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About The Forest Grove express. (Forest Grove, Or.) 1916-1918 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 29, 1918)
WORLD HAPPENINGS OF CURRENT WEEK Brief Resume Most Important Daily News Items. COMPILED FOR YOU Events o f Noted People, Governments mnd Pacific Northwest and Other Things Worth Knowing. The municipal council of Paris has unanimously agreed to present to Marshal Foch a sword of honor in recognition of his services. No sugar will be allowed to new commercial bakeries starting in busi ness after September 1. according to a ruling from Washington, announced at San Francisco by President McKinney, acting federal Food commissioner. Jesse Root Grant, the youngest son of the late President Grant, obtained a license at the city clerk's office in New York Monday to marry Mrs. L il lian Burns Wilkens, a wealthy widow- living at River road and Burns terrace. MOTION PICTURE ESSENTIAL Was Industries Hoard is in Line With General Crowder on Subject. Washington, D. C.— The motion pic ture industry in all its branches has been recognized as an esseutlal Indus try by the W ar Industries board. Chairmau Baruch announced Satur day that this action had been taken in line with Provost Marshal General Crowder's ruling under the “ work or figh t" regulation that the industry af- forded useful occupation. Recognition of its value in affording an educational medium for the great masses of the people, as well as a wholesome cheap means o f recreation, governed the board in placing the in dustry upon the preferred list for priority. The extensive use of motion pictures by all war recreation agen cies also was considered. The erection of new picture theat ers. however, will not be permitted during the war. Saving of materials used in the manufacture of films, sev eral of which are essential in the pro duction of explosives, w ill be effected by a ruling of the board that only one negative may be taken of each pic ture. The industry also has been called upon to Institute other econo mies in material, chiefly tin aud iron. 9 0 .0 0 0 OFFICERS NEEDED FOR ARMY NINOENOURG LINE REACHED AT POINTS British Force Road to Fenton’s Former Stronghold. BAPAUME IS ENTERED ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ STATE N E W S IN BRIEF. il W. W. Ebbetts, of Springfield, who has lost three brothers fighting with the British forces, has received word that a fourth brother hud been wound ed for the third time and was in u hospital in France. A co-operative plan for the construc tion of the city und county road to the old Fort Klamath road, via the I’elican City, north of Klamath Falls, is believed to have been reached by the city und county officials. / BACK Of GEN. HAIG British Make Substantial? Gain In Albert Region. MANY VILLAGES FALL Marshfield fishermen ami others who aro familiar with conditions pro Cavalry Successfully Precedes Infantry diet a successful, year for the flBlier English Troops Push Forward IrresUt- men on Coos bay, who have for the on W ide Front Airplanes Find ably on laines leadin g to I ra past few years seen only ordinary runs and Hoinetnnea experienced short sea Numerous Targets. tant City o f Uapaume. sons. With the British Arm y In France.— On some parts of the northern battle front the British have reached points a thousand yards front the old Hlnden- burg line, which seems strongly held. In addition to crossing the Albert- Uapaume road at many places, the British have made progresa southward for a considerable distance with the cavalry operating in front o f the in fantry. Resistance of a really strong nature seems to be slightly diminishing at many places along the battle front, but where the bulk of the Germans are retiring they have left the country vir tually seeded with single machine guns in protected positions and groups of machine guns in nests. Never before, not even during the progress o f this battle, have the air planes had such numerous targets for their bullets and bombs. t’leve Ingram and Fren Van Putten, arrested several weeka ago after Sher iff Anderson and deputies, of Baker, With the British Army lu France.— had raided their moonshine still on Victorious on a battle front of 23 upper Burnt river, pleaded guilty to having liquor in their posaession and miles extending from the Cojeul river were fined $250 each. on the north, jtcroaa the Ancro and Mrs. Sarah A. Evans, of Portland, Somme rivers almost to Llhona. the was reappointed Tuesday by Governor | Third and Fourth British armies under Wtthycombe as a member of the board Generals Byng and Dawlltison at mid- of Inspectors of child labor, and Mra. aftumoon Friday were vigorously fol Anna 7.. Crayne, also of Portland, was ! appointed a member of that bourd to j lowing up their successes of Saturday, succeed Mrs. Turner Oliver, of La which apparently had been one of the Grande. most disastrous days ever experienced It appeurs that Cooa county la likely ! by the Germans. to adopt the public nurse system, and The enemy has lost wide stretches It Is believed an order will be obtained of ground, numerous towns, and thou from the court at the September term to inaugurate the work. A meeting sands of tnen made prlsouer and large of those interested In the movement quantities of materials and guns. He was held at Coqutlle and 45 persons also again has had heavy casualties. Saturday’s prisoners exceed 3000. attended. Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria, General Charles Beebe, one of the the German communder, has thrown pioneer military men of the state, has his men In before the advancing Brit been appointed ucting adjutant-general ish armies In an effort to stave off by Governor Wlthycoinbe to succeed the Inevitable, but only to have them John M. Williams, who has resigned meet destruction before the storms of following receipt of word that he has metal which poured from the British received u inaj >r's commission in the guns. One entire enemy battalion regular army. was annihilated during the fight lug Dead Germans In great numbers One million pounds of Bartlett pears will probably be the record established are scattered everywhere over the this year for the Wallace orchard lu battle field. As an example, 400 en Polk county. Just across the river from emy dead were observed on one smell Salem. I^tst year the orchard pro piece of ground. duced 400,000 pounds. It la thought j With all this fierce fighting and not that this year's crop will yield from withstanding the fact that the British at many places have fought over open $40 to $48 per ton. ground against an enemy protected In A telegram received at Sheridan “ pot holes’’ and strong points o f other Monday night states that Andrew Ot- kinds, the British losses everywhere linger, of the 162d regiment, formerly seem to have been extraordinarily the Third Oregon, haa been killed in light. This probably Is due to the action in France. Hia parents reside confusion the Germans find reigning at Sheridan. Mr. Ottlnger was well- behind their lines, as they are fight known by nearly all Sheridan reel ing a losing battle, which for them dents and was popular among the hourly grows more disastrous. young folks. Crown Prince Rupprecht had streng Leaders of the various war work thened hip line at many places, but activities In Klamath county have e f thla, instead of stopping the British, fected an organization with a view of simply meant that the Germans suf co-ordinating the work of thelrv vari fered bigger losses. ous departments, and It is believed ! The battle was widened appreclsbly that by this means much waste labor both to the north and south, while can be eliminated. George Ulrich was the ground In the middle between selected as a Joint chairman with C. I). Albert and Beaucourt Sur-Ancre, which Chorpenlng, of the new body, and a heretofore had been fairly quiet, sud committee appointed to work out plans l denly was drawn Into the whirl. for which the organization was ef-1 fected. San Francisco.— The universities and Publishers of trade books, copyright colleges of the United States have reprints, juvenile, toy and non-copy- right books have been directed to re been called to help supply thousands of strict their output commencing Octo commissioned officers. Plans to trans- ber 1 to 25 per cent of the new titles 1 form all such educational institutions issued on the average of the last three of the west into m ilitary schools to years of their business. ! meet the need for officers were dis London, via Montreal.— Reconnolter-' Sinking of four more fishing schoon cussed here Saturday at a meeting ing patrols of British troops are en ers off the north Atlantic coast was tering Bapaume. reported Monday. Simultaneously the of the heads and other representatives It is reported that British outposts of many of these institutions with official announcement was made that have reached the fringe of Bullecourt, 1 m ilitary authorities. the Emergency Fleet corporation will Among those who addresed the which lies seven miles northwest of promptly meet the losses in the fish meetings, were President Ray Lyman Bapaume, and captured high wood ing fleet ship for ship. Wilbur, Stanford University; Rufus B. east o f Albert. A gigantic I. W. W. conspiracy aim Von Kleinsmldt, University of Arizona: ing to force a general strike of miners C. A. Dunning, Colorado College, and and lumber workers in the entire West W. J. Kerr, Oregon Agricultural Col has been thwarted by the arrest in lege. Spokane during the last week of 32 That the war department will need members of the organization, accord 30.000 officers of all ranks between ing to federal officials. now and next July for service with the Paris.— Premier Clemenceau Monday “ The fine victories of the past week army overseas and at home and that telegraphed the presidents of the gen large proportion of this number must have definitely decided the fortunes eral councils that they could rely upon of war,” says M. Clemenceau, the come from the colleges and universities the government and Marshal Foch and of the United States, was the an French premier, in a message thank his magnificent staff and the allied ar ing the departmental councils, which nouncement made at the conference tillery commanders to turn the present by Major W. R. Orton, of the general voted congratulations to the govern success of the allied arms into a com staff. ment on the trend of the war. Of this number 20,000 are urgently plete and decisive collapse of the en Airplane ambulances to carry in needed for the field artillery, 2000 for emy. “ The splendid victories of the recent jured aviators quickly from the scene the engineers and 800 for the quarter weeks,” said M. Clemenceau, “ In which of an accident to a field hospital are master’s department. to be provided at all flying fields Complete mobilization of all colleges the spirit o f our allies has so magnlfi Successful experiments have been and universities for the purpose of de cently rivaled ours, has definitely set made with the ambulance plane at veloping officer material Is necessary tled the fortune of war. The enemy, Gerstner field. Lake Charles, La. , and complete readjustment at these in bewildered, deceiving himself as to his own strength, now is finding out that General Semenoff, in charge of a | situations must be made to put them he underestimated us. force of Czecho-Slovaks numbering practically on a m ilitary basis. “ The results achieved are the first The plan contemplates the induction several thousand, has attacked and fruits of our harvest of rewards, the into the student’s army training corps defeated a Magyar-Bolsheviki force at highest o f which w ill be having de Motsievskaia, Siberia. The town was o f all men of draft age who register as livered the world from ruthless op members of the student bodies. taken and many prisoners, including a pression and brutality. large number of wounded, were cap “ We hall the dawn, the first gleams The planing mill and box factory of { tured. of which brightened the victorious the Dufur Lumber company .were de blows o f the founders of the American stroyed by fire at Dufur Sunday. A j A posse searched the hills south of republic and of the fathers o f . our warehouse containing lumber and lum Bakersfield, Cal., Monday night for revolution. The last obstacle t<f the ber piled in the yard adjoining the Frank Elario, aged 20, a halfbreed In establishment of rights among men Is mill also was destroyed, as was the dian, who ran amuck in the Tejon London.— An Important victory of about to disappear. The triumph is residence of Conrad Bllen, located In the Czecho-Slovaks In Trans Balkalla canyon and is alleged to have shot to death Alfred Yucca, aged 20; Mrs. Washington, D. C.— Skilled workers near. the same block with the mill. Mr. “ Universal co-operation toward the Blien is manager of the plant, which lias just been officially announced Francesca Lieva, aged 18, and her in the shipbuilding industry of the sister, Isabelle Yucca, aged 15. country have presented “ friendly de world's rejuvenation w ill attain the was owned locally. There was no In here. The town of Uerchnleudinsck, mands” to the labor department board ideal goal for which so many genera surance on the mill or lumber and south of Lake Baikal, has been cap The number of prisoners taken by of the Shipping board for increase in tions have been striving.” the loss of them Is about $5000. Mr tured after a battle In which the Bol the British since August 21 has reach wages to $1 an hour, double time for Blien's house was partially Insured. ed 20,000, the Petit Journal declares. shevik forces were signally defeated. all overtime, Saturday half holidays According to Le Journal three new The Fargo Orchards company, own- 1 Allied troops on tho Ussurf river throughout the year and 1 per cent German divisions have been identified bonus for all night shop work. London. — German newspapers say ing several hundred acres four miles front north of Vladivostok, outnum opposite the British. Since August 8 The present wage is approximately the situation between Spain and Ger from Aurora, will harvest 10,000 boxes j bered by the enemy, have been forced nearly 50 German divisions have been 75 cents an hour. many Is critical, but that Germany can of appleB this fall. It produced 20 j in the fighting against the British. The dollar-an-hour wage request of make no concessions with regard to tons of loganberries for Jam for the to withdraw after heavy fighting, says Expenditure by the secretary of war the skilled mechanics would affect her submarine warfare, says a dispatch army and has 45 acres of beans nearly | a dispatch to the Dally Mail from Har up to $50,000 during the present fiscal thousands of workers throughout the to the Exchange Telegraph from Copen ready for harvest. A large quantity bin dated Wednesday. of wheat and oats was also grown and British and French troops were en year for athletic goods, including base country. hagen. Before passing on the wage question balls and bats, footballs and boxing The Taeglische Rundschau admits the company has just purchased near gaged In the battle, but the brunt of gloves, as a part of the equipment of the labor adjustment board, composed the beginning of a conflict which may ly 500 Cotswold sheep to help along the fighting fell to the Cossack and The w h o le. com Czecho Slovak troops. Japanese units each regiment, would be authorized of V. Everett Macy, A. J. Beres and L. affect the positions of both Mexico and the wool supply. under a bill introduced in the house A. Coolidge w ill decide whether a Argentina. "T h e complaints of Spain munity has “ come through” In every aided In the retirement. Bolshevik monitors operating on Tuesday by Representative Siemel, of country wide basis shall be used In de mean an admission in favor of the en- war activity that has come before It. Lake Hangka are harassing the allied termining wage scales. New York. tente powers" says this newspaper, Mrs. Millie R. Trumbull, secretary left and have detained additional Cze The board today discussed the ques “and Spain’s threat means a step away More than 100 persons are reported tion of the country-wide basis, but ad from the path o f neutrality desired by of the board of child labor inspectors, cho forces. Commands are being giv to have been killed at Tyler, Minn., by journed without reaching any formal the Spanish people. The Spanish note has advised Secretary of 8tate Olcott en the Bolshevik! in German. the tornado which swept over south decision, it was said. W age scales must be considered by the German peo that the appropriation for that board eastern Minnesota counties Wednes has been exhausted. Amsterdam. -Oenej-al Pepotoff, com- heretofore have been fixed on a basis ple as an unfriendly act.” day. , t of districts, comprising shipyards In a What is believed to be the largest mander-in-chief of the Red Guard army The Lokal Anzeiger says that Spain Alpine county, the smallest in Cali few states. A ll o f these adjustments must acknowledge the conditions which single shipment that has ever come In the Murmansk region, Is a prisoner fornia, w ill be governed exclusively by are for six months and the last will compelled Germany to resort to sub through the malls to the Oregon City in the hands of the allies, says a Pe- women officials, with the single ex terminate in October. postoffice was received Wednesday by trograd dispatch to the W ezer Zeltung marine warfare. ception of sheriff, after January 1, ac the Hawley Pulp & Paper company. of Bremen. He was caught by peasants while at cording to the present outlook. Hun Grain Outlook Poor. Madrid. — El Liberal Monday an The shipment, which was a consign Washington, D. C.— Discussing the nounced that negotiations were pro ment of dyestuffs, weighed 4000 pounds tempting to flee and handed over to Official confirmation was available food situation in enemy countries Food ceeding for a commercial loan between and cost $600 to ship from New York the British. in Madrid Thursday of reports current Russian Red Guards, after the cap Administrator Hoover Monday said Spain and the United States. to Oregon City. recently that Spain will take over ture of Simbirsk on the Volga, accord Germany’s prospects for grain from “ Spain,” the newspaper says, “ is- German ships in retaliation for the Articles of Incorporation of the Asto ing to a Moscow dispatch to the Ham Ukraine did not materialize. The opening a credit of 300,000,000 or 600,- sinking of Spanish craft by TJ-boats. stock of grain in Germany, he said, Is 000,000 pesetas, the United States giv ria Home Builders’ company were filed burg Nachrlchten, publicly hanged In W hile the Food administration asks about the same as last year. Austria’s ing as a guarantee the signatures of In the county clerk’s office Friday. the market place 300 Czechoslovak the country to curtail the consumption condition is not quite so good In this American firms exporting cotton to The Incorporators aro H. H. Burtt, F. prisoners. The hangings, it Is declared, were a of beef, the cattle men of the Porter respect according to information avail Spain. With this credit the United h Turrlll and W. A. Roth and the ville, Cal., district are having difficulty able. Roumania and Bulgaria, he said, States w ill be able to purchase in capital stock Is $10,000. The company reprisal for “ atrocities" committed In in disposing of their late fall grass both exporters of grain, are now with Spain some o f the products necessary Is said to have purchased a tract In the town during Its occupation by the out grain even for their own use and for its army in France without the the Scow Bay district on which It will Czechs. steers. Germany must supply both countries necessity of changing dollars Into pe erect about 15 residences at once. In recognition of the assistance ren or let them starve. Nine Fly Acroaa Channel. setas and thus avoiding the reduction Several Portland manufacturers now dered the wounded in France by the employing women as a w artim e In exchange. * j London.— A large British airplane workers of the Salvation Arm y on W ar Stories Are Wanted. “ Ambassador W illard and other emergency have petitioned the Indus carrying its crew and nine passengers duty there, the United States Steel Washington, D. C.— Relatives and American officials have had several trial W elfare commission for authority has made the trip from France to Corporation has sent $100,000 to the friends of marines fighting in France Interviews with the members of the to employ women on the night shifts. England, It Is announced here Satur arm y’s war work committee. were called upon by Marine corps Spanish government, and It is believed Under previous rulings of the com day. The whole Journey occupied lit Th e need of conserving peach seeds headquarters to forward letters de that the basis of agreement has been mission this class of employment at tle more than half an hour. The teat t>r pits, apricot pits, plum pits, prune scribing interesting incidents at the reached. The Interest payable on the night has not been allowed, but a was made with an ordinary service pits, hickory nuts, walnuts and butter front so that they may be Incorporated loan has been the subject of discussion. public conference probably w ill be airplane of the largest type. The nuts fo r use in making carbon for gas in the permanent records of the corps. America offers to pay the balance re held at some early date that the ques passengers carried the normal amount masks is urged in a statement by the Where desired the letters will be co maining on the loan In Mexican gold tion may be more carefully consid of baggage as If traveling by train gas division of the United States army. pied and returned. on the day o f liquidation.” ered. or boat. WAR TIDE TURNED. SAYS CLEMENCEAU CZECHO-SLOVAKS WIN VICTORIES SHIPWORKERS ASK DOLLAR AN HOUR Spain Near Break With Hun.