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THE 3I0RXTNG OREGOXIAX. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30, 1918. ITALIANS SMASH ITALIAN COMMANDER - IN . CHIEF WITH FRENCH CENERALS RUSS TELEGRAPH, CABLE LINES CUT INSPECTS POILUS FIGHTING IN ITALY. ENEMY'S FRONT Mystery Cloud Gathers Over! Fifteen Hundred Prisoners Taken in Fierce Drive on Mountain Lines. Nation; Official Word Reaches United States. HOLY WAR PROPOSAL MADE 12 AIRPLANES SENT DOWN Peoples PHOTOPLAYS OF MERIT f r - Austrian Reinforcements) Moving Throagh 'os and Campomulo Valleys Scattered by Heavy Artillery Fire. (By tb Associated rrasa.) aCotwtthstandlag tha fact that deep rnowa still cover tb (round, the Italian hav carried oat successfully a spectacular drlv against the Austro Otrmu line tn tb mountain rtfloa of Northern Italy and captured strong positions and mora than 1600 man. The blow waa delivered on tha Asia go plateau sector, and tha enemy positions penetrated were tenaciously held, notwithstanding atrong counter attacks, tn wblcb the Austro-Germans were repulaed wltn hsavy caaualtlss. The victory of the Italian at thla particular point la of conalderable lg- . r.lflcanc because of the fact tha lately, alnca the enemy" strong at .t.mpta to break through from the bin ragioa to the eneuan plain railed around Monte Tomba aad aectora west. the Austro-Germans have been brine Inar up reinforcements in the Aslago district preparatory to a further aerlea f attacka to reach tha lowlanda around Hassan o aad Vlcenaa. ROME. Jan. 1. Italian troop made heavy attack yaaterday on the north em mountain front and broke Into tha enemy llr.ee. the War Office) report. Ketnforcexnents which the enemy waa hurry lea; down the Noa and Campomulo valley were dispersed by the artillery of the Italian and their allies. Twelve enemy alrplanea were brought down. The Itallana held maatery of the air everywhere. Tha Itallana took more than 1500 prisoner. They, stormed enemy poal tlona on the beighla eaat of tha Aslago liasln and broke through at aeveral ' point, resisting violent counter offen sive. BERLIN. Tla London. Jan. J. Italian forcea which attacked the Teutonic positions on the Col del Rosso region and between the Frenzela ravine and the Brenta River, on tha Northern Italian front, were thrown back by the Austrian troops, tha German official statement announced today. The Italians sained a foothold On Monte DI Val Bella, the statement adds, but the ground later waa wrested from them In a counter attack. A German aerial aquadroa dropped 21 tons of bombs last Friday on Castel Franco. Trevlso and Meatre, In North ern Italy, the War Office reporta. Large fires, the atatement adds, were aeen from a distance. NEW.Y0RK,,SH00-FLIES, GO Tammany ATrrt Secret Eye From Police Force' ActlTltiea. . NEW TORE. Jan. 21. Police Cora mlsaloner Enrtght announced In an ad- dress today to several hundred police lieutenants that the "shoo-fly system. which haa been perhapa the moat un popular policy In the department, would be abolished, and that every policeman hereafter would be put on his honor to perform hi dutlea faith- fully. Tha new caused rejoicing tn every station-house. The "shoo-fly " or policeman in clt lxen'a clothes, spied on captains, lieu tenants and patrolmen and made con fidential reports to the commissioner. WOOD'S WOUND IS SLIGHT General Hurt by Fragment of Gun Which Bursts In Testing. PAR 1 3. Jan. :. Brief detail of the wounding of alsJor-General Leonard Wood, of tha United States Army, while on a visit to the French front, have been received. General Wood waa hit by a fragment of a gun which burst while being tested. His Injurlea. which are confined to the left arm. are not considered serious, bat h waa brought to a hospital here. Car Shortage Smallest In Months. SALEM. Or, Jan. The smallest ear shortage in montha waa reported to the Public Service Commiaalon by ine southern Paclflo Compe.iy today. Tha shortage reported waa Hi. a drop from t0 yesterday It conalated of 247 closed aad open cars. GIRLS! TRY IT! HAVE THICK, VAVY, HAIR Every Particle of Dandruff Dis appears and Hair Stops Coming Out. Draw a Moist Cloth Through Hair and Double Its Beauty at Once. Tour hair become light, wavy, fluffy, abundant and appears aa aoft. lustrous and beautiful aa a young girl s after a "Danderlne hair cleanse." just try thla moisten a cloth with a little Dander tne and carefully draw It through your hair, taking one small strand at a time. This will cleans the hair of dust, dirt and exceselve oil and tn Just a few momenta you have doubled the beauty of your hair. Beside beautifying tha hair at once. . Danderlne dissolves every particle of dandruff, cleanses, purifies and invig orates the scalp, forever atopptng itch ing and falling hair. But what wlU pleaa you moat will be after a few weeks' use. when you will actually as new hair fin and ' downy at first yea but really new hair growing all over tha acalp. If you care for pretty, soft hair and lots of It. surely Invest a few cents In a bottle of Knowlton's Danderlne at any drug atoro or toilet counter and Just try 1L Save your hair! Beautify Itl Too will say this waa the beat mosey you ever pent. Adv. BEAUTIFUL i. v- V v i ' ' -! ( v . ----- : V - C .... . . '.A ', : f;;-t .'-" .y - f - d in' hi i i , I f . ! ar r " ' . i . . - : 4 i, ' i hi i ii - -.... - " "" " Photo Copyright by Underwood. Left ta ruabt . CeaersJ Fayall. Ceasseaer ef the Preach Expeditionary Feweea la Italyi Ceseral Daehesae. at tha Freeieh Army, aad General Dtaa. Rc-vtewtag the Trwapa aa They March By. It was only with the great aid given by the Frenca and British soldier that the Italians were able to stem the German advanoe and turn apparent rout Into a counter-advance. Thla la tha first photo to arrive In this country showing General Dla In the field and tha first showing the French commander In Italy. BLOCKADE TO LAST Eastern Roads Likely to Be Congested Until March. COAL TO BE KEPT MOVING General Embargo Not Expected but McAdoo Will Give Individual LI nee Free Hand In Dealing - With Shipments. WASHINGTON. Jan. t. Freight con gestion on Eastern railroads probably cannot be cleaned up before the middle or latter part of March, railroad ad ministration officials announced to night. . Bad weather haa provided the culminating misfortune on which Is baaed the conviction that it will taae at least sis week mora to get traffic moving normally. Even without tb expected tnaw which may send river flooding above their banksoff lclala say recovery would be slow. Preparations have been made to tight high waters, which already hav developed In the mountain of Virginia. West Virginia and Kentucky, with serloua consequences to ooal pro duction and transportation. - Because of this situation both tha Railroad and Fuel Administrations are planning a continuance of unusual measures to keep coal moving. It waa aald today that priority probably would continue to be given fuel for many weeks, and that general freight would have to take Its chancea Food will have similar preference, and necessary material and supplies for war manufactures ar to proceed under the preference given such com modities by Director-General McAdoo' recent order. It la probable that no genera em bargoes will be declared by Director General McAdoo. although Individual railroads will be given free band In refusing to accept shipments. The of ficial embargo now prevailing for three Eastern trunk lines will not be lifted for aeveral days. DOCUMENT THEFT DENIED Censorshslp Board Will Ask Federal Grand Jury to Take Action. WASHINGTON. Jan. I. The Govern ment Censorship Board voted today to call the attention of the Federal grand- Jury at New York to a published re port that documentary evidence reveal ing the working of the German spy sys tem had been stolen from the Postal Censorship office In New York, "with a view to obtaining indictment against the author of this criminal libeL A resolution made public by the Board said no papers whatever were stolen from the hew York office, and that the report waa without the slightest basla la truth. BERLIN WORKMEN STRIKE fCentlend Prm First Pe.) members of the editorial staff of the Lelpsig Volk Zeltung. It is reported that Adolph Hoffman, editor of Vorwaerta. an Independent Socialist leader in tha Prussian Diet. haa been arrested. Vorwaerta. under the heading "Ger snv. Take Heed." says: "Tb movement going through the masses reets on deep moral grounds: It la born of tha fear that they have been misled. "They want food and peace, and Ger many frea outwardly and inwaraiy. And any attempt to hold tbem by fore la dangerous. AU thoughta of an at tempt to fore en the people alms which prolong the war. aim for which they never fought, or to keep from the people their promised rights, can only work aa disintegrating factor. That today la our greatest danger." PRESERVE rXIOX, SATS KAISER People) Warned to Avoid External .and Internal Dissension. LONDON. Jan. 21. Emperor William tn a telegram responding to birth day congratulations from President Kaempf. of the Reichstag, says: "My ardent dally wln la that ray beloved people, without arrogance, but with a deep consciousness of their right and power, may externally and Internally, in the wish of eslf-dlscl-plina. preserve their union until the final victory of our arm lay the foundation for the glad new of tb unfolding of their mental and economlo power "1 berln a serious, decisive year with proud thankfulness for the immense successes which have been gained by our indefatigable warriors and their brilliant leaders- "1 know to what extent the loyal work of tb peopla at horn has con tributed to the successes and now much dlstres and anxiety had to b borne by everyone. "Those are imperishable page of glory which last 'year were added to German history and In which the great army lead era the simple workers and the lonely widow Inscribed their names." Emperor William in a telegram to the court preacher thanking him for hla birthday wtahea 1 Quoted in i dispatch from Amsterdam to the C'en tral News a saying: "With deep thankfulness I commemo rate on this day the great deeds of God for tha. German people. He gave historical successes to our colors. He removed many sorrows and kept n. strong ' In the fatherland, notwith standing distress and privation. "I hope our church will help m after having victoriously finished tha war In peaceful competition with other professions to heal our wounds, to conciliate controversy and to unite and trengthen our people through all con troversies In enthusiastic and unselfish devotion to our mutual fatherland. "My special sympathy belongs to the great tasks which will be sent equally before the state and church in the re construction of family life and the education of the God-fearing and healthy young generation to be- worthy of their fathers." SCHOOL AGAIN IS MARK SIXTH ATTEMPT MADE TO BURS WALLA WALLA COLLEGE. Pollra Working on Caae Believe That Fir Maniao or Pra-Cermaa' ' Started Conflagrations. WALLA WALLA, Wash- Jan. 29. For the sixth time in two month fire waa discovered last night in Walla Walla College, a Seventh-Day Advent Ist Institution at College Place, a sub urb. Flames were discovered In on of the lavatories' oh the fourth floor of tha main administration building. Rags had been saturated with alco hol and coal oil and the blaze started during the dinner hour, and only through mere chance the blaze was dis covered before It spread to the wood work of ' the building, the Incendiary having chosen a-time when high wind and poor water pressure would have mad the fire difficult to control. Aroused by the attempt to burn the college bulldlnga Sheriff Lee Barnea and deputies are working on the case, and hope to reach a definite conclusion soon. That some one connected with tha college tn some way, either student or possibly employe, is responsible for the attempts, is the theory accepted by most. The fire were all started at tlmea when only some one who was familiar with the work of the lnstitu tion would be able to be there without suspicion. The Adventlsts are opposed to war. but they are even more strongly against German methods. Ever since the attempts to burn tha institution started, guards have been on duty, and recently the number has been In creased. RATES ARE DISCONTINUED Commission Orders Investigation of Telephone Company Charges. SALEM Or.. Jan. 29. (Special.) The public Service Commission today or dered discontinued all of the new long distance ratea of the Pacific Telephone Telegraph Company, which became effective January 1. 1918. until such time as the Commission has had oppor tunity to Investigate them. These rates affect the entire State. The rates which went into effect the first of tha rear vert based an air-Iln mileage measure or the son system. The number of decreases made under the new rates was greater than the number of Increases but the actual amount of the ratea themselves showed an Increase throughout the State and for this reason the Commission in tends to make a probe. COLLEGE CHOOSES ORATOR Mary E. Pennington to Represent Pacific In State Contests. JTEWBERG. Or.. Jan. 19. (Special.) Last evening at the annual orator ical contest held to choose a represent ative rrora Pacific College In the state contest. Miss Mary E. Pennington, a freshman, won with a prohibition ora tion, "The Time to Strike." Miss Olive L. Johnson, a Junior, was second with "Our Present Friendly Task." being only a single point be hind the winner; and Cecil Pearson, another representative of the freshman class, was third, his oration being on The Last Great Drive." The other contestants were Harold Lee "Education;" Alfred Hawortb, The Smoke Nuisance." and Miss Grace Benson. "Tb Conservation of Food." Grfp Follows the 8 now LAXATiVB BROMO QUININE Tablets tsk- en In time win prevent unn. k. w. GKOVK s signature ea box. uc A.dT, Trotzky Said to Have Refused to Give Guarantee That He Would Not Sign Separate Agree ment to End War. WASHINGTON. Jan. 29. Cable and telegraph lines to Russia have been cut. American Minister. Morris at Stockholm reported today, and the only remaining routes of communica tion with Petrograd now are through Persia and Vladivostok. The land telegraph lines were sev ered. Mr. Morris reported, at Hapa randa. and the cables at Vlborg. He gave no indication of the significance. LONDON. Jan. l. The Bolshevlkl have split on the question of peace, a majority being against the conclusion of peace on the German terms and In favor of a holy - war. an jzenange Telegraph dispatch from Petrograd saya As the present government is unable to carry on the war, the formation of a coalition of all Socialist factions was proposed. PETROGRAD. Jan. 28. (By tha A soclated Press.) The congress of the councils of workmen's and soldiers' delegates, while deploring the imperi alistic tenor of the German peace terms, approved all the actions of the Russian delegation and charged the government to continue the negotia tion a Foreign Minister Trotzky declared he could not give a guarantee that he would not sign a separate peace, say ing: "To call a separate peace a disgrace is blasphemy in the eight of blood covered Europe." RUSS PEACE TERMS VIOLATED Germany Withdraws Troops From Eastern Front tor Service In West. WASHINGTON. Jan. 29. Charges that Germany is violating the terms of the Russian truce by withdrawing troops from the Eastern front and transferring them to the western bat tle lines were made today by the War Department. The War Department mad thla statement: "The general staff of the United States Army announces that the Ger man military authorities are evading those terms of the Russian truce which provide that German troops were not to be withdrawn from the eastern front for use in the west during the peace negotiations. German troops on the Russian front are being allowed to go home on furlousrh. These sol dlers are then transferred to recrultin stations and sent to the western front "The troops are. taken In this- way, man by man, for two reasons.. First. because it deceives the Russians and. secondly, because the Eastern troops have been so Influenced by the Russian revolutionary propaganda that the Ger man military chiefs have decided to separate the men and scatter them in unaffected western regiments." LONDON. Jan. 29. Almost three' quarters of the German troops have been withdrawn from the Russian front, according to the newspaper Nashy Vedomesty. . No heavy guns or a:mored car ar left, while the num ber of light guns has been greatly re duced. Young soldier are. being removed daily, and their places are being taken by old men and semi-invalids. The German northern front is strongest. There are no Germans on the south western front, and. although the Aus trlans there have not been reduced, their heavy artillery has been with drawn. BOLSHEVIKI KILL mant Reports From Siberia and Mancha rla Say Fighting, Robbery General. HARBIN, Manchuria. Jan. 9. Twenty-two persons were killed In fight at Tomsk, when the Bolshevlkl broke up a meeting of workmen's and soldiers' delegates. Dispatches received from Blagovestchensk in Siberia and capital of the province of Amur, say that the Bolshevlkl have wrecked the local assembly and that fighting and robbery are general. The Russian Consul-General, Popoff, at Harbin, is on his way to Pekin to present to the representative of the entente allies a plan for raising a force to free Eastern Siberia of the Bol shevlkl and to protest against Austro German prisoners being released. It is stated that these prisoners have been given a free hand and that hun-. dreds of them have been permitted to return borne. UKRALXLX3 CAPTURE LUTSK Bolshevik Forcea Defeated After Three Days of Fighting. GENEVA, Jan. 29. After three days fighting the Ukranlan Rada's troops have defeated the Bolshevik army and taken possession of Lutsk, according to a wireless message from Kiev to the Ukrainian committee here. The fighting waa extremely severe and the losses on both sides were heavy. Alrplanea, the message adds. greatly aided the Ukrainians in gaining the victory. SHE DARKENED HER GRAYJAIR Well-Kaowa Lady Telia Row She Dark- eaed Her Gray Hair by a Slxapla Home-Made Remedy. Mr. E. H. Boots, a well-known resi dent of Buchanan County, la., who darkened her gray hair by a simple home-made remedy, made the follow ing statement: "Any lady or gentleman can darken their gray or 'faded hair, and make it oft and glossy with this simple re cipe, which they can mix at home: To half a pint of "water add 1 ounce of bay rum, one small box of Barbo Compound and hi ounce of glycerine. These in gredients can be purchased at any drug store at very little cost. Apply to tha hair every other day until the gray hair is darkened sufficiently. It does not color the scalp, la not sticky or greasy and does not rub off. It will make a gray-hatred person look 10 to 20 year younger. Adv. TODAY TOMORROW AND FRIDAY ONLY 1 CURRENT EVENTS A S STANFIELD TOURS STATE CANDIDATE FOR THE SENATORSHD? SPEAKS IN SALEM. Business Man Can' Serve Advantage ously la National Congress, I Assertion Made SALEM, Or., Jan. 29. (Special.) Robert N. Stanfield. of Stanfield, can didate for Republican nomination for United States Senator, spent the day In Salem today renewing acquaintances and making friends in connection with his campaign for the Senatorsbip. He met hundreds of people here today. "1 am offering myself as a candi date with the belief that business men can serve advantageously in the Na tional Congress," said Mr. Stanfield in a brief statement, "and with the firm belief that our industrial and commer cial life Is entitled to profound con Next Monday Is National Thrift Day ALL THIS great world war is being fought that our future may be secure. To carry it on, every individual has an obligation to perform. We must SAVE some thing out of our income something to invest in the sound securities of the Government, at liberal interest. If we spend all we make, the war cannot be won! Monday, February 4th, will be celebrated as National Thrift Day. Buy all the War Saving Certificates and Thrift Stamps that you can. The Security Savings & Trust Company invites savings accounts. Oar Monthly Business Forecast and Trade Bulletin sent to those who request it upon their business letterhead. 6&eim !at; HURRY IT'S THE FIRST 1918 MASTER PRODUCTION in STELLA MARIS By William J. Locke CAST , . . . .MARY PICKFORD ....... .Conway Tearle Camllle Ankewlch Ida Waterman Herbert Standing Josephine Croweu lira. Coonleu Stella Maris Unity Blake John Rlsca.... Louise Rlsca... Lady Blount. . . Sir Blount.. . .. Agatha Linden The Nurse NEW SHOW NEXT SATURDAY; sideration. While our first great duty obviously'ls looking after the interests of our soldier boys while they are en gaged in war, we should preserve our standard of civilization and uphold our industrial and commercial activities, so when the war is over and the soldier boys return they will find a place ready for them to resume civilian life." Mr. Stanfield will spend all day to morrow at Silverton. BETHLEHEM NET SHRINKS Decrease of 916,273,271 Reported for Tear Ended Dec. 31,1017. NEW YORK, Jan. 29. A decrease of $16,273,271 in net income for the year ended December SI. 1917, waa reported by the Bethlehem Steel Corporation to day. Net income after all deductions, in cluding estimated allowances for all taxes, was $27,320,737, as compared with $43,593,968 last year. After divi dends on 7 per cent preferred stock. the balance available' for $59,448,000 1 a a TTD a a tWiM W ' . ' 1.8 i f J I common stock outstanding was $11.20 a share. The regular quarterly dividends were declared today on the various classes of common and preferred stock, . together with dividends for the year on the new S per cent cumulative preferred stock, payable quarterly, and on the old .7 per cent stork, payable quarterly. THE BEST FOOD The best meats the beat coffee the best pastry at lov. prices. C lean courteous excellent servie r A7V DAIRY LUNCH jJLl and Cafeteria Wahlncrton Nea Sixth Street H 323
