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DAILY EEIII!!8 EDITI3I1 LILY EVENING EDITION Number oopllca printed ot jeatoriluy't Iallj Killtion. 2,890 Thla paper la a nuunber of and audited by tbe Audit Bureau ot Circulations. WEAJIIER FORECAST Tonight and Wdnedy, fair; heavy frost In mornln. CITY OFFICIAL PAPER COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER NO. 9440 VOL. SO DAILY EAST OREGONIAN, PENDLETON, OREGON, TUESDAY, MAY 21, 1918 ' ' 1J:- : .l.-.-.Z-jl--. - ALLIES WIN ALL LOCAL OPERATIONS Make Successful Raids, . Capturing: Men and Guns. ENEMY GUNS AIM AT DESIRED POINTS Hostile Artillery Increases; Hun Counter Broken " Up. LONlMN, May ,21. Successful DrlllHh raids In Flundern and Plcardy, actlvn hoHtlle artlllerying near ArrnH, and the repulse of a German attack on the western portion of the Fland ers front is reported todpy by Halff. "Surrey troops conducted success' ful local operations northwest Mervllle yesterday evenlnjr, capturing f prisoners and six niachlne-guns. A hostile counter-attack at the same point this morning- following heavy bombardment was broken up by our artillery and machine Runs. "We successfully raided southeast of Arras, taking prisoners and ma chine Runs. ' "Hostile arttllerylng Is more active than usual about Mebuterne and be tween N'leppe forrent aMd Meteren and between Scarpe and 11(11 Seventy, and north of Lens." E VOTES TO SAVE GRAIN F USE BY BREWERS WASHINGTON," . May 21 The house by a St to 63 vote today re corded Itself -ss favoring stopping tllo use of grain and fruit Jn the manu facture of alcohollo beverages. -The question came on an amendment to the emergency food bill presented by ttandall of California, prohibiting the expenditure of 6,0llf,no0 to Increase food production until tho President Issued a proclamation stopping use of grains In maklUK Ibiuors. the U.S. TROOPS MAY BE SENT TO AID RUSSIA (CARL V. GllOA) WA8HINOTON, May. 21. Dlrort Ainorlcan aid for Itussia IncludliiR troops. Ited Cross supplies and money Is belUK urged on the aovciiiment front influentlnl sources. Trnos and foreign language speakers are especi ally urged. Tho proposition was seri ously considered recently, then re jected and is now resgitated. Ameri ca will not offer troops unless llussla desires. GERMANY SLICES BREAD AND MEAT niatic cables ataclose thut Germany ia alicliifr bread and meat rutinna and In having- trouble to explain why the war lorda do not ptiHh victoriously on Into Ttaty and France. It is predicted that Germany will make two or more dea perata smashes before treacherous ince moves instituting Pitcher Collapses In Boston Streetcar BOSTON. May 20. iale Ituth, Ited Sox famou pitcher, collapned In a street car today from throat trou tile. Grain Grading School Proposed for Farmers . j n FTPTL ;r- e o nmu m reoue o n wire inim If Wanted ly lnent.M. It. Ceman to the Mate head- - fajnlliariKe Do farmers want to themselves with grain grading meth- ' ods? If so get in touch with the conn-) Reports cominp from all parts of ty agent within the next few days, he county to Secretary M. R. Chess- "We have an opportunity to have a man as to tho pro(rres of the lied 1 1 hree-d ays grain grading school at Cross drive are all of t he most cn ,endleton some time about the middle -couraKing character. l-it evening of June. The tultinn fee will be $2 Mr. Chessman received reports from for the three das," announces Mr. many precinct chairmen and is now Hhrock. Ketting matters in such tdiape that he "Cmatilla. county Is the leading will he able to report Cmatilla amomr wheut growing county of the Curled the first counties in the Hiate over the States. We can grow certain wheat j top. here better than In any other place. jt seems saf to say that I'omllcton Wo should standardise on a few lead-Van within $30M or $400 of its nupta lug varieties and we should know all ipf $17,000 l.iwt even i hit. A number of there is to grading before we do it. Icomtnlttees were unable to make n- "Bulk . handling anl government 1 ports, but those doing so turmnl over price fixing bring about greater need between H.0O0 and SU.noo to Mr. for Information on thia subject. i Chessman- In order to reach the pio- "If interested, register yournamo ta most of the lists In tho hands of with the county agent or with the i committees have been combed and Tarnnera' Grain Agency, Pendleton." it will be necessary to follow up the YVIAIL AIRPLANE LEAVING MINEOLA FOR WASHINGTON ' M ! ' Jr ,,v,,,.--..;;',--"'', ; -,. 5 - ...... ..jl . . - - -J The first of the five mail airplanes established to carry mull between far from New York city. Wednesday. New York City and Washington, the j Just before noon fcn Its fllsht of more first mall aero ever flown, left tha'thnn ,2() inlk-s. , Lieutenant Torrey ALLIES ADVANCE; GAINS BRILLIANT French Attack Near British go Forward. t (William Phillip Simms) AT THE BRITISH FRONT, May 21 French troops, attacking brilliantly near the Belgian border today re took Lochre, Hospice, Brulogze, the entire wood south of Brulogze, crossroads and several farms, advancing their lines cast of Hill Fourty-four. They took 500 wounder prisoners. French casualties were slight. i The attack greatly improved the French positions around. Mount Rouge and Mount Scerpenberg. The French suddenly threw themselves on the Germans, on a three mile front, with the result never doubtful. British troops advanced their lines on a 600 yard front between Avcluy wood and Rebutcrne, diminishing a sharp dangerous salient and occupying four enemy posts.. A hot counter attack was repulsed. I WITH Till-: A.MK.ItlC.WS IV LOI!- . AT THE ItlUTISK l'HONT, Slay SI. K AIM-:. lay 21. Cajrtnlu Ialil IV- An American eaiHahi, an aviator lin jiiinMil into a Monoplane early mri basin, Oregon National Forest. It from IMillaib-lpbia fouirlit the termaiiM tlii ftuiruliiir for a Iriut innfor lestiine jwlll probably bo milled at the coin over the Yores line wlih a lee broken ..phi. ,eur .Vawr lie fpniIIciI a tier- jpany's mill located on Iho tract. until liH -HKliie wa,- illsnblcil. Ies- .man bilnn and tor-ced the Hwhe to j eendiiur In m-iiiair'3 latnl he crnwlr-d ilrtip bcbinil the (Jniiuiii linex. Peter- j r Into a slli-ll hole. A tirrinnii iHilter.v win ts fi-ohi I'cnii-vlianla. He lias of- 1 l"USSianS 1 1'lSOnCl" rirlna at tile iliMihlcil mncbiiie s-ored fii-lally flistro-e4l rive '.-riiian idniies ' JQ Americans a direel lilt, smavhiiijr It. The cap- ,in ronr clnys. This encoiinttr was not i - ' tain, surroiiiidi'fl lf- bursting: sliraimcl draumtl hiinscir from crater to crater until he reaoheil the nllb-d lines near ; tlit- Junction of tlio IIHkIhii ami IIHiI-kIi arniiCM. 11c Is recover it k hi a h-illul. Thl' above dlwMrh N (lit firsl men- tlnu of American nir force uYfuiltcly ; riisatted In llnnclerj. Anierhan troo i Mliicli retvntlv tikok tlictr ninety In the i jMtrtitl thai they liail their own aerinl j force?. simniH cllsateh may mean1 jthat Anierleaiw art located uenr iVne4. WITH CLOCK LIKE PRECISION RED CROSS DRIVE MOVES ON TOWARD G0AL;MANY TOWNS ALREADY OVER j "Is it the Pendleton nir or the Pen- diet on people that put A ou on jumr toes. iNeiiu on wnnu oi iwmi lor ine illu.uictto valley." t-siyt a mc-witfe this afternoon from II. Ij. (orhctt ami II. ! quarter tell hue that the comity tll ;tooii he throimh with its Ited Cross quota. v ; nvlutlun field at .Mlneola, I r., not Belgian Border; and witniil Mrsoiially. ami therefore 1 not definitely credited, HOFF LEADS RYAN; JOHNS NOMINATED l'OHTT.AXn. IV 21. Horf led Itytui by Ii:t for state treasurer, mti rliiiir to uflicinl rcLnms from 2 eoimtfett The. other! hciiijc In conilete. JoIiiih had nearly 20OU kail for suirnie court. wurk thoroughly to see that everybody doeK ha ir her part. Whtle Weptun was the first town in the county to report over the top in the Ki-cond Red Cro war drive, Ad ams is tho second and the first town ly ctmipl work. J." S. Halcr. diatrit chairman for Adams made a turn over to Secre tary Chessman hut evenintr, showinR a total of l I'll. .Mi subscribed at thut place. The qnota, was IJiflO. From Athena. liBtrict Chairman Watts reported last nicht that Athena whs over the top, and they are still going. Ho expects to complete the work today, and says that Athena will ex reed Us (ptota of 2;o by alont $40i. I C. Pcharpf, chairman for I'flot RtK-k. ulo pave the -Tiricf report "over the top and not nil in yet.' Tilot Rock's quota is J2-50. Chairman Ralph Klanficltl reported from Keho that place is well over tho top and wiil a probably be able to make final rrport today. F. H. fiwavie from Hermlston re ported about half the quota, of S.3 suljcrlbd, and no trouble Is antici pated In exceeding that amount prob ably by this evening. UUr TOXY WEB& USXC. , Webb, of the aiiution section of the I'nited states Hignal Corps, was th ' pilot who took the first pouch of mail 1 to the National Capitol. - OFFICIALS EXPECT RECOMMENDATION WASIUXOTO.V. May 21. Ofriiials believe that General Mencher will command the army and believe that both Held iy .1 corim comuinnders will receive a lieutenant-general rank when 1'ershisng' makes the recommen dation. Buy Yellow Pine at $2.95 Per Thousand roilTIANIJ. May 21. Two sales aggregating- fifteen million board feet of government timber have just been uwariled to the highest bidders by District Forester George H. Cecil, Portland. Tho sale of eleven million feet of western yellow pine at $2.95 per M. and a million, three hundred thous and feet of LHiuglas fir and other spe cies at r.O cents per M. was awarded to tho Wasco Pine Ijiiniler Company of Tho Dalles, Oregon. This timber elands on the Tamarack Creek drain- WASHINGTON. May 20. Tho I'rusHiau war minister toduy reported the Inli-rnntent of lu additional Am erlcun iniHonors. j X)U AMF1CM AX KM KISS WITH THK AMHHIOAX AKMIBS. j May 2i. tieneral Pershing Joday cimiin unitjuptl "usidn from muiunl j artilieryitiK it Is quiet today on all ! tiv front. Our aviators have felled I two enemy planes.'' , At Stanfield the solicitors did not ;o out till this morning, so there is noth ing to report from there- No trou bk however, is expected in raising ihe quota of $700 today. K. J . 1 a is, chairman f o r Kre e wa -ter reported one-third of the quota for that place had ben secured and 'that today they ill be over the top. Cottonwood has not been officially reported over, but in , early reports from Chairman Ralph Reser, Satur day, it is understood the quota is fully subscribed. Moldman was unable to make full report as some of thjs members of the 'cr.n-mtttec were not within reach of a phone, but it is understood S0 of the quota of $."i00 has leen raised. The balance will be secured today. Vmapine with a quota of lloeO, Chairman Louis Ilodgrns reports, will have no trouble goin over the top, hut he was unable to nive figures. ' No report was received from Helix, but there is no question but over the top and more will be the report when It does come. . Umatilla. Cmatilla county's leading aea port, phones that place will be Jover .the top today, e MYSTERY HUE SWEEPS S. F. AIRPLANE Several Blocks Near Market Street are Threatened; Factory Filling Govern ment Contract,, Had Received Anony mous Letters. , SAN FRANCISCO. May gin today destroyed an airplane factory in the business section, 90 minutes later threatening to devastate sever al wooden blocks near Market street. The fire started in the Emanuel Cabinet Works where Robert Fowler is manufacturing airplanes under government contract. Anonymous letters have threat ened to bomb the factory. . ' ' ' Linen for airships worth" several hundred thousand dollars were destroyed wrhen fire started in several places simultaneously. Fourteen flats were destroyed. The to tal loss is $1,000,000. The blaze was under control at 9 o'clock. Two complete airplanes were destroyed. . i BULLETINS FAIRBANKS IS IYIX. a.VDI.VXAPOIJS, Slay 21 Charles Warren FairliuukH. former vice presi dent, is sinking-. He has Itrlght's dis ease. , SKXATOR JAMES IIJ WASHINCiTO.V. May 21. Senator Ollio James is critically ill of Hriglits diwasc. , ! ASKS ;KUMAN CONrTJHF.XCE. WASHINGTON; May 21. Tho state department lias asked (Germany tlmmsh the StMtnlsn IUyIIu cnilmsy If slio will airreo to a iilcrenc be-? twoen Gennuu and American dele ffutos In St siln on the nuentiou ..- of 'the treatment of war .nrisoners. s . UII'lOMATS OPPOSED AUJAXCE Till IIAC.II May 21. Vienna and iicrlin dispatches declare that tltel former Aiistrian-Humraiian foreign j Minister Cjscridit, with Hcrtlliur and Von Kuelilmann opisised the r'eiit Auxtro-ticriiuin alliuuco rcaclicd b)t tho two kab-crs TANKER IS LOST SIII(.'(I. Mav 21. Tim Am-I ericsn lank.-r William lCcM-kerHler has , been lost at sea, tho navy reported. KANSAS HAS TOHN ADO SAMNA. Kans., Jlay 21. l ie er- sons arc n-Nrted killed in a tornado which is swociug- central Kansas. The must life loss was north of Haines, where farms were greatly illumined. THYlNti I. V. W. IDHTUXK, May 21. Carl Swel gln, iNint in Prnssiii ami nanirnlim-il two years ago after joining- the 1. . WARRIORS PAUSE AS TRIBUTE TO ACE; COMRADE CARRIES ON (FltANK J, TAT1AR) WITH THK AMERICAN?. KAIXK, May 21. Americans and French parsed wherever possible to pay homage to Major L.ufberry. killed Sunday. Hia funeral was htld at a hospital wlthin sound of the pun. French and American companies vtoou at attention with bands playing. Franco-American aviators were pre SWAT THE KAISER WITH THRIFT STAMP SALES AND SEE CIRCUS 27 Tickets to Barnes Animal' I Show Will be Given to School Children by the East Oregonian. i I'tilire boy power and iil pott r ! to help win the war is nenerally ad-j vised and in accordance with this plan the Kast orexoniaii has a scheme. , .This paper will Rive away 27 tickets " to t he I'arnes wild animal circus to ' local ttoys and nirts making, under , prescribed conditions, the best rec t ids for svllin thrift Manip. ' The 27 tickets mean one for each Rrade school room in the city, the contest being confined tt the heboid j children. In each roon a thrtfi stamp selling contest will he arrang-i ed and tho Winner gets the cirem ' i ticket. The frMaila of the content are, h'ft entirely to the principals and! tenchers, Recording to the announce i n.ent by R- W. Kleicher. cirrulavion , manager f the paHr. who Is hu-ml- . ; ling the affair. In other words each ; school or room may arrange Its con- : jteet as It wUhca, the only requisite! FACTORY 21. A fire of unknown ori V. is being- tried in the federal court for attempt to retake naturalization ! papers and if the government succeeds I i it will allow the government to intern I i all naturalized I. W. W. ' -il CASUALTIES. WASIHNtiTON-, Slay 21. funeral Pershing- today announced 4i casual tiea, inctuding; three, killed in action, one dead from wounds, 18 wounded se verely and eight slightly. ,.(... I)FMANIS TLHGES! .IHSMISSED WASHINGTON. May 21. Senator Lsl Folletto today deniandeotliat tlo sen ate committee on privileges and ejec tions dismiss the disloyalty diarges -filed against him by the Minnesota public samety commission- 1X1SSF.S IN APRIU iONlHN, May St. The aibnlralty announced that allied shliw of her than American, lost during; -April .totaled 2(5,tMK ItMlS- MARCH APPOINTEH WASHINGTON, May 21. lresidenl Wilson sent the senate the nomination of Major General March, to be full general today. . WANTS VXION OF CHl'ItCHES ' COIA'MBl'S, Ohia, May 21. The lresbyteriatl general assembly do- i claring: tho time has como for organic union looK ino mosi imiinja siom thus rar caning uion otner evangen- c-af eliiirehes to jiiu in an immediate i-oiifcn-m-o for general union. MAST'KHS OF SVI1M.1IUNKS. VKXICK, May 21 "We have good reason to believe we are itUbUr of the submarine situation in the Mediter ranean. A great mauy eneniy siilnua rines have been sunk. We retrard tlie situation confidently." said Admiral IH-lbono of the Italian navy. Inter viewed today. ent In larse numbers. Four French aviators carried the flaff draped coffin to a tiny cemetery behind the hospital and American aviators hovered above. Lwrinff the service a report was receiv ed that a Koche airman had been brought down by Lufberry'a comrade. "As he would wish it" declared an American aviator. "He cared more for victory than for elaborate servicea in hia honor.'' 1 b in ii that the Co n t es t be en ded b friday. The big Biirres show will be here uext Tuesday Alay 2 There are features alout the show that give It an especial appeal to children. With its animal features the show educates a- well as entertains. At the close of the two-hour pro gram In which over lftO wild ana domestic animals take part and 159 people are seen putting them through their individual circus features, a re production of a "IUyal Hunt" will be siven In tho hippodrome track- Os triches ill be turned liaise and a bund of natives a ill demonstrate how theoe queer birds axe taken prisoners. Kangaroos will be faken by the Aus ttulian bushmen. and the beautiful wild horse, the xebra, will le round ed up by expert huntsmen. The c:nu'l and llama, too. will be herded in by desert men A I together pre senting one of t he mot novel Inno vations ever exploited umicr canvas. There are 27 tickets for this show awaiting the boys or girls showing the greatest seal as thrift stamp sell ets. U.S. FORCES EQUAL HK ; BY AUGUST 1 Extent of Giant Strides Re vealed Today by Army; Authorities. FIRST FIELD ARMY OF AMERICA READY Composed of Veterans, Bri- gading of U. S. With British Continues. WASHINGTON. May 21. Amen ca's first field army of approximately 20U.000 men has been formed In France. It consists of two army corps of three divisions each', with Colonel BJornstad as chief of staff- There are startling- revelations of gi ant strides toward Franca made by the army. It is disclosed today that the American army In France wilt equal the British facing the Germans within two or three months, unless the British are greatly ' reinforced mean while. ' ": ' j' American forces are likely to ap proximate Haig's present - forces by August 1. This is learned from au thoritative circle here. The brigading of Americans with the British continues. Presumably the national army men are the ones brigaded. Tbe field army is formed from seasoned troops which have been in France for a long period. FOLLOWING THE FLAG OF All THE NATIONS FROM "KINGS. QUEENS AJTD - - ; PAWNS. (By Mary Roberta nine hart.) The only leaven in this block pic ture us I liave seen It, as it has touch ed me. has been the scarlet of the fted Cross. To a faith thct the terri ble scenes at the front had almost de stroyed came every now and then again the flaxh of the emblem of mercy.- Hkpe, then-, waif not dead. There waa a flaa that was not of one nation, but of all the world; a f Uvg that needed no recruiting station, for the ranks It led were always full to over-flowing; a flag that stood be tween the wounded soldier and death; that knew no defeat but surrender to the will of the God of Battles. -And that flag I followed. To the front, to the field hospitals behind the trenches, to railway stations to hospital trains and ships to ft real base hospitals.. I watched its ambu lances on shelled roads. I followed Its brassards as their wearers, walking; sently, carried stretcher with their groaning burdens- And whatever may have failed In this war treaties, ammunition. elaborate strategies, even some of the humanities the Red Crow as a symbol of service has never failed- "I was a critical observer. I am a graduate of a hospital . training? school, and more or less for years 1 have been In touch wtih hospitals.' 1 myself was enrolled under the Red Cross banner I was prepared for efficiency. What I was not prepared for was the absolute self-sacrifice, the indifference to cost In effort. In very life Itself, of a great army of men and women. I saw English aristocrats scrubbing floors. t found American surgeons working day and night un der the 'ery roar and rattle of guns. I found cultured women of every na i tlon performing the most menial : Uaeks. I found an army where all are eoual prietua, surgeons. scholars, i chauffeurs, poets, women of the stage. voting girl who until now have been , shielded from the very name of death all enrolled under the red bade of mercy. Roberts Testifies In Murder Trial WAt'KWHA, Wis, May 0. Doc tor David Roberts squirmed under erora-exam ination as Grace Luik I attorney's tried to show violation of the white slave act In the girl's trial for the murder of Mrs. Roberts. Miss Lusk is calm. Roberts resumed the role of a hounded party. He said on the Chicago trip he tried to persuade her to take a seiarate room and fi nally gut a room with twin beds. He said he accidentaTTy met her and her father on the Interurban train en route U Milwaukee. Kha covertly dropped a note asking him to meet her at a certain hotel, and said she bourht her father a new hat, sending him home alone. Roberts said Miss Iucq hounded him contin ual ly- CAIJMHtXIAX t.KTt KKCONtt HI'S PLASM WITlf AMKRICAN'g l.V UOR RAINK, May 21. Ueu tenant Doug las Campbell of California. brought down his second German plane aton day afternoon. lie fought a great fight. The German fell within the American line nortbeest o( TouL