Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937, August 03, 1917, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Textr VOL. LVII JsO. 1 17,G90. PORTLAND, , OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 3, 1917. PRICE FIVE CENTS. KAISER AND CHIEFS MIT im rrviiMrn Tnnv iiLL I AIRMEN DASH NEAR EARTH IN CONFLICT 0NNA6E-WILL KEEN EYE ON PEAK SAVES 2 FAR AWAY SLEEPERS IX BURNING HOME MARCELLA CLARK $350,000 MONTHLY NORWAY PLEDGES TO STOP ALL LEAKS SPENT FOR ARMY ADJUDGED INSANE MEETING AT BRUSSELS COXSID- Jj GREAT QUANTITY OF SUPPLIES ROUSED ' BVT TELEPHONE. ERS GERMAN" PROBLEMS. PURCHASED IN PORTLAND. COMMANDEERED SpectacularFeatsMark British Drive. HUDGE SQUADRONS IN LEAD Planes Battle Under Low Lying Rainclouds. THREE FAIL TO RETURN One Daring Aviator Bombs Airdrome, Dropping to Earth to Shoot Into Building; Disperses Company - of 00 ; Riddles Troop Train, By the Associated Press. ' BRITISH HEADQUARTERS IN FRANCE AND BELGIUM, Aug 2. The work done by the British air service In Tuesday's offensive has not been! surpassed in efficiency and spectacular features since the war began. More unfavorable weather for aerial opera tions could hardly have been selected. At dawn, when the Infantry advance began, the whole country was blan keted by thick. low-lying clouds, and by afternoon rain had begun to fall. Despite these tremendous disadvan I tages, huge squadrons of British planes led the advance into the enemy terri tory and not only maintained constant ..-.-. -.,11, IT. .1. Infant,.-.- nil fl.rtntf at such a low altitude that they often were only a few feet from the ground. they carried on a destructive warfare of their own with their machine guns. Many fights occurred between the rival pilots, but the Teutons were completely outclassed, both in numbers and skill. and were forced to retire at most points after losing six machines. Air Battles Fought Low. The majority of these air battles were at a height of 200 feet or less. and in at least one instance the two onosinz- pilots battled to within SO feet of the ground, at which height I the German side-stepped and crashed to the earth. ; The British planes were under con Btant and heavy fire, particularly from rifles and machine guns, owing to the low altitude at which they were flying, but through all this hurricane of lead and steel all but three came in safely These are reported missing and there Is no indication of what befell them Wonderful heroism was displayed by the British airmen, who performed re markable deeds. One' typical instance will indicate the nature of the impor tant work they carried out. A British aviator crossed the Ypres salient just I as the infantry attack began at -dawn. I For a time he patrolled the roads and I canals, now and then running the I gauntlet of enemy fire at a height of I SO feet in order to obtain information I for the guidance of infantry in their 1 advance. cnn.. w..h hi. f.. During this patrol worn ne came to a German airdrome, owing to me early hour only one enemy was stirring outside the shed, and he paused in his ablutions long enough to satisfy him self that the plane above him evidently was one of his own. The British airman circled low and dropped a bomb squarely on one of the sheds. This brought numbers of Ger mans tumbling in a paftlc from the building. He turned his machine on them, and, circling about the field bombed two other sheds with disas trou3 effect. All the time he kept up a steady stream of machine-gun fire at the Germans, a number of whom were killed or wounded. The Germans finally got a machine gun into action against him. but he dived and at 20 feet silenced it with his own gun. Having put this gun out of action, he circled the field, firing with his machine gun through the doors of buildings at the huddled ene my within. At one time his machine actually touched the ground. leaving the airdrome the British avi ator attacked two German mounted of fleers and put them to flight. A little later he encountered a column of 200 troops and swept along the line with liis gun working steadily. The entire column was dispersed and fled by devl- ous ways to cover, leaving numbers of their comrades lying in the road. Enenr Battleplanes Routed. Two German battleplanes appeared on the scene and the Briton, engaged them both, sending one to earth and putting the other to flight. He pur sued the fleeing plane, but it was soon lost in the clouds. In the meantime a large body of German soldiers had gathered around the machine which had been brought down. The British flying man came sweeping back from the mists in which he had hidden and accounted-for sev eral of their number with his machine gun His next objective was a troop train He traveled along its entire length. pumping bullets into the crowded cars. This completes the story of one avia tor's fight for the day, but he later did valuable scouting work over the enemy lines. Numerous instances are related of pilots charging the anti-aircraft gun ners and machine gun operators at a . heieht of 30 or 40 feet and silencing the guns. Pistol duels between British o. iators and the German infantry were not uncommon occurrences. In one in stance a voting aviator. In a burst of ' (Concluded on Page 4. Column 2. Field Marslial von Hlndenburg, Gen eral von Ludendorf and Crown Prince Among Leaders Present. AMSTERDAM, Aug. 2. Emperor William has called a war council of the high military and naval leaders in Ger X. many to meet at Brussels, Belgium morrow. Field Marshal von Hindenburg, chief of the Imperial General Staff: General von Ludendorf. the Quartermaster- General; the German Crown Prince. commander of the German forces in the Champagne; Crown Prince Rup- precht of Bavaria, in command of the Belgian front; Grand Duke Albrecht I of Wurttemberg and Vice-Admiral Eduard von Capelle, Minister of the Imperial Navy, and others will be present. . GIRL RESCUED BY SOLDIERS Miss Bertha Neat, of Saginaw, Bare ly Escapes Drowning. COTTAGE GROVE. Or., Aug. 2.- (Speclal.) Word has reached hero from Saginaw of an incident in which Ed and Tom Queener, members of Sixth Company, Coast Artillery, risked their lives and saved the life of Miss Bertha Neat. While swimming in the river Miss Neat became exhausted and sank. The cries of her companion attracted Ed Queener, and he went to the young woman s rescue. The two would have drowned, but for the timely arrival of Tom Queener and Howard Keene. Miss Neat was unconscious when the boys I got her out of the water. BRIDGE TOLLS RUN HIGH Ju,y Receipts, Exclusive of Streetcar Tax, Total $11,42 5. VANCOUVER, Wash., Aug. 2. (Spe cial.) Tolls on the Interstate bridge in July for pedestrians, automobiles and vehicles aggregated lll.42S.S7. Re ceipts from streetcars will not be available until August 15. The total probably will exceed $550 a day. The receipts Sunday, July 29, aggregated $629.40. The fixed expenses of the bridge. Including interest on the $1,750,000 bonds and operating expenses, average about $285 a day, showing a daily net profit for the bridge last month of more than $265. DIVER IS IN MID-ATLANTIC Captured Steamer Used as Base, Say Released Sailors. COPENHAGEN, Aug. 2. The mem bers of the crew of the Norwegian steamship Benguela, previously report ed sunk by a German submarine, have arrived at Bergen. They say their ship was captured June 15 in mid-Atlantic by a big submarine, which used the Benguela as a base. The submarine was still in possession when the crew was transferred to an other steamer June 24. ALLIES' LOANS INCREASED Almost Two-Thirds of Three Billion Advanced to Foreign Governments. WASHINGTON, Aug. 2. Additional loans of $185,000,000 to Great Britain and $160,000,000 to France were made by the Government yesterday. This brings the total loaned to the allies up to $1,868,000,000, or more than C3 per cent of the total of 3.000,000,000 authorized by Congress last April. The loans are expected to cover the needs of Great Britain and France in this market during August. MINERS REJECT OFFERS Mass Meeting Refuses to Allow Ref erendum Vote. MIAMI. Ariz., Aug. 2. Striking min ers of the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers and allied crafts at a mass meeting here late to day voted to reject concessions offered by the copper mine operators of the Globe-Miami district. An effort to have the vote on the of fer of the operators referred to sep-1 arate local unions for a referendum was voted down. WOMAN BEATEN FOR TEETH Gold Fillings Torn Out by Assail ant, Who Sought Profit. SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 2. Louis Miller confessed today, according to police, that he knocked several gold teeth from the mouth of Mrs. May Fox in her apartments here Monday, hoping to dispose of the gold. Mrs. Fox was found in an uncon scious condition from the beating she received and is in a erious condition at a hospital. She may die. NEW CAMP IS PLANNED About 3200 Are to Be Trained for Quartermaster Corps. WASHINGTON, Aug. 2. A Quar- I termaster Corps training camp, it I was announced today, soon will be es- I tablished. About 3200 officers are re- - 1 quired and the camp will accommo- I date from 10,000 to 20,000 applicants. J The site has not yet been chosen. Government Needs and Must Have Ships. JAPANESE VESSELS WANTED Steel CXpOftS tO StOP UnleSS Nippon Consents: JOINT CONTROL IS PLANNED British and American Governments Are Near Agreement for Dual Direction of Shipping of the World Under One Head. WASHINGTON, Aug. 2. The lmper atlve need of ships in the trans-At lantic service was disclosed today in indications that the Shipping Board is preparing to commandeer all Ameri can tonnage, and in an order issued by President "Wilson which has the effect of cutting off steel exports to japan unless Japanese vessels are dl verted to war uses. The Shipping Board probably will announce a commandeering programme within a few days. It will call for the requisitioning of ship3 under au thority recently given to the President by Congress, and probably will in clude arrangements for turning the vessels back to their owners for actual operation. The Government, It is said, has no desire to operate the vessels itself, but through control of charters can direct trade routes and at the same time can lower ocean freight rates. Neutrals to Enter Coast Trade. Coastwise tonnage and vessels taken off South American runs to bo put to carrying supplies to Europe probably would be replaced in large part by neutral ships. Both Norway and Hol land are ready to release a large amount of tonnage for allied use in return for food shipments. A resolu tion pending in Congress, drawn by Administration officials, would permit vessels of foreign registry to ply be tween American ports, The British and American govern ments have about reached an agree ment for a joint . control of all th world'B tonnage, and the Shipping Board's move toward commandeering is a preliminary step in that arrange ment. Under the plan the United States would operate most of the neu tral tonnage and Great Britain would have under its control allied ships. (Concluded on Page 2. Column 3.) fc Ov '"i& v ' V ' I ' 5V&C, - a ' - , " . PETROGRAD, Aug. 2. General around Lemberg, today succeeded to having resigned. General Korniloff orders. Ranger in Cascade Forest Discovers Fire -and Notifies Guards Miles Away, Who Save House. EUGENE, . Or., Aug. 2. (Special.) The ; keen eye of Gus . Rlker, forest ranger stationed on ,Jhe summit of Bald Butte, in the Cascade National Forest, distinguished the smoke from the burning roof from that ; coming from the chimney of the home of Frank Warner, three miles below him, last Tuesday. The ranger aroused by telephone Miss Flora . Warner, . who, with tne baby of the family, was sleeping in the house. He then, notified the Cas cade Fire Patrol, situated at Oakridge, four miles from the burning housvj. The patrol dashed to the icena in automobiles, and within 15 minutes after the ranger had discovered the flames they had been extinguished by the patrol members. Miss Warner, whose parents were absent from, home- at the time, fought the fire single-handed with buckets of water until the arrival of the patrol. News of the fire was brought to Eugene today by Clyde R. Seltz, Forest Supervisor, who thinks the Forestry Service has established a fire-fighting record which will compare with the accomplishments of the - most effi ciently organized city fire departments. COOLER WEATHER LIKELY General Humidity at 3 5 Fools Many Portland Folk. The mercury clambered to 87 yes terday, not an excessive heat, but one that was rendered oppressive by a cer tain closeness that led many to pre dict a thunder storm. The humidity was 35 per cent, ac cording to the official reading at the Weather Bureau. The prediction" for 'today calls for cooler weather. EX-MAYOR'S SON IS KILLED Charles Fleischmann, of Cincinnati Falls With Hydro-aeroplane- NEW YORK. Aug. 2. Charles Fleischmann, son of Julius L. Flelsch mann. ex-Mayor of Cincinnati, was in stantly killed tonight when the hydro aeroplane in which he was flying col lapsed in Great South Bay. , Harry Witse,. pilot of the machine, also was killed. AMERICAN SAILORS LOST i' Consulate Is Told Nationality of 24 of Crew of Motano. LONDON, Aug. 2. It was reported at the American Consulate here today that 24 members of the crew of the American steamship Motano, which was sunk by a German submarine on July 31, lost their lives. NEW COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF TAKES RUSSIAN ARMIES IN CHARGE. (iKNKRAI. KORMLOFF. Photo by Underwood. Kornlloff, commander in the field in the r 1 ecent successful Russian offensive the position of commander-in-chief of t'he Rustiian armies. General Bruslloff has announced a policy of stern repression among soldiers who refuse to obey ' 1 - i Vote of Physicians Is Unanimous. FORMER RECORDS MISSING Hearing Held Under Complaint Made at Subject's Request. KLEINEAUS ARE WITNESSES Divorced Wife of A. E. Clark Ad mils Writing Threatening Letters, Declares She Loves Him and Calls for His Assisatncc. Another chapter was written yester day into the turbulent life of Mrs. Marcella Clark, divorced wife of A. E, Clark, prominent Portland attorney when an insanity board by unanimous vote adjudged her insane, and County Judgj Tazwell ordered her committed to the State Hospital for the Insane at Salem. By a strange twist of fate, this commitment is under an insanity com plaint which Mrs. Clark herself caused to be filed July 10 last. Thus closes the sequel of the daring plot formed by her last Sunday to ab duct her divorced husband and force him into a remarriage after first sub jecting him to a horsewhipping. The two boys who aided her in this plan. Glen and Max Kleineau, appeared against her at the hearing. They were indicted for assault with a dangerous weapon in indictments returned, by the grand jury yesterday. They are charged with assaulting A. E. Clark with loaded revolvers. Records Are Missing;. Another sensational development In the Clark case was brought to light yesterday, when County Judge Tazwell announced that all records of the for mer insanity hearing of Mrs. Clark which was held two years ago, have in some mysterious manner disappeared from the files of the court. - Several days" search has failed to reveal any trace of these records.' It was at the Insanity hearing twOj years ago that Mrs. Clark was pronounced insane by the insanity board but released by ex Judge Cleeton as harmless. ' Judge Tazwell said further that the records of her insanity hearing of three years ago are for the most part missing. He is unable to account for their . strange disappearance and will make dt thorough investigation into the matter. County Clerk Beveridge has (Concluded on Page 4, Column 3.) Recommendation Made Now That Oregon Woolens Be Manufac tured Into Clothing at Home. An average of $330,000 in hard cash each month for the past three months has been spent in Portland for Army supplies, under the supervision of Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel R. Jones, Quartermaster Corps, United State. Army. Expenditures on a still larger scale are quite possible. Since Colonel Jones took command of the Portland office last November, $1,000,000 has been spent in Portland alone for oats for the Army. The quan tity of oats bought has approximated, in round numbers, 65.000.000 pounds. One check paid out by Colonel Jones to a Portland milling firm last month was for $109,000. ' Contracts have been placed in Port land, Eugene, Springfield and other Oregon timber centers by Colone. jones ior i.uuu.ouu tent poles and a great quantity of tent pegs. The price paid for the tent poles will average about 7 cents each. Quantities of kitchen tltenslls, crock ery and similar Items are being pur chased byColonel Jones. The Govern ment also is buying a large part of the output -of the woolen mills in Portland for Army blankets and uni forms. The cloth at present is shipped from here to other points to te cut and made into uniforms. Colonel Jones has recommended that the cloth bought in Portland be also manufactured into uniforms here, to save transportation SILK TO BE MADE OF WOOD By-Product of New Invention Used iu Manufacturing Powder. STOCKTON, Cal., Aug. 2. (Special.) Sawdust from local planing mills may soon be used to make an artificial silk and a by-product obtained during the transformation is to be used in the manufacture of a smokeless pow der, according to Frank C. Jordan. Secretary of State, who is here with associates seeking to interest local capitalists in the building of a factory to use what i now a waste. With Mr. Jordan is Professor Zeno Ostendberg, of Stanford Universl'.- who has obtained patents on a process for making silk from wood pulp and who has with him samples of. fabrics manufactured in his laboratories. QUICK ACTION SAVES LAD Motorman Lowers Tender and Scoops TJp 3 -Year-Old Boy. J. L. Hill, motorman on a Montavilla streetcar, last night saved the -3-year-old son of Mrs. Florence Schneider, 89 East Twenty-eighth street, from seri ous injury by lowering the fender of the car and scooping the boy up when he ran in front of it at East Twenty- eighth and East Everett streets. The boy escaped with a slight scalp wound. and was attended by Dr. E. N. Johnson. The lad was running around another Montavilla car when the accident happened. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDArs Maximum temperature. 87 TODA Y'S Uusettled. cooler; northwesterly winds. moderate War. Kaiser calls conference of army and navy chiefs. Page 1. British government will not participate in International Socialist conference. Page . Daring feats are performed by British air men. Page 1. American surgeons have part in new drive in Flanders. Page 2. General Pershing Inspects entire expedition ary force. Page Foreign. Canada prepares to take Northern line. Page 4. N-tional. over Canadian Norway promises to withhold food staples from Germany, rage 1 Shipping Board will commandeer all avail able shipping. I'agro 1. Government Investigating labor troubles as due to German propaganda. Page 4. Senate committee adopts "floor" taxes on tea, coffee, cocoa and sugar. Page 5. House delays vote on prohibition amend ment. Page 3. Domehtlc Heat wave broken. In Chicago. Page 4. Butte I. "W. W. assert they have names of live of Ltlttle a lynchers. Page 3. Sports. Pacific Coast League results Portland 7. San Francisco u; Oakland 5, Vernon 2; Salt Lake 10. Los Angeles 6. Page 8. Shortstop Hollocher may be sold to Ath letics. Page 8. Mrs. James Klrol "ladles' day'" winner Portland Uolf Club. Page. 8. Pacific. Northwest. Forest ranger on high peak discovers fire In farmhouse miles below and saves sleepers by telephone. Pago 1. Seventeen of 25 mills closed at Grays Harbor and deadlock exists. Page 6. Commercial and Marine Shipbuilder favors wage rise. Page 14. Gralnbag prices firmer with Improved crop prospects. Page 17. Short covering causes 13-cent advance in wheat at Chicago. Page 17. Undertone of stock market Is strong. Page IT. Portland and Vicinity. University Pummel school in Portland Is success. Page 12. Plans ready to foil agitators in Oregon. Page 13. Troop A and Battery A ready to go to Clackamas. Page 7. W. S. McBride lands in France as member of Hospital Corps. Page 11. Government spends $350,000 monthly In Port land for Army supplies. Page 1. Marcella Clark adjudged Insane.- Page 1. Three injured when Kenton cars collide. Page 5. Wilkes may invade with stock: company here. Page 7. Eighteen Chinese held for tong murder. Pago 9. Logging work Is hard hit by I. W. "SV. Pago 14. Weather report, data and forecast. Face IT, Staples Will Be Kept From Germany. SHIPS BARTERED FOR FOOD . Starvation at Hand if Ship ments Are Withheld. CROP REPORTS DEMANDED United States Purposes to Limit Ex ports to Neutrals to Barest Ne cessities Holland Offer i Ships for Safety Zones. "WASHINGTON, Aug. 2. Norway. facing starvation if the United States cuts off exports of food, is ready to release 1,000,000 tons of her shipping in return for the privilege of Importing food, principally from the United States, and will give assurances definitely that no food supplies thus obtained will reach Germany. Full information concerning food conditions in the Northern European neutral countries has been asked of the neutrals by the United States in notes handed to their diplomatic rep resentatives here. Flan to Be Determined. The American Government's plans for rationing the neutrals through Its con trol of exports will be finally deter mined on after replies are received. The information sought concerns the exact food needs of those countries, their food production capacity and de tails of their export and import trade of the last 'few years. The intention of the United States Is to hold food exports to the neutrals to the barest necessities to prevent American foodstuffs or food they re place from reaching Germany. Only actual food deficiencies will be made up from America and assurances will be demanded "that . no American-produced food is re-exported or used to supplant food that is exported. Quick responses to the notes are looked for, since at present no ship ments to the neutrals are permitted, to leave American ports and some of the countries are badly in need of grains. Norway Faces Starvation. Norway's case was put before thi3 Government today by Dr. Fridtjof Nan- sen, head of the Norwegian mission, who declared his country, facing star vation, was ready to release a million tons of shipping in return for the privilege of importing food. Norway. Dr. Nansen said, needs sugar, fats and grain, and will guarantee that none of these things are sent into Germany. The Dutch government, too, is will ing to exchange ships for food, but does not want Dutch ships sent into the submarine zone. Mr. Van Rappard, the Dutch Min ister, said today that Holland also would be willing to exchange ships for food, but on condition that the ships were not sent into the danger zone. The Minister also said his government was ready to devote 80,000 tons to the transportation of relief to the Belgians If the United States will al low Holland to have foodstuffs for her own use. The Dutch merchant marine consists of about 2,000,000 tons. Holland's un willingness to have her ships go into the danger zone, the Minister said, was because of her great colonial trade. Working Agreement Expected. As Norway's exports are chiefly fish and her principal industry shipping, the Nansen mission hopes to arrive at a working agreement with the United States similar to that reached with Great Britain, whereby a certain per centage of the catch may be expovtwd to Germany in return for the Nor wegian bottoms. Conditions in Norway. Mr. Nansen said, are such that there is practicably no smuggling into Germany. There la food enough for the present in Norway, he said, but unless exports are permit ted from the United States conditions would be deplorable. The Norwegian mission's plan of pro cedure here is to make as clear -jta pos sible Norway's needs and to arrive bA a working agreement. What form Uie agreement will take remains to be Been, but in any event the Norwegians are ready to promise definitely thcit nothing will reach Germany. STOCKHOLM, Aug. 2. Ne-vr Testa tions prohibiting exports were issufl by the Swedish government today. They cover a long list of articles, the most important being provisions. The regulations prohibit the experfcet tlon of nearly all sorts of machinery, nautical and Burgical instruments, musical wind instruments and window panes, door frames and picture frames, "which contain any other base "metal, than iron." Other articles included In the list are pine cones, rag pulp, wooden or fibre shoe soles, telephone and telegraph apparatus, "electro technic special ap paratus not specially designated," and railroad and street railway coaches. The purpose of the new prohibition evidently is to prevent brass, lead, copper, nickel and other base metals leaving the country.