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About The Forest Grove express. (Forest Grove, Or.) 1916-1918 | View Entire Issue (April 18, 1918)
MAY INTERN WOMEN Alien Enemies in Skirt* W ill Soon lie OF CURRENT WEEK Held Action to Follow Signing YA N KEES defeat hun STATE N E W S ♦ ____ Kaiser’ * Picked Shock Unit* Cut to t IN BRI] r t Piece* in Fierce Battle Capture r W W W W f a a a a a a a I l l NAVAL COLLIER A A A A A ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ Prisoner* and Kill Many. An aero training school for Oregon, possibly at Hermtaton or Medford, Washington, D. C. Many German may be established In the near future. With the American Army in Frai»’" and Austrian women are under surveil- The chamber of commerce was ad Preceded by an intense bombardment Vessel is Overdue for More Brief Resume Most Important ance by government agents and w ill vised by wire from Robert Dougun, o f high explosives and poison-gas Washington representative, that a spe be arrested and interned as soon as cial commission will be sent here to shells, picked troops from four German Than One Month. Daily News Items. President Wilson signs the bill which look over sites at these two places. companies hurled themselves against Three cases of select and expensive the American positions, on the right includes women in the class o f enemy wines and other liquors consigned to aliens. It was said Tuesday the num J. II. t'obbs, a wealthy Portland ttm bank o f the Mouse, north o f St. Mi- ber is more than a hundred. bcrman, were confiscated by Sheriff hiel, early Sunday morning, but were In anticipation o f this action by the ilurlburt after a freight checker for completely repulsed after terrific hand- government, some o f the most danger the O.-W. R. & N. company hail ills to-hand lighting. ous German and Austrian women have covered the liquor in a carload of The American* captured some pris Craft Issu-a ’ V r.i Indies Port March Events o f Noted People, Governments le ft the country recently, officials say. furniture shipped to Mr. Cobbs from New York. oners. The German losses already Enough remain, however, to make it 4 and Completely Disappears and Pacific Northwest and Other counted are 34 dead and 10 wounded, advisable, officials believe, to prevent Without a dissenting voice the Ros** who were in the American trenches, them from running at large within the burg Home Guard company, muster Things Worth Knowing. War Department Alarmed. United States and gathering informa ing nearly 100 men. signified its do- and 30 in No Man'* Land. Several o f tion on war activities. The women sire to ask the state to accept the the wounded enemy were taken hack under surveilance, it was said, include company for the militia. Captain Raf by their comrades to the German poai- Washington, 1). C. The big Am eri The first American prisoner to es the wives o f prominent German and ferty immediately wired County Judge tions. A concentrated artillery fire on the can naval collier Cyclo|»a, carrying 67 cape from Germany, says the Temps, Austrian business men, particularly in Marsters, placing the matter before that official, who was asked to present American poaition in the St. Mihiel has reached Basel, Switzerland. and about New York. the proposition to Governor Withy sector began Saturday morning. It passenger*, 15 officer* and 221 men in Arrangements probably w ill be made combe. Beryl Hall, 12 years old, o f Pomona, was resumed with increased vigor just her crew, ha* been overdue at an A t Cal., flying his kite with a copper wire to intern some o f the women in camps Ed Reed was Instantly killed at before midnight and continued inter lantic |«»rt aince March 13. The Navy with their husbands and limited house instead o f a string, was killed instantly Reedsport while unloading a car of mittently until nearly daybreak. department announced Sunday that *he Monday when the wire touched an keeping arrangements may be pro piling. Having some difficulty In get The Germans then laid down a bar vided. Unmarried women may be ting the piling started. Reed was ob was last reported at a West Indie* electric power line. cared for in special camps. liged to get in the track of piling as rage and lea|>ed over the parapet* and island March 4 and that extreme anx American front-line Shells from the long range German Property in possession o f the women they rolled to the water. Before he reached the iety i* entertained as to her safety. guns killed one woman and wounded interned w ill be taken over by the could clear one of the timbers struck trenches closely behind the barrage. The vessel was bringing a cargo of A t this moment the American in one woman and one man in the Paris alien property custodian. Many Ger him, pinning him down, and three manganese from Brazil. district Monday night, according to mans who have been interned turned others passed over him, crushing his fantry burst from their shelters, at The Cyclope le ft the West Indies an official statement. their holdings over to women, it was body and mashing his head to a Jelly. tacking the enemy with grenades and with one o f her two engines <l*m*ged, bayonet. 2 Isidore Costanzo, U. S. secret serv said. but the department said this fact A home guard company of 111 men The struggle continued hack and German women may be required to was organized at Dallas Friday even would not hsve prevented her from ice operative at San Francisco, has forth for some time, hut over most o f communicating by radio, and all e f been suspended pending an investiga register with chiefs o f police and post ing. Wayne Greenwood was elected the front involved the American troops tion o f charges o f embezzling $300 masters, and the same regulations captain. Roy Firseth first lieutenant, forts to reach her by that means hsve covering the registration o f German and J. R. Sibey second lieutenant. All were completely victorious, as was been unsuccessful. from a woman, it is announced. A thorough search evident from the heavy toll o f enemy officers w ill be sworn in as deputies males, although this question depends o f the course which she would have Secretary o f W ar Baker arrived tn upon President Wilson's decision. to Sheriff Orr and the company will dead and wounded. followed in coming to port has been the United States Tuesday from Eu Many department o f Justice officials be called upon to perform general A t another point a large enemy an During the force surrounded 25 Americana in made, and continues, it was rope on one o f the large steamships advocate a limited registration o f the police duty as needed. nounced. summer months the company will aid which flew the German flag before the women. front o f their trenches. The Am eri There have been no reports o f G er in fire patrol work. United States entered the war. cans suddenly attacked and killed sev Whether German women are to be man submarines or raiders in the local To C. T. Darley, an engineer and eral o f the Germans and returned to ity in which the collier was, the de “ Victory now is a synonym for bread excluded from certain prohibited zones prominent resident of the Bonanta their trenches uninjured and bringing partment’s as German males have also is to be de in Germany,” declared Baron Rhondda, statement said. The district, has been awarded the con prisoners. food controller, at London, in explain cided by the President. weather had not been stormy, ami tract for construction of the canal* ing to the Press the bearing o f the could hardly have given the collier and ditches o f the 900 acre Yonna Aaserieaas Bring Dew a Plane*. German food problem on the offensive trouble. Valley unit of the new irrigation ays M A G A Z I N E S T A F F IN COUR T With the American Army In France in the West. The fact that the collier had been tern which is being launched this year Two German fighting plane* were miseing nearly a month became known at Bonanza. The water w ill be ob Paul O. Stensland, o f Chicago, con First Trial o f Its Kind Under Espion tained by pumping from l^ost River. shot down Sunday morning inside the here April 11. The naval cenaor re fessed embezzler o f $800,000 from the The pumps have been ordered and American line* by Lieutenant* A. S. quested the press not to publish the age Act Open* in New York. Milwaukee Avenue State Bank, which will be installed before the first of Winslow, o f Chicago, and Douglas fact, on the ground that the ship hail failed more than eight years ago, died Each man N ew York— Trial o f the first persons next month so that everything will Campbell o f California. not been given up for loat, and that to Monday o f a complication o f ailments to be arrested here for alleged viola be in readiness for watering this downed one machine. publish the fact that she was overdue at the age o f 71. year's crop*. Both the enemy aviator* were made tions o f a provision o f the espionage might expose her to enemy attack, prisoner. One o f them was slightly Lieutenant Cendelaria, o f the A r while she might be disabled on the high Announcement has been made by act which penalizes the publication of gentine army, Tuesday crossed the Colonel Brice P. Disque, commanding wounded. seas. The official announcement by seditious articles was begun before The machines, which formed part o f the Navy Sunday does not give the Andes by airplane from Zapala, A r the spruce-production division of the patrol o f five aircraft, were brought gentina, to Curico, Chile, a distance o f Judge Hand in the Federal district United States signal corps, that his ship up for lost, but merely says “ the department will contract with fir mills down after a six-minute engagement. Navy department feel* extrem ely anx 180 kilometers. The machine crossed court Tuesday. The case is that o f the editors o f the of the northwest for their entire pro^ One o f the enemy machines fell in the mountains at an altitude o f 3200 ious as to her safety. “ Socialist magazine, the Masses, who duction o f fir stock for the next 12 flames, but the other was only slightly meters. months. The government has *et a are charged with having entered into damaged. It is believed that Lieuten Alleged to have baptized an infant a conspiracy to obstruct recruiting and price of $65 per thousand board feet ant Campbell is the first graduate o f a U. S. S E N A T O R S T O N E D E A D in the name o f Kaiser Wilhelm and to with circulating copies o f the period upon Douglas fir, which meets the strictly American school to bring down have made seditious utterances, J. D. ical containing matter opposing the specifications necessary in aircraft M issou ri»« In Public U fe Nenrly H alf construction. Heretofore Colonel an enemy machine. Klein, German Methodist evangelist, draft law. The French general commanding the Disque's division has been handling Century, Pi Away at Capital. o f Dennis, Kan., arrested Monday at The defendants are Max Eastman, zone in which the machines were shot Shamrock, Kan., was lodged in the form erly editor o f the Masses; Floyd some fir, but only for shipbuilding down congratulated the Americans on Washington, D. C.— Senator W il- requirements. Federal prison at Amarillo, Tex. Bell, Merrill Rogers, Josephine Bell, their “ beautiful exploit.” liam J. Stone, o f Missouri, chairman Those old settlers who for years de Both lieutenants were awarded the o f the senate foreign relations corn- Spikes in logs ruined two saws, en his associate editors; Arthur Young, a clared tnat Oregon was not and never war cro*s. cartoonist; John Reed, a writer, and mittee and for many years prominent dangered several lives and hindered could be a corn growing Btate would among Democratic leaders. died here war work at the Donovan plant, at j H. J. Gluintenkamp. turn uncomfortably in their graves if Morris Hillquit, chief counsel for Sunday after a stroke o f paralysis suf Aberdeen, Wash., Saturday. The they knew that last month a Portland presence o f the spikes is attributed to the defense, asked the talesmen, in seed concern shipped two carloads of T H I R T Y - T H R E E D E A D IN F I R E fered last Wednesday, Senator Wiliam J. Stone was in pub either German sympathizers or I. W. selecting the jury, whether they were corn for seed to the great corn pro prejudiced against any person com ducing section known as the middle Three Baildings o f lic life 45 years and during that period W., whose leaders preach sabotage. Oklahoma In monly called a pacifist. west. This corn was grown In the probably engaged in as many political Hospital Ituraed Many Rescued. Four lives were lost when the Ley- A fte r questioning nearly a score of W illam ette Valley, long held to be contests as any man o f his time, rang land line steamship Etonian was tor talesmen, Mr. H illquit told the court too cold, too damp, too cloudy or too Norman, Okla.— Thirty-three bodies, ing all the way from controversies pedoed and sunk by a German subma that he “ was very unwilling to proceed something for com production. More burned and charred beyond recognition, over county offices to the broadest na rine off the Irish coast on March 28, with this case and jeopardize the inter over. the varieties are the yellow dent had been taken Saturday night from tional issues. A t the entry o f the according to members o f the crew who ests o f my clients against such a gen- kinds that are standard wherever field the ruined building that housed ward United States into the war Senator corn is known. have arrived at an Atlantic port. Two eral prejudice against Socialism and No. 14 o f the State hospital for the Stone performed the trying feat o f an o f those killed were American horse- pacifism as all these jurors expressed. ” The coffers of the Baker thrift insane here, ravaged by fire. tagonizing his own party administra men. “ I have asked Beveral o f them,” stamp treasury were enriched Friday Three buildings, all frame struc tion, later aligning in a generally sat continued Mr. Hillquit, “ i f it would to the extent of $200, when two little tures, were destroyed and a fourth was isfactory manner. Miss Katherine Schmidt and Mrs. require more evidence to establish the Greek boys, the sons of James Speros, It was in connection with the bill Stanley M. Dixon, American mission innocence o f these defendants because a bootblack, invested all their savings badly damaged. The list o f missing stood at 37. proposing the arming o f American The Speros aries, form erly o f Springfield, S. D., o f their political b elief than it would to help Uncle Sam. According to the best information merchant ships that he took sharp is who were captured by Chinese bandits i f they were charged with arson or youngsters, who are aged 10 and 12 obtainable, the fire started from de sue with President Wilson. He stood A pril 8, have been released. The some crime other than obstruction of years, came to America two years ago fective wiring in a linen closet in ward with the dozen senators whose opposi whereabouts o f George A. Kyle, o f the draft law, and these jurors admit and have earned and saved the money they invested in thrift stamps by shin 14. Thirty-five helpless negroes were tion caused the failure o f that measure Portland, Or., who was captured by that it would.” ing shoes at their father's bootblack carried quickly from the adjoining at the close o f the 4th congress and the outlaws March 11, has for the las “ Do you think,” interrupted Judge stand during the past year. They are ward, No. 15, but the blaze in ward 14 brought down the denunciation o f the 10 days been unknown. Hand, “ that you could be able to get a attending school here and said by had gained great headway anil it was President upon “ the w ilful tw elve.” jury anywhere in the United States in their teachers to be unusually apt at there most o f the deaths occurred. W hile Senator Stone made no a[>olo- Ten German trawlers have been sunk their studies. Eighty negro patients were rescued gies for his course on that occasion, he by gunfire in the Cattegat, between time o f war that wasn’ t prejudiced Sweden and Denmark, the English ad- Pac'^ 8m’ The Astoria Carpenters’ union, No. from ward No. 10, most o f them hav always contended it was in strict line When court adjourned seven jury with his duty as a senator, because in miralty announces. Their crews were 917, at its meeting A pril 6, voted $300 ing to be carried out. A two-story structure containing accord with his convictions. saved by British ships. There were men were in the box. more for Liberty bonds, making a total wards 13 and 16 next started to blaze. His opposition to the declaration o f no British casualties. The operations o f $500. N ew York — Liberty bond scalping These two wards contained 88 violent war upon Germany was also pro in the Cattegat, the statement says, F ifty citizens o f Wendling Wednes patients, most o f them negroes. Some nounced, and he were underaken by the commander-in- agencies have been unearthed [here. declined to take chief o f the grand fleet. An investiagtion by Assistant District day forwarded a petition to Adjutant o f the patients in this ward fought charge o f the war resolution, as would have been expected o f the chairman o f Attorney Brogan has disclosed that General John M. Williams asking for their rescuers. Conscription o f incomes cannot pro these agences are conducted either by authorization o f a Home Guard at The fire here was extinguished be the committee on foreign relationa. gress much beyond its present scope Germans or Hungarians. Wendling. Most o f the men who fore the structure was totally de He did not seek, however, to place ob- without interfering too seriously with atacles in the way o f a consideration The investigation is intended to de signed the petition are employes in the stroyed. production, asserted Samuel Unter- termine whether the operation o f the mill and camps o f the Booth-Kelley Only a few o f those in ward 14 es o f the measure and transferred the myer, New York lawyer, and the gov agencies, where bonds o f $50 and $100 Lumber company. caped and the victims were burned be leadership to Senator Hitchcock, next ernment’s legal expert on the inter are bought at reductions o f from $5 to yond indentification. ranking Democratic member o f the County Judge M iller and Commis pretation o f income and excess profit $10 below their face value, is a part of Most o f the 33 bodies recovered committee. He believed that Am eri tax laws, in an address he delivreed in organized propaganda to discourage in sioner V. Hurt, who returned to Toledo were found in beds, indicating that can participation should be avoided if Pittsburg Monday night in the liberty vestments in government war securi from Salem and Portland Saturday many had been rendered helpless by [Mwsihle, but when the die was cast night, stated that Lincoln county will loan campaign. smoke and fumes. for war he changed overnight. ties. receive a total o f $20,000 in addition Unfilled orders of the United States to its road fund from the forest reserve Railroad Gets $43,964,000. Steel Corporation on March 30 were Public Dancing to Cease. Liberians Hit hy Shells. 9,056,404 tons, according to the cor _^New Y ork— The first large payment fund and the State Highway commis Astoria, Or.- The holding o f public Ixm don— ‘The Get man submarine poration’s monthly statement. This made by the United States government sion on a 50-50 basis. dance« in Astoria will soon be strictly which on April 10 bombarded Monro is a decrease of 232,049 tons compared to a railroad since it took control o f Robert Banks, o f the Kruse & Banks taboo. This step is planned by the via, the capital o f the African republic with the orders on February 28. railroads was announced Monday with Shipbuilding company o f North Bend, city officials in a movement to purify o f Liberia, in addition to destroying The sinking of British merchantmen the receipt by the Bankers’ Trust com announced during the flag-raising exer the moral atmosphere o f the commun the wireless telegraph station, sank by mines or submarines last week pany from the Treasury department at ity and guard the health and morals o f cises Sunday that the firm had re the Liberian armed vessel President reached the next lowest level o f a n y , __ . __ , , . Q eu,,. . . . sim ilar period since Germany began “ p ceived a telegram from the Shipping the troops stationed at the forts about Grant, it was announced hero Sunday. The decision A number o f casualties were inflicted her intensive submarine campaign outstanding "** ....... notes o f the New York, Board asserting that additional govern the mouth o f the river. early in 1917. Four vessels of more New Haven & Hartford Railroad com ment contracts for wooden hulls would was reached at a conference between on shore by the shells from the Uhoat. be awarded their yard as fast as the members o f the municipal council, the A fte r the bombardment the activities than 1600 tons, two of less than 1600 pany. The money was taken from the ways were cleared to accommodate police officials and representatives o f o f the submarine were interrupted by tons and two fishing boats were sent to the bottom. $500,000,000 war finance fund. them. the W ar department a coastal steamer. o f Measure by IVeaident. Big COMPILED FOR YOU A LL SEARCH FUTILE