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THE MORNING " o VM" 1918. MAPSHOWLXG HOW AMERICANS HAVE ELIMINATED GREAT ST. MIHIEL SALIENT IN BATTLE FRONT AFTER TWO DAYS' FIGHTING AND ALSO SHOWING RELATION OF SALIENT TO REST OF THE BATTLE LINE SB (BIlIiaillllllllllllllllllllllllllllllillEBIlIIS 'THE STORE THA T UNDERSELLS EEC A USE IT SELLS FOR CASH" " HE1Z BELIEVED TO s i i f 3 i f t . 1 I BE NEXT OBJECTIVE -Great German Fortress May Be Encircled by Allies and Isolated. TJIIHIEL VICTORY IMPORTANT strategic Value) of Pershing's Smash ing Offensive Difficult to Over estimate, In the Opinion of Military Observers. TAS-TTINGTON. Sept. 13. Complete elimination of the St. Mihiel salient by General Pershing's Army , and co-operating French forces, many Army offi cials here believe, is only the. entering it edge of operations of far larger scope. Official dispatches were still delayed and the full scope of the victory won fry the Americans in their first inde pendent action could not be gauged. It was regarded as probable, however, that General Pershing's men will press forward to get into touch with the new line the enemy hopes to hold. Until definite word comes as to the line across the mouth of the destroyed salient which the Americans now con trol, officers here. will be unable to form opinions as to the most probable course of future- operations in this theater- There Is a strong belief, however, that the quick reduction of the SL Mi Mel salient will be made the corner stone of a great movement aimed at the Isolating of the German ' fortress of Met, the central buttress of the whole German front from the North Sea to the Swiss border. Strategic Value Great. The strategic Importance of General Pershing's smashing victory hardly can be overestimated, in the opinion of many observers. It is out of all pro portion to the extent of the territory regained or the forces employed, it is said, for the removal of this menace in the" rear of the French citadel of Verdun has released the French armies from that point to Rhelms for active offensive operations. It also has liberated the railway line from Verdun to Commercy. Toul and Nancy, which will be of the ut most value to General Pershing and to the French armies on his left In sup porting future operations along this front. Since the new line across the mouth of the old pocket is far shorter than the old front, French and American troops heretofore held fast to the de fense of the salient are now available for other duty. As the lines were reported tonight, there was nothing to indicate that the American advance had stopped. Foe Announces New Line. . The German official statement was that a new line had been prepared, but the nature of the country where the American troops stood late today In dicated that the German defense post tion must be farther back toward Mti, where better natural obstacles are available. It was expected here that American patrols would push forward to feel out this line before a new advance is un dertaken. The German statement that the sal ient had been evacuated without seri ous interference caused much amuse ment among officers, in view of the number of prisoners captured. It has been estimated that seven di visions of the enemy were in the eal lient, including those standing guard at Its flanks. Probably not more than four divisions have at any time been in the depth of the pocket and of these more than one-fourth have been cap tured. Officers say that a retreat effected at such a cost hardly can be considered s a successful evacuation, and they are inclined to accept the German fctatement as promulgated for home consumption. Facta Bad for Home Consumption. It was said that ior the high com mand to acknowledge that the first American blow had t lotted out in less than two days a salient that had been held for four years, and also cost the Germans more than 12.000 prisoners, in addition to their dead, might further cgitate the German civil population. At the same time it is not doubted that the German leaders expected the stroke and made such preparation as they could toward getting their main forces out of the salient. The swiftness of the American ad vance on the flanks, however, seems to have upset their plans. And it is be lieved here that the figures on war material captured will bear out this view. RAIN ENDS FOREST FIRES o -"V ) rv - . "trt"i?0 W2 XWJ I -TT I o ' -2? I rrc"- M XsYA3(' " i II i , I y V" T I 5 ' M J if x A Special Showing and Sale of hie Bird Underwear Both Billie Burkes and Gowns In Pink or White at Unsurpassed values in this showing of the popular "Blue Bird" night garments Gowns in pink or white crepe in pleasing patterns and daintily trimmed. Three lots at S1.75 S1.98 and $2.25. BLUE BIRD BILLIE BURKES in one piece or the popular two piece, bloomer and jacket combination. Exquisite garments at $1.98. $2.25 up to $3.50. $1.9& $ $3.50 n a m m An Attractive Under pricing of Women's Shoes At $2.95 Fashionable styles in patent colt with cloth or mat kid top. Both button and lace styles, with low or high heels. - Boys' and Girls' School Shoes Good, durable footwear in the best . , leathers and styles. v Boys' in sizes 1 to 6, at $3.00 to $4.50 Little Gents', 10 to 13 '2 $1.98-83.00 Misses', 11 Vi to 2 i . .... $2.50 to $4.50 Child's, 82 to 11, at. . .$2.00 to $3.00 SALIENT WIPED 001 Americans Capture 13,300 In Great Offensive. SEIZED TOWNS UNDAMAGED Yankees Advance Too Fast for Foe to Have Time to Destroy Villages. Length of Front Is Reduced 20 Miles by T. S. Advance. fConttnneJ Frrra Flrct Payfc very smalL Only two of the machines have been destroyed entirely, and in the tank corps the Americans have suffered only four casualties. Not a man has been killed in connection with the operations of the tanks. U. S. Flyers Work Havoc American aviators have been taking la TTpper Map Doable Line Shows Battle Front Prior to American offensive i Broken Line Shows First Day's Gain and Heavy Black Line Shows Where Yankees Ilrvve Yesterday. Lower Map Shows Location of American Offen sive With Relation to. Rest of Battle Front. Shaded rrtlons of Map In dicate Territory Kecovered by Allies Since July 18 Last, With Black Line Representing; Present Battlefront; Line Indicated by Crosses Indicates Franco-German and Franco-Belgian Borders. of eight miles. The assault was made on a front of 14 miles. The Americans were making rapid progress in their continuation of their drive. German prisoners say the American attack was es-nected. hut that it was the most active part possible in the delivered so rapjdly that they had no present fighting, and, notwithstanding the bad weather, have been flying over German territory without oppo sition. There seemingly can be no more talk of German mastery iff the air. It is asserted that German balloons have been shot down near (name deleted). One daring flyer swooped low to at tack a retreating battery and shot one of the officers dead from his horse. Downfall Also Is Welcomed Fruitgrowers. bj HOOD r.IVER. Or.. Sept 13. (Spe cial.) Welcome to fruitgrowers and forest rangers alike, a gentle rain be gan falling here at daybreak. The rain is general throughout the district and will extinguish a number of smoulder ing forest fires. Fighters, withdrawn from lumber camps and other employ ment, where they are seriously needed, will return from the woods today. The rain will benefit the orchards, washing dust and accumulations from fruit and cleaning it for the hordes of pickers who will soon begin their work. RMd The Oreronlan classified sds. DANCING JTEW CLASSES FOR. BEGHXERS start at DeHooeys beautiful academy. Twenty-third and Washington, Tues day and Thursday erenings. All dances tosltively taught in eight lessons adies 14, gents 15. The only school teaching from 8 to 11, where you re ceive the proper amount of practice. Separate step room and extra teachers for backward pupils. No embarrassment Every step and figure of all dances thoroughly taught. One lessons from us is worth six in the average school. Private lessons all hours. A full print ed description of all dances for all pupils free. Normal instructions for dancing teachers. Call afternoon or evening. Join our new classes. Ad vanced classes for fancy steps, etc, tart Monday evening. September 18. Add the professional snap to your dan cing. Enjoy yourself. . BEAUTY CONTEST DAJrCETG PARTY Saturday evening. September' 14. Three valuable prizes for three most beauti ful ladies. Best music. Popular prices. Don't miss this party. Phone M. T656. Absolutely Removes Indigestion. Druggist tefund raonev ifJt fails.. 25e, LONDON, Sept. 13. (7 P. M.) The latest news from the St. Mihiel sector showed that the battle line now runs directly from Pagny on the Moselle River to Hattonville and along the front of the heights of the Meuse. Pagny, a town on the Moselle Kiver, is on the western border of Germany, In addition to 12,000 prisoners who have been counted, large numbers of Germans are still coming in. Villages Little ' Harmed. Most of the villages captured by the Americans, in the St. Mihiel salient were left in good condition by the Ger mans. The claim made by the Germans in the official communication that they foresaw the evacuation of the St. Mi hiel salient and prepared for it for years hardly is borne out in view of the number of prisoners and guns taken. The town of St. Mihiel was practi cally undamaged. The Germans left the railroad from Verdun to Commer cy, Toul and Nancy intact and this road will prove a great help to the entente allies. All Objectives Reached. Another valuable line of rail from Thiaucourt to St. Mihiel by which the Germans fed their troops in the salient also was left intact. The operation of the Americans must be regarded as a big' local success. All the big objec tives were reached. WITH THE AMERICAN FORCES IN LORRAINE, Sept. IS. (By the Associated Press.) (1:30 P. M.) Reports at this hour from the front indicate that the Americans are mak ing progress according to schedule. No unexpected developments are oc curring. Large quantities of German sup plies and material have been secured, but there has been no time to check them up. The battle so far has been wholly normal. LONDON, Sept. 18. (By the As sociated Press.) (1:30 P. M.) Gen eral Pershing's forces in their attack on the southern side of the St. Mihiel salient have advanced for a distance time to put up a stubborn resistance when they were ordered to. Pannes, which was energetically defended by the Germans, was easily captured by the Americans. The Americans are reported to have captured Vigneulles, seven and one-half miles north -of Xivray, through which the former line ran. General Pershing's troops also are said to have captured Beney, Heudl court and the Bois de Thlacourt If those places really have been cap tured, the neck of the St. Mihiel sal ient has been narrowed to less than six miles, and if the two German divisions reported last Bight to be in the salient still are there, it is decidedly improb able that they will be able to get away. The Germans are blowing up the am munition dumps at Hattonville and Domboux. On the west side of the St Mihiel sal lent, where the country is much more difficult and where the German resist ance has been more determined, the Americans have made an advance of three miles on a 12-mile front TWO FALL IN GUN FIGHT Chief of Detectives Killed by Rob bers at Colorado Springs. COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.. Sept 13. Chief of City Detectives John Rowan was shot and killed and John D. Riley, a city detective, was shot and probably fatally wounded in a battle with supposed robbers in the downtown district late this afternoon. They are thought to be a trio who held up and nobbed a train near Paola, Kan., on July 10 last The three men were run down ' at an automobile filling station near the central fire station by the detectives. Twenty shots were fired in the fight that followed. The desperadoes escaped in an automobile and were last seen headed for Denver. The car was driven by a woman, who was at the wheel at the time of the shooting. BOND BILL ADOPTED Saturday Sale Drug Sundries FREE One bar Creme Oil Soap with each purchase of 3 bars for 25d 10 bars Crystal White Soap for 59 Limit 10 bars to each customer None delivered except with other goods. 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M. m m B H H n a m B n H H B R B n B m IB House Unanimous for Measure Exempting More Income. . SENATE TO ACT SPEEDILY War Savings Stamps Authorization Raised to Four Billions; Gen eral Debate on Revenue Will End Today. WASHINGTON, Sept. 13. The Ad ministration measure designed to stimulate the sale of liberty bonds by making a larger amount of them held by individuals and corporations free from Federal taxation, was passed to night -by the House without a dissent ing vote. All of the bill's important features exempting from income and war ex cess profits taxation the interest on liberty bonds up to 130,000 of the fourth issMe and $45,000 of previous Issues, authorizing regulation of liberty Jbond transactions and increasing warsav- Ines stamos authorisation from $2,000, 000.000 to 14.000.000.000. were left un changed by the House. - The bill now goes to the Senate, with prospefcts. of speedy .enactment next week. The House spent the entire day considering the measure, putting over the war revenue bill until tomorrow, when general debate will be closed. SEATTLE WEEKLY ACCUSED Effort Made to Bar Business Chron icle From Mails. SEATTLE, Wash., Sept 13. Henry M. White, Department of Labor repre sentative, today asked the postal au thorities to bar The Business dhronlcle, a Seattle weekly, from the mails. Mr. White asserted articles in The Chronicle attacked the Government's campaign to recruit shipyard labor. UNIQUE PROPOSAL MADE Dr. John Summers, Republican Nominee, Puts It Up to Opponent. SPOKANE. Wash.. Sept. 13. Dr. John Summers, Republican nominee for Con gress in the Fourth District of Wash ington, announced here today that he had asked the Democratic nominee, W. E. McCroskey. to agree to the propo sition that each of them leave the dis trict and remain away until election day, doing some war work and per- mittlng the voters to decide between them without further canvassing. PAY TO INCREASE IN JAPAN Government Takes Lead With 50 Per Cent Salary Rise. TOKIO, Sept. . (By the Associated Press.) The astonishing increase in the cost of living continues to affect all aspects of life and. is generally at tributed to the overwhelming excess of exports. ' The government has decided to meet the grave economic problem Dy Increas ing all salaries 50 per cent, and private employers are following the govern ment's lead. KROPOTKIN IS IN CUSTODY Prince Accused of Conspiracy Against Bolshevikl. i i LONDON, Sept. 13. Prince Peter A. Kropotkin has been arrested at Petro grad, charged with participating in an English conspiracy against the Bol shevik government, according to an Amsterdam dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph Company. 1 j Free Drill for Registrants. As a service for the men who have just enrolled under the draft and may wish to begin acquiring military train ing Lieutenant George C. L. Snyder, of Lne urfgon .unitary rouce. nas oiierea to drill all applicants entirely without charge. Men desiring this drill should report to Lieutenant Snyder at ths Armory each evening, begining today if they wish, for work between 7 and 8 o'clock. Lightvessel to Be Overhauled. Tenders opened yesterday at the of fice of the Seventeenth Lighthouse Dis trict for overhauling and repairing the Swiftsure Bank lightvessel. known also as No. 93, included one from the Ander son Shipbuilding Corporation for $5275.40 and another from the Pacific Coast Engineering Company for $8970. The bids were referred to the Bureau of Lighthouses at Washington. Phone your want ads to The Orego- nian. Main 7070, A 6095. iTreedofe GaiivA, jylCTORYl j QgpBRAj? 166 . MORE HELD BY FOE Further List of Americans la Prison Camps Announced. WASHINGTON. Sept. 13. Names of 166 American soldiers,-. including four Captains and 12 Lieutenants, who are prisoners of war at various camps in Germany were announced today by the V ar Department. , The list includes William C. Nelson, of Wenatche, Wash., who is a prisoner at Camp Parch im. HUNS EVACUATING LILLE Fugiitves From City Arrive at Ma- lines and Antwerp. . LONDON, Sept. 13. Numerous fugi tives from the city of Lille are reported by Belgian newspapers to be arriving at Malines and Antwerp, according to a dispatch from Amsterdam to the Cen tral News Agency. Apparently Lille is being evacuated by the Germans. - FOR COAL OR WOOD call Broadway IS. Standard Brick & Tile Co., SJ 6th St. Adv. - w, ,-, m--J. ' in -,- , I,, i. tm, rue t.iiMmndir.i miii - in ; " - i .- i. ij n-i in i i - wrrrmmnniiii p i