d?&Z - VOL. LYIII. NO. 17.939. PORTLAND, OREGON, THURSDAY, MAY 9, 1918. PRICE FIVE CENTS. !9 GUNNERS KILLED RAISING OF DRAFT TO 40 CONSIDERED BANDIT OF EUROPE MAN WITH HAMMER FELLS HOLDUP MAN BY MISFIT SHELL BOASTS OF: LOOT AT PORTLAND PLANTS ii IIOCSE MIIJTART COOIITTEE FORESEES POSSIBILITX. SEVEX INJURED BX EXPLOSION AT FORT WORTH. C. L. KELLY BRAVES BULLETS, SAVES WOMAN, TAKES MAN. 1US DIE AHEAD III VPRES SECTOR E CANS STRIKE SHIPS GIVEN HARD GERMANS Allied Front-Line Positions - Jire Penetrated EKEMY ATTACKS IN FORCE Germans Smash Through Be tween LaClytte and Voor . mezeele, Haig Reports. TEUTONS GAIN RIDGE WOOD Australians Advance Second Time Near Amiens; Ameri can Guns Roar Near Touf. LOXDOX, May e After a heavy bOTibsrdment on a - wide front in Flanders, the German infantry this morning" launched an attack aowh of Dickebusch Lake, which lies between Tpres and Kemmel, says neuter's correspondent at British headquarters. The attack apparently was only in divisional strength, but it may de- relop larger proportions. The enemy seems to hTe penetrated our front line between the lake and ridge wood and some parties of Germans are re ported in the eastern wood itself. Weather Is Clear. Fighting continues in fine weather and under good risibility. "We still hold the major part of the wood and also KTeine Vierstraat,' continues the correspondent. "The technical, objective of enemy opera' tions seems to be an attempt to clear the way for a thrust toward Scher- penberg from the northeast, and it may prove to be the beginning of fur ther fierce fighting in this region.' Pro pert Tbat Ace Limit May Be Increased Soon Discussed With Provost Marshal General. WASHINGTON'. May I. legis lation raising- the draft ass to 40 years was discussed as a possibility within a few months at a meeting- today of Provost Marshal-General Crowder and the House military committee. though General Crowder made no spe cific recommendations, members of the committee aald afterward that the War Department was considering a plan for changes. The conference report on the bill for registration of youths becoming II will be called up la the House tomorrow with prospects of a lively debate over the proposal to exempt ministers from the law. The War Department's oojectlon to giving credit In the draft for volunteers furnished by states was Indorsed to day by President Wilson. In a letter to Chairman Dent, of the House mil itary committee, the President asked elimination from the draft bill of the House amendment which provides that credit be given. Mr. Dent announced that In view of the President's position he would ask the House to recede from the amendment. probably tomorrow. Neutral Nations Told What to Expect. GERMANY ISSUES WARNING Propaganda of Frightfulness Floods Spain. WA"R HORRORS EMPHASIZED Contemplate Woes of France and Belgium Before Joining tie Allies? Against Good-Hearted Ger nans, Substance of Circular LONDON, May 8. In an at race againsi tne British and French line between La .Clytte and . Voormezeele in the Ypres sector the Germans, early this morning, sue ceeded, after heavy fighting, in en tering the allied front-line positions at certain points, according to Field Marshal Haig's official communica tion issued this evening. The communication adds that at all ether points the enemy met with re pulse. Australians Make Gains. Successful minor operations by Australians last night resulted in the advance of the British lines a short distance in the Amiens sector between the Somme and Ancre rivers. The Australians pushed forward their lines 500 yards along a front of 600 yards near Sailly-le-Sec, on the sector east of Amiens. They also pushed back the Germans 300 yards along a front of 500 yards west of Morlan court, just above Sailly-le-Sec. Not withstanding a heavy barrage, the Germans were unable to prevent their advance. i ( the Associated Press.) WITH THE BRITISH ARMY IN FRANCE, May S. There was a tre mendous amount of wrangling among the heavy guns down between the Somme and the Ancre rivers last night. ". ; Australians, Strafe Hnns. - . The British troops on both sides of the sector thought the long-expected German attack was beginning, - but anxious inquiries elicited the informa tion that it was only the Australians baiting the Germans again. The men from far overseas had not had a real fight since Sunday night, when they drove the enemy back along a considerable front in the region of Morlancourt, and they were spoiling for trouble. It was high ground the British were after and they improved their posi tions greatly. In the fighting around Sailly-le-Sec the Germans put down a heavy ma chine gna and shrapnel barrage, but could not hold back the hard-hitting Australians. German Attack Impends. Signs of a coming German attack continued to multiply last night and this morning. BIG GRAFT NIPPED IN BUD Deputy Food Administrator for Ne vada Is Trapped. SAX FRANCISCO. May . James A. Wood. Deputy United States Food Ad ministrator for Nevada, was arrested by Department of Justice officials here today for bribery on the charge he had accepted 1308 In part payment of an alleged demand upon the South Fork Flour Mills, of Elko. Nev, for 1500 month for alleged protection In their handling of flour and wheat under the Federal food act. Wood, according to the Federal au tborities. was trapped in a local hotel Tuesday through the use of a marked 100 bilL When confronted with the evidence they said they had In their possession Wood was quoted by the officials as having stated he had planned to take Into bis confidence the Department of Justice In a scheme to prosecute the mill company officials for alleged at tempt to bribe a Government officer. ITALIAN WILL NOT FIGHT Conscientious Objector Insists He Is Victim of Democrats. CAMP LEWIS. Wash, May S An Italian recruit from the latest draft Is In the guardhouse at Camp Lewis following his declaration he would not fight for his new country. He based his refusal upon the belief - that the United States Constitution relieves a cltlaen of the obligation of entering the Army against his wilL When Informed that a ruling of the United States Supreme Court had de cided otherwise, the Italian insisted that It was conspiracy on the part of members of the Democratic party to make him fight against his will be cause he voted the Republican ticket three times. NO WATER FOR GARDENS San Francisco Children May JSot Raise Vegetables This Tear. SAN FRANCISCO. May I. (Special.) The Spring Valley Water Company has notified the Board of Education of San Francisco that because of the hortage of water and unsettled con dltions. It is unable either to give water free or at reduced rates to school chil dren engaged in war gardening. The School Board recently wrote to the company asking If It could aid the children by concessions in water rates. On account of the long dry season here It will .be impossible for the children to grow vegetables "lthout water, and big' patriotlo campaign to enlist the children In this work on vacant lots must -be given up. ' , ALL BEE RECORDS BROKEN Tillamook. Apiarist Reports Swarm . . , Xew Year's Day. Nothing JaUmpoeaible In Oregon! Bees swarmed In Oregon last New Tear's day. Mrs. Rollle Watson, Tillamook. Or., reports this marvelous fact In answer to the challenge of The Oregon lan for the report on bees swarming In Oregon in midwinter. Two or three other swarms have been reported extremely early In the Spring, sine tha "bee syrapoelu: 4 appeared flaat Monday In The Oregonlan, and j while nothing In this line Is now con sidered Impossible In Oregon, no better record than lira Watson's is ex; acted. (By the Associated Praa What possibly may prove to be the prelude to the long-expected resump tion of hostilities by the Germans on the western front Is being played. Southeast of Tpres, from tha region "WASHINGTON. May I. Teutonic frightfulness as practiced In France and Belgium has been made the sub ject of a German warning to neutral nations of the fate which they may expect If they take up arms against tha central powers. ' "If there are any still thinking of siding with the allies, let them take warning from.tbe fate of others," says tha warning. It is in the form of a circular, which recited tha amount of booty seised in France and Belgium. the number of churches damaged and destroyed, the money wrung from the stricken inhabitants, and finally the deliberate mistreatment of English prisoners of war. Warning Circulate la Spain. German propagandists have flooded Spain with this document, printed in Spanish, and copies have come Into the possession of the State Department. Having established lta German origin tha department tonight made public this translation: "Besides an untold amount of war material captured on the battle field. the Germans have taken possession of Incalculable booty, in' France and Bel gium, including: "Hlgh-grado watches, 417. "Average watches, E0)(. "Underwear, 18,073. "Embroideries and women's - hand kerchiefs, 15.131. "Umbrellas and parasols, 1705. "Silver, spoons, 1870. "Bottles of champagne, 623,000. Business Better Thasi la 1870-71. "These figures snow a large Increase over those of the campaign against France in 1870-71. In Belgium, besides many art treasures, they have confiscated old paintings valued at 3.000,000 pesetas. Due to the treachery of Cardinal Mercler and other priests, who did their utmost to stir the priests against the good-hearted German soldiers, they were forced to teach a severe lesson to the Belgian and French Catholics. "Cathedrals destroyed, 4. "Cathedrals rendered unserviceable, 8. "Churches destroyed, 27. "Churches rendered unserviceable, 34. "Total. 73. "In Poland also a large number of churches have been destroyed for mill- (Concluded on Page 9, Column H General E. St. John Greble, In Com' xnand at Camp Bowie, Xar rowly Escapes Death. FORT WORTH, Tex., May S. Nine American gunners were killed and seven injured more or less seriously near Benbrook, a few miles west of Fort Worth, when a three-inch shell exploded at t o'clock this afternoon. Ona gun crew, comprised of members of the headquarters company, of tha 141st Infantry, was entirely wiped out and a second crew from headquarters company of the 142d Infantry suffered heavy casualties. An attempt on the. part of a gunner to force the shell, .which apparently did not fit, down a trench mortar, is believed to have been responsible for the accident. Sergeant Norman Bow, a Canadian, who is an assistant instructor for the Stokes trench mortar,, said tonight he saw a soldier attempting to force the shell and that . be ' attempted to warn the ' gunner. The' explosion came too quickly, however. . Bow was slightly wounded by a fragment of the shell. The list of dead follows: First Lieutenant Alan J. . McDavid, Overton. Tex. Corporals Wharton Jones, or San Marcos, Tex., William P. Appleng, El na, Tex, and W. J. Ellis, Abilene, Tex. Privates Morgan C Sanders, Abilene, Tex.; Euclid Simmons, Henrietta, Tex.; John Webber, Memphis, Tex.; Lacy R. Langley, Waelder, Tex., and Dewey Tillman, address not announced. The wounded, except Sergeant Nor man Bow, of the British army, were all from Texas. ' . General E. St. John Greble, com manding officer at Camp Bowie, was standing less than 10 yards from the scene of the explosion with his two aides. Captain Houghton and Lieuten ant RusaelL They were uninjured. Six of the men were instantly killed and three died a short time after the explosion. The bodies of some of the victims were literally blown to pieces. NOTORIOUS COUNT IS FREE Luxburg, of "Spurlos Versenkt" Tel egrams, to Sail for Home. BUENOS AIRES, May 7. Count von Luxburg, former German Minister to Argentina, who was dismissed by the Argentina government last fall because of his notorious "spurlos vesaenkt" messages and other activities objec tionable to Argentina.: is .finally about to sail for home.' Ill hearth claimed for him' and vari ous complications regarding arrange ments for his voyage had caused his departure to be postponed several times. Heavy Artillery Roars on . Many Sectors. DARING RAIDS WORRY HUNS George Harrison, Laborer at Plant of Northwest Steel, Is Landed in. Jail in Helpless Condition. Three shots were fired at the Ninety- second-street station on the Estacada car line in Lents shortly after sun down yesterday, when George Harrison, a laborer at the plant of the Northwest Steel Company, attempted to hold up Mrs. F. J. Chailima, of the Hammersly Court apartments, and Mrs. E. E. Weber, 4500-Ton Ballin Type Craft Specified. YankPP Pfltrnk PpnPtXfliP tfl 8808 Seventy-third avenue. Southeast. I who were waiting for a Portland-bound Teuton Lines, Take Captives. FIRST TRAITOR CAPTURED C. L. Kelly, of 7303 Ninety-second street,' Southeast, who was working nearby, saw the man approach the wo men, holding a revolver in his hand and wearing a dark mask over his face. Kelly started bravely to the rescue with a hammer in his hand. When the robber saw him coming he fired a cVi at htm 1 .k ., 1. surP Kelly, by that time, was within strlk Officer While Trying to Sneak I in? distance of the man, and hit him over the head with the hammer, knock ing Harrison to the ground and forc ing him to drop his revolver, which was of .38 caliber. Kelly picked It up and fired two shots into the air as a slg nal for help. Patrolman Coulter and Tully appeared on the scene a short time later and brought Harrison to the city Jail. The hold tin man &-a.v hi address me iron on wnicn tne Americans as the Ohio Hotel. He was under are engaged with the exception of I the influence of liquor when he at Picardy said that quiet prevailed to-1 tempted the burglary. night, principally because of the bad Across to Boche Lines in Com pany-Wlth German Spy. WITH THE AMERICAN ARMT IN FRANCE, May 8. (By the Assoclat ed Press.) Reports received from all MORE CONTRACTS PROMISED 100 Additional Weoden Ves s sels to Be Built on Coast. FERRIS TYPE SUPERSEDED Shipping Board to Permit Coast Yards to Build SO Wooden Steamers for French I Government. MINIMUM WAGE NOW $9.60 weather. The artillery activity was normal, al though the enemy was using a few gas twenty cents an Hour to lie .raid shells intermittently on the Luneville sector. Artillery Fire Continues. Except for artillery firing and patrol ling, there Is little new in Picardy. to AVomen in California. SAN FRANCISCO, May 8. The Indus trial Welfare Commission of California issued an order today establishing a minimum woo-a ? tQA fnw a iflh.ii. , Americans occoroe eek , . a h f wo stronger.. Apparently they are better en in the state engaged In unskilled Intrenched than the Germans, who are I and unclassified occupations, being continually harassed, day and I Under the term "unclassified occupa' night. Despite the enemy's heavy ex- I tions" the commission includes all oc nf.nr.it nr. in n. ho. nhin.ri cupations which have not been classl i .v,. "ed the mechanical, factory, laundry aw , I n Aannlnif in n ii at n nffir- rT rrv several days, preventing: much infantry activity. Then. ha.v hn nm anrinl encounters. U. S. FLYER ROUTS HUNS One of the American patrols last OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, May 8. Contracts for nine wooden ships of the Ballin type, to be 4500 tons each, have been awarded by the Shipping Board to the Kern 4 Klernan Shipbuilding Company, of Port land and to the Columbia Engineering Works, the larger end of the contract going to the former concern. These are the first contracts let in some months to any yard not previously holding (Contracts . with the Govern mnet. French Contracts Allowed. ' Senator McNary today was advised by Chairman Hurley, of the Shipping Board, that permission will be given to . Pacific Coast yards to build not to ex ceed 50 wooden ships of the Ballin and Dougherty types for the French gov ernment on condition that the contracts are made through the Shipping Board and on terms which the board will ap prove. . Tha Shipping Board, in other words. Is to act as agent for the French gov- ernment in placing these contracts. This new line of business Is being au thorized primarily to provide work for shipyards which have not been able to close contracts with the Emergency Fleet Corporation, but which have shown ability to build ships of the Ballin and Daugherty types. By supervising these French-contracts, the Shipping Board will guard against with work on United States Government contracts, will take WRIST WATCHES POPULAR 100,000 .Timepieces and Compasses Wanted for Army in France. PARIS, May 8. An order for 100,000 wrist watches and 100,000 radio com passes for the officers of the American Army are among the unexpected re quests that have coma to the American supply department. These new imple ments of war are being rapidly as sembled from Swiss and other Euro-) day. pean stocks. night encountered an enemy working Serceant 'Baylies Downs Seven' Hun party, xoey snot tne senunei anal . rushed the nmv. kiit 1tr r.llr w. -Planes in XWO juontns lng to the enemy's superiority in num bers. . - f WASHINGTON, May - 8. Sergeant A letter- fr.Khlv writt.n f mi nr. An thr.IT. HvH.a. nf New Bedford. Mass.. an body of a German killed by the Ameri- I American flyer in France, has brought I mierierencea cans in Picardy. discloses the effective- I down seven German airplanes within ness of. the American fire. . The letter the last two months, said an official teps to prevent diversion of labor follows: . niKoatCh todav from France. iiram yards Duiming tor this uovern- Here we-lie! Lie in a village which ment, will see that prices are reason Has been eomDletelv demolished hv r- . w. I sole and that labor conditions in otner - " i i n v n . iiiiinv' v- n i i i h r v i . tlllery fire. The village Is near Mont- ItiUCA W IUUHI O 111 &V0 shipyards are not upset didier. u ..!, I Coast to Build 100 Ships. . I a - T vaai.. I Fe dare not show ourselves. We ,..,.....,,,. fmoomture. ex Senator McNary also was told that live in the cellar. .We have to go and derree.: minimum, 42 degrees. 100 of the 200 wooden shipo embraced get our food at night. Last night 1 1 went out with a detail which brought I back food.. "We got a direct hit. A shell hit our party, which killed some men and I shower.; northerly in the Shipping Board's new policy will be built on the Pacific Coast. Included GET RID OF THE WHITEWASH FIRST, THEN INVESTIGATE. (CeaBdd ea fas . Ceiuoui 2.) MAYOR PLANS PROHI LAW Baker Wants City to Keep Money Instead of State Getting- All. . The city la to have a prohibition law of Its own. Mayor Baker yesterday presented as an ordinance a copy of the state prohibition law, which he asked the Council to pass. The purpose is to enable the city to keep money taken in as fines for vio lations of the prohibition law. At present the city prosecutes under the state law and accordingly has to turn over all ' money to the state, whereas tba police do most of the work and the money really belongs to the city. " j I in. - - ? . - wavin rW. ..; . I 1 I W V W il f l. ffi.ilJJhN, i ; ffiw AJ . j. TODAY'S Probably winds. a ...... mir-nra h.rrl 2 f G'rmM. Fae. 1. Koumanlsui peace greatly Iavora central in iihh numuer win ut come -anin powers. Page . typa sh!ps, which will be substituted "r fnr fnntrflntR nrevioilsl v let for shins nf wounaeu several. nope we win oon cmuM gain In heavy attack near Tpres. 1 the FcrriB type. ots l&Kea irum me- wcsiciu army. I irage . Americana Are Strafed. ' Secretary Baker says more than half mil- Tho Klernan & Kern Shipbuilding i linn American irooDS in r rwii. - i . . . . , . . . At 1et three new German f.o...rlrnn . company s piani. is locaiea at me loot - I x o rem 11. I . x-i of pursuit airplanes have been sent up Brf , h crlsi rMUlt of miitary-clvillan clash Klernan . lare steam 8chooner i. o the American trooDS In the Toul sec- . , nniirv. pn 2. I Klernan, a large sieam scnooner, is fnr fh nurnn.e of tmflnir v,rm I r.v,n una Irish DeoDle to resist being fitted out. While only one set conscription. iae o ways naa oeen usea bu lur, me corn- Sallors In Austrian-Hungarian tleet revolt. I pany is prepared to build two or three page ). I . ir r xr t.. Finland. Page 2. superintendent of the plant, is in Wash- Failure of suffrage reform causes political I ington, where he has been for a long crisis in Germany, page a. neriod. German influence result, in expulsion oi Tbe Coiumbla Engineering Works is Germany exploit, its crime. In France and located at Linnton and has two aux- accordlng to information received to The . exact composition of the (Concluded on Page 8, Column 4.) Belgium to scare neutrals. Page 1. National. House military committee considers raising draft age to 40. page l. lliary schooners on the ways and an other In the water, the one afloat and the next to be launched being on order of Christopher Ilannevig. of New Pay increases aggregating nearly $300,000.- ,. ... . 000 recommended by Railroad Wage Com- York. The third was laid down on the builders' account, but was recently re ported sold to Californian interests. There were six auxiliary schooners built there previously for M. T. Sny der, of New Orleans, and associates. Three Now In Water. According to the contracts as an nounced, .the same-sized ships of the Ballin type are to be built as those now being constructed by the Suppie-Bal- lin Shipbuilding Corporation, of which there are eight under contract, while the G. M. Standifer Construction Cor- holds contracts for six of them. The Supple-Ballin force has three of the ships in the water. F. A. Ballin, of the corporation, is the designer of the vessel and a few days ago the Emergency Fleet Cor poration adopted a 5000-ton plan at the same time the Dougherty type was adopted. In view of an order that no more wooden ship contracts would be let in advance of tha new Ballin plans being placed in Coast yards, it was mailed. I not expected 4500-ton ships would be arranged for. ui.rf hv Federal officers. Page 9. rmmerciiU and -Marine. gineering w oras, ie vasningion Bprlnrr grain crop in Oregon near.y all in. few JS ago and is expected home Tagm UL. I cailjr ucai nct,n a k . aj. a. aaa uiiut Corn rallies at Chicago as result of crop re i who is interested in the Oceanic Ship- port. Fag I Knildintr Com nan v. which has started a C0 ?.t p. 21 ""' plant at Milwaukie, is at Washington and is understood to be making efforts mission. . Page 8. Many cities win liberty loan honors. Page 7. Shipping Board budget calls for S2.223.835, U00. Page . Shipping Board award, contract, for nine Ballin type snip, to jrorxiana yaras. Page 1. Senator McNary will remain tn Washington and not campaign ior re-eieciion. rasa a. America defies Germany and sends two shipload, or grain to awnienina. i-age o. America', wheat crop likely to reach billion bushels una year, page lome.tic. Pastor Russell's successor arrested on se dltion charge, page l. L W. W. ranks spilt at Chicago trial by at- DOration rnurt. Patre e. Eight gunners killed by misfit shell. Page 1. Sports. Portland wins from Aberdeen, 11 to 2. Page 14. Jimmy Darcy promise, to knock out Al Sommer. in quics time louoriow nisnt. Page 15. Shipyard team, put up good brand of ball, Page 14. Giant, win eight .traight from Philadelphia. Page 14. Pacific Northwest. State Pamphlet, for voter, all Page 7. Safety oepo.it do vv. Mears. of the Columbia En. street. Page 21. Emergency Fleet Corporation wants barges. Page 17. Second Ferris type ship floated by St. Helens Shipbuilding company, rage i. Portland and Vicinity. Cleverest crook" Is acquitted. Page 13. Second Red Cross campaign inaugurated. Page IS. to draw contracts to that company. Plant Awaits Contracts. The International Shipbuilding Com pany, at Columbia City, which is headed by George W. McBride, of this city. has a plant installed and one set of Oregon total in third liberty loan goes far I ways ready, while three more can be beyond expectations. Page 16. provided in short order, and it Is fully Caterer.' Association declare, opposition to expected ships will be awarded there. p '1"u either for the American or French gov- Pag. 22. , Oregon asked to supply 23 railroad oper- Th Founaation Company, which is a Uvea for Army service. Page 15. C N. Kelly knocks out holdup man with hammer, page I. building 20 auxiliary steam schooners here for the French and the same , ..,,,,' ,..m. number at Tacoma, has not been ad Civic clubs' .eglslatlve committee consider. I, . . ,,. hi.,i, proposed city ordinances. Page 13. Alleged pro-German publications ordered re moved from Public library. Page 8. Cities must eo-operate to solve Idler prob lem, says farm help specialist. Page 17. vised of additional orders being placed, though the French government holds options to duplicate its orders at both yards. The company has floated five hulls at the Portland yard, and another' Weather report, data and forecast. Pag. IT, ' will go overboard in a few days.