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
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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.
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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