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T -jjF VOL. LVIII. XO. 18,007. PORTLAND, OREGON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 10, 1918. PRICE FIVE CENTS. FOE III FLIGHT: 3 II PURSUING British and French Keep Advancing on Somme. GUNS, STORES, PAPERS LOST Transports and Men Stream ing Eastward, Harried by Allied Cavalry. AUTO FACTORIES TO DO WAR WORK ONLY PLANTS TO BE CONVERTED . TO 100 PER CENT BASIS. U.S. HAT ASSUM E SELEWPOIB New Regulations for Draft in Prospect. FAIRNESS BASIS FOR CHANGE HIGH HUN OFFICER KILLED Shortage of Steel Prompts Order. Manufacturing of Passenger Cars to Stop January 1. : "WASHINGTON, Aug;. 9. Manufactur ers of passenger automobiles were ad vised by the War Industries Board to day to convert their plants to 100 per cent war work as rapidly as possible and to place them on that basis not later than January 1. 1919. In a letter addressed to the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce. In no other way, the letter stated, could they be assured of the continuance of their in dustry or the preservation of their or ganlzatlons. The letter was In response to a pro posal made yesterday by Hugh Chal mers on the part of the manufacturers voluntarily to curtail the passenger car Industry 50 per cent. The War Indus tries Board declared that the present situation renrdinr steel and other ma terlals needed for war work gave little Patriotic Registrants to Get Square Rules to Provide Deferred Classification. MARRIAGE. IS CONSIDERED Two Regimental Commanders Are Said to Be Prisoners in Amiens Region. assurance of material required for the manufacture of passenger automobiles. even after providing; for war require ments. Pending receipt by the board of sworn Inventories of materials on hand re quested last July 16, no materials will be permitted passenger car manufactur ers. WORK FOUND FOR CRIPPLES WITH THE BRITISH ARMY IN Two One-Armed Men Get Jobs as JFRANCE, Aug. 9. (By the Asso- Checkers at Steel Plant. kiated Press.) The Britten and French divisions have gained more ground in SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. . (Special.) Lu 1.-1 A Tn dvs wh" vagrant would es- iiw greai. iiUc 8't " " cape both Jail and work because of a Somme district. The latest report I missing arm or leg are gone. Today fappear to show that the Germans are Michael Sullivan, assistant probation tetiring in great haste. armed men go free after nlacinr 150 The scenes on the battleground over! other vagrants at work, when Proba- kvhich the allies already have passed t,on Otticer William Nichol received a many men w!th dependents hesitate fcave evidence of this haste in aban- Paclflc stee, company at South San Honed euns. stores, and even regi-1 Francisco. Deal Without Having to Ask For It; No Work or Fight Extension Likely. ' WASHINGTON, Aug. . New regula tions under which the Government would do the selecting, rather than leaving It to the registrant, are under consideration by the-War Department This was disclosed today by Secretary Baker after he had appeared before the Senate military cbmmittee to urge prompt enactment of the new selec tlve service act extending the age limits to Include all men between the ages of 18 and 45. Some Men Hesitate. The War Secretary made It plain that he Is not satisfied with the pres ent system unden which the registrant must claim deferred classification, as Vnental and artillery maps and papers. Foe in Full Retreat. Aerial observers report large Streams of transports and men hurry- ng eastward in full-retreat. Beaucourt fell to the allied forces his morning and Lequesnel also was uken after hot all-night fighting. The cavalry is working far 'back to ward the Somme and is still rounding p villages, white tanks and armored The company said the men were wanted as checkers and that there was no use placing two-armed men in one- armed men's jobs. The order was filled and the probation officers held the re maining man for future similar calls. HEAVY WIND HITS DAKOTA Barns Are Blown Down and Hay and Grain Are Damaged. for patriotic reasons to make such a claim. In this connection Mr. Baker said he was Inclined to the opinion that the marriage relation will in Itself constitute deferred classification What Mr. Baker has In mind Is to lay down a set of questions which the registrant would answer and then have rules which would take care of the classification. He Is understood to regard this as the fair- and equi table system, Age Changes Net Challenged The discussion on the draft ages before the Senate committee. Mr. Baker A hkhTjWen. R. TV Aiis- I A wlnit I ...j n... w v. II ..i... ars are running over the country Lt approached cyclonic proportions by General March, chief of staff, and learing a way for the troops or kill- swept a strip of country a mile wide I Provost Marshal-General Crowder. The ng horses drawing heavy enemy sup-1 across Day County, tonight, leveling committee, he added, did not Indicate tlies. The drivers of motor trucks! Darr" na naysiacas ana aoing mucn any disposition to question ine neces , i" ,; . . damage to grain In shock and standing, sity for change, which Is urged so that , - I Mont nf the dimira wa. htwn Ik. W. n.nrtmn fan nnlrVlv aa mans ana enner cawenng mem or Andover and Bristol. 40 miles east of cure the men necessary to win the running them to earth. I Aberdeen. war. , . . " . "There was some discussion. Mr, lana iwuia ucrman vorps. r amkj. n. v., Aug. 5 a nign wma .v. CIM .... t. vnl.tn.r u w-. the The details of some of the work of r"'ea """a Intention, of the department to extend n.. .rmnrpH ear. Ennw tW tW - the .work or tigW or(jer to Include I nlsrnt. Kliarht uma2 In the vlcinitv I . . . , frA i;., oTO;- - "- r "... . Classes oi persons in various v,vvc t-" " rargo aiso was reported. .I.l orcunatlons m - - - i i , - I I mem ran into a town yesieraay khil unch Progress of the War. Over a curving front of more than 20 miles the British and French troops are continuing to sweep back the Germans eastward across the plains of Picardy from the region north of the Somme east of Morlancourt to the eastern bank of the Avre, northwest of Mont didier. As on the first day of the offensive, material progress was made Friday over the entire battlefront. Many vil lages were captured; the bag of pris oners was largely increased; numerous guns and great quantities of war stores were taken and heavy casualties were inflicted. The losses of the Anglo French forces are relatively small. To the allied forces there has fallen 17,000 German prisoners and between ZOO and 300 guns, many of them of heavy caliber, and innumerable ma chine guns, trench mortars and kin dred small weapons. FOE . HURRY OVER 10 BE CAPTURED To the north of the Picardy theate the Germans also have given ground on two important sectors on the Lys salient, northwest of La Baesee, and in the region southwest of Tpres, north of KemmeL On the Lys sector territory over a front of more than seven miles was evacuated by the enemy, while to the north of Kemmel the British ad vanced their line over a front exceed lng 1000 yards. These maneuvers seem Ingly Indicate the Germans either con sidered their ground insecure or that Oown Prince RuDDrecht's army has been materially decreased In strength by sending reinforcements to the soutn, After the British had penetrated the Picardy salient to a depth of nearly 13 miles In the center toward the impor tant railroad junction of Chaulnes, the northern and southern flanks of the battlefront rave, way. before the pree sure respectively of the British and French. On the north the British captured Morlancourt and pressed -on eastward, while on the south, northwest of Mont dldier. Plerrepont, Contolre and Ar- villers were taken by the French, who drove In their wedge to a distance of more than eight and one-half miles. The tanks, armored cars and cavalry are still work.ng throughout the en tire region, while airpianes are soaring far behind the lines, bombing trans port and troop movements ana aiso naylng particular attention to ine bridges over the Somme, by which the nxmv is endeavoring to 'escape. All behind the -line the Germans are de troylng ammunition depots as they quit their positions. With the new turn of events Mont- didier is in an uncomfortable position. with the allies hammering away cross fire at the Germans holding it . and with the only railway leading Into the town also under their guns. A forced evacuation of the town seems possible. With further pressure eastward and northward the entire Montdidier,salient may have to be abandoned. Extension Not Considered. I told them there was no present (Concluded on Page 4. Column 1.) J V?!Vu!.Tu" RINTELEN SERIOUSLY ILL " u" -'"""IS" " .h..i.f th. 'nrk nr flrhf ordtn in orps' quarter windows, killed some of German Plotter Taken From Tombs contemplation. I said that when I de- he staff and then chased others who I . , ' cided the baseball case I thought per- scaped from the house. At Rosieres j rra,K"""f- haps other forms of amusement and L .1 , . . i I entertainment mignt require an exien J ""I mw TflRTt Au- S with iro.f,, ire. I of CaDtaln Franc Rlntelan from tha A group of cars met, far inside the Tombs prison here to the Essex County nemv lines, a German sunnly column penitentiary In New Jersey today it J l.H it rv,,- mnnn non w" learnea mi me iormer uerman . , , . I army officer, convicted of conspiring ullHn la'"c " ""- against the United States, is a tuber- le was and were shot from the cars, eulosis sufferer. Although so weak that khlch then proceeded to make quick he required support as he walked from tn lomos, ne was nandcurred to a United States Deputy Marshal. RIntelen's removal was ordered by Attorney-General Gregory. His release in exchange for an American prisoner In Germany was recently demanded by Germany, and refused. vork of the column. High German Officer Killed, At Framerville the cars engaged a train loaded with the enemy and final y set it afire. Tanks . entered this own soon afterwards, helped the ar Ured cars clean it up and then MUSICIANS DENY SEDITION oistea i lags on me rooi oi me ouiia- :ig whicn bad been Uerman corps Members of Chicago Symphony Or- headquarters. One car met a high erman officer riding in an automo- l 1 it. 1 rt.i m le aiong uie roaa. ine omcer was CHICAGO. Aug. 9. Complete denial liled and his macbine captured. of the alleged seditious remarks at- All along the line this afternoon I tributed to them were made this aft- nipers and isolated machine eun bU- ernoon by Bruno S'e'nda'. Joseph Set- hts were extremely busy, but these ": cic wens oi.t-ntcu uc uj as Symphony Onrhestrs, when Quizzed bv . n- 1 dvance proceeded. Assistant District Attorney Borrelll. It is reported that two regimental Mrs. steindal. wife of the cellist, who ommanders have been captured in one wa "Iso ""mined, declared that the denunciation was an aci or spite on There has been little fighting of great moment on the Vesle River, ex cept In the nature of reciprocal artil- ery duels. ' The Americans have made another crossing of the Vesle and cap tured the village of Flsmette, north west of Flsmes. ROOSEVELT ENDS OUTING Visits Two Weeks ' With Daughter, Mrs. Richard Derby, In Maine. DARK HARBOR, Me., Aug. . For mer President Roosevelt brought his vacation on the Maine coast to a close today after a visit of two weeks with his daughter. Mrs. Richard Derby. Front-Line Germans for Safety First. B0LSHEVIKI HOLD ALLIES' ENVOYS AGENTS OF FRANCE AND BRIT AIN ARRESTED IN MOSCOW. Detaining of Representatives Held Act of Hostility, Says London Paper. LONDON, Aug. 10. Robert H. B. Lockhart, acting Consul-General in Moscow, and six Britons attached to his staff and several French diplomatic agents have been arrested in Moscow by the Bolshevik!, says the Daily Mail. The newspaper attributes to the Foreign Office a statement that there is no reason to believe it Is true that the Britsh at Archangel shot represen tatives of the Soviet and adds: There was some shooting before Archangel incidental to the landing op erations but this could not have been TOMMIES SMILING AGAIN ln repIy to shots fired at our forces bv Lockhart is, of course, an act of hos tility in international law and will be fin rpcrarHpd hv i,a T t la nnsolhlv a a CM! . . . .1 " ""--J - ou.unrs are imager 10 uet tracK at prisal for our landing at Archangel and Fritz Hlch Morale of Allied in tne Murmansk region. GLAD TO BE WITH BRITISH Enemy Is Caught Napping, Al though Expecting Attack. 1710 GEI1IIS, Mil Between20Qand300Pieces of Artillery Captured. IMS ASSIST IN ROUNDUP Troops Great Factor In Win ning Recent Battles. LONDON, Aug. 10. The Evening News says that J. O. Wardrop, the Brit ish Consul at Moscow, was arrested with R. H. B. Lockhart. Messrs. Lock hart and Wardrop remained in Moscow when the diplomatic staff went to Archangel. BY JOSEPH W. GRIGG. CSpeclal Correspondent the New York World. t-UDUsbed by Arrangement.) ON THE BRITISH FRONT, Aug. PRIMARY CONTEST HI flSF viicuai.j ny mose raDDiis in me front line Just came running toward us I Democratic Senatorship Candidates as soon as our first barrasre com-1 menced.' sld a .utiv ,h-h I Votes Apart in est irginia British soldier in describing yesterday's successful attack against the Germans . HEELING, W. Vs., Aug. 9. Nine between the Ancre and Avre rivers. In I vtes tonight separated the two can addition to his wounds he had brought I didates for the Democratic nomination back three Boche pistols as souvenirs I 'or lts Senator in the state primary of the fig'hting. election held last Tuesday 'Just look at them grinning," he said, I Missing- precincts in the southern end pointing to a cage where a freshly 1' the state reported late tonight give taken batch of prisoners was smiling I Clarence W. Watson a nine-vote lead and exchanging greetings with other over former Senator William E. Chil- Germans Jurat marching down the road. I ton. Davis Elkins leads Virgil High- Maybe they weren't glad to be cap-1 land by 1520 for the Republican Sena- tured." I torial nomination. It Is hard to find any military opera wmioui an American lnipurTI I oUnni 1 1 1 o na inn It. I met two coming back from the OntLL OHULK KILLS MAJOR line. One was a Princeton graduate and the other a New Yorker. Both had Former Athlete Found on Field of been In the British army long before America entered the war. British Prisoners Pass 13,000. French Bag 4000 and War Material. NARROW TRIANGLE IS TRAP Battle Without Mark on Body. Germans Ca light Napping. The New Yorker, describing the bat tle, said: WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN FRANCE, Aug. 9. (By the Associated Press.) Major James McKenna. Jr. we caugni ine Germans napping. It New York lawyer, who was Brominont was some show, believe me. I got, a I In American Eastern college athletics smacit in me cneeic with . shrapnel, I a few years ago. was killed by shell wnicn is my iirst wound ln three years shock the day the Americans crossed of warfare. The allies have got the I the Ourcq river on the Soissons-Rlieimn Germans number." '- I front just at daylight yesterday I reported Not a wound or a bruise was found piace wnere i couia see tne flashes on his body. or tne guns and hear the great growl Vi ,.f411-.. v. - . began. The Germans had been looking JAPAN DEFIED BY LENINE for an attack a long time, though not when or where it occurred. It went like I Ultimatum Sent Regarding Inirrvcn cJocKworK. every artery of the re-1 jprvAK nrt siinnii wnriinr wit,.i I tlon in Siberia. hitch, and Tommy Atkins wore his old-time smile, for he had long been LONDON. Aug. 9. A dispatch to the oping to have his crack at the enemy I Exchange Telegraph from Copenhagen fter such a pause in big operations I says the Petrograd newspaper Pravda on this front. Besides the surprise ele-l organ of the Bolshevtki. announce tha Large Bodies of Foe Give Up in Somme-Ancre Sector When Cut Off. ment it had that greatest of all essen tials in battle high morale of all the troops. Advance Screened by Smoke. It was a quiet night preceding the battle and a still quieter daylight until rouowing a stormy meeting of the workmen's and soldiers' deputies. Pre mier Lenine sent an ultimatum to Ja pan concerning Japan's Intervention in Siberia. (Concluded on Page 5, Column 1.) chestra Questioned. ector. Ammunition Dumps Abandoned. Since daybreak the Germans have; een making an extraordinary effort i blow up with field gunfire ammun ition and other dumps which they ad to leave so hastily yesterday. Their aim was exceedingly poor, al- ed soldiers report. The scene at Bayonvillers today is the part of one of the other members of the orchestra. BIG GUN PLANT ORDERED J l. S. Will Have Establishment in France Rivaling Krupps at Essen. WASHINGTON, Aug. Approval of plans for a big gun relining plant to bA hullt In Frinr. fit pnit nf frnm pical of the rest of the battle area. $25,000,000 to $30,000,000 was announced road fields of crops or brown grass today by the War Department. ringe the town and spread for miles 11 ' 8ald engineering work for the r th flat surrnunrlino- rmintmr ret P"Jct. which will compare in c I mnnv were romnleted und nrdiara fnr ere Wltn little piles OI empty Shell equipment actually issued within 30 ises and the bodies of Germans are days after conception of the plan by ing here and there, telling the story tne ordnance officers. f what happened. Lying off on the de of the road are enemy motor- PLANES FLY OVER VIENNA trucks, one of them with a trailer Italian Squadron Drops Manifestoes Unmolested. lied with artillery maps, some head- uarters staff could not save. The suns abandoned here are in fuf T .-tlJ ROME. Aug. 9. A squadron of Italian nine n.3rhv rrivewH tt-ith nirvnH imn 1 ...... . " ' v.- ... brlele a Annuniio, nas riown over abs, show where the German gun- Concludd on Pace , Column Vienna and dropped manifestoes, planes were not molested. The y.. ............ ........ ......... ............................... ...... t I SOMME CATCH! INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. nssrBRDAV'S Maximum temperature. 71 aegreea; miiumum. Do aeRrees. TODAY'S Showers, (tentle westerly winds. War. Foe In full flight in Amlens-Sommo sector. fag-e j. United States troops takes Flsmette and 100 li una. i'age 1. Seventeen thousand prisoners taken by allies. 1 age 1. Germans hurry over to be captured, play lng aarety first. Fage 1. Spain makes new U-boat protest to Ger many. Fage 10. Power of Foch and Americans not realized. says ufrman orricer. Fage Z. Official casualty list. Page 2. Foreign. Japanese General Otanl to command allies ln Siberia. Fage 2. vengeance no part or allies" policy, says l.loya ueorge. Fage 3. Dutch talk of proposing mediation. Page 13. 'Honest Germans" now hungry Huna. Page 4. Bolshevlkl arrest allied envoys. Pftge 1. National. Draft law changes ln prospect. Page 1. Ten per cent tax on luxuries proposed. Page S. Bill to encourage development of water- power assured of passage. Page 10. Domeetlr. Passenger automobile plants to be converted to 100 per cent war work. Page 1. Enemy property capitalized at $2,000,000 seized. Fage 3. Haywood, I. W. W. head, disavows violence. Page 4. Coast bankers ask prompt payments by U. S. on contracts. Fage 13. Farlflc Northwest. Four representatives of Oklahoma concern face fraud charges. Fage . Oregon editors Inspect Coos Bay Industries. Page 7. Handling of Federal railroads explained. Page 7. Sports. McAllister and King to box 10 rounds August 17. Fage IX. Lower water adds to problems of fishermen. Page IS. Multnomah Club swimmers to compete In marathon today. Fage 12. Frankle Farren bats Jimmy Dundee de cisively. Fage 1-'. Commercial and Marine. Cantaloupe supplies liberal and market shows easy tendency. Fage it. Encouraging news from France has stiffen- ing effect on stock marKet. Fage 17. Corn prices decline as result of favorable weather reports. Fage 17. Portland is asked to assist marine. Page 13, Portland and Vicinity. Portland to furnish 280 men ln August draft. Page . Friction between draft officials and ship yard managers smoothed out. Page 13. White alaver escapes when pretty victim faints. Page 18. Increase in power and light rates asked by Portland Kallway. llght & Power Com pany. Fage 10. Excessive rent evil to be curbed. Page 5. jVeataai rejorV data and forecast. Page 1 LONDON, Aug. 9. An official communique issued this evening says that 17,000 prisoners and between 200 and 300 guns have been captured on the Somme-Ancre front. The Canadians, the advices state, have taken the town of Beaufort, two and a half miles southwest' of Ro sieres. The Australians are fighting farther north, along the Somme. Small parties of Germans are re ported to be still in Rosieres, three and one-half miles west of Chaulnes, but the British are all around them and their life as fighting men probably will be short. French Bag 4000. The figure of 17,000 prisoners taken embraces the number that had been counted. Of these the French report ed that they had taken more than 4000, while the British total at noon was more than 13,000. The French have been doing good work today on the south of the new drive and prob ably have taken many additional prisoners there. Most of the prisoners and guns cap tured by Britibh troops have Deen taken in the narrow triangle between the Roye and Peronne roads. British tanks advanced with great rapidity up these highways. They were fol lowed promptly by infantry, and thou sands of Germans within the triangle found themselves well behind the British line when the attack reached them, so laid down their arms. Best Gun Position Taken. This triangle contained some o" the best German gun positions in the whole front facing Amiens. PARIS, Aug. 9. The official com munication from the War Office to night says that the British and French troops continued their advance today and won new victories after breaking the enemy's resistance. The French troops took 4000 prisoners besides a great quantity of war materials, and captured several important towns on the southern end of the battle zone. WITH THE BRITISH ARMY IN FRANCE, Aug. 9. (By the Asso ciated Press.) It is reported that a German Divisional General has been captured in the drive. Cavalry Rounds Up Prisoners. Allied airmen have blown up many ' of the bridges over the Somme River and the enemy's retreat is seriously embarrassed. The British cavalry has rounded up many prisoners, but the larger part taken were captured by Australians and Canadians. LONDON, Aug. 9. (Via Mon- , treal.) Canadian horse troopers, co operating with French cavalry, cut off a large force of the enemy in to day's operations on the Somme front. PARIS, Aug. 9. The French War Ministry at 10:30 o'clock today issued ' the following statement: "The brilliant operation which we, in concert with British troops, execut ed yesterday, has been a surprise for the enemy. As occurred in the offen sive of July 18, the soldiers of Gen eral Debeney have captured many sol- . diers engaged in the peaceful pursuit of harvesting the fields behind the German lines. Artillery Preparation Slight. "Our artillery preparation was short, lasting less than an hour. The enemy artillery had made no counter preparation at the beginning of the action, merely replying feebly. "The original front of the attack was only four kilometers, situated south of the Amiens-Roye road, where our infantry went over the top at 5:05 o'clock, but gradually the offensive de- CuuuudeU pa t'i i, Culuuiu Ll B: 101.2.