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FRENCH AH CONTINUES
T0PUSHHUN8BACKWARD
Take 2,200 Prisoners ia The Capture of Pbprez and
Take Heights Dominating Carlepost-Many Vil
lages Fall to The Victorious French
With ths French Annies, Auk. 1.
Tho Fi'viich troop yotrdity look
tb heights dumlnatlni Iho Carpo-
yont plain south uf Noyon and also
captured tli town uf rimprex, taking
1,300 prisoner.
London, Aug. 19 Launching what
may ha dcschrlbed it an extensive lo
cal attack, the French last night
broke through tho German poult Ions
Jong (ho vital aoctor connecting tho
Marne and Plcardy battla field, be
tween the Olae and Alsne river.
.War Mervlllo. at the apex of the
Ly salient, the llrltlih proxrcsiied
further, and Co prisoner and a few
machine gun were captured. A
German counter-attack bntween Out-Icrnl'-rn
and Metren were hroktn ui,
AVIth tho French Army, Aug. 19.
The French progressed yesterday in
the Vicinity of luslgny, and are ap
proaching Fretnlere and Plessler tie
Hoy. In the nrtor between the
.Marne and Plcardy front the French
are alio progressing northwest of
Sois-nns, menacing the high roada
between Noyon and Chaulnet.
London. Aug. 19. -French troopl
jienetrated Into th village of L-aha-j
1 on the hill on the'weitetn aide
it lb Olae river northweat of I.u
becourt today, and made aome head
E
Ml PORTED SOLD
An extensive deposit of chrome
waa discovered In Pleasant valley, an
arm of Evans creek valley, by Phil
.Robinson, of Rogue River, who, after
thoroughly prospecting the claim,
found the percentage of chrome to
lie high. Portland capitalist were
oon Interested and It is currently
reported this week that Mr. Robliln
son sold the property to them for
415,000.
.Extensive prospc ting wa.i Itnm.
1 lately. begun by the piirch.intrs w:,o
report that (ho find Is extensive.
They huve since been offered f 100,
4)00 for tho mine. It Is currently re
ported. Another extunalve deposit of
hrome, yielding from 15 to 23 per
.oent, was recently discovered by C.
C. Clark, of Mod ford, In the Kane's
reok district, about four miles from
Oold Hill, .Mr. Clurk has bonded his
claims to .Merrick & McClollnn, the
oritur of Medford and tho lattor of
tho Greenback mine, the ono being
a capitalist and tho other a well
known mining englnoer. The sum
for which this property la bonded is
$5,000. Work on the clnlm was
lie g mi by the new owners on Thurs
day, ' Mr. Clark has other extensive
chrome prospects In that district, but
the claims bonded to Morrlck & Mc
31pllnn appear to be I veritable
mountain of chrome oro. Gold 1 1 111
.Hew.
'Paris, Aug. 19. Tho Gorman
lire la attempting to reansure the
public by the atatoment that a gen
eral retreat 1 necessary In order to
allow General Ludendorff room In
-which to maneuvre hi armies so a
to be able to assume the Initiative on
. vast scale In the west.
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way agaliut determined resistance
between I.aslgny and the Olae rltcr.
The French line tbla morning ran
from Font Noy-a to a rldga louth of
Andlgnlcourt, thence to Nampoel,
which the French have aurrounded,
and to the edge of Montage foreat. It
passe l.&0 meter aouth of Carle
pont and Jolna the old line north of
Tra-cy-le-Val.
With the British Army, Aug. 19.
The British, according to an official
dispatch, have raptured Outteripeen
ridge near the town of Nerrla. They
look over 6,000 prisoner.
Pari. Aug. 19. The French, at
tacking between the Olse and Alsne
over a 10-mll front went of Sols
on,' advanced an average distance
of one and one-third mile on the
full front, and penetrated to an ex
treme df pth of nearly two mile.
Enemy machine gunner reilated
desperately.
The (leruian air lervlce waa very
active In an attack between Carle
pon, four mile eaat of Rlbecourt.
and Fontenoy. The Frenrh occupied
the plateau west of Nampoel and the
edge of a ravine aouth of Aadlgnl-
eourt, and raptured Nouveron, Vln
gre and I.e Trlot, southwest 'of Bcu-
vralgnes.
The French took 1,700 prisoner.
HOOVER IGNORES THE
OF
London, Aug. 19. No Increase In
the amount of barley used for beer
In Great Britain will he permitted,
notwithstanding the demands of the
brewer for an extension of their al
lowance, according to the Central
New. This I a remit of the confer
ence of the food controllers of the
atllts during the visit of IIerbe;t C.
Hoover, the American food adminis
trator. Hurley la an Important constituent
In the standard loaf for the allies
which has beon agreed upon and also
I necessary for feeding animals.
These demands are considered more
Important than the claims of the
brewers.
UW UW1 IN
Cordova Alaska, July 20. (By
mall.) An unbroken Bt retch of 230
miles of United Statea government
built and operated railroad will be
In operation north from Seward
Alaska, by the end of the year, as
serted W. C. Edes, chairman of the
Alaska engineering commission while
hero recently.
. Mr. Edes Is in charge of the gov
ernment railroad now being built be
tween Fairbanks and Seward. This
summer work la being pressed south
from Nenana, an Interior railroad
point, and a gap la being closed be-i
tween Seward and Anchorage.
Two big locomotives formerly used
by the government iijyijp Panama
canal are how on their way from the
south to Nnnanna. The locomotive
will be sent to Seattle, thae to St.
Michael, western Alaska ty; ocean
steamer. At St. Michael they will
be put aboard a river Bfflfl and car
ried up the Yukon and tenana rivers
to their destination.
RECOGNIZES
GERMAN 1
OFFICER IN Nl
OFFICIAIJ
A OMIT l-OHHIIUMTV
OFUKHM
WITH
ANfUOMMlMCiTIVG
ATLANTIC COAST
LANDED- MEMBERS OF CREWS
Knnmjr lUildera Imported .to Have
Cut Trnn-Atlnnllo Cabin From
American Port
Washington, Aug. 19. American
naval officials admit the possibility
that German aubmarlne have been
communicating with persons on the
Atlantic coast, and that they have
landed member of their crew.
An American steamboat officer re
ported that he recognized a aubmar
Ine officer In New York. It la alio
announced that enemy raldera re
cently rut a tran-At!antle cable out
of an American port.
PLAN TO STABILIZE
Washington, Aug. 19. The na
tional petroleum war eervlce com
mission' plana for the itaballutloo
of petroleum price waa accepted to
day by the fuel administration. It Is
believed the plan will prevent any
radical change In the price consum
ers pay for gasoline and other petro
leum product.
FORECAST FOR PERIOD
AUGUST 19 TO AUGUST 21
Washington. Aug. 19. Pacific
Coast Statea Fair except local rains
In western Washington and Oregon
the first of tho week.
DISCOVERY MADE BY
ADDS SPEED III 1111 OUT SHIPS
Colonel Frank M. Leland, well
known In Grants Pass through his
mining operation In Josephine coun
ty, and whose mother Is a resident
of this city, I having a big part In
shipbuilding operations, according to
the following article from the San
Francisco Examiner:
Lost arts of other ages, comolned
with the benefRs of modern science,
are being utilized In the romance of
the shipyards of today. Each rlvet
driven In a ship's keel, each step to
ward America's maritime supremacy,
carries with it memories of the days
when knights went forth to battle,
when th'e swoi'dmaker of Damascus
or tho blademaker of Toledo fabri
cated weapons that would pierce the
strongest armor without being
broken.
At the plant of the Moore Ship
building Company, Oakland, this re
claiming from other ages has re
sulted in greater efficiency In ship
building, has given greater skill to
tho workera and Is working a finan
cial aavlng.
"The lost art of, tempering steel
ha at last been found," Frank M.
Leland, efficiency engineer at the
plant, said aa he explained what he
terms the greatest advancement In
handling steel utilized because of the
war. "Every tool In the yard has as
perfect a temper a the finest Toledo
awordblade."
An ordinary piece of Bteel can be
handled under a process Introduced
Into shipbuilding by I.elnnd and
made,' the equal of the highest grade
of tool Bteel. In a test a needle
pointed chisel was driven through a
blo'k of steel an inch and a halt
RICE RIOT
VIE MAD
IN JAP CITIES
TIMKIH CALLED OIT IX M.I XV
IMPORTANT (TTIKH TO Ql KLL
RIOTOUS MOW
HsiKr Prohibited From Giving
IlrjMiH nrllere lUoe Queatloai
Ha llM-ome Politic!
Toklo, Aug. 1. Newspaper have
been prohibited from printing re
porta of rice riots. The ministry
say disorder are abatlug. It U
believed that the rice question ha
become political. -
Toklo, Japan, Aug. ' 19. Troop
have been called out in nearly every
Important city In' Japan. Even the
naval station at Malsuru I affected
by the unrest.
At Nagoya, noted for lta manufac
tures of porcelain, a mob estimated
at 30,000 person rioted. At several
place the soldiers fired on the dis
turber.
At Kobe the aoldlere and police al
so were obliged to use sabers and
bayoneta.
London, Aug. 19. A dispatch to
the Exchange Telegraph from Tien
Tain dated Friday say:
"The Japanese rice riots are Drov
ing the worst outbreak agalnat the
constituted authority witnessed In
many year. The rioter are resort
ing to get of extreme violence, inch
aa the use of dynamite and Incendiar
ism."
Toklo, Japan, Aug. IS There was
er!ous food rioting in Toklo Inst
?Lht. Mobs attacked and damaged
property In the business and theater
district.
Ilia
thick and came out uninjured.
Chisels that under old methods
would break or bend after a day's
work are now used for eight or nine
daya before returning to the black
smith shop for new tempering.
Leland Is an old-time associate of
K. S. Moore and was with him in the
Rladon Iron Works In San Francisco.
In recent years he was retired, hav
ing b-en successful In mining ven
tures. When the ship Industry
re.vhcd Its present size Moore com
mlHsioued htm to take charge of the
plant's efficiency and his first move
was the Introduction of the new tem
pering sword. ,
The system was Instated by
George Wheeler, a metal expert of
Pasadena, who discovered It years
ago but never turned It to practical
purpose.
A direct saving of $1,500 a month,
according to Leland, Is being made
by the Moore plant In the longer
usage of tools. The breaking of riv
eting dies, each valued at $1.80, has
been reduced from 228 in a single
week to 19. In addition the long
use of the tools has reduced the num
ber of tool dressers employed by 76
per cent.
The merit of the new process rests
in a perfect equalization of the In
ternal strain of the tool. This Is ob
tained by a scries of three heatings,
and coolings under secret conditions.
Us? of the process, as soon as Us
practicability was discovered, was of
fered to the other shipyards by R
3. Moore.
"This I a point gained for Uncle
Sam and a point gained against the
US ANDJA1ETS USED
FRANK n
Ml
i i iimn i
(Continued on Page Four)
CLASS
I I1IL -
TO 45 II BE NEEDED
Ccssideratica cf Man Power
tcittee Objects
Year-Old Boys
Washington, Aug. 19. Considera
tion of the man-power bill will be
gin In the senate Thursday. Secre
tary Baker said he would not object
to a provision making a separate
classification for men between the
age of 18 and 19, and to defer call
ing them no far as practicable until
others In Class t had been exhaust
ed. Tbe secretary said: "There Is a
sentiment in this committee against
the culling of men as young aa 18
unless absolutely necessary. I think
the sentiment of the country is to get
all the men necessary."
21.467 U. S. LOSS
SINCE IR BEGAN
Washington, Aug. 19. Casualties
In the United State oversea forces,
announced by the war and navy de
partments during the week ending
yesterday, numbered 1.255, compar
ed with 4.91C tor tbe previous week.
Total casualties announced to date,
number 21,467, Including 376 in yes
terday's army list. Total army casu
alties number 18.707; the marine
corps lists total 2,760.
The summary of the army casual
ty list now. Including yesterday's list
follows:
Killed In action, 3,869.
Died of wounds, 1,189.
Died of disease, 1,556.
Died of accident and other causes,
682.
Wounded In action, 9785.
Missing In action, Including pris
oners, 1,626. ,' -
Total to date, 18,707
The summary of the marine corps
list follows:
Deaths, 837.
Wounded, 1,830.
Missing in sction, 88.
In hands of enemy, 5.
Total to date. 2,760.
Amsterdam, Aug. 19. The Ger
man correspondent at Petrograd says
the Soviet government will declare
war on the entente allied countries
soon.
OF
Ll
A highly profitable run of salmon.
chlnook. is now on In the lower
Uogu river and has been noticeable
for the past ten days, says the Marsh-'
field Record. The season closes the j
25th of August and It is believed be
fore that date the average or greater
than average receipts will be on
hand. The fore part of the season
was not so heavy but fishermen made
wi7ar and aome did much better.
o
The run now Is extraordinary, for tho
fish are coming higher than a 80-
pound average, 40 and 50 pound flsb
are common. Eighty boata are op
erating at present and the catches
run from 35 to 40 fish nightly. More
men are delivering to the Macleay
cannery than to the Seaborg. Resi
dents of Gold Beach and Wedderburn
say the prevent run, relating to size
of the catch, was never outrivaled.
1 llfl FROM 1ft
U I IIUIII I u
Bill ia The Sete Ttssiay
to CaEg 18 ad 19
Fcr Active Serrice
Adjutant General Crowder laid
tbe plan would be to call 2,000,000
men between now and the end of
next June. General March In com
menting on the situation aald that
he believed that every man In class
1, between the ages or 18 and 4$
will be needed.
General March said they bare
planned to send 250.000 troops per
month to France for the present, aid
it Is bopd to Increase the number
in tbe spring.
The American army August 1
numbered 1.012,112.
HOT Hi SPECIAL CALL
Washington, Aug. 19. Adjutant
General Crowder has called on 18
slates for 5,709 white draft regis
trants with a grammer school edu
cation, equipped for general service
to be lent to special training schools.
The northwest states are not Includ
ed In tbla call.
Secretary Baker declared In a
statement to the house military com
mittee that no general exemption of
married men, simply because of their
married status, wss contemplated by
the war department In preparing the
proposed extention of draft ages.
The secretary said his previous re
marks bad been misconstrued. He
states that married men not support
ing their family -or engaged in a
useful occupation should fight.
V. 8. CASUALTY LIST
The following casualties are re
ported by the commanding general
of the American : expeditionary
forces:
Killed In action 95
Missing In action 288
Wounded severely -255
Wounded (degree undetermined) 50
Died of wounds . 30
Died of disease - - -. 13
Died of accident and other causes 13
Died of aeroplane accident .. . 2
Previously reported missing, now
reported dead . 12
Total . 758
Marine Corps '
Killed In action 6
Severely wounded In action 7
Slightly wounded In action 1
Wounded In action (degree unde
termined) .. 11
Died of wounds received In action . 5
Died of disease 1
Total 31
Corpolar Leslie B. McKay, of
Portland, U among the killed In ac
tion. WESTERN UNION OPERATORS ,
GET WAGE INCREASE
New York, Aug.' 19. Postmaster
General Burelson has approved the
10 per cent Increase in wages for the
Western Union telegraph operators.
IS
OHM DV OIIDMAK
0Uhi Dl OUDWWliU.
Washington, Aug. 19. The Nor
wegian bark Nordhav was unk by a.
German aubmarlne oft the Virginia,
'cape. The crew was brought in by
Ian American warship.