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you vn No. ano. k S v ' isiii 4 DAILY EDITION GRAsTTf PAgeX, . MMBFBUni OOCJTTT, OREGON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1M7 WHOLE HVMBEB S154). LABOR'S AID ! JTflOOPS FUSUED ; IS PLEDGED FETBp'SI 10 COUNTRY HKW OIUUMZATION IH FORMED AT MINNKAPOLIM WITH (MM. I'KIW AT HEAD W0rJ(MEII TO SUPPORT WAR tJueaper aad WaUh Flay I'arlfUu aa Traitura In America end IH naaml Vnlite for Democracy Minneapolis, Minn., Sept. T. 8amuat UomiMtni, presUent or Ihe American Federation of .Ubnr. w today elected president or tha Am erican Alliance for Ibor and Dcm eracy. Resolution were adopted pledging the aspport of labor to the CeilM of democracy, deaouooing the pa cifists and demanding thai all work ra aupport the president. A com lalltae was appointed to convey l the RuMlaa democracy greetings of good will with tha declaration that Um saw organisation's purposes were Identical with those of tha Ituaalan rapubllc. Mr. tiomiwr. la an addrea that waa tha keynote or the gathering, declared that a dlacuealon or peace twrma at thla time waa tralloroua to the I'nliad Slataa. "To talk or Miara taraia," ha aald, t Via to play Into tha handi of tha aoemy, aa a ay peace at thla time nuat be predicated o Carman eon aala. . ' Aa ha concluded I ha statement tha audlanra aroaa and ahoutad' ap proval Funk P. Welsh, temporary chair in ao ot tha convention, aroaad an (himlaam when ha daclarad that no political party, cult or propaganda Would ba permitted to uaa tha or Caalaatlon, but that behind "our treat leadnr In Waahlmtton wa may sweep our aruilee to, a vlolorlode peace." very delegate to lba convention Mora being aeatad signed piedia to atand while tha war laata loyally and faithfully behind tha govern ment. Kvery speaker ridiculed tha pretensions of tha people's paac counoll for tertua of aaoa of dem ocracy. Kvery reference lo labor giving Ita all In tha atruggt . for democracy waa cheered oclfrualy. , Twenty-two atataa ara rrpreafcuted in tha convention. Tha one Idoa ex pressed ao far la that llta war iuiihI ba carried on and thai all time) who aaak lo drag. In ouuiilo touts to confine tha war Mtiiatloa .intuit 1m considered traitor o tha 1'uHod Statea. tmitam.L MOVIK I'LASNKIt U'AH I'KTUIK 8t K.YtlllO , tandnn, Aug. 14. t By mail) Winston Churchill, minister of mu nition, has, for the time bolng l least, lost the chance of fame a a aaovle scenario writer. He had a contract to write the atory of the origin of the war for a film produc ing company, but hi appointment to the cabinet forced him to aban don the project COAST ARTILLERY Camp tjewls, Sept. 7. The aenr 'city of light field artillery tin In duced the war diopnrtment to con vert most of the cnaiit artillery Ittlo fluid artillery, Thla change nioitn (hat 1,1500 member of the new na tional or my reporting here will ho trained nt I'ugut Round fori, (IIh Wiiclng an equal number of mem hers of const nvllllnry companies who will bn ulilfted to IIiIh ciimp ti"' l lennlve training n field RptUloiy tinlla, !, Jluaalaiia Hrlngtag l p , Many Mvl aMma to Drfrad Nation's Capital Kroi Oncoming Teutons ralrograd, Sept. 7. -Petrograd la preparing for a Carman attack. Troop, are being ruahad through tha oily to meet tha advancing Germane. Rad jilauarda ara acaUared every where throughout tha city demand ing (hat all Ruaalana do their duty. Apparently the populace or tha dty la not alarmed although reporu from the front atate that the Ger mane ara continuing thalr advance. Official dlnpatche from tha front reported the arrival In tha Gulf of Klga or a fleat or German warahlne. whoee guna preeiimahly were co otMiratlng' with the Teutonic land forcoaln the drive. The war office anrouncad funner ratlreinanta In thla lector today. No mention waa made of actual fight ing there. London. 8ept. 7. It la thoughU hare that Germany may he planning a naval bombardment of Pairograd. A targe fleet of etrbmarlnea, deetruy era, mine aweeperg, erulenra and warnhlpa are miorted In the eaitern end or the Paltlc aea. Tha fleet li today reported at the entrance or the Oulf of Finland. 100 uil from PvtroflBti.- (jMMAMH ItOMII IIOHI'ITAI, KILL AMI WOf .M AMKKICAXH With the ItrUleh HeadquarUra in Kranc, Bepl. 7. An American of ficer waa killed and five luemtera of bli itaff wounded in a deliberate tierman bombardment Tueaday of an American hoapltal along the French front. Ten fallen ti were alao Injured. Tha dead officer waa a medical man attached to the Harvard unit. One of tha wounded waa a 8t. Loula man. MOS CO.- ROAD TO BE BUILT Rosehurg, Sept. 7. Members of Ihe Douglas county court are hav ing plana and specifications prepar ed , for the Improvement or the lloseburg-Odyrtle Point road, trvra Camas valley to the Cooa oounty line. Thla la a distance of eight mile. With the completion of thla unit, tha Roseburg-Myrtle Point road will be available to traffic during 'all tlmee of the year.,. The money needed for the Improvement of thla road will be taken rrom the county bond which were voted by the .people at an election held last June. E HELPS BEET GROWERS Under the terms or the rood con trol bill, Dlredtor Hoover recently fixed the price of sugar at 17.2(1 per hundred pounds. This meana about 17.75 nt Granta Pass. The price, although a little lower than that which, has prevailed for the past few menth, insures good prices to the growers of atignr beets. With the profit sharing plan an nounced 'by ..the' ' Utah-Idaho Sugar company local beet growera will obtain if or their next season's crop, an average of about 19 per ton. The . tjlnn calls ifor the company paying The grower 17 per ton when the beet are delivered to the rec tory. After the cost of production Is figured out, the profits nre dlvld 0(1, 'the, company, taking the flrat dollar pnr 100 pounds end the bal ance la divided GO-BO with the grow er. ,Jhle.ecpnt,payiiient will come In along In February or March. , , Var Deprtetst k&ml Tbt Gcrcssy is Gettrg Wed 4a l!ia Power. Largs Arc;, Wiii Aerobes, Rcs&ed to Frct WEI Tern Tdt tt Wr Waahlngton, Sept. 1. The war dfpartment'e program, according to reliable Information received today, falla for 2,000,000 men In actual eervke and training by the middle of nexueummer. Another draft of 500,000 man la planned aomatlme thla winter. The dapartment ex pacta to have 1,500,000 men under arms fey Oc tober 10, If aufllclent equipment and accommodation can tie obtained by that time. All of the departments eatlmatea aaked of congreee by Sec retary Baker have been granted by the houae appropriation committee on the aaau rapt Ion that the prealdent will call out the number of men provided' for In the above pre gram. Thla meana two draft of about 687,000 each during tha neat ten monlha. Today . tha total atrengtb of the American land forcea la only 710,000. - . ' : Aaauralng It will be ncjoeeary to examine at laaat 1,000,000 men to All each contingent of 087,000 re eruita, It la certain the Brat 4.000, 000 man now atanding on Cncle Sam'a aelectlve service register will ItulliUJlO If wroumiMTOOT Washington, Sept. 7. Romance, myatery and peril blend in tremen doua teak or "the army ahead or the army" which today la biasing a trail to the French front for Amer- ica'a million men. It'a a job for the engineer; and It meana that every etep of the bar ren way from French port to French front muat be modernised into an elongated . American city. , First off, they muat macadamise the highway, every foot or It. And over an area of several milea in the vicinity ot the port and behind the front an Intricate ayatem of per fectly paved atreete and avenues must be 'built. ' Winding Its and around both these term) nale the'englneera are fash ioning a complicated ayatem ot rail roads, both narrow and standard gauge, for switching, transferring and caring for troops and auppllea Connecting these two web la a ribbon of track paralelllng the ml lea or paved road, with branches and spurs shooting off here and there on both aldea. .. Every tie, every rail, every eplke, every engine and every car for thla ayatem of railroads, la being taken from thla country. Not one bit ot material, not a alngle man, Is be ing supplied by France. Great wooden camp cities are rising at both ends of thla , line. Power houses, permanent repair gang camps, houses for maintenance af way officials, water reservoirs will he strung out along the line and at the terminals. . The lumber for these""atructures la helnl hewen from the forests of France by regiments of American foresters. Other reglmenta are re building and enlarging docks and wharves at the port of arrival, and dredging and opening new ap proaches In the bay tor the big gray transports, Sawmills carried rrom America are springing up In the FTonch for est. . American-made well digging machine dot the line of communi cation. . Electric light plant , are blossoming forth to supply the trendies, dugouts, atorehouses and cantonments with Illumination, In cluding searchlights, trench llghte, glare light apparatus and great piles or Mar bombs and rifle grenades.' But none ot thla complicate aya1- have to undergo examination within tha neat year. Aa 10,000,000 reglateredl thla wHl till leave aome (,000.000 for future drafta., x ' The date for the eecond draft haa not been fixed, aa It depend entire ly upon the a peed with which the re cruit of the flrat draft can fee trained and the rapidity with which the regular and the national guard are aent to France. If troop are aent to France aa rapidly aa now aeema probable, leaving their caapa and barracks vacant. It will not -be nanaaaary to wait until ihe recrolta of the flrat draft are out of the canton menu before' the- eecond la called. In that eaae, it la poaelble examination of the eecond draft will begin early In till.. It la algnlflcant of tha Increaaing earneatneaa wtb which the admlole traton la making Ita war plana that while In April the war department expected to have only 45,482 officer and 1.072,908 men under arma be fore June, 11(, during the laat month the plana have been almost doubled to provide for more than 2.000.000. t )e vui Dime mine ILL MIL nUrtlW teut of communication and approach muat be visible to the enemy. It must all be dug In, buried or con cealed by camouflage. The high ways muat be neutralised In color to blend with the landscape. The railroad tracka muat not glisten. All buildings must be half burled In the ground and the above ground portion disguised with buahea and abruba and neutral colorings until they are Invisible. ' Thla la where the American artist doee bla bit. A number of. wef! known American masters of eelor- combinations are -employed to pre cede the engineen- and study out the problems of obscuring our opera tions, our troops and artillery and our lines of communication from the enemy. The actual work will be done by American sign painters and soldiers trained In (he craft RUSSIAN M. PUN San Francisco, Sept7. Fifteen thousand picked Chinese troops have been mobilised for transfer through Siberia to the Russian battlefront, there to help the Russians etem the German tide, according to censored dlspatchee received by the Chinese Dally World from Ita Shanghl cor respondent. , According to the dla patoh made public today, the troops Include many engineers educated In American universities. V- ., SPUING WHEAT CROP SHOW IMPROVEMENT . Washington, Sept. ,7 The condi tion, ot the spring wheat crop on September 1, as announced by re ports to "the agricultural depart ment waa-71.2, compared with 48.6 for. the ear previous and 74.0 for a ten year average. The condition on August 1 was 68.7. Rome, Sept. 7. 'A successor la shortly to auccoed Monstgnor Bon xano ha papal delegate to the United Statea, according to a report cur rent here today. Xo reasons were given.'. . , .' , NEVER DEFEAT TOOTHS Lloyd-George Aaaerta That Anaratl cm Record Win Reanaln Perfect. , ' Expect Rom la to Eaeerge Birkenhead, Eng., 'Sept. 7. Pre mier Uoyd-George, In an addreaa de livered here today, declared that America never knew defeat aad that on thla oeoaaion aba will triumph aa heretofore. The great crowd llatenlng to him applauded bla aa- aertlon thnnderoudy. The premier admitted that the Ruaatea situation waa disquieting. but declared that he had complete confidence In the ability of the Rus sian leader to repair the damage done. He spoke of the - Russian revolution aa merely postponing the all lea' victory. In re-He rating Brit ain's defiance In tha Germen'e sub marine campaign, be declared that be waa abaolutely confident the tub- marine would never be able to lea sen the effective fighting strength of the alllee. SOLDIERS' HOmE ROAD Soeeburg. Sept 7. The diOcul ties Into wfcloh the atate blgbwy commission bumped when It voted to pave the road between the city limits ot Roaeburg and the ; sol diers' home seem .about to be dis pelled by the action of the Douglaa county court which yesterday ad- rertiaed for bida for building thla atretch of road at the county' ex pense. The Improvement will coat about l4.08vThe bida .will be, open ed September 18. , ' ' AVIATOR WILL GIVE 1 FAIR VISITORS THRILL Twin Falls, Ida., Sept 7. Fred DeKor, an aviator, will give those attending the South Idaho fair here September 20 a real taste of war. Flying high In the air, he will drop Immftatloa bombs on the fair grounda. BUTTE vmmy n;;Gs unsafe Butte, Mont, Sept 7. The safety- first devices installed in (he nilnea in this district are a farce and the shaft are now unaafe for the min ers toat today la the charge of the striking minora In their official pub lication, the Strike Bulletin. "The miners appreciate any move that la made that would hare a ten dency to make working conditions safer for them, but the record of the company can only show that a greater loss of lite haa resulted since some of their silly safety rules have been established." the Bulletin declares. , : s "Any miner will tell you how the foremen and shift-bosses exert them selves to-have places fixed up only, when the safety first man la going to, visit the mine of which they have charge." Today's issue of the bulletin ex presses renewed confidence of a striker's victory. The mining companies claim that everything possible haa been done to safeguard the Uvea ot the miners. DEPENDENT PARENTS AUROAD NO EXEMPTION CLAl'BE .Portland, Sept. 7. Dependent parents In foreign lands cannot he used successfully In. dependency claims by drafted men, the district exemption board ' ruled here today. Two Greeks filed formal notice or dependent father to whom, they said, they sent money regularly. The parents, (he drafted mn explained, were In Oreece. ' j . The claims were refused and the men certified Into the national army, won KB IDS STATE COMMISSION AUTHORIZES SECOND ISSUE CALLING FOS BtDt pw.ii:eie:.::::ed Ask Federal Aid oat Pacific Highway Which Is Bom of CowteUosv Appeal Made to Balem. Sept 7 .The aUU high way eommiaaioB aad the local dis trict engineer of the United Statea office of public road are at logger heads ovr an Interpretation of the post road co-ope ration law. The) atate commlasioa baa asked federal co-operation oa two projects, botk being parts of the Pacific -highway. One la grading 10.8 miles betweea Myrtle Creek and Ditlarsf Im Doug las county. It will eliminate the) Roberta Hill grade oa which several fatalities have occurred this . year The other la grading 4.s mile of the Wolf Creek bin in Josephine county. . '''"',. . '- According to the estimate, the Douglas county project will- cost I17J.448, which is to M borne la equal Share by the atate aad national goveramentai. ',' The eattmate on the Josephine county project Is 183,600, of which the, government will ' be .aaked , to contribute 41,800. . ' ', , ' Owlag; to these differeacea. It Is probable- that the matter trRI hare to go to the secretary of agriculture for settlement and to bring the Blat ter properly -before that official, state highway commission today formally asked .federal ' aid on ( ' theae two pieces of construction. -V - ' It Is held by the atate highway commission that If tha construction put upon Jhe law by the local fed eral engineer ahoqld obtain, the re sult would 4e that there could be ao co-operation with the national gov ernment on the mala highways of the state.' ('"''.;"' The state highway ; commlasioa will open bids September 12 for an other Mock . of atate '. road - bonds amounting to $500,000. Thla will make a total Issue this year' of 000,000. the amount authorised 'by the $6,000,000 "bond law adopted laat June. Like the previous $500, 000 issue It Is not expected that 'a par bid will,' be received for the bonds which bear four per cent in terest, but It la thought that a little better price will be obtained than waa bad on the other laaue which netted approximately $470,000. ' ' The commission definitely locat-' ed the route of the Columbia high way between Hood River aad Sher man county. In the former county. the route la known as tha river loca tion Instead of a route fire miles longer which would run through tha Hood Hiver valley proper. The short er route was chosen on account ot the aavlng In paving cost. In Sherman county, It haa 'been . decided that the highway ahall run by way of Sherman, Wasco and. Mac- -Donald's ferry to Arlington on con dition that a bridge Ml erected by the county at MaeDonald'a ferry. TWENTY-1W0 JAILED IN OKLAHOMA PLOT Rngllng, Okltt.. Sept. 7. Twenty- two men charged with conspiracy against the government, are held In the federal Jail at Chtckasha today, having been transferred overnight from the jail at Waurlka. They are charged -with an attempt to defeath the federal draft law. Federal authorities said . they hatt planned to do much damage. . In cluding the proposed burning of the Rock Island bridge. '
