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t fODAr IS IH8Vt- 70UWI A AAA QinKf ctuctjc (23,000 BEADER8) DAJLY Only Circulation in SaV'm Guar anteed by the Audit Bureau of Circulations FULL LEASED WISE DISrATOHES EPECIAti WILLAMETTE V AL LEY NEWS SERVICE FORTY-FIRST YEAR NO. nf GENEiAL GERMAN ATIDTf TO RETAKE 111 COSTLYFAILURE Lost Two Hundred Prisoners And Twenty-One Machine CmssAsWelL FIVE FlftSH DIVISIONS TO OPPOSE ADVANCE Positions Recently Captured By Allies Part Of Main ! Defense System By Lowell Meyett (United Press staff correspondent) With the British Armies in France, Kept. 21. (Noon) The jGoruiiuia, at tempting to re take two posts east of JOpehy today, lest 200 prisoners and 21 niuekine guns, besides leaving a hun deed dead within the. British lines. Farther north -five fresh German di; visions-, including one of Alpine troops, live arrived since (Saturday. Two of 'the divisions are entirely fresh. . Captured enemy .documents show that the ground taken "by tho British was intended as an essential part of the llindeuburg defense system, which their troops were ordered to hold regardless of the cost. Looks Like Trench Warfare The 'British front seems about to ke-v-amo tho scene of trench warfare twain. If the British succeed in their general advance it will reflect greater credit than any of their remarkable mrceesses in the past several weeks. They are now fairly up against the Hindeuburg line from St. Quentin to beyond Cainbrni and, while tho line it i.elf is pierced on the front beforo Cajnbrai, there is yet such a wilder ness of defenses barring their path an only the methodical, patient machine like Huns are capable of constructing. These mazes are from a mile to two miles deep. Part of the way there is a ctmal "0 feot wide and probably fif ty feet deep in some places, with deep xpread trenches before and behind it. It this machine-like barricade could mve him, Von Hindenbnarg should feel safe, but the (iermans unquestion ')ly regard tho situation nervously, with their frst line from Havrincourt t Moeuvrea cracked and with the Aus t.-alians perched on a ridge where the German outpost system lies, between Bellicourt and Bellenglise. In the latter strip, the Germans still maintain an enormous' advantage how over, as the dry bed of the canal stretches for three miles there. But re tmit demonstrations of what tanks aud instantaneous fuse shells are able to do to ordinary defenses argue against impregnability of any lines. The Germans in this section have the opportunity to resume their favor ite trench warfare and may hope to re vitalize or rather rc-diseipline thoir demoralized forces- into making a ahwd. ' : : ';...---,. 'Enemy is Repulsed London,. Sept.' 24. "Last night the enemy attacked our new positions southeast of (iavrclle, supporting -their sault by a heaby barrage,"'- Field Marshal ila-ig reported today. ... . . ''This attack was completely repuls ed and eirr 4Mie rcmaiiied iBtaet.- ' , "Wc improved our. positions slightly (Continued on page two).' Latest Styles Dazzle 1 . Chicago Boulevards Chicago,' Sept. " 24. Parisian styles brought in by buyers were to dazzle Michigan boule- vard today. Important exhibits were fresh air gowns consisting largely of -a deep "V" in the back and kimcno sleeves. Plaids are not so popular, but a Scottish flav- or is retained with the intro- dnction of knee length skirts. Geometrical figures will be popular, buyers said, but gcom- , etry's imaginary line is on a vacation. For they are to be. verv tight this vear. ' , nil Ik f 227. A T AND INCREASING Bulgar Defeat Overwhelming And Their "Armies Split In Two 50,000 TURKS TRAPPED NEAR THE RIVER JORDAN Japs Advance 500 Miles --Optimistic News From All Fronts London, Sept. 24. Allied successos in Macedonia and Palestine continue to grow. Control of Siberia also is being rapidly completed by the allies. The operations in the Balkans are taking on the aspect of a major defeat for the Bulgarians. - Their- armies in southern Serbia and northeastern Greece have been virtually split by cutting of the Uskub-Salonika and Gradsko Prilip railways. The allies ai advanc ing an the whole region between Monas tir and Lake Doiran and the original front-of about 75 miles has been stret ched to nearly 100 miles by the growth of the big wedge bwing driven north ward. Through the seizuro of Kalyani, allied troops are now only six miles southeast of the important city of Pri lip, which is noe of their immediate ob jectives. - . ; To the eastward they have penctra (Continued on page two) FOR FURTHER BLOW ST. MIHIE1. FRONT oerman military irracjays SI 11 !. f fl Artillery Concentration Has Been Completed - Copenhagen, Sept. 24. The American hare completed their artillery concen tration on the St. Mihiel front and new attacks may he expected declares Gen eral Arjeune, writing in the Berlin Tageblat. Ardene also states that the Germans probably will abandon St. Quentin shortly. By Fred S. Ferguson. (United Press Staff Correspondent.) With The Americans On The Metz Front, Sept. 23. Aside from artillery bombardment of important German cen ters, with counter-shelling of American positions, the Woevre front is quiet. An Amvricari raid on the left center yesterday netted some prisoners. . x lie enemy laid down a barrage on tha ad joining sectors, but their infantry fail ed to come over to face our counter fire. . Near St. Hilaire anothvr American raid resulted in tho taking of 14 pris oners. Scarcely an airplane or balloon was seen in the sky all day yesterday, tho rain stopping aerial activity. The entire front is largely mud locked. An instance of the effctiveness oa the American indian in certain lines of work is illustrated in a report from a certain division. Whenever a comman der wants information from the bodies ho sends out an Indian, who invariably returns with it. The Indian is unable to reckon distance except by hours. Be ing asked how far he went into the German lines, he says: .J'Thrcc hours I there; three hours back." . . The Indian is credited with ibeing able to distinguish bochw camouflage trees fronr real ones. The- Germans move sets of minattire trees to conform with certain lavements, the movable troes concealing machingun nests and observation posts. But they are unable to deceive the Indian. a 5 JS I U LLENB ULGARIaN fron IS 10 HE LO I MW fit SALEM, OREGON, 1 Lrsj..iuiv. CLEARS PALESTINE OF STOCK BARNS ON FAIR GROUNDS TODAY AS WEATHER CLEARS BRIGHTLY Dairying And Good Roads Were Subjects Of Special Interest Today. . Dairying and good roads two things of great importance to Oregon are tho featurcg of today's program at the Oregon State fair. Because, of war conditions, just now they are two of Oregon's big prob!oni3 up for solution. This makes today's discussions of unusual interest. The dairy business is struggling to survive the high cost of living for the dairy cows aud tho mounting expense duo to high wages. Dairymen in all parts of the state are greatly concerned, aud resolutions are being sent to govvru-1 Pavilion Well Filled, merit officials urging taat steps be la- Yesterday it looked as though the ken to keep in the west the mill feeds booths iu the pavilion would not be which are the product of grains grown' all occupied but today there is no va in tho west. - leant room. The University of Oregon Tonight in the fair grounds grandstand has a fine exhibit of educational thing addressv-a on the. dairy industry will be. delivered by- Professor Larson of Brookings, 8. D., and Dr. Labbe of Portland. Impromptu discussion of the vital questions relating to the industry also is expected. Crowd Is Larger Today. ' With clear, bright weather, 'a big crowd is on the fair ground today. A good racing program is on tap, ' and there is lots of music, while in the new auditorium Mrs. Alice Dodd is iviiig a lecture on the .'reconstruction of dis abled soldiers. In the educational pa vilion an illustrated lecture is being given on "Our Boys in Franco." Late this aflornoon tho Oivgon con gress f Mothers will hold a conference in the now auditorium,' with Mrs. J. t . Shilke of La Grande, presiding. Mrs. Win, F. Ogburn of Portland, will give an illustrated lecture on the war wi'ik of the Y. W. C. A. in France and at the Aim-rican cantomcnts in the educa tional pavilion. The educational pavilion offers ex hibits of .much interest this year.- It houses the children's industrial exhib its, the exhibit of the Oregon Agricul tural college, the University of Ore gon, the Y. W. C. A; nnd others. War work is the keynote of the O. A. C. exhibit, which urgns on patriotic rounds the use of Oregon grown pro ducts. It illustrates the saving of wool by making use of old clothing by con verting them into garments for chil dren, and gives some .surprising ex amples. . . Today the college is also giving a demonstration in the use of dairy pro ducts, while on other days it will dem onstrate practical methods for getting tho most out of fruit and vegetables, and meat substitutes, and cereals other than wheat, and sugar savors. Ten counties are represented vfith children's industrial exhibits, while canning teams are giving daily demon strations in a coutest which will end Friday night. The counties represented with exhibits in this department are Marion, Clatsop, Jackson, Polk, Was co, Morrow, Malheur, TiLlamook, Mult uomah and Washington. Around The Stock Barm - Though tho sun came out bright and warm early in the day the old time fair gners were in evidence and easily told for each carried a big umbrella. It was just force of habit. At the grounds it was surely stock day for the judging is under way and the crowds gathered at the different judging stands betook enod the keen intere-t in livestock ta ken by apparently a large mojority of Oregonians Those who admire beauti ful and perfect animals were surely gratified by the showing made this morning. It was a close race between the horses and tho cattle judging from the crowds gathered at eoch barn, as to which is the more attractive. Ap- parently there-wast more interest in the ,!lsse1 who nas ;just rctUrned from cattle exhibits than those of the horses t Jialy, declared today in an interview The some might be said of the auto for wtn tnB United Prefs. it . too awakened more interest than KubspU was a minb-r of Lie "ocial the good old standby. The day of the democratic league mUmS!. -f.icn went horse is not over, .but his labors are anroad to study war conditions, being performed by John D. and his .f thcre mre tpn divisions ot Am gasoline. It may be that before long the erican soldiers in Italy now the war norse will ue tne center oi attraction again as a rare specimen of a fast pass- If V1UU uJUWi.R The Boys and Girls Pig club exhfbit attracted much attention, too, steady stream of visitors parsing through the building and admiring the pets of the young folks. A blue-blooded lady Du roc, with nine little Durocs, fat-and happy and dun-brown as acorns, wa the center of attraction, and she seem ed as proud of her family as her own- lTr1 'of! " ;.: i" TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER DRAW CROWDS er Elmer John Roth, was of all of them. There were many other notable exhibits in the club pens, but they were too many for individual mention. Many Fine Cattle, ' The cattle exhibit while not so largo as other years was never excel led. Among the exhibitors is theJState of Washington CoUge with a galaxy of animal beauty in the shape of lan Angus heifer grand champiou at the Yakima fair, a champion short horn bull and a collection of Galloway and Horefords whose srtperiors were never seen at the fair. Tho big new collis scum is filled with autos and farm tractors and these are rather success ful rivals of the livestock, hundreds studying the ears and talking about them like connoisseurs. and across the hall from it O. A..U has a splendid showing in all lines and especially in wheat and other cereals. Many ..varieties aro shown, both the heads and grain being exhibited. The back of its epace is prettily decorated with pictures of collie stunts and buildings 11 lighted.-'up. with lights through them. Among other things was an array of things made from daddy's old hirta, and from their number and variety it is fair to presume Daddy had to stay at honle or come shirtless. The Oregon hospital for the insane has a fine exhibit and so have seven other state institutions. The county ex hibits are not as numerous as usual but they are as fine as ever. To make comparisons .before the premiums are t (Continued on page two) Fourth Liberty Loan- Forecast At Six Billion Washington, Sept.. 24. The amount of the fourth liberty loan forecast as around $fi,000, 000,0(X), will be announced with in the ncjit 24 hours. Terms of the loan have been decided up on by treasury officials and it is likely the bonds will be pay able in 1938. Jt is probable Sec retary McAdoo will call for all over-subscriptions. This, it is es timated, map bring about $7,000 000,000 into the treasury, The three previous war loans ag gregate $9,984,000,000. Of this sum $5,031,000,000 has been paid over to allied governments and credits of nearly $j00,000, 000 more have been extend but not paid. ITALY MIGHT WIN WAR B CHRISTMAS WITH HELP OF Russell Says Ten American Divisions In Italy Would Turn Trick New York, Sept. 24. Ten divisions of America troops in Tt'aly could win b Christmas, Charles Etward .,011d ,. en.,(1 h Christmas or he- fore, ' he said. "This is not a rash as sertton of a civilian that has seen only a few battle fronts, but it is the de liberate judgment of the best military observers that have carefully studied the exact situation in Italy., "Even if the Americans never fired a "Miot on the battle line nor never went out of a training camp, the ef foct of their am presence in Italy would be so tremendous that in all girobability the Italians would break J 3 i i! I 24, 1918. FAMOUS SEAPORT OF ACRE IS TAKEN RITISHTR Remnant Of Beaten Turks Fleeing Eastward Are ' Closely Pursued PRISONERS CAPTURED WILL FAR EXCEED 25,C00 Arab F rces Join With British In Harassing Routed Moslem Units. ' London, Sept, 24. British forces have occupied the important seaport of Acre, Palestine; Ti' was announced todap. Some Turkish units are fleeing east ward from the Jordau, pursued' by Australian, New Zealand, West Indian aud Jewish troops. ; '""East of the Jordan the enemy is withdrawiki itowkrd Vrman on tho Pedjaz railway (55 miles cast and north of Jerusalem,) " the statement said- "Australian, New Zealand, West Indian 4"3 Jewish troops, pursuing them, have. reached Es Salt (ten miles east of the Jordan and 40 miles north east of Jerusalem), capturing guns and prisoners." ' "In the north our .cavalry occupied, Haifa (an important seaport and rail way town ten miles south of Aero), and Acre, following light opposition. The number of prisoners has been in creased and the total will exceed large ly the 25,000 already mentioned. Arab forces under, -King Hussein have occupied Maan and are harassing bodies of tho enemy retreating north ward toward Amman, along the Iledjaa railway. Acre is on tho Mediterranean, 22 miles northeast of. Nazareth, whore British cavalry was last reported. It is a terminal of the railwap running from Dera to the coast. It has a population of about 10,000. . Acre is famous for the sciges it has sustained. It was captured by tho Cru saders in 1104, recaptured by the Sa racens in 1187 and again captured by the Crusaders, under KU'hard the Lion Hearted in 1191. Tho Saracens again took it in 1281. In 1799 Napoleon attempted to cap ture Acre, but retreated aftir a siege of two months. It was taken by Ibra bam Pasha in 1832 and was boinbard- (Oontinued on paere twM AMERICANS the Austrian line and inflict a blow that would practically put Austria out of business. "With active American help on the battle line, this result is regarded as absolutely certain. "Austria, according to the best ob tainable information, is not far from collapsing anyway, and with one swift nunch, such us the Italians would give her, if they were adequately supported and encouraged, would leave uerinany in the impossible position of carrying On the war alone. . "Italy ousht to have, as she has de served, the most liberal and practical support from the United States. She is at present in vcrp sore need of coal, steel and, to some extent, of lubricat ing oil. Last winter she was practical ly without coal and the suffering of the people, especially in northern Italy was very real and very great. She ought not to be compelled to go thru another such winter. The normal ccal supply of Italy in pence times comes from Great Britain. Great Britain this winter, for certain reasons, will be un able to supply Italy with even as much (Continued on page two) OOPS PRICE TWO CENTS 111 ( 1 ( 3 lit TU SALEM ROUTE NINE 'tOST BONDS l!l PRESENT DRIVE Report jOf Subscriptions Re ceived by Teams Work ing Up To Last Night Of the seven Salem rural routes in Marion county, route 9 stands high in the amount turned in for tho fourth liberty loan, according to a statement issued Kt headquarters, showing the totals up to Saturday evening. This route is north of $alem on the river road, circling back on tho Pacific high way. Route 4, which shows the small est amount is through the fine prune section in the Roscdale and Liberty districts, probably due to the uncertain condition of the prune market. In the following list, the heaviest subscrip tions are of course from the business districts whero several subscriptions of $5000 each were pledgod. It will be noted that there is consid erable difference in the amounts secur ed by teams in adjacent territory. It is tho belief of those in charge at head quarters that this is due to the fact that many people in some districtshave not yet been seen by committeemen, or that in somo eases tho cemmitteumen may not be impressing the subscribers with the necessity for subscribing to their limit bocause of tho largo amount to b eraised. ' v In the list below tho first seven teams are working on the rural routes. Team No. Captain Amount 3 V. 8. Delano $12,500 4 Dr. Morehouse 4.200 6 Dr. Morofield 4.200 6 A. J. Rahn 5.70 7 W. C. Dyer 8.600 8 Seymour Jones 8.500 9R. O. Snelling 14,400 11 K. Tillinghast 7,250 12 F. B. Southwick S,450 13 J. A. Baker 2,400 15-August Huckestoin, Jr 2,700 16 W. W. Moore 1,400 17 T. K. Ford .'.- 9,100 18 N. C. Kafoury 5,10(1 19 Leo Childs 3,100 20 J. D. Hartwell ' 17,750 21 Curtis Cross -6,950 22 jO. A. Hartnian 8,0o0- 23 John Todd - 7,400 24 Homer Smith 12,900 A. W. Lawroneo 13,850 26 Frank Davey 23,000 27 W. M. Smith 30,500 28 C. B. Webb 20,300 29 Iouis La.chmund 20,600 30 W. A. Weist 4,700 31 R. C. Bishop 7,150 320. B. Gingrich 10,2.)0 33W. A. Marshall ' 3,UU 34 Dr. D. C. Burton 2,700 35W. L. Waters l,;u 3(1 C. O. Rico ; 3,600 37 Elmer Dauo 6,u 38 Paul Johnson 10-450 39 Jog Bamngiirtncr 3,550 40 John Bayno 2.250 41 Chas. A. Murphy 9,500 Flying squadron 6,300 The amounts do not includo the heavy subscriptions" received by the city banks. AUSTRIANS TO GIVE ' T ANSWER AT THE' RIGHT MOMENT Says Americans Will Have To Add Big Deeds To Big Words. Amsterdam, Sept. 24- Tho kaiser, addressing Austrian officers at Briey, while yisiting the Alsace-Lorraine front Sunday, expressed his confidence that they would give the Americans "the right answer at the right moment." "yon have come to fight our bat tles, as good comrades," ho said. "You know, perhaps, that we have heavy fighting before us. You know who are before you. The Americans have prom isrd Franco that thep would give her Alsace-Lorraine, which France alono cannot conquer. "The Americans also wish to add big deeds to their big words. With the hatp of .my troops, you will give them the right answer at the right moment." . The kaiser distributed iron crosses and addressed Austrian, German, Brit ish and French wounded in their" re spective languages. Oregon: Tonight and Wednesday, fair ana warmer. , Wenre aornwesi. .' v ON TRAINS AND NEWS STANDS FIVE CENT3 ULGARIANS 111 FULL RETREAT ARE CLOSELY PURSUED Enemy Headquarters Makes Official Admission of Great Retreat SERBIANS DRAW CLOSE TO BASE AT PlSLIE Over 12,000 Prisoners Cap tured By Serbians Alone During Drive Sofia, Sept. 22. (Delayed) Retire ment of the Bulgarian armies between the Cerna and the Vardar was announc ed by the Bulgarian wax office today. "As a result of our front giving way between the Oerna and the Vardar, ad-jac-jnt units have withdrawn to south ward of prilip and northward of Doi ran," tha communique) said. London, Sept; 24. Italian troops op erating on the left flank of the Brit ish and Greeks in tho Vardar valley, have advanced ten' miles since pester day, according to a dispatch from tha Salonika front today. London, Sept. 24. "Tho allied of fensive in Macodonia is continuing successfully," it was reported in tho Serbian rommunWpie of Sunday, re ceived here today. "We continued to cross the Vardar, whoro we aro in contact with the eno my toward Prilip," tho communique said. "Serbian troops have the massif of Drentkaplanina and have reached sev eral points on the road from Gradsko to Prilip. "The enfray continued to burn vil lages and his Btores. In spite of that, a great quantity of different war ma terial fell into our hands. "On-the railway lino in tho Vardar plain we captured stveral trains," Tho Serbians alone have taken 12, 000 prisoners and 140 guns so far, it is reported. London, Sept. 24. British troopn have captured tho important town of Doiran on th? southern shore of Lako Doiran, in Macedonia, according to dispatches- received bore today. Archbishop Rallied Again During Night St, Paul, Minn-, Sept. 24. After los ing consciousness for the first time dur ing his long illness. Archbishop John Ireland, rallied attain early today. 1 1 i- seeretnry, Rev, T. A. Welch, said tho pre'ate's wonderful stamina had saved him seveial times d'urin.r the night., i J ABE MARTIN : Who remembers when a girl's com plexion changed witn ner a.j.ii' moodsf Where th' farmer has got it on most of us is that he kin sell a pig an' retire wheuowr he feels like It.