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I It's for Our Own f 5 More men -will soon be called. 1 j Buy a bond for their assurance. j Bonds Good Looking The dollar a week you waste will pay for something handsome. VOL,. LVII. XO. 17,735. PORTLAND, OREGON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1917. PRICE FIVE CENTS. U.S. GERMAN-AMERICANS BUY LIBERTY BONDS GERMANS HOLD ALL OF OESEL ISLAND MILL IS BURNED AT COTTAGE GROVE DESTROYER DRIVE TWO-THIRDS OVER; STATE LAGS $5,187,350 All Oregon Has f 'ibscribed. PRISONERS STARVE SAVE FOR CHARITY PIGKETS ARRESTED; CITY JAIL FILLED Refusal to Move On Is Signal for Action. HIT BY MOrXT ANGEL "CITIZENS HAND HARD JOLT TO KAISER. LATE REPORTS INDICATE LOSS WILL EXCEED $75,000. AMERICAN" ESCAPES FROM IX TERXMEXT CAMP. TORPEDO One Killed, Five Wounded in U-Boat Attack. VESSEL LIMPS INTO PORT Details of First Naval Loss Withheld Admiral Sims' Account Is Meager. DEATH LIST TOTAL NOW-17 Osmond Kelley Ingram, Gun ner's Mate, Tossed Over Rail and Is Lost. WASHINGTON, Oct. 17. An American destroyer on patrol duty in the war zone was torpedoed by an enemy submarine yesterday. One man was killed and five wounded. She managed to make port in spite of se vere damage. Vice-Admiral Sims cabled a brief report of the incident to the Navy De partment late today. He gave few details, but it is assumed there was no fight and that the U-boat made good her escape after launching a tor pedo without showing herself. Alabama Boy Gives Up Life. Gunner's Mate Osmond Kelley In gram was the man killed. He was blown overboard by the explosion and his body was not recovered. Kelley's mother, Mrs. Betty Ingram, lives at Pratt City, Ala. In accordance with the policy of secrecy concerning American naval operations, the Department did not divulge the name of the destroyer or the exact place of the encounter. Wounds Not Serious. None of the wounded was seriously hurt. They are: Herman H. Pan kratz, gunner's mate, St. Louis; Will iam E. Merritt, seaman. New York City; Frank W. Kruse, fireman, To ledo; Patrick Rutledge, oiler, New York City, and William Scimer, fire man, Dundas, Minn. This is the first time an American warship has been hit by the "enemy since the war began. Destroyers convoying troops and merchantmen have engaged submarines and are believed to have accounted for some of them and the ships patrolling the European shipping lanes undoubtedly have had many an encounter of which nothing was learned, but until yesterday none had been touched by a hostile shot. 17 Death Total. Naval gun crews on armed Amer ican merchantmen have not been so fortunate. Many of them have had to abandon their charges and take to the boats, usually after an unwarned torpedo attack, and one officer and 13 men have lost their lives, while four men are in German prison camps. In all, the Navy has lost one of ficer and 16 men the only men of America's fighting forces actually killed in action. Two Naval Fliers Killed. Lieutenant Clarence C. Thomas, commanding the gun crew of the tank steamer Vacuum, and four of his men were the first of the Navy's casualties. In addition to the men lost on merchantmen and Gunner's Mate Ingram, two naval fliers have lost their lives at the French front. Naval officers do not doubt that the torpedoed destroyer was taken unawares by the submarine and had no chance to bring her guns into play. They think it probable that the U-boat, cruising in search of mer chant victims, stumbled upon the pa trolling destroyer and was fortunate snough to get into position to launch a torpedo and dive to safety without ever showing more than her periscope. It is believed, too, that the destroyer must have been steaming slowly over her beat, for at top speed these craft present an almost unhittable target .o the submarine. REAL AMERICAN IS LOYAL Indian May Be Incompetent, but His Wealth Is Patriotic. OKMULGEE. Okla.. Oct. IT. Jackson Barnett, an Incompetent Creek Indian today was the possessor of $412,000 of liberty bonds. He subscribed for Jl 42.000 of the first issue and yesterday, through his guardian. Carl J. Kornett. purchased (200,000 of the latest issue. At Enthusaistic Meeting, in Excess of 75 Per Cent of Those Pres ent Make Subscriptions. SALEM, Or.. Oct. 17. (Special.) When members of an audience of 200 persons, made up mostly of German American citizens of the little town of Mount Angel, were asked tonight at a liberty loan meeting" held there to raise their hands as an indication of who would subscribe to aid the bond drive more than 75 per cent of them responded. Judge BronauKh and John K. Kol lock, of Portland, speakers at the meeting, found an enthusiastic re sponse to their pleas from the Gcrman Americanfl which would have made Kaiser Wilhelm grit his teeth could he have been in the wings as a spec tator. Mayor Young, of Mount Angel, introduced the speakers and presided at the meeting. The liberty loan. Its purpose?, the method of handling the bond issue and general details surrounding tt were facts interwoven into stirring pa triotic addresses in axle by the speakers. The liberty loan committee of this county is jubilant over the response received at Mount Angel and reports from other outlying communities in dicate that the drive to obtain Marion County's quota of the issue will meet with ever-increasing success as the campaign draws to a dos. MANY SOLDIERS BUY BONDS One Vancouver Company of 71 Has Subscribed $8800. VAXCOT7VKR. Wash., Oct. 17. (Spe cial.) Liberty loan bonds are going like hot cakes with the soldiers at Van couver Barracks and an average of one $50 bond for every one of the 4000 men at the local post has already been sub scribed. The 14th Infantry has a total sub scription of J.60,150, the Fourth Engi neers have subscribed $41,200, the 144th Infantry $3.7, S50, the engineer reserve officers in training camp $25,900, Quartermaster Corps $3550 and the hospital detachment $1950. Other sub scriptions have not yet been tabulated. One company alone, L. Company of the 14th Infantry, with but 71 men, has subscribed $8800 in bonds. The soldiers are allowed to pay for the bonds in In stallments of $5 on each $50 bond each month. GERMAN ESTATE AIDS LOAN Legacies to Heirs in Fatherland In vested In Liberty Bonds. DENVER, Oct. 17. Because Adolph Schinner chose an inopportune time to die his estate will fight against Ger many instead of for It, as would have been the case if it could hart been dis tributed before the I'nited. States went to war with the Herman government. Sehinner's executor, Fred H. Ilan chett, today reported to Judge Ttoth gerber, of the County Court, that it was impossible to transmit legacies to Sehinner's heirs, all of whom reside in Germany, until after the war and the court ordered the estate's ready cash, amounting- to $2000, Invested in liberty bonds pending: distribution after the war. TURKEYS 40 CENTS A POUND Present Price "o Indication or Thanksgiving CojI. EUREKA. Cal., Oct. 17. (Special.) Turkey-grvowers of the Iaqua section are quoting turkeys at 40 cents per pound, with no indication that the price may not go higher as Thanks giving approaches. Local dealers and wholesalers who deal heavily in tur keys positively refuse to forecast what the late November prices will be. The supply of surkeys in Humboldt County this season will be smaller than usual. UTAH CALLS APPEAL NERVE Bootlegging: at Camp Lewis Docs 'ot Interest Interior State. SALT LAKE CITY, Oct. 1 7. The "Washington State Council of Defense appealed to the Utah State Council of Defense for $10,000 toward a fund be ing raised to employ men to stop boot legging at Camp Lewis, American Lake. Members of the Utah council charac terized the appeal as "a splendid ex ample of nerve." "Utah has a few hun dred soldiers at Camp Lewis. PERU AND CHILE MAKE UP Diplomatic Relations Long Severed Are to Be Re-established. LIMA. Peru. Oct. 17. The Peruvian and Chilean governments are reported to have arranged for the simultaneous re-establishment of legations at Lima and Santiago. Diplomatic relations -between Peru and Chile were severed In 1910, owing to the long standing dispute over pos session of the provinces of Tacna and Arica. QUEBEC BRIDGE FINISHED First Train Crossing Structure Car ries Guests of Builders.; i v i QUEBEC, Oct. 17. The first rain to day crossed the recently completed Quebec bridge. It was a special containing guests of the builders. " I Petrograd Ignorant oc Russian Troops' Fate. BOMBS DROPPED ON PERNAU Berlin Asserts Victory in Naval Battle Without Losses. ZEPPELINS USED IN ATTACK Russian Xaval Forces Arc Bearinj Brunt of Resistance to German Invasion Reinforcements to Fleet on . AYay." EERLIX, via London, Oct. 17. Ger man troops have captured the Russian Island of Oesel, in the Gulf of Riga, in its entirety, it is officially announced by the German General Staff. Naval aircraft dropped bombs on Pernau, a Russian port on the Gulf of Riga, where large fires were ob served, j Encounters with Russian torpedo boat destroyers and gunboats north of Oesel Island and in the Bay of Riga resulted favorably for the Germans. The Russian ships were compelled to retire. Gorman vessels sustained no losses. PETROGRAD, Oct. 17. The Russian War Office has completely lost touch with Russian forces on the Island of Oesel. -Runnlanff Driven Bark. The enemy continued to develop his success on the Island of Oesel, pressing back our detachments, which were covering the mole between Oesel and Moon Islands. Land communications thus have been interrupted between the two islands. An eyewitness who escaped after the. landing of the. enemy at Tagga Bay re ports that on the morning of October 12 an enemy dreadnaught "ran Into a mine field defending the island. After the explosion which followed the warship made for the coast. Its ultimate fate is unknown. Naval skirmishing is continuing in the waters around Oesel Island, off the Gulf of Riga, Russian patrol. ships having had encounters with German torpedo craft. Fleet of Zeppelin Reported. A fleet of Zeppelins is reported over Moon Sound, northeast of Oesel Island. On the Baltic, profiting by the calm, bright weather, the enemy has been actively engaged in aerial scouting, principally in the region of the Baltic Island. Our aviators ascended to meet the enemy. In an aerial engagement, our aviator Safonoff brought down an enemy machine which fell in our lines. The semi-official news agency today issued the following summary as 'Concluded on Page 3, Column 3.) WHY I KEEP i YOUR. iMONEY Bucket Brigade Battles With Planes In Attempt to Save Driers and Lumber in Yard. WJ US1 l COTTAGE GROVE. .Or.. Oct. 17. Fire, which ignited under usplclo circumstances, tonight practic-" 0t ' stroyed the sawmill of J. H. Ch " located about a mile from the city. At a late hour the fire was confined to the mill and planer shed, but it was feared that it would spread to the driers and millions of feet of lumber in the yards. The damage to the plant probably will total between J75.000 and $100,000, and if the lumber is de stroyed it will be much greater. -Because of the location of the mill the . flre-flghting facilities were inade quate and the only pipeline to which the city hose could be attached was put out of commission early in the evening. Bucket brigades were at work late tonight endeavoring to save the buildings adjoining the mill and lum ber. - Fire In the Chambers mill was dis covered at almost the same minute as flames were found in the Brown Lum ber Company's plant, which burned on August. 27. ' As a result of the uneasiness that prevails here because of the suspicious fires. Fire Chief Woodruff ordered the fire-fighting apparatus brought back to the city and the Cottage Grove manu facturing plants and other industries are being carefully guarded. The destruction of the Chambers plant leaves Cottage Grove without a sawmill and will throw many men out of employment. The patriotic address which was to have been given here tonight by Fred H. Hilton, of Portland,' was postponed Indefinitely because of the fire. GROCERS TO AID CAMPAIGN Delivery Wagons lo Be L'scd to Dis tribute Loan Posters. Almost every grocer in the city today and tomorrow will lend aid in spread ing the gospel of liberty bonds. Their deli'ery wagons and errand boys will be formed inio a vast army to deliver liberty loan posters and literature to the homes of their customers. And. as every home almost is a grocer's cus tomer, it is thought by nightfall tomor row there will be a liberty loan poster itt every home. Ira Powors Is chairman of the poster committee and he has arranged to de liver the posters to the. stores today. MERCHANTS, ATTENTION! Oregon retailers who have bought liberty bonds of cither issue are requested and urged to post one or more bonds in win dows as display so public can see what United States Govern ment bonds looli like. Please act on this Immediately. ro not expect to be prodded. This service will help the public to understand what a bond is and to realize the form and nature of our Government's promise to re pay liberty, loan with interest. LIBERTY LOAN" PUBLICITY COMMITTEE. E. G. Crawford, Chairman. SHOULD ANY AMERICAN HESITATE? .niii.ai.ii man ni-aa.i u iB.awnji si mm mil in jjiijii .li mm. mu iiiian luiiiiaiiiiiiiii s r lend: ""I ! MONEY I 8 1 NEED IT $125,695. AN HOUR NEEDED Liberty Loan Managers Wor ried About Final Total. COUNTRY RETURNS PLEASE Leaders of Grange and Farmers' Union Appeal to Farmers and Livestock. Men to Come to Aid of Government. PROGRESS OF OREGON LIBER TY LOAN DRIVE IN BRIEF. Portland Banks. Previously reported f 3,555,050 Keported today 174,150 Total. $3,759,300 Banks Outside Portland. Previously reported. . . .$1,234,700 Reported today 193,350 Total $1,42S,050 Grand total $5,187,350 In between now and the finish of the second liberty loan campaign on the night of October 27 will be crowded many anxious moments for those ac tively in charge of the Oregon drive. Will Oregon do Its usual gallant part, or will the total subscriptions in this state fall below the minimum of $16, 500.000 asked These are questions the heads of the campaign are asking themselves right now, !12r,05 an Hour Needed. If Oregon is to win, it means a tre mendous burst of speed during the re maining nine business days. If the minimum is reached, it will mean that subscriptions aggregating $125,695.10 must be raised every hour of those re maining nine days, figuring ten work ing hours for each day. Last night's totals brought subscrip tions eince October 1 to a total of $5,187,350. This is not entirely an en couraging figure with the campaign ex actly two-thirds over. There remains $11,312,560 to be subscribed by the peo ple of this state. If this sum shall be raised, it means that Oregonians must dig down Into their . pockets and bring out $10,474.59 every five minutes of the time yet re maining of the drive. If any patriotic citizen of Oregon wants to keep the drive going at nor mal speed for every one minute, he must come across for $2094.90. Every second between now and the tOontlnuetl on Phr1 4.) - r i i s Red Cross and V. SI. C. A. Furnish Food That Keeps Germany's Captives Alive. WASHINGTON', Oct. 7. Minister Mor ris at Stockholm cables the State De partment of the arrival there of Willot Charles Smith, of Norwalk, Conn., who escaped from a German internment camp at Kiel and brought word that American prisoners in Germany would starve but for food sent them by the Red Cross and T. M. C. A. The daily food ration." eaya Smith, "consists of a chunk of black, sour bread and a drink of cold coffee for breakfast, and for dinner and supper about a pint and a half of warm soup, apparently consisting of water and turnips." Smith was a horseman on the British steamer Esmeralda, . captured by the German raider Moewe, and was carried Into Germany Just before the United States broke diplomatic relations. IOWA RESULT IN BALANCE AVcts Have Slight Lead, but Official Count Is Needed. EES MOINES. Ia Oct. 17. So small is the margin by which the wets lead tonight It is obvious the official count count will be necessary to determtnc the result of Iowa's vote on the con stitutional prohibitory amendment Monday. Complete unofficial returns show a wet lead of 887. the vote being 214,634 against and 213.747 for the amendment. It developed tonight that part of the soldier vote had not reached the verioua County Auditors in time to be included in the count. This is due partly to a misunderstanding of the law govern ing: special elections, under which the County Supervisors were required to meet today and canvass the returns. There are about 7000 Iowans at Mlneola and Ueming. It is nof believed their vote would materially change the result. U-BOAT TOLL IS NINETEEN Twelve British Sferchant Vessels of Over 16 0O Tons Arc Sunk. LONDON. Oct. 17. Twelve British of over 1600 tons were sunk by mine or submarine in the last week, accord ing to the statement of the British Admiralty. Six vessels under 1600 tons and one fishing vessel were sunk. In the previous week 14 vessels over 1600 tons, two under that tonnage and three fishing vessels were sunk. SNOW FALLS AT SALT LAKE First White Mantle of Season Covers Utah's Capital. SALT LAKE CITY, Oct. 17. Snow fell for 40 minutes here today. This is the first snow of the season in the city, but there was a fall about three weeks ago on the mountains near here. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. TESTE RDAT'P Maximum temperature. 58 decrees; minimum, .. degreci. TODAY'S Fair and warmer; light northerly winds. War. Germans now hold all of Oesel Island and Russian troops cut off. Pave 1. Wedge driven by French Into German lines is broadened. Pas; 2. Sol (Hern In Franco must learn to dig;, says General Doyen, Page United States destroyer torpedoed. Page 1. Major Hoffe. of German General Staff, scouts America's war strength. Page 9. Foreign. Filipino Congress pledges loyalty to United State In war. Page 2. Russians hungry In midst of plenty, says Rheta Childe Dorr. Page 5. XatiunaJ. American escs pes from Gennan Interment camp. Page 1. Eastern railroads are expected to a sic for general rate advance. Page 3. Government warns miners and operators) strike must end. Page 7. Washington reports outlook brigrter for liberty loan campaign. .Page 3. Graded draft plan put before President, Page 6. Domestic Pro-German agents attack liberty loan. Page 5. Sports. Pacific Coast league results: Portland 2, Oakland 7; San Francisco 7. Salt Lake 8; Los Angeles T. Vernon 1.- Page 14. Columbia eleven defeats Benson, 25 to 0 Page 14. Boxing Commission helps gams In Portland. Page 14. Angels close on Seals In Coast League race. Page 14. 1 Commercial and Marine. Cheaper mill feed not expected In immediate future. Page 19. Corn higher, owing to adverse weather con ditions. Pago 19. Stock market gains reduced by further liquidation. Pase 19. Labor Adjustment Board, shipbuilders and union leaders tour harbor. Page 16. Pacific Northwest. New clews deepen mystery of Ballard girl's death. Page 7. German-Americans st Mount Angel buy lib erty bonds. Page 1. Chambers sawmill at Cottage Grove de stroyed by fire. Page 1. Governor Withycombe, In address at Eugene, pleads for finer patriotism. Page 16. Portland and Vicinity. Oregon falling down on liberty loan. Page 1. Approximately 140 strikers arrested fop picketing near Northwest Steel Company's plant. Page 1. Liberty flier harvest begins. Page 4. Federal Labor Adjustment Board hopes to end shipyard strike shortly. Page 6. Purchase of liberty bonds privilege, not duty, says A. L, Dundas. Page 8. Prestdent Griffith, of Portland Railway, Light r Power Company, asks expression from Council. Page 8. Steve Craig testifies against father, liquor dealer, charged with conspiracy. Page 9. Theater prices to rise with war tax, Novem ber 1. Page 13. Weather r;ort, data and forecast. Page 19. 140 MEN. CAUGHT IN NET Prisoners Start Near Riot in Prison Following Arrest. 200 POLICE ARE ON SCENE Mayor Baker Announces That Strik ers Arrested Hereafter Will Be Required to Vurnieh $500 Cash Bail. U NIONS NOT TO INTERFERE IS BEHALF OK PICKETS. Mayor Baker last night an nounced that the strikers arrest ed yesterday afternoon were all ordered released on $10 cash bail after an agreement had been reached between himself and union officials that, starting to day, a. cash bail of $500 will be required of every man arrested for picketing. Union officials as sured him that they would make ' no effort to have this heavier bail reduced and said that all strikers going out on picket duty hereafter will do so at their own risk of arrest. "We arrested these men be-, cause we are determined to keep this strike situation in hand," said the Mayor. "We are going to put a stop to this picketing if we have to fill our Jails, and the men might as well know it now, once and for all." Approximately 140 men, either strik ers from the steel shipyards or loiter ers whose presence made policing a difficult task, were arrested late yes terday afternoon in the vicinity of the Northwest Steel Company plant In South Portland. This wholesale arrest of strikers out on picket duty came as the result of a conference earlier in the day between Mayor Baker and Chief of Police John son, at which it was determined that the city would use every means at its employ to put a stop to picket duty and Its resultant intimidation of em ployes in the various shipyards. Shortly before 7 o'clock last night the strikers still in jail started a near riot in the cells and corridors of the top floor. They began shouting, stamping their feet and rattling the bars and kept up such a din that the police station rocked for several minutes. Captain Inskeep rushed upstairs and told them that if they did not quiet down they would all stay in jail all night. He assured them that their sup per would be taken to them shortly and that they could telephone to friends for bail after they had quieted down. Strike In Surly Mood. This had a soothing effect and the racket was stopped within a few min utes. The men were all in a surly mood and appeared willing to start trouble unless they could make Immediate ar rangements to secure their release. Chief Johnson called out nearly every' officer and patrolman in the department to handle the situation about the North west Steel plant, as word had gone out earlier In the day that trouble might be expected. Over 200 police of all three reliefs as well as the entire force from the office of Sheriff Hurlburt were out to handle the situation. ' Cara Guarded by Police. However, there was but little trouble reported. All strikers were ordered away from the near vicinity of the plant, and all streetcars bearing the employes to the business district were guarded by two plain clothes men and two uniformed police. Several small fights were reported from the outskirts of the crowd. Strik ers were seen chasing employes of the plant up Lincoln street, and near Third and Madison streets two nghts were started when the strikers and employes of the plant came together. In these cases the men were all arrested and charged with lighting. All of the automobiles of the police department as well as the machines in other branches of the city service were required to transport the arrested strikers from South Portland to police headquarters. Strikers Refuse to Move. Most of the men arrested were those of a large crowd loitering about the Front-street viaduct, directly above the Northwest Steel plant, who refused to move on after they had been ordered to do so several times by Captain Moore. After the second refusal to move on Captain Moore instructed his men to arrest every man on the viaduct, and so large was the crowd that more than a score of machines were loaded to overflowing. One young striker who appeared not older than 17 was caught by Motorcycle Patrolman Gouldstone placing tor pedoes on the streetcar tracks. He suc ceeded in throwing a fright Into the first carload of men who boarded the car, but was caught in the act of plac- ng his second bunch of torpedoes and Concluded on Page 7, Coiuma X.