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FORTY-FIRST YEAR NO. J0.J
SALEM, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 1918
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GERMANS H
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HE DEFEAT
C-eneral Voa Arnim Utterly UnaMe to 'Posh Forward and
Ypres Sector Is Q ,Mt Ts Eilieved Germans Will
Next Attack Nest of LS(Hjflwest of Ypres-Raids and
i Outpost Clashes Are i. AcM?s at PresentDead
Babies Are Found On fin. Ikes-Others Rescued
By William Ph Slants,
(United Press Staff Correspondent.)
With the British Armies in Flanders, May 1. Stag
,ered by the allied blow before Ypres, Sunday, General
Von Arnim sparred for time yestercfoy and last night, ut
terly unable to push on.
Save for considerable shelling in .the back areas from
Ypres westward toward Hazebrouck, . and except for
email raids and outpost clashes, th last 24 hours have
Jteen conspicuously calm.
The Germans doubtlessly will try again to turn the
nest of hills southwest of Ypres, but Sunday's jolt com
pelled a shift of the enemy divisions.
This shift will require hours, tnd perhaps days, of
preparation, depending on the severity of the mauling
they received Sunday.
t I heard upon'unimpeachable authority that babies had
been "found in the firing line, among the dead.
When the British retook Neuve-Eglisa, they found two
German babies in the German trenches. They were taken
to safety below ground. x
Germans apparently discovered the babies in the vil
lage and took them to the comparative safety of the
trenches. The Tommies took them to safety below ground.
The British were unable to hold the shell-deluged
position and the babies were taken with them when the
Tommies fell back. They are now doing well in a hospital,
where they are the pets of the nurses.
In a part of Flanders line two British artillery ob
servers discovered a child which had been separated from
its parents. They placed the infant between them in a
iiay loft, their bodies keeping it warm. From here they
watched the Germans' movements.
Shrapnel burst above the barn, killing both men. The
i babv was found sound asleep between the two corpses. It
I is now in a British hospital, sound and healthy.
By Ed L. Keen
(United Press Staff Co-respondent)
London, May 1. Although it is too
early for anything definite and notwith
Htanding the drive in Flanders may bo
renewed any moment, military officials
lire more optimistic than, for several
days.
!. Whatever follows, the allies have won
one phase of the battle in the Flemish
I halls. They have smashed the Germans
in a trial of sheer strength; have in
flicted a severe, costly jolt, and have
won a notable defensive victory, al
though the Germans hurled at least 225,
iOOO men i:ito tlwo hills around Ypres.
'avialsSPetaoin
j The press, while cautious, has a
: brighter aspect than for weeks. It be
lieves Monday 's -Stone wall defense war
rants a confidence in the future and
;Bi?culate8 as to whether the Germans
will now strike elsewhere, in pursuit of
IF ALLIES HOLD THF
GERMANS WILL LOSE
SAYS SPANISH LEADER
Kaiser Said to Have Opposed
flams of Hmdenburg and
Ludendorff
(Continue? on page six)
ft
Abe Martin
it
i While we're at it we'd better take
advanced thiakin' out. of onr nniverti
ties. Who remember -when th' girls
chewed beeswax T
Paris, May 1 "If the allies hold,
Germany is beaten," declared a Span
ish statesman, returning from Ger
many, who was interviewed at the
Spauisii frontier today by Andre Glar
ner, Paris correspondent of tho Ex
ehanje Telegraph company.
"Tho kaiser did not approve of the
present offensive" said the Spaniard,
' ' but Hindetrburg, Ludsndorff -and the
crewn. prince said it would turn tho
tide, although, the losses would be
enonmou.1.
"The offensive had throe objectives
first, the capture of Amiens; second,
the destruction of Paris and, third, the
separation of the French and British
armies, 'jwita tho rapture or uniais. ah
this was to foe accomplished before
Mav Pay.
"The German feeling at the failure
thus far, together with tbe encrmoug
losses, iU availing tho kaiser stronger
and losoeninig the power of Hindemburg
Ludendorff and the crown prince.
"If the German offensive is unsuc
cessful by May 15, it mcara the re
turn, to power of Von Buelow and the
launching of a new peace offensive.
which; may iv acceptable to Dotn
sides."
Glirmer believes the Spanish states
man is sympathetic toward Germany.
AN AVIATOR KILLED.
Rnekford. 111.. Mav 1. Lieutenant
Oayipa C. Ingersoll, aged 22, was killed
yesterday during a practice flight at a
French aviation field, according to a
war .department message today to the
father, Winthrop Ingersoll, Bockford
manufacturer.
CRUDE RUBBER TAKEN
OVER BY GOVERNMENT
TO CURB PROFITEERS
Profiteering Is Stopped and
Automobile Tires May
Be Lower
Washington.. Slay 1. The government
today fixed a standard price on crude
rubber and assumed complete control of
the sale and manipulation of all stocks,
through an order issued by lie war
tvadu board.
The onlT is effective today. It af
fects not only hundreds of rubber im
porters, jobbers, manufacturers and
dealers, bufl also every man, womar
and child, in thi- UuiteU 8tares, because
of the widespread use of manufactured
rubber products.
Officials a!o said it will prevent nn
increase in tho cost of automobile tires.
The prices fixed are ten per cent be
low t!iosi of yesterday, but ..Jils docs
not mean the government lias acted to
jam down the market.
Speculation in crude rubber began
ten days ago and prices soared because
dealers had learned of th.? order. The
government prices, determined by the
war industries board, arc the same as
.Ihose prevailing before speculation U;
gai sixty two cents a pound for stand
ard quality smoked sheets, sixty three
cents for standard quality first Latex
crepe, and sixty eight cents for fine
Para. All prices quoted arc c.i. f. New
York.
Tim price fixing and control order
is oaljr vncideniRl to the real purpose of
tiie. sovernmeut. This is restriction in
the import of crude rubber to conserve
siiip space, the ord?r says.
It is announced rubber will be put in
a list of restricted imports, o o be
issued by the war trade board.
When it was decided i!(o restrict rub
ber imports, officials saw the need of
preventing speculation and hoarding of
rubber which was sure to come through
decreased stocks.
The war trade board, therefore, de
cided to force every importer to put in
MAN WHO CAUSED
GREATEST WORLD VAR
IS DEAD Hi PRISON
Assassinator of Archduke
Francis Ferd'jiand Victim
ef Tuberculosis
The Hague, May 1 Gabrcel Prin
cipe, whose assassination of the Aus
trian Archduke Fraiieis Ferdinand at
.Sarajevo, was one of the causes of the
great war, died Tuesday of tuberculo
sis at the Fortress of Theresienstadt,
near Prague, it wa- learned here today.
HOW FRENCH SPREAD NEWS
Of BIG GERMAN OFFENSIVE
Principe, then a youth, of 19, shot,
the Archduke' and his Morganatic wife
the Duchess of Hohenlberg, on the main
strees of Sarajevo, Bosnia, the morn
ing of June 28, 1911. He used an auto
matic pistol, firing into the royal au
tomobile tut it pawed. The archduke
was shot through the head and the
duchess through the throat.
Te shooting closely followed another
attempt at assassination. A bomb was
throw into the archduke's automobile
but he warded it off with his arm and
it fell under the machine following.
The assassination resulted in an
Austrian ultimatum to Serlua, whtili
was SA'cused of instigating the plot.
Before Serbia t-oukl reply, the general
lucbdlizatlions of the European armies
began.
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AN AVIATOR'S WORDS -
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Chicago, May 1. "I want to
say, if anything should happen
to me, let 'a have no mourning in
spiri.; or in dress. Like a liberty
bond, it is an investment, not a
loss, when a man dies for his
country. It is an honor to a fam
ily, and is that a time for
weeping?" Lieutenant Dins
more Ely, Chicago aviator, killed
in Franc.?.
Green Placards
Bhck Arrows Told Reserves
Route to Danger Point
By Henry Wood
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
With the French Armies in the Field
April 8. (By Mail) Hardly had the
Germans begun their offensive at 8
o'clock vhe morning of March 21 thau a
tefrphone message from French genemi
headquarters was sent out and instan
taneously repeated along the whole
French front.
As if by magic there appeared almost
immediately thereafter at every cross
roads behind the French front and along
every route of travel huge gnccn pla
cards bearing simply a big black ar
row. The placards mean.l that the Germans
had chosen for tltfir field of offensive
the sector of St. Quentin. The black
arrows marked every foot of the way
that the French reserves must follow
to arrive in the quickest possible time
at the point of contact
Had the Germans chosen any other
sector for their attack, this mechanism
would have workved just tho same. A
different colored placard would have
indicated the sector where the Germans
had opened battle.
As a result of this minute prepara
tion, every mau dVstined long iu ad
vance to meet the Germans at what
ever point they might choose for their
offensive, was able to arrive there in
tho shortes.) possible time, by tho quick
est way.
The war long ago demonstrated that
victory iu u modem battle depends
largely on transportation. Tins tunc the
French general Btnff knew four months
iu advance that '.ho Germuns planned to
attack and the problem of transports
tion was solved in advance. The distri
button of placards and arrows was only
one detail. Iu the four months which
the general staff had to , prepare its
trausporta Toa facilities, it workod out
to tlio last minute thfl exact time in
which every unit, every gun, every
pound of munitions and supplies could
reach-r-by horse, automobile or train
any point at which the German might
attack. When tie moment came, it was
only necessary to touch a button, as it
w,ere, and the geueral staff knew the
moment at which every man and every
gun would be at the point of con
tact. I visited the Noyon batle front dur
ing the. first days of the German at
tack aud saw the long columns of ar
tillerv. reaches of iiifautrv. couvovs of
j munitions, automobiles and tiains of
army wagons rolling up to I lie front in
the most mat f;t of fact, unhurried, un
worried, mechauieiil manner it is pos
sible to conceive.
It was precisely this preparation that
allowed the French troops, with only a
minimum number of men engaged, to
fall quietly into the breach made be
tween the Bri 'jsh and French lines and,
while covering the retreat of the Brit
ish, to aid in checking the German ad
vance.
n: .
lers have
oje MORS.
- c? BOn OS
Am
Aint it a Grand and Glorious Feeling-?
EIGHT AMERICANS ARE
KILLED IN ACTION
PERSHIHUEPORTS
Fifty-Six Are listed As
Wounded In Today's
Casualty Report
Washington, May 1. Today's army
casualty list containing seventy names,
showed eight', killed in action; three
d,cad of disease, one dead of wounds
two missing, ono dead of accident, ouc
dead of othor causes, five wounded sev
erely and fifty one wounded slightly,
The missing, both officers, are Lieu
tenants William II. Jenkins aud Frank
lin B. Pcdrick.
Sergeant, Arvid A. Cederholm, Cor
porals John O, Giles, George Gritiback;
.Privates Jnmt'ii if. Carey, Karl H. Clark,
Clarence ,E. Coe, Clinton W.; PeForest
James N. Joyce. , . . '
Died of wounds:
Private Lyndon L. Cas?y.
Died of disease:
Privates Louis Loraine Burnett; Char
les H. Boldcn, Benjamin Hill.
Died of accident:
John Pesa.
Died of other causes:
Private Howard A. Mowery,
Kevicrelv wounded:
Corporal Walter G. Caul, John Mur
ray, Privates Haphnel Carbo, John J.
Cook, Hobert B. ltemington. '
Among tho slightly wounded was
Lieutenant Nnthanial C. Heed.
YANKEE FLYERS
DOWN 11 PLANE
OVER ENEMY LINE
Captain . Norman Hull and
Eddie Rickenbacber
Divide Honor
ARTILLERY DUELS ON
AMERICAN FRONT SEVERE
Sector Is Steadying and
Permanent Trench Being
Built In Places
With the American Army in France,
April 30 Captain Gorman Hall and
Eddie Rickenibaieher, Aanoricen avia
ters, yesterday divided the honor of
destroying a bache piano over the Ger
man lines. Each modestly givoa tha
(iher entire credit for the feat
The German plane, an Albatross.
'M sighted about six o'clock in tha
evening, at a height of 1S00 meters.
As the two Americana arose to tha
attack, tho enemy machine opened fira
and fleiL The Americans pursued tha
AlbatrtisB over tho enemy lines, firing
several hundred rounds. The German
'luaehiina suddenly dived to earth,
wpouting fhimo and. smoke.
The Americans by this time wera
flying so low that their planes were
struck oy bullets fired German in
fanilryimeu, tout, they returned aafoly
to theAnierican lines.
Hall, whoso home b in Colfax, Io
wa, was formerly a miemibw of the La
fayette esi'adrille audi has several
planes to his credit. .
Bivkenbaclier i a fowiicr automobila
race driver ami formerly !rove Gen
eral Pershing's car. Hit home is ia
Columbus, Ohio. This h.i 0rt vic-
ARTILLERY FIIU3 INTENSE ;
B
GERMAN CAMPS
Spanish Inspectors Report
That Conditions and Treat
ment Are Good
Washington, May 1. Germany abus
ing American prisoners of war ? Not at
all, according to reports of Spanish
prison camps inspectors.
. Germany not giving the prisoners
what they need?
Absurd by the same source.
One camp has so much water that
the prisoners can have one bath a week,
t-i,:, .,.-!,,. cmirlit inns are unite satis
factory, say theifficial reports of these
inspectors as lorwarueu to ye Amer
ican government.
They boasted about tho one bath a
wee camp, uid that not conform to
the old established custom of bathing
Uutnriliiv uiirht. even tliouuli the Am-
ni-m'v ilona lieach a man thnt
daily cleanliness is a health asset f
in A,.,,.ri,.nn inmiir'ics as to treat
ment of prisoners, it became known
today have luvanawy wen an"
through PpRln with reports that the
men are well treated. Authorities be
lieve these reports distorted or based on
misinformation.
Spain is looking after American in
terests iu Germany. This includes prison
,.... n i, .tii.n Hnnnish dililomats. ac
cording to veiled suggestions here, have
been none too lnteresicu in mm nw.
Tf i. ,l,itl,.(l that the Hnanish have
difficulty in getting at the true facts
tlfc?mBClves. Ambassador uciaru imu
trouble when he was looking after Brit
ish prisoners 'interests in Germany. But
ho did not camouflage his reports on
conditions.
GERMAN PAPER QUITS
Tx Anirelea. Cal.. Mav 1. Man
Si,l,n niihluiher of GermanLa. a tier-
Lman newspaper here, has suspended
pubricafcion unwi aiiicr ine war,
nounteinig it i as the "supreme sac
rifice" to aid the cause of the I'nited
Sltitca, today.
1 fcocha has been the storm center of
jatri?tic protect.
By Fred , Ferguson '
With the American Army on tha
French BatUefrtmt, April 30. (Night)
Tho Germans brcuhi: lip additional
aitillery, following the arrival of Am
eiiraii forces ill the lino hero. Pierre
duels aro in progress. Ono village ha
ibeen entirely wi(.ed out.
In the last 48 hours tho American
guns have raked the roals and villages
iu the rear of the German lines and
have barrnged their front lines.
Tho 'boche poured in high cxplos'.vo
shot's, iu retaliation, the duels contin-
uinjf I'.hrcugh the night. The Anicrieai s
ultimately neutralized the German
fire.
Tho AmcricanFrettch front sector i
steadying. Unless thoie are nw Ger
iman attflcks, treniehes will be improv
ed and dugouts constructed and it will
ibecome the old probicaii of trench war
tare insttcs.it of ithe now hajf trench,
half open warfare.
Thero are no infantry actions hcra
except minor patrol ens Axemen ts.
There was a heavy rain toniicht. Tha
Ame.ricians are diguing in and erecting
wire entanglement's. In tho tea of mud
there aro no .shelters, t b t- men in tho
front line lying wads' dep in tho
treni'hes and shell holes. Hot food is
carried up to theim under shell fire.
W hile the exact ktattou of the Ani-
(Continued on pago two)
Tillamook County
Gets No More Flour
oit'.and, Or-, April .10. No more
flour w-ill ibe shipped inito Tillamook
cwmty "until further noltK'e." This
edict was insued today by W. B. Ayer
food aiJiiuaistrajtor for Oregon.
Aver announced certwin Tillamook
; retailers had been Itmuirding - flour.
.When this was discovered 'they wora
'forced to agree ta sell great quan'W
ties of over, supply to other retailer
in tho county at it.be regular wholesale
price. An embargo as plaued against
further liipinents ol fkur into tha
county both to ve freight and to
prevent spoiling of flour which woulil
result if too great supplies! were kopt.
Millers agreed to refuse all ordere toe
Tillamook.
M.AUOO a L iET ADVICE
Graud Hapids, Mich., May 1.
"When your ioVer kneels to pro
pose, step behind him and look
ft! his shoes if they are half
soled take him," was the advice
Secretary of the Treasury Mc
Adoo left with Michigan maids
as he swung eastward today in
finishing his liberty loan speak
ing trip.
'Every man ought to wear
half soled shoes and half soled
bieeches," the secretary reiter
ated to his andience here. "I
wear them myself."
He