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si Ti A nr-SftTT IT wnrth Carolina and J- South Carolina:: Prob ably thunder shower this afternoon on to night In east portion. - FULL LEASED WIRE SERVICE w ( P O E S III TODAY vol. xxiv. ,No.a!9SiI IHKiiiWiiEi ' 4 wIik wmmm MOVE BY GER Rainy Weather Has Hamper ed Enemy and Has Aided The Allies. AERIAL ACTIVITY ON AMERICAN SECTOR German Airmen are Giving American Fliers a Contest for Control of the Air No Infantry Engagements. Along the battle lines in Northern France, theallied troops , atiU await the shock of renewed heavy fighting by the Germans. Apparently the rain weather has interfered a great deal with the enemy's transport and he has not been able to perfect his ar rangements because of the difficul ties of bringing his supplies over the battle-torn ground of Flanders and Picardy. j - Having gained some advantageous positions in local fighting,' the allies are waiting for the next' effort of the Germans, which already has been de layed much longer than In previous lulls since the beginning of the of fensive on March 21. - Meanwhile, fresh troops and new supplies are pouring in to strengthen the allied positions and this fact must 'also add to the perturbation of the enemy, who has nothing remarkable In mil itary achievement to show , for his heavy losses of the past seven weeks. T'ae artillery fire continues violent on important sectors. Ane Hermans are shelling heavily the Anglo-French front southwest of Ypres and the sec tor south of the Somme between Vil-lers-Bretonneui and Hailles. These sectors saw the heavy fighting pre vious to the German repulse nor th of Mont Kemmel nine days ago. Enemy ire against the southern,, side of the Arras sector which lies north jf 'Al-; lert, also ha.i been .intense. -, There has been rreae ft on the American sector, north West 0; Toul and Captain James : Normah Hall, well known as a flyer in the French and American armies. Is ported missine after a battle In which he and two othe Americans' engaged four Germans-. Two of tns enemy airplanes are believed to have been brought down. Other Americans also have been meeting the enemy in the air along the line east of St. Mihiel and it is believed the Germans have concentrated large forces in an attempt to wipe out the American fliers. There has been no Infantry fighting on any of the American sec tors. Except for fruitless patrol raid 3 t" the Austrians and limited artillery fire there has been no activity on the Italian front. The Austrians still withhold their attack and neither Vienna nor Berlin has said anything of it for the nast epvpral davs. A political crisis involving the se curity of the Lloyd-George govern ment has arisen in Great Britain over the letter w'tten by Gen. Maurice, former chief lirector of military op erations, in which he questioned the veracity of the premier and the chan ttllor of exchequer. In the house of commons a parliamentary tilt be tween Andrew Bonar-L&w, for the ?overnment, .and former Premier kquith resulted in the government's ceptance of a motion by Mr. As With that the house discuss the form off inquiry to be made into the state ments of General Maurice. The motion will be debated in the house Thursday and the government U4 decided to stand or -fall on the Tote taken after the discussion. The. government looks upon the motion 18 a vote of censure and has called lts supporters to be in the house for vte tomorrow. BERLIN TO FURNISH SUITS FOR WORKERS Amsterdam May 8 The city of ' u nas heen ordered to nroduce lD"uwirh innn j t a fts f war 'hose workers. principally in? Wlba&eu m railway ana iarm snrrl0 Tt is to be a "voluntary but I a?ainst a small payment," cloth! arnmg is Siven that if the be tat are not forthcoming they will kcialiv t inis ai'P"eB eB" tion J, Persons whose social posi- their """a me aKRiimntinn that Wardrobes are well stocked. xt AWERICANS IN ITALY. ncrofYa:k' 8.The pres- and a fn Ar"erican contingent," ttaiia fBohemian 'eflion on the Patch f 1 i8 rePrted In a dis huZ A"8trian Press r"! t dated APrU-8, to the h b; aeb,att' a cpy of which -een received hr. ange0"Utmbei: of opposed Ameri- i.. ..DP 10 What ar S I. lce th. arm of the serv- adl th. ? Bp'r corre8Pndent, who Mary J" Bnti8h and French aux Italian Y.!p! are no 'onger on the MIS THE OFFICIAL REPORTS. - . BRITISH.- , , T a J it ci - ., mjuhuh, m.a.y a. aucr.fissTiii mi- l - nr nor operations laat night resulted 14 in tne advance of the British lines L a short distance in the Amiens b sector, between - the Somme - and 7 Ancre rivers, the war office an- C aiOimced today. - , ,r K Increased activity was devel. r oped, by the hostile artillery early V Kemmel. . AUSTRALIANS ADVANCE. With the British Army in France, May 8,The Australians last night made another advance, pushing forward . their lines 500 '.yards along a front of 600 yards Hear Sellly-Le-Sec, on the sector east of Amiens. They also pushed c back the Germans ZOO yard along a' front of .600 yards west of Mor lancburt. Just above Sailly-Ije-Sec. Notwithstanding a- heavy barrage, . the Germans were unable to pre vent their advance. FRENCH. Paris May 8,--Heavy artillery ' .fighting occurred last night on both sides of the Avre river, southeast of Amiens, the war - office announces. The statement follows: "There was very great activity of the artillery on both sides dur ing the night north and south of the Avre. - Raids attempted by the enemy west of Montdiddier and in the regions of Thennes and Grivesnes were broken up by the French, who took prisoners. "There Is nothing to report from the rest of the front." FIRST OF WOODEN SHIPS BUILT AT TAMPA LAUNCHED. nuuc nere, was to De launcnea late today. The boat is 286 feet long and re-Twill displace about 2,200 tons. "The machinery will be installed here Five to Be Launched. New Orleans, May 8. The South ern Pine Association announced today it has been notified that five large wooden steamers for the' government merchant fleet will be launched from shipyards along the gulf coast this week. These include one at Tampa today and other new vessels at Biloxi, Miss., Orange and Beaumont, Texas, within the next few days. Three additional vessels, it was stated, will be launched at Moss Point, Miss., Orange, Texas, and Mad- isonville, La., within the next week or tej) days COUNT VON LUXBURG IS FINALLY ABOUT TO SAIL FOR HOME Buenos Aires, May 8. Count von Luxburg, former German minister to Argentina, who was dismissed by the Argentine government last fall, is finally about to sail for home. Ill- health claimed for him and various complications regarding arrangements for his voyage had caused his depart ure to be postponed several times. It is now announced that Count von Luxburg, under an allied safe con duct, will sail tomorrow for Sweden. Dr. Perl, former German minister to Peru, who was handed his passports by the Peruvian government when it severed relations with Germany last autumn, will sail on the same steamer as will the German charge d'affaires at Montivideo, completing the exodus of German diplomats from the South American republics, which have brok en with Berlin. WEEK OF MAY 20 RED CROSS WEEK. Washington. May 8. President Wilson has issued a proclamation designating the week beginning May 20 as "Red Cross week," and calling upon the American people to contrib ute generously to the second $100, 000.000 war fund of the American Red Cross for the alleviation of suf fering among the American troops in France and their dependents at home and among Che fighting forces and civilian nooulations of the allied countries. NICARAGUA SENDS REGULAR MINISTER San Juan Del Sur, Nicaragua, May 8. Diego Manuel Chamorro, former minister of foreign affairs, has fcesa appointed Nicaraguan minister t the United States .Nicaragua yes'terday - declared war on Germany. "The government Is nw renresvifoS. , at Washington:, :b. . TRY TO WIPE Expert Air Fighters Sent to Engage Airmen on Ameri can Front. lUTENANT HALL 5T i ' ,5: ; J r ' " - REPOIOTED MISSING ight Thrilling Battle With H f terman Planes, and Was Last Seen Near The Ground Behind Enemy With the American Army in Prance, Tuesday, May 7. After a thrtllingr battle with enemy airplanes lu mnes north of Pont-A-Mousson, Captain Jamer Norman Hall, one of the leadings American aviators, made a spiral dive for the earth and was last seen close to the ground. anDa- ently trying to land. His subsequent fate Is unknown. Captain Hall, with two others, was patrolling this morning between St. Muxxel and Ont-A-Mousson. When they were over Pegnv-Sur-Moselle. four enemy Albatross airplanes, paint ed with black and white stripes, were seen. The Americans attacked. Cantain Hall singling out one of the enemy ana driving mm downward . while fir ing' with his machine gun-: The pair made a spiral dive from 6.000 metres to 4,000, when the German suddenly reversed his machine and started to rise. In a quick turn he poured a deadly stream of machine eun bul lets Into the bottom of Hall's ma chine. Captain Hall promptly came out of the spiral and made a dive for the earth. He was last seen attempt ing to complete this maneuver. In the meantime the enemv ma chines that the other Americans had engaged dropped toward the ground. It is unknown what happened to them, but two of them apparently were in distress. No credit for a vie tory. is given tle Americans because official verification of the destrucr tion of the enemy was impossible. Can tain HUTi itmachine-.had painted on -its side "the first 'American airplane insignia to appear on the battleline. It was Jn the form of a "hat in. the ring" sign, showing a starry-striped high hat, usually pictured on Uncle Sam, surrounded by a golden ring. Despite the bad weather German machines were out in force! Alarm after alarm was answered by the Americans. Lieutenant Cunningham engaged one mactiine, when five more of the enemy joined in. The lieuten ant kept up the fight until his ma chine gun jammed, when he returned to the American lines with 10 bullet holes in his plane. The usual German game was to have a small number of planes ap pear near the American lines while a reserve of four or five machines re mained out of sight until the Ameri can came into action. The reserves would then swoop down in an at tempt to wipe out the Americans. The American aviators met this by answering alarms with twice the num ber of machines it was reported the Germans had. American aviators used -Nieuport pursuit machines as their fighting weapons. The Americans engaged in photography and artillery regulating work also had to fight. Two Ameri cans protecting a firing machine were attacked by two Germans. The fight lasted for half an hour and ended when one German went wobbling to the ground about three kilometers within the German lines. The fight took place about two kilometrs be hind the German positions. As a result of today's activity it Is believed the Germans sent some of their best fliers to this sector to at tempt to annihilate the American fly ing force. IS CHARGED THAT INDUSTRIAL TRUCE HAS BEEN BROKEN Washington, May 8. Charges that the industrial truce declared in the recent agreement between capital and labor has been broken by telegraph companies were heard today by the national war labor board. Telegraph operators declared many of their number bad been discharged because of union affiliations. The companies' sjde of the controversy was present ed by Newcomb Carlton, president of the Western Union. SIXOFRYNDHAM CREW COMMENDED " Washington, May 8 Secretary Dan iels today issued a statement com mending six members of the crew of U. S. S. Ryndham for their heroic work during' a fire on board, April 20. The statement says - that "notwith standing the smoke and the dangerous flames these men went down in the forepeak of " the vessel ' and brought on-deck a yard, workman who had collapsed 'and would have been killed by the .fumes If .he .had - not , been -. 'J "r:2 CABINET FACES A POUTJCAL CRISIS Genera! Maurice Questions V eracity ; of Premier . and Chancellor; of Exchequer. HOUSE TO DEBATE QUESTION THURSDAY Government Will Stand:pr. Fall by the Vote Taken After the Discussion- News papers ar Lining Up. London, May-)B. ma. action of General Mauriceformer chief direc tor of military operations at the war office, in lmptrgg the veracity of ministers of the . government has cre ated a most serious political situation and one which is of vital importance to the cabinet's ; existence, according to the views expressed by several of the morning newspapers. Papers which have consistently supported eee present adminsttation rally to tts side and insinuate or assert openly that former Premier- Asquith and his f followers are backbf General Mau rice and that the affair is & maneuver to oust the Lloyd-George cabinet and put in its place a cabinet headed by Mr. Asquith, Viscount Grey and tbe Marquis of Lansdowne. Thursday's debate, The Dally Tele graph thinks, will be the most serious of . any the government has had to face, involving the questionof its con tinuance in power. The paper is con vinced that the ministers acted in per fect good faith when they made the statements which General - " Maurice contradicts and. belief es they merely repeated information Supplied by their military advisors. The Daily., Tele graph believes the country has com plete and justifiable confidence In the UEOyejiiment, bttiMidTiere :Mzno. (.apuDt -nat the -opposradioeo,: y Mr..- Aoyium icsdiuo mo trniB as ripe ior it to accept the responsibility of of fice. It is for the 'house of commons to choose. . The alternative govern ment would be exclusively a radical one." The Daily -Mail, which strongly sup ports Premier Lloyd-George, and is as strongly inimical to former Premier Asquith, says the debate on Mr. As quith's motion will afford him the needed opportunity for an attempt to bring about a parliamentary crisis. It remarks that when . General Maurice said that no soldier had seen his let ter, he did not say that no politician had seen it. This omission," The Daily Mail,englne for SCOuting and bombing and adds, coupled with Mr. Asquith's maneuvers in parliament on Tuesday, suggests that the old gang believes it has found a weapon which will de stroy the government. We believe these infatuated partisans have made ""oiuuiftuuu. . . climb to great altitudes. It is an in- 6 n&n, hafo confidence in,teresting fact that experiments are the (discredited and dilatory politicians ;now being conducted with a device and their pacifist hangers-on whojthat will it ls hoped materially alter were driven from office 18 months ago." The Daily Graphic says: "Mr. Asquith's intervention indi cates that the political truce is now at an end. We must anticipate a new political struggle centering around the question of the premier's honor." The conservative Morning Post says that the premier's own act , brought the government to the present seri ous pass. He refused, it declares,, to take the advice of soldiers, the Ger mans took advantage of txe situation, and the premier threw the blame on the soldiers. The Post adds: "The hand of Nemesis is now stretched out. Lloyd-George will need all his nimbleness to avoid being cracked on the wheel of destiny. He has .had his chance and has proved himself unfit for the work in hand. But nobody can rejoice, who considers the alternative, at the prospect of fered." The radical Daily News, which is opposed to the premier, rejoices that! the government will not accept the Asquith motion, but will treat it as a vote of censure, so that parliament on Thursday must take a decision involving the life of the government. HEAVY ARTILLERY FIGHTING ALONG AMERICAN FRONT With the American Army in Pic arrlv Mnndav Mav 6. The artillerv fighting continues along the sector held by American troops in the Pic- ardy battlefront. There is no cnange in the situation. Premier Clemenceau visited the Americans yesterday afternoon and congratulated them on the fine show ing they have already made. He ex pressed particular pleasure t tne tin-- monlous manner in which the French that the department of justice shall and Americans are working together. (conduct the most searching and rutli The premier inspected the billets and I less investigation of the entire air kitchens and talked with officers and plane program." His reasons are ob- men, ; PRESIDENT WILSON TAKES A HAND IN Government Officials Believe Grave Injustice Has Been Done Innocent Men. NO GROUNDS FOR CRIMINAL ACTION Many of the Charges Against the Aircraft Board are Con sidered Absurd Little Money Wasted. - (By FRANK P. MORSE.) Washington. D. G., Alay 8. Presi dent Wilson has personally interven ed in the airplane controversy and endorsed former Chairman Howard Coffin's request for an investigation by the department of justice, because ho believes that insinuations of crim inal actSi which have been current for several days, are a grave injus tice to men entirely innocent of even the slightest Wrongdoing. Government officials regard the In vestigation as an absolute necessity because they are convinced that charges of the most irresponsible character have been launched for reasons that will be made clear when the investigating machinery tof the government is- set in motion. They do not" think there is the slightest chance that grounds for criminal pro ceedings will be disclosed, but they do anticipate proof that regrettable zeal to incorporate every up-to-the-minute improvement in fighting planes was responsible or inexcusa ble procrastination and delays. Some of the charges aired her last week were, peculiarly absurd. There were bitter complaints that no, ar rangements had been made to otain an adequate supply of foreign types pf motors for American battle . ma chines. As a matter of fact the Wright-Martin plast is now turning buJipnaSo ot foreign motors and the one . that Ta generally regarded in- the allied countries as the best motor for . fast fighting planes. ." The wildest talk connected with plans for America's air navy has cen tered on the liberty motor. A great many people have been led to believo th;t this American product is a fail ure and a vastly greater number have formed the opinion that, while sat isfactory for bombing and training planes, it does not develop enb igh speed for battle planes. Both theo ries are wrong. The liberty motor, according to ex perts who should know, is the fast- ;est motor in the world. It Is flawless is being turned out in great quanti ties. It was eliminated from use in battle planes, not on the question of speed, - but because it is considered !too heavy and too high geared for vattle planes, which are compelled to the liberty motor gear. If this proves a success, it is extremely probable that a modified liberty motor event ually will be placed on American fighting machines. The Curtis plant, in Buffalo, is turning out quantities of training plAfles, which are equipped with en gfaes built at the Curtis motor fac tory at Elmyra, New York. The Buf falo plant has produced a majority of all the training planes now in use, and its motor factory is in shape to turn out an enormous number of en gines for use in this country and abroad. t is both unjust and ridiculous tc intimate that the $640,000,000 appro priated by congress for airplanes has gone to waste. A large amount of the money actually spent went, for tiaining fields aDd cantonments for aviators and mechanics. A larqo amount was spent in experimentation and in advance payments for new factories and for the actual construe tion of liberty and other motors. The greater part of the money has no yet been paid out. Important members of the senate military affairs committee are beginning-to regard the Gutzon Borgluin chargs lees sympathetically than when they were first made public. Mr. Borglum has written letters to the senate committee and given out interviews that led to grave suspic ions about the early conduct of the aircraft board. For that reason f.he members of the committee made re peated efforts to have the sculptor produce material . witnesses to back up his statements. It may be stated j in this connection that the attitude 01 iraiuciii..iuwuus lum investigation has materially al tered since the war department for mally offered its assistance to the sculptor in his search for definite facts. Former Chairman Coffin has asked jvious. t Asks Appropriation of $2,223,835,000 For Ship Building. Washington, May 8. Estimates submitted to congress today by the shipping board call for an ap propriation of $2,223,836,000. For the cost of construction of ships authorized by the urgent de ficiency bill of 1917 ;the board has requested an appropriation of $1,386,100,000 and for the purchas ing and requisitioning of plants and material $652,000,000. JIMMY" HALL IS GONE AND WHOLE SERVICE MOURNS Was One of Most Popular Men in American Flying Corps. GERMAN OPPONENT USED NEW TACTICS Maneuver of Hard Pressed Hun Enabled Him to Turn Defeat Into Victory Over Daring American. With the American Army In Prance, Tuesday, May 7. "Jimmy" wan is gone, and the whole Ameri can air service is mourning his loss. All are wondering whether he was killed or was able to bring his ma chine safely to earth after his battle in the air over Pagny-Sur-Mosalle. Captala Hall was popular through out the" army and had won admira tion by his daring, coolness, and skill in handling his machine. The captain's flying companions are all certain he would have knock ed out his opponent had it not been for a maneuver unheard of, so far as American and French pilots are con cerned. It has been considered dan gerous to the last, degree to bring up w - v i - - - j i a macuine snarpiy. irom a aownwaru tJii ti tra Hawaiian Ko fttrftlVl- a olrrtnur of Bjme vital-part The .German aviator .whom Captain Hall "was . pursuing, being hard pressed, adopted this desperate expedient ito escape death and won. He was thus enabled to pour a stream of bullets into the Dottom of Hall's machine. The captain's companions waited for several hours after the fight for him to. re turn before giving him up for lost. They felt certain that un less some serious accident had oc curred he would return, notwith standing the act that he was seen to plunge toward the earth. The avia tors all have the greatest confidence in him and express the conviction that if he landed safely and was cap tured he will escape eventually. IL 10 LEND Mi c. m. Y:ll U nnJ i Streets Will be hxtended and New Houses Given Water and Sewer. That city council is in accord with - COM PROMISES ASSISTANCE the action taken at yesterday's mass I ryine out instructions of. the shipping meeting, looking toward the, , forma- board and that it is imperative that A tion of a million dollar coifpoVition the company be in position to comply for the building of houses to taka'wlth every request made by the ship care of the city's ever increasing pop-, ping board. He stated plainly that ulation and that, council will bend , his company had urged the govern every energy toward extending intent to arrange for transportation of streets and water mains and provid- the shipyar employes to and from the ing sewer accommodations for the j city by steamer, and that nothing houses that are to be built was the i would please his company more than sentiment expressed at tjhis morn- ing's regular session of the board. The matter was - presented by Mavs- den Bellamy, chairman of the hous- ing committee, who mde it plain that no unreasonable results would be origin in theory rather than-fact, made. . j The report of the committee lent a The general opinion is that the ma- j suggestion that ' the proposed Third jor portion of proposed building op- j street line would be used for switch erations will be in the southern sec- ling freight cars and the committer tion of city, a slight distance beyond i was opposed to such a practice, but the area now served with sewer and I Mr. MacRae assured the council that water and all are agreed that it will j such an idea had never been enter be necessary to extend streets. It tained. was pointed out that one of the big ! The head of the traction company things the city could do was throw .was of the opinion that the primary sewer accommodations around the 'purpose of streets was for transport workmen and their families who are j ing people from one side of a city to to .be brought here, thus assuring j pother in tho quickest and mosi sanitary conditions of the highest na , comfortable manner, and he called ture. Many of the houses will be attention to the building of elevated built on the southern extremity of ! lines in cities-practices that work . Fith, Sixth and Seventh streets, and ; to the detrimenr"of property owners, the proposition of taking care of these j Mr. Chadbourn was willing to ad people in the above mentioned man- jmit that the city beautiful plan wa9 npr will- be borne in mind when the one of the finest imaginable but did The board new uuugci 10 wauo u.y. was also addressed by J. A. Taylor on the same, subject. Dr. Charles E. Low, newly elected health officer, was introduced to the board by Chairman W. A. Mscrirt, or the board of county commissioners, and he had a few words to say. W. B. Copper was before the board to ask that assistance be given . the asso-.-ciated charities and his request- was referred to the finance committee. ' PRICE FIVE CENTS GRANT OPTIONAL if STREET RAILlii! Traction Company Privileged - MiM to Doubletrack to the Shipyards. MOTION DEFEATED AND THEN PASSED Third Street, However, Must Not be Used as Freight Line. Committee's Report Filed. Optional franchises permitting ex tensions of the street railway system of the Tidewater Power company to the southern section of the city, mak ing possible a double tracked system to the yards of the Carolina and Lib erty shipbuilding companies was granted the company at, the regular Wednesday morning session of city council. The company is to be per mitted to double track Front street beyond Castle, or it can use Third street, south of Castle, and get tha double track effect by the formation of a loop. The franchise expires with the year unless the company has taken advantage of the privileges extended during that time. The only conditions imposed are that the com- -pany comply with, the obligations provided for by the state law, which requires the company to pave be tween its tracks and 18 inches on ' either side and tihe assurance of Hugh MacRae, president of the cora--pany, that In event a line was ex tended down Third street that It would be a street railway line and not' a railroad track and that it would not be devoted to hauling freight. The matter was referred back to thd committee composed of Councilman Hall, Bunting and Bradshaw, that re ported on the question today, and the details wil be worked out during. the r- afternoon by this commitee and ;ot- nciaisj . of the- traction company. iv . .Tfie motion' togrant wasC madV.bX Councilman McCalg, after the board-. ha4-heard Mn MacRae at length and after C. C. Ohadbourn" and J. JL.Tay- , lor had urged that the traction' com-' pany be empowered to proceed aa any effort to block the company would be stones thrown in the path of the government. The, report of the special committee, appointed by the mayor to go Into the matter, was submitted and covered twelve type written pages. The committee through its report wished to make cer tain that the company would not build railroad tracks to the ship yards and later lease them to .rail road companies, and objections were " heard from property owners, who op pose a freight line down Third street In speaking of the report Mr. Mac Rae and Messrs. Chadbourn and Tay lor admitted that it was a splendid re port for normal times but that it im- , poses entirely too many obligations on the company which is really acting a? an acrent of the government. In addressing council Mr. MacRae recounted the service (rendered by his company in influencing the gov- ernment to locate shipyards here, and thought that part of the report' that hited at the possibility of other Companies Comine here in nnnnaitfrm . ito the one he headed was poor taste. He stressed the fact that the Tlde- water Power company is merely car- that this suggestion be carried out. He was inclined to think that the only objections entered against ex- ! tension of the proposed Third Street iline were unreasonable and had their not think that progress should b halted and . people" inconvenienced be- j cause it was neeesary to extend -?Ut Sr i j car line through a plaza -located -tH' ' '- one of the streets of the city. J. A. ' Taylor urged that the board co-op- erate with the traction company In very manner possibly; that, the com pany is doing a public service and Is lending the government assistance . - v v (Continued on Page Ntttt 1 1 I! W0 1 mv ; it . 5 it i i lis1 I f. 'I --. .A ' 1 ": i; v 'MA 5 ( currv rnj 1 N promptly removedj