
The offensive in the region of
Chateau Thierry was preceded by an
Intense artillery demonstration begin-
ning at midnight. Not only did the
boche heavily bombard the front
lines, but it is evident that he is using
the new long range guns. He shelled
positions twenty-five and thirty miles
behind the line.
After the Germans had made what
advance they could, a strong Ameri-
can counter attack Bouth of the river
bend completely upset them, who
broke In retreat. The American
troops drove the enemy back all tho
way to the railway skirting the Marne
in the region southwest of Jaulgonne.
This position now is being held.
The German prisoners captured in
the counter-attack by the Americans
at the bend on the Marne numbered
between 1,000 and 1,500. They include
a complete brigade staff.
Fighting Continues With Intensity.
The fighting continues with fierce
Intensity in this district while the
battle rages with equal ferocity on the
right, where the French are reported
to have delivered a smashing blow
against the enemy. From this section
of the battle front It appears that the
German offensive, at least, for the time
being, has been badly shattered.
The Americans now command the
river front at the bend. At the left of
the bend, the famous German tenth di-
vision has made repeated attempts to
cross, but all assaults have been
smashed by the splendidly directed
fire of the American gunners, and not
a single German succeeded in getting
over at this point.
The French general commanding the
group of armies on this sector sent a
congratulatory message to the Ameri-
can general commanding the forces
which beat back the enemy.
The Vaux district is comparatively
calm now. On the American right,
heavy fighting is in progress.
Pour Deadly Streams of Bullets.
American machine gunners along the
river assisted materially in breaking
up the early boche plans, for they
stuck to their posts and poured deadly
streams of bullets Into the enemy and
only withdrew w hen their guns were so
hot they could not be fired.
One group of machine gunners hap-
pened to be in a place where the Ger-
mans were anxious to erect a bridge,
but their efforts were fruitless. The
American bullets piled up the German
dead on the opposite side of the river
every time the enemy started to cross.
• South of Jaulgonne the enemy cross-
ed the Marne on six pantoon bridges
hurriedly thrown over the stream and
masses of Infantry swarmed forward.
The artillery constantly had the bridg-
es under the heaviest fire sud at least
twTo direct hits were made, two of the
bridges being blown up.
While fighting in the open continued
heroically, the American counter-at-
tack was organized. Light artillery
was hurried Into position. It concen-
trated a heavy fire at short range and
when this fire had ceased the Ameri-
can infantry dashed from cover and
met the oncoming boches.
Machine gunners moved forward and
lying on the ground, poured a stream
of bullets into the enemy. The fierce-
ness of the fire brought the Germans
up short. They would not face the
steel, and hesitating at first, finally |
broke and fell back. Within three
hours the Americans had driven them
two and a half miles to the Marne.
Along one extended sector of the
Marne front the Americans were in the
open ground, making use as best they
might of whatever shelter offered
HAUL GUNS TO AN AMERICAN WAR CAMP
........ ____________
These 155-millimeter guns, made by France for use by the American army,
are being hauled by a motorcar from the Parc de Princ, St. Cloud, France, to
un American artillery camp. ,
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WOMEN DRIVERS
FEAR TOO MUCH
Fair Motorist Expresses Opinion
That They Lack Confidence
in Themselves.
DRIVING IS STATE OF MIND
Many Know What to Do Under Prac-
tically All Conditions and Still
Fail to Do It—Best Nerve
Tonic In the World.
As has been said about worry—
namely; that most of one’s troubles
never happen—so the fear that a wom-
an has in driving u car Is not so much
that as it is the fear of being afraid.
At least that Is the opinion of a well-
known woman motorist.
“From my own experience and the
experience of other women to whom
1 have talked about the subject, I be-
lieve the most difficult thing a woman
has to overcome In learning to drive
a car Is not to be afraid of being
afraid,” says this expert woman driver.
"Probably this sounds a little compli-
cated, and an eusier way to say It
would be that women as a whole, I be-
lieve, lack confidence In themselves to
handle the unexpected, should the un-
expected occur.
Easy to Handle Car.
MA lot has been said about driving.
Much advice has been offered as to
what to do and what not to do. I be-
lieve that good driving Is simply a
state of mind and that as soon as any
one discovers how easy It Is to handle
a car and how near an impossibility
it Is for an emergency to arise that
cannot be met with little effort, when
the simple mechanism of the modern
car Is mastered, she has learned about
all there Is to know In order to drive
a car.
“Of course one might know what
to do under practically all conditions,
and still not do It. Here Is where lots
of women fall as good drivers; their
fear of doing the wrong thing is so
great that they do nothing at all.
Material Benefits.
"I have yet to see any woman who
has not been materially benefited by
driving. The fresh air, the co-ordina-
tion of eye, mind and muscle, the ex-
hilaration of feeling that you are mas-
ter of the powerful and yet tractable
motor, and that It will answer your
every whim, ennnot help but have a
beneficial effect on the nerves. In
fact, I firmly believe that driving Is
the best nerve tonic In the world.
“I have driven my car over thou-
sands of miles of all kinds of roads—
boulevards, deserts and mountains.
The fact that I have never had an ac-
cident of any kind adds a lot to the
sum total of my pleasure, of course,
but I know that even had I experi-
enced a lot of trouble I would not
sacrifice for a great deal the actual
gain in health and the Joy of driving
that I have experienced in my car.”
ATTENTION TO SPRING SEATS
They Should Be Oiled, or If Grease
Cup Is Provided, It Should Be
Turned Up Often.
Movable spring seats which are used
In some cars should receive periodic
attention. They should be oiled, or
If a grease cup Is provided, as Is usu-
ally the case, It should be turned up
every few days. In springs of the
cantilever type It is necessary to give
the fulcrum Joint periodic attention.
DO YOU KNOW
CARING FOR RADIATOR CAPS
Practice of Using It to Push Cars Back
Is Dangerous as it Is Liable to
Bo Broken.
When it is necessary to back a car
Into place by pushing the first thing
on which most drivers settle Is the
radiator cap. This is rather a dan-
gerous practice, for the exertion of
such heavy pressure agninst this part
Is quite liaely to break it off.
That two or three pairs of pli-
ers instead of one should be car-
ried?
That you must know the load
per tire in order to inflate prop-
erly?
That two horns should be In-
stalled when a long tour Is to be
made?
That one should never forget
spare tire valves and a hand tire
pump for emergency?
That in lapping the piston It
should be given both a recipro-
cating and an oscillating motion?
That If the silent chain Is ex-
posed when In operation It
should be oiled as frequently as
possible?
That maximum tire mileage
will be obtained If the casings
always are properly Inflated
and kept free from cuts?
That If your car always Is
loaded to capacity the tire
should be inflated to the maxi-
mum called for by the size, but
If the load carried Is less than
normal the tire pressure can be
reduced and easier riding ob-
tained?
That when a stud has become
“frozen” In place you can re-
move It by screwing on two nuts
and turning the lower nut with
a wrench? The upper one acts
as a lock and allows the lower
one to pull the stud around.
USE FOR CHAIN TIGHTENERS
Device Hooks on In Jiffy and Givee
Even Tension All Around—
Spring Is Ueed.
If you are annoyed by “slapping”
tire chains, or the occasional experi-
ence of having a chain get unhooked
nnd lost, you may care to know of a
chain tightener which hooks on in a
Chain Tightener.
Jiffy, catching the chain at five points
und giving an even tension all around.
A spring holds the chain close to the
tire, but not tightly enough to prevent
the creeping motion which avoids dam-
age to the tread.
HAMMER IN REPAIRING AUTO
Care In Use of Tool Is One of First
Things Amateur Should Learn
In Fixing Engine.
Care In the use of the machinist's
hammer, which forms a part of the
tool equipment of every automobile, Is
one of the first things the amateur
automobile repair man must lerirn
when working around the engine, says
a writer in the current Issue of Amer-
ican Motorist. With this hammer he
can do more damage in a moment
than a good man can repair in a week.
His first inclination is to use this form
of persuasion on any and every re-
fractory part, and this is a desire
which should be overcome.
Not only should the hammer Itself
not be used on any metal parts with-
out the Intervention of a block of
wood to protect the surface, hut care
must be exercised to avoid hitting the
other parts through the Inaccuracy of
aim that distinguishes the unskilled
wielder of this tool.
A poorly aimed blow that misses its |
target and lauds on one of the valve
push rods or similarly vulnerable parts
with any degree of force is apt to cause
trouble of an expensive nature.
It Is a good thing for the novice to
be sparing in the use of his hammer aj
a cure-all.
Ford Owners Attention!
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Increase compression and speed
wonderfully.
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Enough to Go Around.
Don’t imagine that you’re getting
all the hard luck or all the good luck,
because that never happened to any-
body and never will.
Samaritanism.
A Sunday school teacher had been
recounting to her class the story of
the Good Samaritan. When she asked
them what the story meant, one boy
said:
“It means that when I am In troubl®
my neighbors must help me.”
Familiar Name.
"Those who can speak French a lit-
tle,” says an American soldier writ-
ing from France, “are constantly asked
questions by those who can’t, such aa,
'Why do they cpII so many dogs In
France Ici?’ One hates to tell theirs
the reason Is that ’lcl’ means ’here,”
and of course In calling the dog they
•ay, ‘Here, here!' ”—Outlook.
Mark Had It Right.
Mark Twain, so the story goes, was
walking on a Hannibal street when h»
met a colored woman with her youth-
ful family.
“So this Is the little girl, eh?" Mark
said to her as she displayed her chil-
dren. “And this sturdy little urchin In
the bib belongs, I suppose, to the con-
trary sex?”
“Yassah,” the woman replied; “yas-
sah, dat’s a girl, too."
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