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K VOL. VLI XO. 17,408. PORTLAND. OREGON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 191G. PRICE FIVE CENTS. CONGRESS REMOVES ALL STAMP TAXES TCAPUTD IC DIIDMCn ISTREET GAR STRIKE MEN WIN BATTLE IN MOUNTAINOUS SEAS FRENCH NEAR FOE'S SANTA FE NOT TO OBEY 8-HOUR LAW SHORTAGE OF i L.rtiin 10 uuanLui .. I ItS UP NEW YORK CHECKS INDOSTRY MKS. FLORA F. FOKKMAV IX LIMELIGHT AGAIN. CAXSERY TENDER WRECKED 2 0 MILES OFF ALASKAN COAST. ORDER BY SUPREME COURT WILL BE AWAITED. GARS 111 SOPPORTPOINT v Conferees to Increase Levy on Munitions. ADJOURNMENT IS POSTPONED Filibuster Directed at Corrupt . Practices Act in Senate. SATURDAY MAY SEE FINISH T.on-j Debate on Emergency Revenue Bill in Conference Becomes ProbableSenators Meanwhile Clamor for Minor Bills. ' WASHINGTON. Sept. 6. Elimination of all stamp taxes in the emergency revenue bill, seriously objected to by the House, was agreed upon' late to night by the conference committee, the House conferees yielding ir exchange for this concession their demand for restoration of a tax on copper. To make up for the loss of about $5,000,000 revenue in sacrificing the stamp taxes the conferees are expected to agree to a suggestion of House mem bers that the net profit tax of manu facturers of munitions of war be in creased from 10 to 12 per cent. Public Annoyance Removed. Sacrifice of the proposed stamp taxes puts the revenue bill back in accord with the original determination of the Administration leaders to repeal all the provisions in the existing revenue law which were generally regarded as an noyances by the public. The proposed stamp taxes, now eliminated, included bonds, debentures and certificates of stock, agreements to sale, conveyances, warehouse and Custom-House receipts, foreign steamship tickets and Pullman car tickets. At midnight the conference declared that working out of details of the report could not be concluded until come time tomorrow. Retaliatory Clauaea Retained. Amendments empowering the Presi dent to retaliate against foreign Inter ference of American mails and com merce, it was said, would be retained, with probable revision of the Phelan amendment, regarding interference with the mails, which had not been submitted to the State Department be fore its adoption by the Senate. The proposed license tax on corpora tion stock, increases in tho duty on dyestuffs, increase in the income and inheritance taxes and the provisions creating a tariff commission all were approved. A continuing appropriation of $300, 000 a year for the tariff commission, however, was said to have been stricken out. The conference also was reported to have under consideration changes in the proposed taxes on wines. House May Act Again. The conference adjourned shortly after midnight to meet again at 9 o'clock tomorrow morning. Several important matters were said to be still in dispute and that all agreements thus far made would be held as tentative. This would include the revision of the stamp taxes and all other sections of the bill. It was announced that some of the House members -were considering referring one or two matters back to the House before final agreement could be reached. This will be determined v when the conferees meet early in the morning. Members of the committee predicted that full nrreement nmh.hlr w..l , tPrhPH infmw reached tomorrow Adjournment Is Delayed. Plans of Administration leaders to adjourn Congress tomorrow night, how ever, were abandoned tonight when the committee indicated that it could not reach an agreement until some time tomorrow at the earliest. The report might not be ready before Fri day, delaying adjournment until Sat urday. Senator Simmons, chairman of the Senate conferees, said he believed an agreement would be reached in time for presentation to the House tomor row soon after it meets at noon. Filibuster la Started. But the revenue bill is not all that Is delaying adjournment. In the Senate a filibuster has developed against the passage of the corrupt practices act. and various Senators are clamoring for consideration of minor bills. The gen eral deficiency bill is held up in con ference until a report on the revenue measure has been made. Leaders of both Houses also expect that general debate on the revenue bill conference report will occupy many hours. Senator Kern, the majority leader, said he did not look for adjournment before Saturday. Rates of Taxation Fixed. After an all-day discussion of the revenue bill the conferees had not com pleted consideration of amendments to the income tax section when they ad journed by dinner. Administrative features of the income tax provisions were the stumbling block. They had settled the rates of taxation, however, and agreed finally that the normal tax on incomes should be two per cent, and that the Senate amendments in creasing the surtaxes on large incomes should be retained in the bill. ments empowering the President to retaliate against British interference (Concluded on Paxe Colurau 1.) Possessions Are AH Destroyed While She Is at Marshficld Com plaining of Beating. JIARSHFIELD, Or.. Sept. S. (Spe cial.) While Mrs. Flora I. Foreman, the socialist school teacher, was absent at Coquille, attending a session of the grand jury, to give evidence in her complaint against Mrs. Abe Anderson, of Kentuck Inlet, whom Mrs. Foreman claimed assaulted her, her home on Kentuk Inlet burned and all her earthly possessions were consumed In the con flagration. The case of alleged assault was being investigated at Coquille and besides Mrs. Foreman, Mr. and Mrs. Abe An derson and several witness for both side were at the county seat. The house of the militant social ist school teacher stood only a few rods from that of J. Olson, who was her closest neighbor and from whom she rented. Mr. and 'Mrs. Olson were visiting in another portion of the Ken tuck Inlet neighborhood last night, when Mrs..Foreman's home burned. Today, Mrs. Foreman, on returning to Marshfield from Coquille. where the grand Jury found in her case "not a true bill," said: "You se me here with all my pos sessions. I haven't another article of clothing nor anything else left to my name. All I possessed went up when my home burned." Mrs. Foreman hesitated to see if there would be any sympathy extended her, and hearing none continued: "No matter. I shall still be a revolutionist. I will stick to principle if they burn even the clothes I have on my person." Upon being informed of the burning of the home. District Attorney L. A. Liljeqvist ordered the strictest investi gation, and hailed, through Sheriff Alfred Johnson, every material wit ness from Kentuck Inlet who might have any information valuable to a grand jury. IMPORTED MONKEYS DYING Climate Deadly to Animals Brought for Medical Experiments. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 6. Out of 100 monkeys which arrived here Fri day from the Orient for Government laboratories, 40 have died and many of the survivors are reported dying. Tho monkeys were .. to have been used for experiments with infantile paralysis serum. The monkeys, according to the offi cials in charge, of them, were in good health until they reached the tem perate zone, where the cool . breezes proved too much for their sensitive lungs. Death in nearly every case was the result of pulmonary trouble. P0ST0FFICE SAFE BLOWN Athena Office Robbed of $40 1 Stamps and Few Cents. In PENDLETON, Or.. Sept. 6. (Special.) The Athena postofflce safe was dyna mited last night by robbers. About $40 in stamps and a few cents which had been left in the safe were taken by the robbers. Postmaster Charles O. Henry discovered the robbery this morning when he opened the office. The door was blown so skillfully that no one in the city heard the re port. Sheriff T. D. Taylor and Deputy James Estes, who are at work on the case, have no clew to the robbers. OFFICER LOSS IS HEAVY 250G British Commanders Added to List in Two Weeks. LONDON, Aug. 25. (Correspondence of the Associated Press.) Casualty lists for the first two weeks of Aug ust show that the British army lost .. i. : 1 1 . j iirnq .. r. I OUU Oiricers twucu. 204 missing, a total of 2506. This brings up the losses since the beginning of the war to 38.922 officers, of whom 11,443 have been killed or died of wounds. 24,680 wounded and 2800 are missing. JELLER ROUTS 2 ROBBERS Armed Pair Flee When Bank Em ploye Opens Fire. DETROIT, Sept. 6. Two armed men unsuccessfully attempted to rob the branch of the Federal State Bank here shortly before noon today. The men retreated as bullets from the paying teller's revolver whistled by their heads. They did not obtain any money. 361,693 CANADIANS ARMED Enlistments Show Decrease Since Montli of May. OTTAWA, Ont., Sept. 6 Canada has 361,693 men under arms, according to figures announced today. During the month of August there were 7246 enlistments, as against 8675 in July, 10.796 in June and 15,090 in May. BREMEN IS EXPECTED SOON Submarine Liner's Arrival In Amer ica Forecast in London. LONDON. Sept. 6. It is reported here that the German submarine merchant man Bremen may be expected at Ameriuatn port within 10 days. She probably will dock at New Lon don, Conn. Subway and Elevated Lines Men Quit SURFACE CARS AFFECTED, TOO Thousands of Policemen Ready to Aid in Keeping Order. BARNS HEAVILY GUARDED 4000 Strikebreakers on Hand and More En Route to Aid in Keep ing Traffic Moving Cnlon Officials Seem Confident. NEW TORK. Sept. 6. A strike was declared early tonight by unionized em ployes of the subway and elevated rail way lines operated by the Interborough Rapid Transit Company. Union officials asserted that New York's electric transportation facilities would be completely paralyzed by morning. They were confident that the motormen and conductors on the sur face lines would strike through sym pathy. Theodore P. Shonts. president of the Interborough Rapid Transit Company, declared that the company could cope successfully with the situation and guarantee transportation to the pub lic- Great Tie-Up Feared. Should the strikers succeed in their purpose. New York will face the worst tie-up in its history. Thus far the union has confined its demands to the Interborough and its subsidiary surface carline, the New York Railways Com pany. Employes on the "Green Car" line of the New York Railways Com pany also voted to strike. This is one of the most important of the city's sur face car lines. The men acted through sympathy for the subway and elevated railway employes. The Interborough employes demand an annulment of individual contracts binding them not to seek wage in creases for two years. Five thousand patrolmen held in sta. tion houses in, anticipation of the strike were pressed into service. Preliminary details called for policing each subway and elevated trains and all stations. In the event of a strike on the surface car lines, it was said, one patrolman would be placed on each car. Barns to Be Guarded. Special squads of policemen and de tectives will guard power houses and car barns, in many of which strike breakers have been quartered. Oscar S. Strauss, chairman of the Public Service Commission, requested that the strike be held up pending an other attempt by himself and Mayor Mitchel to settle the trouble. The labor leaders declined. Union leaders declare many workers were discharged today because they re fused to take off their union badges. Interborough car barns gave the ap pearance of barracks. Approximately 4000 men have been housed and fed in (Conclmied on rag o. Column 1.) Metal-Lined Hold Saves Craft From Breaking Vp 'on Rock and Enables Early Salvage. SEATTLE. Wash.. Sept. 6. (Special.) Five men were forced to abandon their vessel In the dead of the night on a pinnacle rock, 20 miles off the barren Alaska shore, and to battle with mountainous seas in open lifeboats for 15 hours. This was the exciting expe rience told today by the crew of the cannery tender Katmal, which arrived in' Seattle late yesterday. nine days from Uyak, Kodiak Island. The wreck occurfed shortly after midnight, August 2, while the Katmal, bound from Chignik for Uyak, was feeling her way along in a dense fog. Suddenly there was a crash. The ves sel soon was leaking. The crew lost no time in launching the two lifeboats. With a heavy sea running, and their small craft in grave danger of being swamped, the crew of the Katmal start ed for Chignik, 20 miles distant, leav ing their vessel to her fate on the pin nacle rock. It was a hard pull of 15 hours, but the men weathered the storm and reached the cannery at Chignik in safety. A few days later the Katmal was floated, patched up and towed to Uyak, where she was made ready for her voyage to Seattle in tow of the Sheli kof. Members of the crew of the Katmal said that the fact that the fishhold of the vessel is lined with metal saved her from being pounded to pieces by the seas that swept over her for many houra. BEE STING NEARLY KILLS Stanfield Man Has Narrow Escape From Death. 6TANFIELD, Or.. Sept. 6. (Special.) Shortly after receiving a sting over the eye from a honey bee this after noon, A. D. Greaves collapsed and it was with difficulty his life was saved. He was in a buggy with his wife when the bee struck him. He asked his wife to drive hurriedly to Stan field to a physician's office. Before reaching the doctor he collapsed, and for a time it seemed he would die. Dr. Alex Reid, whose work saved Mr. Greaves' life, said he had never seen a like case before. He said poison from the bee evidently had been in jected into a blood vessel and was carried, directly to the heart, where it had exerted a most unusual effect. BULL GORES MAN TO DEATH Farm Hand Near Oakville Attacked While Watering Animal. ALBANY, Or.. Sept. 6. (Special.) Clifford Smith, a farmhand, was gored by a bull last night and died today as a result. He was employed on the farm of Victor Yates near Oakville. He went to the barn to water the animal. Soon Mr. and Mrs. Yates, who were in the house, heard him crying for help and rushed to his assistance. He was badly gored and tramped before the animal could be driven away. Smith was 42 years old and was un married. The funeral will be held at the Oakville Church tomorrow, with interment in the Oakville Cemetery. HIS MEAT. German Supply Rail way Is Cut Also. NEW POSITIONS ARE CAPTURED Chaulnes Is Now Threatened From Two Sides. BRITISH GAIN GROUND, TOO Advance Is Made to Within Mile of Combles London Sees Hint of Withdrawal in Oificial Re lort From Berlin. BY ARTHUR S. DRAPER. (War correspondent of the New York Trlb bune. By special cable.) LONDON, Sept. 6. (Special.) Gen eral Koch, shifting his attack again to day from the north to the south of the Somme. reached the outskirts of Chaulnes, the main support of the Ger man line in the sector from Peronne to Roye. The French also reached the railway from Chaulnes to Roye. thus cutting one of the two roads which sup ply the Roye salient. The French gains were made after heavy counter-attacks had been beaten back. Assailing the Teuton line on a front of more than 12 miles, Foch's troops carried the greater part of the village of Berny-en-Hanterre, north cast of Chaulnes, and the northern part of Vermandovillers, lying to the south west. Chaulnes Is Threatened. Chaulnes is threatened from two di rections. The thrust directly eastward has not yet been turned, and besides the capture of the positions to the north today menaces this important village with a flanking movement. A large part of the salient from Chaulnes to Peronne now has been eliminated. The British meanwhile have endan gered the German grip on Combles. Re. Burning the attack last night. General rlalg's troops captured the Leuze wood, less than a mile northwest of Combles. This gain in addition imperils Ginchy, which lies well west of the new French line, and leaves the Germans the al ternative of withdrawing or surrend ering. 'Withdrawal May Follow. . , On both banks or the Somme the fierce battle continues. Berlin reports that 50,000 allied troops are attacking the Picardy line and that south of the Somme 200,000 French are massed. Taken in conjunction with Berlin's of ficial statement that the artillery fire in the last few days exceeded in ex penditure anything known before, some observers here see a hint that the Ger mans plan a withdrawal from the Roye sector. The power behind the French strokes has aroused the greatest admiration in London. Foch's troops hardly have rested from one blow before another is begun. Less than 12 hours after they had repelled repeated counter blows south of the Somme last night. (Concluded on Page 4, Column 8.) Railroad President Says Legislation Was Enacted Under Duress and Will Be Ignored. TOPEKA. Kan.. Sept. 6. E. P. Ripley. president of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad, declared tonight in a formal statement that the Santa Fe does not intend to comply with the Adamson eight-hour law, recently enacted by Congress to avert a threat ened railroad strike, until ordered to Uo so by the United States Supreme Court. Mr. Ripley's statement follows: "Congress, hastily acting under a threat of four leaders of labor organi zations, enacted a. so-called eight-hour law, which is nothing more or less than an advance of 20 to 25 per cent in the vages of the best-paid men in railway service. It isonly fair to the public and to our employes to say that the Atchison. Topeka & Santa Fe Rail way Company does not intend to com ply with the law until ordered to do so by the court of last resort." "There Is no likelihood that any class of Santa Fe employes will receive Increase in salary until, the wage trouble with the trainmen is settled," Mr. Ripley said later. "I have said, and still maintain, that any other class of railway workers is entitled to more money than the train men," Mr. Ripley explained, "but by saying that other workers than train men are entitled to more money, I do not mean to say that we have in mind any advance in wages for any of our employes. "Advances certainly will await the outcome of the argument with the brotherhoods." PEARL FOUND IN GIZZARD Gem Recovered From Solo Rooster Retained in Big Flock. HELENA. Mont.. Sept. 6. A yrar ago Mrs. Reinold Kleinschmidt, then livi-ig In Missoula. Mont., lost from an earring a pearl said to be worth JlOO'a. When she left Missoula she sold a flock of chickens, keeping one old rooster. Yesterday she slew the bird and the pearl was found in his gizzard. GASOLINE PRICE AGAIN CUT Another Reduction of One Cent Puts Mark at 23 Cents a tiallon. NEW YORK, Sept. 6. Another reduc tion of 1 cent a gallon in the price of gasoline, making the wholesale price now 22 cents a gallon, was announced today by the Standard Oil Company. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 72 degree: minimum, 55 degrees. TODAY'S Fair; northwesterly winds. War. French and British add to gains. Page 1, Berlin reports advance by Russians In Ga licia. Page 4 Mexico. Mexican-American Commission holds first formal conference. Page 3. Troop A reaches Calexlco. Page 3. Americans prepare to resist attack by Villa. Fuse X National. Conference committee eliminates all stamp taxes from revenue bill. Page 1. Crisis threatened by retaliatory laws against aiuea powers. rage l. Senate takes up corrupt practices bin. Page -i. Domestic. New York streetcar employes declare strike. Page 1. Santa Fe not to obey eight-hour law until Supreme Court orders. Page 1. National Suffrage Association votes to con tinue dual fight for equal rights. Page 2. California commission cuts millions from corporations' valuation of Los Angeles electric system. Page 2. Civilians on cruise have torpedo practice on debtroycr. Page 7. 8 ports. Pacific Coast League results: Portland 1. San Frinclsco u; Salt Lake 5, Oakland O. Page 14. Red Sox give Athletics their lOOth defeat of point. Page 14 Phillies row lead National League by one points, page i. BUI Spens draws unconditional release. Page 14. Fast Coast horses vie at La Grande meet. Page 15. Pacific Northwest. Shipwrecked mariners win battle in moun tainous Alaska seas. Page 1. Thompson Jury tslts murder farm. Page 6. Home of Socialist school teacher Is burned. Page 1. Guardsmen at Clackamas expect to see more border service. Page 7. Chief Justice Sullivan seems to be beaten In Idaho primary. Page 6. Girls' training camp at Vancouver Barracks breaks up today. Page 6. Commercial and Marine. Hleh prices paid by country mills check sales of wheat to go East. Page 19. Chlcaio wheat advances on large export buvlns Parte 10. Outside buying Is feature of Wall-street market. Page 19. St. Helens shipyard adds sixth set of ways. Page 18. Portland and Vicinity. Western Oregon lumbermen face desperate situation because of car shortage. Page 1. Ad Club bids farewell to R. D. Carpenter, soon to leave for Arizona. Page 5. Mother hunts for Wyeth elopers that she may torsive. Page 13. Council votes to eliminate O.-W. R. & N. grade crossings. Page 18. New traffic ordinance passed by City Coun cil. Page 20. Body of A. B. Richardson found in river. Page 13. Council kills proposed movie censorship or dinance. Page 9. Barnum Bailey circus is due tomorrow. Page 11. S. S. Mohler asks Crane Prairie be opened to homesteaders, page s. Eugene agents for Ford car win damages from company. Page 1). Mary Roberts Rinehart gives essentials of literary career. Page 9. Home Chautauqua opens at Armory with large attendance. Page 18. Eugene Bosse. flax expert, dies. Page 5. Centenary Church celebrates 50th anniver sary. Page 5. Weather report, data and forecast. Page 10. Lumbermen Clamorfor Rolling Stock. MANY MILLS FACE SHUTDOWN One Already Has Been Forced to Close Plant. RELIEF NOT YET IN SIGHT Eastern Kouds Divert Southern Pa cific Cars to Own Uses While Oregon Suffers Hear ing May Be Held. "Western Oregon lumber manufac turers, dependent upon the Southern Pacific for their cars, are growing des perate. One mill already has been forced to close and others soon will be con fronted with a similar necessity unless the situation is relieved. And no immediate relief is in sight. The Southern Pacific has an orvler for 3000 new cars due from Eastern man ufacturers within the next 30 days and as soon as they start to arrive a meas ure of relief may be forthcoming. Cars Needed mt Once. 3ut many mills cannot wait 30 days. In fact some of them cannot wait 10 days. They must have cars at once or they will be forced to quit business, temporarily at least. A temporary shutdown, it Is feared, will cause permanent Carnage. Such mills will be forced to turn their busi ness over to their competitors in tne state of Washington and in those parts of Oregon that are able to get cars. Business once so diverted is llkely-to remain diverted, they say. A customer likes to do burliness where he can de pend on service. When once the wo'il goes out that a mill cannot give de pendable car service. It Is feared, the resulting damage through loss of business will be irreparable. Hearing: M ill Be Held. Frank A. Miller, chairman of the Ore gon Public Service Commission, was In Portland yesterday and discussed in formally the suggested proposal of con ducting a public hearing on the sub ject. It is probable, though, that the hearing cannot take place for 10 days, and by that time some mills will be past the stage where a hearing will do them any good. Meanwhile, the Willamette Valley Lumber Manufacturers' Association is proceeding with its plans to bring civil action against the Southern Pacific for damages. They will seek to recover for the losses sustained through failure to get cars. Suit Will II o Little Good. This suit, if it is brought, will be filed in the Federal Court. But, even should it prove successful, it would offer little compensation for the In trinsic damage. What the lumbermen want is cars. They are not seeking revenge, they say. and have no spiteful purpose of punishing the railroad. They are hope ful only that their action will bring the desired result cars. It is apparent that the Southern Pacific officials in Portland and other places along the line are doing their utmost to relieve the situation. They are trying to distribute their meager supply of cars among their numerous clamoring customers, but their efforts are woefully deficient, simply because they haven't near enough cars to go around. Improvement Is Sllfcht. The net shortage last night, accord ing to the Southern Pacific car service department's own figures, was 895. This shows a slight reduction since last week, but this total has been fluctuating erratically and is as apt to cross the 1000 mark again today as not. The gross shortage yesterday was approximately 1500. representing the demands not only of the lumber Indus try but of mercnandise shippers, farm ers and all other classes of business combined. To offset, partially, this enormous demand, the Southern Pacific received, through the Ashland gateway, yester day 23 closed and three open cars un der load and 14 closed and 17 open cars empty. There are also on hand 233 empty closed and 80 empty open cars and 183 closed and G8 open cars under load awaiting to be unloaded. Fruit Not Affected. The fruit industry is not seriously affected by the shortage, as it is served with refrigerator cars by the Pacific Fruit Express, whose car service bu reau operates independently of the rail road bureaus. The cars are handled by the railroad on a wheelage basis. Local officials of the Southern Pa cific deny that Oregon is the only suf ferer from the car shortage. They had reports yesterday that the Califor nia lines were short an aggregate gross of 1891 cars last Saturday. This short age is distributed all over the South ern Pacific lines in California, where, naturally, the requirements are much greater than in the western counties of Oregon. Obviously, the shortage there is not so severely felt as a shortr age of like proportions in Oregon. Kleetrlc Line llelpK. A. C. Dixon, manager of the Booth Kelly mills at Springfield and Wend (CoacluUed oa Page 3, Column 1.)