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Complete Topical Index for the Month of May in This Issue NAVY Complete Topical Index for the Month of May in This Issue PUBLISHED DAZLY under order of THE PRESIDENT of THE UNITED STATES by COMMITTEE on PUBLIC ZNFORMATION GEORGE CREEL, Chairman * * * COMPLETE Record of U. S. GOVER.VME.&T Activities VoL. 2 WASHINGTON, TUESDAY, JUNE 4, 1918. No. 326 49 U.S.5 SOLDIERS OF THE 53 NAVY ANNOUNCES FIVE U. S. SHIPS SUNK REPORTED LOST ON MOLDAVIA HAVE GOVERNMENT INSURANCE BY SUBMARINES OFF ATLANTIC COAST ONE LIFE KNOWN LOST CLAIMS WILL BE PAID PROMPTLY I- Average Amount of Insurance Ap- All Passengers on Lost Steamship Carolina Un- plied for by Missing Men is TransportPresident heard from Since Re- $8,714-More Than 2,162,021 Lincoln Were Rescued; ported Under Fire of U- Applications Now on File. Names of the Missing Boat Sunday Afternoon. Oil Tanker Among the The Treasury Department authorizes Vessels Reported Lost. the following: The Navy Department authorizes the Of the 53 American soldiers reported by following: the War Department as lost on the tor- Secretary Daniels last night issued the The latest dispatches received by the following statement: pedoed transport Moldavia, 49 have Gov- Navy Department state that all the pas- ernment insurance applications on file Reports received by the department sengers, including the sick, aboard the show that the following vessels have been in the Bureau of War Risk Insurance, President Lincoln, were saved. None of Secretary sunk: McAdoo announced. the survivors was seriously injured. The The four others may have applications Jacob H. Haskell, schooner, 1,362 tons, transport was attacked by a submarine hailing from Boston, sailing for Norfolk; in transit. at 9.53 a. m. on May 31, was struck by The average amount of insurance ap- 11 in crew; no passengers. three torpedoes and sank in 18 minutes. Isabel B. Wiley, in ballast; net tonnage, plied for by the 49 soldiers is $8,714, or The submarine was not seen until after close to the $10,000 maximum fixed by 611; crew, 8. the torpedoes were sighted. The com- Hattie Dunn, of Rockland, Me.; net law. out This mand to abandon ship was carried tonnage, 365; in ballast; sailing for insurance record for the soldiers in excellent order. on the Moldavia is believed to be repre- Charleston. sentative The attacking submarine was about Edward H. Cole, of Boston; tonnage, of the insurance protection of 200 feet long and was not of the cruiser the entire American 1,395; in ballast; bound for Norfolk; Army and Navy. type. More than 2,162,021 applications, aggre- crew of 11. gating approximately American destroyers went to the res- Herbert L. Pratt, steamship; oil $18,000,000,000 of cue. As they were returning to port insurance, are now on file in the bureau, tanker; sunk about 5 miles south of Over- with the survivors a submarine was and new insurance is coining in at the falls lightship, off the Delaware capes; 39 rate of about $100,000,000 a day. sighted at noon Saturday and attacked on board; 37 of the crew rescued and by a destroyer. landed at Lewes, Del.; f lost. Prompt Payment Made. The small loss of life on the President Prompt payment of all insurance and Lincoln was due to the thorough dis- Only One Life Known to be Lost. compensation claims will be mady. In- cipline of the ship's company and ex- All of the crews of the above-named formation concerning the insurance pro- cellent seamanship of the commanders vessels, except the one man lost from the tection of the Moldavia victims was and officers of the vessels concerned, particularly the commander of the trans- Pratt,were rescued. obtained from the files and-duly recorded It appears that the schooner Edna, and reviewed within six hours after the port, Vice Admiral Sims says in his re- which was found bottom side up several first news of the sinking reached Wash- port. Officers Reported Missing, days ago and towed into Lewes, Del., was ington. also a victim of the submarine. The crew The records of the Bureau of War Risk The officers of the U. S. S. President of the Edna have been landed at New Insurance, covering several million sol- Lincoln reported missing are: York. The master of the Winneceonne diers and sailors, are in such shape that Surg. Lindsay C. Whiteside. Wife, Mrs. picked up the crew of the Hattie Dunn. this information can always be obtained L. C. Whiteside, Lehighton, Pa. Asst. Paymaster Andrew Mowat. Mother, No News from Steamer Carolina. with the greatest speed. Mrs. Jemina. C. Mowat, 72 Spring Street, Immediately after The Adjutant Gen- Newport, R. Nothing further has been heard from eral of the Army officially Asst. Paymaster J. E. Ardston or (Ardstow) declares the U. S. Naval Reserve Force. (No such name the steamship Carolina, which sent out men missing from the Moldavia are dead, as Ardston or Ardstow is on the Navy's " S0S " calls Sunday afternoon, stating machinery for the payment of claims to records. There may have been some error in that she was being shelled by a sqbmarine. their beneficiaries will the transmission of this name.) be put into motion. Lieut. Edouard V. M. Isaacs. Wife, Mrs. The Carolina at the time was reported in Every effort consistent with safety is Agnes Cabell Isaacs, Fort iuaciuca, Aria. the same general vicinity as that in which taken to expedite the establishment of Lieut. Isaacs was taken prisoner by the the schooners were sunk the same day. claims and the issuance of checks. submarine. The death benefit for United States Enlisted Men Reported Missing. Government insurance is $5.75 for each Twenty-three enlisted men are reported SEAMAN APPRENTICE DROWMED. $1,000 of insurance for 240 months, or missing from the President Lincoln, as The Navy Department is informed that $5T.50 a month for 20 years if the maxi- follows: Horace Rudolph Tanner, hospital appren- mum insurance has been, applied for. Howard Arnold Himmelwright, storekeeper, tice, first class, United States Navy, of second class. Father. William K. Himmel- the U. S. S. Further Indemnity. wright, Niantic, Pa.. R. F. D. No. 1. Mercy, was drowned while Victor J. Kuhurt, chief commissary stew- in swimming May 26, 1918. His body was In addition to the Government insur- ard. Sister. Mrs. Thomas McKenna, 36 Mont- recovered May 28. ance, which must be applied and paid for gomery Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. Next of kin, father, Horace Greely Tan- (Continued on page 4.) (Continued on page 4.) ner, Murray, Utah, R. F. D. No. 3, Box 36. 2 THE OFFICIAL BULLETIN: TUESDAY, JUNE 4, 1918. LEADERS INTHE HIGHWAYS Steamer Bristol Chased by Submarine TRANSPORT MOVEMENT MEET After Picking Up Schooner Cole's Crew; Members of National and State Committees Confer on Rural Latter Saw a Second Steamship Sunk Motor Express Routes. Secretary Daniels authorizes publica- captain seven and a half minutes to leave The Council of National Defense to-day tion of the following report of the captain the ship. He told the captain to get some authorized the following: of the Bristol: clothes, but the captain was too busy Chairmen and members of the newly getting boats ready to leave the ship. " On June 2, at 4.30 p. in., I sighted a About 15 minutes after the crew got appointed highways transport committees lifeboat with 11 men, the crew of the of the various State councils of defense away from the Cole it sank. Four bombs American schooner Edward H. Cole, the were placed on the vessel two on each opened a two days' conference to-day with Cole having been sunk by a submarine at the highways transport committee of the side, and some were placed about the 3.30 p. m. about 50 miles southeast of deck. The submarine stayed still until Council of National Defense. There were Barnegat Light. At 4.30 p. in., when also present at the confirence many who the crew of the schooner rowed to the about 38 miles southeast of Barnegat, I northwest. ' One hour later, when about have been instrumental in organizing and sighted the submarine at about 500 yards, promoting return loads bureaus in the 4 miles from the submarine, another headed direct for the Bristol. I managed steamship appeared close up to thf sub- several States, and others who have fos- to outrun him and reached New York. tered the establishment of rural motor ex- marine, which fired five times before she press routes throughout the country. " The crew of\he Edward H. Cole say altered her course,' the men, of the Cole The purpose of the conference is to the submarine was about 200 fedt long reported. 'The ship then changed her form a national organization for the pro- and was armed with two rifles, five or six course directly opposite and, after run- motion of return loads bureaus and rural inch. About 3 p. in. June 2, when 50 miles ning a short distance, stopped. About 15 motor express routes, which will work out southeast of Barnegat Light, the Cole minutes afterward we heard explosions a definite program already formulated by sighted the submarine on the starboard like those that took place on the Cole. the highways transport committee of the bow at 2,000 yards. He circled around, and then the steamer settlediln the water. Council of National Defense. This com- came up on the port side, and his com- About 6.30 p. in. we heard firing a little mittee Was brought into being as the first mander told the captain and crew of the more to the southward, and about the governmental recognition of the necessity Cole to get in their boats, saying that he same time we heard firing to the west- of increased use of motor trucks to re- was going to sink the vessel.
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