nrnmnmutinirtminim imam mimraimiimmmTimHtunf mmrotmi we 1 Liberty Bonds Pay Can you find a better investment than a liberty bond? Investigate, i yiiiiiiiiiiiHiiiiimniiitmimnwiaimiimiiiinniiinimiinmimwiuiiiiiiiiwg e 3 Save Our Soldiers I Buy a liberty bond and back up !l v the Army ana avy. iiiititiniimimuni in mtnnm i tm VOL. LVII. XO. 17,730. PORTLAND, OREGON, FRIDAY OCTOBER 12. 1917. PRICE FIVE CENTS. VOLUNTEERS FLOCK TO BATTLE FLAMES GIANTS SMASH WAY TO TIE WITH SOX THOMAS ROBERTS NEUTRAL ARBITER 0UT AGAIN; IN AGAIN, PAULHAFFER'S FATE .000.000 MARK KAISER'S RON HAND SPEECH DISTORTED, SAYS LA FDLLETTE Press Report Declared "Grossly False." FUUU FOR BONDS PASSED LOSING ITS GRIP CRATER FOREST FIRE CHECKED BY UNITED EFFORT. CARMEN TO KNOW NEW WAGES AND 'HOURS SATURDAY. GRAND JURY INDICTS 3IAX WHO DEFAMED WASHINGTON. Flag Bulletin Raised to Announce Sales DAILY CEREMONY PROPOSED Manager Miller to Campaign State Injecting Vim. BIG BUSINESS RESPONDS Flying - Squadron Starts for Cen tral and Eastern Oregon Today and Encouraging Reports Come From All Sections. LIBERTY LOAN' SUBSCRIPTION'S PASS THREE-MILLION MARK. City of Portland. Previously reported . . . J2.262.500 Reported yesterday .... 100,350 Total $2,362,850 State Outside Portland. Previously reported $ 808,800 Reported yesterday .... 24,750 Total $ 833,! Grand total .$3,196,400 Oregon's campaign for liberty bonds has passed the 3, 000,000 mark and at noon thejiew flag bulletin at Fifth and Morrison streets was raised to that fig ure. This was the first lift given the flag on the. official bulletin, and C. A. Miller, chairman of the Oregon cam paign, raised the flag in person.- Present at the ceremony was the subcommittee that arranged this feat ure of the drive, Hugh Hume, George "W. Trowbridge and Horace E. Thomas. Citizens looked on with interest and the flag will mark the progress of each day's subscriptions hereafter. Ceremonial Is Planned. Starting next Monday, civic organi zations will hold a ceremony at the flag bulletin each noon. Short talks will be1 made and it is expected this will be the means of arousing enthusi asm for the bonds. The, members' council will have charge of the flagraising Monday noon, the Rotary Club Tuesday, the Ad Club Wednesday, . the. Progressive Business Men's Club Thursday, the Realty Board Friday and the Oregon Civic League on Saturday. This daily rally will be more and more Important as the campaign progress. Manager Miller to Campaign. Manager Miller is going out in per son to arouse interest in liberty bonds. Some weak spots were reported yester day at the meeting of the publicity committee, and an Itinerary has been mapped out for the energetic manager that will -take him up and down the state on a' tour of organization.' He will give help wherever possible to local committees to get their organiza tions under way,' and will show them how to do the most effective-work.- Mr. Miller expects to start next Mon day on a -five-days" tour that will take him as far. east as La Grande. . He will make stops at various cities en route. T"pon his return he will leave for a four days' trip covering cities between Port land and Ashland. He is expected to inject no little "pep" into the state campaign. Secretary Lane Speaks. The publicity committee at yester- day's meeting was addressed by Frank lin K. Lane, Secretary of the Interior, who spoke for the success of. the cam paign, asserting, the. need for earnest work and outlined successful methods. The committee .was - advised- -by - the sub-committee on billboards. F C. Griffin chairman, that all billposters in the state have been supplied with lib erty loan posters and they are placard ing their neighborhoods with the thor oughness that characterizes the aver age circus. Streetcars Carry Notices. W. L. Campbell reported that cards advertising the liberty loan have been placed in all streetcars of the state. It was reported by . the. committee .on motion picture shows. J. J. Parker chairman, that elides and Government films bave been arranged, for and will be exhibited in showhouses throughout the state. D. X. Mosessohn. chairman of the sub-committee on stickers and tempor ary advertising, reported that arrange ments have been completed with stores, bakeries, laundries, etc.. and slips will be inclosed and stickers will appear rfn packages to a very wide extent Hotel and restaurant menu cards will also carry liberty loan advertising. . Bell May Help Came. Efforts are .to be made through Rev. W. W. Youngson, member of the com mittee of the clergy headed by Bishop Sumner, to obtain the ut of the bell from the tower of- the Taylor-Street Church for the purpose of advertising the liberty loan. It is thought it will prove effective if it can be used in pa rades, simulating the famous Liberty Bell, already a symbol of the loan, and that it be rung as subscriptions are received during the remainder of the campaign. Arrangements must be per fected, however, before this feature can be announced definitely. Ben Selling yesterday announced he (Concluded on Pass -10, Column ! Most Disastrous Blaze in Region Since 1910 Destroys 1000 Acres Timber Before Force Is Spent. MEDFORD, Or., Oct. "11. (Special.) With 40 fire-fighters from Portland and the entire section aiding: him. Fed eral Forest Supervisor Erickson report ed tonight by telephone that the forest fire raging" in the Elk Creek County on the Umpqua divide, 45 miles north of Medford, had been checked and there was hope that it would be under con trol tomorrow. Eight more men were rushed, from Medford today, with 200 pounds of dy namite to assist in backfire work. This fire, which started last Satur day, has proved to be the most serious and extensive blaze in the Crater Lake National Forest this year. It has burned over a front of more than a mile and destroyed timber covering nearly 1000 acres. Outside the forest reserve three fires are raging near Medford. one near Colestin, In the Siskiyous; one near Butte Falls; the third at the head of the Little Applegate. District Fire Warden Grieve has 35 men fighting these fires, which, he declares, are largely of incendiary origin. None cjf them has attained . alarming propor tions, but there is little prospect of checking them absolutely until the Fall rains start. ' This has been the worst season for forest fires in Jackson County since 1910. BLIND COUPLE MARRIED Guests at S-alem Wedding Are All Sightless. SALEM. Or., Oct. 11. (Special.) Mabel Thompson, totally blind, - and Oscar Williams, who has but one eye. were married at the home of Mr. and Mrs. O. W. dinger, who are both blind, here yesterday. The three guests at the ceremony, Mr. and Mrs. John Mey ers, and Roy Leahy, all of Portland, were all blind. Rev. E. E. Gilbert of ficiated. Mr. Williams is a former resident of this city and has known Miss Thomp son sinco childhood. He owns and op erates a ranch near Seattle and the couple left here last night to make their home there. JOHNSON TO VISIT FRANCE Colonel Patten, Editor of Wasliing- tonian, to Be Member of Parly. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, Oct. 11.' Representative Al bert Johnson today decided to join the party of Congressmen who plan soon to sail for France. They will leave Washington in a few days and expect to spend a month or more back of the lines and visiting the American troops' camp. Colonel Patten, editor of Representa tive Johnson's paper at Hoquiam, also was given passports and will go to France for a protracted stay. He is going in his capacity as a newspaper man. MILITANT PICKETS WARNED Superintendent of Occoquan Work house Is Restored to Duty. .WASHINGTON, Oct. . 11. With a warning to the militant pickets of the Woman's party now in the Occoquan workhouse that unless they "obey the rules of the institution and discontinue their actH of insubordination and riot ing" they will be transferred to. the jail and kept in solitary confinement, the local government today restored to duty the superintendent of the work house, who had temporarily been re lieved while charges made by the wom en were being investigated. SALEM BOYS TAKE $6000 Subscriptions of Company M to Lib erty Loan Best on Record. SALEM, Or., Oct. 11. (Special.) Company M. Third Oregon, from Salem, now located at The Dalles, subscribed $6000 to the liberty loan within six hours and has prospects of bringing the subscription up to J10.000, accord ing to a telegram received here to night from oficers of the company. This is said to be the largest sub scription offered by any military com pany in the Northwest. NEGRO MEN TO BE CALLED Date Will Be Soon After Graduation of Officers From Training Camp. WASHINGTON, Oct. 11. Negro men of the National Army will be called out some time this month, it was stated at the War Department today, to be as signed to canutonments in accordance with' the organization plan announced Monday. The exact date of the call has not been fixed, but it will be soon after the graduation of the negro officers from the trainln&r camp at Des Moines. - AUSTRIAN WARSHIP TAKEN Crew Surrenders Torpedo-Boat De stroyer Without Firing Shot. WASHINGTON, Oct. 11. A Rome dis patch to the Italian Embassy today an nounced that an Austrian torpedo boat destroyer had been captured by the Italians in the Adriatic. The Austrian crew surrendered without firing a shot New Ynco:,V5 i-ourth Game 5 to 0 SOHUPP'S WIZARDRY BAFFLES Kauff Completes Massacre With Two Home Runs. FABER IS MADE VICTIM Chicago Hurler "Meets Destiny" In Fourth, When ex-Federal League Batting Star Clouts Ball to Far Bleacher Fence. NEW TORK, Oct. 11. Swinging their war clubs like the cavemen of old, the New York Nationals battered their way to a 5-0 victory over the Chicago Amer icans here today. As a result of the second defeat of the White Sox in two days, the Giants are traveling west ward tonight on even terms with their rivals in the world series struggle. The outcome of the battle for premier baseball honors is as much in doubt as before the series began. Each team has won two contests and the indica tions point to a full seven-game drive before either will admit the supremacy of the other. Chicago Fails to Score. The victory of the Giants today was the most expressive of the series, for they excelled both in pitching and with the bat. While Chicago threatened sev eral times, thy never got a runner be yond third base, and . the, American League team left for the shores of Lake Michigan without 'crossing' the polo grounds home plate in 18 innings. Two new diamond heroes leaped to pedestals of fame in the clash under Coogan's Bluff today, for Ferdinand Schupp, of Louisville, Ky., turned the White Sox batters back without a run. and Benny Kauff, of Middleport, O., led the batting massacre with two home runs. The youthful left-hander- redeemed himself for the vicious sally of Chicago in the second game on their borne grounds, when they drove him from the mound early in the contest. Kauff, after 13 hitless trips to the plate, finally found his batting eye - and broke through Pitcher Faber for a circuit drive which paved the way for the Giants' onslaught that later was to demoralize the White Sox. Giants Score Double Shutout. Only twice in the long history of world series baseball has Kauff's feat of two home runs in one game been duplicated. Before the former batting leader of the Federal League made his two circuit drives, the honor was divided between Harry Hooper, of ihe (Concluded on Page 16, Column 5.) LOOKS H Oti EST I DIDH TSAY out? submarines HIS HA W WANTS ACH i oon't QUIT i i w i in if.ii ii in v Board of Three to Determine Re adjustment of Platform Scale Begins Secret Metings. . t Thomas Roberts, of Roberts Bros., was selected yesterday, as - the third member of the board of arbitration that Is to. pass on ' questions of "hours and wage- in controversy between the Portland Railway, Light & Power Com pany and. its carmen. ... As provided by the arbitration agree ment, he was chosen by the other two members of the board Otto F.. Hart wig, president of the State Federation of Labor, and J. P. Newell, consulting engineer. Mr. Hartwig is the arbi trator named by the carmen and Mr. Newell is the member selected by the company. . The agreement provided that the third arbitrator should be Mr. Roberts, Circuit Judge Gatens, W. B. Ayer, Fed eral Food Administrator for Oregon, or ex-Governor West. Immediately after completing organ ization by the selection of Mr. Roberts, the board of arbitration began its ses sions. The agreement between the company and the carmen requires that Its findings shall be made known by Saturday, and that its awards will be come effective Monday. The sessions of the arbitrators are not open to the public. The arbitrators held their first meet ing yesterday in the office of Mr. Rob erts. They received the executive com mittee of the carmen's union and heard their side of the case. Today they will hear officers of the company present their side. The carmen also will be heard further. "We have a week's job to do in two days," was the comment of Mr. Newell last night. CONVICTS HELP RED CROSS Nearly $200 Netted From Perform ance at State Hospital. - SALEM.' Or.. Oct. 11. (Special.) Willamette Chapter of the Red Cross is practically $200 richer as a result of a minstrel show given by Murphy's Honor Lodge at the Oregon State Peni tentiary. Jack LaRose, notorious ' Portland criminal, took a prominent place on the programme. . In every respect the show was good, and in numerous spots was well up to the- standard oX the old time professional minstrels. The pro duction also was staged at the State. Hospital for the benefit of the patients. The receipts of the performance were donated by the prisoners to "the Red Cross. Another show for the benefit of the Red Cross will be given next Tuesday. LOS ANGELES HAS STRIKE Millworkers Demand 8-Hour Day and Also Wage Increase. LOS ANGELES. Oct. 11. Several hundred millworkers struck today to enforce demands for an eight instead of a nine-hour day and wage increases ranging from 75 cents to $1.40 a day. Employers yesterday refused to grant the demands and the men voted last night to strike today. - LIKE A HARD WINTER FOR THE SSS " '"I--' - Revolt in German Navy SeriousAffair. MOVE CAREFULLY CONSIDERED Discontent Growing in All Parts of Empire. MORE MUTINIES EXPECTED Wilhelm Today Finds Himself As . sailed on All Sides and in Situation Thought to Be Extremely Critical.' BY FRANK GETTY. LONDON, Oct. 11. (Special.) The attempted revolution in the German navy announced by Vice-Admiral von Capelle at yesterday's session of the Reichstag, was a far more serious movement than the Minister of Marine admitted. Despite his assertions that rumors of the affair had been greatly exagger ated secret information reaching this country gives extraordinary details of the movement and proves indisputably that it was not a mere flare-up but a carefully considered move on the part of a large section of the navy, by cer tain parties in Germany, to bring about peace. Today the Kaiser's leaders find them selves assailed on all sides in a situa tion that is highly critical. Revolt One of Series. It was learned today that the revolt was only one of a series of outbreaks which have been fomenting since the Russian revolution and other political events. Speeches outside of Germany opened the peoples' eyes somewhat to the possibilities of peace. Indications f what was going on reached England some time ago, when officials here noted in the German cas ualty lists the announcement of the death of an officer of the. navy ''due to accident." Prisoners questioned re ported that the officer had been thrown overboard and others later confirmed this report. From other confirmed statements from similar sources it is evident that other officers occasionally suffered the same fate. Latterly, under the strict German censorship, it is impossible to know-just how far the mutineers suc ceeded in carrying out their plans, but reports leaking through from all cor ners of Europe indicate the seriousness of the movement. It was quite natural that Von Capelle should saddle most of the responsibility for this uprising on the shoulders of the Independent Socialists. Haase, leader of the Socialist minority, who (Concluded on Pace 3. Column 3. KAISER. SZMY lAJOUi-O (Ut7- Alleged Failure to Register Under Draft Act Gets Pierce County Man In Trouble. TACOMA, Oct. 11. Paul Haffer. who has spent all but a few weeks of the last year in the county jail, was in dicted by a Federal grand Jury today for failure to register under the select ive draft system. His bail was fixed at $2500. A-demurrer interposed to fight the constitutionality of the draft act will be argued before Federal Judge Cush man next Monday. Haffer's career 'in relation to his country during the last 20 months has been checkered and varied. He was convicted of libeling the name of George Washington under an obsolete statute of the state invoked for the first time, which made it a crime to libel the dead. He appealed his case and lost and served more than four months in the Pierce County Jail for his sentence and costs. MR. SINNOTT'S AID SOUGHT Help Asked to Get Hcrmiston Tract Designated for Army Camp. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington, Oct. 11. Representative Sin nott was requested in a telegram to day to use- his influence with the War Department to bring about the location of an Army training camp near Hermis- ton. Or. The telegram stated that an Army officer had recently inspected a site of 37,000 acres, which repeatedly has been proposed for Army use, most of it being public land. In Mr. Sinnott's absence, his secre tary presented the matter to the War Department by letter. TRAIN ASSAILED BY MOB Eight Passengers Killed by Outlaws . on Russian Railroad. PETROGRAD, Oct. 11. Eight pas sengers were killed and 50 wounded by a band of 70 criminals, who derailed a mail train on the . Rostov-Tif lis line at Vladikavkaz, according to the Mos cow newspaper, Ranneye Outro. The robbers tore up the rails and after the train had been wrecked at tacked the passengers with rifles. PORTLAND IS WASTEFUL Incinerator Getting ' Quantities of Bread and Vegetables Discarded, Portland still Is wasting food. A report made yesterday by William Hel ber, . superintendent of the incinerator, is to the effect that large quantities of food are being received in the gar bage loads each day. The waste is particularly strong in garbage coming from homes. Bread and vegetables are the principal waste. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature. C3 degrees; minimum, 53 degrees. TODAY'S Fair; moderate westerly winds. Foreign. Conspiracy involving home rule in Ireland said to exist. Pago 3. Political downfall of German Chancellor is predicted. Page 2. Admirers of Rasputin assert his innocence. Page 0. Former Premier Asquith reasserts skepticism or Oerman sincerity in peace proposals. Pago 2. Sal-vatton of Democracy seen In formation of New Russian Ministry. Page 3. War. Artillery booms along west front, but rain stops infantry. Page 3. Revolt in German navy more serious than at first supposed. Page 1. National. La Follette denounces as grossly false press reports of his St. Paul speech. Page 1. Presidential proclamation gives 'food control to Hoover. Page 6. Council of National Defense delighted with new Liberty motor truck. Page 5. Attorney-General's opinion insures employ ment of entire aircraft-producing capacity of Nation. Page 3. Plot to export tungsten for uia of Germans foiled In New York. Page 7. Sports. Giants win. to 0. and tir world's series with White Sox. Page 1. Lincoln eleven defeats Commerce, 7 to O. Page 17. , Pacifio Coast League results: Portland 4. San Francisco 2; Vernon 0. Oakland 1; Los Angeles 10. Salt Lak 2. Page 16. ' Captain Everett May expects his team to defeat Coach Diets' boys. Page 17. Kauff's two homers redeem liim. Page 16. Pacific Nortbwrdt. Paul Hoffer. jailed for defamation of Wash ington, indicted for failure to register. Pago I. Food conservation of state In hands of youth Page 7. Fraternities have pledges at Corvallis. Page 6. Entire countryside turns out to battle Crater Lake forest fire. Page 1. Serious wheat congestion feared In grain ter minals of Northwest. Pace 17. Commercial and Marine. Discounts are announced on mixed wheat of lower grades. Page 21. Chicago corn market rallies from acute weakness. Page 21. Railway Issues weak feature of stock mar ket. Page 21. Public Dock Commission sets special rates on grain storage. Page IS. Portland and Vicinity. Liberty loan passes :j.O00,000 mark. Page 1. Ue.orge II. Kelly resigns membership in Port of Portland Commission. Page IS. Thomas Roberts third member of board to arbitrate streetcar controversy. Page 1. Secretary Lane rides over Columbia High way and returns East. Page 4. Income tax law interpreted by Collector Miller. Page 9. Shipyard strikers seem anxious to go back to work. Page 0. Robber of Gervals nostofflce escapes with 60-day sentence. Page 22. H. "W. Thompson new Associated Press cor respondent here. Page 3.V Portland water-front has spectacular fire. Page 1". Willamette Valley lumbermen demand re lief from car shortage. Page 7. Weather report, data ana forecast. Pace 21. TRUE VERSION IS SUBMITTED Senator Makes Position Clear to Committee. INQUIRY PLANS OUTLINED Statement That Bryan Knew of Am munition in Lusitania's Cargo at Time of Sailing Is Repeated. WASHINGTON. Oct. 11. Lines of tha inquiry into Senator La Follette's al leged disloj'al speech at St. Paul be came more defined today with the Sen ate investigating committee's receipt of a letter from the Senator outlining his position and transmitting an approved transcript of his address. In substance. Senator La Follette de nied saying the United States had no cause for war, denounced press reports of his speech as "grossly false," and certified to the accuracy of the record regarding his statement that former Secretary Bryan knew of ammunition being in the Lusitania's cargo. He a;.ked to examine any witnesses called by the committee and to submit his ,own testimony, and expressed a desire to be heard, should statements of fact in his speech, or his right to make it. be questioned. The committee received three other stenographic versions of the address from the Minnesota Public Safety Com mittee, varying in no important par ticular from the one submitted by Sen ator La Follette. and documents from the State Department and Congression al Library regarding the Lusitania question. Tomorrow the committee will meet to determine future action and prob ably will temporarily halt the inquiry to await a statement from Mr. F.ryan. who already has denied that he 'knew 'the Lusitania carried munitions. Public Hearing Not Likely. Public hearings probably will not be held; Chairman Fomerene- pointed out today that the committee's power is limited, first, as to the accuracy of the speech, now regarded as settled: and second, as to statements of fact therein, tinder investigation. "Permit me to say." read the letter, "that if it is the purpose of the com mittee to make an investigation as to any statement of fact in the speech, that I request that the committee ad vise what statement of fact is so called into question and in what respect its correctness is questioned. "Furthermore, if any issues of fact are to be raised by testimony concern ing any statements in the speech, then I ask to be accorded the right to ques tion anyone so testifying, and that I be permitted to call witnesses to meet the testimony which may be so of fered. "If the speech is to be otherwise questioned, or my right to make it con sidered by the committee, then I re spectfully request that I be so advised by the committee, and that I be given opportunity to be heard thereon in per son and by counsel. Speaker's -Aotes Abandoned.- Senator La Follette's letter said he spoke extemporaneously because di gressions and questions from the audi ence caused him to abandon his notes. "There were two interruptions in the audience, said Senator La Follette "not shown in the official transcript. One was the question: "How about the Lusitania? Of course, all that I said upon that subject was said because of this interruption. I had no intention to refer to it. The New York Times' repoo-t of the meeting and other press reports show this to be as here stated, and it accords with my recollection." The Lusitania statement was that former Secretary Bryan knew ' tha Lusitania had 6,000,000 rounds of am munition aboard and urged President Wilson to prevent the vessel from sail ing. This Mr. Bryan has publicly denied, and it is also understood to have been repudiated by President Wilson. Senator La Follette's letter also re ferred to his second interruption in thei expression "Shame on Congress," which, he said came from the audience. "I assume." said Senator La Follette, "that the wholly false report sent out by the press generally to the effect that I stated in various forms "we have no grievance' is receiving no credence from you, since that is contrary to th text of the speech you furnished me." BERKMAN . WAIVES RIGHTS Anarchist Remanded to Tombs Will Await Kxtradition. NEW TORK. Oct. 11 Alexander Berkman, under indictment on a charge of murder in connection with th Preparedness day bomb explosion in. San Francisco, was remanded to tho Tombs today at the expiration of tho period during which he was being held to await extradition papers from Cali fornia. . On the advice of counsel. Berkman waived his rights in going back to Jail. It is said Governor Whitman is holding up extradition proceeding pending a report of the commission appointed to investigate, the explosion. i