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STRONG COUNTER ATTACKS
WERE TOTAL FAILURES
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French Also Capture Rye
. Hundred Prisoners In
Same Sector
London, Sept. 25. British troops
made further progress west and north
'west of St. Quenlin jvsterdny even
iug and last night, Field Marshal flaig
reported today. At the same time they
repulsed several eounter attaeks in that
region. A total of 1,000 prisoners was
yaken during tkv day.
"We made further progress. 'yester
day evening and last night in the neigh
borhood of Scliney and Orioourt," the
statement ' said.
"During the course of the day's oper
ations, the vneiriy made several count
er attaeks. Two of these were delivered
in great strength north of, Grieourt.
Both of these were repulsed.
"In one case two companies of tire
Second battalion of the Royal Sussex
regiment met the attacking enemy with
the bayonet, inflicting heavy casualties
and capturing a number (If prisoners.
"In the ewning the enemy again at
tseked at Grieourt. At first some pro
gress was made, but an immediate
counter attack completely restored the
((ituation. Ve took forty prisoners, mak
ing a total of 1,00, together with a
large number of machine guns captur
ed in our operations northwest of St
Quontin.-
'As the result of a successful minor
operation Monday we advanced our line
slightly southeast of Ineky (west of
Oauibrai). The same night hostile raids
were lvpulsed east of Demieourt and
north of Lens."
1,600 PRISONERS TAKEN
By Lowell Mellett .
With 'The jfotish Armies in France,
(Continued on page four)
BYHAIG'STR
BATTLE IS WAGED
AGAINST KING COTTON
WHO RESISTS A TTACK
War Industries Board WiD De
mand Stable Price For TMs
. SiapleNecessity.
By X. C. Martin
- (Tinted Press. staff correspondent)
Washington, Sept. 25. Cotton, the
old great staple that has escaped tax
ation at the hands of congress, today
is the center of a battle rolay in the
government. .
With increasing demands from agri
cultural centers that the price of cot
ton be fixed, the same as wheat and
other raw materials, nd with industrial
ecntere demanding it be taved, the
tight of cotton 'producers extended to
day from congress to the war indus
tries board and the white house.
The newly constituted congressional
ectton committee, after long confer
ences yesterday with members of te
catton committee of the war indua
. tries board (named to stabilize the cot
ton situation), today sought an audi
ence with President Wilson. It is not
unlikely that the president will issue
a statement covering what he expects
from the cotton men.
That ths situation is to1)e made the
object cf some powerful political artil
lery was hinted in some quarters to
day, but the tendency for the momont
2tf.
VE HARD ON
JUSTICE MOORE DIES
- AFTER LONG ILLNESS
OF HEM FAILURE
Veteran Jurist, III For Months
Dropped Dead In Home
Early This Morning
After an illness of sevoral months,
Frank A. Moore, fur 26 years a mem
ber of th Oregon supreme court, died
suddenly at 6:30 o'clock this morning
front heart disease. He had appeared
much better yesterday And this morn
ing he arose to go to the bathroom and
while on the wayidroppcd dead.
He bad been ill since last June, the
hcrt trouble developing as a result
of a severe case of grip which he had
last winter.
He was 74 years old and leaves a
son, two daughters, two brother, and a
sister. His son is Arthur H. Moore of
8a k' in and his daughters are Mrs. Frank
Miles of Portland, and Miss Calista
Moore, who has presided over her fath
er 's home since the .death of her mother
a little more than a year ago. His bro
ther's and sister aiv Dr. AT W. Moore,
Dr. J. F. Moore and Mrs. Delia Lcland,
all of Portland.
' Judge Moore had lived in Salem since
1892, when he was first elected a mem
ber of the supreme court, Sim) then
he was re-elected four times. He was
last re-elected, two years ago and had
four years yet to serve to complete his
fifth term. If he couloV have completed
this term he would hav0 rounded out
30 years ou the bench of the state's
highest court. One of tho ablest mem
bers of the court, Jndgo Moore loug
ranked high in the esteem of attorneys
i'anked high in the estwm of attorneys.
He was born November 5, 1844, at
Ellsworth, Maine, and was married
April 15, 1866 to Einma Shuutaffcr.
Educated in public schools of Maine and
at Normal Institute at Iowa Falls, la.,
ho was elected county school superin
tendent of schools of Hardin county,
Iowa, in 1871, and served in that of
fice until 1875. Hp read law in the of
fico of Lieutenant Governor Enoch W.
Eastman at Eldora, la., and was admit
ted to bar in low in 1874.
Coming to Oregon in 1877, he was
admitted to bar of this state in lS9.
He located at St. Helens and practiced
law there until 1884, when ho was elect
ed county judge of Columbia county. In
188S hg was elected state senator from
Columbia county, and in 1892 was elect
ed to supreme court bench.
He was prominent member of Mason
ic order and of Elks. He was thirty
third degree Mason and in 1892 was
grand master of grand lodge for Ore
gon. Funeral probably will be held Friday
is to wait and see if the cotton solons
are to help or to hinder the war indus
tries board in its work.
Thoftuu W. Page, cUairnm,. of the
c .ton committee of t'ne war industries
be art!, has conferred with the cotton
states official advisory committee,
made up of the superintendents of ag
ricultural, directors of marketing any
presidents of the farmers' unions of
the cotton growing states, who were re
ceived in conjunction with the unoffi
cial committee from the capitol headed
by Senator Smith, South Carolina.
Page said. We hope it may not be
necessary f0 fix price on cotton, but
undoubtedly the price must -be stabil
ized and this committee will endeavor
to stabilize it by controlling the pur
chase of cotton eupplies for the Am
erican and allied governments. We ean
Tiot tell what effect the work of this
committee will have upon cotton pric
es until after it has been at work for
some .time possibly months."
Chairman Baruch of the war indus
tries board teday said the committee
on cotton distribution, headed by Chas.
J. Brand, should be able to obviate
the nrcejsity of fixing a price on cot
ton. The difficulty as Baruch sera it, lies
in to fact that the demand for high
grade cotton end the refusal to accept
(Continued on pae six)
M fl i t Is !
SALEM, ORE., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER
ITALY SEEKS AID
FROM UNITED STATES
TO EXPEL INVADERS
Claim Is Made Austrians Out
number Italians By Mil
lion Or More.
Washington, Sept. 25. Thrilled by
American valor in France, Italy . is
seeking the aid of thw United States in
driving off and defeating the Austro
Germau invaders p,f her soil, it was
learned in diplomatic circles today.
The great numerical superiority of
the Austrian armies in Italy, as opposed
to entvnte preponderance in France,
and practically of the ether theatres
of action, Is the basis of the Italian plea
for assistance.
The Italians also firmly maintain
that the Italian front is the logical one,
both from, a "military nud a political
viewpoint, for a decisive blew.
It 'is estimated that Austria has near
ly a million men niuiv available than
has Italy.
The announced piilitary policy is for
absolute concentration of American
power in one gigantic drive in Franco.
The Italians, however,, are declared
to be hopeful that tho United Stat-es
will so fit to throw a considerable force
into Italy this year to reinforce the
small representation now-carrying the
Stars and Stripes on the Piave.
It ig held by Italians hvr0 that Am
erica can easily send a considerable
fighting force into Italy without in
terfering with her army in France.
American Slip On Reef
At Mouth Of Tokio Harbor
Tokio, Sept. 21. (Delayed) The
American uip Star of Poland, owned
by the Alaska Packers' association of
Alameda, Cal., grounded on a rerf near
the mouth of Tokio bay.
Twelv0 members of the crew weiv1
trapped. Twenty men. including the
captain, esJaped. Thenty men, includ
ing the captain, escaped. The ship had
just arricdv from Manila.
Roceitt wireless messages to the San
I raneisco Chamber of Commerce toid
of the grounding of the Star of Poland,
but gave no location. These messages
said one man was lost. The above
cable to th(. United States gave no
indication of the fate of thu 12 men.
merely reporting them to have been
trapped.
Tne Star of Poland was a ship of
3.288 tons gross, built in 1901 at Bath,
Maine.
For what wo pay every month 'for
milk, since the dairymen have taken it
upon themselvcs.to boost th0 price of
milk again and oftVB we used, in the
goo Jold. days, to be able to buy a prct
ty fair cow.
ABE MARTIN
m
Artie Small, chamnion tri-tnwnuliin
, . 1.
straight-rail billiardist. is in France.
Ther substitutin ' carrots fer shrimp in
th" salad at th' New Palace Hotel.
HEELS OF FLYING BU LG
SALEM WENT OVER
THE TOP Hi STYLE
IN HONOR OF DAY
Banner Day For Attendance
From Farms And Valley
Towns.
LANE AND LINN RIVALS
FOR COUNTY EXHIBITS
-
Vegetables Proye Greater At
traction Than Flowers To
, Women Visitors.
..
!
THIS EVENING'S PROGRAM
Concert by Campbell's Am
erican band; vocal solo by Anna
Marshall Powell', violin ensem
ble, composed bjt students of
Mis, Elizabeth Levy,v in front
of grand stand;- if inclement
weather, in new auditorium.
' 8 p. m-i Educational pavilion
addresses by Mrs. Wm. MaeMasv
ters, head of tho Nojthwest V.
W. C. A. war council; W. A.
McKerrow of St. Paul, and C.
C. Chapman of Portland. -
Canning 'contests, demonstrat .
ing Girls' Club work, in south
end of educational pavilion each
day, 10 a; m.; 1:30 p. m., and
3:30 J. m.
John Etheridge will speak for
the fourth liberty loan during
the day and evening.
i
!t)C3(3C)C))(c3C3C9jc3C3)i3(C
Salem jent "oyer the top" today
in turning out a whale of a crowd in
(Continued on pags three)
BULGARIANS ARE ANXIOUS
TO MAKE PEACE PACT
Already Discouraged And Tir
ed of War Great Defeat
Hits Bulgars Hard
By Raymond Clapper
(United Press staff correspondent)
Washington, Sept. 25. Bulgarians
are setting the stage for a peace move
through which the allies may be able
to block Germany's path to the east,
entente diplomats indicated here to
day. Reeling under the combination of a
disantrousVout simmering over 90 mts
of Macedonian front, and seething dis
content at home, Bulgarian officials
are being pressed hard toward an ap
peal for peace. Preliminary moves are
already under way it ig understood.
Kceii expectancy was aroused in dip
lomatic circles here today with the re
turn of -Bulgarian Minister Panaretoff
to Washington after a summer's ab
sence. What this diplomat will propose
was a subject of widespread discussion.
-Bulgaria is now trying to get the
allies' ear. Whether he succeeds de
pends upon whether she will disgorge
her conquest. Entente diplomats are un
derstood to be inclined to give serious
consideration to any genuine Bulgar
ian offer of pence but only on strict
conditions. ,
President Wilson has maintained a
friendly attitude toward Bulgaria, de
spite strong pressure on him to force
a break. Great Britain and- other en
tente .nations are ready to accept an
opportunity to make peace with Bul
garia provided lustmc can be done
to Greece and Serbia, in order to cut
the Berlin-to-Bagdad route, which
menaces British :poesions in the cast,
it was pointed out. Bulgaria's aoswer
to the Austrian bid for a peace con
ference is believed to be preparatory to
an appeal for peace. Czar Ferdinand's
government goes on record in his re
ply as approving President Wilson's
Hjjj
rffl
25, 1918.
HSOFB
MARS
IAYBE
ONSEft
B1AN FROHj
I
If Allies Gain Mountain Passes
-Doom Of Western Forces
Is Sealed.
N By 'J. W. T. Mason
New York, Sept. 25. The allied op
erations in Serbia arc threatening to
separate the Bulgarian armies operat
ing in western Macedonia from the ar
mies east of the Vardar, which are do
fending tho Bulgarian boundary.
The mountain passes to t!1 north
west of Prilip are now coming within
the allies' sphere of activity. Once the
advance of th Serbians spreads in this
direction, hill barriers will be impos
ed between the two Bulparian armies,
making direct communication impos
sible. Thereafter, if the Bulgarians
cling to western Macedonia, they wilr
be "In peril of annihiation. Their only
way of possiblo escape will be into
northern Serbia and then through dif
ficult mountain territory eastward.
The Serbian drive along the main
Macedonian railway toward Uskub is
preceding slowly. Instead of concyntrat
ing all their power on driving ahcud
along the single line, the allies are now
extemlinp the area,of thoir operations
prpbably for the purpose of preventing
an exclusive Bulgaria concentration
for the defense cf Uskub and its branch
railway leading to Sofia.
. .British attacks in association' . with
the Greeks which have reported the
capture of Doirnn, are developing a
new threat against Bulgaria from the
sojith, while the Serbs and French con
tinue their operations parallel with
Bulgaria's western boundary. Strong
mountain defenses are between the Anglo-Creek
armies and the Bulgarian
frontier, but there is a possibility that
these can be turned by a flankinp move
ment against the Bulgarian rTght wing.
If this oipemtion were to succeed, the
important supply center of Stroumitza
inside the Bulgarian border, would be
threatened. Its loss would compel the
Bulgarians along the Vardar to move
hastily northward to avoid falling vic
tim to a second flanking operation
along the important Stroumitza-Istip
hiphway.
war aims and his princrplo of recogni
tion of nationality in fixing boundar-
in the Balkans is disclaimed though
soil was not made a provision which
.uiaA minion will insist on before en-
tering peace negotiations.
All reports obtainable here agreo that
Bulgaria's internal situation is grow
ine desperate. The Malinoff govern
ment is believed to be rushing toward
the rocks.
Tho hopelessness of the situation is
addd to by the prc.pect that Germany
will be unable to send sufficient rein
forcements.. , . .
Pacific Coast Men ;
Receive Commissions
. tim... a.v' Br4.- 2fS. Anions
uaiup riftc, nin-i
the antes of men commissioned second
.. 7l fn.trth tmiTiinff camp
lieuienaui.8 i v.. ..-.-- .
here today, appear tho followiug la
cific coast men:
Walter Ignatus Aamoth, 802 Patton
avenue, Portland, Or.
Howard wngnt Arnuvrs,
geles, Cal. ; , , . .
Charles Frank Benjamin, Los Ango
la. Cal- ...
Jamea Calhoun (Joiuns, dud w.-".
Cat. . ,
G-eorgc Randolph, rasauena,
Harry Johnson, El Segundo, Cal.
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Seventeenth avenue, Seattle, Wash.
Franklin Kenneth Pollitt, hog An-
s"c!M- . Tn Ti.h Cat.
Stepnen Dicpiieiin,
HENEY CANNOT RUN.
d. -p..i.n ft,.nt 24. Tim supremo
court today upheld the constitutionality
... rt i' ...... n.!n.n... low And
of tne lawiorniH smie ! -denied
the applications of Francis J.
i ... i.. T.i'msB TFftlnlt
Hency anu anoriieya im ..."...,
for a" Place on the f ovember guberns
torial ticket.
PRICE TWO CENTS
VON HERTLING IS READY
FOR PEACE BASED ON
WILSON'S PRINCIPLES
This Statement Said To Hare
Been Made In Recent
Speech Of Chancellor
Amsterdam, Sept. 25. Chancellor
Von Hortling says he is ready for
peai, based, in principle, upon Presi
dent Wilson's fourteen points.
This statement, according to advices
received here today was niado in the
chancellor 'g Speech to the main commit
tee .of thw reiehstag yesterday. The
chancellor declared he had evinced such
readiness in his speech of February 23,
to which, however, he pointed out Wil
son had not replied.
Members of the main committee are
reported to be dissatisfied with Von
Hertllng's speech considering it tin-'
equal to the gravity of the situation.
Party leaders of tho reiehstag were to
meet this morning to dVeide their at
titude toward Von Hertling.
'In regard to President Wilson's 14
points, my gpoech of February 25 show
ed that I agreed, in principle, with a
peace on such a basis, but Wilson has
not answered that Bpewch," tho chan
cellor, said.
"We desiro general disarmament and
freedom of the seas. The foreign sec
retary, will discuss the" political situa
tion, particularly th Austrian note."
Von Hortling said ho would energet
ically support tho franchiso; reform and
if it seoms "impossible to pbtaln the
desired result" by the usual parliamen
tary methods, "he will employ other
constitutional means."
"You have read Premier Clemence
au's speech, which seemed in fantas
tical hatred and coarseness of mind to
surpass everything hitherto achieved,"
said Von Hertling. "But in America
it has found a many-voiced echo. The
alllos assert they are fighting, to free
oppreseed nations, but tho century-old
sorrows and justified grievances of Ire
land nowher0 find a hearing not ev
en in America. ,
"How will the German people be
have in the faco of all of this Will
they beg for mercy, In fvar and tremb
ling? No! Remembering their great
(Continued on page four)
RELAND
L DIOCESE
HORNING
PJiycipa DecIlnC DlIP Trt Ad
I UjMWU lCllIUC IUC 10 All
vanced Age lie Cause of
Death
St. Paul, Sept. 2.y John Ireland,
archbishop of the St. Paul diocese of
the Catholic church for 30 years, died
at 3:55 this morning.
Physical declino duo to the Arch,
bishop's advanced ago of 80, affecting
his. heart, caused his ik-ath, his physi
cians suid. He suffred a severe ill
ncss early last spring and shortly after
celebrating hi 80th birthday onnivcr
ary, September 11, ho was again strick
en.
Five days ago it became apparent e
his physicians thnt he could not live
and hc sank gradually despite frequent
rallies.' I
At hig bedside were his sister, Moth
er Superior Seraphinc of St. Josvph'i
academy, St. Paul, his only surviving
relative; his oldest friend Bishop Thorn,
as O 'Gorman of Sioux Falls, 8. D., and
Bishop Jamcfl Trobee, P. R. Heffron,
and James O'lteilly, j
Last rites were administered Arch
bishop flvlnnd by his socretary, Rev..
T. A. Welch, after the sacrament had
been administered by Bishop O'Oor- '
man. . I
John Ireland was born in Kilkenny,
Ireland, Sepembor 11, 1838. llv was
brought to this country by" his parents
when 11 years old. For the first fewj
years thP family lived in Boston, Mass.
and Burlington, Vt. Then John was
taken to St. Paul at that time a trading
post deicndiug largely upon Inriau pat
ronage. At the parochial school thv, fu-i
(Continued on page six
ARCHBISHOP
Of Oil
DIED THIS
Oregon: Tonight
and Thursday
fair; liuht nonii
f rlv wind9. ;
ON TRAINS AND KEW8
STANDS FIVE CENTS
A
ENEMY RETIRED
BEFORE ALLIES IN
Italians Begin Offensive Oa
Albanian Front' Is
Report 0 '
ALLIED CAVALRY IS
ON BULGARIAN SOIL
Battle Line On Bulgarian
Front Is Three Hundred '
Miles In Length.
London, Sept, 25. iThe Bulgarian ar
my opposing the allied center is re
tiring upon Vales (thirty mile north
and east of Prilip), It ig announced In
the Serbian communlp.ue covering Tues
day's operations, received here today.
The allied advance la continuing
north of Prilip-GradBko road.
' "Along the left bank of the Vardar
and north of the Frtiip-GradBko road
our advance is continuing," .the state
ment said.
"The enemy is fighting rear guard
actions and retiring upon Yeles."
London, Sept. 25. Italian troops have
begun to advance in Albania, according
to unofficial press reports received; hero
today via Paris. '
(There is no indication yet that this
rcporktl movement has been definitely
linked up with the 109 mile allied ofe
sive in Macedonia, but it is believed
the entire 300 mile front from the Ad
riatic to tho Acgan iray soon be
ablaze with activity.)
The reported advance In Albania
is timed to coincide with apparent pre
parations for invasion of Bulgaria. Tho
allies, accSftling to latest advices are
within about three mile, of the Bulgar-
(Continued on page six)
LIBERTY KOIORS IN
AMERICAN PLANES
ARE GREAT SUCCESS
All Airplane Experts Are En
thusiastic Over Results
Obtained
Paris, Sept. 23. Liberty motors,
placed in American built planes which
aro manned by American aviators, have
completely vindicated thcmstlvea. They
have cleared themselves from tho cloud
of doubt raised mcnths ago in tho Unit
ed States. In tho battle during which,
the St. Mihiel salient was captured
fleets of American airplanes, used for
the first time in large numbers, prov-.
cd a huge success. All airplane exerts,
not only those attached to tho Ameri
can forces, but nlto those with tho
French and British, aro most enthusi
astic over the results attained by mo
tors, planes and pilots-
John D. Ryan, head of the American
aircraft board, has returned to raris
after watching the American airplane
in action. His impression, after seeing
tho work and talking to pilots and al
lied experts, may tie summed up as
follows:
That there is no such en((ine power
or lightness in the allied or German
armies; that there is no other engine
for which there is such a iV'mand,
Kvery official and every officer
knowing the result of St. Mihiel is
most pleased with the prospects for the
future.
American pilots have given a won
derful account of themselves.
Ryan is continuing his inspection of
training camps and British and French
manufacturing plants and studying tho
movements of airp'ane supply to ad
vanced areas. . . . . ,
Colonel Arthur Woods, former polio
commissioner of New York, has joraetl
the Ryan pa'.ty.
AWS