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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 22, 1917)
T I DON'T SHY BECAUSE I YOU'RE POOR I Twenty thousand fifty dollar bonds make a million. f ii im slum ii 7 I MANY FIFTIES MAKE A MILLION Buy a bond, if it's only a small 1 one. PORTLAND, . OREGON. JIONDAY, OCTOBER 22. 1917. PRICE FIVE. CENTS.. VOL,. LVII. XO. 17,738. RUSSIAN IS HELD LIBERTY LOAN FOND FILM HOUSES NOW PUSH PRICES UP "FIRST RtX" THEATERS AYILL CHARGE 20 CENTS. MEXICO ON VERGE OF GERMAN BREAK PAVERS DEVOTE JirCH SPACE TO WAR POSSIBILITY. WORLD PEACE PLAN AS GERMAN SPY STILL GLUING UP SHOT BY BROTHER DRAWN BY RUSSIA ii ALLEGED PRINCE WELL SUP PLIED WITH PASSPORTS. SHIP WORKERS WILL ENATOR 01 G REPORT TOMORROW 7000 Strikers To Re turn to Work. BOARD SUGGESTION RATIFIED Employers and Employes Heed Plea for Patriotism. ALL" PLEASED AT RESULT ote of TTnions to Accept Plan Pro posed by Adjustment Commis sion Nearly tTnanimous, and Conditions Are Understood. , "Tha shipbuilding: strike Is over. Virtually unanimous vote of the anions affiliated with the Metal Trades Council of Portland and vicinity hav ing: been recorded, 7000 workmen, after being out on strike for four and five weeks, respectively, will return to the yards tomorrow morning; and after noon, reporting: for duty on the various shifts, according; to present plans, as there are some details to be worked out. Board Plan Accepted. The basis of the settlement is that which was recommended to employers and employes by the Federal Labor Adjustment Board, the nimebers of which held hearings in Portland last week, going thoroughly Into the local situation from every standpoint. Both sides to the controversy, which resulted In tying; up the large majority of shipbuilding work here and on the Columbia River for so long, accepted the Board's recommendation as the best solution to be had at this time, employers and employes rallying to the patriotic appeal issued. Many Meetings Held. Testerday afternoon and last night the various unions held meetings of their members for the purpose of voting upon the acceptance of the rec ommendation, which had been agreed upon by a committee of the employers representatives of the strikers and In ternational officers of the organization involved, at a meeting held in the Multnomah Hotel Saturday. A great deal of time and attention has been given the work of adjustment by the representatives of employers and employes, and it is with great sat isfaction that the announcement is made by them of the end of the strike. VANCOUVER NOT AFFECTED Six Ways Extended Into River as Far as Bridge. VANCOUVER. Wash., Oct. 21. (Spe cial.) The shipyard strike, which ends in Portland today, has had but little ef fect on the G. M. Standifer Construction Company's plant here. A few skilled men went out. During the past week piledrivers have been extending the ways for the six keels laid here. 150 feet into the Columbia River. This will take the ways out Into the river just so that the extreme ends will give clearance to the draw span of the Columbia River Interstate bridge. The framing on the first ship is prac tically completed and work on the sec ond one is about one-quarter done, while keel3 for four more have been laid, and some preliminary work has been done. The towerhouse built to pull timbers out of the river with ca bles. has been completed and will be put to use at once. Rafts of big timbers are held in booms just across the Columbia River from the shipyards, and when needed are towed across the channel by small power launches. ASTORIA STRIKERS INSISTENT (snip Carpenters Vote to Remain Ont Pending Developments. ASTORIA. Or.. Oct. II. (Special.) By a vote of 177 to 67 the Astoria Ship Carpenters' Union decided at a meeting this afternoon not to return to work tomorrow morning, but to await further developments. Another meeting will be held tomorrow afternoon. President Cholberg, of the union, said after the meeting that the local ship yards are not offering the same con cessions regarding the employment of strikers as are the Portland yards, and that is the reason the men are holding out. He also said the union will insis upon being given some recognition be fore returning to work. In the meantime rumors are current that some of the strikers will report for work tomorrow and a small num ber are known to have ordered their tools taken to the yards. WAGE SCALE TO BE REVISED Increase Predicted by Head of La bor Adjustment Board. SAN FRANCISCO. Oct. 21. The mem bers of the National Shipbuilding Labor Adjustment Board arrived In San Fran cisco tonight from the north, where they induced 17.000 men to return to work in the shipyards at Seattle and Portland. They will begin deliberations here to morrow to fix a new scale of shipyard (Concluded an Page 4. Column l. With Tax on Admissions, Includ ing Complimentaries, Day of Passes Seems Waning. The 100.000 Portland residents who are patrons of the so-called first-run motion-picture theaters of the down town district will pay 20 cents for their photoplay entertainment after Novem ber 1. That is. the adult portion of the film public will pay 20 cents a ticket. The Liberty and Columbia theaters went to 20 cents yesterday, and on No vember 1 the Peoples. Majestic, Star and Sunset will follow suit. On November 1 the 10 per cent war tax becomes effective, as well as the tax on film. From these sources the Government expects to derive a revenue of approximately $60,000,000. However, the direct war taxes are not alone responsible for the increased price of admission, for film rentals, wages of all classes of theater at taches and other expenses incidental to film exhibition have jumped nearly 50 per cent. A number of 5-cent motion - picture theaters are expected to go to 10 cents on or before November 1. A feature of the new bill is going to reduce the number of holders of com plimentary theater tickets. This calls for a 10 per cent tax on all admissions, which means that the exhibitors will be forced to contribute 2 cents on each pass they issue. YAQUI INDIANS IN UPRISING Arms and Ammunition. Awaited by Force in Mountains. DOUGLAS. Ariz., Oct. 21. A force of 1500 Taqul Indians is in he mountains near Conchl, west of Cumpas. Sonora, awaiting arrival of a party of 150 In dians from the border with a supply of arms and ammunition, according to an American mining man who reached Douglas from that section yesterday. About 400 Yaquls In the army of Gen eral P. Ellas Calles, Governor of Sonora, have deserted and are on their way to join the force in the mountains. COD CATCH BRINGS $25,000 Japanese Fishing Schooner Enters Pad Tic Port With Cargo. A PACIFIC PORT. Oct. 21. A Japa nese fishing schooner that had fished its way across the Pacific arrived here today with a atch of 100,000 cod. which the captain Immediately sold to a local fish dealer for a sum said to be in the neighborhood of $25,000. After discharging cargo, the schooner took on a large quantity of salt with the object of fishing its way back to Japan. COLONEL IS NOW PRIVATE Drafted Greek Served in Carranza Army, Records Show. SAN ANTONIO. Tex., Oct. 21. Indi vidual records of the 29th Company, Eighth battalion, 159th brigade, S tional Army, now at Camp Travis, dis close that Private Said Rahain, native of Greece, served as Captain. Lleuten ant-Colonel 1 nd finally as a Colonel In the Carranza Army. He was drafted In the last calL SUTR0 FIRE IS STOPPED Twenty Acres of Forest In San Francisco Burned Over. SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 21. After an all-nigbt battle against the flames, fire men, aided by r eidents of the district. succeeaea tms morning m puiuns ou the Are, which burned over 20 acres o Sutro Forest. The city Is built up to the edge of this forest, which covers approximately 1000 acres planted in eucalyptus, firs and pines. GREAT BATTLE PREDICTED Million Men Will Be at Front In Spring, Says McAdoo. AMARILLO. Tex.. Oct. 21. The war. Secretary 'William G. McAdoo. of the Treasury Department, said in an inter view prior to a liberty loan meeting here tonight, will not be over until America has launched a great fight. "By Spring a million of our men prob ably will be at the front, and then will come the crux." CASUALTIES ARE 8,250,000 German List Fills Thirty Folio Volumes, 22,000 Pages. AMSTERDAM, Oct. 21. The Cologne correspondent of the Tljd reports that the German casualties list, comprising killed, wounded, prisoners and missing, from August, 1914, to September, 1917, fill 30 folio volumes of 22.000 pages. He calculates the total number of names as 8.250,000. STORES CLEANED OF SUGAR Denver Housewives Alarmed by Re ports of Shortage In East. DENVER. Colo.. Oct. 21 Apparently alarmed by reports of a sugar short age in the East. Denver housewives made a drive on local retailers yester day. Hours before closing time no sugar could be purchased in downtown stores. atal Accident 'pens on Hunting trip. UN FIRED AS VICTIM RISES Full Charge Takes Effect in Back of Unfortunate Man. DEATH COMES SOON AFTER Physicians Summoned to Farm house Where Wounded Man Is Taken, Find Condition so Seri ous Inadvisable to Move Him. MILWAUKEE. Oct. 21. Accidentally hot in the back by his brother, Gus- tave, while hunting ducks near Rush Lake, Wis., this morning. United States Senator Paul O. Husting died at a farm house near the scene of the accident late tonight. According to reports here. Senator Husting had sighted a flock of ducks and called his brother to shoot. . He was in front and, as his brother fired, he raised, receiving the full charge of shot In his back. He was rushed to a farmhouse nearby. Physicians hastily summoned found his condition such that it was inadvisable to move him to a hospital. Senator HusUne. r Wisconsin, whose home was m Sl:-- ill". Dodge County, was one of thp ;. .-iinjier mem bers of the United States Senate, having been born April 2:. 1SH6. He was a native son of the state that honored him. his birthplace Fond du Lac At 16 he left school to work in a general store, then in the postofflce. afterward in the railway postal serv ice, and finally in the office of the Sec retary of State. At the age of 29 he entered the University of Wisconsin and passed the state bar examination. His first public off ice. was that of District Attorney. He was twice chosen State Senator and in 1914 was elected to the United States Scnato to suc ceed Isaac Stephenson. His term of office would not have expired until March 3. 1921. Senator Husting was a Democrat, and the vacancy created by his death will be filled by appointment by the Gov ernor, Emanuel L. I'hlllpp, who is a Republican. It Is a fair presumption, therefore. that Senator Hustlng's successor will be a Republican. Senator Trie American. Senator Husting was atall times a loyal supporter of Americanism and. although from a state with a supposed ly large pro-German element in th population, was at all times unswerv ing In his devotion to true American ism.. Prior to his election to the United (Concluded on Page 4. Column J.) i , - , , ..- , . Proposed Declaration of "Benevo lent Neutrality" Declared Insufficient. MEXICO CITT. Oct. 21. Newspapers here devote much space to discussion of a possible break in this country's re lations with Germany, following the recent secret session of the Senate, when the question was debated. The Universal says a simple declaration of benevolent neutrality would not be suf ficient because, according to statements of several Senators and Deputies, this would leave in existence German propa ganda, Information bureaus and espio nage. The legislative bill proposed on the subject provides that a committee shall call on President Carranza and request him to make, officially, at least a sol emn declaration of benevolent neutral ity toward the entente allies, which ex pression is deemed necessary by the bills introduced for sustaining the gov ernment and re-establishment of uni versal peace and progress, as well as the life of the Mexican nation. El Demokrata, a pro-German news paper, says that Mexico, in breaking off relations with Germany would be going to war for the sake of making money and would bind its liberty under the yoke of the United States. HOLLAND TRADE EXTENDS Agreement Reached With Austria- Hungary as to Exports. AMSTERDAM, Oct. 21. An agree ment has been concluded between Hoi land and Austrla-IT jngary covering commercial and financial matters after negotiations extending over several weeks. The agreement deals with, the question of exports from Austria-Hun gary to Holland and mutual credits. Respecting exports to Austria from Holland, it is said that a Joint agree ment between Holland and Germany and Austria-Hungary is expected at an early date. AMMONIA STOPS GAME Fumes From Hospital Render Four Students Unconscious. SAN MATEO. Cal.. Oct. 21. Four stu dents playing here in a football game between San Jose and San Mateo high schools yesterday were rendered un conscious late in the contest when the atmosphere was surcharged with am monla fumes arising from the cleaning of ammonia pipes at a nearby hospital The players regained consciousness. but the game was not finished. FIVE-CENT LOAVES PASS Country-Wido Survey Shows mand Is for Larger Size. De- WASHINGTON. Oct. 21. Reports of food investigators at work throughout the country indicate that prevailing flour prices make inadvisable the baking of 5-cent loaves of bread. The Food Administration announces that the survey reveals that the ma jority demand of consumers is for the larger-sized loaves. I WANT TO BORROW, NOT CONFISCATE, FIVE BILLION DOLLARS Fifteen Brief Articles Cover All Nations. PANAMA CANAL TO BE NEUTRAL Restitution of All Colonies to Germany Provided. BELGIUM TO BE RESTORED International Fund to ' Be Raised for Compensation to Little Kingdom Plebiscite In Alsace-Lorraine. PETROGRAD. Oct. SI. The Russian peace programme a drawn up by "" central executive committee or me Council of Workmen's and Soldiers' delegates, in the form of instructions to M. Skobeleff, ex-Minlster of Labor. its delegate to the Paris conference. consists of 15 articles, covering the whole ground from Panama to Persia. Article XI demands the "neutralization of the Panama Canal and Article IX 1 calls for the restitution of all colonies I to Germany. Ths programme of the I central executive committee follows: Russia to Be Evacuated. First Evacuation by tho Germans of Russia and autonomy of Poland, Lithuania and the Lettish provinces. Second Autonomy of Turkish Ar men la. Third Solution of the Alsace-Lor raine question by a plebiscite, the voting I being arranged by local c vll uthorl. lies, aiier kuc icniu.ni wj. ... v. w. of both belligerents. Fourth Restoration to Belgium of I her ancient frontiers and compensation for her losses from an international fund. Balkan States Autonomous. Fifth Restoration of Serbia and Montenegro with similar compensation, Serbia to Jiave access to the Adriatic. Bosnia and Herzegovina to D autono- mous. Sixtn jjisputea tsaiKnn Districts 10 receive .provisional autonomy followed Seventh Roumania to be restored her old frontiers on condition that she I grant Dobrudja autonomy and grant equal rights to Jews. Eighth Autonomy for the Italian provinces of Austria to be followed by a plebiscite. German Colonies Restore. Ninth Restitution of all colonies to Germany. Tenth Re-establishment of Greece and Persia. Eleventh Neutralization of all straits leading to Inner seas and also the Sues and Panama canals. Freedom of navi- gation for merchant ships. Abolition (Concluded on Page 2. Column 2.) 1 t Ostensible Purpose of Michel De Roudakow Is to Build Im proved Type of Dirigible. NEW TORK, Oct. 21. A man who said he was Prince Michel de Roudakow, 31 years old, a Russian stopping at a hotel in this city and who said he had been in the country three years, was taken into custody early today by Fed eral agents and booked as a "German py- Federal agents refused to give any other details of the case. The police later gave the information, however, that passports to France, Germany Russia and Poland, all made to "Prince "ezl ?"daw:' JltT'la.. into custody. Captain Michel de Roudakow arrived in New York on June 1, 1915. on a steam ship from Copenhagen. He announced that he had come to this country to I study the dirigibles, and said he was planning the construction of a new type of dirigible stronger than a Zep pelln. with an armored fighting car on top and many other novel features. DRAFT EVADER TO BE TRIED Austrian Is Held at Fort Douglas for Desertion SALT LAKE CITT, Oct. 21. George Melich. alleged draft evader now being held at Fort Douglas for charges of desertion, will be tried by the military authorities, according to instructions received from Washington. Melich will be the first evader of the draft law to be tried at the local military post. Melich. an Austrian, refused to report when cal,ed to entrain for the National Army ciicampnieni di Auienctin -LUK.e, Wash. "BOB" GRIMLY HANGS ON Once Great Pugilist Keeps Up Game Bamc Avuh Dcath CHICAGO, Oct. SI. Robert Fitzsim I mons. former champion heavyweight pugilist, lapsed into unconsciousness I again tonight after an interval of 1 lucidness during the day. I "He may live throughout the night, i as he has shown remarkable vitality.' I it was said at the hospital where he is Hi of "double" pneumonia, "but his I chance for recovers- is improbable PRIVATE BUYS 604 BONDS (Money From Sale of Scat on Stock Exchange Converted. I SAN ANTONIO, Tex., Oct. 21. Private I Louis A. Ripley. 121st Aero Squadron at KeIley Field, today purchased 604 liberty bonds. The officers expressed I surprise ai me size or tne order so Ripley explained: I 1 have just sold my seat in the I New York Stock Exchange for $30,200 I and the bonds are the best investment I I know of.' INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. TESTERDArs Maximum temperature. 66 aegreee; minimum, aegreea. TODAY'S Fair; moderate northeasterly winds. War. Russian defeat in Gulf of Riga said to be exaggeraiea. rage z. Zeppelins lose way in heavy fog on return Foreign. Russia formulates peace programme for Paris conference. Page 1. Mexican newspapers discuss possible break Willi uerniany. rage l. Kaiser at Sofia, dines with Turk. Page 4. Kerensky acorns aid of patriotic women. National. All wooden ajid Pacific Coast steel ship yards seem under board s ban. Page 4. Government making public all returns on liberty loan, page 1 1. People of District of Columbia seek suffrage through Congress. Page 4. Domestic. Alleged Russian Prince held as German spy. Automatic insurance cares for families of those lost on Antilles. Page . Taxes on liquor become burden. Pago 3. Senator Husting. of Wisconsin, killed in hunting accident. Page 1. Sport. Important Interscholastlc games scheduled tms weea. rsie Hoppe. California boxer, due here Tuesday. page ia. Pacific Coast League results: Oakland 7-6, Portland o-3; los Angeles v ernon 0-1; Kan Francisco b-1, salt Lake 5-L Page 12. Seals must fight hard to hold first place. Page 13. Ban Johnson quits baseball to help win the war. Page is. Pacific Korthwest. Action expected, says Allen Eaton. Page 6. Vancouver on high tide of prosperity. Page 6. Portland and Vicinity. Shipworaers will return to work tomorrow. Page 1. Film houses push prices or admission up. Page 1. Patriotic sermon feature Sunday's services In Portland cnurcnea. rage a. Red Crosa chairman and general manager to speak, her Jovemoer . rage t. Demands of telephone Operators Union an nounced. Pa ge a Parade Wednesday expected to stlntulate bond sales. Page lu. Roatesa House at Vancouver will be opened to public Tuesday, rage lu. Women to raise liberty flag today. Page 11. Submarine Interior during battle shown at Orpheum. page 10- Reductton of sugar consumption by halt urged. Page lo. Oregon liberty loan fund still coming up. Page L Rainier man peppered with shot in contro versy over land. page v. Benefit war pictures attract crowd at Audi torium. Page lu. Robert Dougan guest of Press Club at break' fast. Page is. Weather report, data and forecast. Page IS. Subscriptions Esti mated at $9,500,000. ORGANIZATION WORKS WELL Whirlwind Finish Planned and Victory Predicted. LAGGARDS MAY BE TAXED Chairman Miller Starts on Visit t Central and Southern Parts of State, Where Apathy Is Ap parent, to Inject Zest, Oregon's quota is convalescent, thank; you, and is sitting up and taking the second liberty loan in large doses. From official and unofficial sources. but conservatively compiled, the state's liberty bond purchases yesterday reached for the half-way mark and passed it. with a total of $9,501,800. The new minimum of Oregon's quota, based on revised bank deposits, is $18,000. 000. There isn't a single pessimist in lib erty loan headquarters. As members of the publicity committee, with Stats Campaign Manager Miller at the add ing machine, tabulated the important returns they gleefully forecast an overwhelming triumph for the con clusion of the bond drive next Satur day night. Enthusiasm Replaces Apathy. A truly remarkable convalescence is Oregon's. From a comparative apathy, almost in a day, the state veered to a smooth-running enthusiasm that tum bled in the returns faster than adding machines could take them. Yet the liberty loan generals and lieutenants are taking nothing for granted. "It promises well," said Manager Miller yesterday afternoon, ready for a dash into Southern Oregon, "but there must be no let up if the state is to race under the tape, a handsome win ner. While the situation appears to be satisfactory, there is yet a mountain of work to be climbed before the full quota is reached." Some Communities I.an The figures of the compiled totals are Interesting. Though In many in stances communities are laggard, there are others that have given with such spontaneous generosity that they al ready have passed their goals and are still plunging forward on the trail of liberty bond dollars. The real story cannot be told by mere figures, for it Is a yarn of men and women, and chil dren, too, who have dropped their own affairs to give, and work, and speak for the Oregon quota. Manager Miller received official ad vice from the Treasury Department yesterday that a record will be kept of what every town and community does in the raising of the second lib erty loan. Tab Kept on Communities. Asked what significance this might have, Mr. Miller said that tne only conceivable purpose. In his opinion, would be to tabulate the returns so that towns and communities which did not respond to their quotas "might bo attended to afterward." He believed ' It possible that action by special taxa tion of such communities, to raise the deficit of their quotas, might be con templated. Six cities of the state have either surpassed or equaled the totals as- " signed to them, on ' the basis of their bank deposits, according to the care- . ful compilation of official returns, and reliable unofficial returns, made yes terday at headquarters. West Falls tn Lead. West Falls leads with a subscription of 184 per cent. Its quota was JooOO and it has reported $10,000 to date. lone reports 127 per cent, having vol untarily raised Its quota from $27,600 to $34,500, with a week yet to cam paign. North Bend already has 121 per cent, havnlg raised $ol,400, whila Its quota Is $42,000. Others are Bend. 107 per cent, quota $110,000, raised $118,200; Carlton, 107 per cent, quota $15,000, raised $16,800; Seaside, 100 per cent, quota $13,000. raised $12,050. Quotas for all communities are simi larly based, the National quota representing- one-eighth of the wealth as represented by total bank deposits, de ducting, of course, inter-bank deposits. Pendleton Going Strong. Pendleton, among the larger towns of the state, has proved her right to the "round-up" title by splendid inroads upon her large quota. Of a total of $750,000 the city Is unofficially re ported to have sold 89 per cent of her liberty bond allotment, or $665,750. W. L. Thompson, president of the American National Bank, of that city, and liberty loan chairman, declares that Pendleton will have exceeded her quota by Tues day night. Manager Miller's visit to .Eastern Ore gon brought results, as Indicated by the pace Baker has held during the last few days. Tha city now reports 36 per cent of Its quota, or $160,650 of its $450,000 total. La Grande Is up to 47 per cent, and has invested $113,350 of a $240,000 quota- Lakeiew, which is predicted to achieve its quota several days before the campaign, has 73 per cent. Liberty (Concluded on Page lu. Column 3. s 1 ft
