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THE IORXING OREGONIA5, MONDAY, AUGUST 1.1. 1017. STRIKERS TO HAND III DEMANDS -TODAY BRITISH TRANSPORT IS RUN UPON ROCKS AFTER BEING TORPEDOED BY A GERMAN SUBMARINE. Working Conditions Similar to Those on Municipal Line Asked by Car Men. ' If Hv ' ' t j J Fl j(Pg Trips J - ' . - - - T h nil ?J ft -'4 I-;-' L:'kj '-' - v Afi;Mi I- SAN FRANCISCO IS QUIET Strikers Confer First Day and Hold Parades on Market Street. Company Recruits Force and Keeps TTp Service. SAN FRAXCISCO. Aug-. 12. "No rad ical action" will be taken in attempts to Induce the United Railroads, operating- street and interurban cars here, to submit to demands of a portion of Its employes who walked out last night, leaving their cars standing In the street. This was the statement tonight of Benjamin F. Bowbeer. International Vice-president of the Amalgamated As sociation of Street and Electric Rail way Men, one of the men who Is con ducting the strike and organizing United Railroad employes. Conflicting figures of the number of men on strike came from company of ficials and Bowbeer. William Von Phul, Vice-president and General Man ager of the road, said not more than 300 men were participating. Bowbeer asserted 700 men had signed with the union which is in process of organiza tion. Men Formulate Demands. An attempt to present to the com pany the men's demands, formulated at two meetings today and announced to night, will be made tomorrow, accord ing to Bowbeer. These are the same conditions of work and wage that gov ern employes of the municipal lines. They include a straight eight-hour day with time and one-half for overtime; a straight wage of i3.60 a day; fifteen minutes for making out account re ports and ten minutes allowance for turning In company money. Wages now vary from 27 to 37 cents an hour, depending upon the term of service. Kchedules vary from 9 to 14 hours a day. Between their two meetings today, the strikers paraded up and down Market street. There was no demon stration. The marchers appealed to the car crews to Join their ranks. A few responded, they said. Agitators Are Blamed, Charges that Industrial Workers of the World influence tinged actions of the men who struck last night were made by Von P-hul and denied by Bow beer. "I do not believe this Is a union mat ter," said Von Phul, "I think it is sim ilar to trouble encountered with the Industrial Workers of the World in Seattle and other Northern cities. Be cause Of the inroads made into the number of our employes by the draft and the Industrial unrest Incident to the war, we have been forced to em ploy a great many new. men. It Is these men, I firmly believe, who are responsible for the trouble, and not the employes who have been with us for some time." "There are no Industrial Workers of the World here And there is no In dustrial Workers of the World in fluence," said Bowbeer. "We would not allow an I. W. W. to speak at our meeting. We are not going off on a radical tangent. We are going to con duct the affair in a businesslike man ner and there will be no violence." Police placed guards around all United Railroads car barns but no dis order was reported. Further efforts toward obtaining re cruits to their ranks and organizing a union were made tonight by the strik ers. Strike Called at Junction. Bowbeer explained the manner in which the strike was called last night as being "the only way we could do tt without letting the company beat us to it." A deputation of motormen and con ductors from the United Railroads last night stopped the cars at a junc tion point at Haight and Market streets. This deputation, he said, was headed by an employe of the municipal lines. The municipal cars are or ganized. As the cars approached the Junction point, the carmen said, the municipal employes and men from the United system boarded them and notified the crews that a strike had been called. In some instances the men refused to obey the strike call, others did obey, and in a few minutes serious car con gestion resulted. The point selected is crossed by cars- of the Halght-street line. Including the Beach, Ingleside and Affiliated Colleges routes; the Castro and Valencia lines, and the cross town line froii the Mission to Fillmore. STRIKEBREAKERS SENT AWAY Four Hundred Hungry Men Released From Kansas City, Mo. KANSAS CITT, Mo.. Aug. 12. Depor tation of 400 strikebreakers, accom plished In orderly fashion early today by sympathizers of striking streetcar employes, under the supervision of the police, left the transportation of the two Kansas Citys still tied up, while conference committees endeavored to find a solution for the situation. Mayor George Edwards, of Kansas City. Mo., announced that an amicable settlement was in sight. The men demand recog nition, of the union and reinstatement of discharged employes. The strikebreakers lasted Just one day here, a day filled with terror for them, besieged as they were in the Kansas City Street Railway Company's barns by sympathizers of the striking carmen. When the newcomers were herded into a train for St. Louis some of them said they had eaten nothing except a sandwich since their arrival, so effective had been the barrage of bricks and stones which the besiegers poured Into the barns. ' It was reported tonight that the train carrying the strikebreakers from Kan pas City had been sidetracked at Selsa. Mo., 16 miles east of here, and that their leaders were endeavoring to get the men to return here. The men vir tually bought out small stores to ap pease their -48-hour appetites. It was said. M -s" 1 a : ii Hair Brush at ed, now at til 77.? Auto Restaurant IS A PITTED, CONVENIENT HAM PER which every a u t o i s t should have. Contains Complete Camping and Picnic Dining- Equipment for Three, Four or Six People. Can al ways be adjusted to suit any need. Shall We Finish Yonr FIlmaT No Charge for Developing If Yon Order Printa. 'Sterno Canned Heat Always ready no liquid to spill. Quick, safe, certain. Makes camp ing or outing trips a delight. 10 A CAS. COMPLETE OUTFIT S2.25. SOME SOLDIER NEEDS Good Pocket Knife, Military Mirror, Safety Huor, SbavluK BruAh, Pair Scissors, IngersoII Wrist Watch. Eveready "Unylo" Pocket Light, . Quick Shine Shoe Pads, Pocket Whlak Broom, BRISTLE GOODS Copyright. 1917. by Underwood & Underwood. MEN SLIDE BY ROPES INTO WATER OF KASTERN MEDITERRANEAN. This remarkable photograph shows a British transport on the rocks after being torpedoed by a German sub marine In the Eastern Mediterranean. The vessel was run on the rocks i n an effort to beach her. The men can be seen sliding down the ropes hanging from the vessel. At the stern Is a lifeboat hanging by the) painter, while some of the members of the crew and the soldiers can be. seen bobbing about in the water. PEACE 13 STILL HOPE Gerard Again Makes Effort to Avert War With Germany. VON JAG0W GIVES HIS AID Emperor Still ' Undecided Fall of - Von Tlrpltz Does Not Change Sen timent of People Which He and Ills Party Built Up. Continued From First Page.) LENINE YET IN FETROGRAD Russian Radical Socialists Say They Communicate With Leader. PETROORAD, Aug. 12. Notwith standing thj reports that Nikolai Le nlne has escaped from the country, the Maximalists in convention here are al leged to have made the open declara tion that the Russian Radical Socialist leader still is in hiding in Petrograd and in daily communication with his followers. The Maxima. lsts elected Lenlne hon orary chairman of their convention. great general headquarters, but he did not state why I was asked. I do not know to this day whether the Chan cellor and those surrounding the Em peror had determined on a temporary settlement of the submarine question with the United States and wished to put that settlement out, as It - were, under the protection of the Emperor, or whether the Emperor was undecid ed and those in favor of peace wished me to present to him the American side of the nuestlon. I Incline to the latter view. Von Jagow Informed me that an officer from the Foreign Office would accom pany me and that I should be allowed to take a secretary and the huntsman (Leibjaeger), without whom no Ambas sador ever travels in Germany. Mr. Grew, our counselor, was very anxious to go, and I felt on account of his excellent work, as well as his seniority, that he was entitled to be chosen. Lieutenant von Prittwltz, who was attached to the Foreign Office as a sort of special aid to Von Jagow, was detailed to accompany us. Towns and Villages In Ruins., We were given a special salon car and left on the evening of Friday, April 28. As W9 neared the front by way of the line running through Saar brucken our train was often halted because of long trains of hospital cars on their way from the front to the base hospitals In the rear, and as .we entered France there were many evi dences of the obstinate fights which In August. 1914, had raged in this part of the country. Parts of the towns and villages which we passed were in ruins and rough trench lines were to be dis cerned on some of the hillsides. At the stations weeping French women dressed in black were not uncommon sights, having Just heard perhaps of the death, months before, of a hus band, sweetheart or son who had been mobilized with the French army. Fortress of Meta Beehive. The fortress city of Metz. through which we passed, seemed to be as ani mated as a beehive. Trains were con tinuously passing. Artillery was to be seen on the roads and automobiles were hurrying to and fro. The great general headquarters of the Kaiser for the western -front is in the town of Charlevllle-Bezleres, situ ated on the Meuse in the Department of the Ardennes, which department at that time was the only French depart ment wholly in the possession of the Germans. Wo were received at the railway station by several officers and escorted in one of the Kaiser's auto mobiles, which had been set apart for my use, to a villa In the town of Charlevllle, owned by a French manu facturer named Perln. This pretty lit tle red brick villa had been christened by the Germans "Sachsen Villa," be cause it had been occupied by the King of Saxony when he had visited the Kaiser. A French family servant and an old gardener had been left in the villa, but for the few meals which we took in the villa two of the Emper or's body huntsmen had been assigned. and they brought with them some of the Emperor s silver ana cnina. Emperor Has Narrow Escape, The Emperor had been occupying a ls.rge villa in the town of Charlevllle until a few days before our arrival. After the engineer of his private . train had been killed in the railway station by a bomb dropped from a French air plane and after another bomb had dropped within a hundred yards of the villa occupied by the Kaiser he moved to a red brick chateau situated on 9 hill outside of Charleville. known as either the Chateau Bellevue or Bellaire Nearly every day during our stay we lunched and dined with the Chan cellor in the villa of a French bank er, which he occupied. About ten per sons were present at these dinners, the Chancellor's son-in-law, Zech: Prittwitz. and two experts in interna tional law, both attached to the For eign Office. At two dinners appeared Von Treutler, the Prussian Minister to Bavaria, who had been assigned to represent the Foreign Office near the who, toward the end of our stay, had been summoned from Berlin. Happy Family ut Headsuarters. I had been working hard at Ger man, and as the Chancellor does not like to talk English and as some of these persons did not speak that lan guage, we tried to carry on the table conversation in German, but I know that when 1 tried to explain to Helffer lch the various tax systems of Ameri ca in German I swam out far beyond my linguistic depth. During our stay here I received cables from the Department of State which were transmitted from Berlin in cipher, and which Grew was able to decipher, as he had brought a code book with him. In one of these it was expressly Intimated that in any settle ment of the submarine controversy America would make no distinction be tween armed and unarmed merchant ships. We formed for a while quite a hap py family. The French owners of the villa seemed to have had a fondness for mechanical toys. After dinner every night these toys were set going, much to the amusement of the Chancellor. One of these toys, about two feet high, was a hoochi-koochi dancer and an other successful one was a clown and a trained pig. both climbing a steplad der and performing marvelous feats thereon. Kaiser's Anto Carries Rifles. Grew, who is an excellent musi cian, played the piano for the Chan cellor and at his special request played pieces by Bach, the favorite composer of the Chancellor's deceased wife. One day we had tea in the garden of the villa formerly occupied by the Em peror with the Prince of Pless, who is always with the Kaiser and who seemed to be a prime favorite with him. Von Treuter and others, and mo tored with the Prince of Pless to see some marvelous Himalayan pheasants reared by an old Frenchman, an ex- Jaller, who seemed to have a strong instinct to keep something in cap tivity. The Kaiser's automobile, which he had placed at my disposal, had two loaded rifles standing upright in racks at the right and left sides, of the car. ready for instant use. One day we mo tored, always, of course, in charge of the officers detailed to take care of us, to the ancient walled city of Ro croy, and through the beautiful part of the Ardennes forest lying to the east of it, returning to Charlevllle along the heights above the valley of the Meuse. (To be continued tomorrow.) FIRST DRAFT SHORT Clackamas County Has High Percentage of Failures. SECOND CALL IS ISSUED PRINTERS MEET TODAY TYPOGRAPHICAL UXIOX IX SESSION AT COLORADO SPRIXOS. Eight Hundred Unions Throughout Country Are Entitled to Send One or More Delegates. COLORADO SPRINGS. Colo.. Aug. 12. Meeting here to celebrate the silver anniversary of the founding of the Union . winters' Home, the 63d annual convention of the International Typo graphical Union will begin tomorrow. Visitors have been arriving in large numbers since yesterday. Since yesterday the printers have owned the town. Saturday was regis tration day. Eight hundred unions are entitled to send one or more delegate's each to the convention, according to their size. Business sessions of the convention will begin tomorrow morning, ad dresses of welcome and music com prising the programme of the first ses sion. Tomorrow afternoon addresses by a number of prominent members of allied crafts are on the programme. Tuesday will be Colorado Springs day, with a trip to a nearby resort as the chief event. On Wednesda. Union Printers' Home day, there will be a barbecue at the Home and visitors will be given an opportunity to Inspect the institution. The remainder of the week will be devoted to convention business. The Ladies'. Auxiliary of the Typo graphical Union also will hold Its con vention here during the week. STABILITY JS PURPOSED President of National Woolgrowers to Consult With Hoover. SALT LAKE CITT, tah, Aug. 12. F. J. Hagenbarth, president of the Na tional Wool Growers' Association and a member of the advisory committee on raw materials of the National Council of Defense, left for Washington today for a conference with Herbert C. Hoo ver and woolgrowers from various parts of the country. The purpose of the conference is to devise ways and means for maintaining the stability of the wool and sheep in dustry in the United States during the period of the war. Condemned Woman Is Pardoned. PARIS. Aug. 12. The Spanish mini ster to Belgium, says a Havas dispatch from Madrid, telegraphs that, thanks to the intervention of King Alfonso, a Swedish woman, who was condemned to death bv tha Germans. . hnii bMi person or me iwaiaer, ana ieiriericn, pardoned. Fifty-Six More Men Must Appear at Oregon City Angnst 16 Com plete List of These Eligl bles Is Published. OREGON CITT. Or.. Aug. 12. (Spe cial.) Because of the high percentage of failures in the physical examinations given here by the local board a second call was issued heTre yesterday for 56 more men to appear for physical ex amination August 16 at 8:30 o'clock. The names of the second group of eligible called follow: Isaac Forbes Davidson, Mllwaakle: Rus sell C. Scramlln, Aurora; John William Mo Cubbins, Oregon City; Frank Thurman Hunt er. Clackamas; Walter Arthur Beck, Mo lalla; Conrad C. Cockerllne, Estacada; Will iam Walch, Qresham; Weudeil Hobert Crowley, Barlow; Stanford Joe Cox, Oregon City; Giuseppe Garbarino. Mllwaukle; Jesse John Burtls. 842 Ocho street, Portland; Chauncey L.ee Kroff, Hubbard; Robert Al bert King, Oregon City; Albert William Frederick, Oregon City; Fred Schaber, Ore gon City; Ralph Waldron Barbur, Oregon City; Gust Rudolf Hallmat,, Boring: Peter Waznls, Oregon (Ttty; Charles Lester Fuge, Mullno; William Ode!!, Bull Run; Robert Roeenau. Clackamas; Vincent Vldolin, Bor ing. Leslie Clark .Tlbbets, Milwaukia; Fred Adam Wentzel, Sandy; Max Adolph Holl mann, Hotf; James Johnson Parberry, Ore gon City; Clarence Odgen Dallas. Oregon City; Walter Sidney Smltb, Mullno: James Lee McKensie. Eatacada; Ardulus Btefanl, Molalta; Ernest J. Baurer, Sherwood; Carl Baxter Mumpower, Oregon City; Gordy Emanuel Frederlckson. Aurora; George Kelly, Oregon City; William Ernest Free man, Oregon City; Charles August Kase weter. Clackamas; Wesley Held - Grasle, Mllwaukle; George Walter Card, Jennings Lodge; Lorraine A. Ostrom, Jennings Lodge; Harry Crawford Reld, Estacada: Louis Na poleon Vallen, Cotton; Charles Riley Moul- ton, Gladstone: Gottfried Stuck!. Eagle Creek: Anton Ulsky. Oregon City; Herbert w. Holmes. Mllwaukle: Charley William Cooper. Hubbard; George A. Odell, Cherry- ille; Alfred Eugene Thomas, Oswego; Palmer Julseth, Barlow; Garland E. Hollo- well. Mllwaukle; August Biedensteln, Cher- ryvllle: John Alvln Ream, West Ltnn; Harry Massey. Mllwaukle; Thomas Gilbert Haines, Oswego; Ray Leigh Francisco, Oregon City: L.OUIS ituuoipn ivoDel. Oregon city; JSdwarC Albert Pamperin, Sherwood. UMATILLA BOARD REPORTS Twenty-four Pass Examinations and Ask No Exemptions. PENDLETON, Or.. Aug. 12. (Spe cial.) Twentyfour Umatilla County men passed physical examinations for the Army and asked no exemptions. Eighty-six were called in this county. 70 responded, 10 enlisted since the draft, five were transferred for exam ination in other districts, and John E. Butson, Jr., registered from Uma tilla, is missing. Sixteen from other districts were examined. Forty asked for exemptions, and will $2.00 Hughes' Ideal Hair Brush, waterproof. Every brush$ cn ruaranteed, at.. VliJi) 1.25 Hughes' Ideal 7Q I WW Theatrical Cold Cream aHt..25c-?tn.e.:b-.50c Sl.EO Oriental! OC Cream at l 13 $1.00 Del atone on QJ"jf sale now at OUu Uardas Bath OC- rn Tablets. . ,. . . J 3UU 25c Imperial Violet Tal cum Powder, borat-IC- I wu 50c Ivory Buffer on QQb sale at OOu Antiseptic Hair - Clean- ant?.c.?.m.be. 25c, 50c 35c Tooth Brush on OCn sale now at uu 39c 50c Nail Brush on sale now at. 50c Cloth Brush, solid back, seven rows 17 bristles, now at Mt 25c Klean - Rite I Qn Cloth Brush at I 3 TOILET REQUISITES 10o Tutopla Soap I On at three for I 00 25c Woodbury Fa- i clal Soap at. . . . 10c Genuine Olive Oil Castile foap on ealeOCfi at three for 3u 50c Pompeian Mas sage Cream at. 22c :40c 10c Wash Rag Castile Soap on sale at O r three for Military Kitall, Fountain Pen, Drinking Cap, Stationery. $1.00 Vu 1 can o 1 d CQn Hair Brush, sp'l...J3 $1.00 Gentleman's Hair Brush, four rows bris tles, real ebony solid back, hand - made. Bpecial at $1.00 M I o 1 e n a Freckle Cream (double OCn 79c strength) now at.. $1.00 Othlne on sale rftiw at, 90c MAESHALL 700-MOME A 6171 J ALDXR STREET AT WEST fBK be passed .on during the week. The board filed exemptions for an Austrian and a German. One who claimed to be a German later admitted he was a Russian. . - The men -who will be certified to the dis trict board are: Albert F. Michael, Jr., Pilot Rock; Jesse 8. ' Arnold, .Echo: Jacob R. Jacobson. Helix: Walter E. Kirk, Ukiah; Charles A. Fanchler. Nolln: Virgil E. Willa by. Athena: Ira E. Zehrung, Pendleton; Jesse A. Keene, Pendleton; Jamea O. Row an, Pendleton; G"rge H. Peterson. Juni per; John E. Butson, Jr., Umatilla; Thorn ton O. Williams. Pendleton: Peter R. Mcln tyre, Adams; Richard H. Thorn, Hermlston: Hoy F. Alexander, Pendleton; John 8. Sheas ley, Pendleton: William E. Dupuls, Nolln: Lawrence O. Collins, Pendleton; William R. Thompktns, Weston: Edward Ledke, Meech am; Edward C. Welker, Holdman; Frank S. Grasham. Pendleton; Herman M. C. Wlese, Pendleton; Charles Glenn Webb, Pendleton. Enlisted men among those called in the first draft are: John E. Kelly. George W. King, Samuel E. Orton, Hally Plersol, Matt J. Vanderpool, Harry A. Jeppe, Harvey E. Reynolds, Earl O. Olson, Mike Mlelak and Harry E. Keller. The men discharged are 3arl A. Ander son, Pendleton; Francis M. tialbreath. Pilot Rock: Walter D. Lehman, Pendleton; John W. Bradley, Freewater; Archie A. Mcln tyre. Athena: Henry Blehm. Milton; Royal Barker. Meacham; Claude M. Kby, Pendle ton; Albert Lavadour, Adams; Leroy E. Sullivan, Hermlston; Thomas C. Floathe. Pendleton, and Frank E. Rouse, Pendleton. Theodore H. Rembolt. transferred from Ns braska, was also rejected. 2 4 EXAMINED BY GRANT BOARD Seven Claim Exemption and Jfine Are Held Physically Unfit. CANTON CITT, Or.. Aug. 12. (Spe .loi Thn (irant County exemption board has examined 24 men called under the selective dratt. xsine were exempt ed on account of physical disability. They were Fred Rader, Clarence R. Rice, John L. Geddes, Ira W. Harer, Jefferson C. Dean, Clifford L. Hanchett, John McGilligary. Harold D. Cadwell and Robert J. Taylor. Those passing and not ..claiming ex emption were Walter E. Stockdale, Al fred L. Bliss, O. B. Pownall. Leslie O. Pugh, Ernest A. Mason, Charles E. Nevans and Johannes Hansen. Passing and claiming exemption on account of dependents were Walter C. Campbell. Leonard C. Spriggs, O. J. Larson, John E. Wilson and Russell L. McLennan. Two aliens failed to appear. Tonay Tsustra claimed exemption as an alien, as did Johannon Adskin. CLARKE BOARD IS READY Full List Will Be Given Oat In About One Week. VANCOUVER, Wash.. Aug. 12. (Spe cial.) The Clarke County Exemption Board will buckle down to hard work again tomorrow and will begin to wade through the large number of ex emption claims filed and fully 75 per cent of those called have demanded ex emption. Since the physical examina tions have been completed, the Board has been engaged in filing and arrang ing all of the data at its command. It is expected that this will require at least a week, and no name will be given out until all have been passed upon. Two Held as Slackers. WALCA WALLA, Wash., Aug. 12. (Special.) Two alleged slackers were bound over to the Federal Court yes terday on charges of failinig to regis ter. Anthanas SerenchI, an .Austrian, Is held in jail here, while William Oli ver, a native of Englr.nd, is out on $500 bonds. i isKEKSSOgiUESEiB ii Northwestern Bank Building A WELCOME TO EVERYBODY NO account is too small to gain our apprecia tion; no patron is too humble to receive our utmost attention. Will you open a Savings or Checking; account at the Northwestern Na tional ? brthwesterxv .National Banh Portland Oregon Meetings May Be Prohibited. . PETROGRAD, Aug. 12. The govern ment has issued an order authorizing the Ministers of War and the Interior to prohibit all meetings or cot gresses which they regard as dangerous either from a military viewpoint or to the se curity of the state. 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