Daily capital journal., July 19, 1916, Image 1

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THIRTY-NINTH YEAR
FIERCE GERMAN ATTACK
BENDS Bf ITISH LINE BACK
Besperate Fighting (J inued All Night and Was Kept Up
Today-Germans s jcapture Village of Longueval-Rus-I
sians Checked at I fa But Are Sweeping the Austrians
' Back-One ReporTCays They Have Crossed Carpathians
and Are In Hungary
London, July 19. The Germans dented the British
line last night in their most successful counter attack
since the great allied offensive began.
The recapture of the village of Longueval, at the in
tersection of two highways seven miles south of Bapaume,
and of Delville Wood, was claimed in an official statement
issued by the German war office.
In an official report General Haig admitted the Ger
mans had obtained a footing'in the northern outskirts
of Longueval and had recaptured part of Delville wood.
The battle is continuing, General Haig reported, and has
become very violent. "
The Germans, however, led large forces against the
British right wing at about dusk, after an intense bom
bardment of Longueval village and the Delville wood.
As the German guns lifted, thick masses of German
infantry advanced to the attack. They swarmed forward
in the face of sheeted machine gun and rifle fire and ac
cording to the British official report suffered very heavy
losses. . Further east, repeated German attacks against
the Waterldt farm were repulsed.
Thus far the new battle north of the Somme is bemg
confined largely to the British right wing. The German
official statement claimed the repulse of attempts by the
British left to draw closer to the village of Pozieres and
also announced the defeat of French attacks southwest of
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' Dispatches from headquarters indicated the violence
of the German assault, but thus far have carried no re
port on the outcome, indicating that the battle" continued
throughout the night.
On the British left wing the method
ical advances made on both sides of the
Bapaume-Albert highway have menaced
the German hold on the village of Po
zieres, an important highway junction
uua tne local ODjective ot the British at
tack. By .pushing their lines forward
on both sides of the highway, the Bri
tish have thrown the town itself into a
deep pocket while artillery is steadily
reducing the German works to ruins.
At the same .time British gunners have
)nid a steady fire across the Pozieres
Thicpval road, oue of the highways over
which the Germnns in the Thicpval sa
lient draw their supplies.
Some interest is displnved in reports
of increased artillery activity on the
ullied front north of Saloniki. Rome
dispatches recently forecasted the be
ginning of an Anglo-French offensive
in the Bnlkans before the middle of
August.
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Battle Still Raging.
' London, July 19. German troops
Obtained a footing in the outskirts of
the village of Longueval and recap
tured a part of the Belville wood, in
n heavy counter attack against the right
wing of the British army north of the
Somme, General Haig reported this
ufternoon.
The Germans attacked in large force
nfter dusk last night, delivering their
most powerful blows against Longueval
village, which occupies an important
strategic position at the intersection of
two highways. They succeeded in pene
trating the northern edge of the vil
lane. The battle continued throughout the
TV safest way t' double your money
is t' fold it once an' nut it in vour
j-ket. Once ia a long time you find
enough relations on speakiu' termi t'
hold a family reunion.
night with the greatest violence. The
Germans brought up fresh troops and
attacked rcnearpdlv- Thn RritUh pnnn.
ter attacked successfully at several
points and -savnge fighting occurred on
the outskirts of Longueval.
General Haig reported that the strug
gle for Longueval and the Delville wood
continues and it is still violent.
Austrians Still Retreat.
Tetrograd, July 19. For the first
time since the Russian retreat from the
Carpathians more than a year ago, Rus
sian forces try again hammering at,the
Carpathian mountain passes barring the
way into Hungnry.
On a CO mile front extending 'from
the Jnblonitza Pass in a southeasterly
direction to Kirlabubu, Russian and
Austrinn detachments are in constant
clash. The main Russian line is rapidly
drowing near the mountain barrier.
After vain efforts to bring up artil
lery over the muddy mountain roads.
the Austrians have fallen back from
, the region southwest of Kuty and are
.retreating into the mountains. The Aus
, trian front has been completely broken
, in the Delatyn sector, 20 miles north of
Jnblonitza Pass.
Russians iu Hungary.
London, July 19 Russian forces have
crossed the Carpathian mountains for
the first time since their defeat by the
Germans a year ago, and have entered
Hungary after a dav of marching, the
Petrogrnd correspondent of the Evening
Star reported today.
Th Swift Russian advance into Hun
gary threatens the rear of the Austrians
and the Austrian lines northeast of the
mountains, tho correspondent adds.
500,000 Sheila a Day.
London, July 19. Half a millnn
shells daily since June 27, or a total
of about 10,500,000 have been hurled
on the German lines by the British, the
correspondent at the front ofjthe Morn
ing Post reported today.
The German Version.
Berlin, July 19. Recapture of the
village of Longueval and Delville wood
from the British in the German counter
attack was announced by the war office
this afternoon.
The village which was captured by
the British nt heavy cost of life in a re
sumption of the great allied offensive,
was stormed and retaken by the Ger
mnns in heavy fighting last night. With
the rapture of Delville wood it marks
the greatest success for the Germans in
counter attacking the British front
since the allied offensive began.
British attacks north of Ovillers and
south of Pozieres, on the German left
wing, were dispersed. French attacks
north of Barleux and in the region of
Belloy-Kn-Nanterre were cheeked.
On the Verdun front the French con
tinued their fruitless attacks in the re
gion of Froide Terre.
A village which was captured by the
nritisn at Heavy cost of life in a re-
(Continued oa Page Five.)
SALEM,
HUMAN TELEPHONE LINE
. :
San Francisco, July 19. A
demonstration of his newly in-
vented subterraneau wireless
telephone was made here by Dr.
H. Barriuger Cox, just before his
departure for tho east, it was
learned today.
Besides demonstrating his ap-
paratus with a single wire, Dr.
Cox performed the novel feat of
operating with a human cir-
cuit, a long Hue of men and
women joined hands, the persons
at the two ends of the line
touching the binding posts of
the apparatus. The results ob-
tained in telephoning with the
conductor thus formed, were
said to be as perfect as with
the phone circuits iu universal
use.
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If
DELAY DEUTSCHLAND
May Be Waiting for Bremen
which Is Expected to
Dock Sunday
IS READY FOR SEA
Baltimore, Mr., July 19.
Eighty or more tons of fuel
oil from two tank cars, were
dumped iuto the German sub-
marine sea freighter Deutsch-
land late this afternoon, Steve-
dores were discharged earlier
man usual and the general be-
lief is that the vessel is pre-
- paring to be in Norfolk by Fri-
day.
x By Carl D. Groat. .
(United Press staff correspondent.)
Baltimore, Md July 19. Due to de
lay in readjusting and renoirinc Dines
aboard vo-erfflBn-"submarine sea
freighter, the Dentschland, etill tossed
today in the muddy waters of the Pa
pasco here.
Her get-away, it now appears, is like
ly to be by Friday, but possibly not be-
lore eunuay.
The pipes were damaged in the voy
age here from Germany, but it was said
today that these probably could be
fixed by Friday. One story went the
rounds that the vessel must await the
coming of her sister craft, the Bremen,
in order to ascertain the disposition of
allied warships on the path between
mis port ana uermany.
The Bremen, it in said, will dock not
later than Sunday. Where she is now
otticials would not say early todsry.
Meantime, the Deutschlnnd is stocked
with provisions, ready for a quick dash.
She was slated to do a test submerg
ing at noon, and this gave rise to the
report that perhaus she intended to
head out in that manner. As far as
could be ascertained, though, such B
course is impracticable.
i'eutschlnnd officinls still kept their
own counsel and plnced as many im
pediments as possible to newspaper and
the public. The submarine is screened
from view by a strine of huee barim.
and every officer is under orders to
withhold information.
TO STARVING POLES
England Cold Bloodedly Sen
tences Women and Chil
dren to Death
By Robert J. Bender,
(I'nited Press Staff Correspondent.)
Washington, .lulv 19. Although it
declared President Wilson will continue
vigorous efforts to modify the British
blockade, government officials have
practically lost hope of accomplishing
their purpose soon.
with adverse action bv the British
government on the president's repre
sentations for Red Cross shipments in
fo uermany ana rood into Poland and
with England's announcement of a
blacklist on certain American firms, it
was stated authoritatively today that
little hope is held for a satisfactory
culmination of the present diplomatic
intercourse. Another protest was sCnt
yesterday on the Red Cross situation.
Further appeals are pending ipr Polish
relief, and strong representations will
be made against the blacklist.' But a
high official of the government, and
a man close to the president aaid:
"These people (the allies) are in dead
earnest. They have their teeth set and
their eyes fix! on a given goal. They
are paying liitle attention to anything
else. They will accede to no demand
they believe might delay now reaching
the end they desire.
"And they have told us in almost
so many words that if we don't like
the smell of frying over there we'd
better keep out of the kitchen."
OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 19, 1916
DETAILS OF FLOOD
COME IN SLOWLY
Asheville Reports There Are
35 Dead In That District
Alone
PROPERTY LOSS THERE
WILL REACH $15,000,000
Telephone and Telegraph
Service Not Yet Resumed
In Most Parts .
Ashaville, X. C, July 19. As tele
graph and telephone communication
with the mountain districts were slow
ly restored today the list of victims of
Sunday's storm increased. The French
Board and Sannanona and other rivers
are falling Tnpldly however, and the
conditions in the storm struck reeion iB
gradually retaining to normal.
All the Southern Railway trains,
stalled since- Sunday, have been locat
ed, and the passengers reported safe.
Automobiles are bringing them to the
city.
Latest reports said John Heath and
his mother and Mrs. Caldwell Santall
and her child were killed in a land
slide at Brevard. Mrs. Edgar Hunter
and two children were killed at Hick
ory Nut Gap. Reports from the Bat
Cove section said eight persons were
drowned there Sunday and that Miss
Susie and Miss Pollie Collins sisters,
were killed at Volga.
This bringy the death list in this
section of the country up to 35. Manu
facturing plants throughout the storm
area are preparing to resume opera
tions. The- daiKxT, estimated at $lfi
000,000, was chfrfir to- railroads-erop.
and industrial plants, v
Cotton Mill Destroyed.
Charlotte, N. C, JuJly 19 Restorn
tion of communication today with
Mount Island, ten miles from here, re
vealed a' five story cotton mill had
been wiped out completely by the
floods. No loss of life is reported.
' SUBMARINE .REPORT FALSE
New York, July 19 Publication by a
New York morning newspaper today of
a report that anothter German freight
submarine, sister ship to the Deutsch
land, was about to dock at Bridgeport,
Conn., created a furore nt the Connecti
cut seaport today but not a soul could
be found who knew anything about the
matter. Collector of the Port James
L. McGovern said he was without in
formation. Firms along the waterfront
reported employes had been scanning
the harbor since dawn, but without see
ing a periscope.
NAVAL PLANES BOMBARDED
Berlin, via wireless to Snyville, I.. L,
July 19. German naval planes last
night bombarded enemy cruisers, tor
pedo boats, submarines and military es
tablishments at the Russian naval port
of Rexal, on the gulf of Finland, it was
officially announced this afternoon. The
planes were accompanied by a German
squadron.
"A number of hits were obtained on
enemy warships," said the admiralty
statement. "One submarine was hit
four times. Large conflagrations
were observed on the dock. All the
German aeroulanes returned."
DALLAS SHOPS BUSY
The S. P. repair b1ios in Dullas be
gan a ten hour a day shift yesterday
morning, one hour overtime. This
schedule will robubly bo maintained
for at least three months as scheduled
repairs will take that long for com
pletion. Another mnehiiilst, John Cerny
a Dallas boy who learned his trade
here, hus been transferred back to
Dallas to help out in the work to be
done bv the local shops. Heavy re
pairs to S. P. Kngine number 13.r2
were finished Sutunlnv a m 1 the en
gine left lor Albany Sunday morn
in". Kngine "1 117 is now undergoing
heavy repairs. As soon as room can
be made switch engine 1075 will be
ovechnuled and then the engine will
be sent to Salem. Engines 2"01 and
13." 8 are scheduled to come here. Fore
man Carl Gerlinuer is elated at the
amount of work the B. P. company is
sending to the shopu here. Work is
also being done at the local shops on
some of the Valley k Hiletz. railway
company 's equipment. Observer.
BRITISH REGAIN LOSSES
:
- ' London, July 19. British
troops regained most of the
' ground lost to the Germans in
last night's fighting, Genesal
Haig reported late this evening.
Furious counter attacks won
back the positions around Long-
ueval and in- Delville wood. -
DEATH LIST GROWS
Middle West to Hare
. Cooler Weather
Chicago, ' JuHpr 19. Cooletr weather
for tonight and tomorrow was predict
ed for the middle western states by the
weainer man nere today.
However, he promised no let up for
today of the heat wave which yester
da" reached the 100 mark at Fort
Smith, Ark., Abilene, Texas, Oklahoma
City, and Phoenix, Aviz. Chicago reg
istered K on street thermometers to
day and indications are that it would
be the hottest day this summer.
Several heat prostrations were re
ported in the last 24 hours, but only
one dentil.
COLUMBIA IS FALLING
The Dalles, Or., July 19. All dan
ger of a Columbia river flood was con
sidered passed today, with the stream
rapidly receding. It fell four tenths
of a foot during 24 hours, reaching
the 34.5 foot stage.
SHOT PHYSICIAN FOR
The Old Story of Love and
Wrong Ending In Murder
and Suicide
Boston, Mass., July 19. Dr. . Eld-
ridge Atwood, prominent physician of
Woburn, was arraigned .in municipal
court today on a charge of attempting
to take the life of Dr. Wilfred E. Har
ris, president of tho Massachusetts col-,
lege of Osteopathy, following the
death of Dr. Atwood 's fiancee, Dr. Ce
Ha P. Adams. I
According to the confession, the do-
lice say Atwood made after his ar
rest, he shot Dr. Harris because tho j
latter betrayed Dr. Adams and caused
her to commit suicide.
Dr. Harris, who la mnrrinil. vm tn.
strnctor to both Dr. Adams and At-1
wood at the college of osteopathy and
is now at the city hospital with three,
bullet wounds, nny one of which the
attending physicians fear may Drove
1UIUI. i, in. , I, I, n i i .
An autopsy war performed on the
body of Dr. Adams at the Grove street
morgue, but Medical Examiner Mc-
Grata, refused to make any statement
as to his findings, le is believed, how-;
ever, that the young woman physician i
committed suicide by taking morphine.
said, after she had told Atwood that it
would be impossible for her to marry I
him because Dr. Harris h.id betrayed
her. After Atwoed had left her to go
to his home, she is believed to have
taken the poisou. When she was dls-:
covered bv her lather in a dying condi-j
tion Inter Monday night she was re
moved to Commercial hospital.
Atwood rushed to tho Hospital where
his Bweetheart died in bis arms. At
wood secured a razor and revolver and
called at Dr. Harris' office. I
"I intended to mutlliate him with'
the razor, but when he opened the door
and 1 saw women inside his office I
shot him instead." Atwood is reported
to have said. Throe of the four bill-.
lets took etrect, the I'ourtii lodging in
tho wall of the hallway.
The police started a search for Dr.
Mary Campbell, who shared the Cool
idge Corner office with Dr. Adams in
the hope that she may be able to throw
light on the tragedy. Dr. Campbell is
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snifl io nave icit homiuii iu i-.iurK"
a girl s camp, but tno police nave as
yet been unable to locate where she is.
In the last few years Moscow has
been increasing in population more ra
pidly than at nny time in a century
and, if the present rate be continued,
it will have more than 2,000,000 resi
dents in 1920.
Russia Has Two Big Armies
On at the Front Fighting
The Other at Home Workin
By William Philip Slnuiut.
(United Press staff correspondent.)
Petrogrnd, June 19. (By mail.)
"War is not at all bad," Pastor Charlps
Wagner, author of "The Simple Life,"
declared to me iu the course of a Paris
interview, December, 1914.
And when I asked him to go on and
explain, he said:
"Out of this turmoil uud slaughter a
few blessings are bound to emerge, like
lilies from the nnd or a pond, tor
one thing I see a return from n highly
material, to a more spritual form of
everyday life. For another I believe
the minds of the masses will be lifted
by the war to a vision of bigger things.
"No man can go through such an ex
perience mid remain the petty creature
be was nt the begiuniug. He ran not
go back to his nwl and his last and pick
up bristle and thread Just where he left
off.
"War hardens but war educates; one
must be different afterwards; one must
be wiser."
The pastor-philosopher was not speak
ing of the soldiers of France alone. He
included all peoples affected by the
war the English the French the
Germans the Austrians and the Rus
sians. His inference was that France will be
PRICE TWO
CONVENTION LIKE
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III
Motherly Old Women Were
There With Knitting and
Patchwork
AND DAD DRESSED UP IN
SUNDAY-GO-TO-MEETINGS
Heat Soon Caused Male Pro
his to Pull Collars and -Coats
By H. L. Rennick.
(United Press staff correspondent.) ...
St. Paul, Minn., July 19. Hundreds
of the snmo kind of "home town folk"
who make up the church boards, the
Chautauqua crowds and run the district
schools in thousands of towns and vil
lages, swarmed into St. Paul today for
the opening session of the prohibition
national convention.
Motherly old women, of the type that
attended the home and foreign mission
ary society meetings back home, and
bake cakes and make jellies for the pas
tor and society picnics, were in the
crowd. So were bearded gray-haired old
men in their black "Sunday go to
meeting" clothes, some of them with
collars and some of them who never
wore oue.
The delegates who came to St. Paul
imbued with the thought of downing
the demon rum are as different from
the crowds who attended conventions
of other political parties as the frock
coated city merchant is from the gnar
ly fisted, aproned store keener at Hicks
Corner, or any other cross road. - The
prohibitionists seem more earnest and
care leas for show. The women brought
their tatting, their knitting, and their
patchwork.
It was a hot day, aad costless, collar
less, suspender shewing shirts some
blue and some "boiled" dotted ' the
crowd at the Auditorium.
For instance, there was Col. James M.
Ingersoll of Pocatello, Idaho, a griz
zled, gray mustached ranchman, who
sat on the platform. His boiled shirt
was collarless, he wore no coat, but his
diamond stud illuminated his shirt as
no necktie could. His gray socks
came down over the tops of his squared
toed shoes and he twirled his mustache,
appearing like a gruff, ' good ecout,
dressed up in his Sunday clothes and
dreading it. Col. Ingersoll, the only
progressive leader attending the con
vention, was in the limelight continu
ously. Mrs. Kate M. Hamilton of Los
Angeles, Cal., who is 74 years old, and
has been a prohibitionist for 63 years,
was "grandmother" to many of the wo
men delegates who greeted her. She sat
near the platform, dressod in prim
white , with a bit of vanity expressed
in ear rings that bobbed as she nodded
her gray head.
The prohibitionists joiucd In the
choruses when A. M. Thatcher, who
positively has the deepest voice in cap
tivity, rumbled hymns and songs of
the dry s to the accoaipaiiiment of a
piano played by the same type of a
girl who played the organ back at the
Hicks Comers church.
The delegates seemed, religious and
comfortable There was no dressing for
style but a lot of "amens" were pro-
(Continued en Pago Two )
a different country after the war. So
will Germuny ami Knjjlaud and Rus
iu and nil the others.
Russia is bound to be a New Russia.
That is one of the things the war means
to this mighty empire. If western Eu
rope will be changed through this Ar
viugeddou, how much more so will the
Km ope of the east where the people
are comparatively young.
These are the things implied by Pas
tor Wagner.
Russia, in fact, has already changed,
already started on the new road.
The American coming to Russia ex
pects to find things much more central
ized than iu France or England. He ex
pects to see the government working in
dependently, above and apart from the
people becuuse in the past the govern
ment has played the part of the pa
rent looking after the needs of the
child, or the people. To his surprise he
observes nothing of the kiud.
He finds the Russiaa people working
for and with the government.
He discovers two great armies in the
land, one in uniform, under arms, fight
ing. The other in plain clothes, or over
alls, at bench and lathe, working. The
government's agent, the General Staff,
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CAM
MEETING
DAY
OF LONG AGO
CENTS
ON T BAIN 8 AND KW
STANDS ri VB CBrTTsi
VOTE OF OUTSIDE
MAY SPLIT UIIIOII
San Francisco Strikers May
Ignore Vote and Go Back
to Jobs
PORTLAND ONLY CITY IN
NORTH FOR C0SSPRO:nSE
Seattle, Tacoma and Other
Coast Points Strongly
Against Agreement
San Francisco, July 19. San Fran
cisco's' striking longshoremen .may. re
sume worn tomorrow, in spite of the
refusal of longshoremen in other Pa
cific coast ports to sanction a compro
mise. The committee of 25 of the lo
cal union, at a meeting this afternoon,
is expected to Ignore the vote of other
locals. '
"We are dissatisfied with the north
ern reports," declared one official of
the local union today. "Frankly,, ws
do not like the referendum return front
the unions up there,"
The effect of the attitude of-tke
northern longshoremen on the' machin
ery of the Pacific coast branch of the
International Longshoremen's associa
tion, was the chief topic in waterfront .
circles today. . A split was predicted '
in some quarters. . Others prophesied
that the San Francisco local will, de
mand an accounting of the manner in
which the referendum' vote was taken
in Seattle, Tacoma and other' northern
cities. A third forecast is that the dis
trict organization of the longshoremen
will accept the proposed ' compromise
agreement rather than see a split, j
(May Split Ualon. ' ' -
San Fraucisoo. JUly IB. A crisis in
the history of tne Sad Francisco local
of the Longshoremen's association waa
faced by the stevedores and riggers here
today as the result of the refusal of
their fellows in other Pacific coast
ports to sanction the proposed compro
mise for settlement of the strike 'which
has tied up waterfront activities for
six weeks.
The vote of the outside unions which,
showed a majority of more than two to
one against acceptance of the compro
mise which the San Francisco longshore
men had alroady accepted, will be can
vassed at a meeting of the local union
tonight. District President J. J. Foley
and local President Murphy both denied
today that the local union contemplated
resuming work despite the vote. This
denial was called forth . by persistent
rumors that a number of local long
shoremen favored splitting with the
men in the other parts and making a
separate deal with the employers.
R. C. Thackara, spokesman of the
Waterfront Employers' Union, declared
that his organization, txpects the lo
cal stevedores to return to work, how
ever. "We gave the local longshoremen un
til Saturday to vote on our compromise
proposition," he said. "They accepted
it by a vote of almost two to one and
notwithstanding what stevedores in oth
er ports have done, we expect our men
to resume."
Portland Votes Yea.
Portland, Ore., July 19. Striking
longshoremen hero were on record to
day as being willing to resume work
under the conditions which prevailed be
fore the walkout, pending a conference
August 1, at which a new wage scale;
will be drawn. Local, No, 5, which
stevedores the Sau Francisco and Port
land steamship compunios vessels,
voted 80 to nine in favor of starting
work. No. (I is said to have voted four
to one for resuming.
The results of the Portland ballot
ing was sent to San Francisco where all
votes cast on the coast are to be to
taled. - '
OREGON HAS 30,000 AUTOS
Portland, Ore, July 19 There
nre :I0,000 licensed automobiles
in Oregon today, for the first
time in the state's history. Last
year there were 22,581 licenses
issued. .
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THE WEATHER
,
Oregon: To
night and Thurs
day, gene rally
fair; winds most
)y easterly.
LONGSHOREMEEI
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