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Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-04-29
Joe Lisky, who was arrested by local

officers last week as an alien enemy af
ter he had caused the arrest of an asso
ciate, John Simonic, on similar charge
was taken to Portland Saturday after
noon in Che custody of a federal off
Ger. After Simonic's arrest inquiry de-
veloped the fact that Lisky was really
the alien enemy. He was arrested and
Simonic was given his liberty.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-04-29

Paul Hauser left yesterday for Eu.
gene where he expected to be joined
by party of friends on a fishing trip
to the upper Siuslaw about forty milea
above Eugene.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-04-29

Mr.. and Mrs A. M. Hansen living at
562 Mill street had an experience wi h
their Ford yesterday they wouldn t
care to experience every day in the
week. They drove down town and park
ed their machine on north Commercial
street, between Court and State When
they returned they noticed nothing
wrong about the machine and got in
and drove off. Shortly after they had
stopped and alighted, however, ,he rear
of the car was discovered on fire. The
flames appeared to originate between
the back cushion and the rear seat. Ex
animation disclosed that a lighted Gig
arctic stub which had been thrown int B
the machine while it was parked had
caused She flames, the stub having lodg-
ed between the seat and back and smol
dered until it burst into flames. The
fire was cxtinguished before serious
damage was done,
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-04-29
Funeral services over the late Mrs.

Funeral services over the late Mrs.
X. l.. Hibbard, who died Friday at her
home three miles east of Pratum at
the age of rs years, were held yesterday
afternoon from the home of her daugh-
ter, Mrs. H. H. Paget, at Willard. Bur-
ial was in the Warren cemetery under
the auspices Of Webb 8 Clough.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-04-29
Miss Lenora H. Finney was ioined in

MISS Lenora II. Finney was Joined In
wedlock today to Ray Walton, the cere-
mony ,Aking place at O'Clock at st,
Joseph's Catholic church in this city.
The bride is the daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Edwin A. Finney of Waconda
while the groom is the youngest brother
of Mrs. j. G. Savage, who conducts a
store at Waconda.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-04-29
The Greater Willamette club met this

morning and received the report of com
mittees. From Me general information
turned in the indications are good fol
o large attendance at the May day fes
tivities beginning May 2. A committee
will go to Woodburn Tuesday and other
high schools in the state will be visited
urging studen.s not only to attend the
may day exercises, but to consider at
tending Willamette University next fail
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-04-29

MIR. and Mrs, Emil A. Schaefer and
daughter, accompanied by Miss Sehirley
Chappell and Miss Ruth Mccain, made
up a motoring party who drove to Dal-
las, Sheridan and McMinnville yes .er.
day in the formers new Oakland six
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-04-29

F. P. Foisie, director Of the north
western division of Civilians Relief
work of the American Red Cross is in
the city and met this afternoon with
.he executive committee of Willamette
chapter American Red Cross. This after
noon at 2 clock he addressed the chap
ter course in the auditorium of the Com
mercial club. He also had conference
with the Civilian Relief committee. Mr.
Foisie's s headquarters are in Seattle.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-04-29
The woman's Home missionary SO

The W0man's Home missionary So
ciety of the First Methodist church will
meet Tuesday evening AL 8 o'clock at
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. j. II. Baker
545 Court street. 1t is the annual mite
box opening. The program will be fol
lowed by social hour.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-04-29

Allen DeMent, who gave his age as 20
years and his address as Los Angeles
signed up at the local army recruiting
station today and left for Portland for
assignment in che medical corps.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-04-29
Governor withycombe received a let.

Funeral services over Ed La Valley
and the late w. r. Anderson were held
this afternoon from the Webb 4 Clough
chapel, She former at l o'clock and the
other at 2 O'Clock, Rev. Lowell had
charge of the La Valley services and
interment was in City View cemetery.
The Anderson services vera conducted
under the auspices of the l. o. o. f., of
which he was a member, and burial was
in the Odd Fellows cemetery.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-04-29
Sampson and Gideon, proprietors Of

Hu1HP0VH dnu UIueUII, pIUpIIbIOIS OF
the ., 10, 10 & 25 cent store On NORTH
Commercial street, are this week moving
to new location on the opposite sid |,
of the street, where they will have large
floor space and better facilities for s.or
ing and displaying their stock.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-04-29

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The Washington herald., 1918-03-25
STOP PCOUNTER ATTACK
CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE.

CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE.
The Germans are plainly seeking
a solution of the problem of the
world war upon the battlefield and
endeavoring to insure the perma-
nence of their war-won structure,
of their great Mitteleuropa edifice,
by a military victory. Since Ma
poleon set out for Moscow, there
fore. there has been no campaign
equal In ma gnitude of issues to the
present. Germany is fighting as
Bernhard forecast, for world
power or downfall"
Not less clear is the fact that the
Germans have chosen to make their
supreme effort against the British.
The day" long forecast by William
H. has arrived, although 1t is the
British army, not the navy. which
bears the brunt of the attack. And
the Germans have attacked the Brit
ish because the British are their great
enemy. If the French were attacked
and beaten the great British army
would remain and Britain would be
forced to continue the war, il only to
save her empire. But if the British
army shall be defeated and driven
back to the coast, France can hardly
escape making a separate peace, since
she will be unable to bear the full
weight of victorious German armies
and American help cannot be material
for a year.
The Washington herald., 1918-03-25
Reported Paris Smelling
Arouses Skepticism Here
rmy and Navy Officers Express Much Doubt
as to Practicability of Seventy mile
Gun; French Mission Also

ment," it was said at the mission,
I'VE cannot accept as true the re-
port that a new gun of fairly myth
ical power has been developed. We
gravely doubt the press report to
this effect"
1t was declared that the reports
telling of the supposed lombard
ment did not quote official advices
to that effect.
Andre Tardieu. the French High
Commissioner, specifically asked
his government yesterday by cable
to confirm the report of the gun
bOmbardment. Though he received
today a cable telling of the general
battle situation. reference to the
bombardment was not made.
Ordnance officers, analyzing the
story OF the long-range gun, said
in the first place that any shell, to
carry seventy miles, would have to
be propelled at such terrific velocity
that IL would be fused in the air
in the first mile. just the same as
a meteor is fused when it strikes
the atmosphere. They declared
that to make the seventy mile
flight, IL would travel approx
mately one hundred miles because
the trajectory Is about three
eights the full flight. This would
make it necessary for the shell to
be propelled to a height of about
thirty-five miles in the air. Further.
it is maintained that the killing of
only ten persons. after a full days
bombardment with the supposedly
super-powerful gun. is an insight
ficant accomplishment for so large
a gun.
The Washington herald., 1918-03-25
"6O-Mile Gun Range Quite
Possible" e"-Hudson Maxim
Ordnance Inventor and Expert Describes Ar
tilery Construction Which Would Permit
Germans to Bombard Paris.

New York. March 24.-Hudson
Maxim. the inventor, declared in a
statement issued today regarding
the bsmbardment of Paris by the
new German cannon, that 1T is en-
ttrely possible to secure arrange of
sixty miles with a gun. and that
there is nothing new in the idea.
II understand that the projectile
is practically of 9-inch caliber,"
said Mr.. Maxim. with a S-inch
gun from forty to fifty feet in
length and with a maximum eleva-
tion OF As degrees, a projectile may
be thrown to a distance of more
than twenty miles.
CaIiber Doubled.
Now If we double the caliber Of
the gun. we Quadruple the area of
the base of the projectlle.. II we
were to make a gun of 1S-inch call
iber projectiie from that, we would
have four times the propelling en-
ergy on the base of the shell during
the entire flight of the projectile
through the bore of the gun.
1T would be perfectly possible to
employ a gun for such a purpose,
Of 20-inch caliber. throwing a sub
caliber projectile of nine inches,
Then we would have good deal
more than four times the area upon
which the powder gases would push
against the projectile.
There is nothing new in this
idea of a sub-caliber projectile.
Sub-caliber projectiles were used in
the old 15-inch Zalinski dynamite
gun in order to get greater range
with a gun of 2O-inch caliber made
from 50 to 100 feet long, it would be
The Washington herald., 1918-03-25
PIPE DREAMS
ORIGINATOR OF
ALLEGED GUN
Big German Cannon Pre-
dicted In. Baltimore
Novel,.

Baltimore, Nd. March A-Ger-
manys mysterious super-cannon was
predicted in a novel. ''The Man Who
Rocked The Earth written three
years ago by Maj. Robert w. Wood,
former professor of physics at Johns
Hopkins University, in collaboration
with Arthur Train.
The writer's described the shelling Of
Paris from a distance Of sixty
miles by a monster gun whose pro-
jectile. exploding, shot forward a
smaller shell, the operation being con-
tinued until the inside or core shell
finally fell upon the city. The de-
scription follows in part:
safe in the knowledge that the
Germans. second advance had been
blocked sixty miles outside the walls,
Paris slumbered peacefully.
Behind a small hill within the Ger
man Notifications a group of officers
stood in the moonlight examining
what looked superhcially like the
hangar of a small dirigible. From the
open end of the house the cylindrical
barrel of the gigantic engine Of war
raised itself into the air at an angle
OF forty degrees.
THE porjectile Of this was ninety
FIVE centimeters in diameter, which in
full flight, twenty miles from the gun
and at the top of its trajectory, ex-
ploded in midair, hurling forward its
contained projectile with an addition
al velocity of 5000 feet per second.
This process repeated itself, the final
or core bomb, weighing over 500
pounds and filled with lyddite. reach
ing its mark one minute and thirty
five seconds after the firing Of the
gun"
The Washington herald., 1918-03-25

the situation in Siberia. Former Ger
man and Austrian prisoners of war
have. constituted themselves into an
army corps and occupied Irkutsk.
Central Asia has become the scene
of armed action.
The Armenian colonies in Russian
Turkestan and the Trans-C Caspian dis
tricts have agreed to a general mobili
zation. In Baluchistan, certain tribes
have attacked British outposts on the
Indian frontier.
Ten thousand Tibetans have been
armed and have captured a number OF
Chinese centers.
From the Caucasus, reports Of Turk
ish' atrocities continue to be received.
The Turks have now occupied all Of
the Batum-R Russian ,Trans-Caucasus
region.
Along che entire Macedonian. front
renewed artillery activity is noticed.
French and Serb units executed a
number of successful raids.
In Palestine, the British are further
consolidating their gains and have cap
tured three additional towns. A Turk
ish counter attack at DER Baliut was
repulsed. The British line has now
reached point nine miles north OF
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The Washington herald., 1918-03-25

perfectly possible to get the maximum
range attributed to the Germans. The
gun would probably be what is gen
orally designed as a knock down-one
shipped to the firing line in sections
and erected in place. The gun, how
ever. would be so long that it would
not support itself without dropping. 1t
would have to be supported by an ex-
ternal structure. The mounting of the
gun would be somewhat OF a bridge
builders job.
The best kind of powder charge for
position, consisting of about 30 per
cent nitroglycerine and 80 per cent
guncotton.
~ Driven BY Propeller.
This gun, when fred at a maximum
elevation Of - degrees, would throw
the projectile above most of the at
mosphere of the earth, so that at least
half of the travel of the projectile
would be through a partial vacuum
and the total resistance which the
projectile would encounter in, say. 81
miles would not be more than it would
be in 30 miles If the projectile were
passing through atmosphere as dense
as it is at the earth's surface,
II understand 1t is rumored the pro-
jectiles now reaching Paris are partly
driven by a propeller during flight.
II this is a fact the Germans are ac-
complishing the result by a method
not so simple or as good as that which
have indicated, for the flight of the
projectile would neither be as accu-
rate nor as sure as IL the projectiIe
should derive its entire energy from
the gun
The Washington herald., 1918-03-25

American troops are armed with a
speedier, more accurate and more
compact rife than is used by the Ger
mans, according to a statement made
yesterday by the Chief Of Ordance.
The weapon is the modified Enfield
According to the expert designers,
manufacturers and msrksmen, the
German Mauser permits the most
skilled rtfeman to get only 80 per cent
Of the firing speed Of the arm adopt
ed for the United States service.
Superiority for the new weapon is
claimed on three vital points, namely:
quicker firing as the result of bolt
handle design. easier and quicker
sighting as a result Of sight design.
and greater accuracy of bullet flight
as a result Of bullet design and great
er mechanical accuracy Of chamber
and bore.
For ages, one chief aim Of ordance
development has been to deliver two
bullets where the enemy delivers one.
That has been accomplished in the
modified Enfield, it is pointed out
U. :. Rffse for SRapId Rate"
1t is explained that in both the at
tack and defense positions the rifles
are fired without removing them
from the shoulder at a rate called
rapid rate"
That is the most rapid rate at which
a man can manipulate the magazine
fire with accuracy. When the Mauser
rife, with which the German troops
ars now armed. was designed in 1898
no one foresaw the development Of
rapid fire from the shoulder which fol-
lowed, and the necessity for which is
emphasized by present-day trench
warfare.
In all modern rifles a bolt handle"
is used to lock the cartridge in the
chamber for firing. After each shot
the right hand. with the gun still at
the shoulder. might leave the trigger.
grasp the bolt handle, unlock the bolt,
eject the empty shell, thrust home an
other cartridge. and then push the bolt
handle into the position which again
locks the cartridge in the chamber.
Thus the position OF the bolt handle
in reference TO the trigger is of great
Importance to the rapidity of fire.
Much depends on how far the hand
has TO travel to leave the trigger and
then return to the trigger.
The Mauser rife has its belt handle
projecting horizontally from the stock
Of the rife so that in unlocking and
locking the bolt for firing the index
or trigger finger is pulled several
inches away from the trigger before
starting the unlocking movement. and
must travel several inches back after
locking the bolt.
The modified Enfield saves a great
deal of travelling for the trigger hand.
And this was the result of fortune
rather than ingenuity. When the
United States rife. model Of 1903, or
Sprinfeld, was designed. the length
of the barrel was reduced from "a
inches to "a inches, so that the rifle
thus shortened could be used by both
the infantry and The cavalry in place
of the carbine carried in the leather
scabbard. To allow rthe Springfield to
go rapidly into the leather scabbard
the bolt handle of the Springfield was
bent down toward the trigger, so as
to lock a little in front of it
In the United States rife. model
1917, or the modified Enfield. the
bolt handle is bent down and is
about an inch to the rear, 50 that
upon locking the bolt for firing the
The Washington herald., 1918-03-25
Tidal Wave Of Million Huns
Beating Against British Line;
Allies Sure Attack Will Fail
Germans Lose Three Men Each Allied Soldier Killed or Cap.
tured Entente Officers Confident Enemy Will Soon Be
Halted and Then Forced Back.

Experts are pointing out that an at
tacking party can be expected to oc-
cupy new ground to an extent meas
ured by the base Of the triangle Of its
operations, the triangle being roughly
isosceles or eQual-sided. This leads
the American army men to believe
that the Germans will continue to ad-
vance, II possible, the point of their
wedge until they reach a point about
twenty miles from the point Of first
attack. The failure Of the British
wedge driven at Cambria was due to
the fact that the triangle of operation
measured only about eight miles at
the base. The point of the wedge pro-
ceeded much further than was anti
cipated, but because of the small base
line. the Germans were able to SUBJ
ject all British lines of communica-
ton into the breach to a continuous
artillery fire from the sides of the
breach in the line. The British were
unable to widen the doorway and thus
failed to give to their advance fight
ing line the support necessary to sus-
tain IL.
The Germans, according to officers
of the War Department, have come
to the conclusion that with an open-
ing OF twenty-five miles they can
maintain sufficient lines through the
breach to permit of rushing forward
the fresh troops which must be
brought into action to replace the
jaded fighters at the peak OF the
wedge. Failure of the Germans to
get fresh men up to the fighting line
will give the British sufficient time
to reorganize their forces and put
into effect the expected counter at
tack.
Teuton Losses FrIghtfuL.
No definite word has been received
here yet Of the troops engaged on
both sides, but it is generally accepted
that the Germans were in superior
force, and that when the toll Of life
comes in, 1t will show a slaughter on
the Teuton side something par
allelling the fearful losses suffered
at the outset OF the war.
The text of the French dispatch as
given out by Gen. Vignal, military
attache Of the French Mission, Is as
follows:
THE German offensive against
Croiselles and Tergnier continues
with very violent fighting. The Ger
mans are employing ninety-seven d.
visions. The British resistance Is
very energetic and the enemy losses
The Washington herald., 1918-03-25
Noted French Editor Says
Enemy Cannot Break Line

The advantage obtained by Ger
many in her offensive is but tenn
porary, in the opinion of Stephane
Lausanne. editor of LIE Matin, a
leading French newspaper. NJ
Lausanne talked here today.
There is nothing about it to
shake our confidence in the ability
Of the British to resist" said he.
THE enemy will not be able to
break through.
These first gains OF ground and
taking of thousands of prisoners
look serious in the headlines of our
papers. But experience has taught
US that they are the inevitable re-
suit of an offensive whether be-
gun by Germany or by ourselves.
The immediate results of the present
offensive are such as were to be
expected.
"The only difference between this
drive and other German offensives
The Washington herald., 1918-03-25
u. S. Rifle Gives Quicker
Action Than Huns Mauser
Modified Enfield Allows Soldier "Rapid-rate"
Firing, with Other Superiorities, Includ-
ing Sights and Accuracy.

index finger is guided NATURAL, IN
to position on the trigger. The
speed Of firing is thus increased
considerably.
The rear sights on both the modi-
fed Enfield and the Springfield
rifles are placed nearer the oy, 81
the irer than in the case Of tho
MauSer rife. This makes il easier
for the rifieman to locate his two
sights. and greatly Increases the &C.
curacy.
The weight Of the Msuser bullet
is slightly greater than that II the
United States bullet II is propelled
at somewhat greater velocity. hut
is Of such shape that at the lunEe-
fighting ranges il is not considered
50 accurate because Of its tendency
to tumble. especially in wind
The Mauder rife is also produced
in such large quantities and 50
speedily that II is not made with
the mechanical accuracy demanded
for the United States rife.
Records shew Superiority.
International rife competitions
in which the United States troops
have been engaged, have shown The
American rifieman ahead Of all.
These results were recorded
International shoot, 1908. at Bis
ley. England. won by United Stats
(Springfield rifle). with England,
Canada, France. Sweden. Norwa,,
Greece and Denmark in that order.
International shoot, 1919. stock
holm, Sweden. resulted. United
States. England. Sweden. South
Africa, France. Norway. G,r..-r.
Denmark. Russia and Hungary IN
that order.
international match. Busno-
Aires, 1912, resulted: United States.
Argentine. Chile. Peru. Brazil and
Uruguay IN that order.
Palm Trophy Match. at Camp
Perry, Ohio, 1918. resulted. United
States, Argentine. Canada. Sweden
and Peru in that order.
In 1912, at Ottawa. Canada. tho
team with Springfield
rifles hung up the worlds record
for military rifle at 500. 900 and
1000 yards This record stin stands,
In the Palm Trophy. Argentine.
Sweden and Peru used Mausers-
Teams with MaUsers were always
defeated at the matches.
The Washington herald., 1918-03-25

involved in aims numbers and 2.
Toward the fulfllment of No. ,
they have not yet made any actual
steps. All three objects and the
operations launched toward their
attainment are closely inter-de-
pendent.
Slowly, almost imperceptibly' the
momentum of the German assault
switched during the first three
days Of the battle to the Anglo
French junction point west of La
Fere. Tonight Tergnier. four miles
west of the Siegfried line pillar,
was a storm center.
The drive here is aimed in the
direction of Noyon, and further
southwestward where. around Com
peigne, the Germans for a long
time were closest to Paris.