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JJ S . Section One Pages 1 to 24 84 Pages SixSections J V IW ' I J T lr W 11" Ww W W ICi u jn-r - aA S A JT - XV ' XT S . U XT' VT VI J .7 V X7 I I VOL. XXXVII NO. 18. PORTLAND, OBEUOA', SUNDAY MORNING, MAY 5, 1918. " ' PRICE FIVE CENTS. . - - i i i- """" " I ' ' 1 US Will Great Struggle Renewed Along -Flanders Line. ATTACKING TEUTONS LOSE French Advance Near Locre and Take Prisoners; British Gain at Meteren. GERMAN'S BOMBARD HILLS Entente Positions on Scher penberg and Mont Rouge Under tremendous Fire. LONDON", May 4. German troop today, wider cover of a heavy artillery barrage, attacked the British posi tion south of Locon. The statement Limed tonight by the War Office says the attack was completely repulsed. Freneh troopt in their operaUona thia wominr in the Loera aector made progress and took prisoners. BriUah troopa on the right of the French also advanced their lines in the neighbor hood of Meteren. There is great ac tivity in thia aector. New Offensive Start. . There are unmistakable signs of resumption of the German effort to force the allied positions on toe ma chain west of Kemmel. Last night a.nd today the Germans opened a tre mendous bombardment on Scherpen berg and on Mont Rouge, but no in fantry actios followed. The allies are well prepared for the attack, but the weather is thick and wet. so that aerial observation practically is impossible. PARIS, May 4 Spirited artillery fighting along the Avre River on the front southeast of Amiens is reported ia today's official statement. WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN FRANCE. May 4. (By the As sociated Press.) American .troops in the Lorraine sector yesterday morn ing carried out a raid on the German lines south of Halloville, on a 600 yard front. After an intense, but brief, artillery preparation, the in fantry, accompanied by pioneers, went ever the top and penetrated the Ger man positions to the third line. They found not a single German. Salient la Eliminated. The attack was on a German salient. The artillery completely lev eled the German position and the pi oneers finished the job by blowing up all the enemy works, thus eliminating the salient. A German raid which it was ex pected would be carried out on the sector south of Verdun failed to ma terialize. An official note says: "On May 3. 300 American soldiers, after careful artillery preparation. fConrleded Fas 4. ' luma S-fc HUtlS START DRIVE ul'f mil War. VT Cr U J VK!Mi . oa-iv' -rvvx-v imsa'g LssiaisaBssassaiaeMssaeBawSB.SKssaeaav-aB ! mmmtmmmmmimmmmmmmmmmmm2mmZSaJTmmmmmmmmmm !HH---aaMawaaaswaesaasBaaaaaeaaMSMaessssssassssM FRENCH DESTROY BOCHE SUPER-GUN ARTILLERY MAKES DIRECT HIT OX LONG-RAXGE CAJiNOX. Polio Responsible for. Feat, - Ask for "Plnard,". When' Parisians Would Express Gratitude. PARIS, May . News has Just been racelred from tne front that a French run mad a direct nit yesterday on on of th ion (--rang German cannon with which Pari is belna bombarded and put It out of action. Deputy Charles Lebouco returned to Paris frem th battl last evening- aad confirmed the report that on of th Qerman super-cannon had ' been de stroyed. He said: 1 was with the battery yesterday which fired the lucky shot. The foe which had Interfered with observation d urine the last few days had cleared. our Sr could be rectified, and the tar set was hit. "One of these runs exploded some three weeks ag-o. Another was hit 10 days if o. It is Impossible to say yet If this latter fun was the one de stroyed yeeterday. Photograph taken of th sun positions have not yet been developed. Thia success shows the great skill of our runners, as the odds against a direct hit are enormous. It show also the great courage and endurance of eur men. as they remain night and day be- elde their guns and suffer severe losses. I showed them letters from Parisians expressing? their gratitude and asking now they could show It. Tb gunners replied: - so Better way than to send us plnard.' Plnard la army slang for wine." BOYS REPORT DIVERS SUNK Aberdeen Lads Tell of on Atlantic. Adventure ABERDEEN, Wash.. May 4. Spe eiaL) Letters from five Aberdeen boys who wt:e on th transport Martha Washington, on the way to Franca, have been received here. In which sto ries are told of the sinking of three German submarines, one of which was sent lown by a shot from one of the transport's guns. The second subma rine was sunk by a shot from a de stroyer accompanying the transport, aad the third Is believed to have been sunk by. a depth bomb after being damaged by th second gua crew ef (he transport. Five submarines came up at one time, on of th Aberdeen bora says, but two undoubtedly got away. ' He sas they saw the first two keel over. hile th third was damaged and he thinks sunk by th depth bomb. MINING PROFITS ARE HUGE Idaho Property Jfets Its Owners Total of $:.1S,8S. SPOKANE. May 4 (Special.) Net profile of 12,411.(13 wer made by th Bunker Hill At Sullivan Mining Com pany In ltl7. according to tb official report filed today at Wallace. ' Thia Is beside th money expended during the year on the smelter. The' company reports betterments and repairs totaling tl.064.41t, moat of which waa spent on the smelter. This makes the tcjtal profits for th year far above tl.Ooe.OOo a close second to the profits ef th Hercules. ' TEXAS DROUGHT IS BROKEN State Parched for Two Years Cirts Good Rainfall. SAN ANOEIjO. Tex, May 4. After 1 hours ef Intermittent showers, a slow. tesdy rain began failing at daybreak today throughout the greater portion of th region that has been stricken by a two years' drought Since Thurs day midnight, th average fall at nooa today wah two Inches. This la the first general heavy rain i four years. PICTORIAL INTERPRETATIONS BY CARTOONIST REYNOLDS OF HARDSHIPS OF WAR .RESOLUTELY BORNE Boys in France Are Not Complainers. CONDITIONS GENERALLY GOOD Home Folks Need Not Worry, Says Carl u. Coney. SOLDIERS WELL CARED FOR Fund Taken to Europe-for Relief of Needy Ones Not 'Yet. Touched. More Books One of -Urgent ' Wants . at Camps. BY CARL. O. DONET. President of Willamette University. SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE. April I For three or four weeks after land ing I was engaged - In visiting the American camps and giving addresses. In that period I spoke IS times in almost as many different placea; and the op portunity to learn th condition of our men was, therefore, rather exceptional. That section la quiet and devoted to training th men and employing them in various forms of construction work. made It a point to lesrn about their food. Inspected their quarters and made Inquiry relative to their mental and moral conditioner Since that tiro I hav been In a less quiet section and there I have pursued th same course. My Judgments are based only on what hav seen and heard In these two somewhat extensive areas Concerning th food of th soldiers. th friends at home need have no anxiety. Th larger portion comes dl reotly from America and Is both'abun dant and of good quality. It Is pre pared by their own cooks and conse quently th soldiers are not obliged to accustom themselves to French coek- rg. a change which Is not always mad easily. Little Complaint Heard. I hav eaten with th -men and their' officers and every meal baa been satis fy Sr- In many camps, especially those which are transitory, the service Is not what tb boys hav been accustomed to. It still Jars me a little to see th fine fellows In line before th kitchen with mess outfit In -hand, receiving sack man his allotment of food. The shock Is repeated when they go their ways to tent, turf, shed or stable and alt or stand to sat the meal. The only shortage of food I have found has been in places at the front where transportation la difficult. Where all supplies have- to be brought In by wagon or carrier In th night and ever roads that are being ahelled, th hard circumstances explain why the men do not hav pi for dinner. They under stand, complain but little and endure the few days before returning to the rest camp and plenty. Oregea Apple fa Evidence. Parenthetically. I may say that from the southern part to th northern part of Franc I found the men eating the wonderful red apples of Oregon and Washington, the generous gift of the National Apple-growers' Association. The Spaniard ees the discarded cor (vory small), aad th Hun behind, hla Una of yellow clay haa doubtless caught th odor when a box was opened at th front. Th sleeping- quarters of th men are far from being bad. A large tent, hav ing; a Sibley stove, accommodates six or eight. There are no feather beds or hair mattresses, but there are mat tresses stuffed with straw, and there la no shortage of blanketa or clothing. In th more permanent barracka - a (Conclude! on Pag S. Columo l. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS ' The Weather. TE6TERDAT9 Maximum temperature. S3 aecrees; minimum, as degrees. TODAY" 8 Fair, moderate southwesterly winoa. War. Allies gain as Germans launch offensive. Section 1, page J. . ... Boys In France resolutely doing their bit. says carl u, uoney. Section 1. page 1. French destroy German long-range cannon. section i. page l- British losses In recent offensive of Ger mans estimated at 230,000. SecUon 1, age X. Italian battlefront aflame. Vienna reports section 1, page 11. American soldiers eager to 'get Into fray, ears atciue. Section 1, page la. . Foreign. Austrian Emperor empowers Premier von Seydler to prorogue Parliament. Section i. page l. All Ireland declared .to be opposed to lm pertal conscription. SecUon 1. page S. Future In Russia and Siberia alarms diplo - mats. Section 1. page 4. National. Third liberty loan greatly oversubscribed. section 1. page 1. President Wilson saves lives of American soldiers ordered to be shot. Section 1, page 2. Sedition bill passed by senate.' SecUon 1, Page S. Secretary Lane daclares soortace-of fuel oil imminent, section 1. page 6. Domestic, i Seamen's strike on Great Lakes looms. Sec tion 1. page S. Escape plan of interned Germans foiled when' guards discover tunnel at Georgia camp, section 1, page 6. Train service cut west of Chicago. SecUon . page i. I. W. W. expenditures grow by leaps. Sec tion x, page e. Pacific Northwest. Long Branch couple held as kidnapers. Section 1. page T. Council of Defense war tax amendment iiiea at Salem. Section 1. page 8. Governor Alexander to retire at expiration term, section 1. page 8. Eugene woman receives letter from relative in j-arle telling of German bombardment. section 1. page S. Powers of telephone eomsanles outlined by coiiuniasion. section 2. page 7. It porta. Lincoln and, Jefferson tied In Interscholastlc ieague pennant race. Section Z. page 1. Buckaroos bunch bite In the third and win. e it i. section It. page L Violet Sutton boosts tennis as sport for women, section 2. page 2. Multnomah Club teama to play . deciding games toaay. Beotlon Z. page - Plarers of many leaa-uea now Included In smpDuuaerr League. Section 3, page . Fisher prunes Buekaroo lineup to admit new piayers. section X, page 2. Interscholastlc games draw large crowds. section page 3. Golf club shafts ef today Inferior in qual ity. Section 2. page . Annual trapshootlng tournament of State Association set for Hay 19-2.1. Section 2. page s. Shipbuilders' basebali league plays fifth se ries or games today. Section 2, page 4. Inter-City League to start schedule today. reciion -. page 3. Golf novices to vie today at Portland Golf ciuo. section 2, page -4. Oregon Aggies defeat Oregon in traok -meet. section 2. page o. Portland and Vicinity. Mr. Ruston to vote for R. Jf. Gtanfleld. Section l.Fag T. - W- v. B. Hilnnr. long treated employe of neiie-ssrgo, contessea S4O0 theft. Sec tion 1. page 10. Current draft call for 232.00 men doe not inciuie mis state. Beotlon 1. page 10. Review of all Oregon Home Guard units Planned during war conference. May 22 and 23. Section 1. page 13. Serious legal questions Involved In proposed amenamenis. section 1. page 13. C T. U. la active overseas. Section 1, page 14. Judge Borle urges lumbermen to ro -operate more cloaely. Section 1. page 16. Campaign for fond to entertain O. A. R. encampment in August begins Section 1. page IS. Public meetings for anaUsts of city measures neanuy commended, section S. pass 7 Republicans agree to support ticket at gen- ' ,iwiBn in noitmiw. section 1 page 18. State convention of Girls' Honor Guard dls- cuaeee memoes or speeding up war work Section 1, page IS. Tomorrow will be Thrift Stamp day through oat. United States. Section 1, page 20. Vista Houee will be dedicated today. Sec tion x, page ze. Financing needed by city for collection of utrunquvni ureai ana sewer sssessments. Section 1. page 23. Oregon $4,300,000 beyond loan quota. Sec- uou i, page jo. Weather report, data and forecast. Section . page 30. SAMPLE BALLOT PRINTED TO DAY. The' complete 'Republican bal lot for the state and Multnomah County In the primary election of May 17 Is printed in The Orego nian today on page IS, section 1. The Portland ballot for the spe cial city 'election - to be held at the same time was printed in The Oregonisn last Sunday. AUSTRIA, FEARFUL INVOKES CLOSURE Vienna Reports Parli ament Will-Grose. PROVINCIAL- "BLOCK" CAUSE Von Seydler Admits Food and Economic Crisis Serious. COMING MONTHS DECISIVE Government Dreads Criticism of War Policies and Forces Em peror Charles to Order Sit tings Abandoned. LOKTDOX, May 4. The Holland news b urea a says, according to an Amster dam dispatch to the Exchange Tele graph Company, that the renlgaatlon of the Auatrlaa Premier, Dr. vori Seyd ler, as soon as the Emperse returns la unavoidable. It adds that th parliament major ity-, eoaslatlns; of Slavs. Csech and Poles, haa decided sot to listen to him i Premier any snore. AMSTERDAM, May 4. Emperor Charles of Austria has empowered the Austrian Premier to adjourn Parlia ment and forthwith Inaugurate meas ures to render Impossible the resump tion of lta activities, a Vienna dispatch says. Food Situation Blamed. A statement published In Vienna In dicates that the closure of Parliament is due to the seriousness of the food sit uation. The statement says: "The government will devote Its en tire strength, to .the. economic problem and will try to create conditions re quired to enable the population to hold out."' A Vienna dispatch says that the Aus trian Premier. Dr. von Seydler, speak ing at a conference of party leaders. declared that .the serious economic and rood. conditions made it imperative for the present government to be spared Parliamentary criticism. He therefore demanded that the proposed sittings of Parliament be postponed. - adding that unless the party leaders took this step the government would prevent the ses sions forcibly. Apparently this conference was held before the Emperor acted. During the discussion of revising the constitution . on . the basis of national utonomy. Premier von Seydler an nounced that In Bohemia th govern ment would speedily issue regulations providing for the appointment of - ad ministrators for districts inhabited by distinct nationalities. . Racial Warfare Dasgennia, Premier von Seydler counded a warn ing against Inciting nationalities against each other. He then said: "Our entire -military and political situation has reached a climax. The next few months will bring a big de cision. . I am firmly convinced the de cision cn the battlefield will be in favor of Austria and her allies. "Our economic, especially our food, conditions are very serious, but they are not at all desperate. To hold on now to a final happy, decision Is the vital question for the state. It there fore is necessary that, unhampered by parliamentary - confusion, the govern ment be left In a position to devote all its strength to these tasks." Austria has been deep in difficulties. both political" and economic, for more than a year, and it has been an open secret that Emperor Charles was de sirous of bringing about peace, his ef- 'Concluded on Pase 8. Column 1.) SOME EVENTS IN THE TRAIN SERVICE CUT WEST OF CHICAGO OXE-THIRD OF EQUIPMENT TO BE ELIMINATED. New Ruling Expected to Save Ap proximately $12,000,000 Year.' Order Is Effective June 1. CHICAGO, May 4. One-third of all the passenger trains between Chicago and the Pacific Coast will be eliminated after June I, according to word re ceived from "Washington by railway officials tonight. This step, it was said, would save approximately 112,000,000 a year and cut off 11,728,000 miles of train . haul. Under the revolutionized plan of handling traffic, passengers would no longer have a choice of routes. Traffic to the West Coast and intermediate points would be divided between four lines as follows: . To Los Angeles and junction points by Santa Fa. To San Francisco and junction points by Union Pacific To Seattle and junction points by Chi cago, Milwaukee & SL Paul. To Portland and junction points by Northern Pacific. The cut in service would take off three through trains from Chicago to Los Angeles, two to San Francisco and three to Seattle and Portland. More. than 40 local trains would be dispensed with also. J. D. Farrell, president of the O.-W R. & N. Company, and other railroad ex ecutives here had knowledge of the lm pending- order for curtailment of trans continental passenger service. It Is their understanding that the reduced service affects only through fast trains ."The order does not contemplate," said Mr. Farrell last night, "that the through fast train service to Portland from the East shall be routed over the Northern Pacific to Seattle and thence to this city. Instead, Portland will be served " over the Northern Pacific to Spokane and thence over the Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway to this city. WAR. IS JUST HEARD. OF Oregon Miner With $65,000 in Gold Loading TJp With Liberty Bonds. RENO, Nev., May 4. For four years Charles McNeale, a prospector, has been working a claim in the mountains en the Powder River In Oregon, all un conscious of the fact that nearly the entire world is at war. He arrived in Reno yesterday with- $65,000 in gold. and today he is trying to make up for lost time by buying all the thrift stamps and war savings certificates and liberty "bonds that he can carry. After hearing many tales about war he decided to enlist, but was rejected because of his age. He says he has a rich placer mine in the mountains, 65 miles from the nearest station, and is going to return to' It after he Invests all his money in bonds and war savings stamps. OREGON SOLDIER STEPS UP Joseph R. Barroll, Jr., of Parkdale, Wins Second Lieutenancy. WASHINGTON. May 4. Graduates of the third officers training- school at Camp Lee, Vs., announced today by the Adjutant-General include: Infantry Alan N. Hansen, Pocatello, Idaho; Harold L. Mayn, White Sulphur Spring's. Mont. Field Artillery Joseph R. Barroll, Jr., Parkdale, Or.; Albert M. ZullU Big Timber, Mont. ROUMANIA MAKING PEACE Negotiations With Teutonic Powers Said to Be Resumed. AMSTERDAM, May 4. The delegates of Roumania and the central powers have resumed peace negotiations, a Bucharest dispatch reports. Several of the outstanding questions have ,been settled, and the conclusion of the negotiations is being approached rapidly. - i PAST WEEK'S NEWS. AAA. GREAT LOAN GOES FAR BEYOJID GOAL t SSJBSSwSSSSSSBSSBSWaBMSiaSBSaBBSSBWSS'a Nearly Four Billions Sub scribed, Is Estimate. LAST DAY BIG LANDSLIDE Official Estimates Place Num ber of Subscribers at More Than 13,000,000. DELAWARE DOUBLES QUOTA Final Round-Up in New York Described as Most Striking Feature of Last Day. , WASHINGTON, May 4. For the third time within a year the American people have heavily over-subscribed a war credit. As the third liberty loan was clos ing tonight, the Treasury announced the campaign had been "an over whelming success."; Although . $3,000,000,000 was the formal goal of the campaign, official reports, including only a small pro portion of today's avalanche of pledges, showed the total as $3,203, 655,400, and there were indications that the aggregate, would be increased to nearly $4,000,000,000 next week when banks have time to tabulate the multitude of last-minute applications. .Roll of Bond Buyers Greater. ; The exact result ' of the campaign probably will not be known until late in the weekv- Official estimates placed, the num ber of subscribers at between 13, 000,000 and 15,000,000 far above the 10,000,000 of the second loan or 4,500,000 of the first. Some officials expressed the be lief that the roll of bond buyers would be even greater. To them this was one of the most encouraging fea tures of the loan. All 12 ' Federal . Reserve districts, which' were the largest campaign units, oversubscribed, and a majority of the states made the same record. . Delaware doubled its quota. Bond selling continued actively in many cities up to a late hour tonight and banks stayed open in a final ef fort to roll up more subscriptions than the $4,616,000,000 of the second lib erty loan last October. Messages reaching Washington to night indicated, however, that the big subscriptions from corporations and business interests which were fea tures of the last hours of the second campaign, ere lacking, owing to the imminence of income and excess prof- ! Its tax-paying time in June, when more than $3,000,000,000 in war levies : will have to be paid to the Govern- ment. ' ' The headquarters' review tonight described the final round-up in New York as "probably the most striiing feature of the last day's campaign." Within a few hours S129.O0O.O44) sub- (Concluded on Page 11, Column 1.) V t. t f j: 4 B.1 i