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? F I I a. a .a & . a a - ... VOL. LVII. NO. 17,728. PORTLAND, OREGON, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1917. PRICE FIVE CENTS. LAUNDRY PRICES INSTRUCTION GIVEN PRISONERS OF WAR HOPS AT SILVERT0N SELL AT 35 CENTS TRIBUTE TO LANE IS PAID BY SENATE RIOT ENDS PEACE ' COUNCIL MEETING 124,000 TO STRIKE UP 10 PER CENT IS PROCLAIMED WITH ADVANCE WORKERS GO PRICE IS HIGHEST PAID FOR SEW CROP SINCE 1903. SPEAKER AND CHAIRMAJT AT ON EIGHT-HOUR DAY. HARTFORD, COSX., ARRESTED RUSSIA!) REPUBLIC V Provisional Government Says Time Is Ripe. CABINET OF FIVE RULES Kerensky Solves Difficulties When Efforts to Compro mise Prove Failure. KORNILOFF REVOLT .OVER Premier Sends Ultimatum to Rebel and Surrender Is Result in Two Hours. PETROGRAD, Sept. 15. (Delayed.) Russia has been proclaimed a re public The provisional government tonight issued the proclamation, dated September 14. The proclamation follows: "General Korniloff s rebellion has been quelled. But great is the con fusion caused thereby, and again great is the danger threatening the fate of the fatherland and its freedom. Republic Is Proclaimed. "Holding it necessary to put an end to the external indefiniteness of the state's organization, remembering the unanimous and rapturous approval of the republican idea expressed at the Moscow ' state conference, the pro- visional government declares-that the constitutional organization, according to which the Russian state is. ruled,-is republican organization, and it hereby proclaims the Russian republic. '(Signed) "KERENSKY, v "Minister and President. "YAROUDNI, "Minister of Justice." The title "Minister and President" affixed to Premier Kerensky's signa ture to the proclamation probably re fers to his position as President of the Ministry rather than of the re public. PETROGRAD, Sept. 16. The pro visional government today announced that all the affairs of state had been entrusted to five members of the Cab inet. Five in Cabinet. The following communication was issued i "Pending the definite constitution of a Cabinet and in view of the pres ent extraordinary circumstances, all affairs of state have been entrusted to M. Kerensky, Premier; M. Terest chenko. Minister of Foreign Affairs; General Verkhovsky, Minister of War; Admiral Verdervski, Minister of Ma rine, and M. Nikitin, Minister of Posts and Telegraphs." Premier Kerensky's attempt to form a coalition government failed, but the crisis has been solved temporarily in the form of a Cabinet reduced in size and of virtually non-party character. Compromise Is Impossible. This decision became inevitable when the Council of Workmen's and Soldiers' Delegates informed Premier Kerensky that they agreed with the Social Democrats and the Social Rev olutionists in opposing the entrance of the Constitutional Democrats into the Cabinet. . Negotiations lasted until early in the morning. Pramier Kerensky then found it impossible to obtain a com promise on a coalition basis, admitting both right and left ministers, and de cided temporarily to create a Cabinet of five members. As Terestchenko and both the de fense ministers count as members of no party and as Nikitin and Kerensky are Social Revolutionists, the Cabinet, as far as it is a party one, is Social Revolutionist. The portfolios of the other departments will be allotted by the Cabinet of five, but the occupants will rank only as directors of depart ments. Election of the constituent assembly again has been postponed, because the work of organization throughout the country has not been completed. Elec tions to the assembly now are fixed for November 12, and the members are to convene November 28 (Russian calendar). PETROGRAD, Sept. 15. After the (coocuded on Fm 4. Column 1.) John Tait Points to Increase of 2 00 to 400 Per Cent In Supplies as - Justification. Now comes a 10 per cent advance In laundry prices. Commencing: with bills now being sent out. every laundry In the city is adding1 to the regular charges an addition of 10 per cent. The bill Is figured up at the old rates and the 10 per cent added to the total. With the change the laundries will put an eight-hour day into effect to day. Employes who have been work ing nine hours will work only eight hours from now on. and will receive the same wages. The working hours will be from 8 A. M. to 5 P. M., with an hour off at noon. .John Tait. of the Troy Laundry, said yesterday that the 10 per cent Increase in prices is necessary to cover the in creased cost of materials and supplies and labor. "The eight-hour day in all the laundries In Portland goes into ef fect tomorrow with wages unchanged," said Mr. Taft yesterday: "This means. virtually, an 11 per cent Increase- to employes. "The laundries will maintain .their oil rate cards, hoping to return to these rates as soon as possible. The advance will be covered by adding a flat 10 per cent to the total amount of the bill. The Increase is absolutely necessary.- In addition to the wages which have advanced about 20 per cent 1 the last two years, everything else has gone up from 200 to 400 per cent. ' "Soap, for example, has risen from 4 cents a pound in 1916 to 15 cents a pound now. Wrapping paper In a year has jumped from 4Vi cents to 11 cents. Everything else used in the laundry business has gone up at a correspond ing rate. The 10 per. cent advance in prices really does not .take care of the increased cost to the laundries." . PRICE ON; KAISER'S HEAD Labor's Loyal Legion Offers $1000 to American Capturing Monarch. MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.. Sept. 16. La bor's Loyal Legion, recently organized here, will pay i'OOO to the American soldier who may succeed in capturing, dead or alive, the Kaiser or the Crown Prince. This was decided at a' meet ing of the executive committee last night The legion will pay 1500 to the first American soldier to take prisoner, dead or alive, a member of the general staff of the German army, and f ZOt 'to the first American soldier who captures. dead or alive, a German soldier. A telegram notifying him ot the of fer was sent to President Wilson. $5000 NO ARMY SESAME Man Physically Unfit Rejected De 1 spite Offer of Money. r ST. ' PAUL, Minn., Sept. It Grant Le Molne, who had traveled nearly 700 miles to St. Paul to enlist In & rail road regiment, offered 15000 for the privilege of going to France, after being refused yesterday for physical reasons. " . Le Moine's last railroading, was in Mexico, after which he entered busi ness at Frold, Mont. Ills age, coupled with slight deafness, proved Insur mountable barriers. "Tou let me go and I'll give you $5000." Le Molne urged George McCree. In charge of recruiting. McCree could do nothing. TEUTON PEACE NOTE VAGUE Fall of Riga Deters Germans From . .Making .Definite Concessions. AMSTERDAM. Sept. 16. The Ger man answer to the peace note ot Pope Benedict, according to the correspond ent In Germany of the Amsterdam Tijd. Is less favorable than the peace advo cates desired and the Pan-Germans feared, as. the result of recent events like the fall of Riga, the disunity of Russia and the reply of President Wil son to the Pope. "From the practical region of defi nite concessions, the correspondent adds, "it has been reduced largely to the well known- theoretical peace as surances." RICH DRAFT EVADER IS HIT Jacob Baltz, Son of Brewer, Indict ed for False Statement. PHILADELPHIA. Sept. 16 Jacob B. Baits, son of a wealthy brewer, was indicted yesterday by the Federal grand Jury for making false state ments in his claim for exemption from Army duty. Baits swore before the board that he was the sole support of his wife and two children and that he had no other income beyond that - derived from his mental and physical labors. It developed that he has been receiv ing a yearly Income of $20,000 from the brewing company of J. & P. Baits. FARMERS BIG BORROWERS 2 Million of Eastern Money Poured Into 'Washington Farms. SPOKANE. With, Sept. 16. Up to the close of business yesterday 869 farmers of the Northwest had borrowed approximately $ J, 000, 000 through the Federal land bank here. Virtually all of this amount repre sents -Eastern money which- has- been brought into the Northwest by the land bank for agricultural development through sales of bonds of the Spokane bank. Classes Are Formed in Prison Camps. OLDER MEN TEACH YOUTHS Orchestra and Dramatic So cieties Organized. FOOD - OF POOR .QUALITY Xo Food Except Black Bread Served That Could Not Be Eaten With Spoon Wounded and Sick Prisoners Are Exchanged. BT JAMES W. GERARD. American Ambassador to the German Im perial Court. July 28. 193. to February 4. 11T. (Copyright. 1917. by tbe Public Ledger Company.) In Rubleben the educated prisoners volunteered to teach the ignorant; 297 different educational courses were of fered to those who desired to improve their minds. A splendid orchestra was organized, 1 a dramatic society - which gave plays in French and one which gave plays In English and another one which gave , operas. On New Tear's day, 1916, I attended at Ruhleben a really wonderful per formance of the pantomime of "Cinder ella, and In January. 1917, a. perfor mance of "'.'The Mikado" in a theater under one of the grandstands. In these productions, of course, the female parts were taken by young men and the scenery, costumes and accessories were all made by the prisoners. " Camp Library Established. There was a camp library of more than 5000 volumes, sent over by the British government,, and a reading and meeting hall erected by the American Toung Men's Christian Association. There was even a system. of postal serv ice, with special stamps, so that" a pris oner in -one barracks could, write -to a friend Hi another and have a letter de-' livered by the camp postal authorities. The German authorities had not hired the . entire racetrack from the Race track Association, so that I made a spe cial contract with the racetrack own ers and hired from them the Infield and other portions not taken over by German authorities. Here the prison ers had tennis courts and played hock ey, football and cricket and-held ath letlo games. Expert dentists In the camp took care of the poorer prison ers, as did an oculist hired by me with British funds, and glasses from the same funds were given the poorer pris oners.' Special Accommodations Provided. ' The prisoners who needed a little better nourishment than that afforded by the camp diet and their parcels from England could obtain cards giving them the right to eat in the casino or camp official restaurant, where they were al lowed a certain Indicated amount of (Concluded on Pace 3. Column ) Nv-!LOW M WERE HERBERT "T ml 11' ' ' W 3 Ysg j 'A Seventy-Six Bales of 1915 Crop Bring 16 Cents; Growers Anxious to Sell While Price Is Up. SILVERTON, Or, Sept. 16. (Special.) The hop market was opened in Sll verton yesterday when K. M. Morley and W. C Mount, local hop buyers, purchased 130 bales of 1917 hops from Ray Morley for which they paid 35 cents per pound. This is said to be about the first lot of 1917 hops pur chased this year, and the price is the higheBt paid in SUverton since 1903. Morley & Mount also purchased 15 bales from O. E. Vick, of McKee, pay ing 34 cents, and bought the R. M. Harding 1915 crop, comprising 76 bales, at 16 cents per pound. They also purchased the balance of August Elton's 1916 crop, but the price paid is not known. Great activity is manlfetsed in the hop business here, as growers are anxious to dispose of crops while the price Is up. MOUNTAIN RESORT BURNS Forest Fire Escapes and Sweeps Over Two Slopes of Peak. SAN DIEGO, Cal., Sept. 16. A serious forest fire, developing from what was thought at first to be a harmless brush blaze, swept today across the top of Palomar Mountain, well-known pleas ure resort in the ' eastern part of San Diego County. ..The fire today went up over the west side of the mountains and came down on the east, throwing off denBe clouds of smoke as it raged through the heavy timber. TYPHOID EPIDEMIC FEARED Prominent Physician Latest Rose- burg Victim of Disease. ' ROSEBURG, Or.. Sept. 16. (Special.) Dr. A. F. Sether, a prominent Rose- burg physician, was taken to a hospital today suffering from typhoid fever. This is the sixth case reported in the past 10 days to the City Health Officer, who has ordered drinking wa ter boiled and other precautions taken to prevent an epidemic of typhoid. ' s MISSES LANSING IN FRANCE Sisters of ' American Secretary go to Front for Ked Cross W'ork. PARIS, Sept. 16. Miss Katherine T. Lansing and Miss Emma 65. Lansing. sisters of the American Secretary of State, who arrived at Bordeaux Fri day with a party of American Red Cross workers, departed Saturday for the front. They intend to establish aid sta tions there for French soldiers. BERLIN PAPERS SQUELCHED Three Prominent Publications Halt ed by Military Censor. COPENHAGEN, Sept. 16. Publication of three Berlin newspapers, the Tages Zeitung, Boarsen Zeltung and Frelsin nige Zeltung, has been stopped by the military censor. WHILE THE WAR WAGS ON. Eulogies Are Led by Mr. Chamberlain. SOME TURN GUNS ON PRESS Five of "Wilful Twelve" Loose Attack on Newspapers. MOTIVES ; ARE PRAISED Impatience Under Restraint and Determination to Follow Own Course of Action Are Re called by Speakers. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington, Sept. IB. The United States Senate, at a special session lasting nearly four hours, today paid its last tribute to the memory of the late Sen ator Harry Lane, of Oregon. The solemn occasion was seised upon by five of the "willful twelve" Senators, made famous at the close of the last session of Congress, to lambast' the American press, and by indirection the Administration as well, though this censure was carefully Interwoven with a defense of and tribute to the bravery and fearlessness of the deceased Oregon Senator. CkftmberUls. Tribute Touching;. Senators La Follette, Reed, Vardaman and Norris bo far forgot the proprieties of the occasion as to indulge in bitter and at times vituperative condemnation of American newspapers, and La Fol lette later read a similar speech pre pared by Senator Gronna, another of the "twelve." . Senator Chamberlain opened the cer emonies with a beautiful tribute to his colleague, and towards its close asserted that the "unjust attacks" made upon Senator Lane, because of his stand on the armed ship bill, "un questionably hastened his end." Lonr Tirade Are Hear. Senators Jones, Phelan and Kenyon all paid appropriate tribute to Senator Lane, dwelling largely upon his well recognized honesty, his goodness ol heart .and his determination to do the right as be saw it. - . - Similar tribute came from the five Senators referred to, but their eulogies were brief as compared to the extrane ous portions -of their speeches, the longest ever heard on similar occasions in the Senate. Senator Chamberlain reviewed the publio career of Harry Lane, both as a state and a National figure. Zfelsrabors Revere Memory. "The best testimonial of Harry Lane's worth." said Senator Chamberlain, "is to be found in the love which was entertained for htm by his friends and neighbors of a lifetime in the state of his birth. . He was the very soul of honor. No one at any time questioned (Concluded on Pa.it 4. Column 4.) Woman Condemns Conduct of War, Conscription and XT .S.. Aims. Audience Rushes at Her.' HARTFORD. Conn.. Sept. 16. Riotous scenes marked a meeting here today of the Hartford branch of the People's Council of America for D mocracy and Peace, culminating in the arrest of the speaker, Mrs. Annie R. Hale, of New Tork; the chairman. Al fred E. Whitehead, of this city, and the abrupt ending of the meeting: by the police. Police action was taken after Mrs. Hale had criticised a high Government official and the war, condemned con scription " and declared the United States had no right to go abroad to fight Germany because of a belief that "50 years hence" Germany might make war on this country. v When Mrs. Hale was ordered to stop there was an excited rush by the audi ence to the platform. One man, shak ing his fist at the speaker, declared she had insulted the President. Mrs. Hale and Whitehead were taken to police headquarters, charged with breach of the peace. WILSON BACK AT DESK Reports of tJ-Boats and President's Possible Sea Trip Alarm. WASHINGTON, Sept. 16. President Wilson returned to Washington from New Tork by train tonight, ending the longest stay away from his desk since last FalL There had been no announcement concerning the President's movements since yesterday, and in view of un confirmed reports of submarines off the coast the possibility that he might return on the yacht Mayflower was discussed by the public here with no little apprehension. The President and Mrs. Wilson left Washington a week ago Friday for a trip to Gloucester, Mass. AMERICANS ARE WOUNDED Eureka Soldier at Front Slightly Hurt by Shell Which Hits Auto. PARIS. Sept. 1. Paul Bentley. of Chicago, and Carson Ricks, of Eureka, CaL, both members of the American Field Service, were wounded on Fri day. A shell struck the automobile In' wnlch they were riding. , " Both were taken to a hospital at the front. , Their injuries are not serious. RUSSIANS STAND FAST Stubborn Fighting Repels Assaults Along Two Fronts. PETROGRAD, Sept. 18. Stubborn fighting Is in progress on the north ern end of the front in Russia. To day's official statement says the Rus sian troops are fighting with deter mination, repelling German assaults. Attacks on the Rumanian front were beaten back. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS Tbe Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 82 degrees: minimum, 61 degree.. TODAY'S Fair and cooler; moderate west erly winds. , War. Russia proclaims Itself a republic. Face 1. - Foreign. . Berlin's reply to Argentina Is not satisfac tory. Page 3. Three resents to guide Poland through early struggles. Page 6. French officials to take action In Tunnel case. Page 7. Educated war prisoners form classes to teach youthful and ignorant. Page 1. National. Navy-yards are to give 10 per cent advances. Page 2. Senat pays tribute to Harry Lane. Page 1. Nineteen cities. Including Seattle, selected as sites for rehabilitation hospital.. Page 4. Congress plana to adjourn in October. Page 4. Chairman Hurley seems to have taken over functions of labor adjustment board. Page 5. Japanese mission pays tribute at tomb ot Commodore Perry. Page 2. Domestic. San Francisco shipyards to be tied up by strike today. Page 1. Blot ends meeting of People's Council for Peace. - Page 1. Eastern milling centers report growing scarcity of wheat and flour. Page 7. Sports. Pacific Coast League results: Portland 2-0. Los Angeles 0-1; Oakland 8-2. San Fran cisco 1-1; Salt Lake 2-7. Vernon 3-5. Page 12. Giants and White Sox increase leada Page 12. Oaks to open series In Portland tomorrow. Page 12. Golfers have busy day. Page 12. Pacific Northwest. Record price of 35 cents paid for hops at SUverton. Page 1. Industrial Workers decide to "strike on the job." Page 6. Portland and Vicinity. Laundry prices raised 10 per cent. Page i. Portland men now In' Marines qualify as marksmen. Page 6. Change in building code expected to pro mote Improvement of old properties. Page 10. Veteran police officers loath to leave service they love. Page 10. Rental scale for Public Auditorium to be fixed. Page 10. Roman Catholic priest is lecturing to non Catholics. Page 1L Rev. "W. B. Brink man takes "worry" as text of Sunday sermon. Page 11. Coastwise and foreign shipments of fir and spruce are increasing. Page 13. Jewish New Tear being celebrated. Page 13. Strikers to put out pickets at shipyards, but operators look for no trouble. Page 5. Alcazar Players will have as leading woman daughter of Louis James. Page Id. Member of Soldiers' Auxiliary asks aa to duties and responsibilities. Page 0. Ancient Order of Hibernians hold Initiation and give banquet. Page 6. Socialist party expels Victor McCone as traitor to Its cause. Page 10. Weather report, data and forecast. Page 13. III SAII FBAIICjSCO Union Men in Shipyards Will Walk Out Today. MEDIATOR'S MISSION FAILS Leaders Refuse to Delay Ac tion Pending Conferences. , SETTLEMENT STILU HOPE Work Under Way on $150,000,000 Worth of Government Ships Af fee ted and Operators Say They Will Close) Plants. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 16 All worle on $150,000,000 Government shipbulld' Ing contracts in San Francisco and tho bay region will be suspended Indef initely a; 9 o'clock tomorrow morn lng, when 24,000 members of unions affiliated with the Iron Trades Coun cil here strike for a higher wage. According to a statement Issued by the Employers Association tonight a final conference today, held at the sug gestion of James Lee Ackerman, spe cial representative of the United States Emergency Fleet Corporation, failed to bring about an agreement. Labor lead ers present at the conference declared they could not postpone the strike. TCnloma Refuse Postponement. Mr. Ackerson suggested that a set tlement might be arranged through conferences with Government officials conducting similar negotiations in the Seattle shipbuilding strike and that the strike be- postponed pending- the outcome of these conferences. R. W. Burton, president of the Iron Trades Council, said a postponement of the ordered walkout was Impossible. Announced plans for the strike call upon all men to report for work as usual. At 9 o'clock they will walk out, if no agreement has been reached. Both sides tonight said the promulga tion of a new agreement was possible before that time. - - Plants Will Close Down. The California Metal Trades Asso ciation, the employers' organization, announced that the plants would - be closed after the walkout and no at tempt would be made to operate with substitute workmen. Conferences between representatives of the men and the employers will con tinue despite the strike, it was an nouncd. The first of these will be held tomorrow, with Mr. Ackerson presiding. The working agreement of unions affiliated with the Iron Trades Council expired last night. Conferences look ing toward the reaching of a new agreement have been held continuously in the last two months without tangi ble result. The men demanded a mini mum wage of 16 a day, an advance of B0 per cent. An offered Increase of 10. per cent was rejected. It was esti mated that 90 per cent of the 24,000 men ordered to strike were engaged In Government shipbuilding. Troops JV'ot to Be Requested. No request for Federal troops to guard the plants affected was contem plated, said members of the employers conference committee tonight. It was pointed out that because of the great volume of Government work in process of construction, Federal authorities might throw guards around the plants on their own initiative. The statement of the employers said: "We have determined that Inasmuch as the United States Government would be the principal sufferer from the. strike, on account of the cessation of work, it should be the one to adjudi cate the points at issue, and we would abide by its findings. This plan has apparently not met with the approval of the Iron Trades Council and we re gret that they feel a strike should ba called." . Exemption Flea Withdrawn. Applications for exemption from service in the selective draft armies on occupational grounds, which have been made by the Union Iron Works on be half of 800 employes, will be withdrawn because of the ordered strike, it was announced late tonight by J. J. Tynan, general manager of the concern. This action was in accordance with a promise to the Federal district board and will apply not only to those em ployes whose applications are pending, but also to those men that have been granted exemption already, said Tynan. REPUBLICAN LEADER DIES W. F. Stone, Noted G. O. P. Chief tain of Baltimore, Passes. BALTIMORE. Sept. 16. William F. Stone, for 17 years collector of the port of Baltimore, and sergeant-at-arms of the last three Republican National con ventions, died here today following a surgical operation. Mr. Stone was a native of Maryland and in his 62d year. He is survived by his widow, one son and two daughters. Since 1895, when the old Democratic organization was overthrown and a Republican Governor, Legislature and Mayor of Baltimore city elected. Mr. Stone had been a prominent Republi can leader In this city and state. Presi dent McKlnley appointed him collector of the port in 189S and he was re-appointed three times.