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"These Ferocious Amcric.anB
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By fie United Press
With th American Army In France,
July 31
'The intrepid charRln of the Ameri
cans Is not only winning ground, but
It Is alo Instnlllng fear Into the Cler
nimis. Letters tj);ui from prisoners to
(Jity nnd atn'.cmcnlt made by them clear
ly tfiovv this.
There tire, mar v Instances of American
heroism. At one town the Germans
countei -attacked, obliging the Ameri
cans to retreat temporarily Then the
enemy sent out a man under a white
t.tt. He asked If the Americans wanted
to t-urrendtr.
"Hell, no!" yelled their commander.
"We're uady tc attack."
This they did. retaking the Ullage
and holding It permanently
The more intelligent (Germans fear
they won't be able to hold out much
longer against the Increasing Allied
forces.
"The German army couldn't hold two
months longer at the present rate of
losses," declared one German officer.
Predicts fierman Downfall
A Prussian prisoner was found to car
ry a letter written to his wife before the
battle. He wrote
"The war li hopelets for us now that
we are opposed to these ferocious Amer
icans who cannot be defeated Their
artillery already has caused terrible
losses. Wp must be annihilated by their
Infantry."
The Amer'can spirit and devotion to
duty Is amazing een to those who hae
watched the war and been on the bat
tlefields for years. Time after time the
Americans have dashed Into Intense ma
chine gun fire, thro'ugh aittllery barrages
and have driven back the Germans,
whose Infantry cannot stand up In hand-to-hand
combats.
PHILADELPHIA NURSE JN CHARGE
. OF ARMY SCHOOL AT CAMP D1X
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Miss Caroline I. Milne, Head of Training Course at Presby
terian Hospital, Will Be Assisted by
Miss Anne Wray
Mlsn Caroline I. Milne, who has been
In charge of the training school for
nurses at tlfe Presbyterian Hospital for
the last twenty-three years, has been
made head of the army school of nurs
ing at Camp Dlx.
These schools have been opened In
connection with the present drive for
student nurses and offer exceptional op
portunities for girls to receive special
training.
Miss Milne will be assisted by Miss
Anno Wray, formerly superintendent of
the Polyclinic Hospital and Instructor of
nurses at the Philadelphia General Hos
pital. PrepaYatlons will begin Immediately
to receive the first thirty student nurses
already enrolled. The course extends
over a period of three vears. The schools
orier to women who desire to care for
sick and wounded soldlerB a oourse that
VIII lead to a diploma In nursing should
the military hospitals continue in opera
tion during the full period. Should the
cessation of hostilities occur before the
completion of this peilod credit for all
branches or nursing completed will be
given a certificate hy the nrmy school
of nursing Two ears are fpent In
camp and one In the hospital
Candidates must be between twenty
one and thirty-five 5 ears of age, and
preferably should have a high school
education or Its caulvalent
Miss Milne has been granted a leave
of absence by the hospital trustees to
assume her new dutks August 1. She
was formerly In charge of the West
Penn Hospital at Pittsburgh
Miss Wray Is a graduate of the Pres-
bjterlan Hospital. She spent two ears
In New ork as a district nurse with
the Henry street settlement nnd for
seven years was superintendent of the
Alloon.i Hospital She took :i special
course at Jjfrlumbia College.
ENEMY ROUTED $Y U. S. BA YONETS; ,
PRUSSIAN SHOCK TROOPS BEATEN
Continued from Taite One
and established themselves, broke up
this part of the Geiman plan.
Early Monday morning the Ameri
cans In Sergy were attacked by the
Fourth Prussian guard division, which
had arrived only a few hours before
from the training area in Loriaine
Overwhelmed by vastly superior num
bers, the Americans withdrew before a
terrific small artillery and machine
gun fire.
But when the Prussians got into the
town the German artillery could no
longer shoot into it. That gave a
chance for man to man In a hand-to-hand
fight, and the Americans giasped
the opportunity.
They rushed back Into the village, w
against a withering fire from machine
guns placed virtually In every build
Ing. When the charge was at Its blight
from a building bearing the Red Cross,
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the lines and asked for something to
eat. He trembled continually, and a
private offered to help him to a hospital
but the officer lefused.
Escapes Hospital to Fltht
"I'm going back to the front with my
boys." he said. "I'm In a Stokes mortar
outfit and got shell-shocked yesterday,
ao they sent mc back when I coulun t
protest I tried to get icleased from
the hospital, but the doctors refused.
so there was nothing to do but escape."
Doughboys returning from the front
described how machine-gun bullets rain
ed around them during their assaults
on the German nests yesterday. One
battalion finally drove out the Germans
after a costly charge uphill. In this
advance a captured gun was turned
against the boches, who ran like rab
bits, throwing down their rifles and
equipment and finally halting around a
new machine-gun nest. This was storm
ed by the American unit. After three
Germans had been bayoneted the re
Blstance ended.
GENERAL MANN RETIRED
Veteran Militia Commander
Reaches Age of 64 Years
fly the Associated Press
Washington, July 31. Having reachedi
the age of sixty-four, Brigadier General
William A. Mann. U. S. A., commanding
tha Eastern Department, with headquar
ters at Governors Island, New York, and
former commander of the Forty-second,
or Rainbow Division, was transferred to
day to the retired list Official announce
ment as to General Mann's successor
has not been made, but It Is believed
that Major General J Franklin Bell,
now In command of Camp Upton. New
York, will be named as commander of
the Eastern Department. General Bell
formerly was at the head of the Eastern
Department.
Born In Pennsylvania in 1854, General
Mann was graduated from West Point in
1876. He was made a brigadier general
In 1915. At the start of the war Gen
eral Mann was chief of the militia divi
sion of the War Department, but soon
after he was made a major general and
placed in command of the Forty-second
Division. He trained the division and
accompanied it to France, but shortly
afterward was relieved and returned to
the United States on account of physical
disability, which, however, did not in
terfere with the performance of lighter
military duty In this country.
SHIP SINKING ANGERS SPAIN
Press Declares It Gravest Incident
Yet With Germany
Farjs, July 31. A dispatch to the
Havas Agency from Madrid says the
Spanish newspapers assert that the
torpedoing of the Spanish steamship
Ramon de Larrlnaga is the gravest in
cident that has occurred between Ger
many and Spain since the beginning of
the war.
Eight Spaniards perished In the dis
aster and the petroleum which the ship
carried, with that burned aboard the
Spanish freighter Serantes In New York
harbor, constituted almost the entire
stock assured to .Spain under the Span-'Uh-Amerlcan
agreement.
The foregoing dispatch Is the Arst In
timation that the Ramon de Larrlnaga
had been sunk. She wbb a vessel ot
1975 tons and was owned In Bilbao.
She was last reported as arriving at an
American Atlantic port on May 29.
hand-to-hand with the Prussians. In
repajment for the deadly machine-gun
work our men got their bayonets Into
action, and no German has et been
known. to stand "before a bayonet with
an American behind It. In half an
hour we had possession of the town.
Down came the German artillery fire
again, and we had to retire. Into the
village came the Prussians and when
the artillery fire stopped back went the
Americans. Again we drove them out.
No sooner had we got Into the village
wh$i back came the Prussians The
German airplanes rendered their men
great aid, sweeping down close to the
ground and raking our lines with their
machine guns They also used bombs
against us. Neither side would throw
gas Into Sefgy, for fear of Injuring
their own troops.
The fighting went back and forth all
morning. First we had the mauled
village and then th Prussians had it.
Both sides made advances from edges
of woods and 'retreated to that shelter.
Finally, just before noon, when It was
our turn In the village the American
artillery got down a heavy barrage
which caught the Prussian attackers and
droo them back By the time the
enemy came back again we were too
strongly situated for them and the re
sult of the bloody fighting was that we
held Sergy
Almost the same story tells of the
fighting Monday from Perlnges, onlv
the battle was not so fierce and the
village changed hands five times In
stead of nine
To realize that this fighting was
entirely different from the rear-guard
actions of last week one has only to
consider the hurrying of the guard
divisions, which arc shock troops. Into
the line and the Infantry countei -attacks,
whereas during the previous six
days v e had machine-gun opposition al
most exclusively
The truth of the matter is that the
Germans wanted to hold their line on
the north bank of. the Ourcq for some
davs Sergy and Seringes are strong
villages on a series of hills running
along the north side of the Ourcq and
evidence taken from prisoners showed
that the Americans were supposed to
have been held on the southern bank
of the stream.
Germans to Hold at Vele
Evidence still points to the probability
that the Germans intend to go back to
the Vesle and hold there. The desire
to hold the northern bank of the Ourcq
Is to be explained for the same reason
The Germans tried to hold the French
and Americans in the southern part of
the Forest de RIs. A trip through that
forest showed hundreds of tons of am
munition for big German guns piled six
feet high In rows a hundred yards long
for some distances. This ammunition
had been stored there to be used in
the advance on Paris
It Is the hellfcf that in Nesle Woods,
north of the Ourcq the Crown Prince
hag stored big supplies and Intended to
get them out at any cost Else why
did he hurl against the Americans two
divisions from the dwindling supply of
his reserve divisions? This was done,
of course, to stop the Americans, who
could not bo halted by oidlnary Ucrman
troops.
He succeeded In slowing down the
Americans, but there are Americans In
France who have not yet faced the
Kaiser's fighters. The Germans have got
to go further back and they know It
well. The throwing by the German com
mand of fresh guard divisions against
the Americans Is significant when it Is
known definitely that It Is planning another-drive
soc.n, perhaps against the
British, for which It will need all avail
able troops.
A captured officer said a regimental
commander told his men two davs ago
that the Germans had hit the British
nnd captured the channel ports, but thnt I
the announcement had not vet been
made by Ludendorff He explained th.it
Germany was still winning the war and
that the withdrawal from the Solsons-
Rheims sector was only for stiatrglcnl
reasons The German command prom
ised the German people to hit the Brit
ish and wants to make good
Airplanes Aid nermann
Another significant factor in Monday's
counter-attack against the Americans
was that the Germans brought a 1 irge
number of new- airplanes, at least sixty
fnlo the sector, nnd thus gained a tem
porary air supremacv which enabled tlie
air fighters to do effective work against
'our troops Undlsm.ivcd bv superior
numbers, for the slxtv were In addition
to many chase machines the Hun already
had, the American fivers went out tf.
meet them, nnd theie were manv air
fights all day long British and French
aviators also aided us TIip Americans
last night believed that they had brought
down at least six airmen
The Germans are trying every art of
their kind of warfare against our hnvs
hut the Amei leans are learning fat For ,
Instance, one squid advanced toward a
platoon of Amerlrins waving n white,
nnc- The American" let them come i
about a hundrd virds and then tut
loose and annihilated them
That thev iotil rlchtlv was shown
bv the fact that the white flag hid been
tied to the handle of a live ereinde Hid
while the Germans nppear-d at i
distance to be wipinl'ss each nne wfts
loaded down with dendlv- grenades
Another favorite trick is thnt the Ger
man machine gunners when seeln" j
Americans approach wait until our lads
are close, when they rut loose with nj
final spurt of bullets, and then step nut j
and crv "Kamer.nl " Our men have
adopted a rule that any German who I
shoots a machine gun at a closer range ,
than 20ft yards cannot be allowed to i
surrender I
WANAMAKER'S Slorc Opens at 8.30 Store CIoms at 5 WANAMAK3
The Down Stairs Store at Wanamaker
Is a Good Friend to Summer Vacationists
Bid Camden Chaplain Farewell
Parishioners of the Rev G H Welh J
for manv v earn assistant rector of the
Csthollc fhurch of the Imma"tlntp Vm
nftntlnn. Tnmdpn. will tender him a f.ire- 1
well reception tonight on the cv cf bis
drnarture for Camp Johnston, Jicksnn.
vllle. Fla where he wl'l enter the mlli
tirv service ns a chaplain
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Dorit stay indoors because
your skin is unsightly
Resihql
will heal it quickly
The discomfort of hearing unfav
orable comments .upon one's com
plexlon and of realizing that one's
ekin is unsightly can be prevented
by Resinol Ointment, which not only
heals a sick skin, but protects a
healthy one. Aided by Resinol Soap,
tf tisalc Pi-7pma. helrjs to remove
fe ' jothtt troubles, excessive' dryness .or
'f'.olHnMs of the skin', and enables one
to' uv A complexion ,inat excites
Profits and Prices
Profits may be considered from
two angles!
1st Their effect on prices;
2nd As a return to investors.
When profits are small as com
pared yUith sales, they have little
effect on prices.
Swift & Company's profits, are
only a fraction of a cent per
poun.d on all products sold, and if
eliminated entirely would have
practically no effect on prices.
Swift & Company paid 10 per
cent dividends to over 20,000 stock
holders out of its 1917 profits. It also
had to build extensions and im
provements out of profits; to finance
large stocks of goods made,
necessary by unprecedented re
quirements of the United States
and Allied Governments; and to
provide protection. against the' day
of declining markets.
Is it fair to call this profiteering?
Swift & Company, U. S. A.
The Shore Season Is Nearing Its
High Tide and the Downstairs Store Is
Ready With the Things You Need
Shopping here won't tire you out, for everything
is on one floor, and the freely circulating air is cool
and clean.
Everything from cold cream and toilet requisites
to suits, dresses, hats and coats is ready for the people
who intend to spend August at the seashore men as
well as women, and babies and children as well as
grown-ups.
When Sea and Sun
Get Together
you need some protection for
your skin. Cold creams in
any number arc ready to be
your first-hand aids. Appli
cations of soothing, cool
cream and dustings of vel
vety talcum will keep you
comfortable, and also keep
your skin smooth and cool.
Tubes of cold cream are
10c to 40c.
Jars of cold cream are 25c
to $1.
Talcum powder in various
fragrances is 20c a pound
can.
(Central)
Beach Hats for the
Kiddies
Cunning white wash hats
will do for best or just to
play in, for they are made
"like new again" so easily.
There are many styles of
white pique or rep, xind some
have colorful touches. 75c
to $1.50.
Good for Wading
Rompers for the little folk of
1 to 3 years arc made of white
Eeersucker in creeper stylo. They
have little breast pockets, round
collars, belts and straight knees.
SI.
(Ontml)
August First Calls for New
Frock and New Suits for
the Vacationist
Special Silk
Rain-and-Shine
Parasols, $2
A little gathering of plaid
silk parasols, in dark blue,
green, brown and purple col
orings, with short handles and
silk loops, were regularly
almost twice this much.
(Onlral)
V Sin u
Corsets
need not detract from your
comfort and coolness
And these won't! For they aie
made of the lightest possible ma
terials for waim-weather wear.
Nor need your corsets take
much from your pocketbook,
either, for these light-weight cor
sets are in all sizes to fit slight
figures, stout figures, and all the
figuics between.
$1.25
(Outrun
The Summer Skirt Stock
Is Rapidly Diminishing
but there is still good choice
among the white, snowy skirts
that women want for these waim
days and nothing looks quite so
cool.
There are many styles, of many
summery materials, thin or heavy,
ranging from $1.75 to S5.50.
Between these prices are many
extra-size white skirts, which are
made in good styles.
(Market)
$7.50
Tiny Checks
of black or blue arc woven into
gingham, and the gingham is
neatly cut and sewed into quite
pretty dresses with four tucks
around the bottom of each waist
and attractively cut pockets in
the skirt. $5.
Thr- taffeta suit that is
sketched is from a group of spe
cially reduced suits of navy blue
or black taffeta. They arc made
in several styles and the jackets
nre well finished and are lined
throughout with silk. ?15.
Jersey Sports Suits
Distinctly vacation suits are
these of gray or rose jersey in
attractive styles with jaunty
pockets. The prices are i educed
to Slti.GO and $22.50.
Lovely Material
and plenty of it enters into
these frocks of green or rose
Japanese crepe. The hems are
unusually deep and then, further
up, on each dress there is a deep
fold which has pockets in it.
The necks are coolly square and
arc finished vyith white organdie,
as arc the sleeves, also. $7.50.
Finely Pleated
panels in front and in back add
a quite different touch to pretty
dresses of' voifc in bright color
ings, as vou will notice in the
sketch. $7.50.
Lovely White Net
forms many charming dresses.'
Some arc $12.50, while others,
made entirely of net and trimmed
with net ruffles, are $15.
( Market)
Fashionable
Summer Oxfords
White canvas oxfords made on
long, slender lines, have light
turned soles and high covered
heels. $3.50 a pair.
Dark brown kidskin ties also
have light turned sole3 and high
covered heels. $3.40 a pair and
special.
Pumps, Special at $2.80
New lots being constantly
added have kept this sale going,
and there is still good choosing
though sizes are broken.
(Clif.tnut)
A Special Sale of
1000 Waists at $1.85
All of these blouses have been much more:
Slipover models of batiste, beautifully hemstitched ;
Voile waists made quite prettily plain or trimmed
with ruffles of lace;
Small-checked voile blouses;
Durable dotted swiss waists;
And many other kinds that will please seekers for
summer blouses.
Not more than a few words are needed about a sale
of this kind!
(Market (
These Cool and Dainty
Undermuslins are Refreshing
The materials are so soft in
texture, the laces so light and
airy and the garments them
selves so fresh and clean that
it makes one cool just to touch
them.
Nightgowns
of sheer mercerized nainsook are
made in many pretty ways
some quite simple and mmmeu
only with a little fine embroid
ery, others, aie fluffy with lace
and embroidered organdie me
dallions; a number of styles at
$2.
Pink crepe nightgowns with
blue stitchery lcquire no ironing
and are $1.50.
Silk Underthings
Camisoles of wash satin are
elaborated with a band of pleated
Georgette crepe between rows of
cream lace and have libbon
shoulder straps. $2.25.
Pink satin bloomers are soft
and pretty things that many
women like to wear. With two
lows of elastic cording at the
knees, these are $3; with two
little ruffles of Georgette crepe, ,
$3.75.
Envelope chemises, made of
pale pink crepe de chine, are fin
ished nil around the edges with
a dainty lace. At the top is a
wide band of imitation filet lace.
$3.
Special at 85c
300 pink batiste envelope
chemises with pink or blue rib
bon shoulder straps; hand-embroidery
done in pastel colorings
and lares are the principal trimmings.
(Onlral)
Only Perfect Rugs Are Sold
in the Downstairs Store
All our rugs are of first quality in standard, up-to-date
patterns and weaves. You can depend upon
rugs of this sort!
(. And
about 90 per cent of the stock bear prices far below
the present market.
Wilton Rugs
Finely woven rugs are these, in patterns suitable
for all uses and finished with linen fringe.
6x9 feet, $36
8.3 x 10.6 feet, $53.50
27x54 inches, $6.50
36x63 inches, $10
4.6x7.6 feet, $21
9 x 12 feet, $57.50
Odd sizes and extra large sizes are here at propor
tionately low prices.
Seamless Velvet Rugs and Wilton
Velvet Rugs
8.3 x 10.6 feet, $30, $33.50 and $35
9 x 12 feet, $3250 and $34.75.
(Chestnut)
Hair Nets
50c Dozen
Cij or fringe shape nets of
ical ir are in light, dark or
mediun brown, black, blonde and
auburn.
(Central)
Pretty Neckwear '
of Organdie at 50c
Organdie is one of 'the
most approved materials
for Summer neckwear,
and it makes some charm
ing collar-and-cuff sets in
white, white with colored
ruffles or in colors Co
penhagen blue, lavender,
rose, pink. Several styles
are all ruffly and pretty.
Dainty white organdie
vestees are also to be had
at this price.
(Central)
Thes2 Are Picnic
Days
and all the picnic needfulsare
here.
Luncheon sets at 25c and 75c.
Paper table covers at 25c.
Paper plates, 4c and 8c ft
dozen.
Ice cream plates, 4c a doztn.
Drinking straws, 35c a box of
500, or, for straws wrapped in
sanitary papers, 25c a hundred.
Paper cups, 10c and 20c a
dozen.
Wooden knives and forks at
10c a pair. '
Waxed paper, 5c a package.
Paper napkins, 20c, 30c and 40c
a hundred.
Berry sets, consisting of
plates, napkins and spoons, at
10c.
(Commercial Sttlonerj, Central),
Inexpensive
Couch Covers
that are easily freshened art
made of linene in a soft tar),
printed with stripes or with
jacquard patterns. The covert
are full size and are fringed
all around. $1.25.
(Chettnut)
A Mother Hubbard
Frock for Gfc
"tL
This is the style that
girls loipk their best in, and most
mother realize it. This particu
lar frock is made of white voile
with a white corded stripe. There
arc box pleats from the yoke
with really lovely smocking tr
between, done in various combi
nations of colors. This is for
girls of 6 years to 10; for girls
of 12 to 14, the frock is made
with a belt. $3.75.
Becoming Colors for
Junior Girls
Peach (quite delicate), deep
rose and a good Copenhagen blue
are the colors of the soft, fine
voile that is used to make frocks
for girls of 13 and 15 years. They
are made with generous folds
just above the deep hems, and the
waists are adorned with tucked
vestees of white organdie and col
lars und cuffs of white. $6.75.
(Central)
High Temperatures
Bring Out Many
Bathing Suits
and on most of the bathing
suits the prices have been
lowered considerably.
They begin at $2.50 and go
up to $9.75, with many prices
between, and are made of
cotton serge, surf satin and
mohair in a host of styles.
Also
plenty of good shoes, caps,
tights, garters and the like
at little prices.
(Market)
A New Cape
which made its first appearance
only the other day, is ready for
the woman who will spend the
week-end at the shore. It is of
navy blue serge of a good quality,
cut with a surplice front, which
is bound with black silk braid.
The lines of the cape are good,
and theie is a full sweep from
the shoulders, as you will see in
the sketch. S22.50.
Other excellent summer capes
are made in a number of attrac
tive ways some with coatfronts
and buttons over the shoulders,
hood capes lined with. American
beauty satin, suede velour sports
models in soft shades of Santiago
brown or Quaker gray at prices
which range from $12.75 to $39.75.
Sleeveless sports coats, i$3.85
to $12.75.
Silk coats. $8.75 'to $45.
Motor dusters, $1.85 to $8.75.
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