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PAGE TWO INDEPENDENCE ENTERPRISE, INDEPENDENCE. OREGON E,QHT pAOl U-BOATS GET 1 0 in u.o. VAltnd American Coasting Ships At tacked Off Jersey Coast. CHARLES W. FAIRBANKS DIES AMERICANS START SUBMARINE CHASE Destroyers, Airplanes and Dirigibles Flock te Scene From Maine to Florida Convoyed Ves sels Are Avoided. Washington, D. C. Ten American vessels were known Tuesday to have been sunk by German submarines off the North Atlantic Coast since May 25 The largest to fall prey to the raid ers, which are seeking to prevent the sailing of transports with troops for the battlefields of France, was the New York and Porto Rico liner Caro lina, of 8000 tons, which was attacked Sunday night about 125 miles south east of Sandy Hook. The fate of her 220 passengers and crew of 130, who took to the boats when shells began to fall about the vessel, was unknown late Tuesday night, but there was hope they had been picked up by some passing ship or would reach shore safely in the small boats. Not a life was lost in the sinkings, according to the late reports. Besides the Carolina, the known vie tims of the U-boats are the Alantic Refining company's tanker Herbert L. Pratt, the steamship VVinneconne, of 1800 tons, and six schooners, the larg est of which is the Hauppaugue, a new ship of 1000 tons, and the Edward H. Cole. The crews of these eight ves sels have been landed at Atlantic ports. The steamer Texel was sunk by a German submarine Sunday afternoon 60 miles off the coast. The crew of 36 "n.ie'ttfianded at an Atlantic port. Reports brought ashore by the sur vivors indicated that the Winneconne and nearly all the schooners were sunk by the same U-boat which had been lurking in the path of shipping off the New Jersey coast and the Delaware capes since last month. The stories told by the skippers of the schooners indicated that the com mander of the submersibles was unus ually humane for a German submarine officer. In no instance, so far as is known, was a lifeboat shelled, and in all cases reported the crews were given oppor tunity to escape or were taken aboard the submarine, where some of them were kept prisoners for eight days be fore they were turned adrift to be picked up by a passing vessel. Germany at last has brought her submarine warfare to the shores of the United States, apparently in a forlorn hope of striking telling blows on this side of the Atlantic and of drawing home some of the American naval forces from the war zones, where the U-boat menace is being slowly but surely strangled to death. New York Scores of United States warships are ranging the waters off the North Atlantic coast in search of the German submarines which made their long-expected attack on Amer ican shipping in home waters late Monday afternoon. While the details of naval opera tions were withheld, it is known that destroyers, fleets of submarine chasers and other vessels are flashing their searchlights over the waters along the coast and far out at sea from Maine to Florida. Hydro-aeroplanes and airplanes arose like flocks of huge birds from every naval station along the Atlantic coast when the warning was flashed to them, and soon were scouting over the wafers where it was believed subma rines would be most likely to be lurk ing. Foreign aviators and American students as well as the regular Ameri can flyers eagerly volunteered for service. Ex-Vice President Departs After Uril- liant Political Career. Indianapolis, Ind. Charles Warren Fairbanks, ex-Vice President of the United States and former United States senator from Indiana, died at his home here at 8:55 o'clock Tuesday night. Death was due to interstitial nephri tis, which had been u chronic ailment with him but not regarded as particu larly serious until recently. All members of the former Vice President's family, except Major Rich ard Fairbanks, who is in France, were at his bedside. The distinction of birth in a log cabin, which illustrious Americans of an earlier day commonly had, was also that for .former Vice President ratr- banks. It is probable that he was the last of American statesmen to have been born in one of these humbli cabins. The one where he was born on May 11, 1852, was at Unionville Center, Ohio. Mr. Fairbanks traced his ancestors to the days of Oliver Cromwell, who counted "Fayerbankes" among his sup porters. Jonathan Fayerbankes, the first member of the family to come to America, landed at Boston in 163b, Mr. Fairbanks' father was Loriston Monroe Fairbanks, a wagon maker of Vermont, who emigrated to Union county, Ohio. His mother was a sis terofthe late William Henry Smith, once general manager of the Associated Press. The Fairbanks home frequently was the hiding place of runaway slaves, and no black man was ever turned away from the door. Fairbanks was 8 years old when Abraham Lincoln was elected President. Then followed the Civil War, the stirring scenes of which the future Vice-President fol lowed with keen interest. Soon after he was graduated from the Ohio Wesleyan College at Dela ware, O., Mr. Fairbanks was .appoint ed agent of the Associated Press at Pittsburg, Pa., holding that position for one year. His most important assignment was the rally of the Demo crats and liberal Republicans in 1872. This was one of the largest meetings of the campaign and was addressed by Horace Greeley. Later in life he fre quently referred with keen delight to his work as a newspaper man. WORLD HAPPENINGS OF CURRENT WEEK Brief Resume Most Important Daily News Items. COMPILED FOR YOU U-BOAT TOLL 58 IN MISSING AND DEAD Man Shot at Launching. ' San Francisco The Isanti, an 8800 ton steamer, built for the United States emergency fleet corporation, was launched successfully from a ship yard near here Sunday. The vessel's name was chosen by Mrs. Woodrow Wilson. The ship is 427 feet long with a beam of 54 feet. An unidenti fied man, who attempted to climb over the stockade surrounding the yard and who disregarded or failed to hear a warning, was shot by a sentry. His condition was said to be serious. He was unable to make any statement. Comfort to Cross Alone. Washington, D. C. The naval hos pital ship Comfort, formerly the War Line steamer Saratoga, has been se lected for service as an ambulance ship between this country and the American naval base abroad. She has been spe cially refitted to bring- home sick and wounded sailors and marines. The present plans are to send the Comfort across without convoy, notifying the German government of her intended voyage and its purpose. New York The toll of dead and missing from the raid of German sub marines against shipping off the American coast apparently stood Tues day night at 58 all from the steam ship Carolina, of the New York and Porto Rico line. Sixteen of this number are known to have perished when one of the ship's boats capsized in a storm Sunday night fter the vessel had been sunk. The fate of the others is not known, but it is hoped they have been picked up by passing ship and will yet reach shore safely. Officials of the company have placed the number of passengers aboard the Carolina when she was attacked 125 miles off Sandy Hook at 220 and the crew at 130, making 330 in all. Captain Barbour, of the Carolina, reported to the company that he was on board the schooner Evan B. Douglas with 150 passengers and 94 of the crew. 1 he schooner is being towed to this port by a tug and is expected f.o arrive soon. A boat containing 28 survivors, 21 passengers and 7 of the crew arrived t Atlantic City Tuesday afternoon. Another lifeboat with 10 passengers and nine members of the crew arrived at Lewis, Del., with the report that 16 of the 35 who had started from the ship had lost their lives in the storm Sunday night. If the company's figures as to the number aboard the ill-starred liner are correct, this leaves 42 unaccounted for. That number might have been crowded into one lifeboat. The only possible clew to their fate was found in the fact that an empty boat, marked with the name of the Carolina, was picked up at sea, by a British steamship which arrived here Tuesday. It had every evidence of having been riddled by gunfire. It may have carried the passengers and sailors who still are missing. Another ship was added to the list of victims of the U-boats when the American schooner Edward R. Baird, Jr., was found in a sinking condition off the Maryland coast, after having been bombed. Events of Noted People, Governmenti and Pacific Northwest and Other Things Worth Knowing. More than 140 indictments, charging violations of the espionage law, have been returned by the Federal grand jury at Milwaukee, Wis., involving prominent men. Captain Archie Roosevelt, who was wounded in action in March, is making excellent progress. His arm has been removed from the sling and ho walks several miles daily. The Lord Lieutenant ot Ireland is sued a proclamation Tuesday night asking for 50,000 voluntary recruits and thereafter 2000 to 3000 monthly to maintain the Irish divisions. Final Log of Hail of Fire Sent Ship to Bottom of Ostcnd Harbor. Vindictive Is Tale of Glor conning lower. Mont Kir ti Tl tutd Limit. V. A r , 7"aU '"" totlm lower M,L ,H Spain Exonerates Allies. Madrid German' newspapers having asserted that British and French hos pital ships are being used for the transportation of munitions of war, the Spanish ministry of foreign affairs ha3 issued an official note declaring that an inquiry made by the govern ment enables it to affirm that British, French and Italian vessels employed as hospital ships, on board of which are Spanish naval delegates, are being em ployed in a perfectly correct manner and for the exclusive transport of sick and wounded. Thirteen Iowa Soldicr3 Slain. Des Moines, la. Thirteen Iowa sol diers, including five from Dubuque, three from Mason City, two from Des Moines, two from Winterset and one from Red Oak, were killed in action in France May 27, according to official notices received by relatives Wednes day night. Captain E. O. Fluer, Des Moines, and Lieutenant C. R. Green, Winter set, are among the number. All are of the Rainbow division. Naval officers at Norfolk, Va., said Tuesday their reports indicated five German submarines had Wen opera t ing along the Atlantic coast and that two had been sighted off the Virginia capes. Loss of the naval motor launch Ozark, with one member of her crew, Charles E. Richards, fireman, of Chip- ley, Fla., in a heavy sea off the coast May 12, is announced by the Navy de partment. Federal courts have no jurisdiction over the selective draft boards, the Supreme court in effect decided Mon day, in denying mandamus proceedings to have an order of a local board in Milwaukee, Wis., reviewed. War risk rates took an abrupt jump upon receipt of the news of submarine warfare on this side of the Atlantic. Marine underwriters advanced insur ance irom one to two per cent to all ports, coastwise as well as trans-At lantic. Woman suffrage for Hawaii is au thorized in a senate bill passed Tues day by the house and sent to President Wilson for approval. It empowers the Hawaiian legislature to provide that women may vote in all territorial and municipal elections. The Austrian Social Democrats, ac cording to the Socialist Arbeiter Zei tung, of Vienna, have decided that the time is inopportune for strikes. The conference warned against rash acts which would lead to disaster and "de prive labor of power in the future." Twelve of a fleet of 30 or more fish ing vessels were sunk by a German submarine, says a Belfast dispatch to the London Daily Telegraph. The submarine ordered the fishermen to take to the boats and row ashore. It then sank the vessels by shelling them. Validity of Federal statutes prohib iting sale of alcoholic liquors to sol diers was in effect sustained by the Supreme court, which Tuesday de clined to review proceedings convict ing , Cornelius O Sullivan, a hotel pro prietor, of Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., of violating the law. Representatives of 500,000 railway shopmen have asked the railroad ad ministration not to put into effect the new wage scale without an upward re vision tor their crafts, saying great dissatisfaction would be created and intimating that it might be impossible to avoid many strikes. One hundred men enlisted in the Naval Militia between the hour when news of the U-boat campaign off the New Jersey coast first became known on the street and the closing of the re cruiting office in New York Monday night, according to an announcement made by the enrollment officer for this branch of the service. Tobacco has been classed by the gov ernment as a necessity and producers will be given preferential fuel sup plies. Senator Swanson, of Virginia, was informed by the War Industries board in response to an inquiry that the board was working out with the Fuel administration a plan for supply ing the industry with coal. Two hundred thousand men of draft age, who, because of minor defects, have been held by examining surgeons over the country for limited service, are to be employed in producing or handling equipment for the army. German airmen Wednesday night deliberately dropped bombs on hospi tals in which there were scores of American and hundreds of French sick and wounded. The hospital is in a town many miles in the rear of the front. Francis S. Nash, a medical director of the navy, and his wife were indict ed by a grand jury in Washington, D. C, Thursday on a charge of hoarding foodstuffs. Investigators found other foodstuffs more than a ton and a half of sugar stored in the' Nash home. twenty-two thousand men of the army, engaged in the spruce forests of Oregon and Washington, have been transferred from the control of the chief signal officer at Washington, D. C, to the Western department of the army according to orders received at headquarters at San Francisco. SURPRISE IS WELL PLANNED Attack Comes From Sea, Land "d Air Bafore Germans Awake Vln . dlctlve, Screened by Smoka From Launches, Plodi Si lently to Itn Goal. The rritlsh admiralty Issued the following srnpSilo story of I In- r.vcn raid on Oslond. which resulted in blockading nearly nil the entrance to the I'-hont base by the alnkln,: ol the old cruiser Vindictive across the ohnti nel : n "The Slrlus lies In .ho surf aoine -.-000 yards cast of the entrim-v to Os tein! harbor, which she fulled - K'd to block, tun! when, in mo l of the niornlliK, the Vindictive til MlloUO Inntly hours eroned her WIIV through screen and bended for the entrance It was ns thounh the old IIkIiIIhk hlp awoke nuil looked on, "A constat motor boat hud visited her ntid lumg n tin re In her stack and rusty rigging. nnl Hint eye of unsteady fire, unlink' In the hlnze of star shelK or reddening t brunch the drift of smoke, wntehed the whole pent enter prise from the moment when It hunk' In doubt to Us ultlmnte success. Depended on Surprise Attack. "The planning and execution of that success luul been Intrusted by Vice Admiral Sir Unbelt Keyes to Commo dore Hubert I.ynos, who directed the previous attempt to block the harbor with the Slrlus nnd Brilliant. I'pon that occasion a combination of unfore seen and unforeseeable conditions hud fount) t against him. "Upon this, the main problem was to obtnln the effect of a surprise at tack upon an enemy who was clearly, from his ascertained dispositions, ex pecting him. The Slrlus and Brilliant had been baffled by the displacement of the Stroom bank buoy, which murks the channel to the harbor entrance. But since then aerial reconnaissance had established that the Germans had removed the buoy altogether and that there now were no guiding marks of any kind. "They also had cut gaps In the piers as a precaution ngnlnst a lauding, and further, when toward midnight Thurs day, the ships moved from their an chorage. It was known that some nine German destroyers were out and were at large upon the const. Night Nearly Windless. "The solution of the problem Is best Indicated by the chronicle of events. It was u night that promised well for the enterprise nearly windless and what little breeze stirred cnine a point or so west of north. The sky was lend blue, faintly star-dotted, with no moon, and a still sea for small craft, motor launches and coastal motor bouts, whose work was done close Inshore. "From the destroyer which served the commodore for a flagship the re mainder of the force were visible only as silhouettes of blackness. "From Dunkirk a sudden brief flur ry of gunfire announced that German airplanes were about. They actually were on the way to visit Calais, and over the Invisible const of Flanders the summer lightning of restless artillery rose and fell monotonously. " There's the Vindictive !' The muf fled seamen and marines standing by the torpedo tubes and guns turned at that name to gaze at the great bluck ship seen mistily through the screen ing smoke from the destroyers' fun nels, plodding silently to her goal and end. "She receded Into the night astern as a destroyer raced to lay a light buoy that was to be her guide, and those on board saw her no more. She passed thence Into the hnnd.s of the small crnft whose mission was to guide her, light her, nnd hide her In the clouds of a smoke screen. "There was no preliminary bom bardment of the harbor nnd batteries, as before the previous attempt. That was to be the first element In the sur prise. A time-table had been laid down for every stage of the operation, and the staff work beforehand even Included precise orders for luylng the smoke barrage, with plans calculated for every direction of the wind. Gait Always Solemn. "Monitors anchored In firing posi tions fur seaward awaited the slennl. The great sea batteries of the Royal Marine artillery In Flanders, among the largest guns that were ever placed on land mountings, stood by likewise to neutralize the bigger German artil lery along the const, and the airmen wlio were to collaborate with an aeri al bombardment of Hie town waited somewhere in the darkness overhead. Destroyers patrolled to .seaward of the small craft. "The Vindictive, always at that solemn gait of hers, found the flag ship's light buoy nnd bore up for where a coastal motor boat command ed by Lieut. Wllllnm It. Shiyter was waiting by a calcium flare upon the old position of the Stroom bank buoy. "Four minutes before lr n,-,'.i,i there nnd fifteen minutes only before It was due at the harbor mouth, the signal for the guns to open was given Two motorboats, under command of Lieut. Albert L. Poland, dashed In toward the ends of the high wooden piers and torpedoed them. There was a machine gun on the end of the west- IU11 that vanished In a ronr ;", I,,,,, of il swldch called to the Thei tbo town n flame auddeiily ,.,,, WKh m the air nnd mink slovIvrMrtlnvnnN- tlt.' "!' - "' lnd'inci bad a nd mideiatood. M.nos, eou.eldcntly with their Aral imll,s cum... the Aral she", whooplti up from the monitor lit aen. Tint mir prise part of the attack waa apruuil. "The surprise, doaplto the (luniinn' watchfulness., seems to have boon com plete I'p ""HI the 'i"',,, wnl'" ,n torpedoes of the niotorbont exploded there hud not been n ahot from the hind -only occasional routine lr shell. Great Qatterles Blinded. "The ini'tor Inunction were doing il,.,l,. ,.,rk niiicnlllcelitly, These pock et warships innnned by officer and men of the Itoynl Nnviil volunteers reserve, are specialist nt aninko pro duction. Tb y built to either timid of the Vindictive' course the tlkeiicaa of ii dense sen mist driving liindwiiril Willi the wind. Star shell puled nnd were lost as they Mink III It! the beams of Nonrchllghts seemed to break off short upon Its front- H Minded the observers In the great batterlca, which Hiiddi-iily. upon the wanting of th explosions of guns, roared Into no tion. "There win a while of tremendous uproar. The const nboiit Ostein! la ponderously equipped with butteries. These now opened lire Into tho smoke and over It nt the monitors nnd mu rine!. And the monitor replied. "Meniiwlillo the iilrplnneH were bomb ing methodically, and anti-aircraft guns were searching the skies for them. Star -hells spouted Up and Heated down, lighting the smoke hnnka with spreading green Urea, and those strings of luminous green bulls, which Hie airmen call "tlnmlng onions," soured up to lose thomsclvea In the clouds. "Through nil this stridency and blare of conflict the old Vindictive, atlll im hurryltig, was walking the lighted wa ters toward the entrance. It wus then that those on the destroyer became aware tlint whnt Hi-eiued to be merely smoke wiih wi-t and cold; that the rig ging was beginning to drip, nnd that there were no longer any atara. A sea fog had come on. Air Attack Suspended. "The destroyers hnd to turn on their lights nnd to use their sirens to keep In touch with each other. The nlr attack wns suspended, nnd the Vindictive, with some distance yet to go, found herself In gross darkness. "There were motor hunts on either side of her escorting her to the en- trnnce. "The Vindictive then put her henn over and started to cruise to Mud the entrance. Twice she must have washed across, nnd nt the third turn. Upon reaching the pasttloift at which she first lust her way, there iiniii' n rift In tin- mist and she saw tin- entrance and the pier on either side, and an ' ii-nl titr il'io ahead. The Vindictive sleaineil n, "The gnus found her at onco. She was hit every few seconds after she entered, lior scarred Imll broken afresh In a score of places, lo-r decks nnd upper works swept by machine guns. "Aft leytio wim HlUh.o-,1 I N ... ... II, H Mout. Crutchley alio,,,,,, , "lit to tho comniniider , ' ?W no nawer, rang fr , full apee.1 astern, to ,n , 1 L?f' W. Iy this tin,,, Kio or about 4i) (i,Kr;tl;7j l'1' '"'" " to be hard f... 1 una Imi.i.uull.l.. . . . ""'ifcf i io urine u.r ,, around. r ""ruing inn fnsi,... , ' " no errect. 1 1, Crutchley kvh th , ' down. ,','Vluu,,' If Engineer Met..,,,,,,, f William A. llury. w ho ... T. T' leave the -ng,. room, hh-w th.!' .....,.- j awueii inatuhi-d aft h, .'.mul- iTUiclile, Idew , ... n rorwnro U C, nine from the conning tu(,r. Har Work It Finished Those on honrd felt the old ri ahrug. nn the rxphmive tore the butt plutea and bulkhend sunk ubout alx feet ami lay up' d """"in u uip cnntiio'l. "Her work whh don,.. "It la to ho preMiim-d ,. c. ninnder C.odanl wns klli.il by tlw tfc, writer, atrueit the eonnlnn towrr. L, tenant Crtitchl.-y, N. iirclilng ih, & nerore lie i.-rt lier, failed to fl body or that of Nudlti-m. In Hint wlldenies of apllatered t and alutttered ati-H, "All waa acconlln to prorata. I cull rocket for the siunll craft i fired from the flagship at 2:30 in "It ta not rtnlim-d by the oflk who carried out the oiicintlmu i Oatend harbor I completely block Hut Ita purimao to emhnrmiMi tiitm i-my nnd make tin- hnrbor unpmctto' ble to any but aiuntl crnft tad rmi dredging operation difficult, ha fed fully accomplished. The poslti t the Vindictive ta with atem oo to tit eaatern pier, and not her item, u ahown Io certain publUhed llltirjv tlona. IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIE Counterfeiter Shortage I ' Another Result of War 1 r tiiii nidit loiinii it ..... ,1.....,,! - "i 1 1 i in-t ii mm- died by a shell which killed nil the I'ciipnrus, including suhlli-nt. Angu .Moel.nrliuii, who was in eon md It, the nppi-i- and lower lirhlL-es and io cliarlrooin. isuoiit bv bnlli-ts I'mn. ninnder (iodsnl ordered the oiIIi-.tm to go with him to the connlnc t,,wor. They ohsrrve.l through i tn- ohsirvn Hon silt In tin- steel wall of the con ning tower Hint tin- ensti rn pier was breached sumo iioo yards from the sea ward end, as I hough at some time a ship bud been In collision with it. Nose Against Pier. Jmmeillately after passing the breach In the pin- Coiiiinaiid,.r (Jodsai left the conning tower and went on deck, the hellor to wnieh h,,, , Tltilfn nonln I t . ..I nlng tower his order to starboard ihe belli.. The Vindictive .,,,.,, ,, laid her battered nose to ihe eastern pier iinit prepared Io swing h.-r ,T0 feet of length across the channel. "It wan nt that moment that a shell from the .shore batteries at nick the FRENCH REFUGEES FLEE FROM GERMANS Waalilngtoii. The wsr hu-i canned a shortage even of coot-; i terfettera. Sj The apurtoii ten-dollar Dott:i the fashioning of which wti tlx: favorite Indoor aport of a group: of akllled Imitators hat prac-: fls..llr .tlufit.ri..Mt-..it It U'llt Milt? 5 by aecret aervlce operative!, ho : are Inclined to the belief that : the alunip In directly (hietotbtj war. It waa thought tlint tht foreign member of these bnoto; bad been rounded up la U mobilization of rcacrvlaU, Unit tho Americans hud been : taken In the draft. However, ; aecret service operative! arenot : renting on their oars. On the : contrary, recognizing the jhusI- : blllty of new talent apearln : alnioat at any time, they are : continuing to aublect Ihe ai-5 E tlon'H paper currency to th; E cluneal scrutiny. j iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHiiiitniiiiniiii"" BUILD "FABRICATED VESSELS Component Parts of Brltlih Shifa Made Inland and Aaaembltd on Coast. London. "Fabricated" vessels me of tho Intent and moat InterertM developments of Great Itrltuln's building drive. A fahrlcutwl el'lp one whimo component parts ore ni facturod In other than 8lilpt" i ii.. i.. ..iia Inland. TM .yiirijN, usiniiijr 111 , I n e.,.i..ni.ii Kiiin Is larger tun 1 f .... .,(.,., i.,r,i tn in and tb 1 oiont ui l. it: nu.ujii'-i ' i - j,L ... O is not n curved irnnii! ... ... . . . . ... nlm QUS In lubrication or tniip . to IncreiiHe apeed of production w also to utilize for hl''ldln' p ........ u i.ridce-bullolw ynrdn nnd land engine factories. It Is expected that ahlps of the ne type soon will materially Increase (onnago output 7 13 i'wH?" -3. 1 ---- -iQ'v r;v rf iX ' V- 4 '"''' i-'hll::;",,!;::"'; "-'-i .... t.. , u..d u.-ir IUnd tho BrltlHh llm's ' '''l'"gceS nro flecInK to polnls of wrfcVj forced to seek slu-lieV Mm , ""; '"'""mits of the front-line towns we launn.cMi. MllIly , ! " " the first attack of the German drive J Phoo were comlwlS J'' Wc ,,l,in Pictured In this Btish oj"1 they fled. U'M to '"i,v their worldly possessions behind