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OREGON CITY, OREGON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18, 191 8.
FIFTY-SECOND YEAR -No. 41.
ESTABLISHED 186
GERMANY'S
SURRENDER
IS NOT YET
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U)NIH)N, Oct. 1 Tho ofri:il
pre bureau la orrictutly Informed
that the report ubllhd thin after
noon to tha effort that Germany hu
capitulated hava no foundation In fact
AMSTERDAM. Oct. 16. Tha Nlou
wo Rottrdamho Couraiit hna with
drawn lu tatemnt reporting the cap.
Itulutlon of Germany and the abdica
tion f Emperor William.
Thla kU'P wua taken, the newspaper
anya. tmcuuae It wa unable to obtain
any confirmation of tha report.
(Sensational report that Germany
had aurrpndi'wd completely and that
a note to that effort was on it a way
to WaahlnKton, wer clrculuted In
Umdon yotnrduy and there given
inma credence In official circle an
well aa by the public.)
UWHON, Oct. 16,-Tha Urlt'nn
Foreign Office stated thla evening
thnt It had no official confirmation of
the rumora thnt the German Emperor
had abdicated, but that opinion In well
Informed circle wag not dlapoaud to
reject the rumor.
Leading Victorious Greeks
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0NltAl JOAHHlU
General Jonnno, commander of the
Greek army, la here shown for the
flrat time. It waa the work of thla
armv that made It noaatble for the
ante to compel Hulaarlu to aurrender.
. A ma"am. In olwervancf of Co-
luinbda day, waa jflvpn lit tha Labor
tmnpla Futurdny iiIkM, under the di
rection of n committee from the paper
mill union, T. J. McGrath, prealdont
of the Pulp und Sulphite WorKera'
union, prealded. Those taking part
were: Koaetta and l.cooa lee, ouch of
whom melted; Cora and I.orn Klnzy.
alnglng "Keep the Homo Fire Burn
Inst" and 'There' a I-oiir. I-ong
Trail;" Jroildle Harvey, violin nolo;
Lynn Hatch, recitation, "O.tr Hoy
()cr There," and Annie Hath recita
tion, 'The Hud Cro." follow lug the
program rofrcHhmetita were aervod
and a oclu! hour nJoynd. Another
social 1 bulrtg planned for November
23, and It I the Intention of the un
ion to hate a aerie of oclal for
member duilnt? the winter.
OCT- 25 LAST DAY
FOR MS PEELS
.' F(
)R BOYS IN SIBERIA
WASHINGTON, Oct. 1.6. Christ-
maa package for Amorlcan oldlora
In Siberia ahould be mailed before Oc
tober J5, the War Department today
announced.
Each package should bear, beside
he aoldlor'a name and regiment, the
word "American Expeditionary
Force In Siberia" and Bhoukl not
weigh more than seven pounds. More
than one package may be sent each
soldier If desired.
IIM
GUY ANDERSONIBQH
iNinuu
LIMITED SERE
Guy Anderson, who failed to report
with the limited service men sent to
Vancouver ISarracks last Tuesday has
been located.
Ills address wa Wheeler, Ore,, and
his notification waa sent there but
nothing was heard from him, but the
compuny he wa working for notified
the local board that he had returned
to hi home In Molalla.
Kev. P. W. Snyder, captain of the
Home Guard at that place, waa In
formed and he looked the young man
up and told him he waa wanted.
, Anderson reported to the local
board Wednesday and told them be
had received no notice of hi call.
He ha been working in the lumber
curnp at Wheeler and had asked for
deferred classification on these
ground. He had returned to Molalla
to he'p with the crop of potatoes and
Miild he had Intended to return to the
camp when the work wa done.
Anderson was sent to Vancouver
llarracks Wednesday night to be In.
ducted Into the service.
1100 LIVES LOST
WHEN U-BOAT
SINKS 3 SHIPS
RAINS OHM ONA
111 REVOLT
GERMANS
SURRENDER IS
REPLY TO TURKS
A report on the farm labor ltu
Hon In Oregon which baa Just been
received by the County Agent from
the Kami Help Specialist shows a ser
ious condition on the farm. Thla re
port I mado up from surveys made
by all the county agents In the state
and show an actual shortage of 1386
farm worker and nearly V'000 cre
Idle on account of tha lack of labor.
In Clackamaa county alone thera are
over 700 acre Idle on thla account
With a view of keoplng up the nec
essary production of food for the sup
port of our artnlea and our Allies, tho
War Labor Policies Boad at Waah-
nlgton, meeting with General Crow-
dor, the Secretary of War and tho
Secretary of Agriculture, recently de
cided to put all necoHsary farm work
ers Into deferred classification. In or
der to carry thl plan into effect, an
advltiory committee has been named to
confer with the district and local
boards aa to exemption claims. Mr.
William Schulmcrlch, a well known
farmer of Hlllsboro, has been ap
pointed to caro for tha farmers' In
terest He ha the right to examine
the queallonnairca in the local board
office and to make application for ex
emption for any whom he think are
of more value on the farm than they
would be In tho army. A good many
farm boy are not making claims for
exemptions, partly because they
want to got into the Big Fight and
partly because Uiey expect tho local
hoard to decide whether they ought
to be exemptod or not In thl con
nection tho county ageut has boon
advlsod by the Department of Agrt
culture at Washington Lhut aklllod
fnnn workora who are necessary to
maintain the Increased production
which tho nation noods are more valu
ablo on tha farms than they would bo
in the army. Men of this kind, that
it", those who are necessary for tho
production of crops are urged by tho
Department of Agriculture to make a
claim for deferred cluslficatlon as it
Is Impossible for the local board to ex
empt men who do not put In any claim.
It Is useless, however, to put in a claim
unions one is a skilled farmer and nec
osuary to keep up production.
Three ships have been listed within I
13 hours as sunk by U-boat with the )
loss of approximately 1100 live, a
liv-ge proportion of the victims being
women and children.
Scores of American soldiers are
among the dead. The ship destroyed!
were the American steamer Tlconder
OK& with more than 200 lives, the Brit
ish mall steamer Lelnster with prob
ably 600 lives and the Japanese liner
Hlrano Maru with an estimated loss
of 300 persons.
It Is feared that more than 200 lives,
Including scores of United States sol
diers, were lost when, the American
steamer Tlconderoga waa sunk by a
German submarine. Many of the per
sons on the vessel were killed or
wounded by shrapnel with which the
German swept the decks of their
victim after they had torpedoed It
There were 250 men aboard the
Tieonderoga and all but the 20 who
were rescued yesterday are believed
to have been lost.
JOIN REBELS
PARIS, Oct, 16. Meeting called by
the Czechoslovak council at Prague
to protest against the export of food
stuffs from Bohemia resulted In a gen
eral strike which is developing into
a revolt, according to dlKpatche from
Zurich to today Parts newspapers.
Martial law has been proclaimed
throuxhtout the country and German
and Hungarian troops are occupying
Praguo, PJIsen, ftlsek and Tabor.
The dispatches report that the move
ment has spread to Moravia and that
there has been flighting at Brunn, the
capital; Olutz and Skoda, the latter
the seat of the big Austrian gun plant
where work 1 said to have been sus
pended. STOCKHOLM. Oct. 16 Insurrec
tion Is spreading in the Ukraine and
recently extend edthrotighout the en
tire government of Podolla, accord
ing to dispatches to the Politiken. At
several places It Is reported the Ger-
'man , rrrzm n fa 1illnv n-lfh ttitt raKula
BORING MAN
MAKES BARRELS
FOR THE BRITISH
STATE CONFERENCE
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LONDON, Oct 16. Great Britain's
reply to Turkey, the Evening News
uiy it understands, will be a demand
for unconditional surrender.
The Turk will be required to nego
tiate an armistice with General Alien-
by, commander of the British force
In Palestine and Syria.
PARIS, Oct. 16. Tho political aitua-
t'on In Constantinople previous to the
retirement of Enver Paaha and Talaat
Pasha, as indicated In a dispatch from
the Turkith capital to the Figaro, waa
such that force wa threatened unles
the cabinet resigned and peace secur
ed on any terms.
FRAUD CHARGED
IN COMPLAINT OF
MRS. MARSHALL
Nurses Protected
Against New Influenza
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150 CLASS ONE
ARE TO REPORT
NEXT WEEK
One hundred and fifty Class 1 men
of the Soptomber registrants have
been called to report here for examin
ation next week,. 50 of them each on
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.
All of these registrants are In Class 1
as rolunteera, having waived exemp
tion. Tho local board announced y ester
day that the list of order number un
der the new draft would be completed
within a few days. '
WEEKLY LUNCH
OF LIVE WIRES
TO BE RESUMED
1o Llvo Wire of the Commercial
Clu will resume their noon-day week
ly luncheon noxt Tuesday, and notices
will be sent today to all members of
tha tlub, advising them of the re
sumption of the metings. Luncheons
har not been held during the suni'
mcr anonthal New offloora will be
elected at the Initial luncheon next
S. J. Garrison, prominent resident
of Boring, and for three year a dep
uty during the term of John Badley
as county assessor of Clackafas
county, was In Oregon City Tuesday
While here he visited among his many
old time friends, He is a staunch Re
publican. Mr. Garrison came here for
the purpose of securing wooden barrel
hoops for the manufacturing of bar
rels. He. has a contract from the Brit
ish government for the making of 60,
000 barrels, to be shipped to the
Sweeney Cooperage Company at Vic
toria, where snlt herring will be back
eu thoreln, and shipped to the British
soldiers In Prance and elsewhere. The
BritlHh are foeding their soldiers on
salted herring, while the Amerlian
army gets the bacon. Owing to theJ
scarcity of Iron hoops, Mr. Garrison
has to look for another style to be
used on the barrels. .
The combined drive for the united
war work fund of $170,500,000 to be
ralBeu in the United States during the
week of November 11 is assuming
organized proportions, and a delega
tion from OregoriCity went to Port
land Wednesday to attend a state con
ference at tho Multnomah hotel. The
conference was held primary to give
instruction to state speakers and
county chairmen, and was attended by
Rev. H. Q. Crocker. Rev. C. H. L.
Chandler, T. W. Sullivan, Rev. W. R.
Kraxberger, J. E. . Calavan, J. W.
Loder, William Hammond, Rev. W.
T. Milliken. C. H. Dye, Rev. S. W.
Seeman, J. Dean Butler, Gilbert L.
Hedges, Rev. E. E. Gilbert and A.
C. Howland, U10 latter being calr
man of the Clackamas organization.
The fund will bo apportioned among
seven war activities as' follows:
Young Men's Christian Association,
$f00,000,000; Young Women's Chris
tian Association, $15,000,000; Knights
of Columbus, $30,000,000; Jewish Wel
fare Board, $3,500,OOQ; American Lib
rary Association, $3,500,000; War
Community Service, $15,000,000; Sal
vation Army, $3,500,000.
Charging that B. F. Madison,
through fraud and false representa
tions, compelled her to pay $343.78,
M-s. J. M. Marguerite Marshall, of
Portland, today filed suit against Mad
ison to recover that amount She I Is
the owner of property in Clackamaa
and Multnomah counties, and alleges
in her complaint that Madison rep
resented that be would be able to find
a buyer for the property for $3000,
and that he had an Immediate pur
chaser for the Clackamas county
property for $1000. Pursuant to hi
agreement, she says she executed a
note for $300, or 10 per cent of the
sale price of her property, in favor of
Fred Clack, whose name Madison
used, with the understanding that th
was not to be payable unless the sal
was made, but that the note was sold
to P. C. Sooneslgn, an Innocent third
party, and on August 14, 1918, she was
compelled to pay it and did pay it
though she had to mortgage her prop
erty to raise the money. On top of the
face of the note she paid $36 interest
$6 brokerage and $1.78 fcr recording
the mortgage.
Nurses in Boston and other places
have been provided with this gauze
protection against the new influenza
In hospitals they are unable to
breathe in the germs through the
gauze.
GOVERNMENT TO
BUY FLOUR HERE
WIRES SENATOR
INCOME TAXES
IN CIVIL WAR
MET READILY
101 LIFE LOSS
OF OTRANTO IS 5?7
ISLAY, Scotland, Oct, 15 Accord
ing to figures complied here today and
carefully checked wltli army records.
the total loss of life as a result of the
disaster to the transport Otranto Is
527.
Theso figure represent one Ameri
can officer, 356 enlisted men, 164 of
tho Otranto's officers and crew, and
six members "of the crew of a French
flshtng boat.
Up to Monday 266 bodies had been
recovered,
The work of recovering the remain
ing bodies of victims of the disaster
is extremely difficult, owing to the
rugged coast and the tone of wreck
age which rills every crevice in the
rocks.
DIVORCES GRANTED
Decress of . divorce were handed
down in the following suit: Helen Q.
Henkel vs. Theodore Henkel: Tllllo
Phillips vs. Frank Phillips. In the
former case $75 a month alimony was
ordered.
WASHINGTON. The income tax as
a means of raising war revenue really
Is nothing new to the American people.
It was inaugurated in 1861, at a time
when money was needed to finance
the Civil War, and it continued In oper
ation until 1872. The first tax on in
comes was authorized at a rate of 3
per cent on all incomes above $800 per
annum. This was increased in 1862
and again in 1865, tintll incomes 'be
tween $600 and $5000 were taxed at 5
per cent and those above $5000 at 10
per cent.
There were few, if any, evasions of
the tax, according to financial histo
rians, and in 1865, despite the fact that
the entire country was in an abnor
mal condition because of the war, $32,-
050,000 was realizel by that means.
But the spirit aisptayod by the pa
trlots of that day in meeting the ob
ligations of the income tax is but typ
ical of the willingness which all of
the people of the country showed dur
ing that sad period, to raise to the
emergency in the matter of Bhoulder
lng the burden of extra taxation.
OTHERS TO BE SENT
Millard Gambell, George ToedeBte
meler and Royal Walter Zinser, who
were sent to Fort. McDowell, Cal., as
limited services selective, have boen
rejected and ordered hofe. Three other
limited service men will be sent in
their places by the local board.
DRAFTED MEN
ARE TO LEAVE
OCTOBER 25TH
Senator Charles L. McNary is con
tinuing his efforts in. behalf of the
best interests of the millmen, farmer
and dairymen of Oregon. In a letter
received this morning by the Oregon
dairy council. Senator McNary says:
'The government has promised me
to take from the Pacific coast 40 per
cent of all flour purchased for allied
purposes. I am endeavoring to per
suade the government to increase this
order so that we may add to the stock
of mlllfeed for dairy purposes.
'he price established for wheat at
Pacific ports prevents the millers of
the Northwest entering the flour mills
in California, which formerly con
sumed about 1,000,000 barrels of flour
annually."
Senator McNary has been active in
helping the condensed milk interests
and otherwise has shown his sincere
co-operation, the dairy council reports.
Another Clackamaa county boy has
been sacrificed in upholding hie coun
try's flag on the Western front in
France .
George Snldow, son of G. G. Snidow.
well known resident of Willamette,
was killed In action September 15.
His parents received the sad news
by telegraph from the war depart
ment Thursday night, advising them
that their son had been killed in ac
tion. :
Soon after war was declared George
Snldow enlisted. He was one ef the
first of the Willamette boys to hear
the call to the colors, and he acted
promptly, choosing the Marine Corps
as the branch of the service as most
likely to afford quick action. He was
assigned to the 78th company of the
6th regiment of Marines, and when
the United States troops in France
were called upon to push back the
Invading Hun, the Marines bore the
brunt of the fight and young Snidow
was 'gassed and was in the hospital
for a time, hut recovered and resum
ed active service. '
fenidow was 23 years of age. He was
the yonngest of three sons, and was
a grandson of J. A. Roman, of
Mount Pleasant, a veteran of the Civ
il war.
ALLIES IE
Mill
BIG DRIVE
ON HUMS
PARIS, Oct 16. The Gernftns have
started a retreat on a, tremendous
scale from Northern Belgian.
French cavairy Is approaching
Thielt seven miles from the banks
of the Ghent-Bruges canal- The canal
Itself Is only 10 miles from the border
of Holland. So fast is the enemy re.
treating that the French, British and
Belgium Infantry, at least in the cen
ter of the battle front have lost
touch entirely with the enemy.
LONDON, Oct. 16 Throughout last
night In the moonlight the allies con
tinued tirelessly to follow up their
splendid successes In Belgium.
The allies were said to be more
than half way through the Wynen
dael wood and the infantry to have
reached 'a point near Llchtervelde.
where they were said to be advanc
ing all along the- northern outskirts
of Courtral and through the center to
Iseghem.
This morning the capture of Bosc
heeweter and Edenwalle seemed to
have been confirmed, and French
troops were reported to be along the
railway west of Llchtervelde. Ingel
munster apparently has been occupied
and the Courtral railway reached east
of Chappelle St. Catherine.
PARIS, Oct16 The Germans to
day continued their resistance against
the advance of the American forces
the st.-cegth of the opposltxu fu'ly
equalling that of yeti)ib,y. r "
With machine guns, some artillery
fire and minor counter attacks the Ger
mans this morning interposed desper
ate resistance to Pershing's men all
along the line. ,
The principal American activity
this morning was on the left of the
battle sector. There was some activity
east of the river Meuse.
DELAYS ARE TO BE
ELIMINATED 111 PAY
SPRUCE LUMBER
BEING FLOATED
TO THE MILL
The local draft board announces
that the drafted men selected for ser
vice at Benson Polytechnic school
in Portland for entrainment on Octo
ber 15, will not leave Oregon City
until October 25. The date has been
changed "because of the prevalence of
Spanish influenza at tne school.
BOOTLEGGER IS CAUGHT
HERE WITH '48 PINTS.
WOMEN CONDUCTORS
Women may soon be employed as
conductors on Portland street-cars.
Essential war work is steadily de
pleting manpower. 1
Caught with two suit cases filled
with 48 pints of whlBkey, Andrew
Hendricksen, native of Finland, aged
38, and having a registration card dat
ed at Oakland, Cal., was arrested here
by Sheriff Wilson yesterday afternoon
whtlo on his way from the train. He
had Just arrived from San Francisco
with his precious freght. Hendricksen
pleaded guilty to boot-legging, and
was fined $200 by Justice of tho Peace
SleverB, in default of the payment he
was r jmanded to Jail. :
ABERDEEN, Wash., Oct... 15.
Eight million feet of spruce and fir
logs belonging to the Airplane Spruce
& Lumber and other logging compan
ies were floated down the Hump
tulips river by the high water result
ing from the rain of Friday and Satuiv
day. Much of this timber, especially
3,000,000 feet belonging to the Air
plane Spruce & Lumber company,
was high-grade airplane spruce, which
will furnish a large percentage of air
plane stock.
The big lot of imber had been
waiting on the banks of the river for
some time and it had been planned to
bring it down with the first splash of
the East Branch Logging company's
new dam, which, when completed, will
be the largest in the river. The rapid
rise of fresh water made the splash
unnecessary.
- ITALIANS APPROVE NOTE
$ ROME, Oct. 11. President Wll-
$ son's answer to the German $
$peae note Is hailed with entire $
$ approved by the Italian press
and by political circles. .
BANK FILES SUITS
The First National Bank of Canby
has tiled two suits for $1000 each, one
against J. E. Sutherland, C. A. Schie
del and C, J. Bradtl, and the other
against the first two defendants on
two promissory notes for $1000, dated
July 29, 1915 In these cases judgment
Is asked for Interest and $100 attor
ney's fee in adltion to the face of the
notes.
WASHINGTON, October 16.
Emergency pay check books would be
given every soldier of the American
expeditionary force for use when army
pay fails to make connections
schedule time, under a plan proposed
to war department officials today by
Representative Sherley of Kentucky,
chairman of the house appropriations
committee,
Representative Sherley has just re
turned from France, where Ije invest
igated many complaints of failure to
make prompt payment to the troops
Many of the delays of the past will be
eliminated by the new accounting
system adopted by Chief of Staff
March, Sherley said, but In cases
where troops are shifted there seems
no way of absolutely insuring prompt
pay. ' '
Under Shirley's plan the govern
ment will furnish to eacu soldier a
check "book containing checks totaling
$10 or $15. Each check would be le
gal tender for use at Y. M. C. A. huts,
quartermaster depots, Salvation Army
stations nnd all other than civilian
shops, where cigarettes, chocolate and
the like are sold
The money for the books would be
taken from the pay of the men in
small installments. The issuance of
such check books, Sherley believed,
would guard against a repetition of
such scenes as that witnessed by Rep
resentative Rcavls of Nebraska in a
Paris hotel, when a beautiful French
woman "passed the hat" among the
guests for the' benefit of a group of
American soldiers outside, who were
without money.
DECREE 8IGNED
T0UC1GLIVE1E
John H. Currln, well known ranch
er of Prosser, Wash., and brother of
James Currin and Ms. Mary Shelly, of
this city, met his death Tuesday, Oct
8, when a hay derrick he was moving
came in contact with a 660-volt wire.
In moving the derrick from one field
to another it was necessary to cross
the road, and while doing so it caught
on the power line. Mr. Currin thought
lessly caught hold of the cable to
awing it out of the way, and as the
ground was wet at the time he re
ceived the full voltage through his
body. The shock knocked him loose
from the cable, and although his death
was not instantaneous he never re
gained consciousness. Mr. Currin was
58 years of age, and leaves a wife and
eleven children, the youngest being a
little more than a year old.
Besides the brother and sister of
this city, Mr. Currin also leaves a
brother in Genesee, Idaho. The de
ceased was a former resident of Ida
ho, residing at Greer until a year ago.
The funeral services were held last
Friday at Prosser.
OLD LANDMARKIS
DESTROYED BY LIRE
72
On all transports carrying Ameri
can soidiera the American Library As
sociatlon provides magazines and
books for the use of the soldiers.
Judge Campbell has signed a decree
for a divorce in the suit ot Sina A.
Larsen vs. Martin C. Larson, and or
ders of default in the suits of the Bank
of Gresham vs. Christina L. Newman,
and Fanne Neldon vs. Frank Neldon.
The recent destruction by fire ot
Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Allen's house at
Logan removed one of the oldest land
marks ot this part of Clackamas coun
ty. Way back in the '50s Captain Z.
C. Norton, a retired sea captain from
Maine, who crossed the continent to
Oregon, settled In this country and
took up the land on which he late
built the house In 1872, a donation
claim.
Here he resided until his death ami
on this farm the Nortons ran a store
tor a good many years, ths proprety
being bought by Mr. Shumway, father
of Mrs. Allen, in 1895. .
The 5oss of houn ana furniture is
estimated at $4000, which was a total
one, as no insurance was carried.