GOOD ROADS,
GOOD HOMES,
BEST-CHEESE
VOL.
CLOVERDALE COURIER,
X III.
( LOVERDALE,
IR LO HAPPENINGS EXPLOSION
OF CURRENT WEEK
T IL L A M O O K
COUNTY,
O R EG O N ,
Pittsburg—F ifty-six men are known
to be dead, 94 injured and in hospitals
and 31 employes o f the Aetna Chem­
ical company are missing as a result o f
nine explosions Saturday that wrecked
this company’s explosive manufactur­
ing plant at Oakdale, 16 miles from
this city.
Throughout the night and all day
men were extinguishing fires in the
j
Events o f Noied People, Governments ^e^r 's ant* bringing out remnants o f
human bodies.
In most cases there
and Pacific Northwest and Other
wTas nothing to indicate the identity o f
the victim.
A ll day a blue-brown
Things Worth Knowing.
smoke hung over the ruins, impeding
the work o f the searchers. Its deadly
fumes are feared by the residents.
Enemy aircraft dropped bombs on
Thousands o f persons streamed into
the outlying suburbs o f Paris late the temporary morgue all day to view
Thursday night. Not one o f the enemy the gruesome finds.
The country is
was able to penetrate the defenses o f desolate for several miles around the
the city proper.
plant. The meadows and fields have
An armistice has been concluded be­ been seared and fru it and shade trees
tween the Ukrainians and Germans blasted.
and the Russians on the Kursk front
and the Russian legation is making an ;
effort to arrange an armistice on the
remaining fronts.
LIBERTY LOAN $4.170.019.650
Oversubscription o f 39 Per Cent An­
Aerial mail service in the United
nounced—17,000,000 Subscribers.
States became an accomplished fact
Washington, D. C.— The total o f the
Wednesday. Piloted by army avia­
tors, airplanes carried consignments of third liberty loan is $4,170,019,650, an
mail from N ew York and Philadelphia oversubscription o f 39 per cent above
to Washington and from Philadelphia the three billion minmum sought. The
number o f subscribers was about 17,-
to N ew York.
000,000. Every Federal reserve dis­
The Austrian and German emperors
trict oversubscribed, the Minneapolis
at their meeting at German great
district going to 172 per cent, the
headquarters, German newspapers say,
highest, and the New York district to
according to an Exchange Telegraph
124 per cent, the lowest.
dispatch from Copenhagen to London,
In announcing these figures the
selected monarchs for Lithuania, Cour-
treasury explained that the total may
land, Esthonia and Poland.
be changed slightly by later reports
Plans had been made in 1914 for a from Federal Reserve banks.
revolution o f Germans in the United
“ This is the most successful loan
States in case this country should be the United States has offered, both in
drawn into the European war, accord­ number o f subscribers and in the
ing to testimony given in New York at amount realized,” said Secretary Mc-
the state attorney general’s investiga­ Adoo in a statement. “ I congratulate
tion o f reports o f hidden munitions.
the country on this wonderful result,
which
is irrefutabe evidence o f the
M. Duval, who was director o f the
suppressed Germanophile newspaper, strength, patriotism and determination
Bonnet Rouge, in Paris, was con­ o f the American people.
“ This great result was achieved not­
demned to death Friday by courtmar-
withstanding
the fact that the country
tial for treason. The six other defend­
ants were sentenced to imprisonment has been called upon to pay since the
for terms ranging from two to ten second liberty loan, and to and includ­
ing the month o f Juno, income and ex­
years.
cess profits taxes to the amount o f ap­
General Dallalio, minister o f muni­ proximately $6,000,000,000, which will
tions, and Signor Bianchi, minister o f make a total amount turned into the
transport have resigned from the Ita l­ treasury o f the United States from
ian cabinet. Senator Giovanni Villa such taxes and the third liberty loan o f
has been appointed minister o f trans­ about $7,000,000,000.”
port, while the minister o f war w ill
take charge temporarily o f the minis­
try o f munitions.
DUTCH WARSHIPS TO CONVOY
The Vossische Zeitung, o f Berlin,
announces that war had to be pro­ Holland to Send Merchant Vessels to
claimed at Ekaterinoslav, Odessa and
Colonies in East Indies.
Poltava as a strong counter current to
Washington, D. C. — Announcement
the order o f things was observable.
There are several groups o f great Rus­ from Amsterdam o f the determination
sian forces in the Don region, the o f the Dutch government to dispatch
three o f its merchant vessels to the
newspaper said.
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| East Indies under convoy o f Dutch
A fte r buffeting strong head winds in warships has aroused keen interest in
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ocean ___ off * the
Golden r Gate,
the con 1 naval and
diplomatic circles here.
crete steamer Faith returned from a
It is believed this decision is likely
successful trial trip late Friday after­ to bring about a situation that would
noon. The vessel, which made a suc­ plunge Holland into the war. Inter­
cessful trial trip in San Francisco Bay national law, officials pointed out, fully
on Sunday, May 5, was given an ocean warrants the dispatch o f an armed
test to determine further her worth.
convoy by a neutral state on the high
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The British admiralty restrictions seas to its own colonies, and this was
on navigation in the northern part o f ' done by nearly all maritime powers
the North Sea in consequence of'the during the Napoleonic wars.
So far as the entente powers and
laying o f a great mine field for the
America
are concerned, it is said that
purpose o f foilin g submarines, became |
operative Thursday, and hereafter all the Dutch convoys would be treated
shipping in that area must comply with all the consideration demanded by
with stringent regulations or ignore international law. But it is not prob­
able that German submarine comman­
them at their own peril.
ders would act with any such consider­
American railroads in the first three ation, as is indicated by their past
months this year earned only $71,705,- treatment o f Dutch and other neutral
000, as compared with $179,431,000 in j vessels.
I f a German naval commander at­
the same period last year, making a
loss to the government under the sys­ tempted to search, sink or make prize
tem o f common operation o f about o f any convoyed vessels, the Dutch
$109,000,000. This report by the In­ commander would be obliged to defend
terstate Commerce commission covers them forcibly, and the first shot fired
all but five o f the 196 railroads in the would amount to a declaration o f war,
in the opinion o f officials here.
country.
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Lieutenant Benjamin V. Maurice,
o f New York, died at Ellington Field,
Houston, Tuesday, o f injuries received
when his airplane fell on A pril 16.
John Verburg, o f Chicago, was shot
and killed by his crippled son, John,
Jr., because he had struck the youth’s
mother when she objected to his de­
mands that a 15-year-old daughter get
employment.
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M AY
KILLS 56
Nearly Hundred Employes in Hospital
Brief Resume Most Important
Daily News Items.
The Nestucca Valley First,
Last and all the
Time.
President Reassures Nation of
Determined Purpose.
FRENCH
Banking Strength for Safety and Service for Convenience.
4 Per Cent Paid on Savings and Time Certificates.
HEARTENED
TILLAMOOK COUNTY BANK
Germans Gather Nearly
Men to Begin New
Two
Million
Offensive —
Allies Confident o f Ability.
Paris— On the eve o f the great Ger­
man offensive, says an official note is­
sued here Monday, President Wilson,
anxious to address a message to the
French people, has asked one o f his
personal friends, James Kerney, direc­
tor o f the Franco-American committee
on public information, to convey the
following to them :
“ The people o f the United States
are happy to find themselves in the
brotherhood o f arms with the people o f
France in a war in which every man
who loves right ought to be proud to
take part.
“ For over one hur.dred years the
American people have desired this op­
portunity, which befalls . it today, o f
giving the French people proof o f its
gratitude and friendship.
“ There is added now in its soul deep
and ardent admiration for the heroism
and self-denial whereof the French
people have given proof in this terrible
and last conflict between liberty and
brutal ferocity.
“ American hearts are with the arm­
ies midst the blood-stained battlefields
o f valiant France.
Americans are
your brothers in the great, holy, com­
mon cause.”
The beginning by the Germans o f a
formidable offensive, by which they
expect to achieve final success, now
depends only on weather conditions.
The commander-in-chief o f the French
troops and their allies are w aiting for
the shock with the greatest confidence.
The Petit Parisien says the enemy
has massed nearly all his best troops
on the attacking front.
Between the
Belgian coast and the Oise, it states,
140 divisions (about 1,900,000 men)
have been distributed— 82 on the front
line or for direct support and the re­
mainder behind the lines, to be used
for augmenting the push at the princi­
pal point o f attack.
This newspaper says the German
plan is to threaten Amiens, cut the
railroad between that point and Cler­
mont and break up the allied forces,
whatever the cost may be.
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PROFESSIONAL CARDS
T.H. G0YNE,
Scientists Getting Ready at Baker. Or.,
for Sun and Moon Fracas.
Baker, Or.— Getting ready for an
eclipse is a big task.
The uninformed
who think an astronomer’s job consists
merely in peeking through a big tele­
scope while the eclipse is passing and
then announcing whether it has been a
success or a flivver, should visit the
Baker county fair grounds and see
what members o f the government
party are doing in preparation for
their study when the moon gets be­
tween the earth and sun on the a fter­
noon o f June 8.
While the time for actual study is
only 1 minute and 52 seconds, five
weeks o f preparation are required, and
the observers are putting in long hours
at the station, where, after about 10
days, order is beginning to come out o f
chaos. The carload of scientific in­
struments is being distributed and set
up about the grounds, which are daily
growing to look less like the fam iliar
Wolves Destroy Sheep.
abiding place o f the prize Baker coun­
Plains, Mont. — Thompson River [ ty stock and more like an observatory.
ranchers report ’ hat
wolves, from | With the entennae o f the wire less
whom there has been little trouble in station rising from each end, the
that district for years, are on the grandstand from a distance looks like
rampage again and have destroyed nu­ a man-of-war, ami the paddock be­
merous sheep.
Mountain lions l a d ' tween the stables, with numerous in­
been blamed for losses, but when a de­ struments covered with white tarpaul­
termined effort was made to cotral the ins at night, has the appearance o f a
robbers they were found to be wolves. spooks’ play ground.
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