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VOL. L.VIII. NO. 17,964. PORTLAND, OREGON, FRIDAY, JUNE 31, 1918. PRICE FIVE CENTS. SIBERIAAND MEXICO TWO DANGER ZONES PHILIPPINE BERTH GEN. GREENE'S LOT "I WAS SICK man: DECLARES O'LEARY WOMEN TRAINING UJIUHCDC .(lC UIFQT TO OPERATE CARS U1 ",-u, RENEW OLDEN TIES DEMOTION" AXD TRANSFER DUE TO INSPECTORS, IS REPORT. SENATORS WARNED AGAINST MOTOR WOMEN AND FEMININE CONDUCTORS COMING. WATCHFCIi WAITING. AUSTRIAElS HURLED BACK BI ITALIANS SJUIT ANNA SUNK; HUNDREDS PERISH 7saalaBB1BBa-aSIaaBaaBaaaaSaaaaaSSISSa J Troop Transport Sent Down by Torpedo. Wedge Driven Into Enemy . and Ground Regained. FOE'S LOSSES ON INCREASE More Than 1200 Additional Prisoners and Numerous Guns Are Captured. BATTLE SHOWS NO LULL Invaders Forced to Withdraw Entire Line North of Monte Beliuno Railway. HOME, June 20. From the Mon tello to the sea,' the battle of the Piave River is continuing- bitterly and without pause, the Italian War Office announced today. Last night, the Italians forced the invaders to with draw their whole front north of the Monte Beliuno Railway. More than 1200 Austrian prisoners were taken and numerous machine guns were captured. LONDON, June 20. By counter at tacking all along the Piave the Ital ians have gained further ground on the Montello in the northern sector of the river front, and also have made headway southeast of this. ridge, says the Evening Standard today. Austrian Forces Split. The Austrians here had been occu pying a narrow strip along the river bank. The Italians drove in the -Austrian line and established themselves on the bank of the Piave below Sa letto (about 18 miles from the Adri atic). Through the reaching of the river here, the . positions occupied by the Austrians have been divided. News reached London this afternoon that the Italians have regained Capo Sile, the town on the lagoon to the west of the Piave River, near its mouth, which was captured by the Anstro-Hungariar.. . It is also reported thit the Italians have regained all the territory be tween Zenson and the Fossetta Canal. The Austro-Hungarians, it is declared, have been confined to the ground be tween the Fossetta Canal and the Sile Canal, on the west bank of the Piave River. . Enemy Forced to Retire. The Austrians yesterday afternoon launched a fresh attack on the Piave with strong forces and succeeded at first in gaining some ground in front of Zenson. Later, Italian reserves were brought up and forced the Aus trians to retire. French forces on the Asiago plateau stormed the Austrian positions at Bertigo and Pennar. Italian troops succeeded in captur ing Costalunga. Italian military officials learned be fore the Austrian offensive began that the Austrians had dressed Italian speaking Austrian soldiers in Italian uniforms in order to throw them at a suitable moment into the entente al lied lines so as to provoke panic and disorder. Captured Men Executed. Captured Austrians so garbed were executed after a drumhead courtmar tial in accordance with the laws of VIENNA, June 20, via London. The Austrian troops under Field Mar shal von Boroevic have held all the ground they gained from the Italians on the west bank of the Piave, today's official War Office report states, and in addition have driven the Italians back westward, south of the railway that leads to Treviso. The battle in the Montello region increased in violence yesterday, equal ling that of the great battles on the Carso front. The official statement says the Italians drove forward six times and employed reserves indis criminately, but all their efforts were in vain. ITALIAN ARMY HEADQUAR TERS, June 19 (By The Associated Press). The Italians have won com plete control of the air along the Piave line, where the most determined fighting of the present Austrian of fensive is in progress. This after noon not a single Austrian machine was aloft on this front. In general, the situation of the Aus- Concluded oa Pass 2, Column .) Rumor at Camp ' Lewis Says Offi cials Displeased After Making Tour of Cantonment. WASHINGTON, June 20. (Special.) Major-General Henry A- Greene, re cently relieved of command of the 91st National Army division at Camp Lewis, Wash., has been assigned to command the Philippine department ' of the Army, with the rank of Brigadier General, it was learned tonight at the War Department. The War Department declined to give reasons for ordering- General Greene to Washington. Indications are, how ever, that this means that he is not going across with the 91st division. In previous cases where officers were de tached from command of divisions, not ably the cases of Generals Wood, Barry, Bell and Scott, Junior officers received command and they were held here. TACOMA. Wash., June 20. (Special.) Camp Lewis inspections which did not suit the Army officers who made them are said to have been the cause of the removal of Major-General H A. Greene from command of the 91st Divi sion. ' That is the unofficial advice which seeped through from the War Department today. What it was that the inspectors frowned upon was not explained. Rumor had it about the camp also that the granting of concessions at Greene Park, the amusement center of the cantonment, might have something to do with the unseating of the com mander and reduction in rank to Brigadier-General In the regular Army with command of Philippine forces. It is said that it has not been all harmony in Camp Lewis business circles. MEDF0RD CITIZENS SWEAT Day Reported Hottest to Date, Mer cury Going to 102. MEDFORD, Or.. June 20. (Special.) With the mercury at 102 and an ex ceptionally high humidity for this sec tion of the country - Medford sizzled through the hottest day of the year today. Although the atmosphere was sti fling, no prostrations were reported and with gathering clouds toward eve ning the weather bureau held out a faint hope for much needed rain. WALLA WALLAT"wash., June 20. (Special.) Little relief from the high temperatures which' have prevailed this past, week are offered by Observer Garrett who says the only hope for immediate relief is a chance thunder storm.- The temperature today was 100. Farmers assert that another week of such high temperatures will greatly damage Spring wheat and barley. SLACKER DEAD; SIX TAKEN "Work or Fight" Raid In Sioux Falls Brings Results. SIOUX FALLS. S. D.. June 20. One man is dead and at least six men who failed to register are in the hands of the police as a result of a "work or fight" raid begun by the home guards here today. In addition, an enemy alien who had not registered was taken in charge. The dead man is Melvin Lundy, of Sioux Falls. When asked to show his registration card, Lundy said it was in his room a few blocks away. He came staggering In a few minutes later and said he "never had a card and never would." With that he fell over a desk and died ten minutes later. He had taken a mixture of several kinds of poison. ' BANK FORCE PITCHES HAY Moxee Valley Crop Saved by Prompt Action of Yakima Clerks. TAKIMA, Wash., June 20. (Special.) When E. Stott, of the. Moxee Valley, a customer of the First National Bank of this city, complained to President W. L. Stelnweg, of the bank, on Mon day that he could not get help to put up his hay and would suffer ' serious loss. Mr. Stelnweg offered to undertake to put the crop in the cock, with the aid of his bank force. Stott accepted the offer and, headed by President Steinweg, and including women employes as well as the men, the entire force of the bank went to the Stott farm in automobiles after bank hours and before dark had the entire crop out of danger.. ALL BRONZE REQUISITIONED Statues in Belgium to Be Sent to Germany to Make Guns. LONDON, June 20. It is reported from Belgium that the German Governor-General has requisitioned . all bronze statues In Belgian occupied ter ritory, says an Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Amsterdam today. The repined Intention of the German authorities is to send the statues to Germany for use in the manufacture of guns. UNIONS PLEDGE SUPPORT Bricklayers, Masons and Plasterers of Texas Not to Strike. EL PASO, Texas, June 20. Union bricklayers, masons and plasterers of Texas, in convention here. today pledged themselves not to participate in any strikes that would hamper the successful prosecution of the war. 2150 PASSENGERS ON BOARD Soldiers and Natives oh Way From Bizerta to Malta. THOSE SAVED NUMBER 1512 Berlin Paper Gives Credit for Sink ing of Troopship President Iiln- coin to Submarine Command ed by Captain Honey. PARIS, June 20. The transport Sanf Anna, proceeding from Bizerta for Malta, was torpedoed and sunk on the night of May 3 0-11. according to the Havas Agency. There were on board 2150 soldiers and native workmen, of whom 1512 were saved. Available shipping records give the Sant'Anna as a French steamer. 9350 tons gross. She was built in France in 1910 and was owned by the Fabre line. Ship Once Afire at Sea. When she left New Tork on Sep tember 8. last, she carried many Italian reservists. While in mid-ocean the ves sel sent a wireless message, saying she was on fire. The belief was expressed in some quarters that the fire on board the Sant Anna was the result of a plot to prevent the reservLets reaching their destination. WASHINGTON, June 20. A dispatch from The Hague to the State Depart ment says the Berlin Lokal Anzeiger announced that a submarine com manded by Captain Romy torpedoed the American transport President Lin coln May 31. The paper's account sought to convey the impression that there was large loss of life.' ' LONDON, June 20- A new and fla grant example of German submarine barbarity is reported. IT -Bo at Outrage Reported. A U-boat first torpedoed without warning and then ' shelled a British steamer. The officers and crew of the damaged vessel were ordered aboard the submarine, the captain being taken below as a prisoner. The British crew was then ordered to row one of the boats back to the eteamer with a Ger man prize crew, which rifled the steam er systematically and then sank her. Only Five Survive. The British were then given some provisions and cast adrift. Of 28 men on one boat only five survived. The occupants of another boat were picked up in a critical condition on the fifth day by an American steamer. AN ATLANTIC PORT, June 20. An (Concluded on rage 2, Column 2.) TT-T, ..., ............ THE ELEPHANT DONT GET MAD, IT'S ONLY TOM MARSHALL. ' iaJPfeP' 1 I : j. Sentiment Expressed in Favor of Letting Japan Intervene Huns Busy In Southern Republic. WASHINGTON, June 20. Japanese Intervention in Russia and activity of German agents in Mexico in trying to foment disturbances in this country so as to retard prosecution of the war were discussed in the -Senate today during a debate precipitated by Sen ator Sherman, of Illinois, Republican. Senator Sherman said Japan is anxious to enter Siberia because of the menace that a Germanized Rus sia would be to her, and desires Amer ican and allied aid because she cannot undertake the expedition alone. "It Is well understood," the Senator declared, "that the United States op poses action by Japan. Great Britain and France favor It, We must trust Japan and ask her to attack tl i gov ernment that menaces her by making a drive through Asia. The Adminis tration and the Senate must take the responsibility for further delay." Senator Hitchcock, of Nebraska, chairman of the Senate foreign re lation's committee, in reply, said, lt is a great mistake to give out the im pression that Japan wishes to inter vene." He declared that Japan is no more anxious to Invade Russia than Is the United States, or any of the allied governments, and added that he doubted that Japan would want to go in even with America and allied aid. Discussing German agents in Mexico, Senator .Sherman said vigorous steps should be taken against disturbing ele ments in this country who, co-operating with like groups in Mexico, are planning violence in America at the instigation of German agents. German officials and military officers, he said, enjoy close relations with Carranza officials. Warning against what he termed more "watchful waiting" In Russia and Mexico, Senator Sherman said he de sired to awaken public opinion to the necessity of opposing the effort of the Russian Bolshevik government to se cure recognition by the United States. The American Government, ' he added, may be asked within 48 hours to recog nize a Bolshevik ambassador from Russia. HOLLWEG SERIOUSLY ILL Former German Chancellor Recent ly Stricken With Paralysis. AMSTERDAM, June 20. Dr. von Bethraann-Hollweg, the former imperial German chancellor, Is gravely 111. ac cording to the Cologne Volks Zeltung. He recently suffered a stroke of paralysis. GERMAN AIRMAN WOUNDED Famous Flyer Credited With 33 Victorious Encounters. AMSTERDAM. June 20. First; Lieu tenant Loerzer. one of Germany's most famous air squadron leaders, has been wounded, the Cologne Gazette reports. Lieutenant Loerzer is credited with having won 33 air encounters, for which he received the order pcur le merlte. Sinn-Feiner Explains Why He Fled. I). S. CONSPIRACY FEARED Irish Agitator Says Brother Not Accessory to Flight. LYONS COMES IN FOR BLAME Prosecutor Brings Out Fact That Prisoner Had Access to Copy of Hearst Newspaper While in Tombs. NEW TORK. June 20. While shield ing his brother, John J. O'Leary, from charges of criminally aiding his escape from trial last month for alleged viola tion of the espionage act. Jeremiah A. O'Leary, the Sinn Fein leader pictured himself as on the verge of nervous col lapse when he fled to the West May 7. He was laboring under the obsession, ha Indicated, that Government agents had entered Into a conspiracy to have him sent to prison. Lack of Lawyers Feared. Deserted by his counsel, Henry A. Wise, who had been advised by Govern ment agents, the Sinn Feiner asserted, not to connect himself with the case as It might endanger his professional reputation, Jeremiah O'Leary said he became convinced he could not obtain other advisers who could defend him properly and that this so preyed on his mind that he became "thoroughly dis organized." Against the advice of his brother, the witness said, he left New York with Arthur L. Lyons, an employe of his law office, for St. Louis and there decided that he would not return "to be perse cuted." Shaft Aimed a Prra. J. The public mind had been so "poi soned" through "prejudiced" news papers, he declared, that his trial, had be returned, would have been "a polit ical hippodrome for the newspaper fiends." Throughout a long cross-examination O'Leary reiterated his statement that there had been no collusion between himself, his brother and Lyons relative to his flight. .Ic declared John was given the impression that his brother had gone to Newburgh, N. T., to fish, rest and recuperate and that he In tended returning for trial. Trip Blamed oa Lyons. An hour or so before train time, O'Leary declared, he was persuaded by Lyons not to go to Newburgh. but to accompany Lyons to Reno, Nev., in stead. He had arranged, O'Leary testified, that Lyons should represent him In (Continued on Pas 4, Column 2.) Vancouver Company Is Preparing to Fill Places When Men Quit or Go to War. VANCOUVER. Wash-. June 20. (Spe cial.) Women have already Invaded the Vancouver streetcar system and two are now being trained as motor women and conductors. The motormen are liable to be called to the war at any time and the women are preparing to take their places. The cars will be turned over to the women as soon as they are able to handle them. After dusk two operators will be on each car. They will wear uniform bloomers, loose coats and caps. The North Coast Power Company al ready has five women working in the car hams and they are making good, according to L. G Clarke, manager. They can wind armatures and do most of the car repairing. Since the company cannot get men to do the work, it resorts to the next best plan. When a man quits or enters war service a woman will be given his place, and his wages, when Bhe does an equal amount of work. Already many applications have been filed by women eager to do their part In winning the war. Women also are working In the roundhouse of the North Bank Road and spinning oakum in the G. M. Standlfer shipyard. Many women as well are going into groceries to re place men as clerks. FIGHT OVER LOOT STARTS Turkey and Bulgaria Both Want Russian Black Sea Fleet. ATHENS, June 20. A dispute has arisen between Turkey and Germany over possession of the Russian Black Sea fleet. Replying to deputations from the Turkish Navy League, which pointed put that Turkey had an incontestible claim to the fleet. Talaat Pasha, the Grand Vizier, said that negotiations were proceeding between Germany and Russia for the handing of the fleet over to Germany, but that the Turk ish government had taken energetic action with a vew to acquiring the fleet.' REPUBLICANS TO HAVE SAY Mlchisu lydrs Will Not Rally to Ford for V. S. Senator. NEW TORK, June 20. Henry Ford will not receive the support of tho Re publican -State Committee of Michigan in his candidacy for the United States Senate, as suggested by President Wil son, according to a statement made here tonight by John D. Mangum. chairman of the committee. Mr. Mangum added that the "inter ference of the real head of the Dem ocratic political organization of the country, in an effort to control the Republican party's affairs In a state 100.000 Republican, will not affect us.' Hun Seaplanes Attack Ships. LONDON, Juno 20. German air planes attacked a British naval squad ron north of Heligoland Bight Ju..o 19 the British Admiralty announced to day. The German machines made no hits and one seaplane was destroyed INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature. 83 aegrees; minimum, Hi degrees. - TODAY'S Probably fair; senile winds. War. Italians hurl back Austrians. Page 1. Americans make gains. Pace 3. Hundreds pertsn when Italian transport pm ii ii m i. .una. r,ga 1. Official casually list. Pgge 4. Foreign. Food riots rase in Austrian capital. Pace 3 Cossacks expel all Jews and settlers from jjoa resion. net 4. Peace demonstrations held In German cities. rate i. National. General Otvcnt demoted and ordered t Philippines. Page 1. Wilson orders all stockyards to be put under Kederal license, pace S. Siberia and Mexico discussed la Senate as danger tones, face 1. Suffrage fight to open in Senate next inursaay. rare a. Domestic. Sinn Feiner O'Leary pleads illness as ex cuse for flight. Page 1. Western Union accused of sending telegrams oy train, face e. Eight Russellltes convicted of sedition at .tw 1 orx. rage o. Sports. Fast matches played In Irvlngton tourney Page 14. Hawaiian swimmers to give exhibition to- nignt- rata 14. Portland to finish series here. Page 14. Eddie Campf. boxer, dies. Page 14. Pacific ZSorthwest. Women training to operate cars In Van couver, rage 1. Public Service Commission urges concrete crossing at uiviue. cage o. Austin Mires, of Ellensburg. to run against x.a roiieue xor i.ongreea. page o. Commercial and Marine. Revival of Interest In Oregon mohair mar ket, i-ago l'J. Steel leads late upturn In Wall-street stock. page iv. Bearer's passengers give 1136.89 to Red cross. rage 10. Coal space needed. Page 13. Pertlauid aoad Vicinity. Oregon pioneers hold reunion. Page 1. Woman In sweater and trousers wields paint Drusn wun eneci. rage 11. Frank C. Rigs says victory Is in air. Page 13. Earnest appeal made to Central Labor Conn ell to aid In V. 8. S. campaign. Page 12. Witnesses In will contest hearing declare Mrs. j-aims normal ana rational. Page 9. 400 women aliens are now registered. page -u. Reasonable food prices to be set. Page 16. War hits women hardest, says Dr. Esther c. lyovejoy. rage . Middlemen blamed for milk war. Page 8. G. A- Steel diea In Portland. Page 4. Serbian representatives here on recruiting ex peal lion. rage o. Weather, rvport, data and XerscaaU Past 15. 800 Oregon Pioneers Hold Reunion. SPEAKERS PICTURE TRIUMPHS Mother Queen of Oregon Gets Plaudits of Children. CAMPFIRE AGAIN KINDLED Stirring Tribute to Womanhood of Oregon, Now Defended on Bloody Ilelds. Is Paid by Robert A. Miller. OFFICERS OF OREGOV PIO NEER ASSOCIATION ELECTED LAST MGHT. President E. K. MoFarland. Vice-president Nathan H. Bird. Secretary Qeorge H. Hi me. a. Treasurer William M. Ladd. Directors William Galloway, of McMtnnvI'le; C. H. Caufleld, of Oregon City; Bruce Wolverton. of Portland. BT BEN HUR LAMPMAN. Forgotten is the dream of wistful Ponce de Leon and his Spanish men-at-arms, and vanished are the dreamers, long centuries since. Where was it that they sought the crystal of that spring which was to lend them youth? Surely, not In the Oregon country. Youth- is but a relative matter, say the boys and girls of olden Oregon, who gathered yesterday at their 46th annual reunion of the Oregon Pioneer Associa tion, in session at the Auditorium, and they retain it who hold fast the laugh ter and the spirit of other days, no mat ter what the years may be. And as for the fountain of youth, no doubt but that its waters mingle wlththe hill streams of the state they founded and bullded. Days of Tore Lived Again. There was a deal of Oregon history gossiped yesterday at the reunion bits that have not found their page in the archives of the state when friends of auld lang syne shook hands again. Back to them all, as though the years were yesterdays, came the crossing of the plains op the storms of Cape Horn, and their first glimpse of the rough and wonderful land they were to possess. Could one have closed the eyes, and wished remembrance of the present away to that listener would have risen the ruddy flame of campfire with the ox-carts drawn In corral, the flash of keen axes as the astonished forest gave way to the clearing of new homes, and all the romance and picture of times that were commonplace ever so long ago. Within the year something has hap pened to the muster of the pioneers. This one said that it was undoubtedly the train fares, and another contended that "the boys' were busy at home. But the fact that those who registered were not more than 800, and that last year they numbered more than 900, was in escapable. Nobody among the pioneers cared particularly about that for it was their day. and they laughed as they took its hours. Some Josrser From Afar. Some of them came far to the gather ing. There was Mrs. N. J. McCoy, whose folk were pioneers of Illinois, who came to Oregon over the plains in 1852. And Thomas Beall. who Journeyed from Lewlston. Idaho, to gain membership in the assocaltion. as one who halted in the Oregon country In 1S53. And they were of all ages beyond the middle span of life, for many of them pioneered when the creaking ox-carls were their cradles, and literally grew up with Oregon. Eldest of all was Timothy O'Sulllvan, of Portland, who lacks but one year until the century mark Is his. Timothy's beard Is white and long, and his hair likewise, but there Is no admission of age in tho Celtic heart and legs of him. The events of yesterday afternoon and evening were In quartet order with the programme opening at -o'clock, with a fleet of loaded tables offering dinner an hour or so later, with the business session and election of officers early in the evening, and with the never-to-be-discarded "camp fire" kindled in reminiscence an hour later. When Acting Mayor BIgelow stood up to deliver the address of welcome yesterday afternoon, at the introduc tion of W. H. H. Dufur. 1839. president of the association, the reaches of the hall held more of Oregon's past than ever will come to It again a very at tentive, clear-eyed past, though here or there It cupped a hand the better to hear him. Floaaeera Spirit Inabaea Soaaa. Mr. Bigelow said that it was a high privilege for Portland to give welcome to them Inasmuch as the city, and all the state, aro In no email part the crea tion of those who sat before him. He spoke of Portland's impetuous indus trial growth. It was a little matter to take advantage of those resources which the pioneers had found for their successors. Another matter was the quality of the state's citizenship, that had leaped to the fore at the first call of war Imbued with the vary spirit ACoiuded oa Pace 6, Column