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Newspaper Page Text,. ' . ' -j. ' "'. ' .--.A ,, -V.: . ' - - ' - , ' " : ' - - ' " . . ' . ' - ." Jk - ' -' t -..'-.'" " .- . " '' ' "(TS ALL HERE ALL TRUE I" VOL. XVI. NO. 287 STATE 10 urday Evening in Celebration of Success Expected to Bring s Out HundredtThousand People. , j . Special Railroad. Rates Will Help Swell Throngs With Merry makers From All Points; Six Mass Meetings Are Scheduled. It EG ON first In Ihe honor roll of Ulcs." This, the official bulklin from . th nation's capital, is the thrill inn sloftan that inspires Orcgon's. plans . for a monster . jubilee in Portland Sairday nJght, eele brtln(r the triumphant -commie?-. tlon of the third Liberty loan . .campaign. 1 One hundred thousand people will constitute the tremendous audiencb attending six slmultane Pus mass meetings beginning al 8 p. m. Saturday. A th climax of the evenlnf and , of the campaign, at 9:30 p. m. crowd And tand nd choruses will move over to Bixth street, which will be entirely de voted ' to merry-making. - reople will come from points through out the state as well as the city, because special rates, of fare and a third have been granted on alt transportation lines. A congratulatory telegram -was re reived this morning by Edward Cookingr ham, chairman of the Oregon commit tee, and Kobert E. Smith, state cam paign manager, from Frank R. Wilson, director of publicity for the national loan drive, as follows: - "' - - ' (ConUnavd on Pg Two, Column Two) ; - ADVISES GENERAL - , i . , - r - Those Who Wish to Subscribe .'Need Not Wait for Call of Solicitor. Those who wish to subscribe to .the liberty loan do. not have to wait until a r solicitor calls on them. - Go to your banker or to the liberty Temple if you are ready to take a Uberty loan bond. This Is the advice ' given citizens by Ouy W. Talbot, general in charge of the subscription division of the Liberty loan. coriunlttee. ' Mr. Talbot says: , "Our workera have endeavored to call on ' every cltlien but they find many away from their bffices or homes and are unable to get in touch with them. sometimes after several visits. We urge that the people who have not yet been approached go to some bank or to the Liberty Temple and make their subscription at as early a date as possible tn order that we may clean up our work In nana promptly." Former Transport . i Meade Is Sinking An Atlantic Port, April 12. (I. & S.) The former United States transport "Meade, which was recently turned over ' to the United States shipping board,. Is sinking oft this coast, according to message received today. - A crew of 35 men was taken off by a coast guard cutter and the ocean tug Gerroantown. which ware standing by, 871,213 Called Out 1 Under Draft JAvi Washington. April 12. (U. P.)4The nation up to April; 10 had Called S71.213 drafted men to training camps, Rspre , sentative Biegel of New Tork announced on tha floor of the house today.! ' Of ' this number S5S.S3? are for the general run of tha service, while 17.JH were ordd "for special , work. 4 V - : BET FIRST FLI6 FOR BO HP S ULE BUY BONDS TODAY ' r' " - - n - A A-rf W V r-yav "V . -r-- jSszz' -,..,:' A I I I I V. v X X X X . lrfC X. .. I I . . A XI : " I KATHKIt I - I . - ., Liberty Flag; ;.i".'.' :.nv' ;.,!-. '7--i - State First to Portland Leads Big Cities NATIONAL LIBERTY FLAG OURS RAISING the National Liberty Flag in front of the Treasury building in Washington at the opening of the Liberty Loan campaign. Secretary McAdoo raised the emblem and announced it would be given to whatever state was first in attaining its quota. Oregon has won the honor and the flag will fly here. Per? Capita Subscription for This" Almost Equivalent to a r Bond , j. Child in Oregon; Iowa - Washington, April , 12. (I. N." S.) . Oregon i.wlll fly the National Liberty loan honor flag that has '.been flying from .the treasury building here. The treasury department i announced todax that the state" is tb? first to pass' Us Quota.- 'Oregon's allotment-was 18,495,'- 000, s and . . today subscriptions c totaling $19,044,000 have been reported. A. mes sage-or congratulation was sent imme diately to the' Oregon central committee. Portland, Or., has subscribed to date 110,128.000, ; or $75,000 over " Its quota. making' a, per capita ; subscription of $48. 90 jThe per capita subscription for Oregon 'outside of Portland is $19.50. ; Both "Portland and Toledo, Ohio, are laying claims for the first honor flag In . cities between 100,000 and 250,000 population. Toledo, to date has made the remarkable record of selling bonds equivalent to $65,foB every man, -woman and child to the city. ' - v '., Forty-flva , towns are rtled lor first honors and in cities of less than 25.000 Burlington, Vt.. and Joliet, UU are lead ing.. Sioux City, Iowa, has ?won first honors for cities between 25.000; and 60.- 000 Inhabitants, and Lynn, ilass., for cities between 60.000 and. 100,000. .. Iowa i' probably . will have the honor of being the second state to pass US quota. A ." claim was ' received today from this state for' the National Honor flag, but it arrived a few minutes after the honor bad been accorded Oregon. Thei claim for the flag failed; to set forth the amount of subscription, mere ly stating that the allotment bad been exceeded.-' . V "v -i . With- reports from the Philadelphia and Minneapolis federal reserve dis tricts still missing, the official total of subscriptions to the third Liberty loan. as announced by the treasury department,- its ,$37S,?19,0OO -i Thim ; represents sales of 10 districts-up to the doss of business Wednesday, AprillO. ....... BBnaaMaaHHaaHSMMMs (i S '!( ".Htoi!! f . i ."v. W till J , I - ! , r '"'H Hi: r 7 rHVU H . k . , .,. PORTLAND, ' OREGON, FRID A Y EVENING, i ' . - ........ ' - 7' - - : i - mm FRCMT IS ATMC Is Oregon's i.. - .f.i - . it i If ass Quota $48.90 for Each Man, Woman and Claiming Second Place. Totals from the other two districts are I expected today, and treasury officials I look I for a general speeding up of the federal reserve banks' reports so the amounts will be up to date. New Tork is far in the lead, according to the 1st est -Jfigures. The i districts and their subdivisions. such as counties, cities and towns, may now publish their totals locally, get ting them from either the federal re serve districts or the banks and trust companies to which they make returns. . '-pi Figures Are Misleading .The; comparatively small total an nounced for the Cleveland district, only $7150, Js no Indication of the total bond sales of that district,- treasury officials said; ' It Is explained that the Cleveland district has reported those Initial de posits which were received at federal reserve bank and has omitted all dis tricts ; recorded in the member banks and trust . companies, which total up wards of $20,000,000. Belay In returns from the Minneapolis district Is given ICoSctadfd oa Pag Sixteen. Cola ma Two) Wily-French Lassie Taking No.Chances Chicago, April ; 12. (U. ' P.)-lAn in- -ternatlonal -exchange of notes will , re sult - soon in . the marriage of . Mile. Jeanette Armand of Dyon, France, to Private Alfredo Carvaellt of Chicago. The canny Mile.' Armand wrote Chief of police . Alcock : i. l am to : be .mar ried! soon to - Alfredo. Please Investi gate" hlm." I - want Ao " know more about .-him,' 'I - ; : ' . Detectives - delved. - Today the chief State to Date Is dispatched his official : O.-.Ki to the bridegroom's - record."- tv.r ;t - - -. ' r . - - ' s - - . -: " v SSI SfjEED Convention Poposes Parliament With Full Power for All Inter nal Legislation; Ulsterites Ob ject in a Minority Report. Conscription Must Be Submitted to Irish Parliament Before It Can Be Enforced; Unionists to Get 40 Per Cent of Members London. April 12. (U. P.) The plan for proposed eelf government of Ireland was adopted by th Irish convention 100 to 42. it wu officially reported by that body today. The convention report provides for the establishment of a parliament for the whole of Ireland, with full power for 'all Internal legislation, administration and direct taxation. Self government, the re port said, is to become a law Immediate ly. . ; The Ulsterites filed a dissenting minor ity report. The convention report submitted today. declared that body voted 4 to 17, that any conscription measure must be sub mitted to the Irish parliament before It can be enforced. "'.'! , Ttt parliament, according to tha re port, wilt consist of a. senate of 4 mem bers, and ahouaeot. commons .jjtQOl members. The senate will be representa tive of commerce, industry, labor, county councils, churches, universities and the peerage. . - ... The Nationalists agreed to guarantee the . unionists 40 per cent of the member ship in commons. ' The Question of ultimate control of the customs excise was postponed. Mean time it will be controlled by the imperial parliament. IT FOR VOLUNTEERS Wilson Believes States Should Be Credited With Number Who Have Enlisted. Washington, April 12. (I. N. a) That President Wilson is pledged to giving the states credit for volunteers In all draft totals became known during the debate on the new draft legislation in the house this afternoon. Representative Shallenberger. In ask' ing favorable action on his amendment to provide this, read the following ex tract from a letter by the president : . "It may be that In giving credit for volunteers no useful purpose will be served, but it will be perfectly proper to include them. Representative Dent, chairman of the military affairs committee, defending himself from the charge that he had held up military bills, declared this was utterly untrue. 'I have held up the military appro priation bill until Secretary Baker comes home." he said. "But then I will push it and if he wants two or three million men he will get them, or any number he desires. An Inspiring appeal to the American people to forget sectional Jealousies and unite tn the common cause of triumph over Germany was made in the. house this afternoon? by Representative Julius Kahn, in leading the . administration fight for amendment of the selective draft law. "In this crisis I hold that Ao man should take such a narrow view of the situation as to want to make a fight against this legislation because his dis trict may nave furnished a lew more men than some other district. "I say to you that you must take first the men who can best be spared. That is the principle behind this legislation. The others must be in reserve classes that we can fall back on if we need them to win. : ..'"From the first 1 have told yu that starvation and - internal ' disturbances will not defeat Germany. Force, force. and more force only will win. - MEN!! WOMEN!! Read the Help Wanted- Ads to . night and make i the most -of -pppor-. tiinity. - ': ; ' D FAVORED APRIL, 12, 1918 TWENTY Ex-President Addresses New York Legislature; Says Pending Crisis 1s Greatest World Has Face"d in Three Hundred Years. Five to Seven Million Men Are Needed by America to Drive Back Germans and Attain Vic tory; May Take 2 Years More. Albany. N. T.. April 12. (I. N. & The United States must put an army of from five to seven million men. fully equipped, on the western front to win the war. It will require two years to do this and probably another year to smash German militarism. This was the declaration of Former President William Howard Taft, address ing the New Tork state legislature In Joint session this afternoon. The hearts and minds or everyone in this country are today centered on the west front." Mr. Taft declared. "Upon the results seems 'to hang the fate of the world. The crisis Is there impending. the like of which the world has not seen in two or three centuries. There William Hohenxollern and the Potsdam gang are flinging two million men agaiast a'76 mlle front being opposed by the French and 'English and- small force of our own beys"-: ,r.-p..- "This prompts me to determine never to stop Urging 'until we actually hav accomplished the putting' Into training force of our men to the number of from 5.000.000 to 7,000.000. . It may take two years. Let us face that possibility. What is the use of being optimistic of a speed we cannot obtain. . . When we get these menv and their equipment over there, then victory is ours." Enlistments to Be Speeded Up Great Lakes, 111.. April 12. (I. N. S.) Orders which will result in speeding up of enlistments and a greater United States navy to keep the lanes to France open for the transport or American troops were received todsy by Captain William A. Moffett, commandant at the naval training station, from the navy department at Washington. All district commanders have been In structed to enroll In the United States naval reserve force all available men immediately. Men in all lines and spe cialties to volunteer for the period of the war are wanted. The order Is a sequel to Secretary Daniels statement in his address to the Jackies last Wednesday that they will be depended upon to cooperate and that the greatest navy In the. world is to be Inaugurated to still greater proportions. FOR DIKED LANDS Max H. Houser and Ralph Wil liams Making Purchase in Clatskanie District. Max H. Houser. prominent Portland grain man, and his associates are nego tiating for the purchase of 6000 acres of fine bottom land near Clatskanie, Or. The purchase price Is about $50 an acre. . The deal is practically closed, according to Mr. Houser. The -purchasers Intend to put the en tire tract Into crops. The land Is well diked and protected from the overflow waters of the Columbia river. Included In the tract is ample water frontage. The land wil be taken over from the present owners, the Clatskanie Agri cultural company. The negotiation of this deal Is a direct-result of the Improvement of the Columbia river highway below Poit land. When the tract shall ultimately have been divided Into small farm and garden lots, aa is the program, the truck growers will be afforded direct mar ket in Portland over the surfaced road which would have been unavailable be fore . the highway Improvement made. ; ' - ' .That . the development or these dike lands la to be followed by other develop ment la the opinion of highway and ag ricultural experts, as the good roads pro gram is carried out. Associated with Mr. Houser In - the $250,000 deal is Ralph Williams of Port land. Another Investor is also finan $250,000 DEAL ON cially Interested. - c--.-- The land lies in the Beaver drainage district and the holdings are said to be among the richest of the kind in the Clatskanie district. .. . : . It is the intention of the new. owners to put In a large crop of oats this year on a part of the tract. Other sections will be used for grasing. - . ; r Owing' to the richness of the soil the land Is declared to be admirably, adapt ed to general a-ardenlpg - as well . as grains and roots. .. :;v-', . 1 - TWO PAGES OFFICIAL REPORTS BRITISH LOXDOJT. April lt-(U. P.) "De spite the fact thai he has al ready throws Its dlvltloas late the . fight, the eaemy has Made little progress toward, his goa Field Marshal Halg declared la as order ef the day Issaed today. The caeny's object Is to separate as from the Fresch, take the chaasel ports aad destroy the British amy." "The Freaeh are movlag rapidly aad streagly to oar sspport. There Is so other coarse bet to fight It ost. Every position mast be held to the last mas, aad with bo retire meat. WUh oat backs to the wall aad -belterlag la the Jaitlce of oar casse, we matt fight to the ead for the safety of oar hemes aad the freedom of maaklad. I depead oa the coadact of each nu at this .critical momcaL LONDON. April 12. (U. P.) 'The enemy captured Merville last night," Field Marshal Halg an nounced today. "We fell back to new positions in the neighborhood of Neuve KgTlse." The British by a counter attack have regained their positions north of Festubert (a mile north of Giv enchy). Into a part of which the ene my ha'd forced its way, Field Marshal Halg reported today. "In the neighborhood of Merville and Neufberquin .there was severe, continuous fighting last night," the statement continued. "The enemy's pressure Is contin uing his progress." "Near TUloy-les-Mofflaines (a mile and a half east of Arras) the enemy entered one position but was driven out by a counter attack. "Astride the-Somme there was In creased' artillery fighting. "Between the Lostne and the La we rivers and also to the north, hostile . attacks were repulsed. -r- -"From La Basse canal, aa far as Hollebeke (three miles southeast of Tpres) fighting continued. "South of Arras there were strong local attacks, , in the neighborhood of yeuville-Vltasse, which were re pulsed. , . - LONDON. April 12. U. P.) Fighting is continuing between the La Basses and the Tpres Comlnes canal. Field Marshal Halg reported In his night communique. Between 8teenwsrck and a' point north of Est a Irs, a German attack pushed the British back. The enemy 1 also progressed In the neighbor hood of Ploegsteert wood. . Fresh German divisions were beaten off between Kstrem and the Loisne, and a British counter at tack resulted tn the re-capture of lost positions. FRENCH PARIS. April 12. (U. P.) Success ful surprise attacks north of the Ailette river and west of Butte-du-Meenll (In the Tahure sector, where American artillery is engaged) resulted-, in the taking of some enemy prisoners, the Trench war office re ported today. French patrols took some prisoners in . the JS'oyon and Canny-sur-Mets sectors. GERMAN . BERLIN. April 12. The German war office, in its statement late yesterday, claimed more .than 10,000 prisoners In the fighting around Ar mentieres, including a Portuguese general. - British positions on the south bank of the Lys and the east bank of the Lawe were captured! to gether with Hollebeke. and the British first line south of that place, it was announced. Mesalnes Height was stormed and held as far as Ploegsteert wood. South of Kstalres, the Germans have reached the Lawe. llUJLfJL UK nUlNUll Wtahlnrton. April 12. L N. S.) nam of 61 soidicia sppesrad en the eutMltv Ut bkoed tr th war dapartawnt lata tba aftarnoea. TPiva war kttM ia aetiaa and tbraa licntanaatt war raportad auaatac la actios. Tba other ebuaificatieaai vara: Died et wonada. S: died from diaeaa. : diad fraaa acridanta. t; wooaded arrarely. 4; woondad aUsbtiy. 28. Tba Hat loUowa: KMIee in Action 8ERREA!T MLUARD E. AITuDB. iORPORAt, JESSE X. UAHTIN. PRIVATE WIIX1AM C. KlSfi. PRIVATE CHARLES N. liORB. PBiVATK STANLEY MAtTK. OvCrJ pTsf Wsl rVfstrl PRITATB WILLIAM J. B. OCTHRIE. PRIVATE RODERICK J. M'lJCAX. V PEITATK WARLOW WXOHOSKL ' DM ef Oiaasas ar . Trinim Hanry Iiarts. parttooitia. Prirata Wtllta ((ordon. ' endocardia. PiinU Antoa Krrh, aaaainsKia. Prtrata Walter R. Llaatedt, rmvunonia. Prirata Jaaaaa iMdaat. perttatbtia. PrlraU Uaaiei Monroe, paMoaaoaia. Dlad ef AealeenU Prirata Baa P. Ufeejory, . Pnrats John E. gaaator. . 1- BeTgeani Leo Q. TUoaalB. Priratea Fraruda X- aturpoj, doaepa x. auraa. Jaaaas r. Bcott. X t . - v . waurasos ax loam -. I CapUia Tatarrta Cappel. CapUia Weodroar Woodbridsa. lieutenant WUUaa J. Mieba, n- B.d. )BrSd!tti. jo-j crtvkt ,ahc!r "Mte Ht iZtcZTrX - ratea. Philip Beadraaav Artkar H. Back. Fraak (Htaaek. irorer CartaaaT. ITrank Cararra, iaraaar v "m,u. awni rsari. , i a rw., . e m m t a. r -1 ; . u r m . i a. aiunu, oaa mub, rrmncu n. Jroreaa. "". Cnre Pka. Alfred Hchaw. etaoart W. 5ee-: 'Ja'ea r ZZZ. Uerwaa K.. Witts. . v . , ..' v mtmhtt ta AaUaa V- i Uaoteaaats Robert. H. - Jtffrcy.' a,Bat MiBti, Abnba-a strsoaa. -.-.' . . PRICE TWO CENTS aKwjff MILES 1ST DF LILLE Enemy Pressure on Northern Portion of ' British Line Continues With Unabatejj -Fury; Huns Drive in Deep Salient as. Haig's Forces Retire to New Positions. Violent Fighting Continues Throughout Night in Battle Between the La Bassee Canal and the Ypres-Comines Canal in Belgium; Huns Claim 10,000 Prisoners . By Fred S. Ferguson fL 7ITH THE . AMERICAN ARMIES IN y V FRANCE, April? 12. (U. P.) After re v . pulsing, two German attacks on American positions northwest of Toul, American , troops today counterattacked ctrtd recaptured an observation hill. " -' . U V The , American troops battled with the Gerj-, -mans all day, infantry and artillery participating; At a late hour this afternoon the fighting was contining.' . LONDON, April 12. (UTP.) "A definite cruu hat again been reached and the situation undoubtedly is not pleasant," General Maurice, director of operations', declared in an interview this evening. j 'The enemy is a short distance from Bailleul (seven and one half miles west and is an important railway center. "South of Armentieres the about seven miles. I think that the battle never aimed t particular towns. "From Hollebeke to La Bassee, 17 German divisions have been engaged. We are holding the ing Armentieres with gas shells, Germans out." L ONDON, April 12. (I. N. northern France, was captured by the Germans after, a severe" struggle Thursday night, the British war office stated todav.: (Merville lies just northeast of Lestrefn, on the Haztbrouck" road. It is between 17 and 18 miles west of Lille, eight ' niilej? 1 north of Bethijne and between seven and eight miles soythcast.df. Hazebrouck.) . . Violent fighting continued during the night in the ncvv battle" which has developed between La Bassee canal 'and the Yprc!f Comines canal, in Belgium. -. . V , Heavy German pressure resulted in their making progress ; t some points. In the sector of Ploegsjeert wood, oh the 'west Flanders front, the British took up new and stronger jjositknik. I changed; in the region of Festubert a .British counter attack" won -J back ground Which the Germans - many oi uic vicrtnan aiiacxs were oniuaniiy repellen. tjn the Somme river (Prcardy battlefront) there were only artillery duels' -. "There was a continuation of severe fighting during the rfagHt in the neighborhood of Monville and Nefberquin," the officialre- ports said. "The eneijiy exerted strong pressure and mad some progress in both sectors. Merville was captured by the cnmk during the night fighting." : ; I By WUIiam With the British. Armies in battle around Armentieres has been resumed with redoubled fur . The enemy has passed the Loisne and Lawe streams, tn'tbe direction of St. Venant (seven and a half miles west of EstairesV on the Lys canal), and are advancing beyond Steenvverck, tdr ward Bailleul (seven miles northwest of Armentieres and three miles beyond Steenwerck); J I ' i Some ground has been lost in' order", to conform to the movet ment to the south. .' : . . ' . .. ; I This morning, east of ploegsteert, there was a terrific German i . DOmparameni. . " - . i , . ; .- A Crmir nff,Vr .L -j . , , . i - A erman officer, taken prisoner, declared the Germans werr wucrctvato capture Amiens today r - . - . -'- . . L. fuOnoon. ADTtl iZjI. X. &.YVar (K i ... & nuninar nut massea OX trtMMw inW I ,th- Rrltlah and PartuauMa rwv.4,1 . ? J"?" . P ;" ia r rrnca-DtigTan rronuer. . nav jm relaxed almost completely their pres- iur 'lnt Amiens. ' i J. Following, their., retirement freT"Ar on TWAIN NMD ntw 4 TAMO mm CIMT I O 111 J north of Armentieres), which Germans made a total advance oa the enerny from tho beginning ti exits of Messines. Vc are drcnclv- and I believe are keeping th ' : ; ! S.) Merville, on the Lys river, in had previously taken. ' I : PhiKo Simms France, ADrn'-l?. m p Thi at all costs. ' t - J . (- , 1 i " ' j 1 - . . .. . L ' 1 to a point north of Steenwerck.. and Estalres. which Indicates that the Ger mans at some points have advanced al most six. miles since this new struggle started In the north. (Coarladed oa Ttft Elf kt. Colasaa Ooa)