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6 THE MORNING OREGOSIA5. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1917. I. W. W. DEGIDE TO "STRIKE Oil JOB" Northern Logger? and Millmen Again Headed for Woods to Work Eight-Hour Day. EIGHT HOURS ULTIMATUM SOME OF THE MEMBERS OF MARIXE SECTION, OREGON NAVAL MILITIA. WHO FIGURED IN RECENT TARGET PRACTICE AND WERE ACQUITTED WITH HONORS. Workers Plan to Put iney onsioer xair AVork, Regardless Employers. In What Day's of SEATTLE. Sept. IS. Following their almoat unanimous vote of Saturday to return to work- In mills and lumber camps, hundreds of Seattle and Kins fnnntir mmbra nt 1h Industrial Workers of the World turned their faces toward the woods today to carry out a purpose that may be unique In the annals of labor controversies. The men propose to "strike on the job." . When the 6000 odd Industrial Work rs employed in Western Washington started the present trouble on July 16 they demanded an eight-hour day. All efforts to induce employers to meet the demand have failed thus far, so the I. W. W. now propose to return t work and put in only eight hours' labor a day. Instructions from their leaders are .that they are to go to work at . 8 o'clock in the morning and quit at 6 o'clock in the afternoon, with an hour off in the course of the day. Members of the Mill Owners' . Asso ciation, when apprised of the plan, declared it would fail, saying the men could not return to their Jobs on any terms of the sort, and that all those who sought to work only eight hours a day would be discharged the - first day. "Their scheme Is wholly Impracticable and it will not work," was tho state ment of E. R. Grammar, chairman of the strike committee of the Mill Own ers' Association. All of Seattle's big wood shipbuild ing yards remain idle, except two, which are using "eight-hour" lumber, the product of camps on the eight-hour basis. Government intervention is the only means that promises to end the walk-out of the 4000 workers In the yards, according to strike leaders. - - Under an agreement announced to night shipwrights, carpenters and other woodworkers of the Seattle Construc tion & Drydock Company, which oper ates the largest steel shipyard in the district, will return to work Monday, ending a strike which was called five days ago to enforce the use of lumber produced la camps and mills operating on an eight-hour basis. The truce reached is based on the company's agreement, secured by a cash bond of $5000, to use only eight hour lumber In Its shipyard. YAKIMA FAIR ON TODAY PROSPECTS ARE BETTER- THAN IJi PAST FOR GOOD SHOW. Livestock Exhibits Are Lam and Interest of -Stockmen Is Centered In Sheep Sale. " NORTH TAKIMA. Wash., Sept. 18. (Special.) A bigger and better state fair than ever before is the announce ment that Frank Meredith, secretary, made tonight, on the eve of the open ing of the 23d Annual Washington State Fair. New buildings, larger ex hibits and better accommodations both for exhibitors and visitors are the main claims by the management. One of the big features Is the live- Ktorlc exhihita and tha break: of a. p,W in the circuit following the Interstate "Fair at Spokane has brought the live stock to the grounds in advance of the usual period, and most of the big show herds are already installed in the live stock barns. In the dairy division there will be a big show. The Carnation Cream herd of 31 registered Holsteins is here, antt also the herd of J. M. Huribert, of Mt Vernon, containing 16 head. They will 'compete for the first time- with the herd of William Bishop of Chlmacum, which has always been a consistent winner nere. . The interest of stockmen Is centered In the big sheepsale, which will be put on Thursday and Friday. Seven Hun dred registered rams and ewes of Lin coln, Hampshire. Shropshire, and Ram bouillet breeds will be put up. at auc tion with about 300 high-grade -ewes. The educational features of the fair will be emphasised in a number of the exhibits. The State College will put on a display devoted to the interests of the agricultural industry. The horseracing will begin Tuesday, Monday being devoted to automobie racing. Monday will be automobile day; Tuesday, Children's and Soldiers' day; Wednesday, North Yakima day; Thurs- rinv (rwornttra .B4 RA.rtl. ila v PH. day, Elks and Spokane day, and Sat ' urday. Patriotic day. v - , : - i , f 1 1 9 I ! -'f76,0 . 1 V ' .1. k - GOOD SHOTS-PROVED Portland Men Now in Marines Qualify as Marksmen. C00VERT HEADS EXPERTS Account of Work Done on. Port Or chard Rifle Range la Per-' mitted by Censor to -Be Published. 1 1 1 1 Ift to Rlsat Clarence Tirinlsd Expert Rifleman, 304 Polntsi Klwood GaUlon. Expert Rifleman, 262 Points (TwUlss Waa n Bfember f Last .Year's Mnltnomah Club basketball Team ) Jack M. Doiid, Marksman, 218 Points. S A Group of the Marines After the Practice. 3 On the Firing I. Inc. donated 1100 worth of tobacco to the soldiers. This donation will go to Company E, Eighteenth Railway En gineers. United States Expeditionary Forces in France. Cowlitz Red Cross Growing. The Cowlitx County chapter of -the American Red Cross, Its branches end auxiliaries are making a rapid growth in membership. The chapter has al ready passed the 600 mark in member ship and the Castle Hock branch has nearly 100 members. Of the auxiliaries to the Castle Kock branch Silver Lake has 72 members and the Saady Bend and Pleasant Bill organisations are making healthy growth. West of Kelso the Mount Solo auxiliary has Just been formed and bids fair to be one of the strongest in the county. Lebanon Women Register. LEBANON, Or., Sept. 1. (Special.) Registration was held in Lebanon Saturday by the woman's committee of the Council of National Defense and 110 women of Lebanon registered and signified their willingness to serve where needed during the war. Lebanon recently organized the first local coun cil in the county, with Mrs. Halite Cor mier as chairman. Miss Helen V. Craw ford is the local committee-woman for Lebanon of the Linn County council. Stars to Bowl aa Scheduled. - rrxrivviTT Q-nt 1 c i--.t.i.n A-new. of Louisville, Secretary Lane- try and Treasurer Pasdeloup and local bowlers at a meeting here today def ' initely decided to hold the American howling Congress National roll-off In Cincinnati as scheduled next February. England's Clocks Turned Back. T nVIUlV C -D-T . . . "mr tliQ ended officially a.t 1 o'elocle v this morning, when all clocks were set . taclc one hour and the country returned to the observance of normal Greenwich A recent target practice for mem bers of the Marine Section, - Oregon Naval Militia Volunteers, returned sev eral Portland men as either expert riflemen, sharpshooters or marksmen. The rifle practice was held on the range at Port Orchard. Wash., and last ed a week. - The following Portland marines won places as: Expert riflemen Lieutenant Coovert, First Sergeant Meyers, Corporals Han nebut and McArthur, Trumpeter Hill and Privates Galllen, Otto Twining and Jordan. Sharpshooters Privates Anderson, B. Bull, Holm, James Holm, John, Mills and Snow. Marksmen Corporals Fowler and Young, Privates Daud, Lavelle and Prescott. An account of the week's practice has been received In Portland from one of the men. It is passed by the censor and reads: "The members of the Marine Section, Oregon National Naval Volunteers, have just returned from a week's tar get practice at the Marine Corps rifle range. Port Orchard, Wash. Consid ering the fact that very few of the men had ever used the United States rifle previously, they made quite a creditable showing for themselves and their Instructors. Marck la Good Practice. "The range is situated about nine miles back of Port Orchard, which is directly across the bay from the Navy- yard. As there is no railroad running in- that -direction the trip there takes the form of a practice march. "Parties consisting of 30 or 40 men are sent out each week, until every member of the command has had the week's instruction. The first three days the Marines try out their rifles from all of the different ranges from 200 yards up to 600, in order to find out- Just how their particular rifle shoots, as & very small defect In the bore or the position of the sights or wind gauge would throw the bullet off the bullseye and so lower the score. "On the fourth day the exact course that is fired for record is gone over, so that each man will know what he has to do when the record day cornea "The fifth day is record day and each man is out on the range early oiling and cleaning his rifle or black ening his sights, getting ready for the event, the result of which might give him an increase in pay of $5 a montn for the ensuing year. Making Records Important. "About 7 in the morning the slow fire -at 600 yards is commenced, fol lowed by that at 500 yards, then 300 yards. These three ranges talce all mornlnar to complete and after an hour's rest at noon the men are back on the firing-line at the 200-yard range, to fire the more difficult rapid fire. The rapid-fire ranges are 200, 300 and 500 yards. There are 10 shots to be fired at each range, making total of 60 rounds that each man has to fire. "The tara-ets are made with a bulls eye in the center and circles around the bullseye. A hit in the bullseye counts five points; within m the first circle, four: the next, three, and the last one. two. "The highest score that can be made is 300, but this is not done very often. If a score of 2S3 or more Is made, the maker is qualified as an expert rifle man. This entitles him to wear a sliver pin, consisting of a bar with the words 'Expert Kirieman engraved on h nu two crossed guns surmounting a wreath attached lust below it. This also en titles him to extra pay of S3 a month for the period of one year. Test la Onee a Year. The next lower qualification Is sharpshooter. This grade is given for a score between 238 and 253, and the marine who makes this wears a silver bar with 'Sharpshooter' engraved and a maltese cross with a bullseye on it. and his pay Is Increased 33. "The third qualification la as marks man, score between 203 and 238, and he wears a silver bar engraved with the word 'Marksman' and draws 32 month extra. "Every marine is given the -oppor tunity to shoot the prescribed course, once each year, and If ho faila to qual ify at his first trip to the range he lives in hopes of doing better the next year. "The work at the range is quite strenuous, but there is a lot of pleas ure attached to it. In the evening after the camp work Is completed, the embryo expert's time is his own and there is any number of things he may do. Of course the first thing he does Is to clean and put away his gun for the evening and then, in most cases. It is a two-mile hike to Horseshoe Lake and a good, old-fashioned awlm, almost though not quite as good as a trip to one of the resorts on the Willamette. "Others elect to take the four-mile hike to Burley, on the found, across from Tacoma. and pick the fine straw berries and salmon berries which grow in that vicinity. "The sixth day Is spent in packing up and marching back to the barracks and getting ready for the usual rounds of duty." ROAD AIDS GRAIN DELIVERY Rimrock Wheat Reaches Lewlston, Instead of Going Elsewhere. LEWISTON, Idaho. Sept. 1. (Spe cial.) Wheat from the Rimrock dis trict has been marketed in Lewiston this week for the first time in more than 20 years, as the result of the con struction of the Lewiston Hill State Highway, auto trucks being used to de liver the grain to the Lewiston ware houses. The trucks are enabled to make three trips a day from this section, carrying about 7& sacks to the trip, while here tofore wagons hauled about 45 sacks to the trip and made three trips in two days to Uniontown. The Lewiston mar ket is always from 1 to 2 cents high er than the northern market. LOGGING R0AD PROJECTED Hull Shingle Mill Company to Ex tend Operations, EUGENE, Or., Sept. 16. (Special.) A mile and a half of logging railroad Is to be built by the W. D. Hull Shingle Mill Company near its Siltcoos Lake plant, according to Mr. Hull, who waa in Eugene yesterday on his way home from Portland, where he placed aa order for rails. Thirty-two men are now employed in the mill -and timber at Siltcoos Lake by this company. Mr. Hull says there is a splendid market for shingles and that his company has been shipping an average of 15 cars a month, the prod uct going largely to Southern states. REGENTS TO REIGN Triumvirate to Guide Poland Through Early Struggles. KAISER STILL BIG POWER DENVER PASTORS TO FIGHT Three Leading Ministers Announce Entry Into War. DENVER, Sept. 16. Pastors of three leading Denver churches told their con gregations today that they would soon leave for Europe to enter the war. They are Rev. Ernest N. Orr, of the First United Presbyterian Church, who submitted his resignation to take ef fect immediately; Rev. Frank McGulre, formerly of a Methodist Church in a fashionable district, recently trans ferred to Grand Junction, who started for an Army camp tonight, and ' Rev. Jesse Penny-Martin, of a fashionable Presbyterian Church, chaplain of the First Colorado Infantry. DRAFTED MEN TO REPORT Summons Board Issued by of Thurston Exemption County. CENTRALIA. Wash.. Sept. IS. (Spe clal.) The following men from south ern Thurston County have been or dered to report Wednesday to the Thurston County exemption board for Army service and will probably leave for American Lake Thursday: Arthur Finan, Albert Swanson, Hubert Rose and John H. . Gallagher, of Tenlno Robert E. Grimes, Frank Ackerman and Lewis Lai las, of Rochester; Carl N. Johnson, of Oakville; Charles Nem chlck, of Offuts Lake, and Harold H. Hayden, of Tono. Polish People Told Central Em pires Must Control Legis lation That Might Affect Nations' War Fate. BERLIN, Sept. 16, via London. The Imperial German and Austro-Hun-garlan letters patent decreeing a sew Polish state were communicated to the people of Poland by Governor-General von Beseler In an audience at the royal palace at noon yesterday. The form of government contemplated for the new state Is a constitutional monarchy based on universal direct suffrage. While both powers of occupation re Iterate a sincere desire to revive the spirit of the proclamation of November 5, 1916, the provisions of ' which are amplified and' defined in the present decree, it is at the same time under stood that the transition of the present Poland to a state of complete inde pendence and sovereignty can be achieved only by a safe and ateady progression while the war Is in prog ress. The central powers assert that they will be obliged to occupy polish soil during the war period for the pur pose of defending their eastern front. Trlunvverate Wins Reign. War-time expedients, it also ex plained, make necessary the control of legislation likely to Interfere with mil ltary rule or operations. For the present a triumvirate of re gents will represent the crown. It will appoint a Prime Minister, wno is to summon a cabinet, rnese agencies wui select a temporary State Council, which will be the forerunner of a parliament to be elected by popular vote. This temporary body will enjoy the full prerogatives of a legislative or ganlzation. Possible Regents Snggested. The embryonic state will have com plete freedom and enact legislation in tended to meet Internal conditions, une educational and ' Judicial systems al ready are under its unrestricted con trol. The date for the first popular elee tions to Parliament will be determined by the temporary organization com posed of the regents, the Prime Min ister and the State Council. The Arch blshon of Warsaw. Prince Lubomirsky, Mayor of Warsaw, and Count Ostowsky are mentioned as possible regents, it Is proposed to select only native Poles for the most important positions. VOfl ECKHARDT CHEERED MEXICANS SALUTE GERMAN MIN ISTER IN LIBERTY PARADE. pendence of Mexico, and as he drove through the streets at the head of tha parade today. Hyr von iCKnarat, wm , " i.,.. nhn marched in the parade with the other diplomats, also was cheered. JUAREZ, Mexico. Sept. 1. The 107th anniversary of Mexico s inaepenuonco from Spain waa celebrated here today by one of the largest crowds ever gath ered in Juarez. Many persons crossed from El Paso and other points in Texas and New Mexico to attend the festivi ties. A bull fight in which a Chinese matador officiated was . anenaeo. . oy many. ' ARTILLERY REVIEW HELD Soldiers Get $100 Worth of Smokes. BEAVER, Idaho. Sept. 16. (Special.) Employes of the O.-W. R. & N. Com pany and Twohy Brothers here have Special Tribute Paid to Wife of For mer Senator Ankamy. WALLA WALLA, Wash.. Sept. 16. (Special.) The battalion of the Field Artillery held a review at the grounds this afternoon directed by Major Weyrauch. As a special tribute to Mrs. Levi Ankeny, wife of the former Senator Ankeny, who has been confined to her home for several weeks because of broken hip, the parade route was changed this morning and moved past her home. Mall Treaties Proposed. WASHINGTON, Sept. 16. Salvador and Mexico have referred postal treaties with the United States which guarantee indemnity for damages and loss of in sured parcel post packages sent from this country and increase the allow able weight to 20 pounds, the Postoffice Department announced today. Treaties increasing the allowable weight of par cel post packages from 11 to 20 pounds having been referred by Chile and Pan a ma. Former Star Athlete Dies. ST. LOUTS. Sept. 16. Lucian C. Ca banne, formerly widely known as an athlete, died at his home here today. Death was due to hardening of the arteries, due, his physicians said, to ex cessive athletics. He was 46 years old. Phone your want ads to The Orego nlan. Main 7070, A Soi. Mexico City and Jnatei Turn Oat Huge Crowds to Celebrate lOTta Anni versary of Independence. MEXICO CITT, Sept. 16. The 107th anniversary of Mexico's independence waa celebrated today with open-ai ceremoniea and military parades. Pres ldent Carranza was greeted enthuslas tically by the people at the ceremony of "El Grlto" last night when, from the balcony of the President's palace he rang the bell of Hidalgo, which the liberator used in proclaiming tho inde Better Health From y Internal Baths Miss Frances Herrod writes Dr. Cbes. A. Tyrrell, of New York, as follows: ! am very slad to tell you that I am more than pleased with tho results ob tained from the use -of the 'J. B. L. Cas cade,' and am in better health thin have been In years." This is but one of thousands of the same kind ot letters received by Dr. Com. A. Tyrrell, of New York, the Inventor ot tho "J. B. L. Cascaae." By a purely natural process of properly using warm water, the J. B. L. Cascade' removes all the poisonous waste from th lower Intestine, wblcn physicians agree la the cause of 85 of all human aliments. Woodard -Clarke Co.'s arusatore, Portland, have filled an enormous demand for "J. B. L. Cascades" in the past lew years, and will show and explain it to you oa request. A free and Interesting booklet oa Internal Eathlnr "Why Man of Today Is Only 60 Efficient" can be obtained at their store tree of any eosu dv. Twenty A SELLING POLICY THAT HAS PROVEN THE POWER OF EFFICIENCY WHEN PROPERLY APPLIED TO BUSINESS Our clothing business has more than doubled since the inaugura : tion of this profit sharing plan, and our expense has not increased one dollar. Net result, our customers have saved several dollars on suit or overcoat purchased at Gray's and are well satisfied. We are grateful for the big increase in 'business and will go right along sharing the profits with each and every customer. I pay from thirteen fifty to twenty-one fifty for suits and coats to sell at twenty. I pay from twenty to thirty-two for suits and over coats to sell at thirty, and sell for cash only. I guarantee to duplicate in value Suits and Overcoats sold by other stores for $25, $30, $35 at our price Every day in the year. 9 I guarantee to duplicate in value Suits and Overcoats sold by other stores for $35, $40, $45 at our price Every day in the year. AND REMEMBER WE WILL DO WHAT WE SAY o G Corner Washington and West Park Sts. , - "- - -" .. 1 WOMEN GIVE- $36,400,000 Red Cross to Mobilize Generosity or American People. CHICAGO, Sept. 1. The plans of the Red Cross to mobilise the generosity, enthusiasm and patriotism of the Amer ican people during the war were de scribed today by Henry P. Davison, chairman of the War Council of the American National Red Cross, and George Creel, chairman of the United States bureau of Information. - The Red Cross Is hurrying, Mr. Davi son said, food, clothes, doctors and med icines to the stricken nations of Europe to help them live.. The actual Work contributed by American women to the Red Cross in 12 months in making surgical dress ings, hospital garments, knitted articles, such as comfort kits and the like, has a commercial value of $36,400,000, Mr Davison said. Australian Leader Passes. LONDON, Sept. 17. The death Of Hon Charles Carty Salmon, Speaker of the Australian House of Representatives in 190d-10, is announced in a Reuter dis patch from Melbourne . -; " mi: Nation-Wide Preparedness North, South, East and West all the sections of the country are working together to get the Nation into fighting trim. In getting these many varied interests to pull together, thus co-ordinating their efforts, and in moulding the vast organization into an effective homogeneous force, the Bell telephone system has been indispensable. Along the Coast are the Navy-yards, the headquarters of Army departments and Naval districts coast-guard stations and lighthouses. Then there are great arsenals and munition plants, steel, textile plants and other - Industrial plants working under forced draft, to supply us with the implements of war. All over the country, important railroad points, bridges and water supply systems are being guarded. National and state mobilization camps have sprung up like magic These countless military and industrial activities are directed from the National Capitol by means of the Bell telephone system which covers the whole country. We have enlisted every resource at our command to meet the Government's requirements and the increased commercial demands for service. These demands are bound to increase and raw material and labor will be still more difficult to obtain. ' Many of our employes have been drafted and a large number of technically trained men have joined the colors. These men cannot be replaced easily. If there should be, as a result of this service to the Government, any temporary curtailment or impairment of the service to private individuals, an appreciation of the paramount importance of -the Government's needs, will help every patriotic American to bear the inconvenience with patience. THE PACIFIC TELEPHONE k TELEGRAPH CO. Cap
