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Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-05-12

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md all. will close. Your fond member.
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JUMBLED NAMES OF THE: ALLIES.

VUN dWVTJICV
BY ROSA l.ENlNSpN.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-09-05
EFFORTS
IN RUSSIA WILL
Be MUCH GREATER
VIII Have Very In
pOrtant Part In Refs
tabishing Nation.

Washington, Sept. g. Allied military
efforts in Russia will be materially in
creased.
Events in Siberia as well as European
Russia are such as to increase the i'm
portanee of this angle of the allied aid
programmed the economic feature i:
rapidly becoming more a question for flu
turc disposition.
Americas recognition Of the Czecho
Slovak belligerents Hnites the allies in
their determination to give full support
to these -fOrces-mOney, men and mum.
ton. simultaneously this government
definitely dismisses any thought of re-
eOgnizing the bolshevists against whom
the Czechs are fighting.
This, an important modification of
the German course in Russia, is seen and
more and more the allied program cen
ters on the military.
Because Ameriean-allied efforts are
to he ccntered on the west front the po-
sitiOn of Japan in Siberia takes an in
creased Importance, She will send more
troops-a course favored by the allies
and also those Russians affiliated with
the urge for Intervention.
Russian officials, familiar with the
topography of the country believe that
fifty thousand to one hundred thousand
Japanese troops in addition to the fight
ing men placed in Siberia by the allies
would be sufficient. Others say more
troops would be required.
Russian officials, however, are oppos-
ed to an attempt by the allies to re.
establish an eastern front in European
warfare.
Bolsheviki troops in considerable mum.
bers are going over to the Czecho-Slo-
vaks according to a Czacho -Slovak of,
ficer reaching Murmansk on the 26th
from Ekaterinburg. Ambassador Fran
cls reported to the state department to-
day that this officer brought word that
10000 Czechs and $4,000 Russians were
in the vicinity of Ekaterinburg.
He reported a hundred mile advance
followed by a thirty mile retirement
during July. Ekaterinburg has been
taken by the Cossaeks, who were follow
ed the next day by 800 Czcchs.
The officer reported that the citizens
were gratified by the efforts of the
Czeeho1Slovaks and the overthrow of the
bolsheviki. Food was being distributed
literally,
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-09-05
Every Meal A
Poisonous Injection

Few folks suffering from kidney and
bladder troubles wei think that tbs
meals which they are taking are hasten
ing their death. Every mOrsel of food
taken gives up its quantity of uric acid
This poison is taken into the system
through a diseased condition of the kid
neys and bladder. In the healthy man
nature provides an outlet for this pois-
on. Those in i'll health must take q
medicinal help to drive this death-deal-
ing poison from the system. For over
200 years GOLD MEDAL HARLEM Oil
Capsules have been doing this work.
They effect prompt relief in all dis
eases arising from kidney and bladder
troubles. Don't put off this vital mat
ter of attending to your health until il
is time to make your funeral arrange
ments. Get a box Of GOLD MEDAL
HARLEM Oil Capsules to day. Look for
the genuine. Your druggist sells them.
They are guaranteed or money refund.
ed. Insist on GOLD MEDAL Brand.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-09-05

try towns want to come to Salem for the
winter tor give their children the advan
tages Of Salem's educational institu
lions.
Another real estate man says that al
summer lie has had applications for APP
artment rooms from people who would
like to stay here for the summer, as sou.
thern California people have discovered
that the ideal summer climate is in this
part of the Willamette valley.
At the Commercial club there has
been a constant stream of inquiries as
to where n could find a modern rented
house, Not any old shack that has not
been repaired for a dozen years, but
houses that are modern, such as modern
people care to live in.
Another renting agency said that sew
eral families who wanted to live in Sa-
lem this winter Were obliged to make
other plans, as they could not find a
house to rent. This is the story from
every real estate and renting agency in
Salem. Never in the history of the city
for several years past has there been
such a demand for houses to rent and
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-09-05
Germany Substituting
And CensOring Press

Washington, Sept, 5.-Germany i:
substituting as well as eensoring tht
German press, according to diplomatic
disclosures here today. 1t is announced
through Berne advices that various
German newspapers including the 50.
eialist organs are receiving financial
grants from the government.
The newspapers, according to Berne
adviees, are contending that the grants
are in the form of indemnity to pro
teet the papers from loss ON account of
the price Of print paper.
The practice is declared to have be-
come generally known when recent
charges were made that the Vorwaerts
had accepted a half million marks and
the Berliner Tageblatt two million
marks from the government.
Entente diplomats are inclined to be-
heve the intent of the subsidy is evi.
dent. In regard to the socialist newspa-
pers, it is held to account for many
strange contradictions made by the So
eialist organs. Ii is recalled that the
VorwaertS recently published a severe
criticism of the complimentary treat
les between Germany and Russia ON the
ground that this policy would spoil
the Russians.
At another time, the vorwaerts con
graduated the government for having
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-09-05
Germans Lose Strongholds

London, Sept. 5.-Allied troops con
tinue prying loose the Germans from
their strongholds, according to over
night official statements of the wal
offices.
The Paris official c~ommunique told
Of success in the double thanking opera,
tons above Scissors, where steady ad.
vanees threaten enemy positions both in
Picardy and along the Vesle and Aisng
fronts. 1t was announced that the
French had established new lines as fan
north as Guiscard. The Germans were
reported retiring north of the. Disc and
the Vesle river defenses were. being
abandoned, the statement announcing
that the French had crossed the stream
on an Is mile front and had advanced
northward.
On the Picardy front the British war
office communicate indicated that the
Canal Du Nord defense Of the Germans
was disintegrating. Field Marshal Haig
reported his troops had crossed both the
canal and the Tortilla river, which il
parallels for some distance, on a wide
front north Of Moislains (four miles
north of Peronne.)
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-09-05
Gained Steadily all Night

Paris, Sept. 5.-Q2:20 p. m.)-Clos
ing in on Ham, striking eastward e
flank new German positions above the
Vesle and advancing %northward from
the Vesle in pursuit of the r~etreating
enemy, the French armies gained stead.
lily during the night, the war office an
nouneed today.
Americans and French advancing
north Of the Vesle have reached the
edge of heights dominating the Aisne,
the war office announced. Additional
French troops have crossed the Vesle
between Les Venteaux and Jonchery.
during the night our troops main
tanned contact with the German rear
guards and progressed eastward of the
North canal toward the Aisne," the
statement said. East Of Vesle we
crossed the Somme canal in the region
of Foyennes and Offoy. (About three
and three quarters miles northwest Of
Ham.)
Further south We passed out of
HOmbleux, Esmey-Hallon and Flavy lie
Meldeux (these towns are south and
west of Ham,
"We carried our lines northward of
Guiseard, until we reached the border Of
Berlancourt (about five miles south of
Ham,
Between the Ailette and Aisne, we
took Clancy, Braye and Missiy-sur.
AiSne. (ThiS shows rapid >developmynt
of the thanking vancouver against Ger
man positions along the Aisne ard
Chemin-de s-Dames.)
"At the end of yesterday eastward
OF lHully, We repulsed two violent Ger
man counter attacks on Mont Dcs Tobcs
Our positions Were maintained.
son the Vesle front, the Franco-Am-
orleans have reached the edge of heights
dominating the Aisne, Enlarging their
action, our troops crossed the Vesle be-
tween Les NenteauX and JOnchery.n
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-09-05
mono on the market.

none on the market.
A. H. Ferguson and wife of Great
Falls, are in the city locking for a house
to rent for the winter or at least a few
months. They want to buy a farm in
this part of the valley and are at pres
emit staying at one Of the local hoels
After going around and investigating
for three days, this morning they had
not been able to find a house. The
Capital Business college is in need of
houses whore the families of prospective
students would like to come to Salem
for the winter. willamette University
is mp against the same proposition and
many who come to the city during the
winter in order to send children to the
Salem High school are undecided as nC
houses-that is modern ones-can be
found to rent.
Many families have told the real cs'
tate men hat if rooms could be found
in apartment houses they would come to
Salem for the winter. But there is a
waiting list for apartment houses.
As one real estate man said, there is q
demand for modern houses and apart
mcnt houses not only for this winter and
the next, but for the time when the
vast number of workers in the shipyards
gradually be coming back to the
,itv.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-09-05
dicating destruction of stores.
IN A QUIET SECFoR
BY Frank J. TAYLOR

united Press staff correspondent
With the American Armies in France,
Sept. 5.-German batteries at daylight
yesterday bombardcd Frapelle, firing
800 shells during the action and using
gas, No infantry action followed a bar
rage of several hours.
Yesterday morning a German captive
balloon was shot down north of Toul.
American bombers on Tuesday de-
stroyed the Conflans-B riery railroad
bride and blew mp the junction of the
Metz-Conflans and Briery railroad and
the yards, round house and buildings az
Dommary and B~aroncourt. All Amari
can planes returned.
Ten Germans planes attacked the
American formation without success.
The American bombing planes shot
down one Of the German attackers,
which crashed to the ground.
In the course of other air fights Am
herman planes yesterday.
planes vesterda.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-09-05
MILLION R. R. MEN
Continued from page one)

chute, fence gang, pile driver, ditch
ing and hosting engineers and bridge
inspectors $I05; track foremen 500;
assistant track foremen five cents an
hour more than their laborers; mechan-
les in maintenance of way and build
ing banches, 50 cents an hour; help
ers to these men 43 cents; track labor
ers % to 40 cents.
None of the employees of the classes
noted shall have q monthly rate in ex-
cess of $3.50 a month.
An eight hour day is established with
pro rata overtime of time and a half
on the actual minute basis.
The increase became effective Sep
TENDER l with back pay to January |,
based on the new scale if it has not al
ready been paid.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-09-05
MODERN HOUSES SCARCE
IS THE SITUATION IN SALEM

with a fire place, bath room facilities
and electric lights. Many renters would
take a house with fireplace if there was
no furnace, but people in renting nova
days want some modern convenieneies
and not houses equipped as they were a
generation ago.
There are too many old houses entire.
,ly out of date, declared one real estate
man. While people who are looking for
houses do not care to go to the extreme
limits of the town, there is no objection
to a ten or 10 minute walk to the bust.
meas section of the city.
With not a modern house offered for
rent, the real estate men say q serious
condition is coming, as just at this time
of the year many people from the coun-
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-09-05
French Armies Advance

With the French Armies in the Field
Sept. 5,-Generals Debeny and Humbert
were forcing the Germans back between
the Somme and the Disc today. Ad-
vanced cavalry d%etaehments pushed up
the Ham-Noyon road above Guiscard.
On the Ailette front the Trench adj
vance continued. Along and above the
Vesle, signs multiplied that the enemy
is preparing for a general retreat, prob
ably to his old fortified line beyond
the Aisne.
From Rheims to Juxnicourt fires are
increasing behind the German front, in
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-09-05
Realty Dealers Say It Is I'm
possible To Supply Pre-
sent Demand.

There is not a modern house for rent
in the city of Salem, declared a promin-
ent real estate dealer today,
Another firm that makes a speciality
of renting houses is authority for the
statement that within the past three
weeks there has been calls for fifty
modern houses with five or six rooms,
that would rent at from 500 to $25 a
month.
BY modern houses, the real estate men
say, is meant houses with furnace, or
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-09-05
YANKEE TROOPS
Continued from page One)

beyond Xauxcere, Blanzy and B~aslieux,
Bazoehes and Fismette fell into Am
erican hands through a thanking nov
ment. Wauxeere is nearly three mile:
north of the Vesle. Blanzy is about two
miles north of Fismes and BaSlieux is
southeast of it, about a mile north of
tho Wesley
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-09-05
Girls Statement viii
Helm Salem

Here is the girls own story: "For
years l had dyspepsia, sour stomach
and constipation. | drank hot water
and olive oil by the gallon. Nothing
helped ne until l tried buckthorn,
bark, glyccrine, ETC., as mixed in Adler
i-ka. ONE SPOONFUL helped me IN
STANTLY." Because Adler-i-ka flush.
es the ENTIRE alimentary tract it re-
lieves ANY CASE constipation, SOU
stomach or gas and prevents appended
tbs. 1t has QUICKEST action of any
thing we ever sold. j.. C. Perry.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-09-05

rome and our line has been improved
slightly.
%During the past four days British
troops have taken over 10000 pris-
Oners and over 100 guns
Ploegsteert village and wood have
been the scene of some of the bite
est fighting of the entire war. Thous-
ands died in battles around PlOeg-
steert during the late 1914 and the
1915 campaigns, and there was stub
born struggling there last year, PlOeg-
steert is known to the British soldiers
everywhere as "Plugstreet.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-09-05
|. W. v. RESPONSIBLE
CONTINUED from page one) :

only those Immediately in front of the
postoffice entrance on Adams street
were endangered by flying debris. The
corridor itself contained a number Of
persons. Most of these were protected
by heavy pillars or were some distance
from the bomb. Their faces were
blackened but none sustained serious
injuries.
One interior wall was blown open.
Back of it was Edwad +. Kolkow, one
Of the dead.
A jury comprising six of Chicago g
most prominent men will be empanel-
led at once, Coroner Peter Hoffman
said. After viewing the four bodies
the jury will be held in readiness for
an inquest pending the outcome of pc.
lice Investigations.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-09-05

-
CLANS and iellies for sick soldiers. >
This is the significant inscription that
will characterize the little tags which
all Salem people will wear next Satur-
day. The National League of Woman S
service has been working earnestly all
summer canning fruit and making jam
for the soldiers in the hospitals at Fort
Candy, Columbia, Stevens and VaneOu-
Yer. The fruit and some of the cans
were donated, but there was a neees-
sary expense in buying the sugar and
in paying for the shipment to the var
Iious places 1t is to raise funds for this
purpose that the people will be tag
ged Saturday. Mrs. Walter Spaulding
who has charge of the affair has ar
ranged for a booth in Meyers store and
many prominent maids and matrons
will assist in the sale.
After visiting in Salem for about
two months, Mrs. Fannie Long and
Miss j. II. Hoyt left the first of the
week. Mrs. Long is ON her way to Iowa
where she will visit friends and rela-
tives for some time and Miss HOyt will
spend some time visiting in Idaho.
They have lived in Portland and are
former friends of G. b. Clancy with
whom they have been visiting.
After enjoying a jolly time as mem
bers of a small house party at New
port. the Misses Mary Belle Rinehart
and Nina Putnam have returned, Mrs.
Spaulding and daughter, la, who were
with them will remain for a fortnight
longer.
The regular monthly missionary meet
ing of the First Christian church
will be held Friday afternoon in the
church parlors at two thirty O'Clock.
Ms. D. A. White will have charge of
the meeting which will deal with Mex
leo, Central and South America. There
will also be election of officers.
After a stay of five weeks in Iowa,
Mrs. Ida L. Niles has returned to her
home. 435 North Winter street. She
was called to Fredericksburg on ac-
count of the illness Of her mother. On
her return she visited her daughter,
Mrs. c.. Leroy Brown, in Portland for
several days.
In their apartments at the Court, Mr..
and Mrs. S. McElnea were hosts re-
Gently at a dinner party. Places were
laid for twelve guests including several
out of town people. Those who were
present were Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Walsh
and daughters, Ruth and Hazel, Mrs.
Bently from Hillsboro, and Mr.. and
Mrs. Ross D. Well and daughter, Grace
and Mrs. Mulkey and daughter. Mrs.
Houseman from st. Louis.
Yesterday Glen Purvine left for a
vacation in several places on the Co
lumbia, among other points he will he
will visit at Astoria and will then go
to Seaview, Washington, where he will
Join his sister, Laura, who has been
visiting friends there for two weeks.
Miss Beryl Holt has left for Rich
land, Washington, where she will be
an instructor in the. mathematics de-
partment of the high school there. For
the past two years Miss Holt has taught
in the independence high school.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-09-05
BRITISH MOVING
Continued from page one)

and captured in the morning with 100
prisoners and a number of machine
guns. (The taking of this point shows
the British have advanced more than
a mile between Amentieres and Ypres.)
"Northward of Hill SO and north
of Wytsehaete the enemy in repeated
attacks was unsuccessful.
"S0uth of the Neuve Chapelle as
far as Givcnehy, we have regained the
old line held by us prior to the ninth
Of April the eommunique declared.
East of Givenchy we have oecu-
pied portions of the old German posi-
tons.
CON the southern battle front the
enemy strongly attacked our new POI
sitions at lnchy-En-Artois yesterday
evening but was repulsed after sharp
fighting.
I'VE have improved our positions
south of Moenvres and east of Hermies
and have taken Melville Bourbon Val.
THE enemy counter attacked yes
terday evening east of Mananeourt and
was repalsed. Fighting has taken
place also in the neighborhood of Pc
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-09-05
Stomach and Liver Troubles

No end of misery and actual suffer
ing is caused by disorders of the stom.
ach and liver, and may be avoided by
the use of Chamberlain Tablets. Give
them a trial. They only cost a quarter,
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-09-05

imposed the SIX milliards indemnity on
Russia, painting to the need for pro-
tpcting German capitalists against af-
ter the war aggression of entente cap.
ital.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-09-05
Loving Rivals

They share the secrets that help the younger
to add to her youthful charm and the older
to keep hers. Tonight it is the secret of
Pompeian BEAUTY Powder, the powder
that adheres so smoothly to the face and
neck, imparting an exquisite pearly luster
and fragrance to the skin.
Thethree new Pompeian preparations shown
here have met with great success in New
York They can be used separately, or to-
getherasa Complete Complexion Toilette"
They are guaranteed pure and safe by the
makers Of Pompcian MASSAGE Cream.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-09-05

Miss Beryl Holt has left for Rich
land, Washington, where she will be
an instructor in the. mathematics de-
partment of the high school there. For
the past two years Miss Holt has taught
in the Independence high school.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-09-05
SOCIETY
BY MABEL GARRETT

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Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-09-05

Yesterday Glen Purvine left for a
vacation in several places on the Co
lumbia, among other points he will he
will visit at Astoria and will then go
to Seaview, Washington, where he will
join his sister, Laura, who has been
visiting friends there for two weeks.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-09-05

After a stay of five weeks in Iowa,
Mrs. Ida L. Niles has returned to her
home, 435 North Winter street. She
was called to Fredericksburg on ac-
count of the illness of her mother. On
her return she visited her daughter,
Mrs. C. Leroy Brown, in Portland for
several days.
Douglas Island news., 1918-05-03
RUINED BY HUMOR

Gov. Tom Corwin, of Ohio. grew crochety In his old age and had an idea that fate had not given him a square deal. He laid it Co humor, with which his speeches sparkled for no man was brlllianter. He saw many who were his interiors in abll- ity advance to tho highest offices while he dropped back to private life. Once when Col. Don Piatt had worked his audience into good hu- nor by a witty talk, Tom Corwln called him aside and said feellngly.
 Don't do it, my boy. It will cost you your standing with the peo- pie 1T you persist in that. In order to stand we'll with the people, and be considered by them fitted for the serious business Of tho high offices. you must be a solemn ass. 10 is SO the world over, and was so i'm all times The earth Is dotted with that have been erected over thc remains of solemn asses. |"