T THE OKEQO BTATEfttlAJt. SUXDAT, JTXY 21. 191. Japanese Patrol Cofti niands at Vladivostok Ht i f&:.v. r?Sal If! , I I J I . ::.K U i 1 1 'fit &zxr: - 3fcgwrTfr n isiLl -fer r T - 5511 1 r jV-TfT' sr.. &$1 4 xfrJLZS r FRUITS TO BE PREPARED FOR SICK SOLDIERS Branch of National League for Women's Service Or ganized in Salem CANNERS TO BEGIN WORK Donations of Fruit and Glass Containers Called for This Week Vaupivdll 3 SALEM'S ONLY UNDINE ANDREWS VANCE and TAYLOR WILLIAM MORROW .Novelty Singing and In Comedy Nove,!ty , D' "CORSETS" MimicrT sonn WEEKLY as I COMEDY Hippodrome Vaudeville SELECTED FOR TODAY ; Before the ftrmy of the Czeoho-SIcraks arrived at nadivostok the other day Japanese marines landed from battleships in the harbor were in control of the city. They main-taincsl order for a long period. Don't: .Qsfcjlk Get Caught on the Road We specialize on electrical troubles. Put your starter in shape before that trip. Equip your car with an EXIDE OVERSIZE Battery and End Battery Trouble. AUTO ELECTRIC . SERVICE CO. 148 South Commercial Street Phone 348 SPECIAL f; A delayed shipment of Ladies and Misses' Sleevelass Coats W 1 in Eose and Blue made a114 stamped ready to embroider, this p wees ai special prices. p NEEDLECRAFT SHOP I 4?9 Court Street Soldiers in the hospitals at nearby cantonments are to receive Jellies and canned fruits prepared by the women of Salem just as soon as a movement instituted this week by the National League for Women's I Service can be put under way. Mrs. P. L. , Campbell of Eugene, state chairman, passed Thursday in this city organizing a branch of the league and explaining its work. The object is to make Salem a canning center and to use up, if pos sible, surplus fruit this season. In Portland and other large towns the plan has proven successful. No ex- I tra expense will be entailed, the whole scheme being carried out by donations. If a farmer has more berries, cherries or other fruit on his land than he can possibly pick, if he will communicate with Mrs. F. G. Bowersox by telephoning 2502J1 in the mornings and she will see that either pickers are provided or an automobile calls for the fruit if pick ed. Mrs. J. J. Roberts has been, made head of the committee in charge of collecting donations by automobile. Mrs. Isaac Lee Patterson is general chairman for Marlon and Polk coun ties. Canning Begins Thursday. The canning will be done in the domestic science room at the high school every- Thursday beginning next week. Mrs. Elizabeth Lamb and Mrs. Louis Lachmund . will super vise this. The fruit must be on hand Wednesday, as well as sufficient jel ly glasses and jars. A call for gifts of such receptacles has also been Is sued. Should any women desire to put up jams or preserves at home and place them in empty cold cream jars or similar containers such as usually go to waste, they will be acceptable. In order to pay for the sugar. tags will be sold next Saturday for a small sum and this will go Into the general fund. County. Food admin istrator F. W. Steusloff has given the women permission to purchase all the sugar needed. Four Camp to Benefit The finished product will be sent direct to the four nearby training camps at Vancouver, Fort Stevens. Fort Canby and Fort Columbia. These have been designated for the Willamette Valley towns. All red tape will be cut out, as the women will simply aid the government in providing the little luxuries which it is unable to supply in great quantities. There are 400 boys in the base hospital at Vancouver alone at the present so there is little dan ger of too much of the preserved fruit being sent. Volunteers are desired both to help prepare the fruit and to give Jars and berries. AMERICANS HOLD OVER 5,000 HUNS (Continued on page G). X7 THEATRE Thierry. Phone 9581 IIIMU1M to check the allies, who, at one point. moved forward half a mile. The French and Americans squeez ed the sack jn which the Germans ap pear to be caught somewhat tighter Saturday. At midday they had made an average gain of more than a mile along the line Chateau Thierry-So-issons. while another gain of a sim ilar distance had been made south of the Marne and east of Chateau KAI D IX AIjSAC'E. WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN ALSACE. July 20. ..(By th As sociated Pi ess.) A raid undertaken by the Americans last night south west of Munster resulted In a pene tration of the German lines for a dl tance of from five hundred to six hundred meters and the capture of five prisoners. The raid was preceded by effective artillery prepaiation which lasted 45 minutes. The enemy suffered heavy casualties. Camp Kearney Men' Already Seeing Action on Front CAMP KEARNEY. San Diego. Cal.. July 20. Men from this camp whom it was announced several days ago arrived In France, have been in ac- Jon. oficers said here today. Their statement they said, was based upon notifications to relatives that some of the men had been wounded. No casualty list so far has indicated men from Camp Kearney have been in actlv- SURVIVORS Xl'MHEIt 11B3. WASHINGTON, July 20. Eleven hundred and eighty-three survivors from the armored cruiser San Diego, sunk yesterday off the coast of Lang Island, have been landed at New York. Rear Admiral Palmer, acting secretary of the navy announced today. AX ECOHOMICAL. DELIOHTTTrL, LIGHT TZJICB TO TEAM Jely Ctearaoce Sales Airy Summer Fabrics Marvels of Daintiness and Sheerness that give assurance of the Prettiest Summer Frocks you have ever owned ! for Small Prices Whether you make your Summer Garments and those for your children through the inspiration of patriotic economy or through preference, you will find unlimit ed satisfaction in choosing from this extensive assortment Clearance Sale Prices, per yard....... 12Vl:c, 15c, 19c, 25c, 29c, 35c, 39c, 45c, 50c, 69c, 75c 416 State Street Salem, Oregon Phone 877 CENSUS FIGURES FAIL TO AGREE Various Surmises Can Be Made by Consulting Public Utilities Is Salem'a population Increasing or is It on the decline? Figures disagree, but It Is evident that if there It- a loss on account of the number of families moving to shipbuilding centers since the first or the year, the wildest guesa couia nit place it at more than 400 persons From the monthly report of the telephone company Information may be gleaned as to the present popula tion or the city, an estimate placing it between 14.050 and 15.000 at the end of June. On January 1 It was placed at 15,400 and two years ago at 18.000. During the summer months there are always a large number or people moving away temporarily. The tele phone company lost twenty-even subscribers in June, ten or these be ing disconnections at public schools. This makes the actual loss seventeen stations. Last June It was sixteen and in 1916. forty-nine. Since Jan uaiy, 1918, the company has gained four stations. The present number In operation is 2809 in the city and 1000 farmers. THE LAST DITCH ((Juy Fitch Phelps) In No Man's Land, and flat in the mud, I u net tired with shrapnel -and Rineared with Mood, And a dum-dum snug in my spine: A dead Hun lying across myfeet, (iod! How he spouted his vrine! That's what happen when soldiers meet. Machine gun and cannon and mine; That's why I'm lying and dying here, Iast of the fated line. Kvery one of the loys cashed in. Crucifixions are not so sweet, Itayonets driven in hands and feet, lietter have all of that done in the fight; Hetter to parry with main and might; Better Ik? lying and dying here, Blackened and sticky with smell and smear, Surrounded hy faces still and white. And the shrapneled air and the shell-ripped night. Five hundred French and three thousand Huns And half that number of Englishmen, Battered and scattered with hroken guns, Like flame-killed trees in an autumn glen. Out in the open we closed the deal, Not a wild rose hush to give us cover, Till the humah wheat was reaped hy steel Like a grim-browed wood hy a gale blown over: How will the women in Paris feel! Think how Mary will weep in Dover! Frozen here to the purple earth. Only the spark in my brain still burning; A thousand guns at their splendid mirth The spite of the insolent Hun returning. These and the ghastly lieajw of dead. And the icy winds through the rap'd trees mourning: The shock and whizz ami roar and crash As if the sky to the earth were falling; The bellow and bawl, the gleam and flash. And wounded men through the darkness calling. Here I lie at the end of the trail, With a duurdum snug in my spine; And a dead Hun lying across my feet. Yielding his drops of wine; Strange that the spark in my brain still burns. Strange that the stars still shine I Strange that I should W thinking of her, Lying here in the purple mud; Strange that her prayer comes back to me' Strange that I should be talkipg to God! I who have traveled the Seven Seas, Cursing fate and my luck together; Fighting sharks by Celebes, Breasting Chilcoot's fiend-made weather- Drunk as a fool at Dunedin, ' Raising the devil at Sante Fe; A flringo loving a Gringo's sin. In the love-hot markets of Monterey Iiiding the White Horse Rapid through With never a touch of helm or paddle Going for life through Mexico ' -With a senorita behind mv saddle. Going the way of the truant wind, Anting my soul with foul disgraces- ' Leaving all that is good !ehind; Daring death in a thousand places Strange that I should he lying here Thinking of long-forgotten faces; Strange that I who have done all this Should be dying here for the old world', races! ThtTe are ttn less water users In the city in the last month, but to quote the water company officials, "that doesn't signify anything. Many families have b-en disconnec-t- ed from the mains while they are at 1 work In the beriy fields. In the last three months only reventeen houses have been shut off. Three thousand is the average number of water users in Salem. Nothing but an annual record of the number or light consumers . Is kept at the Portland Hallway Light A Pdwer company office. The me ters aie not taken out each time a family moves from a house so it Is impossible to state exactly how many have gone. What rigurea can be obtained from the company's books however, are less optimistic. For Instance, since the first of the pres ent month rive customers have mov ed out of town. It Is thought that about 100 have left so far this year. This would bring an aveiage or 400 less residents. The Increase from 293 In December. 191C. to 3103 In December. 1917, Is due to exten sions or the service. When a man rets employment In the shipyards or is dra'ted this does not necessarily mean that his wire and children follow him. Many re main in their former homes and this Is one or the big reasons why there is not a greater railing off In popu lation In Salem as In many of the valley towns. MAKING FOOD FTtOlI WASTE. Keep this thought In mind In con sidering the growing of nor poultry as a war necessity: Poultry la a means of converting Into good food materials that can not be uUHted by man. that can not be eaten by any other kinds of stock, and that with out tba poultry would be absolute waste. Very clearly It becomes a na tional as wtll as an Individual doty to keep enough poultry to take 119 an such waste materials. As long as fowls take the bulk of their feed from such sources and require to be fed on train or other garnered feeds only as a finishing process, additional food is tx lng created. AMEIUCAX 1IKX IN IUGH ESTEEM Among the echoes following la the wake of the U. S. Food Administra tion's so-called llve-hen order" Is this thought which harmonises with recent developments In poultry con ditions: "Restrictions last winter and spring on the sale of live bens and pullets for slaughter, says a poultry man In discussing- the situation, -forcibly directed the attention of American producers to the value of the Industrious ben who now occu pies a place more nearly than ever btfore on a par with other farm live stock. The extent to which farmers recognize ber true value is shown by the fact that they have refused to sen hens to any extent, even though pric es have been unusually high ever since the embargo was lifted. The large spring and summer egg trade Is ample evidence or the liberal amount of poultry now la the country and contributing to the nation's food apply. Through systematic super vision aad licensing regulations, the food administration la now endeavor ing to reduce to a minimum the hot- weather spoilage of eggs. Eneourag-l TODAY TOMORROW FT"" ton MAN TO MAN lii H 1 r l t "'- 0 -LEAN ; UP 2 HE'S WEARING THE BLUE SHIRT AGAIN! The most beloved tUr of motion pictures is re-appearing in one of his famous, favorite roles of the great north woods BIG BILL FARNUM IN "THE HEART OF A LION" Based on Ealph Connor's Novel "The Doctor4 Staged by Frank Lloyd FIRST TIME SHOWN HERE ? FINLEY NATURE PICTURE l! AND A RATTLING GOOD COMEDY 1 LIBERTY THEATRE A i s