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mmniHinHnHnnHimTC uiunimiiiTMftmiinimminiimiitiiniu Liberty Bonds Pay Can yon find a better investment than a liberty bond? Investigate. 1 I Save Our Soldiers the Army and Navy. i itiiiHHinniutiHunniiuiiHNnHiniii; aimiuuiuiujitiniHimnmttitmtiitHimmiiumiiHuiituimiaminuuiiuiiHa VOL,, ivn so. PORTLAND, OREGON, SATURDAY. OCTOBER., II?. I!U7.. PRICE FIVE CENTS. TEUTONS YIELD AS HAIG PRESSES ON Latest Offensive Halted by Rains. FIRST SLACKER IN OREGON CONVICTED CALL FOR SECOND DRJEF-SSiflTuERED VON CAPELLE HAS RESIGNED-OFFICE SHIPS TO BE TAKEN 300 QUARTS SEIZED ON SHASTA LIMITED $50 BOND BUYERS URGENTLY NEEDED BY JURY KINDS JEFFERSON NEW IS WITHIN DRAFT LIMITS. GERMAN MINISTER OF MARINE YIELDS TO ENEMIES. PASSENGERS CRY VAINLY FOR PORTERS THEY'RE IN JAIL. NATION MONDAY GERMANS LESS FORMIDABLE All Is Going Well for Allies on Flanders Front. MANY PRISONERS TAKEN Field Marshal Pays High Tribute to His Men for Oallant Work in Bad Weather of Past 1'ow Days. LONDON. Oct. J 2. Progress was made along the entire front in Flan ders, where I'ield Marshal llaig began another offensive Friday morning. Rain intervened, however, and it was decided not to make further efforts to reach the final objectives which it had been planned to take. These statements are contained in the official communication issued to night. COO Prlflonprs Taken. The communication adds that the prisoners taken daring the day ap proximate 000. BRITISH FHOXT IN FRANCE AND BELGIUM, Oct. 12. (By the Associated Tress.) Today's dawn again saw the great British war machine set in action across the Flanders mud field against the German positions northeast of Tpres. At an early hour, the attacking forces had penetrated several hundred yards into the enemy's territory along a six-mile front, extending from a place near Houtholst forest, down be low the Ypres-Roulers Railway, and were battling along the Passchendaele ridge within a thousand yards of the center of Passchendaele village. Crrmana Active at icht. - The offensive started at 5:25 in the morning. The condition of the ground was appalling, but by 7:43 the report came back that everything was going well, and the troops over a wide sec tion of the front had pushed forward to a depth advancing S00 yards or more. Prisoners already were begin ning to come in. although slowly, owing to the condition of the ground. The enemy's artillery barrage was low in response at the hour of attack and the fire was not severe, but the Germans were putting a heavy machine gun barrage all along the line. The enemy's guns were very active during the night against the central and southern portions -of the battle- front, especially about Broodseinde ridge and the Ypres-Koulers Railway. l-a Slielln Thrown. Between 4 and 4:30 this morning a large number of gas shells were thrown along the British front line, probably Indicating that the Germans were aware there was trouble ahead. The chief enemy of the British today was not the Germans, but mud. No worse conditions under foot could be imagined than those that Im peded . the assaulting infantry this morning. The recent rains already had turned the whole, section into a vast inorass in which men sank to their knees or to their waists, and even were engulfed to their necks as they made their arduous way forward. Last night rain again fell to add to the difficul ties of the situation, but this morning the sun was struggling through the5 clouds to cast some measure of warmth over this bleak and dreary waste. Enemy la DiMorganlr.ed. So far as the Germans themselves were concerned there was no doubt in the minds of the British but that they could handle them. The Emperor's troops in this section now are far less formidable than they were, owing to the disorganization caused in their ranks by the recent terrific blows deaJt to them. This is . not an individual opinion. It is generally recognized along the front by the British and Ger mans, too. that a change has come over the morale of the invaders. Almost any prisoner would admit this fact. The spirit of the British troops, how ever, has been wonderful throughout, notwithstanding the terrible hardships they endured in the recent operations. It was only yesterday that Field Mar shal Haig, in speaking to the cdrre spondent, particularly mentioned this feature and paid the highest tribute to the gallant work of his men from the different parts of the empire under these indescribably trying conditions. Hale la With Hla Men. The British commander-in-chief does not confine himself to headquarters in conducting operations. He is here and there and everywhere and knows what his men are enduring. It is an inter esting sidelight on the character of the man who is guiding the destinies of the British armies in France-that his heart undoubtedly is with the men in fne front line and he feels keenly their sufferings. The Field Marshal's whole conversation indicates that. The battle of Poelcapelle took on re newed vigor at daybreak, but no offi cial reports have been received to in dicate whether the Germans have been pushed from their brewery stronghold on the eastern outskirts. The air serv ice, notwithstanding the wind, was ac tive. Decision Reached That Age Entry in Family Bible Was Tampered With; Sentence Deferred. A jury in Federal Judge Bean's court yesterday convicted Jefferson New, of Jennings Lodge, of attempting to evade the draft by falling "willfully" to reg ister June 5 for the Army, as provided by law and a proclamation of President Wilson. Sentence was deferred. He is the first "slacker" to be con victed in Oregon. New is subject to imprisonment for one year, in the discretion of the court, and must register and serve in the Army, according to the provisions of the law. His only defense was that he thought he was more than 31 years old, basing this upon the family Bible, in which his mother, it was testified, at a family conference, wrote down the ages of the sons' and daughters, placing his date of birth as of March, 18S6. How ever, the "6" had been penciled in, making it appear as though it had been written over a figure "7," and showing, therefore, he was of draft age. Judge Bean, in instructing the jury, said it must decide the facts and ren der a verdict of guilty, unless it should find beyond a reasonable doubt that he was innocent. George C. Brownell, of Oregon City, defended the case, and Deputy United States Attorney Goldstein was the prosecutor. Mr. Brownell asked the jury to go slowly in branding a man for life, while Mr. Goldstein said it would "make a man of New" to bo drafted and forced to do something worthy, which he of himself had not the moral courage to do. 30 GO TO ELK CREEK FIRE Heavily Timbered Mountainsides Make Blaze Control Difficult. MEDFORD. Or., Oct. 12. (Special.) Thirty additional fire-fighters were this afternoon rushed to the Elk Creek district on the Umpqua Divide, where 130 men are battling stub bornly with several blazes raging in the timber. Assistant forest Supervisor Fosdick has received advices that some head way has been made in checking the flames, but the situation is yet ad mittedly serious. The nature of the ground makes com batiiig the flames very difficult as the mountain sides a re . heavily.- timbered, very steep and 'With a heavy growth of underbrush. BEND, Or., Oct. 12. (Special.) Al though the atmosphere In this section is still clouded with smoke no new forest fires have been reported. The fire which was raging in the Fox Butte section is reported as being under control. No further report has been received from the Lapine fire. GOTHAM HAS MORE WATER Flow From Ncv Calskiil Mountain Reservoir Turned On. . NEW YORK, Oct. 12. New York City received its first supply of water from the Cat. kill Mountains today. when Mayor Mitchel accepted a foun tain in the northern reservoir of Cen tral Tark and turned on the flow that will give New Yorkers 300.000,000 more gallons daily. The fountain has five jets and the pressure from the Catskill aqueduct throws a stream 115 feet in the air. The water comes from the Ashoken reservoir. 120 miles away. The cost of completing the vast undertaking was $184,707,540. SEIZED SHIPS TO BE USED Brazilian Flag to Fly Over Former German Steamers. RIO JANEIRO. Oct. 12. The Bra zilian government . purposes to utilize seized German steamers for the organ ization of International steamship lines. The vessels will fly the Brazilian flag and will be used in the interest of I Brazil and the allies. The crews of the vessels will be made up of Bra- I zilians. The realization of this project now depends solely on an understanding between Brazil and the allies, which Brazil considers esential. VON LUXBURG IS ARRESTED Former German Minister to Argen tina at Detention Camp. BUENOS AIRES. Oct. 12. Count Karl von Luxburg, the former German Minister to Argentina, arrived today at the detention camp on the island of Martin Garcia. Count von Luxburg, after having! been handed his passports, disappeared from Buenos Aires, but 'was found early in the week in the southern part of the province of Buenos Aires and arrested. NEW ORDER BEING FORMED "Fathers and Brothers of Soldiers I and Sailors" Now Organizing. CLEVELAND, Oct. 12. Cleveland Is to become the headquarters of a new organization, "The Fathers and Broth ers of Our Soldiers and Sailors," being formed here today. The organization proposes to supplement the work of the Red Cross. It Is proposed to encourage the for mation of. chapters all over the country. Date May Be Fixed for December or Later. DIVISIONS ARE SHORT OF MEN Deficiencies to Be Made From Next Contingent. Up ACTION: MAY BE DELAYED Equipment Coming Forward Slowly and Railroads Arc Already Bur dened in Moving Army and Necessities. WASHINGTON, Oct. 12. Discussion of the advisability of expediting the call for the second increment of the draft Army now is in progress at the War Department and it appears likely that the date may be fixed for tome time in December or January. Mobilization of the first increment of 6S7.000 men is now far enough ad vanced to show clearly that there will be a big deficiency for the 17 National Army divisions. More than 250,000 of the first increment are still to be as sembled, but it is already evident that there will be available at the 16 can tonments quarters for an additional regiment at each post and at some for a full brigade of two regiments. The strength- of the new regimental organization is 3600 men. With a regi ment lacking at each cantonment, this alone would mean a shortage of nearly 50,000 men. In addition, there has been authorized a separate division of negro troops, .which means nearly SO, 000 men withdrawn from the origi nal number assigned to the 16 canton ments. Transfers Partly Responsible. The shortage is due partially to the necessity of taking out of the National Army men to fill up National Guard di visions. Two complete National Army divisions of Southern troops have been absorbed in this way. The remnants of three other Southern National Army divisions will be consolidated to form a single divisional unit, and the sur plus men from other camps, will be sent South to make up the missing divisions. Drafts on the National Army forces also must be made to fill up the en listed personnel of the aviation serv ice, the Medical Corps and the service battalions needed behind the fighting lines abroad. Eventually there will be 250,000 men in the last-named serv ice alone, and aviation and the medical service will take-nearly as many more, though not all of them will be taken fron the National Army. Call May Be Delayed. Operating to delay the calling out of the second increment to make good these shortages are several factors, (t'om-ludfd on .'mjsp :. Column ... t UNCLE SAM YOU I 7 I f" '-' - : :-. , M :i r , ii.i.i ii ui Mm. imianiTJI t I i i wC iauol. c "cr ezz? i) ill 1 r-1; f Recent Statement Regarding Revolt in Navy Believed to Have Led to 3Iove. AMSTERDAM, Oct. 12. Vlce-dmlral von Capelle, the German Minister of Marine, has resigned, according to the Frankfurter Zeitung. Vice-Admiral Eduard von Capelle was one of the administrative direc tors in the Ministry of Marine before th'e war and had served as captain at sea. Ip March. 1916, he succeeded Ad miral von Tirpitz as Imperial Minister of the navy. Several times since then Von Capelle has appeared before the Reichstag with optimistic statements regarding the progress of the un restricted submarine campaign, as late as .August 16, 1917, defending, the U-boat policy of his predecessor and himself at a meeting of the Reichstag main cdmmittee. Vice-Admiral von Capelle announced in the Reichstag last Wednesday that a plot had -been discovered in the navy to paralyze the efficiency of the fleet and force the government to make peace. He said that the guilty parties had received their just deserts and attempted to link Socialists with the plot. The Imperial German Chan cellor, Dr. Michaelis, also spoke of the existence of the conspiracy in the navy and asserted that certain depu ties were involved in the revolt. The Socialists and their newspapers have attacked both the Chancellor and the Vice-Admiral for their statements. GERMAN PROFESSOR IS OUT Position at University of Michigan .Declared Vacant. ANN ARBOR, Mich.. Oct. 12. The position of Dr. Carl Eggert. assistant professor of German at the University of Michigan, was declared vacant by the board of regents this afternoon at the conclusion of an investigation into charges that he had made inpatriotic utterances. The charges were made by. students. Dr. Eggert has been connected with the university since 1901. TRENCHES ARE RETAKEN Russian Troops Recover Lost Ground . in Rig-a Section. PETROGRAL-Oct. 12. By acountr attack yesterday Russian troops recap tured the trenches lost Wednesday south of the Pskoff road in the Riga region, the War office announced to day. North of the road Russian advance posts were drawn in where they were exposed to a violent artillery fire by the Germans. IIH ETA rHII.DG DORR ARTI CLE DEI.A1GD. The article scheduled for pub lication in The Oregonian today in the series by Rheta Childe Dorr failed to arrive in lime for this edition. It will be published in The Sunday Oregonian if it reaches the office in time. MUST HELP THE BOYS WHO FIGHT OUR BATTLES. Beaver and Rose City Are Included. ORDER EFFECTIVE AT NOON Immediate Use of Vessels Is Held Unlikely. LIMIT WILL BE LOWERED Only Cargo Carriers of More Than 2500 Tons Deadweight and Pas . senger Vessels of 2500 Gross Tons Register Affected. WASHINGTON, Oct. 12 Announce ment of the general method by which the American merchant marine is to be requisitioned October 13 by the Gov ernment was made tonight by Bain bridge Colby, of the Shipping Board, in a notice sent to shipowners. The requisition will include at first only cargo ships of more than 2500 tons deadweight capacity and passenger vessels of more than 2500 gross tons register. The limit probably will be lowered soon to include craft of more than 1500 tons. Notice Sent Owneri. The notification sent to shipowners reads: "The United States Shipping Board hereby gives notice to all owners of ships registered and enrolled under the laws of the United States that the re quisition of all American steamers de scribed below, and of which previous announcement has been made, will be come operative and effective on October 13, 1917, at noon. "First The .ships affected by said requisition and included therein are (a) all carfo ships able to carry, not less than 2500 tons total deadweight, in cluding bunkers, water and stores; (b) all passenger steamers of not less than 2500 tons gross register. . Order L-ffct'tlve at Noon. " "Second (a) As to all steamers in, or bound to American ports on October 13, 1917, requisition becomes effective after discharge of inward cargo and ship is put in ordinary good condition, (b) As to steamers which have started to load their outward cargo, requisition becomes effective at noon on October 15, 1917, and accounts as to hire and expenses will be adjusted from time steamer began to load. "Third Steamers, trading to and from American ports, that have sailed on their voyage prior to October lj, 1917, at noon, are to complete that voy age as promptly as possible and report for requisition. Regular Trade to Continue. "Fourth Steamers that are occupied in irade between foreign ports hall be requisitioned as of October 1.", 1917, 'onrlund on Pate Column 1.) - It Clarke County Authorities Discover Liquor Is on Train and Notify Cowlitz Sheriff. VANCOUVER, Wash., Oct. 12. (Spe cial.) Passengers on three Pullmans of the Shasta Limited were forced to do without porter service from Kalama to Seattle yesterday. The law was deaf to the needs of the travelers when 300 quarts of liquor were discovered. Clarke County authorities were tipped off from Portland that the fast train from California carried a quan tity of whisky. When it arrived here Sheriff Biesecker interviewed the con ductor, who' was in too much of a hurry to be of any assistance. A deputy was placed aboard the train and the Cow litz County Sheriff at Kalama was notified by telegraph to have a search warrant ready when the train arrived there. - The search netted 15 suitcases con taining nearly 300 quarts of liquor. J. C. Hall, A. J. Simmons and William Gibson, negro porters, were returned here with the confiscated whisky. GREEK AIDS IN BOND SALE Bootblack Subscribes for $2000 and Vrgcs Associates to Buy. Anthony Ellison, a Greek bootblack, whose stand is at 2S7, Washington street, is a regular American. He has saved up 2000 and invested it all in liberty bonds. One of the committees of retailers now canvassing the city in the interest of the liberty loan ran across Anthony yesterday as he was "shinin1 'em up" and not only found out that his $2000 is invested in liberty bonds, but that he is working with the Greek commu nity in creating interest in the bond campaign. GERMAN GENERAL JEERED Commander Warning Troops Greet ed With Derisive Laughter. LONDON. Oct. 12. A dispatch from the 'British headquarters t- Renter's, Limited, says' that a prisoner from the 72d German infantry reserve, . in de scribing the discipline of his corps. declared that before the last battle a regimental commander , addressed his troops with the warning that anyone who held back wotrld be shot. The only answer .was a general groaning, swelling into derisive laugh ter, upon which the commander rode away. KAISER HONORED AT SOFIA German Emperor. Prince and For. cign Secretary in Bulgaria. AMSTERDAM. Oct. 12. The German Emperor arrived at Sofia. Bulgaria, yesterday, according to advices re ceived here. He was accompanied by Prince August Will. elm and Koreif .Secretary von Kuehlmann. The Em peror was received by the King of Bui garia and with him rode through dec orated streets to a. triumphal arch erected in honor of the imperial visitor. The burgomaster of Sofia, according to custom, offered Emperor William bread and salt. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. TESTRRDAT'S Maximum temperature. 66 dr (frees; minimum, Wl drea. TODAY'S Fair; northwesterly windn. 'mr. Vice-Admiral von Capelle. German Minister of Marine, lias retignetj. Page 1. Cill for second Increment of Army now being considered. Pago J. Kai forces Germans hack on Flanders front. Paw 1. Preparing Camp Greene for soldier habita tion a. colossal task. Page 2. foreign. New union Kovern:nent In Canada. Mill has Kaurier opposition to contend with. Page 4. .National. Government to take over ships Monday. Page 1. liberty loan campaign calls for greater ex penditure of energy. Page li. Government serioualy concerned over short age of labor. Page 14. Call issued for annual convention of Na tional Woman Suffrage Association at Washington. Page 4. Iometic. Strike of r000 telephone employes on Pa cific Coast threatened. Page ::. Columbia University atudents plead for re call of .resigned professor. Page 14. -Sports. Pacific . Coast Teague results: Portland 1 ,' San Francisco ft; Oakland 1, Vernon 0; Kos Angeiea 4, t.alt Iak 2. Page $. Bot h Giants and Sox express confidence of winning today. Pa ge 0. Three Northwest conference elevens will open season today. Page S. Portland Hunt Club to hold Fall meet today. Page 9. Jefferson toys with Hill, 70 to O. Page 0. Boxers appear fit for bouts. Page 8. Pacific Northwest. Pullman porters and whisky taken from Shasta Limited. Page 1. Special officer rounds up bootleggers iu Grant County. Page t. Senator McXary declares prohibition, uf- frage coming at next Congress. Page 6. Commercial and Marine. Storage holdings of eggs and butter are In creased. Pa ge 17. Advance in cattle prices at Worth Portland stock, yards. Page 17. First phlpment of Australian wool made to AmeHca. Page 17. Portland and Vicinity. Strikers and shipbuilders await arrival of Federal Labor Board. Page o. Oregon speakers to herald liberty loan 1s- ue over state beginning Monday. Page 7. Streetcar strike arbitration board questions labor and company Deads. Page 14. ! Development of Columbia Klver mouth as port urged. Page 18. . Two school girls hit by motorcycles. Page 11. Oregon liberty loan score rises to $3,360,890. Page 1. Wai Conirress loyal, says Mr. McArthur. Page - War on vice planned by Army and civil authorities. Page 12- First slacker convicted in Oregon. Page 1. Weather report data and forecast, rase 17. Small Investor Target for Appeal. STATE SCORE IS $3,360,890 Ninety Oregon Soldiers Give $6000 for Liberty. GREATER GAINS DEMANDED Ben Selling Plan of Permitting In vestment on $1 Scale Brings Scores of Inquiries Henry Reed to Aid Campaign. how ori:;oxs qvota stood yesterday, S u in ran r y. City of Tortland Previously reported. .$2,263,450 Reported today 214,600 Total $2,478,050 Outside of Portland Previously reported.. $ S33.550 Reported today 43.300 Total i 882.850 Grand total ...$3,360,900 "I could only take a $50 bond. That would be of no use to the Government, would it?-' Such was the question asked of C. A. Miller, campaign manager of the Ore Bon liberty loan drive, at a meeting- of the Portland Women's Club yesterday at the Multnomah. It widened his eyes and opened his mouth. In instant ex postulation. "If every resident of the state would buy just one $50 bab bond, -ive should more than double our quota," was his reply. . . Only Smaller Bonda Cmlas;. . - 'This Is popular loan. AVe could subscribe it almost overnight by goini-r to Wall street. But this loan has al most especially been devised to elim inate the large subscriber and make it easy for the small one. It is taxable for the large subscriber, but non-taxable for the small one. "So certain are we of a preponder ance of $50 and $100 subscriptions that we have even been advised that honds of these denominations alone will be here in a few days. If there were no $50 subscriptions. Oregon would never make its quota. " 'Mony a mlokle makes a muckle,'" he concluded, quoting sage old Bobbie Burns, "and in liberty loan talk that means that 100 bonds of $50 each are as good as one $5000 bond. If every family in Oregon bought just $100 worth of bonds, the quota would be subscribed. If every member of this club bought a single $50 bond, fne combined transaction would equal a $12,500 purchase. "Yes. most assuredly we want the $50 bond subscription. Wc rely on it." Greater C.altiN Demanded. Oregon's climb to the apex of the quota reached $3,360. 890 yesterday, and the flag on the sightly indicator at Kifth and, Morrison streets fluttered just that much nearer the goal. But Manager Miller and his aides are in sistent that every day must see a greater gain, and that no effort be re laxed, if the state is to hold the laurels she won in the previous lihery loan, in response to the call to arms and in the Red Cross drive. On the pcitoffice grounds, where the flag indicator of Oregon's quota rises, 30 feet in height, noonday exercises will begin on Monday, when the mem bers' council of the Chamber of Com merce will be in charge of the pro gramme. As the progress of the quota, for the day is received from liberty loan headquarters the flag will be raised to its new mark, and for ten minutes speakers will give patriotic addressee on the issue of the day. Each day. from then on, a different civic organization will be in charge of the exercises. Karmera to Read Appeal. At headquarters the volunteering of assistance is a source of inspiration to workers who rise with the lark and retire when the patrolmen begins to ask wayfarers what they are doing out so late. Scarcely an hour' elapses without some unsolicited service being offered, or a contribution that spells unselfish sacrifice being received. One full page of space, an advertise ment to the farmers of Oregon in be half of the liberty loan, has been vol unteered by the publishers of the West ern Farmer, and will appear in the next issue of the publication. The advertise ment displays a fac simile telegrapK blank, addressed to "The American Farmer, Kvery where, U. S. A.," and signed by "Uncle Sam," urging "the backbone of the U. S. A." to partici pate in patriotic bond buying. Points of the issue are fully explained, and the publication has organized a liberty bond department to act in co-operation with Oregon headquarters. Mr. Selllnar'n Plan Winn. Ben Selling's proposal to furnish small denomination liberty bonds to any purchaser in Oregon, at $1 down and $1 a week, to be delivered to the subscriber with all coupons attached, and without any Interest charges, when It-'onunued uu t't-se T. Coiumn o. y