K VOL. VT.I XO. 17,435. PORTLAND, OREGON. MONDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1916. rillCE . FIVE CENTS. BURNING VESSEL'S JAPAN UNABLE TO OLD JACK EVEN PINS ARE DARING PRISON PASSENGERS SAFE CHOOSE CABINET AFFECTED BY WAR TORPEDOED VESSEL IS HOPE OF COAST GUARD CUTTER PICKS IIP PARTISAN DISCUSSION OF IS FLORISTS PARTICULARLY I'KEL AXTIIXA'S BOATS. SUES AT HIGH PITCH. SHORTAGE OF SUPPLY. U-BOATS IK ill HEAR (I. S. COAST AMERICANS ABOARD COOMBS ROBINS V 4 Victims British Ships; 3 Not Designated. ONE IS DUTCH, 1 NORWEGIAN American Torpedo Craft As sist in Rescuing Crews From Open Boats. 3. SUBMARINES OPERATING News of Presumed Activity of U-53 Causes Panic in Shipping Circles. KEAVrORT, It. I., Oct. 9 The ex ecutive officer of the destroyer Eli-lesson returning early today from the scene of the German nbmarlne activities off lVantacket, reported that nine ships had been sunk and that three sub marines are operating off the coast. This Information, lie said, he had on the authority of the captain of the Nan tucket Shoals lightship. BOSTON, Oct. 8. The submarine arm of the Imperial German navy rav aged shipping off the Eastern coast of the United States today. Four British, one Dutch and one Norwegian steamers were sent to the bottom or left crippled derelicts off Nantucket Shoals. Tonight the destroyer flotilla of the United States Atlantic fleet was pick ing up passengers and crews of -the destroyed vessels and bringing them into Newport, R. I. " . So far as known there was no loss : of life, though the crew of the British steamer Kingston had not been ac counted .for. ; American Steamer Held Up. A submarine held up the American 6teamer Kansan, bound from New York for .Genoa with steel for the Italian Government, but later, on es tablishment of her identity, allowed the American to proceed. 'The Kan san came into Boston harbor late to night for her usual call here. The hostile submarine is believed to be the U-53, which paid a call to New port yesterday, and disappeared at sunset. Some naval men, however, declared that at least two submarines are operating close to the American shore, though outside the three-mile limit. Record Shown by Wireless. The record of submarine warfare, as brought to land by wireless dis patches, follows: Strathdene, British freighter, tor pedoed and sunk off Nantucket, crew taken aboard Nantucket Shoals light ship and later removed to Newport by American torpedo boat destroyers. The Strathdene left New York yester day for Bordeaux, and was attacked at 6. A. M. West Point, British freighter, tor pedoed and sunk off Nantucket. Crew abandoned the ship in small boats after a warning shot from the sub marine's gun. Officers and men were taken aboard a destroyer.. Stephano Reported Still Afloat. Stephano, British passenger liner, plying regularly between New York, Halifax and St. Johns, N. F., torpe doed southeast of Nantucket, bound for New York. Reported still afloat late tonight. Passengers and crew, numbering about 140, were picked up by the destroyer Balch and brought to Newport. The attack was made at 4:30 P. M. Kingston, British freighter, tor pedoed and ' sunk southeast of Nan tucket. Crew missing and destroyer searching for them. This vessel is not accounted for in maritime regis ters, and may be the Kingstonian. The attack occurred at 6 P. M. Two of Vessels Neutral. Bloomersdijk, Dutch freighter, tor pedoed and sunk south of Nantucket. Crew taken aboard a destroyer. The steamer was bound for Rotterdam from New York, having sailed last night. Christian Knudsen, Norwegian freighter, torpedoed and sunk near where- the Bloomersdijk went down. Crew picked up by destroyers. The vessel sailed from New York Satur day for London. The sensation created yesterday, . Coicluuovi nil Ft 4. Coluiua Steamer In Tow of Tags Is Headed for Port and Captain Believes Blaze Slay Be Put Out. OLD POINT COMFORT, Va. Oct. 8. Radio messages received here tonight from the Coast Guard cutter Onondaga said that two tugs are towing the burning Ward line steamer Antllla to Hampton Roads, and that passengers and crew, which took to the small boats 120 miles off Cass Henry last night, are aboard the cutter, which Is convoying the tow. The message also asked that another tug be sent out to assist in fighting the fire. The Onondaga reached the Antllla at 8:30 this morning in response to radio distress signals early last night. The passengers and crew in small boats were picked up and transferred to the cutter. The Antllla should arrive at Cape Henry about noon tomorrow. The ex tent of the fire is not known here. NEW YORK, Oct. 8. Captain J. E. Blackadder, of the Antllla, reported by wireless late today to the Ward line officials here that he and his 13-year- old daughter and the crew had taken to the lifeboats and that the Onondaga and the Morro Castle, of the Ward line. were standing by the burning ship. The Antilla's commander said he be lieved there was a good chance of sav ing the ship. . SCIENTIFIC FUND PROVIDED Newest Discoveries to Be Placed at Disposal of Industries. 'NEW' YORK. Oct. 8. Application of the newest discoveries in science to the Industries of . the country as planned by the four leading engineering so cieties of the United States working under the auspices of. the National Re search Council received additional im petus today with announcement that the resources of the Engineering Foun dation, which provides, an annual in come of $200,000.. will be placed at the disposal of the council. Further financial aid will be fur nished, it was announced, by an an nual gift of $5000' from Ambrose Bwa sey, of Cleveland, and by funds raised by Cleveland H. Dodge. CHURCH. EXTENDS SALUTE Pastor Waves Plag and Congregation Sings In Honor of Mr. Fairbanks. . - - SEATTLE'. Oct. 8. Charles W. Fair banks, Republican candidate for Vice-President,- left late today for Spokane, where he will arrive tomorrow morn ing. Mr. Fairbanks attended the First Methodist Church this morning. The pastor- called attention to the presence of the ex-Vlce-Presldent and suggested that the congregation sing America, which the pastor conducted, waving an American flag while the members of the congregation kept time waving white handkerchiefs. - After the service Mr. Fairbanks went to the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity house at the University of Washington. HUGHES TO SPEAK TODAY Addresses at Newark, X. J., and Philadelphia Scheduled. NEW YORK. Oct. sJlcharlea E. Hughes, Republican Presidential nom inee, motored to this city late from Montclalr, N. J., where he has been resting for several days. Mr. Hughes will go to Newark, N. J., tomorrow to make an open-air address at Military Park. He will return to New York later to register. He will leave New York at 6 P. M. for Phila delphia, where he will speak in the evening. Tomorrow marks the opening of the candidate's third Presidential campaign trip, which will take him as far west as Nebraska and North Dakota. MRS. BOISSEVAIN MAY FLY Ad - Club Arranging for- Aeroplane Trip to Seattle. Inez Milholland Boissevain may make an aeroplane flight from Portland to Seattle Wednesday, if plana of the Portland Ad Club materialize. Mrs. Boissevain will speak in Port .land Tuesday night in the interest c" the Women's party at a large public banquet at Hotel Multnomah. The Ad Club wants her to remain over and speak again Wednesday at noon. In that case it -would be impossible for Mrs. Boissevain to- reach Seattle by train In time for a Wednesday night address. John Evans, of Seattle, has been asKed by telegraph to . undertake to transport Mrs. Boissevain by aeroplane. TEUTONS TAKE KRONSTADT Roumanians Admit Withdrawal ' of Forces From Transylvania. I II. IS', via Londo,n. Oct. 8. Kron stadt, . leading industrial and commer cial center of Transylvania, which was occupied by. Roumanians on their entry into the war,- has been recaptured by the Austro-German .'forces, the War Office announced today. ; - BUCHAREST, via London, Oct. 8. Roumanian troops from Hermannstadt to Brasso have been withdrawn to the Carpathian frontier, according to the n rf i i n T f,nmmt!nlg(Tnn -..- T . nian headquarters, to insure better de- "jfense of the frontier passed. Home-ComingTourists on Stephano. ATTACKER PROBABLY U-53 Passengers and Crew All Are Safe on Destroyer. SOCIETY FOLK OFFER AID Members of Newport Set Would Care for Refugees Vessel Lost Because It Took Outside Course Rounding Lightship. STEW YORK, Oct. S The steamship Bloomersdijk carried m crew of SO m and a cargo of grain valued at $500,000, consigned to the government of The Netherlands, according to W. Van Doom, an official here of the Holland American line. x lie Intimated that International com plications might arise. NEWPORT, Tl. I Oct. 8. The British steamer Stephano, carrying 44 first-cabin and 39 second-cabin passen gers. Including many American tour ists and a crew of 75, was sunk off Nantucket Lightship at 4:30 P. M. to day, presumably by the1 German sub marine U-C3. The United States tor pedo-boat destroyer Balch reported .the loss of the liner by radio to the naval station here, saying that the ship had been torpedoed. The message from the destroyer said that the crew and pas sengers were safe aboard the Balch. Confirmation of the rescue was con tained in a later message sent by the destroyer to the Naval station here. It was said that she had picked up the passengers and later had transferred the Americans to the destroyer Jenkins. Passengers Remain on Warship. Rear-Admiral Knight, commandant of the Narragansett naval district, said that the passengers who so desired would be allowed to remain on the warship until morning. At the same time, he said, if any of those , picked up wanted to be set on shore their wishes would be complied with a, promptly as possible. Members of the so-called Newport society set were prompt to extend proffers of help to the shipwrecked passengers through Admiral Knight. Mrs. Robert L. Beekman, wife of Gov ernor Beekman, and Mrs. French Van- derbilt volunteered to take care of as many refugees as possible. Many Residents of Sew Trk. Many of the passengers on the Steph ano are residents of New York. Tbe Stephano carried 3000 tons of general cargo. The vessel was in the regular service of the Red Cross line and was bound from St. Johns, N. f. to New York. Tho sale of the Stephano to the Rus sian government, which had planned to (Concluded on Page 4. Column C. Oktima's Retirement Attributed by Opponents to Failure of His Policies in China. TOKIO. Oct. 8. Conferences be tween Lleutenant-General Count Te rauchi. party leaders and others re tard the formation of a cabinet, which the Emperor designated Count Terau- chl to organize earlier this week. The rejection of recommendations made by ex-Premier Okuma baa awak ened a passionate discussion. The press generally considers the circumstances of the selection of Count Terauchl i contravention of the spirit of the con stltutlon and a return to clan govern ment. The opponents of the Okuma ministry Insist that its mismanagement of Chinese policies was the real cause of its retirement, contending that it failed to establish relations of trust and friendliness with China. The Herald applauds the designation of Count Terauchl on the ground that he is in imperative need "when Japan is facing a situation in the Far East fraught with eventualities of far- reaching consequences. " The news paper thinks Count Terauchi's author ity in the army will permit unity in the departments of diplomacy and na tional defense. TRADERS WILL CO-OPERATE John Barrett Finds No Desire lor Ruinous Competition. BORDEAUX. Oct. 8. John Barrett. director-general of the Pan-American Union, who has been discussing Latin- American trade matters with manufac turers and financiers In France and England, said before sailing on the liner Lafayette for New York today that he had found them in both coun tries planning to make greater ef forts to improve commercial and fi nancial relations with all America. Mr. Barrett's inquiry showed, how ever, he indicated, that their desire was to co-operate along this line with in terests In the United States, rather than engage in ruinous competition. REGISTRATION MARK HIGH 102,170 Republicans and 36 110 . Democrats at San Francisco. SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 8. Registra tion for the November Presidential election closed at midnight last night with what Registrar of Voters Harry Zemanskl said would be the largest en rollment In the history of San Fran cisco. Indications, he said, were that at least 18E.000 voters had qualified as electors. Of these. 102.179 registered as Re publicans and 36.210 as Democrats. r DOCTOR DIES IN EPIDEMIC Infant Paralysis Claims Man AVbo Aided in Its Control. WASHINGTON, Oct. 8 Dr. Arthur L. Hunt, who assisted tbe local health department in observing persons com ing from communities Infected with in fantile paralysis, died here last night of that-disease. Dr. Hunt, who was 39 years old, was stricken last week. HORSE SENSE. Today's Battle One of Veteran vs. Youth. RUTH IS BOSTON'S CHOICE Young Southpaw to Pit Speed Against Old-Timers' Skill. RED SOX RELY ON DEFENSE Grantland Rice Says Nothing Other Tli an Air-Tight Play Behind Col by Jack Can Keep Boston From Winning Second. BT GRANTLAND RICE: (Copyright, lf18, the Tribune Association. Registered in accordance with the copyright lawv Canada. !16 ) LINES TO YVKSLKT COOMBS. Ten years ago I saw a kid. fUep otit to work tits first big game; I saw htm make his first strong bid. To take a healthy whack at fame; Since then the olive's wreathed his brow. With those who ruled the game for Mack. Win or lose, old bird, here's how. To Colby Jack. Some guy you said It s you spoke. Your tongue's entitled to a hit. clean old, good old-fashioned bloke. That doesn't know the way to quit. An entry broken at the crest. Who fell below, but fought on back. And so. here's luck and all the rest. To Colby Jack. BOSTON. Mass., Oct. 8. (Special.) Unless the cards are shifted and re shuffled before the fashionable hour of tail noon on Monday, the second game of the current or fiscal world series will bring together two widely different pitching types. One will very likely be John Wesley Coombs, officially carded as Babe Ruth. Coombs smashed his way into world series glory six years ago when he rumpled up th Cubs three times in one series. Ruth has yet to pitch his first post-season contest, so there is the game's old story of the young star tossed 1 against the veteran In a battle that for Brooklyn stands as the most decisive section of the series. There are those who believe th Robby will start Larry Cheney against the renowned Babe and his whistling shoots, but knowing the Importance Monday's melee and the September ef fectiveness of Colby Jack, also his ex perlence in world series affairs. It looks now to be a certainty that Brook lyn will shoot her veteran against the Red Sox charge. Jack's rre la 5s Danger. Coombs not only carries most of the ammunition of former campaigns, but with Brooklyn's uncertain and erratic defensive play he looks to be the bes bet Just at this stage. Jack knows the highway from long traveling and many Journeys, and all tbe errors in the game will not be enough to shatter his nerve or break his spirit. And nothing but 'Concluded on Page K. Column 1. ) Germany Source of Dainty Little Corsage Holders and Also of Short Hat fasteners. ino wonder some of the girls are wearing chin straps and elastic bands to hold their hats on these days There is a dearth of hatpins. If things Keep on at the rate they are going, it is rumored there will be none on sale in a little while. True there are plenty of the old- fashioned long pins, and women who know good values buy these and have them cut shorter, but the short pins of recent make, the kind demanded by law. are scarce. The florists are feel ing the pressure more than anyone Before the war they thought nothing of the little handy violet pin that went with a corsage bouquet. Now they have greal difficulty in getting these pins and the cost Is much greater. One of the florists said yesterday: "We will give the pins, but they take a lot out of our profits. Some of the varieties we used to get before the war are no longer to be obtained. That is why a difference is noted in the style and quality. "Germany makes the hat and corsage pins used so extensively and If the war doesn't stop soon, what will the women do about it? They will have to pay extra if they want the florist to provide hatpins, if present indications have any meaning." CARRANZA MAY NOT RUN Feeling in 3Icsico Is That First Chief Will Not B Candidate. el PASO. Tex.. Oct. 8. "General Carranza has made no formal state- ment of his position," Consul Pesquelra said today, "but there is a strong feel- ing among the men who are close to him In the national capital that he will not be a candidate." By a recent decree issued by General Carranza the President will serve only one' term of four years, as the decree specifies that there shall be no re-elec- tlon to the Presidency. THREE IN DUEL ARE SHOT Two Pomrroy, Wash., Officers and Laborer Are Wounded. POME ROY, Wash.. Oct. 8. (Special.) During a duel with Joseph Kline, a laborer. Marshal Dixon. last night was) shot In the arm. Night Marshal Wh It- taker received a bullet wound in the foot ami Kline ws hit in the shoulder ana luck py dsiis irom me orricer guns. Kline Is charged with previously having threatened citizens with his re volver while intoxicated. He is in tb hoopital. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. Y ESTER D AT' S Maximum temperature. decrees; minimum, 43 defcreea. TODAY'S Fair: easterly wlnis. War. Submarines sink nin steamships near American coast, fas 1. Many Americans on torpedoed Stephano. Pas 1. Berlin says Ambassador Oerard brlnss no letter of anjr kind from Kaiser. Pug 3. Polities. Tezsn's letter shows Democratic commit- left .uinuriii u r,inj,iu ic tu WH masters. Pas -. Kentucky KHck predicts Wilson will carry Oresou. Paso n. Minnesota will civ Hushes large majority. I page Hughes Is bin favorlt on betting in Oreson and elsewhere. Pass lO. Farmers president demands repeal of Adam- son law. Pag . Foreign. Japan unable t-i chooe cabinet, pending tetter discussion oi issues, page l. Mexico. New submarine problem embarrassing to Administration. Pag 4. New submarine situation worries Mr. Wil son, rage 4. people of chihuahua fleeing in fear of villa, Pin 2 I President urse observance of today as fir I picvvuuuii ub). i ,n . Domestic Passengers and crew of burning steamship Antllla savea. nia i. Pport. Pacific Coast League results: Portland . Oakland S (10 innings); San Francisco 8-0. Los Angelea 3-1 (second game 11 innings, Vernon !, Salt Lake 04. Pag 13. Stanford not to lift ban on American foot. ball. Page 12. Aggies show marked Improvement In gam with Idaho. Pag 12. A. S. C'olrtsmlth Is elected president of Pa cific .Northwest Association. Page 13. Overtook football team defeats Portland Athletic Club. 24 to 0. Page 12. Brooklyn undaunted by first defeat. Page 12. Old Jack coomba la Brooklyn bope today I againsL loung eoumpaw itutn. page l. I .l pacific Northwest. Missing convict and girl prisoner caught In darln; plot to escap at Salem. Pag 1. Bullet ends exciting chase after . Washing ton auto tnifcvea. page o. Lewlnton Republicans going after every vote. - Pag 10. Portland and Vicinity. Trails Club hikes to Larch Mountain sum- in ut page l. - Orpheum bill equals previous wonder show. Page 1 8. Judge Norton! to speak tonight. Pago 14. Bishop Hutrhes doubts If stingy man can ntr Heaven. Pase lo. German-speaking societies celebrate coming w iirst leuiun immigrants. Pas 13. North Portland Republicans addressed hv E. V. LltUefleld and c N. McArthur. Pag 9. Alaska woman brings furs worth thousands. x-ag is. Coos Bay trad excursion leaves Portland Konig-nt. fag o. Fir prevention topic for today. Pag 14. Fire Department answers 14 calls in day. War making pins scarce. Page 1. Weather report, data and forecast. Pago 15. m. McHride show vital necessity of ship I tax amendment. Pag 11. I Dr. Dyott preaches on theme of "Proao-r- PLOT IS FOILED Convict Tanner and Girl Accomplice Caught. MRS. KERSCH IS ATTACKED i Woman Prisoner Gives Battls to Supposed Escaped Man at Salem. SCREAMS BRING OFFICIALS Tunnel Dug Through Thick Wall of Penitentiary to Liberate Sweetheart. SALEM, Or., Oct. 8. .Special., Willard Tanner, slayer of Roy Wallace in Portland in 1912, and Hazel Erwin, his accomplice, made a sensational at tempt to escape from the Oregon Penitentiary early today. The break was loiied Dy airs. Carrie r.erscn, serving a term for manslaughter, ir . . . , Mrs- Kersch broke frm Tan ner, who was trying to choke her into submission ud screamed for help, Before attacking Mrs. Kersch, lanner, with the aid of Hazel Erwin, bound , , -T n,.. SS8ed " Williams, a negro girl imprisoned for her part in a stab bing affray in Portland a few months ae Brick all lunneled. The affair took place in the wom en's department of the penitentiary, access to which Tanner gained by tun neling through a heavy brick wall from the Bertillon room on the second floor of the prison. The attempted break was the culmi- I nation of a carefully laid plot by Tan ner and the Erwin girl to gain their liberty. Tanner had been missing for 10 days. He disappeared the afternoon of September 29, and it was generally believed he had made his escape by passing out of the prison with a crowd of visitors who had been inspecting the prison that day- Superintendent Minto insisted that Tanner was hid den within the prison walls. Careful search failed to disclose any trace of him, however. Tanner Chokes Woman. Shortly before 5 a. m. today Hazel Erwin and Tanner entered the room I where the Williams girl slept and bound and gagged her. Miss Erwin then walked into Mrs. Kersch's room and told her that the negro girl was ill, asking her to come and see what waa the trouble. Unsuspectingly, Mrs. Kersch arose to give assistance. As she entered the Erwin girl's room, where she had been told that Miss Williams was. Tanner stepped from behind the door and seized her by the throat. After a desperate struggle Mrs. Kersch broke awny and ran to the west window of . .... ; viit- x dence of Superintendent Minto, 25 yards distant. Screams Attract Officials. "Mr. Minto, Tanner's in here," screamed Mrs. Kersch. The superintendent, prison matron and guards heard Mrs. Kersch's cries, and hastened to the scene. In the meantime Tanner crawled back into the Bertillon room and hid on top of a large bookcase. The hole had been covered up by- him and it was some . v. .u : . , """ uciuIC oinciais couia find how he had gained entrance into women s dormitory. After the hole was found the Bertillon room was searched and Tanner discovered. According to Superintendent Minto, it was the plan of Tanner and his companion to subdue Mrs. Kersch and then overpower Matron- Pope, take her keys away and unlock the door leading from the dormitory into a hall. From here a stairway leads to the first floor hall by which they could have emerged into the grounds in front of the prison building. Civilian Garb Worn. Hazel Erwin, Mrs. Kersch, Mis3 Williams and Matron Pope are the only occupants of the women's dormi tory. In preparation for their escape. ITo-tol tr.-,,-:.. t.n j J - t-iotuea tirai- ar to tnobe wo rn Dy Matron Jrope, and T - v.. .1 ,.v j -i. , "" uuu""cu civilian S 8U11 ' ii. tConcluticU oa Pas 2. Column li