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VOL.. LiVIII. NO. 17,953. PORTLAND, OREGON, SATURDAY, JUNE 8, 1918. PRICE FIVE CENTS. HOOVER STRIKES AT HIGH FOOD PRICES GIRL TRAVELS FAR TO VIEW ECLIPSE UTELEf SAIO TO STATE ROAD WORK YAtlKEES RIP HUH TO PROCEED SOON OF ALL EYES TODAY BE GERMAN DUKE ADMINISTRATOR. ORDERS TIOX-WIDE REFORM. XA- MISS A. ESIELLE GLAXCY SENT ' BY ARGENTINA. OREGON AUTHORIZED TO SELL $690,000 IX BONDS. BOCHE HAMMERED HEAVENS CII051E HIES A! HUSH Oil BACK Bi ALLIES Many Villages Are Stormed on Picardy Front. AMERICAN TROOPS VICTORS Veuilly-La Poterie, Torcy, Vil ny, Bouresches, Bligny and Hill 204 Lo'st by Huns. POILUS GAIN IN FLANDERS Successful Operation Is Car ried Out Near Locre, on Kemmel Sector. WITH THE FRENCH ARMY IN FRANCE, June 7. (By the Asso ciated Press.) The sharpest fighting continues around the sector of Veuilly-la-Poterie, Bussieries and Bouresches, where the Americans and French have been attacking shoulder to shoulder for some days, making almost unin terrupted progress, notwithstanding strong enemy resistance. Observance by Dealers of "Fair Price Lists" Will Be Insisted On; Consumers to Help. WASHINGTON. Juno 7. A country wide move to reduce the cost of food to the consumer and standardize meth ods of compelling; the observance by dealers of "fair price lists" was or dered today by Food Administrator Hoover. Lists will be published in every coun try, town and city, and consumers will e asked to co-operate with officials in forcing merchants to bring their prices to a uniform level. In carrying: out the new standardiza tion plan, the administration will es tablish price-interpreting; committees composed of representatives of whole salers, retailers and consumers. The board will determine fair retail prices on basic commodities that com prise a large part of the Nation's diet. The published lists will give the range of maximum selling prices, showing a reasonable price which will reflect the prices that should obtain in "cash and carry" stores and a higher price rep resenting a fair price for the "credit and delivery" stores. The local administrator for each lo cality will act as chairman of the price board. Each board will have detailed reports of actual wholesale prices and ill ascertain fair margins of profit the retailer should be satisfied with. Newspapers will be asked to co-op erate by setting aside a particular po sition weekly for publication of the lists with footnotes on the food prob lem and the use of substitutes for the foods most needed abroad. A close check will be kept on obser vance of the lists. Consumers will be expected to report to the local food administrator any store charging more than the established price for any commodity. . (By the Associated Press.) There has been no letup in the of fensive of the American and French troops against the Germans in the re gion northwest of Chateau Thierry, where in the past two days severe de feats have been inflicted on the enemy and American marines have won great praise for their valiant fighting. Much Progress Recorded. Battling shoulder to shoulder over a front of six miles from Vinly, which lies just to the northwest of Veuilly-la-Poterie, to Bouresches, the Ameri cans and French have captured the towns of Veuilly-la-Poteries and Bouresches and ulso made progress all along the front. Previously Torcy had fallen into the hands of the Amer icans. No A-here on this battle line have the Germans been able to stay the efforts of the allied troops, although they have fought with great tenacity. The marines everywhere have declined to take a backward step, going forward against the enemy even when he had superiority in numbers. Enemy Losses Heavy. The losses to the enemy thus far are declared to have been extremely heavy and the terrain they have lost is considered of high strategic value, inasmuch as it is on that part of the battle front through which the Ger mans had hoped to crush their way forward and attain an open road to Paris. The casualties of the enemy were particularly severe during the street fighting in Bouresches, where the Americans pushed him back step by step. The plans of the American command did not include the capture of Torcy, but when the marines reached the ob jective assigned to them their ardor for battle could not be restrained and they kept on until the village was in their hands. Twenty-five . of the marines drove out 200 Germans from Torcy. Hard held on the other sectors from Soissons to Chateau Thierry, the Ger mans, after very heavy bombard ments, have essayed attacks on the Marne from near Rheims. These at tacks were ill-starred and the enemy had to accept defeat. A French at tack at Bligny resulted in that village falling into their hands in its entirety, WASHINGTON, June 7. Further advances by the American and French troops near Chateau Thierry and the infliction of severe losses upon the enemy were reported in tonight's com rnunique from General Pershing. An American raid in Picardy, in which prisoners were taken, also was an nounced. PARIS, June 7. The French and American troops, operating against the Germans northwest, of Chateau Thierry, during today's fighting, made additional gains of ground and cap tured the villages of Veuilly-la Poterie and Bouresches, according to the French communication issued this evening. . The capture of Veuilly-la-Poterie and Bouresches today marked a con tinuation of the fighting launched early yesterday by American marines and the French. The Franco-Ameri can force, following their two-mile advance over a front of three miles yesterday morning, later in the day KING WILL ATTEND GAME English Ruler to Participate Celebration of July 4. LONDON, June 7 This year, for the first time In Anglo-American history, the King of England is going to take part in an American Fourth of July celebration. On July 4 King George has promised to attend a baseball game at Chelsea between teams repre- enting the United States Army and Navy. Great enthusiasm has been aroused in American circles In London over this ignal mark of the King's favor and is interest in the welfare of .the men f the American forces in this country. (Continued on Pao 2. Column 2). Solar Eclipse is First Visible Here at 2:38. TWILIGHT WILL COYER EARTH Points of Totality Numerous io East and North. CITY 99 PER CENT TOTAL Hundreds to Leave Portland for Lo cations "Where Wonderful Corona May Be Viewed Protec tion for Eyes Advised. in U. S. GETS ROOK FOR SMOKE Drafted Man Who Declines to Sign Roll Bows to Lady Nicotine. CAMP LEWIS, Tacoraa, Wash., June 7. A desire for a cigarette gave one more soldier to the National Army today. A draft man from Alaska, whose name is withheld, had refused to sign his name when brought to camp and has been kept under guard for several days. Today he sent word to the officer in charge that if he could have a Bmoke ha would consent to becoming a soldier without further trouble. He received a cigarette and was mustered into the Army. WHERE. AND ."WHEN TODAY'S X O TA L. ECLIPSE Will BE VISIBLE NEAR PORTLAND. , . Woodland. Wash. First con tact at 2:38; total at 3:58; last contact at 6:11. ...... Goldendale, Wash. First con tact at 2:41; total at 4; last con tact at 5:12. Cascade Locks As far above as possible; first contact at 2:41; total at 4; last contact at 5:12. Goble and Rainier, Or., on Low er Columbia Highway, are within the path of totality, with time approximating that of Goldendale. South Bend, Wash., and North Beach points First contact at 2:35; total at 3:55; last contact at 6:08. Baker, Or. First contact at 2:47; total at 4:06; last contact at 6:15. At Portland, Astoria and St. Helens the eclipse will not be ' total, as all three lie just beyond the southern border of totality. At Portland first contact will oc cur at 2:38; maximum or 99 per cent eclipse at 3:68; last contact at 5:11. Warning is given against at tempting to view ti9 eclipse. with without smoked glass or heavily clouded camera plate, as solar blindness may follow. Weather Forecast Fair. Lick Observatory Astronomers at Goldendale Are Ready for - Solar Shut-Out Today. GOLDENDALE, Wash.. June 7. (Special.) Miss A. Estelle Glancy ar rived today from the Argentine Na tional Observatory, having been sent by the Argentine government to ob serve the eclipse here tomorrow. She will operate an instrument at the Lick station during the observations. Visitors were barred from the Lick Observatory eclipse station at Golden dale today and Professor Campbell and other astronomers in the party put in a hard day's work going over the in struments . and drilling for the real work ahead tomorrow. The sky was clear, but an unfore seen obstacle came up this morning in the shape of a heavy fringe of smoke from early forest fires in the timber west of the Klickitat River, and this for a while gaye the scientists much concern. The smoke, however, did not rise very high on the western horizon. A rather heavy west breeze also pre vailed today, - but a clear sky is ex pected tomorrow. William H. Crocker, the San Fran cisco banker, who is financing the Lick expedition, arrived at Goldendale today with his party and this afternoon they were shown through the station and the scientific purpose of all the in struments explained to them. H. W. Flsk and C. C. Ennls, of the department of terrestrial magnetism of the Carnegie Institute at Washington, D. C. have equipped a station in the foothills of the Simcoe Mountains, north of Goldendale, and will com mence taking magnetic recordings at noon Saturday. The town is filling tonight with peo ple coming here to see the eclipse. GOVERNOR LISTER IS WEAK State Business Handled at Home Instead of at Capitol. OLYMPIA, Wasl... June 7. (Spe cial.) Governor Lister returned to his living apartments in Olympla this afternoon and announced that he would handle state business in his rooms for the next week Instead of at the Capitol He is still under medical treatment which began in Chicago two weeks ago and is forbidden physical exertion. The nature of his illness was not an nounced. The Governor was absent from the state nearly a month on his Eastern trip, when he orginally expected to re turn In two weeks. Untimely night will sweep in a 60-miles belt over Oregon and the United States this afternoon, when the sun is to take an enforced nap in the shadow of the moon. It is the day of the solar eclipse, long awaited by sci entists and anticipated with a mixture ot awe and Interest by the uninitiated. Shortly before three o'clock today the moon's shadow will reach land from the Pacific, striking its central stride Just north of the mouth of the Columbia river. With incredible speed the shadow (Concluded on Page 9. Column 3.) 50,000 TURKS HOMELESS Fire In Constantinople Devastates Large Area. AMSTERDAM, June 7 Fifty thou sand persons are homeless as the re sult of a fire at Stamboul, the Mo hammedan section of Constantinople, which devastated the whole eastern part of the Sultan Selim quarter, ac cording to the semi-official Nord- deutsche Allegemelne Zeltung of Berlin. Buildings on both sides of the Mosque in that district were destroyed. but the Mosque was spared. Arch Bomb Plotter in Atlanta Prison. KAISER SEEKS AN EXCHANGE Convict Reputed Relative German Emperor. of REPRISAL THREAT MADE State Department Replies Reciprocal Action Against Teuton Subjects In United States Might Be Taken. NEW YORK, June 7. Captain Frans von Rintelen, alias Hansen, alias Gas- che, alias Gates, et aL. leader of the German bomb plotters in the United States, and for whom the German gov ernment is trying to exchange an American prisoner of war. was said when a captive In England three years ago. to be the Duke Adolph of Mecklen burg-Schwerin, a relative of the Ger man Emperor. At the time of his trial here there also were persistent reports that he bore a much closer relationship to the Emperor, but one which was not offl dally recognized. Penalty Deemed Light. Von Rintelen and 10 other plotters were convicted here last February of attempting to blow up American ships and were sentenced to Atlanta Peniten tiary for a year and a half and fined $2000 each. The judge who committed them said life imprisonment, or even death, would not be too severe in view of the gravity of their crime. Von Rintelen was the financial head of the conspiracy which covered the entire United States. The arch conspirator was originally sent to the United States to foment strikes In munition plants, it was said, before this country entered the war. It was his purpose to prevent the ship ment of arms to the allies. . -Mexican Troable ' Platted. Failing in this he was 'expected to cause American intervention In Mexico on the theory that the United States, once embroiled with Its southern neighbor, would have need for all mu nitions of war. One of the most prominent members of the German war party, at the head of which was Crown Prince Frederick William. Von Rintelen was the Intimate of the Emperor and Prince Henry o Prussia. He was for - years a high official of the Deutsches Bank. His wife, member of a wealthy Ber lin family named Kauffmaan, is one of the society leaders of Berlin. She has been prominent In the work of the German Red Cross and is said to have Telegram Announcing Action of Capital Issues Committee Re ceived by S. Benson. The State Highway Commission has been authorized by the capital issues committee at Washington to Issue and sell at once another $690,000 In high way bonds. Word of the authorization came yesterday to S. Benson, chairman of the commission. In the following elegram from I. N. Day. of Portland. who is now in Washington: 'Through efforts of Senator McNary, you are authorized to Issue $690,000 mmedlately. When do you want re mainder?" The remainder referred to in the tel egram is approximately $800,000 more in bonds, which will be required before the end of the year to meet payments of road work now in progress. It is the remainder of $1,500,000 the com mission requires to complete its cur tailed programme of road improvement for the year, the $690,000 now autho rized coming out of this $1,500,000. The $690,000 bond issue. Mr. Benson said last night, will be applied to meet ing payments now due on various road contracts through the state that are 75 to 90 per cent completed. This in cludes new construction work on the upper Columbia River Highway, paving and rock work on the lower highway and construction and rock and gravel work on the Pacific Highway. All these contracts were let last Summer. The action of the capital issues com mittee In authorizing the $690,000 bond issue assures the completion of vitally Important road work that is under way. (Concluded on Pas 6. Column 2. TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE PRUSSIAN SUN WITH BEAUTIFUL CORONA EFFECTS. WILD CAR KILLS MILLMAN Auto of Thomas S. Stiers, Spokane, Rolls Down Embankment. SPOKANE, June 7. Thomas S. Stiers, secretary-treasurer of the Spo kane Feed & Fuel Company, and in terested also in the Diamond Ice & Fuel Company and the Western Milling Company of this city, was killed west of here this afternoon when his auto mobile left the roadway on a grade and rolled down a steep embankment. He was alone at the time of the acci dent. CENTRAL EUROPE CHILLED - Snowfalls, Hailstorms and Heavy i'rosts Reported. AMSTERDAM. June 7. A sudden cold wave has struck Central Europe, including Germany, and has spread over Holland and Scandinavia, accord ing to reports from many points. There have been local snowfalls, hail-storms and severe night frosts. Widespread damage to grain, fruit and potato crops is reported. NEW REPUBLIC GOES 'WET' Reports Say Ukranla Has Revived Trade in ' Spirits. AMSTERDAM, June 7. The spirits trade, which was suppressed in Russia by Imperial decree early in the war, despite an enormous Joss in excise taxes to the treasury, has been revived in the Ukraine, according to advices from Kiev. The production, it is said, will be limited to nine million kegs annually. BRIDGE NAMED FOR WILSON City of Lyons, France, Honors Pres ident of United States. . PARIS. June 7. Senator . Herriot. Mayor of Lyons, and the City Council have given the name of President Wil son to a new bridge over the River Rhone, which will be opened on July 14.. Americans Plunge Ahead 2 1-2 GAIN IS ON SIX MILE FRONT In Desperate Fighting U. S Boys Capture 300 Prisoners and Kill Many Germans. ADVANCE LIKE CLOCKWORK YOUNG GIANT TO FACE HUN Ralph Madsen, Tacoma Registrant, Seven Feet Three Inches Tall. TACOMA. Wash., June 7. (Special.) Tacoma will send a young giant into the National Army when Ralph E. Madsen. age 21. is called for service. He Is 7 feet 3 inches tall and registered today, as he was out of the city on June 6. Madsen Is advertising shows. using his great height to advantage. He weighs 210 pounds and was born in Kansas, where his parents still reside. "Down on the old home farm the folks fed me real food and it made me grow tall." Madsen told the draft board. "I am ready to go. and I think I can be of some use in the big fracas with my altitude." "i , -. - WASHINGTON CROP LARGE Total Wheat This Year Estimated at 43,900,000 Bushels. SPOKANE. Wash.. June 7. The to tal wheat crop of Washington, as In dicated by the condition June 1, will be 43,900,000 bushels, an increase of 24.682,000 bushels over last year, ac cording to figures made public here tonight by E. T. Marchettl, field agent of the Federal bureau of crop estimates. The total wheat acreage in the state is given as 2,131,000. as compared with a four-year average of 1.806,000. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature. S3 degrees; minimum. 57 degrees. TODAY'S1 Fair and cooler; moderate west erly winds. War. Norwegian ship Vlnland sunk off Virginia Capes. Page 4. Marlnea soundly whip Huns. Page 2. Alllea hammer Hun lines back. Page 1. Americana sraaah ahead 2Vb miles. Page 1. Foreign. Teuton aggressions may start war la Orient, Pag 6. National. Fifty million dollare dally expenaes of United Statea Government. Page 4. Navy and Marine Corps closed to registrants of 1919. Page . Hoover opena campaign to cut coat ef food in United States. Page 1. Domestic Von Rintelen. Imprisoned bomb plotter, said to be Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerln. Page 1. Seven alleged Sinn Fein workers Indicted for treaeon. Page 2. Second largeat wheat harvest In history of Nation forecast. Page ft. Commandeering of Weatern TJnlon by V. S. hinted at. Page 4. Sport. Colleges to maintain athletic relatione. Page 16. Keen competition In Shipyard League ex pected tomorrow. Page 19. Fast tennis played In Junior tourney. Page 16. Washington wins consolation meet. Page 16. Pari Me North we. t. Dr. John W. Harris dead at Eugene. Page 6. Mr. and Mra. Btnrer Hermann observe gold en wedding. Page 7. Eyes of world on Baker today. Page 8. Girl astronomer from Argentina at Golden dale to view eclipse. Page 1. Next meeting of Oregon State Grange will be held In Washington County. Page 11. Commercial and Marine. Oregon wheat crop may reach 20,000,000 bushels. Page lit. Surplus of old crop going to Eastern mills. Page 21. Representative stocks under selling pressure. Page 21. Portland to deliver six steel ships In June. Page 17. British visitors lustily cheered at St. Johns shipyards. Page 17. Half holiday may be abandoned In local shipyards. Page 17. Tort land and Vicinity. Eclipse starts at 2:S8 P. M. today. Page 1. Oreron authorized to sell more road bonds. Page 1. -Isaac t. Hunt Realty Board Speaker. Page 22. Portland assured first big Shrine gathering after war la concluded. Page 13. Coaxt has chance to get war Industrie Page 7. Juvenile home delayed by Commissioners. Page 10. Two Portland girls Join Navy. 'Page 10. Federal officials to settle Columbia slough controversy. Page 10. Express companies now merged. Page 11. Farm help specialists to convene today at Portland Hotel. Page 17. Weather report, data and forecast. Page 17. Favorite Slogan of Americans Is 'Each Man Get a German; Don't Let Him Get You.' WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN PICARDY, June 7. (By the Asso ciated Press.) As the result of the two attacks by the Americans against the enemy in the second battle north west of Chateau Thierry 300 prisoners were captured and the Americans ex tended their line over a front of about six miles to a depth of nearly two and a half miles. While the losses of the Americans necessarily have been heavy on ac count of the nature of the fighting, the German dead is piled three deep in places. A number of machine guns were added to the American booty. Many Prisoners Boys. The German prisoners taken by the Americans, many of whom were mere boys, had only been in the line for two days. Some of them wore the white bands of the Prussian Guard. Private Carl B. Mills, of Visalia, Cal., was in the first wave of Ameri cans to go over the top in the Veuilly wood to smoke out the Germans re maining there. He said that after his unit obtained its objective many oi the men went back and filled tha ranks of their advancing comrades. All worked like clockwork, he said. The favorite slogan was: "Each man get a German; don't let a German get you." Red Cross Aids Men. Many instances were related of tha heroism of the Red Cross workers in braving shells in No Man's Land and gathering in or aiding wounded. The correspondent today talked with a 19-year-old German prisoner, who was sitting under a tree eating American bread and drinking French wine. The soldier said he had been fighting for a year and a half, for tha most part in Russia. He carried a picture of his sweetheart on heavy cardboard, which he said had saved his life from an American bullet. The youth added that in Germany there was talk of millions of American soldiers, but that nobody believed it. He did not know that it was the Amer icans opposed to the Germans. Ha thought the troops were British, as they wore English helmets. He added that the German soldiers no longer hoped to reach Paris. All of them were sick of the war and he was glad he had been made prisoner. Battle Terribly Fierce. The fighting last night northwest of Chateau Thierry raged with great fierceness for five hours. The Amer icans captured Bouresches and en tered Torcy. Twenty-five Americans in Torcy engaged and drove out 200 Germans and then withdrew to tha main line on the outskirts of the town. A remarkable story is told of a com pany of marines, all the officers of which, including the Sergeants, wera put out of the fighting. A Corporal then assumed command and the men pushed on and obtained their objective Children Cheer Yankees. Hundreds of French children lined the main roadway to Paris this aft ernoon over which American and French ambulances were carrying American wounded. The children waved their hands and cheered tha Americans. As far as is known no Americans have been made prisoner by the Ger mans. . Private John B. Flocken, of Olney, 111., one of the first men to reach Torcy, said today: "I never saw such wonderful spirit. Not one of our fellows hesitated in the face of the rain of the machine gun fire which it seemed impossible to get through. Every German seemed to have a machine gun. Thef (Continued on Page 4. Column 2.) 1 V, 1 '