VOL. L VII. NO. 17,727.
PORTLAND, OREGON, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1917.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
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EHSKVS FAIL
MILLMEN TOLD TO
RUSH ALL SPRUCE
PATRIOTIC WOMEN
FOUND DESTITUTE
OREGON SHIPYARDS
TO GET CONTRACTS
THRILLING BATTLES
GOVERNMENT TO TAKE EVERY
STICK THAT IS CUT.
COOS COUNTY MOTHERS HATE
SONS IN ARMY AND NAVY.
ASSATJIiT MADE AS TROOPS
SPEED ACROSS OHIO.
SHIP CARPENTERS
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SEEMS IMPEtlDiG
Pacifists Gain Upper Hand
in Russia.
PEACE CCNFEREKCE WASTED
Radicals for First Time Get
Overwhelming Control of
Council of Deputies.
GENERAL' KILLS HIMSELF
Abolition '. of . Private Property
and Merciless Taxation of
Capital Are Demanded.
PETROGRAD, Sept. 14 (Friday)
The Associated Press is officially in
formed that General Korniloff has not
yet surrendered. Still faithful to him
are some of the "striking battalions"
and also a considerable number of de
tachments of Tekke Turcomans.
PETROGRAD, Sept. 14 The po
litical equilibrium which the country
had expected as a result of the col
lapse of the rebellion has not yet been
passed. The Cabinet crisis continued
all day. The evening newspapers
agree that Premier Kerensky is in a
very difficult position, the Birjeviya
declaring that his resignation is not
yet excluded from the possibilities.
The cause of the trouble is an acute
revival of the old struggle for power.
Premier Kerensky insists that the
entry of four . Constitutional Demo
crats into the Cabinet is indispen
sable, but opposition to this is grow
ing among members of the Left. .
One-sided Cabinets Opposed.
Kerensky might give way to this
point, but he also is negotiating
through Minister of the Interior Kish
kin for the entry into the Cabinet of
Representatives of the Moscow In
dustrial Workers and these declare
that' they will not accept portfolios if
the Constitutional Democrats' are ex
pelled.
The Social Democrats and Social
Revolutionaries, while continuing to
oppose the Constitutional Democrats,
declare that they also are against the
formation of a purely Socialist Cab
inet. Radicals Gain Control.
The problem is complicated by the
attitude of the Petrograd Council of
Deputies, in which at last night's
meeting the Kolshevikis for the first
time gained an overwhelming majority
of 29, against 115 in favor of an ex
tremely radical prsgramme. This pro
gramme declares that not only the Con
stitutional Dmocrats, but also all rep
resentatives of propertied classes,
must be excluded from power; that
the policy of compromise must be
abandoned, as it is merely a cause
of counter revolutionary plotting, and
that exceptional powers of repression
claimed by the government must be
relinquished.
Peace Conference Wanted.
It also demands the immediate dec
laration of a democratic republic, the
abolition of private property and land,
with the transfer to peasants of all
stock and machinery on estates;" con
trol by the working classes over pro-
auction; the nationalization of the
chief branches of industry, "merciless
taxation" of capital and the confisca
tion of war profits.
The resolution demands further the
publication of secret treaties, the im
meaiaie. inviiauon to tne warring
states to conclude peace, the expul
sion of counter revolutionaries from
the commands in the army, the satis
faction of the demands of Ukraine and
Finland, the dissolution of the Duma
and the Council of Empire, the im
mediate summoning of a constituent
assembly and the abolition' of priv
ileges of nobles.
General Kills Self.
General Krymoff, commander of
the troops of General Korniloff sent
to attack Petrograd, the official news
agency has announced, has succumbed
to the wounds he inflicted upon him
eelf last night after an interview with
Premier Kerensky. The Premier had
told him of his fate for leading the
revolt.
The civilian and military organiza
tions are acting vigorously to negative
.(Concluded on Fas 3. Column &.
Companies Instructed to Ignore
Previous Orders and to Rush
Output; Labor Is Short.'
ABERDEEN, Wash., Sept. 14. (Spe
cial.) Harbor millmen have received
telegraphic orders from Secretary of
"War Baker to hasten spruce deliveries
that building of the new airplane fleet
may be rushed.
Every mill on the Harbor now has
orders for airplane stock, ranging from
25,000 to 250.000 feet, and all of the
millmen are trying to fill their orders as
soon as possible. They have instruc
tions to ship all their cut, despite how
much it may exceed their orders, the
Government having commandeered all
the spruce cut here for its own use.
A shortage of loggers In the camps
Is cutting down the number of spruce
logs available and the spruce produc
tion Is not as heavy as millmen would
like to have it. Grays Harbor is the
greatest spruce producing section in
the world, and upon this harbor and
Wlllapa Harbor most of the spruce
sent East will be cut.' Parts of Oregon
also are expected to get liberal orders.
BOY, LONG BLIND, MAY SEE
Otto Strebe, of Washington School
for Deaf, Has Operation.
VANCOUVER. Wash., Sept. 14. (Spe
cial.) Blind, deaf and dumb since he
was 3 years old. Otto Strebe, a pupil
at the Washington State School for the
Deaf, has submitted to a second opera
tion on his, eye, and when he has an
other performed, the doctors believe he
will have perfect sight In one 'eye. The
other eye was destroyed when a dyna
mite cap which he threw into the fire
place, exploded.
He will continue his school training
when he regains bis sight, but he will
always be deaf. He had learned to
sign about 160 words when school
closed in June.
COAL EMBARGO POSSIBLE
Way. of Preventing Food Exports
-From South America Noted.
WASHINGTON. Sept. 14. If It be
comes necessary to prevent food ship
ments from reaching Germany from
South America through the European
countries, the United. States and Great
Britain are prepared to apply the
strictest embargo on coal exports to
the Latfn-Amerlcan republics.
Operations of a coal embargo - and
bunkering restrictions, It Is declared.
would stop immediately all. food ship
ments from South America. -
STRIKER CAN'T BE CITIZEN
Judge Says Man Who Cripples Gov
ernment In Crisis Unfit.
SEATTLE, Sept. 14. After Edward
Conrad Strom, a native of Sweden,
seeking citizenship papers, had testi
fied that he had voted for the shipyard
strike now In progress here, Superior
Judge Jurey today dismissed . the ap
plication without prejudice.
The judge said that a man so lack
ing in patriotism as to strike at a time
like this, when the United States was
in need of ships, was not fit to be a
citizen.
CHURCH TO AID TROOPS
Protestant Episcopalians to Spena
Half Million In Europe.
WASHINGTON. Sept. 14. Prelates of
the Protestant Episcopal Church In the
United States, assembled here to or
ganize the war commission of the
church, today decided to raise $500,000;
to send a bishop to Europe at once to
look after Episcopalians In the trenches
and camps, and created an executive
committee of the churchmen and lay
men to carry out the plans.
WOMAN MAYOR RESIGNS
Umatilla Executive Moves to Idaho,
but Another Woman Is Chosen.
PENDLETON, Or, Sept. 14. (Spe
cial.) Mrs. Laura Starcher, head of the
first city administration In the country
composed entirely of women, has re
signed as Mayor of Umatilla and gone
to Parma, Idaho, to live. ...
Her successor is Mrs. Helen T. Dun
can, appointed by the Council.
COAL EXPORTS CHECKED
Dr. Garfield Guards Against Fuel
Shortage ' in Middle West.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 14. Dr. H. A.
Garfield. Fuel Administrator, today
asked the export embargo board to
refer all applications for export of coal
to him for the present, in order to pre
vent exports from interfering with his
plans for relieving coal shortage in the
Northwest.
WOMAN, 101, DANCES, DIES
Hip Fractured by Fall at Entertain
ment at Home for Aged.
SAN FRANCISCO. Sept. 14. Mrs.
Bridget Lougheney, who told hospital
atendants she was 101 years old.
danced two weeks ago at an entertain
raent given at the Home for the Aged
here, where she resided. She fell and
fractured her hip bone. Today she died
in a hospital. '
PLEA FOR DELAY IS IGNORED
Unions Blame Astoria Lockout
for Decision to Walk Out.
MANY APPLY FOR PLACES
Managers Are Not Concerned and
Promise That Work on Govern
ment Steamers Will Go On
and . Jobs Will Be Filled.
Union ship carpenters and other or
ganized employes of the wooden ship
building plants on the Columbia and
Willamette rivers will strike at 10
o'clock this morning for increased
wages and adoption of the union shop
principle.
An aggregate of 2500 men at 11 dif
ferent plants with approximately 100
vessels on the . ways are involved.
The determination to strike was ex
pressed at two big mass meetings last
night one at Turn Hall, in Portland,
and the other in Astoria.
Lockout Blamed for Strike.
Officials of the Carpenters' Union
said after the Portland meeting that
the strike would have been averted but
for the action of the McEachern and
Wilson Brothers yards at Astoria in
locking out their union employes yes
terday morning.
It is understood that the strike order
Is in direct violation of instructions re
ceived yesterday, by telegraph, from
international officials of the carpen
ters' organization and other unions af
fected. The international officials had urged
the men to hold off until the whole
controversy could be laid before the
Federal authorities at Washington.
Managers Not Concerned.
Local officials declare, however, that
the developments at Astoria yesterday
will ena-ble them to reconcile their ac
tion of last night with the instructions
from their international chiefs.
Managers - of the - employing ship
yards manifested no concern last night
over the situation or threatened situ
ation. They say they can fill the places
of the strikers with other ' qualified
men, many of whom are applying to
them every day for work. The work
of building ships for Government ac
count and for private contract, so nec
essary to the- successful prosecution of
the war, will go on without lnterrup
tion. Is their promise.
Several Plants .(Affected.
Following is a list of the plants af
fected: Supple & Ball in. Peninsula,
Standlfer-Clarkson (two plants, at
Kenton and Vancouver, Wash.). Kier-
(Concluded on Pass , Column 1.)
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Relief by County and by Red Cross
Is Prompt as Soon as
. Facts Are Known.
MARSHFIELD, Or., Sept. 14. (Spe
cial.) Mrs. Kate Woolley, of Bay Park,
and Mrs. S. B. McCullom, of Bunker
Hill, today" furnished evidence of the
situation the war Is creating in some
localities. Neighbors Informed County
Commissioner Archie Philip the women
were destitute, and, on Investigation, It
was found to. be the truth.
Mrs.' Woolley has a son in the Elev
enth Coast Artillery Company and Mrs.
McCullom is caring for a paralytic son
and has another In the Canadian army
and one in the United States Navy.
Temporary relief- was provided by
the county and the Red Cross will be
asked to furnish comforts the county
is unable to bestow.
Mrs. Woolley had a few jars of fruit
left in her larder and had been send
ing some to her son at Fort Stevens.
BAY RUM PROVES ELIXIR
Youth Returns to Elderly Folk Who
Are Arrested for Noise.
Old age was out In force at a party
at 230 Clay street last night, and cele
brated with such clamor that Sergeant
Burke and Patrolmen Morris and
Thorpe descended on the place and ar
rested most of those present.
Those arrested were: J. I Jobb, 87,
charged with visiting a disorderly
house; Jim Galloway, 69; John Niles,
62, and Eva Frlellnger, 40. Just be
fore the police raid Margaret Galagher,
SO, fell down the stairs and was in
jured so that . she was taken to the
Good Samaritan Hospital. The police
say . the prisoners had been . drinking
bay rum.
U. S. EXPOSURE IS DENIED
Von Eckhardt Says Swedish Minis
ter Not Tool in Mexico.
MEXICO CITT, Sept 14 Helnricb
von Eckhardt, the German Minister to
Mexico, tonight made a statement de
nylng everything in connection with
the disclosures from Washington that
he had been employing a former Swed
ish charge d'affaires to convey Infor
mation to the Berlin Foreign Office.
Von Eckhardt declared that he had
never sent any communication through
Folke Cronholm and that . he never
wrote any communication recommend
ing Cronholm for a decoration for his
services.
URUGUAY APPROVES SPLIT
Argentina Commended for Sending
German Minister Home.
BUENOS AIRES. Sept. 14. The gov
ernment of Uruguay -has declared it
approves the action of the Argentine
government in handing passports to
Count von L-uxburg, the German MIn
later.
The Brazilian steamship Cayaba, for
merly German owned, has been placed
under strong guard as the result of
threats to damage the ship having been
made by interned Germans.
THINK TWICE BEFORE YOU EAT.
Responsible Firms to
Build Wooden Craft.
ADMIRAL CAPPS TELLS PLANS
Labor Situation Only One Giv
ing Shipping Board Concern.
FOREIGN WORK POSSIBLE
Government Will Insist That Yards
Do Not Disturb Blaterial or .
Labor Conditions at Plants
Handling Federal Jobs.
OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash
ington, Sept. 14. To Oregon wood ship
yards that meet requirements laid down
by the Shipping Board will be awarded
contracts for approved types of wooden
ships when Congress appropriates the
additional billion dollars which the
board has asked.
This was the assurance which Sena
tors McXary and Chamberlain received
today from Admiral Capps in the course
of a conference lasting an hour and a
half. -
Tarda Wait on Contracts.
At the outset Senator McNary pointed
to the tie-up of many Oregon yards be
cause of the attitude recently assumed
by the Shipping Board and said that
the time bad come when the wood ship
Industry was entitled to know definitely
whether it was to receive further recog
nition from the Government. . whether
It could build for foreign governments
or whether it could expect nothing fur
ther from any quarter.
Admiral Capps made It plain during
the conference that he was satisfied as
to the ability of Oregon yards to get
all the lumber they require, in fact he
expressed surprise that such large tim
bers were being turned out by Oregon
mills and so close to shipyards. - But he
repeatedly referred to his apprehension
oj- the question of labor
SSOO Tom Minimum Size. - ,
In saying he would resume wood shin
building, the Admiral told the Senators
the appropriation asked would be ample
to build all the ships responsible yards
of the Pacific Coast can turn out, but
laid emphasis on what he termed the
"limitations" of the wood ship;
No contracts, he said, would be let
for ships, of less than 3500 . tons dead
weight capacity. Before any contract
is let Admiral Capps said he would in
sist that: the builder not only establish
the fact that he has adequate financial
backing but satisfy the Shipping Board
that he can get all the material needed,
including not only lumber - but ma
chinery, engines, hardware and any
thing going Into a completed ship. He
must give satisfactory assurance, he
will, if awarded a contract have no
labor troubles, that he will not pay
(Concluded on Pace 2, Column 2.)
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Identity of Unit and Destination
Withhehld for Military Reasons.
Train Not Stopped by Shooting.
STEUBENVTLLE. O., Sept. 14. A
troop train on the Pennsylvania Rail
road was fired upon tonight near Mingo
Junction, O., according to reports re
ceived here. Four soldiers are said to
have been wounded, one seriously. The
wounded men remained on the train,
which is proceeding to Pittsburg.
Information as to the identity of the
troops or the destination of the train
was withheld by railroad officials be
cause of the military regulations.
It was said the train was fired on
while moving at a rapid rate of speed
through Mingo Junction, but that no
stop was made until this city was
reached, the wounded men being cared
for by the detachment of medical
troops aboard.
The information that four soldiers
were shot was given railroad detec
tives here by officers in charge of the
train.- Seven shots were fired, accord
ing to advices.
BAKERSFIELD. Cal.. Sept. 14. Stag
ing what Chief of Police E. P. Munsey
terms "a Buffalo Bill performance,'
two motorists passed several soldiers in
the heart of the city today and opened
a fusillade 'of revolver shots. Ray Law,
who said he was a railway watch In
spector, and B. L. Angel, a railway fire
man, are held in connection with the
shooting. A small revolver was dis
covered hidden in the body of Law's
car.
SAILOR HEIR TO $860,000
H. F. Dodd Wins African Gold and
- Diamond Mines of Uncle.
SEATTLE, Wash.. Sept. 14. Chief
Boatswain's Mate H. F. Dodd, aged 32
stationed at tho Naval' training sta
tion at the University of Washington
received a letter today from his attor
neys saying that litigation over the
J860.000 estate of his uncle, Frederick
Dodd, who died in South Africa 10 years
ago, had been decided in the young
man s lavor.
The estate consists of shares in South
African gold and diamond mining com
panies valued at $700,000 and personal
.effects worth 5160.000.
Dodd says he will not leave the Navy.
Dodd enlisted from BellLngham.
UNSET DIAMONDS STCLEN
Two Robbers Surprise Chicago Jew
eler in His Office.
CHICAGO, Sept. 14. Unset diamonds
and diamond rings said to be worth
$30,000 were taken by two robbers who
surprised Frank L. Plon, a Jeweler, in
his store In an office building at Mad
ison and Wabash avenue late today.
Plon was bound to a chair, but re
leased himself five minutes after the
two men had gone.
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Weather.
IESTERDATS Maximum temperature.
62
decree. ; minimum. 53 degrees.
TODAY'S Fair; gentle east winds.
War.
U-boats , sent to bottom In thrilling battles.
rase x.
Kerenaky's position Is In danger; general
Kills mmselt. z -ge l.
Train la fired on; four soldiers hurt In Ohio.
fags l.
Luxburg recalled to explain Argentine, note
France demands explanation. Page 2.
Italians take crest of Monte San Gabriels.
Fags 2.
Foreign.
Germany compels 2.000.000 prisoners of war
to worlc on farms and in lactones.
fags .
Three ex-Premters members of new" French
Cabinet. Page 2.
- ' ' National.
Oregon wooden shipbuilders to receive Gov
ernment contracts. Page 1.
Secretary Daniels talks of Navy to graduat
ing class at Annapolis. Page 7.
Domestic.
ireui piay against airs, jdauae King sus
pected. Page 2.
Boot says pacifist is just plain traitor.
page &.
Flour supply on way to markets. Pago S.
Sports.
Pacific Coast League results Vernon 3, Salt
1.--K. z; ban Francisco 3, Oakland
Portland-Los Angeles, no game; rain.
Pago 8.
Beavers and Los Angeles to play two games
today it rain ceases. Page S,
Pacer Butt Halo lowers own amateur mark
lor mile at Byrecuse. Page 8.
Coach Diets, of Pullman, visits In Portland.
Pago 8.
Pacific Northwest.
Millmen ordered to rush all spruce. Page 1
Patriotic .mothers in Coos County, with sons
In Array and Navy, found destitute.
Page 1
Attorney-General Brown flies brief In Hyde
-Benson land cases. Pago 6.
John Bowden, old pioneer of Eastern Oregon,
passes at uaxer. fage T.
Morrow County Fair on. Page 6.
Eastern Clackamas Fair and people highly
impress Aaaison -Bennett. Pago 7.
Commercial and Murine.
Demand developing for wool stored In Fort
laud. Page IT.
Corn drops at Chicago, owing-to peace ru
mors, page Xi.
One hundred and eighteen wooden ships
under construction in Portland district.
Page 14.
British Columbia yards have orders for
tonnage estimated at -17.0OO. Pago 14.
Portland and Vicinity.
Firemen loin union quietly to enforce de
mands for Improved conditions. Page 12.
City dam at Bull Run L.ka expected to
conserve 500,000.000 gallons of water for
Summer use. Page Id.
Patriotic women to register today. Pago 6.
Jury completed for trial of alleged tong
- gunman. . race i-.
Portland dairymen organise to raise prices.
page la.
Architect MacKaughton advances arguments
favoring mill construction business cen
ter. Fage 8.
Slgmund Slchel honored by congregation
JHetn Israel. fage u.
Ship carpenters will strike today. Page L
Mass meeting over streetcar lares Is near
riot. , Page 8.
Possibility . of 8-cent milk In Portland
pointed out. Paso 3.
.Weather resort, data a-ad forecast,' Fage 14.
British SubmarineTor-
pedoes Enemy Diver.
CRUISER SINKS FLEEING SHARK
Undea-Sea Raider Feigns Sur
render, but Trick Fails.
FLIER SENDS DIVER DOWN
One Merchantman Defeats Two of
Enemy's' Raiders, While Another
Sends Submersible to Bottom
Tall First; Sea Boils.
LONDON, Sept. 14. Stories of some
recent successes of the British navy
against German submarines were given
to the public tonight in a series of brief
descriptions of eight encounters ia
which eight, and possible nine. U-boats
were accounted for. These eight sea
battle pictures were selected so as to
cover practically the whole ground of
anti-submarine activities.
In one case there was a battle be
tween an auxiliary cruiser and a sub
marine; in another an engagement be
tween a seaplane and a submarine;
then a battle between two submarines,
in which the British submarine cap
tain proved himself the better man, and
finally two tales of success of armed
merchantmen against the enemy:
U-boat Spews Ont Crew.
"First From one of our auxiliary
naval forces a torpedo was seen ap
proaching on the starboard beam. It
jumped out of the water when' 100
yards distant and struck the engine
rooms near the water line, making a
large hole and flooding several com
partments. A starboard lifeboat was
blown into the air, pieces landing on
the wireless aerial.
"Soon after a periscope was observed
Just before the port bow. Fire was
opened; the first shot hit the base of .
the conning tower"and removed the two
periscopes.
Many Hits Are Scored.
"Many other hits were, obtained and
the submarine quickly assumed a list
to port and several men came out of
the hatch.
"The U-boat wallowed along for a
space with the stern almost submerged
and oil squirting from its side, and the
crew came on deck" and waved their
hands. At this sign of surrender,
'cease fire' was ordered, whereupon the
enemy started to make off at a fair
speed, hoping to disappear in the mist.
Fire again was opened, a loud explo
sion took place forward, and, falling
over on his side, the enemy sank. Two
survivors were picked up.
Bomb Dropped on Diver.
"Second One of our small craft
sighted an enemy submarine at a dis
tance of 10,000 yards. She maintained
her course and five minutes later the
enemy submerged and shortly after
a periscope appeared close on the star
board bow for a few seconds, and then
disappeared. The helm was ported
and. when over the - place where the
periscope was seen, an explosive
charge was dropped.
"The ship circled around and dropped
another charge. The explosion of this
tConcluded on Page 4. Column 5.
EVERY QUARTER WILL MAKE
ONE SOLDIER HAPPY.
Cigarettes and tobacco for
American soldiers in France are
one of the big needs of tho war.
The Government does not pro
vide tobacco, though it heartily
Indorses every move to forward
supplies of it to the men in the
fighting line.
The experience of every nation
in the war today has been that
tobacco is Just as necessary to
the welfare of the troops as dry
clothing, meat, bread, and even
big guns and shells. A pipeful
of good tobacco or a cigarette
keeps the soldier cheerful as
nothing else can do.
The Oregonian's tobacco and
cigarette fund for. American sol
diers at the front now totals
$698. That will supply tobacco
comfort for many soldiers, but it
Is only a small part of the tobac
co and cigarette contribution
that should be made by - Ore
gon. Every quarter sent to The Ore
gonian's fund will provide a big
packet of cigarettes and tobacco
for one American soldier. If the
tobacco and cigarettes in this
packet were purchased at , retail
they would cost 45 cents.
"I'm 'so glad to see that you
want to help the soldiers by
sending them some tobacco and
cigarettes, and I want to help,
too," wrote Mrs. Oscar Erickson,
of Marshfield, Inclosing a con
tribution to the fund -yesterday.
"I am sending 50 cents, and wish
I could do more.
"I think a cigarette or a pipe
will cheer the soldiers more than
anything else in the long Winter
days that will soon be here now."