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UNCI E SAW. 'S CALL The coxiry it a v ? and wants m.rey. Duy Lib erty Bond. SAFE AND SANE Liberty Bonds are a sound Investment. Also, they will make democracy safe. ' VOL. LVII XO. 17,G41. PORTLAND, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6, 1917. PRICE FIVE CENTS. 175,000 RESPOND TO 3000 GIVE CHASE TO ANTI-DRAFT TALKER MONGOLIA BATTLES SUBMARINE AGAIN PATRIOTIC LIARS TOTAL THOUSANDS G.L.BAKER IS MAYOR BY LEAD OF 1444 BOX CAR GIVEN AS TRANSIENT'S HOME 10 HLIOII III SIGH FOR SERVICE CALL OF COTO Not One Slacker Is Found in Portland. INDIAN HALES SOCIALIST INTO KECK CITING STATION". MORE MEX REGISTER THAN WILDEST ESTIMATES. rorrHFUL nomad registers AT EUGENE FOR WAR DUTY. America's First Military Census Satisfactory. I GERMAN PLOTS FALL FLAT Registration Virtually Is 100 Per Cent Complete, Say Governors' Reports. FEW TRY TO EVADE LAW Selection of First Increment for New Army Is Next X Move in War. WASHINGTON, June 5. More than 10,000,000 young Americans en rolled themselves today for war serv ice. Registration day, with but a few weeks of preparation, saw the first military census ever taken in the United States completed without a single untoward event of consequence. The manhood of the Nation obeyed the President's call and volunteered in mass, setting: at naught all the schemes and plottings of German sympathizers and the few cranks who have agitated against registration. It remains but to select the men who are to go to the front. Reports Are Reassuring. From virtually every state reassur ing messages came through to Brigadier-General Crowder, Provost Marshal-General, Federal supervising of ficer of the great enterprise. While no complete returns from any state were transmitted up to a late hour, the Governors were unanimous in re porting that complete quiet had pre vailed throughout the day and that a full registration was indicated. In some precincts the late-comers forced officials to keep the polls open until long after the 9 P. M. closing hour set in the regulations. General Crowder authorized them to keep open as long as men wished to enroll themselves. The result will be further to delay the transmission of returns, however. Idaho Message Is Typical. Early reports, showing a full turn out all over the country, indicated that the estimates of the census bu reau as to the number of men within the specified age limits would be verified by the count. Wherever partial figures were available, the es timates checked closely. A typical message was that from Idaho. "Registration will be 100 per cent," It said. "Spontaneous turnout with out murmur or incident." The situation was so clear and the response so ready that Governors of 46 of the 48 states had sent similar assurances long before registration had closed, and the other two were close on their heels. Thousands Waive Exemption. " A feature of the registration was the refusal of hundreds of thousands of men to make any reply to the ques tion: "Do you claim exemption?" Even men who reported that they had dependent families, men with obvious physical disabilities and those whose occupations are certain to keep them at home, declined to make such a claim. Apparently they have entered fully into the very spirit of the law. They are content to leave the ques tion of exemption to the exemption boards. With the closing of each registra tion precinct officials went at once to the task of sorting and classifying the cards. There is much work to be done in order that the brief synopsis which each Governor will make to General Crowder of the registration office in his state may go forward promptly. It will take some hours, in many cases, to do the work, and -nri fitmrva If or any state will come to Washing Jton until every precinct has reported. Full Record Expected Soon. Instructions to registrars were com plete and clear. Their task has been made a simple as possible, and Gen eral Crowder is hopeful-that another 36 hours will see the full record of the country on his desk. There remain several supplementary steps to be taken. Today's registra tion included only Continental United Concluded oa Page 6, Column Li Corporal Pummels Opponent of Law, Then Crowd Follows In Hue and Cry In Omaha Street. OMAHA, Neb., June 5. E. F. En sign, a young Socialist and anti-draft exponent, was chased by a mob of 3000 down the principal business street of Omaha today and Is now held by Federal authorities on a charge of op posing registration. Ensign was near a registration booth, talking against conscription. "White Eagle, a patriotic Indian, dragged En sign to a naval recruiting station and insisted that be enlist. Ensign refused and started a tirade. He was knocked down by a Corporal and took to his heels, followed by a mob of 3000. Ensign took refuge In the Missouri Pacific railroad offices and begged pro tection, offering to enlist if protected. A platoon of police rescued him. MAN, 93, AIDS RED CROSS "Too Old to Fight, but Not to Give," Says Coos County Citizen. MARSHFIELD, Or., June 6. (Spe cial.) William J. Smith, 93, too old to fight, did his bit of home guard duty by contributing to the local Red Cross chapter. Mr. Smith has a little ranch on Pony Inlet and raises chickens for market and sells eggs for a livelihood. Several times a week ' the 'aged man trudges to Marshfleld with his basket of eggs and, hearing of the Red Cross needs, made his contribution, saying: "I'm too old to fight, but perhaps this morsel will help in the great cause and give comfort to some poor wounded boy." Mr. Smith Is the oldest member of the Marshfleld chapter. - AMERICAN FLEET AT RIO Entente Cruisers Relieved in South American Waters. RIO JANEIRO, June 4. The Cham ber of Deputies voted today on the mo tion of Deputy Maurlclo Lacerda, to authorize the cabling of messages of congratulation to the Congress of the United States on the arrival of an American squadron. WASHINGTON, June 5. The forego ing dispatch from Rio is the first pub lished information of the steps in the plan of relieving British and French cruisers in the waters of the Western Hemisphere with American warships. COURT WAITS ON HARVEST Term Postponed so Men Called as Jurors Can Work on Farms. VANCOUVER, Wash.. June 6. (Spe cial.) Being of the opinion that the many farmers who have been called as Jurors could serve their country bet ter tilling the soil than trying criminal and civil cases in the Superior Court of Clarke County, Judge R. H. Back today postponed the jury session until a later date, some time this Fall.. The May term of court also was post poned, there being so few cases that It would not pay to call a jury session. COAL PRICES ARE REDUCED Federal Trade Commission Succeeds In Efforts. WASHINGTON. June B. Efforts of the Federal Trade Commission to low er anthracite coal prices are succeed ing, the Commission announced today in this statement: "The producers of a very great pro portion of anthracite tonnage are sell ing their output at moderate prices so that the high premiums charged by a number of operators during recent weeks are beginning to disappear." MAIL CLERKJS ARRESTED Man on Ashland Run Charged With Stealing Jewelry. SAN FRANCISCO. June E. Elton D. Hocker, railway mail clerk on the run between San Francisco and Ashland, Or., was arrested here today by United States postal inspectors. A search of his room revealed several thousand dollars' worth of jewelry, ac cording to Inspector Stephen H. Morse, who said that Hocker had been under surveillance for some time. GIRL, 10, BUYS BONDS Pearl Philip Praws Out Savings to Help Government. NORTH BEND, Or., June 5. (Spe cial.) Pearl Philip, a 10-year-old lass, drew her money from a Bavings bank and purchased a $50 Government bond to help the war fund. The girl is a daughter of County Commissioner Philip, and has two brothers In the war and an elder sister who is a member of the Honor Guard. KANSAS BAND GOES TO WAR Agricultural College Boys Will Ac company Pershing Expedition. MANHATTAN, Kan., June 6. The ca det military band at the Kansas State Agricultural College here i. to see service in France with the Pershing expedition, it was announced today bi ll. II. Ozment, the leader. About -20 members cf the band will leave here soon for an Eastern port. American Ship Fights U-Boat 40 Minutes. HOSPITAL UNIT IS ABOARD Chicago Nurses and Doctors Have War Experience. 3 TORPEDOES ARE FIRED Captain of Vessel Is Said to Rave German Price on His Read, Be . cause of His Previous Vic tory Over Undersea Boat. BT TLOTD GIBBONS. (Copyright by Chicago Tribune. 191T.) LONDON, June 6. (Special.) Mem bers of Chicago Hospital' Unit No. 12, arriving In London today, brought a thrilling account of an encounter be tween their ship, the Mongolia, and a German submarine In the North At lantic. Three torpedoes were fired at the Mongolia. All on board the big ship were ordered to don preservers and stand by the lifeboats. The ship was brought about so the bows pointed at the source of the deadly missiles, while the naval gunners rained a rapid fire of shells at wakes of the torpedoes and later at the periscope of a submarine which was sighted from the bridge. Destroyer Rushes to Aid. During the attack, which lasted 40 minutes, a British destroyer escort ap peared on the horizon and rushed with all speed to the assistance of the Red Cross ship. Major Frederick A. Besley, of Mercy Hospital, Chicago, director of the unit. related the thrilling experience to me this afternoon in the lounge of the Cunon Hotel, where the Chicago doc tors are quartered. "Friday afternoon . while the Mon golia was about 176 miles out from Falmouth," Maj,or Besley said, . "the lookout sighted at a distance of about 600 yards an almost submerged object making its way in the direction of our course. It seemed to leave a filmy haze of blue-gray vapor In its wake, which caused it to be characterized by the Navy men as the new German smoke torpedo, so -devised that if it missed its mark It would reveal It presence on the surface afterward, making its recovery possible by the submarine. Ship Turns oa Submarine. "Our captain, who is said to have a German price on his head as the result of his victorious encounter with an other submarine on the last trip, turned the Mongolia's bow toward the obvious source of the torpedo and roceeded In that direction under full steam, there by accomplishing the doubio purpose of reducing our size as a target and hop ing to ram the submarine. "At the same tme the alarm was (Concluded on Page 2, Column 3.) fcesse.esaaseaooaee. a see. ..... eases, ess m 4 War Department Knows Many Incllgi bles Are Listed, but Does JVot Consider It Perjury. WASHINGTON, June 6. (Special.) There are patriotic liars in the United States, thousands upon thousands of them. The Government discovered this fact today in connection with military reg istration. - More men registered than the wild est estimates called for. The Government knew almost to a man the number of men of draft age in the country. It had the census re port of 1910, and could make an ap proximate guess as to the increase in population since that census was taken. It was able to check the guess by pop ulation returns made by state author ities and by municipal police. Therefore, it was able to say defl nltelythat a little more than 10,000.000 men would be subject to registration. To the astonishment of Major-Gen-eral Crowder, Provost Marshal-General, representatives of Governors shew more men registered than the census figures estimated. Certainly men of draft ages were not created over night. The question arises: Is a man who lies about his age so he may register a liar? The War Department says not. It declares he is a patriot. GENERAL WOOD IN DANGER Iiig Tilmber on Tracks, Probably Due to Accident. CHATTANOOGA. Tenn., June 5. Railroad officials . investigating the finding of a large timber on the track in front of the train which last night bore Major-General . Leonard Wood from Chattanooga to Birmingham are Inclined to believe the obstruction fell from a passing freight train. Its prese-.ce on the track la bell-ved to have been accidental. YESTERDAY'S DEVELOPMENTS IX LIBERTY LOAN CAM PAIGN. Total Portland subscriptions to date, $2,133,100. Total up-state subscriptions to date. 11.347.000. - .Noonday meetings at Hippo drome Theater begin today. Speakers are Bishop W. T. Sum ner and T. A. Rochester; George L. Baker presiding. Open-air mass meetings at noon today at Twohy Bros." car shops. East Sixteenth street and Union Pacific tracks, and Portland Lum ber plant. In South Portland. Local campaigners start tour of Eastern Oregon. Business men's committees con tinue campaign on East and West sides. Insurance men canvass In busi ness district with encouraging results. Boy Scouts prepare to distrib ute cards preliminary to their solicitations next week. Details of bond campaign on page 11. MOVING IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION AT MrrH,ut Kel- r.irjr by margin. ALL BUT ONE PRECINCT IN Anti-Conspiracy Ordinance Is Law by Less Than 300. J0SSELYN IS GOOD THIRD Wliceler Grows Strong on Last Choice Trend Shown in Early ' Returns Maintained as Tal ly Is Made Complete. George L. Baker's plurality over Will H. Daly for Mayor of Portland is 144 votes, with unofficial returns complete from 343 of the 344 precincts In the city. These figures are based bn the total vote on all choices. Mr. Baker did not receive a majority on either first choice votes, or first and second votes, and consequently the count went to third-choice votes. B. S. Josselyn ran third for Mayor. He finished 7647 votes behind Mr. Baker. Mann Apparently Wins. On final returns complete from all but the one precinct, A. L. Barbur is far in front for one of the two Com missioners to be elected and John M. Mann apparently has been elected to the other vacancy. The fight between Mann and Dan Kellaher, however, is very close.' Re turns give Mann, with a total of 18,500 votes on all choices, a lead of 245 votes over Kellaher, whose total vote Is 18,:64. Both Mann and Kellaher in all prob ability will be members of the new City Council. The election of George Baker as Mayor will leave a vacancy aa Commissioner when he is sworn In on July 1. - - Baker' Pledge Recalled. Mr. Baker gave his pledge early in the campaign that if elected he would abide by the expressed will of the peo ple and vote as a member of the Coun cil for that candidate for Commissioner who stood third highest in the race as the one to succeed him. Inasmuch as this method seems fair to all and carries out the sentiment of the people, there seems littlo doubt that It will prevail. In that event the four-year term would go to the one having the high vote. The other one, whether it turns out to be Mr. Mann or Mr. Kella her, would succeed Mr. Baker to serve for two years. Mr. Baker led the field in number of first-choice votes and in total of first and second-choice votes, as well as In total votes cast. He also, led Mr. Daly on first, second (Concluded on Pass 4. Column 1.) LAST. Lane County Registration Will To tal 3 000 Three Companies of Artillery Reduce Figure. EUGENE, Or., June 5. (Special.) Indications early tonight were that ap proximately 3000 men of the ages des ignated under the terms of the selective conscription act would be registered in Lane County, a figure below the esti mate for a county of 40,000 population, due to the fact that the rnembers of three companies of the Coast Artillery were not required to register and Lane County has already contributed many men to the Army and Navy. No disturbances of any character marked registration in the county. The most serious problem considered was what should be done with a man without a home who presented him self for registration. He gave his name as Peter Flnan. He said that he was born In New York 2! years ago and was a rancher by occupation, but un employed at present. The registration officer, when Flnan said he had no home, decided that the rule that a single man might claim the place he slept the previous night as his domicile might apply. "Where did you sleep last night?" he asked.' "On a boxcar between Roseburg and Eugene," the applicant replied. ' Finan stated that he had been trav eling over the country ' for more than seven years and that he had no rel atives living. He was registered and his card was marked. "Transient." BLIND ENTERTAIN ORPHANS Oddfellows' Band Dined by Children at Washington School. VANCOUVER, Wash.. June 3. .. (Special.) The members of the or phans" band of the Oddfellows' Or phan Home of Washington, guests of the grand lodge now In session In Van couver, today were entertained at din ner oy pupils of the Washington State School for the Blind, of which Mrs. W. B. Hall is superintendent. The band members and members of the orchestra gave a 'concert for their blind hosts and hostesses today, and the event was, hugely enjoyed. AIRMAN LEAPS TO RESCUE Plunge of (O Feet Taken From IMane Going Mile a Minute. TOULON, France, June 5. One of two hydroplanes maneuvering six miles at sea today caught fire and plunged In the water with Ensign De Bishop and Quartermaster Baudoln. The sec ond hydroplane flew to the rescue. From this machine Seaman Torreano dived as the hydroplane swept by 60 feet above the at a speed of practically a mile a minute and res cued the ensign, one of whose legs was broken. The quartermaster was lost. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. TESTERDAT'S Maximum temperature. 70 degrees: minimum, 49; fair. TODAY'S Fair and cooler, westerly winds. War. German destroyer aunk In running tight with English force. Pace 3. French Chamber of Deputies demands re covery of Invaded territory and Alsace Lorraine, page 15. Martial lair declared in Butte to prevent anti-draft disorders. Pas 2. American steamer Mongolia again battles with submarine. Page 1. 'atlona). Registration reveals thousands of patriotic liars. Page 1. Many eleventh-hour objections to war tax items arise. Page 6. More than 10.000,000 Americans register for war service. Page 1. Dixie's veterans cheer President at their reunion. Page 2. Domestic. . Anti-draft exponent chased by 3000 through Omaha street. Page 1. MacMUlan party dlscoveres six Arctic islands. Page 3. Sports. Pacific Coast League results: Portland Salt Lake 1: Oakland 3-8. Vernon S-T: Los Angeles 8. San Franclaco 1. Page 10. George Helfrlch. Beaver pitcher, refuaes to go to Spokane in Baldwin deal. Page 10. Inter-club tennis tourney to be played Sat urday. Page 10. San Jose shoot Is declared big success by .Northwest trapshooters. Page 10. Pacific Northwest. Nomad 'registering at Eugene gives boxcar as domicile. Pago 1. Washington Oddfellows in session at Van couver. Page 6. Corvallis graduates 281. Pag 9. Commercial and Marine. Government buying of shoes and leather goods stimulates hide market. Page 19. McEachern yard to be transferred on Mr. Hou9ers return. Page 19. Chamber directors tonight to discuss pro posed ship transfer. Page 18. Portland and Vicinity. Seventy-five thousand in Oregon respond to call of country. Pago 1. Georg-e L Baker Is Mayor by lead of 1400 votes. Page 1. Mr. Baker says he will go Into office free from any pledges except those made to people of entire city. Page 4. ' Seventeen graduated at St. Helen's Hall. Page 13. Multnomah County Christian Endeavor Union holds annual meeting. Page 8. Liberty bond campaign is lively. Page 1L Fred A. Jacoba. realty dealer, killed when motorcar overturns. Page 0. Weather report, data and forecast. Psge 19. Half dozen street . accidents occur In day. page 0. New Zealand commissioner says T. M. C. A. is first In war work. Page 15. Late returns increase majority for road bond issue. Page 7. Highway Commission orders work on two projects when bonds are found to have passed. Page S. Home precincts of George I.. Baker and Will H. Daly loyal. Page 7. Shipbuilders preparing bids for Government ships. Page 11. Jitneys facing rigid regulation. Pago 18. Government selects Portland as livestock renter for issue of dally market report. Page 1. Twenty-nix graduated at Columbia Univer sity. Page 1L RIOT SQUADS IDLE ALL DAY Men of Every Nationality Go to Precinct Booths. FEW WANT EXEMPTION Registration Is Heavy Everywhere in State and Demand for Blue Cards Exceeds Expectations, riot Rumor Baseless. All Oregon yesterday signed up to do its bit when called upon by Uncle Sam. All young men between the ages of 21 and 30 registered with the properly appointed registrars, and thus indi cated they are available for war serv ice. Not a slacker could be found In Port land yesterday. Not a single case of resistance to the registration order was . reported anywhere. Measures taken to enforce the law were found to be unnecessary, because there was no dis position to evade or to hinder the law In any particular. Gnsrdants oa Riot Duty. A number of sturdy guardsmen were stationed at the Armo. - ready to .ake the most drastic action in the event of disorders or anti-draft riots. There was not the least occasion for their services. United States Attorney Reamea, who Is ready to present the names of slack ers to the grand Jury for Indictment, and conviction carries with it a year's prison sentence, had no reports of evasion last night, and he concluded that every man oC registration age in the state la doing his full duty in that regard. Interpreters Sometimes, TTeeded. Toung men of whatever color, race or nationality In the city registered. Interpreters were stationed at a num ber of the precinct polling places, and they were needed at times to explain things to the registrars. On the whole, the day was singularly quiet and without significant episodes anywhere in the city, and the same conditions prevailed throughout the state. Adjutant-General White reported by telegraph to Provost Marshal-General Crowder at Washington that en tire harmony and lack of disorder of every kind prevailed In Oregon on reg istration day. The next step is the selective draft. An extensive card index system is be ing arranged at the offices of the Adjutant-General and men for active war service will be chosen Returns from the city and county precincts outside of the city were made last night to room 620 Courthouse, where Martin Pratt. representing Mayor Albee and Sheriff Hurlburt, is In charge of the civil aspects of the war census, while Adjutant-General White represents the military end of the registration. Supplies were called for frequently yesterday by the registrars at numer ous polling places and were drawn (Concluded on Page 6, Column 1.) Liberty Loan Facts N o. 8. Why You Should Subscribe "A big loan will shorten the war, will help to save life, and will help to save civilization." Every man. woman and child who enjoys the blessings of this com monwealth should seriously realize that he is a unit of the whole. If we do not contribute some portion at once of the prosperity which our country has mado possible for us, we are not doing our share to assist our allies, and we may suffer a de feat which will impose upon this country such a conqueror's in demnity as will lose our hard-won freedom for generations. Do not forget that France paid Germany an indemnity after 1S71 of about $1,000,000,000. ana only a short time before the present war fully liqui dated this indemnity loan to their people. It Is cheaper by far to win than to be defeated. . There are over 100,000.000 men, women and children In this country, of whom it is estimated that there are more than 40,000,000 persons en gaged in gainful occupations. It Is vitally necessary for each of these 40,000,000 persons to realise the danger and the opportunity and to subscribe a portion of his pos sessions to the liberty loan. It is said that if every IndlviduaK In the United States should sub scribe to the liberty bonds to the extent of only 6 per cent of his or her total possessions the loan will be subscribed six times over. Subscribe to the liberty loan at your bank today. ei 104.2