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K VOL. VLI XO. 17,407. PORTLAND. OREGON, WEDNESDAY, SEPTE3IBER 6, 1916. PRICE FIVE CENTS. ALLIES BITE DEEP FUNSTON EXPECTS REVENUE BILL IS PASSED IN SENATE WOMEN OPPOSING WILSON INCREASING JAPANESE DEMANDS DN CHINA DRASTIC ZEPPELINS BUILT FOR OVERSEA MAIL OREGON TROOPS AT ATTACK BY VILLA GEXE11AL SAYS TROOPS "MAY OPPOSITION' TO . SUFFRAGE IS COSTING MANY VOTES. GERMANY PLANS NEW POSTAL SERVICE W ITH AMERICA. SOOX HAVE EXCITEMENT." CLACKAMAS IIP FOE'S LI AGAIN V K Fighting on Both Sides of Somme Is Furious. GERMAN FORTRESS IN PERIL French Take Heights Domina ting Combles and Capture Village of Omnicourt. TEUTOMS ABANDON CHILLY Fearful Artillery Fire Prepares Way for Dash Which Sweeps Enemy Back. BY FRED B. PITNEY. PARIS, Sept. 5. (Special.) The French yesterday continued the of fensive begun on Sunday and, despite violent storms and the stubborn re sistance of the Germans, took another great bite out of the enemy lines. North of the Somme Foch's troops pushed out from Le Forest to the end of the wood of Marrieries. They now hold all the heights between Clery and Combles and dominate the powerful fortress the Germans have made of the latter place. French Troops Sweep Onward. The official communique tonight said: French troops have captured the village of Ommicourt, hospital farm; Rainnette Wood and part of Marrieries Wood and progressed in other regions north of the Somme. South of the Somme, the report aid, a furious battle raged through out the day. The French captured a line of German trenches and repulsed all counter-attaclcs. lhe prisoners captured since September 3, number 6550 and the cannon 36. Front 12 Miles Long. South of the Somme the battlefront extended over 20 kilometers (12 miles) and carried the French offen sive eight kilometers south of Ver- mandovillers. The limits of attack were the farm of Lamaisonette, be tween Barleux and Biaches, and the village of Maucort, which is about BOO meters west of Chilly and foui and a half kilometers southwest of Chaulnes. This front forms an arc with Soye- court as the center. For four days the artillery had been preparing the ,way for the infantry. The capture on Sunday of the line from Clery to Combles put out of action the German guns which had been enfilading the French lines south of the river. Scope of Attack Extended. The order to advance was given just after noon yesterday and at 2 o'clock the infantry left the trenches and Bwept down on the German lines. It was an attack over the biggest front since the opening of the Somme of fensive. The most desperate resistance was found at Deniecourt, which the Ger mans had transformed into a fortress powerfully armed with mitrailleuses Around the chateau, in the northwest corner of the town, had been built a system of armored redoubts, con structed of reinforced concrete, with armored cupolas. Nevertheless the French penetrated this supposedly impregnable stronghold, and at the end of the day's fighting held the northern border. First Line Soon Taken. Four hours sufficed for the French to take the entire German first line. The attack began at 2 o'clock and ended at 6. By the four days' cannonade the German trenches had been completely demolished and presented only a series of shell craters, where lay torn and twisted bodies of German dead. Chilly is in the hands of the French, who, a little further to the north, are only a few hundred yards from Chaulnes. Vermandovillers is almost completely surrounded, as the French troops passed it both on the north and south. Soyecourt was carried by storm, and, as it is situated on plateau, Deniecourt, which is in the valley below, is now under the French guns. Bayonet Charges Succeed. The Germans had massed important reserves behind the zone of the French bombardment, but they were able to do nothing against the French troops (Concluded on Page 3. Column 3.) Bandit Leader lleported to Be Mov ing Force Toward Pershing's Expeditionary Command. SAN ANTOXIO, Tex.. Sept. 5. The ossibility that Francisco Villa is making his way to the northwest with he intention of attacking a portion of General J. J. Pershing's expeditionary force was considered at Major-General Funston's headquarters tonight. Gen- ral Funston said he regarded it prob- able Villa was planning to engage the Americans. We may have some excitement soon," he observed. He thought there was plenty of time to get ready for Villa's coming. DOUGLAS, Ariz., Sept. 5. Several undred refugees reached Douglas last night and today from all parts of Sonora, some from as far south as the Sinaloa border, but most of them from the Cananea district, bringing reports that unrest over the monetary situa tion had grown to such an extent that an outbreak of hostilities is expected. DR. AKED TURNED DOWN Former Flock Refuses to Reinstate Ford Peace Delegate. SAN FRANCISCO. Sept. 5. The Rev. Charles F. Aked, who resigned the pastorate of the First Congregational Church here to accept an appointment as delegate with the Ford peace party, tonight was refused reinstatement by his former congregation. Before the vote was taken It was ex plained that Dr. Aked had offered to come back at a salary considerably ower than he was receiving when he resigned. He failed to obtain the two- thirds vote necessary for his reinstate ment. No choice was made of a suc cessor. GRIEF KILLS ERRING JUDGE Twenty Years Spent Suffering Over Sentencing Innocent Men. CHICAGO. Sept. 6. After grieving for 20 years over a decision on which he sentenced to prison for life three men who he was later convinced were nnocent, Herman Varman Freeman, for 17 years Judge of the Superior and Appellate courts of Chicago, died today on a train bearing him here from his Summer home in Michigan. For years he had been in ill health, brought on, his family said, by grief over the decision. COST -OF WAR INCREASING French Minister Asks Appropriation Making Total $12,000,000,000. PARIS. Sept. 5. Alexander S. Ribot, the French Minister of Finance, will ask the Chamber of Deputies for ap propriations for the last quarter of 1916 amounting to 8,347,000,000 francs, or about 500,000.000 more franca than was asked for the present quarter. The total appropriations asked by the French government since August. 1914. will amount to 61,000,000,000 francs roundly. BOY, 3, SHOOTS MOTHER Lad Pulls Tri Leans ggers as on Gun. Parent COLTON, Cal.. Sept. 5. The 3-year- old son of Mrs. E. W. Farris pulled both triggers of a shotgun today while his mother leaned on the gun inspect ing the game bag of her husband, back from a hunt, and both charges entered the right shoulder and breast of 'the mother. She was taken to San Bernardino, where, it was said,, the wounds might not prove fatal. DOCTOR EPIDEMIC VICTIM Philadelphia Physician Dies of In fantile Paralysis. PHILADELPHIA. Sept. 5. Dr. Earlie Peck, first assistant resident physician at the municipal hospital here, who had attended hundreds of children stricken with infantile paralysis, died today of the same disease. He was taken ill last Friday and steadily grew worse, despite efforts made by other physicians to save his life. He was 24 years old. CANADIAN SALMON BARRED Chamberlain Amendment to nue Bill Is Adopted. Reve- WASHINGTON. Sept. 5. The Cham berlain amendment to the revenue bill prohibiting admission of halibut and salmon into the United States except when in bond from an American port, was adopted today. The amendment Is directed against Canadian fisheries on the Pacific and is Intended to urge development of American fisheries there. NEW MAYOR IS NAMED Frederick T. Woodman Chosen Los Angeles Council. LOS ANGELES, Cal., Sept. 5. Fred erick T. Woodman, president of th Board of Harbor commissioners, was elected today Mayor of Los Angeles by the City Council. He succeeds Charles E. Sebastian, Who resigned Saturday, formally as signing ill health as his reason. i Final Vote 42 to 16 in Favor of Measure. TARIFF PUT ON DYESTUFFS President Empowered to Take Steps to Protect Trade. DEMOCRATS ALL IN FAVOR Act Designed to Raise $250,000,000 ty Taxes on Legacies, Incomes and Munitions Tariff Com mission Is Created. WASHINGTON. Sept. 5. The Admin istration emergency revenue bill, de signed to raise $205,000,000 annually from taxes on inheritances and war munitions and from increases in the in come tax, creating a tariff commission and putting a protective tariff on dye stuffs, and providing for protection of American firms from dumping" at the end of the war, and giving the Presi dent authority to take drastic retalia tory steps against allied interference with American trade, was passed by the Senate, 42 to 16, late tonight. Five Republicans Vote for Bill. Five Republican Senators, Cummins, Kenyon. LaFollette. Norris and Clapp. voted for the bill. There were no Dem ocratic noes. Drastic amendments to the bill strik ing at the allied blacklisting of Amer ican merchants, discrimination against American commerce, interference with American mails and embargoes on American trade were incorporated in the bill to arm the President with retaliatory weapons. These amend ments have created consternation among diplomatic representatives of the allied powers in Washington, who assert they would constitute a non intercourse act and lead to commercial warfare. Passage for Time Threatened. . Passage of the bill and adjournment of Congress were threatened for a time tonight by an attempt to attach to the measure the Webb bill desired by the- President permitting American firms to establish collective selling agencies aboard. Senator Lewis there upon withdrew the amendment, an nouncing that it would be pressed as a separate measure. An amendment by Senator Phelan to extend the time from 90 days to six months for the time for the payment of the tax of 55 cents a gallon on brandies used in fortifying wines was adopted. Amendments on Mails Uncontested. Amendments for retaliation against Great Britain for embargoes on Ameri can goods, the trade blacklist and in terference with the mails were agreed to without rollcalls and were unop posed in debate. The amendments would authorize the President to: Deny use of United States mails and (Concluded on Tae 3, Column 1.) MR. HUGHES L. ,,, ,.j California Democratic and Progress ive Leaders Join in Fight Against President. CHICAGO, Sept. 5. Miss Anne Mar tin. National chairman of the woman s party, issued a statement here today in which ehe saM: "Feeling against President Wilson for his continued opposition to the Na tional suffrage amendment is steadily growing among woman voters. This statement is based on reports from our 36 organizers now at work in the equal suffrage states. "In California, where the woman's party campaign is being managed by Miss Doris Stevens, numbers of Dem ocratic and Progressive leaders have joined the woman's party in their fight against the President. The state will be carried by a united Republi can and Progressive vote ' again.ft President Wilson. In Nevada a state wide organization of 2000 women voters, the Nevada Woman's Civic League, has gone over to the woman's party. In this state the woman vote will be the balance of power. Similar encouraging reports have been re ceived from Arizona and Wyoming." GIRL GOES TO ROBBER'S AID Young Woman Says She Is Fiancee of Man Who Wants to Go to Prison. SAN FRANCISCO. Sept. 5. Helen Allen, of Los Angeles, arrived here to day with a lawyer to undertake the defense of Edwin von Walden, a bank robber whom the police surrounded in Golden Gate Park last week after he had held up a bank in the Mission dis trict and escaped' with $8000. The girl is said to be Von Walden's fiancee. S. S. Hahn, the attorney engaged by Miss Allen, said today he believed Von Walden abnormal. Von Walden, ac cording to Hahn, said he wanted to go to prison to work out an invention. VICTIM DENIES R0BEBRY Judge Landis Tells E. W. Morrison Thieves Are Plucking" Illm. CHICAGO. Sept. 5. Federal Judge Landis announced in court today that Edward W. Morrison, aged millionaire, was being "robbed bjn. a lot of per sons." Morrison's dwindling" fortune, otice estimated at $8,000,000, is the sub ject of bankruptcy proceedings. "I don't think I'm being robbed." Mr. Morrison said. "Well, it's a fact," Judge Landis de clared. "A lot of thieves have been plucking you. If you'll just help me a little. I'll try to stop it." AIRMAN ATTACKS VENICE Bombs Also Are Dropped rizia, Killing Three. on Go- ROME, via London, Sept. 5. An Austrian naval aeroplane squadron dropped bombs on Venice Monday night without doing any damage, says an official statement issued here today. On Sunday and Monday nights Aus trian aircraft dropped bombs on Gorl zla and three other towns In that vicinity. Three persons were killed in Gorizia and the roof of the Church of St. John was damaged. MAKES A BORDER RAID ON THE "Monroe Doctrine" for Orient Is Seen. SECRET TERMS ARE PRESSING Washington Officials Express Deepest Anxiety. T0KI0 . PICKS TIME WELL Humiliating Demands Which Are Menace to American Interests Made When United States Only Is Able to Protest. WASHINGTON, Sept. 5. Sweeping and drastic demands are revealed in the secret terms being pressed on China by Japan. Private dispatches re veal .that Japan seeks indemnities, an apology and political concessions. The four formal demands are quoted as follows: First Punlsnment of the command ing officer involved in the military trouble in inner Mongolia. Second Dismissal with punishment of the other officers involved. Free Hand Is Demanded. Third Instructions to Chinese troops in affected districts not to Interfere with Japanese troops or civilians. Fourth Recognition of "special In terests" for Japan in Inner Mongolia and South . Manchuria. comprising powers of police and administration, preference as to loans and the selection of all foreign advisers, etc Besides the four "demands" are four "concessions" whlcn China is asked to grant Japan without formal demand, as follows: First The Chinese army in South Manchuria and Eastern Mongolia to employ Japanese military advisers. Second Chinese schools and colleges to have Japanese military inspectors. This is not limited to any section. Formal Apology Asked. Third A formal apology in person from the Chinese Governor of Mukden to the Japanese Governor at Dairen and the Japanese Consul at Mukden for the Cheng Chiatun trouble. Fourth Monetary compensation to the families of the Japanese killed, the amounts to be settled by later negotia tion. Secretary Lansing refused tonight to outline what might be the attitude of the American Government. It is known, however, that steps will be taken im mediately to learn the full significance of Japan's act . merican interests seem at first glance to be more deeply in volved than in any event in the Far Cast since Japan's famous ultimatum to China of May, isia. Japan seeks more than ever before, demanding political rights which are interpreted in Pekin as destroying i (Concluded on Pane 3. Column 4.) SOLID SOUTH. Great Dirigibles With Carrying Capacity of 00 Tons Expected to Make Trip in 7 2 Hours. CHICAGO, Sept. 5. Two "double" Zeppelins, unarmed and each with a carrying capacity of 60 tons, have been built in Germany to carry mail be tween Berlin and the United States, ac cording to statements here today by Morris Epstein, agent of the German American Alliance, who returned from Europe today. Epstein said the Zeppelins had been christened "Amerika" and "Deurtsch land." They can make the aerial voy age between Berlin and New York in 72 hours, he said. "They are so constructed," said Epstein, "that they ' can rise higher than "any aeroplane and thus escape hostile aviators. They also can de scend to the water and travel there under their own power." Epstein, said the postage charges for this service had already been arranged and would be the regular international postage plus 1 mark, or 25 cents, for each letter. WETS WIN BY 3 IN YUKON Vote in Entire Territory to Abolish Saloons Is Close. DAWSOX. T. T.. Sept. 6. Unofficial figures on Tukon Territory's first vot on proniDition give the wets a ma jority of only three votes for the entire territory. The contest was to abolish the licensed hotel, the only form of saloon now allowed in the territory. The mining districts almost without exception voted for prohibition. GUARD UNABLE TO RETURN Five Regiments Still at Border Wait ing Arrival of Rolling Stock. . SAN ANTONIO. Tex.. Sept. 5. Al though nearly a week has passed since the War Department ordered 15.000 Na tional Guardsmen to return to their state camps, five regiments still remain on the border. They have been unable, up to today, to get away because of lack of rolling stock. Army men said. MALADY ATTACKS INDIANS New Cases of Infantile Paralysis Are Pound Among Crows. BILLINGS, Mont.. Sept. 5 Recru descence of infantile paralysis on the Crow Indian Reservation, near here, was reported today by the state health authorities. Sixteen new cases have appeared. A rigid quarantine is being enforced. Only one case has been reported in Billings in the last week. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 72 degrees; minimum, 59 degrees. TODAY'S Partly cloudy; northwesterly winds. War. Bulgarians Invade Germans and Roumanla. Face 3. Berlin discusses ultimatum to Greece. Pane 3. Young- British Lieutenant decorated for de stroying Zeppelin. Pass 2. Allies bite deep into German lines on west ern front. Page 1. Official reports. Page 2. Berlin says Roumanla is In bad way. Page 2. Mexico. Troop A makes forced march of 46 miles In weltering temperature. Pago 7. General Kunston expects Villa to attack American Army. Page 1. roll t Irs. President Wilson prepares to plunge Into campaign. Page 4. National. Japanese activity In China causes anxiety at Washington. Page 3. Senate- passes revenue bill. Page 1. Representative McArthur gets Bull Run land bill through House. Pago 3. Domestic. Germany builds Zeppelins for overseas mall service. page 1. Sport. Seals and Beavers to clash today. Page 12. Junor has edge on Russell Smith In golt match. Pago 12 Philadelphia and Brooklyn are tied for fl-st place In National League pennant race. Page 12. Bobby Vaughn to Join Loa Angeles team. Page IX R, Norris Williams defeats W'lllam M. Johnston for National tennis champion ship. Page 13. Pacific Northwest. Orv-gon troops are at Camp Withycombe. Page 1. Thompson murder trial opens at Hlllsboro. Paso r. Senator Fulton opens Hughes' campaign at Kugene. Page 6. Penitentiary Board clashes over Warden Mi u to. Page 0. D. W. Davis leads In Idaho primaries. Page 2. Commercial and Marine. Alaskan marine survey described. Page 14. Big advance In Chicago wheat on confirma tion of early predictions of losses. Page 17. Steel stock sales at highest point In its his tory. Page 17. Portland and Vicinity. Railroads make rates to attract farmers to land loan bank hearing. Page 18. James W. Westbrook. attorney, attempts suicide. Page 7. Major Gilbert says rain makes men feel at home. Page 6. Centenary Methodist Church will celebrate fiftieth anlversary this week. Page 10. Early school attendance about 4 per cent leas than last year. Page 4. Hughes alliances are now active In 11 towns. Page 7. Mrs. Alexander, ousted principal of girls' school, sues Board tor place. Page 11. Dry Special, with party candidates, due here Friday. Page 5. Washington troops visit. Page 6. Westminster Presbyterian congregation calls Dr. Hugh Walker, of Long Beach. Page 4. Heilig season will open October 5. Page 4. Home Chautauqua opena this afternoon at Armory. Page 13. B'nal B'rith president discusses Jewish ideals. Page 4. Weather report, data and forecast. Face IT. First and Third Battal ions Put Up Tents. SECOND TO DETRAIN TODAY Men Are Glad to Be Home but Hope for Early Return. LIGHT RAIN WELCOMES Threatened Strike Causes Some Dis comfort, as Itailroud Is Able to Furnish Day Coaches Only to Those Leaving Early. CAMP WITHYCOMBE, Or, Sept. 5 (Special.) The Oregon troops are home again. Their bronzed features reflecting the fervor of the tropical Mexican sun and a springy step and a soldierly bearing giving testimony to ten weeks of Army discipline, the First and Third Battalions arrived today and are now awaiting further orders at Camp Withycombe. The Second Battalion and the supply company were expected to arrive about midnight and will begin detraining at 6 o'clock tomorrow morning. Men Want to Return to Border. What the "further orders" awaiting the regiment may be no one knows and among the men there is an under current of hope that it will be "back; to the border" for them. That is the situation with the men. They have fallen in love with the border, so to speak, and they want more of it. The order to leave was a distinct disappointment. It was a disappointment, not that they had no longing for home and friends, but in the sense that they realized they were having an experi ence worth while tinder conditions that were pleasant, and they were loth to relinquish It so soon. Returning Men Are Trained. "It gave a lot of us a chance to get tho kinks out of our brains and take mental stock of ourselves." as one ex pressed it. That is a, sample of the way they feel about it. Only they think that the training has not quite been carried to its completion. It was a better hand of soldiers that returned to Camp Withycombe today than left it 10 weeks ago. But the "return to the border" ia not deemed likely In official circles. It was Just 6:28 A. M. when the first section, carrying regimental headquar ters, the headquarters company, tho sanitary corps, the machine gun com pany and the First Battalion, consist ing of Companies A. B, C and D, Arrived at Camp Withycombe. Colonel Clenar I McLaughlin was In command. Troops Gone Two Months. Exactly two months and two days, by the calendar, from the time they had left Camp Withycombe. they wera home again. Leaving Camp Wlth eombe in the last detachment for tha border, they were the first to return. It was June 29 when the First Battalion, the headquarters company, the supply company, the sanitary troops and i-to machine gun company left Camp Withycombe. A misty little rain drizzled down as if In welcome. The rain had been there to bid them farewell and it was hero again to greet them. Those who returned today had seen no rain whatever on the border and they confessed that they missed it. Crowd at Station Small. There were probably a dozen at tho station to greet the troops when tho train pulled in. These were soon aug mented in number by the recruits in camp. The greetings were mutually cordial. The men were eager to learn tho news, if any, concerning their future orders. It developed that many of them had lived in hopes that they would be ordered returned to their border stations even while en route home. The general impression among , them was that the orders that sent them home had been given because of the Impending railroad strike and that, since this was adjusted, the ordera would be rescinded. Free copies of The Oregonian were distributed to tho men and were read eagerly. Tent City Begins to Rise. Breakfast was in progress as the train arrived. After it was finished the men detrained. In company for mation they marched to the tenting grounds where arms were stacked and the work of re-establishing a camp was begun. With a celerity and method that could scarcely have been exceeded by the most veteran of army organiza tions, stakes were driven, pits and trenches dug. the ground leveled off or cleared and everything prepared i'or the erection of the tents. In less than an hour pots were boil ing on the stoves for the noonday mess. In less than two hours a tented city had arisen. Mess call was sounded on time, and men lined up to the dis penser with their mess kits, cafeteria style, just as they had done on tho border several days, before. Officer Praise Command. Officers of the regiment were en thusiastic in their praise of the man ner in which the men conducted them selves while breaking camp and en route. Late on August 31, only last (Concluded, on Page 6, Column l.J V