DAILY EDITION
VOL. VIII.. No. M.
a rants pam, oscntiNi ooumr. orbooh,
Friday, a nu i, so, toiM.
WHOLE NlHliER 2940.
VILLERS TAKEN
by en in
HERQRIC DASH
OVEII HMI PRISONERS AITl IN
KR WHEN VII.LKIUt-HKITON.
NKtX IS IMrTTLKII IT
PRISONERS TAKEH
ierauui Lin lWixl lUfk With
Heavy Iawmhi to J'olut .Near Where
i LaM Drive Started
London. Anr. H. Australian and
English troopa have recaptured VII
Ura-nretanneux and taken more
than 600 prlsonere In that region.
, Field Marshal Halg report from
headquartert laat night.
i rarther to the north, on a line
I from TIallleul to Wytachaete, there
j haa been rery heavy flghtlnf. and
' iia lllait tranui were ohllued to
withdraw from thalr position.
South of the Somme aereral conn'
I tor-attack launched by Australian'
nit Rncllih troon Thursday nUht
j against the positions gained by the
, enemy yesterday In and around VII-
Ura-dlrrtonneux carried our line. on
'. ward to within a ahort distance of
our former front and roaulled In the
' - -....... . mama tK n M An nrlimnere.
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The tillage now I In our hand. ;
The atory from Ylllera-Hretonneux
was cheerful. To recapitulate, the
; Herman began their attack on VII-
lera-Hretonnrtiix about o'rlo. on
Wednesday morning after a heavy
. bombardment, Including: gaa ahalla,
'', whlrh forced the Brltlah to pull out
, of part of the town and hold It light
ly. Heavy mUta were hanulng over
I the whole region, and under cover
of thin, the Oerman advanced, aup-
ported by five bulky and heavy ar-
mored tank.
Simultaneous with their attack at
Vlllers-Rrslonneux, the German
! alao began operation to the south
. agalnat the Prenoh and north of the
river Somme. At Bt!ly-l-Sc and
Valre neveral attacke were repulaed
i during the early houra. The Brat
drive agalnat Vlllervnrwtolineux was
1 made with two divisions ind thl
' irfin hi k" The German Ihv
"mediately put two fresh division In
to line and again surged rorwarn.
t(Contlu4. on pe.gi ) ' '
SEA RBETS
Momow, Apr. 26 M. Tchlterchln,
Bolahevikl foreign nllnlater, ha aak
d Germany, arcordlng to the official
newa agency, to give a guarantee
that the Bulnn Black fleet,
while moored at Sebaatopol, will net
he aeUed or damaged by force of
the central powera and , th alllea
(central) now advanolng into ,me
Crimea, or by nny otber .narnl or
military force of that alliance.
The foreign mlnlater ha takes
thla action. It la added . officially, aa
hrj hn heard that the Qarmani In
tend , to .blooknde Sebaatopor wltb
aubmarinea.
ParlB, Apr. J6. Ixng-range bom
hnrdmnt of Pari wag returned dur
ing the night. No on was hurt ana
the damage wa not appmlabl op
to 0 o'etoek thla morning. . ,
... . .. i on
-Holland
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ln plncnd nn cnihnrso on exporta-l with cerllllnates to he signed by the
tlon from the Dutch Knit Indies of J consumers.4. Each certificate must
hln ore, cinchona bnrk, qulnlno and be returned within one week after It
!kapok, ,nll needed by the i United la signed, to the state federal food
att''for-flf purposed. ";''"1ridmlnrKlrlU6."Hi''""''","""'''"'""''"
MAW NTOIlkM Um't IN
' lUOTKNT liKHM.tN DltlVK
KukuuIi Ammunition Nw o Hand
lo Carry Rig Itnttln Through I'n
Ul Winter
IxiihIod, Apr. 20. Winston Bpeu-
cr C'hurrlilll, Introducing la the
houM of common yesterday the es
timate or Hi ministry o( muni
tion, laid that during lb nv
oki lm the battle In Franc not
only bid th consumption and des
truction of munition of all kind
proceeded at th greatest rata, but
that they also were very heavy lot
by csptur by tha enemy.
"We loat," tba mlnlater aald.
"naarly a thousand gum by ahell
fir or capture; between 4,000 and
.'i.UOO machlna guna hav been loat
or destroyed, and tha quantity of
ammunition, apart from thai which
hat been fired and that which baa
boon lout In the dump, amounted to
something between ow and three
week' tola! of manufacture.
"But great aa the demand haa
been, the expenditure In the laat
month did not exceed the maximum
potential capacity of the Brltlah
factor!, without touching enor
nioua reserve, which bad aoeumn-
lated sgalnst audi contingency.
"In fait, barring unforaeen elr
ctinntuncwi. our aupply of niunlllona
would enable ua to carry on battle
at the supreme pitch of Intenalty ui
til winter without compromlalng
our requirement for lil.,Thla ,das-
plte the fact that a hundred thou a
nd men were taken from the mu
nition faetorlee for service In the
armies.
We are making In slngl week
more airplane than we made In the
whole of lit 4i 1n a alngle month
more than we made In the whole of
illt; In three montha more than
we made In the whole of till. And
war are going to mnke thla year sev
eral tlmea what we made laat year."
GREEK PEOPLE ARE
ASSURRED FAIR DEAL
Wnohlngton, Apr. 20. The pres
ident haa aaaured the Greek people
that One JJnltad Statea .will glv .the
fuUnt meaftiire. of .support to Greece
and preserve that country's right In
any final pear negotiation f
Pari.' Apr. 2.--MaJor Raoul
(.uftborry of Walllngford, Conn., de-
atroyed hie 18th enemy airplane
Tuesday. Lieutenant Frank' Una',
of Mobil, Ala., brought down Ha
fifth machine th aame day, thus be
coming the lateat American "nee."
10
' BE
BY
Washington, Apr. 10. Sugar for
domeatlo canning and preserving
thla year will be distributed under ,a
modified certlllrata system by which
each consumer will 1m an appllca
tlon for the amount needed.
The food administration explains
that It purpose, J lo make sure that
some, canners may obtain sufficient
augar to preserve perishable milt
and also to plnce a check upon nny
who might try to .obtain unreason
able quantities for. household con
sumptlort. It Is considered necessary
to check . consumption 7 to i : guard
against temporary shortaKes which
result, from, withdrawal of more ves
xta from1 the Cuban trade and the
aclmliilnt rntlon prefers the method
udoplcd to the enrd system used In
lother couhti-les.
i
Rftnll dialers will he provided by
ithelr federal, stnte administrators
(EKL HILL TAKEN BY
GEimiiiiiu
Allies Retire After VtoItij
Jsccareziect Est Decs Net f.Icaa That Ypres
Szfozl izz Necessarily, (o
lndon, Apr. 24. Th derniana la not convenient and we hope to get
have occupied Kemmel hill, accord-
log to Brltlah war office report.
Tbe French oounter-attarked thla!
morning trying to reclaim the tier-front of 1,100 yarda. Thla Involve
man poaltlona. Th Oerman gtluvaom very Important ground. "
were made at a frightful coat In la
of Uvea, i
"In the end It will be a qneatlon '
of who haa the taut reaervea," mid
General Raddlffe, chief director of
military operation of the war of-;
to . reviewing the battle altuatlon.:
General Koch ao far ha employed i
only a amall portion of hi rerrea.;The allied effort will be to conren-
"There I nothing decisive In the'trate agalnat thla enemy wedge and
loaa of Kemmel hill, but It I one of
the moat Important tactical feature.
It I entirely poulbl to hold onto,
th Ypre aector with th enemy on
Kemmel hill, but hi preaenee therTpre aallent
10 TAKE SEIIATOfflP
Waahlagton, Apr. SO. Speaker
Champ Clark, of Mlaaonrl, today for
mally declined Governor Gardiner'
proffer of th I'nlted State eenator-
ahlo to aurceed the late Senator
Stone. ' - , -
Clark evidently feel that he ran
do more good where he la than atart
Ing out new member of tb ten
ate. HI acceptance would bare
meant the appointment of a eon
greaaman to aueeeed him and the
lection of a new apeaker of . the
houae, which would have Interfer
ed with war work.
Champ Clark waa elected to con-
greM from Miaaoun ror tne nrai
time In 19I and haa been speak
er of the houae for the laat four ea
alnn of eongra
FRENCH FLIERS SAIL
iiOW OVKR GERMANS
Paris, Apr. 20. An official note
describing the work done by .the
French aviator dnrlnt the Oerman
advance says that reconnolterlng
was carried out at very low altl
tudea. After Noyon waa occupied.
French airplanes flew over the town
Just above the roof of the houses.
Some time they descended along
the road until the wheel almost
touched the heada'of the soldier in
column.wwho..scatterd.flr. threw
themselves on th ground terrified.
The French machine often returned
with mora than, a hundred bullet
holes In their wings., Vl
l'4M)ATJ STOPS MISSION
Washington.' Aprv'iolThe Uru
guayan mission to France which re
cently was Intercepted by a Persian
submarine operating off tha, Canary
Islands waa, according to latent re
ports received here, finally permit
ted to proceed, but It Is not known
under what conditions.
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Wlnlock, ...Wash., Apr. ,26. A
crbwd of B0 clttsens escorted W. B.
Edwarda and A. Knutson, said to
he non-partlsnn league organisers,
from town early todny. Knutson
was given, a coat of tr and feathers.
Scores o( former athlotli! stars are
enlisting fof servloe with the Y. M
C. A. to Instruct and help the Amor
loan soldier overseas to keep him
self physically tit to fight.
.1X1 il'i
;;i-paii
Sbcghter cf Hess; Loss is
him off . 1
"In the Kemmel sector the Ger-
man gained about 1. 000 yard on
, n
London, Apr. II. The allied line
aeemg to hold fairly well aouthweat
of Mount Kemmel, but to th north-
ait the Oermana were apparently
able to ptnh forward far enough
near Vllleratraat to enable them to
approach th height on the flank
drive them back again. The defl-
nlt poaaeulon of Kemmel Mil by
the Oerman might mean that th
'Brltlah would have to abandon the
T
rubiag in th . rlvar continue
good. The night seiners who drift
down to Jump-off-Joe are making
fair catches, largely through good
luck la the number of ftih which are
able to fcet past the naherlea a th
mouth of th rlvep It la under
stood that there la a strike on at
the Marleay canneries where the
fishermen refuse to work for th
price of seven cents a pound offered
by the cannery, the price set by the
food admlnlatratlon. , i The season
opened here at 20 cent and t the
price la now about 14 cents , per
pound. ,
Many fine catches are being made
with hook and line near this, city.
Wednesday .Elvln Wallace .caught
sli fine rhlnooka on a No. .6 spinner
and yesterday Frank r Mashburn
brought out a fish yiat dressed 20
pounds, 'The fish are fine Just now
and the sport Is good.
AKM TOIL
. l. 1 r :!t.5J. V;1 1 1?S
Washington, .Apr. 28. The sen
ate today adopted the . amendment
to the Overman bill reorganising the
alroraft program and authorising
the president to give entire control
to on man, who will probably be
John D. Ryan. .
UBERTY LOAfl-TO
I' i '
Washington; Apt;. ;i28. Llcrf
day opened with 11,956,776,000
subscription to th third Liberty
loan. Th two billion, mark will be
passed before alijtt.
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Gl'ARANTKK ASKED
KOlt HOI-LAX l'S SHIPS
i Th HagueiApr. 26.-i-Rel.vlng to
Questions by members of the first
chamber of parliament, Jonkheer J.
lioudon, ' minister of foreign affairs,
said today that no ship would , sail
from Holland before a written guar
antee had been obtained that there
would be no further seizures of ves
sels. He said thnt'he had "sthrcl
from an , Interview with John W.
Garrett, American minister, yester
day, that the latter supposed tlirt
written, na3W,m;B..Ua4..tthCinji. baa
given.
PASS KO MILLIONS
III OF 21 SOON 10
-BE.UALLED BY DRAFT
HOl'HK AlMtrS BE.MATK
ItKSOIA TIOX YKHTKItUAV
All Mew llnvliig Itearlted tle Ago of
- 21 . Mine LaM Jane to
Be Called
Waahlngton, Apr. 20. The sen
ate resolution providing for the reg
istration for military service of
young men who have reached the
age of tl since Jon I last, waa
adopted late Thursday by tb house.
which Incorporated an amendment
by Representative Hull, placing such
mn ' at th bottom of tb lists In
th classes to which they may be
atalgned."
Th bill now goa to conference.
Tb hone sustained the military
committee In striking out a provt
!on of the bill a Jt passed tb sen
ate, which would exempt from regis
tration those eligible who bar en
tered medical ' or divinity school
lnc June I last.
Representatlre Kahn, ranking re
publican on the military committee.
told the bouse th proposed new reg
istration would place from 600,000
to TOO. 000 new registrants available
for military service. He recalled
that Germany recently called' Into
service Its class of 111, consisting
of approximately 850,000 men.
SIXTEEN INDICTMENTS
POIND AT EDWARD8VILLE
Edwardsvljle, 111., Apr. 26. In
dlctnients were returned , late yes
terday axalnst .11. Dersons bv the
grand juty .which' Investigated the
lynehlns on Aortl S of Robert Paul
Praeg'er at fcoflbuvll. fjpirelT In
dictment . were .against . civilians,
and charged murder and .four In-
dctmen were "against .policemen
charging malfeasance In office
ORE. MILITARY POLICE
If any man In Grants Pass be
tween the .ages of ,18 and 43, years
wants to become a member of the
Oregon military police,' the new state
constabulary ..now, .being formed In
three companies at Salem, Portland
and an eastern Oregon town, now Is
th time to Join..
The object of the organisation,
which was created at a meeting of
the state emergency . board last
month. Is to - prevent and detect
crime and apprehend criminals. Men
between tbVages of 18 and 45 are
eligible, but men over SI years are
preferred. The term of enlistment Is
for two years, or unless discharged
sooner by proper authority, r
) The pay Is $90 per. month and up
and uniforms and equipment i are
furnished free. Men who have had
some military experience are prefer-
v .
() j' " 1 ' . ' ". t
.,ljd..alUiough,thU la not necessary.
4 JtJhlW. company. OM P-whlch
Is being recruited from Wllilamette
valley and western Oregon towns. Is
commanded by , Captain p. ,.J. Hull
o.f Salem, formerly a member of Co..
', ,tnd -Oregon .volunteers, wbo was
in serrie in me rnuipuiDca. a im
plication blanks may ho Obtained
from Captain Hull, Morgan building.
Portland, or from th Courier office
t 9nT - ; . 1
BELL1NGHAM AIK PROTESTS j
Belllngham Wash.. Apr. 26. The
Central Labor 'council today voted
la favor 'of a 14 hour strike on
May 1 aa a protest against the exe
cution of Thomas Mooney.
Wilson today bought 1 2.000 worth
more of 41ilrl-Liberty -loan "honds. -
He recently bouKht $1,000 worth.
THREE DAYS IN
K GRAVES
EMBED
THREE AMERICAN gOLMKRS
TAKE FROM Dl'GOlTS AFTER
SIECHEPRKY BATTLH
JHm FIGHT mi ALLIES
Wounded Yanks Being Received aa
Rm Hospitals Giro Ertdonc ot
Part They Are Taking;
With th American ' Army la
France, Apr. 16 .Two Americas
soldiers wounded la the Biechepref
engagement were found alive yes
terday la a'tfttgout'ln No' Vaa'a
Land. The dugout was badly smash
ed by shell fir.' Physicians say It
Is miraculous bow they kept alive.
Another soldier, burled for three
days, crawled to the surfae 1 ' and
was found In No Man's Land by
stretcher bearers. ' 1 "
Further details received at bead-
quarters of th engagement aronnd
Selcheprey show that the American
troops were outnumbered, In some
Instances, eight to one.
More of th American wounded
were found today, on of whom waa
buried alive for three days and had
been trampled over by the enemf
when 'he had crawled to the sur
face. In the belief that he was dead.
The American casualties are con
siderably less than the first esti
mate. -- . ' . ; -v. .
Parts. Apr. 26 American soldiers
wounded In the great battle .which
now Is being wsged already are ar
riving at tb rear. American wound
ed and sick to the number of IIS
hare reached hospital 25. They ar
from units engaged In fighting eld
by side with French and Brltlah la
stemming' the' German advance'.
Hospital 25 la one of the new In
stitutions established behind the Ha
as It stood, after .th .allies stopped
the recent Qerrnan drive In Plcardy.
. -Few of .tthe.. Americana, remained
at the hospta! jery, long, betngak
en "farther to the rear.
PRMttis
. Rev. L. Jdyron Booser of the Pres
byterian church returned home this
morning after spending several day
around San Francisco bay. ' Last
Sunday he preached ' at ' Oakland.
During the week he went out ' to
Camp Freemont, near Palo Alto,
where he was given an opportunity
to Inspect the workings of the great
army cantonment. He met Major
J. F. Truax, formerly mayor of thfs
city, and General Secretary lxng, of
the army Y. M. C. A., and wa taken
from one end of. the big cmp Bto, th
other. Rev. Boozer will, descrlb.hla
trip at the First Presbyterian cbnrch
Sunday evening, which will he "o
great Interest to people having rel
ative In .the, army, aa .well . as , to
others., , ;1. ..,:,( . .,, .
GRAZIIIG LAUDS
10 W
Washington Apr. 26. The recla-i
matlon pervlce has awarded con
trarts for the leasing of 60,000
acres of grazing lands In I'matilla,
Morrow" and Ollllam ' counties. Ore
gon. Robert I. Stanfleld, of Stan-
field, was awarded S2.0S0 acres for
5,900. v John Kenny, of Heppner,
' got 12,000 acres,. Residents of Ce-t
cil got other contracts.
i Kenney. of Heppner. paid
1 095 for 12.150 acres.
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