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WEATHS, .-rut TonlghtS... UV probably fair;; ' A evKr northwest. ,v -V 4.603 SUBSCRIBERS (SS.WO BEADEHS) DAILY Only Circulation ia Sales Guar anteed by the Audit Bareaa of Circulations FULL LEASED Y1RE DISPATCHES SPECIAL WILLAMETTE VAL LEY NEWS SEBYXCE nihiii iMifljil warmer east nor- v t!'o; Sunday j rob ably fir; cooler rxccpt nar iise Wi B dv BlOSttV westerly. FORTY-FIRST YEAR NO. 207. SALEM, OREGON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 31, 1918. PRICE TWO CENTS OST TBAIXS AKD NEWS STANDS FIVE CENTS j 4 1 j wv'' tiyN RCE BATTLE RAGES MIES m s.5 BiEMY 0 1BLE I J RESIST ATTACKS II British Troops Capture Most St. Quentin Aid Sur round Peroime OCCUPY KEMME HILL A COMMANDING POINT north Of Soissons French Americans Strike Boih North And South By John DeOandt (United Press Staff Correspondent.) Paris, Aug. 31. (1 p. m.) The bat tle east of the Ailette river 18 proceed ing violently. The enemy is unable to resist the franco-American push. (This is the first intimation that Am erican troops are fighting in this sec tor. The flrat Americans to enter the present Picardy drive ' are engaged about four miles southward.) The bridgehead at Champs (four! miles northwest of Coucy Le-Chateau) j nas been consolidated and the Francs re ne.iring folembray (two miles east J of Champs.) They are advancing north eastward and half encircling Coucy La Chateau. They have approached to with in half a mile of the city. North of Noyon French troop ate progressing along the Verse river (flow lng southwestward through Ouiscard.) ! Further north they hold the west baiik! of the Somme as far as Brier where they converge with the British. Ar Nearing Chauny Paris, Aug. 31. (10:10 a. ui.) Franch troops are reported in the vi cinity of Ouiscard, the important town lying about mid-way between Noyon and Earn. Th?y are alro approachiug Chauny. the great railway center tea luilu east of Noyon. North of Soissons, French and Am erican troops are striking both north ward and eastward. They are advanc ing obliquely upon Vregny (four nJles and a half northeast of Soissons and! two miles north of the Aisne) and at, the same time are progressing north-j ward along the road from Teruy-Sirr.y (four mileg and half north of Sois-I Rons) to Coucy-Le Chateau (nine miles! north of Soissons.) (Continued on page seven' BUTFIiTI HARD GERMAN AIRSHIP LOSS IS MORE THAN DOUBLE LOSSES BY 324 Enemy Machines Downed' By British Who Lost O1U7JI6. Jivw York. Aug. 31. Summing the Hntish aviation eomniunt.tuis lor;1 air fitr,e t! counted for in the he past we. k, the British bureau of ia- , jUborhW of TOO enemy airplj,c forutaliun her today declared ' aain't a net lns of ?9 British niaclrse. there is "a cocsistent and remarkably j u ),KevvK upun tlM wtWtu front high average of vneiuy machine de-:,.at lhi ,.0,arkal.Ie disparity is ttost strayed week by week," and that there ! iif t ,t it is here that Oertuany i "a singularly spasmodic and obvious-!;, raCentrating the major portion ot ly nervous" method in Ormatiy '1 cf-lli,T Btrcngth. forts to.eomhat the three fold aerial of ' .'jj js nfre aw that she is faced f.nsive, hkh is being carried ua b; ' j with the three fold problem of not 00 the British- jlr defending bvr long battlefront. but The statemeut declar.-s that ia theaii0 of warijiae off tl insitnt and week seventy enemy machines wt'i Ce- formidable Uiitish attacks upon her srroy.d ami eleven driven dawa out oil right and lift flanks Belgian asval eontrul on the west fron, alone. Dur ) an(j tBl, ;n,lu,trial centers of tiif ing the same p-riod, it was stated, only ! Bhi-re. " V7 British wseliines were reported .!-! The statement icebi, a table showing- Sing the number of air raids, which Thus. f-r every British airplaae'have leo carried oat ajalnrf towns te whiej, failed to return." th-e statement :j,juJ the Oeruiaa western front during aaya, more o German Btr aint the past four weeks. Tie? rult of pho- are reported to ksv been disablf.. tograplis takes after these exhibitions "Thai the figures are by ao n.-us i4 stated. s-xc.ptk.nal U ,kowa by the fiet that; luruii.era'.te raids hare been BtS't .faring the ia four weeks, 3Jt cr..nty 03 all vital enemy positions," it i stat nachines hav bcea aceountej fjr ua-i, "including Keelin. Lillr, il'S.n. ier similar rond.tioss, while osy 1 i i j 1 in... British kne ben rejrtej m:i.n. i iCoritiaaed oa fag,f thrtej R 1C0IC1$ NEW REVENUE BILL IS: READY TO BE REPORTED TO HOUSE TOR ACTION Supposed To Raise $8,000, 000,000 But Believed It Wffl YieM More. Washington, Aug. 31. The new rev euue bill, providing $,00O,0OO,OOO, the next year, to help finance the war, has been completed by the house ways and means committee and will be re ported early next week. Treasury .experts believed that the bill will 'provide between $l'iO,DOOOOO and $.'00,000,000 in excess of the $3, 000., sought. Salient features are: Fiat 12 percent rate on normal in comes over $1,00, and a six percent rate on taxable incomes less thau $4,OO0. Surtaxes on individual incomes, ranging to 65 percent on those of more than $o,000,000. Earned and unearned incomes to be treated on the same basis with no differentiation in favor of the earned character which was songlit by Sec retary MeAdoo. Plat SO percent tax on war profits, afrer providing for specified exempt ions. Exicsg profit tax, ranging from 35 tno 70 percent Luxury taxes ranging from 10 to 20 percent. Changes may be made be fore its enactment into law, as there is opposition to some features in both house and senate. Boys, Back From France, Given Great Ovation New York, Aug. 31. Four hnndivd bronzed veterans of American battles in France are here today, the recipients of glorious greetings. They were to take part this afternoon in the fiv.ld stunts of the police de purtment at Sheepshead Bay. The' men, all of whom wear wound and service stripes, ar rived late yesterday and were ehivred by thousands who soon found out who they were, as t'K'v inarched from the Penn sylvania station through tha streets to' the Sixty Ninth reg nient armory. - BRITISH CASUALTIES Loudon, Aug. 31. British casualties published in official lists during the week totalled 10.803, ,ivided as follows: Killed Wouiidvd Missing Officers ')'-" H4 Men 23fii 12".-,4 THE ALLIES l! "Tlx .ami limnd result, fli. nhserv ed'ou the Italian, Halkaa and J'alc.rtitic if.iir.ts, where 1H enemy niathiitcs have I uvea ilestroyed or driven out of eon jtrol. During the last wtvk, 12 Uritih itiiachincs have been reported missing jFaking the whole of the Europt-an-JJcd UP iterraiiean luttl-fields totrtlK-r. the rov- BET SHORTENING OF LINE N German Losses More Than Offset Gain In Strength By Shorter Front By J. W. T. Mason (I'nitcd Press war i-xpert) New York, Aug. 31. Von Uiudeu burg is agaiu applying the brakes to bis perilous retirement, feat ing that hit re treat will become a rout. This has be:i his consistent policy since be begat, his campaign to shorten hi9 west front for the purpose of accumulating resvrves to oppose America's coming offensive agui'ist the Bhine. The present pause in the opetatioa does not mean that tl.? Germans are recovering their vitality and have brought Marshal Koch's" drive to rest. The local assaults of the allies will con tinue as Von Hindenbtirg resnincs his inevitable orders for falling back toK'ird the Belgian border. The present rate of shortening the German line, however, is resulting id a net ioss of mannor to Von Hinden burg. For each mile the line is reduced, the Germans can recover from 4000 to 0000 men for their reserves. But to the ptvsent. Marshal Foch hat captured about PO00 men in Flanders and Picardy for every mile of front that has been shortened. This is a matter of the most serious importance for Von Hindenbtirg. He cannot afford to continue to conduit his retreat on auy such basis. In the Germans killed and permanently wound ed and taken prisoners, it is probable that Von lituueiiburg has lost to he present three tiinvs the number of troop, he hoped to put in his reame by shortening his front. This new factor in the situation has been the most brilliant part of Mars'ial Foch's strategic results. Not only sim the Germans retiring from western France, but they are unable to create a Inrger proportionate reserve force than they had before the retirement beau. To retreat under such a condition means that whvn the German front is shorten ed to its maximum extent, Von Hinilen bttrg will not have adequate reserves to face the Americans for a prolonged de fensive campaign. Thjs shortvning process is destined to carry the Germans back to the Mcue' line, whicf, runs from the southeastern tip of Holland through Liege nnd f':i mur, in eastern Belgium, past Mo.ier.-s to v-istem Fiance, to Verdun and 81. Mihiel. But loiii before the Metis line is readied, Von Hindeiiburg uitist try to reorganize his method of retreat, so that his casualties shall be much lihtr r. If he dnesn 't succeed, there can I e no hope even at German heaiffjnnrtrr of saving the Khine. Nothing Doing Today At The Short Session New York, Aug. 31. The Kvudng Sun financial review today says: There was nothing whatever what ever in today's short session of the stock market to indicate that war news it other developments influenced trad ing. Such intvrest as there was display ed was centered in t'nited State, Steel. I'alon Pacific, which sells without Its 2 per cent diviiln( on Tuesday a Southern Kailway which crossed 2o to a new high record for tl- year on what is generally believed to be foreign buy ing. I.t the second hour the few liaders rif!ec'.' 1 itii-rraii:g buying power ono prices firrjed materially, but i-Lctilirro condition were about the same. H'.eel pu.hed through 111 and I'tiio Pacific aehirw,-.1 the top price fr th(. yenr at 12 o'clock. Trading was periutjy M,ai' what mii! animated and broadnr. BOMBED HOSPITAL TBAIN Washington. Aug. 31. Bomb ing of a hospital train f six teen cars by German airm'n near t'je It 1 an front was reportel in Bed Cross cables received to day. Many of the doctors snu nun'-a lost all their pervmal b--!ua'ing afid in many rases their surgical and medical kits. The latter were immediatty replaced by the H-d Cros, No mention wa( wiade in the cable of aay casual t h s. KO MORE liiGHYAYS OR UNTIL MM ENDED No Brick, 03, Tar; Crushed Rock 0a Street Will Be Furnished. . Begiuuing September 10, during the "period of the war, no near highway or street work or construction can be un dertaken except uon approval of the j'faited States Highways Council, ac cording to a bulletin received by the 'state highway department from tiie Vouncil and which State Highway Kn- giueer N'unn Is sending to all county courts. The bulletin ravs. "All proposed highway, street, cul vert, and bridge construction, reeon- structiou, and maintenance involving the issuance of bonds, the use of rail or water transportation, the use of voal or oil as fuel, or the use of ce mcnt, tnick, asphalt, oil, tar, crushed etono or steel as highway material, should first he submitted for approval to the Vnited States Highways Council through the appropriate state highway department "The eouucil urges that new high way and street construction be con- j'fiued to the most esseutial aecds. The "eouucil in passing upon the projects j which come before it will give first con Uideration to maintenance with a view , to conserving all the highways already .completed if possible. "Reconstruction will be favorably jVonsidered by the coucil only where it ia clearly established that main jleuance is no longer possible except at prohibitive cost. 4 "Jfir construction will be given consideration by the eouuci in the fol lowing relative order of importance: "Highways and streets of military value. "Highways and streets of astionallour final demonstration of loyalty, economic value. "t'nfinished contracts involving con tractual obligations (incurred prior to Aoril 5. ltJl'H... where bond issue is in volved) which may noV.be disturbed without serious consequences, "Htreet auj'l highways which al though not of ' national ecouomie ini- porltance are of such extreme local importance or the construction of ; K im n nas progressed to suen a point l&g to cause serious hardship m their vonstructiou or completion Is post- l ned." IN Wounded War Correspondent Just Home Tells How Boys FeeL Washington, Aug. 31. "No negoti ated peace w ill be eatiafactory to our j men in the field. Unconditional vie- i jtory is what they want." ! In these words, Floyd Gilibin, i wounded flib-ag:) Tribune war eorrcs , ponH. nt. addressed National press 1uli members, warning them that the winter will see a vast Teuton pes-e drive--a "cry of kamerad to Ainerics," "The nation must tense itself and reject this steadfastly," he added. (Continu'd ou page seven) ikii4ti(iiw4tttii' J ABE llARTIN 111 UK Th ' garbage tan is jt about a thing o' th' past, but w, taa't rerall a time wbca a waste basket wot as neeetary as it is t 'day. Csl Tspe has been inva liurd froos Camp Taylor. PRESIDENT SETS DAY TO REGISTER Estimated 13,000,000 Will Put Their Names On Great Draft Roll FINAL DBIONSTRATION OF AMERICAN LOYALTY Says President Pays High Tri- bate To Young Men's opint Of Democracy. Washington, Aug. SI. President Wil son today set September 12, as the da, upon which 1.1.000,000 Americans shall register for America's greatest dratt. Those summoned to prepare for service include all males between the ages ot 1H and 4.1 Inclusive who have not pre viously registered. Out of this great reservoir, it Is estimated over 2,300,000 men will be available for class one the first to be called to arms. Some of these will be called as early as Oetober 1, t draft officials estimate that the present class one will be depleted then. The president's proclamation today was issued immediately after ho hud signed the manpower bill authorising this diaft, which is counted on to do liver America's victory army to France by next July. The forthcoming draft, the president declared in his proclamation "will be uemueraey, ana tne will to Win, our solemn notice to all the world that w stand ahsiltiiely together In common resolution and purpose." In his pidclauiatioif President Wllsitn explained the draft as follows! "Fifteen mouths ago the men of the country from 21 to 30 years of age were registered. Three months airo and again last month those who rad just reached the age of 81 were added, It now remains to Include all men be tween the ages of 18 and 43. Not a New Policy. "This is not a new policy. A cen tury and a quarter ago it was delib erately ordained by those who were then responsible for the snfety and defense of the nation that the duty of military service should rest upon all ame liortieit men tictween the ages of It and 45. We ifliw accept and ful fill the obligation which they estab lished, an oliliuntiou expressed in ou national statutes from that time until ntw. We solemnly purpose a decisivi victory of arms and deliberately to devote the larger part of the military manpower of the nation to the renin-1 In addition, it is expected consider plbhtucnt of that purpose. ahl sums will be asked for expanding "The younger men have from thejtho establishment in Prance, already first been ready to g. They have ; const ructed on huge siule and grow furnished voluntnry enlist incut, out of iug hourly Warehouses, rumps, col.l all proportions to their numbers. Our -storage plants, hospitnls all probably ' - j will have to bo enpnndcd to care for (Continued on page three) ;tlio new prouraui. Turkish Woman Four Years In Berlin, Raps Barbarism ; Huns Treated America's Entrance Into War With Contempt At First. Yankee Pris oner Among Those Paraded Through Perlin Streets Shouted In German "Look Us Over Fritzie, There Are 15,000,000 Mere Like Us Where We Come From'-Pris-oners Sin? As They March Through Streets. Huns Still Arrogant. "Towards the and of the line one of the American captives, holding bis bsa4 uf cheerfully, and enJoy.na ihe show aa though be wu on of the members of circus, began to about, in perfectly good Oerrnan without foreign accent: "Look us over carefully, TriUlas, thers are fifteen million more like us where wa cams fron." And then a few of them broke cut singing some tune that sounded rythmic. I could not under stand the words but the chorus to what thsry were singing, in which all took part heartily, sounded like this: I " Ai d when we march thraaxb Berlin, Tt kaiser will aay: .'Oh Mint Oott, What a damnad lot, " Written of ZOIIBEH HANNOUM NA880 JHIIY, (The daughter of a late governor of a Turkish province; she wa studying inj Berlin when the Great War broke outj and has remained there until recently . when she succeeded in reaehiug hwitzer-j land, and from that place she sen it these chapters exclusively for this news paper.) I left staiving Germany German , disiUusloniwrd, Gctmsny degenerated, FIVE BILLION WILL BEHECESSARY TO EQUIPNEWARMY Pay Alone Amounts To One, Billion A Year, This Ex clusive of Officers. ARMS BIG AND LITTLE TO COST $2,300,000,0001 Clothing, Blankets And Tent Will Require Another Billion And Half. By L C. Martin. (I'nited Prem staff correspondent) Washington, Aug. 31. Congress must appropriate between font and five bit lion dollars before its part In creating the army t,f victory It complete, con gressional finance expert, cstims"! toaay, v The bill providing men was in Presi dent Wilson's hands today. He Is un derstood to have passed on and ap proved estimates of the money needed to clothe, equip and arm, train and feed and transport the 81!m,000 or more new soldiers who will be called from civil life and nut in Prnnca n. Julv 1 next. The estimates are expected on cap ito hill shortly. House and senate appropriation committees expecting them, have arranged to work simultan eously on the bill, to enpodinte its passage. There msy be a number or bills instead of only one, to be Intro duced at intervale as the needs arise. Only by comparison with previous appropriations nave committee niem- bers been shle to estimnte what thai nw lull will call for. They have been j hulance of power in the houw informed that It will llsfc i huge sum!'"' senate need not be changed to 1b for ordnance. This is obvious, for t hst i u ro greater effort. . ,. . - . guns, big and small that must be re quired for 2,.')iO,IIO0 men are legion. A totally unofficial estimate of the oost of weaponing the new army based on ordnance appropriations In the $12, 000,000,1100 armv bill recently passed is $2,300,000,000. This excludes auiiuutil tiou. The pay of the new army alone will cost more than $1,01)0,0(10,000, Just for the rank and file, to say nothing of the officers and the additional clerss needed in various bureaus because or .the increase m record keeping. Clothing, blankets, tents, must be provided fur at a cost estimated in the same manner to exceed $l.ft0il,i!tHf 000. This makes a ronjjlily estimated total of $(,SoO,i!lHl,ono for absolute sentials before the new army is ready I to leave tin) I'nitcd .State the laud where death stalks by day and that lost its soul and broke off with Its by tight and reached Zurich thrce;(iod, that is flu- Germany of today. ajo. Kate had locate,) m, in Germany a! Ooiiuacy Unhappy, But Unashamed, year befoie the war when thu world' 1, was a Lutheran minister who visit hid great respect for her, if not lose, I Jed the family with whom I was staying had been laujdit to love and rcprrt her; to Is g me to tell the people in Hwitiet ptople for m"t of the Germans I knew 4i Germany was being Wngv4 in in v nntive Constantinople had d eserv-S aiid mnlirtgcd by "England the Tral- ed resct and some of them the lovi, of t!i.;s who knew them I was at Berlin when the world con flagiation broke out and i wnlehcd its Mi'siimirig fire front behind tb curtain where tragedies as well as sins that even God Himiclf must find difficult to for ifivc. have been taking place since the stiain of music, and dancing and I lawjehurrhes nnd desecrate her house of thu Gcruiun women strew the streets With flowers and perfume through which their brother., sons and husbands march ed to Prance over the prostrate body of Beluiura. And I watched thew return ing, wounded and mutilated until hos pitals and public buildings were rimil to their fulU.t capacities. And I heard them groan snd whine and I beard th -very dancing and singing women cry and weep, I saw Germany reap to the tuiiist oicasure whs, she had sown in tLc: face of God. Yes, I left behind Uie a whipped, whining, groaning Geinuny, but not "pet'tcnt Germany. The lelj PRESIDENT IL ; VISIT THE COAST LATEIOTI1TII Will Swing Round Hie Circl In Interest of Cc ff Liberty Loan. COAST TO COAST TRIP WILL TAKE TWO WEEKS Will Explain What Money Is For And Why It Is Worth Spes X ntf By Robert 3. Bender Washington, Aug. 31 Whea Presi dent Wilson takes hia swing around the circle for the Liberty loan kite next month, he will have the first oppor tunity since his last eamjwiga of go . ing directly before the body politm with straight talk on the war, his ob jectives iu itand what he proposes to do when it is over. His tour will be from coast i ciust, north and south and Is made nec essary is the I'nited Press exclusive ly annouiued recently, by the inability of Secretary MeAdoo to carry alone the load of loan campaigning. Then, to, this is to he tne biggest loan America has yet floated for the war. The president believes the peo ple sh mid know what the money la for, why It is worth sending and what America proposes to do la the way of readjustment within her borders- to fake the battle of her sons over there worth the fight they are making, Incidentally, 'partY leadxrs expect the preddent will take the opportun ity of telling the neoiile that a eon- gress, now ewnfroiien n the democrats H"" gfat work in the war Owing to th-ground coveted by the trip, the president probanly will be on the road for more than two weeks, re turning to Washington early iu Octo ber. t will be the longest single trip, both in matter of mileage and time that he has taken elnee becoming pre sident, and will niark his first visit to the nest coast. ! 4 AIR RAID A SUCCCBa Ik London, Aug. ill. Dispatch is from Holland and Hwitsoi- t laud confirm tl'.i United Press interview with a British officer 4c concerning the ft fcctivetiesa of ! an acrtsl raid on Mannheim. $ $ Kuorinous dnmnge was done in i; so.,ie sections, according to the ilispatjhes, Tl' tiirror stricken t popiillitintl seemed to be hypnot- i$ i.cj and sought no cover which is itei-lared to tie rc-ipotisib'e for ;)t the In'Kc niimbea of casunlitcs, i tor, " pud " America t he Prrl'uliuus." It was a Unman t uMioiie :, puty to tae reli hstiig who begged nie to take a letter to a r'icr.ch priest in French Hwit.er laud whom he would attempt to con vert Into believing that it was for th good of Prance that German armies should devastate hr and destroy her God. Germany the soulless, the Godles the pcojde who sofd their ,ouI and ho nor for bss than thirty pieces that ia the Germany of today. True, th,. peple are dissatified with conditions tha are prevalent there in wartime; true, outside the Junket) al most everybody is discontented, but there are Very, very few Germans throu ghout the Km pi re who are honestly re peiitcnt for the sins .f the r rulers. Tin y criticize them, not because they liava committed crimes tguillst humanity and (Continued on page six)