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VOL,. jLVII. XO. 17,732. PORTLAND, OREGON, FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 21, 1917. PRICE FIVE CENTS. AMERICANS SERVE FRENCH BATTLE LI N E BREAKFAST ORDER IN FOR SOLDIERS LA FOLLETTE BUCKS LUSITANIA SINKING AUSTRALIA SENDS BIG FLOUR CARGO fillTCHEL WIIIS OUT, FOLLOWERSIIAPPIIJG D. WEBSTER FAILS TO SAVE PACIFIST ! VALLEY MILLS PUT UP PLEA FOB RATES PORTLAND HOSTELRY . READY TO FEED MEV OX MOVE. CHEAP OFFERINGS CUT NORTH WEST MILLS' OUTPUT. COURT SAYS WELLS CANNOT SHIFT BLAME OX OTHERS. . Germans Try to Bomb Engineers' Trains. BRITONS MAKE OBJECTIVES Every Elevation or Grove Holds . Machine Gun Crews. GAlN OF ONE MILE MADE Drive Apparently Is Intended to Cut Germans From I m Y portant V-Boat and Aerial K Bases on Belgian Coast. AMERICAS TRAINING CAMP IX FRANCE, Sept. 20. An American regi ment of engineers has taken over an important line of French strategic rail ways. While they have not yet been under shellfire, the Germans have at tempted to bomb the trains. The regiment is entirely under the French and is handling supplies of am munition to French units. LONDON. Sept. 20. Field Marshal llaig's official report says that North Country and Australian battalions penetrated the German positions In the center to a depth of over a mile and raptured the whole of their objectives. These included Hamlet, Veldhoek and the western portion of Polygon Wood. Further north Zevenkote was captured and also a few guns. Two thousand prisoners are reported taken. (By the Associated Prese. WITH THE BRITISH ARMIES IN FRANCE AND BELGIUM. Sept. 20. The British at daybreak today launched a heavy offensive against the German defenses about the Ypres salient along an extended front, which -has Its cen ter around Inverness Copse, and astride the Ypres-Menln road, a little south east of Hooge. ' From the first moment of going over the top the assault proceeded with marked success, especially In the eructal sector between the Ypres-Roul-ers Railway and Hollebeke, where the British ' early in the day had forced their way forward over marshy ground and through woods filled with ma chine guns to a considerable depth and were continuing the bitter fight In the neighborhood of the famous Inverness Copse, Nun's Wood and Glencorse Wood where so much blood has been shed since the allies began the battle or Flanders on July 31. Achievement Important One. If the attacking forces maintain the positions to which they have advanced In this section, they will have accom plished one of the most remarkable and most ' important achievements, in recent months. The German infantry made the most determined resistance In their attempt to regain this vital ground, and their artillery retaliated heavily against the British big guns. This phase of the battle of Flanders, which bids fair to become known as the battle of Menin road, because it renters in the territory astride the Menin road, began at 5:40 o'clock. I-'Ive Barrages Dropped. The infantry advance was preceded by a barrage of greater depth than ever before witnessed. Five distinct barrages, in fact, were dropped ahead of the men as they began their Journey ln;o this difficult terrain. The tre mendous curtain of bursting steel did its work well, and the troops pushed forward rapidly toward their ob jectives. Fair weather lately had improved the ground somewhat, but the mud still lies deep over wide reaches of it. and the whole territory is covered with water-filled shellholes, tangled barbed wire and shattered trees. Hard Flighting; Kncgaklrrrd. The German defenses consisted large ly of concrete redoubts scattered in profusion over the entire country, and from these they have been able to pour a stream of bullets into the ranks of the advancing troops. Every little ele vation also held Its machine gun em placements and all the woods were lit erally choked with rapid firers. The British encountered hard fight ing at many places, but the magnificent artillery preparation had done much to make the first stage of their drive easier. The past week must have been one of misery for the German troops lying out in this section. Land Is Swept Clean. A great number of big guns have been pouring a steady stream of high explosive shells Into their territory, and every now and then the British have put down a barrage which swept the land like a broom. It is known that many German batteries have been silenced in the past few days. X BERLIN, via London, Sept. 20. The report from headquarters this evening on the British attack says: "The battle In Flanders is still In full swing on the British front from Lange marck to Hollebeke. In the foremost part of our defensive sons bitter and fluctuating fighting has taken place since Jnoraing." PARIS. Sept. 20. Except . for artil lery activity at various parts of the tattle front in Fiance last night, the official statement this afternoon says there was nothing of importance to re port. T h British drive apparently la being (.Concluded on fao 2. Column 2.) Half Ton of Hams, Same of Beef and Potatoes Among Items Needed to Appease First 700. "Is this the market? Well, ssnd up the following: Forty-five cases cantaloupes, 1000 pounds of hams, 12 cases of eggs, 120 pounds coffee. 30 gallons breakfast cream, 1000 pounds potatoes. ISO pounds creamery butter. 250 pounds cube end granulated sugar, 125 gallons huckle berries, 1000 pounds Nn. 1 steer beef, 5 barrelb flour, 250 pounds green string beans, 200 pounds cornmeal, 350 pounds veal. "'No, I don't need any salt or pepper. I have about 50 pounds of each." This was not some thrifty housewife laying in her Winter's stock, but the steward at the Hotel Multnomah order ing supplies to feed the boys who stop off here at 4 o'clock this morning as the trains of drafted men en route to Camp Lewis begin to arrive. At 4 o'clock this morning, while the vast proportion of Portland is on the last lap of their sleep, 566 soldiers are scheduled to breakfast at the Multno mah. Orders were received late last night to prepare for the men and the Multnomah Hotel housed its servants at the hotel all night to be on hand at the early hour. President Hauser announced that the hotel would not accept a cent of profit on the meal and that the men would eat as fine a meal for 60 cents, the sum allowed them by the Government, as could be bought wholesale at that price. Saturday three more contingents will be fed there, as Portland is one of the places where all trains will stop for meals. The supplies ordered were for about 700 men for breakfast nil Saturday. 96 QUARTS LIQUOR SEIZED Police Arrest Duo Driving Auto Containing Whisky in Trunks. Ninety-six quarts of whisky were seized early today, when Patrolmen Crane, Russell and Gouldstone arrested Harry and John Hergenreder, of 73 Russell street, as they were driving into the city from Oregon City. The liquor was concealed inside two trunks, which were in the automobile driven by the men. The prisoners were taken to the police station. They denied own ership of the liquor. They were held for further investigation. John Her genreder is proprietor of the Oceania Hotel, at 77 Russell street. . The arrest was made upon -the re quest of the Oregon City authorities. $10,000 ON GERMAN'S HEAD Gerard Citizens Resent Offer of Re ward for Americans. FORT WORTH. Tex.. Sept. 20. Citi zens of Gerard. Ketit County, have raised to $10,000 fund to be offered as a reward for the taking, dead pr alive, of the German commander of the Eleventh Division. - It was this commander who recently was reported in Associated Press dis patches to have offered a reward of 400 marks, or approximately tlOO. for the first American soldier, dead or alive, ' brought behind the German lines. CHILD LABOR RESTRICTED AH Under 1 4 Years 'of Age Barred From Military Establishments. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. - 20. (Spe cial.) Orders were received from Washington today at Western Depart ment headquarters that children under 14 years of age shall not be employed In any military establishment and that children between the ages of 14 and 16 years of age shall not work more than eight hours a day In any military es tablishment nor before 6 o'clock In the morning. MAYOR'S AIDE INDICTED Charges Allege Payment of Money forsllestoring Saloon Licenses. CHICAGO, Sept. 20. Francis A. Becker.' an alleged political lieutenant of Mayor Wil'iam Hale Thompson, and Willis Melville were indicted on a charge of conspiracy and operating 9 confidence game today. The Indictment is in connection with charges of the alleged payment of money for restoration of saloon licenses. TOBACCO CANVASS IS SET War Department Acts on Bill to Allow Ration for Soldiers. WASHINGTON. Sept. 20. The War Department today informed Represen tative Barkley, of Kentucky, who is seeking to have tobacco made a part of every soldier's rations, that 88 per cent of the regulars are tobacco users. A canvass of National Guardsmen and 'drafted men is to be made to de termine how many of them use tobacco. KINGDON GOULD IS IN ARMY Son of New York Millionaire Mas tered Into 311th Regiment. CAMP DIX. Wrightstown. N. J.. Sept. 20. Kingdon Gould, son of George Gould, of New York, began his life as an Army private today by doing police duty. He has been mustered into Company K Kit the Slim lu.iuient. "Yellow!" "Put Him Out!" Crowd Cries. JUSTICE OF WAR !S DENIED Senator Offers to "Take Care of" Interrupters. GOVERNOR RESTORES QUIET Wisconsin Pacifist Declares' That People Have Forgotten Sacri fices That Were Made for Lib erty in -1 7 76 . and 1861. 6T. PAUL, Sept. 20. Cries , of . "Tel low!" "Put him out!" were shouted at Senator La Follette when. Breaking at the closing session of the producers and consumers' conference here tonight he declared the United States should never have been at war and sought to defend the sinking of the Lusitania. The disturbance subsided almost imme diately and the Senator proceeded with his address. Senator La Follette began his address with the declaration that political par ties had failed to give the people repre sentative government. People's Patriotism IntputTned. "Because you stood up and bared your heads when America was sung a few minutes ago, you have forgotten the sacrifices that were made for that liberty in 1776 and 1861. some of you are testifying to a devotion to liberty you do not feel. "Who is abroad crying In the loudest tones? Business, which is ' making money. The new projects of patriotism are masquerading in the . livery of heaven while you are serving the devil. "I have just come from Washington where, with a little handful of men, I have been waging a fight demanding that taxation should be laid according to the ability to pay. "I wasn't in favor of beginning this war. We had no-grievance. The Ger man Government had - interfered with our rights to travel on the high seafr as passengers on the munition ships of Great Britain. T ' ' Senator Is Interrupted. "On these grievances. , which . were insignificant, considering -the rights and consequences involved, we went to war. We had a right to ship muni tions, but I wasn't in favor of riding." Cries of "Yellow" stopped the Sena tor. "Any man who says that In an audi ence like this is yellow himself," he retorted, and as the interference con tinued. Senator La Follette shouted, "I'll take care of any man who inter rupts me. if you will give me a chance." He had hardly got started again when someone called "What of the Lusitania?" and the din was on again. Governor Frazier, of North Dakota, chairman of the meeting, assisted in quelling the disturbance. r. "STARVATION WILL WIN THE WAR." HOOVER. 1 j L. - "j Probability of Heavy Wheat Imports to America Indicated by Food Administration. OREGONIAN NKWS BUREAU. Wash ington, Sept. 20. The Food Administra tion "today announced that only 3 per cent of the mill capacity is today oper ating In Portland, the same per cent in Seattle and 24 per cent in Tacoma. The announcement adds: "The posi tion on the Pacific Coast has been up set to . some . extent by -the. arrival of 90.000 barrels of Australian , flour and the possibility of an additional 60.000, now on the way. "Australian flour is being offered at between SS and $9 a barrel and all do mestic requirements can be more than filled at the present rate of output. The inability of the sailing ship to contend with the submarine, and therefore Its turn to the safer ground in the Pacific, promises considerable arrivals of Aus tralian wheat and flour. "The present stock of wheat In Aus tralia available for export Is about 135. 000.000 bushels, a large part of which Is not available for Europe on account of short shipping and will probably fil ter into this market on account of the higher prices." WASHINGTON. Sept. 20. Beet sugar producers in conference with the food administration today reached a unani mous agreement under which - the stable retail price of sugar will be about 8 cents a pound. They will sell to wholesalers at - Eastern - refining points at 7i cents a pound, cane "basis, and the retail price, it was stated would normally be not more than . cent higher. The new sugar price will become ef fective in the West October ,1, and in the East about two weeks later. The present price of beet sugar to- whole salers is about 8.4 cents a. pound. CHINESE LOTTERY BEATEN Drafted Oriental Thinks Govern ment Plays to "Win. VANCOUVER. Wash.. Sept. 21.(Spe claL) When Moo Wing, the 28-year-old Chinese, born in Oregon, was bid ding goodby to many of his vegetable customers at tha depot yesterday, when en route to American Lake to join the United States Army, he mused: "For as long -as I can remember. I have played1" the Chinese lottery, and only encv have I won; but Uncle Sam holds a single lottery and-gets me the first time." It 1 expected that Moo Wing will be assisted to kitchen -work in Camp Lewis.' ... ... ZYBSZK0 IN DRAFT , ARMY Famous Wrestler Hides Identity Under His Real Name. MTER, Mass.. Sept. 20. Vladek Zybs zko. the wrestler, was discovered today among the Maine contingent of the National Army here, he having been as signed to the 303d Heavy Artillery. His identity had been concealed un der his real name, Cyganiewiez. which he gave when he took out his citizen ship papers and was accepted for the draft army. He was born In Austria of Polish parents. Bennett's Strength Is Underestimated.- FUSION HAS 1119 PLURALITY Close Contests Are Found by Both Parties. APATHY MARKS VOTING Resentment Against Machine Poli tics . Believed Reason for Low Vote Primaries Show That Party Lines Are Weak. NEW YORK, Sept. 20. (Special.) Apathy toward politics, probably due to the war, and resentment of machine methods appear to be mainly respon sible for the poor showing made In the Republican primaries here yesterday by Mayor John Purroy Mltchel, and for some of the results In the Democratic primaries, which are almost . equally significant. Unofficial and incomplete figures available tonight give Mr. Mitchel a plurality of 1119 over Mr. Bennett, his opponent, the total vote In the Greater City having been about 72,000. In three minor fights in the Demo cratic primaries, the organization can didates won by pluralities equally meager. Ve(e Quarter f Registration. - The Republican enrollment in the Greater City is 250.450 this year. The vote in the Republican primaries there fore was a little more than 28 per cent of the enrollment. This is exceedingly low. In " other years the pereentag has run as high as 40 per cent- Last year the primary vote exceeded 80,000, yet this year the campaign Is gplng to be a local one, and city campaigns us ually arouse great "interest in New York. ' ' ' - - , In Tammany Hall's own bailiwick the enrollment this yean lor .Manhat tan and" the Bronx, is approximately 19S.000. In these territories Thomas E. Rush competed tor a. Supreme Court nomination against the son of one of the most influential leaders in Tam many. Despite this the total vote was about 40,000, in the neighborhood of 20 per cent. And Rush received nearly 15,000 of the votes cast. Political Error Made. These figures indicate the apathy of the average voter, and particularly of the independent voter. Conversely, they indicate the waning 'strength of the two old machines, both, semingly. unable to get out a big vote. The remarkable run made by Will iam M. Bennett against Mr. Mitchel appears to.be- due principally to two things deep-rooted antipathy to Mayor Mitchel among machine Re publicans and utter failure on the part of the managers of the Mitchel cam- (Concluded on Pa;e 2. Column 3.) You Must Either Be for Your Country or Against It," Is Ad monition as Jury Retires. SEATTLE, Wash, Sept. 20. Direct ing their acquittal on all charges ex cept the count of the indictment charging violation of the sedition act. the case of Hulet M. Wells. Sam Sad ler and Aaron Flslerman was given to the jury tonight by Judge Neterer with the admonition that "there are only two sides in this war: you must either be for your country or against it." These, three, with R. E. Rice, have been on tri'Al here for a week for con spiracy to obstruct enforcement of the conscription Uw. The court today di rected Rice's acquittal on all counts. The prosecution was based on .the dis tribution of circulars advocating re sistance to conscription. 1 Judge Neterer declared that the guilt or innocence of Wells and his co-defendants was not affected by what Daniel Webster, William Lloyd Garri son, Jane Addams, George W. Wicker- sham, David Starr Jordan or anybody else had said or done. Both Wells and his attorney had attempted to shift the blame for Wells" state of mind toward the draft upon sentiments expressed by these or other notables. . Wells preceded his own attorney in addressing the jury. He declared his opposition to all war. He asserted that President Wilson could not distinguish the real voice of the people above th "clamor of the jingo press." 3 ROBBERS HOLD UP TRAIN Engine and Express Car Detached and Safe Dynamited. JACKSON. Tenn.. Sept. 20. Three masked men late tonight held up a northbound Mobile & Ohio passenger train at Finger, Term., 30 miles south of this, city, .detached the engine and cAjiica car irom me other coaches and. after running the express car sev eral miles, dynamited the safe, but, railroad officials say, obtained virtual ly nothing of value, as it is the custom not to , handle currency or other val uable .shipments- on night trains. PORTLAND CARS ARE USED First Section of Ambulance Service ' 'w- Leaves Paris. W: ' - " PARIS, Sept. 20. The first section of the American field service, attached to the' United States ambulance service, left Paris yesterday on cars furnished by the citizens of Portland, Or. The section comprises representatives of many of the important American universities. St. Helens Strike Predicted. ASTORIA. Sept. 20. (Special.) A strike Of millworkers and shipworkers at St. Helens may be expected Saturday or Monday, it is rumored here tonight. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature. 75 degrees; minimum. 53 degrees. TODAY'S Fair; gentle winds, mostly south War. Britons gain mile in new drive In Flanders. Page 1. Germany's reply not yet received by Pope. Page 0. Central span of Quebec cantilever bridge at last bolted in place. Page 3. French Deputies vote confidence In Painleve Ministry. Page . National. Australia sends hlg flour cargo to United States. Page 1. Government fixes copper price at 23 tt cents. Page 3. House delays war tax bill. Page 2. President desires facta about labor. Page 3. Anti-trust law held unworkable. - Page 6. Northwest wheatgrowers present case to President Wilson. Page 4. Domestic. M Labor charges police frame-up In Mooney case. Page 2. Low vote for Mitchel causes surprise. Page 1. La Follette, upholds sinking of Lusitania, Page 1. Gerard says liberal party in Germany Is possible. Page 6. Wheat la being fed to Oklahoma hogs. Page 4. . Sports. Pacific Coast League results: Portland 6. Oakland 4: Los Angeles 2. Vernon 1; San Francisco 4. Salt Lake 2. Page 16.' World's series will start at Chicago. Octo ber 6. Page IS. St. Louis Browns draft Houck. Page 18. Joe Benjamin to box Lloyd Madden. Page 17. Ten men on list from which scholastic grid iron officials will be chosen. Page 17. Pacific Northwest. Sixth member of one family is now in serv ice of allies. Page 10. Attempt made to wreck troop train at Meeker. Page 10. Round-Up cup of happiness overflows Page 6. Daniel Webster fails to save H. M. Wells, on trial on sedition charge. Page 1. Lumber workers' strike suspended. Page 7. Commercial and Marine. Sugar price will be stationary during crop year. Page 21. Government requests speeding up of wheat movement. Page 21. Upward tendency of Wall-street stocks con tinues. Page 21. Shipyard strike la up to Government. Page 1L Steamer Beaver leaves for South today with 444 passengers. Page 18. Portland and Vicinity. Valley ' mills present plea for coast rate. Page JL Weather report, data and forecast. Page 8 Breakfast order placed for first arrivals on draft trains. Page 1. Police pensions suddenly halted Page 22. Delicacies distributed aboard troop trains on way to American Lake. Page 10. Municipal Judge Rosaman today hands down decision on question of holding trunks believed to contain liquor. Page 14. Harriet Kinney paroled to physician for treatment. Page 8. Commissioner Ketlaher seeks place for stor- arge of wood and coal by the city Page 18. ' Telephone linemen and switchboard men will demand higher wages. Page 8, Lumbermen Charge Discrimination. INDUSTRY HELD THROTTLED Bame Piaced on Northern Railway Lines. COMMISSION HEARING HELD Contention - Is That Points Along Southern Pacific Are Entitled to Same Tariff as Equl-Dis-tant Points In Washington. Rates declared to be preferential and unjustly discriminatory against lumber mills of the Willamette Valley were attacked yesterday at an Interstate Commerce Commission hearing held in Federal Court before C R. Marshall, attorney-examiner. It will be continued today. It was testified by leading lumber men that dfiferentlals against saw mill products in this district have closed numerous mills, hampering and hedging In the Industry, barring it from wider and profitable markets, while the industrial progress of the state is thereby retarded. Parity With Portland Sought. The absorption of local freight tar iffs on carloads of lumber from points of origin in the Willamette Valley to Portland Is asked of the Northern rail way lines, that Valley lumber may reach Northwest markets on a parity of delivery cost with the output of mills at Coast points and those at com mon points In Washington. The Southern Pacific. Company is chief defendant in the suit brought and others are the Northern Pacific, Great Northern, Chicago, Milwaukee ot bu Paul," and many connecting lines throughout the West. Railway Asserts Willingness. The Southern .Pacific Company yes terday expressed willingness to comply with the wishes of the millmen and adjust the through rate with the North ern lines. . j.ne lavoritism oi tnese carriers to ward mills in Washington on their own rails, was ascribed by James Mulchay, assistant general freight agent for the Southern Pacific at San Francisco, as rangement had not been effected long: ago. Railroads In Snarl. The railroads affected have long been unable to agree upon a division of the freight rate, the absorption of from 5 to 13 cents on each 100 pounds being essential. Negotiations over this matter have been had by the railroads but, finding themselves unable to agree, it was agreed to refer the subject to the In terstate commerce commission ior ad justment. It Is expected a satisfactory settlement will be reached as the result of the present hearing, but, following the usual channels, the desired rate cannot be anticinated for a vear or more. The rate into certain Northwestern teiritory over the Northern lines has closed Valley mills, lowered prices of stumpage - and hampered industrial progress in the great timber belt south of Portland, said A. C Dixon, of Eu gene, manager of the Booth-Kelly Lum ber Company. 1 . 31111s Are Threatened. "Our two mills at Coburg and Sagi naw have been closed," he said, "while our mills at Springfield and Wendling are running. We. had seriously con sidered closing them also, because of the lack of a market, but the recent re vival of the lumber business helped us to keep open. "Although the greatest fir forests in. Oregon and Washington are in the Willamette Valley territory, the mills have been hampered to a great extent in the development of the Industry. We have had to confine our business to the Union Pacific territory as regards the. Northwest until the building of the Oregon Electric, and the business han dled by that line Is only 2 per cent of our output. Position Declared Unique. "No other lumber producing section of the country. I believe. Is so restrict ed as we are in the matter of distribu tion. A wide-open gateway at Port land, equal rates and free distribution are prime requisites if the lumbering business In this state is to be developed as It should be. "The Willamette Valley has suffered more from the lack of cars to. ship its lumber than any other part of the. country and President Sproule, of tha Southern Pacific, himself said when discussing the matter of removing this differential against us. that if it were accomplished, it would undoubtedly help the car situation materially. "We are deprived of business be cause of the rates and if the Coast group tariffs were in effect, the in dustry would be stimulated and helped Instead of being depressed. We feel that the railroads are not working for their own best interests by withholding the desired relief from us, for the pros perity of the lumber business, the one big industry of the Willamette Valley, would be reflected widely throughout the closely related activities of the state. "It is impossible to do business in Concluded on Page 15. Column l. V. t