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4 T1FE OrtEGOX STATESMAN KI XHAY. JULY .7, lllH. ad f We're, . just ; As- Pirticiiia0 ;u;iota lares - "; 0k ... . ',!' ' ' : fcUR Customers are thrifty, calculating ltniuws wno Know tire up-keep costs. Believe us, we've looked into this tire proposition from top to bottom. Take our advice and buy Diamonds, the one best buy on the market The Dia : monds wo have sold our customers are running farther, giving loss trouble, and costing hiss in tho end than, any other -. tires we know. ' . . 'fH- ff a pmchd Tune m al Diamond cat N wl hag and you have the Idea! tire equipment V; s A". Lot L. Pearce & Son ; 236 No. Commercial Si! Salem, Ore. . tt . 1 . ;scamEapgafar tires WA R SUMMAR ?r 4 'fit", Y IT :' (By the Associated Press) , The Italians have succeeded in clearing the Austrianslout of a very considerable part of the terrain th enemy had been clinging to near the month of the Piave, between the new and he old beds of the river. Ia hard fighting the Austrian re sistance was broken in the area close to th Adriatic, General Diaz's troop? driving the invaders across the new bed f rora t Griserola . to the sea, ap proximately five miles. Four hun dred .were taken prisoner. n . j Vienna admits a loss of ground -.In tie northern part of this low lying sector noitheast of Capo Sile. where the Austrians are still .west of the new - stream they rallied their forces and counter-attacked. Cen WHEAT BILL TO BE GIVEN VETO "V President Objects to Rider to Agricultural Appropria tion Measure . WASHINGTON'. July. C Presl dent Wilson will veto the annual ag ricultural, apropriatlon bill because of the rider agreed to by both sen ate and house today fixing the gov ernment minimum guaranteed wheat price at $2.40 a bushel. This infor mation was transmitted to Chairman Lever of the house agriculture com mittee today, through Postmaster General Burleson just before Speaker Clark had signed the bill preliminary to sending it to the white house. Officials estimated that if the $2.40 price for wheat is approved, the price of flour would be Increased by aproximately $2 a barrel with an increase of from two to three cents in the price of a loaf of bread. With $2.40 as the basic price, wheat prob ably would sell In New York at $2.75 a bushel, it was said. LIFE ON ARMY TRANSPORTNOT LACKING IN PEP Officers Take Pains to Keep Men Busy Plenty of Ex ercise Given MEALS BIG ATTRACTION Floating Palaces Transformed Into Armories Within Short Period of Time Newsy Notes of State Industrial Growth j ItfNNOMftMmfMMm f- Why, Not Buy That Goodyear Tire Now It means more mileage They give better, service-You will be better satisfied erar Diaz's troops stood their ground and repulsed the enemy. Except on the Italian front the closing days of the week witnessed little fighting of an intensive nature allied rlan of local thrusts In the France-Itelgian area, calculated to upset such dispositions for a new at ark as the Germans might be mak ing on any of the numerous fronts involved, showed no new develop ments. , ' . There are nothing but compli ments for the Americans upon the occasion of their first appearance in an attack side by side with their ! troops. To the Australians who formed the major portion of the force which carried out, the brilliant Fourth of July attack on the Amiens front, northeast of Vlllers-Breton-neut, is conceded the larger part of the rlory. The hitherto untried troops are coming in for the highest praise for tyie part ther took iqy the fighting through Hamel. Details of the Americans behav ior Indicate that In fighting, spirit and effectiveness in pushing back the enemy wet e not excelled even by thte traditionally gallant, sea soned veterans In whose company they received their baptism of fire. Their losses are reported to have been extremely light. BOAT GUARDS BODIES V STILL ON COLUMBIA (Continued from page 1) Plope 363 126 South Commercial Ism and horror. ' When the fate of the boat seemed sealed, according to witnesses, Clyde Witcher. a Pekin man, ; embraced his wife, then bis two children and thellttle family perished, clasped in each other's arms. Their bodies have been re covered. Musicians Keep on. In the hands of the body of anoth er man, found late today was a quan tity of his wife's hair. His attempt to save her failed and her body was brought up shortly after the search ers found her husband's corpse. "When the crash came the musi cians in the dance hall rushed to the windows," said William Newman. "I yelled at them and induced them to resume playing. Suddenly the ves sel swung sharply about and in an Instant we were flooded. My feet soon touched the floor again and I was pushed up so my head was above water. Then I broke a window, nassed out my dancing partner and with the aid of Ben Murphy, another nasseneer. succeeded In passing out a few more women and children. The dead -were thick In' that dance hall." -. .i i Naxlmova, the star supreme, will be seen at the Oregon; next Sunday In her big 7-act D Luxe production. "Revelation," a gripping romance of peace and war. DELAYS ARE DANGEROUS a I this is especially true at the present time in regard to buying ; suits, overcoats, etc Every.r one realizes the steadily increasing cost of suit ings, overcoatings, etc Labor cost is also on the increase and the dealer in suits whether he be clothier or tailor must charge more for his finished product. J' : V " . ' Although our prices are slightly higher than they were a year ago, it is a foregone conclusion that, they will increase more during the next year than they have during the past It is the part of wisdom to order your new suit now. v , v Serges and other Suitings. We have an assortment of very fine serges and other textures in stock. Come, in and make your selection. . VoFHMpe LONDON. July J. (Correspond ence of The Associated Press.! "Hey! You with the beak!" Sergeant S abruptly interrupts the calisthenics of I). Company and levels a stern foiefinger at a tall young soldier with a bruised and swollen nose who Is making only a perfunctory effort to touch his toes with his finger-tips. The scene Is the "deck of a transport, warward bound about 10 a. m. of fine spring day. I "Is that what you call exercising?" demands the Sergeant. "You think you don't need any or this one-two-three stuff, eh? You're fit already, maybe, to eat a boche for breakfast." The company looks on and grins. Ordinarily Sergeant S . like the majority Of the efficient, hard.work. ng sergeants oi tne American army, s a man of few. nrecise words, rtnt on rare occasions he finds it expedi ent to "talk to" some erring private, and his ability in that line has won him fame throughout his regiment. ine tan soldier flushes and stam mers out an explanation. Ilorwlinr over causes his nose, still sore from a bumping against a door, to bleed. -au out. tnen." directs the ser geant. "You ouehta said nm thin? before we started." Briskly he re sumes the setting-up exercises and for half an hour the company is bus ily engaged. Breezy and fresh ?s the morning, a brilliant sun making talnbows In the spray from the transport's bows and lending a sparkle to the dancing wbitecaps. On all the decks khaki clad lads are twisting their bodies and . working arms and legs to the measured count of their sergeants. All in a glow, filling their lungs with the sea ozone, they are a picture ot health and Amrtn nn "Keep. 'em busy" Is the wateti- wora or ue orncer In military com mand Of th tmul. TT h.a .......I thousand exuberant young soldiers to look, after, and hi- experience , on transports has taught him that ship life becomes wearisome for large wuies oi men cioseiy quartered un less they have regular daily occupa tion. To meet this demand, he baa worked out a program that supplies the required amount of wholesome work and that provides also for plen ty of recreation and amusement. Army hours are strictly observed. Reveille is sounded by the buglers at an hour that brines mntnA tests from the few civilian passen gers on board, the blasts penetrat ing every corner of the ship. Some time later, after the civilians ' have rolled over in their berths and are about to fall asleep again, there Is a mighty tramping on decks and In the corridors as the hungry soldiers pour up from their quarters below eager for breakfast. e Impatiently they await the sum- m a i a a. . which is oeaien on an instra men that sounds to the unfortunate civilian like a sheet of boiler plate, and. when it comes, they are off with A rush for the huge first-cabin din ing room. And It Is not tin til thv have satisfied their husky appetites that the officers and civilians are called to their breakfast In the small er dining room which, before the lin er became a transport, was reserved for econd-catIn passengers. This is a British vessel, one of the largest in His Majesty's fleet of aux iliary cruisers. Before the war, it was described as "a floating palace" but the press agent of the line that operated It then wouldn't call it a floating palace now. It Is a warship grimly utilitarian. With the excep tion of the handsome mural decora tions of the salons, there is scarcely a vestige of its former splendor and luxurious appointments. The great lounge is now an armory filed with stands for the troops' rifles. The gymnasium is a store room for soldiers' lbggage. Only the first-cabin smoking room remains the same, and this Is used as a clubroora for. the officers. It boasts a phono graph and a piano, and here an oc casional concert is given' In the eve ning, and every other afternoon a reg imental band plays. The concerts are mostly of the In formal, Impromptu kind. The enter tainers are enlisted men who seek to welcome the opportunity to display their talents before their officers. The regiment from which these musicians ate recruited is a striking example of the American melting pot. Its members are scions of a doz-1 en or more nationalities, and all parts of the country, even our Island possessions are represented. New York's East Side Is much In evidence and there are several Indians and at least one Hawaiian. This Islander has no ukelele, but he takes a gui tar and, using it as It it was a zither, he gets the last sob out of plaintive "Aloha." Some of the TocaJIsts. although un trained, have surprisingly good Tole es. Their choice of songs runs to the comic and to the sentimental. The latter are especially popular, and the soldier who sings a simple hemely ballad with a child and a heart-throb In It is a 'sure-fire hit. When a man Is going to war. his thoughts are with his loved ones back home, and his emotions lie near the surface and arc easily probed. July 1. Albany Work on new cannery plant here completed. The rtallrs Contract let for eigh teen, blocks of pavement here. Corvallis Brown tanch and outfit two miles east of here solj for $50.-000. Oregon City Work of paving Si miles Taciric highway In southern I part of Clackamas county to com-! mence. Employes of G. M. Scandifer Con struction corporation plan f IS. 000 ivcreation halL Soutberlin New sawmill estab lished six miles east of bete. Roseburg to have large" fruit and vegetable cannery Machinery to be installed at beginning to cost $10.- ooo. No takers have gone on record for bets of $10,000 each by Grant Smith Poiter Ship Co.. St. Johns. Ore., that it could build hulls faster than any other yatd. and by G. M. Standifer Construction Co., Vancouver. Wash.. mat it could complete wooden shlp-i ahead or all competitors, according to J. W. Hall, assistant supervisor or the Wooden Ship Construction Dl vllon In the Oregon District. Hall nas wagered a dinner that Oregon builders csji float a wooden hull In less than Tortv darn. Th Cnni Smith-Porter Co. ham rloatl .'vnwt. en hull in fifty days. Alber Alfalfa belnv rrnvn .n. cessfully on Camas Prairie. St. Helens llrfdro in t hntl Nehalem in lower end of county. i rairies enrome business assures prospeious year for Grant county. North Bend Odd Fellows investi gating chances of constructing mod ern concrete building for lodge and commercial purposes. Gold Beach Fishfnr nrvratlnn tn full swing now. Portland Count v authorize more than three miles or hard surfacing of Poster rtnad vidlng Lents with splendid thorough tare to Portland. Yale Wlrminrlnri itmlt - w - r'j' w realized. Will mean from fifteon tn thirty thousand acres of new land In Malhuer valley. OntarioGround broken for new water system. May be done in three months. Dallas Partial surrey shows growth of prune Industrr In Polk county. Present total 3.320 acres In Italian prunes. Pendleton Umatilla Is first coun ty to make contract with state for road maintenance. Term of can. tract provides for care of ten mile section or the Wild Horse road, pav ed by state lift year. Pottland Unskilled laborores are needed In the shipyards. Wage of $3.57 1-3 per day offered. Bandon fegotlations practically closed to secure factory., to. make starch n rod acts from notstoM. ' Oregon. Washington 4. California sum zuz snips in rtist four months or ISIS, aggregating 1.332.39C tons dead weight. This shows value of shipbuilding industry to coast and ne cessity for measures encouraging to American , owned lines as means of perpetuating 'shipbuilding Industry. - Reediport Giant sawmill for Reedsport to be contracted. Ship yard is likely. the Ashland mine has been purchas ed Dy parties representing the "Moth er Lod interests In California, and brlielng shipped away. Dallas Dallas Box. Factory doing rushing business. : Eugene Early construction of railroad by federal government from Yaqulna Bay through Waldport country and. Its possible extension In to Lane county for purpose of reach ing valuable spruce tracts, is Indi cated by presence of surveyors who are working on the "west coast of Lane county near.Heceta Head light house. Toledo 1500 soldiers working on construction ot railroad which V. S. government Is building south of Ya qulna bay Into Waldport euvrtry fo purpose of getting out spruce timber. Waldport has oil rig navty ready re. - iU .'igl Eugene Crew of men hnm ita work on old.mllltary highway above Oakrldge In conectlon -with plan of forest service to open this loau for motor travel from Willamette valley to Klamath Falls, cutting off 100 miles. By Twe Bottle rtPERUNA m Greatest Human Vitaliier.. -Inrlti the wintrr f H rl l. 1 ji i affiM-t! with r turrit l.f fhv h stnl thought mul ji-I- J ! from it. Jtrirr tr " 4rtr- all otltrr r-r- i mm. n.l.-4 rrtntlis mad know n to ". I wm lrwiu iu mmp I vruna. I rare rotlrrl tjr umtwtK I writ- U.KIri f rTu and -Ix.ltlV .f Uknalin. , '' that tintr. I ha Krirr Kri nhut I rruni. I ur it t ImU asrhtc Santas 4 Vail mmIU and fi4 it i Krealrd human titanier." . I Was : Entirely! Cured - Mr. Mm. A. Hart taua drwrtKI at c lHt-r. aaam. 217 i ft. ttklaboma. LtaaUl r TaMH rraa TOO PROVINCES PROVTOED FOR German Newspapers Each Have Tneorjr for Disposal of Alsace-Lorraine FRENCH FRONT, j y. In nearly every newspaper priated la Germany at the present moment there is prenenled aorne kind of a scheme for the solution of the ques tion of Alsace-Lorraine. What the Germans cannot understand Is the fact virtually every real Alsatlon and Lorraine rejects In totality any of the schemes for joining. bis native land either to the German Empire or any of Its component federal states. The latest Method of disposing of the two provinces discussed In the German Imperial Parliament pro- rv" their division between Prussia and Bavaria.. Lorraine to be taken by the former and Alsace by the lat ter. This proposition not only la re jected by the inhabitants of the pro vinces ' themselves, but hxs aroused protests from several of teh German states, and especially from Wnert temberg. ' Consequently for the time being It hss been allowed to drop in favor of two other schemes, both un satisfactory to some of the Cerman parties. ' . f ' 1 The first of them looks to the for mation ot an Independent state of Alsace-Lorraine under the rule of a duke, while the second formalates the foundation or a republic of Alsace-Lorraine attached to the Cer man empire. Both ot them have been widely discussed but without bring ing about any conclusion, and. should either of them be accepted by the Germans, K Is believed tk people cf the two provinces would have aiU lag to do with IU As the correspondent of The Ar-o-clated Press has foiled la dlruia$ the matter with AUailans and I cr ista of all claases. the only detire of theae people Is to be returned France, with which they have remain ed, in spite ot the German an--lion, closely allied la all their liA and la all their souls. They reeoJl frequently. In the eoers ot th.-lr conversations the words ottered by PreUent Wilson: The wrong caused by Prussia to France In 1871 matt U redressed In order Utat pac taay b eUiMlth ed la the Interest or all.- I Had NerroQs Breakdown Xow I cre My Present IlealLh ami fitrettgth to Vtmd 1 Bardett. N. Y. -I keep .Vlnol In my hoaa for my fxmlty of three, and raise chickens. I bad a ner vous breakdown, so I was unable to work. The doctor did not seem ts be able to b-1n.'me. and a cousin asked me to try.VlnoL It built me sp I now have a good appetite and am well and strong.- Mrs. Loyal Palmer. There Is no secret about VlnoL Tt owes Ls success to beef sal rod liver peptones, iron aad manganese peptonates . and glycerophosp hater, the oldest and. most famnas body balding and etrength creating tonics. Emll A, Ehaefer and druggists every where, . Roald. Amundsen, the famous ex plorer, has sailed away In an attempt to locate the North Pole, which to most minds la nothing worth worry lag about. 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