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I NO SLACKERS The American people xvant to win the war. It can't be done without money. Buy a liberty bond. TIME IS SHORT Only a few more days to raise $2,000,000,000 for Uncle Sam. Buy a lib' erty bond. VOL. LVII-XO. 17,644. PORTLAND, OREGON, SATURDAY, JUNE 9, 1917. PRICE FIVE CENTS. MINE DIVIDENDS IN6 MONTHS $7,1 28,660 XORTHWESTERX COMPAXIES ES TABLISH NEW RECORD. SALVADOR CAPITAL CITY IS DESTROYED FLAW IN PETITIONS ON BONE DRY FOUND PORTLAND Oil VERGE RAPID RISE IN RIVER IS DUE NEXT WEEK GENERAL PERSUING LANDS 111 ENGLAND OF FAILING 111 DUTY REJECTION OF 450 NAMES . IN WASHEVGTOS PEXDS. HOTTER WEATHER IS REPORTED BOTH EAST AND SOUTH. BRIIIIill ill 1 0F STRONGEST HUES Best Possible. Advantage Lost by Germans. ABILITY IS LACKING IN TEST More Than 6400 Prisoners and Many Big Guns Taken in Latest Drive. ALL' ARMS OF SERVICE AID Gains in Messines Section Con solidated and Three Coun ter Attacks Repulsed. LONDON, June 8. The British forces in Belgium have consolidated their gains of "Thursday and during Friday successfully warded off Ger man counter attacks in the region of Oosttaverne and Messines, according to the British . official communication issued tonight. More than 6,400 prisoners, among them 132 officers, already have been counted. The British losses in yesterday's at Uck in Belgium were light. Advantage Held by German. The statemeTt says the battle be come a gaugo of the ability of the Germans to stop the British advance under conditions as favorable to them as an army can ever hope for, with every advantage of ground and prep aration and with the knowledge that an attack was. impending. The announcement follows: "The position capturedby Tis-yes-terday was one of the enemy's most important strongholds on the western front. ' "Dominating as . it did the Ypres salient and giving the enemy complete observation over it, he neglected no precautions to render the position im pregnable. All Preparations Seen. "These conditions enabled the ene my, to overlook all our preparations for attack and he had moved up re inforcements to meet us. "The battle thereafter became a gauge of the ability of the German troops to stop our advance under con ditions as favorable to them as an army can ever hope for, with every advantage of ground and preparation and with the knowledge that an attack was impending, c "The German preparations for de fense consisted of an elaborate and intricate system of well-wired trenches and strong points forming a defense belt over a mile in depth. All Points Fortified. "Numerous farms and woods were thoroughly prepared for defense and there were large numbers of machine guns in the German garrisons. ' "Guns of all calibers, recently in creased in numbers, were placed to bear not only on the front but on the flanks of an attack. "Numerous communicating trenches and switch lines, radiating in all di rections were amply provided with strongly constructed concrete .dugouts and machine gun emplacements de signed to protect the enemy garrison and machine gunners from the effect of our bombardment. No Precaution Omitted. "In short, no precaution was omitted that could be provided by the inces sant labor of years, guided by the experience-gained by the enemy in his previous defeats on the Somme, Arras and Vimy Ridge. "Despite the difficulties and disad vantages which our troops had to overcome, further details of yester day's fighting show that our first as sault and the subsequent attacks were carried out in almost exact accordance with the time table previously 'ar ranged. 19 Deep Mines Exploded. "At 1:30 A. M. 19 deep mines were exploded simultaneously beneath the enemy's defenses, by which large por tions of both his front and support trenches, including extensive, dugout and mining systems, were completely wrecked. Immediately upon the ex plosion of the mines, our guns opened and our infantry assault was launched. "Within a few minutes the enemy's first line system was carried on the Concluded on page 3. Column l7) Total Payments -for District Now Amount to $96,831,854- Six Properties Added to List. SPOKANE. Wash, June 8. (Spe cial.) Dividends paid to stockholders in Northwestern mining companies during: the first half of 1917 will reach the total of 87. 128, S60. This is the greatest record the properties ever have made." During: the first half of 1916 the mines paid $6,449,725.' There were then 14 in the paying list. Now there are 17. Three that were on the list then are not now Success and Tamarack and Custer, in the Cour d'Alenes, and Crows Nest coal, in British Columbia. Knob Hill. Electric Point, United Cop per. Douglas, Utica and ' Richmond have made payments during: , this half year, but did not during the first half of 1916. ' Of the six which have been added to the list, three are in Wash ington, one in British Columbia and two in the Coeur d'Alenes. ' Mines of this district have now paid dividends altogether of $96,831,854. They have produced more than half a billion dollars of mineral. In giving: the ' earnings of these mines, the Hercules is an estimate, for it is not a corporation, and the owners ive no figures except once a year to the County Assessor. With the North port smelter in operation, half owned by the Hercules, it may.be that, the earnings of the big mine are consider ably in excess of the estimate of $300, 000 a month. ASHLAND- COMING NORTH i . ' Portland's Famous Rose Festival Attraction for Southern Cowboys. ASHLAND, Or- June 8. (Special.) Attired in cowboy . costumes and with a repertoire of songs' featuring "Come to the Round-up." the official song of the Rogue River Round-up. which will be held here on July 3, 4 and S, a quar tet of singers left this morning by au tomobile, with the Portland Rose Fes tival as their Mecca. . Stops will be made at all cities en route and the delegation expects to make a 10-day tour of Oregon. . They will appear in the Rose" Festival pa rades. PASSPORTS GIVEN CHARGE Haiticn Diplomat-Is to Leave Ger- 1 man Capital. AMSTERDAM, via London. June 8. The Haitian Charge d'Affalres at Ber lin has received his passports, accord ing to' a dispatch from the German capital. . The Haitlen diplomat had previously presented, a note protesting against unrestricted submarine warfare and demanding compensation ' for losses caused to Haitien commerce and life. ANOTHER FLOTILLA TO GO French Naval . Bases Prepared for More American Warships. PARIS. June 8. An . additional American flotilla of destroyers and patrol boats, to co-operate with French forces in the English Channel and the Atlantic, is expected shortly, according to the Matin. The paper says that naval bases have been prepared to accommodate the American ships. SOCIALIST SESSION PUT OFF "Various Circumstances" Prevent Stockholm Conference. LONDON. June 8. "Owing to vari ous circumstances, the general meeting of the International Socialist committee set for today in Stockholm could not be. held," says a Reuter dispatc i from the Swedish capital tonight. -It is rumored, says the message, that the meeting has been postponed until September. . . . LINERS ENTER BERING SEA Senator Is One of Three That Go " Through Pass on Way to Nome. SEATTLE, Wash- June -8. The large passenger steamers Senator, from San Francisco.' and Victoria and Umatilla, from Seattle, all bound for Nome, entered Bering Sea today. The rules of the insurance companies prohibited the vessels from passing Into the sea through Unimak Pass un til last midnight. . 50 MILLIONS SUBSCRIBED J. P. Morgan & Co. Take Big Block of -Liberty Bonds. NEW YORK. June 8. J. P. Morgan & Co. have . subscribed fir $50,000,000 worth of liberty loan bonds, it was an nounced today.. Drexel & Co.,-the firm's Philadelphia house, ' subscribed $10,000,0.. of the amount. LABOR DICTATOR IS MYTH Secretary Wilson Denies Reported Industrial Control Plan. WASHINGTON. June S. Secretary Wilson today denied published reports that the Government was considering forming a National industrial control No labor-dictator, he said, is needed VoIcanoandQuakesLay Wide Area in Waste. HUNDREDS REPORTED KILLED Lava and Boiling Water Flow Down on Community. SEVERAL TOWNS RAZED American Legation Is Among First Buildings Ruined; Deadly Karth Disturbances Frequent Dur ing Past ' Two Years. PANAMA, June 8. Reports from Managua and San Juan Del Sur say that hundreds of lives were lost in San Sal vador. .Earthquakes continued all through the night and volcanoes were in erup tion. Communication between Panama and San Salvador has been broken. 'SAN JUAN DEL SUR, Nicaragua, June 8. San Salvador, Santa Tecla and neighboring towns and villages were destroyed in an earthquake which com menced at 7 o'clock last night and con tinued throughout the night, according to advices received here from the Presi dent of Nicaragua tonight. Quakes Continue All Night. The President's message says: "Telegraphic communication just re established with San Salvador confirms that earthquakes commenced at 7 o'clock P. M. yesterday (Thursday) and con tinued all night, accompanied by a heavy rain. "San Salvador, Santa Tecla and neigh boring towns and villages were de stroyed. "The casualties were small." "There were some fires. . Xiearasa Offers Aid. "The President of Nicaragua has tele graphed' the President of Salvador, of fering aid. He has ordered the organi zation of relief committees to send help to the suffering and the homeless." A report, received from San Miguel Fays San Salvador was destroyed, only 100 houses being left standing. Strong earthquakes, the report says. were followed later by lava and boil ing water. At 7 o'clock last night the telegraph operator at Tegucigalpa, Honduras, re ported that the operator at San Salva dor had informed htm that earth quakes had been felt there. The shocks were also felt at Tegucigalpa, where the operator at 7:45 P. M. lost communication with San Salvador on all wires. From Sensuntenpeque, In North Cen tral Salvador, flames were seen aris ing apparently from a volcano in the neighborhood of San Salvador. Several Towns Wiped Ont. A dispatch from Tegucigalpa. Hon duras, says that in addition to the wiping out of San Salvador, the towns (Concluded on Page 4, Column 2.) ,. ... .4 .concluded on Page 6, Column 2.) ; : ;; ' '. CUT IT I .' I I I ' J ----- ' ' - - - - t Law, However, Is Suspended. Until . July 1, Pending Final Count of Referendum Signatures. OLTMPIA, Wash.. June 8. (Special.) Classification of petitions to refer the bone-dry law to the election of 1918 today disclosed a violation of statute that will possibly result (in rejection of 4500 petitioners from Spo kane. If this happens, the proposed referendum will fail, as the petitions filed show an excess of only 633 names over the total required to Invoke a referendum. Under tate law. a copy of the law to be referred must accompany each petition when it is -offered for signing. The Spokane petitions, filed with the Secretary of State Indicate that this rule was violated. Action to reject the questionable pe titions will have to be instituted by opponents of the proposed referendum, the .Secretary of State lacking initia tive jurisdiction. To preserve the evi dence, the Spokane petitions have been left in the condition In which, they were when filed. Under a preliminary count the bone dry law is now held to be suspended and permits are authorized up to July 1. when the Reed, law becomes effect ive. The referendum is still open tc attack, as the Secretary of State has 3 days in which to check petitions finally. That the apparent Spokane irregularity will be promptly attacked is considered certain. MORE LABOR BARS DOWN Agricultural Workers From Canada Arc to Be Admitted. WASHINGTON. June 8. Secretary Wilson's ruling waiving certain provi sions of the immigration laws so that Mexican labor may be brought into this country for agricultural purposes has been extended so as to include labor from Canada. Because of a shortage of labor in the Northern lumber regions an effort also la being made, to have the secretary Include in the order labor for this work also. ROSE FESTIVAL OREGOJflASS, FIVE ISSUES, INCLUDING POSTAGE,' 15c. Mail to your friends in the -East The Oregonlan during Rose Festival week, beglnTflngWednes day. June 13, and ending with the great Sunday edition. June 17. Complete and exhaustive re ports with numerous high-class half-tone Illustrations, will be featured dally. The Portland annual Rose Fes tival has been widely advertised throughout the United States, and no more attractive testimonial to your friends could be given dur ing the event than a subscription to the GREATEST DAILY OF THE GREAT NORTHWEST. Orders given now in the busi ness office or sent in by mall to The Oregonlan will receive prompt and careful attention. Subscrip tion price of the five issues, in cluding postage, is 15 cents. See order blank elsewhere In this issue. City Far Short of Its Quota for Loan R' ' $542,50 "HSrlS NEEDED Indifference of Wealthy Is Amazing to Bankers. WORKERS ANSWER CALL Some Dollar-Hungry Investors Com plain That Government Should Pay More for Money and Are Trying to Force Rate tTp. LIBERTY BOXD MEETING AT HIPPODROME THEATER AT NOON TODAY. A big patriotic mass meeting will be held at the Hippodrome Theater, northwest corner of Yamhill stree and Broadway, at noon today. Everybody is Invit ed especially the women. Dr. John H. Boyd, pastor of the j-- not nTouyitrwn usurcn, will be the principal . speaker. . C. A. Miller will exnlnln tha liberty , loan. W. M. Ladd will preside. Music will be furnished by the Third Regiment Band, by the "Ad Club Quartet and by Frank D.Hennessy. A street parade, led by the Third Oregon Band, will precede the meeting. Portland .will have, to dig up 8542,400 a day for the next six days to meet its allotment of the liberty loan. When the state headquarters ' in the Northwestern Bank building closed last night Portland was precisely 83,258,000 short of its 86,000,000 quota. .Positively no subscriptions will be accepted after noon next Friday, June 15. . By counting Friday as a full day, only six business days remain before the campaign closes. Unless some substantial subscriptions in amounts of 85000 and more begin to come in within the next few days, it is possible that Portland .will fall far short of its quota. Tarrilaes of Wealthy . Ameses. Portland bankers are, shocked and amazed at 'the indifference displayed by men of wealth. Only a bare two doz en of the wealthy have actualy sub scribed. A few others have inquired about the loan and are "thinking about it." and a great many, when approached by solicitors. have complained that "they don't pay enough Interest." The Clearlng-House Association held an emergency meeting yesterday to consider the situation. It is probable that the bankers personally. will solicit the subscriptions ' of the "big fellows" Tuesday's -Stage of Water Expected Now to Be Above 23 Feet. Much Snow in Mountains. Continuation of high temperatures today will cause a rapid rise of the Willamette River next week, but should cooler conditions prevail, with expected showers, the stream here , is expected to reach 22.2 feet above xero Monday and 23.2 Tuesday. The stage yesterday morning was 21.6 feet, a de cline of three-tenths. "East of the mountains tempera tures went up as high as 86 degrees in places, ranging, from 78 degrees, and that means ' much snow melted during the day." said Assistant Fore caster Drake. "In the Rogue River Valley temperatures " were as high as 90 degrees today." In the Umatilla National Forest and about the John Day region, snow was on the ground as late as June 2, rang ing in depth from 30 to 58 inches and in one place as deep as 110 Inches. The steamer Dalles City, which had been held at The Dalles for more than a week on account of the stiff current, arrived yesterday and leaves out this morning for The Dalles. The Bailey Gatzert continues on her night sched ule from Portland for The Dalles de spite the current and will be kept 'in service as long as the Cascade Locks are open. Official river readings yes terday were: 3 m o 2. SS to STATIONS. Wenatchee . . Kamlah l.ewlston-' . . Umatiila .... The Dalles... Eugene Albany ' ...... Salem ........ Oregon City.. Portland .... 40 25 23 lift . 40 10 20 20 12 IS 37. 8 11.0 1S.2 20.S 34.4 3.8 0.0 5.7 as 21.6 O 0.9 0.6 O 0.6 0.4 0.4 0.5 0.1 0 3 VANCOUVER, Wash.. June 8. (Spe cial.) The Columbia River it I A. M. today was 22.2 and by 8 P. M. had al most reached 23 flat. HONOR STUDENT WINS CASH Oratory Nets University Man $250 and California Trip. UNTVERSITT OF OREGON, Eugene. June 6. Earl E. Flelschmann, a mem ber of the graduating class, earned in the last semester of his college career 1250 in prizes: and a, trip to California by his ability in oratory and debat. Early in the semester he was chosen on the debating team which defeated the Stanford speakers. In May, in Seat tle, he won a prise of 8100. Cutting down his. winning 2000-word oration on "The World Made Safe for Democracy," . he , presented It In the commencement oratorical contest in 1500-word form and won the Galling prize of. 8 150. Flelschmann at commencement re ceived the "highest honors" in scholar ship. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS ' The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature. 71 degrees; minimum. 55 degrees. TODAY'S Partly cloudy, probably showers, not so warm; westerly winds. War. Corps of 100 American airmen reach France. Page 2. Rations reduced each month In Germany. Page 7. War Department hastens construction of cantonments. Page 0. General Pershing lands In England. Page 1. Latest British drive wins one of Germans' strongest strongholds. Page 1. Germans from east front dazed by intensity or jsriusn lira. page a. British liner Southland sunk by U-boat: dead may total 83. Page 4. Foreign. Russian peasants urge army to act. Page 2. San Salvador, capital of Salvador, is de stroyed. Page 1. National. General Goethals dismisses advocates of wooden ship plan. Page 2. Registration total from 17 states Is about 85 per cent of estimate. Pago 5. 8700.000,000 still needed In liberty loan sale. Page IS. Domestic. Banks and Insurance companies uphold car riers' plea. Page 8. Wheat crop for 1017 estimated at 6od.000.000 ousneis. page 4. t Sport. Pacific Coast League Portland 7. Salt Lake 8; san Francisco B. Vernon 2; Los An geles 8. Oakland 1. Pace 14. Tualatin Club golf tourney nears end. Page 14. Chandler Egan to be seen in golf play here. page 14. Pacific Northwest. Flaw In Washington bone-dry petitions may beat referendum. Page 1. Northwestern mine dividends In half year total u:.w. page 1. Oregon bankers meet at Marahfleld. Page 6. Apportionment of state funds among coun ties lor rairs made, page o. Commercial and Marine. Oregon wheat crop estimated under last year. Page 19. Chicago wheat prices affected by crop, esti mates. Page 19. Another big shipyard may be established In Portland. Page 16. Warranton Company asks for fill on ship yard site. Page 16. Rail shares advance on publication of crop report, poce iv. PortUiad and .Vicinity. Rapid rise in river likely to come next week. Page 1. Portland must raise 9542.500 a dey to meet quota ror liberty loan bonds. Page 1. Red Cross drive to be Inaugurated on Bunker Hill day. Page 9. Portland "dolls up" for annual fiesta. Page 8. Wife asks - permanent .Judgment of 8100 a monin wianout aivorce. page s. Hunt for slackers Is begun in Oregon. Page 9. W. P. LaRoche to be retained as City At torney. Pago 8. Four candidates now In race for School Director. Page 1L Case of Lee Yin, accused tong murderer. In hands of jury. Page 7. Unite of companies D and E of Engineers to leave Monday. Page 13. Weather report, teta and foreoaat. Page 19. Military Honors Are Accorded American. U. S. WARSHIPS ARE ESCORT Great Enthusiasm Reigns on Ship When Flag Is Seen. FRENCH STUDIED ON WAY Wonndcd Heroes, Recently From Fir ing Lines in France, Are Ques tioned by Officer Who In spects Guard of Honor. j LOJTDOX. June 8. Headed by Major- General John J. Pershing, its com mander, the first representatives of the American Army that is to enter the European war disembarked this morning at a British port after an un eventful voyage on board the White Star liner Baltic - The party was received with full military honors and immediately en trained for London, where it was wel comed by the Earl of Derby, the Min ister of War; Viscount French, com mander of the British home forces, and the American officials. Women Entertain Americana. General Pershing's personal staff and the members of the general staff who will perform the preliminary work for the first lighting force number 57 offi cers, and are accompanied by a squad of some 50 privates and a large civilian clerical' force. Among those taking an active part on the various committees of enter tainment for the American contingent are Mrs. . John Astor, Mrs. Whltelaw Reld. Mrs. W. W. Phipps and Mrs. R. Craig McKerrow, and Washington Wood. Almerio Paget and L. W.- Black welL - Every Convenience Arraagcd. The Americans were surprised to learn of the elaborate arrangements for their entertainment and also of the plans made to facilitate their work. The privates in the contingent will be the guests of the British Army In the barracks in the historic Tower of Lon don. Everything from automobiles to a money exchange office was ready for the convenience of the Americans and soon the officers and men were scat tered over the city on business and sightseeing. While the Americans are keenly in terested in their new surroundings, they are giving themselves to the busi ness of war. There is no atmosphere of an excursion jaunt about the trip of the American contingent. The officers in the contingent came from various stations In the United (Concluded on Page 2. Column 2.1 LIBERTY LOAN-. Seme Farts. In order to remove prevalent doubts, the following statements . are made: First Bonds are issued either registered in the name of the purchaser or payable to bearer. Bearer bonds can be bought in 850. 8100. 8500. 81000; registered bonds in 8100. 8500. 81000. 85000, $10,000 and upwards. Second Payments can be made as follows: 2 per cent on appli cation. 18 per cent on June 28, 20 per cent on July 30, 30 per cent on August 16, 30 per cent on Au gust 30, or payments in full may be made on subscriptions, regard less of amount; Interest will ac crue to subscribers from June 15 on full paid subscriptions re ceived and allotted. Third Bonds will be dated June 15 and bear Interest from that date at ZM per cent per an num. Fourth There are several rea sons why men and women should subscribe to the loan who are in position to do so. 1. It is their patriotic duty. 2. It is good business, whether it is regarded from the stand point of the business man. the property owner, the professional man or the wage-earner. 3. The Government promises that as far as possible funds sub scribed in the various communi ties will be permitted to remain In the banks in those communi ties until required. 4. Funds subscribed in Port land, it Is evident, will be spent by the Government in Portland in payment for ships, lumber, cloth-, ing. etc.. to a much greater ex tent than the total amount sub scribed locally. 5. The easiest method of finan cing the war will be through bond issues; unless these are sub ccribed for. Congress will be com pelled to levy heavier taxes than would otherwise be the case. C. The more readily and gen erally the bonds are subscribed for the mora it will help to end the war.
