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L CRUSHED
Prisoners Report Northeast
ern I igary Being Evacu
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SERB; f JEST BULGARS IN
P.HTING AT FLORINA
- -
.
Bulgarians Within Ten Miles
of Greek Port of Kavala
Alarms the Greeks
By Ed L. Keen.
(I'nited Press staff correspondent.)
London, Aug. 21. The Bulgarians
have opened heavy attacks on both
wings of the allied armies in Greece and
serious fighting is going on at both
eudB of the 150 mile battle front.
The German war office this afternoon
.announced that the Bulgars have cap
tured Vichill, southeast of the Greek
town of Fiorina, whose capture was of
ficially announced Friday and have tak
mi other Serbian positions. An Athens
dispatch reported another Bulgarian
iorce less than 10 mile's from the im
portant Greek port of Kavala. The in
vasion of Greece has brought a new
crisis to the Greek capital and has re
Hulted in sudden conferences between
the ministerial and the military heads.
The Bulgarian advance has aroused no
alarm in allied military circles. The
Bulgars, it was stated here this after
noon "are merely playing the game the
Germans tried unsuccessfully at Verdun.
They are hitting hard, counting ou get
ting & start before the allies begin an
offensive."
The fighting in the Balkans which
threatened at apy moment to develop
into a great battle along the- whole
Greek border, eclipsed in interest opera
tions on other 'fronts today. Aside from
unsuccessful attempts by the Germans
to recover lost ground on the Verdun
and Homme fronts, no events of im
portance occurred in any other theatre
of war. "
' By William Philip Slmms.
(United Press staff correspondent.)
Petrograd, Aug. 21. By suddenly
shifting his attack to the Stochod river
front northeast of Kovel, General Bru
ailoff has ciught the Germans off their
guard and is driving westward for sub
stantial gains.
Realizing that General Bothmer's
army had been crushed, the Germans
began stripping their northern front of
every available man and sending them
southward to defend Lemberg. It was
while this troop movement was under
way that Brusiloff struck further north
'with his right wing. His flanking at
tack menaces both Kovel and the Ger
mnn army at Piusk.
The Bussian frontal attacks upon Ko
vel have practically ceased. The Ger
mnns have sunk turrets in the marshy
ground west of the city. These turrets
tire practically invisible to Russian air
scouts and must be overcome by
trntegy rather than by massed infan
try onslaughts. Consequently the line
west of Kovel has remained stationary
for some time.
During the lull on the Kovel front,
tV' Hussion armies under Generals Kal
edin, Sakharoff and Letchitsky swung
west ward like a deadly pendulum from
Kovel, as a pivot, crushing Bothmer's
army along the Stripa. Like the move
ment of a pendulum the advance was
1nipnrtinnntely faster in the extreme
south.
Kxpcrt opinion here believes that
more depends upon Brusiloff's cam-
(Continued on Paire Tw?
Times are so good down our way that
th ' bread boxes are wcarin' a Uill fin
ish. What's become o' th' ole cu.'tom
o' wearin' a cabbage leaf under th'
hat t' keep off sunstroket
IS DRAWN
ONTO!
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ON WAY TO COOS BAY
Eugene, Ore., Aug. 21. After
several hours spent in Euzene
during which, they were the
guests of the Eugene Commer-
cial club, the 100 members of
the San Francisco Chamber of
Commerce trade excursion left
here today for Idarshfield. The
special train on which the mer-
chants are traveling will Tench
Mnrshfield at 8 p. m. and a pro-
gram of entertainment has been
arranged by the merchants of
that city.
State Chairmanships of Both
Parties Is Center of Hot
Political Battle
Jefferson City, Mo., Aug. 21. Poli
ticians today began stirring Missouri's
boiling political pots. The state chair
manship of both the republican and the
democratic, parties seems to be the
big fight center.
United Stntes Senator Reed will ar
rive here tonight to continue his fisjht
for election i' Jnmes C'owgill of Kan
sis City to head the state democratic
committee. There is mueh opposition
to Cowgill here. Lieutenant Governor
Painter is leading the opposition. Gu
bernatorial Candidate Gardner and
most of tiie old line democrats want
Cowgill. The prediction was that a
lively fight will ensue.
The contest in the republican party
for the state chairmanship is consid
erably mixed. Judge Lamm, guberna
torial candidate is Btnnding pat on Jep-
tha D. Howe, former St. Louis boss, for
chairman. Walter Dickey, who will
make the senatorial race for the repub
licans, wants f. w. Huckreide of War
ren county to continue ns leader of the
i committee. John H. Bothwell of 8e-
idaha will be put forward as compro
mise candidate' and ; those- waqhJiouIu
know say he has an excellent, chance
to direct the G. O. P. state campaign.
FIVE PICK POCKETS
PULIEDAT SEATTLE
Gang Followed Hughes to
Coast to Plunder Crowds
Tip Led to Arrest
Seattle, Wash., Aug. 21. Five al
leged notorious pickpockets and
thieves, who followed the Hughes cam
paign party to the coast, are in jail
here today' because they loitered to
"trim" the crowd at the Union Milk
Drivers picnic Sunday.
Their leader, known to the police as
"the guerilla' and in his native Chi
cago as R. N. Robertson, aged 53, and
four trained confederates were nab
bed by detectives near the O. W. depot
here where they expected to depart for
Snn Francisco early tortny.
William Watson, aged 4", alias "The
O. K. Kid," Harry Page, aged 24, alias
"the louse," T. J. Hamilton, age 33,
"the Welshman'1 and Hurry Gardner,
age 33, are the others of the gang
booked at headiuarters.
That they were in the city has been
known since Tuesday when secret serv
ice guards of Charies K. Hughes, tip
ped the police that "the guerilla" and
his men were looting crowds in the
wake of the republican nominee.
Arriving here, each smartly dressed
they registered at a loca 1 hotel as
"salesmen." They were arrested to
day after reports of numerous eases of
pocket picking were reported by the
picnickers yesterday.
TO
Dead Probably Sixteen-Prin-cipal
Loss Was In Cotton
fields
Dallas, Texas, Aug. 2t. Thousands
of families are hornless in the south
ern gulf region as the result of Fri
day's hurricane and preparations are
being made throughout the state to
day to rush supplies, tntage and funds
to them.
The storm swept arci extends from
Corpus Christ! south to Hrownsviile
ami inland from thirty to fifty miles.
The death toll was piaced at thirteen
Continued on Page Eight.)
MISSOURIANS SI
POLITICAL CALDRON
(I
WEEK"
25,000
IN
on
Undivided Loyalty to God and
Nation Was Keynote of
the Meeting
HIGH MASS CELEBRATED
OPENING DAY'S PROGRAM
Americans Urged to Guard
Against Atheism and Re
ligious Intolerance
New York, Aug. 21. Undivided loy
alty to God and nation was the key
note of the meetings held today as a
part of the annual "Catholic Week"
celebration here this week in which
twenty five thousand persons are par
ticipating.
In opening prayers, blessings were
invoked upon the nations. Before the
sound of religious songs died away,
new voices sang patriotic airs. The
papal colors yellow and white ap
pear with the Stars and Stripes. Del
egates are wearing minature flags in
addition to the colors of the church.
High mass for delegates to the cen
tral verein, held in the church of Sa.
Jolin the Baptist, opened today's pro
gram. A pontificnl mass opening the
convention of the Catholic Young Mens
national ieugue. inner organizations
which held opening sessions today are
the American Federation of Catholic
Societies, State League of Catholic So
cieties and Catholic Womens Union. A
mass meeting tonight at Carnegie Hall
to discuss the service work being done
by the American Federation of Cath-1
one societies will close the- day's pro
gram.
Religion as the bulwark of American
government was the theme of the ad
dresses by the highest dignitaries of
the Catholic church in this country.
during the opening day of the week's
celebration. His eminence William
Cardinal O Connell, nrchoishop of Bos
ton, declared reunion has always been
the. mainstay of government and urged
Americans to guard against atheism
nnd "free thought" and religious in
tolerance. History tencnes, he added,
that "as there can be no liberty with
out law, there can be no law without
uod. ' '
The hresence of three cardinals res
ident in the United States. John Bon-
T.aB3, archbishop of Militeno and apos
tolic delegate to the United States, in
addition to priests and prelates from
roreign lands and every quarter of the
United Stntes, niudo yesterday's ser
vice one never to be forgotten. Ten
thousand persons crowded into St. Pat
ricks cathedral with 30,000 waited out
side.
The Rig'ut Rev. Bishop Hickey of
Rochester, N. Y., one of the best known
orators in tho Catholic church struck
a keyuote of "Americanism" when
he said "we want no Catholic party in
this country."
Denounces Universities
New York, Aug. SI. Hitter dennuci-
ation of directors of American univer
sities nnd colleges who "permit an
alien radicalism to ennliitninnte nt the
fount the youth of our country," wis
contained in the report of the national
committee on public morals made hero
todnv bv hdwnrd leenev of Hrooklyn
to the fifteenth annual convention of
the American Federation of Catholic
Societies:
"Insist that the minds of your sons
be not debased," said Feeney. "Steer
clear of the school that tolerates with
in its precincts the pagan idea of the
materialistic, conception of history,
either through adillc-brained professors
or the socialistic clatter. It is un to
CATHQ LIC
GATHERS
NEW YORK
you to demand that Marxism, immor- So far as prices of stocks were con-a-lity
or disloyalty to the religion of ccrued, there was no reflection of un
your fathers or to your country shall easiness today either on the part of
not be tolerated in any form." Wall street or the public regarding the
The Catholic theatre as a means of outcome of the railroad laborers' con-
'solving the problem of regulation of
mot i oh picture and photo plays was
proposed in tho report. The serious-
ness of the divorce evil was empbasiz-
ed, and states that permit of easy di-
vorce, were scored.
Anthony Comstock, late president of,
the Society for tho Suppression of
Vice, was lauded as "a brave and un
selfish fi 'liter against impurity," in
the report.
Feeney declared the persistent re
ports that the Catholics are trying to
gain control of the government was
the most ridiculous of rumors.
"It may seem strange that in our
country in this enlighteued day there
can still be found men ready tj swal
low the lie that 'half a hundred Ital
ians on trie banks of Tiber' are plot-
tiug to steal away the liberties of the'
American people," he said. ,
In closing, reeney appealed for a;
greater Catholic unity and asked for
more help in the work of sustaining
public morality among the people.
The girl who marries a widower.
loses mi tne iua ox laming aim.
. , , n . . i ' i.
CHILE AGAINST BLACKLIST
&
Santiago, Chile, Aug. 21.
The Chilean government has in-
structed its ministers to sound
tho Unitd States, Argentine
and Brazilian governments rel-
ative to joint action against
the British blacklist, it was an-
noiinced today.
' This action was taken as the
result of complaints from many
of the leading business houses
of Chile. They informed the
government that the British .
blacklist measure was an in-
fringement and would cripple
Chilean trade most seriously.
CAR SHORTAGE MAY
GET INTO COURTS
Mr. BerGnger of Dallas Makes
This Statement to the
' Commission
That unless the Southern Pacific rail
way company takes measures at an
early date to provide Oregon shippers
with' cars required the matter will be
taken into the courts is the opinion of
JT. K. Gerlinger, of Dallas, who was a
caller at the office of the state public
service commission this morning.
A report on the car shortage situa
tion received by the commission Satur
day afternoon indicated that little head
way is being made by the Southern Pa
cific in furnishing cars to meet the de
mands of Oregon shippers, although in
quiries made by the commission in other
states show that orders for cars hre be
ing met elsewhere.
Weather Bureau Says Show
ers and Cool Breezes
Will Come Today
Chicago, Aug. 21. Belief from the
terrific heat wave which has baked the
plains states for the past week is due
today, according to the weather buieau
here, who say showers and cool breezes
will arrive before night. From then
on, it predicted, it will get cooler.
More than a score of deaths were re
ported today as a result of the beat of
the last two days. Of these three deaths
were reported from Milwaukee, two in
Kenosha, one each in Oconomowoc,
Wausau, Fon du Lac, Madison and La
Crosse. Four died in Chicago. Nine
drowned here yesterday. The high tem
perature in Chicago yesterday was 91.
Kansas City and St. Louis recorded the
highest temperature of 9G. Al El Paso
and San Antonio the mercury registered
8ft and 92 respectively.
Extra police were at all beaches to
handle the crowds standing in line to
get suits.
Health officials today blumed the
heat for continued infantile paralysis
gains. A 20-yenr-old girl and two ba
bies suffering from the pluguo died
ithiu the last Zi hours, making a totnl
of 1 deaths since January, as against
five in the same period last year. There
were 74 cases of the disease at the coun
ty hospital today. Two new cases were
reported during the night.
Market Not Affected
By Railroad Situation
New York, Aug. 21. The New York
Lvening Sun financial review toduy
said:
troversy. - Advancing grain and cotton
market values on the basis of further
unfavorable reports of agricultural sec-
"ons lauea aiso to Tina a position as
argument for lower quotations on the
stock exchange, the general movement
there in the direction of higher levels
accompanying buying by substantial
financial interests and by the public
with the demand for outside accounts
especially marked in industrial shares
of established reputation.
As the session approached its close
business contracted, but sentiment re
mained bullish although with the ces
sation of the active commission house
buying the trading element was dis
posed to try the short side for a turn.
Little stock came out following the
earlier realizing and in the best part
of the last hour, prices were above the
levels established on the profit taking
reactions.
Investment buying showed improve
ment, both in the exchange and over the
counter.
Man'7 1 maS bl ma da friends b?
etl...B m upiu.uus lu Dimwit
URGED
MANAGERS
TO ASSIST HIM IN
Situation Would Be So Bad
As To Be Inconceivable
He Tells Them
WHOLE COUNTRY WOULD
BE UTTERLY PARALYZED
Railroad Magnates Far From
Harmonious, , and Show
Signs of Yielding
By Robert J. Bender.
(United Press staff correspondent.)
Washington, Aug. 21. Two score rail
road presidents, representing the great
est railroad systems in the world, were
in conference here late this afternoon
forming the final answer they will make
to the proposals advanced by President
WiUon in an effort to avert a strike
that would paralyze the nation.
The heads of the great Bystems went
into secret session after hearing an im
passioned appeal by the president of the
United States to "keep the railroads
running, not only in the interests of
this country, but in order to meet the
demands of the entire world."
"I am williug to allow the case to go
to the great American jury and let them
assess the responsibility," said the
president to the railway presidents.
"I wish you to consider the conse
quences of a failure to agree as they
may affect the people of the great cities
and the countryside. ' The country can
not live if the means of keeping olive
its vitality are interfered with.
"The rives and fortunes of . .100,000,
000 men, women and little ones some
of whom may die depend on what may
be done in this room. I leave the mat
ter to you. ' "
. "I appeal to yon as one American
citizen to another to avoid this disas
ter." The president made the railroad
presidents a .10 minute address during
the White House meeting. The heads
of the system whose properties repre
sent the arteries of the country through
which the life blood of its business
flows walked or rode through a blister
ing heat from their hotels to the White
House to hear the chief executive's
final appeal. -
Millions Would Suffer.
' The president outlined to them the
need at the present for the railroads
co-operation in the interests of prepar
edness as one point in the broader
ground be took.
It had been learned earlier in the day
that reports to the treasury and agri
cultural departments showed that a
strike would mean the loss of millions
of dollars in crops. But the president
went even beyond the domestic situa
tion when he told tne railroad heads
that not only in this country but abroad
"where the people of all the belligerent
nations are looking to the United
States," the co-operation of the big
railroad systems is absolutely essential.
The country is in the midst of a great
movement for national preparedness,
tho president told his hearers. The rail
roads form one of the fundamental
stones in his foundation. But. the presi
dent added, it is not only for national
preparedness that we must keep our
house in order but we must prepare to
meet the gigantic, business struggle into
which this country will inject itself ns
an active competitor after the European
war is over."
The president snid be was trying to
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1 tmr thprn ih nil fiver i-rnrr-ior t,ti,tiirn
in my mind these days," ho added, "of
the hundreds and millions of people who
B
would surrer as a result of a
catastrophe a picture of mothers
the picture of little ones, dying per
haps, because they could not get food."
Ho urged the railroad chiefs "for
we are trustees in this matter, each of
us,"' to co-operate with hi min main
taining business and national order at
this time.
Loss Would be Incalcuable.
' Washington, Aug. 21. Loss of mil
lions of dollars in crops throughout the
country in event of a railroad strike
was the new possibility before the ad
ministration today.
The treasury department reported
that agents of the 'federal reserve board
jin the south, west and northv.est are be
ginning to ask for funds for the annual
!"crop moving" period. A tie-up of
the railroads of the country would mean
, that wheat and other products now
ready for the mills would be held up in
definitely nnd possibly rot on side
i ru. un ii mupjieu in irtiiiHii.
This angle of the threatened gigantic
strike was borne home to officials, not
only by reports from the treasury de
partment but by the arrival of western
railroad presidents, such as Louis V.
Hill, whose father's name was synony
mous with the empire of the northwest
and its wealth of iarmland.
More than two score railroad presi
dents and the 640 brotherhood represen
tatives held separate meetings today to
(Continued on Page Fire.)
AVOIDING DISASTER
WOMEN TO OPEN CAMPAIQN
Chicago, Aug. 21. The worn-
an's campaign for Candidate
Hughes will be opened her to-
morrow by Miss Ann Martin,
national chairman of the worn-
an's party was announced here
today. Miss Martin will speak
at the women's quadrangle,
University of Chicago ,on the
"Attitude of the Woman's Par-
ty Toward the Democratic"
Party."
Women supporters of Presi-
dent Wilson's candidacy, it was
said, will be the subject of a
verbal attack.
FATAL AUTO ACCIDENT
Miss Olive Erickson Killed,
J. H. Shields Fatally Hurt
-Backed Over Bluff
Portland, Or., Aug. 21. One woman
was dead today and two other persons
near death as the result of an automo
bile wreck on the Columbia Highway.
Miss Olive Erickson of Portland was
killed when the automobile of J. II,
Shields backed over the edge of a
thirty foot bridge near Troutdale and
hurtled through the darkness into a
deep gully.
Shields was probably fatally hurt.
Miss Agnes Erickson suffered an in
jured , spine. The wrecked machine
burst into flames while all three' were
pinned under it. An unknown automo
bilist ran into the ravine with a fire
extinguisher and stopped the blaze.
Chester R. Shields, son of the in
jured man, had stepped from the car
to walk while his father steered it off
the bridge. He witnessed the tragdy.
' PLEADNOT GUILTY
Noland and Weinburg Plead
This Afternoon Attorney
Asks for Time
San Francisco, Aug. 21. Warren K.
Billings, Thomas J. Mooney and Mrs.
Rena Mooney, indicted on charge of
murder in connection with the prepared
ness parade dynamiting here, pleaded
not guilty in Superior Judge Griffin's
court.
Attorney Maxwell McNutt, represent
ing the three defendants, before enter
ing tho pleas virtually withdrew the de
fendants' motions to quash the indict
ments which had been entered on tech
nical grounds. He said he was willing
to let the motions go without argu
ment nnd Judgo Griffin imemdiatcly
denied the motions.
Judge Griffin at the samo time an
nounced that ho would hear arguments
ut 4 o clock this afternoon on similar
motions filed by Edward Nolnnd and Is
rael Weinburg, the two other defend
ants. William Hoff Cook will argue for
Nolan and J. O. Keisner for Weinburg.
McNutt told the court thut he did
not propose to delay the trial of his
lients by interposing technicalities, Dut
l..,t 1... uilul.n.l 'Ml lnvB in u-lni.h in nrfl.
pare for the defense.
1
SMELTER EMPLOYES
Commandeer An Auto and
Race Up the Beach, Several
Badly Hurt
Tacoma, Wash., Aug. 21. Ben Han
son is in a critical condition with a
fractured skull and internal injuries
in Ht. Josephs hospital here today and
William Lyons is in the same institu
tion with a broken collar bone and dis
located shoulder, while three others,
Harold flloom, Edward Hcunlon and
Norman Mills were more or less cut
and bruised as the result of a wild
ride over the beach road out of Ariet
ta late Saturday niifht. The f've had
attended a dance at Arietta. They ap
propriated a litis belonging to O. V.
hurley and when pursued in another
machine, skidded over a steep em
bankment. The injured mn, all smelt
er laborers, were rushed to this city in
a speed boat from Arietta.
Complaints against nil of the injur
ed meu were sworn out today by Smith,
charging larceny.
TO HAVE
CANDIDATE MEET
E
Hughes and Governor Jcta
sob In Same Hotel, But Did
Not Meet .
MR. HUGHES EMBARRASED
BY PREACHER'S REQUEST
Would Not Appear In Pulpit
But Stood Up For Benefit
of Congregation .
By Perry Arnold.
(United Press staff correspondent.)
San Dieeo. Cal.. Ausr. 21. A meetinir
between Governor Johnson, of Califor
nia, and Republican Presidential Nom
inee Hughes may be arranged befora
the candidate loaves California,
This effort to promote harmony be
tween the republican factions in this
state is being mule today when it be
came known that Governor Hughes was
at Long Beach Sunday at the same time
the California executivt was there.
Governor Johnson, however, out of re
spect to Governor Hughes busy program,
did not inform the presidential nomine
that be was there, so a meeting between
the two failed.
It was said today that a meeting may
be arranged at Sacramento while
Hughes is on his way to Ogden. ..The
nominee did not learn that he had miss
ed Johnson until he returned to Lot
Angeles.
. Todny Governor Hughes was to see
something of the San Diego exposition,
to plant a tree and to address a mssa
meeting here, returning to Los Angelea
in time to speak before a big gather
ing tonight.
Hughes had a singular experience last
night. He attended divine service at
the First Methodist ehnfek aad upon
taking his eat was greeted with ap
plause by the congregation.- The pas
tor of the church came down tr welcome
him and urged hinr to say a few words
from the pulpit. Hughes was qnite em
barrassed and insisted that he aould not
comply with the-request. The services
then proceeded but at the close of the
meeting the congregation again - de
manded that the candidate etnnd un so
that they could see him and Hughes
comnlied, stating his pleasure at being
in California. . .
Like Taft and McKirtley.
Topeka, Kan., Aug.. 21-Candldate
Charles K. Hughes will speak in Topeka.
from a platform under the famous rot
tonwood tree under which Harrison, Me
Kinley and Taft stood when they ad
dressed Topeka audiences, if plans an
nounced here todny are followed out.;
A. N. Rod way, member of the nation
al committee arrived from Denver thia
morning to confer with Governor Cap
per over the arrangements for Hughes
viBit here September 1.
Crossed Continent
Alone In Her Auto
New York, Aug. 21. The only wom
an who has ever driven across the con
tinnt alone in an automobile today de
livered a personal message from Mayor
Ho'ph of Han Francisco to Mayor Mitch,
el of New York. Miss Amanda Preuss
left Sun Francisco, August 8 at t) a.
m. ami arrived here Saturday nt 2:30
Her time was 11 days and five hours.
Hho followed the Lincoln Highway, wis
unaccompanied and carried no fire
arms. "1 can handle a gun, but I wanted
to show what I could do without one,"
said Miss Preuss today. "I didn't car
ry a gun and hnd no need of one."
AIR WAS TOO LIGHT
Central City, Colo., Aug. 21. Charlee
G. Burton, a wealthy grain and stock
broker of Kansas City, dropped dead of
heart failure while trying to climb ame
1'enk Saturday.
Mr. Burton came to Colorado to look
after some mining interests. Accom
panied by his daughter he set out Sat
urday to make the ascent of the moun
tain. He had reached an altitude of 12,
000 feet when he complained of feeling
ill. A few minutes later he dropped
dead.
:
THE WEATHER
Now For )
Oregon:
Fair
Tuesday,
warra-
toniirht and
. er Tuesday ; fair
. W e d n e e day;
northerly winds,,
PLANNING
PBQGRESSIV
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