80 Pages Six Sections Section One Pageslto24 VOL. XXXVII NO. 24. PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE 16, 1918. TRICE FIVE CENTS, i i AUSTRIAHS START great mm Drive Extends From As iago Plateau to Sea. ITALIANS RESIST STRONGLY Prerrier Orlando Says Initial Results of Enemy Rush Appear to Be Small. ARTILLERY FIRE. INTENSE Ei3 Guns Thunder East of ?renta River and in Middle Piave River Region. I'.OME, June 15. The Austrians besan a great offensive at 7 o'clock th..-. -norning on the front from the A : - to Plateau to the sea. Thi- announcement was made in the C! -.Jm':er of Deputies today by Pre n iot Orlando, who added: "Our- troops are everywhere resist ing rn; grnificently. "Ninrly the whole of our front is r -ie;a:;i i, as the offensive extends with e:-trerr.9 violence from Astico to the Brfrila from the Brenta to the Piave ar.ri &'ng the Piave everywhere, in l ir;j;- the Astico Plateau, the Mount ' Gr? sector and the Plain." Results Appear Small. Premier Orlando declared that the A-i.-'rUns had failed to achieve even tlto preliminary results which usually fci'.rwed a crushing offensive. T eferibing the- operations, the Pre mr?r slid: - "A very violent bombardment be r an ui; 3 o'clock, and at 7 o'clock an in fonV.y attack was launched along the !. line. The latest news which - .- reached me summarizing the eit-i-af .on at.l o'clock is that our troops V-v c ffered magnificent resistance." A message from the front to the Premier concludes as follows: "A comparison of all reports re ceived shows that the offensive was pressed only in the first zone of re sistance," and not even at a few points has it obtained the effect which the enemy must have hoped for from his powerful bombardment and the enor mous effectives launched an attack against which our troops are resist ing magnificently." Fighting on Wide Front. There is intense artillery fighting from the Lagarina Valley to the sea, according to the statement issued by the War Office. The statement reads: "The artillery fire between the Lagarina Valley and the sea has grown in intensity. It has been ex tremely. violent east of the Brenta River and in the middle Piave region VIENNA, via London, June 15. The beginning of a great offensive is indicated in the official communica tion from Austrian headquarters, which says: "Gunfire increased to great inten (Concluded on Page 3. Column 2.) . - aseessssee s essssasrssa i i ) U. S. WORKS BOCHE OFFICERS, SAY HUNS SWISS LEGATION IS ASKED TO MAKE INVESTIGATION. Keport That Interned Teutons Arc Forced to Labor Declared to Be Untrue by Washington. AMSTERDAM. June IS. The Swiss Legation at Washington has been asked to look into the matter of the compulsory work of German officers interned in the United States, accord ing: to an announcement in the Reich stag:, says an official Wolff Bureau dis patch. Deputy Stresemann questioned the government and quoted London newspapers with reference to a photo graph In which Captain Koenig was alleged to be shown breaking stones. WASHINGTON. June 15. German of ficers held prisoners in the United States are not required to do work of any character. There are only a few of them, naval officers, who were aboard the sea raiders lnterne-a arter they appeared In American ports . and some captured U-boat sailors. No communication on this subject has been presented to the State De partment by the Swiss Minister. AGE GREAT, HEALTH GOOD Brownsville Man Celebrates His 102d Birthday. BROWNSVILLE. Or.. Junt 15. (Spe cial.) Assisted 'by friends and rela tives, "Grandfather" Eurson is today celebrating "iis 102d birthday anniver sary. Mr. 'Burson lives with a son on the latter's farm, a few miles north west of Brownsville, in the district known as Ash Swale. Mr. Burson is a man of most rugged constitution and his faculties are but Httle impaired in spite of his great age. He discusses with great avidity and interest the present war situation in Europe, and wants the news read to him each day. He Is a native of Ire land. Nothing pleases him so much as to tell of his own memories of the great wars of the past and to compare and contrast them with the present day conflict. FIRST CARRIERS ARE GIRLS Frlnevllle Announces It Has Free Mail Delivery. PRINEV1LLE, Or., June 15. Free mail delivery for the city of Prineville started today. There will be two carriers, both girls, and there will be two deliveries each, day, one beginning at 8:15 and the other at 12:15 o'clock. The two girls who received appoint ments are-Ruth Fitzgerald and Ruby Clark. Prineville is the first and only town in Central Oregon to have the delivery system, and the local postoffice will be advanced to second-class July 1. AMERICANS REPULSE RAID Out of 150 Huns, Yankees Kill 20 and. Capture One. WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN FRANCE, June 15. (By the Associated Press.) A German raiding party of 150 men and three officers attacked the American line south of Thiaucourt, in the Toul sector, at 2 o'clock this morn ing. As a result the enemy lost at least 20 killed, of whom one officer and four men died in the American trenches. The American casualties were light and they took one wounded prisoner. HUN TONGUE IS OPPOSED Senate Favors Barring of German From District of Columbia Schools. WASHINGTON, June 15. The Senate came out today In opposition to the teaching of German in schools when It accepted an amendment to an appro priation bill prohibiting the teaching of German in the public schools of the District of Columbia- WARTIME O'LEARY, SINN FEIN FUGITIVE CAUGHT Important Arrest Made Near Portland. LARGE POSSE CLOSES IN Much-Sought Man Disguised as Chicken Raiser. PRISONER - ON WAY EAST Man Indit-ted on Treason Charge One of Leading Figures In-Most Sensational Espionage Case Thus Far During War. Jeremiah A. O'Leary. president of the American Truth Society, sought since May 7 In every corner of the United States following his indictment for spying and treason under the espionage act. In New Tork. and his subsequent sensational escape on the eve of his trial for publishing seditious articles. was arrested last Thursday night a few miles from Portland, and he is now be ing hurried across the continent to New Tork. Affiliations with the Sinn Fein or ganization and publication of attacks on the United States Government in his magazine known as "Bull." not to men tion an Incendiary letter to President Wilson and other acts of alleged trea son and sedition, are charged UP to O'Leary. Arrest Dramatic Kptssde. His arrest, which took place at Sara, Wash., 15 miles north of Portland, on the Columbia River, was effected In dramatic manner only after three shots had been fired. Several Government agents and a posse of men' in civilian dress were In the arresting party, and secrecy shrouded their movements in order that no possible interference might result to thwart his return to the East. If the prisoner was brought to Port land it was only to catch a train. Capnire Kept Secret. - Secret service operatives and other officers of .Portland who have been seeking O'Leary since May 21, when an urgent appeal went out from Chief DeWoody, of New Tork, were not ad vised of the capture, and It was made known by telegraph from 'er York only after the prisoner was half-way across the continent on his way to the Eastern city. O'Leary's arrest was effected at a lit tle chicken ranch, after he had been In hiding in Portland several weeks. He had appeared there as a man who "knew the business." Bis; Pome Clones Is. Eleven men were in the posse which closed in on him, probably as large a United States Secret Service squad as has operated together at one time in this part of the country in years. Whether the shots were fired all by the posse, or one by O'Leary, is not defi nitely established, but guns were brought into play, according to one eye witness, who brought the story of the arrest to the office of Sheriff Bie secker, of Clarke County. The witness was present when O'Leary called to inquire into the chicken business. The eye witness is a man 70 years old, and the impression the scene created on him prompted him to relate It, as the speed and dispatch with which the Government agents worked caused him to marvel. Employe Closely 'Watched. It was but a short time ago that the eye witness- was hired by the ranch owner to help run the place, he said, adding that he had worked many years (Concluded on Page 5. Column 2.) TOPICS IN THE WORLD'S INDEX OF TOD AY'S NEWS The Weather. . YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature. 74 degrees; minimum temperature. 04 de grees. " War. ' Austrians start drive. Section 1. pace 1. Aviator "Winslow. describes first American sir victories in France. Section 1. pare 1. British make fain. Section 1. pace 1. Official casualty list. Section 1. pace 4. Vice-Adralral ' Wemyss exposes strategy ef U-boat raids off United States. Section 1. pace 4. U. S. Navy has sunk 38 enemy submarines. Section 1. pace . Chief of Staff March saya million U. S. sol diers win be In France by July 1. Sec tion 1. pace 4. True patriotism taught In Francs. Section 1. pace 20. Forelcn. Dutch help Hun cruiser to escape British. Section 1. pacs 1. Runs allele United 8tates forces Interned Bochs officers to work. Section 1. pace 1. Moscow and Petrorrad cut oft from Siberian craln supplies- Section 1, pace 2. Czecho-SIovaks make new war history In Siberia. Section 1. pace 3. Bolshevlklsm spreads In Germany. Section 1. page 3. Rising of people in Austria seems imminent. Section 1. pago 3. Japanese Marines land at Swatow, China. Section 1. -page -4. . . National. Three million Americans to bs under arms by next August. Section 1. page 8. Representative Slnnott urges land provision - for soldiers. Section 1. pace . Domestic. Montana 'forest "fires defy' attempts to con trol them. Section 1, pace 3. Steamer Ravalli burns, all on board saved. Section 1, page 7. Sports. Buckaroos defeat Cats. Section 2, paga 1. lrvington Club's tennis tournament starts Tuesday. Section 2. page 1. Duke Kahanamoku to swim here. Section 2. pace 2. Chick Evans forms "1000 Club." Section 2, page 2. World's champion shot Is in Army. Section 2. page 2. Seattle Is Mecca for coif players this week. Section 2, pace 3. Shipbuilders have SO In .300 class. Section 2.-pago 3. Intel-scholastic batting averages complied. Section 2. page 4. Billy Heer and Frank Troeh compared. Sec tion 2. page 4. Municipal links open today. Section 2. page . Hunt Club meet draws throng. Section 2. page 2. Shipbuilders start second half today. Sec tion 2, pace 3. Pacific Northwest. Commencement exercises at Oregon Normtl School, begin today. Section 1. page 11. Stats University to graduate 116 tomorrow. Section 1. page 10. Official count of recent primary election announced. Section 1. page 22. English food supply said to be ample. Sec tion 1. page 10. Tacoma Ledger and Daily News purchased by Baker Interests, i Section 1. page 8. Farmers realize need - of larger marine. Section 2. page IS. Portland and Vicinity. Jeremiah O'Leary, fugitive and alleged traitor, caught at Sara, Wash. Section page 1. Salvage bureau plans big work. . Section 1. pago 4. Automobile thefts real menses to Nation. section 1, psgs 12. Tourists turn to scenic Northwest. Section . pace 14. Rouen sent by Portland to rick at Army nonpltaui. section 1. page IS. German alien women expected to number SOO - to TOO in Portland- Section 1. pags 10. Portland girl said to be only woman doctor of balky telephones in Oregon. Section 1, page 18. Clubwomen of state hold conference. Sec tion 1. page Is. Demand on Northwest mills drains stocks low. Section 1. page 18. To regain custody of daughter, Daisy Ross must banish her affinity. Section 1, psgs 1. Oregon yards capable of building 850 ships a year. Section 2. psge 16. No service yet for people who live at Llnn ton.. Section 1. paso 11. Cripples of all kinds wanted, for freo treat ment at Reed College clinic. Section 1. page 20. City to ask lower phone rates. Section 1. page 20. Portland men finish banking course. Section 1. page 20. Federal grand jury charges many viola tions of esplonsgs law. Section 1, psgs ' 23. Hood River appeals to Portland for labor. Section 1, page 20. Three hundred Oregon boys assemble for trslnlng at Benson Polytechnic School. Section 1. page 22. Rose City Park Club plans frolic Section 1. page 22 Sixteen colonels named for war savings drive. Section 1. psge 22. Wlllapa Harbor makes first contribution to emergency fleet.- Section 2. pags 15. University Summer School to offer 21 courses. Section 1. page 17. Veterinarians ' close annual 'Convention. Sec tion 1. pags 22. Messrs. Orton and Thomas elected to School Board. Section 1, paga 7. Oregon Pioneers to meet this week. Sec tion 1. page 23. Husband and wife head Masonic and East ern Star orders In Oregon. Section 1. psge 23. Shift from non-essential to essential In labor world now under way. Section 1. paga 23. Weather report, data and forecast. Section 2, page 15. NEWS GET THE ATTENTION OF CARTOONIST 1CH 102.2 BRITISH ADVANCE OH 2-MILE FRONT Huns Lose Positions in Region of Bethune. FRENCH SMASH AT 2 POINTS Coeuvres-et-Valsery Retaken; Gain Made at Montgobert. AMERICANS GAS GERMANS Shower of Poison Shells Hurled at Bochcs in Retaliation for Meth ods Used by Enemy New Ten tonic Blow Expected Soon. LONDON. June 15. British ' troops In a local operation have captured the German forward positions on a front of two miles north of Bethune. according to Field Marshal Haig's report from British headquarters in France tonight. PARIS, June 15. French troops have re-occupied Coeuvres-Et Valsery, south west of Solssons. an Important strategic point from which the Germans have been endeavoring to debouch their troops. The War OfTlce announcement of this adds that ground also has been gained around Montgobert. (By the Associated Press.) Checked In their plunge against the French positions from Montdidler to the Olse. the Germans have not resumed their offensive on the western front. There have been patrol encounters at various points, with the allies Improv ing their positions, notably' In the VII-lers-Cotterets region, southwest of Sols sons. , The Inactivity of the Infantry, how ever, has given place to heavy bombard ments along the front. In this work the American forces have had a part. Angered by a gas attack against them by the Germans. the Americans launched thousands of gas shells against the enemy. The Americans on the Marne and Plcardy fronts have also given the Germans no rest from patrol incursions. w Attacks Expected. It is believed In Paris and London that not many days will elapse before the Germans begin a new assault Opinion Is divided as to the point against which the blow will be struck, Paris believing that the Germans will continue their thrust toward the capi tal, either by a continuation of the fighting west of the Olse or a rew assault further south toward the Marne. London, however, believes that the German drives along the Alsne and cut of Montdidler were for the pur pose of drawing the allied reserves to those theaters of the war and then hurling the decisive blow cither at Amiens or against the Flanders salient. In the hope of reaching the channel ports. PARIS, . June 15. The artiller.- on both sides was active last night on the front between Montdidler and the River Olse, the War Office announced today. The gunfire was atso rather marked In the region south of the Alsne and west of Rhelms. In the) Champlai Bligny sector. No infantry actions oc curred. WASHINGTON. June 13. The suc cessful bombing by American aviators of a station and railroad tracks in a town behind the German lines was re ported in General Pershing's com munique tonight. A number of direct hits were made and all the American machines returned. Aside from patrol work, there waal (Concluded on Pa 2. Column 1.) DUTCH HELP BOCHE CRUISER TO ESCAPE BRITISH PROTEST SHARPLY TO 3 ETIIER LANDS GOVERNMENT. Charge Made That German Vessel Maria Took Refuge In Java nese Harbor in Maj 1916. LONDON. June 13. The direct charge that the Dutch government sheltered a German vessel at a Dutch port to save her from being captured by the British is made In a British dispatch which has Just been made public. The ship van the Maria. 4000 tons, which entered the harbor of Tandjong Prlok. Java. Dutch East Indies, In May. 1916. Shs was flying the Germnn mi-entn n-- but Is believed to have been a German' auxiliary cruiser. The corresDondencsi h.ta-n t : i Britain and Holland on the subject con tains some very sharp language. The British Minister t Th U .. , letter to Jonkheer J. Loudon, the Dutch .Minister of Forelsm Affairs -M. "The question does not stand alono as an Instance of the peculiar and un sound views adortteri nr lnvni k- The Netherlands government during present war in matters of Interna tional law." HEPPNER FARMER SUICIDE III Health, Brought on by Worry Over BuMnos Mailers, Cause. HEPPNER. Or.. June 15. (Special.) Louts Groshems, a prominent farmer and Morkman of this city, committed suicide by shooting himself In the head this afternoon on the county road, about 15 miles east of this city, near Hynd Brothers' ranch. Ill health, brought on by worry over business matters, is supposed to be the cause of the rash act. He was about 64 years old and leaves a widow and several children, most of whom are grown. He was in good circum stances, financially, and was pros perous. GAS PUMPS FIGHT FRESHET Hood River Gardener Battles With Columbia Crops at Stake. HOOD RIVER, Or.. June 15. (Spe cial.) A battery of gasoline - driven pumps Is being employed by Harry Monomoto, Japanese truck gardener, to rid his gardens from weter seeping through dikes holding back the Colum bia freshet. Rising 13 Inches in 24 hours, the Columbia lacks only a few Inches of being level with the top of Moruamoto'a barriers. . Schools of German carp are fighting over the last remnants of a hay field on undlked land neear the Japanese ranch. YANKEE TROOPS IN ALSACE American Take Cp New Sector on Battle Front May 21. WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN FRANCE. June 15. (By the Associated Press.) It now is permissible to an nounce that American soldiers are oc cupying sectors on the battlefront in Alsace. They first entered those positions May 21. The Germans have made a raid on the American front in Alsace. The at tack was preceded by a brief artillery and machine gun barrage. The Amer ican casualties were light. DRUNKEN CURSE COSTLY Aged Blasphemer Sent lo Prison on Sedition Charge. MISSOULA, June 13. Tom Oason. said to be an I. W. W. organizer, was sentenced to the state penitentiary to day for from one and one-half to three years following his conviction on a charge of sedition. Judge Theodore Lents lightened the man's sentence because he is 64 years old and declared he was drunk when he cursed the United States. REYNOLDS. U. S. BOYS HEROES OF HOT SKY FIGHT Winslow Tells of First Planes Landed. TWO FALL MINUTE APART Battle Fought Directly Oyer. Aviation Grounds. MANY WITNESS SPECTACLE Officers or Army and French Civil, inns Vniic in According Tmo Efficient Americans a tWrcat Otation. WASHINGTON. June 13. now Lieu tenants Alan F. Winslow and Douglas Campbell, taking the air together, shot down the first two German airplanes to fall victims to American aviators with General Pershing's expeditionary forces is vividly told in the personal diary of Lieutenant Winslow. nis-le public tonight by the War Depart ment. i-or meir feat the officers were ,). .-- orated by the French Govcrnnien t jnj later proposed for the American Dis tinguished Service Cross. . The account, which discloses that the two machines were sent down within a minute of each other and almost on ton of an American airdrome, was not writ ten for publication, but the department explained that because of Its historical and descriptive value it was decided to make It available to the public. Winslow Tells of lest. Lieutenant Winslow. who was the patrol leader, wrote that he and Lieu tenant Campbell, since designated as the first American "ace.- were on emergency calf duty on Sunday morn ing, April 14. last, when, at 8:43 o'clock Information came that two German planes were about 2000 metres above a city only a mile from the airdrome. The aviators rushed to their machines and were sotn off.- Campbell in the lead. Winslow. however, was first to get his man. "I had not made a complete half turn." Lieutenant Winslow wrote, "and was at" about 230 meters when straight above and ahead of me It. the mist of the early morn inc. and not more than 100 yards away. 1 saw a plane romini; toward me with huge black -rosses on its wings and tall. Aviator Swears Out l.oud. "I was so furious to rec a Hun di rectly over our aviation field that I swore out loud and violently opened "re. . . : "At the same time, to i void my bul lets, he slipped into a left-hand re versement and came down, firing on me. "I climbed, however, in a right-hand spiral and slipped off. coming down directly behind him and 'on his tail. "Again I violently opened fire. I had him at a rare ad r-tage. which was due to the greater speed and maneuverability of our wonderful ma chines. I fired 10 to 30 rounds at him and could see my tracers entering his machine. Then. In another moment, his plane went straight down In an un controlled nose dive. I had put hi engine out of commission. All Over for Our Knrmj. "I followed In a straight dive, firing all the way. At about tlx feet above the ground he tried to regain control of the macnlne. but could not, and he crashed to earth. '1 darted down near hint, made a sharp turn by the wreck to make juro he was out of commission, then made a victorious swoop down over him and climbed up again to see if 'Doug' need- Concludd on Tatce 2. Column a.