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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
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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. , '. ;
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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. :
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