Morning Oregonian., July 20, 1917, Page 4, Image 4

THE MORNIXGOREGONIAJT, FRIDAY.- JULY 20. 1917.
INTEREST ON GRANT
LAND TAX WITHHELD
Departmental Reports Are Ad
verse to Chamberlain Amend-
nent of Forfeiture Act.
GIRL HIKERS WHO VISITED PORTLAND ON WALK TO SAN
FRANCISCO.
STATE ASKED TO FILE BRIEF
representative Sinnott Makes Ef
Xort to Save to State Amount
. 'ov Exceeding: $4 00,000
and Still Increasing.
ORftGONIAN- KEWS BUREATT. Wash
ington, July 19. Unless the Depart
ment of -Justice and the Interior De
partment can be induced to withdraw
their opposition to the Chamberlain
bill, recently passed by the Senate,
amending section 9 of the Oregon &
California land-grant act, that meas
ure is doomed to certain, defeat in the
House of Representatives. And there
Is little indication at this time that
departmental opposition will be with
drawn. Defeat or this bill will de
prive the land-grant counties of be
tween 400,000 and $500,000 which they
would receive should the Chamberlairt
bill become a law.
Under the land-grant act of June 9.
join, ine lana-grant counties are to
lie paid accrued taxes amounting- to
Jl, 346,192, these being- taxes that ac
crued up to the passage of the act, on
which date the title to the lands re
verted to the Government. Senator
Chamberlain proposed, in addition to
paying these taxes, to pay also interest
on the deferred payments, penalties
and costs. On March 1, 1917. these
Items had reached -$370,433, and today
are well In excess of $400,000, the ex
act amount not being- known.
Senator Chamberlain got his bill
through the Senate without trouble,
but when the bill went to the House
St was referred to the public lands
committee, and that committee, following-
custom, referred it to the two de
partments for recommendations. As
sistant Attorney-General Kearful was
Kress, in the first instance, had failed
ceeded to assail the bill as unwar
ranted and undesirable, and his view
Is also held by the General Land
Office.
Mr. Kearful reported that his depart
ment "agreed with the Interior Depart
ment that in calculating the amount
of taxes to be paid by the Government
no account should be taken of pen
alties or interest." He said that Con
gress, in the first Instance, haid failed
to authorize the payment of interest
end penalties, and its omission to pro
vide for these extras renders It un
necessary to pay them now.
"I am clearly of the opinion that
the taxes are d'le not by virtue of
any state laws, but solely by force of
an act of Congress. The obligation to
pay is that of the United States, not
f any individual, and it cannot be
supposed that Congress intended to
make such obligation a lien upon the
lands of which It reassumed owner
ship. "If the state or any municipality
should be advised that It Is entitled to
n larger amount In any case than that
certified for payment it may resort to
n. proper tribunal for a decision of
Its claim."
The letter of Mr. Kearful to the Land
Office was embodied in his report to
the House committee on public lands.
Inasmuch as adverse reports from
the departments prevent favorable ac
tion by the House public lands com
mittee on any given measure. Repre
sentative Sinnott has forwarded the re
ports to Governor Withycombe with the
request that he have the Attorney
General of the state prepare a brief in
reply, setting forth fully the grounds
on which the land grant counties lay
claim to interest, penalties and costs.
In addition to the taxes, payment of
which was authorized in the bill of
last Summer. Mr. Sinnott will present
this brief to the public lands commit
tee. Mr. Sinnott maintains that what
ever may have been the original in
tention of Congress, Congress has a
right to amend r.nd expand any of Its
own enactments.
20 -KNOT SHIPS IMMUNE
TJ-Boat Menace Is Discussed at New
York Conference.
NEW YORK, July 19. Danger from
submarines is virtually non-existent If
the vessels attacked can attain a
speed of 20 knots an hour, according
to charts displayed at a shipbuilding
conference held here today under the
auspices of the Chamber of Commerce
of tha state of New York. The figures
were shown to lend emphasis to a de
mand that the ship construction con
troversy be settled immediately.
"If the present rate of sinkings Is
maintained without the Tull force of
our industrial efforts there can be only
one conclusion and that is that we shall
lose the war," declared E. H. Outer
bridge, president of the chamber. In
outlining the seriousness of the sub
marine campaign.
The conference was not concerned,
be said, as to whether ships were built
ot wood or steel, but its chief con
cern was immediately to speed up
building to care for the needs of the
Nation's allies and the American troops
abroad.
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After spending a pleasant time In Portland sight-seeing, Betty Roger,
Ruth Holmes and Jean Poulson, Seattle girls, who hiked from that city,
will leave today, with San Francisco , as their destination. They are on
the trip purely for the novelty of It and are having a fine time. They
are equipped only with a knapsack and blanket each, and between them one
revolver. They often sleep in the open rather than to put up at a botel
or a farmhouse when on the road. While In this city they lived at the
Portland.
ADVANCE IS 12 MILES
British Move Forward on Eu
phrates River.
KALUSZ SCENE OF FIGHT
German Shock Troop Operations
Bring Iilrely Artillery Fire
North, of Dniester River
as Far aa Brody.
LONDON, July 19. An official report
relating to the Mesopotamian campaign
was issued tonight showing a consid
erable British advance. The report
reads:
"On July 11 one of our columns en
gaged a Turkish force in the direction
of Ramadies. on the Euphrates. After
a short action, in which considerable
loss was Inflicted on the Turks, a fur
ther advance was broken off by us ow
ing to the extreme heat.
As a result of these operations we
have been able to advance about 12
miles up the Euphrates In the last 10
days."
VIENNA, via London. July 19. The
Austrian official communication Issued
today says:
"South of Kalusz the Russians at
tempted to recapture the heights we
won xrom them. The efforts failed
with heavy losses to the enemy.
rorth of the Dniester as far as
Brody our successful shock troop op
erations have brought about lively ar
tillery firing which, especially early
this morning, increased on some sec
tors to the greatest violence.
In Volhynia, Austro-Hungarlan and
German shock troops have been active.
with favorable results."
PETROGRAD, July 19. Russian
troops have again driven into the Gali-
cian village of Novica. south of Kwusz
and now occupy the eastern end of that
place.
The Russians captured more than 200
prisoners and three machine guns in
Tuesday's fighting near Novica. They
had the entire village in their hands at
one period, but the occupying detach
ment sustained such heavy losses that
they withdrew to the villages eastern
section.
PETROGRAD. July 19. The North
and South Agency reports that a Rus
sian destroyer has sunk a German sub
marine in the Baltic by dropping bombs
on it and that the crew of the subma
rine was drowned.
LAST HOUR UPSETS PLAN
Continued From First Page.)
draws the capsules from the bowl one
at a time, and two announcers, on
standing at each side of the bowl, and
to whom the capsules will be handed in
turn as they are drawn.
The announcers will break the cap
sules as they receive them, extract the
tiny slip of paper on which, a number
will be stamped, and call the number to
three tally clerks. The slip then will
be handed to an official in front of th
bowl, who will verify the announcer's
report, and on his verification, another
man. stationed at a great blackboard.
will write the number In its order on
the board.
The board will hold 1000 numbers.
When it is filled it will be taken out
of the room, photographed, cleaned off
and returned, the drawing continuing
meanwhile with a second board in use.
The official record of the drawing,
which will be furnished to the local
exemption boards, and in accordance
with which they will call out the men
to fill each district quota, will be made
up into books of eleven pages, each
page being a photographic lac-simile
of the blackboard. The exemption
boards will take no action toward
summoning their men until these books
reach them through the mails.
The telephone message referred to
by General Crowder in his statement
came from the Adjutant-General of
New Jersey. When that officer learned
through publication of the system of
double drawing announced early in the
day he saw- that a great injustice
would be done in his state because of
the way in which the local boards had
given serial numbers to the cards from
the registration precincts.
A hasty conference of officials was
called, and a similar condition was
found to exist in many parts of the
country. In some lists colored and
white registrants had been classified
In separate groups and the serial num
bers rart accordingly. In others aliens
were separated and given their own
group of serial number.".
It was a hopeless tangle. If the
double drawing system were carried
out one election district in any exemp
tion division might be swept clean of
all its young men to fill the quota,
while the other election districts in the
same exemption area furnished no men
whatever. In other cases it might be
necessary to pass upon and exempt a
thousand aliens before a single Ameri
can was called to service. In others
a thousand negroes might be taken
for examination before a white man
was called, or vice versa.
There was only one way out and the
War Department promptly announced
that the whole Intricate method of
drawing devised to save time and la
bor would be abandoned In . favor of
the simple, direct plan, of drawing suf
ficient numbers to fix the place of the
last man in the largest exemption dis
trict. That was the original plan and
it was intended for weeks to draw in
that way, but the enormous amount of
labor and the time involved prompted
the effort to devise a short cut that
would be fair to all.
Difficulty Found In Time.
Officials congratulated themselves
tonight that the difficulty in the way
of the double drawing was found to
day rather tnan after the drawing.
The difficulty that forced abandon
ment of the more elaborate method
grew out of the detail of the plan. It
was proposed to list all registrants in
each district by thousands or fractions
of thousands. Men whose serial num
bers were in the three thousands would
have teen put in one group, those with
numbers of less than a thousand in
another, those with numbers in the
four thousands In another, and so on.
The first drawing would have placed
these groups of thousands in the order
in which the numbers 0 to 10 were
drawn. The second drawing would
then have fixed the order of liability
of the individuals In each of the thou
sands as between themselves, a thou
sand numbers being drawn to that end.
The result would then have been that
if the 3000 group were first drawn in
the little lottery, all the men bearing
serial numbers in the 3000 would have
been called for duty first and in the
order in which their serial numbers
came out in the big drawing. The re
sult of the big drawing would then
have been applied to the other thou
sands in their order fixed by the little
lottery.
Each exemption district is composed
of several election districts which were
the registration precincts in the first
revolution of the draft machinery. The
registration cards were turned over
to the exemption boards with Instruc
tions to shuffle them before placing
on each Its serial number. In some
districts, however, instead of the in
dividual cards it was packs of cards,
each representing a complete registra
tion precinct, that were Fhuffled. The
first pack was opened then and the
serial number one placed on the first
card. Serial numbers were placed in
rotation until the pack was exhausted,
then continued with the next pack
picked up.
Lannlng (Mich.) Largent District.
Supposing that a pack contained
1000- cards and was numbered from
1 to 1000. Then if the 1000 group hap
pened to be the first drawn in the little
lottery every registered man in this
specimen registration district must
have been called for service before his
neighbors, just across the street, but
in an adjoining precinct, were sum
moned. The drawing tomorrow was fixed at
10.500 numbers because an exemption
district in Lansing, Mich., has 10.263
registered men. That Is the largest
district on record here. Seven states
thus far have failed to report their
maximum districts, however, and 10,500
numbers will be drawn to take care
of the 'improbable possibility that a
larger district will show up later.
The change in plan throws an
enormous burden of work on General
Crowder's office which had to be com
pleted tonight. In one room a score of
clerks pounded away with numbering
machines through the night, making
up the 9500 additional key numbers
necessary. In another room 50 men.
girls and boys tolled over bowls of
black capsules, rolling up the num
bered slips as they were received and
slipping them into the concealing gela
tin covering from which they will be
taken by the announcers tomorrow.
Orncon Interested in 2910 Numbers.
Alabama, first state on the roster of
the Union. reports its largest ex
emption district aa containing 6923
registrants. Then in the drawing to
morrow the numbers from 6926 to 10,
500 inclusive can be disregarded en
tirely so far as Alabama is concerned.
By the same process. Arizona has no
Interest in numbers above 6711; Cali
fornia. 9919; Colorado, 4424; Idaho,
3792; Illinois, 8601; Iowa, 4151; Kansas,
3811; Minnesota. 5223; Montana, 8674;
Nebraska, 4548; Nevada, 2376; New
Mexico, 4177; North Dakota, 4332; Ore
gon. 2919; South Dakota, 3973; Utah,
4740; Washington. 4654; Wisconsin,
4509; Wyoming. 2217.
The states whose maximum districts
are not yet reported In Vvashington
are: Georgia, Louisiana. Massachu
setts:. Mississippi, Missouri. Texas and
Vermont.
CONGRESS - NOTICES
SHIPBUILDING
ROW
Resolution Asks President for
Information on Contracts,
Builders and Prices.
G0ETHALS TALKS TO BOARD
Differences Between General and
Denman Appear Difficult to
Settle Without Interven
tion of President.
WASHINGTON, July 19. Congress
took note of the shipbuilding row to
day, when the Senate passed without
debate a resolution offered by Senator
Smoot calling on President Wilson to
furnish Information regarding the Gov
ernment's ship construction programme.
The resolution asked for facts from
the Shipping Board on building con
tracts let or pending, names of con
tractors and contract prices, together
with other Information to assist the
Senate In considering request for fur
ther appropriations. Another half bil
lion dollars for ship construction would
be asked, the Shipping Board announced
recently, as soon as its estimates are
approved by the President.
Meanwhile members of the Shipping
Board and Major-General Goethals,
manager of the Board's emergency
fleet corporation, continued discussion
of General Goethals' plans for building
two Government ship plants and for
commandeering tonnage building In
private yards. General Goethals met
with the Board in the morning and in
the afternoon the Board held a sepa
rate conference.
President May Decide.
Chairman Denman announced tonight
that the Board seeks further informa
tion concerning the General's pro
gramme and that no decision as to
approving the programme will be made
until the subject has been given full
consideration.
Persons in close touch with the situ
ation still see possibilities of differ
ence between General Goethals and the
Board which will be hard to settle.
There have been intimations that the
Board may disapprove of parts of the
General's scheme. If this situation
arises many believe it will be neces
sary for President Wilson to decide
finally as to who shall be In supreme
charge of the building programme.
Friends of General Goethals say he
may refuse to accept the Board's sug
gestions if they involve radical changes
in his plans.
Chairman Denman's statement to
night indicates that the Board does not
agree with General Goethals as to
sites for the Government's plants and
that it will insist that they be placed
on Government-owned land and that
the General abandon his plan for giv
ing contractors who build the plants
option to purchase them.
Profits to Be Held Down.
The Shipping Board, It is understood,
is determined that profits in building
the fabricated ships be held down and
that there shall be no double profit
on manufacture of the steel 'for the
ships and on actual construction.
Chairman Denman's statement fol
lows: "We are rapidly acquiring full infor
mation as to the contracts proposed
to be let by General Goethals last
Monday. We expect to receive tomor
row facts as to the amount of the es
timated $150 per dead-weight ton per
ship, which Is to be spent in the Gov
ernment yards and the amount which
is to be spent of the total product in
the private yards where the ships are
to be fabricated.
"The matter of commandeering Is a
matter for discussion with the State
Department, which probably will be
decided almost immediately. Although
the general plan of commandeering has
been approved by the Administration,
how it will be worked out in detail
presents questions which will receive
immediate decision.
Compensation to Be Adequate.
"We are receiving every assistance
and co-operation from General Goethals
that his great ability can give us. The
Government fabricating yards will be
built on Government and not on leased
property and no agreement looking to
the giving up of any of these yards
to private interests will be entered into
at this time.
"Adequate compensation will be paid
to interests who will be asked to assist
the Government whose services can be
accomplished for the rapid construction
of ships. These men are not of th
type to ask stimulated profits beyond
a fair return for their abilities and en
terprise, and with General Goethals as
sistance we have no doubt contracts
will be shortly closed."
RAIDER'S CAPTAIN MUTE
German Charged With Smuggling
and Violating Mann Act.
PHILADELPHIA, July 19. Captain
Max V. Thierichens, former commander
of the seized German sea raider I'rinz
Eitel Friedrich, stood mute in the Fed
eral Court here today when called upon
to plead to indictments charging him
with smuggling and violating the
Mann act. The court directed a plea
of not guilty be entered. He will be
tried In September.
Thierichens refused to plead on ad
vice of counsel, who said he wanted to
preserve certain rights for the prisoner
under international law.
FENG KWO CHANG RULER
Li Yuan Ilung's Candidate Accepts
Presidency.
PEKIN. July 17. (Delayed.) The
foreign office announces that Feng
Kwo Chang has agreed to accept the
post of acting President of China.
There have been conflicting reports
from Tien Tsin regarding the attitude
of Feng Kwo Chang toward the presi
dency. One report said that he had re
fused the position, while another said
he had yielded to LI Yuan Hung's ur
gent request that he assume that office.
Marshfleld Vacant House Burns.
MARSH FIELD, Or.. July 19. Spe
cial.) A residence in the south part of
the city owned by James Bennett, chief
engineer at the C. A. Smith mills, was
burned today. It is believed the fire
was of Incendiary origin, as the house
was unoccupied. Loss $2000.
Nurse From Trenches Is Here.
Miss J. L. Whinnery, a nurse Just
back from the trenches of France. Is
among the recent arrivals at the'Im
perial. Miss Whinnery Is still in the
service, nnd therefore cannot relate any
of her experienced for publication.
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SAFETY IS PLANNED
Commissioner Coffin Says
Precautions Are Necessary.
CYCLE SQUAD IS PROPOSED
Captain Would Be Placed In Charge
or Ofriccrs to Prevent Viola
tions of Traffic Ordinances.
Court Expected to Help.
Safety Commissioner Coffin has laid
before Mayor Baker a programme of
traffic ordinance enforcement which
he expects to meet with the approval
of Police Chief Johnson when he takes
office August 1. Commissioner Coffin
said yesterday that his suggestion re
ceived the earnest indorsement of the
Mayor, who asked that action be .de
ferred until the new police chief as
sumes charge.
Briefly. Commissioner Coffin plans to
check the growing list of automobile
accidents by placing one man a cap
tain or a lieutenant directly in charge
of the work, assisted by six motor
cycle officers detailed solely for this
task. In addition to the sextet of
"speeders" he would be assisted by the
present traffio squad.
By making one man entirely respon
sible for reckless driving, speeding,
corner-cutting, running with open muf
flers and the like Commissioner Cof
fin believes that accidents and com
plaints due to automobile traffic soon
would be reduced to a minimum. He
admits that offensive motor exhausts,
open mufflers, cutting of corners, in
discriminate speeding and like viola
tions of the traffic code have increased
to an alarming degree.
"This is due. in a measure, to the
great increase in the number of auto
mobiles now being operated within the
city," explained the commissioner. "On
the other hand, however, we have been
handicapped in our efforts to rid Port
land of reckless driving and other of
fensive actions of motorists by the
indifferent attitude of ex-Mayor Albee
and the lenient manner with which
traffic violators have been dealt with
In Municipal Court.
"Add to this the fact that only one
officer is detailed to watch for of
fenders and one can readily see the
handicap we have been placed under.
"There Is no use In denying that the
number of automobile accidents this
month Is alarming. But what are we
going to do? We have but one man to
keep them in the right line and have
had Utile serious co-operation from
other municipal officials.
"1 am in hopes that when Mr. John
son assumes charge of the police de
partment we will get our traffic squad
and that when Mr. Rossman becomes
FRENCH COAT
Time and again ladies
looking in our windows
say, "Oh, if I had only
see these coats before
I bought mine."
J. M.
Acheson
Co.
362 Alder, near Park.
Municipal Judge, both of which events
take place August 1, we will be able to
get co-operation necessary to enforce
safe and sane driving. I am convinced
that Mayor Baker will assume a vigor
ous attitude in the matter, rather than
the one of indifference of his prede
cessor." By Commissioner Coffin's" plan there
would be no addition to the present po
lice force, with the possible exception
of the man at the head of the proposed
division. He would have men detailed
from other work to apprehend traffic
violators.
Who has been proposed to lead the
fight is a matter of considerable con
jecture. It is not thought unlikely that
Commissioner Coffin may be the man.
Mr. Coffin's conference with the
Mayor also brought the promise, he
said, of the appointment of a stenog
rapher to assist the Commissioner in
keeping up to date the data in connec
tion with his work.
Lon L. Parker, secretary of the asso
ciation, and completed final arrange-
I ments. The address of the day will be
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There will be other speeches and music.
Friends of Douglas County people are
also Invited to attend.
Douglas Association to Meet.
The Dourlas County Association will
hold Its sixth annual reunion and pic
nil at Peninsula Park next Sunday.
The executive and programme com
mittees met last night in the office of
TIMBER FIRE HALTS TRAIN
Smoke so Dense on Tillamook Line
That Service Is Stopped.
Forest fires on the western slope of
the Coast Range alonrr the Southern
Pacific's Tillamook line have stopped
train service on that road.
The regular Southern Pacific train
leaving here yesterday morning for
Tillamook was compelled to return in
the afternoon after running to the top
of the range at Timber. Passengers
came back to Portland. The eastbound
train which left Tillamook in the morn
ing also was forced to turn back.
The fire is reported not to be serious
now, but the smoke was so dense that
the trains could not proceed.
Read The Oregonlan classified ad.
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ALL STRAW HATS
NOW Vz OFF
PANAMAS INCLUDED THIS MEANS
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$3 STRAWS 2.00
U STRAWS 2.66
$5 STRAWS $3.33
$6 STRAWS $4.00
$8 STRAWS. $5.33
$10 STRAWS $8.67
These prices are making our large stock of
Straw Hats melt like dew before the sun. Buy
now and get six weeks of head comfort.
BUFFUM & PENDLETON CO.
Clothiers, Hatters and Haberdashers,
127 Sixth St., 22 stcs from Washington St.
F. N. X'I2NIJLEXOX, .WlIiii,.
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