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3 "its all here a : if AWrirvr ifnMt TnnTnl'St MV 5 ' nd nSSj3' - A J - tT5 11 ( tr ) I V , s iSSll ViJL S " ?V FnrrV ' Tonight and Fri- irSALLTHL t kl ) day fair; north- ITS ALL TRUE" lfl, 2 vL Sfdlt Jo' 1 " 1 : 1 s ' VOL. XVII. NO. 93 PORTLAND, OREGON, THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 29, 1918 EIGHTEEN PAGES. PRICE TWO CENTS ON TRAINS AND KIWI STANDS FIVK CENTS mm m SECTORS PASS BILL 10 HIE U. S. DRY Rider Is Tacked Onto Emergency Food Production Measure and Provides Manufacture of All Liquor Shall Cease on May 1. Amendment to Make Nation Dry Jan. 1 Is Defeated Without) Roll Call; Attempt to Save the California Wine Growers Lost. w ASHINGTON. Aug. 291. N. SO The senate late ths afternoon passed the rider to the emergency food production bill making the country bone dry be ftinninK July 1. 1919. The rider provides that the manufacture of wine and beer shall cease May 1. 1919. An amendment by Sen ator Trammel to set the date for Ihc country going dry Janu ary 1, was rejected without a rollcall. ator Sheppard today Introduced In the 'senate the substitute for the Norrls Jones prohibition amendment. It fixes July 1, 1919. as the date when the Im port and sale of Intoxicants must cease, and May 1 as the date for stopping man ufacture. It als' empowers the presi dent to declare harred zones around mu nitions plants and shipyards, within which It shall be unlawful to sell beer or wine under a ponalty of a year's Im prisonment. IIOOO fine, or both. Senator Thelan of California moved tr strike out July 1.' 1919, In Senator Kheppard's amendment and substitute June 30, 1920. ss the date for discon tinuing the nale of spirits, wine and beer. He pave notli-e that he would move to extend thp time for wine slope for one year If the first motion failed. ' The attitude of the senate was Indi cated when it voted down overwhelm ingly and without a rollcall Senator Fhelan's motion. I,ater another motion by rhelarv. which would have extended the time for wine alone, also was voted down. Grape growers In California will become bankrupt unless an extension of time is granted, Phelan asserted. CONFEREES AGREE UPON DRAFT BILL Amendment to Eliminate Claims for Exemption Dropped; Re port Is Accepted. Washington. Aug. C9. (I. X. S A complete agreement on the manpower bill was reached this afternoon when the conferees yielded to pleas by Provost Marshal General Crowder and dropped the Penrose amendment, providing that no man be compelled to claim exemption but that the question be decided upon the facts presented in his questionnaire, from the bill. Th house late today agreed to the conference report on the manpower bill. ' The bill now requires only the signa ture of the president pro 'tempore of 'the senate and Speaker Champ Clark of the house before it is sent to Presi dent Wilson for his signature. Provost Marshal General Crowder told the committee that he was preparing 'ijew regulations that would' carry out ' the purpose of the Penrose amendment without Its having to be written into ; the law. ;. General Crowder said that allowing the Penrose amendment to stand In the bill would greatly delay the drafting of men made liable under the extended draft ages. Questionnaires containing a printed form, in which space Is left for the registrant to claiim exemption or de ferred classification, already have been hipped to local boards. Retention of the amendment would have compelled the recalling of all these questionnaires and the printing of new ones. The action of the conferees in dropping the Pen- rose amendment eliminates from the ,bill practically every provision that the war department felt would have em barrassed It or delayed Its work, and was a decided victory for the adminis tration. - The amendments eliminated in con- lerence were the work or fleht. the , drafting of aliens and. the method of ... calling the 18 and 19-year-old youths. Registrants to Be Given Chance To Join Navy if It Is Preferred Ban on Voluntary Enlistments Is Extended Until End of War by Daniels' Order. Washington, Aur. 29. ft. S.) Vol untary enlistments In th navy and ma rine corps have been abolished for the duration of the war. Secretary Daniels announced today. He had already sus pended enlistments pending the passage of the man power act. The secretary made It plain, however. that men may be inducted into the naval service, at their own request, following their registration under the lew act. Plans to permit this procedure are be ing worked out, it was. said, by Secre taries Daniels and Baker, and will be announced today. "At all events," said Secretary Daniels, "the navy and marine corps will be en- abled to fill their necessary quotas with ! the same class of men that theywere (jetting under the voluntary enlfstment j service. The draft will make this pos- I sibie. UNDER NEW RULE Must Get Permit to Change Resi dence From One. District to Another, Order. German alien women must not change j their place ofresldence from ona district (Ctnotltor without having a permit and they must immediately re port a change of residence within the district in which they were registered, according to instructions received today by United States Marshal Alexander from Attorney-General Gregory. A vio lation of the regulations subjects an alien woman to detention for the dura tion of the war. Applications for permits to change the place of residence from one district to another shall be made with the offi cer with whom registration was made. Special blanks are being supplied the registrars by the United States marshal for such applications. A German alien woman changing her place of residence to another place within the same district shall imme diately report such to the registrar and present her registration card for in dorsement. Names of Those Missing From the Sub Chaser Given Washington. Aug. 29. (I. ,N. &.) Names and addresses of the officers and men who are missing from submarine chaser 209. sunk by mistake for a Ger man submarine, were made public by the navy department this' afternoon. Thev follow : LIEUT. HENRY J. BOWES, com manding officer. Merchantville. N. J. ENSIGN G. A. RANDOLPH, execu tive officer, no address gtven. r. A. CROWE, Seventh arfd Valencia streets. Los Angeles. HARRY S. DENNEY. Philadelphia. GORDON J. GROVhS. Alexandria, Va. GEO. C. GUNTERMAN. Jr., Brook lyn. N. Y. RICHARD C. HASINGER, Reming ton. Del. LEONARD A. HASKETT, Philadel phia. EDWIN F. HODGSON, Brazaria, Texas. FRANK R. HULLETTE, Atlantic City. N. J. FREDK. W. KEIHN. Brooklyn. N. Y. FRANK M. PATTERSON. Brooklyn, N. Y. CASPAR G. SCHRODER, Mortone, Pa. IRWIN J. SHEHAN. Philadelphia. TIMOTHY F. TREACY. Indianapolis. HAROLD PEVERILL. Waterloo, la. The chaser, when sunkrby the steam ship Felix Tassuig on August 27. was running without lights, says an official navy department statement. Apparently two shots struck the submarine chaser, and It is believed that one shot exploded a depth charge. The chaser sank in about three minutes. Yakima Boy Killed, Is Word From Chum Yakima. Aug. 29. The death of Wil liam Wharton In action on the French battlefront August 6, was detailed in a letter received from Sergeant Robert Freeman by" his mother, Mrs.' W. P. Freeman. The official notice from the war department has not yet been re ceived and the parents hope there has been some mistake, but Freeman and Wharton were bunk mates and the private word has evidently outrun the official notice. Young Wharton was a son of W. s. Wharton of this city. 20 years - old and c member of company C when that organisation was at the Mexican border two years ago. MAN WOMEN IIP IT V Liu 1 1 1 Chairman Sims Tells of Methods Employed to Gain Amendments Which, He Asserts, Unduly Favor Water Power Interests. President, in Letter, Assures Him Changes Were Not Made With His Approval; Announcement . of Policy Is Expected. WASHINGTON. Aug. 29. (I.N. S.) Double dealing in thp manipulation of amendments to the administration vvaterpower bill, that convert the bill into one unduly favoring the water power interests of the United States, is charged in a letter to President Wilson by Chairman Thetus Sims of the house water power committee. Xh r letter, together with President Wilson's reply, was read by, Chairman te-dwHn tebate n"T bin In "the house this afternoon. Sims demanded to know whether the president In fact favored the amendments put forward as having the approval of the adminis tration. The president replied emphati cally that he did not. "I am free ta reply," the president wrote, "that I did not see the draft of amendments to the waterpower bill which were introduced by Mr. Merrill and his associates after the bill was first put in the hands of your special committee. I do not approve of them and it is my earnest hope that the con gress will see fit to pass the bill as it was originally drafted and provision ally agreed upon in our informal con ference." Policy Announcement Expected The Mr. Merrill mentioned in the president's letter is O. C. Merrill, chief engineer of the forestry bureau of the department of agriculture, who first handed the proposed amendments to Chairman Sims with a letter approving them signed by Secretary of War Baker, Secretary of the Interior Lane and Sec retary of Agriculture Houston. Chairman Sims concluded his letter with a plea that the president let him know where he stood on the three amendments, in order that he might have ammunition with which to defeat them In the house if they were not, in fact, acceptable to the president. Chairman Sims made public a letter from George P. Hampton, managing di rector of the farmers' national headquar ters, urging that the entire bill be de feated. President Wilson's letter to Chairman (Concluded on Page Two, Column O?) Spark Starts Fire In Lumber Plant Fire started in the Portland Lumber company yard late Wednesday after noon from a chimney spark. A pile of lumber was ignited, but the blaze was extinguished before any great damage was done. Fumigating candles set some clothes on fire Wednesday in the home of Lau rence Flagger at 806 East Eleventh street north. The fire was put out be fore much damage was done. One Son Killed, One Wounded in Battle Klamath Falls. Or.. Aug. 29. That Millard Gates, son of Mr. and Mrs. O. B. Gates of Hillsboro, and a brother of Carroll Gates, who was recently killed in action, is now wounded in a French hospital, is the information received In this city. He was wounded at Chateau Thierry in the recent big allied drive. Both Millard and Carroll Gates were wll known here, where they resided until a few years- ago. New Trial Denied Industrial Workers Chicago. Aug. 29. (U. P.) Federal Judge Land is today denied the motion for a new trial for 100 I. W. W. leaders convicted here on charges of sedition. He began calling at once each defendant before the bench for final statements be fore sentence was - pronounced, Most of the defendants waived the statement or mumbled a few indistinct words. HIP I POWER BILL I0VE IS cn Combles u Americans Are Helping French Drive Germans East on Vesle Attacks North and East of Sois sons Threaten Enemy's Hold on Chemin Des Dames. By John Se Gandt Paris, Aug. 29 (tf. P.) (4 p. m.) French and American troops striking eastward between the Allette and the Aisne are approaching the Chemin Des Barnes, greatly endangering the Ger mans between that famous highway and the Tesle rlTer. Considerable progress has been made in the region of JUTlgny (five miles north of Aolssont). As I cable the Americans have crossed the railroad northwest of Chavigny and are steadily pushing forward. The at tack followed artillery preparation of a most vigorous character, the gun flashes piercing the early morning sky, shaking the ground and resounding with deafening roar through the valleys. .The sky was alive wtih allied air planes during the fighting, demonstrat ing complete supremacy - over the Ger man airmen. A large number of tanks operate on the flanks of the Infantry with tremendous effectiveness. Pershing Makes Report , Washington Aug. 89 (I. NvS.) Capware..ef prisoners west At 3trdf nyjMftd the withdrawal 'of ontljrlng de tachments in , Baaoches and Fismette are reported in General Pershing's com-i munique for August 28, made puDiic by the war department this afternoon. It follows : 'Section A. North of the Aisne our troops, in cooperation with the French, advanced to the railroad west of Ju vigny and captured 200 prisoners. Along the Vesle local hostile attacks - forced our outlying detachments in Bazoches and Fismette to retire." Bags His Sixth Enemy Plane With the American Army in Franc, Aug. 29. (I. N. S.) Lieutenant Ed ward Tobln, of San Antonio, Texas, is officially credited with bringing down six enemy planes through the confirmation today of his destruction of a Boche plane In the Tojjl sector on August 11. . , ' C ME BELIEVED AT END War Department Does Not Look for Further Outbreaks Along the Border. Washington. Aug. 29. (U. P.) The war department today said it regarded the Xogales situation stabilised and an ticipated no further complications on the Mexican border there. The military investigation is still on. but the United States and Mexican commanders have evidently reached a thorough under standing regarding the outoreaKs. tne matter may pass into the realm of the diplomatic, but in any event It bias rair not to become serious. Entirely satisfactory aajustments have been worked out Between toe American and Mexican commanders as a result of which the situation is quiet and the border has been reopened. Gen eral Holbrook telegraphed this after noon. Shots Again Exchanged Nogales, Ariz., Aug. 29. (U. P.) One round of 18 shots from an American machine gun was fired across the bor der about 10 o'clock Wednesday night as the American answer to Mexican shots, it was announced here today. During the night some 100 shots were fired across the border. The Ameri cans did not reply until about 40 shots had come across, the Una from the Mex ican side. , This morning entire quiet trevaDed during the hours immediately following daybreak, due to General Ca bell's ultimatum that If the Mexicans did not cease their "foolishness" he would "take everything I have" across the line and "take everything you have ov er there." That ultimatum was" de livered last night to the Mexican con sul from Nogales, Ron or a. The Mexicans insisted negro troopers had started the firing, but General Ca bell quickly showed them no negroes were on the border. Additional Ameri can reinforcements have arrived. There are numbers of soldiers here patrolling the streets, but this morning Nogalcs people were "doing business a usual." More Mexican Troops Arrive Kogales, Ariz., Aug. 29. (U. P.) Mexican troops have entrenched them selves in the hills south of .Nogales and at daybreak this morning the in dlcatlons .were that a considerable force was. accumulating. - im TROUBLE Outflanked and British orces Are Drivies for Peroirane MARSHAL FOCH FERDINAND F O C H, who is brilliantly direct ing the-allied offensive against the Germans on the Picardy front. BRUSH FIRE BURNS Spectacular Blaze Had Burned Over About 3 Square Miles of Territory Up to Noon. A-spectacular fire burned about three square miles of brush on the west slope of Council Crest "Wednesday night and this morning. At noon the fire was still burning. About 4 :30 o'clock Wednesday the alarm was sounded and Chief Dowell ordered engines 17, 22 and 15 to respond. When they arrived the fire was raging furiously and the wind was - scattering the sparks and starting new fires. The three companies laid all their hose in one length from the nearest Portland Heights hydrant but could not reach the fire, so the drivers returned for another supply. It required 6000 feet of hose to reach the fire and save two houses. Fire Marshal Grenfell said this is the longest line of hose he eveH heard of. Major Deich sent about 50 military police to aid the city firemen, and the latter gave the police considerable credit this morning for the assistance they gave. The police helped crag tne hose over the hills and fought the fire with wet sacks. The blaze was brought under control late this morning and the three companies were ordered in. En gine 5 was ordered out to extinguish More men were hurried to the fire at noon today when the breeze had fanned the flames Into new life. The 6000 feet of hose was long enough to reach the endangered houses, whlcn were saved, but not long enough to get at the burning brush farther along. Men armed with shovels, sacks and v,s- ontilnmpnt for fightlnc such a fire at close range were loaded upon motor trucks and sent to the threat ened area for fear the blaze would eat through to the villages beyond or into the green timber. ROLL OF HONOR In the lit blow ire the nmmes of the fol lowing men from the -Pacific Northwest: KILLED IM ACTION PRIVATE PHILIP KIRK. nrret reUtlon Mn Eleanor Frne Kirk. Chilli. Idaho. PRIVATE ERNEST MELTON, nearest rela tion MUs Auini'ta Melton, 534 Boyer arenue. Valla Walla. Wash. PRIVATE RUDOLPH M. 8TUIMPF, nesret elation. John H. Stumpf. 2413 East Alono street. Seattle, Wash. PRIVATE LEE L. RRE88LI R, nearest rela tion, Mr. H. Kressler. Buckley. Wash. KILLED IN SEAPLANE ACCIDENT HERBERT F. CANFIELD, U. S. N.. 1804 East Fiftieth street. Seattle, Wash., killed in a seaplane accident at Miami, FU.. Aucust 26. H. TAYLOR. Tacotn (Canadian serrice). DIED OF WOUNDS CORPORAL WALTER P. mATTHES, nearest relation, P. Matthea, Sheridan. Or. F. KINNEY, Seattle (Canadian serrice). WOUNDED SEVERELY privtfU . Francis Gilbert, nearest relation Mrs. G. Gilbert. .Grange-rUle, Idaho. private- Earl R, BaMwIn, nearest relation. Mrs. O Moberly. Harrison, Idaho. PrivaU Arthur D. Frrrtey. nearest relation. Mary W. Dorse tt, Weatherby. Or. private. Elbert F. Rce, nearest relation. W. P. Bice,' Jerome, Ilaho. WOUNDED (Degree Undetermined) Private Alvln Enf, nearest relation Nicalaoa Ens. Westport, Or. Private Harold Watson, nearest relation Mrs. W. P. WaUon. -10 Mission street, Weaatchec. Waah. . Private Dennle T. Webber, nearest relation William Webber. E. F. D. 1, Tvmwater. Wash. ! ?yr -"TV ON COUNCIL CREST (Uoocluded on Fax Fourteen. Column Fire) BH 10 5 WILES! BEYO LIE II 1 French Extend Their Hold West of Somme Canal, Forcing Foe to Make Hasty Re treat During Night Much Material Cap tured by Allies in Their Rapid Advance LONDON,' Aug. 29. (I. N. S.) British trodps have captured Bapaume and the French have taken Noyon. The Journal Des De- uaio uiaiw u uiivaii o laiiuo nam iidd UCC11 UCIUllieiy VanqUlSncU. Between Les Boeufs and Bapaume, General Haig's forces are advanc ing on Baulencourt and have reached the high ground-in the vicinity of Le Transloy, v London, Augv 29. northwest of Peronne, reports received nere mis mpaume, uincny ana ouniemont nave oeen capiurea, it was learned here this evening. (Ginchy and Guillemont are west of Combles.) British troops are on the (a mile and a half south of entered Les Boeufs (two miles north of Combles), and Morval (a mile and a half northeast of Combles). The French are reported (where Americans are fighting). By Lowell Mellett With the British Armies in France, Aug. 29. fU. P.) Aus tralian troops have captured Feuillers, Herbecourt, Assevillers and Belloy, and are now within three miles of the important Somme bridge south of Peronne. Byng's troops this morning took Ginchy, an important high point south of Bapaume. The Canadians are within about a mile of Bullecourt (a mile "and a half southeast of Croisilles) and Hendecourt (two miles east of Croisilles). They spent the night cleaning out a mass of dugouts and pock ets filled in by the Germans, even including the famous '2000 yard cgncrete tunnel running from Bullecourt to the Sensee river. (Feuillers is on the south bank of the Somme, four miles west of Peronne ; Herbecourt is a mile and a half south of Feuillers Assevillers is a mile and a half south of Herbecourt. Belloy is a mile and a half southwest of Assevillers.) At noon the Australians were about three miles from the Brie bridge, south of Peronne. The German dead west of Bullecourt probably outnumbered the numerous prisoners taken in that vicinity. The British advance has been so rapid that mopping-up parties are kept busy cleaning out enemy nests with bombs and grenades. Elaborate Cement Trench System of Huns Captured WITH THE BRITISH ARMY ON THE PICARDY FRONT, Aug. 29. (I. N. S.) (10 A. M.) British troops have captured Hardecourt and Feuillers, a little more than four miles west of Peronne, and have pushed their line to more than five miles beyond the old Hindenburg line at some points. In the advance they seized elaborate cement trenches and enor mous dugouts, abandoned by the British Capture 26,000 Prisoners Since Aug. 21 London, Aug. 29. (I. N. S.) Twenty-six thousand prisoners and more than one hundred guns have been captured by the British since August 21, the war office officially announced today. The British are maintaining their pressure on the enemy south of the Somme and are advancing eastward. North of the Somme as far as Fontaine-Les-Croissilles, the night was quiet. Counter attacks of the enemy were repulsed in the vicinity of Boiry and Gavrelle. British posts west of Oppy were slightly withdrawn in the face of repeated attacks by the enemy. t Concluded oo, Page ill 11 INCHES . : v . i 1 1 (U. P:) Combles, the has been , outflanked by evening. 1 ne town is western outskirts of Maurepas Combles), while patrols have to have captured JuvignyjBig Seizure of Mail Has Re- PICARDY enemy. Fourteen, Column One) HAVE PUSHED HIBUBG j: ' important railway town the British, according; to practically encircled PLOT IS REVEALED vealed Practically All Pro-Hun and Anti-War Clubs. ChtcaKo, Aug-. 29. (I. N. S.) A fed eral coup here has revealed a reat edition plot. Upwards of 2.000.000 let ters and other mailed documents have ben seized under the "apy act" all of alleged seditious Import on 300 search warrants issued secretly to postofflce Inspectors cooperating with United States Attorney Charles F. Clyne, it be came known today. Practically every pro-German and anti-war organization has been a target during the past few months and the . use of the malla denied them. Scores of Indictments are expected throughout the country under the espionage act as a result of the evi dence setzed. Federal agents are be lieved to have a list of practically every German propagandist and war obstruc tionist in the country in their posses, slon. Jlanj Organizations ISTnlved The search warrants Included : The Socialist party, with all affilUted organizations. Industrial Workers o the World.' International Radical club and affil iated organizations. It is charged that these organizations and scores of individuals named In the search warrants havs not only "com mitted the felony of causing insubordi nation, disloyalty, and mutiny" and 'wilfully obstructed the recruiting "and nlistments office," but have used the ' mails "for the transmission of matter advocating treason, insurrection and forcible resistance to the laws of the United States concerning the carrying on of the war with Germany." Mails Used by Plotters The evidence is said to show : That the Socialist party is attempting to raise a 11,000,000 fund with a View to electing anti-war candidates this fall. That from Chicago has been directed the raising of defense funds for. I. W. W.'s, Socialists and draft evaders. That direct opposition to the war pro gram, to enlistments and the operation of industries has been promulgated. That persons convicted of sedition and draft law evasion 'are being cared for and encouraged while In prison through funds being raised through the use of the malls. ' Safe Conduct From Hun Not Recognized Paris. Aug. 29 I. N. S.) German safe conducts of navigation will not be recognised by the entente, it was offi cially announced here today, and all neutral ships using them are liable to el" GIGANTIC SEDITION 4