VOL,. L.VIII. 0. 17,992.
PORTLAND, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 24, 1918.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
1 DEAD, 3 HURT IN
COLLISION OF CARS
U.S. TO T.AKE OVER
TELEGRAPH JULY 31
SAN DIEGO MISSING
REDUCED TO SIX
KAISER PAYS FIRST
VISIT TO DENTIST
"SPLASH HIM AGAIN,"
SAYS MR. SCHWAB
KAISER TO FEEL EFFECTS OF
100 MORE LAIXCH1XGS.
VANCOUVER SISTOX ELECTRIC
HITS FREIGHT TRAIN.
CASUALTIES OX LOST CRCISER
MAY DWINDLE TO THREE.
HP DRIVES HARD
Oil HEELS OF ill
FREHCH RAM HUHS
1800 of Enemy Taken in
Aisne-Iilarne Trap.
ALLIED GAINS UNCHECKED
Americans Discover That Foe
Is Retreating Northeast
- ward With Difficulty.
ENTENTE FORCES HAMPER
Yank-Franco Guns and Planes
Block Efforts of Teutons
to Move Supply Depots.
WITH THE FRENCH ARMY ON
THE AISNE-MARNE FRONT, July
23. (By the Associated Press.)
Since July 15 the Germans have lost
approximately 180,000 men, dead
wounded and prisoners in the fight
ing in the Rheims-Soissons salient.
PARIS, July 23. French, Ameri
can and ' British troops made consid
erable advances during the day on the
Aisne-Marne front, according to the
War Office announcement tonight. In
addition to occupying several villages,
they captured 1800 prisoners or more.
The text reads:
"On both sides of the Ourcq at
tacks by our troops during the day
obtained satisfactory results, not
withstanding the tenacious resistance
offered by the enemy,, who brought
up fresh reserves. North of the
river we captured and went beyond
Leplessier-Huleu and reached the
western outskirts of Oulchy-La-Ville.
We occupied the village of Montgru.
"South of the Ourcq Franco-American
troops crossed the Chateau Thier
ry road, carrying their line more than
a kilometer to the east. The village
of Rocourt is in our hands, as well as
the greater part of Chatelet wood.
New Progress Recorded.
"On the right bank of the Mame
we made new progress north of Monte
St. Pere and Charteves, which is in
our hands. Likewise we enlarged our
bridgehead at Jaulgonne.
"On the front between the Marne
and Rheims there were violent engage
ments. Between the Ardre and Vrig
Hy, Franco-British troops attacked
strong enemy positions and advanced
more than a kilometer, inflicting
heavy losses. The British took 300
prisoners and five cannon."
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY
ON THE AISNE-MARNE FRONT,
July 23. (By the Associated Press.)
Information reaching the intelli
gence department of the American
Army tonight indicated that the Ger
mans were still continuing their re
treat.
Far behind their lines they are be
ing subjected to a heavy fire by both
French and American .guns, which
doubtless are hampering the move
ment of their enormous supplies.
Four Tanks Captured.
The American and French troops
fighting south of Soissons have cap
tured four German tanks, which were
operating against them in conjunction
with the German infantry. The allied
artillery spotted the tanks as they
came into action and quickly put four
of them out of commission. Four
others retreated.
At least at one point the fighting
was more nearly in open order than
had been usual. With a minimum ar
tillery fire by both sides, the Ameri
cans advanced their skirmish line over
yellow wheat fields, dotted with pop
pies, and through clumps of woods. It
was Indian fighting modernized by
machine-gun work.
The Germans left on the field a
great number of machine gunners in
nests. Many of these guns were cap
tured and the entire personnel of a
machine-gun company tonight is
swelling the already big list of pri
soners taken by the Americans.
WITH THE FRENCH ARMY ON
THE AISNE-MARNE FRONT, July
23. (By the Associated Press.)
American troops participated in some
of the heaviest fighting today in the
vicinity of Epieds and Trugny, where
give and take struggles continued
throughout the day. At the. end of
the day the Americans had advanced
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F. T. Fields, Instructing Student
Woman Motorman, Loses Ldfe;
Smoke Obscures Railway.
VANCOUVER, Wash., July 23. (Spe
cial.) One man was killed and three
women injured as the result of a
collision between a Vancouver-Sif ton
electric car and an electric freight train
at Orchards, six miles from this city,
at 4 o'clock this afternoon. There were
12 in the car.
Dead.
F. T. Fields, Orchards, "Wash., aged
27, motorman.
Injured.
Mrs. C. W. Jackson, Vancouver, stu
dent motorman; fractured leg and other
Injuries.
Mrs. E. J. Mead, Orchards, cuts about
the head.
Miss Maud Mead, Orchards, broken
nose.
The interurban car met the freight
train on a curve about 100 yards from
the Orchards station. Smoke from a
brush fire on the side of the track
obscured the right of way and the
freight, which was standing on the
main line, was seen too late to halt the
advance of the passenger car.
Mrs. Jackson was operating the elec
tric car at the time of the crash and
Motorman Fields was acting as In
structor. The collision occurred within
200 yards of Mr. Fields' home at Or
chards. He died about two hours after
the accident.
The Injured are at St. Joseph's Hos
pital in this city.
MONTANA FOREST MENACED
Three Serious Fires Sweeping Over
Clearwater District.
MISSOULA, Mont., July . 23. Three
large fires are sweeping today over
'the Clearwater Forest, near Orofino,
Idaho, because of a shortage of men,
according to the headquarters here of
the United States Forest Service. Dis
trict No. 1. The fires are in thickly
timbered areas on Weitas Creek, Rock
Creek and on the side of Pot Moun
tain. In the same forest there are four
other fires, uncontrolled for the time
being, as they leaped oven the con
trol lines recently established.
One hundred men, recruited in Butte
and Great' Falls, are being sent to the
Clearwater Forest, but it will be sev
eral days before they will reach the
worst fires.
A new fire, which has already burmed
over 30 acres of timber in the Koote
nai Forest near the Canadian border,
was reported. The Spread Creek fire
in the same forest has been placed un
der control. Eight dangerous tires
were reported in the Selway Forest.
"PERSHING TROT" LATEST
Lively Military Dances Will Hold
Sway Next Winter.
SAN FRANCISCO. July 23. The
Pershing trot" and the "Rainbow,"
lively military" dances, will hold sway
next Winter, according to the decree
of the "inner circle" of the American
College of Dancing, at a meeting here
today.
Dancing instructors of states from
the Atlantic to the Pacific Coast agreed
upon "open formation" dances to quick
time music
YANKS TO CONTROL AIR
American Aviators Take Over British
Seaplane Station.
SOMEWHERE IN ENGLAND. July
23. (By the Associated Press.); Amer
ican aviators today took over from the
British one of the most important
seaplane stations on the English Coast,
from which they will do continuous
patrol duty over a large area of the sea.
The American aviators stationed on
the English Coast have heretofore been
working as part of the British squad
rons and this is the first purejy Amer
ican station in England.
U. S. ADMIRALS DECORATED
Rodman and Strauss Recipients of
British Honors.
LONDON. July 22. (By the Associ
ated Press) King George today dec
orated Rear Admiral Hugh Rodman, U
S. N., as a Knight Commander of the
Order of the Bath, and Rear-Admiral
Joseph Strauss, U. S. N., a knight com
mander of the Order of St. Michael and
St. George.
The decorations took place on board
the flagship of the grand fleet.
YULETIDE GIVING DECRIED
Saving in Labor, Materials and
Transportation Pointed Out.
WASHINGTON. July 23. Further
explaining the purpose of its resolu
tion of June 24, calling upon the peo
ple of the country to forego Christmas
giving, the Council of National De
fense today issued a statement setting
forth the saving In labor, materials
and transportation facilities which
probably would be effected by an ob
servance of the spirit of its resolution
Five Children Burned to Death.
GRAND RAPIDS. Mich., July 23.
Five children ranging in age from
to 12 years, were burned to death, one
other received fatal injuries and seven
were less seriously hurt in a fire which
destroyed -the Kent County Juvenile
Home early today.
National Control Will
Include Phones.
CABLE LINES NOT AFFECTED
Radio Systems Already Held
by Government.
WILSON ISSUES STATEMENT
President in Proclamation Says
Burleson to Administer Lines
Through Owners, Directors,
Etc. Dividends Continue.
WASHINGTON, July 2S. Acting un
der the authority recently conferred by
Congress, President Wilson today Is
sued a proclamation taking all tele
phone and telegraph lines under Gov
ernment operation at midnight. Wed
nesday, July 31.
Although Congress empowered him
to do so the President did not Include
wireless systems, because the Navy al
ready is. in control of them.
He did not include ocean cables pre
sumably because contracts the cable
companies have with foreign govern
ments on whose shores they land, con
tain clauses respecting government
operation which raised Involved ques
tions. The Navy Is already In practical
control of the cables through Its cen
sorship. Burleson In Ckargr.
The President's proclamaiton placed
administration of the wire systems
with Postmaster-General Burleson and
provided that until otherwise decided
the present managements and employes
will continue. Present .financial ar
rangements also will continue with the
approval of the Postmaster-General.
In a statement accompanying the
President's proclamation, Postmaster
General Burleson " announced to the
country that his policy would be one
of the least possible interference with
the wire communication systems con
sistent with the interests and needs of
the Government.
Press Service to Improve.
Press wire service, Mr. Burleson said.
would be interfered with only to im
prove its facilities, and farmers' tele
phones would be Interfered with only
to facilitate their connection with the
larger lines.
Postmaster-General Burleson will
personally take charge of the adminis
tration of the wire communications and
will be assisted by a committee of three
composed of John L. Koons, First As
sistant Postmaster-General, In subjects
of organization and administration;
David L. Lewis, former Congressman
from Maryland, now a member of the
tariff commitee, on subjects of opera
tion; and William H. Lamar, solicitor
for the Postoffice Department, on mat
ters of finance.
President Wilson's proclamation.
after quoting the law by. which Con
gress authorized him, says:
"Whereas, It Is deemed necessary for
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Xaty Department Announces That
Most of 4 9 Men Have Beeu
Accounted For.
WASHINGTON, July 23. All but
six of the 49 men reported missing
after the sinking of the .armored
cruiser San Diego off Fire Island. New
York, last Friday, have been account
ed for, said an announcement tonight
by the Navy department.
Further reports are expected to re
duce this number and officials hope
that the only casualties will be the
three men killed by the explosion.
The men still unaccounted for are:
Clyde Balne. Lomleka. Cal. ; George
W. Farln. 'Akron, Iowa; Leon Uoodnow.
Falrport, N. Y. ; Henry H. Law, White
Plains, N. Y.; Andrew Munson, St. Paul,
Minn.; Silas Walters, Gainesville, Ga.
IDAHO ASKS FIRE FIGHTERS
Camp Lewis to Send Soldiers Wheu
Details Are Explained.
CAMP LEWIS, Tacoma, Wash., July
23. A telegram received from the city
authorities at Kooskia. Idaho, today,
asks that soldiers be sent there to as
sist in flgh'.ing the forest fires raging
in that section.
-low many were wanted, what ar
rangements would be made for their
care and other details necessary before
men can be sent were lacking in the
request. Camp executive officers re
plied by telegraph that men would be
sent if they were informed of the
details of the needs.
'GRUBSTAKE' IS SUSTAINED
J. L. Wilson, Alaskan Mining Op
erator, Denied New Trial.
SAN FRANCISCO. July 23 J. L.
Wilson, Alaskan mining operator,
against whom Mrs. Ella Helm, of Oak
land, won a judgment for a share of
a $6,000,000 fortune under a "grub
stake" agreement, was denied a now
trial today by Superior Judge James
M. Troutt.
The case has been in litigation for
seven years.
YANKEE WOUNDED HAPPY
"Tell Folks at Home We Are All
Right," Is Message to Parents.
PARIS, July 23. "Tell the folks at
home we are all right." Is the message
of the American wounded as they are
lifted from the hospital trains.
American Red Cross women, with
fountain pens and post cards, follow the
doctors on their rounds between the
stretchers at the Paris station reserved
for the hospital trains. Each man gets
a chance to dictate a few lines.
MAMMOTH METEOR SEEN
Arctic Heavens at Midnight Lighted
as Bright as Midday.
DAWSON. Y. T., July 23. Arctic
heavens in this section were lllumi
nated by a mammoth meteor at mid
night last night.
The sky and land were lighted as
bright as at midday.
SEASONABLE COMMENT ON AN UNSEASONABLE RAIN.
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Teeth of Royalty.
SECRET POLICE GUARD DOORS
Prospect of Monarch for Pa
tient Unnerves Doctor.
SYLVESTER KILLS HIMSELF
Young Assistant Succeeds to Dead
Man's Practice in Berlin, Includ
ing Patronage of His Imperial
Majesty, Wilhclm II.
BY ARTHUR N. DAVIS.
(Dentist to the Kaiser for 14 Tears.)
CHAPTER III.
How I Became the Kaiser's Dentist.
Next door to my boyhood home," In
Plqua. Ohio, there lived a German
named Dlf fenbacher. He was rather a
grouchy Individual and none of us had
ever had very much to do with him.
Nevertheless, when. In 1899. I was
preparing to leave home, and the office
of Dr. E. S. Fuller, where I had been
working and studying, to take up the
dental course at Lake Forest Univer
sity. Chicago. 111., this man Dlffen
bacher came to say good-bye, and a re
mark he made at the time has always
Impressed me as having had a most
uncanny significance in view of later
developments, although, of course, I
realize It must have been purely a. co
incidence. "I hear you are going away to study
dentistry," he declared. In rather brok
en English.
"Yes, that's so," I replied.
"Well, I wish you luck. Dr. Evans,
the dentist, who recently died in Paris,
he was dentist to Napoleon III. He
was an American, too. I prophesy that
one day you will be dentist to the
Kaiser."
Opportunity Knocks.
During my first vacation while at
college, I went to- New York to get
more practical experience in dentistry
and became assistant, to Dr. M. L.
Rhein, and it was through this connec
tion that the opportunity to practice
abroad subsequently came to me.
I graduated from college in 1902 and
established myself In Chicago. About
a year and a half later I received an
invitation from Dr. Rheln to go to New
York to meet Dr. Alonzo H. Sylvester,
an American dentist practicing In Ber
lin, and who numbered the Kaiser
among his patients. He had come to
America to select an associate because
his failing health made it Impossible
for him to give his practice the atten
tion It demanded.
It is needless to say the receipt of
this message brought old Diffenbach
er's remark ack to me with renewed
force, but even then I did not realize
how accurate his prophecy was to
prove.
Dr. Sylvester had been in New York
three weeks Interviewing a number of
dentists, but he had found no one to
fill the position. The possibilities he
fConoluded on Page 6. Column 4.)
OfT lAAVY- TO
Big Additions to America's Merchant
Marine Planned for Coming
Labor Day.
WASHINGTON, July 23. Indorsing
the suggestion of Pacific- Coast ship
yard workers that Labor day be made
a Nation's great ship launching day,
Charles M. Schwab. Director-General
of the Emergency Fleet Corporation,
today transmitted to the men working
with him a letter from President Wil
son expressing the "keen interest" with
which the President Is following the
progress of the shipbuilding pro
gramme.
President Wilson's letter was ad
dressed to Chairman Hurley, of the
Shipping Board, acknowledging a re
port of progress. The President added:
"When you get an opportunity, will
you not express to those who are work
ing for the board and for the corpora
tion the keen Interest with which 1 fol
low all these operations and the accom
plishments of each bureau and agency
and yard?"
Mr. Schwab's Indorsement -f the
men's proposal to "splash the Kaiser"
again by launching one hundred ships
in a single day was wholehearted.
"While the launching record for the
Fourth of July was splendid," he said,
"let us strive to make the Labor day
record even still greater."
PRISONERS MAY FACE HUN
Walla Walla Convicts to Be Accepted
by Allied Armies.
OLYMPIA. Wash., July 23. (Spe
cial.) Release from the State Peni
tentiary at Walla Walla of alien pris
oners who are willing to serve their
respective countries in war was today
extended to men qualified for condi
tional pardon. As a result 76 men,
mostly Italians. Serbians and Monte
negrins, were ordered turned over to
recruiting officers, acting under au
thorities of the various foreign con
suls Interested. Some of the men will
go to the BritiBh army.
It was asserted that American pris
oners with clear records will be set
free to fight In the allied armies, al
though they cannot be accepted Into
the American forces.
INDUSTRIAL SURVEY TAKEN
- .r-
Nation's Taxable Resources Will Be
Determined for ReTcnue Bill.
WASHINGTON. July 23. An Indus
trial survey to determine the Nation's
taxable resources as an aid to the ways
and means committee in framing the
income and excess profits sections of
the new $8,000,000,000 revenue bill is
under way.-
Committee members said today they
expect to raise approximately $5,000,
000,000 from excess profits and In
comes. Some members still hope to
raise $6,000,000,000 by taxes on war
profits and Incomes.
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Weather.
TERTERPAY'R Maximum temperature. 61
deicreea: minimum. Ad degrees.
TODAY'S Fair; gen tie southwesterly winds.
War.
Allies press after retreating Germans.
Page 1.
French gain two miles near Montdidier.
Tage 1.
Cruiser San TMega'a Hat of missing reduced
to six. Page 1.
German raider reported off west eoaat of
Mexico. Page 2.
Official casualty list. Page 2.
Yankees crush Huns on Chalons plain.
Page 3.
Allied cavalry doea great work. Page 2.
German press awakena public to sense of
defeat. Page. 7.
All Paris cheers Yankee wounded. Page 8.
Foreign.
Grain auppltes will be sent to starving
Persia. Page 2.
Hoover tells allies food crisis past. Page 4.
Russia faces starvation. Page 4.
Cremtn may return to power In Austria.
Page 3.
Dr. Davia tells how he became Kaiser" a
dentist. Page 1.
National.
U. R- to take over telegraph and telephone
systems July 21. Page 1.
V. S. to mobilize over 5.000.OO0 men. Page 4.
Hundred more ahlpa may be launched on
Labor day. Page 1.
General March says I". S. preparing to
strike. Pago H.
Domestic.
Hearst seeks Indorsement for Governor at
Democratic convention. Paga 5.
Rich manufacturer arrested in war-order
fraud ease. Page 6.
nporta.
Puget Found Shipyard League opens Sun
day. Page 14.
New records made on Grand Circuit.
Page 14.
Rain prevents play In state tennis champion
ship tournament. Page 14.
Shipyards League bars Coast players.
Page 14.
Pacific Northwest.
Supreme Court sustains six-cent carfare In
Portland. Page 8.
Oregon Presbyterian Synod hears report of
Albany College. Page 7.
Ono killed, three Injured in collision. Pago 1.
Commercial and. Marine.
Quality of Northwestern wheat far better
than last year's. Page 1U.
Export demand causes bulge In Chicago
corn market. Pago 19.
Speculative stocks are again under pressure.
Page 19.
Western Comet takes water. Page 15.
Portland and Vicinity.
Multnomah Guard band to serenade troop
trains. Pago 20.
Rain Is welcomed throughout Oregon.
Page 15.
Attorney charged with unprofessional con
duct. Page 13.
Portland draftees to leave Thursday.
Page 12.
Girls to sell flowers for relief fund. Pago 11.
City Council called to take action on Llnn-
ton line. Page 8.
Committee named to direct distribution of
scrap Iron In Portland. Page 8.
10.000 people will bo fed at The Oaks on
Red Cross day. Page 7.
City to banquet selective service men.
Page 6.
Weather report, data and forecast. Page 15.
BACK TWO MIES
Smash Made on Four-Mile
Front Near Montdidier. -
1500 GERMANS CAPTURED
Allies by Latest Victory Are
Now in Control of Heights
Above Avre Valley.
ATTACK ACTS AS DIVERSION
Blow Is Made to Prevent Foe
From Sending Troops South
to Stop Entente Gains.
LONDON, July 23. The French at
tack near Montdidier has progressed
to the western edge of the wood north
of Sauvillers-Montgival, which means
a total advance of two miles.
This point is about 2000 yards east
of Mailly-Raineval and gives the
French control of the heights dom
inating the valley of the Avre.
Concerning this operation, the of
ficial War Office statement tonight
says:
"North of Montdidier a local oper
ation this morning enabled us to cap
ture Mailly-Raineval, Savillers and
Aubvillers. We took 1500 prisoners,
including GO officers.
Attack Worries Boches.
The attack was a very well execut
ed and successful operation and, ac
cording to dispatches from the battle
front, was presumably designed as a
diversion, aiming at keeping the ene
my's mind occupied and preventing
him from sending large reinforce
ments to the southward.
At the same time it also effected an
important local improvement in the
line at a sector where every advance
means better protection for Amiens
and Taris. The French attacked on
a four-mile front after an hour's bom
bardment of the German lines and
captured all three villages of Sau
villers, Aubvillers and Mailly-Raineval
within 15 minutes.
Mdre Prisoners Taken.
About 1000 more prisoners have
been counted by the entente in the
past 24 hours, and others remain to
be counted. Of this number about
half have been credited to the Amer
icans and British, but as a matter of
fact the allies are just now too busy
to devote time to the counting of
prisoners.
WITH THE FRENCH ARMY IN
FRANCE, July 23. (By the Asso
ciated Press.) A drenching down
pour over the greater part of the
southern battlefield hindered the. op
erations of both the allies and the
Germans last night and today.
Farther north, however, French
troops executed a remarkably bril
liant minor operation between Moreuil
and Montdidier, attacking and captur
ing three villages, around which some
very heavy fighting occurred in
March and April. They are Mailly
Raineval, Sauvillers and Aubvillers, all
situated on heights overlooking the
Avre River.
Strategic Points Won.
Their possession is of the greatest
importance.
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY
ON THE AISNE-MARNE FRONT,
July 23. (By the Associated Tress.)
Northwest of Chateau Thierry the
artillery played an important part.
Here the Americans encountered the
stiffest resistance; a village in this
sector being reduced by the American
guns as its occupation by the Ger
mans was imminent. The enemy was
thus forced into the open, where heavy
punishment was inflicted.
A drizzling rain fell over the battle
fields and made aerial operations al
most impossible in the morning, but
it cleared somewhat in the afternoon
and the flying men went up. Their
work, however, was limited.
Boche Planes Fired On.
Late in the day German planes en
deavored to make observations over
the Mame, where the enemy was
aware that all the usual operations of
moving armies and supplies were in
progress. The anti-aircraft guns ren
dered their mission highly doubtful.
Prisoners captured by the Amer
icans say they were forced into ac-
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