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1 TODAY'S WEATHER 4,500 SUBSCRIBERS (22,000 ET-VDERS) DAILY Only Circulation la Salea Cia antecd Ij the Audit Earmi at Calculation! FULLtLEASED WIRE " DISPATCHES SPECIAL WILLAMETTE VAL LEY NEWS SEBVICB Oregon: Tonight and Thursday fair moderate wester ly winds. n i 1 1 h t ft j r J UUL L UU FORTY-FIRST YEAR NO. 97 SALEM, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 1918 PRICE TWO CENTS ON TR A IN" 8 AND K1W UfA -N LKH FIVB CH-VTt GARDEN o 0 n ..f if ti uyj i n GERMANS ATTACK IE BRITISH rnoiJT f . AMIENS IC At Same Time Hindenburg Is Tr To Thrust Westward From Albert A Heavy Attack i as Sector Was Brok en Up Last Night By Rifle and Machine Gun Fire On Flanders Front Heavy ArtiSerying Reported Terrific : Bombardment Between die Somme and Avre i Following an intensive artillery bombardment, cover ing practically the entire British 'front from south of Ypres to south of the Somme, Hindenburg today appar ently has. resumed his west front offensive with a drive against Amiens. ' , Haig in his official report today, said that "strong infantry attacks are progressing in the Albert sector and between the Somme and the Avre. , The Somme and the Avre are slightly less than ten miles apart, where the battle front crosses them. The Somme flows directly westward through Amiens, while the Avre, flowing northwestward, converges with the larger river less than two miles east of that.city. v- Between these two rivers, drive progressed to within less than nine miles of Amiens, A resumption of the drive against this important strategic point has been forecast by allied military officials. . ' , : At the same time Hindenburg is thrusting westward from Albert, which is about 6 miles north of the Somme. A heavy attack in this same sector tast night was broken up by rifle and machine gun fire, Hdg' reported. .... On the Flanders front, the British commander said there was "heavy hostile shelling" between Givenchy and Robecq, a front of more than eight, miles along the south western edge of the deep German salient. Enemy con centrations of infantry near Merville, in the center of the Flanders wedge were broken up by British artillery. The French war office communique, evidently issued be ' fore Haig's report, described a "terrific German bom bardment between the Somme and the Avre," the infantry fighting around Albert already was in progress when the French statement was issued, as Pari3 mentioned this. ( ' Fight on Nine Mile Front LomHi, April 24 Strong (icrmaii Marks wore p nog rousing early today oil a nine mile front directly cast of Amiens, Held Marshal Haig reported, At the same time, another enemy as sault was under way in -the Albert sector, north, of tho Somme. German artillery was heavily boimflvard'iug the whcJe British, front, from north of Al bert to the junction of the British and French lines, south of the Somme, on a front of about IB miles. "There w hostile shelling early tliis morning between Givemchy and Jlobeeq.' "On the whole British front, from north of Albert to tho junction with the French south of the Somme, the enemy's artillery was active through out tho night. At an early hour this (Continued on page seven) , I Abe Martin Pinky Keer is organizin' ft summer Uncle Tom's Cabin troupe, an' has ad vertised fer an oboe player that km dioot craps, so they'll ai'.us have enough money t' git home on. Th' fel ler that's shoved t' th' front nertt slays ther very long. OBJECTIVE the Germans in their last LIBERTY LOAN WILL Twelve States Have Filled Quotas, Colorado and Ari zona the Last Wa,-li5ngtcn, April 24. Subscrip tions to the third liberty loan were ap proaching $2,000,000,000 today. Official reports indicated the total would pass $1,750,000,000 'today. Two more states, Colorado and Ariz ona, officially went over the line 'to day, bringing the total number of states which have exceeded their quo tas to an even dozen. The Cleveland federal res;rve dis trict has been awarded 740 honor fla's. In the Kansas City district, 749,fla?s have been sent out ",640 of these going to towns. Forty seven etars indicating doubled quotas have been sent out by Knasis City, The towns of Bountiful $nd Paola reported that subscriptions of five times their minimum quotas have been received. Elaborate plans are being made- for observance of liberty day throughout the country. In West Virginia arrangements have ibeen made for the ringing or bells from 12 o'clock moon to 12:15. The West Virginia loan committee has tel egraphed federal reserve bands re questing that this demonstration be extended nationally. New England awarded 75 honor flags yesterday, Jringing the total in that district to 459. Subscriptions totalling $10,512,000 have been received in Jefferson coun ty, Kejatirckjr, wharte the, minimum quota was $7,941,000. This county in cludes the city of Louisville. Beports show that individual subscriptions are do.- to 31,000 in that district, almost 12 per cent of the (population. Triplane Brought Down Paris, April 24. A German triplane w.i brought dow)i and its crew of three taken prisoner in last night's German air raid, it was officially an nounced this afternoon. The raid was frustrated. BL AT SUBMARINES IF HARBORSARECLOSED If They Are Blocked, There Will Be Immediate Falling Off In Sinkings By J. W. Mason . (Written for the United Press) iS'ew York, April 24. If the dariug British, naval adventure off Ostend and Zebrugge has sealed those harbors against the passage of submarines, a heavy decline in sinkings of merchant men by U-boats will be the immediate result. The only other ports German submarine.-) can use for their bases if Ostend and Zeebrugg have been bottled up, are those off the Gernuan coat. Be tween Belgium and Germany, the Dutch coast intervenes, which would make it necessary for the submarines to travel) 300 miles northward of the Belpdan harbors before they reached friendly waters. The distance from Ostend to the, Irish coast is only six hundred miles and it is within this area that most of the submarine attacks are made. By adding 300 miles to the U-bcat journeys, the reserve power of the pi ratiaal craft would be seriously dis turbed. At the same time the nervous strain, which is known to be en im portant reason for the decreasing- ef ficiency of the submarine rews would (Continued ion page two) CAN PUT THREE MILLION ON FIGHTING LINE WITHIN YEAR General McCain Savs This Can Be Done Easily If Slips ; Are Available v , Washington, April 24. America can put three million men on the fighting line in France within a year if ships are ready, according to Adjutant Gen eral McCain before the house militaiy afaiiis committee. ' I do not see any reason, if we could get the ships, why we could not send over 3,000,000 men after giving tlieio sufficient training in this country," he said. "If we have to have 5,000,000 men and get sufficient ships, could we have 5,000,000 men over there in two and a 17F ' l . Ill iFVr-ap'lliJ ivSgS'-v!--) I tss JJ & wv ill' " 'MM EY CASE TO BE CONSIDERED IN ORDERLYFASHION Governor Stephens Says Send ing of Telegrams Will Have No Effect DEMONSTRATIONS AND ' STRIKES ARE USELESS Jud?e Dunne Says Mqoney Had Fair Trial Corrup tion Fund Raised Sacramento, Cal., April 24-Governor William D. Stephens today issued the following statement in the case of Thuiias Mooney, sentenced to be hanged for participation in the San Franrisco preparedness day parade bemb outrage and who has petitioned ho governor for pardon on the ground that he was convicted on "framed" evidence. "The Mooney case will have full and . (Continued en page two) half years?" asked Representative Moriu. ; "I thinlt we could do it before that if we are willing to take a chance and therewilling to go (n- without fear of making a-mistake," replied Geuerat McCain. : ' He Said his estimnic were based on giving tho men three months training In this country and about the same time in the "war atmosphere" over there as hd called it. Questioned as to his 'opinion of in creasing the draft ages to 40 the adju tant general said he saw "no objection to it." Other testimony before the military committee revealed that America is building 375 hospitals of 1,000 beds each (Continued on page three) .OF - N . - .1 , Ill's. il ! HUM, ! OVER THE FRENCH COLONEL TELLS OF AMERICANS' GREAT FIGHT Lieutenant and Six Men Hold 700 Yard Front-Gunners Die Fighting By Henry Woor (United Press staff correspondent) With the French Ailmies in the Field Aprid 23- How an American lieuten ant and six men held a 700 yard front all day against the Germans, during the recent attack on Seicheprey was told in the official report of the Fretach colonel, who commanded the regiment which vco-operated with theJ Americans in recapturing Seicheprey and Remiores wood. ' .' "After our joint counter attack 1 personally visited the battle front," the Colonel said. - "Everywhere cvadeiiides were visi ble of the most desperate hand to hand fighting demonstrating that the Am ericans, despite two hours' bombard ment, dufonded .themselves valiantly, particularly near Layou. There two American ImakKbio gunners died (n fchgir tracks after covering the sur rounding ground with German dead. "As a result of this most magnifi cent itcsisKanlce, the enemy suffered the heaviest louses. "Two American machine gunners were separated from their company. Although partly surrounded they re fused to retreat, standing fast under a terrific bombardment and engaging Is Trying To Stave Off War - Washington, ' April 24 Hoi- land was believed here today to 'be making some coinvessiona Ito Germany to wtave off war. Germany has -demanded the right to got baldly needed grav- i el and. other war material from the neutral nation. Holland has i(jeailifatly declined to mtoks certain alterations in policy, (but it is considered likely here that ahe is striving to do the idifficult "tak of keeping oil nominally friondly terms, at least, (with ;bc;th the entente and Germany. The State department and Dutcih legation had unusually small information as to devel- opmenta there, aside from the fact that the United States is undertaking to keer as much ipeaice as possible in the lhitch situation by supplying moro tonnage tho)n at fiist decided on, POWER WW, 1 TOP in hand to hand combats throughout the day. Cook Was a Fighter "When th Germans reached the American machine gum positions the Americans blew. up their guns and re treated. "Toward evening, the hospital at Seicheprey was blown up. All the doc tors and nurses were either killed or wounded. Thereupon, the head doctor of an American regiment called for volunteers and seising both French and American jubu!&rices, dashed through repeated barrages into the villago, where he attended the wounded for many hours. "At Seieheprwy an American group broke open grenade cases and estab lished themselves in the northern po sition of the village maintaining their position throughout the day. Kino ot the 23 were still alive .when evening eaima. An Aineriican cook was nearly killed by a grenade but seized a rifle and fired until he dicpped dead. "An American lieutenant and x men, caught on a 700 yard front, con tinued patrolling all day, keeping up contact between the battalions fighting- on their right and left. One of thaw men who were seriously wound ed, was ordered to the rear. Instead of obeying he leaped into a shell hole and, with his rifle and hand grenades, maintained his position." Daughter of Schmidt Tells of Other Women Who Were Suddenly Missing Eoynl Oak, Mich., April 24, Three "murder plants, 'f. one at Lakewood, N. jj.i one at Detroit and one here, were operated by Heluiuth Schmidt at dif ferent times, police utere inclined to be lieve today, following revelations by Gertrude, his 18-ycar-old daughter, At least two other women in addition to Augusta Steinbach, of New York are known to have dropped from sight through his establishments. How many others went tho same way, police do not know. The women were attracted through matrimonial advertisements. ' In expectation of finding traces of bodies of some of tho victims, polico were digging up the cellar and yard of the Schmidt home hero today. Following her father's confession yes terday that ho burnoii trie body of Aug usta Stoinbach, New York housemaid, and his subsequent suicide, Gertrude un folded to the police further detnils of Schmidt's sordid life. She was ordered released today by the prosecuting attor1 ney, who is convinced she is innocent. (Continued on page three) CHERRIAN MINSTREL SHOW WAS PHENOMENAL SUCCESS House Was Crowded To Capacity, Just As It Promises To Be Tonight Entertainment Was One of Finest Ever Given In Salem Great Tableau of Uncle Sam Was Thriller Too Many Good Features To Be Given Mention A Night In Spookville Great The ( herrians in their minstrel show presented at the opera house last ev ening srored a decided hit and the au dience which taxed tho seating capac ity of the house was with the.ni in spir it from the going up of. the curtain on the opening chorus until the going down thereof on a "Night in Spook ville." , The audience at all times was not only most ajprecintivo of the work ot the soloists and chorus but was most insistent in calling for ; repeated en cores, i John Traeger touched the' patriotic sentiment of his audience in bis sing ing of "Somewhere in France is Dad dy," as also did the solo, of O. B. Gingrich in, "Flag of Sly Heart." Dr. II. C. Ertley's recitation of his original poem ''From Out the Depths, or the Emissary of Hell," was enthus iastically etaeo red Albert Gille -tou'hed the feelings ot his auditors in his simging of "Blue Bird" a song with sentiment musical ly rendered. Tableau a Thriller John W. Todd, in his solo "Sons of Liberty"; H. B. White in "Alexan-. der's Ba'k from Dixie"; O. A. Macy in "There's a Service Flag at our ! House," were all .most enthusiastical ly received and enccres demanded. But when it comes to the re-al vivid patriotic sentiment, one with real fight, the solo by Charles E. Know land, "We'll Knock the Hell into Heligo out of Heligoland, " seemed to strike the audience most forcibly. As a closing to part ohc, the curtain rose on a tableau of Uncle Sam, the statue of Liibcrty and the American soldiers represented y the high school cadets with the American flag. It wa . i TWO GIRLS SERVE SINKERS TO BOYS WHILE UNDER FIRE Awakened by Bombardment Don Gas Masks and Get To Work BOY OF 19 IS CALLED BRAVEST IN REGIMENT Other Stories Show American s Are Brave To . Recklessness By Frank Taylor (United Press Staff Correspondent) With the American Army in Lorraine, April 23. (Night). The story of how two American girls, wearing gas masks, served dainties to American soldiers lesa than a mile and a quarter behind the front lines during Saturday's terrifio bombardment near Seioheprey, was told for the first time tonight. The girls were Miss Gladys' and Mis Ireno Maclntyre, sisters of Mount Vei non, N. Y. They were sleeping in their room, in a canteen, amidst the ruins of a shat tered village, two kilometers (1.24J miles) behind the front lines. Awakened at the beginning of the bombardment, which included a large percentage of gas shells, they donnfxt their gas masks. Unable to see through tho masks, Irene volunteered to take off hers and search for matches. Gladys retained hers so as to aid her lister, if the latter were ovorcome. The man euver was executed without any out vuid result. Both stayed in the darkness of tho rantn, while shells burst ' all about ! them, until daylight. Then they bestir red themselves and began making cof fee and chocolate, which they servej to the doughboys, along with doughnuts and pies. v The officer in charge of that part of the village insisted that the sisters movo to safety but they begged for the priv ilege of staying. The girls were finally compelled to close their canteeB and i'.iio in a buckboard to a town well in the rear. But they had beeu under a terrific, bombardment for more than eight hours. Some Other Stories. Tho girls are jolly and, lively sis ters to all the doughboys. "Wo didn't know what wo wore get ting into but wo were willing to do anything to help the boys," saya Gladys. (Continued on page three) . ono of the most stirring tableaux ever piewnted in the, city and four cur tain calls wero demanded and even then there was a call for another view of Liberty and the boys in khaki. The scpond part of the show includ ed an euphonium olo by Ivan O. Mar tin, and a vaudeville act by Mrs. A. J. Knhn who is always a favorite with Salem audiences. Fred Taylor, who has been for some tiime past one of the stars or the annual minstrel shows at tho pen pleased the- audienco immense ly in his take off of the stars who pre ceded him. A Night In Spookville . E. Cooke Patton, named on the pro gram a "Salem's premier magioian" lived up to his record for spooky stutf in his presentation of "A Night in Spookville. " It was in all respects the best that E. Cooke has presented to the public for -many a year which is saying much, and should any one doubt his gilt of picking an orange out of no whore, or of dipping water from a mys tic well, there is a chaneo to geo i dcjne tonight. The end men, C. E. Knowland, Les lie Springer, H. It. White and William Lerchen, all in black, were most gor geously attired and dad their bit Vjl keeping the audience amused. As-musicall director, John W. Todd had his chorus well in, halad and the musiij went with the precision of pro fessional minstrels- The crowded house last night was due not to personal solicitation in sell ing tickets but to th desire of the people to help the Red Cross and have the xeal pleasure of seeing a first das show. It is on aga!)i tonight. The show is good, extra good. Don H miss it.