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About The Forest Grove express. (Forest Grove, Or.) 1916-1918 | View Entire Issue (July 12, 1917)
PLANES HIT GERMANY K aiser's Great War P lant ia Reported Badly Wrecked by Airmen ICO Men Killed - W ork Stupa. KEY TO LEMBERG FALLS TO RUSSIA Am sterdam Lea Nouvelles, of Mae- strich, reports th at Dutch workmen /■» ■ who were laid otT at the Krupp works Capital on account o f the destruction of build ings in the recent French air raid, as sert that a q uarter of the Essen plant was destroyed. The m aterial dam age is place«! at millions of francs, and it is said th at 100 employes were killed and hundreds of others, including 45 French prisoners, wounded. DRAFT GUARD AUG. 5 E ntire M ilitia to lie Made Available for Foreign Duty by Proclam a tion of President Wilson. W ashington, D. C. — The last step necessary to make the en tire National OT Galicia Doomed Dy Guard- available for duty in France ; w h s taken by President Wilson Tues- ! day with the issue of a proclamation ; 1 d raftin g the sta te troo|i* into the Army of the U nited S tates August 5. j To make certain th at the pur|x>se of the national defense act ia carried out. the proclam ation also s|M<cfically de- i d a re s the men d rafted to be dis- , I charged from the old m ilitia statua on One and possibly two French a ir 1 th at date. Events of Noted People, Governm ents planes dropped bombs on Essen last General KornilofT Breaks 20-Mile Front In th at way the constitutional re- ; Chinese Itrpubliran Forres Now Hold I Friday. The official German report of strain t upon use of m ilitia outside the and Pacific Northwest and Other S trategic Positions in O u tsk irts Between Halicz and C arpathians , the raid said only two bomb holes were country is avoided and the way paved Things W orth Knowing. of C a p ita l— New Cabinet. and Take 14.000 in Week. I found. for sending the regim ents to the Eun>- j>ean front. NAVY YARD HAS EXPLOSION Prior to the application of the d raft, regim enta in the N orthern and Eastern The entente allies have decided to W ashington, I). C. Olficial dis London — Halicz, the strateg ic key section of the country are called into hold a conference in Paris for the con Six Persons Killed When Magazine to Lem berg, capital of Galicia, has patches to the Chinese legation here the Federal service as National Blows Up at M are Island. sideration of questions of m ilitary and been captured by the Russians, says a Guardsmen in two increm ents to be Sunday night said the republic had political interests in connection with Vallejo, Cal. — A searching investi dispatch Wednesday from R eu ter’s mobilized on July 15 and 25. been firmly re-established at Nanking the Balkans. Many units already are Federalized gation was inaugurated Tuesday night P etrograd correspondent. with Feng Kwo ( hang, the form er The American steam er Massapequa to determ ine the cause of an explosion Halicz, 63 miles southeast of Lem and presumably they will l>e mobilised was sunk on Saturday by a German of a black powder m agazine a t the berg, on the D neister river, is an im with the other troops from th eir vice president, as president of the new subm arine. The crew was landed at Mare Island navy yard in San F ran portant railroad junction and the most statea. The guard from the other provisional government. the small island of Zin, 28 miles south cisco Bay early Monday, which claimed im portant key to th e Galician capital. statea will be mobilized on the day of Republican troo|w were re|x>rted w est of Brest, France. a to tal of six lives and resulted in ser It is 18 miles north of Stanislau and the draft. The arrangem ent was nec converging toward Pekin to drive out C. H. Pinkham, of New York City, ious injuries to four persons and m inor about eig h t miles north of Jezupol, essary to provide for movement of the the Manchu forces rem aining in | ms »- captured by the Russians under Gen regim ents to th eir concentration campa session there in the name of the Im- and Mrs. Jam es Fullerton, of Eugene, injuries to 27 others. w ithout congestion. Navy officers, headed by Captain eral)- Korniloff on Sunday. perialista. Oregon, brother and sister, m et in the The operation of the d ra ft law was The fall of Halicz was presaged by Tuan Chi Jui, whose appointm ent as la tte r city Wednesday for the first H arry George, commandant of the tim e in 4$ years. Mr. Pinkham and navy yard, 200 yards across the chan the success of the Russians in break- delayed until August 5 so th at all regi- Prem ier was one of the last official his wife are m aking a tour of the Pa nel, and federal agents co-operated in ing through the Austr«>-German line m ents can be taken into the army acts of President I.i Yuan llu n g be the probe. A rrests w ere expected, as between th a t town and Stanislau, and sim ultaneously. Fourteen camp sites fore hia retirem en t in favor of the cific Coast. it was believed, although not officially- in driving the Austro-Germ ans to the for the 16 tactical divisions into which vice president, has been confirmed by Bodies of six men have been taken confirmed, th a t the blast was the re Lomnic<\ river, which enters the Dneis the guard will be organized have been Feng Kuo Chang w ith instructions to from two lodging houses which were sult of an organized conspiracy. selected already, and the m ilitary bu form a new Republican cabinet, ac te r a short distance above Halicz. partially destroyed by fire on the San The dead, the names of whom were Halicz was the center of much heavy reau is preparing the railw ay routing cording to the dispatches. Francisco w ater front betw een W ash officially announced, include Allen F. fighting last August and Septem ber, of the troopa to the camps. Prem ier Tuan assumed office July 5 ington and Merchant streets. The MacKinzie, chief gunner; his w ife and and the Russians had captured Buko- and is now at tem porary headquarters men were all suffocate«!, according to two daughters, Dorothy, aged 12, and wina and were attem pting to reach Tien Tain, but ex|»ecta to be able to RECORD CROP IS FORECAST at move the police and coroner. Mildred, 8; George Stanton, a gar Lemberg. to Pekin ir. a short lime. Stanislau was captured by the Rus Governors of all the m ilitary pro A dispatch from Copenhagen says dener, employed by MacKinzie, and N. food troubles gave rise to a demon C. Dam steadt, civilian employe in the sians in August, but they failed to Increase of Billion Bushel* Over la « t vinces, the dispatches said, not only take Halicz a fte r engaging in furious Year Shown in Report. refused to join General Chang 11 Mini stra tiv e strik e in large factories at ordnance departm ent. The list of wounded, none of whose battles at Mariampol and Monasterzys- in hia efforts to re-establish the mon Cologne on Saturday. Both Socialist Washington, 1). C .—A billion bush and Catholic unions took part in the injuries it was believed would prove ka and forcing the Austro-Germans to els increase over last y e a r’# production archy, but requested Prem ier Tuan to fatal, included non-commissioned offi re tire between the ZIota-Lipa and the take supreme command of the punitive movement. An official report says the in the principal food crops is the re unions decided to resume work the fol cers, enlisted men of the U nited S tates D neister. In Septem ber Halicz was sponse American farm ers have made expedition against the m oranchist navy and civilian laborers. bombarded by the Russian artillery , forces. lowing day. Commandant George refused to issue but attem p ts to storm the town were to President W ilson’s mid-April a p Tuan mobilized the Republican peal saying th at upon them “ rests the The navy departm ent announces th at a statem en t as to the probable cause unsuccessful. troo|M and two arm ies already have th e Ediz Hook subm arine base site of the explosion, which wrecked nearly The fall of Halicz probably will fa te of the w ar and the fate of n a been dispatched againat Chang Hsun near Port Angeles, W ash., has been a dozen packing and shell houses in the mean th a t the Austro-Germans must tio n s.” under command of General Tuan Chi The ex ten t of the fa rm ers’ res|M>nse tran sferre d by Presidential proclam a vicinity of the m agazine and broke re tire from th e present line along the Kwei and General Tsao Kuen, m ilitary was disclosed Tuesday when a produc tion to the navy departm ent. This thousands of dollars’ w orth of glass in Zlota-Lipa from northeast of Halicz governor o f Chi Li. was one of the subm arine bases rec Vallejo stores and residences, pending through Brzezany and Zlochoff to tion of 6,093,000,000 bushels of princi General Tuan Chi Kwei, in command pal food crops was forecast in the de ommended by the Helm board. There the result of the official investigation. Brody, in order to protect Lemberg. of the eastern expedition, a fte r ro u t partm ent of a g ric u ltu re’s July crop re has been no action yet on the Columbia ing the monarchical forces under port. It shows this y e a r’s corn crop P etro g rad —General Korniloff’s oper riv e r site. Chang Hsun at Lang Fang, ia reported THREATEN STRIKE IN FIELDS ations in Galicia along a front of 20 will be the largest in history except as advancing victoriously toward the A bomb explosion which Wednesday miles have broken the Austro-German one and th at four and possibly five oth capital. night destroyed the front of the resi I. W. W. O rganizer Says 50,000 Men front between Halicz and the C ar er crops will make new high records. The corn crop which, w ith favorable dence of L'uncio Tarantino, a wealthy pathians and already the Russian cav Will Q uit Unless M iners Win. w eather from now on, may equal the ALL TO BE READY FOR DRAFT sharehloder in the W estern California alry has pressed forward for a distance Chicago—T hreat of a general strik e bumper yield of 1912, shows an in Fish company, was attrib u ted by the of 50,000 agricultural w orkers in the j of 16 miles. crease of 541,000,000 bushels over last Claima for Exem ption Must be Filed San Francisco police to black hand To the west of the D neister, as a re activities. T arantino had received ten wheat fields of the N orthw est was sult of the western forw ard movement, year, with a total of 3,124,000,000 W ithin Seven Days A fter Call. th reaten in g letters dem anding th at he made here by Frank H. L ittle, mem Halicz has been hemmed in from the bushelB. The acreage is 14 |»er cent ber of the general executive board of W ashington, I). C. Another step in larger than last year. pay $10,000 to his blackm ailers, but the Industrial W orkers of the World. south and southwest, and the Russians The combined w in ter and spring building up the selective conscription he repeatedly ignored the demands. now are menacing the Halicz bridge He declared the walkout of the harves wheat crop will be 38,000,000 bushels army was taken Monday with the d is Chapin & Gore, of Chicago, one of ters was certain if the demands of head. more than last year, w ith a total of tribution of a circular of Provost Mar From July 2 to 8, inclusive, General the largest w hisky-m aking firms in the strik in g m iners in Arizona and Mon 687.000. 000 bushels. shal General Crowder, notifying the L ittle had Korniloff took 14,000 prisoners and 55 U nited S tates, is going out of busi tana were not granted. Barley, with prospects for the third registered men to hold them selves in guns, of which 12 were heavy pieces. ness, it is announced. Charles H. charge of organizing the m iners who largest crop ever grown, will exceed readiness for appearance before the Herm ann, president of the firm and di recently quit work in those states. last y e a r’H production by 33,000,000 boards which will conduct exam ina- “ We have no in tere st in the w a r,” BARONS BOLDLY FIX PRICE hushels, with an output of 214,000,000 tions anil consider exemptions, recting head of the N ational D istillers and Wholesale Liquor D ealers’ associ L ittle said. ‘‘Our in terest solely is bushels. i How or when the governm ent will As I told Coal Producers Tell Senate They Are ation, made the announcement, which w ith the working class. Oats will exceed last y e a r’s crop by Helc,.t tht! men to be exam ined ¡H not comes as the first direct result in Chi Governor Campbell, of Arizona, we 201.000. 000 bushels, the total produc- detailed in the circular, but it is rc- Out for “ All Traffic Will B ear.” cago of the recent National a n ti will use the w ar ju st like the business tion being forecaste«l a t 1,543,000,000 vealed th at reg istratio n cards in each men are doing, to make a profit for W ashington, I). C.— In light of evi bushels. whisky legislation. county or city jurisdiction are to be our class. dence brought out by the senate com T hat is slightly under the record. numbered with red ink and th a t “ as Jam es W. Gerard, form er ambassa- ‘ ‘‘Our organization of agricultural m ittee on in terstate commerce, show Im provem ent between now and h ar dor to Germany, has resigned from the workers has been under way for three ing beyond question th a t th e coal bar vest, however, may result in a record soon as the draw ing is complete, lists showing th e order in which these red- diplom atic service and returned to pri years and we have a m em bership of ons have been “ holding u p ” the A m er crop. ink numbers are drawn will be pub vate life. H is resignation was ac nearly 50,000 m igratory w orkers who ican public and ex to rtin g wholly un lished in the press and will be |>osted cepted some tim e ago, although the will be asked to harvest the grain this justifiable prices for coal, the adm inis fa ct was not allowed to become known summer. We are confident the farm tratio n m ust force down the price or GERMAN UPHEAVAL IS SEEN a t the office of each local board.” It already has been announce«! th a t the until this week. The resignation te r ers cannot find strik e breakers to re- adm it its inability to cope w ith the I selection will tak e place in W ashing m inates an ambassdorial career re olace th e m .” Clericals Swing Against Governm ent — coal trust. ton, and the general presum ption has g a rd e d by the S tate departm ent as one K aiser Calls in N eutrals. W hat in strum entality the adm inis been th a t some device sim ilar to a o f the most im portant in American tration will use in attem p tin g to fix a WILL NOT FIX WHEAT PRICE reaosnable jury wheel will be employed. Copenhagen — A Berlin dispatch diplom atic history. price for coal will soon be Exem ptions are to be determine«l by Tuesday to the F rem denblatt, of Ham Emma Goldman and Alexander Hoover Denies Report but Says Specu determ ined, but it will not be the Fed-1 burg, says the en tire Clerical party in the local boards, the circular ahows, eral Trade commission, if congress is Berkm an, anarchists, convicted in New ; the R eichstag, w ith th e exception of only for the previously announced s|*o- lative B uying Will be Stopped. asked to name the reg u latin g body. cified causes, such as responsibility for York Monday of conspiracy to o b s tru c t; In 1916 the cost of producing bitu ' three members, voted, Saturday night the support of relatives, and not for W ashington, D. C. —R eports th a t the operation of the selective d ra ft to support the stand taken by M athias reasons. law, started for prison in the custody the food adm inistration will fix an a r minous coal in the E astern fields was E rzberger, who made a sensational agricultural or industrial of federal m arshals a few hours after b itrary price of less than $2 a bushel $1.50 per ton at the mouth of the I speech in the secret session of the | Seven days a fte r designations Hre the verdict had been returned. Berk- 1 to the grow er for the 1917 American mine. This coal in Ju n e was selling main com m ittee, attac k in g the adm ir posted will be allowed for filing claims, man will be taken to the federal peni- wheat crop drew from H erbert Hoover at $5.50 and $6 per ton. The cost of alty and Pan-Germ ans as the g re at ob- j Then th ere will be an additional al- production advanced during the past stacles to peace and advocating peace lowance of 10 days for filing proofs, te n ita ry at A tlanta, Ga., and Miss this denial : Y et the w ithout annexations or indem nities and H,1<^ the lK,ar,l m ust decide within three ‘‘I t is not the intention of the food year 25 to 50 cents a ton. Goldman to the state penietentiary at Jefferson City, Mo. Each was sen- j adm inistration to fix the price for coal barons have been charging $3.50 the introduction of a parliam entary ‘lays a fte r the proof ia filed. , tenced by Federal Judge Mayer to the wheat, nor is it expected th a t it will and $4 a ton for th eir product, a t the , , When the case of any re g istra n t has 8®vcrnmen • m axim um penalty of two y ea rs’ im - 1 ^ f ve any such powers. If the foes! mine, above what they 1 adm it to be the This action was taken, the dispatch been disposed of so fa r as the local pnsonm ent and to pay a fine o f 1 bill passes congress, however, we cer cost. board is concerne«!, the names of those From the same coal producers came says, under the presum ption th a t Chan not exem pted or dischargtsl will be tainly will not stand for speculative $ 10 , 000 . cellor von Bethm ann-Hollweg would buying.” the frank admission th a t they had put posted. (Maims for exem ption for ag _____ A rrangem ents have been completed Mr. Hoover and his associates are up the price because they had d eter retire. ricultural or industrial work must bo to deport all Germans from Liberia, it said to feel th a t the export price mined to g et “ all the tarffic would The Clerical party is the largest in made w ithin five days a fte r such post is learned in London. They will leave should be m aintained a t a figure th at b ea r,” and had determ ined also to the reichstag. H ith erto it has worked ing and m ust go direct to the higher in a few days, with France as th eir will be an inducem ent to farm ers to make up during the w ar for “ lean w ith the Conservatives in giving the board sittin g for the judicial d istrict. destination. increase production. years” during the past decade. governm ent a m ajority. Appleals from the rulings of local boards m ust be made to the higher Mrs. H attie Nixon, 26, of Waco, Cable Address for U. S. Navy. “ F irst Lady” is W orker. A viator Falls In to Bay. board w ithin ten days. T ex ., a student in the Marlin Airplane W ashington, D. C.— S ecretary Dan W aahintgon, D. C.— Four dozen suits San Diego — L ieutenant D. C. Em The circular does not cover the sum school, was killed Wednesday while 28 m aking a practice flight over the iels announced Tuesday th a t for pri mons, of the North Island Signal Corps of pajam as and an equal num ber of moning of the men for actual service, city . H er airplane struck some tele vate cablegram s to officers and men on aviation school, fell 50 feet in a big sheets and pillow cases, made by Mrs. pointing out th a t selection and accept the Am erican warships in the war M artin seaplane into the w aters of San Woodrow Wilson and Miss Bones and ance do not mean an im m ediate sum phone wires and fell. zone the cable address will be simply Diego bay Wednesday when his m a donated to the Red Cross, have been di mons. Even the tim e of the draw ing Seventy Am erican mechanics and “ USNAVFORCE LONDON” with the chine went into a sudden side slip. vided among the Red Cross organiza ¡ b not specified, but issuance of the c ir bluejackets, commanded by Lieuten name of the person addressed. The The aviator quickly unstrapped him tions of England, France, Italy and cular is taken to mean th a t the work a n ts Kenneth, W hiting and Griffin, name of the ship or station is not to be self from his seat and climbed out on Canada. Mrs. Thos. R. Marshall has of selection may be in progreaa w ithin have arrived in Toulon to s ta rt an avi included and the rank of the addressee the wings of the machine, from which organized weekly Red Cross sewing a few days. Septem ber 1 has been ation sch«x>l in connection w ith the should be used only when there is a he waa rescued by sailors from a U n it m eetings of senators’ wives and Mrs. ten tativ ely considered as the date for F rench naval a ir center at St. Ra- probability of confusion with someone ed States w ar craft, anchored a few Franklin K. Lane has organized wo assem bling the first half million men .phael. of identical name. men of the Interior departm ent. in cantonm ents for training. feet away. Emmons was not hurt. Brief Resume Most Important Daily News Items. COMPILED FOR YOU t r> r • r\ , , Advance of Russians. Ex-Vice-President is Proclaimed Provisional Executive. GERMANS ARE ROUTED EMPEROR ABDICATES