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PORTLAND, OREGON, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1916. PRICE FIVE CENTS. ELEPHANT CljlMn GREECE ASSENTS TO ULllllU J ppiirRir nr ai i iro GONGRESSTOTRYTO AMEND 8-HOUR LAW JAPAN PRESENTS 13 ZEPPELINS FIRST TROOPS ARE DUE AT 10 TONIGHT A. B. DEMANDS ON CHINA ;I2 BELIEVED Un I LU I FULL, CO-OPERATION TJXDER EFFECT IS TO EXTINGUISH RULE HEADQUARTERS STAFF AND 4 COMPANIES NEAR CITY. i COALITION CABINET LIKELY. IN INNER MONGOLIA. VOL.. VXIw NO. 17,403. RAID RICHARDSON CASTAWAYS BRITAIN RETURN DROWNED K Shackleton Rescues 22 Marooned Men. ALL ARE IN GOOD CONDITION Tale of Daring Dash Into Ice Packs Recalled. BITTER WEATHER BRAVED First Relief Expedition Is Driven Back and Ship Sent Out by Brit ish Government Is Still Somewhere In Antarctic. FUNTAS ARENAS, Chile. Sept. S. (Special.) Lieutenant Sir Ernest II. Shackleton returned here today with the members of his Antarctic expedi tion whom he rescued and who had been marooned on Elephant Island. The men are all in good condition. It was on April 24 that Shackleton et out from Elephant Island In a 22- foot boat, fitted with sledge runners, leaving: 22 men of his expedition be hind him. The men he left behind had five weeks provisions, their only shelter was an ice cave; night and day sales swept the bleak shores, so that any one leaving the shelter had to crawl on hands and knees. Volunteers Brave Dangers Tet those who were to stay thought theirs would be the longer lives. Be fore the boat's crew was a stretch of 750 miles of Antarctic Ocean, on which cruised great ice packs. It seemed im possible that the fragile craft should survive the voyage. It was done. Heavy with Ice and filled with haggard men, so frost bitten that few of them could crawl up the beach, Shackleton's boat made the whaling station at South Georgia. As soon as he had reached civilization the commander set about the rescue of his comrades. As the weeks passed and ship after ship was driven back crippled, Shackle- ton's fears grew. Inspired by hope, he believed his companions might have survived, but they had every reason to think their commander's frail boat had been swamped or crushed. No word could reach them that rescue parties were on the way. Relief Expedition Driven Back. The hrst relief expedition set out under Captain Thorns in a whaler on May 26, even before Shackleton had reached the Falkland Islands. The bitter weather which had wrecked the original expedition and sent the seals migrating northward in vast herds still prevailed. Battered by tremendous seas and racked by ice. Captain Thorns con sidered himself lucky to get his sturdy vessel back Into port. Shackleton himself took charge of the next succeeding attempts. Despite the war the British govern ment found time to remember the 22 Englishmen whose house was an ice cave on a desolate and unvisited island. On August 11 the Admiralty sent out the relief ship Discovery from Plym outh Sound. She has not reported since. The marooned men were members of the expedition, on board the explorer's ship. Endurance, which sank in deep Mater last November. The men drifted with the great ice pack until April when they sighted what was called land but which proved to be a shore of glacial ice. Here the party built huts and prepared for a stay. Sir Ernest Shackleton and five vol unteers set out for help and succeeded in reaching South Georgia, from where they took passage for the Falkland Islands. Three attempts have since been made under Shackleton's direction to rescue the men. Uruguay gave the explorer the use of one vessel and Chile more recently another. The men were left on April 24 last with full rations for only five weeks. It is presumed, however, that they were able to kill fowls and seals suf- ficient to complete their rations for the time since then. LOST HUNTER IS FOUND Searcli Party of Y. M. . A. Boys Organized at La Grande. LA GRANDE. Or.. Sept. 3. (Special.) Secretary King, of the Young Men's Christian Association, and a group of boys from that Institution left today for the wilds back of Mount Emily In search of a son of Charles Teal, who has not returned from a hunting trip, The boy is two days overdue. When the rescue party reached the woods the boy had been found. NAVAL STUDENTS ON WAY Cruiser New Orleans Begins Voyage Home With Northern Men. SAN DIEGO, Sept. 3. Civilian naval students from the Northern Pacific Coast were en route north today on the cruiser New Orleans via San Francisco, where shore leave will be granted Tues day morning. The New Orleans departed yesterday, following general inspection by the commanding officer. Elections to Be Postponed Indefi nitelyBritain and France Will Utilize Piraeus as Base. ATHENS. Sept. 2, via London,- Sept. 4. A policy of full co-operation by Greece with the entente allies under a coalition cabinet, as a preliminary to active intervention, has apparently been decided on. The new plan in volves Indefinite postponement of the elections and the continuance of Zaimis as premier, with the support of Veni zelos. a The Greek government, it is under stood, has decided to agree to demands of Great Britain and France for full control of the posts and telegraphs, to prevent information from reaching their enemies and to the expulsion of Baron von Schenk and 60 of his ad herents who have been working in the Interests of the Teutons. There are Indications that the allies will also ask to be allowed to use Pireaus as a base for the supplying of the western wing of the army in the Balkans and that this will be per mitted. LONDON. Sept 4. A dispatch to the Times from Athens says that King Constantine has informed the entente allied ministers that as a result of the entry of Roumania in the war he disposed to reconsider the Greek policy. MR. HUGHES ENTERS SOUTH Republican Nominee to Speak In Nashville, Tenn., Tonight. ST. LOUIS, Sept. S. Charles E. Hughes spent Sunday resting in St. Louis and left tonight for Nashville, Tenn. He is due to reach there tomor row morning and will address a night meeting. It will be his first speech in a Southern city since the nomina tion. Mr. Hughes had luncheon and dinner with William R. Willcox, Republican National chairman. The nominee de voted some time today to a perusal of President Wilson's speech of accept ance and conferred with Chairman Willcox over portions of it. NEW TORK, Sept. 3. Charles E. Hughes, Republican nominee for Pres ident, will not attenaj formal lunch eons on campaign trips hereafter ac cording to annonuncement at Republi can National headquarters here to night. Affairs of that kind on the nom inee's Western trip proved too great a strain, it was said. PARATYPHOID BREAKS OUT Troops on Border Also Are Afflicted ' With Dysentery. MISSION, Tex., Sept. 3. Owing to the appearance of three cases of para typhoid in the National Guard camp here, the Second and Sixty-Ninth New York Infantry regiments were hurried ly moved today to Sterling's ranch, a few miles north of Mission, where new camps will be pitched. The troops were moved during a drenching rain. EL PASO, Tex., Sept. 3. Dysentery- has made its appearance anion? the troops on xne ooraer, according to a general order posted in the local camps tonight, which warns the men against drinking river and well water and eating uncooked fruits and green vege tables. The men are told that the city water, which is piped to the camps, is uninfected. HOP HARVEST THREATENED Lane County Growers Face Loss of $100,000 If Rain Lasts. EUGENE, Or.. Sept. 3. (Special.) Operations in the Lane County hop yards, where 1500 pickers are employed, were suspended today, and crops of be tween 1.000,000 and 1,250,000 pounds, valued at more than 1100.000. were threatened with serious damage be cause of a heavy rainfall last night and a continued drizzle today. Until the present time the crop has been one of exceptional promise. At the harvest season for every important crop in Lane County this year rain has caused damage. The cherry, berry. prune, hay and grain crops all suf fered. TROOPS GO AFTER VILLA Bandits Presence in Northern Mex ico Is Admitted. EL PASO, Tex., Sept 3. (Special.) Villa is "somewhere in Mexico," north of the Mexican Northwestern Railway, between Santa Ysabel and San Antonio, Chihuahua. This much was admitted in Juarez today. General Gonzales and General Trevino held a long wire con ference this morning. An additional battalion of troops Is being recruited In Juarez, to be known as the Brigada Bravos, to go . south and west toward the place where Villa has been operat ing. Hipolito Villa, brother of Pancho, held by the military and Department of Justice officials here, is still a pris oner, and neither his" friends nor his attorney here are permitted to see him, Meatless Day Repeated. BERLIN. Sept. 2. (By wireless to Sayville, N. Y.) According to a dis patch from Vienna to the Overseas News Agency, an order has been pub lished in the Austrian capital intro ducing the third "meatless day." Mutton, however, may be eaten on this day. . Attack Will Be Made After Election. WAGE VEHICLE IS OPPOSED Members Feel Situation Has Been Met Inadequately. MUCH TEMPER DISPLAYED Drastic Changes Expected Before Date AYhen Measure Becomes Effective Large Additional Cost Must Bo Met. BY JOHN CALLAN O'LAUGHLIN. WASHINGTON. Sept. 3. (Special.) Hardly was the ink dry on President Wilson's signature this morning on the Adamson eight-hour railroad act than It became kaown that determined ef forts would be made to amend the measure before It goes into effect on January 1 next. These efforts will not be made dur ing the remainder of the present ses sion, but between tne first Monday in December, when Congress will recon vene, and the date when it will ad journ for the Christmas holidays. Wage Basis to Be Attacked. The eight-hour day as a standard work day has come to stay; on this there is not the slightest doubt. But the eight-hour day merely as a wage basis and merely as a vehicle for se curing an Increase of pay for employes is a different proposition. It Is upon this feature of the act approved by the President today that the attacks will center. Moreover, at the coming regular session it is proposed to urge action upon a comprehensive labor re for-r bill, which will prevent the de velopment of such a situation, which Congress feels it has so inadequately met. Included in the bill will be the Cana dlan commission plan, advocated bv the President to guard against a recur rence of the situation which has just been arranged. Conxrua Feels Humiliation. That it will be the disposition of many members to make organized la bor suffer in return for the humiliation they feel they were compelled to ac cept is an unfortunate feature of the aftermath of the course pursued by the brotherhood chairman. Some members are not candidates for re-election; oth ers will be defeated. Their temper will manifest itself not only in speeches. but In the deliberations of the com mittees which will frame the legisla- Concluded on Pane 2. Column 1. ) I " " Sfi Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs Withholds His Reply Pending Reports From Investigator. PEKIX, Sept. 3. Baron Gonsuke Hayashl, the Japanese Minister to China, has presented to the Chinese foreign office four demands for set tling the clash between Chinese and Japanese troops at Cheng Chlatun In Eastern Mongolia, August 13. when 50 Chinese and 17 Japanese were killed or wounded. The Japanese demands fol lows: "First Dismissal of the Chinese of ficers in command of the troops. "Second Withdrawal f Chinese troops from the district in which the trouble arose. "Third Indemnification of the fam ilies of the Japanese killed. "Fourth Granting to Japanese of police rights in Inner Mongolia." Chinese officials regard the demands as virtually an elimination of Chinese authority In Inner Mongolia. Chen Shino-Tao, the acting-Chinese minister of foreign affairs, is with holding his reply to Japan until full reports are available, from a special agent who has been sent to Cheng Chl atun. EXHIBIT BUILDING BURNED Mammoth Grandstand at California State Fair Seems Doomed. SACRAMENTO. Sept, 3. Fire de stroyed the main exhibit building at the California state fair grounds to night. The structure contained exhib its from various counties, Japan, New Zealand and Australia. The mammoth grandstand facing the racetrack seemed doomed at a late hour, as sparks were falling on the dry roof. No loss cf life has been re ported, though several firemen had narrow escapes in attempting to save the building. The structure waa filled with exhibitors when the fire broke out. but all made their exit success fully. Whether the flames were started by a skyrocket from the fireworks celebra tion or by a moving picture apparatus has not been determined. WEATHER TODAY DOUBTFUL Forecaster Loath to Say Just How Bad It Might Be. " '-- - The weather will not be all that could be desired for a good Labor day celebration. The elements are grum bling and the forecast for today is un settled weather for Portland. The winds are in the south and southwest which isn't a very good augury. For the western part of Ore gon, occasional rains can be expected. East of the Cascades, however. It will be warmer and probably fair. The weather man' was loath to say Just how bad the weather would be today. The temperature yesterday fluctuat ed between 59 and 67, and except for a few hours during the afternoon, when the sun strove valiantly to stay out, it was a good deal like a March day back East- SEE WHO'S BACK FROM MEXICO! Attack Is Most Formi dable of War. ONLY 3 APPROACH LONDON Casualties Small, "Consider ing Numbers Engaged." BURNED BODIES ARE FOUND Wreckage of Destroyed Aircraft Dis closes Large Amount of Wood and Shortage of Aluminum in Germany Is Indicated. LONDON. Sept. 3. Thirteen Zeppelin airships took part In the raid over the eastern counties last night, and an of ficial statement Issued today cays It was the most formidable attack by air ever made on England. Only three of the Zeppelins were able to approach the outskirts of London. One of these was shot down and the other two driven off by aircraft guns 'and aero planes. Reports regarding the number of casualties and the damage caused by the great number of bombs propped had not been completed this afternoon, but It was said that the damage and loss of life were not heavy, "considering the number of ships engaged." Raid Most Formidable of All. Tne text of the official statement was: "Last night's raid was carried out by 13 airships and thus was the most formidable attack that has been made on this country. The principal theater of operations was the eastern counties and the objectives seem to have been London and certain industrial centers. Reduction or obscuration of lights proved most efficacious, for the raiding squadrons, instead of steering a steady course, as in the raids of the Spring and of last Autumn, groped about In darkness, looking for a safe avenue to approach their objectives. "Three airships only were able to approach the outskirts of London. One of them appeared over the northern district about 2:15 in the morning where she was picked up by search lights and engaged by anti-aircraft guns and aeroplanes. Boon the airship was seen to burst Into flames and fall to earth. Bodies of Crew Rait Darned. "The ship was destroyed, the wreck age, engines and half-burned bodies of the crew being found at Cufley, near Enfield. "The large amount of wood employed in the framework of the Zeppelin is startling and would seem to point .o a shortage of aluminum in Germany. "The other two ships which ap (Concluded on Paie 4. Column Six or -Seven More Sections Will Begin to Arrive at 2 A. M. Tues day Welcome Plans Up. The first train carrying Oregon troops home from the Mexican border is expected to arrive at Camp Withy combe, on Clackamas range, tonight about 10 o'clock, although plans have been made to receive the train at Camp Withycombe tonight at " o'clock. The train Is scheduled to reach Ashland this morning between 4 and 7 o'clock. and the Southern Pacific has announced that probably about 14 hours will be taken to come to Portland. The first train will carry the head quarters staff and Companies A. B, C and D, numbering in all between 350 and 400 men. Attached to the train will be cars carrying baggage, some of the wagons and animals attached to the four companies. In all there will be 20 cars. Tuesday morning six or seven other trains are due to arrive at the mobili zation camp, the first reaching the camp about 2 A. M. Other trains on which the Washington troops are coming will arrive 30 minutes apart. There is a spirit of welcome rampant in the hearts of Portland. Hundreds of telephone calls asking the hour of arrival have been received at the camp, at the Southern Pacific offices and In the newspaper offices. For a time when it was announced the trains would begin arriving in the night, the plans for the welcome were held up, but with the news that some of the trains would get in by daylight, the programme was Immediately resumed and a number of prominent men yes terday began shaping plans which will be brought to a head today. LAWYER IN AUTO IS SHOT Girl Companion Tells of Attack by 2 Highwaymen in Park. NEW YORK, Sept. 3. Dwlght H. Dil worth, a lawyer, was shot and killed to night while in an automobile in Van Cortlandt Park with a young woman. companion. Two men, with caps drawn closely over their foreheads, sprang from the darkness in front of the car when it stopped near some golf links and fired three shots, according to the young woman, who said she was Miss Mary McNiff, 19 years old. According to Miss McNiff, Dilworth Invited her for a ride through the park and they had stopped but a moment when the two men appeared. EXPRESS MESSENGER LOST Strange Disappearance of Great Northern Employe Baffling. GREAT FALLS. Mont.. Sept. 3. Adam Jensen, a Great Northern Express mes senger, employed on a run from White fish, Mont., to Seattle, mysteriously dis appeared from his home a fortnight ago, according to Information reaching here today from Whiteflsh. Jensen had his family on a ranch near Seattle, and one night stepped out saying he would return immediately. He has not since been heard of and his wife believoe him the victim of foul play. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 67 degrees: minimum. oW degrees. TODAY'S Partly cloudy and occasionally threatening weather; southwest to west winds. War. Thirteen Zeppelins in Saturday night raid on Britain rage J. Germans and Bulgarians begin drive into Koumania. Pago 4. Greece to give full co-operation to . allies. Page 1. Foreign. Shackleton castaways rescued from Elepban Island. Page 1. National. Congress to try to amend eight-hour law before it becomes erfeclive. rage i. President signs eight-hour bill. Page 2. Lincoln birthplace to be formally .presented to Nation today. Pago a. Crowds see President on journey to Hod genville, Kr. Page 4. ' Domestic. Labor Federation secretary reviews tendency of times. Page 2. Alleged spy arrested on charge of having stolen ("oast Guard maps in his posses sion. Page Sport. Pacific Coast Lesgne results: Portland 8-T, Los Angeles 2-10; Oakland 6-1. Vernon 2-2: Salt Lake 1-2. San iTanclsco 2-0. Pans 10. Ty Cobb outhlts Trls Speaker and Detroit routs Cleveland. Page 11. Both major league races grow closer. Page 10. Doyle Joins Cubs and bats Cubs to two victories. Page lo. Lightweight pugilistic crown at stake today In White-Welsh battle. Pago 11. Gutsto en route East. Page 1. Pacific Northwest. Lane County farmers charge they were swindled out of their land. Page 8. Effort to float stranded s-tesm schooner Ban don to be made today. Page 3. Marine. Nlppo Maru leaves with 2,000.000 feet, of lumber for Chile. Page 11. Portland and Vicinity. Fchool opens today. Page 8. Rev. J. Allen Leas, founder of St. James Lutheran Church, called to Chicago. Page . A. B. Richardson, prominent realty dealer, believed drowned. Page 1. Valuable stallion is burned In livery fire page 14. ' Portland Irish sympathizers send testimonial to John Redmond. Page 14. Dr. Marcotte says farewell to congregation. Page 9. Musical comedy at Baker wins popularity immediately. Page t. Play place for youngsters arranged In con nection with Home Chautauqua. Page 14. New pastor enters on duties at Anabel Pres byterian Church. Page 9. Two young women visitors leave for mission labors In Japan. Page T. Labor parade starts at 10 o'clock today. Page 14. Thomas Fortune Ryan to be In Portland today. Page 8. Henrv Newburrh, B'nai B'rlth head, ar- . rives ahead of schedule. Page 4. River craft glow in Regatta, illuminated parade. Page 3. First troop train from border due at Camp Withycombe tonight at 1 o'ciock. Page 1. Weather report, data and forecast. Page 4. Clothing In Locker at Bath House Is Clew. RIVER IS DRUGGED IN VAIN Supposed Victim Prominent as Real Estate Dealer. FRIENDS JOIN IN SEARCH Swimming Enthusiast, Member of Chamber of Commerce, Xot Seen Since Saturday AThile Bath ing at Wlndemnth. A. B. Richardson, prosperous real estate dealer and member of the Cham ber of Commerce, Is now believed to have drowned on Saturday afternoon, while bathing in the Willamette River at the Wlndemuth baths on Ross Island, midway between Portland and Mil waukee. From early yesterday morning till late afternoon Hugh Brady, municipal grappler and successful searcher In a hundred river tragedies, dragged the river bottom In that vicinity, but with out success. He was aided by the har bor police patrol. Late in the day friends of Mr. Richardson resumed the search for his body. Drowning Not Witnessed. There were no witnesses to the drowning, nor was there a suspicion of Mr. Richardson's fate until hours after the probable time of his death. He visited the baths, unaccompanied by friends, sometime In the afternoon. Attendants did not remark: the time, owing to the constant arrival and de parture of many bathers. They be lieve that It was shortly before 5 o'clock, although Mr. Richardson left his offices In the Lumber Exchange Building at 2 o'clock, with the inten tion of going directly to the Winde muth baths. At 8 o'clock Saturday night, when bathers began to desert the water. Mr. Richardson's clothes were found un claimed 1U the bathhouse. His cloth ing, his watch, his checkbook and his diamond ring were in the locker. In the reach of river, near the baths, no swimmers remained. Absence Causes Alarm. Manager A. B. Woodward became alarmed at the continued absence, and employes of the baths searched about the shore and the river. Early yester day morning, when it became apparent that the swimmer had gone down, the news was telephoned to his sister, Mrs. Annie Richardson Mattingly. of 269 Fourteenth street, with whom he had made his home for some years. The search was resumed at daybreak by Hugh Brady and the harbor patrol. They swept the currents and eddies up both sides of Ross Island, and dragged for hours among the pontoons off the baths. Friends of Mr. Richardson joined them. Mr. and Mrs. Mattingly and their daughter went to the scene, remaining until late In the day. Mr. Richardson was 54 years of age. and was a powerful athlete, whose especial hobby was swlmmins. lie was expert in the water and his rela tives are certain that, although in per fect physical condition, he must have succumbed to a heart attack caused by the shock of the cool water to his overheated body. . No Outcry Heard. No ordinary attack of cramps would have troubled so resourceful and strong a swimmer, they believe. This theory is borne out by the fact that no outcry was heard at any time, nor was any struggle in the water observed. "When the swimmer succumbed he must have sunk Instantly, It is declared. Before he left his offices Saturday afternoon Mr. Richardson telephoned to the home of his sister, asking the fam ily to Join him in the swimming party. They declined, and he went to the river alone, as had been his frequent custom during the recent warm weather. He was widely known in Portland and vicinity, and was popular in both business and social circles. A life member of the Multnomah Club, he too a keen interest in all athletics, while he was equally prominent in the work of the Portland Chamber of Commerce. For a number of years he had con ducted the Richardson Investment Com pany, with offices at 211 Lumber Ex change Building. His residrnco in Portland covered a period of 20 years, with intermittent locations elsewhere. The greater part of his business career, however, was In this city, where he has considerable valuable real estate. Slater Nearly Prostrated. Mr. Richardson was unmarried. He was born in Sacramento. CaL. his father being A. D. Richardson, a prominent and influential pioneer of California and Oregon. He Is survived by his sis ter. Mrs. Mattingly. and a brother. T. D. Richardson, who Is engaged In the mill business In Washington. Efforts were made yesterday afternoon to lo cate and notify the latter. Mrs. Mattingly is almost prostrated by the disappearance of her brother. The search for his body will be re sumed today.