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m ii Hi VOL. L.VIII. NO. 18,018. PORTLAND, OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 23, 1918. PRICE FIVE CENTS. FUE FLEES III Ml AS FREHGH STRIKE Poilus Sweep on 7 Miles, Menacing Entire Line. liDYDN'S FALL IS IMMINEN Pursuing Cavalry in Divette Valley Rush Enemy Rear Guards Closely. CAPTURED HUNS NUMEROUS More Than 200 Cannon and Much Material Seized in Two Days' Fighting. WITH THE FRENCH ARMY IN FRANCE, Aug. 22. (By the Asso ciated Press.) The retreating of the Germans before the third and tenth French armies continues today with increased speed over a large part of the batUe front and in -ome cases in disorder. From the heights of Le Plemont on the Oise front the French troops are now watching the Germans in their retreat toward the north. General Humbert's army has made a great advance between the Hatz and the Oise rivers and reached the Ailette River. French military men cay this makes the early fall of the town of Noyon inevitable. Councy Forest Neared. General Mangin's men are ap proaching the Councy Forest and are nearly on the line held in April along the river Ailette. They also have widened their hold on the Oise to Bretigny, midway between Noyon and Chauny. The French advance toward the roads leading. to Chauny adds another menace to their line of retirement and explains the acceleration of the ene my's retreat. Bourignon, St. Paul Au Bois and Quincy fell ino the hands of the French today, giving them com-; mand of the valley of the Ailette from the region of Coucy-Le-Chateau to the Oise. Enemy Is Hard Pressed." General Humbert's .troops also are pressing the enemy vigorously. Hav ing occupied the height of Plemont, just south of Lassigny, which they surrounded yesterday, they have cap tured Thiescourt, which completes Ihe conquest of the group of hills known as the Thiescourt massif. The enemy now has but a precarious hold on the valley of the Divette River, in whioh French cavalry is now operat ing. Several thousand prisoners; have been taken since Wednes Jay .evening, and trophies in such great quantities that it has been impossible thus far to count also have been captured. General Mangir's troops advanced seven miles during the night and this morning were rushing the enemy's rearguard so energetically that the retiring columns were thrown into confusion. French Fight Gloriously. The capture of Lassigny made the position on Le Plemont untenable, as it was turned from the north, and Gen eral Humbert's army last night took the position, writing one of the' most glorious pages in French history. PARIS Aug. 22 Numerous vil lages running northwest of Soissons have been taken by the French, whose drive along the whole front continues, according to the War Office announce ment tonighi. The most important of the places captured is Pommiers.- French troops have crossed the Ailette River between' Guny -and Champs to the north of Coucy-Le-Chateau, according to advices from the front which state that the French have reached the Oise Can:.fc between Varennes and Morlincourt, to the east f Noyon. IT ti n Thrnvn in fVlnfiiBinn Upon the Ailette front the sudden attack of the French caused the re treat of a division of German reserves which had been preparing for a coun ter blow. In its retreat it precipitated a panic in the ranks of a second divis ion of reserves which had been Intend ed to support the first division't as saults. Concerning today's victorious opera- (Continued on Pax 4, Column 3. FOE PRESS BEGINS TO SEE U. S. ARMY PAPERS ADMIT ACCURACY BAKER'S FIGURES. OF Germans Comfort Themselves ow With Thought That Only 400,000 Are Yet "In Battle Array." AMSTERDAM. Aug. 22. (By the As sociated Press.) At last the German press has given up struggling against the truth. In a short notice, which a.p pears In virtually all the papers, the Identical nature of which suggests of ficial inspiration, the reluctant admis sion is made that Secretary Baker's figures regarding the strength of the American forces in France are about correct. . . The papers now comfort' themselves with the thought that of the 1,300,000 or more. Americans, only 400,000 are actually In battle array, with 300,000 behind the front, and that the remain Ing 600.000 are etappen troops engl neers, railway men and general work ers). The Berlin Taegllsche Rundschau adds as its own Information that no more than 150,000 Americans have up to the present time been "noticed" on the Western front The Cologne Volka Zeitung corre spondent pays an Involuntary tribute to the efficacy of the entente pamphlet propaganda carried on by airplanes, savin ar that these pamphlets are so seductively worded that anyone who is not well informred may almost, If not entirely, be persuaded." He therefore calls for a vigorous counter propaganda to 'enlighten doubting spirits in the army. SOLDIER RIDDEN ON RAIL Andrew Koehls, Alleged Pro-Hun Hazed by Slillworkers. MARSHFIELD, Or., Aug. 23. (Spe claL) Andrew Koehls, a soldier sent to Coos Bay to supply the man short age at the Buehner sawmill in North Bend, became known to his companion soldiers, as bordering on the pro-Hun order. As a result, the soldiers gave him a free ride on a 2x4 scantling. The man was placed on the rail at the Buehner mill and carried into town, half a mile distant. An officer of the barracks discovered the performance and suspended the parade. Koehls last week went to the county seat to obtain naturalization papers and was the only one in 22 applicants who was refused the high privilege. The basing took place after his return from Coquille. PRACTICAL STUDIES URGED Spanish and Portuguese Languages Are Recommended. WASHINGTON", Aug. 22. Superin tendents of city schools and college presidents were called upon today, by P. Claxton, United States Commisi sioner of Education, to modify their curricula so as "to equip their pupils with that body and kind of knowledge which will be mosr helpful to them whether directly engaged, in the con duct of foreign business or in the in telligent exercise of their vote on mat tera of foreign policy." Teaching of the Spanish and Portu guese languages is specifically recom mended by the Commissioner as a means of bringing about "true. Pan America ism." NEW BUTTONS ARE COMING Fourth Liberty Loan Emblems Are Unlike Others. SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 22. Approx- mately 200,000 buttons for the fourth liberty loan were received here today, according to liberty loan headquarters. The Aiftton is smaller than previous liberty loan buttons. It shows the liberty loan flag with four bars. The ield is blue and the words, "Fourth Liberty Loan," are printed in white. It is expected that over 1,500,000 of these buttons will be distributed in the Twelfth Federal Reserve District. WAR SERVICE APPRECIATED Senate Resolution Pays Tribute to Army and Navy Men. WASHINGTON, Aug. 22. Gratitude of Congress to men In the Army and Navy for their efforts in the war is exrressed by a resolution by Senator Jones, of New Mexico, adopted today by the Senate. As a special tribute to the men who have died for trfeir country the Sen ators In voting remained standing for one minute. AVIATOR'S FALL IS FATAL Lieutenant Blair Thaw, of Pitts burg, Killed in France. ' WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN FRANCE. Aug. 22. (By the Associated Press.) Lieutenant Blair Thaw, of Plrtsburg, a member of the American aviation service, was killed Sunday eve ning when his airplane fell as a result of engine trouble. CARTRIDGE JAAKERS LOYAL More Than SOOO Take Vow Sever to Stop Working TlllWar Is Won. WASHINGTON. Aug. 22. A vow to stand by the American soldiers in France until the very end and never to stop working until the fighting is over has been taken by 3300 employes of the Western Cartridge Company at East Alton, 111, I G. A. R. CALLS FOR HARD FIGHT ON HUN Support to Nation Conflict Pledged. in OMAHA MAN NEW COMMANDER C. E. 'Adams' Election to Post Is Unanimous. MOTION PICTURE ATTACKED Filmed Representation of South After War Is Held to Be Defense of Mob Law Junking of Far-' ra gat's Flagship Opposed. EVENTS OF CLOSING DAY OF (. GRAND ARMY ENCAMP MENT. Delegates' excursion to Bonne ville, via steamer and ColumbiS. River Highway. Steamers leave foot of Alder street at 7:30 A. M. Autos assemble at Multnomah Hotel at 8:30. For G. A. R. and auxiliary delegates only. Broadside resolutions supporting the justice of America's cause, with reso lutions condemning the burial of alien enemy dead in the Union cemetery at Chattanooga, the junking of Admiral Farragut's old flagship, and the exhi bition of a noted historical motion pic ture drama, marked the closing ses sions of the 62d annual encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic, held yesterday afternoon. C. E. Adams, of Omaha, Neb, late of the Fifth Wisconsin Light Artillery, was unanimously chosen commander- in-chief, and has entered upon his duties as successor to Orlando A. Somers, who opened and conduoted the present en campment. The second honor within the gift of the Grand Army came without contest to J. G. Chambers, of Portland, Or, who was elected by acclamation to the post of senior vice -commander -In -chief. Senior Vice-Commander Chambers, who succeeds John L. Clem, of Atlanta, Ga, served with the 40th Indiana Volunteer Infantry. Hard Withdraws Name. In the election of commander-in- chief, F. H. Hurd, of Seattle, past com mander of the Department of Washing ton and Alaska, withdrew before the manifest numerical strength of the Ne- braskan. Contests for other National offices were not close. Charles H. Haber, of ' National Sol diers' Home. Virginia, was chosen junior vlce-commander-ln-chlef, de feating William Butler, of Longmont, Colo., by a vote of 40S to 14S. C. M. Ferrin, of Essex Junction, Vt., was elected surgeon-general, defeating H. J. Rowe, of Ca-sselton. N. D.. and H. R. Bird, of Madison, Wis., by the (Concluded on Page 6, Column 1.) WHAT Aor- Goy TO IAAfZ.1 youix srAV 4t0 &ooer. DRAFTING OF IDLE ACRES DEMANDED NATIOX-WIDE MOVE LAUNCHED TO RECLAIM BARREN LANDS. Action Taken at San Francisco in Harmony With Plans Outlined ' ( by Secretary Lane. . SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 22. A Na tion-wlde movement for the reclama tion of arid and swamp lands and a plan for the settlement thereon of re turned soldiers and persons thrown out of employment in war industries after the war, as outlined in the let ters of Franklin K. Lane, Secretary of the Interior, to President Wilson re cently, was launched here today at a conference called by Director Charles C. Moore, of the State Council of De fense. Resolutions Indorsing the Lane plan were adopted and Professor Frank Adams, of the University of California, was delegated to make a tour of the states west of the Rocky Mountains, together with Professor H. D. Scud- der, of the Oregon Agricultural Col lege, and E. W. Barr, representing the Washington State Land Settlement Board, for the purpose of arousing those states to the need for action in providing increased acreage for agri cultural purposes. The three delegates from the Coast states will go to Los Angeles tomor row, where they will meet with lead ing commercial bodies. Among those who spoke were B. F. Benson, Commissioner of Agriculture, state of Washington; W. H. Crawford. State . Land Commissioner, Oregon; Ralph P. Merritt, Federal Food Com missioner for California; Mortimer Fleishhacker. of the State Land Set tlement Board of California, and rep resentatives of similar boards in Ore gon and Washington. DIVIDED FAMILY REUNITED Seattle Woman Comes to Portland to Recover Son; Gets Husband, Too. Mrs. p. H. Conkle, of Seattle, came to town yesterday to recover her 4-year-old eon and incidentally to have her husband arrested for stealing him.' She not only got her boy back but was reconciled to the father, and the re united family, which included a 3-year-old girl, went away happy together. With the assistance of Deputy Sheriff George Hurlburt the missing husband was found at , a Portland shipyard. Conkle's willingness to take the griev ing mother to her . boy caused . all thoughts of vengeance to pass from her mind, and presently they were smiling at each other as sweetly as on their wedding day.. 100 CANARIES PRESENTED Red Cross Salvage Shop at North Bend Receives Novel Gift. NORTH BEND, Or.. Aug. 22-(Spe-clal.) C. A. Smith, chairman of the local Red Cross chapter, who has a large aviary and raises many canaries annually, has donated 100 young canary songsters to the Red Cross salvage corps of this city. They are being offered at $2.50 each at the shop and many have been sold. The salvage shop was opened re cently under the management of the Federated Women's Clubs of the city and already large amounts of cloth ing, old rubber goods and numerous other articles have been collected. IS THE FIGHTING AGE OF MAN? y0 j DEMOCRATS RESENT VVILSON'SDIGTATION Efforts to Direct Party Selections React. LEADERS FEAR FOR RESULTS Defeat in November Regarded , Not Unlikely. 'STEP-ASIDE' POLICY ROILS Letters Sent Out by Executive Ut terly Destroy Possibility of Tak ing Advantage of "Polltics . Is-Adjourned" -Policy. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, Aug. 22. Democrats in Con gress are visibly disturbed over th doubtful results that have thus far at tended the efforts of , President Wilson to influence, If not absolutely direct. the selection of Senators and Repre sentatives. Their concern is due not entirely to the fear that the party is facing defeat in November, but also to the realiza. tion that they and their party have been placed in an embarrassing post tion even though they win. . Because of the varying attitude of the President in the matter of political activity, the Democrats are finding it difficult to go out on the stump and make speeches in their own behalf. Parry Leaders Fear Defeat. When the President said in - his ppeech to Congress a few weeks ago that "politics is adjourned," a smile of satisfaction and confidence swept over the faces of his party lieutenants. They thought they saw the Republicans dis armed. They thought all they need do thereafter was to stay on the job at Washington and let the campaign take care of itself, for .the people would resent any activity on the part of the Republicans after the President had called off the campaign activities of his own party. They could see an easy victory await ing them in the Fall elections. . They thought, and perhaps with good rea son, that the voters would forget the President's earlier activity in the Wis consin Senatorial election and the ac tivitles of his recognized spokesmen in the elections to fill vacancies In sev eral Congressional districts. Political Slogan Short-Lived. But their confidence and satisfaction were not long-lived. In quick succes sion came the Ford indorsement, the letter urging James Hamilton Lewis to be a candidate in Illinois, the attacks on Representative Huddleston and on Senators Vardaman and Hardwick, and other letters which have not attracted such wide attention, but which are not overlooked in the states in which they have been published. These letters not only destroyed the possibility of taking advantage of the (Concluded on Page 3, Column 1.) ys a , ... - v M STATE TO GUARD ALL FOOD STORES CALIFORNIA TAKES ACTION PROTECT SUPPLIES. TO Burning of $1,000,000 Worth of Goods in Fresno County in 3 Weeks Brings Action. SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 22. (Spe cial.) The director of the State Council of Defense today ordered that armed guards be placed to protect all ware houses, piers, factories and other places in California where foodstuffs are stored. This action was taken following re ports that more than $1,000,000 of es sential food products have been de stroyed by fire in Fresno County in the last three weeks and that numerous fires in Kings County had caused the authorities to ask for military protec tion, while alarming reports from other parts of the state showed increasing losses of foodstuffs by fire. A. letter with full instructions from the State Council of Defense was sent tonight to every county defense chair man in the state directing that he in stantly take steps to carry out the in structions. The order applies not only to public warehouses and depots, but to buildings on farms where food of any kind is stored. Where armed guards are not available for immediate serv ice volunteers are to be called as a patriotic duty. ARCHBISHOP IS VERY LOW Chances for Recovery of Cardinal Farley Slight. MAMARONECK, N. Y., Aug. 22. The condition of Cardinal John J. Farley, archbishop of New York, who is suffer ing from a second attack of pneumonia, at his Summer home here, was said to night by his physicians to be "very critical." The cardinal is.suffering from hypo static pneumonia, said the bulletin, which gave his temperature as 103. He is 76 years old. ' CALIFORNIAN 102 AT DEATH State's Oldest' Native Dies After Brief Illness. MODESTO, Cal., Aug. 22. Soledad Gonzales, said to be the oldest woman native of California, is dead at the age of 102 years at her home rn. Oakdale, near here. She was ill three days, the longest time she was ever confined to her bed in her f long life. Her mother, Justo Larios, died at the age of 120 years at Oakdale 10 years ago. AMERICANS BOMB 0STEND Naval Aviators Drop Explosives on Submarine Bocks, Sims Reports. WASHINGTON, Aug. 22. American naval aviators have conducted a suc cessful bombing expedition at night into enemy territory and dropped a large quantity of explosives on sub marine docks at Ostend, Secretary Dan iels tonight announced. The report of the raid was transmit ted by Vice-Admlral Sims. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 75 degrees; minimum, si degrees. TODAY'S Fair and warmer; gentle west erly winds. . War. Huns flee in disorder from French. Page 1. I British take Albert; Hans retreat. Page 1.1, Freight Transport Cubore reported ton. I doed. page 3. General Malleterre says Germans are pre-1 paring new line of defense. Page 2. German press finally begins to admit size of U. S. Army In France. Page 1. Official casualty! list. Page 2. Foreign. Hlndenburg tries to comfort vanquished troops. Page 3. . Bolsherlkl say they are at war with Amer ica. Page 2. Germany's economlo grip on Sweden broken. Page 2.. National. Million unskilled laborers needed for war work. Page 1. Democrats resent President's attitude. Page 1. Man-pswer debate opens in Congress. Page 4. . United States faces steel shortage. Page S. Eleven - Brigadiers nominated for rank of Major-General. Page 10. Senate aircraft committee reports millions wasted. Page 3. . Domestic. Movement to draft all idle acres in Nation started. Page 1. California takes action to guard food ware houses. Page 1. Idaho and Utah sngar beet growers ac cuse Federal officials. Page 5. Twenty-nine killed, 50 injured in Tyler, Minn., tornado. Page 4. Northwest. Oregon tax estimates, exceed 99,500,000. Page i. It. Reames, Assistant Attorney-General, replies to labor council critics. Page 7. Road to Grassy flats open. Page 12. Road to grassy flats open. Page 12. Sports. June Red. In four heats, wins I5OO0 parse at Poughkeepsie. Page 13. Coast shipyard baseball champions to play champion Atlantic nine. Page 13. Shortage of food In Oregon drives ducks soutn to California, page 13. . Commercial and Marine. Corn weakened at Chicago by profit-taking sales. Page ii. Stock market Is .under pressure and prices close lower, rage ii. Bridge closing to meet with opposition. Page 12. G. A. R. Encampment. G. A. R- resolutions call for finish fight on Hun. rage i. Pennsylvania Club gives luncheon for mem bers ot rensyivania u. a. k. page 6. A. P.. delegates to go to Bonneville by boat and auto today. Page 10. Portland and Vicinity. Thousand children frolic at Peninsula Park. Page iu. Army to require 75,000 officers within year, page 18. Kellaher announces his candidacy for long term only. Page 18. Weather report, data and forecast. Face 17. ALBERT CAPTURED; liSJIIfllFJI British Smash Boche on Ancre-Somme Front ENGLISH GAIN WE MILES Haig's Men Push Swiftly On ward in Fierce Fighting, Gaining All Objectives. BAG OF PRISONERS HEAVY In Drive Between Bray-sur-Somme and Albert 5000 of Enemy Are Seized. WITH THE BRITISH ARMY IN FRANCE, Aug. 22. (By the Asso ciated Press.) On the ground be tween the two points where the Brit ish armies are hammering them and where they are threatened with being left in a pocket the Germans have started retreating. LONDON, Aug. 22. The town of Albert, 18 miles northeast of Amiens, on the Ancre River, has been recap tured by the British, who also have obtained all their objectives in the fighting today between Bray-Sur-Somme and Albert, according to the official communication from Field Marshal Haig tonight. British Forge Ahead. , Over the bix-mile front the British advanced two miles. The text of the British communica tion tonight follows: "In our attacks between Bray-Sur-Somme and Albert we have been com pletely successful, capturing the whole of our objectives at an early hour and advancing two miles on ce front of more than six miles. "We have retaken Albert. "There was considerable resistance at certain points, especially on the slopes north of Bray, the town itself not forming a part of our objectives.- Toll of Prisoners Large. "We have captured over 50C0 pris oners in two days'. "We captured in Albert 14C0 pris oners and a few guns. "In counter-attacks in the Mirau- mont sector the enemy entered our positions, but was driven cut again. Then the. same thing happened north east of Achiet-Le-Grand. Hostile at tacks east of Courcelles and east of Moyenville were also repulsed. "Rv nie-htfall vesterdav our natrols j , jtt I,.-! nl111 ,u"ul: l""'"" uu UB the Ancre river to tre soutn ana soum- (. -f RQ,I,,rl ' " North of the Ancre river our po sitions gained yesterday were main tained against strong hostile counter attacks delivered during the after noon and evening on the Miraumont and Achiet-Le-Grand front. Hostile Strong Point Taken. "The hostile artillery was active throughout the night on- the battle front and this morning fresh hostile s counter-attacks are reported to have ' developed opposite Miraumont and Irles. "Between 2000 and 3000 prisoners and a few guns wtre captured by us in our operations yesterday. "Further progress has been made ' by us to the east and northeast of (Concluded on Paite 4. Column 1.) THE OREGOMA1V TO PUBLISH RUD YARD KIPI.IXG'S " IM PRESSIONS OF AMERI CANS IX FRANCE. Rudyard Kipling, author and word painter of world-wide fame, has written his Impressions of the American troops In France, based on a recent visit which he paid them and on which he spent considerable time in direct asso ciation with them. Kipling's arti cle describing the Americans and their ways of fighting and life in the trenches Is to appear in a select number of American news papers, and in Portland .it will appear only in The Oregonlan. Next Sunday. August 25, Is the publication date f this great feature. The thousands of read ers of The Oregonlan who admire Kipling's work will know how well worth while this article is certain to be. Order your extra copies early. m lot.aJ