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VOU VIII., No. 10)1.
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REPUBLICAN
COMMITTEE
IS PLANNING
ORKAT MUVK TO KIJOIT A RV
W IW40AX tXIXORKHM AT MKXT
KLKtTlOX
TO HOLD HATIONAL COHFEREHCE
ronfrrnr lo Be MnMMNd "f Na
tional and HUU rtrtnmllterwien,
ttaagte im aad UorrrorB
, Chicago. Feb. II. Will II. Haye.
f Indiana, th republican na
tional chairman, kaa a big propor
tion In rontamplatlon. It It likely
to develop Into tin Oral big and con
crete move that ha will maka to elect
a republican congress In Novembar
and a repifbllcan president In I CO.
Tba ldia, lo eubstaere, la to hart
tha republican national committee
rait a nstlon-wlde conference, to ba
held aom tlmo In April, probably In
Phli ago, Tha purpoM will ba, If
turh a session la summoned, lo hava
a free and full discussion of nation
al politic) nfalra and. If found ad
rliabla. to prapara a statement that.
In affaot. would ba tha republican
national platform adjusted lo eondl
tlona that hava arisen alnca tha Chi
cago convention of UK.
Tha statement would ba In accord
with tha "clean-sweep" policy
adopted at St. Lou la recently, when
Mr. Kara waa electad chairman.' and
tha executive eompaltn and advla
iry committee Of the Hughe ram
palm were eliminated. ',',., -
It la nndaratood that the men who
would be eiperted to alt In inch a
conference would bis member of the
republican national committee, chair
men of tha republican atata com
: mlttee of tha varlona atatea, all of
tha republican United Stale aenat-
or and -republican member of the
' house of represenUtlve. and tha re
publican governor of atatea.
Tha tentative plan of action In--ctudet
preliminary conferencea, dur
ing .which Chairman Hay would
work out tha constituency of the
' now eitcutlve committee which he In
to itiggest and which will be elected.
In fact, by tha national committee.
' In accordance, with the new rule em
'bodied In the Howell reaolutlon
adopted at St. 1-ouli, directing that
all committee, henceforth, having
to do with national 'party brganUn
tton. (hall be elected by the com
mitteemen and not appointed by the
'chairman.
HI AM HAH A NKVY ' '
. NATIONAL EMH1JCM
Bangkok. Blam, Feb. Id. The na.
tlonal flag which ed to be,n rep
resentation of tha tamou white ele
phant on a scarlet ground ha been
replaced by trl-color, composed of
red and white atrlpe at eah end.
with a central blue atrip double the
width of the other.' The official an
nouncement of the change sets
forth that It ha been made a a sym
bol of the advance In civilisation,
'made by 81am on the occasion of
her ranging herself on' the aide of
tha allien, whoe flag also display
three colors.
FAVORS EQUAL PAY
TO HUN
' Chicago, Feb. 1; J. Ogden Ar
mour took the wltnesa itand, In the
packing house Inveitlgatlon here to
day. He declared himself In favor
of equal pay . for women doing the
ame work us; men, and believed
packing ho line employee should tnt
extra pay for holiday and overtime.
He I willing-to Conldl 'the 'iiili!1
tloh of an eUht hour day.
CfiESCEIIT CITY
III HIM BILL
CbntOM (lew Waa Important Factor
la (MHslalng Favorable Action for
j I'mml (Itjr Project,
Early In January tha Chamber of
Commerce- aent to Director-General
MeAdno and the Oregon delegation
In congraaa telegram, tatting fqrlh
fae jirweno jn. JoMphln county of
attentive chrome deposits and of tha
Immense body Of Port Orford cedar
on the coast, cultable for airplane
construction, and urging tha noces
Ity or extending the C. 0. C, rail
road and tha development of the
Crescent .City, harbor project aa aar
necessities. In response thereto the
Courier la In receipt of tha follow
ing dispatch, which convey the wel
come Intelligence, that tha harbor
project will be Included lo the river
and liarbora bill: '
Waablngton. Feb. is. Rogue
River Courier, Oranta Pa. Oregon.
Am practically certain the Crescent
City project will, bo Included In the
forthcoming river nnd harbor bill.
Chrome development being aa 'Im
portant factor la obtaining favorable
action.' -
W. C. HAW1.F.Y.
liEW MliEFUSED ;
' wra mm
Portland, Keb. IS. Federal IMa-
trlct Judge YYolvertoa today denied
Floyd Ramp'a motion for a' new trial
and et tomorrow for eentence.
Ramp la a, aoclallut, of ', Roseburg
Ore.' lie wore a -red ribbon In hi
button bole," but.,, remained ''calm
while arguing and claimed: he did
not have a fair ohance or get a fair
Jury. Ramp waa arrested at Roae-
burg. charged with sedition.
OVTCHMAM IMIIKR ARRKNT ,
rXUt HI'YIVU OX AMCTIt ANK
Rotterdam. Feb. IS. A Dutch
hipping engineer ha been arreated
by the river police charged with ea
olonag on behalf of Oerqianj. Ac-
ii
curding io ine punce n iir-wjui
ed hltnieir to the captains' of (team
ship coming from the I'nlted Slate
n Inspector for the port authori
ties and thereupon took cople of
any Information which he thouubt
useful from the ship' logbook.
VERMEIL III
ARTILLERY Sl
With ihr' American Army In
France, 'Feb. IS. Artillery sniping
or rather shnrpahootlng has been so
successfully carried out by 'the Am
erican batteries that the Germans
have begun . "strafing" operations
shooting '''Mustard shells" (gas
shell) 'at the offending Yankees
Thus fr the Herman efforts iave re
sulted only la. sending one private to
a hospital. '' . .
The American private'' was outside
of his dugout when the "mustard
shell" exploded; near by. He did hot
feel the effects of the shell Immedi
ately, having been masked.
Our gunners have become so ex
pert they are ableto pick off Indi
vidual men behind the enemy line.
' The commanding offlceror line bat
tery," ' observing' ,'Vhat appeared
through hi jtlnsse to be a German
officer enlarging from a supporting
trench which crossed exposed ground
ordered the gunner, to "get him."
The gunner planted a shell direct
ly ahead; of .tha German officer, .who
was knocked down;, but Immediately
picked himself up. Then the gunner
dropped another shell at what ap
peared to' be only three Inches over
the Herman and this' time the officer
did not tlr.
A group or five Germans came out
of dugout to bring In their comrade
and were picking him up When the
Runner' landed "a third shell directly
AMERICANS
PREPARING
FOR ACIi
UKNK1LU fMlHHlXU MAKKH .A
TWO DAYM' IMHPMTION OK
VANKUB HWTOR "
WEA3S "TIS HATM ATO GAS t!ASj
Genua Try Ut Owtwlt Xewiouea
by Vartuaw Itume, Hut Ho Far,
Are Mot tw crr ul
With the American Army In
Fraaoe, Feb, 18. A time for mora
active operations on the westers
front approaches, the American
force la widening Ita sphere of ac
tivity. 1
American troop now hold a ectur
east of St. Mlblei. American artil
lery la helping the French lo Cham
pagne and Infantry, with French
nnlta, are bow holding the front
line In one of the most famous bat
tle fronts In the world.
On the American sector Germans
have tried to outwit the newcomer
by various ruses. Including false sig
nals, ' tapping wire, charging wire
entanglements with electricity and
other methods, but they hnva been
out-maneuvered every time.
General Pershing has just made a
two oy'a Inspection of the Ameri
can sector northwest of Toul, la a
"tin" hat, with a gas mask swung
over his chest. He wslked through
the trenches and asked the men how
they were being, fed and. treated.
i ney, aseyreu aim iney were saim
fled. ' ' .
OTERLY OPPOSED
Washington," Feb. 1 S. Senator
VVatson," In 'supporting the ' senate
draft of the administration' railroad
bill, denounced the provisions of Jhe
Overman bill, giving the president
wide powers to ' reorganise war
branches, ss unconstitutional and au
tocratic, and conferring tinheardof
powers and providing that this au
tocratic power 'shall continue one
year after the war. "Why this pro
vision?" ". 4 '
NKW A.UHANMAUOIt
' KX ItOtTR FROM JAPAX
Washington, Feb. IS. Viscount
KlkuJIro' Ishll has been appointed
ambassador from Japan to the I'nlt
ed States and wlH soon reach Wash
ington, succeeding Ambassador Sato.
Senator S. B. Huiton.'of Portland,
was the speaker at the Chamber of
Commerce luncheon this noon, and
hi " address fully came up to the
mark set by Toastmaster E. K.
Blanchard, who Introduced the
speaker, In a complimentary speech.
Mr.' Huston complimented the
Chamber of Commerce on the suc
cess of the luncheons, and the work
of the Red Cross and other war wqrk
stating that Josephine county Is of
ten spoken of In' Portland ss the
county so often at the head of the
list. The senator has two sons now
In France and his speech naturally
centered on the conflict now being
waged. He said In part:
"If wa lose this war, ' ' we loae
everything. We subject our wives
and daughters to the fate of the
women of Belgium Snd northern
France and we make' our" ions the
slave of the 'Huns of central Ktird'pe'.
It would' be better If 6nr -cities and
HOSTQII VOULI) HAVE ALL SPIES SHOT
AilD SYL1PATHIZERS SENT TO GERUAII Y
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HOSTILITIES
ARE RETJBVED
BY GEIWIY
Hl'HB MOVIXti , AUAINHT UWH
MOI'K TO HM7.K rXTHOXIA
' AND UVOXL ' .
SEEK RIOTS IHEKE'J
RoUbvUi Captara KU, Afur 4,000
Killed, 7.000 InJurM aad Aviators
noma t'lty '
Stockholm, Feb. IS. German
have resumed war measures against
Russia, according to the Social Dem
okrafen. Their objectives are the
selsure of Esthoala aad Uvonla.
Amsterdam, Feb. IS. Communi
cation Is again restored with Petro-
grad. Delayed reports tell of ser
ious ' rioting and Indicate that the
Bolshevikl power I waning.
An ultimatum has been .seat to
Rumania, demanding that they evac
uate Ressaraola.
Petrograd. Feb. (Delayed).
The Bolshevikl have captured Kiev,
principal city of Ukraine, after 4.000
were kilted and 7.000 wounded. Bol
shevikl aviator bombed the city.
Polish troop have defeated the Bol
shevikl. S5 miles southwest of Minsk.
Kitmsnlsns threaten Odessa.
; 'Amsterdam! " Feb.! 1 8.dermai
forces are already being concentrat
ed la Ikralae to attack. Aha Bolaher
vfltl,' according to a erUS dispatch
to the Tldd. and declarations look
Ing to the active prosecution of the
war against tb Botahevlkl U North
Russia also Witt be made at Berlin
next week:' ' "!
German authorities are anxious re
garding' the fate of perman prison
era In' North Russia, whom the Bo!
shevlkt are holding as hostages snd
who, Berlin dlspatchee say, may be
kilted If the Bolshevikl are driven
to desperation. Germany has 1
ready served 'notice tpn the Bolshe
vikl authorities that she will enforce
reprisals If the German prisoners are
harmed.
Count Cfcef nin, ' the Austro-Hnn
gartan foreign minister, has notified
Berlin that Austrian troops must not
be used against Russia to support
any policy whlrh Austria has not ap
proved, but only for purposes of self
defense ngslnst marauding bands.
Amsterdam, Feb. . 18. The Bol
shevikl are making wholesale arrests
of Germans In Russia and holding
them ss hostages, according to a
Riga 'dispatch received by wsr of
Berlin. Three hundred German
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town should all be destroyed and
every '''vestige of civilisation wiped
out and our country returned to the
primeval solitude that existed before
the . coming of the white man, it
would be . better that every one of
us with those that we lovev should
die in the trenches fighting for lib
erty and democracy, .rather ' than
survive to become , the serfs of the
German autocracy t.:- ;,-. ' '
. - "Ottr young men go - from' the
farms and the mine, the shops, the
store and the office, .many of them
under age, but so filled with patriot
Ism and the desire to serve ..their
country, .that they misrepresent their
age, It Is probably the first time
they. hve- ever' been "away from
home, something goes wrong With
their mail and they do not hear from
home,, they become , homesick and
sometimes they forget and desert tor
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FIELD HOSPITAL
IDDYII
Amertcaa I'aUenU laiajtuwd. Bat
ataaTer Froaa ahocab Hospital . to
Ha Kewoved lo Safe Place
With tha American. Amy la
France, Feb. IS. Aa American Held
hoapltat In a towa within onr Unee
apparently waa the target for a Ger
man airplane which flew over it lead
night and dropped several unusually
heavy bomb, .
The hospital, la which were a
number of alck and wounded oOcers
and men waa the building nearest the
place, where the German airman
dropped two different seta of bombs.
Fortunately none of the missiles
reached their mark, although the
hoapttal patients and tha reel dents
of the towa were severely shsksa by
tha ezptoslona. American anti-air
craft guna engaged the enemy, bnt
without success. .
The hospital probably will be
moved to a leas dangerous spot.'
400.000 rHOMTTTOX8 IX
PRUSSIA Dl'RIXG 1017
Amsterdam. Feb. IS. Close upon
400.000 prosecutions for Infringing
the food regulations were conducted
In Prussia la 117; 151.411 fine of
varying amounts were Infllcted'aad
1,781 persona were sentenced to
terms of Imprisonment. The courts
are congested with case of this des
cription -
O 2? tt KILLED
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" London; Feb. 1 8. In a raid Over
London Saturday night 11 were
killed and lour Injured. . Only one
machine penetrated to the city and
dropped one bomb. One German
airplane dropped Into the sea.
Last evening one of seven ma
chines flew over London. Casual
ties were IS killed and 37 Injured.
ABUSE STATESMEN
Paris, Feb. 18. "The .right of a
newspaper to abuse members of the
government Is ' unquestioned and
must be observed," says an official
statement announcing that a provin
cial censor has been disciplined for
suppressing an article which, accord
ing to the statement, "did not allude
to military or diplomatic affairs, but
merely contained the usual Insults
concerning M. Clemencean."
TKJ)IY ROOSKVFAT HAH
ANOTHER fiRAXDCHILn
' New York. Feb. .18. A son Was
born today to .Mrs. Archie Roosevelt'.
The colonel says he Is perfectly "de-
lighted" with .the. eighth Rrand-jformat,on of gie,. to-th com mis
child. Archie Roosevelt Is a captain aon , ( niaktng recommendaUons
with General Perahlwr. '. j for Increases..
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TIME EXTENDED
Portland. Feb. 18. The following
telegram haa 'been received by the
State council of defense for Oregon
from George F. Porter, chief state
councils section, council of national
defense, 'Washington, D. C. '
"The time "for 'filing' application"
for' war risk Insurance has Jjtist been
extended by congress to April 1 2th.
Aivtnrriatlc Insurance. however',5 has
censed entirely and no' man Is now
Insured by the government unless he
ha' appiled. ; f h.ts niahes'Volnntnry
application doiibiy importantr- Have
your publicity " man' '' spread " news
throogli the" stite' hd 'tontlnue cain
pagtlk'to:,'brTfi'g "farfitly-lrifliieiice to
iiiiiraiY
IS FOUnD DEAD
ntwA
ItrtDIITH Bl'IClDK BKCAl'SK DES
POXUEXT AT THsJ PBATTIXO
- OF HM OXLT BOX
DEATH RESULTS FECI K11
Hi Boa, Uejoraje, taderwent Pbyai
cml BxauaJaatloa Frtday aad Waa
PUoed hi tha Pint Clase
Roeebur. Feb. lS.-p-Ia a fit of
despondency through worry over the
possibility of giving; up his only torn
for army service, John Klagery, aae
of the moot prominent aad highly
respected ploaeer farmers of tha
Toaeolla . district committed aulclde
Saturday morning at the family
home aear" Toaeolla, death result
Ing from the effect of a deadly drug
which the unfortunate ma a took.
According to a report ; reaching
thia city, Mr. Klngery arose earlier
than ususl Saturday and without any
special show of nervousness or worry
repaired to a' distant 'apartment g
the house where he committed the
terrible act, later being found by hla
wife. It la the supposition of several
Yooeolla residents that tha aid
gentleman' worried himself lata do
Is g tfae deed through fear of hla
on' Immediate chaacea at being
drafted Into the amy. the deceased
baring made, the etatemeat some
time ago that' he would take hi Hfe
should his son be take to wax. .
' Oarrow 'KIngary. the aaa. waa ia
thia otty Friday where ha naderwwat
the physical examination nod . waa
placed la the Brst class list he hav
ing been In the fourth claaa until
then, when he requested another ex
amtnatlon. and It Is thonght that
upon returning home and Informing
hla father of hla Brat class place
ment, the worry and strata of losing
his son waa too much for the old
man to aland, therefore prompting
the sad deed. .
. The deceased waa SS yearn of age
and had . resided , on and operated
one of the finest farm la the Toa
eolla district for the past 40 years,
the Klngery family being among the
beat known pioneers of the county,
and their many friends and acquaint
ance were Intensely shocked to
learn of the untimely death of the
unfortunate, gentleman. Mr. Kln
gery Is mourned by a wife and hla
son, Garrow. who is one of the moat
prominent young farmers of Toaeol
la district.
RAILWAY F.XRCIT1VKS XOTi
' orrotilXO HK1HKR WAGK3
, Washington. , Feb., 18. Railway
executives who appeared before the
railroad wage commission, said they
we're not present tb oppose wage de
mands of- employees, but to give In-
OKNKRAIi SIR1.KY lKAI t ,
AT IttXTil-tHtn.-ILIi.
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. Rockford. 111., Feb. 1.8. Brigadier
General Frederick W. Sibley died In
thia city today, aged SS years. He
served in' Indian campaigns" nnd
during tb Spanish-American war.
IS DECLARED OFF
..New York Feb. 18. The carpen
ters' strike on the Atlantic seaboard
shipyards Is over.'sccordtng to John
Rice,- national organizer of the Unit
ed Brotherhoods .of Carpenter and
Joiners. . . Several thousand who are
now out are expected to return to
work tomorrow '' ' '"':
l:he'ar'''oh'''rnfn "nbt "yet 'insured.
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