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TTIE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, OCTOBER 13, 1918. PETROGRAD CITY OF west, who died at Chicago on October 3, after a brief illness, pneumonia be ing the cause of death, was connected with the firm of T. A. Iivesley & Co., of Salem, and left Portland about a month ago for an Eastern buqines"s trip. Mr. t)orcas, who had made his home in this ciry for the past 10 years, living at 1113 East Alder street, was for six years engaged in the hop business here with his Drother. George K. Dorcas. He wai born at Scranton, la., January 39, 1887. He is survived by his widow, bis father, John Dorcas: two brothers, fieorge E. and C. A. Dorcas, and a ister, Mrs. A. H. Amberg, of Los Ange les. Mr. Dorcas was a Mason, member of Portland Lodge No. 55. of Portland BRITISH DRIVE EAST, TAKING MORETOWNS 6 co'urt, through the Piquerval wood and thence possibly southeast to Vanden court on the Oise. Line la Only Temporary. It is obvious that this is only a tem porary line, for explosions are in prog ress east of It. It is known that the military officers that were formerly In Le Cateau were moved to Maubeuge and Charlerol, -and guns have been seen moving back far to tne eastward. In Douai there have been several fires, while In Denatn and In the south ern and northern outskirts, of Lille ex plosions and fires have been observed. Villages northeast of Douai are burn ing. Including Maitaing, Marquette, Merchicourt and Marq. Notwithstanding the Germans having adopted a defensive line, the attacks by the British and -Americans are con tinuing. Americans and British troops cap tured in the Bohaln region what was probably the largest enemy ammunition dump ever taken. , The shells, piled high, covered a large area. This cap ture will greatly reduce the quantity of ammunition available to the Ger mans on this section of the front. Honda Are Mined by For. All the Bohain roads were found to be mined when the Anglo-American forces entered the town. When the German sentries discovered that the mines had failed to catch anything they shot at a big one in the center Uncle Sa7?i Wants Yon to Save j . j . Juvenile Population May Suc cumb This Winter. Montigny, Harnes and Annay Wrested From. Germans. Each man owes it to himself to conserve in every way possible Chapter Xo. 3, Royal Arch Masons, Ore MORTALITY 50 PER CENT gon Commandry No. 1 Knights Templar and Al Kader Temple of the Mystic AREA NEAR LENS CLEARED ! diousands of Adults, Especially Aged and. Infirm, Are Dy ing of Starvation. STOCKHOLM. Oct. 11. (By the As sociated Press.) Infant mortality in Petrograd has increased to 50 per cent. School statistics show from 57 to S7 per cent of the enrolled children are absent on account of sickness. The situation is growing daily worse, and the juvenile population of Petro grad will practically be wiped out this 'Winter unless food is provided from foreign countries. Figures on adult mortality are not available, but. according to Captain William B. Webster, of the American Jted Cross, who has Just arrived here from Petrograd, starvation is claiming thousands, especially aged and infirm persons. Moacow Situation Critical. In Moscow the situation is critical, but slightly better than in Petrograd. An American who just arrived from Russia, and who for three months was engaged in an effort to provide bread for workmen in the industrial centers of Soviet Russia, told the correspond ent today of a widespread organization of peasants against Soviet authority which Is non-political and based purely n self-preservation. Peasants Organize Army. In three districts of the Vyatka gov ernment alone the peasants have or ganized and armed 16,000 men. chiefly returned soldiers, to resist Soviet at tempts to take their grain. The peas ants pay the soldiers 500 rubles each monthly. Similar conditions exist In the grain producing governments nominally un der Soviet authority. The Soviet grain crusaders were able to obtain limited Quantities of rye this year which was harvested before the peasants had per fected their organization of returned soldiers, but the loss of .this rye forced them to action. Grain Left ttf Rot. M in many instances tne wneat ana Oats crops are in the hands of peasant organizations, which are guarding them against the Bolsheviki. Where the districts are not well or ganized the farmers are cutting the grain only as they can sell it, and will burn it or let it rot in the fields rather than risk its confiscation by armed bands of Bolsheviki. Food Conditions Realsted. The food crusaders sent from Moscow and Petrograd meet with such resist ance that many who escape death join the anti-Bolshevik forces and assist in tightening the noose of starvation about the two Soviet strongholds, which are undergoing a hunger siege far more death-dealing than the spasmodic revo lutionary outbreaks directed against them by the Social Revolutionists and the Social democrats. E XLKTJTEXAXT MIDDIiEKAUFF A STUDENT AT CORVALLIS. Appointed Assistant Professor of Bacteriology, Prior to Going to France, Where He Met Death. OREGON AGRICULTURAL COL LEGE. Corvallls, Oct. 12. (Special.) First Lieutenant Mark: H. Middlekauff, a. graduate of Oregon Agricultural Col lege, who was this week reported as having been killed in France, made an excellent record in the aviation serv ice. Lieutenant Middlekauff was grad uated in bacteriology in 1916. having had a fellowship In his senior year. He was a member of Alpha Zeta, hon orary agricultural fraternity, and Gam ma Tau Beta, social fraternity. He later studied in Ames for his master's degree, but left the institution before the end of the school year. Ho was awarded his degree, however, while re ceiving training at Fort Snelling, Minn. Before leaving for France In Octo ber, 1917, he was offered a Govern ment position in sanitation but turned this down, as his ambition was to go . into the aviation service. He was ap pointed assistant professor of bac teriology at O. A. C. prior to leaving for the front. At Ames he became a member Delta Upsilon national fra ternity. Lieutenant Middlekauff received his first training in aviation at Columbus, Ohio. He received further training in France last Winter and In Italy In the Spring, where he was graduated from the royal Italian flying school. He then went back to France to receive a three weeks' course in bombing. For several months he had been flying in airplanes from a base assembling plant to the battle line, returning by rail each time for another machine. He covered a distance of 300 miles in two hours. Lieutenant Middlekauff was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Middlekauff. of Corvallis. His parents did not receive the usual notification of his death un til after his name was published in the regular casualty lift. His death was the result of an accident. CLASS OFFICERS ELECTED Castle Rock High School Appoints Ruth Stevens President. CASTLE ROCK. Wash.. Oct. 12. (Special.) The high school organized and elected their class officers this week, as follows: Student body Ruth Stevens, president; Selma Rhode, vice president; Muriel Cook, secretary; June Moorhead. treasurer. Seniors Mary Tastor, president; Bert Bingham, vice president; Hilda Leonard, secretary and treasurer; Hilbert O'Neill, serjeant-at-arms: Miss Severance, class advisor. Juniors June Moorhead. president; Arvel Jackson, vice-president: Muriel Cook, secretary-treasurer: Mr. Hulburd. class advisor. Sophomores Myrtle Lunceford, president; John Hicks, vice president; Freda Huebner, secretary; James Hoyer. treasurer; Miss Gross, class advisor. Freshmen Eva McMil lan, president; Ella Rockwell, vice president; Sarah Peabody, secretary; Roy Stevenson, sergeant-at-arms; Miss Wright, class mother. MASONIC FUNERAL HELD I.ate Ralph C. Dorcas One of Beet Known Bop Dealers in Northwest. Ralph C. Dorcas, of this city, one of the best-known hop men In the North- OLD It KS I OK N'T OK YAMHII COtSiT.V DICS. rr -Art " ' -WSJ fieorge W. l.anileaa. George W. Landess, an old res ident of 'i'amhill County, died in his 65th year at his home in Carl ton. Or.. October 2. He was born in February, 1854, in Washington County, Oregon,, of pioneer par ents, who came to Oregon in 1847. He was married 1 .1 1872 to Aman da F. Fenton. oldest daughter of James D. and Margaret A. F'en ton, pioneer settlers of Yamhill County. He is survived by his widow and six' children James I., Dayton. Or.: William H.. Carl ton, Or.; Fred L-. Seattle, Wash.; Mrs. Curtis L. Hawley, McCoy. Or.; Mrs. Edgar S. Hadley, Seat tle, Wash., and Mrs. Austin Sims, Hillsboro, Or., all of whom were at his bedside. The interment was in the Masonic Cemetery at Mc- Minnville, Or. Shrine. He was also a member of the Salem Lodge of Elks No. 336. The funeral was held yesterday under the auppices of the Masons at Holman'a chapel. PROBATION OFFICER QUITS ASSISTANT OFFICIALS OF JUVE NILE COIRT ALSO QUIT. Lack or Co-operation, by Employes Said to Be Cause of Will F. Spencer's Leaving. Will F. Spencer, chief probation of ficer of the Juvenile Court: Jesse If. Harrington and John Murphy, assist ant probation officers, have resigned from their county posts, the resigna tions to take effect immediately. Ju venile Judge Tazwell has appointed A. A. Bailey to succeed Spencer, but no appointments have been made to fill the other two vacancies. The resignations of the three court attaches is said to have followed a stormy session with Judge Tazwell Fri day afternoon. Just what differences existed neither Judge Tazwell nor the three men who resigned would state, but It was intimated that the resigna tions came as the result of minor dis agreements and disharmony which have extended over a long period of time. Mr. Harrington said he had tendered his verbal resignation to Judge Tazwell last Tuesday before the storm broke at the private conference held Friday aft ernoon. He said he had been intending? leaving the county service' for several weeks. His written resignation was presented Friday.- Lack of co-operation by the employes under his supervision is said to have led to the resignation of Mr. Spencer, and knowing the conditions which ex isted in the department. Judge Tazwell accepted all three resignations at once. BUTTER PLANT STARTING Canby Company Installs Machinery to Deal Willi Produce From Farms CANBY, Or., October 12. (Special.) The " Canby Co-operative Cheese & Produce Company is not losing any time making the improvements author ized by the stockholders 10 days ago in installing machinery for making butter, and with this in view a direc tors' meeting authorized the purchase of a churn, with a capacity of 600 pounds daily, rtpener, print outfit and supplies, and these have been ordered. Inside another 10 days the plant will be in readiness to turn out butter. Three cream routes are to be main tained, with trips twice each week by wagons and auto truck for gathering the dairymen's product. The company is receiving" many inquiries from dairy men and farmers. Up to this time prac tically all the cream of this section has been trolner to Portland. the' most week. ' It will be if you eat spacious dining-room of 32 Under C Richard V (1 r it - 5 fwSunday lv Dinner liSiJI ought to be 3sY meal of the mlmlm Teutons Hastily Build Defenses In Effort to Stay Progress of Brit ish and American. Armies. WITH THK ANGLO-AMERICAN FORCES ON THK VA LKNCI EN.N KS FRONT, Oct. 12. 11 A. M. (By the As sociated Praia.) The British again at tacked aonthweat of Donal thla morning-, stormed and took Breblerea and passed throuKh to the eastward. They are now within alishtly more than a mile of Donal Itself. A Miff rear-fcuard realMtanee by enemy machine gunnrr la being; overcome. (By the Associated Press.) The Anglo-American forces on the southerly side of the great wedge that has been thrust into the enemy lines southwest of Valenciennes are halting momentarily before an extemporized German defense line running from Valenciennes to the Oise. Both to the north and south of this area, however, the Germans are either retreating or preparing to fall njack under the continuous pressure that Marshal Foch is applying. Douai, the most important of the northern French cities within the imme diate scope of the allied thrust, with the exception of the fallen Cambrai and the threatened Lille, seems about to pass into British hands. Lille's PoHition Menaced. Lille itself, the greatest of the French manufacturing towns, is in none too secure a position. The wedge below Douai is threatening the whole lino running north past Lille into Flanders and the. Germans are palpably worried, also over the prospect of. General Plum mer'a second British army and King Alberf.s Belgian forces on their right flank above Lille springing into re- ewed activity. ln-the SOUTH General retain s armies and the Americans under General Pershing have struck renewed heavy blows 'against the German left in the great pocket formed by the German positions from Verdun around the La on curve to the sea. The Lnemm ues Dames no longer stands as a bulwark for Laon in the Aisne region and to the east in the Champagne the French, by a swift advance of from three to four miles ii a day, have entered Vouziers and carried their line so far north that the communications between the Ger man northern armies and those east of the Champagne bid fair to be cut. Tanks Continue Hammering. On the extreme allied right in the active battle area the American First Army Is keeping up Its hammering tac tics and dally gaing more of the most valuable ground remaining t- the Ger mans In Northern France that pro tecting their communicating llr s from the home soil through -he Meta and Montmedy regions. But the Germans, although they are In general on the retreat, by no means yet are in state of broken resistance. This is ehewn by the desperatj fight they are giving the Americana from the Argonne to the Meuse, by the stand they appear to be about to make before Marshal Halg's armies south of Valen ciennes, and by the persistence with which they are clinging to their posi tions around Laon, although doubtless aware of the peril to which tney are exposing their large forces in thla area by eo doing. Huns Fight Hard. . Douai and perhaps Lille, they aeem to have prepared themselves to give up. But they are still holding on to most of Belgium as well as to the Laon pocket, and are throwing everything they can possibly mass Into the effort to keep their vital flank north of the Verdun area protected. LONDON. Oct. 12. British forces ad vancing east of Lena have captured the villages of Montigny, Harnes an4 Annay, Field Marshal Haig reports In his official statement tonight. The German rear guards Buffered sever casualties. WITH THE ANGLO-AMERICAN FORCKS O THE VALENCIENNES FRONT. Oct. 12 (Morning.) (By. the Associated Press.) There was every evidence today that the Germans were preparing to make a strong etand on the Valenciennes line which now has been reached, at least east of the River Selle, by the Anglo-American forces. The evacuation of the city of Val enciennes Itself was started three weeks ago. Prisoners captured today said they had orders to hold on to the last and to kill as many Brltona and Americans as possible. More Resistance Expected. It Is expected the German resistance will continue and will grow more de termined until the first phase of the withdrawal in the Douai sector is com pleted. There are indications that the enemy also is contemplating withdraw als on a large scale elsewhere. The Germans had to do quick work in the preparation of the Valenciennes lines, which. It appears, the Germans intend trying to hold. It seems in a general way to run from Valenciennes to Vendegles. east of the River Eseall- lon. on the high ground south of Bar merain, along the high ground be tween EBCarmain and Solesmes, - along the high ground east of the River Selle, east of Le Cateau to Morlaln, thence east of Andigny, west of Remni- 'inner t-m . VI a. 1 I II , -a. a-j pleasant in the the Portland Hotel with its fine light and ven tilation. Sunday Dinner $1.23 6:A 'mm Also a la Carte Service Special Music The Portland .13 Management of W. Child3. of the place. They made a direct hit and the explosion blew a hole in the ground big enough to hold a largo chateau. Because the German divisions and regiments are so mixed up and deci mated, the Germans are now supposed1 to have abandoned numbers on shoul der straps. Instead they arc wearing different letters on their sleeves desig nating groups. Two additional batteries have been captured by the Americans operating' on this front south of St. Souplet. The German gunners were bayonetted. The British barrage late yesterday completely smashed the hostile artil lery which fired heavily on the Amer icans at St. Souplet. Villagers Welcome Tanks. The villagers in Vaux-Andlgny knew that the Americans were in the war, but did not know they were fighting. All of them rushed to meet the troops vhen the Americans entered, the people thinking the men were British. The Americans were kissed again and again, the more emotional of the vil lagers also kissing the soldiers' rifles and bayonets which had delivered them from their oppressors. The villagers offered the soldiers tea and when the latter produced the sugar for it the people all cried: "Why, you must be Americans." There was another outburst of en thusiasm. The British cavalrymen operating on this front have taken prisoners who said they were under the Impression that an armistice had been signed and that therefore they gave themselves up. It is evident that the "peace talk" Is having its effect in the German army, as many of the enemy are surrender ing who otherwise might not. Hon Officers Pack Grips. Many of the German officers who have been taken prisoner had their ef fects all packed ready for a stay in a prison, camp. General Sir Henry Rawlinson. com manding the British Fourth Army, with wnicn an American division is operat ing, has sent to the General command ing the division, comprising troops from Tennessee and the Carolina, the following telegram: On this occasion, I desire to crnvv to you and all members of the staff. as well as all other ranks of Divi sion, my heartiest congratulations on your victory. The gallantry of vour Infuntrv the precision, with which the staff ar rangements worked fill me with ad miration, and it has given me trrmt pleasure to report your unqualified suc cess to rleld Marshal Sir Douglas Haig. SEGREGATION ' IS NEEDED Penitentiary and Training School Accommodation Is Inadequate. SALEM. Or.. Oct. 12. (Special.) Need of segregation at the Oregon State Penitentiary and at the Kt.t Training School for Boya is pointed ouvl uukilciiy report or itev. iih,r J. R. Buck, of Salem. Catholic chaplain oi tne two institutions. Relative to the training school Father Buck expresses the hope that the Leg islature will make an appropriation for necessary buildings and concern ing the Penitentiary he makes the comment that the buildings are in adequate and unsanitary. The audi toriums are not considered satisfactory for religious services. Hev. George Koehler. Protestant chaplain at the institutions, believes the chaplain should be made a real dent official at both places so that he might be in contact with the inmates at all times. I Scientific Eye ---- --Ja- a-. a.V . Near-sighted, far-algfcted. astigmatic or wkavtever taa rlasal tremble aaay be thla vrondrrful laatraameat reflects that kaowledga with vnerrlag posltlveaess to the operator. J No matter how excellent the mechanical work, in a pair of glasses, it counts for nothing unless the formula from which the lenses are ground is the correct one for your eyes. 1 C The formula will only be correct when it is based on the result of a careful examination. 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