Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937, June 12, 1917, Image 4

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Newspaper Page TextTHE MORNING OREGONIAN, TUESDAY. JUNE 12, 191T. MILE OF FRONT IS TAKEN BY BRITISH PRESENT LINE OF BRITISH DRIVE IN NORTHWEST. ALL CLASSES ASKED Cool, Refreshing Drinks Dainty, Delicious Lunches 'We Serve All Day at Our Fountain Further Advance Is Made in Messines Section in Early Morning Attack. Meeting to N Have Opportunity to Select Its Own Pre siding Officer. 1(1 IRISH CONVENTION 7 FIELD. GUNS CAPTURED Some Prisoners Also Reported; As saults fcy Germans Are Help Vp .by French; Berlin, However, Claims Success. LOXDON, June 11. British troops have captured another mile of German trenches southeast of Messines, togeth er with seven field Runs and prisoners, according- to the official report from British headquarters tonight. The text of the statement reads: "Our progress southeast of Messines has continued. Early this morning we captured the enemy's trench system in the neighborhood of La Poterle farm on a front of about a mile and during the day our troops gained further ground in this area. Seven Gnu Cap tared. "In addition to some prisoners, seven German field guns -have been captured by us today as a result of the opera tions." "PArUS. June 11. The official com munication Issued by the war office tonight reads: "Two enemy surprise attacks on our small posts near Courcy met with no success. There was intermittent can nonading over the greater part of the front, but in the region of Mont Carnll let both artilleries were very active. Belgian communication: There was lively artillery action last night in the direction of Hethsas and today near Itamscape and Hethsas. BERLIN, via London, June 11- The official statement reads: "Western front: Army group of Prince Ruprecht: "In the sector of the Dunes, near Nieuport and east of Tpres. the firing activity yesterday increased consider ably in intensity from time to time. The firing also increased toward even ing in the battle area east of Wytscha te and Messines. British Declared Repulsed. "After a vigorous surprise bombard ment at night, British companies ad vanced against our lines west of Hol lebeka and Vambeke. They were re pulsed. South of the Douve, British attacks during the evening against the trenches west of Warneton failed. On both sides of La Bassee Canal and on the southern bank of the Scarpe our destructive fire near Festubert, Loos and Monchy prevented British attacks in preparation from being carried out. "On the La Bassee-Bethune road northeast of Vermelles, and near Hul luch, enemy reconnoitering advances were repulsed. "Army group of the German Crown Prince On the Chemln-Des-Dames to the west of Cerny, East Prussia and Westphallan thrusting troops broke Into the French trenches in a separate attack and annihilated the occupants with the exception of those who fled. Our men returned with some prisoners. "The lively firing which began here extended to adjacent sectors." BAPTISTS LEAVE PULPITS Two Pastors Present Resignations to Ministerial Association. ' Two Baptist pulpits will be vacant soon. The resignations of the Rev. W. A. T. Sprlggs. of Arleta, and Rev. J. M. Nelson, of Lents, were read yester day at the regular meeting of the Bap tist Ministerial Association in the White Temple and resolutions of ap preciation were adopted. r-Addresses were given by Rev. O. C. Wright and Rev. C. A. Wooddy, who reported on the recent Northern Bap tists' convention in Cleveland, O. The retiring president. Rev. H. T. Cash, presided. The newly-elected president is the Rev. W. T. Milliken, of Oregon City. Rev. A. B. Waltz, of Glencoe Church, is secretary. Yesterday's meeting closed the year and the asso elation will not meet -again until Sep tember. Railroad Men Subscribe $34,200. i'LA GRANDE, Or., June 11. (Spe cial.) Officials of the O.-W. R. & N. lti La Grande today tui-ned over to the banks of the city $34,200, which has been .turned In by company employes with which to buy liberty bonds. Sixty thousands dollars has passed through the local banks since the big O.-W, R. & N. contribution to the fund. The sum purchased In today's turnover does not include all departments employed hers and more Is looked for within a day or two. ywo German Seaplanes Destroyed. LONDON, June 11. Two of the five hostile seaplanes that were sighted by ai? drifter of the Dover patrol today were destroyed by the British aircraft, it) was officially announced tonight. JjfZ4faAsug r "X" JTZTcArAtf X DELEGATES TO NUMBER 101 Arrows Mark Direction of Advance. At Top Are Shows Ostend and Zee- braars;e. Present German Bases for Smaller Submarines Which Form Oae of the Allies' Objectives. EDICT SWAYS PEKIfl President Draws Mandate Dis solving Parliament. PREMIER OPPOSES ACTION Dr. Wu Declines to Sign Decree. Preventing Ruling Going Into Effect War Would Be- De layed Six Months. PEKIN, June 10. (Delayed In Tran sit.) President LI Tuan Hung has an nounced a willingness to accede to the demand of General Chang Hsun that Parliament be dissolved, and has drawn up a mandate of dissolution. Dr. Wu Ting Fang, the acting Premier, how ever, has decined to countersign the decree, and his signature is necessary to give effect to It. If Parliament is dissolved It house were discovered in the residence. As a result of the raid Perry Nichols, colored, a police court character and proprietor of a colored men's club, and a negro woman. Myrtle Brown, are held at the County Jail while Investigation is made, with the expectation that sev eral charges may be made against them. Nichols declares he is purchas ing the place. The two colored persons, who are be lieved to have operated the place, were caught as they were fleeing; eight white men and women, said by the of ficers to have been guests, were ap prehended. Their names and addresses were taken by the officers for further investigation. A search of the place disclosed a con siderable quantity of beer and whisky, three sacks of full and empty bottles being taken to the Couny Jail as evi dence. Nichols has been in Police Court sev eral times, mostly on liquor law viola tion charges, the colored club operated by him on Second avenue having been raided quite frequently. Only a few months ago he was shown leniency in the Superior Court on a liquor charge when he was found guilty, but prom ised to reform. $200,000 TO BE COLLECTED Estimate on Annual Corporation . Taxes Is Made. - make impossible a declaration of war by China on Germany for six months. as it takea this time to elect and as semble a new Parliament. General Chang Hsun, who recently arrived at Tien-Tsin from the southern provinces, refused to come to the cap ital until the mandate dissolving Par liament has been issued. He now de mands a pronouncement from the gov ernment that all members of the pres ent Parliament ba excluded from re election. There are serious differences of opinion between the general and other military leaders on the question of the retention of President Li Tuan Hung and the selection of a new Premier. SALEM. Or.. June 11. fSDeelal.l will More than $200,000 will be collected in annual licenses by the corporation de partment, according to an estimate made today by Corporation Commis sioner Schulderman. The license ' fees became due June 1, and since then ap proximately $440,000 have been col lected. The following articles were filed with the department today: Smythe Welch Company, Pendleton, capital $10,000; North Bend Shingle Mill, of North Bend, capital $20,000, and the Hill Lumber Company, of Portland, capital $5000. AGENCY LAW IS INVALID FEDERAL SUPREME! COURT HOLDS LABOR BUREAUS MAY RUN. .Read The Oresronian classified ads. UNION DENTISTS ;'PalnlenM operations on the teeth, as perhaps yon will know from your own experience, depen largely on the man who lwtes the Instrument. If he Is care less. Irritable or anaympathettc, he will Inflict pain. Von TVH1 Not Oct Hurt If You Kind ; This Number. ;The Union Painless Dentists are in corporated under the laws of Oregon. and the company is responsible for the ptarantee tnat goes wttn all the work mat leaves ineir oiiice, i Washington Will Make No Request for ' Rehearing, Attorney-General Says, and Business Will Resume. WASHINGTON. June 11. Federal decrees upholding constitutionality of the Washington state law prohibiting collection of fees for securing employ ment were set aside today by the Su preme Court. The statute was pro posed by initiative and adopted at the November election, 1914. Justices Mc- Kenna, Holmes, Clark and Brandeis dis sented. SEATTLE, Wash.. June 11. The anti- employment agency statute, declared invalid by the United States Supreme Court, was adopted in November, 1914. and was put forward by the labor unions, the state grange and other or ganizations. ' It was alleged by the advocates of the law that abuses were practiced by the employment agencies upon labor ing men. The law was attacked by the Employers' Association of Washington, which financed the appeal to the United States Court from the decision of the Circuit Court of Appeals, which held the law valid. The act was attacked on the ground that It deprived the employment agents of property without due process of law and was therefore unconstitutional. Attorney-General Tanner said today that the state would not seek a re hearing. It is expected that employ ment offices collecting fees from la borers will be re-established immedi ately throughout the state. SOUTHLAND'S BOATS LAND American Previously Reported Miss ing Is Among Rescued. LONDON, June 11. The two missing boats from the British steamer South land, which was torpedoed and sunk on June 4, have been found and the 40 m n who were in them safely land ed. Edward Iligney, of New York, who had been reported missing, is among them. one American was killed in the sink ng of the steamer. ! PLATES $5 Porcelain Crowns S3.50 to 85 Porcelain Fillings 91 2X-K. Gold Crowns 3. 50 to 5 Gold Bridge S3.50 to So attracting. SOC 231V2 Morrison, Cor. 2d Entire ConDOb Look for the Bis; Union Sign. FINE HOME IS RAIDED RESIDENCE IN SPOKANE SUBURB IS USED AS ROADHOUSE. Folly Equipped Dnnee Hall, Bar and Considerable Quantities of Beer and Whisky' Are Discovered. SPOKANE, Wash., June 11. (Spe cial.) The old Zimmerman place, one of the finest large residences in the Garden Springs section occupying 14-acre tract. Just w; of the city limits, on the' Medical Lake electric road, was raided at midnight last night by Sheriff Reld and Deputies Long, Anderson and Bradley. A fully equipped dance hall, bar and other facilities for a "high-class" road Government to Nominate 15 Mem bers From Every Walk of Life, Lloyd George Announces, In Outlining His Plan. LONDON.' June 11. The convention to be convoked by the government in an attempt to solve the Irish prob lem will be composed of 101 members representing every walk of life in Ire land and will be presided over by a chairman of its own selection, or, fall ing that, by a man chosen by the gov ernment. The convention will be purely an Irish assemblage. The county, borough and urban district officials will select their own representatives. The churches will be represented by their bishops in the case of the Presbyteri ans by their moderator; while the Chambers of Commerce of Dublin, Bel fast and Cork will name then- own delegates, as will each political party. The lo members to be nominated by the government. Premier Lloyd George announced, would be taken from among leading Irishmen of all sections. The government, he added, would pre fer that the convention nominate its own chairman, but the government was prepared to nominate one if necessary. The Irish Unionist Alliance men tioned by the Premier as among or ganizations which include the Sinn Fein, to be given seats in the conven tion, represents the Unionists of South of Ireland. . John Redmond, the Nationalist lead er, will be Invited to nominate rive members of the Irish convention. Pre mier Lloyd George announced in the House of Commons today. Sir John Lonsdale will be Invited also to nomi nate five members, the Premier added. and William O'Brien two members. i PS ji SL " j HYDE CASES ARE APPEALED Salts for Cancellation of Patents Go to State Supreme Court. EUGENE. Or.. June 11. Notice of appeal was given in the Lane County Circuit Court today in the case of the state of Oregon vs. F. A. Hyde and others for the cancellation of patents issued for a large tract of state lands in six Oregon counties alleged to have been secured through the use of dum my entrymen. Suits were instituted in all counties, five courts finding for the state and one for the defendants. The Anaconda Copper Mining Com pany, of Montana, which purchased land from Hyde and his associates, and used the land as a basis for selections of lieu land in other states, is one of the defendants. TEN MEN TAKEN FROM MINE (Continued" Prom Pint Pass.) tie hed is given the bodies scattered about the stations and In workings in the immediate vicinity of ti.e Granite Mountain aha., in the search for the living. The search is a fevrish, almost frantic one, for the living now. The dead will be foi nd and removed later. A recapitulation of the casualties at an early hour tonight stood as follows: Bodies brought to surface, 76. Identified. 36. Unidentified, 40. . Rescued alive since Sunday noon, 31 Unaccounted for and missing, includ ing unidentified dead. 128. Bodies at public morgue, 14. Since 10 o'clock last night 18 bodies have been taken from the mine. A public morgue has been established In the mine. Access to the Granite Mountain shaft itself was not possible up to this aft ernoon, although possibility of spread of whatever fire remains in the shaft is precluded in large measure by rea son of the bulkheads erected at each station at the time of the Modoc mine fire, several weeks ago. Water is still being poured down the shaft, and it Is probable that some of the lower levels are flooded. rrn, o.4i,,,i. i I . . . 1 I ilia Vilici r 1 1T1CL1 1111 liu 1 11 CH I Alio auuiiiianu b caMi&iu reyuris umi . ,( , , . . . i . i , , . . . i . . dozen firemen Joined in the rescue work today. The firemen are familiar with the working of oxygen helmets and are proving of much assistance. Every physician in the city made his services available at the mine today, PRESIDENT OP BAKER COM -MEHCIAL CLUB SUCCESSOR TO JUDGE MESSICK. ! . . - -. -' ' - ' " ' tit r rt i fJAIiJ "PAT" HEXBEIISON IS KILLED Whitman College Student One Vic tim of Butte Disaster. WALLA WALLA. Wash., June 11. Herschel ("Pat") Henderson, of Milton Or., the first man elected to the presl dency of the Associated Students of Whitman College without opposition, was killed in the Speculator disaster in Butte, according to word received here yesterday. His mother left last night to endeavor to recover his body. Henderson was a member of the var sity baseball and basketball teams, and was captain of the former. He had worked but two days n the mine. where he was gaining funds to com plete his college course. He would have graduated next year. Famous German Airman Killed. AMSTERDAM, via London, June 1L- A Berlin dispatch reports the death in action in Flanders of Baron Ernst von Plener, one of Germany's most cele brated aviators. 7000 Balloons FREE See Them in Our Window WHILE THEY LAST, we will give one of these balloons to every cus tomer making1 a Purchase of 25c or Over on our first three floors. 25c Jergens Talcum Powder, 15-ounce 1 Q can for A?C lXLtf3 for 25c 25c imperial Violet B o r ated Talcum 1 C- Powder at. X5JC 25c Cutlcura Soap 1 Q on sale at XOC 60c Pompelaiiyjft Massage Cream... ""C Vtnolla Cream on sale at JJ C BOc Kosmeo Cream J (? on sale at. HOC BOc Pond's Extract Van ishing Cream onQr. sale now at 07C One can FU h, rj- small, for U C One Menne n's O C Kora Konla. OC Santo nex, for the t? "I complexion, at J1 One pint Lily Mllki e Magnesia lor.....43C SI Hood's Sarsi- oq pari 11a at OOC 1 Lydla P 1 n k h a m's V e g etable Com- 7Q pound at. I if C il.75 S. S. 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NAVY SPY IS SOUGHT Letters Disclosing Secrets Mailed From Detroit. DANIELS URGES ACTION Senate Committee, Investigating Gun 'Accidents' on Merchantman, Ad journs, Pending 'Result of A Hunt for Author. ' WASHINGTON', June 11. Investiga tion by the Senate Naval committee of gun accidents on armed merchantmen was interrupted today to await the outcome of a search by Government agents for the writer of letters mailed from Detroit. Mich., to Senator Freling huysen revealing naval ordnance secrets. Secretary Daniels placed the letters before the committee and declared that either a spy or a traitor had been at work because the information dis closed could have been obtained no where except from the confidential files of the Navy's ordnance bureau. He insisted that the writer should be found and required to explain. The committee adjourned until Wednesday, by which time it. hoped to locate the author of the letters. Senator Frellnghuysen told the com mittee that he had no desire to shield anyone and had sought unsuccessfully to discover the Identity or his corre spondent. m- Durlng the hearing today Rear-Admiral Earle, chief of the ordance bu reau, and Captains Twining and Strauss gave the committee detailed and technical Information concerning the accident on the Mongolia and other vessels, the chief facts concerning which have been published previously in official reports. They explained the discarding of the brass powder charge cups of the type which de flected, and killed two Red Cross nurses on the Mongolia and the with drawal of shells of the kind that ex ploded prematurely when fired by the naval gun crews. JEWISH ORDER GROWS b'nai b'luth makes rapid crease: in membership. IN- D. N. Mosessoan, Grand President. nr of Northwest, Resorts Progress la Cities Visited. As an Important aid to the effective expression of patriotism by the Jewish people of the Northwest, the order of B'nal B'rith, or Sons of the Covenant, is leaping In membership, according to advices received from David N. Judge William Dnby. BAKER, Or.. June 11. (Spe clcal.) William Duby, who was elected County Judge of Baker County in the election June 4 that recalled J. B. Messick. Is one of the best known men In Baker County. He is treasurer of the Oregon Cattle and Horseralsers' Association and Is president of the Baker Commercial Club. He has lived in this city 14 years, coming here from Grays Harbor, Wash., where hewas engaged in the lumber business. He was-the head of the Baker Packing Com pany, which conducted four butcher shops here for 10 years. During his 14 years here he was continuously interested in live stock business. Mr. Duby was born in East St. Louis. 111.,' August 3, 1861. and spent his early life In Nebraska. There he was married in 1S84, and went West to the Grays Harbor county in 1889. r laennrastlneimia. is a condition of nervous exhaustion. Worry, overwork, excesses an attack of the grip many things may cause it. Symptoms: Oversensitiveness, irritability, headache and a disposition to worry. The only way to feed undernourished nerves is through the blood. Br. Williams Fink Pills for Pale People are recommended in such cases because they are a non-alcoholic tonic and through the blood build up the weakened nerve cells. They also correct a tendency to anemia, usual in neurasthenia. TK of the Nervous SyHem" TWO FREE BOOKS "What to Eat and How to Eat" . Writs for tham today. Addroao Dr. William. Madicin Co Schenectady. N.Y. Year own drassistselU Dr. WilJVum Pink Puis. Pries 50 eenta par so. Mosessohn, of Portland, grand president of the order, who Is now absent from this city on an official tour. Word has been received from Seattle. where Mr. Mosessohn has been passing the past few days, that, as the result of his work, another lodge 'svlll be in stituted there with a membership of almost 200. On Thursday evening, at a Joint meeting in his honor, a class of seven candidates was initiated. Mr. Mosessohn, accompanied by D. Soils Cohen, grand orator; Mrs. Moses sohn and Alex E. Miller and Nathan Welnsteln, local deputies, left Portland one week ago for Tacoma. In that city a new lodge of the Daughters of the Covenant, an auxiliary, was organ ised with an initial membership of 70. In Seattle a single class of 20 was ini tiated Into the B'nai B'rith. On Sunday Mr. Mosessohn and his party visited Victoria and Vancouver. B. C. Yesterday they were at Belltng ham and Everett. Wash. On Wednes day and Thursday they will be recelveil at Spokane. Among the several cities to be visited for the encouragement oC the order are Butte, Mont.; Billings, Mont.; Salt Lake City, Utah, and Boise, Idaho. Banking Law Clause Upheld. WASHINGTON. June 11. In th first case Involving the Federal Re serve act. the Supreme Court today up held as constitutional the law's clauso authorizing National banks to act as trustees, executors, administrators and registrars of stocks and bonds. Phone your want ads to The Oregon nian. Main 7070. A 6095. JfOtf When You Think Bank SV fypjf Think Lumbermens y the bank which is Personally Acquainted 1 With Its Customers. I l jVfl Open an account and I j (Lumbermens aS )s National bank fftsw Vi& Fifth and Stark JSf yJw 3 on Savings yff LOW EXCURSION FARES TO ALL POINTS EAST ROt7KI TRIP SUMMER EXCTTBSIOJf TICKETS OB SALE DAILY JCSB SO TO SO AND ON CERTAIN DAYS IN JC-Y, AUGUST AND SEPTEMBER TO MIDDLE WEST AND TO EASTERN STATES AND CANADA. Northern Pacific Ry. 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