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WORLD BOLSHEVIKI GIVE UP ELUDE TRAP OF HUNS U. S. BATTLE PLANES ON WAY TO FRANCE Lcninc mid Trot iky Make Abject Sur render to Kaiser Germany (Jet Lithuania, Poland and Riga. American Patrol Hemmed lit by Klec trie Wires Discover Danger and Idiy Low In No Miui'it IjuhI, OF EAST IS CRITICAL HAPPENINGS FOOD SITUATION IN CURRENT WEEK Brief Resume Most Important Daily News Items. COMPILED FOR YOU Events of Noted People, Governments and Pacific Northwest and Other Things Worth Knowing. A site at Sacramento, Cal., has been approved by the War department for an army aviation school. English naval airmen continued to bombard docks, airdromes and other targets in Belgium, and have account ed for four German airplanes, the ad miralty announced Thursday. One hundred presons perished when the steamer Dives was torpedoed in the Mediterranean on February 1, ac cording to a French official announce ment. The attacking submarine was not seen. Miss Martha Van Rensselaer, of the department of home economics. New York College of Agriculture, Cornell University, has been appointed head of the division of home conservation of the United States Food administration. A German guardship stationed in the Baltic near Langeland Island , (north of Kiel bay) has been damaged . striking a German mine, according to ' a dispatch from Copenhagen. About 20 men are supposed to have been Seriou3 outbreaks against the Jews in various parts of Russia are described in reports received by the Jewish press Dureau at stocKnoim. tsioooy pro- grams are said to have occurred at Lublin, RashkofT, Tsherkopi-Tiraspol and Kornin. An agreement for revision of the two most important provisions of the bill for a war finance corporation to aid in the financing of war and con tributory industries was reached late Thrusday by Secretary McAdoo and the senate finance committee. The Austrian premier, Dr. von Seydler, speaking in the reichsrath Wednesday, entered into a long de fense of the original treaty of peace with Ukraine and announced a subse quent treaty appointing a commission to define the frontiers of Ukraine and Cholm. Secretary Baker authorized the statement Thursday that no date had been selected for the beginning of the second draft. The government's dis position not to disturb the labor situa tion, particularly on farms at the planting season, is one of the factors entering into the situation. Colonel Disque, after a two-day con ference with officials of the War de partment and the Aircraft board, left Washington for Portland bearing writ ten authority from the Secretary of War to commandeer all lumber, logs and stumpage in the Northwest that may be needed for government use, and particularly spruce for airplanes and fir for ships. Reports reaching Amoy, China, Thursday from the districts visited by earthquake last Wednesday show heavy damage resulting. Two hundred deaths were reported from Swatow and the injuries have not been tabu lated. One-fifth of the buildings, it was said, were totally destroyed and the remainder damaged. Great dam age was reported from Chong Chow Fu. Emperor William's reply to Presi dent Carranza's birthday message to him on January 27 was given out offi cially in Mexico City. It reads: "I am very gateiui to you for your very amiable telegram of felicitation on the occasion of my birthday. I send to you, Mr. President, my sincere thanks, together with my best wishes for your self and for the prosperity of the Mexi can people." Private J. W. Boucher, of the 257th Canadian Railway Battalion, has been sent home from France because ho is "too old to fight." He is 73 and fought in the American Civil War with the 23d Michigan Volunteers. The Prussian budget for 1918 calls for 2,250,000 marks to he devoted to German propaganda in Polish terri tory, according an official dispatch Wednesday from Switzerland. At a private conference of leaders of the Farmers' Nonpartisan League in Sioux Falls, S. D Tuesday, at tended by A. C. Townley, National president of the organization, it was decided not to enter the South Dakota primary race next May, according to reliable information. The Russian Bolshevik! government has capitulated and announced its read iness, althuugh prolestingly. to Hign n peace compact under the hard terms imposed by Germany. Notwithstanding this fact, Teutonic troops aro advancing eastward into Russia over a front of -100 miles, from Riga in the north to Lutsk, n scant f0 miles from the East Galiciun bonier, on tho south. Apparently, thus far the operation has met with no opposi tion. Tho northern reaches of the Dvina river have been crossed by the enemy; the iuiKirtant railroad town of Dvinsk, whence roads run northeastward to 1'etrograd and eastward to Smolensk, has been eaptured and Lutsk, one of the famous fortresses ot the Volhyninn trainglo and forming the gateway leading eastward to Kiev, has been entered without the Russians attempt ing to stay the force. The only indication that tho enemy will meet with himleranco comes in an i announcement bv Ensign Krvlenko, the Bolshevik commander-in-chief. In his'1 order ha instructs tli Russians when they encounter German troops to en - deavor to persuade them to refrain from hostilities. "If the Germans re fuse," he adds, "then you must otTer them every possible resistance." As yet there is no indication from German sources concerning tho full in tentions of the invaders, but it has been assumed that in the north the capture of the provinces of Livonia and Esthonia is contemplated, ami that in the south, in Little Russia, aid is to be sent the Ukrainians in stemming the tide of the Bobhevik government against them. Apparently all is still chaos in Rus sia, with civil war in progress at var ious points, and daily grows worse the food situation leriout ha , oecomo me inner lactor mat irotzKV has been appointed food controller and 1 Ri ven unlimited powers. Already he has ordered the arrest of speculators in foodstuffs. Berlin, via London The official communication issued by the German War oflice Tuesday evening says that from Riga to as far south as Lutsk, German armies are advancing east ward into Rujia. London Rumors are current in Stockholm, according to a dispatch from Copenhagen to tho Exchange Telegraph compapy, that the Germans intend to intervene at once in .Finland. The belief prevails at thtf Swedish capital that the German action will be directed against the unoccupied dis tricts of Courland and Esthonia in con junction with a great naval attack in the Finnish gulf. SENATOR GOES UNDER KNIFE Chamberlain Operated on For Append icitisCondition Satisfactory. Washington, D. C. Senator George E. Chamberlain, of Oregon, was oper ated on for appendicitis at Providence hospital, this city, at 2 o'clock Tues day afternoon. The operation was performed by Drs. Thomas J. Kelly and J. A. Gannon, both of Washing ton. The senator is reported tohavo stood the shock of operation in a favorable manner and his condition i'b pronounced very favorable by the attending physi- cians. They look for his complete re- ( covery. Since Sunday Senator Chamberlain i i naa ueen Hunering more or less irom a , recurrenco of appendicitis, with which spondent telegraphs that Leon Trotz he was first afllicted laht fall, but until ky, Bolshevik foreign minister, prob Tuesday evening he refused to place ably will resign. himself under a doctor's care. j The senator finally consented to an j Berlin, via London Tho Russian operation, was taken to Providence . town of Rovno has been cleared of the hospital and was on tho operating table between 2 o'clock and 2:45. The physicians found the appendix greatly inflamed, and had the opera tion been much longer deferred, they believe there would have been fatal re sults. Strike Situation Clears. Washington, D. C With striking carpenters in all affected districts re turning to work Thursday and William L. Hutcheson, president of the Broth erhood of Carpenters and Joiners, due , here to take up the situation with gov- ernment officials, complete settlement of the recent trouble in eastern ship yards seemed assured. In effect, President Wilson'a inter vention has terminated the shipbuild ers' strike. Man-Power Plan Loses. London The Amalgamated Society of Engineers, according to a statement issued Wednesday by tho secretary of the society, has rejected the govern ment's man-power proposals by 93,547 votes. The figures were: For tho govern ment propoeal, 27,470; against, 121,-017. Administrator Hoover Declares Reserve Nearly Gone. 60 DAYS' SHORTAGE Impossibility of Moving Illg Crop Has Upset I aw of Supply and De mand McAdoo Resentful. Washington, D. C Tho Eastern part of tho United States face a food shortage likely to eontinuu for tho next 00 days. In making this disclosure Saturday Food Administrator Hoover declared lI,IU, 1,10 "Uuntloii is tlio most critical 11,0 country's history, and that in '""' tho large consuming ureas , reserve food stores aro at tho Kint of exhaustion. The whole blame is put by tho food I administrator on railroad cunuostion. i which he says also has thrown tho food administration far behind in its pro gram for feeding the allies. The only solution ho sees is a greatly increased rail movement of fixHlstuliirs, even to ' the exclusion of much other conimcreV It was very evident that tho rail- i j road administration is inclined to re-1 'sent Mr. Hoover's blame of tho rail-' roads, and Director General McAdoo : declared ho was ready to provide every j transportation facility for expediting ! food movements. I l ne railroad administration, lie satil ' '1,u' suggested that farmers bo urged i to release meir grain noiuings mat large numbers of available cars might! be utilized in moving them Cereal exports to the allies, Mr. Hoover's statement says, will bo 45. 000,000 bushels short on March 1. and meat shipments also aro far short of the amount promised. Inability to move crops, Mr. Hoover sets forth, has suspended thu law of supply and demand, and has created a price margin between producer and consumer wider than it ever was bo fore. A large part of tho corn crop is about to spoil because it is not moving to terminals for drying. The percent age of soft corn in last year's crop, all of which must bo dried if it is to be saved, is the largest ever known. Es timates place tho amount as high as a i billion bushels. The cost of grains for feeding live stock has increased to such an extent by reason of transportation diinculttes, Mr. Hoover says, that feeders are con fronted with the prospect of serious losses. Dairying interests, too, he declared, are hard hit. Potatoes, the food administrator de clares, are spoiling in the producers' hands, while consumers have been sur plied only for summer garden crops and stores carried over, GERMANS INVADING RUSSIA i Kaiser's Armies Moving Ruthlessly on Stricken Peoples. London Forty-five German war ships were approaching Reval on Wed nesday, according to a message re ceived by the Express from its Petro Krll( correspondent. Troops have been landed at Reval. . . .... The Daily News Holsnovik corre- Russians, thu war office reports Trains with about 100(1 cars, many laden with food, have been captured thus far, as well as airplanes, 1353 guns and between 4000 anil 5000 motor cars. The Germans have made prisoner a general commanding an army, 425 offi cers and 8700 men. Rovno is tho most easterly of the triangle of Russian fortresses in Vol hynia. Lutsk, tho western citadel in the triangle, capitulated to tho Ger- mans on February 18 without fighting, The third fortress in Volhynia, Dubno, lies about midway between Rovno and the town of Brody on tho Galiciun frontier. Compensation Act Valid. San Francisco Tho validity of tho workmen's compensation act of Alaska was upheld hero Tuesday by tho United States circuit eourt of Appeals in a decision affirming the award of S144J) under the act to J. W. Johnson, a miner for the Kennccott Copper com pany, for the loss of a foot. Johnson attacked tho award on tho ground that it waH class legislation, and tho com mon law porvlded a more satisfactory adjustment of tho accident. With tho Amorlcan Army In Franco An American patrol having panned tho first lino of German entanglements nuil approached tliu second lino Sunday night, was suddenly cut olf by a cur rent of electricity along tho first wlro line. Instead of attempting an Immediate return to their trenches, which would have meant certain death from electro cution or iimchluo gun lire, tliu Ameri cans clung elosu to tho earth, and later, when tho electricity was cut olT, re turned in safety to their positions. It was a thrilling experience for tho men. A number of nun net out from the American position In tho hope of encountering a number of enemy at a point in the German trenches. They had succeeded In getting throueh the first lino ami had crawled on until tho second lino was reached. hen they were just about to start under tho second lino tlieio was a blu ish glow, and, turning around, they saw long, livid sparks playing through the barbed wire of tho first line. Tliu enemy had turned on a powerful olee- ; tn,. eurretit. The patrollers quickly llattunid out on the ground, thinking they had been discovered and expecting momentarily , to hear machine nun bullets go singing , overhead. Nothing of the kind hap-1 pened, however. Apparently, the! Germans merely turned on tho current liy chance, hoping that if any Ameri cans wore within the entanglements and the peak of production will lie they would bo killed on tho wire or reached in a few weeks. Only the IU while trying to get out. The patrol ' cylinder typo is being turned out, as returned safely to the American lino. 1 developments abroad have made It The German, apparently having dis-1 wise to eonncentrate on tho high-Miw-covered tho meaning of some of the cred eiigluu Instead of thu oight-cylin-American rocket signals, cnunod tho(der." Americans for a considerable distance i Optimistic as the following state, along the front to prepare for a gas ' menl appear, tho secretary said they attack. At first tint Ci-rtnium Hunt . should be considered in thu lieht of t the air it roekut of a certain color wiieh is the American signal for iras attacks, but the hoax was discovered soon after tho troops adjusted their gas masks. The Germans next sent up a rocket calling for Imrntgu by tho Americans, but thu American olllcers on observa tion duty in an advanced (tositlon, see ing whence thu rocket came, sent a message to tho artillery in time to prevent it from laying down tho need loss shell fire. PROFITEER FRAUD CHARGED u. s. Declared Robbed of Many Thou sands in Worthless Steel. San Francisco Profiteering by wholesale in steel parts of engines destined for ships under construction at Pacific ('oast shipyards for tho Fed eral Emergency Fleet co'rioration is charged by the Federal, civil and mill- I tarv authorities, following a secret raid Friday night on the offices of thu Edwin Forrest Forge company and thu arrest of itB secretary anil managur, Prosper J. Forrest. Simultaneously with tho arrest of Forrest and his relcasu on ball of $5000 by Commissioner Francis Krull, Assistant United Statea Attorney Cas par Ornbaun announced that thu case would bo taken before thu Federal granil jury. It is said that the Forrest company has already defrauded thu government out of hundreds of thousands of dol lars, and it is declared by Ornbaun that similar practices aru being inves tigated all over thu country. Threatened destruction of evidence precipitated tho arrest hero. Following a confuroncu with tho military authorities, Ornbaun indi cated that others in San Francisco were involved and that arrest would follow. Tho prosecutor hinted that thu investigation will not stop with thu present case locally. Thousands of tons of mteal, it Is said, have been turned into steel pro peller shafts by tho Forrest firm sincu Christmas, and it is into Homo of these shafts that tho company is accused of using defective steel. Pershing IlcportH Four Dead. Washington, I). O, - General Per shing advised tho War department Monday that four American infantry men have been killed in action, onu slightly wounded and two are missing. Two men wero killed February 8, one February 9 and one on February 1 1. Thoso killed wero: Privates Ferdi nand haurs, Washington, D, C.; John J. White, Epworth, Iowa; James Na vasconi, Ouray, Colo. ; and Louis W. Sapacek, Oklahoma City, Okla. Tuscanlii Dead Honored. Now York Memorial services for the American Holdiers and British sail ors who lost their lives when tho transport TiiHcania was torpedoed, wero held hero Sunday. Telegrams wero received from many men, including Secretary of tho Navy Daniels and Earl Reading, British high commissioner and special ambas sador to the United States, First Shipment Is Five Months Ahead of Schedule. BAKER STATES FACTS Problem of America's Sky-Fighting Campaign In Declared to He He curing of .Skilled Mechanics. Washington, D. C.- Tho first Amor iean-built battle planes are en route to France, nearly five months ahead of the original schedule. In making this unuouneemenl Thurs day night, Secretary Ilaker said tho i first shipment, iiltliuugli In Itself not Urge, "mark the final overcoming of many difficulties met In building up this new and intricate industry. " "These planes," Mr. linker said, "are equipped with the first Liberty inototH fiout machine production. Dim of them in a recent tent surpassed nit rot-unlit fur speed and climbing for planes of that type. " Engine production, which began n month ago, is now on a quantity basis , these faces: "That after three years of warfacru , the total number of planes nhlu to take , the air at any time on either sldu of tho westurn front has not been morn than 2500. "That 4f! men aro required on thu ground for every piano in the air, making a total of 115,000 men needed for thu present maximum of 2500 planes. "That for every piano in the air thero must bo two replacement planer) on the ground and one training plane for every pilot, who eventually rear hen tho front, with a sparu engine for each plane. "Now that American battle planea are going overseas, a great Increase in the volunteering of skilled mechanics Is both essential and expected." Drulng tho last few months, Mr. Baker said, a responsive channel of communication with thu allies has been opened, thu latest types of for eign machines have been adapted to American manufacture, the industry increased at least twenty-fold, tho training plane problem solved and thu production of battle planes begun. American battle planes wero not iluu in France under thu original schedule until Juy. SENATORS RALLY TO REFORM Opposition Said to Decrease- Proposed Amendments Suit Mr. Wilson. Washington, I). C,- Early compro mise in thu senate legislation for fur ther co-ordination and reorganiation of thu government's war-making agencies appeared in sight Thursday night as a result of negotiatioiiHS between Democratic and Republican leaders for the revision of tho Overman hill which would givu President Wilson greater freedom of action. Amendments virtually agreed on promiso largely to harmonize differ ences, allay Republican opposition and secure support in thu sunittu from all sides except thu group of senators un alterably insisting upon tho military committee's bill for war cabinet and munitions director. Prcsidunt Wilson wiib said to havo no objection to thu changes proposed and it is expected that thu scnatu judi ciary sub-commltteu headed by Senator Overman will redraft thu bill. Thu amendments, howuvor, would retain tho principal provisions author izing tho President to transfer depart ments, bureaus, commissions and other agencies and their personnel as ho might deem necessary to effect great er co-ordination and efficiency in prose cuting thu war. Blow Aimed at Wealth. Helena, Mont. Thu Montana houso adopted, 51 to 27, a joint resolution to congress asking that tho nation con script all fortuned above $1,000,000 for warjexpeiiHeH and a resolution ask ing that congress give the President power to fix prices on grain sacks, binding twino and farm machinery. Adjournment of tho legislature, which was to havu como Thursday, has been put oft by tho impeachment proceed ing! agulnst Judgo C. L. Crum.