B3LY HOWERIS; -0jo TODAYj aitg ASSOCIATED PRESS ~DAY AND NicTr "IREG SERVICE ANN ATARRP TCWTTT(AM VWEDNESD~AY JUNE 5. 118. PRICE THREE CENT _ , i SURVIVORS oF UAR DEFINITELY THAT A SU-BATS OPERAT * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Senior Invitations * * Senior invitations will be ex- * * changed for announcements from * * 9 to 12 o'clock today in Univer- * * sity hal. Only those who have* * madeh' arrangements previousl * * may make this exchange. * * * FORMER ICRRESIDET, CHAR LES FIRBANKS, DIES WAS PROMINENT IN POLITICS MANY YEARS; FRIEND OF McKINLEY Indianapolis, June 4. - Charles Fairbanks, former vice-president of the United States, and former United States senator from Indiana, died at his home here at 8:55 o'clock tonight. Death was due to nethritis, which has been a chronic illness with him, t but not regarded as particularly se- rious until recently. All members of r the former vice-president's family, execpt Major Richard Fairbanks, who is in France, were at his bedside. Born in Log Cabin I The distinction of birth in a log cabin, which illustrious Americans of - an earlier day commonly had, was al- . so that of former Vice-President > Fairbanks. It is probable that he e was the last of American statesmen e to have been born in one of these f humble cabins. The one where he was born on May t 11, 1852, was at Unionville Center, e Ohio. - Mr. Fairbanks traced 'his ancesa ' tors to the days of Oliver Cromwell, - who counted "Fayerbankes" among - his, supporters. Jonathan Fayer- bankes, the first member of the fam- ily to come to America, landed at Boston in 1636. Mr. Fairbanks' fa- ther was Loriston Monroe Fairbanks, a wagonmaker of Vermont, who emi- grated to Union County, 0. His moth er was a sister of the late William Henry Smith, once general manager of the Associated Press. g Slave Refuge n The Fairbanks home frequently was the hiding place of runaway slaves and no black man ever wa s turned away from the door. Fairbanks at 15 entered Ohio Wes e leyan college, sharing an attic room with the son of another farmer, an e the two cooked their own meals. Fair d banks did carpenter work to earn hi e first law books. s After marriage Mr. Fairbanks mov .d ed to Indianapolis and opened a la n- office. He took a deep interest in pol itics and assisted in local, state, an y national campaigns, managed Walte r- Q. Gresham's campaign for the Re g, publican nomination for the presi of dency in 1888 and later labored in y. dustriously for Benjamin Harrison' he nomination. s's Friend of McKinley In January, 1897, Mr. Fairbank was elected to the senate. He too n his seat on March 4, the dayon whic mn McKinley became President. He b :e came a close adviser of the Presi .g. dent in the trying times before an o- during the Spanish-American War e- Among Mr. Fairbanks' greatest sere ices to his country were those per formed while he was a member of th United States and British joint com ed mission, which dealt with the Alaska it- boundary, lake fishing and oth ,u- questions. an Mr. Fairbanks was recognized a ea- one of the national leaders of the R (Continued on Page Six) LINA ESTABLISH T LEAST 2 ENEMY E OFF NEW JERSEY WAR1NINGS FROM SOUTH CARO- LINA AND MARYLAND MAY MEAN OTHERS PRESENT WASHINGTON EXPECTS GREATEST PRODUCTION American Destroyer Interrupts At- tack on French Steamer and Saves Vessel BULLETIN Washington, June 4.-On the heels of the submarine raid in the north Atlantic, the shipping board announe- ed tonight that the production of ship- ping vessels during Slay was the great- est in history. There were completed and delivered 44 ships, totaling 263,- 571 tons, three times the output of January, and twice that of February. (By The Associated Press) Washington, June 4.-Statements of survivors of the steamship Carolina landed at Lewis, Del., that their ves- sels were destroyed by the submarine U-37, established definitely that at least two German submarines have been operating off the Atlantic coast. Reports to the naval department show that the U-151 sank the schooner Eat- tie Dunn and Edna. Ship Sunk Again Floated Washington, June 4. - The tank steamer Herbert L. Pratt sunk yester- day by a German submarine off t~h Deleware cape has been floated and i, now being towed to harbor for re- pairs, the navy department announc- ed tonight. Washington, June 4.-A destroyer reported to the naval department to- night that she interrupted a submar- ine attack on the French steamer Radioleine, 65 miles off the Maryland coast at 9:30 o'clock this morning, and had found the American schoon- er,. Edward R. Bard, Jr., in a sinking rconditionafter having been bombed. The dispatch was brief, giving no details of the interrupted attack on the Radioleine. A later report an- nounced the arrival of the French s steamer at an American port. Two men were rescued from the Bard, a small coasting schooner of 279 tons. I U-Boat Reported Off South Carolina An Atlantic Port, June 4.-The Mall- s ory line has announced that a coast- wise freighter, the Sabine, put into - port here today with a report that N an unidentified steamer had warned - her at sea that a German submarine d was off the South Carolina coast. Be- r fore the ship docked a flurry of ex- . citement was caused on the water - front by the circulation of what had - appeared to' be an authentic story of S how she had met and escaped from a - submarine. :s Iea, '17E, Falls with Airplane k Thatcher W. Rea,'17E, while flying h a airplane at Pensacola, fell into the e ocean from a height of 500 feet. He i- escaped with nothing more than a d cut lip. Rea is a member of Phi Mu 4r Alpha fraternity. v- h- U. of Illinois Football Man Killed n- Carbondale, Ill., June 4. - First n Lieutenant Ralph Chapman, a former er captain of the University of Illinois football team, has been killed in as France, according to word received. e- yesterday by his father, R. T. Chap- man of Vienna. °621 ph u o * U UoJntI. II"*l al--, ..LV 1.- UICL X,----.. _ 1 m FINAL CONCERT OF CLUBS TONIGHT 8:00--35c I f