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VOL. LVII XO. 17,680. PORTLAND, OREGON, MONDAY, JULY 23, 1917. PRICE FIVE CENTS. STATE OF WAR IS DECLARED BY SIAM TWO SHIP MEMBERS OF KAISER CONFERS WITH REICHSTAG 11 MAY BLOCK HOOD RIVER MAN'S DAUGHTER IS LOST SUPE RVISORY PLAN XIXE STEAMERS AGGREGATING . 19,000 TONS SEIZED. SOCIALISTS, FOR FIRST TIME, MISS RUTH ARMSTRONG IS SOUGHT IX HAVANA. MET AS PARTY MEN. BRITISH REPULSE ' GERM AIR MID WILSON II1DUSIAL WAR GRIPPING SEATTLE BOARD RES GN Attempt to Reach London Fails Utterly. BOMBS DROP NEAR COAST Formation of Invaders Bro ken and British Pursue Far Out to Sea. ELEVEN PERSONS KILLED Aerial Battle at Great Eleva tion Lasts Hour London Warned of Raid. LONDON, July 22. Another day light raid, carried out over the east coast of England this morning re sulted in the repulse of about 20 German airplanes, after they had dropped a number of bombs over Felixstowe and Harwich, killing 11 persons and injuring 26. An alarm was sounded in London, but before the Germans could reach any point near the city they were attacked heavily by defending squad rons of aircraft, which caused them to beat a hasty retreat. The damage to property is insignificant. Raiders Met at Coast. An official report issued this evening says a royal flying corps patrol encountered several machines returning to their bases and brought one down at - sea, near the Belgian coast. The morning broke bright and sunny but a thick haze soon appeared. At about 8 o'clock the enemy ma chines were seen flying toward the coast. They received a hot reception and were hardly well over the coast before their formation was broken up. They dropped bombs hastily before retreating. Defensive Work Improves. Observers say that the gunfire which followed the section which went down the Essex coast reached a pitch of unusual intensity. It was the movements of this squadron which caused the firing for the first time of new warning signals in London. British planes pursued the Germans well out to sea, fighting vigorously all the time, but handicapped by the low visibility. Reports of heavy firing received from various quarters indicates that the authorities have made considerable improvement in the defenses since the last raid over London. Thousands Watch for Battle. Today's attempt lasted barely two hours. Thousands of persons turned out along the coast when the British planes went up in the hope of seeing battles in the air, but the combatants eoon disappeared in the haze. A correspondent of the Exhange Telegraph company telephoned from the Isle of Thanet that warning sig nals sounded in a number of coast towns and that a number of airplanes which were already in the air pro ceeded in the direction of the firing, followed by fighting planes. Soon the signal that the raiders had been driven off was given. Score of Machines in Flight. A correspondent of the News of the World telegraphs that seven Ger man Taubes crossed the Essex coast flying from the west at 8:45 o'clock this morning. Others followed at intervals until 9:30. In all about 20 machines passed and disappeared to ward the sea without dropping bombs, A correspondent in Essex of the Exchange Telegraph company reports that he witnessed an aerial battle that lasted almost an hour. A squadron of seven German aircraft, traveling in a wasterly direction, encountered a number of British planes, which com pelled them to turn northward. They went in this direction about half a mile and then swerved to the east. One German machine was cut off from the main body and surrounded by three British airplanes which drove it in the opposite direction until all (Concluded on P&g. 3, Column 3. All Germans and Austrlans Have Bern Arrested and Their Business Places Closed. LONDON, July 22. Slam has de clared that a state of war exists with Germany and Austria, according to a Reuter dispatch from Bangkok. Nine steamers, aggregating 19,000 tons, have been seized. The object of Slam's declaration is "to uphold the sanctity of international rights against nations showing con tempt for the principles of humanity and respect for small states. All Germans and Austrlans, the dis patch adds, have been placed under arrest and their businesses closed. Slam, "the land of the free," a king dom of Southeastern Asia, has a popu lation of about 6,000,000. Universal lia bility to military service is in force. The peace strength of the army is about 12,000 men, while the navy consists nominally of 21 vessels, all of small size. In the 19th century regular diplo matic relations were established with the United States and the European na tions. ADMIRAL KNIGHT IN JAPAN United States Thanks for Courtesies at Death of Ambassador. TOKIO, July 18. (Delayed) Ad miral Austin M. Knight, commander of the American Asiatic squadron, has arrived here for the purpose of con veying to the Japanese government the thanks of the United States for Japan's courtesy in sending home on a war ship the body of George TV. Guthrie, late Ambassador. - Post,. Wheeler, counsellor of the American Embassy, tendered Admiral Knight a reception. The Emperor will receive the Admiral next Wednesday and give a luncheon in his honor. ENGLAND SENDS THANKS American Press Assists Recruiting Campaign in America. LONDON, July 22. On behalf of the government Lord Robert Cecil, minister of blockade, asked the Associated Press today to express to the American Gov ernment and people the gratification and appreciation of the British govern ment for the reception and assistance given to the British recruiting cam paign in the United States. The results of the recruiting cam paign in the United States have been a source of satisfaction to the British government. It is likely similar re cruiting efforts will be made by France, Italy and Russia. PRESIDENT VISITS NAVY Trip Made to Hampton Roads With Mrs. Wilson. FORT MONROE. Va., July 22. Presi dent Wilson visited Hampton Roads yesterday for the first time since the United States entered the war against Germany. Accompanied by Mrs. Wilson, he ar rlvxed on the Mayflower and anchored in the Roads after an uneventful voy age down the Potomac. The President is keeping In touch with affairs at the capital by radio. SWEDEN SEIZES FOOD Cereals, Legumes and Sugar Beets Taken by Government. STOCKHOLM, July 22. The Swedish government has expropriated growing crops of all cereals, legumes and sugar beets. It has also ordered expropriated all stocks of these which may be on hand September 1 from the 1916 crops, with the exception of limited quantities in private households. PIONEER MINISTER, 92, DIES Rev. W. J. White, 49er, Passes Away In Spokane. SPOKANE, Wash., July 22. Rev. W. J. White, who went to California in 1849 and two years later entered the Methodist ministry, died here yesterday at the age of 92. For the la.-.t 35 years, until four years ago, Mr. White was engaged in missionary work in Washington and Northern Idaho. U. S. OFFICIALS VISIT CAMP War Department Men Guests of Pershing in Prance. AMERICAN TRAINING CAMP IN FRANCE, July 22. Two high officials of the United States War Department arrived at the training camp yester day. They were taken immediately on an Inspection of the camp by Major-Gener-al Slbert. MEXICO TO BORROW COIN Hundred Million Pesos to Finance New Government Bank Issue. MEXICO CITY. July 22. The House of Deputies Friday night approved a measure granting permission to Presi dent Carranza to contract a loan for 100,000,000 pesos to finance the new government bank Issue. Disgust Expressed at Lack of Action. WILSON DELAYS ACCEPTANCE President Hopes to Work Out Solution of Problem. J. B. WHITE SHIFTS VOTE Champion of Goethals' Programme Won Over to Ilair-Splitting Course of Denman, Then Becomes Critic of Delays. WASHINGTON. July 22. (Special.) Resignations of two of the five mem bers of the Shipping Board Captain John B. White, of Kansas City, and John A. Donald, of New York are In the President's hands. They have been held up temporarily, it was learned to night, at the request of the President, who hopes that he can work out a so lution to the Goethals-Denman fight which will result in harmony and ship building instead of endless delay and legal arguments while U-boats are sinking ships. The resignation of Captain White is of peculiar interest, because his has been the deciding vote on the Shipping Board in all the Denman-Goethals con troversies so far. White Shifts to Denman. Early in this week of technical hair splitting, a motion was made on the board to permit General Goethals to go ahead with his programme and discuss details later. The vote on this motion, published for the first time, was: For speed, John A. Donald and R. B. Stevens. For more technical discussion, Wil liam A. Denman (chairman), Theodore Brent and John B. White. This was the first occasion on which Captain White went flatf ootedly over Xo the Denman side. He was originally strong for General Goethals, but ap parently had not been able to stand the courting of Mr. Denman, admitted to be a pretty good politician, while General Goethals is blunt and frank. Hair-Splitting; Is Opposed. The resignation of Captain White, therefore, gives the President an op portunity to settle the Goethals-Denman controversy by appointing a man in his place who is strongly pledged one way or the other. The Donald resignation is of another sort. Captain White is believed to be much disgusted with the whole busi ness. He is a successful business man and has been distressed at the poor prog ress made by the board in getting any thing done. He is said to have "spoken out at meetings" several times during the week, remonstrating against the Concluded on Pago 2, Column 1.) HE'LL. GIT THROUGH THAT PESKY WIRE IF IT TAKES ALL SUMMER t ! 1 ; IcW ........... ......... ...... A f ' ; r Beginning of New Era in Relation of People and Rulers Seen by Berlin Papers. LONDON, July 22. According to the Berlin Vorwaerts, the Socialists who attended the conference between the Emperor and members of the Reich stag Friday evening were Frledrlch Ebert. Philip Scheldemann, Dr. Eduard David and Dr. Albert O. W. Suedeku. The Vossische Zeltung says this was the first time the Emperor ever met Socialist deputies as representatives of the Socialist party. COPENHAGEN. July 22. Emperor William's conference with the parlia mentary leaders Friday evening is treated by the German newspapers re ceived here as an earnest of his deter mination hereafter to cultivate closer relations with parliament, perhaps as the beginning of a new era of common work of the people and parliament, al though the simultaneous warning is ut tered against attaching any excessive weight to the meeting. The proceedings took the line of Informal conversations between the Emperor and members of the Reichs tag. The Emperor evidently aimed to impress his auditors with the great success of the submarine warfare. which, according to the Vossische Zeit ung, he described as working beyond all expectations and bringing near England's sure destruction. Chancellor Michaelis and other min isters and secretaries of state were present at the conference. TUNA SWAMP CANNERIES Fishermen Off Point Loma Make From $50 to $200 Each Day. SAN DIEGO. Cal.. July 22. Local fishermen are meeting with such heavy run of tuna that today for the first time the three canneries were un able to handle all of the fish brought to this port. More than 100 tons were left on lighters in the harbor for the Monday workers to handle. The fish are running in unprece dented numbers into the harbor a short distance off Point Loma and tuna boats, averaging three men to a crew, are making from ? 120 to $650 a day. It is estimated the catch since July 1 has approximated 116,000 a day in value. Local canneries are experiencing a shortage of tins. NEW CAMP AWAITS PLANS Week Is Expected to Be Busy One on Mesa Near San Diego. SAN DIEGO. Cal ..July 22. The com ing week is expected to be the busiest yet at the National Guard camp on the Linda Vista Mesa, north of this ity, where 30,000 National Guard and newly drafted soldiers of six Western states are to receive their war train ing. Detailed plans for the camp are ex pected to arrive tomorrow or Tuesday. The contractors, William Hampton & Co., of Los Angeles, have a force of men ready to start with construction work as soon as the plans are provided. Senate's Food Control Bill in Disfavor. VETO POWER MAY BE USED Senate Conferees Expected to Yield to President. FIVE STAND WITH CHIEF House Will Give XJp Some or Its Favored Plans In Orcler to Give President Author ity to Direct Food. BT CHARLES MICHELSON. (Published by arrangement with the Chlcaeo ueraia. ) WASHINGTON. July 22. (Special.) The food bill as it has gone through the Senate will never become a law. The difference between the House and Senate measures are too vast; the feeling that has been engendered is too bitter for reconciliation. The House will not accept the provi sion establishing a Congressional com mittee to revise the acts of the executive and the advisory board; to sit in the Council of National Defense and demand an explanation of contracts and an accounting of the millions as they are paid out. Veto Not X'nllkely. It is even prophesied that if the bill finally goes up to the President for signature with this provision, which practically takes the conduct of the war away from the Executive, he will veto the whole bill rather than accept what Lincoln called the bane of his life during the Civil War. There is a fair probability that in the face of the united House determination against such a committee and the positive opposition of the President, the Senate conferees will agree to eliminating this startling measure. In fact, the composition of the Senate conference committee suggests thij strongly. Senate Has Seven Conferees. As originally intended, there were to have been five conferees from each house. The Senate's representatives were to have been Gore, of Oklahoma, and Kenyon, of Iowa, both of whom voted for the Congressional War, Coun cil, and Chamberlain, Smith, of South Carolina, and Warren, of Wyoming, who stood with the President aganist it. To the five have been added two more, Hoke Smith, of Georgia, and Page, of Vermont, who were also against the board of review. So that the Senate conference delegates now number five who opposed the amend ment to two who voted for it. Ultimately, of course, there must be some agreement over the food bill, and Concluded on Page 3, Column 1.) Fear Expressed Young Woman May Have Been Victim of White Slav ers While Walking In Park. HAVANA. July 22. The Havana se cret police are searching for Miss Ruth Armstrong, formerly of Youngstown, O.. who disappeared last Monday night. Miss Armstrong came here about two weeks ago to take a position as gov erness. Just prior i her disappearance she informed the family with whom she resided that beexuse of the intense heat she was going for a walk In a park nearby. Miss Armstrong !s said to have at one time taught school in Salt Lake City and Los Angeles. TOtfNGSTOWN. Ohio.. July 22. Friends of Miss Ruth Armstrong, form erly a teacher in Munroe school here, received word today that she had dis appeared mysteriously in Havana. Cuba, and it is feared she has been kidnaped by white slave agents. Miss Armstrong taught here last term and made her home with Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Williams. At the close of the term she went to Salt Lake City to visit a brother and later went to Havana, where she had obtained a position as governness in a wealthy family. OGDEN, July 22. Miss Ruth Arm strong is a daughter of Leroy Arm strong, of Hood River, Or., formerly editor of the old Salt Lake Republican and the Ogden Examiner. She was a resident of this city several years ago and was known here as a literary worker. Paul Armstrong, of Salt Lake, an other brother, is United States Immi gration inspector. ICE FAMINE THREATENED Hospitals and III Can Get Supplies, but .Others Cannot. EUGENE, Or.. July 22. (Special.) Towns in Southern Oregon age threat ened with an Ice famine, acArding to an announcement made by manufac turers in Eugene. They have been re ceiving many orders from neighboring cities, but the supply Is Insufficient to meet the demand. Ice was being sold In Eugene yes terday only to hospitals and to fami lies where there was sickness. RAIDER CROSSING ATLANTIC British Freighter Reports Escape After Brief Chase. AN ATLANTIC PORT. July 22. The presence of a strange vessel, believed to be a German raider, due west from the Spanish coast and two-thirds of the way across the Atlantic from Europe, was reported by a British freight steamship. The ship outdistanced the supposed raider after a brief chase. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. TESTERDArJ? Maximum temperature. 7( degree; minimum. 67 degrees. TODAY'S Fair; moderate northerly winds. War. Score of German airplanes driven back from London. Page 1. Rome expects Pope to offer peace plan on war anniversary. Page 4. Socialist members of Reichstag condemn submarine warfare. Page 3. Prince Leopold advances line In Gal lcla. Page 3. Russian government pleads for loyalty of subjects. Page Germans continue furious assaults on Alsne front. Page 3. Kaiser has heart to heart talk with Reichs tag leaders. Page 1. Minister of War Kerensky leaves for Rus sian front. Page 3. Slam declares state of war exists. Page 1, Foreign. Sister of Hood River man lost In Havana. Page 1. Sunday observed at American training camp In France. Page 2. , National. Changes will be made In location of officers training camps. Page 0. Two members of shipping board resign. Page 1. President may veto food bill If Congression al supervision section remains. Page 1. XT-boat attacks on troop ships kept secret five days. Page 4. Domestic Drafted men may enlist In Army or Na tional Guard. Page 4. Billy Sunday addresses 8000 at Gladstone Chautauqua. Page 0. Sports. Pacific Coast League results: Portland Vernon 4-8: Salt Lake 6-2. Oakland J 1-4 ; San Francisco 4-1. Los Angeles ft-'J. Page 11. Farnum again wins motorcycle race at La Grande. Page 11. Pacific Indians hold practice at traps. Page 11. Mrs. W. I. Northup and Catlln "Wolfard win singles championships. Page 11. Pacific Northwest. Hood River checks forest fire at doors of ranch houses. Page 5. Oregon Synod to meet at Eugene this week to decide fate of Albany College. Page 5. Judge Gilbert promises early decision in purse seine case. Page 8. Seattle in throes of industrial revolution. Page 1. Billy Sunday talks at Chautauqua. Page 5. Portland and Vicinity. Exemption board to meet tomorrow. Page 0. Dr. Dammasch sends account of life at Fort Riley. Page 10. Army ambulance ordered by auxiliary for Third Oregon must now be paid for. Page 8. Dr. Hlnson's congregation pledges ? 10,800 for new building. Page 14. Explosions at Sharkey factory fire attributed to smoke gases. Page 14. Great-grandson of Daniel Boone drives car for Adjutant-General. Page 7. Dr. Eld ridge declares true living Is art. Page 14. Ex-reporter of The Oregonlan describes war's horrors. Page 10. Shipping rates to Orient expected to advance. Page 10. "Very Good Eddie" Is sparkling comedy. Page 4. Drafted men may select branch of service by enlisting at once. Page 9. Weather report, data and forecast. Page 12. Organized Labor Flans Fight to Finish. FEAR OF SPREAD IS FELT Agitators Would Call Out Men in Shipyards to Defeat Car Company. . j COURT HEARING IS TODAY Effort Is Being Made to Bring Strikers and Company Into Conference. SEATTLE, Wash., July 22. (Spe cial.) Seattle today is in the throes of the greatest labor upheaval in the city's history. The climax is being awaited with grave anticipation. On the horizon looms an industrial debacle that threatens to tear at the very heart of Seattle's life and para lyze the city's industries. Patriotic Service Council at Work. Following a series of conferences yesterday the King County Council of Patriotic Service addressed to the company a request that it meet with three representatives of the Tacoma Streetcar Men's Union and three mem bers of the Seattle Trades and Labor Council. It is expected that the com pany will make a reply to this request early tomorrow. Tomorrow also the strike will g-: into court, the hearing in the city's application for the appointment of a receiver being set for 9:30 o'clock Monday morning. There are many strikes, including the timber-workers, shingle-weavers, express wagon drivers, junkmen and even policemen, but above all stand the motormen, conductors and other employes of the Puget Sound Trac tion, Light & Power Company, the storm center of Seattle for years. One thousand, six hundred carmen are out on strike. Every car is idle. General Strike Is Favored. The Building Trades Council, re garded as the most conservative la bor organization of the city, has voted to sanction a general strike of its 31 affiliated unions in sympathy with the traction company employes unless the streetcar company yields to the demands of the strikers on the question of the union. This has opened the way for a prob able strike of all of the 11,000 workers in Seattle's gigantic shipbuilding in dustry, which has a monthly payroll of $1,300,000. The crux of the situation is this: Carmen Insist Upon Union. The carmen, with a new but strong organization, demand that the com pany recognize their right to organize. They are willing to arbitrate all dif ferences regarding wages and con ditions but they insist upon the fore most demand. President A. W. Leonard, of the traction company, firmly refuses to recognize the carmen's union, in linn with the general policy of the Stone & Webster interests. He is prepared to fight to a finish. "We must win," say the carmen's leaders. Labor Prepares for Fight. "We will maintain our same stand," stoutly declares Leonard. Organized labor is preparing to back the striking carmen and force the traction company to yield. In the meantime the city, through Corporation Counsel Hugh M. Cald well, acting under instructions from the city council, has applied to the Superior Court for a receiver to "operate all lines under the orders of the court until such time as the com pany is able to establish that it can operate its cars itself." Judge Boyd J. Tallman has issued an alternative writ of mandate making this order. The company was given twenty-four hours to resume service. Attempt Made to Run Friday. Friday afternoon, two hours before the expiration of the time allowed by the court, Manager A. L. Kempster, of the traction company, ordered 10 cars to leave the main car barn, which (Concluded on Page 4. Column 2.) 1G: 1 07.2