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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (June 1, 1918)
. . .... . : .. . . . . ": -. , , . , . . . . . ; v " The Statesman recedes the fyK iVS f VI . , SI XT V-1 I G I IT 1 1 V K A I S NO. 57 : ' . . . ' . i I'lUtt: FIVE ttNTS V PUSH TOWARD DORMANS AND THIERRY NOW Trench Mortars Used by En . emy to Cut Wire Rapid Advances Across River . Aisne Are Made . GERMANS PREPARED TO t MOVE NIGHT BEFORE! Allies Suffer Disadvantages on Account of Lay of Ground LONDON, May 31. A statement given to The Associated Press to night by a high military authority, expressive of the opinion of the British genei-al staff of the .situation on the western front says: i "The main German offensive has been directed toward Chateau Thier ry and Dormans. The Germans have reached the right bank of the Marne on a front of ten miles from a point west of Chateau-Thierry to Dormans. They have not captured Chateau Thierry, but are attacking, very heav ily and to the northward. "They already have captured Sois- sons. and yesterday they extended their attack northwest of Noyon and forced the -French, back, so that the line now runs! almost straight from Noyon to Soissons. - "Around Rheims. the position Is somewhat obscure. Probably the Germans already have entered Rheims. ! Allied j Lino -Ret trie "The French reported yesterday that the allied line had retired to the south of the canal near Rheims, hut this morning there was news that the British were resisting north of the city. The new development is that the German attempt Is to ex tend the attack east of Rheims, where they were reported attacking last night, but no further details have yet been' received. "The Germans have thrown In every resource in an effort to widen the salient in which they find them selves by attacking its flanks, but on the heights to the west of Sols pons, the French ; are resisting ", At V 1. ...... wen wane ins, uruisn are r making a stand south' and southwest of Itheims. These efforts so far have held the German salient to a narrow width. "The Germans biff attack began ' , May 27 with about 30 divisions on a front of 35 miles from Bermericourt 1 to Leullly. This front was held by seven allied divisions with three -British on the right and fonr French on the left. Ilouthartlment Tuts Wire "After a bombardment of two hours, which appears to have been very effective in cutting' our wire, the Germans assaulted. They overran the French front ines. The British held In the secQpd line as first, but eventually were compelled to fall back to conform to the French align ment. ."The Germans advanced very rap ,. Idly, crossing the Aisne. although the N French had occupied very strongpo sitions here, with three divisions commanding the river .crossings. "Since this time the crown prince . has done the utmost possible with his group of armies to push forward. . He has thrown in ever reserve divi sion he possesses, with the aim of (Continued on page 2) ITALIANS STILL HOLDING GROUND Attack on Bridgehead at Ca po Sile Repulsed Aerial Activity Intense i . . . ROME, Thursday, May 30. The official statement from the Italian war office today reads: "There was desultory artillery fighting yesterday. In the Giubiea rla. the Val Lagarina and the Val Arsa and on the Asia go plateau en my defensive works and enemy I troops movements were bombarded effectively.'" V . "We frustrated a sti prise attack at GIma Palone. A hostile patrol coun ter-attack at Cortellazo. Some pris oners remained In our hands." FIRE CRUSHES ATTACKS ROME, May 31. The Italian of ficial communication today says: -I "Wednesday night an enemy at tack against the bridgehead of Capo SHe was repulsed. Other attempted attacks against Spinoncia and west f Canove were crushed by our fire. "The aerial activity has been in tense. iEnenW trenches, dumns and hutments have been bombed on the Asiago and Lavarone plateaus. The roads leading to Gaillio and troops nd transports were attacked, with machine gun fire. Three hostile air craft were downed." Kitchin Called Upon To Retract Assertion WASHINGTON. May 31. Secre tary McArioo has called upon Repre sentative Kitchin of North Carolina, Democratic floor leader in the house, to retract his assertion in a recent speech that a publishers' lobby work ing for. repeal of the zone system of increased pnstag4 rates influenced the decision of the administration to in Bist upon revenue legislation at this session of congress. . t Mr. Kichin told the house In the speech he did not believe Secretary McAdoo thought about the newspa pers and magazines one way or he other, but believed a lobby had made Itself felt with some in whose judg ment the secretary had great faith. 75-25 BASIS IS CROSEN POLICY OF RETAIL MEN Resolution Adopted at Meet ing of Flour Dealers Covers Period to August 1 QUESTION IS DEBATED State Conservation Chairman From Portland Presides ! At Meeting Arthur hi. Churchill of Portland. state eonesrvation chairman of the United States food administration. was here yesterday and presided over a conference of retail flour dealers and bakers, called together from every point in Marion county to dis cuss the matter of either bringing about equitable adjustment of the ratio of wheat flour and substitutes. or of going on an entirely wheatless basis for the next month or two. A resolution was adopted favoring a basis of 75 per cent substitutes and 25 per cent wheat flour until August I. . The meeting, which avas held at me saiem commercial cm o. com prised about a hundred dealers, and the numerous and vigorous speeches Indicated : a general willingness to cooperate to the fullest extent with the food administration. The one question of debate was as to the most practicable method of obtain lag results. Hoover! Message Read. A lengthy telegram from Herbert Hoover was presented by Mr. Church ill, in which it was pointed out that the wheat situation is daily becoming more desperately serious. It had been hoped that the country could furnish the needed supplies to the allies by restricting the nation to one-half the normal consumption but it is now evident that the consump tion wlir hawe to be cut to one- fourth or even more. In order to meet the demand. Mr. Hoover therefore calls upon all communities and individuals whose conditions will permit, to go on a wheatless basis voluntarily until the eomins hr rvest. Some of the states and many communities have already done this. Mr. Churchill. In addressing the meeting, advocated this course for Marlon county, and In this he was supported by Manager Gill of the lull and a number of other speak ers. Mr. uhi reminded tne aeaiers or the excellent record Marlon county had made In other lines of war ac tivity and urged that the citizens should not fall down on this effort. Must Declare War. It Is our .doty to declare war on Germany through food conservation" he declared, "and we should meet this demand upon) us regardless of what other communities may do. Numerous objections to the volun tary wheatless movement were brought up by dealers who had had mpleasant encounters with grouchy customers. They complained of the high cost of substitutes and of In ability to make eatable bread of the substitute. It was also pointed out that unless adjustments and agree ments could be reached with the farmers who have wheat in their possession and the bakers who are under government regulations, the re tail dealers were going to be aub ected to injustice. Several dealers were in favor of putting the bakers out of business altogether , for the time being. Oth ers advocated the dropping of th bread tiade entirely and leaving the business to. the bakers. Others point ed out the fact that the army of farm laborers and berry pickers who will soon throng the valley -will tend, to create a serious obstacle to a wheat less ration. Another disturbing element in then sitnation was custom milling through which some wheat raisers are able to obtaia more flour than they are entitled to. There must be cooper ation, it was insisted, bothon the part of the millers and the farmers. In order to arrive at some conclu sion a committee of five wan ap pointed by the chairman to draft res olutions which should embody the sentiment of the meeting. This com mittee, was found to be divided in (Continued on ?age 8) AUTO LEADS TO FIND OF BODIES Wife of Army Lieutenant Shot by Conlpanion While Car Stands in Road WHITE SALMON. WASH.. May 31 The bodies of Mrs. Chester T. Dew ey, aged 21. wife of a lieutenant In the national army, and Bert Bishop, aged 35, construction superintendent for a power company, were found beside the road near hre late today. Both had been shot to death. Bish op's right hand still clutched a re volver. - Bishop's automobile which stood in the road opposite the spot where the bodies lay, first attracted attention of a passerby. The bodies lay close to gether, the man clasping the woman in one arm. while the other hand held a revolver. . . - Bishop's office headquarters for merly were at Hood River, and Mrs. Dewey worked as bookkeeper in the same office with him.. After Bishop was transferred here she came also and again also and again kept the books of the office. Bishop's family, a widow and two children, live at Wal'a Walla. It was said here tonight. Mrs. Dewey's hus band recently obtained a commission as lieutenant in the national army and Is now en ronte for France. The coroner left tonight for the scene of the tragedy. Army Appropriation Bill Passed Yesterday in House WASHINGTON, May 31. The largest annual army appropriation bill in history, carrying $ 12,0 41.- 6S2.000 and authorizing the presi dent to call Into military service ail men who can be trained and equipped, was passed, late today by the house and sent to the senate. SUBMARINES CAUSE WORRV GENEVA May 30. The Socialists have given notice that they intend to interpellate the reichstag navy com mittee why during the last month 400,000 enemy troops embarked for France without the slightest appar ent attention from submarines, ac cording to Munich dispatches. DEATH IS END OF TRAGIC STORY Belgian Refugee, Who Taught Knitting in eNw York, Passes in Hospital NEW YOKK. May 31. Madam Christine Robert, a Belgian vefugee who escaped to America and became knitting instructor at the stage wo men's war relief headquarters iu this city after her relatives had been slain by the Germans and she had narrow ly escaped being shot as a spy. died at a hospital here today, her health broken by the suffering she' had un dergone. When German soldiers entered her home in Brussels, they found her alone, with certain documents be longing to her husband. On the strength of these documents, she was courtmartialed and sentenced to be shot the next morning. That night she was forced to prepare a feast for the German officers who had seized her home. While they fell into a drunken stupor, she fled, clad only in a petticoat and sweater. Y3I.C.A. PLANS FOR ENLISTMENT ATLANTIC CITY. N. J., May 31. Plans to enlist thousands of students In the colleges of the world in the preaching of the "gospel of world wide brotherhood' were made here tonight at the international confer ence of the Y. M. C. A. secretaries. It was decided to establish "huts" of the type now familiar at the can tonments and at the front at all the war industrial centers with accredit ed secretaries In charge. MAGAZINE THOUGHT EXPLODED. AMSTERDAM. May 31. A long, heavy aerial bombardment was made on Zeebrugge Thursday night and at about 1 o'clock this morning there was a tremendous crash. Frames rose high and it is supposed that a powder magazine was exploded, ac cording to. a Flushing dispatch to the Telegraaf. LIQUOR RILL DEFEATED. BATON ROUGE. La.. May 31. The lower! house of the Loutsrana general assembly today 'defeated br an overwhelming vote a bill to make the sale of liquor illegal in the city or New Orleans by establishing a 25 mile none around Jackson barracks. Camp Nicholls and the naval station: EASTERN CONCRETE SHIP. PEEKSK1LL, "N. Y., May 31.-f The first seagoing vessel tobe built of concrete In the easi was launched this afternoon by the Louis L. Brown company at Its Verplanck Point ship-f yard near here. The boat is a 700-1 ton barge. I GREEKS NOW HOLD 1500 OF HUN FIGHTERS French Artillery Supports Troops on Macedonian Front, Taking Strong Ene my Positions THIRTY-THREE OFFICERS AMONG THOSE CAPTURED Fine Spirit of Cooperation Shown Among Allies-Many Raids Successful tnvnnv Mar 31. More than 1S00 German and Bulgarian prison ers, among them 33 officers and a large quantity of war materials have been captured by Greek troops on ho Marwlnnlan front, according to on nffirial communication received from Salonikl today. Th statement says: r.rk trooDs. supported by French artillery, have captured the positions of Zrka di CUVU W t ormr nn tha Struma front' on wtHth'nf 12 kilometers and-to .lontti r two kilometers. More than i son Bulgarian ana utrrain prison t wore taken. Including 33 officers A large quantity "of material also was captured. PIHST POSITION TAKEX EASTERN THEATER, May 30 reir troons suDoorted by French artillery attacked enemy positions of strength south of Srka dl Leg- on south of the Struma. Over the whole of the front of the attack, a width of 12 kilometers ana a aepm of two kilometers, the enemy, captur a in th first rush the fifst post turn of the enemy. More than 1500 nrisdhers. Bulgarians and" Germans Including thirty-three officers have been counted, up to the present. Im portant war materials have fallen into our hands. The Greek troops and the French soldiers which were cooperating with them, nave snown the finest spirit in spue oi uniaror nh ntmosnheric conditions." "In the region of Dolran and near Dobroool. the British and beruian troops have carried out with success i nnm Mr m raias. ormKiuK prisoners." Floor Dealers of Lane County Stop Flour Sales TU1 Harvest EUGENE, ORE.. May 31. Lane county will be "wheatless" until the net harvest Is over, according to, a resolution adopted and an agreement signed by representative retail deal ers In flour at a meeting here to night. No wheat flour will be sold during that time by the retail dealers of the county until, after harvest or until released by the state food ad ministrator, except to hospitals, bak eries, logging camps and sawmills, which operate under license from the food administration. Every dealer present at the meeting signed the agreement and the county food ad ministrator promised to see that it is made binding upon other dealers who were not present. ; CARL R. MUTHS FATALLY HURT Salem Man Dies as Result of Injuries While Working in Shipyards Proudly bearing for his country the badge entitled "War Service .413 Coast Ship Building." Carl R. Muths fell from scaffolding In a Portland shipyard last Saturday morning, sns taining inuries which resulted in his deatfi yesterday nt St. Vincvenfa hospital in Portland. He was 28 years old and the son of a widow mother. Mrs. Ida Muths, 750 NorttM Front street. ? The young man had been working In the shipyards In Portland since leaving Salem in January. He was first employed at the Northwest yards and later went to the Coast ship yards. He was well known In Salem. He formerly worked at the O. C. T. dock. As a nchool boy, he attended the North Salem school. He was born in Eugene. Besides his mother, he is survived by three sisters and three brothers. They are Mrs. George C. I Snyder. Mrs. Marie Stringer. Mrs. Emma Folks, all of Salem; Will Iwan and Robert Mnths of Salem and Charles Iwan of Arlington. The body was brought to Salem yesterday, accompanied home by a sister. Mrs. Marie Stringer. The funeral will be held this arternoorr at 2 o'clock from the chapel or Webb & Clough. Burial will be in City View cemetery. v i : - - - American Raid in Woevre Sector Made Successfully WASHINGTON. May 31. A suc cessful American -raid today In the Woevre sector In which the enemy's advanced positions were destrored nd losses inflicted in killed, wound ed and prisoners, is reported in Gen- ral I'ershing s evening communique. The dispatch follows: "In the course of a raid executed this morning by our troops In the Woevre. our technical detachments destroyed the enemy's advanced po sitions. At the same time our raid ing patty inflicted losses In killed, wounded and prisoners. "In Lorraine artillery fighting ha diminished. "There' is nothing to report from me oiuer seciois occupied br our roops. "Early in the day oar aviators shot down a ho4ile machine, STEAMER RAMS GERMAN U-BOAT Vessel Lying in Wake for American-Transports Sunk Near Ireland AN ATLANTIC PORT. May 31. A German submarine lying in wait for transports carrying American troops, was rammed and sunk by a large transport off the Irish coast during the second week In May. ac cording to authentic information brought here 'today by a prominent American returning from an impor tant mission to England. The ship which sunk the submarine is one of the largest liners known to American and European travelers and nit the U-boat full amidships after a torpedo had been-fired and. the trans port was maneuvering to make way for accompanying destroyers to drop depth charges. It is possible, the American said, that the submarine might have been forced to the sur face by one of the .'explosions, but at any rate it came up less than fifty yards in front of the liner. , In full view of the soldiers on her deck, the big steamship rammed the submarine and "cut her like a piece of cheese," the American said. CONSTANT RIOTS STIR BOHEMIANS Crowds Set Fire to Public Buildings in Defiance of, Mounted Police LONDON. May 31. (British Adr miralty. per Wireless Press?) Riots and internal disorders or all kinds are increasing in Bohemia. A Vienna newspaper says that what Is happen ing today in Bohemia resembles the Lombard! and Venetian uprisings in 1848, except that today the empire is hampered by her engagements in a war from which she does not see a way to escape. At Chosen crowds, exasperated by police brutality, set fife to the bar racks and to the city hall, where the mounted police were lodged. Eight of the officers were burned to death. At Kolin the people pulled down the Austrian flag and raised the Bohem ian flag. i Public buildings have heen burneo at Tabor and othtr txnms in Bo hemia and in Olmntx. Moravia. At Prague the offices of the German newspapers, the Zeitung and Neuve Nachrichten were sacked. The Prague correspondent of the Stuttgart Neuve Nachrichten tele graphed to hia paper that the events of last Sunday at Prague exceeded in gravity all the previous demon strations. The Neu Frele Presse of Vienna appeals to all conservative elements for the preservation or the Austrian state, asserting that only the ten acy and union of those who desire the preservation of the state, ?an make the monarchy survive this great crisis. Trio of Outlaws Hold Up Nineteen Men Against Wall BCTTE. MONT.. May 31. Nine teen men were held up by thre masked bandits in a saloon here to day and made to face the-"wall while the trio of outlaws calmly went through their pockets, securing about $400 in currency and diamond rings and other jewelry. Two suspects are in custody and have been identified by the victims. I. W. V. buttons and literatnre were found upon the pris oners, according to the police. KROXST.IIrT, FORTS SEIZED. LONDON. May 31. The Dally Mail's Copenhagen correspondent sai5 that acording to the Petrotrad newspaper. Pravo. the Germans have seized and fortified some forts at Kronstadt. SOAPBOX SPEAKER INTERRUPT PHILADELPHIA. May 31. John Reed, the Socialist and representative of the Russian Bolsherikl. was ar rested here tonight while tryl"R to make a soapbox speech on a street corner and was held on a charge of Inciting to riot and breech of the peace. KH Mil 01 TEN HE F! ADVMC Fall of Rheims Anticipated Hourly Situation Remains Anxious for Allies, Althoug h Rejerrcs Are Reassuring Factor in-Defense 45,000 Prisoners Claimed by En emy in Reports From Berlin British Staff Report Says German Resources and Armies Are Fast Being Used Up LONDON', Hay 31. The Germans in their Champagne offen sive in Franc? have now reached the right.hank of the River Marne on a 10-mile front, according to a statement given to The Associ ated PresH today by the Hritbh general ataff. "If Rhehna has not already fallen," it said, "it seems clear it must fall rery aoon. Yes terday the French were driven baek on a line from Noyon to Sois sons. "A new development is the German 'attempt to extend their at tacks to the east of Hheims where they were reported to be attack ing last night.' but no further details have yet been received." Grand Nephew of Franz t Joseph Want To Become Citizen of This County CAMP KEARNEY. San Die go. Cal.. May 31. August Schoetl, a grand nephew to the late Francis Joseph, emperpr of t Austria, applied to the Camp ! Kearney nautralization board for American citizenship today. ! Schoetl was a student at the University of Southern Call- T fornia when drafted last year. I He is a private In the ICOth In- fantry. I American Transport Sunk hy .Torpedo on Homeward Trip WASHINGTON. May 31. Loss of tne homeward bound American trans port President Lincoln was reported today by ViceAdmiral Sims. The mes sage said the vessel was torpedoed at 10; 40 o'clock this morning and went down one hour later. It made no mention of casualties. Naval officials feel that as the at tack occurred by daylight and the ship remained afloat an hour, the cas ualty list would be small. The President Lincoln was a pas senger liner or the Hamburg-America! line, taken over hy the United States at the declaration of war. T3IER.S4IN iOES TO VOLOGDA. MOSCOW. Friday. May 31. Col George H. Emerson with eight mem bers of the railroad mission, headed by John F. Stevens which has been in Russia for the last year, is on his way to Vologda from Vladivostok at the request of David R. Francis. Am encan ambassador to, Russia, for conference on the possibilities of an Improvrnent in the railway situation in Russia. WAR SUMMARY Plunging southward, with its mo - mentum still tfnspent. the German war machine has driven its wedge Intn h 1HH IIbm llonr thm front -- ----- o until its apex has reached the Marne river south of Fere-en-Tardeaois. The desperate efforts of the French and British to stem the tide against the Invaders have served only to slow down the rate of speed of the German advance; the defenders of the heights north of the Marne seem to have been swept aside In the rusa of the enemy toward the road to Paris. AsMe from the movement of the German armies southward, two other significant incidents of the tremen dous battle have occurred. One is that the Germans have extended the attack to the northwest along the Ailette river, from which the French have fallen back for some distance. The other is that the battle has ex tended to the east or Rheims. which city, during the first few days of the battle, formed the extreme east ern end of the line of battle. Along the sides of the salient form ed by the rapid German advance to the Marne. the French and British have been holding their positions gallantly. South of Soissons. the French have defended their line wltb such vigor that the Germans have not made much impression upon It. On the other side of the battle area the British are still holding the fort of Rheims and positions jast.west of that war stricken city. . Between the extreme sides of the salient the front sags toward the south, the line from Rheims to the Marne running to the southwest at a gentle angle, while the French are E IK German ProgreM Rapid. "The sitnation Is a very anxious one. not only because the Germans hare made sach rapid progress, aa advance of twenty-six miles in four days, but also because they still hav such large reserves available to be thrown Into the battle at any point. "Our transport of reserves has worked very well and there is res son to hope that the Germans will not make any further progress, al though the situation must remain anxious as long as they have plenty of reserves. "The Immediate fnture depends on what coarse the enemy takes. The crown prince has used p virtually ail bis own reserves and some from, the army rrovn to the eastward. but the great bulk of tfermaa" re serves are to the north. It. remains to be seen whether the enemy will use them to develop his aaceess to ward Paris or ' pursue his original Intention ia striking 'toward Amiens with a view to cutting the allied ar mies In two. L'slog Tp EffertlTem, ! The attack during the past week has not been so serious as other at tacks at other points in the allied tine because we have more room for maneuvers and can better afford to fall back. Another thing that must always be considered is that the Ger mans are rapidly using ap their ef fect ires. Thns far they have em ployed 45 divisions In the present at tack. The question has been much dis cussed In the nsst few days whether ft he Cerman attack was a surprise Uo the allies. It cannot be called fact that the enemy concentration LJn affected area were fcaova. but f until a day or two before the battle we had bo Indication that an attack on a big scale was Intended. The Germans deserve full credit for maintaining secrecy of their plans. The main mass of men were brought up to the actual front lines only the night before the attack which was preceded by only two hours of bom bardment for the purpose of cutting (Continued pn page t) 'holding a front at right angles to l the direction of the German advance. I . The occupation of Chateau Thler- ' rr marks ik k.rU.1.. .w. . w w-oiwiaag m pected turning movement toward ; Paris, which the Germans were be lieved to have planned. If the town ha been taken In Its entirety, the oermans may be expected to move down the Marne. General Foch. the commander fa' ehlef or the allied forces, has not ss yet brought his reserves into ac tion. All reports from the field of battle tell of the allied forces be ing vastly outnumbered. American soldiers are ia action !f the Plcardy and Tool sectors. At Cantigny they hare repulsed repeat ed German attacks to oust them from the positions which they cantured arly in the week, while in the Toul sector they have attacked the Ger--nan positions, penetrated them to x depth of almost a half mile and lestroyed the German defenses. German airmen have been adding Horrors to the fighting hy their de 'i berate attacks on hospitals hack of the allied lines. One large rec.Iv fng station behind the American po sitions in Plcardy has been bombed, i A Canadian hospital also was attack ed snd partly burned by another German air raidiag party. Disorders ia Ukraine are reported. It is stated that several vllages near Kiev were drenched with poisonous gas by Germans and thst whole com- -manltles were aiphyxlsted. THE WEATHER. Fair and wanner; rlth moderate northwesterly winds.