THE MORNING OREGOXIAN WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11. 1918.
ALLIES POUND FOE
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NEW
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French Contine to Advance To
ward St. Quentin, Taking
Town of Hinacourt.
HUN SHOWS NERVOUSNESS
OFFICIAL WAR REPORTS
French.
PARIS, Sept. 10. The French ottl
cial statement tonight reads:
"Further progress has been made by
us between the Somme and the Oise,
despite atnong enemy resistance. We
have passed Hinancourt and repulsed a
counter-attack from Essigny.
"North of the Aisne we repulsed lev
eral counter-attacks In the Laffaux
region."
convoy patrols have been maintained.
Submarines have been sighted and at
tacked and enemy mines cava been
located and destroyed."
British.
Civilians In -Villages In Rear of Cer.
man Lines Are Ruthlessly Forced
From Their Homes British
Gain Despite Hard Rains.
Cntlnoert From First Page.
posts have been established well to
the eastward of the former front. In
the same general locality the British
forward movement continued today.
The Germans delivered a number of
counter strokes, but all except one
broke down
Heavy artillery firing Is reported, es
pecially from the German big guns in
the Scarpe Valley.
British troops now have drawn their
lines closer about Lens.
The British line northeast of NIeppe,
In the Lys salient, was advanced during
the night and the British positions in
the Ploegsteert region were improved
Kemmel is under fire from the enemy
funs.
North of La Bassee the Germans
have made three attacks on the British
posts, but were repulsed with heavy
losses. '
PARIS. Sept. 10. The Belgian official
communication covering operations on
Sunday and Sunday night follows:
"Our troops enlarged on their suc
cesses obtained on August 23 on other
ides of the Steenstraete-Dixmude road
on a front of about 2000 meters and
penetrated the first enemy lines to a
depth of on kilometer, which we main
tained. Valuable Ground Gained.
To the southwest of St. Julien out
detachments penetrated by a surprise
attack into the first position of the ene
my on a front of 500 meters, which
was consolidated.
"These new successes bring into out
hands very advantageous positions."
: SIXTEEN MINERS KILLED
LONDON". Sept. 10. Field Marshal
Haig'i official report tonight follows:
"Except for local fighting in the
Epehy and Gouseaucourt sectors In
which we secured prisoners, there i
nothing of special interest to report
from the battle front north of the
Scarpe.
"On the Lys front our patrols have
made slight progress northeast of
Neuve Chapelle and west of Armen-
tieres.
"Stormy weather continues.1
The text of the British statement on
aerial operations reads:
"The operations by royal air force
contingents working with the navy
during the period from the 1st to the
7th of September have been consider
ably hampered by unsuitable weather
conditions.
"Submarine shelters and workshops
at the Bruges docks have been at
tacked on four occasions, direct hits
being obtained. The Ostend docks and
the coastal motor-boat depot at Blank
enberge also were attacked with good
results'and a large fire was started.
"Enemy minesweepers also were
harassed with bombs and machine gun
fire. More than 14 tons of bombs were
dropped by our day bombing squad
rons, one machine failing to return.
"In engagements with hostile air
craft ten machines have been brought
down and nine driven down out of
control. Three of our machines are
missing.
"In home waters our submarine and
- German.
BERLIN via London. Sept. 10. "Re
newed British attacks south of the
Peronne-Cambra'l road and French par
tial attacks on both sides of the Ham
St. Quentin road have been repulsed."
says the German official communica
tion Issued this evening.
"There have been local engagements
on the Ailette."
The text of the day statement reads:
"During pantlal attacks made by the
enemy north of Merckem and north
east of Ypres minor trench sections
remained in his hands.
"On both sides of the Peronne
Cambrai road the English continued
their attack. . Th main thrust was
directed against Gouxeaucourt and
Epehy. The enemy was repulsed.
"Fresh enemy attacks delivered In
the evening from Havrincourt wood
and south of the Peronne-Cambral road
also failed.
"There was partial fighting In Hoi
non wood and on the Ham-St. Quentin
road.
"Our advanced troops which were
withdrawn Sunday night from th
Crozat canal were In touch yesterday
with weak enemy reconnoitering de
tachments west of the Essigny
Vendeuil lines.
"There were pantlal fights south of
the river Oise.
"North of Ailette Elver there was
artillery activity.
Between the Ailette and the Aisn
the artillery fighting increased to
ward the afternoon to great strength,
Violent and repeated enemy attack
lasting until evening broke dow
Brandenburg grenadiers especially dis
tinguished themselves in defense.
'Between the Aisne and the vesl
rivers we repulsed French advances.
There was successful enterprises of
our own to the east of Rheims, to th
south of Parroy and on the Doller.
TAX BILL CRITICS
WILL VOTE FOR IT
Important War Measure Under
Attack by Members of Ways
and Means. Committee.
L0NGW0RTH FAVORS RICH
75,000 HONS TAKEN
British Make Fine Record
Last Four Weeks.
in
ARMY PRAISED BY HAIG
LOADED CAGE DROPS GOO FEET IN
SHAFT IN'EAR AAIJIO.
Aerldeat Due to Breaking of Cablet
Bodies Frightfully Mangled and
Difficult ie Identify.
NANAIMO, B. C. Sept. 10. Sixteen
miners, employed by the Western Fuel
Company in No. 1 and Protecting Island
Mines were instantly killed shortly
after 7 o clock this morning when the
steel cable attached to the cage in
which they were being lowered dowx
Protection Island shaft broke.
The cage, released from its support.
plunged to the bottom of the shaft, ap
proximately 600 feet. It struck the
loading landing, constructed of 12-inch
timbers, through which it crashed but
little checked and finally rested 50
feet lower on an abandoned level.
The bodies of the 16 men were ter
ribly mangled and were recognizable
only by some article of clothing or the
tally which the miner places on a car
of coal he has loaded.
MAIL FRAUDS PUNISHED
Montana Brokers Sentenced to Fed
eral Penitentiary.
SAN FRANCISCO. Sept. 10. Sentence
of 13 months in the Federal Peniten
tiary at Leavenworth, Kan, and a fine
of J4113 imposed on R, R Sidebotham
and J. G. O. Wilmot. of Great Falls,
Mont., for frauds committed through
the mails was upheld by the United
states Circuit Court of Appeals here
today.
Sidebotham and Wilmot were officials
In the Northwestern Trustee Company,
which they founded to handle fiscal
transactions and real estate. Accord
ing to the evidence they represented
that the company van capitalized at
1500.000 and solicited others to secure
an Interest in the firm on claims that
they could not substantiate regarding
vais aiiegea capitalization.
Shelbnrn Boy Is Wounded.
ALBANY. Or., Sept. 10. (Special.)
Mr. and Mrs. John Blno, of Shejburn,
receiven wora today that their son.
r rank Blno. was severely wounded in
-' - action on August 1. He volunteered
' August 3 of last year and enlisted in
Company F. Third Oregon. With that
regiment he went to France. The young
man's father is a native of Austria, but
a naturalized citizen. Frank Bino has
a brother in the tervice.
Astoria's Schools Growing.
ASTORIA. Or.. Sept. 10. (Special.)
The attendance of pupils on the opening
day of the city schools for the Fall
t'rm was 20S0, or 396 more than on the
opening day a year ago.
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Field Marshal Issues Order of Day
in Which He Congratulates Mag
nificent Showing: Made by Men
During Present Offensive.
matter and that It will be a subject
of extended discussion is regarded as
certain. Other Pacific Coast bankers
who were present at the meeting here
also will be in attendance at Chicago.
LONDON, Sept. 10. The capture by
the British of 75,000 prisoners and 750
guns in four weeks is announced by
Field Marshal halg in an order of the
day- . ,.
The text of tne Field Marshal s or
der of the day reads:
"One month has now passed since
the British armies having successfully
withstood all the attacks of the enemy
once more took the offensive in their
turn. In that short space of time, by a
series of brilliant and skillfully ex
ecuted actions, we have repeatedly de
feated the German armies, whose vast
ly superior numbers compelled our re
treat last Spring. What has happened
on the British front has happened also
on the front of our allies.
Troops Courage Praised.
Less than six months after the
lannphinir of the great German offen
sive which was to have cut the allied
front in two the allied armies every
where today are advancing victoriously
side by side over the -same battle
field, on which, by ,the courage and
steadfastness of their defense, they
hrnkn the enemy's assaults. .
"Yet more has been done. Already
we have pressed beyond our old battle
iini.a of 1917 and have made a wide
breach in the enemy's strongest de
"In this glorious accomplishment all
ranks arms and services of the British
armies in France have borne their part
in the most worthy ana nonoraDie
ma nnpr.
"The capture of 75.000 prisoners ana
n o-,in in the course of four weeks'
fighting speaks for the magnitude of
your efforts and the magnificence of
your achievement.
All Ranks Landed.
-rv thanks are due to all ranks
nt the fiirhtiner forces for tneir in
rinmitahle sDirit in defense and their
boldness in attack, to all commanders
and their staff officers under wnose
able direction such great results have
heen attained, and also to all those
whose unsparing labors behind the
actual fighting line have contributed
essentially to the common cause. To
have commanded this splendid army,
which at a time of grave crisis has so
nobly. done its duty, fills me with pride.
"We have passed through many dark
days together. Please God, these never
will return. The enemy has now spent
his effort and we rely confidently upon
each one of you to turn to full ad
vantage the opportunity your skill,
courage and resolution have created."
GOLD PRODUCTION LESS
DECLIKE IX OUTPUT THIS YEAR TO
REACH S 12,000,000.
SUIT IS HELD "SHAM
S. Benson Takes Exceptions to State'
vent in Complaint-
Simon Benson, chairman of the State
Highway Commission, named as one of
the defendants in the recent suit file-
by Nora Withrow against the Mult
nomah County Commissioners an
others, yesterday filed a motion in th
Circuit Court asking that a part of the
complaint filed by Mrs. Withrow be
stricken from the records.
That part of the complaint which at
tempts to make light of Mr. Benson
part In the building of the Vista House,
at Crown Point on the Columbia Rive
Highway, is declared to be "a sham,
frivolous and irrelevant."
Deputy District Attorney Hammers
ley is making an Investigation of the
charges contained in the suit prepara
tory to filing an answer in behalf
Multnomah County. This answer will
be filed some time next week, he said.
Portland Buktn to Attend National
Conference at Chicago Relief
for Producers to Be Urged.
W N. liwric. chairman of the Ore
eon Bureau or .Mines ana uewwgy
i-nmmission. also a member of the pub
licity committee of the American gold
conference, has returned from bpoKane.
where he attended the international
crn 1 H tir fprPTli'P
The decline or mo prraucuou
throughout the world since lsio Has
h.n 39. 000.000." said Mr. Lawrie.
Ren ii non tne estimate or tne
TTnited States Geological feurvey tor
th. first six months of tne year
will show a decline of 12,000,000 from
1917. ...
rt is our oninion tnat renei ar
fnrded should be by adjusting the dif
ference in cost of producing tne goia
mince, which has exceeded the fixed
rrice of $20.67, by moDUlzing laDon to
Insure full-time operation.
At the meeting Ol me American
Rankers' Association, which will meet
a cbicaeo September 23-27. the Ore
gon Bankers' Association will be rep
resented by its president, E. G. Craw
ford, vice-president of the United
States National Bank; J. L. Hartman,
secretary of the Hartman & Thomp
son Bank, and N. U. Carpenter, of the
Citizens' Bank. Mr. Crawford was
chairman of the Pacific Coast Bank
ers' conference, the first conference of
bankers In the United States to take
action upon the movement to stimu
late gold production.
Resolutions adopted at the Portland
meeti-.iK last week were addressed to
th. - American Bankers' .Association.
WOMAN MAY BE INSANE
Mrs. Kuhnhausen Said to Have Tried
to Chase Son Cp Phone Pole.
Mrs. Marie Kuhnhausen, 1553 East
Flanders street, was arrested yesterday
and held pending Investigation of her
sanity, as a result of charges that she
had chased her 6-year-old son up
telephone pole and then tried to climb
the pole after him.
The police were notified of the wo
man's actions by her neighbors. The
boy, the police say, had been hidden
a neighbor's house by the time patrol
men arrived. The police decided not to
arrest the mother until the complain
ants obtained a warrant and went back
to headquarters.
Mrs. Kuhnhausen followed the police
to the station, where she was taken in
custody and held in the County JaiL
SWEDE IN FEDERAL TOILS
Theodore Olson Charged 'With Mak
ing Seditions Remarks.
Theodore Olson, a native of Sweden,
was taken into custody by Federal of
ficials yesterday. Information has
been filed against Olson by Assistant
United States District Attorney Gold
stein, charging the defendant with
having made seditious remarks.
Olson, it Is alleged, declared the
financial Interests of the United States
are responsible for this Nation's par.
tlcipation in the European war; that
he was glad he did not have to go to
war. as he was a subject of Sweden
and that he did not care if this Gov
ernment should deport him, as this
was "not a free country, anyway," be
cause of the selective service law.
G0MPERS PLEDGES LABOR
American Workers to Stick Through
War to Victorious End.
LONDON. Sept. 10. (Special.)
America's delay in entering the war
was defended by Samuel Gompers, head
of the American Federation of Labor,
in an address at the American Lunch
eon Club today.
Mr. Gompers said he was one of those
who was impatient during the period
while America was maintaining neu
trality, but that he had found that "the
wisdom of the President of the United
States far outbalanced the judgment
of all else."
Mr. Gompers pledged American labor
to stick through the war to a victo
rious end.
The Dalles Woman Passes.
Mrs. Rachel C. Wood, 78, a resident of
The Dalles, died at 9:30 o clock last
night at the home of her daughter.
Mrs. L. J. Davis, 741 East Madison
street, where she had been visiting for
some time. Death was due to advanced
age. Mrs. Wood is survived by three
children: Mrs. Davis, of Portland; John
Wood, Spokane, and W. A, Wood. The
Dalles. The body will be shipped to
The Dalles and the funeral will be held
there.
Persons of Wealth Declared Levied
on to "Absolute liimlt" Asser
tion Made War Will Be Fought
to Military Decision.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 10. Debate on
the war revenue bill continued in th
House with members of the ways and
means committee delivering prepared
speeches in which they criticised some
features of the measure, but promised
to vote for it on final passage.
Leaders plan to end general discus
sion Thursday and take up the bill Frt
day for amendments.
In the meantime, the ways and means
committee will consider special amend
ments to facilitate the sale of liberty
bonds, which were suggested today by
tne xreasury department.
In the Senate finance committee,
Senators criticised the excess profits
rates. The effect of prohibition legis
lation also was brought up.
Representative Hull told the House
the Nation's tax budget after the war
would be 4,000,000,000 annually. He
urged consumption levies on sugar,
coffee, tea, silk and rubber.
Declaring that wealthy persons are
taxed to "the absolute limit" by the
bill. Representative Longworth said
that for future increased revenue, taxes
on necessary articles of daily consump
tion must be resorted to. He predicted
that these taxes may have to be im
posed sooner than Congress had ex
pected because of pending war time
prohibition legislation, which, he esti
mated, would reduce Federal revenue
by $1,500,000,000.
Mr. Longworth also said that the
President's order stopping the manu
facture of beer after December 1 would
cause a loss of $500,000,000 in revenue.
"Enormous waste," of Government
expenditures was charged by Kepresen
tative Green, who like Mr. Longworth,
deplored failure to increase tariff rates.
Representative Hull said "it is utter
ly lutiie to attempt to obtain any
considerable revenues from tariff in
creases. "This bill," he said, "will offer
real test of patriotism. The people
will patriotically and unflinchingly
shoulder this war tax burden."
In this connection, the Tennessee
representative said the war will be
fought to a military decision, declar
ing that "peace by negotiation" is ira
possible because it requires negotia
tions witn "rascals, villains, freeboot
ers, highwaymen and desperadoes."
MEDFORD IS SHOCKED
NEWS OF DEATH OF THREES BOYS
IJT FRA.ME RECEIVED.
Lester Jacobs and Bay Hoses Killed la
Action Aviator Barber Lost Be
hind German Lines.
MEDFORD. Or, Sept 10 (Sneclal.)
iueaiord had a day of war shocks
today. First came a telegram from
Haior-General Barnett. of the Marina
corps, to Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Jacobs.
former residents of Shedd, Or, telling
them that their son. Private Lester
ii. Jacobs, is years old. was killed In
battle on July 19 by an enemy shell
in France.
Following on this came the name nf
Ray H. Moses. 21 years old. son of
feugene Moses, of Jacksonville, and
member of the Second Engineers, in
the official list of killed in battle in
t rance on July 1.
Then came the announcement In a
etter written in France on Autrust ia
by a fellow Lieutenant in his aviation
squadron, relating that on August 11
Lieutenant Newell Barber, 20 years old
son of Dr. and Mrs. M. C Barber of
Medford. met -with an accident to his
plane while on a bombing expedition
over the enemy's lines. Since that time
nothing had been heard from him up
to the time the letter was written.
Lieutenant Barber was one of the most
popular young men of Medford, having
enlisted in the aviation service, in
which he made brilliant pro&rress.
shortly after his graduation from high
scnooi. jae naa seen in France since
March 3.
The death of Lester Jacobs, who also
w
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was popular, is much deplored. He was
illed by shell fire. He enlisted in tne
Marine Corps on June. 1917, when only
18 years old.
Ray Moses, who was killed July 1,
was not well known here as he was a
resident of Grangeville, Idaho, and a
graduate of the high school of that
city when he enlisted in the Engineers.
Party Seeks New Arctio Lands.
AN ALASKAN PORT, Sept, 10. Five
men of the exploring expedition of
Viljhalmur Stefansson recently landed
on the Arctic ice pack north of Alaska
with the intention of drifting west to
ward Siberia in search of new lands,
according to officers of a Stefansson
boat which arrived here today, bound
outside from the Far North. They ex
pect to live on the ice and later land
on the Northern Siberian Coast. The
land they seek is supposed to lie be
tween Prince Patrickland and Nord
snakolld Sea.
French Deputy Dies From Wounds.
WITH THE FRENCH ARMT IN
FRANCE, Sept. 10. (Havas.) Gaston
Dumcsnil, member of the French
Chamber of Deputies, died early to
day in a hospital near the front. Short
ly before his death. Deputy Dumesnll
was decorated with the cross of the
legion of honor. Deputy Abel Ferrey.
who was wounded at the same time,
was made a chevalier of the legion
of honor by the Premier. Deputy
Dumesnil is the 13th Deputy to be
killed at the front.
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Cotton Thread to Be limited.
WASHINGTON, ' Sept. 10. Jlanufae
turers of cotton thread were directed
by the war industries board to limit
their output of white thread to 14 sizes,
of black to seven, and of colored to one.
with all spools of ths small practical
diameter for 200 yards.
Herbert Kanfman, Author, Named.
WASHINGTON, Sept 10. Herbert
Kaufman, an author and editor of New
York, has been appointed as a special
assistant to the secretary of the In
terior.
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