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a VOL. L.VII. SO. 17,764. PORTLAND. OREGON, MONDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1917. PRICE FIVE CENTS. TEUTONS CAPTURE SKIRTS TO BESH0RT; SHOES TO BE LOWER FUNDS FOR LIBERTY BAPTISM IN MUD LOT OF U.S. TROOPS STRICT FOOD SAVING IN OREGON ASSURED FIRST FROSTY HINT OF WINTER ARRIVES FINAL THRILLS OF DRIVE DESCRIBED Heroic Work Done in Scores of Towns. LOAN STILL COIUR WIXTER OCTLOOK FOR WOMEN OF AMERICA HARD ONE. I " 1 VMERICANS ENTRENCHED AT srxxr, sxappy day calls xa- TCRE-LOVERS TO OPEX, k .iROXT GETTIXG "SEASOXED." 100,01 ITALIAN S IS Austro-Germans Pierce to Northern Italy. CITY OF GORIIA IS LOST Rome Reports Surrender of Part of Second Army and Break of Wing. HUNS CROSS THE ISONZO 700 Guns Fall Into Hands of Kaiser's Forces, Who Ad vance as Foe Retreats. BERLIN, via London, Oct. 28. The capture of 100,000 Italians and more than 700 guns is reported in the official communication from general headquarters tonight, which declares that the Italian second and third armies are in retreat. The statement reads: "The Italian second and third armies are in retreat towards the vest. Our pursuit is advancing rap idly from the mountains as far as the sea. Up to the present 100,000 pris oners and TOO guns have been enumerated." BERLIN, via London, Oct. 28. (British Admiralty, per Wireless Press.) The Austrians and Germans have forced their way through the .mountains to the plains of Northern Italy, capturing the town of Cividale, the War Office announces. Gorizia Is Captured. . The city of Gorizia, on the Isonzo, also has been captured. The number of Italian prisoners, according to the report, has been in creased to more than 80,000, AMSTERDAM, Oct. 28. The oc cupation of Gorizia this morning by Austro-German forces is annoui.ced in an official dispatch from Vienna. The Italians are said to have retired across the Isonzo. ROME, Oct. 28. Units of the Ital ian second army surrendered or re treated without fighting, permitting the Austro-German forces to break the Italian left wing on the Julian front and invade Italy, says today's official report. Italians in Retreat. The Italians now are retreating in accordance with the plan prepared. (By the Associated Press.) The Austro-German army, under the command of Emperor Charles, who has as his chief assistant the brilliant Field Marshal von Mackcn sen, are shaking the entire Italian line from the Julian Alps region to the Adriatic Sea. Pressing back the Italians at several points on Italian foil, the combined enemy forces now have pushed forward on the Italian left wing and captured Cividale, lying to the northeast of Udine, and are nearing the plains beyond. In addi tion, the Austrian town of Gorizia, a point of great strategic value on the Isonzo River, has been retaken from the Italians. Two Armies in Retreat. According to the latest Berlin of ficial communication 100,000 Italians have been made prisoner and in ex cess of 700 guns have fallen into Austro-German hands. The second and third Italian armies are declared to be in retreat. Rome admits the falling back of the second army, asserting that cowardice similar to that shown by the Russians in Galicia was exhibited in the face of the foe, the Italians surrendering or retreating without giving battle, per mitting the breaking of the left wing and thereby offering easy access to the town of Cividale. Prior to falling back, however, the Italians destroyed all their depots and stores and Civi dale was on fire when the Austro Germans entered it. Entire Army Imperiled. Possibly the Italians in this region, who are declared by Rome to be re treating to prepared positions on the plains, will turn about and meet the enemy in open-country fighting. If they do not and the enemy is ble to keep up westward the fast IConduded ou Fase Column l. Western Association of Shoe Dealers Decree "liberty" Boots Must Be Cut Down Th-ee Inches. ST. LOUIS, Mo.. Oct. 28. (Special.) Between the dictum of Mr. Hoover that skirts must be shorter and narrower and the decision of the Western Asso ciation of Shoe Dealers, which has just closed its convention, that shoes must be shorter, what is a poor girl to do, with a hard Winter coming: on? Here, at one fell blow, in a manner of speaking;, a considerable gap has been created, by official orders, be tween the shoe tops and the skirt T os teins, and nothing: has been devised to cover the hiatus. If dimpled feminine knees can be designated as a hiatus. In any event, the rubber-necking In dustry will grow by leaps arid bounds and forthcoming cold, windy days will see much suffering, not to mention sundry adorable curves, and shapely shanks. - The Western Association of Shoe Dealers decrees that "The liberty shoe" shall be three inches shorter' than those now worn. That is getting back to the days when women's shoes came just above the ankles. It is estimated that by this means the manufacturers can save one pair of shoes in every 10 and this is a big item in these days of conservation. GENERAL BIDDLE CHOSEN New Assistant ClileT of Staff Has Executive Reputation. " WASHINGTON, Oct. 28. Secretary Baker announced tonight the appoint ment of Major-General John Blddle as assistant chief of staff, a post vacant since General Bliss succeeded Major General Scott as chief of staff.' General Biddle has a reputation for executive ability, earned largely as superintendent of the West Point Mili tary Academy. As a Colonel he organ ized and commanded one of the special engineer regiments which were among the first troops sent abroad in the war. Secretary Baker said the matter of naming a new chief of staff was not now under consideration. . NAVAL BATTLE IS BRIEF German Torpedo-Boat Destroyer Hit Twice by Shells. LONDON, Oct. " 28. A ' German" tor pedoboat destroyer was hit twice by shells from British and French de stroyers during an engagement Satur day afternoon between six entente allied and three German vessels and 17 German airplanes off the Belgian coast, according to an Admiralty state ment issued today. The three Germans were forced to seek safety under the land batteries. TOM LONGBOAT IS ALIVE Famous Indian Marathon Runner Would Prosecute Impersonator.-. TORONTO, Ont., Oct. 28. Tom Long boat, famous Indian marathon runner, who has been twice unofficially report ed killed in action in France, is alive. Captain Tom Flanagan, former man ager of the Indian, had a letter from him today in which he threatens to take action against an Indian in the United States who has been represent ing himself as Longboat. BALTIMORE HAS TORNADO Southern Part of City Swept and Dozen Dwellings Wrecked. BALTIMORE, Oct. 28. A tornado swept over the southern section of Bal timore last night, wrecking about a dozen dwellings and rendering others more or less uninhabitable. Doors, shutters. window fixings, brick walls and doorsteps were caught in the freaky gale and carried hundreds of yards away. PRINCE CHRISTIAN DIES Schleswlg-IIolstcln Head Husband of Daughter of Queen Victoria. LONDON. Oct. 28. Prince Christian, of Schleswig-Holsteln, died at his Lon don residence this evening after a long illness. Pri.:-,e Christian was born in 1831 and was married in 1866 to Princess Helena, third daughter of Queen Vic toria. RUSSIANS SHOOT RUSSIANS Soldiers Fraternizing With Germans Treated as Enemies. PETROGRAD, Oct. 28. Russian sol diers who fraternized with Germans were fired on by Russian artillery yes terday, says today's official communi cation. On all fronts the situation is un changed, the announcement says. FRENCH CABINET MEETS Aid of Italy Is Main Subject for Consideration. PARIS. Oct. 28. The Cabinet met this evening to determine upon co-operation of the allies on the Italian front. President Poincare presided. ot Wfll Be Near Five Billion. FINAL RESULT IS NOT KNOWN New York Count Likely to Reach $1,700,000,000. HIGH MARK IS EXPECTED Soldiers Subscribe More Than $82,- 000, oW, of Which Nearly $6, 00 0,000 Conies From Expedi tionary Forces In France." WASHINGTON. Oct. 28. The total amount subscribed to the second liberty loan. . the Treasury Department an nounced tonight, is etill "a matter of speculation." Several days probably will elapse before the full extent of the Nation's subscriptions is ascertained. The department was without figures tonight showing any change in the esti mated totals, other than in the New York district. New York's maximum of $1, 500,000.000 reported last night to have been exceeded, it was said tonight, might be increased by late returns to as much as $1,750,000,000. Reserve bank officials and-local com mittees, working until pftpr midnight last night all over the -.-.try. rested today. Few districts eve:; reported to the Treasury and the assumption was that they would tako their time in transmitting the finals. They have till next Thursday to make the complete report. Exact Figure Xot Given. "Returns received at the Treasury to day gave little indication as to the final result," the department announced tonight. "On the face of returns It can not be said whether the sale exceeded $5,000,000,000. Conviction is general, however, that it probably approximated' the maximum totl. It seems- certain that every district has gone well past its minimum and that several will exceed their maxi mums sufficiently to carry the weaker districts to the high mark in the gen eral total. "New York, Chicago, Cleveland and San Francisco were showing especially strong in the late returns. Chicago dis trict chairmen have begun to feel that their total may reach the maximum of $700,000,000. Minneapolis Reports Excess. " "Every state in our district has ex ceeded its minimum allotment,' the Minneapolis district reported. "Many townships have eold bonds to every family." "At last reports virtually every part of the San Francisco district had passed its minimum and many had gone be yond their maximum. Messages from the Dallas, Atlanta, St. Louis and Rich mond districts told of great displays of (Concluded on Pagre 2, Column 1.) UJs'CLE SAM HAS "A Nation's Allies Confidently Look to Great Display When Sons of Free dom "Go Over the Top." LONDON, Oct. . 28. News that the American troops have fired their first shot of the war on the western front took the place of honor in the Sun day papers witL the first American official statement from Paris. The announcement was received with great enthusiasm by the American Congress men who are here. They said it would carry profound satisfaction to the peo ple of America. Telling of the event, the correspondent of the Weekly Des patch savs: "The allies are extremely fortunate in having American troops take a place in the line at a comparatively quiet time of the year. During the Winter they will ,ave ample oppo tunlty of mastering the Intricacies of trench warfare which never can be taught satisfactorily behind the lines. Within four or five months they should become -seasoned troops and the allies confidently look to a great display when they "go over the top'." WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN FRANCE, Oct. 27. (By the Associated Press.) Desultory and intermittent shelling characteristic of the sector continued during the night and today on the front where the Americans are entrenched. The Germans sent over projectiles every now and . then. - the American and French batteries firing back shot for shot. ' It is still raining and the scene of the operations is a sea of mud. The infantry in the first line is fast learn ing trench life details. There has been no infantry fighting of consequence. BRAZIL HAS CAUSE FOR WAR German Invasion of South Ameri can Republic Planned. BUENOS' AIRES. Argentina, Oct. 28. A sensation has been occasioned here by the publication of dispatches from Rio Janeiro asserting that the Brazilian Foreign Minister has made known that translation of dispatches cent by Count von Luxburg through the medium of the Swedish Legation while the Count was German Minister to Argentina, has revealed a project for a German in vasion of Southern Brazil. The newspapers here demand that the government publish the Luxburg dispatches. . . ... . , It was reported unofficially last April that the Germans in Southern Brazil states were concentrating and that a Germaninsurrection was being planned. TEUTON POSITION STORMED French Advance in Belgium Con tinues; More Prisoners Taken. PARIS, Oct. 2S. The French advance in Belgium continues, the War Office reports. German positions were stormed last night and more prisoners were taken. BERLIN, - via London, Oct. 28. At tacks of entente allied troops on the Ypres front near Houtholst wood yes terday brought them no important advantages, the War Office reports. French attacks on the Aisne front are said to have been repulsed. BONE TO PICK" WITH EVERY HOUSEWIFE THIS WEEK. Two Counties Return Nearly 100 Per Cent. LIYELY CAMPAIGN IS PLANNED Loyal Men and Women Offer Zealous Service. 6000 TEACHERS WILL HELP Advance Reports From AH Sections of State Indicate Desire on Part of Practically Every Resident to Co-operate. FOOD-SAVING FLEDGE PA . TRIOTIC AMERICANS ARE SIGNING. T am glad to Join in the serv ice of food conservation for our Nation. I hereby accept member ship in the United States food ad ministration, pledging myself to carry out the directions and ad vice of the food administrator in my home, insofar as my circum stances permit." "Help Hooverize the Homes of Oregon." This may not be the wording but ex presses the thought of the slogan Ore gon's food administration leaders would hold before every resident of the state this entire week. This is the week selected and set aside by the United States food admin istration, of which Mr. Hoover is the head, for enlistment of the 100,000,000 individuals of the Nation into a vast army, pledged to help win the war by conserving food supplies. Campaign Is Planned. The pledging of assistance to the United States Government and its allies 'through conservation of food stuffs will be shown to be a definite patriotic service of real importance that each individual citizen may per form. This is "Pledge Card" week, and in this state, as in the others, thousands of loyal volunteer workers will con duct a house-to-house canvass, asking everyone they meet to sign the Hoover food pledge card and live up to its promises. Under direction of the food administration state executive commit tee, of which Arthur M. Churchill Is chairman, and Federal Food Adminis trator Ayer, thorough and enthusiastic preparation has been made throughout this state for the drive. 60O0 Teachers Assist. In every one of the 3S counties of the state strong organizations have been formed to direct the pledge card canvass and for the past two weeks agitation of the matter and the enlist- (Concluded on Page 3, Column 2.) Auto and Train Carry Honie-Coming Parties Laden With Autumn's Treasure-Trove of Foliage. Autumn loosed myriad gayly-tinted leaves yesterday, when the first frosty warning of impending Winter gave zest to the air and impelled a general donning of overcoats. The day was sunny and Ideal, with the maximum temperature at 66 degrees, and the minimum 34 degrees. For a fortnight the woods have been seasonably dressed, and the flame of the maples has drawn many into the country to gather the trove of Fall. But the zestful sharpness of yesterday served to remind many of the season, and there was an increased exodus of nature lovers, who came back, by auto mobile and suburban train, their arms laden with the glories of dymg verdure. At sea the season made itself known, and all northbound shipping was re ported from one to four days late be cause of a strong head wind. The steamers Nehalem and F. A. Kilburn battled their way into port yesterday, two days overdue. The oil barge Monte rey, from San Francisco, was due Friday, and has not yet arrived. The steamer National City. with the schooner Vega in tow, also out of San Francisco, is now three days late and had not yet been sighted off Astoria late yesterday afternoon. The schooner Annie Larsen, which has been loading lumber at Westport. left yesterday for Hilo, Hawaiian Islands. HUNGER IMPELS ACTION Sclf-Confessed Enemy Alien Surren ders at Denver. DENVER, Oct. 28. Declaring that he was hungry, without a job and an es caped interned German sailor, a man giving his name as Rudolph Bunkert walked into the Police Station here to day and surrendered. Bunkert said he had escaped from the German steamer Grosser ICurfurst August 24, 1914, shortly after that ves sel had been interned at Hoboken, N. J. MICHAELIS RUMORS RIFE Confirmation of Chancellor's Resig nation Still Lacking. BERXIX, Saturday, Oct, 27, via Lon don, Oct. 28. Although confirmation is still lacking of the reports that Chan cellor Michaelis has resigned. Berlin newspapers continue to dlsouss them and devote columns to speculation as to the probable successor to the Chan cellor. Prince von Buelow and Foreign Sec retary von Kuehlmann are mentioned most frequently in this connection. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 00 degrees; minimum, 34 degrees. TODAY'S Fair, .-lightly warmer. War. Auntro -German s capture 100.000 Italians. Page 1. American troops receive baptism in mud in trenches. Page 1. Italian reverses present serious problem. rase &. Koreiim." General Gonzales urges Mexico to break with Germany. Page 5. National Funds for liberty loan keep com in a In. Page 1. President Wilson calls upon every home to save food. Page 2. Government spends billion dollars in Oc- tooer. age 4. Domestic. Shoe dealers decree shoe tops three inches lower. Page 1. Pen picture sketched of Brigadier-General Coulter. Page -. Food administration to curb profits com mencing November 6. Page 3. President Wilson again Issues appeal for Syrians and Armenians. Page 4. Bishop Sumner says Nation's safeguard is teaching patriotism. Page 4. Beaver regiment making history. Page 5. Sport. Pacific Coast League results 5an Fran cisco Oakland 1-1 ; Vernon T. Salt Iake 6; Ix Angeles 13-5, Portland 3-1. Page 12. Seals ba&I their third championship since organization of Pacific Coast League. Page 12. Willie Hoppe ready for sound of gong to morrow night. Page 12. Football -resume shows Idaho outgeneraled Oregon, though latter won. Page 13. Portland golfers defeat Eugene club in inter club play. Page 1 2. Y. M. C. A. boys swim well. Page 13. Organization formed to teach use of arms. Page 13. Pacific Northwest. Subway to carry extension of Eleventh street, Vancouver, under tracks. Page 0. Portland and Vicinity. Strict saving of food In Oregon assured. Page 1. Final thrills of drive described. Page 1. Only official order for telephone strike awaited now. Page 6. Fate of William Do I fen. alleged spy. still uncertain; internment probable. Page 7. Home Service Institute to open In Portland today. Page 7. Early work on Marquam Gulch playground proposed. Page 9. Figures show t hat more than lOO Oregon towns exceeded maximum quota of liberty bonds. Page 10. Prayers for allies offered up in Portland Churches. Page 11. Patrons of common carriers to pay tax after November 1. Page 16. Musicians won't demand more pay on ac count of theater war tax. Page Id. Trlxie Frlganza. "Feminine Chaplin," at Or pheum. Page 10. Sunny, snappy day calls nature-lovers into' open. Page 1. Helen Luctana hurt by car and several col lisions reported. Page 3. P. I Willis is dead. Page 5. Mount Scott people launch campaign to raise funds for library site. Page lu. Red Cross heads to be here next Friday. Page 1L Symphony orchestra concert attended by largest crowd since its organization. Page 13. Common carriers affected by war tax. Page I Weather report, data and forecast, page 13. TIRELESS ENERGY IS SHOWN Headquarters Announces Def inite Total of $25,350,450. . LEADERS TENDER THANKS Last Day Is One of Soul-Stirring Episodes, With ETcry Hour Tense in Patriotic Effort to Have Oregon in Honor Column. FIXAb TOTALS OF CITY AND STATE IX LIBERTY DRIVE. Portland subscriptions. $13,559,350 f I State, outside of Port- t t land 11,791.100 Total for Oregon. ... J25.350.450 4 Oregon's triumphant total in the second liberty loan campaign is $25. 350,450. The final figures were com puted yesterday at liberty loan head quarters, with complete returns in from all parts of the state. The total is liable to little, if any, revision. Portland's contribution was $13, 559, 350. Outside districts of Oregon pur chased bonds to the amount of $11. 791,100. By an electrifying drive at almost the last moment of the cam paign, the state's subscription was car ried far toward the maximum quota, which represented the extreme wish of the Government, rather than a specific demand. This figure was $30,000,000. Patriotism Again Demonstrated. The state's actual quota, based upon bank deposits, was $1S, 000,000. The generosity with which this was ex ceeded maintains Oregon iu the first rank '"of patriotic purpose. Between dusk and midnight of the last day, and in parts of the state until long after midnight, bankers and committees throughout Oregon, outside of Portland whipped together $5,000,000 in liberty bonds. Just who did it, rtone can telL, In most cases the Identity of the movins spirit is hidden in the official title of some bank. Tet in that single Saturday evening report after report came in marked "final." and an hour or two later an other would come in raising it by a few thousand dollars. Sometimes thesa gains were as high as $50,000, and in one case $100,000. Headquarters Keeps Prodding;. And this was just because liberty loan headquarters at Portland kepi appealing to outside cities to save the state as well as their own good name. Down at Seaside, for instance, L. Lu Paget became fired with the idea that Seaside should head the state. Mr. Paget kept filing subscriptions up to midnight, and at midnight he tele phoned: "If 1 keep on all night could X possibly head the state?" He was in formed that.there was no chance; that at Powers, in Coos County, a liberty loan solicitor had visited the city and obtained a subscription of $100 or mora from every man, woman and child la the town. Briton Jumps Into Fame. A. J. Johnson, in Corvallis, mad a Benton the blue ribbon county of tho state. Over in liberty loan headquar ters they used to talk sadly about Benton County. Before the final re turns were in there was nothing too good to say about it. Consider Lakeview. It was only a few minutes before midnight when, Bernard Daly telegraphed: "Will dou ble what Lake County has subscribed, already if we can help make the $30, 000.000." Who knows of the hours that W. II Gore, of Medford. passed at the long distance telephone when he went after every available bank and Individual with money in the county? Jackson County hardly made the honor roll un til the last few minutes, and W. 1L, Gore was the man who did it. Barriers Broken Down. There is some vital warm-blooded individual hidden behind the nam "Bank of Dayton." Within a few hours Dayton jumped from nothing to its quota. Two days ago Johnson Bros., at Dufur. were asserting their quota was ridiculously high, but some tiino late Saturday night they got into ac tion. Scores, perhaps hundreds of banks, burned midnight oil Saturday; some burned gasoline Instead. W. P. Mahoney, at Heppner, saw that town near the bottom of the lis. Satur day morning. Then he decided it was time for Morrow County to get busy. Committees scoured tho county, ana in a few hours the difference between $18,000 and JSO.000 was rolled up. Fri day night at Halfway they had sold $1600 in bonds a, the American State Bank. At 4:30 Saturday they tele graphed $12,700, and at midnight ?20, 150. Truman Butler, at Hood Kiver, whipped together $40,000 in three hours. Central Point Electrified. But who was the man at Central Point that raised $26,000 for liberty tConciuded on I'age 10, Culutua 3.) 1 l I