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VOL. LVIII. NO. 17,911. POKTLAXD. OKLUON. THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 1918. PRICE FIVE CEXTS. EX-CENSOR WHIPS ' OUT HUN'S SPIRIT LATEST WAR LOAF ONLY THIRD WHEAT FLUE CYCLOPS DECLARED U. S.-MEXIC0 CRISIS OFFICER START TO NEAR SAYS McADOO BY BLIGHT IN SOUTHERN POUT 15 COLOXEL MacAKTHTR LEADS CAPTIVE IX BY EAR. LOCAL CATERERS TCRX OCT SCBSTITUTE BREAD. EL PASO ACDIEXCE TOLD LIMIT IS ABOUT REACHED. LB FORCE IK 10 GIVE OP Gil RS RAVAGED OF WAR HAT British Abandon 4 Mor Villages. SECOND RETIREMENT MAD Wvtscbaete, Meteren, Poe capelle and Langemarck iv Captured by Germans. FRENCH REINFORCE BRITIS Bailleul-Wytschaete Sector Is Menaced English Hold . Positions Before Arras. LONDOX, April 17. After gaining a footing today in the villages of Meteren and Wytschaete the British . tr forced to make a second retire ment, according to Field Marshal Haig's report from France tonight. French troops, it is added, have now reinforced the British lines. BERLIN, ria London, April 17. The Germans hare occupied Poel- capelle and Langemarck, to the north east of Ypres. The announcement is made by gen eral headquarters, the evening report from which says: "On the battlefield of last yearns Flanders battle, Foeleapelle and Langemarck hare been taken." i9t the amkUiH Pre Oat of the chaos of the tremendous battle along the Lys River, south and southwest of Ypres, the thunder of which may be heard 40 ox 50 miles away, there have come during the raft day reports which are fcncour- aging te the allied powers. The British not only have held all the ground which they were defend ing on Tuesday, but have struck back so powerfully that Meteren and part f Wyt.tchaete were retaken and held for a time. Only after heavy attacks did the Briti.-h retire again from the Tillages. The mot disturbing news has been a report from Berlin that Poelcapelle aid Langemarck. north of Ypres. hre been taken by the Germans and the admission from London that the Rritish have retired from certain parts of their lines in the Ypres salient. Retirement Is Orderly. The retirement here was expected, for the advance of the Germans at Neuve Eglis and Bailleul left the position in front of Ypres open to a flank attack. It is officially stated - that the retirement was orderly, and it is probable that it will have more of a sentimental than a strategic effect. The battle, now in its ninth day, las deepened in intensity at many points along the curved front from Meine ridge to Meteren. On all the rest of the front from Messines ridge southwestward the (icrmans have flung themselves against the granite wall of the British defense. Official . and semi-official dispatches have told of the frightful losses inflicted on the attacking ma.ses of troops by the B.itish rifle and machine gun fire. Arras Sector Blazes l"p. On the southern side of the salient there have been engagements of some magnitude, especially east of Robecq, five miles northwest of Bethune, where the Germans were caught by the British artillery fire and scattered. The line in front of Arras has again been the scene of fighting, but here the British took the offensive and drove the Germans out of British trenches which had been carried by the enemy. In the rkardy sector there has been lively artillery engagements between the Somme and Oise Rivers, but only patrol encounters are reported of ficially. Farther south only raiding opera tions have been going on. The Turks announce that they have taken the cit; of Batum on the east ern short of the Black Sea. They report strenuous fighting before the Russian defenders of the city were driven out. Eg-Foreign Blinister in Power. Baron Stephen Burian Ton Raject has succeeded Count Caernin as For eign Minister Ol Auam-nungur), coming back to the office he relin quished December 23, 1916. The Macedonian front has again iCauciidt A Je i Waa Bavarian Colonel Is Prise Taken by American In Storming Tea ton Front Line Trench. WASHINGTON. April 17. Members or Secretary Baker's party on the trip to Europe brought to Washington to day new details about the exploit of Colonel Douglas MacArthur, the former War Department censor, who recently Joined a French company In storming a trench and cam. back with a prisoner. uolng witn tns rrtnea y special permission, the Colonel was missing when the action was over. He soon re appeared, leading a big Bavarian of ficer by the ear with one had and winging a riding whip with the other. Colonel MacArthur. who la chief of staff of one of the American divisions, was decorated with the French cross of war for the part he played. GERMAN PAPER IS PAINTED Windows of Oregon Deutsche Zcl- tung Smeared With Yellow. Two automobiles were driven to the Interjection of Salmon and Fourth street shortly after midnight last night, where they were halted and sis men alighted carrying with them a bucket of yellow paint and several paint brushes. They proceeded to the building occuplel by the German Pub lishing Company, where the Oregon Deutsche Zeltung is printed and paint ed three yellow streaks across each of the front windows of the office. All words on the window referring In any way to anything Teutonic were eradi cated. . After finishing the Job the men de parted In the automobiles. JEWS MISTREATED, CHARGE Protol Alleging Cn fairness Filed With Secretary Baker. WASHINGTON. April IT. A protest against alleged "continuous unjust, un fair and discriminatory treatment of Jews In the Army was filed with Sec retary Baker yesterday by Louis Mar ball, of New York, head of the A mer man Jewish committee. One of the chief complaints is that not a slnale Jew among the larre num ber with the expeditionary forces In Franco has been commissioned from the ranks. TWO, SELF-CONVICTED, DIE Retail es Varrcl; One Shoots Self, Other Dies of Fright. LEBANON, Mo., April IT. A. A- Web- tor and his son-in-law. Perry Naylor, quarreled tonight. Webster was shot nd slightly wounded and Naylor was tabbed and slightly wounded. Fearing he had killed his son-in-law. Webster rushed Into his own home and dropped dead from fright. Hearing of Webster's death, and he aving himself a murderer, Naylor shot nd killed himself. NEW ZEALAND GETS FUNDS Perform Able but Who Fall to Sub scribe Heavily Fined. OTTAWA. Ont.. April IT The New" Zealand government, according to Reuter dispatch from Wellington. New Zealand, la raising another f 30.000,000 tioo.ooo.ooo) war loan. ' Fersons able to subscribe but who fsll to do so will b fined doable the! mount of their Income tax. It Is stated, nd compelled later to put their sur plus funds In war bonds, receiving only per cent Interest. ALIEN HOLDINGS ARE TAKEN German Property In Porto Rico Is I Seised; Virgin Islands Next. SAN JL'AN. Porto Rico, April 17.- Frits E. Lundt A Co., the oldest Ger man trading concern In Porto Rico, haa been taken over and reorganised by R. Spellman, representative of the custodian of alien property. Mr. Spellman departed today for the Irgin Islands to take over property there, consisting chiefly of the exten- ve docks and supply station of the Hamburg-American line. GREEKS ARE EMIGRATING Act of havagcry by Turkish Soldiers I Cssse General Exodus. WASHINGTON. April 17. Emlgra- on of Greeks from the Black Sea to the Caucasus, according to a diplomatic spatch from Greece today. Is assumi ng ths character of a general exodus. It Is stated that acts of savagery on the part of the Turkish soldiers and population are compelling the residents to abandon their country. SUGAR CARGO IS RECORD American Steamer Bring 4,000,000 I Pounds of Cuban Crop. AN ATLANTIC PORT. April 17. early 4.0OO.000 pounds of sugar, said I to ho a record cargo, rrom Cuba, ar rived here today in the hold of aa American steamship. The vessel's captain said great quantities of sugsr are t Cuban porta awaiting cargo tptos, - Blooming Plains Fade at German Touch. HOMELESS HUNDREDS FLEE yageS Disappear 1(1 LUTld i , , FlameS and BanKS Of SlTlOKe. BATTLE ROAR CONTINUOUS Peasant., Their Brains Benumbed by Horror or It All, Blindly Fol low Military Guides to Places of Safety In Rear. I Br the Associated Preis. WITH THE BRITISH ARMY IN FRANCE. April 17. It Is difficult for one In the British war sons to adjust himself to the new conditions here. It all seems like a horrible dream this spreading German blight across the cultivated plains of Flanders, with tbelr ancient, picturesque villages. It Is but little more than a week since ona was free to motor quietly along highways leading through Mtr vine, Ballleul and a score of other nearby places which never lost their crops. The battle lines Were not far to the eastward, but death and destruction seemed remote with walls of khaki- clad men guarding the land. Little boys stood at attention by the roadside and saluted as the motors passed, and old men and women beamed welcome from the doors of their cottages. t'lvlllaaa Sadly Retreat. Within a few days all this has been changed. The plague of war haa de scended on the countryside. Now one meets his civilian friends the little folk snd the aged from many ham lets, making their way sadly back along the broad highway leading west ward from the tide of invasion which Is driving them from all they hold dear. They look back on the rolling fields that separate them from their little world. By day .a bank of frrlm. gray smoke from burning hamlets and from myriad belching- guns marks the xone along which are struggling their splen did soldiers In their efforts to block further inroads of the Hun. By night the skyline Is sometimes a lurid hlaxe as consuming flames leap np from a hundred homes and great cannon vomit volcanic fire. Feasant Brains Reooaabed. It Is a living hell. It Is a part of hitherto untouched Flanders going the way of tho devastated regions of the Somme. and so the gentle peasant folk stamt and look or wander on. A they go they cannot comprehend it. Its awfulness has benumbed their brains. The correspondent found a little family group crouching beneath huge British howimers held in reserve. Their eyes were fastened,-on me mounting columns of smoke which rose from the village whence they cam. There were no tears and no words, hut the ex M'onctuded on Pax 4, Column 2.1 Barley, Rice, Corn and Oat Flour and Mashed Potatoes Combine in Delectable Morsel. . Bread which contained - 66 1-3 per cent of substitutes and was rated as highly satisfactory was displayed and discussed yesterday at the . weekly meeting of the Portland Caterers' As sociation, held at the Hazelwood. The achievement or turning out desirable bread containing so much of substi tute materials was hailed by the res taurant men with all the eclat that would attend a startling discovery In the world of chemistry. ' The exhibits were prepared by Frits Meiler. baker for the Coxy Dairy lunchroom. Theodore Brandes vouched for the bread and its content, having watched It in ' the making. Barley, rice, com and oat flour and mashed potato were all used In this bread, and the recipe will be made known to any baker or housewife who applies to Mr. Brandes or officers of the Caterers' Association. Arthur M. Churchill, director of con servation for the state food adminis tration, spoke on the help problem. Mrs. Callahan, of the Y. W. C. A. employment service, spoke along the same line. She said the familiar atti tude of patrons, more than discourte sies of employers, is what serves to influence girls against taking positions as waitresses. Mrs. F. S. Myers declared that the organizations she represented would help Influence young women to take the necessary- training courses and otherwise help solve the troublesome help problem that now confronts eating-house managers. PRISONERS EVADE TEUTON Allies Reaching; Geneva Report Ger many Starving. GENEVA, Switzerland, April 17. (By the Associated Press.) Guardians in prison camps In the Rhine towns have been so reduced, because every German is wanted In the west, that escapes across the Rhine River Into Switzerland are becoming more fre quent dally. One American and three English soldiers who escaped from German camps this week have arrived at Berne, and yeaterday 19 Frenchr-.en, former prisoners. Joyously marched through the streets of Geneva. All the former captives say the Ger mans are hiding their losses in the offensive on the western front and they add that Germany Is on the verge of starvation. BULGARS LOSE. 7 TOWNS Greek and British Troops Tronnce Enemy on Macedonian Front. LONDON. April 17. The Greek and British troops which on Monday crossed the Struma River on the eastern flank of the Macedonian front occupied seven towns, the War Office announces. The statement follows: "Greek troop crossed the River Struma. above Lake Tahlnos and occu pied the villages of Beglik-Mah, Kak araska, Salmab, Klspeki and Ada. The operation was most successfully car ried out with slight casualties. "Further to the north British troops occupied Kumli and Ormanll." THE BULLDOG'S DEADLY GRIP. Commander's Wife to Lift Veil, She Says. NAVY DEPARTMENT IN DARK Mrs. Worley Hints at Peril to Other Ships at Sea. SHIP'S SAFETY ASSERTED Official Washington Clings to Be lief Xaval Auxiliary Is Captured or Destroyed and Defend In tegrity of Commander. NORFOLK, Va., April 1". Mrs. Selma W. Worley, wife of Lieutenant-Com mander George Wichtman Worley, com mander of the missing naval collier Cyclops, came to a local newspaper of fice tonight and declared that the mys tery surrounding the disappearance of the ship and Its 293 passengers an crew would be cleared up within the next 24 hours. In one statement Mrs. Worley Is quoted as saying the Cyclops was safe in a South American port and an official announcement regarding the vessel would be made shortly. Mrs. Worley is known to have visited families here who have relatives on the ship and told them not to worry as the mystery soon would be cleared. Mrs. Worley visited the newspaper office to request the suppression of an Interview 6he had given about her hus band's change of name and his birth in Germany. "Bigger Story" Promised. "I will be able to give a bigger story tomorrow," she said. When pressed for additional information, she added: "You know there are other ships at sea.' "Have yon any reason to believe the Cyclops is safe?" she was asked. "Tea," was her reply. WASHINGTON, April. 17. At th Navy Department it was said tonight that nothing had been received to con Arm Mrs. Worley'a statement about the Cyclops being safe In a South American port. - The department reiterated the statement that nothing has been beard from or of the Cyclops since It left the Barbadoes. WASHINGTON. April 17. Diligent search by naval and merchant ships has failed to disclose the slightest trace of the missing naval collier Cyclops and with the passing of the 44th day since the vessel sailed from Bar badoes for an Atlantic port, belief is growing at the Navy Department that In some way she has been destroyed or captured by the enemy. Accident Theory Scouted, How this could have happened no one professes to Know, nut otriclals regard it as almost impossible that any accident could have caused the sea to swallow up the big vessel and 293 per sons on board without leaving a trace. Some think sooner or later an enemy (Concluded on Pace 3, Column 4.) - Secretary of Treasury Blames Hun Plottings for Present Relations Being Somewhat Strained. . t EL PASO, Tex., April 17. "The United States has gone to the very limit in dealing with Mexico in an effort to maintain friendly relations with that country," Secretary William G. McAdoo declared tonight to an. audience of 5000, which completely filled Liberty Hall, the county auditorium here. "There is not the slightest reason why we should not continue at peace with Mexico if Germany will only keep her meddling spies out of that repub lic," the Secretary continued. "But Germany in trying to deal with Mexico and give her the states of Arizona, New Mexico and Texas, reckoned without Uncle Sam. "I would like to see the autocratic tyrant that could wrest three stars from the American flag. I would even be curious to see the despot that even could imagine he could wrest the Lone Star State from this Union." COST OF SHOES MAY DROP Price Regulation Expected to Follow Hide and Leather Probe. WASHINGTON, April 17. The War Industries Board today announced that representatives of the packers, country hide dealers and tanners In conference here have named an advisory commit tee to determine for the Government the relative values of the various grades of hides and skins. Van A. Wallin, president of the tanners' coun cil, was elected chairman. The report made by the committee, it Is understood, will form a basis on which the price fixing committee of the War Industries Board may deter mine the prices of leather products to the consumer. BOHEMIANS ARE STARVING Deficit of 100,000 Loaves of Bread Is Reported In Prague. WASHINGTON. April 17. Thousands of families In Bohemia, especially at Prague and vicinity, are starving, ac cording to an official 'dispatch from Francs today, which quoted the Lei p. ziger Volks Zeitung. Last, week it was estimated that there was tt deficit of 100,000 loaves of bread in Prague. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maxtxnan. temperature, B degrees: minimum. 43 aerreesj TODAY'S Fair; light winds; becoming easterly. War. British force Germans to give up newly won . ground. Page 1. Colonel Douglas MacArthur. former censor. leads German Colonel Into camp by ear. Page 1. American aviator, caught In No Man's Land, outdistances Germans In loot Page 1. - General Maurice takes hopeful view of bat tle. Pag 3. Further German successes will mean re treat on wide front, say Washington ex. perts. Page 2. Fair Flanders land desolate by blight of war. Page 1. Foreign. Thirty-seven perish when two oil vessels collide off British coast. Page 5. Peaco movement starts In Austria-Hungary, following fall of Czernln. Page 2. Turks capture Batum. seaport of Trans- Caucasia. Page 3. Execution of Bolo recalls unhappy fate that has pursued all his intimates. Page 4. Homo Rale legislation progresses while Irish opposition to conscription Increases. Page 4. National. Fourth series of officers' training camps to open May 15. Page X. Senate military committee hears testimony relative to effectiveness of German prop aganda in America. Page 4. Secretary of War Baker returns from France exceedingly optimistic Page 9. Oregon's title clear to first honors in liberty loan campaign. Page 8. Mra. Selma Worley. wife of commander of collier Cyclops, says snip Is sate in South American port, fage l. Domestic. Convicts tar and feather Army officer held In New Mexico prison on sedition charge. Page 2. Submarine Boat Corporation promises to turn out new steel vessel every two days. Page 4. Indicted Chicago I. W. W. found to bo hold ing position of Bolenevikl General In Russia. Page 6. Pretty model. Bister of Chicago professor's 'sweetheart,', disappears, page s. Sports. Lincoln High defeats Benson. 12 to . Page 18. Farrell and King eager to show they can fight real battle. Page IS. Wlllard-Fulton bout to, be staged between Blinneapolls and St. Paul, announced. Page 18. Buckaroo regulars defeat yannlgans, 8 to 7. Page IS. - Commercial and Marine. Oregon crops are In need of warmer weather. Page 19. New schooner City of Portland reaches Port land. Me., with ship Umber. Page 14. Year's output of ships In Oregon district es timated at siuo.uuu.uuu. rage i. Wall Street stocks rally from declines at opening. Page IS. Portland and Vicinity. Portland caterers produce satisfactory war bread containing 88 z-s per cent substi tutes. Page 1. Miss McDowell re-elected president of Wom en's Baptist - Mission Societies. Page 7. Official reports to liberty loan headquarters show Oregon subscriptions exceeding S23.000.000. Page 7. War Department declares emergency for 12.000 skilled men and calls for volun teers. Page 8. Mrs. Mary Stafford, 75, testifies as to sound mind of Mrs. Eliza Farrell. , Page 8. Democrats want to know Oswald West's at titude toward Governorship flgnt. fage v. Water deficit problem to be decided by voters. Page 11. Destitute widow whose sons are in Army or dered to vacate home. Page 11. Hiram Terwilliger, pioneer, dies. Fags 13. Ad Club and other organizations commend Woodward's stand In uorary mciaenr. Fage 14. Allied veterans feted for liberty loan aid. Page 15. Seditious remarks cost German fine and im prisonment, rage 20, Weather report, data and, forecast Pact 1S Experienced Men Only Will Be Admitted. APPLICATIONS DUE BY MAY 1 Two Per Cent of Enlisted Per sonnel of Army Eligible. COLLEGE MEN RECOGNIZED Several Educational Institutions Will Be Allowed to Send Students to Camps, According to Word of Secretary Baker. WASHINGTON, April 17. The fourth' officers training camps will open May. 15 at various divisional camps and can tonments, Secretary Baker today an nounced. The Secretary said that 2 per cent of the enlisted personnel of the divisions and detached units of the regular Army, National Guard and National Army, ex cepting the Coast Artillery and he va rious staff corps, will be designated to attend the schools. This procedure, he said, will operate through regular Army channels. Experienced Men Wanted. In addition, there will be admitted all graduating members of senior di visions. Reserve Officers' Training Corps units, who have completed ths course prescribed for the Reserve Offi cers' Training Corps and all members of the advance course, senior divisions of the corps, who by May 15 have com pleted one year of the advanced course and who have had $00 hours of mili tary instruction since January 1, 1917, under supervision of an Army officer. In addition, a number of men who have had a year's military training under Army officer at any time dur ing the past ten years In educational institutions recognized by the War re partment will be admitted. All appli cations roust be filed by May 1. Colleges to Send Quotas. The several educational institutions recognized by the Government, the Sec retary said, have been assigned quotas, and they shortly will be advised as to the method of selecting candidates. Men successfully completing the course will be listed as eligible for commissions as Second Lieutenants and will be commissioned as vacancies oc cur In the Infantry, cavalry and field artillery branches. 600 FINISH TRAIJTLVG CAMP Men Will Return to Regiments to Await Result of Endeavors. TACOMA, Wash., April 17. (Special.) ' Six hundred men who have finished the course at the officers' training school at Camp Lewis will pass in re view before Major-Goneral H. A. Greens next Saturday. He will address them afterward. At the conclusion of tha course the men will return to the or ganizations from where they were de tailed and await word from the War Department as to who have been grant ed commissions. The training camp "benslne" board cut the original number of students from 975 to S00 during the course, of in struction. These were men who were believed unfitted to lead men. The school has been in operation for threa months and ths course of instruction has included every phase of the mili tary game. The training camp has been, in charge of Lieutenant Guy C. Nor- vall since Colonel George McD. Weeks was transferred to the command of tha 364th Infantry two months ago. BUCKAROOS BUILD SHIPS Texas Punchers Desert Range fos Yards and Like Change. WASHINGTON'. April. 7. Oowboysj who tackled shipbuilding st Orange, Tex., when the cattle-punching busi ness became unreraunerative in the dry season last year, have found their new work so pleasing that scores of men who formerly rode the range now are joining their friends in the yards, ac cording to reports to the Shipping Board. AMERICAN AVIATOR ALIVE Thomas Hitchcock, Jr., of Acw York, Reported In Prison Camp. WASHINGTON. April 17. Ths Stata Department was advised today that Thomas Hitohcock, Jr., of New York, an American aviator who has boon missing for some time, is a prisoner at Saarbrucken, in Germany. Ths report came from the American legation at Berne, which had received it from the Spanish embassy in Berlin. MANPOWER BILL UPHELD British Lords Pass Government 3 Measure Second Time. LONDON. April 17. The House of Lords today passed the second reading. of tha govenjjueut's manpower bill. ,