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French Repulse Enemy At
All But One Point
GENERAL WOODBIDS
PORTLAND HONORS
DEPARTING SONS
BIG NAVAL BATTLE
EXPECTED ANYTIME
ALARM GIVEN TO BRITISH OF
FICIALS FEW DAYS AGO.
MEDIATION REFOSEO
BY WESTERN UNION
OFFICERS FAREWELL
AMERICAN CORPORA!. BARELY
ESCAPES FIENDISH DEVICE.
89XH DIVISION REVIEWED BY
ITS OLD COMMANDER.
MAN TRAP SET TO
GET YANKEES FAILS
HUGE REVOLT PLOT
IS BARED l RUSSIA
Conspiracy Extends To
RESERVES ARE IN ACTION
Entente Forces Retake Five
Towns and Two Hills After
Bitter Struggle.
ENEMY GAINS IN SOUTH
On Rheims-Dormans Front Al
lies Are Compelled to Re
tire From High Road.
(By the Associated Press.)
The strength of General Foch's re
serves has been felt by the armies of
the German Crown Prince in the "bat
tle for Paris."
East of the line running from Sois
sons to Chateau Thierry, where the
Germans, in a continuation of their
mighty stroke, gained several addi
tional villages and then attempted to
proceed further westward magnifi
cent opposition was made by the
newly strengthened lines and with ter
rific smashes the French forces re
captured Long Pont, Corey, Faverolles,
Champlat and Troenes, vantage points
in the center of the line leading to the
forest of Villers Coterets, which seems
to be the present objective of the en
emy. The French also recaptured
Monte de Choisy and Hill 163.
River Not Crossed.
The Germans, however, still have in
their possession the village of Vaure
zis, west of Soissons, and further south
Saconin-et-Breuil, Chaudun, Licy and
Bouresches, the"tast "natned" directly
. west of Chateau Thierry. A little to
the southwest of Chateau Thierry the
enemy has reached the Marne.
Nowhere has there been any at'
tempt by the invaders to cross the
river, and at all points east of Chateau
Thierry they are hugging the northern
bank of the stream. It is not iihprob
, able, however, that the tactics of the
Germans have in view the fording of
the river when the time is more pro
pitious, for in the center of the line
between Chateau Thierry and Rheims
they have pushed back the allied
forces across the river at the Dormans
roa4 between Elizy-Volaine and Ville-en-Tardenois
and are pressing onward
toward the Marne. This is the only
point on their left wing, however,
where the enemy has been able to
make fresh gains.
Rheims May Be Isolated.
Having failed in all their efforts to
conquer Rheims by direct assault, it
now seems to be the intention of the
Germans further to widen their occu
pation of the territory lying scuth of
the Rheims-Dormans road and thereby
outflank the cathedral city and bring
about its capitulation.
Taken all in all, the seventh day of
the new battle found the allied line
from Soissons to Rheims, although it
had been bent back at various points,
not so hard-pressed as on previous
days and seemingly more capable of
resisting the enemy's onslaught.
Trench Raids Continue.
The British in the regions of Arras,
Lens and Bethune are keeping up their
trench raiding operations against the
Germans.
As yet the expected great battle has
not broken in the Italian theater.
PARIS, June 2. The "French troops
in a counter-attack west of NueillV'
St.-Front drove back the Germans and
also in an attack recaptured Hill 163
in this region, according to the French
official communication issued this eve
ning.
The village of Champlat also was re
captured and near Ville-en-Tardenois
some ground was gained by the French
troops.
Hun Attacks Crushed.
French troops last night smashed
repeated German attacks of the great
est violence in the sector north of the
river Aisne, between the Oise River
and Soissons.
Mont de Choisy, after being attacked
four times by forces of the German
Crown Prince, was finally stormed
only ;to be lost again to the French at
the point of the bayonet.
On the front between Soisscns and
Chateau Thierry the Germans occu
pied Long Pont, Corey, Faverolles and
Troesnes, hut later were driven out of
(Concluded on Pace 2. Column 2.)
Soldier Crawling In No Man's Land
Sticks Cane Into Jaws of Snare
Placed by the Germans.
PARIS, June 2. The latest German
barbarity consists of a man trap sim
ilar to a bear trap, discovered in No
Man's Land by Corporal , Leonardo
Manser and Sergeant Victor .L. Van
pel, United States engineers.
Corporal Manser, after bringing in
the trophy to the trenches, told how he
came to discover it. He said:
"We were In the trenches on the
night of May 24 when Sergeant Vau-
pel and myself decided to go on a
over the top, making our way through
the barbed wire entanglements and
into one shell hole after another.
"After we got half -way across No
Man's Land my cane was Jerked from
my hand. Advancing a few steps, I
stumbled on the trap, which had been
released by the. pressure of the cane.
On examination I found the trap set to
catch scouts, and chained to stakes in,
the ground. I loosened the chain and
brought the trap to our trenches. The
contrivance is three feet long and has
jaws 18 Inches wide with teeth two
inches long. It la designed to give the
victim great pain and make him call
for help. This attracts his comrades,
who become targets for a German ma
chine gun's fusillade, which results
in the annihilation of the entire party.
The trap Is in the Paris V. M. C. A.
and will be shipped to America as
trophy.
U. S. AIRMAN DIES IN DRIVE
Aviator Carter L. Ovington Shot on
First Day of New DrlTe.
PARIS, June 2. Aviator Carter Land-
ram Ovington, of Louisville. Ky., and
another aviator were killed during the
first day of the present offensive.
Ovington was patrolling with three
other machines, when the wing of his
machine caught in that of a sergeant
up in the clouds.
Both machines fell from a height of
1800 metres and their occupants were
killed.
24 ON TRANSPORT M SS NG
Four Officers and 2 0 Men on Pres
ident Lincoln TJ-Boat Victims.
WASHINGTON, June 2. Four of
ficers and 20 men are believed to be
missing from the torpedoed American
transport President Lincoln, the Navy
Department was advised today by Vice.
Admiral Sims.
The message, which .said that no
authentic list of the missing was yet
available, did not specify whether the
men were in the Army or Navy.
ALLLUtU SLACKERS TAKEN
American Club ' Rounds Up
Young Men In Tucson.
800
TUCSON, Ariz., June 2. A posse
omposed of members of the 100 per
cent American Club, numbering BOO,
under the leadership of United States
Marshal Joe Dillon rounded up over
800 young men last night who could
not show draft classification cards.
They were taken to the City Hall
for examination by the draft board.
CHARLES FAIRBANKS FAILS
Little Hope Entertained for Recov
ery of Former Vice-President.
INDIANAPOLIS, June 2. Charles W.
Fairbanks, former Vice-President, who
is ill at his home here, lost ground
continually during today, and no hope
is now entertained for his recovery by
his chief physician. Dr. J. A. McDonald.
Dr. McDonald said tonight that his
condition Is more critical than at any
time during his illness.
WAR TAKES COLLEGE MEN
Idaho University Substitutes
Nine
Women In Class Play.
MOSCOW, Idaho, June 2. (Special.)
So many young men have gone to San
Francisco to enter the reserve officers'
traininer camn that the T'niversitv of I
Idaho faces a serious shortage of men. I
In the senior class play, to be given I
this week, nine women mtve been sub
stituted for men parts because of the I
scarcity of men.
WOMEN LOSE IN HUNGARY
Franchise Committee of Parliament I
Rejects Proposal, 1 1 to 9.
AMSTERDAM. June 2. Woman suf
frage has been rejected in Hungary,
according to Budapest telegrams print
ed in German newspapers.
When the proposal came before the
franchise committee of the Hungarian
Parliament It was defeated by a vote
of 11 to 9.
ZEP OFF JUTLAND' FELLED
German Airship Shot Down by Brit
ish Destroyer.
uu'.iAiiiii, June z. it Is re
ported that a Zeppelin airship was shot I
down Saturday "morning off the Jutland I
coast by a British torpedoboat de
stroyer.
Tne crew or tne aircraft -was l
drowned, according to the report.
Whole of Country,
MOSCOW IN STATE OF SEIGE
Czecho-Slovak Troops Mutiny
and Capture Railways.
REBELLION NEWS MEAGER
Wireless Message Tells of Scheme
to
Overthrow Government Ger-
manizatlon or Finland Indi
cated In Stockholm Message.
(By the Associated Press.)
LONDON, June 2. The discovery in
Moscow and Petrograd of a large
counter revolutionary plot which
stretches through the whole of Russia
is announced in a Russian wireless
message received here tonight
To this plot is attributable in part
the mutiny of the Czecho-Slovak troops,
which nave captured important rail
way Junctions and lines.
29 to undertake the partial calling to
arms
of several classes of workmen
and the poorer peasants in Petrograd
and Moscow and the Kuban and Don
regions.
Masy Rebels Arrested.
At the same time Moscow has been
declared in a state of siege. Counter
revolutionaries have been arrested in
considerable numbers and energetic
measures have been taken against the
press. These measures are necessary.
It is announced, owing to the situation
in. which the Russian revolution has
been placed.
The question dominating all others
id that of supplying the people with
biead. now that Russia has been de
Prlved of tne Ukraine granary. The
.tuDan ana uon regions are, according
to tne Rusian scneme, menaced by a
counter revolutioary band, which hopes
by means of complications to provoke
intervention by foreign powers and
thus drive the Russian masses toward
fsunine. . " -'"--- - -- - -
Klonr Stocks Hidden.
In most regions -the large owners
are mobilizing- the well-to-do peasants
with the object of resisting the efforts
of the government to commandeer the
flour depots, and are trying to conceal
their stocks for purposes of future
speculation and finally agents of the
counter revolution in the Various cities
throughout the countrv. savit the Rtats-
h"cnt - 'are seeklsr to excite the starv
Ing masses against tne soviet govern
n-.ent." . ' ;
LONDON. June 2. A state of siege
has been declared in Moscow, accord
ing to - a Helsingfors telegram for
warded here by the correspondent at
Ccpenhagen of the Exchange Telegraph
Company.
TOKIO, May 27. It is understood
that the United States Government is
studying the feasibility of extending
economic assistance to Russia. The
proposal to assist the Russians in an
economic waj- was made as a possible
solution of the problems now confront-
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-XSy OH AUMNOJE J
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'The Only Thing to Do," Says Dls-
appointed Soldier, "Is to Do the
Best We Can to Win the War."'
AN AMERICAN CITT. . June 2.
"These orders atand, and the only thing
to do Is'to do the best we can all of
us to win the war," were the words
of Major-General Leonard Wood in o
farewell address to the officers of his
late command, the 89th dtvlslon of the
National Army, which he trained at
Camp Funston for overseas service.
General Wood had expected to go to
France at the head of this division.
At the request of the troops, it was
learned today. General Wood, before
departing for Camp Funston, reviewed
the division at an Army camp here.
T will not say good-bye," he told
the officers, and those who heard him
said his voice trembled with emotion.
but consider it a temporary separa
tion at least I hope so. I have worked
hard with you and you have done ex.
cellent work. I had hoped very much
to take you over to the other side. In
fact, I had no Intimation, direct or In
direct, of any change of orders, until
we reached here the other night.
"The orders have been changed and
am to go back to Funston. I leave
for there tomorrow morning. I wish
you the best of luck and ask yon to
keep up the high standard of conduct
and work you have In the past. There
isn't anything to be said. The orders
stand, and the only thing to do is to
do the best we can all of us to win
the war. That's what we are here for.
that's what you have been trained for.
shall follow your career with the 1
deepest Interest; with Just as much
interest as though I were with. you.
Good luck and God bless you."
Those who witnessed the review said
the troops were never more on their
mettle, and gave an exhibition of per
fect marching for the benefit of their
former commander.
SHIP BUILT IN 17.5 DAYS
Torpedoboat Destroyer Ward Is
Launched la Record Time.
WASHINGTON, June 2. Establish
ment by American shipbuilders of i
new world s record in warship con
struction was announced today by Sec
retary Daniels.
- The feat was performed in the
launching yesterday t the Mare Island
Navy-yard, San Francisco, of the tor
pedoboat destroyer Ward 17 H days
after the keel was laid.
WOODEN SHIP IS LAUNCHED
Alvada Is First Craft Built Under
Fleet Corporation's Supervision.
PHILADELPHIA. June 2. The 3500-
ton cargo-carrying ship Alvada, first
wooden ship constructed under the su
pervlsion of the Emergency Fleet Cor
poratlon to be launched on the Dela
ware River, was launched last night at
the Taylor Shipbuilding Yard at Corn
wells, north of this city.
; .
TANNING PLANT IS BURNED
Early Estimates of Owners Place
Loss at Nearly $3,000,000.
WILKESBARRE. Pa.. June 2. Fire
early today destroyed the J. K. Mosser
Tanning Company's plant, controlled by
Armour Sc. Co., at Noxen. 25 miles from
here.
The loss is estimated by the owners
at nearly (3.000,000.
KEEP THE HOME GUARDS HOEING.
Four Hundred Youth
Pledge Their Lives.
ERMAN ADVANCE ANSWERED
Relatives and Friends Cheer
Marching Selective Army.
GIRLS DISTRIBUTE LUNCHES
Dinner at Multnomah, With Excel
lent Programme, Is Followed by
Parade Ending at Union Depot, .
Where Soldiers Entrain.
Portland last night witnessed an
other vivid picture of the somber seri
ousness of the present world conflict,
when 403 men. composing the largest
selective draft contingent called from
the city at one time, marched through
the streets to Union Station where they
entrained for Fort McDowell, near San
Francisco, on Angel Island.
Mothers, wives, sweethearts and rel
atives called to their own as they
passed by in review and then hurried
to the depot where they bade their
loved ones a final farewell. Several
mothers and sisters marched in the line
with the men. Thousands of the Sun
day evening crowd lined the curblngs
to speed the men on their way. cheer
ing and shouting approval as the men
marched by. , ,
SOO Girls March la I.lae.
The future fighters marched through
the streets with military stride, gained.
by many, through previous military
training. Directly ahead of the men
marched 200 girls, clad In white
dresses, representing the Portland Fly
ing Squadron Division of the National
League for Woman's Service.
The men assembled in the parade by
groups, each division representing - a
draft board. With each group marched
the officials of the draft board and
one man designated as "leader," who
will have charge of his quota until the
men 'reach the training cantonment.
Eleven draft boards of Portland
were represented, and an additional 37
stalwart sons of Yamhill County were
seen In the line of the march. These
men were also guests at the "send-off"
dinner, staged at the Multnomah Hotel.
Multnonask Guard Baad Plays.
Military air was added to the picture
by the appearance In the line of march
of the Multnomah Guard band of 60
pieces, the men clad In the khaki uni
form of the Guard. The official colors
of the Police Department, exhibited
only on extraordinary occasions, was
carried in the parade by a. cordon of
police sergeants.
Leading the parade, in a small auto
mobile, was Chief of Police Johnson.
Police Captains Moore and Jenkins
also rode In the leading machine. A
platoon of police followed, and Imme
diately behind marched Acting Mayor
Blgelow and officials of civic organi
zations and clubs. Officials of the Na
tional League for Woman's Service
were also In the parade.
Practically every man who entrained
(Concluded on. Pave 5, Column 4.)
Admiral Gleaves Declares Post of
Honor Given American Ships
In Preparation for Attack.
NEW YORK. June 2. The United
States now has a large number of first
class battleships "preparing side by
side with the best ships of the British
navy for an engagement on the high
seas, which is expected to occur at any
time with the German fleet." accord
ing to a statement made in an ad
dress here tonight by Rear-Admiral
Albert Gleaves.
"I am going beyond the border line
of secrecy," declared Admiral Gleaves,
"when I say that a few days ago there
came- an alarm to the heads of the
British navy that the German battle
ships were about to come out for the
expected engagement on the high seas.
"I know that the British navy heads
gave the first-class American battle
ships a post of honor In preparation
for the attack."
MAN SHOT AT LAUNCHING
Federal Sentry Fires Upon Person
Trying to Climb Stockade.
SAN FRANCISCO. June 2. The
Isanti, an S800-ton steamer, built for
the United States emergency fleet cor
poration, was launched successfully
from a shipyard near here today. The
vessel's name was chosen by Mrs.
Woodrow Wilson. The, ship Is 427 feet
long with a beam of 54 feet.
An unidentified man. who attempted
to climb over the stockade surround
ing the yard and who disregarded or
failed to hear a warning, was shot by
a Federal sentry. His condition was
said to be serious. He was unable to
make any statement.
JUNE DAY NEARLY PERFECT
Maximum Temperature 69, With 15
Honrs and 32 Minutes Snnshlne,
It lacked one point only yesterday of
being another one of those perfect days
In June. The temperature was 69 at
Its best, and out of 16 hours and 32
minutes of possible sunshine, the day
cored perfectly. '
But, it was not so in several other
cities of the country. At Phoenix, Ariz.,
the temperature climbed to 104. and at
Washington. D. C. it played around 93
as also it did at Sacramento. At Med-
ford It was 82.
The forecast for today la fair and
warm.
KING BUYS STANDARD SUIT
British Monarch Pays 5 7 Shillings
for Country Wear Garment.
.
LONDON, Jnne 2. King George,
while on a visit to the woolen manufac
taring towns in CentraJ England, has
Inspected several factories engaged in
making cloth for the new standard
suits for civilians. ' I
He selected a length of brown
standard cloth to be made into a 67-
shilllng suit for country wear.
AVIATRIX BEATS AUT0IST
Ruth Law In Airplane Races Over
S-MUe Course With Louis Disbrow.
SAGINAW, Mich.. June 1. Ruth Law,
aviatrlx. defeated Louis Disbrow In his
racing car In a two-mile match race
over a half-mile dirt track here yes
terday, finishing 10 yards in the lead.
No time was given. The airplane main
talned a position 30 feet above the
ground during the entire race.
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Weather.
TESTERDAT a Maximum trmprratnra, 9
degrees; minimum temperature, 44 de
grees: lair.
TODAY 8 Fair and warmer; northerly
winds.
War.
Man-trap - set to catch Americana falls.
Pace 1.
Kaiser visits battlef ronf Paso S.
Hun drive alow down. Pass 1.
General Wood bids farewell to officers of his
command. Paso 1.
Admiral Gleaves ears great naval battla ex
peoted any time, face 1.
War tracedy of 1914 re-enacted. Pace 8.
Forelga.
Bis revolt plot bared In Russia. Paso 1.
German peace offensive possible. Page .
National.
Western Union refuses to mediate. Paso
New tax bill may take all Summer. Pase
Konenkemp says telegraphers will atrlke,
Faee 8.
Domestic.
Half of population of country subscribes
second lied Cross war fund, rase S.
Sport a.
Foundation drnba Columbia. 10 to 8. Page 10.
Cleveland defeats Washington. 1 to
Pase 10.
Bucks lose two gsmo to Seattle. Pago 10.
raclflc Northwest.
Booser resumes drive on brewers" waste of
essential products, face 4.
O. A. C. president and resenta plan to meet
all war emergencies. Pago 4.
Doors battered in and draft slacker forcibly
laxen xrom noma. xage z.
11 Northwest mar protest Increase, In
Irelsht rates. Pago s.
Portland aad Vicinity.
Tag sale for sanitary train. Camp Lewis,
nets iuim rage .
Paling will case to reopen. Page 5.
Draft boards ready to register youths of 21.
Page 7.
Soldiers may bs relieved of bridge tolli
Page 7.
Steamer Beaver, recently commandeered by
Uovernment. is turned back. Page 11.
Rev. F. B. Short accepts pastorate of Wilbur
Methodist Church hero. Page 11.
Shasta Limited makes Its last run. rage 44.
Reed graduates hold reunion. Page 14.
Portland honors her departing sons. Page
Psallst Choristers sing high mass at St.
Marys Cathedral. Pago 2.
Captain Hardy, survivor of Perry expedition.
to spesa at Auditorium tonight. Page 9.
Mount Tabor Methodist Church wipes out
debt. Page .
9.
Request of War Labor
Board Declined.
AFT CENSURES THE COMPANY
Operators Must Choose Be
tween Union and Jobs.
CORPORATION ISSUES EDICT,
President Carlton, of Telejrrarh
Company, Uncompromising In At
titude, Declining to Submit to
Jurisdiction ot Board.
(By the Associated Press.!
NEW YORK. June 2. The Western
Union Telegraph Company has declined
to submit to the jurisdiction of the
National War Labor Board, which
sought to adjust the differences be
tween the company and those of Its
employes who are members of ths
Commercial Telegraphers' Union of
America.
The Western Union Telegraph Com
pany's decision became known when
the report of an executive session of
the War Board held here yesterday was
made public tonight. It embodied a
report by William H. Taft and Frank
P. Walsh, joint chairmen of ths board,
who conferred with Newcomb Carlton,
president of the Western Union, In an
effort to compos ths difficulties be
tween the company and thoss of Its
employes who havs been dismissed, it
was charged, because they Joined the
Commercial Telegraphers Union.
CoBsprsaalas Is Sasrarestea.
Complaint against ths company's ac
tion was taken to the War Board and
Mr. Taft and Mr. Walsh made an In
vestigation. They then submitted a
proposition In the nature of a compro
mise based on the principles underly
ing the work of the War Board. This
platform recognises ths right of men
to organize and holds that they should
not bs discharged for membership in
trades unions or for legitimate trade
union activities.
This compromise proposal, under
which the Western Union was not re
quired to recognize the union and by
which the union was bound not to uss
the strike as a weapon, was submitted
to Mr. Carlton, but ho declined posi
tively to permit employes of his com
pany to Join -the union unless a refer
endum of all the company's workers
showed that a majority of them favored
such a step.
Further Kffort ITseless.
Correspondence between Mr. Taft and
Mr. Carlton followed, with ths result
that the Joint chairmen ended their re
port to the board yesterday with this
statement:
"In view of the correspondence It
does not seem useful further to pro
long the mediation. The construction
of principles as set forth In Mr. Taft'a
telegram to Mr. Carlton leads to the
conclusion that the Western Union
Company should accept this compro
mise. ... It declines, however, to do
so. or to submit to th. jurisdiction C
this board, and no further action of ths
board Is, therefore, recommended, ex
cept the publication of this report and
the vote of this board upon ths re
port." Taft's Appeal Turard Dowa.
In his final letter to Mr. Carlton
Mr. Taft wrote:
"I ask you to consider again this
proposal before a final rejection. Of
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