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VOU I.X., Nit, a. DEATH WARRANT RIGNED WITH OUT READING AND PKOPIJ. GIVEN NO TIUAIi MUFFLED GUNS FOR VICTIMS V. 8, IIm Known (ir MoiiIIm That lktlabevlki Km lllml by Germany Washington. 8)t. 14. Stories of wholesale slaughter of representative people tad former officers because they are "dangers to the Soviet" are told In further accounts reaching the late department today of the reign of terror In Ruealan clliea against which the American government ha called upon all civilised nations to protest. ' All persons coming out of Russia are aald to bring report! of the e twtence of appalling conditions. One detail ta that vlrtlms are shot at Bight In cellar, guns being muffled with silencer. One Peters, head of the Bolshe vist extraordinary commission gainst counter revolutions, Is aald to sign death warranta without read ing the paper. The latest reports Indicate that the British and French consul-generals In Moscow are under arrest In their house. American Consul-General Poole Is at liberty nd permitted to visit his colleague. The state department haa had no answer to the message sent Isst Sat urday to the allied and neutral na tion In an effort to bring about a universal standing against the ter rorism of the nolshevlkl In Russia. Secretary Lansing said today the action may result from the sending of the not without any direct re sponse, Inasmuch aa some of the neutral nations at least have repre sentative In Moscow and Petrograd nd, through them, may bring pres sure to bear upon the nolshevlkl leaders to put an end to the reign of terror. It became known today that the tate department for eight months prior to their -publication had full knowledge of the documentary evi dence of German control of the Bol nhevlkl recently made public. II. P. TRAIN IS HELD UP BY A Li Seattle, Sept. 24. The police are searching for a bandit who held up a Northern 1'aclflc train near Ever ett last night, escaping with several thousand dollar worth of registered -Sail. U, 8. AHMY CARGO Ml IP Rl'NKi 45 OF HER CREW LANDED Washington, Sept. 24. The V, & 8. Buena Ventura, an army cargo voseel of 4,878 tone was torpedoed ,and sunk off the coast of Spain, the navy department announced today. TWenty-one men are still unaccount ed for. Six officers and 39 men have been landed at Brest by a French destroyer and two officers and 27 men hare been landed at Corona, Spain. YILL BE BARRED FROMs IE! Washington, Sept. 24 Unnatural lsed German women may not enter or live In cones within a half-mile about camps or military Institutions after October 5, 'Attorney General Gregory has announced. SLAUGHTER By BOLSHEVIKS UNCHECKED LABOR AGflEEflllT TOAFFECTKEII Will Arrange I'Imi to IUI- Wage of lnwrr I'ald Group to Stand, rd Wage Scale Washington, Sept. 14. As a sttp toward the stabilising of wags con dltlons during ths wsr, a conference of manufacturers and representatives will be held hers tomorrow with ths wsr and navy department officials to discuss methods of enforcing the la bor agreement between the govern ment and workmen, and the govern ment and the employers. Ths plan will Involve sn agreement to Increase wages to some of ths lower paid groups to ths standard community or Industry wage srsls Millions of women will be affected. i. . casualty lot The following casualties ars re ported by the commanding general of the American expeditionary forces for today: Killed In action 121 Missing In action 14 Wounded severely J (S Died of wounds 21 Died of accident 4 Died of disease 5 Wounded, degree undetermined.. 2 Wounded slightly ....... 2 Prisoner ........... S Total 242 Killed In action Robert Bernar, Flora, Or.; Archie C. Btannard, Lebanon, Ore. Marine Corps Killed la action u... ......... -1 ' 10 1 1 21 Wounded In action, severely Missing In action ................... Died of wounds . In hands of enemy Total 2225 VICTIMS III DAY Washington, Sept. 24. Spanish nfluenia has made Its appearance In at least 35 army camps over the country. The surgeon-general's of fice announced tonight that the total umber of caaea has Increased to 20, 11, Including 2,225 new casea re ported today. Seven camps reported Influents for the first time today. Camp Lewis. Wash., reported 22 new cases today. The epldomlo continues most se vere at Camp Devens, Mass., General Oorgas said. The number of cases reported from that camp up to noon today was 10.700. Camp Dix, with 897 cases, la second. At Camp De vens the number of pneumonia case hlah. 424 new cases having been reported during the past four days. Influonxa case reported In west ern camps, excluding camp report ing today fof the first time, show: 1xgan. Texas, 175; Funston, Kan sas, 181, and Travis, Texas, 27." KU KIA'X KLAN APPEARS ONCE MORE TO WARN SLACKERS Montgomery, Ala., Sept. 24. "Work, fight or get'wns the ulti matum given slackers In this city last night by the Ku Klux Klan. , Clad In robes of white, marked with the acarlet cross, over a hun dred clansmen In large numbers is sued warnings to slackers and dis loyalists. This was the first time In 62 years the clansmen have .made their appearance la Montgomery. . ARCHBISHOP IRELAND KEPT ALIVE BY OXYGEN St. Paul, Sept. 24. Regaining consciousness for a few minutes now and then . today, Archbishop John Ireland, who li at ths point of death Is being kepi alive by oxygen, Is 80 years of age. He has rallied three time from seemingly fatal relapses. lite : i . - ' J DAILY ora'kti Pits, joaxram oocutt, oresom. ALLIES ARE SUCCESSFUL Grhirs Debt cf t!ay Cfcir:e iWb! Bifta Si:aCs Ct to to Retrextirck Tixtei ArcrdSt Qztrlia Paris, Sept. 24. Ths allied . of fensive on all front are progres sing successfully. Disaster Is threat ening the Ttutonlo armlea In Mace donia and It may change the whole complexion of affairs In the Balkans. In the far east the allies bars been victorious over the BolshevlkL The allies liars taken Blagorestchetuk on the Amur river and have moved 126 miles eastward since taking Chita and they bars occupied the city of Nerehlnsk. London. Sept, 24. The Serbians continue to cross the river Vardar northeast of Monastlr and are In contact with the (Bulgarian, who ar burning their rlllage and atores of material. Around Prllep the Ser bians ars on the Gradsko-Prllep road to the northeast, while to the south- ess t they hav reached the steel Mas sif of ths Drenska mountain range. London, Sept. 24. The Anglo Oreek forces In ths Dolran region have effected a Junction with the Franco-Greeks to the west and con tinue to pursue the Bulgarians. London, Sept 24. The Anglo Oreeks In Macedonia hare reached OF LOAN ARE ANNOUNCED Washington, Sept. 24. All terms of the Fourth Liberty loan except the slie and maturity, were announc ed today by the treasury. The amount, probably near 26, 000, 000, 000, wa decided on but announce ment wa withheld. The Interest rate will be 4)4 per cent, the same as that of the third loan. Bond will be dated October 25, five day after the close of the subscription period and the first In terest payment will be made next April 15, and will be for the 173 days Intervening. Thereafter, semi annual payments will be made Octo ber 15 and April 15. On a 250 bond, the first Interest coupon will be worth $1.01. on $100, 2.02, and higher multiples accordingly. . Both coupon and registered bonds will be Issued In denomination of $50. $100. $500, $1,000. $5,000 and $10,000. The $50,000 and $100,000 bonds will be registered only. Since the latest maturity periods of the first, second and third loans were 20, 25 and 10 years respective ly, It was considered probable that the maturity of the Fourth loan would be either 15 or 20 years. Ten per cent of the subscription will be required as the Initial payment on the Fourth loan. Twenty per cent will be due as Installments Novem ber 21, December 19 and January 16 and 30 per cent January 30. Terms of the loan were communi cated today to the bureau of engrav ing and printing, and within a few hour 500,000 finished bonds were ready for shipment. The bureau plans to print 35,000,000 separate; bonds for the Fourth loan, with a larger proportion of baby bonds of. the $50 denomination than In pre-! vlotis tasuea, In anticipation of a mul titude of subscriptions from persons of small means. i; -. x t -: Congress today completed and sent to ths president the administration bill designed to stimulate the sale of Liberty bonds by exempting from In come surtax and war excess profits taxes the Interest of such bonds held by individuals and corporations In amounts not In excess of $30,000 of the Fourth Issue and $5,000 of the first and second Issues. Ths meas EDITION TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1018. id Tfccir AEis b KzzlzHi Swokvltsa, making sn advance of 10 mile up ths Vardar, and ars now at Uasarll, three miles north of Lake Dolran. London, Sept. 24 The British are pressing In on St. Quectln directly rrom the west. British progress In ths region east of Veraand la an nounced. On ths front west of Cam bral, In the region north of Moeuv res, ths British positions hare been Improved. In the Arras-Lens sector the Germans tried to drive ths Brit ish from new positions southeast of Oarrelle, but were completely re pulsed. London, Sept. 24. British car- airy pushing, up ths Mediterranean coast of Palestine have occupied Ha ns ana Acre. The Turks east of ths Jordan ars withdrawing toward Amman, on the Hedjas railway. Ths Australian, New Zealand, Jewish and other al lied troops are pursuing the enemy and hare reached Ea-Salt, 15 miles northwest of Amman. The total number of Turks taken prisoners will exceed largely the 25, 000 already reported. ure provides for, rsgulatisn. of for eign exchange and authorises aa la crease In the laaue of war savings stamps from $2,000,000,000 to 14. 000,000,000. CANADIAN CASUALTY LIST CONTAINS OREGON MAN Ottawa, Sept 24. A Canadian casualty list contains the name of J. M. Sears, of Gladstone. Oregon, who was killed In action. JAPANESE TROOPS CAPTURE , 9,000 AUSTRO-GERMANS London, Sept. 24. Blagovlesch tchensk, capital of the Siberian prov ince of' Amur, and Alextevsk - hare been occupied by Japanese cavalry, according to Information received by the Japanese embassy. Two thous and Auatro-Oermans were taken pris oner. They laid down their arms at Kokka. GERMAN PEOPLE DECLARED CIU'SHBD BY RECENT TURN Paris, Sept. 24. A neutral dip lomat who has Just passed through Germany declared to the Matin that the food situation In Berlin Is so bad that foreign diplomats subsist exclusively on provisions sent to them. CRAZY MAN PULLS OFF Pendleton, Ore., Sept. 24. James C. Jenkins, a farm laborer, who' was severely burned Saturday while at tempting to stage a "fire ride' at the roundup, died Sunday. The man Is believed to have been demented to have tried such a stunt. . He satu rated his clothes In gasoline, set them afire, mounted his horse and tried to force the animal to gallop around the track while he srood up right In the saddle. The horse be came frightened at ths flames and refused to run, but kept circling around and around. The flames leaped; high above the man's head. Help rushed to him and succeeded In quenching the fire, but not until he had been dreadfully burned. The directors of ths roundup knew noth ing of the proposed stunt, as Jenkins planned to stage It as a sensational surprise. " - v ' " lllli m ri ill A i - t iiraiTO IE HEII'S JOBS Mont I frantic Order Ever Moed by War Board Will Weed Out Ma la light Work Every man In the nation who Is physically fit must fight or work In sn Industry necessary to ths defest of the Hun, says ths Portland Tele gram. Ths government many month ago decided upon this course and left IU adoption more or less to ths will and Individual Interpretation of (he men of ths country. Convinced, that ths present emer gency has not come hams with full fores to tboss who can and whose duty It Is to sld to ths fullest extent la the straggle against German kul tur, the gorernment at Washington hss takes a more drastlo step to see that It work or fight ultimatum Is carried out to the letter. ... With this ead in view, the nation al council of defense,' with head quarters In Washington, this morn ing wired John K. Kotlock, execu tive secretary of ths Oregon state council of defense, saying that a complete surrey must be mads of all Industries In which men ars em ployed and that every man found do ing work which can be dons by .wom en must quit such positions at once and engage In an essential form of labor, or be classed a a slacker and treated as such by the proper author ities. Ths telegram ssys It Is ths fore runner of an order being Issued by the provost marshal-general's office which will embrace the most drastic action ever taken In the history of the nation. Further assertion , Is niadSjhat new. lists of essential and non-essential forms of labor are ee- Ing mailed broadcast today. Mr. Kollock says work of carrying out this latest dictum of the gorern ment will be left in the hands of the labor boards of the various districts and that the process of weeding men from unnecessary Industrie snd put ting women In their places will be undertaken with the utmost speed The telegram of the national council of defense In full follows: "Please give publicity to the fact that Because of the present 1,500,- 000 labor shortage, both skilled and unskilled, In war Industries, with an Increased army coming, Nathan A. Smith, assistant director general of the V. 9. employment service. Is today mailing the most drastic In structions ever Issued In this coun try to all community labor boards, Instructing them to prepare and pub lish In every city In the country lists of non-essential positions now held by men that could be filled by wom en." FLEE FROM HOTEL FIRE Washington, Sept. 24 Fire in the tew Wlllard hotel caused a damage of $100,000 and sent many guests of national prominence hurrying to safety. Vice President and Mrs. Mar shall, senators and diplomats scant ily clad, dashed down the stairs. Sev eral women fatnted and one tried to leap from the third floor but was re strained. 183,000 HUNS CAPTURED IN TWO MONTHS BY ALLIES Paris, Sept. 24. .In a review of the battles In France during the past six months, the Havas Agency cred Us to the American troops the re establishment of the balance on the western front and points out Ihe en tire change that has .taken place In the last two months. "In the last two months alone," it says, "the allies took 185,000 pris oners. The enemy losses In men who will never be sble to return to the ranks are estimated at $00,000; a void which the 1920 class win not suffice to fill." : -''.i i WHOLENUMBER 471. Hiram hem wa if IBE'BBE DRIVE THEIR WEDGE DEEPER AND THREATEN TWO IMPORT- AND HUNS BASES OS O TAKES W M Strong Point Near Epchy Takes Af. tew HUvfgia Last Three Days With ths French Armr In Franc. Sept 24. The French now hold the left bank of ths Ols for more than half ths distance from La Fers to Mo. General Debeney's troop caotured th woods north of Ij-Fontaln last evening and his patrols wsnt through venaeuu to ths Ota. uonaoD, sepi. 24. TO British have captured a German strong point northeast of Epehr which had re sisted for sereral days, according to Field Marshal Halg's report from headquarters today. , ' The statement says: "By a successful local operation this morning northeast of Epehy w captured a German strong point which had been stubbornly defended for the last three days. , "North of this locality a hostile ceede4 In entering our positions at one. point, where a party of the ene my I still holding out Elsewhere the attack was repulsed." CORRECTED FIGURES SHOW . 106.H83 REGISTRANTS Washington, Sept 24. Corrected figures for Oregon show ths draft registration returns of 106,883, com pared with estimate of 84,404. GUIS PASS 10 HAVE REPEATi;;fi STAl'l The lqcal Western Union tele graph office la soon to be moved In to the building second door north of the First National Bank. But this building In the main Is betas Dre- pared for ths repeating station which will be moved to this city from Ash land, at which time a repeating sta- f Inn or I U ex 1 w K. ..i.kii.t. - - . - ding. Considerable money has been spent recently In improving the Western Union system. $52,000 bar ing been spent on Improvements be tween Grant Pass and Glendale alone, according to reports. Delay la securing equipment for the new building is being encounter ed, but when completed the new quarters for the Western Union will be up to date In every respect. They hare secured a five-year lease on the building and will install their own electric generating plant to be UBed In cases of emergency, and will tiirnish this city with day and night telegraphic service. It has been reported that the United States government will event ually consolidate the Postal Tele graph with the Western Union. POOLE III HELSINGFOKE BY ORDER OF U Washington, Sept 24. United States Consul General Poole ha ar rived In Helslngtors from Moscow, Secretary Lansing , having ordsred him to leave. No mors Americana are In Moscow.