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Crittenden record-press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1909-191?, 1918-02-07
B0LSHEvIKl CAPTURE KIEv
Mother Of Russian Cities surren.
dered BY Ukranians, Says Pstro-
, grad Dispatch.

London.-Eicv, which Tor some time
past has been invested by the Boil
shevik troops, who are engaged
against the Ukranians, has surrender.
ed. according to an Exchange Tele-
graph dispatch from Petrograd.
Kiev, capital OF the government of
Kiev, lies Oh the right bank of the
Dnieper. II is called the mother of
Russian cities" and in 1870? had about
100000 inhabitants. Recent dispatches
said that many OF the Russian nobility,
seeking safety from the Bolsheyiki, had
taken up their residence in Kiev.
A Bolshevik decree establishing an
"all-Russian collegium" for guidance in
organizing the "workmen's and peas.
ants red army OF the Russian councils
republic" is announced In Russian OF.
fetal wireless statement received here
Another decree assigns 100000 ru.
bles for the organization Of the red
army from the moneys In the war fund
Crittenden record-press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1909-191?, 1918-02-07
AMBASSADOR HELD
BY RUSSIAN REDS
DAVID r. FRANCIS, U. s. AM8AssA
DOR AT PETRoGRAp. rs HELD
OVER BERGMAN CASE.
ASK RELEASE OF ANARCHIST
Finnish Terrorists Inform American
They viii Hold Him Responsible
For Release OF Anarchists
Sentenced to Atlanta

Washington Steps are being taken
by the American government to safe
guard the life OF David X Francis. u.
= ambassador AZ Petrograd
Anarchists at Helsingiors, Finland.
have Informed the ambassador that he
will be held personally responsible un
less the United States government al
once effected the release Of Alexander
Berkman leader OF the Reds" In this
country. Berkman IL under sentence
TO a term in Atlanta.
In written communication TO the
ambassador. the Finnish tcrruris's
complained In violent language OF
what they described as the relentless
and pitiless prosecution of Bergman
by the American government II harm
came TO Berkman. either through
death or by imprisonment they In.
formed the ambassador. he would have
TO answer for H.
A copy OF the threat was received at
the state department In official dis
patches from the American embassy
al Petrograd The ambassador did not
express. my alarm or ask that any
thing be done for his protection
Owing to the fact that the United
States has not yet recognized the lnde
pendoncc OF Finland. II Was decided to
make informal Inquiries" Of the Len
Inc Troizsy government at Petrogrnd
with an implied demand for greater
protection Of the embassy and mem
bers OF the staff
Indirect limitations have come 10
this government from Troirky that the
81 Louis man was persona non
grata" in Pe,roErad These intima
tons. II IL understood. were made al
the time the Bolsheyik government sb
tained the recall OF Buchanan. the
British ambassador, Who was looked
upon as a friend OF the overthrow
ezar.
On one occasion within the past
month Ambassador Francis revolver
in hand, WAS reported by returning
American travellers as having held of
a mob that menaced the embassy.
Crittenden record-press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1909-191?, 1918-02-07
ARMIES FIGHT FOR
FREEDOM OF WORLD
WILSON MAKES PREDICTION IN
MESSAGE READ AT GREAT
CONVENTION OF FARMERS.
1918 TO DECIDE WORLD WAR
Recalls Achievements OF American
Farmers and Urges Greater Efforts
This Year-Freedom Of World
Depends on United States.

Washington.-ln a message to the
nations farmers, delivered TO an agri.
cultural conference at urbana, ILL.,,
President Wilson said he thought
statesmen a. both sides of the water
realized that the eliminating crisis
Of the war had come and this years
achievements would decide it,
The message. which the president
intended to present personally until
attacked by cold, was delivered by
President James of the University Of
Illinois. Recounting the aggressions
OF Germany, the president said:
Il need not tell you, for | am sure
you realize as keenly as ! do that we
are as a nation in the presence Of a
great task which demands supreme
sacrifice and endeayor Of every one
Of US. We can give everything that
is needed with the greater willingness,
and even satisfaction, because the OBJ.
ject Of the war in which we are en-
gagged is the greatest that free men
have ever undertaken 1t is to pre-
vent the life OF the world from being
determined and the fortunes OF men
everywhere affected by small groups
OF military masters who seek their
own interests and the selfish domin.
ion throughout the world OF the gov.
ernments they unhappiy for the mo-
ment control. You will not need TO
be convinced that 1t was necessary for
US as free people to take part in
this war. II had raised its evil hand
against US. The rulers OF Germany
had sought TO exercise their power in
such a way as to shut off our eco
nomic life so far as our intercourse
with Europe was concerned, and to
confine our people within the western
hemisphere while they accomplished
purposes which would have perma.
nently impaired and impeded every
process of our national life and have
put the fortunes of America at the
mercy OF the imperial government of
Germany. This was not threat 1t
had become a reality. Their hand of
violence had been laid upon our own
people and our own property in fla
grant violation not only OF justice but
of the well recognized and long stand
ing covenants OF international law
and treaty. We are fighting. there
fore, as truly for the liberty and self
government OF the United States as
II the war OF our own Revolutio- had
TO be fought over again; and every
man in every business in the United
States must know by this time that
his whole future fortune lies in the
balance. Our national life and our
whole economic development will pass
under the sinister Influence of foreign
control If We do not win. We must
win, therefore, and We shall win.
need not ask you TO pledge your lives
and fortunes with those of the rest of
me nation TO the accomplishment Of
that great end.
you will realize. as ! think states
men on both sides Of the water real
ize, that the eliminating crisis of the
struggle has come and that the
achievements of this year on the one
side or the other must determine the
issue. II has turned out that the
forces that fight for freedom, the free
Crittenden record-press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1909-191?, 1918-02-07
FOOD AND DRUGS BILL HELPS
v. s. Bureau Of Chemistry Issues
Report Showing Benefits In
Ten Years.

Washington.-The bureau OF chem.
istry, United States department OF AK.
riculture, has issued report review.
ing the 10 years OF its activities in
the enforcement OF the food and drugs
act OF June 80, 1906 II says the
health Of the people has been i'm.
proved by the bureaus corrective Of.
feet on the drug and patent medicine
industry. and st has done world OF
good by its control OF trade In un.
clean milk, polluted decomposed or
filthy foods. and protection OF food
stufis from contamination with pois.
ons likely to be met In manufacture.
Crittenden record-press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1909-191?, 1918-02-07
GREAT NAVAL RESERVE
is Three Times As Large As During
sparish.Ameriesn War.

Annapolis, Md-The United States
naval reserve force. now embracing
$1,000 men and $500 officers, is
larger than the regular navy when
war was declared and three times as
large as in the Spanish.Amcrican
war" Secretary Daniels declared In
addressing the special graduating
class OF 900 reserve officers at the
Naval academy.
Crittenden record-press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1909-191?, 1918-02-07
AIlies In Great War sessIon.

Versailles, France.--Great Britain,
France, Italy and the United States
are represented at the session Of the
supreme war council which Is In SOS.
sion here. Georges Clemenceau, the
French premier. is presiding.
The United States is represented
by Gen. Tasker II. Bliss, chief Of staff
OF the American army. Arthur Hugh
Frazier. secretary Of the American
embassy ut Paris. attends as a diplo.
matte officer TO report the proceed.
lngs, but not to participate otherwise
Crittenden record-press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1909-191?, 1918-02-07
italians Take Enemy Trenches

Rome Italian troops made heavy
attack on the northern mountain
front and broke into the enemy lines.
the war office reports. Reinforce.
Nents which tho enemy was hurrying
down the Nos and Camnomulo valleys
were dispersed BY the artillery OF tho
Italians and their allies.
Crittenden record-press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1909-191?, 1918-02-07
SHIPS STRIKE ENEMY MINES
French Transport and Trswier Strike
Mines and Sink In Sight Of City
Of Msrseilles.

Paris.--Forty lives we're los,
through the sinking Of the French
freight transport bronze and trawler
kcrbihan. which struck mines within
sight Of Marseilles. The Drome first
came iu,o contact with q mine aud
the Kubihan shortly Afterwards
struck another near The same place
Crittenden record-press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1909-191?, 1918-02-07
FIGHTING IN volAYNIA.
Okrainians and Belsheviki Have
Been at Grips.

Amsterdam Heavy fighting has
been in progress for several days be
tween uhainians and Bolshcylk
troops. according TO dispatches reach.
ing here An attack was made by
Ukrainian troops who attempted to
take possession Of Lutsk. volhynis
The lIolshevik commander appealed
for assistance TO the Aus,ro Hun.
Earian commander OF that district
who declined TO aid him
Crittenden record-press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1909-191?, 1918-02-07
Carousers Burn 10 Death.

Peuograd.-Two hundred persons
perished in q fire In an alcohol fac.
tory at Noyo Archangelsk. A crowd
OF carousers broke into the factory
and became trapped in the cellar
Some one lighted a candle and the
alcohol fumes exploded.
Crittenden record-press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1909-191?, 1918-02-07
American. Killed In Italy.

Italian Army Headquarters In
Northern lta,y.-Two Americans at
tsohed to the Red Cross were killed at
Mestre by bombs dropped by German
raiders They were William Plat and
Richard Cults Fairfield. and were the
first Americans TO be Killed ON the ltal
ian front.
Crittenden record-press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1909-191?, 1918-02-07
SECOND DRAFT UNCERTAIN
Secretary Of War Says Date Of Second
Call VIII Depend on Shipping
Situation.

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Of Ameri.
cas- fighting forces beyond their pres.
ent strength depends upon such factors
as events abroad and the shipping sit.
uation. Secretary Baker said in disclos.
ing that the war department has not
fixed a date for another draft nor even
determined how many new men shall
be called.
Crittenden record-press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1909-191?, 1918-02-07
Hold Americans in Belgium.

Washington. Americans In
Belgium have been denied by Ger.
man authorities the right to leave
that country and 40 TO Holland The
Spanish minister at Brussels sent
such information TO the American
minister at The Hague, who tele-
graphed the state department.
Crittenden record-press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1909-191?, 1918-02-07
Kills s,ep.oauoh,er ,rd Self

Dallas. Texas Miss Emma MAY
Poole. 10. was shot and instantly
killed by J Frank Lozell. the girls
step-iather, who then shot and killed
himself.
Crittenden record-press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1909-191?, 1918-02-07
Italians Launch Attach.

Berlin british Admiralty, pet
Wicless) The Italians launched
violent attack on the northern noun.
tain front between Auiago and the
Brenta river. says the official state.
pen.
Crittenden record-press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1909-191?, 1918-02-07
v. s. Airman Dies.

London. Roy o, Carver young
American cadet, attached TO the royal
flying corps, has died in a hospital OF
injuries. lie was hurt In a fall OF $50
fee, while flying on the south coast
OF England
Crittenden record-press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1909-191?, 1918-02-07
Rather Die Than Supper, Family.

Minneapolis, Minn,-Faced by the
possibility OF having to support his
wife and six children after living for
five years on his wife's earnings,
Peter Roussln, OF St Paul, killed him.
self
Crittenden record-press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1909-191?, 1918-02-07
italians Improve Line.

Rome. The Italians new position
west of the frcnIela valley. on the
mountain front, has been greatly I'M.
proved. the war office announces. The
line was advanced slightly northeast Of
Col del Rosso.
Crittenden record-press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1909-191?, 1918-02-07
eppnoQp causea Deaths.

Muskogcc. okla-sovcn persons
are dead az Francis, Okla. i25 miles
southwest Of here, M the result OF
an cgsnosg party at which denatured
alcohol was used By mistake.
Crittenden record-press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1909-191?, 1918-02-07
Spain Protests 10 Kaiser.

Madrid Tho cabinet met under
tho presidency OF Rinv Alfonso and
decided 10 send a strong protest to
Germany, demanding reparation to
Spain for the sinking Of the steam.
ship Giralda.
Crittenden record-press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1909-191?, 1918-02-07
Runaway Train Kills Three.

Pottsville Pa.-Three ,rainmen
were instantly killed, one was proba-.
bly, fatally injured and five others
slightly hurt as a result OF the run.
ming away OF a freight train.
Crittenden record-press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1909-191?, 1918-02-07
lsnsdowne Concur. VIII, w,,,o,.

London The marquis Of Lansdowns
In an address here said that he con,
Cured entirely with the recent speech
Of David Lloyd George, the British
prime minister, and President Wilson,
on peace aims.
Crittenden record-press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1909-191?, 1918-02-07
Approve Postal Increases.

Washington. General increases Of
salaries for postal employees are EN-
bodied in a bill ordered fayorably re
ported to the house by the postoifice
committee
Crittenden record-press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1909-191?, 1918-02-07
Tacoma Editor Dies.

Tacoma. wash Herbert Hunt, IS.
for ~ years editor OF the Tacoma
Daily News, is dead from the effects
OF a cancer.
Crittenden record-press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1909-191?, 1918-02-07
Call Greek ReserNists.

London Sixteen classes OF Greek
reservists have been called TO the
colors. a Reuter- dispatch from Athens
announces
Crittenden record-press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1909-191?, 1918-02-07
EXPLAINS RETURN Of GAS MASKS FROM FRONT

sued to our troops in France, and
Gen. pership was told that u supe,
rior mask would soon be marufac
tured. He was asked 10 return the
masks then on hand. for training pur-
poses here. Gen. Pershing procured
from British sources sufficient masks
TO completely equip his forces, pend
ing the arrival OF the newly devised
model.
British lndorss New Models.
The perfected masks now being
shipped to Gen Pershing have not
been commented upon by him as yet.
nor has there been time for an actual
test OF these masks In battle. How.
ever, after exhaustive tests made In
this country. British experts have ties.
titled that the masks give better pro.
lection than any now being used by
tho allied troops
The returned masks, which are now
being used solely for training soldiers
in this country. will not Withstand
the heavy concentration used in actual
gas attacks in Europe, but they afford
perfect protection against the gas
clouds used in training in this coun.
try. Being OF the same general type,
however as those now being sent to
Europe, they serve 10 familiariEe the
men with the use and operation OF the
masks with which they will be pro.
yided on the firing line
Crittenden record-press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1909-191?, 1918-02-07
Pass Five Billions.

Washington, The total applications
for government soldiers insurance has
passed the $4,000, O0O, 900 mark.
Crittenden record-press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1909-191?, 1918-02-07
Why They Were Reshipped.

Our experiments in the United
Gen Pershing was told that a supe.
rior TO any previously used have been
constant and gratifying. Previous to
January /. 1918. only 10000 masks had
been shipped from this country for
Europe. Before these masks were is.
Crittenden record-press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1909-191?, 1918-02-07
PeRshING RETURNS GAS MASKS
AFTER BEING SUPPLIED WITH
GREATLY IMPROVED TYPE.
British Experts Approve Latest Pat.
terms After Actual Tests-Those
First Designed Now Being Used
Only in Training Soldiers in Home
Cantonments.

Washington.-The secretary OF war
authorizes the following:
Various newspapers during the past
few days have printed a statement
that 100000 gas masks. made In this
country and shipped to Gen. Pershing.
have been returned to the United
States, being absolutely worthless
for the purpose for which they were
intended" 1t is due the parents and
the relatives OF the mn wheo will use
gas masks that the facts be known.
The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1918-10-18
FRENCH POUND
FLEEING GERMANS

Paris. - French troops continue to
10 keep in contact with the retiring
Germans. the French war office an
nounced. The French report said the
remaining enemy troops were showing
resistance on the north bank OF the
Aisne canal south OF Chateau.Porcien-
sixty.five hundred civilians were
liberated when the French troops en-
tered the city OF Laon. The statement
issued at the war office says that the
French have passed far beyond the
town on the whole front between the
Oise and the Ailette rivers,
Newspapers here believe that a. q
result OF tho continuous advance OF
the allies the Germans will be forced
hastily to retreat TO the Lille -Mezieres-
Metz line.
The German retreat is being carried
cut with difficulty owing TO the bonn
bardment OF railroads by airpianes.
British troops are reported to have
outiianked Bouchain and to be ad.
yancing on Denain. from which town
they are only three miles distant.
American forces are advancing in
the direction OF Dun.sur-Meuse, In the
Argonne sector, according to the In
transigeant,
The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1918-10-18
BRIEF NEWS OF THE WAR

The battle line in France continues
10 bend under the attacks OF the en-
tente allies. and the enemy almost ev-
erywhere 10 retreating toward new
positions. But his retreat is orderly
and the British. French and Ameri.
cans are being compelled to fight their
way forward slowly in the face Of en-
emy machine gun detachments acting
a. rear guards.
TO the south the French have blot
ted out both La Fere and Laon and
the greater portion Of the St. Gobain
massif standing In the elbow where
the line runs eastward toward the
Swiss frontier.
The Chemln des Danes no longer
stands as bulwark for Laon In the
Aisne region and to the east In the
Champagne the French, by swift ad-
vance, have entered vouziers and car
ried their line 30 far north that the
communications between the German
northern armies and those east OF the
Champagne bid fair to be cut,
On the extreme allied right In the
active battle area the American First
army 10 keeping up Its hamniering
tactics and daily gaining more Of the
most valuable ground remaining to the
Germans In northern France-that
protecting their communicating lines
from the home soil through the Metz
and Montmedy regions.
Both in the Macedonian theater and
IN Palestine the allied forces are press
ing the enemy hard, Albania is fast
being cleared Of the Austro-H Hungarian
troops, while In Serbia Nish, the capt.
tai OF the little kingdom, after the In.
vaslon by the Austro.Hungarians. has
been recaptured and the enemy driven
to the hills north Of II.
The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1918-10-18
MANY PEOPLE DIE
IN FOREST FIRES

Duluth, MINI. = information from
fire-swept northeastern Minnesota
tended to confirm reports that nearly
1000 persons lost their lives In the
forest fires OF Saturday and Sunday in
this section.
Twelve thousand homeless and pen
niless refugees, an in need more or
less OF medical attention, are ouartered
In hospitals. churches, schools. private
homes and In the armory here.
Cioquet, I3rookston. Brevator. coro-
na. Adolph. Thompson. Arnold. Moose
Lake and Wright have been wiped out.
according to refugees.
Scores OF hamlets and hundreds OF
settlers homes have been destroyed.
The property and timber loss will total
many millions Of dollars.
The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1918-10-18

At meeting Of the Portland boiler
makers union 1t was voted that the
44-hour working week shall be put In
to effect by members working in ship
yards by the taking of Saturday half
holidays. The union voted two weeks
ago to work IS hours weekly, after
having taken Saturday half-holidays
for two successive weeks.
An educational campaign is being
launched by the Tillamook Creamery
association to make their products bet
ter known. The output of Tillamook
cheese this year will, 1t is expected
exceed $l,500,OO0. In 1917 the "a fac
tories handled 44,901,S03 pounds OF
milk, and from 1t manufactured 4,s14,'
seS pounds Of Tillamook cheese. valued
at s1.1sS.s45.
A shipment of 40 gallons OF brandy
and SIS gallons of whisky that was
masouerading as "cylinder oil, med
ium," and arrived on the steamer Rose
City from San Francisco. was seized
at Astoria by the police and federal
authorities. The liquor was in kegs
packed in boxes and was consigned to
the "Wendliag Vaughn Logging COM
pany, Grays River. WASH"
The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1918-10-18

Frantic kilograms have been rcceiv.
ed by Senator Chamberlain from rep
resentatlves Of prune growers In the
vicinity OF Salem saying that notwith.
standing tho announcements that the
food administration has given orders
for the purchase OF 3s,o0o.oOo pounds
OF Oregon prunes. the orders have not
been received by Oregon packers and
the packing.house arc still idle.
The new circular road around the
rim OF Crater Lake has been complet'
Cd. The road later probably will be
hardsurfaced, but the dirt grade cir
cling the lake at an average height
Of about 1000 feet 10 entirely finished.
II 10 IS miles long and completes 10
miles OF road work now In Crater Lake
national park. The road around the
rim has been under construction for
three years.
Oregon draftees are being rejected at
army camps and cantonments In excess
OF the national average, reports Just
given out from Washington indicate.
In recent months. under new stand
ards, the average percentage OF rejec.
tions Of indicted men has jumped from
4.sS per cent to 7,6 per cent, for the
nation at large. oregons percentage
Of unfit 10 as against Washington
states record OF 5 per cent,
Oregon lumber, manufacturers have
been asked by the navy to furnish 6oo,'
900 feet OF decking to be used aboard
mine sweepers under construction on
the Atlantic coast. This 10 the second
order for decking Of the new size, ~
by ~ inches. to be placed with the
Fir Production board, the first having
been for 100000 feet for steel freight
ers under way at the plant of the New
port News shipbulldlng company.
public Service Commissioner H. H.
Corey has returned from eastern Ore
gon where he effected an agreement
between the East Oregon Logging COM
pany and farmers of Wallowa county
by which the r4hchers will be allowed
TO transport their wheat to market
over the logging road of the former
The cost will be about Q cents a hun.
dred pounds. Heretofore, II has been
necessary for the farmers to haul their
grain by team for distances Of from
30 to 20 miles, the cost in many cases
amounting to more than so cents q
hundred. The road extends from En-.
terprise to Flora. There Is In the
neighborhood Of 10000 bushels Of
wheat to be taken to market. /
The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1918-10-18

BABIES MUST HAVE MILK

you get more calories 10 the
penny from milk than from any
other food even at the present
price," said DIR. Il. J. Liable.
specialist, who returned recent
ly from Europe and who spoke
at the State Fair and at other
patriotic gatherings. DR.. Liable
told Of the children he treated
in the Red Cross chlldren's hos
pital In Eyian, on Lake Geneva,
In France. The little French
and Belgian refugees were wan
and weak and almost lifeless.
A milk diet soon brought good
results and the babes thrived.
But" said DIR. Liable, they
will never entirely shake off
the marks made by the months
in which they were starved for
milk. Children must have milk
II the race is to go on. II is
every mans and every woman's
duty to do all in his power to
keep the herds Of Oregon alive. :
Feed men. mill men. dairymen,
householders. dealers. everyone
must cooperate. The babies Of
the world must be saved"