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4,600 SUBSCRIBERS --e- Jk. ivhrln . (2J,000 E2ADEKS) DAILY fPA fTS ' WMTlUAg Only CireuUtioa in Salem Guar- jf fl if f --jj A " 7 ? I ' v'7 AH I I I a YyJv1 nteed by tbj Audit Bureaa of i 1 , , 1 1 ' HI J. iL V fl J . . . - ? S&'&A ErE zgnsw" v ggv-' y Wy jots:. ,r. Jf . FORTY-FIRST YEAR- NO. 193. SALEM, OREGON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 15, 1918. PRICE TWO PFTT3 OX TRAINS AND NEWS w STANDS "-FIVE CENTS If';'1 IS GRADUALLY ON WSIE FRONT MAY ESTABLISH HUNS ON DEFENSIVE IN WARFARE OF AIR ALONG WEST FRONT Germans Now Have Backs Upon Famous Amiens Cathedral Which is Now Being Re-Opened and Re-Dedicated-French Army Gradually Advancing In Oise Valley Occupying Many Enemy Positions. Total Number of Prisoners In Present Drive Now Exceeds Forty Thousand, According To Offi cial Report . : By William Philip Simms. (United Press Staff Correspondent) With The British Armies In France; Aug. 15. Thg German withdrawal toward Bapaume (ten miles north east of Albert and four miles east of the Ancre) appar ently is still under, way. The boches have their back toward the Amiens cathedral, which today was re-dedicated.. It has been unused, locked up and protected with sandbags since the civilian evacuation of Amiens in March. The reopening concides with the great feast of the Assumption. The Germans are still on the defensive in the air as well as on the ground. This is due largely to their inabil ity to replace losses. An airman taken prisoner admits these are very high much higher than the reports indi cate. He says he knows of cases of suppression of los ses, while a captured report, replying to the infantry's complaint that German airmen do not aid them when al lied planes are attacking from low altitudes, says the in fantry must remember that numDer oi ngnung pianes inese nave to oe usea wnerever they will do the most good, which is in carrying out reconnaissances. FRENCH ADVANC&CONTINUES. By John DeGandt (United Press Staff Correspondent) Paris, Aug. 15. The French are continuing their in filtration of the German positions in the Oise valley, north and east of Ribecourt. Their outposts are established in the borders'of Pim prez (a mile east of Ribecourt) and Dreslincourt (a mile north). They have also .reached the southern part of Ouricamps forest (extending from Pimprez to within two miles of Noyon). ' German artillery is heavily gassing 'Lassigny grove (a mile southeast of the village). Paris, Aug. 15. Including ten thous- aud Germans taken by Geaieral Humtert in ths operations which are still devel-J oplng, prisoners captured on the West ern front since July 15, total 73,000 and 1,700 guns have been siczed by the al lies, the Echo de Paris estimate. ,.vy London, Aug. 15. (3:37 p. m.) The xumwi e i j.ieu to j,e yiu-j takolli - t.0n(.f j a wl,i,c w tako ciaMce the entire Laasiguy massif, the import- ..E,,.stUe Iai,,;ug articg wclu rt,J)u, alhl Hjlaf., tht, German trenches from ant heights which nave formed the prin pi( 401,M, Arras and near Merville.1 above. I once got down so low after a i cipal enemy defense in this region. Tll0 CIieiliy.g a,tiUerv was active cast 'attack that I could sec the men very The number of German lnfantrymeD , f;f ,,, Scherpenherg sec- clearly and could et targets to shoot at is said to b, far below normal and their t,,r But its oi.lv on rare occasions that v.e ev t0,ma1,P0Wer raS S y. 8 nTU prisoners captured by the er get close to Germany and most of our Thirty.five enemy divisions (420,000,,; Fourth armv since the morning! view, a.v from high up. men) are now employed on the Half th(J ,.igI,th are;now 21,844. In the! "It's surprising how much life: . - ""' " . . " "T T .'M"1 P"'01. prisoners taken by the . uz,uuu men; remain. is regtrac-a Frt.neh i ;r9t armv are 850()) mikuig glagination pictures something different .as doubtful if the Germans can possibly, t0,a; f u0344 German prisoner, cap-las soon as Vu cross the lines. Then undertake another offensive this year turo,i in l)pcrationi bv the allied arm-1 are the same" rolling plains and hills and . " lies on the Montdidier-Albert front." j wood and villages. London, Aug. 15. German prisoner') j .(iviiall activity, that can bo seen taken in the I'lcardy drive total 30,344,1 This total of 30,314 prisoners is ae-ifrom high altitudes,' is less, I think than Field Marshal Haig announced today, leredited only to General Hawiingson's oi. our side, though that may be becausf Of these the British have captured and General Debeney 'g armies. General we fly lower when on the home side. We 21,844 and the'French 8500. Humbert is unofficially credited withjean ste automobiles and trains and Severe local fighting last night re 10,')00 orisoners, thus raisine the total, strings of wagons now and then on the suited to the allies advantage, especial u:, ly east of Bainecourt .(six miles north vast of Chnulnes). where the British ad vaiieed slijhtlv. Patrol and raiiiin actt nity was reported in various sectors o.VaI the front as far northward as Flanders "Severe local fighting lai, night wa- t.i our advantage," the statement said 'Enst of Rairi.Vou-t our line was ad NORTH Or AN RE OLD SOMME LINE on account of the limited vanccd slightly. One of our patrols iu,h.',! a hostile post north of Albert, -at initio a machine gun. Between Al- ben a.,d Ayettc our patrols were active iin a fhc Jm of throughout the night and maintained! maKjlll a cos(, inspection of Germany clo "! touch with the enemy. r urtlier progress lias teen maue at a number of points and several prisoners ru- fiinohtni. 1,1111. linvo hf,n the entire drive to more than 40,0001 General Eetirement London. Au2. 15. German withdraw- frnm forward positions north of the Aiicr,; presages a retirement of eonsbi-:ea-viiy spotted. The railroads over thero cable magnitude, in the opinion of, look' about the same as those on thi ; i side of th. line. In several places th (Pontinued on page six) !lin;J of this side run up to Xo Man's RETIRING AND HIS NAME IS FLOOD. London, Aug. 13 Private Geo. Flood, an actor well known in Amcriu and England, at present interned in Holland, writes to a friend bemoaning the fact that only non-conimissioiied officers are allowed to enjoy the seaboat in? at The Hague. He was captured in the fall of 1915, and since then has bitterly regretted the fact that he bad not previously acquired a stripe or two the only ticket which admits to the. briny. AMERICANS IN RUSSIA. Washington, Aug. 15. The Twenty Seventh infantry from Manila' is ar riving at Vladivostok today, Secretary of War Baker announced. This regiment, composed of from 1.200 to 1,500 regulars, is landing in Siberia to cooperate with the Czecho Slovak and Japanese forces. This is the first announcement re garding movement of American -soldiers in Siberia- ABE MARTIN , Don't you feel relieved when a clerk finally confesses ho haint got wfiat you want A roastin' ear jammed on Tell Binkley, t'day, while he wuz hurryin' t' make a train. ; y1 EDDIE R1CKENB ACKER TELLS STORi OF LIFE Only Rarely Do Aviators Get Close View of Germany From Above (Copyright, 1918, by the Unite'd Picas) With The American Airmen In France July 10. iBy Mail.) "Germany iooLs the same as Franco from up above," re pined lidui iiickenbacker, all-American ate, to a question. "We get to look at it quite often, naturally. Of course, we from abo e. When we get a Heinio on tlu' run and can follow him lioinc, we sometimes drive him down near the tree f,.rt - t!,,. ni..iliii,u fin ,w trtst line,. France, Germany does look. Your im' roads. The German trenches are mot in evidence than ours and these stretel ba k for miles behind the lines. Kight up to them, though, the Germans an- euitivatinir th soil nnd their farms ar GENERAL HUMBERT IS PRINCIPAL FIGURE IN FRENCH SUCCESSES Tells United Press of Oper ations During Past Six Days Fighting. By Lowell MeUett (United Press Staff Correspondent) With the French Armies in the Field Aug. 15. General Humbert, whose decisive and dramatic appearance in the Montdidier battle Saturday recall ed his similar effective part in stop ping the German break through in March, today told the United Press about his army's efforts Tn the past six days. White General Eawliusion and General Debeney were opening the new Picardv campaign, Humbert withheld operations and continued quiet for two days. But on Friday night the Germans, realising the situation was one likely to tempt an attack from his quarter, started withdrawing guns and material from before bis front.. They took liim into consideration too late however. On Sat urday morning Humbert's operation opened with a great burst of fire. Sim ultaneously, infantry and tanks mov ed forward. They found few boches ana these were paralvied bv the suddeuaess and fury of the a'ttack, The Germans had no time to pre pare for a retreat with vhe usual ma chine gun emplacements. As a conse quence, Humbert 's army reached its first objective, Ouvilly, Rs.-ons-Sur-Matz and Chevincourt, within an hour (This represents an advance of a milt to two miles and a half.) They proceeded, taking Boulogne-La Grnsse, (.'ouchy-Le-Pots and Kicque bourg (a further advance of one to four miles). ( Instead of continuing toward Royc, they swung eastward on Sunday, ad vancing four kilometers '(two and a half miles) and gaining strong tap ward on Sunday advancing four kilo meters (two and a half miles) and gaining strong tactical points. The next (lav German: reinforcements ap pealed retarding K -advance-but Hum bert already had obtained a held on ''little Switzerland" with the desir ed strongholds of the. St. Cloud and Montiguy rarms. On Tuesday he pushed a bit farther getting the. dominating line along the massif (heights). Late that afternoon, his etrenie right beyond "little Swit zrland" took Ribecourt, which was a corner point in the rench line before the advance of 19.15 and is still ex trepiely well organized. The situation still favors the French, although fresh German divisions have been identified, Only a wight of this rough ravine and trench ridden coun try can enable one -to appreciate the speed of the French movement. At the same time, it toll why the men are momentarily tired, although in the best of spirits on account of their ac complishments being niadc.at the slight est possible cost. Land and then are smashed up fur a nays, but continue from tho German! side of tlie line. It seems wrong that there should be the connection. "No Man 's Land generally looks very much plowed up. Ve are glad to s that, though probably we are the only oues who are. It gives us a definite. assurance of wheie home is. Often ym are in doubt and if you happened t cross the lines where Xo Man's Land is not shot to pieces you are sure o'. vour position. Some of the boys have gone g'ent distances back, looking for towns or landmarks they recognized ami ,lmn Iftut lilt t'BV hi, itiiniltl v lm ' landed in Switzerland when his gasoline gave out. ' "The villages are fairly well batterer on both sides, though unless they aie.i'' ruins, you cannot tell from aim, : ho j much damaged they are. Home arc com pletely obliterated and are but a mas: of stone and plowed ground. The large.' cities are easily seen and large factoric, ca.i be readily spotted. "Germany looks rather peaceful fron above and there seems to be little din 1 orbing them bark a ways from the lino That is where an airman's point of vie ij defective. A German and his field look as soft as ours. Probably they arc which is not very soft. Any field eov eieded with grass always looks soft anr' you think it would make a fine landing place. When you get down lower and are forced to Jan,l 0n any field that hap pens to be under you, sometimes when vou'ri- eu panne, you learn different! Trees you didn't see, stick in the cover ed field to turn you over. Barbed wirr stretches alonp the country and you can not see it, either. With ordinary break of lin k you cnn land safely if you are on'the right side of the line whe your motor cukoos, but what is very impoit nt is that ordinary bieak of luck, as one of the lvvs nut it. Mother Earth is half as sft as you anticipate when you touch her." TURKS QUARREL WITH GERMAN ALLIES AND RUPTURE NEAR Germans Threaten to Bom bard Constantinople If Not Obeyed. London, Aug. 15. (British Admiral ty Wireless). Differences between the Germans and the Turks are be coming more frequent and bitter, ac cording to information received from Constantinople. During a quarrel with Talaat Pasha recently, the German ambassador is reported to have threat ened jto boaibard the city. Advices from Constantinople say that leaflet dropped by British aviators are read by the population with sympa thetic interest. Posters recently found on the walls of mosques and govern ment buildings declaring that the Ger mans are the real enemies of Turkey ealled forth a strong protest from the German ambassador and a demand for an inquiry. Talaat replied it was impossible to discover the authors. The ambassador then announced that German military police would take charge of the in quiry. On the following day he infirmod the grand vizier that the majority of the offenders were in government ser vice and that, therefore, punishment should be exceptionally severe . Talaat retorted that before punish ment he would institute his own in vestigation. Violent discussion follow ed and the German ambassador went to far as to threaten the grand vizier with bombardment of Constantinople with guns of the battle cruiser Goeben. 21-YEAR-OLD HEN IS SATURDAY. AUGUST 24 ; T mm 9tm " All Young Men WhoKeached 21 Since Last June Affected Portland, Or.. &ug. 15. Every young man in tho United States who has passe.i his 21st birthday since registration day for tho 21 -year-old men last June uth, must register for the draft on Satuntoy August 21. By proclamation of President Wilson just issued, this call includes citizens as w ell as non-citizens. The only men of age specified who will not have to re gistcr nic those already in the military or naval service. This call should ont be confused with the big (registration day, to be held some time in September, for registra tion of all men between the nges of IS find -1.1 years. This registration day just ordered is exclusively for men who were not yet 21 years old last June 5, but who have be came of age, 21 years, on or before Aug ust 2t. Every man of them must regis ter. As before, registnitiou will be in charge of local draft boards. The reg istration places will be open from 7 o'clock in the morning to 9 oMock nt n i jjht No excuse will be accepted for failure to register. Tho tino remaining before Registration f)y is so very short that every innn who comes within the cull should arrange his affairs now so he ,. e0 to the registration place on Aug- ust 24, and register Failure to register is punishable by imprisonment up to one year ,and fol lowed by induction into the service. Even sickness will be no excuse for faii,,,,0 to register. Any 21-vear-qld man wi10 jg jil should send some coin- potent person 'immediately to his local draft board, which will explain what to do. Men. who will unavoidably be nwny from their home precincts on registra tion Day, should proceed at once to the local draft board nearest place where they may happen tit be, and ask for in structions for registering by mail. Prompt action is of the utmost import ance, for all mail registrations must be received by the proper local draft board by August 24. The purpose in requiring at this time the registration of men who have be come 21 years old since last June 5,is to keep Class 1 filled until congress can pass the new law raising and lowering the draft ages. Let every man subject to the coming registration make note of and remember these important things. Registration Day is Saturday, August 24th. Time for Registration, 7 a. m. to 9 p m. Place for registration, with local draft board. BEHNKI APPOINTED. Amsterdam, Aug. 15. Vice Admir- al Behnki has been appointed to uc- ceed Admiral Von Cnpeltp as German niinit-ter of marine, according to the Weeer Zcitung. FOUR MILLION MEN SUFFICIENT TO WIN SAYS GEN. MARCH Chief Of Staff And Senator Chamberlain Ask For Quick Ac tion Upon New Man Power BilL-Young Men Between Eighteen And Twenty-One Believed To Be Best Material For Soldiers. Senator Defends the Thomas "Work Or Fight" Amendment Washington, Aug. 15. An American army of four million men in France working in conjunction with our allies and under one commander in chief, will enable us "to go through the Gorman line whenever we please," General Peyton C. March, chief of staff, doctor es. Testimony to this effect, given to tlu senate military committee, was made public when Senator Chamberlain re ported the new man power bill to the senate at noon. With the bill Chamberlain submitted a report reconuuendiuir quick action and quoting much testimony given by the military authorities behind closed doors and hitherto unpublished. "It is upto us to win this war 7id we can win it," March was nut,. saying to the committee. "How ftug it win iune win uepena exactly lipor what we do. If wo drag along nitli this bill will be, playing Germany 'i gamo." .. That heavy inroads will bo niie in the ranks of young men below the age of 21 is indicated by March's testimony "My opinion is unqualifiedly-in far" or of the young men," ho said, reply ing to a question by Senator Reed "The young men between 18 and 20 are usually not married, they have not settled down in life, they have not any M0R H0ME NEWSPAPERS WANTED BY' . London, Aug. 15.-" More home news- papers" is tho appeal continually mado to the library committee of the Amen can Red Cross by American soldiers in hospitals in Great Britain. The library committee is at present furnishing reading matter for more than 25,000 men a month, both in hospituls and in camps. Th(. committee has its headquarters in a building at 14 Pall Mall East, London, where it keeps on hand at nil times about, 25,000 books ind a large supply of newspapers. The books are either gifts or are pur- chased in London, In its purchases, the committee restricts itself almost entire- ly to cheap popular editions, costing from fifteen to thirty cents, a volume "Our reason for doin this," says a committee report, "is that we get 'most for our money, in this way. Tho books inevitably get hard usage, and some of tbein used in the hospitals, must be lestroyeu almost Inimeiiiutely, owing to th danger ot infection: Altogether FIRST DEED IN MARION Recorded on Page 1, Volume 1, of Records of Deeds Six ty Four Years Ago The first deed for the sale of land in Marion county filed in the office of thc county recorder was executed Aug ust 5, 1851, and recorded in the office on page I, volume 1, on August 11, 1 854 It records the sale of 1H7 acres of land by David l'reley and wife to Hanford Stephens for a consideration of $5000 and is known as the north half of the I), Presley claim. On the smith hnlf of this claim is located the stute fair grounds. The early settlers or missionaries at first located in what is known as Mis sion Bottoms but for some reason, prob ably a threatened overflow, all moved to the higher ground in the. country adjacent to Jialem. The Presley sale is described as bounded on the north by lands claimed by John Force, on the cast by lands claimed by Hamuel Walker, on the west bv lands claimed bv Samuel Painter!"""1 ",re,!l8 tne P""'" '""" l aiid Pleasant Cicero 'Keizer and en thePart of the Houtheru Pacific freight do- south bv land within thc notification of David Presley. William H. Willson, who is responsi ble for thc wide streets of Salem and its civic center, by virtue of an act of congress of 1850 to provide for the survey of Oregon and to make dona - tionj to settlers, claimed a donation right to (515 acres, all now within the city limits of Salem. ' Settlement on the land wa made by Willson in November of 1S54 which fact was established by two witnesses encumbrances and they are better off physically. Fixed Military Policy "The president has finally announced that the American military policy from this time on centered ou the western front and bo has declined to be diverted from that one thing. The war depart ment has now adopted this as policy and it is the policy of the United States that tho military program Is to lie centered in France. "The purpose of America is to furn ish enough man power to whip the G mans from now on. "Tho only way that Germany cn be whipped is by America going into this thing with her whole strength. Tiie policy of the war department is to put the maximum number of men in Franc with the idea of shortening the war. "We found from the figures furnish e(l by the provost marshal general that we could ombark on a program of eighty divisions in France by June 30, 1918, with eighteen divisions at home. Thcs divisions consist 0f roughly' forty thou sand men to a division. "All of tho men obtained under the proposed change in tho draft law ap proximately 2,300,000 men we expect tn have in Franco by June SO, 1919." (Continued on page six) SOLDIER BOYS i. m the life of those books is exceedingly short, and cheap editions, bound in pipei or light cloth, nie undoubtedly the mos) serviceable and economical, t Wo have ma(lo o atu,mpt tQ jmpm.t books from America, because w0 rcalii.a that at the present '" tonnage is ncd- ed in more essential directions. As tt thc class of reading matter selected, wo loave it mainly to the demands of tho nun, and they ask principally for fie (ion, and light fiction ut that. Where we -no supplying more or loss permanent .libraries for hospital stuffs or for Amcii fn naval stations, we try to give m: all-around tone to tho collection of books, including classics, essays, poetry biography, ad scientific works, -but still for the greater part, fiction. ' ' Hie magazines and newspapers must of necessity c e from America. It is our experience' that this class of litora- tur gives greater satisfaction to men ihali books. Their cry is continuallj for more of the homo newspapers. " WAS FILED COUNTY, 1854 and also tho fact of his continual res idence on the land and its cultivation. The surveyor of the general land office of Oregon ordered that a patent be Is sued. This was dated July 2S. 1.S53. hut. not until Feb. 10, 1915. was this onier brought from the general land office and officially recorded in Murion coun ty. The original donation land cluim of William H. Willson began at the river, extended east on Mission street to Twelfth, thence north on Twelfth, to North Mill ( reek and thence in a vary ing line west to the river at the mouth of Mill creek. There was also included in this claim 40 acres lying south and eust of the Southern Pacific depot. The second deed filed in tho offico of the county recorder ef Marion coun ty is dated Nov. 25, 1853, but not filed until August 15. 1854, in volume 1 page 5. It is a deed from William H. Willson and his wife, ( hloe Amelia, to James W. Nesmith and Joseph Willson anil the consideration was $100. The land conveyed was a lot in block 4t$ of the town of Salem and was on Trade and I""- The third deed recorded in Marion county, volunm 1, page 7, is from Wil- ' ham II. WiUsnn and wife to James W. Nwmith dated Nov. 25. 1853, and filed for rc,'J August 15, 1854, for several ; 10,9 block 00, at Fnion and Cottage streets anil n'-j acies in ine cuy. mo Oregon Institute and tho lot.on which the parsonage was located were used in describing the 8Vj acres. Tho consiu- (Ceutinued ou page two