Morning Oregonian., August 27, 1917, Image 1

VOL. L VII. NO. 17,710.
PORTLAND, OREGON, MONDAY, AUtiUST 27, 1917.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
UNCLE SAM'S BOYS
CAPTIVATE LONDON
CASTE DOMINATES
GERMAN AFFAIRS
LATE SENATOR'S
EMPLOYE WATCHED
TEUTONS SMASHED
ON SEVERAL SIDES
MILITARY STEPPERS
WAR WITH JAZZERS
HALF-NELSON HOLD AND SYX
COPATION SPLITS MASTERS.
EXPLORERS EXPECT
DEATH IN JUNGLES
BARES
RUSSIA'S PERIL
National Conference Told
STAID CAPITAL OVERRUS BY
GOVERNMENT IS OX TRAIL OF
AGENT OF PEACE COUNCIL.
SOLDIERS AXD SAILORS.
of Mortal Danger.
PREMIER'S FOLICY PITILESS
Foes Warned of Repression by
"Blood and Iron" if Gov
ernment Is Attacked.
ASSEMBLY CHEERS STAND
Head of Provisional Reign to
Hide No Dangers Beset
ting Revolution.
MOSCOW, Aug. 26. Russia is
passing through a period of mortal
danger, Premier Kerensky told the
national conference which opened in
Moscow today to consider the pres
ent situation of the country and plans
for a new national government.
The Premier declared that any at
tempt to take advantage of the con
ference for an attack on the national
power, as embodied in the provisional
government, would be repressed piti
lessly "by blood and iron."
Pomp Is Characteristic.
Representatives of important po
litical, economic, commercial and sci
entific organizations and persons
prominent in public life are in at
tendance. The council, which promises im
portant, results in the national life of
Russia, opened in the grand opera,
with that solemnity and old Russian
pomp especially characteristic of Mos
cow. The theater district was crowded
with sightseers, and interspersed
among the members of the council
were to be seen characteristic Russian
types, including Tartars in peaked
caps, white-robed Mullahs from the
Volga, Georgians robed in cloth of
gold cassocks, and dignitaries of the
Greek orthodox church, who had ar
rived for the ecumenical church con
gress. Crowds Silence Agitators.
Notwithstanding the one-day strike
proclaimed by the Bolsheviki in pro
test against the council as a counter
revolutionary expression, the city is
quiet.
A few incipient attempts by the
Bolsheviki etreet-corner orators to or
ganize demonstrations were summar
ily suppressed by the crowds, and no
serious incident occurred.
Precautions were taken against dis
orders of all descriptions and the coun
cil threatens to show a rigor in this
respect unknown even in ante-revolutionary
days.
The building in which the council
is meeting is surrounded by a close
chain of soldiers, with officers every
few yards, the soldiers being picked
men from regiments of the Signal
Corps, or cadets training for officers.
The chambers under the buildings are
occupied by soldiers with fixed bayo
nets. Members Closely Examined.
Members and invited guests, be
fore being admitted, have their tick
ets examined by nine different mili
tary posts.
Premier Kerensky and the other
ministers of the provisional govern
ment occupied the stage and were
faced by Generals Alexiefl and Brus
illoff, ex-commanders-in-chief of the
Russian armies, and other high mili
tary officers in the ex-Emperor's box.
There was much comment because of
the absence of General Korniloff, the
present commander-in-chief, but it is
expected he will attend the council to
morrow. The proceedings began with a
speech by Premier Kerensky, lasting
an hour and a half, pronounced in a
nervous, impressive voice, which
aroused tremendous applause, mainly
from that part of the theater occupied
by the democratic organizations and
members of the Cabinet, but the Duma
members and the Moscow industrial
deputies also at times participated.
Kerensky Is Determined.
M. Kerensky spoke resolutely, em
phasizing the role he had played in
recent events and his determination
to guide events in the future.
The Premier was greeted with wild
applause, when, early in his speech,
(Concluded on Pas 3, Column 1.).
Americans, Celebrating First Lib
erty and Pay Day, Dine at Best
Hotels and Otherwise Amaze.
LONDON, Aug. 26. London was over
run today with American soldiers and
Bailors. All the downtown streets in
the city, especially in the Plcadllly dis
trict, were thronged with soldiers,
some walking-, some in taxis.
Everywhere the Americans frater
nized - with the Tommies, Australians,
Canadians and Scotchmen in kilts.
In some places the Britons were in
itiated into the game of craps and as
usual the beginners won. The game
seems to have captivated London.
The Americans, who had not been at
liberty since their departure from the
United States, were lionized. At some
corners women were standing, handing
roses to the soldiers, who pinned them
on their hats.
The American soldier is a mystery to
the Englishman. Those in London to
day, having Just been paid, had their
pockets full of money, which they were
anxious to spend. They dined at the
best hotels, some of them occupying
tables adjoining those at which British
officers were seated. The only diffi
culty which they experienced with
English money had to do with the value
of the coins, to which they are as yet
unaccustomed. They passed over
pound notes in payment for small pur
chases and took back a handful of
change without counting it.
"What's the use of counting it?" said
one. "We could count the number of
coins, but that's all. So we Just trust
to luck"
PETA1N PRAISES SOLDIERS
Congratulations Sent to Those
Fighting Second Verdun Battle.
PARIS, Aug. 26. General Petaln,
commander-in-chief cf the French
armies operating on the French front,
has addressed congratulatory messages
to the officers, non-commissioned of
ficers and soldier of the Second army,
who are victoriously fighting the sec
ond battle of Verdun. To its leader.
General Guillaamat, and to his stafj is
given a citation in the order of the
day.
"The entire French army," says Gen
eral Fetain, "is following with emotion
your glorious struggles and congratu
lates you on the success . you have
gained. Once again you have cleared
at a bound the heroic routes where so
many of your comrades held the enemy
step by step during the long months
of his organized push toward Verdun."
CHINESE WOMAN TO DO BIT
Eugene Oriental Offers .to Help In
Red Cross Work.
EUGENE, Or., Aug. 26. (Special.)
Two or three hundred women of this
city meet in the Red Cross headquar
ters on Wednesdays and Saturdays
each week to knit and do similar work.
Yesterday a little Chinese woman came
to the headquarters and announced to
the women in charge that she wanted
to do her bit for the soldier boys at
the front.
The members of the society were
much impressed by the spirit shown by
this woman from the Orient. Work
will be given her.
SPAN OF LIFE IS NEARLY 93
Mrs. Mary Evans, Mother of Nine,
Dies at Daughter's Home.
EUGENE, Or.. Aug. 26. (Special.)
Mrs. Mary Evans, born in New Tork
Christmas day, 1824, died at the home
of her daughter, Mrs. H. W. Wagner,
at Hayden Bridge, last night. She was
married to Isaac Linn at the age of 16
years. Nine children, five of whom
are still living, were born to them. Her
second husband was W. Evans, with
whom she lived for many years at
Oaksdale, Wash., where the body will
be taken for burial.
With the exception of Mrs. Warner,
the children reside in the East.
WEST DECLINES FAT PLUM
Ex-Governor Not to Be Member of
Interstate Commerce Commission.
Ex-Governor Oswald West will not
be a. member of the Interstate Com
merce Commission.
The position was offered to Mr. West
by President Wilson a few weeks ago.
but was declined on account of his
health.
Newspaper reports since stated Mr.
West was being considered for the
place. The ex-Governor last night de
clared positively that he cannot ac
cept the appointment, even if it should
again be offered to him.
WOMEN WANT EPAULETS
Campaign to Obtain Commissions for
Physicians Wanted.
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 26. A cam
paign to obtain Army commissions for
women physicians engaged in military
work was launched here tonight by
the California Organization for Federal
Recognition of Women Physicians.
Women physicians are at present only
eligible to be contract surgeons in the
Army, according to Dr. Ruby Cunning
ham, one of the leaders in the move
ment, and they cannot be commissioned
in the Medical Reserve: Corps unless
by act of Congress.
Electorate Has Small
Voice in Government.
MARTIAL SPIRIT IS FOSTERED
Boys Taught Reverence and
Awe for Military.
TEACHERS CONTROL PLAY
Only Principles Desired by Rulers
of German People Are Incul
cated in Public Schools
and In Churches.
BT JAMES W. GERARD
American Ambassador to the German Im-
v-ouri, juiy 2a, ii3, to February
4. 1917. Copyright. 1917, by the Public
Leaser Company.
Prince Lichnowsky, the German Am
bassador in London, certainly reported
to his government that England did not
wish to enter the war. He claims now
that he did not mean that England
would not fight at all events; but, un
doubtedly, the German Foreign Office
believed that England would remain
out of the war. The raising of the
Ulster army by Sir Edward Carson, one
of the most gigantic political bluffs in
all history, which had no more revolu
tionary or military significance than a
torchlight parade during . one of our
Presidential campaigns, was reported
by the German spies as a real and
serious revolutionary movement. Of
course, it was believed by the Germans
that Ireland would rise In general re
bellion the moment that war was de
clared. In the Summer of 1914 Russia
was believed to be on the edge of revo
lution. . '
Pan-Germans Hot for War.
As I have said in a previous chapter,
the movement against militarism, cul
minating in the extraordinary vote in
the Reichstag against the government
at the time of tH Zabern . affair,
warned -the government and military
people that the mass of Germans were
coming to their senses and were pre
paring to shake off the bogey of mili
tarism and fear, which had roosted so
long on their shoulders like a Prussian
Old Man of the Sea. The Pan-Germans
and the Annexationists were hot for
war. The people alive could recall only
three wars, the war against Denmark
in 1864, which was settled in a few days
and added the duchies of Schleswig and
Holstein to the Prussian crown, and
the war of 1866, In which Bavaria,
Baden, Wurttemberg, Hesse-Darmstadt
and Saxony were defeated, when the
Austrian kingdom of Hanover disap
peared and the territory of Hesse-Cas-seL
Nassau and the free city of Frank
fort were added to Prussia. This war,
from its declaration to the battle of
Koniggratz, in which the Austrians
were completely defeated, lasted only
two weeks. In 1870 France was de-
Concluded on Page 2. Column 6.)
Activity in Demanding Statement
From Administration as to War
Aims Causes Surveillance.
OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash
ington, Aug. 26. Isaac McBride. son-in-law
of the late Senator Lane and
for several years his private secretary.
Is being shadowed by agents of the
Department of Justice because of his
activity as an agent of the People's
Peace Council, scheduled to hold a
peace convention at Minneapolis Sep
tember 2 to 5.
McBride has been actively working
for this association in Washington for
several weeks, and it was for this so
ciety that he arranged the recent
meeting of Senators in Senator Cham
berlain's room at the Capitol, during
which the Administration and its war
policy were severely denounced.
McBride is planning to leave for
Minneapolis Wednesday, unless the
Department of Justice Interferes, and
at the convention expects to take an
active part. He says the people will
insist that the Administration set forth
fully and convincingly why the United
States is in the European war and that
his society will not - desist in its de
mands until its questions are answered.
McBride in the past has had I. W. W
and Socialistic affiliations, end before
entering Senator Lane's employ, was a
public speaker in the cause to which
he is committed. He is aware of the
activity of the Department of Justice
agents who are on his trail, but says
their sleuthing is not altering his
plans.
PASSPORTS ARE REFUSED
Unitarian Minister and Pacifist
Wishes to Come to Amerca.
NEW TORK, Aug. 26 The British
government has refused passports to
the Rev. Stanley A. Mellor, Unitarian
minister and pacifist, of Liverpool, who
had accepted an invitation from the
General Unitarian Conference of the
United States and Canada to deliver the
"conference sermon" at the coming bi
ennial session in Montreal.
This Is announced here by the con
ference committee.
YOUNG SLAVS REVIEWED
Eleven Hundred Volunteers Arrive
in Marseilles From America.
MARSEILLES, Aug. 26. Eleven hun
dred young Slav volunteers. Just ar
rived from America, were reviewed
yesterday by General Grude and Ad
miral Allemand.
The review was a brilliant spectacle.
each company marching by a stand
from which floated one or another of
the entente flags, while a dirigible
circled overhead.
MILITIA GOES ON STRIKE
Petrograd Guards Quit When More
Pay Is Denied.
PETROGRAD, Aug. 26. The entire
militia, which has been employed since
the revolution to police Petrograd, re
signed today on account of the refusal
of a demand for an increase in pay.
THERE'S STILL SOME JOY IN THE WORLD.
"
French Hit Hard Blow
at Verdun.
BRITISH GAIN AT TWO POINTS
Front Near St. Quentin Pushed
Up; Other Points Rewon.
ITALIANS STILL ADVANCE
Austrian Prisoners Are Increased to
More Than 23,000 Russians
Repulse Attack in Roumania
and Gain In Caucasus.
PARIS. Aug. 26. Another smashing
blow by the French today on the right
bank of the Meuse. in the Verdun sec
tor, netted a gain of about two-thirds
of a mile on a front of two miles and
a half, giving -the French possession
of the Fosses and Beaumont woods and
bringing them to the outskirts of the
village of Beaumont.
The official report from the War
Office tonight also records artillery
fighting of great violence around Hill
304 on the left bank of the Meuse.
Bethlncourt Is Approached.
The French have made a small ad
vance on the Verdun front, it is an
nounced officially. French advance
posts have reached the outskirts of
Bethincourt and the banks of the
Forges Brook. Two German attacks
on the heights of the Meuse were re
pulsed with large losses.
LONDON, Aug. 26. British troops to
day made an advance of half a mile
along a mile front east of Marglcourt
(north of St- Quentin), storming and
capturing strong points at Cologne and
Malakoff farms, according to the offi
cial report from British headquarters
in France tonight.
British lie sain I, out FolntsK
The British last night attacked and
drove the Germans out of a portion of
the trench northeast of Gillemont farm
which. the enemy had captured in the
morning, re-establishing the British
former positions, according to the offl
cial communication issued by the War
Office this morning.
A German counter attack later was
repulsed.
BERLIN, via London, Aug. 26.
Strong French forces made an attack
yesterday on the Verdun front east of
the Meuse near Hill 304.
French Declared Repulsed.
The German War Office announces
that they were repulsed in hand-to-hand
fighting.
ROME, Aug. 26. The Italians have
made a further advance on the Isonzo
front north of Gorizla, closely pursuing
the Austrians, the War Office an-
(Concluded on Page 2. Column 2.)
Trouble Will Break When Rivals
Meet at Chicago Conference
Over New Dances.
CHICAGO, Aug. 26. (Special.) Two
rival bands of feudists are to come
dashing and dancing into the West on
September 1. They're in New Tork
right now getting food for the feud.
They are dancing schoolmasters and
they are dividing into two camps the
Jazzers and the anti-Jazzers.
The anti-jazzers are the American
National Association of Masters of
Dancing, and they are now going to
school at the Astor Hotel in New York
learning the Post Pleasant military
one-step and a lot of other things. The
boss of the works is Veronine Vestoff.
The military one-step has a lot of
marking time, tapping with the heel
and the flat of the foot with some
"Come Over, Sally," steps and a snappy
movement of the left kick.
The Hotel Astor bunch has branded
as vulgar the half-Nelson hold" of the
Jaz outfit and the syncopation of the
Jaz noise foundries. The jazzers are
members of the American National Col
lege of Dancing, and the two associa
tions love each other like two prima
donnas.
Supreme Master G. Heburn Wilson,
who camouflages himself In robin blue
is alleged to be the inventor of the
most of the new stuff that the Jazzers
and jazzettes are pulling. He also
has on his repertoire the Chinese tod
die. All of the new steps require the
Jazziest of Jaz bands to help them over.
Old-fashioned ragtime is impossible,
they say.
YARD CONTRACTS TO BE LET
Government Ship Plants Will Cost
$35,000,000 and Be Built Soon
WASHINGTON, Aug. ,26. Contracts
for construction of three Government
owned shipyards and for building in
them a great fleet cf fabricated steel
vessels will be let early this week by
the Emergency Fleet Corporation. The
yards are to cost $35,000,000, and the
work on them will start immediately,
The contracts will go to the Subma
rine Boat Corporation for a plant at
Newt-rk,. N. J., to the American Inter
national Corporation for a plant at
Hog Island, Pa., and to the Merchants
Shipbuilding Company Xor a plant at
Chester, Pa.
ENLISTED MEN PROMOTED
Members of Companies M, K, A, Go
Upon Non-Commlssioned List.
WITH THE THIRD OREGON, Aug.
26. (Special.) The following have re
ceived warrants advising them of their
promotion:
Martin F. Van Laanen, Company M,
to corporal; to sergeants, Corporals J,
E. Proebstel, R. E. Hathaway and Wal
ter A. Meek, Company IT; to corporalJ,
John B. Taylor and Wallace W. Greer.
Company A.
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Weather.
TESTERDATS Maximum temperature. 78
degrees; minimum, 5B degrees.
TODAY'S Fair; moderate, northwesterly
winas.
War.
Gerard tells sources of great power over
people exercised by German rulers.
Page 1.
Central powers' armies defeated on several
fronts. Page 1.
American troops in France revive use of
rifles In warfare. Page 2.
Bulgaria to demand annexation of wide ter
ritory. Page 3.
Foreign.
Premier bares Russia's perils to national con
ference. Page 1.
Doniild MacMlllan home after four years In
Arctic. Page 4.
Uncle Sam's fighters overrun London.
Page 1.
National.
Relative of Senator Lane watched by Gov
ernment agents. Page 1.
Decision on extent of war tax Is expected In
Congress this week. Page S.
Japanese Ambassador pays remarkable trib
ute to memory of Washington at Mt.
Vernon tomb. Page 2.
Domestic.
Military steppers war with Jazzers at con
ference of dancing masters. Page 1.
Martial law at Houston ends. Page, 11.
Germans starving, say passengers from
Denmark. Page 5.
Noted scientists expect death in Amazon
Jungles. Page 1.
Gale drives 100 fires In Mcntana, Page 4.
Helena stirred by ex-Ambassador Gerard.
Page 2.
Sports.
Pacific Coast League results: Portland 8-1.
San Francisco 0-3; Los Angeles 6-1. Salt
Lake 1-2; Vernon 1-5, Oakland' 8-2.
Page 10.
Giants lose 20 points In week's play. Pago 10.
Walt Hummel to compete at St. Louis
championships. Page 10.
Physical directors for Army corps announced.
Page 10.
Pacific Northwest.
Desert Land Board seeks five years exten
sion on Paisley project contract. Page 11.
One Chinese killed in tong war at Seattle.
Page 5.
I. W. W. mob at Spokane frees captive
brother. Page 5.
Portland and Vicinity.
Portland Home Defense Battalion will be
mustered Into state service this week.
Page 8.
Sixteen persons drowned In Willamette in
this county this year. Page 7.
Judge E. H. Gary, of Steel Corporation, to
visit Portland. Page 8.
Speaker tells of origin of Fathers" day
Page 9.
Canadian Northern loan oversubscribed.
Page 9.
Portland bankers say city needs Federal Re
serve branch. Page 11.
Oregon Exemption Boards' draft policy un
changed. Page 14.
Portland may see many good shows during
coming season. Page 14.
Circus arrives for two performances today.
Page 14.
Army and Navy auxiliary speeds campaign
tor ambulance fund. Page 9.
Seven-year-old girl drowned. Page 4.
I. W. W. fire on train. Page 11.
Weather report, data and forecast. Page 11. 1
Scientists Hemmed in
on Amazon River.
LETTER TELLS OF PLIGHT
Attempt to Be Made to Hew
Way Through to Coast.
NATIVES GIVE WARNING
Food and Ammunition Are Gone and
Only Hope Is to Try to Break
Way Through Dangerous
District to Sea.
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 26. Bradley
Jones and Daniel M. Wise, noted scien
tists and explorers for the Carnegie In
stitute, who left this country last year
for South America, were awaiting death
in the heart of a jungle near the head
of the Amazon River on June 29, ac
cording to a letter which reached here
today.
The message, mailed at Lima, Peru,
gave no indication of the destiny of the
two men.
Food Supply Gone.
The letter, written by Bradley Jones,
was received by William B. Leahy, a
business man. Their food supply and
ammunition had dwindled to nothing.
Below them on the river were bad falls
and worse Indians; to the east the
country was Impassable; to the west
was a region Infested with deadly poi
sons. The only way of egress was by canoe;
theirs lay at the bottom of the Mag
dalena River. Three expeditions had
preceded them into the inner territory,
two of them, the Page and Cromer
parties, and the Seljan never came
back.
Fate Yet Im Secret.
The letter gave no indication of the
identity of the person who mailed it, no
message telling what had been the fate
of the two men.
The letter began:
"As I am up against it pretty hard
now, with chances about even whether
I will make out or not, I am paying
off all my social obligations in the way
of letters. With one rifle between us,
a scanty supply of ammunition, scanty
provisions, but a perfectly good mag
nometer, we are marooned here at
Uchiza.
Canoe la Lost.
"It is Impossible to ascend the river.
"We got along safely until Just be
low the Magadelna River. While shoot
ing a bad rapid my canoe, which con
tained all our cargo, struck a snag and
upset, dumping me and my Indian in
the river. I managed to right the canoe
and save some of the stuff, but a good
part went down. I, like a chump, sal
vaged our Instruments and let two
good ponchos drift away. A theodo
lite may have a greater monetary
value, but It is not much good keeping
off the rains and fever.
"Our only chance is to break through
to the coast, through a region we have
been warned Is deadly on account of
the prevalence of veruga. The people
here are friendly, but we cannot live
on plantains forever.
Last Word Given.
"So Danny and I are going to cut our
way to the west. We are each writing
a few letters, so, in case only one of
us makes it, he can mall the letters for
the other. If we both get th tough, a
letter written in the heart of "ho jungle
ought to be more intereslng than one
written while cosily seated in a swell
hotel in Lima.
"As all great men have last words
when they are going to kick in, mine
shall be, "Vote No!'"
COAL RULES COMING SOON
Director Garfield Expected to Issue
Regulations This Week.
WASHINGTON. Aug. 26. Regula
tions to govern the operations of coal
mines will be Issued by Dr. H. A. Gar
field, fuel administrator, probably this
week.
The Federal Trade Commission is
working on a scale of profits for retail
cocl dealers, which it will submit to
Dr. Garfield. Indications are that re
tail prices will be fixed to complete
the Government's control of the coal
Industry already put into operation
with the fixing of mine and wholesale
prices.
VON STRUMM IS OUSTED
Gerard Articles Force Resignation of
German Foreign Secretary.
AMSTERDAM, Aug. 26. Dr. William
von Stumm, Under Secretary for For
eign Affairs of Germany, has resigned.
according to news from Germany reach
ing here.
He had decided to resign when Dr.
Richard von Kuehlmann, Secretary for
Foreign Affairs, took office, but his
inadequate rejoinder in the Nord
Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung to state
ments by James W. Gerard, former
American Ambassador to Germany, has
tened his removal.