eloquent four minute man had just concluded an address to the audience during intermis sion with an appeal that his hearers come across the president searched hur riedly through hjs clothes for a pencil failing to find one he leaned over and borrowed one from a man in the orchestra pit he then filled in a blank in the theater program and handed it to the usher when the four minute man an nounced the subscription of the chief executive the house went wild with cheering a total of 50,000 was sub scribed before the intermission was over pershing men go over the top repulse raid and chase germans back to first line trenches with the american army in france april b on the front northwest of toulfriday night the germans attempted two raids but both were repulsed american infantrymen went over the top on the second occasion and pursued the germans from their first line trenches into the support trenches details of the action were made public in the following official re port : the enemy raided our trenches at two points the first attack was repulsed easily in the second the enemy was allowed to reach our wire entanglements then our fire opened and a moment later the american infantrymen rushed out in attack driving back the foe the pursuit was continued until the first enemy trenches were emptied and the germans had been driven back to their support trenches enemy artillery activity was i followed by extremely active shell ing by our