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LOWERED BY STATE
couver Barracks, and ordered to Amer
ALLIES TO CONFER
ON PEACE REPLIES
ican Lake for duty with the Three Hun
dred and Sixteenth Engineers:
Major Albert D. Akin. Major William
S. Post.
Captains John S. Griffin. Willis Peas
lee. Burt Harmon, Goerge H. Canfield,
Edward Z. Collins, Orman N. Powell.
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THE MORNING OREGONIAK, TTTKSDAT. AUGUST 21, 1917.
Fire Eliminated From Build
ers' Risk in Shipping Indus
try as Patriotic Step.
OREGON OFFICIAL ANSWERS
Action Taken After Controversy With
AY. II. Ialioj tcuux, Chairman of
Insurance Department Emer
gency Shipping Board.
SALEM, Or.. Aug. 20. (Special.) As
the culmination of spirited commonl
cations between Insurance Commls
sloner Wells and W. H. La Boyteaux,
of New York, chairman of the insur
ance committee of the Emergency Fleet
Corporation, as to Mr. La Boyteaux's
plan to sell builders' risks on ship
building directly to home offices by
deducting th agents' commissions, .In
surance Commissioner Wells announced
today that as a patriotic move he has
annulled all fire rates upon builders'
risks, giving the companies the privi
lege of writing business at the lowest
rate possible.
He telegraphed Mr. La Eoyteaux as
follows:
"Telegram you received was sent at
request of shipbuilders of this state.
They are satisfied with the rate they
had before you took charge. Letters
received today from 12 authorized com
panies transacting marine business in
this state say that you have made no
proposition regarding a lower rate for
builders' risks.
Telegram Sent La Borttanx.
Your telegram plainly shows that
you resent this office communicating
with our Congressional representatives
and Insurance companies. Your tele
gram is not clearly understood. If in
tended for publication as a personal
play I am not interested. You state
that as far as Oregon is concerned
negotiations have been discontinued,
but can be continued if I will not en
force the law. May I inquire what
authority you have to order negotia
tions discontinued? I am also advised
that you are having the same contro
W versy in other states. As Oregon is
first in all patriotic moves, we have
this day annulled all fire rates upon
jf builders' risks, giving the companies
the privilege of writing this business
at the lowest rate possible. Will you
kindly co-operate by advising the un
derwriters' committee of your city that
they are at liberty to quote any rea
sonable rate? If the rate they quote
is in excess of that of other states I
expect your co-operation In securing a
like rate."
Mr! Wells said today it was under
stood the marine rates are made by
the Hull Underwriters, of New York,
all matters of importance being placed
before a committee, action of which
generally is accepted as final through
out the United States.
Controversy Has Been Long:.
The controversy over the marine
rates has been raging for some time.
Insurance Commissioner Wells protest
ing against a plan suggested by Mr.
La Boyteaux to go direct to the com
panies for insurance on this class of
risk and deprive me agents 01 commis
sions. Mr. La Boyteaux sent a strong tele
gram to the Insurance Commissioner
the latter part of the week in which he
Intimated that the Commissioner was
making a political play and also de
clared that the insurance companies
had shown a disposition to grant a con
siderable reduction in rates before Mr.
Wells interfered.
Mr. Wells had circularized the insur
ance companies and received replies
from 12 of them in which they said
they had never been approached as to
the matter by the Emergency Fleet
Corporation and the great majority of
them declared that they intended to
see that their insurance was written
4- through the regular resident agents.
BLACKBERRY PRICE RAISED
Appeal Made for Fruit to Make Jam
for Soldiers.
BHEHIDAN, Or.. Aug. 20. (Special.)
Canners throughout the valley are
making an appeal for evergreen black
berries, which will go into the manu
facture of jams for the soldiers.
The appeal has been made locally by
Roy Graves, Sheridan manufacturer, for
four tons. He has raised the price to
4 cents a pound for all berries f. o. b.
Sheridan Fruitgrowers' Cannery.
Failure to get all the berries he
wanted has caused him to turn down
$100,000 in orders, he declares. The
evergreen blackberry is little cultivat
ed in the valley, but attains a luxuriant
growth In the wilds of the hills. It is
a native berry. The demand for it is
far beyond the supply.
CHILD MOTORCYCLE VICTIM
Eight-Year-Old Isabella Gray Has
Skull Fractured.
Isabella Gray, 8-year-old daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Gray, of 787 Hol
gate street, suffered a fracture of the
skull when she was knocked to the
ravement by a motorcycle ridden by L.
13. Axtel, at East Twenty-sixth and
Division streets yesterday.
According to several witnesses who
appeared before Harry P. Coffin, chair
man of the Safety-First Commission, a
short time after the accident, the little
girl had been playing on the running-
board of an automobile and jumped di
rectly in front of the motorcycle. She
is at St. Vincents Hospital.
WHALE MEAT TO GO EAST
Cold-Storage Plant at Aberdeen
Station Will Conserve Product.
ABERDEEN. Wash., Aug. 20. (Spe
clal.) With Its new cold storage plant
completed the Bay City whaling station
la now in a position to vend whale meat
to the people of the Atlantic Coast.
Every whale produces approximately
seven tons of pure meat, in which
there is neither bone nor gristle, or an
amount of meat equal to that gained
from 3o steers.
Orders for. many tons of whale meat
for use in hotels and meat markets east
of Chicago have been received here.
ENGINEERS SENT TO LAKE
Officers at Vancouver Barracks As
signed to Camp Lewis.
OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash
ington, Aug. 20. The following officers
of the Engineer Reserve Corps are re
lieved from duty at training camp, van
H. Leavell, P ieldon vv. waggoner,
Charles H. Willison, Francis J. Fitz
patrick. First Lieutenants Chester R. Hunt,
Harmon S. Bonte, Ernest L. Norberg,
Leslie W. Nims, Edgar F. Pearson, Ste
phens Malatest, Franklin W. Bush, Jr.,
Lynn A. SchJoss. Merrill Butler, Carol
D. Cogswell, Harry H. Burhans, Earl
W. Fassett, Ross L. Mahon, Lewis C.
Karrick, Delprat Keen.
Second Lieutenants Bertram K. Dun
shee, Chester H. Prouty, John E. Nor
berg, Gordon C. Hess, Walter M. Tomp
kins, Blake R. Vanleer, Emmett E.
Carruthers, Wallace Campbell, George
E. Sperbeck. Egbert W. Beach, Lester
B. Pickering, Ray J. Cook, Malcolm
L. Hunt, Israel Weinstein, Edgar R.
Perry, Ernest D. Clabaugh, Ernest M.
Wright.
Lieutenant-Colonel Peter C. Field to
day was appointed division surgeon at
American Lake.
DEIGH MAJOR OF GUARD
OFFICERS OF BATTALION, SOW
FORMING, TTJTAJflMOTJS 1ST CHOICE.
Veterans of Spanish-American War Are
Rapidly Perfecting Military Organi
zation for Home Service.
Officers of the Oregon Home Guard,
of which three companies were recent
ly organized In Portland, met yester
day and unanimously elected Richard
Deich Major of the battalion now being
formed.
As his staff Major Deich, has appoint
ed Dr. H. M. Patton to be Captain and
examining surgeon; R. H. Sawyer, Cap
tain and Quartermaster; W. C. North,
Captain and Adjutant.
At the time of his election the new
commander was - Captain of Company
B. He is temporarily succeeded by
First Lieutenant R. M. Dobey. Captain
L. E. Beach commands Company A, and
Captain M. H. Dukes Company C.
Members of the Oregon Home Guard
are veterans of the Spanish-American
war, and their extensive service will
result in a perfect military organiza
tion almost from the beginning of
drill. Rifles have been issued by the
War Department. The blue uniform
has been adopted.
Major Deich served in the United
States regular Army in Alaska, and was
with the Second Oregon Infantry In the
Philippines campaign, where he re
ceived mention for conspicuous brav
ery. At the close of the war he was
for 10 years an officer of the Oregon
National Guard..
LEABURG FIRE IS FOUGHT
FORCE OF 50 BUSY IN BOOTH
KELLY HOLDINGS.
No Damage Done So Far and Unless
Wind Rises Control Is Expected
by Today.
EUGENE, Or.. Aug. 20. (Special.)
A forest fire which had swept over 200
acres of old cuttings and burns at a
point about three-fourths of a mile
above Leaburg on the south side of the
McKenzie River tonight was being vig
orously combatted by a force of 60
men in the employ of the Booth-Kelly
Lumber Company.
M. J. Skinner, fire warden for the
Booth-Kelly Company, announced that
a few trees had been destroyed, but
that the men so far had succeeded in
keeping the fire away from the green
timber. Unless the wind comes up, the
chances are good to have the fire un
der control by tomorrow, he reported.
Ten fires in the Upper McKenzie re
gion have been discovered within the
last three days. The Leaburg fire is
the only one of these to cause serious
concern. It borders on an immense
acreage of timber.
R. S. LOVETT IS APPOINTED
Head of Union Pacific to Settle
Priority of Shipments.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 20. Appoint
ment of Robert S. Lovett, chairman of
the Union Pacific, to administer the
new priority transportation law, was
announced late today at the White
House.
Judge Lovett's first official act was
to order that railroads to Lake Erie
ports, serving bituminous mines and
lake-shipping companies, give prefer
ence to shipments of coaL
FIGHTING MEN RELEASED
England Trains Women and Old Men
for "Indispensable" Places.
SAN FRANCISCO. Ane-. 20 mm...
tion of men too old for mlHtarv a.
and the training of women to be effi
cient nave enabled the British gov
ernment to release for enlistment In the
ranics vast numbers of men formerly
thought industrially Indispensable, ac
cruing w cngaaier-ueneral William
A. White, head of the British recruiting
mission to the United States, who spoke
toaay ai a commercial Club luncheon
here.
LONDON STRIKE DELAYED
Trainmen, for Most Part, Continue
With Their Duties.
LONDON, Aug. 20. The strike of the
Associated oclety of Locomotive En
gineers and Firemen, which was to
have been called today and which In
volves about 40,000 men, had not be
gun at noon, although some of the men
may have quit at midnight. The exe
cutive-committee of the union remains
in London discussing the situation.
The opposition of the press may have
a disheartening effect on the men.
EXPLOSIONS KILL FOUR
Blasting Powder "Lets Go" In Plant
Near Cincinnati.
CINCINNATI. Aug. 20. Three explo
sions along what is called the "powder
line," a series of small detached build
ings at a powder plant f.t King Mills
today caused four deaths and injured
two workmen. The main buildings of
the plant were not harmed.
A large amount of blasting powder
let go.
New York Infantry Goes to Camp.
NEW YORK, Aug. 20. The 69th New
York Infantry, now the 165th United
States National Guard, left today for
Mineola, L. I. It will comprise part
of the "Rainbow Division" that soon
will join the Pershing forces in
France.
Entente Governments to Dis
cuss Proposals From
Pope Benedict.
MEETING HELD UNLIKELY
State Department Believes Decision
Will Be Arrived at Without
Conference Forecast of IT.
S. Reply Is Protested.
LONDON, Aug. 20. Lord Robert Ce
cil. Minister of Blockade and Under
Secretary for foreign affairs, an
nounced in the House of Commons this
afternoon that the entente allied Gov
ernments would confer before replying
to the Pope's peace proposals.
WASHINGTON. Aug. 20. Lord Ce
cil's statement in the British parlia
ment today that the entente govern
ment would hold a conference before
replying to Pope Benedict's peace pro
posals is understood at the State De
partment as meaning that the govern
ments will exchange views, not that
there is to be a gathering of premiers
or foreign ministers for a formal con
ference. So far there has been no occasion for
the State Department to join in any of
the several conferences which have
been held in the capitals of the en
tente nations during the war. This at
titude is understood to have been due
to the conviction that so far these con
ferences have had to do with strictly
European issues.
No such limitation applies to the
Pope's peace proposals, of course, as
these touch interests vital to the Unit
ed States. It is believed, however, that
the necessary measure of co-operation
between the nations at war with Ger
many can be secured through cabled ex
changes and conference? jetween the
diplomatic representatives and the for
eign secretaries at the different capi
tals. It was said today that these ex
changes would begin very soon. Strong
objection is made at present by officials
of the Administration to attempts on
the part of the press to forecast the
nature of reply that will be made by
President Wilson. But it is not denied
that nothing has been presented to the
Pope to warrant the expectation' that
there will be any change in the atti
tude taken by the President in his
previous utterances on the subject of
peace and. the conditions that must be
met to secure it.
POPE'S PEACE NOTE BACKED
German Roman Catholics Urged to
Get Behind Pontiff.
ST. LOUIS, Aug. 20. Support of Ger
man Roman Catholics for the peace ef
forts of Pope Benedict was urged at
the meeting of the German Catholic
Central Verein today by Bishop Joseph
Busch, of St. Cloud, Minn.
Mgr. Bonzano, apostolie delegate to
the United States, told the delegates
that, though their patriotism had been
assailed, he knew the members of the
Central Verein were thoroughly loyal
to the United. States. He said that
after the war the organization and sim
ilar bodies would have the duty of
combatting the "wrong doctrines" of
Socialism.
EXPLAINS GROENER'S FALL
Socialist Paper Declares Big Indus
trialists Dictate Changes.
AMSTERDAM, Aug. 20. Commenting
on the retirement from the Prussian
War Department of General Groener,
who, it is reported, will take command
at the front, the Leipziger Volks Zei
tung, an organ of the minority Social
ists, says;
"According to rumors. General Groe
ner's fall was compassed by a powerful
group of big industrialists for whom
the auxiliary service law is too liberal.
It is not the will of the people or the
vote in Parliament that decides the
possession of power. The decision still
depends on the striggle between the
interested groups behind the scenes.
"Such a struggle seems to have de
cided General Greener's fate. He has
gone one day after the denial that he
would retire. Such a system is the
opposite of democracy."
Ban Asked on German Insurance.
NEW YORK, Aug. 20. Richard M.
Hurd, chairman of the board of trus
tees of the American Defense Society,
has written President Wilson asking
him to extend the terms of his proc
lamation barring Germans from the
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SALEM TAKEN BY STORM
SEVENTY-FIVE MOTOR DEALERS OF
PORTLAND SEE CAPITAL.
Bis Feature of Daj Is Banquet at Hotel
Marlon Hearts ot Salemites Are
Captured by Yell.
SALEM, Or., Aug. 20. (Special.)
About 75 members of the Motor Dealers'
Association of Portland took Salem by
storm today and Salem enjoyed every
minute of the time as much as did the
visitors, who left at 4 o'clock this- after
noon to receive another royal greeting
at Albany tonight.
The big feature of the day was . a
banquet at the Hotel Marion, at which
F. G. Deckeback, of Salem, was toast
master. G. E. Halvorson, of Burns & Halvor
son, Salem, welcomed the visitors, and
A. H Averill, of Portland, responded.
Addresses were made briefly by Howard
Covey and Dr. Alan Welch Smith, of
Portland.
Mrs. W. Carlton Smith, of Salem, and
Albert S. Brown, of the Royal Rosarlan
quartet, sang, each responding to a
number of encores.
Visits to the State Capitol and state
institutions were part of the day's pro
gramme. The visitors captured the hearts of
Salemites with the following improvised
yell:
Do we like Salem? You bet we do.
Did she show us a good time? You bet she
did.
Do we like Marlon County dust? No! No!
No!
Will motor dealers help - her out? You bet
they will.
Why? Because we like Salem.
THREE ESCAPE AT KALAMA
Look of Jail Door Is Filed and Way
to Freedom Opened.
KELSO, Wash., Aug. 20. (Special.)
Emmit Erway, of LaDu ; John Hudson,
of Carrolis. and Dean Stock, who were
confined in tne county Jail at Kalama,
broke out some time early this morning
and are still at large.
The men obtained -a caseknife and
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with it filed through the lower lock
of the Jail door. With an Iron rail
from their bed they pried the door
open. There were no other occupants
of the Jail at the time and no night
watch Is maintained.
Erway and Hudson were awaiting
trial on statutory charges and Stock
was serving a term of 60 days for rob
bery. ESKIMOS' TRIAL CHANGED
Trial of Alleged Murderers of
Priests to Be Held in Calgary.
EDMONTON, Alberta, Aug. 20. A
change of venue to Calgary for the
trial of the Eskimos Sinnislak and
Uluksuk, charged with murdering two
priests, was granted today on applica
tion of the prosecutor, who declared
sentiment in Edmonton prevented a fair
trial. Trial will start Wednesday.
The Eskimos will be charged Jointly
with the murder of Father Laroeux, It
was announced. Sinnislak was acquitted
last week of the murder of Father
Rouviere, companion of Father La
roeux. IDLERS TO BE PUT TO WORK
Maryland Begins Registration of Un
employed Between 18 and 50.
BALTIMORE, Aug. 20. Enrolling of
the state's unemployed began today by
circuit clerks of counties and this city.
Every man without a definite Job must
register, if he Is between 18 and 50
years. The Job will follow through the
medium of a Federal employment
agent.
The enrollment Is mandatory under
the compulsory work law. Its pur
pose is to gather idlers so that they
can be assigned to work necessary for
the Nation's fighting forces.
Harvard to Continue Soccer.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.. Aug. 11. The
Harvard Athletic Association has de
cided not to eliminate cross-country
running and soccer football from the
list of Fall sports this year. No regu
lar schedules have been made up for
either of these teams, but games will
be arranged Informally.
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WASHINGTON DEFENSE COUNCIL
PETITIONS CONGRESS.
General Law Asked on Ground That
Industry Would Suffer If One
State Took Stand.
TACOMA, Wash., Aug. 20. The State
Council of Defense, at a meeting here
today presided over by Dr. Henry Suz
zallo, adopted a resolution calling upon
Congress to establish a national eight
hour day in the lumber industry. The
resolution follows:
"Whereas. The lumber Industry of
the state of Washington is tied up,
strikes of - labor demanding an eight
hour day as the standard of labor in
this industry; and
"Whereas, The lumber operators
maintain and at a recent hearing have
offered strong evidence to the council
to prove that it would be impossible
for this state to go upon this basis
while other parts of the country, par
ticularly the Southern pine industry,
with which the lumber of this district
has to compete, is working upon a 10
or 11-hour standard, without the per
manent paralysis of this most impor
tant industry in our state.
"Resolved, That this council urges
upon Congress of the United States
that it enact a law providing for a uni
versal eight-hour standard of labor in
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Reports to the board Indicated that
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amounts to only about 7 per cent of
the normal production.
Belgians Visit Philadelphia.
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 20. Members
of the Belgian mission, headed by
Baron Moncheur, were guests of the
city today for several -hours. They
planned to leave for New York tonight.
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