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jflu VOL. LVII. XO. 17,766. PORTLAND, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31. 1917. PRICE FIVE CENTS. HOMESICKNESS AND VICE FIRST ENEMY HUE CAPTURED; Snsd nnnriT nurnirrii GENERAL GREENE 15 UPHELD BY EXPERT JAPAN PROMISES MEDIATION URGED FULL CO-OPERATION TO AVERT STRIKE hMrirm 1 1 n r 1 1 r r 1 1 1 AMERICAN VICTORY SOUGHT BEFORE TRENCH REACHED. WAR EXPENDITURES REACH BIG TOTAL SAYS VIENNA DISPATCH. 'OUR MONSTER ENEMY, GER MANY, MUST BE CRUSHED." TEUTOtilC INTRIGUE AIMED AT BRAZIL Luxburg Sends Appeal for Submarines. TELEGRAMS MADE PUBLIC Official Confirmation Provided of Germany's Plans to Con w trol Southern Brazil. CHILE HELD AS FRIEND Diplomatic Plot Against Argen tina and Brazil in Peace Times Bared. WASHINGTON, Oct. 30. Two more of the notorious Count von Lux- burg's messages to the German For eign Office from Buenos Aires were made public tonight by Secretary- Lansing. They provide official con firmation of Germany's plan to con trol Southern Brazil, shed additional light upon Teutonic intrigue in South America generally and reveal that Luxburg appealed vainly for a squad ron of submarines with which to awe some Latin-Americans and to flatter others with salutes. These dispatches, like others that have gone before, were given out by Secretary Lansing without discussion of their contents. The only comment was in this statement. attached to the copies: Submarines Asked For. "In view of the fact that the sub stance of certain telegrams addressed by Count Luxburg to the German For eign Office has been published, the Secretary of State makes public the actual text of the telegrams." The messages follow: "No. 63, July 7, 1917: Our attitude towards Brazil has created the im pression here that our easy-going good nature can be counted on. This is dangerous in South America, where the people, under thin veneer, are In dians. A submarine squadron with full power to me might probably still save the situation. I request instruc tions as to whether, after a rupture of relations, legation is to start for home or to remove to Paraguay, or possibly Chile. The naval attache will doubt less go to Santiago de Chile. "LUXBURG." Chilean Friendship Urged. "No. 89, August 4, 1917: I am con vinced that we shall be able to carry through our principal political aims in South America, the maintenance of open market in Argentina and the re organization of South Brazil equally well, whether with or against Ar gentina. Please cultivate friendship with Chile. The announcement of a visit of a submarine squadron to sa lute the President would even now exercise decisive influence on the sit uation in South America. Prospect excellent for wheat harvest in Decem ber. LUXBURG." Argentina Sends Ciphers. After the State Department made public the "sink-without-a-trace" mes sages, which caused Argentina to hand Von Luxburg his passports, the Argentine government sent to Wash- I ington a number of the former Ger man Minister's dispatches for de ciphering. Whether the two now pub lished were among them or were ob tained by the United States at tht same time it came into possession of other telegrams forwarded to Berlin through the Swedish Legation at Buenos Aires is not disclosed. Several days ago press reports from Ruenos Aires said a sensation had been created there by the publication of a dispatch from Rio Janeiro saying the Brazilian Foreign Minister had made known that translations of the Luxburg messages revealed a German plot to invade Southern Brazil. The Argentine newspapers demanded that their government, cither publish the dispatches or "authorize their publica tion by a foreign government." "The reorganization" of South Bra zil, referred to by Von Luxburg, is as sumed here to refer to the activities of the Hamburg Colonization Com pany, in connection with the large German element already located in that section. Several months before this dispatch was written there were reports of plans for a German insur rection. T"b brp.V rvTvn A'-n,"T'irM and Officer Directing Amusements for Enlisted Men Emphasizes Need of Raising Fund. SAX FRANCISCO, Oct. 30. The first American victory in the world's war will be won before the new National Army reaches France, according to Lieutenant Richard E. Byrd, United States Navy, secretary of the Navy Department commission on . training camp activities, who is in San Fran cisco. "And this victory," asserts Lieuten ant Byrd. "will not be one of arms, but of the defeat of homesickness and vice the two bis elements which have worked against the efficiency of every other army now in the field." According to Lieutenant Byrd the Government is behind the war camp community recreation - fund campaign, which has as its objective the provid ing for sailors and soldiers, both in and out of camps, of recreational and so cial activities. No appropriation has been made by the Government. The work Is to be carried on by a Govern merit commission, acting in conjunc tion with committees in every city throughout the Nation. The campaign will be started next Monday to raise the $4,000,000 which, is is estimated, will be necessary to carry out the work. ITALY HAS NEW CABINET Premier Orlando Announces Selec tion of His Associates. ROME, Oct. 30. The new Cabinet is as follows: Premier and Minister of the Interior, Vittorio Orlando; Minister of Foreign Affairs, Baron Soninino; Colonies, Signor Colosimo: Justice, ' Signor Sacchi: Finance. Signor Meda; Treas ury, Francesco Nitti: War, General Al fieri; Navy, Vice-Admiral Delbono; Munitions, General Alfredo Dallollo Military and War Pensions, Signor Eis. solad: Education. Signor Bareni: Pub lic Works, Signor Bari: Agriculture, Signor Milianti; Commerce and Labor, Signor Giufelli; Posts, Signor Fara; Transports, Signor Bianchi. TWO PRIVATES ARE DEAD Fred Coleman, Saddened by Donics- 9 lie Affairs, Shoots Himself. FORT SNELLING, Minn., Oct. 30. Two deaths of privates in the Thirty sixth Infantry, one known to be a sui cide and the other believed to be, were reported by authorities today. Suffering from poison, Ronald F. Smith crawled to the steps of a can tonment and died. there, leaving a note asking that May Smith, of St. Paul, and his parents in Sterling 111., be noti fied. Fred J. Coleman, of Chicago, sad dened. it is said, by domestic affairs, shot himself and died instantly. WAR'S EFFECT NOT FELT Senator McXary Says We Are Too Far Away to Realize Significance, SALEM. Or.. Oct. 30. Special.) United States Senator McNary tonigli told members of the Six o'clock Club- of the Methodist Church that the Wes is too far from the National Capital fo the people yet to realize the full sig nificance of the fact that we are in th great world struggle. "Until the whole Xation knows to the full extent that we actually are en gaged in this gigantic struggle, wheth er our soldiers are on the battlefield or not, the chances of the allies to win are that much diminished' he said. SUFFRAGE NOTE PLEASES President Wilson Thanked by New York State Woman's Party. NEW TORK. Oct. 30. Resolutions expressing "deep appreciation of the loyal unqualified support given woman suffrage by the President of the United States" were adopted by the executive board of the New York State Woman's party at a meeting called here today formally to acknowledge the message sent recently to the voters of New York state by President v tlson. The resolution requests "the voters of New York state to pay heed" to the I'resident's message. MOONLIGHT AIDS SNIPERS Patrols Unable to Work Freely in No Man's Land. WITH THE AMERICAN ARMT IN FRANCE. Monday. Oct. 29. (By the Associated Tress.) A full moon is shining tonight over the sector occu pied by the American troops, flooding with its silver light the entire position and the surrounding country. It makes conditions favorable for snipers, but hinders the patrols from working free ly in No Man's Land. EX-REPRESENTATIVE DEAD "Private" John Allen Passes Away at Mississippi Home. JACKSON, Miss.. Oct. 30. "Private1 John Allen, member of Congress from Mississippi for IS years until his retire ment in 1801, and one of the pictur esque figures of that body in trios days, diod Rt his home in Tupelo, Mies. i em :y tuuay. He had been ill about two weeks. Bridges Over Isonzo Are Destroyed. ENEMY'S ADVANCE DELAYED Hostile Vanguards Held Back by Italian Cavalry. HUNS ON VENETIAN SOIL British Batteries Hare Been Saved. Men Suffer Greatly From Cold, Torrential Rain and Hunger During; Retreat. AMSTERDAM, Oct. 30. A dispatch received here from Vienna sayas "The Austrian Emperor entered Go- rlzla yeaterday. The enemy destroyed or plundered a large "part of the city and carried off the population." BERLIN, via London. Oct. 30. "Udlne has been taken by the allied troops of the 14th army. The former seat of the Italian main army administration con sequently has fallen into our hands on the sixth day of the successful opera tions." The Austrlans and Germans are pressing forward irrepressibly In the northern plain towards the course of the Tagliamento River. Austro-German troops advancing from the Carnlc Alps have reached Venetian soil on the whole front. The retirement of the defeated Ital ian army is being stemmed at the few crossings of the river, which is greatly swollen. ROME. Oct. 30. "During yesterday the withdrawal of our troops on their new positions was continued. Destruc tion of the bridges over the Isonzo by our troops and the successful action of our covering units have detained the advance of the enemy. "Our cavalry is in contact with the hostile vanguards." ITALIAN HEADQUARTERS. Monday night, Oct. 2a.- After three days with the retiring Italian army the Associated Press correspondent, who has Just ar rived at headquarters, is able to state that all the British batteries have been saved. The men suffered much from cold, torrential rain and hunger during the retreat. As to the general situation of the Italian army in its retreat, the corre spondent, who has been in the thick of the retirement, is prevented from giv ing details by military necessity. LONDON, Oct. 30. The Milan corre spondent of the Times, in a dispatch filed Sunday, says that on the Carso not one of the innumerable attacks has given an inch of ground to the enemy. "The troops on the Carso," he writes, (Concluded on Page 2. Column 2. ) l: IMA & iV MB. Q-KOAtO LJ MILeS To -TLi TryVivy y Mdt I i v !wvi. Note Circulation Furnishes Disquiet ing: Element In Situation Low Exchange Rate Expected. ZURICH, Oct. 30. During the budget debate in the upper house of the Aus trian Reichsrat. Baron Ernst . Plener, in an official report, said tl v f the war lasted until the end of June, 1918, Austria's share in the war expen diture would amount to 60,000,000,000 crowns, according to a Vienna dispatch. Baron von Plener deplored the fact that of the belligerents only England, he said, had been able to pay interest on its war loans and in addition fur nish considerable sums from the cur rent revenue for the necessities of the war. The note circulation, added the Baron, constituted another very disquieting element of the financial situation. It had reached a total much higher than anyone had estimated, and as a result Austria would long have to suffer from a very low rate of exchange. BELGIAN EAGER TO FIGHT Two Years in Army and Prison Camp Stimulate War Spirit. SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 30. One year in the Belgian army and another in a German prison only stimulated the de sire of Louis Darroug, a Belgian, of Chico. Cal., for further military serv ice, he announced today in explanation of his enlistment yesterday in the United States Army here. "My two brothers have been killed and my family deported, and I want to get back on the firing line," he said. Darroug was captured at the siege of Antwerp, was fed "thin" soup in the prison at Baden-Baden and escaped after he and other prisoners shot their guards, he said. GERMAN GIRLS AVIATORS Pilot of German Bombing Plane Tells of Threats of Death. HELENA, Mont.. Oct. 30. A letter received here today from Dr. Philip G. Cole, of Helena, a surgeon with the American expeditionary force at the front in France, says a German bomb ing plane recently forced to descend in the American sector proved to be piloted by a girl of 16. who said she was compelled, under penalty of death, first to learn to fly and later to guide bombing planes over the entente front. She said many other girls were op erating war planes under the same circumstances. COOS BAY NEWS SUSPENDS Weekly Issued Uninterruptedly for 2 6 Years by G. A. Bennett Stops. MARSH FIELD, Or., Oct. 30. (Spe cial.) The Coos Bay News, published at Empire and Marshfield for 44 years, suspended with today's issue after 36 years of uninterrupted publication by G. A. Bennett, a Democrat and an au thority on Coos County history and ma rine lore in this section of the state. The News was started in 1873 by T. G. Owen. Mr. Bennett became sole own er in 18S1. The News was a weekly. Mr. Bennett will continue the office as a job plant. IF THERE'S A PHONE STRIKE! (7 zc rc '' Vice Declared Rampant tle. in uuSlNESS MEN ARE STIRRED Chamber Arranging for Excur sion to Camp Lewis. COUNCIL WILL TAKE ACTION Baptist Missionary Says Seattle's Foreign Quarter Is Exceedingly Disreputable, and He Gives Clean Bill to Tacoma. TACOMA. Wash.. Oct. 30. (Special.) Seattle's moral health Is arousing her citizens to take action. Major General H. A. Greene's statement that unless the city was cleaned up immedi ately he would forbid the men of the 91st Division to leave Camp Lewis and visit Seattle has brought the City Council there to a. realization of condi tions. Councilman R. H. Thomson has an nounced that he will introduce a res olution in the Council next Monday asking General Greene to make known the men higher up who are receiving money from commercialized vice. l:i the meantime Mayor Hiram C. Gill and his Chief of Police, Charles L. Beckingham, scoff at the charges. They declare that General Greene has re ceived misleading information. Police Chief Gives View. According to Chief Beckingham it is absurd to believe that 2300 immoral women are plying their trade in Seat tle, a. city which he says the census shows gives less than 100,000 mature men. General Greene clearly pointed ou in his statements made here and in a Seattle church that It was not the place of his military policy to clean up Seattle. Instead, that is the function of the city administration., but he In tended to keep his men clean and if Seattle was not purified they would be kept away from there. Mr. Gill's Threat Ridiculed. In a moment of braggadocio Mr. Gill said that he intended to take the mat ter up with the War Department if General Greene continued to discrim inate against Seattle. He still harps on the old rivalry between Tacoma and Seattle, and says that the Commanding General of the largest cantonment in the United States is playing politics. That vice is flourishing in Seattle with the full knowledge of the author ities and that General Greene Is cor rect, and his statement concerning vice conditions in that city are cor rect, "although his figures may be a little large." was the assertion today of H. W. Pilot, of Cleveland, who is in Tacoma as the guest of Rev. James S. West, of the First Baptist Church. (Concluded on Page Column 1.) Chairman Masso, of Japanese Par liamentary Mission at New York, Gives Mikado's Message. NEW TORK. Oct. 30. Japan's full co-operation wltn the United States in the war until Germany Is crushed was pledged by Dr. T. Masao. chairman of the Japanese parliamentary mission of five, at a luncheon given in honor of the mission here today by the Japan Society. "The Japanese are determined to co operate with the United States until the last," Dr. Masao said, "and will not stop until our monster enemy Ger many the pirate of the seas, the as sassin of the air and violator of all decencies on land, has been completely crushed. When this monster enemy of ours has been thoroughly beaten down, then, and then only, shall we have last ing peace." In explaining that the purpose of the mission's visit to this country was to enable the Japanese to get better ac quainted with the United States, the speaker said: "There is no reason why there should ever be any lack of mutual knowledge, mutual confidence and mutual respect between Americans and Japanese. Let us hope that our association and fel lowship as allies in this war will pro duce so perfect a confidence in each other that the Americans and the Jap anese shall always be allies after the war as well as during the war." Lindsay Russell, president of the so ciety, in his address of welcome, urging upon the members of the mission the following "three constructive ideas," said: "A reduction of cable tolls between the United States and Japan; the ex tension of Japanese publications printed in English for foreign consumption, and a more general knowledge by the people of Japan of the English lan guage to foster commerce and inter national intercourse." Viscount Ishii was elected an hon orary life member of the society. HEROIC SACRIFICE SAVES O. A. C. Student Recovering From Auto Accident Burns. OREGON AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. Corvallis, Oct. 30. (Special.) Harry Weiger, an O. A. C. student to whom 13 boys of the college gave 130 inches of skin to be grafted on burns, is re ported to be recovering at the Corvallis Hospital. Weiger was burned in an automobile accident at Granger about a month ago. His home is in Roseburg. The boys who gave skin to the in jured man are: Harry Melgon, Linn Harris. Kenneth Kennedy, Harold Har- ringtony Earl Reynolds. Roy Jessop. Ellsworth Ricketts, Ralph Melson, Jo seph Underwood, Willette Murray. Will iam Teutsch, Harold White and Linn Pabin. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. TESTE RD AY'S Maximum temperature. 63 degrees; minimum. 44 degrees. TODAY'S Fair; moderate southeasterly winds. War. Germans capture Udine. but advance is checked. Page 1. Germans again driven back in Flanders. fage 2. Japan promises full co-operation with Amer ica In crushing out Germany. Page 1. Britain's war expenditures exceed budget estimates. Page 4. Teutonic intrigue aimed at Brazil. Page 1. Separate peace Impossible, says Russian For eign Minister. Page Foreign. Austria worries over financial outlook. Page 1. New fre Russia faces difficult task In land division. Page 5. National. German-owned patents to be made available to American manufacturers. Page 4. Government regulation of cold-storage nouses ellective xsovemoer l. rage 3. Measures to speed up ship construction t be considered at conference at Washing ton. Page lo. Domestic. Homesickness and vice declared first ene mies of enlisted mn. Page 1. Mediation urged to avert threatened tele phone strike. Page 1. Presidio training camp men to learn fate soon. Page lj. Aged physician charged with murdeiing brother in aazea conamon. Page 1 fri ports. "Baz" W illiams. Oregon tackle, not to play In game wltn marines, rag 14. Farmer may be sold to Detroit. Page 14 Columbia eleven defeats Lincoln. 12-6. Page 14. Washington expects hard game with Cali fornia, Page 14. Pacific Northwest. General Greene's censure of Seattle indorsed by expert on city surveys. Page 1. Probe demanded by Seattle residents. Page U. Superintendent of Girls' School resigns when inmates rebel. Page O. Oregonlans at Camp Lewis taste trench life. Page 4. C. B. Kegley. Washington State Grange Master, dis in Spokane. Page 4. . Jackson farmer tfuti fatal. Page 5. State Board of Control exonerates Superin tcmlent Hale, of Boys School, of cruelty charges. Page 4. t'ommprrisl and Marine. Flour millers engaged In Jobbing and dis tributing required to have special license. Page 1U. Chicago corn tracers await movement of new crop. Page iw. Adverse foreign developments again depress storks. Page is. Cunard steamer to us coal Instead ot oil fuel toereaner. i-as. i-v Portland and Vicinity. Wong Wan testifies that 10OO reward was offered gunmen to am cuing liong. Page 9. OrKnixtion proposed for handling next liberty oan. 'sg o. TY,r revenue tax will become effective to morrow. Page S. Hobgoblins to be out tonight. Page 13. Taroma Rotarlan says Gill's defeat might help to clean Seattle, rage o. Food pledges in favor. Page 1.1. Data obtained for three possible routes for West Bide Pacific Highway. Page 7. Appeal made for Red Cross workers. Page 13. Jail to be penalty for future bootleggers. Page 13. Mayor declares further reduction of police force would imperii ouy. xae a. President Is Vitally In terested. SECRETARY WILSON COMING Walk-Out of Telephone Op erators May Be Deferred. ACTION TWICE POSTPONED Union Leaders Said to Welcome In tervention Recognition of Girls Union Chief; Contention of Company's Employes. SAN FRANCISCO. Oct. 30. President Wilson is "vitally inte'ested in a quick and satisfactory adjustment" of the dispute between the Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Company and employes, according to a message received to night by Attorney Gavin McNab from Louis F. Post, Assistant Secretary of Labor. Secretary of Labor W. B. Wilson also sent a strong message from Clifton. Ariz., asking that no strike action be taken pending mediation. It is learned from an authoritative source that both sides have agreed to do- nothing to force the strike, which the union leaders had eet for tomorrow midnight. They are said, by the same authority, to welcome mediation. Seeretary Wtlaon Conlsg. Secretary Wilson, who has been at Clifton in connection with the copper mine labor situation, is expected to leave as soon as can be arranged for San Francisco, where he will take charge of the Government's case. Mean time, Verner Z. Reed,, as member of the Federal board to adjust labor troubles, is on his way north from Los Angeles. Assistant Secretary Post's telegram follows: "I have just sent the following tele gram to the manager of the Pacific Telephone Company and to the repre sentatives of the employes thereof: 'The President of the United States has directed me to communicate to the officials of the Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Company and those repre senting the employes thereof that It is the wish of the Government that no stoppage of telephone service occur pending the result of the mediation efforts of the Honorable Verner Z. Reed, a member of the President's Commission, who has been detached therefrom for this purpose by Secre tary of Labor William B. Wilson. At this time the Government is vitally In terested that a quick and satisfactory adjustment should be reached without the confusion and loss incident to Bus- pension of telephone service. Please put forth every effort for this desired result.' " Strike Twice Postpoaed. Secretary Wilson In his message said in reference to Mr. Reed: "I have einstructed him to take hold of the telephone matter and help to bring about an adjustment. I trust that no strike action will be taken until Mr. Reed has had an opportunity of endeavoring to bring about settlement.' The threatened strike of the elec trical workers and exchange operators was intended to force the company to recognize the unions formed by the girls in Seattle, Aberdeen, Tacoma. Portland, San Francisco. Los Angeles and other Coast points. The men also demand $1 a day flat raise, to which the company made a counter proposal of 50 cents a aay. The unions have twice postponed a strike, once because of a patriotic appeal not to imperil the success of the liberty bond campaign and then in hope of mediation. L. C. Grasser, vice-president of tho International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, said tonight that no action toward a strike would be taken before the arrival of Commissioner Reed. Ho expressed doubt that there would be much, from the union point of view, to arbitrate. John Morgenthaler. president of the district council of electrical workers, a subordinate body with jurisdiction over the Pacific states, said: "The question of recognition of the operators' unions is not a subject of. arbitration, so far as the workers are concerned. I also don't think there is much room for arbitration on the wage question." Morgenthaler, who has been the main champion of the telephone girls in the dispute with the company, said that the strike could be deferred only on orders from the brotherhood, and these orders had not so far been re ceived. MEDIATION TO BE OFFERED. Representative of Government Goes to San Francisco. LOS ANGELES, Oct. 30. Verner 7.. Reed, of Denver, left here late today for San Francisco, where he will meet representatives of the Pacific State Telephone & Telegraph Company and delegations from its employes In an effort to avert the Impending strike Secretary William B. Wilson and other mediators will follow within It days. Mr. Reed said he expected- to reach San Francisco eiwly tomorrow and had already undertaken arrangements for an Immediate meeting; with the com (Concluded on Paga 4. Column ii C Concluded on Page -. Column 3.)