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nd rraSa63 ArZ-qKl-r W A V J laiN :JC XVlJk CI KS - blV I I 1 EDlto day fair; wester- VOL. XVI. NO. 87 PORTLAND, OREGON, THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 22, 1918. SIXTEEN PAGES. PRICE TWO CENTS OW TRAIN AND KIWI STANDS riVK CENTS nn mi ADAiS OF! nniiAUA iq jummm 10 . Mil Commander-in-Chief Chosen by Vote That Is Almost Over whelming; Chambers of Port land Chosen as Senior Vice. Columbus, Ohio, Next Meeting Place; Grand Army Would Pre serve Admiral Farragut's Old Flagship, the Hartford. CLAIRE E. ADAMS, of Omaha. Neb., was elected comman der in chief of the Grand Army of the Republic this morning at' (he final business session in the Masonic temple. The vote was unanimous; backed H by the con certed, support 'of the states east of the Rockiest J. G. Chambers of Portland, was made senior vice commander, ; the second office in the Ut .of . . the Grand Army. Practtcl'ix 1 opposition HevelopettTuie' evident desire of the Encampment being to give the Northwest recogni tion for. the hospitable .way .the. . big gathering , was greeted by Portland. Charlie H. Haber. of Hampton, Va.. was unanimously elected junior vice commander. Mr. Ha ber is past department comman der of Virginia and South Caro linia. His nomination w-as made from the floor and he was elected by acclamation. Other officer chosn wre : Surgeon ener.I, Dr. C. M. Farrin Essex. Vt. ; (" Chaplain in chief. Philip A. Nordejt of Massachusetts. (Concluded on P Two, Column F1t) DRAFT BY GROUPS SENATE PROPOSAL Cummins Offers Amendment to Put Men Under Man Power Act in Three Classes. Washington. Aug. 22. (I. N. S.) Four Important' amendments to .the administration man power bill were offered ' in the senate this afternoon by Benator Cummins of Iowa. The first would provide for registra tion of men liable to military service under the bill in three groups. The first group would take in those from 31 to 85. inclusive, and. in addition the 20-year-old class; the second, to be called when in the opinion of the president more men are necessary, would take those ; from 36 to 40. awl those of 19. Thei last group, those from. 41 -to 45 and those of H. would be registered onry when in the presi dent's opinion still more men are necessary. The bill was taken up in both houses today. Passage by; Saturday night was expected by Senator Chamberlain, chair man of the senate military affairs com mittee. Chairman Dent of the house military affairs committee put the time earlier, although stiff fights are sched uled In both houses. ' j There is no opposition in'either house to the bill as originally drafted. The fights come on amendments by commit tees. The major questions are whether the government shall be given power to break strikes in- essential industries by drafting as proposed In ' the Thomas Reed amendment and whether men of the 18 to 20-year-old classes shall be called only after all eliglbles above 20 have been taken, as provided In the Mc Kenzle amendment.; Secretary of War .Baker, is opposed to both amendments, lit Is too early to predict the fate of either amendment, but it was certain ; today that the Mc Kenzle amendment will not be adopted by the senate. The anti-strike amend ment, on the other hand, may be passed by the senate, but probably will not be put through the house. Failure of both amendments would permit the bill to become a law early, next week. If either amendment . is adopted by either house, more time may ,be consumed in conference than was taken to pass the bill originally. ELECTED GRAND ARMY CHIEF CAPTAIN CE. ADAMS of Omaha, with long record of military service and former department commander of the G. A. R. in Nebraska, now serving his country as inspector of overseas shipments for the army district of which Omaha is tne center, captain naams tougnt witn 1 nomas ana bnerman throughout the Civil war. 1 J1" ( L ii.i.ii.hiiiiO ' ' ) No Bombs Dropped When Clouds Obscure Military', Targets' ' in Objective Town. By Fran 3. Taylor With the American Armies in France, Aug. 21. (Night). (U. P.) Ameccan bombing planes crossed the lines Tues day with the Intention of attacking Lon guyon, 22 miles northeast of Verdun, Finding that clouds Interfered with hit- t.ng on military targets, they dropped nothing there, not wishing to terrorise the civilians, t . Continuing their flight, the Americans reached a point near Flabeauvllle and succeeded in making several direct hits on a railroad. They returned safely, despite an en-' counter-with anti-aircraft batteries. An American trench in Alsace was heavily shelled Tuesday night, after which German infantry attempted a raid They did not succeed in penetrat ing our wires. The Boches' . artillery continues an unusually violent barrage of gas and -high explosives agairtst the newly captured positions 'around Fra pelle. By Ifewtea C. Parks With the American ; Army in France, Aug. 22. (I. N. S.) American aviators shot down two Boche planes during two flights in. the Lorraine sector Wednes day ' evening. Attempted Air Eaid On Paris Frustrated Paris. Aug. 22. (U. P.) An attempt ed air raid on Paris this morning was frustrated by ' French' airplanes . and anti-aircraft batteries. It was officially announced today. The German planes flew over the Outskirts of the city it a high altitude. They were violently bar raged and French airplanes chased them northward. Thealarm was sound ed shortly before 10 o'clock. The Casualty List The Journal is the only Port land newspaper that prints com- , plete official casualty lists of the American forces. Every name carried by the uovernment cas ualty lists will be printed in The Journal so that readers of this paper . who have friends from Other parts of the country in the army and navy may be informed' promptly if any mishap comes to' them. The war department has declared against the issuance of localized casualty lists, holding Vthat the fact that any American had given life, or limb in the service was proper information for the whole . people." : The Journal will continue to give this information. In. the. lists as they appear in this paper the names of residents of Oregon, Washing ton and Idaho will be printed in blackface type so they-may be quickly noted. ' v. . lt: ft lo&U?? ' :w mj 4 f I t v,:r jf?;: : r V f v 1 v ! a? I. t; 41 1 tH2 I J 1 - - -- - - .;. AMERICAN FLYERS -" 1 "-- ?-: V '1 i 1 LIU. . ll .1 ! . , DR. SMITH GETS ;T Portlander. Will See to Delivery of Mails- Between Kodiak and Dutch Harbor. Dr. Andrew C. Smith of Portland has been awarded by the government the contract for carrying the United States mails between Kodiak and Dutch har bor. Alaska. It is said to be the first time Portland interests have success fully encountered the - long entrenched Seattle organization for the carrying of Alaskan' mails. . According to its terms the contract is to become effective September 1. A serv ice of once a month is called for. During four months of the year the season of open navigation a branch service is called for. The contract amounts to $39,500 a year and band In this amount is to be executed by Dr. Smith. By those, who have been interested locally In the possibility of winning for Portland the carrying of the Alaskan mails the award to Mr. Smith is consld ered a. step toward a general success. Along with the carrying of the malls goes a large amount of freight and pas senger transportation. Dr. Smith now has " substantial Interests ' on Dutch harbor. Sales of Wrapped Papers at Excessive Rates Despicable Portland newspapers, wrapped and ready for mailing, are being sold from stands in the - business section adjacent to the Liberty temple to G. A. R. vet erans and other encampment visitors at exorbitant .prices.' In some cases 10 cents and even more is charged. This brand of profiteering is despicable and should not be tolerated under the Amer ican flag. - ; , . The Journal is not a party to such practices and if copies of The Journa.1 are so ' sold, such sales are not by au thorised Journal agents or with the ap proval of The Journal office. '. The . price of The Journal is 2 cents, of The Sunday Journal,' 5 cents! Any veteran or encampment visitor who de sires. to have copies of The Journal con taining news of the encampment for warded, such copies can' be obtained at The Journal of flee ' at ; the above men tioned rates and the mailing and post age will be taken care of without ad ditional charge. Huns Sink Many :'( Tons Allied Ships London, Aug. 22. (U. P.) -A total of 3Q3.011 tons of neutral and allied ship ping was sunk during July, according to an announcement by the admiralty. Of this. British tonnage totaled -176,479. Compared with building, this showed a . net Joss-fop the month of 22.311 tons,: as! agajiast i-injjfithly average of 90,000 for the half ear.5 " - " . ."""' " ' " RAC iitIiayilil onHime; Freeclk 1 u WAR WITH US, EXISTS, American Flag-Over Consulate Is Lowered, According to Dis patch From Vice Consul Imbrie to the Stats Department. WASHINGTON, Aug. 22. (I.N. S".) The' Bolshevik govern ment hss declared that a state of war exists between the Cnited States , and Russia and the flag over the American consulate in Petrograd has been lowered, ac cording to a dispatch from Vice Consul Imbrie, dated August 12, and received at the state depart ment this afternoon. The affairs of the consulate have been placed in the hands of the Norwegian government, the dispatch added, and Imbrie is remaining in the city await ing instructions from the state depart ment. There are about 20 Americans in Petrograd at the piesent time, said Im brie, and they have been subjected to various indignities and warned to leave the city. One American was under ar- ( Continued on Fmt Two, Column Thrca) Polk County Man Killed in Agtion; 2 More Casualties Dallas. Or.. Aug. 22.A telegram was received Wednesday from the war de partment "announcing the death in action of Thomas Bennett, of Perrydale, who was klHed while fighting with the ma rines in France on June 19. Young Bennett was a native of Polk county, and was a son of the late W. S. Bennett. Both his parents are dead, but two sisters. Mrs. Herman Muller and Mrs. William Muller. ( live near Perry dale. He was 29 years old and enlisted in the marines in the spring of 1917. A telegram received in Independence kwlns(iav nieht told of the ser wounding of Harry N. Stalnaker mer member of Company L of the 162d infantry from this city. Another tele gram stated that Lieutenant Ralph Floyd, of that city, a member of the aviation corps, was missing in action. ROLL OF HONOR UST 4. SECTION 2: Wtshincton. Auk. 22. Two hundred casual ties in the American expeditionary forces were announced by the -war department, di Tided aa follow: Army casualties: Killed n action, u; miwmi , n .i-Unn 71: wounded aeTerely. 81: died of' wound. 9: wounded (degree undetermined). 25: total. 194. , , Ma fine corps casualtiea: Killed in action. B: died If wounds receired in action. 1 ; total. 6. Includinc the namea in the list aboTe. the number of casualties reported to date, afrregtte 22.784. of which 19.4 were in ine army ana 2840 in the marina corps. Army list: KILLED IN AOTION SERGEANT BA.RRT J. DONOHTE. Fhila delphia, Pt. corporal EDWARD ARE, North Milwaukee. Wia. HARRY H. DE3PIAN. Sparta, I1L Private e orLRERTl AMEPE. We-.t Springfield. Uui 'GEORGE COOKER. Indianapolis. Ind. "EAR!- MJVAli. Kankakee. DL ARTHUR JT. PEARSON, Chanute. Kan. CLIFFORD V. PHIIXIPS, Bronx. Wjro EDWARD POETTERING, Cincinnati. Ohio. JACK B. TAYLOR. Welser, Idaho. HERMAN E. TEMPLE.' Kempton. N. D. DIED OF WOUNDS CORPORAL, 'CLARENCE L BRADLEY, Co lumbus, Wto. ' MECHANICIAN , HARRT HEISE, Oweaso. Mich. PrWatet EARL PHILLIP GILLlGAN. Camp Doug la, Wis. JOSEPH RCHCLTE. Richmond. Minn. LEONARD TACKETT, Shelby Cap. Ky. - CHESTER TOMCHA8 TOMCZAK. Milwaukee. Wis.-' , SEVERELY, WOUNDED IN AOTION Colonel Manas McCIoeker. Fort Myer. Va. Lieutenant Edsar R. Brutts. Ljob, Mia.; (Concluded 6 Pays Twelre, Column Two) Ami m Huns, Tangled InNetWorkof Local Attacks, Facing Disaster Gains of Past Two Weeks Made by Foch Without Use of American Forces. By J. VT. T. MasoB, Vnited Prw War Kxrxrt New York, Aug. 22. (U. P.) Marshal Foch's blows are now falling so faet and so definitely at so many places along the western front that Von Hin denburg Is being entangled In a net work of local operations any one of which threatens to bring about a major disaster to the German army. Yesterday General Byng started work on a salient in the direction of Bapaume. Last night, 60 miles away, the western side of the Vesle salient was practically completed : today the British have be gun a new wedge-like drive north of J the Somme. not far from the Bapaume operations ; and all the while the French are conducting squeeze operations, at the Lassigny angle, midway between the Somme and the . Vesle fronts. Foch Playing Strategic Game At no time since the war began have local operations in the west been car ried on so continuously and with such persistent success as now. Nor have the possibilities of a major allied, success ever been before so threatening to Von Hindenburg. The developments of the western side of the Vesle pocket are a serious danger to the famous Chemin-des-Dames defenses, which are now threatened with a flank and rear force. At the same time the southern sector of the Hindenburg line is Insecure. Farther north, the halt in Beneral Byng's attack toward Bapaume la strictly in accord with the strategic plans of the allies. The present operations are in no sense a major offensive and are being con nected under new and highly successful tactical direction for minimizing the al lies' casualties. A resumption of the Bapaume drive will occur at the right strategic moment. Working Without Americans Marshal Foch is demonstrating a re markable ability for uniting his seem-! ingly independent operations and for suddenly uncovering his completed re- suits in one direction, when attention is j concentrated elsewhere. Thus, a fort- ' night ago. Marshal Foch apparently i stopped operations along the Vesle and the British began their Picardy drive, which resulted In the recovery of the Montdidier salient. Bat today, the Ger man positions north of the Vesle are again threatened by the salient, whose western flank has suddenly shown north of Soissons. All the successes during the last fort night have been accomplished without the aid of the Americans. This fact is the most menacing Hindenburg has to face. If Marshal Foch can do these things without the Americans,' what can't he do with them? There is no answer to this (mention for th V a in.r except Germany's defeat. 4 rTiOne Dead, 15 Lost When Towline to Canoes Is Parted . 1 New York. Aug. 22. (I. N. S.) One woman is dead and 15 other persons are missing today as a result of a motorboat and canoe accident In the Rockaway shoals off Rockaway Point. Flfteen canoes, which were being towed by the motorboat from Sheens- head bay to Rockaway Point, capsized when the motorboat became disabled and broke the towline while ' drifting. The dead woman is Mrs. Thomas Mc Cauley of Brooklyn. Government patrol and police boats are searching for the missing 15 per sons and the motorboat. which disap peared. Forty members of the party were rescued by life-savers. First Liberty Bonds Hit Highest Mark New Tork. Aug. 22. (U. P.) Liberty loan 3 per cent bonds of the first is sue touched 102.50. their highest price, on the New Tork Stock exchange here today. President Asks Jfor Relief for Refugees Washington, Aug." 22. President Wil- Json today asked congress to pass a reso lution admitting to this country' refu gees from war-stricken lands, which would suspend lmmigsation rules in their cases. , j Mew bier Force Way Over Allele EASI OF 10Y1 FRENCH SB OH TOWARD COUGf-LE-CH; Hilt! Generals Humbert and Mangin Making Com bined Advance on 35-Mile Front Between Lassigny and SoissonsGains Made East Of Oise Within Five Miles of Old Line. N OT since Von Kluck and his German hordes were hurled back from the gates of Paris in the early day of the war have the cables carried news of such big promise as that contained 1ft today's reports of allied operations between; Soissons and Arras. With his drives between; the Oise and the Ajshe and between theAncre and the Scarpe under full headway, Marshal Foch has renewed his Pic ardy oferisive, the British attacking between the Somme and Albert and the French launching forward again in the Lassigny sector. The com bined attacks have been along a front which covers in the aggregate upwards of 75 miles, and have shaken the German battle line all the way MUCH WORK HELD AS NON-ESSENTIAL List for District of Columbia, Which May Be Broadened to Whole U. S. Given. Washington. Aug. 22. Industries de clared to be nonessential In the District of Columbia, which may be given sim ilar designation elsewhere In the coun try, have been announced by the commu nity bureau of the United States em ployment service under direction of the department of labor. The following Industries were classi fied as nonessential to war work : Automobile Industries accessories. Drivers of pleasure cars cleaning, repairing and delivery of same. Sight-seeing cars. Automobile trucks engaged in work other than fuel or government work. Teaming other than delivery of prod ucts for war work. Bath and tjarber shop attendants. Bowling alleys, billiard and pool rooms. ! Bottlers and bottle supplies. j Candy manufacturers, tobacco and cigars, Dyers and cleaners, Clubs. I Confectionery and delicatessen estab- ' llshments. Builders and contractors not engaged In the erection of structures for war work. Dancing academies. Mercantile stores. Fl or hits. Fruit stands. Junk dealers. Livery and sales stables. Pawnbrokers. Peanut venders and establishments. Shoe shining shops. Window cleaners. Soft drink establishments. Soda fountains, supplies. - Revenue Bill Taxes Sales During War Washington. Aug. 22. (I. N. S.) A war revenue bill proposing sales taxes on all purchases made In the United ! States for the duration of the war was introduced In the senate tnis arternoon by Senator Borah of Idaho. The taxes would range from a 1-cent tax on pur chases from 5 cents to $99.93 to $1 for the first $1000 and 3 cents for each ad ditional $1000 purchases of $50,000 or over. The sales taxes would be paid by a special war sales stamp. Federal, municipal and state governments, the Red Cross.' the army and navy and the allies are exempted from the tax. Drive AHACK IS (By International News Service.) trom Khcims to the coast. In lact, military commentators sec signs of a possible withdrawal of the enemy from advanced sectors as far south as the Swiss border. The capture of Lassigny by the French, announced by the French war office last night, makes a further retirement between Rove and Noyon practically a foregone conclusion. A farther ad vance of the British in the area of the renewed attack above .the Somme would cause the Albert sector to collapse and put the German line in that region back to Peronne and farther north of the Tortille river. The capture of seven more towns by the French army in the Oise-Ainse sector was announced today by the French war office. London, Aug. 22, 12 :15 P. M. (I. N. S.) Another brp offen sive movement was begun tod a y by the British. Field Marshal Haig's report, given out by the war office at noon, said: "We attacked this morning between the Somme and the Ancre at 4 :45. Field Marshal Haig also reported that the prisoners taken yes terday in the offensive north of the Ancre numbered between two and three thousand. (Today's new blow by the British falls just below where Gen eral Byng swept forward yesterday. Yesterday's advance wa made immediately north of the Ancre river. The Somme river lies south of the Ancre. The British are really just extending yes terday's battlefront.) Further progress for the British northeast of Merville was an nounced. Haig reported that British troops are in the outskirts of Xeuf Berquin. (Xeuf Berquin lies about two miles northeast of Merviile, which is on the Lys front, where the British have been steadily forging ahead.) By Lowell Mellett With the British Armies in France, Aug. 22. (U. P.) (11 :15n A. M.) The attack on the high ground between Albert and Bray this morning was reported as "going good" when this dispatch was filed. . ' (This Represents a front of about, six miles.) Fighting conditions today were less favorable than yesterday, there was no mist, the sun was hot. ? The Germans are opposing General Byng's advance north of the Ancre with the utmost desperation. With the British only six. miles from the Hindenburg line at one point today, the enemy is crowding the back roads with ad ditional troops coming up. Altogether six divisions (?2,0K) men) were identified yesterday. The Germans used their heaviest guns all through the night. It is evident that Byng's sudden push has considerably disturbed the high command in view of the constant ly developing French success to the south. Apparently it does not, intend to permit further advance toward the famous line without determined resistance. The Arras and Albert railroad, has been reported the scene, of fiercest fighting, the British being required to clear out dugouts in the embankment along the whole portion reached in their at tack. Many dead Germans are reported. The Boches are undoubtedly able to make a stiff battle against any effort to reach Bapaume. ' . By Bert Ford With the British Army in France, Aug. 22. (I. N. S.) Gen erai "Byng's Third'a'rm j Continues its victorious advance into the dh tie SHATTERED v