1 . DAILY EDITION VOK IX, No, HUM. Gaum pam, josErmmB oocmtt, Oregon, tikhdav, axy 23. wuolb number mis. mm s AIUIKI) i.sm I.KAVH Al'HTHIAN ARMY AM) AHK (X)CKTUAT. IX) IM MOI NTAINH CIVILLWS ft III SYMPATHY AaUmrttir Mitke Public tHtW Threalonliig PuaMtnireit la AU Involved la Movement London. July 21. Iteuter' 11m Hod correspondent loarns from a re liable Cxech aourc that many Cm cbo-Blovaka and Jugo-fflava art de sertlog from the Austrian army and forming armed guard In the Inter ior raited "green guards." A. considerable number of Cseiho 8lotak deserters hart concentrated la the Beshld mountains In Eastern Moravia. They ar well armed and are offering atubborn realatance to the gendarmes, "Obviously," lays Renter agen y, "they receive support from the elvtllin oopulatloo. The authorities already have received a public or ter threatening punishment to all persons lending support to the move- "Similar revolt arc taking place la Dalmatla, where) the military an thorttl have Men unable to sup rata a revolt of armed bands of de serters and escaped Rnsslaa prison at. .The official organ, Bosnlsch Poet 'make allusions uggttlng that atatllar bands are springing up In Bosnia." j oolonkl iioohkviclt NOT ' TO BI N X)lt OOVKRXOR I. Oystr Day, .July IS. Colonel Theodore Roosevelt Isaued a state seat today In which he declared un ter no conditions would he accept the republican nomination for the governorship of New York. f nnnnn nr m rnuuu ur An FORCES Pari, July 13. "Your country Is proud of you and I am more than proud to command such men aa you. Ton have fought splendidly." General Pershing thus addressed wounded American soldiers lying In . the American Red Cross hospitals in Paris today. In each ward of every Itospltal he talked to the men. He laqulred If they were being well eared for, and how and where they Ware wounded, what reglmenta they belonged, to, and expressed his sym pathy to scores of patients. General Pershing also talked to the physicians, aurgeona and nurses and thanked them for the work they were doing in caring for the wound 4. ) TEDDY JR. WOUNDED UE MAKING ATTACK Paris, July 33. Major Theodore Roosevelt Jr., was wounded while leading an attack on a machine gun neat southwest of Sol (sons Friday. A' machine gun bullet hit behind the. knee but broke no bones. . He will return to the front In six weeks. ' OKRMANS NOTIFY RBI) t'ltOHH OF ROOgRVKITS PKATH Geneva, July 23. The American lied Cross here waa officially notl fled today from 'Berlin of the death of Qnentln Roosevelt. ' mm CZECHS 1 1 GUARDS DAL1AGED VESSEL Tl IMIrVtnl to ll Belgian ItHlff Htram- er That Km lter VI.'KIm of I'. I tout An Atlantic Port, July 23. A Urge ateamer with part of the mokeetack gone and badly damaged and Intuw of a government tug off the southern New Kngland coaat, Is reported by the capltaln of a steamer arriving hare today.- The tug and the damaged ateamer were near the scene of the recent submarine opera tions. It la believed to be a Bolglan relief steamer that Is damaged. INDIANS USE CUNNING I With the American Army on the AUne-Marne Front, July 13. -The American Indians In France quickly adjusted themselves to the condi tions In the country.' They soon be came Just as cunning as In their na tive haunts. This Is Illustrated by an Incident when the Germans were withdrawing across the Marne. Indian scouts, with Americans, were sent over the river. At one crossing three Indiana Immediately Improvised a raft and chained It to the north aide of the Kama. They hid the raft and then atarted on an exploring expedition. The Germans discovered the strange footprint on the river hank tad came upon the raft. They awaited the Indiana' re turn, but after rtcennolterlng the Indians approached their hidden raft cautlonsly, and scenting trouble, made a haatf retreat."' M The Germane realised , that thee strange red men were not of their kind', and must therefore be an1 ene my, end began firing. The Indians ran through the woods like deer, and finally atruck for the water in an en deavor to reach the south side. The Indians, reared along the rlvera, swim like ltawailana and are able to remain below the surface for a long time. The Germans saw splashes In the water and began fir ing. The, Indians dived and swam downstream 1 under water. When they came to the surface for atr they brought up a handful tt cla wnlch they grabbed from the river bot tom and with this they camouflaged their hands and face while on the surface for a brief breathing spell. Finally the Indians reached the south .bank far below the Germans the current assisting them very ma terially. Then -they crawled back and peered through the bushes and watched the Germans aeeklng the bronied figures who apparently had been drbwned. The Germane, rough ly angered, ahot the raft to pieces. I NITKI) HTATKS TAKK8 ' . OVKIi CAPK G01 CAXAL Washington, July 23. To protect the coal supply going Into New Eng land from southern port from the menace of submarine operations off the New England coast; eontrol and operation of the Cape Cod canal la to be taken over by the government HOtiMBltS PRACTICE AT HITTING 1IVNS IN RKTREAT Rockford, 111., July 23. Five thousand Camp Grant soldiers who have been practicing nightly on the rifle range shooting at targets in the form of German faoes, have turned the targets around since the Ameri can victory In France and are now shooting at their backs. Sun Diego, July 28. It is report ed that a German raider is cruising off the Mexican coaat. 310 TO COAST II RAIDER REPORTED ON fAIICOAST GRIP BEING TIGHTENED UPON GERMAN SAUEN1 New French Onskagfct at Mcntidier Has tapcrtact Mili tary Bearing Eceay Stiffening Resistance and Bracing Himself at Every Point .ondon, July 23. The Americans are continuing to advance. They cap tured the town of Jaulgonne on the Marne, taking 300 prisoners. The French took the helgnts and the town of Chasons. To the eastward the French began new attack In the region north west of Montdldler and captured Oulchy Le Chateau. The Americans on the front south of Sotss'ona captured Buiancy. The British took Pettcbsmp wood, near Marfaux, between the Marne and Rholms, with ZOO prisoners ana 14 machine guns. In the Montdldler attack the French had advanced a mile on a four-mile front at 11 o'clock today. The attack by the French restored all the, ground loet Monday in the Grlsolle region in counter attacks by the Germans. Seven miles northwest of Chateau Thierry and north of the Marne, the French stormed the helghta north of Couroellrera. also holding the bend In the Chaaons region aa far a Tre loup, which la a town still in' the enamy'e hands. In fighting along the Marne. the French are exper iencing the greatest difficulty In making a passage of the river at some point oeing stubbornly op posed by the German Infantry, sup ported by the. artillery and machine guna. The Germans are stiffening their resistance between the Ourcq and the Alan and are . bring np guns.. Paris, July 18. North of Mont dldler In the Bomme seejlor late last night, a local operation enabled the French to occupy the village of Mallly-Ralneval, Sauvllfera and Au bvlller, taking 350 prisoners. With the Arnerlcan Army. July S3. The Franco-Americana north of Chateau Thierry are holding Ep ledes and the nearby villages and a FORKER GRANTS PASS BOY WfilTES The public library will have on Ita shelves next week, one of the most thrilling and intereattng atortes of the war. Intereattng, not only because "it deala with the adven tures of the American army but be cause it waa written by a former Granta Pais boy, Oabourne de Var tla. '"The First 8hot for Liberty" Is written in slangy, breesy English and permeated with sturdy Ameri can spirit, this atory of the young American gunner who fired recently the first shot from an American gun in France during the present war deserves a multitude of readers. The tale la told in simple, boyish fashion. The hero la Oeburne de Varlla, of Battery C. Sixth United States Field Artillery, who wa at school in Los Angeles, CJ., when he enlisted in the United States army April 25, 18-17, just It daya after this coun try declared war against Germany.. Corporal de Varlla ys he has red hair and freckle and la proud of them. His mother Is of Irish descent and his father French.' He posses sea, evidently, a fighting disposition and a quick temper. Hla grandfath er on the paternal aide fought for the Confederacy under "Stonewall" I Jackson, and his mother's father was a federal soldier with Grant. A racy, enjoyable account la given of the arrival of the troopship con taining De Varlla and hla comrade bit of the territory northeast of Mont St. I'cre. Further east the enemy Is attacking unsuccessfully. Paris, July 23. The French pro gress In the region or Oulchy Le Chateau will aoon render the Ger man positions In that sector unten able, according to newspaper. Paris. July 23. The French and Americans hare crossed the Marne over a 12-mlle front between Jaul gonne and Reull-car, near where the German line crossed stream when their offensive waa at Its height The allies are making Important pro gress all around the salient, where Germana were caught by . the allies In their attack Thursday. The new French onslaught In the Montdldler eector, may hare an Im portant bearing on the development of the military altuatlon on the whole front The enemy may choose a line along the Ourcq for further defen slve operation but the presence of allied j troop north of thla stream may compel the retirement of the enemy, at least a far as the Veele river. Thla Is aald to be Indicated by the concentration of German troop at FUmea and other jtolaU along the Veele. The French north of Montdldler bow hare' poeKlOha which dominate the Arre valley for several mile along the vital sector. French Army Headquarter, via Ottawa, July 33. North of the Marne the Germans are making pre paration for a further retreat ? In the angle between the Marne and the Ardre, on the eastern side of the salient, the enemy la blowing up munition dump .and burning . wu,c" "" um " um to remove. The enemy's positions la in a heavy wooded and broken (Continued on Pago Foar) I at a French port and De Varlla aaya the welcome of the French wa "like grand opera I once attended In Frisco." "The first thing I knew," writes De Varlla. " a middle-aged woman in peasant costume had swung her arms around my neck and waa kiss ing me first on one cheek and then on the other. Anybody would have thought I was her long-loet son. "When thla ordeal waa over 'the prettiest girl In France annexed her self to my neck and there was a smack that must have been heard at the Battery in New York.' " This waa all very pleasant but when an aged Frenchman dived at our young soldier, intent upon showing hia af fection In elmllar fashion, the brare lad cried "Halt." His regiment ocoupled barrack In village near the Swiss border where they were trained In the iise of the French "?6s." In Seplem' ber of last year De Varila wa made a cannoneer, and when he had been on French soli but a short time his hatred of the Hun had Increased i thousand fold. It waa while march Ing to the front that he first came to the fuli realization of what Ger man atrocities mean. Says the au thor: "in a village five miles further on we paused to rest. Here a wom an approached us with a boy about six years old. (Continued on page 4) EH Sill 1 PRE TAKES I E SYSTEMS JULY 31 I'uMtntMter ' Uurleaoa Appointed br W1Imb to reraonully IMrert Tele graph and Telephone line Washington, July 33. The presi dent Usued a proclamation today taking control of the telegraph, tele phone and cable radio systems, July 31. Postmaster Burleson will person ally airect me government opera tion of the telegraph and telephone systems. The proclamation did not Include the ocean cable and radio linee. The authority to operate the wire systems wag rested In the post muter general by President Wilson. TALBff CARR0LLS25 ET.OMAIfflT Asniana, July zi. a Ford ear driven by Clarence Jeffery. of Tal ent, left the embankment on the Pa cific highway a mile north of here last night and rolled 25 feet down to the railroad landing bottom side np. ine rour occupant or the ma chine escaped without dangerous In Juries, the most serious being i broken arm suffered by Mrs. Chu. Jeffrey. 4- ' V. A. CAHT7AUTT UBT i waamngtoa, July u. The amy casualties are 10S. Twenty-four were killed In notion, -. Three died of wounds and five from disease. Prl rate Percy J. Wallace, of Sumpter, Ore... waa wounded eeverely. The marine eorpa list la 28. CUfD ID US Washington, July I J Fifty thou sand negro registrants, qualified for general military service, have been called to the color by Adjutant General Crowder. They will en train between August 1 and Auguat 5, from 41 states and the District of Columbia. BO (BED Washington, July 22. Monday. The German high command appar ently la making desperate attempts to hold open the base of the salient between Solssona and Rhelma until troops far down the center of the great pocket toward the Marne can be withdrawn. "With French and American troops hammering away from the west and French, British and Italian force battering at the east flank, of the German position, It waa still far from certain tonight that the enemy would be able to get hla force out of the southern end of the aalientwlthout terrific losses. The situation on the flanks of , the salient waa not . clear today. Ap parently the enemy la fighting hard to hold the position around Oulchy La Chateau, where a railway line from Ftsmes, probably hla chief ad vance base and located at the , ap proximate center of the base line of the salient between Botuons and Rhelma, -has permitted " him to ' as semble considerable forces to resist the Franco-American . advance. Should the counter-attacks succeed In forcing this position or in break ing through either to the north a south of Oulchy, It la Indicated that the German defeat might be turned Into a disastrous rout GRAFT PLOTS ARE REVEALED BY OFFICIALS HA Kit V LAZARtS IS CHARGED WITH HAVINO PART IX ARMY CONTRACT BRIBERT MUM OFFICERS HATCHED Rejected Good Shifted to Other PUnU Where Bribed Inspector ' Would Let Them Through New York, July ,23. Harry Lax- arus, a member of the national de fense council sub-committee, waa ar rested today. He wis charged with having attempted to bribe the gov ernment Inspector (n connection with a conaplracy and graft In the soldiers rubber rain coat production. New York, July 23. Bxteuirt consplraclea Involving bribery aad graft la connection with army eon tracte for rubber coat to be seat " to soldiers la France, were disclosed today by department of justice of ficials almaltaaeonaly with the ar- ' rest of 17 officers aad employe of ' IS manufacturing companies In Now York and Brooklyn, oa charge of bribery, fraud or eonepiraey. Officers of the ''quartermaster's ' corps Involved ar eader surveil lance aqd probably will 'bV arrested soon In Washington or 'other cities. ' Hundred of thousands of dollars of raincoat contract! are tainted ' with fraud already -uncovered hy de-: partmeat of justice agents aad oth- ' er disclosures affecting army orders . for clothing soldiers' equipment machinery and' supplies and Inrolr-" Ing arrests on criminal charges may be made soon. It waa teamed. Most army officers at whom the ' finger of suspicion point are of the lowest ranks, but a few of the ranks of major and colonel are said to be, under lnret!gtlon. . Direct bribery of unnamed army officers who had charge of letting , contracts or Inspecting 'goods. Is - -charged against a number of those -arrested.. It waa announced that , la some case manufacturers IntlmldatMf military or civilian inspectors of raincoats by threatening to use In fluence In Washington to obtain ' their dismissal if they did not ap prove the coats manufactured. Oth-. , era practiced fraud by secretly shift ing rejected goods to other plant to which Inexperienced Inspectors ' or those who would "nlar the cams' were assigned. . -,.'. tra DRAMS LARGER LIMIT Washington. July 23. Secretary Baker announced today "that When : congress reconvened he weald pre -sent a request for a. modification of the draft age limits and a large mil itary mobilisation. : It la known that the prevailing judgment of his ad visors Is to lower rather than raise- them. ' . . TALIAIIS Cflll adva:;ce i;i albatclv Rome, July 23. The Italians con tinue to adrance In Albania. They have captured the hill on the crest of MallBtlores, Frenoh parties oc cupy the heights on the left bank ot the River HlolU