VOL. LVIII. "0. 18,070.
PORTLAND, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1918.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
Ill
OF VALEIiCIENHES
Western Portion of City
Won By British.
FRENCH DRIVE FOB GHENT
English Forces Hammer at the
Gates of Tournai and Push
on Toward Scheldt.
IYS RIVER CROSSING EFFECTED
Germans Mass Men South of
Valenciennes, Trying to
Stop Allied Progress.
LONDON1, Oct 22. British troops
have entered the western suburbs of
Valenciennes, Field Marshal Haig re
ported from headquarters tonight.
The text of the statement reads:
"We have entered the western sub
urbs of Valenciennes and, north of
that town, have penetrated deeply into
th Foret De Kaismes, toward the1
angle of the Scheldt at Conde.
"Progress was made east of St
Amand and we reached the Scheldt at
Hollain and Bruyelles, south of Tour
nai. Both of the places are in our pos
session.
Hard Fighting Reported.
"Northwest of Tournai we have
driven the enemy from the village of
Froyenne and progressed beyond it
toward the Scheldt Further north
sharp fighting' has taken place for the
crossing "ef the Scheldt at Pont-A-Chin."
BRITISH HEADQURTERS IN
BELGIUM, Oct 22. (Reuter's.)
Strong French forces attacked this
morning on the center of the allied
front in Belgium and are reported to
be making excellent progress in the
direction of Ghent
WITH THE ALLIED ARMIES IN
BELGIUM, Oct 22. (By the Associ
ated Press.) The French have crossed
the Lys River at several points be
tween Grammene and Oesselehem,
southwest of Ghent overpowering op
position. They are now firmly estab
lished cast of the river, while making
progress in effecting crossings at
other points.
Huns May Make Stand.
The enemy appears to be in strength
m the angle south of Valenciennes
formed by the Scheldt and Ecaillon
rivers, probably indicating that he has
a defensive line south of the Scheldt
on which he is going to attempt to
stand for a while.
West of Tournai the British have
reached the village of Orcq. Tournai
rapidly is becoming the peak of the
salient being driven in toward the
Scheldt by the British.
PULLING TEETH HELD
CURE FOR INSANITY
REJIOTTTG TONStLS ALSO WILL
HELP, SATS DOCTOR.
NEW BLOW-TO PUT
FOE OUT- IMPENDS
Promiscuous Kissing Is Given as
One of Three Reasons People
Need Dental Work.
TRENTON. X. J.. Oct. 22. Cure of ln
sanity by extracting: diseased teeth, re
mavrnr Infected tonsils and clearing
Ilia rHtrn.1ntatlna.l tr&ct w tilt an-!
nounced here today by Dr. Henry A.
Cotton, medicinal director of the New
Jersey State Hospital. In a report to the
state department of charities and cor
rections.
The report gives the results of 11
years of experimentation on a number
of deranged patients.
Causes of Infected teeth were charged
by Dr. Cotton to bad dental work, neg
lect and promiscuous kissing.
Foch Believed About to
Launch Mighty Smash.
Progress of the War.
U. S. HONORS WAR HEROES
Medals Awarded Foch, Joffre, Haig,
Petain, Diaz, Pershing, Gillian.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 22. Marshals
Foch. Joffre and Halg and Generals
Petain, Diaz. Pershing and Gillian.
chief of staff of the Belgian army,
were awarded the distinguished serv
ice medal today by President Wilson,
acting as commander-in-chief of the
United States Army.
General Pershing was directed by
Secretary Baker to act as President
Wilson's representative In presenting
the medals to the military leaders of
the allies.
General Tasker H. Bliss, former chief
of staff, and now assigned to the inter
allied war council, will represent the
President In presenting the medal to
General Pershing.
HOPES PLACED IN YANKEES
Giant Thrust in Meuse Sector
Is Suggested.
ALSACE FRONT MAY AWAKE
Recent Balds, It Is Said, May Indi
cate Offenslve-Toward South
ern End of Line.
LOXDOX, Oct. 22. The British
hare advanced their line to the left
bank of the Ecaillon River and have
captured the western part of the vil
lage of Thiant, five miles southwest
of Valenciennes, it is announced of
ficially.
Tournai Is Neared.
The British, after sharp fighting,
have advanced to within less than a
mile of Tournai.
WITH THE ALLIED ARMIES IN
BELGIUM, Oct. 22. (By the Asso
ciated Press.) The general situation
in Belgium this morning seemed to
be that on most of the front the allied
armies had reached a period of pause
which is inevitable when rapid ad
vances have been made. German re
sistance stiffened appreciably during
the night, especially along the Scheldt
River.
On the front of the British fourth
army, with which the Americans are
fighting, the night was quiet.
British Move Toward Scheldt.
Fighting is progressing here and
there along the allied line north of
Valenciennes for the purpose of
straightening out the front' and con
solidating the positions. Between
Tournai and Valenciennes the British
continue their progress toward the
Scheldt.
On the front of both the third and
fourth armies high-velocity guns and
other artillery are active. German
machine guns on the eastern bank of
POINDEXTER IS PRAISED
Telegrams Commend Resolution
Forbidding Compromise With Foe.
OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash
ington, Oct. 22. Senator Poindexter, of
Washington, was today deluged with
telegrams from all papers of the coun
try commending his resolution intro
duced yesterday to forbid any officer
of this Government from conducting
correspondence with Germany until
after Germany has surrendered.
Among the prominent men la the
Pacific Northwest who telegraphed was
Samuel Hill, of Seattle, who praised
the effort to close the International
correspondence school.
DEAD TO BE RETURNED
Americans Sacrificed in War Abroad
to Be Brought! Home.
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMT
NORTHWEST OP VERDUN. Oct. 22-
(By the Associated Press.) All the
American dead in France will be taken
home after the war, according to or
ders received by the Army chaplains.
The grave registration bureau has
been working with this in view, but
nothing definite regarding the future
disposition of the dead was known
here until instructions came to the
chaplains from Washington.
30,000 HOBOES IN SERVICE
Fellows In New York Raise Flag on
Bowery and Subscribe for Bonds.
NEW TORK. Oct 22. Member of
the Hoboes' Union, who assembled on
the Bowery today for a flag-raising in
honor of 20.000 of their fellows now in
service, dug deep Into their tattered
pockets and. at the exhortation of Jeff
uavis, ineir kids, Dougui ivv wwnn .
oi war savings stamps to DacK. Amer
ica's fighting forces.
One "itinerant worker" purchased 120
worth.
WASHINGTON, Oct 22. Now that
the Germans have been cleared out of
Belgian Flanders and much of North'
ern France, Army officials here are
watching the battle ' front intently,
many of them with a distinct feeling
that a new storm of attack may be
about to break against the eneny.
There was nothing tonight to in
dicate that this expectancy was founded
upon definite information, and it prob
ably grows out of a number of hap
penings of a minor character In them
selves, but possibly Important links in
the chain of events soon to be dis
closed.
Breathing Spell Sought.
Beyond doubt the German retirement
in Belgium has slowed down. How
ever, it is not yet clear whether this
is due to the fact that the retreating
forces are nearing on the whole north
ern front the line which frequently has
been selected by military critics as
the,first pausing place to the Meuse or
the border, or to the necessities of
extending allied communication lines as
the troops advance. It is probable, of
ficers said, that there is necessity for
a breathing spell on both sides.
There is little doubt here that he
German army is headed for nothing
short of the Meuse line, and that any
pause will be but temporary .to permit
readjustment of the columns and sup
ply linee-In -order that the same or
derly sequence ' of movements will
characterize subsequent retirements.
ConuBuleitloH Must Be Kxtended.
Several halts of this character may
be expected, it was said, as the with
drawal project Is carried out The fact
that the allied armies axe hampered
by extending communication lines gives
opportunity for such halts before Mar
shal Foch's forces can come up in suf
ficient force to compel a resumption
of the rearward movement
The line surrendered by -the enemy
from Lille northward to the coast, it
was pointed out, was far stronger and
no longer than that he now stands
upon In Belgium. In addition, by the
evacuation of the Flanders coast, he
has furnished the allies with means of
setting up new and more direct com
munication lines from England via Os
tend. Zeebrugge or other Flanders
(Br the Associated Press.)
THE fall of Valenciennes to Field
Marshal Halg's forces is imminent
Despite the desperate resistance of the
Germans, the British have entered the
city on the west, while to the north
they have made a deep thrust into the
great FUismes forest and are moving in
the direction of Conde, near the angle
of the Scheldt
Valenciennes bad been in uninter
rupted French possession from 1677
until the onrush of the Germans early
in the present war. It is now about to
be redeemed.
Although the progress of the allied
forces in Belgian and French Flanders
has slowed up somewhat in the face of
the stiffening of -the lines of enemy
rear guards, appreciable gains have
been made, some of them of much im
portance.
Hollain and Bruyelles on the Scheldt,
south of the Tournai, ere now in the
hands of the British and North of
Tournai the village' of Froyenne has
been cleared of the enemy who Is with
drawing toward the Scheldt. There
has been sharp fighting lor the cross
Ings of this waterway at Point-a-Chin;
the Germans are battling hard to keep
the allies from outflanking Tournai on
the north.
Behind the Scheldt the Germans are
massed in strength; their machine guns
on the east bank are receiving the
support of the artillery and trench
mortars.
In the north battle area . the Bel
gians have reached the Lys Canal
along their entire front and have cap
tured a bridgehead with numbers of
the enemy west of Meetendre.
An item of great Interest appears in
the latest announcement by the French
War Office concerning operations along
the Aisne. It says:
"The Czecho-Slovaks with us retook
the village of Terron."
The French are still moving active
ly to the north of Laon and have now
completed the occupation of Chalandry
and Grandlup. To the southwest of
Ghent they are firmly established on
the east bank of the Lys River, having
made crossings at several points.
Around Le Cateau, where Americans
are fighting with the British Fourth
Army, activity has diminished great
ly. The same is true of the American
sector northwest of Verdun, where the
chief activity of the enemy ahas been
the shelling or the American lines with
mustard and other gas shells, and an
air raid, which came near to achiev
ing the destruction of an American
base hospital.
Tile. German rer-ly to President Wil-
soa is still the subject of much com
ment, newspapers -and public agree-
ng that Germany has by no means
adequately met the desires of the Pres
ident and the allied powers. Official
cognizance of the note has not yet
been taken by the United States Government
Meanwhile some German newspapers
are calling upon the Emperor to elim
inate himself from the-question and de
claring that peace must not be delayed
on account of the Hohenzollerns or for
other reasons. - - . , v
Winter, unusually late this year.-has
set In on the front in-Northern Russia
and a prolonged lull is looked for in
that territory.
600 MILLION MORE
NEEDED FOR NAVY
Daniels Asks Huge Sum to
Build Ships.
NEW PROGRAMME SET FORTH
Sixteen Additional Large, 140
Small Craft Proposed.
GREAT FLEET IN PROSPECT
Total Estimates of Outlay for Cur
rent Tear Reaches Sum
Of $972,090,000.
STREETCAR HURLS .
AUTO AGAINST POLE
TWO BOYS HURT AND TRUCK
DEMOLISHED IX COLLISION.
Salvador Closes Frontier.
SAN SALVADOR. Oct 22. Because
f .the prevalence of yellow fever in
Guatemala, the Salvadorian govern
ment has ordered that the frontier be
tween Guatemala and Salvador be
closed.
WASHINGTON, Oct 22. Congress
has been asked by the Navy Depart
ment to authorize a second three-year
naval building programme to provide
10 additional super-dreadnoughts, six
battle cruisers and H0 smaller vessels
at a .cost of 5600,000,000.
This was disclosed tonight by Secre
tary Daniels after his appearance be
fore the House naval committee to ex
plain the appropriation.
This authorization is asked for the
next fiscal year and Is in addition to
the 1B6 naval vessels comprising the
first three-year building programme au
thorized in 1916, and the great number
of new destroyers and other special
types contracted for since the United
States entered the war.
Work Delayed by War.
Work on the first three years' pro
gramme was delayed by the war, but
Congress has required that a start must
be made on all the vessels before next
July 1.
Including the J600,000;000 for the
three-year programme, secretary jjan-
tels said, the total estimates of the de
partment for ship construction, includ
ing armor and armament, amount this
vear to J972.090.000.
Only $200,000,000 of the 60U,oou,uuo
will be made available next :-ear jt
construction work on the th.-ee-year
programme, in addition to 1372.090,000
asked for completing vessels already
authorized.
Daniels Dlacnsaes Programme.
"The new programme of 156 vessels,"
said Secretary Daniejs. "prescribes spe
cific numbers of battleships and battle
cruisers only, there being 10 battleships
asked for and six battle cruisers.
"As regards smaller vessels, although
the total number is to be 140, it Is
simply asked that they be of types al
ready approved and in exisence, or of
new types which may develop during
the life of the programme, the details
being left to the discretion of the Navy
Department
"The new three-year programme Is a
continuation of the policy adopted in
1916 of increasing the Navy, and con
templates its steady upbuilding and im
provement It is in line with the policy
adopted by this Government, and which
Lad of 16 Is Wedged Under Front
of Car and Boy of 14 Is Pinned
Under Machine. i
Abe Blank, aged 14, and Sam Cohen,
aged 16, employes on the Evening
Telegram's city delivery truik, were
severely Injured last night in a col
lision with an Irvington streetcar at
Tenth and Jefferson streets. The in
jured boys were taken to the Good
Samaritan Hospital by the Ambulance
Service Company.
Cohen was wedged under the front
of the car and Blank was found pinned
beneath the machine, which is a total
wreck. Motorcycle Officers Scott and
Norene reported that the streetcar was
going east on Jefferson street and the
delivery truck truck west on Jefferson'
when the accident occurred.
Motorman Le Febvere, of the Irving
ton streetcar, reported to the police,
they say, that the delivery truck at
tempted to turn south in front of the
streetcar. He said he was unable to stop
in time to avoid the collision.
The delivery truck was tossed across
the street against a telephone pole.
WAR
COUNCIL
y
GUIDE PEACE MOVE
NEW YORK SOLDIER DROWNS
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MURDER SUSPECT CAUGHTl
Man Wanted in Chicago Fonnd
Working In Arizona Mine.
B1SBEE. Ariz., Oct 22. Frank Me-
Erlane. alias Walter Scott who es
caped from the Cook County jail In
Chicago In September and has been
sought all over the country on a charge
of murder and robbery, was arrested
here tonight by Deputy Sheriff Howe,
and is held for extradition.
McErlane had been here several I
weeks, working as a miner. He I
acknoWledged his identity.
SENATOR GETS AUTOMOBILE
i
Token of Appreciation, by Oregon
Friends Reaches Chamberlain.
OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash
ington. Oct 22. Senator Chamberlain
was today the recipient of & handsome
present in the form of an automobile,
given as a token -of appreciation by a
number of his Oregon friends.
637 RETURN FROM FRANCE
Total Is for Week From Sick and
Wounded of American Force,
WASHINGTON. Oct 22. Sick and
wounded landed in the United States
from the American expeditionary forces I
during the week ended October 18 num
bered 637, the War Department today
announced.
CARIBOU HERD IN YUKON
Residents Start Hunt to Lay in
Winter's Meat Supply.
DAWSON. T. T.. Oct 22. Thousands
of migrating caribou today were re
ported a few miles east of Dawson.
Scores of residents left to kill some of
the animals toi their Winter meat
supply. '
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Spruce Division Man Fails Into
Willapa River at Raymond.
RAYMOND, Wash., Oct 22. (Spe
cial.) Phillip E. Plund. a soldier of
the spruce production division working
at the Willapa Mill fell Into the Willa
pa River shortly after 6 o'clock this
afternoon and was drowned. He was
working on the night shift and had
just gone to work, putting down planks
on the dock as the mill was not run
uing tonight. He fell over backward,
tripping over a saw, and went into
the water. His companion working
with him saw only the splash in the
water.
The tide was running out very strong
ly, the alarm was given and search for
his body began, but up to a late hour
it had not been recovered. His home
was in Mount Vernon, N. ,Y.
Issue Involved Military iri
Character.
GERMANS NOW RETREATING
Problem Now Becomes One of
Further Fighting.
NOTE NOT YET RECEIVED
Official Text Arrives at Swedish Le
gation bnt Is Not Yet De
livered to Wilson.
ALTITUDE RECORD IN PERIL
Army Filers Will Try Saturday to
Rise Higher Than 2 3,00 0 Feet.
NEW YORK, Oct 22. An attempt to
break the world's altitude record of
21,000 feet for a two-man airplane will
be ma-3o by Army fliers from Hazel
li'irst HVleid Saturday at an aviation
carnival ut BelraoiU Park, it was an
nounced here tonight
The aviators, who will be equipped
with oxygen tanks,- also will try to
break the unofficial record of 23,000
feet
PNEUMONIA VACCINE USED
Ten Thousand Men Inoculated at
Camp Dix Escape Disease.
CAMP DEC, N. J., Oct. 22. Success
ful inoculation of 10,000 soldiers
against pneumonia following influenza
today caused camp authorities to offer
the treatment to 10,000 more next week.
Although not a man inoculated has
contracted pneumonia, the treatment
was said still to be in its experimental
stage and not advocated as a cure but
as a preventive.
150 KILLED BY QUAKES
Much Property Damage Done by
Temblors in Guatemala.
PANAMA, Oct. 22. There have been
severe earthquakes in Guatemala and
150 .persons are dead, according to re
ports received here from Guatemala.
Much property damage also has been
caused.
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Weather.
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 56
degrees; minimum, 3S degrees.
TODAY'S Probably showers; southwesterly
winds.
War.
I Hals' in suburbs of Valenciennes. Page 1.
Huns bomb United States hospital. Page 4.
American assaults repulsed, alleges Berlin.
Page 4.
New offensive expected soon. Page 1.
Victory in reach. King George tells allies.
Page 5.
Foreign.
I U-boat falsehood In German note exposed.
Page 3.
German press nints tnat .Kalserism may
have to go. rage .
French denounce Hun reply. Page 2.
I American Red Cross aids starving Russians.
Page 5.
Red terror out of control In Russia. Page 6.
National.
Daniels asks 1600,000,000 more for Navy.
Page 1.
Senate committee revises Honse surtax
schedule. Page 6.
Supreme War Council may pass on Ger
many's peace oirer. .rage l.
Domestic.
Pulling teeth cures insanity, says Eastern
doctor. Page I.
Influenza on Pacific Coast milder than
elsewhere. Page 7.
( Sports.
Eugene-Vancouver Barracks . game may be
canceled. Page l. -
! Eugene Krapp, ex-Portland pitcher, "comes
back at Fort Custer, page 12.
Pacific Northwext.
State Marshal urges observance of Fire
Prevention day. Page 14.
Commercial and Marine.
Conferences on Federal oats standards will
be Informal. page l i.
Corn advances nearly four cents in Chicago
market. Page 17.
High-grade stocks are active features of
wall-street tracing, raw xi.
Over 15 wood shipyards fail to make good.
Page 16.
Portland and Vicinity.
I Classes will be established to teach Amer
icanism to aliens, page ii.
Report wood ships fail as wheat carriers is
Investigated, rase w. ,
Gus Moser explains tut witn governor.
Paee is.
Candidates for Speaker express Confidence.
page iu.
Twelve die from Influenza. Page 7.
Streetcar hurls auto across street. Hurting
two boys. Page l.
I Weather report, data and forecast. Page 17. j
WASHINGTON, Oct 2!. The prevail
ing belief here tonight is that any ac
tion President Wilson may take as a.
result of the new German note will
await and be largely guided by a de
cision of the supreme war council in
France.
Shrewd diplomatic observers and
some officials take this view, though
no intimation of his own attitude has
come from the President, because ad
mittedly the one question Immediately
at issue Is a military problem that of
the evacuation of Invaded territory by
the German armies as the only condi
tion on which the plea for an armistice
even will be given consideration.
Germans Retiring Rapidly.
The Germans now are evacuating
Belgium and Northern France as rapid
ly as they can move before the sweep
of the allied and American soldiers
and still maintain their organization.
Since the government at Berlin cays
they want to get out without further
fighting, apparently the issue is one
for the allied war council to determine
whether it shall be suggested through
President Wilson that General Foch be
applied to for terms, or whether with
out further diplomatic parley tne ap
proach of a white flag from the Ger-'
man llcej shall be awaited.
Decoding Slew Work.
The official text of the German note
reached the Swiss legation here by
cable early today, but it was not de
livered at the State Department be
cause the entire day was spent at the
legation on the tedious task of decod
ing and translating it
The translation was made with the
greatest care by Frederick Oederlin,
the Swiss charge, because there are
obscure phrases in the unofficial
version received yesterday by wire
less which may be cleared up by a
more accurate rendering of the Ger
man.
When the charge's work was done
Secretary Lansing had left his office
and an engagement was made for de
livery of the note at 10 o'clock to
morrow morning.
Wilson in No Hurry.
This Incident in itself is pointed to
as evidence that exchanges between
London, Paris and Washington, have
been proceeding since the arrival of
the wireless version and that pending
word from the war council of what the
military situation demands, the Presi
dent is In no hurry to know the exact
verbal differences between the official
and unofficial texts.
There also were reports that any
action might wait upon a diplomatic
conference about to convene in one of
the allied capitals, but these found no
official confirmation.
The usual Tuesday Cabinet meeting
was in session all afternoon and it was
assumed that the German note occupied.
its attention. No member of the offi
cial family would discuss whether in,
was taken Into the President's com.
fidence. v
Discussion May Be Ended.
Those in official, diplomatic and Con
gressional circles who do not pretend
to have heard anything from the White
House on the subject are confidently
asserting opinions that the Germans
will draw an answer from the Presi
dent or that they will not
One group, recalling that the Presi
dent's reply to the request for an arm
istice and peace negotiations was char
acterized by him as a "decision," eon
tend that this meant no further dis
cussion of the issues involved would
be tolerated.
The other view, held very generally
In official circles, is that a reply is de
sirable from every standpoint; that it
will be forthcoming after full consid
eration, and that it will deal chiefly
with the immediate military problems.
leaving aside for the future such things
as the German denials of cruelties nd
ruthless destruction and doubts as to
the genuineness of the self-proclaimed
democratic regime at Berlin.-
Question of Defeat Important.
Whatever form any further diplomat
ic exchanges may take, one official
pointed out tonight, after all, there is
but one question, "Are the Germans
whipped?"
If they are whipped and ready to sur
render when attempts at bargaining
have failed, the surrender will come
quickly enough, as quickly as the men
who say they have superseded the Kai
ser and the war lords in power dare to.
let the truth sink home upon the Ger
man public
Some diplomatic reports support the
theory that they are restrained from
revealing the real situation abruptly
and taking peace at any price only from
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