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Rear-Admiral Walter Cleveland
Cowles died at his home in Redlands,
Cal., Monday, after an Illness of a
week.
Abesence of senators on the Bub
committee appointed to investigate
Senator La Follete's St. Paul speech
last September caused a pogtponment
Tuesday of the inquiry until after con
gress convenes.
According to an Amsterdam dis
patch, Maximilian Harden has been
permitted to republish his newspaper,
Die Zukunft. II err Harden also will
be allowed to continue his lectures,
forbidden a month ago.
At a meeting in Lancaster, Pa., of
the board of trustees of Franklin and
Marshall College, Count BemstorfT'i
name was stricken from the rolls. The
degree of doctors of laws was con
ferred upon him in 1912.
A. L. Carpenter, I. W. W. agent,
was arraigned in the Moscow, Idaho,
probate court Tuesady charged with
felony, attempting to corrupt and in
timidate jurors called in the I. W. W.
cases. He was held under $5000 bonds.
Employment of special watchmen to
guard every warehouse, pumping plant,
mill or other place in Spokane, where
foodstuffs of the value of $50,000 or
more are stored is required in an ordi
nance passed Tuesday by the city
council.
Miss Margaret Fotheringham, a
teacher in the Buffalo, N. Y., public
schools, was dismissed by the school
board for being absent without leave,
She had picketed the White House and
had been imprisoned in Occoquan
workhouse.
Canada may soon be invited to be
come a member of the PBn-American
Union, the official organization main
tained in Washington by the 21 Amer
ican republics for the development of
commerce and friendship and the
preservation of peace among them.
Fifty Italians were arrested in Mil
waukee, and are held for investigation
in connection with the bomb outrage
Saturday in which nine members of
the police force were killed and two
were injured. It is understood the
action followed a confession by a man
arrested earlier in the day.
Orders for placing military guards
at the Chelsea and Southern Pacific
piers in New York harbor went to the
commander nf the Eastern department
Monday from Secretary Baker. This
is in line with the plan for using
troops to enforce the alien enemy proc
lamation along important waterfronts.
With the asBent of the government
the News Print Manufacturers associ
ation, which represented about 85 per
cent of the print paper production of
the United States and Canada, was
dissolved in New York Tuesday as an
unlawful combination in restraint of
trade in violation of the Sherman anti
trust act.
British cavalry have captured Bittir
station, about six miles southwest, and
Ain Karim, SJ miles west of Jerusa
lem, according to a British official
communication issued Tuesday even
ing. Strong bodies of Turks are hold
ing the high ground west of Jerusalem
and covering the Jerusalem-Senechem
road to the north.
Reports to the Postoffice department
of the amount of parcel post matter
going to the American army in France
indicate that Americans there will en
joy a bountiful Christmas. The de
partment announced that it is practi
cally certain that every package
mailed before November 13 will reach
its destination by Christmas morning
and possibly some mailed later will
get there in time.
Governor Withycombe, of Oregon,
announces that each prisoner paroled
from the stiito penitentiary who has
enlisted for service in the war will be
granted restoration of citizenship.
Constitutional prohibition was de
feated in the October 15 election in
Iowa by a majority of 932 votes, ac
cording to the olllcial canvass made by
the state executive council. The can
rasa, made on the initial count of the
ballots, showed 214,693 for the amend
ment and 215,625 against It
German is still the most widely
taught foreign language in New York
City high schools, with Latin and
French dividing honors for second
place, according to a report compiled
from the Tecords of the board of edu
cation. Sinking of the American destroyer
Chauncey in collision in the war zone
early Wednesday morning, with a
probable loss of 21 lives, was an
nounced by the Navy department No
further details were given in a brief
report to the department from Vice
Admiral Sims.
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HUNGER GETS TROOPS
Russian Commanders at Front Con
tinue to Send Ominous Report
on Conditions-Many Die.
London A belated dispatch to Reu
tor's, Ltd., from Potrograd, dated No
vember 21, says:
" Ihe commanders at the front con
tinue to send in most ominous die
patches concerning the exhaustion of
supplies and reports of forthcoming
hungry hordes of soldiers invading the
center of population."
A dispatch to the Exchange Tele
grah from Copenhagen gives similar
reports. It says advices received from
Russia describe the situation as more
desperate than ever and assert that
the country is on the verge of a bloody
civil war.
According to this dispatch, the Rus
sian newspaper Volka Narodna asserts
that the Russian armies on the north
ern front have for several days been
without food and that soldeirs daily
are leavingjthe front in hundreds or
are dying in the trenches from cold
and hunger.
The newspaper adds that mutinies
due to hunger have broken out on sev
eral parts of the line.
General Kaledines, hetman of the
Don Cassocks, according to the Petro-
grad correspondent of the Morning
Post, is the master of the Russian sit
uation. With a trustworthy and disci'
plined army he is reported to control
the bulk of the grain-growing tern
lory, and is rapidly capturing the re
mainder. The Russian gold reserve,
which the correspondent says was re
moved to the interior of Russia in
1913, is now held by General Kale-
dines.
London Grand Duke Michael Alex-
androvitch, brother of the former em
peror, according to a Petrograd dis
patch has been imprisoned in Smolny
Institute, the headquarters of the Bol-
sheviki.
MISS ROMANOFF IS FLEEING
Daughter of Ex-Czar Escapee and Will
Land at Pacific Port.
Denver Mrs. Margaret Barry Car
ver, wife of an American banker with
Petrograd interests, was here Tuesday
on her way to a' Pacific port, where,
she admitted, she is to meet Miss Ta-
tiana Romanoff, daughter of the de
posed emperor of Russia.
Tatiana Nicolaevna Romanoff es
caped from Siberia and will arrive at
a Pacific port in a few days to make
her home in America, according to an
announcement made here by the Rus
sian Civilian Relief society, of New
York, with whom the former grand
duchess will become connected.
The story of the young woman'B eS'
cape reads like a fairy tale. She ex
ecuted her plan by first going through
with a mock marriage, after which she
made her way from Tobolsk, where theJ
exiled former imperial family is held.
to Harbin, Manchuria and thence to
Japan, whence she sailed for America
under the chaperonage of an English
woman. Her guardian in this country
will be Mrs. Carver.
VILLA MAIN FORCE IN HIDING
Juarez Military Authorities Uneasy
Over Move of Bandit.
Juarez A train left here late Tues
day carrying the 500 troops from the
Ojinaga garrison who will be incor
porated into General Eduardo Hernan
dez' forces as "shock troops," in the
campaign against Villa in the north
eastern zone of Chihuahua state.
These troops were brought here Satur
day from Marfa, Tex., having been in
terned there after escaping across the
Rio Grande from Ojinaga when Villa
captured the town November 14. They
were equipped with new uniforms and
were reissued their rifles, ammunition
and field equipment, which were taken
from them by American soldiers when
they were interned and sent here in
bond.
No reports were received regarding
the persent whereabouts of Villa's
main column and this is causing the
local military authorities much uneasi
ness. 3 U. S. Airmen Lost at Sea 60 Hours.
A French Port Suffering with cold,
exhaustion and hunger, three American
naval airmen were picked up by a
French patrol-boat Monday night after
having been lost at sea for 60 hours.
The men, in a huge hydroairplane, left
a French base Friday in search of four
enemy submarines which were report
ed operating off the coast When the
men failed to return within the usual
time other machines were sent out to
search for them. They returned after
several hours and reported that they
had seen no trace of the missing men.
Seattle Clean-Up Likely.
Seattle, Wash. After a prolonged
conference between the executive com
mittee of the Seattle Minute Men, a
patriotic organization, and Mayor Gill,
Sunday, it was announced by the Min
ute Men that a plan had been agreed
upon for a clean-up of Seattle that
would undoubtedly remove the ban
placed on this city by Major-General
Greene, commander of Camp Lewis,
who has forbidden soldiers to visit here
because of alleged vice conditions.
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Car shortage on the lines of the
Southern Pacific company In Oregon
has been showing a steady decrease for
the last week. The total shortage
Wednesday was 1903, The shortage
of closed cars was 785 and open cars
1118.
Sparks from the engine in the plant
of the E. H. Pruett sawmill near Bend,
are believed to have caused the fire
which Tuesday completely destroyed
the property. The mill had a daily
output of 150,000 feet and was one of
the oldest of the sawmill plants in
Central Oregon,
A chance pressure on the trigger of
a 22-caliber 'rifle which he was clean
ing caused 15-yead-old Robert Inge
mann of Bend, to fire a bullet point
blank at hiB 11-v ear-old brother,
George, Tuesday afternoon while the
two were shooting rabbits a short dis
tance from Bend. The leaden pellet
lodged In the boy's spine, completely
paralyzing both legs.
Entertaining the driver of the Cres
cent City Btage with the strongest
kind of condemnation of the govern
ment proved the undoing of Archie
Gerrells, who is in the Josephine
county jail on a charge of treasonable
utterances. He promptly destroyed
his I. W. W. membership card, Ger
rells will be held pending receipt of
advices from United States Attorney
Keames.
The State Lime board, at a meeting
in Salem Wednesday, decided to pur
chase an Aerial tram from the Green
back Mining company, of Grants Pass,
to transport lime products from the
Beeman lime quarry, by the state, to
the railroad. . The tram will cost
$3000. New trams would cost between
$15,000 and $20,000. About 4000 feet
of rough gully land lies between the
quarry and the railroad and the coun
try to be traversed is in such condition
that the construction of a road would
be impractical.
John Shinanek, member of the State
Lime board, and also a member of the
Farmers' Union at Scio, reported to
State Labor Commissioner Hoff Wed
nesday a plan for cheap flour and high
priced wheat for farmers, which farm
ers in the section of Scio plan to se
cure. The scheme will be placed by
Mr. Shimanek before the state meet
ing of the Farmers' Unior , to be held
at Pendleton next month. Mr. Shim
anek states that farmers are arranging
with a miller at Scio to grind their
wheat for 20 cents a bushel flat. By
this means the farmers get the flour,
bran and shorts and they estimate they
will get $2.13 for their flour, 17 cents
for the bran and 18 cents for the
shorts, or a total of $2.28, , after the
20 cents for the miller is deducted,
On this basis they will sell the flour at
cost, or at $2.13 for a $2.65 sack and
still receive $2.28 for1 their wheat, as
compared to $1.90, the base price. At
the same time the consumer will re
ceive a $2.65 sack of flour for $2.13,
The miller at Scio is satisfied with this
profit and efforts will be made to make
similar arrangements throughout the
state.
At a meeting of the Oregon State
fair board in Portland this week, Sec
retary Lea filed his annual report and
turned over to the board $19,297.44,
as cash on hand after payng all ex
penses of the 1917 fair. This repre
sents twice the amount of cash turned
over after the 1916 fair, and the turn
over at that time exceeded any in the
previous history of the institution.
Actual construction of the state ma
chinery for the second draft got under
way Wednesday when Governor Withy
combe appointed the members of the
central advisory board to handle the
legal phases of the conscription act.
The personnel of the board includes
George M. Brown, attorney general,
chairman; J. N. Teal, Portland; Colo
nel Sam White, Portland, and Richard
W. Montague, Portland.
An oil excitement is reported at
Powers, in Coos county. In some of
the wells there oil has been found, and
it is believed it may mean a big dis
covery. Ihere will be an investiga
tion to ascertain whether there is oil
in commercial quantities. Powers is
the headquarters of the Smith-Powers
Logging company, and is located in
the southern part of the county on the
South Fork of the Coquille river.
Blackleg and rabies among cattle
are still making their appearance on
the ranges of Crook and Deschutes
counties. The past week 20 head of
range cattle died from blackleg and
rabies. The latter disease is being
disseminated among livestock by dogs
and coyotes. Practically all Btockmen
having stock on the range where black
leg is prevalent are vaccinating young
cattle against the disease. In co-operation
with the United States biological
survey, federal predatory-animal hunt
ers are being placed in sections where
coyotes are most numerous in order to
destroy rabies carriers.
The first shipment of lime from the
Portland Beaver Cement company's
Gold Hill plantwas made recently,
which consisted of a 40-ton shipment
consigned to Medford. Large ship
ments will be made to other points as
soon as cars are available.
With this year's business building
just coming to an end at Bend, an
nouncement is made of new construc
tion to be started in the spring. W.
Downing has just purchased a
50x140 business site and will erect a
pressed brick building at an estimated
cots of $10,000. j
Hoosier Sends the First
U. S. Shot Into Germany
South Bend Man Is Hero
Initial Action by the
Americans.
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GEORGIAN GIVES THE ORDER
Indiana Sergeant Pulls the Lanyard
Which Starts Pershing's Attack
on the Kilter's Armies
Americans All Eager
for Action.
American Field Headquarters In
France. Indlaua and Georgia divide
the honor of having Inaugurated Amer
ica's land warfare against the Ger
mans. A sergeant from South Bend., Ind
pulled the lanyard to send the llrst
shell tearing across the valley In the
direction of the German positions.
A Georgia lieutenant gave the order
"Are I"
The facts were established during
the first visit paid by a correspond
ent to the first American battle front
The correspondent reached the
American position after a long motor
ride through shell-battered towns.
Leaving the motor In one of the towns,
he walked the rest of the way.
The first American battery was al
most walked upon before It was dis
covered. It was so well hidden under
the trees and with foliage about It on
a low-hung wire netting.
Gun of .75 Caliber Used.
Through the foliage In every direc
tion the ground was undulating. At
that moment there was a flash of flame
:hrough the mist. It was the crack
Df a .75 gun, and following it closely
came the noise of the shell rushing
through the air, becoming fainter and
fulnter as the projectile went on Its
way to the German position over the
crest of a hill farther away. The mud
dlgglng artillerists continued their
work without even looking up.
A lieutenant from Georgia emerged.
He was the officer who directed the
first shot He led the way down the
slippery, muddy hill to a dugout cov
ered over with sandbags and logs.
There was met a lieutenant from Indi
ana of the same battery who directed
the first 18 shots of the war against
Germany from an observation point.
On the other side of the hill was
found the first gun fired. The muddy
gunners were hard at work cleaning
their gun.
"This was the first gun fired In the
war," the Jaunty lieutenant said. "The
sergeant Inside the pit there fired It."
Looking Into the pit, the lieutenant
said: "Sergeant, where pre you from?"
He's From South Bend.
A husky voice replied: "I'm from
South Bend, Ind."
'Are you Irish?" asked the lieuten
ant.
'No, sir," the sergeant laughingly
replied.
At this time orders came for this
gun and others of the battery placed
In nearby hills In sight and sound of
each other to commence firing. The
gun on the farthest hill went off with
a roar and a faint stream of smoke
was blown backward from the pit.
Inside the pit In which the corre
spondent stood a voice shouted out
the range figures and the lieutenant
repeated them. A voice Inside the pit'
a moment later yelled that the gunner
was ready to fire. The lieutenant gave
the command to the gunners: "Watch
your bubble."
The lieutenant, who was standing
on a pile of mud which had been re
moved from the pit, cautioned those
about him to place their fingers in
their ears. This was done and the
lieutenant shouted the word "Fire I"
The gun barked quickly, the noise
being followed by a metallic clank and
the shell case was ejected and the gun
made ready for the next load. The
lieutenant told the correspondent the
story of the first shot of the war, punc
tuating the narrative throughout with
the orders "ready to fire," and "fire,"
which each time was followed by the
report of the gun and the whizz of
the shell.
"We came up the night before," the
lieutenant said, "and got Into position
In a driving rain. No horses had ar
rived. I was anxious to get off the
first gun and so were my men. I
asked them If they were willing to
haul the gun by hand to this place so
that we could get the first crack at the
Germans. They agreed unanimously,
so we set out across the fields until we
got over there at the base of that hill
you can just see In the haze.
Hour to Prepare Gun.
"We had a hard time getting the
gun, which we have not named yet
over those shell craters. But we- la
bored for many hours and finally
reached the spot Then I got permis
sion to fire.
Strictly speaking, the first shot,
which was In the nature of a tryout
for the gun, simply went Into Ger
many. The sergeant put a high explo
sive shell there at 6:15 o'clock In the
morning."
Another officer here took up the nar
rative.
I was In an observation point" he
said. "There was a fog as the first
shot went singing over. Suddenly the
mans. I directed my gua at them. The
shrapnel burst overhead and they took
a dive Into the ground like so many j
rabbits."
The lieutenant grinned broadly.
shook the water off his shrapnel hel
met nd using both clinched fists to
punctuate his remarks, en Id expres
sively: "It was greut,"
From the artillery lines to tho In
fantry trenches was a considerable
distance over more muddy hills. The
correspondent found the Infantry In
side the trenches. There also were
rnuuy wires which ran Into switch
bourds, and American and French op
erators were sitting side by side di
recting operations,
Bell for Gat Attack.
A guide is necessary to reach the
first line, especially when some of the
trenches resemble Irrigation ditches.
The trenches the Americans are occu
pying begin from a screened position,
On the way there shovels and tools
were piled high below a hill on which
there was a great bell for giving the
alarm In case of a gas attuck. There
under cover were the company cooks
busy, warming up food thut hud been
brought up In wagons.
Following the guide, the way winds
In and out from left to right for mnny
yards between Interwoven brnnches
thut have been placed on the sides of
the trenches.
The American privates In the front
splashed through without hesitating,
sometimes getting a footing on step
ping stones In the muddy water and
sometimes not. The trench turns
sharply to the right and a voice warns,
"Keep your head down," and the rest
of the way the walking Is difficult.
Halting near a machine gun, the Ger
man positions directly opposite on a
hill could be seen across the barbed
wire of No Man's lund. Lights ap
peared in a little town to the left.
There Is a sort of a gentleman's
agreement In this sector that towns
over the line are not to be shelled. If
one side violates the agreement the
other side promptly fires shell for shell
Into a hostile town.
General Slbert, who has Just com
pleted a tour of the trenches, was
asked how the morale of the Ameri
cans In the trenches was. He replied :
"Morale? How could the morale of
Americans be anything but good?"
1 PARENTS SHOULD HAVE
X TWO NAMES FOR BABIES
Indianapolis, Ind. Because
parents haven't always got a
name .for their baby when It Is
born, the state of Indiana Is
spending $150 a month more
than necessary, according to Dr.
J. N. Hurty of the state board
of health.
"The state Is spending about J
$150 a month In writing to
homes, from which physicians
have sent In reports of births
without the names of the babies
attached.
"Parents ought to have two
names ready, one for a boy and
one for a girl. Sometimes both
can be used."
Robber Takes Only Potatoes.
Sunbury, Pa. A highwayman, mask
ed and carrying a big revolver, held
up J. C. House of Lower Augusta town
ship, Northumberland county, here re
cently and demanded that he throw
up his hands. "I don't want your mon
ey, but give me a bushel of potatoes,"
commanded the thief. House com
piled, dumping them on the roadside,
and was allowed to go without being
further molested. He had more than
$100 on his person, he said afterward.
England Needs Roads.
London. It will require approxi
mately $150,000,000 to reconstruct or
strengthen 15,000 miles of roads In
Great Britain after the war In order
to enable them to carry the growing
motor traffic, says an official estimate.
DEMONSTRATING USE OF
Mrs. Schuyler F. Herron of Boston
In the food conservation bureau's new
built of layers of straw or rubbish and
from the frost
"KELLY" U-BOAT
CHIfFJS JOKER
Commander of German Subma
rine Shows Vein of Un
German Humor.
IS HERO OF MANY STORIES
When Not Laying Mine He Pulls
Pranks That Amuse American Sea
menPays Two-Days' Visit
t Dublin Hotel.
Base of American Flotilla In British
Waters. There Is a German submarine
commander who Is known throughout
the American flotilla as "Kelly." His
real name is something quite differ
ent, but the American sailors promptly
dubbed him "Kelly of the Emerald
Isle," and the nuine will stick In the
songs and stories of the navy as long
as the great war Is talked about
"Kelly" earned his name by his dis
play on various occasions of a rich
vein of quite un-German humor. He
has become the hero of numberless sto
ries told In forecastle and on quarter
deck. Not all of these stories are true,
and probably most of them have grown
In the telling.
"Kelly" Pranks Jintallzlng.
"Kelly" commands a mine-laying U
boat which pays frequent visits to the
district patrolled by the American de
stroyers. When he has finished his
appointed task of distributing his
mines where they will do the most
harm he generally devotes a few min
utes to a prunk of some kind. Some
times he contents himself with leaving
a note flying from a buoy scribbled in
schoolboy English and addressed to his
American enemy. On other occasions
he picks out a deserted bit of coast
line nt night and goes ashore with a
sqund of his men for a saunter on the
bench, leaving behind a placard or a
bit of German bunting as a reminder
of his presence.
His most audacious exploit, how
ever If the legends of the forecastle
are to be believed was a trip which
he made several months ago to Dublin,
where he stuyed two days at a leading
hotel, nfterward joining his U-boat
somewhere up the west coast. He Is
said to have Informed the British of
his exploit by leaving his receipted bill
uttnehed to one of their buoys.
Still another of "Kelly's" more re
cent stunts was to plant the German
flag on an eminence on the coast line.
It was the first time that the British
and Americans knew just where he
and his men had set foot and they
shared the excitement of the village
folk, who awoke one morning to find
a new kind of flag flying from their sa
tlve soil.
Fishermen Burn German Flag.
But when they made sure that It was
the German colors they were furious,
for it so happened, so the story goes,
that the fisherman along this partic
ular strip of coast had suffered much
from submarine raids. D-boats had
shelled their boats, Germans had sto
len their fish their only means of live
lihood and left them empty handed
after a week's hard catch of mackerel.
These poor fisher folk were In no mood
for this latest display of German hu
mor, so they, according to report,,
promptly burned the flag and set a
watch for "Kelly."
Snake Fell From Belfry.
Laurel, Del A six-foot blacksnake
fell from the belfry of the Elverton
(Md.) Methodist church onto the shoul
ders of Sexton Benjamin F. Kennedy,
while the latter was ringing the bell.
After a lively chase the snake was
cornered In the church auditorium and
killed. It evidently had made Its home
In the belfry and fed on birds which,
roost there.
NEW "STORAGE VAULT"
showing how to bank away potatoes?
"cold storage vault." The vault Is.
earth and covers the tubers safely