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K VOL.. VM NO. 17,418. PORTLAND, OREGON, TUESDAY, SEPTE3IBER ID, 1916. PRICE FIVE CENTS. SIRENS ACCUSED DF PLOTARE BEAUTIES LONGSHORE STRIKE ON ATLANTIC URGED READY FOR WAY TO M0NASTIR CLEARED BY ALLIES TRUST'S EXISTENCE IS FLATLY DENIED D. C. ECCLES BUYS BIG TIMBER TRACT WAR JUGGERNAUTS STRIKE BUILT BY AMERICAN SYMPATHETIC MOVE TO BE ASK ED BY PACIFIC COAST MEX. IMPORTANT MACEDONIAN TOWN OF FLORIXA TAKEN. 300,000,000 FEET NEAR AUSTIN ACQUIRED BV BAKER FIRM. 700.000 SYMPATHY V V Reason Why Men Fall Into Trap Is Seen. ALL PROTEST INDIGNANTLY "Too Ridiculous to Deny," Is Statement of Leader. HEARING SET FOR TODAY Federal Authorities Say They ' Have Evidence Enough to Convict . Without Exposing Names . . ' of Wealthy Victims. ' CHICAGO. Sept.--18. r (Special.) Three of the women members of the great' alleged blackmailing "trust," now prisoner's at the County Jail, are perhaps the best answer as - to why wealthy' men," even those -classed as cold and unimpressionable, fall into traps laid by shrewd swindlers and baited by attractive sirens. First there was a Titian-haired and pensive woman wtio is down on the County Jail register as Mrs. Frances Chapman, but who appeallngly asks that she be called by her Just chosen name of Mrs. Allen.. . She. has. a. quiet and demure part to play. She turns her, gracefully rounded figure aslant from the group, slightly bending and with face at the right angle to get all the light there is on the chestnut red hair and to allow for upward eye-glances-, at psychological moments. Feminine, timid -r- apparently needing masculine strength and protection that is she. Central Figure Tragic One. Next, and the central figure of tha rroup, stands tragedy upright, re pressed and indignantly severe, straight nosed, with straight eyebrows, watchfully-gazing eyes, and centrally parted, . evenly-smoothed dark brown hair Mrs. Edward Donahue she is called on the register or the Tyson Apartments, and also on the register of the Cook County Jail, It . requires an artist to do Justice to the third of the trio, Helen Evers. While slight departures from ideal beauty might have been apparent to the hyper-critical in No's. 1 and 2, .however charming and ensemble. No. 8 was under no necessity to deny any detail of feature or figure to what light might stream into a county Jail or even from the chandeliers of a "Pea cock Alley." Even in repose, plainly dressed, in a concrete and steel cage, cold morning light and no makeup, she stood the beauty test hair - Jet black, eyes large and alluring, cheeks and chin, lips and teeth- well propor tioned, and that rich," peachy coloring to which story writers and poets have been known to allude." 'Ridiculous," Says Mrs. Donahue. "Ridiculous, all too ridiculous to deny," said Mrs. Donahue, the central tragic figure, who has been called the brains of the combination, and who in this in terview assumed a protective and re straining attitude toward' the younger Women on either hand. Helen Evers: '"Not a word of truth in it in any of the statements made by Mr. Clabaugh (division chief of the bureau of investigation of the Depart ment of . Justice), or by that creature (white teeth snapping anfi black eyes flashing), Mrs. Arthur J. Arroll" (wife of the manager of the Tyson Apart ments, and, according to one account. the amateur Sherlock Holmes who fer reted out the greater ' part of the al leged plot): When the same question was asked her, Mrs. Chapman (or Allen) raised her Titian-hued head Just enough to bring those eyes into action and said she knew "ab-so-lute-ly nothing" as to what all this, fuss might be about. Arrest Declared "Outrage." Then Helen talked again. She rushed to the defense of Mrs. Chapman (or Allen), the timid girl with the auburn locks. "The arrest of that poor little girl is simply an outrage." she stormed. "All ' of them were for that matter, but in her case there was no shadow of ex cuse. She had come to my apartment only a few minutes before the offi cers came in. She had come in a taxi from the Sherman House just to make a calL" Having thus championed her friend, she entered into a categorical denial of every charge made against her. While Federal authorities here pre pared tonight for preliminary hearing tomorrow of all seven members of an alleged blackmail gang, who used the Mann act as their chief weapon, detec tives, fortified with information ob tained from two alleged members of the gang who ' confessed, made arrests in other cities and spread a dragnet for II. C. Woodward, sought as director-in-chief of the syndicate. Victims Stay Be Shielded. Hlnton G. Clabaugh. of the United States Department of Justice, declared tonight he had sufficient evidence to convict the' gang without exposing the names of some of their wealthy victims. It was understood that none of the names of the victims would be bared at the hearing tomorrow. These victims, whose flirtations with pretty women led them into traps from which they escaped only on payment of large sums. .(Concluded on Pag 2, Column 2.) Unsuccessful Attempts at Mediation Make It Necessary to Seek Aid, . Says J. A. Madsen. SEATTLE, Sept. 18. A general strike of longshoremen on the Atlantic Coast in sympathy with the striking long shoremen on the Pacific Coast will be urged upon the international officers of the union, it was announced tonight by J. A. Madsen, of Portland, secretary treasurer of the Pacific Coast district. International Longshoremen's Associa tion of America. J. Gordon Kelly, international vice- president of the Longshoremen's As sociation, will leave here tomorrow for Buffalo, N. T., to lay the situation on the Pacific Coast before-President T. V. O'Connor and urge Immediate action by the international officers to extend the strike, Mr. Madsen said. Decision to ask a sympathetic strike of Atlantic Coast Longshoremen was reached at -a secret - meeting of 38 delegates from Puget Sound, Willapa Harbor and Grays -Harbor locals held here yesterday.- - Mr. Madsen said 75,000 men would be involved, on the Atlantic Coast and that the' first step taken would be re fusal of longshoremen on the East Coast to' work : cargo for any" vessel which . had been loaded by non-union men on ' the 'Pa'clf ic ' "It was our. desire to keep the strike local to this Coast," said Mr. Madsen, "but the unsuccessful attempts at medi ation make it necessary to ask co-operation of the Atlantic Coast longshore men to make the strike here more ef fective." Longshoremen on Puget Sound have been on strike since June 1 for in creased pay and improved working conditions. The union offered to com promise their demands last month but the employers declared they had suc ceeded in. obtaining all the non-union men necessary to work their cargoes and desired to have no further dealings with the Longshoremen's Union. HOLDING OF CARS PROBED Nebraska Commission Calls' ' Rail roads to Account. LINCOLN, Neb., Sept. 18. Asserting that the acuteness of car shortage has created an emergency, the Ne braska State Railway Commission to night issued an order directing all roads- doing business in the state to appear September, 25 and show cause why a new rule for the return of cars to the delivering road within a reason able time, either under load or' empty. has not been observed. ' ' This step was taken on account of reports that some railroads are' not living up to an agreement entered into last February for return of cars. TRAINS COLLIDE IN FOG Two Cars of Gasoline Explode and Wreckage Is Set on Fire. PUEBLO, Colo., Sept. 18 Three men were killed and three injured today when two extra freight trains on the Missouri Pacific railroad collided head on near Stuart, Colo. The dead are: Roy Scott, Ernest Holley, fireman, and William Isbester, an engineer, all of this city. The trains collided in a heavy fog that obscured the signals, it was declared. Two cars loaded with gasoline blew up and the wreckage was set on fire. Telegraph wires were torn down by the heaped-up cars . and wire communica tion was stalled for several hours. BEAR INVADES ORCHARD Farmer's Wife Telephones Husband, Who Hurries Home In Auto. HOOD ' RIVER, Or., Sept. 18. (Spe cial.) "Come home at once and kill a bear that is picking apples in the orch ard," was the insistent message that Mrs. W. L. Hodges delivered today over the telephone to her husband in the city on business. Mr. Hodges lost no time in motoring ' to his Oak Grove home. Men working in the orchard tried vainly to keep the bear frightened away from timber growing along a draw after he had eaten his fill of Winter Bananas, but bruin escaped. HOOD PROJECT IS URGED Representative Mc Arthur Boosts .Road to Forest Service. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington. Sept. 8. Representative Mc- Arthur before leaving for Portland to day, conferred with Forest Service offi cials regarding urging the Importance of the Mount Hood road project. Re ports from various district forecasters as to road projects in their Jurisdiction will be received by October 1, after which the service will determine what projects to take up next season. Mr. McArthur will pass two days in Chicago with Western Republican headquarters. POSTAL APPOINTEE NAMED Meadow Has New Postmaster, but Waverly Can't Find One. - OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, Sept. 18. Harry F. Kimble was appointed postmaster at Meadow, Crook County, today. Because the postmaster at Waverly. Or., has resigned and no one wants the Job, the Postof flee Department proposes to close the office in two weeks, unless a volunteer, can be found, Plan to Tie Up New York Is Perfected. NOTICE IS SERVED ON MAYOR Mitchel Has Until Thursday to Find Way Out. CAR TRAFFIC IMPROVING Subway and Elevated Roads Give Normal Service and Surface Lines Improve There Is Some Vio lenceArrests Are Made. NEW YORK, Sept. 18. The United Hebrew Trades, representing a mem bership of 200,000 organized irarknn, tonight voted to go on a sympathetic strike as an aid to the striking carmen, If they are called upon to do so by the Central Federated Union. The vote was taken at a meeting of delegates said to represent every craft In the United States, including the gar ment industries, in which many women are employed. Arrangements were made to notify the4 membership of 2O0, 00 to be ready to answer a strike call nt any time. ' NEW YORK, Sept. 18. Failure of ne gotiations being conducted by Mayor Mitchel to provide a basis of settlement of the traction strike in this city will result in a call Thursday for a sym pathetic strike of approximately 700. 000 .workers, union leaders declared after a conference late today between representatives of several crafts. The call will be Issued, it was said, to all unions affiliated with the Central Federated Union of New York, the Cen tral Labor Union of Brooklyn and the Federated Union of The Bronx, West chester and Yonkers. Some -of the unions already have authorized a strike, union leaders said, and referendums are in progress in others. Shonts Refuses tw Confer.' Theodore P. Shonts, president of the Interborough Rapid. Transit Company and the New York Railways Company, late today issued a statement in which he said the companies would refuse to confer further with the strikers. . This announcement was made after Mr. Shonts- had been Informed that Mayor Mitchel had agreed to act with Oscar S. Strauss, chairman of the Public Service Commission, In an attempt to bring the strikers and companies to gether. Mayor Mitchel announced tonight that he had asked the citizens' commit tee of the Chamber of Commerce and representatives of the Merchants' Asso ciation to meet with him tomorrow to discuss the situation. , During the day he conferred with labor leaders, but no practical plan (Concluded on Pae 2. Column 3- PLEASE SIR MAY I HAVE ANOTHER. PORTlonf Serbians Make Energetic Attack on Bulgarian Line and French Carry x City by Assault. PARIS, via London. Sept. 18 Fiorina, an . important town in Northwestern Macedonia, was carried by assault by French troops today, according to an official statement Issued here tonight. The Bulgarians are retiring In dis order in the direction of Monastir, the statement adds. Serbian troops also have gained success in the region - of Lake Ostrovo. LONDON, Sept. 18. Dispatches reach ing London describe the operations which resulted in the capture by the entente allied forces of Fiorina. Mace donia. According to Reuters SalonJki cor respondent, the Bulgarians, in extend ing their line so far south as the region of Lake Ostrovo with limited forces played a bold but dangerous game. Success would have compromised the whole entente allied line, but lack of success was bound to prove-costly by putting in Jeopardy the whole Bul garian right. The first wavering among the Bulga rians, says the dispatch, was caused by the unexpected pressure of the French and Russians on their extreme flank, and the Serbians, profiting by this in decision, attacked energetically on the 12th and 13th. At -first the Serbian Infantry made little impression on the well-entrenched Bulgarians, but after a strong bombardment with high ex plosives the Serbians carried line after line of trenches, and compelled the Bul garians to abandon Wie whole of their advanced position along 'the Malkan idze range. The whole Bulgarian right wing fell back and the entente allies ' obtained command of the ranges dominating the Fiorina plain. The road to Monastir. the dispatch adds, 'now is free and it Is safe to pre dict that the entente allies will meet with little resistance, . in,, taking the town. LIEUTENANT SUTTON IS OUT Resignation of. Brother of Late Ma rine Officer Is Accented. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington. Sept. 18. President Wilson has accepted the resignation of First, lieu tenant Redondo B. Sutton, Coast Artil lery,' recently in the aviation section. Lieutenant Sutton, as a cadet from Ore gon, was graduated from West Point three years ago. He is the brother of the Lieutenant Sutton,' of the Marine Corps, whose ac cidental death at Annapolis some years ago created a- sensation. ARMENIANS GET NO REST Exiled Refugees at Aleppo Ordered to Move Farther On. WASHINGTON. Sept. 18 Armenians in Asia Minor who took refuge in Alep po when exiled recently by the Turks, now have been ordered to leave the new locality, according to dispatches today. . The step is belle ,'ed by many diplo mats here to' be directed toward rid ding the Near East entirely of Armenians. HAS IT COME TO THIS? C HAVE YOU 'T 15 Affidavits Are Filed in Cement Case. HEARING ON ORDER DELAYED More Long Statements May Be Presented Today. AMAN MOORE IS ATTACKED M. J. Ballard Says Plaintiff Tried to Get Hi in to Act as Agent on Board and Denies Interest ' in Other Companies. Affidavits In sheafs and bundles IS of them in all. some containing sev eral thousand words were filed in the United States: .District Court late yes terday by both sides in the so-called Cement Trust case. . Various of the affidavits air the af fairs of the Oregon Portland Cement Company, of Oswego. Or, which tshe storm center of charges of the existence of a gigantic cement trust that is at tempting to control or ruin the Oregon company, from its organization in 1909. Conspiracy Charges Denied. Denial in toto of all the "trust" and conspiracy in restraint of trade al legations brought by .Aman C Moore, vice-president and treasurer of the Oregon Portland Cement Company charges which & Federal grand Jury that was drawn yesterday is to investi gate in a suit filed August 28,- in which, as allowed by the Federal anti trust law. he asked in behalf of the com pany triple damages of 11.500.000 Irom 14 cement concerns declared to consti tute the "trust,-" is made by officers and directors of the Oregon company named co-defendants in that action. Six Ordered to show Canse. Eleven of the 15 affidavits were sub mitted by or In behalf of these six de fendant directors and officers of the Oregon Portland Cement Company, against whom Federal. Judge Bean last Thursday, on an application by Mr. Moore, issued an order to appear ia court yesterday and show cause why a temporary injunction should not be Issued, ousting them from all control and participation in the affairs of the company, and restraining them . from voting directly or indirectly their own stock or stock alleged to be under their control, at any stockholders' meeting. These six defendants are: R. P. Butchart, president; M. J. Ballard, vice president and director: L. C Newlands, superintendent and director: George Macdonald, secretary; Clark M. Moore, sales manager, and Charles Boettcber, director. Mr. Moore Also Has Affidavits. The other four affidavits were sub mitted by Mr. Moore and three direc tors of the company who are on his (Concluded on Page 6. Column 3.) Head of Oregon Lumber Company to Confer in Portland as to Plans of Erecting Bis Sawmill. BAKER. Or., Sept. 18. (Special.) One of the largest timber purchases of this vicinity in many years was re ported today by D. C. Eccles, pres ident of the Oregon Lumber Company, who said his company had taken over 15,000 acres of timber lands near Aus tin from the Inland Lumber & Tim ber Company, of Spokane. There is approximately 300.000.030 feet of yellow timber on the tract. The consideration was not announced. The timber has never been logged and is high-grade and easily accessible. Mr. Eccles was on his way from his home in Ogden, Utah, to Portland to confer with Manager Charles T. Early, general manager of the. Oregon Lumber Company, regarding the erec tion of a mill to take the place of that burned September 4. Whether to relocate the mill at Baker or have it near the new tract at Austin will be considered at the conference. SHOTS FIRED AT BORDER American Soldiers Have Skirmish With Mexican Cattle Smugglers. PRESIDIO. Tex.. Sept. IS. An out post of American soldiers at Candelarla, Tex., exchanged about 15 shots today in a skirmish with Mexican cattle smug glers, who fled. So far as can be learned no one was shot. The Mexicans were driving 25 head of cattle across the border at what they believed an unguarded point in order to avoid inspection and proper entry. ROBBERS ESCAPE IN BOAT Everglade Bandits in Disabled Craft Are Pursued to Sea. MIAMI. Fla.. Sept. IS. Four bandits who got $6000 in a daylight robbery of the State Bank of Homestead. Fla.. and killed two members of a posse sent to pursue them through the Everglades, now have put to sea in a disabled motorboat, according to a message re ceived here today from Sheriff Hardie directing the chase. C D. MAHAFFIE SWORN IN 2 6 Assistants Help Portlander Take Washington Post. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington. Sept. 18. Charles D. Mahaffle, of Portland, arrived here today and at once was sworn in as solicitor of the Department of the Interior. Twenty-six attorneys under his di rection are telling him today what his duties are. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 68 degrees; minimum, 53 degree. TODAY'S Fair; northerly winds. War. War Juggernauts used by British made In Peoria, 111., lor use In farming. Page 1. British capture powerful German fortified work. Paso 4- General Brufielloff renews drive at Haltcz. Pas 4. Way to Monastir opened by allies capture of Fiorina In Macedonia. Fags L. , Mexico. Villa's attack on Chihuahua may clarify conference situation. Page 3. Politics. Governor Johnson issues defiant statement on eve of California Republican con vention. Page 2. Republican confident of carrying Illinois. Page 4. California editor says state will aurely go for Hughes. Page 5. New York to bold primaries today. Page 8. National. , Representative Hawley reports on work in Congress. Page 7. Domestic. Women accused of blackmail plot are beau tiful. Page 1. Private banker Is suicide: four are In dicted In Chicago. Page 2. President Wilson starts for Summer White House after sister" funeral. Page 2. Sympathetic strike Involving 700,000 men planned for Thursday In New York. Page 1. San Francisco cooks and waiters sue law and order committee tor $300,000. Page 2. Sport. Athletics have fine list of Coast stars lor 1917 team. Page 12. Only one favorite wins on Grand Circuit. Page 13. Errors by White Sox put Red Box back at top of league Page 12. Chows Bessie and Count Morlng win field trials events. Page 13. Pacific Northwest. Clackamas fair opens at Canby. Page 0. General business prosperity causes ear shortage. Southern Pacific president says. Page 6. longshoremen's strike on Atlantic Is urged. Page 1. D. C. Eccles buys big tract of pine timber in Baker County. Page 1. Commercial and Marine. Quality of new Oregon hops unexpectedly good. Page IT. Wheat higher at Chicago, owing to decrease in stock Page 17. Moderate losses In stock due to profit taking sales. Page 17. Sheep and lambs stronger in local livestock market. Page 17. Heath Shipbuilding Company is organized. Page 16. Safe on Coneress forced open and contents found undamaged. Pag 16. Portland and Vicinity. Jason Moore is on way to Oregon to start r work on lakes project- Page 11. Work on new Federal building I started. Pag 16. Federal Appellate Court meets here. Page 11. Homer Ford's trial for forgery cf deed opens. Page 18. Nelson's friends last saw him In woman' room. . Page 11. Chaplaln Gilbert charges public Indiffer ence and neglect of troops. Page 9. Budget estimates being made. Page 18. Affidavits deny existence of cement trust. Page 1. Tom Dobson's concert carries audience through varying moods. Page . Weather report, data and forecast. Pass 17. Basis Is Caterpillar Farm Tractor. ' THOUSANDS USED IN PEACE Machines Made in Peoria, 111., Armored in England. OWN TRACK LAID BY CAR Manufacturer Says Great AVar En gine Can Go Over or Through Almost Anything, Uproot Trees if Necessary. WASHINGTON. Sept. IS. The British "tanks." the armored motor cars used In recent assaults on German trenches In Northern France' so successfully as to attract world-wide attention, were built for the most part in Peoria, 111., in the form of caterpillar tractors de signed many years before the war be gan to meet some of the difficult prob lems of modern farming. Except for their armor, their machine guns and their crews, thousands like them are In use today In the United States In plowing, digging ditches and other labors less heroic than war. Machines Made la leorla. M. M. Baker, vice-president of the Holt Manufacturing Company, ex- ' plained here today It was machines . made by his company at Its Peoria -plant that had hurdled German trenches, walked through forests and crawled over shell craters in the face of in tense gunfire. "We have sold about 1000 caterpillar tractors to the British government." satd Mr. Baker. "We have had noth ing to do with putting armor on them or placing machine guns, but some of -our men at Aldershot, England, re cently .were notified that the British government intended to armor some of the tractors and use them for work other than the usual towing of big guns. Germany Also Has Tractors. "Germany nad some of these tractors before the war began, and although I do not Just understand how it oc curred. I believe she . may have got others since then. We have sent some to France and some to Russia. So far as I know up until the recent appear ance of the motor cars the tra'etors were used only to tow big guns. I understand that Germany had about 40 of them in this work before Liege early In the war. and recent photo graphs show that the British are using some of them now for the same pur pose." Mr. Baker said he did not know how many of the tractors sent to England had been armored and put In service. . nor did he know what equipment the British War Office had placed upon cars to be used in this work. Obstacles) Do Not Daunt. "It is true." said Mr. Baker, "that these tractors can go ahead over almost anything or through almost anything. They can straddle a trench, go through a swjimp. - roll over logs, or climb through shell craters like a car or Jug gernaut. It looks uncanny to - see them crawl along the ground just like a huge caterpillar. In a thick forest, ' if they encountered trees they could not brush out of their way. they could easily be used to uproot them and clear their own paths." Mr. Baker said the tractors sent to England weigh about 13,000 pounds each, develop 120-horsepower and are built of steeL The caterpillar feature, he explained, is of the utmost import ance. Speaking broadly, the tractor crawls on two belts with corrugated surfaces on either side of the body. The corrugated surface is on the ground. On the inside of the belts, on each side of the body, are two lines of steel rails, making four lines in all. Machine Lays Own Track. "These rails are in short sections, jointed, and operate over a cogged mechanism that actually lays them down with their belt attachment as the tractor moves ahead and picks them up again so that the ca runs on its own self-made track continually. The short joints In the rails make it easy to turn to right or left. The body is supported . by trucks with five wheels, something like small railroad trucks. These wheels never touch the ground but run upon the steel rails. In the ordinary tractor about seven feet of belt and rails is on the ground at one time. Although Mr. Baker would not dis cuss the matter, it was understood the United States War Department is ex perimenting with armored tractors somewhat like those now in use on the British battle line. 600 ACRES BRING $60,000 Elmer McCormmacu Buys Farm Near Pendleton. PENDLETON. Or.. Sept. IS (Spe- clal.) One of the largest sales of the year was consummated today when Henry Bain, of Havana Station, dis posed of his fine 600-acre Umatilla County farm to Elmer McCormmach, a prominent young farmer, for $60,000. Mr. Bain has lived in the county 13 years. He is undecided whether he will remain in the county. T V