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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 ,
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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
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....... 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.
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