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" - DAILY EDITION ORAJfTS PAM, JOSEPHIM COCIITT, OREGON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY tt, IOIH. WHOLE NUMBER K291. VOL. VIII., Hit, 104. ( 0 LIGHTNING bniTlSH IIDV CHANGES OF HOLD JERICHO ran Itt HHIAN'H AltK NOW ORDERED TO OrfOHK ADVANCE OK TKK " GERMAN AHMIKM PETROGRAD IN STATE Of SIEGE KUv Amijf In (Vmpirlvljr IrtwHUAe) laed m1 Hiiaa Capture B.IMMI I'll, oarr ami I.HOO Gun . Amaterdatn, Feb. II. The Hoi ahavlkl haa again changed . I art leu and haa ordered omiualllon to bt Iran tha German army thai la now creeping aaatward Into tha heart ol Oraat Riiaala. All Ruaalana are eummoned to defend lha country, In proclamation algned by l-enlna and Ensign Krylenko, Patrograd la de clared to bo In a atata of elage. la tht Oermans advance thnlr navy la cooperating by investing Reval, a naval baaa on tha aouth oaet of Finland, Forty-live war eh I pa ara going thnra. Tha fluaalan navy will probably offer but llttla resistance. At Mlnak and Ftovno tha Ruaalana war completely dteorganlied and tha Oerman Invadara report tha ' capture of ,000 prlaonara and 1,800 una of vartmia aliaa. It la reported that Trotxky will realm hla position of foreign minis- , tar. Ha cant tha deciding rota In favor of accept Ins German peace. Tha written confirmation of peace acceptance haa reached tha Oerman Amatardam, Feb. 22. The Bol ahavlkl oroclamatlon daclarea Ger many la advancing Into Russia to re atora the monarchy and the prlvl- legea of land owner and capltallata. and calla upon the people to resist and to defend the republic "to the death." Instruellone ara itlven to prevent valuable! and property from falling Into the enemy'a hande. Petrograd. Keb. 22. "If Oermany refuaea peace, to Ruaala. a etruggle to death or victory la Inevitable," aaya an official alatement by the Bol ahevlkl. Waahlngton. Keb. 2 2. The Amer ', 'lean general staff la convinced tliat ' Ruaala la no longer a military factor to be eonaldered. . Urge capture of .military atorea by Germans are un important on the Italia or weetern fronta, aa guna and rlftea will be useful only while tha ammunition canturad with them lasts. It la be lieved the Oerman drive will n.oit ' more resistance aa It proceed. LA WRENCH B. WITIIKRSI'OON PORTLAND, lKAI IX KIIAXfl' Waahlnaton.' Keb. 22.i tleneral Pershing reports one American te verely wounded and two slightly,. In action Kebruary 1 . Ha also reports Ju-W, pf .... a ,.A n.,mt,la ,1 l :.. ' Washington? Feii. ' 22'.a.i 'loturv 5r War Uakcr hiia expliiined that :!it new regttlatlona sovernln? tha "Irv ing of llqnor to soldiers rfo net fcU.x the goveinmont's hold o:. the tl;.ia tlon, but strengthen it. It In Busier to detect bootlegging. Liquors may "be served to bona fldn soldio." S .c If In their homes. RUSSIA HO LONGER A MILITARY FACTOR LIQUOR REGULATIONS Elrat Ciime Jonliua and Now Cne lite ToamUe and OafMara Ottf Kroea Uia RavMbarUaa Undoo, Keb. II. Ilrlllah troopa have captured Jericho, which flvea them domination In the Jordan val ley. tendon. Keb. II. A further ad vance of three and one-half mllea on a front of aaven and hree-quarteia mllea haa been made by the British forcea In Paleetlne, the war office an nouncer The Rrltlah are now with in four mllea of Jericho. The opera tlooa ara being continued. The Rrlt lah toaaea on Tueaday whan an ad vance) waa made on a 15-nille front eaat of Jeruaalein, were very alight. Taaterday'a loaaea have not been re ported. The Brltlab alao advanced north weet of Jeruaalem to mail mum depth of one mile on a front of four mllea. EVERY SOLDIER H Kvery American aoldler or Bailor loat on the torpedoed tranaport Toa canla waa protected by the United Statea government Inaurance and government compenaatlon by Secre tary McAdoo.. ', Thoae who had not applied for In auranre were covered by the auto matic Inaurance under the law which la payable to a wife, child, or wid owed mother. Thla automatic Inaur ance aggregatea I4.S00, netting f 2S a month for 140 montha. Of thoae who bad applied for, and obtained Inaurance many had taken out the maximum amount of $10 000. netting 1ST. GO a month for 240 montha. There have been varloua cauaea for delay In forwarding checka to the dependent! of aotdlera and anil ore. The distance of many of the ap- pllcanta from Washington and the mall congestion -prevailing more or lesa all over the rotintry have cauaed delay both In the receipt of the ap pllcanta by the treasury and the re ceipt of the cberke by the benefici aries. . Another cause Is that of the checka sent out 10,000 could not be de livered because the dependents to whom the checks were payable had moved, leaving no forwarding ad dresses or the addressee originally given were Incomplete or erroneous ... . ... Ak.-. , k a. or SO lliegimy wrmen inai iiirj could not be properly deciphered. ; Nearly half a million checks were mailed out In January and all 'pos sible expedition la being made to get all the addresses and other details correct ao that the dependenta of the soldiers and aallora will receive their allowances promptly and certainly. POISONED GAS IN GOVERNMENT CLOTH in i New York,' Keb. 22. Almost 100 persona employed In a West Thlr tieth Btreet loft building, where army uniforms are made, have been overcome by fumes Of somer- IOU8 gas Binco noi n i-ru,. efforts of heultb .department officials ami the noli e to trace tl.e gis hnve been .iinsuncessfiil. A , quantity of khaki cloth was,, received, by a con tractor , on the ninth floor Tuesday and ''almost Immediately after the olevttor man ; who liand'ed It be came 'lit. ' From thr.t time the em ployes became unconscious all oyer the flooi1. , , , . , . , This morning the odor was again noticed nd by 10 o'clock so many persona hud, been overcome that the plant was shut down and a call sent for the police, who summoned doc tors and ambulances. After first aid had been administered the victims regained consciousness. , '. ; . :. i ' .-! . ' mm OF Fi T IS HOOVKIt IIAITM TMK IIUMK ON COXGKMTIOX OK RAILROAD' TRAFFIC I SITUATION IS MOST CRITICAL . . j (Vrrel Kix-u In lite Attica Will He 4n.000.mw llulul Muni on the Flfa of Marrh Waahlngton, Keb. 22 The eastern part of the I'nlted States facea a food ahortage likely to continue for tba next (0 days. In making thla disclosure today. Kood Administrator Hoover laid that the altuatton la the moat criti cal In tha country's history and that In many of the large consuming areas reserve food atorea are at the point of exhaustion. . .; The whole blame la put by the food admlnlatratlon on railroad con gestion, which, he aaya, also has thrown the food admlnlatratlon far behind In Ita program for feeding the alllea. . ' Tha only solution be aeea la a greatly Increased rail movement of foodatuffa, even to the exclusion or much other commerce. ; .-.' It waa very evident that the rail road admlnlatratlon la inclined to resent Mr. Hoover's blame of lie rallroada and Dlrector-Jeoeral Mc Adoo declared he waa ready to pro vide every transportation facility for expediting food movementa. 'jlia railroad admlnlatratlon. he aald. bad auggested that farmers be -urged to releaae their grain holdlnxs that large numbers of available cara might be utilized In moving them. Cereal exporta to the allies. Mr. Hoover'a statement says, will be 45.- 000,000 bushels short on March .. and meat shipments also are far ahort of the amounts promised. FOUR HKI,I rXIK HKIHTIO.V AT AMERICAN I, ARK Camp .Lewis, Feb. 12. Kour sol diers are held, awaiting a presiden tial warrant, charged with plotting to shoot their officers when they got Into action, and delivering all Amer ican soldiers In their organisation to the Germans. Names are withheld. A FOR USE III FRANCE Eugene. Feb.: 22. The light port able bridge recently designed by Professor E. H. McAllister, head of the department of mechanics at the University of Oregon, may soon be used in the European war tone Lieutenant Colonel John Leader, head of the military department at the university, la In receipt of let ters from "both the United States and Canadian gpvernments asking tor blue print and descriptions of tbe MdAllster bridge and will for ward the Information at once. Col onel Leader directed the attention of tbe military departments to the In ventton. In Colonel leader's opinion the new bridge la superior to anything now In use In Europe. It can be put together In an hour by a skilled workman and Its weight for a fifty foot span, with two 22 foot ftp proaches making a total length o 94 feet, Is six tons., . This Is four tons lighter than the best bridge of similar strength with which Colonel DOD IN FAS Ml iauer lamuiar. , Washington, Feb, 22. The senate The first of, the bridges, of theemuiated George Washington's ex comblnatlon suspension and cantl-'ampie ef &niJ ftrBt, by remaining In lever type, soon will be set up across ' gM8on an( considering the railroad the mlllrace here. At point the bridge bears 20,000 pounds. Its weakest a strain of socialists dfiiing 0. S. PEACE AUSTRIAN SOC1ALIHTS KKMAM COXHIKKKATIOX OK I'lWKI. IKNTH MVMH.KGK WHO SCENES III REICHSRATH KanMrair Threateiia to I'ronane l'r lUment, I'nlena HodaJMa (Jive the RuiIgH Majority Amsterdam, Keb. II. The Aus trian socialists have convoked maaa meetings to aupport their , demand tbat direct peace negotlatlona ahall be opened with the United Statea. The Austrian emperor haa warned tha leadera of the different parlia mentary parties lhat he will pro rogue the relcharath and govern the country by absolute methode if a majority la not aecured for the pro visional budget. Wild scenes In the relcharath on Tuesday on the occasion of Premier von Seydler'a speech, are described in a Vienna dispatch to the Berlin Vosalscbe Zeltung. The Ctechs and Slavs at one point quitted the house and during the great part of the pre mier's speech maintained a continu ous din. There were shouts or "Ues!" "Treachery!" "Tell them that In Berlin," and similar exprea- alone. The premier was audible only to thoae nearest to him. Ctech protests are loud agalnat the advance of the Oerman troopa In Russia. . The Poles ara dissatisfied with the Auatrlan government and demand that tha Ukrainian frontier ahall be fixed at the river Bug and that Count Cxernln, Auatro-Hungar-lan foreign minister, ahall be dla mlssed. FINANCE BILL IS SURE 10 Washington, Keb. 22. Prompt passage, with bl-partlnan support, or the administration measure to estab lish a war finance corporation and provide federal supervision over pri- vate security Issues, waa planned in tha aenata today, when the revised measure was reported with unanim ous endorsement of the finance com mittee. Chairman Simmons will call it up next Monday and thinks only a few days' consideration necessary for its disposal. The house also is pre paring to expedite action. As re drafted, the bill would create the corporation with 1500,000.000 capi tal and power to Issue 14.000,000 In bonds to be advanced to war and contributory Industries. Four direc tors, appointed by the president, In stead of by Secretary McAdoo, with the latter aa head of the directorate would manage the corporation's af fairs. '..:"' " ; ORKGOX AXI WASHINGTON SEND ISO CARS OF FIR EAST 8eattle. Feb.s 22. J. H Bloedel. chairman of the government fir pro duction campaign In the northwest, has announced that 150 cars of ship timber for construction on the At lantic aide will be rolling east from Oregon and Washington by Sunday night, February 24, and the timber wll go In solid trains. '. Shipments to the east.' Mr. Bloedel said, will be continued with' Increased capacity. SENATE REFUSES TO ' , TAKE HOLIDAY TODAY bill. Champions of government ownership lost the fight for lndefi- nlte control yesterday. SPAIN AGREES mimtI Pershing Can Now Oct Mulea, RUakete and Other Hup pliea Without Islng ghl Washington, Feb. 22. An eco nomic agreement with Spain, under which Oeneral Pershing , will gat mules, army blanketa and other ma terials In that country In return for cotton, oil and other commodities from the United States waa algned yesterday In Madrid. " Tha atata de partment was ao advised laat night by Ambassador Wlllard. Terma of the agreement could not be learned and it waa not known whether the had any bearing on the rata of exchange between the two coontrlea, which the United Statea has desired to adjuat because of the recent depreciation of tha American dollar In Spain, where It la now worth only about 7$ centa. , success of the negotiations was welcome news to officiate here at the ability to buy auppllea In Spain will aava ahlp tonnage and enable Gen eral Pershing to build up his reserve stores much more rapidly', than probably otherwise would have been possible. Tha negotlatlona followed the re fusal of Spain to aupply a large nam ber of mulea, 200,000 'blanketa and other materlala ordered by Oeneral Pershing last month. The official reason given for the failure to fill the order was aald to have been that the Spanish railroad system had broken down and It waa Impossible to handle goods destined for France. Negotlatlona at Madrid apparently were going on when It became known that Spanish steamers were being held up In American, ports for lack of fuel. Through their control of bunker coal the United Statea and the alllea were in a position to atop not only the shipment of goods to Spain from the allied countries, but from neutrals aa well.. Spain la de pendent upon thla country for large auppllea of foodstuffs aa well as oth er materlala. N .10 MORK SOIJHKRH SKST TO COOS LOGGING CAMPS Marshfield, Feb. 22. Thirty ad dition soldier-loKKers arrived a few days ago from Vancouver barracks, to Join the force of about 120 al ready. in the woods. This was the third detachment of soldiers for the logging camps, the first having come ijn December and the second In Jan- uary. The soldiers lenced woodsmen. all are exper- BY GERMAN PLANES Washington, Feb. 22. Army, offi cials showed every evidence, of sur prise today at presa dispatches from France telling of German control of the air over the sector of the front held by the American' forcea. They would make no comment for publica tion, however, and Secretary Baker also was silent, beyond saying that his advices from General Pershing made no mention of such a situation. Disclosure of the conditions des cribed comes on the heels- of Secre tary Baker's announcement that Am erican-built batt'.ti yLmcs had been shipped to France five months ahead of the original schedule, and soon would be ready in quantities. This statement does not mean that the whole program for the American air fleets Is so far ahead, and It is un derstood that, actually, it Is not far from schedule, on way or the other. The exact status of the program Is a carefully guarded secret. ".- KSTHtVMAN TROOPS JOIN . WITH CENTRAL POWERS Berlin, Feb. 22. A ; regiment of ( Esthonlan troops have gone over to the Germans, the war office announc- ed today. WITH A ERICA rare in PATROL FIGHT WITH HUNS ONE YAXKKE CAPTURES C KA MA IH A SHELL HOLE AXO TAKES HIM TO CAMP DETAILS HOT YET OUTOIE Whe Aaieriraaa Eater Sector tba Hero of the Marae Advanced aad Kiaed Stan a4 Strlpea With the American Army It France, Feb. 22. Ja patrol fighting, Americana from units under Inatrue tlon In the famous Chemln-dee-dalmea aector, killed ona German and captured another laat night Ona American, waa allgbtly wounded. . Thla revealed for the first time that (American units were there. They have been there for some time and have euffered alight caaoaltlea. " Detaila of tha patrol fight are ua avaJlable. but it la known that a prisoner waa captured alngle-handed by a young American from New Eng land, who dropped In a shell hole on top of a German hiding there and brought him In. : When Americana entered thla sec tor the French general, hero of the Marne, kissed the stars and atrlpw. 200,000"f;fll Yml Waahlngton, Feb. 22. The nevy will be authorixed to recruit to a strength of 200,000 under a bill soon to be Introduced by Represen tative Padgett, chairman of tha house naval committee, It became known Wednesday afternoon. The present limit Is 150,000 and the permanent limit 87,000. The law now provides that the officer personnel shall be 4 per cent of the enileted strength. ' Representative Padgett and Sec retary Daniels have agreed that un der the proposed bill, the officers' personnel will be Increased," lieuten ant commanders and below -being ap portioned on a basis of 4 per cent of 150,000 and grades above lieu tenant commander on 4 per cent of 87.000.' GKRMAXS OOXT1NVE TO . AOVAXCE INTO RUSSIA Berlin, - Feb., 22. Germans have captured -Hapaal. near the entrance to the Gulf of Finland and have ad vanced beyond Ronneburg, Wolmar and Spandan. - ITALIAN AVIATORS REPORT ARRIVAL OF MORK HUNS Washington, Feb. 22. Italian av iators report the continued arrival of fresh enemy troops from the Rus- so-Rumanlan front. v: Fred Wlckraan-' . returned this mbrning from' Portland,' where he was taken by the deputy U. S. mar shal some time ago to appear before the federal grand Jury on the charge of making seditious utterances. Mr. Wlckman says he waa released the next morning after reaching " Port land and haa since been working in the city as a carpenter until he was taken sick. He says he has heard nothing . of Bachef and Schafera since the time they landed In Port land. : E
