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CP 1:' JmJM.eM.adM War Stamp Rally Armory. 3 O'clock Tadoyz if"0,,j (jflpg jpte ;- tefe0iir I Ig KlXTY-KIGIjTH ,YFA1UXO.0 SALKM. ORKXiOX. MM'U .MOKMNG. Jt fcK t, 191H. t . MUCK FIVE CK3tV1t t 3 NO RENEWAL BY OFFENSIVE Fighting Ccjaparttivtly Quiet on lfcdian FrontTen En 1 eray Airplanes and Three Balloons Downed. COUNTER-ATTACKS PR0Y EFFECTIVE Line Rectified in Favor of Al lies by Local Actions at Several Points. HOME. Jnna ' "Tin. nAinwa l-x offensive pressure, broken heroically or withheld along the whole front of 'battle by Ihe t irm resistance and from headquarters today. ' .j "The. enemy yesterday launched another strong local attack In the direction . of Losson, southwest ot Fossalta. but was sansuinarily re pulsed. file carried out violent concentra tions ot fire on Montello and In the ! Grappa region; which; were effect ively countered, and successive ad vances attempted by Infantry detach ments were crushed. "At Cavasucherlna, strongly sup , ported by the batteries of the Italian royal navy, our , brave sailors and bersaglieri during another brilliant . action, enlarged the birdgehead and captured 150 prisoners and-a large t quantity of arms and material. "One the remainder of-the front small adjustment actions' allowed us to rectify the line In our favor and brought us some prisoners and war i booty. ' ' - , "On the A si ago plateau some of our small detachments daringly pen etrated in full daylight into an en emy advanced post and after a lively struggle .captured the garrison. ."Ten enemy airplanes and three captive balloons were brought down MONTELLO ATTACKS FAIL, t VIENNA, via London. June 22. Italian attacks on Montello were re pulsed, according to the official re port from Austrian headquarters to day And which gives the- number of prisoners taken by the Austrians in the present offensive as 40.000. '"The text of the statement reads: "The lighting. on the Piave dimin ished in violence yesterday. Wber ever the. Italians renewed their at tacks, as. 'for instance. In some sec tors of Montello and to the west of San Dona, they were repulsed with heavy losses, as, before. "Before June J 5. and 20 the enemy lost 42 airplanes owing to the ac tivity of our. aviators and anti-air craft guns. He also lost four cap tive balloons. The number of pris oners has been Increased to 40.000. Among them, are a few Csccho-Slovak leglonaires who were Immediately subjected to the treatment prescribed by martlar law." Thetreatment prescribed by mar tial, law" referred to In the Austrian official report ,1s death at the hands of a firing squad. There are many thousands of Ciecho-Slovak soldiers in the Italian (Continued on page 2). ..,..,.y.1.......r...T.r.r.,..r--.--v.-.. .v..:........Lm..i.u.u.L.....a..t.......t..u..ii.i.i...t REMEMBER THE Thc flag means liberty, safety and happiness to America because Americans have always been willing to fight for it. - . Our boys are in France, 'iiey are giving their lives. They are .withstanding shell fire, the bayonet, poison gas and the brutal fighting methods of the. Huns. Do your part. Suport the flag. Buy War Savings Stamps this .week. t" ' ,,, ' j , v i 1 31 ' -cA I Our lnMrer Line of Nottinghain Lace Curtains Will Be Closed Out at 20 per cent Reduction..- :, - - ;- . The manufacture of this class of curtains was a guarded .secret for fifty years during the earjy pari of the nineteenth century and is today amongthe fineat on the market. These, curtains are 42 by 50 inches wide and 3 to 3V& yanls long. The edges are scal loped and the patterns range from plain but pleasing designs to the most intricate "and elaborate. I Sotu White and Ecru. j , , ': The prices range from S1.50 to $6.90 a pair, and are extraordinary values at these prices, but to' close them out we offer a reduction of 20 per cent. A- 1 1 2 L1ASS LIEETING AT AFTERNOON V1LL GPfE KIPETUS FOR COUNTY WAR STAT.1P DRIVE Judge Stephen A. Lowell of Pendleton and A. L Mills of Portland Are Speakers School Districts on. Harks for Go-OffCommittee Organizes Five Hundred Club and Many Members Are Signed up. Throughout all of Marion county preparations practicaly . have been completed for the opening of the war savings campaign, the primary im petus of which will be given at a mass meeting to be held in the arm ory this afternoon at & o'clock. Last reports from the field indicat ed that nearly all ot the school dis tricts of the county are supplied with literature and complete instruc tions and are ready for the big drive on Monday and Tuesday. About twenty-five of the, districts .have made application for j speakers for the booster meeting of Friday night. It is probable that these can be sup plied from Salem and other points, and along with them a number of singers. It is hoped that as far as possi ble the district chairmen of the county will be present at the meet ing this afternoon, at which time A. L. Mills of Portland, and Hon. Stephen A. Lowell, of Pendleton, will address the citizen on the needs, of tbe campaign generally, and at the same time, give all details as to the conduct of the campaign. No effort wiU be made at this meeting to dispose of ctamps, but Two-Thirds of V -Boats at Bottom of Atlantic PARIS, June 22 (Havas Agency) Two-thirds or the German sub marines launched are already at the bottom of the : sea, according to a statement made to the deputies by the under-secretary of the navy.' "And," continued the under-secretary, "we are destroying them twice as fast as they are building them." OFFICERS VICTIMS tF JIOAX ' PEKTNG.'May, 20. More German Intrigue. In this instance with the object in view of removing from little Russia. Russian army officers of pro sily sympathies, has come to light through what appears to be far reaching propaganda. Such officers are led to believe that the American government Is holding out flattering Inducements to them to go to Ameri ca and join the army, providing to that end passports, steamer tickets and funds and guaranteeing them a commission. . SeveiaJ trusting' officers have stak ed everything on such representations ad got as far as Changchun. Man churia, where they arrived at the end of their resources to learn that they were victims of hoax. The matter has been brought to the attention of the American min ister in Peking for action, if seemed advisable, to combat the propaganda through Ambassador Francis and American consuls In Rvssla. . NO MORE MODIFICATIONS. WASHINGTON. June 22. Ad vanced freight rates ordered by Di rector General McAdoo will go Into effect Tuesday without further mod ification. The railroad administra tion announced that local revisions will be worked out later with the assistance of regional and dUti ict freight traffic committees, the inter state commerce commision and state utilities commissions. FLAG OF LIBERTY BUY WAR CURTAINS ,ESS 20 LACE ARMORY THIS opportunity will be given to any who may wish to make advance subscrip tions. In this connection it is en couraging to note that a committee of three R. P. Boise. Hal D. TaU ton and William Brown have done a little canvassing in the Business sec tion for what Is called "The Five Hundred Club" composed of citi zens who subscribe for a total of 1500 worth of war savings stamps. Those who have enrolled for this club to date are: , Thos. Kay Woolen Mill company. Dan J. Fry. Dr. M. C. Finley. Dr. B. L. Steeves. R. P. Boise. William Brown. A. .N. Bush, W. H- Eldrige. D. W. Eyre. H. W. Meyers, Hal D. Patton, R. E. Lee Steiner. F. W. Steusloff. Vick Brothers. Dr. E. E. Fisher, W. H. Burghardt, Jr.. J. C Ferry. Charles A. Park. C. K. Spauld Ing. E. hartley, J. H. Albert. E. T. Barnes, C. P. Bishop, George G. Bingham. W, M. Smith. The committee In charge of -this huge undertaking hope and expect that the Salem public wiU manifest Its interest and give Its endorsement of the campaign by turning out in a mass this afternoon. COUNTRY FIVE MONTHS AHEAD IN M0VE1ENTS General March Says 900,000 Men Aeady Sent Across . Atlantic from U.' 3. CHEERFULNESS GROWING Approximately 200,000 Em barked in Past Two Weeks -High Speed Shown. WASHINGTON, June 22. Defi nite word from Rome of the repulse of the Austrian drive In Italy, coup led with announcement of -General March, chief ot staff, that American troop movements to France had now exceeded 900,000 added today to the growing cheerfuness that has been apparent at the war department re cntly. General March told the newspaper men in his weekly conference that with the 900.000 mark , passed, the United States is five months in ad vance of its schedule for troop move ments. At the same time, he briefly outlined , tbe battle positions in France, and Italy and drew the con clusion that the enemy was being held firmly on all fronts, though further great blows are to be ex- (Continued on page 2). .. s.sV'V.Vyk.sS. SAVING STAMPS fWVl,fc.l LABOR NED IS NOT MET BY CANVASS House to House Campaign Nets Bare 150 Boys, Girls and Women Willing to Go into Vinyards. BETTER SHOWING MADE AT WORKERS' BUREAU Hint of Rain Causes Cherry Growers to Hurry Pick ers into Orchards. The loganberry is king! Never before In blstorr has the humble, plebian fruit had so much attention focusaed upon it as at this hour. From the Iron-jawed captain' of industry down, to the Chemawa primary pupil the Willamette valley population has concerned itself with the late of the valley's own berry. Its preservation, was first considered as an e comic measure, then as a pat riotic service, and now there are fmany who think of it as a religious amy. and are proposing to utilize the Sabbath in jthe harvest work. Throughout the . past two days workers and canvassers have . been busy both in Salem and in the sur rounding territoiy, - endeavoring to enlist pickers and arrange transpor tation facilities. There has been a measure of success, but only a frac tion of what Is desired4 and anticipat ed. A house to house canvass of the city yesterday by a group of workers resulted in the registration of about 1&0- boys, girls and-wooien who were willing to devote some time to the berry yards and the cherry orchards. .Many of these axe signed up with the proviso that the work be close to town and that transpor tation . he furnished .both ways. Ante Owsm Indifferent This brings up another problem for those who are trying to meet the situation. It was hoped that out of the thousands of automobiles In the vicinity there might be at least a hundred placed at the service ot tbe berry pickers; but at o'clock last niht about a doxen cars were def initely promised. - .All day ye&erday he labor office was kept humming with inquiries by prospective workers, scores of per sons from aU classes dropping in to enroll their names. As a result. some growers are pretty well sup plied as to their quota. Others are still far short. Just at the present time the cher- iry, crop is causing more concern than the loganberry, for several varieties are now ready for picking- and a hint of rain Is in the air. Te relieve the situation, several loads of pickers will go out to the orchards this morn ing to spend the day. Tomorrow the forces will be Increased by a camp of about thirty girls who wiU go out under the direction of the Y. W. C. A. This sort of arrangement promises a great ' deal of pleasure along with the work. Canneries Uearatt Cp Yesterday the fruit industry was one of the most conspicuous things in evidence on the. streets vehicle ot every description loaded with ber ry, pickers and parapharnalia huge dray loads of crates and 4)0X08 tons of berries stacked up at Ihe depots. At the two local canneries the working forces have been recruited almost to tbe maximum, there ibeing between 400 and 600 employes in the two establishments. In spite of the worst shortage of strawberries ou record, they have eeen receiving something like fifteen tons of fruit a day during the past week. Yeater day marked the "peak" of the crop., and while the plants will continue to handle strawberries daring the present week, they will be amlnor feature. Cherries and loganberries will occupy the center of the stage. The vanguard of the Royal Anns be gan to arrive yesterday, beautiful in appearance and deUdeoa to the taste. If Che diOught of 1918 jeots the cher ry, crop little short' it will at the safne time add to the high quality. Tonnage JsiiMJaiated '"purlng the present week it is roughly estimated that there should be, from fifty to" seventy-five tons of loganbeifies s day coming into the various plant. An Immense quanti ty will be. used la the Phes and Loju plants which have been cleaning up last season's stock and making prep arations for an unprecedented run of - botyiing. A limited quantity of loganberries, several tons a day. will be 1 used by. the Salem Kings along with other products. During the past week the plant has been using several tons a day of strawberries. In , order to-meet the increased de mand upon the plant, the force has been Increased .to over 500 laborers. At the Salem Fruit union plant preparations have been made to pack in the neighborhood of ISO tons of cherries, the first consignments ar riving last week. The fruft is pack ed n an acid brine In fifty gallon bar rels, and later shipped to Ban Fran cisco where It is scientifically pre- (Continued on page 2)- WAYNE C. JACKSON OF SALMIS KILLED i (N i ACTION, ANNOUNCES p ELEGRAM RECEIVED YESTERDAY i " Possibility of Error in Message Causes Parents to InyestK gate and Further Information is Expected from Wash ington Today Older Brother Has Recently Enlisted J. L Deetz of Aurora in Casualty List The first Salem boy to be report ed killed in action in the trenches in France Is Wayne C. Jackson, son or Mr. and Mrs: John Jackson. 2750 North . Laurel street. The Informa tion came in a telegram received in Salem last nights Yesterday's casualty list of killed contians the name of J. L. Deetz of Aurora. I Wayne Jackson, who was past 21 years old, enlisted two years ago this month and went across to France with Pershing's army. He has been in France since November. He has an older brother, Artie J. Jackson, 35 yesrs old. who is a married man with two children and who recently enlisted and was sent directly over seas. . It is thought he Is about due to arrive In France. Tbe government message announc SIXTY DEATHS REPORTED FROM GARY COLLISION Hospitals in Nearby Towns Crowded with - Injured Circus Performers. BODIES BADLY BURNED Part of Those Killed in Train Wreck Still Remain Unidentified. GARY, Ind.,June 22. The known death list in the collision between an equipment train and a Wallace- Hagenbeck circus train was in-1 creast tonight to 60 after the re covery of eight additional bodies and the death of one of the circus troop; at a Cary hospital. One hundred and twenty-nine are in hospitals in Gary and Hammond tonight. The accident occurred at dawn tocliy be tween an empty troop train com posed of Pullman cars and tbe cir cus train on the Michigan Central railroad. fTve miles west of Gary. Virtually U victims were members of the circus. Thirty-eight bodies, all except one charred beyond recognition, have been, placed in the Gary undertaking establishments tonight. Twenty two bodies have been taken to Ham mond. Identification of all except today. Those who died of injuries at hospitals were known, but efforts to identify the burned, the mutilated bits of humanity taken from the wreck, were reserved for tomorrow. Coaches Pesnonitfhed The empty troop train traveling down a straight stretch of track, to tally demolished three of the flimsy -circus coaches and damaged .the fourth. According to reports to local au thorities, the circjis train which car ried four sleepers, five stock cars. 15 flat cars, and a caboose, pulled part way into a switch and stalled there. A flagman set fuses as a warning. The circus train was in this position when the troop train plowed into the . sleepers reducing them to a tangled pile of steel and timbers.. Fire engendered by the gas lighting system of the circus train broke out almost immediately and when rescuers reached the scene the j entire wreckage was in flames. Clowns, bareback riders, trapese performers and acrobats, many of them f terans in tbe circus world, perished in the first great crash. Other victims were suffocated and burned. . Fir Department Jtids Attempts of the Geary lire depart ment to curb- the flames. and make possible quick access te'-the Impris oned, victims were unsuccessful be cause ot lack of water supply in that outlying district. Survivors strug gled about the wreck, screaming for relatives or friends and only force prevented two or three men from rushing into biasing wreckage. Hours after the crash bodies black and charred were still being re covered and the derricks of wrecking trains thinned out tbe pile of debris. FIREMAN' L'XPfctt AKttEST , MICHIGAN CITY. Ind.. June 22. Emil Klauff. fireman on the empty tioop train, "was arrested here this afternoon at the request of tbe roro nor of Lake county. He will be held here until Monday morning, when he will be taken to Gary to testify at . (Contiaued on page 2). ing the soldier's 'death, was sent to Mrs. Artie J. Jackson, who lives with her husband's parents on Noith Laurel street. The message read: "Deeply regret to Inform you that Private, First class. Wayne C. Jack son, is officially . reported as . killed in action. June ." Because the message was. address ed to the daughter-in-law, in .place of the parents. Mr. and Mrs. Jackson hold doubt as to which son the news affects because of possible er rors in transmission. Accordingly tbe families sent a dispatch to Washington. late last night for veri fication. It is probable they will re ceive further Information this morn ing. Lecture on Canteen . Work in France to Be Given . -1 . 1 s, Miss Helen Stuart, librarian from Victoria, B. C. will give a lecture in the auditorium of the public, li brary next Thursday, June 27, at 8:15 p. m on the subject -of "The Canteen System In Connection with the Red Cross Work in Europe." The lecture will be free and everybody la invited to attend. . Miss Stuart has rpent a year in the actual service at one of the urge railroad centers in France where she was engaged in this canteen work and she tells a graphic story of. her personal experiences, and the relief work being accomplisned tnrougn the system. ROYAL ItECEPTIOX COLD ; ROME. May 30.--One . haughty hotel porter of Rome was humhled oa the occasion of the recent visit ot King Nicholas. of Montenegro to his daughter,- Quen Helena of Italy. "Uncle Nicholas." as he likes to be called by the people of Rome, came incognito' and wore a plain business suit, instead or his national costume. Calling at one of the leading hotels, tbe king asked the porter, to take him to the Baron Romano Avexzano. formerly Italian Minister to Monte negro. "Who shall I say wants to see the Baron," casually Inquired the porter, looking at the white-haired old king with the haughty stare of porters who are trying to protect distin guished persons.' The King of Montenegro." an swered tbe old gentleman, smiling goodnatnrely." Towel Catches in Wheel, Man's Arm is Fractured DALLAS. Or.. June 22. (Special to The Statesman) J. A. Brown, on of the engineers at the big power plant of , the Oregon Power company sustained a fracture of tbe right arm this week in a peculiar manner. Mr. Brown had Just uuit work and was wiping his face on a towel while standing near one of the big fly wheels when In some manner he got too close to the mov ing wheel and the elbow of the arm was struck . by one of the sppkes fraturing the bone. He will be un able to perform bis duties at tb plant for a few weeks. 8TRAY JirLUCT KILLS EL PASO. Texas. June 22. Isaac Aldereta. former district clerk anij a political leader among Spanish speaking voters' of El Paso, was killed by a stray bullet and two United States soldiers were wound ed tonight when an unidentified Mexican opened fire with a pistol at two soldiers m ho were members of the provost guard. I JFK LOST IS FLOOD FOSSIL, Or., June '22. One life was lost and two persons were In jured In a cloudburst on Little. Buck horn creek. 45 miles from here last Friday, according Uo word brought here tonight. Loren Combs was caught under a mass of debris, swept dowji the creek and lost. His body has not been . recovered. . His two companions escaped , with " cuts and bruises. All three were ranchmen. John Sibley, Experiences. Storms in Middle West DALLAS. Oregon, June 22. John'R. Sibley, tbe prominent young abstractor; and attorney of this city returned last niAht from a several weeks visit with his mother at Fair field. IU. While vliiting- there Mr. Sibley itnsed one stt the terrific storms that have visited . that -section of the middle wM this-year and the house he ws. firing In was struck Ly Jightnlng. Fortunately none of the occupants was Injured but-Mr. iUey .states that he was ready to leave ior Oregon the -next day. mmm. PlPOIi CHIGi Commission Sent to Vip sna to Negotiate with A:lriri Government as 'to, Ccrr ra tions with Cermr.hy,;s7? Message. , NEW CABINET AT HEU I ; oF5iiALiRt:oij:i(;; Hungarian Ccsst D:f;rj Huns in Lower J Jen: 5--Objectors- to Teatpn ence to Be Punwheq. J - , LO.irnONV June- 22. The Timi correspondent, at- the Hague Is In formed through a Dutch sou rea that a Uuljtrian commission has-arrtrc 4 m Vienna to negotiate witlj.tfct Ac, trjan government ''concerning chsnge in relations with Gerpayl MINISTERS ItEStncRATtn" PARIS. June 21. The .tTT JP garian cabinet, according- to patch to the Havas. agency from" : j sil. Switzerland, Is' composed ax fel lows: Minister of foreign affairs." A. Malinoff ; minister of the ' Jnuric'r ; -M. Taeff; minister of lasers, H,; Li ft ptchefr; -minister . of .public iu strnction. M. Kostlnoffj. mir.irr tf. Justice, M. Fadenheciu; mlUstercf war. General - Savorf - minister cf commerce. IL Danialorf ; . lallst f o f agriculture, Michael . iUJaxr;; minister of public works. M.fon-, anoff; minister of rallroadi M. l'o- loff. ! 1 --y; AU the new ministers, r withes exception of Kostlnoff aad hecht are members of the'JrXJO-'-tlc party. '- . ANSWERS VOX PAYJm - r''"t AMSTERDAM. June 2,2, Count Theodore Batthyanyl . dlscUlsfDg l i the Hungarian lower bouse the ees -tlons for a renewal of the Atfstro Hungarianrfierman allUsfre eiii that the statement of;FrederIch"vc-j Payer, imperial German vlce-cfe&a-cellor. indicated the complete uni fication of Austria and Germany. - Dr. Alexander WskerU, the garian premier. In replying s&ll sys tematic attacks had been msfieoa the Germans but the ' goverameat would see that illegal Indtetnecls did not go unpunished and that pub lic meetings likely to Inflame reg ular feeling would be hrokea up..' . . AMSTERDAM. June 22.The Ar belter Zeltung of Vienna sa it hit the labor council which submitted detail demanda to the goter&mcst and expressed the hope thAt the fit. tisl staike in the Industrial worli would be sufficient to show the jot ernment that' wages and food xfcr.-" ditions urgently need reform. In decided that an extension .of ii 3 strike is inadvisable, pending .jitZ tiations. - - A London dispatch; of June -li quoting a telegram to the Excharis Telegraph from. Zurich said .that more than 100.000 persons had gor. i on strike In Vienna and that Tlcu and occurred in the suburbs-oi it.i city. 'J- The women's council of Vleaaca June 1 adopted "a resolution de manding that the bread. ration -b4 raised immediately- .and thai ,'! reached - normal slxe - greater . quan tities of victuals be given the per a- latlon. t . ' TO BOYCCOTT LABEL' v.V WASHINGTON. Jin't; 22 Inaug urating a movement to boycott. German-made goods, the American L fens Society Issued an 'appeal ffcre tonight for twenty million signature i to a pjedge not to buy anything. with the German mark. ' " ', - FIRE DESTROYS WlEWSTEIt ' WENATCHEEWailuJune' 2 2s Fire destroyed most of the- bit section of the little town of 4' 1 "" ster at the mouth of.' the OkaH'-i". early today, burning elghf.b--bulldlngs to the ground J:t-r r -tlcally nothing saved. Ror mates places the aggregate lot ' 1 1 9&0.000. with little Insuraaee. -Tt fire originated ln-pcMie gsrtr and -when It was' dlscored it- r -gained such headway tlit all.ffe i to check the flames proved fruiUe., . tjik wxurai. Sunday proboHr Islr-we ft." show ers and thunder stprms . east par tlon; senile swtsterl jsi alt, ,