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THE MORNING OREGOXIAN. 3IOXDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 191S. AMERICAN TROOPS ARE DOING SHARE Important Part in Operations on West Front Reported by War Office. PATROLS PASS U. S. WIRE Heavy Fire I Turned on Amrr iim by German Artillery, bat AO Confusion Is Caused Siaoag Troops. WASHIGTOX. Feb. 51 Increasingly Important activity by the American tore on tha wntrrn front and th return for rest at leavw nation of the men who have completed their first period of duty in the trenches are noted In thu week's review of military oper tlona by tha War Department. In tha news of the renewed Uerman offensive against tha Russian, tha department finds no cause for surprise, but adds nothing: to Information car ried In press dispatches. Tha review was written before tna announcement came from London that the Bolshevlkl bad accepted Germany's peace terms. "Hitherto little opposition haa been offered to tha advancing- Germans." the department says, "and It la not as yet clear what preparations tha Russians are making to meet tha enemy. Raaalaa Sieve la DnM. snow-covered roads. Tha troops here ara being pushed forward In forced marches, tha desire of the German hich command evidently being to capture tha port, which would ba available, II ne cessity arose, aa a base for operations by a fleet of war vessels against Kron- stadt and Petrograd. HUNS CENTER FIRE ON AIEAN LINE Tha internal situation In Russia con tlnuea chaotic So bad have conditions become In I'etrograd that a state of slega haa been declared by the mili tary authorities. Looting and other reprehensible deeds will result In aen tencea of death. It Is announced by the Bolshevik authorities, and all explo slves must be Immediately turned In to the authorltlea on pain of the holders being declared outlaws. Opposition newspapers have been suppressed and other organs have been published in them will lead to the ar- GERMAN PATROLS BLOCKED res. os am eauors ana meir iaiib. Enemy Brings More Guns Into Play at Various Points Northwest of Toul. On tha battleronta nowhere - has there been an engagement of great dl mansions. On the line in Franca there I Eight Artillerymen Reported Slight ly AVonndcd In Action on Feb- hava been several patrol encounters. with tha French the aggressors against the Germans, of greater than usual vio lence. The artillery activity along the front continues violent in isolated sectors. Germans again nave tried to "out- gun tha Americans in their sector southwest of Toul. As on several for mer occasions tha Americans retaliated with such fierceness and accuracy of aim that the enemy desisted. ACTION ON FOOD URGED WAJHMCTOX ADMINISTRATOR CALLe COXFF.RESC E9. TO Farmer aad Labor Orgaalmatlons Asked e Assist la Casseelssi la 1 acreave Pradacllea. t SPOKANE. Feb. ti. County Food "Owing to the disorganisation of the I production conferences throughout the Russian forces. It Is difficult to presage ,taU wer. called by Charles Hebberd, state food administrator, for Satur ruary 2 1 Xewr Type) of Bombs Are Dropped. Ry the Associated Pre. WITH THK AMERICAN' ARMY IN FRANCE, Feb. 24. Last night and to day the German bombardment on va rious poitits within the American lines northwest of Toul wu considerably more intense than usual. Today the enemy, who was more active in many ways, apparently was using still more guns than customary. Little damage baa been done by the battery, although three men were slightly mounded early this morning. Last night enemy patrols made per aistent effort to penetrate the Amen lean wire defenses, but without suc cess. One patrol was fired upon and driven off while wire-cutting, proba bly preparatory to a contemplated raid. Large troop movements are Koine on back of the enemy's lines during the night. There was no aerial activity today, owing to weather conditions. the lips of the ministers of Kaiser Wilhelm." 1 He added sarcastically that the con tract with the Ukrainians would be kept, not by the Ukrainians, but by General von Linsingen. Dr. Victor Adler declared that the German government had evoked the greatest suspicion that the wreck of the Brest-Litovsk negotiations was "a very welcome event." He said he hoped the German advance into, Russia would be discontinued, at any rate Austria-Hungary would neither direct ly nor Indirectly, whether as beneficiary or by providing reserves for the weBt front, participate In such an undertak ing, he asserted that Austria's war aims had been attained and that the Austrian task was not the conquest of London or the liberation of Flanders from the Belgian yoke, or of acting as a police man. what effective opposition they may be able to place In the path of the In vadars.' Of the western front the review savs "While no major undertakings were recorded In the west, yet the entire front was the scene of bard driven assaults of a minor character. "Our own forces are taking an In creasingly Important part in the oper ations. Last week we recorded the participation of our artillery in th very auccessful thrust made by the French In the rea-ton of the Butte du MeanlL This week the presence of our Infantry In a very important part of the Chemtn des Dames is reported. Hera our patrols have been outside our barbed wire and have undertaken number of scouting expeditions In No day. March t. (By tha Associated Pre.) WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN telegrams tonight FRANCE. Feb. 23. In the American Mr. Hebberd left for Seattle tonight. rhere he plans to meet tomorrow rlth wholesale fish dealers of Puget Sound. Prince Rupert and Vancouver, B. C-, to discuss market conditions. ANTEATER WON'T EAT ANTS Msn'a Land, which were successfully I n the proposed campaign. carried through. Americana Frv Worth. "At the time our detachments were coming up Int6 the trenches they were tinder heavy hostile shell fire; never theless our men made their way to their stations without confusion or casualties. It is useful to note that our forcra now In action In this, one of the most active sectors of the entire French front, have acquitted themselves very creditably. "Our men who have completed their first period of duty in the trenches have arrived at the leave center estab lished at At lea ! tains. This is the first of a series of rrat centers It is proposed to establish where our men ran find rest and recreation after the trying ordeal of trench life." SLACKERS SEEK JAILS to county food administrators of Wash- I sector. Northwest of Toul, today the oermans tried the tactics of concen trating fire on one of the American positions, apparently with the purpose of obliterating It. The American guns mmediately punished the German bat teries with a doubly heavy retaliatory fire and then swept the enemy lines with a vicious barrage, undoubtedly In flirting considerable damage. The German guns promptly ceased fire. Whether they were silenced or stopped firing for other reasons is un known, but since that time hardly shot has been fired from that point. lsi nignt a uerman patrol was found once more within the American wire. It was driven back by machine gun and rifle fire. American patrols worked freely without interference. The Germans tonight dropped into the American trenches sn entirely new type or bombs, resembling a baseball. No damage was done. legion. He asks that on that date. In every county in the state. Joint conferences of food committees, far mers' organisations, county defense councils, school superintendents and principals and commercial, labor and women's organisations be held to con sider the food production problem for nest season. Mr. Hebberd also wired Governor Lister and tha State Council of De fense, asking thit special recognition be given March aa "Food Production Day in Washington." and also took up with stste head of farmers' and labor organisations the matter of assisting WASHINGTON MEN POLITE Girl Messenger in Capital City Says She Has No Complaint to Make. WASHINGTON, Feb. 16. Are Wash ington .men polite? Are they courteous? Are they snobs? Are they the kind of men that will take advantage of a girl's position be cause she is a working girl? All these questions are answered by Mr. Carrie .Pearson. Postal Telegraph messenger girl. She finds that Washington men are very polite. They always take their hats off in the elevator when she steps in. They always allow her to enter or leave the elevator first, and they are always very courteous in answering questions and In their treatment of her when she delivers her messages. ' That small-chinned, weak-mouthed being of the male sex known to large cities as the masher has never at tempted to Inflict his attentions on her- during the course of her work. And in the vernacular, no man has ever taken advantage of her position and tried to "date her up." "I haven't had any trouble along that line at all," said Mrs. Pearson. "I have always been .treated very nicely. And the men are not snobs. They are not afraid to take their hats of T in an elevator when I get in, just because I am a messenger for the Postal. All in all. I think that Washington men can compare very favorably with those of other cities I have been told of. In fact, the average Washington man seems to think that he must treat me Just a little bit nicer than he would if I were not working as a niessen ger girl, and that's very nice of him don't you thing so? 'I never have been troubled with mashers. I don't think there are many in Washington, but I could handle them if they ever bothered me. And a very determined expression came over Mrs. Pearson's face. WASHINGTON. Feb. 14. Eieht artil lerymen were reported slightly wound- Mascot of Marines, Will ed ,n action on February 21 in a dis- paicn tonignt iroin American head quarters in France. Thev are: Ser geant Frank Graboskl, Chicago; Pri vates Harry M. Meyers, Marion, Ind.; Frederick A. Sliter. Polk, Pa.; Andrew B. Rennes, Grand Forks. N. l.; Robert r- Grubb. Rogersville, Tenn.: Frank T. Kirby. Aurora. 111.; Rene E. Knoepflin, Cincinnati, and Fred II. lUu, Largo, Ind. Private Edward Roberts. Iroquois, S. D.. was reported missing after an ac tion on February 8. with the announce ment that a previous report had errone ously named Private Edward Roberts, 147 West Sixteenth street. New York City, aa the missing man. SHORT rRISOX TRRMS PREFER. I1HABLG TO ARMT DVTT. Frtry Crlsaee Cesasaltteal la Eaeape Service Mia ha Wvda Hie Metecr-le-Law Jfet lUrasl. "Jimmy, I'artake of Everything Else. WASHINGTON. Feb. 1. "Jimmy. the ant-eater," mascot of the United States Marines In France, Just won't eat ants. He'll eat anything but ants, although once in a while the cook sups it ove on him by camouflaging insects craps of bread. Of course. Jimm thinks he s eating raisin bread bu what'a the difference? Jimmy became attached to "the Ma rlnes at vera Crux, more than two year ago. and since then has led adventursome life. When the sea soldiers went overseas he went along. He greatly pussies the French poll with his choice of foods. He eats the scraps even cigar and cigarette butts don t go amiss. In short, he eats anything and every thing but ants. NEW TORK. Feb. 21. Many young Bien in New York City ara deliberately committing petty crime and taking light prison sentences to escape the draft, according to Sheriff David H. Knott, who announced that ha had a l.ed the warden of Sing Sing prison for a list of men of draft age who have been committed to that institu tion recently. One of these men, the Sheriff said. was a perfect type of fighting man. but for the "yellow aireak which prompted him to say he would "rather go up the river than go over the top and get killed. Duncan Robertson. St year old, who married his dead wife's mother last July, was denied exemption as a mar ried man by the district draft board today and placed in Class A-l. The board held it was clearly a "slacker marriage." PATROL BOAT CREW BRAVE Reservists Take ' Blazing Craft Midstream and Quench Fire. to NEWPORT. R- I, Feb. 24. Ensign L K Denolst. of St. Louis, Mo and a crew of seven naval reservists aboard a scout patrol-boat risked their lives last night In saving the craft from destruction by fire and preventing th names rrom spreading to severs steamers. The boat was at a pier when fire waa discovered near the gaaoline en trine. Ensign Denoist Immediately or drred the hawsers cut. full power turned on and the fire fighting appa ratus manned. The crew soon had the biasing boat In midstream and there put out the fire. ATTACK ON SLAVS DENIED CONVICT LEASING DOOMED Alabama Legislature to Consider AaMrlan Premier Dcx-lares Germany Is Fighting Alone In Itula. AMSTERDAM. Feb. SI. The Aus trian rreniler. Dr. von Sed!er. ad' dressing the lower bouse at Vienna Friday, declared again: "Austria-Hungary is not (rart iclpat Ing in the military action which tier many Is at present taking against Rus sia. There haa been no advance of AuMro-Hangarlan troops In Ukraine, with which we are at peace. "With regard to Roumanla. an arm istice exists between Austria-Hungary and that country. Peace negotiations will begin within the next few days." The Premier's statement was received with applause from all parts of the house. Progress of the War. The Bolshevik grovernment In Russia, represented by Nikolai Lenlne and Leon Trot iky. haa acceded to the demand ol Germany and announced Its readtnesa to accept the hard peace Icrmi which Germany haa laid down. Thus, apparently without further hes itation, the Russians are prepared. In an effort to stop the inroads the Ger man now are making Into their coun try to add to the enemy's already vast holding more of Russia's most valu able western territory, extending from the Gulf of Finland southward to the Klack Sea. and even to withdraw her troops from Finland and give back to the Turks what haa been taken from them. The aurrender seems abject. Ruaala Is Immediately to send a delegation to Brest-Utovsk. there to discuss with Uerman representative the final de tails for peace and slsn the compact. At last acconnta the German troop In the east were glvlna no heed to peace, but were methodically pushing forward over the more than S0 miles front from the Gulf of Finland to Vol hynla and atlll nowhere meeting with anv systematic refinance. Numerous additional towns have been captured and seversl thousand more Russians made prisoner. In addition nearly looe Oerman and Austrian pris oners of war have bn liberated by the invaders. Rsvat Russia's principal port on tha Finnish Gulf, is rapidly be ing approached, notwithstanding the Case of Women Prisoners. MOBILE. Ala.. Feb. 1!. At the next session of the State Legislature a meas ure will probably be introduced looking to prohibiting counties from leasin women convicts. A sensation waa re cently created when the Escambia County Commissioners leased negro women prisoners to a contractor for It cents a day for a terra of two years. Until the war made a strong demand for labor there waa no market for the negro women prisoners. But In certain lines of work It has been found they have a small earning capacity and other counties will probably follow the lead of Escambia unless stopped. AMERICAN DEATHS LISTED Six Men of C S. Army in France Are Victims of Disease. WASHINGTON. Feb. It. Death from diseases among American soldiers in France were reported today as follows fergeant Clarence o. locken. quar termaster corps. Mount Hebron. Wis., meningitis; Private George W. Wal.in. engineers. Cushing. la pneumonia; Karl Wood In. engineers, Sherman, Conn., pneumonia: Dewey Lane, coast artillery. Carrollton. Tex., pneumonia: Jamea C. Dukes, field artillery. Colltns ville. I1L. pneumonia, and John Sollo way. field artillery. Cleveland. Ohio, measles. DIPLOMATS LEAVING RUSSIA American and Japanese Ambassa dors Leave Capital, Is Report. LONDON. Feb. 14. A Telegraph Ex change dispatch from Petrograd, dated Saturday, says: "The American and Japanese Em bsssles and the Chinese. Siamese and Brazilian legations are leaving Petro grad today for Vyatka, or Volnogda. If necessary they will go to Vladivos-tok." Frsejuent and moderate rain Is said to be the uiuai effective of all unitary agencies. BOSTON WIVES IN REVOLT Question Asked How Can Saturday's Sacred Dish Be Baked. BOSTON. Feb. 12. After acquiescing in "meatless" Tuesdays and Fridays' and "lightless Thursdays and Sundays,' the housewives of this city rebelled against "porkless Saturday." They are willing to forego roasts of pork, chops and ham and even bacon, but How can one cook the famous Purl tan standby, baked beans, without the generous cut of pork snugly nestling in the dish? It can't be done. So baked beans. with the pork, grace many a supper ta ble and they will right along until Washington sets its inventing geniuses to work solving the question of pork- less baked beans. WORK MINES, SAYS LANE DEVELOPMENT IS I KGKI AS PORTANT WAR MEASURE. IM- Heete Frsaartig of Mlaerala Hitherto I sb ported Weald Release Snipe for Military Needs. WASHINGTON. Feb. 24. Immediate further development of America's min eral resources to save for food and Army supplies space now 'used for bringing minerals from abroad is planned by Secretary Lane, who an nounced tonight that he had asked Congress for a special appropriation so thnt a large force of metallurgists can be set to work to make changes In practice necessary for tse use of lower grade manganese ores used In alloy for steel. ' At present, said Mr. Lane, "every shin that can be spared Is needed for our military operations. Minerals which we can supply and which are imported come from many distant sources. Involving long voyages and delays In loading. These minerals rep resent an Import of about 2,000,000 long tons per year, three-fourths of which can be eliminated in case or extreme necessity. 'American mines can produce all of these minerais. providing they are given the necesssry assiufance from the Federal Government. Many new manganese mines must be developed at once, and If these mines are to sur vive after war conditions and become permanent Industries, they must be able to operate emrientiy una take advan tage of the most Improved methods." HAWAIIAN SEAPLANE SOARS Pilot Major Clark Finds Island Weather Ideal for Flying. HONOLULU. T. H.. Feb. 15. (By Mail.) Piloted by Major Harold hL Clark. U. S. A., chief of the Sixth Aero Squadron, the first modern seaplane of the Army that has been assigned to service in Hawaii made its initial flight yesterday. . The machine rose to a height of more than 6000 feet. Major Clark described flying conditions here as ideal. GALIGIAN SCORES RONS PRETENSE OF SELF-DETERMINA TION OF PEOPLES RIDICULED. Women Don Overalls. . ASHLAND, Wis.. Feb. 18. Dressed In dainty brown overall bloomers, eight young women Qf Washburn started work at the Kenfleld-Lamoreaux saw mill recently. The company intends to employ about 20 women In places for merly held by men and boys. The women work on machines where the work is light and work 55 hours a week. The company has made work conditions as pleasant as possible. A restroom has been fitted up on the upper floor for them, equipped with rockers, tables, chairs and lavatories. TO INTEREST MEN AND YOUNG MEN OF TODAY You must offer something more than garments which are merely meritorious you must offer the exceptional and the extraordinary. These Suits and Overcoats of ours were tailored in the shops of A. B. Kirschbaum Company, embodying the high standards and the fine ideals of those famous clothesmakers. And they are offered at prices so moderate that these values while giving full credit to the merits of others about town- cair only be described as most extraordi nary indeed. A $15, $20, $25 and Up Phegley & Cavender Cor. Fourth and Alder Streets 1SIC AIDS GABS Giant Band Volunteers Start Agricultural Drive. to PROGRAMME TO BE VARIED Band Concert Lasting Half Hour Will Serve as Prelude to Mass Meeting: of Citizens to Pledge Food Production. One hundred musicians, tuneful vol unteers for the cause, will open the big war garden mass meeting for Port land, to be held next Sunday afternoon In the Auditorium, according to ar rangements completed by Ferdinand E. Reed, director of the .drive under authority of the War Emergency Coun cil. Under the leadership of Dudley Huntington McCusli. the giant band. which serves without compensation and which will be assembled by the musi cians' Union of Portland, will give a half hour concert programme of fine selections, preliminary to the general programme and the war garden speak ers. Mr. McCush has in preparation a concert programme of unusual -merit, and the bandsmen who interpret it will be the pick of the city s talent. Programme Will Be Varied. First of all, the. mass meeting, to which all Portland is Invited, will be designed to forward the cause of the war garden, with which residents or he city are to discourage the high cost of living, further the conservation f food by home production, and aid mlsrhtily in winning the war. But, while the brief speeches will treat of the gardening subject, the pro gramme will be varied by vocal and In- trumental numbers, and will provide distinct treat while dispensing valu able information from authoritative sources. 1 At 2:30 the band concert will beptn. continuing until 3, when Mayor George L. Baker, on behalf of the city admin istration. will sneak for 10 minutes ! upon .the subject, "The Help of War Gardens to Portland. "Conservation of Food" will be dis cussed by W. K. Newell, assistant Fed eral food administrator for Oregon, in a 15-minute exposition of the aims of Herbert Hoover and his lieutenants, and their importance to the success of American arms.' Portland Will Meet Mr. Cooter. Portland will be introduced to John E. Cooter. newly elected superintendent of school gardening, who will speak for 20 minutes on "School War Gardens and How to Plant Them." Mr. Cooter is a graduate of Oregon Agricultural College, and his selection as gardening supervisor was made from a field of many applicants. Ranchers, farmers and pardeners of Oregon have long been acquainted with C. L. Smith, agriculturist for the Union Pacific who is to be another speaker on the programme and who will talk on a lively topic, "Soldiers of the Soil." Rev. Oswald W. Taylor, secretary of the organization which he discusses, will speak on "War Garden Work by the Patriotic Conservation League." Among the musical numbers will be the singing of "America," by the audi ence and chorus, with band and pipe organ accompaniment, and the singing of "The Star-Spangled Banner." Mrs. jane Burns Albert and John Claire Monteith are announced as soloists. To the singing organizations of the city, and to individual vocalists, an in vitation is extended to occupy the stage seats, where accommodations exist for a chorus of 500 voices. candidate for the Chehalis School Board at the election to be held next Satur day. Mrs. Dan Gingrich, who is the re tiring member, will not be a candidate for re-election. South Bend German Jailed. SOUTH BEND. Wash., Feb. 24. (Spe cial.) T. F. Simball. an alien German, local manager for the McCormick Com pany, is in the County Jail awaiting disposition of his case by the Depart ment of Justice officials. He is charged with failing to register February 4. His duties kept him on the water front. He has resided here a number of years. SequsI To Love For Doll Maternal Instinct Greatly Developed by Teaching Children to Love their Polls. 11 S0L0NS FLY OVER CAPITAL Senator New: and Representative Schall Take Flights. WASHINGTON, Feb. 24. Senator New, of Indiana, Representative Schall, of Minnesota, and William Denman, of San Francisco, ex-chairman of the Shipping Board, flew over the capital Saturday in a British military airplane, piloted by Colonel Charles F. Lee, of the Royal Flying Corps. The passengers were carried in sepa rate flights. Woman to Run for School Board. CHEHALIS. rial.) Mrs. A. Wash., C. St. Feb. John 24. (Spe wlll be a The little child's doll is mother to th moet romantic fairy. And in the year that pass, the doil fades into the petals of June rose, to evolve the most wondrous of all transformations. And now comes a more serious period when the joy of real motherhood should be as tranquil as best effort can provide. This Is accomplished with a wonderful remedy known as Mother's Friend. An ex ternal application so penetrating- in its na ture as to thoroughly lubricate the myriad network of cords, tendons, nerves and mus cle just beneath the skin of the abdomwi. It relieves the tension, prevents tender ness and pain at the crisis and enables tha abdomen to expand gently. The muscles contract naturally after baby arrives and the form is thu preserved. It should be applied daily, nisht snd morning during the period of expentency. By regular use it enables the abdomen to expaud without the usual strain when baby is born. Naturally, pain and danger at the crisis is les. Tou will find Mother's Friend on ml at every drugstore. It is prepared only by the Bradfleld Regulator Co.. H S3 l--mar Bldg.. Atlanta. Oa. They will send you an instructive "Motherhood Book" without charge. Write them to mall it to you. Io not neglect for a single morning or night to use Mother' Friend. Obtain a bottle from your druggist toda.y by all mees and thus fortify yourself assinst pain and discomfort. Adv. Dr. Victor Adler Declares Geraaaaya Artless Shew Fallere of Peace Talk Waa Welcome Kveat. AMSTERDAM. Feb. 24. 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