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Section One Pages 1 to 18 64 Pages Six Sections PORTLAND, OREGON. SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST 33, 1918. PRICE FIVE CENTS. VOL. XXXVII NO. BRITISH SW 01! A1ID SEIZE BRAY Progress Mads on Entire Front of Attack. PRISONERS ARE SECURED Field Marshal Haig Reports Enemy Rushing Up Forces to Stem Onslaught. BAPAUME FIGHTING SEVERE American Troops Advance to Soissons -Rheims Road, West of Fismes. LONDON. Aug. 23 "w inland ers, striking in the direction of Ba pa a me, hare captured Cojeul with ir restible dash," sajs an official state ment issued by the War Office shortly after midnight. "Elsewhere there were successful local actions," the state ment adds. The only Cojeul appearing on the maps is the Cojeul Hirer, nine miles north of Bapaume, but it is possible that there is a small Tillage of that name near Bapaume. LONDON, Aug. 24. "Despite con siderable hostile reinforcements," says Field Marshal Haig's report from the British front in France tonight, "prog ress has been made along the whole front of our attack. Bray has been captured and a number of prisoners secured. . Enemy Gets No Respite. The text of the communication reads: "On the battle front north of the Somme continuous fighting has taken place since the early hours of the morning. Our troops, pressing the enemy hard at all points, have allowed him no respite. Despite the arrival of considerable hostile reinforcements, progress has again been realized on the whole front of our attack. Num bers of prisoners and quantities of material of every description have fallen into our hands. "Shortly after midnight Australian , troops, attacking along the north bank of the Somme, captured Bray-sur- Somme, securing a number of prison ers. Continuing their advance with great skill and initiative, they carried I the enemy's positions in this neigh borhood. Many Taken Prisoner. "On their left London and East County troops made farther progress during the night along the high ground southeast of Albert, taking several hundred prisoners. On the right center of our attack Welsh troops and battalions from the northern counties of England advanced over the ground of the old Somme battlefield of 1916 about La Boiselle, Overillers, Moquet Farm, Thiepval and Grand court. All these strongly defended (Concluded on Par 7. Column S. I I ' j ' i i Vt. GOSr rS&4S ?S? C"SL0fy'OO& OpSS us&X -z&-t I rt V ! ,,.t....,.x.....A....... ........ ..x.. ... : YANKS SEE SIGNS OF BOCHE RETREAT LON'G-RAXGE HCX GCNS FIRE TOWARD SOISSONS. Diminished Artillery Fire Gives Rise to Suspicion That Foe Is to Withdraw North of Vesle. WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY ON THE VESLE FRONT, Aug-. 34. (By the Associated Press.) Observers re ported today that the German Ions range cannon north of the AJsne were firing- In the direction of Soissons. They also reported seeing smoke from fires which bnrned all night at various points between the esle and the Aiane. Prisoners recently taken declare they are unable to explain these fires, which have been burning for three days. Be lief Is growing here that the Germans are being forced to withdraw north of the Vesle. The diminished activity of the Ger man -artillery north of the Vesle today also gave rise ' to the sua Dlcion that the enemy was preparing to abandon the ground south of the AJsne before being compelled to do no by the rapidly menacing allied flank movement north of Soissons. Only minor clashes between patrols marked the day. One prisoner was taken by the Americana. French and American observers eev eral days ago reported heavy move ments of enemy infantry and trucks northward. Prisoners captured by the Americans In the last few days de clared that they knew nothing about troop movements between the rivers. The continued pressure of the French and British on the BO-rolle front north of Soissons. and other developments. lead American officers to believe that the Germans will be forced to with draw from the line of the Vesle. GRAMMAR BOYS ELIGIBLE Graduates of 18 and Over Maj Qualify to Enter One of SOO Camps WASHINGTON. Aug. 24. Twenty- seven additional educational institu tions were named today by the War Department as having qualified to ac cept men for the Students' Army Train ing Corps for training aa technical ex perts, line officers, officers in technical branches and non-commissioned off! cera. By September more than 300 colleges will be equipped for the organisation of the corps, the War Department an nounced. Grammar school graduates of It years or over are aa eligible to tha training corps mm are high, school grad uates. ESTHER GIBBS IS DROWNED Portland Girl, Aged II, - Perishes While Bathing in River. SALEM. Or, Aug. 24. (Special.) Esther Gibba, . U-year-old Portland girl, who had been picking hops on the T. A. Llvesley farm, near here, was drowned at 2:30 this afternoon while swimming at McCall's Landing, seven and one-half miles north of Salem. She had been eating peaches while in the river and it ia thought ahe either died from strangulation or cramps. The girl's mother, Mrs. Blanche Gibbs. was with her at the time of the accident. The body was not recovered until three houra later. TREATY EXTENDED 5 YEARS Arbitration Agreement Between Ja . pan and United States Signed. WASHINGTON, Aug. 24. The arbi tration treaty between Japan and the United States was extended for another term of five years today by the signa tures of Secretary - Lansing and' Vis count Ishll, the Japanese Ambassador. The convention, which is similar to those entered into by the United States with many nations, provides for arbi tration by. an international commission of any difficulty arising between the two governments which cannot be set tled by diplomacy and do not Involve national honor, vital interests. Inde pendence or the rights of a third party. WARTD1E MUSINGS ON SOME NEWS YANKEES UNHANDY LOT FDR HEATHEN "American Goes Limit, and Beyond." KIPLING PAYS HIGH TRIBUTE Boys' Ideas Regarding English Being Recast ACTION OF IRISH DECRIED Early American Hatred of Britain, BTow Disappearing, Traced to People of Emerald Isle in Years Long Past. ' tCoprlghted. 181S, by Rudyard Kipling.) (Copyrighted, 1918, by tbs Tribune Associa tion t.vew york Tribune). Copyrighted In ureal Britain ana Canada. All rights re served.) BT RUDYARD KIPLING. The word of tne Lord by night to the watching pilgrims came." Emerson Iklics, a Winchester "man," was walking down High street. Armed Americans had been familiar to him for months past, but he and his top bat were stranger than Peruvian Incas to a newly arrived contingent of the American Army. Never in their lives had they seen the like of this infant Sphinx and they called softly upon their home gods to bear witness that , he was as incon ceivably a fact as the rest of the new world they had been decanted Into 24 hours ago. The roll of the ship and the rattle of the wheels were still on them; they talked to each other of their transport's station In the convoy much as new boys at school compare notes with those who came down with them In the same train, the train that at least started from home. They had nothing to cling to save the points of the com pass. Other Strange Tklnga Seen. The sun still set In the west, but even he. Instead of going to bed decently at or 7, hung around staring in these strange skies half the night through. THAT was the outstanding marvel to J them so far; that and the desperate speed at Which they had been whirled hither. "Forty and even SO milea an hour, sir, with only three stops," had they come. Their faces were all clean shaven. their voices startlingly low pitched, and the next most noticeable thing was their salute, which Is wholly different from any in our variegated repertoire. A wounded private picked out a cou ple of young officers and extended to them the full, true and very particular salute of His Majesty's Brigade of Guards. So does a professor emeritus greet a beginner in the schools. Both officers returned it together, each glancing sideways to see if the other was correct. Fifteen seconds later an other wounded private put them through it again. Done Purposely, Says BCaJor. A major of the regular Army with whom I had foregathered smiled. "Tour men do it on purpose." said he. "Wouldn't you, if you had the chance? It does our boys a lot of good." The youngsters removed themselves. An ' American military policeman (straight out of Life), twirling his lo cust wood club of office, strolled across the street to confer with the English policeman (straight . out of Punch). A rifleman looked at them. 'Gawd's truth," said he from his ap preciative soul. And God's truth In deed it was, as much as the young W. A. A. C driving the elderly United Statea Colonel, in a car, and honking behind an Air Service lorry, who In (Concluded on Page 6. Column S.) INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. TESTBRDATS Maximum temperature, SO; minimum, 62 degrees. TODAY'S -Fair and continued warm; gen - tie northwesterly winds.! .... War. British advance and take Bray. Section 1. Face 1. U. 6. Ensign keeps tab on 17-boats. Sec tion 1, pa.se 1. Yankees follow Canadians Into battle. Sec tion 1, pace 2. March pays high tribute to U. 6. soldiers. Section 1. pare S. Americans think Huns may retreat. Sec tion 1. page 1. Daniels blamed for success of U-boats off U. 8. coast. Section 1. pace 4.- Boche morale crushed by allies. Section 1, page 2. Official casualty list. Section 1. page Hair's men drive on irresistibly. Section 1, page 3. Foreign. Kipling lauds Americans. Section 1, page 1. Pro-ally revolt starts in Peru. Section 1. page S. Bolshevtkl reply to U. S.-Japan message to Slavs. Section 1. page 3. Spain and Germany clash over U-boats. Section 1, page S. Civilian Germany amply fed and optimistic Section L page 2. Yankee wounded eager for revenge. Sec tion 1. page 6. ' National. House adopts man-power bill. Section 1 page 8. Oregon loganberry Juice is winning recogni tion in the East. Section 1, page 13. Military activity boosts war bills. Section 1. page 11. Tax bill speeding toward enactment. Section 1. page 4. Domestic. Clara Wold . tells of arrest. Section 1 Page 15. Pacific Northwest. Consolidation commission submits complete report. Section 1. page 9. Men of high standing to act as Judges at coming State Fair. Section 1, page 11. Fruit experts to visit Douglas. Section 1, page 14. Total value of season's salmon pack placed ' above $4,000,000. Section 2, page 16. Sports. Chicago Cubs win National League pennant: worlds series details nxea. section J. page 1. Bobby Evans protests war camp smoker. Section 3, page 1. Rules governing Clemson golf cup play are outlined. Section 2. page X. Shipyard games to draw big crowds today. Section 2. page 2. Labor to handle five-day regatta at Astoria. Section 2, page S. Seattle champion to compete in National finals. Section 2. page 3. Chinese pheasants first Introduced in Ore gon in 1383. Section 2, page 3. Tried football material to be lacking at Uni versity of Oregon. Section 2, page i Shipyards may form tennis league. Section . page 2. Great Lakes Naval Training School likely to have fast football eleven. Section 2, page 2. Commercial and Jlarine. Wool valuing will be resumed by Federal administrator. Section 2. page 13. Bxport purchases of flour soon to be made by grain corporation, section z, page to. Continued liquidation carries' down corn at Chicago. Section X. page IS. Leading storks sell at best quotations of year. Section , page 15. - . New ship record looms. Section 2, vage 16. ' Portland and. Vicinity. Worker- rw to carry loan gospel. Section L page 7. House physician at St. Vincent's Hospital charged witn violating . espionage acu Section 1, page 9. Thousands of Elks to attend Portland con- ' ventlon. Section L. page 10. Yeterans liberal In praise of Oregon. Section 1, page 12. City men render real service In gathering Oregon crops. Section 1. page 13. Citizen board will give new draft registrants highly important instruction. . Section 1, page 14. Battle of Chateau-Thierry July 1 achieve ment for American soldiers. Section 1, page 14. Billy Sunday hits Kaiser body blow. Sec tion 1, page 16. Police seek Irene Noonan and Margaret Dorg. Page 1, section 18; . United 8tates -to lend to farmers whose crops have failed. Section 2, page 4. Railway traffic representatives hold impor tant conference In Portland. Section 2. page 4. Methodist Episcopal Church. South, confer ence opens at - Milton, Or., next week. Section 2. page 16. Oregon to furnish 900 men in September draft Section 2, page 16. Myrtle Gram climbs .Mount Hood.. Section I, page 10. Cranberry pickers wanted. Section 1, page 12. Veterans meet after many years. Section 1, page 12. County 'erects war building. Section 1, page 17. Realtors to dine. Section 1, page IT. Weather report, data and forecast. Section 2, page 16. PACIFIC PROMISED "FAIR" Weather Man Says Portland Should Have Another Good Week. WASHINGTON, Aug. 24 Weather predictions for the week beginning Monday announced today by the Weather Bureau follow: Pacific states Generally fair -with seasonable temperatures. EVENTS ARE GIVEN EXPRESSION BY CARTOONIST REYNOLDS 186,733 SUMMONED TO NATION'S COLORS Men to Entrain August 30 to September 6. EVERY STATE TO SEND QUOTA Oregon Directed to Dispatch 900 to Camp Lewis. 4 SEPARATE CALLS ISSUED Total White Selects Kequired for General Military Service 125,000, Colored, 21,2 70; Limited Service, 40,503v WASHINGTON, Aug. 24. Four sep arate selective draft calls, constituting the first of the' September calls and requiring 186,773 men to entrain for training; camps between August 30 and September 6, were issued tonight by Provost Marshal-General Chowder. Every state and the District of Co lumbia is called on to furnish men For general military service 125.000 white men and 21,270 negroes are called; for limited service, 40,603 white men are called. The calls of the Western states, with the camps to which the men are to be sent, follow: General Military Sen Ice White. Entrainment September 3, 1918, to September 6, 1918. State and Camp Quot Arizona Kearny, Cal 300 Arkansas Pike 3.000 Colorado Funston. Kan :. 500 Idaho Lewis. Wash ' 700 Iowa Dodge. Ia 8.000 Kansas Funston, Kan 4.500 Missouri MacArthur. Tex 5.600 Montana Lewis. Wash '. . 1.000 Nebraska Grant - 1.000 Nevada Lewis 100 New Mexico MacArthur 400 North Dakota Grant 1.000 Oklahoma Logan, Tex 4.000 Oregon Lewie 900 South Dakota Grant. Ill 500 Texas Travis. Tex .8.000 Utah Kearny 000 Washington Lewis 2.00 Wyoming Lewis . . 800 General Military Ser-riee Colored. Entrainment September 1, 1918. . State and Camp Quota. Arizona Lewis 7 Arkansas Pike 500 Arkansas Dodge . 448 CalHornla Lewis 75 Colorado Lewis 43 Idaho Lewis 12 Iowa Dodge 123 Kansasr-Funston 107 Missouri Dodge 230 Montana Lewis 18 Nebraska Lewis 96 Nevada Lewis . 6 New Mexico Travis ' 5 North Dakota Lewis .". ... 4 Oklahoma Dodge ; 294 South Dakota Lewis 17 Texas Dodge 400 Texas Travis 999 Utah Lewis 5 Washington Lewis 17 For all states in the Union, total of 21,270. Limited Service White. Entrainment September 3 to 6, 1918. Stato and Camp Quota. Arixona Bowie. Tex Arkansas Bowie California Bowie Colorado Fort Kiley. Kan. Iowa Fort Riley 100 500 500 300 600 400 1.200 400 100 200 500 20O 800 100 Kansas Fort Riley Missouri Greenleaf Nebraska Fort Riley New Mexico Bowie North Dakota Grant Oklahoma Bowie South Dakota Fort Riley Texas Bowie Wyoming Fort Riley Total for all states, 40,500. Limited Service White (Military In telligence PhotoarraJhhers). Entrainment August 30, 1918. (Entrainment August 30, 1918.) New Mexico Fort Meyer, Va 3 WASHINGTON, Aug. 24. America's (Concluded on Page 3, Column 1.) FIRE FIEND ON BIG SPREE IN KENTUCKY 43,000 BARRELS WHISKY LOST IN DISTILLERY BLAZE. Streams of Blazing Liquor Flow -Through Ditches of Open Fields Into Ohio River. OWENSBOEO, Ky.. Aug. 24. Fire to night at the plant of the Green River Distilling Company here, destroyed the entire plant, 43,000 barrels of whisky and entailed a loss of well in excess of $3,000,000. -The whiskv alone was valued at $2 840,000 and the loss to the United States Government in taxes is approximately xr sr.o ooo. The fire started in a pile of trash beside the distillery. It was spectacu lar in the extreme, the flames mountini hundreds of feet in the air. Every few minutes a blazing barrel of whiskv driven upward by the ex plosion of other barrels would rise to i o-rt heis-ht and then fall. When l i-urit the whiskv it contained would be spread over the ground In a blazin sheet for many yards. Riiminr streams of whisky ran rhrmiirh th ditches of the open field into the Ohio River, the whole surface of which seemed at times to be on fire The difference in the value placed upon the whisky and the amount of i,r estimated to have been lost by the novarnment is accounted for by tn fact thaj the Internal revenue tax had not- hern naid on any of it. and the value placed upon It was the value of spirits, tax unpaid. ALL U. S. TO SING AUG. 27 Oregon Is Asked to Join in Nation wide Demonstration. SALEM, Or., Aug. 24. (Special.) On the night of Tuesday, August 27, luonlK sll over Oreeron are asked to hold community sings as a part of Nation-wide patriotic demonstration The "Star-Spangled Banner" is to be sung at 9 o'clock Eastern time, which will be 6 o'clock here. The singing will be led from Phila delphia, where the Liberty bell will be tanned once for each state in the Union. The plans are outlined in telegram received from the Council of Defense by Governor Withycombe to day urging that Oregon join the move, The Governor heartily Indorses the plan, and asks that all parts of the state share in the demonstration. S. 0. S. TELLS U-BOAT CHASE Vessel Off South Carolina Coast Signals Her Peril. SAVANNAH, Ga., Aug. 24. The wire less station on Tybee Island tonight picked up portions of an S. O. S. call from a vessel off the South Carolina coast, which reported it was being chased by a submarine. The message was indistinct, the wire less operator reported, and he was un able to catch the name of the vessel sending out the call. There have been reports recently of submarine operations off the North Carolina coast, around Cape Hatteras, and it is believed that the U-boat has worked its way southward with the intention of lying in wait off the South Atlantic coast for vessels in the coastwise service. ESSENTIALS ARE APPROVED Postpone Unnecessary Work, Says Capital Issues Committee. WASHINGTON, Aug. 24. Every ex tension of a streetcar line, electric lighting system, water main, street paving or other public utility enter prise not absolutely essential to the war should be postponed until peace times, said the Government's Capital Issues Committee in a letter sent today to all .state public utility commissions. These state bodies are urged also to remove from public service corpora tions, if possible, the necessity of carry ing out contract or franchise obliga tions which might be dispensed with in the war emergency. i TRAILS OF U-BOATS CUT ON EVERY Enemy Divers Have No Secrets from Allies. RELENTLESS WATCH IS KEPT U. S. Ensign Murphy Has Task of Keeping Tab. CRUISERS TRACED ON MAP Details or Marvelous System foe Combating Submarine Warfaae Is Made Public in Of . flclal Statement. LONDON, Aug. 21. "Ensign T. H. Murphy," says a statement given out today by the committee on public In formation, "sits day and night In an office in a little shack at a United States Naval air station poring over raised maps with colored strings stretched on them and little red-headed pins stuck in them. "His Job is to keep tabs on every German submarine out of its base. He knows when they need air and how badly each depth charge damages them. "He knows even when they must come to the surface for the skipper to smoke a cigar, for there is no smoking inside a submarine. Success or Failure Controlled. "Ensign Murphy's knowledge has de cided the success or failure of. many young reserve ensigns of the Naval flying force at the station. Take, for . instance. Ensign E. J. Schieffelin, of New York City, a member of the 1919 class at Yale University, who is a di rect descendant of John Jay of Revolu tionary fame. "Ensign Schieffelin was in Murphy's office early one morning when that ex pert stuck a pin in the middle of his Nori'u Sea map, and exclaimed: "'They'll be needing a smoke right about there. They have been under so many hours on such-and-such a course. In three hours they'll emerge and the reason will be tobacco. Search this ' area (pointing . to the map with his finger) and you'll find a submarine. Athletes In Crew. "Ensign Schieffelin was the first pilot, - Lieutenant Roger W. Cutler stroke and captain of the Harvard var sity crew of 1917, Berstein, a machin ist's mate, and Taggart, electrician and champion 100-yard sprinter, completed the crew of the big seaplane. "Three hours after the seaplane had left its station both officers made the same exclamation as the seaman called to his mate: 'Large Hun going north. One gun.' Diver Rendered Helpless. "The seaplane got itself between the submarine and the sun and for two minutes bore down, on the U-boat. Halt a minute later the vessel started to submerge with a 'crash' dive. "Lieutenant Cutler tripped his bomb- release at the instant the. big seaplane was directly over the enemy's conning tower, which was exactly awash. En sign Schieffelin put the machine Into a vertical Dank to oDserve tne enect of the explosion and a white geyser spouted 15 feet on the enemy's port beam. When the splash cleared the stern of the submarine the diver was tipped up and her propellers were out . of the war. Signal Sent to Drifter. 'The air pilots knew then that she was damaged, that she could not sub merge and was a prey to any of the patrol boats. The seaplane being short of fuel, then signaled to a drifter 'dam aged submarine five miles northwest (Concluded on Page 7, Column 2.) SE X