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TUB MOBXIXO OREGOXIAW, TUESDAY. JULY 31. 1917. ft 3 t GEN. OTIS VICTIM OF HEART DISEASE PROMINENT LOS ANGELES NEWSPAPER PUBLISHER WHO, AT AGE OF 80, PASSED AWAY AFTER EATING BREAKFAST. Noted Editor of Los Angeles Times Dies Suddenly at Age of 80. END COMES WHILE ALONE Publisher, Stricken After Being Served Breakfast In Room, Tells Maid, "I Am Gone" Business Attended to TTntll Death. LOS ANGELES. Cal.. July SO. Gen eral Harrison Gray Otis, noted news paper publisher and soldier and editor of the L03 Angeles Times, died sud denly here this morning at the age of 80. Death came quickly and un expectedly at the home of Harry Chand ler. Bon-ln-law and business associate. Just after General Otis had concluded his breakfast, which he had taken In bed. It waa ascribed to a rupture of th heart. Though 80 years old, and warned. It became known today, by a slight attack of heart trouble a week ago. General Otis was active to the last. He was host here a few days ago to the South ern . California Association of Com panions of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, of which he was president. He was at his desk in the Times office nearly pvery day during the last few weeks. He took a long automobile ride yester day with Mr. Chandler, and at midnight last night he sent a message, written in his own hand, to the foreman of the composing-room at the Times of fice, suggesting a change In the make up of the paper. Until his breakfast was brought to him he had passed the morn'ng reading. The maid who had served him was the only person present, when apparently he felt the end coming. Wish Cornea In Quick Death. "Take the tray away; I am gone." he said, and before either Mr. or Mrs. Chandler could be summoned from an other part of the house he was dead. The funeral will be held here Wednes day. The quick, quiet death, it was said by friends, was as the General had wished it to be. In addition to his son-in-law, who Is assistant general manager and treasur er of the Times, General Otis is sur vived by two daughters, Mrs. Chandler and Mrs. Franklin Booth, of Los An geles, and 13 grandchildren. General Otis was a member of mili tary, patriotic and civic societies in Los Angeles, among them the American Academy of Sciences. Last Christmas he gave his home in Los Angeles for an art gallery for the public to be maintained under super vision of the county. Times Controlled Since 18S6. He was a veteran of both the Civil and Spanish-American wars. He had held Government positions at different times, being foreman of the Govern ment printing office at Washington from 1869 to 1870. His first venture as a newspaper publisher was in Marietta, O., where he acquired a small plant in 1865. Later he came to California, where he became editor and publisher of the Santa Bar bara Press in 1876. He acquired a fourth interest in the Los Angeles Times In 1882 and four years later organized the Times-Mirror Company, of which he became president and general manager. He was a mem ber of the Associated Press. GENERAL OP MILITARY STOCK Late Publisher Veteran ot Civil and Spanish American Wars. General Harrison Gray Otis, himself a veteran of two wars, came of a long line of military and statesmanship an cestry. His grandfather was a sol dier of note in the Revolutionary War and the Otis stock produced James Otis. Revolutionary patriot and orator, and the first Harrison Gray Otis, once noted as a Senator from Massachusetts. General Otis was 80 years old, his birth having occurred on a Washington Coun ty. Ohio, farm. February 10, 1837. More than five years of General Otis' life was spent as a volunteer soldier of the United States. In 1861. at the age of 24. he enlisted in the Twelfth Ohio What Do You Know About Your Blood Supply? Your ignorance may startle you Few people know of the many func tions of the blood supply, and Just how important it is that it be kept abso lutely free from all Impurities. The health of the entire body depends upon the condition of the blood. Tou are invited to write and obtain a booklet that gives you some Invaluable Infor mation on this important subject. . It tells how to keep the blood strong and free from the many impurities to which it is constantly subject. It gives the history of S. 8. S., the world's most successful blood remedy, which has been sold for more than 50 years by druggists everywhere. This book will be sent free to all who write to Swift Speclflo Co., Dept. K-201 Atlanta, Ga Adv. I h ' - - v In - - fAi i , Senator Sheppard Opens Dis cussion in Behalf of Consti tutional Amendment. GENERAL HARRISON G. OTIS. Volunteers: was promoted through all grades to a Captain in 1864. In that year a consolidation of regiments placed him in the Twenty-third Ohio Veteran Volunteers, his Colonel and Captain being, respectively. Rutherford B. Hayes and William McKinley. Alto gether Otis saw 49 . months of actual service in the-Civfi War, was twice wounded and received seven promo tions, including two brevets, retiring with the title of Major and Lieutenant- Colonel, by brevet. With the outbreak of the Spanish- American War, in 1898, Major Otis, at the age of 61, volunteered his services to President McKinley and was made a Brigadier-General of volunteers. He was assigned to duty, first at Camp Merrit (CaL) and then to the Philip pines, where, at different times, no commanded various divisions of the Eighth Army Corps In the campaign for pacification of the native revolt. He led brigade in person In the assault on Caloocan and participated in the cap ture of the Filipino capital. He re signed his command in April, 1899, re turning to the United States. Upon his discharge he was brevetted Major- General for "meritorious conduct in action." Following the Civil War Captain Otis returned to the trade of printer, for which he had abandoned school at an early age, acquiring finally, in 1882, a fourth Interest in the Los Angeles Times. Previously he had served for four years as foreman of the Govern ment Printing Office at Washington. Quite early in his career as editor and publisher of the, Times, for he speedily secured full control. General Otis came into conflict with organized labor and thereafter until the day of his death he waged an unrelenting warfare for what he termed industrial freedom. On October 10, 1910, his building and print ing plant was dynamited and 23 of his workmen killed. The arrests and trials which followed were matters of Nation-wide Interest. General Otis acquired a large fortune, his Interests aside from publishing be ing extensive. In politics his paper ever reflected the attitude of its editor aggressive, uncompromising Repub lican, General Otis connection with that party dating back to 1860, when he was sent from Kentucky as a dele gate to the convention at Chicago which nominated Lincoln for the Presidency. Aside from those mentioned General Otis held numerous Governmental po sltlons at different periods of his life. He was prominent In the Grand Army of the Republic and numerous other patriotic orders and a member of the American Academy of Sciences. The bride of General Otis' young manhood. Miss Eliza Wetherby. was his constant associate in Journalism and literature until her death in 1904. Of the five children born to them two daughters survive. GAIN ID E AT LENS Canadians Advance 400 Yards on Front on' 000 Yards. CITE DU MOULIN OCCUPIED TONIGHT IS DANCE NIGHT German Habit of Withdrawing Sol. diers by Daj; for Safety Observed So Attack Is Made With Inconsiderable Loss. CANADIAN HEADQUARTERS IN FRANCE, July 30 (By Canadian Press, Limited.) By a minor operation early this morning the Canadian front was advanced in the region east of Reser voir Hill into the Cite du Moulin, the only suburb lying between Reservoir Hill and Lens. The losses of the Cana dians were inconsiderable and the ad vance gives them possession of stretch of difficult country extending about 1000 yards north and south with a depth easterly from our former front of over 400 yards. The gain was made as a result of careful scouting. By close observation it was learned that to lessen the heavy losses from our artillery, which has been pounding Cite du Moulin steadily for the past two weeks, the enemy withdrew men holding the line among its ruined houses during the day and only manned the positions at night when he learned from former experience of Canadian methods any attitck in force was likely to be made. That was good tactics, but the obvious method of catching the enemy napping was to send an attacking party in daylight while our bombardment was still in progress. This was done. The range of our guna .was Increased-as the men went over and so cut the enemy out posts on Irom their supports. With ample equipment of machine guns our men occupied the western part of Cite du Moulin and reconstructed the enemy positions so that they will af ford fairly good shelter. There has been as yet no serious counter attack of the northern part of our line. This morning a quantity of gas was projected into the enemy s trenches be tween Hill 70 and Cite St. Laurent. Heavy thunder storms have inter fered with the progress of trench de struction by our artillery. AMBULANCES . FUND WORKER S HAVE 14 HALLS. TO XTAN YOUR SHOES ELL-AiMS Absolutely Removes Indigestion. One package proves it 25c at all druggists. One Hundred Per Cent of Proceeds Will Go to Purchase of First Aid Machine for Third Oregon Public dances, chaperoned by a num ber of representative women, will be held tonight In 14 dancehalls of Port land, the proceeds to go to the Third Oregon Ambulance fund. All the money received will be used for the ambulance fund. Several fra ternal organizations and clubs are in general charge. Each hall will be In cnarge 01 a particular committee or division of the workers and the patron esses who have accepted will be at the halls.' At the Council Crest Hall alone plans were being made for entertaining several thousand dancers during the evening. Dances will be held In the follow Firemen's Pavilion, Tremont Station; ureoei s mil, inast eightieth and Stark Artisans Temple, Portsmouth, on St. Johns carllne; Moose Hall, Royal build ing, Broadway and Morrison; Modern Woodmen of America Hall, Eleventh and Burnside; Women of Woodcraft hall. Tenth and Taylor; Woodmen of the World Hall, Eleventh and Alder; Cotillion Hall, Fourteenth and Wash ington; Christensen'a Hall, Eleventh and Morrison; Hlbernia Hall, Russell and Rodney; Neighborhood House, Sec ond and Wood; Rose City Park club house, and Bohemian Hall, East Four teenth street and Duke avenue. At Christensen's Hall United Artisans Ad vance Assembly will be In charge, and the patronesses there will be Mrs. C. L. Read, Mrs. J. B. Kepper, Mrs. E. J. Steele, Mrs. C. C.-Newcastle, Mrs. H. L. Lee, Mrs. M. E. Sims, Mrs. Otto Roeber, Mrs. J.. L. May, Mrs. G. E. Humphrey, Mrs. R. D. In man. Mrs. E. A. Ingham, Mrs. J. B. Gentry and Mrs. H. A. Nelson. French General-in-Chief li Growing: Own Vegetables. Petals Tnrna Rose Garden to Usa for Providing: Food for His Entire Staff. PBOHI DEBATE III SENATE IS STARTED MR. UNDERWOOD OPPOSES Author of Measure Declares Part nership Between Liquor Traffic and Government Is Frightful Heritage of Civil War. WASHINGTON, July 30. The fight for Nation-wide prohibition by consti tutional amendment opened In the Sen ate today under unanimous consent agreement to take a final vote Wednes day. The debate was purely perfunc tory, with but few Senators in their seats and a small number of specta tors In the galleries. Senator Sheppard, author of the pending resolution to submit such an amendment to the states, opened the debate and waa followed by Senator Underwood, who. In a brief speech, op posed the resolution. The only other speakers were Senators Ashurst and Shafroth, both of whom . supported It. The debate will continue tomorrow and large number of Senators have de clared their Intention of speaking. The constant activity of the liquor Interests Is a peril to free institutions. Senator Sheppard told the Senate, while alcoholic liquor Itself is a menace to the Nation's health, morals and ef ficiency. Organized labor, he said, has been asked to oppose prohibition be cause bartenders and brewery and dis tillery employes are members of unions Labor is asked to imperil its very existence," said the Texas Senator, "to take food from the mouths and clothes from the backs of men, women and children to sustain a traffic meaning hunger, disease. Insanity and death for the masses, while the liquor barons thrive In luxury. "If the liquor traffic is to be eradi cated, the aid of the Federal Govern ment must be invoked. The partner ship between the liquor traffic' and the Federal Government Is one of the most frightful heritages of the Civil War." I0E30J IOC 'THE STORE THAT UNDERSELLS BECAUSE IT SELLS FOR CASH!" Special Purchase and Sale of Women s FZi Sports and Tub Skirts All fashionable styles and J -i Q tZ materials undervalued at LU tJ)J It is not so often that we can offer such excel lent values as contained in this lot. A fortunate purchase from a manufacturer who found him self with a surplus stock on hand, results in your being able to buy these skirts at considerably less than they ought to sell. It is your oppor tunity to select one or more of these attractive garments at a big saving. Included are all fash ionable styles in checks, stripes, plaids and nov elties. There are golf, tennis, country club and general wear models at all prices from $1.25 to $5.00. New Styles in Voile Waists at $1.00 Just received a dozen or more of the latest New York styles. They come with low neck and long sleeves in models with hemstitched collar and cuffs, lace, embroidery or tuck fronts and in all sizes. Unsurpassed values at $1.00. D o D o D o n o INSURANCE FIGHT SHIFTS Jurisdiction Over Government Ships Held in New. York. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington, July 30. Senators McNary and Chamberlain today received further telegrams from Insurance Commis sioner Wells, of Oregon, protesting against placing builders' risk Insur ance on vessels building in Oregon with outside insurance companies and insisting that the order of the Ship ping Board violates the Oregon law, in that it takes this bualnes from local agents and robs the 6tate of its right to tax premiums. The Shipping Board advised both Senators that Jurisdiction over Insur ance on Government ships is entirely in the hands of W. H. Laboyteaux, 49 Wall street. New York, and he alone can modify the order. Senator McNary telegraphed Com missioner Wells suggesting that he telegraph Laboyteaux. Endless Variety of Beautiful High-Grade Silks Gathered in One Great Assort- QQr 7 ment and Underpriced at OC JL Lt Again we have prepared for your consideration the most unusual values in beautiful high-grade silks. This time you have choice from 40-inch Cheney Bros Foulards in light colors solid colored Poplins sport-stripe Poplins Taffetas in evening shades in 36-inch width Novelty Dress and Waisting Silks in an endless variety in 36-inch width 34-inch Shan Tung Pongees in natural color 36-inch White Tub Silks 32 inch Satin Stripe Tub Silks and many other staple and novelty weaves. Every need and taste may be satisfied at this sale at a saving well worth your best attention. 2500 Yards of Cambric at 15c Yard Yard-wide Cambric Muslin of fine finish and standard quality. Turkish Towels, 17c Each Bleached Turkish Towels, 17 by 36 inches, priced this sale at 17c each or six for $1.00. Sport Suitings, 35c Yard All our high-grade Sports Suitings to close at this price check, stripe, plaid and figure effects. Wash Goods Remnants at Half Price 300 Remnants of Colored Voile, Tis sue, Batiste, Lawn, Organdy, etc., to close at one-half regular remnant prices. D 8 n o D o D o D o STRIKE SETTLED QUICKLY Warehouse Laborers at Stockton Get Wage Advance. STOCKTON, Cal.. July 30. (Special.) -Laborers employed in all of the local warehouses controlled by railroads, steamboat lines, milling companies and private interests here struck today for an increase of & cents an hour and spe cial pay for overtime. By night con ferences had been held between em ployers and employes and all claims of the men had been allowed. The men work nine hours a day and have been receiving 35 cents an hour. They will now get 40 cents and 60 cents an hour for overtime and work on Sundays and holidays. The warehouses are receiving great quantities of grain and potatoes. DOCTOR SHOWS PATRIOTISM D. F. Miller Quits Draft Board Rather Than Cancel Own Eligibility. BEND. Or., July 30. (Special.) Be cause he is within the age limit for the draft. Dr. Dwight F. Miller, member of the Deschutes County draft board, re signed his position today rather than cancel his eligibility for conscription. Dr. B. Ferrell is the new member of the board. Mayor Mitchel to Run Again. NEW TORK, July 30. -Mayor Mitchel will become a candidate to succeed him self as the city's chief executive for the next four years in the September primaries, it was announced today. PARIS, July 9. (By mail.) The General-in-Chief of the French j army Is becoming the first gardener of France. He is raising, under his own supervision, enough vegetables to supply the entire general staff. When General Retain arrived at the simple villa now serving as general headquarters he found spacious lawns and flower gardens. He obtained per mission from the proprietor to dig them up. Roses and other climbing plants have been replaced by beans, peas, cabbage, tomatoes and potatoes. The General is out at daylight every morning inspecting his crops and di recting the work of soldiers who oc cupy their leisure off duty weeding and cultivating the garden. These men were all picked for their vegetable gardening experience, but General Retain Is often able to give them good hints as to how to grow vegetables. TROOP RIOT TO BE PROBED Negro Soldiers at Waco, Tex., May Be Tried by Court-Martial. WACO. Tex., July 80. Steps were instituted by Army officers today for a general investigation of the clashes last night between police officers and negro troopers of the Twenty-fourth United States infantry. With the taking into custody by mili tary officers of . the negroes who" took part in the riots last night, quiet pre vails in waco tonight.' It Is said that the six negroes cap tured by the searching expedition early this morning will be .. tried for at tempted murder before - a military court-martial. - To avoid the possibility of a recur rence of rioting between black sol diers and citizens, negro troopers have been barred from entering the city without a military pass. QUAKE REPORT IS DENIED Disturbance Said to Have Been In Argentina, Not Chile. WASHINGTON. July 80. Official dispatches to the Chilean Embassy to day totally deny widely published re ports from Santiago, or an earthquake with great damage to unuean cities. At the same time a quake was re ported from Chile, there actually was an earth disturbance in Argentina. Naval Pay Increase Asked. WASHINGTON, July 30. Bills creat lng new naval ratings in the ranks with increased pay; to reimburse of ficers, enlisted men and others for per sonal property lost in the service; to raise the dally food allowance to 40 cents from 80 cents, were urged before the House naval committee today by Secretary Daniels. Store Opens at 8:30 A.M. Saturdays at 9 A.M. The Most in Value The Best in Quality Store Closes at 5:30 P. M. Saturdays at 6 P. M. D o 110 RED TAPE BINDS Speed in Selecting National Army Is Desired. SLACKERS TO GO NEAR TOP returns from official visits to Vienna and Dresden and Munich the latter part of next week. Herr Michaells has been In active communication with leading party members of the Prussian lower house and the selection of men who are to assist him in carrying out electoral re forms has been agreed upon, appoint ment merely awaiting the Emperor's approval. B'nal B'rlth to Aid Soldiers. CHICAGO, July 80. At the annual meeting of the executive committee of the Independent Order of B'nal B'rlth, presided over by President Adolf Kraus, plans were made today to par ticipate in the work of assisting sol diers and their dependent families. Navy Orders Canned Peas. WASHINGTON, July 80. The Navy Department has ordered 5,100.000 pounds of canned peas, to be delivered as needed at tentative prices of S1.1S to $1.60 a dozen cans, with all orders subject to revision so prices may be based on cost plus a reasonable profit. Free Army Postage Proposed. WASHINGTON, July 80. Free post age for all soldiers, sailors and marines during the war is proposed in a bill Introduced today by Representative Lonergan, of Connecticut. Eligible Men Not Registered Are Be ing Rounded Up and Will Re ceive First Numbers Made Available by Exemptions. WASHINGTON, July 30. Prompt and efficient work by district exemption boards is expected by Government offi cials as a result of stripping all red tape, from the procedure of the tribuna.s. President Wilson's executive order outlining the principles to govern ex emptions, coupled with instructions to the boards from Provost Marshal-Gen eral Crowder, are regarded here as set ting In motion the last phase of the se lection process with a momentum that insures a minimum of confusion and delay. The object of instructions Is to Im press the boards with the view that their primary purpose Is to select the personnel for the National Army In the shortest possible time. To that end they have been informed that no legal precedents bind them, and that there need be no adherence to rules of evi dence or other technicalities of court procedure. Attorney-General Gregory set in mo tion today further machinery to in crease the size of registration reservoir from which the 687.000 men of the first call are to be drawn. Thousands of men failed to register. It has been found, for one cause or another. Through the District Attorneys, the Department of Justice is rounding up these men and numbers will be as signed which will insure their being called up for examination at an early date. They will receive the serial numbers of men near the top of the list already . permanently discharged for physical reasons. The first reports of the local boards on physical examination are beginning to appear. As yet, however, they are not complete enough to make any log ical deduction as to the probable aver age of rejection for this reason. The draft statistics of the Civil War, which showed between 25 and 30 per cent rejected on this ground, still are the best guide on the question. Such hgures as have come from the local boards are in general harmony with the old average. The average of rejections on physi cal grounds in regular Army recruiting has been far higher, but conditions are entirely different with the selective draft forces. In, many districts where examina tions are proceeding large numbers of men have asked for affidavit blanks on which to submit applications for ex emption because of dependent families. This Is no criterion of the exemptions to be granted, however, as each case must be considered on its merits. MICHAELIS VISITS VIENNA Appointment of Ministers Expected on Return. BERLIN, July 28, via London, Juljr 30. Official announcement of the ap pointment of new men to Prussian ministerial positions Is not expected to be made before Chancellor Michaelis FOE IS DROPPED IN CLOUD American Aviator Vanquishes Ger man With 100 Shots. PARIS. July 80. The Lafayette Esquadrllle, which Is composed of American aviators. Issued the follow ing official communication under date of Sunday: "Bad weather today prevented much work. Our ace. Adjutant Raoul Lufbery, in a fight yesterday fired 100 shots at a German machine, which fell and disappeared amid the thick clouds. The machine undoubtedly was disabled, but the cloudy sky prevented Lufbery from marking the spot where It disappeared." Junction Autos Collide. JUNCTION CITY. Or., July 30. (Spe cial.) Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Cooley, oc cupants of a touring car standing In front of a store, enjoyed a ride of 20 feet when another car, driven by Will iam Pitney, crashed Into them. Korniloff Executes Deserters. LONDON, July SO. The correspond ent of the Times at Russian southwest headquarters says General Korniloff is executing deserters by wholesale. Read The Oregonian classified ads. THE TANKS at THE BATTLE OF THE ANCRE Not a staged war picture, but a film taken at the grrounds where some of our boys are today. PEOPL ES Dr. Ferdinand Kin-, a Not York City Physician and Medical Author nami "There ua be mo stronsr, vigorous. Iron men nor beantlfnl. healthy, rmmy cheeked nonen Tilthout Iron Nnxated Iron taken three times per day after meals will Increase the atrencrth and endurance of weak, nervous, run 1 own folks 100 per eent In fjvo weeks' time In sunny Instances. Avoid the old forma of metallic iron, which may Injure the teeth, corrode the itamars and thereby do more harm than court. Tnke only cricnle Iron Xuxated Iron. It la pensed In this city by The Owl Drue Co. mid all cood JrugeUU. Advt