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ea -a tata mm un e m ra R fa J3 ts & Sta ff b ti ee Kiaqca g n B n. ;r m ra a ra d fa DAILY EYEHIHG EDITION TO ADVERTISERS Tha Baat Oregonlan has tb largest boo CI 4 and guaranteed paid circulation of any paper Id Oregon, eaat of Portia ad and by far tbe largest circulation In Paodletoa of any nawapeper. , , CITY OFFICIAL PAPER vou 29 GREAT ENTIRE SCOPE ACTION ON WESTERN FRONT TO BE UNFOLDED THIS WEEK Fighting in Progress Today Supercedes in Importance Any Move So Far; Two Great Battles Raging at the Strongest Positions of German Line; Footholds Gained; British Resume Drive Around St. Quentin. . v GERMANY FINISHES MOST DISASTROUS WEEK OF WAR . ' HEN'RV WOOD, WITH TUB FltENlM AFIBI.D. April 2. tler many ha. completed the mM disaa li c.ua week In her hlatory of the war. l-Vench loader permit me to aii that the next week will unfold the. clearer nature of the ureal allied of- fenstve. Sine laat Monday, General Nlvelle hit accoropllahed: Tha capture of. more than a hun dred run a. Twenty thousand German made prisoner. Twenty lance villaitea and mans hum lata, occupied. ( Fifty square mllea of French terrt tor retaken. Killed and wounded a hundred itmuAand Unrmain Two .reat luuUes Today. Tun irreat buttle are raKUiic todar ..ne alone; the Chenln Ilea Iiamca. 'Ijullea Koad." the other around Mo rinvillera. Although the French are att.ifKlne the two atronet position of the German line, General NiveliB hits already won foothold. Violent counter attaeke were repulsed." Tlie fighting In proKreas today u-l-ro-dca In Importance anything on rhe weHtvrn front. While the Herman disaster la tre. ineiwlous. the-week or flfthtinic are only the flret Muse of the entire ac tion of the French plan. The AUne 'hampaicne front la only one portion of the ureal allied orfenalve. The of teoalve extends a hundred and twenty mo miles. Every operation on the vast front la Inter-related. British I ten me offensive. liN'DOX. April 33. Over a wide front on oth sides of the river Scarpa. Blr IouKlns Hal- hae reaum ed the British drive. 'Hutiafactory prog-rees" la reported. Hull's report Indicated the re sumption of a neneral Irltih offen sive. The preaaure around the Uen. l amhral ami St. Quentin line la un a bated. - It la felt here the aJlled plan Include the nlternntlve amashea In rnrro between the Hal and Nlvello armiea. The thruat along the Scarp In reKrd-d aa a new development of the allied offensive. Halg la reach. Ins powerfully for Dounl. The remnlnder of the villa "f Troncoiilt haa oeen captured. Turk Aailln IVrfostctl. The British north of Bagdad again defeated the Turks, It la officially an nounced. I "Haturilay the enemy evacuated the remainder of the Istanulal position.'' the statement said ;imim-oc I t'etMiin-H. Ilf-adfiuarlcra unofflciallv report the capture of the towns of ;ucmp le and ::.r.lle A Muuntlty -f t'oiuv waa captured hIoiik the entire front. x Sunday at day hreak. we puruel the Turka from Imhulet capturln prlaonera and one howitaer." the Klalinienl continued. "The enemj .waa found occiipylmt a poaltion on the riahl of the TlKrla. mix mllea nearer Samara, which la belnir attacked. " leabulel la alty mllea northweat of Vfisdad on the Haailad railway and Ituria river. It l ten mllea aoiilh of Samara, an the Turkiah forcea. ac cordlmr to the official etatement ntw entrenched, are under attack from the Hritlah nt a point only four mlle from Samara. Ilcrllll Hciaata ll-Mllo. l:KliLIN, April 23. Fluhtlna on a wide front anil the reptile of itrtliah nltm-i-K t offiflully anounced. "V.aiarday north weal of l-na the Knwllah penetrated our flnrt line for five hundred metera." It la elated. hut were driven back by a counter attack." TURKISH RELATIONS WITH U. S. BROKEN WASHINOTOV. April it Turkev h broken relaliona with the l"nltel St. ilea. Minister FtoVall of Heme, of flcl.ilty adviael the cte department . DAILY EAST OREGONIAN, PENDLETON, OREGON, MONDAY, APRIL ( , mff ' - N'' 913 . ALLIED OFFENSIVE IS ONLY STARTING ' i. - - ' n h ba in n n tj is .fa fV f? . EPBV ARi OF 100 ANSWER CALL FOR FORMATION OF 3 MILITARY UNITS l olliunlaxin Itampant at MoOfcO Hall c-aa-rda); Iteirular IiiHIIb will tw lliHd mxi) Now On. More than a hundred men of all axea, ahapea und aixea turned out yea terday morning at Hi o'clock at the Mtaiae Hall In anawer to the call for the formation of three military untie. Knthua'uam waa ramimnt and aa a reault regular llrHIa will be keld and I'endleton atreeta may aiim reeound to the tramp of marchinK feet. The men whi reported yeaterday weie divided inbi three diviaiena. The atnKle men between the UKee of and 46 were ornanlaed Into the flrat reaerve, the married men of militar.. aite were formed Into the aecond re aervo und the men of 4U to c& into the third reaerve. The men were divided into aquado and prelMiilnary I nt ruction In mili tary regulatlona were given them. Dan V. Hinylho, former captan In the na tional guard, and Loy Wlaaler took chance of the firat unit, ueo. A. Hart mau, Lee U. Drake and Charlea Vln ier, former lleutenanta, took charge of the aecond unit, and C. K. Cranalon. former captain, had charge of the third. They were aaaiated by other former comnilaaloned and non-com -minaioned offioera. Many of thoae who composed the aiuada had never had any military training whatever but readily picked up the fundamental. They learned how to aalute properly, how to "right face" and "'about face." how to 'right rtremi" and how to march and halt. Further Instruction waa portponed until an offioera' school could be held The former officer are not entirely up to dale on the regulation and will meet I hi evening at the city hall for the purpe of 'bru-ihlng up" "Tiey will then announce the next dale for drilling TURKISH T ARE RUSHED TO WESTERN FRONT I llro fct-oci-eaty of ticrmana Thus lie j rahtd; 1-eaoe Talk wlrrliur uri mcm; Kltlt In wa-lalM Kanks. iDI'EMiAHKX. April 13. Turk ish troop throng Berlin to the west ern front. Peace talk la stirring the Turka. according to lierlln dispatches. The drawing of the Turkish forcea re veal the necessity of bolstering the western front. Ia-plte this, Herlln newspapers and the Oerman stafr are feeding the public on "victory- ator le. All lierlln Infrirmatlon Indicatea the tacit encouragement, ir not the actu al aid of the government to the ao cmllMs' peace movement. Herman ao cta list are denouncing I he general strike. All dispatches emphasise the wide epllt between the socialist fac tion, the Hcheldemann branch, seek ing and encouraging the general strike. Many Herman are coming to O penhaaen The American legation Is extremely busy with anti-spy work. A number of ,lermn spice were discov ered here, trying to reach Americ-i, All are -.s--v walchcd and none per mitted t-. sail. GIGANTIC LuNOa, SAM'S NAVAL SJCSTS it I lr W M fl3) U f 11 1 'J amiisin u -ajij,s iiewiiy - jr-ii. 1 1 yej-paaajui(P i - i .- iFlPl IE.U. S.fillE THI ftli UNCLE SAM'S NAVAL STRATEGISTS 1 ' I ; 1 1 ... . . . v I I .iifinninia-iiiwiii-V " I aiilii J it-" &&sc&i4a w1 'A 'si -uicur.-coM. p. j. rws. Here are two of Uncle S&m's naval HtrateKlstH. IJUMinant-Cfmniande.r K J. King i the chiof aide to the ad- BRITISH CAPTURE 20 GERMAN SUBMARINES WASHX(1T(, April 23. A mem ber of thv Hritlsh war cmmiwioi said twenty Ur muff sniMarins,und their crew were trto-tured by the Hrit !Mi April tenth, the day before the party sailed. "They weren't exactly captured, el Jher," he said. "They had bHn sear ching; for the deMroyer base for many das, tfufferltig for food and water. When captured, many were near star W. O. W. TEAM WINS FROM THE TIGERS The Colored Tigers of Pendleton suffered a second .defeat yester.'av afternoon at the hands of the W. O. W. team but managed to" turn a rout Into a real contest before the game mas over. The final score was 10 to I. Of the 10 scores hung up by the Woodmen, nine were made in the first two Innings when the colored boy were handicapped by the absence ol 1'anco, their regular catcher. After the second Inning they put in Thelps who caught a good game and wiw largely instrumental in keeping the woodchoppers irom doing any further execution. The Tigers chalked up a couple Ir the opener and made sijc more in the fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth. They threw a real scwre into their oppo nents before the game was brought to a close. Itracken pitched ftr the Tigers and struck out five men. Ooodmau be g:in slab work for the Woodmen and whiffed a couple. McOarrigle pitched the laM few Innings and struck out four. The ilne-up was n follows: Timers. Outtlir 3t. rhelpa c. Hickman 2b. Nixon If. tsreen , Wilson rf, Itracken p. Thomas cf. and Jones lb; W. O. W. t.rigais. ss. Hyde If. Hays c. Jost lo KvHim 3I, I'atton 21k Mclnnes cf (t'Oonuell rf. (loodman ami Mc'iar rlble, p. XKI ,SOi:s: KTtlt.t.l--S III l.liK t'llli-Af.o; April S3. With food prices mounting daily on the ground of scarcity. - Investlgatora In Chicago learned today that storage house ol this city are stocked to the roofs with storoa of hitherto unuppronched mag nitude. - The bulk of stored products consist of sugar, rice, canned goods, coffee and other non-pertshahlee. AIIMY ll-aKltTKIW WWIB(Mi WANT TO HOIIT l-XHl V. & IIUNl JIXITION. Colo.. April JI John A Manlon. first sergeant of Troop M. fvurth cavalry, and Pri vate Max Kkleplhof the aaine troop, who deserted at CsJIxco, CmL. on March (. today answered the call of patriotism by enrrenderlng to Cor poral II. t Hawklna. In charge of the local army recruiting station Manlon had been In the service twelv, years serving In Mexico. Honolulu and the Philippines, and had attain ed the rank of first aergeant. Both are anitoue for return to dot, in or. ler to ficht r.ermary. COM . tT-VEJRSTaE-err inii-al comraandlnir the Atlantic fleet. Co.mnandr L. M. Overatreet U in command of the Bureau of NaviKH tion, Navy Department. Washington. vation. ' The" crews Were quite sub dued and Kladly stir.-Htidered. - "Kngland is' wetting .more subma rines than the Americans think. """Submarine commanders are hav ing a rough time. Their haws are duetroyed almost heore they are es tablished. The Mritish know certain bam and leave them alone, until the submarines are gone, then dentro.v them, leaving the submarines in a hole." CLUB NOW $2.30 IN PORTLAND PIT lOUT!AXT. April 23. With 'bids S2.34 here ilay mhat sold a: three ct nis above any previous high rec.rd. Actual sales of cash wheal were made at Interior points on a ba sis of 92 37 and $2.38 a bushel. Bar ley sold for J65 a ton, oats at $50.50. both -high records. CHIfAOO, April 23. (Special) Range of wheat prices today: Open High. Low. Close. May $2. XI $2.35 $2,27 4 $2.32 July $1.97 '$!.!! II.H $1.98H Portland. PORTUND, i're., April 23. (Special! iMuh $2.30; bluestem $2.35. llHST KI.I'X'TltK'AIJ.Y 1HSIVK.X HATTT.KSIIIP WI SC1IKP NKW YOIIK. April 1.1. With n grim lack of rx-rcitHMiy suggestive of the lltncH. tho oH-c-d rend naught New McxR-o. IIh- ftrt etectrtc drivt-n hat Ucahlp. was lanm-hcd tu tile lirmk l.vn imvy ard. A mall crowd of en plovce In Ilie yard, t lie marines and olTl. iaK saw tlx- Inuncliing.. 1 b public was cxtlu4lcfl. .Margaret Ita-latcHf daughter of tlio late icovTnr t,f Nt-w Ulcxlw, shut-u-ri-il a bottle over the warship's b,w.-. While the vcea-l drlru-d Into tlie rlv,-r the marine hatut Uayed the "Star Siatiurtod IlllmlOr. Assistant seen?, tary 4-aiiklyn llmsrvi-it offlcinted. THOMAS MOONEY GETS NEW TRIAL SAN KRAXCISt'O. April 22- R" cat we a letter to F. C- oxman, promi nent eMstern Oregon cattleman, and star government witness, wrote F. K Itignll. of (srayville. Ilia, superior Judge .Griffin thin afternoon declare! Thomas Mooney, convicted of the preparedness parade bomb murders. Khould have another trial. The court declared If the district attorney didn't confess the error the Judge himself would personally ak Attorney Oeneral Webb to do it. Oi lman 1 charged with attempting to influence a wltneam. IJ4V OXK K1lr?T lt JnTKIt ItHlUn err linn 0r Objen K-ti-om of Paper. ?;OMK. April ?3. The offloial Jntirfial publishes a decree re'trictlnr letiers to a single sheet In order H unomiff .n p tper. STANFIELD FORMS HOME GUARD CO. STUXFIELsD, Ore., April 23. (Special) With 10 member enrolled at the outset Stanfleld formed a Home fiuard company Saturday even ing; following; a patriotic demonstra tion held at the call of Mayor Frank Sloan. The company will met, again ton Ik hi for drJlliiiff. Another line of work by the organisation will consist in nettintf all the available acreage under cultivation. The war situation and prevailing prices are having- the effect of bringing; all land Into use. Virtually all the land under the Fur nish project will be cultivated this year. PTE WIRE NEWS t'OXNt-ltlPTHlX TO PASS . TIll'IISRAY OH FIIIDAY WASHINGTON. April S3. After disposing of the war loan, congress went into the final stages of raising an army of two million. ' It is believed both houses will take final action Thursday or Friday. Conscription in seme form, will pass both houses. While the house and aenated de-ntf-fl the, Roosevelt angles the col-o-'-rs proposal to head a volunteer division in the trenchee waa vigor- t our injected into the aituatlon. Republicans are behind a well laid campaign to grant Rooaevelt permia sion to plant the American banner on the battle line. Senator Harding started the fight by Introducing an amendment to the administration bill. authorizing the president to raise by voluntary enlistment four infantry di vision of about a hundred thousand men. The amendment doesn't name Rooaevelt. but it means him. TO M'ltVKY NATION'S PMOD. WASHINGTON, Aprid 23.-Secre-tary of Agriculture Houston asked the senate agricultural comi?uttee for "power and money to make an im mediate survey of the nation's food Kuppl to determine the rosources of the country " The total supply mm. he Jaid. can't le estimated. (.1 ItM N SPY Kol"M. PITTslMU.H. April 2. Captain Arthur Kuhn. mechanical engineer, reported on the active list of the tier man army was arrested and interne, as an alien enemy. It if said im port -in t communication! Wi re fnun ! in his office. I.KS I AK Y IN V. AltMY.. M KM I H IS, April 23. Is D'Aarcy the Australian middleweight cham pion, enlisted in the I'nited States atm aviation coriw. GERMAN WARSHIPS AND FLEET WILL AT ROSS rmcM.RAD. April i A oer man battlesthtp and rrulscr nqnadmn loft lJhna pre-BuaMy to attempt to atUMk bcilml the) Ru4aa line pntm Ira lialtlo. actvrdhia to orricial word rmro isura. Ii Is rr-orted Uuit an. otlicr (rnnit wmrtdp sq oadnm l erHite 1 ti'iaa Raltir poHltkui'x from kl4. Itum dipat-lc say a uumlsv of lite iran-4--rt are- atn wtiiitig tlw (;etmjin udrn. NEED IS PRE-EMINENT DECLARES BRITISH COMMISSION: SITUATION 111 FRANCE AND ITALY IS ACUTE Sending of Great Mass of Americans to Europe Now Would Only Aggravale the Critical Conditions. ((.! I U.K MAKTIX.) - WASHINt-.TO.N-. April 23 The aU llew want food from Ue t'nited Htato more tlian anyUiin ete. Tliia fat emerged above ail else attending the Initial reccftim of Foreign Secretary Arthur BaUour and the I,rltlti com misslm. - Ajuerknn and British expertf plunged directly Into tlie problenr. "Tlierea uo minictlUue comirn re garding sending troops to furou, It is officially stated. Balfour con f er red with Ute iresidenU Jtident Cunliffe, of the Bank of Kngtand. met Sofwcary of the Treasury Mc Adoo,'the naval ex)ertj met witn ItanielM, Ute military experts with linker. Tlie British MUer war exper letkee and Amerko wealth and re soiiiiitnefM are to be pooled. -Tliere Is no l-rencli, no Brititdi. no Italian food slMKj-uige. said one Kng licxhman. "It s all one great quoMthm. While KJiftiand it not sbcirt or food, all fc not well with France and Italv Tlteir PMd shortage U acute. NOT rrx POINT WAY. "We wish to make plain, ctmtin ued the spokesman, "that we are not here to tell you what to do. 'We have our own ideas how you can best heJp. We come eMuippa with facts, to tell you what mistake. we made and horn you can avoid them. What price was paid for what has been accomplished, so you mav determine whether you think he price worth paying to accomplish those things yourself. FOOI lilt. PKOISI.K3I. "The aliies greatest proMem in that of rod invo.ving lis- shipping." This attitude of the Hruish cm-iuis.-nfr! puts the old aliies and th-1 n- recruit in complete accord for t he lirt nuve m the great interna tional sar conference. The trend ; this g eminent s. action ever smiv war was deiarel has been to stim ulate the (.rtduction of food The Hrit ih i iiiiimissi'tn is nt coccerne! over sending trops imnH-diutety . It w.ta explained. Their man-power it sufficient for tbe moment and the sending of greitt masses of men to Europe frimi the t'nited State would make the food problem critical. STAT IS OF THE CMMlSMOX. Actual, definite steps in the fool problem mill nl be taken until the French coniiniinii arrives. It is an -noinced 'Alloa- ne to make c'ea the status of the British cmmisin." the spokesman announced. Secretary B-Uruur' wirl is as--lute. All the experts here are merelr to answer questions directed to them through Palfour. "1-Xery question, military. naval, commercial or otherwise must be.fi- aa I I v- t r 1.1 .Ws Ka tl-M1 lit- n t ll- son and A-cmir" Balfour. Iis-u- tuins between other officuiJs are sec ondary. "The allies don't want to use the situation to hamper or coerce the r'nitaa.1 Ai mt in inr InlrrnuIitinMl r uuiona. All we want is helu STY Vs ljfC3 A VI KUn. I "The ronimiwlon mill stay here a j lontr as need-d It max- be d.vs ; we ks or months, accrdng to aV vl - pmenls If :.k. d the staff MIT -' Ui- I mtM s'.its". to - t nli DAILY EVENING EDITION WEATUKH ToniKhf ami Tuesday fair: cooler tonight with HKhl froat. MathnunV tempers.! tire, 4; nilni nium. 4; rainfall. 1: wiii'l, eteet. fiMh; Uhrr, partly cloudy. COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER the American gorernment in carrying out the plans made by the two chiefs. "America's part- In the war la now being decided. Should the Italian or Russian om mission visit Washington later it would be purely a matter of courtesy. "The vital problem are now be fore us, and the problem is food. CAVE-IN FLOODS TREADWELL MINES ItlCII GUOIT IS PltACTICAIH.T I NWOKKAItl.K AS ItHI'LT; JI XMC. April IJ. Three asiar of itae raanoaa TreadwWI arrssp. are praclbxUly ansiarfcaiblej as a rcsmlt of m cmrt-ua. admitting svmtrrs finaa Uie atincaa etuuuari. The Iff wortt ln were flnndrfl- Ttap miners aair rowtj rscaiied. The Buiar is tlx rV h. est in Alaska. OTORGYLE HITS BICYCLE; 2 MEN ARE BADLY HURT Ji.e Oofi'man. one of the paid fire men, and C H. Kudd. West WIh street tailor, were sex erety injure! Saturday tvening in a collision be tween a motorcycle ridden by the for mer and a biccle ridden by the lit ter. It was the second motorcvclr a -cblrnt of the ek. - Cofltnan was gtong h"tne atou T o'clwk Oow n West Webb sreel. A t he n t ared 1'tne he started to pas a" autoT Kudd. who had l-een ahead of the car, siatte to turn in 1 1 IV' street and his m hee4 wtu stru broadside bv the m-trc cle H!i!er an 4 machines fell hevtly to tbe paxr nient arid Imih men were unconscn. is when reached Thev aere tak-n t the hospital a nl ph sn iann called Kth had alight eonru-i'ns of the brain frtm which they oon rmnrr ed. Kudd received a very bad frac ture of lh right f'Har bone near n Juncture with t lie h.U'd-r. His el bow, and knees iere hd'y kinnI. there a cut oxer one eve that hs I to fe stitche.l up nd he re et- I manv other bru and abrasp'ti-. (Wfman fa.-e a -s Ndlv kinn. ,1 an t he was preitv bi bruied up. will be sMe t kv ih h-Mpiisl to day. GOVT. UPHELD IN OC LAND CASE W .m?f.T?f . prH - Tin- - -I mnr cnarc isrcaflnl In " of - ' ajm i wlia-ea In lle ssitesl MTsa mm-1 Kaimsmla rrant laaxl la.4ila . mille'tr- ,,f at-rrw of ratlnsMl Urns, in llntn, ssm! w snhlnat-w. I Th. nam po'-UI the Irrrtftiae,. herlain rltls.- H- aen-msm-.., I lis- lassl sl'h Ih- .imJih tK.1 K, -: rilr.is'. l-c M,if tm Hl'-llsr. et f-l. ' t nl. aw a-e. i