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(t'niveraity of Ore.' Library DAILY EDITION VOL. IX., No. 47. OHAXTU PASS, JOSEPBTJnD COTJUTY, ORDOOK, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1918. WHOLE NUMBER 2318. HOOVER SAYS- I MUST LIFT E EXPLAINS THAT GERMANS CAN TAKE CARM OK THEMSELVES IP GIVEN CHANCE IT W0RYIK6 ABOUT EQCHE Would Oct That Country on Stable Baals So Hlfo in Iiwy the French Now York. Nov. 18. The problom of feeding Gorman? Is not one of go ing to slielr relief, but of relaxing the blockade "so that the people msy as sure for themselves the bare necrs ltloa that will give alable govern ment," aald Herbert C. Hoover, food administrator, before aalllng for Eu rope to dlacuaa food meaaurcs for relief of atarvlng populations. "There has been a great deal of unnecessary furore In thla country bout feeding the Germane," bo anld. "We are not worrying about the Gr mans. They can take care of thom aelvci tf given a chance; but the water-tight blockade haa to be aban doned. If there la an advanre re laxation of the blockade, Germany can get food flab from Norway and Sweden and "grata from Argentina, but the blockade will nave to be lift ed. What la dealred moal now la for Oermany to got aome aort of atable basis eo alia ran pay the money ahe owes to France and Belgium." Mr. Hoover aald, that, lie expected to be in tlxjndon only a day or two. He will then go to Parle to attend the allied conferences at Versailles. Ills work may take hlni Into Belgium but bo does not expect to meet any of the German food administrator. He expects to return to America by Christmas to confer with the presi dent before beginning his actuat ad ministration abroad In cooperation -with the allies. Continuing his discussion of Ku ropean food condition, Mr. Hoover aid: . "Arrangements have long since bcenS:omploted by which the big al lies, that Is, France, England and Italy.'Vlll be provisioned. Thla cov er 15,000,000 people. "Our flrat and .: deepest concern now must be for the little alllo who were under the German yoke; they re the (Belgians, Serbians, Rouman ians, Greeks, Cteehs, Jugo-Slave and others. There are ome. 75,000,000 people In those groups and they must be systematically ,holped at once. We toave already doubled the stream of food flowing toward Belgium. , "There la a groat problem In ths situation of the enomy people about 90,000,000. I would certainly ap proach this problem with mixed feel ings, having been long a witness to the robbery of food from women and children and the destruction of mil lions of tons of food at sea and to tbe misery under which thtf millions amongst the big and little allies bave suffered under the German yoke.". Discussing domestlo ' conditions', the food administrator Ball, that the regulation forbidding brewing after December 1 would not be rescinded, but that it, would expire with peace. There Is enough beer Jn the country to last four or five months, he said WARTIME PROHIBITION TO THE Washington, Nov, 18. The senate bas taken final legislative aqtlon on tbe national wartime prohibited,, blU, effective July 1st,' and continuing during demobilization. The meas ure is to go to the president Tuesday. ' Prohibition advocates confidently ex pect the president's approval. UN OH PRESIDENT KAISER IS AFRAID, 11TST0GOHOI Ihitch Ilturlancm Frighten Wil liam His Hon Would May ly ' New Government London, Nov. 18. A Copenhagen dispatch ssys that the Potsdam sol- dlors' and workmen's committee learns thst William Hohenxollern In tends to roturn to Oermany because of the disturbances In Holland. The Berlin ILokal Anxelger says he la likely to be premltted to return. Prince Eltel Frederick, son of the former emporor, has appealed to bis comrades of the Potsdam garrison to place themselves at the disposal of the new government. 1 0.000 fN CALIFORNIA Sacramento, Cal., Nov. 18. "We are getting reports which Indicate deaths In California from Spanish In- fluensa will exceed 10,000,"' Guy P. Jones, assistant secretary of the Cal ifornia slate board of health, said to day. "In San Francisco and Los An geles, where a total of 49,402 cases have devoloped alnce the outbreak of the epidemic, there bave been a to tal of 8,S2 deaths." GERMANY TO HOLD ELECTION Copenhagen, Nor. 18. The Ger man government expecta to hold elec tions for a national convention In January, say Berlin. V. 8. CASUALTY LIST The following casualties are re ported by the commanding general of,., the .American expeditionary forces, for today: Killed In sctlon 170 Missing In action 91 Died of wounds . .. 66 Died of disease .. ....110 - Total ..... :. 4S7 Klljod In action Corporal Kenna P. Plowman, Huntington, Ore. Reported In Sunday's list: Killed In .action- Sergeant Homer T. Mo- Danlol, Portland. Summary of the casualties to date. the above not Included: Killed. In action (Including 386 at sea) ,,...- 14,264 Wounded In action ....40,619 Missing in action (including prisoners) , .'....... 7,691 Klllod accidentally ...... 1.480 Died of wounds ... . 5,507 Died of disease 6,139 Total ..75.997 Tbe commander in chief In the name of the president, haa awarded tbe distinguished cross,' to Corporal Hursey, A. Dankln, Company F, First Gas ReglmontB(A, S. No. 847,688). For extraordinary heroism In action in the iBois De Amure, near Green- court, France, September 26, 1918, Corporal Dakln volunteered with an other soldier, to attack a, machine gun nest which , was. holding up the advance. . They advanced against very tbevr, machine, gun fire and captured the position, killing two Germans and routing the remainder of the gun crew. Home address; Mrs. O. H. Dakln, mother, Box 98, Freewatef, Ore. . . . 4t ,'.4. NO MOR! EXAM1 NATIONS 4 BY THE LOCAL BOARD 4 4 Word was received this after- 4 noon by the local board to the 4 effect that there will be no more - physical ,; , examinations held. 4 4 The board had orders to ex- 4 amine the balance of the men -f 4 18 Vears of age, and had set the 4 f date for next Thursday and Frl- 4 f day, when 50 of them were to 4 haVe beeVeiaihthto,'': Buf thls 4 last order cancels the work. ' HUNGARY TO MOBIUZE TROOPS TO KEEP ORDER Slovaks Among Soldiers; CaUed-Gtizens of Molten Wild With Joy When French Troops Enter Gry:-Be-lieve Bulgaria is Attempting to Sidestep Terms Basel, Nov. 18. The Hungarian government bas ordered the mobili sation of troops, on the pretext that It Is necessary for the maintenance of order, according to a Prague dis patch. Four classes bave been called, and the Slovaks are among tb troops who bave been called. Mulhauaen, Nov. ' 18. No words can picture the triumphal entrance of the French troops Into this city, nor express the people's wild joy. Flowers, tobacco and cockades were thrown to the soldiers as tbey march ed In. The Joy was saddened when Rev. Cottl, dean of Mulbausen, over come by emotion, dropped dead. Athens, Nor. 18. Report of a change of tbe regime in Bulgaria and the proclamation of a republic there have been received, but official confirmation is lacking. It Is report- ed that tbe founding of a republic is believed to be a new move to escape certain responsibilities in connection with the coming peace. Amsterdam, Nov. 18. Tbe former German empress bas arrived In Hol land, making the trip by airplane, according to a correspondent. With the American Forces of Oc cupation, Nor. 18. One part of the American army of occupation moved forward into Belgium today, while the remainder of the line swung steadily forward toward the German frontier. Parts, Nov. 18. German troops left the city of Brussels yesterday. Extraordinary scenes were witnessed the soldiers wishing that they bad money to take home, and they aold everything they had stolen. Some laid their objects out on tbe side walk and cried their wares in loud voices. ( Washington, Nov. 18. Reporting on the march of the Third American army into Belgium, General Per shing announced that Thursday night they- had . reached the line of Ecou vies, Sorby, Marsla and Tour, or near the German border. ... k TAHKEB "T0L1CAT" With the American Forces' In France, Oct. ,,20. (Correspondence of the Associated. Press) American fighters In the French two-man tanks ran Into some hot work In' front of Romaeg during the American army's advance along the' west bank of the Meuse early In October and Ser geant James Avertt, of Birmingham, Alabama, with his "buddy," did their share In giving the Hun bla due. At ertt's "buddy" was killed In the thick of the tight by a bullet that entered a peep .hole in the side of tbe tank and struck him fair m the face.-- It was during the American "push" In the Argonne sector. Avertt's tank went along with a lot of other "brother" tanks in Hue with the Am erican infantrymen crowding' them In the rear, Avertt was the' machine gunner of his tank while his "buddy" ran tbe engine and steered the tank "I was so near a number of Ger mans encountered In.. a shallow trench that I could see the terror on their faces .when, my gun began to let fly bullets, almost in their very faces," Sergeant Avertt said. "These were the first Boone I ran jnto on this drive and I certainly let them have It as fast as my old machine c. London, Nor. 18 Copenhagen dis patches say that Foreign Secretary Solf announced that ho will propose to Denmark that a plebescite be held iA ' Schleswlg, Holsteln, to , decide whether that territory will' remain German or Join Denmark. , Paris, Nor. 18. French troops bave occupied Mulbausen, Sedan, Grarelotte, tbe forts south of Mets, Munster and Altklrch, according to tbe French official communication Is sued last evening. ' Paris, Nor. 18. The American Third Army bas been designated as "the Army of occupation." It will be under tbe Immediate direction of General Pershing, tbe commander In chief, who will be In command of the American positions In occupied territories. Tbe Third army will consist of the First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, 26th, S2d, 4 2d. 89th and 90th divi sions, which, divided among the Third and Fourth corps, will consist for the present of about a Quarter of a million men. It will be com manded by Major General Dlckman. With the American Army , In France, Nor. 18. All over the re- occupled country where the Ameri cans have passed there Is evidence of the whole-heartedness with which the Germans quit. Camps with tem porary buildings have been left In tact. Not one was burned. Here and there have been seen great piles of helmets and gas masks which betrayed the manner In which entire companies threw away their equipment they had learned to rely on, but also to hate. London, Nov. 18. Authoritative dispatches received from Holland to day show that the sltuaUon in that country has considerably improved. The disturbance and excitement had not died out completely, but the sit uation waa well In band. The queen drove out Thursday in an ooen car riage. She was cheered and received everywhere with respect. - . could fire, land that was some fast, and 4 Just kept going ahead and pounding away until every last one of them was stretched out on the ground. ; , ."Passing beyond this hastily dug trench, I In the meantime watching my 'brothers on, my right and. left and at the same time keeping tab on the doughboys coming up, I got sight of a little batch of Germans behind a hump In the hill along the road way, or what bad been a roadway be fore our heavy artillery opened up that morning. These were machine gunners, "I soon learned, and bullets began to eplash off the tank's sides particularly those which struck glancing blow. "I'Ordered my tank 'buddy.. at .the wheel to keep after those gunners If u cost us ail lour wneeis. He did, and we went np after them sort of sideways, and I got around on the side ot that hump, and my 'brother' on the other side was doing the same and we wiped that bunch out In a Jiffy I believe it was by enfilading fire, as the officers call It." - Sergeant Arertt explained that the tank men, all of wbomwere Ameri cans using two men tanks Invented (Continued oa Page I) GIB RELATES ; 1 El 1LD England la Possession of Informa tion Showing That People Will . Be Starred and Murdered London, Nor. 18. Foreign Secre tary Balfour .told tbe bona of com mons that Information at tbe dispo sal of tbe British government Is to toe effect that the deliberate policy of tbe Bolshevikl government In Rus sia Is one of extermination by starva tion, murder, and wholesale- execu tions of all who do not support the Bolshevik regime. .,' PIPER DESCRIBES THE Following is a part of the brief discrlptlon of the great. British ar mada, by Edgar Piper, editor ot the Oregonlan, who. with other American editors, is now In Europe. The edi tors were permitted to view the fleet which lies In a harbor "somewhere on the face of the globe:' "As a picture it was perfect. As a spectacle It was glorious. As a les son: it was an Incomparable exhibi tion of national power.' It waa the culmination of a thousand years of Great Britain's mastery of the seas No doubting American, who has won dered what England has done In the war could fan to; find his answer here. It was complete,' all-conrinc- lng, tremendous. This fleet saved Great Britain from early defeat. It saved the allied cause. , It made pos sible America's effective entry Into tbe war. It Is the foundation and backbone of the entire opposition to Germany's plan . to conquer the world." Washington, Nor. 18. By extend ing a credit of $7,000,000 to the Creche-Slovak national council to day, the treasury added a tenth deb tor nation among the allies to the United States. Great Britain today was given a new credit ot $200,000.- 000; Italy. $50,000,000, and Belgium $9,000,000. .,, . t i The Csecho-Slovak loan, arranged through Thomaa G. Masarvk. Dissi dent of the 'new Csecho-Slovak re public, will be used to finance pur chases in this country ot arms, am munition and supplies for the Cze- cho-Slovak armies in Russia and Si bwia. Today's credit brought the total credit to all the allies up to $8,178,976,666. v I .- LAST SPRAY FOR BLIGHT . Oregon Agricultural College, Oor vallls. Nor. 18. This is the last chance to spray tor peach blight, says H. P. Barss, plant pathologist at.O. A. C. Use Bordeaux, 6-6-50, unless San Jose scale is. present, when lime-sulphur, 1-8, should be UBed. Cover every twig and bud with the protective coat. , ; - : - ' ' t- '44 PRESIDENT DESIGNATES . 4 4 ' THANKSGIVING DAY 4 " ' Washington, -Nor. 18.-Pres- 4 4 tdent Wilson, In a proclamation today, designated Thursday," Noi 4 4 vember 28, as Thanksgiving day 4 f and said this year the American 4 4 people have special and moving 4 4 cause to be grateful and rejoice. 4 4- Comple. victory, he said, has; 4 4 brought not only peace, but' the. 4 4 confident promise of a new day 4 4 as well,' In Which "Justice shall 4 4j replace force land Jealous , In- 4 4 trlgue among the nations." -f 44444444444444444 DIHIIIIIS USE MACHINE Gisoni FORMING OF SOLDIERS' AND WORKMEN'S COCXCTL AT METZ RESULTS IN REVOLT Cavalry Refuses and , Fraternize With Mutineers Citizens Anx iously Await the French , . Paris, Nor. 18. A revolt occur red in Mets xm December 10, and a soldiers' and workmen's council waa formed, according to the Matin. The German governor ordered the - cav alry to charge, but they refused and fraternised with the mutineers. - - The influence of the council proved eranscent Tbe soldiers got beyond control and raided the champagne factory. They became drunk and be gan to use the machine guns and the civilian guards retreated. , Mets is now surrounded, by armed guards and the population Is anxious for the arrival of the French troops. ir MinUHKUUMiMht OF BITTER RACE RiOT Rnlalcrh XT J", VT -. ' nor Beckett tonight arranged with the military authorities at - Camp Polk, near this city, to send 250 members of1 a tank battalion to Winston-Salem to assist in quelling the riot in that city.., Winston-Salem, N. C, Nor. 18. At least two persons are known to have been killed ahd ' probably ' a score ot others Injured, several ser iously in a riot here last night which resulted from the efforts ot a mob of several thousand men to storm the city Jail and lynch a nearo ac cused of shooting J. E. Childress and Sheriff .Flint and attacking Mrs. Childress Saturday night... Last night firing still was going on in different parts of the city, , the mob finally having broken into smalt KTOUDS. Efforts of th hnmA niarl and the police to restore order were unavailing even at that time and Gov ernor Beckett was asked to Inter vene. He ordered home guards here from Greensboro and arranged to hare company ot regular soldiers sent from Camp Polk, near Raleigh. lin nHhr'iiinpiirtAilmi CASE, SAYS THE COURT Washington, . Nor. 18. The su preme court haa refused to review the case of Thomas J. Mooney, the alleged San Francisco preparedness parade, bomber, who is under sen tence to die December 13. San Francisco, Nov. 18. The su preme court, decision knocks the last prop from under Mooney, except the possibility of action by - Governor Stephens, according to Mooney's at torneys. . DAVIS AMBASSADOR TO Washington, Nor. 18. John W. Davis was formally, nominated , by the president as American ambassa dor to England. " Alexander King, of Atlanta, was " nominated ' solicitor general, succeeding Davis. LANDS