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The Washington herald., 1918-05-10

throw his accumulated reserves
against whatever front he finds
weakest.
The correspondent Of the Echo de
that the new attack will come Satur-
day and that it will be launched be-
TWEEN Albert and Amiens. EditoriaIly,
the paper doubts II the Germans will
be ready to attack in force before
May II or "a
Stin Bombardment.
With the American Army in France,
May 9.-1ncreased activity Is being
displayed by the American and Ger
man patrols on the Picardy front.
The Yankee batteries showered shells
upon the enemy lines last night. 1t
was one of the stiffest bombardments
Of the week. The German reply was
feeble in comparison.
Two members of a German patrol
were shot and forty Germans later
tried to rush our front ines in the
valley. but our patrols promptly
routed them. At another point an
attempt to capture an American out
post was defeated without casualties
to our men.
Line Re-estabfished.
London. May s.-rhe British front
in the sector of Voormezeele, which
was penetrated by the Germans in
the center yesterday, has been re-
stablished, the war office announc-
ed tonight
Near Albert the Germans sue
ceeded in gaining Iodgment in
British advanced positions on a
front of $50 yards. the statement
adds.
The text follows:
AT close fighting this morning,
in the sector between La Clytte and
Voormezeele. the French and Brit
ish position on this front was COM
pletely re-established.
Following hostile artillery ac-
tivity the enemy launched two To-
cal attacks early this morning in
the neighborhood of Albert and
Bousincourt. In the latter locality
the enemy's attack was broken by
our rife and machine gun fire, and
the enemy troops failed to reach
our trenches
AT Albert, after suffering heavy
casualties, his troops succeeded in eff
fecting a lodgment in our advanced
positions on a front of about 15o
yards.
From the remainder Of the British
'front.' there Is nothing to report be-
yond artillery activity on both sides. -
Thirty Aeros Harred
London, May 9.-Thirty German
machines were brought down by Brit
ish flyers yesterday and ten tons of
bombs were hurled on lie Bateau,
Cambria and the Zeebrugge Mole, as
well as the Zeebrugge dock. Seven
British machines failed to return.
Berflh's Air Claims.
Berlin. via London-"Thirty-se
entente machines were shot down in
the last few days fighting" the Ger
man war office announced tonight.
Austro-Italian Fighting.
London, May S-Lively artillery
duels are raging on the Austro-Ital-
ian front. but neither Rome nor Wen
ma reports any major infantry ac-
tions. The official reports follow:
Italian statement: There was lively
artillery activity between the A.iooo
The Washington herald., 1918-05-10
Austro-Italian Fishtinr.

London. May S.-Lively artillery
duels are raging on the Austro-ItaI-
ian front. but neither Rome nor Wen
ma reports any major infantry ac-
tions. The official reports follow:
Italian statement: There was lively
artillery activity between the Asiago
Plateau and the Brenta River. At
Maserada enemy troop movements
were observed. There were patrol
encounters in several sectors. British
aViators bombed the Austrian avfa-
ton works around Motta' Di Liyen-
Ia"
Austrian statement: "On the Pi-
ave there was reciprocal artillery ac-
tivity. In the mountains Italian recon-
nottering enterprises were frustrated. /"
The Washington herald., 1918-05-10
BRITISH REGAIN
POSITIONS; HUN
DRIVE THREATENS

CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE.
The Washington herald., 1918-05-10
Berilh's Air Claims.

Berlin, via London-''Thirty-se
entente machines were shot down in
the last few days fighting" the Ger
man war office announced tonight.
The Washington herald., 1918-05-10
Dramatic Plea.

The premier's answer was that he
had merely compared the January
figures because the totals were avail
able IN Maurice's department
One Of the most dramatic pleas for
the government and for unity was
The Washington herald., 1918-05-10

London. May 9.-Thirty German
machines were brought down by Brit
lsh flyers yesterday and ten tons of
bombs were hurled on lie Bateau,
Cambria and the Zeebrugge Mole, as
well as the Zeebrugge dock. Seven
British machines failed to return.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1918-08-23

LETTERS FROM OUR
LADS over THERE
Been in 1t From Start.

Somewhere in France, July 2s. IS.
"Dear Mother: received letter
from you today the first one for about
a month. We have been moving so
much lately that our mail has hardly
had time to catch up with US. We
sure have been going some since this
drive started We have been in it
from the start. and it is a long way
from being finished yet. Our battery
has sure been lucky. We have not
lost man, so far. There has only
been three men killed in the regiment
and FIVE gas cases. so you can see that
we have had the upper hand of the
boche all the way through. The coun-
try was sure strewn with dead Ger
mans.
"This will be all the war gas l will
give you. as you have had more of It
than could give you. Your mail is
not censored coming this way. can
not send request for anything. We
have to get the permit from the Col
onel, and then it has to be very neces-
sary. will write you longer letter
in day or two. Tell all the boys
hello for me. We are all feeling fine,
even Sam. l never felt better, so
don't worry. We are about through
the worst part of the drive, as we have
the boche on the run now, and he
won't stop until he gets to his old line,
if he will stop then.
Corp. Ed Sebasky.
14S F. A. Battery D."
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1918-08-23
LAND OF QUAINT BELIEFS
Superstitions Rife In EngIand's Black
Country Are Among the Strangest
Put on Record.

! moI,i,c, ;,to oon,,lo,,iio, A. eoo+
+hot a. ;s - tvn,ooI ,ndustr,a, nuoa ~
10 strorra that tha pIoo,, oountrv
should ho sroh hothod of sunarsti.
tion
dor ,ou.,,,r n f,o,. % , horso
IN tho n,a,,. 10 . arra s,n,, % thn an.
nroaoh,nr doath 90 % ono 81 tho " o horse. Sp
r., M, VI o"e VI Wv "1N'
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1918-08-23
Clarence Cav Wounded.

W. E. Dobson has received the fol-
lowing from Clarence Gay, former
Athena boy who enlisted from Toppen-
ish, Wash:
"July 81, 1918.
"Base Hospital. No. 27.-This is the
18th day since l went down-this is
also the LIST day | have been up. Of
course it was not that bad, but when
you haven't anything to wear, why get
up?
"Did not have very bad wound,
only little bullet wound. Went in
on my left side and came out on my
right--but it was one Of those lucky
shots. Just wrote letter to the folks
was not much to tell them. Am get
ting along fine--a long. long way from
the grave. Would lots rather be
going over the top than back here in
hospital. although am not alone.
have plenty of company. Give my
best to all. Clarence Gay,
Co. f., eth U. S. Inf.
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REMEMBER, IF YOU ARE
q, REGISTER TOMORROW

All male persons must register
(citizens or aliens) born between June
G, 1897 and August "a, 1897, both in
elusive except officers and enlisted
men of the regular army. navy and
marine corps and the national guard
while in federal service and officers in
officers reserve corps, and enlisted
men in enlisted reserve corps while in
active service.
When--On Saturday, August "a.
1918, between a. m. and 0 a. m.
Where AT office Of local hoard
having jurisdiction where person to be
registered permanently resides or 9th
er place designated by that local board.
If you are in doubt as to what to do
or where to register consult your local
board.
Failure to register is misdemeanor
punishable by Imprisonment for one
year. 1t may result in loss of valuable
rights and privileges and immediate
induction into military service.
Do not confuse this call for regis
tration, which is only for men who
have reached their 21st birthday since
June, with the coming registration
of men from IS to 20 and from 32 tc
As inclusive. which will be held some
time early in September.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1918-08-23

Fuel is the main food requirement
of the body. A certain amount of fuel
keeps the engines of the body working
normally and produces energy. The
surplus of fuel derived from the food
forms layers Of fat. So 1t is evident
that the matter of keeping the body
weight where you wish to have it Is
merely n matter Of arithmetic, says
Popular Science Monthly.
Certain foods have an enormous fuel
value in comparison with others. For
instance, 1t would require so worth of
lettuce and tomato salad to furnish
the amount Of energy that 30 cents
worth of butter or 10 cents worth Of
sugar would supply. No one would
think Of feeding exclusively on any of
these foods, but 1t Is easy to see that
the limitation Of butter and sugar and
the introduction of such foods as let
tuce, tomatoes, celery, carrots, spin
ach and fruits, all Of which have low
fuel value, instead Of fats, milk, cream
and oil, pastry and sweets, would enor-
mousIy reduce the fat-formng ele-
ments in the diet and yet fill the stom-
ach and satisfy hunger.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1918-08-23
John in a Tig hit Place.

| I'm Active Service. July ~, IL
Dear Mother: | haven't received
letter from you for some time, but
| guess the mail is held up some place
on account of the drive. They have
given us permission to write home
about the battle. so will try to tell
you about the part | took:
'For week before the drive start
ed, l was stationed about five hundred
yards from the Marne river. We were
billeted in a small town. acting as a
guard or outpost. When the drive
started, the Boche put over barrage
that covered every foot of ground for
twelve or fifteen miles back. They
claim it was as bad as the une at Ver-
dun, and it lasted for about ten hours.
When it started we all went in a cellar
and stayed until it slowed up little.
The house was blown down over US and
every building in town blown to piec-
es. As soon as the barrage lifted the
Boche started coming across the river.
and as the Machine Gun companies
were wiped out by the shells, there
was nothing to stop them and before
we knew what had happened, we were
completely surrounded.
81 sure thought nv time had come.
And there were only sixteen of US, but
we started fighting with our rifles and
finally an officer and about SO men
got with US. And ther, is sure lot
of Boches that will never see the Fa-
therland any more. Most of the Boch-
es were just kids and they would begin
hollowing 'Kamerad,' as soon as
they got close enough; but after a
fellow has seen few of his own men
blown to pieces. he doesn't pay much
attention to what they say, and when
the machine guns and rifles opened up,
they fell like grain before a mower.
About the only prisoners that we took
were just the ones that were lucky
enough to get through our lines, and
these amounted to about 1000 for the
day.
"We fought all day the 18th and all
night, until the next day about noon,
without anything to eat end very little
drinking water. And then reinforce
ments came and the handful of men
that was holding the line were re-
lleved. Believe me, was all in and
was surprised to get back of the line
once more, for during the battle l
didn't think l would ever get out alive.
l guess l was pretty lucky, for once
a fellow that was lying right against
me, got his, with machine gun, and
another time shell blew them up all
around me and I came out without a
| scratch.
The reinforcemerts drove them
back across the river and have got
them on the run yet. went back to
the front for few days and helped
clean up thebattle field. but didn't
have to fight any more. At present |
am sitting in big room in a swell
chateau, writing this letter on a ma
hogany table. 1t has sure been swell
place. The people had to leave because
of shell fire. Pvt. John L. Wall.
H. @. Co., 3Sth Inf.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1918-08-23
RAIN HOLDS BACK
GRAIN HARVESTING

ZRain has seriously interfered with
harvest operations and unless fair wea-
ther results shortly, the damage to
wheat is going to be severely felt by
the grower.
In the immediate vicinity of Athena
there is but little grain standing. but
north and west of here and in the foot
hills, there is yet a large acreage to
harvest. 1t is said there is already
some loss sustained by the wet wealth
er in the matter of lowering the grade
on the grain standing in the fields. ..s.
McEwen Bros. have contracts for
cutting and threshing about 1900 acres
yet, in the vicinity of Helix.
John Walter has over 300 acres to
thresh.
Lumsden 81 Wood. operating self
propeller, are waiting to cut 500 acres,
and the Joe Cannon outfit has about
three weeks yet to run, including some
threshing on mountain ranches east of
town. There are many others who are
not yet through harvesting, and the
rain is beginning to cause much worry.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1918-08-23
Advertising

The Athena Press cireulates in the
homes of readers who reside in the
heart Of the Great Umstilla Wheat
Belt, and they have money to spend
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1918-08-23
r. G. WaIcott Tells Of the Scenes Of
Horror He Witnessed Along the
Road From Warsaw to Pinsk
Million Persons Homeless.
This I have seen. | could not
believe Il unless I had seen It
through and through. For sew
eraI weeks I lived with Il;
went all about Il and back Of It;
inside and out Of II was shown
to me-untlI finally | came to
realize that the incredible was
true. II 10 nonstrous, it Is un-
thinkabIe, but II exists. II Is
the Prussian system.--F. c.
Walcott.

The following is statement by f.
G. Walcott, who served as an assist
ant to Mr.. Hoover during the time
America was doing all that was pos
sible to feed the starving millions Of
Belgium and Poland and northern
France. In this work he was brought
in direct contact with German military
officials, and saw the conditions which
the German invasion had created
among the civilian population:
went to Poland to learn the facts
concerning the remnant Of a people
that had been decimated by war. The
country had been twice devastated.
First the Russian army swept through
It and then the Germans. Along the
roadside from Warsaw to Pinsk, the
present firing line, 230 miles, nearly
half million people had died Of hun
ger and cold. The way was strewn
with their bones picked clean by the
crows. With their usual thrift, the
Germans were collecting the larger
bones to be milled into fertilizer, but
finger and toe bones lay on the ground
with the mud.covered and rain-soaked
c,oth,no
Wicker has,,ets ware sca+tered o,ono
the wov--tbe h, s,yet In witch tho bohv
swings from the rafter in every peus-
ant home. Every mile there were
scores of them zach ono tel,,no n
death storted to count brt after n
| Utt,a Ind "a -p,va a. IN tbere vere
an monv
THAT is the deso,otIon one saw o,ong
the preot road from warsaw to pinsk
| mile after mile more thon two hun.
dred miles. They told me a million
people were made homeless in six
weeks of the German drive in August
and September. 1916. They told me
four hundred thousand died on the
way. The rest scarcely half alive.
got through with the Russian army.
MANY of these have been sent to 81.
IBERIA; II Is these people whom the
paderewski committee is irving to re.
lieye.
In the refugee camps. 3OOOOO sur-
yiyors of the flight were gathered by
the Germans, members of broken fam
flies. They were lodged in ierry-built
barracks, scarcely waterproof, un-
lighted. unwarmed in the dead Of WIN
ter Their clothes, where the buttons
w 'e oano,,o,a.a no 49, -. 49, w 80 nat onao
- ~ - ~ 80 80 ~. MIA,
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The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1918-08-23
KILLED BY GERMAN HELMET
American Soldier Hunting Sou
venir Picked Up Charged
Headpiece.

Shamokin, Pa.-Writing from dug.
out in No Mans Land, France, Leo
Conner. corporal in the Twenty-third
United States infantry, forwarded to
his sister here, Miss Ceeeila Conner,
bunch Of strange flowers he had gath
cred while on patrol duty.
Conner had promised a younger
brother a German steel helmet as a
war relic, but In writing Informed the
brother that he was doomed to dis
appointment until the Americans reach
Berlin. He had seen fellow soldier
pick up steel helmet and then fall
dead.
The helmet had been electrically
charged BY the Germans.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1918-08-23
Home Demonstration Here.

Miss Lorene Parker, Home Demon
stration Agent, was In the city yes
terday and made arrangements to meet
with Athena women next Wednesday
afternoon It the lccal Red Cross head
quarters, where she will give demon.
strations using CON sirup in canning
and preserving fruits. Canning, dry
ing and brlning will be discussed and
the making of preserves and jams, us
ing corn sirup. The afternoon is reg
ular Red Cross day, and demonstrations
will begin at $50.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1918-08-23

One Copy, one year, $1.50; for six
months, 75c; for three months, SOC;
payable in advance, and subscrip-
tons are solicited on no other basis
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1918-08-23
Tries for Appointment.

Ralph Eassell has received notice
to report at Whitman College August
9th for examination in military SCI
ence and tactics to determine his fit
ness and eligibility for entrance in :
central training school for infantry
officer candidates. 1t is understood
that since the age limit is to be raised
in the service, there will be an excel
lent opportunity for men of qualifica-
tions in the infantry officers training
schools.
The staging on the new grain ele-
vator is being dismantled, the con-
crete work having been completed.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1918-08-23

Jack Murphy has returned from
Thorn Hollow where he worked on
the Pendleton water works ditch dur
iug. the idmpsn
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1918-08-23
HAS WON RESPECT OF ALL
British Working Man, Making Good"
as Soldier, viii Never Again Be
Butt of testers.

What the poor citizen wants Is not
charity, or even sympathy. still less
regulation; it is respect, which is the
social soil of self-respect. That is why
he is sometimes happier as soldier
in spite of all the sickening horrors Of
soldering; because humanity always
has respected, and always will respect,
q soldier.
Thus, Gilbert X. Chesterton, writ
ing in the Illustrated London News,
sums up an argument which, among
its premises, contains the following:
"After all, it will be well to remem-
ber that nearly every battalion is q
labor battalion. The commOnest type
in the trenches, the object OF such
wide and well-deserved praise in the
press and the public speeches, is, after
oil, identical with another type-a
common object Of the streets and the
comic papers. The British soldier is
generally our old friend the British
working man.
"He has lived by trades that are
too often treated as merely grimy or
grotesque; and in the case of new and
almost crude conscript armies, like
those we have lately raised, he has gen
orally quite recently dropped those
tools and left those trades. 1t is the
plumber, who is charged with potter
ing about for days before he stops
small leak in a pipe, who has often in
a few minutes stopped with his body
the breach in the last dyke of civiliza-
tion, lest 1t should let In q sea Of saw
agery; and there may even be fewer
jokes about his soldering, now they
can be answered by pun about his
soldering. 1t is the cabman, who was
supposed to grumble unduly at very
different sort Of fare. and especially at
at the sort we call warfare"
Would Take the Job.
Into the office of the Wall Street
Journal there ventured n small boy,
awed by the great adventure of getting
his first job. Tlmidly he approached
an editor and explained what he
wanted.
"Hm," quoth the veteran to the
wouldbe recruit, ats too bad, but
there are no vacancies now, unless
you would like to be managing editor.
How about that?"
The youngster began to back away.
"Oh," he gasped, II wouldn't like
that at ALL"
Yesterday he came back, with des-
peratlon In his eye, and marched up to
the veteran.
"Tve changed my mind" he an
---uaced. "When do I start in?'
The Sentinel=record., 1918-01-12
Society
Officers Arrive Today

Officers Arrive Today
 Officers of Camp Pike. officers oi the British and French governments and a number of others Nill arrive here this afternoon escorted by Gap tains Hartley Woottou and Garnet Eisele, to be he guests Of honor to- night at the opening of the Eastman hotel which is marked by a ReC Cross ball, certain to be one ot tho foremost social affairs of the season The ladies of the Red Cross reported yesterday he sale of SO many ticket that tho ball room will be filled with dancers. and not alone that. but many win attend who perhaps do not en- gage in the dance All are co-oper- atine to make this affair one that ths visiting officers will remember. and they want to impress these visitors with the ospitaity of this resort that thrau4hout the entire season they will come back for weekend visits The dancing will begin promptly at nine o'clock and the affair will he infor- maa Al nine o'clock also Che grill rooms will be turned over to a com mittee of the Red Cross and all the money spent in that department the remainder of the evening will be de- voted to the Red Cross fund of the looul chapter
 x X
 Dr G s Wilkins. who recently sold Ais sanitarium at Paducah, Texas, will locate here, forming a partner ship with Dr. B. w Breedlove. Dr Wilkins and his family arrived yes terday and are guests of the Moody hotel. Dr Wilkins is one of the most
The Sentinel=record., 1918-01-12
ARRIVALS AT HOTEL COMO.

l.. NJ. Brown, Boston j. x. Or" Memphis: H. E Adams, Little Rock. \. E Poison. St Louis, F. TewNs- 1ury ChicaEo; D. W Camron Little Rock ]. 4 Rutedce st Louis J. w. Gambeu Little Rock F. D. Ben nett Memphis E Kloger, Missouri, R. $ quinn. Washington W II Me Whorter and wife. Colorado Ted raylor Memphis W Y. Simons Memphis j $ Hulebut Chicago; l. crutehar. st Louis W c. Hines, Lir ue Roc6 II. F Taylor, Little Rock. E. G Hinckley, Dallas; Moble C Gage Massachusetts. Lieut. Simes and wife. Camp Pike. F M Leopard and wife. Little Rock Bert Clark and wife Arkansas E. J. Lowe St Louis A. IT, Kimberlng St Louis Edw0rds and wife Wisconsin, John Fiest St Louis. ]. Ii Pasho, Atlanta c K. Hatcher Atlanta, john c Green, Lit tle Rock. W. Ii. Halliberth, Little Roclx Mrs r. A Reayes, Oklahoma G II. Norris. Michigan w k. Brown rttle Rock Maribn Gold. Los An geles: Helen Dick lon. New York J |. Brown, Little T Jock
The Sentinel=record., 1918-01-12

Try ssntlnetRso prd Want Ads.
The Sentinel=record., 1918-01-12

Steps 10 unify the nations financial resources must be taken before the third Liberty loan. officials say or tle government will find mass ot private issues of bonds, stocks and notes on the market In competition with its own war bonds Co the detri- meDt of both government and private financing
 Many corporations already have applied informally to Secretary Me Adoo or the federal reserve banks for some sort of approval of their contemplated bond issues Some rep- resented that without this approval they could not find buyers and that contractors declined 10 start con structiou jobs without better assu, anee that tac capital would be forth coming This IS said Go bo ono Of he principal contributing causes o. the duneas of construction work re- gently. even with industries whose expansion Is required by the war
 The federal reserve board and As sisnot. Secretary Lettiugweu of tho treasury. have aualyzed these appp- cations and found a majority based on actual war needs for industria. extensions Specific approval has been withheld however for lack or