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THRF3 TEN SUBMARINE VICTIMS TOLL IN RECENT RAID (Continued from page one) THE DAILY CAPITAL JOURNAL. SALEM. ORB. SATURDAY, JUNE 8, T918. doing of American, transports. "The submarine attack on America means the holding of the American navy in home waters' Von Ecventlow " declared, according to advices received today from The Hague. ' "This attack on America, cannot fail as others have," the Cologne Gazette said. "We eaa picture great successes as the result of this offensive against America. They have not had experience aud they apparently have sent "their best destroyers to Europe. i(It is a campaign against prolonga tion of the war by America," said the Norddeutche Algemeine. "It is con nected with the west front offensive" The nfewapaper admits it is hard to attack American transports in the open sea but thinks more favorable results will bo obtained by submarines operat ing near the harbors of departure. Off Florida Coast Washington, June 8 Reports cf Ger man U-boats operating in the waters off the Florida and Maine coasts to day, while not yet confirmed by the navy department, indicated that the enemy may now be scouring Aniericau ship lanes over a wide area. Navy officials cautioned against alarm at the reports, declaring that owing to the raids, ship masters will be more likely to take extra precautions. Defensive measures have been extend " ed to cover the entire coast line. Another Ship Attacked Newport, B. L June 8. Captain Par ker of the steamer Westerner declar ed today his ship was attacked by a submarino one hundred miles off Nan tucket shoals last Thursday. Naval pa- , trol iboats appeared and the U-bont vanished. In mid ocean Parker said, anothor submarine chased hiin but he was too fast for it. Huge Naval Strode Milan, Italy, June 8. Reports are in circulation here that the German admiralty is preparing a huge naval stroke against the allies. Orders are said to have been given tho high seas fleet to be in instant readiness to move. Numerous high Ger man naval officers have been recalled from Switzerland and all leaves are said to have been suspended. Reports Submarine Biddeford, Me., June 8. The com mander of the lightship seven miles off Biddeford pool, today reported a Ger man submarine near his vessel. Several members of the lightship's crew saw the U-ooat. Tho lightship has been or dered to put into Portland, Me. Destroyers Launched -An Atlantic Port, June 8. Two Unit ed States destroyers were launched here today. Within fifteen minutes three keel plates of another destroyer were laid. Millionaire's Wife Drowned In Bay San Francisco, June 8. The body of a well dressed woman found floating in San Francisco bay this morning, was identified as that of Mrs. Hattie J Cramer, wife of Otto L. Cramer, retired millionaire. Mrs. Cramer left Los Angelas on May 10 on tho steamer Rose City. When the steamer reached San Francisco she was nt aboard. Passengers said they thought they saw somebody jump over board while the Rose City was in the stream but they were not sure. Two days later Cramer received a let ter, .mailed in Los Angoles, in which Mrs. Cramer told of her lonely life since she became estranged from him. Last September she had secured an interlocu tory divorce decree. Since receiving the letter and learn ing that his wifo was missing from th,e Roso City, Cramer has searched for her. He entered the city morgue today an hour after the body was taken there. Cramer and his wife became estrang ed eieht years ago. Trouble between Mrs. Cramer and two of Cramer's daughters by an earlier marriage was blamed. INITIATIVE NOW (Continued from page one) operating with the Americans north west of Chateau-Thierry, continued to advance on the northern portion of that front, the French war office an nounced today. Two violent German attacks on the southern portion of the line in that region were repulsed with heavy losses. ''South of tho Ourcq the French pro Tressed, pressing the Germans back," the communique said. "The French lines now reach the west borders of Dammard, east of Chezy and one kilometer north of Ueuilly-La . Poterie. Fifty prisoners were taken. "Further south two violent German attacks against Bouresches and Le Thiolet wre broken up ' with heavy losses. ' (Bouresches is five miles west of Chateau-Thierry; Le Thiolet . is two miles southeast of Bouresches on the main highway leading westward from Chateau-Thierry). "On tht Aisne front there was fair ly heavy cannonading near Faverolles (16 miles soutswest of Soissons). "Southeast of Ambleuy (six miles . directly west of Soissons) French posi tions were improved.'' Successful Balds.. Lor.don, June 8. Successful British raids and active German artillery fin! were reported by Field Marshal Hai4 today. "A few prisoners were taken in last Bight's successful raid in the neigh borhood of Hulloch," the statement aid. "Patrols . inflicted casualties, and ls o IS s Uo Vfsm Til D resses Una erwear ose Infants' iUllt h etticoats All Included in our FIRE SALE Opens Monday 9 A.M. L -JU captured a machine gun in the Strnzeele sector. "North of Albert and southeast of Arras hostile artillery was active." Seaplane Set Afire Amsterdam, June 8. One German seaplane was set afire and sank when seven German and five British sea planes fonght a night engagement off Vlicland Island, the Handelsblad de clared today. Two British planes landed on Dutch territory and their crews were in terned. Vlieland is an island off the entrance of tho Zuyder Zee. Aviators Bunt Churches. Paris, June 8. The Bishop of Sois sons has reported that a hundred churches in his idioccse have been destroyed by the Germans and that many women and children were killed by German aviators. "What a wonderful claim towaro glory for Germany," he is quoted ai saying. MARINES (Con tinned from page one) their attack was preceded by a bar rage of gas shells and clouds of poison ous smoke. The marines donned their gas masks and stopped them 400 yards from the trenches, with, artillery and rifle fire. At the same time the boches attacked an adjoining nit, losing a hundred men and suffering a complete repulse. The American loss was inconsequential. Less than an hour later the uermans attacked the marines who are holding Bouresches (two miles southeast of the previous attack against the marines.) 2H Wear lOOOS ...... i L&0151 The marines, who had been strength ened during the night, repulsed the enemy w'lh sanguinary losses. Ealier in the night the Americans attacked at the right of Torcy, ad vancing half a kilometer and holding their gain. The Americans found the ground covered with unburied Ger mans, as Well as many new graves marked by Gorman Helmets. Here tho Germans had dug ln, but were ousted. There sre evidences that, the German elements are again receiving fresh re inforcements, in an effort to hold the Americans. The checkmated Germans today pro duced a new weapon intended to dis comfort the fighting marines. This wea pon consits of poisonous smoke clouds. They differ from the usual gas clouds in that they come over in thick, black waves, The Only effect which can be observed thus far is a nausea, though the enemy is making a practice of mix ing gas shells with the smoke clouds, s0 as to necessitate the nse of gas masks. Notwithstanding the price willingly paid by the marines to achieve a suc cess, which is now recognized as saueh more than local, the boches haven't seen the last of America's favorite fighters, by any means. . The spirit in which th Germans are taking the American interference with their plans is indicated by the arrival of new troops in their lines and the steady increase of their artillery fire. Further hard fighting is expected mo mentarily. A unique feature of the present and dramatic phase of the world war is that war correspondents are able to cover the battle from Paris. Sometimes they motor out in the morning and return in the afternoon, arriving in the city two hours after they leav the actual front. It is always customary to hold a TIRE SALE, if a fire happens in the blockoccu pied by a store. Some Fire Sales are legitimate, where a real damage has occurred, others are, oh well, what's the use the Dressmaking Parlorson the second floor over our Ready-to-Wear Section burned out and our stock of ''Ready-to-wear" was more or less smoke and water damaged. The Fire Insurance Adjusters are at work adjusting the loss; that's why we are closed to-day, Saturday, but on Monday morning at 9 a. m. we shall again open with a "BIG FIRE SALE" on our Ready-to-Wear Merch andise. : : v x . . . .: i . , Dresses, Underwear, Hose And other Ladies' Wearables, all reduced in price This will be your big opportunity to sup ply your present and future needs. Paris has been made the field cen sors headquarters temporarily, as a con sequence. The fact, incidentally, shows tlua real ity of the menace that is hanging over Paris. CONVICTS GET RID (Continued from page one) told when they would be released from the bull pen. Warden Murphy wont to see them and as a result of the interview he gave orders to give the convicts the regular two meals each day and promised to re Ilease them on Monday of tho following week. 4 "The convicts laid down tho law as to what they would do and they got away with it," commented the guard who related this incident. Warden Bas Favorites Some time ago the convicts employ ed in the prison tailor shop were giving trouble, and were doing but very lit tle work. Warden Murphy called ln Guard Olson and explained tha situation to him and said he wftuld like to have Olson go into the shop and straighten the convicts ont and see that they work ed. Olson agreed to do it, saying h would recognize no prison favorites and would giv all the convicts the same treatment. The second day he was in the shop h? ordered one of the convicts to the bull pen. The warden upheld this action. A little later he had. a clash with two of the leading convicts employed in the shop. One of them was Willard Tanner who was sent up from Portland with Hazel Irwin for murder. Tanner ln'ado the statement that both ha and Olson eonld not work in the tailor shop, and he went to see the warden. When he re Lh LhLh VV 2 SHI turned, Olson stepped outside the shop to givo Tanner a chance to toll the other convicts about his interview with the warden. This is what ho overheard Tan ner Bay; "Boys you don't know how to work it. You don't want to use any rough stuff. Go to the warden with a smilo and talk nice to him and you can get anything you want." And The Plan Worked. Before the day was over the warden sent for Olson and ordered him trans ferred from the tailor shop to work elsewhere about the prison. In making the chango the warden said Olson's work in the tailor shop had been en tirely satisfactory, but he needed him elsewhere. But the guards said they knew that Tanner, the convict, had put another one over on a guard. It was last fall that a cooviet by tlii name of Dumont refused to dig pota toes. Warden Murphy was away at Gold Hill at the time, and Deputy Warden Burns ordered the eonvict put in the bull pen. "I won't, dig potatoes," boastfully declared the convict, "let the men who planted them dig them, as they will know where to find them.' As soon as the warden returned from Gold Hill, according to reports coming from the prison, he ordered Dumont released from the bull pen and posted a notice to the effect that no one but himself had authority to order a eon viet punished. Thta Convict Has a Snap. Another incident which is being dis cussed among the guards is that Char les Ware a convict, who is employed as a trusty at the state fa'rr grounds, is allowed to make frcqnent trips to Port land on Saturday tights, and the report is that he possesses an officers star which he flashes on the boys in Port Childrens' Dresses Art Goods Stamped Linens Knit Underwear . Muslin Wear Hose ill All land. The warden says everything is all right and running smoothly at tho pri son, but the guards rccito such inci dents as here related to show that tho convicts pretty much have thoir own way and that the institution is very much short on discipline. At least denial cannot be ,made of the fuct that some thing is going on at the penitentiary which has aroused practically all the old guards until most of tlioin havu quit their jobs rather than stay under prevent conditions. WANTED, JUNK And All Kinds of 2nd Hand Goods. Full Market Prices Special Prices paid for Sacks. Get our prices beore yoa selL THE PEOPLE'S JTJNK ft 2ND HAND STOEE 271 N. Com'l St. Phone 731 4 ' L.M.HUM eare of Yick So Tong Chinese Medicine and Tea Cv. Has medicine which will cure any known disease. . Open Sundays from 10 a. m. until 8 p. m. 153 South High St csiem, uregon. -ouno ioo 4. HIRE A O imonas Suits House Dresses in Our ALE Opens Monday 9 "AM. 3C Used Furniture Wanted t Highest Cash Prices Paid for Used Furniture E. L. STIFF ft SON Phone 941 or 5U8 I WANT TO BUY Your Junk and give you a square business deal. I always pay the highest cash prices. I WANT YOUR SACKS AND BAGS I buy all kinds of used goods, 2nd hand furni ture, rubber and junk. Get my prices before you sell THE CAPITAL JUNK CO. The Square Deal House 271 Chenteketa Street Phone 398