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TODAY 4600 SUBSCRIBERS (23,Or") READERS) DAILY Ouly Circulation in falem Guar antee! by the Audit Bureau of Circulations WEATEER I'OLIKETO PF A &E.0 .CROSS W?B) DISPATCHES SPECIAL WILLAMETTE VAL LEY NEWS SERVICE FORTY-FIRST YEAR NO. 184. SALEM, OREGON, MONDAY, AUGUST 5, 1918. PRICE TWO CENTS ON TRAINS AND NEWS STANDS FIVE CENTS 'SUIT A 'm-5C A "JTVitrstL fr'TJ - .- if-Jl J 11 f 1 mi a n f if o full leased wire li u if i i ry c s: n t n m nnnrnni era mm r BWKSTKBTME ALGG VESLE RIVER LINE DKSTEADIIIO FOCH'S ESTABLISHES SD1G BKHEADS AT 3 STRATEGIC POINTS Moving Inward From These Points On Boch Flanks Allies Are Aiming to Arm New Pocket And Force Enemy To - Retreat For SafetyNext Important Objective Is Town of Vailly, Where Germans Have Large Supply Depots Re tirement of Enemy On Ten Mile Front In Picardy Was Ac complished During Last Night The Germans, it was indicated by official and staff dispatches today may make Vesle line than had been expected, Although the allies have established bridgeheads at Fismes, Bazoches and Jonchery, and are moving inward from the flanks north of that line, the French war office reported that elsewhere strong resistance has been en countered above the river. At the same time, dispatches flom staff correspondents stated boche .artillery" has opened the most violent fire in the last two days. The most important geographical objective now im mediately before the allies is the town of Vailly, on the bank of the Aisne, nine miles east and north of Soissons. It is about two miles east of the junction of the Vesle and Aisne, and four miles north of the Vesle. It is the center f a highway system and is on the railway which follows the Aisne from Soissons to Neufchtal. : The German retirement north of Montdidier on the Picardy front reported in last night's Paris' communique was made on a front of more than eleven miles between Castel and Mesnil-St. Georges. It reached a maximum depth of about two miles. It included most of the Amer ican sector, as Mesnil-St. Georges is a mile and a half west of Montdidier and two miles southeast of Cantigny. Paris, Aug. 5. The long range bom- were pushed back and the French threw bardment of Pans was resumed today. small force across the river there. Violent figliting occurred at Vauter London, Au;. 5 German losses siuce ;'arin and station, near Rhoinis, but July 15, the data when the crown prince began Ms- l&st drive were unofficially estimated at from 300,000 to 350,000 of which 40,000 are prisoners. Allied loss- 3 c-J.tainly are much less. , By Lowell Mellett. (I'nited Press stai'f correspondent) with the French Armies in the , " ruM, Aug. 5. (2:l!0 p. m.) German resistance is sriffening all, along the 'Ves'e. French patrol which rYossed at sev eral points bearing machine guns and large supplies1 of grenades, reported there are indications that the enemy Will has large forces on the river. The Germans are employing artillery freely to harass the allied troops. j Muizon (five miles west of Rheims),) was hotly disputed, buf the Germans j EDDIE RICKENBACKER TELLS STOR OF LIFE Famous American Ace Talks Of His Experiences For Capital Journal (Copyright 1918, by the I'nited Press.) With The American Airmen In France July 10. (By Mnil.J- "80 yuu want some gimper talk," said Lieutenant Ed-j die Kickeubacker. all-American ace nd former speed king in the automobile tue- ins world, today. "We 11 call a bunch of the giinpers. were getting the worst of it, perhaps, in and there will soon be p!enty of gim-jand the fellow with you stuck with you per talk. But you'll have to translate 'and gave it to them until the Heinies it, or the p.'ople back home will never went hack into Hunland, you'd know understand this aviation dialect wei he was a giuijer. have devebped over here." i ' l( i. ,jidn '(have motor trouble, and Kickenbacher, who downed his five! his gun didn't jam 0r he didn't accept firmans in kss than two month,and be-j 1 eamc the second all-American trained' (Continued on page three) stronger resistance along the ! :tl,p Genitalis' were unable t0 recapture them. XnrH, nf H.n J7ole To f,,,.n-n form hl9 im,a mined anrt 'blown up bv j Germans. ' French artillery heavily shelled a j large concentration of boche troops in the region of St. Thierry, tiree miles inoithwest of Kheims. FIGHTING MOEE ACTIVE. By Frank J. Taylor. (I'nited Pres3 staff correspondent) With the American Annies in France, Aug. 4. (Night) 'Fighting ou the "quiet'' sectors of the American front was more active today than for some time past, American troops raided enemy posi- I (Continued on page two) .ace, is a tall, strapping chap with a fine ''sense of humor and a winning sniil'. In his cscadrille, they call him "luad gimper" just because he is naturally t leader and the life of the unit. The cs cadrille is known as the "gimper squad ron" and was the first group of Am- nricflH trninoil Qll fiirlitora fn tmltlt HlA ;fieM or tlle ail. th awav f thc ; German airmen. "A gimper is a bird who would stick by you through anything," explained Riekenbacker. "If you were up in the lair and ran into a doxen bodies audi BUT ALLIES I BOTH FLANKS 1 1 ' J MICKEY O'EOUBGE . Speaks at the Armory Tonight 5tock Market Show No Sign Of Life Today New York, Aug. 5. The New York Evening Sun financial review today said; . .. " ' . . : "Following the week-end military developments it was regarded a pos sible the stock market might show some signs of Kfc at the beginning of the new week. Those who looked for ac tion today were disappointed .however, until the last hour, when a belated up ward movement set in. Trading in the first hour was held down to le3s than 50.000 shares and in- the second hour less than 20,000 shares. There was strength in filth specialties as Ameri can Sumatra tobacco, Americau Linsetd and National Tnameling and Stamping. f'The standard list remained virtual ly motionless." Hull 9 "From Over There" General Pershing's Official Report Washington, Aug. 5. American cas ualties from the great Franco-American offensive have begun to pour into the war department. The names of four hundred and seven were made public today. In addition. 29 will be ready at 1 p. in. for release to morning pa perj tomorrow. Many more names, it w'as said, have reached thc war depart ment, but llieir mihlicfttuin i nivnitiixr the customary fifteen hours notice to relatives. ' - ' ' With the total of "00 namrs announc ed tcday or ready for announcement, the casualty list today showed that the country must steel itself for the great est losses suffered thus far in the war. The early list was divided as fol lows: Killed in action 203; died of wounds 3"; died of disease 9; died of airplane accident 1; died of accident and other causes G; wounded severely iH; wound ed, degree undetermined, 100; missing in action 3. Killed In Action Lieutenant Colonel M. J. Craig, 621 Clayton Ht., San Fran'isco Captain W. H. Worthington, Lancas ter, Pa. Lieutenants ' (1- R. Anderson, Ardniore, Okla. E. A. Billings, Portland, Jit. J. M. Duuian, Terre Haute,' Ind. H. C. Gilson, Carthage, N. Y, (. G. Hall, Haverhill, Mass. G. W. Rylcy, Lawrence, Mass. L. A. Wood Portland, Or. Kergeants F. J. Brown, Euglcwoed, N. J. E. Conner, Quaker City, Ohio . C. B. Iavis, Petersburg, V. Va. K. C. lavSs, Harrison, Mich. H. Iteland, Philadelphia A. F. Johnson, Momence, III. F. A- Kline. Akron, Ohio C. A. McDougal, Aberdeen, N. C. t L. C. Powers, Syracuse, N. y. J. Hayne, Pleasant View, Ky. H. M. Wallace, Gusseta, Ala. J. I. Woolwine, Dubuque,. La. H. C. Wolvertou, Breckenridge, Mich Corpoials H. F. Bernard. San Diego, Cal. A. P. Blake, Providence, R. I. .1. C. Carmody. Poultney, Vt. E. E. (,'rabbe, Ixindon, Ohio B. M. Darby, North Bend, Pa. N. Davis, JlOjUnt Cannel, Pa. GENERAL FOCH MAY FORM NEW POCKET BY FUNK ATTACKS Tactics Of Allied Commander In Chief Are Now Plainly Apparent To Experts By J. W. T. Mason (United Press war expert) New York, Aug. 3. Another deadly pocket is being formed by General Foch around the German positions on the Vesle. The sides of the wedge are be ing forced northward from Soissons to ward the Chemin-desDames and lrom lihcims toward Berry-au-Bnc, while the Germans on the Vesle between Soissons and Rheims arc gradually being let r in the hollow. General Foeh's present purpose is to move his east and west flanks north ward faster than his center. By this maneuver a condition similar to that which existed when the Germans were on the Mame will again threaten Von Hindenburg. The longer Von Hinden burg clings to the Vesle the more time will be given to General Foch to diiv.e his flanks northward, thus deepening the new Vesle salient. Yon Hindenburg can overcome this strategy only by withdrawing from the Vesle or bv throwing an immense num ber of reserves into defensive positions north of Soissons and Rheims. If he thus uses up- his reserves for defensive fighting, Von Ilindeiiburjr will be play ing General Foch 's game. Every Ger man reserve unit thrown into the pres ent fighting weakens the force with which the kaiser must defend German territory against America's forthcoming offensive. The possible danger to the Germans in the present trap is greater than ex isted at the Manic. If General Foch can move his flanks northward for a suffi cient distance before Von Hindenburg starts to retreat from the Vesle, the al lies will begin to close in behind tin Aisiie river, five to teu miles north of the Vesle and, in general, parallel to It. When the Germans then commence to retire, a disastrous -ilight across the Aisne under fire of the allies' artillery might well be the best they can expect. The Aisnn is now in high flood. That means serious difficulties in getting heavy nrtil'ery across. A day's delay may thus turn out to be fatal to Von Hindenburg. . BREAD MADE OF SAND. Zurich, Aug. S.Much of the bread manufactured in Austria now is 50 per cent flour mixed with saud. according to the Arbe'iter eitung. , of ionor G. R.- Goodrich. Phila.lelnhia N. B. Ilillabraiidt, A.-suaiption, ill- E. Hirst, New Bedford, Mass. C. M. Horton, Uobertin, La. j 3. T. Jones, Knoxville, Tenn. K, W. King, Troy. Ala. ! F. Drajenski, Brooklyn. N. V. L. T. Lassbrook, Phillips, Ky. , N. A. Little, Salem, Mass. E. McAllister, Mt. Pleasant, N. C. C. I). McKenncy, Newton, Mass. W. R. Miller, New London, Mass. W. W. Mitchell, Edna, Cal. L. Phillips, Pikesville, Ky. S. G. Rain, Sclnia, Ala. M. I). Riley, Ozard, Ala. W, C. Sanf'onl, Morrisville, Pa. Z. Zeverson, Sea'tle. G. D. Sheridan, Sherwood, Tenn. A. M. Skatzcs, Delaware, O. O. L. Slaglc, Crosby, Wyo. H. Smith, Spring Valley, Minn. J. Hpargoski. Toledo, Ohio A. Stanfanko, Philadelphia A. G. Beatty, Barre, Mont. O. Pike, Fruitvale, Texas -C. T. Sutcliffe, Miami, Fla. B. McCampbell, Piatt, S. O. Mechanic A. Hansen, Madison, Wis. H. Hogan, Brooklyn, N. Y- II. L. Jones, Springfield, Mo. L. Jury, Philadelphia Wagoners H. Leuz. Mcriasha, Wis. W. Phillips, East Voungstown, O. Privates G. H. Allen, N. E. Grand Rapids, Mich. M. Anderson, Humeston, la. G. M. Albert, Philadelphia C. C. Adams, New Bedford, Mass. A. Adelman, New York J. F. Bates, Boston, Mass. C. L. Berry, West Harwich. Mass. B. A. Briggs, Hille laic, Mich. E. R. Burton. Vernon, N. V. It O. Besinger, Iodie, Ohio J. Bouin, Cliffside, N. J. W. L. Brockman, Green Bay, Wis. J. W. Boyce, Keyser, W. Va. H. Joston, Hhadyside, Ohio A. Boyce, Bethel, Ohio M. Blowers, Malvern, Ark. K. Blair, Andulusia, Ala. W. (i. Brown. Shocton. Wis. B. James, Live Oak, Fla. W. Barrett, Boontown, '. J. (Continued on page six) NEW DRAFT BILL WILL BE ENACTED E Registration Is Expected To Begin Not Later Than September First MEASURE IMPERATIVE TO MEET DRAFT CALLS Congress Will Probably Re Convene Monday and Pass Bill Without Delay Washington, Aug. 5. September 5 next will be registration day for more than 13,000,000 Americans between '18 and 21, 32 and 45, if congress heeds the urgent plea of Provost Marshal General Crowdcr. WeeRly registration of all men becoming 21 years old may be necessary after September 1, Crowder doclured in a letter to Baker, which Chamberlain submitted to the senate. Crowder said he sees no other w8y to provide the necessary men for the. Sep tember cull of 200,000. He declared there will be not more than 100,000 men left in class one by the first of September. He urged immediate action by congress on the new man power bill to provide for later calls. Crowder 's letter also re vealed the fact that the war department was figuring on draft age limits of 19 to 40 and changed Tts mind weu Crow der showed Baker that these as would not produce the necessary men. Leaders are getting plans under way for speedy passug.9 of t lie new man pow. er bills introduced today in tho houfc and genatut Crowder's warning that reg istration should not bo delayed beyond September 3 if the calls for October, No vember and December are to bo met out of class one, caused house and senate IcaderB to consider reconvening both houses next Monday to begin work on the bill. Senator Chamberlain, ehnirnian of the senate military committee announced that his committee would begin work n:t tho bill at once. Ho added that in all probability it could be reported out to the senate after a few days' delib eration. At) effort Jay be made by the sen ate to resume its regular business before August 24 when the upper branch's re cess terminates; !eni taid that Secretary Baker prob ably would lo the first witness before the house committee when it takes up the bill. General March, chief of staff, and Provost Marshal General Crowder will follow Baker. Though opposition will develop against tho measure, particularly in the seriate, at: to lowering ages below 21, there is a general feeling that there will be far less fight than was ,gcne rally be lioved. 1'iiiier the enlarged age limit Provost Marshal General C rowder estimates (hat 2,'-!)S,84.j more men available for fight ii ber'-icc will be obtained. Tlieso fig ures we.iv contained in a report drawn by Crowder and submitted to the sen I'o toiii.v bv r'namberlaiii. These "effectives" are divided as follows. Between .12 and 4", (illl,2:i(i li on , bi t ween 18 and 20, l,77,(ll'9. Total registrants between 32 and 45, Crowd;? estimated, should number 10, 0uS.!)73 and between 18 and 20, 3,171,871 Bill Introduced Washington, Aug, ". The great man powe.i bill making tho draft ages 18 lo 4.) wits introduced in the house ami senate today. The bill in the house was referred to thc military eommittie, but it is unlike ly that it can ge consideration before the bouse reconvenes August. 1(1, ( haii man Dent said. Germans Restive Because Of Defeat Rotterdam, Aug. 5. Thc Ger man people uic beginning to feel restive under the effects of the defeat 1,1 Marne. This is e idenced by statements from Lu dendorff and Von Hindenburg to "newspaper correspondents tending to bolster up the spirits of the public. The Fremdenblatt eopies of which have been re ceived here, report riots in the market with the police unable to cope with the situation. Iliimoi's arc current that Hin denburg will stake nil on a final blow against the allies in Sep yr.iber with three points his ob jective the Champagne, farther i,o ii along the coast and at Verdun, with Paris the ultimate goal. UNDER PRESSUR GERMAN DEAD CARPETS GROUNDS AS AMERICANS PRESS DEFEATFD ENEMY Correspondent Ferguson Views Scenes of Death And Deso lation In Wake Of Retiring Germans Villages Destroyed And Wreck And Ruin In Evidence Everywhere Machine Gun Companies of Rear Guards Lie Dead About Their Silent Guns Most of German Corpses Found in Hollows Where They Were Ordered To Stay Until Death. By Fred S. Ferguson (United Press staif correspondent) With the American Armies in France Aug. 5. German artillery has opened upon the American lines and railroads more vigorously than for the past two days and there is machine gun activi ty. about the region Fismes now -in Ithe hands' of tho Americans indicat ing the enemy may possibly plan des perate resistance there. American patrols are acrosB the ves le. After the Americans took Fismes, other United States troops moved nor;hward in the Mareuil-en-Iole re gion. They marched steadily forward thru a downpour of rain Saturday night and Sunday aud spent most or the day leei ing out the boc.he positions in an ef fort to establish contact. Late in thc afternoon the German ar tillery besan violently shelling the Am ericans. Whether the enemy intends to make a stand or withdraw his artillery further it is impossible, to guess at this time, but American officers believe the Germans niusti now. of a necessity retreat beyond the Aisne. The entire retreat was married by vigorous shelling just prior to an In tended artillery silence. After a great outburst of shell fire,.the boche artil lery remained quiet for two days and the American guns necessarily were less active. American casualties during the past 48 hours have been amazingly slight, considering the depth of our advance, t saw an advancod dressing station empty, the doctors idle and ambulances lined up-with the drivers resting. Ev erything bear out the statement of of ficers mid men that "there hasn't been a battle for the past two days just a inarch." ' Over the ground of the recent bitter figliting a striking note was that all tho German dead lay in valleys, woods and towns, while the American dead were on the ridges. This is due to the boche system of establishing machine gun nests. When in villages or woods thc enemy machine guns are carefully placed in hollows 200 yards from the GREATEST HERO OF BRITAIN IS "MICKEY" O'ROURKE (By Fred L. Buajt in the Portland News.) Private Michael J. O'Roui'kc will speak at the Armory tonight. You'll be wanting to know what kind of a lad is this fellow O'Hnurke. For why should you quit the com frt of home nfter a hard day's work to heur a private talk? Are there no generals, or leastways colonels, or even majors that could say a worm lu KiIimh .f un little eomvMiuence that they send Private This and Corporal That to bring us news of the great war Yon Won't Be Going. Sure not a step will, you go from thc house this night. Tis wrong you arei xnore are privates and privates, and generals and generals; but In all the allied armies there's nary a man, from Focu and Pershing down, that's more worth listening to than this same "Mickey" O'Bourke, private hi the Canadian army. For one thing, he's a coward. You'll see fr yourself tonight the cold sweat of fright on his brow, lliere s more than one kind of a coward, and Private O'Kourke's the kind that laughs at death, uud shivers in the presence of a .Ires-ied up audience. A Man is O'Rourke. Vim M set ! tii down for a surly man, on meeting him the first time,, but he's not. It 's only the way of him; taciturn, soft-spoken, with cold grey eyes. I do not tread on the tail of the coat of such a man. 1 speak to him politely, softly, and watch him if he is my una my. For there's a head on tho broad si iu ders of Privatc-O'HoUrke. There were three boches who did not watch Private O'Bourke at Passenclien dale. O'Rourke and an officer blundered in to the wrong trench in a fog, and there three Huns took them prisoners. They enreh"d the caiitives. and on the offi cer they discovered an automatic pistol winch they took. Overlooked One Thing. They did not find O'lbuiike's only weapon a Mills grenade. A Mills greiiud', if you don't know. jtop of a rise or plateau, the advancing Americans have no hint of resistanco until they reach the crest of the ele vation. The boches oro then able to open a surprise fire and the doughbo have- to rush the nests. The entiro country from the Marnft to the Vesle is now a vast scene of wreckage. Scarcely a mirro even re mains unbroken, the boches having smashed them with hammers. Every ru ii nun ,uuti- la nicimi, iub ta house is intact. All aoout may be seen typical German signs, from those di recting traffic to ones renaming Btreeta One of the latter bears the namo "Kaiser strafe." There are numerous narrow gaugo railway built by the bodies, with small steel freight cars standing on the tracks and more rails for further construction. I stood beside a battery manned by American youngsters yesterday after- Itnnii whila atli.llu nrnPA Knincr linIivl ........ ... 'neroa t.he Vesle. I stood on Hill 205, dominating the plateau leading toward Fismes, this morning. The landscape was one of un usual loveliness, but moving onto the plateau I found a wide path of de struction. Villages were battered and burned; fields were a lace work of shell holes; forests were mangled and uprooted, while roads were pitted, al though a ibush labor battalion was rap- idly leveling them again, using crush ed stone from the ruined houses. Over all clung the odor of death. Grey-ctad bodies of Frussian guards who had remained to fight rear guard actions luy all about. In one field Ger man helmets wero -tt th'ck aa.ilaiaies. Plessier-Huleu wood was shot to pieces. In an 6pen field between tie wood and the town of the same name there was every indication of a bitter battle, including great numbers of un buried dead. Soisoons shows less recent damage than might be expected, although it bears out the report of tho chasseurs that the Germans made some slight resistance- Here and there wero futilo barricades of the flimsiest srt stretch ed across the street. is an interesting bauble, lemon-shaped, filled with amiiiouiul and fiilmiiiadu of mercury, which combination is condens- .i CU CtlB!5i:Ullt-nn. The Huns started rearward with tWiir prisoners. By and by two of tho Huns desired to smoke. One lit a cigurette. The other's mutch was blown out by the wind. The third German was weary, bo he sat down on a rock. One Hun got a light from tho other's cigarette. Puff, puff. Then Something Happened. , The Mills grenade dropped down from (Continued on page three) ABE MARTIN l Now that MeAdoO has fired all tV railroad presidents we hope he'll git af ter th' train boy that charges twelve cents fer a Pennsylvania cigcr. Sum buddy's alius knockin "th' erf!'ee," but we don't believe we ever heard a complaint ou tea. ,) WAR 7 Ik