'i TIIE OREGON &TATEgMA?f; SrXDAY. MARCH 17. 1918 BRITISH NAVY IN ARCTIC OCEAN FIGHTS U-BOAT Submarine! Come With Thaws ! and Trawlers Search Face - - " of Ocean -. i HIDE. AND SEEK PLAYED . -Seals and Grampus Witness Exciting Games Among Ice Floats LONDON. Feb. 28. (Correspond ence of the Associated Press.) One side cf the world war that is little heard of. and yet which ha furnish- . cd some stirring incidents is the life of the British navy In the Arctic. A graphic description is contained in an official account of experiences of naval men stationed at or near Ar changel. . It says: x "The lon winter. nUht of four m6ntbs is drawing: to a close. The moon, which each month has gone round in a circle for five days at a time without setting, no longer ab sorbs our attention. The rosy noon day light has each day brightened -and whitened perceptibly, . and now each twenty-four hours we see fpr a short .period, the sun low down over the southern hills. . U.lioats Come With Thaw. "Wlth'the thaw ctae 'the subma rines, and It Is not long before the U-boats have laid their quota of ex plosive eggs off the entrance of the port, i Merchantmen arrive with their sides battered from shell fire, and tales of gallant actions and hair breadth escapes, when the kaiser fish fassed beneath their bottoms ' SALEM DOCTOR CURES CANCER Mr. Juliett Adams, Prominent J o"1 nt f Iik County, ' Cured of Cancer of " ' " the Fhce, 'HTo Whom It May Concern: For six years I suffered with cancer of face, I was haunt ted by the realization that it ,was steadily becoming worse. As a jast resort I applied .o Dr. S. C. Stone for treatment. He applied a remedy for a few Lays and the cancer dropped completely out. I am happy to say-that I am no.w com- pletely free' from the dreaded disease. I cheerfully recommend Dr. Stone and bis treatment. Mrs.. Juliett Adams, Route 1; box 14. Salem, Ore. November 30. 1917. I H'ill, be pleased to refer yon to other Salem people whom. I. have rccent'y cured of M-jeaBcer.'' . S. G STONE, ML D., , .Stoned Drug Store Hit North Commercial Street, :j Salem, Or. Phone 33. Cwixultation and Advice- Free. Soijte do not arrive at all then the trawlers search the face of the ocean, and bring in a remnant of starved and frost-bitten crews who have leen "exposed for days la opes boats to the fury of an .Arctic spring time. Sometimes they are not found and sometimes the U-boat herself meets the fate she has prepared for others. "in the Arctic ice was found the telephone buoy of one who had missed her prey, and coming too close, herself became the victim. The buoy Is only let go as a lat resource when a submarine is sunk and is unable to risk It hns a water-tight telephone upon it. connected with the hull o' the sunken submarine, and bv which communication can be established from the surface with the Imprisoned occupants. It bears a large brass plate, noon which is in scribed the legend in German: Instruction I Riven. " 'Underea bo?t the Is sunk here. Do not touch, b'U telegraph At once to the commandant of the U-boats' base at Kiel. "Another submarine was equally unfortunate, though In a different way. The submarine rose to the surface, to shell a munition ship which she had torpedoed, but the submarine's first bsell exploded the shin's cargo of munitions. A large motor-lorry on .he upper deck of the vessel pitched, overboard and landed on the upper deck of the sub marine, sinking her Instantly. The ship's boats were already so crowd ed that it was." bumatolv Impossible to take another soul Into them, and ! it was, their crews spent four davs in them with very scanty 'pro visions before reaching land. tikie an iseen i-iayeu. j "Other submarines hid themselves amnog the ice-floes further north, and many were the exciting games of hide and seek played in those still water, with only the seals and grampus ?0f witnesses. 'Fogs, both In summer and win ter, are a very terrible thing in these Arctic waters.'. The cold wind blow ing on the warmer water raises an Impenetrable mist, and probafelv causes as many losses as the enemy's best efforts. ! "Summer, that short six weeks, would be a delightful season but for the mosqultos. Literally, one eats, drinks and breathes mosqultos. "With the end of August come the gales again, tobe followed very soon by snow, and the whole country be comes bare and black and barren in -t single night. Boarding becomes strenuous work, and the convoy trawlers, as they sweep vessels throueh the mined areas, have no easy time of it. "In a howling three-days gale, a big Russian ship which had struck a mine, was broueht safely into har bor by four trawlers, two ahead and two astern, and each with 600 fath oms of sweep wire out. Very peril ous work it was, but safely accom plished; though to see her come into harbor before the great breakers, with her fore-castle under wmter and her stern in the air. it appeared al most imnosslble. Then night and da v work for everyone for a week while her cargo Is transferred, and I she is conducted safely to Archang el. One trawler struck a mine and foundered In ten seconds; only one of her crew being. saved with the sea at freezing point. "And as the dark winter drags in, he davs become shorter and shorter, until the sun no lonper rises. .The last ship has left Archangel, home ward bound, but the Arctic squadron goes farther west and north, to the Ice free waters. of the Kola inlet. "Strange to say, insomnia Is very nrevaJent. many men 'having to be treated by the doctor for it. The darkness and lack of news and in terest, with no possibility of exer cise, make everyone's nerves go single." 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The new Polish states would be unrelated to Prussian Pol and and could expand In the east. The question of Courland also his been studied. The Vossische Zeltun?, the dispatch says, elieves that the majority and in particular Deputy Krzbefger have ciearly opposed the nersonal union of Courland with the nnmire. Thev seeni also to have considered it Impossible to solve sep artelv each of the eastern questions which are pressing. One cannot isolate the question of Courland from the Polish and Lithuanian," it says. "One must then wait before making a definite decision to find out what is hapiwn ing in Moscow and Hucharest. "Finally the reception bv llinden burg of . the president ot the repub lic of Finland and the Finnish min ister in Berlin proves that the Fin nish problem has been under dia cussion." THOUSAND DELEGATES EXPECTED IN SALEM (Continued from page 1) RUSSIA TO HAVE ARMY OF DEFENSE (Continued from page 1) that President Wilson nosslbly might soon make a statement bearing on the Russian debacle came today. Heretofore, statements that th- president was preparing to address congress on the subject have been j-ure guess work." Today brought the first official Intimation that the president in his close study 'of the situation has gotten to, the $oi nt where he .was thinking, of such .i course. , t Address by Wilson Likely. ' There is no official indication of the medium the president will choose or when ; he will ehoose it, but it is generally believed that as usual, he will direct his statement to the world through' ah address to a joint ses sion tf eongress. ' Inferences drawn from statements by Sir Robert Cecil. British min'stdr of blockade. Field Marshall Hlnden burg and General Ludendorff that Germany might be proposing a peac at the expense of Russia, made peac? talk in general no more popular in Washington than it .has been at any time since the United States went to war. Officials everywhere are de clining to make statements for. the very reason that any sort of a state ment would give comfort to a peace movement, gave unmistakable indi cations of how unwelcome peace dis cussions were at this time. This attitude of American offi cials found a highly interesting re flection in French official dispatches giving accounts of the Interviews re cently given by HIndenburg and Lu dendorff at German headquarters, and publications in German newspa pers of .the situation on the eastern battle front. K stern Oiietlon I)iC"ued. An officlM dispatch . today from P.erne quoted a Berlin dispatch as declaring it was the eastern question which was the object of Hlnden burg's recent conference with the emperor and the chancellor. Thev discussed at the same time Finland. Poland, and Lithuania, the Baltic provinces and Rumania. The gov ernment is expected to malro a state ment next week on the situation. The government, it is declared. Is occu pied with the result of conferences held between the leader of 'the Pol ish activities and delegates from th majorltv in the relchstag. At thes I ROLL OF HONOR WASHINGTON. D. C. March 16. eighty-five names, including those of nine officers one killed in ac tion, one In an accident and seven slightly wounded were contained In the casualty list Issued today by the war department. The list was divided as follows: Killed in action, eight; died of wounds, two; died of accidents, six; died of disease, ten; died from un determined causes, on; slightly wounded, fifty-eight. The names follow: Killed in action: Lieutenant John Norman. Sejrgeant Louis K. Lfffew. Corporal I-eo II. Rogers. Privates Fred M. Eager, Charles T. Lugginfland. Claud W. Newlee, S. Rowe Petty, Oscar SwarU. Died of wounds: Corporal Mar vin Dunn. Private Dan P. Bracelin. Died of disease: Cornorals Ig natius Fleming. Walter E. Furen. Herbert H. Krombaos. Percy Stone Bosworth: Privates Will Galloway Charles M. Hoemlng, ,Theophlle Jo seph Proulx, Clare R. Tapar.tr. Frank Hrrisoi Welch. Wagoner Ar thur V.. Fisher. Died of accidents: Lieutenant Andrew Carl Ortmayer. Corporal Clifford J. Stevens. Privates John J. Brannon. Peter Casan, George Mock, John E. Hawkins. D'ed of cause unknown: Sergeant Byrd Wrf Penrod. Wounded slightly: Major John W. Downer. Caotain Harrv B. Whit ney. ILeutenanta Blake H. Cooley. Herbert J. Jones. Donald G. Mac lachlan. Frank M. Xlltchell. Warren A. Ransom. Sergeants Charles K. Allen. Peter Danowskl, Cornorals Brodie B. Cauele, Eugene O. Hickey, John C. Cadron, George Leveque. Chester W. Mahaffie. Orvll F. Mar lin, William J. Monahan. Henry Rel mer, Privates' Arxa O. Amburjrey. Gust an Anderson. Earl Beasley. Lui i Bernl, Julius BoJarskl, Benjamin Brenner. Charles Brockelmann, George Carman. Jack Carson. Chris topher O. Coughlln. Sam Jonofrl. Ralph W. Frantz. William Freder ick, Donald Gruell, Otto Haas. John F. Trvan, Philip P. Isaacs, Jolm Ja nulewls. David R. Johnson. Julius O. Kolf. Charles H. Lee, Albert. A. Lommel. James V. Lvons. William R. MfKIm. Raymond' W. Miller. Tnhn O'Neal. Conrad H. Ordemah. navid M. Reld. Frank C. Schultz. George E. Schwab. William S. Snel ton. George F. Shields. Nell Soreleln, William A. Sykes. Adam Trarszk. William Vescove. LawYence E. Whit- ford. Joseph T. Wlckler, Cloyd Wil son, Mechanics Harry Chrlstenson, James Lajoi. tian, C. A. Woody: Seventeenth Street. Evangelical, Miss Elizabeth McDowell; First Unitarian, Mrs. Adelaide I. Aldrich. The men's programs for tonight and Monday follows: The opening session Sunday eve ning, March 17. 7:30 o'clock Theme: The Call to World Service. Devotional Thought. the Master Who Calls. Matt. 4:19. Luke 24:15. Opening address. The Church in n World at War. . W. E. Doughty;. Around the World with a Missionary Camera, T. A. O'FarreH. Monday, March 18. morning, 10 to 12 o'clock Theme; The field to Be Won. Devotional thought, the Impossible Task, the Invincible Christ5. Matt. 28:18-20. Acts 1:1V The Northwest, C. A. Woody; Am erica, Mrs. Adelaide I. Aldrich, A. J. Montgomery; The World T. A. O'Ferrell, C. R. Marsh and other missionaries. Afternoon. 2:30 to 4:30 o'clock Theme: the Program of World Con quest. Devotional thought, a Dav or Good Tidings.. 11 Kings 7:1-16. Ten minute addresses: The Man and Millions Movement. W. F. Tur ner; The Five Year Program, O. C. Wright; The Victory Drive, F. J, Clark; The Pilgrim Tercentenary, Hi' n. Kelsey; The Every-MembeV Move-, racnt, W. 8. Marquis; The Mission ary Centenary, T. A. O'Farrfell. Con ference: How to Reach Standards of Giving and Devotion Called for by these World Programs, W.E. Dough ty. Address: The Living Christ and the World's Need, H. H. Kelsey; Monday evening. 7:30 o'clock- Open meeting and union rally of men and women by denomination. Theme: The Assignments for Ser vice. Baptist at First Baptist church; speakers, F. A. Agar, A. M; Petty. C. A. Woody. O. C. Wright tnd Miss Elizabeth McDowell, C. R. Marsh. Christian at Christian church: speakers, W. F. Turner, Mr J. A. Bennett and Mrs. C. O. Kurtz. Congregational at First Congrega tional church; speakers, H. H. Kei sev. J. H. Mathews and Mrs. A. Jj Sullens. Episcopal at Episcopal church; speaker, F. J. Clark. Meth odist at First Methodist church, speakers T. B. Ford, Thos. A. O'Fer rell an'd W. E. Doughty. Presbyter ian at First Presbyterian church, speakers, W. S. Marquis, A. J. Mont gomery and Mrs. Adelaide I. Aid- Nrich. The women's program for tonight and Monday is given below: The , Habiliments of Sprio They're here all the new things in dress for men, young men and boys. Many of them have a military effect -all of them are new new materials, new styles, new finish. A mammoth assortment dependable merchandise bought early priced rea sonably. Call and Look Them Over. Hart, Schaffner & Marx Suits and Overcoats $25-$30-$35-$40 Bishop All-wool Suits and Overcoats $20-$25-$30 SALEM wnniFM X. ' : ; ' '; " ; - 1 MILLS STORE Automobile Industry Is Aid to Federal Government The enormous tasks now belne handled so efficiently by our govern ment have been aided wonderfully hy the automobile industry In fact, it Is n open question whether o not the final success of the allies will t.oI be traced to the expelrence and Ingenuity of the automobile engi neer. . Motor trucks saved Verdun. La ter, American-made trucks ket op en lines of communication which forever stopped the Boche. Motor cars at home and abroad made pos sible increased crbps and larger In dustries, and encouraged stupendous activities in all lines. The formidable "tank" Is an out cropping of the automobile Indus try. The new Liberty motor was de lamed almost overnight by automo bile engineers and built forthwith in automobile factories. On it we place our hopes of final supremacy, and now "in the face of an ever-in creasing submarine menace the auto mobile engineer has designed and i building In quantities a destroyer which will surely defeat the piracy of Germany on the seas. The nobe deeds of the Red Cros- have been i aided immeasnreably bv Ihe motor ambulance. The ramifi cations of the Y M. C. A. have be-n carried on all fields ty motor ca and truck. In fact, the fighting sol dier does his best knowing that not far away Is relief and entertainment brought to the very trenches. by th-j product of this most active industry In America. The government Is ericouragln j the work of the automobile industry There is plenty of gasoline for oil at the present price. There will be a shortage of motor cars in tht country later In the year, due to the necessity of building other things as well as motor cars in motor car fac tories. The Velle Motors corporation ad vises those interested in the Velle Six to take heed of the situation an 1 order early that they may not bv disappointed later. The opening session. Sunday evening, March 17, 7:30 o'clock, Theme: The Call fo World Service Devotional Thought The Master Who Calls. , Mat. 4:19. Luke 24:15 Women and World ' Service Will- lam S. Marquis. The Challenge of the Hour Fred erick A. Ager. Monday, March 18. Morning, 10 to 12 o'clock. Theme: The Forces to Be Wielded. Devotional Thought . Mastery Through Surrender. Eph. 3:14-21. Woman -Mrs. Paul Raymond. Money Frederick A. Agar. Prayer W. E. Doughty. Afternoont 2:30 to 4:30 o'clock Theme: Equipment. Devotional Thpught The Chris tian Warrior. Eph. 6-11-18. Conference Hour: Fundamentals In Efficiency Mrs. Paul Raymond and representatives of .women's boards. , J , Address: Missions, the te of the Church F. J. Clark. Monday evening , 7:30 o'clock. Open meeting and union rally of men and women by denominations: Theme: The Assignments for Service Baptists at First Baptist Church Speakers: V. A. Agar. A. M. Petty. C. A. Woody. O. C. Wright and Miss Elizabeth McDowell, C, R. Marsh. Christian at Christian 'Church Speakers: W. F. Turner. Mrs. J. A. Bennett and Mrs. C. O. Kurtz. Congregational at First Congrega tional Church Speakers: If. H. Kelsey. J. H. Mathews and Mrs. A. J. Sullens. Episcopal at Episcopal Church Speaker: F. J. Clark. 1 Methodist at First Methodist Church Speakers: T. B. ltVrd, T. A. O'FarreH and W. E. Doughty. Presbyterian at First Presbyterian Church Speakers: W. S. Marquis, A. J. Montgomery and Mrs. Adelaide I. Aldrich. An extraordinary product of South Africa is the "sneeze-wood tree." which no worm or other insect will touch. When cut with a saw the tree throws out a cloud of very fine dust which always sets the sawyer meeting. "MEN! MEN!" SEE CLASSIFIED AD HOLLAND READY TO GIVE SHIPS Willingness Is Shown Even to Dispatch Vessels Through War Zone WASHINGTON, Marchv 16. Hol land, on the eve of her shipping be ing taken over by the United tSates and Great Britain has given evidence of a readiness to make a voluntary agreement to that purpose, even agreefng that the ships shall be sent through the war zone. In view of the continued pres sure upon the Netherlands ty Ger n any In opposition to such itep. officials here were mystified at the sudden change in the situation and began to speculate upon what ar rangements Holland might have made with Berlin. It was stated in official quarters that Holland probably would make liberal concessions to Germany when she turns the ships over to the al lies, but it was feared thai the sud den acquiescence with the long op losed provision that the ships be sent through the war zone, might in dicate that the Netherlands govern ment was proposing u.u.ething now it "onrrction with the negotiations which Great Britain and tbo United States would be unable to accept. The" official attitude here is that all arrangements have been made to take over ships on Monday and that the injection of tnv new proposals i x. You'll be glad to get acquainted with our NEW WARDROBE TRUNKS In this line we specialize on several "up to the minute' mod erate priced numbers which have won their way into popular ' "favor by beings A LITTLE BETTER THAN CUSTOMERS EXPECT and a little cheaper than others are charging. One visit will ; convince!, ; ; BUREN'S FURNITURE STORE 179 Commercial St. by Holland cannot stay the decisions reached in London and Washington. It was stater that if Holland de sires to turn over the ships on the terms already laid down, by volun tary agreement, it wouM be, consid ered very agreeable, but that they must be taken over Monday, at all events, on the final terms submit ted to Tho Hague by the1 American and Brltlr.h diplomatic representa detail. of modern warfare from the actual association with front line op erations rn the American sec rs. - Tho first increment will bo from th officers who have bn .tr.-s'. in Fnce. There will b-a rpliiced by an equal number of officers train ed here in general staff work as it cpplies to the- war iepartracnt and an interchange of information would be established between the depart ment and the fighting forces which officials believe will be productive to smooth administration and com- NEW GERMAN I y;. yAKMl JS XRfcATtUetent staff work on both sides of (Continued from page. 1)1- Duke- "Albreeht r of Wuerttemburg. The crown prince's front included the Alsne. Champagne and Verdun regions, while ; Albrecht'a started in the St. Mihlel region and extended to the end of the line. The new Von Gallwitc group Is indicated as rest ing between the crown prince and Albreeht groups. Americans Face Oallwltz. If Von Callwltz has taken over any. appreciable part of Albrecht's sertor.-it follows that theAmerJcaqs, In the reslon northwest of Tout, at least, and probably those on the line east - of Iuneville, 1 are facing the troops under this commander. Although Germany has been threatening Holland with dire things if The Netherlands government should agree to allow its ships now In entente allies ports to pass defin itely Into the hands of the allies, it Is indicated in Amsterdam advices that Holland has decided to meet the rallied demands, including the right to use the ships in the danger zone. i the water. It also will produce a degree of coordination for ltth ends of the three thousand miles of trans port lines that could not be achiev ed under any other pliKjs. STAFF TO BE OF VETERANS Experienced Officers to Be " Exchanged for Those in Washington WASHINGTON. March 16. 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