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CROOK COUNT JOVR SAL (MTOIIKIt tt4, IUI GENERAL BULLARD f j IF A i O- MS Gen. Robert L. Bullard, commander of the American Second Field army, recently organized In France. FRENCH POUND FLEEING GERMANS Paris. French troops continue to to keep In contact with the retiring Germans, the French war office an Bounced. The French report said the remaining enemy troops were showing resistance on the north bank of the Aisne canal south of Chateau-Porcien. Sixty-five hundred civilians were liberated when the French troops en tered the city of Lao a. The statement Issued at the war office says that the French have passedfar beyond the town on the whole front between the Oise and the Ailette rivers. , Newspapers here believe that as a result of the continuous advance of the allies the Germans will be forced hastily to retreat to the LUle-Meileres-Meti line. The German retreat Is being carried eut with difficulty owing to the bom bardment of railroads by airplanes. British troops are reported to have outflanked Bouchain and to be ad vancing on Denain, from which town they are only three miles distant. American forces are advancing in the direction of Dun-Sur-Meuse, in the Argonne sector, according to the In transigeant BRIEF NEWS OF THE WAR The battle line In France continues to bend under the attacks of the en tente allies, and the enemy almost ev erywhere Is retreating toward new positions. But his retreat is orderly and the British, French and Ameri cans are being compelled to fight their way forward slowly in the face of en emy machine gun detachments acting as rear guards. The British advance has brought them to the gates of Doual, which long has prevented them from closing In upon the great bend in the line which has Lille as Its center. To the south the French have blot ted out both La Fere and Laon and the greater portion of the St Gobain massif standing In the elbow where the line runs eastward toward the Swiss frontier. The Chemln des Dames no longer stands as a bulwark for Laon in the Aisne region and to (he east in the Champagne the French, by a swift ad vance, have entered Vouzlers and car ried their line so far north that the communications between the German northern armies and those east of the Champagne bid fair to be cut. On the extreme allied right in the active battle area the American First army Is. keeping up its hammering tactics and daily gaining more of the most valuable ground remaining to the Germans in northern France that protecting their communicating lines from the home soil through the Metz and Montmedy regions. Both in the Macedonian theater and In Palestine the allied forces are press ing the enemy hard. Albania is fast being cleared of the Austro-Hungarlan troops, while in Serbia Nlsh, the capi tal of the little kingdom, after the in vasion by the Austro-Hungarians, has been recaptured and the enemy driven to the hills north of it. 13 U-Boats Utmost Now Operating. London. Vice-Admiral Sims, speak ing at Lord Northcliffe's luncheon for visiting American editors, said that the average number of enemy subma rines operating against merchant ships and transports across the Atlantic was about eight or nine but that some times it ran up to 12 or 13. That was all the submarines the enemy could keep out at a time, he declared. 1 OREGON NEWS NOTES OF GENERAUNTEREST Principal Events of the Wiek Briefly Sketched for Infor mation of Our Readers. In the state bar examinations that were held at Salem under the direc tion of the supreme court only 11 ap plicants tor certificates made their ap pearance. Two draft calls for 436 class 1 men to be sent to Fort Stevens, Or., and Fort McArthur, Cal, have been Issued. Entralnmenta under both calls are to be effected In the five-day period start ing October II. Apples have begun to roll from Hood River to eastern points In large quan tities. Average shipments now are 14 cars per day. The total crop will ap proach 1200 carloads. To date 160 cars have been sent ott. - Not since the Umatilla project was established ten years ago has the in terest in alfalfa lands been so great as at the present time. During the last SO days cash -sales have been nu merous and prices have been good.' To place plainly before the house wives of Oregon once more the what and why of present food conservation regulations, the state food administra tion is preparing to conduct a big pledge drive October 28 to November a. Clay Ulam, owner of a 40-acre prune orchard near Canyonvllle, has harvest ed the record crop of fruit from his place this year. He secured 95 tons of dried prunes and sold the output at I cents a pound, securing $17,100 for his crop. Oregon's banks deserve the credit for putting the state first In the purchase of treasury certificates. Every bank In the state took some of the certifi cates of the issue of October 1, and this record was not duplicated in any other commonwealth. A total of 699 industrial accidents, of which three were fatal, were report ed to the state industrial accident com mission during the past week. The fatal accidents were: Walter Harvey and O. L. Waters, Portland, shipbuild ing; John Confer, St Helens, lumber ing. In response to an Inquiry from Klamath Falls as to whether persons signing petitions for independent nom inations must be electors who are reg istered without party affiliation, As sistant Attorney-General Van Winkle has advised that this is not required by law. ' The salmon fishing season on the Sluslaw and Umpqua rivers and on Coos bay is now at Its height and many carloads of the thh are shipped from these sections over the Coos bay branch of the Southern Pacific to out side points, most of them being billed to New York. Carl Crosland, 'representing the de partment of commerce, is in Salem to gather state financial statistics which are to be sent to Washington for com pilation. Mr. Crosland expects to be there about two weeks, working most of the time In the office of Secretary of State Olcott Thomas C. Taylor, a past grand commander of the Knights Templar, dropped dead In the Masonic temple at Bend just prior to the opening of a session of the grand commandery of the state. Mr. Taylor was one of east ern Oregon's best-known men, having lived at Pendleton a number of years. Twenty-four hundred common labor ers are needed immediately by ship yards in and about Portland If me chanics are to be allowed to go ahead and the production of ships In this district is not to be seriously crippled, according to an announcement made by the United States employment bu reau. As a forerunner of extensive devel- ! opments on the Klamath Indian reser vation, the United States government Indian irrigation service has applied to State Engineer LewiB for a permit to appropriate sufficient water from Williamson river and Its tributaries to irrigate 73,636 acres on the Klamath swamp. Notwithstanding the embargo on the movement of grain to congested ter minals In. the northwest market cen ters, there is a considerable total of demurrage paid to the railroads dally for cars held beyond the alloted time for unloading. At Astoria there are about 200 cars on track waiting to be unloaded. Public Service Commissioner H. H. Corey has returned from eastern Ore gon where he effected an agreement between the East Oregon Logging com pany and farmers of Wallowa county by which the ranchers will be allowed to transport their wheat to market over the logging road of the former. The cost will be about 9 cents a hun dred pounds. Heretofore, it has been necessary for the farmers to haul their grain by team for distances of from 20 to 40 miles, be cost In many cases amounting to 'more than 30 cents a hundred. The road extends from En terprise to Flora. There -Js in the neighborhood of 150,000 bushels of wheat to be taken to market Prune growers of the Forest Grow locality have practically finished plck-4 Ing the crop. The season has own un usually favorable tor work and th crop exceeds former records. The cruising and appraising of prt-vately-owncd 'land in thi Bull Run watershed district by the government forestera Is under way. It Is expected that the owners will exchange their rights In this district for timber not In a government reserve section. The Bull Run watershed Is the source ot Portland's water supply. At a meeting ot the Portland boiler makers' union it was voted that the 44 hour working week shall be put In' to effect by members working In ship yards by the taking ot Saturday hair holidays. The union voted two weeks ago to work 48 hours weekly, after having taken Saturday half-holidays for two successive weeks. Ad educational campaign Is being launched by the Tillamook Creamery association to make their products bet ter known. The output ot Tillamook cheese this year will, It Is expected, exceed $1,600,000. In 1917 the 24 fac tories handled 44,901.303 pounds ot milk, and from It manufactured 4,974, 328 pounds ot Tillamook cheese, valued at $1,188,845. A shipment of 40 gallons of brandy and 65 gallons ot whisky that was masquerading as "cylinder oil, med ium," and arrived on the steamer Rose City from San Francisco, was seised at Astoria by the police and federal authorities. The liquor was In kegs packed In boxes and was consigned to the "Wendling Vaughn Logging com pany. Grays River, Wash." Frantic telegrams have been receiv ed by Senator Chamberlain from rep resentatives ot prune growers In the vicinity of Salem saying that notwith standing the announcements that the food administration has given orders tor the purchase ot 38,000,000 pounds of Oregon prunes, the orders have not been received by Oregon packers and the packing-houses are still Idle. The new circular road around the rim ot Crater Lake has been complet ed. The road later probably will be hard-surfaced, but the dirt grade cir cling the lake at an average height ot about 7000 feet is entirely finished. It is 38 miles long and completes 75 miles of road work now in Crater Lake national park. The road around the rim has been under construction for three years. Oregon draftees are being rejected at army camps and cantonments in excess ot the national average, reports just given out from Washington Indicate. In recent months, under new stand ards, the average percentage of rejec tions ot inducted men baa jumped from 4.83 per cent to 7.6 per cent, for the nation at large. Oregon's percentage of nntlt Is 8 as against Washington state's record of 6 per cent Oregon lumber manufacturers have been asked by the navy to furnish 600, 000 feet ot decking to be used aboard mine sweepers nnder construction on the Atlantic coast This is the second order for decking of the new size, 4 by 4 inches, to be placed with the Fir Production board, the first having been for 500,000 feet for steel freight ers under way at the plant of the New port News Shipbuilding company. Creation ot deficiencies, most of them at the state Institutions, were authorized by the state emergency board to provide a total of $164,450 needed to replenish funds for the re maining three months of the present blennlum. Other emergency board meetings held heretofore have author ized deficiencies aggregating $347,500, so the present grand total In emer gency provision of funds during the blennlum is $511,950. The longest fire fighting period ever encountered since the Bantiam nation al forest was established ended with the recent heavy rains. C. C. Hall, supervisor of the forest, says that the dry weather began on June 7, and the forests were in danger until October 3. No official estimate has been made yet of the amount of damage caused by the fires. Most of the fires were in old burns and were not destructive. The recent big fire along the railroad and North Santlam river, between Gates and Detroit, killed millions ot feet of green timber. Governor Wlthycombe telegraphed to Federal Food Administrator Hoover urging the necessity of government purchase of Oregon flour as a means of relieving the dairy situation In Ore gon. He urged purchases by the gov ernment such as to permit the mills to run to-capacity, as "the dairy herds are suffering and rapidly diminishing on account of the shortage of mill feed." Mr. Hoover wired Governor Wlthycombe that the cows of the northwest must eat barley as a solu tion to the mlllteed problem. Mr. Hoover claimed that twice as. much wheat has been milled in the north west as last year and that more than 50 per cent of the flour exports are from the northwest, which has created general dissatisfaction In . other sec tions; that while barley feeds are 30 per cent less in price this year than last, they are not being bought in the northwest because of the compulsory lower millfeed price. The low level of prices has caused their much enlarged use by the farmers at the expense of the dairymen. ' BABIES MUST HAVE MILK "You get mors calories to the penny from milk than from any other food even at the present pries," said Dr. B. J. Lebbe, specialist, who returned recent- ly from Europe and who spoke at the State Fslr and at othtr patrlotlo gatherings. Dr. Labbe told of the children he treated In the Red Cross children's hoe- pltal In Evlaa. on Lake Geneva, In France, The little French and Belgian refugees were wan and weak and almost lifeless. A milk diet soon brought good results and the babes thrived. "But" said Dr. Labbe. "thsy will never entirely shake off the marks made by the months In which they were starved for milk. Children must have milk It the race la to go on. It Is every man's and every woman's duty to do all In his power to keep the herds of Oregon alive. 4 Feed men, mill men, dairymen, householders, dealers, everyone must co-operate. The babies ot the world must be saved." Milk may be used not only as an addition to aa already rich diet but In place of some of the slowly digested dishes which over tax the digestive organs and Impair the health. Milk contains all the elements necessary to sustain life and build up the body. It must be remembered too, that butter is a food for all, tor rich and poor, for old and young. Cottage cheese la another dairy product that Is ot great food value. e Milk As An Energy Msksr Acknowl edged by Shipbuilders. Because Portland and 8eattle ship builders mske a scramble for the milk bottles when the noon whistle blows they are becoming famous and to tbe fact that they drink milk Is attributed their ability to do better work thaa any other shipbuilders. Now comes San Francisco showing she, too, has taken up the habit The Pacific Dairy Review says "one dis tributer alone supplies 1,600 quarts dally to men in the Union Iron Works," although, the review adds, "in 8an Francisco, the milk-drinking habit la still In Its Infancy." Here's another argument for keeping up the dairy herds. The milk bottle is backing the beer can oft the map. Time was when the men ot the Iron works would have "rushed the can" as they termed getting their beer; "The food value of a quart of milk Is the equivalent of three, fourths of a Mr. Woodcliopper : We have looked over our stock of Axes, Saws, Mauls & Wedges. We still have some of the stock purchased from Claypool & Com pany, which stock is now priced below the present wholesale price. akini If pound of beef, two pounds of chicken I or eight eggs. Compare the coats and I milk wins." Dr. K, V. McCullom of John Hopkins University who visited Oregon not long ago made this state ment He adds "For the sake of your family's health, and for thereduetioa of your living expenses, use more dairy products, and then some more." "The restricted use of milk would mean a serious loss of energy, and a serious menace to the winning of the war" says G, A. Morgan In Hoard's Dairyman, ess Shoes have gone up In price but we buy thsm. They are a necessity, Tet milk, the food that Is necessary to everyone, because It goes up, Is too often eut from the diet Isn't that a little Inconsistent T We must have pure fresh milk. Count It economy to see that each child la the family has at least a pint of milk a day. Get tbe milk habit Encourage the dairymen to keep up his dairy. He Is willing to do his share but he cant do everything without co operation. The self denial of the American home, added to the efforts of the American larmer, have removed fear from the minds of our Allies, for this year, at least Let's keep It up. BRIEF NEWS OF THE WAR On the battlefronts the Germans everywhere are being forced to give ground to the allied troops. In Bel glum the enemy Is gradually being pushed eastward, and 'In anticipation of a forced withdrawal continues prep arations for that eventuality by re moving his guns and otherwise lessen ing the value of bis defensive works In the territory upon sud adjacent to the North sea coast To the south from Arras to the Ver dun sector the Germans are being bard pressed by the British, American, Ital ian and French forces, although on numerous sectors they are still offer ing desperate resistance. With the Oermans being defeated over wide areas by the French and Americans from Rhelms to tbe Ar gonne forest the Italians south of Laon have begun aa offensive which seemingly has aa Its objective tbe fin ishing ot ths work previously begun by the French for tbe obliteration ot La Fere and Laon. Here they have captured Important Mid strongly held German positions. The latest operations of the French around Rbelms have materially press ed back the enemy. Likewise eastward w- IjBTANLCYj We carry I the most complete line of STANLEY TOOLS in the city. Every tool is guaranteed by the makers, who have been manufacturing Carpenters and Mechanics' tools for over half a century. "Where it Pays to Trade" through Champagne to the Argonne forest the French and Americans have advanced In tllanlo struggles, ceptur In I numerous villages, crossing the Alsns canal and pursuing ths enemy along tbe entire fronts ot the Bulppe sud Arnes rivers, both of which have been crossed at several points. In the Macedonian theater the allied, troops have compelled the Austrlsaa to withdraw from the Elbasau sudor and other positions, while near Vranje, central Serbia, the French and Berbiaa troops have captured Auatro-Oerniaa populous. 1,750,000 YANKEE SOLDIERS OVERSEAS General March Announces All News During Past Week Has Been Good. Washington. Embarkation of A met Iran soldiers for all fronts oversea now bas passed the 1,760.000 mark. General March announced. He salil military news during ths past week from all fronts has been continuously good. On ths Lorraine front where General Pnrshlug's first American army has completed Its operation to eliminate the 8t Mlhlel salient ths situation has become stabilised, with the enemy hurriedly perfecting a new Hue In front of the Americans. This line stretches for 10 miles from Matieray to the Moselle at Vandleres. The Americans are now 10 miles from. Mutt and an equal distance from Con flans. Already the American forces la France are more than half as strong as the whole German army, and tbe tide of American fighting men toward France Is continuing at an even pace. General March read a cablegram citing a general order Issued by Major General II. L. Reed, commanding the 16th Scottish division, British army, praising the First Artillery brigade of ths First American division (regular) for work in co-operation with the Scots. Ths order said the Fifteenth had never before received such perfect as sistance In "taking over" operations, although It was realised that the American division at that time must have been under great strain and had suffered severe casualties.