DAILY EVENING EDITION Number copies prinuci of yesterday'a Dally edition 2,950 TVs paper Is a mumbcr of and audited by the Audit Bureau of Circulation. COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER W .... .... . : 1' .JJr DAILY EVEHlliG EDITISII WEATHER FORECAST ,, Tonight and Saturday (lr. Maximum (1. minimum 43, rainfall e. wind, west light, weather, partly, cloudy. CITY OFFICIAL PAPER VOL.29 DAILY EAST 0REG0NIAN, PENDLETON, OREGON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1917. NO. 9263 ALLIES HEADS OF SHIPPING AND EMERGENCY AGAIN E NGAG AGAIN k OPEN ! FLANDERS OFFENSIVE OF 200 YARDS MADE- ITALIANS ARE FORCED TO ABANDON BA1NSIZZA PLATEAU BOARD FLEE? ARE ED IN DISPUTF Rear Admiral Capps May , Soon Resign or be Forced to Quit. MANNER OF BUILDING SHIPS IS QUESTION Officials Admit Delay is Hampering War Work; Capp's Health Bad. BEAN IN MAN'S EAR 41 YEARS IS TAKEN OUT Forty-one years ngo two boys, broth ers, were amusing each other by pok tng nesns down one another s ears. The beans went In easily enough hut J It was a different matter when It came to taking them out. One of the beans could not be reached and was left j there. It did not Impair the hearing I nor di(f It aive other troublA and In WASHINGTON. Oct. ZS. Head Ad- after years was forgotten, mlral Capps, head of the emergency j Tn,, we)K ,ne mun who had been :, fleet corporation and successor of j boy 4 1 years ago entered the office of Oothalfl, probably will aoon reslirn orir. T. M. Henderson and complained be forced to quit. It U Indicated of having lost the hearing In one ear. Chairman Hurley, of the United States The doctor made an examination and shipping board, and Capps are not In discovered that the canal had been full harmony. Capps" health Is bad, completely -closed with hard wax.. He due to continuous work. removed the wax In a hall as large as a Officials admit the shortage of ves- marble and embedded in the center sla and the delay In construction Is i found the bean. hampering war work. Capps and j it was perfectly black from absorp Hurley are not disputing the types of j tion of the wax but still held Its orlg. vessels, but the manner of construct-j inal shape and BPlit In halves when re- Ing the ships. - Capps' Ill-health will probably serve as a vehicle for his elimination. An amendment to the shipping saw substi tuting one board for the emergency fleet corporation and the United Mates shipping board a likely. - Hurley favors conscripting labor to ' hasten construction. Three hundred to five hundred thousand workers are needed. moved. The man then remembered of the boyhood Incident. Not until the wax had closed the canal had the hearing been lost. No his hearing Is restored. Dr. Henderson did not lake th man's name as he paid for the opera tion at the time, hut he has the bean and wax as an Interesting exhibit: COUNTY HOW TRIES FOR DUB QUOTA Heroic Effort Being Made to Bring Liberty Subscrip tions to $1,800,000. Pendleton and Umatilla county hav. In passed their minimum quota of the Liberty Loan, they are now being urged to make a heroic effort to reach the mlxlmum quota. Oregon's mini mum quota Is II , 000,000 and her maximum f30.OO0.000. Umatilla county's minimum Is tl.10O.0O0 and her maximum fl, 800. 000. Pendleton's minimum Is 75O,O00 and her maxi mum 11.250,000. w. L, Thompson, chairman of the tocal committee. Is sending cut ap peals to all of the banks to aid in at taining the maximum though he real ises that with but one more day fof the campaign the task Is a colossal one. However, all communities are resnondln'g nobly. Pendleton's total today at the two bank was near the 900.ono mark. Most of the latter subscriptions are small ones. . Milton reported today that 1112,000 had been subscribed there, which is T000 over her mini mum quota- Milton also reported that Walla Walla banks have received subscriptions of t25,Ofln from Milton residents and have taken credit for them. ... Echo Is one of the few towns In the state to have raised her maximum quo ta which is $49,000. Kcho reported more than $60,000 subscribed there to date., , Several of the local committees are still In the field after subscriptions. In fact one committee did not start out until this morning and another began work yesterday afternoon. They are picking tip quite a number of small subscriptions. . GFOKfiI. TRAINS CRASH. MACON. Oa., Oct. 20. The Royal Palm, south bound., side swiped 'the Kansas Cipr , -special, northbound on the Southern, railway near here his morning. Fireman Will Matthews, a negro, was killed and engineer H. K, Burgay Painfully injured. HOpsspn gers were seriously hurt. I ,, ,, . v t "I I ' STIiJkN.JFRF.AK MIIK. ' ' feloetric rfoii Hm-iM - Throw t-h Moor'- What 1 said. .to bo the strangest freak flro.in. the history of the Day ton (Ohloi fire department was caus ed by an electric Iron left on a table In a drees goods store. It burned Its way through the table, through the flooring, through o, ten-Inch joist that supported the floor, and wis donellna by Us wires from the celling of the storeroom below When discovered. The fire department (Investigated, but did not throw any water, for the Iron had not fired' the building. The only repair necessary ware to rein force the burned joist nnd ciose the hole In the celling end floor. ' Germany is derm OF JllMCRAFT Official Statement Declares' Allies Lack Equipment for Extensive Operations. BE1U-1N', Oct. 26. The allies can. not defeat Oermany by brutally bombing- unfortified German cities, it is of ficially declared. The entente should not forget that numerous French cit ies are within easy reach of German tombing aircraft. High officials said the allies couldn't conduct extensive aerial offensve be cause of lack of machines. The authoritative statement de clared : "Our enemies hope the lack of raw material will force us to our knees. That hope Is fruit lew. W huve solv ed the problem of substitutes ho well that the Kngllsh are considering whether they shouldn't Imitate some of these substitutes. "Our raids on 1 ondon are justified. Lloyd George in June. IS 15, declared London had become a second Wood wlch. "Hitherto, whereas our enemies have increasingly bombed open toVnc such as Karlsruhe. Frankfort on the Main, Pnden. Frioburg and Tubingen the effect of such brutalities on the population has been the opposite of that Intended. It has strengthened the public's determination to hold on." f - ' . " ' "DIGGING IN" AT SPARTANBURG gjyu t r - ' ' ' ' if- e ram, Eeiting a touch ot ine on the modern Dattlencld, digging K. C. l' . . . CluurdMmen readv'to do their bit for Unci trenches at Camp v udsworth, Spurt anburg. FEDERAL REGULATIONS MATERIALLY AFFECT COAL PREVAILING WILL NOT PRICES OF IN CITY NOW ELKS ROLE CALL IS PATRIOTIC OCCASION It. W. UtTXFR PRF-SFTS SKHVICE VlAG X)NTAIXIXG ST A It TOR EVERY MEMHKR IV SHRVICB. Irlc-c Slay Drop IVw fTenta. The Pendleton driers have not yet t-ast night was roll call night at the Elks lodge and it was made a patrl- District Attorney Receives! Copy Of Orders Showing 'conferred with Fred Holmes, who has otic occasion. A service flag, contain How Dealers Will be Re quired to Fix Prices. Coal prices that prevail In Fendle ton at thl time will not, in all prob ably, be materially uffected by the government regulations. 1-istrict At torney K. I. Keator yesterday receiv ed from IT. K. llstilct Attorney Heame a copy of the rcjuilatlonHS showing: how dealers will be rerpiired to fix their prices- The Information sent by Mr. Heumes Is publiMhed herewith in full. The dealer is allowed 30 per cent more profit than In 1915. That is. l he charged two dollars a ton more for his coal In 1!15 than he paid for it he can now chargre $2. fit a ton more. The difference between the average cost of coal on his sidetracks nnd the price ho charges the consumer ! called the retail prows murerin and lb1 denier In allowed the same retui' prows margin as he bad In l ))!." plus SO per cent, presumably to cover the Increased rout In operating'. charge of the fuel situation In Ore 'Ron. Coal, lump and nut. now cotUs them $3.50 a ton at the mines and $4.15 a ton freight, making1 a total 1 of J7.65 on their tracks. Two years ,ago the retail gross margin by one dealer was $1.75 a ton. Csing1 this fisuie. the dealer would be allowed an increase of 30 per cent or about 2 cent a ton, making $2.27 he would be permitted to add to the cost of the coal on his tracks. This would make a i price of $9.92, but thu price is for coal in the bins, the dealers claim. An extra dollar a ton must be allowed for delivery, they claim, which would make the price $10.92 a ton. This fig ure Is of course, not official, j At the present time local dealer? are selling1 lump and nut coal at $1! a ton in single tons, $10.75 in two t' five ton lots and $10.FiO in five or more ; ten lots. ! Sfmrtagp of foal Here. However, there is very little coal ir j 'Vndletnn to be bad at any price ow I 'ne to the car Bhnrlajre. Most of thp imiied pnpply m hand is inferior coal Rood deal of it Is Lignite coal which i Continued on Pago 8. ) WANT LOCAL DELEGATION AT HERMISTON DAIRY-HOG SHOW MARSHALL SPELL RECOMMENDED FOR 1ST LIEUTENANCY ItKHMISTOX. Oct. 20. Staff C.r resiondende.)"Herin icon's Dairy and Hob show bpened today with the lar gest attendance on record and twice as much stork on display as during any, previous year. The shnw this yeai Is attracting- much Interest and a Rood delegation of boosters from Pen dleton Ik expected toniorow. The judging: work is being- done by experts frm the Jrepon Agricultural Cidhtfo and the entries In the hog- di vision were judsred this forenoon. Tn adition to the livestock on exhib it prizes are Mso given for apple, corn nnd potato-exhibits and for many 1 bin us entered under the ladies fa I bold In conjunct hm with the mni1 event. ing: a star, for every member of th lodge who has gone into some branch 3ff Uncle Para's service, was presented to the lodge by Roy W. Ritner and In .he absence of the donor Roy Raley nade the speech of presentation. The lodge now has 14 men entitled o a star on the flag, as follows: Cap- aln Charles C. Vinier, who Is a Camp Uwis; Captain Lee Caldwell, Lieuten ant Marshall Spell and Private "Willie 3reding ff Troop 1; Jas. H. Sturgls and James R. Eowler of Battery A; lieutenant Fred A. Lieuallen of the medical reserve corps;- Harold G. Blakely and W. X. Rover, enlisted in he navy; Roy Alexander and Grover . Floyd, now at Camp Lewis; Ray mond . Vose and J. C. Sullivan, in he engineering corps; and Ralph S. Davis and Arthur Fits Gerald, who j unlisted in the engineering corps but j who were honorably discharged for; Physical disability. In addition Fred- j ?rick Steiwer is now at the officers' j raining camp. i ltcrord Attendance. U. Alexander, as the only parent ; f an enlisted man who was present, ore.sided and nuided a r-sponse in be- ! alf of the ledge. Rev. J. E. Snyder i iho made a short talk. A Hoover j "eed completed the meeting which K.ad a record attendance. Two of the men nrw gone were of-I "leers of the lode. Captain Vinier j having bfen esteemed loyal knight and j Private Fowler having been esteemed lecturing knight. James H. Estes vas chosen to complete the term of 'he former and U. P.. Chloupek of the 'atter. Flans were also made last evening for the annual Thanksgiving ball. Pressure of Austro-German Drive Causes Italians to Withdraw to Mount Mag grove; Observers Confident Italians will Eventually Repel Assault; French Strength Magnificient LONDON, Oct. 26. The French and British opened another Flanders offensive this morning. Haigr report ed the progress satisfactory. r my five minutes after the British opened the drive. German pill boxes 2000 yards distant were completely de stroyed. Half an hour later the British reached Pold- hoex Chateau, an initial gain of 2000 yards. Kain was falling last night and today. British cavalry is active. . ; British cavalry has been used successfully, indicating the open nature of the fighting around Cheluvelt and Paschendaele. This is the second blow the combined Brit ish and French have struck against Germany's vital spot in Flanders in five days. As soon as all of Paschendaele ridge is captured the way will be open for the allied ad- vance to Roulers, the pivot city in the German communi cation lines, except for the Flanders mud. 1 ; The greatest satisfaction is expressed over the magni ficent evidence of France's military strength. The French are conducting two major offensives, one '6n the Aisne front, the others with the British in Flanders. ' - t - ROME, Oct 2G. The pressure of the Austro-German drive has forced the Italian evacuation of Bain- sizza Plateau, it is officially stated. , The announcement said the Italians withdrew to Mount Maggiore west of Auzza. . STATE TOTAL IN BOND SALE IS $19,181,450 CAMP OR BEX. Charlotte. X. C. Oct. 26. Promotion of Second Lieu tenants Harold R. Klff. Marshall H. Spell and Alfred J. O'Rrlen to be first lieutenants, and of Sergeant Major Will F. Hessian, formerly of the busi ness staff of the Oreiron Journal, and Srtreants Kngene P. Walters. John A. McCleverty. George D. Jtlley nnd Roy M. Sloan to be second lieutenants was recommended here Wednesday, other changes made among Oregon cavalry nen at,, Camp Greene were the as signments of Captain Cicero F. Hognn ofr Trooji A to headquarters company, nnd Captain Charles J. Gjedsted of Troop to the supply brigade. GERMAN AGENTS SAID TO BE WORKING IN THE VANCOUVERARMY POST : BATTLE OF AISNE IS GERMANY'S GREATEST DEFEAT THIS YEAR PORTLAND, Oct. 26. The official Liberty Bond total was announced at noon as $19,181,450, well over Ore gon's minimum quota, while over $10, 000,000 remain to be obtained in just 24 hours to reach the maximum. The city of Portland with over elev en millions is well over its maximum, but the rest of the state with some few exceptions has fallen lamentably behind. Portland has made a wonderful rec ord. With one-third of the wealth of the state, it has subscribed nearly two thirds of the Oregon total, while In actual number of subscriptions, it has subscribed 16.400 cut of a total of less Han 30.000. Moreover, in Portland, subscriptions made by an employe for hundreds of employes counts as only one subscription. Pendleton's record and Umatilla county's is one for the state to ad mire, declare the committee. Based on the maximum quotas, however. Lake county heads the state outside of Portland with 8 3 per cent. Clatsop jumps to second place with 65 per cent. Marshffeld is now beginning to get its gait. The following towns have at- j tained their maximum ouota: Bridal ; Veil. Seaside. Wheeler, West fall. Echo j and Lafayette. j SUICIDE THEORY IS REFUTED BY DOCTORS Iondon Is OonfldenC LONDON, Oct. . -Military ob servers are fully confident the Italians will bo able to repel eventually the AustrcGerman drive. Italy la well supplied with troops and munitions. -Observers said the Isonxo offensive showed conclusively the weakness of the Austrian. German troops, offi cers, munitions and airplanes are con ducting the drive. -' ' Realizing the extent of the Italian unrest, the Kaiser evidently launched the drive hoping, to break the morale of the Italian people. ' Kaiser's Judgment Poor. The Kaiser evidently created an other grotesque error In Judging the mental processes of other nations. Tha Immediate effect of the German offen sive appears to be criticisms against the weakness of the present Italian cabinet, coupled with a demand for a more belligerently active national pol 30.000 Italians Taken. BERLIN-. Oct. it. Austro-German forces on the Italian front have cap tured 10.000 prisoners and 300 gunS, it is officially stated. RESIGNATION ITALY'S CABINET IMPENDING Socialists Strength Increas ing: According to "Semi-Official Reports. ROME, Oct. 2fl. The resignation of the Italian cabinet In impending, ac cording to semi-official newspaper an nouncements. Socialist y' Ftrength If Increasing. The chamber of deputies dofv-ated a vote of confidence In the cabinet. ..VANCOUVER. Wash., Oct. 2fi. (Jerman agents were evidently worn Ing in tho army post. A number of army mules were mys teriously and severely stabbed and several killed. It Is believed , an attempt was made to plant typhus germs in the water. Col onel Jones, command:' nt, flatly dent od the persistent report that 1T00 loaves of bread were found to contain poison. The guard anout the nrmy post has been doubled and every effort is being made to catch the plot ters. Jones Insisted the reports cir culated In Portland nu,d Vancou ver were greatly enlarged. He said the activities of the plotters stopped when the guard was doubled. Army authorities closely Inves tigated the alleged attempt to poi son the posts drinking water. Every report was run down in an effort to catch those responsible. It is Ren e ru 11 y re port ed here that a spy was shot while trying to enter the army bakery and died later in the hospital. Jones denied the story. itrssi.ws apv.wci: itutuku. PHTItOGRtrt, Oct. 26. The Rus sians have advn nce,i further in the Hiua sector. The t'lernians evacuated a great seetion of territory it is offi cially stated. The statement said: "In the Eigund Manor sector from I-cmnvarden fo the castle, as f::r as the Kiga Orel rail way line, we advanced without discov ering the enemy." nOn 1SSI E INVALID. SALEM. Cct. S. The supreme court found tho $ too.ooo Tillamook rtKt bond isuc invalid. - 1 (HENRY WOOD.. j FRENCH HKAnQVARTKRS. Oct. 26. The Cerman retirement on the j Aisne front is continuing, following tht terrific French smash Wednesday and j Thursday. The Aisne battle is Ger- f many's greatest defeat this year. The French penetrated the German defenses for three miles, German losses are conservatively estimated at ' tfvOftn, the heaviest losses Germany j has yet sustained in proportion to the i size of the battle front. The victory gives the French dom ination of the Allette valley. The Germans are evidently attempt ing to make a determined stand today. The new French positions practi cally render untenable the German lines clonsr the northern end of th blond y Chemin Pes Panics toward Craonne. The German forces are evidently aroce-y like a boxer struck a terrific walbm. The Germans hadn't consid- ; ered defeat on the Aisne front pos- ible. considering their positions there! impregnable. The French captured ' Positions seven miles long, averaging throe and a half miles deep. 4 Physicians Declare Lieuten ant McCoy Could Not Have Killed Himself. TELEPHONE CONTROVERSY MUST It EACH SETTLEMENT TOMORROW SAX FRANCISCO. Oct. 2. UnleM a settlement of the controversy b tween the electrical workr union and the Pacific Telephony and Tleraph SPARTA Wis.. Oct. 2fi. Phvsielans company is reacned by noon tomorrow examining the body of Lieutenant un,on officials will telegraph a trlK Malcomb McCoy, found dead at Van-to a!l coast locals. conver barracks Saturday, declared he' - -- couldn't have committed suicide, a the army authorities; announced. Physicians said a bulb entered the lower left side of the skull, a place practically impossible for a man to have reached himself. Colonel R. B. McCoy, father of the dead oficer. Is understood as demanding a military Investigation. It is alleged the re volver found beside the body didn't belong to the lieutenant. FLY OVFU IOOO MILKS OX RAID; SO HITCH si norn srsiKsiov of j COAL SHIPMKXTS ORPEREP 1 WASHINGTON. O. 2.i Prtiirlty Plrcttor R. S. lovett ordered a SI hours su4Hnsbm of prcTerencf ship nients of bituminous eonl for the mtrthwTt. bcuHiiniiisr at midnight Oc tober jsth. This Is done at tlto request ot Fuel .felmliiMrator tiarfleld to di icrt rMtl lo Ohio ami Michigan to re lieve the serious do mo tit short a ire of those two states. London. Oct. 3 The Dally Mail's correspondent with the Ital- lari armies iaya that latar detailii received of the areat Cattaro mark It as an exam pi of rare or- 4 ganliation. The fourteen Capronlea which took part In It started together from near Milan, flew to the Ap- penlnes in a vale and arrived tn a body near Rome. There thejr rested awhile and then flew to their taking off camp on the Ad- riatlc shore and thence to Dal- matfa and Montenegro and home. The squadron afterward flew together something like 10OO miles without failure on the art of any machine or any hitch. 'i '