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PORTLAND, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1917. PRICE FIVE CENTS. QHIPRIIII nPRQ UJII I IGERARD WON'T RUN SEATTLE STRIKE IS SET FOR SATURDAY FAMOUS AVIATOR : IS BELIEVED DEAD "BILL" THOMPSON v0UT FOR SENATE Dili Ullll UUILULIIU hill F0R PRESIDENCY OBEY GOVERNMENT TO CONSIDER BREAK FAMED. BAST AMBITION' IS TO BE WITNESS AT INTERNATIONAL TRIBUNAL. CAPTAIN GTJYNEJIER CONQUER OR OF 50 ENEMY PLANES. CHICAGO'S GERMANIC MAYOR SEEKS LEWIS TOGA. VOL. LVII. 0. 17,T3G. URUGUAY CONGRESS NOTABLES 111URE0 v 1 1 Portland Plants in Formal Compact OPEN SHOP TO BE MAINTAINED Anti-Picketing Law Will Be Enforced Rigidly. SOME YARDS TO REOPEN Federal Commission Beaded by Sec retary of Labor 'Wilson Expected to Start for IVest Xext Week. Labor Leaders TJrze Return. DAY'S DEVELOPMENTS K SHIPYARD STRIKE. Representatives of every Port land shipbuilding plant, upon in vitation of Mayor Baker, confer in his office and formally announce their willingness to abide by whatever arrangement the Fed eral Government may decide upon. Shops declared open to any man wishing to work. Mayor Baker formally an nounces his wish that there be no interference with workmen going to or coming from shops and declares the law will be rig idly enforced. G. Y. Harry. Federal mediator, continues his efforts to adjust difficulties. Conference held by Governor. Sheriff, Mayor, Adjutant-General, Police Chief. District and City Attorneys In the Mayor's office, and all pledge absolute enforce ment of laws and agree to work In harmony. Telegram from Senator Cham berlain indicates that Shipping Board is doing Its utmost to ad Just matters. - Conditions at various ship building plants quiet, with the "Willamette Iron & Steel Works and the Coast Company working full crews and some of the oth ers working small ones. After a conference with Mayor Baker, at his invitation, lasting two hours, representatives of 11 plants, every ship building yard In the city, last night an nounced that they would abide by whatever adjustment of the local sit uation is arrived at by the United Etateji Government officials and that they would open their shops to any man wishing to work. "The shipbuilders have every confi dence in their Government and are willing to abide by any adjustment the Government may make." reads the for mal statement Issued by the repre sentatives. "In the meantime the yards are open to any and all the men who want to go back to work." Law Enforcement IMedared. Simultaneously Mayor Baker issued this brief statement: "I earnestly advise against any in terference with workmen of the ship building plants, going to or coming from their work, as the law will be enforced." While the Mayor, who has been active from the outset in an endeavor to ar- range an adjustment 01 tne strike sit uation, declined to discuss the situation further in respect to his statement, it is known that preparations have been made whereby ample forces of men are available for use in carrying; out the Alayor a declaration. Picketing Won't Be Tolerates. There was unanimous response to Mayor Baker's invitation to the em ployers to be represented at the meet ing In his office yesterday and the for inal announcement issued by them aft erwards practically verifies the belief which has been gaining credence since the strike Monday morning that they have no Intention whatever of yielding to the chief demand of the strikers the so-called "closed shop." It can further be said with emphasis that this applies to the anti-plcketin ordinance, passed last June by the peo ple. A rumor has been spread about the city that the legal advisers of the municipal government had declared this law unsound and had advised that no action in court be brought agains anyone under its provisions, but City Attorney LaRoche officially refuted this by saying that he never made any such statement. There was some picketing yesterday along the river. and it is learned positively that this will cease forthwith, or prompt and effective action will be taken. Government Action Expected. The companies represented at the conference were as follows: AIcHachern Ship Building Company, Columbl Ttiver Ship Building Company, G. M, Ut.nfltf.r PnnsfpiiMfnn PnriiAraMin 1 George F. Rogers Company, Albina engine & aiacninery vompany, ine Foundation Company, Grant Smith Porter-Guthrie Company, Columbia Kngineering Works. Northwest Steel Company, Supple-Ballin Ship Building Company, Coast Ship Building Com pany. The Government Commission. to We Never Would Have Been Forced to Fight if We'd Had Army of 1,000,000 Men, Says Diplomat. SPOKANE, Wash.. Sept. 25. (Spe cial.) James W. Gerard, former Am bassador to Germany, will not be a candidate for President of the United States at the next election. He will settle back to the practice of law in New York. His chief desire to figure prominently again in diplomatic affairs is that he may be a witness fefore an international tribunal to tell of Prussian brutality. For instance, he jvishes to see shot the German commandant of the prison camp at Wittenberg. These were among the facts disclosed by Mr. Gerard today In an interview prior to his address before the Chamber of Commerce. "We never would have been forced to fight Germany if we had a million' men in Instant readiness to strike." Mr. Gerard said. "That argument, an army in being, is the only thing which appeals to the Prussian conscience. I kept on reporting, month after month, what the people were thinking and saying about America, and what their attitude meant. But they wouldn't be lieve me." TEXAS GOVERNOR OUSTED Ferguson Is Barred From Office of , Any Kind Hereafter. AUSTIN. Tex., Sept. 25. James E. Ferguson was formally declared re moved from office as Governor of Texas and barred from hereafter holding any public office "of honor, trust, or profit" by the adoption late today in the Sen ate high court of impeachment of the majority report of a special Senate committee. The majority report was adopted after a minority report, recommending only removal from office, had been de feated. The vote on the adoption of the majority report was 25 to 3, with one pair and one absent. LOSS OF SHIPS EXPLAINED U-Boats List as Victims Craft Thought Sunk In Storms. STOCKHOLM, Sept. 25. A published list from the German side of the names of vessels sunk by submarines gives reason to believe that Norwegian vessels have been the victims of the sink without a trace" policy made notorious by Von Luxburg. The latest list published in Ham burg contains the names of two of seven Norwegian fishing steamers which failed to return from their Au gust cruise in the Arctic and were sup posed to .have been lost with all hands in storms. CONDEMNED DOG MASCOT Californians Save Life of Albany Animal That Snapped at Child. ALBANY, Or.. Sept. 25. (Special.) Linn County was exempt In the present draft, but the city will be represented in the new National Army as a local dog Joined a California contingent en route through here Sunday night. Be cause the dog snapped at a little girl that afternoon the owner desired it killed and telephoned to the police with the request that it be despatched. A troop train came into the depot soon after and as the soldiers were hunting for a mascot the dog was turned over to them. TUCKER-NEFF FIGHT DRAW Seattle Sporting Writers, Hbwever, Say Tucker Better Man. ' SEATTLE. Sept. 25. Frankle Tucker, fighting under the direction of his sis ter, Kllzabeth, obtained a draw In his bout here tonight witl. Chester Neff, Seattle lightweight. Neff was the fa vorite, but the local sporting writers declared Tucker was entitled to a de cision. Charley Moy beat Jimmy Lewis in the third round, Lewis' seconds throw ing up the towel. Joe Gc.man and Bert Forbes boxed to a draw. PEACE SPARROW RETURNS Little White Bird Seen at End of Two Wars Alights In New York. NEW YORK. Sept. 25. (Special.) A white sparrow, a rare bird, seen in Cen tral Park today by John W. Heath, old-timer, recalls that one of these birds was seen in Potsdam. Pa., a fort night before the Civil War ended and that such a bird appearet". in an Ohio town just before the end of the Spanish-American War. A crowd watched the bird hopping about today. ANTI-DRAFT MEN GUILTY ! Conspiracy Charge Upheld by Jury in Federal Court. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 25. A ver dict of guilty in the cases of Daniel OConnelU an attorney, and five other men, accused of conspiracy to hamper I enforcement of the selective draft law. was returned tonight by a jury in the United States District Court. The men found guilty with O'Connell were David J. Smith. Herman B. Smith. Carl J. F. Wacher, Talmas Care, and i 1 11. ilofiuiau. 12,000 Shipworkers to Quit at 10 A. M. UNIONS DESIRE "SHOWDOWN" Position Taken That Ample Time Has Been Given. MESSAGE SENT PRESIDENT Action Follows Receipt of Tele grams From Mr. Wilson and Mr. Gompers Urging That Prop er Care Be Exercised. SEATTLE, Wash., Sept. 25. In call ing a strike of 12.000 metal workers In .Seattle shipyards next Saturday morning at 10 o'clock, the strike com mittee of the Metal Trades Council says: "We feel that the council has been eminently patient and fair in this mat ter, having waited nine weeks for some kind of settlement. We regret that our action at this time has been forced upon us, but we can see no other course." Strike Maye Be Called Off. A. E. Miller, secretary of the Metal Trades Council, said tonight after see ing an Associated Press dispatch from Washington stating that the board be lieved an understanding would be reached by Saturday, that if a. dellnite and satisfactory statement was made tomorrow hy the shipbuilding labor ad justment board as to what the em ployes of the Seattle steel shipyards may expect in an adjustment of their wage demands, labor leaders here would endeavor to have the strike set for next Saturday postponed. Rank and File Clamors. When the recent Washington con ferences failed to effect a settlement of the steel shipbuilders' demand for a wag increase of 33 per cent the rank and file of the union members began to clamor for a strike. Con fronted by this situation the board' of business agents of the Metal Trades Council today exercised the discretion vested in them when the strike - was called off September 5, and voted that all unions be notified to call their men out at 10 o'clock Saturday morning unless In tho meantime employers met the demands as originally presented. The various trades involved In the approaching strike have obtained the sanction of their international officers. President la Notified. A telegram has been sent to Presi dent Wilson notifying him of the call ing of the strike. The unions and the shipyards say that the settlement of the strike is in the hands of the Na tional Government. Some Slsm Scale. The big Skinner & Eddy plant, hav ing granted the wage increases, will Concluded on Pag 15, Column 4.) THE MAKING OF AN AMERICAN SOLDIER. j I ITiFx . a 1 --feMI 4 I J- -T.V yfJA I t33-RC0 I S& I I t it jk tYC-F SAM SOYS I i : : i ' - Title of Ace Earned in February With Bringing Down or Fifth Foe. Escapes Frequently Narrow. PARIS. Sept. 25. Captain George Guynemer, the famous French aviator. Is believed to be dead. Captain Guynemer is thought to have been killed during a reconnaissance flight over Flanders on which he left Dunkirk September 11. Nothing has been heard from him since and It was assumed that he had been lost, but not until tonight did army headquarters Is sue a confirmatory report. Captain Guynemer, who attained world-wide fame by his exploits, was perhaps the most brilliant aviator of the war. He was last cited in the offi cial French announcement of Septem ber 10 for having won his 50th aerial victory. An unofficial press dispatch a few days earlier said he had accounted for 52 enemy machines. lie was 21 years old. ' Captain Guynemer first came into public notice in February of last year by bringing down his fifth enemy, thus becoming an "ace," and earning an official citation. Victories fol lowed in rapid succession and the young aviator, who took part In many spec tacular fights, had .the narrowest of escapes on several occasions. Guynemer was admitted to the French army as a volunteer after having been rejected five times by medical inspectors. He operated his airplane alone, serving as both pilot and gunner. STUDY OF GERMAN DROPPED French and Spanish More Popuar In Eugene High School. EUGENE, Or., Sept. 25. (Special.) The study of German in the Eugene High School has been reduced more than 50 per cent as 'a result of the war, being replaced by French and Spanish. The total enrollment in the Eugene schools this year is 1690, as compared with 1943 at the beginning of the Fall term last year. , The falling off Is wholly in the high school. DRAFT FRAUD CONFESSED Ex-Deputy Sheriff - Admits Taking $25 0 From Drafted Farmer. ST. JOSEPH. Mo., Sept. 25. Leslie E. Clark, a former Deputy Sheriff, was the first man arrested after the Fed eral grand jury completed Its inves tigation today into alleged draft frauds here.. Clark has conlessed that he was paid $250 by a young farmer to obtain rejection by the local exemption board. He gave bond. , HIGH COST HITS CLERGY Eureka Pastor Resigns Because Salary Is Not Increased. EUREKA, Cal.. Sept. 25. "The price of preaching must go up along with other labor costs," declared Rev. G. H. Lobdell, pastor of the Christian Church, in announcing his resignation because of the failure of the church to pay his salary. Mr. Lobdell waa formerly a pastor in San Jose. Argentine House Vptes to Defy Germany. TEUTONS BLAMED FOR STRIKE Entire Army Called Out Clear Railroads. to OCEAN -CABLES yARE CUT Argentine Government Hesitates to Take Final Steps Until Transla; tlons Are Received Frbm Wash lngton of Luxburg Notes. MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Sept. 25. The - Uruguayan Consreaa nan been called to meet In -pedal session Satur day to vote on the question of severing relations with Germany.' This action was decided on by the Uruguayan arov ernment an the result of the steps taken by the Argentine Congress. The Foreign Minister will explain the gov ernment's plan for n break with Ger many at the opening of the special ses sion. BUENOS AIRES. Sept. 25. The Chamber of Deputies today voted in favor of a rupture with Germany. The vote was 53 to 18. The President has power to veto the action of Parliament, but popular clamor is such that this is unlikely. Rumors were current tonight that President Irogoyen was not willing to break off relations with Germany, notT withstanding the action taken, today by the Chamber of Deputies. It was announced tonight that a manifesta tion will be made before the Congress sional palace tomorrow to demand an immediate rupture in the name of the Argentine public ' The authorities have been advised officially that the strike in the city of Santa Fe during the last month was fomented and supported by Germans. - Entire Army Called Out. The entire Argentine army has been summoned to duty to aid the govern ment in attempting to re-establish rail road traffic at present held up by the strike. This action was decided upon after the strikers sailed to accept an offer of government arbitration. All trains will be run by the- military. There were reports In government cir- oles tonight that martial law might be declared throughout- the republic within a few hours. In Cordoba strikers today attacked a convoyed train. Women were placed in front of the crowd as a shield. There was an exchange of shots, three per sons being killed and ten wounded. Several serious clashes between troops and strikers are reported from other cities of the republic. The situation brought about by the strike is becoming more serious, and it Is feared the conflict will assume tConcluded on Paaje . Column 1.) Head of "Sixth German City of the World" Further AVould Ask for People's Vote. CHICAGO, Sept. 25. Mayor William Hale Thompson tonight announced his candidacy for the Republican nomina tion for United States Senator to suc ceed James Hamilton Lewis, Democrat, at the primary election next September, basing his contest o:i thi ground of giving the people of Illinois "an oppor tunity to vote on vital Government pol icies, involving the most precious rights of American citizens." T'le announcement says: "I stand upon my record as a public official, my public addresses and my authorized public statements." The Mayor recently sued Chicago newspapers for attacks on him in con nection with his stand in regard to the entrance of the United States into the European war and the draft law and his opposition to Governor Frank. C. Lowden, who ordered the -suppression of a peace meeting in Chicago. Mayor Thompson has been quoted as saying that as Mayor of the "sixth Ger- kman city of the world" he yielded to none in patriotism, but that he "op posed the entrance of American armies into Europe and the drafting of Amer leans to fight on foreign soil." His statements declared that the majority of the people were with him in his stand. NO JUNKET IS DECISION Official Delegation From ' Congress Won't Be Sent to Europe. Washington, Sept. 25. At a con ference today between President Wil son and members of the Senate for eign relations and House foreign af fairs committee, it was decided that no official delegation from Congress will be sent to Europe, for the present at least. No action will be taken before Con gress adjourns, leaving the invitations for the future. GOVERNOR M'CALL WINS Republican Nomination Obtained by 5 0,0 00 Plurality. -BOSTON, Sept. 25. Governor Samuel W. McCall was renominated at the Re public primaries today by. a plurality of more than 50,000 votes in his con test with Grafton D. Cushing, ex- Lleuteriant-Governor. Frederick W. Mansfield was the only candidate for the Democratic nomina tlon for Governor, INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 6S degrees; minimum. 5b degrees. TODAY'S Rain; moderate winds, mostly westerly. War. Germans repeat raids on London. Pa ire 6. Teuton war party declares for conquest and - indemnities. Page S. Argentina deputies vote to break: with Ger many. Page 1. French repulse attacks under liquid fire. rage d. Famous aviator believed dead. Page L Foreign. 9 Notables immured in famous Russian bas tlon. .rage X. -National. Strict curb put on gold shipments. Page 2. Senate passes deficiency bill. Page 4. Frank A. Vanderlip surrenders business ac tivities so he may help Government dur ing period of war. Page 2. Domestlc Gaston Means held to grand jury for murder of Mrs. King. Page 2. Pro-German Mayor of Chicago out for U. S. Senate. Page 1. Progress of Third Oregon through state causes lunch-box downpour. Page 15. Aged parent of Oklahoma draft reals ters dramatically bares plots of working class union. Page ti. Sports Pacific Coast League results: Oakland 4. Salt lake 3; Los Angeles 5, Han Francisco 4; Portland-Vernon. no game. Page 14. Beavers play Tigers here today. Page 14. -Races open auspiciously at Salem. Page 15. Miss Bertha Dillon sets new world's marks In futurity. Page 14. World series holds fans interest. Page 14. Franklin High eleveu defeats High School of Commerce, 64 to 0. P.ge 14. Pacific Northwest. Seattle ship yard strike called for Satur day. Page 1. Former Ambassador Gerard won't enter race for Presidency. Page 1. Jeff Hayes, notorious escaped convict, cap tured after spectacular revolver duel wiLh . officer in streets of Shedd. Page 5. Food sonservation is emphasized at State Fair. Page 6. Commercial and Marine. Prices fixed by Government . on canned goods. . Page 10. Maximum future corn prices may not be raised. Page 10. Pauline, sixth auxiliary vessel launched at McEachern yards, sold, to New York in terests. Page 16. T. M. C. A. to open school to teach ship building. Page 10. Portland and Vicinity. Shipbuilders agree to accept any terms or dered by Government. Page 1. Portland diners take kindly to first meat less day. Page 9. City decides to engage in fuel business. Page 20. Judge Bean has letter from son on British front. Page 8. Buyers from all quarters patronize Ad Club's cost-price fish market. Page 4. Baker heads list of first contributors to war library fund. Page 8. Government wants wood-cutters to get air craft material out of the woods. Page 9. City taxes are likely to take jump upward. Page 8. Judge Kossxnan to establish parole system for care of errant youngsters. Page 12. Dr. Otto S. Binswanger, one of Portland's best-known physicians, dead. Page 4. West . Side Pacific Highway controversy looms in background at State Highway Commission meeting. Page 6. Some doubt exists as to "Auto Club of America." Page 7. War pictures to be shown at Auditorium during Patriotic week for Third Oregon fund Page 15. Bar Association committee to investigate svstem of selecting Multnomah Jurors. Page 4. Carmen postpone action as to strike pend ing report. of Public Service Commission. Page 2. Weather report data and forecast. Fas 19. Russian Autocrats Wait Nation's Verdict. 8 EXALTED CULPRITS HELD Associated Press Man Visits Troubetskoi Prison. LIFE IRKS PR0T0P0P0FF Cells, Below Water Level, Sub ject to Inundation, Are Se cure but Not Insanitary or Uncomfortable. PETROGRAD, Monday, Sept. 24. Aa the result of a month's negotiations, after which a decision by Premier Kerensky was finally asked, the Asso ciated Press correspondent was per mitted today to inspect the notorious Troubetskoi bastion of the fortress of St. Peter and St. Paul, the bastile of Petrogrrad. Here during: two centuries there have been immured high-born traitors, pre tenders to the throne, assassins of Em perors, propagandists of Nihilism and bomb-throwing-, and here today the most hated adherents of the banished autocratic regime are awaiting the na tion's verdict. KiRht Exalted Culprits Held. In this bastion are now interned eight exalted culprits. They are Gen eral Rennenkampff, whose record as a military Judge In 1906 during the at tempted revolution constituted a "hang man's progress" to Siberia classed as equaling, if not surpassing, the . in famies of the notorious Jeffreys; M. Bieletsky, former director of police and accomplice of agents provocateur; the reactionary ex-Minlster of the Interior, M. MakaroiT, who procured the election of a burglar to the Duma to act as a spy; M. Slkeremleff, accused of serious offenses as chief of the army motor supply office; ex-Minister of Justice J. Chtcheglovitioff, whom the late Count Wltte characterized as the "most clever most corrupt man In Europe"; Princft Alexander Dolgorukoff, the cavalry commander seized last week as a sup porter of General Korniloff ; General Voyeikoff, the ex-Emperor'a palace commandant, and, finally, Alexander " Protopopoff, once classed as a patriotic member of the Duma, next an oppres sive Minister of the Interior, and last, the ally and slave of the mystic Monk1 Rasputin. Cells Below Water Level. The bastion, which is a part of the obsolete fortification, is on the banks of the Neva. It is a two-story, hexag onal building surrounding a court yard, along five sides of which runs a double tier of low, arched windows, heavily barred. .The sixth side is a. high wall. According to popular belief the bas tion cells are "stone sacks," which, being below the level of the river, are liable to inundation, but this is er roneous. The lower row, in which there are 36 cells, is on the ground level, but there are no prisoners here, and the upper story, with the same number of cells, is out of the reach of the recurring river floods. The correspondent visited the for tress in company with the assistant procuror of the Petrograd high court. Prisoners Are Seen Before inspecting the cells the cor respondent visited the prison chancel lory, out of which lead two doors. Pointing to them, the procuror said: "Inside are prisoners under examina tion." He opened the first door im mediately, showing a stoutish gray bearded man, who was Bieletsky, ges ticulating to an examining magistrate, while through the other door, when it was opened, . could be seen only a regular, aquiline profile silhouetted against a barred window. 'That is Protcpopoff," said the pro- curor, closing the door. Xhe correspondent was then con ducted to the cells on the upper story, in which the prisoners are confined at present. The cells open on a corridor, which follows the hexagonal construc tion of the building. On one side of the corridor are barred windows open ing out on the courtyard, while on the other side Is a row of red-painted, iron bound, oaken doors with slots for peer ing, and pigeon-holes, which may be closed at will, for handing in food to the occupants. Sanitary Conditions Good. From the condition of a vacant cell the correspondent gained the impres sion that, so long as the jailer behaves considerately, imprisonment in the Troubetskoi bastion involves no phys ical suffering. The whitewashed cell was a large and clean one. The cell was not damp and the sanitary arrange ments were modern. T-e furniture con sists of a good bed and a table screwed to the wall. The only defective ar rangement is the inadequate natural lighting, which the procuror admitted, saying that the five-foot thick wall prevents the enlargement of the win dows. From an examination- of XYvp prison regulations and the statements made by Assistant Governor Kurlnden, the ' correspondent obtained an idea of the treatment accorded the prisoners. Some Illertlea Allowed. "All the eight prisoners who formerly were compelled to wear prison clothing iConuluued on Page 3, Column 4.J (Conclude! oa Ffc 10. Culuain 5.J