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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-08-29
FOCH'S BRAIN BEHIND 2
ALL ENTENTE BLOWS

LONDON. Aug. 2S.-The steady,
irresistible progress OF Marshal Fochs
plan of campaign justifies the com
ment in the Evening Standard that,
NOW for the first time in four Years
of warfare on the western front one
gets the impression with overgrowing
intensity that there is one great brain
behind all the single operations Of the
allies armies, guiding them to one
definite end, the surrender or de-
struction of the enemy's forces.'
Today's advances are regarded as
profoundly important. inasmuch as
they threaten on one side the German
hold on the Chemin- de- Danes and
on the other their hold on Noyon, de-
velopments the German military
leaders fully estimate but are power
less to prevent. Inexpressible confi-
dence has been created among the al
lied armies by their continuing sue
eesses. attained with a great economy
in man-power. every gain of ground
having it's definite part in oomplet
ing the general scheme by which the
Boche is to be expelled from France
and Belgium.
Gen. Byng's surprise on the Ancre,
ably planned and resulting In the
taking of positions of essential Inn
portance, was largely effected by
tanks at a very small cost. Here
again 1t is suspected the Boche had
planned a surprise of his own, which
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-08-29

TENT HOSPITALS
AID SMALL CAMPS

n LONDON. Aug. a.--(By Mail9
NEW problem in hospital work was
presented TO the American Red Cross
lin Great Britain recently by the large
number of small camps of American
soldiers, particularly aviators, which
have been opened in various parts of
1.-THE British Isles. These camps are
too small to require the installation of
n large hospital. but there are fire.
\ quent cases of illness or accidents and
the camps are generally located at
points far distant from the regular
military hospitals.
The problem has been met by the
establishment, in each camp. of a
small tent hospital. where American
soldiers suffering from minor ailments
can be cared for satisfactorily. Moro
than fifty of these tent hospitals have
been set up in various small American
camps during the past few weeks, each
accommodating from four to ten patti
ents. The soldiers welcome this ar
rangement enthusiastically, for the
soldier when i'll, likes to be near his
| friends and the men of his unit, and
dislikes being transferred to a distant
hospital in strange surroundings Dur
ing the recent prevalence of influen-
"a in the camps. these tent hospitals
proved n great boon.
A letter from an officer in an Arr
erican camp in central EEngland
says:
Another reminder of the, careful
thoughtfulness of the American Rel
Cross came to us this morning, and
while YOU know how | have appreci-
ated Your help and wholehearted
thoughtfulness in getting our hospital
equipped l want to tell you so in this
way. ! shall noStry to enumerate the
things you have given us. 1t is suffi-
cient to say that thanks chiefly to the
American Red Cross, more than 500
American soldiers here can now have
as good care and be as comfortable
when sick as they could be at home.
We are especially appreciative of this
because we previously had for a hos
pital only a small hut With plank
beds. straw mattresses anL no pill
lows.
THE magazines. newspapers and
phonograph are greatly appreciated by
our convalescents, and it would please
you to see our sun Room this after
noon. The men are sitting in COM
Portable easy chairs, reading, smok-
ing and gaining rapidly. The milk
and eggs which you furnish are big
factor in rapid convalescence. One
patient owes his life to the vaccine
which you sent us last wek and which
we were unable to obtain from any
other source.
I'VE had almost given up. hope of
getting what we considered necessary
for the proper treatment of our SICK |
soldiers: so you know something of
how the present situation pleases me. /
The American Red Cross has a large
place in the forces helping to win the
war than many of us realized before.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-08-29
GERMANS STIRRED
OVER SACRIFICE
OF BOY SOLDIERS

Omitted Press Staff Correspondent
WITH THE FRENCH ARMIES IN
THE FIELD. Aug. 27.-The German
command is known to be considering
throwing in the class of 1920 within
the next few weeks-months ahead of
time. Prisoners declare there Is a
strong opposition in Germany to sac
rificing these boys two years and .
half before their time, notwilhstand-
ing the desperate need OF 100000 re-
Inducements. which this class will
provide. Since the losses incurred on
the Somme. calls have been made for
more replacements than can be filled
from recuperating wounded.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-08-29
So U. S. Flyers Have
DOwned One to Five
Enemy Planes Each

WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY
IN FRANCE, Aug. 2s.-Statistics
covering activities of the first Amer
lean pursuit group of aviators up To
Aug. /, comprising only four of the
American squadrons now in operation
show that no less than SIS aviators
are officially credited with downing
one to five planes Seventeen are
credited TO the late Raoul Lufbery.
The German machines dOwned to-
tai SO, exclusive of those of Lufbery,
but they are divided officially among
nearly twice that number Of men,
because on numerous occasions sew
eral flyers participate in a battle.
The aviators credited with five VIC
tories are: Lieutenants Campbell
Rickenbacker, Macarthur, O'Nella
fiOetur each. Captain Peterson, Lieut.
Meissner; three EACH Lieuts. Michel,
o. p. Porter. Simonds, Jones and
Healy. Fourteen have two victories
each and 80, Including the, late Lieut..
Quentin Roosevelt, are credited with
three each.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-08-29

which recommends supreme action
now by thes central powers. This can
be ACCOMPLISHED by leaving Russia
and other ,sindred nations IN the east
TO their oV n fate and by using all
available strength on the west front.
the paper. says. before the fun force
Of America MS armies can be felt. In
cidentally. Il takes a typieaily Teu-
tonic liz mt Americans war efforts.
It saws:
1T Is net the concentration Of Ger
man troops In the rear that is dis
l-uietinE. II is the fact that the Ameri-
can aid Is decidedly more valuable
than one thought at first il would be
We do not believe in the 5.00O.00O
men. -ann0unced with a flourish 81
trumpets by the press OF the entente.
but it h nevertheless true That tho
American troops are Increasing With
out iuter1rti'sion.
~FHriher. the Itussian situation f.
becoming m Jre and more complicated
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-08-29

from day to day. Il may be that in
the very near future the entente may
again succeed IN fortifying the RUS
sian colossus
AFTER all. though Germany has only
to throw ON the western front all
the forces that she is keeping in Rus
sla by evacuatiug Finland. Ukraine
and Poland. leaving these rGOple to
settle their own problems with Russia
as best they can. a radical measure
os this kind would De received with
enthusiasm hv the German people
who would therein aee "a chanse OF
early victory.
Finally. the Austrians must awak-
er out Of their Iethargy and undertake
an offensive against the Italians which
will prevent the sending OF troops 10
France.
II Germany decides 20 concentrate
an her forces on this une 'front.' and
IL her allies help her she viii he In
vinclble."
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-08-29
The People Are Through
But the State Fights On

WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN
FRANCE. Aug. 2S.-In an American
hospital in a village near the Marine
a German boy of nineteen years lay
waiting the attention of a doctor. His
injury was not serious and he was
content with what had befallen him.
He talked English. without great diff
ficulty. and responding to questions
gave his youthful opinion Of affairs
IN Germany. Nothing he said was
new. hut in endeavoring to sum II uI,
he used this expression:
THE people are through. but the
State fights on"
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-08-29
Tin Hat Useful But
Appearance Doubtful

LONDON, Aug. 2s.-The tin hat"
at the best Of times looks rather like
bad practical joke.
Nevertheless, It has saved many q
valuable life. Somesof the old Mons
veterans still regard it as an inven-
ton Of doubtful utility. one day one
of them was struck on the head BY
shrapnel and the only thing that
saved him from instant death was his
steel helmet. ON coming round his
ungrateful verdict was.
show me something 'orrihle that
did. | never did like them tin ats"
Tommy is now an expert in finding
n use for this possession. He will use
1t as saucepan. seat. a waslfbasn,
or a weapon: and il ds no unoommon
sight to see couple of eggs boiling
in one of them. minus the lining, over
a blazing ground flare.
But il he is ever photographed in
it, it Is certainly not from choice.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-08-29
ENEMY BLAMED FOR
POOR WHEAT YIELD

SALEM, Ohio. Aug. 27.EEnem1
agents are blamed for an INSECT pest
which has reduced Butler tow nship's
bumper wheat crop to much less than
normal The ravages OF the insect
have been tremendous. Last winter
the farmers now remember. an aged
man of German extraction was OBJ
served wandering about the township
visiting wheat fields 10 the exclusion
OF others. and apparently digging In
them with his hands as II burying
something In the soil.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-08-29
NOTHING ELSE LIKE 1T.
IN PFNDIETON

There has never been anything in
Pendieton with the INSTANT action
n simple buclSthorn bark. glycerine,
etc. ~ mixed in Adler-i-ka. ONE
spOONEUL flushes the ENTIRE
bowel tract 80 completely Il relieves
AY CASE Sour stomach, gas or con-
stipation and prevents appendicitis
The INSTANT. pleasant action OF Ad-
ler-I-ka surprises both doctors and
patients. Tallman Co., druggists.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-08-29

VANCOUVER, Wash. Aug. az
Captain Ross H. Back. son of Judge
r. II. HAek.- of the superior court of
Clarke county. reported dead as "A
result of wounds received July 10, il
alive and well. according to q cable-
gram received today. Captain Back
was reported dead by the government.
Memorial services were held IN tho
First Presbyterian church and gold
star was added to the service flag
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-08-29

ONLY TWO MORE DAYS LEFT
ASTOPPORTUNTY TO SAVE WHEN YOU TO
ONABIE PRICES ON GOODS
NOT ONLY YOUR IMMEDIATE
PERIENCE DURING THE COMING MONTHS.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-08-29
Political. Economic Freedom Goal.

ZURICH Aug. 29.-The Cologne
Vcl<s Zeitung SAYS: we NE nov
fighting forelife or death. The wal
=.H determine Germany's future ez-
istance. The question Is whether onr
people can have political and economic
freedom"
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-08-29
DIR. CaldWell'S
Syrup Pepsin
The Rs,JSN LaxatfVe
Sold by Druggists Everywhere
so cts. (gIiywssa) $1.O0
The Perfect LaxatfVe

Quickly corrects disorders of the intestinal
tract, relieves the congestion and restores nor
NAL regularity. 1t is gentle in action and does
not gripe. A trial bottle can be obtained by
writing to DR., w. B. Caldwell, 458 Washington
ST., Monticello, Illinois. 80
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-08-29

1was forestalled by Gen. Byng's prompA
measures and admirable organization.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-28
COMMUNITY SING
 AT CAPITOL PARK
Brilliant Programme to Be Presented Today-Large
 B. Crowd Expected

The first open-air community concert of the season vii be held at Capitol park this afternoon at o'clock. The amphi- theatre has been about completed. only few finishing touches remaining to be added.
 Community Director Robert Lawrence says the new building will seat comforta- ply 1000 and by q little crowding 5000
 Philip Memoli, the esteemed conductor of the Philharmonic orchestra, which was a feature of the indoor community sings, has trained a select concert band
 for the summer. It will be heard this
 afternoon for the first time and will
 play the same class of artistic music
 which the orchestra played.
 Weber's "Jubel' overture will be Mir.
 Memoli's most ambitious offering on this
 occasion, but all the band numbers are chosen for their beauty and popular ap- peal
 A chorus of 40 voices will sing, with
 band accompaniment, Unfold. Ye Port als" from Gounods "Redemption,
 and the songs for everybody will in- clude many favorites.
 The city commission ana civic bodies
 will attend today's affair and will be
 provided with seats on the bandstand.
 
 event of rain, to hold the sing in Loew's Bijou theatre President N A. Barrett of the city conn mission, along with the other commas sioners has been especially anxious that there should be large attendance at l the opening outdoor sing this afternoon and he accordingly appointed George Mo | Cleery chairman or the insitanon com mittee.
 | Instead of issuing invitations Mr. Mc- Cleery wants to extend his invitations I through the newspapers and to urge | large and representative attendancA He | especially extended invitations to tho or ganized civic bodies of the city last night through their presidents as follows. | Chamber of Commerce.. Arthur c. | drowder Civic association, F. F.. Butler; Rotary club, E. H. Andrews; Real Estate exchange, Hill Ferguson: Kiwanis cmh. Joe H. Loveman; Civitan club, Dr. C. w. Shropshire; Community club, John l- Cox: Press club, Jeff Bailey. Following is the complete progrsnns; Doxology, prayer, salute to the flag. America" everybody Overture, "Juber' CWeber1. band "Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean | (Shaw), everybody Battle Hymn of tho Republic" tcid air), everybody. | Grand fantasia, ~Marftana-" CwanacA). | band.
 "IJnfold. Ye Portalsr~ Gounoep, selected chorus of 40 voices from tho Arion and i Twenty clubs. "Theres a Long. Long Trair' CEIifot); I Cb) Let's Go and Can the kafzer," tune. | Dixie" everybody 1 Our Commissioners~ "Our Commission | Melody. .sInieanor'. Oeppen}. band | (a) Joan of Arc~ CweIls); d) lover There (Cohanl- Dance of the Serpents" CBoccalari). | (a) "Star-S -Spangied Banner,- Ch) lower | ing the flag Note-For this number everybody is ex- pected to gather around the great flag | pole.
 | The community music committee for the coming year will be announced next Sunday.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-28
Harding and WelIborn Will Address Bankers at Meeting in Birmingham May 9-11

Montgomery, April 2.-(Special)-B mingham will be the meeting place of the Alabama Bankers association for the twenty-sixth annual convention May 9, 10 and Il. Henry T. Bartlett of Mont gomery, secretary of the association, has announced that the meeting will be one of the most important ever held by the association and that some of the best known men in the banking business in America will be present to deliver ad- dresses. Headquarters will be established at the Tutwiler hotel during the meeting.
 Among those on the programme for addresses during the three-day session are w. P. c. Harding, governor of the federal reserve board; w. B. Weliborn, chairman. of the federal reserve bank at Atlanta; Alex E. Walker, state superin- tendent of banks; Tyler Goodwin of New Orleans, federal land bank representa- tive; Richard M. Hobbie, state food ad- ministrator Joseph Hirsch of Corpus Christi, Tex, chairman of the agricul- tural commission of the American Bank CTS association; Waddill Catchngs, New York city banker, and Dr. J. F. Duggar of Auburn.
 Several entertainments are being planned for the visiting bankers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-28
J. H. EDMONDSON TO BECOME MANAGER
 OF PAL-CO-TOX co.

J. Fl. Edmondson has resigned from the advertising staff of The Age-Her- aid to become vice president and man. ager of sales with the Pal-Co-Tox labcratories, a local incorporation en- gagged in the bus ness of manufac- turing the well known Pal-Co-Tox remedies
 MT. Edmondson has taken a block or the stock of the company and will devote all of his time hereafter to US success. He is especially fitted for this MosL by many years previous experience in the promotion and sale of proprietaries. For neatly 20 years he has been connected with the busi- ness of publicity and has heen ad- Vertlsing manager of several repre- sentative southern newspapers.
 few years ago MT. Edmondson promoted and conducted the Birming- ham Manufacturers Permanent Ex- hibit, closing it after some 15 months of operation on account of the emer- gencies of war affecting many of his exhibitors. Later he operated the Hip podrome skating rink, which had a seasons vogue in Birmingham. As manager of his new business Mir. Ed mondson will become a heavy patron of the daily newspapers instead of a solicitor of patrona3e. Offices of the company have been opened in the Ro- den building, Second avenue and Twentieth street. occupying the third floor over Norton's drug store Trav- cling salesmen have bean engaged, an abundance of attractive advertising matter prepared and preparations made to cover the entire south with Pal Co., Tox sales
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-28
PRESENT CONDITIONS
 IN RUSSIA SUBJECT .OF LYCEUM LECTURE
Returned Traveller Will Tell of Personal Feeling of All Classes of Russians
 on National Affairs

Holders of Lyceum tickets are looking forward with great anticipation to the coming of Edward Ellsworth Ross. pro- lessor of sociology in the University of Wisconsin, to this city to lecture at the First Baptist church on May and 8, on the present conditions in Russia.
 MT. Ross returned from Russia late in February, having been sent there by the American Institute of Social Service and is probably more informed on the real conditions there today than anyone else. After spending month in Petrograd and a week in Moscow he went down the Volga, interviewing people at every place the boat stopped as to their personal feel ings toward the national affairs All classes were thus questioned. employers, labor leaders, heads of the councils of workmen's deputies, mayors. land com mittees, food committees, editors, educa- tors and clergymen.
 As the governmen was just beginning to be more liberal in permitting foreign CTS to visit Turkestan, he secured per mission to visit the transcaspain provinces. Crossing the Caspain sea, he followed the Central Asian railway to it's terminus, 2t00 miles away at Andijan, stopping en route at Askabad, Merv, Beiram, Ali, Bokhara, Samarcand and Kohokand. Unable to visit Fash Kent owing to the interruption of trains by the fighting between the bosheviki and the iunlSers, he returned by the Central Asian railway across the Caspain sea, went to Rostof and after week here re- visited Petrograd and Moscow.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-28
PERSONS EVADING
 | SELECTIVE DRAFT
 CLASSED OBSERVERS
U. s. District Attorney Bell Urges Greater Cooperation of City and
 State Officials in Arrest

lnR DldChCIS
 Irnited States Attorney Robert N. Bell has called the attention of all municipal county and state officials to tho tact that it is their duty to assist the govern men in enforcing fairly the selective service draft act
 Complaints have been received from many sections of the state of men who failed to report after being called for examination and after being accepted failed to show up on mobilization and entraiSment day MT. Bell stated that the federal agents were too few to take care of all these cases and it is the duty of every municipal county and state of- ficer to make arrests of persons evading the selective service and turn them over to military authorities or to the local boards.
 The rulings of the Attorney General recently issued in the case of men att tempting to evade the draft shows them to have the same status as deserters and subject as such to the military law. The following statement was issued by MT. Bell:
 Tt is the sworn duty of every police man. sheriff and constable in the coun- ty to arrest persons purposely evading military service or wilfully failing to report to local boards. These officers will be paid $50 on delivery to a military camp of certificate of the local board where the person belongs,
 The marshal and special agents can not cover all these cases, as they are busy with their other regular affairs. So that want it understood that any of the officers first named who are will fully refusing to make arrests of desert CTS or persons evading this service are guilty of wilful neglect of duty and subject to prosecution and removal from such offices
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-28
ID TALK ON. OF. METHODIST SCHOOLS.
Plans to Continue Campaign for Consolidation of Two Colleges Will Be
 Made

The total amount of money sub scrited for the consol dation of Bir- mingham college ami Southern uni- versity yesterday reached sS1,625. and the executive comm tee has decided definitely to continue the campaign until the $l00,0fO is rais q. having their final luncheon on Monday at the Southern cluS when some plan, which will re formulated by that time, will be announced.
 The fact that several volunteer sub scriptions have b en received shows that the movement is gaining in pop ularity Today laymen will speak from the pulpits of the leading Methodist churches of the city, telling the mem- bership of the campaign and what 1t will mean for the denomination to unite the two colleges, and what it will mean for Birmingham and for education. The fact that it has been intimated that Montgomery might swing into the campa on and make an attempt to move southern university to that city has spurred local commit tees up considerably The executive committee of the campaign will form ulate plans for the continuance of the campaign without the luncheons after Monday.
 The feature of the luncheon yester- day was the speech made by Louis Pizitz, in which he stated that before this campaign was over if it was to be a success. the women would have to be brought into il, and that he l eliaved that they could raise $30,000 that the men of the city could not touch.
 The enthusiasm is growin~, nearly $4000 having been reported yesterday at the luncheon by the teams wori< ing Each team captain has taken on renewed energy and every worker is getting up more steam for the climb this week Charles E, Rice, president of the Alumni association of Birming- ham college, has invited the alumni of the college to attend the luncheon on Monday and get into the fight for the consolidation. and there is no doubt but what his call will meet with a hearty response.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-28
America Will Protect Integrity of Greece in
 Peace Negotiations

Athens, Thursday April 25.-The Pa tris publishes statement attributed to the American minister, Garrett Drophers to the effect that the gov ernment and the people of the United States are determined that the integ- rity of Greek territory shall be pre- served and that the right of the na- tion shall be secured in the peace ne- gotiations.
 This statement has been received with great satisfaction, the more so because of the silence of the allied governments hitherto on these points. This had given rise to rumors that the allies might seek to concilfate Bull garia by concessions at the expense of Greece.
 Washington, April N.-President W.T. son has assured the Greek people that the United States Is determined to give it's fullest measure of support to Greece. and that the country's rights shall be preserved in any final peace negotiations.
 The Presidents attitude became known today when the state depart ment gave out the text of a statement cabled to Minister Drophers at Ath- ems, which was given out for pubiica- tion in the Greek capital.