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THE MORXINtt OREGO NT AN, FRIDAY, MARCH 2i, 1916. FRENCH POSITION HELD PREGARIOUS Germans Near Verdun Said to Be n Position to Cut Off y " Enemy on Heights. GRANDDAUGHTER OF ALEXANDER HAMILTON TO BE BRIDE OF PRISONERS NOW 30,150 Success Kcgarded as More Important Than" Indicated In Official JXe- ports ATOconrt Forest in Hands of Teutons. ON THE WESTERN FROST, Ger many. March 23. (By the Correspond ent of the Cologne Gazette. By Spe cial Cable.) As previously reported from army headquarters, the attack on the strong: French positions in the for est northwest of Avocourt was besun from the German positions in Malan court forest, to the east of the road loading- to Avocourt. After a heavy preparatory artillery fire lasting from S o'clock in the morning: to 5 o'clock in the afternoon. Bavarian and Wurt trmburgr troops begran to attack. By 10 o'clock in the evening: they suc ceeded in capturing: without incurring; heavy loss the three French positions to the southeast of the forest. On the following- day it became evi dent that the German success was far more important than was indicated in the German official reports. In all. 58 officers and 2914 men were taken pris oners, among- the officers being- two Colonels, one of them the commander of the brigade. This brings the total number of unwounded prisoners taken in the battle of Verdun up to 30,150. According to reports issued yesterday the French were still in possession of the southwestern corner of Avocourt forest. It was learned tonight that the entire forest was in German hands. The German advance to the south of Malan court makes the" position of the French in Malancourt and Bethincourt ex tremely precarious, as they are liable to be cut off from the adjacent height. GAIXS DIH TO LIQUID FIRK 1'icncli Vised to Repay Germans in Tlieir Own Coin. PARIS, March 23. Liquid fire has been the means by which the Ger mans gained the portions of trenches mentioned in recent official communi cations, says the Journal des Debate, and the military committee of the Chamber of Deputies Is inquiring into methods for the protection of the French troops against such fire at tacks ami the use of a. similar weapon in reprisal. "One can easily understand," says the newspaper, "the superiority of this ter rible arm over the bayonet. Even though it may expose the man who car ries it to the danger of tfeath. in case a fragment of shell should strike It. on the other hand it gives to the attack the power and cruelty to which our communications are bearing witness." The newspaper adds that France haa every means at her disposal for paying the Germans in their own coin, and should employ them. The battle of Verdun has furnished the occasion - for the first encounters resembling the air battles popularly pictured in the imagination before the war. when German aircraft were sent up in considerable groups to take note of the effect produced on French field works . by heavy guns. , The Germans sent their best avia tors to the scene. At their head was the famous Lieutenant Boelke. They found adversaries worthy of them in Lieutenant Guyenemer, Adjutant Na varre and such emulators of their ex ploits as the etill anonymous recruit of the 1916 contingent, who brought down a German flyer on his first trip in actual warfare. The German tactics in the air are the Fame as on the field, their aim appar ently being to overwhelm their ad versary by numbers. They found the French to be sending up men singly and they began sending their men up in couples. The French accordingly doubled their scouts. . Then the Ger mans quadrupled theirs and since the first week in March their flying- squad rons "iere never jiave comprised fewer than 10 machines. Groups of fighting machines were assembled by the French to meet them and engagements at heights of 2000 yards, in which a score of machines were employed, were the result. The losses increased In proportion on both sides. "While the Germans. In some of the engagements, had the advantage or numbers, the French pilots appear to outdo them in audacity in maneuvering. The French machines are equal in hori zontal speed to all of those of their adaversaries excepting the newer types and are quicker than any of them in getting into the air. This superiority in ascensional speed is vaid by competent authorities to be the trump card of the French in air fighting. SUMPTER LINE PROTESTS Ttaker Jlan Opposes l'ostal Bill Kider in Congress. OREGOXIA.V NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington, March 23. E. B. Pengra, of Baker, general manager of the Sumpter Valley Railroad, appeared today before the Senate postoffice committee in op position to the Moon rider to the post office appropriation bill permitting the Postmaster-General to compel short CAUSED BY THIN BLOOD ! Many people think they have kidney trouble btocause they have backache but imore backache is caused by overstrained and undernourished muscles than by anything else. In such cases the blood Heeds building up. '. Many rheumatic people suffer pains that could be avoided by building up the iblood. When rheumatism is associated with thin blood he rheumatism cannot ibe cured to stay cured until the blood is touilt np. ' Dr. Williams' Pink Pills build up the "blood and sufferers from backache would do well to try this treatment before giving way to worry over a fancied organic dis ease. Rest and the tonic treatment with Dr. Williams' Pink Plla will correct most forms of backache, even rheumatic. For people who work too hard or dance too much and sleep too little, betterhabits and a course of treatment with Dr. Wil. liams' Pink Pills are all that is needed to drive away the pains and aches that are warnings of a coming breakdown. Two books, "Building Up the Blood" and "Nervous Disorders," will be sent free, if yon are interested, by the Dr. Williams Medicine Co., Schenectady, K. Y. Yon can get Dr. Williams' Pink Pills at the nearest drug store or by mail, postpaid, on receipt of price,5Q centa per box; sisJbsBtea, $2.50.. . f '' x I '.. i ' i n ' :J , -' " 1 t ,... ". . .- " Vs I ! I- , , - . ' - I , ' - ' ' ' ' 1 r ' " : J y I 5- r . . .. .jJ..'J-:w.e Vf 4 t s 1 ' . 1 " t : C - y f.,) ' ' " IT''', iirJ'S. f ' " - " ? ' i ' . i i -if : 55 i-, : -,'-4.? : ,-..- . ... . . ..r : 4 . -:r , 4 i ' . . -J V 7: r : - t r r f ' ' x, U - , - ' x , r , u" r " i Li' ? a -- Photo Copyright by Underwood. ' MISS IIELE.V HAMILTOiV. Society was surprised when it was announced that Mi.s Helen M. Hamil ton, niece of J. P. Morgan, will be married to Arthur Woods, New York's Police Commissioner. Miss Hamilton m ade her debut only last year, and the Commissioner was beginning to be thought a confirmed bachelor. Miss Helen M. Hamilton is a great-great-granddaughter of Alexander Hamilton and a granddaughter of the late J. P. Morgan, whose favorite she was. Miss Hamil ton is one of the most popular members of the younger set. She has joined the Colony Club and the Junior League and devotes much time to social serv ice and benevolent work. Miss Hamilton is 21, while Commissioner Woods is 43. line railroads to furnish to the Gov ernment such car space as it may de mand for postal use at whatever price the Poetmaster-Gencral wishes to pay. Several other representatives of short line roads appeared at the same time and all protested vigorously against tht, enactment, especially since it provides that any railroad failing to comply with the demands of the Postmaster General shall te subject to a penalty of $5000 a day'while the violation continues. SOLDIER FREED TO TESTIFY Man Leaves French Trench to Give Evidence in Xcw York. PARIS, March 23. The French gov ernment has granted a leave of ab sence of 60 days to Edmond Bigaut, a private in the French army, who was valet of the late Amos F. Eno, of New York, so that he may go to testify in the Eno will case. Both sides in the will contest desire Bigaut's evidence as to the testamentary capacity of Mr. Eno. Mr. Eno died in April TSst, leaving an estate of $15,000,000. The will filed for probate was executed in June, 1915, and left the residuary estate of $8, 000,000 to Columbia University. This will was contested by heirs on the ground that Mr. Eno was mentally in capable and that undue influence had been exerted on him. A will made in produced. RADIO AMATEURS CURBED . Interference With General Per shins's Messages Suspected. DOUGLAS, Ariz..- March 23. On the report that amateur wireless stations along the border have been picking up radio messages from General Persh ing's headquarters, the Government of ficials here have started an investi gation. The activity of these non-professionals is also given as one reason why the wireless outfit with the expedi tionary forces has been working so badly the past two days. No arrests have been made, but stations put up by several boys have been dismantled. Cement Xow Fsed for Joints. Advance in the price of pig lead used up to this time in sealing the joints of water pipe has caused the City Water Bureau to resort to the use of cement for joints. A test has been made by .Water Engineer Clarke on a water main on East Thirteenth street from Gladstone avenue to Hol gate street. 'The joints here were made with cement. Mr. Clarke says the ex periment has proved successful and economical. It is figured that cement will be 1 cheaper than(lead in each joint. There are 440 joints in a mile, which means a saving of $440 a mile in the construction cost of water mains. - Wena tehee Club Reorganizes. WEN'ATCHEE, Wash., March 23. (Special.) Arthur Gunn is the presi dent of the reorganized Wenatchee Commercial Club. He was unanimously elected last night by the trustees. H. W. Soderling was re-elected secretary and W. F. Whitney chosen for vice president. The finance committee re ported a tentative budget for the five bureaus. After a lengthy discussion of the budget, it was decided that the committee should make a definite re port at ' the next meeting of the trustees. Sandy to Hold District Fair. SANDY, Or.. March 23. (Special.) Sandy has started preparations for its annual district fair this Fall. A spe cial committee was appointed at the meeting Saturday for the co-operation of the business houses. It is planned to enlarge the scope of the fair and get the boys and girls of Sandy Valley interested in a general exhibit of gar den and poultry products. M. J. Mor rison gave a talk and demonstration on "Grafting and Budding." ""Pan Francisco is now the only cty using much pold for hand-to-hand circulation, entiment and force of vhabit buttressing there a custom which everywhere else in the United States has largely given may before the superior compactness, convenience and safety of carrying .bills, r CHASE IS DESCRIBED Commander of Moewe Tells Stories 'of His Voyage. BRITISH SKIPPER WARY MoTavish I'lees After Sending Wire less Message That He Had Stopped Vessel That Gave - factitious Xames Sunk. BERLIN. March 23. CBy wireless to Sayville, N. Y.) Interesting details of some of the exploits of the German commerce raider Moewe have been giv en by her commander. Captain Bur grave Count von Dohna-Schlodien. The day after the capture of the Appam by the Moewe. says the Over seas News Agency's summary of the Count's reminiscences, the steamer Clan MacTavish was sighted at 4:30 o'clock in the morning. The MacTav ish being fast, it was only after a long chase that the Moewe was able to get near her. Then ensued a wire less conversation, the Moewe asking: "What ship are you?" The MacTavish, being somewhat mis trustful, answered: "Who are you?" The Moewe replied: "A German cruiser. Stop immediately." - Fleeing Vrfl Shelled. "The MacTavish declared by wireless, 'I have stopped,' but she continued at full speed." said the Moewe's comman der In recounting the incident. "The first shell we sent exploded on the bridge. The firing went on until, after the MacTavish had been hit sev eral times, she wirelessed: 'We have really stopped.' "A month later, one night, a ship was sighted whose nationality it was impossible to learn. Her most clever cantain. when I asked him who she was, gave me a name which was not to be found in any of the shipping regis ters. I asked again, upon which he gave another name. The captain aft erward told me that )n his confusion he really had forgotten the" name he gave first.- Champagne Pitifully Lost. "It was a matter of indifference un der which name the ship was sunk, but it was pitiful that we should have to sink a steamer with 1000 bottles of champagne on board, as we had no more of the stuff ourselves. "Off Madeira the Appam was sight ed. I signaled her to stop- the cap tain did not obey, I fired a single warn ing shot, upon which the steamer came to a halt. - "When we steamed over to the Ap pam we noticed sailors of the British navy who were about to direct cannon against us. These sailors were driven away by rifle fire. "On board the Appam, besides four officers and 30 men of the British navy, we found chests of gold. These we carried with us to Germany." CHARITY GETS MILLIONS Ministers' Pension . Fund Among Beneficiaries of Woman's Will. NEW YORK, March 23. Religious, charitable and educational institutions in this and othecities eventually will receive more than $3,330,000 under the will of Mrs. May Leask, who was the wife of George Leask, wholesale com mercial paper dealer. Mrs. Leask died a week ago and the will was tiled for probate today. On the deaths of various persons named among the legatees. $32,000 will go to the Presbyterian board of re lief for disabled ministers . and the widows and orphans of deceased min isters and $25,000 to the home and for eign missions board of the .Presby terian church. TTnty their deaths, the legatees re ceive the interest o the funds. RUSSIANS PUSHING FORWARD IN EAST Petrogracf Report's Capture of Three Lines of German Trenches by Bayonet. 1000 PRISONERS TAKEN Teutons Counter With Advances at Other lointe Front 7 0 Miles . Long, but Fighting Heaviest Xcur Lake Xrirocr. PETROGRAD. via- London, March 23. The Russian drive in the vicinity of Lake Narocz, according to reports re ceived here, has carried them through three lines of German trenches. ina Russians routed the Germans by bayo net fighting, capturing more than 1000 prisoners and a dozen machine guns. While admitting that it -is not yet. clear whether the fighting, which is in progress south of Dvinsk signifies a general advance of the Russian troops in that sector. - or whether it is in tended .as a demonstration to attract German forces from .the Franco-German front, the military critics lay emphasis on what they allude to as the universal success of the attacks during the last few days, the vicious- ness of which is pointed to as Deing sufficient to have made an impression on the German general staff. r Front Is 76 Mile Long;. The Russian troops are operating- in three groups covering a front of o miles, but the severest fighting is re- Dorted to have occurred in the vicinity of Lake Narocz. where the Russians' drive carried them through three lines of German trenches heavily protected by wire entanglements. The Russians resorted to their favorite method of bayonet fighting, routing the Germans desperate resistance and capturing more than 1000 men. including 10 orticers, a dozen machine guns and other booty. The Germans invariably are counter ing the Russian attacks by advancing at other sections of the line, but from all appearances, according to the mili tary observers, the Teutonic efforts lack co-ordination and it is evident that in spite of the recent concentration of additional troops in this region, the Russians anticipated any plans their adversaries may have had for a con certed offensive here German Forwa Augmented. The German strength was estimated last Autumn to be eight corps of in fantry, and several cavalry divisions in this region, but these have since been considerably augmented. An important success is recorded on the Galician front, where the Russians captured the crossing of the Dneister at Mikhaltche. .The Austrian official communication is cited in reference to this victory, as it is admitted that the Austrians were obliged to abandon the position following six months' defense, after the fortifications had been re duced by the Russian artillery. RICH .MAN IS POISONED . (Continued From First Pace.) Waite's home, and Dr. Jacob B. Cor nell, a wealthy relative of the Pecks, had 'told stories to the District At torney which seems to him to warrant proceedings against the dentist. Urn) lot Held "Without Ball. The grand Jury Investigation will continue several days. Witnesses from Grand Rapids and Detroit are expected here Saturday and probably will test ify either that day or Monday. Mean while, Dr. Waite will be taken to the Tombs and held without bail, charged with murder in the first degree, the District Attorney said tonight- Both Dr. Cornell and Dora Heiler were before the grand jury today. The jury will bo given copies of the death certificate of both Mr. Peck and his wife, as filed with the health depart ment. The maid, whom the state regarded as one of the most important witnesses, told the District Attorney today that Dr. Waite went into the kitchen, where she was preparing dinner and poured something out of a bottle, that he told her was medicine, into soup which afterward was served to Mr. Peck at the dentist's home. This occurred, she said, about two days before the drug gist' death. She noticed that Mr. Peck ate only a littre of the soup and expressed a desire for a " cup of tea. Dr. Waite went with her to the kitchen, she as serted, saying: "Father didn't like the soup. I'll put some more medicine in the tea." Mr. Peck drank the tea, she said. 1 Phjsiclan Sees Bottle. Dr. Cornell said he visited Mr. Peck Saturday March 11. and talked witn him for about an hour. He seemed at that time to be in good health, the physician declared. While he was there. Dr. Cornell said, he saw Dr. Waite go into another room to which Mr. Peck retired with a bottle con taining what Dr. Waite told him was medicine. In a few minutes, ho said, he heard Mr. Peck groaning. The next morning he was called to the tele phone by Mrs. Waite and told her father was dead. When Dr. Waite was questioned at the District Attorney's office yester day afternoon he admitted, according to Mr. Swann, that he had been living with another woman under the name of Dr. A. W. Walters, as well as with his' wife. This woman is being sought by the authorities to be a witness be fore the grand jury. Dr. Waite told the District Attorney - CHOBUS SIBL! ' C0MTE5T CT THE. jyjt STAB ST Extra. 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"Likly" Traveling Bags in black and tan cowhide, 18-inch $6.50 Men's Wallets and Card Cases, values to $2.75, special for 870 ALDZK STREET AT WEST PAEK - MAE SHALL 4-700 -HOME A 6171 that he had been practicing: dentistry here. This statement, Mr. Swan de clared, he had found to be untrue. Detectives found in Dr. Waite's apartment seven or eight books on medicine, especially relating to poi sons and their effects. In one volume there was a book mark between pages which described the use of the poison revealed by the autopsy on Mr. Peck's body. Telegram Stops Cremation. The persons who sent a telegram to Percy Peck at Grand Rapids on March 13 reading-, "Suspicions aroused; de mand autopsy; examine body," and signed "K. Adams, "thereby preventing the cremation of Mr. Peck's body, -was the "good Samaritan" who prevented the complete covering of the alleged murder. In the opinion of Mr. Swann. The authorities now are attempting to learned the Identity of the sender of the message. The name believed to have been fictitious, but it is thought the person who sent it was a man. On receipt of the" message Percy Peck halted arrangements for the funeral and two autopsies were held. disclosing poison not only in the stom ach, but also in the brain. Mrs. Waite had been receiving an allowance from her parents and it was also understood that Dr. Waite had some interests in South America. Miss Catherine Peck, a sister of the dead millionaire, gave Dr. Waite $10,000 re cently to invest for her, she asserted, and never received any securities. The dentist told Mr. Swann that he had in vested part of the money in a building loan and the remainder in bonds. Mount Hood Koad toBe Improve SANDY. Or.,' March 23. (Special.) Road Supervisor Kern is preparing to make extensive repairs to the Mount Hood road east of Dr. A. W.- Botkins' place. Mr. Kern proposes to straighten out a bad curve in the road. He has promises of voluntary work from many of the farmers along the road, and as soon as the weather permits work will be started in the vicinity of Cherry ville. Considerable repairs will be made between Sandy and Cherryville early this Spring, and the Bluff road will be graveled toward Pleasant Home. The nere'sa mirwkiiparrsojA When The Arch ' Gives Way the foot is greatly weakened. This causes annoyance, exhaus tion and pain. Many people be lieve they have rheumatism, when in fact they are suffering from broken-down arch and ; nothing more. The Miracle Shoe works wonders with the feet. It relieves 'the arch ,of all strain. Its built-in support holds the arch in its natural position, makes' walking easier and prevents the fatigue felt by persons who have weak ankles and arches. "The Miracle Shoe creates and conserves foot It is handsome in appearance always m good taste, is $6. . On sale at Rosenthal's Portland's Best Shoe Store, 129 Tenth St. . energy. -sMV 1 and UJrSm 1 Sandy Commercial Club is making- a special effort to have the Hluf f road, improved and to Induce Portland travel to aro that way. WONDERFUL TALE OF AN ACTRESS Struggled with Sickness and Dis-T couragement; How Relieved. -Dayville, KiMngly, Conn. "I shall be glad to have every woman know I what 1 know now. after using Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege table Compound. Although I am only 24 years old, I have suffered for the past eight years. I hated the doctors, for a doctor told me to give up tho 6tage' where I was playing with my husband. I had bearing down pains, my health failed me. and I could not work on tho stage, and wasn't able to tend my baby or even get around myself. I was always downhearted and discontented with the world, and only lived for the sake of my little girl. 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