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74 Pages Six Sections Section One Pages 1 to20 VOL,. XXXVI XO. 23. PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE 10, 1917. PRICE FIVE CENTS. mm U. S. Ill WAR TO BREAK KAISERISM Aims Explained by Wilson to Russia. STATUS QUO ANTE OPPOSED No Annexation Nor Indemnity, but the Righting of Every Wrong Is Demanded. 'GERMAN INTRIGUE BARED Warning Given That Berlin Is Using Those Nations Whom . She Seeks to Undo. ' "WASHINGTON, June 9. Presi dent Wilson, in a communication to the new government of Russia, has made plain the war aims of the United States and its position on "no annex ations, no indemnities." "No territory must change hands except for the purpose of securing those who Inhabit it a fair chance of life and liberty," says the communi cation. "No indemnities must be insisted on except those that constitute payment for manifest wrong done. Status Quo Ante Opposed. "No readjustments of' power must be made except such as will tend to ' secure the future peace of the world and the future welfare and happiness of its people." In unmistakable terms President "Wilson declares against Germany's proposal to restore the "status quo" before the war- - : "Tt -was the status auo ante out of which this iniquitous war issued 1U1 UXlj lie oa.jBt wn. l"-' " " , 1 perkil German government within the empire and its widespread domination and influence outside of ,that empire. "That status must be altered in SUCn iasmon as lu prevent, any buui hideous thing from ever happening again." Aims Previously Beclouded. The President's communication was delivered to the Russian government by Ambassador Francis at Petrograd. In full it is as follows: "In view of the approaching visit of the American delegation to Russia to express the deep friendship of the American people for the people of Russia and to discuss the best and most practical means of co-operation between the two peoples in carrying the present struggle, for the freedom of all peoples to a successful consum mation, it seems opportune and ap propriate that 1 should state again, in the light of this new partnership, the objects the United States has had in mind in entering the war. Germany Is Desperate. "Those objects have been very much beclouded during the past few weeks by mistaken and misleading statements, and the issues at stake tc'oncluded on Page 4. Column 3.) C sT'S-i- -rt&f'?," ywrc v lvVM fi V''' I II It (.frl V roKMtp? HASTES' lOc T rvwz-TVyc? co-cr '"lll(lrx. tfjlJ GERMAN AIRMEN'S DEATH TOLL HIGH METROPOLITAN PAPERS LIST TWO TO TEX DEATHS A DAY. Rarity of Notices of Submarine Of ficers Dead Leads to Belief Government Bars News. COPENHAGEN, via London. June 9. The death notices in the German pa pers indicate what a terrible toll the western battle is taking among Ger man aviators. Scarcely an issue of the Berlin, Hamburg or- other papers ap pears without at least two or three and often eight and 10 notices of deaths in the flying corps. Occasionally there Is. a noteworthy one like today's annouincement of the death of Lieutenant Schaefer, who was mentioned in dispatches on Tuesday for bringing down his 30th enemy air plane. Death notices of submarine officers are as rare as those of fliers are fre quent. For several weeks none has been noticed in the Berlin and Ham burg papers, and It is possible that the Admiralty has prohibited their pub lication. GERMAN OFFICER INDICTED Captain of Seized Ship and Others Accused of Smuggling. PHILADELPHIA. June 9. The Fed eral grand Jury here today indicted Max V. Thlerichens, ex-captain of the seized German auxiliary cruiser Prince Ettel Kriedrich; Adelbert K. Fischer. Mrs. Helena Fischer, his wife, and Henry K. Rohner, of this city, on charges of conspiracy and smuggling. In addition. Captain Thlerichens was indicted on a. charge of violating the Mann white slave act. U. S. SHIP OUTWITS U-BOAT American Steamer Dodges Torpedo and Fires on Submarine. WASHINGTON, June 9. Another en counter between an American steamer and an enemy submarine, in which the steamer narrowly escaped destruction by torpedo was reported today to the State Department. The ship fired at the submarine after a torpedo had passed within 10 yards of hei; bow, but the effect of the shot was not ascertained. PUYALLUP FEELS QUAKE Sharp ' Shock . Rattles Windows in Tacoma and Nearby Towns; TAOOMA. "Wash., June 9. (Special.) A sharp earthquake shook houses and rattled windows in Tacoma and Puvallun Valley at 6:32 this morning. It was reported by scores of residents in. PuyallUD and Alderton, indicating that it was especially sharp in the valley. No damage was reported. PLACE OFFERED MR. HETZEL O. A. C. Extension Director Consid ers New Hampshire Presidency. R. D. Hetzel. director of the exten sion service at the Oregon Agricultural Collage, has been offered the presi dency of the New Hampshire Agricul tural College and has the offer under consideration. Mr. Hetzel will leave here early next week for New Hampshire to confer with the regents of the school. HOME GUARD ARMS PASSED Measure Authorizing Equipment Is Sent to "Wilson for Signature. "WASHINGTON, June 9. Final action on Senator Lodge's bill to authorize issuance of Government rifles and other equipment for home guard or ganizations, was taken in the Senate today and the measure was sent to the President for his signature. IVAVAT . I V A S- BRITISH SMASH 111 NEW 2-MILE FRONT Gain at "aws yam ' i ive. MASTERY IS HELD NEAR YPRES One Advance Post Lost After Hand-to-Hand Fighting. GERMANS MASS ON FLANKS Several Raids Made Under Terrific Bombardment and Battle Sways To and Fro Count Von . Arnim Defeated General. LONDON. June 9. The BTltish at tacked last night south of the Sou chez River and entered the German po sitions on a front of more than two miles, the War Office announces. The German line was penetrated to a depth of more than half a mile. Heavy cas ualties were inflicted on the Germans. The attack extended north of the river. The statement says . operations were carried on with complete success on a. wide front from south of Lens to La Bassee. The Germans made a powerful coun ter attack last night over nearly the whole length of the new front. They were repulsed, completely, the British retaining all the ground captured. COUNTER ATTACKS BEATEN OFF Prussian and Bavarian Troops Suf- fcr Frightful Losses. (By Staff Correspondent of Associated Press.) BRITISH HEADQUARTERS IN FRANCE, via London, June 9. With their overwhelming weight of massed guns and in hand-to-hand fighting at some points, the British have beaten off all German counter-attacks upon their newly won positions beyond the Messines Ridge. Prussian 'and Bavarian troops, driven forward under a storm of fire poured' upon them from ad vanced British battery positions, suf fered frightfully. As this dispatch is written, they had succeeded in recap turing and holding only one British, post, at Kleinezebek, which had been pushed well forward of the consoli dated main British line. Beateh back in the center, the Ger mans apparently have massed toward the flanks of the front on which the British advanced. They attempted sev eral tunes to organize heavy counter attacks In the direction of Warneton, but the British guns upset their plans. All the British divisions involved in the fighting testified to the readiness with which the German prisoners as sisted in the work of bringing the wounded from the battlefield. They volunteered for this work and per formed it with great tenderness. It reflected their gratitude for escaping from the maelstrom of battle and the staggering bombardment under which they had lived for seven long days and nights. The Messines attack was carried out by a single British army. This army, commanded - by General Sir Herbert Plumer, congratuated itself today' on the fact that its. success had been won with just about one-fifth the casual ties which it was felt might have been paid for capturing such strong strate gic positions. Some of the stiffest fighting since the initial attacks began at dawn on the east of Messlnea village with Ger mans advancing from "Warneton. Aus tralians have been in the thick of this (Concluded on Page 4, Column 2.) NEWS OF THE WEEK ILLUMINED IN PICTURES BY INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS . The Weather. TESTERDATS Maximum temperature, . 58 decrees; minimum, 49 degrees. TODAY'S Fair and warmer; northerly winds. War. America Is In war to break autocracy,. Wil son advises Russia. Section 1. pace 1. Russian soldiers and workmen scorn Ger man peace offer. Section 1, pase 2. General Pershlns; and staff are received by King George. Section 1, page 4. German papers' daily list two to ten deaths of aviators. Section 1. page X. Britlsh smash In new two-mile front. Sec tion 1. page 1. KatloBsL Tiaval personnel muzzled In effort to fore stall spies. Section 1, page 4. Registration figures from 26 states give total of 4.716,768. section 1. page 2. Many die in Salvador cities razed by quake. Section 1, page 4. Senate finance committee differs widely In sources of revenue. Section 1. page 5. Domestic. Unquestioned obedience chief virtue In tie serve Officers' training camp. Section 1, page 8. Kidnaped Missouri baby heir found mur dered; mob seeks vengeance. Section 1. page 1. One hundred and seventy-five miners dead in burning Butte mines. Section 1, page 5. . ' Sports. Pacific Coast Leiinis results: I.os Angeles 3. Oakland 0: San Francisco, 14. Vernon 6. (Portland-Salt T.ake game postponed; wet -grounds.) Section 2, page 1. Clever players signed up by Manager roty. of Shipbuilders' team. Section 2, page 2. Finals In Columbia-Willamette Trapahoot ers' Association to be staged today. Sec tion 2. page 2. Tacoma setback is feature In Northwestern League play last week. Section 2, page 2. St. Louis Browns negotiate for Ken Will iams. Section 2. page 2. Attendance at major league games Is large despite weather conditions. Section 2, page 3. Intramural games Increase at Oregon Agri cultural College. Section 2. page 3. Athletlo training In colleges held big need now.. Section 2, page 3. Plans complete for Festival acquatlc events. Section 2. page 4. Ethics In officiating at tennis matches In volved. Section 2, page 4. Stymie ruling is not to be changed here. Section 2. page 4. Hunt Club plans many activities. Section 2. page 4. Commercial and Marine. Regular Oregon wool season opens this week.' Section 2.. page 13. Chicago wheat soars on Federal crop re port. Section 2. pago 13. Sharp advance In Motor shares In Wall street market. Feet Ion 2, -page 13. War storks are at highest quotations of year. Section 2, page 13. New mills to be built at I,lnnton to cut big ship timbers. Section 1, page 19. Grain elevator and water terminal property chosen. Section 1, page 18. Portland and Astoria shlpmen vitally Inter ested In alien navigators' situation. Sec tion 1. page 19. Pacific Northwest. Public Service Commission orders reduction in commercial and heating rates charged by Portland Railway. Light A Power Company. Section 1. page 6. Big wastage in orders for lumber for wooden ships seen, section 1. page I. Old Umpqua. Academy alumni .hojdg reunion at Wilbur. Section 1. page 7. Oregon City Cltautauqua programme an nounced. Section 1. page 7. Willamette Chapter of Red Cross aotlve In Marion and Polk counties. Section 1 page 8. University of Oregon science professors will do research work this Summer. Section . . 1. page 8. Idaho census reveals that farmers sre most ly young men. Section 1. page 9. Bend and Prlnevllle respond generously In liberty loan campaign. Section 1. page 9. Oregon bankers end convention at Marsh field. Section 2. page 6. Portland and Vicinity. Two subscriptions boost Portland liberty bond sales. Section 1. pager 1. Freshet expected to reach 24.4 feet by Wed nesday. Section 1, page 1. Big noon liberty bond rally Is held. Section 1, page 6. Consolidation committee finds officials be longing to "T. A T. Club." Section 1, page 6. .... Children's parade Wednesday morning to be feature ox Rose- Festival.- section -1, page 12. Oregon Honor Guard Girls active In service of Nation. Section 1. page 10. Lee Tin freed on murder charge. Section 2, page 14. Elks to renew devotion to flag on Multno mah Field. Section 2, page 14. Portland called upon to furnish 1B0 mere men for Marine Corps. Section 2, page 14. Stirring appeal to Oregon to raise funds for Red Cross. Section 1. page 10. Colonel Doyen praised by Captain Plnkston. Section 1. page 10. Hill Military Academy cadets close school year. Section 1. page 12. National salute by Battery A will epen Rose Festival. Section 1. page 12. II. c. Wortman, returned from East, finds war close to people there. Section 1, page 12. New war Is foreseen by Adventlat. Section 1. page 13. T. M. C. A. boys camp to be limited to 75. Section 1. page 14. Portland High and Trade schools will grad uate 652. Section 1, page 14.- First Regiment Reserves to be reviewed to morrow. Section 1, page 15. ( THE At 2 MEN SUBSCRIBE HEAVILY FOR BONDS Max H. Houser Takes $250,000 of Issue. T. B.WILCOX BUYS $200,000 Small 'Investors Continue to Respond Well. QUOTA BARELY HALF TAKEN Citizens of Moderate Wealth Must Take Many $5000 Blocks and Up if City Is to Escape Be ing Financial Slacker. ' Two. record-breaking: individual sub scriptions for liberty bonds yesterday one by Max H. Houser for $250,000 and the other by Theodore B. Wilcox for $200,000 served to bring Portland's to tal to date up to 13.550,350. which is more than half the city's requirement. While the bankers are greatly en couraged over this substantial mani festation of patriotism by Mr. Wilcox and Mr. Houser, they inst that it will be necessary for other men of means to make similarly heavy subscriptions if the city is to escape the odium of becoming: a financial shirker. Bulk of Purchases Small. 1 The great bulk of subscriptions con tinues to come from the host of small investors and range In denomination from $50 up to $200. It is apparent, however, that some of the moneyed folks intend to Join In the big: liberty loan this week be fore . the campaign closes on Friday at noon. Among the other large Individual subscriptions of the last few days were the Eastern & "Western Lumber Com pany. 1100,000; S. Benson, $100,000; W. B. Ayer. $50,000; Mrs. Sigmund Frank, $50,000; the Meier & Frank Company. $50,000; J. Tt. Bowles, $50,000, and three or four of $J5,000. , Subscriber Keeps Name Secret. One 'well-known Portland man has subscribed $50,000 on condition that his name be retained a secret. " When the bankers began to despair & few days ago lest Portland fall down in meeting Government requirements. L. Allen Ijewis increased the original $25,000 made by the firm of Allen & Lrfjwio, wholesale grocers, from $25,000 to $50,000. The First National Bank yesterday subscribed for an additional $235,000, to be redistributed among its patrons. The same bank previously had sub scribed for $700,000. most of which was sold over its counters to small in dividual purchasers. Treasury Certiorates) Converted. The First National also has $250,000 of short-term 3 per cent treasury cer tificates stored away In its vaults which it is expected to convert into liberty bonds before the campaign closes. The bank originally bought $450,000 of the short-term paper, $200,000 of which al ready has been converted. . When the treasury certificates were sold here in April more than $1,000,000 was distributed among the various banks of Oregon. All this issue Is con vertible at par Into liberty bonds which pay 3H per cent. It is apparent that cf tula paper already has been converted but no record has been re ported to the state headquarters of how much. Banks Asked to Report. C. A. Miller, state manager, yester day wrote to all the banks holding short-term certificates asking them to report by Tuesrtav noon how much they had converted and how much they in tend to convert. It is believed that with a liberal con- (Concluded on Page 4. Column 1.) CARTOONIST REYNOLDS. CHJZfS - woe GocGr Sr EVOLfGV TO CTXV j 3 0 7 rVZVr CxV ?G- ST OftV FRESHET TO REACH 24.4 BY WEDNESDAY COOLER 'WEATHER EXPECTED TO CHECK RISE IN RIVER. Lapse of Few Bays Is Likely Before Renewal of Rise Drop In Temperatures Reported. Rising 1.3 feet between 5 o'clock yes terday morning and 4 o'clock yester day afternoon, or more than one-tenth of an inch an hour, was the change in the Snake River, at Lewiston. Al though the Willamette River rose one tenth of a foot here during the day, making the depth 21.6 feet above zero, it Is not believed that the height will exceed 24.4 feet Wednesday. Temperatures fell from 18 to 34 de grees as compared, with those of 24 hours previous, they being 34 degrees lower at Baker and Boise, 20 degrees less at Walla Walla, the same at Kalis- pell andi!8d.egrees less at Spokane, while showers were reported at Baker. Walla Walla and other points in that xone. The river forecast yesterday morn ing was that the Willamette would rise slowly here today and more rapidly ror two or three days, reaching stages of 22.2 feet tomorrow, 23.2 feet Tues day and 24.4 feet Wednesday. The effect of cooler weather will probably then check the flow and a few days more may elapse before it is increased. Official river readings yesterday were: 2. Wenatrhee . 40 2H 25 4 lO an u' 12 13 r.s.o la.s 14.0 jo.o 34.3 6.1 B.:i 6.3 5. 31.6 0.2 Kamlah ... i.ewlston I matllla. .. . The Dalles . Rugene Albany .... 04 o. 1 0.3 0.8 0.6 0 Salem Oregon City Portland ... 0.1 BOMBS HIP NEAR KAISER Illndenburg and Prince Eitel Also Barely Missed by Airmen. LONDON. June 9. Emperor William was with Field Marshal von Hlnden burg. Prince Eitel Frledrich and other members of the German Em peror's staff inside the St. Peter's sta tion at lhent. i Belgium, when.it was bombarded by entente allied airmen the other day, according to a dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph Company from a Dutch frontier correspondent. The Emperor's party was unhurt, but three array officers near by were killed. PRISONER. FED. FORCIBLY Antl-Conscriptlon ' Agitator's Fast Broken in Kansas City.' KANSAS CITY, Mo., June 9. Eiea Luboshez, a photographer arrested i week ago on a charge of anti-draft conspiracy, last night was forcibly fed at the County JaiL jjUDOscnez since nis arrest Had re fused food, though an abundance was placed in his cell. He was held, a tube forced into his mouth and a pint of milk and three eggs administered. BONDS GIVEN JUNE BABIES Omaha Commercial Club Has Plan to Aid Liberty Loan. OMAHA. Neb., June 9. The Omaha Commercial Club announces that it will present one liberty bond to each baby born in Omaha today, upon presenta tion of the birth certificate. If the average number of June babies claim the prize it will take ten bonds to fulfill the promise. WARM WEEK IS FORECAST Weather to Be Fair With Tempera ture Above Seasonal Average. WASHINGTON, June 9. Weather predictions for the week beginning June 10, Issued by the weather bureau today, say: Pacific states Generally fair; tem perature above seasonal average. rMfROAT ' ) ROSE 7Tl i -x. "i M -7v V H) i II crocs" cro VV 7jE ts 1 KEET BABY SLAIN: I Suspects Spirited Away, Captured-by Mob. 12,000 PREPARE VENGEANCE Sheriff and Seven Springfield Prisoners Chased Many Miles by Citizens. CHILD FOUND IN OLD WELL Kidnapers' Rendezvous Is Lo cated in "Haunted House." Body in Woman's Skirt. SPRINGFIELD, Mo Jnne 9. A message was received at the Repub lican office at 11 o'clock that the prisoners were captured at Caplingers mill, two miles east of Stockton, and were on their way to Springfield. Not less than 12,000 persons are on the square awaiting word from the posse. It was said that farmers had burned a bridge over which Sheriff Webb would have had to take his party and that he abandoned the mo torcars, taking his prisoners into the brush. Persons on the square here were carrying ropes and were awaiting the return of the prisoners, which was . said to be expected between midnight and 1 o'clock. SPRINGFIELD, Mo., June 9. Baby Lloyd Keet was found dead today.- The child had been drowned in a well on an abandoned farm at least four days ago, according to the find ings from an autopsy, when the band of kidnapers,- who took him from his home Wednesday night of last week, began to fear capture. Tonight scores of Springfield men in automobiles were hurrying in pur suit of the county Sheriff's automo bile, in which seven persons suspected of complicity in the kidnaping and murder -were being sped to the state prison at Jefferson City. Lynching Is Admitted Aim. Openly the pursuers have declared their intention of taking summary vengeance upon the perpetrators of the crime. The body of the 14 months old child was found shortly before noon today by a- Sheriff's possee which had gone to a "haunted" house, long since abandoned, - in the Ozark Mountains, eight miles southwest of here. In some way not yet explained, the Sheriff was told last night that trace of the child could be found on the farm. Straightaway he left Spring field with deputies and the long search began before midnight. Body Wrapped in Woman's Shirt. At noon they thought of the well. A deputy was lowered into the open ing while others held him by his Concluded on F'age 3. Column 2.) lAJLL- FORM