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Weston L? ATWTD k 4 ;; VOLUME 40 WESTON, iOltEGON, FRIDAY, APRIL 19, 1918 NUMBER 48 K-f -i. HM (wllh Hacrctary of Mate n, , tt dit ' atlon ( f hi candidacy for ,'ib iltmtM'ril nm'Jiialm for United lUales rimtur. Hi oppnnt'nt fur tbe ifsutmrstlu iiomlast'.i n I Will It. King of Ontario. Weat Is Dow lit Waehlng Urn, I). C. An aero training luhool for Oregon, . rueslbly at llnrmlston or Mnlford, n.ay bo enlabllshed In lh near future. Mm Portland chamber of commerce a advised by aire from Hobttrt ttiiimaii. Washlngtm ri-prnwntsllve, Il.at spm-lal eotnmbnlon wll be smit lo look over sites at these (wo plants. With epproslmatnly 100 application n hand the recruiting of tho Oregon tain pol !, authorised and paid for uiulrr a rvcrnt action of th etat rmnrgrnry board, haa hoiip forward llh audi rapid strld-s that Major Klrhard IMrh. commandrr, predicts It operation a a protective unit by May I. Oregon I staging another drive Dili week. It obJiK-t I that of en rolling rno youtli In ttio t'nltod Bute boy' working reserve. Tbl I Uta stale's qnoia. The drlv I directed by the United Blate dopart-, Birnt of labor, and la designed lo mob IlUe an army of toy whoa service may be uaed upoo.tbe farm lo car ing for crop. Provided tho attte public service romnasslon la willing to go on record In favor of restoring yte 6-cent etrcet car fare In Portland, the city council will aubmlt to the votera at the pe dal city election May 1? a measure to enable Oie city council to relieve the company of the burden of paving be tween Us track, paying bridge tolls, carrying firemen and policemen free or cbargo and paying streetcar li censes. A mob which assembled la St Mark's ball at Mrdford to prevent the rort Grove claims the distinction meeting of Ptor Russell's adherents. of being the first town In Oregon of- Incensed at the departure of tue prm- flclally to file Ita record In going elpale. drove by automobile to Ashland, -over" In the Liberty loan drive. "Hera tht membora of the mob secured J. K. Howies, president of the North- George Maynard. a Medford repair west Steel company, of Portland, has an. who la one of Pastor Russell'e ......... .1,1. ti, .hinnina followers. Returning with him to Med- bWfor gh additional steel .team- ford, the mob gave M.ynard a coat of spikes Is attributed 1 to era It MOO tons escb. " ' printer's Ink and feathers and told aympathlsers or I. W. W., whose lead- OREGON NEWS NOTES OF GEHEHMJIITEREST Principal Events of the Wiek Briefly Sketched for Infor- cnatlon of Our Readers. Dangers of another long war In La Grande are evident. A home guard company of 111 men wss organised at Dallas. Cold Hill has taken over under lease tbe management of the cliy water ays trm. Portland Washington park soo elk are to he liberated Id th wilds esat of Ketsrsda. Representatives of th grand council of Oregon, Royal Amount, convened In Portland Tuesday. Indications are that the primary pamphlt for Multnomah county wilt run up to or over 70 psr- ' - Totsl subscriptions in Oregon to the third l.lbarty losn were unofficially estimated at l22.l9T.lli0 Saturday night. Mrs. Martha Jan Vat who crossed ' the plain to Oregon 71 years ago, died at her bow In Corvallls at lbs ago of 10 years. I.lnn county's total subscription to the wsr esvlngs snd thrift stamp during the month of March amounted to t&o.ftfi in. The zsth annual meeting of the West Willamette association of Congrega tional ehurchee and ministers opeued st Httlsbnra Wednesday. Rlanks returned in tba federal farm survey for Lane county show that the farmers will Increase their acreage of corn 100 pee cent this year. THE BALANCE OF POWER Americans jown punes BAILLEUL REPORTED TAKEN BY GERMANS Two Enemy Machlnss Take in Llvsly Engagtmsnt With tbe American Army la France. Two Gorman fighting planes were cago, and Douglas Campbell, of Cali fornia. Each man downed one ma chine. Itoih the enemy aviators were mada prisoner. Oc of them wss slightly wounded. ' , The Amoricaa aviators , were en-. camped when the enemy machines were signalled as crossing the Una. 1'Utcen .Bilnutos later the American pilots sighted the enemy mscblnes and Immediately engaged them. The French general commanding the son In which the machines were r hot down congratulated the A merl es us on their "beautiful exploit," shot down inside tbe American, lines British Foited Back III NOW by Ucutensnts A. 8. Wlnslow. of Chi- . ' , B C.mw . Break Through. , ... . . I LoBdon-Ballleal, oo of the moatj Important strategic points oa - thej north portion of the Flanders salient,! has been capturld by the Germans,! Field Marshal lialg reported. ; The British have abandoned both Ballleul Mid Wulvergbem, Halgs re port Indicates, but the Germans have occupied enly the former city. WnW verghem. which la dominated by Me slncs" ridge on the north, probably la rendered ' untenable by British artil lery fir from that height. liallleul bas been th seen of th most desrerat fighting In the entire Flanders drive. It wss the strong hold from which the British hurled back the Germans from the northern Hge of the Handera salient. It guarded tbe entire Tprea salient from Secretary Baker Returns From Trip.. An Atlsnttlc Port Secretary of Wsr Raker arrived here Tuesday from Europe on one of the large eteamshlps which flew the German! flag before tbe United States entered- ,1. waf 'l rMfiirn tfh A anA nf pride and confidence at the achieve,! lh 00t lt ua "daagera the ments of the United States and al- Briun PItl(5M ta Ytrtm- oa nt .mnr,. hm.H that m.u i.tfr Messlnes ridge and Zonnebeka. OVER THE TOP many trips across the water," Secre-j tary Baker said, as he stepped aboard ' a train for Washington. Ten Amerlcsns Killed In Action. Wsshlngton. The latest American caaualty list contained 67 names, di vided aa follows: Killed Jn sctlon. 10; dlsd of wounds. S; died of disease, 4; died of accident, i; died of other causes, 2; missing In action, 4; ser iously wounded. 11; slightly wounded. British and Greeks Start Offensive." London. The Creek and British i troops crossed tbe Struma river on In unhnlfiin th HHM.h Ttnval ilin eastern flank of the Macedonian arms bears the reputation of being en- front, and have occupied aeven towna.; aallenton th north and to Haiebroock The Unicom. TJie unicorn which asxlsta the lion Hlndenburg has won his most im portant victory In the Flanders drive through the capture of Bailleul and absndonment of Wulvergbem. . Aa ha drove his wedga westward between tbe Tpres-Comlnea and La Basse canals. Bailleul became the key to Messlnes ridge and the Tprea tlrely mythical. But In truth It has the war office announces. an actual prototype In the chiru. an ' antelope of weetern Thibet and nio dustan. By right the chlru ha two horns, bat tt Is of so pugnacious a dis position (hat It often loses one of them. on the west Bailleul is located midway between Annentlerea and Hasebronck. on a Big Spikes Found In Logs at Mill. Aberdeen, Wash. Spikes In logs ruined two saw, endangered several Uvea and hindered war work at tho Donovan plant Th presence of tH All hotels and eatlna bouses of Ore- him to leave town. goo are to serve bread only on request Eight men wsnt to lit In the gover of patrona. and that aerved muet be nor'a chair at Salem. Big of them are war bread, containing not less than 0 repuoiican. iwo are uemocraia. ij tu rant nt auhatltutea. " J ... -a Beginning Tuesday. Jun II. women tn state. IUey am. . . ..u-... workers In th'a stte will receive an of Th Dallea; V. C, Ilarley of Astoria; Increase In their minimum wage rang- Gua C. Moser of I-ortiand; Ben W. Ol Ing from 10 to 10 per cent and cover- cott of Balem; Louis J. Simpson of NOftn Bona; JSmes wuoyTOiuun wl Corvallls; Walter M. Pierce of La Grande, and Harvey Q. Btarkweather of Clackamas county. v ' Further Increases approximating 18000 a year were granted to state in stitution employes by the state board of control. Added to the approxi mate 127.000 a year granted at the last meeting of the board this now makes a total or about $35,000 In crease granted. Incrcsses are still to be given to eastern Oregon state hos- era preach sabotage. Government May Slz Wheat , Washington. Food administration com from practically every section of officials said state admlnistratora bad In a statement Issued by the Port land chamber of commerce covering Shipbuilding In the Oregon district. It Is shown, that where there were six wooden shipbuilding plants December 10, 191t, there ar now 17 and the number of employee in both steel and wooden yards has Increased from 4200 177 077 17 Put Into Farm Leana. Washington. The government ' rp bend In th railway between through the federal farm loan loard' those two clUea., tt la seven milea has lent I77J27.167 to the farmers of d half aaat of Hasebronck and the United Bute since the federal, about eight miles southwest of Tprea. farm loan act was passed. BRIEF NEWS OF THE "WAR Reports from the battlefront In Flanders Indicated that the British at that time o 25.000 men. The month- "y was responding loyally to the been Instructed to seize grain where It appeared farmers ware holding lt because of pro-German Influences. ly payroll waa $302,400 in December, and now la placed at $2,754,000. Eigh teen ateel ships have been launched of 13M00 tons, and 43 wooden vessela launched of 193,000 tons, while there r A4 veaaola nn the wava. ' Ing various employments. Hen art not to enjoy Immunity from the chopping block much longer, aa the food administration announc ed that restrictions against their sale would be lifted on April 20. Every county In Oregon haa exceed ed Ha quota In subscriptions to the Liberty losn. Jackson and Josephine were the, last counties to swing Into line. Both Vent over the top Saturday with a liberal margin. ntl nnnnalne national nrohlbl- tlon and declaring for th Introduction plial employee Pendleton, which of light wine and beer Under slata may bring tho total up to or abova regulation, Mayor F. C. llarley. of As- the $44,000 mark aunuauy. torla. announced his candidacy for gov- The state land board decided to error on tha republican ticket grant an extension of time on the Tba largest sheep deal reported so Jason Moore lesse on Summer and far this aeason In Oregon was an- Abert lakes In Uke county, providing Bounced at Baker by George Donsley, a surely bond for $15,000 Is given, by who had iust returned from Echo. April S3, guaranteeing payment of the- where he bought 7000 sheep, Involv- $15,000 still due aa a deposit from Ing a purchase price of $140,000. Moore, regardless of whether or not To work on Independence day, July 'salts and soda deposits are taken out 4, and donate tha wages received to jn the 1 11 lor I m between that time and the Red Cross' waa prc-vosed by repre- December 30, this year, tha date to sehtatlves of the North Bend locals which the extension is to be granted, of .the Loyal Legion of Loggers and Twohy Bros., contractors, who estab- lumbermen at a patriotic meeting. : u,nd camp d started work on tha Ooble elalma th honor flag for tha (Xteniion of the McGregor Malone , greatest oversubscription of Its allot- railroad In tha Young's river district, tnent for tha third liberty loan. With t,sve withdrawn from active operation an allotment of $1000 eubscrtptions of- and the work la now being performed flclally were announced at $14,000. by th Crown Willamette company, tin- This la 1400 par cant abova th town's der th supervision of James Bremnar, fluota, . ' . ' w '.' of Astoria, Th railroad extension Cochran, , Washington county, sub- jesds Into on of tha largest sprue scribed $11,800 to the third Liberty timber bolts la tha northwest Tha loan at n enthusiastic, meeting in th lprucs will be used by tha govern tnesi hall of th Whosler Logging m.nt, company, The tjuou , waa $1000. ' ... This Ii a subscription of 1100 psr cnt Twenty-seven banks In Oregon had for Cochran ' t' deposlta aggregating aver $100,000,- Two hundred and sis candidates fll- 000. as of March 4. 191$.. according to ad for offloa with 8ecrlary of Stat statement completod by Superintend- Olcott for the primary aleeUon, May ant of Banke Bennett Portland lad ' 17. Of thla number 1$8 were republl. ' tha list with $98,403,071,23. Pendleton cans and 1$ democrata.- Out of them was second with $4,290,663.29, and will ba picked 91 men lo fill th Salem third wth $5,603,284.97. - Port many offlcus. : land with 25 banking Institutions holds ' John 8. Coke, republican of Marsh- 52.3 per cent of tba total deposits. ia ne.ii fit.ri Ma declaration aa while 2 towna outside of Portland f.u A.I. I riled bjr HllltpMftt (Of (mrermir lnsue (II Iwlllnf Bull.llm ' I'orllvtid tilrsuu Wf-M, wbo is iy Simpson? I liSirtpscaX I REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE forth NOMINATION for trf mairr Governor . candidate to aucceed Justice Wallace McCamant on tha supreme bench. Hla antrenc plsces three In tha race - Judge Coke, Judge Percy R. Kelly,1 of Albany, and Charlea A. Johna of Port- land. hold 30.1, and tha romalntng 136 towns 17 per cent The total In th 27 in stitutions having deposits of $1,000,000 or more wss $153,261,209.48, and the otal tn the 263 banks in the 162 towns if tbe state which have banks, was Born September 1, 1877. Son of the lato.Capt, A. M. Simpson, pioneer shipping and lumberman. Educated at Mt Tamalpais Academy and University, of California, , ; Worked aa a laborer in 1889, at $1.50 per day, in the ship yards on Coos Bay, Ore. Rose from the ranks, to executive head of a large lumber and shipping indus try, employing many thousands of men. Started the town of North Bend, 1901. Fostered community progress, founded and developed many enterprises. ; Mayor of North Bend, 1902-1914. Patriotic work In connection with Lib erty Loan, Red Cross and War Stamp activitiec, for the last twejve months. His executive- ability, his business experi ence and his constructive- policies, DO 'make him; -. "Your Kind ol a Han k Governor" appeal of lta commander and holding grimly against renewed German as saults. -, , Having driven tha British from Bailleul and Wyteschaete the Ger mans also have gained other points on the high ground south and south west of Tprea. After fighting with huge forces for eight days the Ger mans Tuesday got out of the lowlands, but to make their gains secure they must push on further. The British, resisting every step of the way, are striking back doggedly. The situation, tt Is admitted In London, Is more serious than at any time since the German drive In the north began. Some British newspa pers already advise the evacuation of the hard won sector Tprea and tha Passchendaqle ridge, which is a con tinuation or the Messlnes ridge. Documents captured from German prisoners show conclusively that tbe great new offensive of the Germane waa launched with the intention cf separating the British and French armies and crushing of the British. Northwest of St Mlhlel the Ameri can troops have been compelled to withstand a series of persistent as saults, second In Intensity only to those delivered by the Germane against the British in Flanders. And the hon ors at the end rested with the Ameri cana, who met the foe at every style of fighting he offered and decisively defeated- him. ; Tba Meeslnea ridge, which is tha strongest defensive position la all Flanders, runs westward from tha vtt lage of Messlnes fast Wntverghem to Kemmel, a distance of about three mile. It la about a mile and a half wide and on Its eastern faca runa northward to Wytschaeta. Thla ridge Is practically Impregna ble from the east and only slightly leas difficult from the south or north. One" of Hindenburg's main objectives in Flanders haa been to work around to the weat of 6ia ridge and assault the British positions there from tha rear. The abandonment of Wulvergbem. which Is four milea and a half eaat and slightly north of Bailleul on tha Douve rarer, gives Hlndenburg a hold In the southern foothills of the ridge. Collier Cyclops' Fate ia Mystery. Washington. The big American naval collier Cyclops, carrying 67 pas sengers, IS officers and 221 men In her crew, has been overdue at an At lantic port since March Id. The navy department announced that aha was , last reported at a West Indies Island March 4 and that extreme anxiety is entertained as to her safety. The vessel was .bringing a cargo of manganese from BrailL - , BRITISH ORDERED ' TO HOLD POSITION London. Field Marshal Sir Douglas Halg, In a special order of the day addressed to "all ranks of tha British In Franca and Flanders." says: Three weeks ago the enemy began his terrific attacks against us on a 50-mile front Hla objecta are to sep arate us from the French, to take the channel porta and to. destroy the Brit ish army. : "In spite of throwing already lot divisions Into the battle and enduring the moat reckless sacrifice of human life, he haa yet made little progress toward hla goals. t "We owe thla to the determined fighting and self-sacrifice of our troops. Words tall me to express the admiration which I feel for the aplen did resistance ottered by all ranks of our army under tha most trying cir cumstances. . "Every position must be held to tha last man, There must ba no retire ment With our backs to the wall and ' believing In th Justice of our cause, each one of its must fight to the end. The safety of our homes and the free dom of mankind depend alike upon the conduct of each one of us at thla critical moment" '"' : , Central la t W. W. Property Burned. Centralla, Wash. The headquarters of the Industrial Workera ot the World here is no more. Tuesday night during the progress ot a patriotic pa rade patriotic men visited the head quarters, piled the furnishings in the middle ot the street and set tire to them. ' ' : 4 ' Oiwald Wilt, Sspct iorirnor ct WM.Ml.SOMI. 31TTf3TiT Taeoma Namea C. M. Rlddsll Mayer. Taeoma. Wash C. M. Riddell was elected major of Taeoma over A. W. Fawcett incumbent, by a majority ot; rjurVas Chefflnra. AumsviU. seciioo , Eight fatalities out ot a total Ot 53S accidents were reported to tha Indus trial accident commission tor the week ending April 11. The name, addresses and occupations of the fa tally injured workmen are; George Crumley, Wasco, with oil company; Omar Buford, Marshfield, shipbuild ing; G. Schaeffer. Weat Timber, aaw. mill worker; C. E. Relber. Elgin, saw mill worker; August Juuma, Astoria, shipbuilding: 'Bert HI nee. Bay City, logger; Edward Pierce, Bilndalough, trespasser, killed by logging truck; bout 400. I xgrcsuk J - nwi jvvm ' ii i 4 i