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UNCLE SAM'S CALL
The country is in war and
wants money. Buy a Lib
erty Bond.
SAFE AND SANE
Liberty Bonds are a sound
Investment. Also, they will
make democracy safe.
UK
VOL. LiVII NO. 17,6-42.
PORTLAND, OREGON, THURSDAY. JUNE 7, 1917.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
MANY U-BOATS SEEN
BY II. S. FLOTILLA
SEATTLE'S LIST NOT
HALF OF ESTIMATE
PADDED POPULATIOX FTGTTRES
DECEIVE GOYERN3IEXT.
MORE Til GIVEN
FOR REGISTRATION
AMERICA'S DELAY
WORRIES ENGLAND
TIMBER BOUGHT FOR
CHILDREN RE-ENACT
FATHER'S MURDER
13 MONTHS ADDED
TO COUNCIL TERMS
KHIPS Oil COAST
FOOD SITUATION IS CAUSE Or
GIRL, It), AIMS SHOTGUN IN
COURTROOM; BOY, 8, FIRES.
MUCH UNEASINESS. .y'
Miming
ie i ir -H m 1 it m r 11 t k ir i i iti
7i
n
AM Dive Quickly to
Evade Battle.
BRITISH WAYS SOON MASTERED
Yankee Tars Enjoy Leave on
Shore Frequently.
EXTRAVAGANCE IS AMAZING
Afternoon Tea Habit Is Acquired.
" Graves of Submarine Victims
v Are Decorated by American
Sailors at Foreign Base.
THE BRITISH IPORT BASE OP THE
AMERICAN FLOTILLA, via London.
June 6. The American destroyers have
completed their first month of active
service In the great 'far. They have
been favored with excellent weather,
which Is a big factor In anti-submarine
warfare. Most of the time they have
had sunny skies and smooth seas, with
lust enough squall and storm to put
their seamanship to test. The favor
able weather conditions made their
task of learning1 the technique of anti
submarine warfare much simpler and
easier.
The American boats are assigned to
work hand in hand with the British
squadron?, being virtually assimilated
into the British naval machinery here.
A destroyer is usually out from four
to five days and then returns to port
for two or three days while coaling
and loading supplies. Thus every
American sailor gets at least half a
day shore leave practically every week.
Time Xtrtr Hang Heavily.
The Americans take their turn with
the British boats in all routine work
of patrol and convoy. The work, al
though largely routine, is interesting,
and the Americans have never yet
found time hanging heavy . on their
hands.
The lookout must be constant and
eyes must be trained to an unbeliev
able degree of keenness.
The young Americans take zealously
to this business of finding the.perl
scoplc needle In the nautical haystack,
and daily reports of submarines
sighted, of observations made, of wire
less warnings sent broadcast show that
the American boats are already making
an average of results almost as satis
factory as the lng-experienced British
boats, with which they are operating.
Several 17-Boats Ranted.
There has been no actual battle as
yet between an American destroyer and
the enemy, although several reports
chow that U-boats have been sighted
and have been compelled to beat a
hasty retreat to the depths of the sea.
. An assignment to convoy a liner
"from home," that Is, from an Ameri
can port, is regarded as an especially
choice morsel. A trans-Atlantic liner
. which sights the American flag ap
proaching to escort her to land never
. fails to respond with a great waving
of flags and handkerchiefs from her
decks and there is a fine exchange of
wig-wagging signals in lieu ofhand-
Ehakes.
Several American liners can already
testify to the vigilant work of the
American destroyers as convoys. Oc
casionally a fortunate liner finds her
self being escorted to port by Ameri
can and British destroyers, side by
side, circling about her like twin sis
tcrs, a visible sign of the new alliance.
Readiness Surprises Britons.
The American boats were ready for
duty the minute they arrived. This
wai something of a pleasant surprise
for the British naval men. It had been
expected that some time would be nec
essary for certain installations and
fittings, but the Americans had every
thing in readiness and were at once
assigned to work.
Shore leave Is generous on the
American ships and the American
sailor Is constantly in evidence in this
village, in the country-side roundabout
and In a near-by city, where more
metropolitan pleasures are available
than restricted limits of this little
place. The people of the towns have
taken the American sailor and his
strangely spendthrift ways right into
their hearts. The .American sailor
seems always to have money, which is
not so strange when It is considered
that his rate "of pay Is considerably
higher than that of the British tar.
Klrst-Class Travel Amailiz.
"The American gets a dollar every
time we get a shilling," is a common
expression among the admiring British
seamen. One of the American sailor's
favorite ways of showing his opulence
is his habit of always traveling first
class on the railroad which takes him
from the village up to the city, a trip
of a few miles. The extra cost is only
a few pence, but the unheard-of idea
of a common sailor traveling first
class strikes the populace as a startling
and audacious maneuver in the . best
traditions of American extravagance.
Local men who expected to find the
visitor an easy mark soon learned their
mistake, however, for he is seldom
fooled twice and quickly learns to de
mand value for his money. Tea time in
the village now has an American fla
vor. In all the little Inns and shops,
and farther afield, even well into the
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Army Expected to Register 58,848
for Army Service, but Obtained
Only 25,924 Names.
SEATTLE. June . The county
sheriffs today reported by telegraph
to the state'officials at Olympia the
totals of registration in the various
counties. No serious opposition to the
registration was encountered anywhere
and there was little evasion of the
law. Men who had openly declared they
would not register were sent for and
responded with alacrity.
The total registration for Seattle
was 25,924, whereas the Government
had expected registration - of 58,848,
basing the estimate on the Census
Bureau figures which give beattle's
population as 366,445. It is- generally
believed that this estimate of the total
population Is too high. The total reg
istration of the state, basing an esti
mate on Seattle's returns, will go much
below the Government estimate of 212,
SS9 and probably will not exceed
150.000.
A surprising feature of the registra
tion was the heavy enrollment of Japa
nese, who were cared for at an office
in the Oriental district.; Nearly 1000
registered here and it is believed that
some men above 31 enrolled them
selves. Few claimed exemption and an
interpreter who talked with thJ Japa
nese says they generally expressed a
desire to be taken into the United
States Army. ,
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IMPORTS NEARLY DOUBLED
Puget Sound Total for May Is Esti
mated at $28,000,000.
SEATTLE, June 6. Puget Sound" im
ports in May reached the large total
of S28,0"00,000, or nearly twice the ag-J
gregate of the corresponding month
last year, according to preliminary
figures compiled by Collector of Cus
toms Drumheller.
Heavy imports of raw silk from
China and Japan were responsible for
the large total. Soy bean oil. linseed
oil und peanuts helped to swell the
total.
SCHOOL OFFICIAL ACCUSED
Principal Arrested on Charge of
Cruelty In Whipping Girl.
SAN JOSE. Cal.. June 6. Ernest E.
Crook, principal of the Berryessa
Grammar School, near here, was ar
rested today on a charge of battery on
complaint of U-year-old Mamie Scales
and two girl companions. Crook, the
police say, used a rawhide whip to
punish the children.
The Scales girl was removed to a
hospital here for treatment,' according
to the police.
BILL WOULD BAR SLACKERS
Expatriation of Men Fleeing From
Draft Proposed In House.
WASHINGTON, June 6. Persons
leaving the United States to avoid mil
itary service would be expatriated and
forever barred from the country by
bills Introduced today by Represen
tative Taylor, of Colorado. .
Thirty days from the passago of
either measure would be given to per
sons who already have fled to return
and make amends.
SUFFRAGE SCORES POINT
House Committee Favors Creation
of Body to Take TJp Question.
. "WASHINGTON June 6. Favorable
report on the resolution to create a
special House committee on woman
suffrage was ordered today by the
rules committee after all pressing war
measures are disposed of.
President Wilson recently recom
mended such . committee.
AMERICANS INJ 5 BATTLES
William Thaw Is Among Aviators
Honorably Mentioned.
PARIS. June 6. The Lafayette aerial
squadron engaged In 15 battles in
May. Corporal Kenneth Marr (San
Francisco) was engaged in two battles.
Ser-eant Havlland, Sergeant Charles
Johnson, of St. Louis, and Lieutenant
William Thaw, of Pittsburg, are cited
for meritorious conduct. ,
AMERICAN WOMAN HONORED
President Poincare Decorates Mrs.
Koyall Tyler.
PARIS, June 6. President Poincare
has conferred on Mrs. Royall Tyler the
gold medal for devotion in recognition
of her untiring work since the begin
ning of the war.
She is vice-president of the American
hospital for refugees and of the Asso
elation for the Children of Flanders.
STRIKERS GET 6-HOUR DAY
Mnnitions Workers in 14 0 Petro-
grad Plants Win Demands.
PETROGRAD, via London, June 6.
The threatened strike In 140 factories
In Petrograd engaged In metal manu-'
factures and other war work, which
was fixed for today, has been averted.
The strikers' demands were granted.
Including the six-hour day.
Only Few Complete
Returns Received.
ROLL OF HONOR IS MIGHTY
Census Estimates Not Equaled
in First Reports, However.
SLACKERS TO BE TAKEN IN
Machinery Xext to Be Set Into Mo
tion for Selective Draft and
Judges of Man Drawn Will
Be His Own Xelghbors.
WASHINGTON. June 6. The mighty
roll of honor of American manhood had
begun to reach Washington tonight
from the states that had completed
their count of the men of military age
registered yesterday. At a late hour
only a few complete returns had been
received but preliminary unofficial re
turns were sufficient to show that mil
lions of men await the call to arms.
The official figures were too scant
for an accurate estimate of the total of
the men who have registered. The
first reports showed that the Census
Bureau estimates of eligibles had not
been equaled, but officials pointed out
that the numbers by which one or two
cles alone had exceeded the estimates
would wipe out the entire deficiency
of the several smaller states sending in
the first official returns.
Registration Still in Progress.
In some of these cities registration
still was in progress today, the Attorney-General
having approved the
action of Provost Marshal-General
Crowder in authorizing an extension of
time where cards were lacking or
where the registration machinery
proved otherwise inadequate to its
task.
Until the records of the great manu
facturing centers are completed, re
sults of the registration cannot be
guaged accurately. . General - Crowder
said tonight that It was not to be ex
pected that the registration figures
would check with the census estimates,
because some hundreds of thousands
of men in the Army and Navy and Na
tional Guard were not required to
register.
Slackers to Be Brought in.
Messages from Governors all over
the country 'showed that there are
relatively few slackers to be dealt
with. Already the machinery of the
Government Is moving to bring these
few to a reckoning.
The chief factor in bringing them to
book, however, will not be legal pro
cesses. General Crowder and the forces
of the Department of Justice place full
reliance in the people themselves In
bringing forward these shirkers.
As the registration figures came In
tonight, the work of preparing for the
next great step proceeded without ln-
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Newspaper Takes Flinv -t
ness on Part -of Con.ress in
Providing for Control.
LONDON. June 6. In the House of
Commons today, in reply to a question
on the food situation. Captain Charles
Bathurst. parliamentary secretary to
the food control department, said 't
was not in the public Interest to give
any Information regarding food sup
piles, but that it was of the greatest
Importance to the success of the allies'
cause that food exports from America
should be on the highest possible scale
for the remainder of the war.
Captain Bathurst' s statement is
somewhat disquieting to the public and
the press.. The Dally Chronicle. In an
editorial on the subject, thinks there
Is more in it than meets the eye, and
proceeds to refer to the delay in the
execution, by the Washington Admin
istration of the food plans, owing to
the disagreement in Congress.
"It is not for us," says the paper,
"to criticise the course of American
legislation, but in this case we may be
pardoned for feeling considerable
anxiety at delays which, if extended
further, . might entail most aerlous
consequences for. the allied countries."
THREE. SISTERS MARRY
Two Weddings in Eugene and One
in San Jose in Four Days.
EUGENE, June 6. (Special) Miss
Imogens McKown, teacher in the Eu
gene public schools, who was married
last night to John Black, Jr., of Reeds
port, a member of - the University of
Oregon graduating class of 1917. was
the third sister in the McKown family
to be married within four days. Miss
Hazel McKown and Oscar j Swenson,
both of Tillamook, who came to attend
the sister's wedding, were married Mon
day night, and Miss Helen McKown and
Charles McKown (no relation) were
married at San Jose, Cal., Saturday,
June 2.
Mr. Swensen Is connected with the
Tillamook County Bank. The Mc
Kowns were old residents of Oregon,
but in recent years the family has re
sided at San Jose, Cal.
LANE WEDDINGS INCREASE
Record of . 15, Licenses Issued in
Two Days Is Attained.
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EUGENE, Or.. June 6. (Special.)
Fifteen marriage licenses in two days
is the record for the Lane County
Clerk's office, established. Saturday and
today.
The two intervening holldayr con
tributed to the unusually large num
ber, although it is double the normal
five-day count for June.
7 MILLION SENT TO ORIENT
Shipment Is Largest of Kind in His
tory of San Francisco.
SAN FRANCISCO. June 6. (Special.)
The largest shipment of gold ever to
leave this port and. with the silver
shipment included, the largest bullion
consignment ever 'to leave San Fran
cisco Is now en route to the orient.
Six million in gold is destined for
Japan and $1,000,000 in silver Is going
to China and India on the same vessel.
MAN IN THE EYE AND SAYS: ,
Wooden Vessels to Be
Built on Pacific.
$5,880,000 CONTRACT PRICE
West Coast Lumbermen's As
ciation Takes Order.
COST - IS CUT $900,000
Lumber to Be Turned Over to Con
tractors Without Profit Mate
rial Also to Be Taken for
' American Lake.
OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, , Wash
ington, June 6. That the Pacific Coast
Is to build 100 wooden steamers for the
Federal Shipping Board was established
today when the Council of National De
fense, through Its lumber committee,
signed a contract with the West Coast
Lumbermen's Association for 168.423.
300 feet of lumber .at an average cost
of $35 per thousand.
This quantity of lumber, according
to the Shipping Board estimates, con
stitutes 100 ship units.
While the contract today was made
with the West Coast Lumbermen's As
sociation, that association in this in
stance Is acting for all the lumber
mills in Western Oregon and Western
Washington, and by their authority.
Government Saves 000,000.
The Government is to buy its lumber
at mills located convenient to yards
where the wooden ships are to be built.
The total cost of this contract is
$6,880,000. -
By this form of agreement with the
Oregon and Washington lumber mills
the Government will save $900,000 on
the lumber going into the 100 ships,
but accomplishes this saving solely
by reason of the special price quoted
by the lumber manufacturers.
The Shipping Board is to turn over
this lumber to the shipbuilders at cost,
and will derive no profit from mere
handling of the lumber, as an inter
mediate party. In fact, save as to book
keeping, the shipyards will buy from
the mills, at the price named in today's
contract.
Sixty Ships to Be Let First.
The Shipping Board will at once place
specific contracts for lumber for 60
ships and will close deals for the re
maining 40 ship units within 30 days.
First deliveries will beer In within 30
days, and the whole contract is to be
filled within a year.
A further contract for lumber for
the American Lake cantonment was to
have been closed today, but was delayed
by -errors in the specifications. This
contract will call for 32,000,000
feet at an average price of $16.50 per
thousand, or $528,000 In all.
On the basis of these figures It ap
pears that the War Department Is go
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LIBERTY BOND.'
A
Tragedy Is Dramatically Presented
Before Court, Who Hears How
Older Child Nerved Others.
DURANT, Okla., June 6. The four
motherless and now fatherless children
of R. L. Wilkerson, a farmer, today
today told Judge Lewis Pauldin, In
County Court, how they planned and
executed the murder of their father
last Thursday night as he lay asleep
In -the Wilkerson farm home near Ben
nington. At the request of the court,
two of the children re-enacted the
tragedy In dramatic fashion. All have
been sent to the State School for De
linquents. Bessie, aged 13, the oldest of the
four, and Joe, aged 12, gave the court
a comprehensive account of the Inci
dent. The two younger children
Ruby. 10. and Otto, 8 testified' they
killed their father at the older chil
dren's bidding. Each testified that
Wilkerson frequently swore at them,
but that they received whippings not
more frequently than other children of
their acquaintance.
Handed a double-barreled shotgun
with a request to show the court how
their father met his death. Ruby point
ed the gun at a hat hung on a nearby
chair, while little Otto, barefooted and
chewing gum, calmly pulled the trig
ger. Three times, the little ones testi
fied, they had gone to their father's
room to kill him. only to scurry back
to the kitchen from fright. Finally,
with the encouragement of the older
brother, the children said, they had
nerved themselves sufficiently to com
mit the crime.
Mrs. Wilkerson died last January. An
older sister, who then became their
foster mother, since has been married,
leaving the children to care for; them
selves. SKIPPER IS SEMT TO JAIL
German Captain Who Sunk His Ship
Takes Punishment.
CHARLESTON a C. June 6. Cap
tain J. R. Klattenhoff, former master
of the German steamer Llebenfels, now
the United States ship Houston, was
sentenced to a year in the Atlanta
prison. ln'Federal District Court today
after pleading guilty to sinking the
ship in Charleston harbor on orders of
the German government.
Klattenhoff testified that he got his
orders from Dr. Muller, formerly the
German Consul In Atlanta, who waa
indicted today.
AVIATORS DESTROY GRAIN
Incendiary Bombs Are Dropped In
Macedonian Fields.
BERLIN, via London, June 6. In its
report today on operations along the
Macedonian front, array headquarters
announces that British airmen dropped
several bombs, causing the destruction
of several fields of ripening grain, on
the east bank of the Struma.
The bombs were incendiary.
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Weather.
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature. T4
degrees; minimum. 62 degrees.
TODAY'S Cloudy and cooler; northwesterly
winds.
War.
Sailors on American flotilla in foreign waters
. sight D-boats often. Page 1. ,
American steamer sinks German submarine.
Page 3.
German positions on front of one mile cap
- tured by British. Page 8.
Bight of IS German planes In raid oa Eng
land are brought down. Page B.
United States' delay of food control worries
Kngland. Pag 1.
NatloaaL
Gold tide ebbs from America. Page .
Registration for selective draft continues.
Page 1.
Timber for 100 ships bought on Coast.
Page 1.
War tax bill delay further. Page J.
Treasury certificates quickly over-subscribed.
Page 4.
Domestic.
Weeding out , of student officers begins at
Presidio. Page 8.
Advertising association pledges publicity for
$100,000,000 Red Cross funds. Page 5.
Children re-enact father's murder before
court. Page 1.
Millions lost, dead and Injured left In wake
of tornadoes In Missouri. Kansas and
'Michigan. Page 4.
Commercial and Marine.
Wheat opens higher after two days holiday.
Page la
Bulge In eorn at Chicago as result of fixing
maximum- price. Page IS.
All war stocks higher la New Tork market.
Page 1.
Sport.
Paclflo Coast League results: Portland 8.
Bait Lake 4; Oakland O, Los Angeles 4;
San Francisco 8, Vernon 8. Page 14.
Barry Hellmann leads ex-Coasters at bat In
National League. Page ii.
Pacific Xorthweat.
Washington Attorney-General says bone
dry law is held up by referendum pe
tition. Page T.
Organised distribution of labor will harvest
Inland Empire crops. Page lft.
Seattle war registration not half total esti
mated by Government. Page 1.
Tax amendment to constitution held to make
certain validity of automobile tax. Page 8.
Portland and Vicinity.
Mann defeats Kellaher at election, but latter
will be chosen to succeed Baker. Page 6.
Injunction to be filed against election of
school director. Page a.
Grand jury Is asked to probe tons war.
Page 20.
Baiter's plurality over Daly Is 1373. Page 8.
Mr. Baker Is hard at work, framing ad
ministration policies. Page 8.
B. 8. Josselyn sells Interest In fine resi
dence property. Page 4.
Multnomah registers 19.218 for draft Army.
Page .
Number of teams to canvass for Red Cross
funds to be doubled. Page 18.
Oregon National Guard can still use a few
recruits. Page 18.
Merger of city and state elections will
lengthen terms of Mayor and City Com
missioners IS months. Page 1.
Weather report, data and forecast. Page 18.
Monday's Winners in
Saddle 5 '1-2 Years.
AMENDMENT MAKES CHANGE
Next City Election Cannot Be
Held Until 1920.
LEGAL OPINION IS GIVEN
Attorney-General Believes That the
Election Merger Adopted by
People Lengthens Terms of
Office of Incumbents. 1
Some sad, bad' news is in store for th
boys who have just been elected to city
offices.
In substance and effect this news la
that instead of having been elected
last Monday for four years, as they and
the people supposed to be the case,
they apparently will have to serve In
office for the next five and one-halt
years.
More than that, city officials already
In office whose terms would expire In
June, 1919, two years from now, will
have to serve out an additional year
and one-half on full pay, the unexpend
ed portions of their present terms being
increased from two to three and one
half years.
Merger of Elections Is Cause.
They could resign, of course. But no
patriot resigns when his country needs
him.
The reason for the peculiar situation
just summed up. to the effect that all
elective city officials apparently will
have one and one-half years added to
their terms In office, is the passage by
the people of the constitutional amend
ment merging city elections wltli
county and slate elections.
This amendment provides that. pend
Ing the switch from present city elec
tion dates to the dates on which gen
eral state elections fall, "every officer
who, at the time of the adoption of
this amendment. Is the duly qualified!
incumbent of an elective office of an
Incorporated city or town, shall hold
his office for the term for which he
was elected and until his successor is
elected and qualified."
Election la 1819 Impossible.
The whole matter seems to hinge on
the answer to this question: "When
will the next city election be held in
Portland?"
Under normal circumstances. It would
fall on the first Monday In June. 1919,
two years from now.
But a city election cannot be held on
that date because the constitutional
amendment requires that:
"Incorporated cities and towns shall
hold their nominating and regular
elections for their several elective of
ficers at the same time that the pri
mary and general biennial elections
for state and county officers are)
held . . ."
There is no state election in the year
1919. Consequently, no city election;
can be held in that year at all.
Terms "Would Be Shortened.
The next general state election oc
curs in November. 1918. The general
state election next following that will
fall in November. 1920, which is also a
Presidential year.
Now the problem arises, shall the city
hold Its first election under the new
law at the next general state election.
In November of next year, or shall the
city election be made to coincide with
the general state election of Novem
ber, 1920?
In the first case, the election would
have' to be held six months before the
expiration of the terms of Commission
er Blgelow, of the successor as City
Auditor of Commissioner-elect Barbnr
and of Dan Kellaher, who will be elect
ed by the City Council to fill the unex
pired Commlsslonershlp of Mayor-elect
Baker. '
Long Walt Woald Be Required.
The new Commissioner-elect an City
Auditor-elect would have to hang
around for half a year before they
could get Into office and begin drawing
their pay.
In the second case, the city election
would be held just one year and one
half after the expiration of the terms
of Cimmissloner Blgelow. Commlsslon-er-to-be
Kellaher and the new City Auditor-to-be.
Under the wording of the amendment
such an arrangement wouldn't worry
these officials to death, even though
they would have to remain in office
until their successors were qualified
and elected. Indeed, it does riot tax the
Imagination to believe that they might
greatly favor the latter arrangement.
If the city election is held In .Novem
ber, 1910, the city election next fol
lowing would of course coincide with
the general state election of November,
1922. This would automatically increase
the terms of Mayor-elect Baker anil
Commissioners-elect Barbur and John
M. Mann to five and one-half years.
This version of the effect of the
new law was confirmed by Attorney
General Brown in an Informal opinion
given at Salem yesterday.
City Attorney La Roche, of Portland,
said he would have to study the new
amendment a bit before he could give
an authoritative opinion.
The possibilities presented by the
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