IR LO H f f l l S
OF CURRENT WEEK
SAMMIES STOP DRIVE
SCHWAB IS CHOSEN
German Plan to Divide Frenchmen and
Steel Magnate Given Supreme Control
Yankee« Foiled
Teutona Claim
Capture o f 183 Americana.
o f Nation's Shipbuilding
Work
W ill Be Greatly Expedited.
EARTHQUAKE VISITS
O M N IA TOWNS
The C. A. Smith shingle mill, at
Marshfield, which had operated stead
The German high command, having ily for the past nine years, has been
Washington, D. C. The building of
been unsuccessful in piercing the Brit closed down indefinitely, and probably the great merchant marine which will
Brief Resume Most Important ish front in Flanders and separating w ill not re-open during the war period. transport Am erica’s men and resources Hement and San Jacinto Are
the British and French armies, has
There promises to be a lively con to the battle front was intrusted Tues
Practically Destroyed.
Daily News Items.
next day by the Shipping Board to Charles
essayed a stroke against the Am eri test at tlie primary election
cans ami the French northwest o f montii in Yunihill county for the Re M. Schwab, steelmaker and shipbuild
publication
nomination for county
Toul. and, here also Teuton strategy
er, who becomes director general o f
treasurer, the princi|>als in the running
seemingly has failed utterly to bring
the Emergency Fleet Corporation, with
being three popular women.
its plans to fruition.
unlimited
[towers to put through the
The dwelling on the farm o f Mrs. E.
Although the Germans attacked in
vast
building
program already under
waves with greatly superior numbers B. Porter, neur Jefferson, was burned
way.
down
Monday
afternoon.
The
resi
o
f
men,
the
Americans
and
Frenchmen
Points in Utah and Arizona Report
Events o f Noted People, Governments
“ Mr. Schwab will have complete su
have held all their positions and in dence was a three-story structure and
Trembling, but Little Damage
and Pacific Northwest and Other
flicted heavy losses. What gains were was situated on the Linn county side pervision and direction o f the work o f
shipbuilding,” said an
official an
made in the initial onslaughts have o f the Sanitsm river near Jefferson.
I.O S Angele« Badly Shaken.
Things Worth Knowing.
nouncement from the White House.
been entirely retrieved and Sunday
A. A. Asbahr, Lincoln county agri
Control
o
f
policies,
which
include
de
night saw the American and French cultural agent, has just issued a cir
cisions as to the number, size and
lines restored.
cular letter to mohair growers o f the character o f ships to lie built with the
The latest Berlin official communi country urging them to attend a meet
Isis Angeles A ll o f Southern t'ali-
Duke Frederick II, ruler o f the Ger
millions appropriated by congress, still
man duchy o f Anhalt, is dead at Bal cation asserts that in the drive 183 ing to be held at Eddyville on April 23
furnia and part o f Western Arizonu
w ill rest with the Shipping board.
were shuken Sunday at 8:32 p. m. by
lenstadt castle.
He was 61 years old. American prisoners and 25 machine for the purpose o f organizing a mohair
Mr. i'iez, at his own suggestion, re
guns were captured by the Germans. pool.
un earthquake which wrecked practi
linquishes the (Kisition o f general man
W alter Guion, o f Naponleonville, There has been no confirmation o f this
cally all buildings and residences in
La., is named by Governor Pleasant to statement or o f the added claim that
What may prove to be the nucleus ager o f the Fleet Corjioration, which
Hement and San Jacinto, two inland
till the unexpired term o f the late Sen the Americans sustained heavy casual o f a state organization o f women to be is abolished, to give Mr. Schwab a
towns 46 miles southeast o f Riverside,
free
hand.
ator Broussard.
known
as
the
Oregon
leg
io
n
o
f
Home
ties.
and caused minor pro|ierty damage in
Mr. Hurley remains chairman o f the
It seems evident, however, that the Defense, an auxiliary o f the Home
" The winter-sown oats acreage this
practically every town and city.
board
and
president
o
f
the
Fleet
Cor
Guard,
is
being
organized
in
Salem.
year is 2,372,000 acres, compared with fight was a bitter one and that it was
August Carlson, o f this city, was
poration, in charge o f policies.
2,424,000 acres last year, the depart the ambition o f the specially trained A number o f State Capitol employes
found dead, without any external
Mr. I’ iez continues as vice president
ment o f Agriculture announces in pre Germans to crush the Americans. The have signed.
marks o f injury.
o f the board, attending to administra
fighting
lasted
from
Saturday
well
into
liminary estimates.
Loafing promises to soon be an un
An examination failed to (¡¡ariose
tive details o f construction, including
Sunday, but the Americans fought
The National Assembly at its ses tenaciously and gave ground by inches, healthy industry in Astoria. The city the placing o f contracts, and Mr. the cause o f death, but the surgeons
sion Tuesday declared the Republic o f and then only when they have exacted council a fter consultation with the Schwab w ill organize ami carry for gave it as their opinion that the man
Guatemala to occupy the same position a tremendous payment for it in Ger Federal authorities has decreed that ward the work o f putting the shi|is had probably died from shock.
all able bodied men in the city must
Another man was killed in a panic
toward the European belligerents as man killed or wounded.
into the water.
either be employed or be prosecuted^*
at Santa Monica, when he fell off a
does the United States.
Mr. Schwab is the fifth man to lie
slackers and public nuisances.
pier. A woman was injured by falling
put in charge o f the Shipping Board's
Bakers and dealers are ordered to
from a second-story window at San Ja
“
Frenchy”
Bargeron,
o
f
Coaledo,
building
program,
but
his
appointment
ASSIST
B0LSHVIKI
discontinue the use o f prices in adver A L L I E S
cinto
and a number o f person* were in
was bound over to the grand jury at was attended by none o f the friction
tising bread or rolls, in a statement
jured there and elsewhere, none ser
Coquille
by
Justice
J.
J.
Stanley
for
which
marked
some
o
f
the
previous
issued by Charles Hebberd, food ad British and French Force« U n d on
iously.
the shooting o f Frannk Grant a few changes in management.
ministrator for Washington.
Arctic Coast o f Peninsula.
Three men entombed in a magnesite
days ago.
Grant, who was danger
The suggestion for the appointment
mine
tunnel near Hement probably
Fourteen hundred and ninety-three
Moscow— British and French troops ously wounded, still lives and is gain o f a practical builder o f National
were saved by fellow workers, who
men and boys are registered under the have been landed at Mourmansk, on ing strength.
prominence came this time from the
drove an air shaft to them.
alien enemy act in Montana, according the northeast coast o f Kola Peninsula,
A. C. U. Berry, who has the con Shipping Board itself and Mr. Hurley
The severity o f the shock seemed
to an announcement at the office o f in the A rctic Ocean, to reinforce a
chose
Mr.
Schwab.
greatest inland, but it was distinctly
United States Marshal Joseph Ash- British marine detachment sent ashore tract for the building o f the south
First o f all was wanted a man who
jetty at Yaquina bar, was in Toledo
apparent at almost every point over
bridge.
several weeks ago. The entente allied
Wednesday contracting for lumber. could inspire the yard owners and California south from a line from
troops
are
co-operating
with
Bolshevik
Convicted on his own confession o f
As soon as he receives the lumber he workers with the supreme importance Barston to the coast and in some parts
using the mails to defraud in soliciting 1 forces in protecting Mourman coast w ill begin the erection o f a receiving o f building ships as fast as they can be o f Arizona, although no damage was
funds for cripples, George W. Rider, and the railway against attacks that warehouse at the south spit, 100x150 turned out.
refiorted there.
secretary o f the Cripples’ W elfare are being made by Finnish white feet.
In Isis Angeles and vicinity the
guards.
soceity o f New York, was sentenced to
damage
was apparent mainly in broken
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The Fife-W ilson Lumber company, j
Russian red guards also are acting
three years’ imprisonment at Atlanta.
windows.
Hundred* o f large plate-
with British and French troops under o f Bandon, has sold its fleet o f three
Seven Asiatic passengers on a Ja the direction o f the Mourman soviet vessels to a San Francisco shipping | Senator Chamberlain Introduces Bill glass window* here were shattered.
Several building* showed cracks or
panese liner which arrived at a Pacific war council, which consists o f one company. The vessels are the Bandon,
With Broad Provisions.
bulges, but the extent o f such damage
port Tuesday from the Orient died on Englishman, one Frenchman and one Acme and Phoenix. No report o f what
the voyage, and the vessel was held in Russian.
Washington, D. C. A bill to bring to buildings could not be definitely
the company w ill do for shipping is
quarantine while a thorough examina
Finnish white guards have attacked out other than they might charter all persons charged with violation o f ascertained.
Homes all over Southern California
tion was made by the port medical offi the Mourman railway near Kem, 270 from the Purchasing company.
the espionage act under the jurisdic
were
shaken, dish*** rattled, furniture
cers.
tion
o
f
the
military
court-martial
was
miles south o f Mouamansk and 200
Tw o members o f the Coast artillery
moved and in many [daces the shock
Berry Noyes, the negro who shot miles west o f Archangel, but have corps stationed at Fort Stevens, died introduced Tuesday by Senator Cham
was such as to cause the occupant* to
and killed Sheriff W. E. McBride near been repulsed by the entente forces. at the hospital there Wednesday. They berlain, o f Oregon, chairman o f the
tumble out hastily.
In Arizona the
Lexington, Tenn., last Saturday, was The Bolshevik and foreign troops are were A lgie Loomis, aged 20 years, o f senate m ilitary committee.
shock was reported to have extended
The
measure
was
referred
to
the
acting
in
harmony.
hanged in the courthouse yard Monday
Ashland, who expired from pneumonia,
m ilitary
committee
and Chairman as far east as Seligman in Arizona and
by a mob. The sheriff sought to ar
and V ictor A. Johnson, aged 23 years,
Chamberlain
announced
that hearings Milford in Utah.
rest Noyes for violaitng the state pro
D E C L A R E U-BOAT IS B E A T E N o f Radville, Saak., Canada, who suc- would begin at once. A number o f Hement, about 25 miles east and
hibition law.
combed to an attack o f spinal menin
Federal judges, as well as represent south o f Riverside, and San Jacinto,
Corporal Wilbur L. Judd, o f the Public Information Director Says Navy gitis.
atives o f the department o f Justice, the next town north o f Hement were
army censor board and member o f a
reported to It« practically destroyed.
Several men who are now engaged are expected to be called.
Triumphs Over Ruthless Warfare.
regiment stationed at the Presidio,
A t San Bernardino the shock was
in planting a crop have been exempted
Senator Chamberlain in a brief
San Francisco, was arrested by post-
A French Seaport— “ I have seen so by the Albany board o f Linn county statement declared that the one pur said by old residents to be the most
office inspectors on a charge o f appro much that is fine in the way our navy from the county’s second draft call. pose o f the measure was to expedite severe in many years. Score* o f [date-
priating $7086.20 from letters which is keeping the faith along the west These men remain in class 1, but are the trials o f person* charged with sedi glass windows were broken, a hundred
passed through his hands.
coast o f France,” said James Kemey, permitted to remain at home for the tion. Under the existing system, he feet o f brick wall from one low build
work. said, a man could be indicted for mak ing fell into the street.
Baron Richthofen, the famous Ger director o f the Franco-American com present because o f farm ing
m
ittee
o
f
public
information,
“
that
I
They
w
ill
be
subejet
to
any
later
calls ing seditious speeches and, after g iv
man aviator, was shot down and killed
ing bail, continue to make such utter TO I N T E R N T E U T O N W O M E N
Monday night back o f the British lines think the folks at home would like to a fter the present crop is in.
along the Somme front.
Details o f know how admirably our troops and
Secretary R. B. Goodin, o f the State ances.
“ The war cannot lie run in the crim
his death are lacking.
Richthofen supplies are being safeguarded.
board o f control, has returned to Salem
Enemy Aliens in Skirts to Re Dealt
“ A French vice admiral told me
was buried with m ilitary honors near
from Rose burg, where he investigated inal courts or by the department o f
With Same As Men.
that
it
was
due
to
the
great
skill
and
the spot where he crashed.
the status o f William Bebee and John Justice,” declared the senator, urging
co-operation o f the American navy
that
authorization
lie
given
by
con-
Washington, I). C. — German and
The days o f the male “ clothing that no tonnage had been lost on this Kelly, said to be agitators at the i gross permitting the army to deal with
Austrian women in the United States
slacker” are numbered, according to coast fo r three months. He was most home. The two men appeared before enemy activities.
were placed under the same restric
Charles F. Wetzel, president o f the enthusiastic in his praise o f Rear Ad the board recently to answer charges
The bill defines spies, subject to tions as have prevailed for male enemy
National Association o f the Merchant miral Wilson, who seems to have cap made against Beebe as to epithets al trial by army or navy courtmartial or
aliens by a proclamation issued Satur
leged to have been directed by him at
Tailors o f America, who sent out an tured all this part o f France.
army m ilitary commission, as persons day by President Wilson under the re
Goodin and Governor Withycombe.
appeal to the tailors o f the country to
“ The deptii bomb, the listening
violating the general espoinage laws, cently enacted law, including women
eliminate all unnecessary embellish device and the hydro-airplanes in the
C. E. Rude, Pendleton cattle buyer, legislation prohibiting destruction of in the definition o f enemy aliens.
ments on men’s clothing.
hands o f the Americans have con has completed a deal in Jefferson war material and the draft law, those
These restrictions, applicable only to
county, paying $100,000 for 650 head inciting m ilitary insuliordination or
A special train bearing Englishmen quered the submarines.
women above 14 who have not been nat
“ I happened to be at a port when a o f prime beef stock. A special train transmitting to members o f the Amer uralized by their own or their male
and Americans among whom were offi
cials o f the International Harvester convoy, including several big troop o f 25 cars was chartered to g et them ican m ilitary forces any matter favor relatives’ declarations o f citizenship,
company and o f the National City ships, formerly German liners, came to Seattle, where they w ill be mar ing the enemy’s cause or persons g iv as follows:
The cattle were purchased ing false reports.
Bank o f New York, on “ safe conduct” in. I went on board o f these trans keted.
German and Austrian women are
from Moscow, was fired upon by Bol ports and found the troops happy in from Bidwell, Crom & Son, Pride
The measure’s terms also broadly subject to arrest and internment i f
shevik soldiers, according to John admirable surroundings. I also visit Bros., and Bolter, all o f Gateway. apply to acts which “ endanger or in they violate the laws or are regarded
Stock on the ranges in that section is terfere with the good discipline, order, as dangerous [>ersons to allow at large.
Philip, an English engineer, who is in ed some o f the destroyers.
“ The commanders o f both the ships in fine condition, according to Mr. movements, health, safety or success
San Francisco after a stay in Russia.
German women must register, as
and destroyers go without sleep for Rude.
ful operation,” o f the American m ili German males have done, with police
The Peruvian cabinet has resigned. days at a time in order that the troops
or postmasters, on some future date to
Captain John Peterson, dean o f the tary forces.
The State department was advised shall be safe from danger.”
The bill recites that “ owing to the be determined by Attorney General
Columbia River pilots, died at Astoria
Mr. K em ey referred to the deep as the result o f a stroke o f paralysis. changes in the conditions o f modem Gregory.
Friday that Thomas Hitchcock, Jr., o f
New York, an American aviator who feeling shown by the rural population He was born in Sweden in 1856, and warfare, whereby the enemy now at
German women are forbidden to en
has been missing for some time, is a o f France about America.
tempts to attack and injure the suc ter barred zones about water fronts
was 62 years o f age.
“ Along the roadside,” he said, “ it
prisoner at Saarbrücken, in Germany.
cessful prosecution o f the war by and warehouses without special permit
is not uncommon for women and chil
W ialliam W. Hall, form erly pitcher means o f civilian and other agents anil after a date not yet determined by the
Nearly 4,000,000 pounds o f sugar, dren to kneel as our American m ilitary o f the Hood River League baseball supporters behind the lines spreading
attorney general.
said to be a record cargo, from Cuba, cars go by.
team and later a star o f other Mid- false statements and propaganda injur
German women must leave the Dis
arrived in the United States Thursday
“ In one very old church, where we Columbia teams, recently enlisted in a ing and destroying the things and util trict o f Columbia by Monday midnight,
in the hold o f an American steamship. stopped,
we found the Stars and squadron o f the Aviation Corps. In a ities prepared” for the m ilitary forces, o f they are transients, or by May 5, i f
The vessel’s captain said great quanti Stripes draped over a tablet recording letter to his father, William Hall, he the United States is constituted a part
they have lived in the district since
ties o f sugar are at Cuban ports await the names o f the parish boys who had announces that he is training as a flyer o f the zone o f operations conducted by war was declared.
None may enter
ing cargo space.
gone to the fron t.”
at a school at Hempstead, N. Y.
the enemy.
the District.
F ritz E. Lundt & Co., the oldest
German has been banished from the
Loafing Out o f Fvdiion.
French Youths Training.
W ife Pro-Hun is Charge.
trading concern in Porto Rico, has
La Grande high school curriculum by
Aberdeen,
Wash.—
Loafing
has
gone
Paris
—
The
1919
contingent
o
f
the
Bakersfield,
Cal. — Robert H. Hils-
been taken over and reorganized by
the school board, which, at the same
M. R. Spellman, representative o f the out o f vogue in Aberdeen, employment session, increased all salaries at least French army (youths o f 19 years) is cher, a C ivil War veteran, 71, has ap
agents say. They are finding on idlers
just going to the barracks to begin plied to the Superior court for a di
custodian o f alien property.
10 per cent to all teachers.
around town and few men are chang
training. Although called out a year vorce.
He charges that his w ife made
Em igartion o f Greeks from
the ing jobs by shifting from one camp or
Conditions were never before more before the usual time, these young unpatriotic remarks about the govern
Black Sea to the Caucasus, according m ill to another.
favorable for the sheep industry in men are in lietter condition physically ment and called the kaiser “ the great
to a diplomatic disptach from Greece,
About 400 men for various kinds o f Lake county than at present.
Owing than any o f their predecessors.
est man in the world.”
is assuming the character o f a general camp, mill and shipyard work are be to the exceedingly mild winter the
They are starting out in as high
The Hilschers have three sons in the
exodus. I t is stated that acts o f sav ing sought, and employment agents sheep are in as good condition as when spirits as the army did in August,
American army and a daughter is in
agery on the part o f the Turkish sol believe practically the entire number taken from the summer range last fall, 1914, shouting from the car win
France as a Red Cross nurse. Hilscher
diers and population are compelling the w ill have to be brought from outside and as a consequence the quality o f the dows that they w ill beat the Ger
alleges his w ife is o f German birth and
residents to abandon their country.
o f the Harbor district.
wool wiN be excellent.
mans.
came here when she waa 17.
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