St. Louis Post-Dispatch from St. Louis, Missouri • Page 22

SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 29, 1918. PTtOflS POST-PiSPATCH 23 BELIEVED DEAD IN COAL MINE EXPLOSION 1 3 BARGES START Christening and Start of the New Barge Line TO NEW ORLEANS Loan Plea by Army Abroad Distributed by Boy Scouts Cries of "Extra!" Excite Demand for 150,000 Copies of Stars and Stripes, Model for Which Came by Courier From Pershing. tVwcJ JyJ5 'ill 1 k.M balance. We like our pay but If we have to. we can go without it.

Yours for Victory. A. E. F. France.

Sept. 7. The army's estimate of the loan was a little high it is to be 000 but its spirit is hard to beat. "Straight From the Trenches." is the heading over other pages, on which appear stories of the heroism, humor and pathos of army life, Scotty Has lion. Ills Part." in the story of a youthful machine gunner, who It Is related, piled up a hfap of German dead before a sniper's bullet found his heart, and whose epitaph was.

"He was a good kid. arid be did on his gun." "Are You Doing Your Part?" is the personal question to the reader. Storlot of Heroism. The story of the death of Capt. F.

M. lyeahy of L-twrancc. which was printed originally in The Stars and Stripes, and which the Post -Dispatch and many other pa- pen reprinted, is one of a group of anecdotes on another page. "The command is "Forward! was Cupt. Leahy's last utterance.

Another of the stories is: The Colonel had led them into the fight, and It was the Colonel's all-seeing eye which noticed that the little 18-year-old private had been gassed. "Get back!" he shouted. "You've done your bit get back!" So the little private dutifully got back. On the way he passed a farm. In a shed were six bodies whom the fight had swept past without noticing.

Their hands went up in a Jiffy, When the little private reported at the dressing station for treatment, the six were still with him. Wounded Men Sign MeKsage. A message "To the Folks Back Home" is dated Aug. 17, and is: "We. the undersigned, are wounded soldiers of the A.

E. now in base hospitals in France. We are going back to the front as soon as can get there. We've just got to be with the bunch when they start fjr Berlin. "And as we go, we expect to hear from home that yau have heavily oversubscribed the Fourth Liberty Loan." The autographs of more than 100 wounded men are reproduced beneath this letter.

the hands of five American soldiers. One pilot had so narrow an escape from death that the glass eye piece was shot out of his goggles. Putting up his hands to adjust the goggles, another bullet grazed his thumb. Still another pilot received an explosive bullet through the front of his outer fur coat, setting it on Are. He wnn not wounded.

Sij-'1 HOW SSOUR ANS PRUSSIANS WHIPPED AMERICAN FLYERS CLEAR AIR OF FOE U. S. Pursuit Group Engages in 23 Combats Successfully During One of a Series of Raids Far Over Foe Line. CARLINVILLE (ILL.) BOY AMONG 30 NAMED Our Aviators, While Aiding Advancing Infantry, Often Fought as Low as 150 Feet From Ground. By th Associated Precs.

WITH THE AMERICAN FORCES, NORTHWEST OK VERDUN. Sept. 28. Low-flying airplanes have been used by the Americans in the advance now in progress, to cover the forward movement of the infantry by laying down what amounted to a barrage. Often the aviators have flown as low as 150 feet.

There has been some notable air fighting, with numbers of victories scored by the Americans. Among these may be mentioned one by Lieut. Hoover, who briught down a monoplane near Sivry, while Lieut. White attacked two Fokkers in quick succession, bringing one down at Mont Faucon and the other to the east of that place. Lieut.

Buckley and Lieut. Curtis got a Rumpler biplane near Breuil-les and Lieuts. Buckley, Butz and Houston Woodward drove down another Rumpler out of control near Fleville. Drop Seven Tons of Bombs. A total of seven tons of bombs was dropped upon Longvion, Audion, Frietix, Gouraincourt and Stehay by French and Italian aviators, while the British bombed Audun, Metz-Sablons.

Mezieres. Ars, Thionvillo and Frescaty. American aviators dropped a quantity of bombs on Etain. American pursuit aviators played their part fully and notwithstanding greater enemy activity than usual, came through the first two days as undispteud masters of the air in this region. They fought and vanquished enemy formations ranging in size from seven or nine to 23 machines.

Patrols left their airdromes Thursday before dawn and were over the sector of attack by sunrise. They bean by launching a successful raid against the German balloons, six of which were brought down during the day. In Twenty-Three Combmta. One pursuit group engaged in 23 combats with enemy airmen, destroying two enemy machines and bringing down out of control a number of others. The Americans flew Ter the German lines to as far as the Moselle, southwest of Metz.

They found few German machines, but drove back all they chanced to find. The work of the observation airplanes was virtually undisturbed by the enemy machines. A series of deep raids into en-emv territory was made during the day. The first of these resulted in 13 combats, in which 10 German plr.nes were destroyed. The second was made at a low altitude for the purpose of bombing concentrations of enemy troops and convoys.

Three German planes were engaged and one probably was destroyed. A third raid was made in conjunction with a bombing group against the railroad Junction at Etain, east of Verdun and resulted in the successful bombardment of the objective. The Americans met German flyers during the bombing operations and are believed to have destroyed three of them. Long-distance reconnoitering flights also were carried out and valuable Information obtained concerning German troop movements. The following contests are Lieut.

M. L. Campbell (Wake-man. and Lieut. L.

A. Hamilton (Pittsfleld. encountered five enemy airplanes over Armen-tieres. Lieut. Campbell shot two of these down.

Lieut. Hamilton accounted for one. Lieut. R. G.

Landis (Chicago), after a combat with a hostile machine which he sent down in a cloud of smoke, attacked a hostile balloon, but observing an enemy two-seater near, diving east, engaged and shot it down. Returning to the balloon, he fired into it at very close range. It went down in flames. Lieut. J.

A. Keating (Chicago), and Second Lieut. Simpson (not identified, on returning from a bomb raid, were attacked by two laree formations of the enemy scouts. The first enemy airplane to attack at close range was shot aown in flames by Lieut. Simpson.

American Plane int. I A ittle later a second enemy air- I plane which was attacking from the rear, was also shot down In names, and during the course of the com bat two more hostile machines were seen to spin down and crash, all of which had been fired at by the ob server. Lieut. Keating's machine had been very badly shot about and he was obliged to land soon after cross-! lng our lines. Lieut.

R. G. Landis, in a general engagement with enemy scouts, shot down a Fokker biplane, which crt shed near LaRassee. He then attacked a triplane. which was on the tail of a Bristol fighter, whoee observer was apparently hit.

and IN VERDUN THRUST Six Bodies Recovered at Royal-ton and Hope for Others Is Abandoned. Six bodies had been taken frqm the north mine of the Franklin Coal and Coke at Rovalton. 5 miles southeast of St. IX)Uls, Ut niyht. and hope of finding alive th remaining 15 :0 men who were trapped by an explosion at 5 M.

yesterday was abandoned. The level whifTi the mn were was seald up to extinguish the fire that prevented recovery of the lodles. Accounts of the number of men lost were at wide variance, ranging from IS to 40. but apparently rellabU reports place it at about 23. Among those who perished were Supt.

A. E. Capwtltk. Manairer Then. Helm.

Pit Boss A. v. pstlk. Assistant Bosses Tony lleber.r. drover Capps and Harry Mclaughlin, and Examiners William Ditterllne, D.

Alvls. Jettie lUrris and J. Bothman. A watchman discovered a fire in level 320 feet I the surface at I a. and the miners responded to the alarm and went into the mln to extinguish the blaze.

Thy were closing up Die entries of galleries at n. in. when an explosion occurred 3100 feet from th shaft. Bodies Near I Explosion Point. A dozen men working near th shaft escaped.

The others were etit off by the explosion, and were suffocated or burned. The six bodies were found a few feet from where th" explosion occurred, and the others are known to be beyond the point, in the same gallery. Fifty. two men were killed in ths same mine by a gas explosion Oct. 27, 1914.

Women Pray At Pit. Nearly all of the dead men wer married, and a majority had families. Wild scene took place around mouth of the shaft yesterday mornign. wive and children of the trapped men screaming, praying and calling on others to rescue those in the mine. State mine rescuers from the station at Benton arrived soon after the explosion, and succeeded, with the aid of smoke helmets, in getting to the bottom of the shaft, hut it was not until It a.

m. that the first bod-' Irs were reached. Several hundred men are employed In the mine, which is one of the largest In Southern Illinois. Royalton'a population of about 2000 Is composed almost entirely of miner" families. Virtually all of those killed ars Americans.

The young man who to "board in a private home" with eltr yojng men ran find just such a plJo by wording a board wanted ad cn-dlngly and sending It to the I'nts. Dispatch through the nearest oY4r htr tC 11 Olive Cries of "Extra!" last night heralded the free distribution, by Boy Scouts, of a special edition of The Stars and Strfpes. official publication of the American expeditionary force, containing the army's plea to the American people to subscribe to the Fourth Liberty The "zero hour" when the Scouts began their attack was 7:49 p. m. Whistles blw at that moment, and the boys started out with loads of papers, from 28 distribution enters, one in each wanl of the city.

One hundred and fifty thousand copies of the paper were given them, the distribution to the wards having been made Friday by Post-1 Mspatch delivery wagons, at the request of the Liberty Ixan Organization. Downtown and on Grand avenue, the cry of "Kxttal" brought many roustomers ready to pay for what they supposed was the news of some victory on the west front. There was surprise whn the distributors refused pay for their papers, and groups gathered about the boys, who had to return repeatedly to the head- quarters for more papers. On resi dence streets, the response to the cry was general, and at a few houses where no one appeared, papers were thrown on the steps. About 50,000 copies were distributed in the same manner in the suburbs.

Edited and Prepared in l'ranor. The Stars and Stripes is printed in France, and its regular issues contain news of the army and home news of interest to the soldiers, besides feature matter and cartoons. The special edition was printed in St. Louis for circulation in this region, and in New York for distribution in the east, but was edited and prepared in France, and copies were printed there, which were sent to this country by Gen. Pershing, by special War Department courier, furnishing a model for the issue printed here.

"Read and buy all the Liberty Bonds you can," is the message on the first page. The first page bears the message of the A. E. F. to the President, illustrated by a drawing by Private C.

Le Roy Baldridge of the Stars ond Stripes staff. The message is: If the folks back home fall short on the $8,000,000,000 you need, Mr. President, call on us for the getting below its tail brought down this machine also. T.ieut. Williams (not identified).

American squadron, was hit in the back and his petrol tanK piercea machine gun fire. In spite of his wound, he came back with his finger stepping the hold in the petrol tank and landed successfully after having engaged a supply train from a height of 100 feet. CarilnTllle Flyer Named. Other American aviators mentioned are: First Lieut. George A.

Vaughn Brooklyn. Harold G. Shoemaker. Bridgeton, N. Or-ville A.

Ralston, Lincoln. Henry R- Clay Fort Worth. Elliott W. Springs. Lancaster, Jese O.

Creech. Washington: William J. Armstrong. Philadelphia: Paul V. Burwell.

Baltimore: Thomas J. Hobort, Cleveland; Harry A. Schlotzhauer. Chicago; Field E. Kinkley.

Gravette, Glenn IX Wicks. San Quoit. N. Frederick E. Luff.

Cleveland Heights, Jesse F. Campbell. Royal Oak. George V. Seibold, Washington; William B.

Tipton, Baltimore; Donald S. Poler. Medina, N. Second Lieutenants John Owen Donaldson and Joseph Elwood Bondwin Washington: Edwin P. Shaw, Hollywood, Robert Miles Todd.

Cincinnati; Irving P. Corse. Minneapolis; Howard Clayton Knotts. Carlinville. Lawrence Theodore Wyly.

Puluth. and Tubrey Fred Diamond, Y. M. C. Cleveland.

Pershing's Aoirmen Carry Out 75 Missions in One Day. By the Associated Press. WITH THE AMERICAN CORPS, NORTHWEST OF VERDUN. Friday. Sept.

American observation aviators played their customary important though little spectacular! part in the advance of Gen. Persh- inr's forces yesterday (Thursday) vn this front. They carried out 75 mis- sions during the day. starting from their bases before daylight and working until long after dark. They came in contact with, German infantry on 3 5 occasions.

The aviators were divided Into groups. The first section was assigned to an Infantry unit to report its progress. The second did observation work, watching the general-advance, the location of the enemy troops and the movements of his batteries. The third section was attached to the corps for general scouting and observation work. The American machines not onls carried out this work but themselves went over t- the offensive repeatedly and spent much time in attacking enemy formations.

The aviators returned to their hangars nt night with the wings of their machines often riddled with bullets. A ground mist, especially in the morning, necessitated their descending to a level of oniy 75 feet above the fighting units. While over the American infantry the aviators encouraged the men and flew so low thnt they could hail the advancing 1200 Tons of Grain and 5000 Packages, Including Pound of Candy, Make Up First Consignment. BOAT CHRISTENED WITH RIVER WATER Federal Director Sanders, at Preliminary Luncheon, Predicts Ui'imate Business of 100 Million Tens. St.

Louis yesterday moved 1001 miles nearer the sea and into a position from which she can compete with any city of any nation for the commerce of the world. At 3:02 p. a towboat grinding three barges loaded to capacity with St. Louis products cast off from the 'levee and moved downstream on a 1200-mile trip to New Orleans. -The departure ushered in the revival of ue of the Mississippi River for shipping and the tirst sailing of the Mississippi-Warrior Waterways, the United States Government River service.

The Nokomis tied up at 7 p. m. at Bushburg, 26 miles below St. Louis, to remain the night. The down trip will be by day entirelv.

all the pilots who hereafter will operate the line being aboard for the purpose of studying the river. It has been IS yeara since a towboat has taken a fleet of barges from 6t I-Otlis ti New Orleans and the river has been so infrequently navigated by any sort of craft that chart-lngs are not to be relied upon implicitly. The fleet will spend tonight at Cairo. M. J.

Sanders, Federal Director of the service, who -came on from Washington for the tirst sailing, declared to St. Louis business men leathered at a luncheon at the Planters' Hotel, that the Government proposes to continue and expand the line in Must such proportion as St. Ixuis shippers indicate by their shipments their desire that it be continued and expanded. Sees 100 Million Totih Yearly. Present operation will be with a temporary fleet of five towboats and 2-9 barges until the fleet of five 2000 horsepower towboats and 30 steel barges, for which the Government has asked bids, is built.

The capacity of the new fleet will be 1.000.000 tons yearly. "Personally I believe," Sanders nald, "that eventually 100,000.000 tons of shipping will be moving each year on the Mississippi from industries which will line its banks, making its valley, in truth, the backbone of the nation. Iancuage cannot exaggerate the Importance of this day. It marks a new era for St. Louis.

"t'nited States manufacture has overtaken domestic consumption and henceforth we must seek foreign trade. St. Louis from today, is in a position to competeon an equal footing with the manufacturing centers of any nation. Finest Ktmlpmcnt In World. Sanders said that the new equipment would he the finest on any river in the world and that with it shippers could discount Any possible of transportation by rail 50 per cent.

The rales th-U have been published for the new line now are 20 per cent under rates. Other speakers at the luncheon were Mayor Kiel. Congressmen Dyer and Meeker. K. M.

Flesh, vice president of the Food Administration Grain Corporation; G. AV. Markham. vice president of the Chamber of Commerce: John O. Ballard, president of the Merchants Exchange, and James E.

Smith, president of the Mississippi Valley Waterways Association, who presided. Parade to Ix'vpc. Those at the luncheon marched in a body behind the Camp Funston band to the foot of Market street whore the towboat Nokomis and her three charges lay. As the party reached the levee, the Nokomis gave welcome with her whistle, other boats lending their toots. Mayor Kiel.

Mb Edna Kiel and a party of business men and shippers boarded the foremost barge. The Mayor again proclaimed briefly the importance of the day to about 1000 persons who had gathered on the levee. "I take treat pleasure row in christening the Government River Service." he concluded. At the word, "service." Miss Edn.i Kiel swung a bottle of Mississippi River water attached to a rope over the side of the barge it came swinging back against the htiil with a crash. The crowd cheered and the band played "Arnericu." Thirteen minutes later the Nokomis moved.

Ilarcc Covered With Slogans. Her barges, looking new In fresh coau of battleship gray, were with banners. Most prominent was "St. Louis, Through the Valley to tbe Sea." Another was "The Way to Navigate Is to Navigate." Others were: "Ship by the River, Save 20 Per Cent." "Initial Trip. River Sen-toe" and finally as a reminder of the even greater significance of yester-day, "Feed the Soldiers, Starve the Huns, Bond." The Nokomis herself floated long lines ot flags.

From her bow waved th pennon "IT. S. R. United States Railroad Administration. She scheduled to make the down trip With her 2200-ton cargo In eight flays.

Sanders said the new tow-boats would tako 10,000 tons down Conroy's has the exclusive sale of Tickets to all of Miss Elizabeth Cueny's Concerts during the coming season; choice seats also on sale for the American and ShubertJefFrson Theaters. stream in six days and come back! with r.000 tons in 11 davs. The Nokomis will make no stop for freight en route. Pound of Candy Sent. The largest shipper on the initial trip was the Food Administration Grain Corporation, which consigned 1200 tons of grain in two barges.

The third barge contained about 5000 packages. The smallest shipper was Charles J. Sutter, who sent a pound of St. Louis candy to a New Orleans friend. The olher shippers on the initial trip were: liest-Clymer Manufacturing Simmons Hardware S.

Baskowitz Son. J. C. Grant Chemical Brown Shoe Rice-Stix Dry Goods St. Louis Screw Shapleigh Hardware Curlee Clothing Co.

and the Powell D'Rourke Grain Co. S. I. Flournoy, assistant to Manager Mackie of the Mississippi section of the waterways, and R. V.

Downs, superintendent, are passengers on the Nokomis to Cairo. William Fischer, president of the St. Louis branch of the National Coffee Roasters' Association, 'said yesterday that his association was working with the New Orleans Chamber of Commerce to get the War Trade Board to establish a line of steamers from Brazil to New Orleans, carrying shipments on a through bill of ladling to St. Iouis. ST.

LOUIS MAKES PROMPT RESPONSE TO NATION'S CALL Continued From Pnee One. amount subscribed to each of the previous Liberty Loans, and the amount subscribed to the Red Cross in each of its campaigns. The questionnaire is to be preserved, and is to be signed by the solicitor in this and future loans. An inspirational Liberty Loan meeting of men representing large business interests has been called for tomorrow night, at the St. Louis Club.

The call was issued by the Bankers' Executive Committee of the IJberty Loan Organization, of which N. A. McMillan is chairman, and by Chairman Compton of the Eighth Federal Reserve District Liberty Loan Organization, Chairman Smith of the St. Louis Metropolitan District Organization, and Chairman Johnston of the city organization, and by President Johnson and the board of directors of the Chamber of Commerce. Coupon Book an Innovation.

The new coupon book, for subscribers paying for their bonds in weekly installments, is one of the innovations of this campaign. Every subscriber for a $50 bond pays $4 down, and receives the coupon book, which serves as a receipt fnr the $4. The book contains 23 pages, and each week the subscriber takes the to a bank or trust company, or to some other designated agency, and pays $2. For every such payment, a stamp If, pasted on one of the pages of the book. When 23 stamps have been placed" in the book, representing the payment of $46.

plus the original $4. the $50 bond is paid tor, and the subscrib takes his book to any bank and exchanges it for a bond. The books are issued only in $30 denominations, but the Liberty Loan Organization is urging that every buyer take as many as possible. A lan which, it is expected, will prove popular, is to take a bond for every member of the farfiily. Those who can pay cash for bonds will be asked to take more bonds on installments.

Payments Made Anywhere. Payments on these coupon books may be made anywhere, and the holder does not have ts go to the tame bank each time. Some large business concerns will handle the payments for their employes, but the bonds will be sold to the employes directly by the Government, and employes will not be- buying bonds which the firms have already received credit for buying. Each book has a place for the subscriber's name and address. If i bsok is lost, the subscriber should notify the Liberty Loan organization, "which will notify all the banks and other payment agencies.

If a subscriber. through misfortune, should be unable to complete hjs payments, he can surrender his book. hnit will be sold In the mar ket, and he will receive his share of the proceeds Hoad to Berlin. One of the many campaign features downtown is a progressive "road to Berlin." on Olive street with signs to indicate points along the "road." and the cost of reaching them. Broadway represents the Hinden-burg line.

Geography was subverted to convenience, to the extent tht the "road to Berlin" proceeded west from the Hindenburg line. The first "stop" is Metz. Some of the others are Mannheim, Worms, Saarlouis. Kaiserlautern, Fulda. Weiwar and Frankfort.

The road, as indi cated by the posters, ends at Wit- tenburg, 60 miles from Berlin. However, the "trip" probably will be completed tomorrow. The sign posts proclaim that it will cost $33,000,000 to get the boys to Fulda, which, in reality 235 miles from Berlin, and which, on the -poster road, is at Ninth street. The cost of getting them to Wittenberg is set forth as $67,000,000. These figures represent only the city's share.

The relative distances indicate that "Berlin" will be found somewhere beyond Twelfth street, and that the city's quota of more than $75,000,000 will reach over it by a comfortable margain. Big Band Attracts. One of the biggest bands ever heard in St. Louis played in downtown streets yesterday morning. It was composed of 310 members of the Musicians' Union, and was divided during the march into two sections, one of 170 pieces and the other of 140.

At the city hall they united, and played "The Star Spangled Banner." The parade was a. Liberty Loan demonstration, contributed by the musicians. They carried a service flag with 125 stars. The Third Ward Liberty Loan Organization gave a parade yesterday afternoon. in which 2500 public and parish school children took part.

The Webster School drum corps led the children from that school, and the children of the Douglas and St. Michael's schools werjs also in line. The route was on Cass avenue. Fourteenth street. St.

Louis avenue and adjoining streets. The parade was arranged by Louis E. Dehlen-dorf, chairman of the Ward Liberty Loan Committee, and Prof. Philo S. Stevenson acted as marshal.

Pupils of the Blow, Carondelet, Des Peres, Woodward and Lyon schools will participate in a Liberty Loan mass meeting at 2:30 this afternoon on the Blow School grounds. Virginia and Quincy streets. After speeches, a drill will be given by Carondelet's Home Guard unit. Company, of the Third Regiment. The 22 members of the office force of the Democratic State headquarters in the Equitable Building were volunteer subscribers, it was announced last evening by Secretary Fleming of the State Committee.

Subscriptions of $10,100 were reported at a meeting of the Rock Hill School District Liberty Loan Organization at their headquarters. Manchester and Rock Hill avenues, last night. Chairman Edward G. Schall anounced that this figure was 10 more than the district's quota and that it will be doubled before the campaign ends. Brand Wliitloek Cuhles Subscription of 00 for Bonds.

TOLEDO. Sept. 28. Brand Whitlock. former Mayor of Toledo, now American Minister to Belgium, with headquarters at Havre, today cabled a subscription for Liberty Bonds to the amount of $7500.

More Than tl0.0O0.00rt at ClMM-ngo on First Day. By the AoctateJ Pr. CHICAGO. Sept. 28.

More than $10,000,000 was subscribed to the Fourth Liberty Loan In Chicago the first day of the drive, it was officially announced tonight. The opening of the campaign by the 36.000 men and women sales agents took place at 9 o'clock this morning, to the blowing of factory whistles, the ringing of bells and The Angelus Crack Guard Regiments Were Overwhelmed by Mid-Westerners 7 Impetuous Rush. By CLAIR KEXAMORE. A Staff Correspondent of the Post-" Dispatch. WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY NORTHWEST OF VERDUN (Friday), Sept.

27. Our Midwestern troops, in the greatest American operation as yet made, went forward through mist-filled lowlands and over bare hills that for a long period had been No. Man's Land. An adroit bombardment, beginning at some places at 11:30 p. and shifting forwards, prepared the way for the advance under an arch of big shells.

Through the chill, damp dawn, the whole line plunged northward against the enemy. When the first wave went over, the sky was lit with enemy flares calling for a barrage from the Germans guns to halt the Americans, but it was slight and ineffective. The first positions were taken at a trot; those who resisted were killed, and those who surrendered were sent to the rear, while the Mis-sourians and Kansans swung ahead. Due north they pressed their left through the Forest of Argonne, their right through Hesse Forest and their center over pleasant farm Iaads. AVhen the opposition stiffened it was found to be one of the Kaiser's best regiments, famed on many fields.

This was a matter of small importance to the lads from Missouri' and Kansas. They went right through the Prussians as they willed, the newest draft men meeting all comers with rifle or bayonet, as the caae demanded. In dugout, trench or open-field fighting the guards had met their masters, and nothing stayed the Midwesterners. Machine-gun nests were flanked or taken by direct charge. The whole timetable of advance was kept.

Overhead we maintained indisputable supremacy of the air in this part of the line, our planes advancing in waves. The men on both flanks of the Missouri-Kansas outfit wore masks, as both forests were gassed solidly. Our transport forces advanced steadily in the rear of the The engineers, working sometimes within machine-gun range, put the roads into shape with remarkable celerity. Four bridges were built under the protection of box barrages, thrown to keep off the enemy. Their own artillery was behind the regiments, and did work worthy of its distinguished history.

On the whole line guns poured shells into the enemy for five hours. Of these, a good percentage were the allied version of mustard gas. which seems particularly effective. Tanks accompanied the advance, and handled such machine-gun nests as the infantry left for them. The first day's operations ended with victory along the whole front, but nowhere was it more emphatic than before certain Midwestern sunit which Is now assuredly a fighting unit.

the tooting of horns. As the great volume of sound re-echoed in every part of. the city, men and women paused at their tasks and faced to the east to do honor to the American soldiers "over there." Singing Is Not Only Enjoyment It Is Health THE "Community Sinf" have made America a singing nation. Iintire communities have united in song, and! thousands who thought singing the province of the favored few are now giving voice to patriotic airs with surprising vigor and enjoyment. But singing is healthful exercise.

It strengthens the muscles of the throat and gratefully expands the lungs. Sing, and yoU will maintain health and strength. An Angelus from Conroys Will Help You Sing? It will enable you to play any tnuic, however difficult, with out previous piano instruction. Conroy's Word Kolls fur nish and words. You can do yourself no greater good than by having an Angelus Player Piano.

The pleasure it affords is far more than just words can tell The price is reasonable and the only price at which th; Angelus can be bought. It is the same way with Conroy'a terms: no customer has any advantage over another. St. Louit Exclusive Anflut Representative CONROY' Corner One wounded man lying on the ground even turned over and waved cheerily to a plane as It flew close above him. One of the machine which sighted a big group of Germans, swooped down upon It.

The machine gun jammed Just as the aviator was about to Are. The machine turned so that the observer mlsht fire when It was discovered that the Germans were prisoners in A.