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VOL. XLVI.—No. 159.

U.S. BRING DOWN HUN PLANES

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Thrilling Aerial Battle Tuesday Morning on Sector Near Pont-A-Mousson.

Captain Hall's machine had painte-l upon Its side the first American airplane insignia to appear on the battle line. It was In the form of a "hat in the ring" sign, showing a star-striped high hat usually pictured on Uncle Bam, aurrounded by a golden ring.

Despite the bad weather, German .®iachines were out in force. Alarm after alarm was answered by the

Americans. Lieut. Cunningham engaged one machine when five more of the enemy Joined In. The lieutenant "kept up the fight until his machine gun Jammed, when he returned to the tAmerlcan lines with ten bullet holes /In his plane.

Use Trick Taetiea.

The usual German game was to have small number of planes appear near the American lines, while a reserve of four or Ave machines remained out of •lght until the Americans came into action. The reserves would then swoop down in an attempt to wipe out the Americans. The American laviators tnet .this by answering alarms with twice the number of machines it was reported the (Germans had.

American aviators used Newport furnuit -machines as their fighting Weapons. The Americans engaged in photography and artillery regulating vork also had '.o fight. Two Americans protecting photographing machines were attacked bv two Germans. •Thp fight lasted for half an hour and •nded when one German went wobMing to the ground about three kilometres within the German lines. The f.srht took place about two kilometres behind the German positions.

As a. result of today's activity, it is believed the Germans sent some of

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AMERICAN CAPTAIN DOWN BEHIND ENEMY POSITIONS

Ma«htn«s Engaged By Enemy Flier# Are Seen to Drop Toward Ground, and Their Fate Is

Unknown.

WITH Ttffc AMERICAN «A-RMY IN FRANCE, Tuesday, May 7— (By the Associated Pres»)*—After a thrilling battle with enemy airplanes, ten miles north of Pont-A-Mousson, Captain James Norman Hall, one of the leading American aviators, made a spiral dive for the earth and was last seen close to the grouftd apparently trying to land. His subsequent fate is unknown. Captain Hall, with two others, was patrolling this morning between St. Mihel and Pont-A-Mousson. When they*'were over Pagny-Stir-Mosul, four enemy albatross airplanes, painted with black and"white stripes, were aeen. The Americans attacked, Captain Hall singling out one of the enemy and driving him downward while firing with hi$ machine gun.

The pair made a, spiral dive from six thousand metr«% to four thousand, when the German suddenly reversed his machine* and started to rise. In a |tiiek turn, he poured a deadly stream of ^machine gun. bullets into the bottom of Hall's machina. Captain Hall promptly came out of the spiral and Biade a dive for the earth. He was last seen attempting, to complete this maneuver.

En»my Machines Down.

Trt the meantime, the enemy machines engaged dropped toward the fround. It is unknown what happened to them, but two of them apparently ,%ere in distress. No credit for a victory la given the Americana, because Official verification of the -destruction of the enemy was impossible.

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The fjrtfnehlng of the collier Truckahoe a few days ago set a world's record for speedy ship construction. Just ,27 days 2 hours and 43 minutes after the work of laying the keel commenced the Truckahoe slid into the water. *. The

WAR STAMP RALLY IS CALLED SATURDAY

J. D. Oliver and Frank E. Hering, State Directors,* Will Be Here to Speak.

J. D. Oliver and Frank E. Hering, of South Bend, Ind., director and vice director of the "War Saving Stamp committee for Indiana, are to be In Terre Haute Saturday for a conference with war savings workers in the Fifth district. Headquarters will be established at Hotel Deming, where there will be sectional meetings throughout the day of the county chairmen, achool superintendents, and principals, and postmasters of the district. At night there will be a public meeting in Normal hall where Mr Hering will deliver an address on "The War Aims of. the Belligerents." Mr. Oliver and oth^r members of the atate committee will also speak.

These two men .scarcely need an introduction to Indianfi people. Mr. Oliver is head of the Oliver Chilled Plow company, of South Bend, a concern known all over the world. He is now giving practically his whole time to the war savings campaign in Inna, into which he has thrown his at energy and marvelous executive ability. Mr. Hering was a professor at Notre Dame university for six years. Jnst now he is president of the South Bt nd Rotary club, also president of fhe University club of that city, and one of the directors of its chamber of commence. He« is a man of broad culture, wide business experience, and an accomplished orator who has appeared on public platforms in every state of the union. The address he is to deliver Saturday night is said to be a masterpiece, and with Terre Haute's present patriotic fervor Normal hall will be crowded to hear him.

WOMEN WANT SMOKES.

French Suffragette8 Raise Howl' When Weed la Cut Off. PARIS, May 8.—Leading French suffragettes' are protesting against the new regulations under which women are excluded from the privileges of the distribution of tobacco by card.

Madame Dwitt Sehlumberger, although favoring prohibition of the use of tobacco by minors, considers the application of the restrictive measure to women exclusively as arbitrary and unjust. Other leaders of the feminist movement have expressed themselves likewise.

Madame Jules Siegfried, president of the National Council of Women, approves the measure. She declares the tobacco should be" reserved for th% poilus. Who have well earned it.

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2ND. DISTRICT TICK

Returns From Congressional Distric Afe Coming In Slowly, Although Vote Was Light

.INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., May 8.—Rt turns of the primary election in th state y§st'erday, at which nominees fo the national house of representativef state legislature, and county, office were selected, came in very' slowl early today, ^ithough interest in th election and \Wning was light. In som congressional districts, both republicai and democratic candidates for con gressman had no opposition but in few districts, especially the Second there was much interest in the caadi dates. JEarly returns today indicatec the following candidates nominated oi leading their opponents:

First district, republican, Q. R. Luhring, Evansville, leading democrat George K. Denton, Evansville.

Second district, republican, Oscar E Bland, Linton democrat, Wm. A. Cullop, Vincennes, slightly in lead.

Third'district, republican, James W Dunbar, New Albany democratic, Wm E. Cox, Jasper, leading.

Fourth district, republican, Marcut Sulzer, Madison, leading democrat Lincoln Dixon, North Vernon.

Fifth district, republican, Everett Sanders, Terre Haute democrat, Ralph W. Moss. Center Point.

Sixth district, republican, Richard N. Elliott, Connersville democrat, Harry G. Strickland, Greenfield.

Seventh district, republican, Merrill Moores, Indianapolis, leading democrat, Chalmer Schlosser, Indianapolis, leading.

Eighth district, republican, Albert H. Vestal, Anderson democrat, Wm. H. Eichhorn, Bluffton.

Ninth district, republican, Purnell, Attica. Tenth district, republican, Wood, Lafayette democrat, Hirschmann, Crown Point.

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Eleventh district, republican, Milton Kraus, Peru democrat, George W. Rauch. Marion, leading.

Twelfth district, republican, Louis W. Fairfield, Angola democrat, Harry Hilgemann, Fort Wayne.

Thirteenth district, republican, A. J. Hickey, Laporte democrat, Henry A. Barnhart, Rochester.

FORCED INTO ARMY.

WASHINGTON, May 8.—Seven hundred young men of Brussels, born in Belgium of Germain parentage, but Belgian citizens by adoption, have been taken to Germany to be enrolled in the army, according to an official dispatch today from France.

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