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FORTIETH YEAK NO. 198
SALEM, OREGON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 21, 1917
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GREAT BATTLE RAGES
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Concentration of Artillery Greatest In. World's History
Blazing Guns and Exploding Shells Turn Nigit to Day
Italians Capture 10,000 Prisoners and Dead and
Wounded Doubles This Austrian Loss Allies Superiority
Everywhere Shown-Pirtugese Soldiers Take Part
London, Aug. 21. Ei 0
joined today in the mosg-
against liermany. ; S-5
The west front from
land was one gigantic attle, with French, British,
Belgian and Portuguese troops attacking.
Southward, Italy's most formidable offensive threw
millions into a grapple over
miles.
Field Marshal Haig's drive in Flanders is pressing
forward while his Canadian troops gripped tighter
around Lens. General Petain's troops were driving
fiercely out of Verdun, while steadily increasing their
pressure along the Uhemm Des Dames and in Champagne.
Russia alone of the great allied powers was not partici
pating in the concerted assault.
Even little Rumania, through her reorganized and re
vived army, was making stubborn opposition to a great
Teutonic attempt at encroachment on the fragment of
Kumaman territory lett m allied hands.
Every one of the assaulting moves was strategically
timed and co-ordinated. .
The French offensive at Verdun came at a time when
the Germans were massing
British successes in the Lens and Ypres sectors?
Italy's offensive came when Austria, flushed with sue
cess of Teutonic machinations by which Russia's troops
melted away, was diverting men from the Carso, Julian
and' Isonzo fronts to sweep forward beyond Galicia. , '
The. Macedonian front was the only one today in
Europe from which there was no report of an allied of
fensive. Military experts, however, believed General
Sfirrail would shortly come into the great play of arms,
timing his blow to best advantage.
German Hold. Weakening
By Henry Wood
(United Press staff corresoondentl
With the French Armies in the Field
A"" 21 The greatest battle of
worm was oeing iougnt tooay.
ciom tue seacoast to the Swiss fron-1
tier oyer 4o5 miles the allied forces
were fighting a practically continuous
offensive.
France's great assault at Verdun,
still driving on today, completed the
chain of battles which were welded in
the lorge or war into one gigantic ac-4
Tion or unprecedented extent and pow
er. ,
The great battle started with the
Anglo-French offensive in Flanders ex
tended to the British offensive at Leffs,
thence to the French attacks around St.
Quentin, then to the French offensives
at Chomin Des Dames, Moronvilliers
and Verdun and concluded with heavy
artillery fighting in Lorraine and Ai
sace down to Switzerland.
The western front has never seen
such an extensive battle. Nor has the
sillies superiority everywhere been
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asserted
With hree more months of fighting
weather this year, Germany 's huid on
the western front may become precar
ious before winter.
Perfect and coordinated strategy un
derlies the English and French attacks.
They have been so timed as to. convert
all the fi"tiT" into one great battle.
TWO Huge Offensives
Once beiore the allies timed such
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FRONT
nd, France, Italy and Belgium
rantic offensive yet directed
(Belgian seacoast to Switzer
a front of almost a hundred
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effectives to oppose further
blow, but not in the force of that which
was pushing with terrific power today.
On April 16, the French attacked the
.soutnern pivot or tne i.nuenuurg line
tko.n week after the English attacked the
northern nivot.
Todav the French are attacking the
southern pivot where the German lines
hing0 on their famous Meuse retreat
position. The drive comes exactly two
weeks afler the English attack in
Flanders threatened the German north
ern hold on the coast.
While these two huge offensives de
veloped today, the battles around Lens,
Arras, St. Quentin, along the Aisne
and at Moronvilliers continued with
unabated intensity. .
Germany made her supreme effort in
concentration of men and of artillery
in the 1910 assault on Verdun. No of
fensive had ever reached the intensity
of this one, but French assault today,
in the identical sector, had surpassed
it.
Great Use of Gas .
Not only was there the greatest con-
eentration of artillery in the war's his
tory at Verdun but an unprecedented
use of gas by the Germans in their ef
forts to stein the French attack. Enor
mous quantities of the newest and
deadliest German gases were released,
both throughout the French artillery
prciiarationa and the actual infantry
attacks.
The enemy even attempted a sort of
gas barrage and special gas Holds in
'efforts to"wither tho advancing wave
of the French troops.
They also rushed up fresh divisions
from far to the rear and flung these
prodigally into the battle.
. The German concentration of artil
lery, massed to combat the enormous
number of French field pieces, was es
timated by German prisoners today to
equal the maximum artillery concen
tration for Germany a assault on Ver
dun in 1H16.
Great Artillery Battle
The combined Trench and German ar
tillery brought into the play of death,
is probably the greatest concentration
of weapons for a single attack the
whole war has vet seen. During Sun
day night's final artillery preparation
by the French, altnoogn it was ciouay
snd the French military rules strictly
forbade the slightest glimmer of arti
ficial light, I was able to leave Ver
dun at midnight and proceed to an ob
servation point, a greater distance
from the city than Douamont, as my
way was lighted by countless thous
ands of gun flashes. Artillery kept the
night continually liahi. It was as
though a million lightning flashes
blended into one cataclysmic shock.
The artillpry gave light enough for the
French artillery to advance with every
pock mark of Xo Man 's Land visible.
The Germans brought into action
giant 380 millimeter (fifteen inch)
shrapnel shells- High in the air they
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CAMP NEARLY EEADY.
Camp Fremont, Menlo Park,
Cal., Aug. 21. Announcement
of the exact date on which
troops of the 41st national guard
division can be received at Camp
Fremont is expected within 24
hours. All that remains of the
necessary work is the water sys
tem, and trench digging mach
ines are making quick work of
that.
Army authorities plan to
bring a company from each na
tional guard regiment to the
camp first, to prepare regimen
tal bases.
TO GEANT AUTONOMY.
Zurich, Aug. 21. German
Chancellor Michaclis will an
nounce Germany's decision to
grant autonomy to Alsace-Lorraine
at this afternoon's session
of the main Teichstag committee
according to a special agency
dispatch received here.
ORDINANCE PROVIDES
FOR REASSESSMENT
City Ccunicil Takes Steps for
Collecting Street Assess
ments May License
Although the regular meeting of the
city council last night was a vory tame
affair yet two bills for ordinances were
introduced, and read the first and sec
end tims and committed to the hands
of committees for investigation, that
were of considerable importance and
were the fruits of the rcent city elc'
etion.
These ordinances were for reassss-
ment of property and for the foreclos
ure of liens. The reassessment ordinance
provides for. reassessing property
South "High street from the noTth line
of Mill to the south line of Mission,
and on Twelfth street from Mission
Street to the south city limits.
The foreclosure of liens is copied to
a great extent from the state law cover
ing forclosures . and provides that no
certificate of delinquency shall be is
sued within six months or "one year, as
the committee may recommend, and that
foreclosure cannot be started for three
years after the delinquency is declared
to exist.
Both these bills were rferred to the
ordinance committee.
An ordinance requiring garages and
automobile repair shops to keep a rec
ord of all repairs and changes to any
machine was read the first and second
times and referred to the ordinance
committee.
License Fee $50.
An ordinance licensing taxicabs, etc,
aud making the license fee $30 a year
was read aud referred to the ordinance
committee.
An ordinance providing for the trans
fer of Ji9,771 from the general fund to
the street fund was passed. This was
done on account of the street fund be
ing nearly exhausted, and because the
limited amount of the street fund makes
it necessary to transfer money from
the general fund so that work can be
carried on.
The bid of E. M. Croisen of $5.35
a cord for wood was referred to the
committee on public buildings. Coun
cilman Unruh moved that the committee
look into the proposition of changing
from wood to coal, and the cost of
changing grates, and report to the
council at its next meeting. The motion
carried.
Street Commissioner W. S. Low was
granted a two-weeks vacation on pay.
His vacation will begin next Monday.
On motion cf Councilman Elliott the
city purchasing agent was authorized
to purchase five tons of straw for bed
ding for the city horses.
The petition of Steusloff and J. Far
rar for permission to install clust
er, lights in front of their properties,
the one on Liberty street and the other
on State street, was allowed by the
council.
California Oil Men
Get Favorable Decision in
Circuit Court of Appeals
San Francisco. Aug. 21. Victory for
California oil men was seen today in
the decision of the Lnited States cir
cuit court of appeals in setting aside
the receiverships of the North Ameri
can Consolidated Oil companies. The oil
men have been fighting for relief since
the Taft withdrawal order of Septem
ber 1907.
The court ruled that the government
cannot gain possession of lands on
which private development was done
prior to 1907 and that operation) on a
quarter section form proof of develop
ment of an entire claim.
It was declared that if this ruling is
sustained by the supreme court, the gov
ernments' eases to get possession of
valuable California oil lands covered by
the Taft withdrawal, will be cancelled,
WILSON n
OT READY
TOTAKEUPPOPE'S
PEACE PROPOSAL
Postpones Discussing It With
Cabinet Devotes Whole
Time to" War Matters
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ENGLAND td EXAMINE IT
IN BENEVOLENT SPIRIT
Belief In Washingon That
Another Year Will See End
of the Struggle
(By Carl D. Groat)
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
Washington, Aug. 21. President Wil
son today postponed discussion with his
cabinet of the popfe's peace proposal in
order to givo Undivided attention to
war work. '
Russia, through the embassy here, has
baid the pope;s proposal will not do in
its present form.. This, of course, has,
been the attitude of all the allies since
receiving it. . ,
The whole question now is what to
include in the conservative reply Prsi
deut Wilson in expeted to send. He must
eccopt those provisions of the pope's
proposals calliug for disarmament and
arbitration of future international dif
ferences. He cannot accept the status
quo ante provisions. He cannot admit
n willingness to sit about a peace tabic
with the German people represented by
a pawn of the Hohenzollernism, He
must demand guarantees that will not
be regarded as "a scrap of paper." and
he believes impossible except for a
democracy. He will point the way to
peace for the Geriyau people but will
make it clear, it eanuot come through
the office of the kaiser's iron autoc
racy.
The first reply to the pope's appeal
appears to be a general allied offensive
of tremndously increasing violence
along all fronts save Bussia.
That peace is ahead, is tne convic
tion hero. The pope has laid the ground
work for peace negotiations. President
Wilson will give momentum to the
building. Another year will see the end
of the struggle experts here now be
lieve.
Acknowledge Receipt.
London. Ana. 21. England, first of
the belligerent powers to answer the
popo's peace suggestions, presentd a
formal note to the Vatican today, thru
British Minister Desalis, declaring tho
holy father's plan would be examined
"in a bnevoleut and serious spirit."
Cardinal Gesparri, papal secretary of
statej expressed his gratification at the
response.
.Cardinal Gasnarri said he hoped all
belligerents would admit of agreement
on four fundamental principles, which,
he said, had already been approved by
England, France, Russia, Germany and
Austria. He declared President Wilson's
peace note of last Decmber implied all
that was contained in the pope's pro
from. It is not clear what four fundamen
tal principles the belligerents mention
ed above, have agreed upon. So far
as cable dispatches have indicated, no
common ground has yet been reached
by any of the belligerents officially.
France Demands Provinces.
Washington, Aug. 21. Germany can
not evade demands that will be ms1e
by the allies as part of their peace
terms by attempting to dispose of points
at issue' to her own liking.
This was the reply from allied sources
today to the Zurich report that Chan
cellor Michaelis would announce grant
ing tho autonomy to Alsace Lorraine,
in his address to the reichstag.
"Absolutely unacceptable" was the
response from high French officials
here.
"France would never have made Al
sace Lorraine a war issue before 1914,"
this French authority declared to the
United Press, "and now that Germany
has invaded France the French nation
will never consent to seeing Alsace Lor
raine anything but a French province."
EIGHT AUTOISTS KILLED
New London, Conn., Aug. 21. Eight
persons are dead today and a little girl
is in a hospital here in a serious con
dition following the destruction of their
automobile early today when it was
struck near Saybrook by a New Haven
train.
Kobert Eohlosf, aged 39, New Haven
aud Gustave Weyall, New Haven, fath
er of Louise Weyall, the child have
been identified. Others dead include a
woman and five children, one of the lat
ter an infant of three months, whose
body was lifted from the locomotive
pilot.
Japanese scientists are searching for
an explanation-of an apparent relation
ship between the frequency of earth
quakes at Tokvo and the quantity of
rainfall and snowfall in other parts of
the empire.
BABY HAS SEVEN DADS.
Butte, Mont., Aug. 21. Fed
eral authorities today are inves
tigating a charge that one baby
was used by seven men to show
the draft exemption board they
had depndent children. A wom
an who is alleged to have posed
as the wife of two men also is
receiving the attention of fed
eral agents. No names have been
made public, but arrests with
in the next few days are expect-
ed.
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VOTE TO ATTEND.
London, Aug. 21. By a vote,
of 1,234,000 to 1,231,000 the la
bor party members today decidd
to participate in the Stockholm
peace conference.
The vote was by card. The
scant majority found only
3,000 was a surprise.
The labor party will appeal to
the government to grant pass-
sports for its rcpresntatives.
LESS THAN 200 OBEYED
ORDER WALK OUT
Jest Here and There a Weary
Willie Accidentally at Work,
Responded Gladly
Portland, Or., Aug. 21 Not over
150 I. W. W 's went on strike yesterday
United Press dispatches from various
points in Washington, Idaho, Montana
and Oregon today emphasized the com
plete failure of the much advertised I.
W. W. general strike in the four states
Logging camps, sawmills, mines,
thrcshins outfits, factories every in
dustry which the I. W. W. agitators
attempted to organise are running to
day as usual. The general strike, so
called, by the lW.jW. was a house of
cards which collapsed before the ar
my 's ' display o(. authority (Sunday at
apoitane, wncre mi leaning i. w. v.
were arrested. (
Onlv in a few isolated districts did
any men quit work. If an accurate
count could be made, it is likely that
the total number of I. W. W. strikers
would be found less than 100.
The only important effect today of
the attempted strike Is Increased deter
mination of army officers and civil au
thorities to suppress the I. W. W. in the
four northwest states.
Following the ultimatum froiu army
authorities in Spokane that street
speaking in that I. W. W. hot bed must
stop, the city commissioners now have
issued a similar order. Troops are to
day stationed at Wallace and Lewis
ton, Idaho, and in a score of towns
men known to be I. W. W. are rounded
up without ctremony. The I. W. W.
rebellion 'in the northwest is being
stamped out.
WORLD HEAT FAMINE
HAKES TOES SOAR
Ham and Bacon Prices Will
Be Prohibitive High Corn
Prices the Cause
Chicago, Aug. 21. Pork chops soon
will be fifty cents a pound retail.
Ham and bacon will be even higher.
Meat generally is going up.
Herbert Hoover's fear of a "world
meat famine" is not over estimated.
These were the conclusions drawn
for tho United Press today by Kobert
Miller, president of tho Chicago Retail
Grocers association, from Hoover's
meat report.
Danger of a meat famine has been
known to Chicago retail dealers for
some time, Miller said.
"There is but one remedy," he con
tinned, "Undo Sam must devise some
regulation that will make it more prof
itable for the farmer to feed his grain
to cattle than to sell it. As long as
the farmer can get $2 for corn on a
quick sale, he is not going to feed it
to cattle and wait for the same profit.
"Shrinkage in the snpply of corn
fed cattle and good beef becomes more
alarming daily."
The rapid rise in wholesale hog pric
es is boosting the retail price of york
proportionately, retailers declared.
Pork loin that sold for 32 cents Satur
day, today was 'iolA cents. A fifty cent
advance in hogs on the hoof over last
week s prices was blaricd for this.
The wholesale price of hogs August
1 was six dollars higher than a year
ago and twice as high as on August 1,
1914. Hogs today were nearly $4 high
er than August 1 this year, selling close
to $30 hundred pounds.
Bacon that retailed for 30 to 35
cents last week, today was 35 to 40
cents a pound. Ham was selling at 45
cents today on a corresponding rise.
BILVEE MAKES EECOED.
New York, Aug. 81. Bar silver was
quoted here today at 88 1-4, another
new record.
R1B0WD
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Gty to House 20,000 Springs Up By Magic Roads Laid
Out, Water System Provided-Pastureof Week Ago Is
Now Camp Mils Headquarters of Tomorrow Is Cora
Field Today-These Will Be first "Citizen Soldiers" to
Reach the Trenches, Probably Before Snow Flies
By Hugh Baillie,
United Press Staff Correspondent.
Hempstead, N.T., Aug. 21. On a rolling plane, flanked
by millionaires' estates, with army aeroplanes constantly
maneuvering high over head, 20,000 American boys--the
"Rainbow division"-are today mobilizing for war. They
will be the first citizen soldiers to reach the trenches.
Camp Mills, (where "this Forty Second, division of na
tional guardsmen from all parts of the country will be
quartered until, it starts for France, is springing into ex
istence like a magic city coniured up with Alladdin's
lamp. A week ago the four hundred acres over which it
is spreading, were pasture lands. . . .
Motor trench diggers, devouring the ground, cut
ditches for two miles of water pipes. A thousand soldiers
from the Twenty-second infantry laid out streets, made
roads and with the aid of civilian laborers, built three
hundred shower baths. Pits for the disposal Of refuse
were dug.
The vanguard of the troops now flocking here from all
parts of the United States
ol tne reservation, temporary postoffices sprang up, the
boys in khaki marched in, sentries were posted, women
came running with buckets
was born. , ,
Today the camp routine
ty-ninth regiment' of New York is stationed and a mile
and a half away were ambulance corps, artillery and sani
tary corps and civilian workers are still hammering away
at field kitchens and guttering traverse streets. The
place where division headquarters is to be is still a corn
field.
Health Safeguarded. '
Tho camp is oblong, with a broad
avenue called "Main street." running
through the middle from end to end. A office.
short distance westward lies the govern-1 Over a slight rise at one end of tho
ment aviation school at Mineola. thousands of acres are available
French and British, flying officers, in
structing the young American eagles, for mnn(,uverg.
scoot past in automobiles and on motor-1 Trenches criss-cross a part of this)
clcyes. In the wooded country nearby territory and aviators soar over It,
the roofs and towers of country man- photographing the earthworks, dropping
sions can be sen among the trees. This , , . .
camp is in strangely peaceful surround-. dummy bombs on an ima8lnary enemy
ings. At night a million candle power
Colonel F. II. Lawton bandied the searchlight, located at the aviation
construction work and is in charge of field, sweeps the country, the camp, the
feeding the division. He estimated to- hill tops, picks up a solitary airplane
day that 125,000 pounds of food daily .on a night flight and glints on the roofs
counting boxes and crates would be of peaceful homesteads. The aeroplanes
necessary. Colonel Lawton has estab- aro in their war paint, with red, white
lished headquarters in a little red brick
railroad depot at Clinton Road.
Everything posxiblo has been done
to safeguard the health of the soldiers.
Boads are sprinkled with calcium chlo
ride, reducing dust to the minimum.
Great showers were constructed on a
new plan four showers to every com
pany of 50 men. Under this arrange
ment the soldiers are showeder in
squads of forty a steady procession Chicago, Aug. 21. Favorable grow
marching under the water. 'ing weather with a continued weakness
Five cooks are provided for each com- in cash corn was rsponsible today for
pany and the food is prepared in tents fractionally lower corn futures,
carefully serened against flies. A watch pcember corn opened 1-4 lower ami
will bo kept on nighbors who want to sold down 1-4 at an opening of $1.08
bring soft drinks and assorted tid bits 5-8. May opened at $1.07 1-8 lower and
to the boys. Indiscriminate feeding out later was $1.06 7-8.
cf hours, it is feared, will "ruin tho September wheat was more active at
men's stomachs" as one officer put it. 'an opening of $2.07 which was 2 high
' Will Be Kept Warm. I Cr. Later it was up three.
A paternal watch is also kept on Oats was down in sympathy with
sky larking which might be daugerons.
There was an instance of that when an
officer caught two boys in khaki reck
lessly speeding on a motorcycle and
reprimanded them severely.
Kvery fighting man is worth big
money to the government now.
The tents occupied by tho troops are
conical shaped, regular army shelters
of khaki-colored canvass, each one
floored to protect the men from damp
ness. Tent stoves will be provided if
the soldiers remain until cold weather.'
Such stove, Colonel Lawton said, would
keep the men comfortable even in bo
low zero wather. But present indica
tions are the division will be in France
befor chilly weather comes. Each tent
is fitted with regulation army cots.
In th midst of the tents a "big top"
of white eanvas conspicuous among the
brown army shelters, houses the Y. M.
C. A. It contains tables for letter writ
ing and has a store of books aud maga
zines. An open air motion picture screen
will soon be erected. There the men
will see movies of life in other army
camps as well as plenty of eomedies
and war pictures.
Has Phone System.
The refuse trenches are burned out
every morning with oiled straw and
chemicals. Fresh water is available in
every company street. Camp Mills has
Mil
pitched their tents at one end
of lemonade and Camp Mills
;
is in full swing where the Six
its own telephone syBtem, with a een-
tral switchboard, constructed poles and
all over night. There is also a telegraph
and blue ruddrs and the white star
red center on the undemde of the
wings. They lend the last warlike touch
to the spectacle.
Corn a He Lower
Wheat Up Two Cents
' corn. September opened 1-8 lower at 64
1-8 and sold down 3-8. May opened at
57 1-4. which was 1-4 down and later
was 57.
Provisions were irregular on a slow
and higher hog market.
BISHOP IS BETTER.
Portland, Or. Aug. 21. Attendants
of St. Vincents hosoital hero this morn-
inir announced a slight improvement ii
the condition
of Bishop Glorieux, of
Boise.
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Oregon : Tonight
and Wednesday
f ai r ; moderate
westerly winds.
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