n TODAY'S WEATHER Oregon: Tonight fair, warmer ex cept near the coast; light frost east portion. Fri- day showers nnd cooler west, fair and warmer east portion. 4,500 SUBSCRIBERS (22,000 EE AD EES) DAILY Only Circulation la Salem Guar anteed bj the Audit Bar ei 01 Circulations FULL LEASED WIRE DISPATCHES SPECIAL WHiLAMETTH VAL LEY NEWS SEE VICE I if Iif' M FORTY-FIRST YEAR NO. 92 SALEM, OREGON, THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 1918 PRICE TWO CENTS OV TRAINS AMD tfmWU STANDS F1V1I OTNTi it ill i i 1 1 1 y17 'in ii if n 1 1 ii ii ti t , mm DECLARE DECISIVE F FFICIALS ITTLE IS mm Certainly of Checking Germans Unanimously Asserted At End of Battle Germans Will Be Exhausted and Incapable of Another Offensive German Lines Being Pounded by Vast Assemblage of Artillery German Gains Are of No i Vital Effect France Calm and Confident v By Henry Wood (United Press Staff Correspondent.) . With the French Armies in the Field, April 17. (Night) Every inch of the German line from south of the Somme to the Oise a front of ninety kilometers (55.89 miles), is being pounded by the vastest artillery concentration yet attained by the alliesr Even the coun try for miles to the rear of the enemy positions is under bombardment' Prisoners say the cannonading, in addition to prevent ing tht digging of a single trench, is inflicting the heaviest losses. The offensive has reached a stage Where allied military officials declare unanimously that the present battle is ab solutely and irrevocably decisive for Germany. With the allies' present certainty of checking the German offensive, coupled with the known German losses, the Germans at the battle's end will be exhausted and incapable of ser iously attempting another offensive. Instead, they will have to remain on the defensive, constantly threatened by internal upheavals, while American arrivals swell the superiority of the allies. French military officials declare the French army is capable of waiting another eighteen months if necessary to attain a crushing superiority. But with the Americans maintaining or increasing their rate of arrivals, the final military victory is possible much sooner. Pay Dearly for Gains London, April IS. "German infan try, attacking in. three waves south east af Kemimel hill, pressed us back Blightly at one porat, but ft counter at ItiaicM Ttoirtd (the (Situation," Field Marshal Haig reported today "Shortly after mid-day the attack 8iad been repulsed at all points." In the Bailleul sector the enemy, at-fttw-king three jrM: before mid-day iwas copiplotely repulsed. "Our line yesterday was intact on the whole front. There wag no change Sa the British front during the night," Jiaig said. "There was hostile artillerying on tfhe'Lys battle front, from Givenchy to eastward of Robecq, continuing until dawn between Locon and Robecq. "Local attacks ti the. Morris sector yesterday evening were reputed. "More detailed reports of the fight ing yesterday in Nieppe forest and on the- Wytscheate front established the verity of the enemy's losses." The Germans again are in posses elon of Yytcheate and Meteren, it is admitted in Field Marshal Haig'9 night official report. The British recaptured these villages ii counter attacks yesterday morning. Jmt were compelled to evacuate, them orain in the face of continued, enemy assaults. The French are eo-opera,ting with the British on this front, Haid FOCH KEEPS COOL AND WAITS PATIENTLY THE 11ET0 STRIKE WI Nat Use Reserves Until Rijfht Moment To Make Blow Effective SPILLED THE SOUP. ; With the American Armies in Lorraine, April 17. The Anieri- can artillery on this front al- ready has reduced the German artilleryby two thirds silencing enemy batteries with only a few minutes bombardment. The French are amazed at the Yan kee gunners' accuracy. A lieutenant commanding one gun spotted a German "rolling kitchen." "By gosh! I'll bet I can splash one in Heinie's soup," he exclaimed. The first shot was too "long" the second was too "short". The third spilled the soup. This is just an exampl of the extremely small targets the Am erican artillerymen are capable of hitting. The Americans are now the masters of No Man's Land ou this sector. Every night five to eight .patrols scurry from the outposts and smash the enemy's dugouts, listening posts and ma chine gun nests. An officer and 12 men raid ed five machine gun nests, a field telephone post and some snipers' hiding places without loss."They spent five hours map ping the entire area before that section of the American trenches PLEADED GUILTY San Francisco, April 18. Captain A. R- Paulson, former ekippef of the steamer Alliance, pleaded guilty to day to ia charge of conspiring to ship arms and' ammunition into Mexico. He will be sentenced tomorrow. HUGH HELP HAY TURN THE TIDE 111 FLANDERS FIGHT Situation Such . That Further British Retirement Is Probable FOCH PLAYS HIS CARDS BUT DOES NO TALKING LIBERTY SHOES MAY COME ALONG WITH "WAR SUITS" Only .Standardized Clothing Controlled by weeping Price Fixing Covering Every Stage of Manufacture War Continues ' Fighting of Last 48 Hours As Bloody As Any Since War Started By Carl D. Groat (United Press staff correspondent) Washington, April 18. Military men here today looked for important de velopments following arrival of French reinforcements on the Flanders battle field- Tat it might be the forerunner of a vast strengthening of the British, as mentioned by Haig several days ago. was the thought here. Army men recalled that Haig then (Continued on page six.) LIEUTENANT MtQUARRIE IS DISCIPLE OF OPTIMISM For Hour and Half Story of Battle Keeps Audience Forgetful-of Time M Doa 't worry about the situation in Franice. We've got it In the neck and so will you. It has done us good and it will do you good. We will win all right and your boys will be marching down the streets of Berlin singing Yankee Doodle Do." With this optimistic view of the crit ical .situation in France Lieutenant Hector MacQuarrie held spell bound an audience last night that packed the armory to its utmost capacity. tor the lieutenant is not an otvator of gloom. Although lie had taken part in the terrible experiences of the firs' little English army sent to France and had fought at the first and second battle of Ypres, he spoke ouly of tin! bright side of things and the audience was with him cheering patriotically all references to the friendship between this country and England. -Was Unprepared Lieutenant MacQuarrie said in part. ' fEvery child in Englamd itudies about George Washington and ranks him along with Abraham and the prophets. We really regard Washington as one of our national heroes and are prctud of him. "The German propaganda succeeded (Continued on page two) Washington, April 18 America may soon wear a "liberty shoe" and "war suits"- to ho mainufjaetured at low cost on a large scale end with very few shapes. ' Models and specifications for the shoe and suits are bcine considered by the war industries boatd. While board officials said neither is imminent, ulti mately the coumtry must prepare for this standardization. If the example of Emeland is followed, the tan. shoe will go. The standard war suits will be made in a few designs of standardized ma terials and with, a retail price fixed. Rapidly rising prices on necessaries resulting from the tremendous war or ders which aie usurping the output of clothing and shoo factories make nec essary firm action by the government to protect civilian cor-sumers. Officials indicate that only stand ardized clothing controlled by a sweep ing price fixing policy covering every stage of manufacture from raw mater ial to the finished product will save the country from economic difficulties if tho war continues. The war industries board is silently plunging into its price fixing activities Wool .manufacturers have boca noti fied to appear tomorrow for confer ence with Chairman Barnch if the board. Leather manufacturers were here earlier in the week. Cotton men were assembled in New York, working on plans for regulation of their own industry to be. submitted to Baruch. Representatives of other industries will be called in the future. The rapid rise in price of necessar ies lately has alarmed officials. The prices are not the result in all cases i of shortage of raw material. Bow cot ton, 'for instance, dropped sharply on the cotton exchange last week, but, in tho last two months prices of finished cotton products haver practically doub-' iea, 11 was statoa. umors tor . Hund reds of thousands of yards of gauzo are usurping the output of looms The same is true of leather, hides being as plentiful as ever, while shoes are soar ing in price. Official are also keeping an eye on post war foreign trade and their deter mination! to hold down prices is ex plained in part as a desire to have America at the end of the war on a price level which will permit competi tion with foreign countries. They point out that if prices are allowed to rise mow, labor will demand its share of the increase, supplies will zx un. and once raised, it will be extremely difficult to attempt a reduction such as would be necossary whon the Amer ican nianuiacuire.ru undersell i other countries. England's success in standardizing clothing is being carefully studied and it is probable that whatever America does will be modeled after the action af England. TO CLIP MILLION MILES PER flllH FROM TRAIN RUNS Director McAdoo to Reduce Passenger Service West of Mississippi TRAINS MUST CARRY NO" HALF - FILLED CARS One Passenger Train Will Be Made Practically To Da Work of Two V ELECTION WAS A "DKAW" Albany, N. Y April 18. TJhe loiatyrptiw -"election- On) New' York state yesterday 'was- almost an even break between the drys and wets. Twenty cities voted dry. Eighteen voted wet. One is still in doubt. Manufacturing cities retain ed the license. In the larger cities votes of the newly en franchised women . were about evenly split. 3s )(c jc )Jc s)c sfc sjc jjc ic sjc ijc j( LOADED-APRIL 1,1918 (Continued ou page two) . Abe Martin ' t Another thing. we can't understand is why it is necessary t' solicit a red - Wooded American t' bny a Liberty f-ond. Who remembers when we nsed t ' lnow a eow I' mew th' lawn? . - By J. W. T. Mason (Written for the United Press) ""New York, April 18. Further stif fening of the British front today jus tifies General Foch's reluctance to use up a great part of his reserves in de fensive fighting to protect Ypres and) Hazebrouck. If Voa Hiudenburg's bloody effort to reach the ehanucl ports can be perman eutly checked without disturbing the allies' reserves, the Germans will have met one of the most serious defeats in the war. It will mean that Ilindenburg has failed to compel Foch to accept 'the German conditions for an allied offen sive. This unquestionably is the reason why Foch is showing such persistent re fusal to employ his reserves along the northern end of the battle front. It is unreasonable to expect Foch to develop at this time so overwhelm ing a counter offensive as would force the. Germans back to the positions they occupied before the present drive began. When- the Germans started their ad vance four weeks ago, they were fresh and had spent all winter preparing their plans and accumulating vast stores of munitions. The allies are now weak ened because of their defensive fight ing and have shot away a large part of their reserve ammunition. For Foch to use his reserves now for- offensive purposes would be to attempt to drive the Uermans back while the allies have probably not more than fifty per- rent of their maximum offensive efficiency. To take the offensive about Ypres and Hazebrouck would mean for Foch as heavy a price in casualties for meager gains as Hindenburg is now paying. This would suit Hindenburg ad mirably. He eonld turn to the German people and declare that the allies' re serves had been enticed into battle at the farthest point sway from German territory, and at a time when the allies' efficiency was far from its potential maximum. Hindenburg recently said a battle, is a living thing that takes time to de velop. Foch understands quite well that thi maxim holds true also, for eoun ep offensive. AUSTRIAN TROOPS If! UKRAINE REFUSE TO SERVEON WEST FRONT Refused Even To Go To Italy leutons Iry To Make It German Colony Washington, April 18. Austrian troops in the Ukraine have Tefused to do services on th west front, or even in If al, according to rumors reaching the- :tate department today. In addition to these rumors, authentic Information showed that the Teutons are tryinjr to convert the Ukraine into a German Austrian colony. Insofar as possible, the Teutons have cut off all communication between the Lkiuine and Russia and are supplanting the Ukraino officials with Austrian or German officials. German and Austrian money is being circulated and the na- tive money is being suppressed as fastjstops since contemplated changes !as possible These facts came frQm reliable sourc es, which the department did not feel at liberty to reveal. At the same time an unsubstantiated story was that the Tou- ons intend to dissolve the Ukrainian legislative body, the rada. The department was without informa tion as to whether Germany has been able to draw new reserves from the east front for western fighting since the great offensive started. It had reason to believe rccentlv, however, that Ger many had drained the eastern reserve about to the limit before the west of fensive opened. Chiefly Austrian soldiers are in the Ukraine, according to tho department's information, nnd they refused to be mot ed. The Teutons still control Odessa, tho great grain port, and Nikolniev, tin) Ukrainian river town where is located an important submarine building works. AN ABANDONED SCHOONER DONNERWETTER ! DOTS DER THIRD TIME Washington. April 18. Waterlogged and apparently abandoned, the four masted schooner. Herald, New York, was sighted April 12 in latitude 23 degrees 44 .minutes and longitude 85 degrees ix minutes west according" to a state department dispatch from the American consul at Tampico, Mexico, today. Washington, April 18 Director Gen eral McAdoo is about to clip 1,000,000 miles a mionth from the total mileage, traveled by passenger trains west of the Mississippi river. Details of the remodeled train sched ules are practically complete and an official announcement of tho change is expected wuata tea days, .. it was) learned at tho offices of the railroad administration here today. The revolutionary change, besides re leasing scores of -ktoomotivs for haul ing wah necessities, is directly in line with MeiAdoo's policy of economy in operations of the national railways. It will place passenger service on a strict ly war basis. One train practically will be doing tho work af two, it wss said. Constant calls for speed in handling materials needed ia' the; Drosecutdon of tho war has forced the transporfea- uun or passengers to oe given second ary consideration. Recent elimination of "superfluous trains" east of the Mississippi river has provided basis for the re arrsngememt of train sched ules in other sections. The plan, which will be announced shortly, Is expected K arrect tn emire west. Must rut Coacluog Although the cut In service premise 16 be the most drastic since the gov ernment took charge of the rail lines, officials stated the re-scheduling has been worked out on purely an efficien cy basis-. They asserted tho publio. would suffer few inconveniences. Transcontinental trains no. kger will be permitted to carry half filled: . coaches. And they will make more ntemDlated changes will eliminate numerous local trains. The number of trains from coast to coast will be. fewer. Details as to the exact reduction in that service were refused, . bint it was understood the same curtail ment would be effected as on connect-. ing eastern lines, where fewer trains have proved practical. The "north" routes to tho Tacifio coast are regarded by officials as hav ing tho highest percentage of "cuper fluous trains." Therefore fewer trains especially between Chicago and Kt. Paul ,is certain toi be the rule. Barges on uteaia Little change in southern transcon tinental service is anticipated. One . fast train, however, wag raid to be due fcr conversion into a local traffic car rier. This action is another part of Mc Adoo 's far reaching plans far conserv ing transportation farfritice in antici- pat.ion of the great strain expected as . America responds to the allies' appeals for reinforcements. Yesterday it was announced that to improve facilities in the congested eaHit, McAdoot would construct and put . into operation a line of barges on the Erie canal. This co-ordination of canal and railroad facilities will be under the : direction of G. A. Tomlinson, DuHith, Minn., and all traffic? that can be '. (Continued on page six) PAINTS VIVID PICTURE OF GREAT FLANDERS BATTLE From Hill Top fans Views Battle Spread Out Below In Great Panorama By William Philip Simms (United Press staff correspondent) With the British Annies Near Bail leul, April 17. (Night) The fight now progressing is the most spectacu-. lar of the war. '.. From a hill top near Bailleul it can be observed in pantocrine as though, from a balcony seat. Miles upon miles from around the Passchendaele salient from which the Briitih are volun tarily withdrawing'-vtoVnr outh west ward of Bailleul, is visihie to the nak ed eye. With Field glasses, infantry can be plainly seen on the move. . The battles of Unmoral, Verdun ana Messines were all in a hill country, af fording tho scantiest ghmpses. But from elevations around Bailleul the war's meet dramatic panorama fetch es out with scarcely a tree clump ob scuring the view. Across fertile miles of faims, men are visible . going into action. Sheila burst in pasture lands. Abandoned cows cease grazing and stare in .mild astonishment at the strangle eruption. The sky is filled with btaek and white cloud puffs and with low- frying air planes in contact with infantry, drip ping signal rockets to point out tar gets to the artillery. The rattle of machine gnns and the bais thunder of heavy artillery, com-. mingled with the ear-splitting, velley ing Dangs of guns, is a worthy orches tra . to the greatest drama c all times. 1 . Some Things Kid i colons ' .. ' ' . Flashes from guns and howitzers cloverlv concealed or frankly eut in tho opc-n leaped dazzlingry, sometimes startlingly ner while , the horisOB flickers like thousands of preket. mir rors flashing in the sunlight In tho foreground, a German shell erutups fairly into a farm house.. The former occupants -probably are tramp ing slong the roads, regretting they ever left their home. The house gives off a white smoke for a few minutes, then a flag of flames mottnts toward (Continued on pag: twov ' t I