Morning Oregonian., August 15, 1916, Image 1

VOL,. TI-iI. NO. 17,388.
PORTLAND, OREGON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 15, 1916.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
IG.A.B. SEATS HELD
CHINESE TROOPS
ATTACK JAPANESE
INSANE FUGITIVE
TERRORIZES SALEM
MADE ON
NORTHWEST. CROP
ESTIMATES GROW
AT ICE HIPPODROME
FOR GARS
BARRACKS BESIEGED AXD RE
NEIGHBORHOOD JOINS POLICE
IN HUNT FOR WILD MAN.
W HEAT AND APPLE YIELDS EX
INFORCEMENTS ARE SENT.
CEED EARLY FIGURES.
0
DEMAND
HUGHES EXPOSES
LAW'S HIIESS
RAILROAD
Oil STRIKE ISSUE
Both Sides Are Heard at
White House.
COMPROMISE IS POSSIBLE
Impression Grows That Arbi
tration in Some Form Will
Be Agreed Upon.
LEADERS KEEP SILENCE
President Merely Listens, Of
fering No Suggestions of
, Settlement Basis.
' WASHINGTON, Aug. 14. Presi
dent Wilson conferred today with both
parties to the threatened country-wide
railway strike and tonight it appeared
that sufficient foundation had been
laid to furnish a working basis for a
settlement of the differences of the
employes and employers. The Presi
dent will meet both sides again to
morrow. At the conclusian of today's confer
ences the President issued this state
ment: "I have met both sides and have
gone over the vase with the utmost
frankness. I shall not be able to judge
until tomorrow whether we have found
a feasible basis for settlement."
Men Demand Counter Proposal.
The foremost questions are what
shall be arbitrated, if arbitration is to
be resorted to, and what form of arbi
tration shall be adopted. Representa
tives of the employes maintain that
their demand for an eight-hour day
and time and a half for overtime is the
only concrete proposition under discus
sion. They insisted to the President in
their conference today that the -railroads
make some definite counter pro
posal. If the railroads submitted some pro
posed form of settlement, they said,
they would be ready to discuss nego
tiations further.
Contingent Proposals Rejected.
The employes are understood to be
ready to consent to the principle of ar
bitration if the contingent proposals
of the managers, which the men con
tend involve rights they have won in
30 years' effort, are eliminated from
consideration, and if arbitration is
conducted by a board on which all four
brotherhoods are represented.
Immediately after learning the em
ployes position, the President sum
moned the committee of managers
and held a long conference with them.
They left the White House to confer
among themselves throughout the
night, if necessary, and the general
understanding was that they would
discuss the advisabilitv of withdraw-
their "contingency" proposals and
submitting a "proposition without
strings" as demanded by the men.
Compromise Seems Pending.
While representatives or trie em
ployes insisted that they had not yet
agreed to arbitrate any feature of
their differences, there was a growing
impression that arbitration, or some
form of compromise, would be agreed
upon. At no time, it was said, did the
representatives of the men indicate
that unless their terms were granted
unqualifiedly they would go on strike.
Both sides refused absolutely to dis
cuss their meeting with the President
or venture any forecast on the prob
able outcome of the negotiations, but
leaders of the two factions were opti
mistic tonight that a strike would be
averted.
President Merely Listens.
The President, it was declared, made
no compromise propositions to either
side today. He merely listened to the
representatives of the employes and
then talked with the managers and
suggested that some concrete working
basis be agreed upon before proceed
ing further. Indicative of his desire
to learn what results come from the
railroad managers meeting tonight
before taking any further step, he ar
ranged another meeting with them for
Jf o'clock tomorrow morning, and a
conference with the representatives of
the employes for 3 o'clock tomorrow.
Tomorrow's cabinet meeting has
been canceled so the President can de
vote most of his time to the railroad
problem. He canceled several engage-
Concluded oa l'ajc Column .
Officer Killed and 17 Men of Gar
rison Killed or Wounded In
Clash In Northern China.
TOKIO, Aug. 14- Chinese troops
havo attacked the Japanese garrison
at Chengchiatun, between Mukden and
Chaoyangfu, and have killed or wounded
17 Japanese soldiers and killed one of
ficer. - According to official advices
from Chengchiatun, the Japanese bar
racks now is being besieged by the
Chinese soldiers.
Reinforcements are being rushed to
the beleaguered garrison from the Jap
anese forces stationed at Kaiyuan and
Sudinghai. The fighting resulted from
the arrest of a Japanese merchant.
Chengchiatun, where a Japanese gar
rison is reported besieged by Chinese
troops, is near the line of the Harbln-
Changchung railway, reported sold by
the Japanese to Russia under the recent
Japanese-Russian convention.
Chengchiatun also is in the neigh
borhood of the Sungari River, on which
Japanese rights are said to have been
recognized by Russia, after a dispute
since the signing of the Portsmouth
treaty.
The last clash reported between the
Japanese and the Chinese was in Amoy,
in Southern Cina, where on May 31
Chinese and Japanese police met in a
serious riot.
BRITISH DESTROYER SUNK
Berlin Also Asserts Destruction of
15 Allies' Ships by U-Boat.
BERLIN, via London, Aug. 14. A
German submarine torpedoed the Brit
ish torpedo-boat destroyer Lassoo Sun
day morning, according to an Admir
alty statement iesued today.
It is announced also that between
August 2 and 10 five British and
French steamers and 10 British and
French sailing craft were sent to th
bottom by. a. German submarine.
LONDON. Aug. 14. The British torpedo-boat
destroyer Lassoo sank Sun
day off the Dutch coast, having struck
a mine or been torpedoed. Six of the
crew are missing.
ITALIAN BOYS ON DUTY
Youths to Guard Railway Stations
Until School Opens.
ROME, via Paris. Aug. 14. Italy's
Boy Scouts are to have their share In
the war. The Minister of "War has
called out all the boys belonging to
the organization for service until
school opens in October.
The scouts will be divided into two
classes. Boys over 15, with their
parents' permission, will do duty in
the war zone as guards at railroad sta
tions and depots. Those younger will
be enrolled In the territorial service to
be stationed at hospitals, mobilization
centers, munition factories, aeroplane
stations and hangars.
CONVICT HIRED TO WIFE
Manslaughter Sentence to Be Served
in Custody of Spouse.
WENTWORTH. N. C, Aug. 14. Un
der a verdict returned here today J. W.
Slaughter, ex-police chief at Draper.
N. C, probably will be turned over to
his wife as a convict laborer while he
is serving a two-year sentence for man
slaughter. The decree stipulates that
the state shall have the privilege of
hiring him during his sentence, and
Mrs. Slaughter asked for the contract.
Slaughter also was sentenced to pay
a fine of $400 to Mrs. Thomas Weaver,
widow of the man he was charged with
killing.
CAPTAIN FIGHTS FOR TITLE
Ex-Army Officer in Idaho Wants It
on Primary Ballot.
BOISE. Idaho, Aug. 14. (Special.)
Although the Attorney-General's de
partment held that he has no right
to have the title "Captain" appear be
fore his name on the primary election
ballot. Captain E. G. Davis, a Repub
lican Gubernatorial candidate, has ap
plied to the Supreme Court for a writ
to compel the Secretary of State to so
certify his name.
The title was Capain Davis when he
was a regular Army officer, he having
graduated from West Point.
LIQUOR DESTRUCTION ENDS
Alabamans Get 1VrJt After $125,000
Worth Is Poured Out.
GIRARD, Ala., Aug. 14. Destruction
of whisky and beer which had been
seized from alleged violators of the
prohibition law ceased here today on
order of Circuit Judge Alston, when
counsel for the owners filed bond for
appeal to he state Supreme Court from
Judge Alston's former decision ordering
the liquor's destruction. .
It is estimated that J125.000 worth
has been poured out by the Sheriff In
the last few days.
MILK PRICE UP!N GOTHAM
Advance Made Because of Increase
in Cost of Bottles.
NEW YORK, Aug. 14. The price of
milk by the pint was raised 1 cent here
today, retailers asserting the advance
was necessary owing to the increased
cost of supplies, principally bottles.
The price of milk by the quart re
mains unchanged.
Small Exception Made
for Hughes Speech.
BLIND ALSO ARE FAVORED
All Others Except Officials to
Be Seated as They Come.-
ACOUSTICS ARE IMPROVED
Speaking Platform Is Moved to West
End After Tests, so Hearing
Will Be Equally Good From
Any Purt of House.
An exception has been made from
the announced ruling that no seats
would be reserved for Charles Evans
Hughes' speech at the Ice Palace, for
merly the Ice Hippodrome, Twentieth
and Marshall streets, tomorrow night.
Seats will be reserved a whole sec
tion of 800 of them for veterans of
the Grand Army of the Republic and
members of the Women's Relief Corps
and Ladies of the Grand Army.
For the purpose of identification,
members of these Grand Army or
ganizations should wear their badges.
The seats reserved for them are right
up close to the platform from which
Mr. Hughes Is to speak, where it will
be easy for them to see and hear.
Few Seats Held for Blind.
Another small section near the front
will be reserved by Colonel David M.
Dunne, marshal of the evening and in
personal charge of the seating arrange
ments, for persons who are blind.
But otherwise there is not to be a
reserved seat in the huge auditorium.
The rule for occupancy of the 9477 seats
will be "first come, first served."
The Ice Palace will open at C o'clock,
two hours before Mr. Hughes is to
speak.
After the most thorough tests yes
terday afternoon of the acoustic prop
erties of the Ice Palace, it was definite
ly settled that the platform from which
Mr. Hughes speaks will be at the west
end of the big auditorium.
Speaking ow Heard Clearly.
This is the end opposite that from
which Rev. Billy Sunday spoke last
Tuesday. At that time many persons
seated behind him couldn't hear and.
due partly to the shifting of the crowd
the acbustics were not of the best.
These difficulties have been over
come. The flooring of the entire
skating arena, covering an area 313
feet long by 85 feet wide, with two
inch plank, has wonderfully improved
the acoustic properties of the building,
it was shown by yesterday's tests.
These tests' were conducted in the
presence of the committee on arrange
ments for Mr. Hughes' stay while here,
of which Ralph E. Williams, Republi-
4 Concluded on Page 6. Column 1.)
1 jl
Women in District Become Hysteri
cal and Fear Is Expressed for
Life of Wife at Mllwaukie. '
SALEM, Or.. Aug. 15. (Special.)
An escaped maniac from the state
asylum struck terror in the residents
of North Salem. particularly along
Marquam avenue late last night. The
whole neighborhood Joined the police
in the search for the violently Insane
John Thompson, who evaded asylum
attaches yesterday, and continued the
futile hunt until long after midnight.
The women were terror - stricken
through fear that the man will com
mit some serious act before he is ap
prehended.
. Thompson appeared at the residence
of Dr. E. E. Fisher on Marquam ave
nue tonight and pleaded for food and
drink. Knowing him. Dr. Fisher im
mediately telephoned the police after
refusing to comply with Thompson's
request. Falling to get what be de
manded, the fugitive became abusive
and threatened so that Dr. Fisher be
came thoroughly alarmed, being aware
of- the man's violent condition.
Immediately upon the appearance of
the police Thompson escaped to a dark
place secluded by trees. It was only
a few minutes before the whole neigh
borhood became apprised of the men
ace and it was not long until the police
were augmented in their search by a
good-sized crowd. Most of the women
were too scared or hysterical to ven
ture away from their homes, but a
few of the braver ones Joined in the
man hunt.
Thompson was arrested in Portland
in 1914 and committed to the state
asylum for the insane.
Portland authorities were notified
immediately his escape became known,
as it was feared that he would start
immedr -;ly for Portland or Milwaukie
with ' -e intent of killing his wife,
who lives at the latter place.
FOREST-FIRE LOSS TRIVIAL
Only One Blaze Jn District Does
Damage of $100.
With the end of the normal fire sea
son but a little more than three weeks
away, local officials of the United
States Forestry Service are elated with
the small fire losses that have been
sustained in the National forests in
this district this season.
According to a cumulative report
Just issued by the department there
had been 249 fires to August 10 since
the first of the year.
It has taken but $337.90 to fight
these fires, only one of which has re
suited in loss toaexceed $100. Two only
involved loss to exceed $10.
TURKISH REPLY REJECTED
Ambassador Elkus to Continue Ef
forts in Behalf of Syrians.
WASHINGTON. Aug. 14. New repre
sentations to Turkey in behalf of
starving Syrians will be taken to the
Porte by Abram I. Elkus. the new
American Ambassador, who received
his final instructions today from Presi
dent Wilson and Secretary Lansing be
fore departing for Constantinople.
The United States does not acoept as
sufficient Turkey's statement that the
Syrian harvest is ample.
RECKLESS. EXTRAVAGANT, INEFFICIENT!
State Gives Order to
Southern Pacific.
SHORTAGE MUST BE RELIEVED
Company Lacks 975 Cars to
Fill Immediate Orders.
SHIPPERS FACE DISASTER
Public Service Commission Says
Carrier Is Derelict and In
sists Needed Facilities Be
Supplied at Once.
DArS DEVELOPMENTS IX CAR
SHORTAGK SITUATION.
Oregon car shortage on South
ern Pacific leaps to 975.
Shippers, facing ruin, appeal
to Public Commission for relief.
Commission sharply demands
that Southern Pacific furnish
more cars and lay blame on
railway for situation.
SALEif, Or, Aug. 14. (Special.)
Convinced that business Interests In
Oregon tributary to the Southern Pa
cific Company face disaster and ulti
mate bankruptcy unless immediate
measures to relieve the growing freight
car shortage are adopted, the Oregon
Public Service Commission today de
manded that the company furnish
needed facilities to Oregon producers
and shippers.
The demand was made In a formal
communication to General Manager
Scott, of the Southern Pacific, in which
the company was notified that the Com
mission held it largely to blame for
the present ominous situation existing
in respect to the dearth of freight cars.
The Commission announced that it
would hold the Southern Pacifio Com
pany to strict accountability for any
loss to shippers as a result of the com
pany's negligence in supplying cars, as
far as is legally possible.
Western Oracoa Hard Hit.
From every part of the state touched
by the Southern Pacific's lines, the
Commission is in receipt of complaints
from shippers to the effect that their
inability to obtain cars threatens them
with disaster.
Telegraphic advices received by the
Commission .Indicate that nowhere In
the entire West Is the comparative car
shortage as great as on the Southern
Pacific lines in Oregon. Washington,
Idaho and other states in the West re
port no shortage of cars.
Reports to the Commission today
showed that exclusive of the Klamath
Falls branch, the Southern Pacific is
now 92S cars short in Oregon-. The esti
mated shortage on the Klamath Falls
(Concluded on Pass 2. column 4.)
Oregon Grain in Better Condition
Than That of Other States At
erase Yield S3 Bushels to Acre.
OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash
ington, Aug. 14. The wheat and apple
crop of the Pacific Northwest will be
materially larger than heretofore es
timated, according to the crop reporter
of the Department of Agriculture Is
sued today.
The latest estimate Indicates that
the Winter wheat crop of Oregon will
reach 12,489.000 bushels and that of
Washington 16.66.000 bushels, while
the Idaho crop is estimated at S.25S.O0O
busVls. The average yield per acre
is given as 23 bushels in Oregon and
24 In Washington and Idaho. Oregon
wheat is in better condition than that
of the other states, being listed at 97.
while in Washington it Is 95 and in
Idaho 92.
The Spring wheat yield of Oregon, it
is KHid. will rach 4.458.000 bushels,
'.hat f Washington 17.048.000 bushels
an. Idaho 6.409i'jO busheU.
Oregon apple crop this year Is now
estimated at 1,206,000 barrels or nearly
200.000 barrels more than was esti
mated a month ago. The Washington
apple crop Is estimated at 2.659.000
barrels and that of Idaho at 223.000
tarrels. Estimate is made by barrels
because of the prevalence of the bar
rel pack in other states.
RAIN FALLS IN BATTLE AREA
First Downpour Since July 8 Brings
Relief to Troops.
WITH THE BRITISH ARMY IN
FRANCE, via London, Aug 14. For
the first time since July 8 a heavy
xaln fell in the battle area today, break
ing the long drought and one of the
longest heat waves in recent years.
The dry bottom trenches are running
with water and thousands of men in
the open were drenched, but even at
the expense of being slopping wet the
cool air was a welcome change.
AIRMEN BOMBARD RHEIMS
Civil Hospital Destroyed, Six Per
sons Killed, Says Paris.
PARIS, Aug. 14. There were vigor
ous artillery duels south of the Somrae
and on the right bank of the Meuse
today, according to the French efllcial
communication Issued tonight.
A German aeroplane dropped bombs
on Rhelms. while German batteries
shelled various quarters of that city,
destroying the civil hospital and kill
ing six persons, the statement adds.
ITALY LOSES DREADNOUGHT
400 of Crew Drowned When War
ship Blows Up in Harbor.
PARIS. Aug. 15. The Italian dread
nought Leonardo da Vinci caught fire
and blew up in the harbor of Tranto.
Italy, and 400 of her crew were
drowned, says a Turin dispatch to the
Petit Journal.
The date of the disaster is given
only as a day in August.
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Weather.
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, S2
oeh'rrci; minimum, oi of reei.
TODAY '5 Fair; northwesterly winds.
Politic.
Mr Hughes addresses women at Spokane.
Pace 3.
Seats will be held only for G. A. R. and
blind at Hushes speech. Fw l.
Hushes exposes law's weakness. Pas 1.
War.
British Cabinet derides against amend Ins
voting law. Fag .
Austrian continue retreat before Russians.
Page 4.
Official reports. Pa ge 4.
Mexlra, v '
Battery boys enjoy a lm. Page 4.
Troop A la paid. Page 3.
Foreign.
Chlneee troops attack Japanese garrison la
Northern China. Pace I.
National.
President hears both aides In railroad con
troversy. Page 1.
British explain delays to neutral mat la
Pase 4.
Hearing now In progress may result In sus
pension of rale increases. Page 5.
Will Wilson use big stick T is asked Page .
Northwest wheat and apple crops will ex
ceed estimates.. Page 1.
Senate caucus approves revenue bill.
Page . .
Brandels declines to serve on Mexican Joint
commission. Page
Domestic.
Confwlon of murder, counted on to save
condemned man. Is repudiated. Page 2.
8 port.
St. Ivmis Bfwni exercise options on Soth-
oron and Vaughn. Pace 12.
Red t-aten bv Senators, while Indians
defeat Tlsera. Pag
Multnomah Club arrange to play football
gam with Olympic Club. Pace 13.
Miss Agnes Ford, of (Seattle, make beft
score at G earn art golf tourney. Page 1
Xer bunting aeason opena today. Page 10.
Pacific North ret.
Public Fervice Commission makes demand
that Southern Pacific supply cars. Page
J.
Salem terrorised by escaped maniac Page 1.
Cetnmerrial and) Marine.
Wheat buylnr In Northwest checked by
Eastern slump. Pag 1 .
Five-cent dxsp in Chicago wheat price.
fag l J.
Wall street not affected by threatened rail
road strtkv Pag l ..
Strung demand for hogs at higher prices
at local a .-na. . rage 11.
Union m n will handle non-union loaded
vessel in han Francisco. Pag 111.
Bark Callao back In port, crew having re-
lusea outy. t axe iu
Portland and Vicinity.
Editor My rick's visit held Important to
local farm Mn bank question. Pace is.
Balloons to bea tickets to "Civilisation" at
Helllg. Paat .
Port lan der prtxes experience at Plattaburg
training cam. Page 11.
larnt k.'d t" Hock School Board t
krpfn children liome on Llur day,
when school liens. Page 7.
VcaUtr rxport data and Xurcca-sL. Page It.
'Anti-Dumping Clause1 De
clared Ineffective.
NO PROTECTION IS GIVEN
Country Prey to Industrial
Warfare When Peace Is
Restored in Europe.
REAL REMEDY REJECTED
Democrats Scored for Fail
ure to Adopt Counter
vailing Tarif Plan.
SPOKANE, Wash., Aug. 14.
Charles E. Hughes tonight told an
audience in Spokane's Stadium that
the proposed Democratic legislation
against the dumping of foreign-made
goods in this country after the war
was not worth the paper on which it
was written.
"This piece of legislation." Mr.
Hughes said, "would be about as avail
able as the piece of paper I hold in
my hand, in effect, in protecting the
American people in the economic war
that will come when peace comes to
Europe."
Mr. Hughes read a synopsis of the
proposed legislation. The Democratic
party, he said, was not equal to the
task of protecting American industries
by a tariff.
Anti-Dumping Clause Criticised.
"If you want to see what they are
equal to," he said, "read the anti
dumping clause they put in the reve
nue bilL
"I shall not read it in full. You
would need to sit down and put a
towel around your head, get down
close to it and study it, read it over
again and again, and then you would
be puzzled to know what it 'meant. If
you found out what it meant you
would agree with mehat it was ob
viously ineffective and would not
work.
"Now, what would a prosetuting at
torney have to prove as a violation
of this act?" Mr. Hughes continued
after reading the synopsis.
Extensive Proof Required.
"He has got to prove that this act
:f commonly and systematically bring
ing goods into this country, contrary
to the prohibition, is being violated.
He has got to prove that such act is
done with the intent to destroy or
injure any industry of the United
States. If he doesn't prove that he has
got to prove that it is for the purpose
of preventing the establishment of an
industry in the United States or for
the purpose of restraining any part
of the commerce of the United States.
"Why, that is a piece of legislation
that would be about as available as
that piece of paper in my hand, in
effect, in protecting the American peo
ple in this economic war.
Real Remedy Rejected.
"Now, there was a remedy, a coun
tervailing duty which was proposed,
but our friends were so strong to their
traditions of tariff for revenue only
that they would have none of it.
"I am desirous that this matter of
the tariff should be attended to with
out abuse. I do not propose simply
because I am a candidate for office
to seek office under false pretenses.
I am a candidate and a good Repub
lican, but if I am elected I shall en
deavor to the best of my ability to see
that principle applied for the public
good and not for private gain."
Mr. Hughes devoted his attention
almost exclusively at the night meet
ing here to a discussion of the tariff.
He declared that the Democratic party
claimed credit for "the great prosper
ity that the country is enjoying to
day." People' Memories Long.
"They seemed to think," he said,
"that the American people are so lack
ing in intelligence that they do not
know the sources of that prosperity.
They seemed to think that the Ameri
can people have short memories. I
think it will be found on election day
that the American people have ood
memories. .
"Our opponents proposed, four years
ago, to reduce the cost of living. They
said that what was necessary was to
reduce the tariff and, that done, down
tCubCludt! ou I'ago 4. CuiuaiU 2.