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I Get a Lifesaver I Every bond helps to bring home 1 I an American soldier alive. . rj Sunshine and Bonds f This is bond-buying weather. I Make the most of it. I Smmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm I n f VOL. LVII. NO. 17,734. PORTLAND, OREGON. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1917. PRICE FIVE CENTS. BALK AT OREGON SOLDIERS AID LIBERTY LOAN ALL COAL ORDERS 'JOY STREAK' SAD; SOLDIERS BARRED CAMP LEWIS PROFITEERS VIC TIMS OF OW-X ACTIOS. BOND SALES "WETS"AND"DRYS" RUNNING CLOSELY FASTER GAIT POT OH FOR BOND GANVASS ENT AGENT 1ST BE REFERRED AT LAST OF THIRD OREGON HEBK SUBSCRIBE $53,000. RESULT OF IOWA'S ELECTION IS STILL UNCERTAIN. ON STS NO. ADJUSTM BILLION MARK Conscription Is Pre ferred, Board Told. STRIKERS' SIDE PRESENTED Discrimination Against Men in Unions Charged. SPEEDY SETTLEMENT AIM Chairman Macy Indicates Govern mcnt Will Bo 3ore Deeply In- volred In Shipbuilding Later. Employers Heard Today. If members of the Federal Labor Ad justment Board expected to make progress In settling th shipbuilding strike In Portland by means of the es tablishment of an intermediary from the United States Government, backed by the power and prestige of his ap pointment and whatever other assist ance he might require for handling de tails, it must have been dispelled dur ing yesterday's session. Labor" Indi cated resistance to it, though not npenly scouting it; recognition of or ganizations allied in. construction of vessels is being insisted upon. "Conscription by the Government is preferable to standing by and seeing our rights, guaranteed under the Con stitution, trampled under feet by em ployers, bound together in an organiza tion to stifle- unionism," was,- in brief form, the answer to a suggestion' of an adjustment agent thrown out by V. Everit Macy, chairman of the Board. Labor Men I nanimoun. E. J. Stack, secretary of the State Federation of Labor and of the Port land Central Labor Council, 'repryir.g to a, question while on the stand, de clared that he knew many union men prefer conscription by the .Govern ment, being virtually forced thereby to go to work on ships at conditions laid down by the Federal authorities, to any compromise that may be suggested. Mr. Stack's attitude -was -ftreirrtcal with that of ever labor man. officer or otherwise, who testified or spoke before the Board at either of the two sessions held yesterday. Employers Appear Today. It was "labor" day, and organized working forces scored hard, using the opportunity to hurl broadsides at the employers of Portland, who, it was charged, have, by their unrelenting fight against unionism, brought on the present crisis. The employers will be heard today. Blame for the tie-up of shipbuilding plants in Portland and vicinity was laid directly at the door of the em ployers by every union man who said anything; as for unorganized labor, it went unrepresented, save by whatever representation may be assumed in the members of the Board themselves. Chamber of Commerce Blamed. The . most serious concrete charge made, perhaps, was that against the Chamber of Commerce by T. C. Clark, who said he had been "a union man ever since knee high to a grasshopper." He formally declared that there are some shipbuilders, such as William Cornfoot. of the Albina Engine & Ma chine Works, who would sign up the metal trades agreement but for fear of their supplies being cut off. "The Chamber of Commerce about two weeks ago heard of an employer who had signified his intention of signing up the agreement," said Mr. Clark, "and they sent word to him that. If he did. they would put him out of business. He did not sign up." Immediately. A. J. Berres. the- labor member of the board, named by Samuel Ciompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, asked for details, ind Mr. Clark said he believed he could produce proof of his charge. He was asked to do so and will appear again later. "Closed Shop' Discussed. , Mr. Clark, when asked by Mr. Berres how the employer could be put out of business, replied that the Chamber of Commerce members who sent the word, declared they would shut off the supplies necessary to the operation of the plant concerned. Which one that is.' was brought out. Both sessions yesterday were devoted to a discussion of conditions relating to the "closed" and "open" shop. Chair man Macy presided, and it was evident from questions he asked from time to time that he is anxious for an ar rangement whereby the men might re turn to work at once and that he had some sort of permanent adjuster plan in mind, toward which he and liis colleagues were working. He said later, however, that nothing definite was in. mind, although he wished It might be possible for the employers and the strikers to "have a different feeling 'toward each other." Portland Mrs Help Board. Louis- A. Coolidge, a member of the Board, evinced special interest in the employers' end of the difficulties, as was clearly indicated by his questions. James B. Kerr, of the local law firm of Carey & Kerr, who is interested in a number of shipbuilding plants here, sat as a local member of the Board, repre senting the employers of the steel plants. James J. Morrison, member of the executive board of the Metal Trades Council, sat In for that organization tConciuded oa Pas 17, Column Boys Guarding Columbia Defenses Take Additional Bonds Amount ing to $72,500. If a young man enlists to fight (or his country, at the risk of his life and at the sacrifice of his business and of his home associations, it might be thought that he was doing his full duty to his country. But members of the Third Oregon are willing to do even more. The six com panies still remaining In this state have just completed a subscription list for bonds of the second liberty loan. Yes terday they reported to Colonel Dent ler's office a total subscription of $53. 000. ' So far as It has been segregated it is divided among the companies as follows: Company A, McMinnville, $5650; Company B, Portland, $4500; Company. C, Portland, $12,250; Company D, Portland. $15,350; Company L. Dal las, $7200; Company M, Salem, $7000. It is understood that the companies of the Third Oregon stationed in North- Carolina are also buying liberty bonds. ASTORIA, Or., Oct. 16. (Special.) Soldiers stationed at Forts Columbia, Canby and Stevens have purchased $72,500 worth of liberty bonds. They intend to hit the $100,000 mark. The 10 organizations of troops subscribing for the largest amount of bonds, with the number of men in each, are: . N C. S.. O. C. A. Fort Canby, $5000 for three men; Ordnance Detachment, Fort Stevens, $900 for nine men; Mili tary Band, Fort Stevens, $2850 for 30 men; Fifth Company, O. C. A., $6300 for 88 men; Second Company, C. A. C, $5400 for -78 men; Fourth Company, C. A. C, $4000 for 73 men; Twelfth Com pany, O. C. A., $4950 for 91 men; Eighth Company, O. C. A., $41f0 for 82 men; N. C. S., C. A C, Fort Canby, $50 for one man; Thrd Company, O. C. A., $4400 for 95 men. POSSES NEAR1NG BANDITS Men AYho Robbed Train In Utah Likely "to Be Taken Soon. SALT LAKE CITY, Utah. Oct. 16. With the dim print of a tire winding over the desert serving as' a clew. posses drawn from Utah and Nevada are today closing upon the bandits who held up and robbed the Deep Creek Railroad train near Wendover yester day, accdrding to word received by postal officials here. It was stated that the robbers took nnly one mail package. Postal offi cials are .unable at present to state what It contained. . TROOPS ARE BUYING BONDS Soldiers at Camp Funslon Doing Better Than Civilians. CAMP FUSSTOK, Kan., tOct. 16. Members of the National Army here are subscribing to the Liberty Loan more freely than the average civilian. according to Major Levi G. Brown, who today reported that the average sub scription per soldier here was $16.90. Reports from Washington state that subscriptions over the country as a whole average about $4 to each inhab itant. Total subscriptions here amount to $675,400. GOULD CONTROL IS LOST Missouri Pacific Faction Now Dom inates Denver & Rio Grande. DENVER. Colo.. Oct. 16. The Mis souri Pacific faction, so called, replaced the Gould interests as the controlling power of the Denver & Rio Grande Railway Company at the annual meet ing of stockholders of that road today, when only three directors of the Gould wing were given places, while four new Missouri Pacific faction directors were chosen. Beside the three Gould directors, four others were re-elected. CLERKS STRIKE FOR HOMES Gotham Grocery Salesmen Object to Boarding With Employers. NEW YORK, Oct. 16. Six hundred grocery clerks in the Bronx, Harlem and the lower East Side are on strike today for increase in pay and the right to have homes of their own. Under the system in vogue, according to the strik ers, they are required to board with their employers. The men ask $15 a week, an 11-hour day and a stop to the system of work ing unlimited hours. JUDGE TUCKER HONORED American Humane Association Elects Portland Man Vice President. PROVIDENCE.. R. I., Oct. 16. Dr. William O. Stillman. of Albany, N. Y was re-elected president of the Amer ican Humane Association today. Robert Tucker, of Portland, Or., was elected vice-president. U-BOAT MENACES AMERICA Germany Expects Shortly to Declare Atlantic Coast War Zone. LONDON, Oct. 18 According to news from Berlin in an undated dispatch re ceived by the Admiralty by wireless press, Germany is expected shortly to declare the coasts or the United States, Canada and Cuba war zones. Washington to 0. K. Distribution of Fuel. PRICE SURVEY OF STATE ON Western Administrative De partment May Be Proposed. SALT LAKE MEETING SET Early Answers Regarding Market Conditions Show : So Increase In Prices at Three Points, but Decline in One Instance. LA GRANDE, Or., Oct. 16. (Special.) The Government's fuel administra tion department has become a clearing house for coal and fuel. Late this aft ernoon J. F. Holmes, of this city, lately appointed fuel administrator for Ore gon, received telegraphic instructions to inaugurate a radical departure In the manner of placing coal orders. Any Oregon dealer who hereafter places an order for coal with the mines must do so through the fuel adminis tration channels.. The order today is not clear as to where the orders must first go. Ir. any event, all communi cations and orders for fuel must go to Washington, either direct or through the Oregon administration. Washington Will Pass on Orders. At Washington the apportionment and distribution will be accomplished by the National administrator of fuel. "Orders for coal and communications concerning same must come to this of fice and not go to jobber or operator. This Is necessary in order to secure equitable apportionment of the coal supply and through co-operation on the part of jobbers and operators," says the order. - Administrator Holmes leaves tomor row for Salt Lake, where he will at tend a meeting of administrators from Oregon. Washington. California. Utah, Wyoming and Montana, and he an nounced tonight that he could not is sue definite orders to Oregon coal deal ers until his return, which will be within the week. Distribution to Be Considered. At the Salt Lake, meeting methods and means of distributing the coal of the Rocky Mountain states may come up. It is believed possible that a West ern department will be . created to handle orders' for coal so that it can be administered in the district instead of at Washington. This is mere guess work, however. At the time that instructions to cata logue orders from the entire state of Oregon were issued from Washington order was given to determine the rela tive rise or decline of coal prices In Oregon since October 1. Inquiries tele graphed late In the afternoon brought (Concluded on Pace 2. Column 4.) S3 r s w nr ri j i k s m w mi y rl f Ma jor-General Greene Acts When Troops Get Liquor and Have Trouble' With Inmates. ' CAMP LEWIS, Tacom-16- It was officii ot -ued at Camp Lewis today . "Joy streak," the little hum-drum amusement colony which had sprung up near the canton ment, had been closed by the military police as far as soldiers are concerned. Restaurant owners, confectioners and other hustling business men had been making small fortunes at the Impro vised stands, but today's order coming from Major-General Greene, command ing officer, forbids any uniformed men in the tone.' . ' Four arrests last week because of the sale of liquor and trouble with un desirables is the reason for the ruling. The sanitation of the' zone has also been questioned" by military officers. The - banned '. district" covers several acres of buildings that had sprung Into business Institutions almost over night. - The first of the next call of drafted men to arrive will be 400 nnrrnns nearly half of whom will be from Se attle. The next contingent will beirin arriving October 27 instead of Oc tober 17. Three thousand California and Ne vada National Army men who will go to LInda-Vlsta. Cal.. to serve -with the Fortieth National Guard division, are being selected. AVIATOR DROPS 1000 FEET Saratoga Springs Man Killed on Wright Aviation Field. DAYTON. O., Oct. 16. Frank Amiss, of Saratoga Springs, N. Y-, died this morning, following a drop yesterday of 1000 feet in an airplane- in which he was riding with Lieutenant H. M. Sanford, assistant adjutant of the Wright aviation field here, and a cousin of the young man. ' Amiss was a member of the. Naval Reserve. WOMEN PICKETS DEFIANT Four ' Offenders Are Given Six Months at Workhouse. WASHINGTON. Oct. . 16. The police courts swung back to the workhouse sentence policy today Id dealing with militants of the Woman's party .picket ing the White House. Four arrested yesterday were today given six months, the heaviest sen tence yet Imposed on any. The defiant women told the court' there would be more picketing soon. 'HONEST BEN" CONVICTED Collector Sent Up for Stealing Money to Pay Frlends'itaxes. PLYMOUTH, Mass.. Oct, 16. Ben- min C. Reed. 68 years old, former tax collector and treasurer of Whit man, and widely known as "Honest Ben." today began a two years' term in the House of Correction, after pleading guilty yesterday to the larceny of town funds ' amounting to $25,000. He said he used the money to pay the taxes of his friends. OREGON HAS THE MONEY. V5v? cryr OA OREGON BANK DEPOSITS m s . . , . i. j um STJY - Result of 14 Days' Work Unsatisfactory. COUNTRY STILL CONFIDENT Encouraging Reports Said to . Be Coming in Daily. BIG DISCREPANCIES NOTED Official 'and Unofficial Statements Vary; Army Sale's Continue to Increase; . Samuel 'Gomprrs ' Makes ' Statement. WASHINGTON. Oct. 16. With 14 working days gone and only 10 more to come, liberty bond ' sales were be lievet". by Treasury officials tonight to have just touched tho $1,000,000,000 mark, a result which had led them to wonder if the $5,000,000,000 hoped for could be attained in the final days of the campaign. "Committees in almost every part of the country still wire encouragingly that they can make- their maximum totals," says a Treasury department statement. "Possibly they can. but either they are concealing their actual sales which is not believed to be the case or there must be a most Unex pected spurt In the offing. "Certainly there is little about the amount thus far subscribed to warrant great confidence that the $5,000,000,000 mark will be reached." Official Figures Loir. Official figures, representing actual sales, reported tonight to the Treasury Department as of the close of business yesterday, place the total at $531,792, 653. or little more than half the $1,000, 000.000 .believed to . have been sub scribed. Those figures include the two days' , canvass made by 60,000 workers In the Minneapolis district, and place the amounts' In other districts far be low the sums reported unofficially. The total follows: Boston, .. $S8, 300,000: New Tork, $307,707,000; Philadelphia. $14,441,500; Cleveland, $2,090,000; Richmond. $24, 659.600; - Atlanta, '$7,405,700; Chicago, $56,145,000; St. Louis, ' $4,351,800; Kan sas City. $2,025,000; Dallas, $4,530,300; San Francisco, $31,554,950; Minneapolis. $3,561,703. "Granting the most reasonable al lowance for unreported sales," the Treasury's statement continued, "the situation is not encouraging. Every day since the beginning of the drive. October 1, the daily quota necessary to achieving the desired total of $5, 000,000,000 by October 27, the last day of the sale, has grown larger until tonight it reaches, in all probability. the enormous figures of $400,000,000. At the outset of the. sale a daily aver age of slightly J :ss than $210,000,000 (Concluded on Pare 3. Column 1.) a i i I Official Count Probably Will Be Re- quired to Determine Fate ' ' of Amendment. DES MOINES. Ia., Oct. 16. Indica tions are that the official count will be required . to . determine the result of Monday's prohibition election in Iowa. All day today the "wets" gained on the lead 'of the "drys" and tonight with three counties, Adair, Butler and Fre mont, and 21 scattering precincts in other counties remaining to be heard from, the .returns showed a majority against the amendment of 956. the vote being 196.341 for, to 197,297 against. Should the amendment be carried the sale and manufacture of liquor would be prohibited, by the Constitution, and it would be impossible for the state to again vote on the question until 1921. and then only through the election of two consecutive Legislatures which would . vote to resubmit the amend ment. , ' With few exceptions the largest cities voted against the amendment. Daven port. Sioux City. Council Bluffs. Cedar Rapids, Waterloo, Dubuque. Keokuk. Clinton and Muscatine voted wet' by substantial majorities. Des Moines gave a dry majority of 1334. CAMP LEWIS GETS THEATER Klaw & Erlanger Productions to Be Witnessed. TACOMA. Oct. 16.i rSnerial M, Stone, constructing auajtrmnt.p , Camp Lewis, has received word from Washington to build a $27,000 theater at the camp. This theater will be used to show all Klaw &. Erlanger nroductinn th.t come to this section, and between times 11 win serve as an auditorium for the use of the men tn the Army. It Is understood that the new theater will be 120x180 feet and that it will have a seating capacity of 3000 per sons. Major Stone also 4s expecting to re ceive orders In a short time for the construction1 of a $2500 library build- in s at me camp. OFFICIALS IN CONFERENCE Telephone Officials and Employes Hop to Avert Strike. ' - SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 16. Confer ences between officials of the Pacific xeiepnone & Teleranh rnmmn. .n ' J representatives of unionised employes. approximately aooo or whom are re ported to have threatens tn airib. .,r. less wage Increases and other demands r ETamea, continued here today. Officials Of both Hldea si- amicable settlement of the differences. srecmeni on a wage schedule to replace the existing ' one rki.h ,ni expire October 21, had been reached, it wa uaio. INDEX OF. TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature. SS is . , minimum, -to decrees. TODAY'S Fair; northwesterly winds. Foreign. Hunger and cold may . save Russia from Bolshevikl. Page 4. Teutons attack Ruisjan batl,rl nr.inn. Gulf of Rica. Pane 4. Lifting of metal embargo in Mexico starts operations In mines and smelters. Page 2. German plots to promote Internal trouble In uisciosea. rag a. War. Captain Smith, of schooner Slade. tells how German raider was destroyed. Page 4. ' National. Liberty bond sales touch billion-dollar mark. - Pago 1. Serloua sugar shortage In Eastern States ex pected soon. Page - 7. National Government's expenses almost bil lion a month. Page ft. Domestic. World of trade changed by war, says Secre tary Redfleld. Page 5. Result of Iowa's election on prohibition amendment still In donbt. Page 1. Men. charged with conspiracy to incite revo lution tn India on trial. Page 11. Thousands of cattle burn In stockyards firs at Kanzas City. Page 3. Sports, Hockey men to decide on Coast League Oc tober 'JO. Page 18. Angels close Page Id. to Seals In pennant race. Pacific Coast League results: Oakland T. Portland 8: Vernon 4.- Lob Angeles 0: Salt Lake 0. San Francisco 2. Page 16. Pacific Northwest. All orders of fuel dealers must be referred to Washington. Page 1. "Joy Streak" barred to soldiers at Camp Lewis. Page 1. San Francisco conscript to be court-martialed. Page 11. . Commercial ' and . Marine. Shipping barley standard fixed by Chamber of Commerce committee. Page 21. Corn higher at Chicago on heavy buying Pace 21. Wall-otreet stock market makes material re coveries. Page 21. Government's Interests take precedence in all shipbuilding contracts. Page 18. Portland and Vicinity. ' Labor balks at adjustment agent. - Page i. More vim put In bond campaign. Pago 1. Soldiers In Oregon buy J123.500 liberty bonds. Page 1. State generally will ' push campaign for emergency - soldier and sailor fund. Page 8. Umatilla delegation gets pledge of help to land cantonment at Hermlston. Page 7. John W. Beresford. British army officer, is Portland - visitor. Page 15. Shipyard pickets quiet. Page IT. Car company tries to curtail operating, ex penses. Page 15. War on vice In Northwest starts in earnest Page 8. New war tax explained. Page IT. William Ladd elected chairman of Western War Council. Pago 13. Colonel S. &. McClure believes war will end .within IS months. Page 10. Hood River farmers roused at night by lib erty loan .workers. Page 11. Tuberculosis Conference closed Tuesday fol lowing trip over Columbia River High way. Page 10. Dr. Esther Pohl Lovejoy first vroman to be commissioned by United States. Page 10. Weather report, data and forecast. Page -1. State Will Be Kept in Position of Honor. TOTAL REACHES $4,819,840 Addresses to Be Made During Noon Hour at Factories. SCHOOL TEAMS WILL WORK Reports From Outlying . Sections Describe Enthusiasm Over ' Pa triotic Addresses of Orators as Highly Encouraging. 0E-ai"ARTER OF OREGON'S Ql'OTA IS RAISED. WITH TEN BUSINESS DAYS REMAINING. Portland Banks. Previously reported. . . .$3.55S,750 Reported today. 26.300 ' Total $3,585,05 0 ' Bank Outside Portland.'. Previously reported $1,108,990 Reported today. 125.800 Total . . .$1. 334,750 Grand total .... $4,819,84 The liberty loan campaign has reached the intensive stage. From this time on. th&committees are going to bore in hard every where. If Oregon is to maintain Its war record, the number of subscribers to the second loan must be multiplied many times. Yesterday the quarter mark of Ore gon's minimum of $16,500,000 was passed when $4,819,840 was chalked up as the total at the end of the day's work. But the time is almost two thirds elapsed,- with only 10 business days remaining- between this morning and. the. nightfall of October II. when the campaign ends. Workmen Be Rrached. Noon meetings at industrial plants of Portland are the latest plan of the campaign management to swell the bond subscriptions. This work will b undertaken with enthusiasm and it ia expected to bring big results. Henry E. Reed, in charge of speak ers at- bond headquarters, asks the management of plants employing large numbers of men or women to permit them to be addressed on tho impor tance of the liberty loan during the noon hour or at any other suitable time. Mr. Reed asks all employers who can co-operate to telephone him and speak ers will be sent out- A short notice should be given so that arrangements can be made. All factories, sawmills, laundries, railroad shops, and In fact all industries of Portland and vicinity are sought to be reached In this way. Employers Asked to Aid, A be. Inning was made yesterday when Carroll S. Stowe spoke to em ployes of the Carman Manufacturing Company at 12:15. to 250 men and of 75 employes of the Freeland Manufac turing Company soon afterward. En thusiasm was aroused at. both meet ings. It is asked that employers ar range to carry their employes so they can take bonds, at . payments of $5 or less a month. . In the ofnng looms a helpful feature In the bond-selling situation, if it ma terializes. This is' the suggestion that the Portland banks let bond-buyers have money at 4 per cent interest- It Is being hinted that this step will be taken. It is likely a meeting of the Portland Clearlng.House will be held today or tomorrow to decide upon the matter. Residence Canvasa Arranged. No little zest will be injected Into the bond campaign by a whirlwind one-day canvass of the residence, dis tricts by ttama of high school stu dents. Complete organization of teams from every high school in the city was accomplished yesterday. There will be no end of rivalry between them as to which brings In the biggest total, and by making a game of it the results are expected to be big. Each team is to be tutored by a rep resentative of Portland bond houses, and a lightning course In salesmanship will be the result- The tlnal lesson will be given this afternoon, and on Friday the students will start to sell bonds. Each team will have Qo stu dents, and there are 22 teams in all, maVlng 440 students who have volun teered to sell bonds. - Troops to Be Interviewed. . . Military camps are not to be exempt from the widespread liberty loan en thusiasm. The War Department has fixed October 18 and 2 as the two days upon which bonds may be sold to troops In active service. - - . The Washington campaign committee has turned Vancouver Barracks over to the Portland committee, because of its proximity, for this feature of the drive, and General Charles F. Bee be and Rufua C. Holman will speak to the soldiers there tomorrow. Bruce Dennis has agreed to talk' to troops at Fort Canby tomorrow. Meetings will be ar ranged later for Vancouver Barracks and Fort Stevens on October 24. Telegrams of encouragement were re ceived yesterday at headquarters, re- tConcluded on .Page. 6.. Coluwu X,J
