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VOL. LVII. NO. 17,721. PORTLAND, OREGON, SATUKDAI, . SEPTE31BER 8, 1917. PRICE FIVE CENTS. MAI flfJP nillTQ AQ RECRUIT LATE FOR PHASES OF LIFE III GERMANY SET OOWf GERMANIC MAYOR -BARS REPORTERS SOLDIER TO LEAVE WAR TAX DEBATE uinuuiiu yunu rtu TRAIN, IS FIRST IN BRIDE OF ONE DAY TURNS TO LOYALTY CAR DRIVEN FROM SAX FRAN CISCO TO AMERICAN LAKE. $1,500,000 IN LIBEL ' SUITS FILED AGAINST PAPERS. BARBERTOX FARMER MARRIES ON EVE OF DEPARTURE. carmen: need ire pay, says c0m1y Resignations Only Al ternative, Is View. K Suffrage Policy Cause of Political Split EUROPE EXTENDS FRANCHISE New York Customs Collector . Scores Administration. BLAME PUT ON PRESIDENT 'Country Knows That No Vital Piece of Legislation Enacted in Five Years Except at Execu tive's Behest," Says Malone. WASHINGTON. Sept. 7. Dudley Field Malone. customs collector at New York, tendered his resignation to Presi dent Wilson today in protest against the failure of the President to advocate passage of the Federal suffrage amend ment and because he permitted the Im prisonment of women who have been picketing the White House. Mr. Malone, who as counsel defended the first of the militants arraigned in - police court here, told the President in his letter of resignation that. Inas much as he had promised the women of the suffrage states that he would exert all his energy to have the Na tional Democratic Administration in dorse suffrage by constitutional amend ment, he felt obliged to resign and devote himself to redeeming that promise. Argument Hard to Meet. In quitting the office of collector of the port of New York, Mr. Malone leaves one of the best-paid places in the Government service. He is a son-in-law of ex-Senator O'Gorman. In his letter of resignation he says: "Dear Mr. President: Last Autumn, as the. representative of your Admin istration, I went into the woman suf frage states" to urge your re-election. Tho most difficult argument to meet among the-'T.OOO.OOO women voters was the failure of tho Democratic party, throughout four years, of power, to pass the Federal suffrage amendment. Malone Makes Promise. "Throughout those states, and par ; tlcularly in California, which ultimately decided the . election by the votes of women, the -women voters were urged to support you even though Judge Hughes had already declared for the Federal suffrage .amendment, because you and your party, through liberal leadership, were more likely Nationally to enfranchise the rest of the women of the country than were your oppo rents. And if the women of the West voted to re-elect you, I promised them I would spend all my energy, at any sacrifice to myself, to get the present Democratic Administration to pass the Federal-suffrage amendment. "But the present policy of the Ad ministration, In permitting - splendid American women to be sent to jail in Washington, not for carrying offensive banners, nor for picketing, but on the technical charge of obstructing traf fic '. : a denial even of their constitu tional right to petition for, and demand the passage of the Federal suffrage amendment. It therefore now becomes my profound obligation actively to keep . my promise to the women of the West. V 'State Constitutions Rigid. "In more than 20 states it is a prac tical impossibility to amend the state constitutions, so the women of those states can only be enfranchised by the passage of the Federal suffrage amend ment. "Since England and Russia in the midst of the great war have assured the national enfranchisement of their women, should we not be Jealous to maintain our democratic leadership In the world by the speedy National en franchisement of American women? Women Always Loyal. 'To me, Mr. President, as I urged upon you In Washington two monthn ago, thl is not only a measure of Justice and de mocracy. It Is also an urgent war meas ure. The women of the Nation are. and always will be, loyal to the country, . and the passage of the suffrage amend ment is only the first step towards their National emancipation. "But unless the Government takes at least this first step' towards their enfranchisement, how can the Govern ment ask millions of American women educated in our schools and colleges and millions of American women in our homes, or toiling for . economic in dependence in every line of industry. to give up by conscription their men and happiness to a war for democracy in Europe, while these women citi cents are. denied the right to vote on the policies of the Government which demands of them such sacrifice? "For this reason, many of your ardent friends and supporters feel that the passage of the Federal suffrage amend ment is a war measu.e which could ap propriately be urged by you at this session -of Congress. It is true that this amendment would have to come from Congress. CongreM Slow to Act. "The present congress shows no earnest desire to enact this legisla tion for the simple reason that you, as the leader of the party' in' power, have not yet suggested it. For the whole country gladly acknowledges, Mr. President, that no vital piece ot legislation has come through Con gress these five years except by you Concluded on Pas 2, Column 2.) Three Make Trip in 70 Hours Run ning Time, Taking Turns at Wheel and Sleeping. TACOMA. Sept. . 7. Louis Lacourous, of San Francisco, missed the special train that left San Francisco Tuesday with the California troops for Ameri can Lake. He immediately Induced his friend. Denny Herllhy, a San Francisco newspaper man, to rlvo him from San Francisco in his automobile. The trip was made from San Francisco to American Lake in 70 hours running time. The men beat the train here. William Karr was the third man In the machine. ' The three took turns driving and sleeping. They had no trouble on the trip with the exception of one punc ture. Lacourous reached American Lake this morning and reported with the California troops who arrived on the train a few hours later. The California troops, nearly 250 strong, got to Camp Lewis at noon. Included In the troops were 31 men from Sacramento. 196 from San Fran cisco and a number from - tumboldt County. MUTINY ENDANGERS FLEET Fonr Rebel in Submarine Zone and Reveal Lights to Divers. ' PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 7. The safety of a large fleet of merchant ships car rying about $50,000,000 worth of cargo and convoyed by 20 British destroyers in the submarine zoie was endangered by the alleged mutinous conduct of four members of an armed American oil steamer taken off the ship Wednes day night, according to witnesses who testified against them before a Federal commissioner here today. Witnesses testified the four . men threatened the captain and the chief gunner of the armed guard and that they had broken the screens off the lights while In the danger zone, com pelling the commander of the convoy to signal the steamer that tho whole fleet was endangered. HELENA COLONEL REBUKED War Department Orders Out Band to Honor Drafted Men. HELENA. Mont., Sept" 7. The band of the Second Montana Infantry, Xiom Fort Harrison, near here, paraded to day, when Helena's first contingent left for its cantonment, but not until an order from the War Department had commanded Colonel J. J. McGuinness to order out the band. , The Commercial Club had the cele bration in honor of Helena's drafted men in charge, but when Secretary Rheems called upon Colonel McGuinness with a request that the band turn out, McGuinness, Mr. Rheems says, declared his men should not parade in honor of slackers, who should have been en listed before they were drafted." An hour later an order from the War Department ordered out the band. MRS. ROSS BEGS FOR SON Night Rider" Witness Says She Will Die If Boy Goes to War. TACOMA, Wash., Sept. 7. (Special.) A domestic duel of wits, with mother and son principal opponents, the for mer fighting to keep her boy from going to war and the son secretly In sisting that an exemption claim which he said he filed to escape the wrath of his mother be denied, was brought to light today. Mrs. Margaret Ross, chief complain ing witness in the -once famous Pa cific County "night rider" case, ap peared before the district appeals board and demanded that her son. Earl Alex ander Ross, be left to comfort and sup port her. "It will kill me If he goes to war,' walled Mrs. Ross. ALIENS TO BE EDUCATED Extensive Plans Made for American izing New York's Foreigners. NEW YORK, Sept. 7. The most ex tensive educational campaign ever undertaken to Americanize New Tork City's foreign population, of whom it is estimated half a million cannot speak or read English, will be undertaken in the Fall by the Mayor's committee on National defense, it was announced tonight. The programme includes the organi zation of classes in civics, American history and lectures on citizenship and "Why We Are at War." BABY, PARALYSIS APPEARS Fifteen Cases Are Discovered and Isolated in Omaha. LINCOLN, Neb., Sept. 7. Fifteen cases of Infantile paralysis have been reported at Omaha by the health off! cials of that city to the State Health Department here. All cases .have been isolated and steps are being taken to prevent fur ther spread of the disease. Ludendorff Hurt In Train Wreck. COPENHAGEN. ' Sept. 7. It is semi officially stated that General von Lu dendorff, first Quartermaster-General in the German army, was injured in train wreck August 19, near Brussels, when, owing to a misplaced switch, munitions train struck the General special car, overturning it and smash ing one end. Gerard Gives Incidents From War Diary. PERSONAL VIEWS OF MEN GIVEN Matters Madi Lively by.Lieb knecht at Reichstag Sessions. PEACE LEAGUE IS STARTED Views so Dissimilar and Speeches so Ridiculous That Movement Failed Von Buelow Man of Active Brain and Restless. BT JAMES W. GERARD. American Ambassador to the German Im perial Court. July 2S. 1913, to February 4. 1017. (Copyright. 1817, by the Public , Ledger' Company.) In January. 1916, I visited Munich, and ' from there a Bavarian officer prison camp and the prison camp for private soldiers, both at Ingolstadt. I also conferred with Archdeacon Nies, of the American Episcopal Church, who carried on a much-needed work In visit ing the prison camps in Bavaria. The American colony In Munich main tained, with the help of friends in America, a Red Cross hospital under the able charge of Doctor Jung, Washington doctor, and his wife. The nursing was done by American and German girls. The American colony at Munich also fed a number of school children every day. I regret to say however, that many of the Americans In Munich were loud in their abuse of .President Wilson and their native coun try. From my diary I here recount a num ber of- incidents and thoughts jotted down at the time of their occurrence German Colonel Home Talked Of. In March, 1916, I was sounded on the question of Germany's sending an un official envoy, like Colonel House, to America to talk Informally to the President and prominent people. I was told that Solf would probably". bp named. In 1916 the importation of many ar ticles of luxury Into Germany was for bidden. This move was naturally made In order to keep money in the country. A Dane who had a quantity of man ganese in Brazil sold it to a Philadel phia firm Tor delivery to the United States Steel Company. The German government in some way learned of this and the Dane was arrested and put In JaiL His Minister had great diffi culty in getting him out. Llebknecht Makes Matters Lively. Llebknecht, in April of 1916, made matters lively at the Reichstag ses sions. During the Chancellor's speech, Llebknecht Interrupted him and said that the Germans were not free; next to deny that the Germans had not wished war, and another time by call (Concluded on Page 4, Column 3.) y . . ................. ................................................. .......t ' v GOOD RIDDANCE. I '' i.. ... ...... ...........I Thompson Fears Telephone Wires Are Tapped and Dictaphones Placed in Apartments. CHICAGO, Sept.' 7. After filing libel i suits aggregating more than $1,500,000 against Chicago newspapers and sev eral individuals, Mayor-William Hale Thompson gave . orders that reporters could not communicate with him orally hereafter. Any information which they may require must be put in writ ing and sent in to the Mayor. In addition the .Mayor, sent word to members of his official family and others in - his . confidence . not to hold communication with him. hereafter over the telephone. This was due to the declaration of the Mayor that his tele phone wires at home and office have been tapped, sound-recording devices placed in the walls of his apartments and in his private office in the City Hall. Mayor Thompson refused to give an opinion as to whether the sound de vices were installed by agents of- the Federal " Government, of the State's Attorney or of the newspapers which he declares have been hounding him. WASHINGTON, Sept. 7. The Ameri can Union Against Militarism Issued a statement tonight announcing its in tention , of suing for libel any news paper or press association which sug gests that "we are German agents" or are "pro-German" or "supported by German funds" or are guilty of "sedi tion" or "treason," however those words may be modified. The statement says several such suits are In preparation and that an nouncement is made ahead of actual legal action because of a news dis patch printed yesterday that the De partment of Justice was contemplating an investigation of the union. MEXICO PRODS INDUSTRIES Many Are Regarded as Public Utili ties and May Be Seized. MEXICO CITY. Sept. 7. After a meeting of the Cabinet yesterday or ders were sent to the Governors of all states to the effect that many indus tries, including cotton factories, must be regarded in the light of publio utili ties. Should the proprietors close these factories, the Government, in case of a refusal to reopen, will take over and operate them. ' - The President and members of the Cabinet agreed to contribute one day's salary each In months of 30 and two days' pay in "months of 31 days to help organize, a bank of emission.. The President will advise . all Government employes to do likewise. INSURANCE BILL. TAKEN UP Leaders in House Favor Speedy Passage of Measure. WASHINGTON, Sept. 7. The Admin istration (176,000.000 soldiers' and sail ors' insurance bill was taken ud in the House today with the leaders deter mined to dispose of it as speedily as possible. Considerable opposition to the bill's optional Insurance, feature, opposed by private Insurance companies. Is antic ipated, but its passage, without mate rial change is expected. PUBLIC SAFETY HELD MENACED Company Bares Conditions in 6-Cent Fare Hearing. ONE-MAN CARS SUGGESTED Members of Public mission Consider Service Com Advisability as Means of Curtailment of Meeting Situation. Unless the employes of the Portland Railway, Light & Power Company re ceive early and substantial wage in creases that will enable them to meet the tremendous advances in the cost of life's necessities, hundreds of men will desert the organization, the service will suffer and the safety of the public will be jeopardized. Summarized, this was the burden of the testimony presented before the Public Service Commission at yester day's hearing of the company's applica tion for an Increase of its fares from 5 cents to 6 cents. Car Services Compared. Yesterday's proceedings brought in review before the Commission a record of the fluctuations In the city's indus trial and commercial life of the last decade, a comparison of the streetcar service in Portland and other . cities of the country and presentation of the difficulties under which employes now are laboring to maintain themselves and their families in decency and com fort on the existing schedule of wages. There was no denial from any quar ter that the men now are "underpaid and that their working hours Impose inconveniences on the motormen and conductors. . ... Wage Rise la Tentative. Officials of the company explained that they have entered into-a tentative agreement to grant the wage increases demand by their organized employes, to establish the eight-hour basic' day In the shops and on the cars' and Jo advance the wages of the unorganized employes,' including clerks, from 15 to 20 per cent. In the brief time at its disposal the Commission pried into almost every avenue that gave promise of affording the company the . necessary financial relief that will. enable it to meet this estimated additional annual expendi ture of $600,000 without imposing the 6-cent fare upon streetcar patrons. One-Man Cars Discussed. At the afternoon session Franklin T. Griffith, president of the company, was recalled to the stand for a discussion of the proposal to operate the cars with (Concluded on Page 3, Column 1. Miss Agnes Ililberg Becomes Bride of Joseph R. La Londe, Who Will Leave Today for Camp. VANCOUVER. Wash.. Sept. 7. (Spe cial.) It's mighty hard to get married tonight and leave home at 4 o'clock to morrow to go to war, but that is Just the situation facing Joseph R. La Londe, a young farmer of Barberton, a few miles from this city. Mr. La Londe, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ed-ward La Londe, of Barberton, and Miss Agnes Hllberg, stenographer for W. W. Sparks, attorney In this city, had been sweethearts for some time, but he was not yet quite ready to be married when the draft called him into the Army. Fate also decreed that he should be among the first increment to leave here for American Lake. After talking it over with his sweet heart. It was finally decided that the wedding should take place today, so they called in their old friend. E. J. O'Connell, of Barberton, "secretary of the Farm Loan Board and also Justice of the Peace, who has an office on Sixth near Main street, in this city. The ceremony took place after 5 o'clock. The bridegroom is to report at 5:30 A. M., tomorrow at the Courthouse for instructions by the Sheriff. DOCTOR'S WIFE AMBUSHED Volley of Shots Rains on Physician and Wife From Clump of Bushes. WALLA WALLA, Wash., Sept. 7. Waltsburg, a small town 20 miles east of here, was In a furore of excitement tonight as a result of a gun attack on Dr. and Mrs. H. A. Mount, among the most prominent residents ot the place, by some unknown person. The couple were walking from their garage to the house shortly before 9 o'clock when the firing began without warning from a clump of bushes nearby. One shot lodged in Mrs. Mount's breast, but it was said she would recover. No cause for the, shooting Is known. The state penitentiary bloodhounds were" rushed to the scene by Deputy Sheriffs but no arrests were made up to an early hour this morning. POISONED CANDY COMMON German Aviators Continue Efforts in ' France but Warning Is Given.' MONT BELIARD, France. Sept. 6. (Thursday.) German aviators are con tinuing to drop poisoned candy in this region. Some has been found wrapped up in paper bags Other poisoned sweets are in the form of chocolate cherries wrapped up in lead coated paper. Strict orders have been issued to prevent the consumption of this candy. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. TESTBRDArS Maximum temperature 67 degrees; minimum, 09 degrees. TODAY'S Showers, gentle southerly winds. War. President Poincare reviews American troops. rage -J. Austriana suffer heavy losses at hands of Italians. Page 2. German centrists find some of Wilson note acceptable. - Page 6. Dvinsk holds out; Petrograd believed not In danger.-- Page 2. Foreign. Gerard recounts thoughts and incidents from diary. Page 1. Lloyd George says freedom of world de "I pends on supremacy at sea. Page 3. Ex-President Sun Chief. Pan 5. named Commander-la- National. Manufacture of whisky ceases tonight. Page 6. Dudley Field Malone resigns as protest against President's .suffrage policy. Page 1. Grand Juries to Investigate X. W. W. anti draft plots. Page 3. President places embargo on gold exports. Page 3.. Debate on war tax bill grows bitter on sub ject of loyalty. Page 1. Domestic. American Alliance elects Gompers presi dent, and declares loyalty to America. Page 4. Mayor Thompson sues many newspapers and bars reporters from his office. Page 1. Sports. Pacific Coast League results: Portland 7, Salt Lake 8; Oakland 5. Los Angeles 2; Vernon 10, San Francisco 2. Page 8. "Tick" Malarkey takes up work as coach at Columbia University. Page S. San Francisco boxers to be brought north. Page 8. Fate of Interscholaatlc League to be de termined Tuesday. Page 8. Pacific Northwest. Bridegroom of day to be called to war. Page 1. San Francisco recruit misses train and drives to American Lake. Page 1. . . Commercial and Marine. All cereal yields In Northwest less than last year's. Page 17. Corn higher at Chicago on fears of crop damage. Page 17. All boats under way may be requisitioned by Government. Page 14. Sharp decline in shipping shares In Wall street market. Page 17. Closed shop demand of ship carpenters to be ignored by builders. Page 14. Portland and Vicinity. Carmen entitled to more pay. company of ficials testify. Page 1. Widowed mother of soldier sends $1 for tobacco to cheer up some other mother's soldier-son. Page 7. Court may be held at home ot Mrs. Colby today. Page 7. Milk Inquiry started by Mayor's committee. Page 11. Council accepts Auditorium and organ and authorizes final payments. Page 12. Permanent peace signed by tongs. Page 14. Grain men protest to Washington against discrimination. Page 8. Terwllllger boulevard remains closed to commercial traffic. Page 18. Council to decide question of modification of building today page J.-. Forest Service spends nearly $100,000 this year in Oregon ana Washington district. Page 6. Council authorizes changes In Fire Bureau. Page . Irvtngton frolics despite downpour. Page 4. Weather report, data and forecast. Pag 14. Plan of Higher Income Taxes Defeated. BONUS PLAN STIRS TEMPER Oregon Senator Denounces Army Demoralization. VOTE IS EXPECTED SOON Income Surtaxes Grade From I Per Cent on Incomes of $50 00 to SO Per Cent on Individual In comes of More Than Million. WASHINGTON, Sept. 7. In the midst of another bitter outburst over Ameri can unity in prosecuting the war, the Senate late today tentatively disposed of the income tax provisions of the war tax bill and again defeated all at tempts at higher taxation. Interest in virtual adoption of tha income tax section, designed to raise $S42, 000,000 more revenue from in dividual and corporate incomes, was overshadowed by a stormy three-hours' scene in which Senator Hardwlck, of Georgia, was ' subjected to vigorous criticism by Senator Nelson (Rep.) and Senators Chamberlain and Wil liams (Democrats). The incident hardly has been equaled in the Senate since passage of the Army draft bill. Amendment Stirs Temper. An amendment by Senator Hardwick to increase taxes on large incomes in order to pay a $50 monthly bonus to all Americans serving in France stirred up the Senate's temper. It was prompt ly voted down, 74 to 5, having the support only of Senators Gronna, Hardwlck, La Follette, Reed and Vardaman all of the group which op posed the draft act. But before and long after its disposition and with scant attention paid approval of the big In come tax levy, the Senate was engaged in the war of words it provoked. . When the- Georgia Senator today urged its adoption as a conscription of wealth to pay soldiers conscripted, he was assailed by Senator Nelson, a Civil War veteran, who ' denounced the amendment as "humiliating and belit tling", to the American soldier. Plan Tends to Harm Army. , "Our boys are not as che'ap as some statesmen," the Minnesota Senator shouted. Senator Chamberlain, chairman of the military committee, with evident feeling, cited Senator Hardwick's op position V the draft law and declared the amendment tended to demoralize the Army and toward further resist ance of the law. A ' statement showing the pay re-' ceived by soldiers of various grades was read by Senator Chamberlain, who declared. American soldiers' now 'receive the highest pay in the world and that the purpose of the Hardwick amend ment was to make this "a . mercenary army in the strictest sense of the word." i Hessian Only Mercenary Army. V "I know of but one mercenary army and the stigma sticks to that today," he added. "That army was the Hessian army that came to the United States." "Some Senators have claimed we have no cause for this war." said Sen ator Chamberlain. "These same men denied authenticity of the letter sent by Germany to Mexico. They say there is no danger of invasion from Germany. There is danger of Invasion. It Is time for the American people to get up and make ready to fight and become united Instead of trying to dis credit the actions of Congress and of the Administration. v "This amendment ought never to have been offered. It .ought not to be considered. Its purpose, whether in tentional or not, and its effect is the same to create unrest among our young men and to make them feel they are unjustly treated." Hardwlck Demands Free Speech. In reply Senator Hardwick claimed the right of free speech, defended his course in opposition to the Administra tion and attacked what he called the "flamboyant patriotism" of his critics. Senator Williams criticised the Georgia Senator's past and present at titude toward the draft law and ridi culed his speech. T take it that very few Senators, probably not over five," said Senator Williams, "will not agree that we have seldom witnessed a finer case of self inflation and puffed-up self-acting than that which has just been shown upon this arena." With disposal of the hotly-contested income tax section today, the Senate tomorrow will proceed with minor points of dispute pending. Senator Simmons expressed slight hope of pass ing the bill before adjournment to morrow, but thought it more probable that it would be delayed until Mon day, definitely fixed for final action, nigh Taxes Eliminated. In the further defeats today of the high tax group, the Senate rejected 55 to 19. an amendment by Senator La Follette to raise $643,651,000 Instead of $482,200,000 additional from individual Incomes. Another by Senator Hollls to raise $75,000,000 more than the bill now provides was defeated 51 to 16. (Concluded on Page 6. Column 2.) 1 fir7! i n
