CHARGE
OF
BRITISH
UNDER
F RECURTA1N
ONG
El
RMAN TRENCHES
Shrieking Shells Burst Just in
Advance of Steel-Helmet-ed
Infantry,
PRISONERS TROT BACK
Those Germans Who Attempted to
treat From Bettered Hiding1 Fleoes
Are Cat Bows Between Mres.
By Frederick Palmer.
At the BrltUh Front. Aug. 23. L
N. S.) (11:10 p. m.) The artillery
commander spoke his patent "curtain
of fire" and never In all the seven
weeks of the Sornme battle has the
correspondent witnessed anything
equal to this "show," as the officers
call every action, of taking one of the
purs of the Thlepval ridge yesterday
afternoon.
Ever elnce July 1, when they failed
in their effort to storm It, Thlepval
rid; has glared at the British which
kept hammering It with their guns.
The Germans seem to have set the
same store by It as by the heights of
Olvenchy and Ouillemont, on their
other flank.
In front of the position captured
yesterday the British Infantry has
been decimated by machine gun fire
elnce July 1. The trenches were Just
as strong as they were then, with
deep dugouts, the results of two years
Of building.
Shell Fire Beyond Endurance.
Prisoners taken early in the of
fensive had said that the British
could never get a foothold on that
ridge. Those taken yesterday, who
also had been at Verdun, said they
suffered nothing there at all equiva
lent to the deluge of British shells
and that it was impossible for human
beings to endure such tornadoes.
A thousand yards of front, both of
the first line and of the support
trench, were taken.
One pair of eyes could see no more
fetalis than the correspondent saw
yesterday. The British and Germans
engaged were outlined as clearly as a
play around the second base from the
grand stand. A home company of
national guard doing a skirmish drill
In camp could not be more distinct
when seen from the side lines. It was
'.he very finesse of war.
The air was clear. It was a bright
afternoon. The sun shining over one's
houlder, one looked across the tiny
valley toward the slope. Here the
bare ground was cut by. a slash of a
new British trench and beyond that
one across the area, there was seen
the dead grass among the wavy maze
Of the old Orman flmt Una trnnch
vongues ox oeain Jteaon xrenones.
A Niagara rush of whistling
creams from the capsules of a con
centrated hell through the air began
bursting over It. Their flashes hugged
It in an infernal ecstacy, sweeping It
with myriads of bullets and frag
ments, shooting forked tongues of
death Into its burrows. To show a
head and escape being hit and bit
more than once was as hopeless as to
stand up in a thick hailstorm with
out being hit by an icy bullet.
Some Germans who had trusted
flight rather than staying in the dug
outs when the first dash of projectiles
came, were seen running away toward
the open. Now out of a British trench
appeared a row of kbakl-tinted mush
rooms with the steel helmets the Bri
tish soldiers wear, then heads and
shoulders and full forms as the charge
went over the parapet.
Every man with his full equipment
In all Us details was visible Every
figure and uniform, with all the
others to the last item could be clearly
observed.
Machine anna Absent.
No ominous and wicked staccato of
a German machine gun coming into
action was heard. No machine gunner
could live at his post in that trench.
The British line opened to go around
the shell craters or obstacles that
closed up their way. Occasionally a
figure dropped and was lost in the
grass.
. Right into the face of that curtain
of death from the shells going only a
few feet over their heads they were
moving.
Then suddenly as It was laid the
curtain of shell fire was lifted. Not a
ingle shell out of thousands burst
Short. Now the British were going
over the German parapets, their bayo
nets glistening la the sun. as they
descended Into the trenches, the earth
seemed to have swallowed them up
again. Little clouds of smoke from
bursting bombs arose from the trench.
-There was hot work proceeding out
of sight In the burrows.
lrleoners Emerge rrorn Dugouts.
One after another, as If they were
eomlng to the top of the stairs, beads
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STATE ORGANIZATION
OP WILSON LEAGUES
TO BE FINISe SOON
iWork to Be Commenced by
State Organizer Harry on
September 1,
MANY BRANCHES PLANNED
Damaged auto as it appeared following fatal accident near Troutdale, Sunday night.
and shoulders appeared out of the
trench.
Each man had his hands up and in
file the prisoners moved past a Briton
standing on the parapet.
There is something humorous about
It. The Briton might be a ticket taker.
These Germans who had not waited to
bo bombed jut of their dugouts but
had surrendered, came legging it at
top speed back toward the British first
line trenches. What about tbe Ger
man who had fled toward the German
support trench? A light machine gun
tbe British had put up rattled Into
their backs.
Ahead of them Was the British cur
tain of fire. The British fire was now
lifted onto the German support trench.
They seem to disappear into the earth,
some shot down, some wounded, others
seeking security in shell craters.
One figure alone held the eta go for
a fraction of a minute, therein that
lifeless space around them, a German
officer stands up on the edge of a
trench and looks around. lie goes
down abruptly as if he had been hit a
hard blow back of his knees.
Another Charge Begins.
New British helmets rise from the
German first line and start another
charge to the German support trenche.
They will clear up any Germans ly
ing In shell craters. They grow dim
with the distance and the falling light.
But they got there. They have the
support trench, their signals say. And
there la a bunch of running German
prisoners coming from the British rear
as fast as they can. They are envel
oped in some shell bursts, the Ger
man curtain of fire now being laid
upon the old first line of the British
trench area, which explains why all
prisoners taken do not reach the col
lecting stations alive. Those eeen
fairly well out of the range of shell
fire were smiling and seemed much
relieved.
"They will have a good square meal
over in the camp by that clump of
trees tonight." said a general. "And
they have been under fire for the last
time in thla war."
Walking with them were British
wounded, also smiling. Thus big gains
are made between the big attacks, and
the British now are within a thousand
yards of Thlepval and retain their bold
on Gulllemont. They are within 300
yards of Ginchy and Martinpuich.
Ballinger-Pinchot
Row Has Aftermath
DRIVER
OF MACHINE
HELD RESPONSIBLE
Fl
TAL A 0 NT
Coroner Makes Investigation
of Mishap Which Cost the
Life of a Girl,
Federal Mstrict Court Considering Ac
tion Tiled Against X, X Olavls,
former &aad Office Official.
San Francisco, Aug. 23. (U. P.)
A an aftermath of the Ballinger
Pinchot controversy, the federal dis
trict court Is today considering an ac
tion filed by the United States against
Louis R. Glavls, former chief of the
Paciflo coaat land"- office division, to
recover $320.
It is alleged that Glavls, as special
disbursing agent, paid himself that
amount as chief of the land office for
the expenses of a trip to confer with
President Taft and Gifford Pinchot in
behalf of the latter, just before Bal
linger resigned as secretary of the In
terior. The government asserts the
transcontinental trip was Unauthor
ized. Hotel Man Faces Killing Charge.
Los Angeles, CaX, Aug. ii. (P. N.
S.) A verdict of homicide was re
turned against Eben J. Gregory at the
Inquest today over the body of John
Brennan. Gregory, a rooming house
proprietor, accused Brennan, a former
tenant, of having stolen linen from the
lodging house. A quarref arose and
Gregory shot Brennan to death.
Investigation by the county coroner
of the "automobile accident which oc
curred last Sunday night at the high
wooden bridge, about one mile south
of Troutdale, resulted in the driver of
the wrecked machine being held re
sponsible for the death of Miss Olive
Krikaon of Seattle and the serious
injury of her sister, Agnes, of Port
land and J. H. Shields.
W. H. Counsell of Milwaukie was
driving south and bad stopped about
15 feet north of the bridge to let the
Shields machine pass. Shields did not
notice the stopped machine, the lights
of the latter car being somewhat dim,
and ran directly into It, interlocking
the front wheels.
Mr. Shields, who was not an exper
ienced driver, started to back tela ma
chine but, at the suggestion of his
son, was going to let the latter take
the wheel when suddenly he lost con
tr 1 and tbe machine shot off the
bridge Into the gully about 40 feet
below.
Both Shields and Miss Agnes Erick
son are getting along as well as can
be expected at the Good Samaritan
hospital. Their complete recovery is
believed to be assured by attending
physicians. Mr. Shields has three
broken ribs and one of the fractured
bones punctured hla lung. The body
of Miss Olive Erlckson was shipped
to Seattle yesterday for interment.
Pythians Thankful
For Local Reception
tetters Beoeived From Number of Su
preme Representatives Mindful of
Treatment at T. M. C. A,
Appreciation of their reception at the
T. M. C. A. during their atay In Port-
iland baa been expressed by a number
of supreme representatives to the re
recent supreme convention of the
Knlghta of Pythias in Portland In let
ters received by association secretaries1.
Particularly pleased with the provision
that had been made for them in the
Y. M. C. A, cafeteria were some of
these representatives, notably W. E.
Wilson and Will U. Mackey of the
"Desert of Nevada, Oasis of Reno."
Letters received by Stoney Dement,
secretary in charge of the cafeteria,"
tell of the enjoyment of their visit to
Portland and their stay at the Y. M. C.
A., and Invite Portland association of
ficials to Reno for a counter visit,
promising royal entertainment.
Every Town of Consequence- la State
to Be Brought Into the Demo
cratic Program.
Hebrew Lecturer
Draws Big Crowd j
Many Are Turned Away From Library 1
Sail, Wnere Sr. Julian Morgeustexn
Opened Series of Lectures. j
Dr. Julian Morgenstern of the He- j
brew Union college of Cincinnati gave
the first series of three lectures on
Genesis at the publlo library last
nisht The attendance was so great
that many people were turned away.
Dr. Morgenstern spoke of the first
two stories of the creation of Genesis.
He told of the original adaptations
of the first Babylonian myths by the
Jewish writers to convey the religious
ideals of the" Jewish faith. Dr. Mor
genstern explained that the Jewish
religion was based on the idea of uni
versal good. He said that the mod
ern Jewish view had been used by
few writers in the sixth century, B.
C. He talked of the key sentence of
the creation story, which means that
God saw for a good purpose.
Dr. Morgenstern speaka tonight and
tomorrow night at library hall.
The final work In the organization
of Woodrow Wilson leagues throughout
the state will be commenced on the
first of the coming month, at which
time G. Y. Harry, state orgunizer, will
leave for a trip throughout eastern
Oregon.
H. W. Lang, secretary of the con
ference which met in Portland recently,
and which resulted In the organization
of the Oregon Association of Woodrow
Wilson leagues, is now working on the
report of that conference. It will be
ready for publication and distribution
within a few days.
The work of organizing the state
will be under the active direction of
Mr. Harry, secretary attid general or
ganiser of the association. It Is ex
pected that a branch league will be
formed in every town of consequence
In the state.
The officers of the state association
are: President. Dr. C. J. Smith of
Portland; first vice preeldent. Dr. Es
ther Pohl-Lovejoy of Portland; second
vice president. El H, Richard of Giants
Pass; third vice president, J. R. Plack
aby of Ontario; fourth vice president,
Mre. J. E. Rogers of Portland; treas
urer, A. F. Flegel of Portland; execu
tive committee, C. J. Smith, A. F.
Flegel, Dr. Esther Pohl-Lovejoy, G. Y.
Harry, all of Portland; George K. Bald
win of Klamath Falls. A. 8. Bor.nett
of The Dalles and John H. Smith of
Astoria.
LEAGUE WILL MEET TONIGHT
Two Addresses Scheduled for Wil
son Organization.
The regular meeting of the Woodrow
Wilson league will be held this eve
ning at 8 o'clock at Central Library
hall. Two addresses are schedulel,
one by Miss Anne Shannon Monroe,
who will speak on Woodrow Wilson,
and the other by Dr. Esther Pohl
Lovejoy, who will discuss the recent
Woman's Party convention at Colo
rado Springs and its attitude towards
the accomplishment of woman's suff
rage. In addition to the addresses Miss
Anna Allen will sing, being accompa
nied on the piano by Mrs. Osborn.
Dr. Lovejoy will leave for the east
In a few days to attend the notification
meeting at Shadow Lawn, N. J., at
which time President Wilson will be
notified of his nomination.
Modern Woodmen
Are to Act as Hosts
Everybody Will Se Invited to Columbia
Park Saturday to Annual Field Day
of fraternal Organisation,
The five Portland camps of the Mod
ern Woodmen of America will hold
their annual field day at Columbia
Park Saturday, and committees from
all the camps are working industrious
ly on the day's program. Everyone is
invited to attend, and preparations are
being made to accommodate a large
Ciowd.
A feature of the program will be an
outdoor initiation, which will be open
to everyone without charge. A live
goat will play a prominent part in the
ceremonies. Sol Rlchanbach. venerable
consul of Rose City camp, will preside
and have charge of the work.' H. A.
Edwards will act as adviser, John Voll
mer as past consul, Charles Meadows
as banker. J. W. Simmons, deputy bead
consul for the state of Oregon, as es
cort, and P. S. Schrader as watchman.
The program for the day will com
mence at 2 p. m. and will continue un
til a late hour at night. Raees for
everyone but one-legged people will be
staged, a greased pole contest, a red
hot five-inning baseball game between
the fats and leans and a pie eating con
test. Rev. J. G. Tate will cloae the
program with a few remarks.
The evening program will begin at
8 p. m. with a pillow fight between
the Bears and the Polecats for the
Modern Woodmen championship of the
city. This will be followed by a tug
of war between teams from Alberta
and Oregon Fir camps. Following will
come the public initiation. Neighbor
44 Girls Signed
For Training at
Barracks School
Forty-four girls have -enrolled
for the National Service srhool
it to open tomorrow afternoon at
Vancouver barracks and their
ijfc numbers will bo augmented by
4 several Vancouver girls, which
4t will total about 56 student to
begin work tomorrow evening.
There will be the flag raising
s at 4 o'clock when all those en-
listed must be present.
The principal aim in ntab
llshlng the Service school is to
instruct women in elenven-
try hygiene and home cure of
the sick In order that they may
be assigned positions at Jteti
Cross base hospitals. The stu-
dents who obtain certificates
from the school can cjUHllfy nn
t nurses and may receive appoint-
ment from Washington, i. c.
4
ft
J. W. Bimmons will deliver the address
of the evening at the close of the In
itiation. The committee in charge connlsla of
J. J. Gotthardt. chairman; A. 1. Cage,
secretary; George Dearlove, Joseph
Goodal, N. D. Turtledove, George
Matthews, J. P. Vollmar. Sol Rlchan
bach, J. Poffenberger, Kred Grappe, A.
Li. Marcy and Ii. W. Free. '
DEATHS OF NORTHWEST
Mrs. II. O. Craven, Dallas.
Dallas, Or., Aug. 23. Mrs. Tempa
Grace Craven, wife of R. C. Craven,
died at her home in this city, Monday
evening, after a long Illness from
cancer. Mrs. Craven was one of the
most highly esteemed women of Dal
las. Besides her husband, she leaves
three children. Funeral services will
be held at the United Evangelical
church this afternoon.
Bond Interest Is Dne.
Every effort is to e made to have
property owners pay interest now due
and payable on bonded street and
sewer assessment installments. Ap
proximately 457,000 is due In Interest
between now and September 1. On thai
date the city will have to meet the
interest on outstanding improvement
bonds, totaling approximately $50,000.
Mrs. Minnie Wiltse, Albany.
Albany, Or., Aug. 23. Mrs. Minnie
Wiltse, aged 23, wife of Charles
Wiltse of Catlow, Hartley county, Ore
gon, died here yesterday as the result
of an operation. She is a daughter of
Mrs. J. H. Colwell, who lives near
Plainvlew, east of this city. Besides
her mother and husband she is sur
vived by two children, Esther, aged 6,
and Clarke, aged 3. Three brothers,
Clarance Colwell of FossIL Or.;
George and Valentine Colwell of Plain
view, and two sisters, Mrs. Annie
Oommow of Catlow and Miss Vesta
Colwell of Plainvlew also survive. She j
was born five miles east of Albany i
July 12, 1893. The funeral was held ,
from the Christian church" here this!
afternoon. Burial In Riverside cemetery.
H. E. Mann, Chemawa.
Chemawa, Or.. Aug. 28. The fu
neral of H. EL Mann, who died Thurs
day in Portland, was held yesterday at '
Salem. For 15 years he had been the I
blacksmith here, and was enjoying his
vacation In Portland when stricken '
with appendicitis and operated upon. 1
He is survived by his daughters, Nora
and Maria, and son Edward. His wife
and two daughters recently died.
J. H. Hart, Dallas. i
Dallas, Or., Aug. 23. J. H. Hart, '
well-known citizen of Dallas, died
Monday night He is survived by a
wife and several grown children, one '
daughter being the wife of W. I. Ford, '
superintendent of the Dallas city
school a j
Mrs. T. C. Case, Lebanon.
Albany, Or.. Aug. 23 Mrs. T. .
Case of Lebanon died In St. Mary's
hospital here yesterday morning from
organic heart trouble. The body was
taken to Lebanon for burial. She was I
49 years old.
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District Forecaster E. A. Beals of
the United States weather office In
Portland told the Rotary club yester
day that all calendars making fore
casts for the year are fakes.
All long" range weather predictions
have been found merltless, he said, and
the predictors are usually mere pub
licity seekers. Makers of barometers
who Indicate "fair," "rainy," "cloudy"
and so forth at various positions on
tbe Instruments are deceiving pur
chasers because while the barometer
measures atmospheric pressure It is
no true guide to the state of the
weather, whether it will be cloudy or
clear.
Forecasters, he said, must be men
of quick intelligence, able to compre
hend, having retentive memories and
long experience. It isn't safe to pre
dict longer than a day ahead and after
every consideration has been taken Into
account the prediction may be wrong.
Still, 85 per cent of the predictions
are correct. "Probably fair," Mr. Beals
explained, means that It isn't likely to
rain over more than one-fourth of the
district forecaster's territory.
Sometimes rain Is predicted and
falls to materialise In Portland, but
will fall Just outside. Then the
weather office Is charged with an
other "miss.- It is hard to predict
the weather as between eastern and
western Oregon because a rain wind
may not contain enough moisture for
rain after it gets over the Cascade
mountains. There are points on the
coast where the annual precipitation
IS 131 inches, and points in eastern
Oregon where the rainfall is less than
eight Inches sT year. ...
The Etruscans, before the tim of
the Romans, were the first to make
weather predictions, said Mr. Beals.
For a long time weather predictions
were left to soothsayers, magicians,
oracles and priests. The government
weather service of this country was
established in 1870. The first publi
cation of weather maps was under
taken in Portland 25 years ago. All
cfvlllaed countries now have weather
service. The river weather service,
declared the forecaster, represents a
value much greater than the entire an
nual cost of maintaining the weather
office in Portland.
If You Suffer From
Pulmonary Troubles
Jt is most Important that you should
pay special attention to diet and
living conditions, and get plenty of
rest and fresh air day and nightT In
many instances, hves claimed by such
affections might have been saved by
timely care of this sort. Freauentlv
however, a weakened system needs
assistance.
Under these circumstances trv Eok.
man's Alterative, a lime treatment
which has the unique quality of beine
easily assimilated by the aTersil
person. ,e
It is a widely-used preparation,
which has effected beneficial results
in many cases of severe pulmonary
affections.
la arty event, it may be tried with
out risk or danger. It contains no
opiates, narcotics or habit forming
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Cadillac price field.
Compare 1023 with the sum total of all of those cars listing at
anywhere near the Cadillac price.
672 Dodge Brothers cars registered as neW ptirchases since the
1916 number plates were first issued.
Compare 672 with the balance of the figure shown for new!
car tales.
Then consider the length of time that the Dodge Brother car has been on the market, and consider
that during this comparatively short time not a single Dodge Brothers dealer has been able to procure
rufficient cars to meet the demand.
Washington Street, at 21st, Portland, Ore.
Y. M. C. A. Business School
Both Day and Evening Courses. New Terms Opens September 8. This
school offers very thorough and very practical course in Business Office)
Training including Bookkeeping, Shorthand, Typewriting and all sub
sidiary subjects needed with such a course of training. The Instructors
are experts, the individual element predominates. Special emphasis Is
placed upon Penmanship, Spelling and Business Letter Writing iq the
Stenographic School.
OTHER Y. M. C A. SCHOOLS
DAY SCHOOLS Electrical Engineering, Wireless Telegraphy, College
Preparatory, Automobile and Machine, and Boys' Academic (Elementlry).
These courses range in length of time from two months to four years.
NIGHT SCHOOLS All of the above courses are offered in the Night
Schools in addition to the following: Pharmacy, Salesmanship, Business
Administration and Accountancy, Advertising, Architecture, Mechanical
Drafting, Public Speaking, Surveying and Mapping. Show Card Writing
and Conversational Spanish.
BULLETIN NUMBER ONE, showing a complete schrdule of courses and
prices, will be mailed on request. '
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, Y. M. C A., PORTLAND
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Excursions East
VIA THE
"MILWAUKEE"
Every day until September 30th
?WS1f,CfBcPoJ"tIanL . cbLco lves Union Depot
7 P. M. daily via Spokane Butte, Aberdeen. H. D.. Minneapolis.
Columbian trains over this newly electrified Mountain Route.
?cinde,r"' dust no smoke to obscure the view. Electrifica
tion and other literature gladly furnished upon request
Portland Office, Third and Stark Sts. Phones
, B. at. OAsUUSOJr, siatrtet might sad rasssftrs Arst.