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Pioneer Men and Women of the Days Gone- By, Salem Welcomes You Back Home Today Bwitmmn The Statesman receives the leased wire report of the As sociated Press; the greatest aand most reliable press asso ciation in the world. SIXTY-EIGHTH .VMR-JiO, HI SALKM, OREGON'. K.TIIU.T MORNING, JINK 2JJ, 101M. PIUCE FIVE CS-M , i DEI BURG daily ed m or I , , - - v II 11 f O i. lilSHROBMiftNS OF IMPORTANT1 ANGLE IN FOREST OF NIEPPE ' Mile Gained on Front Over ' : Objectives Reached in Remarkably Short Time, Several Hamlets Being Captured on Way 300 of Enemy Held Prisoner-Posilioab Much Contested Sector Materially ; ImproYed Saxons and Prussians Punished Hard. . WITH TI1E IJRITISII ARMY IN FRANCE, June 28. Field Mar 'shaLvon Hindenburg's troops cast of the forest of Nieppe got a nasty and unexpected knock today when the UritLsh suddenly drove., for . ward in a surprise attack along a front of more than three miles and hurled-! the startled l "grey-coated soldiers Lack to an - average depth of ,1500 yards. ' -' ' " ' ' ' '"".. v Thp operation f as ah unqualified success from its inception and the attacking infantry reached air their objectives in remarkably short, time. By this thrust the British not only have greatly im proved their position in this important and raueh contested sector, whicbVlies just north of Merville, but they inflicted heavy punish r meht an twp liostfle divisions that were holding the line here the 32nd division'of . Saxons and the 44th reserve division of Prussians. Large .numbers t the enemy were killed in the' hurricane onsaught. and some 250 of the more fortunate had been collected In prisoner cages be fore noon: . :. . ' Thefront of the attack was 6000 . yards in length and lay.approximate f, Vrrbetween Vieuxberuuin on the ' north and Font Ton rnal, which is 2000 yards northwest of ; Merville, 'on the sooth; . - - - West of i Menrille the British 'and German lines here had been Jam r tned up almost against the edge of -the.Nleppe, forest in places, with the ' 'result that 'the British felt a lack of elbow foom .for operations. It ' was' In order to acquire more Iee . way that today's assault was pro jected. a!6nsi the winding little stream ItIowa as Platebecque.rwhich bowed out1 toward the cast In a semi-circle baelr of f the German lines. Prus sians and Saxons' were holding this xone' with a series of etrong ma Chine gun posts linked up with barb ed wire. : : - ' - ' - - First Wages; ?? v ' . The first stages of the drive -were comparatively casy.V in. fact, all the final objectives werfr Veached with- mnrh Hlf flcnltV. "i - !-At-most strongly fortified farms i near the center of the line, tne-eu-eroy fought stubbornly but was un able 'to stand out long against tbe furious onslaughts of the British who attacked them from all directions. Casualties among the storming ,in fantry for the ehtird engagement were light due largely to the fact that the -show was over before tbe enemy. 7? able to organize. -. Asy a special featuro of the pro gram Australian troops on the lert carried out an atUck of their own. adding nearly half - a hundred pris oners to their bag. : " The morale effect of, the prisoners vas not high.' According to orHCers captured recently, they .expected to get ahead' much faster.- , Germans Skeptical. i These men have professed to be lieve that the United States was not going to be able to render -much as sistance to the allies. - The help lessnee Af the United SUtes being preached assidiously to the 'troops by the German hUh command and this propaganda undoubtedly has been haTing Its effect among the men In the trenches. - - . With the German officers natur ally it is different, for they have no delusion on the subjecU -During the spring the ; lowin? ground here had been, little better than a morass. The war -weather of recent days dried it out enough to make at feasible for Infantry opera, lIpen With IVrobardmeiit. ' The British pushed off at ti'clock thls-morning after short, sharp bombardment. Just as -the white mists were beginning to arise along numerous streams which th rear their ?ortuons . .way about : thW region StatemenU by prisoner show that the enemy haa no in " InitiaUve at wis jkubi- -.f :" - - - fet so secure that they were moKt ot their time to "Pa,'N against the epidemic known locally f as the Flanders gnppe, wuitu sent many of them to' hospitals. The British were over the top and at the enemy before the latter real ized their danger. . Machine gun " posts were .stormed and cleared out with' hand: grenades nd bayonets. -Where the Germans were holding a stretch of trenches.' the . attacking ' troops rushed uo with rapid f irers and swept the-ditches with an In tense fire that annihilated the de fenders.". ' . . , . . ntP.TTK IIAMTKTS TAKEX. . . T4ONDON..June 28. British troops (Continued oh page 2) Three Miles in Length All EIERYBARTLETT BADLY WOUNDED - - . . -. . Name of Local Youth is Con- tained in Marine Casu alty List Yesterday. N - ' , ' - Emery A. Bartlett of Salem, who was reported in the marine casual ty -list yesterday as sererely wound ed. 1s a sn of Mr and Mrs. A. W. Bartlett of the Oak -Grove district of Polk county. The young marine is Shout 24 years old and fnlisted a year ago in another state. An other son, Paul Bartlett. enlisted in the- ordnance department abont three months ago. The Bartlett family came to the Willamette val ley about fonr years ago from Grants Pass, RURAL POINTS BUY HEAVILY Meetings in School Districts Last Night ProTe to Be ' Great Impetus. -Yesterday's work by Ihe war sav today. Mr. Aldrkh gave an address ings stamps canvassers added several thousand dollars ' more to the record already made in the city, and the teams are working with grim yet optimistic persistency, confident that winning out is merely, a matter of staying on. the Job. .". A few reports were wired In to The Statesman at a late hour last night, indicating that the booster meetings being held in various parts of the county, were having good ef fect In the tampalgn. '-.From all nnlnfK rami) "rpnnrl nf enihuslftstie meetings and in a number of caes the. subscriptions, which - had; been lagging, were given a surprising Im petus and sent- over the top. The results are a double-credit to. 'the rani districts, as there are many 4-ae where the.ravmers are facing serious iproblems because or crop shortage. . V ' A rousing meeting was held at North Howell where about 200 peo ple, representing some fifty families, were" In attendance. . Ther had been assigned a quota of $8160. and of this amount raised fSSOO. with a prospect of meeting their quota. Marleay, in district No. J. with a quota or $3900, subscribed $4200. Oak Ridge, with W. A. (Jones in charge, surpassed Its quota of $1840 at the meeting last night. I Charles Axchjbrd fwas speaker. - TJie com munity numbers twelve families. which is considerably more than Its !,. District Io. 4 0 nas .exceeae qaota of $7300. and Shawl oveub3cribed its quota of, $5500. enthustatic meeting was ! nas An .nthtiviajiMr meeting was re ported at Silverton, where Judge H. evening. In the party whlchweni from this cty were Ms. HalHe Hinges Durdall. Mrs; A. J. Rahn, P. E. Foj lerton. Mr. and Mrs. P.en F. West, MIm Cvhthla Hornilrook of Golden daie. Wash., and A. A. Lre. Mrs. DurdaU "d Mrs. Rahn A this meeting the amount of $8000 was subscribed, bringing the total subscriptions up to $55,000. Silver ton has a quota of $70,000. . . . ' The Trip Rio district lacks but lit- (Cpntinuc4 on page 6). Channel Span Completed -With Exception of Rivets Assembling of steel on tbe new arion-Polk county bridge at Center street will "be finished today engin eers of the state highway commis sion announce, and the channel span will be completed with the excep tion of the riveting. Sidewalks have been constructed on the two west spans and . the Marion county court Is now placing a sidewalk on the east end of the structure. Button Manufacturers Must Stop Price-Fixing DES MQlNES. la., June 28. Twenty-six concerns alleged to virt ually control priees and output of the pearl Industry In this country consented to a decree in federal court here today permanently enjoining any of them or their officers from attempting to fix prices or control the output of the raw material for buttons. SALEM OFFICES 7IU BE MERGED FIRST OF WEEK American Railway Express 'Company Goes into the . D'Arcy Building. JONES WILL BE AGENT Great Northern, Wells Fargo ' and Others Give Way . to New Order., ' Monday morning there will be no Great Northern. Wells Fargo, Adams or American express company agen cies In Salem. Jo 'fact there will be no such ex preps companies In the United States. ; In their place a new one, the Am erican Railway Express company.' di rected by the gbverxment will open offices all over this country, the one in Salem occupying the present Wells Fargo headquarters In the D'Arey building on Court street "between High and Liberty. - Santford Jones who for the past four years lias been agent for, the Great Northern and Adams compan ies, will be In charge of the new federal bratith n Salem. , . Local Agent Harrison of the Wells Fargo will be cashier. Although Mr. Jones may move to another city in the near future, he plans to remain here until the readjustment of busi ness has been completely made. Traveling agent Taft. representing the Jiew company, was in Salem yes terday arranging for a transfer of the offices and issuing instructions. He went -on a southbound train last night for other valley points. - Be fore go log he announced that a Mr. Crosby. - another traveling man,, will have headquarters In the local of fice and will.be here about the first of the month. All of the . old employes of both companies will be retained and are to receive increases '. in their salaries Tbe wagons and delivery trucks will be ued as they are until the names can .be changed. Among other no table differences in the service.-In addition to the Increase In cost nf transmission of packages and ' dis patches will.be a reduction of ser vice . on the Southern Pacific and Oregon Eletric trains. - The date for this and the full , details . have not been given out. The Wells Fargo Express company opened an office In Salem in the early eighties, coming here shortly after the railroad' was put through The Great Northern is a newcomer, its . agency having been put in on August 1. 1913- The equipment of the latter will be moved Sunday so as to be-ready for business the fol lowing morning.,' Designated Spruce Camps to Work Ten Hour Shifts . , PORTLAND, June" 2i. Certain spruce camps In the northwest are to be designated by Colonel Brice P. Disque of the spruce production di vision, to work ten hour shifts' durT lng July; owing to the necessity for an immediate increase in spruce production. ' A bulletin to this effect was issued today by Colonel Disque. All other .logging camps and spruce camps will, continue on the eight hour basis. . Necessary additional help for spruce camps will be obtain ed through . enlisted . men of the spruce division.'" i - DRAFT BILL DEFEATED BY HEAVY VOTE Compromises Meet Same Fate . as Fall - Amendment Senate Ready to Pass Ap propriation Measure. AGE LIMIT QUESTION AT LAST DISPOSED OF Provision ..Made for Basing Quotas on Number of Men in Class 1. WASHINGTON. June 28. Imme diate extension of the present army draft age limits, 21 to 31 years, was overwhelmingly defeated today In the senate. The amendment propos ed by Senator Fall of New Mexico, to the army appropriation- bill" to make the limits 20 and. 40 years, and all compromises suggested for dif ferent mi aim urns and maximums were voted down. 4 Settlement .of the . controversy, which has held senate lattentlon for several days. clearedthe way for passage of the $12.000.t)00,000 ap propriation bilL . ""' . Besides disposing of the draft age question, the senate adopted several amendments to. the bill. One au thorized organization ' of the $100. 000.000 aircraft production corpor ation proposed by the .aircraft pro ductions board as a vehicle for co ordinating aircraft-: production" as shipbuilding Is coordinated by the shipping board through the Emer gency Fleet corporation. . Others authorized the plan of bas ing draft quotas on the number of men In Class 1 instead of upon state populations and affecting rights of neutrals under, the draft law. The senate previously had adopted the draft quota legislation but It has been. held up in the house. Hltrhcnrk Plan Adopted. The amendment affecting neutrals provides citizens of neutral countries now subject to draft who have de clared Intention of becoming Ameri can citizens. shall not be eligible for citizenship If they claim exemp tion from the draft. This provision, offered by Senator Hitchcock of Ne braska, was adopted as a substitute for an amendment proposed by the state department providing for ex emption from the draft of air citi zens of neutral countries. The question of extending the draft age limits occupied almost all of the senate session. .A proposal by Senator Uarwick of Georgia, that the present minimum age limit of 21 years be substituted for the 20 year minimum of the Fall amendment was rejected 41 to 33.- as was one by Senator Weeks of Massachusetts to make the maximum age limit 35 years instead of 40. Proposals by Senator Brandegee of Connecticut, to reduce the minimum age to 18 years also was defeated and by Senator New of Indiana, to make military training of yKiths between 20 and 21 compulsory also were ' defeated. HUNDRED COMING FROMMONTiIOUTH Student Teachers Will Spend Day in Orchards and Berry Patches. One hundred student teachers from the summer school at Mon mouth arrived In Salem early this morning in charge of Professor Gil- more and are spending the day nick ing- loganberries and cherries la the vineyards and orchards near Salem Mr. Gilmore telephoned II. N. Al- drich. one of the local labor recruit ers, late last night that the students would be here and preparations were made to p!ac thm- where needed today. Mr. Aldrjch gacv an address before the students at Monmouth a few days ago . in which he invited them to relieve the,labor shortage. ' - CALIFORXL ARTIST DEAD . LOS ANGELES. June 28. Mrs. Jeanette Baker, an artist, died here today altera long illness. She was the wife of Frank R. Baker, a local attorney, and came here from Tacoma In 1913. .She bad lived in the north west II years and was widely known as a painter of allegorical, themes and portraits. She was a successful exhibitor at the Panama Internation al Exposltit and - work from her brush was commented npoa by many patrons" of art. . ... Thirty 'Ambulance Units, from I. 5. Arrive in Italy ROME. Thursday. June 27. Thirty ambulance units of tbe Unit ed States army have arrived at (deleted). They were received, by Deputy Romeo G alien ga-Stuart on be half of the government, and by Colonel M. K. Buckley, American military attache, for the American embassy. - Other notables " and rep resentatives of the local authorities also were present to greet tbe ar rivals, whos appearance caused great enthusiasm. Burglars Tunnel Under Floor of Yault for $15 YAKIMA. Wash.. June 2S. -Arter spending at least two eight tunnel ing under the office of the Washing ton Nursery company at Tojpen!h. cutting through a cement founda tion wall of the vault and through the .wooden vault floor. - unknown thieves lat night secured a haul of between $10 and $15 'cash. - EX-CZAR'S FATE STILL IN DOUBT, MESSAGES WILD Swiss Newspapers Quote Rus sian Embassy as Saying Nicholas is Safe. . COUNTRY IN : UPROAR Grand Duke Heads Anti-Bol sheviki Moyement -Guchoff at Harbin. BASEL. Switzerland. June 28.-" According to the local newspapers the Russia embassy In Berlin Is re ported to have advised the'eoort at Darmstadt that former Emperor Nicholas Is safe. DEATH DESCRIBED AMSTERDAM,. June 28 Wert ern German newspapers just re ceived here see,m to regard the re ports of the death of Nicholas Ro manoff as authentic. The Russia a newspaper Novaia Zhist, edited by Maxim Gorky. Is quoted by the Ham brun Tramdenblatt as printing a Kiev report that Nicholas., while in a train with red guards, complained about being transferred to Moscow and that he got into a dispute with his escort and was murdered. The Wolff bureau's advices adds that Grand Duke Michael Alexandro vitch of Russia Is at Omk and Is heading an antl-Holsbevlkt move ment. Grand Duke Michael,- It Is said, has refused to assume the throne, preferring to leave tbe de cision to an all-Russian pop alar as- assembly. . - . NICHOLAS HEALTH GOOD AMSTERDAM. June 2$. A Ber lin dispatch says that accord In r to a telegram received there from Kiev a member of the Soviet government announced that tbe reports that the former Emperor Nicholas had been brought before a revolutionary tri bunal and that he had been assassin ated both are IneorrecL The gov ernment officials added that Nicho las and his family . are In good health. MOVEMENT AT HAHRIX AMSTERDAM. June 28. Profes sor Paul Milukoff, leader of the Rus sian Constitutional Democrats, and Alexander J. Gucbkoff. Octoberist leader, have arrived at Harbin. Man churia, and placed themselves at the head of a counter-revolutionary movement, according to the Vos- sische Zeitung which is quoted In a telegram from Berlin to the Dutch press. . ! TRAFFIC W CHECKED MOSCOW Wednesday. Jane, 19. Owing to theCzecho-Slovak out break with the complete stoppage it has brought about cessation of traf fic on the tra-Siberian railway-and on a goodly portion of the Eastern railway, - the German plans to rush war. prisoners' homeward are failing of realization. MISSION PLANNED WASIIINTON. Jnne. 28. Plans nf the American government for aiding HusFia '" rehabilitating herself which became known today, re vealed that the first step contem plated Is informal assistance through American business and ' industrial leaders and disposed of widely pub lished reports that a diplomatic or political mission would be the means t of, carryinc, out President' WIl3on's promise to stand back of, Russia, ' MIIE AMIY A CAPTURED DRIVE NEAR SOISS Front Four and a Half Miles Long 1060 Prisoners Held by Allied Troops After Strong Push from South of An-, blemy to East of Montgober Berlin Dispatches Adr.!t Huns Are Meeting Heavy Attacks Along Aisne General Foch Plans Successful Battles Hundred Miles Apir(.; PARIS, June 23. Southwest of SoLssons, French troops ia.an at tack over a front of four and a half miles,.' from the south of An Meray to tie east of Monlgober, today captured German poiiiii mm ai omul- minis auvanccu ineir lino xo a oeptn.or a nuie en 1 a quarter, says the French official communication this-evenirg. . Pris oners to the nnmbcr of 1060 thus far have been counted. The communication followsr I " ' . . - - - . " .".CLni.fK f h. :. i . i it.:: " . . . C. . ""i.4 iut iuiu--nc auacuru iuis morning j rora me souir. oi AmMemy to Ihe east of Montpohert in order tp squire armed places" on a seven-kilometer front. We entered Cermsn Vorka, 6ok".the Fosses aWe Laversine and Ihe heights northwest of Cotry and n I vsneed our lines near the west of St, Pierre AJgle'and also a lis hill south of the Tillage. , ' ' " "Our advance reached at some points a depth of two kUcmcUrs. We have taken until now TOGO prisoners.' - . French, WiU Celebrate j FonrfA of July, Cheers Welcome Announcement PARIS.. June 2S. -Cheers- ! and bouts of enthusiasm greet- ed the announcement made in the chamber f deputies this 1 afternoon that the fourth of J July wnald be regarded. as a legal French holiday.- All. ' party lines were obliterated and the plaudits were unanimous from all parts of the arnphlthe- J ater. It was one or the most Impressive demonstrations that bad been- seen In tbe- French ! chamber of deputies since the. beginning of the war. Forwarned that the motion would occupy the first place la tbe order of the day. the depu ties had gathered In larger numbers than- at any time since the beginning of hotUi ties with the possible exception of the assemblage on June 4 when Premier CIcmenceaa made Ms - famous speech regarding the German offensive on the Chemln-des-Dames. - FA LI j DROWX AVIATOR. TENSACOLA. Fla.. June 21. John G. Zeller. a machinist, station ed at the local aviation field, was drowned today when the airplane In which he. was firing fell Into Pensa cola bay. PIONEERS COME HOME FOR VISIT OF EARLY - A long llae of automobile 'will be in waiting at 1 o'clock this morning for the incoming throng of pioneer citizens who come to Join the first "home-co'.lng to be held in Salem. Just how many. will participate In the happy occasion can not be antic ipated, as many of the people who helped to make the early "history of tbe Willamette valley are scattered to distant poinU along the Pacific coast. It is believed that' several hundred former residents will be on hand to contribute their share of ex perience and anecdotes snd to re new old acquaintances. The first manifestation of Salem's hospitality will be Jn the form of a drive about the city, and for this purpose it is necessary that a large number .of automobiles be added to the list of thirty cars already' vol unteered. ' No formal program of length has been mapped out. nor is one neo tssary. l It is expected that every visiting and. every restdent pioneer will consider him or herself a num ber on the program of the day. rhich should be full of good cheer and fellowship. ' The baeket dinner to be served In Willson park will follow tbe au tomobile ride. It Fhould be under stood that this outdoor repast is not arranged merely for the visitors, but Is to be shared In by all. the old residents snd families of the city who choose to bring their, share of eat mTADTf? IN 'FRENCH' BERLIN.' via London, "June 2S.---The Germans are busily en x" C 1 la attempts to'repulia vlgoroaa atuAs by the allied armies Berth cf tt" Lys snd south of the Aisne t1t. c says the German' official' coitti eatloa issued this evening. . .. The. cocao anlcstlon, follows: " ' Xorth of Lys aad south "ef tie Aisne we are fighting to reeuls Vf- orooa enemy ptrtUIatXli.7 FRENCH GUN'S DOMINATE " WITH THE FRENCH ARUT IN FRANCE. Jane 2t-The first ' tri able activity for soae time oa t!- i front occurred eaxfy this f.oit.'z when the French executed a ioeef -ful local operation aootiwsu cf Solsaons snd on the borders cf tv forest of Vlllers-Cotlertt. Srf:sJ positions whose continual posaetJi&a would Lave permitted the eaetsy lo prepare a futare offestive. ! captured. The French stuck vtt at dawa along a front or COOO jar l and the fish tin r proceeded ttrcs. ., out the day. By late after; c a. when thl dltbAtrti via rnf t v . f French. had advanced cenalieratlT, using a number of prisoners t.-.i more were coming la. The -all. ed troope bad reached the ouuklrtx cf the Fosebas-Catry aad EC Pierre Algle. where a moat detrr:iil mans had been ejected from a T"' lion of tha forMt nf rmrV't. ets aoulhward to Kt lMrr a-- ' jThe Freach artillery was corarlrt j oonunniBj m enemy guns."" TO SCENES DAY LABO. able. After dlaaer Hon. T. T. Gr and George H. liuaes of Portland will speak to the pioneers and tbe singing of old-time songs, with a number of vocal contributions' frr-i the best Salem talent will- B;- .e meut the program. If any considerable number cf i " residents of the Ms and C0's r er In the city today It will Illustrious and repreaesUtivt t for Salem has either--proi - - : claimed as eiUrens. -state?---, j r Ists. bankers, capitalists. t. -,lirf and professional men of ti.a Ur calibre aad of wide rvpuUUc Pioneer ministers and alumni Willamette university will be aunc the most -Interested as well as terestlng visitors. Salem will tend to 'them both hospitality z felicitation..... ".. . -. Three ' Men Killed Yhcn Cars Crash viio Ttzzjl CHICAGO, Jnne 28.Three men were killed outright, a artsy w; was fatally Injured." and a score more hurt whea aa Aurora. T and Chtcaeo limited eleetrtet t crashed Into 'an aqto -truck t: with etoae at Elir.hurst. I1L . . truck9 gasoline tank espial ! t it was bnrned. but the el-ct: .; t . i were saved from the flat s. ; ' . . P Robert E. Brooks died ft: r t Ukea to r hosplUL "" OS