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4 DoYouValueYour Liberty? If you vrant to nave dtBocracr and guarantee your individual freedom, kelp to raise the Liberty Loan. It ia your war. A Pledge to Freedom The Liberty Lou of -.000,000 OOO nut be raised In America by all the people. Do you vrant America to win or loset VOL.. IVII XO. 17,629. PORTLAND, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 1917. PRICE FIVE CENTS. NATIONAL GUARD TO BE EXPANDED SOON ENGINEERS TO FORM IAN HAY BEITH IS GUEST III PORTLAND 4 MEN INJURED IN TAKEN BY BRAZILIAN CHIEF IS IN FAVOR OF WAR ANY ONE WITH $10 AT AMERICAN LAKE AUTO COLLISION . FISHER FATAL CAN AID WAR LOAN REGIMENT WILL BE MOBILIZED THE DALLES MOTORIST SUFFERS PRESIDENT ASKS CONGRESS TO TERMINATE NEUTRALITY". FIRST OF JCXE. CRUSHED CHEST. ft POISON IS 4 h I. t t i Scores of Regiments to Be Created. ARTILLERY IS GREATEST NEED 180 Additional Batteries Are to Be Organized. ENGINEERS WANTED, .TOO Sixteen Air Service Units Are In eluded In War Department Plan. Existing Forces First Mast Reach "War Strength. WASHINGTON', May 22. Organiza tion of scores of new regiments of National Guard artillery, engineers, signal troops and cavalry will be un dertaken soon to supply the tactical formations necessary for the estab ment of the 16 divisions of the Guard provided for in the "War Department's plans. In addition to these troops, immedi ately after the existing state soldiers have been drafted into the Federal service, there must be organized divi sional headquarters detachments, sup ply, ammunition and medical trains, heavy field artillery and signal bat talions, an aero service, two cavalry divisions and many new coast artillery units and reserves. Field Artillery Ia Short. Comparison of the organization tables for the 16 infantry divisions with the existing Guard establishment shows that in the infantry, the arm of the service in which the Guard is strong est, 80 regiments and six companies must be created to provide the 144 regi ments of the divisional structure. The principle shortage is in field ar tlllery. Each of the 16 divisions re quires three full regiments of sjx bat teries each, or a total of 288 batteries. There now exist in the Guard 108 bat teries. The shortage In engineers is almost as great. There will be needed 16 regi. ments. or a total of 96 companies, whereas there now are only 30 com. panles. Each division also will have an aero squadron or balloon company, making 16 air service units. New York has one aero squadron less one company. Existing; Units to Expand. The first effort of the Department is to bring up to full war strength all existing units of the Guard. When that has been accomplished and the force has been drafted, the next etcp will be to create the new units neces eary to complete the 16 infantry divi sions and the Adjutant-General of the states have been instructed that they should prepare for these new organi zatlons without delay. The far West ern states will be called upon to fur nish in addition the following: Twentieth Division, Washington One machine gun troop cavalry; one regiment field artillery, one battalion engineers, one outpost company, slg nal corps. Oregon One troop cavalry, one battalion (less one battery) field artillery, one battalion engineers. Mon tana One regiment infantry, one squadron (less one troop) cavalry, Idaho One regiment infantry. Wy oming Six companies infantry, one battalion field artillery. DR. RUTTER TO BE GUEST Hood River Will Entertain Commer cial Attache to Japan. HOOD RIVER, Or., May 22. (Spe cial.) The Hood River Commercial Club, acting on a letter from A. R. Clark, foreign trade secretary of the Portland Chamber of Commerce, who will accompany the visiting attache, is planning for the entertainment of Dr. Frank R. Rutter, newly-appointed commercial attache to Japan, on May 30 and 31. At a dinner on the first day of the visit Dr. Rutter will be presented to local business men, orchardists and fruit sales agency officials. On the second day he will be taken for an au tomobile tour of the upper and lower valleys. WILSON CONTRIBUTES 25C Donations for Baseball for Troops Are Limited to Quarter. CHICAGO, May 22. President Wil son has contributed 25 cents to the fund for the purchase of baseball para phernalia to be distributed among Army training camps, it was announced here today. Only 25-cent contributions are re oelved. The fund was started by Clark Griffith, manager of the Washington club of the American League. SENATOR LANE NO BETTER Physicians Report That Condition of Patient Is Unchanged. SAN FRANCISCO. May 22. The con dition of United States Senator Harry Lane, of Portland, Or., ill in a local hospital, was reported as unchanged tonight by attending physicians. Track and Bridge Men Are Most Needed for Force Which Goes to France in Short Time. SAN FKANCISCO, Ms- 22. The Eighth Reserve Engine. Regiment, now organizing on the Pacific Coast, will mobilize at American Lake, near Tacoma, Wash., about June 1, it was announced here today by Lieutenant Colonel James B. Cavanaugh, its com mander. The Eighth Engineers will be one of ne regiments of railroad experts and workers which will be among the first American military organizations to go to France. They will aid In the opera tion . and rehabilitation of existing French roads and the building of others. Notification that American Lake had been selected as the mobilization camp came from Washington today. Im mediately afterward Lieutenant-Colo- el Cavanaugh announced that he would call the men June 1. If the regiment Is not recruited to its re quired strength by then, others will be enlisted later. It Is the only volun teer organization now forming on this Coast. The Eighth Regiment will consist of two battalions of three companies each. It will number more than 1000 men. One battalion is being organized in the Northwest and another In San Francisco and Los Angeles. The south ern battalion lacks about 300 men of being full now. Track and bridge fore men, bridge carpenters and track la- orers are most needed now, it was said. A few stenographers also are wanted. - OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Washi ngton, May 22. (Special.) Under Army orders issued today. Colonel Ed ward Burr, engineer officer at San Francisco, is assigned to command the ew Fourth Regiment of Engineers to be recruited at Vancouver Barracks. Major Henry C. Jewett, now in charge of the Portland river and harbor dis trict, is assigned to command one bat talion of that regiment, and the follow ng officers of the Second Engineers, now at Vancouver tsarracits, are as signed to the Fourth Regiment: Captains Arthur R. Ehrnbeck and Francis Newcomer, First Lieutenants Rufus W. Putnam, Charles P. Gross, Frederick W. Bonfils and Stanley JJ. Scott. RELIEF SHIP CHARTERED Third Effort Will Be Made to Reach Crockerland Party. NEW YORK, May 22. The American Museum of Natural History announced today that it would send out a third re lief ship in search of the Crockerland expedition, which has been marooned in the Arctic since 1913. The steamship Neptune has been chartered for the purpose and will be commanded by Captain Robert A. Bart- lett, who was with Peary on his Arctic exploration. The Neptune, now in the service of the British Government as a coal carrier, Is expected to sail north ward about July 1. RAILWAY MAN HEADS FORCE S. M. Felton. to Lead 10,000 Skilled Workers in. France. WASHINGTON, May 22. Samuel M. Felton, president of the Chicago Great Western Railroad, has been selected to take charge of arrangements for send lng the regiments of American railroad men to France. - It Is. understood that Mr. Felton will necessarily accompany the forces. The plan is to send 10,000 skilled men to operate and maintain the French roads behind the lines. 13 SHIPS SHELL KAVALA Twelve Entente Airplanes Also At tack City. SOFIA, via London, May 22. Today's Bulgarian Wtr Office statement, after reporting artillery action . In various sections of the Macedonian front, an nounced that 13 enemy warships bom barded K aval a, while 12 airplanes dropped bombs on the town. Several houses in Kalava were de stroyed, says the statement, but no military damage was done. One hostile airplane was shot down.. BERLIN LISTS 10,000 DEAD Casualties Published in April Total More Than 36,000. LONDON. May 22. German official lists of killed, wounded and missing iBsued during the month of April but not necessarily referring to the casual ties occurring in April, show: Killed or died of wounds or sickness. 10,979 Prisoners and missing, 4308. Severely or badly wounded, 9744. Slightly wounded or wounded re maining with units, 17,808. 11 MILLION SUBSCRIBED J. Ogden Armour Personally Takes Big Block of Liberty Bonds. CHICAGO, May 22. J. Ogden Armou today subscribed for $11,000,000 worth of the liberty loan bonds. It was said by Mr. Armour's asso elates that the subscription was on hi personal account wholly and had no connection with the flrtn of which he Is the head. .. Soldier-Author Says Germany Is Beaten. HEROIC DEEDS ARE RECALLED Entry of American Troops Considered Epochal. LECTURE TO BE THURSDAY Change in Methods Is Described by British Officer, Who Says That Better Results Are Accom plished at Less Risk. If Russia holds out, as I think she may, we should have Fritz dished out cold by this time next year." Lean and long and bronzed of face. with coolly pleasant eyes to match, and vocal drawl dashed with the High land tang. Captain Ian Hay Belth, author of "The First Hundred Thou sand," a human story of the men who first went to France from Albion, lounged in his suite at the Hotel Port land yesterday morning, Just arrived from San Francisco. First Assignment Unpleasant. I went out as a machine gun of' ricer, said. Captain Beith, "a very interesting and very unpleasant capac ity, for the enemy artillery Is everlast ingly on the lookout for us. The duty of the machine guns is to hustle along behind the first wave of attack, and hold the captured trench against counter-attack. In. the old days th was a very difficult proposition. When we got into his lines, very frequently we could not hold the position, owing to tne inadequacy . of our artillery at that time." Captain Beith permitted himself a slow smile of gratiflc. .Ion. "It is now a simple business," he resumed, "as our artillery is very su perior. Our barrage or curtain-fire in the first instan--v protects the ad vance, and, as the Germans still go on with their old game of counter-attacking in heavy masses, they must pass through the curtain-fire that his been raised to cover the captured trench. Their losses are frightful. Fritz doesn't understand open action, as we do." German Losses Staggering. The reports of German losses in the recent French and British offensive had been in nowise improved upon, said Captain Beith. "Within the past few weeks, since they have been bring ing reinforcements from the Russian front, instead of launching one counter-attack, they launch five or six. "At the battle of Loos I underwent my most exciting machine-gun action," said Captain Belth. "We advanced to the barbed-wire entanglements, and got forward through the shell-gaps. (Concluded on Page 9, Column 1 but he con- I L yTn- v ' j J) V-W Jf " I TRIBUTES 1 rr7-- 1! SJ ff I " -J NOTHING- TO J vl J y C1 I z?Ctfeoc -rv v mv sop port I rrw-. 7-C-' CviVq o S yoias y ofhimno j h 111 ' rati, crwrs vkbq5, II I ' Vjl I .-5-, 1TFACM M . 1 - ' If LJ? (THE FAKMINCt v fsse-! j'j J W . W T J 7 I SOCKETS &XOSe Y r fJ XX. 7Wv AOS WOO ( ,r(, 2- W. M. Allen Loses Control of Car When Going at Top Speed Ma chines Are Demolished. THE DALLES, Or., May 22 (Spe cial.) As the result of & terrific col lision between, two automobiles late last night, W. M. Allen,, of this city. ia In The Dalles - Hospital with a crushed chest, and three other men re ceived injuries. The automobile driven by Allen became unmanageable -when he attempted , to pass the car of C. S. McDowell, of Petersburg, a short dis tance east of . the city on the Dufur road. Allen was going at fast speed. His steering apparatus gave way and he was unable to control the machine, which hit the other car on the left side, tearing off the wheels, lamps and other fixtures. Virgil Matney and Robert Gilbreth were in Allen's car. and E. L. Peterson, of Danevllle, was In McDowell's car. Everyone except Gilbreth received Injuries. The cars were badly demolished. G. E. McLure also had a mishap with his automobile when he was driving on the Chenoweth grade this morning. While trying to turn on the grade his car In some manner was thrown over the edge and landed upside down at the bottom. Neither he nor his pas sengers were injured seriously. Mr. Hawley in Washington. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington, May 22 Representative Haw ley. who was called to Oregon by the illness of his mother, returned to Wash ington today. OREC.OV FORESTS TO FIR. 2VIS1I COl'NTLESS TEXT POLES FOR I SE OF ARMY. O.regon Is not only doing her "bit" In the war by exceeding her quota of Navy men, having the National Guard force out early, being among the first with preparations for registration un der the selective draft act and other patriotic moves, but Is to furnish from her forests count less tentpoles, tentpegs and simi lar wooden " appurtenances for Army camps. .. Contracts covering that busi ness are held by the Central Door & Lumber Company and it is estimated the' total will fill 100 cars, while, ill addition to giving employment to 800 men here, more plants have been leased and some of the material is being manufactured at different points in the Willamette Valley. As to the amount Involved, It Is said to be equal to the value of several wooden-ship contracts, such as the Government has allotted. Oregon fir, oak and other Ore gon woods will be used, no out side material being requisitioned. Sibley tents, officers' tents, "pup" tents or shelter halves, commis sary and quartermaster tents, stable tents, hospital tents and. in fact, all kinds of tents will be held up by the Oregon poles, and no doubt many of them will be used across the Atlantic. KEEP YOUR EYE ON THE SLACKER. Younp in Case louived of Blame. INVESTIGATION IS CONDUCTED Intense Nature of Victim Is Blamed for Tragedy. MISSION OF NURSES SHOWN Recommendation of Mutual Friend Leads to Course of Treatment and Glass of Wine Kept for Medicinal Purposes Offered. Mrs. Hazel Fisher, wife of Dr. Ralph S. Fisher, who drank poison at her husband's office in the Filers building at midnight Monday when on visiting there she found Dr. Fisher and two nurses, died two hours later at St. Vin cent's Hospital. Mrs. Fisher drank the contents of a four-ounce bottle of Iodine and the efforts of Dr. Fisher and Dr. Loundagln. summoned from the Emergency Hospital, were In vain. Dr. Fisher, after being detained at the police station on a technical pro hibition violation charge, was released on $300 ball and the two nurses whose residences are in Montana. Miss Mary S. Cain and Miss Mary Jane Roy, were released after being held over night and part of the day In Jail. Xurses Absolved of Blame. The mother of Mrs. Fisher, Mrs. L. W. Therkelsen. after a thorough Inves tigation of the tragie death of her daughter, and Interviews with both Miss Cain and Miss Roy, Is positive in her belief that neither of the nurses is to be blamed, and that her daughter's death was due to a regrettable error and the promptings of an Intense na ture. "I am convinced that the statement made by the young women Is abso lutely true," said Mrs. Therkelsen last night, "and believe that my daughter, under pressure of nervous tension and overexertion, having cooked an elab orate dinner for five and having to drive home from a visit with friends, entirely misunderstood the situation. She was of a very Intense nature and her devotion to her husband was more than ordinary." Explanatory Statement Made. From the young women Mrs. Ther kelsen obtained & signed statement of their business In this city and the man ner in which they came to meet Dr. Fisher. It follows: "We came from Montana to Spokane to see Dr. Phy, and went to Pullman, Wash., to open a private sanatorium Leaving Pullman, we went to Dr. Phy at Hot Lake Sanatorium for profes slonal purposes. Left Hot Lake and came to Portland, with letters of Intro Concluded on Page 4, Column 2. Traditional Policy Is Declared in Com plete Unity With United States. RIO DE JANEIRO. May 22. Presi dent Braz has sent a message to Con gress recommending the revocation of the decree of neutrality in the war be tween the United States and Germany. Congress Is expected to accept the rec ommendation by a large majority. The message declares that the order to the Brazilian authorities enjoining the observance of neutrality was only intended to have effect until Congress met. It continues: "Today, In consideration of the fact that the United States is an integral part of the American Union; In consid eration also of the traditional policy of Brazil, which has always been governed by a complete unity of view with the United States, and, finally, in consld eration of the sympathies of a great majority of the Brazilian nation, the administration Invites Congress to re voke the decree of neutrality." NORMAL GIRLS DISMISSED Motor Trips With Young Men Cost Senior and Junior Standing. MONMOUTH. Or.. May 22. (Special.) Two young women, one a senior and the other a junior, have been dis missed from the Oregon Normal School for the alleged violation of rules by riding In automobiles with young men. The action was taken upon the order of President Ackerman, whose informa tion, it Is said, came from faculty mem bers. The dismissal was followed by the reprimanding of other students who were summoned "upon the carpet." SIGNAL UNITS 'PROPOSED Conference Over Plans to Organize Railway Telegraphers Called. CHICAGO, May 22. Forty represent atives of railroads operating In the Middle Western states will meet here tomorrow to confer with signal corps officers of the Central Department of the United States Army on plans to or ganize railway telegraphers into sig nal units. There Is a possibility, it was said to night, that some of the railrtads may be obliged to substitute tho troops' service for that of the telegraph. N Cathlamet Teachers Elect. CATHLAMET, Wash.. May 22. (Spe cial.) The local circle of the Parent Teacher Association held Its annual election on Friday and the following officers were named: President, Mrs. Clarence White; vice-president. Mrs. Ole Nilsen; secretary. Miss Josephine Strand: treasurer, Mrs. C. II. Warren. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAYS Maximum temperature, 60 degrees; minimum. 48 degreea. TOIJAV'S Partly cloudy; northwesterly wlnda. War. y,w regiment of enidneers to mobilize at American Lake June 1. Pace 1. President opens fight for press censorship. Pass 6. Attempt to assassinate Russian War Min ister fails. Page 6. Italian mission to begin conferences today. Page 4. Buying of Liberty bonds Is speeded. Page S. Men subject to draft warned not to "hide behind petticoats." Page e. Brazilian chief Is In favor of war. Page 1. Scorea of ne,w National Gu&rd regiments to be created soon, rase l. Wilson assails efforts to becloud causes of entry Into war. Page 10. Government to get war camp lumber at reduced prices. Page lu. France does not agree with Russian atti tude. Page 4. Mexico reported to have protested U-boat warfare. Page 3. National. High prices of fruits and vegetables Inde fensible on ground of shortage, say offi cials. Page 3. Revision of war tax on mall agreed by House. Page 10. All persons with 110 to spare have chance to help liberty loan, page l. Domestic. Social gaiety Is cashiered from officers' training camp. Page 2. Sports. Pacific Coast League results: Portland 3, Los Angeles O; salt LaKe vernon l; San Francisco 4, Oakland 0. Page 16. Baaeball fans will pay war tax for mag nates. Page its. Athletics big aid to British soldiers at front. Pae 17. Women golfers of Waverley Country Club o play for Red Cross benefit. Page lo. Pacific North weat. Four men Injured In automobile collision at The Dalles. Page 1. Joe Wallace admits murder of wife at May- ville. April -. page o. State relinquishes title to big tract of land in Central Oregon. Page . Supreme Court orders election in Curry Countv and bars .Bean bill Irom ballot. Page T. Oddfellows at Eugene elect. Page 6. Commercial and Marine. I Grain bag prices, will be higher than last year. Page ui. September only wheat option dealt In at Chicago. Page 21. United States Pteel leads advance Id Wall street. Page -1. Grant Smith & Co. lease site available tor shipyards. Page IS. Emerald line to bar liquor from ships. Page lb. Portland and Vicinity. British officer and author Portland guest. Page l. Portland banks discuss plans for selling Ore gon's n.uO0,000 allotment of Liberty loan. Page ia. Supreme Court decision In Colby damage case neia up. ngo ... Mrs. Josephl elected head of Episcopal Mis sionary society. Page . Ministers hit two-platoon plan. Page 22. Poison taken by Mrs. Fisher fatal. Page 1. Recall started on School Directors. Page P. Work of taking Portland war census begins. Pago l . Will H. Warren speaks before Alberta Club. Page lo. Industrial future of Oregon considered bright. Page 17. Weather report, data and forecast. Face 21. Certificates of Partici pation Planned. PAPER MAY BE "NEGOTIABLE" Hope Expressed Stores Will Both Buy and Sell. $1 DOWN IS ANOTHER PLAN Federal Reserve Bank and Liberty Committee Arrange to Enlist AH Persona Colonel Roose velt Urges Wide Response, NEW YORK, May 22. To enable per sons of small means to buy liberty loan bonds on an Installment plan basis, tho Federal Reserve Bank of New York, " In conjunction with the liberty loan committee, is perfecting a plan for tho Issuance of participation certificates, it was announced tonight. The certificates probably will be In denominations of $10. They will bear the same interest as bonds and may be exchanged for bonds when the hold ers accumulate the required $50 worth. Although it is not proposed to have. the certificates negotiable in the sense of $10 bank notes, the committee points out that they may become so in course) of time, this depending entirely upon. merchants and others to whom they; may be tendered. Sale nt Stores Desired. Tho committee expresses the hope that stores will buy the certificates anT sell them over the counters to persons who would like to buy bonds, but whose means will not permit them to Invest as much as $50 or $100 at one time. Another plan was announced by the) League of Co-operative Savings and Loan Associations. Any individual witlt $1, the league has decided, may pur chase a bond on installments, with tha understanding that the balance may be paid at the option of the buyers at any time within a year. "Under this plan, in the event that the subscriber fails to pay for the bond within a year, he may get back at any time the amount he has subscribed, with the accrued interest at the rate of 3'.i per cent based on monthly bal ances," says the announcement. "Tho organization makes no charge for the service." References 'ot Required. The league states that its offer 13 open to all and that "purchasers are not required to furnish references of any sort." The Federal Reserve Bank of New Tork issued a statement tonight to tho effect that it had established a "spe clal rate of rediscount of 3'4 per cent for paper given for the purpose of pur chasing liberty loan bonds of the Gov ernment about to be Issued, such paper having a maturity of not exceeding SO days." This special rate, it was said, will only apply to the rediscount of paper which has been secured by a pledge from the customer to the member bank; of United States bonds or interim re celpts therefor or United States certlfl cates of Indebtedness. T. R. Urges All to Invest. In a letter today to Guy Emerson secretary of publicity of the liberty loan committee, Colonel Theodora Roosevelt asserted it Is "the duty oC every man and of every woman In thlsi country who can possibly afford to do so to buy liberty bonds, in order that guns, ammunition, food and clothes may be promptly and freely furnished to our soldiers who go to the rront. . Colonel Roosevelt said he had Invested In the bonds. As an encouragement to aviators) throughout the country to participate! during the week of June 4 in a "liberty loan aerial rally," the Aero Club of America has arranged to present a $10(1 bond to each flyer who reaches the destination assigned to him. Many Flights Probable. Flights probably will be arrange from Governor's Island, headquarters of the Department of the East, as well as from the aviation field of Mineola, L. I., to Philadelphia, Troy, Albany and Buffalo; from Esslngton, Pa., to Han risburg, Pittsburg and other points; from Newport News to Baltimore, Rich mond. Raleigh. N. C: Lexington, Ky.j . from Buffalo, X. T., to Erie, Pa.; Cleve land, Akron. Detroit and Toledo; front Boston to Portland, Me., and cities ia New Hampshire and Vermont; from De trolt to Dayton, Cincinnati. Indianapo lis, South Bend and Grand Rapids: from Chicago to St. Louis, Springfield, 111.; Davenport and Des Moines, Ia.. and Minneapolis; from Memphis to Nash ville, Tenn. : Birmingham, Ala.; Jack son. Miss., and Little Rock. Ark.; from Fort Omaha to Kansas City, St. Joseph, Mo., and several cities in Kansas, Ne braska, South Dakota and Minnesota; from San Antonio, Tex., and Columbus. N. M.. to cities in those states: from San Diego to points in California. Ari zona and Nevada; from Pensacola, Miami, Palm Beach and Newport New a to the various cities along the coast. LO.VX BASES ARE ESTIMATED Treasury Department Announces Expectations In. Each District. WASHINGTON, May 22. What every section of the .country is expected to do In unloosing Us pursestrings for thei (.Concluded cn Page 10, Column l.j f