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sssss -. -i. v. t. . s m n i -m -1 VOL. LVIII-i-NO I7.S$f. rOKTLAXD. OREGON, SATURDAY, MAKCII 23, 1918. PRICE FIVE CENTS. I.W.VY. WAR BONDS LATEST THING0UT SEDITION SENTENCE PASSED ON GRUM BRITONS HDLD U. S. PUTS OFF WAR ETO FAILS AGAINST BULGARIA TURN TO MOSCOW TEUTONS AI SALE OF "FREEDOM CERTIFI PRESENCE OF BCLGAR FXITS IX CATES" NOW TENDER WAV. FRAXCE SO FAR IGNORED. SOUTH DAKOTA TO DRAFT FARM LABOR CONSCRIPTION BILL GOES THROUGH LOWER HOFSE. : X Measure Is Aimed Particularly at Idle Men in Cities Who Are Vn- willing to Go to Conntry. PIERRE.- S. D.. March 22. A bill authorizing county councils of defense, under th direction of the state coun E'S FORCES II RAID -5D-MH8 English Una Bent But Not Brcken. BATTLE FIERCEST OF WAR Getnans Claim to Have Taken . 16,000 Prisoners and 200 Big Guns. ARTILLERY CLASH TITANIC Tremendous Execution Done fcy Allies on Massed For mation of Foes. i Piv "he Assvx-uttd Prs LODON. March 21 Th;. Ger im an Friday, along awl ail f the hattlt front, fsmtinned their attacks ia great etraigth. AI several points the ewvssy made fain against the British, bat at then he waa repulsed ia cos-nter attarha. according ta the British effirial camaianicatioa imaed tonight. The taleaient aaya the British 1 mk htevitably have beea consider, a Me. hat at ant ef proportion ta the aiagaitad? af the battle. The enemy's losses caaiiaac very heavy, all his ad' Vance beir C made at great sacrifice. The greatest courage is being show a by the British troops. IBylfc' Associate! Press la a battle that has rivaled in ferocity any tfiat has preceded it dur ing three and a half yean of warfare, the British, an a 50-mile front, have withstood great German offensive in its initial stages. At some points the British line has been bent. back, but not as much as had been eieted by mil:tary experts acquainted with the forces the Ger mans had brought up and the power if the guns the had upon and behind Jie line. British Line Stands. As the result of the struggle on that 5art of the front just wet of Carr.brai, where the fighting waa apparently hottest, the British line hts nowhere been broken, and 'ield Marshal Haig's men have inflicted frightful casualties oa the enemy. ' I As an indication of the nature of the" fighting, the Berlin Foreign Of- Campalgn lo Path "General Defense blamp" Is Started to Com bat Liberty Loan. CHICAGO. March XJ. A bond Issue and a campaign for (ha sal of "general defense stamps hare been started by. the L W. W. to combat the liberty loan and war savings stamps campaign, ac cord! nc to literature sclaed by Federal officials In recent raids on I. w. W. headquarters ana made public tonight. Thousands of dollars alrsady have . been realised from the sale of the bonds and stamps, accord!-, to the literature. The money Is to be used In defense of mem bra now In Jail and In the furtherance of sabotage, according to one pamphlet. Another circular declares that, al though the work of the i. W. W. haa been (really handicapped by the activ ities of Uovernment officials. It Is now "gradually celling back lo normal." Another document declares that "many money contributions bare been reclved from Canada." The L W. W. bonds are called "free dom certificates." Impeachment of Jurist 1 Sustained. MONTANA SENATE ON RECORD EARLY CLOSING PLAN PAYS Spokane Drwggls Does More Busl- ess la Shorter Day. SPOKANE. lVi,h.. March 22. (Sne ial "A too months test of closing our drugstores at 1 o'clock In the even ing has proved there la no need for a place to nil emergency prescriptions at nlsht." This vii the declaration of Wilbur V. Jeyner. head of the Joyner Drug Company. Mr. Joyner. when the early closing plans were being formulated. adopted a 7 o'clock closing hour. "While we have not bad a alngle com plaint about closing early, our prescrlp lions have Increased Zi per cent through the day." he aatd. "By adopting the new daylight sav ing schedule of moving the docks ahead we have decided on a plan which wilt give our clerka a double advan age." Accused ex-Judge Fails to Ap- pear for Trial. . OFFICE DECLARED VACANT Proposed Indictment of Mayor I loan, of Milwankee, Delayed. . Three Arrested at Philadelphia on . Conspiracy Charges. JAMES L HEMBREE DIES Former Resilient of Mterldan, Or., Is Burled at Los Angeles. LOS ANGELES. CaL. March 21 8pe rial.) James Lawson Hembree. lit Drlong street, was burled her today. Mr. Hembree served In the Civil War. was a native of Oregon and former resi dent of Sheridan. tr. A er A'o Mr. Hembree came to Los Angeles to make his home with his daughter. Mrs. Ulllan Bowen. A son, Karl G. Hembree. survives the veteran. Three brothers and one sister also aur- vlve. Dr. A. T. Hembree. Mayor of Ke dondo. Is a nephew of Mr. Hembree. The funeral was under the direction of the local Grand Army post. James M. Syles. an Army trumpeter, sounded "Taps" over the veteran's grave. BUMPER YIELD PREDICTED Wheal Growers of Pomrroy District Alarmed Over Labor Shortage. SPOKANE. Wash.. March 22. t.pe- ciol.) A. IL Halierman. wheat buyer of t'omeroy. who Is In Spokane, says: "Kail grain "n tho Pomeroy district do yet. "The scarcity of farm labor Is grow ing acute. With wagea of from 10 to l a month and board, farmers cannot secure competent help. The men who aie willing to go on the farms are not able to handle horses or sufficiently experienced to do the work." Fowl Doreaa Ordrrs Icing Off It 18 Hot Crows Morsels. SAV FRANCISCO. March There be no ugar Icing on hot. cross buns baked for this year's Easter sea- son. The V. P. Food Administration haa I announced that bakers are to be noti fied thst hot cross buns come under the Jurisdiction of the administration and that the usual upper coating of sugar must be eliminated as a food conservation measure. f:ce states that ltf.OOO men and 2TX never looked better. There is going to guns have been raptured. This mayb record yield of fine quality. W h. ,m,t . ,i.a Tlri.:.). U... In I cannot tell what the Spring wheat will Lhe German counter offensive on De cember 4. 1317, when 6000 men and .00 guns were captured. German Plan Piscoan.ed. The first reports f infsntry fight- m liruixaiifT. aattf in', vsi j the ffvart nf t Vis C.r ftrian Ia sriva ! edges into both si.les of the Cam- ; CAd I ttt bUli5 iU DC rLAIIM brai salient, isolate tue British troops further tust and regain the Hinden- burg line, from whit'h they were Jriven on Xovember T2. 191", Ty Gen- sral B-ng 's sudjen blow. 5uhaeiuent dispatcher have proved that this was. indeed, the plan of the German general staff. The fighting j on the rest of the 50-mi'.e front was hot m side issue to the. terrific on-. slaught aimed at Gauche? Wood and . Cagnirourt. the soith and north ba&es af the salient. Mraggle Fierce at St- Ledger. There are no data upon which it is poeaible to estimate the succe at tained by the Germans ta the south. aere battling m Kn.fav ahnver that an I ., , . ;, ,. . .. I WASIUNCSTOX. March li. Draail jie nonnem siue oi uia aa..ient me , w... .,.,, .um. dln,m0 r... Germans cent me isnuso o , Hons with Mexico next month, whan ibout 2's miles. I tr. Albrrta Ic Ipanema Moreira will It was reported that St. LecLrer was ' present his credential as Cbargt d'Af- h. scene, of ln rtmoel. that . lr Melco City. r . . . , . . V I . ... --. - - Mau iiv woigrues nau Been retagen Df me r.Dr,nt-tiY. M..,co cttr .inc. e,. Bntish. These points are about, four j tabll.liment of the present Mexican kilometers, or 2.H miles, back of the , government. Cruish lines as they stood befoi'e the ttack began. Berlin claims that BritL-h first-line Trocitions from Arras to La Fere w ere uptured. 400.000 Enemy Encaged. '. x-. J:.r .w,! WASHINGTON. March ZZ A coun- jctatomc ixoops, are in the -lgnt. 1 ne tlon regarding enemy holdings will be lotal number of cannon the Germahs i started by A. Mitchell Palmer, alien re employing cannot be estimateci. property custodian. Th penalty fori nut usoffirml renort. ssv th.t tWk failure to repovt Is a fin of $10,000 or irmn 1 10 years Imprisonment, or both. -- seT. Mr Pmlm,r wlI1 0,pc,i 0n th people ! Austrian ana xsu:ganan troops have generally to help enforce the Us by HELENA. MonU March SJ. By unan Imoua vote, the Montana Senate this afternoon passed sentence of Impeach ment on Charles l Crum. formerly of Forsyth and until recently Judge of th Fifteenth Judicial District. Judge Crum waa not present at the trial, nor represented by counsel, and hla whereabouts are unknown. The verdict removes him frrra his office and disqualifies him forevor from holding offices of honor, trust or profit In this state. The final vote came after the pre siding officer of the Senate Court. I.leutenant-lJovernor McDowell. bad submitted to a vote each of the six artlclea of Impeachment, charging dis loyalty and sedition. Three of the arti cles were approved unanimously and the three others by an overwhelming vote. OITIee Already Resigned. An officer of the Federal Court at tended the trial. Whether an effort will be made to ascertain the whereabouts of Crum could not be stated. It waa declared. Judge Crum resigned his office after the State House of Representatives, acting on charges preferred against him and which accused him of pro German acts and utterances after the entrance of the t'nited Slates Into the war. had voted for his Impeachment. Shortly sfterward. according to a re port received at the Capitol, he left the state. SAN FRANCISCO. March li. W. A. Wotherspoon. a local attorney; his wife Mrs, Marlon Wotherspoon; Miss Itluma Zalusnck. a teacher of the Russian lan guage, and Taraknath Das, a Hindu lecturer and po". were arrested here early tonight by the Federal authori ties on charges of Interfering with for eign relations In conspiring with Salln flra Nath Ghose. a Hindu now under arrest In New Tork. to act -In America aa an agent of the so-called Indian Nationalist party. - Other Arrest t Kellow. Th arrests are reported to have been in connection with the Hindu conspiracy plot cases now on trial here. Other ar rests, it 'was said, are to follow. cil, to register and conscript men for labor on farms, was passed by the lower house of the South Dakota Legislature today. The measure will come up to morrow in the Senate where It la ex pected to meet with little opposition. The measure gives county councils complete power to draft any man for farm labor and provides a penalty of three months' Imprisonment and a $1000 fine for attempts at evasion of the draft. The bill Is particularly aimed at un employed In cities who refuse to ac cept farm work. The law, however, is sufficiently flexible to permit dafting of business men and others at the dis cetion of the various councils. German Invasion Goes Forward Steadily. PHILADELPHIA. March 12. Two enemy aliens and one naturalised Amer ican were arrested today and held in heavy ball tonight on the charge of conspiracy to defraud the Government MAJ. MQRAHT, WRITER, DIES German War Correspondent Pre dicted Russian Army Would Fail. LONDON. March 22. The death of Major Moraht. long military corre spondent of the Tageblatt of Berlin, is reported In a Central News dispatch from Amsterdam. For years Major Moraht was per haps th most widely quoted of the German military writers. While thor oughly German in his point of view, he wss more moderate In tone than vitriolic writers of the type of Count von Reventlow and less Inclined than most German military critics to follow the teachings of the War Office prop aganda bureau. In writing a review of tnas-llrst year of the war for the Associated Press he predicted the distintegration of the Russian prmy. CASTLE ROCK MAN LOYAL Citizen Vndcr Suspicion Displays IIomc-Made Flag SO Years Old. CASTLE ROCK. Wash- March 22. (Special.) "IX you live in Castle Kock show your colors," is the motto here. II. D. L. Cunningham, an old Junk man of Castle Rock, has been under sus picion as a disloyal citizen, so beside saluting the flag on Demonstration day, he took an American flag to the Grange which be had made for his own home jTJO years ago. The patriotism of the Grange mem bers was aroused and they took the flag and formed in line, parading the streets around the paved district. Anv;;;vrais ever onward Hun Armies Move on City From Three Directions. CITY OF 0CHAK0 FALLS Teutons Progress to Xortheast of Odessa Occupied Districts Are Being Flooded With Prod- -ucts of Hun Factories. MOSCOW. Tuesday, March 19. (By the Associated Press.) Notwithstand ing that peace with Germany has been ratified by the congress of, workmen's and soldiers' delegates, the German ad- woiiniiuca. iuo )v Dw T1IIOIO SlfUfO ation of Petrograd served only ta I I CO, DUI, I fllo Id IVCVVO change the German objective to Mos Government Officials See Xo Advan tage In Declaring War, and Pos sible Benefit In Future. i WASHINGTON, March 22. America's attitude toward Bulgaria will not be altered, at least tor the present, by operations of Bulgarian troops on the western front. Reports that Bulgarian units had been brought Hip to the lines opposing the British forces were received at the State Department without surprise and without arousing any apprehension of an Immediate diplomatic change. It was indicated that certainly until. the trops of the Balkan state, regarded as Germany's tool, were actually used against lines held by American troops the present anomalous situation prob ably would continue. It Is known, however, that sug gestions from foreign capitals have reached Washington that the United States should formally include Bulgaria among its enemies. Some officials think nothing would be gained - by declaring war even if Bulgarian troops should be found fight ing against the American front. They contend there is no advantage in de claring war and that there will be a diplomatic advantage at the end of the war in not having altered the diplo matic status. Piratical Teuton Craft Seized off Mexico. U. S. AUTHORITIES VIGILANT Plotters Closely Watched for Several Months. AGASSIZ CRAFT INVOLVED HUNS SEIZE HUMAN HAIR Price Paid for Best Quality Women's Hair Is SO Marks Per Kilo. tonttnud en t'K 4. Column 2.1 BERNE. Wednesday, March 22. The German military authorities In Alsace are seizing all stocks of human hair, according to Alsatian newspapers. The owners of the hair are Invited to make their terms with the paying office of the Prussian war ministry.. The price being paid by the state for the best quality of women's hair, which is used for weaving purposesv Is 20 I marks per kilo (2.20 pound). cow. According to reports printed In the newspapers this morning the Germans are moving toward Moscow from three directions southwest, west and north west. From the southwest they recently advanced 25 miles from Konotop, Prov Ince of Tchernigov, In the general di rectlon of Bryansk, which is 235 miles from Moscow by rail. Invaders Near -'Smolensk. From the west the Germans are .ap proachlng Smolensk, which Is about 250 miles from Moscow. In the north west they have captured the station of Rosenovhkaya, in the government of Vitebsk. The order to evacuate the hospitals and other institutions in Gfhatsk, 100 miles from Moscow, indicates that further German advance is considered imminent by the government. The governments of Poltava, Kharkov and Tchernigov have all been declared in a state of siege by the Ukraine ov ernment in an effort to save Kharkov and prevent a further advance by th Austrlane supporting the Ukraine bour- geolgirada. Hovlrts Seek Ukraine Peace. M. Tchitcherin, of the Bolshevik Foreign Office, in a statement issued today, says that the Soviet government is negotiating informally with Ukraine for peace and that he hopes formal negotiations will open shortly. LONDON, March 22. The Germans have occupied the city of Ochakov, on the Dnieper estuary, 41 miles northeast of Odessa, Reuters Petrograd corre spondent reports. (Bj- the Associated Press.) MOSCOW, March 19. The Germans have already established through rail way connections between the districts they have occupied and Berlin and are flooding, the occupied towns with Ger man goods, especially clothing and hosiery. Russians who had managed to leave (Continued on Pnge 4. Column 1.) THE POLITICAL POTS ARE BOILING NOW. MEXICO RECOGNIZED SOUTH ; Brasll lo Be Represented at Car. ranaa's Capital. PALMER TO START INQUIRY Allen Property Custodian lo Inves tigate Knesny Holdings. sending him information. 1 VOCwriTO Of 3TaS- Baby's Fall Demonstrates First Principle of Journalism. JEW YORK, March 22. For- at least half a century youngmen who aspired to journalistic fame have been given the axiom that anything unusual con, stitutes news. . -' They have been told, proverbially that if a baby fell out of a fourth-story wlndow and was killed it wouldn't be unusual, but that if it fell out of fourth-story window into a baby car riage in the street and was not injured, it would be unusual and therefore news. It happened in New Yprk tonight. Mrs. Edna Wicker was leaning out of a window of her apartment at S95 Sec ond avenue with her two-months-old grandson in her arias when she fell out. The baby dropped into a go-cart in the street below.. Mrs. Wicker was so seriously injured she may die. Vessel FounH to Be Manned by Teu tons and to Be Equipped with Flags, Rifles and Pistols Made in Germany. ! WOMEN TWICE DECORATED Anne Morgan and Anne Dike .Win Recognition for War Work. NEW YORK, March' 22. For the sec ond time within six months Miss Anne Morgan and Mrs.'Anne Dike have been decorated by the French Ministry of Agriculture in recognition of their services in the war-torn districts of France. The latest decoration was given, it was said, for restoration work at Ble rancourt. A. diploma of honor also was awarded) to the committee' for devastat ed France, it was announced. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 31 degrees; minimum, 4b degrees. TODAY'S Rain; gentle southwesterly winds. War. Germans advance on Moscow. Page 1 ucnerai ucii, just oacx irom l-rance, says victory of allies oeyond all question, Page 2. German submarines send two Spanish ships to Dottora. i-'age . British line bends, but does not break under terrific German attack on west front. i'age l. United States delays declaring war on Bui garla. Cage 1. - Senate adopts resolution requesting reason lor curtailing war casualty lists. Page 2. ightlng more active and general on Italian frout. Page 4. Foreign. Member of Dutch Parliament to open ques tion or diplomatic oreau wltn, u. S. Page 7. America lenient to enemy aliens despite widespread poisonous propaganda. Page 8. Germany prepares to milk conquered nations or xood supply, page . National. Government cuts down imports to conserve tonnage. Page a. . Domestic. South Iakota to draft men for labor on farms, rase 1. German craft equipped to raid shipping along Pacific Coast seized by Federal authorities. Page 1. I. W. W. starts campaign for sale of "Free dom Certificates." Page 1. , - Sentence of Impeachment. for sedition passed on Judgo Cnaxles L. Crum, of Juoniana. Page L Maggie Mitchell, famous American actress, dead. Page 4. i Sports. Nick Williams decides to manage Spokane Indians. Page IS. , Hunt Club to hold paper chase today. rage is. Wlllard-Fulton bout sure to be financial success. Page IS. - Pacific Northwest. CbanKe of 6 per cent limitation amendment found unnecessary by J. K. Kollock. Page . Dr. J. E. Carstien. Swedish -missionary, held for alleged sedition. Fife 14. Commercial and Marine. Eastern apple markets have weaker ten dency. Page II. New steamer Point AreVa expected to go Into Pacific trade. Page 14. Passage of wheat bill by Kenate strengthens coarse grains at Chicago. . Page 1U. Wall street stocks sag. influenced by news from war zone. Page 19. Higher prices asked for medium wools at Boston, f age lu. Portland and Vicinity. Marie T. McK-e. of Detroit, calls on public to combat on-farUaail Je&gue menace. Page 13. Car shortage threatens to tie up West Coast sawmills. Page. S. Weather report, data and forecast. Page 14. City faces problem in matter of wage in creases, rage j-l. Salvation Army campaign for war-service fund ends tonight, rage v. Portland 'Symphony Orchestra to complete season. Page 1 Jurors to be asked to tell who drank liquor offered as evidence. nw, 4U. Republican National chairman to be In Port- A PACIFIC PORT. March 22. Ger many's first attempt to outfit a raider at a west coast Mexican port with which to create havoc among Pacific Coast shipping has been frustrated. The auxiliary schooner Alexander Agasslz, 32 tons net, formerly owned and operated by the University of Cali fornia in research work at sea. was captured 15 miles off Mazatlan, Mexico, at 11 o'clock Tuesday morning by sn American gunboat, according to ad vices received here today. The Agassiz. flying the flau of the imperial German navy, heavily armed and carrying a crew of five, did not attempt to engage the gunboat when overhauled. The crew surrendered. Craft Due In Port Soon. The Agassiz, manned by a crew of American bluejackets, is en route here under guard of the gunboat. The Ger man prisoners of war will be landed here. The Agassiz is expected in port within two or three days. She will be turned over to the United States t)ep utv Marshal. The Agassiz was not large enough to be used extensively as a raider. Fed eral officials say, however, that it was The Intention of the German crew to capture :a Pacific Mail boat running to Panama, outfit it with heavier guns than could be mounted on the Agassiz, recruit a full crew from pro-Germans now living at west coast Mexican ports and then start out on a reign of terror. The Agassiz, while lying at a berth near the Mexican customs whirr at Mazatlan, was suddenly changed from American to Mexican registry. Draft Dodger in Command. The ringleader is reported to have been a draft evader from California. This man is reported to have purchased the Agassiz .from the Pacific" Coast Trading & Shipping Company of l,os Angeles. ' Members of this company, as filed in the bill of sale at the time the cratt was sold by the regrents of the Uni versity of California at fan Diego, January 24, 1917, include. Francis C. Wheeler, Maud M. Lochrane and Will iam Taylor. None of these persons is said to be implicated in the outfitting of the Agassiz. The Agassiz, following her transfer to the Pacific Coast Trading & Ship ping "Company, sailed from a Pacific port January 27, 1917, for Acopulco. For a time the vessel carried oysters from Tobari Bay, in the Gulf of California, to a floating cannery at Magdalena Bay. Later she was placed in service between Mazatlan and Manzanillo. Plotters Lnoit Watched. Shortly after the new year the Agassis was .tied up at a wharf at Mazatlan, remaining there until she sailed out under the German flag last Tuesday morning. Federal secret service men have baen watching the movements of the con spirators for many months. They secured knowledge of the plot and permitted it to proceed until they thought it was about time for an American warship to take a hand. The warship was at the right spot at the right time. WASHINGTON, March 22. After press dispatches had fbld of the seizure of a suspicious craft in the Pacific by an American cruiser the Navy Depart ment tonight issued this statement: The Navy Department announced tonight that a small naval vessel, the Agassiz, which sailed from a v est Mexican port, where she had been fitted out under circumstances which led the naval authorities to believe that she might be used as an enemy raider, has been seized at sea and taken to a Pa cific port for investigation. "There were found aboard several Germans, German flags, rifles and pistols. When seized she had no ship's papers and a number of articles were seen to be thrown overDoard. "The Agassiz is a rjas-propeHed boat about 60 feet long and, so far as pres ent Information indicates, carried no mounted guns." TURKS TO MOBILIZE WOMEN Feminine Battalion Planned lor Service Behind JLines. GENEVA. Wednesday, March 20. Elaborate regulations are being drawn up for control of the battalion of young Turkish women which the Turkish War Office, breaking all precedents in that country, recently decided to organize. A Constantinople dispatch says the War Ministry Is prescribing minute meas ures to prevent the battalion from com ing into contact with the soldiers. All the officers of the battalion will be women. It will perform work be hind the lines. . tvioeuauca om rs 4. Coiuma inrt .pr1l vbc . 1g3io6.o r