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VOL. LVIII- NO. 17,908. PORTLAND, OIIEl.UN, MONDAY, APRIL 13, 1918. PRICE FIVE CENTS. PACIFIC NORTHWEST YANKEES DEFEAT AMERICANS BRING DOWN HUN PLANES WAR VETERANS TO SPEAK AT HEILIG TROOPS IN BATTLE GERMANY'S BEST REGIMENT ORDERED TO BACK TWO ENEMY MACHINES TAKEN IN LIVELY ENGAGEMENT. MEETING ARRANGED FOR 11:50 O'CLOCK THIS MORNING. CP BRITISH OS SOMJ1E. ALLIED LIKE FIRM nun HISS-HUNT OFFERS HER RESIGNATION Library Board Calls Special Meeting. COLLI ER mm FATE IS MB Enemy Slaughtered in Futile Assaults. TEUTONS STOPPED SHORT Hope Now Felt That Battle Tide Has Turned, With De fense Unbreakable. BOCHES ATTACK DOGGEDLY Tenacious Assaults Made to Jake Neuve Eglise From British Are in Vain. Ry the' Associated Press. The entire allied line in Belgium and France is holding firm. Nowhere have the Germans been able, notwithstanding the great num bers of men hurled against it, espe cially that portion in Flanders where the British are holding forth, to gain an inch of ground. Americans Balk Enemy. Northwest of St. Mihicl the Amert can troops have been compelled to withstand a series of persistent as saults, second in intensity only to tho.-e delivered by the Germans against the British in Flanders. And tne honors at the end rested with the Americans, who met the foe at every style of fighting he offered and de cisively defeated him. The front held by the French Sun day saw nothing of greater im prtnce than reciprocal bombard' merits on various sectors. Likewise, in Italy, the big guns were doing most of the work, although at several points enemy patrols attempted to carry out diversions, but met with no success. Battles Are Obstinate. At Neuve Fglise, northwest of Armentieres, where the Germans are endeavoring to drive their wedge in further in order to outflank Ypres, the heaviest fighting has taken place. Throughout Saturday night and Sunday there were battles of a most obstinate character, the Germans throwing thousand of men into the attack, notwithstanding their wastage in killed or wounded. Several times the village changed hands, but at last reports the Britih were still in pos session of it and holding tenaciously under repeated German onslaughts. Nowhere along the eight-mile front, where the Germans are trying to drive through between Wulverghem and Meteren, have the Germans met with anything but repulse, and the price they have paid for their attempts to breach the Briti.-h line has been enormous. Defense Is Impregnable. On no sector have they been able to surmount the sfone wall of the de fense, and for the moment at least there seems to be justification for the hope that the turn in the tide of the battle is at hand. Documents captured from German prisoners show conclusively that the great new offensive of the Germans was launched with the intention of separating the British and French armies and crushing of the British. The latest German official com munication dealing with the situation in the region of St. Mihicl, where the Americans are defending the line, says that the Germans inflicted heavy losses on the Americans in a success ful .thrust and also took prisoners. The same report gives the Germans credit for gains of ground on the Lys tittle front, where the British are opposed to them. LONDON. ApnTlV The Germans continue their powerful attacks against the British line in Flanders. The town of Neuve Eglise, an im portant strategical point which has charged hands several times, remains in possession of the British, Field Marshal Haig's report tonight says. The enemy attacks in this region have been carried out with steadily increasing forces. The troops em ployed on the opening day were few, as compared with those now in the at tacking lines. 17 Di'Uions in Line. Between St. Venant and the Ypres- Comines Canal tht enemy last night had at least 17 divisions in lice, with six more divisions held in reserve. There has been no cessation in the 5kaciuil a J a, Cs.iuk i Boys Are Reported to Be In Ex cellent Physical Condition for Clash With German Legions. BT WILL G. MAC RAE. (StAff correspondent of To Oresonlan with the Aiuenc-aa , orcea in Fr,nc.l PARIS. April 1J. (Special Cable.) Anions" the American regiments which were ordered by General Pershing to reinforce the British forces battling the Germans along the Somn.e front is one from the Pacific Northwest. Officers sad men of this regiment are la splendid health. It bas on the hospital list none seriously ill. and baa not bad for a month past. Wood chop ping and other outdoor activities have put the edge to splendid physical train ing. All the officers who were sent to the school for training of the commissioned men have returned to their commends. They are delighted with the methods and teaching of the war college. SNOWFALL HAMPERS DRIVE Storm Interferes With Work Hood River County. in HOOD RIVER, Or. April 14. (Spe claL) A snow storm in the forest In the southwestern part of Hood River County prevented a liberty loan rally at Dee tonight. The bad weather made It Impossible for the Oregon Lumber Company to bring a special tralnlosd of loggers from the woods, and the meet ing was canceled. Despite the snow, a large crowd was present at an upper valley rally at Parkdale, where ad dresses were, delivered by Edward D. Fraley. a Portland attorney; Lieutenant Dawson, of Vancouver Barracks, and J. H. Haslett. of this city. With the original goal. $150,000. 2: per cent over the county's quota, at lained. Hood River Is now striving for ins.ooo. THIEF ROBS PENITENTIARY Brass Whistle at .Machine Shop Re placed With One of Tin. WALLA WALLA. Wash.. April 14. (Special.) Tne penitentiary houses an original thief someone who stole the whistle from off the shop building In- ld the walls ard replaced It with a replica made of tin. It Is supposed that the brass whistle has long since been converted Into curios. The tin whistle Is to be replaced with a rest blstle. as the substitute Is so fragile it has almost been rattled to Pieces. The officers are considering welding the new whistle, to the shop so that It cannot bo taken. CALIFORNIA GETS 2 YARDS No Concrete Ships to Be Built in Fori land or on Columbia. OREOOVIAN NKWS BflTKAU. Wash- ngton. April 14. Neither Portland or he Columbia River will Ret one of he two new concrete shipyards which he Shlpplnir Board Is to establish on the Pacific Coast under the bill signed by tho President yesterday. California, which overlooks no op portunities has grabbed off both yards, one going to San Francisco and he other to Low Angelas. DRIVE AIMED AT BRITISH Officer's Diary Tells of Objects of German Offensive. WITH THE BRITISH ARMT IN FRANCE, April II. tBy tho Associated Presa) An illustrating; and Illuminat or diary concerning the great German offensive was found on an enemy offi cer belonging to the :6th division, who was killed south of Hebuterne. April . In this document the writer said the general Intention was to separate the British and French, but In any case the main effort would be directed against the former. 504 OFFICERS ARE LOST British Casualty 1.11 Shows 79 Are Killed In Battle. LONDON. April 15. A casualty list ubltshed by the War Office today con tains the names of 504 officers. Sev enty-nine were killed. 28S died of wounds and 140 are missing. Presumably this Is the first casualty Hat from the heavy fighting in France In the past three weeks. FOCH'S TITLE AGREED ON Commander - in - Chief of Allied Armies in France Is Rank. PARIS. April 14 An official note issued tonight says: "The British and French governments have agreed to confer the title of Ccmmander - In - Chief of the allied armies In France on General Focb." HUN FLEET OFF FINLAND Warships Reported to Be Before Helsingfors at Anchor. BERLIN, via London. April It. It is officially stated that a part of the Ger man naval forces, which are support ing the German troops in Finland, an chored, before, Hsi ins fori 6turdy Kaiser's Shock Units Cut to Pieces. AMERICANS TAKE PRISONERS 64 Teuton Dead Counted When Struggle Is Abated. ST. MIHIEL SECTOR SCENE Deluge of High Explosive and Gas Shells Precedes Boche Attack, More Than 100 Teutons Die In Four Days' Battle. (By the Associated Trees.) WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN FRANCE. April 14. Preceded by an In tense bombardment of high explosives and polson-gat, anells. picked troops from four German companies hurled themselves against the American posi tions, on the right bank of the Meuse, north of St. Mlhlel. early this morning, but were completely repulsed after ter rlfie hand-to-hand fighting. The Americans captured some pris oners. The German losses already counted are 34 dead and 10 wounded. ho were In the American trenches. and 30 dead In No Man's Land.-Several of the wounded enemy were taken back by their comrades to the German posi tions. ' Barrage Laid now. A concentrated artillery fire on the American position In the St. Mlhlel sec tor began Saturday morning. It was resumed with increased vigor just be fore midnight and continued Intermit tently until nearly daybreak. The Germans then laid down a bar- rage and leaped over the parapets and reached the American front-line trenches closely behind the barrage. At thla moment the American In fantry burst from their shelters, at tacking the enemy with grenades and bayonet. The strut! continued back, and forth for some time, but over most of he front involved the American troops were completely victorious, as was evl dent from the heavy toll of enemy dead and wounded." 1 Prlaosjerm Rroaafct la. At another point a large enemy fore surrounded 25 Americans in front of their trenches. Tho Americans sud- enly attacked and killed several ot the Germans and returned to their trenches uninjured and bringing pris oners. WITH THE AMERICAN ARMT IN FRANCE. April 13. After another Ight of terrific artillery fire and a bombardment with gas shells, the Ger mans continued today their efforts to drive through to the third line of the meriran positions near Apremont iCon.-ludl on Ptm 8. ( nlumn '1. ) i Imii n "f "' -' -J-- r.t t ..t.r. .M Yankees Commended for "Beautiful Exploit" by French and Both Awarded War Cross. (By the Associated Press.) WITH THE AMERICAN ARMT IN FRANCE, April 14. Two German fighting planes were shot down this morning Inside the American lines by Lieutenants A. S. Winslow, of Chicago, and Douglas Campbell, of California. Each man downed one machine. Both the enemy avlatora were made prisoner. One of them was slightly wounded. The machines, which formed part of a patrol of five aircraft, were brought down after a slx-mlnute engagement. One of the enemy machines fell In flames, but the other was only slightly damaged. It is believed that Lieuten ant Campbell is the first graduate of a structly American school to bring down an enemy machine. The American aviators were en camped when the enemy machines were signalled as crossing the line. Fifteen minutes later the American pilots sighted the enemy machines and Im mediately engaged them. The French General commanding the sone in which the machines were shot down congratulated the Americana on their "beautiful exploit." Both Lieutenants were awarded the war cross. PARIS SHELLED AT NIGHT One Woman Killed, 'o Other Cas, ualties Are Reported. PARIS. April 14. The bombardment of the Paris district by the German lonr-rinie gun continued today. One woman was killed. Paris last night was subjected to its first nocturnal bombardment since the long-range shelling began, the bom bardment being resumed late in the night No . casualties have been re ported as the result of the after-dark shelling. Yesterday's bombardment did not cause any casualties. BELGIAN COURTS STIFLED Germans to l'ut Country Under Re pressive Rule of Military. HAVRE, April 14. The German In tent, to. seplaca Belgian tribunals' by German courts is confirmed by a notice issued by Governor von Falkenhausen, basing the measure on political mani festations by Belgian courts which re fused to sit as a protest against the arbitrary methods of the Invaders. The notice says that until German courts are organised, military com manders will undertake the repression of crime and misdemeanors. LA GRANDE BARS GERMAN Banishment of Enemy Language Coupled With Salary Rise. LA GRANDE. Or.. April 14. (Spe cial.) German has been banished from the La Grande High School curriculum by the School Board, which, at the same session, increased all salaries at least 10 per cent to all teachers. THEY'VE STARTED SOMETHING. ACTIVITY IN 1917 RECALLED Oregon Delegation Urged to Vote Against War. NEW PROTESTS RECEIVED Acceptance of Resignation Expected at Once Miss Isom, Librarian, Declines to Make State ment on Her Own Views. RESIGNATION OF MISS M. LOUISE HUNT SUBMITTED TO LIBRARY BOARD. "To the Directors of the Li brary Association of' Portland: Gentlemen Because I do not wish in any degree to hamper the usefulness of the library and be cause I am unwilling to place upon the Library Board the bur den of a conflict to maintain its brave stand for freedom of con science, I hereby tender my res ignation, to take effect at once. Very truly yours, "M. LOUISE HUNT." Faced with an overwhelming publl sentiment against her. Miss M. Louise Hunt, assistant librarian at the Central Library, who recently aroused a storm of protest by refusal, on conscientious grounds, to buy liberty bonds, yester day submitted her resignation to W, B. Ayer, president of the Library As sociation. . President Ayer has called a meetin of the directors of the Library Asso ciation for today. noon. At that time action will be taken on Miss Hunt' resignation. It is expected the resig nation will be accepted. Since she de slree that It become effective at once, this order will probably bo made. Opposition Not Passive. New evidence of activity of Miss Hunt In opposition to the war policies of the United States came to light yes terday. Her present attitude has been held by her from the time that Amerl ca went Into the war and her opposl tlon has not been altogether passive. according to information available. On April 4, 1917, Washington dis patches told that a "Miss Hunt, of Portland," claiming to represent the pacifists of Oregon, called on the Con gressional delegation from this state, demanding that they vote against the war resolution then before Congress. At that time nothing further about the identity of "Miss Hunt" was known Concludd on Page 2, Column 2.) j French, British and Canadian Army Officers Will Tell of Experi ences on Western Front. French, British and Canadian army officers will speak and a number of enlisted Canadian soldiers direct from the trenches will attend a special meeting in the Helllg Theater at 11:30 o'clock this morning. This meeting was arranged yesterday and will give Portland people a further opportunity again to hear personal experiences In the world conflict from men who only recently left the battlefront. Today's meeting: was arranged yes- terday on brief notice by Milton R. Klepper, state manager of the speak ers' bureau of the liberty loan commit tee. Frank J. McGettigan. manager of the Orpheum, has offered the use of the theater and will furnish the Or pheum orchestra, under direction of George E. Jeffery. Captain J. C. Champion and Sergeant Mlrat, of the French army, and Lieu tenant Hector MacQuarrie, of the British forces, will speak. Major J. S. Matthews. Lieutenant A. G. McDonald, fci Braui-migor nnsiy, corporal j-.. sr. Adalr and Privates Michael J. O'Rourke, I J. G. Burke, A. Thompson and P. L. Smith, of the Canadian army, will be present. These Canadians have just returned from a tour of the state. In which they gave inspirational assist ance in initiating the librty loan drive In all sections of the state. The two distinguished Frenchmen temporarily in the city will tell of rying 57 passengers, 15 officers and their experiences at the west front and 221 men in her crew, has been over give a clear statement of the progress , , . , . . . , of the war. Lieutenant MacQuarrie due at an Atlantic port Since March Is already known to Portlanders and 13. The Navy Department announced will got a welcome back after a short .today that she was last reported at tour of the state in the interest of the . , T ,. . , ... , . , , . liberty loan. a West Indies island March 4 and that The two officers were loaned by the extreme anxiety is entertained as to French government to the United u.aii7o i j sci ve an instructors. iney JLK RtfLtionH ot r.'mn twla Ttioo I will be In Portland until Wednesday and engagements are being made for them by Mr. Klepper. Lieutenant Mac- Quarrie win be in the state until April 20. He will speak at Salem Wednesday night. , TEXAS SCENE0F TWISTER Thirty Buildings Blown . Down at . Bofd; Other Towns Damaged. FORT WORTH. Tex.. April 14.' A tornado which struck North Texaa to night caused damage in several towns. according to information reaching here As far as could be learned no lives were lOSt. At Boyd 30 buildings, including a church and schoolhouse, were blown down. At Boyd a number of railroad cars were blown from tracks and telephone wires destroyed. Near Baird the wind struck a moving train, blowing five cars out of it. Several houses were re- ported demolished in Bridgeport, Man- go and Paradise. The Mayor of Boyd tonight issued an appeal for outside aid. Labor is needed to help rebuild destroyed residences, he said. All wires in the path of the cyclone are down and the extent of the dam age probably will not be known before tomorrow. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 48 TODASYPbXm' fllrf 'Th-t westerly winds. War. Americans utterly defeat troops near St. Mihlel. Page l. Gelpag CTau,t" on al,Ied line ' to gain, Pacific Northwest regiment aids British In bomme Dame, page 1. Americans sustain 67 casualties. Page 4. American avlatorn brln, rinwn n..- I lighting planes. Page 1. Foreign. Fall of Kerensky's provisional government almost like comic opera. Page 6. National. Senator William J. Stone, of Missouri, passes away, rage Naval collier Cyclops mysteriously overdue. rage 1. Oregon ordered to mobilize 251 registrants, Nearly one-fifth of total liberty loan quota to oate suoscnoeo. rage s. Domestic. Chpage F1 "vn" to d",oyal charBe"-1 that port no trace of her .r .ny in Chicago hotels face labor strike, page 2. I formation concerning her has been sports. Portland recruits defeat Walla Walla at I Pendleton. Score, IS to O. Page 10. I MT.t?u.V s'por?. td.. Portland Gun ciub wins trapshooting cham-1 pare io "' """""" Mccormick team takes lead in shipbuilders' I league, ucauus uriuooi. I m u. x-age J.W. Winnlne of Columbia-Willamette traD.hoot- ing champlonehlp by McCoy protested by Woodburn club. Page 11. Pacific Northwest. William Roaeberry, of Haines, slain by son- in-law. Charles Spearman. Page 3. Public Service Commission gives position on S-cent iare. rage s. Mayor Fawcett patches up differences with labor unions, rage i. Portland and Vicinity. French veterans speak at First M. E. Church. Page 8. Work of American Red Cross at front tn France described, rage 7. Portland shipyard proposes to smash all records in ship construction. Page 11. Knights of Columbus Initiate large class, many being in u. 8. unllorra. rage 14. Council submits six measures to voters. Page 14. Interest lacking In county politics. Page. 14. Radiators Indorse certain candidates at se cret meeting. Page 14. War veterans to speak at Helllg this morn ing. Page 1. Liberty dollars still pouring In. Pago 8. Dr. Morrison would rather go to hell than to German heaven. Page 9. Miss Hunt resigns. Page 1. Teacher to Portland school refuses to take oath oi allegiance, rage 4. Weather report, data and forecast, pass Big Naval Craft Overdue Since March 13. SEARCH YIELDS KD TRACE VeSSel LeaVeS WeSt InClieS Port March 4 and Complete ly Drops From Sight. PORTLAND MEN ON BOARD I LaCK 0T MOMIS Or tneiTIV in Craft's Path Adds to Strangeness of Case. WASHINGTON, April 14. The big I American naval collier Cyclops, car- I ,er safety. The vessel was bringing a cargo of manganese from Brazil, Alfred L. Moreau Gootschalk, United States Consul-General at Rio Janeiro, was the only civilian among 1, . me passengers on tne comer, mo others being two naval lieutenants and 54 naval enlisted men, returning to the United States. The Cyclops was commanded by Lieutenant-Com mander G. W. Worley, United States naval reserve force." One of Engines Damaged. The Cyclops left the West Indie3 with one of her two engines damaged, but the department said this fact I would not have prevented her from I ..Mm.mt.f ... M V,. -nil,'. at ell - L.i J. i. 1... v ic" . been unsuccessful. A thorough search of the course which she would have followed in coming to port has been maAe. and rontinnps. it. wast announced. , . f There haV! bee" n0 rfPort.s of Ger" man submarines or raiders in the lo cahty in which the collier was, the department's" statement said. The Weather had not been stormy and could hardly have given the collier trouble. 1 All Hope Not Abandoned. The fact that the collier had been missing nearly a month became known here April 11. The naval censor re quested the Associated Press not to puDiisn tne i act, on tne ground mat the ship had not been given up for lost' and that t0 PUbHsh the f act that she was overdue mignt expose ner to enemy attack, while she might be dis- aoied on tne nign seas, ine oiiiciai announcement by the Navy today does not give the ship up for lost, but morelv savs "the Navv Department - , . , , , leeiH CALiemei V OIlAluua o M, u safety." The statement follows: "The U. S. S. Cyclops, Navy collier of 19,000 tons displacement, loaded with a cargo of manganese and with a personnel on board of 15 officers and 221 men of the crew and 57 pas- sengers, is overdue at an Atlantic port since March 13. She last reported at one 0f the West Indian islands March 4. and since her departure from obtained. c-l. T r.:tlnaa diuwi. huihws. c11b to the Cyclops from all possible points have been made and vessels sent to search for her along her probable route and areas in which :!,. V, c,tn.gcc ""6"- " ,-.. "No well-founded reason can be Concluded on Page 3. Column 3. FRENCH, BRITISH AND CAN A. DIAN OFFICERS SPEAK AT HEILIG THEATER AT 11:30 A. M. TODAY. State Manager Klepper, of the speakers' bureau of the liberty loan committee, has arranged a special meeting at the Hellig Theater at 11:30 o'clock this morning. Captain J. C. Champion and Sergeant Mlrat, of tho French army, and Lieutenant Hector MacQuarrie, of the British army, will speak. Major J. S. Matthews and seven other officers and enlisted men of the Canadian army will attend. The general public is Invited.