The evening world. Newspaper, May 2, 1918, Page 1

' Greatest City Bond Drive Since Opening Day oreo _Sbe US. TINE ‘NEAR AMIENS AGAIN ATTACKED — SWELLS CITY TOTAL WITH , Ble BLOC i Large Subscribers Come to the "FIVE AVIATORS KILLED, Fron Before Noon With | QME ANEW YORK MAN Over $60,000,000, Stolkr wa Lieut. James S, Ennis Falls to } "MANAGERS * JUBIL ANT. | Death in Nose Dive at Fort Worth Field Figure for Nation Is $2,041,- FORT WORTH, Tex., May 2.—Falling 631,850, With Three Days 150 feet in a straight nose dive this Left for Subscriptions, | morning, Lieut, James 8. Ennis jr. of N Fork City and Cadet Paul Herrl- WASHINGTON, May 2.—Tele akland, Cal, were k ed, arama pouring into National Lib celdent happened at Hick= juat an hou Gen. Greble and staff erty Loan Headquarters to-day told of the success of the "Buy Another Bond” and “Match the President” contests everywhere, end added $62,000,000 subserip- of Camp Bow stunt flying DAYTON, 0., Brindley and Col tora,, met death at the here to-day, The inachine dropped 400 feet while inking a turn fy the ui BEAMSVILLE, Ont., May @ arrived to witness some May 2.—Major Oscar A Damni, expert avia- aviation lp tions, making the national total 92,041,631 450. imated to-day “An alr- 000,000 persone == plane collision at the Koyel Air Forve in the “Match Camp here jay caused the death of the President” contest and that ‘ J. ¥ Wunson of 1 and $100,000,000 additional subscrip- ; a le ‘ 8 W. R, Litehi torta tions will be brought in. The Dal Committees an- neouneed to-day that every pri- senor in a Texas penitentiary had subsoribed fer a bond. FEWER DEATHS I ARMY CAMPS OF THE COUNTRY The oft prophesied strong fuim of Third Liberty Loan drive i New Surgeon General Gorgas Also Re+ York's district at last !s on in full ports Decrease in Number of Pneumonia Cases. WASHINGTON, May 2.—Death [sick rates at the army camps in the country are declining, | Gorgas announced to-day Deaths last week were 21 as con with 278 of the preceding week. Of t six were aero accidents and three from other accidents in the aviation se Camps Beauregard and Logan the highest sick rate and Camp Whe has a slight epidem 8t! Surgeon General | contin’ h are decreas! sweep. Blocks of bonds in the mil- liens once more are being taken tn an _ aggregate which approaches the tre | mendous figures of the drive's vpen-| ‘ing day. Before noon to-day close to $60,000,- 1000, in heavy blocks of bonds alone—| , to say nothing of the vast amount ot) purchases under $50,000—had been} registered in the bond department of| the Seoond Federal Reserve Bais ‘Tho Farmers Loan and ‘i Vornpany started the big flood of buy- + $n with $10,000,000. Then tho Bankers ‘Trust Company purchased a sevond $10,000,000 block of the Liberty Bon: “Kuhn, Loeb & Co., for their own a ‘ gount, subscribed to $4,000,000 worth, \Tne Bank of Montreal took in "$1,000,000, of which $600,000 goe ‘the credit of New York and } Otherwts onta cases Youth Who Woalda’ Avthem Rushed t to| A crowd in Battery Tho Fifth | the Anzace at the noon Liberty Loan ' , Avenue Bank took $500,000. New|meeting. turned upon Arthur Adam York's total at 11 o'clock was $982,-/as¢ eighteen, a broker's messenger of ¥ German parentage. who used 100,000. a Secrtplionn wer luncover for the Allied National "An Other large ou ; ,. |thems. They started him for the «ea \ New York Life Insurance Co. | wait to throw him into the wat 4900, 000. |Henry W. Atkina of No. 410 Dean 2 Gommercia! Union Assurance Co. Street had the boy placed under a |reat by Patrolman Murray and saved a8 , 300. jl from a ducking Caurnikow-Fionda Co., Nevada Consolidated #200,000. Weyman Bruton Co., T. A. Gillespie Co. 7269, 000. General Hlectito Co., $150,000 * German Boker & Co., $100,000 Employees of the above, $20,000. $350, 000, | Copper Co, {eo will be arraigned Bitant Court snaresa | conduct 18,000 ROUMANIANS, ALL PRISONERS OF WAR, JOIN THE ITALIAN ARMY $200,000. (additional), Barber Steamship Co., $100,000. i 2 Huth & Co., $100,000. as P Thomas H. Wheeler, $100,000, Captured While Fig Jeside Weet Disinfocting Co., $60,000, Austrians, They Will Now Fight | »@.L Hudson Co. (additional), $54,500, Agamst Them | Cape Cruz Co., $50,000, , I | ‘W. H. Kemp, $50,000. ARIS, May Elgliteen thou- \ &. R. Guggentiecim, $50,000, sand soldiers of Ro an | Henry Prentiss & Co. (add orfgin who were 1 960,000, by the Italiana while figh ©. C. Dula, $50,000. der the Tian flag hav } Bertachmann & Maloy, $50,000 permission to go to the ¢ IpheLewihohn, $50,000, against Austria. The rea. as | ae Hlectrio Protective Co, anted and organizatio | 880,000, troops Is under was | | Mebawk Condensed Milk Co. the entrance of this { 90,000. | into the fleld three ari 1 ‘United States Mortgage & Trust posed of" former subjec | 53,699,000 Central Empires wil] be fi 7 Mationa! City Bank (additional, | ae eee ae nee Mae ) \ ina ee, 8 &re alread, under arma or | 910,000, | the Italian front, and there is a | { SOpatinued on Third Page.) Polish army on the French tront, H ROLL BACK GERMANS AT THENNES OF MILLIONS ... progress to-day jc j port by Surgeon General | IN SHIP CRASH; LIFE TOLL IS 68 Passengers on City of Athens, Rammed by Cruiser, Are Rescued. An investigation int 6 collision wt he City of Athens of the Savannah Line was rammed by @ French cruiser and sunk off Atlantio City, while on her way to Bavannab, | which sixty-eight are been lost, ln the offices of the and reported through to have is in steamship company The collision occurred in a dense fog at 1 o'clock yesterday morning, | the cruiser striking the liner almost The to head on on the starboard side, At the impact and went down A number of U, 53. board and many of natances of bray- c in the rescue of at praise te alto given officers and sallors for ns was heeled over in seven minutes. marines were them gave © ery ano 6 passengers. ( 1 thelr prom}! and gallant work in the water, Several sailors were drowned in their attempts to save the lives of othe show that gixty-elght were Rep saved Tho itst of th eported lost tol- CIVILIAN PASSENGERS. Rodainer, Richard, Mobile, Clug, Bd noah, Ga; “ well, Tsu J.; Deak, ¢ Wid e Ave, Brooklyn, N X; Wehr, Brooklyn, N Y Mrs, F. D., Hyde Park, u, James J., Morristown, the Rev. J. P,, No, t New York City; G. No. 128 Bust 60th Street, New York City; Young, R. A. Brookiyn, N.Y U. S. MARINES, Bor ins, J. Graham, » ddress un kr 1 (Buffalo No, 145! W.N N. ¥ Avenu N e, HE Buffalo contingent) FRENCH OFFICERS FRENC H SAILORS | D b irzio, ¥.; Cone | H.; iinauin Chevance, J 3, | bs Gouchard, M.; Je- | h » Page) FIND WOMAN'S. Booy UNDER ‘BLUEBEARO'S' FORMER HOME.” dD . Irma I ho Can 1 T Imut kille j 1 ed 7 a t Tr Mt on Irma ¥ vid 1 1 « 1 " i 1 wid 1 tel ‘ ting s i a 77 A telegra wan ove y under . Witt, war mi to ber in 1016. A ee a te ;) with BOND DRIVE NULL SWEEP NARNESPERSH AKER ASKS BlG ARMY LIMITED ONLY BY ABLITY 1) EQUIP AND SHIP MEN Plaus tor Gay Increased Man-Power Put Before House Committee. WASHINGTON, May 2.—Secrevary Baker at a hearing to-day before the | House Military Affairs Committee confidential session, asked that Con- gresa grant unlimited power fur the |ereation of an army of whatever size |necessary for the prosecution of thi war. be ill-advised to restrict the number of men to be utilized and that the size of the army should be increased, in the discretion of the Government, as transportation and «qripment fa- cilities warrant, Secretary Baker ated he would submit a proposed measure, probably a3 an amendment to the Draft Law, to grant the unlimited authority asked, Under the existing Dratt Law, as construed by Chair man Dent of the Military Committee and others, there 1s authority for of only 1,000,000 mon. Mr. Dent yex- terday introduced a bill to authorize a draft total of 4,000,000 men, voluntee! would it im. jand jsha Baker's idea ts for the numbe: Secretary provide o mediat Indicatic | provision foreseen. | tation, pay f at al on, 4s part a spy me, but as ance of a blanket aut plan involving use of a the funds appropriated mental appropriations {their need may become Secretary Baker at the conclusion f the hearing dictated this state. ment The War Department prokra was pre the Hf Mi! ting of the tra an. reasing 0 them can be foresee of War declined uss the ARP VOU RUN LOWS or s DEWEY 's DEW FRYE LONE 128 Ps) t aan tow ‘ bre Mewemmas, He told the committee it would | SHAH OF PERSIA ORDERS $100; 000 LIBERTY a AMERICANS HALT GERMANS: 7 IN HAND-TO-HAND FIGHTING ON PIGAROY BATTLE FRON ow nee Enemy Cannonades Allied Lines a Many Points on the Front, but Ni | Infantry Attacks Are Reported— American Valor Praised. U BOAT IS SUNK ~INBATTLE BY Bla BRITISH TRANSPORT es Two Torpedoes Fired Before Raider Was Beaten Off by Ship Now in U. § LONDON, May 2.—Statements issued to-day by the Londo jand Paris War Offices tell of renewed artillery activity in th |neighborhood of the sector where American troops beat back German attack and inflicted heavy losses on the enemy. Haig | Ported German gun attacks in the Villers-Bretonneux fron | while Paris announced an attack on the Thennes sector. | [The Associated Press says the Germans launched a heavy attack | on Tuesday against the Americans in the vicinity of Villers-Relon | The French offictal statement of Ap-il 22 said attacks on the | Franco-Amerie jor peer nany’s U boats of the) WASHINGTON, May !.—To show his! eo, pogitions between \Hangegd and. Hailles bed S. Port. | SULTAN AHMED MIRZA | AN ATLANTIC PORT, May Ove of the biggest and fastest o¢| Cables His Subscription to Wash- \ (tate dhaers ddooked-wemernnremrgnE tere ter Shove Tat His Heart eud brought a story of a night battle 8 in Right Place. neaux. ith one of G . . repulsed, Hangar ee. 4 8 néwest type, The gun} heart ix in the right place though bis i? % iss epidat git baled ae en Villers and Thennes, erew bi sub was aunk and|counte x yy Netbed le? Gasman ik which Paris reports under attack to-day. Tue line here ts about ten the Was ut least dis- | 4, the Shah of F wiles from Amfens.} abbod TEXT OF BRITISH REPORT. he text of the War Office statement The enemy's artillery developed cor morning in the Villers-Bretonneux sector and in the neighborhood of Merris, Some activity was shown also during the night in the Arras Lens and St. Venant sectors. No infantry action is reported.” fo tea un ed | «-- NRORAFT DELAY or was The ble activity early this The Shah of Mersin ” e spra ble maximum strength of 4, ”) gust « Biba oai ai ame Be tee FRENCH REPORT. | men ; lon @ perlacope: about nile asd: @ —The following statement was issued to-day by th ey, weaker bie Sa oned PY) quarter aster A moment tater War ‘Ottce! a: the committee regarding his vi ‘4 shells were d ing around th “ to increasing the draft axe. Hoe suid | periscope veut herd ts aS es not North of the Avre a German attack on French positions in the he was studying the sub. and had) then ready to give up the attuck region of Thennes was broken up by the French fire, ee SN ny meetin dt The the torpedo went w “Other German efforts north of Chavignon and northwest of © House Milite ommittes willl the sccond camo uncomfortably close Kheims gained no greater success. immediately resu onaideration Of/tg the linor's stern, Tho ship was | om gt g ig |the annual Army priation Ril', | yig-sagging and firls ‘ ets sume | “The French carried out a number of raids, especially near meraible, which by t to the surfuc A doxer rall wate wun crew the tweitth mo had ¢ Monchel, west of Courcy le Chateau and north of Pont-a-Mousson, and brought back twenty prisoners. On/the remainder of the front the night passed in quiet.” —— -+-—_____. cour AMERICAN TROOPS SMASH ‘\ ‘THREE GERMAN BATTALIONS me ) “Somebody aieui Be Shot,” | | | a Ca rs the! 4 Says Senator King—Confi- Charged. ned every 9) and th Game lence had | minal puffing ales WE are cesdtetlea wat iwboay | Hold Defenses in F:ont of Amiens by Repuls- meeniage (but foun Paige en ee | ing Infantry Attacks That Follow Intense nown, eee . eat Bombardment, Inflicting Big Losses. idee Kine d airplane WITH THE FRENCH ARMY IN FRANCE, May 2 (Assoclater German attack launched Tuesday a Ku 1 with Tess). —-A heavy t the Amer s n wan | i ! { | ! | ' | a was oxpe f ® re i ! aa j ean in the vicinity of Villers-Bretonneaux was repulsed with héayy | ‘ t pite rp losses { he y \t q le ; _ 4 ® The German preliminar ibardment lasted two hours, and then 1 . Hi i yy | the infantry rushed forward y to te ng large num : 1 4 ‘ : vik f dead on the ground in front of the An W te t Wilsor The German bombardment opened at 5 fternoon an, : was directed especially against the Americans, who were supported on the ' i , | . sr | Nortia { south by the Fren The fire was intense, and at the end ot Loe 4 e-|two hours the German commander sent forward three battalions of in DIES IN DENTIST'S CHAIR ae i fone | ay Sandpanied iach teior/ eats Fj see There was hand to hand fighting all along the line, as a result of Maptenrtat Taking tovaine Has ; h the enem as t back, dead and wounded lying onthe y enrt Vablore . {in all ‘ remained in American hands, It was ¢ Americans were engaged In the big battle 1 their French com vades a aise for t anner in w conducted them- imstar espec of the ract that at f Ticult points on the battle tront, P American losses w 1 severe, vious to the battle small patrol parties or outposts had met im the . carkne t Desy and po sth the American and French artillery . — ad t most active dn shelling enemy back areas. A certain Amerigan fo : Sets battery has be g a heavy fire on enemy batteries and positions lee eas: For Racing Resuite Sea Page 2) (around 4 certain village which has been yistually wiped out,