Morning Oregonian., August 16, 1917, Image 1

VOL.. LVII. NO. 17,701.
PORTLAND, OREGON, THURSDAY. AUGUST 1G, 1917.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
HILL III IS
CITY ALSO IS HIT BY
FUELOILSHORTAGE
PEACE OR WAR?"
ASKS EMPEROR
RAILROAD AND MEN
GENERAL STRIKE
RICH POLK FORESTS
TISH GENERAL
IS CITY'S GUEST
LIST DIFFERENCES
ABLAZE; LOSS HUGE
CALLED BY I. W.
FIREBOATS WILL- HAVE TO BE
MADE COAL- BCRXERS.
MEDIATION PROGRESSES WITH
SOLDIERS AND CITIZENS BAT
OUT FEDERAL AGENT.
TLE SPREAD OF FLAMES.
TUB;
BR
OBJECTIVE
Dominating Point Is
Easily. Captured.
STR06GLE IS IN SUBURBS
Defenders Make Use of Tun
nels in Basements of
Ruined Mine Town.
CANADIAN LOSSES SLIGHT
Barrage Fire Clears Way Up
Hill Burning Oil Lights
L, Low-Lying Rain Clouds.
i (By the Associated Press.)
BRITISH FRONT IN FRANCE
AND BELGIUM, Aug. 15. After the
brilliant advance this morning, in
which the Canadians captured Hill 70
Bnd then swept on northwest of Lens,
the attackers were in close grips with
the Germans in the western part of
Lns late today. Their -losses were
Slight.
The attack began at 4:25 o'clock,
Just as the first streaks of dawn were
appearing. All night the British big
guns had been pouring a steady
stream of high 'explosive shells into
the German position, the -detona
tions overlapping one another by the
rapid crackling of a machine gunfire
and swelling into a mighty volume of
thunder that shook the earth and
stunned the senses.
I Silence Is Oppressive.
Then, a short time before the hour
of offensive arrived, the batteries
ceased abruptly, and a strange, al
most oppressive stillness, fraught
with the portending cataclysm which
must follow, crept over the country,
which until then had been an inferno
pf death.
It had been raining, and gray clouds
etill hung low over the trenches,
where crouched the Canadian infantry
men, waiting eagerly for the arrival
of the moment which would summon
them to the attack.
Suddenly, 10 minutes before the
jime set for the attack, every British
gun within range broke out with a
hurricane of shelling, and solid lines
of crimson lightning belched from the
German trenches as the explosives
broke about them.
Burning Oil Thrown.
' To this lurid picture was added the
unforgettable spectacle of the burn
ing oil which the British threw on the
enemy lines. Great clouds of pinkish
colored smoke rolled across the coun
try from the flaming liquid, and the
murky sky threw back myriad colors
from the conflagration below.
The moment of attack arrived, and
as the British guns dropped their pro
tecting barrage in front of the Canad
ian trenches, the clouds parted, and
the yellow crescent moon appeared.
Under the light of this beacon, the
Canadians leaped over the parapets
and began their methodical advance
behind their barrage fire.
The British barrage was without a
flaw. Behind it the Canadians mount
ed Hill 70, and swept along the rest of
the line. On the crest of the hill,
where so much blood had been spilled
before, heavy fighting might have
Teen expected, for the position was
well manned with machine guns.
Barbed Wire Is Leveled.
The resistance here, however, was
not strong, and it was not until the
dwellings in the outskirts of the
suburbs were reached that vigorous
fighting occurred. The ground over
which the infantry advanced was
honeycombed yith British shellholes,
and the barbed wire defenses had been
leveled so that they gave little
trouble.
The first serious resistance from
the Germans was met at a point
where the enemy was entrenched
6trongly in connected cellars, and here
sanguinary fighting occurred.
The place is a sample of other
Euburbs about Lens. The city is sur
rounded with colliery communities,
which are so close together and so
near the city proper that they really
form one large metropolis. Lens, be
fore the war, had a population of 30,
000, but it now is a mass of ruins.
Whole City Undermined.
Following their usual tactics, the
Germans had carried out systematic
" (Concluded on rage 4. Colunic J.J
Union Oil Company Formally Noti
fies Commissioner Kellaher Fur
ther Supply Is Impossible.
Acute fuel conditions, which but re
cently broke upon the Board jt Educa
tion, fell to the lot of the city yester
day. Even Portland's two fireboats will
have to be transformed Into coal burn
ers. . Likewise, the Cltv Hall, the Police
Station and the Peninsula Park build
ing's will have to be refitted to meet
the new condition.
Forecast of the liquid fuel famine
came In a formal notice to Commis
sioner Kellaher, as city purchasing
agent, from the Union Oil Company,
announcing1 Its Inability to supply more
fuel oil for the purposes indicated
above. The fireboats will be taken
care of for a limited period, but how
Ions tho local manager could not guar
antee. Commissioner Kellaher, who has
charge of the City Hall, immediately
ordered arrangements to be made for
heating the building with coal, and no
tified, the other Commissioners of the
oil notice. Commissioner Blgelow, who
returns to his desk from a vacation
this morning, will face the problem of
how to supply fuel for the fireboats.
"I believe we will be able to get a
plentiful supply of coal," said Commls
sioner Kellaher. "There are many
mines In Washington from which the
city may draw, and as It is clear that
we cannot obtain fuel oil any longer
while the -war lasts, we will simply
have to plan to burn coal.
PATRIOT. ADDS 9 POUNDS
Much Steak and Milk Bring Man to
Required Army Weight.
SEATTLE, Aug. 15. Lloyd Melvln
Hatfield, who enlisted In the Washing
ton National Guard 10 years ago, but
resigned two years ago when he be
came a benedict, waa certified into the
National Army today, but not until he
had partaken of eight pounds of beef
steak and several quarts of imilk in or
der to make the required weight.
First examination showed him to
weigh 113 hi pounds. Several hours
later he appeared for a second exami
nation and tipped the scales at 121
just sufficient to permit his entrance.
U. S. MEN OUTGROW, GARB
Training In France Is Having No.
ticeable Effect.
AMERICAN TRAINING CAMP IN
FRANCE. Aug. 14. (By the Associated
Press.) The strict physical training
out of doors which the members of
the American expeditionary force are
undergoing Is having Its results. One
turned up today when field headquar
ters received a letter from a company
commander in which he said his men
were developing so fast that all their
uniforms were getting too small.
Some of the uniforms, he wrote, now
are four inches too small about the
chest.
EDWIN T. COMAN IS WED
Spokane Banker's Marriage Surprise
Even to Closest Friends.
SPOKANE, Wash.. Aug. 15. Edwin
T. Coman, president of the Exchange
National Bank of Spokane and a mem
ber of the board of regents of Wash
ington State College, and Mrs. Sarah
Wilcoxson Mitchell, of Columbia, Mo.,
were married here tonight. The wed
ding was a surprise to even the closest
friends of the couple.
Mrs. Mitchell was a bridesmaid at the
wedding of Mr. Coman and his first
wife in Carrolton, Mo., 20 years ago.
ROBBER KILLS COMPANION
Wounded Man Unable to Keep TTp
With Fugitive.
M'CLOUD, Aug. IS. Following
thwarted attempt to rob the McCloud
State Bank today, one of two robbers
killed his companion as they were
making their escape because the latter
could run no longer, having been shot
In the heel by a number of the pur
suing posse.
The dead man was Identified as J.
Henry Knox, of Seattle, Wash. He Is
believed to have been killed by his
companion to prevent him giving any
information. .
THOMPSON RETORT STINGS
Colonel Willing to Resign If Secre
tary Daniels Follows Suit.
NEW YORK, Aug. 15 Colonel Rob
ert M. Thompson, president of the Navy
League of the United States, who was
asked by Secretary Daniels to resign
as a result of a statement issued by
the league concerning a recent explo
sion in the Mare .Island Navy-yard,
today sent a letter to Mr. Daniels say
ing he would retire from the league if
Mr. Daniels would resign as Secretary
of the Navy.
DRAFT BOARDS WARNED
Exemption cf Married Men as Class
May Lead to Trouble.
SACRAMENTO. Cal., Aug. 15. Dis
trict exemption boards passed resolu
fions today warning local exemption
boards that the granting: of exemption
to married men as a class is in viola
tion of the law fend malfeasance in
office
Britian Is Denounced
by Kaiser to Gerard.
"SUBMARINE COME TO STAY"
'No Longer Any International
Law," Says Monarch.
TALK FULL OF BITTERNESS
Kaiser Is Angry Over Blockade to
Starve Germany Into Submis
sion and America Blamed
for Not Stopping It.
GERARD TALKS TO KAISER.
Mr. Gerard, In his article print
ed yesterday, promised to relate
the conversation which he had
with the Kaiser in the latter's
garden at Charlevllle. This con
versation, which may be regard
ed as one of the most important
features of the Gerard articles
printed up to this time, is pub
lished as the first part of today's
installment. Mr. Gerard, accom
panied by Chancellor von Beth-mann-Hollweg,
had gone to keep
an appointment to meet the Kai
ser, wiiom they found walking in
th-e garden.
BY JAMES W. GERARD.
American Ambassador to the German Tm
perial Court. July 28, 1H13. to February
4. 1817. Copyright, 1017. by tho Public
ieager uompany
As I drew near the Emperor he said
immediately, "Do you come, like the
great pro-consul, bearing peace or war
in either hand?"
By this he referred, of course, to
the episode In which Qulntus Fablus
Buteo, chief of the Roman envoys
War, doubled his toga in his . hand,
held it up and said: "In this
fold I carry peace and war: choose
which you will nave.' "Give us which
you prefer," was the reply. "Then take
war," answered, the Roman, letting the
toga fall. "We accept the gift," cried
the Carthaginian ' Senators, " "and
welcome."
Kaiser Would Blow Up Windsor.
I said, "No, your Majesty, only hoping
that the differences between two
friendly nations may be adjusted." The
Empero.1 then spoke of what he termed
the uncourteous tone of our notes, say
ing that we charged the Germans with
barbarism in warfare, and, as Emperor
and head of the church, he had wished
to carry on the war in a knightly man
ner.
He referred to his own speech to
the members of the Reichstag at the
commencement of the war and said
that the nations opposed to Germany
had used unfair methods and means;
that the French, especially, were not
like the French of '70, but that their
(Concluded on Pa.-e 5, Column 1.)
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Company Objects to Concessions That
. Increase Expenses and Es
tablish Precedents.
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 15 (Spe
cial.) The Southern Pacific officials
and the four railroad brotherhoods'
joint committee were again In session
today, threshing out the men's griev
ances, and the report exists they are
still making progress in their com
promise of differences without calling
in Judge G. W. W. Hangar, the Fed
eral mediator, who lis on hand waiting
to be called. Some of the main con
tentions between the company and the
8500 men involved are:
Claims for continuous time at certain
terminals.
Application of seniority rules.
Claim for full time when not avail
able for duty on account of the opera
tion of the lG-hour law.
Placing extra men at helper districts
on a daily guarantee.
Switching restrictions for crews In
road service.
Full crews on engines with steam in
boiler when being towed in trains.
Concessions to the men involve, of
course, an increase In the monthly pay
roll and the establishing of precedents
in the future, all of which the company.
through their representatives, does not
wish to grant if there is another way
out.
LAMBS SELL "AT $10 EACH
Increase, of Flock of 1000 Ewes In'
eludes 2 00 Pairs of Twins.
GOLDENDALE. Wash., Aug. 15.
(Special.) The price of Klickitat lambs
reached $10 today in a deal made by
Grant C. Bunnell, of Goldendale, and his
partner, J. W. Creath, of . Portland,
Twelve hundred lambs, the 1917 in
crease of. 1000 ewes. Five" hundred
head of wether lambs in the bunch
were purchased by the Union Meat
Company at $12 per hundred weight.
Mr. Bunnell purchased the ewe lambs
in the bunch at $10. per head and
afterward refused an offer of $11.
The flock contained 20J pairs of twin
lambs.
CHEESE PLANT CLOSES
Drouth Cuts Pasturage, bo Manu
facture Is Suspended . for Time.
EUGENE. Or.. Aug. 15. (Special.)
The Eugene farmers' creamery today
announced that it had suspended the
manufacture of cheese. This action
was taken because of the high price
of.butterfat and the decrease in milk
production resulting from the scarcity
of feed and poor condition, of pasture
as a result of drouth.
Making of cheese will be resumed
just as soon as weather conditions are
more favorable, it was stated. ;
CHINESE TROOPS GATHER
Clash Between Forces of North and
South Is Considered Probable.
AMOT, China, Aug. 15. Large bodies
of troops of the northern and southern
Chinese are being concentrated in the
vicinity of Chaoan, a town near the
coast in Fukien Province, 40 miles
north of Swatow.
A clash between the opposing forces
is considered probable.
August 20 Is Date Set
for Walkout.
PRISONERS MUST BE FREED
Harvesters and Construction
Crews Ordered to Quit.
SHORTER DAY DEMANDED
Statement Declares Persecution
In Northwest Cities Forces
Workers to Quit to Pro
tect Themselves.
SPOKANE, Wash., Aug. 15. Circu
lars calling for a general strike of the
Industrial Workers of the World Aug
ust 20 unless "all union men now held
as class war prisoners are released
from Jails before that date" have been
mailed to each local union of the o
r-
ganization In Montana. Washington,
Oregon and Idaho, according to a state
ment made today by James Rowan,
district secretary Industrial Workers
of the World.
Rowan also said that the Governors
of the four states have been notified
that the strike will begin unless the
men are released.
Harvesters Told to Quit.
Two circulars were mailed, one to
construction and the other to agricul
tural workers. The construction work
ers were advised in the circular to "lay
down their tools in protest against the
systematic persecuting that has been
carried on against our members." The
agricultural workers were Instructed to
let the harvest go to waste and the
fruit rot on the cround.
Rowan in his circulars says that
Industrial Workers of the World have
been arrested, thrown into jails and
held without charges being preferred
against them. He charged that the
men are practically starved, and are
beaten. , .. .
Shovter Day. Is Ufmamdcd.
The circulars also state that in addi
tion to the release of the men a strike
will be called unless the I. W. W. re
ceive an eight-hour day on construc
tion work and a 10-hour day in the
harvest fields. . better sanitary condi
tion- no discrimination against union
men for 'being such and that union
halls must be allowed to conduct legiti
mate business of organizing the work
ers without interference.
According to Rowan's estimate 55,
000 men are members . cf the Indus
trial Workers of the World in the four
states.
Persecution Is Charged.
In the call for a strike it iz said
that "for the last few weeks a system
atic persecution has been carried on
against our member:. Halls have been
closed, our members arrested by hun
dreds and thrown into jails and held
there without trial and without any
charges teing preferred against them.
(Concluded on I'age 3, Column 1.)
Damage Mounts to $250,000 From
One Fire Dynamite Used to
Save Valuable Timber.
MONMOUTH. Or., Aug. 15 (Special.)
Fire,- started Saturday by a spark
from a donkey engine, is raging in the
Black Rock forests, 16 miles west of
here, and with crews of citizens, log
gers, laborers and soldiers un&Dle to
stop the destruction, the sweeping
flames have wrought damage to the
extent of $250,000. The Balderree log
ging camp, near Black Rock, has been
destroyed, and efforts to stop the
spread of the fire to the valuable green
timber surrounding failed from the
outset.
Upon the first outbreak of the fire
the Willamette Valley Lumber Com
pany, of Dallas, which operates the
Balderree camp, closed its mill and sent
its force to Black Rock. Citizens of
Dallas, Falls City and Black Rock re
sponded quickly to an appeal for aid.
Fire-fighting squads were organized
and set to work. When it "was seen
the available men could not stop the
flames, Supervising Fire Warden Fuller
wired Captain Conrad Stafrin, of
Company L, for Polk County soldiers,
who were familiar with the country.
The fire surpasses the great Polk
County forest fire of 1910. Dynamite
was used yesterday to stop the spread.
Fire is again burning in the Mill
creek logging district, and a small fire
was reported on the headwaters of
Teal creek. In all. about 400 men pire
fighting fires in Polk County.
GERMANY TAKES POTATOES
Food Dictator to Expropriate Entire
Year's Harvest.
i-urr..tiAUJi, Aug. 15. The new
German food dictator, Herr von Wal-
dow, according to. a Berlin dispatch.
plans to expropriate this year's entire
harvest of potatoes. . '
He will also conserve all food nec
essary for human consumption.
MR. TAFT ON WAY HOME
Ex-President, Much Improved, Goes
to Summer Home in Canada.
CLAY CENTER, Kan.. Ausr. 15.
x-i-resiaent William II. Taft. much
improved after his Illness here of more
than a week, left today en route to his
faummer home at Murray Bay, Canada.
Sinn Fein Drillmusters Held.
..it, Ireland, Aug. 15. A lanre
number of arrests were made through
out County Clare today under the de-
rense-oi-tne-realm act. The prisoners
are charged with illegally drilling Sinn
f ein volunteers.
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Weather.
ijisittiuAit. Maximum temperature, 86
aegrees; minimum. 5S decrees.
TODAY'S Fair; moderate northerly winds.
War.
Interview between Gerard and German Em
peror. momentous. I'age 1.
diplomats mm ropes peace move will
nave no euect on entente attitude. Page 0.
British capture Hill TO and threaten Lens!
rage x.
Foreign.
rope pleads tnat war Do brought to end
rage .
Holland In urgent need of food from Amer
ica, rage a.
Ex-Czar and family banished into secret
place or exile, rage 4.
American troops march in London streets.
rage .
National.
Northwest has 21 men commissioned else
wnere than at rrealdlo. rage 3.
.lihu Koot blames Kusslan I. w. W. fo
disorder and says they are German-In
spired. Page 3.
Government forms $.10,000,000 corporation to
stabilize wheat prices. Page !.
Domestic.
Southern Pacific and men consider differ
ences. Page 1.
Visiting Japanese envoys give dinner for
entertainers. Page 3.
Taclfie Northwest.
I. W. W. call general strike for August CO
unless five demands are granted. Page 1.
Oregon Highway Commission will have
$:s,nno.OOO worth of work under way next
year. Page 1 .".
Lumbermen decline to follow Secretary
Baker's advice for eight-hour day.
Page 16.
Governor Lister proclaims compromise in
lumber strike. Page 13.
Valuable Polk forests ablaze. Page L
' Sports.
Pacific Coast League results Oakland 5,
Portland 0; Salt Lake 5. Fan Francisco 1;
Vernon 2. Los Angeles 1. Page 14.
Rudolph Wilhelm makes lowest score in in
itial rounds at Gearhart. Page 14.
Commercial and Marine.
Uniform wheat discounts for Portland and
Sound markets to be fixed. Page 19.
Uncertainty over peace moves and food con
trol causes declines In Chicago grain.
Page 1.
Stock trading Influenced by latest peace pro
posals. Page 19.
Anderson & Co. add steam schooner to Port
land fleet. Page, 16.
Portland and Vicinity.
General "W. A. White, in charge of British
recruiting, reaches Portland. Page 1.
City, also hit by fuel oil famine. Page 1.
Candy eaters may feel heavy hand of war.
Page 12.
Belgian colonization agent takes pictures of
Pope. Page 11.
Mayor Baker plans to raise funds for de
pendents of Oregon soldiers. Page 13.
Portland clearing house prepares to handle
second Liberty bond. Page 13.
Max Houser. appointed on Food Administra
tion, will give grain export profits to Red
Cross. Page 20.
Army officers act against Vancouver hor.rts
of ill fame. Page 2.
Dream bride said to have b5?n won by
hypnotism; man arrested. raue -
Carmen present new wage scaje. ra.Te S.
Orders for airplane spruce are placed.
Page 0.
"Awakening of Spring" pageant given on
Mount Tabor. Page 9.
Weather report, data and 'forecast. Fas 19-
W. A. White Welcomed
by Mayor and Band.
BRITONS GALLED TO ARMS
Slackers Will Have No Country
After War, Says Officer.
TWO FLAGS SIDE BY SIDE
High Army Officers Extend Greet
ings on Behalf of Military and
Predict Victory by Con
trol of Air.
A distinguished officer of the British
army, Brigadier-General W. A. White,
chief of the British recruiting mission
to the United States, is in Portland to
day with a message of great import to
all loyal British subjects.
He is here to urge them to enlist
either in the British army, or in the
Army of the United States, and thus
do their full part toward winning
the great war.
"We want every British subject to
realize that he has a job before him,"
saya General White. "It is a job that he
cannot pass on to someone else.
"He must place his services at the
disposal of his native country, or of
the country of his adoption.
Slackers to Have No Country.
"Really, there is no other course that
he can honorably take. If he doesn't
do hi.s duty now we shan't want him
in England after the war. I guarantee
that they won't want him in Canada,
and I hope to God that you won't want
him here."
General White and his party arrived
in Portland at 3:30 o'clock yesterday
afternoon on the Shasta Limited from
Seattle. This usually conservative town
gave them a welcome that stirred and
pleased them.
They were met at the station by a
reception committee, headed by Dan J.
Malarkcy, by Adjutant General George
A. White, representing Governor Withy
combe, by Roy Kesl, secretary to May
or Baker, by the British and French'
consuls, and by many high officers of
the United States Army.
Band I'lays "Rule Britannia.
The band ot the Third Oregon In
fantry was waiting outside the depot.
As the General and his party appeared,
the band struck up "Rule Britannia
and "God Save the King." The British ,
and American officers raised their
hands to the salute, and the crowd
stood with heads uncovered.
Automobiles were ready to take Gen
eral White and his officers, the mem
bers of the reception committee and
the American Army officers to the city
Hall, where Mayor Baker welcomed the
visiting mission on behalf of the city.
American, British Flags Displayed.
The American stars and stripes and
the BritiSlx union jack floated togeth
er at the head 'of the automobile pro
cession as it moved from the depot to
the city hall. Everywhere along the
streets men and women cheered and
applauded as the flags of the great
allied Nations and the British officers
passed by.
The Third Oregon band and bag
pipers of the Scotch Kilties' band al
ternated in playing national airs of
the various alliec". nations. Tremen
dous applause greeted the "Marseil
laise" by the Third Oregon band.
An interesting programme in honor
of the British mission was held in the
Council chamber at the City HalL
Mayor Baker opened it with a brief
address of welcome.
Mayor Extends Welcome.
"It is seldom that we have had the
privilege of witnessing a scene of such
impressive character," said Mr. Baker.
"It is indeed a privilege for the city
of Portland to have within its gates
so distinguished a party.
"You are more than welcome. Tou
are doubly and triply welcome. We are
glad to have you here. And I can
assure you that this city, its officials
and Its citizens alike will do all it
can to make your mission a success."
General White responded briefly.
"We are not at all selfish in our call
to BritisTi subjects to do their duty,"
he said. "We are not particular
whether they join the British army or
the American Army. We do insist that
they join one or the other.
Every Briton Is Called.
"We want every British subject to
realize that he has a job before him
and that is to put his services at the
disposal of his native country or of
his adopted country."
Coloni.1 Clarence K. Dentler, United
States Army, in command of the dis
trict embracing the states of Oregon,
Washington, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming
and Utah, was the next speaker.
"There is not the slightest doubt
that the American people are with yo
in this war, heart and soul," said Colo
nel Dentler. "The American people
have gone into this fight to be with
you to tne finish.
Victory in Air Foreseen. -
"The important pa-t that Oregon
spruce will play in winning the war by
providing material for thousands of.
airplanes was impressed upon us by
the allied air service officers who wr
here the other day. One of my duties
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