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THJ MORNING OREG ONI AN, WEDNESDAY, JULY 23, 1917. ONE MAN KILLED 111 STRIKE AT CANNERY PRESIDENT'S NEW APPOINTEES ON SHIPPING BOARD AND EMERGENCY FLEET CORPORATION, '.Toilers of the World' Appears as New Labor Order, Ask ing Increases in Pay. . APRICOT CROP IN DANGER Y y oM . , U not .. .. L "armors Take Steps to Fry Fruit When Five Canneries Close Be cause of Strikes Governor Asked to Intervene. SANTA CLARA. Cal., July 24. One man was shot to death and two were seriously injured here early today when striking cannery workers at tempted to prevent Frank Enderlin, employed in a cannery cookroom, from working. Enderlin -was stopped by strikers. One of the men, the police say, lifted a club as if to strike Enderlin, who fired his revolver. Paolo Blanco was instantly killed and Sabatel Kossa was shot in the leg. A group of Italians then opened fire on Enderlin. who fell with a bullet in each leg and one through the stomach. Physicians said his wounds would probably prove fatal. More than 20 shots were fired in the riot. SAX JOSE, Cal.. July 24. Governor "William L"). Stephens was appealed to late today by Mayor John "Widney, of Santa Clara to take charge of the can nery strike situation, which was re ported to him as being out of hand. This valley produces l,OOt,000 bushels of apricots yearly, and a recent heat wave brought the crop in a rush to the doors of the canneries, which were un able to receive it. All five of the can neries now shut down have been work ins on Government contracts. The fruit is bought subject to strikes, so the crop loss is falling upon the pro ducers, the majority of whom are small ranchers. Some of them took immedi ate steps to dry their fruit. An organization known as the Toil ers of the World is managing1 the strike. It was effected by E. B. Merca dier, for some 25 years a resident of San Jos and as far as known here is not affiliated with any other body. Mercadier said today the strike was for a fair wage. Specifically the men demand .'HVi cents an hour and the closed shop instead of the existing scale of 25 cents an hour. The women want a better piecework scale than 10 cents a 50-pound box for splitting, stoning and peeling the apri cots. Their specific demands were not of record tonight. According to Mer cadier, some women make as much as 80 cents a day. but the average was is from 50 to 75 cnts. The Toilers, who also are known as the Federal L.abor Union, also charge that many boys are employed at ex tremely low wages to do men's work. BANDIT AND MONEY TAKEN Mexican General Who Looted Kit press Company Is Made Prisoner. XOGALES, Ariz.. July 24. General Fernandez Espinosa, pursued as the leader of bandits who held up a pas senger train at Wamoa Station, Sinaloa, Mexico, last Saturday and robbed a "Wells-Kargo Express car of $20,000 and took f-;000 from the station, was cap tured with some of his men yesterday, According to word received here today. The greater part of the money was recovered. The capture was effected by soldiers under Cieneral I" lores. Ten of Esr-inosa's men were reported killed in a pitched fight with the sol diers. Paul Hertz, a German, w-as re ported as 6ne of the Espinosa men captured. General Espinosa was defeated at the last election for the office of Governor of iiiialua. 'a-i : I - Krj i I Its k : - - ' h If l Si ilHf IPX- V ,.; I I I '" h' 4 It sn' ..V " I li-V--' I JkV If Ttp-oEdirari X. Hurley, of Chlcasro, Chairman of ' Snipping; Board. Below. Ieft Vahlnnon Lfe Cuppa, General Hinairr Umcrsency Fleet Corpo ration, anil llainbrldnre Colby, Member o( Shipping Board. GOETHALS QUITS JOB President Asks Resignation of Chairman Denman- SOLUTION IS SURPRISE President Apparently Convinced Goethals and Denman Could Xot Work Together, and Both. Are Partly 'to Be Blamed. fContinuert from First Page.) SLEUTH IS VICTIM OF THIEF Premises Invaded and "Wife's Silk Bathing Suit Stolen. Pome -bold, bad man was taking mighty big chances yesterday morning when he sneaked upon the premises of City Detective Tackaberry and relieved the clothes line of one perfectly good silk bathing suit belonging to Airs. Tackaberry. Mrs. Tackaberry had taken a dip in the cooling waters of the Willamette the niht before and had hung the suit out to dry. When she went to get it yesterday it had disappeared. '"That guy sure had his nerve," raved "Tack" yesterday. "One perfectly good bathing suit gone, and say, the worst of it is. the pesky thing wasn't paid for yet." DRAFT PROVISION IS 'MADE Continued from Kirst Page.) to meet the new estimates, the first disposition of the committee was to turn new taxes on war excess profits and incomes. A meeting will be held immediately after the new estimates are submitted. Second Draft to Be Called. A resolution was adopted today call ing for submission of new estimates by all departments so that the whole war expenditure programme may be considered in connection with the pending war tax legislation. The to 000.000.000 Army increase. Secretary McAdoo informed the committee, is largely to provide for the second draft Amy of 500.000 men to be called while the first 500.000 are under training. The $5,000,000,000 would provide for expenditures until July 1, 1918. Jjuring today's debate on the rivers a4id harbors bill Senator Smoot pre sented statistics to show that appro priations of the war session already aggregate 9. 226.000,000, so that th new estimates would raise the total of the first year of the war well above $14,000,000,000. will reduce the cost of ships to be fabricated and the State Department is behind him in his position that the United States should requisition Brit ish ships building in American yards. Mr. Denman's resignation leaves Vice Chairman Brent as temporary chairman and there will be no inter ruption to the board's work. Until their nominations have been confirmed, Mr. Hurley and Mr. Colby will sit with the board as members without the power to vote. Meantime Rear Ad miral Capps will take Immediate harge of building. He is a naval con- tructor of wide experience. President Otveo Out Letters. Mr. Hurley is a manufacturer of pneumatic machinery and as chairman of the trade commission gave most of his time to the establishment of better relations between the Government and business. Tonight he authorized this statement: I appreciate the importance or the task with which the President haa en rusted me. We must build ships, not talk about them. American labor. the most skilled and intelligent in the world, can turn out the ships in rec ord-breaking time, and we are going to buckle down and get busy." In announcing acceptance of the res ignation of General Goethala and the request that Mr. Denman resign, the White- House made public the Presi dent's letter to both men. Time Here to Begin Afresh. The President's letter to Mr. Den man follows: 'I hope and believe that I am in- PLANT CONSTRUCTION" STOPS Laborers Slop "When Strikebreakers Keplace Butchers. DENVER, July 24. Carpenters, brick layers, eteamfitters and laborers, about 500 in all, quit work at a new storag plant now under construction at the Denver stockyards this morning. Their reason was given as the importation o a small number of strikebreakers to replace the butchers who quit work last week in plants at the yards and the installation of armed guards at the property. About 70 pickets are on duty at the stockyards. Phone your want ads to The Orego nian. Mala 1070, A 6033, terpreting your best judgment as well as my own when I say that our duty concerning the debate and misunder standing that have arisen in connec tion with the shipbuilding programme ought to be settled without our per sonal preferences or our personal feel ings altogether, and with the single purpose of doing what will be best to serve the public interest. "No decision we can now arrive at would eliminate the elements of con troversy that have crept into almost every question connected with the programme and I am convinced that the only wise course is to begin afresh not upon the programme, for that Is already in large part in process of execution, but upon the further execu tion of it. "I have found both you and General Goethals ready to serve the public at personal sacrifice. Realizing that the only manner in which the way can be completely cleared for harmo nious and effective action is to carry out shipbuilding plans forward from this point through new agencies. General Goethals has put his resig nation in my hands, and I have ac cepted it in the same spirit in which it was tendered not as deciding be tween two men whom I respect and admire, but in order to make invidious decisions unnecessary and let the work be developed without further discus sion of what is past. General Goethals Reslirna. "I am taking the liberty of writing to tell you this in the confidence that you "will be glad to take the same distinterested and self-forgetting course that General Goethals has taken. "When you have done as he has done. I am sure that you may count with the utmost confi dence upon the ultimate verdict of the people of the country with regard to your magnanimous and unselfish view of public duty and upon winning In the retrospect the same admiration and confidence that I have learned to feel for you. "With much regard and very great appreciation of the large services you have rendered, : "Cordially and sincerely yours, "WOODROW "WILSON." President "Wilson's letter to General Goethals follows: "Your letter of July 20 does you great honor. (This was the General's letter of resignation.) It is conceived in a fine spirit of public duty, such as I have learned to expect of you. This is, as you say, a case where the serv ice of the public is the only thing to be considered. Personal feelings and personal preferences must be resolute ly set aside and we must do the thing that is most serviceable. It is with that thought in mind that I feel con- Sill Jka f- ill I ii ii ii I is in ii. m h i w i y 1 i r rw m - (I I I ".W ; skTZ, rr i I II ropn (wmm. mwnamv. A H I -gd ----- ' ii 1 ii, . my vi I 'M i I Zerolene, "a most satisfactory motor oil" that is the testimony of the leading automobile distributors of the Coast. 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Then the war broke for the United States, and Ambassador Gerard took his passports and sailed back to his own country with the, greatest story of a dozen decades in his memory and his official rec ords. And it is this story, "My Four Tears in Germany," by Mr. Gerard, which will be run serially in The Oregonian, beginning with the Sun day issue of August S. This amazing but authentic recital of double-dealing, plot and counter plot is told in about 80,000 words and will appear regularly in daily and Sunday installments for six weeks. It possesses the terse style of truth and the vividness of description that mark the narra tive of the eyewitness. In Mr. Gerard's story of Prusslanism Is found a full and convin cing expose of the designs of Germany against America, which culmi nated in the enforced entry of the United States as a belligerent Na tion. Further, it discloses the mad plans for world dominion that were part and parcel of the Pan-German programme. To follow the publication of Mr. Gerard's book, "My Four Tears in Germany," is to gain a more definite and comprehensive understand ing of the cogs and gears that turned to bring about the entrance of America in the world conflict and to realize the inordinate militaris tic power and pride of the house of Hohenzollern. The work is devoid of passion or prejudice. It is a. composite off related facts, calmly told. With these before him, the reader becomes a juryman in the case of democracy versus autocracy. strained to say that I think that you have interpreted your duty rightly. "No impartial determination of the questions at issue can now set the shipbuilding programme promptly and etfectively oh its way to completion and success. It is best that we take the self-forgetting course you suggest and begin again with a fresh sheet of paper begin not the shipbuilding, but the further administration of the pro gramme. The shipbuilding is, happily, in large part begun and can now read ily be pushed to completion if the air be cleared of the debates that have unfortunately darkened it. "With deep appreciation, therefore, of your geoerous attitude and with genuine admiration of what you have been able in a short time to accom plish, I accept your resignation and feel that in doing so I am acting upon your best judgment as well as my own. I hope you will feel the same undoubt ing confidence that I feel that the peo ple of the country, for whom you have rendered great service, will judge you justly and generously in this as in other things, and that all personal misunderstandings and misjudgments that have been created will pass in a short time entirely away." BUILDERS HOrii KAIiLY ACTION IJoya J. Wcntworlh, Goctlials' Rep resentative,' Not Advised of Change. Other than press dispatches, no in formation reached- here yesterday through official channels bearing on changes in the United States Shipping Hoard. L,ioyd J. Wentworth, president of the Portland Lumber Company, has served several weeks as the personal representative here of General Goet hals, working In conjunction with Cap tain John l Blaine, district officer, with headquarters at Seattle. Mr. Wentworth has personally checked new plants and the bids of builders and mado recommendations to Washington as to contracts to be awarded. He has exhibited a deen in terest in the work, and has given up much time gratuitously in furthering the shipbuilding drive along the Wil lamette and Columbia rivers. Some of the Portland builders met General Goethals when Kast, but others have not been in personel touch witli the heads of either the Shipping Board. Mr. Denman or the Emergency Fleet Corporation, General Goethals. When the shipbuilding programme was first broached Theodore Brent, vice-chairman of the Shipping Board, was here and held a session one day with build ers as well as inspecting plants. Builders are hopeful that changes on the Board will result in either ex perienced shipping 'men or practical builders being accorded recognition. that more speed may be given both steel and wooden construction. In fact the feeling has been such that some men favored a distinct Columbia River type of wooden steamer being planned that, if adopted by the Shipping Board, would mean a standard ship would be laid down at all yards In this district. In that connection it has been sug gested that a board be formed of Pa cific Coast builders and that they pass on plans and the ability of builders to deliver ships. HURLEY INVENTOR OF TCOLS Ex-Cliairman of Federal Trade Board Succeeds Uennian. CHICAGO. July 24. Kdward Nash Hurley was born July 31, ltf$4, at Ja I ex burg, 111., and was educated in the pub lic schools of that city. His first em ployment was as a fireman for the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Rail road. His invention of the principle of the pneumatic tool, an instrument which revolutionized steel construction, made possible bis advance in the world of industry. In December, 1915. he was made chairman of the Federal Trade Commis sion, a position which he held until a few months ago. COLBY ntOGIlKSSIVE LEADER PLANE BILL SIGNED New Member of Shipping Board Backer of Roosevelt. NEW YORK. July 24. Balnbrldge Colby is a widely-known lawyer, was actively identified with the candldaey of Theodore Koosevelt for the Presi dential nomination in 1912, and was one of the founders of the Progressive Na tional party. He was Progressive can didate for Governor and United States Senator In 1912 and la 1914, respectively. DRY BOMB UPSETS MOOSE Delegate to Propose Lodge Support for Prohibition. riTTSBURG, July 24. John. M. Ford, of Philadelphia, was elected supreme dictator of the supreme lodge. Loyal Order of Moose, at an executive ses sion of the twenty-ninth annual con vention of the order today. Other offi cers elected today were: Vice-dictator, Charles A. A. MeGee, San Diego, and supreme prelate, ."Will iam Broening, Baltimore, Mi The executive session of the conven tion was thrown into an uproar when Mark Anthony, a delegate from San Francisco, gave notice that he would introduce a motion to put the order on record as favoring prohibition. Thone your want ads to Tha Orego nian. Main 7070. A 6095. Measure Provides for $640, 000,000 for Air Service. 20,000 MACHINES IS PLAN Thousands Are Already Training for Aerial Corps or 110,000 Offi cers and Men Supremacy of Air to Be Sought. "WASHINGTON, July 24. The 640. 000,000 airplane bill became a law today with President Wilson's signature. This immense appropriation is only the beginning of preparations for the campaign intended to overwhelm Ger many from the air. More than 20.000 planes are to be built as a first incre ment and there will be many thousands of aviators. The first task will be the Instruction of the vast army of American flyers. Germany, realizing the danger of the air campaign, already is feverishly building airplanes to fight the fleets coming to overwhelm her. The ele ment of speed therefore is foremost in building the American fleet. Howard E. Coffin, chairman of the aircraft pro duction board of the Council of Na tional Defense, today said all indus trial records for the development of a new art must be broken in rushing through the programme to completion. Mr. Coffin said that despite inex perience in producing fighting planes, ".Sharpened SAFKTV It BLADKii 2-iC DOZKW IDY MAIL. 25- TUn CU ADD CUflD 1 Ilreadway. Wear i hi. oiiiiii vuvi "Waahlnirtoii. 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