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VOL. LVII.XO.
PORTLAND, OREGON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1917.
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PRICE FIVE CENTS.
HIDDEN TREASON'S
SPREAD DENOUNCED
LIBERTY LOAN NEAR
LISTER DEMANDS
UTAH RETRACTION
TELEPHONE GIRLS
UNCLE SAM BUYS
MEXICAN PESOS
PLAN FOR ENDING
STRIKE WITHHELD
TAT
DR. HIDDEN" CONDEMNS MISCSE
OF ACADEMIC FREEDOM.
WASHINGTON GOVERNOR AS
.V 'RTS AID STATEMENT FALSE.
SIX MILLION COINS PURCHASED
BY TREASURY.
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AMERICAN SHIP
HIT BY TORPEDO
$7,000,000 MARK
001
MIDNIGHT
Transport Antilles Is Sent
Down in War Zone
SEVENTY LIVES ARE LOST
Vessel, Former Ward Liner,
Under Convoy by Naval Pa
trol When Attacked.
ALL OFFICERS ARE SAVED
Neither Projectile Nor Sub
marine Seen Ship Struck
Abreast Engine-Room.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 19. The
American Army transport Antilles,
homeward bound under convoy, was
torpedoed and sunk by a German sub
marine in the war zone Wednesday.
About 70 men are missing and probably
lost.
All the Army and Navy officers
aboard and the ship's master were
among the 167 survivors. The miss
ing are members of the crew, three
civilian engineers, some enlisted men
of the Navy and 17 of 33 soldiers re
turning home for various reasons.
Neither the submarine nor the tor
pedo was seen, and the transport, hit
squarely amidship, sank in five min
utes. First. American Reverse.
This. tragedy of the sea, the first in
which an American ship engaged in
war duty has been lost, is the first of
its magnitude to bring home to the
people of the United States the rigors
of the war in which they have en
gaged against Germany. It carries
the largest casualty list of the war of
American lives and marks the first
success of German submarine attacks
on American transports.
That the loss of life was not greater
was due to the safeguards with which
the Navy has surrounded the trans
port service and the quick rescue work
of the convoying warships.
Secretary Daniels announced the
disaster tonight in a statement based
upon a brief dispatch from Vice-Admiral
Sims, which gave few details
and which did not say whether it -as
a day or night attack. An accurate
list of the missing cannot be issued
until General Pershing reports the
names of the Army men on the vessel
and the list of the merchant crew.
Following is the announcement:
"The department is in receipt of a
dispatch from Vice-Admiral Sims
which states that the steamship
Antilles, an Army transport, was tor
pedoed on October 17 while returning
to .this country from foreign service.
This vessel was. under convoy of
American patrol vessels at the time.
"The torpedo which struck the
Antilles was not seen, nor was the
submarine which fired it. The torpedo
hit abreast of the engine-room bulk
head and the ship sank within five
minutes. One hundred and sixty
seven persons out of about 237 on
board the Antilles were saved. About
70 men are missing.
Naval Officers Saved.
"All the naval officers and officers
of the Army who were on board at
the time were saved, as were the of
ficers of the ship, with the exception
of the following:
"Walker, third engineer officer;
Boyle, junior engineer officer, and
O'Rourke, junior engineer officer.
"The following enlisted naval per
sonnel were lost:
"E. L. Kinzey, seaman, second-class,
next of kin, Thomas M. Kinzey,
father, Water Valley, Miss.; J. W.
Hunt, seaman, second-class, next of
kin, Isaac Hunt, father. Mountain
Grove, Mo.; C. L. Ausburn, radio
electrician, first-class, next of kin. R.
Ausburn, brother. New Orleans, La.,
and H. F. Watson, radio electrician,
third-class, next of kin, Mrs. W. L.
Soger, mother, Rutland, Mass.
Names to Be Given Later.
"There were about 33 of the Army
enlisted personnel on board, of which
17 were saved. The names ef the
missing of the Army enlisted per
sonnel and of the merchant crew of
the ship cannot be given until the
muster roll in France of those on
board has been consulted. As soon as
the department is in receipt of
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Princeton's President Speaks Before
Educators Assembled to Derine
College's Service to State.
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 19. Treason
spread In the guise of academic teach
ing was condemned by Dr. John Grier
Hibben, president of Princeton Univer
sity, before a group of eminent edu
cators assembled here today to define
the service of the college to the
state.
"When any member of the college
faction throws about himself the cloak
of academic freedom to utter treason,
tl en academic freedom is a farce," de
clared Dr. Hibben.
The speaker said the theory of the
Government was that of right over
wrong, honesty over dishonesty and
decency over indecency.
"And as sure as there is a God in
Heaven," he said, "a nation so in
human as Germany will have no re
gard for these principles if it wins."
PASTOR ENTERS NEW FIELD
First Universalist Church Closes for
Indefinite Period.
The doors of the First Universalist
Church will not be opened today. The
church is closed, and closed for an in
definite period. The pastor. Rev. Frank
Scott, has resigned and gone into an
other field of business. The former
pastor, the Rev. J. D. Corby, who
founded and built the 'church, died a
few months ago and there is a doubt
that it will reopen until times are bet
ter. The late Rev. Mr. Corby was a hard
worker and a popular" pastor and kept
the church together. The cornerstone
was laid by no less a. person than ex
President Taft. The building is in
good condition, being but about eight
years old.
FAMILY HAS PET DAY
Parents Celebrate 5 0th Anniversary,
Daughter 6 til ; 2 Sons' Birthdays.
COTTAGE GROVE. Or., Oct. 19.
(Special.) A remarkable anniversary
celebration was held here recently.
The participants were Mr. and MM.
R. B. Wooley, at whose home it was
held: Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Hale. Orren
and Rollin Wooley, all of Cottage
Grove except the last named, who
lives at Gaston. Mrs. Hale is a daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Wooley and Orrin
and - Rollin Wooley are sons.
The day was the 50th wedding anni
versary of Mr. and Mrs. " Wooley, the
sixth wedding anniversary of Mr. and
Mrs. Hale and the birthday anniversary
of Orren and Rollin Wooley.
CONSUL HAS BIG "FAMILY"
Panama's Envoy at 'Frisco Brings
Array of Children.
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 19. (Spe
cial.) Francisco Jiminez, duly ap
pointed Consul to San Francisco from
the Republic of Panama, arrived here
Thursday with his wife and family on
a steamer from Central American and
West Coast ports.
This is the Consul's first trip away
from his native land, and his experi
ences are being hugely enjoyed with
him by seven little Jiminez and 10
nephews and nieces, who accompanied
him. Of the 16 children in the party
of IS the oldest was not over 18 years.
The Consul speaks English fluently, as
he does French and German.
GIRLS TO BE MESSENGERS
Score or More Young 'Women Appli
cants for Municipal Service.
Messenger boys and office boys in
the city service will be girls instead
of hoys hereafter. At a municipal civil
service examination held yesterday all
applicants for the positions were girls.
There were 22 of them.
There had been calls from boys
wanting to take the test but they
failed to appear. Two positions are
to be filled from those passing highest
in the test.
G. W. TANNEHILL KILLED
Lewislon Attorney, Once Candidate
for Senate, Auto Victim.
LEWISTON. Idaho. Oct. 19 George
W. Tannehill, well-known Lewiston at
torney, was instantly killed today when
an automobile he was driving left a
grade near Webb, 20 miles from Lewis
ten. Postmaster Lee Fennell, of Lew
iston. and O. R. Daly, of Spokane, were
with him. but escaped serious injury.
Mr. Tannehill was prominent
throughout Idaho in Democratic cir
cles, and was a candidate for United
States Senator six years ago.
BONDS ACCEPTED AS CASH
Coupons May Be Exchanged for
Stamps at Portland Postoffice.
Coupons from liberty bonds, when
due, may be passed through the wicket
at any postoffice, in exchange for
stamps, money orders, and other postal
sales.
Postmaster Myers yesterday received
authority to such effect from the Postmaster-General,
advising him to accept
the liberty bond coupons as cash.
Coupons on the new issue will be due
December 15, and again June 15.
Leaders ExpejV.,i.
other Mill1' '!o'day.
MR. HOUSER TAKES $250,000
Enthusiasm Grows as Workers
Redouble Efforts.
MR. MILLER GETS RESULTS
Lack of Interest Reported . in Sec
tions of Eastern Oregon Despite
Fact That Farmers Are Draw
ing War Prices for "Wheat.
SUBSCRIPTION . TOTALS IN
OREGON LIBERTY LOAN
DRIVE.
Portland Banks.
Previously reported ...$4,156,750
Reported yesterday . 219,400
Total $4,376,150.
Banks Outside Portland.
Previously reported ...$1,696,560
Reported yesterday .... 274,300
Total . . .
$1,970,850
Grand total $6,347,000
Oregon's total of the second liberty
loan was knocking around $7,000,000
last night, although the official figures
show $6,347,000.
Other subscriptions announced bring
it easily to the former figure and it is
the hope of the leaders of the campaign
to announce $8,000,000 tonight.
This is still less than half of Ore
gon's minimum quota of $16,500,000 and
tonight just three-fourths of the time
allowed for raising the state allotment
will have . passed.
Max Honaer Heads List.
The biggest subscription made known
yesterday was that of Max Houser to
the amount of $250,000. This is not in
the official total as it did not get
through the banks yesterday. It was
announced at a meeting of the distri
bution committee at noon.
J. C. Ains worth is chairman of this
committee. He said yesterday the de
pressing fact should be known that up
to noon only 5000 Portland persons
had subscribed for bonds.
"If we use the extremely conserva
tive basis of 250,000," said Mr. Ains
worth, "it means that there are 245.000
residents of this city who have not yet
agreed to back the Government in the
biggest undertaking in which it ever
embarked.
Investment Feature Lauded.
"And yet the bonds offer a savings
account that is unequaled. An invest
ment in a liberty bond is really a sav
ings investment, with interest one-half
of 1 per cent higher than the savings
banks pay.
"When payments are completed, Jnn-
Concluded on Page 6. Column 1.
Message Says Defense Council Has
Not Solicited Funds to Stop
Bootlegging at Camp.
OLTMPIA. Wash., Oct. ID. (Special.)
Governor Lister, in a telegraphed
message to Governor Simon Bamberger,
of Utah, declared the recent report
from Salt Lake City that the Wash
ington Council of Defense had asked
the Utah council for $10,000 to aid in
suppressing bootlegging at Camp Lewis
is a falsehood. He also asked a retrac
tion In the following statement to
Governor Bamberger:
"Yesterday there appeared In many
newspapers of this state a dispatch
from Salt Lake City stating that the
Washington State Council of Defense
had appealed to the Utah State Council
of Defense for $10,000 toward a fund
being raised to stop bootlegging at
Camp Lewis, American Lake, in this
state, and that members of the Utah
Council of Defense had characterized
the appeal as a splendid example or
nerve.
"I am wiring you, so that you may
place this communication before your
State Council of Defense to say that
the State Council of Defense of Wash
ington, nor no authorized agent of the
State Council of Defense, or any other
official of the state of Washington has
made an appeal to the State Council of
Defense of Utah for $10,000 or for any
other sum to assist in stopping of boot
legging at Camp Lewis in this state.
"I regret that your State Council of
Defense has placed itself in the posi
tion, if press dispatches quote its mem
bers correctly, of giving publicity to a
statement false in every particular,
and wire to say that I believe a retrac
tion ought to be made by your Council
of Defense, and given just as much
publicity in the newspapers as was the
false statement issued by that body."
MURDER SUSPECT ESCAPES
Albert Moorehouse Jumps Through
Window While Police Walt.
SEATTLE. Oct. 19. Albert Moore
house, a mill employe, escaped f-om
the police here today shortly after he
was arrested in connection with the
murder of Miss Ruth Demerritt, whose
headless body was found here last
Sunday.
Moorehouse shad been granted per
mission to go to hla room to get his
clothes, and while officers waited in
the next room be escaped through -A
window.
Two other suspects, Charles Comfort
and Patrick McGinn, are being held.
Bloodhounds were put on Moore
house's trail. .
MAN DIESIIN NEW CAR
Wheel Comes Off While Salesman Is
Still With Enterprise Buyer.
ENTERPRISE. Or.. Oct. 19. (Spe
cial.) John Proebstel, Prairie Creek
farmer, was instantly killed and II. L.
Fisher, of Silverton, Or., automobile
salesman for Fred S. Ashley, of this
city, was seriously injured this morning
in an automobile accident on Creighton
Lane, a mile and a half north of Joseph.
Eyewitnesses said one of the wheels
came off and the car turned over sev
eral times.
Mr. Proebstel leaves a widow, mother
and sister living in this county. Mr.
Fisher's parents live at Silverton.
NOT -ALL IN" YET! J
3400 Operators Vote
to Strike.
UNION RECOGNITION DENIED
Los Angeles and Many Wash
, ington Cities Involved.
COUNTER PROPOSAL MADE
Threatened Walkout of Male Elec
trical Workers of Coast Is
Still Matter of Some
Uncertainty.
SAN FRAXCISCO, Oct. 19. A simul
taneous strike of unionized girl op
erators or the Pacific Telephone" &
Telegraph Company in Los Angeles
and various Washington cities has
been called for 12 o'clock tonight,
according to an announcement here
late today by John Morganthaler. pres
ident of the Pacific district council of
the International Brotherhood of Elec
trical Workers.
Approximately 2000 women are in
volved in Washington and 1400 in Los
Angeles. The walkout has been called
because of the refusal of the company
to recognize the operators' union.
Mr. Morganthaler said.
Strike votes. Morganthaler said, will
be taken by electrical workers' unions
throughout the Pacific Coast states to
night, following disruption of the con
ference committee representing the
employes, which has been holding ne
gotiations with company officials over
a new working agreement.
Counter-offer Ignored.
The counter-offer of 50 cents per day
and other concessions for men workers
made by the company today and sub
mitted to the unions by L. C. Grasser,
vice-president of the brotherhood, for
referendum vote, will be ignored by
district council delegates, "which are
dissatisfied with provisions," Morgan
thaler announced. In this counter
proposal the company offered half the
increase asked and omitted recogni
tion of the women's union. Certain
improved working conditions, an eight
hour day and pay for overtime, Sun
days and holidays, was provided for.
The withdrawal of delegates from
Seattle, Los Angeles and Fresno from
the conference with the declaration
that the unions they represented would
strike when the present wage agree
ment expires Sunday night, threw the
situation into confusion. Grasser main
tained tonight in the face of Morgan
thaler's declaration that "there will be
no general strike Sunday night." He
intimated that members of certain
unions might walk out, but "if they
do it will be without the sanction of
the International brotherhood."
Recognition Is Refused.
Flat refusal of the company to rec
ognize the girls' union or to entertain
further compromise proposals embody
ing this feature was the issue which
caused the split in the ranks of the
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Silver Pieces Are to Be Rcmintcd
Into Half-Dollars, Dimes
an Quarters.
WASHINGTON'. Oct. 19. Six million
Mexican silver pesos have been bought
by the Treasury Department at 8SU
cents an ounce, for minting into half
dollars, dimes and quarters. The
treasury acted when faced with the
necessity of buying silver for coinage
at steadily increasing prices, which,
at their height, brought the value" of
the metal dangerously close to the
minted value.
The purchase of the great volume of
Mexican dollars, the largest purchase
by the Government of the minted silver
coin of another ever recorded, placed
the United States in possession of a
sufficient quantity of silver to run the
mints for two or three months and
withdraws from the silver markets
here the largest single buyer.
It is understood that the Mexican
dollars are to be delivered soon and
Federal Reserve Board officials, who
have been In touch with the various
phases of the negotiations, have indi
cated their willingness to permit the
exportation to Mexico of approximately
$5,000,000 in gold as payment.
Mexico needs the gold badly to in
crease its scanty store of minted gold
coin. The importation by that country
of $5,000,000 for this purpose, it is as
sumed, also will tend to relieve the
difficulties of American operators in
the oil fields there in. paying their
heavy buruen of taxes, which, under
the Mexican law, must be paid in Mex
ican minted, gold.
FITZSIMMONS YET LIVES
Famous Pugilist's Condition Said to
Be "Unchanged."
CHICAGO, Oct. 19. Robert Fitzsim
mons. former champion heavyweight
pugilist, who is dangerously ill of lobar
pneumonia at a hospital here, was re
ported tonight in "the same' condition
he has been since his arrival at the
hospital."
While physicians said he was con
scious, his chances for recovery were
not Improved. The vitality of the vet
eran was pronounced remarkable, lobar
pneumonia being pronounced the most
serious form of that disease.
AIRPLANES RAID ENGLAND
Bombs Are Dropped on Points in
Vonilon Area at Midnight.
LONDON". Oct- 20. (12:33 A. M.) At
midnight six or seven airships raided
the eastern and northeastern counties
of England, dropping bombs at various
points. Including a few in the London
area, according to an official state
ment just Issued. ,
At this hour the raid is still pro
ceeding. T. A. D. JONES TO QUIT YALE
Famous Football Coach Will Come
to Coast to Aid Shipping Board.
NEW HAVEN. Conn., Oct. 19. It was
announced at Yale tonight that T. A. D.
Jones, who has been coaching the Vale
freshmen eleven, has been recalled to
Government work and would at once
quit coaching. He will return to the
Pacific Coast, where he will be su
pervisor of shipbuilding for the Federal
Shipping Board.
Albany Elks Have Venison "Feed.'
ALBANY. Or.. Oct. 19. (Special.)
A venison "feed" was enjoyed by the
members of the Albany Lodge of Elks
last evening. Two members of the
lodge went hunting recently and treat
ed the lodge last evening as a result.
The treat was made the occasion of a
session with special features, including
some boxing bouts.
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Weather.
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 65
decrees; minimum. 43 degrees.
TODAY'S Fair: light, variable winds.
War.
American transport torpedoed and sunk in
war sone. Page 1.
Stockholm conference suggests terms of
possible peace. Page 3.
Foreign.
Russian government determines to move to
Moscow. Page 2.
National.
Six million Mexican pesos purchased by
Government for reminting. Page 1.
Senator Chamberlain opposes change in draft
age. Page 3.
Domestic.
Misuse of academic freedom to utter treason
denounced by Princeton's president.
Page 1.
Strike of Coast telephone electric workers
Imminent. Page 1.
Plot to sink United States transport, former
ly (ierraan liner, is foiled. Page 2.
Sports.
Pacific Coast League results: Portland 4,
Oakland 5; Vernon 2. Los Angeles 0; Salt
Lake 3, San Francisco 2. Page 14.
Willie Hoppe heralded as good boxer
. Page 14.
Three conference football games today
Page 14.
Pacific Northwest.
Governor Lister demands Utah retract state-
ment Washington had solicited flo.OoO to
stop bootlegging at Camp Lewis. Page 1.
Flying squadron holds series of liberty bond
meetings in Lake County. Page 6.
Commercial and Marine.
Large quantity of Government flour will be
ordered for November shipment. Page 19.
Corn lower at Chicago owing to more sea
sonable weather. Page lo.
Live hog prices slump at Portland stock
yards. Page 19.
First keel laid at Foundation Company's
yards. Page ltt.
Portland and Vlcinltj.
Men and bosses meet to arrange details of
shipyards' strike settlement. Page 1.
Liberty loan for Oregon near $7,000,000
mark. Page 1.
Reed College observes Campus day. Page 15.
Adjutant-General White leaves for "an At
lantic port " Page 15.
Labor unrest topic of address by Ir. Fisher.
Page 15.
Weather report, data and forecast .Page 18.
Men and Bosses Meet
to Settle Details.
FEDERAL LABOR BOARD LEAYES
Belief Strong Strikers Will Re
sume Work Monday.
LOYALTY NOT QUESTIONED
Adjustment Body Issues Statement,
in Which Conciliatory Attitude
of Employer and Employe
Receives Commendation.
I) .V Y"S DEVELOPMENTS I N
STRIKE SITUATION.
Federal Labor Adjustment
Board, after proposing terms of
ending shipbuilding strike, leaves
for San Francisco to take up sit
uation there.
Executive conferences of all
sides are held, looking toward
early return of the 7000 strikers
to the yards.
Monday probably will see all
yards fully manned.
Board issues statement, declar
ing belief in loyalty of both sides
and expressing hope ' of settle
ment, also emphasizing need of
ships.
Local unions begin referendum
vote on return to work.
Mayor Baker, to assist in elim
ination of friction, announces he
will dismiss cases against alleged
pickets if men resume work.
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After advancing a proposal for the
final settlement of the difficulties
which resulted In a five weeks" tieup
of the shipbuilding industry In Port
land and vicinity, the members of the
Federal Labor Adjustment Board V.
Everit Macy, A. J. Berres and Louis A.
Coolldge left for San Francisco over
the Southern Pacific at 8 o'clock last
night to take up the situation there.
At the formal request of the Board,
the representatives of the local em
ployers, strikers and international
union officers engaged in terminating
the troubles and getting the men back
to work. The details of the plan pro
posed are withheld temporarily.
Ships Paramount Issue.
It is known, however, that both sides
have made concessions, basing their
action upon the paramount issue of the
day ships for the war. A permanent
adjuster is to be selected by four local
men. representing employers and em
ployes, whose duty it will be to care
for grievances which may arise here
in future and to keep the Board in
touch with the situation as long as
necessary.
Executive sessions of all parties con
cerned were held yesterday and last
night and the Board's proposition is
being laid . before the various local
unions for referendum vote, as is neces
sary before it can be accepted, and it
is for the men themselves to say they
will accept. That they will do so and
will therefore be back to work in all
the shipyards by Monday is the ac
cepted belief.
Picket Cases to Be Dismissed.
As the general effort now on all sides
is to eliminate friction and to weld all
interests into a single unit for the one
purpose of building ships. Mayor Baker
announced last night that "the city will
be just as big as any of them" and
that he will order the dismissal of all
cases against alleged pickets taken in
by the police during the strike, with
the exception of. perhaps, one case,
when it is certain work is to be re
sumed. In order to have a test -of the
validity of the ordinance, which is the
one passed by vote of the people last
June, he says the municipality wishes
to try out one case, purely in a friendly
way.
It is believed that a vast amount of
good has been accomplished in Portland
by the board's hearings and its other
activities here, in that many misunder
standings have been cleared up for all
time and the atmosphere is much better
all around, not only as to the shipbuild
ing programme, but many other ways.
7000 Men Involved.
It probably will require today and to
morrow for the various local unions
concerned to vote on the question of
returning to work, thus making it vir
tually certain that thitygs will be hum
ming in all of the yards by Monday
morning.
Fully 7000 men are involved in the
strike, with families dependent upon
them in the majority of cases, making
the decision of great importance to
them, as well as to the shipbuilding
interests and the Government. Tho
workmen in the wooden plants struck
five weeks ago today and the steel
workers four weeks ago Monday next.
Nearly all of the plants have been tied
up since, although some work has
been done.
Board Issues Statement.
Before leaving the city yesterday, the
members of the adjustment board
issued a formal statement, reviewing
their position and emphasizing the
necessity of turning out ships as rapid
ly as possible. They declared their
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