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. ' . . . DAILY EDITION VOL. IX, No. IMI). - OSAMTS PAIS, MtXPHira OOCHTT. ORSOOH. THI IWIMV, Al'CJl'ST S3. WHOLE TOWER M44. i J. ft IDE GAB. VETS TO 60 EAST FOR W MEETING Nl MIIKH OF .UVItKIUTKI KLK OA I'M IS ATTKmiXCK UK TWKKX 1WM AXI OOO 1 T llwltfa PaJtli In the I'nlim and lie llwre In I'lflniata Triumph of , Ainerioa 1'ortUod, Au(. 11. -Columbus. Ohio, will give the ' next annual grtwtlng la the UrnJ Army of the Republic when III veterans assemble next year for their (3d encampment. By an overwhelming vole at the ees Ion of the 0. A. II. yesterday after noon, the central eat-rn city was chosen. St. rul. which had launch ed a campaign, withdrew gracefully from the unequal ronleat. Pledging their faith In the Union and Iho ultimate triumph of Amer ica's came, Commander-in-Chief Bommers and members of hla staff addreeaed the sessions, which were held behind clOHed dunra In the 11 a onto Temple. No official roll call waa taken, but It la itlmatd that the number of accredited delegates In attendance Is between 500 and 00. True to prediction, only two nom inations were offered for the office of commander-in-chief, with the elec . tUra dfrrw4 anill thlf afternooa aa the cloning feature of the sessions. They are C. R. Adams, of Omaha, Neb., and F. H. Kurd, of Seattle, past-commander of the department of Washington and Alaska, Other nominations will be made at the time of election today. BAD CHECK ARTIST IS TAKEN At R0SEBUR6 C. M. Hall was arrested at flost burg last night on a charge of ob taining money under false pretenses on a warrant iMued from Josephine county. Sheriff tawls Is In- Rosoburg today and will return tomorrow with the prisoner. , Hall Is known In this county, hav ing formerly aotd stallions here. One of the stallions ho sold went to the farmers at Williams, bringing $2, 000. Tlio charge on which Mall Is being returned to this city Is for cashing a $25 check at the Josephine Countr bank, the check being drawn on the United States National bank at Port land. Hall Is also alleged to have ceshmt a worthless check for $20 at the Temple meat market tn thla city, beside spreading many other spur- lous checks In various parts of the stnto. Yesturday Sheriff liewls received word thiit Hall was at Medford, and lator'thlmnn, In company with a woman passed through Grants Pass lu an automobile on hla way north. The sheriff bJl once notified the offi cers north of this city, which result ed lit the arrest of the much wanted man at Roseburg Wednesday even ing. Washington, Aug. 22. To co-ordinate the efforts of tbe allies and the United States In Russia It has boon decided to create two Interna tional councils, one at Archangel tinder the presidency of Ambassador , Francis, and the other at Vladivostok to be com;o?eJ of hljh otflcl.Vs. TBI SWEEPS mm One llullillng With IWKI l'4e Ouly HlruHure in HuxliieM IKMrlrt r)Nirfx1 Tyler, Minn,, Auk. 11. Between 30 and 31 persona were killed and over 100 were Injured by a tornado, which tore this town to pieces at 10 o'clock lust . nlKbt. The tornado swept through the heart of the town sparing ouly on building, a moving picture theatre In which were 100 people. , V. 8. CAHl'ALTV LIST The following casualties are re ported by the commanding general of the American expeditionary forces: Killed In action 11 Missing In action -..... 13S Wounded severely 161 Wounded (degree undetermined) 41 Died of .wounds . 6 Died of disease 4 Died of accident and other causes 1 1 Prisoners 1 Total 3t Marine tVirpa Killed In action - Died of wounds received tn action Total . -. - ERIK FLEET A Canadian Atlantic Port, Aug, 22. The American achoonor Sylva- nla was sunk yesterday by an armed trawler, believed to be the Triumph, which was captured by German submarine yestorday. A Canadian Atlantic Port, Aug. 12. The steam trawler Triumph, fitted with two guns and wireless and man ned by 16 Germans from the U-boat which captured her yeaterday, la raiding the fishing banka oft the Canadian coast. Crews of the schoo ners sunk by the Triumph have ar rived here. Vessels known to have been sunk by the converted raider are the Una P. Saundtrs of Lnneburg, the A Piatt Andrew, of tlfoucester, Mans., and the Franc Is J. O'llara, of Boston. Captain Wallace Bruce, master of the A. Piatt Andrew, said on his ar rival here that his vessel was held up by the Triumph yesterday after noon and that he and hla crew were given 10 minutes to leave the ship. The Germans then sank her with bombs. MoVitrcal, Aug. 22. Virtually the entire fleet of the Maritime Fish Corporation has been destroyed by the converted trawler Triumph. API'KAL MOOXKY case ' San ' Francls'o, Aug. 22. The Mooncy case haH been appeatod to the United States suprome court. E AT THE COPPER MIS Turtles, who have recently visited the mines lu the Takllma district re port that mines In that locality are running full time with all the work- mon they can accommodate. Some high grade copper Is now being taken from ths Cowboy and the-Queen of Bronne mines nt Takll ma. This ore la being hauled by onto trucka and teams to the terminus of the C. & O. C. railroad at Waters Creek..,for shipment. The ore Is re ported to be getting richer In copper and the owners are optimistic over the mines' future output. Considerable prospecting Is still 'Ing done for chrome deposits In tbt-' Takllma district. BUSH SIASH AHEAD AND Allies Hare Men Over 100,000 Prisoners S-ce Julj 18 British Take Albert-French Hurl Ho Back ad Take Four Towns-Germans Beaten it all Pests London, Aug. 22. The British at- tacked the German forces this morn- Ing between the Bomms and the An - ere rivers. North of the' Ancre they crossed the Arrai-Hapaume railway. Between 2,000 and 1,000 prisoners were taken yesterday by the British. General Bylng'a army encountered desperate resistance in the Bapaume region and Achlot-le-Orand changed hands several times. The British are now In possession of the town. With the British Army, Aug. 22 The British are now holding virt ually all of the Arras-Albert railroad British tanks have passed beyond the Bomme and are working today as far eastward as the Bapaume-Arras road. South of Albert the British have crossed the Ancre river. Paris, Aug. 22. The allies have taken over 100,000 prisoners since July 18. With the British Army In France, Aug. 11. It has been unofficially reported that the town of Albert has fallen Into the bands of the British. Parla, - Aug. 12. The ..Germans were forced back over the 10 mile front during last night to a depth of from one to two miles, from Lasaig ny, which w'aa captured last night, to the Alllete river. The French took four villages, Jeplemont, Thlescourt, Cannectannsncourt and Vllle, and THE Mil Till ITS GREAT 1UE Paris, July 22. (Correspondence of the Associated Press. The case of one American marine who went through a hall of shrapnel and ma- chine gun fire at Cantlgny and Is now convalescing from a wound In the great America military hospital . . . . . . ( -. . I. .. 1. .. ai iseuuiy, in me i arts BuuumB. seems to have demonstrated that the American field helmet, commonly called by soldiers, the "tin hat" Is a throughly reliable article when put to the supreme test. This marine owed his life to bis tin hat." and the peculiar qualities ot Its steel In giving slightly without, ball. And this he did. One of the shattering. In the midst of the ar- surgeons remarked that the chances tlon he went down with a ball strIk-tof such a thing happening were less ing the top or the helmet and pree - sing down to the skull. He was brought back, along with the helmet which showed a deep Indentation about the size of half a base-ball. It was this Indentation which nart pressed down to the scalp, making wound which required trepanlng. But there It Btopped, and the metal of the tin hat after giving to the nl8 - sle intll Its force was spent, had'.- Kure8 such as Stonewall Jack - stopped It In Its doadly flight straight toward the brain. The tre - panlng operation was only Blight audi the marine was well on the way to recotery. . ' ; The Indented helmet was preserv- cd, not as a Bouvenlr, but to be for- warded to the ordnance experts at Washington to show them the good qualities of their helmets. It Is said' that a hard and brittle steel, which would have minted without giving, would have been shattered to bits by the Impact and the ball would hnve gone straight through the brain. ,' In an adjoining ward a stalwart young marine who had been In tbe same Cantlgny fight stood at atten tion with no apparent sign of wound. But the surgeon, feeling the boy's throat, nodded approvingly and tbotJcan maimed and wounded who have'pnbltc informalon deems is proper remarked that this was one' of the -I0LD ALL GAINS reached the Divltet river.. They also reached the Olse on a six mile front west of Noyon from Semplgny to Bretlgny, and further east took Bourgulon and St. Paul-ux-Boli, and reached the outskirts of Pom mlers on the Alsne west of Solssons. The early fall of Noyon la consider ed Inevitable. Paris, Aug. 21. The allied Wows on a 120-mlle front, from Solssons to Yprea, continues to force the Oer mans back and the enemy . appears unable to' stay tbe attacks which In creasingly threaten tbe stability of his defensive system In France. On four sectors Foch's troops have been hitting the positions for good gslns and the time appears near for the enemy'a general retirement. The French atand firm before Noy on, which la called the key to the whole German line weat of the Som- me river. Paris, Aug. 12. The . French troops have crossed the Ailette be tween Gunr and Champa, north of Coucy-le-Chateau. KORI TO RKTl'RX ALL PROFITS OX WAR WORK Detroit, Mich., Aug. 22. Henry Ford, through hla private secretary, announced thla afternoon that he will return to the United States gov ernment all the proflta be personally makes on war contract work. IT" PROVES III SUPREME TEST most remarkable cases that had ever come under his observation, and 'probably the only case of the-kind on record. A bullet had struck the soldier In the left side or the neck and had gone through to the gullet, i where It stopped, and had then de- I 1 I l II A I.I. scended or been swallowed Into the stomach, An X-ray examination clearly showed the ball In the Intestines. But Instead of removing It by an operation the surgeons decided to await the course of nature and see If the soldier would digest the rifle .than one In a million, out a colleague 'added that the chancea were for leas than that as he could not recall any ,Hkp case In the whole range of mill- tary surgery. Manv 0f he French pollus under aiAmer)pin care were n tne wards tne daughters of the American Con - federa(.y, with the beds marked with; 'tn - ome. 0 the well-known south- g0I1) genRtor Zebulon Vance, General ' t,,ni,, u'hoi nf Alabama. when the big dietary kitchen was in.nPted later there was a savory Israeli df American dishes and daln- ties being prepared for the wounded men, and one of the surgeons cheer- ed the cooks with the remark. "Your dishes do more good than all our, medicines." And this U literally true, for these American wounded do not want foreign foods but Ions fortones. the slmnle old-fashioned dishes of I After repeated orders to the prls- home, like bollod custard, ma1t?d milk, egg-nog and bread and milk, So-that. even in the food American cooks are doing their share, and. down to the last detail the Amerl- canlsm ot the bl? military hospital submitted to Washington and Btich ifacturers and excessive profits to ts nrnvlns a htesslnr to the Amerl-, Information as the committee of manufacturers. However, the re- rn" hv from the front. Hays rroeerwtkrti of War Ilea Tlera DrUyed Would Ceil Youths of IS Yeara Washington, Aug. 22. Senator Chamberlain made a rigorous argu ment In favor of the "work-or-ftght" amendment, declaring that the men at borne should either work or Join the army, ae the soldier baa to work for $30 a month and gets shot If be disobeys. Senator Chamberlain urged the calling of men from 18 yeara up and aald "the pussy-foot policy or getting over a few men at a time baa al ready delayed the prosecution of the war." START BIG DiYE Everett S. Hammond, of tbe Kim ball College of Theology, arrived In the city last evening from Salem. Mr. Kimball was here In the Interest of the national war service fund drive for the Salvation Army, which Is to be made from September 1st to 7th. Tbe total amount to be raised by this drive la $5,000,000 and Jo sephine county's share Is set at $140, The taoney Is to be used for Salva tion Army war work, one-fourth of the money raised to be used for war work In thla country and three- fourths for work abroad. The County Council of Defense has asked Roscoe Bratton of this city to superintend the drive here. Portland nut over her drive for tbe 8alvatlon Army last March, but tor certain reasons tbe, balance of the drive has been postponed until the present time. The ministers are all asked to preach on war work of the Salvation Army on the first Sunday In Septem ber. Dr. O. Q. Conway, of Willam ette university, who spent six months In France making a special study of war work, states that a dollar do nated for Salvation Army work goes farther than .for any other agency he knows of. The Salvation Army Is doing fine work for the eoldlers at the front and the drive, Is worthy of every loyal American's support. Dallas, Ore., Aug. 21. A. U. John son of -Pedee, was arrested and brought to Dallas a tew days ago to answer a charge of leaving a camp fire burning on the Pedee-Bald Mountain trail, contrary to the fire lawa or the state. Johnson was giv en a healing .'before Justioe ot the Peace Hardy Holman where he pleaded guilty and was fined $10. 7 ALIENS SHOT AT salt Lane city, uian, auk. a- Seven enemy aliens, Inmates ot , prison camp at Fort Douglas, were of.ehot by a guard this morning after they had refused to obey an order to disperse and had attacked the guard with stones and other missies. . J One ot the prisoners was wounded severely, 'It was said, but the Injuries lot the others . were minor. The guard's gun was loaded with buck- , shot. A tunnel dug by prisoners under one ot the buildings was discovered Tuesday nignt. ine inmates ot me prison baa Deen in a suriy mooa ever since and early today gathered outside their barracks and began to Jibe tbe guard, also to pelt nun witn oners to disperse were unheeded, the guard fired. The names of the prisoners wounded will not be made public un- til a detailed report of the matter Is officially given out. L(T DECLMSSTATE OFl'M EMS AMBASSADOR I'LACKr) AFFAIRS OF I'. S. I.VDKII CAKE OP NORWEGIAN'S MS OD TO IffiE TroUky Denounce Action of Allies let Lsadlag Troope ost Murm&a CoeH Washington, Aug. 12. The Bol shevik! government has declared that a state of war exists with the United States. This country's attain have been placed In the hands of the Norwegian government. Washington, Aug. 22. All Amer icans In .Petrograd have been warn ed to leave tbe city. There are abont 20 Americana there. London, Aug. 22. Belated Ren ter dispatches say that the outstand ing feature of the all-Ruselan con gress was the denunciation by War Minister Trotxky, of the action , of the allies. In landing on the Murman coast. He threatened merciless measure of defense. A final breach between the two revolutionary parties la Russia was manifest from the opening of the congress. . Uproarious scene and re crimination marked th meeting ot the congres. - On Jnly t all the delegates ot the Social Revolutionists of the tft-to the all-Ruislan congress were arrest ed and the government of Vologda waa .declared In a state of alege ow ing to an anti-Soviet uprising at Jar oslav. On July 13 11 former officers who had served under General Alexleff were summarily shot In Moscow aa counter revolutionaries. On July 18 French and British military officers were prohibited from moving from one town to an other and a strict watch on their, movements was ordered. BY CO?.ui'ERC!AL TREATY New York, Aug. 22 The commer cial treaty which has been algned by the entente and Sweden, and which expected to diminish the sending ot supplies to Germany, gives the al lies 400,000 deadweight tons of shipping and 2,000,000 tons or Swe dish Iron ore. - . J San Francisco, Aug. 22. The quota tor the 12th federal reserve district In the fourth Liberty .loan will approximate $420,000000, It the government's call Is for $6,000, 000,000. ; SENATE COMMITTEE CRITICISES DELAYS Washington, Aug. 22. The senate committee Investigating ihe aircraft production made their report today, and In It criticised delays. They urged one-man control and a separ ate department. Washington, Aug. 22. The com mittee charged that the failure to adopt successful foreign airplane models and motors has resulted In a waste of millions of dollars and a dominance of the airplane program by Inexperienced automobile' mann- lport states that they are optimistic as to the future production.