Morning Oregonian., September 10, 1917, Image 1

VOL. LVII. NO. 17,722.
PORTLAND, OREGON, MONDAY, SEPTE3IBER 10, 1917.
PRICE . FIVE CENTS.
BERLIN'S PEACE
AUSTRALIA IN GRIP
OF 1. W. W. STRIKES
FRIEND OF CZARINA
LEADER OF EXILES
HEARTLESS LOGIC
LEADS BOY TO KILL
CAUSE
WOMAN COMMITS
SUICIDE AT SEA
0F GERMANS
'HATE
BUSINESS DEMORALIZED ; HATS
LAD,-14, SLAYS WOMAN BECAUSE
SHE IS "OLD AND DIRTY."
MISS KATE 'PALMER JUMPS
RTJTX GRAIN ON DOCKS.
FROM NORTHERN PACIFIC.
oralis
COUP III SWEDISH
AFFAIR ASTOIDS
H II
Several Concessions Ru-
mored in Washington.
PAY FROM BRITON DESIRED
Belgium and North France to
Be Restored and Colonies
Given Up, Is Report.
POPE'S NOTE RESEMBLED
Free Serbia and Roumania
and Independent Alsace
Lorraine Included.
LONDON, Sept. 9. Germany will
shortly be able to publish her peace
terms, according to Dr. Georg Mich
aelis, the German Chancellor.
Dr. Michaelis in an interview said
he had so informed the Reichstag main
committee, an Exchange Telegraph
dispatch from Copenhagen today
states.
The main committee, said Dr. Mich
aelis in the interview, had "tried to
make final arrangements regarding
peace conditions and the question of
Alsace-Lorraine, but no decision has
yet been taken."
Discussion Is Eager.
The question, however, was eagerly
discussed and Germany will soon be
able to publish her peace terms.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 9. What
purported to be an outline of ' Ger
" many's peace terms has been circu
lated among diplomats here within
the last two weeks, but has been re
garded by the entente embassies and
most of the neutrals as a "feeler."
The origin of the so-called terms was
not disclosed, but they are said ' to
have been written by Foreign Secre
tary von Kuhlmann before his visit to
Vienna, which since has been pointed
to as strengthening the probability
that they bear evidence of authen
ticity. British Pay Wanted.
Briefly, the so-called terms were as
follows:
Restoration of Belgium and North
ern France, to be paid for out of the
sale of Germany's colonies to Great
Britain. ,
Alsace and Lorraine to be inde
pendent 6tates. (High French offi
cials recently have stated anew the
determination of France to be satis
fied with nothing less than the recov
ery of her lost provinces).
Trieste to be a "free port."
Serbia and Roumania to be restored,
and Serbia to have a port on the
Adriatic
Balkan Question to Wait.
The Balkan question and the status
of Turkey to be subjected for nego
tiation.
Disarmament and international po
lice.
Freedom of the seas with Great
Britain in control of the English
Channel until the projected tunnel is
built between Dover and Calais. "
This outline of terms, circulated
with the definite stamp of officiality,
it will be noted bears in many re
spects a resemblance to the general
tenor of the peace proposals of Pope
Benedict.
Outline Merely Possibility.
By some diplomats such an outline
is regarded as presenting something
susceptible of discussion. It is dis
cussed merely as a possibility, with'
out having yet advanced fully into the
range of probability.
COPENHAGEN, Sept. 9. The com
mittee of seven members of the Reich
stag and seven members of the Bun
desrath appointed to draft up an an
swer to Pope Benedict's peace note
will meet Monday afternoon and the
reply probably will be drafted then,
says a Berlin dispatch today.
The Bulgarian delegate, Djidroff,
who participated in the recent confer
ence of Socialists- of the central pow
ers at Vienna, has declared, according
to an interview reprinted in the Vos-
sische Zeitung (Berlin) that the con
ference decided to work upon the re
spective governments to lay down
their terms upon which peace is pos
sible. The Bulgarian Socialists gained
the impression that the Bulgarian de
mands, namely Macedonia and Dob-
on Pass 8. Couma 2,1
Reign of Terror, Which Government
Seems Unable to Cope With, Re
sults in Burning: of Ships.
SAN FRANCISCO. Sept. 9. (Special.)
Word of I. W. W. outbreaks, which
have brought business In Sydney and
throughout entire Australia to an ab
solute standstill and which culminated
in the burning of a schooner loaded
with copra last week, was brought to
San Francisco today by passengers on
the steamer Ventura.
According to these reports, general
strikes prevail in all parts of the coun
try and the government is seemingly
unable to cope with the situation. The
strikes in Sydney delayed the Ventura
for six days, and it was not until the
fariers came down out of the surrounding-
hills and loaded their own
cargoes that the vessel was able to
sail.
Ivan Nelson, a Sydney exporter, said
that conditions were the worst he had
ever si -i, and that the strikes have
completely ruined business. He lays
the trouble to I. W. W. agitators. He
received a wireless message en route
telling him that the schooner Miranda
was set on fire in Sydney harbor, with
a loss of $300,000.
W. J. Hanna. Public Service Com-
misssioner of New South Wales, says
the outbrc .ks an -aused by the dis
content of the Labor party over their
defeat by the War party at the last
election.
The docks at Sydney, according to
Hanna, are piled high with wheat, con
gested by the lack of bottoms to move
it, and it is lr fett " v -th rodents.
WHITE PINE MILL IS FIRED
Three Suspects Are Watcbed After
Tool and Oil House Barns.
BAKER. Or., Sept. 9. (Special.)
Fire, believed to have been incendiary
in origin, destroyed a tool and an
oil house at the White Pine Mill at
White Pine last night. Three men
suspected as L W. W. are being
watched.
While the mill crew was extinguish
ing the toolhouse blaze another fire
broke out in the main mill, but was
discovered and quickly put out. Here
a quantity of kerosene was found
under a "hog" at the point of origin.
Only a few hundred dollars in damage
resulted, but that the entire mill was
not destroyed Is due only to the rapid
work of the fire fighters. The plant
will resume work tomorrow.
TROOPS SHOOT 2 PARADERS
Supporters of Streetcar Strike Are
Routed at Springfield.
SPRINGFIELD, 111., Sept. 9. Two
men were shot and several others were
bruised and cut here today when troops
of the Ninth Illinois Infantry broke up
a parade Intended as a demonstration
in support of the streetcar strike which
has been in progress for seven weeks.
Neither of those shot was seriously
wounded.
The parade had been forbidden by
police authorities, as a precaution
against disturbances by car strike
sympathizers.
Talk of a general strike of workers
lr all trades is rife, as a protest
against today's action of the military
authorities.
CURATE WOULD BE SOLDIER
Appeal Made to War Department to
Enlist as Private.
NEW YORK, Sept. 9. Rev. Joseph
N. Barnett, curate of St. George's Epis
copal Church In this city, has appealed
to the War Department for permission
to be Included In the first quota of
drafted men from the district in which
he lives, although, as a clergyman, he
Is exempt.
"I want to be a private in the Na
tional Army," he wrote to the War De
partment. "I want to be one of the
soldiers, to eat and sleep and fight
with the boys and to be in a position
to be of real help when a comrade is in
trouble."
MR. LANE MAKES FLIGHT
Secretary of Interior Is Piloted by
Ills Son.
NEWPORT NEWS, Va.. Sept. .
Secretary of Interior Lane, who ac
companied the International Alrcrafts
Standard Board and the Alrcrafts Pro
duction Board to Langley Field, the
Army aviation station near here Sat
urday, made a flight In an airplane
piloted by his son. Lieutenant Frank
lin K. Lane. Jr., U. S. A.
Despite her 70 years, Mrs. Samuel
Coffin, mother of Howard B. Coffin, of
the National Council of Defense, was
a passenger in a machine piloted by
an Italian aviator.
SEATTLE GETS FIFTH YARD
Erlckson Shipbuilding Company to
Construct Steel Vessels.
SEATTLE. Wash., Sept. 9. Work on
the construction of a steel shipbuilding
plant, the fifth to enter Seattle, will
begin immediately on a site near the
junction of the East and West water
ways, on the Duwamish River, pur
chased Saturday by the Erlckson Ship
building Company.
Members of the new firm are C. 3.
Erlckson. president of the . Erickson
Construction Company; his son, Charles
E. Erlckson. and E. M. Barnett, New
Yprk City.,
Royalists Are Taken to
- Swedish Frontier.
STARTLING STORY PROMISED
Late Events in Imperial Court
to Be Revealed.
EX-CZAR WEAK CHARACTER
Confidant of Empress Tells Re
sult of Dowager's Training.
Ruler Dumfounded at Re
volt of His People.
PETROGRAD, Sept. 9. The first ex
iles among the adherents of the old
imperial regime were sent Saturday
under a strong escort to the Swedish
frontier, where they will be released.
Extraordinary precautions were
taken to guard the exiles and access
to the railroad station where they
boarded a train was forbidden.
At the head of the party with a Sis
ter of Mercy was the famous Mademoi
selle Virubova, for 12 years the bosom
friend and confidant of the former
Empress, and who has been called "the
female Rasputin of the revolution."
Mile. "Virubova Beautiful.
With her were the intriguer, Man-
seevich-Manlllov, and the Asiatic. Bad-
mayeff, to whom the former Emperor
Nicholas gave a diploma as a "doctor
of Tibetan medicine,", in recognition of
his success in curing all imaginable
diseases of the courtiers with a certain
cordial.
On the eve of her departure Mile.
Virabova was Interviewed by the Asso
ciated Press In the presence of a de
tective. She is a strikingly handsome.
somewhat stout, black-haired woman,
resembling the portraits of Catherine
the Great. She limps and uses a crutch
as the result of a railroad accident.
Memoirs to Be Startling;.
There is a scar on her forehead.
which she asserted was inflicted.-by
the guards at the fortress of St. Peter
and St. Paul, from which she was re
cently released.
Mile. Virubova. who is personally
fascinating, but apparently not a clever
woman, gave a striking outline of the
last years of the court of Emperor
Nicholas, declaring that the memoirs
which she intended to write will star
tle the world.
"My life-story is this," she said. "I
am a daughter of M. Taneyeff, a for
mer secretary of the Emperor. I was
married at 18 to a naval officer who
fought in the battle of Tsuhima. He
went mad and I then divorced him.
Afterward came Alix (thus Virabova
referred to the former Empress).
"After I came to know her I was her
(Concluded on Pav 4. Column 3.)
WHAT
Youth Says Victim Was of No Use
to Self or World and That
His Crime Aided Her.
BERKELEY, CaL, Sept. 9. Fourteen-year-ola
John Baker killed Mrs. Emlle
Turner, 74 years old, by strangulation
at her lonely ranch in the Berkeley
hills a week ago because "she was old
and very dirty," the boy told Assistant
Professor Warner Brown oi the de
partment of psycholo- of the Uni
versity of California, tonight.
"I thought It best to kill her," Baker
said. "She wa : no good to herself or
anybody. She was poor and would have
gone to the pocrhouse soon and she
said she would kill herself when they
came to take her. Once the thought
to kill her came into my head it stayed
with me and I just waited and killed
her."
Professor Brown said Baker, who was
assisted in killing Mrs. Turner by
James Free, also 14, according to con
fessions made to the police by the
boys, presented a strange psychological
study. , .
"There seems to be no motive for
the crime," said Professor Brown, after
an interview with the boy. "The lad
has an utter and abnormal Indifference
toward his future. The only conclu
sion that I can arrive at is that In his
strange, cold-blooded logic he figured
the woman worthless to the world and
when she annoyed him slightly he de
cided to put her out of the way as one
would an Inanimate object."
WOMEN TO RUN CANTEENS
Comfort to Be Provided Soldiers at
Trenches In France.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 9. One hun
dred women to take charge of the can
teens and rest stations along the routes
to be traveled by American soldiers in
going to and from' the trenches In
France have been selected by the
Women's Bureau of the American Red
Cross.
The Red Cross War Council has ap
propriated $700,000 for the establish
ment of these canteens, which will be
equipped with shower baths, laundries,
mending and disinfecting rooms and
restrooms with reading and writing
material, games, delicacies and tobacco.
CLUB'S COCKTAILS SAVED
Ship Bearing Liquor to San Fran
cisco Beats Barrier by an Hour.
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 9. The
steamer Presld i arrived here from
Victoria, E. C, at 6:40 tonight and
won by an hour and 20 minutes a race
against the time at which the law
prohibiting importation of distilled li
quors into the United States became
effective.
The President carried a large quan
tity of liquor consigned to San Fran
cisco clubs.
Java Sugar Not Sought.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 9. Reports that
the United States would seek to in
crease its sugar supply with Imports
from Java were denied yesterday at
the food administration.
DOES THE KAISER CARE FOR HOSPITALS?
Intimidation of United
States Sought.'
PRESS IS ANTI-AMERICAN
But Two Writers Say Good
Word for Present Foe.
ENVY MOTHER OF HATE
Prosperous Germans Returning
From America, Cause of Dissatis
faction Course of German
Americans Disappointment.
BT JAMES W. GERARD.
American Ambassador to the German Im
perial Court, July 23, 1913, to February 4,
1917. (Copyright. 1917, by tho Publio
Ledger Company.)
There was published in Berlin In
English a rather ridiculous paper called
the "Continental Times," owned by an
Austrian Jewess who had been married
to an Englishman. (The Foreign Office
after the outbreak of the war virtually
took over this sheet by buying monthly
many thousand copies.
News colored hysterically to favor
the central empires was printed in this
paper, which was headed "A Paper for
Americans," under the editorship of an
Englishman of . decent family named
Stanhope, who, of, course, in conse
quence did not have to inhabit the pris
on camp at Ruhleben.
Presideat Is Attacked.
Marten's friend was a contributor to
this newspaper, and scurrilous articles
attacking President Wilson appeared.
Finally, he wrote a lying article for
this paper, in which he charged that
Conger, i of the Associated Press, had
learned of Sir Roger Casement's pro
posed expedition; that Conger told roe;
that I cabled the news to Washington
to the State Department, and that a
member of President Wilson's Cabinet
then gave the information to the Brit
ish Ambassador? "
Later, in a wireless message which
the Foreign Office permitted him to
send Senator O'Gorman, of New York,
he varied his He, and .charged that I
had sent the information direct to Eng
land. "Times" Given to Prisoner.
"The Continental Times" was dis
tributed in the prison camps, and after
his article I said to Von Jagow: "I
have had enough of this nonsense,
which is supported by the Foreign Of
fice, and If articles of this nature ap
pear again. I shall make a publio state
ment that the prisoners of war in Ger
many are subjected to a cruel and un
usual punishment by having the lying
'Continental Times placed In their
(Concluded on Page 4. Column 4.)
Note Is Left Announcing Intent and
Asking That Mother Be
Informed.
ASTORIA. Or.. Sept. 9. (SDeclaLI
Miss Kate Palmer, a young, woman
whose home was in Ohio, committed
suicide today by jumping overboard
from the steamship Northern Pacific
ine woman had, occupied room 126
on the trip from San .rancisco with a
Mrs. Mason and appeared to be de
spondent.
Soon after the steamer najmart tha
Columbia River li srhtshin And wam nn.
proachlng the end f the Jetty. Miss
t-aimer lert ner stateroom. She must
have jumped overboard at once, al
though no one saw the act.
She left a note savlncr she intended
to commit suicide and asked that her
mother be informed.
PRESIDENT VISITS HOUSE
Outing on Yacht and Motor Is En-
Joyed by Party at Gloucester.
GLOUCESTER. Mass.. Sent 9. Presi
dent and Mrs. Wilson made an unex
pected call at this port today on board
me presidential yacht Mayflower, mo
tored all along the picturesque shore
for two hours With Colonel and Mfm v.
M. House, and tonight dined on board
me yacnt with Colonel and Mrs. House
as guests.
Colonel House, who has a Summer
home at Coolidge Point, Magnolia, as
sured all Inquirers that the visit of the
President was purely social.
SWISS MAY EXPEL ALIENS
Measures Adopted Recently in Hun
gary Are Discussed.
GENEVA, Sept. 9. Several Swiss
newspapers demand that the authori
ties take the same measures as were
adopted recently at Budapest, Hungary,
and expel all foreigners of military
age.
If Switzerland adopted the suggested
measures it is estimated many thous
ands, including many Americans, would
be expelled.
OLD PALACE IMPERILED
Ancient Gothic Structure of Venice
Bombarded by Austrlans..
VENICE, Sept. 9. Bombs dropped
during the Austrian airplane raid over
this city September 7 struck the
Damula palace, a beautiful gothlc
structure of the fourteenth century,
near the Rialto bridge, now called the
Morosini palace.
The damage was slight.
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Weather.
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 72
decrees; minimum, 60 degrees.
TODAY'S Probably showers; moderate west
erly winds.
Foreign-
Munltlona shipments cause of German
hatred. Page 1.
Confidant of Czarina heads company of
exiles. Pass 1.
War.
Base for monster American outfit is rising
in France. Pass 6.
American expose of Sweden surprises Europe.
Page 1.
Germany promises to publish peace terms
soon. Pass 1.
German lines lost at Hargicourt. Paso 4.
National.
Red Cross work for six months to coat more
than $12,000,000. Page 4.
Washington not considering break with
Sweden. Page 3.
War tax bill expected to pass Senate today.
Page 2. r
Domestic.
Freight business of railroads grows by
bounda. Page 7.
Strike of freight handlers called in Kansas
City. Page 6.
Boy, 14, kills woman because she la "old
and dirty." Pags 1.
Australia In grip of I. W. W. strike. Pags 1.
Roosevelt calls on all Americans to stamp
out disloyalty. Page 13.
Sports.
Pacific Coast league results: Portland B-l.
Salt Lake 10-4; San Francisco 5-8. Ver
non 4-4; Ijos Angeles 5-4, Oakland 8-10.
Page 12.
Indians wrangle and umpire forfeits extra
Innlng game to White Sox. Page 13.
Dartmouth -likely to represent East In New
Year's football game at Pasadena.
Page 12.
Giants and Sox to meet. Page 12.
Ex-Beaver Hunter pulls ridiculous yarn
about McCredlea. Page 12.
Pacific Northwest.
Carbonado Hills shield fiend who mutilated
little Mamie Torkko. Page 4.
Addison Bennett tells of enjoyments of
Willamette Valley editors. Page 6.
Miss Kate Palmer, passenger on Northern
Pacific, commits suicide at sea. Page X.
Portland and Vicinity.
Home defense forces to bo made compact
organization. Page 11.
City may protest against six-cent streetcar
fare. Page 10.
Dairy herds being sold and milk shortage
faced. Page 8.
Women of Woodcraft open annual session
here today. Page 10.
Plana being laid for campaign to raise money
for soldiers' libraries. Page 11.
Oregon physicians and surgeons now officers
in Army number 121. Page 11.
Commission will make personal Investigation
before locating state highway through
Sherman County. Page 10.
Thousands bear pipe organ recital at mu
nicipal Auditorium. Page 6.
Ochoco irrigation district bonds in demand.
Page 10.
Portland's "Duchess of Buckingham" re
turns to Russia. Pags 16.
Ambulance unit No. 19 goes to American
Lake. Page 19.
Engagement of Miss Elizabeth Jones and
Richard Maurice Dooly, Jr., announced.
Page 2.
Apple men and boxmakera to meet on call
of Mr. Ayer. Page Id.
Dr. S. J. Reid preaches. Page 7.
Loyal Italian woman may not win eoveted
citizenship. Page 11.
Rev. W. J. Fenton named superintendent
of Willamette district and Rev. J. M.
French pastor of First Methodist Episco
pal Church, South. In Portland. Page 7.
Weather, report, data and forecast. Page 13,
Europe Praises America
For Expose.
STATE VICTORY ACCREDITED
Stockholm Government Lona
Regarded as Strongly
Favoring Germany.
PUBLIC IS PRO-ENTENTE
Question Is Raised as to Ad
visability of Permitting
Neutrals to Use Code.
BUENOS AIRES, Sept. 9 The
Swedish Minister to Argentine, Baron
Lowen, today denied that dispatches
in cipher had been Bent to Berlin by
the German Charge through the Swed
ish legation at Buenos Aires. He de
clared: "I have not sent, nor caused to ba
sent by the legation under my charge,
any telegram from the German lega
tion. The news is a great and dis
agreeable surprise.
"I have cabled to my government
to clear np matters.
"In the United States they are very
excitable."
LONDON, Sept. 9. The United
States State Department's revelation
of a Swedish diplomat in Argentina
acting as in intermediary for trans
ferring German messages to Berlin
has created one of the greatest inter
national sensations of the war. The
development itself is not, however, a
great surprise, the chief surprise be
ing that the American officials were
able to obtain the messages, as they
did the Zimmerman note of last Win
ter regarding German overtures to
Mexico.
The Swedish government, with the
monarchy, the aristocracy and tho
army officers, has been rated strongly
pro-German throughout the war, and
Queen Victoria in several public at
terances has proclaimed her German
sentiments as strongly as any German
could.
Swedish People Anti-German.
The Swedish people, on the other
hand, are reported as leaning strongly
against Germany in the more recent
part of the war, particularly since the
unrestricted submarine campaign.
" The suspicion has been current in
England throughout the war that Ger
many was obtaining much information
of military movements which could
not be secured through the ordinary
spies, the spy industry in fact having
been pretty well stamped out here for
more than a year past after a few
lessons taught by several executions
in the Tower of London.
Obtaining of Notes Praised.
Compliments to American diplo
macy for the skill displayed in secur
ing the messages are part of all the
comment on the affair.
Incidentally there is much discus
sion as to whether, in view of the
British and Argentine experiences
with Sweden, the right of sending1
code messages should be given to neu
tral diplomats during the war.
"The discovery and deciphering of
the present series of telegrams is due
to the watchfulness and skill of the
American intelligence service, says
the Sunday Observer. The Observer
states that it received, this informa
tion from "trustworthy sources."
Cause for Reflection Seen.
The newspaper continues:
"It must cause some ground for re
flection to the German government
that one of the first acts of their new
enemy, whose activities and value in
the prosecution of the war they have
affected to despise, has been to ex
pose a procedure which affords damn
ing evidence against themselves and
against a neutral government which
it is chargeable to regard as their
dupe.
"The contents of the published tele
grams cannot but show neutral gov
ernments the amount of faith they
may put in German promises and
German concessions.
Swedish Diplomat Blamed.
"The accrredited representative of
the German Empire at Buenos Aires,
while actually enjoying the hospitality
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