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VOL. LVII. XO. 17,733. PORTLAND, OKEGOX, TUESDAY, SEP ! 23, 1917. PRICE FIVE CENTS. MAYOR BAKER ACTS TO SETTLE STRIKE SOUTH PROFITS BY BOARD WILL PROBE : PAY III SHIPYARDS ARGENTINA LACKS FAITH IN GERMANY AIRPLANES RAID ENGLAND TWICE VICTORY WON BY WOMAN SUFFRAGE HEFLIN CALLED TO CLEAR BRIBE HINTS NORTHWEST STRIKE OREGOX - WASHKGTOX MILLS LOSE FAT FEDERAL ORDERS. ' MOBILIZATION OF NAVY IS AL READY ORDERED. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES CREATES COMMITTEE. K Wilson and Gompers Are Appealed To. 4000 MEN LAY DOWN TOOLS Walkout Order Is Condemned by Union Officials. POLICE SET FOR TROUBLE First Day of Shipbuilding Paralysis Ends Without Disturbance Con ference Called to Dlscnss the Situation by Sfayor. GOMPERS BAYS SAX FRAN CISCO case: is basis. September 21 Mayor Baker sent the following telegram to Samuel Gompers, president of the Amer ican Federation of Labor, at Washington. D. C.l "Understand agreement exists between yourself. Admiral Capps and executive officers of ship building companies that no strike on Government work will be called during the life of agree ment. Strikes have been called on Portland plants. Would like to know whether this agreement was made and your advice re garding local situation." The following reply was re ceived yesterday: "Your telegram received. All differences existing on Pacific Coast In shipbuilding plants are to be adjusted in accordance with the decision reached In the San Francisco case. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 24. The Saa Frasciae Iron Trades Council late to Bight voted to recommend to affiliated anions which- meet tomorrow the ac ceptance of the temporary wage sched ule agreed upon by representatives of the sea, their employers and Federal mediators yesterday. With several thousand union men eut on strike and Portland's wooden and steel . shipbuilding Industry vir tually at a standstill, Mayor Baker yesterday stepped Into the breach In an effort to bring about negotiations looking to a speedy adjustment of the difficulties. He had. It developed yesterday, an ticipated the action of the Metal Trades Council, Building Trades Council and the District Council of Carpenters in ordering the walkout of steel workers and the continued tleup of the wooden ship plants, by wiring to Samuel Gompers. president of the American Federation of Labor, asking him what the situation was as to strikes during the life of building agreements. Gompers States Position. Mr. Gompers' reply came yesterday, saying that all Coast troubles are to be adjusted on the basis of the San Francisco agreement, now being en tered into, and which, combined with President Wilson's telegram same as received here has resulted there In returning 30,000 union men to . their yards tomorrow morning. Mayor Baker has also telegraphed President Wilson direct, in an effort to learn exactly what will be done and In addition has laid plans which may lead to a conference between the em ployers and employes to adjust the dif ferences, if possible. He also called a meeting of peace officers, inviting the Governor, Sheriff, District and City Attorney and chief of police for 9;30 o'clock this morn ing in the Mayor's office to discuss measures to protect shipbuilding plants and to make certain the public peace is observed. Vnion Men Condemn Strike. Action of tho affiliated shipbuilding unions in ordering continuance of the wooden workers and the additional tie-up of the steel plants, taken Sun day night, was severely condemned throughout the city yesterday, even by prominent union labor men; espe cially so, in view of the direct appeal of President Wilson, wired to E. J. tack. secretary of the Oregon State Federation of Labor, and read to the mass meeting held at the Auditorium. While none of the union officers would consent to be quoted, several of them agreed that "it was one of the worst blows ever struck at unionism in Portland." One of the most prominent labor men said: x "It was one of the biggest blunders ever committed in Portland, and did more to bring disgrace and humiliation upon organised labor than any action for many years. It was the result of hot-headedness and was a shame and disgrace to our cause. It is no time to to call strikes and. in view of President Wilson's message to the men to show their patriotism by building ships now when they are so badly needed, was an exhibition of the grossest discourtesy to him and the country at large." Strike Order Fallowed. Promptly at 10 o'clock, the hour named In the strike order, union men laid aside their tools in three of the four big shipbuilding plants of the city Coaciuded a Pas is. Column Demoralized Labor Conditions in This Section Bar to Prosper ity, Lumbermen Declare. ABERDEEN, Wash., Sept. 24. (Spe cial.) A Government order for lumber to construct 100,000 freight cars will go entirely to the Southern pine in terests as a result of the labor troubles In the Northwest, according to advices received here. As a result, lumbermen say, the entire Northwest will suffer a .heavy loss, whereas, bad It not been for the strikes the Northwest's share in these orders would have brought great prosperity to both Oregon and Washington lumbering centers. Efforts are being made to get the freight car order specifications changed so that the West may get part of this business. What success these efforts have will depend upon how good a showing the lumbermen are able to make as to whether strikes in the Northwest are ended. Tho specifications for freight car lumber call for nearly 500,000,000 feet. Besides this the Northwest. It is de clared, has lost orders for upwards of 40,000,000 for additional work at cantonments and also it is losing some of the shipyard timber business. Specifications lor shipping timbers have been changed by the Shipping Board so 'that smaller timbers can be used, thus giving the Southern pine mills a chance to furnish much of this lumber. The Northwest produces the best ship timbers, but, it Is said, the Government doubts if the Western millscan supply the needed lumber fast enough, due to the tie-ups caused by strikes. TIMBER PRODUCTION HIGH August Shows 12,000,000-Foot In crease in Log Output. VANCOUVER, B. C. Sept. 24. Pro duction of. logs in the Vancouver dis trict of British Columbia in August was 12,000,000 feet greater than in the cor responding month of last year. There have been marked Increases all through 1917, and for the first eight months there was an increase of 86,815,809 feet. The increase is the. result of the de mand for shipbuilding purposes on the Coast and general construction all ovei Canada, particularly on the prairies and in the East. FRIENDLY FEELING SHOWN Visit of Japanese Mission Has Good Effect, Says Lansing. WASHINGTON, Sept. 24. Secretary Lansing, when pressed today to give some indication of the progress of the conferences with the Japanese mission, beaded by Viscount Ishil, made the fol lowing statement: "The conversations with Viscount Ishii have been of a most satisfactory character, and I think his visit to this country has been most helpful In bene fiting relations between the two coun tries and in strengthening -the bonds of friendship." SEA ROBS MAN OF NEW CAR Coupe, Stalled on Beach, Battered to Pieces by Incoming Tide. ABERDEEN,' Wash., Sept. 24. (Spe cial.) The Pacific Ocean robbed Dr. G. E. Chamberlain of his new coupe Satuaday night, when the car stalled on the beach between Glen Grayland and Cohassett and was caught by an Incoming tide. The machine was battered to pieces by the waves, which strewed the beach with wreckage from the car, which probably will be almost a total loss. It was not insured against this kind of accident- POLES TO JOIN U. S. ARMY Force of 10,000 in Training at Niagara-on-the-Lake. TORONTO, Ont., Sept- 24. Ten thou sand Polish-Americans who will be part of the United States Army are to go into training at once at Niagara camp near Nlagara-on-the-Lake, it was announced today. They will remain there until November. A number of American officers have been in training at Camp Borden for some time to take charge of the Polish troops, and will be commissioned at Niagara. TURIN-LONDON TRIP MADE Italian Aviator Covers 65 8 Miles Without Single Stop. LONDON. Sept. 24. Captain Lau reauti, of the Italian army, accom panied by an observer, today made a non-stop airplane flight from Turin. Italy, to London. He covered the 65 miles in 7 hours and 12 minutes. Captain Laureautl on last August 29 established a new world long-distance record when he flew from Turin to Naples and return. The distance was about 900 miles. ANOTHER LID IS CLAMPED Rabid German Paper in Guatemala Suppressed. GUATEMALA CITT, Guatemala, Sept. 24. The German dally newspaper Eco Ale man. published in Spanish, which has been active in its hostility to the entente, has been suppressed. Prompt Efforts Made to End Strike. LABOR'S MEN ARE OPTIMISTIC All Interests Are Called Into Conference. LOYALTY TO NATION URGED President Gives Labor Adjustment Board Free Hand and Instruc tions to Do All Possible to Settle Wage Disputes. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington. Sept. 24. (Special.) Given a free hand by President Wilson, assured by him that there would be no fur ther outside Interference with its func tions and Instructed to do everything possible to bring about a settlement of the labor disputes In Pacific Coa-t shipyards, the recently created Labor Adjustment Board reassembled this morning for the first time since Its powers 'were taken over by Chairman Hurley, of the Shipping Board, and announced that it would proceed with all expedition to determine a reason able wage scale applicable to Port land and Seattle steel shipyards. Consideration of , the wood shipyard troubles and of hours of labor wijl be postponed until the steel yard wage schedule has been determined. Two Interests Aepresented. Soon after assembling, the Adjust ment Board' called in James J. Morri son and George W. Sanfocan, repre senting the Metal Workers' Union at Portland and also met B. C. Ball, J. R. Bowles and William Cornfoot, repre senting the Portland shipbuilders. At neither of these conferences, ho -ever, was tho Portland strike dis cussed In more than a general way, but to both parties the board explained its desire to carry out, as speedily as possible, the wish of the President to settle pending disputes that ship con struction maybe-tesuroed and under conditions that will restore harmony between the builders and their men and with a wage scale in effect that wl be fair both to tho builders and the workmen. Ration's Interests Paramount. The Board explained that in the ship building industry at this time the in terests of the United States are para mount to all other interests; that these ships are being built for the Govern ment and the .shipbuilders and the workmen alike are really in the employ of the Government and they are ex pected loyally to promote the building programme so vital to the conduct of the war. After these preliminary conferences the Adjustment Board gathered to gether much data bearing on prevailing wage scales in Portland and in Seattle, with data on the increased cost of liv- (Concluded on Page 3. Column 2.) UNCLE SAM THE PRESIDENT GUARANTEES A SQUARE Slilitary Activity Unusual War Plans Completed and Campaign Commanders Appointed. , . BUENOS AIRES, Sept. 24. Mobili zation of the. Argentine Navy has been ordered at a rendezvous 37 kilometers from Buenos Aires. There is also unus ual military activity in the republic Although this is ostensibly' due to the general strike, a high official said to day that the general staff has its eyes open to "other necessities." Tho question of a rupture with Ger many is still being widely discussed by members of the Argentine Congress and . the publio in general,-notwithstanding Germany's recent notes. Many of the Deputies say that they no longer have confidence in Berlin, because if the government disapproved von Lux burg's dispatches it should have taken action against the Minister and not waited until after Secretary Lansing's revelations to express Its disapproval. The Cabinet and Deputies do not yet consider the question closed, and there is widespread disapproval by the news papers and Deputies of the personal guarantee sent by Dr. Luis B. Molina, the Argentine minister at Berlin, that Germany would keep its promises. It is learned that the general staff, since the beginning of the Toro inci dent, has had the matter of mobiliza tion under consideration and that war plans have been completed and cam paign commanders appointed. If there is ' a declaration of war, it is declared, Argentina will send two divisions to Europe and will not be content with a passive attitude. The men and equip ment are ready for almost immediate embarkation if the necessity arises and the allies, in that event, . would be asked to furnish artillery. MEN IN RANKS MAY RISE Third Series of Officers Training Camps Will Be Opened. WASHINGTON, Sept. 24. A third series of officers' training cam is will be opened by the War Department early In January. Candidates for commis sions, Adjutant - General McCain an nounced tonight, will be selected from enlisted men of ' the regular Army or those called to the colors under the selective draft law, no applications from civilians being considered. It is probable that the majority of the camps will be situated In the South in order to escape the rlrors of Winter. The camps will afford men of the National Army an opportunity- to -wtn commissions, and it ' is probable that the drafted men will be heavily repre sented. Secretary Baker recently an nounced that every chance would be of fered National Army men to rise rom the ranks. SUNDAY'S TEAM IS BEATEN Douglas Fairbanks' Nine Wins From Evangelist's in Benefit Game. LOS ANGELES, Sept. 24. A baseball game here today between teams cap tained by William A. (Billy) Sunday and Douglas Fairbanks was won by the tatter's team, 1 to 0. A baseball autographed by President Wilson brought $200 at auction. Others were presented to Sunday and Fairbanks. The proceeds were to be expended for athletic supplies for soldiers. ilk m&jk, "ts rait si Attacks Made Evening and Morning. LONDONERS EXPECT VISIT Indiscriminate Slaughter of Civilians Seems Aim. BOMBS DROPPED ON HOMES Invasion Lasts Nearly Three Hours. Underground Railway Stations, Crowded With People Seeking Safety. LODOS, Sept, 25. Hostile airships early this morning appeared off the coasts vt Lincolnshire and Torhahlre. An official announcement says the raid Is still In progress and that no details have yet been received. German Zeppelins alse-. appeared across the coast of Yorkshire and X.ln colnsblre. LONDON. Sept. 23. There nelng per fect weather Monday night for air oper ations. Londoners expected a visit from German craft and their expectations were fulfilled. Shortly after 8 o'clock guns were heard firing in the suburbs and the metropolis had ar repetition of the experience to which it has become accustomed. - Between 8 and 9 o'clock the noise of battle was heard throughout the city. . Anti-aircraft guns were being fired from numerous points and bombs could be heard dropping. Searchlights played over the city and the rocket-lik-e bursts of shrapnel furnished an interesting spectacle. , The purpose of the Germans appar ently was the Indiscriminate slaughter of the civilian population. As far as investigations of the Associated Press up to 2 o'clock this morning were able to discover the casualitles were few. Bombs Dropped sm Homes. Tire Germans did not attack any point of military Importance, but drop ped their bombs, as usual, on the resi dential districts, mostly upon the dwell ings .of the poorer classes. ' Performances in a majority of the theaters proceeded without a break. Many persons living in the neighbor hood of the underground railways took refuge in the stations. The work of the police, firemen, civil constables and Red Cross, as well as the women's aux iliaries, was . prompt. No reports of any serious casualties have been re ceived by the press association, al though the suburbs have not yet been heard from. The latest reports indicate that the Germans came in three squadrons. The first warning was given in the outlying districts at 7:20 o'clock and the police announced "all clear" - about 10:20 o'clock. There were unusual scenes in the (Concluded on Page 5, Column 2.) DEAL AND I BACK HIM UP. Fight on Susan B. Anthony Amend ment at Next Session of- Con gress Is Assured. WASHINGTON, Sept. 24. Creation of a committee on woman suffrage was ordered by the House late today by a vote of 181. to 107. The ways and means committee will name the personnel of the new com mittee which will assume charge of all suffrage bills, now handled by the strongly anti-suffrage judiciary com mittee. Either Representative Baker, of California, or Representative Taylor, of Colorado, probably will be made chair man. Miss Rankin, of Montana, has been suggested, but as she is a Re publican she is not likely to be named. Creation of the committee for which the suffragists long have contended as sures a fight on the Susan B. Anthony suffrage amendment at the next ses sion of Congress. Both suffragists and antl-suffraglsts say they are anxious that the bill be reported, as they are confident of victory" on the floor. The antls, headed by Chairman Webb, of the Judiciary committee, made a hard fight today against the resolu tion. They maintained that its adoption Would be taken as an Indorsement of White House picketing and that it was unnecessary. Inasmuch as the judiciary committee planned to report the amend ment resolution early In the next ses sion. Miss Rankin and Representative Fou, chairman of the rules committee, who reported the resolution, made the prin cipal speeches for It. Mr. Pou declared that President Wilson had written him urging the naming of the committee, and when Mr. Webb said he did not think the President ever had made such a statement, Mr. Pou produced the let ter. . It was not read. 8-HOUR BILL INTRODUCED Senate Measure Would Prohibit Shipping Lumber Made Otherwise. WASHINGTON. Sept. 24. A bill to put the lumber industry on an eight-hour-day basis was introduced today by Senator Jones, of Washington, and re ferred to the commerce committee. It would prohibit Interstate ship ments .of lumber products upon which there has been labor of more than eight hours a day. MEXICO APPLIES GAG LAW Further Issuance of Anti-American Newspapers Prohibited. MEXICO CITT, Sept. 24. Half a score of Mexico City newspapers were ordered to cease publication today on the ground that their further issuance was contrary to public morality. A majority of the newspapers closed have been anti-American in spirit. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS . The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature. 61 degrees; minimum. 50 degrees. TODAY'S Rain; fresh southwesterly winds. Argentina mobilizes navy and army. Page 1. England has two air raids. . Page 1. Germans attack at Verdun and on Ypres front. Page 2. Two Americans wounded on battle front. Page 2. State Guards In National service to be kept intact as far as possible. Page 3. Foreign. Russian revolt now blamed upon Vladimir Lvoff. Page S. National. Heflln Is called to explain charges. Page 1. German plan to subjugate world told to Ad miral Dewey nearly 20 years ago. Page 6. Labor adjustment board studies Portland strike. Page 2. Farmers ask President to modify draft law to keep men on farms. Page 5. Woman suffrage wins victory when Houa creates suffrage committee. Page 1. Prices of steel fixed by agreement. Page 6. Domestic. Nation-wide I. W. W.-led revolt exposed. Page 4. State withholds evidence In Means case. Page 5. Roosevelt scores La Follette. Page 6. Sports. Majority of Portland fans pick White Sox to win world's series. Page 12. Beaver 1918 team will be youthful. Page 12. Giants win National League pennant. Page 13. Interscholastlc football officials named. Page IS. Pacific Northwest. Northwest loses fat Federal lumber orders because of uncertainty of labor market. Page 1. Vancouver boy with Engineers writes from France. Page 4. Father of Seattle society girl stops elopement in Spokane after wild chase in auto. Page 10. State Fair opens. Page T. . Commercial and Marine. Wheat-selling by farmers is on larger scale. Page 17. Heavy run of livestock at North Portland yards. Page 17. With tonnage assured. Immense flour ship ments will be leaving Portland soon. Page 16. Maximum price on corn futures may be re moved. Page 17. Portland and Vicinity. Plans for Patriotic week entertainments for benefit of soldiers to be completed today. Page 11. McMinnvllIe delegation supports Mr. Benson on West Side Highway. Page 3. Shipyards men break faith with union chiefs and Wilson by striking. Page 16. Y. M. C. A. to provide instruction camps for soldiers. Page 4. Abatement . proceedings to be Instituted against taverns. Page 11. Social workers asked to aid In suppressing vice among youth. Page 11. Excellent start made In Oregon's $45,000 war library campaign. Page IS. Oregon boys start for camp Greene. Pago 4. Weather report, da: a and forecast. Page 16. Walter Smith and Iva Jones, or Chapel le, arrested on assault and robbery charge. Page 9 Mayor Baker acts to end shipyards strike. Page L Initial move made In local campaign for second liberty lon. Page 5. House in Tumult Over War Charges. $25,000,000 FUND RUMORED Gossip Says Teutons Spent Vast Sums Here. RECIPIENTS MAY BE KNOWN Resolution to Investigate Von Bern storff Activities Becomes in Real ity Probing of Charges Made by Representatives in Interview. BT CHARLES MICHELSON. WASHINGTON, Sept. 24. (Special.) They took Representative lief 11 n over the jumps in the House of Representa tives today. . In the merry excitement that fol lowed the disclosure of a ' Mr. von Bernstorff s mention of $50,000 ex pended in the purchase of influence on Congress, the sanguine gentleman from Alabama announced that he had 13 nrembers in his mind who might- have had bites out of the German pie. Story Given to Kepoi teis. That sounded so well that in an in terview Mr. Heflln came through with a story about a gambling place where it was made easy for pro-German Con gressmen to "win the price . of their votes. For 48 hours Mr. Heflin basked in the sunlight of publicity .as the man who knew, but today he found that a Congressman may not casually Imply that he possesses knowledg of the ve nality of his fellow members without being called on to make good. Representative Is Dodger. Well, he didn't make good. He shift ed and dodged and grew indignant when they sought to pin him down. He had not said that he knew of any Congressman that took German money. He had not told the reporter what the reporter EAidhehad said. He Insisted on a quorum call. In fact, he did everything that a fellow who has talked too loosely could do, and the result of it is that a resolution ostensibly for - an investigation . of Count von Bernstorff is really for an investigation of Representative Heflln and that statesman will play in luck if his indiscretion does not cost him his seat. Second Man Karaed. . . William Schley Howard, who was also going to "point to the men" who were unexplainedly prosperous since the German money got about, is in much the same boat. Howard, how ever, denied the interview and was not named in the resolution In which Fordney, of Michigan, asked for. an in quiry into the charges. Norton, of North Dakota, who led the baiting of Heflin, supplied the omission in a resolution calling both members before a special committee to explain their insinuations. Oratory Wins Catcalls. The House Vf Representatives was a bear garden while the row was on. Heflin, who is a real orator, tried to lead the establishment away from the topic by a starry banners, boys-ln-the-trenches speech, but he got catcalls instead of cheers and boos Instead of applause. . Over on the Senate- side the Bern storff letter produced a flood of ora tory directed to the espionage feature of the trading with the enemy act, but the real fun of the day was in the House. Downtown there were a thousand surmises about what was next on the State Department programme of let ting, the people know just what Ger many has been up to in the way of tampering with neutrals, and generally violating all civilized laws of peace and war. 25,000,000 fond Rnmored. The story is all over Washington that the Department of Justice has un covered a new mine of turpitude which it has turned over to Mr. Lansing. Ac cording to this gossip, the Secret Service people have accounted for all the money spent in this country by Von Bernstorff, Rintelen, Von Papen and Boy-ed. The aggregate is given at $25,000,000. Allowing the customary 90 per cent off, the regular discount on war stories, there is left enough to keep a lot of people awake nights until it is de- cided whether it is good policy to spill the names of the recipients of enemy bounty. The State Department refuses, on principle, to give any advance notice of its intentions. Western Cattle Gnarded. Testerday's grist the report of the explosives and germs of anthrax and glanders, hidden in the garden of the German legation in Roumanla, while Roumania and Germany were at peace naturally brought the subject .of the lockjaw-infected sticking plaster, found in the packs of peddlers through the Middle and Far West, but the De partment of Justice never got far enough with this inquiry to determine definitely if the germs came from a laboratory devoted to scattering dis ease in this country, or from the dirt of the roads traversed by the itiner ants. The Government has been keeping a closer watch for anthrax and glanders among the Western herds than it has for spies about the munition works, and they are patroled night and day.
