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I ARE YOU A SLACKER? I 1 I i You didn't go to war. But do 5 KS anil KiiV twinH- . 5 FIGHT OR PAY I If you didn't go to the front, stay at home and buy a bond. ! VOL,. LiVII. NO. 17,TG0. PORTLAND, OREGON, "WEDNESDAY, OCTOBEU 24 1917. PRICE FIVE CENTS. UP-STATE DISTRICTS NO WOODEN SHIPS PACIFIC IRISHMAN SEEADLER VICTIM REACHES PORTLAND FRENCH TROOPS SMASH THROUGH OLD JACKSONVILLE FIR FftiTPR WIMP CAN'T BE CITIZEN WANTED ABROAD LEAPS TO FAME .' "'"1.. ARE BOND LAGGARDS PLEAUb FDH LltStK I Y FRENCH AXD BRITISH SERVE ALLEGED "SLEEPY" VILLAGE W. G. HURL SAYS HE WOULDN'T XOTICE OX BUILDERS. OUTRUNS OTHERS OF COUNTY. EVEN FIGHT FOR HOME. M IP mmu, & wvrwv V Portland Apparently Will Do Its Duty. TOTAL REACHES $12,000,000 Wallowa County in Limelight With Cities Going Strong. SOME REPORTS LACKING Jlravy Subscriptions Announced, In cluding .5250,000 by T. R. Wilcox. Strong Full All Around I'rgctt to Tut Oregon to .Front. OFFIftW. SntMVBY OF LIB KRTV J.OA DRIVE. rnrtlaad KfinkH. Previously report ed . . '. . 4. TV. 950 Reported yesterday..... 997.5R0. 4 Total $6,433,500 Ranks Outside Portland. Previously rpportpri .... $3.3S1.0ftO .Reporter! yesterday.. 250.400 Total Official total. .. Unofficial total ..$3,631.40 .$10,058,300 .$12,000,000. Vpstate subscriptions to the second Jlbrty loan wilt have to jump consid erably if the desired minimum of $18. 000,000 13 rachd by Saturday night. Oregon's original quota was set at $16,- fno.ooo, but the committers are now aiming at th larger amount. Jt in felt that Portland will do Its full duty; but the state at large la laggard. Today '-the unofficial total Vnocking around the 512,000,000 mark. J?ut there a re only four days remain- ing, and In that time J 6,000.000 must he raised. The official total last night van only $10,066,900. There are many bright spots in the Plate where the citizens are maklnp great progress In the loan, but in other sections the situation is far from being satisfactory. Twelve Cities on Honor Roll. Twelve cities have exceeded thel fluota, "Westfall, Lakevlew, lone. North Bend, Carlton. Kcho, Paisley, Heli Bend, Moro, Jacksonville and Seaside having this honor. Three cities in. Wallowa County, En terprise, Flora and allowa, are on the honor roll for having subscribed 70 per cent or more of their quota, and every town in I-.ake County has over subscribed its allotment. Iendleton beads the three cities hav Ing quotas exceeding $r00,000. Salem and Astoria coming next in order.- Of the five cities having quotas from fL'50.000 to $r00,0O0, Medford, with 7 per cent, is at the head of the list, while Jackson County leads all South ern Oregon. l.incoln County is at the head of the Coast counties, with Clat (Sop second. Grant County Pledget! Quota. TcMlnn ville yesterday reached a total of $138.000,, and Knterprise pre dicted it would reach $10,000 last night. Kcho attained the total of $17,250 yes terday. From Canyon City came the news yesterday that Hrant County would take care of its quota. North Powder advised headquarters it would raise $.10,000. Tort Orford has subscribed $r750, with $2000 more in sight that will be collected there. Douglas County has at last perfected a precinct organ zatlon throughout, with J. H. Booth in charge of the county machine. Some Reports Lacking. But from other sections come reports, or no reports at all, that spread gloom at headquarters. A long pull and strong pull is needed to put the loan over, and Orecon will lag behind. It is predicted, unless the outside counties make a. wonderful showing of results between now and Saturday night. Although last night's official total was only a trifle more than $10,000,000, It is reported, unofficially, that sub scriptions totaling $1,000,000 will be announced at the noon meeting today of the. distribution committee. X. B. Wilcox raji $300,000. . Theodore B. "Wilcox announced sub scriptions yesterday to the amount of $500,000, half for himself and half for the Portland Flouring Mills. This In creases the investment of the Ladd in terests, who hold a two-thirds share in the Portland Flouring Mills. The Ladd & Tilton Bank previously took $100,000 of this issue of liberty bonds, the ladd estate another $100,000. and yesterday the Iadd & Tilton Bank announced an additional $100,000 subscription on Us own account. This makes a total of 1600.000, which did not appear in the fllcta! figures yesterday. It is also believed to be conservative that there are subscriptions of state hanks outside of Portland to the amount of at least $500,000 that did not appear In yesterday's figures, so that 52,000,000 may be added with safety to last night's official summary as certain to appear in the total today. Banks Heavy Buyers. Emery Olmstead announced yester day that the Northwestern Bank would 6ubscr.be for $200,000 In bonds today. Total subscriptions of the. Bank of California, N. A., now amount to S1.0S1.750. t High school teams that are taking Board Says Order Regarding War Zone Limit Is Mistaken, but Right to Commandeer Held. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington, Oct. 23. The French and Brit ish governments, through their high commissions now in Washington, today sent word to representatives of various Pacific ICoast shipyards to the effect that they are no longer in the market for wooden ships. The British an nouncement conveyed no jexplanation. The French mission explained that it would contract for no more wooden ships because of the government policy of commandeering, . and because the Shipping Board has forbidden wooden ships to navigate through the war zone. At the Shipping Board rooms the ex planation was offered that' the French mission has misinterpreted a recent ruling, which bars sailing vessels from the war zone. There has been no or der barring wooden steamers from the war zone. It is true, however, that the Shipping Board declines to waive its right to commandeer any and all ships built in the United States for foreign order, and this policy of the uoara seems to have put an end to the award ing of contracts by foreign buyers, and especially by the allied govern ments. Representatives of Pacific. Coast yards are hopeful of inducing the Ship ping Board to modify its ruling so that yards having no Government contracts may take contracts from foreign gov ernments, provided such work will not interfere with work on United States Government contracts. 10 ALLIED NATIONS MEET Red Cross Bazaar Committee Reports Satisfactory Progress. Committees representing 10 allied nations met last night and reported excellent prorresa in the plans for the allied bazaar to be held in the public Auditorium the first week in Decern ber for the benefit of the Red Cross of the various allied nations. The bazaar will last four days. Every day and night will have its own series of dances and special entertainments. Each' of the allied nations will be rep resented at the booths, at. which trinkets, souvenirs and miscellaneous objects of value contributed by promi nent. Portland folk will be sold. The nations which will participate the bazaar and their representatives at last nights meeting are: America, Victor Johnson; Great Britain. R. W Blackwood and Mrs. E. T. C. Stevens; Italy. Mario Montrezza; Japan, T. Nakaya; France. Dr. E. F". Tucker; Bel glum, Mrs. George Schmidt: China. Leon Jew Hing; Armenia, Carrozian Bros.; Roumania. Stephen Negoescu, and Rus sia, Leonid P. Fink. MEATLESS DAYS REALITY University Students Help in Cam paign for Food Conservation. UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, Eugene, Oct. 23. (Special.) Meatless days, wheatless days and the minimum use of fats and sugars on all days is the programme in nearly all of the fra ternities, sororities and other places where students eat, at the close of the first week of the food-saving campaign on the University campus. Seven of the eight sororities observe at least one day each week when no meat is served. All of them do without wheat one day and one house has set aside three days when no wheat products appear on the menu. At the men's dormitory and in most of the fraternities both of these foods have a day when they do not appear on the table. DOZEN RATTLERS KILLED Man Stamps Out Poisonous Snakes Xear Eugene. EUGENE. Or., Oct. 23. (Special.) Twelve rattlesnakes were killed by H Chezem, a resident of the Spencer Creek Valley, near Eugene. Sunday. Chezen found the ' snakes out on the rocks sunning themselves. These snakes were formerly quite common In that region, but it has been many years since they have been killed in such large numbers in a single den. HOPS BRING AIR OF HOME Oregon Engineers in France Help Harvest Familiar Crop. EUGENE, Or., Oct. 23. (Special.) Some of the Oregon boys with the Six teenth Engineers in France feel much at home, according to a letter received from Linus Lindley, son of J. -E. Llnd ley. of Eugene. Lindley states that the members of his company have been assisting in picking hops and the harvesting of other French crops. KENTUCKY SHORT OF COAL Representative Cantrill TTrges Mine Operation at Bayonet's Point. WASHINGTON, Oct. 23. Kentucky's blue grass region, on the edge of one of the richest coal fields in the coun try, virtually is without coal. Repre sentative Cantrill. of Kentucky, today told the Fuel Administration. Urging Immediate relief he argued that if necessary the Kentucky mines, where there were recent strikes, should I be operated at the point of the bayonet. German Lines Broken North of Aisne. HEAVY DAMAGE IS . INFLICTED More Than 7500 Prisoners and 25 Heavy Guns Captured. GAIN OF TWO MILES MADE Berlin Sends Detailed Account of J"irst Day's Battle, Acknowledg ing Allies Advance, but Minimizing Effect. PARIS,- Oct. 23. In one of the swiftest and most dashing blows of the war, the French troops today smashed through the German lines north of the Aisne to a depth of more than two miles at one point. inflicted heavy losses on the enemy and captured more than 7500 prisoners and 2& heavy guns and field guns. Several important villages also fell into the hands of the French, accord ing to the French War Office an nouncement tonight. The advance Is along a front of from eight to ten kilometers. Attack Made at Daybreak. The attack was made this morning at S:15 o'clock. After artillery prep arations Tor several hours our troops assaulted the powerful German posi tions in the region of Allemant and La Malmaison, northeast of Soissons. Northwest of Rheims there was rather heavy artillery fighting in the night. .Three surprise attacks against our small posts west of Bermericourt and east of Neuville were without re sult. In the Argonne an incursion into Ger man trenches at Cheppy wood enabled us to inflict losses on the enemy and bring back prisoners. On the right bank of the Meuse (Ver dun front) the artillery action became violent late In the night in the region north of hill 344. BERLIN, Oct. 23. The German offi cial communication today says: Fighting: I-asta All Day. 'Western Theater Army of Crown Prince Rupprecht The fighting which developed yesterday morning in Flan ders between Praelbank and Poelca- pelle lasted until toward evening. Ac- ording to orders found, the objectives of the French' and English attacks lay two and a half kilometers behind our front lines. "The enemy, who at the beginning bad penetrated into our defense zone only at the southern edge of the Jlou tholst wood, was repulsed by our coun ter attack. Reinforcements brought up by the enemy were not able to extend the slight gain of ground which at the outside was about 300 meters deep by 1200 meters wide. 'Near Poelcapelle in fluctuating fighting our foremost crater lines were maintained or regained, in spite of L"oncluded on Page 4. i'oiunin I J wire entanglements I (Concluded on Page '2. Column 1.) t BRINGING HIM TO IT. j y. YOU SHALL MOT- fuST WHATT S ggT Y; PUTYooR dollars Atio shal.lW rHE !rrER ? X ABOVE THE LIVES lA Pr? ua I L -Mgg Sti T M V iLz.r,. ..- , . Liberty Loan Oversubscribed and Slogan of Community Is 'Follow Jacksonville." MEDFORD, Or., Oct. 23. (Special.) Jacksonville, Or., will awaken tomor row morning to find itself famous. Today the oldest and often referred to as the "sleepiest village in South ern Oregon," with a population of less than 1000, subscribed J10.700, 700 more than its quota, to the second lib erty loan. This is the only community in the county of Jackson to exceed its quota. . " With this nws today Medford, where most of the county officials reside, though Jacksonville is the county seat perfected arrangements for a four-day whirlwind campaign to land Jackson County among the leaders of the state by Saturday night. "Follow Jacksonville" is the slogan heard tonight, the little town with quota of $10,000 subscribing $10,700. . By proclamation of Mayor Gates all stores will be closed in this city at noon tomorrow, ajid the entire citizen ship will be drafted on the firing line to celebrate Liberty Loan day by at tempting to break all records of the present campaign. Medford had sub scribed tonight $185,535 out of its quota of $260,000. and Ashland $63,000 out of $140,000. The total subscriptions In Jackson County tonight totaled $284,- 735. with a total quota of $452,000, which means that Jackson County will have to average $o.ooo a day for the next four days. "We can bent that,' was the statement of W. II. Gore chairman of the local committee, to night. CHINESE BUYING BONDS Gardeners in Yamhill-Strcet Public Market Take Thousands. Chinese gardeners in the Yamhill street public market are strong for lib erty bonds. Market. Master Eastman made a canvass of the market yester dav and practically every Chinese agreed to take one or more bonds. "I have not checked up the tota amount we will get from the Chinese, said Mr. Eastman yesterday, "but probably will run into several thousand dollars." SARAH BERNHARDT IS 73 Birthday Sentimeilw Is "America Will Win the War." DAVENPORT, la., Oct. 23. Mme, Sarah Bernhardt was 73 years old to day. Saddened but brave in the face o her country's trials, she today expresse her profound admiration for America. "I am surprised at the spirit every where. The boys who are going t France, they I wish Godspeed. America will win the war for France. We mus win it." CRAZY RECLUSE SUICIDE Network of Barbed Wire Bars En trance to Cottage. CHARLESTON, Mo., Oct. 23. Benja min Lunn burned ilimself to death his home in this city in his secon attempt in 12 hours at self-destruction. Lunn was a recluse and to force an entrance to his cottage it was neces gary to- traverse h network of barbed wire entanglements. Germany Not Wen- -mVo- AMERICAN DOLLARS NEEDED Haste to Deliver Crushing Blow Is Urged. FOE PRACTICES DECEPTION Reed CoIIeso President, W eleomea by Students on Arrival From Foreign Mission, Shows Keen Gratification at Reception. Germany is not weakening; her citi zenry is not rebelling; sne starved or near-starved; she Is put ting forth every effort to deceive the population as to American strength and activity, but Is not anywhere near exhaustion, and can fight on until such time as this country and its allies have force enough to crush her. Such is the vital message brought to Portland last night by Dr..illiam 1. Koster resident of Reed College, who reached the No'rth Bank Station at 7:45 o'clock last night. He had been gone three months on an important mission for the Red Cross to see and then see some more, lie aia n ana win nave special information to give out to the people of Oregon from tune to time, but his special message just now is that this country and its people must throw into the war every bit of their energy ingenuity and finance, until the enemy is utterly crushed, for not until then, ho declares, will Germany and what its officialdom represents be overcome. Student, tireet President. Dr. Foster was greatly surprised and happy when he alighted from his train and found himself confronted by com panies of students from Reed, under command of Art L. House and Lenore MacGregor. They were drawn up at attention' and, stool at salute as Dr. Foster and his family passed along the line. He was given rousing cheers by both companies, after which he responded briefly, plainly showing how proud he was of the students. and how deeply pleased he was of the fact that they remembered him thus. Energy ltt Needed. "I have heard a good deal of noise since I left you three months ago, said Dr. Foster to the companies, "but I assure you that none of it haa been as loud, I think, as your rousing cheers. I have come back after viewing much of the scene of battle in Europe, and I must tell you that we shall have to put into this war our utmost strength our most enthusiastic and determined energy if we win it; of course, we shall win it. We must stay with it until we have won, and meanwhile each of us must do the full duty that is ours, whatever that may prove to be. "I want to say with all the emphasis at my command that this war is the most terrible thing that the world has ever known and that it must be won Native of Carrick-on-Shannon Tells Court Taking of Highwayman's Life Would Be Repulsive. Spectators in Presiding Judge Kava- naugh's court yesterday witnessed the j unusual spectacle of an Irishman who I admitted that he would not fight. William G. Hurl was being ques tioned by Henry B. Hazard. United States naturalization examiner, upon I p"S. nun said he was bom at car- rick-on-Shannon. Ireland, and Deiicvea it the duty of every alien living in this country and participating in the many privileges of a residence here to become full-fledged citizen. But when asked if in times such as the United States now faced he would take up arms in its defene. Hurl said he had conscien tious scruples against fighting for this country or for any other country. Judge Kavanaugh here took a hand in interrogating the applicant, but Hurl stood pat. Answering specific ques tions put to hiin by the court. Hurl de clared that, besides refusing to fight for his country, he would offer no re sistance to a highwayman even though his own life was endangered and that he would do nothing to prevent the in vasion of his own home by a burglar or other criminal if by doing so he might possibly take a human life, even though he and the members of his family might lose their lives by reason of his refusal to protect them. Hurl is a married man and lives with his wife and two children at 143 Kast Twenty-third street North. He was denied final citizenship pa pers. "FLIER" ARRIVES TODAY 'Million-Dollar Special" Fulfills Its Mission. PTGKNK. Or.. Oct. J3. 'Special.) After a dash from Bend to Eugene, the li berty bond ca mpa ignrs in the "'mil 1ion-dolla.r spec! a 1 reached RudPiie late tonight and will drive to Portland tomorrow. Two hundred and fifty thousand dol lars is the exact amount taken in at their meetings In liberty bond sub srriptfons, according to Judge John K. Stvenson. 'We fe! more than repaid for th trip and for the actual hardships we have had to undergo." be said. "I am delighted to learn that every city where we spoke has jumped away up in the totl at liberty bond headquarters and that Lake County is probably the first county In the I nlted States to over subscribe Jts quota. "Perhaps the most affecting incident In our trip was at Burns, where a Ter man. who haa four brothers fighting n the front trenches against the hIiiph, personally came to John L- Ktheridge and handed him $50, saying: This is all I can afford, but it is my contribution to hdp end the war.' 'Tears were streaming down his face and he was terribly In earnest. We are all tired out and shallvbe glad to get back. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTKRDAT'S Maxium tempemature. 62 desre.e; minimum. 4 J degrees. TODAY'S Fair; moderate westerly winds. War. New lino established by allies in France is held. Fag-e Huns nay dearly for air attack. Paa;e 4. SlaYB stop Oermann from landing; on Kstho nian coast. Page 4. French troops smash through German line, Page 1. Half of CJermany's effective Zeppelin fleet reported destroyed, i'age 4. National. Experts say weather will not halt fage lb. Nation today faces supreme test in liberty loan campaign. Page 1!. French and British notify builders no .wooden ships are wanted. Page 1. lomestlc. San Francisco shipbuilders refuse to arbl trate cloaed shop. Page 2. Millions of pounds of sugar discovered in Buffalo. N. s ., warehouse. Page lj. Quantities of Canadian wheat to be milled In united stales, i-age i. Artillery at Camp Greene getting lot of In struction. Page 5. Sinn Fein leader and German Baron rt rested In New l ork. Page 3. Many fnen at Presidio training camp anxious for commissions. Page J.i. Government fixes prices on flour, sugar and potatoes In Chicago. Page J. Sports. Coffroth never had any Intention of staging championship fights at Tla J muia. Page 14. Oregon-Marines football games expected to draw uig crowd. page Columbia and Jefferson elevens tie, 7 to T. Page 14. Pacific Coast League results: Portland 7. Los Angeles 3: ban t ranclsco 4. uaKi&na 0; Salt Lake 7. Vernon 6. Page 14. Pacific Northwest. Prinevllle welcomes Federation delegates. Page 15. Old and "sleepy Jacksonville becomes famous over nlgnt tnrouga uoeriy oonas. Page 1. Commercial and Marine. British Columbia, expects large quantities of Australian wheat. Pago 19. High-grade rails and utility stocks decline. Page 19. . . Portland and Vicinity. Victim of Seeadler In portiana. page x. Peace talk angers Colonel Dlsque. page in Threats fall to move Mayor Baker. Page 20. Pacific Irishman denied citizenship, page i. Women's liberty loan committee reports good progress. page Offer of telephone company not acceptable to linemen. page e. Choice of adjuster next step in nipj .Itiiatlon. page . Oregon loan subscription by towns listed. Cnuntrv d strlcts laggaras in ju.- chases. Page x. Portland will parade lor imerty xouay. Pare 7. Portland jobbers say no sugar shortage here. TU.A 1 .1. t wnTn.n traces husband and children tn Pnrtlunil Page 1H. Strenuous wind-up planned for liberty loan r.mnaica. Page in. tw returns from European mission. Page 1. Nephew of Portland man victim of Antilles' IriUinr. Page 13. First of new Klaw & Erlanger plays here November X Page 19. Weather report, data, and forecast. Pago !. Thrilling Experiences Are Recounted. LOSS OF MANILA DESCRIBED Death by Firing Squad and by Hunger Faced. RAIDER'S FATE WITNESSED Charles Thompson, in Quest of New Berth, Declares Officers Ridi culed America's Entry Into ,Mar as Inconsequential. That peace with Russia, if obtain- ble, would more than compensate Germany for entry of the United States into the war was the declaration of officers and men of the German raider Seeadler. according to Charles Thomp son; a sailor, wlio was a memoer 01 ino crew of the American schooner Manila. sunk by the raider July 8. At the same time they expressed themselves as preferring to be cap tured by Americans rather than by Japanese or French. Mr. Thompson, who is in Portland looking for another deepwater Derm, eaid the, Germans ridiculed the pros pects of the Americans even getting ny men across, declaring their trans ports would be sunk. Death Sentence Passed. Held on the raider for weeks, then landed on an island where he was tnre days without food, though abundant stores of provisions were there in plain sight, and then experiencing two Ions? trips in an open boat in an endeavor to reach refuge, were ' among Mr. Thompson s experiences, wnue once nj was sentenced to face a firing squad. because he had fished wunoui permis sion, but he talked himself out of this predicament. - - It was February 2Z. 1S1T, tnat .-ir. Thompson left the coIumDia rtiver on the schooner Manila and In all his sea experience. " which dates as far bacK as 1SS6 on this Coast, he Bays he never saw so much crowded into a tew months as the changes encounierea after the Manila had loaded coal at Newcastle, sailing May 25, and shaped her course for Honolulu, when the Seeadler was encountered in the Pa cific. Other known Pacific victims of the Seeadler were the schooner Slade, which left Sydney April R. C. 4 for San Francisco, and the schooner A. B. Johnson, which lert lliapa iiaroor May 14 for Newcastle. British "pooled" Twice. The history of the Seeadler since the) war, as gamerea ay .ui. xnv,iiw" by bit on board after his capture, ap pears to have had its humorous siae when it is considered how she served to fool British vessels on two oc casions. According to the story the vessel, then known as the Pass of Balmaha, was bound for Europe with a cargo of wheat, when picked up' by a British patrol and a prize crew waa placed aboard, being ordered to a British port. But on the way she waa intercepted by a German submarine, which took charge, placing another prize crew aboard and making the British sailors prisoners, the course of the ship being laid for Cuxhaven.. There she was outfitted, apparently by the Hamburg-Apierican line. Judg ing from stencil marks on equipment, and an eight-cylinder Diesel engine, was installed, though it was so large only four cylinders were used. With that. Mr. Thompson says, she could have made 19 knots, but it was too powerful, so her maximum speed was 14 knots. and at that the vibration was racking. He says the engineroom had . skylights arranged like many others, but a false Irame work had been arranged to place about the skylights on deck so it resembled the amidshlp house of au ordinary squarerigger. Cargo la "Csmeoflage." Leaving Cuxhaven December 1. 1916. she was to all Intents and purposes a Norwegian sailer, having the name of Seeadler, which corresponded to the name of anotner that left a Nor wegian port about the same time. Christmas day, when off Scotland, her officers said she was boarded by offi cers and men from, a British cruiser. They were taken to the quarters aft. served a yuletide drink and, after a short visit, during which a picture of tne visiting, group was taken and later exhibited to Thompson, they went over the side. The ship was then painted with her name in large letters on the side and apparently she had a deckload of lumber, but it was said the lumber was only a partial deckload and beneath it were guns and barely room beneath the lumber for men to man them. In "the crew were 16 picked men, all speaking Norwegian and posing as sailors, while the skipper was a former merchant master, named Prize. In truth her company numbered 64 men and the others were hidden, below when tha British officers were aboard. To carry out the Norwegian deception even a phonograph was played with Norwegian records. Before reaching the Pacific th Seeadler sank 13 ships, four of them being steamers. One of the sailing tCoacludea, ou Pi Avi. Column 1