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i , ; . - : .Jf it ' sL : ' r Sunday Hu- j 4 '.J 1 f . - V VOL. XVH; NO; 118 ; ; 1 C tv 'Churl nH Nnt RabKfl '-7 . . r . O 4. Til LL' d-!Jv-x i ao in : iu ' i eiegrapn csiubih t Wilson" That? Goal Had Been Reached r fighting: Blood Up. J. SijtMorister RalHes to" Be flejd 'oiiiStreeti Tonight and . Drive Subscribed yHB message ip PrWetit Wll 1 ion idiiihash'iTroin.Port Urkltilsinoirijr. 'C- I ; Portland wit Dot ' able to re port '' that her ' fourth , Liberty loan quota had been subscribed -by 9 o'clock, as she' had planned and announced she would. Instead. Portland was $4,000, 000 short of her $18,00,000 at noon. Portland vMit back Into the fight. Went into it harder than ever. Pledses Made Ob Street In . every other way the activity of ,the cajttpalgn will be sustained and 'increased. M. E. Baumelster and his assistant pleaders will continue until a late hour tonight the weird appeals of "Buy bonds." and "Don't be a sneaking- bond slacker," that issue from the "loanaphones" up and down Sixth street. Plans for next ' week .will be com pleted -by late afternoon. , "Fraternal night' - with- three meet ings on Sixth between Yamhill and Alder proved a complete success and the bayonet drill staged by officers of the spruce production division between Morrison and Alder attracted at least :009 people. Volunteer workers of the subscription division reported . an ag gregate of $8000 in pledges made by persons; In the street audiences, CurtU G. Sutherland reporting toe largest amount received: b; by any individual so- llcitor. 12000. . ;' ssbscrtbers Short Am. yet Portland., has fallen short of the --third Liberty loan's.; campaign record : of M, 000 individual, subscribers: there are approximately 65.000 indi vldual 'pledgors to date in the fourth loan campaign. The Equitable' Life Assurance company will credit $75,000 of its ' subscription to Portland, ac cording . to a telegram' received this morning by Nathan Strauss, chairman of the foreign corporations committee The Pacific Marine Iron Works, with 115 employes, 100 per cent subscribed, (Oaeelsdad oa Fate Two, Cplnsia Hms ROLL OF HONOR la the IW Wmm of li nil erf honor ftrlntcd Mow sro th (be followiiic rarn freoi the Pacific ortnwet i.e . KILLKO IN AQTION . 0004 lON FIALA. iicamt rclatloa VUU, BUT. D. 1. Rurwrt. Idaho. piio or WOUNDS Frank SIRACANT BIRNHARD H. SOHHHDTWAN, twaioit rtlsUoji tott. Oorothr ScbmidtBUB, Fuoo, OltD OF DISISK FRIVATa CNMRLKB J. RANDALL, nearest relation un. Kmrna tooiy. Idaho Ftlla-, Idshi WOUNOtD aiVRRILV Xvale Pfesertck W. OompUn, nearaet relatioa skm waptoa, auutur WaahiBctoa, Bit. 28.- The Hat of ftTa.Wti ., IS the t,'nitad 3Utai aerrlca made rrablio today , aoataiB ta naaM of 193 ma, Th.ro ar no ' Mias of sMBabonv of tha maiinoorpa inbludodt . The oannahi ta are dirkiwi a. (allow. : k Uled in action , . . . . 40 Mlntnf IS action io 'eJ4 aerarelT . ,j , 92 Ihed front wounda JT I tied- f ton areaplane aartdant . . . . . . . , , j Jiird of aeeident and ether eanaaa. . ....... 4 . Oiad ef djaaaae ;..,,...., . , , ! TetalJ.,. ..t..... j . -:?J KILLKb' IN AOTtON 1S ftAMPERS QFFEMSlfe QPEMS' ON WIDg BRQWfi ri- r- i . i r- : I ' r - I - . - ... 1 -1 Bed up 0 OltTM -W: M01-MK8. Council Bhiffa. lows. CLABENCB K. K1HBE1LDI, Clannia. .Mich. , , ! . v Ooroemt "v f- TtKtSO ARRUPK, UTtnmi Enaland. 1" MOB Kla DtJM.M, Coohcil Blnffa, Iowa. , (Onehided on Paca EleTtn, Cohuaa 8vb) Veles Fortress In Serbia Taken; AlliesTalceMany German Soldiers Serbian Forces Are Striking at Uskub, Main Bulgarian Base; Radovishta Taken. London, Sept. 28.-MI. N. S.) (11 :81 A. M.) The Serbians are now advanc ing: beyond the Kotchana (nearly 60 miles inside of the Serbian frontier). the Serbian war office announced today. Radovishta has been captured and. allied troops have entered the fortress of Veles, the statement said, , The Serbians are almost In Uskub, tha mmSn hu of th Rulsrm.rtbna In Boutern Serbia. Great niimbera of Oumiiu art twine- captured alone with the Bulbars. ' The Serbian war of ice report says: TWe are. now at RadoviBhta. (Rado vishta Is 21 miles east of the Saloniki railway and . It miles north of. Strum nitsa,. near-, the Bulcarian border). The enemy troops defending; the town-, and . fortress . xnT vTeles were dls persedand - the fortress was captured. sJont- v wIO ' aiv, enormous number of prisoners. ? ; - , -?0e advance upon Skoplje and Uskub -baa been resumed. We captured three mountain unai anumber of--machine tuns and -a great amount of war material. "Most of the prisoners taken were Germans." " . -five Allied - Armirt Make Gains -y Earle C. Beeves ' : r ' London, Sept.' 28. (L N. a) (11:46 a. m) Advancing nearly 40 miles north east of Istip. Serbian cavalry forces are now pursuing the Bulgarians toward Tsarovoselo, it was learned, from aft authoritative source today. British cavalry, that invaded Bulgaria north of Lake Dolran. is now advancing rrom Strumnltsa along all the available Bulgarian, roads to effect a Junction with the Serbians at Tsarovoselo. French and Greek troops that cap tured Bolekamen are now driving- on the Bulgarian frontier. The Italians, who are attacking in conjunction with the other allies in Macedonia, have reached Krlshebo. UP-STATE QUOTA NEARLY REACHED Balance Of $2.000i000. AlmOSt Certain to Be Raised Tonighty Hope for Entire State. With incomplete returns from upstate showing 13 -million dollars of the up state's quota of 15 million dollars in hand, it is felt at jtate headquarters that Oregon, outside of Portland and Multnomah county, will be "over the top" In the fourth Liberty bond cam paign before workers quit tonight. " Moreover. Robert E. Smith, state man ager, gave it as his opinion this morn ing that at the rate returns have been coming in during the last few hours. there Is a possibility thar if - Pdrtland "comes to oat" in good sbape this after noon, up-state may go enough over its own quota to make up Portland's deficit and so push the entire state across the tape a winner. . , ; FIgares at TToos Sa tarda? Up-state figures released at noon to day by John L. Etheridge, state director of organisation, show1 the fo' lowing fig ures on the campaign up-state: Coanty. Quota. Sabneribcd. Bsktr $ , 80,890 500,000 Benton - 82,72. 82&.720 Clackamas 401.120 491,120 Clataop 1,127.028 BOO. 000 Colombia 208.908 241,500 (Concluded on Pars Two, Column Four) HOW WE STAND ... Oregon's Fourth Liberty Loan campaign will go on. , Approximately .$7,000,000 must yet be subscribed to com-' plete the state's $33,708,100 quota. ' ' ; Portland, has' about $14,400,000 of. the city's quota of $18, 400,000: The state butsfde of Portland has about $12,000,000 of its $15,308,000 quota. These are thislmorning'sstimatci , Oregon's proud ambition to report her entire quota sub scribed by 9 o'clock today the day on which tfie Fourth iib-1 erty Loan campaign is formally opened by the government is disappointed., ' . - v ' ; ' '-; v Campaign leaders have passed the campaign o the people. Only will it be won when each individual does his utmost. Ore-i gon will only "go over the top" when each individual citizen hasj gone '.'oyer the top." The.campaign will go on until it is won--: because that is Oregon's.' part in 'Winning' the war. - v - " ' ; " - PORTLAND. OREGON SATURDAY EVENING, VMKEES P U S M G AHEAD AI Early Reports From Front Say Progress Is Satisfactory; De fenses Behind the Hindenburg Line Near Verdun Are Pierced. Scores of Miles of Light Rail ways i 'Captured and Troops -i F Are WithiX Mii? -.of HeadpC Three SrancJaro! GatigeGnes.' By Newton C Paje w t ITH THE . AMERICAN ARMY 'WEST OP VERDUN, Sept. 28,. 1130 a. rn. (I. N. a) The Americans renewed their attacks 'early today. Reports coming bacfc, at this hour state Jhat the Yankees are pushing ahead every where and that their advance is satisfactory. London, Sept. 28. (U. P.) The Ameri cans have broken through the subsidiary defenses behind the Hindenburg line on the 10-mile front between Dahnevoux and Eclisfontaine. northwest of Ver dun, according to battle-front dispatches received here "today. Between Nantillois' and Montblainvllle (a front of about 10 miles), the Ameri cana are within a mile- of the heads of l Concluded on Paca Two. Column Two) Clark and Eitchin -Influenza Victims Washington. Sept. 28. (I. N. S.) ft a m r fla rlr nirtoalr eat ef t Vt s hnuva a rtrl CUude Kitcn'tn. majority leader, were reported in Washington today. A resolution appropriating 11,000,000 to assist in curbing the spread of Spanish influenza was rushed through both houses of congress today and Is ready for the president s signature. Prudential Buys $30,000,000 Bonds New York, Sept. 28. (I. N. S.) The fourth Liberty loan campaign started with a rush promptly at 9 o'clock today. A Hiibscnnticm oi S3U.oou.uoo was one ! of tl.e first announced. , It was taken by the Prudential Life Insurance com pany and it was stated that the amount equaled that concern's total subscrip tions to the three previous loans. - British Shipbuilders Must Work or: Fight London, . Sept. , 28, (I. N. S.) All shipyard workers who remain on strike after October 1 will be dratted, accord Ing to a statement made by Premier Lloyd George. Price of Milk 1 Cent High and er Bread Is ! Cent Lower on Oct 1 Food Administration Finds Bread Can Be Sold Cheaper; Milk Producer Benefited. While the official price of milk will jump upward -a cent and a quarter be ginning October f 1, the price of bread will drop a cent, according to announce ments made today. The new bread prices will be 10 cents for a pound loaf and It cent for a pound and a half loaf, according to instruc tions to the- bakers, of Oregon, from W. B. Ayer, federal food administrator, trator. -. -' .... . ... . These prices are the result of an in vestigation Of. manufacturing costs by the baking division of the food adminis tration,; who have concluded that condi tions warrant a maximum wholesale price of . tk scents a - pound and -12 cents for-, a -pound and a half, with the proportionate .retail reduction. -rv 6 ;-v Jtast Vm Sasstitates .". On pound of wheat . flour substitutes must -bemused arith every four pounds wneat'-nouT. aoeorawur io ?wn4presen Lbakinar' rules. wWeh"bJVet b- stet of branuf ' snorts., mwaiings, , corn flour; '-corn' meal, bomlny.' corn, JTlts, barley fHrar. rolled oats, oatmeal, rice. rice flour, buckwheat, potato flour. sweet potato flour, tapioca, rallo, kaffir and:- fetertta flours ad meal, soya bean, peanut meal,, tare ana banana flour., but shall not Include edible corn starch purchased after September 17. Returns of bakery products-must not be accepted under the baking rules. either for credit or for exchange. The amount of flour which bakers, are permitted to have in, their possession has been extended from a 80 to a 60 days' supply. The amount of sugar to be held is limited to a 30 days' supply. MtU Tee low Milk will be 144 cents a quart and 914 cents a pint after October l, acoora- ing to announcement -of the milk com mission. The prices wtll 'remain until March 31. 1919, but the commission agrees JLo make adjustments if condi- . V . t . , mm a . . tlons cnange materially or ii ii is iouna the prices result in injustice. The commission, in determining watt a fair price snouia oe, computea Dy three methods rthe , Pearson formula, recommended- by the food administra tion ; the Warren formula, approved by the Oregon Dairymen's league, and by taking the pre-war prices and adding the Increased cost of production. Practically all the increase in price of milk and cream go to the producer. according to Henry Reed, chairman. The commission" asked 'the dealers Au gust 17 to submit figures showing the cost of their business? Dealers replied September. 18 thajt .they were unable to furnish the figures, but offered every facility to the representative account1 ant of the commission to examine their books. Only a preliminary survey was made, but the results have not shown sufficient ground for Changing the mar gin to the distributors, except that the commission recommends that they re ceive aaaiiionai compensation to cover extra costs of handling past-due bills. BIG BRITISH DRIVE Take 1 000 Yards of Trenches, 26& Huns in Biggest-Yankee Blow on British Front With the British Army In France, Sept. 28. (9 a. m.) (I. N. 8.) 'Ameri can troops, fishtins with their nsual Kalian try, took the important outer de fenses of Gillement farm (south .of Le Catelet) In their latest drive on the front between Oouy and Bellioourt. ? The Americans launched their attack at S o'clock in the morning over thiJ r.vugn. vouuLrjr in, uis wen.or.uoa; on the north to a point south of BeUi court. (This region Is between Cambrai and St. Quentin.) p.- ' American traits1 in. the tiorthertimost positions encountered stiff opposition, a they'foucht lor every '. foot o .iwrnnxl rained. In this-vicinity thebattle flno tuated throughout the day, but the Amer loans took , their objecuvee- alter the ground ' had' changed hands twice. 'The final objectives' were held finally by the Americans In the face of w concentrated counter-attack by the enemy at oTuslt. Twelve aoff leers and 250 privates were captured by. the Yankees. ; American units -at the southern end, from .tho line- met wiw less .oostinate ,rean stance than their 'comrades - add- succefed'ktnpeev tratlng the enemy lines to, depth m SEPTEMBER i 28, 1918. TWELVE PAGES. WB'flllBS WorW ftPC IHlflncWanO nllL I1UL . Anglo-Belgian Attack Extends From Dixmude to Ziilebeke and Advances of From Two to Three Miles Have Been Made. Poetcappelle; Hoege.v and Hilgopt ; CapturedtM0,O0a .Prisoners " ' - -' . . n . uuns; uperanons rrogress. LONDON. Sept. 28. , (6:30 P. M.) Paaa chendaele rid go hat been outflanked frorii the north in the BritUh-Bel-gian offensive in Flan ders, and the British are making progress toward Roulers. The Belgians have cap tured part of the forest of Houthulst. between Yprea and Dixmude. Many prisoners have been taken. (Roulers is the most. important railroad and highway base held by the Germans in Flanders. It is .the center of communications to Ostend and other German submarine bases on the channel). Passchendaele ridge and the town of Passchendaele were taken by the British after long ex fended offensive operations last year. The ridge was given up duf ing the "big German drive tn Flanders last April. LONDON. Sept. 28, ii p. m. (r. N. S.) Today's Anglo Belgian attack extends from Dix mude to Zil!ebekN (southeast of YDresl and the allied forces al ready have taken Poelcappelle (northeast of Ypres), Hoegc (southeast of- Dixmude on the Dixmode-Koulerg railroad), and Ililgopt, in an advance of from two to three miles on the 15 mile. 'front. London, Sept. 28, 12:21 p. m. (L N. g.)With the British making progress la front of Cambrai. where 10,000 Ger man prisoners have been taken,' the second British army. In conjunction with the Belgians, launched a new assault oh the Flanders battlef ront' to day, the war office announced. Satisfactory advances are being made over the .whole battlef ront. . Id addition to the id. 000 prisoners ICoeetaded on fafo TmCoIush Two) JUSTICE PRICE OF PEACE President- Wilson again has an nounced the basis upon which peace will be considered. There is no mistaking hla-aiUtude, The ut terances of, his New York address . reiterate and emphasise his stand as expressed In. his address to Con-' ' gres&i January 8 of this year, and t in his Independence day speech at Mount Vernon, i . ; Vor. the reader's convenience THB SUNDAY' JOURNAL tomorrow will , contain the tent of the., address de ' Uvered Friday night In Mew York, r together with the 14 terms of peace enumerated January 8, and , a . re- Bume of America's war aims as an- nounced July 4. H The following Sunday, October es a is vii -aw i v v wtv n sriuvu 1 attitude as expressed in his several ' I kddrasaea wlU be published. rt I r, .... i . jt: (.. ..a4kMi Miriaoi a ba J J P S 90inilyThefCaini MakePeace-Wll President Delivers Great Address in New York, Declaring a Must Be Formed at to Maintain Peace N1 EW YORK, Sept. 28. President Wilson, before an-immense audience in the Metropolitan opera house last night, deliv ered the most smashing war address of his career. In words that tingled with the spirit of America in the great struggle, the president reiterated the purposes for which the civil ized world is lighting and made it plain that the only peace-we can consider is the oeace of. victorv. A leatrue of nations the rjTesidenLsaidl.mxistWthe1 intlrnmeii- tality.fp make peace secure and permanent.' Vithout it, he added. "peace Ww. rest in part upon the word pi Qutuwsr-and onutupon The ntesident showed hi faith in the" nation br devotihf onlr a few words to the Liberty loan. wouldxlo its part.' " . - He spoke vto a wildly enthusiastic audtetrce, which let him know his confidence would not be as follows : "My Fellow Cltlsens I am not here to promote too loan. That will be. done ably, and enthusiastically done by the hundreds of thousands of loyal and tire less men and women who have undertak en to- present it to you and to our fellow cltiscns throughout the country; and I have not the least doubt of their com plete success, for I know their spirit and the spirit of the country. "Hy confidence is confirmed, too, by the thoughtful and experienced coopera tion of the bankers here and everywhere who are lending their Invaluable aid and guidance. I have come rather to seek an onnortunity to present to you some thoughts which I trust will give you. in j perhaps fuller measure than before, a vivid sense of the great issues involved, in order that you may appreciate and accept with added enthusiasm the grave significance of the duty of supporting the government by your men and your means to the utmost point of sacrifice and self-denial. President Exslalas His Mlaaloa . t "No man or woman who has really taken in what this war means can hesi tate to give to the very limit' of wnat they have: and it is my mission here to night to try to make if dear onoe more what the war. really meju.e. Tou will need no other stimulation or reminder of your duty. HAt every turn of the war we gain a fresh consciousness of what we mean to accomplish by it. When our hope and expectation are most excited we think more definitely than before of the Issues that bang upon It and of the purposes which must be realised by means of it. "For It has positive and well defined purposes which we .did not determine and which we csunot alter. No states man or assembly created them ; no statesmen or assembly can alter them. They have arisen out of the very nature and drcumstancea of the war. - "The most that statesmen or assem blies can do is to carry them out or be GERMANY TALKS PEACE TO DISARM FOES WHILE SHE SHARPENS OWN SWORD By Frank H. Simonds in The Sunday Journal -Tomorrow . AT THE. GERMAN FRONt ' Brand Whitlock. United states minister' to Belcfnm. win? relate ', in The Sunday Journal tomorrow Incidents of bis visit to the army of Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria. ' VEHICLE OF VICTORY War service of the motor track, is broad, last how broid is told by Wni. A. Du Puy in an article to be published in The Sudday Journal tomorrow.- ' ' . ' ' . ! WHAT AND WHY IS. INFLUENZAP An article in The Sunday Journal tomorrow win expin tIs. malady.. ': WHAT THE ECLIPSE DISCLOSED ' yf. W. Campbell, director of Lick Observatory, has prepared for .The" Sunday Journal a digest of his findings. t the Goldendalc station Jun? 8 THE SUNDAY JOURNAL First in News Reviews, Featmree, PKe to graphs mui fun 1 ; Five Cents the DDTMT. TWO' PWMTS "W eople at 0E League of Nations the End of the War Throughout World He declared he knew the country misplaced. The president spoke false to them. They were perhaps not clear at the outset, but they are cTear now. i i . . "The war has lasted mere than four years, and - the whole world has been drawn into it. The common wiU of maa has been substituted for the particular purposes or individual states. "Individual statesmen may have start ed the conflict, but neither they nor their opponents can stop it as they please. It has become a people's wax, and peoples of all sorts and races, of every degree of power and variety of fortune are in volved in - Its sweeping processes of change and settlement- ' "We came into It -when its character had become fully defined and It plain that no nation could stand apart or be indifferent to its outcome. Its challenges drove to the heart of every' thing we cared for or lived for. Volee ef War Beeeaies Cleer- The voice of the war had become clear and gripped our hearts. Our brothers from many lands, as well as our own murdered dead under the sea. were calling to us. and we responded fiercely and of course. , i " "The' air was clear about us. We saw things in their full, convincing propor tions as they were: and, wo. have seen them with steady eyes and unchanging comprehension ever rlnOe, We accepted the Issues of the war as facts, not ' as any group of men, either here or else where, had defined them; and we can accept no outcome watch does not squarely meet and settle them. "Those issues are these i Shall the mil itary power of any nation-or group of nations be suffered to determine the for tunes of people over whom they nave no right to rule except tho right of force? ' ' ... - .,an.ii i . 1. f r,n'i aMI j Ollttll BUU1II !lllVIIO W II W OPl I ' I j.v. eak nations and -make- them subject Ito their purpose and interest T j -"Shall people be ruled and dominated; (Concluded on Paa Etsht. Coins One) .Copy EveryTv-here CtUTt - . . Supreme War Council at YerVti - sailles-rhd Full Say in AllleiV' Reply, Which It Reported to . Be on' Its Way,to5oru.;Vf; j Entire. Bulgarian, fjmiiy and v " Parliarhentf Apparentijr . Corn , . tee) Far-Reaching Results. LONDON, SpU 28.-4 :2S ' , . There wa a panic on the;- ; Berlin stock exchanfo re sult of the Bulgarian armU. tice proposal and subsequent deTeiopments in the situa tion, accord Ihg 'to a Central ' , News jdispatch received this afternoon from The Hague. " T " London, Sept. 28(U..P.) " The allies terms have ' al . ' ready been sent to Sofia, it v was learned . here this . after ' noon. The.y include: - Evacuation of all territory outside Bulgaria as a prelim- inary to any agreement'' . rx ' ( Complete rupture with Gef- . -many, Austria and Turkey.v?,L, ' Demobilization of the Bui- ' garianarmy. Zurich, Sept'. 28. (U. P-)--DcmonstrationsaErainst.tbe jting'i and in favor-of Premier Maliif- off. arc .taking plae'in Sofia'f daily, according to dispatches 0 from the Bulgarian capital. . Berlin dispatches indicate that . King Ferdinand may resort to a - military dictatorship. , VVa'shington, Sept. 28.(I,Nir S.) The allied' reply to ;Bul- : garja's appeal for an ; armistice : has gone forward from Paris tot Sofia, according to' information ; reaching VVashington this after noon. . v 't'w . The reply is reported to' be-, definite in form. It is under-' stood that if Bulgaria is ready to ' quit fighting and leaVe her-fu-- ture status to the allied govern-S .ments and to furnish guarantees J- ' which will protect the allied ' (Cestatsed os rate Twe. CoIusjb Use) ' . Oregon Flyer -Dies-1". In Fall at- Liberty;-; Loan Celebration; Columbia. 8. C. 8pt 2S. U." F.) Leeutenant Leult Qodmis f Orerw. an aviator, was killed and his two ob- -. servers were injured wnen tneir- air plane, one at six parudpeUnr tn a Lib erty loan celebration, crashed to the earth,whjle firing over the .business sec-; lion today. ' UeutenantOodman was- buried under the wreckage of his machine, which ia4 to be cut away before his body could be recovered. He died at a local hospital ' shortly after the aocident - Lieutenant Thomas, who accompanied Godman. was seriously injured--'The , other observer, whose name fertwtthbeM was lightly Injured. ; The cause -of the 4 accident Is oQlroown.,". " . .'. ' '.- 1000 varda i T '.k . ". ' - 7.