VOL. LVII XO. 17,680.
PORTLAND, OREGON, MONDAY, JULY 23, 1917.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
STATE OF WAR IS
DECLARED BY SIAM
TWO
SHIP
MEMBERS OF
KAISER CONFERS
WITH REICHSTAG
11
MAY BLOCK
HOOD RIVER MAN'S
DAUGHTER IS LOST
SUPE
RVISORY PLAN
XIXE STEAMERS AGGREGATING
. 19,000 TONS SEIZED.
SOCIALISTS, FOR FIRST TIME,
MISS RUTH ARMSTRONG IS
SOUGHT IX HAVANA.
MET AS PARTY MEN.
BRITISH REPULSE '
GERM AIR MID
WILSON
II1DUSIAL WAR
GRIPPING SEATTLE
BOARD
RES GN
Attempt to Reach London
Fails Utterly.
BOMBS DROP NEAR COAST
Formation of Invaders Bro
ken and British Pursue
Far Out to Sea.
ELEVEN PERSONS KILLED
Aerial Battle at Great Eleva
tion Lasts Hour London
Warned of Raid.
LONDON, July 22. Another day
light raid, carried out over the east
coast of England this morning re
sulted in the repulse of about 20
German airplanes, after they had
dropped a number of bombs over
Felixstowe and Harwich, killing 11
persons and injuring 26.
An alarm was sounded in London,
but before the Germans could reach
any point near the city they were
attacked heavily by defending squad
rons of aircraft, which caused them
to beat a hasty retreat. The damage
to property is insignificant.
Raiders Met at Coast.
An official report issued this
evening says a royal flying corps
patrol encountered several machines
returning to their bases and brought
one down at - sea, near the Belgian
coast.
The morning broke bright and
sunny but a thick haze soon appeared.
At about 8 o'clock the enemy ma
chines were seen flying toward the
coast. They received a hot reception
and were hardly well over the coast
before their formation was broken up.
They dropped bombs hastily before
retreating.
Defensive Work Improves.
Observers say that the gunfire
which followed the section which went
down the Essex coast reached a pitch
of unusual intensity. It was the
movements of this squadron which
caused the firing for the first time
of new warning signals in London.
British planes pursued the Germans
well out to sea, fighting vigorously all
the time, but handicapped by the low
visibility.
Reports of heavy firing received
from various quarters indicates that
the authorities have made considerable
improvement in the defenses since
the last raid over London.
Thousands Watch for Battle.
Today's attempt lasted barely two
hours. Thousands of persons turned
out along the coast when the British
planes went up in the hope of seeing
battles in the air, but the combatants
eoon disappeared in the haze.
A correspondent of the Exhange
Telegraph company telephoned from
the Isle of Thanet that warning sig
nals sounded in a number of coast
towns and that a number of airplanes
which were already in the air pro
ceeded in the direction of the firing,
followed by fighting planes. Soon
the signal that the raiders had been
driven off was given.
Score of Machines in Flight.
A correspondent of the News of
the World telegraphs that seven Ger
man Taubes crossed the Essex coast
flying from the west at 8:45 o'clock
this morning. Others followed at
intervals until 9:30. In all about 20
machines passed and disappeared to
ward the sea without dropping bombs,
A correspondent in Essex of the
Exchange Telegraph company reports
that he witnessed an aerial battle that
lasted almost an hour. A squadron
of seven German aircraft, traveling in
a wasterly direction, encountered a
number of British planes, which com
pelled them to turn northward. They
went in this direction about half a
mile and then swerved to the east.
One German machine was cut off
from the main body and surrounded
by three British airplanes which drove
it in the opposite direction until all
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All Germans and Austrlans Have
Bern Arrested and Their
Business Places Closed.
LONDON, July 22. Slam has de
clared that a state of war exists with
Germany and Austria, according to a
Reuter dispatch from Bangkok.
Nine steamers, aggregating 19,000
tons, have been seized.
The object of Slam's declaration is
"to uphold the sanctity of international
rights against nations showing con
tempt for the principles of humanity
and respect for small states.
All Germans and Austrlans, the dis
patch adds, have been placed under
arrest and their businesses closed.
Slam, "the land of the free," a king
dom of Southeastern Asia, has a popu
lation of about 6,000,000. Universal lia
bility to military service is in force.
The peace strength of the army is about
12,000 men, while the navy consists
nominally of 21 vessels, all of small
size.
In the 19th century regular diplo
matic relations were established with
the United States and the European na
tions. ADMIRAL KNIGHT IN JAPAN
United States Thanks for Courtesies
at Death of Ambassador.
TOKIO, July 18. (Delayed) Ad
miral Austin M. Knight, commander of
the American Asiatic squadron, has
arrived here for the purpose of con
veying to the Japanese government the
thanks of the United States for Japan's
courtesy in sending home on a war
ship the body of George TV. Guthrie,
late Ambassador. -
Post,. Wheeler, counsellor of the
American Embassy, tendered Admiral
Knight a reception. The Emperor will
receive the Admiral next Wednesday
and give a luncheon in his honor.
ENGLAND SENDS THANKS
American Press Assists Recruiting
Campaign in America.
LONDON, July 22. On behalf of the
government Lord Robert Cecil, minister
of blockade, asked the Associated Press
today to express to the American Gov
ernment and people the gratification
and appreciation of the British govern
ment for the reception and assistance
given to the British recruiting cam
paign in the United States.
The results of the recruiting cam
paign in the United States have been a
source of satisfaction to the British
government. It is likely similar re
cruiting efforts will be made by France,
Italy and Russia.
PRESIDENT VISITS NAVY
Trip Made to Hampton Roads With
Mrs. Wilson.
FORT MONROE. Va., July 22. Presi
dent Wilson visited Hampton Roads
yesterday for the first time since the
United States entered the war against
Germany.
Accompanied by Mrs. Wilson, he ar
rlvxed on the Mayflower and anchored
in the Roads after an uneventful voy
age down the Potomac. The President
is keeping In touch with affairs at the
capital by radio.
SWEDEN SEIZES FOOD
Cereals, Legumes and Sugar Beets
Taken by Government.
STOCKHOLM, July 22. The Swedish
government has expropriated growing
crops of all cereals, legumes and sugar
beets.
It has also ordered expropriated all
stocks of these which may be on hand
September 1 from the 1916 crops, with
the exception of limited quantities in
private households.
PIONEER MINISTER, 92, DIES
Rev. W. J. White, 49er, Passes
Away In Spokane.
SPOKANE, Wash., July 22. Rev. W.
J. White, who went to California in
1849 and two years later entered the
Methodist ministry, died here yesterday
at the age of 92.
For the la.-.t 35 years, until four
years ago, Mr. White was engaged in
missionary work in Washington and
Northern Idaho.
U. S. OFFICIALS VISIT CAMP
War Department Men Guests of
Pershing in Prance.
AMERICAN TRAINING CAMP IN
FRANCE, July 22. Two high officials
of the United States War Department
arrived at the training camp yester
day. They were taken immediately on an
Inspection of the camp by Major-Gener-al
Slbert.
MEXICO TO BORROW COIN
Hundred Million Pesos to Finance
New Government Bank Issue.
MEXICO CITY. July 22. The House
of Deputies Friday night approved a
measure granting permission to Presi
dent Carranza to contract a loan for
100,000,000 pesos to finance the new
government bank Issue.
Disgust Expressed at
Lack of Action.
WILSON DELAYS ACCEPTANCE
President Hopes to Work Out
Solution of Problem.
J. B. WHITE SHIFTS VOTE
Champion of Goethals' Programme
Won Over to Ilair-Splitting
Course of Denman, Then
Becomes Critic of Delays.
WASHINGTON. July 22. (Special.)
Resignations of two of the five mem
bers of the Shipping Board Captain
John B. White, of Kansas City, and
John A. Donald, of New York are In
the President's hands. They have been
held up temporarily, it was learned to
night, at the request of the President,
who hopes that he can work out a so
lution to the Goethals-Denman fight
which will result in harmony and ship
building instead of endless delay and
legal arguments while U-boats are
sinking ships.
The resignation of Captain White is
of peculiar interest, because his has
been the deciding vote on the Shipping
Board in all the Denman-Goethals con
troversies so far.
White Shifts to Denman.
Early in this week of technical hair
splitting, a motion was made on the
board to permit General Goethals to go
ahead with his programme and discuss
details later.
The vote on this motion, published
for the first time, was: For speed, John
A. Donald and R. B. Stevens.
For more technical discussion, Wil
liam A. Denman (chairman), Theodore
Brent and John B. White.
This was the first occasion on which
Captain White went flatf ootedly over
Xo the Denman side. He was originally
strong for General Goethals, but ap
parently had not been able to stand
the courting of Mr. Denman, admitted
to be a pretty good politician, while
General Goethals is blunt and frank.
Hair-Splitting; Is Opposed.
The resignation of Captain White,
therefore, gives the President an op
portunity to settle the Goethals-Denman
controversy by appointing a man
in his place who is strongly pledged
one way or the other.
The Donald resignation is of another
sort. Captain White is believed to be
much disgusted with the whole busi
ness. He is a successful business man
and has been distressed at the poor prog
ress made by the board in getting any
thing done. He is said to have "spoken
out at meetings" several times during
the week, remonstrating against the
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Beginning of New Era in Relation
of People and Rulers Seen
by Berlin Papers.
LONDON, July 22. According to the
Berlin Vorwaerts, the Socialists who
attended the conference between the
Emperor and members of the Reich
stag Friday evening were Frledrlch
Ebert. Philip Scheldemann, Dr. Eduard
David and Dr. Albert O. W. Suedeku.
The Vossische Zeltung says this was
the first time the Emperor ever met
Socialist deputies as representatives of
the Socialist party.
COPENHAGEN. July 22. Emperor
William's conference with the parlia
mentary leaders Friday evening is
treated by the German newspapers re
ceived here as an earnest of his deter
mination hereafter to cultivate closer
relations with parliament, perhaps as
the beginning of a new era of common
work of the people and parliament, al
though the simultaneous warning is ut
tered against attaching any excessive
weight to the meeting.
The proceedings took the line of
Informal conversations between the
Emperor and members of the Reichs
tag. The Emperor evidently aimed to
impress his auditors with the great
success of the submarine warfare.
which, according to the Vossische Zeit
ung, he described as working beyond
all expectations and bringing near
England's sure destruction.
Chancellor Michaelis and other min
isters and secretaries of state were
present at the conference.
TUNA SWAMP CANNERIES
Fishermen Off Point Loma Make
From $50 to $200 Each Day.
SAN DIEGO. Cal.. July 22. Local
fishermen are meeting with such
heavy run of tuna that today for the
first time the three canneries were un
able to handle all of the fish brought
to this port. More than 100 tons were
left on lighters in the harbor for the
Monday workers to handle.
The fish are running in unprece
dented numbers into the harbor a short
distance off Point Loma and tuna boats,
averaging three men to a crew, are
making from ? 120 to $650 a day. It is
estimated the catch since July 1 has
approximated 116,000 a day in value.
Local canneries are experiencing a
shortage of tins.
NEW CAMP AWAITS PLANS
Week Is Expected to Be Busy One
on Mesa Near San Diego.
SAN DIEGO. Cal ..July 22. The com
ing week is expected to be the busiest
yet at the National Guard camp on
the Linda Vista Mesa, north of this
ity, where 30,000 National Guard and
newly drafted soldiers of six Western
states are to receive their war train
ing. Detailed plans for the camp are ex
pected to arrive tomorrow or Tuesday.
The contractors, William Hampton &
Co., of Los Angeles, have a force of
men ready to start with construction
work as soon as the plans are provided.
Senate's Food Control
Bill in Disfavor.
VETO POWER MAY BE USED
Senate Conferees Expected to
Yield to President.
FIVE STAND WITH CHIEF
House Will Give XJp Some or
Its Favored Plans In Orcler
to Give President Author
ity to Direct Food.
BT CHARLES MICHELSON.
(Published by arrangement with the Chlcaeo
ueraia. )
WASHINGTON. July 22. (Special.)
The food bill as it has gone through
the Senate will never become a law.
The difference between the House
and Senate measures are too vast; the
feeling that has been engendered is too
bitter for reconciliation.
The House will not accept the provi
sion establishing a Congressional com
mittee to revise the acts of the
executive and the advisory board; to
sit in the Council of National Defense
and demand an explanation of contracts
and an accounting of the millions as
they are paid out.
Veto Not X'nllkely.
It is even prophesied that if the bill
finally goes up to the President for
signature with this provision, which
practically takes the conduct of the
war away from the Executive, he will
veto the whole bill rather than accept
what Lincoln called the bane of his life
during the Civil War.
There is a fair probability that in the
face of the united House determination
against such a committee and the
positive opposition of the President,
the Senate conferees will agree to
eliminating this startling measure. In
fact, the composition of the Senate
conference committee suggests thij
strongly.
Senate Has Seven Conferees.
As originally intended, there were to
have been five conferees from each
house. The Senate's representatives
were to have been Gore, of Oklahoma,
and Kenyon, of Iowa, both of whom
voted for the Congressional War, Coun
cil, and Chamberlain, Smith, of South
Carolina, and Warren, of Wyoming,
who stood with the President aganist
it. To the five have been added two
more, Hoke Smith, of Georgia, and
Page, of Vermont, who were also
against the board of review. So that
the Senate conference delegates now
number five who opposed the amend
ment to two who voted for it.
Ultimately, of course, there must be
some agreement over the food bill, and
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Fear Expressed Young Woman May
Have Been Victim of White Slav
ers While Walking In Park.
HAVANA. July 22. The Havana se
cret police are searching for Miss Ruth
Armstrong, formerly of Youngstown,
O.. who disappeared last Monday night.
Miss Armstrong came here about two
weeks ago to take a position as gov
erness. Just prior i her disappearance she
informed the family with whom she
resided that beexuse of the intense
heat she was going for a walk In a
park nearby.
Miss Armstrong !s said to have at one
time taught school in Salt Lake City
and Los Angeles.
TOtfNGSTOWN. Ohio.. July 22.
Friends of Miss Ruth Armstrong, form
erly a teacher in Munroe school here,
received word today that she had dis
appeared mysteriously in Havana.
Cuba, and it is feared she has been
kidnaped by white slave agents.
Miss Armstrong taught here last
term and made her home with Mr. and
Mrs. W. J. Williams. At the close of
the term she went to Salt Lake City to
visit a brother and later went to
Havana, where she had obtained a
position as governness in a wealthy
family.
OGDEN, July 22. Miss Ruth Arm
strong is a daughter of Leroy Arm
strong, of Hood River, Or., formerly
editor of the old Salt Lake Republican
and the Ogden Examiner. She was a
resident of this city several years ago
and was known here as a literary
worker.
Paul Armstrong, of Salt Lake, an
other brother, is United States Immi
gration inspector.
ICE FAMINE THREATENED
Hospitals and III Can Get Supplies,
but .Others Cannot.
EUGENE, Or.. July 22. (Special.)
Towns in Southern Oregon age threat
ened with an Ice famine, acArding to
an announcement made by manufac
turers in Eugene. They have been re
ceiving many orders from neighboring
cities, but the supply Is Insufficient
to meet the demand.
Ice was being sold In Eugene yes
terday only to hospitals and to fami
lies where there was sickness.
RAIDER CROSSING ATLANTIC
British Freighter Reports Escape
After Brief Chase.
AN ATLANTIC PORT. July 22. The
presence of a strange vessel, believed
to be a German raider, due west from
the Spanish coast and two-thirds of
the way across the Atlantic from
Europe, was reported by a British
freight steamship.
The ship outdistanced the supposed
raider after a brief chase.
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Weather.
TESTERDArJ? Maximum temperature. 7(
degree; minimum. 67 degrees.
TODAY'S Fair; moderate northerly winds.
War.
Score of German airplanes driven back from
London. Page 1.
Rome expects Pope to offer peace plan on
war anniversary. Page 4.
Socialist members of Reichstag condemn
submarine warfare. Page 3.
Prince Leopold advances line In Gal lcla.
Page 3.
Russian government pleads for loyalty of
subjects. Page
Germans continue furious assaults on Alsne
front. Page 3.
Kaiser has heart to heart talk with Reichs
tag leaders. Page 1.
Minister of War Kerensky leaves for Rus
sian front. Page 3.
Slam declares state of war exists. Page 1,
Foreign.
Sister of Hood River man lost In Havana.
Page 1.
Sunday observed at American training camp
In France. Page 2.
, National.
Changes will be made In location of officers
training camps. Page 0.
Two members of shipping board resign.
Page 1.
President may veto food bill If Congression
al supervision section remains. Page 1.
XT-boat attacks on troop ships kept secret
five days. Page 4.
Domestic
Drafted men may enlist In Army or Na
tional Guard. Page 4.
Billy Sunday addresses 8000 at Gladstone
Chautauqua. Page 0.
Sports.
Pacific Coast League results: Portland
Vernon 4-8: Salt Lake 6-2. Oakland
J 1-4 ; San Francisco 4-1. Los Angeles
ft-'J. Page 11.
Farnum again wins motorcycle race at La
Grande. Page 11.
Pacific Indians hold practice at traps.
Page 11.
Mrs. W. I. Northup and Catlln "Wolfard
win singles championships. Page 11.
Pacific Northwest.
Hood River checks forest fire at doors of
ranch houses. Page 5.
Oregon Synod to meet at Eugene this week
to decide fate of Albany College. Page 5.
Judge Gilbert promises early decision in
purse seine case. Page 8.
Seattle in throes of industrial revolution.
Page 1.
Billy Sunday talks at Chautauqua. Page 5.
Portland and Vicinity.
Exemption board to meet tomorrow. Page 0.
Dr. Dammasch sends account of life at Fort
Riley. Page 10.
Army ambulance ordered by auxiliary for
Third Oregon must now be paid for.
Page 8.
Dr. Hlnson's congregation pledges ? 10,800
for new building. Page 14.
Explosions at Sharkey factory fire attributed
to smoke gases. Page 14.
Great-grandson of Daniel Boone drives car
for Adjutant-General. Page 7.
Dr. Eld ridge declares true living Is art.
Page 14.
Ex-reporter of The Oregonlan describes war's
horrors. Page 10.
Shipping rates to Orient expected to advance.
Page 10.
"Very Good Eddie" Is sparkling comedy.
Page 4.
Drafted men may select branch of service
by enlisting at once. Page 9.
Weather report, data and forecast. Page 12.
Organized Labor Flans
Fight to Finish.
FEAR OF SPREAD IS FELT
Agitators Would Call Out Men
in Shipyards to Defeat
Car Company. . j
COURT HEARING IS TODAY
Effort Is Being Made to Bring
Strikers and Company
Into Conference.
SEATTLE, Wash., July 22. (Spe
cial.) Seattle today is in the throes
of the greatest labor upheaval in the
city's history. The climax is being
awaited with grave anticipation.
On the horizon looms an industrial
debacle that threatens to tear at the
very heart of Seattle's life and para
lyze the city's industries.
Patriotic Service Council at Work.
Following a series of conferences
yesterday the King County Council of
Patriotic Service addressed to the
company a request that it meet with
three representatives of the Tacoma
Streetcar Men's Union and three mem
bers of the Seattle Trades and Labor
Council. It is expected that the com
pany will make a reply to this request
early tomorrow.
Tomorrow also the strike will g-:
into court, the hearing in the city's
application for the appointment of a
receiver being set for 9:30 o'clock
Monday morning.
There are many strikes, including
the timber-workers, shingle-weavers,
express wagon drivers, junkmen and
even policemen, but above all stand
the motormen, conductors and other
employes of the Puget Sound Trac
tion, Light & Power Company, the
storm center of Seattle for years.
One thousand, six hundred carmen
are out on strike. Every car is idle.
General Strike Is Favored.
The Building Trades Council, re
garded as the most conservative la
bor organization of the city, has
voted to sanction a general strike of
its 31 affiliated unions in sympathy
with the traction company employes
unless the streetcar company yields
to the demands of the strikers on the
question of the union.
This has opened the way for a prob
able strike of all of the 11,000 workers
in Seattle's gigantic shipbuilding in
dustry, which has a monthly payroll
of $1,300,000.
The crux of the situation is this:
Carmen Insist Upon Union.
The carmen, with a new but strong
organization, demand that the com
pany recognize their right to organize.
They are willing to arbitrate all dif
ferences regarding wages and con
ditions but they insist upon the fore
most demand.
President A. W. Leonard, of the
traction company, firmly refuses to
recognize the carmen's union, in linn
with the general policy of the Stone &
Webster interests. He is prepared to
fight to a finish.
"We must win," say the carmen's
leaders.
Labor Prepares for Fight.
"We will maintain our same stand,"
stoutly declares Leonard.
Organized labor is preparing to
back the striking carmen and force
the traction company to yield.
In the meantime the city, through
Corporation Counsel Hugh M. Cald
well, acting under instructions from
the city council, has applied to the
Superior Court for a receiver to
"operate all lines under the orders of
the court until such time as the com
pany is able to establish that it can
operate its cars itself." Judge Boyd
J. Tallman has issued an alternative
writ of mandate making this order.
The company was given twenty-four
hours to resume service.
Attempt Made to Run Friday.
Friday afternoon, two hours before
the expiration of the time allowed by
the court, Manager A. L. Kempster,
of the traction company, ordered 10
cars to leave the main car barn, which
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