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1 iTe&PiS DAILY EVHOElTlul WEATEES FORECAST Tonight and Thursday fair. DAILY EVEfli'lG EDITIOn Number cop I lea printed of yesterday' Dally J xlltlon. 2,787 ..' '' Tlilii paper la a member of and audited by the Audit Burottu of Circulations. CITY OFFICIAL PAPEB DAILY EAST OREGONIAN, PENDLETON, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 1918. VOL. SO FRENCH EXPECT KAISER TO TRY GOVERNMENT TAKES OVER COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER r ! ; , -X x5jpjy i ' -' j f - - yX v '. - ' : ' ' ' NO. 9417 ; I,..., . . BLOODY SLOPES STORMED BY HUNS J FOR HUN PEACE French Will Make No Peace ' While German Foot is on the Soil of France. SAFETY IN VICTORY ONLY IS WARNING .Wilson Tore Away Veil Showing Germany's Sor- did Aims. i. , PAIUS, April U. Expecting Oer. many to launch a peace offensive aoon. French leaders are warning against It. "At this serious hour, the safety ol France can come only -through vic tory," declared M. Maginot. former .minister of the colonies. "We have reached the culminating point In the war where the fate of 1' ranee hangs In the balance, i Ger many Is at her maximum strength. President Wilson has torn away the last mythical veils from Gerany's sor did alms." M. Klots, minister of finance, de clared France would never consider Peace as long as the Teuton foot pro lanes the fair soil of France. "With our brave allies we will fight to the end. The entire situation a summed up In the one word Hold." STAMP BUYERS CAN GET ON BLUE LIST Moppers Up Now After Those. Not Taking ' Liberty Bonds. "Every Individual In Umatilla county Is presumed to contribute to patriotic purposes In proportion to his or her ability to be entitled to a blue card. "Those who were not able for anyj other reason did not subscribe for the Third Liberty Ian Bonds are ex pected to subscribe for War Havings Stamps and, upon doing so in propor tion to his or her ability, will be giv en credit the same as those subscrib ing for the bonds." This Is the prologue to the card which will be distributed next week by the "moppers up-' of the Third Liberty Loan campaign. The card will carry also a place for name, ao dress and signature of subscriber and the fqlowlng subscription or pledge: "Please deliver to me War Havings Stamps to the value of $ "I hereby pledge myself to purchase War Bavings or Thrift Stamps to the value of each week (or month! until Sept. 1, 1518. "I have previous to this dnte pur chased War and Thrift Htamps to the value of $ " These -cards ' will bo presented only to those potenllul contributors who did not buy bonds-and th government and the local organisation will thui Ket a check upon .every Individual who can subscribe. . IRISH STRIKE IS DUBLIN", April Si. A natlon-wlda paralysis of Industries resulting fron. yesterday's strike which worked with machine-like precision everywhere except In Ulster, Is regarded today as having emphasised the well-knit or ganisation with which the anti-con-scriptlonlsts are working. The antl conscrlptlonists have shown no ani mosity to date and have merely p raded the streets In their Sunday best alungnlde Knglish, Irish and Ameri CRIPPLING INDUSTRY can soldiers. The lord mayor o'1 AHfrTJIPAVC xmif tv Dublin la reported as having asked ,iUEIVlWi;5 for a passport to the United States. FINDING ANSWER TO 54 With deadweight WASHINGTON! April more than four million tons of shipping now being opersteo I by the Tnlted States shipping board.).. . . : , T J and one million tons launched ane UeUtCnant IS UUmecJ watting outfitting. Secretary Baker. I In FlaminCT Airplane tloethals and ship officials are meet-j Ing today to map ll and lJ0shlp-: W ICHITA FAI.IJ). T-s. April 24 building and discuss general ocean second Lieutenant 81. Then H. War transportation problems. jner and Cadet Kdwln Crier were bnrn Offlclals say that sn Inventory ed to death today on Call Field when shows America has begun to find antheir airplane bund Into flames &a answer to the shipping problem. ifeet in the air and fell. V4 The blood-soaked Messines Ridge, shown above, has lust been reeoptur- ed by the Boches at a tremendous cost sive last Jiine, when General Fiumer's In Gorman dead. It's not a "hiKh hill" men wrested the ridge from the Ger- nothing like as hiKh as the hills in;mans, captured 7000 prisoners and rolling middle western United States, j piled up a German casualty list of 80, But the rest of the Flanders region is ,000. , The British had tuneled und;r flat like a floor, and this ridge thus1 the ridge and planted the explosives, commands surrounding country. The j In that offensive the British attack ground goes up on a gentle slope and iers' losses were lipht. In the present on top, In the center of the ridge, Is a offensive the German losses have been THREE MILLION li! YEAR America Can Send AhnVP nuu ThlS Number Abroad ,, , t J Year if bhipS are Keady. , ' . WASHINGTON. April 24 Anierl-ltwo ran put three million men On the France within the! .Him,. um ... ......i.. year if ships are ready, according to j Adjutant Oeneral McCain In speaking I before the House military af fairs I RUSSIAN RABBI WILL SPEAK. AT HAPPY CANYON ON FRIDAY Survivor of Kischniff Willi Tell of Conditions in Land of the Bolsheviki. In addition to a talk on condition fit the front by Ir. J. I. Pluinomlon at the lilor Jiiuly Canyon meeting Frltluy evt'tiliiK a talk will a (ho b . given by Kahl-l (ioliiumn, KuKnian patriot now hi thn ctly and who Is to Hprak 'in th local chnrchcM Kunday. Kabbi Ooldntan wan at Klnchniff during tho famous mnxHucre thtro, Fii wife being anion the isl.iln at thai tlnio. Ho had a mm in the Russian j army durhifc the forepart of the war j and ho In now ut Camp IjCw-Im prepar ing for tho American army. Tho rati- j h! left liUKKla a year And a half aK. Ho say: J "Hiitwtitt Ik composed of 22 nations, 1 The HolhcvlM movement is made up i of the lowest element. j "Lenine and Trotsky are (Jernia sympathisers and German agltatora. t "I tell you that (iermany will meet ; nt-r uivnou in liuwia. riuiwui is i til Ml In the war and ttlwayri will be In the war with (ktrnuuiy- It Is cwlni now. It l.okM guiet, but you nuiy ox port every day the tiwukunhiff of th Hutwlun people. "American people don't realize the blemlnKS they have herw and the free dom and liberty. Every man. wom an and child muist Rive nil he ha that the German tterpent Khali be destroy ed. "Tho Cerniunn In many town are neiping me noishevik adnitnlHtratlon j trying to Ret control over tho people THICK OF FIGHT' WASHINGTON-, April 24. Tho na tion was stirred today over word England that some American now brigaded with the allies on an one of the bitterest sections of the west ern line. Navy reports to the war department show that the process of briRmlln ithe Americans Is being hurried. Boon most of the army will probably be serving with th French and Knglish. -." i crater- the scene of the great mine 'blast which started the Hritisn orren- (Committee. He said this would be j I giving them sufficient training in this; 'country. ' 1 JI e nave 10 nave ne im" 'and can get sufficient ships, we could, have the five million men over In j and a half years?" he wbis asked.; icain reimeu: -u.in.ns. y.e uyu.u oo It Decora mat, ir we are wining 10 nl, nk.n.. hr nrl th..re gue6tIjncd as to his opinion on raising the draft ages from 20 to 40, he said he had no objection to it. IJjJji Goldman Who Will Speak Friday I The wnrMiifrnion are on the point of ; revolution. Not one of them Is f'r ', the German peace, ir tho German promise. ' "La rKe placard are on the walte of cities and many handbill are scat J totfd a I out t he Htreets readinR: " 'Italians! We have Inst nine mil Hun men- Germany needs nin mill it ill more men fro in us. Are yon wtilln to frlve It to lAva Kuffia! " her? No! Long TWO HUN POWDER . . " : - . rS, ;) "-v I i dfn.i.i:PJ AMTQ P fliyfj IIP s arc T U1I,1 111 II till II r e.1111 w e w I J t - I'.t aifll. April 21. Two large Austrian Kiwdcr ffat'lorlc at f.lMSflilMMii have hcvn blown up, Willi numerous ttuatf les, it Is rc Kr(cri Into today. Austrian Nobles to Confer at Vienna ZI KICH. Ajirtl 24 Arrh-Dukf Ku penc hM 8nniiioiu'l ull th AuKtrutn Arrh-lniM'S to Vienna for confer- tremendous and the British defenders' losses comparatively light. This clo ture was taken after the British hatf wrested the ridge from the Germans. Two British soldiers are doing uook out duty, and making silhouet targets of themselves. Just below the sol diers is a German stone dusout, left by Hlndenburg. In the left fore ground is what Is left of a dugout af ter shelling. . GIFTS WANTED EOS .RED GROSS AUCTION 'What'll You Give" is Now Cry for May 1 Money , Raisers. ' "WhaUiya goin' t'give for the Red 'Cross auction?"- " This is the question of the hour and is propounded to everyone in the city. It will be propounded personally this afternoon bv the committee in charge to every merchant who will be asked ! to donate some article from his stock and display it in his windows. How ever, the Blvins is not to be confined to business men. Anyone who has anything that will sell for real money is asked to Btep forward and offer It. The big May Day Festival and Red Cross Auction on May 1 is to be put on and pulled off without a cent of cost so that every dollar and nickel received will go into the coffers of the lted Cross. All organizations of the city are to donate time, service and materials. For instance the la dies auxiliaries of the churches are going to prepare and serve dinner, the Girls' Honor Guard has agreed to turn out in a body to tag the celebrants and tha l'ti.ntilln Cnitntv Ounril. instead of shouldering muskets next Tuesday evening, win snouiocr orooms ana mops und will march to Happy Canyon pavilion lo clean and decorate the big hall for the dance on the following evening. The auction will go on all day long at tho old Happy Canyon grounds on Main street. Altogether it is going to be Borne event. !"IT8 AMERICANS" ! YELLED FRIGHTENED FOE AT ZEEBRUGE M)IM, April 21. StirivtrH of tin niUI ut SSrrt.rtigu.p OMeitd when llir npproiirlihiz lit were c!lti-ed rnar tho mole- hiindrcclH ol Itiins ut Hie t-.ln.re hatteries oened fire- When the ImihIIu parlies dla- cmPurknl the ,(Tinnn frnrriMin fled, rring. lf tho Americans. storiiu'rH destroyed cannon find lm mciie quantities of ammunition. It will require week if lalnw to move the oliMruetlon.H whleli tiie stormera phteed when the eenuMit tdtipM were turned pratHlenlly Into Mom. Albany Will Feed 2000 Drafted Men u'1 t"ro"s Is preparing to feed S"00 drafted men from California. The men will fii've In four trains Frida Momlny ad Tuesday ami will be en- 1 , trrtatned itt the Albany nrmitrv. All, (HFMtY WOOD.T ninterl:;! Tor four meals will be do- i .,,," .. ..... ... .viii.-a nated by Aloany people sod each sol- I W!TH AKMIKS. dler will receive a postcard in which; April 24. How an American lieuten to write l-.t-me. ! ant and six men held a TOO yard front all day against Germans In a recent This is Mild Way To Handle An Enemy NKW YORK, April 2 4. Hanm rteorKf Von Kolen. a Oernmn rwn. ist lieutenant who hi a tan detain) by the alien enemy bureau has been jrent t hi home at VilianiRprt, I'a . ain! id ordorect lo remain away f rm Mlio Atluutic coast durtnc th war. WOOL CLIP Prices Will Be Based on Those Prevailing July 30, 1917, is Announcement. COLUMBIA BASIN CO. SENDS OUT REPORT Smythe Bros, and R. N. Stanfield Are Big Hold er From 1917. The government haa commandeered the wool unaold from last year's clip and also the wool to be shorn this year. The price to be paid the grow ers will be Based on the prices pre vailing July ,30 last and are practically the same as prices now prevailing. These prices will range from 45 to 60 cents per pound, according' to shrink age and quality. It Is said that east ern Oregon wool will average round 55 cents per pound.. News of the government's action was received here today by Dan P, Bmythe In the following wire from the Columbia Basin Wool Warehouse Co.; " Northern Portland, Ore., Apr. 24. Dan P. fSmythe: . , . Government has commandeered all spot wools and entire eighteen clip at prices as of Jaly 30. We will be ad vised at early date details for meth-, ods handling prices fixed by govern ment and details worked out along lines giving every advantage to grow ers. Would advise all wools as fast as shorn and ready for Bhipment to be forwarded at once for storage and grading. Until these plans are per fected we are not allowed to sell un der any circumstances. COLUMBIA BASIN WOOL WAREHOUSE CO. Smythe Brothers and companies operated by them have 200,000 pounds f unsold 1 &1 7- wool- Ja 4he Portland warehouse. It. N. fitanfieid also has- heavy holdings there. The Smythe clip for this year will be ap proximately 800,000 pounds, thus giv- ins them approximately mlllion pounds all told to sell. "The government's action Is entire ly satisfactory to us" says D. P. Smythe. The price will be fair, the action will eliminate any middleman profits and will end all uncertainty." Holland May Give In To Hun Threats WASHINGTON, April 24. Holland is believed today to be making conces sions to Germany since the German .1 r. ... .1 ... 4,a ,lrt a arat haillv needed gravel and other war material from a neutral nation. iJJun Airplane Bl'OUght Down Raiding: Paris I'AltlS, April 24- A German trU Piano was brought down with crew of threo who were taken prisoner In last night's German air raid. It was of ficially announced this afternoon- The raid was frustrated. Germans lo Hear Fate From Judge April 30 SAX FRANCISCO. April 24. Judge Van Fleet today set Tuesday. April 30. as the date for sentencing practi- cally the entire ex-German consulate j the laws of the national and Interna staff here with 20 others, mostly Hin- j tional unions of America, but hi re dus, in a conspiracy against L'ritlsh J pugnant to the rights and the Inter rulo in India, ,csts of the workers themselves.' 1 KaiNTr Juili-d for safe KihiK WALLA WALLA. April 24. "The Kaiser, the Beast of Berlin." was ' taken to the police ftatlon last niKht NKW YOHK, April i4. John B for Rnfe keepin!; after bctnB shown ! Mannintr. 93. who was sued by Misn at the LilKTty theater last night, i Honora May ll'Hrien fur f 1.000,000 Copies of the film have been stolon in tr breach of promise and who paid other cities. The film nearly caused ! her fioo.nvn, died at his home here a riot last nlKht. one patron refusing j today from old ae. Recently Miss to atand when the fctar SpanKled Han- O'Brien went to her former home In iter was played. Tolice were stationed Ireland, w here she married a child at the theater. ' 1 hood sweetheart, now a farmer. SEVEN AMERICANS HELD 700 YARD TRENCH FOR ONE DAY AGAINST FOE jsttack at Seleheprey is told In the o ficial report of a French colonel who commanded a regiment which coop- ; i crated with the Americans in reca i turinic Selrheprey and flemtere wood. "Evcrymhtr evidences are vis! his of niu!t desperate hand-to-hand fiuht Inx denunitratin)j that the Amerl- , cam, deiiite two hours' bombard- ment. defended themselves valiantly. jaotl irarticularly was tuls sx nrar AMERICA HAV jilfl , THAT WILL OUT DO ANYTHING IN WORLD PHILADELPHIA, April St. The greatest engine of destruction yet produced as artillery by the great war will movo from one of tile munition factories on the 11 awtare river tomorrow, accord ing to m statement by Samuel Vau-' clain, vice-president of the Bald win locomotive works, who la named "the gunsmith of Amer ica." Tho gun' was planned, design ed and constructed in ten weeks time. Outside of saying' thac the side gutters or concreto weigh 75 tons each, Vauclain would not give further details as to the cannon, - ; WASHI.VCJTOV, April : 21. Xavy authorities refused to com ment on Baldwin's big Run.. It is known to be powerful weapon but all details are withheld for fear of providing, tho enemy wtth information. AMERICA WILL LEF.D DIRECT TO. ALLIES WASHINGTON, April 24. Revolu tionary changes In financing the world war will soon occur. Instead of Ens- land handling all the loans and re lending to her allies, the United States will lend directly to France, Italy, etc The United States has extended credits ,f $,SS5,00.00. over half of which England has used herself. GERM AX MAYOK ARRESTED -WASHINGTON, April 4. Fred erick C. Miller, the German mayor of Michigan City. Ind., was arrested and locked up as an enemy alien when he came here today to 'discuss with fed eral officials the prospects for com pleting his naturalization. He took out first papers before the United States went to war. GOMFERg ASKS IJVBOR NOT TO GO OV STRIKE WASHINGTON. April 24. An ap peal to organized labor not to walk out In the general strike that will pre- 3"dice the Interests of American sol- diers In France and rink disaster In the war was Issued Monday by Sam uel Gompers, president of the Amer ican Federation of Labor, following the sensational speech of Senator Folndexter, Monday. The Gompers statements reads: The .machinations In the prosecu tion of the Mooney trial justify the judgment that he was found guilty on perjured evidence; it is greatly re grettable that the California courts refused toconslder this claim, which Wa.i discovered since th trial- "Kvery legal action has been and will be taken by the bona fide labor movement of the United States to se cure Justice for Mooney. Any attempt to incite a strike of the workers of a trade or Industry of a locality state or of the nation Is not only violate of IOI-U MAX NrKI rX)lt 9l.OiW.000 I'ASSliS AWAY I-avon. "There two American ma - chine gunners died In their tracks ; today passed resolutions giving Pres after covering the ground with Oer. j (dent Henjamtn Ide Wheeler power man dead. As a result of this mag- j summarily to dismiss any member sf nlflcent resistance the enemy suffer- j the faculty, or emplo)e who voices ed the heaviest "Two marhlne-icunnfr aeparatd ' r from their company thouRh r retreat partly Pnder surrounded, refused I terrific bam bard ment. When tha Oernians reached their positions, tha Americans blew up the suns and re treated. "Toward evening? a hospital at iclcheprey was blown up aid tha doctors and nurses wera killed or wounded.' Another Enemy Move Now Underway in Albert Sec tor North of the Sorame. NINE MILE FRONT IS UNDER ASSAULT Local Fighting and Artillery; Duels Were Underway !, Tuesday. 'f . ; LONDON. April 24. Strong German attacks are progressing on a nine mile front east of Amiens, Haig today reports. Another enemy assault is underway in the Albert sector, north of the Somme. The Germans are bombarding: the whole front from north of Albert to the Junction of the Brit ish and French lines for fif teen miles. FLANDERS ASSAULTS REPCISKD. PARIS, April 21. Terrific German bombardment between the HamM and Are river Is reported in the war office. Hard mining occurs In tha Albert aector. fctrong enemy aasaulta near Draocntre and Flanders wera refnilscd. 1 ' In region of Allctts and ATenooorf, FrencA patrols broaeht back prison ers. I3seer tliere was Intermit tent cannonading. yesterday's Flltfitimr. LONDON. April 24. Local flKht Ing and artillery duels constituted yes terday's fighting, the night official reports show. Half reported an Im provement lo British positions east of Robeeq In an enterprise which won 120 enemy prisoners and a number of machine guns. Beveral prisoners and a number of machine guns were also taken in the neighborhood of Meter en. A French, communique described great mutual artillery activity near Hangard-en-Santerre and west of Xoyon. but no Infantry actions- The; fighting activity Is limited. British Inrantry were especially active, be tween Lens and Albert, a German re port said, and claimed no success was attained in local operations. : ' LOAN HOW CLOSE TO TV0 BILLIONS WASHINGTON, April II. Sub scriptions lo tho third loan are m- .proactiine; two billions official reports) ay today. Two more states, Colora do mud Arizona in officially over the) line, today, bringing the total num ber of states reselling (heir quota to an even doscn. Um IS RELEASED 111 GO TO WORK Clifford Mets. the Weston Russell ite who narrowly escaped mob viol ence Monday afternoon at Milton and Freewater for circulating the "King dom News' and who has since been in the county Jail, was released short ly after noon today by District At torney Keator who reached a decision that there Is no law, federal, stats or municipal, under which he can be prosecuted. Mets. however, expressed his will ingness to forego any further activity that might be objectionable to the Public and declared to tha district at torney that, had he known there was so much feeling, he would not have assisted In circulating the papers. His one dcKire was to get tack to his ranch and attend to his seeding, he said. 1-nirlng the night another batch of "Kingdom News" was mailed at tho P'Stoffice to various PendleUn peo ple. Those who are mailing the cir culars are said to be members of tha sect whi live In this city. However, It Is said their act is not a violation of the postal lams. IINMYAL MI ST .. S.X.V FKANCISCO. April 14. Thf bftard of regents of the I'tiiveralLV of L - - , ,,,.,. .. . -d-,.!,! meetina hare OWVHT IS lJl ll(J WALLA WAIX-A. April M. C'aught in carder at the Jute mill of tha penitentiary, a convict recently rs Cfttved, had hi forearm severely In jured yesterday whiJa performms; hia work. Tha teeth, of tha luachme sunic into tha muscles and tor them toos. Tha man was taken to th institution hospital.