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TODAY 4,600 SUBSCRIBERS (23,000 EEADEES) DAILY ' Only Circulation la Salem Guar anteed by the Audit Bureau of Circulation FULL LEASED WIRE DISPATCHES SPECIAL WILLAMETTE VAL LY NEWS SEEVIOB WEATHER (JS Oregon: Tonijht ami Saturday geuerally cloudy gentle northwest e:lv winds. FORTY-FIRST YEAR NO. 176. 2.0- SALEM, OREGON, FRIDAY, JULY 26, 1918. PRICK TWO CENTS ON TRAINS Am) HEW STANDS FIVE CENTS 1LIES NEAR AIN DEFENSE IALF MILLION GERMANS ARE FIGHTING DESPERATELY AS PINCERS ARE CLOSING TIGHT Franco-Americans Successfully Driving Offensive Oneratidns Along Whole Front From Soissons to Main de Massiges Grounds Lost In Champagne During German Drive Prac tically AH Regained Now-British Repulse Strong Enemj Attacks On Flanders Front By John Be Gandt (United Press Staff Correspondent) Paris, July 26.Franco-Ameiican troops have com pletely turned Fere forest and are within six kilometers of Fere En Tardenois. , On both sides of the road rere-un-iaraenois tne Americans repulsed counter at tacks and pressed northward, capturing Franquet farm. vFranco-Amrican troops have conquered the last great physical obstacle before Fere-En-Tardenois and the cap ture of that all-important German concentration center is believed to be a matter only With the turning of the now have practically a clean are enabled to ilank that city; by advancing up the valley of the Ourc from the southeast. -'" v The capture of Oulchy-Le-Chateau, confirmed today by the French war office, left the way open to Fere-En-Tardenois from the west. The allies may thus press in upon the city from three sides, over a front of more than fifteen miles.- The latest reports showed them less than four miles from the city, to the south, and about the same distance to the west. , " The fall of Fere-En-Tardenois will endanger the Ger man position within the Soisson-Rheims salient more than any other single operation that appears possible of real ization by the allies within the next day or two. Estimates of the number of German troops in the en tire pocket vary, but the number is estimated as at least 500,000. Paris. July 2i'i (12:30 p. m.) Cap- tnro or Uulchj-Le-Cliateau, the princi- pal German resistance ccnler on tho west aide of the salient, was offieinlly nnncunced by the French war office today. Announcement was also made of tho capture of Villomoiitoire, midway be tween Boissons and Uulcliv-.iC-Chateaa Hundrodi of additionnl prisoners were i tnken. ifcnsive operations along the whole "The French captured Ville-tnoirtoire !"German drive" front from Soissons yesterday evening after a fierce Strug-'to Ma,in Massi.ies. gl taking 200 prisoners and twenty! 'a addition to closing in on Fere-En-liinehine gun" the communique said. !Tardenis, they arc steadily gaining "Oulchv-L?4'hatonu fell into French , ground in the Champagne and have re bands. We progressed east of the town 'covered most of the outpost positions (toward Fere-En-Tardenois) and cap-' lost in tlhe initial German push. Main ia red four guns. . iDe Massiges is reported to have been "During yest-rday's fighting south captured. ABE MARTIN t ' We stilt fliink th' woman o' th' hijse sh.iuid wear th' silk. We often wander if th' feller that ride a mo torcycle don't feel like shakin' hands with him?lf whn he gits some place. FERE-iVi-TARDEROIS I Ml POCKET from Mezy northward to of hours. great Fere forest, the allies sweep from the south and of the Ouroq we took several hundred prisoners." DRIVE ON ENTIRE FRONT ; By Lowall Mellett j (United I'ress staff corresponding I With the French Armies in the Field I July L'0(4:40 p. m.) The allies to- day were successfully conducting of,- German Attacks Lose London, July 26. British troops re pulsed strong enemy attacks in the Hebuteine and Meteren sectors last night and this morning, Field Marshal Hnig reported tcday. "In the Hebuterne sootor( Picardy front) yesterday evening, the enemy at tacked our new positions under cover of a heavy barrage and was driven off with B'vere losses, ' the statement said. "Early this 'morning a strong enemy local attack was repulsed in. the neigh borhood cf Meteren (Flanders front) tfter rtharp fighting " Dttrinj the ni?ht a party of our troops rushed a hostile machine gun post in the Morris s:ctor. "Hostile artillery !ias been active in 'the Somme valley and in the ncighbor Ihood af Bjyelles." Many Plafi Downed London. July 2b. The British air j ministry today reported destru tion of .sixteen German airplanes, with the j probable loss of three others, which Iv.eie declared to have been sent down !cit of control. Only thnc British ma chines are missing. The communique continues: "On the 24th instant, there was still a x?rv strong west wind blowing and j tl weather 'mainly overcast. Toward levelling the skv cleared and a cer- itain amount of sharp fighting and l.n.V.:nn .n,.L- nln.A "Fifteen hostile machines were! (Contianed oa pag: two) Camp Lewis Privates , Get Stiff Sentences Taeoma, Wasli., Julv 26. Throe pri vates of Hie quartermaster's corps a Camp 1. 'wis, today Jrew stiff sentence as the result of trials by court-martial for jov riding in two "borrowed" cars. I'nvutc Floyd D. Krnuse of Portland got two years at Alcatraz Island, vate Llovd L. Liddell of Salt Lake wa! sentenced to three veais and Private Matt J. IW.ek of Butte will spend tic next six mourns in the euard house. The three took an automobile from Green aik, at Camp Lewis and drove to Cue lialis. i'hoy rsn out of gasoline, so took auditor car t'ciouy.sng to R. L. cint.no is n I ' -r : I.i r:( t . , liiifj salesman. T'.ty hid th:-. c.tr )n the brush near Camp an": later i"'e t: -t ;!. Advocates of Measure Have Bill Ready For Introduc tion Next Fall Washington, July 25 A new fight for universal military trainiug is de veloping in congress. Universal training advocates, it be came, known today, have a new bill ready to introduce at about the same time the man power legislation comes out of committee in September. An attempt to have this bill considered as an amendment to the measure changing tho selective service ages will bo iimde if the least opportunity a risos . """V""" Realizing they cannot get - the measure considered over administration objections, universal training backers today were hopeful of securing the tacit if ;not the open support of the president and Secretary Baker. This hope is based upon the belief that universal training is gaining favor In ailiuuustra'ion councils. Une of tne hapeful signs of this change of at titude, training advocates say, is tne training of 100,000 college men under war department auspices. At the same time members of the milj.ary .committees of both houses foresee the possibility that the war department may ask for universal training on its own initiati'" by re- auestiui? lowering of the draft age to 19. rutting boys of 19 into training canms for a vear or more, it was pointed out today, would be practi callv adontinir universal tri'T.ir.H for the war at least, and would be re garded everywhere as a test for such training in peace as well as war time, in connection it was suggested that the war department would ask vo cational training be provided in all cantonments for men under 21. Committee .members generally ac cepted 19 tn 40 as the ages Baker will name in asking draft age changes. With possibility of only 100,000 men remaining in class one, by the first of September, members of the house committee declared that the change in all ages will ccnie barely in time to avert the necessity of dip ping into' deferred classes. Guesses as to how hih congress would be asked to boost the army appropriations ranged from 15 to 18 bil lion with the inajcity choosing the $12,000,000,000 already appropriated and would cover expenses of calling out five million men. Viereck Admits He Was In German Employ ! New York. July 2i.--Seor?o Silvester Viereck 'a exposure as a paid agent of the German 4s propaganda . machine in the United Htateg came close today on the heels of announcement that he had been expelled irom the Authors' Leam for his al- leged dis!'ivi:I,y. He formerly published the Fatherland, and later Viereck 's Weekly. Viereck, under examination by United Slates officials, ad- mitted he received approximate ly $'250 a week from Austrian and German sources and that i: at other times he rcci'cd as much as $100,000 from Count Von Bernstorff and other Oer- .mar agents- His library, con- sisting mostly of German war propaganda, is in the hands of the government. W. F. Peck, in from his farm on Smith river, informs the Keedsport ' nn.i..m I. n t . n r.,.nA..n ,.t Un a..a-..;V of labor th farmers themselves are! Irtich doing the work of two men right i&long. DBMS OF till SSMI8I1!I1JDS Official Notice of Former Ru ..Isrs Death Received From Ural Council By Joseph Shapleti . (United Press staff correspondent) Stockholm, 'Ju'y 25. The soviet pan-executive council has placed its ap- proval on the. execution of formef Fri-.Csar Nicholas, it was learned here to- .day. lliairman jsveroiorr tnnounced at a meeting of the council that official no tification of the execution had been re ceived from the Ural soviet saying: "The Moscow government had plan ned to give Nicholas a trial for his crimes against the people, but the ef forts of monarchists to kidnap the for mer czar inado his execution inevit able." The pan-executives then passed the following resolution. V e recognize that tho execution of Nicholas was absolutely correct 8verdlc.fr also told the council that the body had come into possession of valuable documents taken from the for mer ruler, including his own diary, and that of the fomer czarina and' alJ correspondence between the former czar and the Monk Rasputin and be tween the czarina and the monk. This will all be published shortly, it was said. , The press of Russia, including the so cialist newspapers, ia condemning the execution, declaring it cruel and un necessary. JSicholas, hey point out, was harmless and thev declare thai 'the-bolshevik! claim that ithe Czecho slovaks were planning to kidnap hiin was made for the purpose of discredit ing the Czechs and alsoto excuse the. execution; Reports have rea'hed here that the Grand Dukes Ignor KonstantinovLteh, Kon,tantin Konstantinovitch and Ser gei Michaelovitch have been kidnaped from Alpayevsk after a severe battle with red guards. , PRESIDENT DEPRECATES MOB RULE OF" LA WLESS PASSION" Washington, July 20. Forcefully de-.for her fame and honi : and character, nouncing an aparent growth of "mob or who is truly loyal to her institu spirit "as emulating the "lawless jtions, can jus: if y mob action while passion" of Oerinaiiy, who has "dis-jthe courts of justice are open and the regarded sa'red obligations of law i governments of the, states and the and made lynchers of her armies, " 'nation are ready to do their duty. President Wilson today appealed t.) We are at this very moment fighthig the country "to make an cud of this lawlessness, passion Germany has disgraceful" evil." outlawed herself among the nations bvuchings. ho said, constitute a blow at the hearts of law anil human justice," and contribute "to German lies about the United States, what her most gifted liars cannot improve upon by the way of calumy. " The text of the president's procla uiation follows: "My fellow countrymen: "I take tho liberty of addressing you upon a subject which so vitally affects tho honor of the nation and the very character and integity of our institutions that 1 trust you will think me justified in speaking very plainly about it. ' "I'allude to the mob spirit which has recently here and there very fre quently shewn its head amongst us, not in any single region, but in many and widely separated country. There have parts of the benn miany lynehings and every one of them has been a blow at tho heart of ordered law and human justice No man who loves America, no man who really cares millllllllllllUIIIIllllllllMEIlIIIIIiIlllllllllIIIIIIllllIIIIIIllllIIIIIIlllllllilllllllllllllllllllll 1 War Summary of United Press I i iiinuiiuiiiiiiiuiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii r 1 1454th Dav of the War 9th ,5 ,IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!IIII!IHIIII!II1IIIIIII!1IIIIIIII1III1IIIIIIIIIII!I1IIIIIIIIIIIIIUIII!IIII1 Soissons-Rheinis front Voluntary re lieyed to have employed fully three tirenient of the Germans within the quarters of a million men on this front, huge pocket apparently has been stop-j including .great numbers of divisions ped' under political pressure, but it is that have been practically wiped out rontiuuiif; linvrdun.jaily under allied land withdrawn. Their losses are vari pressure. ously estimated at 125,000 to 200,000, French. Americans, liiitish and Ital-j including 25,000 prisoners. Between ians are biting olf sizeable chunks of 400 and 500 cannon have been cap the salient, taking a village here and Itured. a wood there, or sweeping across open f'"'ds. I Picardy front British troops repuls- The most notable progress is being a heavy attack on their new posi niade on tho southwestern edge of the Uioiis in the Hebuterne sector, north of salient, where the allies are advancing I Albert, tint night. German artillery on a front of mine than fifteen miles ) was active along the Somm?. wing. of this advance already has cap tured Oulchy-Le-Chateau, the most im portant defense of Fere-En-Tardenois I Additional progress is being made between Onlcliy-Le- bateau and Hois- sons and southwest of Rheims, astride i tlia A rv! M rfl f'V The lUbting i d-velnping into one of th? most violent aid sun-iuinarv oa; tics of th war. The Germans are be - ALLIES ADVANCE n n7ni?-r rrogress mu rurce uenaana To Retire With Loss ft ft D vnuurcqiuver ENTIRE SALIENT NOW UNDER ARTILLERY FIRE Pocket Containing Crown Princes Armies Being Gradually lightened By Fred &. Ferguson. - (United Press Staff Correspondon'..) With The American Armies In Franco July 20. (8:30 a. m.) Under pressure! from the Franco-American forces driv ing upon Uere-JSn laruenois, tile Ger mans now face withdrawal across the Ourcq in the same costly circumstances that marked their retirement across the Maine. The allied advance, despite tempo rary setbacks at some points, is gcucr ally steady along the thr.eo highways leading to Fere-En-Tardenois from the south and southwest. Particularly hard fighting is under way in Fere forrest, but "lc Americans and Fr.mch are ys tcmutiially cleaning the enemy machine gun nests out of these woods. . While practically all the interior ot the salient is under fire from allied ar tillery and airmen, especially h.avy bombardments are being directed on Fcre-En-Tardonois, where the Germans' fllaborate railway and highway system (Continued on pagj two' WILSON Decaus.i she has disregarded the sac red obligations of law and has made lynchers of her armies. Lynchers em ulate her disgraceful example. I, for my pa.t, urn anxious to see every community in America rise above the level, with pride and a fixed resolu tion which no man or set of men can We proudly claim to be chum- afford too despise jpions of democracy. If we really are, indeed, and in truth, let us see to it thai wa do not discredit our own. 1 say plainly that every American who takes part in the action of a mob or gives it any sort of countenance is no true son of this great democracy, out its betrayer, and does more to discredit h; r by t!:a: sing'e disloyalty to her standards of lav,' and right than j the words of her statesmen or the , sacifiees of her heroic hoys in the j trenches ca.ii do to make Buffering j people believe her to be their savior, I I (Continued from page one) Dav of Counter Offensive Flanders front A German attack against British positions at SIcteen, was iffoKon ii sharp fighting- this morning after Rusia Czech forces, through the cao'urc of Sim'.irA. now control all 'the vast territory east of the Volga river, in r.urop'an itinsia and ronsm !eiab!e ground wet of the river. ' THE FRENCH KNE W" EXPLAINS DEFEA T OF GERMANS ON MARNE MFAT WIIQ QTfllFM nLHI HnU UlULLll nronin n Tmnfrn DI MiLYLd Bold Operations of Gang Told In Indictments of Federal Grand Jury Now York, July 20 How the gov ernment re-purchased meat stolen from its warehouse was described in feder al indictments returned today against 21 men, including wholesale and reWil butchers, truck drivers and two gov ernment checkers. Tho indictment specifically charged " embezzlement of government beef" frcin the Manhattan Refrigerating com pany's warehouse, through a systom of talse checking. More than 100,000 pounds of beef have been stolen from the warehouse since April, which marks the extent of the federal grand jury's investigation. This beef was bought by the govern ment at an average price of 24 cents i pound. It was sold to certain whole sale and retail butchers at 13 to 17 cents a pound, A groat quantity of this, iit was alleged, was, in turn, sold to the Brooklyn navy yard at 23 to 26 cents a pound. . Th9 warehouse, which is used for storago of government beef prepara tory to shipment to the American ex peditionary force, at times contained as hih ns tinea million pounds. The indicted checkers are alleged to havo inado it appear that less beef was in storago than was actually received. When a truckload of beef would ("Continued en page twe "Ml of iottor From "Over There General Pershing's Official Report Washington, July 20 Ninety eight i casualties listed by General Pershing today included: . Killed in action 21; died oB wounds 4; died of disease 6; wounded severe ly 00; missing ill action 0; prisoners one. The list follows: Killed in Action Corporals W. Jordan, Danville, Va. A. Osborne, Irvington, N. J. E. Wardell, Beverly, Mass, J. Worthv. Lowell, Mass. Mechanic" 8. J. Whittukor, Fall Riv er, Mass. Privates L. E. Abbott, Swnmpscott, Mass. E. L. BusiiiRer, Tuttle, Okln. C. Hapanovich, Russia. F. A. Harrington, Mcthuen, Mass. C. McDnniel, Bngnell, Mo. E. (). Mciirnth, Lakepot, N. II. P. Marchn, Russia J. Messina, Kankakee, 111, W. J. Metzen, Howard, 111. F. L. Kiffenliurg, North Adams, Mass J. Kehu'fiz, North Detroit, Mich. M. Smith, Kali Leaf, Kan. E. F. Hnydcr, Holynke, Mass. (). E. Sapor, Wes: Homerville. Mass. lit Hpiitz, Lawrence, Mass. S. (J. Wilbur, Hoslinilule, Mass. Died of Wounds Sergeant J. A. Peterson, Sweden ARRIVAL OF YANKEES YEAR'S BIGGEST EVENT American Troops Have En abled General Foch to Take Initiative By J. W. T. Mason (United Press war expert.) New York, July 20. The fourth year j nf the war is ending with the strategic ; initiative dramatically restored to his campaign of ruthlessly sacrificing General Foch along the Marne. follow- ibis own troops; a'il it was the knowl ing America's cooperative engage-jedge of the overwhelming reinforce ments with the allies. i moots America was sending to the al Tho arrival ef America's first mil- )'"' that permitted General Foch to lion t romps in Prance, ensuring the',"0 driven back without loss final defeat of German militarism has iot ni0,n e the allied forces. Every een tne niost important event of the 1 fourth vear of the war. Tho turning point in modern civil- year, nas similarly uec, uw.cn mu.. ization will probably be dated by fu-1 mentally upon Americas forthcoming turc historians fem "the vear of strife 'major activities in the war. now dosing, because of America's! 'resolve to consent to no peace until ! .the Hoheniwllcrn menace to the world - is cru.-nei- rape im- im-.i j Amerietn troops have played only a Inside History Of German failure And Allied Suc cess Is Given By Lowell Mellett. (United Press Staff Correspondent.) With The French Armies In The Field, July 20. Expiation of the monumental defeat given the crown prjnce's army can be made in time words: "The French Knew." The German "peace offensive" was launched. July 15. On July 12 Uoivral Pctain submitted to General Foch a plan tomcet the coming attack. On July 13, Foch approved it. At 11.40 the night of July 14 twenty minutes before the atr tack a defensive artillery fire began harrassing tho waiting German mar scs. Beady for Counter Blow. Counter offensive forces were read to move the first Huv of tne battle but wane withheld until the ctowu print's forces reached a previously determine! line of resisteuce and were so deeply in volved they could not alter thoir plan f and meet tho unexpected onslaught on their west flank. Tho reason tho crown princo or Hln denburg, or Ludendorff had not ex pected such an attack was that they shared the general mistaken opinion that the French wore bled white. It is now possible to toll the whole story of the battle. , ' Following the success achieved in the battle beginning May 27, and after the battle of June 9, which was without suc cess, tho German high command, con vinced tho French were worn out and all their fight gono, took little pains to disguise their plans. Date of Offensive Changed. The French wero tired, it is truo, bU so were the Germans - The latter Hn lny,od longer than the French thought (Continued on Mti alsl Corporal L. C. Tiimlin, Fountain Inn,' S. C. Privates T. P. 1. Claudio Morong, Rizal, J. A. Urbnnski, Mies, 111. Died of Disease Privates R. (', Becker, Cohasset. Minn. W. Bowdin, Magan, N. C, E. D. Lewis, Williamsburg, Pa. F. S. Rupert, Bradford, Pa. F. Tenchenor, Shelbina, Mo. J. Williams, I.nn,;bkin, (la. Wounded Severely ' Sergeants J. A. King, Chicago A. J. Piper, Chicago Corporals A- I'agamenos, Cedar Rap ids, Iowa I.. (). Whitsim, Chicago Bugler H. Duscher, Chicago Privutes F, J. Downing, Chicago W. J. (Irzela, Chicago A. A. Kozlowski, Chicago A. B. Lundberg, Chicago L. M. Pnrra, Phoenix, Arix. (1. II. Plate, Chicago A, Ptak, Chicago H. F. Waschbus h, Chicago Missing In Action Piivato J. Regan, Jcliet. III. Previously reported missing now of ficially reported as having returned to duty; Private J. 8'ack, Springfield, 111. minor part in tho year's fighting, the United Slates has predominantly in fluenced the strategy of the fourth year of the war. Tha outstanding "battlefield facts of the year have been to break the British and French fronts, and General Foch's counter-policy of patient defense. Hindeuburg 's Motive It was fear of America's fast accum ulating military -strength that com pelled von . Ilindenbilrg to engage in t major p'an worked out in i.erun as jweil as tn we capi.ms r itie w.icti w The necessity for thcti plans was fully justified at the first sericus en- .counter between IIIC .'I.IIVI a (Continued on page sevea)