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mm DAILY EDITION -j No Other Town in the World the Size of Grants Pass lias a Newspaper With Full Leased Wire Telegraph Service , VOL. VII- 10, 141. GIUXT8 PASS. JOBKPHINK COUXTY, OREGON. SUNDAY, APRIL 15, 1017 WHOLE XI' MB KB 202S. ARGENTINE NOW CLAMORS FOR WAR ON KAISER KINKING OK VESSEL t XIKH HE Pl'IIUCS FLAG AHOIHK8 THR Pt'HLIO NEWS IS CAUSE OF EXCITEMEHT Kiixtlrd to Hollow l"H and Hand (Jti-nuui Minister Hit Pauperis Buonoe Aires, A Hill 14. With Drwll on the verge of war with Ger many after diplomatic rupture. Boli via diplomatically levered from Ber lin. Argentine wti swept by an antl- German eentlment today that teemed ( likely to reault In a diplomatic break ibetwoen Butnot Alret and Berlin. The wildcat excitement followed receipt of newt laat nlxht of the sink Inn 1 a German lubmirlne of the Argentine tailing vessel Mont Prote gld. Tbe first prediction of reaponalble official! waa that .Argentine would follow Orsill's example In handing the German minister hit passports, but the cabinet deferred action until tatt today. In the meantime M waa kM that Argentina would probably deride not to go further at this time than to register a harah protest to Berlin. The Mont Preteglda, while tech nlchally of Argentina regliter, wat really owned by Itatlan-Brailllan In tereats and her crew waa entirely Norwegian. "Germany ajid Argentina are at perfect peace," Prealdent Irlgoyen de clared today In tplte ot the prevail ing excitement. Pro-ally aupporter announced a formal entl-Oorman . demonstration to be held lata today. A demonstra tion of prominent Axgentlnos cslled on American , Ambassador Btlmson ' and presented him with a declaration of sympathy with the United States In Its position toward Germany. The Buenos Aire Herald printed today an unconfirmed report that the Argentine steamer Orlsno had been sunk. Bratll clapped on a tight cable, telegraph and postal censorship to day, while speeding up n all war preparations. Bolivia, s expected, followed Bra Ill's example and broke relations with Germany. CHICAGO FLOUR PRICKS SHOW BIG INCREASE I,, Chicago, April 14. Th abnormul fit In th grain market of the past week hat been brought bom forci bly to Chicago consumer by steadily Increasing retail and wholesale price In flour. Today's quotation at gro cery stores brought th Increase for th week about twenty per cent. Twenty-four and one-half pound sacks retailed at '11.65 against II. St a week ago. Wholesale pricea In barreled flour advanced to 11 1.(0 an advance of nearly twenty-fire per eent sine the first ot th week. THE KAISER HAS NOT FLED TO HOLLAND , London, April 14. denial that the kaiser wss In Holland, was contained In a dispatch from the Rotterdam cor respondent ot th Dally Telegraph to day. The Hague dlapatcb had carried Tumors that th. kaiser had arrived, or vat about to arrive at Ctstle Mid dachten, near Arnhelm, Holland. GERMAN FIRE AT IS IU-Mmix' of the Teutonic force In the West U Ineffective Ag-lnM the Allied Hush With the British Armies In France April 14. Iens must fall soon to the Canadian. It occupation was deemed only a matter of a very short time todsy. Oerman resistance was growing more and more desperate with each hour that Field Marshal Halg shoved his men, forward. But the realstsnce was Ineffective against the power ful British blows. Todsy Vlmy ridge was atlll shelled from sfar by Oerman guns, as wer other positions. But everywhere the Teutonic artillery waa shooting excitedly rather than methodically. It was erratic, not sccurat. British force were steadily gaining command of all high ground villages and other vantage polnta a they pro- gresed astride th Htodertburg line. Today ven th spreading plain be low Vlmy ridge, from which lns waa directly menaced, wss being ab sorbed. . The Canadians continued pressing on down th Vlmy elopes, occupying Ptll Vtar. Qtmchy and th Btlll'U, railway station. im n can supply r;i Washington, April 14. Millions of shells many time more than th navy need can b produced by th big munitions plants of th United 8Ute, at shown by projectile bldi Made puJbtle today. Th navy asks cstimatea on a total ot 1,671,000 projectile of all sites, of which 1,170,000 wer on poun ders. Each of eleven companies out of St submitting figures offered to tak np th entlr order to th email shells, while each of six companies offered to tak np th entire order of three and four-lnoh projectile. In brief, thla mean the navy could get mllllona of one pounder and a atream ot from 2G.000 to 80,000 of the giant shells, a month after de livery began. Among the typical large bidders were the Bridgeport Projectile com pany, the Bethlehem Steel company, Baldwin locomotive worka and Bir mingham Machine and Foundry com pany, the Ingersoll-Rand company and the Poole Engine 4k Machine company of Baltimore. L BE BY U. S. Washington, April 14 Putting Russia "on her feet" la the outstand ing tssk of America and her alllea. It It occupying the eonstant atten tion ot tbe government on the eve ot a series of great war council here and abroad. Th Insidious German inrtuence which had begun lo devltaflxe the atructure ot the Russian regime will be met by the United States' with physical, moral and financial sup port on a large scale. , This work will constitute one of the most Important things to be con sidered by the commissions soon to convene In this country. The first step will be sending to Russia a group of prominent men to assist the new government to build on a rock bot tom. These men will be picked from the military, naval and business de partments of this nation. 1 Similar commissions will lb sent by th United States to other silled countries, the purposs all being to vitalise all th great pending efforts as to crushing Germsn autocracy. villi ERRATIC First Move For the Defeat cf House In Making Available Billions For Aid cf Allied Nations Now At War With Germany Wsthlngton, April 14. The United States government today took the first big step In Its program of co operation with the alllea to overthrow Prussian autocracy. The bouse, with out a dissenting vote, paated the f 7. 000,000,000 bond Issue bill, provid ing the loan of f 1,000,000,000 to na tions now at war against Germany. It la the greatest single bond Issue In history and gives President Wilson and Secretary McAdoo unrestricted powers which make them the premier money lender of the world. The only member of the houae present who did not cast an "aye" vote waa Meyer 'London, soclallat. of New York. He anawered "present. The "ayea" were 111. By virtue of amendments the al lied loan may be given only to eoun trie at "war with Germany and no money which may remain in the treasury at th end of th war may be loaned out. " Mlas Jsannette Rankin, congress woman from Montana, voted ''aye." Her vote wat given without Incident. Speaker Clarke voted thing he seldosewtooa and vwted "eye." .... '. An amendment by. Congressman Fltsgerald. New Tork, to reduce from one-fifth of one per cent to one tenth of one per cent the proportion of the bonda that may be need for floating expenses, wat adopted. The bill will now go to the senate. There were no dissenting votes on the first roll call. It too less thsn 15 minutes to complete It. The hill provide that non of th bonds shall sell at less than par. Tbe loan to the alllea must be made dur ing and not after the war and no part of K oaa go to a nation not at war with Germany. There wat scarcely a tremor of excitement over the passage of the hlstorlo measure. There wat no more stir than if some routine matter, this raising of seven billion dollars by a single stroke. . The roll waa completed without a dissenting vote. Two republican amendments sponsored by Congressman 'Lenroot, Wisconsin, were written Into the bill this hticrnoon. One provides that the loan to the .allies must be made during and' not after the war and to the other that the foreign loan of 13,000.000,000 can be made only to a nation at war with Germany. The houae rejected amendments relstlng to the denomination and ma turity of the bonds and refused to Curb the power of Secretary Mc FINANCIAL r X Pr xlVi iff 1' Ms. . r tgJn Vs Prussbnlsa Is Taken By Adoo and Prealdent Wilson to hsndle these matters. It also rejected amendments by Congressman Sloan and Green to name a commission of the house and senate to co-operate and ad viae tbe president to making the losn to the allies. A suggestion that Mexico might demand a loan of the United States If the bill did not specify nstlons to which funds might be loaned was made (by Congressman Glllett. "I would hate to tee the adminis tration exposed to a request for a subsidy from Mexico," said Glllett. A committee amendment giving Secretary McAdoo authority to deter mine the time for repayment of the allied loan waa adopted unanlmoualy. An smendment by Sloan,' Nebraska to permit $1,000,000,000 of the loan to rua only for two years a sub stitute for the Moore smendment waa defeated. The houae adopted an amendment by Kltchln providing none of 'the bonds shall be offered to aohscriptlon at lees than par. Comstock, Indiana, in his maiden speeA' drew aharp criticism from Sherley, Kentucky, when he attacked the French foreign legion.' Sherely denied th legion was composed, ss Comstock charged, of "soldiers of fortune." Keating, Colorado, suggested modi fications of the postal savings sys tem, Including an Increase In Inter eat rate from two to three percent and an Increase In Inheritance taxes and a tax on land values, not only for war but as a permanent means of raising revenue. ; BILL l DELAYED BY, ! REPRESENT ATItK GREENE Waahlngton, April 14. The ad ministration bill to permit the sllles to open recruiting ststlons In this country to enlist their cltlsens fail ed temporarily in the house Isle to day, when Representative Greene Objected to Representative Webb's request for unanimous request for ita consideration. LEIPZIG SHOPS WRECKED IX HKIUOl'8 POOD RIOTS London, April 14. An Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Laussnne. Switserland, today told ot kerioua food riots In Mannheim and Lelpilg. Four thopt In Lelpxlg are aald to have been wrecked. PROBLEM. "tsrryman in Washingtsn Stsr. HAIG CAPTURES GRQUI1D III WEST HrltlKh Wedge Is Thnut eJo tbe German Lines and Many Knemy Positions Are Taken London, April 14. Suddenly turn ing the point of his drive from around Arras, Field Marshal Halg last night smashed his men forward far to the south, around St. Quentin and ad vanced at Fayet within two miles of the city. "Fayet, northwest of St. Quentin, waa carried during the night; alao the Important positions of Ascension farm and Grand Prlel farm," tbe British commander reported today. But at Halg struck fiercely around St. Quentin there was no diminution during the night of the British as sault around Arras "astride the Hindenburg line," as Halg reported It last night. "To the north of the Scarpe the enemy waa compelled to yield further. We seised Vlmy station. La Chan dlere and positions si Fosse Dix and Buquet Mill, between Givncby-er- Goshelle and Angrea. Enemy guna taken Include four 8 inch howltxers. . Tn boasted Hinden brifc line wss cruraMIng today In the pulverising assaults of Field Mar shal Halga British army around Ar ras. !ns. northern pivot point ' of the ret rest, started a month ago by the Germans to the Hindenburg line, seemed likely to fall' very 'shortly. ' British force have driven a wedge above It to thenort svronad Loos, wall today's battle front dispatches Indicated ao let-no1 la the sweep for ward from the Vlmy ridge, which meana another encircling arm shoved forward to the south of the city. It wss on this southern drive 'thet' the British made probably their greatest advance in the present "push," ac cording to full details received here today. The ground gained was approxi mately two miles over a front of about 11 mile. Prediction waa free ly expressed" her that the Germans must now retreat to the supplemen tary rear line of the "Hlndnburg line" front,' estimated by military experts to ran from Droucourt down to Queant. If they do not.' the Hin denburg line may be tnrned around Lent. DEFECT IV BILL MAY cost pormAxi) $10,600 Portland April 14. A' missing word may cost Portland 110,000. The Orion act, passed by the last legtslsture providing for division of costs of Joint city, county and state elections, tailed to mention "special elections" in particular. Therefore, Portland win be . forced to hold a separate election ' from ' the "general state vote June 4 although the stats hss a special election on that day. FEW MEN EXUST ON FRIDAY THE 18TH Portland, April 14. Army and navy Officers discovered today why re cruiting was so slack yesterday.- It waa Friday the 11th. Only 15 men enlisted In the navy here yesterday, as compared with 71 the day before. Wednesdsy 105 men Joined the army and Thursday, (0, but on Friday only 4S enlisted. THREE JAPJCRUiSERS wtsliloli San Francisco, April 14. Three Japaneae erulaera, under command of Admiral Ichlsem Yamajl has been di rected by the Jspanese government to keep with the American Aelstlc squadron, according to a cable from Toklo today, printed by the Jan- aneae-Amerlcsn newspaper. The pa per saya the cruisers Ivumo, Nlsshln and Toklwa have been assigned to this duty. MAY 01 DRY TO lltlHAR ATTKMPT EXPECTED 1ST CON GRESS TO CARRY PROHIBI- , TlOJf AS WAR MEASURE - STOP MilG OF All UOJIIE Would Save Millions of Baahela of Grain for Use mm Food Says , : Dr. Wiley Washington, April 14. America's "bl push" for food may wipoont her breweries and distilleries. Taking ad vantage of the threatened food short- , age, throughout the world and de mand on the American farmer to feed not only the United States, but her' ante, the "drya" la congress are preparing, to launch . a , apeotacnlar drive for "war prohibition." ; , Plans for the effort have been com pleted ' and will be enounced early next week. " '-' ' c The porpose Is to atop the teams factnre.'Of all liquors amd beers, ia the, .United . Statea, at least for. the period of the war, thereby diverting mllllona of bushels of grain Into food channel.' " -, ,'".; . Those behind the movement de clare that. v more, than, six. maudied million bushels of gtala woaM, h saved by dosing' the beer ad ' whis key plante. 'v ' hTha4V enough to feed 11.00.00 -people," Dr. "Wiley.' pure food expert aid today. i.,t,t. ''.- .n-f-ff "It't uffldent to feed the whole nation -for a month,", said, Senator Sheppard, father of the national pro hibition amendment. ! i And heaidet,r tney aay. that thous ands of men 'bow working la brew-v eries and distilleries woald be re leased for other occupation. r . Chairman Lever, of the house agri culture committee,' favors the plan. It is given Impetus by ' agrlcUltaral expert -who have been working the food problem. - '., ?" . : ,i v .The movement baa gained, such momentum that distillers themselves are making overture to eongreu, of fering to' restrict their output so at to release at least 18,000.000 bushels of grain annually for food. ,, a . This offerr however. It Korned by E. O. Dinwiddle, chairman ot the leg islative bureau of .the anti-liquor forces here. He saya the distillers and brewers today are Overstocked with grain and "for business reasons" are willing to reduce their grain de mands for the coming year. . Representative Randall, "dry" says: 'War prohibition la Inevitable. For ty-four percent of barley, two per cent of corn and It) percent of th ry raised In thla country are being need In the manufacture of alcohollo li quor." Congressman Howsrd believes President Wilson should not and will not wslt tor congress to act on th matter to any , attempt . to fore through "dry" measures now under the guise ot "wsr emergency" meas ure. Military officer say that so tar aa th military establishment It eoa cerned there is no need of any pro hibition legislation. SOCIALIST LEADERS OFF FOR STOCKHOLM Amsterdam, April 14. Th social ist leaders, Adler, Naberger t and Haas, are accompanying : Philip Scheldemann to Stockholm, accord ing to Berlin dispatches today. These four socialists, granted special pass ports, tre supposed to meet respons ible Russian envoy In th Swedish capital and Berlin hints that they may later proceed to Petrograd to further the aoclallsts' peace plana.