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Newspaper Page Textjftwnifeflf jjg ite gmmm ' VOL. IVII. NO. 17,748. PORTLAND, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1917. PRICE FIVE CENTS. GERMANS DRIVEN NEW TIES LAUGH AMID WAR GLOOM BINGHAM ESTATE SUED FOR TAXES RAIDER GETS RICH HAUL FROM CO-EDS $2,000,000 MARK THOUGHT PROBABLE STRIKE HEARS END REACHED DN BONDS 1 WE PCT COLOR INTO THEM FOR CHEER, SAYS HABERDASHER. KENTUCKY HOPES TO LIQUI DATE ITS ENTIRE DEBT. $800 BRACELET IS LOST AT WASHINGTON DORMITORY. CIVIL WAR RUSSIA ASTORIA SHIPYARD BACK YARDS Allies Renew Attack - on Wide Front. ALL OBJECTIVES GAINED British Capture Village of Poelcapelle After Day ' of Hot Fighting. FRENCH CROSS TWO RIVERS Capture of Village and Block houses Reported in Of ficial Statement. (By the Associated Tress.) BRITISH FRONT IN FRANCE AND BELGIUM, Oct. 9. Another big attack was begun at dawn today against the German positions to the cast and north of Ypres by both the British and French armies and had met with great success in the first few hours of the fighting. At many places the allied forces had battled their way forward to a depth of 1200 yards or more within the enemy territory, and reports from all along a wide front indicated that everything was going in favor of the assaulting troops, notwithstanding the exceedingly bad condition of the ground, due to the last few days' ram. French Take Prisoners. On the north the French had surged across at. the rosbeck and Broenbeek rivers in the direction of Houthoulst forest, and at an early hour were re ported to be fighting around Mange lacre, about 1500 yards beyond their original front lines. By 8:30 o'clock they had obtained several hundred prisoners. Further to the south the British had pushed the Germans back to Foel capelle and were fighting well in the eastern outskirts of the city around a big brewery. British troops on the Gravenstafel ridge had carried their drive forward to the Fasschendaele ridge and were resting about 1000 yards southwest of the town of Fasschendaele. Strong Attack Made. Between the Ypres-Roulers Railway And the village of Broodseinde the assaulting forces had pushed forward for a considerable distance down the eastern slopes of Broodseinde ridge and to the lower ground. East of Ypres. in the zone embracing Reutel and Polderhoek, where there has been j much bitter fighting recently, the' tsrmsn were carrying out strong oper ations, and it was reported that suc cess also had been achieved there. Just north of Broodseinde, at Daisy wood, the Germans were holding out strongly. The British had pushed forward and surrounded the wood and hot fighting was proceeding. The British also met with strong resistance at Polderhoek Chateau. They reached this position early in the attack, but were forced by heavy machine-gun rtre to withdraw a little for the mo ment. At the latest report they had made an advance. Counter Attacks Heavy. A The meager report received just as this dispatch was filed says the Ger mans were counter-attacking heavily astride the Ypres-Roulers railway. The air service did fine work not withstanding a gale of wind. Six Ger man airplanes that ventured over the British lines at a height of 9600 feet were engaged in battle by British air men and a spectacular fight took place. Prisoners have been brought back in larg numbers. The battle opened at 5:20 A. M. under a clear sky, but the ground had been turned into a morass in many places by the recent heavy rains. It was especially diffi cult for operations along the northern section of the attack, where there are many little rivers bordered with marshy ground. The gunfire from both he British and French artillery was terrific at . the hour of the attack and the pre liminary bombardment had been in tense for days. The German artillery replied weakly at most places. PARIS, Oct. 9. French troops on the Belgian front, at 5:30 this morn- iCoacluded on Page 3, Column -. Military Styles Doomed, Trimmings, Belts, Buckles Cut Out, Ac cording to Authority. CHICAGO, Oct. 9. (Special.) They are here ties the color of blood and flame and cats' eyes in the dark. But they stand for nothing sinister, they are the laugh, in wartime. Hugh G. Corbett. of the reception committee of the United Clothiers' As sociation, meeting at the Auditorium Hotel, says so. He points to the burn ing array of short but nifty neck pieces and says this: "We've got all the gloom we can stand in the sober tomes of men's clothing this year, browns, dark greens and blue, and we've put the color into the ties for cheer. It's the big laugh amid the war gloom. Honest." And they're little skimpy ties at that. All materials are being cut down for economy's sake. Conservation of clothing materials because of the war soon will spell the doom of the military style in clothing, according to Hugh G. Corbett, of Champaign, Illinois. Trimmings will be done away with, belts, buckles, patch pockets and all that, and coats will be made shorter. Even cuffs may be taken off trousers. Mr. Corbett said clothing prices had not gone up in the proportion of other things as a result of the war, but he predicted a big jump next week. OREGON FUELHEAD NAMED Fred J. Holmes, of Lia Grande, to Be Administraotr During War.. "WASHINGTON. Oct. 9. The fuel ad ministration tonight announced the ap pointment of the following state fuel administrators: Oregon Fred J. Holmes. La Grande. Minnesota John F. McGee, Minne apolis. North. Dakota I. P. Barker, Bis marck. LA GRAN DK, Or.. Oct. 9. (Special.) Fred J. Holmes is president of the La Grande National Bank, and one of the most prominent residents of this section. He has been most active in all public affairs. OREGON HENIS WONDER "Biddy" Iaid Egg a Day for 2 8 Days When 4 M Months Old. CHERRY VILLE, Or., Oct 9. (Spe cial.) Mrs. C. W. Miller, of this place, owns one of the most remarkable hens in Oregon. The hen was hatched on December 27. laBt. It began laying when 4. months and 18 days old. and laid an egg a day for 28 days. Soon afterward biddy showed a desire to set. and being encouraged by Mrs. Miller, who placed 11 eggs under her, she hatched nine little chicks at the age of 6 months and 10 days. . Mrs. Miller says the hen is "of no particular Jreed." I. W. W. MEMBERS ON JOB Industrial Workers Refuse to Walk Out When Orchard Employes btrlkc. NORTH YAKIMA. Wash., Oct. 9. (Special.) When a number of orchard employes at the E. D. Clark ranch, near Harrah, struck Saturday for $4 a day for field men and seven cent3 a box for packers, three J. W. W. mem bers of th gang refused to go out with them. "We are satisfied; why should we quit? they asked. e are getting what we hired out for." Sixteen packers at the warehouse of the Yakima County Horticultural Union in this city struck yesterday for an in crease from five to six cents a box- PACIFIST PASTOR OUSTED Seattle Municipal League Expels Congregational Mln4ster. SEATTLE. Wash.. Oct. 9. By a vote of" 73 to 21. the Seattle- Municipal League today voted to expel Rev. Syd ney Strong, pastor of Queen Anne Con gregational Church, because of al leged disloyal statements made by him recently in Los Angeles at a meeting of the Christian Pacifists. Rev. Mr. Strong has long been active ly identified with the pacifist move ment. He is now attending a church conference in the East. MUNSEY GETS NEW HOME New York Sun and Other Publica tlons to Be In $4,000,000 Tract. NEW YORK. Oct. 9. Purchase of the Stewart building, at Broadway, Cham bers and Reade streets, by Frank A. Munsey for the erection in its place of a home for the Sun, Munsey's Maga zine and the other Munsey publications was announced in today's Evening Sun, The property was valued at about $4,000,000, it was stated. AMERICANS ARE WOUNDED German Shell Fragments Strike Men Transporting Munitions. PARIS, Oct. 9 Robert Lamon, of Evanston, 111.. - and Henry Thompson, of Greenville, Del., members of the mu nitlons' transport section of the Ameri can Field Service, were wounded Sun dty by a German shell while on duty near the front. It is reported their injuries are sot strious. Radical Element Is De termined to Rule, BOLSHEVIK. ARE INTOLERANT Poland's History Is Regarded as Analogous. UNITED STATES CRITICISED Expatrlafcd Citizens Returning to Pctrograd Imbued With Pacifist Ideas Considered Disgrace to American Teachings. BY RHETA CHILDE DORR. (Seventh of a daily series of articles telling the Inside story of Russia's revolt. Copyright. 1017. by the New York Evening Mail. Published by arrangement.) I have just been reading in one of the newspapers the headlines placed above a dispatch from Russia, which stated that the democratic congress, now in session in Petrograd, had voted to sustain Kerensky's demand for a coalition government. The headlines were wrong. "What the dispatch really stated was that the congress hadvoted not to form any coalition with the bourgeois element, or with members of the Constitutional Democratic party. That is, the con gress would not support a ministry that had any non-socialist members in it. Radical Want Supremacy. "All the power to the Soviets" was retired as too conservative a slogan. It's "all the power to the Bolsheviki" now, for that is precisely what the vote in that so-called Democratic Con gress meant. Since June, 1917, no fewer than six congresses or conventions have been held in Russia with the object of finding a way out of the chaos with which the country is threatened. Every one of them was hailed beforehand as tlie. ni which was going . to be a showdown of the intentions and desires of the people. Tito Meetings Important. The most Important of these were the all-Russia congress of Soviets held last July, and before that the prelim inary convention to prepare for the constituent assembly. The one was to decide once and for all whether or not the moderate or the extreme element in the ' Soviets was to rule and the other was to quiet both elements by showing that the government intended to prepare a lib eral and a democratic constitution for them to debate, amend and adopt when the time came. Lastly, there was the great Moscow congress of last August. I don't remem ber what the stated object of' that congress was, but it does not matter much. The real object was to find out which was the stronger man. Kerensky or Korniloff. Kerensky won by a nar row margin, a very narrow margin. And now they have held another con vention and Kerensky has lost.- What will happen next in that. di3 tr'onclnded on rase 4. rnlijmil RECKON OUR Minimum Amount Due Under Law, . If Enforced by . Court, Between. Two and Three Million- LOUISVILLE. Ky., Ocu :. 9. State Revenue Agent "Walter Byars filed suit In the Jefferson County Court here to day to collect inheritance taxes esti mated at between $2,000,000 and $3. 000.000 on the estate of the late Mrs. Robert Worth Bingham. Mrs. Bingham, formerly Mrs. Henry M. Flagler, of New York, died at her home in Louisville last July. The body was taken to Wilmington. N. C, where relatives, who asserted they wanted the cause of her death more determined, caused it to be exhumed. An autopsy was performed, and some of the organs sent to New York for chemical analysis, the result of which never has been announced. Mrs. Bingham's estate is estimated at $80,000,060. including- $65,000,000 in personal property. Recovery of the minimum estimated amount of the inheritance, it has been estimated, would be sufficient to liqui date the entire debt of the state of Kentucky. SUBMARINES DRIVEN OFF Four Steamers Attacked in Mediter ranean U-Boat Believed Sunk. AN ATLANTIC PORT, Oct. 9. The master of an Italian steamer which ar rived here today reported that when with another Italian steamer and two American steamers on September 17 they were attacked in the Mediterra nean by three German or Austrian U-boats. In the attack the submarines were driven off with probably "the loss of one. The captain says a shot pierced the conning tower of one of the enemy boats. The four ships, he said, kept up a delivery of shell and the submarines disappeared. He said a number of tor pedoes discharged at the merchant ships went wide of their mark. GERMANS BUYING LEATHER Brokers In Argentina Express Confi dence War Will Be Over Soon. BUENOS AIRES. Oct. 9. Coincident with the American demand for Argen tine dry hides to meet military orders and renewed British buying as a result of lifting of the leather embargo, the Germans here are buying heavjly and their competition in the market is helping to increase nrices. German, brokers say they are buying on German government orders. They express confidence that the war will end in January or February. Trices of hides have risen 12 per cent in the last 10 days, GASOLINE MAY GO DOWN Standard Oil Expected Soon to Re lease Refinery Patents. - CHICAGO, Oct. 9. A vision of more gasoline and possibly lower prices was sffn in the belief generally expressed today at the oppnlng of the ninth gen eial convention of the Independent Oil Aden's Association of America, that the Standard Oil Company soon would re lease its patnts on refining oil from lower grades for gasoline purposes. More than 1000 members of the asso ciation are here for the meeting. RECORD SPEAKS FOR ITSELF, -AL.itler Appeals to Men to Resume. TEMPORARY TRUCE IN SIGHT Unionists Will Vote -on Pro posed Settlement Today. SOLDIERS' SAFETY SOUGHT Workers Urged to Go Back Under Existing: Conditions and -Abide by Federal Board's Ruling;, Which Plan Managers Accept. ASTORIA, Or., Oct. 9. (Special.) The shipyard strike in Astoria is nearer to a point of settlement tonight than it has been at any previous time since the walkout, and there is good reason to believe that an agreement will be reached at the meeting to be held to morrow afternoon. This situation came about as the result of a conference this afternoon between the strike leaders and the shipyard managers and Colonel C. E. Dentler, commanding the North western District, United States Army. Colonel Dentler urged the strikers to put aside the closed-shop question and the wage problem and return to work. The United States, he saidr is in this war to fight to a finish and to termi nate the war successfully quick, hard blows must be dealt to Germany. To do this ships are needed urgently, for without ships soldiers and supplies cannot be sent across the Atlantic. Settlement Plan Outlined. Colonel Dentler outlined a tentative pian for settlement of the strike as follows: "Let the strikers return to work in the Astoria yards at the present wages and conditions. "The Federal. Labor Adjustment Board, now in Seattle, will . investigate labor conditions in Astoria and any recommendations and orders of the Ad justment Board will at once be adopted by the shipyards and the shlpworkers. "Should the board recommend more pay and shorter hours these" conditions will date not from the date of such recommendations, but from the begin ning of the present labor disturbance, more than three weeks ago." Bosses Agree to Proposal. E. W. Wright, manager ot the Mc Eachern shipyard, stated that such pro cedure .would be approved by him and the other shipyards in Astoria are willing to act likewise. It now remains for the strikers to also approve this plan. "The United States is training 2,000, 000 men in the Army," said Colonel Dentler. In explaining the necessity for the Government having ships at once. "We must send 20,000 men a day across the Atlantic to France. Just now we have tonnage for sending only 1000 men across the waters every day. Be sides men we need ships to carry sup plies to Europe, for without a year's supplies for every man it is useless to t Concluded on Page 5. Column ::.) GENTLEMEN. Cash and Jewelry Worth $1000 Disappear While Girls Arc ' Enjoying Evening Meal. SEATTLE, Wash.. Oct. 9. (Special.) Cash and jewelry valued at $1000, including a platinum bracelet, set with diamonds, the . property of Miss L. C. Skartvedt, was stolen from Lewis Hall, the woman's clirmitory of the Univer sity of 'Washington, last Saturday night, while the co-eds were at dinner. Miss Swartvedt values the bracelet at $800 and has offered a reward of $200 for its return. It is three quarters of an inch broad and set with eight diamonds. A number of the other rooms of the building were ransacked and a number of pieces of jewelry, fountain pens and small amounts of money were taken from the rooms. The police and the" student body are on the alert for the reward. MILCH COW ABOARD TRAIN California Conscripted Men Make It Interesting for Roseburg People. ROSEBURG. Or.. Oct, 9. (Special.) Troops of drafted men passing through Roseburg recently have taken the city government into their own hands, liter ally speaking. Vacant automobiles have been appropriated by them, and on one occasion a large car was "mobil ized" by the men, who attempted to operate the machine and twisted a rear axle off. All movable articles were "confiscated" and street signs removed. Inspection of the train carrying the troops showed that other cities suf fered fully as bad as Roseburg. every thing from a wheelbarrow to a mule. including a milch cow, being among their storage of "Army equipment." FALSE ARRESJ RUINS MAN Toronto Engineer Loses Health and Spends $50,000 to Get Free. NEW YORK, Oct. . 9. A case of mis taken identity that cost its victim $50, 000 and shattered his health in a nine months' fight to set himself right, was brough tto light here today when, at the request of the District Attorney, an indictment charging forgery against Alexander P. Macauley, a wealthy min lng engineer of Toronto, Ontario, was ordered dismissed by the court. It was brought out that Macauley had been erroneously arrested in St. Louis December 30, 1916, In the belief that he was "Christmas Keough, known to the police as an alleged forger of travelers' checks. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. TESTKRDAT'S Maximum temperature, 7-8 degrees; minimum, ft! drfti. tODAI'S Fair; northerly winds. Foreign. Civil irsr in Russia regarded as probability. Faro 1. Chancellor Mlchaelis says OermanS are free. politically, but empire is first concern Fag 3. War. Allies renew battle and drive Germans back two miles along wide front. Page 1. German fighting strength clearly on decline. Page . American Navy's war construct inn pro gramme calls for 7Si vessels in all. I'agc . Naf innal. War rtepartmenfs plans for organizing Army are mane known, rage 7. Nation calls upon all industries to enter war service. Page 4. Government control of all important foods to be made errective November 1. Page ;t. President prepares to put embargo in force. l"ag 4. Domestic. Bingham estate sued by Kentucky for taxes. Page 1. New ties colorful despite war. Page t. Co-ed at Washington robbed of $j0 brace let. Page 1. Sport. Pacific Ooast. League results: Portland 4. San Francisco 5: Oakland 5, Vernon 1; Los Angeles 10, Salt Lake Page 14. Roscoe Taylor prepares for bout with Jack Wagner. Page 14. Washington High -eleven loses to Columbia University. Pago 15. Bain delays third world's aeries game until today. .Page 14. Ice Palace to open. Page 14. Factfio Northwest. Women allowed for first time to join Spo kane Retail Clerks' Union. Page 1. Fire at Klamath Falls results In loss of be tween $250,000 and $.".00,000. Page 4. Public Service Commission enunciates new policy In granting Sumpter ' Valley 15 per rent rate increase. Page 7. Astoria- shipyard strike at point of settle ment. Pago 1. Secretary McAdoo reviews 30,000 troops at Camp Lewis Pass f- Jabez Nelson' Is dead. Page II. Governor condemns ship atrtke. Page 5. Commercial and Marine. Jobbers facing short deliveries In many necessary lines. Page 10. . . Government will not fix price on raw wool. Page 10. Federal limit may be set on corn and hog values. - Page 10.. Decline In Wall-street stock market con tinues. Page 10. Boilers from old llghtvessel No. 50 sold to Japanese. Page 16. Portland and Vicinity. Oregon up to 2.000.0w mark on liberty loan subscriptions. Page 1. Buehner timber holdings on Coos Bay sold to Eastern group for $1,750,000. Page It. River route chosen for Columbia Highway to Mosler. Page 20. Plan to observe Hoover pledge made simple by committee In charge of food conserva tion movement. - Page 8. Red Cross women complete plana to open superfluity shop Saturday. Page 4. Women make glfta to aid Oregon soldiers. Page 5. Oregon farmers urged to add rye acreage. Page 0. Big parade held In interests of fire preven tion. Page 6. Secretaries McAdoo and Lane to apeak in Portland today. Page 13. Transportation tax goea Into effect Novem ber 1. Page 15. Major George H. Kelly guest of business jneu at luncheon. Page. 15. Southern Pacific Cred it $250,000, MORE ORATORS ARE LISTED Itinerary of Motor Trip to Cen tral Oregon Arranged. JOHN H. STEVENSON LEADER Pressure Will Bo Brought to Bear on Eastern Firms With Branches in This State to Give Sub- i scriptions In Proportion. p OREGOX XEAHS 12,000,1X10 MARK, 4 J OXE-EIGHTH OF STATE'S j ALLOTMENT. Portland Subscriptions. T Firat National Bank $ 37,900 J I Ladd & Tilton...' 3,700 J State Bank of Portland.. 1.350 J Canadian Bk. of Commerce 25.150 J Peninsula National Bank 25.000 J Bank of California 139.450 J TJ. S. National Bank 13,250 J Southern Pacific Company 250,000 I Armour & Co 10,000 J J Total $505,800 t' Summary. $ City of Portland Previously reported... $ 705,050 J Reported yesterday... 305. 800 J J Total . .$1,210,850 . a State outside of Portland a Previously reported . .. $ 723.150' Reported yesterday... 63,650 4 4 Total ...$ 786. S00 J I Grand total $1,997,650 To every corner of the state must b carried 'the gospel 0f tne liberty loan. The. speakers' committee yesterday outlined a new-, picturesque feature of the campaign. A grljeantic yellow au tomobile, loaned for the trip by E. V. Hauser, president of the Multnomah Hotel Company, -will carry picked speakers on a jaunt of 1500 miles through Eastern and Central Oregon, extending from Portland to The Dalles and on to Klamath Falls. John H. Stevenson Is Star. The itinerary includes many cities between, with detours to Lakeview, Silver Lake and Burns. John H. Stevenson, former Municipal Judge, will be the leading speaker on the trip. J. ' L. Ethridge. manage- of Morris Bros., will be the speaker to explain the bonds and answer all quesions. II. It. Cloutier, manager or the Mult nomah Hotel, will be. manager of the tour, and Dan Zetz. trustiest, of auto drivers, will pilot the bi car over its long missionary journey. Newspaper correspondents will accompany the party. Mr. Hauser sends his car, with all expenses paid, to further the cause of th second liberty loan. Th$ schedule calls for a meeting at Th Dalles Sat urday evening. October 13. The fol lowing day will be spent en route to Bend, and on Monday. October 15. Bend. Redmond and Prlneville will hear the. liberty loan message. Lake County to De InTded. Tuesday, October 16. will be spent traveling to Klamath Falls. On Wednesday meetings will b'. held at Klamath Falls. Merrill and vicinity. The auto will go to Lakeview th following day. where meetings will be, held on Friday, as well as at Silver Lake and Taisley. The speakers will talk at Burns oh Saturday. October 20. The return will be made via The Dalles Monday and Tuesday, October 21 and 22. It Is arranged that communities en route may procure brief stops of the speakers. All requests must be tele graphed to the speakers' committee at liberty loan headquarters, and they will be granted whenever possible. Loral Organisation) Vrsred. This flying trip Is in addition to the comprehensive schedule of mass meet ings already mapped out by the speak ers' committee, which will provide all the counties of the state with talks by well-known speakers on the liberty loan. Judge Stevenson, who was one of the speakers on the schedule of mass meetings, will have his place tilled by another speaker yet to be named. Early subscription from all parts of Oregon to the loan is regarded as so vital that every city in the state, where local committees have not yet been named, is urged to take this step at once and perfect ' an active working organization.. Co-operation with the state central committe at liberty loan headquarters is now the need of the hour, if Oregon is to do its usual pa triotic part. The Oregon subscriptions will benefit from the heavy participation of the Southern Pacific Company in the loan. Governor Wlthycombe was notified yes terday that the company will make a subscription of bonds to the amount of $250,000 here. This amount will be placed pro-rata in every county of the state touched by the Southern Pacific lines. J. F. Furlong, Jr., manager here for Armour & Co.. notified Captain-Manager tConcluUed on Page 13, Coiuuin 2.)