Page 8 tJIffrUWIN V.11 X HilN 1 UrifiafcJ. fKlLJHI, JUL. I Z, 1 VI TAV D!! I !C I im IrtA UlLL 10 EXPECTED TO GIVE 5 BILLION DOLLARS WASHINGTON, July 24. Secretary McAdoo today prepared new war es timates for congress very much In ex cess of those already presented, and which will necessitate raising reve nue not contempalted when the sen ate finance committee revised the war tax bill. The bill probably will be further revised. The government, basing an estimate on the needs of the array and navy, wants the war tax bill to authorize an additional $5,000,000,000. Secretary McAdoo will appear be fore the finance committee late today to explain the treasury's needs, based on the requirements of the army and navy. Before Secretary McAdoo appeared before the finance committee it was understood that the 15,000,000,800 rep resented the estimates of the war and navy departments, and that he would propose an additional billion dollars to be raised by taxation and seek au thority tor an additional credit of $2,500,000,000. Whether the latter sum was to be in bonds or certificates of Indebtedness was not disclosed. While no official intimation of the source of the new revenue was given before Secretary McAdoo went be fore the finance committee, there were Indications that it would be drawn principally from excess profits and estate taxes, probably some increases in income taxes and minor increases in miscellaneous taxes. Official fig ures are said to show that excess prof its In the United States are now at the rate of $5,000,000,000 a year. PREPARE 10 SUMMON OP NATION TO WASHINGTON, July 24. Master lists of the draft the official and last word assigning every man of the 10, 000,000 to his place in the national army, were going forward in the mails today to the 455 local boards. They supersede all hitherto published lists and rectify all errors. The lists have been prepared with the greatest care and safeguards against errors. Printed by the most expert and trusted men in the govern ment printing office, they have been proof-read three times. In order that each district board may be assured of getting a list in the mails, two copies are being mailed to each one in one mail and one in another. The theory of this practice is that if one list goes astray, the other surely will reach its destination. The summoning of the men of the first increment before the local boards will quickly follow the receipt of the official master lists. Until the men are summoned, they are free to vol unteer. Provost Marshal General Crowder has ruled that posting at the exemp tion headquarters of the list of men ordered to appear constitutes legal no tification, It therefore is Incumbent Upon all registered men to learn their numbers at once and to see that the board headquarters is watched when the list is posted. Those ordered up also will be notified by mail, but the period allowed for appearance will count from the posting of the list OF ELIGIBLE FOR DRAFT NEW YORK, Jujy 24. Navy ra cruiting stations here were ordered to accept no more enlistments for naval service from men of draft age whose numbers were drawn last Fri day. A hundred men who applied be fore noon were rejected. The order was issued by (Lieutenant Commander John Grady, inspector of the eastern division of the navy recruiting sta tion. FINANCES OF PAST E T WASHINGTON, July 24 The net balance in the general fund of the treasury on June 30, the last day of the fiscal year of 1917, was $1,034,086, 250, It was announced today. Total receipts for the year were $3,475,159, 934. against $838,403,969 for 1916. Expenditures for the fiscal year of 1917 were $2,651,477,300, against $759, 666,155 in 1916. The excess of receipts over expenditures was $828,682,635, against $78,737,810 in 1916. GIRLS REFM.ACE MEN. ; OMAHA.July 25. Twenty-five girls, garbed in overalls, went to work to day in the Burlington railroad shops at Havelock, Neb. The management had been unable to secure men. WAD NATIVE OF THIS CITY KILLED BY FALL AT GASTON PORTLAND, Or., July 15. Millard F. Bird, 26$ Stanton street, was in stantly killed by a fall from a silo scaffold near Gaston, Tuesday after noon. Mr. Bird was born in Oregon City 62 years ago, and has lived in the state most of the time since. He is survived by the widow, Mrs. Lydla Bird, and five children. Mrs. B. B. Thomas, Ray J. Bird, R, L. Bird, Ho bert Bird and Maxine Bird. His three sister are: Mrs. N. N. Robbins of Or egon City, Mrs. Rachel Ford of Sher wood and Mrs. Elizabeth Corby of Salem. His brother is William Bird of Wtlhoit, Or. The funeral services will be at Finley's undertaking par lors at 1 o'clock Thursday afternoon. Rev. J. C. Ghormley of the Rodney avenue Christian church will deliver the funeral sermon. The body will be cremated at the Sellwood cremator ium. NET IS SPREAD BY L KANSAS CITY. Mo, July 23. While chemists are seeking to iden tity germs found with the tentanus bacilli inoculated in cultures on court plasters scattered broacast through Western Kansas by German agents, federal agents today are spreading a net which Is expected to result in ad ditional arrests. Three Germans are now in custody. State officials also are making every effort to learn in what additional dis tricts the malignant plasters were dis tributed in order to forestall unnec essary contagion. The court plasters, investigators have found, are marked N. Shure & Co., Chicago. Inquiry of Nathan Shure & Co., today established the tact that the Chicago firm merely acts as middlemen for Bauer & Black. G. T. Bauer, president of Bauer ft Black, stated to federal investigators that If court plasters from his firm had been used to spread disease they had been doctored after leaving the factory. "It certainly is possible that plas ters can be used to spread disease," Black told special agents. "Wherever the plaster is spread over an open wound or even scratch it gives the germ an opportunity to get a foothold in the blood of the intended victim." There are three sheets of plaster in each package, Fred Robertson, district attorney said. When sent out from the factory there are 50 sheets to the package. The peddlers sold or gave away the reduced packets. , The discovery of the plot was made by two western Kansas sheriffs, whose names the federal officials refuse to reveal The officers became suspic ious wmen the peddlers, who spoke with a German accent, generously left samples where they could not sell their wares. SE .G. IE EUGENE, Or., July 23. Mrs. Rose Pearl Huntley, wife of Captain M. B, Huntley, of the 3d company, coast ar tillery, O. N. G., of this city, commit ted suicide at her home yesterday by hanging herself by a rope to the raft era in her attic. She was despondent over her husband's contemplated de parture for the war and she told him that she was afraid she was losing her mind. Besides her husband she leaves two daughters, Esther and Myrtle. She was 41 years of age. !AKE PARIS, July 23. Accompanied by two of his staff officers Major-General Pershing left Paris today for a two day visit at the British front as the guest of Field Marshal Haig. He will study the British army and Its work ing organization. ESCAPED FROM OREGON PEN; IS IN GALVIN JAIL CENTRALIA, Wash., July 23. Earl Mashborn, an escaped convict from the Oregon State penitentiary, was ar rested at Galvin, four miles west of Centralla, today, by Sheriff John Ber ry. Mashborn has been working in the camp of the Lincoln Creek Lum ber company. All of the company's loggers struck this morning and Mash burn was taken into custody as he was coming out of the woods. Mash born was sentenced from Portland on an arson charge. He escaped under heavy fire after serving five weeks of his sentence. lER'S "F GETS 30 DAYS FOR HIS CONSIDERATION SAN FRANCISCO, July 24. John Gordan was convicted Monday in Judge Oppenheim's court of aiding a soldier friend to obtain liquor Satur day night by lending htm a suit of civilian clothes. According to the po lice, Gordan and the soldier subse quently indulged In a drinking bout at Gordan's home. Gordan's wife made a plea tor leniency, but the court sen tenced him to 30 days in the county Jail. WASHINGTON, July 24. It Is not unlawful to give men in uniform li quor, according to the interpretation of the law by Assistant United States Attorney Ralph Given, who Monday refused to prosecute persons arrested for "treating" soldiers. He cited, the wording of the law, which is: "It shall be unlawful to sell any in toxicating liquor, including beer, ale or wine, to any member of the military forces while in uniform." T A TO BE FOREST GROVE, Or., Jury 25. For est fires have not been bad in Wash ington county as yet, fires at Cochran and Cherry Grove in slashings hav ing been promptly brought under con trol. Allen Rice, in charge of the Washington county district, urges ev eryone to be careful with fires in the timber and to report any tire that is discovered to bim by telephone. He lives in Forest Grove. Warden Rice has made the following appointments of assistant wardens: D. C. Zenor, Clear Water creek; W. R. Hayden, upper Gales creek; Fay Meade, Green Mountains; William Wier O. & C. grant lands, East Dairy section and the following volunteer assistants who will serve without pay in connection with their regular work: Charles Meachem, Hillsboro route 1; John Friday. Banks; J. H. Hoffman, Gaston; A. Peters, Sherwood; Grant Mann, Cornelius; Alfred Pieren, Hills boro, route 1; John Schmeltzer; Sher wood, route 3; Charles O'Neal, Dilley. ;T ARTILLERY IS CALLED TO EUGENE .S. EUGENE, Or., July 25. Three nun dred men of the Coast Artillery corps O. N. G., assembled in Eugene Tues day night, ready tor the federal call Those from outside the city will sleep in the armory, but those who reside here will sleep at home, arising at 5:30 to be ready for reveille at 5:45 a. m. Over 100 more men are in the county; those of the Sixth company at Forest Grove having asembled in that city. The headquarters staff and Second and Third companies are located in Eugene. The Second company is largely made up of students of -the University of Oregon, and all of them arrived from their homes in different parts of Oregon and Washington. The different companies will be transported to Fort Stevens, says Colo nel C. C. Hammond, commanding. BURTON BROWN OF CANBY, KILLS SELF ON DUTY MED FORD, Or., juty 23. Private Burton T. Brown, of Company I, 3rd Oregon Infantry, which has been sta tioned in Medford on duty for sev eral months, committed suicide in the armory at 5:30 a. m. this morning by shooting himself In the head with his rifle. Death was instantaneous. No cause is known for the self de struction except that he had com plained of not having been able to sleep for several days. Brown's home was in Canby, Oregon. Burton T. Brown, who committed sui cide at Medford Monday morning was the son of Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Brown, whose home is about five miles from Canby. He enlisted in the Oregon National Guard several months ago and was 19 years of age. He was a member of the 1916 graduating class of the Can by high school. No motive for his self-inflicted death could be ascertained at Canby where the testimony of all seems to agree that he was of good reputation and well liked. His brother, Donald Brown, left this morning for Medford to bring the body to the dead boy's former home. An other brother, Clifford, is stationed at Goat Island, having enlisted at about the same time. ANOTHER NAVAL' RECRUIT Chas. E. Wells, of this city, enlisted in the navy Monday. He left the same night for Goat Island. ALLIES CAN ONLY KEEP WASHINGTON, July 25. No at tempt is made hero to minimize the seriousness of the situation In the war theatres in Europe. The United States is In the war and will go through with it; but any hope of a short struggle is gone with the apparent complete col lapse of the Russian war machlue. The development was not unexpect ed by many arm yofficer. When the offensive of July 1 was started by the Russian forces, the most frequent com ment heard here was that it was prob ably the dying kick of the old Rus sian machine. For the United States the Russian collapse may have an immediate and direct bearing. It will, if the Ger man general staff presses its advan tage, release additional German forces to bolster up the western front, where American troops are to be engaged. The German line in the west has not been seriously Impaired at sny point is the belief of officials here. It was noted. In fact, that the one strategic advantage gained in recent fighting was gained by the Germans. Many officers here believe that when a small sector of the BritUh line in Belgium was overwhelmed the Ger mans improved their weakest front materially. That view Is based on opinions that the only hope of decisive attainments for the allies in the west lies in rolling up the German right flank where it reaches the sea in Bel gium. If that could be done, it is argued that the U-boat bases could be stamped out and the only offensive instrument of the Germans be eliminated entirely or made Ineffective. It would require combined army and navy operations, for it would be nec esary to force a landing behind the German line and force the whole right flank back from the sea as a result The price of such a victory against the U-boats and German shore batter ies probably would be appalling and there is nothing to indicate that the effort is being seriously considered Reports from France, official and unofficial so far as known, give no cheering picture of what must be done. There appears no doubt that the al lied forces can stand against any force that Germany can bring against it. Even. the Russian disaster does not affect the situation. But the necessary strength for a successful offensive will take time, and ample sea transporta tion facilities of the United States is to furnish the needed surplus of men, airplanes, munitions and food. The transportation problems before the United States, both on land and sea, are constantly increasing in scope. It now seems certain that whole rail road systems will have to be set up in France to give the American line the flow of war materials and men that it must have to press home an attack. There is an old military rule that a fortified position cannot be taken by direct attack, but must be turned or Isolated. Some observers here say the allied offensive has consisted only of direct attacks against fortifications stronger than any fort of former days. In effect, a fortified belt from the sea to the Swiss border that is perhaps more than 100 miles wide. It is the belief of some military men here that no breach can be made for many months through the German line of sufficient width to permit such operations In the rear as would force a rolling up of the entire German front. Admitting all these points, however, there is no sign of discouragement among American officials. President Wilson's declaration that the nation, not merely an army, must be ready to -fight, Ib being carried out determined ly and apparently with confidence that in time men and supplies can be got to France in sufficient force to make certain the result. STILL CHANCE FOR SAN FRANCISCO, July 25. Being drawn for the first quota of the na tional army does not prevent enroll ment in the second officers' reserve corps training camp, according to or ders received by the training camp officers. In case a drafted man is seeking admission to the second Pre sidio camp, he is directed to take his examinations for the reserve corps in the regular order and if selected for the training camp, his release from the draft armv mn be secured, ac cording: to Colonel M. W. Rowell, In charge of the training camp prepara tions. ADvS POLICE ARE TO BE RIOTS IN SEATTLE SEATTLE, Wash., July 25. A con ference which may settle the strike of 1600 employes of the Puget Sound Traction, Light ft Power Comapuy ami 300 employes of the Tacoma Railway ft Power Company will be held here tomorrow, when officials of the two companies will meet with five repre sentatives from the strikers of ouch city. SEATTLE. Wash.. July 25. Mayor Gill said today he was considering is suing an order temporarily prohibiting the operation of screened streetcars over the Second avenue and other downtown routes of the Puget Sound Traction, Light ft Power Oompany. whose 1700 conductors and motormen struck eight days ago for recognition of their union and for higher wages. The company has Imported 200 strikebreakers from New York City and has announced intention of oper ating cars tomorrow. Another tralnload of strikebreakers is expected to arrive within 24 hours. Mayor GUI said the operation of screened cars without passengers could not be regarded as bona tide effort to restore streetcar service. The mayor said It would not be proper to place policemen on cars sent to the congested districts of Seattle tor no other reason than to provide an ex cuse tor rioting or invite bloodshed. It the company should attempt to re sume service on all its Hues, then it would be the city's duty to furnish protection to the cars. Labor union leaders declare that any attempt by the Puget Sound Traction Light & Power Company to operate cars with strikebreakers, who arrived from the east last night, will cause the light and power departments of the company to be declared unfair Im mediately. The Metal Trades council held a meeting last night and arranged for the calling out of Its men In the shipyards it unfair light or power Is used. ALL ALIENS EXCEPT T INTO THE U.S. ARMY WASHINGTON. July 25 Congress it is indicated, is going to order the drafting of all aliens of military age, except subjects of the central powers, unless the state department, which has taken a hand In the question, can furnish a very convincing argument to the contrary. Polls have disclosed an overwhelm lng sentiment in favor of making for eigners living in the United States, ea caplng military service in their na tlve lands, bear their share of the draft burden here. Particularly is this sentiment strong among the represen tatives and senators from the more densely populated centers where alien exemption will cause the draft bur den to fall heavily on the native born American population. The Chamberlain resolution, declar ing all aliens except thoiie of the cen tral powers, subject to the draft on the same terms as American citizens un less otherwise provided by treaty with the nation of which they are subjects is now before the senate military af fairs committee. COAST MEN ML GO TO WASHINGTON TO SAN FRANCISCO, July 25 Pacific coast shipping men, representing the maritime committees ot chambers of commerce, met today in the Merchants Exchange building and appointed a committee to attend the conference called for August 1 in Washington by the secretary of commerce and labor to discuss the shipping problems cre ated by the war. J. C. Rohtfs, marine superintendent of the Standard Oil company, and tire chairman of the committee of 16 named to assist the government ship ping program, presided. The follow ing were named to attend the con ference: J. S. Gibson, Seattle, chairman, C W. Cooks, American-Hawaiian Steam ship company, R. H. Swayne of Swayne & Hoyt, and C. P. Converse, ot the Chamber ot Commerce. PORTLAND, Or., July 25. W. P. La Roche is Portland's representative at the meeting. W. D. B. Dodson, ex ecutive secretary of the local cham ber of commerce, waB elected to at tend, but owing to other matters had to get Mr. LaRoche to go in his place. NO MARRIAGE LICEN3E8 Even the drafting of the federal army failed to stir the matrimonial powers of Clackamas county and the office of County Clerk Iva M. Harring ton closed tonight without having is sued a single marriage license this week. Last week only three were issued. THREE STUDENT OFFICERS ARE DISCHARGED BAN FRANCISCO, ,-ruly 25. Three members of the reserve officers' train ing uump at the Presidio have been dlKinlsocd n the result of the first ouforoeiutMit of strict disciplinary measures lu the eamp. They are Wil liam H. West, former secret service operative tor the United States gov ernment; Harry Squires and Alfred L. llrown. formerly enlisted men in the United States army, All wore mem bers of the Sixth eompnny. The stu dent officers were placed under ur rest In the downtown district Friday night for overstaying their Uhiyb. They were adjudged guilty and dis missed from eamp Saturday, after un Inquiry conducted by Major H, C. Whitehead and Major W S. Vulen tluo. BAKER. Or., July 26. Public Ser vice Commissioner II. H. Corey who arrived . Tuesday to Investigate the wreck at Pleasant Valley in which three were injured Monday morning, returned here at night and said that, contrary to the original report, the accident was not due to failure of air brakes, but was caused, apparently, by a mistake in a meet order or an Im proper order, the switchman ot the Overland limited, not having time to throw the switch to the siding before the freight passed. "I cannot determine the responsi bility until I get a copy of the meet order," said the commissioner, as he left for Portland. The freight was moving only five miles an hour, and the passenger was almost at a stand still when the collision occurred. The action of the engineers on the two engines of the pnssenger and on the freight train In jamming their brakes when they saw a collision was una voidable certainly minimized Its ef forts and undoubtedly saved a heavy loss of life. The loss of three engines at a time is a hard blow to the rail road, when all available motive power is badly needed. I cannot make a full report on the wreck until orders to both conductors are received." James Gooch, fireman, W. I). Mc Allister, hrakeman, and George Mar tin, a tramp, all injured In the wreck, will recover, according to hospital au thorities. McAllister will be able to leave the hospital Wednesday and the others in a week. THREAT TO BURN COUNTY, SIGNED I. W. W., IS FO.UND GRANTS PASS, Or.tJuly 25. The little daughter ot F. B. De Orasse ot 8elma. 20 miles south of this city, brought word to ber father Monday that men were prowling around the lower side ot bis field. Mr. DcGrasse left to investigate and saw three men hurrying down the road. Returning to the house he found on his mailbox a note reading: "Be ware; we are going to burn up Jose phlne county." and signed "I. W. W." The note caused some excitement In the district in view of the hard fight which is being made against for est fires, in which nearly the entire male population Is engaged. It is reported that while none of the fires have as yet assumed large proportions because ot unusual vigilance, the fight ers have no sooner got one blaze un der control than two or three others spring up. Sheriff Lewis has recently organ ized a home guard company ot 60 men subject to call on Just such an emergency as the Selma report Indi cates may exist there. The temper of the citizens of this district Is such that it is predicted any I. W. W. caught and known to have bee nresponsible for wanton destruc tion ot property will meet with rough treatment. FAMOUS PAIR OF ANARCHISTS ARE FREE ON BAIL NEW YORK, July 23. Emma Oold man and Alexander Berkman, anar chists, were ordered released from prison on $25,000 ball each by United States Supreme Court Justice Brand els, when he granted a writ of error In their cases in Washington yester day, according to a statement Issued here by attorneys for the defendants. Ball for Louis Kramer and Morris Becker, whose cases were appealed with those of Miss Goldman and Bork man, was fixed at 110,000 each, with an additional bond of $2000 for Kra mer, who refpsed to register under the selective draft law, says the state ment. According to the statement, the grounds alleged in the assignment of errors were that no evidence ot con spiracy had been proved and that the entire conscription law is unconsti tutional. Mosler sawmill to reopen with 22000 a month payroll at Portland and vicinity. LAST CHAPTER OF IS WRITTEN BY SYNOD EUGENE, Or,, July 24. The pass ing ot Albany College was forecast at the afternoon session ot the Oregon Presbyterian Synod here today, al though a final vote on the proposal to consolidate the institution with the Congregational College at Finest Grove was tlelityed Hinlll tomorrow afternoon at 1:30 o'clock, when it will come up as a special order ot business. Mr. Elliott declured that In the opin ion of the members ot the committee, the doctrines ot the Presbyterian and Congregational churches are so near ly alike that tho consolidation should not be opposed for denomlnatUmul reasons, He offered In evidence cop ies of Sunday School papers on which the lessons and reading mutter were almost the sumo, but the heading of one read "Congregational" and the other "Presbyterian." He said that If the two churches could feed the suine doctrines to the boys and girls In the Sunday school, the committee did not believe that It would bo harm ful to educate Presbyterians and Con gregatlonal young people In the same school. Dr. French's statement was followed by a majority report of the Synod committee on merger, which favored the consolidation and the removal of the Albany Institution to Forest Grove. A minority report opposing the mer ger was signed by a single member of the committee, C. C. Bryant, of Al bany. The majority report was read by Rev. Carl H. Elliott, ot Salem. The other members of the committee were: Iter. John M. Skinner, of Portland; Rev. J, L, Landsborough, of Orogon City; William McLeod, of Portland; Earl C. Bronaugh. ot Portland, and John Straub, of Eugene. The first blow to the Albany Insti tution came when Dr. Calvin II. French, of New York, secretary of the College Board ' of the Presbyterian General Assembly, announced that the college board would not spend another cent at Albany and recommended that the Albany school be consolidated with the Forest Grove school as the only way to get any salvage out of the sit uation. He quoted figures compiled by his organization to show that the state ot Oregon Is overcrowded with church colleges. THREE ARE SERIOUSLY BAKER, Or., July 23. Three men were seriously hurt and a number of passengers were somewhat shaken up aud bruised this morning when west bound O.-W. R. ft N. passenger train No. 17 collided with an extra east bound freight train near Pleasant Val ley. The most seriously injured, brought to Baker hospital, are W.D. Mc Allister, hrakeman, and James Gocb, fireman on the freight, and George Martin, tramp. McAllister is Injured about the head and may lose his right eye. Gooch may lose his right leg. Martin is badly crushed about the middle of the body and his legs, and may die. First reports were that a number of passengers had been killed. Physi cians from this city were rushed to the wreck. The extra eaM bound friegbt became I uncontrollable through failure of air brakes to work on the down grade east of Pleasant Valley and crashed Into the passenger, which was going Into Hlndmun siding under orders to allow the extra to pass. The extra was In charge of Conductor O'Brien and Engineer J. K. Charlton. Wreckers have been called from Lu Grande and Huntington. Probably the tracks will not be cleared until late this afternoon, The collision hap pened at end of a deep cut, which is piled practically full of wreckage. "THE MASSES" IS ALLOWED TO GO THRU MAILS NEW YORK, July 25-Severely crit icising "The Musses," but ruling that mutter objected to by the postofflce department did not ' advocate resist ance to the selective draft law, Judge Hand, In federal district court, today granted The Miihhos Publishing com pany a temporary Injunction rotitraln Ins Postmaster Hatten from barring the AugUBt Issue of the publication from tho malls. LAWYER WOULD AID I. W. W., BUT IS DRIVEN OUT KLAMATH FALLS, July 23. Dan Powers, a Portland attorney who came here to assist the I. W. W., was taken by citizens lust night to the lake and threatened with a ducking. He begged to be released and was given his choice of being thrown in Jail or loavlng the county. He chose to leave and was taken to Ashland