OLD AUDiTORiUM AT CHAUTAUQUA TOBEDESTROYED Extensive ground Improvements for the Gladstone Chautauqua park were planned at a session of the ex ecutive committee of thj assembly Friday afternoon. The old auditorium, which has seen 24 yew's service. Is to be torn down at once. It was at first thought that with the completion of the fine new audiorium last year, that the old structure could be used as a play shed but the storms of the past winter have rendered the old building on safe. A system of ground walks from the main gate to the new auditorium will be planned and laid out, either of crushed rock of gravel, ths upper auto gate Is to be moved northerly about 60 yards, and a new entrance to the grounds will be constructed for Ihe convenience of autos, ths fence will be moved out along the road line providing an excellent parking site for machines. It la also planned to run aditional water mains Into the grounds. Ths keynote of the coming assemb ly will be Americanism, according to Secretary Tom A. Burke who stated Friday afternoon that a fitting pro grant will mark the 25th anniversary of the founding of the Gladstone as sembly. The session will be held for 13 days beginning July ninth. Stock subscriptions made last year are com Ing in splendidly, acocrding to the secretary, and with these funds on hand the work planned will be prose cuted rapidly. President Wilson, In a letter, dated December 17. 1917. asked aU Chau tauqua In the country to continue their work this year, aa never before, on the grounds that the assembly is one of the great morale-building in stitutions of the country. Ontario lets part of contract new 1100,000 water system. for F IF SHIPS ARE READY WASHINGTON. April 24. Amer ica can put 3,000,000 men on the fight ing front in France within a year if ships are ready, according to Adju tant General McCain before the house military affairs committee. "I do not see any reason. If we could get the ships, why w could not send over 3.000,000 men after giving them sufficient training in this coun try," he said. "If we have to have 5,000,000 men and get sufficient ships, could we have 5,000,000 men over there In two and one half years?" asked Repre sentative Morin. "I think we could do It before that, if we are willing to take a chance here and there willing to go in with out fear of making a mistake," re plied General McCain. He said his estimates were based on giving the men three months' train ing In this country and about the same In the "war atmosphere over there," as he called It. Questioned as to his opinion of In creasing the draft age to 40, the adju tant general said he saw "no objection to it." Other testimony before the military committee revealed that America is to build 375 hospitals of 1000 beds each In France and the United States. The cost of each, according to General Black, chief of the englnjerg, will be about $350,000. Based on Franch and British experience, this number will suffice for an army of 1,500,000 men. El E ALBANY, Or., April 24. Albany Commercial club at its niBeting Mon day night decided that every able- bodied man in the city should work and the matter will be taken up by the city council at the next mesting. Members of the club believe that all should work at this time regardless of the amount of money they possass. The Commercial club also decided on a cleanup day for the city and resid ents will be asked to assist the street cleaning department of the city in putting Albany in a clean condition. BIG GERMAN WAR LOAN AMSTERDAM, April 22. Subscrip tions to the eighth German war loan, says a message irom Herun, nave reached a total of more than 14,550,- 000,000 marks, Including amounts from former loans offered for conversion. Further small subscriptions remain to bo reported. Oceans of W h i s k e yj Booze worth $6000 Owners Not Located TACOMA, April 24. County dry squad officers Monday seized 79 cases of whiskey In an abandoned barn near Ardena on the Indian reserva tion. The booze is estimated to be worth more than $6000 at present prices. The seizure followed investi gation of a wagon seen coming from the vacant barn. The owners have not been found. W. II TATT WOULD RAISE ARMY TO FIGHT 3 YEARS BOSTON, Mass., April 21. "I am in favor of amending the draft law so that we can raise an army of fire or alx million men in two years," said ex-President William H. Taft in ad dresses at two liberty loan rallies bore Saturday. This is to be a three year war. two in which to send our boys across and year to win the war. "I cant fight in the trenches be cause they say I couldnt get in them. But I can do my share and will do it, too, ever here. We can't make ome lettes without eggs; neither can we fight a battle without men. We wont win until the nation is a house of mourning. Well hare to go into the Valley of the. Shadow of Death, but the result will be worth the cost" AMSTERDAM, April 24. The Het volk announces that the German min ister to The Netherlands has left The Hague for Berlin, and that the Dutch minister to Germany Is on his way from Berlin to The Hague. WASHINGTON. April 24. General Pershing has cabled the war depart ment protesting against the nomina tion of a number of brigadier geuer als whose names were sent to the senate last week. Pershing declares his recommenda tions wera disregarded in the war de partment and that some of the briga dier generals nominated against his wishes were not as capable men as could have besn selected. OSWALD WEST SAYS AI COTTAGE GROVE, Or., April 24. Oswald West is the third to answer negatively the question of Editor El bert Bede as to whether or not he was flirting with the Non-Partisan league. Mr. West Is dreadfully surprised to learn that his name has ever been as-, sociated with that of the league, says he has no idea what the league stands for, has never been Invited to join It and has never solicited its support or had its support offered him. He says he will endeavor to l?arn more of its activities that he may judge whether or not they are in the public Inter est. Candidate West expresses the hope that the interest in the question of the Non-Partisan league will not overshadow the Interest in his can didacy. E AGITATORS OF L W.. W. WALLA WALLA, Wash., April 24. Hundreds of members of the Paf riotic league from all parts of this county mat last night and denounced the Non-Partisan league as disloyal, appointed a committee of 50 to ''drive all organizers away forthwith, in cluding Russellites and Industrial Workers of the World, particularly those now in Jail, if they should by .any misfortune be set frse by the courts." Delegates from farming sections re ported that many farmers had joined the Non-Partisan league under a mis apprehension and were wondering how they could get back their $16 initiation fee. FIGHTS HAND TO HAND ACCOUNTS FOR SEVEN HUNS WASHINGTON. Anril 24. Fiehtlne nan(j t0 nand wlln a horde of Hun8 on the Picardy battlefield, Lieutenant John David accounted for seven of them with his pistol and then fought over their bodies with his empty rifle until finally he was struck down by a boche from behind. The account of David's heroic death as contai: ; Lieutenant Daniel C. Roper, Jr., to his father, commissioner of Internal revenue. FIRE IN KLAMATH FALL8. KLAMATH FALLS, Or., April 22. Shock resulting from a fire which at noon today practically destroyed the Mongold frame building on Fifth street, just above Main, caused the sudden death of Miss Lillian Stilts, senior member of Stilts Sisters, a dry goods firm in this city. Heart trouble is given as the can's of her death. J" MM Bill IS ON HIS WAY Fii'iTim NEW FINANCIAL PLAN WITH BRITAIN WASHINGTON, April S3. A rear rangement of allied credits by which the United States will lend large amounts more directly to France, Italy and the other allies instead or through Great Britain, Is under con sideration by the treasury. This would tend to lessen Great Brttaln'a obliga tions to the United States and de crease ths demands of other allies on her. The United States has now extended credits to the allies of $5.3S5.000,000, ncludtng ltSS.000.000 still to the cvdlt of Russia and naa paid out $4,900,000,000. Great Britain has re calved $3,720,000,000, France has re ceived $1,565.00,000 and Italy $55, 000.000. The priuclpal difficulty of arrang ing the loans direct to other govern ments than Great Britain lies In the accounting and In determining what share of purchases are ultimately In tended for the various nations. The allied purchasing commission Is mak ing an analysts of allied purchases to assist the treasury in rearranging Its credits. The practice of landing to allies through Great Britain was a re sult of Great Britain's world wide purchasing system built up before the United States entered the war. J L Fl SAN FRANCISCO, April 23. "The ress of this country Is rendering the test service to the nation that any government ever enjoyed," said Q. H. Powell, chief of the division of perish ables of the food administration, at a conference Monday with Commission er Merritt and members of hla staff. He said in part: "One oi ma great problems of ths food administration In Its infancy was to make 100,000.000 persons under stand ths reasons behind the rules and regulations, the whys and wherefores and the economic and military nec essities of food conservation, and the changes in policies regarding the re stricted foods and days. 'The newspapers and wire services jumped in and carried to the four cor ners of the country tha gospel of food conservation. lending freely their co operation, without which the food ad ministration's efforts would have been, insofar as conservation is concerned, a failure." E PENDLETON. Or., April 20. Dell Blancett, famous all around cowboy and one of the best known frontier show performers of the West, was killed in action on the western front on March 30, according to a telegram rsceived here this morning by the Am erican National bank, from the di rector of records at Ottawa, Canada. Blancett was with the Canldlan mounted service and had been in France only a few weeks. Blancett, who since the earliest days of the Pendleton Round-Up has made this city his headquarters, was one of the organizers of tha Pendleton company of cowboy calvary, and was first to enlist. However, he was later reject ed for physical disability and left ira mediately for Canada where he was accepted in tne mounted ser e. iCE SECRECY OF BALLOT AMSTERDAM, April 22. According to a telegram from Budapest, a half- hour demonstrated strike took place there yesterday. All the factories stopped, tramways ceased service and workmen signed pe titions demanding the appointment of a cabinet which would carry out the demand of secret suffrage. LATE TELEGRAPHIC GENEVA, April 19. When Edith Cavell was executed in Belgium by the Germans, a girl friend, Miss Julia Wyss, aged 20, of Geneva, was sen tenced to 25 years penal servitude for the same ofense. She is now in a Prussian prison. A petition for a pardon, signed by 3000 women of Geneva, was sent to the crown princess of GFermany near ly a year ago. A cold, almost brutal, reply, signed by Baron Von Stulpen- zei, secretary to the crown princess, nas just been received. It states briefly that the petition cannot be taken Into consideration by the crown princess. NEW YORK, April 19. No essen tial relief for food conditions In Oer many may be expected from Ukraine aunng the present economic veur said Privy Councillor Von Eynern, of the state food commission, In discus sing the food supply situation at a meeting In Berlin, according to the Cologne Gazette, of March 21, a copy of which has bean received here Germany, he added, must continue to ave and husband food as heretofore I ployed in the Portland ship yaras. MEN Or MONTANA WILL II COMPELLED TO WORK S OAY$ A WEEK HELENA, Mont, April It The State Council of Defense of Montana today mads a rule re- quiring all men, mentally and physically able to labor, to do five days' work a week upon pain of prosecution under the broad powers given the council to pro- tect the people of the state dur- Ing th war and do everything necessary In lu view to bring about the victory of the United States. ) ) 4 CHARLES REYNOLDS IS J GRESHAM, Or.. April 80. Funeral services were held this afternoon at Greshaiu M. E. church for Charles Reynolds, whose death occurred on Columbia slough last Wednesday. Rev. D. M. Cathey officiated, inter ment being made In Douglas cemetery. Mr. Reynolds was born in Ackworth, Iowa. September S. 1850, and came to Oregon with hla parents In 1S63. His family located on 160 acrea of land, where the deceased had lived ever since, one mtl east of Gresham on the Powell Valley road. CHINESE PARADE FOR LOAN RALLY THRU NEW YORK NEW YORK. April 22.-Memben of Chinese clubs and organisations In this city, headed by Chinese boy scouts, a Chinese fife and drum corps and a company of Chinese women carrying American and Chinese flags, paraded through Chinatown Saturday night and held a loan rally, at which many sub scriptions were recorded. American boy and girl scout acted as an escort E LOS ANGELES. April 22. All Southern California and part of of Western Arliona were shaken Sunday t 3:33 p. m.. by an earthquake which wrecked practically all buildings and residences In Hemet and San Jacinto, two inland towns 45 miles southeast of Riverside, and caused minor prop erty damage in practically every town and city. August Carlson, who lived on San Julian, street In this city, was found In hla room at a late hour dead, with tut any external marks of Injury. Another man was killed In a panic at Santa Monica, when he fell off a pier. A woman waa injured by falling from a second-story window at San Jacinto and a number of persons were Injured there and elsewhere, none seriously. Three men entombed In a magne tite mine tunnel near Hemet prob ably were saved by fellow workers, who drove an air shaft to them. The severity of the shock seemed greatest Inland, but it was distinctly apparent at almost every point over California south from a line from Barstow to the coast and In some parts of Arizona, although no dam age was reported there. In Los Angeles and vicinity the lamage was apparent mainly In broken windows. Hundreds of large plate-glass windows here were shat- ered. Several large buildings showed cracks or bulges, but' the extent of uch damage to buildings could Aot e definitely ascertained. Homes all over Southern California were shaken, dishes rattled, furni ture moved and in many places the shock was such as to cause the occu pants to tumble out hastily. In Ari zona the shock was reported to have extended as far east as Sellgman in Arizona and Mllford in Utah. Two small buildings collapsed at Whitewater, west of Indlo, on the Southern Pacific. Hemet, about 25 miles east and south of Riverside, and San Jacinto, the next town north of Hemet on a branch line of the Atchison, Topeka ti Santa Fe railroad, were reported to oe practically destroyed. At San Bernardino the shock was said by old residents to be the most severe In many years. Scores of plate glass windows were broken, a hun ired feet of brick wall from one low bulldlne fell into the street and Riverside suffered a shock of slmi ar Intensity. jracks developed In several other walls. SALEM GRANGE DEAD AGAINST NONPARTISANS SALEM, Or., April 22. Because of reports circulated to the effect that the Grange has taken a favorable at titude toward ths Non-Partisan league, he Salem Grange, at a meeting Sat urday, passed a resolution disapprov ing combination with any league or political party. The resolution fol io wg: "Resolved, That this Grange go on record as not favoring any combina tion with any political party or league whatsoever, and that we Instruct our representatives to bring the resolu tion to the attention of the state Grange at Its next meeting." LENROOT TAKES OFFICE WASHINGTON, April 22. Ir- vine L. Lenroot, of Wisconsin, Republican, today was sworn in t as 'a member of the senate as successor of the late Senator 4 Hustlng, Democrat. ) jcoimcnimuu uu hard An COMPELLED 10 KISS FLAG THREE TIMES ALBUQUERQUE. N. M., April 83. "I havent bought any Liberty bomls and havent any intention of buying ny. aa the war Is nothing to m," W. Faust, a Santa F freight conductor, I alleged to have aald today when asked to buy a bond. Faust was seised by a committee of railway men who were at first de termined to tar and feather him, but arter giving htm one swipe with the tar brush, It waa decided not to hu mllate htm further Tn this way If he would proclaim hla loyalty. The crowd first compelled Faust to kiss every atar in the flag at the round houss. Ha was then brought to the depot, where he was compelled to mount a baggage truck and address the passengers on Santa F train No. 1. He waa also required to kiss ths flag again. After this he was marched through the main street of the city with a large American flag wrapped around htm. Arriving at the. Cham ber of Commerce building, Faust was made to kiss the flag a third time and Ign up for a $50 Liberty bond. He then was marched back through town followed by a howllnf and Jeering mob and was released without receiv ing bodily Injury. ARE TAKEN OVER BY I LONDON, April It All of the prin cipal railways in Ireland have been taken over by the British military authorities, said a Cork dispatch printed la the Chronicle tooday. The dispatch added that the post office and telephone lines also have been taken over and that all the guns and ammunition have been removed from Dublin gun shops. It Is supposed that similar action will be taken In other Irish cities. The action of the British military authorities in Ireland la evidently a precautionary measure before the en forcement of conscription. Strong hostile feeling against the Irish draft has developed in numerous localities. AMSTERDAM, April II. Stream of wounded Germans from France and Flanders, says the frontier correspond ent of the Telegraaf. continue so great that all the hospitals, monasteries, convents and schools, not only In Brus sels, but In many towns, are filled to overflowing. The Germans have even requisitioned private houses for hospi tals. Forty ambulance trains entered Brussels daily last week. Many of them were made up of cattle cars, In which were litters of straw for the wounded men. SEAMEN FROM DUTCH T DEPORTATION AT SAN FRANCISCO SAN FRANCISCO, April 22. Immi gration officials today quartered at Angel Island station 160 Chinese and Japanese seamen, taken from Dutch ships seized in New York by the gov ernment. The men are waiting deportation to the Orient at government expense, and while held are being paid their regular wages as seamen by the government. PLOT IS HATCHED TO LONDON, April 22. According to he Dally Telegraph' Rotterdam cor respondent, a plot is being batched In Berlin deliberately designed to compel Holland to participate In the war. The writer intimates that the Ger man's first move has been made in the attempt to find a pretext for complaint that Holland departed from neutrality by acquiescing to the entene's de mand for her mercantile fleet. CALLED KAISER GREAT MAN NOW FACES DIVORCE BAKERSFIELD, Cat., April 22. Robert H. Hilscher, a Civil War vet eran, 71, has applied to the superior court for a divorce. He charges that his wife made unpatriotic remarks about the government and called the kaiser "the greatest man In the world." The Hllachers have three sons In the American army and a daughter Is In France as a Red Cross nurse. Hilscher alleged hi wife la of German birth and came here when she waa 17. LONDON, April 24. Fifty thousand persons at Strabana, North Tyrone and East Donegal and 12,000 at Water ford have signed the antl-conscrlP' tlon pledge, It waa stated in dispatch' es here Tuesday. mriAiiT a IRELAND'S RAILWAYS WEAR UNIFORM OR STAY IN BED TOLD ROOKIES CAMP LEWIS, American Lake, Wash., April 30. "Wear a uniform or stay In bod," Is ths ultimatum bauded the CO conscientious objectors attach ed to the base hospital of the Wild West division yesterday. And all of the CO nou-reslster chose to clothe themselves In the ollv drab gar menu. . Orders were Issued to the objectors yesterday requiring that everyon ap pear In full uniform before ooio In the afternoon, and the few who thus far had objected to donning the regulation clothing hurried to obtain the necessary garment and make the transfer from their civilian clothing to which they clung since coming to camp, None of the men refused to exchange their clothing wbon the or dor was taken to them officially. ES WASHINGTON, April 20. Undr the classification tt men tor selective draft service Provost Marshal Gen eral Crowder haa advised the senate military committee approximately 3.000,000 will be placed in Class 1 from which It Is expected alt future calls will be taken. These t.000.000 according to General Crowder, are ex clusive of between 500,000 and 1,000, 000 more annualy, who, it la esti mated, will be made subjuct to mili tary duty under the bill now In con gress subjecting to registration youths reaching their majority. From the 2,000,000 men In Claaa 1 nearly 30 per rent of the total regis tration of tho country and the addi tional number secured by new legis lation. General Crowder has advised senator that tt will ha Improbable that calls will go outside of the high est class. Of youths reaching 31 years of age under the new Initiation It Is believed that at least 90 per emit will be placed In Cins 1. HUNS WAGERED WOULD END WAR IN FORTNIGHT LONDON, April 20.-llefore the present German offensive began, Ger man officers lu ne.itral countries were prepared to wager that the Ger mans would succeed In dividing the forces of the allies within a fortnight, Lord Robert Cecil, minister of block ade, declared In a speech Inst night at Hltrhln. "A month has passed and the Ger mans have not succeeded," Lord Rob ert continued, "but we would be wick edly foolish If we believed the battle had ended. We have an Indefinite poriod of terrible and strenuous struggles before us. We must not un derrate our enemy, who has had the great advantages of 50 years of prep aration) for war, favorable geograph ical position and unlteM command." Yakima to have storage and 1c plant. LITTLE DAMAGE IS DONE BY LONG RANGE GUN NOW PARIS, April 20. Yesterday' long range bombardment, which consisted of three shots at wide Intervals, re sulted In no casualties and did little damage. One shell went through the roof of a house, penetrated a work shop on the sixth floor and passed through the back wall, crossed the courtyard and into a building In the rear, finally bursting on the staircase. A number of people were employed there, but all Imd loft the building a few minutes before the shell fell. Marshflold Small amountB of riv ed spruce are now being shipped from Coos county. Yc. U UnJ s hnntk of tktm r(fAffkrArt dnrpti mi Crmfe" NO MEN TO BE TAKEN IS EXPECTATIONS He Needs Somebody to Send Hint another pouch of Real GRAVELY Chewing Plug Uncle Sam' Boys don't ask for much in the way of comfort but good tobacco they must have. A few cent spent for Real Gravely will buy more tobacco satisfaction than many times the money in ordinary plug. Cive any man a chew of Real Gravely Plug, and he will tell you ihat'i the kind to send. Send the bait I Ordinary plug is false economy. It costs less per week to chew Real Gravely, because a small chew of It lasts a long while. If you smoke a pipe, slice Gravely with your knife and add a little to your smoking tobacco. It will give flavor improve your amok. SEND YOUR FRIEND IN THE U. S. SERVICE A POUCH OF GRAVELY Dealers all around here carry it in 10c pouches. A 3c. stamp will put it into his hands in any Training Camp or Sea port of the U. S. A. Even "over there" a 3c stamp will take it to him. Your dealer will supply envelop ana give you official directions how to address it. P. B. GRAVELY TOBACCO CO, Danville, Va. Th Pattnt Poach kpt it Frank and Cfeafl and Good it It not Rtal Crawly without tkit Protection Stat Established 1S31 LABOR CHIEF SAYS RADICAL PARTY BRANCH OF CLEVELAND, 0 April 83 Social ism tn America wat branded a pois onous German propaganda by Samuel Gompnrs, president of the American Federation of tabor, In a speech In behalf of the Liberty loan at the City Club this afternoon. While the tabor chief wa excoriat ing socialism and calling on labor and capital In Cleveland to Join hand In speeding up the city' subscription race, Douglas Fairbanks, moving pic ture actor, was making a loan appeal before a crowd that Jammed the larg est theatre In town. "There Is no such thing as an Am; ertran Socialist party," Mr. Oompers said. 'The American Socialist organi sation I merely branch of the one In Germany It Is a part of German propaganda." Mr. Oompers declared he had been changed from "the most active pa cifist In Amnrlca to a good fighter," and he said that labor will not meet In a peace movement until the war Is over and labor parties of all coun tries can be represented. SAYS TREASURER KAY HALKM. Or, April 2J.-The Oregon rural credits law Is virtually a dad letter, according to Slat Treasurer T. B. McKay, because of the more po pular national rural credits act. Fur? (her, the drop tn the bond market d to to the war has put a complete damp er on any operation of the state taw for the present Another niin-i easily available source of money for the farmer, al though the interest charge of per cent Is 1 per cent higher than called for In ths rural credits law, la the MtntA school fund In which there I plenty of money to meet the demand for farm loans. The reason given for the greater popularity of the federal rural credit enactment la that the government' appraisal of land I Invariably higher than that of the state. Of the ap proximately 3450,000 that ha been raised by the state through bond Is sues under the state law, the greater part of the bonds were taken over by the stste treasury to avoid a sale be low par. GOVERNOR CALLS ON TO ASSIST COUNTRY SALEM, Or., April 22. Governor Wlthycombe yesterday Issued another call upon all able-bodied men In tha state to engugo In some occupation tli tit will be of benefit to the country In carrying out the war program. The repeated call is mado because of the shortage of lubor In. numerous pur suits and the pressing need of maxi mum production. "This Is no tlmo for idlers," said the governor, ' and no man, who la able physically to employ his particu lar talents, has a good excuse to offer If ho Is now found Idle. Certainly every mun In tho state can find some thing to do that will add to pro ductivity or help In some Incidental helation to win the war." Brownsville Seven sawmills oper ating near bora. HU ORDER