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PORTLAND, OREGON, TUESDAY, MAY 23, 1917.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
300 FREIGHT CARS
2 NURSES KILLED BY
SHIP'S TARGET SHOT
DEATH BECKONING
U.S. SENATOR LANE
SHELLS WIPING OUT
HltiDEHBK LINE
DIET OF ALFALFA IS
URGED0N GERMANS
RISH ARE ASKED TO
SDLVEOWH AFFAIRS
TO BE BUILT HERE
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CONTRACT LET TO TWOHY BROS.
PHTSICIAXS GIVE UP HOPE OF
IIIS RECOVERY.
RED CLOVER ALSO ADVISED
BY SOUTHERN PACIFIC.
V FOR TASTY DISKES.
SCQRESOFBLQCKS
Bill III MAIITA
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Fire Sweeps Oyer City Un
checked for Hours.
LOSS WILL TOTAL MILLIONS
Many Finest Homes in Town
and Several Warehouses
Are Destroyed.
BUILDINGS ARE DYNAMITED
Thousands Homeless Stu
dent Officers and Other
Municipalities Help.
ATLANTA, Ga., May 21 Fire
Chief Cody announced late tonight
that the fire had been brought under
control.
ATLANTA, Ga., May 21. Fire that
started this afternoon in an obscure
negro section swept a broad path
through the residential section of At
lanta, devastating scores of blocks and
destroying many of the city's finest
homes and hundreds of negro houses.
Although the flames were not en
tirely under control tonight, they had
been : checked half way through, the
exclusive Ponce de Leon-avenue resi
dence section, and fire officials be
lieved there was little danger of a
further spread.
One Life Known Lost.
. First estimates of the damage
placed it at between $2,000,000 and
$3,000,000. So far as could be learned
the only life lost wa3 that of a woman
who died from, shock.
The fire was confined to the north
Western part of the city, arid the only
business houses burned were several
warehouses.
A high wind carried the flames
northeastward with a speed which
soon outran the efforts of the fire
department. .
Student Officers Fight Fire.
Within an hour after the first alarm
the blaze began to assume the pro
portions of a conflagration and fire
officials called in several hundred men
from the Fort McPherson officers'
training camp to aid In the fight. Ap
peals for help also brought fire equip
ment from a half dozen neighboring
cities.
The dramatic struggle with ' the
flames reached a climax at nightfall
when the fire fighters made a stand
at Boulevard Place and began dy
namiting a wide area to protect the
Ponce de Leon section.
The effort was only partially suc
cessful, and an hour later today the
dynamiters began their task over
again two blocks beyond the avenue.
Further Spread Feared.
A lull in the wind favored their
work, and tonight they were about
holding their own, though many still
feared that before morning the flames
again would gain headway and burn
their way through to the edge of .the
, city.
The thousands of homeless were
being cared for tonight by a citizens'
" committee and by the Atlanta' Red
Cross chapter. Most of them were
quartered in public buildings.
Many minor injuries were reported,
but officials said there had been few
persons badly hurt.
The fire started in a storage house
on Decatur street and swept unob
structed into the better residence sec
tions. A large part of the devasta
tion, however, was in neighborhoods
composed largely of homes ranging
in value from $2500 to $6000.
-: Debris Chokes Streets.
Miss Bessie Hodges was the victim
who died from shock.
Wires were cut and streets were
choked with debris, streetcars that did
not get out of the area in time and
vehicles of all sorts.
Shortly after 5 o'clock the fire got
into the Ponce de Leon section, which
includes some of the city's best resi
dences and several large apartment-
houses. The dynamiters had to aban
don their stand at Boulevard Place
and move on past Ponce de Leon
avenue. ,
Shortly before 6 o'clock the blaze
started to move westward on Forest
avenue, where the destruction had
been great two hours previously It
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Same Company Now Building 2 00
Cars for Union Pacific and In
dustry Thought Established.
To Twohy Bros of Portland, has been
awarded a contract for immediate con
struction of 300 freight cars for the
Southern Pacific. v
The cars will be built In the Twohy
shops at East Sixtieth street and the
Union - Pacific tracks. Delivery prob
ably will be made early next FalL Ore
gon lumber will be used exclusively.
Twohy Bros, now are engaged in
building 200 freight cars for the Union
Pacific system. This was the first car
order ever placed In' Portland, and the
Twohy plant was considerably enlarged
to accommodate the business. The
success with which the Union Pacific
order has been handled, it is under
stood. Influenced the Southern Pacific
in placing a trial order here.
The Portland Chamber of Commerce
co-operated with Twohy Bros, in so
liciting this business and is bringing
the superior facilities of Portland as a
car-building center to the attention of
other "Western railroads.
Inasmuch as much of the lumber
used in the car plants of Chicago and
the Middle West is cut in Oregon any
way, it is believed that a distinct ad
vantage is to be gained in building the
cars here.
The roads operating out of Portland
have Indicated a desire to build their
cars here, other conditions being equal.
It is believed that, with this start, the
industry now is permanently estab
lished.
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STOLEN GOLD DniUK FOUND
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Precious Metal, Worth $22,000, Lo
cated Near Scene of Theft.
SEATTLE, "Wash., May 21. The $22,-
000 gold brick stolen two months ago
from the Chlchagoff Island Mining
Company, -which operates a mine on
Chlchagoff Island, Alaska, has been
discovered hidden near the company
store from which it was taken.
Michael Sheehan, a blacksmith, and
J.'H. Hewitt, a teamster, both former
employes of the company, were ar
rested and charged with the robbery
soon after the gold was stolen. The
men are In Jail at Juneau awaiting
trial.
PARIS MEAT $1 A POUND
Rich Pay Any Price Asked, Sending
Beef Beyond Reach of Many.
PARIS. May 21. With the inaugu
ration of the regime of two meatless
days a week, beef went to $1 a pound
today and vegetables and fish fol
lowed the upward tendency.
The rush for meat supplies to carry
over until Wednesday swanped the
butchers, although they had laid in
extra amounts. There was a good deal
of crowding and some sharp talk was
heard against rich buyers who paid
any price the dealers asked, sending
the quotations too high for modest pur
chasers.
FEMALE SHEEP SPARED
Utah Woolmen Take Steps
crease Their Flocks.
to In
SALT LAKE CITY. May 21. "Doing
their bit" to help the Government In
crease the food supply, the Utah Wool
Growers' Association issued a procla
mation today ordering that al female
sheep be conserved for another year,
By this action, it was said, the sheep
flocks will be increased one-third.
MINE SWEEPERS PLANNED
Secretary Daniels Hopes to Obtain
Craft Without Delay. ,
WASHINGTON, May 21. A consider
able number of mine sweepers are to
be added at once to the Naval estab
llshment.
Secretary IJaniels today conferred
with private builders on plans for
getting the craft turned out without
delay.
MEN, -40, MAY JOIN ARMY
Age Limit for Regulars Is Raised by
. War Department.
NEW YORK, May 21. The age limits
of applicants for enlistment in the reg
ular Army has been raised from 17 to
35 years to 18 to 40 years.
This order was made public at the
office of Major John H. Hughes in
charge of recruiting offices here.
FOOD RIOTS STIR .LISBON
Police Quell Slobs Crying for Pota
toes and Bread.
LISBON, via Paris, May 21. The
scarcity of bread and potatoes has
caused an outbreak of rioting here.
Mobs attacked several stores, but
order was restored by the police.
W. H. TAFT'S SON ENLISTS
Ex-President's Boy Joins Artillery
Branch of Regular Army.
NEW HAVEN. Conn.. May 21.
Charles P. Taft II, son of former Pres
ident Taft and a Junior In Yale Col
lege, waa enlisted for the artillery
branch of the regular Army today.
Shell Bit Rebounds 200
Feet From Water.
ANOTHER GOING TO WAR HIT
American Women Are Victims
of Peculiar Accident.
NAVAL MEN ARE PUZZLED
Method Long: Used In Loutllng Big
Weapons Never Before Known' to
Have Similar Action Rem
edy Is to Be Sought.
WASHINGTON, May 21. A brass at
tachment of the . owder charge, strik
ing the water and returning boome
rang fashion back nearly 200 feet after
the firing of a naval gun in target
practice, killed Mrs. Edith Ayres and
Miss Helen Burnett Wood, Red Cross
nurses of Chicago, who lost their lives
yesterday aboard the American steam-
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.vary Daniels explained in
statement tonight that such an accl-
ent had never occurred before and
that oranance experts re puzzled.
This morning," said the Secretary,
I gave out the distressing state
ment that two nurses who were going
to Europe had been accidentally killed
on the steamship Mongolia Sunday
afternoon.
Particulars Are Learned.
"Today the Mongolia returned to
New Tork to bring the bodles of Mrs,
Edith Ayres -id Miss Helen Burnett
Wood, the two nurses who were killed,
and full particulars were learned from
the officers at the Navy-yard. The
particulars of the fatal accident, which
is deeply deplored, are thus furnished
by the ordnance officers from jew
York:
When about 100 miles to sea in ac
cordance with the usual procedure, guns
were fired to test mounts and ammu
nition and to practice the Nary crew
in their use. The guns were of the
6-lnch caliber, for which the shell and
powder are loaded separately Into th
gun.
Powder in Brass Case.
'The powder charge Is contained in
brass case and there held in place
by a pasteboard wad, distance pieces
and a brass mount-cup that fit closely,
thus making a moisture-tight Joint
order that the powder may also give
the velocity and pressure Intended
When the gun is fired this brass cup
Is propelled some distance, sometimes
whole and sometimes in pieces, but al
ways in front or the gun.
Several nurses who were watching
the firing were sitting on the prom
enade deck some 175 feet abaft and 10
feet above the guns. On the third shot
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UNCLE SAM MODERN ARMIES AS WELL AS COMMUNITIES
Demise of Oregon's Junior Solon
Matter of Only Hours, Bulletin
From Hospital Asserts.
SAN FRANCISCO. May 21. United
tates Senator Lane, of Portland, who
Is seriously ill at a local hospital, was
said tonight to be slowly sinking.
Senator Lane's physician - arrived
from Portland to Join the several local
consultants, and according, to the phy-
lclan in charge, all agreed that Sena
tor Lane cannot recover, and that his
death is a matter of only a few hours.
MUNITIONS SHIP WRECKED
Liner Colonian Believed Total Loss
on Coast of England.
BOSTON, May 21. The Leyland liner
Colonian. 6440 tons, was wrecked last
night on the south coast of England,
according to a cablegram received oy
the agent of the" line here today. The
said that the steamer, which
was carrying a cargo of munitions,
grain, lumber and cotton from this port.
nrobably would be & total loss.
The cause of the accident and tne
fate of the crew were not mentioned.
The steamer with her cargo waa val
ued at $2,000,000.
ACTIVE SERVICE WANTED
Oregon Man Comes From Xew Eng
land to Enlist In Native State.
EUGENE, Or.. May 21. (Special.)
Joseph Jett came all the way from New
England to enlist In the United States
Army from his native state. Oregon
Mr. Jett has been working for two yem
in the, munitions plants of the East.
He will visit his mother at Coos Bay
for several days and then Join the
marines.
Mr. Jett said munitions workers are
being discouraged from enlistment in
the Army.
TRAFFIC MANAGER IS HELD
Indictment Alleges False Claims for
Fruit Damages.
SAN FRANCISCO, May 21. Harry
W. Adams, traffic manager of the Call
fornia Fruit Distributors' Association
was arrested here today by United
States Marshal James B. Holohan on
an indictment charging him with hav
lng filed false claims against several
of the leading railroads of the country.
The Indictment alleges that Adams'
methods were to enter against th
railroads false claims for fruit dam
ages in transit.
LISTER PARDONS HAFFER
Youth in Jail for Defaming George
Washington Is Freed.
OLYMPIA, - Wash., May 21. Paul
Haffer, the 19-year-old Tacomaboy
who was serving a four months' sen
tence in the county jail for defamln
the name of George Washington, was
pardoned today by Governor Lister.
Haffer had served three months of
his sentence.
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3000 Yards Erased in
'Bullecourt Region.
BRITISH TAKE TWICE AS MUCH
Remaining Front in Somme
Sector Is Flanked.
RIS0NERS TIRED OF WAR
French Capture Several Lines of
Trenches In Champagne, Xear
MoronvlIlleYs; Germany Ad
mits Partial Reverse.
From a Staff Correspondent of the Asso
ciated ires.
BRITISH - HEADQUARTERS IN
FRANCE, via London, May 21. So
completely did the British artillery do
Its work before the attack between
Crolsllles and Bullecourt that SOO0
yards of the Hlndenburg line are totally
missing. This segment of the German
defenses was completely wiped out.
Airplane photographs taken May 1 1
show beauttfully symmetrical zig-zags,
but the latest pictures taken contain
no trace of the trenches. The support
line also was badly "strafed." some 6000
yards of it now being in British hands,
leaving the Germans holding the re
maining 2000 yards.
Frost Line la Flsskfd.
The Hlndenburg front line between
the south end of the captured trenches
and Bullecourt is in dire danger, as it
Is flanked on both Bides by the British..
The engagement was really made up
of two attacks, one in the early morn
ing, when 70 prisoners were taken.
and the second late in the afternoon.
the two netting some 150 prisoners for
the day's work in this sector.
The German artillery s response was
very reeoie ana mo gouini-uai,.e.
during the attack was particularly
weak.
Th nrlsoners taken came mostly
from the Forty-ninth Reserve Division,
which was recruited in the region of
Posen and Breslau. It came to the
west front from Roumanla in Febru
ary. Three officers are among the
prisoners.
Captives Tired of War. x
The men showed by word and action
that they were thoroughly tired of
war. They had been in the line 21
days and constantly under the British
shell fire. All of them said they never
had seen anything .like the artillery
fire, nor did they desire to experience
It again.
All that remains of the captured
portions of the Hlndenburg line are
cement and concrete machine-gun em
placements. An underground corridor
parallels the support trench 15 feet be
low the surface.
Several Isolated posts are still
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MUST HAVE GOOD ROADS.
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Example of Nebuchadnezzar Cited.
Bcrliners to Get Cakes as
Substitute for Potatoes.'
COPENHAGEN, May 21, via London.
Berllnnow is feeling the potato short
age. The residents of the capital have
been warned that it may be impossible
to supply live-pounds to everybody this
week, but that those who are unable
to obtain the full ration will receive
cakes.
The supply of pork is short and it
will be sold only on Thursdays.
Another announcement says that a
reduction in the meat ration after Au
gust -5 .s being considered.
In view of the food shortage. Pro
fessor Weldner, an agriculture expert
at Passau, Bavaria, advises the people
to follow the example of Nebuchad
nezzar and eat grass. He informs them
that both the red clover and lucerne
(alfalfa) may be used for the making
of tasty dishes for human consumption
MEN TAKING NO CHANCES
Rcalstration Is Made In Advance
Expecting Absence June 5.
SEATTLE. Wash., May 21. (Special.)
The actual machinery of conscription
registration was put In motion here
today with the certification of the reg
lstratton cards of 15 men who expect to
be assent from their home precincts
on J"une 6. These included two Ger
mans and an Austrian who had never
declared his Intention of becoming a
citizen.
The certification waa done under the
direction of an absentee registrar ap
pointed today by the City Controller,
who la ex-offlclo City Clerk.
WOMAN TREASURER NAMED
Miss Nora Arbuckle La Grande's
First Female Custodian of Funds.
LA GRANDE. Or.. May 21. (Spe
cial.) Miss Nora Arbuckle, graduate of
La Grande High School and a Portland
business college, was named treasurer
of the city of La Grande and placed
under $25,000 bonds. She is La Grande's
first woman treasurer.
Treasurer Collier becomes City Re
corder and Miss Arbuckle, & former
deputy, is now Installed in her posi
tioT.
DAYLIGHT SAVING INDORSED
President Assures Delegation of His
Approval.
WASHINGTON. May 21. President
Wilson today- expressed his approval
of the daylight saving plan.
The delegation to the White House
was headed by Representative Borland.
of Missouri, and Marcus Marks, of New
York, president of the National Day
light Saving Association.
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Weather.
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature. 55
deai ees: minimum. SO degrees.
LlODAY'S Partly cloudy; northwesterly
winds.
War.
Hlndenburg line Is being; erased by sheila
Pace 1.
Southern Representatives kill war tax on
cotton. Pase 4.
Diet of alfalfa urged on Germans. Page 1.
Two American nurses enroute to Euro pa
killed by ship e practice snot. Pag 1
Foreign.
I.loTd George Invites Irish to settle own
problem or government, page l.
National.
Sunreme Court orders antl-truat suits re
argued, page z.
deposition to food control arising In Sen
ate. Page z.
Railroads blamed by Trada Commission for
blturolnoua coal atiortage; proaucera lor
high prices. Page 3.
Loss of revenue from liquor Is stumbling
block for dry a. Page 8.
Helnsa Interests lose fl5.OO0.O0O suit against
alleged copper trust, page a.
Portland flrme get orders for 14 Govern
ment vessels. Page is.
Domestic
Trial of Mrs. Mooney opens.
Page 2.
Hundreds
of Atlanta
bouses destroyed
by
fire. Page 1.
U. B. Senator Lane at death's door.
Page L
Sports.
Seals drive on Beavera showa that Wot
verton has strong team. Pase 1-4.
Raaeball scores' analyzed at end of first
. month. Page 14.
"Comeback" Is staged by Rollle Zelder, Cub
lnfleldera. Page 14.
Commercial and Marine.
Half of Oregon's hop acreage is plowed up.
Page 19.
Wheat gives way to coarse grains tn Cht
cago speculation. Page 18.
Iron and steel stocks strong featurea of
Wall etreet market. Page 1U.
New orders given for greater safety of vee
aela in war lone, page .
Pacific Northwest.
Confession of William Rlggln being Invest!
gated by state, page
Grand lodge aesslon of Oddfellow orders
opens at Eugene. Page &.
President Campbell, of University of Ore
son. returns from Washington confer
ence. Page 4.
Portland Railway. Light & Power Company
ordered by Public Service Commlaston to
reduce light and power rates. Page o.
Portland and Vicinity.
Portland firm gets order for 3ob freight
cars. Page 1.
J. C. English indorses Baker for Mayor.
Page 6.
Public being advised of all points regard
ing war census. Page a.
Commissioner Daly evadea law In buyln
water meters. , Page 6.
Wage-earners to be Interested In Liberty
Loan. Psge 8.
Battery A to recruit to full
r strength
at once. Page 9.
Jitneys kill three and Injurs 101.
aid victims. Page O.
bnt never
Captain and four officers of steamer Break
water arrested for violating liquor law,
Page IS.
Weather report, data and forecast. Pare 19.
Electrio franchise ifanted - along Columbia
Highway. age 20.
Use of waterways proposed as remedy for
railway congestion. Page 20.
Lloyd George to Sum
mon Convention.
PRIYELEGE NEYER HAD BEFORE
Participation by All Classes Is
Condition Laid Down.
REDMOND APPROVES PLAN
Sir Edward Carson, Cnlonist, Holds
to Former Opinion That Home
Rule Is Not Desirable and Says
Threats Will Be Useless.
LONDON, May 21. For the first time
In modern history, the destinies of Ire
land are to be placed in the hands of
the Irishmen alone. The British Prime
Minister. David Lloyd Georjre. an-
nounced to the House of Commons to
day that the government will call a
convention of Irishmen to frame a con
stitution for Ireland, and If Irishmen
re able to agree upon any scheme for
the administration of their country,
will attempt to enact it into legisla
tion without delay.
All sections, parties, creeds and fac
tions, with clergymen and laymen, as
well as politicians, and even revolution
ists of the Sinn Fein Society, will be In-
lted to get together.
Same Old Deadlock Fsrersat.
If this final attempt succeeds, a po
litical miracle will have been accom
plished. There Is no great optimism
pparent respecting the success of the
plan, for Ulster stands where she has
1 ways stood. Sir John Lonsdale, whip
of the Irish Nationalists, predicted the
same old deadlock, declaring that Ulster
would not be driven into a home-rule
parliament and predicting that the Na-.
tionallsts will not consent to the ex
clusion of six Ulster counties.
But if the attempt falls, the failure
III deprive the ancient . charge that
John Bull's greater island Is the "op
pressor" of much of its force, and it
Is pointed out that Ireland can' hardly
be hailed before the European peace
conference as another Poland, while
America and the colonies can no longer
reproach Great Britain with having
neglected to set her own house In
order.
Old Animosity Subside.
Both houses of Parliament discussed
Ireland today with hardly a ripple of
the old animosities and feuds disturb
ing their harmony.
The patient must administer to him
self." said Mr. Lloyd George, and a
noteworthy feature of the discussion
was an agreement that - politicians
must play a secondary part to the
men from other walks or ine. xne
Premier specified the Nationalist fac
tions, of which John Redmond and
William O'Brien are the leaders; the
Ulster Unionists, the Southern Union
ists and the Sinn Felners as the politi
cal bodies which should be represented
In the convention, but said that the
government considered it most impor
tant that representatives of local gov
erning bodies, the churches.
trades
unions and commercial and educational
Interests should participate.
Redaaoael Astcm Poller-
Mr. Redmond agreed in this policy.
and the veteran home ruler even of
fered to obliterate himself In the in
terests of harmony. But the house
refused to accept his offer.
Even Lord Lansdowne. who nas Deen
charged by some with the wreckage of
Mr.- Lloyd George's previous work of
reconciliation, told the lords that tne
road to home rule had traveled too far
for turning back, and referred to tne
importance of facilitating the task of
"those who are our friends in America."
The conception of the convention for
all Ireland finds its inspiration in the
making of the Union of South Africa
after the Boer war, when the British
nd the Afrikanders. - whose enmity
then certainly equaled that of the Irish
factions, were able to thresh out a
constitution. ,
.Vatlve of U. S. May Prcelde.
For the position of chairman of the
convention a colonial might wield
strongly for harmony, and Baron
Shaughnessy, president of the Canadian-Pacific
Railroad Company, who was
born In the United States of Irish par
ents, is mentioned, as ia also ex
Premier Asqulth and Lord Donough
more, who have special talents for a
position requiring parliamentary ex
perience and much diplomacy.
It Is expected that the selections for
the membership of the convention will
be made within a week.
Th sessions will be held behind
closed doors, for which the Premier
cited as precedents the framing of tbe
constitution of the United States, Can
ada and the Union of South Africa. But
the exclusion of ' reporters, when John"
Redmond. Sir Edward Carson and Will
lam O'Brien, with their followers, and
possibly some of the leaders of last
year's revolution, and Catholic priests,
with Presbyterian and Church of Ire
land clergymen, are assembled aa a
deliberative body under the same roof,
will draw the curtain before the most
remarkable political drama In Irlsh
annals.
John Redmond. the Nationalist
Header, speaking after the Premier had
made his announcement, said tnat for
the first time in her history Ireland baa
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