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VOL.30 ' ' ' 1 DAILY EAST OEEGONIAN, PENDLETON, OREGON,. THURSDAY, JUNE 13, 1918. NO. 9460
AMERICA HOPES
U.S. LEADERSHIP
Expedition Hanned Under
Japanese Supervision Dis
pleases Russian People.
U. S. CONSIDERED
, HER BiEST FRIEND
After July 4 Slowing up of
' Troop Transport to
: 7 France Will Give
Opportunity.
'. (CARL D. GROAT.)
WASHINGTON. June U. The
. American government la striving
. hard to arrange to send troops to
Russia under Russo-Amerlcan flead
arahlp. Russia Kill not approve an
' expedition under Japanese leadership
but considers the United States her
hut friend, It la reliably learned.
The government wishes to report
July 4 that -ft million Americana have
gone to Kurope. - Thereafter we mual
alow up troop transport, thus hurry
ing supplies. This Blowing will give
an opportunity to aid Ruaala with
, troops. , Many difficulties are faced,
admittedly, but government leaders
are striving to their utmost for a so
lution. .
CHEAT IrV'MBKRS VNXKCESSARY
The proposal receiving the greatest
support is the use of troop ships aft
er July 6th to convey American
troops to Russia. A vaat force la not
necessary. Loyal Russians, available
allies and Japanese and Chinese will
compose' the balance of the great In
ternational expedition. The purpose
is rescue work and a guarantee
against territorial aggrandisement.
: Secy. Baker recently warned the
newspapers against predicting the
fall and winter troop figures. This
la because supplies must suplant
trooe after July. After, supplies are
adequate, heavy troop shipment will
be resumed.
SIX NORTHWEST BOYS
NAMED IN CASUALTIES
Today's List Has 188,' Includ
ing Four Oregoniand Se
verely Wounded.
.WASHINOTON. June 13. C.cncral
Tershlng reported 1S8 casualties In
cluding 19 'killed I" action. 130 se
verely wounded, lftinlel Hahoney of
Chewelah. Washington, was killed In
action. John Culhertmm of Clatskan
le. Oregon, Blmer Curtis of Seattle,
Uuy Heed. Albert WaUll and Rich
ard Zelslyr, all of '1'nrtland, are se
verely wounded.
SERVICE TO ARMY
MEN OFFERED BY
NEW HOME SECTION
The Home Service Section of the
Red Cross In connection with Its pur
pose of aiding enlisted men In settling
up home affairs before their depar
ture, la preparing to send a card to
every man Included In a future draft
from Umatilla county, a card bearing
a red cross and calling his attention
by thv following questions, to the ser
vices the section Is prepared to ren
der: Have' you provided properly for
your wife, mother or children?
Are you Insured?
'Have you made an allotment of
your pay?
Are you familiar with- the laws gov
erning allotments and allowances?
Mrs. Oeorge' Hartman, Jr., and
Mrs. Sylvan Conn are In the room of
the Home Service ectlon. 158. of the
Federal building, each morning be.
tween 10 and 11. o"clock for the pur
pose of answering Inquiries concern
n home affairs or assisting the men
before their departure In any way
possible
TVVENTYNINE FOE
PLANES' DESTROYED
SINCE SATURDAY
LONDON, June II. Pritleih airmen
asslatins the French In the weRtern
portion of the Otee front have destroy,
ed 39 enemy airplanes alncn Saturday
It t- officially announced. They drop
ped 21 tona of bomb-.
On the Tlcardy .front the British
hot down twomchlnf and drove
two others down, drooping IS tona of
bombs and badly dntnafnx the Cam
brel rairnay and Fra ml court bill eta.
Ont British, machine U missing.
MAY AID RUSSIA
VIEW ON - DESTROYER
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'4
The orderly transport of troops to
,h ..
Europe was not halted by
pearance of U-boats off the
Jersey
l-ih U V - : r T T . -
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BRIEF, DRENCHING RAIN AIDS
CROPS BUT
Rainfall Was General Over
Most of Umatilla
County.
Eleven one-hundredth of an inch
the amount of the rain reported
by the weather bureau in I'andleton
yesterday. .It necmg to have 1 broken
the hot apell and much good will re-
ult to the grain fields of Umatilla
county, though it Vras far short ol
being; the soaking- rain needed.
The rain yesterday afternoon, ac
cording to all reports, was quite gen
eral. Reports from different parts of
the counnty's grain district . show
good showers as far west as Nolln
!cho. Butter caeek and south to Pi
lot Rock and the mountains- Thin
the part In greatent need1 of rain.
and while there are some fields for
which trie moisture came too lata
there are others that will be greatly
benefited and will harvest fairly good
crops. It seems that the extremely
hot spell that had prevailed for sev
eral days has been broken and with
the recurrence of a few more such
showers as yesterday the light Inndtt
of Umatilla county will yet- pfoduce t
large amount of grain.
From other parts of the cnusjiy
the same re port s come Indicating a
general rain, thdugh In all cases slmrt
of the amount needed. At Athena
and as far east a Walla Walla the
rain was accompanied by a heavy
wind and severe electrical storm, i
Large branches were broken off i
trees and telephone poles snapped off
at the gi4und. totno damage was1
done at Milton and Freujp.Ucr to ripe
cherries on the trees.. Cherry pick-j
Ing will be held up somoaS a conse-
juence. ,
At the office of the Pacific Grain
Co. It in reported a considerable j
shower fell at Helix. What Is needed i
Is a soaking rain, but a little helps I
Farmers calling at the Farmers'
Cnlon Grain Agency on Court street
sav the ground was wt to a aepin
of one and a half to three Inches. 4
I
Ordnance Output to I
Be Much Increased
.
WARRINGTON. June 13. The Mid-
vale Steel CompnAy will extend Its
Philadelphia wlanPthus supplying Che
government with greatly increased or
dnance facilities. The scope of the
extension is not revealed but it is un
derstood that several hundred tnou
sand dollars will be devoted to greatly
improving the ordnance output.
TompolRiio Kracuntcd.
PARI.. June 13. Civilian evacua
tion of Compelgne Is completed. U Is
officially announced. Thousands of
refugees are arriving on special trains.
WOMP'iV'. A I IXIIJARY PA TRIOTIC
SERVICE LEAGUE
I'matilla county will soon have the!
woman's auxiliary to
tho fmntllU:
County Patriotic Service League. A
meeting has been called Xor Satur
day, June 22, 1:30 p. m., at the Com
mercial Association rooms. Kiks'
.building. Pendleton, for the final or
ganisation of the auxiliary.
At a'meeting held yesterday after-
noon at which some 20 women office League develops the need nnd ad
Pendleton, who have been active In ! vnntnse of the woman's auxiliary or
war work. In the various branches. branch becomes more end more ev
were present a temporary organlia-j Ident. it is Just ns essential thai
Hon wsa made, and call Issued for 'women's work be co-ordinated under
the meeting to he held as above when 'a
the permanent organfxation
completed- Mrs. Wilson n,
chairman of the Women's
will be
MrNary
County
Council of Defense, was elected tern
porary chairman; nd l rs, Ja 3.
PROTECTING TROOPSHIP FROM
Ik - I ,
Ill if -V i , . . ' p-
! coast. This photograph was taken of
,. , . rf,,, with h.e'tn
. .
i guns scouring the sea for submarines'
MORE IS NEEDED
20.000 DOCTORS AND
12,000 ARWY NURSES
NEW YORK, June 13, More than
20,000 physicians and -surgeons and
12,000 nurses have enrolled in the
American army, and the Medical De
partment enlisted personnel has been
built tip to 100.0011 . men, decInnMt
Surgeon-Ieneral Willians C. Gorarts.
reviewing the work of the Medical
Department In the flrt 14 months of
the war. in an address here yesterday.
.In addition he Maid the United,
States hits contributed 1500 doctors
to the British servlre, 600 of whom
went to the front Immediately after
this country became a belligerent.
(lor gas contrasted the present medi
cal corps with the force before the
war. when there were less than 600
doctors and 30a nurses and 3000 en
listed men. In the first month of the
war he said congress conHldcred an
appropriation of fl.ooo.oon for the de
partment's work, and now a budget or
$160,000,000 has been presented.
1000 COLLEGIANS AT
PRESIDIO TRAINING
WASHINGTON, June 13 fix
thousand five hundred men, the full
quota, are enrolled In the three train
ing ramps for college students at
riattsburg.
New York, Fort Sheridan.
U S. Forces Have
Been "Over There
For Just a Year
PA RIS, Juno 1 3. Celebrat
ing the anniversary of the arri
val of American troops in
France. President Poincare dis
patched a message to the I'res
Ident , expressing admiration at
the "'magnificent American ef
fort He said .the allies were
In the war's most difficult
hours but the rapid formation
of American units will restore
the balance.
I "Then the allies will tuke de
cisive revenge with the sound1
Seace principles you have laid
own."
Poincare wired General Per
shing congratulations on the ad
mirable fighting dualities of
American troops, wishing them
continued success.
WILL ORGAN I LE
i
Johns, secretnry of the Vr Savings!
eocieiy. temporary awtiarr. I
At the meeting. June 22. perm.m-
out of Acer 1 will leelected as will
also district chairman and precinct ;
captains. The woman's auxiliary will .
he tirganlsed along the same lines as
the Patriotic Service league and worktrented the old MilarKcy' building for-!
ill conjunction with that organization- ! nierly occupied by It. as a barracks!
As the work of the Patriotic erv
central organization as It Is that the
men's work be so co-ordinated, and
! the women should be so organised ,
'that they relieve the men committers -
as well as give the women the rec-;
ognltlon that l their due.
U-BOATS ON COAST
to protect the troop ship In the die -
tance. The guns are manned and
reariv
. ready for a periscope to .show above
the waves.
Boys At Front Feel
Hurt Over Lack of
Letters From Home
News rcariilng the Kant Orcgo
niaii on several occasion re-
cently shows some of our soldiers
In France are feeling hurt bc
criHe tlioy have not been rccclv-
,lnar letters from home.' One boy
who has been gone for a year
writes lie has at no time, had a
word from any local organization,
patriotic or otheTw1-v
Inquiry shows much of tho
difficulty arises from the lack of
a complete list of iIiomo who liavo
irone. together with their present ,
addrCHses. An .error lias - been
made by the Red Ooss and by lhe
II lira ry to, secure such a list but
" their fists are incomplete
To the end such a list may ho
obtained Itcre and kept up to
date, tle Kast Oregon Ion hereby
offers to cooficratc In a publicity
eampHurn to seeure such address
erf, the list to be kept oen to the
public.
The boys at the front are en
tit Jod to wimlK of cheer from
home, it Is Utile to do for them.
It means much
HOME GUARD DECIDES
IMPORTANT MATTERS
Divides Local Body, Forms
Battalion, Creates Head
quarters Company. .
The expansion of the Pendleton
Guard Into two companies, tho co-
rating of u 1 1 nvc urHiut nuns ui
ire county inm a oaiianon, me i ur
ination of
headquarters company.
and tne securing or me oia AinarKcj
building as a barracks for Captain
William and his company of military
police, were the most Important mat-
ters taken up at last evening's meet-
Ing of the Umatilla County Home i
Guard here. j
Captain Lee Drake is advanced to
battalion irtVjor, under the new or- j
panl7ation; First Lieutenant Harry i
Chambers Is made captain of Com
pany A; and Second Lieutenant Joe j
Boyd becomes captain of Company C. )
The new company is Company C. j
since Company It Is at- Free water, t
The captains will st-lect their lleuten-
ams which will be announced lit reg-
ulHr drill next Tuesday evening, at changes in the draft law at the IV
which time they will announce thejeemher short session extending the
arpolntnicnt of rrt of the nnn-com- Jdraft to all ages between IS and 45 or
missioned officers and nlo arrange- . 9. The act would facilitate the oper
menls for a non-coma school. jation of Inter-allied draft treaties.
The two companies at Pendleton j Crowdrr does not want to draft men
with thoV of Pilot Rock. Helix and 'In the deferred classes but must do so
Frepwmer will he organized Into R!unleKa more first class men are pro-
battalion In order to cooperate th
work.
The headquarters company formed
. . . .... ... ... .
le "t "the Indltn Auto'company'lthe army but will draft them for war
v
ns first lieutenant, w hile Or. " supporters or universal mm-. nelr nietholl!, well as' w heat va
. McKclwny will have the of- 1 tary training predicted bill for- thejrelv artaptatlnn.
flea of second lieutenant In charge of
the medical section. T hey ..will aisoi
je a signal corps and a supply depart-
menl orgnnUe.1 as parts of the head-
Quarters company.
Mcrlo, R. Chessman has horn made'
battalion adjutant with the rank of i
first lieutenant. j
The Commercial association has I
for Cajrfaln Williams and his military,
police conipany. who will le here the,
last of the months for two weeks' in-.
tensive training before going ont to
different portions of the country for
protective duty dining harvest.
It is announced that there are plac-
en for several recruits since the for-
en for several recruits since the for-
mat Ion of two out of the one com-
pany here, and anyone who c:in join
la asked to see any of the com mis-Jure
isloncd officers.
AUSIA'S
SITUATION iS
Government Cannot Fil
Promises Made to Squelch
January Strikes; People
Desperate. ' .
SS- SSBSS I
GERMANY DOES NOT
RELY ON UKRANIA
Conciliation of Suffering
People Mingled With
t Concessions to Pan
Germanism. (JOSEPH SHAPLE.V)
STOCKHOLM, June . A staff
correspondent of the Arbiter Zeltung
told me "Austria's food situation
again most serious. The government
is not fulfilling its food - promises
made to squelch the January strikes.
! They can expect most serious Con
sequences because the population Is
'desperate."
The Austrian newspaperman Bald
the food situation in Austria always
was worse than in Germany. Ffeod
from Ukrania-to- problematical. , Ger
many not relying on Ukrainian food,
has reduced the dally bread ration to
half an ounce. Flour In Austria costs
$1.40 a pound. Butter is 94 a poun?.
The Vienna population is getting less
than 85 per cent of the normal rations.
The mayor demanded the government
to act immediately to prevent serious
consequences. The political situaion
is likewise critical as a result of Em
peror Karl's peace letters. A Relchs-
rath meeting is postponed indefinite
ly. .A movement of Serbians; Croats
and Slovaks for a single Serb nation
is rapidly growing.
IISTCKBANtKS SERIOUS.
. Recently there was a severe battle
between, the Germans. and Slovaks i
Vmdishgratsahd most serious dis
turbances "occurred at Lei bach. The
Bohemians demand complete Inde
pendence. Austrian socialists are vi
gorous but there is no hope for peace.
because Germany refuses to listen to
a democratic peace. J
The Reichsrath is strangled with
fear because people are demanding
strong action against war pro fitters
arss landholders and a fair division of
the coming harvest. But above all the
Reichsrath fears its own debates on
war and peace ana political events
and Kmperor Karl's letters.
If AS WHBLK PWIOIES.
The government seeks to conciliate
the starving and suffering Bohemian
population only with shadowy . re
forms. Simultaneously new repressive
measures are introduced in southern
Slav provinces as a concession to Ger
man nationalists the latter support
ing the Instrucions and policy of the
pan-Germanists who demand continu
ation of the war.
Austria is again In Germany's
clutches, due largely to the traitorous
attitude of Scheldemann, leader of the
German majority socialists who re
fused to support the revolutionary
movement In Austria. Likewise the!
democratic recklessness of the bolshe-;
vlkl
who concluded a separate peace i
when Austria was undergoing tho
greatest upheaval strengthened the
Uustro - German imperialism and sur
'ren(ier the democratic elements to the
mintariFts. The situation is the
! darkest, said Austrian newspapermen.
MAY EXTEND DRAFT
TO MEN OF 45 YEARS
j
WASHINGTON'. June 13. Well in-
formed congressional leaders forecast ;
that the war department will ask for
ivlded.
Ilcnce he will extend tne
(l!mrts.
I Congressmen understand he would
a.sn iimn itiirl.ii- VI fiiii filer 7 C In
groundwork lor sucn training.
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IlLII IIUIl I UUII U
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NEARING CRISIS
Pllll llinnnrn UlllP'wnp'
llAlll Illlllllrll Till In m"1
UnlH IIUUULU lllLLU:fihro
fllRN'RY WOOH) .
WITH TIIK FRENCH ARMIES,
June IS. The battle became a vast
maneuver to encircle a range of high
wooded hills and plateaus covered by ,
'Ijiegus. Compiegne and Villcrs-Cot-j
.terets w hen the Hermans began a new :
Push between the Alsne and Concrete;
push between the Alsne and Cotterets
forests. Their possession would per-
mit the Hermans concealment for fu-
operations. Throughout yester-
Iday there was hand to hand fighting.
in HOi-DlE
ACROSS MATZ RIVE
, BY fflCH STR
First Counter on East Wing of New Oise
Front Takes Territory, Prisoners and
Guns; Germans Advance Slightly Near
Coeuvre, But Suffer Defeat With Big
Losses on Marne.
FLAG DAY WILL BE
OBSERVED BY B.P.O.E.
Public Program Will be Held
at Lodge Koom
Tomorrow.
With a public program 'tomorrow
evening. Pendleton Lodge No. 2S8,
B. P. O. E., will observe the regular
annual Elks Flag Day ceremony. The
program la to be held in the Elks
lodge room and the men to leave In
the draft contingent the following
morning will be special guests of
honor, t .
The program of the evening la an
nounced as follows:
J March, "Stars and Stripes For
ever. Breach s Orchestra.
2 Song. "America." by members
and audience.
3 Introductory exercises.
4 Prayer by chaplain.
5 Solo "Say a Prayer," by Chas-
O. Breach. ,
Reading, "History of the Flag."
Lee D- Drake. . - -
' 7 Community sing, 'The Red.
White and Elue."
-8 Solo. -"Wo will never let the old
flae; fall," by Miss Esther South.
a Attar service.
1(1 Elks tribute to the Flag," by
C. a Cheshire.
11 Address. Rev. Alfred Lock-
Cockwood.
12 "The Star Spangled Banner."
by Walter Rose.
Officers of Pendleton lodge al
present are J. H- Estes. exalted ruler;
U. D. Drake, esteemed leading knight;
F. J. McMonles, esteemed loyal
knight; I C. Campbell, esteemed lec
turing knight: Thomas Fits Gerald,
secretary; R. M. Mayberry, treasurer;
A. B. Keenan, esquire; C. O. Craw
ford. Inner guard; Thomas Smart
tvter; J. E. Snyder, chaplain; O. W.
rhelps, J. V. Tallman, J. R. Raley,
trustees.
WILL HOLD WHEAT
CONFERENCE HERE
Umatilla County First of
Four to Be Visited Next
Week.
Next Tuesday w!ll see the visit of
county agents and farmer representa
tives from seven counties to Pendle
ton and vicinity, as the start of a five
days' eastern Oregon wheat conference-
The men will first visit County
Agent M. P. Phrock's office, noting
his filing and other business meth
od. He will then accomany them
on a tour which will take in W. V.
Hurrah's early Faart wheat field west
of town: V- S. Todd's barley crop fol-
lowing corn and beans, on the Tutu-
ilia; and W. W. Harrah's farm gran-
ary, returning here fv lunch.
After lunch, the itinerary includes
C. V. Howeirs early Baart wheat
field; Jim Hill's white hyhrldwheat
field: three wooden elevators on the
i Notrthern Pacific: B. K. Anderson s
Marquis wheat field, and also his pure
bred Percherons, and Jim Hill's
wheat on the Kennedy farm. The
party will then go to Athena and In
spect the concrete elevator being
built there. The Howell and Hill
w heat field
are especially free froni.mde regarding the war. He declared
Thl? party wi) return to Pendleton
for the night, leaving tne next morn-
,n f,,r Morrow county. After a slm-
"Br vls' there, they go. In turn, to
Pherman and nil I lam counties, and
then to the Moro experiment station
ere extensive dry farming expert
ts are being carried on Mr.
Phrock will spend the remainder of
the week with the party, returning
here probably Sunday.
Any farmer In the county who can
d so is Invited to make Tuesday In
spection trip with the party, and al
so to continue on to the other coun
speetion trip with the party, and al-
so to continue on to the other coun-
ties If he has time to go.
RIUTISIt IMI'ltOYF. FRONT.
UIMHIV, June li. llslg reoortnl
suc-cesKful local operation In Hand
era m Hrttish raM near Arrtta iniiirov-
liig iKsition and tbe taking of prts-
oucrs.
It
PARIS, June 12. The French de
livering their first counter-attack oa
y he east wing of the new Otae front
last night buried the Germans bade
acroaa the Mats river. There hare
lieen no new cwrman attack on the
western front or center. ,
On the Maroe front a violent Ger
man attack against . Jiourescliea and
Belleau wood was broken .op . by
rranco-Asnerlcan trooos who held all
their newly won positions, InTUcUng
heavy losses."
FREYCH CONSOLIDATE LIXES.
The communique said. "Between
Monte IMdier and the Antheoll re
gion there are no new German at
tacks, last night the French con
solidated their positions. ' . ,
"On the right French .counter-attacks
hurled the Germans back north
of tho Mat, the French occupying
tho heights of Croix Rlcard and Met
loocq. We took 10O prisoners and
some machine guns.
"Violent righting Is continuing be
tween the Atenetand Vlllerscottereta
forest- where the Germans prosrresaed
to a hollow east of lAversine and
succeeded In the heaviest fighting, hi
obtaining a footing: In Coeuvre 1 and .
St- Flerrealgle. . ...
"On the Bouresches and BeUea
wood front a German attack was
broken up by French and Anaerioaa
forres who hrM air their new grains .
and inflicted the heaviest losses.
BATTLE RESTS NEAR r
,'OHTE DIDIER BUT
YANKEES ARE ALERT
tFrJED FERGSON.) ,
WITH THE AMERICANS WEST
OF MONTH DIDIER, . June
Comparative lull has settled, . hers
and there la only normal artllleryln.
The Americans are actively patroll
ing No-Man's Land and are constant
ly alert. I'rlsoriers report heavy loss
es among German reserve units from
the recent heavy bombardment. - No
changes ha-e recently been mads
among enemy divisions here.
PRAISE WON BY
BOYSCOUTS AT '
PRESIDIO CAMP
SAN? F R A NCI SCO. June U. "They
make mighty efficient military roes-
senders-" -
This today was Colonel H. M.
Dtchman's word of prals for ten
San Francisco boy scouts who ars on
duty at tho reserve officers train Ins;
camp at the Presidio.
- The boys, all of whom are "special
ly qualified" scouts picked for tha
honor, live In the barracks at th
training camp, eat the soldier "grub"
along with the other men in khaki,
and obey the same bugle calls as
their older comrades.
They spend their time carrying
messages to and from the different
barracks and to and from the office
of Lieutenant A C- ishreve, camp ad
jutant. POPE 'XTS PF.ACK.
KOMK. June IS. The pope writ lag
to the Bishop of Lutnliard deiHorrd
iniiw'"tT"isw -t vu urn a . u-
Ian would continue ntiptparitur efforts
lo cod the war.
YANKEES .VICTORS' IS
TWO ENEMY ATTACKS
AFTER LONG BAN If
WITH TUB AMKIMCAN& ON TKR
ImaRN'K, June 13. The Americans.
holding a three mile front betwaan
Boureaches and Torcy this afternoon
'repulsed two German attacks In the
twelfth dsv and nlsht of rtshtins
They took DO prisoners including a
captain and captured several rna
hine guna. Th antmy suffert4
rheavy caaualties.