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VOL. LVIII. NO. 17.818. PORTLAND. OKEGON, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1918. PRICE FIVE CENTS. SIX AMERICANS IN . HUN PRISON CAMPS SEATTLE'S TEUTONS' NEGLECT WORRIES BULGARIA PEACE IS REMOTE, COLLEGE STUDENT FIREBUG SUSPECT MAILED FIST LIFTS ABOVE STRIKERS 1IIIIT E IIUUHI RED CROSS LOCATES MEX RE PORTED MISSIXG. SOFIA IRRITATED AT BEING IG NORED AS TO WAR AIMS. CHARLES JECSTIXGS, 1 , I'XDKK GUARD AT WALLA WALLA. AIUS HOLD LORRAINE FROM GILLISM niniur S SAYS WAR COUNCIL rfffln Entire I). S. Sector Ablaze in First Real Battl3. YANKEE 75s HARMS S HONS Thunder of Guns Unceasing Day and Night as Grim Struggle Is Waged. CASUALTIES ARE REPORTED Germans Bombard Our Boys in Trenches, but Get Shell for Shell in Reply. tlty th Aeana-tatrd "VHTH THE AMERICAN ARMY IX FRANCE. Feb. 2. American troops are, now occupying a sector of the Lorraine front in France. Thi an nouncement is permitted by the mili tary censor. The whole American sector is re sounding with the bomb guns. Airmen enemy snipers wounded two Americans slightly early this I in. T American Killed. A German barrage fire at sundown tonight opened the heaviest bombard ment of many days along the Ameri can sector, the American artillery re plying shell for shell, as the firing of the heavy guns spread along sever' kilometers of front. Two Americans were killed and nine wounded during the bombard ment and one suffered shell shock. Mist Clears Aaay. A shift of the wind today cleared away the niist which has hindered -aerial operations and other activities for several days. A number of en gagement in the air were fought by patrolling planes early this afternoon. In one instance the French aviators defeated an attempt of German fliers to cross behind thw American trenches. The artillery and snipers alo have become increasingly active- Ameri can 75 are harrasing traffic behind the enemy trenches. The Germans are confining their fire largely to the American trenches. Machine Cans Active. Throughout Friday night machine guns rattled ceaselessly from German positions. The correspondents permanently ac credited to the American army have been informed that they may proceed to virtually any point within the sone of fire, except the trenches, without escort and without special permission. Arrangements were made today whereby newspaper men may proceed to any brigade headquarters a few kilometers behind the trenches after first reporting their presence within the sone to the headquarters of the division of which the brigade is a part. lnlcs there is some occurrence which makes it inadvisable in the opinion of the brigade commander for correspondents to move nearer the front they may walk from his head' quarters to regimental headquarters behind the lines. Roads in Gna Range. Since all roads immediately behind the front are within easy German gun range and under German observa tion, not more than two eorre.pond ents may move forward together. They must wear gas rrvaits in alert position and helmets. Newspaper men mut obtain spe cial permission to visit the trenches and must be accompanied by an es corting officer. Others Captured by Germans in As sault on I'nited Slates Force Not Yet Accounted For. WASHINGTON. Feb. . SI:, of the 12 American soldiers reported missing after the German trench raid on No vember S have been located by the Red Croa In a prison camp at Tuchel. West Prussia. General Penning re ported to the War Department tonight. They were captured in the first assault launched by the Germans on an Ameri can sector. The sis primmer, with two others taken In subsequent actions, are: Sergeant Edgar W. Halyburton. Stony Point. X. C Privates Daniel B. Gallagher. Bloc ton. Ala.; Clyde I. Grlmsley. Stockton. Kan.: Iloyt O. Decker. Vincennee. InL: John P. Lester. Tutwller. Miss.; Herschel Godfrey. Chicago. Harry L. Uurhmin. Chicago, and Vernon M. Kendall. Roll. Ok la. The dispatches confirmed press re ports of the death of Private Roy O. Garner, of Decatur. 11L. In an airplane accident, and reported also that Pri vate John A. Goodrum. Infantry, bad been severely wounded In action on January 14. Private John L. Bray. infantry, was reported slightly wound ed In action on January is. and Cor poral Roy L Doughty. Infantry, of Shaw, MIbjl. on February 1. The following deaths by natural causes me re announced: First Lieutenant Francis F. Han- bldge. Medical Reserve Corps, pneu monia: Ogdensburg. N. T. Private William O. Jones, stevedore, pneumonia: Houston. Tex. Private Albert W. Nelson, engineers, meningitis: Whatcom. Wash. Private Tolliver Qulnn. quartermas ter corps, pneumonia; St. Louis. Corporal Ilollis M. Smith. Infantry, January 31. .empyremla: Rock. Kan. Bugler Fay F. Chrlsman. field artil lery, pneumonia: St. Joseph, Mo. Sergeant Philip J. Callery. Infantry, February 1. hemorrhage: Milford. Mass. Race for Mayorality Nomination Peculiar. SEVEN PITTED AGAINST ONE Usual Questions Are More or Less Forgotten. HANSON MUCH IN EVIDENCE If Representative Government Rep resents Candidate Wliose Name Suggests Copenhagen Trail,' Following Should 'Win. ALIEN PROBLEM DEVELOPS r Postmaster Finds It Difficult to Reg ister Germans in Barred Zone. M A RS II KI ELD. Or.. Feb. . (Spe ciaL) Postmaster Hugh ilcLatn, on whom devolves the work of register ng the alien Germans of Marahfield and vicinity, is obliged to devise a plan of getting the men Into his office without permitting them to violate the Presl dentlal waterfront order. The Marshfield postoffire In within the barred snne. but the rear-entrance Is just outside. Postmaster McLaln has no funds available fur engaging rooms outside and so the applicants for registration will be smuggled Into the back room, where a special area will be set off for registering: The fact that An.erican troops were in the trenches in Lorraine was re veld by the German war office three months ago. At that time, according to an official German announcement, the Americans were on the front at the Rhine-Marne canal, which inter sects the battle line near the German bonier, due east of Nancy. This an nouncement was made in the' official report from Berlin of the first Ger man raid en the American position, in which three? American were killed, five wounded and 12 raptured. The eastern end of the battle line in France and Belgium runs through French and German Lorraine. French Lorraine, in which is the American sector, is Included in the departments Iteaciuev ea s caucus A.) ' EXEMPTION STOPS PENSION County Support Withdrawn When Sons Contend Mother Is Dependent. EUGENE. Or. Feb, I. ( Special. ) Mrs. Maggie Nunn. of Springfield, will lose her mother's pension of $17.60 month, as the result of affidavits by her two sons of draft age, asking de ferred classification on the ground that their mother and her minor children are dependent upon them for support, according to County Judge Harry L. Bown. Judge Bown stated that Mrs. Nunn has been drawing funds from the county under a mother's pension law for many months. SHIP BUILDERS ENLISTING California's Quota of Men Needed Is Placed at 11,300. SAN FRANCISCO. Feb. J. The sec ond week of a drive to enlist Its quota of JS0.00S ship builders will be started by the State Council of Defense to morrow. This quota Is U.ftOO men, and less than half of that number have been secured In the drive thus far, due to the failure of a sufficient quantity of registration blanks to arrive. In San Francisco. Los Angeles, Oak land. San Diego, approximately 4000 workers were enrolled Friday and yes terday. TROOPS GO TO MEET RAID Cavalrymen Rash lo Forestall tack by Villa Bandita. At . MAR FA. Tes.. Trb. . Lieutenant Mallaek and a troop of cavalry left here late yesterday for Candelarta on the Rio Graiwle. miles to the south, where Villa rebels are reported about to make a raid on the town. The tele phone messages from Candelarta re ported some 20 Mexicans on the Mexi can side of the river. A w rll-stoeked merchandise store la believed to be the objective of the Mex leans, who are known to be short of food. DISABLED FIGHTERS AIDED tnd Bru-h Cluh lo Help Teaching Handicraft. in WASHINGTON. Feb. I. For us In teaching handicraft to disabled soldiers and sailors, a book of designs Is be ing compiled by the fen and Brush Club of New York. This work Is designed to aid the Na tional programme for the rehabilita tion of the wounded and 1 expected to help In developing native handicraft. SEATTLE, Wash, Feb. 3. (Staff Correspondence.) The municipal elec tion that will take place In Seattle on February 1$ Is interesting mainly be cause of the peculiarity of tne para mount Issue. That Issue is Gilliam. There Is more or less vehement talk by candidates about municipal owner ship, progressive works, business ad ministration and the patriotic phases of national affairs, but the thing that has the attention of all who are not for the re-election of Hi Gill is the best means to attain HI Gill's defeat- It Is a case of seven candidates all running against HI GilL The forthcoming election, but for this, would lose much of its Interest, because it Is but a non-partisan nom inating election, a primary, a prelim inary. It will settle nothing except the matter of who shall be the two candidates to oppose each other in the final election which follows two weeks Hater. A majority of all votes does not elect In the preliminary. The result will be elimination of six candidates. UiUIsm is not readily defined. It is a sort of combination of unpleasant factors Illustrated by a series of turbu lent event duilng Gill's administra tions. Ullltasa Means Very Much. Included in Glllism are the election of Gill several years ago as a "aide- open" candidate, followed by a wide open town: a revulsion of feeling; re call of Gill; re-election of Gill after a period of retirement as a reformed man seeking restoration of name and reputatiou; rise of the bootlegging business; ax destruction of saloon and drug-store property; indictment, trial and acquittal of Gill on a charge of bribery; free and easy operation of dancelialls and other questionable places: placing of ban on Seattle by General Green, in command of Camp Lewis: summary dismissal of chief of police and appointment of new chief; closing of dancehalls; lining of ban: disbarment of Gill for one year as lawyer. There U a very largo element in Seattle which feels that the notorious incidents of Gill's administration have not promoted the good reputation iConclud-d op Pas 3. Column 1.1 Strong Protests in Parliament Are Made and Immediate Enligi . enmcnt Is Demand' . o ' V AMSTERDAM. Feb. . A dispatch from Sofia to the Vosslsche Zeitung, of Berlin, says strong protests have been made in the Bulgarian Parliament against the silence regarding Bui garia's war alms which have marked recent German and Austrian pro nouncements. Premier Radoslavoff, speaking In the Chamber of Deputies, attributed the omission to "urgent business which Germany and Austria- Hungary had in their own countries In the debate which followed it w stated that the Bulgarian people were astonished and disappointed at the omission and demanded' unequivocal enlightment in regard to the attitude of Germany and Austria. AMSTERDAM. Feb. 3. Premier Rad oslavoff. of Bulgaria, has arrived at Brest-LitoVsk for the continuation of the peace conference, according to dispatch from Vienna. BIG FIRMS MAY PAY NOW Anaconda and Like Montana Con cerns Asked to Aid County Banks. HELENA. Mont.. Feb. 3. It la pos- clble that the Anaconda Copper Mining Company and other big concerns in Montana will pay their license taxes the state of Montana at once so as to obviate the necessity of the state's ! withdrawing deposits from county banks sorely needed by those Institu tions if they are not to tighten credit that has been extended to the farmers. The license money is not due until June, but If the Anaconda and some others of the big mining concerns will pay In advance a total of half a mil lion dollars will Immediately be available. NORWEGIAN SINGER KILLED Mons Knnteson Loses Life in Log ging Camp Mishap. HOQUIAM, Wash, Feb. 3. (Special.) Mons Knutesou, secretary ef the Nor wegian Singing Society of this city and one of the best-known Norwegians of the harbor district, was killed yes terday afternoon In an accident at a logging camp near this city, where he was employed as rigging slinger. Ha was struck by a flying lo,;. Knuteson, through bis connection with the singing soojety, was known not only in the harbor district, but among Norwegians of the Northwest generally. HARVARD LANDMARK BURNS Dane Hall, One of Oldest on Quad rangle, Destroyed. CAMBRIDGE, Mass.. Feb. 3. Dane Hall, one of the oldest buildings of the quadrangle in the Harvard yard, was burned today. Thirty thousand rounds of ammuni tion in the basement were removed by the naval radio and ensigns' school, under the direction of their officers. Valuable records belonging to the uni versity and the Government- schools a iso were saved. i v Speeches Reveal Gulf Yet Existing. GERMAN TEMPER DISCUSSED Death Within 24 Hours Is Threatened. Vigorous Prosecution of War to Be Continued. DELEGATES. ARE SATISFIED Only Acceptable Peace Can Be on Principles of Freedom, Justice, ' and Respect for Present In ternational Bans. LONDON, Feb. S. The supreme war councifwhich met at Versailles, finds no approximation in the German Chan cellor's and the Austro-Hungarlan For eign Minister's Bpeeches to the terms o the entente allies and has decided to continue vigorous prosecution of the war until peace can be obtained "based on the principles of freedom, justice and respect for international law." This official announcement was made here tonight. A summary of the official report of the Versailles War Office says: "The council was unable to find Von Hertling's and Csernin's recent utter ances any real .approximation to the mederate conditions laid down by the alldles' governments. Peace Terms Ontllaed. "Under the circumstances, the coun cil decided that the only task before them to meet was the vigorous and ef fective prosecution of the war until the presure of that effort produced a change of temper in the enemy govern ments. Justifying the hope, of the con clusion of a peace based on the prin ciples of freedom, justice and respect for -international law. "The council arrived at a complete unanimity of policy ou measures' for the prosecution of the war." PARIS. Feb. . 3. An official state ment setting forth a resolution con cerning the conduct of the war, which was adopted at the session of the su pre me war council last week will be Issued at Paris, London. Rome and Washington. Results Held Satisfactory. Premier Clemenceau told the Petit Parisien that the entente allies were completely in accord and that the dele gates were fully satisfied with the re sults of the conference. The Havas Agency says measures which are likely to exert great influ ence on the future conduct of the war were adopted. The Supreme War Council was con vened last Tuesday at Versailles France, under the chairmanship of George Clemenceau, the French Pre mier. and ended Saturday. The United States was represented in the council by General Tasker H. Concluded on Page .1. Column 5.) THE EARTH THIS SUSPENSE IS SOMETHING AWFUL! Youth Believed to Have Been In volved in Recent Attempts to Destroy School Buildings. WALLA WALLA. Wash, Feb. 3. (Special.) Charles Jeustings, aged 19, a student at the Walla Walla College, the Adventist School at College Place, was placed under guard this evening in connection with recent attempts to burn the school or school property. Jeustings admitted starting four of the six fires, according to the school Semi-Of f icial Statement De- autnoriues, wne nave naa nim unaer I MHLTARY ORDERS ARE DRASTIC dares Trouble Over. observation for several days. Jeust ings was grilled last night and again today. Another student was also on the carpet, and Jeustings, who previ ously denied any knowledge of the at tempts, is reported finally to have made the admission. The College Place people kept Jeust ings under guard for some time. To night when Sheriff Barnes learned of Socialist Deputy Dittmart Tried hfi it ne went to college Place, but found NEWS BEING SUPPRESSED the youth, in the sanitarium under guard and suffering from nervous breakdown. He was left there tonight. A desire' for revenge for fancied wrongs is said to have been his incen tive. Two of Jeustings. brothers recently got into trouble with the Umatilla city authorities over hunting. When ar rested by Game Warden Tonkin they held up the warden at the point of a gun and fled. Later they were arrested and Leroy Jeustings was taken to Pen dleton and a brief sentence was given him. He was suspended from school and the other brother also quit. Charles stayed in school and it is said nursed a grudge against the institution. Court-Martial Charged With Inciting to High Treason in TJrglng Resistance. ALONZO WARDALL IS DEAD Northwest Pioneer, Aged 73, Out lives Father Only Six Days. SEATTLE, Wash., Feb. 3. Alonzo Wartiall, aged 73, a pioneer of the Northwest, died here today, six days after the death of his father, Thomas Waxdall. The elder Wardall died at the age of 108 and was said to have been the oldest man in the Northwest. Alonzo Wardall was a veteran of the Civil War. In 1891 he was one of the organizers of the. People's party in South Dakota and' in the election -of 1892 lacked but three vote of election as Lnited States Senator from that statu. , GENERAL WOOD LEAVES BED American Is Fast Convalescing From Recent Wound. PARIS. Feb. 3. Major-General Leon ard Wood. U. S. A., who was wounded recentlv while on a visit to the French front, was able today to leave his bed wacrts. the trial of the Socialist Deputy in the hospital here, where he is be- Wiihelm Dittmann has already opened AMSTERDAM, Feb. 8. Ending of the) strike In Germany on Monday is pre dicted In a semi-official statement is sued in Berlin on Saturday evening. It follows: "The strike everywhere is on the; wane. Many factories now are work ing with full staffs and it Is assumed the strike will be ended entirely on. Monday. This opinion is confirmed hyf reports from all parts of the country." LONDON, Feb. 3. General von Ke- sel, military commandant of Branden burg province. In which Berlin is sit uated, threatens summary punishment of strikers who fail to obey his order that they resume work on Monday, morning. Strikers Threatened With Death. An Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Copenhagen says, the proclama tion set 7 o'clock as the hour at which they must return to work, adding: "Employes failing to resume work will be tried by courtmartial, which is authorized to impose sentence of death, execution to take place within 24 hours of the time the sentence is Imposed." These drastic military measures, ac cording to a report from Copenhagen, seems to have had the effect of break ing down the German strike movement. Little News Coming Through. Very little hews has come through today and that mainly semi-official assurances that the strike is ended and that work will be resumed tomorrow. These semi-official dispatch.es admit that the result was obtained by mili tary measures and threats to draft re calcitrants into the army. According to the Socialist paper Vor- mg treated. . He received a number of visitors. BRITISH GAIN IN PALESTINE General Allenby Advances in Cam paign Around Jerusalem. LONDON, Feb. J. Further slight ad ances are reported by General Allenby in the campaign around Jerusalem, ac cording to a statement tonight. , NDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 81 degrees: minimum, da degree. TODAY'S Bain; increasing southerly winds. War. Americans occupy Lorraine front and battle breaks forth. Page 1. Bulgaria objects to silence of big central powers on peace aims. Page 1. Peace held remote by allied council. Page 1. Six American soldiers reported missing in German prison camp. Page 1. Foreign. Germany's mailed fist lifts over strikers' heads. Page 1. Finnish troops resist Red Guards. Page 3- Germany today like a powder keg. but tri umph of militarists predicted. Page 4. Dr. Stuermer reveals political, stupidity of Germans, .page a. National. Congress to speed war legislation this week. Page Basis announced for computing tax under excess profits law. Page 5. Domestic. Strike halts streetcar traffic at St. Louis. Page 2. New York Russians not In harmony. Page 3. Heney determined to get desired facts from packers. Page 5. before an extraordinary court-martial. He is charged with inciting to high treason, resistance to public authority and transgression of the prohibition against participating in the direction of the strike. AMSTERDAM, Feb. 3. --After mors than half the shipyard workers at Hamburg had resumed work, the strik ers' committee there resolved to call! the workmen out again Saturday, ac-, cording to a copy of the Berlin Lokal Anzeiger of that day received here. Shipyard Workers Out. A Trieste dispatch received by way of Berlin reports that a general strike. Including the shipyard workers, was; declared there. A deputation of the strikers Interviewed the Governor, de-. manding peace and food. After hearing the Governor's reply which dwelt especially on the recent' speech of Count Czernin, the Austrc Hungarian Foreign Minister, the strik ers held a further meeting and decided) to resume work. LONDON, Feb. 3. Deputy Dittmann. of the Reichstag, who was arrested while addressing strikers. Is accused not only of Infringing martial law, but of Inciting to high treason, according to the Berlin press. The Ldkal An zeiger says he urged In his speech that the strike must be maintained. News Held Back. i..-. The German governm-r' keeping tight hand on news of the strikes. which are attended by demonstrations, in Berlin and other parts of Germany. But from details received through Hol land it is learned that the situation be- German paper pledges support to President came serious Thursday when a consid- ana isaiioa. mge Sports. Harpies signs to play with Portland hockey team. Page 10. Boxers work hard for bouts scheduled next Wednesday. Page 10. Portland Gun Club shoot attracts 33. Page 10. De Oro-Kieckhofer billiard war settled by agreement. -Page 10. Pacific Northwest. Gillism paramosnt Issue in Seattle's Mayor ally campaign. Page 1. Student believed to have started fires at col lege. Page 1. Portland and Vicinity. Police seize trunk belonging to Robert Di-ck .former Commissioner or Public Works.. Page T. White Temple welcomes new pastor. Page 8. Rawlen asks Attorney Logan to prove 20,000 breweries are in Portland. Page 8. Virtues of thrift. 'set forth at Auditorium celebration. -Page 9. Portland boM .bombs German trench with rotten eggs' and escapes. Page 9. National committeeman to be chosen at pri mars'- page l l. erable display of force was necessary to handle the mobs which attacked street cars and carried out other excesses in Berlin. For news of what happened Friday the public outside of Germany is large ly dependent upon a semi-official re port, which says that "only isolated and entirely insignificant successes oc curred that day and says that the pre vailing opinion is that the strike had passed its zenith." This seems to be supported by the fact that the newspapers which were unable to appear Thursday owing to the sympathy displayed by their com positors and 'pressmen with the strik ers, all came out f riaay, wnue tne transport workers continue their la bors. It is also asserted that work has been resumed at Kiel, Danzig and Hamburg, but it is admitted that addi tional miners have gone on strike ac Oregon's plans for third liberty loan irive j the Rhenish Westphallan coal fields. well organized. Page 9. Supply to govern cost .of flour substitutes. Page 11. Church of Our Father dedicates service flag. Page 14. Armenian drive starts with $100 gift. Page 14. Commissioners Blgelow and Barbur deny they favor jitney measure. Page 3. City said to show improvement in moral conditions. Page 4. New policemen will be schooled in duties. Page 7. Weather report, data and forecast. Page 11. Strike Is Sot Over. Information from various sources show, however, that the strike in gen eral is not over, despite the strong stand taken by the military authorities who are now in control. The Frankfurter Zeitung says that the strike continues to extend to many other towns, while in Berlin it does not diminish, although martial law nas (Concluded on Page 2. Column 1.)