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VOL. XVII. NO. 86
PORTLAND, OREGON, WEDNESD AY EVENING, AUGUST 21, . 1918. FOURTEEN PAGES.
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WESHALL
DECLARES
Entire Assemblage at First Busi
ness Session of Encampment
Cheers Leader's Patriotic Ad
dress ,t' the Echo.
Great Camp Fires of Past Year,
He Says, Have Been Two Wars
War Meetings; Men in Khaki
Rouse Pride of Men in Blue.
"M'
t EN of the Grand Army or
the Republic, we shall
win this war!" In response to
this declaration of Commander
In Chief Orlando S jmers, the en
tire assemblage at the first busi
ness session of the grand en
campment cheered to the echo.
The commander was delivering
his annual address at the Ma-,
i sonic temple. He struck the
patriotic note as it Is sounding
.'all.. .over the l Uuijl todays
"I have attended and addressed great
camp fires. Lincoln's birthday and
memorial day meetings In the cities of
'Philadelphia. New York, Chicago, St.
Louis, Omaha. Denver, Portland, Hel
ena. Spokane and Indianapolis." .he
aid. "I have been the guest of the
commandants of a number of forts and
cantonments and have addressed sol
diers, witnessed parades and reviewed
troops.
"I have visited numerous shipyards
on many shores and witnessed the
launching of great ships of wood and
ships of steel, ships of war and ships of
commerce. The vastness of our ship In
dustry Is beyond comprehension. When
the war is over we shall he able to carry
(Concluded on Pit EUht. Column One)
Prisoners Sullen
Following Killing of
Johnson by Guard
Walla Walla. Wash.,, Aug. 21. (I. N.
8.) After a night of noisy demonstra
tion convicts at the Washington state
penitentiary here early today were still
sullen and mutlnoiim The trouble Is
declared by officials to have started
after Fred (Tiger) Johnson, whose real
name Is Louis Coynt, was shot and
killed by John' Davidson, a guard, yes
terday. A coroner's jury exonerated
the guard.
Johnson and John Vandell killed State
Labor Commissioner E. W-. Olsen about
a year ago at Olympia, and had been
confined In the isolation ward. They
broke ,helr Oregon boots, according to
the guards, and were attempting to es
cape, when shot by Davidson.
Johnson had served three years In
the federal penitentiary at McNeil Island
and police records show he escaped from
Jail In San Mateo, Cal., where he was
charged with highway robbery. He had
tried to kill a guard at the penitentiary,
and at Spokane, where: he tried to escape
from the county Jail, he attacked a dep
uty sheriff.
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Adv.
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French Get to
Within 2 Miles
Of Noyon; Fall
Expected Soon
Mangin's Troops on Left Flank
Make Three Mile Advance
Into German Line.
By Floyd Macgriff
LONDON, Aug. 21, 4 :47 p. m. (I.
N. S. French troops are with- '
in two miles of Noyon, one of the
great German key positions "on
the i lower end of the Picardy
front, rthe International News
Service learned late this after
noon. . It was stated that the
Germans are expected to evacuate
the city almost immediately.
General Mangin's left flank has
driven three miles farther Into the Ger
man lines since yesterday, it was
learned.
Mangin's troops have reached Sem
plgny, which is just below Noyon.
The French line northwest of Solssons
now runs from Semplgny to Pontoise,
to LaPommeraye, to Cuts, to Camelin,
to Blerancourt, to St. Aubdn, to Veza
ponin. to Bteuxy, to LaVal and to
Courtll. -
By John I)e Gandt
Paris. Aug. 21. (U. P.) French
troops, outflanking Ourscamps forest,
have reached a point near Pontoise. less
than 4000 yards (slightly more than two
miles) southeast of Noyon,
Pressure Is being methodically exert
ed toward Lasaigny. and Noyon,' The
latter Is now more threatened from the
southeast than from the southwest.
Camelln (seven 'miles southeast of
Noyon) and Blerancourt (a mile south
east of Camelln) have been passed.
(This latter progress represents a to
tal advance of six miles by Mangin's
army.) ' ' ' '.
HUNS BELIEVED TO BE
CONSERVING FOR DRIVE
Paris. Aug., 21. (U. P.) General
Mangin Is continuing his advance be
tween he Oise and Aisne. and has made
t . I,
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HOUSE TO TAKE UP
MAN POWER BILL
Unanimous Consent to Consider
Measure Thursday Given;
Hot Fight Predicted.
Washington. Aug. 21. (I. N. S.)
By unanimous consent the house today
agreed to take up Thursday the new
man power bill extending draft agea
from 18 to 45 years, which was earlier
reported, by the house military affairs
committee. Chairman Dent of the
committee, stated that he believed the
bill would be passed by the house by
Saturday:
A hot fight on the floor of the
house Is predicted by supporters of the
administration over the amendment to
the bill, sponsored by Representative
RIcJCenzie. of Illinois, which specifies
that 'those of 18 and ' 19 years shall
be placed In- a separate classification
to be called after those betwen 20
and 45 have been introduced into the
army.
The war department desires the
question of when and how 18 and 19
year old boys shall be called to be left
to the discretion of the president, as
provided for in the bill as originally
framed, although Secretary of War
Baker Informed the committee thaf
he was willing that such boys should
be drafted last.
Adherents of the administration de
clare that they anticipated that the
president himself will oppose the adop
tion of the McKenzie amendment.
A member of the committee! gave
the following vote on the amendment:!
Against Kahn. California ; Lunn,
New York : Tilson. Connecticut ; Crago. i
Pennsylvania; Greene, Vermont; OI
ney. Massachusetts ; Harrison, Vir
ginia. . For Fields, Kentucky ; Gordon,
Ohio ; Shalleberger. Nebraska ; Garrett,
Texas ; Nichols, South Carolina ; Mc
kenzie, Illinois ; Morln, Pennsylvania ;
Hull, Iowa; Anthony. Kansas.
Chairman Dent, although favoring
the amendment, explained that he did
not vote.
No roll call was taken, the vote
being detefmined by a count of hands.
Two other amendments to the bill
were aaopiea Dy me committee, one
providing for the combination of spe
cial and technical education with, mil
itary training for soldiers and the other
permitting those under 21 years of
age to qualify for commissions. "
The bill was' repotted without the
amendment added to it by the senate
military affairs committee, providing
for the drafting of striking workmen
engaged In essential industries and to
which President Gompers and Secretary
Morrison of the American Federation
of Labor are strongly opposed. Secre
tary Baker said he did not consider it
necessary to the war department's pro
gram inasmuch as the president, under
the work or fight regulation, is now
vested with ample -authority to induct
tne aiacker into the army.
MHE
OFFICERS
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Canadian Woman Has Thrilling
Experience on New Brunswick
Coast; Death Threat Made If
She Should Reveal Presence.
German Sea Pirates Question
Daughter of Captain Wilson
as to Various Localities; Land
ing Party Carried Arms.
CANADIAN ISLAND. Campo
Bello, N. B., Aug. 21. .J. N.
S.)--TVo heavily armed German
U-boat officers wearing long
linen dusters over their uniforms.
Tuesday held up Miss Willa
Wilson, the 20 year old daughter
of Captain Simon Wilson, of
Wilson Beach.
; After questioning her about
Easfport, Maine, banks and the
United Statf 0ast? matters they
-allowed "her td proceed after
threatening to kill her on sight if
she told of her experience, she
says.
Still in a highly nervous state, Miss
Wilson, who Is a daughter of one of the
leading families of this Bection. today
told the International News Service .of
her experiences.
"I do not know Just how it all hap
pened," she said. "I visited friends in
Lubec Tuesday. In the evening they
boated me across the channel to the
southern part of the Island and I
started for home alone along the coast
road. I was riding my bicycle.
"I had made the trip many times and
was not afraid. When I reached the
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Three Grays Harbor
Safes Are. Robbed
Aberdeen, Wash., Aug. 21. One of
the boldest robberies ever committed
here occurred some time between Sun
day night and Tuesday morning, when
the safes in the law office of Bridges &
Bruaner, the Saginaw Timber company
of this city and R. D. Emerson of Ho
quiam were opened and Liberty bonds.
Thrift Stamps, cash and jewelry of the
value of between $10,000 and $15,000
were taken. Discovery was not made
until late Tuesday night. The jewelry
was principally in the safe of J. B.
Bridges and consisted of valuable heir
looms. The work is believed to be that
of professionals, as the safes were
opened by use of the combinations.
Spain Now Says
Yes She Did Send
Note to Germany
Madrid, Aug. 21. (U. P.) The min
istry of the interior issued a statement
to the newspapers today announcing
that Spain had sent a note to Germany
declaring if there are any further sub
marine sinking: of Spanish vessels, Spain
will temporarily replace them from Ger
man tonnage Interned m Spanish har
bors.
ROLL OF HONOR
Washington. Aug. 21. The list of casualties
in the United States serrice made public today,
including IS members of the marine corps,
numbers 176. They sre dirided as follows:
Army casualties: Killed in action, 24; died
of disease, 2 ; wounded severely, 4 7 ; wounded
(degree undetermined), 15; died of wounds, 9;
missing in action, 64. Total. 161.
Marine corps casualties: Killed in action. 6;
died of wounds received in action, 1 ; wounded in
action (severely), 3: wounded (degree unde
termined. 6. Total, 15.
Including todays' figures, the total casualties
reported to the war department number 22,312,
diTided as follows: Army, 19,478; marine corps,
2834
Aimy list:
KILLED IN ACTION
MAJOR JAMES A. M'KENXA. New Tork
LIEUTENANT RAY C. DICKOP. West Bend.
Wis. ,
Sergeants
WILLIAM BOTI.E. Steubenrille, Ohio.
HARRY N. KENDALL. Shenandoah. Iowa.
WAGONER EDWARD MANLEY, Weeds
port. N. Y.
CORPORAL JOHN. J. KANE. Jersey City.
N. J.
Private
WALTER E. AKELEY, Pert Aneeles. Wash.
RX:H BANTKOW8KI, South Chicago. I1L '
HARVEY ANDREW GLLLICKSON, Nee
nah. Wis.
R. IX HILT, Lafayette, Ind.
ANTON F. KERSHEU. ForestTille, Wis.
HOWARD L. NIDLE. Great Falls, Mont.
CHARLES BODEL; New York. - " "' '
DENIS STRONG. Tnnkhannock. Pa.
i Conclude on Page Tta, Column Tore)
BULGARIAN
REPUBLIC IS
PREDICTED
MAURIS, Aug. S1-U. P.)
THe newspaper Liberal de
clared It hears i from au
thoritative sources thai Czar Fer
dinand of Bulgaria Is a Frankfort,
desperately 111 aid believed to be
dying. Uls family Is said to be
with him. The newspaper expresses
the opinion that the death of the
czar would create disturbances In
Sofia that would end In the declara
tion of a republic In Bulgaria with
in a few days.
PRESS HUNS YIELD
Whether Retirements Due to Loss
of Morale or to Prearranged
Plan Not Determined.
With the British Army In France.
Aug. 20. (Night) (U.. P.) Whether it
Is because the Germans fighting spirits
are gone or because the higher com
mand is deliberately following a pro-'
gram Involving retirement wherever
they are rushed, the British are finding
that on various parts of 'their line the
Germans give way with an unexpected
readiness that Is like shadow fighting
at times.
All withdrawals so far have been ex
plained by the Germans as a desire to
shorten their line, inasmuch as this has
been the actual effect. In some in
stances, though it has left the Germans
in less satisfactory positions than those
abandoned. -
An Interesting feature of the advance
today la the MervUle jregjon, where thel
idee, of getting their forces, safely -out
of the path of the British, is that these
Boches are part of the army of General
Von Bernhardt who, as a writer, .was a
proponent of the idea that the only way
to fight Is I advance.
Some light on the Boehes" spirit, or
lack of it, was gained night before last,
when a certain German regiment, hav
ing retired too far, was ordered to
attack Pulsieux (nortit of Albert). The
regiment refused, preparing a written
protest and sending It to the command
er. The latter telegraphed back, re
peating his order. The regiment at
tacked half heartedly and lost heavily.
Some 25 men of this regiment are all
that remain.
The advance in Flanders was along a
front of more than eight miles extend
ing north and south of the Lys. The
British occupied L'Epinette, ' Wlerhouck
and Lacouronne and progressed east of
Mervtlle.
In the Arras region there was local
fighting onboth sides or the Scarpe,
the British pushing forward a short dis
tance east of Fampoux.
American Red Cross
Units Are in Russia
With Many Supplies
London, Aug-. 21. (TJ. P.) American
Red Cross units arrived at Vladivo
stok from Toklo, bringing 70,000
pounds of hospital supplies and pro
visions, a dispatch from that city re
ported today. Part of, the units will
go to the Czecho-Slovak front imme
diately. !
Foreign Minister
Of Uruguay Lands
Washington. Aug. 21. (I. N. S.) Dr.
Baltasar Brum, minister of foreign af
fairs for the republic of Uruguay, and
lits party, arrived at an Atlantic port to
day, the state department announced.
The party will arrive In Washington on
Thursday. Accompanying the minister
re Cesar Miranda, vice president of the
:epubljc; Dr. Javier M-jdlvit, a sena'or;
Dr. Alfrudal Del Vido.f financial ecre
tary ; Dr. Justo Jose Mondoza, secre
tary to the minister, and Dr. John Can
oza. The party was met here by Hugo
V. DePena, Uruguay charge d'affaires
here ; Jordan H. Stabler, chief of the
Latin American division of the depart
ment of state ; Colonel William Kelly.
U. S. A., and Lieutenant Commander
Augustin T. Beauregar-1, U. S. N.
Aircraft Inquiry Is
Almost Completed
Washington. Aug. 31. (I. N. S.)
Findings of former Justice Charles E.
Hughes, Attorney General Gregory and
Assistant Attorney General William
Frierson. who have been investigating
the aircraft situation,; will be turned
over to President Wilson next week. It
was announced .today.
Congressmen Visit
King; 60 to Front
i
Rome, Aug." 21- -U.! P.) The Amer
ican congressional naval mission left
last night for the front. " They were
guests of the king before leaving. Con-
gressman Padgett expressed the com
mission's appreciation f- Italy's war ef
fort before departtn - J z
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WHENEVER
BRITISH
GEN. BYNG AND HIS TANKS
SURPRISE GERMANS IN FOG
LEADER OF BRITISH ATTACK
L
IEUTENANT GENERAL
who is leading the present British offensive between Al
bert and Arras and has won. important preliminary suc
cesses. He won a brilliant success in the Arras region early in
the summer, but ground he then captured was soon retaken by
the Germans in the beginning of their great 1918 offensive.
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Charge Is Made That Men in
Seattle Yards Drew Wages
While Playing Pool.
Seattle, Wash., Aug. 21. (I. N. S.)
Five employes of the Ames shipyard
are in the county jail here today,
charged with conspiracy to defraud, as
the result of an investigation by Dep
uty Prosecutor S. M. Brackett, who de
clared he has discovered a system
whereby the government has been de
frauded of thousands of dollars by ship
yard workers.
It is alleged by Brackett that men
have drawn their wages while spending
their time playing pool. The men ar
rested are declared to have interchanged
names and used aliases in carrying out
their plan.
As the shipyards are paid cost plus
10 per cent for building vessels for the
government- It is not the employers
but the government that has been de
frauded, according to Brackett's com
plaint. It is believed the alleged graft
will be as much as $500 a day at the
Ames plant alone.
The men under arrest gave the names
of Paul Calkins, Oscar Wigmosta, alias
Carl Anderson ; Ben Southerland, alias
Jimmy Valentine, alias Clare Anderson;
Carl Parker, alias Oscar Wigmosta,
alias Carl Anderson, and Art Johnson.
One man is alleged to have been
drawing pay from the Ames and Duthle,
yards at the same time and selling ice
cream cones to the workers as they
came off shift.
Ludendorff Is Out,
Hindenburg Takes
His Place, Report
Rome, Aug. 21. (I. N. S.) Field Mar
shal von Hindenburg has been called to
the west front by the kaiser to replace
GeneraJ Ludendorff, according to the
Stamp:
The Glornale D'ltalla claims to have
received news that the agitation in Ger
many against the crown prince, as a re
sult of the German failure on the Marne,
has-been so strong that the kaiser has
granted the crown prince six months'
leave of absence.
Allied Commander Arrives
London. 'Aug. 21. (U. P.-) -General-Otant.
commander of the allied forces
In Siberia, arrived at Vladivostok Sun
day, according-, to a dispatch received
from that city today. British artil
lery is reported to have . been active
in ' that . region for saverat days, re
ducing, the superiority af ' the enemy's
I artillery.
I
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ACCUSED QF FRAUD
T .
SIR JULIAN BYNG, K. C. B.,
'FERRIS HEATED IN
REPLY TO SINNOTT
Answering Criticism of Minority
Water Power Report, Says
He Did His Duty.
Washington, Aug. 21. (WASHING
TON BUREAU OF THE JOURNAL.)
Criticism by Representative Slnnott of
the Scott-Ferris minority report on the
waterpower bill as unfair to the ma
jority of the committee of which Sin
nott Is a member, led Representative
Ferris to make a heated reply as soon
as Sinnott had finished in the house de
bate Tuesday.
"No long. labored speeches here will
intimidate me from doing my duty."
he said: "I don't understand where all
these new Rlchmonds come from. I
have no waterpowers in my district. I
am not catering to waterpower people,
but am trying to perform my duty. I
hav expected to be assailed by water
power people and those who are with
them, but believe the house will vote
as it has voted lefore and refuse to
pass this bill, which gives the water
power pawnbrokers what they want."
Sinnott. who had just concluded a
speech of one hour and thirty minutes,
listened to Ferris" rejoinder without
i comment. He had assailed the Ferris
j report as unfair in attempting to rep
j resent the committee's bill as hostile to
the views of the administration and
I quoted Secretaries Lane, Baker and
Houston to snow their Indorsement of
net investment idea as opposed to the
"fair value" plan of recapture, which
Ferris advocate. He declared fair
value is a risky term to define. 1og
disputed in Jurisprudence and impos
sible to forecast how courts will inter
pret it. He defined the net Investment
plan as feasible because of its certainty,
insisting It is fair to all interests and'
will not necessarily mean plants will
cost more on recapture than under the
fair value plan.
Ferris asserted new investment means
a guarantee by the government of the
return of every cent Invested and may
require the government to pay more
than actual value for a depreciated
plant if the government ever wants to
buy it.
Speed of America
Praised by Reading
London. Aug. 1. (U. P.) "America's
entry Hnto tha i removed all doubts
and fears of making a victory for the
aHies- certain but we never imagined
America could take such a splendid part
so quickly," .Lord Reading. British am
bassador to the United States, declared
in an address at the Luncheon club
today. ' -
'Reading unqualifiedly, denied a preva
lent rumor of an Anglo-American of-
1 tensive and defensive, alliance.
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Rapid Advance Carries British Within
Two and a Half Miles of City; Many
Prisoners Captured; British Losses Are
Light; Enemy Is Taken by Surprise
Early Morning Attack Carries Britons
Into Numerous Villages Within Few'
Minutes After Tommies Go Over Top
With the Aid of Tanks and Cavalry ;
J .
LONDON, Aug. 21, -r. BritUh.lroopi under General Byng
' struck forward today in a 8urpriirattack-on a ten mile
front between Arra and Albert, captured several towns
and are already within two and a half miles of Bapaume.
A heavy fog covered the advance, making long artillery
preparation unnecessary. Tanks and cavalry assisted in the
operations, which went forward at a rapid rate. Field Mar
shal Haig reports satisfactory progress.
Several hundred prisoners have been captured. Casual
ties among the British were light.
By Floyd MacGriff
(International News Service Staff Correspondent)
London, Aug. 21. (1 P. M.) It was General Byng, the hero
of the spectacular British advance at Cambrai last year, who -directed
the British advance today north of the Ancre. The Inter
national News Service learned this afternoon that General Byng's
army attacked this morning over a nine mile front.
Just as he attacked at Cambrai last year without artillery prep
aration, General Byng today launched his new blow without an
advance warning of any kind to the enemy. The attack -was a
complete surprise. General Byng's men swept forward rapidly
everywhere. At 10 o'clock, according to word reaching London,
British troops had advanced from two to three miles.
Achiet La Petit, two miles east of the British line before the
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LABOR SHORTAGE
IS CALLED ACUTE
More Private and Non-Essentia!
Businesses Must Give Up
Men, Is View Taken.
America's shortage of 1,000,000 labor
ers In war and essential industries must
be met, no matter what happens to pri
vate business, is the tone of a telegram
received today by Captain John K.
Kollot-k. chairman of the State Council
of Defense, from C. M. Reynolds, rep-j
resentative of the committee of national
defense in the United States employment!
service.
Oregon's quota is 8600 laborers and of.
this number this state needs 4500 men, '
meaning the 4100 men must be secured
to be sent elsewhere for war work. ;
The skilled labor situation Is equally !
as serious as is that of common la bor. ,
and as soon as the man power bill is
passed there will be an additional short- ,
age. it is expected. ....,!
Men for war work can not be taken ;
frSm farms ra lroads or mines, which
means that private and non-essential
industries must cut down their forces j
and gradually replace men, who are j
physically fit to do war work, with i
women. Many of the firms ln Portland
have already proceeded along these lines, j
but with the increasing aemana others '
mu : act quickly.
The increasing demand for unskilled I
labor may result in the conscription of
'"captainKoHock Is planning to lay the
I acts oi mis great snonage oeiora gov
ernor Wlthyoombe. Mayor Baker, and
the Chamber (of Commerce.
New Preferential List Proposed
Washington. Aug. 21. (L N. S.) A
new preferential list twice as large aa
the present one and including about 32
Industries will be issued shortly by the
war industries board, it was announced
this afternoon. This list will be used
also in the application of the work or
fight order and will mean a drastic cur
tailment in - those- industries considered
&on-esenUair .
Krupp Workers
Reported Ready
For . Big Strike
London. Aug. ti. I. x. h ) The
workers in the big Krupp works in Ks
sen threaten to strike within 4 hours,
according to an; Kxchangu THsrapli
dispatch from Amsterdam. The unrest
ir. said to bo spreading to the bin Indus
trial centers of Boo hum and Barmen
The dispatch does not 'tat- what reason
the workers give as cause for their
threatened strike.
About 80.000 men and women ay em
ployed in the Krupp works In Kssen.
which Is chiefly -nrasel in tlie manu
facture of guns for the army aril nnvy.
munitions and other war materials.
Q ytti3 i nlk T) T"
OWcUlSfl i reSS UraW
Complaint of U. S.
(
London. Aug. 21 I. X a ) America
hM a8ked lhf Kwen projfj
of the pro-Oerman Stockholm newspaper
Aftonbladet for, articles attacking the
United States and President Wilson ao
coring to an Exchange Telegraph dis-
patch from Copenhagen. The request has
been transmitted through the American
minister at Stockholm. The Swedish
minister has acceded to the Amerk,.
demands, asserting that it is obvious '
that tne Aftonbladet was seeking to
provoke Sweden to sever relations with
America.
31 Compromise Reached
j 0" tlQ RCVCnUC Bill
Washington. Aug. 21. il S. S ) The
drafting of the IS.000.000.0O0 revenue
bill was practically completed this after
noon when the house ways and means
committee tentatively adopted a sched
ule of excess profits -taxes which is a
compromise between the K itch In and
McAdoo taxation plans. The commit
tee' adopted the McAdoo suggestion of
an 80 per cent war profits tax. with a
.flat 10 per cent exemption. The war
profits tax probably will be levied on
profits in excess of the avera a three
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