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About The Evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 18, 1918)
)v v,., "pi t w -. " r . .... . ..'iAik. "& SV Stunting Bgralft W4 OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF KLAMATH COUNTY ? '. fit. . J'U' t ' rm " OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER i'iS OF KLAMATH FALL JBS Thlrlwnth Year. No. 11,4 IH KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBERlif 1918 FHea fit HUNS PUSHED BACK ON ALL FRONTS ', i mw.,w.iiwi.w .www.w ww , y. .m, ., iM-.i-.-.i-.mvju.uwJt URKEY GRADUALLY CUT OFF FROM HUNS SERBIANS AND FRENCH IN MACEDONIA MAKE BIG GAINS TODAYMOVE TO CRUSH BUL GARIA AND FREE SERBIA AND ROUMANIA THHI IE CHMD THEIR PRICES SCHOOLS OF IRK ROOM IS COOIHIE OUTERS FOB INSTRUCTORS KIRD AMERICANS, FIND PALATIAL QUARTERS OUTFIT TED FOR GERMAN OFFICERS IN ST. MIHIEL SA LIENTBEER GARDENS HANDY (By Associated Press) PARIS, Sept 18. The Allies on the Macedonian front have penetrated to a depth of nearly four and a half miles on a fifteen and a hair mile front and have captured 4,000 prisoners, including a staff colonel. 30 Runs, many mine throwers and machine guns. A considerable amount of other booty was secured. f The Serbian troops are vieing.with the French in cdur- ik and snlrit - - st v&- WASHINGTON, D. C, Sept. 18. The object of the Macedonian offensive is to cut off Turkey from the other Central powers and to crush Bulgaria and to free Serbia, Roumanla and the Jugo-Slavs of Southern Austria. LONDON, Sept. 18. The British forces attacked this morning on the northwest or St. ijuenun anu capiurea cne village or Honlon, three miles nortnwest or si. tjuenun. A German attack last night at Moeuvres pushed back the British to the western outskirts of the village. WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN LORRAINE, Sent. 18. The Germans, who apparently never expected to be ousted from the St. Mihiel salient, had built shelters and beer gardens and resorts. Some of the dugouts of the of ficers had' been fitted up luxuriously with bath tubs and electric lights. Little summer houses had been construct ed outside of them where the occupants could drink beer. IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT TO FARMERS BY KLAMATH THRBtUUCRMEN ASSOCIATION CLEAR MISUNDERSTANDING There having been tomo mleunder standing warding (ha threshing AM, BUT TWO VACANCIES PILL KD CITY TEACHERS PUT BAN ON HEARST PUBLICATIONS WILL HKLP RED CIIOHM Teachera for nil but two districts, Number 14 Lower Langell Valley and WATER POWER nFvroprn is HEM CRESCENT ST. HEPPNBR MAN WILL INSTALL POWEK.PLANT ..FOR ..IRRJGA. TION OF LANDS IN NORTHERN LAKE .ENGINEERS AT WORK. ratea eaUbllahed at our meeting of Number 48. at the Vinson ranch, have September 7th, we.have adopted the following ratea for threshing where the threahermea furnish the outfit with entire craw, Including cook house, and takes care of all ex-pensee: Oats, 12c per bushel; barley, 13c per bushel; wheat 14c per bushel; rye ltc per bushel. We have carefully compiled the coata of running our threshing outfits been secured, according to County School Sureplntendenf Edna Wells, who has spent a great deal of time In filling the vacancies and who feela elated over her success? In view of the reported shortage In, many other sec tions. Miss Wells reported that Douglas county was feported short 34 teachera. Many of the teachera In the public have pledged this season and f lad the average cost schools la this city per day of aa outfit requiring 14 men lacludlag eook, to be $103.00. Thla coat la based on paying from 4Sc per hoar for our cheapest labor to SOc par hour for our highest la her, f l.St per day per man for board, l.ae.po-arlor.eama aad llO-Oftl m-o. WITH TUB AMERICANS IN LOR RAINE ,8cpt. II. Tat Oarmaa In fantry attempted today to attack the, Americans weat of the Moaeiie, out the American artillery drove them hack. BKRLIN, Sept. IS. The German troops are aiding the Bulgarians In the defense agalnat the Allies In tho Macedonian theater. Balgariana are flghtlag against the French, Sarblaao aad 0 reeks, ac ordlng to the German official state-meat. PARIS, Sept. 18. The aermans mm TO RE REM NEXT SUMMER per day for otl.'breakage, etc. We believe the average run thla aeaaoa will be SO daya, ao we cannot at the rate established hope to make enough profit to take care of. the In terest and depreciation on our Invest ments. KLAMATH TRESHERMEN'S ASSN. J. II. RARNB8, President. L. L. ARNETT, Secretary. The above ratea and air former rates were established by the Kla math Tbreahermen'a association, and not by Will W. Baldwin and H. Ro land Olalsyer representing the thresh ing committee grain division of the U. 8. food administration, who have nq authority on setting prices. m MONSTER m IS themaalvoa to work frlm four to sis hours per month in jbe Red Cross rooms. It la reported that the sur gical dreeslng room atlthe Red Cross rooms will he opened ine Bight each weak to permit thoaet.to come who rmit thoaftl jMeansft QUEHTIONAIRKM BRING MAILED TO NEW REGISTRANTS AT THB RATE OF TEN PER CENT PER DAY, STARTING TODAY The mailing qf the questlonalree I Development of a power site at to the men between 31 and 45 who Crescent In northern Klamath by Dr. registered for the selective draft laat.N. E. Wlnnard. of Heppner, la report Thursday will be started today and ed today by Dob Jolly, a prominent continued for nine daya at the mini- resident of that section who arrived mum rate of ten per cent per day, or from there yeaterday. He indicates more expeditiously if the local board deem It advisable, according to a wire received yesterday afternoon by' Chairman Charles J. Ferguson of the legal advisory board. ( The board Immediately made ar rangements to secure the Jury room at tho court house where registrants could call and recelvo advice for the propor filling out of the blanks. This office will be opened tomorrow and registrants are aeked to call after they have received their question aires. Baalkat.Aa Aft a recent meeting of the city teachera it waa voted to subscribe for no Hearst publications. About $75 worth of papers and magailnes are to be found on tho teachera library tables. PEACE OFFER T IT AN IN MM mm WASHINGTON, D. C, Sept. II. An army of four million eight han drail thousand men by next July at- km violently counterattacked again' ter all deductlona for casualties and French positions oa the plateau ' rejections are made, la called for by onneast of tho Bancy river, aeven the enlarged military program, aen lies northeast of Solssons, last oral March explained today. lht. The atUcka were uneuccess- it is planned to call two million M and the French were able to hold aeven hundred thouaand new draft wwr galas. registrants by July. N1UNN HAKK8 RECORD TRIP WITH AERIAL MAIL NEW Ynnir sum ia a nmni hip from Waablngton to Now York e way of Philadelphia with the ner- e) mall has been made by D. C. Do e . SPRINGFIELD, Sept. 18. "". He waa in the air two houra e it is bolleved that from II to 35 d 13 minutes. He left Washington e) soldiers were kilted In a wreck t U 40 a. m.. reached Philadelphia taut nlaht when a troop train i:ua u, m.. and left for New York 'a hit a frolaht train. The wreck ' . 1 "" " , 4 4 HOLD1ERH KILLED IN MISSOURI WRECK nt mlnutea later, landing at Del- " park at I p.m. BRITISH PREMIER IMPROVES' LONDON, Sept. 18. The condl Mn of Premier Lloyd Oeorge, who u been ill for several days, ta re- ea satisfactory In as official but 4 age la still being searched for 4 survivors MANY REFUGEES ARB NOW LEAVING RUSSIA STOCKHOLM. Sept. II. Another PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 18. A huge war program haa Ijeen planned by the army general ataf for the But eight months. "The war department definitely plana to product twice aa much ma terial .from bow until next June aa It haa produced alnce the beginning of the war," waa the statemeat made here by Joha C. Jones, director of production la thla district, la ex plalBlng that production la Phlla delphla and vlciaity will not be cut Mr. Jonea aald all of the plants will be kept ruaalag at capacity aad that the order of the general ataf of the army that contracts awarded here aad la 51 other cltlea were to be kept at a minimum waa really meaat to prevent the breaking down of the program of producing aa overwhelm ing amount of war material during the next eight moatha, CENTRAL POWKRH GET PROMPT ANSWER FROM UNCLE SAM IN REGARD TO NOTE SENT BY AUSTRIA TERMS ARE CLEAR m If STATES REPORT DRAFT BMN SCARLET FEVER AT RIVBR8IDB SCHOOL Scarlet Fever la tha Riverside School haa caused tha Seventh aad Eighth Oradea to U closed for the WASHINGTON, D. C, Sept. 18, Tho United States, as was fully ex pected, haa unconditionally rejected Germany's peace feeler. In doing so the government has spoken for all the co-belligerents. Almost Immediately after receiving the.Auatrlan government's note from the minister from Sweden, Mr. Ek engren, Secretary. Lansing laaued thla formal atatement: "I am authorised by the President to state that the following will be the reply of thla government to the Aua-tro-Hungarlan note proposing aa un official conference of belligerents: "The government of the United States feela that tbero la only one re ply which It can make to the auggea tlon of the imperial Austro-Hungar Ian government. It haa repeatedly aad with entire candor stated the terms upon which the United States would consider peace aad can and will entertain no proposal for a con ference upon a matter concerning which It haa made Its position and purpose ao plain." WASHINGTON, D. C, Sept. 18. Completo returns from the registra tion of last Thursday in II atatea and the District of Columbia, of men between the agea of 18 and 45 years, have been received by Provost Mar shal General Crowder. They showed a total of 3,238,829 men, aa against the estimate of 3,233,387, and it waa announced officially they do not jus tify the assumption that returns from the entire country will ahow aa ea rollment very greatly in excess of the estimate of 13,000,000. In six of the atatea the total reg istration fell below 'the estimate, but in ten of them it .exceeded It. The District of Columbia registered 31 per cent more than the number estlmat ed for it, due, officials believe, to the Influx of war workers. Of the states, Vermont's percentage of excess, en rollment was the highest, being 18H. that the power will be used for pumping water ea laada V tha Fort Rock dlatrlet- la. Lake County aad 9nm nil... Too power alt la located oa the outskirts of the town of Creseeat Engineers are .already at work oa the new project aeeordjag to Mr. Jolly. It la .well kaowa that, there are rich tracU of Isad Mi the Fort Rock dis trict which J fredu'ee abuadaatty, oace tha water tor Irrigation caa he aappjieu, k, , . " PLUNGE ON QUENTIN MADE TODAY REGISTRANTS IN BIO DRIFT N1TDMED VOLUNTARY INDUCTION OF REGISTRANTS PERMITTED WASHINGTON D. C, Sept. 18 Provost Marshall Crowder has en- week, oa tha iummUob of Health nouaced ordf a to Local'Dratt Boards uuioer vt. vr arret nunc. permitting the voluntary laaucuoa of Wallace Uerllag cf tha eighth draft realstranta into tha army aad win. The bulletla said ha had alptrty of refugees numbering five grade there If eeattaed to bla home Martaeeorps aad providing for dratu "uing aleep. Hla tmperature hundred persons inciuaing swiy ay aa auaea or tne reyar, tm two I if there are not enough volunteers. -"'mien and there bad been a gen-1 American and Britian civilians, naa.rooma art aetag tnorougniy fumt- wai improvement. I arrived at Hsparanda from Russia, gated, The calla will go out within tha next tew weeks YANK LABOR DELEGATES URGE WILSONS PEACE CONDITIONS LONDON, Sept. II. The Ameri can delegatea to the Interallied La bor and Socialist conference hare have presented proposals that the Conference endorse the fourteen points laid down by President Wil sons aa condition on which peace may be established. ELK8 DANCE POSTPONED The Elks dance which waa planned for Friday night of thla week haa been postponed for one week, owing to the death of Austin J, White, who waa a member of thla order. NUMBER OF MEN LISTED LAST THURSDAY IS ANNOUNCED AS SOdS PREDICTION EXCEEDED BY ABOUT SB PER CENT Two thouaaad aad forty-six regia- traats for tha selective draft of last Thursday, September 13, u aaaoua ced aa the total for Klamath couaty by Sharif Oeorge Humphrey. of tha local exemption board thla morning. Thla ta as Increase of about 15 per cent over the number expected. It Is necessary that these reglatra' tlon cards all be copied immediately and as thla work Cannot ha dona by the clerical help at tha registration office a call for about 15 voluuteers la asked to aid ta tha work. If those who have a few hours spare time will call at tha sherlK's office and ar range to copy a huadred cards, tha action will be appreciated. e KLAMATH SAILOR WINS COMMISSION BY BRITISH GAIN OF NEARLY THREE MILES ON A IS MILE FRONT IS SCORED BY THE BRITISH " ! tk HINDENBURG LINE IS CROSSED AT TWO POINTS lvlOO PRISON-' ERS ARE TAKEN ' 4) 44e SIBERIANS DECLARE 4 WAR ON THE HUNS e) ' OROVANNA-IYA, (Trans- Sal- e e kalia), Sept II. (By Associate e e ed Press, Siberia). Tha SIber- e ian government at Omsk, a for f titled town of Asiatic Russia has e declared war on Germany aad haa ordered the mobilisation of e 4 the 1813 and 1810 classes. e e4ee4444e4e)e44ee4 That hla sob, Theodore Caae, Jr., haa Juat woa a commission as ensign In the United States navy ta the word received by Theodora Case, a well known rancher ta tho Mt. Laki dis trict. It Is believed that thla la tha first commission that haa been woa by a Klamath couaty boy la the aavy alnce the outbreak of tho war. As ensign la the navy la a rank corres ponding to a aeeoad lieuteaaat la tha army. Young Case ia wall kaowa la Kla math Falls, where he graduated from tho high school twa years ago. BABY CURL ARRIVM News ia received, of tha Wrth of a baby daughter to Mr. aad Mrs. D. M. McLemore at Saa Fraaelaeo hut Ties. dar. Mr. MeLemora la a wall kaowa cattle buyer hero' aad ale wHewaa formerly Miaa WtaKraStWassaler of Odeesaj (By Aseociatteal Frew) LONDON,' Sept 18. Ia an attack today northwsst of St Qiwntin the British have scored an advance of two and a half miles on a;16 mile front ud to 4.30 this af ternoon, and have captured the town of Hargincourt - The front under attack! inns from Holnon wood west of St Quentin northward, to Gouseaucourt The British attack took them nearer to the line from which the Ger man offensive was started in March, and they are now about a mile from this line on the average. Fifteen hundred prisoners were cfiptund. The townjjW Epehy was al most siroutjded by the Brit ish this afternoon. The British have crossed the Hindenburg line at two points, Villaret and Gouse aucourt The depth of the penetration is not reported. Villerat Le Verguir, Ront soy and Berthancouirt have been captured. The French forces nav simultaneously started an operation on the right The Bulgarian resistance on the Macedonian front is weakening and the . Allies have advanced for an aver age of 10 miles, according to the latest reports. 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