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VOL. LVII. NO. 17,716. PORTLAND, OREGON, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1917. PRICE FIVE CENTS. SARAH BERNHARDT GERARD RELATES 4000 SAY GOODBYE MOVE BY LABOR Qtl BLINDING LIGHTS STEEL SHIPYARDS BEGINS LAST TOUR TO LA GRANDE UNIT BRING DEATH TO 2 WAR'S BEGIIIHItlG DISLOYAL PRAISED STRIKE HERE IS SET DIVIXK TRAGEDIEXXE TAKES HOME TOWN SHOWERS GIFTS TRUCK TAKES FATAL PLUNGE UP SHAKESPEAREAN ROLE. ON BOYS BOUND TO FRANCE. FROM TOP OF SISKFTOUS. GOVERNOR DERED PACIFIST ra V Chicago Mayor Protects Pro-German "Council." SCLDIERS ARRIVE TOO LATE Clash in Authority Follows Prevention of Meeting At tempted Saturday. BLUECOATS ARE ON GUARD Organization Is Perfected and Adjournment Taken Before Expected Trouble. CHICAGO, Sept. 2w After being driven from three states, the People's Council of America for Democracy and the Terms of Peace perfected a formal organization at a public meet ing in Chicago today. The session was held under protec tion of the police, acting on orders from Mayor William Hale Thompson, which were in defiance of Governor Frank O. Lowden. Four companies of National Guardsmen, rushed from the state capital on a special train to prevent the meeting, arrived after it had adjourned, its purpose acr complished. Further Sessions Abandoned. The executive committee announced late tonight that plans for further sessions had been abandoned and dele gates had been instructed to return to their homes. Many of them are said to have left the city tonight. A representative of the council as serted that "inasmuch as a business programme that was expected to con sume four days had been completed in four hours," the immediate purpose of the conference was accomplished and there was no further need of gen eral sessions. Plans for the future have not been announced. Governor's Order Countermanded. The clash in authority between Mayor Thompson and Governor Low den came as the result of the action of police in breaking up the pacifist meeting yesterday on orders from the Governor. When the Mayor, who was at his Bummer home at Lake Forest, heard of this he declared that tL Governor had exceeded his authority and im mediately instructed Chief of Police Scheuttler to permit t! meeting ar i to give the delegates every protection. Mayor's Act Inspires Pacifists. When the pacifists heard of the Mayor'j action, immediate prepara tions were made to hold the meeting which had been prevented in Minne 60ta, North Dakota and Wisconsin, and had been forbidden as unpatriotic and disloyal by the Governor of Illi nois. Assured of the protection of the police, the delegates gathered shortly after noon at the West Side Audi torium, in the heart of a cosmopolitan quarter. .Twenty patrolmen were gathered inside and outside the build ing and 50 more were held nearby to suppress any disorder. Troops Rushed to Chicago. Nearby streets were utterly desert ed as the delegates took thsir places and were called to order by Seymour Stedman, former Socialist candidate ior Governor of Illinois, as temporary chairman. . In tin meantime Governor Lowden kad been notified of the defiance of bis orders and immediately called Ad jutant-General Dickson, of Illinois, in to conference. .. As Governor Lowden considered im mediate action necessary, four com panies of the Ninth Regiment of the Illinois National Guard who had not been Federalized, were assembled at Springfield and started for Chicago on a special train ith o -ders.to mahc the run in four hours. Order to Raid Meeting Given. Adjutant-General Dickson, who ac companied the troops, had orders to break up the meeting at once on his arrival in Chicago despite the action of the police and Mayor. With the soldiers rushing toward Chicago to prevent their meeting, the pacifists were called to order by Sey mour Stedman and a national execu tive committee appointed as follows Seymour Stedman, of Chicago; .(Concluded on Page 2, Column Portia in "Merchant of Venice" and Youthful Sweetheart Acted at Age of 72 Years. NEW YORK, Sept. 2. Sarah Bern hardt resumed her last tour of Amer ica last night and appeared In a dou ble bill, acting the role of Portia in a portion of Shakespeare's "Mer chant of Venice." and that of Jane De Mauduit In "Li'Etolle Dans Lanult" (The Star In the Night), a one-act play based on the war. lime. Bernhardt, who Is 72 years old. appeared as the youthful sweetheart and Inspiration of a poet-soldier, who had been blinded by liquid fire. The performance ended In an out- burt of patriotic enthusiasm, the or chestra playing the "Marseillaise" and the "Star-Spangled Banner" amid great cheering. Last night was the fifty-fifth anni versary or Mme. Bemnarat s xirst stage performance at the Comedie Francalse In Paris. RUSSIA -UNEARTHS . PLOT Arrest of Government and Restora tion of Czar Planned. PETROGRAD, Sept. 2. The attorney of the High Court of Moscow has un earthed a counter revolutionary, mon archistic conspiracy, the design of which, according to a report presented to the Cabinet last night, was to ac complish a coup d'etat by arresting the provisional government. Many arrest f officers and civilians have been made. It appears that the headquarters of the conspirators was the villa district utside of Petrograd. Premier Kerensky is personally con ducting a preliminary inquiry. BEANS SAFE FOR PRESENT Only Hoarding or Speculation Will Cause Federal Price Regulation. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 2. The Na tional food administration will not fix prices for beans, unless future hoard ing or speculation make this :neces- ary. said Henry Clay Miller, presi dent of the California Beangrowers Association, yesterday. Mr. Miller has just returned from Washington, where he spent several days In conference with., the adminis trators over the food control act. SPIES STAMPED TO DEATH Russian Soldiers Kill Pair Trying to Wreck Tracks. PETROGRAD, Sept. 2. Two foreign ers, supposed to De Germans, wno were discovered placing explosive cyl inders on the Kiev-Ve Ronesh Rail road, were trampled to death by a mob of soldiers when they refused to answer questions. Seventeen cylinders, which were left on the ralZ-oad track by the men, ex ploded while children were playing with them, one boy being wounded. SNOW KILLS FOREST FIRE Serious Blaze In Flathead Country Put Out by Act of Providence. MISSOULA, Mont, Sept. 2. Snow has put out a serious fire near Gordon Pass in the Flathead country, accord ing to reports received at forest serv ice headquarters here late last night. All fires were abating and control lines have been established every where. Danger has passed definitely, it Is believed, though 30 fires are still burn ing In Western Montana. ITALIANS FLY TO VIENNA Pamphlets, Instead of Bombs, Are Dropped on Enemy Capital. TURIN. Sept. 2. Five Italian aviators have returned from a successful flight to Vienna. Leaving the Italian front the ma chines passed over the Austrian lines unobserved and flew straight to the Austrian capital, where the aviators dropped pamphlets Informing the peo ple of the city of the great Italian vie tory. FARMER HANGS HIMSELF J. M. Massey, 4 7, Found Dead In His Barn Near Salem. SALEM, Or., Sept. 2. (Special.) Coroner Clough received a report to day that J. M. Massey, 47 years old was discovered dead, hanging in the barn at hit. home near Broadacres, about 22' miles north of here. No rea son was given for the suicide. The Coroner did not receive farther details. MEXICAN BANDITS IN RAID Band of 25 Cross Border and Steal 80 Head of Cattle. EAGLE PASS, Sept. 2. Mexican ban dits crossed the Rio Grande 25 miles south of here yesterday and raided the Indlo ranch, driving off about 30 head of cattle. Soldiers that have been stationed here recently were withdrawn, Disgraceful Bargain Refused by England. "LAST WORD" SENT TO RUSSIA Demand Made by Germany for Demobilization in 12 Hours. BERLIN GREATLY EXCITED Great Crowds of Peonle Parade Streets Every Night Singing "Deutschland TJeber Alles" and Demanding War. BY JAMES W. GERARD. American Ambassador to the German Im perial ujnn, juiy zs, ii3, to February 4, 1917. (Copyright, 1017, by the Publlo Ledger Company.) After my return from Kiel to Berlin a period of calm enaued. No one seemed to think that the murders at Sarajevo would have any effect upon the world. The Emperor had gone north on his yacht, but, as I believe, not until a cer tain line of action had been agreed upon. Most of the diplomats sta-te1 on their vacations. Sir Edward Goschen. British Ambassador, as well as the Russian Ambassador, left Berlin. This shows, of course, how little war was expected In diplomatic circles. I went on two visits to German coun try houses In Silesia, where the richest estates are situated. One of these visits was to the country house of a Count. one of the wealthiest men In Germany, possessed of a fortune of about $20,000,- 000 to $30,000,000. He has a great es tate In Silesia, farmed, as I explained, not by tenant farmers, but by his own superintendents. In the center Is a beautiful country house or castle. We were 32 guests in the house party. This Count and his charming wife had trav eled much and evidently desired to model their country life on that of Eng land. Our amusements were tennis, swimming, and clay-pigeon shootfng, with dancing and music at night. Life such as this, and especially the lavish entertainment of so many guests, are very exceptional In Prussian country life and quite a seven months' wonder for the countryside. Austria Gives Ultimatum to Serbia. Some days after my return to Berlin the ultimatum of Austria was sent to Serbia. Even then there was very little excitement, and. when the Serbian answer was published, it was believed that this would end the incident, and that matters would be adjusted by dila tory diplomats In the usual way. On the 26th of July matters began to boll. The Emperor returned on' this day and from the morning of the 27th took charge. On the 27, also, Sir Ed ward Goschen returned to Berlin. I kept (Concluded on Pag 3, Columu 1.) Train Bearing: Hospital Organiza tion Stops Honr While Fare wells Are Said. LA GRANDE, Or, . Sept. 2. (Spe cial.) La Grande and vicinity thought it gave the La' Grande ' Hospital unit a warm farewell when it left for Clackamas, but that good-bye was but a beginning of the send-off that the Oregonians . got last night when they passed through here. Somewhere in America a special train Is speeding to some Atlantic Coast seaport with 80 Union County boys, deemed the cream of the popula tion of this county. The boys are bound for France and their train is loaded with truckload after truckload of vegetables, boxes of fruit and other goodies. For an hour the special train, en route from Clackamas East, was de layed while the soldiers visited the as sembled relatives. About 4000 persons were at the station to bid f arewall to the boys, who as a part of the Rainbow division will see service In France quickly. Favored as no other contin gent of the Third Oregon, the unit members were a happy lot. With shouts of the populace ringing in their ears, the boys departed eastward after a never-to-be-forgotten hour with rel atives and friends. The baggage car and all available space in the sleepers was' Jammed with boxes of goodies and more substantial fruits and vegetables. The farewell was an epoch in the city's history. ALASKA PACK TREMENDOUS Fleet and Workmen Start South at Close of Fishing Season. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept 2. A salmon pack of unusual size was reported for Bristol Bay, Alaska, by Captain Thome sen, skipper of the ship Indiana, first of the Alaska packers home, which reached here today. Five thousand men are returning on 29 vessels south bound. The Indiana brought 4,946 cases of canned salmon from Nushagak. DR. CARSON GOES TO DRURY Oregon Educator to Be Dean of College in Missouri. EUGENE, Or, Sept 2. (Special.) Bmraefla Clay Carson, for years dean o women at the University of Oregon, Lt.s been chosen as dean of women at Drury College, Missouri, according to word received In Eugene. After le Ing -he University of Ore gon, Dr. Carson served in a similar position at Mills College, California. GERMANS FIGHT ITALIANS Kaiser's Troops Appear for First Time on Carso Front. UDINE, Italy, Sept 2. German troops appeared for the first time on the Carso front Thursday morning, ac cording to Austrian prisoners The Austrians are rushing reinforce ments from the Russo-Roumanian front the prisoners say THE DAY IS BREAKING. President Approves Al liance for Democracy. FOES WITHIN U. S., WARNED Suppression Is Duty, Says Wil son in Letter to Gompers. DEVOTION WINS GRATITUDE Pleasure Expressed Over List of Delegates to Conference Next Week ' In' Minneapolis Many Formerly In Socialist Party. WASHINGTON, Sept 2. Hearty ap proval of the conference of the Ameri can Alliance for Labor and Democracy, to - be held at Minneapolis next Tues day, and the task It will undertake of suppressing disloyalty has been given by President Wilson In a letter to Samuel Gompers, president of the Am erican Federation of Labor and chair man of the Alliance. The letter, made publlo here today, denounces those who seek to Ignore America's grievance against Germany and insist "that a nation whose citi zens have been foully murdered under their own flag, whose neighbors have been Invited to Join in making conquest of Its territory and whose patience in pressing the claims of Justice and hu manlty has been met with the most shameful policy of truculence and treachery, does not know Its own mind and has no comprehensible reason for defending itself." Dangerous Elements Warned. "While our soldiers and sailors are doing their manful work to hold back reaction in Its most brutal and aggres sive form," the President wrote, "we must oppose at home the organized and individual efforts of those dangerous elements who hide disloyalty behind a screen of specious and evasive phras es." . .-' '- The letter follows: . . "My Dear Mr. Gompers: I am sure that you understand my inability to accept the Invitation to address the Minneapolis conference of the American Alliance for Labor and Democracy is due only to the official necessity and not in any degree to lack of apprecia tion of the importance of the occasion. The cause you and your fellow patriots uphold Is one with the cause we are defending with arms While our sol dlers and sailors are doing their man ful work to hold back reaction in its most brutal and aggressive form, we must oppose at home the organized and individual efforts of those dangerous elements who hide disloyalty behind a screen of specious and evasive phrases. "I have read with real pride the (Concluded on Page 4. Column 2.) Anto Turns Complete Somersault, Landing Right Side Up, and Runs Until It Piles Up In Ravine. ASHLAND. Or., Sept 2. (Special.) Two men were killed and two others sent to ca hospital as the result of a motor truck plunging from the Pacific Highway grade on top of the Siskiyous late last night The dead are Jack Rob inson, of Portland, and McDonald, whose given name and address were not ascertained. The men in the hospi tal here are Greek laborers. All were employed in a grading camp on the highway, of which Robinson was fore man. It is considered remarkable that Mr. and Mrs. Davis, the former driving the truck, escaped without serious injury. The party was returning from Hilt CaL The blinding headlights of an ap proaching car caused Davis to turn out too far in attempting to pass, it is said. The machine turned a complete somersault, landing risht side up, and ran until it plied up in the ravine. M - Donald was killed instantly and Rob inson, rushed to a. local hospital, died on the operating table. The injured men show signs of quick recovery. K0LB, COMEDIAN, MARRIES Bride, May Cloy, Is Member of Famous Theatrical Company. SAN FRANCIS CO, Sept 2. (Special.) Clarence William Kolb, comedian. and Mabel S. Larsen, known on the stage as May Cloy, were married Satur day at Grace Cathedral by Dean J. W1I- mer Grosham. The bride is a member of the Kolb and Dill company at the Al cazar. A wedding breakfast at the Ho tel St Francis followed the ceremony. Among the guests were James J. Jef fries, former champion heavyweight pugilist and Mrs. Jeffries; Mr. and Mrs. William J. Jacobs and Mr. and Mrs. Ed ward Anderson, of Duluth, sister and brother-in-law of the bride. BERNST0RFF SEES KAISER Count Reported Slated as Anihassa' dor to Turkey. AMSTERDAM, Sept 2. Count von Bernstorff, the ex-German Ambassador tc the United States, was received -at German great headquarters by Em peror William Thursday. Reports received here from Berlin several weeks ago said that Count von ' Bernstorff would be appointed German Ambassador to Turkey. PAPAL RULER INDISPOSED Arduous Labors for Peace Cause Suspension of Audiences. i ROME. Sept 2. Pope Benedict's la bors have been so arduous lately, es peclally since the receipt of President Wilson's reply to the papal peace note, that he was feeling very fatigued to day. All audiences were suspended. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 73 degrees; minimum. 04; clear. TODAY'S Probably fair, gentle westerly winas. War. Russians are driven back by German blows. Page 3. Socialists declare that thrones must fall before peace can come. Page 6. Fori : n. Gerard relates scenes In Berlin during week preceding war declaration. Page 1. Carranxa pledges Mexico to continued neu trality. Page 11. , Berlin paper hits Prussian system. Page S. . National. President praises alliance for labor and de mocracy, which la to war on disloyalty. Page 1. Hoover asks 7 per cent loans for cattlemen. Page S. House to pass war bonds and insurance bills this week. Page 2. Domestic. Sarab Bernhardt, at age of 72 years. Is on last stage tour of America. Page 1. Governor rushes troops to Chicago to scat ter pacifists. Page 1. Springfield, III., wastes more, food than any other city in country. Page 2. Farmers who hold wheat will lose. Page 4. Sports. Pacific Coast League results: Portland 9-4. Vernon 2-0; Los Angeles 13-6. San Fran cisco 3-7; Salt Lake 10. Oakland 4. Page 10. Intercity stars battle Battery A to 11-inning, 2-1 victory. Page 10. Double victory puts White Sox four and one half games ahead of Boston. Page 10. Many fights scheduled for today. Page 10. Paclfio Northwest. Two killed as result of truck plunging from Siskiyou grade. Page 1. La Grande bids boys of hospital unit good bye. Page 1. J. W. Hassing. Portland wife-murderer, elusive in mountain wilds. Page 8. Camp Lewis ready for new army. Page 5. Portland and Vicinity. Strike of 4000 steel shipyard workers In Portland ordered for next Friday. Page L Federal bureau may set price for Northwest wheat today. Page 4. Relative of Portland families believed to have isolated infantile paralysis germ. Page . Mr. and Mrs. James Lotan celebrate golden wedding. Page 7. Portland bankers preparing for second lib erty loan campaign. Page 8. Several changes in Methodist Episcopal pul pits likely. Page 9. Plea made for farmers not to kill dairy cattle. Page 9. Societies of Christian young people start se ries of union meetings. Pago 8. Portland lays aside business to frolic with labor today. Page 14. J. M. Long. ex-City Attorney, is dead. Page 14. The Oregonian ar: inges to send tobacco to soldiers in France. Page 14. Dance for benefit of Ambulance Unit Km 19 will be given. Page 7. Labor is topic in pulpits. Page 11. Weather report, data and forecast. Page H, Walkout Is Called for Next Friday. 4000 MEN ARE AFFECTED Wooden Ship Industry May Feel Force of Tie-Up, Too. PICKETING IS PLANNED City Ordinance to Be Ignored, Says Metal Trades Official Govern ment Is Blamed for Impend ing Action in Portland. OUTSTANDING FACTS IN STEEL 6HIPBHU)I.0 THREAT ENED STRIKE. About 4000 men affected. The five Portland firms en gaged in the building of steel ships to be affected by the pro posed strike follow: Northwest Steel Company. Columbia River Shipbuilding Corporation. Alblna Shipbuilding & Machine Company. Willamette Iron & Steel Works Smith & Watson Iron Works. Twelve steel ships for Federal service are now In the course of construction in these plants. It Is said. The executive board of the Metal Trades Council of Portland, represent ing 12 allied crafts, yesterday ordered a strike in the local steel shipbuilding yards. The strike Is set for 10 o'clock Fri day morning, September 7. If the strike plans, as agreed on at a session of the executive board yes terday, are carried out, the steel ship building industry in Portland will be paralyzed, and In numbers of men af fected and importance of the industry, it will be one of the largest strikes in the city's history. Wooden Ships Hay Be Affected. Nearly 4000 men are affected by the order to strike and, because of the allied Interests, the strike may have an effect on the wooden shipbuilding in dustry. The drastic order was made as a step to enforce the demands for increased wages, shorter hours and improved working conditions. It was explained yesterday by Joseph Reed, chairman of the executive board of the Allied Metal Trades. The determination to prosecute a vigorous strike was reached at the conclusion of a long conference at general headquarters In the Stock Exchange building yesterday morning. In announcing the decision for a. general strike, Mr. Reed further assert ed that every resource at the command of the metal trades would be utilized In the effort to force the employers to meet the new wage scale. Picketing, he said, will be carried on under cave' ful and competent supervision. City Ordinance to Be Ignored. We do not recognize the Portland anti-picketing ordinance." was his curt dismissal of possible official interfer ence with the picketing plans. "You've heard that old saying. It's all over but the shouting?" queried C M. Bottomley, secretary of the execu tive board. "Well, in this strike you will hear plenty of shouting; we are going to let them know we mean busl ness." Not until almost dally conferences for more than four weeks had proved barren of results did the men engaged In the construction of steel ships for immediate war service, finally deter mine on a general walk-out to enforce their demands, Mr. Reed said yesterday. Employers Deny Authority. Our new wage and working condl- tions agreement was first presented . August 3." said Mr. Reed. "The local shipbuilding employers told us that they could not enter into negotiations as the Federal Government had taken over their plants. "At the mass meeting at the Audito rium last Tuesday night of all metal trades craftsmen the question of going out on a strike was left with the ex ecutive board for final decision, and we have determined on a strike only after all attempts to reach an agree ment with the firms direct or with Government officials have failed." Mr. Reed said that the final vote to strike, was reached unanimously by the Board. Contract Not Yet Expired. "Although I have not been notified officially of the strike order of the Metal Trades Council, I can hardly be lieve it is true," said J. R. Bowles, president of the Northwest Steel Com pany, yesterday. "Our plant has an agreement with the men which remains in effect until September 15, and I cannot believe that they will repudiate this agreement and walk out before th expiration of that time. There is noth- t ing we can do, and any action to be taken now must be between the Fed eral Government and the men them selves." Members of this executive board and .ICoucluded on Pago 3 Column T