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THE arORXING OREGOXIAX. TITURSDAY, JUNE 7, 1917. U-BOAT IS SUNK BY liERIGAN STEAMER HEAD OP THE UNITED STATES ARMY, WHO IS IN RUSSIA, AND PRESENT DIRECTOR OF UNCLE SAM'S GREAT FIGHTING MACHINE. LABOR JJOT WEALTH, as grand high priest, the highest exec utive position in the chapter in 18S0, and was elected grand treasurer In 1891. and has been re-elected at each convention since that time. By .Popular Request This Success Continued u I $5,000,000 PUT IN BONDS BUYING mOST BONDS Ex-Senator Clark Subscribes Heav ily to Liberty Loan. HELENA. Mont., June . Word has been received here that ex-United States Senator Clark, of Butte, has subscribed to $5,000,000 of liberty bonds and will take another million. One million of this amount will be credited to Butte. Mrs. Mary Morony, of Great Falls, widow of John R. Morony, the banker, has bought $100,000 . worth of bonds. Mrs. Morony Is now nursing in a hos pital in France. Family Buys $1500 In Bonds. PENDLETON, Or.. June 6. (Spe cial.) Three individual subscriptions today aggregated 5 per cent of the $30. 000 which has been apportioned as Umatilla County's share of the Red Cross war fund. Mrs. Llna II. Sturgis gave $1000. Her two sons, James H. Sturgis, rancher, and Dr. Cyrus C. Sturgis, each pledged $250. -Battle Lasts Hour and Half, Sixty Shots Beinij Ex v changed by Foes. $5000 Is Subscribed in One Lumber Yard Total for Day Reaches $21,150. ' -VICTORIOUS SHIP UNHURT MEETINGS AT NOON LIVELY mnHbia i German Submarine Stands End TTp in Water for Several Seconds After Shell Hits and Tlien Goes Out of Sight. ; rASIIINGTOX. Juno . A German submarine Is believed to have been ..sunk by an armed American steamer yesterday in-a running fight lasting Jn hour and a halt, in which 35 shots were fired by the submarine and 25 by the steamer. An official announce- Client by the State Department today says the steamer's final shot "appar ently struck the submarine, which raised clear out of the water and stood tern-end up for a few seconds. She vthen disappeared. : The department's announcement fol lows: "The Department of State is advised by telegraph of an engagement be- tween an armed American steamer and Ja submarine. The guns of the steamer -were manned by an American naval '.crew. The submarine was first seen at -about 7000 yards. She had a six-Inch 'gun forward and another aft. She flew io flag. "Upon sight of the submarine, the steamer hoisted the American flag and waited for about 10 minutes. As the "submarine approached the steamer Jired. The submarine responded. The kteamer kept a speed that would permit 'the submarine to come within range. -Then followed a fight lasting for an hour and a half. The submarine came Tto within a distance of 2300 yards. By tha-t time the submarine had fired 3'5 ..shots and the steamer 25. The last shot of the steamer apparently struck "the submarine, which raised clear out "of the water and stood sternup for n few seconds. Then she disappeared. 'The captain of the steamer and the commander of the guard believe that -the submarine was sunk. The steamer 'cuffered no damage." MT. ANGEL LISTS ALUMNI Ao Change In Officers of College Association This Year. 5 MOUNT ANGEL COLLEGE, St. Ben edict, Or., June 6. (Special.) The lount Angel College Association re rtaina its old officers for next year. Portland is well represented In the 'officers' staff. Rev. Gregory Robl, liastor of Sacred Heart parish, and ;ifranK. P. Leipzig, 695 Tacoma avenue, are vice-presidents, and Conrad Krebs. .sergeant-at-arms. Leipzig is also the iilstorian of the Alumni Association. Umbert De Martini, of Seattle, the president, for many years was In Judge -JJavls' court in Portland. Rev. Thomas Ieler, professor at St. Benedict's abbey. Is secretary-treasurer. Mount Angel has a complete alumni ilst, showing occupations and addresses, 'the work of Rev. Mr. Meier and John fc'ohler, senior from Forest Grove, alumni editor the past year. HOOD HAS JITNEY TROUBLE Complaint Is Made About Auto Bus Running on Kails. 1 SALEM, Or., June 6. (Special.) In formal complaint made to the Public Service Commission that the rail auto car on the Mount Hood Railroad Is operating with one man, when It should come under the provisions of the full- crew law, has brought down an ava lanche of letters on the Commission from numerous leading business men . of Hood River. , To force the railroad company to place a full crew on the rail auto, "It is declared, would make its opera tion prohibitive and deprive the valley of the best Parkdale service It ever has had. They assert that the complaint is based on declarations of competing Jit ney drivers, who are anxious to see the rail auto service discontinued. "EUGENICS BOARD CALLED - Cases of Feeble-Minded Are to Be Admitted Under New Act. ' - SALEM, Or.. June 6. (Special.) Specific cases of Inmates at state in stitutions who may be brought to the attention of the new State Board of p.Kugenlcs were mentioned at a meet ing of the State Board of Control to day, 'and Governor Withycombe asked .Superintendent Steiner, of the State Hospital, to hurry along the first meet ing of that new board so that steps may be taken for the exercise of its functions. Superintendent Smith, of the School for Feeble Minded, called attention to those inmates at that Institution he be lieves could be properly turned loose into the world under supervision, pro viding their cases are passed upon by the new board. : BELGIUM SENDS MISSION JBaron Moncheur, Former Minister, Again Coming to United States. "WASHINGTON, June . Belgium will send an official mission to the United States, headed by Baron Mon cheur. ex-Minister here. It will arrive within the next three weeks. LUMBER BOUGHT FOR SHIPS (Continued From First Page.) ing ahead with Its original plan of training two divisions at American Lake, for Army estimates call for 600 feet of lumber per man and the quan tity named is ample to provide for more than 50,000 men. Timber Bought for South. The Shipping Board, after awarding contracts to Southern mills for lum ber for 100 wooden ships to be built in that section, has been advised that Southern yards cannot tarn out the large timbers required for keels and keelsons. The lumber committee today ar ranged through the West Coast Lum bermen's Association to have these large timbers cut In Oregon and Wash ington, the Southern yards to buy from tho Coest and arrange for the transpor tation of these big timbers to Southern 'shipyards. Phone your want ads to The Orego- nian. Main 7070, A 6095. It. 1 i . - - ,- , j g". .... ' ; : - . - r -:" .- . ' ' i r X: - . I'- ' ' ' I I - x-- " ".' - -- -' -i -a. . , I t J --. A V - '-, , I I I v ; . ; i i J KSTI r . - fl I Ell - . Photo Copyright by Underwood. Left to Right Major-General Tks M. Blim. V. S. A, Assistant to the Chief of fttaff, and Major-General Hugh L. Scott, Chief of Staff of the United Stairs Army. General Scott is now In Russia as member of the American Commis sion to that country. Under ordinary circumstances he would direct the energies of the Army of the United States. In his absence Major-General Bliss is In charge of the great machine to which the whole -world looks for preservation. It will be noted that there is a marked resemblance between these two men, their faces, figures and characteristics being singularly alike in many ways. GOLD TIDE CHANGES American Exports Greater Than Imports in May. . NEW SITUATION HEALTHY Further Accumulations In This Country Might Tend to Infla tion Japan, Spain and Mexico Are Recipients. "WASHINGTON, June 6. America's great gain of gold, which has grown with almost every month for two and one-half years, has ceased. Gold Im portations have stopped altogether, and the flow has begun the other way, with indications that it will continue in com paratively small volume for some time. The turning of the tide comes at a time when the country apparently faces the greatest Industrial period of its history; greater, officials believe, than the last 12 months, which wit nessed the establishment of a $6,000, 000,000 record for American exports. Cessation of gold imports to settle trade balances when trade balances are heavier than ever before against for eign buyers virtually is a novelty in American finance. On the whole, it is regarded as a healthy development, as further accretions might tend toward Inflation. All foreign purchases will be paid for, of course, but in a different form, the payment being made by money furnished the buyers by the United States and obtained by the flo tation of bond Issues. With the establishment of these cred its. It is explained, the entente gov- ernments.who have bought the bulk of American exports, have found it un necessary to continue sending gold to settle trade balances. They will send their. bonds Instead to secure the cred its advanced them. Neutral nations will continue to set tle their balances largely with gold. Neutrals having trade balances against the United States, officials believe, will call for settlement by the export of gold from this country. Evidences of this intention are man ifest in recent gold shipments to Ja pan, Spain and Mexico. Japan's trade balance last year against the United States was J73,000,000; for the first nine months of the present fiscal year it is $55,000,000. The United "States will ship approximately $25,000,000 in gold to Japan this month and probably $10, 000.000 to. $15,000,000 to Spain. The Federal Reserve Board is work ing to conserve in this country most of the gold shipped here since the war started. Pending amendments to the reserve act are designed to strengthen the board's ' power to retard gold ex ports. Before the tide turned the United States had accumulated $3,121,000,000 in gold, about one-third of the world's to tal. Treasury figures Just compiled show that during May the country ex ported $33,000,000 more gold than it imported. 18 MONTHS ADDED TO TERM (Continued From First Pa$e.) amendment took the unfortunate city officials affected by them completely by surprise yesterday. None of them apparently had considered what . it would do to their terms of office. It will be up to the City Council It self to name the date of the general state election with which the city elec tion shall coincide. The council can make it November, 1B18, or November. 1920, as it pleases, for the amendment provides that; "The Legislature, and cities and towns shall enact such supplementary legislation as may be necessary to carry fhe provisions of this amendment into effeet," The new act has other 'possibilities - , .A - Mf , than those presented by the fact that it probably will increase the terms of elective city officials in Portland by one and one-half years. Should the next city election be held in November, 1920, there would be a lively scramble for two Commissioner ships at the same time that the voters were sagely, debating on their choice for President. In that event, also, the people of Portland would elect a Mayor at the same time that they Voted at the fol lowing election for Governor. The outlook for a wild scramble of the boys for the many offices that will be available every election day is a glorious one. National, state, county and city campaigns will be messed up in one grand political jamboree. The combination of city and state elections does not mean that any change will be made in the present preferential voting system of the city election. That could only be made by amend ment to the city charter. The fact that the preferential system and the old-fashioned straight voting system will come up at the same election, how ever, will, of course, make it necessary to have a separate city ballot. NEW MEX HOLD UXTIIi 1022 Attorney-General Believes Change Is Made by Amendment. SALEM, Or., June 6. (Special.) The newly elected city officials of Portland, chosen last Monday for a term of four years, to end in 1921. will hold office until their successors qualify after te general state election In 1922, getting practically a year and one-half extra term under the provisions of the new constitutional amendment combining city and state elections. At least that ia the off-hand opinion given by Attorney-General Brown to day when the situation was presented to him. "Before giving a formal opinion on the mtter I have to look into it a little further." said Mr. Brown, "but I am satisfied that the newly elected officials. If they are elected for four years and their terms expire in 1921. will hold over after the expiration "of such term until their successors are elected and qualified. "As city elections and state elections for officials raiutt be held simultaneous ly hereafter, 'under the amendment passed last Monday, there would be no city election held in Portland in 1921, but . the first general election after their elective terms expire would be in November, 1922. I am of the opinion that the newly elected offi cials would hold office until that time, and a sufficient time thereafter until their successors should qualify." The amendment Itself, relating to holding city and state elections jointly, includes among others, the following provision: "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 towa shall hold his office until his successor is elected and qualified." It is pointed out, however, that the provision Just quoted does not exactly fit the case of the newly elected of ficials in Portland, as they , were not "duly qualified Incumbents," at the time of the Portland election amend ment. But another section of the constitu tion provides that "all officers except members of the Legislative Assembly sha.ll held their offices until their suc cessors 'are elected and qualified," and under this provision Mr. Brown be lieves that the newly-elected Portland officials probably will hold over until their successors are elected in -November 1922, and qualify for such offices at such a time thereafter as may be in the future provided. It is probable that new charter pro visions must be enacted in Portland to make the charter of that city link up with the new amendment as far as elections are concerned. Astoria Gives Big Oil Plant Permit. ASTORIA, Or., June . (Special.) By a vote of 8 to 1, the City Council tonight passed the ordinance granting permission! to the Standard Oil Com pany to ereet its proposed storage and distributing plant at the foot of Fourth street. The construction of the pro posed plant will entail an expendi ture of approximately $175,000. Government Paper to Be Accepted by Store In Payment for.. Mer chandise Rich Are Expected to Buy Share by June 15. Employes of Portland's big Industrial planta are coming forth most loyally to buy their share of liberty bonds. But with the exception of a few Iso lated Individuals, the big investors have not yet been heard from. Managers of the liberty bond com paign'in Oregon expect the wealthy to make their subscriptions before the campaign closes on June 16. The noonday meetings in the ship yards, lumber mills and factories have been even more successful than were expected. Hundreds of men have lis tened to the plans for the sale of liberty bonds and scores have volunteered their subscriptions. Meetings Are Successful. Two typically successful meetings were held yesterday one at the Twohy Brothers' car shop at East Sixtieth street and the. Union Pacific tracks, and the other at the Portland Lumber plant in South Portland. Noonday meetings today are sched uled at the Columbia Shipbuilding plant and at the Southern Pacific car shops. The noonday luncheon crowd at the University Club also will hear liberty bond speeches today. C. A. Miller, manager of the Oregon campaign, and H. R. Blauvelt, of the Oregon Life Insurance Company, were the principal speakers at the Portland Lumber Mill yesterday. The men lis tened with interest and then asked many questions about the bonds. Subscriptions Reaeh S5000. Although the speakers did not solicit subscriptions in person the voluntary applications from the men aggregated t000. C. C. Close, of the Lumbermen's Trust Company, spoke at the Twohy plant. The men there also were much inter ested and-many made arrangements to subscribe. David M. Dunne and A. J. Bale ad dressed employes of the Paclfio Coast Biscuit Company and at the conclusion of their speech-making programme an aggregate of $1850 was subscribed. These plants, as well as scores of others, already have arranged to finance their employes who buy liberty bonds by paying for the bonds out right -and permitting the employes to repay them in small monthly or weekly Installments. , Banks to Lend to Purchasers. The Portland banks also have ar ranged to lend money to any individual liberty bond purchaser at the unusually low rate or 5 per cent. .The banks will finance their own employes, however, at 3'& per cent, which is the same rate that the em ployers generally are charging their employes on deferred installments. Inasmuch as the bonds pay 3V& per cent, the interest on the bonds will go to meet the interest on the loan. Yesterday's subscriptions aggregated $21,150, bringing the total for the city and state up to $3,501,250. of which $2,153,150 is credited to the city and $1,348,100 to the state at large. City's Share Is S8,000,0OO. The total requirement for he city Is $6,000,000 and for the up-state, $2,500, 000. A big mass meeting in the interests of the bond campaign will be held at the Hippodrome Theater at noon Satur day. Dr. John H. Boyd, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, will be the principal speaker. A musical programme. Including con cert selections by the Third Infantry Band, will precede the speaking. At the Hippodrome meeting yesterday noon Bishop W. T. Sumner and T. A. Rochester, of the Lumbermen's Trust Company,- were the speakers. George L. Baker. Mayor-elect, presided. Booth Installed in Store. An attractive accommodation booth for the sale of liberty bonds has been Installed in the main lobby of Llpman. Wolfe & Co.'s store. Each subscriber to these bonds at this store is permit ted to report them through his own bank. The firm . also has announced that it will accept liberty bonds in pay ment of merchandise. In many other Oregon and Pacific Coast cities merchants are devoting space to the liberty loan bonds in their advertisements. The Portland liberty loan committee urges advertisers of this city to see that appropriate reference to the liber ty loan bonds Is made in their display advertisements in the daily papers. The committee Is aware that publicity of that kind materially assists the sale of the bonds. INDIAN'S WILIj TAKE LOAN BOND Klamath Agency District Chairman Makes Report. KLAMATH FALLS, Or.. June 6. (Special.) Prospects for a substantial response from the Indians on the Klamath reservation to the appeal for subscriptions for liberty loan bonds are declared by Edward B. Ashurst, Gov ernment stockman, to be very good. Mr. Ashurst is district chairman for Klamath agency district. Chairman Ernest M. Bubb, of the Merrill district. Is sending applications for several thousand dollars' worth of bonds. Fraternal orders and societies of the city have taken the matter up. CAYTJSE INDIAN BUYS BOND Pendleton School District Also Is Con ' sidering Investment. PENDLETON, Or., June 6. (Special.) Joe Craig, well-known Cayuse Indian and interpreter on the Umatilla reser vation near here, today invested in a liberty bond. The commercial association sub scribed to $1000. The county and. city are considering such disposal of avail able funds and the Pendleton school district may invest. Individual sub scriptions are numerous, the largest thus far being a $20,000 block. Albany Masons May Invest In Bonds. ALBANY, Or, June . (Special.) That the Grand Chapter, Royal Arch Masons of Oregon, invest the $6000 now In its treasury in liberty loan bonds is the recommendation which will be made to the chapter by David P. Mason, of Albany, grand treasurer. In his annual report. The report will be made to the grand chapter when it meets In annual convention in Portland next Monday, Mr, Mason has been grand treasurer of the grand chapter for S6 years continuously. He served BRITISH MAY COMMAND OFFICERS . MAY BE IMPORTED TO OPERATS GERMAN SHIPS. - Government Expect tr Hnc Great Difficulty la Klndtsg Personnel .for New Vessels. WASHINGTON, June . Many of the German vessels seised in American ports at the beginning of the War may be manned by British merchant marine officers if enough American officers cannot be found for them. The Ship ping Board recommended to President Wilson today an extension of the Pana ma Canal proclamation of 1914, which would permit this. The Government expects to have great difficulty in finding both offi cers and men for the German ships and for the great fleet of vessels the Ship ping Board Is preparing to build. Congress will be asked soon to em power the President to suspend certain provisions of the navigation laws to permit an interchange of American and Canadian shipping on the Great Lakes and to allow British vessels to ply be tween American porta and Porto Rico. A shortage of coastwise shipping on the Atlantic Pacific and Gulf coasts. It is believed, may be met under the law creating the Shipping Board. The law permits the board to operate in coastwise trade any vessels it may charter. Foreign vessels, therefore, may be chartered and operated by the board for coast ships. At present they are barred from engaging in coastwise trade. PEKIfl GETS ULTIMATUM PARLIAMENT OR PRESIDENT MUST GO, SAYS REBEL. Restoration of Maochu Dynasty Is New Threat Declaration of War oa Germ an 7- to Follow. SHANGHAI, China, June. 6. Nieh Shih Chun, military governor of Anhwel, in an interview in the China Press at Pengpu on Tuesday declared that President Li Yuan Hung must dis miss Parliament forthwith or he would have to go. If the President yields, declared Nieh Shih Chun, he wlU be allowed to retain his office; otherwise Hsu Shih Chang, former Secretary of State, will be made President. Nieh Shih Chun disclaimed any in tention of restoring the monarchy, but gave warning that if General Chang Hsun, the ex-mllitary governor of Anhwel. goes to Pekin he will not make peace, but will go for the purpose of overthrowing the President and restor ing the Manchu Dynasty. Nieh Shih Chun says that after the new Parliament is elected war will be declared on Germany. NATIVE CHINESE ENLISTS San Francisco Youth Wants to Show Appreciation for Liberty. CHICAGO. June Thomas Moy, 25 years old, a Chinese, enlisted in the Army today, lie told the recruiting of ficers that he was born in San Fran cisco and that his parents were dead. He enlisted as a mess attendant. "I want to show the people of the United State that I appreciate their progressiveness and liberty," Moy said after he had passed the physical ex- mlnatlon. I am an American as much as anyone.' OLD REGISTRAR ASKS PAY Inmate of Soldiers' Home at Orting Sends In Bill for Services. TACOMA. Wash., June 6. (Special.) C M. Points, an Inmate of the Old Soldiers' Home at Orting, was the only registrar in Pierce County to ask for pay for his services under the selective draft act. Points filed a bill for $4 for serv ices and $2.10 for mileage. His claims will be sent to the ar Department. Points has been in the Home for years as a Government charge. MANY U-BOATS ARE SEEN fContlnued From First Par ) wonderful green country-side and along the cliffs, which remind the seamen pf the palisades along the Hudson an chorages, one may any afternoon find groups of BritiSh and American sailors drinking their tea and swapping yarns in true seamanly fashion. The American Quickly acclimates himself to the afternoon tea habtt and finds It an amiable and satisfactory substitute for other things, with plenty of opportunity for confidental chats with his new allies on a thousand, and one subjects which his active mind has been turning over since his , arrival here. There are other places where one may almost always find groups of blue uniformed Americans. One Is the local cemetery in a green wood atop the cliffs, where are burled many victims of the. German submarines, whose graves are kept green by the visitors. Chehalis Banker Helps Red Cross. CHEHALIS, Wash., June 6. (Spe cial.) This morning a telegram was received by N. B. Coffman, a banker SA.bsolute!yr Removes S3 ELL-ASMS Indigestion. Onepackage proves it 25c ai all dni2ists.1 PRESTIGE GAINED BY 111 vtliiiiiUllllIll nil m ' ' '', i jniimiiMy.i u ii m m Hart's "Wolf Lowry" is laid in those Western domains, fenced by the far horizon and rising and setting sun. The story concerns "Wolf" Lowry. past master with the shoot ing irons (incidentally cattle king) and little Mary Davis (squatter) whose capital consisted of brown eyes, black curls and a boundless courage. It will rank, we believe, with Hart's greatest Westerns. Because of previous bookings, this picture can be shown only four days. "HER TORPEDOED LOVE," Two Reels of Keystone Glee and Comedy, With Louise Fazenda. Admission 15c of this city, from Charles E. Peabody informing him of his appointment by President Wilson as a member of the Washington state committee of the Red Cross war fund campaign. Mr. Coffman also has been named by Presi dent Wilson to serve with Mr. Peabody on the war council for the state. JOHN S. STAUFFER DIES Oregon City Pythian Succumbs After Long Illness. OREGOM CITT. Or.. June 6. (Spe cial.) John S. Stauffer. of Clackamas Heights, died at the family home to day, after an illness of several weeks. The body will be taken to Bryan. John Stauffer was born in Ohio, August 3, 1849. He came to Clackamas County with his wife several years ago. He was a member of Florence Lodge, FfsfTK Baker Has Been Elected Mayor, but the Best "Daily" Drink for Everybody Is em It's a friendly drink just nat urally agrees with everyone. And its flavor well, try it as a topper for lunch or a capper for thirst. 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