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VICTORY The Nation gives freely for the liberty loan. It values what it has and will preserve it. SUCCESS The Nation has raised the 2,000,000,000 liberty loan. Failure was impos sible in a free republic. VOL. 1.VII NO. 17,649. PORTLAND, OREGON, FRIDAY JUNE 15, 1917. PRICE FIVE CENTS. PORTLAND' BAKED TO TURN BY BAKERS E PROHIBITION TAX INCREASE DECIDED FALLING RIVERS NOW REPORTED I GERMANS SICK OF EXPOSED BYWILSOH TWO WORLDS BOW TO AMERICA'S FLAG GERMAN TR U 511,600,000 GIVEN BY OREGON FOR BONDS Portl Mone Passes LIES, SAYS HARDEN Officials Openly Ac cused by Editor. INFLUENCE STEALS. AW.VE CAN TOXMEXT CONTRACT. NEW RATE ON FOODSTUFFS FOR MAKING BEVERAGES HIGHER. WILLAMETTE DROPS .2 IX 24 HOURS AND WILL CONTINUE. Men of Dozen Races March in Parade. PATRIOTIC SPIRIT EVERYWHERE Portland and Oregon Join in Demonstration of Loyalty. BATTLE AIRS ARE PLAYED Thousands of Cheering Spectators JLIne Route Over Which Clubs, Fraternal Organizations and 0 Veterans Parade. AWARDS IN GRAXD PATRIOT IC PAGEANT. Most unique float depicting an American historical event First, Goddess of Liberty, Transporta tion Club; second. Liberty Bell, Portland Railway, Light & Power Company. Most attractive and artistic float, fraternal First, Security Council. 236, Knights and Ladles of Security; second, Kirkpatrlck Council, 2227, Knights and Ladles of Security. Greatest number uniformed members, fraternal First, Be nevolent and Protective Order of Elks; second. United Artisans. Greatest number of uniformed members In line of any Individual lodge or camp First, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks; second. United Artisans. Most attractive and artistic float, non-fraternal First, Transportation Club; second. Sell wood Italian Gardeners. Greatest number of uniformed members, non-fraternal First, Italian Red Cross; second. Trans portation Club Red Cross. . Most attractive women's pa triotic marching body Oregon Honor Guard. If all the flags unfurled in Port land yesterday and all the bunting of Old Glory woven In the city's decora tions, the shields and emblems of lib erty's land, were merged in one banner and flown from the pinnacle of Mount Hood that glorious composite would typify the spirit of the Rose Festival. However extravagant the sjmile may seem, mere extravagance of phrase and comparison halt at the patriotic tide that swept the city yesterday, when the long pageant of loyalty moved grandly down the aisles of streets. From sunrise salute at Festival Cen ter to the closing number of the pa triotic ball at Oaks Park, the day was marked as one of patriotism's own and dedicated to the flag. Honor Guard la Session. In the forenoon the Oregon Girls Honor Guard held Its first annual con vention in the Hotel Multnomah, fol lowed by a luncheon at which the members were addressed by prominent speakers and felicitated upon their de votion to the National cause. At Festival Center, when the sun , drew near to noon, Campbell's Ameri can Band discoursed a concert of patri otic airs, so that the flowered acres of that beautiful Festival rendevous. with their thousand listeners, heard the tunes of songs that men have held it a little thing to die for. Crowds Enjoy Dancing. And there was an evening concert, by McElroy'3 band, and the sunset gun by Battery A and dancing at Cotillion Hall. At Oaks Park the great dancing floor was taken by hundreds of young folk and older, when the opening march of the patriotic ball trembled across the river. But it was the parade, the patriotic pageant of mid-afternoon, lhat signalized the spirit of the day as nothing else. Aliens there were in that parade, 'Or men and women and children who had been aliens before they vowed allegi ance to America, but none might charge them with having given a light word, for they bore their loyalty with proud heads and eyes that were glad ilened at the boon of tribute. Dozen Races Represented. A patriotic pageant? Colors flying 'and bands blaring? All that and more. The marchers in that mighty spectacle wore their very hearts on their sleeves, the peoples of a dozen races, imbued with the rich flood of loyal devotion. With military exactness the parade drew away from Its starting point at Fourteenth and Taylor streets on the stroke of 2 o'clock. Adjutant-General White commanding as marshal of the day. Its score of bands took up tune aftf- tune, and it went through the June sunshine in a ribbon of appealing color. Cheers Fellow Paradcra. For every block of that long line of ni" rch the pavements were tierced with close-crowded, cheering spectators, and the loftiest window of the tallest buildings had ' not been ignored as thrones of vantage for the spectc'ors. Among the pi lze winners when the awards were announced and the prize- were fittingly American flags of silk was Security Council, No. 236 t Concluded on Pag 7, Column 1.) Tacoma Baker, Cleveland Baker and Secretary of War Baker Put t Over Deal for Tacoma. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington. June 14. "Too many Bakers" cooked Portland's chances of getting the American Lake cantonment con tract. The contract, involving more than 13.000,000, has been awarded the Hurley-Mason Company, of Tacoma, on the cost, "plus 7 per cent basis. Only a few. days ago, the Secretary of War, on advice of the Council of National Defense, was on the verge of letting this contract to Grant Smith, when a protest went up from Tacoma, especially as Major Whltford", man ager of the Grant Smith Company, is a member of the Council, and was accused of having been unduly active in trying to land this contract for the Smith firm. But Mr. Baker, publisher of a news paper in Tacoma, through his father, publisher of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, appealed to Secretary of War Baker, and insisted that the contract should go to the Tacoma bidder.. The Bakers represented to Secretary Baker that inasmuch as Tacoma has donated the American Lake site to the Government, and is the only city that has donated such a site. Tacoma should now in all fairness get the construction contract. The argument and the in fluence brought result, and the Hurley- Mason Company Is now guaranteed a net profit on this contract of some thing upward of $210,000. Work begins tomorrow. DEPOSED CZAR GETS VOTE Action Taken After Stormy Session In Petrograd Council. PETROGRAD, via London, June 13. After a prolonged debate in the council, which is now sitting for the purpose of drawing up rules governing elections to the constituent assembly and con sidering the eligiblity of voters, it was decided to allow Nicholas Romanoff, the former Emperor, and members of the former imperial family the privi lege of voting. The council also adopted a resolu tion providing that all citizens in good standing, except deaf and dumb per sons, should be allowed to participate in the elections. FESTIVAL DAYS PERFECT Weather Man Promises "Fair" for Last Day of Event. What native Portlanders characterize as "perfect weather" was dished up by the weather man yesterday. With a maximum temperature of 82 degrees, eight degrees under the sea son's record of 90 degrees on Wednes day, and a cool minimum of 56 degrees, there was little cause for complaint on account of the weather. Fair weather Is the prediction for to day, and since the relative humidity was but 29 per cent yesterday, indica tions are excellent the rainmaker will be out of a job. PRINCIPAL SLAYS STUDENT Youth Accused of Undue Attentions Toward Educator's 'Wife. SALT LAKE CITY. June 14. Arthur Willard, 24 years of age, former Uni versity of Utah student and now prin cipal of the Bingham High School, last night shot and killed Cecil Holmes, 21, one of his students, 'whom he had ac cused of paying undue attentions to his wife, daughter of J. Holden Kim ball, one of Salt Lake's most promi nent churchmen. Holmes was a boarder in the Wil lard home. LENIENCY PERIOD ENDS Slackers No Longer Stay Register, Even Though Willing. DTJLUT-tf, June 14. Jail life has so far tamed the 67 draft evaders arrested yesterday that today 61 of them changed their minds and were willing to register. They were told that local authorities had no power to allow such action now and that their cases would have to go before the grand jury. Range cities today reported 26 more arrests of evaders. ZEPPELIN L-43 DESTROYED Naval Attack Brings Flaming Air craft Crashing Into Sea. . LONDON, Jane 14. The Zeppelin L-43 has been destroyed over the North Sea by naval forces. Chancellor Bonar Law announced today in the House of Commons. The L-43 was destroyed this morn ing. Seon after being attacked, it burst Into flames fore and aft and fell into the sea. : PRINCESS' WARDROBE SOLD Gowns, Lingerie and Millinery Net 82,000 Marks. MUNICH, via London, June 14. The public auction of the wardrobe of Princess Louise of Belgium, daughter of the late King Leopold, netted 82.000 marks. A bewildering array of gowns, lin gerie, parasols and millinery, the cpn tents of 72 trunks, was sold. Peace Regarded as Kai ser's Sole Hope. ASCENDENCY IS NOW STOPPED Military Masters Dare Not Go Back, Says President. WAR ONLY CHOICE FOR U. S. Right to Remain Neutral Denied by Berlin and Young Men Are Bid to Fight for Same Purpose Familiar to Forefathers. WASHINGTON, June 14. America's reasons for sending her flag against the fire ;of the enemy across the sea and the. purpose she seeks to serve were stated anew by President Wilson today in a Flay Day address beneath the Washington monument. Germany's military masters denied the United States the right to be neu tral, the President said, and by extraor dinary Insults and aggressions "left us no self-respecting choice but to take up arms in defense of our rights as a free people and of our honor as a sov ereign government- " He recalled how the imperial government had forbade Americans to use the high seas and time and again executed Its threat to send them to their death; how it filled this unsuspecting country with spies and conspirators and sought by vio lence to destroy industries and arrest commerce and finally how the Berlin foreign office tried to incite Mexico and Japan into a hostile alliance. Young Men' Sent Forth. "What great nation." he asked, "In such circumstances would not have taken up arms?" Now that America has been forced Into war, declared the President, she bids her young men go forth and fight for the same old familiar, heroic pur pose for which, it has seen its men die on every battlefield upon which Ameri cans have borne arms since the revolu tion. A sinister power, he said, which has the German people themselves in its grip, "now at last has stretched forth its ugly talons and drawn blood from us." "The whole world is at war," he added, "because the whole world is in the grip of that power and is trying out the great battle which shall deter mine whether it is to be brought-under its mastery or fling itself free." Peace Intrtpcne Exposed. In giving warning that the Germans actually have carried into execution their plan to throw a broad belt of mil itary power across the center of Europe and into the heart of Asia, rejecting the idea of solidarity of races and the choices of peoples, Mr. Wilson spoke of the "new intrigue for peace" now ap- fConcluded on Par 4, Column 1.) ' what i , J-fkT ses I YOU ) , DoirtGMTrtf JWmWM vr : j THAT ' LWEri7.s? I UHDERSTOOO I t " 7 7" -rue rJk-fXwk you TO SAV Effect Will Be to Suspend Distilling Industry, Senate : Finance Committee Is Told. WASHINGTON, June 14. A tory tax on rooastuns uea in 1 - -.m beverages.' tentatively agreed to last week by the Senate finance commit tee," was still further increased today and then was formally written into the war tax bill. The new rate is $60 a hundred pounds .instead of $20 a bushel, and representatives of the dis tillers declare it unquestionably would be effective In forcing suspension of the distilling industry. The section as approved also prohibits importation of distilled beverages. Other liquor tax increases were ap proved by the committee today vir tually without change from the House schedules. The manufacturers tax of 5 per cent on athletic goods, cameras, patent medicines, perfumeries and cos metics was reduced to 2 per cent, and a substitute tax on scalpers' Bales of tickets was adopted, making" the rate from 5 to CO per cent instead of 60 per cent flat. " Tomorrow the Income, excess profits and publishers taxes will be taken up. The committee now hopes to present the redrafted bill in the Senate early next week. LOAN NOW HALF BILLION Additional $2 5,000,000 Turned Over to Great Britain. WASHINGTON. June 14. An addi tional 125,000,000 was loaned by the Government to Great Britain today, bringing the total British loan up to $500,000,000 and the total for all the allies up to $948,000,000. complete: rose festival programme for today. 7 A. M.. Festival Center Sun rise gun. 2 P. M. Grand floral parade, forming at Fourteenth and Yamhill streets and ' moving north to Morrison, west to Eleventh, north to Burnslde, east on Burnalde and Oak to Broadway, north to Pine, east to Third, south to Alder, west to Fourth, south to (Main, west to Fifth,- north to Oak, ; west to Sixth, south to Main, west to. Broadway, north to Stark, west to Park, south to "Washington, ' west to Tenth, south to Madison. Autos will continue east over Hawthorne bridge to Grand ave nue and north on Grand avenue to Burnslde bridge, thence west across bridge to Front street and disband. Other entrants except automobiles will disband on Mad ison street. 2 P. . M., Irvtngton Courts Championship tennis tournament. 5:30 P. M-, ' Festival Center Lowering of flag-and salute by Battery A. ' 7":30yP. M on South Park blocks Great community sing, 4000 j trained voices, under direction of Professor W. H. Boyer. 8:30 P. M.. Cotillion Hall Invi tation ball, by Ro-al Rosarlans. LONG LIVE THE FESTIVAL! T. B. WILCOX HEAVIEST BUYER Campaign in State to Float Liberty Loan Closes. UNOFFICIAL SALE GOES ON Banks and Employers Will Bo Per mitted to Dispose . of Blocks Taken by Them; People Arc Praised for Loyalty. LIBERTY loan goal appar ently MORE THAN REACHED. WASHINGTON, June 14. The liberty loan campaign entered the home stretch today, with every indication that the tremen dous 30-day drive throughout the Nation would result in going well beyond the $2,000,000,000 goal. From coast to coast the story that poured into the Treasury all day was the same a story of a whirlwind finish. Telegrams told of tolling bells and shrieking whistles across the continent marking the last day of the cam paign, of redoubled efforts by the many agencies at work for the loan's success, of enthusiasm at its highest pitch, of long waiting lines of subscribers in thousands of banks in every state in the Union. "I want to borrow $8,500,000," saM Uncle Sam to the people of Oregon. "Hera's $11,600,000," replied the peo ple of Oregon to Uncle Sam. "Just keep the change."" "- This figurative dialogue aptly, de scribes Oregon's response to the Gov ernment's liberty bond campaign. The lssu for the entire country was $2,000,000,000, of which Oregon was asked in round numbers to produce $8,500,000, apportioned $6,000,000 in Portland and $2,500,000 in the state out side of Portland. State Subscribe fll.563,300. When the campaign closed last night the city had subscribed $8,363,600 and the outside counties $3,2ol.700 a total of $11,565,300. This final aggregate doubtless will be substantially increased today, as three important Portland fcanka were unable to complete their reports before the close of business last night. Sev eral reports from country banks also are expected today. These belated subscriptions probab- Concluded on Pace J, Column 3.) Warmer Weather in Interior May Melt Snow Further, but Higher Water Will Be Delayed. There is little danger of immediate trouble from a higher stage of water in the Willamette River here, the Weather Bureau forecast last night being that the stream would fall slowly for two days. The stage here at 7 o'clock last night was 22.2 feet above zero, & decline of one-tenth of a foot since 7 o'clock in the morning, and a fall of two-tenths In 24 hours. ' As. to temperatures, they were higher In the interior yesterday and more snow Is expected to melt as a conse quence. At Boise the maximum tem perature rose from 80 degrees Wednes day to 86 degrees yesterday, and at Baker it rose from 74 to 84 degrees; North Yakima, from 84 to 90; Poca tello, from 72 to 80 degrees; Spokane, from 78 to 86, and Walla Walla, from 86 to 90 degrees. '. Official river readings yesterday were: a 3 s 2 mo i trr-J o. 5. a" STATIONS. 2 : ' Wenatchee 40 3S.1 0.1 Kamiah 2.-. 11.3 0.3 Lewliton 22 12.6 0.7 I'matllla as 2o. 0.6 The Dallea 40 33.7 1.1 Eugene lo 4.8 0.2 Albany 20 f.S ll.S Balem 20 B.5 0.1 Oregon City 12 !i.S 0.4 Portland 15 22.8 0.2 VANCOUVER. Wash., June 14. (Spe cial.) The Columbia River fell .1 of a foot today. It was 22.9 feet at 8 A. M., and at 8 P. M. was 22.8. The weather yesterday and today was unusually warm and it is believed here the river will show a rise tomor row and Saturday. SLACKER PROBE IS BEGUN Federal Grand Jury to Investigate Anti-Draft Agitators. SEATTLE, Wash.. June 14. A Fed eral grand jury was called today to meet In Seattle June 20 to conslder'the charges pt seditious conspiracy brought : against anti-draft agitators and also .'ithe charges filed against alleged evad ers of registration. The three Russians of military age who.- were -about -to embark for the Orient on a steamer were found to have more than $12,000 In money upon them In special belts, In their shoes and sewed in . their clothing. Twenty-one men arrested in this country as evaders of the registration law are held in Jail. TERROR FELT IN TSARITSYN Three Separate Republics Have Been Formed lit Russia. LONDON. June 14. A Petrograd dis patch to the Mall says that there seems to be a reign of terror in Tsaritsyn. where a separate republic has been de clared. Tsaritsyn is a great railroad center and an important point for traffic on the Volga River. Separate republics also have been declared at Kherson and Klrnanova. but the situation is said not to be serious at either place. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. TESTERDATS Maximum temperature. 82 def km; minimum. degrees. TODAY'S Fair, not so warm; northwesterly winas. War. Maxlmlttan Harden says Germans are tired of official Ilea. Paso 1. Maatery of air la Sillies' prorramme. Pace 5. Germans retreating In Mcsslnes dlatrlct. Pass S. Paris gives Pershing royal welcome. Pace 6. National. All sites for Army cantonments chosen. Page 3. Colonel Theodore Roosevelt scores traitors to America In thrllllngly patriotic ad dress In Nebraaka. Page 3. Combine of Baker family steals cantonment contract away from Portland. Page 1. Prohibitory tax on foodstuffs used for mak ing beverages written In war bill. Page 1. War census totals close to 0.OOO.OOO. Page-T. Wllaon exposes German Intrigue. Page 1. Liberty loan expected to be oversubscribed. Page 4. ' Domestic Chilians get last call for training. Page 2. Sports. Main bouts for Red Cross benefit tomor row night arranged. Page 17. Pacific Coast League results: Portland S, Los Angeles 4: Ban Francisco 7. Oak land 0; Bait Lake 8, Vernon O. Page 17. Value of Baltimore Club. In 0OO.000 damage suit, la questioned. Page 17. Pacific Northwest. Ten thousand thrilled by flag ceremony at Union Stock Show. Page 6. Oregon Grange Invites North Dakota Non partisan League officials to come. Page . Commercial and Marine, Shanlko wool sale postponed two weeks. Page 21. Chicago wheat slumps with widespread Im provement in crop conditions. Page 21. Galna In stock market loat in selling near cloae. Page 21. Metal Trades Council elects R. W. Burton president. Page 18. Portland and Vicinity. Falling rivers postpone high water. Page 1. Floral parade, feature of last day's festival programme. Page 6. Applicants for Important city jobs are thin ning out. Page 17. Sheriffs pledge to hunt slackers and favor four-year term. Page 12. Two worlds bow to America's flag. Page 1. Weather report, data and forecast. Page 21. Masons will build $30,000 home. Page 13. Red Cross to start campaign before street crowds Saturday night. Page 9. Girls Honor Guard holds first annual meet ing. Page 9. Clarence G. Eaton. C. S. B.. lectures at First Church of Christ Scientist. Page 11. Feeling general that O. M. Plummer and J. V. Beach ahould be re-elected School Directors. Page 17. Oregon contributes $11,600,000 to liberty loan. Page 1. Birthday ot flat la honored by Elks. Page 17. 'IMPUDENT BULLIES' IS TERM Attempts to Deaden National Conscience Cause Disgust. TRICKS DECLARED COMICAL Xever and Nowhere Has Kvery Im portant Event Been Distorted so Much as in Berlin, Says Critic In Long Expose. The following Is the full tsxt of Harden'n sensational article In the Zukunft of April . iraiiieciiH or wnicn nave been cabled to America. Published by arrangement with the Chicago Herald.) BY MAXMILIAN HARDEN. (The Fearless German Critic and Editor ot Zukunft.) The German people have earned the right to conduct their own political business. They have earned this right through their capacity for producing strong men and values Why is it that, though favored by time and accident, a people who in their homes and gardens. In their laboratories and factories, their bar racks and their lecture-rooms, are achieving unheard-of things, were in capable up to yesterday of further ex tending their National sphere of power? Question Long Asked. This question has long been asked with sorrow by all serious-minded people of the land. For years we allowed ourselves to be lulled Into the hallucination that only ' calamity howlers and wiseacres were seeing somber clouds upon the German firma ment. r We have" awakened, and the tumult that shook us to our senses has taught us to recognize how much we have already missed, how much already is irretrievably lost. It ia our will that nothing further be lost, and we must see to It that our will does not In the future, .as It did in the past, remain Ineffective. We shall no longer stand for lies, official lies, semi-official lies, inspired lies, lies born of slavlshness. We shall no longer swallow them. Lying Declared Stubborn. Never and nowhere, not in the By- atium of the Palaeologl nor in Eu genie's empire, has there been such owi'.tinuous. such Indecent and such stubborn lying as in our land; never and nowhere has every event Impor tant for the Nation been so consist ently, so impudently, distorted as with us. We know this now. And we are sick of it. You babble about the "great age," of wonderful achievements and per sonalities, of speeches and deeds of statesmen to whom the world is rev erently listening: your tricks of ad vertisement and your comedian's stunts , have long filled us with disgust, you impudent bullies! Attempts to Mislead Disgust. Equally disgusted we long have been with your nefarious attempts to deafen -the National .conscience through the medium of sensations which you are dragging together from every land on the globe, sensations with which you try to divert the Nation's eyes from the things which alone are vital for it. Necessity compels us to turn to such serious, such urgent labors, that we have no time to snoop around the pots in other nations' kitchens. xQult piping the song of the pious worthy who cannot live in peace be cause it does not please his naughty neighbor to let him. We do not court love, nor expect it. We must be prepared to use the stu pidity, the groping in the dark on the part of th-s neighbor, to our advantage. We are not paying our watchmen so ; that they may be caught napping; we are paying them to warn us In good time of danger. If they cannot do that, then we must see to It that they are chased out tomorrow, no matter how warmly the sun of favor shines upon them today. Rest Declared Needed. The ablest nation of central Europe should find no difficulty in engagirfg capable business managers. It can do ' so without In the least curtailing the real constitutional rights of the lead- ing German monarch. We need rest. We need it not to go to sleep but to concern ourselves un disturbed as wide awake and mature men with the things that vitally af fect the empire. We need Joy. We need it not be cause we are imbued with the fool's wish to be amused, but because the human animal must deteriorate with out an occasional joyful, cheering ex perience. And in 27 years the imperial policy has not given the German one , single real Joy of the sort that vibrates In the rhythm of national feeling. We need freedom from the lust of domination, both of the noisy and the soft-shoed kind. The German people are not free, for the institutions under which they are living do not meet their requirements. Nor are they governed by such men as have been proved by merciless, un- tContinued on Page 2. Column 2.)