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K VOL. VIA. NO." 17,438. PORTLAND. OREGON". THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12, 191G. TRICE FIVE CENTS. KILLED BY DRY CAMPAIGNER IS HECKLED BY WETS STATE HIGHWAYS NOW ARE .SEVEN GHEEBEO OF AMERICAN LEGION GREECE MUST GIVE UP FLEET TO ALLIES MEN FIGHT POLICE VOLLEY BY POLICE WEST VIRGINIA GLORY SHATTERED MISSOURIAXS ARE ANGERED BV DR. IRA LANDRITH. COMMISSION CHOOSES ROUTES FOR FEDERAL CO-OPERATION. CANADIAN TROOPS RAID BAR RACKS, BURN EQUIPMENT. WOMAN HUGHES robins DREAM Standard Oil Strikers Are Fired On. 2 MEN MORTALLY WOUNDED Officers Attack Mob, Demol ishing Fire Engine. 1 SEVERAL OTHERS ARE SHOT Women Placed In Front . Row by Crowd Railroad Policeman Is Beuten and Loft for Dead Across Railway Tracks. T BAYONNE. N. J.. Oct. 11. (Special.) Standard Oil strikers held Bayonne In terror today and scenes of violence were of hourly occurrence. Tonight the mob started fires and cut liose when the fire department respond ed. Members of the mob also attempted to wreck a Are engine and attacked. the police and firemen. The situation became desperate, and when shots were fired by the strikers the police respond ed with a volley Into the mob, killing one woman and injuring several other persons. Women In Front Row. In accordance with strike mob ethics, the women had been put In front in the belief that the police would not club them or fire upon them.- The woman killed, was Miss Sophia Torack, 20 years old. She was struck In the head by a bullet and died at the Bayonne Hospital soon after she was taken there. Two men, one a striker, are in a critical condition with several bullet wounds In their bodies. Two ether men are in the hospital with less serious wounds. Several others were shot, according to the police, and taken away by friends. None of the policemen or firemen was Injured. ' -' Missiles Hurled at Firemen. Fewer than 50 policemen fought with a crowd of several hundred strikers. Both fides fired repeatedly. Miss Torack, who was killed, was watching the fight from a window of her home, a few yards away. A shot struck her In. the head. The firemen, responding to an alarm, were jeered and missiles were hurled at them as they advanced. The crowd which followed them soon became menacing and surrounded- the apparatus. Then ' a concerted attack was made on the engine, which was quickly wrecked. The battle which fol lowed the arrival of the patrolmen, who opened fire as they approached, was sharply contested. The concerted attack finally won. however, and the mob was dispersed. Early in the day a mob attacked 3. J. O'Connor, lieutenant of the Lehigh Valley Railroad police, and five assist ants, beating them unconscious. Be lieving O'Connor was dead, the strik ers threw his body across the railroad tracks and left it. Railroad Detectives Beaten. Two other railroad detectives were nearly beaten to death In another at tack. Herbert Richards, a traveling man, did not move fast enough for the Strikers when ordered to leave town and was attacked and badly beaten. The police were powerless. The authorities have granted the Standard Oil Company, owner of the Tidewater company, permission to use machine guns against the strikers. A mob held up a Jersey Central ..freight train, believing it'was hauling gunpowder to the oil plant. While the firemen fought off the strikers, who tried to climb aboard the engine, the engineer opened the throttle and the train rattled on. The strikers managed to cut oft six cars and rifled them. Girl Telegrapher Beaten. ' Another mob attacked a. Jersey Cen tral telegraph office, ordering Miss Anna Doody, the operator, to leave. !YVhen she refused she was beaten. At noon between 700 and 800 armed strikers moved upon the police to res cue two strikers under arrest. Four or five policemen in the struc ture armed themselves and all the re porters In the building to resist the assault. In the meantime a boy was smuggled from a rear window, and with him a bicycle. The boy rode off unseen and brought up reinforcements of 20 armed reserves. STARVATION IS VACATION Method Is Substitute for Outing, Says Professor. CHICAGO. Oct. 11. A starvation period is an excellent substitute for a month's vacation in the mountains, ac cording to Professor Anton. Carlson, of the University of Chicago, physiology department. He and an assistant went without food for five days and claim to have proved the theory. They con tinued their usual work during the en' tire period, it was announced yesterday. "Occasional periods of starvation." declares Dr. Carlson, "say once or twice a year in the case of healthy adult per sons may not only add to the joy of living, but to the length of life. Our discomfort at no time was sufficient to Interfere -seriously with work. Ac counts of acute suffering from mere starvation must, therefore, be wholly Imaginary, or the result of fear or panic." Almost Every Man Present Sliouts Opposition to Proposed Pro hibition for State. ST. LOUIS, Mo.. Oct. 11. Defiant op position to the arguments of the Pro hibition National campaigners devel oped' today In Eastern Missouri. At Hermann, a wine center, and Washing ton, both wet towns, Ira Landrlth, the Vice-Presidential candidate, was inter rupted both by individuals and groups of angry wets. Seemingly almost every man in a crowd of several hundred at Hermann shouted "No" when Landrith asked a group of school children to raise their hands if they wanted a' dry state. The children voted "aye" al most unanimously. Later, from differ ent parts of the crowd, individuals shouted remarks at the speaker. "What are you going to do for reve nue?" shouted an insistent questioner at Washington. "Raise more hogs than hell and you won't need so much revenue," Landrith replied. "When this Nation goes dry we'll have more markets for other things that will produce revenue, too. The old soak who's been feeding his wife cracklings and shorts will feed her bread and ham. The amount we will save in the cost of conducting jails, insane asylums and similar institutions will go a long way toward reducing the amount of revenue required." J. Frank Hanly. the Presidential nominee, escaped interrogation. He took up Landrith's. economic argument, how ever, insisting that the Nation could be made dry at a profit. MAN WINS ON RECOUNT Aberdeen Legislative Candidate Has Two-Vote Lead. ABERDEEN, Wash.. Oct. 11. (Spe cial.) As the result of a recount of the votes cast in one precinct, M. C. Harris, member of the last Legislature, noses out a victory by two votes over A. Stritmatter, his opponent for the Re publican nomination, who, until the re count was made, led Harris by two votes. Following a hearing in the Superior Court, Judge George D. Abel ordered a recount in one precinct, and this re count showed that Harris should have received six more votes that he was credited with. CYCLONE HITS ST. THOMAS i ii i r Nearly Every Building; Damaged and Many Persons Homeless." ST. THOMAS, Ianlsh West Indies, Oct. 11. A cyclone swept over St. Thomas Monday night and yesterday morning with disastrous results. Al most every building in the city was damaged and some were destroyed. There are many homeless persons and it is probable some form of public re lief measures will be necessary. The damage thus far reported runs into the hundreds of thousands of dol lars. So far as is known there was no loss of life. SLACKERS GET HARD TASK Guardsmen AYlio Refused to Hike Must Care for Horses. DOUGLAS. Ariz., Oct. 11. Ninety-six members of the New . Jersey Signal Corps who recently refused to hike to Nogales received what is ' termed by Army men a more arduous task today, when ordered to take with them to Sea Girt, N. J., 192 horses left here by the New Jersey artillery and cavalry units which departed Sunday. Preparations for the care of the 10 carloads of horses for the long journey, it was said, would delay the departure of the Signal Corps for several days. SPECIAL REACHES HELENA Mr. Fairbanks Among Speakers at Women's Hughes Meeting. . HELENA. Mont., Oct. 11. Women of the Hughes alliance who are touring the United States in advocacy of the Republican Presidential nominee, held a public meeting in the auditorium here at noon today. Charles W. Fair banks, Republican Vice-Presidential nominee, was among the speakers. The women later held a reception. The special train departed for Butte later In the afternoon. ESCAPED CONVICT TAKEN Eddie Bell Retaken In California, Superintendent Minto Hears. SALEM. Or.. Oct. 11. (Special.) Eddie Bell, one of six convicts who escaped from a gang of prisoners re cently while employed pulling flax, was captured today by the police at Oak land, Cal according to word received today by Superintendent Minto, of the penitentiary. None of the other men who fled have been captured. ABSENTEES ARE TO VOTE Wisconsin Passes Bill Providing for Soldiers on Border. MADISON, Wis., Oct. 11. The ape cial session of . the Legislature ad journed sine die tonight after Governor Phillip had signed bills passed yester day giving soldiers on the border the right to vote by mail. Citizens away from home election day also have the right to vote by mail. Maintenance of Ameri can Rights Affirmed. PEACE IS CANDIDATE'S DESIRE Nominee Says Invitation of In sult Will Bring Disaster. MEXICAN CASE REVIEWED Position Taken. That Risking of American Lives to Satisfy Per sonal Dislike for Certain Man Is Not Right. CHARLESTON. W. Va, Oct 11. Charles E. Hughes, in his 12-hour cam paign tour through West Virginia to day, outlined before audiences his pol icy towards the maintenance of Ameri can rights, declared that in stating bis stands he had "no agreements with anybody" and referred to the United States as being "before the world, a great neutral nation, to vindicate the integrity of International law and the rights of neutrals." To an audience at Parkersburg, Mr. Hughes said: "I stand for the development of the American Nation, according to the genius of its institutions; for the honor of our country In the protection of American citizens and with respect to every American right on land and sea. for its firm enforcement. American Rights Flint. "We are before the world, a great neutral Nation, to vindicate the lnteg rity of international law. the rights of neutrals and I stand unflinchingly for the maintenance of the rights of Ameri can citizens with respect to life, prop erty and commerce." In repeating these statements here tonight, the nominee coupled with them a statement made earlier in the day before an audience at Parkersburg. "I have no understandings, no agree ments, no Intrigues with anybody," he id. . "But I stand for the Interests of the United States and the protection of American lives, American property and American commerce throughout the world." 1 ... Quick Reply Brings Applause. A man in the Huntington audience shouted to Mr. Hughes: "What about the Virginia debt case?" "The Virginia debt, sir, is a matter," Mr. Hughes replied, quickly, "to which the Supreme Court of the United States gave its best consideration, a decision which you and everybody else ought to respect." A roar of applause greeted this statement. "We are dealing with the record of the present Administration." Mr. Hughes said. "When that Administra tion's record is examined its defenders eem to protest as though it were a (Concluded on Pa.. 2. Column 1.) Lane and Coos Bay Delegation Asks for Designation of Road From Eugene to Coast. SALEM. Or., Oct. 11. (Special.) The State Highway Commission gave its in dorsement today to seven roads, desig nated as state highways, upon the con struction' of which ' it will keep pace with the Federal Forestry Service un der section 8 of the Shackleford bill. The road projects for which funds will be requested from the Government are as follows:, No. 1. From Bortland to Ashland on the Pacific Highway. No. 2. From Portland to Ontario via Baker. No. 3. From The Dalles to Klamath Falls. No. 4.-From Portland to Ontario via John Day. No. 5. From Florence to Mitchell. No. 6. From Bend to Lakevlew. No.' 7. From Eugene to Klamath Falls. The approval of these routes was given by the members of the State Highway Commission upon request of B. J. Finch, senior highway engineer of the Federal office of public roads and rural engineering. The designation of the state roads today by the commission. Mr. Finch said, was essential, before the Forest Service could obtalit the necessary road funds. The Forest Service also desires to co-operate with counties, according to Mr. Finch, in the mapping and build ing of roads running through reserves. An effort was made by a delegation of Lane and Coos County residents to obtain the Highway Commission's ap proval of a road running from Eugene, via Gardner and the Sluslaw section to Coos Ray. RECORD AS NEGRO OFFENDS New Orleans Family Sues to Erase Word In Health Board Papers. NEW ORLEANS, Oct 11 Frank H. Joubert. general manager of the Pub lic Belt Railroad, and seven other mem bers of the Joubert family today in stituted mandamus proceedings to com pel a change of the board of health records, in which the Jouberts are al leged to be recorded as of negro an cestry. . . The petition asserts certain records were filed by persons not members of the family and that the abbreviation "CoL" later was written Into the rec ords. ' . BLIND STUDENT IS ACTIVE Missionary Work Is Carried Into Wendllng Logging Camps. WENDLING. Or., Oct 11. (Special.) A blind student from the University of Oregon is carrying the message of the Young Men's Christian Association to the lumber camps here. He Is Leslie Blades. Mr. Blades is an honor student at the University, an orator and a dramatic writer. Daily he goes unassisted from the buildings on the campus, depend ing on his sense of location and hear ing. He has learned the touch system and prepares all bis college work on the typewriter. CONCEALED WEAPONS LOADED! Sox Put Skids Under Brooklyn Machine. HOME-RUN STARTS CAYE-IN Gardner's Lusty Hit Stops Marquard's Come-Back. THIRD VICTORY IS W0J. 'Dutch Leonard Pronts by 'Rube's' Fall and Hurls Fine Game. Boston Needs One More to CJose Out Big Show. BT GRANTLAND RICE. (Copyright. ISte. the Tribune Aercctatlon. Registered in accordance with tha copy light law of Canada. 1616.) NEW YORK. Oct 11. (Special.) Mirquird and Merkla and Mey.ra ona day Sailed eff with tha Brooklyn team: Sailed off for the old world aertoua play On the drift of an ancient dream; "Where are you coins Oh, whera are you bent?" Bill Carrigan uked tha three; "We are going out for tha 40 per cent That walta In the Jubilee; Four years of tha to.ers end have we." Said Marquard. and Merkle, and Meyers. The world series has now resolved itself into this burning date, viz: Will the ultimate agony end in Boston Thursday afternoon or will the final autopsy be post poned until Friday In Brooklyn? This is about all the prophets and the soothsayers, the scribes and the Pharisees, have to worry about now. For when Larry Gardner touched off a home run un Craatlaad It Ice. der Rube Mar quard'a quivering system In the second inning yesterday with, two on base, Brooklyn's dream of empire- started downward., after the maner of a steel girder tossed from the top Of the Woolworth tower. The one' blow, delivered deep into the barren lands of center field, broke Marquard's heart, shattered Brooklyn's wavering defense and practically closed out the series. Victory Kr for Beaton. As it was. Boston romped home, 6 to 2. with Dutch Leonard facing Mar quard, Cheney and Rucker in turn as Robby rushed In bis relief corps in a vain attempt to beat back the oppress lng hordes. But for Brooklyn it was a case of the Huns being at the gate and the runs being over the plate be fore the amazed Robins knew there was a. war. As a result of this third victory, the Carrlgan machine now needs only one more conquest to close out the spec tacle and collect tne winner s end. Brooklyn can still win by taking (Concluded on Page 14. Column 2.) .... a, Mob Tries In Vain to Rescue Arrest ed Comrades and One of Soldiers Is Shot. CALGARY. Alberta, Oct. 1 1. A crowd of soldiers raided the mounted police barracks here tonight with the an nounced intention of rescuing five men. embers of a local battalion who had been fined for violation of the liquor act The rescue was not effected and at the earnest representations of the officers the mob finally dispersed. One soldier who tried to force his way into the guard-room, was shot through the right shoulder by a mounted policeman, who was on guard there. He will recover. Th mob smashed all the barracks windows. Furniture. clothing and equipment thrown out of the building, was heaped into a pile in the street and burned. Another crowd set out downtown with the avowed intention of raiding the hardware stores and taking fire arms and ammunition with which to attack the small force at the barracks. A cordon of the city police made a baton charge and drove the mob away from two stores which were threatened. The soldiers belonged chiefly to the American Legion and previous to the attack on the mounted police barracks surrounded the city police headquarters building and made a demonstration. Both the day and night squads of the force were placed to guard the building. Chief of Police Cuddy admitted a dele gation of the soldiers and showed them that the. prisoners they sought to re lease were not there. The crowd then marched to the mounted police bar racks. EX-MORMONS TO RE-WED Coualo on 4 Oth Anniversary Fears Legal Aspect Might Afreet Children. MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.. Oct. 11. James Mitchell and Louise Moran. on the 40th anniversary of their marriage by the Mormon Church in Utah, tomorrow will be married in Minneapolis. They fear that some legal differences might arise from their first marriage which would deprive their children of their inheritance. Both have left the domain of the Mormon Church. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS . . The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 62 deicreea; minimum. 4- degree.. TODAY'S Fair; northwesterly winds. War. Alllea demand delivery to them of Creek fleet- Paga 1. Official war reports. Paga 4. British announce German casualties sine .tart ut war as S.JOd.OlS. Page 4. Forelga. Brltl.h ban on International N'ewa Service praised by London press. Paga S. American Legion soldiers attack Canadian police. Paga 1. Submarine Rsvlda. Brltl.h li I p. cautloua In leaving America. Paga a. America-, policy toward U-boat raids yet undetermined. Paga 4. Politic We.t Virginia crowds cheer Mr. Hughes. Page 1. President Mart, on second campaign trip to Middle We.t. Pago 2. War creeping nearer, aaya Rooeevelt. and Wll.on policy blamed. Paga J. National. President appoints advisory defense commis sion. Paga 4. United State. Navy on lookout for hidden U-boat boas. Pago . Domestic. Wets heckle dry campaigners In Missouri. Page 1. Episcopalian general conference elects Rev. Dr. Alexander Mann prealdent of house of deputies. Paga 2. Police fire on mob of Standard Oil strikers, killing woman. Paga 1. Sport. Pacific Coast League results: Portland B. Salt take 8; San Francisco 1. Vernon S; Los Angeles 3. Oakland 1. Paga 15. Single O wins free-for-all pace at Lexing ton. Paga 14. Red Sox take Robins Into camp in fourth game of world series. Paga 14. Robins' dream of glory shattered by Red Sox. Page 1. Under classmen humble older team at Reed College, 12 to O. Page 16. Heavy Washington high team deflates James John. 43 to O. I'aga 1. Paclfie Northwest State Highway commission gives Indorse ment to seven projects. Paga 1. Pacific Coast mills unlta la big exporting schema. Paga 20. Seattle liquor seised An carload lota Page T. Women'a Club convention at Seaside vote, down rceolutlon jfo discredit Hughes spe cial. Page a. State begins first of series of suits to re cover title to Hyde lands. Paga 8. H. J. Rossi tells of scene at home on fatal day. Paga 7. Gigantic campaign planned to bring tourists to Northmen. Page 5. Ona Oregon University freshman lives on S6 monthly. Page 1. Portland excursionists ftnd business Is good In Coos country. Paga IT. Samuel Leroy Crawford, once owner of Seattle Intelligencer, dies. Page 4- Commerctal and Marine. Sugar markets advance owing to buying by allies. Page 19. Big purchase of wheat In Australia by Brltl.h government weakena Chicago market. Paga 10. Stock prices carried downward by selling pressure. Page IV. Portland Ship Building Company eeeks American rights to make semi-Diesel en- gtnea. Page 20. Portland and Vicinity. Schools and societies will observe Columbus day. Page 13. Alton, lumber producers testify In rate hearing. Page 13. Funeral of Seaman A. T, Hunt la today. Paga 11. Commissioner Daly points out saving In Water Bureau, which Is more apparent than real. Paga V. Widow loaes damage suit for loss of hus band's companionship. Page 13. Corrmlttee of prominent women will wel come Hughes special, paga 20. Representative McArthur aaya Democrats do not derve credit for child labor law. Paga o. McBiide rally devoted to attack on oppo nent's record. Paga IS. Ex-Senator Beveridge and Judge D. Ksta brook peak for Hughes here this meek. Puge IT. Oregon State Homeopathic Medical Society In session. Page 17. Wcatliar report, data and forecast, . Pass IK, Demand Complied With Almost at Once. EDICT INCLUDES RAILWAY, TOO Surrender and Dismantling of Forts Ordered. CREWS ARE TO BE REDUCED Action by Kntentc Admiral Taken as Precaution to Protect His Command, Following Move ment of 3Iunitions. LONDON. Oct 11. Vice-Admiral Dartige Du Fournet. commander of the Anglo-French fleet in the Mediterra nean, has presented an ultlmtum to Greece demanding that Greece hand over the entire Greek fleet except the armored cruiser Averoff and the bat tleships Lemos and Kilkis. to the en tente allies by 1 o'clock Wednesday afternoon, according to Reuter's Athens correspondent Demand is aleo made for the con trol of the Piraeus-Larissa Ralway. Deanaade Are Granted. "The Minister of Marine.' the cor respondent continues, "says Vice-Admiral Fourney's demands will be com plied with and that the fleet will be handcvl over before the prescribed time. "The demands were made as a pre cautionary measure to insure the safe ty of the allies' floef The dispatch says that the Greek government added a protest to Its noti fication of acceptance. "A telephone message received at Athens from ' Piraeus says that the handing over of the Greek navy to the allied naval au thorities has ' already begun. . The lighter craft will be handed over intact so as to enable them to be dis patched to the provisional government at Salonikt. The heavier vessels will be disarmed and left where they. are. In the Gulf of Keratslni. It is explained that the dispatch of artillery and ammunition to the in terior, the movements of Greek ships and the continued activity of the re servist leagues have aroused fears of a disturbance at points where the allies' war vessels are anchored and also en danger the security of the allied troops on the Balkan front Dlamaatllng of Ports Desnaaded. Vice-Admiral du Fournet demands the disarming of the Kilkis. Lemnos and Averoff and the dismantling of the forts on the seacoast while the two forts commanding the fleet's moorings are to be made over to the admiral. Control of certain points must also be placed in the bands of the Anglo British authorities. In addition to the disarming of the warships named, their crews are to be reduced to one-third the regular com plement The Greek navy consists of five bat tleships the Kilkis. Lemnos. Purs. S pet sal and Hydra; one armored cruis er, the Averoff; the coast defense ship Basileus Georgios; the cruisers llelll and Nauachos Mlaulls; ten gunboats. 17 torpedo-boat destroyers, nine torpedo boats, three submarines and several transports and other craft Four Thouaaad Mcs la K'atry. The Greek naval force has been esti mated at 4000 officers and men. Recently there have been reports that Greek warships bad deserted the navy and Joined the revolutionary forces. Among these were the battleship Hydra and two torpedo-boats, which It was declared left their anchorages and joined the allied fleet in sQumis Bay. The Kilkis also was reported to have deserted, but this was denied. The best ships In the Greek navy are the Kilkis and Lemnos. which are tha former American battleships Idaho and Mississippi. These vessels were sold to Greece in 1914, Greece paying 11.53 5. 275 for them. ASSISTANCE OFFE11KD GKEFjCE ' No New Concession Offered by Al lies, However. ATHENS. Oct. 9.. via London. Oct 11. The entente allies have again of- fered to assist Greece in case she enters the war. but It is understood no new concessions have been made. It is learned that entente diplomatic circles of Athens yesterday advised the French and British Chancellories, who are charged by the other allied govern ments with the negotiations with Greece, to reply to King Constantlne's Informal proposals to depart from neu trality In tho following sense: "While the form In which the pro posals were made is unacceptable and the question of Bulgarian occupation of Greek soil is considered purely a Greek matter In which the entente is not concerned, nevertheless should Greece voluntarily abandon neutrality, declare war on Bulgaria, and decree a general mobilization, the entente will be disposed to furnish every assistance in the campaign and to give other ma terial proofs of benevolent interest in the welfare of Greece. It is under tood. however, that these diplomatic as surances are nut to interfere io any iCuuv.uuctl vu Pass 4, Cilajuu 4.t t