Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937, June 25, 1917, Image 3

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Newspaper Page Text3 500,000 ENLISTED IN THREE MONTHS AMERICAN GIRL DIRECTS WORK OF REBUILDING RUINED FRENCH TOWN LABOR AND CAPITAL FLOCKING TO BUTTE Army, Wavy and Guard Are In creased in Strength by Large Volunteer Force. Mine Owners and International Presidents of Unions Go to Consider Strike Troubles. TOE 3IORXIXG OREGOXIAX. MONDAY, JUNE 25, 1917. Htallllj), Easy REGULARS NOW WANTED Special Effort to Be. Made to Get 70,000 Before June 30 and of These Many May Be Chosen for Commissions Later. 'WASHINGTON June 24. More than S00.000 men nave volunteered in the American Army and Navy in the period of less than three months that has elapsed since war was declared to exist. The Army, Navy and National Guarfl represented an aggregate streng-th of little more than 300,000 men when the war resolution was adopted. Today between 700,000 and 800,000 are en rolled In the various branches of the fighting service and the great majority of them are armed, equipped and under training. They will be Joined at the end of the Summer by nearly 1,000,000 men selected for the new National Army from the millions registered for war duty June 6. The regular Army totaled a little more than 100,000 men three months ago. It is nearing the 250,000 mark to day and War Department oficials, backed by the press of the country, are bending every effort to bring it up to 800,000 during the present week. HrKulam Wanted First. The immediate need Administration officials believe is to -bring the regular Army up to its full strength without delay. These are the first line troops, the men who will be the first Ameri cans to face the German hosts. They will be the bone and sinew of General Persing's army, and there must be no delay in getting them ready to go. President Wilson has designated the present week as recruiting week for the regulars. Secretary Baker has sought the aid of all newspapers to the end that 70,000 men shall be enrolled before June 30. No objective for the getting the men by that time has been riven, but it has been assumed that it has to do with getting forces to Europe. The Government has found the press eager to aid in making the Nation ready for war. "With the newspapers of each locality taking up the cam paign for men as a local matter the filling up of the ranks on time is re garded as assured. Commissions' May Be Had Later. Brigadier-General McCain, Adjutant General of the Army, pointed out again today that under the selective Army bill every man who veiunteers in the regulars now from any state means one man less that state will be required to furnish in the National Army. A careful record of the state distribution of recruits is being kept for that pur pose. General McCain also directed atten tion to the fact that when the second series of officers' training camps has closed, the only road to promotion will be from the existing forces. Men in the regular regiments will have equal, if not better chances to get commis sions than men in the National Guard or the National Army. T. P. O'CONNOR ARRIVES Irish Leaders to State Realities to Own People In America. NEW YORK, June 24. T. P. O'Con nor, one of the leaders of the Irish Na tionalist party, accompanied by Rich ard liazelton,, member of the House of Commons, from Northgateway and sec retary of the Irish party, arrived here today on a British steamship. The object of the visit, according to Mr. O'Connor, is to place before the men of his race and the friends of the Irish in this country, the realities of the issues of the Irish situation. The stay here of the nationalist representa tives is indefinite, they said, and after a few days in New York they expect to go to Washington. PLEDGE TAKEN AT BIER (Continued From First Page.) the blessing to be witnesses and par takers of such an epoch from the hor rors and ruins of heroic Belgium and Poland, ruins soaked by blood of nameless martyrs. From the cries of Borrow and misery of innocent victims there is rising the dawn of a. new life, life of peaceful prosperity, justice and humanity growing out of the con quered and smashed remnants of mil itant autocracy. "To us Russians this epoch has brought emancipation, has set op pressed nations free, has abolished the un Justice of racial prejudice, nearly 200,000,000 human beings have got the blessing of freedom, which, more than 100 years ago, George Washington had consecrated in this country, 'With a feeling of solemn veneration of overwhelming emotion, I bestow on this immortal tomb this wreath as a tribute to the hero, to the knight of liberty and democracy from the mes senger of Russia's freedom. Women's Democratic Club to Meet. The regular meeting of the Women's remocratic Club will be held in Room K of the Central Library this evening et 8 oclock. The annual election of officers is to take place. George Dunbar, of Lenox, Mass., says he has attended every circus which has been in Pittsfield for 70 years. Wholesale, Retail. Established 1906. Oriental Rugs Have our native experts wash clean and repair your rugs. The natural .coloring will be renewed and the wearing qualities enhanced. Phone Broadway 3433. Cartozian Bros. Importers of Oriental Ruga Yah. at iota, I it took Hilt. cUte - - 1 - V - v - -- A it 1 1 .---J -n; ' , " t ' ' . i : . -.. . 'i ; : - $ ' . MISS DAISY POLK IS HER OFriCE'AT VITRIMOST, AD FREVCH SOL DIER AXD HIS FAMILY I KBOT OK COTTAGE. WHICH HAS BEK.V RESTORED. RUINS TO RISE AGAIN Wife of American Millionaire Will Rebuild Vitrimont. VILLAGE IS MASS OF DEBRIS Work of Reconstruction Into Mod ern Village Being Carried On by Woman Architect Cho sen by Benefactress. SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE, June 15. (Special.) Vitrimont, a village of Lorraine, lying between Nancy and Luneville, France, is being rebuilt at the expense of Mrs. William Henry Crocker, wife of William Henry Crock er, the prominent banker of ban Fran cisco, Cal. Mrs. Crocker has already donated 130,000 to begin the work of recon struction on a new plan, which will produce a model village. Miss Polk is in chargo of the en tire reconstruction work, having been chosen by the American benefactress. She is now in Vitrimont.. The inhabi tants, scattered by the German inva sion, have returned and are doing much to help the Americans in build ing the new village. Vitrimont has been the scene of rot artillery duels and engagements, hard ly a roof remaining on a house. The village until a very short time ago was a. mass of ruin and debris. ARTILLERY WAITS MOVE OREGON COAST REGIMENT EXPECTS ORDERS SOON. Southern Pacific la Advised to Have Equipment Ready to Handle Troops After July 1. Officers of the Oregon Coast Artillery Regiment are preparing for orders to go into tamp soon after July 1. While no official information has been received bearing on the probable move ment of the regiment, it is confidently expected that the men will be sent into service soon after July 1. In fact the Southern Pacific has been advised to have enough equipment ready to handle the regiment at any time after the first of the month. The railroad has all the necessary rolling stock and motive power on hand now. Coast Artillery units at Los Angeles and other places in California already have been called out. There is much speculation among the Coast Artillery officers and men . on the ultimate disposition that will be made of their organization whether they will be retained as a coast defense unit, whether they will be converted into infantry organisations or sent to France as units of the field artillery. ATTORNEY IN CASE IS JUDGE Visiting Jurist Will Have to Hear Hood River Litigation. HOOP RIVER. Or.. June 24. (Spe cial.) Since Fred W. Wilson, of The Dalles, ouo th attorneys lor the defendant, has been appointed by Gov ernor Withycomb to succeed the late Judge Bradshaw. jurisdiction will have to be csllt u here to take the bench for the re-hearing of the case of the Hood River Orchard Company against the Apple Growers' Associa tion. The litigation, which involves the distribution of an $80,000 surplus fund and the purchase by the defendant or ganization of storage properties of the Hood River Apple Growers' I'nion, val ued at approximately J140.000. came up before Judge Bradshaw several weeks ago. MAN AND MASTER OPPOSED - Lord Stanley and Frank Hughes, cx Soldier, Seek Parliament Seat. LIVERPOOL, June 24. Lord Stanley, son of Earl Derby, and Frank Hughes, an ex-soldier, were nominated yester day to oppose each other for the vacancy in Parliament in the Aber cromby division caused by the eleva tion of Colonel Richard Godolphin Walmesly, who was created a Baron by King George, June 1". The contest for the seat has as sumed the character of a test of pop ular satisfaction with the government. Progress of the War. ASIDE from several sectors in the region between Siossons and Rheims and in Champagne near Mont Carnillet, little fighting of moment is taking place. The French,-continuing their smash ing tactics against the Germans, now have retaken the greater part of the territory lying northeast of the Moisy farm in the region of Vauxaillon which the army of the German Crown Prince captured last week. To the east, in the region of Hurte bise and Craonne, the violent artillery duel continues, and the French guns have put down attempted infantry at tacks by the Germans. The German War Office asserts that east of Mont Carnillet in Champagne the French have been kept under a heavy concentration of artillery fire to evacuated territory captured from the Germans last week. The operations of Sir Douglas Haig's army against the Germans in France and Belgium have consisted entirely in effectually putting down attempted enemy raids and answering the fire of hostile guns. There is still consider able artillery activity on the part of the Germans-on various sectors in Bel gium, especially near Reninghe, Pype gaale and Lizerne, and lively hand grenade fighting between the French and the Germans near Steenstraete and the Ferryman's House. There has been no resumption of the Italian offensive in the Trentino re gion of the Austro-ltalian theater, but on the Asiago plateau there has been considerable artillery activity, appar ently with the Austrlans the aggres sors. To the northeast, the Austrians delivered an attack in the Cordevole Valley at Mont Settsass. The Italians drove back the enemy, inflicting heavy casualties on him. The operations in Russian and Gali cia still have not risen in importance above patrol engagements and recon naisances. -These have been lively in Galicia. In the Macedonia theater only small engagements by patrol parties have been reported, although east of Lake Presba the enemy has violently shelled entente trenches. Unofficial advices say a temporary cabinet to replace Count Clam-Martinic, which resigned last week, has been formed. It will be headed by Dr. von Seydler. who assumes in addition to the post of Premier that of Minister of Agriculture. EX-SENATOR CLARK ON JOB Definite Steps to Reach Agreement Are Expected This Week and Op erations of Mines Are Con tinued Despite Strike. BUTTE, Mont., June 24. The copper mines in the Butte district continued operations today despite the strikes called on them by the Metal Mine Workers' Union for higher wages and Improved working conditions. The force at work, however, was about 10 per cent of the number usually em ployed. There was no change in the situation of the strike of electricians employed by the Montana Power Company, who are seeking higher wages. W. H. Rodgers, mediator of the United States Department of Labor, who was sent here by Secretary Wilson, conferred today with officials of the two unions which have called strikes. Tomorrow Mr. Rodgers will meet with officials of the Anaconda Copper Min ing Company, the largest employer here. He expressed the belief that he would be able to bring the mining com panies and the strikers together. National Officials Expected. Stephen Eli. president of the Mon tana and Eastern Washington District of the United Coal Miners of America, arrived here today to attempt to bring the metal workers' union, recently or ganized and as yet unaffiliated with any international union, into a union that would be recognized by the Inter national Mine. Mill and Smelter Men's Union. It was announced that inter national presidents of trades employed by the mines have been asked to come to Butte. W. A.' Clark, ex-United States Sena tor and a large mine owner in the Butte district, and his son, W. A. Clark, Jr., owner of the Timber Butte Mill, which mills ore produced here, are here. C. J.. Kelly, vice-president of the Anacon da Copper Mining Company, arrived to day, and John D. Ryan, president of the company, is expected tomorrow. It was said the arrival of the heads of the big mining companies here would lead to definite action toward settlement of the labor trouble being taken this week. Anaconda Strike Threatened. Men employed at the Anaconda Cop per Mining Company Smelter, at Ana conda, who are members of the Interna tional Mine, Mill and Smelter Men's Union, it was announced, have gone on record of being in favor of striking if the metal mine workers' union is rec ognized by the employing company be fore the union has received recognition from the American Federation of Labor. No labor disturbances have been re ported by the police for almost a week. A member of the machinists' union re iterated that the machinists employed by the mining companies would be called out if any electrical work is done at the mines as long as the elec tricians continue on strike. "HIP". BILL IS CLEVER -SIS PERKINS" GIRX. WINS HONORS OP HOUSE. Snappy Little Playlet. Spectacular Mu sical Ensemble, Song, and "Kua at Box Office" Balance Bill. The programme which the Hippo drome offers this week is exceptionally clever and well-balanced. The head liner is a snappy little playlet entitled "Our Career." featuring Edna Riese. Miss Riese herself wrote the skit, and she and her company have gotten the best possible effect and flavor from it. The Four Musical Lunds present a spectacular musical ensemble, playing brass and marimba xylophones, trum pets, cornets and saxophones. Their classical .selections and a march of their own composition were especially well received. Blanche Le Due and S. A. Ross have a song and dance act that possesses the saving grace of being out of the ordi nary. A bit of clever patter adds flavo to the turn. Billie Noble and Jeanne Brooks have a snappy skit entitled "Fun at the Box Office." The sheer nonsense of parts of the offering had the audience almost in tears at times. Both mem bers of the team have pleasing voices. The high honors of the bill belong unquestionably to Pauline Saxon, the "Sis Perkins" girL Her burlesque is about the most wholesome bit of fun that the "Hip" stage has witnessed this season. Her first imitation, "Sis Per kins," called forth 'some hearty chuckles; her second, "My Old Man," brought down the house. Menetti and Sidelli, billed as the "Agile Envoys From Funland," com plete the vaudeville Bection. They are known as vaudeville's funniest knock about comedians. SHIP CONTRACTS PROMISED Representative of Federal Board Makes Visit to Tacoma. TACOMA. Wash:. June 24. Special.) Coming to Tacoma unexpectedly . to look over shipbuilding plants and con ditions for hurriedly putting out ves sels here shipping men believe, Gordan Wilson, one of the representatives of the Federal Emergency Shipping Board, arrived here today. He was in con ference with representatives of one of the Tacoma shipbuilding companies. Wihen pressed on the question of contracts being let to Tacoma build ers, Mr. Wilson declared that a great many contracts . had been given and more were to come. He would not say whether Tacoma firms had been given any contracts yet. Mr. Wilson said that he could not make any state ment other than -that the Emergency Board was arranging to build ships and the Northwest would secure its share of the work. ' Rock Island Receivership Ends. CHICAGO. June 24. The receivership of the Chicago. Rock Island. & Pacific Railroad terminated at midnight to night and the property returned to the control of the railway company in ac cordance with the decree signed by Federal Judge Land is last Tuesday. Rcid The Oregonian classified ads. A Ccstiim Chain ibroukk && smooSi aocSerotion REDCRGSSGfRLSGHEERY NURSES BV KINDLINESS HELP WOUNDED (iET WELL. Veteran of Cuban - Campaign Tells Difference Between Service of Medical Corps and Volunteers. The people of Portland have con tributed generously to the Red Cross fund; in fact, they have given practi cally twice as much as was expected of them. But even in their generosity, they do not all understand clearly or appreciate the great good they have done. Charles Boon. Jr.. assistant manager of the Multnomah Hotel, has had ex perience with the Red Cross in the field. Mr. Boon is a Spanish War vet eran and in the Cuban campaign had opportunity closely to note the work of the Red Cross. Mr. Boon says that the regular medical staff of the Army is very efficient, but that the regulars detailed as nurses for the convalescent are often irritable and profane, through weariness and dislike for the work. "The Red Cross nurses," said Mr. Boon, "are specially trained for the work. When one of the Red Cross girls enters the ward with a cheery word for the sick and wounded, it is as if a ray of sunlight had come in. The effect is wonderful." The regular medical department of the service. Mr. Boon said, was usually first on the battlefield to care for the wounded and dying. The Red Cross acts as a sort of auxiliary, caring for the sick and those recovering from injuries after the Medical Division has moved on with the advance. In the Cuban campaign, in which Mr. Boon took part, more men died from fever and sickness than were killed in battle. Mr. Boon himself was born in the British army. His father was an of ficer in the 28th Gloucestershire Kip ling's famous "fore-and-aft." He has 15 cousins who enlisted with the Brit ish in the present war. So far, one has been killed in action, one is missing and one was wounded. SCOTCH USE FOE'S DYE GERMANS SUPPLY SEVENTH COLOR 'FOR HIGHLANDERS' KILTS. Supplies Brought by the Deutsehland Eventually find Way to London and Into French Trenches. NEW YORK. June 24. German dyes, brought by the submarine merchant man Deutsehland to America, will make it possible for a seven-colored tartan plaid kilt to flash over the trenches, "somewhere in France," on a MacLean Clan Scotch Highland regiment. This was made known here last night by Colonel Percy A. Gutherie, commander of the MacLean Regiment, at present a member of the staff of Brigadier-General W. A. White, In charge of British recruiting here. Colonel Gutherie said that during the formation of the regiment it was learned that six of the necessary colors which constitute the plaid of the or ganization were obtainable, but the seventh could not be procured in the United States or in any of the nations allied with Great Britain. Just at that time the Deutsehland arrived in Baltimore with some of the needed dye aboard. It was obtained and eventually found its way to London, and the bril liant kilties of the MacLean Highland ers were forthwith made. YANKEE OFFICER CHEERED (Continued From First Pace.) known to the great American comman der. General Pershing. In this hall now is a member of the General's staff. The General hat sent him here to speak his admiration of you. It is the great American commander's first message to the poilus of France. Captain Warmly Applauded. Captain Margettes. aide to General Pershing, steps on the platform. Hats and arms rise in the air. The low ceil ing half reverberates with successive salvos and vives. "Vive L'Amerique." "Vivent Les Americaines." "Vive Le General Peu chine." A storm of applause lasts five min far s starting Low boiling points do it the first links in a continuous chain of boiling points. Low boiling points for easy starting, medium boiling points for quick and smooth acceleration, and high boiling points for power and mileage. Red Crown is a straight - distilled gasoline. Hence there's a continuous chain of boiling points, gradually rising from low to high Mixtures cannot have a continuous chain of boiling points. That's why mixtures cannot be as good motor fuel as pure straight-run gaso line. And that's also why the gravity test for gasoline is worthless gravity tells nothing at all about boiling points, the only real test of gasoline quality. To make certain of getting real gasoline, and not a mixture, fill with RED CROWN ike Gasoline of Qualify STANDARD OIL COMPANY (CALIFORNIA) utes. Captain Margettes speaks in slow studied French and here is his statement, the first message from Gen eral Pershing to France's fighting men in the ranks: "Mes Camarades. Le General Persh ing regrette qu'il lui soit impossible d'etre avec vous ce soir; mais il me designe pour le representer a te vous apporte de bonnes nouvelles de Amer ique en vous disant que L'Amerique en tiers est avec vous. Kile vous admire beaucoup pour les merveilleuses choses que vous avez accomplies pendant ces trois dernieres annees. Nous sommes venue pour combattre avec vous main tenant pour chaser l'ennemie commun hors de France. II faut que vous teniez bon Jusque a ce que l'armee Araeri caine soit prete, et si vous faites cela nous oecaserons surement les boches et la vlctoire final sera pour nous. French Aver Intent to Hold. Following his statement. Captain Margettes walks through the aisle of grizzled fighting men in mudstained uniforms of the blue amid a storm of "vives" and unreserved exclamations of the strong intent to hold the line until the time comes when their Ameri can comrades-in-arms will take their places beside them. This great bond of sympathy exist ing between the French and Americans is manifested daily in the hundreds of emotional letters pouring in on Gen eral Pershing from men and women of France, all over the republic. Some write long poems upon the historic im portance of the moment when the Frenchmen and the Americans shall fight side by side. Some are from French mothers who have lost sons and fathers in the war and these ring with thankfulness for the part America will take in avenging the wrongs of France. Each of the writers receives a personally-signed letter of acknowledgment. DR. FRIEDMANN PROTESTS Chemist, Held as Alien Enemy, Re calls Warnings to Government. MINNEAPOLIS. June 24. Dr. Eu gene Friedmann. a local chemist em ployed as a dye expert, who has been ordered interned because of alleged un patriotic utterances and failure to reg ister as an alien enemy, in a statement last night declared that he had warned the Government of the approaching fate of the Lusitanla and assorted this and other information which he had given had resulted in his arrest. Dr. Friedmann says he told the Gov ernment that the Lusitania was to car ry a cargo of explosives and that he pleaded In vain to have the sailing of the boat cancelled. ANARCHISTS ARE DEFIANT "People's Militia' in Russia Claims Backing of 6 00 0 Armed Men. PETROGRAD. June 24 The group of anarchists who are entrenched in the country house of General Durnovo in a suburb of Viborg. yesterday informed newspaper correspondents that tney are backed by 6000 fully armed men known as "The People's Militia," and several machine gun companies. The anarchists, who were ordered Friday by Minister of Justice Perevei zeff to evacuate the house wnlch they bad seized, said that they also count ed upon the active support of several infantry units. BRITISH SIGN 2000 HERE Enough Recruits Qualify to Form Battalion and Half. NEW YORK. June 24. More than 2000 British and Canadian subjects in the United States volunteered for en listment at the British recruiting sta tion here up to Saturday night, ac cording to Brigadier-General W. A. White, who is in. command. While all these men have not been accepted, enough have qualified to form a battalion and a half and they have been sent to Canada for training. MRS.. INEZ LJSRIMM DIES Native Daughter of Oregon Territory Leaves Four Children. HUBBARD. Or.. June 24. (Special.) Mrs. Inez J. Grimm, wife of W. T. Grimm, died at her home here. June 22, after a short illness of pneumonia. complicated with a general breakdown. Mrs. Grimm came of pioneer stock, having been born in what was known as French Prairie, near Hubbard, in 1854. She was a daughter of Hezekiah Dayton, a pioneer of 1S53. Mrs. Grimm is survived by her hus band. W. T. Grimm, and four children, Ivan Grimm. Baker, Or.: Paul Grimm, at home; Gordon Grimm, Juneau. Alaska; and Louise Stahl, Hubbard. Funeral services are awaiting the homecoming of the son from Alaska. Los Angeles Raises $759,122.85. LOS ANGELES. June 24. (Special.) On an allotment of $1,000,000 for the Red Cross fund, Los Angeles had today raised S759.122.S5. according to figures compiled at the local Red Cross head quarters. Arizona Railway Magnate Dies. PRESCOTT, Ariz.. June 24. Frank XL Murphy, .president of the Santa Fe, Prescott & Phoenix Railway Company and one of the leading financiers of Arizona, died yesterday at his home here. He was 82 years old. 5 Summertime ' : Smartness A combination of our "f oreigrn" Sport Coat with a pair of flannel trousers.! Put your good dress reputation in our hands, you will find us faithful to the trust. Clot Their Fathers. Too. WASHINGTON AT SIXTH. Bantlseptlc Cures Poison Oak or Ivy Prajrsricts refund if It full. Inntantlr rttee9 itrbinic. smnrtJUK and iuflaiuuiaTiou. DWiEbtfallj ! couliug auj auocbiBS. bOc All drusguiia.