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Forty-seventh Tear.
Dally Twelfth Yonr.
Battle Between Liner and Submarine
Ends in Sinking of Latter Hit
(Three Times, Periscope Blown Off,
and Diver Smashed to Pieces in
Exciting Battle Following Striking
of Liner by Torpedo, Which Failed
to Explode.
AT AN AMERICAN ATLANTIC
TORT, June 22. The caplain of an
American steamer just arrived at an
Atlantic port, reported today Hint lie
believed the steamer had sunk a
U-boat on Juno 4, when two days out
from Liverpool, Knglund, en route to
an Atlnnlic port.
In a story written today by the
wireless operator on the ship, be said :
"We left Livcrpol on our homeward
voyage June 1. We were running at
night without lights. The guns were
cleared for action. We received S. ).
S. messages from two British vessels
attacked by submarines but in each
case they escaped after a gun bat
tl. 'fve could plainly see the shells
from these British vessels as they
dropped but could not see the subma
rine with which they were fighting.
Hit by a Torpedo.
"We adopted a zig-zag course and
wtTe making full Seed ahead when
the lookout sighted a lifeboat.' We
started to see what was in it. It was
empty.
"About twenty minutes after pars
ing the empty life boat or about 6:i!0
p. m. ship's time, one of the gunners
sighted a torpedo headed straight for
us. He shouted to the bridge: 'Here
she comes; torpedo portside.'
"The chief officer who was on the
bridge, shouted to the quartermaster
'hard starboard. We swung off. The
torpedo was a red head about Ifi
inehes in diameter. She was about
ten feet long. Torpedo struck us on
the port side a glancing blow amid
ship right near the engine room. Our
ship was empty and we all thought
she had exploded from Hie terrific
noise she made when she hit.
Simultaneously the ship's whistle
bliAv short and successive blasts,
which was signal to abandon ship and
man the life boats, which were
launched at once.
lifeboats Manned.
"The captain who had remained
on the ship found the torpedo had
failed to explode. All hands were
then ordered back on ship. We were
lying perfectly still for at least an
hour.
"When the commander of the sub
marine saw our crew coming back
from life boats and climbing upon
sick he immediately gave up the
chase for the two other British mer
chant ships and started for us again.
The suhmarino was about 21)00 yards
off our starboard beam.
"Suddenly came the command:
'Man the gnus!'
"The chief gunner gave the ranges
from the bridge.
Sunk by SI. ell lire.
a"Whcn nbont 600 yards off our
starboard quarter a shell from our
forward gun bit her and she submerg
ed. Again she appeared and our af
ter gun hit her and blew away her
periscope. Another shot from our
forward gun fell right on top of her.
There was a shower of black specks
which rose high in the air, followed
by a great commotion, bubbles of
water and a light blue smoke arising
from the stern of the I'-hoat, where a
second before had been the eyes of
our enemy.
"Our crew, winch hart lined up
against the starboard rail watching
the battle gave a hearty American
cheer when the submarine disappear
ed. "Nineteen shots in all were fired,
which is the secretary of the nay'
military salute.''
OVER THREE BILLIONS IN
LIBERTY LOAN SUBSCRIPTIONS
WASHINGTON, June 22. Sub-
scriptioiis to the liberty loan have
surpassed the highest estimate of
the treasury oft'iciuU and exceeds
$3,000,000,000.
u-boatsunk
by amfrica;'
ship a! sea
WEATjTER
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TEUTON ATTACKS
Crown Prince's Efforts to Regain Im
portant Strategic Positions Fails
French Retake Lost Trenches Ar
tilery Duel Follows Infantry Battle
Italian Renew Pressure.
HOMI2, June 22. Successes for
the Italians in both the Dolomites re
gion and on the Carso plateau are re
ported by the war office tonight. The
summit of Hill 2CSS on Lagazuoi Pic
colo was carried by the Italian troops.
South of Verslc the Italians advanced
their lines ami repulsed enemy as
saults. The engagement between the
French and the Germans which was
opened Wednesday by a German at
tack near Vauxaillon, southeast of
Laon, Is being continued spiritedly by
tho artillery, the Infantry fighting
having temporarily died down.
Paris today reports an extension of
the artillery duel eastward from
Vauxaillon. It was raging last night
along a front of approximately ten
miles as far as the vicinity of Braye-En-Laonnois,
reaching what the offi
cial report characterizes as "extreme
Intensity." i
jiifiiiitiy Hal lie Subsides.
Tho infantry battle, after initial
successes for the German crown
prince, came to a halt after his troops
had lost virtually everything they had
gained. Only one small salient re
mained to the Germans. Resumption
of attacks by one side or the other
and along a much wider front appears
an early probability.
In the Champagne also heavy fight
ing Is In progress. After the disap
pointing result of yesterday's attack
by tho Germans between Mont Carni-
let and Mont Blond, in which the
crown prince's forces were not only
repulsed, but afterwards driven from
their own positions, they attacked
again last night, this time at Teton
height. This assault also failed, Paris
announces, all tho positions remain
ing in French hands.
Only Balding Opemtions.
Along tho British front in France
and Belgium only raiding operations
are reported. The British raids have
been chiefly in the region between the
Arras battle front and that of the ro
cent advance in Belgium. This curv
ing section of "the German lines pro
tects Lille, the main objective of both
tho Arras and Messlnes drives.
On the Austro-Itallan front Gen
eral Cadorna apparently is exerting
heavy pressure along a wide soctor of
the Trontino front where Trent is the
Italian objective.
FORTY TEXAS PLOTTERS
AGIST DRAFT JAILED
DALLAS, Tex., June 22. Federal
licinis announced lodav that forty
of t lie fifty-five men recently indict
cd here for alleged seditious enn-.pir-
acv onanist the enforcement of the
selective draft law have been arrest
cd. Among those taken into custody
yi-terilay and today, it was said,
were Z. T. Hisely, state president of
the Fanners and Laborers' Prntec
tive organization, and W. T. Webb,
stale secretary of the socialist party
TOTALS 9,649,938
WASHINGTON, June 22. Follow
ing receipt of war registration returns
from Wyoming and Kentucky, making
the nation's final total enrollment
!l,lil!,!l.'IH, Brovost Marshal General
Crnwdcr announced today that draff
reiMihtlit'tis will be ready for puhlicn-
lion July 1, two months before th
lii -I call I" the colors.
Danish Steamer Sunk.
NEW VOUK, June Z2. Tho Pan
Ish etcamrhip Orion, a vessel of 18SS
loan props register, was sunk by. a
Herman submarine June 4 In the
North Sea, according to officers of a
Hutch ship which arrived today. The
crew was saved.
RENCH REPEL
TETON HEIGHTS
Maximum yesterday, 7G;
MEDFOPJ),
SUFFRAGISTS AT
Pickets Told That No More Banners
Can be Displayed Carriers Who
Refuse to Move on Arrested for
Blocking Traffic President Quot
ed on Displays Made Today.
WASHINGTON, June 22. The po
lice today began dealing with the suf
frage pickets about tho White House
with a firm hand. It was ordered
that no banners were to be'permltted
to bo displayed and twenty policemen
were stationed about the White House
cense to enforce the order.
Miss Lucy Burns of New York and
Miss Catherine Moroy of Boston, car
riers of a banner who refused to move
from in front of ono of tho White
House gates, were arrested and taken
to police headquarters.
Banner Beai'crs Arrested.
At police headquarters the two
banner-bearers were Informed that
they had been arrested for blocking
traffic and unlawful assemblage. They
were released on their own reclgniz-
ance and no date was set for trial.
It developed that the suffragists
took their banners out again today
under advice of counsel but that they
had sprung a surpsle on the police,
Instead of banners bearing Inscrip
tions, characterized as "treasonable'
and "offensive" they bore banners in
scribed with phrases from some of
President Wilson's addresses.
The banner which led to the arrests
today carried this sentence from the
president's war message:
Quotes Woodiwv Wilson.
'We will fight for the things we
have always held nearest our hearts
for democracy for the right of
those who submit to authority to have
a voice In their own government."
Leaders at suffrage headquarters
were undecided after the arrest of
Miss Burns and Miss Morey whether
Another effort would be made to dis
play a banner. Some were inclined
to favor waiting tho outcome of tho
trial of the two women, but others
took an opposite view and a new ban
ner to say to the Russian mission mis
sion that President Wllspn Is deceiv
ing Russia by calling America a dem
ocracy was prepared, 'in ease it was
decided to resume the offensive.
REO CROSS GOAL
IS HALF REACHED
NEW YORK, Juno 22. Revised
figures of the Red Cross war fund Is
sued show that tho goal aimed for
thruout the country $100,000,000:
is more than half reached. The total
for Xew York City, as given out offi
cially, was J2S,G'.U,!li;.r.. More than
$25,000,000 has been subscribed In
other sections of the country.
The biggest Individual donation re
ceived today was $5,000,000 by the
Rockefeller Foundation.
Red Cross contributions or divi
dends received today Include the fol
lowing: Seaboard National bank. $20,000;
Liberty National bank, $20,000; In
ternational Nickel company, $420
000; Miami Copper company, $187
Kin; Kerr-Lake Mining company,
$00,000; Anaconda Copper company,
$1,100,025; Inspiration Consolidated
Copper company, $.'!00,(lll0; Houth
Porto Rico company, $25,000.
iPOHTLAND, Juno 22. Oswald
West wan appointed rerelver of the
Home Telephone company In the fed
cral court by Judge Wolverton yestor
day upon the petition of Samuel Hill
creditor of the company In the sum of
$50,000.
Mr. West was appointed by the
court as the result of a creditor's bill
fled by Mr. Hill, who sets out that the
company Is Indebted to him in the
sum of $50,000 on a noto given by the
company In August, 1911, and now
due and unpaid.
ARREST
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FREE PAPER BRIBE
MEXICO CITY, June 22. Every
possible pressure, including financial
offers, is reported to have been
brought to bear by Germans and pro
Germans to stop the campaign of El
Universal for the severance of rela
tions between Mexico and Germany.
The discussion of tho campaign lias
brought a renewal of charges that
pro-German papers are being direct
ly aidod In their campaign against tho
United States by free print paper sup
plied by firms In the United States.
It is known that four hundred rolls of
paper ivere shipped by the steamer
Monterey from a Now York firm to
Vera Cruz in April. It is charged
that La Opinion of Vera Cruz was of
fered part of this shipment free if it
would tako a pro-German stand. The
paper refused and the shipment reach
ed Mexico City.
Other papors here havo repeatedly
charged that the four hundred rolls
were given free to pro-German papers
In the capital. Telegraphic news,
written with the obvious purpose of
misrepresenting the United States,
conies from New York and apparently
has no difficulty In passing tho cen
sor. TOPK.KA, Kan., June 22. A to
tal production of 42,0110,0111) bushels
of winter wheal in Kansas this year,
2,000,000 bushels more than thcMny
estimnle, was forecast in the report
issued by the stale board of agricul
ture today. It will he the smallest
wheat crop since 1800.
The prospective yield of oats is
given as 70, .')." 1, 7i!) bushels, exceed
ing tho best previous year, 18H8, by
1(1,000,000 bushels and surpassing the
crop of 1010 by -il, 000,000 bushels,
I lie report declares.
Estimates indicate that tho yield
of barley may aggregate (i,0(IO,000
bushels.
WASHINGTON', June 22.-Reports
of n British Mi-ainer arriving at an
Atlantic coast pmt with prisoners
from a German raider, sunk or cap
tured at sea, were declared bv the
navy department officials today to
be without fi ninJ.ition, They had con
ferred by telephone with naval offi
cers at the port in which the steamer
arrived and were assured that while
n I'.nti-li vessel bad come into the
harbor they were unable to find any
truth in the reports Hint she earned
prisoners from a Ocnuun ruidor.
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COPENHAGEN, June 22 Assump
tion that the "survey of Austrian
public opinion on war aims,'' circu
lated by the Austrian correspondence,
bureau, represented the Austro-llnn-
garian government's program of peace
terms is confirmed by nn article
the Leinberg Gazette, reproducing
theso conditions of the official gov
ernment program. Tho article, for
which high authority is claimed, says
that Serbia and Motitenogro must
find their future economic develop
ment in close economic association
with Austria-Hungary. In other words
it proposes a customs union. It de
clares Hint Lovcen mountain in Mon
tenegro must bo retained as the key
to the Gulf of Culture, and that "Al
bania must be given autonomy under
.military and economic suzerainty of
Aiistna-lliingary."
Discussing Itumania, the statement
says that this riucsliou is for Austria-
lungnry identical with the Dan
ube problem and arrangements must
be made for n free, open Danube
route, not subject to the control of
any foreign power. Finally that Austria-Hungary
must have a better mil
itary frontier against Italy, more
fully protecting Trieste and the Tryol.
AMSTERDAM. Juno 22. Count
Henry C'lani-Marlinie, premier of the
Austrian cabinet which recently re
signed, has failed in bis attempt to
reconstruct the ministry, according to
a dispatch from Vienna. The count
has asked Emperor Chillies to invite
some one else to form a cabinet.
I'KTItOfiUAl), Juno 22. Tho No-
voo Vrcniva prints a big advertise
ment from an unnamed American cor
poration which declares that It has as-
signed $211,000,000 for the purchase
In Russia of antiques, pictures, por
celaln and tapestry. Maxim Gorky
has Issued a furious protest describ
ing the plan as "robbery of our na
tlonal treasures." IIo demands that
an order be Issued forbidding hucIi
exports.
WASHINGTON, Juno 22. More
than 22,0110 bakers thruout the conn
try havo agreed with the comercliil
economy hoard to begin on July 10
to refuse returns nf stale bread from
dealers. By thus reducing production
to actual consumption, cnoagh waste
wll bo Unlimited to feed 200,000 per
sons hcldcs releasing mnny employ
es for for other necesary work.
tomorrow,
FIRST FOOD BILL
HELD TO FORCE
Fear That Senate Will Kill Second
Bill on Excuse of Sufficiency of
First, Causes Rearrangement of
Program Prohibition Proposals
Under Consideration in House.
WASHINGTON, Juno 22. Admin
istrntion supporters of the food bills
rearranged their battle lines today to
niiike sure that the senate docs not
kill the second bill on the ground
hat the first hill is enough.
Fearing that should-llic first, or
production bill, with its clause against
food boarding, be finally enacted
while the senate debates the second
or control bill, it might he contended
that the provisions of the first bil
lire sufficient, the house lenders to
day decided to let the first bill re
main in its present stage and thus
force the senate to enact all the pro
ram before any of d gets to the crit
ical stage of conference betweeu the
two houses.-
Delay Conference.
Should bouse leai'.vrs be able to de
ny -the appointment of conferees on
the first bill until after passage ot the
second by both houses, they expect
to get most of the administration's
program on the statute books.
Prohibition proposals and pending
amendments to climinulc government
licensing of food dealers were the
principal subjects of contention in
the house today on the administra
tion food control bill, whose Until
passage is expected tomorrow.
In tile house speeches were limited
to five minutes. Senator Heed of
Missouri, was ready to lake the floor
iiyVie senate for a lortg speech in op
position to the hill.
Reject Oilier Articles.
Indications multiplied today that
the legislation would be enacted by
July I, ns urged by President Wil
son. The bouse cleared away points
of difference by rejecting proposals
to include shoes, clothing, farm min
istry and cotton seed under the regu
lation provisions and senate leaders
agreed tentatively on various disput
ed points.
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WASHINGTON, June 22. To meet
war conditions President Wilson has
approved new regulations for the
Panama canal prescribing the length
of linio belligerent warships may re
main in cauiil waters and the condi
tions under which they may coal and
provision.
To insure a freer and open water
way on terms of cipinlily to mer
chant ships ami warships if is order
ed that there shall not bit except by
special arrangement at any one lime,
a greater number of war vessels of
any one nation, oilier than the I'nilcd
Slates, including those of the allies
or such nation, than three in either
terminal port and its adjacent termi
nal waters or more than llirce in tran
sit thru the canal, nor shall the total
number of such vessels at any one
time exceed six in all the territorial
waters of the canal zone. The icgu
lalious are in general simitar to those
governing the Sue, ciinal.
OF GREECE EXPELLED
LONDON, June 22. A dispatch to
tho Ilavas agency from Athens says
that former Premier Goutiarls, Willi
thirty other promlmut. Creeks who
wei'o ordered expelled from (I mere,
Including M. Dnigoutnls, son of Kx
Premler Dragnumis and once minister
to Petrogrnd, embarked today.
HUNGARY TO REMOVE
FRESS CENSORSHIP
PARIS. June 22.- A lludapest dis
patch mi.vs that the lluuearian mini-tor
of justice has told the Budapest
Press assoeinlion hal he intends to
remove the censorship as fur us possible.
SECOND
University of Cicrjon
Llhrary
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NO. 79
Federal Trade Commission Asked by
President Denman of Emergency
Fleet Corporation to Fix Fair
Schedule for Steel May Com
mandeer All Plants.
WASHINGTON, June 22 The fed
eral trade commission will bo asked
soon by President Denman of the
emergency fleet corporation lo fix a
uniform price for steel and steel pro
ducts for all industries thruout tho
country. ; ,f ; ;.!
.The commission will.be asked to
name a fair price which Will afford
the producer a fail' profit not only on
steel hut on pig iron, iron ore nnd
every other malerinl entering into
the iiianiifaetiire of steel.
Ask for a Price First,
Tho method of procedure will bo
for the commission to suggest to nil
iron nnd steel manufacturers nnd ore
producers that they unite nnd name a
price themselves, subject to tho com
mission's approval. Should they de
cline to adopt this course the govern
ment, has power to commandeer the'
lilunts.
With the government obtaining its
steel for the proposed fleet of ocean
going vessels nt ti comparatively low
price, it is feared Hint unless some
restrictive action be tuken the price
of steel and iron to other industries
will uttaiii unheard of levels within
a short time.
That, it is pointed out, might be
brought nbont by the natural law of
supply nnd deiniind, ns the govern
ment's requirements when filled would
leave an inadeipiatc supply for other
industries. ,
I 'ixlng of All Prices.
The present program calls for the
fixing of prices of all grades nnd
kinds of steel and iron. It is point
ed out that iron and steel for use in
the mnniifaeturc of harvesters nnd
oilier agricultural implmenest is nec
essary for the national defenso to a
degree secondary only to tho need
for slecl in eonstrucling the propos
ed merchant fleet.
The commission, also might finn it
necessary to fixe the prico of man
ranese. limestone and olhcr elements
entering inlo the uianufacturo of pig
iron which in turn enter into (he iunn
ul'actiire of steel.
OLD ISSUE OF
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Ni:V YORK, Juo 22.r During the
first bond call on tho stock exchange
today further sharp declines were re
covered In tho bid prices of old United
States government issues.
The registered and coupon 3's of
tnii; were S5 bid, a drop ot 2 points.
I'aiuiins 3'b of 111(11 were 82 bid, oft
2 points and the registered and cou
pon -full of 11125 were 104 bid, a
dei lliie of a point. These quotations
represent tho lowest levels In yoars.
No actual transactions were made fit
the prices given.
Tho previous Issues of the United
Stales government havo shown heavy
tendencies ever since tho Inception of
the Liberty loan. In banking circles
II Is believed that tho depreciation Is
mainly due to suIch of tho old bonds
n tin i ii iit purchases of the Liberty Is
sue. CANADA PROVIDES FOR
WASHINGTON, Juno 22.-IIow
Camilla provides for the wives and
children of her soldiers is described
in a special report issued today by
the Federal Children's bureau. In ad
dition to the enlisted men's regular
pay, a separate allowance of !f2fl a
mouth is paid his dciH-ndents, and in
special cases further aid is furnish
ed frnni the Canadian patriotic fund.
Life insurance on men nt the front
is carried by many cities and llio do
minion has undertaken tho ro-eduen-tion
of disabled men in gainful oc
ciipations
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