The Carter Express. (Carter, Okla.), Vol. 9, No. 8, Ed. 1 Friday, May 10, 1918 Page: 2 of 8
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TUI UIT1I IZF1III
TWELVE PASSENGERS AND
, SEVEN MARINES AMONG
THE VICTIMS
RIMMED BY FRENCH CRUISER
8lnks Too Rapidly To Launch Life,
boata.—Warahlp Takea to Port
8urvlvor« of Steamahlp
City of Athena.
An Atlantic Port—Slxty-slx persons
lost their Urea when the steamship
City of Athens, bound from New York
to Savannah, was rammed and sunk
by a French cruiser off the Dela.
war coast.
The missing Include ten men and
two women who were passengers,
seven out of twenty-four United
States marines who were on board,
fourteen out of twenty French sailors
and thlrty-tbree members of the crew.
Passengers In Berths.
All the passengers and many of the
crew were In their berths when the
bow of the warship plunged into the
side of the 3,600.ton coastwise vessel.
Fire broke out alomst immediately
afterward in hold number 1, but it
had no bearing on the fate of the
ship for the flames were quickly
quenched by the rush of water which
poured in.
Captain J. Forward, one of the
veteran commanders in the service of
the Ocean Steamship Company, own.
ers of the vessel, did his best to avert
a panic and man the lifeboats.
So quickly did the doomed vessel
sink, however, that there was no time
to get the boats away and many of
those who perished were trapped in
their berths.
Those of the passengers and crew
who were able to reach the deck, all
of them thinly clad, and many with,
out life preservers plunged into the
sea.
The cruiser launched lifeboats im.
mediately after the crash and turned
its searchlights upon the waters in
which men and women were strug.
gling for their lives.
Sixty-eight persons were picked up
and brought back to this port by the
warship^ which was 'not seriously
damaged.
Heavy Fog Hanging.
Both ships were carrying running
lights because of the heavy fog which
hung over the sea.
F. J. Doherty, the wireless operator,
was able to send out only one "S. 0.
8.” call after the warship’s bow
plunged into the City of Athens side
near the bow.
Many Deeds of Heroism.
Many heroic deeds were recounted
by the survivors.
One of the heroes of the sea trag-
edy waB Harry A. Kelley of New
York, an oiler, who swam to an over-
turned lifeboat and dragged upon
the botom of it four persons who
were struggling in the sea.
He held them there until they were
jtakea off by a boat from the French
cruiser
The City of Athens was a vessel
of 3,648 tons gross register, built in
1911 at Camden N. J., for the Merch.
ants' and Miners’ Transportation
Company and formerly known as the
Somerset.
The vessel replaced the City of
Memphis, formerly in the same serv-
ice and which was sunk by a Ger-
man submarine March 17, 1916, while
on a trans-Atlantic voyage.
While the steamship company an-
nounced that twelve of the civilian
pessengers probably had been lost,
the list given out contained only
eleven names.
Collision Sinks Norwegian Ship.
An Atlantc Port.—The Norwegian
steamer, Fjell, was sunk off the Vir-
ginia coast when she collided with
the British steamer, Livingstonia.
The Fjell’s crew was saved by the
Livingstonia and landed here.
The collision occurred in a heavy
fog. The Livingstonia outward bound
frcyn this port crashed bow on amid-
ships of the Fjell which was coming
down the coast.
With a great hole in her hull the
Norwegian vessel sank Boon after the
crew had taken to the boats.
Captain JohanneBsen of the Fjell
and his crew lost all their effects,
many of the men reaching the boats
half clad. The captain said his ship
was sounding her fog signal regular,
ly and taking all proper precutions
Dd that the Livingstonia would be
libeled for damages.
The British captain would not dis-
cuss the collision further than to say
that he would make a full report at
the proper time.
The Fjell was a little vessel of §81
net tons. The LivingBtonia’s net Ma-
nage is 2,799.
AVIATOR FALLS TO DEATH
BAKER A6K8 CONGRESS FOR
NECESSARY POWER.
While No Number Is Msntlonsd, An
Amendmsnt Is Desired to Draft
Law to Grant More Authority.
Washington.—Secretary Baker at a
hearing before the bouse military
affairs commitee, in confidential Bee-
slon, asked that congress grant un-
limited power for the creation of an
army of whatever site necessary for
the prosecution of the war He told
the committee that it would be 111-
advised to restrict the number of men
to be utilized and that the site of the
army should be increased in the dis-
cretion of the government, as trans-
portation and equipment faclltles
warrant.
Secretary Baker indicated be would
submit a proposed measure, probably
as an amendment to the draft law, to
grant the unlimited authority asked.
Under the existing draft law, as con-
strued by Chairman Dent of the mil-
itary committee and others, there is
authority for us of only 1,000,000 men
under the draft. Mr. Dent introduced
a bill to authorise a draft total of
4,000,000 men, which with volunteers
already in the service, would make
an ultimate possible maximum
strength of 5,000,000 men.
Secretary Baker was questioned by
the committee regarding his views
to increasing the draft age. He said
he was studying the subject and bad
made no decision.
The house military committee will
immediately resume consideration of
the annual army appropriation bill
and Secretary Baker's idea is that it
shall provide only tor the number im-
mediately foreseen.
Indications are that it will carry
provision for equipment, transporta-
tion, pay and other expenses of ap-
proximately 3,000,005 men as part not
of a specific program, but as a fur-
therance of a blanket authority plan
Involving use of all or part of the
funds appropriated and supplemental
appropriations later on as the need
may become apparent.
Secretary Baker at the conclusion
of the hearing dictated this state-
ment:
"The war department program was
presented to the house military com-
mittee. It involved the expediting of
the training of the men and the nl-
creasing of the army as rapidly as
ability to equip and transport them
can be foreseen. The secretary of
war declined to discuss the numbers
of the proposed army for the double
reason that any specific number im-
plies a limit, and the only point of
limit is the ability to equip and
transport men, which is constantly on
the increase.
"The details of the estimates pro-
posed for the regular appropriation of
1918-19 will be gone into with the
committee, j These estimates, when
approved by the committee and acted
upon by congress, will be supplement-
ed by subsequent appropriations as
to facilities for transportation and the
additional equipment increase.
“Regarding the draft quota matter,
there was a discussion. Secretary
Baker took tbe position that he do-
sired to have sufficient quotas based
oir the number of men in Class 1
without the credits. There was no
change suggested as to the draft age
limitB.’’
FIELD AVIATOR FALLS TO HIS DEATH
Young Lieutenant Leaves Bride of
Three Weeks.
Lawton.—Lieutenant William Dean
Thompson of the 253d field artillery,
student observer at the Post field
school for aerial observers, was in-
stantly killed and Lieutenant Foster
Bailey, pilot, was seriously injured
when their plane fell 300 feet.
The engine stopped as the air men
were doing a spiral
Balloon Explosion Kills Two Soldiers.
Omaha—Two soldierB were burned
to death and eighteen men were
burned seriously when a captive ob-
servation balloon of the Cacquot type
exploded at Florence field, the army
balloon school at Fort Omaha, near
here, according to a stateemnt by
Col. H. B. Hersey, post commandant.
In the fire which followed the ex-
plosion one of the balloon sbeds was
badly damaged,
Two German Planes Brought Down.
London.—An official statement on
aerial operations aayB:
"Two low flying German airplanes
were brought down by our infantry.
None of our machines are missing.”
German Party For Equal Suffrage.
Amsterdam.—The Prussian con.
gress of the national liberal party,
according to a Berlin dispatch, has
adopted a resolution in favor of equal
suffrage in Prussia within the limits
prescribed by the government reform
bin. The vote was 419 to 117.
HINDENBURG PREPARES TO
MAKE ANOTHER ASSAULT
ON MT. KEMMEL
AMERICAN ARTILLERY IS ACTIVE
Ruin* Largs 8eotor of German First
8econd Line Trenches.—Austrian
Parliament It Prorogued Be*
cause People Are Hungry,
3
British Headquarters in France.—j
There are unlsmtakable signs of the!
resumption of the German effort to
force the allied positions on the hill!
chain west of Kemmel. Last even-
ing the Germans opened a tremen
dous bombardment on 8cherpenberi
and on Mont Rouge, but no infant:
action followed.
The German artillery has crashed!
forth again upon the Anglo-French'
line north of La Clytte and to the1
south of Mont Rouge.
The allies are well prepared for the!
attack, but the weather is thick and,
wet, so that aerial observation virtu*
ally is impossible.
The Americans.
With the American Army in France.
—During the last three days the)
American artillery in the Lunevllle
sector has chased tbe Germans com*!
pletely from their front positions and
have wiped certain sections of targets
in the enemy rear area off the map.
This is the same artillery that not;
long ago gave a similar performance
in another Lorraine sector.
On the present occasion, so far as
all investigation shows, the Germans
abandoned entirely the territory at
least as far back as a point" beyond
their second line.
The only signs that they are there
at all are a few hidden machine gun
positions which cut loose when the
opportunity offers.
Just now the German first and sec-
ond lines are in about the same con-
dition as No Man’s Land, in which
latter area the Americans are work-
ing more freely than ever before.
The sections affected by the work
of the American artillerymen are the
line south, southwest and southeast of
Halloville.
Fine Chance
to Play.
Crisis In Austria.
London.—Austria-Hungary supplies
some of the most important items of
the current news, with a critical
economic and political situation offi-
cially conceded to be developing at j
home just as her armies at the front
are apparently to be launched in a
new attack on Italy.
The crisis at Vienna is marked by
the dismissal of tbe Austrian parlia-
ment by the emporor’s order and the
declaration that forcible measures
would be taken to make a resumption
of its sessions impossible. In a state-
ment it is made clear that the gov-
ernment was embarrassed by the di-
visions in the legislative body over
the grave food situation and the vari-
ous racial grievances In the Austrian
body politic and desired a free hand
in the next few months.
It is officially announced from
Vienna that Emperor Charles, the
chief of the Austrian general staff and?
several high German and Austrian of-
fioers, reached the Italian front.
This with the considerable move*,
ments of troopB in the Tyrol and
Trentino reported from the interior is
interpreted to mean that the long pre.
dieted offensive on the Italian front
will soon be begun.
The Pope Is Silent.
Rome.—No favorable occasion for
a further peace move by Pope Bene-
dict has presented itself, nor does one
seem near, it was stated, at the vat-'
lean, when inquiry was made there
regarding the report that his Holiness
would make a new peace off on Whit-
sunday.
SEDITION BILL IS PASSED
Drastic Substitute For Mob Law, For
Traitors.
Washington.—A protracted contro-
verBy in the senate over the sedi-
tion bill to severely penalize disloyal!
acts and utterances and interference
with Liberty loan sales and the army
draft, ended in the adoption of the
conference report on the measure by
a vote of 48 to 26. The house is ex-
pected to agree to the report.
Opponents of the measure who have
contended that freedom of speech and
the press would be curtailed, lost
their fight to strike out a clause giv-
ing the postmaster general authbrlty
to bar mail believed to violate the
espionage laws and to restore an
amendment excepting from the law
truthful statements made with good
motives.
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iO'MM'CEAHAafifflW
THE TIDE.
The ocean fairies were riding In
their boats of foam on top of the
breakers. They
were having such
fun and laughing
as they rode over
the waves und
buck again.
"Come into the
shore," shouted
the sand fairies.
"We want you to
play with us. We
are lonely, very
lonely."
"Sorry," suld the
ocean fairies, "but
we can't come
now. It's not
time."
"Come bood," -said tne sand failles;
“and we'll make castles while we
wait."
The ocean fairies called back again,
but their voices could not be beard
for the ocean was very rough that day.
The waves were high and sometimes
the ocean fairies fell out of their boats
of foam.
But quickly they climbed back ’again
so as not to miss any of the breakers.
Children came down to the beach and
played In the sand. They did not know
that the sand fairies were all around
them.
The sand fairies, you see, are Just
the color of the sand so no one can
really see them—Just as the daytime
fairies are bright and dazzling like the
sum
"It’s low "tide," said the children,
“we’ve some time to play.”
And then the sand fairies were glad
that the ocean fairies were not coming
In for awhile. It gave the children
such a fine chance to play in the sand.
It was the first warm day too, that Is
warm enough to play in the sand.
But the tide was talking to old
Mother Ocean. ‘‘What did you-think
of it?" asked the tide.
"I don’t know what you are talking
about," said old Mother Ocean. "Won't
you tell me?’’
"The sand fairies asked the ocean
fairies to play with them I”
"And why shouldn’t they, pray tell?”
asked old Mother Ocean.
"Because I wouldn't let them I" said
the tide. "I wouldn’t disappoint or
disobey my two good friends for any-
thing in the world. I simply couldn’t.
That’s all there is to It.”
“Dear me, but you are very deter-
mined, Mr. Tide. Won’t you please
tell me what you mean? I don't like
to appear stupid. But really I haven’t
the faintest idea what you are driving
at ’’
“I'm not driving at anything," said
the tide proudly. “I’m not a horse
and I’m not a motor car and It’s abso-
lutely impossible for me to drive at
anything or for anything. I wouldn’t
be a horse or a motor car if I could
be one. It’s far finer to be the tide.
"Where I am," said old Mother
Ocean, “you come too. But I beg your
pardon if I hurt your feelings or in-
sulted you. I'm sure I didn’t mean to.
I simply wanted you to explain your-
self, and I URed an expression, or say-
ing, which I have heard grown-ups and
children use when they were bathing
In my great and mighty bath-tub.”
"Forgive me for being impatient,”
said the tide humbly. "I meant, you
see, that the ocean fairies couldn’t
possibly play with the sand fairies
before I let them. And I wouldn’t let
them ahead of time because I am the
tide, and I have certain hours for going
In and certain
hours for going
out.
“No one can
change me, for
my rulers are Mr.
Sun and Mr.
Moon, and. not for
anything would I
disobey them."
“No,” agreed
old Mother Ocean,
“It would not be
wise to disobey
two such high
and noble rulers.”
“And If. I did
disobey them,”
continued the tide, "I would so upset
my great-grandmother Nature that
Rhe would never get over it"
And Mother Ocean understood. For
she knew the tide’s time-pieces were
Mr. Sun and Mr. Moonl
“Yes," she said, "I cannot Imagine
what would happen to your great-
grandmother Nature if you should
disobey the Sun and Moon. I really
would hate to think what would hap-
pen. It would be quite too dreadful.”
"Don’t worry, dear old Mother
Ocean," said the tide. ‘Til never dis-
obey them and I’ll always be loyal to
my great-grandmother Nature, who
has made ipe suen a wonderful, woor
derful thing—the tidel"
“Come Into
Shore."
A CtOSS, FEVEIISN
CHUIS BUMS
Ot MSRPITED
LOOK, MOTHER! 8ES IF TONQUB
IS COATED, BREATH HOT OR
STOMACH SOUR.
•CALIFORNIA SYRUP OF FIGS*
CAN'T HARM TENDER STOM-
ACH, LIVER, BOWEL8,
Every mother realizes, after giving
her children "California Syrup of
Figs,” that this la their ideal laxative*
because they love its pleasant taste
and it thoroughly cleanses the tender
little stomach, liver and bowels with-
out griping.
When cross, irritable, feverish, or
breath Is bad, stomach sour, look at
the tongue, Mother! If coated, give
a teaspoonful of this harmless “fruit
iaiatlve," and in a few hours all the
foul, constipated waste, sour bile and
undigested food passes out of the bow-
els, and you have a well, playful child
again. When the little system is full of
cold, throat sore, has stomach-ache, di-
arrhoea, "indigestion, colic—remember,
a good “inside cleansing” should al-
ways be the first treatment given.
Millions of mothers keep "California
Syrup of Figs” handy; they know a
teaspoonful today saves a sick child
to-morrow. Ask your druggist for a
bottle of "California Syrup of Figs,*
which has directions for babies, chil-
dren of all ages and grown-ups printed
on the bottle. Beware of counterfeits
sold here, so don’t be fooled. Get the
genuine, made by “California Fig
Syrup Company."—Adv.
Before Marriage and After.
"What have you there?”
“His early love letters.”
"And that other large collection?”
"Broken promises," sighed the wife.
Don’t Worry About Pimples.
On rising and retiring gently smear
the face with Cuticura Ointment. Wash
off the Ointment in five minutes with
Cuticura Soap and hot water. For
free samples address, "Cuticura, Dept.
X, Boston.” At druggists and by malL
Soap 25, Ointment 25 and 50.—Adv.
Faith In your own ability is two-
thirds of the battle.
Adam's first fall occurred when ha
fell In love with Eve.
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