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VOL. L.YIII. "0. 18,012.
rOKTLAXD, OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 16, 1918.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
ENEMY OFFICERS'
MORALE BREAKING
13
$133,500,000 WAR
i EXPECTED
RAIDS THR0WRHINE
TOWNS INTO PANIC
W0RKFUNDS0UGHT
SOON TO REGISTER
TO
MAINTAIN PACE
WAR IS LOST PRISONERS OF
RANK DECLARE.
AMOUNT TO GO TO Y. M. C. A
FRANKFORT AIR ATTACK RE
SULTS IX MAN"!' CASUALTIES.
and 3 OTHER ORGANIZATIONS.
GERMANS RETREAT
HI PUIS
MILLION
OREGOE
BOLSHEVIK ROUT
seems if tunc
AIIiesOccupyMoreVillages
in
PATROLS ON FOE'S HEELS
Beaumont Hamel, Serre, Buc
quoy, Puisieux-au-Mont, Da-
piery, rarvwers laKen.
.FRENCH WIN HIGH GROUND
Occupation of Lassigny Mas
sif Presages Further Re
tirement by Enemy.
LONDON, Aug. 15. The Canadians
have taken the villages of Damery
and Parvillers, a short distance north
west of Roye, according to Field Mar
shal Haig's official communicttion is
sued this evening.
The British line southeast of Proy
art, just south of the Somme, has
been advanced a short distance.
.
PARIS, Aug. 15. Further gains
have been made by the French in the
wooded region between the Matz and
Oise rivers and just north of the Oise
near Ribecourt, according to the
French official communication issued
this evening.
French Win High Ground.
For the most part, however, the
operations have been of minor char
acter. LONDON, Aug. 15. (4 P. M.)
The French have captured all the -high
ground on the Lassigny massif and
are working down the north and east
ern aides, so that a further retirement
of the enemy in that sector is proba
ble, according to advices received here
this afternoon.
BERLIN, via London, Aug. 15.
Admission that the Germans have
evacuated positions near Puisieux and
Beaumont-Hamel, which lie to the
north of Albert, is made in the Ger
man official communication issued to
day. WITH THE BRITISH ARMY IN
FRANCE, Aug. 15. (By the Asso
ciated Press.) In the northern area
of the Picardy battlefront it has been
confirmed that the Germans have
evacuated some of their forward posi
tions. Beaumont-Hamel, Serre, Buc
quoy and Puisieux-Mont have been
abandoned.
Ancre River Crossed.
Last night British patrols crossed
the Ancre River at Anthuille and
Aveluy, north of Albert, and before
they were fired upon made consider
able progress.
The town of Albert is still held
strongly by the enemy. Upon enter
ing Albert, British patrols were fired
upon from the Albert Cathedral.
The Hebuterne salient has prac
tically disappeared as a result of the
German retirement;
It will be remembered that the Ger
man retirement in February, 1917, to
the Hindenburg line was immediately
preceded by slight local retirements
such as have been made north of Al
bert. The mystery now is whether
some such plan is being carried out by
the enemy. If this is true, the situ
ation should be clarified in a short
time.
Somme Sector Quiet.
Along the new Somme battlefront
quiet still continues except for rather
increased artillery activity at several
points.
The enemy seems to be in some
force along the new front south of the
Somme, where he has been driven by
the allied armies. His principal force
seems to be between Chaulnes and
Roye.
The mystery still to be solved on
the new battle front and the region
northward is, do the Germans in
tend making another "strategic with
drawal?" j
The British artillery continues
pounding the enemy from his front
line to the back waters of the Somme,
and intense aerial bombing continues
day and night.' Chaulnes and other
rear targets have been repeatedly
bombed. A direct hit was obtained
or. a train at a station behind the lines
and many fires have been caused by
bombs. So vigorous have the British
air forces become in their operations
Allies Offensive Power Is Shock.
Horses and Various Kinds of
Materials Scarce.
BT GORDON D. KNOX.
Special cable dispatch to the World, copy
right. 1918. by the Press Publishing Com
pany, the New York World, by arrange
ment with the London Dally News.
ON THE FRENCH FRONT, Aug". 15.
A marked change In the mental at
titude of prisoners taken from the
enemy is noted here. Hitherto I have
been able to write of the depressed
morale of the men. but it has been im
possible, until now. to write thus of
the feellng-s of the officers.
Today, however, some enemy officers
were openly stating- that Germany had
lost the war. This statement Is appar
ently due to the fact that they have
been shocked by the unexpected power
of the French and British to deliver an
offensive on a large scale, and they had
believed that their own offensive would
result in -immediate peace. A few of
the officers, however, still maintain
that Hindenburg is able to save the
situation.
German difficulties as regards war
materials of all sorts, and their troubles
over horse transports are emphasized
by the prices brought by horses at
Hanover. Good, working cart horses
fetched from $1000 to S1600. medium
sized horses from $800 to $900, inferior
animals from $700 to $750. ponies $250
to $350 and horses for slaughter $300
to $375.
Date to Be Not Later
Than Sept. 15.
MAN POWER NEED IS URGENT
Draft Machinery Already Put
in Motion by Crowder.
B0ARDS,0FFICIALS NOTIFIED
Provost Marshal-General Announ
ces That Class One Will Be
Entirely Exhausted by
October 1 .
GERMAN PASTOR A FIGHTER
Minister Blackens Assailant's Ey
and Then Has Hfm Arrested.
NAPA. Cal Aug. 15. (Special.)
The case of Fred Wick, charged with
disturbing the oeace of Rev. A. A.
Bosche. pastor of the German Evangel
leal Church here, is to come up in the
Justice Court next week. The charge
is the result of a fight between Wick
and the preacher on the front porch of
the pastor's home.
Wick. the story goes, objected ' to
Mrs. Wick telling the pastor her do
mestlo troubles and struck the
preacher. The biblical exhortation to
turn the other cheek was not followed
by Rev. Bosche, who blackened ore of
Wick's eyes. The pastor then swore to
a complaint charging Wick with dis
turbing the peace. He says Wick
threatened his life.
CURB PUT ON USE OF COAL
Great Shortage of By-Production
Variety Said to Exist.
WASHINGTON. Aug. 15. Shortage of
by-production, coal, essential to steel
production. Including the smokeless
variety essential to the Navy, has
reached such alarming proportions. It
was learned today, that the Govern
ment may curtail further so-called les
ser Industries.
The fuel . administration is taking.
wherever it can be found, every ton of
this grade of coal from those industries
which may use other grades. The fuel
administration and war 'ndustrial
board are Joining forces not only to
stop "private hoarding, but to develop
additional coal fields.
U. S. FLYER BAGS 3 BOCHES
Ex-Topeka Youth Performs Triple
Victory In Five Minutes.
TOPEKA. Kah.. Aug. 15. Lieutenant
Donald Hudson, formerly of this city,
and now with the American aerial
forces in France, recently brought
down three German airplanes In five
minutes, according to an announcement
today by Mrs. Mary Wear, assistant
state librarian, and Hudson's aunt.
The aviator's father, Paul Hudson,
now in Washington, received news of
the feat from the commander, Mrs.
Wear said. Lieutenant Hudson is
grandson of the late J. K. Hudson,
well-known newspaper publisher.
MAYOR FILES LIBEL SUIT
William Hale Thompson Seeks In
demnily From Illinois Editors.
CHICAGO. Aug. 15. Mayor William
Hale Thompson filed suit today against
the Chicago Evening Post. John C.
Shaffer, its publisher, and Frank TL
Robinson, owner of a newspaper in
Ogle County, Illinois.
The suit, asking $100,000 damages, is
said to be Incited by an article ques
tioning the Mayor's loyalty, originally
printed In Robinson's .newspaper and
reprinted in the Post.
SHIP COMPLETED IN MONTH
Construction Record Is Made
Great Lakes Plant.
at
DETROIT. Aug. IS. A record In ship
construction Is claimed by the Great
Lakes Engineering Works In deliver
ing today to the Emergency Fleet Cor
poration, complete in every detail, the
3500-ton steel freighter, "Crawl Keys,"
SO days after its keel was laid In the
yards at Ecorse, Mich.
BLOW STRUCAT BANDITS
Mexicans in Sonora Told They Must
"Work or Fight.'
Cesciudsd sa 2. Comma lx
NOG ALES, Ariz., Aug. 15. "Work or
fight" orders have been promulgated
for the state of Sonora, Mexico, by Gen
eral P. Ellas Calles, constitutional gov
ernor, to curb JawlessaesSt
WASHINGTON, Aug. 15. Provost
Marshal-General Crowder announced
today that plans have been made for
the registering of the 13,000.000 addi
tional men which he estimates will be
brought under the selective service law
when Congress enacts the pending bill
extending the age limits to Include
men between 18 and 45 years.
From this number approximately 2,
000,000 qualified for full military serv
ice are expected to be secured.
So urgent is the need for additional
manpower. General Crowder said, that
the draft machinery is being put into
shape for the great task ahead with
out waiting for final action by Con
gress.
Mem Needed 'by October.
Men of the new draft will be needed
by October 1 and in order to get them,
registration day will have to be held
not later than September 15, and. If
possible, September 5 will be fixed as
the day.
When the 13.000,000 men are enrolled
nearly 25.000,000 will have been reg
istered since the United States entered
the war.
There were some 10.000.000 enrolled
on the first registration day, June 5,
1917. another 600,000 last June 5, and
several hundred thousand more are ex
pected to be enrolled August 24.
: Board aid Officials) Notified.
"Preliminary steps have been taken
by the Provost Marshal-General," said
General Crowder's statement, "to pro
vide for the registration of those men
who will be affected by the act which
Congress is expected shortly to pass
extending the age limits of the selec
tive draft.
'State headquarters, local boards and
other officials in the various states
have been advised to hold themselves
in readiness to proceed promptly with
their work as soon as Congress has
acted and the President by proclama
tion has fixed the date of registration.
Appeal Made for Team Work.
'Until the leclslation is actually
passed it cannot be stated with exact
ness of course, what the new age limits
will be, but because of the urgency of
Drive to Start in November; Jewish
League, K. C. and Salvation
Army to Appeal Later.
NEW YORK, Aug. 15. The week of
November 11 has" been set for the great
union war fund drive to raise $133,500,-
000 for war work of the T. M. C. A.
the Y. W. C. A., the War Camp Com
munity Service and the American
Library Association, according to an
announcement made here tonight by
representatives of the four organiza
tions.
The T. M. C. A. will receive $100,
000,000 from the fund, the T. W. C. A.
$15,000,000; the War Camp Community
Service $15,000,000, and the Library As
sociation $3,500,000.
The Knights of Columbus, the Jew
ish Welfare League and the Salvation
Army, the only other three war relief
organizations recognized by the Gov
ernment, will be asked to join in i
similar campaign to be launched in
January, 1919. The plan to combine
the seven appeals in two campaigns
is said to have the sanction of Presl
dent Wilson and Secretary of War
Baker.
(Concluded on Page 2, Column 3.)
POTATOES TAKE BIG JUMP
Food Price Figures Show Advance
of 6 6 Per Cent in Past Five Years.
. WASHINGTON, Aug. 15. iood price
figures made public today by the Bu
reau of Labor Statistics show further
increases in June, the greatest advance
being 32 per cent for potatoes. An
average increase of 7 per cent in food
prices is shown for the year ended
June 15, the greatest among 23 articles
listed being 35 per cent for round steak.
Although the price of flour declined 17
per cent during the year, bread in
creased 2 per cent.
During the five-year period ended
June 1 last food prices showed an aver
age increase of 66 per cent.
NEW SNOW ON MT. SHASTA
Storm Extends Below Timber Line
and High South Wind Prevails.
SISSON, Cal., Aug. 15. (Special.)
Eight inches of now covered -Mount
Shasta yesterday, and this morning it
was found that there were four Inches
of snow below the timber line. Mount
Eddy also got four inches of snow.
The south wind, which blew at a rate
of, 62 miles an hour on Mount Eddy,
caused the temperature to drop to 32
degrees. A heavy rain swept Northern
California . from Delta northward. A
light rain was general throughout
Shasta County yesterday and Indica
tions tonight were for more rain.
Record Action in Fourth
Drive Promised..
QUOTA ESTIMATE $40,000,000
Short, Sharp and Effective
Campaign Planned.
CRUSADERS ARE C0NFIDEN
Committee in Charge Believes Re
sponse of Oregon People Will Be
Such as to Meet Require
ments at Opening.
AURORA BOREALIS ACTIVE
Telegraph Service Hampered by Po
lar Phenomenon.
NEW YORK, Aug. 15. Telegraph
wire service in a large area In the
East and West was hampered today
by the phenomenon known as the
aurora borealls.
First Vice-President Atkins, of the
Western Union Company, said cable
and land lines were affected, service
being intermittently interrupted.
Through voluntary subscriptions, Ed
ward Cookinerham. state chairman, and
his efficient co-workers are hopeful o
completing Oregon's auota of the
fourth liberty loan in record time. Sub
scriptions to the loan In this state will
be listed during what will be designat
ed "voluntary declaration week," imme
diately preceding the opening of the
bond campaign, September 28.
The members of the committee confi
dently believe that the response of Ore
eron people on this occasion will be
sufficient to meet the state's quota,
possibly on the first day, certainly in
the first week of the. three weeks' cam
paign that has beenJ decided upon by
Secretary McAdoo.
This was one of the conclusions
reached yesterday at an allrday con
ference of liberty loan workers at the
Multnomah Hotel. Present at the meet
ing were the county managers of near
ly every county In the state and mem
bers of the executive committee.
Quota of 940,000,000 Expected.
At the outset Mr. Cookingham an
nounced that, aside from being notified
that the campaign would begin Sep
ember 2S and that the bonds would
bear 44 per cent interest, he had re
ceived no information from Washing
ton or San Francisco as to the amount
c bonds to be-sold or:what Oregon's
quota would be. He said, he antici
pated a National Issue of $6,000,000,000,
which, bcied on bank deposits, would
make this state's share approximately
40.000,000.
The voluntary subscription plan was
submitted by Robert E. Smith, state
manager, and received the enthusiastic
Indorsement of the various county
chairmen. In the scheme each county
chairman will be held responsible for
the showing made in his respective
county. Minor details of districting
the county and otherwise directing the
campaign will be left to the county or
ganizations. So comprehensive is the
plan that by September 15 the state
headquarters will know how much
every individual in the state is going
to subscribe. .
Mothers' Parade Planned.
Shortly before the bond campaign
opens a day will be designated lor a
(Concluded on Page 2, ColumK 2.)
ONE HUNDRED PER CENT AMERICANS.
Allied , Aviators Spread Destruction
Over Wide Area; Goethe's
House Has Close Call.
GENEVA, Aug. 15. An offici-! dis
patch ' received here from Frankfort,
Germany, says tha Monday morning
at 9 o'clock that city was attacked by
allied aviators who dropped 26 bom'j,
killing 12 pc-'-.s and Injuring five
others.
Reports frc:.: "isel. however, assert
that the casualties were far more nu
merous.1 These say that a bomb fell in
the crowded Kaiserstrasse, killing many
persons and stopping the streetcars;
that another fell in the middle of the
large station and several in its vicin
ity, while two more fell in the barracks
and still another near Goethe's house,
which was .lama: I.
T; E-sel dispat - says the aerial
attack has increased the panic reigning
in the Rhine towns.
DEPUTY FOND OF' BOOKS
Washington Official Opens Box and
Liquor Shipment Goes Wrong.
TACOMA, Wash., Aug. 13. (Special.)
Whisky shippers from the wet, wet
oasis of Montana to the d: y, dry desert
of Washington did not count upon find
ing a student among the Sheriffs force
of Tacoma, and thus they lost their
good red liquor.
A box marked "books" was shipped to
this city. Deputy Sheriff Sears is a
close student and likes books, espe
cially when they come in boxes with
sawdust about them. He has done
much reading about frieght depots and
so he started an Investigation. He
found 12 volumes of fine bourbon "pub
lished in bond."
Grim Spectacle Afforded
for Germany,
FORCES OF SOVIET ON
Allied Assistance Heartens
Heroic Czecho-Slovaks
in Their Fight.
RUSSIAN MASSES WAKING
FRENCH MINISTER IS DEAD
31. Albert Metin Apoplexy Victim at
American Pacific Port.
A PACIFIC PORT. Aug. 15. Albert
Metin, former Minister of Labor In
France and Minister of Blockade, died
here tonight from a stroke of apoplexy.
M.' Metin arrived here only today with
General Paul Gerald Pau. noted French
military leader, and party. Elaborate
entertainment had been planned for
them.
News of. Teuton Defeats in
France Stirs Peasants to
Anti-Hun Action.
28 HUN PLANES DOWNED
British Lose 15 Machines Darlnc
Day's Fighting in France.
LONDON. Aug. 15. Twenty-two Ger
man airplanes were destroyed and six
driven down out of control yesterday,
according to the official communication
on aerial operations issued tonight.
Fifteen British airplanes are missing
as a result of the air combat.
BOMBS DROPPED ON PARIS
Huns Soar Over French Capital, but
Few Casualties Are Reported.
PARIS, Aug. 16. Several bombs were
dropped in the TParls region late last
night by German airplanes, says an of
ficial statement Issued early today.
There were only a few victims.
NDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Weather.
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature.
67
degrees; minimum, 56 degrees.
TODAY'S Showers; gentle southwesterly
winas.
War.
Germans retreat to new positions. Page 1.
Penlstone survivors say ship sunk without
warning. Page 3.
Official casualty list. Page 2.
Rout of Bolshevik! seems near. Page 1.
British forces enter Caucasus. Page 2.
German officers' morale breaking. Page 1.
Air raids terrorize Rhine towns. Page 1.
Kaiser's dentist predicts revolt. Page 4.
General March wants 3.200,000 men for
France ere July. Page 8.
Amiens, dead city of Picardy, is coming to
me. rage .
Foreign.
Harden attacks Prussian policy. Page 3.
National.
Thirteen million men to register for draft
next month. Page 1.
nterest rate cut to help move crops. Page 4.
Drive t" raise $133,500,000 for war work set
for November. Page 1.
U. S. joins Britain In oil protest to Mexico.
Page 6.
Tax bill still short of eight billion. Page 6.
Iomestie.
Silver price for world fixed. Page 5.
German bomb planter who escaped from
U. S. is caught in Spain. Page 5.
Pacific Northwettt.
Seventy-five Clackamas men called for serv
ice. Page 5.
Sports.
Portland Gun Club to hold shoot September
1 and 2. Page 12.
Football prospects In city schools are in
doubt. Page 12.
Bobby Evans wins plea for furlough to put
on benefit show here. Page 12.
Multnomah Club and Navy swimmers to hold
big meet here. Page 12.
Commercial and Marine.
Enlarged use of mohair as substitute for
wool. Page 17.
Corn advances at Chicago on further news
of crop damage. Page 17.
With firmer money rats trading In stocks
U restricted. Page 17.
Port of Portland to build new 10,000-ton
capacity coal dock. ' Page 11.
Portland and Vicinity.
Fourth liberty loan campaigners again hope
to make Oregon first. Page 1.
Advisory committee of War Industries
Board named. Page l.
Arrangements for great G. A. R. parade
are completed and approved. Page 6.
Changes in school administration urged by
County Superintendent. Page 7.
Colonel Brfce P. Dlsque announces members
of Council to adjust differences. Page 7.
Draft boards face shortage of men. Page 13.
Three hundred Oregon boys arrive at Benson
Polytechnic School. Page 5.
Portland to fight electricity rise. Page 10.
Ship magnate- in Portland. Page 10.
Spruce by-products to be sold In East.
Page 13. i
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L.jtA jVealher report, dau and forecast, Fae 11.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 15. The
march of events in Russia from news
received today seems to be rapidly as
suming the proportions of a rout of
the Bolsheviki and of a nature to
bring dismay to Germany.
With allied troops rapidly moving
south from Archangel, forces of Brit
ish, French, Japanese and American
troops at Vladivostok and operating
to the westward, and a British force
at Baku, the Czecho-Slovaks have
taken new heart in their heroic fight
against the Germans and Austrians.
Allies Reach Paberespskaia.
Late dispatches today recorded the
advance of the allied troops from
Archangel to Paberespskaia, 100 miles
south, on the road to Vologda.
The Bolsheviki are retreating and
were reported committing every known
atrocity upon the civilian population
which openly espoused the cause of
the allies.
The Bolsheviki throughout Russia
are reported not only fleeing the ad
vancing allies, but the newly aroused
Russians who have learned that the
allies are not beaten on the west front,
as the Germans and Bolsheviki have
been persistently preaching.
Masses Arm Again.
As the real news reaches the great
mass of the people the men are re
ported taking up the arms that they
carried home with them when they
were disbanded after the debacle of
Brest-Litovsk.
Reports, official and otherwise, from
all parts of Russia indicate the news
of the approach of the allies spreading
throughout the country and that peas
ants are flocking to the standards of
any group openly anti-German and
anti-Bolshevik.
Relief Movement Starts.
The landing of American troops at
Vladivostok, announced today by Sec
retary Baker, marks the actual be
ginning of operations from the Si
berian coast to the relief of the
Czecho-Slovaks.
British and French contingents have
been at Vladivostok for several days
and there is reason to believe that the
Japanese have also landed.
The principal opposition by the Bol
sheviki and the armed German and
Austrian prisoners is on the Siberian
railroad between Lake Baikal and
Vladivostok.
Railroad Mileage Controlled.
All the rest of the line to Moscow
is in the control of the Czecho-Slovak
troops and the loyal Russians and Si
berians. The control of the road from
Vladivostok to Nikolsk, the junction
of the Manchurian Eastern line and
the Siberian road, is in the hands of
the allies.
This permits of striking a blow di
rectly at Lake Baikal, where the op
position is concentrated because the
Manchurian road has been constantly
under guard by the Japanese by ar
rangement with the Chinese govern
ment.
New Road Opens for Allies.
The reported arrival of British
troops at Baku is another feature of
supreme importance to the allies. Not
only does it mean that the German
control of the Baku oil lands and re
fineries is .seriously threatened, but it
opens another possible road into Rus
sia from the south for allied troops to
enter.
LONDON, Aug7T2. The Bolshevik
troops in retreat befove the allied ex
peditionary forces have been stub
bornly resisting and are committing
atrocities on the civilian population as
they retire.
The allied Archangel expeditionary
force has reached Paberespskaia, 100
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