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peace WORLD on offer disclosed i —n T WEEK I è STATE N E W S j ♦ IN BRIEF. I# GENERAL TRAUB AND HIS STAFF IN FRANCE ♦ ♦ ♦♦ w M Brief V ji'i COMPILED FOR YOU BtvttAo c f MoSad rn ^ h i pcofir IU m n i CNWt > ik y ■r, tel ttar taMfcars E L » land. M tka 1 J» A. Chur ! a stai canee1! ro riding for eastern and Math- Vtrtk K m o m I m s . HA 1 s t United State» government. In I j view o f the Iota o f the California prone. j crop aa a roaaK o f rain, baa ordered ■ I that the entire Oregon crop bo held I by the packer». J. O. Holt, o f Eugene.. la government representative, made this j I announcement Monday before leaving I j for Portland where he krill confer I with representatives o f canning and i packing plants. Acopoul rlcullure. mal t were not hnndlcapped by ib lp p ln f faciliti sa, accord- la lenient mode by Michael the Greek minister o f ag- Socialist members o f the municipal council o f Berlin raised the food ques tion In the council meeting Thursday, according to the Teiegraf. One speak er .exclaimed, " It Is time the war came to an end." The public gallery ap plauded loudly. British aviators again have bombed the railways at Metz-Sablons and Mains and docks and sidings at Karls ruhe. Seventeen direct hits were ob- iained on the Karlsruhe objectives, ac cording to the air ministry communi cation Wednesday. Twenty-six ships, with a deadweight tonnage of 147,620, were delivered to the shipping board by American yards during the first 13 days of this month, the board has just announced. Dur ing the same period 28 steel and wood ships o f 150,370 deadweight tons were launched. > Boy Scouts o f Am erica, have sold more than 317,000,000 worth of war stamps, headquarters o f the organiza tion in New York announced Thurs day. Sales o f individual scouts aver aged $11, while 2471 “ ace” medals have been issued to boys who disposed of $250 o f these “ baby bonds.” “ Hinkey Dink” Kenna, for 40 years noted as the dispenser o f the “ largest and coolest” beers in Chicago to the motley 'First W ard and widely known with “ Bathhouse John” Coughlin as political czar o f the First Ward, will open an ice cream parlor next year, when the country goes dry. Greatly concerned over the cotton strike, Prem ier Lloyd George Tues day night from his sick bed issued an appeal to the strikers to return to work and leave the decision in the matters under dispute to the govern ment after an inquiry by a special tribunal, to be immediately appointed. Representative Albert Johnson, of Washington, has been commissioned as Captain in the army chemical war fare service. Presentation o f the government’ s evidence against Eugene V. Debs, the socialist leader, charged with violating the espionage act, was completed Thursday.' Handbills calling for a general strike o f workers, hinting at internal revolu tion and brazenly exploiting pro-Ger man propaganda, have been distribu ted profusely about Salt Lake City, it was announced Thursday by United States Attorney W . W . Ray. is J F ire W ednesday night damaged the new portion of the N ew York Ship building company’s plant in Camden, N. J. The main part of the plant was untouched by the flames. mg: Lost in the wilderriess of the interior of Kenai peninsula, Alaska, three sea men from an American naval craft who went on a hunting trip a week ago last Saturday were found Wednes day night by W illiam Dewitt and Chas. Einswiler, old residents of the penin sula. Brig. Gen. E. Trai CAPTAIN TELLS HOW HE HALTED ITALIAN FLIGHT ck o f the meager or most thrilling sad romantic eptsoo o f tbs entire war j one which. In fat may be said to have had a dlstln and definite bearing upon the succei ject is being carried out under the .of the Italian arms. a l th the prop< rcctlon and by the advice o f Gen The cable message announcing the Manager James Polhemus. award, and which was published In Washington D. C.—O or many's latest Offices for the use o f the officer of I America a few days ago, read: peace feeler, advanced through Aus "Awarded to FI rat Lieut, (ho later the spruce division w ill bo ope tedi received his captaincy) Francesco tria, It was officially stated Sunday, Monday la Banker H ill in the C A. Mario Guardnbnssl o f Perugia, while best finds Its answer in President W il Smith building near the mill. Insi on the staff o f the commnndbr o f divi son's Baltimore speech delivered last ora and members o f the produc lion sion. Energetic co-operator o f the April. board stationed at Marshfield wll 1 be I high command o f the division, First “ Force, force to the utmost, force in charge o f the office. There are now I Lieutenant Guardsbassl gave an ad without stint or limit, the righteous mirable proof o f determination, energy | stationed there regular resident and triumphant force which shall spectora and also members of the and bravery in a very difficult circum make right the law o f the world and stance during the drive from the Car spruce and fir production boards. so to the Plave, firmly checking a sud cast every selfish dominion- down In the dust.” H. H. Veatch, o f Cottage Grove, aged den and threatening panic aroused That was the president’s answer 46, and his only son, Raymond, aged among the troops, Carso-Tngllamento, Bridge o f Liitlsana, 26 October, 1917.” then, and, It was reiterated Sunday, 18, registered at the same moment for Captain (then first lieutenant) It la his answer now. Uncle Sam's Hun chasers. Mr. Veatch GunrdnbnssI, by his action, prevented N o one doubts that it Is the answer is a traveling salesman for the Mar the Italian retreat from the Carso to o f all the alllee. shall-Wells Hardware company. Ray the Plave from becoming a disorderly mond is a high school lad and has[ .rout and transformed it into an or been assisting his country this sui£ J derly retirement, which enabled the mer by working in a sawmill. The Italian forces to reform and to make wife and mother, Mrs. Veatch, is post their position on the Plave impregna ble. It was Captain Guards basal who, mistress. standing virtually alone on the bridge Governor Withycombe has formally head o f Latlsana, Inspired the troops tendered to Secretary o f W ar Baker o f the Third army to hold their ground ■- Washington, D. C. — The United the use' o f the Oregon State Fair when overwhelmed with fear and States, as was fully expected, has un grounds at Salem for cantonment pur panic. Is Here on Special Mission. conditionally rejected Germany’s peace poses or aa a concentration camp dur Captain Gnardabassl, who at the feeler. In doing so the government ing the course o f the war. Supplement time was hid-de-camp o f General Pe- has spoken for all the co-belligerents. ing his letter to Secretary Baker with lillo, divisional commander in the Alm ost immediately after receiving a brief statement the governor de Third army o f Italy, In the last few the Austrian government's note from clared that if necessary the state months has become a fam iliar figure Following his achieve the minister from Sweden, Mr. Eken- would do away with the fair entirely In New York. gren, Secretary Lansing Tuesday is | for a year or two, or during the course ments on the Tagllamento he was called to. Rome and, because o f his sued this formal statement: o f the war. wide knowledge o f America and Amer “ I am authorized by the president Kraner- & Carter, who received the icans, was sent to the United States to state that the following w ill be the contract to build the 16-mile canal and on a special mission from the Italian reply of this government to the Aus Captain Gnardabassl diverting works for the Gold H ill irri government. tro-Hungarian note proposing an un gation district at Gold H ill, have begun was persuaded to tell the story o f how official conference o f belligerents. active operations, but are having dif he Won the decoration. It is best told in his own w ords: “ The government of . the United ficulty in obtaining laborers and “ You can imagine the spirit o f our States feels that there is. only one teams. McCushion & Co., sub-contrac reply which it can make to the sug tors, received a shipment o f 40 mules army last October," said he, “ when our generals o f the Third army an gestion of the imperial Austro-Hun and a crew o f men recently employed nounced that we were to fall back. garian government. It has repeatedly on the new government aviation W e had worked so hard to establish and with entire candor stated the grounds near Sacramento, and other onr line on the Tagllamento, and we terms upon which the United States shipments w ill follow. were so proud. Now the orders came would consider peace and can and will that we were to get back on the P l An epidemic o f cholera infantum is ave. There were no finer fellows in entertain no proposal for a conference upon a matter concerning which it has raging in Marshfield. Tw o children the world than In the Third army, but made its position and purpose so died Friday— Georgia Bell Harrison, a wave o f discouragement swept 3-year-old daughter o f Mr. and Mrs. through the ranks. W ere we to be plain.” Lester Harrison, and Olive, the 1-year- beaten? Mr. Lansing’s statement was given “ The Plave line was stronger— It old child o f Mr. and Mrs. C. P. Sprick- out within half an hour after he had was our natural line. There we could ler. Many other children of the city hold off the Austrians coming down received the Austrian proposal. are dangerously ill, and three grown from the north and prevent their persons were taken to the hospital breaking Into the Italian plains. It Spanish Influenza in East. Washington, D. C.— Surgeon Gen suffering with the malady. The dis was only 40 miles back yet our army, none o f us, could realize this. It was eral Blue, o f the public health service, ease appears to be spreading. Many a retreat. And it became more and has made a telegraphic survey to de dangerous cases are reported. more difficult to keep up the soldiers’ termine the extent of Spanish influ Barracks for the accommodation of morale,, to hold them together. enza in the United States. H e has 1000 or more soldiers who are expect “ The Third army numbered 400,000. found there was a sharp outbreak at ed to attend the students army train It was reduced during the campaign Fort . Morgan, near Mohile, Ala., in ing camp at the University of Oregon from 400,000 to 70,000, but that was Its August and at about the same time a this fall and winter w ill be construct size when the retreat was ordered. tramp steamer arrived at Newport ed at once as a result o f a conference There were complications in the re treat, fo r down from the northwest News with almost the entire crew between President Campbell and rep began to come detachments from the prostrated. Philadelphia reported a resentatives o f the Eugene chamber of Second army, mingling with onr men, few cases some four weeks ago and a commerce. The new barracks w ill be tending to produce disorder. few have been reported from New financed through the organization o f, Rain Makes Retreat Difficult. York. The Boston outbreak was re the University Barracks Corporation, “ I shall never forget how It rained ported September 11, since when the as the university at present has no during those days. The Carso-Taglia- epidemic has appeared at New Lon fund that can be used to erect the mento region is a marshy country. don, while New Orleans has not wholly necessary buildings for quarters for Where we were was not fa r from the sea. In the retreat we had to keep to escaped. the soldiers. ' the roads. This made our falling back all the harder. Woman Shot at Seattle. Miss Bertha Dorris, formerly head “I could never have done what I had Seattle, Wash.— Mrs. W . E. Craig, of- the social service branch of the to do had It not been'for my general, 24 years old, was seriously wounded Eugene city government, left Satur General Petlllo, and the fact that I was his aid-de-camp. Remember by Robert Collins, a stevedore fore day for New Orleans, La., where she that, besides the hurriedly retreating man, in the woman’s home here Mon w ill engage in social service work for soldiers pouring along the roads ev day when Mrs. Craig refused to ac the federal government. erywhere, disheartened and fearful, the company Collins on an automobile country people by thousands . were re Ben Shanahan, a sheepman of Bly, ride. Collins then turned the revolver treating. Nobody knew what might on himself, inflicting a fatal wound. Klamath county, had three ribs brok happen. The feeling was growing that The shooting took place in the pres en, his spine injured and his right the war was lost. That w e would soon ence of Mrs. Craig’s two young daugh hand badly bruised when his auto ran make a new stand and a brilliant one ters, and shortly after Mr. Craig left over a grade on the Olene road. . The along the Plave and later retrieve ev erything nobody realized. You could his home for Olympia. machine turned over on top of him. list have told them th a t 1*1 AUSTRIA’S SCHEME FOR PEACE FAILS I and I were nt L a t i» the river, rb o n d In t. I do hot k ro wore two bridges, a rail- that the panic pad. And It was. Baft tag was over the ho latter. It wan seven In an orderly way. the morning. The rnln- Proud o f His Silver Modal. wns filled with a sense o f T h a t waa why the government gave tnc unexpi rted and o f gloom. A t any a silver medal. 1 am proud o f moment e r men were likely to break U- nore proud than I have ever been Into panic o f anything." “ Suddenly from out o f nowhere, Captain GunrdnbnssI la a member down the rails, c u m a locomotive, e o f the Italian Grenadier guards, com locomotive alone, crowded with sol posed o f six-footers and recruited from diers. They were waving and yelling. | the beet families o f Italy. So heavy There was no sign o f a train, I nover have been the losses o f the Grenadier Imagined so many men could get on a guards that they have been made over locomotive before. three times. Captain GunrdnbnssI la Cry o f Auetrlan Cavalry Raised. one o f the very few survivors o f the "Th e locomotive shot over the rail- first detachment o f the Grenadier road bridges. It disappeared, leaving guards that at the beginning o f the behind n greet uneasiness and added war went Into-action. He began his depression. Then the cry arose. T h e military career ns a private | was Austrian cavalry.' quickly promoted to corporal, and “That cry Increased. Everybody within four months became a second took It up. It spread through the lieutenant. ranks o f hurriedly marching soldiers. Previous to the declaration o f war It swept through the disordered groups by Italy on the central empires, Cap o f country people crowded in among tain GunrdnbnssI was an artist and them ; It was half believed, then be had a studio in Paris which waa fre lieved, then It grew to be a certainty. quented by many prominent Ameri Nobody knew, and the doubt made the cana. A t the outbreak o f the war ho fear. The panic began. Immediately closed bis studio. His “I did not know whether the Aus knowledge o f America came to him trian cavalry was coming or not. but both from the many Americana he met I did know that this panic must be in Paris during his career aa an art checked and at once. I sprang for ist and also while a member o f the ward .through the soldiers, and ran to Metropolitan Opera company here. He the front o f the bridge. has been In America many times and “ ‘You fools,’ I yelled out. and again enjoys the friendship o f the moat and again I said it, waving my arms. prominent figures In the social Ufa o f *Yon fools, get into lin e! The Aus- New York. 504,00« CAPTIVES ARE FREED Berne.— More than 600,000 prisoners, victims o f the war, were exchanged and returned to their home lands up to the middle o f last month by the interven tion and good offices o f Switzerland, says the Bund, the mouthpiece o f the Swiss government, in a plea fo r a more generous and reciprocal treatment by the belligerents. A fter the war had begun Switzer land organized an international bureau o f Information for prisoners o f war, with its seat at Geneva. This bureau forwarded information to the relatives o f prisoners o f war and shipped food and delicacies to the prisoners them selves. As early as October, 1914, Switzer land suggested to the belligerents the exchange o f prisoners severely wound ed. The pope became Interested in this matter and supported the efforts o f Switzerland. In February, 1915, an agreement was reached regarding the conditions o f exchange. Switzerland placed the hospital trains of its own army at the disposal o f the belliger ents for the transportation o f the wounded. The agreement was first entered Into by France and Germany. Later Aus tria and Italy accepted the same terms. Early in 1916 the Swiss federal coun cil, aided by the pope, succeeded In bringing about an agreement permit ting the Internment o f severely wound ed and sick prisoners o f war, civil as well as military, within Switzerland. The Swiss undertook to manage this vast work o f charity. Agreement Is Reached. Later the Swiss federal council, aid ed by the International Red Cross at Geneva, succeeded In Inducing the bel ligerents to again respect the Interna tional agreement regarding hospital and sanitary field workers. International law demands the Im mediate discharge o f members of sani tary detachments when taken prisoner. This law was disregarded by belliger ents, but Switzerland’s entreaties and admonitions put a stop to the practice and led to the liberation o f these pris oners. Finally the agreement to exchange the permanently disabled was reached In March of last year. Efforts o f the Swiss federal council led Ur the ac ceptance o f this agreement by France, Germany and Belgium. It meant "the repatriation of all prisoners of war permanently disabled to 'an extent which would preclude their ever join ing the army again. Also tuberculosis prisoners, those clinically cured as well as those still needing treatment, were to' be repatriated. Following this the scope o f the re patriation program was vastly extend ed when France, Germany and Bel gium agreed to exchange all prisoners o f war forty-eight years o f age and older who had been Interned more than eighteen months. This applied to pri vates and noncommissioned officers only. Commissioned officers were to be Interned in Switzerland. And lastly another agreement was brought about by the efforts o f the Swiss government It still further ex tended the scope of the exchange con ditions. A ll civil prisoners were to be freed. Many Return to Homes. The freeing and exchanging o f these prisoners has been in progress for some time. Long trains filled with these for mer soldiers are passing through Switzerland every day in both direc tions, taking these unfortunate victims back to their old homes. Up to the middle of last month more than 500,000 prisoners o f war had passed through Switzerland on their way to liberty. Som e^f these soldiers were In a. most pitiable state. The peo ple o f Switzerland played the part of the good Samaritan by feeding, cloth ing and consoling these poor sufferers. In addition Switzerland has been the connecting link In mall communication between belligerent countries. Up to the first o f June Switzerland without charge transported 19,796,000 letters and cards to prisoners o f war, 457,000 parcels weighing no more than two pounds, 414,679,000 letters and cards In transit, 19,526,000 small parcels In transit, 6,364,000 parcels containing bread sent to Germany and Austria, 78,816,000 parcels weighing up to ten pounds and 9,489,000 money orders transmitting, an aggregate amount of $85,000,000. Since the beginning o f 1916 Switzer land has been harboring continuously from 20,000 to 30,000 Interned prison ers o f war needing medical treatment and hospital care. Lately their num- ber has never been less than 80,000. A ll these Interned prisoners were vis ited by their relatives, adding 40,000 people on the average to the number of consumers, or about 1 per cent of the domestic population. ÉÉ