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s TIIE SUNDAY OREGOXIAN, PORTLAND, JULY 29,-1917. RUSSIANS LEAVING GAL1GIA III HASTE Continuance of Rout East of Buczaez Is Reported by u Germany. RUMANS PURSUE TEUTONS Teutons Make Gain In Carpathians. Three Regiments of Czech Vol unteers, .Abandoned by Slavs, Resist Until All Die. BERLIN, via. London, July 28. East of Buczaez the Russians are rapidly be lns driven Out of Gallcia-and the sup plementary official statement from the "War Office tonight says that German troops are approaching' Zbryz, on the Russo-Galician front, about 10 miles south of Huslatyn. The statement follows: "The battle in Flanders continues. "In Eastern Galicia our crops are ap proaching Zbryz, on the frontier." Zbryz is about 80 miles due east of Stanislau, approximately the center of the line of retreat of the Russian armies in Eastern Galicia and about 8 miles east of Jagielnica the northern end of the line reported to have been crossed by General von Boehm-Ermol-li'.s army in the official statement from Berlin earlier Saturday. TETROGRAD, July 28. On the bat tle front in Galicia. where the Teutons have been on the offensive, nothing of material importance occurred yester day, according to the official announce ment today. In the Carpathians the Teutons attacked to the east of Kirli baba and pressed back the Russian de tachment. Ramans Continue Pursuit. On the Roumanian front, Roumanian troops are continuing their pursuit of the retreating Austro-German forces in the direction of Kedzt-Vasarhely. They have occupied the heights southwest of Berezozi, taking an artillery bat tery and making prisoners. In the region of Kalakul Mountain on the Roumanian front the Russian troops also are advancing. They are pushing toward' the Putna River and have occupied Boduple on the left bank of that stream. . In the fighting at Tarnopol, Galicia, it is reported, three regiments of Czech volunteers, abandoned by Russian troops and fearing execution for trea son, resisted until the last, the officers blowing out their brains and the sol diers rushing where shells were burst ing the. thickest. Men of Both Sides Hanged. The enemy, newspapers say, captured three Czechs and hanged them sum marily. Later Czech soldiers took three German prisoners and, after forcing them to cut down the bodies, hanged the Teutons with the same rope. BERLIN, via London, July 28. On the front commanded by Archduke Jo seph the Austro-Germans are nearing the Pruth plateau below . Kolomea, In Galicia, the War Office announced to day. In the wooded Carpathians the Teu tons have taken some high positions from the still resisting Russians. General Roehm-Ermolli's army corps, the War Office reports, has crossed the Jaglelnica-Horodenka-Zablowow line In Southeastern Galicia. In the Upper Putna Valley the south ern wing of the Austro-German army has retired to tho eastern slope of the Bereczkei Mountain before superior pressure of tho Russians and Roumanians. BABES AND WOMEN PRINCIPAL SUFFERERS FROM GERMANY'S AIR RAIDS OVER LONDON. If! , lif' , : - V BUMPER YIELDS REPORTED Klamath Crois on Water Land Ex ceed All Records. KLAMATH FALLS, Or.. July 28. (Special.) The greatest irrigated crops In the history of Klamath County are now being harvested here. From all parts of the watered territory come reports of bumper yields of hay and grain. The first cutting of alfalfa now be ing put up is said to be yielding as heavy in some places as all three crops in previous years.' Every farmer In tho valley is working night and day to take care of his hay, and many report a crop that runs as high as four tons of alfalfa to tho acre. SOCIALISTS MAY ASSIST K.vtent . of Reforms AViil Govern Course In Germany. ' COPENHAGEN', July 28. TIerr Schiedemann, Socialist member of tho Reichstag, discussing yesterday the qpestion of Socialist participation In the government, said that if a really parliamentary government were formed with a programme which the Socialists could approve, the Socialists must par ticipate and share the responsibility. They would decline the invitation to participate if members of the Reichstag only became subordinates to under sec retaries and chancellors. i A ' - -v. yi-'?Al . i - - J ' - kaubl . - j I "" mi - irnumirnr nr ii imiiiisM mm Photo from Underwood. One of tbe Tiny Sufferers From the Recent Air Raids by the Germans. She Is Being; Taken Home After Having Received Medical Attention at a London Hospital. On July 22 England experienced its 26th German air raid. In all the various bombings 661 persons have been killed. The latest raid took place at Felixstowe and Harwich. Residents of Lon don today feel somewhat reassured because the attacking airplanes were unable to reach the city, having been repelled by British aviators and anti aircraft guns. When the invaders were first sighted word was rushed to Lon don, where "sound bombs" sent out the warnings. Many Londoners sought refuge In the subway. WOMEN BEAR' ARMS Gentler Sex Now Fighting With German Army. "LEGION OF DEATH" HEROIC NEGROES PROTEST RIOTS Silent Parade Held in Xcw York by 10,00 0 Colored Persons. NEW YORK. July 28. Negro men, women atid children, estimated to the number'of 10.H00 marched down Fifth avenue this afternoon in a ""silent pro test" parade against the race riots in JSast St. Louis and other sections of the country. Xegro ' children from Sunday and public, schools in the city, led the par ade, followed by the women, garbed In white, with the men bringing up the rear. GERMANS START BANKS Xlndeavor Made to Monopolize In dustry of Russian Poland. ZURICH. July 28. The newspaper Jeit of Vienna says that four of the largest Berlin banks have organized branches throughout .Russian Poland and are concentrating capital there for the purpose of making loans on a big scale with a view eventually to monop olizing the trade and industry of East ern Poland. The Poles, the Zeit says, are organ ising to resist the German plan. Only 50 of 200 Russian Girls Who Went to Front Return Soldiers Desert Fair Comrades In Charge Against Enemy. FETROGRAD, July 27. When the Russian women's battalion, known of ficially, as the "Command of Death," went into action against the Germans near Smorgon July 25, they captured a number of women, from 'whom it was learned for the first time that German women also were fighting on the bat tle front In Western Russia Ten wounded heroines of the women's battalion arrived in Petrograd today, leaving' their commander. Vera Butch kareff, and Marya Skrydloff, a daugh ter of Admiral Skrydloff, former com mander of the Baltic fleet and Minis ter of Marine, in a hospital at Vitebsk. Interviewed, the women said it was reported that of the 200 of the com mand who reached the front, only 50 remained. Twenty were killed, eight were taken prisoner and all the rest were wounded. Soldiers Desert Wonts. . "Several times." said one wounded girl, "we attacked the Germans. Espe cially memorable was our attack at Novospassky wood. near Smorgon, where the enemy, hearing the voice: of girls, lost their nerve. The result was that many of them were killed, wounded or taken prisoner. Among the prisoners were a few women, from whom we learned for the first time that German women also were fighting. "We did not feel the slightest fear of our personal safety. Our passion was to serve the fatherland.- We ad vanced gaily against the foe with laughter and song, our only unpleasant sentiments being when we first came to the corpses. Once, when replying to the enemy's severe rifle and machine gun fire, we discovered to our amaze ment that all our men comrades in the neighboring trenches had treacherous ly fled, leaving us a handful of wom en to face the enemy alone." AMERICAN BARK LOOTED GERMAN SUBMARINE THES SINKS VESSEL CAR ME I. A. .Phone your want ads to The Orego- Tiian. Main. 7070, A iO'Ja. Gigantic Elevator for Montevideo En Route From Holland and Other Ships Are Destroyed. PLYMOUTH, England,' July 28. The American bark Carmela has been sunk by a submarine. The crew was landed in safety and uninjured. They will be sent to New York. The Carmela was attacked at 6 o'clock this morning by a German submarine of small type. The undersea boat fired four shots at her and the crew then took to their boat. The submarine ordered the boat's crew to go aboard the submarine and, placing an armed guard over them, used the boat to loot the ship's stores of coffee and bacon. At the end i of the second trip tho Germans were In terrupted by the approach of patrol vessels, which rescued the bark's crew. The bark Carmella, 1379 tons, was built in 173 -at Glasgow. She sailed from thte United States June 29 for Havre, Krance. Captain John A. John son was in command with a crew of 20. Including six Americans, among whom were Ernest Dobert, mate, Se attle, Wash. LONDON. July 28. The Norwegian steamer Thorsdal, 2200 tons gross, has been sunk by a .German submarine. Twenty members of the crew were rescued. The taiUiij vessel .Vaarbad also has been sunk. The crew was rescued. NEW YORK, July 28. The Greek steamship Chalkydon. a vessel of 2870 tons gross register, has been sunk by a German submarine. The Chalkydon left here June 28 with cargo for Mar seilles. News of the foundering of the Brit ish schooner F. G. French off Bar bados July 7 was received today. The crew was saved. HALIFAX, N. S., July 28. The steam ship Heathcote. 2345 tons gross, was sunk In a collision with a Dutch steam ship in the Gulf of St. Lawrence Thurs day. The crew was rescued. AMSTERDAM. July 23.A German submarine has sunk a gi;Vntlc elevator for the "Montevideo, Uruguay, water works, which was being towed frolu Rotterdam to Montevideo by a. Dutch tug, which also was sunk. GERMANS RAID PARIS AIRPLANES DROP TWO BOMBS AND WITHDRAW. Opinion Held Visit Was for Purpose of Testing feasibility of Makluff Attack in Force. PARIS, July 28. German airplanes made a raid on Paris at 11 o'clock last night. Two bombs were dropped on tbe capital. The opinion is held here that the raid was made with the ob ject of testing the possibility of a suc cessful German attack in force similar to the recent raid made on London. A few minutes before 11 o'clock watchers of the French aviation service In Paris heard the noise of a motor and then an explosion, followed after a brief interval by another. The prefecture of Paris was accord ingly instructed to give the alarm throughout the city. The last notifica tion to the people of the capital to take refuge fur a possible air raid was given on the night of March 16-17. Soon after the warning of the raiders was given, the sky over the city was alive with defense airplanes, twinkling like stars from which they hardly could be distinguished. Firemen dashed through the streets sounding alarms on powerful sirens and one by one the street lamps flickered out. Residents of the city, awakened from their sleep, instead of taking refuge in cellars, mounted to the roora or into the streets to watch the droning air planes. At 1:10 o'clock the firemen gave the signal "that all danger was over and the Parlsiennes turned to their beds, having seen nothing of the en emy. BERLTN, July 28. German airplanes last night dropped bombs on the rail way stations and military establish ments In Paris. The official statement announcing the raid on the French cap ital says that all the German airmen returned. Paris has been free from German air raids since January, 1916. On the 29th of that month the capital was visited by Zeppelins, which dropped about a aozen oomDs. Killing 24 persons and In juring 27. The raid at that time lasted about one minute and a half. GIRL GETS ARMY POSITION Miss WInnlfred Hopkins Assigned to Commissary Department. ROSEBURG, Or.. July 28. (Special.) Miss Winnifred Hopkins, daughter of Attorney and Mrs. C. F. Hopkins, of this city, today received notice that she had been appointed to a position in the commissary department of the United States Army at Seattle, with a salary of $1000 a year. Miss Hopkins has been employed as stenographer in Portland for the past year and is new visiting her parents here. England Triples Aircraft .Output. LONDON. July 6. (By mail.) Great Britain's- production of airplanes has been tripled during the past year, ac cording to Dr. Addison. Minister of Munitions. More than 100 factories are now constructing aircraft. Schools have been started all over the country to train workingmen for the new industry. "The Store of a Million Friends" E3 $22.50 and $24.00 Seamless Brussels 9x12 Rugs . . . . . . . . "If you put cheerfulness into your home you will take joy out of it." ' "One of these new rugs ..will give that desired cheer you've long looKed lor. "Whether it be living, dining or bedroom, you'll find a pattern and color to please you." . To select and have one of these fine seamless Brussels Rugs sent right to your home hand the salesman $i.oo Cash "No friend dwells with you so faithfully as the furnishings of your home." "Pretty Rugs are indicative of your inclinations, fancies, tastes and traits of character." "With long Winter evenings coming, you will live in the home more than at present." You should select the rugs needed in your home at once. Save $5.85 or $7.15 then Pay-the-Edwards-Way. $1.00 Week If Any of These Fine Rugs Please, You, It Means Money Saved! $67.50 Whittal Wilton 9x12 Rug 55.00 $53.00 Mahal Wilton 8-3x10-6 Rug. $67.50 Shuttleworth Wilton 9x12 Rug 852.50 $52.50 Kashgar Wilton 8-3x10-6 Rug $65.00 Shuttleworth Wilton 9x12 Rug. -S49.50 $50.00 Smith Wilton 9x12 Rust. $65.00 Mahal Wilton 9x12 Rug 849.50 $45.00 Seamless Velvet 9x12 Rug $62.50 Whittal Wilton 8-3x10-6 Rug. S49.50 $42.50 Seamless Axminster 9x12 Rug $62.50 Shuttleworth Wilton 8-3x10-6 Rug 849.50 $35.00 Seamless Axminster 9x12 Rug 844.50 .839.50 -.839.00 -.836.75 833.85 ...828.00 3 Rooms Full of Furniture Sent to Your Home on a Cash Payment of Balance Arranged to Suit Your Own Individual Convenience! More pleasing sets at such a small cost have not been built yet. The likes these is why Edwards heads the list I o bungalow outfits all over the state. Every piece for the two rooms Is in that rich, hand-rubbed wax finish: the kind that's so popular now. You'll yi H uevcr lire 01 ll ennei Of course you can buy any single piece if you like. You folks that have any old fur niture may apply same as part payment. l a : Bfcj t-- - -an mm i im ' . .-c t--' a i . r--. . , - i r . v n l - ' ii iiu iiii-i j X -; r---y 1 - mmmw Living-Room Solid oak Arm Rocker and Arm Chair to match with leather-covered auto-cushion seats, plain rock er, has saddle-shaped seat, Library Table has 38x24-inch quarter sawed top, unique book racks at each end, which differ slightly from style shown in picture. Four Pieces $39.95 $4 Cash $1 Week 66 MOSS ROSE 9 9 Hand Decorated Ivory Enamel Bedroom Set Unusually attractive. The delicate spray of moss roses is very pleasing, making the set charmingly distinct from the ordinary. You will agree that it is the biggest value ever A Qf offered at DUt.i7U ar E2SH -Jii-UIB II I I ; : - ... 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Colonial design. ... 9 X 9 $5.50 Green Painted and Eeco-dJ lyg rated Torch Rocker 0 t O $8.50 Maple Settee, woven CfA OP wicker Beat and back 0TSCO $10.90 "Katz" Grass Arm Chair, very durable and attractive, 1(7 eg now for 9 i UJ $10.25 "Palmer" Porch Couch Swing, spring seat, loose cushion and fl?Q 7jjf back rest DO. O DRAFT NEWS! If your eligible, you can't get out of it if you're Ineligible you can't get in it. Same thoueht may be applied to a. number of odd pieces which remain after the July furnituro sale. If you need them you will buy. If you don't need them, you wouldn't have them at any price. Scan over the lists on both elcles. Your $ SO DO $ 75D0 SWOjOO $12Sj00 $150JOO Credit Worth... Worth... Worth... Worth.. Worth. . Is Good $ S DO Cash. $ 7 JO Cash. $10 DO Cash. $1250 Cash. $15 DO Cash. as Gold ! .$1D0 Week .$U0 Week .$2 DO Week .$225 Week .$250 Week 2 Blocks North of Washington St. J1S.T" Kaltex Rocker, tapestry-upholstered back and loosc-cush- Q A f Ion seat, at iDu4U $24.50 Ivory Tteed Rocker, loose cushion seat and back, g J 2 25 $28.50 Brown Reed Rocker, tapestry up holstered wing back and l A OC loose -cushion seat. l)l"iJ $34.50 Solid Mahogany Arm Rocker, tapestry upholstered sea t 1 T n(J and back OX 43 JUS. 00 Solid Mahogany Arm Rocker, tapestry upholstered seat 1 Q f O and back OlOiUU $17.50 Solid Mahogany Arm Rocker, cane back, u p h o 1 s t ered !? 1 Q "TCi cushion seat W XO O $55.00 Tapestry Overstuffed 'Fireside Arm Rocker, with loose SjO7 CO cushion ' 0J Jfil.50 Tapestry Overstuffed Pillow Arm and rillow.BacktfOI QC Iiocker iJ L,iJ Stewart Phonograph. 12 Victor Slngle Histr 10-lnoh Kerords. i'ase to carry both machine and records. t T(? all for one special price. ,..iPlll J 3 DIE IN UD1ABYFIRE CUiRRED BODIES 1'OIND IN HOISE RUINS. Mother and Two Grandchildren Victims of Horrible Fate While Alone on Montana Farm. HELENA. Mont. July IS. Mrs. Philip Wallye and her two grandchil dren met a horrible fate Thursday night in their home on the road be tween Boulder and Basin, when, they were burned to death. The details of the tragedy, including the manner in which the fire started, are unknown. The remains of the three victims of the flames and the ruins of the burned dwelling were discovered Friday by Edward Paradise, a neighboring farmer, who came to the place while looking for a cow. Tostmaster Kilbourne, of Basin, a brother of Mrs. Wallye, visited her Thursday evening and left the house at 10 o'clock, at which time everything was normal. Wallye. and bis son Clar ence were at a sawmill in Hay Canyon when the tragedy happened. The body of tbe dead woman was found, on the bed and those of the children Tinder the ruins of an incubator. People of the vicinity entertain the suspicion that the fire was of Incen diary origin and an inquiry is afoot. AMERICANS HONOR GUESTS a Sailors Greeted A itU Clieers While at Buenos Aires'. BUENOS AIRES. July 28. Rear Admiral Caperton and the officers and men, of the American squadron were honor guests yesterday at an entertain ment given by the Grenadier Regiment. The Admiral and his staff were the guests of Minister of War Gonzales and the Argentine general Btaff at break fast. Everywhere the visitors went they were greeted with applause. THREATENING IS DENIED Shipbuilders Organizer Says Atti tude Not One of Opposition. PHILADELPHIA, July 8. Charles F. Scott, deputy organizer of the In ternational Brotherhood of Boilermak ers, Shipbuilders and Helpers of Amer ica, last night emphatically aenied that he had made the stalem.ul attributed to him Thursday night in which he was quoted us saying that if the Gov ernment failed to exempt a single man from war duty lie would call a strike of the 4300 mechanics employed on all the ways along tho Delaware lliver. "The statement." sa Id Mr. Soott tonight. "Is absurd on its face.' The officials of the shipyards with whom I have been dealing th last 18 months know and would gladly testify that my atti tude has always been foreign to any policy which would tend to hamper the work of the Government or in any way Jeopardize our success In tho present world war. Even ttioiish T favored such ft step personally. I would not have the authority." Koseburs Soldiers Entertained. ROSEBURG. Or., July 2S. (Special.) Members of the Fourth Company. Coast Artillery: local hospital corps and members of the Woodburn com pany who are doing guard duty here, were the guesls of honor at a reception held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. A. C Marsters last night. Following the reception the boys were entertained at a dance given by the National Honor Guard Girls of this city. FEVER AND COLD SORES CAN BE QUICKLY HEALED NOTHING is so annoying or defacing as an ugly cold sore or fever blis ter. They are irritating and a constant distress. Esther Campbell, of Seattle, writes: "A few applications of Santi septic cured u cola sore within six hours of its appearance. I want you to know about It, that you may help others. 1 also tried Suntiseptio on a cold sore which had bothered a trained nurse for some time, it was instantly relieved. 1 had tried everything itbout which I had heard, but had been unable to find a cure until a friend advised Santlseptic." If you sre troubled with a fever or cold fco.e. tiy tiautisepUc. It will brlsig Instant relief. Apply it regularly, an often as convenient, just :i little at a time. You will be delighted. The uarly ulcerations will disappear rapidly and the skin quickly leal. Santlseptic is alno splendid for sunburn, wlmlburn, tan. pimples and all sorts of facial blem ishes, and relieves insect citings, poison oak and ivy, and Is valued as a skin soother after shaving. Ke".ul; 1 use of Sai-tisepl!c assures a healthy and attractive skin. It cos 1 si only oil cents. If your druggist linsn't !t, send direct to the miuinfacturera. Uarge sized introductory bottle, post paid, for 25 cents in stamps or coin. K.slveinott Laboratories, Portland. Or.