Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937, August 26, 1916, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextTOL,. VL.I-XO. 17,398. PORTLAND, OREGON, SATURDAY. AUGUST 20. 1916. PRICE FIVE CENTS. STRIKE CRISIS IS EXPECTED TODAY Men Say They Will.Wait No Longer Than Tonight. ROADS HAVE NEW PROPOSAL Arbitration of Wage Issue Is Asked, With Retroactive ; Feature Promised. - MEN ARE STILL HOSTILE Fact That : Offer. : Has '. Been Made,' However,; Viewed as Optimistic Sign. WASHINGTON, Aug. 25. A crisis tomorrow in the threatened Nation wide railroad - strike appeared un avoidable tonight. ' Heads of the four -railroad. brother hoods went to the White House today and informed President Wilson that under no circumstances could they hold their committee of 640 liere after tomorrow night! The men, they said, were demanding that they obtain some definite - answer from the railroad heads on President Wilson's plan, al ready accepted by them, or that they be permitted to go home and prepare for a strike. Everything was declared to be in readiness for a walkout when ever the committee of 640 gave the word. . .. Appointment Made for Noon Today. The President is understood to have given the men no definite promise as to what he would do. "He made an appointment with them for noon to morrow, however, and shortly after . they 'left the White House he sent for three rf the railroad executives to advise them of what had happened. The railroad presidents and man agers met tonight and agreed to a counter proposal, to be submitted to the President today. This holds to the demand for arbitration, to which the employes say they are unalterably op posed, and emphasizes the difference between an eight-hour work day and an eight-hour day as a basis for pay. Railroads Offer Formulated. The plan proposes: "That an eight-hour day is not di rectly connected with the matter at issue and that there is a difference between an actual eight-hour and an eight-hour day as a basis for pay; "That the questions of increases of wages- are indisputably questions which should be settled by arbitra tion ; "That the present demands of the trainmen be submitted to arbitration by the Interstate Commerce Commis sion or some body to be created by the President, or in some other way; "That if the arbitrating board finds " wage increases should be granted, their findings will be retroactive, and the increases will take effect from the time- the arbitration begins; Contingent Fund Proposed. "That a fund shall be created by the railroads to provide for this contin gency, the Interstate Commerce Com mission to keep the accounts that will be necessary, and the arrangement to continue in force for a time not yet determined upon, the men agreeing that during the period of arbitration there shall be no further demands nor any attempt to strike." A draft of this report was submit ted tonight by the committee of eight presidents, who have been constantly at work upon its various phases ftr a week. There was some discussion, but only qne vote was taken, and l-y it the 60 presidents and the managers approved the draft. It was said to night this will be the final report of the executives. Issue Declared Up to Men. "It puts the issue squarely up to the men," was the way one official expressed it. The crisis in the situation is ex pected by noon tomorrow, when the President has an engagement to see the brotherhood leaders.- Some of the executives said that while the proposal would not give the more than 20 per cent increase in wages provided for in effect in Pres ident Wilston's plan, it probably would give an increase of more than 10 per cent. The proposal -in its tentative form covered three typewritten pages. Concluded u P IS, -Coluxoa a. 1 , WINDOW IS BROKEN AND BRIDE STOLEN AYEDDING I?f SPOKANE BALKS IRATE FATHEU OF GIRI). .! Lament Couple Elope in Only Avail able Auto, bnt Are to Return ; When Parent : Cools. SPOKANE.. Wash., Aug-.. 25. (Spe cial.) Miss Hazel Strachan, " IS. " and Harry De Long-, 31, 'were married In Spokane last night .at the- home of C. C. Elliott, 415 Baldwin avenue, after being detained for ' four .hours by the Spokane police, ' following- an . exciting elopement, from Laraont, Wash., where they ran away . from the bride's Irate father. '' " ' The -youth broke J a window In the house ; to pain entrance, and lowered his future bride-, to the ground' by a rope, later jumping from the second story window himself. 'The 'bride's father took after them, but, according to Mr. De Long, he had arranged for the only automobile available in La mont. and the angry parent was left, while Ee Long and Miss Strachan drove to Davenport, where they took the. train for Spokane. ". They were met at thevdepot by police officers, the father having telephoned to. Sheriff Cole, of-Colfax, that the girl was but 13. The girl's father Is I -XX. Strachan. a wealthy farmer, and the boy's father is & mining man of Kellogg. "We Intend to - make our home in Spokane for the present. ; but will .re turn to Lamont later, after . Hazel's father - cools down," the - bridegroom said. - . r CIVILIANS. COMITJG , HOME New. Orleans. Expected to Leave San ' Diego : September 2. ' - SAN DIEGO. -Cal.. Aug. 25. The cruiser' New ' Orleans will . leave . San Diego September- 2. for .San. Francisqq, arriving at the. latter., port September 5. Two-days will be passed at,' San Francisco,-and the ship, with 63 Pacific Northwest civilian volunteers on board, will arrive' at Asforla about September 10, and at Seattle September'' 12.' -' The cruiser South- Dakota will ar rive here tomorrow or Sunday, -and all civilian volunteers on board' the New Orleans will sail on the South Dakota on an ocean trip- for instruction in .big gun practice. - . . HARRISBURG MAN RESCUED Ben Tomlin Near-Victim of Drown ' lng While Bathing in Willamette. V HARRISBTJRd. Or.. Aug. - 25 (Spe cial.) tBen Tomlin, .Junior member of the local hardware firm of Tomlin & Son, was nearly drowned in the - Wil lamette River here yesterday - while in bathing. . Chester Bennett, a local. boy and an ex member of the United States Navy, and Arthur McMahan resuscitated him after life apparently was extinct. GOVERNOR OF OREGON OFFICIATES AT WEDDING OF MISS COOS BAY AND MR. EUGENE LANE AT BIG RAILROAD COMPLETION CELEBRATION AT NORTH BEND, OR, BEFORE CROWD OF 10,000 PERSONS. - ' f B - -L -- f . ' . - ' Z t v.. i I S- 1 J - -tetr I .-.' 3. t S: Esjgi ,, . ... HAlinUTH WEDUIXU C1KK P&EK.NTEU TO COITLE AFTER CnRKMOJfV pr.RSO GB-I I'HOTOORAPH ARK:- GOVERMIR JiMES . MITUYCOMBE, U1RKV WATKI3II, OF GIGE5E (EIGEAK IAMS), A1 UlSt GUDl B RODDY (lUSS COOS BAY), 3LUUUF1ELD, OB. " .- ' .' ' 1 - ' " . BRITISH ABE JOINING LINES WITH ALLIES Drive Gains Ground on East, and North. GERMANS ATTACK ST. MIHIEL New Assault May Have Effect ori'Verdun Situation- DOWNHILL SLOPE REACHED London Expects Progress to Be More Rapid From Now On Battle Is Raging With Fury Unprec edented During War.. t ;BT ARTHUR S. DRAPER.. (War correspondent of the New York Trib une. By special c&ble.) LONDON, Aug. 25. (Special.) The British drove .forward their wedge east ward and northward today, in the first movement closing on Ginchy antit Gull lemont. and in the second advancing on Klers. ' - ' This advance Joins up their line with the French, who scored an important success yesterday in the capture of Maurepas -.and in their push beyond. Joffre's troops today consolidated their gains, while the artillery kept pound ing at the Qerman line. - Germans Aim Bfew Blow. The Germans, as If " to divert the French' from" the Somme attack, aimed a new blow at the famous St. Mlhiel salient, which projects Into the French line southeast of Verdun. They suc ceeded In gaining a hold on the allied trenches here, but were driven out again in a counter attack.' Whether this assault Is the forerun ner of others on a. wider front and of greater violence is not certain. - But a German drive here would bring French forces from the front north of "Verdun and so v make feasible a renewal of the Crown Prince's attack on the fort ress. ' Flanking Move Made Possible. British gains advanced their line in the eastern and northern edges of the Delville wood and brought them near Ginchy, which with GulIIemont form the strongest link in the German second-system In this sector. In an effort to repel this threat the Germans opened a counter attack today, but were driven back with heavy losses. Along the northern side of the wedge the British advanced their line several hundred yards on each side of the road running out of Longueval toward Flers. (Concluded on Page 2, Column 2.) .,:.2tV .-.. . Mf -.'.. i sr 'if t. . ... : - i t ' ' 5 . rft': 'J .2 INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 92 degrees; minimum, 65 decrees. , . TODAY'S Fair, not so warm, winds mostly westerly. Polities- ' Mr. Hughes emphasizes need of tariff to protect -Industry after Kuropean - wax. Pago 3. , War. . , Fleet of Zeppelins drop 100 bombs on Eng land, killing eight persons and wounding maty.. Page 5. Blow dealt to- Turks in Armenia. ' Pago 6. Official reports. Plsa.S.. British are Joining llui filth allies. Pago 1. National.. Free trade leanings hotly resented by former Progressive in Senate. Page 2. Conjrress looks forward to adjournment Fri day. -Page 2. ,. Hypothetical fleet within striking distance of Sandy Hook. Pago, 3. . Strike crisis may-come today. Page 1. Domestic- - -Search for aged recluse's' vanishing millions goes on. Page 6. , " Archbishop Spalding : dies from effects ' ef heat. . Page 3. . Georgia milliia Captain killed ty woman. Page 4. ' . . Sport. - Paclflo Coast League ' results: Portland , 8. - Salt Lake 1: Oakland 6. Los Anfceles 4; ' Vernon 5. San Prancisco 4. Pag 12. American League . pennant race stirs. Page 12. EapwAnia, "dark horse," wins main event on Cleveland track.' Fag 12. Braves beat ' Cubs. 1 to 0. Page 12. Johnston and Griffin. California tennis stars, easy winners at Southampton. Page 13. Thirty-day horse race meet proposed for Portland. Page 13. . Weatover Tennis Clitb ' wins Murraymead honors. Page 13. Pacific Northwest.' ' , Captain K. P. Wllilams.' mustering officer, departs on leave. " Page 2. Spokane-wedding follows exciting elopement. Page X. t Centralis rallies to' Captain's aid. Page 4. All Coos unites to make guests Jolly. Page 1. Oregon City pipeline breaks and four towns - are waterless. Page - 1. Camp girls start Red- Cross course at Van couver. Page -1$. Spokane will-' be enriched -20,oOO,00 by - wheat sales. . Page 16. Commercial-and -Marine. Buying by exporters cauises sharp advance In wheat at -Chicago, page 17. Wall street stocks lower, en profit-taking and bear pressure. Page 17. New owners of Yale and Harvard to have Portland, office.' Page 16. Wheat advances 2 cents. Page 17, Portland and Vicinity. George L. Story, Portland pioneer, dies at age of 83. - Page 11. ... City arranges to-meet its payroll. -Page IV. Miss Sue Schacht Portland's choice for queen of Astoria Regatta. . Page 0. Henry Hayes, 12, and Jesse Goodwin, 10. drown in river. Page 1. Portland man lost two days on Mount Hood Is rescued. Page 7. West -Coast ' lumbermen appeal to railway heads at Washington. Page 6. Dry forces - merge to carry on campaign. Page 18. . Mr. Teal return from rate hearing. Page 6. G. A. R. party 'is off tor Kansas City en campment. Page 11. .... Weather report.' data and forecast.' Page IT. ENTIRE MAIL, CONFISCATED Scandinavia r-America it Liner Held Up by British at Kirkwall. I , - . . ' BERLIN. Aug. 25. CBy Wireless to Sayvllle. N. Y.) The "entire American mall on the Scandinavian-American liner United States was confiscated by the British authorities at . Kirkwa.lL says an Overseas News Agency an nouncement loony. The United States .arrived at Copen hagen on August 18 from New York. 1 - r r 4 K. I 1 BOYS PLAYING ON RAFT ARE DROWNED Henry Hayes, 1 2; Jesse Goodwin, 10, Victims. RELATIVES SEE TRAGEDY Chums Slip Into River While in Friendly Scuffle. BODIES ARE RECOVERED Although Lads Are Taken From Wa ter ' In Short Time, Efforts- to Resuscitate Them by Aid of Pulruotor Fail. Henry Hayes, aged. 13 years, of 4Si Twenty-second street North, and his chum, Jesse ("Buster") Goodwin, aged 10," of 624 Guild street.' were drowned in a backwater of the Willamette River at, the foot of Sherlock avenue, near the -North Pacific Lumber Com pany's mill, at -4 P. M. yesterday. -The 'boys were playing on a plank raft floating 25 feet from .the beach, and fell into the water while scuffling. Leonard' Hayes. 8-year-old brother of Henry, and Mrs. E. L. Goodwin, grand mother of Jesse, were on the bank when the accident occurred, and ran scream ing for help. The boys were taken from the water after 10 minutes, and physicians - worked over them unsuc cessfully with pulmoters for more than two hours. Boys Go to Chapman School. Henry. Hayes Is the son of Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Hayes. -Jesse Goodwin's parents are Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Good win. The latter boy was a nephew of Karl R. Goodwin, of The Oregonlan staff. Both boys attended the Chap man : SchooL r They played , together constantly. Gilbert Noonan, aged IS years, was the first to be attracted by Leonard's cries for help. The . lad ran to the beach and swam to the raft. He dived and located the bodies, which later were re-covered by two men. The police were i notified, and Dr. W. H. Skene-and an interne from the Emergency Hospital hastened ' to the scene with first aid apparatus. Harbor Patrolman Pre tin and Engineer Jaeckel arrived a few minutes-later with the harbor patrol - boat. . The-body' of the Goodwin boy was recovered a few minutes before that of his companion, and the efforts to re suscitate him were' continued after the Hayes boy had been pronounced dead. Meanwhile, the fathers of both lads - (Concluded on Page 2, Column 8.) V: ,' . '. - J .;. - t . ) 'A. rf" - ' ry Uil H "f "i WATER FAILS IN 4 T0WNS IN VALLEY OREGON' CITY PIPE LINE DRY WITH THERMOMETER AT 9 2. West Linn, Willamette and Bolton Arc Others Affected Big Reser voir and Mains Are Empty. OREGON CITY. Or.. Aug. 25. (Spe cial.) With the thermometer register ing 93 degrees today, Oregon City, West Linn, Willamette and Bolton are with out water because of a break In the Pipeline from the south fork of the Clackamas. -The 1.000,000-gallon municipal reser voir has been drained of its supply and the-city .' elevator, which uses water power, has stopped. - -Early in the day a thresher crossed over an air valve- box. , breaking the pipe line, and causing a small flood, that was quickly checked. The break was' repaired within a few minutes. Later,, however, the flow into the reser voir suddenly stopped, the level cf water dropped rapidly, and tonight even the supply lh the mains had been exhausted. The trouble was located tonight near the intake in the headwaters of the Clackamas. Harold Rands, engineer, and Fred McCausland, water superin tendent, will remain in the woods until the damage is repaired. Ice cream stands where loganberry Juice - and' near beer are sold did a thriving business today. DEUTSCHLAND TO RETURN Frelsht Xow Being Received for Second Voyage to America. BERLIN. Aug. 25 (By Wireless to Sayvllle, N. Y.) Preparations for an other voyage of the submarine Deutsch land to the United States are wll under .way. Freight is being received for this trip. The amount, of ..cargo now ready is larger than had been expected, the Overseas New Agency says. All the members of the crew have - expressed readiness to sign for the next voyage. ROUMANIAN ARMY ON LINE Russians Also Reported Concentrat ing on Danube.' iwauun, Aug.- jo. ine .Russians have concentrated a large number of troops on the Roumanian frontier and on the banks of the. Russian Danube with which to Invade Bulgaria by way of Dubrudja, according to a Budapest dispatch to the Mornipg Post, quoting the A zest. The Azest also reports powerful Rou manian forces gathered on the Lower Danube and the Pruth. Serbs Take Many Prisoners. PARIS. Aug. 25. The Serbians have made appreciable progress on the left wing of the Saloniki front, and have taken - several hundred . prisoners, ac cording to the official statement issued by the War Office tonight. r ' -St .' : .1 I -ft ASM. t ; . .. i ' w. l I ' 111 i I I ALL COOS UNITES TO MAKE GUESTS JOLLY Visitors Scatter to All Points of Interest. CLAMBAKE IS ONE BIG HIT Boats, Special Trains and Au tomobiles Are Chartered. GLAD HAND' EVER PRESENT Cities Proudly Display Their Bona tiful Resources, Which Are In dicated by Substantial Ira ; provements Vnder Way. BY SHAD O. ERANTZ. MA.KSHFIELD. Or.. Aus;.' 23. (Spe-. clal.) Every community, and. It seems, almost every resident of Coos County tolay took a hand In the current rail road celebration. . This was Coos County day. and the whole county fr,om the 10-mile region on the rorth to the foot of the Co qui'.le Valley on the south Joined in the welcome to thd visitors and shared in the Joy of entertaining them. Parties Scatter to Hair Towns. Early this morning' sundry parties of pleasure seekers started from Marsh -field ard North Bend. They scattered in almost every direction, traveling by special train, by steamer or by auto mobile. An organized force of Portland peo ple went by train to Coquille. thence by chattered steamer to Bandon, where a special programme had been ar langed. ' The Jtosarian. band and most of the Royal Tlosarlans went with this party. Clam Bake Is Enjoyed. Thousands of others Journeyed to Charleston Bay. where one of the most unique entertainments of the celebra tion was provided. The principal attrac tion there was a clam bake offered un der the Joint auspices of the North Bend and Marshfieid committees. Every visitor, was served with a generous portion of delicious clams, caught fresh, in the waters, of . the nearby bay. A band concert, dancing and sports - cf various kinds completed the festivities. By far the most elaborate . lndivldua I hospitality was that extended by Louis J. Simpson, at his magnificent country home. Shore Acres, near North Bend. Shore . Acres is , omi of the kind of places that you read about or see once in a while in the moving: pictures. They have them," too. along the Hud son River in New York, or fronting the Lake Shore boulevard in Chicago, but always , and forever they have a high, stone fence around them with forbidding-looking guards at the entrance. Place la Open to Pnblle. The Simpson place is Just like that, excepting the high fence and the guards. The grounds- are wide open ail the time and people are constantly welcome to enter and enjoy them selves. Today even the whole house was open. Mr. and Mrs. Simpson were there with open-handed hospitality, characteristic of them, to receive the folks. Refreshments of various kinds were dispensed freely. The house rests on a high cliff directly overlooking the ocean. Surrounding it is an expansive garden filled with rare and beautiful flowers. People were permitted to roam through it at will and many cf them did. Mr. Simpson, by the way. Is the same fellow who gave a park containing nearly 100 acres and about 1100,000 worth of fir. trees to the city, of North Bend the other nighty ' Glad Hisd Ever Prfseat. Had there not been so many other attractions up and down the Coos County shore line today it is probable that v.sltors would have lingered longer at the Simpson place, but they , didn't want to discriminate. Wherever the excursionists wan dered they were met with the same glad hand of welcome. The people of Coquille were out bright and early this morning to meet the special train party that tarried there awhile on the way down the river to Bandon. Many Improvements Made. The Portland party stopped at Co quille on the way back from Bandon tonight, and partook of the lavish feast that had been prepared for them. .The meal was spread In picnic fashion un der a grove of myrtle trees near the town. More than S00 persons Joined in the festivities. Welcoming speeches were delivered by the city and county officials. O. M. Clark responded for the Portland delegation. Coquille is providing many substan tial improvements for itself this Sum mer. ' including a handsome addition to the Court House. It already has a nice layout of paved streets. Myrtle Point likewise took pride fn displaying its resources and Its Indus tries. Myrtle Point Is in the center of a productive dairy and agricultural country, and shows It. Quite a few people Journyed on down to Powers, a new town sprung up by reason of the Smith-Powers log ging operations, where the same gen erous provision had been made to re ceive them. Some of the Portland and Eugene people visited also at Good will's resort, at Allagheny. at Golden, Silver Falls and other points along the upper branches of the Coquille. Lakeside, a picturesque resort In the " (Concluded on Ps(' Column i-j.