Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, September 19, 1918, DAILY EDITION, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextDAILY EDITION v I VOU X No. im j. OBAjm pats, jossypya 005 im. ozraox, thi iwday, beptemrkii 1, 10m fbii ARE RGB fos SI. Ml PENaTrllATB positions three MLU FROM STRONGHOLD )! HINDENBURd LINK Wi SHOOT OMIIJTOCIII Gersnaa Art Ordered to Hold (Ira . aad "Not field Another Foot of Pari, Sept. 1 Tbt French laat alght continued thslr progress to ward tot Bt. Quentln region and penetrated th Oermaa positions at Contesrourt, thre mil southwest of Be Qusntln. Along tha Vle, where tha Amer loan and French troopa war station ed tha Gorman attack northeast of Courlandon waa broken up by (Ira from tha French artillery, Thi French have adranced clos to Dal Ion, leaa than two ntlea from tht outaklrta of St Quentln. The taking of Bt. Quentln remalna difficult tank, however, tor the Oermana art In strong defensive po- Itlona anda raptured order from General von Morgen to the 14th re terra corps emphaaliea the Import ance of tha terrain they hold. He orders them not to yield another foot of ground In "tha Imminent de cisive battle." 4 U. bV CASUALTT UBTv. '.. Tha following casualties are re ported by tha commanding general of the American expeditionary force for today. Killed In action 69 Died of wound II Died of disease ........... 1? Died of accident 4 Wounded severely" 83 Wounded, degree undetermined.. 6 Wounded illghtly S MUalng in action . 81 Prisoner! 9 Total 168 Died of -disease Sidney 9. Etter, Portland, Or. Severely wounded Conrad C. Cockerllne, Eycada, Ore. Marine Corp Killed In action Wounded In action, severely Died of wound Total HUNS SOON TO MAKE AH PEACE OFFER London, Sept. 19.- It I rumored In Berlin that when tha relohatag meet there will be another peace demonstration similar to that of July, 1917, according to an Amster dam dispatch to the Exchange Tele graph company. It li said that the terma of a peace resolution are be ing drafted by the majority leaden In consultation with the Imperial chancellor. The relnhstag wilt con vene November 5. , OF ACES DIES FlbHIC JOCIIES Itavid Putnam, Who Brought Down IB Him, Meets ftudrfea aad Tra. gV Death) With the American Army In Lor rein, Sept 19. Hrt Lieutenant David B. Putman, of Massachusetts, tha American ac of ace, waa kllird lata Wednesday while on patrol duty along th Amerloan lines. He was flying with another Aviator whn seven Oerman machine unexpected ly attacked them. Four of them mad for Putnam' airplane and, be ing able to fir) from abov him, shot him twlc through th heart His machine glided to earth within the Amerloan line whsr hi comrade found him. Putnam had brought down II ma chine, fir In on day. H waa descendant of Israel Putnam. WO.'.'EN CALLED TO HELP 2 London, Sept. 19. "The Bolshe vlkl forces are retreating from both the northern and southern fronts, according to a Stockholm dispatch. The Csecho-Slovaks atlll hold Sama ra, which the Botshevlkl . claimed had been retaken. v M ' . j "Th women all over the United State ar to be big vital factor In putting th Fourth Liberty loan 'over th top'" aald Mrs. Ounnell upon her return yesterday from attending the county convention of the worn en's Liberty loan committee In Port land. The Mother' parade, the on spe cial feature of the Liberty loan cam palgn Is entirely In th hands of the women. This parade Is not th plan nlng of th local committee, but i national event planned at Liberty loan headquarter, and every town of any als In the state of Oregon, excepting one, la to have a parade of this character or will participate In that of a nearby town. Portland Is expecting to have the most Impres ts pstrlotlo parade of It history, and so on down the line of smaller cltlea and towns. Bach Is planning to put forth Its most eloquent appeal to the tightened purse strings. through this wonderful testimony of what the women of the United States hav given to drive back tha Hun. And so every, woman and child that Is eligible Is urgently requested by the national committee not merely aaked If they would like to but most urgently requested to enter this parade. The paramount order received Is, "If you have this par ade, make It a success) Better have one, than one with half the people n It to which you are entitled." Josephine county has never stag ed a failure In any line of her num erous war activities, and tha Moth er's parade must not head such a st. So one more the call to pa triotic, loyal women of Josephine county 1 made by the government nd the local committee Is confident that the call will be cheerfully an- wered by every woman and child ho Is eligible. ' Those who are asked to join the Mother's parade are: Mothers, grandmothers, wives, sisters and children both girls and boys of those In the service. The parsde will be Saturday evening, Septem ber II, and those participating are asked to be at the courthouse at 7 o'clock. ( All bring what service flags you have. Those lacking will be sup plied. All will please wear white or very, light dresses, as any colored or dark clothes would greatly mar the effect of the parade. "Over the top" we must go with a splendid parade. Let every pa triotic cltlsen make It their special mission to reach all who should know of this event and aee that they are there. Her Is another chance to help win the war by helping to make the Mother's parade a wonder ful success.- Not only are the women asked to take' charge of the Mother's parade, but they are requested to take an active part In the soliciting teama for th Fourth Liberty loan. The wom en of many of the counties in Oregon are now taking this up' for the. third time, Josephlhe county being one of WHOLE KTMJ1E3 1437. BISII TRO OPS TAKE 8.000 BOCHES. 40 GUilS Fi:!t Ih4 Arc::J kzbri, IEi Ibj tcztzi b Ea- circb St. kr-f-z rJ Srb DJl th til C:t Ha b Fell Flil With th British Army In France, Sept. II. Oeneral Halg' force up to midnight last night had captured over 1,009 prisoner aa a result of bl drive on th Cambrel front. The British also took 40 guns. London, Sept 19. British troop last night progressed further In their drlv Into th Hlndenburg line In the St. Quentln region, aimed at th en circlement of that town. Th ad vene continued to north of Pon- truet, where they reached the out post positions of the Hlndenburg line. Th Australians renewed their at tacks and carried the Hlndenburg outpost. Many prisoner and ma chin gun wr taken. Th town of Lamplre and Oauch Wood were captured. Lamplre la four mile west of Le Catelet. The Oermana started aa Intensely heavy bombardment late yesterday southwest of Cambral. , Heavy In fantry attack which followed were repulsed. London, Sept ,19 Th Bulgarian ar la awlft flight in Macedonia and ar burning their store and village. The allies hav advanced over It mile and their progress is so rapid that they hav not been able to count the prisoners and war material cap tured. New regiment thrown in by the Bulgarians were forced to . retreat with the other. Th Bulgarian are defeated completely and the Ser bians ar pursuing them day and night Th Serbians and French have taken th town of Topoleta, Pot- shlshta, Beshlahta, MelynlUa, Vltol Ishta and Raslmbey, and also the heights of Kuohkov Kamen. HKITS DIRTY PEACE NOTE REJECTION ira;iT IWEISA With th American Army In eiiAiras THAT PLAY ODD TTIQKS With France. Sept. 19. From th manner France, (ContlnuiiLoR Page Four) In which th American army receiv ed toe es of President Wilson's reply to Austrla-Hungary'a peace note Its attitude might be character ised as one of grim approval. The report of the Austrian sug gestion that a peace conference be held circulated rapidly yesterday and the officers and men expressed the belief that none of th allied govern menta, certainly not theirs, would consider the proposals at this time. As the news of President Wilson's brief answer moved steadily toward the outposts and waa passed on by one soldier to another, there wss a feeling of relief among officers of high rank and an air of satisfaction from the enlisted men. The attitude of the soldiers, often repeated, was: "Sure he won't. ' The kaiser can't put over anything like that on him." The American army, as yet only lightly scarred y war, haa all the nthuslasm that characterised all armies at the beginning of hostili ties. The Amerlcsns wish Germany to be defeated. ' The Austrian prisoners In the hands of, the Americans appear to realise the danger to them of the constantly Increasing American army and are not Inclined to underesti mate the menace that goes with the enthusiasm born of a. victory so eas ily brought as was that In the St. Mlhlel salient. The Austrlans con tinue to insist that the peace offer was not a trick of Germany's, but that It should be attributed solely to Austria's determination to get out of what her people regard aa a bad bar gain. . : There' I no doubt that the Amer tsan soldlqr would be disappointed It peace were made at present unless It were based virtually on uncondition al surrender. th American . Armies In Sept. 19. Barbed wire I OE which protects the tranche playa 4d trick on the soldier sentries. Th ground under the wire be come a runway for all th amall thing of th night. . Rats make trapeses out of the taut strands, weasela follow them and the tight which ensuea may aet dancing all the empty jam tins strung along the wire as alarms so that sentries over a long stretch of front will fire re peatedly Into the night, bringing the guarda to their post and awaking soldiers over a wide area. At night the wire takes on a ghastly aspect The cool dews set tle on the picket poata and the wire contract, straining with little rust ling and creeping noises or chafing and chattering like a living thing. The muffled sentries prick their ear to listen and peer anxiously through the darkness, now and then dis charging a shot Into the black night. for It Is sometimes difficult to tell whether the noise is that of the wire or that of enemy meddlers In No Man'a land, secretly cutting a path way through the defenses. When the barbed wire Is new and freshly erected and secured to Its stout scaffoldings and stages it look like some carefully planned , work of engineering, the skeleton perhaps of some concrete rampart or break water. Time weathers It at first to an ugly thing of red rust and sullen neutral tints, but later It may blos som In amatlng beauty aa the rich weeds and undergrowth climb up ward through It meshes, leaving corn-flowers and blazing popples to cloak its ugliness. UK IS BID Betrayed Roeosaaia, Murdered Reus. sUas, and Gave Order to Shoot Potlah People Ea Mae Washington, Sept. 19. Th be trayal of Roumaala and elaborate advance plan of Germany and her Russian Bolshevik! tool for suppres sing and murdering loyal Rouman ians, (Russian and Poles, ar ex posed In detail ty today' chapter of th astounding secret Russian doc ument which th American govern ment I giving to th public. Other Installment of th series hav described how tha Bolhvikl leaders, Lenin and Trotsky, and their associates, war bought by th Germans for minion In gold and en gineered their bloody overthrow of Russia for th benefit of their mas ters. Now the tory I told of how, while th Brest-Utovsk peace con ference fare still waa in progress, tha Bolshevik! were sending hired agent into Roumanla to disorganize the armies of Russia's ally, dethrone th Roumanian king and tarn loose' th German armies occupied there tor service In a great offensive on the weatern front The second phase of the latest dis closure show th BoUhevlkl, at Ger man direction, undertaking not only to kill refractory Russian generals, but to shoot individually and whole sale Polish soldiers who were refus ing to he sold to the German and patriotically keeping, tha field against their enemies. One of the documents transmit order from the German Intelligence service to "take moat decisive measure, up to shoot ing en masse, against Polish troops, and to institute surveillance of in stltutlon and person Including the Roman Catholic, Polish clergy. Explanatory notes by Edgar Sis- son, who obtained the documents. and many details lacking In th pa pers themselves. Include a story of how the Roumanian minister barely escaped assassination after being ar rested by th Bolshevik! and released through the efforts of Ambassador Frauds and other diplomats. IE BBSS INTERESTS 'rang IWESTIGATIOJr Of TTIZIR POUT 1GAL ACTIVITIES HAS BXST ORDERED BT SEX ATI IDSOfCCZESSLUET Arthsur Brtsbaste Aanooaces That C Bosagtu Washington liases Wltk Mowey Lea by Brewer Washington, Sept 19. Aa Inves tigation of political and propaganda activities of th brewing interests haa ben ordered by th senate. Th investigation la directed particularly at tha charge that brewer bought Washington newspspers, contributed unprecedented sums to campaign funds and influenced newspapers through advertising contracts, and paid money even to government offi cials and obtained pledgee from member of congress. Arthur Brisbane announced lata yesterday that he bought th Wash ington Time with money lent by tha brewers. ARMENIAN TROOPS KOT ABLFTO STAND RRE ' London, Sept. " 19. The former Russian dowager .empress and three princesses and two grand duchesses, whose names are not reported, were burned to death about a month after the 'Russian emperor was shot, ac cording to a story reaching London. The source of information la given consideration and an Investigation has been started. x" London, Sept. 19 Bakuktn Trans Caucasia, has been evacuated by the British who withdrew , to northern Persia. This was made necessary by the unsteadiness of the Armenian troops when they were attacked by the Turks during August. 8TIUU8S 18 NEW MEMBER Washington, Sept. Albert Strauss of New York has been nom inated by the president to succeed Paul k. Warburg aa a member of the federal reserve board. ' i LIEUT. HEE ALIEN becomes mm Word has reached Grants Pass that Lieutenant Niel Allen, formerly of this city, wss married Saturday, September 14, at Palo Alto, Cel., to Miss Evelyn Carey, of Palo Alto. Lieutenant Allen bad received . or ders to be equipped for over seas service by the 15 th. Whether the bride la considered as equipment is not made plain. Lieutenant Allen is the eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Wllford Allen, now of Salem. He graduated from the Grants Pass high school and in 1918 graduated from the law department at Stanford university. He was a member of the officers training corps and received a commission aa aecond lieutenant. He haa a host of friends In' this city who wish tor him a brll iant part in the great struggle and a long and happy married lite. V. B. TANKS BLAMED BY HUNS WOK LOSS Amsterdam, Sept.' 19 The Frank fort Zeltung's correspondent tele graphs the following from the west front under date of September 16: "The Franco-American attack at St. Mlhlel Is now seen to have been a carefully planned undertaking of considerable magnitude. The num ber of attacking enemy divisions Is not yet known for certain, but we know that our losses in prisoners were due to the extensive use by the enemy of tanks. More than 1.000 armored cars of all slies participat ed. "One of our divisions counted In Its sector alone 80 large and 40 small tanks. Troops who hold out stoutly In their positions are always liable to be surrounded by this mo bile arm." G:fATMCC:3 :m seft. 23 Th following self-explanatory telegram has just been received by th chairman of the Fourth Liberty loan committee: "Salem. Ore., Bept 19. A special train of four cars carrying captured , German cannon, machine guns, bomb throwers, gas tanks, bombs, gas masks, shells, helmets, breast plate , and much other war equipment will reach Grants Pass Monday at II noon. The shipment mast leave at 1:20 p. m. A Pullman containing soldiers and speaker is accompany ing the train, but we want yon to . have the local band at the station while the exhibit is at your town. This Is the biggest thing that aver came to Oregon, and no one should miss it Sorry could not give you earlier notice. Give this all the pub licity thst you possibly can. "SMITH, Manager." Such an exhibit ia surely worth anyone's time' going mile to see. Re member the date of the arrival of the train Monday, September II, at noon. FIVE VOLUNTEERS ARE WANTED QDIATELY Chairman O. S. Blanchard of th local Red Cross chapter wants five people to volunteer immediately to constitute a commtttee to take In charge the collection of all available used clothing for the benefit of the Belgians. This clothing must be collected next week, unless we per mit the Belgians to auffer this win ter. Here Is an opportunity to show your real self-sacrifice. The work will not be difficult and the plans are , already made. Tour name should be In the hands of the chair man by 10 o'clock tomorrow morn ing. ' The names of those who are willing to make this sacrifice will be published. SPECIAL WAR TAX OF )YED Washington, Sept. 19. The house ways and means committee has ap proved the special war tax of $10 a year, to include all persons In pro fession and trades earalng 92,000 or over per year. . -W-tttS? J r .