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Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-06-01
SITUATION rs SERIOUS


Omitted Press staff eorrespondent)
London, June 1.--There lis no dis
guising the fact that the military sit
uation is very serious, not only because
the Germans advanced 2S miles in five
days, but because they still have a
large number of fresh reserves which
they can throw into the battle, accord
ing to the opinion of q high authority
today. Until it is known where these
reserves will be used the situation will
remain anxious.
The transport of British and French
reserves is working smoothly and there
are now plenty to check the German ad
vance, with every hope of holding the
enemy to little more progress, it was
declared
Aside from the main German object
i've Of cushing the Anglo-French ar
mics the enemy has three objectives--
the channel ports, separation of the
British and French armies and capture
of Amiens and Paris. German reserves
can now be used in one of these-it is
impossible to tell which. The reserves
at the right and left of the crown
princes army have not yet been touch
ed, it is known.
The German attack in the Aisne re-
gion was not complete surprise, be-
cause an enemy concentration there
was no definite information that a
was no definite informatio that a
really great drive was impending. The
Germans deserve every credit for the
secret manner in which they brought
up their troops the night before the
a tack. Only two hours of artillery and
trench mortar fire effectively cut the
wire defenses.
The first day of the assault, the
crown princes army advanced IL
miles, overrunning the French lines
and crossing the Aisne in an effort to
cut the Paris-Chalons railway and to
widen the salient he had created.
Coniderable success attended his eff
forts in the center, but he was frus-
tratcd on the flanks.
1t is not fair to blame the allied
command for the reverse. II was the
outcome of an inherently mfavorable
situation. With a numeric-
ally superior enemy. the allies cannot
have adequate reserves at all their at
tackled points which would be the only
way Of preventing initial German sue
eesses.
British Local SUCCESS
Local fighting in the Picardy area, re
sulting to the advantage Of the Brit
ish, was reported by Field Marshal
Haig today,
ga hostile raid was repulsed east of
villers- -Brctonneux,' the statement
said.
"Loeal fighting in Avcluy wood and
north Of Albert resulted to our ad-
vantage. We took few prisoners.
'Thcre was hostile artillery firing
early this morning in the Villers-Bre-
tonneux and Hebmterne sectors. South
aud west Of Lens and in the neighbor-
hood Of Givenehy, there was active
last night. y
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-06-01
Lynchers Of Praeger
Acquitted by Jury

4 Fdwardsville, ILL.,, June L. \
x The eleven youths accused of \
x lynehing Robert Praeger, al \
x legged German spy, at Collins \
4 vile, H., the night of April 5, \
X were acquitted after the jury \
4 had deliberated five minutes \
X late today. :.
X Wild cheering greeted the \
K verdict which was returned at \,
X 4 O'Clock. \
4 Only two ballots were taken, \
4 according to reports from the 4
+ jury room. \
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Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-06-01
! The Woman Who Changed
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WHAT MONEY CAN'T BUY.
By JANE PHELPS
CHAPTER XCTU


l had found, in my short married
life, that there was one thing money
couldn't buy, and that was happiness.
Perhaps had l been older, more aecus-
toned to the ways of the world, 1
should not have laid so much stress
upon being loved, but I had been pet
ted all my life. At home, love hac
been so freely showered upon me, that
l took it as a matter of course
That it was not a matter of course,
I was fast learning. And it made me
very unhappy.
The days passed in what would have
been round of pleasure, had l had any
one with whom 1 felt acquainted
someone like Evelyn-to be with when
George was away. But the people to
whom he introduced me were so much
older. or so worldly wise, that 1 long
ed for the time when we should leave
I had taken one trip on Mr.. Barry Is
yacht. Julia Collins was not of the
party. | wondered why-and if my
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-06-01
THOUSANDS
IN FAIR PURSES
Speed Program at September
Meeting VIII Be Very
Attractive

Purses totaling $15,850 are hung up
for speed program for the Fifty seventh
Oregon State Fair, to be held here Sep.
tember 23,-28, A. H. Lea, secretary Of
the State Fair Board, announced today.
Excepting the handicap all entries will
close, July 15, and the moneys will be
divided so, 25, Is and 10 per cent
The 2:l4 pace and the 2:14 trot are
limited to horses owned and trained in
Oregon in 1918, and the ownership must
be in Oregon at the time of entry and
race. The money will be divided as fol-
lows: 5000 for the first heat; $500 for
the second heat; $400 for the third heat
and $l00 will go to the horse standing
best in the summaries at the end Of the
race.
After deducting 10 per cent from the
purse, and which sum will be awarded
to the horse standing best in the sum-
maries, one third of the balance will be
raced for each heat in the three heat
races.
No entry fee will ze exacted for the
handicap, but five per cent to enter will
be exacted in the other races. Entries
for the handicap must be in the hands
of the secretary Wednesday afternoon,
on September 25, and the handicaps will
be announced at o clock the night be-
fore the race. A relay race will be run
each day of the fair, and the rules gov
erning these races and the division of
the money will be announced previous
to the opening Of the fair. Entries to
the relay race close September 81.
Following is the speed program for
fair week: 1s~
Monday, September %.
Relay race, gentlemen riders, 81, 500.
Relay race, lady riders, $1,000.
Tuesday, September "a.
1924 trot, three heats, 5000.
2;24 trot, three heats, $3.50.
2:05 pace, three in five, $1,000.
Wednesday, September 25
2:0S pace, three in five, $4,000.
2:OS trot, three heats, 5000.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-06-01
TWO SPANIARDS KILLED.

Washington, June 1.-Two Spaniards
were killed, two wounded and three are
missing as the result of Bombardment
of the Spanish steamer Maria Hia by
a German submarine last Saturday
night, according to cable dispatches
reaching here today.
Declaring that he did not know the
steamer was Spanish the submarine com
mander expressed his regret and wire
lessed Mellila for help.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-06-01

phase of the battle, the German high
command is making every effort to de-
eeive the allies as to future turning of
the offensive.
Some prisoners claim one thing, some
another. All probably are primed to
mislead their eaptors Some declare
the Rheims offensive is merely second
ary and that the real blow is yet to
come. Others say the main thrust is to
be toward Ypres.
1t is hardly possible that Foch and
Haig will fall for such cock and bull
stories. Likely enough they have a
good notion of the main plans of the
enemy and will act accordingly.
Shelhng and bombing of areas far
in the rear of the lines continue, Pop
eringhe and the Flemish battlefields,
the Arras sector and the Somme coun-
try are principally involved.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-06-01

According to Mr.. Hoover there is wheat and wheat
products enough left in the country to allow the use of
onehrd wheat flour in the making of the nations bread
until harvest and the crop is available This being
the case why the attempt the part of Aver and his
attorneys to make Oregon absolutely wheatless?
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-06-01
Rippling Rhymes
by Wall Mason
WINNING THE WAR

The things do to win the war are things
always did abhor. So give me credit, be-
seech, for loyalty that is peach I'd like
to mount foaming steed and charge the
foe at frightful speed. I'd like to ride an
aeroplane above the clouds that send the
rain, above the forest and the hill, and drop
some bombs on Kaiser Bill I'd like to walk
a cruisers deck mid scenes of battle and of
wreck. But all such things are barred to
me, | may not fight, on land or sea, may
not garner CORY sheaves, because I'm fat
and have the heaves. And so I'm doing
things | hate. that NAV keep nv record
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-06-01

BY william Philip sinlms

Omitted Press staff correspondent
With the British Armies in France,
June i.-While the armies Of the Prus-
sian crown prince are thrusting south
ward across the country traversed in
l9l4, drunk with the success Of the first
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-06-01

Almost before know it the new steel bridge will be
ready for business the summer sostce will have passed
and we will be laying in supply of wood for the COM
ing winter Thus passeth away the days. the weeks the
months, the years---and life.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-06-01
Petain's Special ODER

Paris, June Inlay the battle Of
the Marne begin again, as II did four
years ago." General Petain declared
in special order Of the day, issued
today.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-06-01

Corpus Christi day. deliberately attacked hospitals fired
on Paris with their long range guns and killed IS per-
sons besides sending flock of airpanes to turn machine
guns loose at American and British hospitals shows how
futile any agreement would be that was reached with
them There is neither truth nor decency in or among
them
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-06-01
Advance in Mesopotamia

London, June 1.-THE Knrkuk area
is ours, from which we have driven the
Turks across the Lesser Zab," an off
cial report of the MesOpotamia opera
tios declared today.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-06-01
Faith of General Focn

Paris, June 1.-The following story
is told today, illustrative of the con
fidence of the allied generahssimo in
his armies:
When General Foch recently visited
Dunkirk, the mayor said TO him:
General you saved Flanders in
1914. You won't leave it in danger in
19l8fn
Foeh replied
"When one remembers how we stop
ped the enemy four years ago, one
must entertain no doubt - with the
means at our disposal today
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-06-01

The action of the Huns who after through the request
Of the German archbishop of Rheims, having secured i'm
munity from bombardment by British airmen during
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-06-01

Kurkuk is an important city $50
miles due north of Bagdad and about
100 miles southeast Of Mosul. The
Lesser Zab is branch off the Tigris
river flowing southwcsberly 25 miles
northwest of Kuluk.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-06-01
Bombardinr Paris

Paris, june The long range bonn
hardment of Paris continued this morn
ing.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-06-01

straight I'm digging soil and sowing Seeds and pruning
vines and hoeng weeds till the garden and repeat and
there sandburs in my ee that valued foodstufs be
supplied gather thstes in my hide grow the bean and
marfowfat I'll win the war or break slat hope when
history is writ and warriors who did their bit are loaded
with the heroes bays there'l be mention of the
jays who had to do their stunt at home and grow things
in the fertile loam I'm doomed to raise my sparrowgrass
while younger to battle pass so will do it with
will, and hoe my bees with wondrous Skill and raise
fresh rhubarb by the keg I'll win the war or break leg
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-06-01
FAIRBANKS CONDITION CRITICAL

Indianapolis, Ind, June 1.-The con-
dition of Charles W. Fairbanks, former
vice president, i'll at his home here, was
reported very grave early today. He is
extremely weak and in critical con-
dition.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-06-01

I'I9 PaUV, IHTVe HtdIs, @TOU.
Handicap trot or pace, mile dash $500
Friday, September 81.
l.l4 pace, three heats, $1,000.
2.1O trot, three heats, 5000.
A:l4 trot, three heats, $1,000.
Saturday, September %.
Free-for-all pace, three in five $1,000.
Free-for-all trot, three in five, $1,000.
The Carlisle independent., 1918-11-07
Wood For Tanks Fires

American fighting men at the front are to keep warm this win ter. The forestry section of tine American Expeditionary Forces has promised tu deliver on the road ready to be hauled to the men at the front before Jan. 100000 cubic meters Of frel wood. This is equivalent to pile of wood yard wide and @ yard high stretching from Paris U Berlin.
 Thousands of foresters are now busy in the French forests gathering and cutting the wood which comes from dead wood and refuse in the forests. Then fine trees of which the French are so proud are not being cut,
The Carlisle independent., 1918-11-07
FOR SALE-One Ford tour ing car in good order. IS If Sims & Stauber
Money-Making Farming

The farm problem of all prob lens is "how to make both ends meet" financially and have some rainy. day money left to spare at the end of each year. Methods of better agriculture fail flat ex- cept as they shall measure up to this test.
 While there-may be new meth ods that fail wholly or in part. the careful observer is finding that most of the better methods for better agriculture are mak ing good when they are rightly mixed with energy and common sense.
 May the day come when the farmers son will not consider himself properly prepared for matrimony until he understands agriculture better than algebra. American history or gram mar. Book sense and common sense are money-coining mixture.
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ment of the College of Agricul- ture since 1915, and has done ex. ceptional work which has attract ed the attention of the national authorities. Among other things he has about completed several pieces of important research work which will mean a great deal to Arkansas. These in clude a report on the acid soils of the State and soil survey of Arkansas. Many tests with fer tilizers have been made and these results when compiled should be of great value to the farmers of State. The tests include the use of crushed limestone, acid phos phate, nitrate of soda, barnyard manure and cottonseed meal un der varying conditions and on different soils.
 Professor Hungerford has helped the Extension Division and the County Agents consider ably by aiding in the fertilizer experiments carried on by the farmers in GO operative experi- mentS.
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while they were swimming and killed them. That was just sample of what had happened to them.
 The men now began running un and down in a line to keep warm. but I took a little run on my own hook and treated myself to as much of once over of the ship as I could. I do not believe the Moewe had more than a three-fourths-inch armor plate. but be- hind that she had three rows of pig iron, which made about a foot in thick ness. There was nothing but cable strung along the deck and when I saw that l would have given anything to have had a crack at her with n 14-inch naval. And l sure wished hard enough that one of our ships would slip up on us. whether we were caught between decks or not. I went aft as far as the sentry would let me and I saw that She had three spare six-inch guns un- Ger the poop deck and two six-inch pieces mounted astern. The guns were mounted on an elevator and when the time came they ran the elevator up until the guns were on level with the poop deck, but otherwise they were out of sight from other ships.
 For our first meal they slung a big feed bag half full of ship biscuit hardtack-to us and some dixies of tea. After this festival we began roaming up and down the deck again, because it was the only way to keep warm. l guess we looked like some of the advertisements in magazines, where they show a whole family sit ting around a Christmas tree in their underwear and telling each other that Whosis Unions-the Roomy Kind were just what they wanted from Santy. Only we did not have any Christmas tree to sit around. We must have looked funny, though. and I would have had good laugh if I had not been so cold.
 We could not go to sleep because the decks were wet, nor could we sit down with any comfort for the same reason. Besides. we thought we might | lECk PLAN OE TIE MoEhIES
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CHAPTER XVI.
Captured by the Moewe.

When the tugs had cast of and after while We had dropped our pilot. said to myself: Now we are of. and it's the States for me-end of the line-far as we ge-IF-@ But the ''if" did not look very big 10 me. though I could see t with the naked eye all right.
 I got up about four o'clock the next morning, which was Sunday, Deeenl- Der 10. 1916-a date I do not think I will ever forget.
 As soon as I was dressed I went down to the forecastle peak and from there into the paint locker. where I found some rope. Then back again ou deck, and made myself a hammock. which I rigged up on the boat deck. figuring that I would have nice sun bath, as the weather had at last turned clear.
 AS soon as I had the hammock strung l went down 10 the baker and had nice chat with him-and stole few hot buns, which was what I was really after-and away to the galley for breakfast. I was almost exactly amidships, sitting on an old orange box. 1 had not been there long when Old Chips, the ships carpenter, stuck his head in the door and sang out. Ship on the starboard bow" I did not pay any attention 70 him, because ships on the starboard pbow were no novelty 10 me, or on the port either. Chips was not crazy about looking at her, either, for he came in and sat on another box and began scoffing. He said he thought she was tramp and that she few the British flag astern.
 ate all I could get hold of and went out on deck. stepped out of the gal ley just in time to see the fun. The ship was just opposite us when away went our wireless and some of the boats on the starboard side. and then. boom boom, and We heard The report of the guns. heard the shrapnel whizZing around Us just as had many a time before. jumped back in the galley and Chips and the cook were shaking so hard they made the pans rattle.
 When the firing stopped I went up 10 the boat deck. l had on all of my clothing, but instead of shoes l was wearing pair of wooden clogs. The men and boys were craZy-rushing around the deck and knocking each other down, and everybody getting in everybody else's way. We lowered our Jacobs ladders, but some of the men and boys were already in the water. Why they jumped I do not know.
 Then the German raider Moewe headed right in toward us and thought she was going to ram us, but She backed water about thirty yards away. She lowered lifeboat and it made for the Georgic, passing our men in the water as they came and crashing them on the head with boat
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B-Foreeastle peak.
 C-Ammunition hold
 D-Torpedo tube rails.
 E-Torpedo tubes. s, E-Poop deck. G-Aft wheelhouse.
 H-Deck house
 J-Holds
 K-Disappearing guns aft, mounted on
 elevator.
 L-Sea gates.
 buck up against a British or a French cruiser at any minute and most of us thought we would stay up and get an well-known locker.
 About two bells the following morn ing the Moewe's engines began to groah and shake her up a bit and we could hear the blades jump out of the water every once in while and tear away. She went ahead in this way for some time and we were hoping she was trying to get away from cruiser and some of us were pulling for the cruiser to win and others hoping the Moewe would get her heels clear and keep us from getting ours.
 NClC up duu uON II the deck yelling like wild men and oDe of our men began to yell too. He was delirious and after he yelled a bit he jumped up and made a pass at the sentry, who shot at him but missed. The shot missed me too, but not very much. Then they dragged the delirious man up on deck and Lord knows what they did with him, because we never saw him again. But we did not hear any sound that they might have made in shooting him.
 Then the Huns began shelling and they kept it up for some time.
 Then they ordered us up on deck to see the ship they had been firing at and when we came up the companion
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way they were just bringing the other ships skipper aboard. It was the French collier St. Theodore, hove to off the starboard side with a prize crew from the Moewe aboard and wig wagging to the raider.
 Then the Huns began shouting and they rousted us below deck again. The place where we had been was filled with smoke. from what or why I do not know, but it was almost impos- sible to breathe in it. When the smoke cleared up bit the Marathon started again, for we were still in our underwear only. One of the boys had asked Fritz for clothing and Fritz said the English had tough enough skins and they did not need clothing. Then he said: Wait until you see what our German winters are like"
 The following morning the engines began to tear away again and the guns started firing. After a while the firing stopped and the engines too, and after an hour they had the old man of the 9arrowdale aboard. She was a British ship chartered by the French and hound for Brest and Liverpool with very valuable cargo aboard airplanes, ammunition, food and auto mobiles.
 When they rousted us on deck again the St. Theodore was still in sight, but she had sthe Yarrowdale for company. Both were trailing behind us and keep nfp on deck we saw the German sailors at work on the main deck making about ten rafts and when they began to place tins of hardtack on the rafts, tin to each, we imagined they were going to heave us over the side and let us go on the rafts. But instead they began telling us we would land in the States and then they rousted us between decks again.
 We had only been there short time when some of the German officers came down and asked if any of the men would volunteer to go firing on the Yarrowdale and we almost mebbed them to take us. They began putting down the names of the men who were to go and I talked them into putting mine down too. Then I felt about five hundred pounds lighter.
 Five o'clock came and by that time l had forgotten to do any worrying. We received our usual rationS and most of us who had volunteered fig ured that we would receive clothes and shoes. In the morning an officer came down below and read out the names of those who were to go and I felt even lighter when he called mine. We were each given life belt and mustered on deck.
 The sea was pretty nasty and some of the men had narrow escapes from falling between the Moewe and the lifeboats when the swells rocked us. One man fell from the ladder and broke his neck on the gunwale of the lifeboat. They took over boat after boat to the Yarrowdale until finally we were all there. Then they mus tered us on deck and warned us not to start anything, because they had a time bomb in the engine room and two on the bridge. Meantime they had brought over several boatloads of hard tack and We threw it into No. 3 hold This was to be our food for some time.
 To Be Continued]
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Hungerford Quits Arkansas Loses Bii
 Man

Professor DeForest Hunger ford of the Arkansas Experi- ment Station. has resigned to go to the Georgia Agriculture Col lege at Athens. sGeorgia.
 He will spend the next fifteen days. however. listing cut over lands for the Department of In terior. in it's effort to find suita- ble homes for the returned sol- diers.
 Professor Bungerford has been in the Agronomy Depart
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hooks when they could reach them I noticed that there were red kegs in the German boat
 When the llfeboat reached the Ja- cobs ladders I went over to The port side of the Georgic and then the Ger mans came over the side and hoisted up the kegs. The Germans were armed with bayonets and revolvefs Some of them went down into the eli zine room and opened the sea cocks came up from the poop deck and told them to stay where I was and that the Germans would take us oveI in lifeboats. Another squad of Ger