VOL. LVIII. XO. I7.89S. PORTLAND, OKEGOS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 1918. PRICE FIVE CENTS. BATTLE WAHES AS BIG GUN SHELLING PARIS BLOWS UP T LEADS IN ENEMY POISONERS DECIMATE FLOCKS 'TEDDY'STRONG FOR III C NFW I IRITRTV I HAM U. U. I'UII LIULII I I ivsnii CONTEST WILL 8E IN DRIVE BURSTING OF " LONG - IUXCE RIFLE KILLS FIVE. SHEEP SHIPPED TO CHICAGO MARKET DIE BY SCORES. AMERICANS URGED TO SUPPORT NATION TO THE LIMIT. 00 CAN TROOPS SHIPBUILDERS WISCONSIN CENSURED omi o Allies Gain in Several Local Engagements. ARTILLERY HUE CONTINUES Enemy Troop Movements Cen ter in Zone Between Somme and Montdidier. BOCHES ACTIVE IN NORTH Heavy Shelling of Passchen- daele and Goberg Ridges Reported by British. LONDON', April 2. The War Of fice, in its announcement this even ing. Bays: "The day passed quietly on the Brit ish front. There was no serious fight in? oa the French front." PARIS, April 2. French and Brit ish troops advanced last night between the somme and Uemoin, it is an nounced officially. Oyer most of the front between the Somme and the Oise the sight was relatively calm. Heavy artillery fighting occurred at some points. BRITISH ARMY HEADQUAR TERS IX FRANCE, April 2. By the Associated Press.) The British stormed strongly held German posi- tions in a wood along the Luce River yesterday. When the enemy with drew after sharp fighting he left the ground strewn with his dead. The Germans shelled the wood heavily after it was occupied by the British and organized two counter at tacks for the purpose of retailing it. Both were caught in the British artil lery barrage and broken. British Take Prisoners. In the sector between the Avre and Luce rivers the British took 50 pris oners. Thirteen machine guns were captured. Near Hebuterne the Brit ish made a successful stand, capturing machine guns and prisoners. A Ger man counter attack was r ..-pulsed. The general situation at the moment is that the main movement of freshj enemy troop. and others that are mod erately fresh continues to be toward the zone between the Somme and Montdidier. North of the Somme the British have succeeded in stabilizing the line, at any rate for the tiTne being. Artillery Active in North. There has been a considerable in crease in the artillery fire against the British positions at Passchendaele and on the Goebenr ridge in Belgium, northeast of Ypres. The Germans however, are committed so heavily to the present battle front that it is not easy to believe they will try an of fensive elsewhere. The German attack along the Scarpe River on March 28 had as its objective the city of Arras and the formidable Yimy Ridge. Careful plans were laid to carry out this ambition, and the attack was supported by a very heavy assault south and south west of Arras, units of at least 11 German divisions being employed here. It may be seen, therefore, that the German plans uere far-reaching, but the main result they achieved was to swell the alreaily great total of their asualties. French Capital Subjected to New Bombardment Air Attack Is Successfully Defeated. PARIS. April 3. One of the German long-rang guna bombarding- Paris burst, according- to prisoners captured on the French front. Or 9 of the gun crew bring- killed. This announcement was made officially tonight. PARIS. April 3. The eighth long- range bombardment of Paris began at o'clock today, when a projectile exploded In the region of the city. The bombardment by the long-range gun resulted In the wounding of two women, it waa announced tonight. Enemy airmen unsuccessfully at tempted early this morning to bomb Paris, but were unable to penetrate the defensive barrage. Some bombs were dropped on the suburbs, but there were no casualties. NEW TORK April X. Edward Landon. whose wife and two daughters. It Is now known, were killed lnt Paris whsn a shell from a long-range Ger man gun struck a church there on Good Friday, was a retired New Tork attor ney. Mrs. Landon was a niece of Levi P. Morton. ez-Vlce-Presldent of the United States and once Governor of New Tork. LISBON. Portugal. ' April I Benito Castro, a Portugese engineer. Is said by the Seculo to bava Invented a gun which will throw a shell 10 miles. MEXICANS RAID ROADHOUSE Fight Near Idaho Line Fatal to One One Is Wounded. Republican Looks Like Sure Winner. DAYIES MAY LOSE BY 15,000 Large Increase in Socialist Vote Is Noteworthy. British Guns Do Execution. At about 3 o'clock on the morning cf the 2Sth German artillery of all calibers opened a terrific bombard ment against the British positions. It was obvious the enemy intended to attack, and at 6:40 o'clock the British gunners unloaded an avalanche of tcel against every known place of as sembly the Germans might be using. On the extreme north the storm renter lay between Gavrelie and Oppy, the Germans pivoting on Oppy. The Germans lost tembly in the heavy i?ht."ng, which lasted all day", during which the British fell back to a line between Bailleul and Willerval. The German attacks against these posi- ions were futile. Elsewhere north of the river the British stood their ground and pushed forward slightly Friday and Saturday. WITH THE FRENCH ARMY IX FRANCE, Monisy. April J. (By the Ivuac.aUcd wa 1 i, Cuiuwa TWIN FALLS. Idaho. April I. (Spe cial.) In a hold-up of John Sullivan's roadhous across the Idaho line In Ne vada, by four Mexicans. Mike McCul loch was Instantly killed and Pat Doo- ley badly wounded yesterday. McCulloeb and Dooley were sitting on the bank of a small stream near the roadhouae when the shooting began. As they tried to seek cover both were shot. McCulloch died Instantly. Doo ley" leg was shattered above the knee by a bullet. Sullivan finally succeeded In driving off the Mexicans with bis gun. Three of them were later ar rested In Jarbridge. Nev. Dooley was brought to a Twin Falls hospital last night. BOMB FLYERS TESTING OUT 100 Horsepower Airplane From San Antonio Stops at Kansas City. KANSAS CITT, April 1. Brigadier General W. L. Kenley and Major C. K. Rlnehardt. flying In a 200-horsepower bombing airplane from San Antonio, Tex, to a destination unannounced, de scended here late today to spend the night. They will resume their flight tomorrow. They came here from Fort Bill, Okla. They were about an hour behind their schedule here, having been compelled to descend near Olathe, Kan., to re plenish their supply of gasoline. The schedule calls for a speed of 100 miles an hour. CONGRESS TALKS ADJOURN Democratic Leader Thinks All May Go Home Early in July. WASHINGTON. April 2. Adjourn ment plana for Congress were discussed la the House today and Democratic Leader Kltchln predicted that unless something unforeseen developed Con gress would adjourn between July 1 and July 6. Many other members, however do not believe an early adjournment possible. B0LO PASHA MUST DIE Court of Cassation Rejects Appeal of French Traitor. PARIS. April 2. The court of caasa Ion today rejected the appeal of Bolo Pasha from the sentence of death Im posed by court-martial for treaaon. The court also rejected the appeal of Darius Porchere. an accountant, who was tried with Bolo Pasha and sentenced to three years' imprisonment. The appeals of Bolo Pasha and Por chere were denied March 12 by the court of revision. MILWAUKEE ELECTS HOAN Berger Upsets Calculations In Both Camps Republicans Hold Whip Hand In Counties Vet Missing. MILWAUKEE. Wis, April 3. (2 A. M. Oa the face of reraraa ap to tela hear. Lenraot Is expected te carry the state by lXOoa to 19000. Iaeomplete retwraa frosa S rat of Tl eraatles gave aret 2TT Davtra. 83,773, a ad Ber- ger. SSMM. MILWAUKEE, Wis, April 2. On the face of newspaper returns tonight. Representative Irvine L. Lenroot. Re publican, was today elected to the United States Senate by a plurality of from 8000 to 11.000 over Joseph E. Davles. Democrat, and choice of Presi dent Wilson for the office. State Preves Loyalty. On the basis of Republican and Dem ocratic assertion that the disloyal vote would go to Victor L. Berger, the So cialist candidate now under Indictment for alleged seditious utterances, Wis consin haa voted herself loyal by three or four to one. The midnight returns were from 43 counties out of 7L They gave Lenroot. O.I73; Daries. tt.110, and Berger, 44,- S14. The missing counties are all normally Republican, except Washington. The strength of Davles in the north ern and western part of the state came as a surprise to the Lenroot managers, who rapidly scaled down their claims as the returns dribbled in. Early pre dictions of a landslide for Lenroot were baaed oa high strength In Democratic communities which were, as usual, the first to report. In the northwest the plea "Wilson wants Davles" cut Into the normal Lenroot strength. Socialist Mayor Re-elected. Berger led the field In Milwaukee County and Mayor Daniel W. Hoan. Socialist candidate for Mayor, was reelected. The Increase in the Socialist vote, which totaled but 38,504 at the primary election, was said to have been recruited from the German element in the La Follette. faction, which opposed Len root at the primaries. Latest reports, compiled shortly be fore midnight, gave Lenroot a margin of less than 4000 votes in 34 counties outside of Milwaukee, while In that Animals Loaded at Burlcy, Idaho, Stagger Out of Cars and Fall Over; Loss Is $20,000. CHICAGO. April 2. (Special.) Ruthlessness. supposedly of enemy alien origin, has struck a blow against the food resources of the Nation by poisoning carloads of livestock at feed lng and watering places. The sheep pens of the Union Stockyards are strewn with the bodies of dead and dying . sheep, unloaded this morning from a train of sheep cars shipped by the Portland Feeder Company from Hurley, Idaho. Sheepmen In charge of the train de clared the 1200 animals were In good condition until -their arrival at Bel vldere. 111., where they were 'fd for the last time on their way to Chicago. It Is believed the poisoner mixed some drug with the food given (the. sheep, causing the loss of 820,000 worth of mutton. Veterinary surgeons employed by the packing houses were summoned as soon as the sheep drivers noted the condl tion of the sheep, many of which stag gered down the gangplanks into the pens and fell over dead. A thorough examination of the viscera of several of the sheep will be made by chemists, and no effort will be spared In tracing down the guilty persons. Every one of the sheep In the Burley consignment Is affected by .the mys terious poison, and veterinarians are trying to discover an antidote to pre vent further loss. By noon the number of sheep to die .had rea'hed, 150 and Big Allied Push Is Due to Come Soon. others are lying about in condition. helpless (Concluded on Pag 2, Column 1.) SPITZ PUPPY FOILS ROBBER . , Daring Attempt to Burglarize Ta coma Home Is Frustrated. TACOMA. Wash.. April 2. (Special.) A small Spitx puppy frustrated the second daring attempt in two weeks of a mysterious stranger to rob the home of Mrs. E. Meredith today. Hearing her dog rurlously barking, Mrs. Meredith searched the house. Sud denly she was confronted with the visi tor, who stood at the top of the stairs leading to the second-story rooms. While she telephoned the police the burglar leaped through an upstairs window, falling 20 feet to the ground and making "bis escape. The attempt of the stranger to enter the Meredith home in broad daylight today followed a similar attempt two weeks ago. At that time the puppy's barking caused an alarm. LABOR AND CAPITAL AGREE Policy to Stop Strikes and Lockouts Has Been Framed. WASHINGTON, April 2. Action on the recommendations of the labor plan ning board, which has framed a policy expected to eliminate strikes and lock outs, will be announced tomorrow by Secretary of Labor Wilson. It Is generally believed by both em ployers and labor interests that the recommendations will be accepted and OPENING ATTACK MARKS END Warfare Without Respite to Force Germans Back. ENTENTE ARMS TO MERGE London Announcement Indicates Hundreds of Thousands of U. S Troops Are to Be Rushed to France at Once. WASHINGTON, April 2. While the battle in Picardy halted today In lull that may only foreshadow the breaking of a new and more terrible storm, American troops were hastening to Joir In the fray with their French and British comrades. Formal announcement from London that these units would be merged with the allied war machines indicated to officials that losses of the allies would be Immediately made good with vigor ous young Americans, keen for battle, and the stage set without delay, not only for a counter-offensive, but for aggressive warfare without pause until the German invader shall not only be checked but hurled back to ultimate military defeat. United States Takes Vital Action. President Wilson has predicted that this will be the decisive year of the war. In the opinion of the military officers here, he has now taken the decisive step toward making his words good. The power of American manhood is to be brought to bear without delay. not only in the American expeditionary j anmy itself, but also in the fighting ranks of th5 allied armies. By this means the effort of American inter vention In the war, it was said, will be doubled or even trebled, and In the coming days of the battle of battles, which may last for months, Ameri cans by hundreds or thousands will play their part. No explanation of the announcement from London was made today at the War Department. Probably not more than a very few of the highest officials know precisely what method Is to be adopted to rush additional forces to Franoe. Instead of an explanation, Major-General March, acting chief of staff, made public an order from Secre tary Baker, now in Europe, directing that hereafter all Information regard ing the activities of American troops overseas be centralize in General Pershing's hands. The War Department will not give out any statements relat ing to these forces. Presumably, under the new plan of merging American nits in the allied armies and also be- "If We Do Not Win Now, Sooner or Later We Will Have to Fight at Home," Warns ex-President. i OYSTER BAY, N. 7., April 2. An ap peal to the American people to "back the liberty loan to the limit," was made here today by Colonel Theodore Roose velt, In an address to a delegation of liberty loan workers who had made a pilgrimage to his Sagamore Hill estate. If we do not win now, fighting abroad beside our allies, then sooner or later our sons or grandsons will have to fight here at home, without allies, for their homes, their wives and their little ones," said Colonel Roosevelt "A loan does not float itself." he con tinued. "No Government work does itself. Somebody has to do it. I ap peal to the people to back you to the limit of their power. This is the peo ple's war. It is America's war. It Is a war for our children and our chil dren's children's welfare. Each of us should gladly and cheerfully sacrifice everything necessary in order to win. The man at the front stands ready to sacrifice life and limb and health for our dear land. We who are not given the high privilege of going with him to the front must at least back him to the limit with the work of head and hand," Board Would KnowWhy March Output Fell. . DIRE NEED IS MADE PLAIN YAKIMA GERMANS LOYAL Chnrch Indorses Patriotic Prayers of Pastor, Rev. John D. Moede. YAKIMA, Wash., April 2. Trustees of the Nob Hill Evangelical Church today issued an official statement de claring that the church indorses the prayers of the pastor. Rev. John D. Moede, for the success of the allies, and denying that Mr. Moede was as saulted for his patriotic expressions. as stated In published newspaper articles. The members of the church are Ger man and the services are held in the German language. Responsibility for Turning Out Ships With Men. GOOD MANAGEMENT VITAL1 that the seme board which submitted them will be chosen as the National j cause of the creation of a supreme com Labor Board (Concluded on Page 2, Column 4.) BOSTON LIKES WHALE MEAT Carload of New Food Will Retail at 23 to 30 Cents Pound. BOSTON. April 2. Whale meat, fried n butter, waa served today to SO whole- le flsh dealers, who obtained the choice portions of the first shipment received here by rail from Vancouver, B. C Ail said it was first rate. Dealera announced that a carload of the meat would reach here about April 2. This, they said, would retail at 25 o 30 cents a pound. 7000-MILE TRIP IN VAIN W. t. Walker Comes From Honolulu to Enll-t, but Is Rejected. CHICAGO. April 2. The man who came back 7000 miles from Honolulu by way of Vancouver and San Fran cisco, to enlist In the British-Canadian forces was rejected today because of an athletic heart. He la W. Gordon Walker, on the eadquarters staff of the Hakalau plan tation on UiO Island of Hawaii. EVERY DA WILL BE WHEATLESS BY AND BY. JfO?-i Eh-V dfeT I J t WAR DECLARATION SOUGHT Turkey and Bulgaria Held Enemies of United States. WASHINGTON, April 2. A resolu tion proposing a declaration of a state of -war-between the United States and Turkey and Bulgaria was Introduced in the Senate today by Senator King, of Utah, and referred to the foreign rela tions committee without debate. The resolution recited that the ttwo nations named are Germany's allies and therefore enemies of the United States. FISH CANNERY WIPED OUT Alaska Packing & Herring Com pany's Plant Hit by Snowslide. JUNEAU. Alaska. April 2. Private advices received here today say that the Alaska Packing & Herring Com pany's cannery at Big Port Walter was entirely wiped out by a snowslide. The plant is said to have been one ot the best canneries in Alaska. Emergency Fleet Corporation Ad vises Heads of All Yards in Na tion That American People De mand Ships and Not Excuses. PACIFIC NORTHWEST JVOT AF FECTED BY INQUIRY. SEATTLE, Wash., April 2. (Special.) When asked regard ing Chairman Hurley's telegram of inquiry sent to all the ship builders of the country and per tinently inquiring the reasons for their failure to deliver the esti mated amount of ship toryiage during March, Meyer Bloomfield tonight said that the inquiry surely did not pertain to the Northwest, since the Eighth Dis trict, including Portland and Se attle, contributed nearly 46 per cent of the vessels delivered to the Shipping Board. INDEX OF TODAY'S . NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 54 degrees; minimum, an degrees. TODAY'S Fair; light northerly winds. War. Battle tn Picardy shows lull for moment. Faga 1. Secretary Baker visits Venice and Italian front. Page z. Royal Flying Corps ordered home from Texas, needed in France. Page 2. American troops enter allied tactical forma tions for coming drive on Teutons. Page 1. Long-range gun shelling Paris bursts, kill ing five of crew. Page 1. American troop shelled by Huns. Page 4. Foreign. Member of Reichstag likens Europe to man In swamp. . Page Brunt of food shortage In Germany borne by minority of Its people. Page 3. National. Emergency Fleet Corporation censures ship builders for failure to turn out ships ac cording to promised schedule. Page 1. Debate on Overman bill begun in Senate. Page 2. Domestic Lenroot. Republican, with lead of approxi mately 15,000. apparently elected United States Senator over Davles, Democrat, In Wisconsin. Page 1. Senate Judiciary committee adopts drastic penalties for disloyalty. Page 5. Sheep entering Chicago die by scores, sup posed poison victims, page 1 Roosevelt urges Americans to back liberty loan to limit. Page 1. Rich shipping man of San Francisco alleged German agent. Page a. Bports. Shipyard teams to hold monster parade Sat urday night. Page S. High school athletes to get chance In in door meet. Page a. Heavyweight bout to be feature of boxing snow April 1U. page a. Portland players leave for Pendleton train ing camp. Page 8. Pacific Northwest. State will Intervene to protect Interests In railroad-lumber companies fight. Page 7. Commercial and Marine. Packers delay announcing opening prices on canned goods, page it. Construction of new 1200-foot pier is rushed. Page 17. Portland and Vicinity. Plans completed for liberty loan war pa- rade. page u. 'Over the top In a week," slogan of third liberty loan campaign. Pago 13. Conservation keynote of Rotary Club lunch eon. Page 11. Federal authorities ask shipbuilding com pany to explain employment of German. Page 11. Portland women organize to do their share in liberty loan drive. Page 13. Canadian 'teen age boys solve labor problem of farmers. Page 7. N. Stanfield says if elected h will sup port President. Page 6. Electrical .workers plan series of dances for benefit of Red Cross. , Page 9. Germans cannot win, returned Canadians declare. Page 9. Theater audiences gladly join in singing pa triotic airs. Page 6. Sandy River black with smelt. Page 6. Weather report, data and forecast. Page IT. WASHINGTON, April 2. American shipbuilders were called upon tonight to explain why their output for March fell behind schedule. Chairman Hurley, of the Shipping Board, and General Manager Piez, of the Emergency Fleet Corporation, tele graphed heads of aU the yards in the United States, saying they were "keenly disappointed" In the tonnage delivered and placing the responsibility of turn ing out ships squarely on the men in control of actual building operations. Management la Needed. "Keynote of present situation is man agement, leadership," the telegram said. "Money, material and men have been supplied without stint by the Na- . tion. The American people want ships, not excuses." Suggestions were requested and the officials said they wanted to know if the fault lay with the Emergency Fleet Corporation. 'Please don't overestimate," the telegram urged, after asking for the prospects during April, it was said that the March estimate of 197,075 tons had been made on the promises of ship builders, who delivered only 166,700 tons. In discussing the telegram the chair- -man said it was his intention to find out exactly where the fault lay. Boys Must Be Fed. "Perhaps it may lie with a repre- sentative of the fleet corporation, who are co-operating with the builders," he said. "If so, we want to know it and promise to correct it." "Every man engaged in building ships ought , to keep In mind all the time that' he is working to back up the boys over there, and that it is up to the shipbuilder and shipworker to feed those boys who are giving their ' all in this war. If we all could get " that idea, there would be no loss of production at any time." Chairman Hurley's telegram to the yard managers follows: "We are keenly disappointed in the amount of tonnage delivered by Ameri can shipyards during the month of March and the slow progress made in . many yards. Outpnt Below Estimate. "Only 21 steel vessels, aggregating 166,700 tons, were delivered during that month, and our minimum estimate was for 197,075 tons. Instead of this reduction from our estimate we shovld have had an increase. This estimate was made on promises of shipbuilders. Thirty steel ships were launched with a total tonnage of 219,586. Eleven wooden ships were launched amounting to 40,- 000 tons. "We are particularly anxious that you and your organization should put forth a special effort during the month of April. We are. anxious that you should keep us fully informed concern ing all causes of delay encountered in building ships during this month daily by wire if necessary. We are con cerned with the entire programme, but we want April to break all records. 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