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1 Section One 80 Pages SIX SECTIONS Pages 1 to 24 -. r . - r. - .. . ft VOL. XXXVI NO. 17. PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY 3IORNING, APRIL 29, 1917. PRICE FIVE CENTS. IS DRAFT LIMITS OF DRIVE IS RENEWED; FAH AND ARM IS T. b:s battle cry RESERVE OFFICER TRAINING DELAYED ALL-STATE MEETING INDEX; OF. TODAY'S NEWS 21 AND 30 LIKELY E F COMMITTEE WTLL RECONCILE MORE CAREFUL SELECTION1 OF APPLICANTS TO BE MADE. SENATE AND HOUSE BILLS. DRAFT PASSED BRITISH AK GA AVOKS ROAD BONDS IH ... 4 . . . - -. " -i .1, 1 V Volunteer Plan Defeated . Overwhelming Vote. PAY OF SCLDIERS DOUBLED Conscript Age Uncertain and Conference Must Be Held to Reach Agreement. SENATE FOR T. R.'S ARMY Amendment to Permit . Colonel to Raise Four Divisions Gets Winning Support. WASHINGTON, April 28. By overwhelmine majorities both the Senate and House passed late to night the Administration bill to raise a war Army by selective draft. The final rollcalls brought into line behind the bill many Senators and Representatives who had fought for the volunteer system until routed by the decisive defeat of volunteer amendments earlier in the day in both houses. The Senate, which had voted down the volunteer plan, 69 to 18, passed the bill by a vote of 81 to 8. In the House the vote against the volunteer plan was 313 to 109, and that by which the bill itself was passed was S97 to 24. Draft Ages Undecided. As passed by the Senate, the meas tire provides for the draft of men be tween the ages of 21 and 27 years, while in the House measure the age limits are fixed at 21 and 40. This and lesser discrepancies will be threshed out in conference early next week, so the bill may be in the hands of the President as quickly as possi ble. The War Department already has completed plans for carrying it into effect. Senators who voted against the bill were : Democrats Gore, Hardwick, Kirby, Thomas and Tramell S. Republicans Borah, Gronna and La Follette 3. Total, 8. Vardaman Is Excused. Senator Vardaman, of Mississippi, Democrat, was excused from voting at his own request. He did not give a reason. The 24 Representatives who voted in the negative were: Democrats Burnett, Church, Clark of Florida, Claypool, Crosser, Dill, Dominick, Gordon, Hilliard, Huddle ston, Keating, Sears, Sherwood, Sis- son 14. Republicans Bacon, Hayes, King, La Follette, Lundeen of Minnesota, Mason, Nolan, Powers 8. Prohibitionist Randall 1. (Concluded on Pan 4. Column l. I 'JPy () I :. VFSiiA " C:j ifyT A 2 W - school, s&0oP i , ro7-ro eve- I 1 yT t - House Vote Includes Men of 40 and Senate Cuts Age to 2 7 After Several Tryouts. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, "Wash ington. April 28. When the Army draft bill la finally agreed to. in a conference committee appointed to reconcile the differences between the Senate and the House bills, it likely will authorize the drafting of men between the ages of 21 and 30. The House today voted to draft men between 21 and 40. The Senate, after many test votes fixed the limitations at 21 and IT. That the Senate Is not disposed to authorize drafting of men -over 30, was shown by Its rollcalls. The proposal to make 40 years the maximum was defeated, 22 to 65. and a 33-year limi tation was defeated, 29 to 59. But a 30-year maximum amendment nearly carried, indicating that on a compro mise the Senate would likely go to that limit. Senator Chamberlain stood consis tently against all. proposals to make the maximum higher than 27 years and tried ineffectually .to reduce the mini mum age to 19 years. Senator Lane did not appear In the Senate and was not paired. Senators Borah of Idaho, and Jones of Washington voted for all amend ments to increase the draft age up to 40 years. Senator Brady voted against these proposals and Senator Poindexter voted to raise the maximum as high -as 30, but opposed a higher limitation. The House added many ridiculous and nonsensical amendments to ine Army bill most of which will be eliminated In conference. It so hap pens that the conference committees of both houses which will readjust the Army bill will be headed by Pacific Coast members. Senator Chamberlain, of Oregon, and Representative Kahn, of California. BERNHARDT YET IN DANGER Condition of Famous Actress Said to Be "Markedly Impaired." NEW YORK, April 29. Although Madame Sarah Bernhardt, the famous actress who has been critically ill here has made distinct progress during the week, her condition Is still -markedly imDaired." according to a statement tonight. It was said, however, that no compli cations have arisen. RATE INCREASE APPROVED Northwest Timber Affected by Com merce Commission's Action. WASHINGTON, April 28. A proposed increase of 10 cents per 100 pounds in freight rates on long timbers from North Pacific Coast and intermediate points to Eastern and Canadian desti nations was approved today by the Interstate Commerce Commission. Poles, piling and lumber are included in the proposed increase. "LIBERTY LOAN" IS TITLE Name Is Given War Fund by Secre tary of Treasury. WASHINGTON, April 28. Secretary McAdoo today announced the title of the loan which the United States soon will raise by its $5,000,000,000 bond is sue. v It will be officially designated Liberty Loan of 1917." "The WEATHER IS TO BE FAIR Normal Temperatures Predicted for Pacific States. WASHINGTON, April 28. Weather predictions for the week beginning Sunday, April 29, issued by the Weather Bureau today, are: Pacific States Generally fair, with normal temperature. WARTIME TOPICS Two Miles of German Positions Captured. NEW BATTLE !S DESPERATE Wave After Wave of Teutons Destroyed by Barrage. . AERIAL FIGHTERS ACTIVE Recent Retreat la Lens Sector Is Said to Have Been Stopped by Appearance of Field Mar shal Von Hindenburg. r LONDON, April 28. The British troops have captured Arleux-en-Gohelle and German positions on a front of more than two miles north and south of that village, says the official re port from British headquarters in France tonight. The British renewed their attack this morning along several miles of the front north of the Scarpe River. The British troops are making good progress in the face of considerable opposition. (From a Staff Correspondent of the Asso ciated Press.) BRITISH II E A DQ UARTERS IN FRANCE, via London. April 28. There was more desperate fignting along the British front today and the Germans, evidently spurred on by the declara tions from Field Marshal von Hinden burg that they must hold their present positions at all costs, are making a re sistance more stubborn than any here tofore encountered. Germani Disregard Losses. At various points captured In the first onward rush by the British, the Germans have been prdered into coun ter-attacks with a reckless disregard for loss of life. The battle was still In progress late today and it was possible near Oppy to see at one time no less than five gray waves of Germans blindly facing the British fire In an attempt to retake their lost position. Heavy shells broke upon them ih a great explosive torrent, and where each shell' burst great gaps were cut in the ranks of the on-coming men. Those who penetrated the Brit ish barrage from the larger calibered guns were met by fieldygunfire and mown down under continuous sprays of machine-gun bullets. Counter-Attack Breaks Down. Under this galling fire, the attack utterly broke down. In some places there was ferocious, hand-to-lrand fighting. The British got in well with the bayonet, but there was one bit o fighting in which even bayonets were forgotten, and the men went at each other's throats and eyes. Many Ger mans went to their death from blows from rifle butts. .At times the fighting was wholly ob scured by great clouds of dust, the muddy battlefields of 10 days ago hav ing entirely disappeared. The dust raised by the barrage fire resembled an approaching storm. Shrapnel bullets were pelting the dry earth like so many leaden drops of rain, and great mountains of dust semed to spring from the earth everywhere. The attack began with the coming of dawn. It extended in an easterly direc tion with Vimy Ridge as its northern hinge and ran southward to the Scarpe. Progress was made everywhere and the so-called Oppy-Mericourt, which pro- (ConclTided on Page 4. Column 3.) IN THE WEEK'S NEWS The Weather. ., YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 60 degrees; minimum, 44 degrees. TODAY'S Showers, cooler; winds becoming southerly. , , War. 1 Selective- conscription bill passed by both. Houses of - Congress. . Section 1. page 1. Opening of Officers Reserve training camps postponed. Section 1. page 1. - British gain In renewal of drive. Section 1, page 1.' '- American troops to Europe found dire neces sity. Section 1, page 2. Allies want American airmen at once. Sec tion 1, page 4. . German Cabinet faces demands of Socialists and Conservatives. - Section 1, page 4. 1 British and French mission to pay homage to memory of George -Washington- Sec tion 1, page 6. National. Age limits for draft expected to be 21 and do. Section 1. page 1. Text of land grant decision gives railroad but single point. Section 1. page J. . lomestlc. ' Roosevelt makes stirring speeches In Chi cago. Section 1. page 1. All In exploded mine thought dead. Sec tion 1, page 2. Chlcagoans. irate at affront to Joffre, de mand Mayor Thompson a scalp. Section 1. page 5. Pit prices break when Britain stops buying wheal. Section 1, page 6. Sport. Pacific Coast Leapuo results: Portland 5, San Francisco 1; Vernon 3, oaKlana i; Salt. Lake 3-1. Los Angeles 2-8. Section page 4. Bob Franklin's-mark of 686 In bowling tour ney yet stands. Sectidn 2. page 6. Portland-Eugene Goll Clubs to compete May 13. Section 2. page . Hunt Club will have military drill next Fri day. Section 2. page 6. McCredie must cut to 18 players by Tues day. Section 2. page 5. Tacoma golfers to play at Waverley May l'J and 20. Section 2, page Q. Glbbons-Sommers bout set for West Side theater. Section 2, page 0. . Oliver B. Huston is doing real comeback on track. Section 2, page 5. Fred Merkle yet is high-priced player. Sec tion 2, page 4. Additional tennis doubles tournament will be played at Waverley, June 2o to o0. Section, 2. page 4. Seattle will enter golf tourney June 23-30. Section 2. page tt. Salmon Club lists its prizes. Section 1, page 7. Portus Baxter say Giants look good. Sec tion 2, page 4. Commercial and Marine. Eastern buyers seeking oats in Northwest Section 2, page 13. Chicago wheat market collapses after fever ish advance. Section 2, page Id. Demand for copper stocks feature of Wall street market. Section 2. page 15. Movement for bulk grain elevator Interests Northwest grain men. Section 2, page lti. Shipbuilders seeking Government contracts advised to go to Washington. Section page 16. Immediate repairs ordered on three seized German barks. Section 2, pago lu. Pacific Northwest. Borah may take up law In Xw York with idea of running for President. Section 1. page 8. Ninth annual commonwealth conference set for May 17-10. Section 1. page 8. Non-farmer boy to be organized in Na tional league for production. Section 1 page 9. Roseburg at work on garden plans. Section L pagu 7. . - -Portland and Vicinity. All-state good roads meeting Indorses $0,000,000 bond issue.. Section 1, page 1. Yeon-Bcnson libel suits settled by confession of judgment. Section 1, page . Food Preparedness Bureau receives many requests for aid. Section 2, page 1(5. United States District Attorney Reames re views so-called Bean bill. Section 1, page 10. Mr, Ida Morris is charged with arson-mur der. Section 1, page 11. Portland Red Cross carries on four-fold work. Section 1, page 12. Public asked, to clean up and make May fireless month. Section 1, page 16. Servian in feud with Greek is freed. Sec tion 1, page 16 Rabbi Wise points out Jews' duty to United States. Section 1, page 14. Two Portland men receive Captain's com . missions in Reserve Corps. Section page IS. Army draft bill prospects stimulate recruit Ing. Section 1, page IS. Y. M. C. A. to work in new Army. Section 1. pago 14. Stock In Oregon has hard Winter. Section 1, page 16. Charles P. ' Church is candidate for Cltv 1 Commissioner. Section 1, page 19. George C. Mason Rives figures on Daly llsrht ing plant. . Section l, page 10. Jokers found in two-platoon plan. Section 1, page 20. Girls Honor Guard adopts uniform. Sec tion 1, page 20. Second annual convention of State Insurance Federation held. Section 1, page 20. Bakers to cease making C-cent loaves. Sec tion 1, page 21. Realty market shows Increased activity. Sec tion z, page 22. Federation of Women's Clubs adopts plan for patriotic service. Section 1, page 21. Board decides to hold Rose Festival usual. Section 1. page 13. "Courier 67" of Nathan Hale Volunteers woman. Section 1, page 7. Boy Scouts to rally on Multnomah Field. Section 3, page 1J. Weather report, data and forecast. Sec tion 1, page 20. AGAIN MONOPOLIZE THE Two Rousing Speeches Made in Chicago. HIT ENEMY HARD, HE DEMANDS Senate Action to Let Him Raise Troops Rouses Enthusiasm. R0HIBITI0N PLEA LAUDED Criticism of Those Wlio Would Make Friends AVith Germany by Slight, ins Joffre- Leads to Resolu tion to Invite Marshal. CHICAGO. April 2S. Farm and arm! With this battlecry Theodore Roose velt enterc Chicago today, and In two stirring speeches urged that every energy of the entire Nation be directed toward making the potential might of the United States felt in the war against Germany, and he demanded that not an hour be lost in dispatching troops to the trenches. His first speech was made at a luncheon at noon; his second at a mass meeting in the immense amphitheater at the stockyards. He advocated uni versal training as a permanent policy he advocated conscription, but he pleaded that he snould be allowed to recruit a division for immediate serv ice with the allies. Dry Allusion Cheered. He w roundly applauded when he urged that during the war the use of grain for the manufacture of alcoholic beverages be prohibited. At the luncheon Harry Pratt Judson president of the University of Chicago, introduced a resolution to be forwarded to President Wilson requesting that the Colonel be authorized to raise a division and to lead it into France. Mr. Roose velt interrupted to ask if he might amend it. "Make it read that w wui- the dl vision sent under any competent off! cers, and please to let Roosevelt go along."' . "Certainly," replied Dr. Judson, and his resolution was adopted unanimous Iv. "I'd go as Second Lieutenant, aaaea Colonel Roosevelt. Mr. Roosevelt referred to Major-Gen eral Thomas H. Barry, commanding th Central Department, U. S. A., wh.o wa among those at the speakers' tables, as being of the type of man who might well lead such a division. Washington Jitwi Please.. Colonel Roosevelt during his night speech was shown an Associated Press bulletin saying an amendment to th Army draft bill permitting him tc raise troops for European service had been adopted. He paused in his speech smile overspread his face and he ex claimed repeatedly: "Bully Bully!" "What is it?" demanded the crowd. Colonel Roosevelt read the dispatch. The entire audience arose and cheered several minutes. "Now we'll go, Teddy. Now we are ready," came from numbers of throats. ."I want to say," continued the Colonel, "that this amendment was carefully drawn, not to Interfere In the slightest degree with the President's plan for obligatory service. I want to put my self in a position, not to say go to th front, but come to the front." Hard Hitting; Advocated. In his night speech. Colonel Roosevelt said he did not care to enter a limited liability war. "When you hit a man. hit him hard he said. "If you hit him soft, he will (Concluded on Pngf Column 1.) ATTENTION OF CARTOONIST REYNOLDS. Men. Already Commissioned in Four Sections to Be Called at Once. Engineers to Get Straps. WASHINGTON. April '28. Over whelmed with applications for admis sion to the officers' training camps, the War Department announced today the postyponement of the opening of the camps for one week, "in order to enable more careful selection to be made of the limited number that can be accom modated." The camps were to have been opened May S to all applicants, but under the ew ruling the list of citizens to be admitted will be published on that date instead of those named being required to report for duty not later than May All reserve officers of infantry, cav- lry, field artillery and coast artillery will be ordered Into active service at once. WASHINGTON. April 23. A complete company of engineer officers, 150 trong,' will be established at each of the 14 officers' training camps to be opened May 8. Applicants qualified will be coramls loned immediately and receive the pay f their grade, although they may serve as privates In the provisional company during training. Competent engineer officers from the regular Army will be instructors. CHILD WANDERERS RETURN Two Little Girls Cause Community Search at Vansycle. PENDLETON. Or., April 28. (Spe clal.) Doris and Frances, the 7 and 5- year-old daughters of Charles Lobaugh, Northern Pacific section foreman at Vansycle, wandered away from home last evening in search of buttercups. and becoming lost, remained in the hills all night. A party of Helix and Vansycle people scoured the country In vain. Early this morning the two youngsters, weary but unharmed, came to the Alheit place at Vansycle, and were taken in. GUARD TO HAVE ENGINEERS Portland Man Authorized to Raise Company of Oregon .Battalion. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, April 28. The War Department today notified Senator Chamberlain that authority had been granted to re cruit a battalion of engineers for the Oregon National Guard. W. C. Parrish, of Portland, who asked authority to raise a company of engi neers, has been granted permission to do so and instructed to make his com pany a part of the authorized battalion. PEACE OFFER SENT RUSSIA Germany Delegates Danish Editor With New Proposal. GOTHENBURG, Sweden. April 27, via London. April 2 8. The Copenhagen correspondent of the TidenigCn tele graphs fhat he has learned from a de pendable source that M. Borgjerg, edi tor of the Social Demokraten, of Copen hagen, is on a German mission to Rus sia. ' It is said he is carrying a peace proposal. LACE FLAG MADE FOR U. S. v First American Regiment to Reach France to Bo Possessor. PARIS, April 28. The women lace workers of Velay have united in mak ing a lace flag with the colors of the United States, and intended to present it to the first American regiment that comes to fight upon French soil. General Lafayette came from the region of Velay. Three Distant Counties Alone Unrepresented. SEVENTY IN ONE DELEGATION Military Value of Good High- ways Strongly Urged. PLAN CAPITALIZES WASTE Governor Withj-combe and Commis sioner Adams Are Speakers Mr. Adams Suggests Bringing War Prisoners to America. All but three counties of the 36 in Oregon were represented by delegates attending the state-wide good roads conference held in the Multnomah Ho tel yesterday afternoon. The purpose of the conference was to formulate plans for raising funds and carrying on a more effective campaign for the $6,000,000 road bond issue. The bond measure, which comes before tha voters at a special election June 4, was . warmly indorsed in resolutions adopted by the conference. Curry, Grant and Harney were the only counties that did not have at least one or more representatives pres ent. Indicative of the wide interest in the question, from some of the coun- 1 ties came large delegations to voice. emphatically the sentiments of their communities in favor of the road bonds. and of the cause of good roads in general. Seventy In One Delegation. One delegation comprising some 70 persons came from the towns of Con don and Fossil, in Gilllamand Wheeler counties, to boost for the J6.000.O0O bond issue and the John Day highway, which Is one of the roads provided for " under the bonding act. Several hundred persons attended the conference and heard the interesting programme of addresses and Informal talks that had been provided. The as sembly room on the mezzanine floor of the Multnomah Hotel, where the dele gates met, was comfortably filled all afternoon. Legislators at Session. Senator W. D. Wood, of Hillsboro, chairman of the joint legislative com mittee that is In charge of the cam paign for the bond issue, presided at the conference. Among the delegates were several other members of the joint legislative committee, including Sena tors Julien A. Hurley, of Vale, and E. D. Cusick, of Albany; and Representa tives W. E. Schimpff, of Astoria; O. Laurgaard, of Portland, and Roy Ritner. of Pendleton. - The resolutions indorsing the bond measure were adopted toward the end of the meeting, following the regular speaking programme. In the preamble to the resolutions, the necessity of good roads for military purposes 'was strong ly emphasized. The resolutions, elim inating tho long preamble of where ases, as reported by the resolutions commltteo of the conference, of which M. Fitzmaurice. of Condon, was chair man, were as follows: Bond Issue Indorsed. "Be It resolved by the Stat Good Roads Association, in convention duly assembled, that we, the representatives of the various communities of the state of Oregon, hereby unqualifiedly Indorse the adoption by the people at the spe cial election held June 4, 1917, of House bill 550. "Be it further resolved that we -urge (Concluded on Page 18.) r i - - 1,: . t , - IV- - I - p. i " ." , ' ' , r
