VOL. LVII. NO. 17,720.
POKTLAXD, OREGON, FRIDAY, SEPTE3IBER 7, 1917.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
nOLAS SECRET
ALLY OF KftlSER
Telegrams Show Pact
Made in 1905.
2 KILLED, 4 HURT
AS TRAIN HITS CAR
WAR LAWS
E
INDUSTRIAL PEACE
DURING WAR, PLAN
MANUFACTURERS LAY IDEA BE
FORE DEFENSE COUNCIL.
H.J.- ROBINETT KILLS'
SUGAR WART0SEND
SIX-CENT FARE OR
FEWER GARS ISSUE
PRICE DOWN TODAY
LONG IN
SELF AFTER ARREST
SIRS. ALBERT CRABBE AND
BABY, OF SHELTOX, DEAD.
REDUCTION OF 85 CENTS 100
FOUNDS FORECAST.
if 1 A D
ADVANCE
FRANCE'S FAITH QUESTIONED
Czar Advised to Put on Duma
Burden of Deciding Jap
. anese Peace Proposals.
GERMAN AID IS TOLD
VVilhelm Flaunts Both Eng
land and France in Mo
- - roccan Speech.
BT HERMAN BERNSTEIN.
Copyright, TS17, by the New York
. Herald Company. All Rights Ee
, served. Published by Arrangement.
I Third Installment.)
' STOCKHOLM, via Paris, Sept. 6.
(Special.) The third and last install
ment of the secret telegraphic corre
spondence between Kaiser Wilhelm, of
Germany, and Czar Nicholas, of
Russia, reveals the German Emperor
urging Nicholas to place full re
sponsibility for war or peace conse
quences during the Russo-Japanese
peace negotiations on , the Duma in
order to. save himself. ..
The Kaiser, whose government now
deals drastically and mercilessly with
the people's representatives who dare
to criticise Germany's role in the pres
ent war, hypocritically advised the
Czar in 1905 to listen to the voice of
the people, to save the Czar's face.
i "Leave It to Duma," Says Kaiser.
On July 29, 1905, he sent this tele
gram to Nicholas from Danzig:
"With the actual spirit prevailing
in Russia, the disaffected masses
would try to place the whole re
sponsibility for all disadvantageous
consequences on your shoulders and
all successes would be counted as the
result of Count Witte's personal man
agement. It would be excellent as a
first task for these Duma represen
tatives, if you gave them the. peace
treaty after it is first formulated, to
vote upon it, thus leaving the odium
of decision to the country and thereby
giving the Russian people a voice in
the matter of their own prosperity.
The outcome would be their work, and
therefore stop the mouths of the op
position." On August 20, 1905, the Kaiser
again telegraphed to the Czar as ifol
lows:
Task Too Great for Sovereign.
I gather that, in general, peace
negotiations are going on satisfac
torily, but that some points offer dif
ficulty to settlement before you take
final decision for peace or the' con-
x : - r rri i n ii
Kiuiuatiuu ui. me war. i. lie latter win
be of far-reaching consequences and
will cost unlimited lives, blood and
money. I should fancy it an excel
lent procedure to submit the question
to the great Duma first.
"As it represents the people of Rus
sia, it would be the voice of Russia.
If it should decide for peace, you are
empowered in the way to proceed. If
the war is to continue, the decisions
which are to' be taken are so terribly
earnest and the consequences so far
reaching that it is quite impossible
for any mortal sovereign to take the
responsibility for them alone on his
shoulders without the help of his peo
ple. May God be with you. Do not
forget the line of advancement,
visavis the guards."
Obligation to France Limited.
This telegram was signed "Willy."
On September 29, 1905, the Kaiser
again took up the separate treaty
question. In a telegram to the Czar
on that date he says:
"The wording of the treaty as we
agreed at Bjoerke does not conflict
with the Franco-Russian alliance, pro
vided, of course, the latter is not aimed
directly at my country. On the other
hand, the obligations of Russia toward
France can only go as far as France
merits them through her behavior.
"Your ally notoriously left you in
the lurch durinar the who7
y whereas Germany helped you in evprv
way as far as it could without in
fringing the laws of neutrality. That
puts Russia morally also under obli
gations to us.
"Do your utmost with the nation to
conclude peace on the basis of the
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Mr. Crabbc Not Expected to Live
and Details of Accident Near
Aberdeen Not Available.
ABERDEEN, Wash., Sept. 6. Mrs.
Albert Crabbc, of Shelten, and a
baby daughter were killed and
Mr. Crabbc and two other children
of the family, a daughter of 7 and eon
of 15, and 10-year-old Lavina Bartlett,
a friend of the family, were badly hurt
when the evening Northern Pacific
train en route to Aberdeen crashed
into the motor in which they were
driving to Aberdeen. The accident oc
curred on the Olympic Highway, five
miles east of here, immediately in front
of the Country Club.
Autoists immediately behind the
Crabbe car say that the brakes appar
ently failed to work and that the car
skidded on to the track after the en
gine was stopped. The train, coming
at about 25 miles an hour, struck the
car full in the side. Mr. Crabbe is not
expected to live and, while the other
children have been badly bruised and
cut, they will recover.
The car was dragged for 100 yards
after being hit by the train. It was
literally torn to pieces by the blow.
Passing autoists picked up the injured
children and rushed them to the hos
pitals here, where they are being cared
for.
Mr. Crabbe and his son, the only ones
old enough to explain the accident, are
unconscious and few particulars con
cerning the mishap are available.
WORKS QUITS PACIFISTS
California cx-Senator Says Council's
Scope Too Narrow.
NEW YORK. Sept. 6. Ex-Senator
John D. Works, of California, has
withdrawn from the People's Council
of America for Democracy and Peace,
it was announced here today.
His resignation, Mr. Works stated,
is not due to waning Interest in the
peace movement, but because he be
lieves the council has not taken a suf
ficiently broad ground and, "controlled
as it was, would be, and could be,
nothing else than an annex to the So
cialist party and used for its advancement."
MUFFLER CUTOUT CUT OUT
Half of Manufacturers of Motor
Cars Eliminate Device.
NEW YORK, Sept. 6. Because muf
fler cutouts on automobiles have no
mechanical value and add merely an
other unnecessary noise to American
life the National Automobile Chamber
of Commerce has recommended their
elimination from all cars built in this
country after January 1, 1918, it was
announced here tonight.
Nearly half the 110 automobile
makers in the chamber do not use muf
fler cutouts on their present cars.
GERMANS SLAY WOUNDED
Teuton Airmen Bombard Hospital,
Killing 19 Helpless Men.
(By the Associated Press.)
GRAND HEADQUARTERS OF THE
FRENCH ARMY IN FRANCE, Sept. 6
The Vandelaincourt Hospital, in the
region of Verdun, was again bombed
fArmnn nvjatnra fnr kit Ann nnn.
I .half hours last nirht. Nineteen per
i sons were killed and 2C wounded.
xne nuts aiiacitea contained oniy
severely wounded men, who were un
able to move from their cots.
PRESIDENT SNUBS PACIFIST
Professor Dana Told Wilson Won't
See One From His Organization
WASHINGTON, Sept. 6. Professor
H. W. L. Dana, representing the Peo
pie's Council of America for Democracy
and Terms of Peace, which was not al
lowed to hold meetings in several
Western cities last week, was refused
an interview with President Wilson
today by Secretary Tumulty.
Mr. Tumulty said the President was
too busy to see anyone from that or
ganization.
SPUD VINE NINE FEET TALL
William Heitkempcr Lays Claim to
Gardening Distinction.
William Heitkemper, watchman at
the City Hall, lays claim to the honor
of raising the tallest potato vine in
Portland this year. He dug from his
war garden yesterday a vine measuring
9 feet 2 inches and bearing a half
dozen fine big potatoes.
The vine was grown In fertile ground
at 832 East Eighth street. This par
ticular vine had lots of fertilizer and
water.
RATE CONFERENCE IS SET
Japanese Mission Arranges for Sleet
ing With Shipping Board.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 6. Members of
the Japanese mission have arranged to
call on the Shipping Board one day
this week to take up the subject of
ocean freight rates on the Pacific.
The Shipping Board plans to reduce
sharply the rates now charged by
American vessels in all trades, and is
working out an arrangement with the
European allies looking to control of
all Atlantic ocean rates..
German Preparedness
Related By Gerard.
ENACTMENT IN THREE DAYS
Coinage, Banking Regulated,
Maximum Food Prices Fixed.
ALL GOLD IS GATHERED UP
Great Quantities of Food and Sup
plies Taken Into Germany
From Holland and Scan
dlnavian Countries.
BY JAMES W. GERARD. .
American Ambassador . to the German Im
perial Court, July 28, 1913, to February 4.
1917. (Copyright. 1917, by the Public
Ledger Company.)
On Aucust 4, 1914, a number of laws,
which had been evidently prepared long
in advance, making various changes
made necessary by war, such as altera
tion of the coinage law, the bank law,
the Uw of maximum prices and so on
were passed. Laws as to the high
prices were from time to time made.
For instance, the law of October 28,
1914, provided in detail the maximum
prices for rye in different parts of
Germany. The maximum price at
wholesale per German ton of native
rye must not exceed 220 marks in
Berlin, 236 marks in. Cologne, 209 marks
in Koenltrsbef g, 228 marks in Ham
burg, 235 marks in Frankfort A. M.
The maximum price for the German
ton of native wheat was set at 40
marks per ton 'higher than the above
rates for rye. This maximum price
was made with reference to deliveries
without sacks and for cash payments.
The law as to the maximum prices
applied to all objects of daily necessity,
not only to food and fodder, but to oil,
coal and wood. Of course, these max
imum prices were changed from time
to time. But I think I can safely state
that at no time in the war while I was
in Berlin were the simple foods more
expensive than in New York.
W Bread" la Rye and Potato.
The so-called "war bread," the staple
food of the population, which was made
scon after the commencement of the
war, was composed partially of rye and
potato flour. It was no. at all un
palatable, especially when toasted, and
when it was seen that the war would
not be as short as the Germans had ex
pected the bread cards were issued.
That is, every Monday morning each
person received a card which had an
nexed to it a number of little per
forated sections about the size of a
quarter of a postage stamp, and each
(Concluded on Page 3. Column 3.)
THREE SCENES
Proposal . Includes - No Strike or
Lockout; Conference With
WASHINGTON, Sept. 6. Manufactur
ers" representatives proposed . to the
Council of National. Defense today a
joint agreement between employers and
employes for the duration of 'the war
to prevent strikes and lockouts, compel
maintenance of prevailing open or
closed union shop conditions and es
tablish a board for compulsory arbitra
tion of labor disputes directly concerning-
war production.
A request that the Council call an
early conference of representative Na
tional and international officers of
American trade unions to agree to the
proposals was taken under considera
tion. Nearly 150 members of the National
Industrial . Conference Board, which
represents is manufacturers' associa
tions and more than 50,000 manufac
turers, presented a statement recom
mending rules for applying the Coun
cil's policy of discouraging changes of
labor standards during the war. ,
Some of the delegates explained in
formally today that the feeling is
growing among manufacturers that
labor bodies are not abiding by the
recommendation made by Samuel
Gompers, president of the American
Federation of Labor, as a member of
the Defense Council's advisory com
mission, that laborers not insist on
changing labor standards during the
war.
BISHOP'S BETROTHAL TOLD
Mother of Fiancee Announces En
gagement at Michigan Home.
Formal announcement of the en
gagement of Right Rev. Walter Taylor
Sumner. Episcopal Bishop of Oregon
and Miss Myrtle Mitchell was made last
night at Negaunee, Mich., by Mrs.
Samuel Mitchell, mother of the fiancee.
First announcement, informally, was
made in The Orcgonian yesterday.
Miss Mitchells father, who died
eight years ago, was a pioneer in the
Iron mine industry in the upper penin
sula of Michigan. His holdings made
him extremely wealthy.
Bishop Sumner- met Miss Mitchell in
Chicago about ten years ago, when he
was dean of St. Peter and Paul's Cathe
draL . , .
NURSES NEEDED AT HOME
Bed Cross to Train Workers at 24
Institutes, Including Seattle. -
WASHINGTON, Sept. 6. Needs for
thousands of workers, in the Red Cross
home service in aiding families of
United States soldiers and sailors has
caused the Red Cross to establish 24
institutes in connection with promi
nent universities, where volunteer
workers will be given an intensive six
weeks training.
Among the institutes established in
the West is the University of Washing
ton at Seattle.
FROM THE TRAGEDY OF WILLY
KISS ME AG-A Iti rXCXz
B ' K
A. M. Crawford Fights
VainlytoPreventDeed.
BATTLE RAGES IN WATER
Ex-Attorney-General Worsted
and Thrown in River.
MAN TWICE CUTS THROAT
Visit Paid With Deputy Sheriff
and Counsel, to Tent Home on
River Bank to Get Clothing
Gives Setting for Tragedy.
H. J. Roblnett, 60 years old and an
old-time resident of Roseburg, evi
dently fearing to return to Roseburg to
face a serious charge for which he was
arrested yesterday morning, killed him
self by slashing his throat with a large
butcher knife on a South Portland
scow at about 3 o'clock in the after
noon after a spectacular battle with
Deputy Sheriff Rexford and his attor
ney, A. M. Crawford, former Attorney-
General.
The body Is now at the city morgue
pending word from relatives.
Pocketknlfe laed Klrat.
It was shortly after 2 o'clock that
Roblnett. in company with Mr. Craw
ford and Deputy Sheriff Rexford, went
to his tent home in South Portland to
get his personal effects, pending his
removal to Roseburg under a tele
graphic warrant received from Sheriff
Quine yesterday morning.
As he was putting his clothing in
a grip, he suddenly pulled a small
pocket knife from his pocket and cut
his throat. As he fell to the floor, ap
parently unconscious. Deputy Sheriff
Rexford ran from the tent in order to
telephone for an ambulance. Mr. Craw
ford sat near, but paid no heed to the
injured man, thinking that he would
remain unconscious. .
Mr, Crawford Thrown la Silver.
.Suddenly Robinette Jumped to his
feet and ran toward the river, about
100 feet away. Mr. Crawford hurried
after him and they grappled in about
tw& feet of water for several minutes
before Robinett was able to throw Mr.
Crawford Into the river.
Robinett then scrambled upon a
small plank which led to a nearby
scow and rushed through an open door.
A large, sharp ' butcher-knife lay upon
the table, and grabbing this he slashed
his throat from ear to ear, dying al
most instantly.
Arrest Taken Lightly.
Robinett had been in Portland only
a Bhort time, it was said, and had been
working in a sawmill in Sojth Port-
(Concluded on Pace 2. Column 1.
AND NICKY.
Portland Jobbers Are Said to Be
Loaded With Product Bought
Before Last Increases.
The price of sugar is due to drop
today 85 cents & hundred pounds. Job
bing price, and, as a result of the
sugar war" about to be precipitated
among jobbers, the public will be ben
fited proportionately In the retail
price within a day or so.
The refinery list prices. It is under
stood, will carry no change in the mar
ket price, which is now ?9.15 a hundred
pounds, but sugar will sell to retailers
at JS.30, the deduction being made on
the invoice. All grades are affected.
This does not take into consideration
the 25 per cent cash discount, which
will bring the price down even more.
Portland Jobbers are thought to be
heavily loaded with sugar bought be
fore the last two Increases in prices.
and, with Food Controller Hoover at
work and a new crop coming in. Job
bers here and elsewhere along the
Coast, it is believed, are about to un
load their heavy stocks to be able to
take advantage of whatever readjust
ment may come as the result of Mr.
Hoover's activities. The price of sugar
before the European war was about ?5
to 5.25.
Portland Jobbers are believed to hold
anywhere from 50,000 to 70,000 sacks
of 100 pounds. They bought heavily
when San Francisco, seeing the signs
in advance, unloaded on the northern
market in an effort to get "out from
under" before the sugar regulation be
gan and the new crop came.
SAN JUAN. P. R.. Aug. 31. (By
mail.) Porto Rico made 502.39S short
tons of sugar in the season which ended
this month, according to the final fig
ures of J. Ruiz Soler, secretary of the
Porto Rico Sugar Producers' Associa
tion. This is the first time the produc
tion of the island has reached the
500,000 ton mark.
BATTALION IS LONE MAN
First Member of Unit Arrives From
New Mexico.
CAMP FUNSTON. Kan., Sept. 6.
William Michael Connor, of Clovis, N.
M., arrived at the National Army can
tonment here yesterday.
"Who are you?" asked Lieutenant
Colonel C. B. Clark, in charge of the
assignment of men.
"I'm, the first 5H per cent of the
quota from Clovi3, N. M.," Connor re
plied. For the next 24 hours the 342d
North Dakota machine gun battalion,
to which the New Mexico drafted men
will be assigned, was comprised en
tiiely of Connor.
Staff at Camp Increased.
ROCKFORD. 111.. Sept. 6. A second
force of Illinois officers detailed to
build Western Army organizations was
ordered from Camp Grant here to Camp
Lewis at American Lake, Wash. They
will take charge of the bayonet and
physical drill of the 91st division.
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Weather.
TESTERDAT'S Maximum temperature, 71
decrees; minimum, oi) degrees,
TODAY'S Showers; moderate southerly
wind.
War.
Italy loses Monte San Gabrlele. Page 3.
Kaiser advises Czar to shift burden of peace
negotiations to Duma. Page 1.
Americana learn shells' vagaries. Page 2.
German fleet reported near Gulf of Finland.
Page 3.
Foreign.
Central powers determine to partition Po
land. Page 4.
Extravagance of Mme. Soukhomlinoff told
at treason trial. Page 4.
Gerard tells how war laws, prepared long
In advance, were passed in three days.
Page L
National.
Manufacturers propose Industrial peace dur
lng war. Page 1.
La Follette proposes $50 monthly bonus for
American troops In Europe. Page 7.
Government will suppress all 1 sedition.
Page 8.
Domestic.
House passes unanimously vast war credits
bill asked by President. Page 2.
Labor Alliance denounces pacifists' attitude.
Page 6.
Sports.
Pacific Coast League results: Portland 15,
f.alt Lake 2; Kan Francisco 4, Vernon 3;
Los Angeles 3-5, Oakland 1-1. Page 14.
World series talk is uppermost now. Page 14.
Ima Jay wins main event at Hartford
track. Page 14.
Joe Flannlgan may take Weldon Wing and
Muff Bronson on Eastern tour. Page 14.
Pacific Northwest,
Oregon cavalry bids farewell to home and
loving relatives. Page 4.
Two killed, four hurt In car wreck, near
Aberdeen. Page 1.
Men chosen for National Army begin duties
at once at Camp Lewis. Page 7.
Commercial and Marine.
Block of $1,50O,000 grain elevator bonds
sold. Page Ifi.
Los Angeles gets lf1S meeting of port
authorities' convention. Page 16.
Portland and Vicinity.
President Griffith says his company must
reduce number of cars or raise fares.
Page 1. '
Market prices may be reduced as result of
investigation. Page 13.
Milk investigation to begin today. Page 12.
State highway work ordered speeded up.
Page 13.
Man arrested for Roseburg crime kills him
self in Portland. Page 1.
School Board to require two-year rest for
parenthood. Page U.
First rain in 60 days falls. Page 9.
Doctors testify In Colby trial in plaintiff's
behalf. Page 20.
Price of sugar Is due for 85-cent drop to
day. Page 1.
Weather report, data and forecast. Page 15.
Irvlngton Club Country Fair will open to
night, rain or no rain. Page 5.
Shlpworkers to demand "closed shop in
Portland agreement. Page 15.
W. B. Ayer calls meeting of hotel and res
taurant men. Page 8.
Widow of late Louis Blumauer brings suit
against Blumauer - Frank Company
Page 8.
Wooden ships to be championed. Page 15.
Wheat prices not well understood. Page 6.
Public Auditorium's $25,000 pipe organ dedi
cated. Tage 5.
President Griffith Tells
of Line's Difficulties.
COMPANY FACES BANKRUPTCY
Unions Indorse Position of.
Concern Before Commission.
BILLS EXCEED REVENUES
Company Not In Favor of Elimi
nating Bridge Tolls or Taxes,
AYiiicli Would Mean Great Sav- t
lng In Course of Year.
A radical curtailmsnt of expenses or
a substantial increase in revenues are
the alternative courses confronting tha
Portland Railway. Light & Power Com
pany if the institution is to remain
solvent.
This, in substance, was the repeated
and emphatic assertion of Franklin T.
Griffith, president of the company, in
testifying before the Oregon Fublio
Service Commission yesterday.
The company has appealed to the
Commission for permission to increase
its fares on its city lines, presumably
to charge 6 cents instead of 5 cents.
Carmen Ask for Increase.
Back of the company's appeal is the
request of its trainmen and shopmen
for substantial increases in wages and
a basic eight-hour day. all of which
the company; said air. Griffith, is ready
to grant.
But these proposed increases will re
quire an additional annual expense to
the company of J600.000. which the
company will be unable to pay out of
its estimated future operating income.
Not only will the future income be
Insufficient to meet future expenses,
but not one cent will be available,
asserted Mr: Griffith, to meet interest
on the funded debt or to pay a rea
sonable return on the investment in
the property.
Labor Supports Company.
The company is asking for a read
justment of Its rates so that a return
of 6 per cent can be made on an
investment of $18,233,000. which is the
valuation placed on the city lines by
the Commission itself.
The position of the company was
heartily supported by W. S. U'Ren. at
torney for the organized employes of
the company and for the Central Labor
Council.
Mr. U'Ren stated to the Commission
at the outset that the labor organiza
tions had investigated the assertions
of the company and that they were
reasonably convinced that the presen
tation Mr. Griffith and his colleagues
were about to make was correct.
Strike Not Wiliest Way.
"In appearing in this case," declared
Mr. U'Ren, "organized labor is estab
lishing a precedent. It is breaking all
precedents, in taking our case, not to
our employers, but to a public body.
"We are convinced that ou- relief
does not lie in the traditional and old
fashioned method of quitting the serv
ice of the company in a body in an at
tempt to coerce it into meeting our
demands, but in a direct appeal to tha
public through this Commission."
He added that scores of employes of
the company have been attracted by
better wages, and better working con
ditions prevailing in other industries
and that In the last four months tha
company has lost 200 of its men.
City Wants to Be Convinced.
W. P. I.aRoche, City Attorney, and
John M. Mann, Commissioner of Pub
lic Utilities, represented the city. They
admitted the power of the Commission
to fix rates, even In violation of the
charges prescribed by the city charter,
but felt "compelled to resist any ad
vance in fares unless shown to be nec
essary to .preserve the solvency of tha
corporation."
The proposed increase in ' the em
ployes' wages and adoption of the basis
eight-hour day met with no opposition
at any point in the proceedings.
"No city can be built on underpaid
labor," said Mr. LaRoche, in presenting
the city's case. "If the company can't
pay the increase, the public doubtless
must."
Proper Pay Favored.
"We are firmly of the opinion," de
clared Mr. Griffith, in replying to ques
tions by his attorney. R. A. Leiter,
"that the men engaged In public util
ity service should be paid just as well
and work under conditions just as at
tractive as men In any other industry.
"There is a growing tendency every
where for a basic eight-hour day and
when our men see others all about them
working eight hours, they naturally
ask themselves why they can't have
the same advantages."
At other points In the proceedings
Mr. Griffith submitted his readiness to
grant the eight-hour day in the belief
that it soon will become universal.
Fire Cents Held Insufficient.
Mr. Griffith occupied the stand near
ly all day. He concluded late in the
afternoon and was followed by 13. W.
Moreland, statistical engineer for the
company, who had prepared the tables
of valuations, expenses and revenues
submitted as evidence.
The company's presentation was in
tended to show that it Is impossible to
AConuluded oa Paso S. Culuuiu l.