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
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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.
"Are the majority of your men doing"
a run oay s woricr Are you worsins
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