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VOL. IVTI. NO. 17,770. ' PORTLAND, OREGON, MONDAY, NOVK3I.lt Kli 5, 1917. PRICE FIVE CENTS. PREMIERS EN ROUTE TO ITALIAN MEETING ELECTION TURMOIL TRENCHES TO HAVE CHRISTMAS CHEER ITALIANS HOLD OFF TEUTONIC ATTACK WHITE BEAR SAFE LITTLE ACTION BY HI GILL EXPECTED AND CREW ALIVE RIFE 111 f;xeo bi board LLOTD GEORGE AND MILITARY LEADERS ARRIVE IX FR.VXCE. EVERY RED TRIANGLE HUT TO HAVE LADKX TREE. LANDING MADE NEAR POINT ' ROMANOFF IN GALE. SHIP ffME SCALE Minimum Is Uniform Pacific Coast. on UBOR LEADER DISPLEASED Government Representatives Declare Boycott of Unfair . Materials Intolerable. CLOSED SHOP NOT UPHELD Unions to Vote on New Scale. All Rates Are Made Retroactive. SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 4. Uni form minimum wage scales for the Pacific Coast shipbuilding " yards, a guide for all shipyards in the coun try, were announced today by the United States Shipbuilding Labor Ad justment Board. The decision affects an increase of from 10 to 30 per cent over the old scale here, although its uniformity makes it lower in some lo calities than the temporary scale now in force. The decision, the first one to be handed down by the Baard, declares that employes' "discrimination, inter fering with the defense of the Nation in time of war, against so-called 'un fair materials' would be intolerable." - Appeal to President Expected. Ex-Governor Henry McBride, of Seattle, for the Puget Sound district, and Richard W. Montague, of Port land, for the Columbia River district, were appointed examiners for tha United States Shipbuilding Adjust ment Board. ... . . "There won't be many ships built under this scale," declared Mi J. Ma guire, a union conferee, representing the metal trades craftsmen of the bay districts. "I believe the entire ship building crafts of the Pacific Coast will appeal to President Wilson against the decision." The minimum scale, uniform for the Puget Sound, Portland and San Fran cisco Bay districts, which is to pre vail at Los Angeles also, is as fol lows: Minimum Wage Fixed. "Journeymen machinists,- molders, blacksmiths, anglesmiths, pipefitters, bojlermakers, shipfitters, pressmen, angle and frame setters, riveters, chippers and caulkers, acetylene welders and electrical workers, $5.25 per day. "Painters and plate hangers, ?5. neet metal workers, copper smiths and flange turners, $6. "Heaters, foundry carpenters, fur .nacemen and punch and shearmen, $4.50. "Pattern makers, $6.50. "Planer men, counter sinkers, drill ers and reamers and holders, $4.20. "Machinist specialists, $4; rivet heaters, $3.15, and laborers, $3.25." Helpers' Wages $3.60 to $3.90. Helpers are divided into two classes, as follows: Machinist, pipe fitters, sheet metal workers, ship fitters, electrical work ers, molders' helpers, $3.60.- Blacksmiths, coppersmiths, slab, plate hangers, hook tenders, flangs fire and machine helpers and casting cleaners, $3.90. In yards where wooden ' ships , are being constructed, the minimum rate for caulkers is - fixed at $6.50, ship wrights, joiners, boat builders and millmen, $6, and laborers and help ers, $3.25. These scales are based upon the increase in the cost of living since the beginning of the war, the Board decision explains.. 30,000 Skilled Men Needed. ' Seventy-five thousand men must be employed in the Pacific Coast ship yards to carry out the Government's programme, the Board decided. This means 30,000 skilled medianics more than employed now. The Board will urge the Department of Labor to ex tend the Federal employment service in California, Oregon and Washington to supplement the trade unions unable to supply skilled workmen. "The Shipbuilding Labor Adjust ment Board is a war board," the- de cision says. "The owners of the ship yards are, during the duration pi the war, merely agents for the Govern- (Concluded on Fax 6, Column 1.) Professor Paul Painlevc Joins Party Which Includes Four British Generals. LONDON'. Nov. 4. Premier David Lloyd George has left London for Italy, accompanied by a number of high mili tary officials, it -was officially an nounced today. The party accompanying the Premier comprised Lleutenant-General J. C. Smuts, the former Soutn African com mander; General Sir William R. Rob ertson, chief of the imperial staff at army headquarters: Major-General F. B. .Maurice, chief director of military operations at the War Office: Major General Sir Henry Hughes Wilson, of the general staff, and other officers. PARIS, Nov. 4. David Lloyd' George. the British Premier, arrived in Paris last evening. He will accompany Pro fessor Paul Painleve, the French Pre mier, to Rome, leaving today. WILD RUMORS STIR DUBLIN Report or Arrest of Sinn Fein Pres ident Is Denied. 4 LONDON, Nov. 4. The following Cen tral News dispatch has been received here from Dublin concerning the Sinn Fein agitation there: "There Is intense, excitement here owing to wild rumors being circulated by irresponsible persons and stern measures are under way against the Sinn Feiners. It was stated that Pro fessor Edward D Valera, elected pres ident of the recent Sinn Fein conference here, had been arrested last night after addressing. a meeting at Limerick, but as a matter of fact he is still at liberty. CORPORAL BUCKLEY ALIVE American Aviator Reported Killed Is in German Prison Camp. PARIS, Nov. 4. Corporal Everett Buckley, of the Lafayette Flying Corps, who was reported killed on Sep tember 5, is not dead, but a prisoner in Germany. It is believed that Buckley was wounded when captured by the enemy. Corporal Buckley, of Kllburne, 111., was reported to have been shot down and killed within the German lines. This report was denied several days later by Paris friends of the American flyer. FOOD IS BILLED TO POLE Exports Board Authorizes Amundsen to Take Supplies on Trip. WASHINGTON. Nov. 4. A shipment of foodstuffs to the North Pole was authorized by the first license issued by the exports administrative board. It was announced yesterday. The license was granted to Captain Raoul Amundsen, the explorer, who is pre paring for another trip to the Arctic regions. Among the nine branches established and the agents are: 'Portland. Or. Henry L. Corbett: Seattle, J. MacPhee Ferguson. SEED SHORTAGE INDICATED Farmers Who Have Surplus TTrged to Make Fact Known. MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Nov. 4. Indi cations are that there will be a short age of farm seeds in 1918, according to a statement issued by C. P. Bull, of the Minnesota Crop Improvement Associa tion. "The farmer who has ripe corn should consider it his patriotic duty and a rare opportunity to report the fact to us so the source of seed may be made known. It must be made known if the Northwest Is to do Its full share in producing crops in 1918." OREGON CAVALRYMAN DIES Private Ray Mark, of Sheridan, Is Victim of Gas in Eastern Camp. SHERIDAN. Or.. Nov. 4. (Special.) Ray Mark, a private in Troop A, Ore gon Cavalry, died early this morning at an Eastern cantonment, according to a telegram received today by his father, P. Mark. He was overcome by gas, the mes sage, which gave no other details, said. Mr. Mark practiced law here before his enlistment. He. was a recent grad uate of Willamette University. 20 ARMY HORSES KILLED Private Who Admits Being I. W. W. Arrested on Suspicion. PLATTS BURG, N. T., Nov. 4. Private Wood, of the '16th United States Field Artillery, is under military arrest on suspicion of being implicated in the killing of about 20 Army -horses here during the last few weeks. Wood admitted that he is a member of the L W. W. Society Leader Auto Crash Victim. SALT LAKE CITY. Utah. Nov. 4. Mrs. A. D. Gibson, prominent society leader, who- was injured Friday night in an automobile accident, died last night. Two of the 16 others hurt In the accident when a machine loaded with high school boys returning from a football game collided with the ear in which Mrs. Gibson was riding, are reported probably fatally Injured, Socialist Hilquit Is Specter to All. BRAZEN CLAIMS ARE ISSUED High Cost of Living and Ter ror at War Bring Recruits. OLD PARTIES ARE UNEASY Estimates Are Given as High as 150,000 to Socialist Candidate, but Prediction of Ilyland's Victory Is Made. IMPORTANT ELECTION'S TO BE HELD TOMORROW. New . Tork City Mayor, Con troller, president of Aldermanic Board, boroug presidents. Al dermen, county officers. Justice of Supreme Court, Judges of City Court, Justices of Municipal Court. New Tork state Constitution al amendments giving full suf frage to women; Attorney-General, two Associate Judges of Court of Appeals. Connecticut Representative in the Fourth District. Maryland Legislature, State Controller. Massachusetts 'Governor and state officers; constitutional amendments to prohibit state aid to secular institutions; permit ting municipalities to sell food stuffs and permitting soldiers absent on military duty to vote. New Jersey Leg'slature. ' Ohio Referendum on Presi dential suffrage bill and prohibi tion. Virginia Governor and state officers. .. . . Municipal and Judicial elec'ons are held In many cities through out the country. BY CHARLES MICHELSON. NEW YORK, Nov. 4. (Special.) The Hylan men are certain they have won the election, but hint darkly that the vast amount of money the Mitchel forces have disbursed may upset their calculations. The Mitchel men are afraid they are licked, but hope for the best, and both Mitchel and Hylan are increasingly uneasy at the prospec tive vote of Hillquit. the Socialist. HUlquit is a specter to all New York. Like the others, he has issued a last minute declaration that he will be overwhelmingly elected. Neither fu ' Concluded on Page S. Column 3.) j'csj' m ;Ty i Xo Man Will Be Forgotten, Al though Delivery of Individually Addressed Packages Xot Sure. (By the Associated Press.) AMERICAN TRAINING CAMP IN FRANCE, Nov. 4. The American sol diers in France will be treated to a genuine old-fashioned Christmas in the X. M. C. A. Red Triangle huts. There will be celebrations, with Christmas trees, not only at the base camps In the American training camps, but also behind the- trenches from which the American boys now are facing the Ger mans. France will supply a tree for every hut. and the Y. M. C. A with the ex pected help from home, will provide a gift for every soldier. The movements of the troops make it impossible to guarantee that individually addressed presents will reach the person to whom they are sent in every case, but the Red Triangle organization as the V. M. C. A. now is being called here, intends that every man shall be remembered, even if the Christmas package addressed to him personally from home cannot be delivered. The Christmas feast and Tuletide en tertainment are being planned at the Paris headquarters, and it is intended to make the first Christmas of the American soldiers In France as much like the home festivities as possible. ITALY ASKS U. S. TO HELP War Declaration on Austria Urged As Best Reply By United States. WASHINGTON, Nov. 4. America can best aid Italy in her present crisis by declaring war on Italy's arch enemy, Austria-Hungary, an official cablegram received here from the general head quarters of the Italian army said. "Thus America will best answer the blows which Austria-Hungary has given Italy and In a short time render the most important service to her allies undergoing such a strain at the pres ent moment," the message said. NORWAY'S WRATH FEARED Huns Say Agitation By Press May Cause Serious Results. COPENHAGEN. Nov. 4. The Ham burg Fremdenblatt prints a statement from a leading German statesman in which serious consequences are threat ened unless the Norwegian press curbs Its indignation against Germany. Fear is expressed here that the agi tation, unless checked, will produce such bitterness against Germany that some Incident will lead to conse quences which even the most bellicose agitator will deplore. VON HERTLING IN NO HURRY Chancellor to Make First Appear ance in Reichstag November 22. LONDON, Nov. 4. Count von Hert ling, the new imperial German Chan cellor, according to an Amsterdam dis patch to Reuters. Limited, will make his first appearance before the Reichs tag November 22. THE BIG FEATURE OF THE LAND PRODUCTS SHOW THIS YEAR. Mighty Thrust Made to Break Lagging Army. ARTILLERY BATTLE IS RAGING British and French Rush to Aid of . Ally. THIRD ARMY IS . SAVED German Plan to Surround 1'orcc Defeated, but Only After Ter ritory Clear to Taglla- mento Is Yielded. ROME, Nov. 4. Heavy attacks were launched on the Italian lines in the Gludlcarla zone on the Trentlno front yesterday, after extended artllle-y preparation. The War Office announced today that these, attacks, which were directed at advanced posts in the Daone and Glumell valleys, were repulsed after hard "fighting. Artillery Duel Goes O. The artillery duel along the Taglla mento is proceeding and the Italians are replying with vigorous measures to strong Auatro-Gertnati pressure on the Italian left wing. BERLIN, via London, Nov. 3. Artil lery activities of varying degree are reported along the line of the Taglla- mento in Northern Italy by srmy neaa quarters staff In today's official state ment. A vigorous artillery battle Is in progress in Macedonia between the Vardar and Lake Dolran, the statement says. British Troops ITaed. British troops have made tentative thrusts, which, the Bulgarians re pulsed. No change in the situation on the eastern front is reported. ITALIAN HEADQUARTERS IN NORTHERN ITALY." Nov. 3. The re tlrement from Gorlsia and the Carso line back to the new line along ' the Tagllamento River moved with a front age of IS miles and Involved a rear guard march of 35 miles to the new position, first through the mountain region and then across the plain. Great Disaster Averted. It now becomes clear that the enemy's plan was made to surround the third army and make the whole or ganization prisoner. It is in averting this threatened disaster and bringing the army back to its new position that the Duke of Aosta succeeded in defeat ing this huge project of envelopment. Today the Italians opposed to the enemy a new and reinvlgorated front. as was definitely shown by Genera Cadorna's bulletin last night, which Concluded on Pag. 3. Column 3. First of Party Reaches St. Michael, but Details of Hardships Are Xot Recounted. NOME, Alaska. Nov. 4. The four men on the power schooner White Bear, missing since last Sunday and given up for dead, are safe. They landed near Point Romanoff, about 40 miles from St. Michael, and were found by a na tive boy. The White Bear was saved. One of the crew reached St. Michael today and reported that other members of the party were safe at a native vil lage on the coast. They will reach St. Michael in about three days. Details are lacking, but it is certain that the men on the White Bear suffered terri ble hardships. The little vessel was driven out to sea last Sunday while on her way from Solomon to Nome with bullion. The weather was very cold and little hope had been entertained that the fous men would ever te found alive. The White Bear was driven across Norton Sound by the gale. The owners of the tug Genevieve refused to allow the coast guards here to take the vessel on a hunt for the White Bear and the tug was commandeered by a committee of citizens who set out . on a perilous cruise in an attempt to find and rescue the White Bear's crow. TKey returned in a few days without having found a trace of the missing vessel. INJURIES MAY PROVE FATAL Cecil Carlisle, of Eugene, Blinded AVhcn Shotgun Discharges. EUGENE. Or.. Nov. 4. (Special.) Cecil Carlisle, 16 years old. lost the sight of both eyes and may die as a result of a hunting accident which oc curred near Wendling at about 11 o'clock this morning'. He u climbing over a trestle when his shotgun struck against a timber and discharged. Two fingers and the thumb cf his right hand were torn off before the charge struck him in the face. . Carlisle, who is the son of J. B. Carlisle, of Wendling. was brought to the Eugene Hospital. Attending physicians said tonight that the patient's recovery was doubt ful. FRATERNIZING IS TRIED German Peace Offers at Fighting Front Get Mixed Reception. PETROGRAD. Nov. 4. Teutonic at tempts at fraternization yesterday met with a mixed reception on the Russian front. There was fraternizing in the Dvlnsk region, but in the Buzeo area patrols approaching the lines with proclamations were fired upon and driven away, the War Office announces. There were no military operations of Importance, according to the state ment. TURKISH COAST SHELLED Constantinople Reports Activity by Cruisers of Entente. ' CONSTANTINOPLE, via London. Nov. 4. Hostile cruisers In the Mediterra nean have been bombarding the Turk ish coast. The War Office announced today that they were replied to ef fectively by the Turkish shore bat teries. Repulse of a Russian attack on the Caucasus front is announced in the statement. - INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature. 66 degrees; minimum. 44 degrees. TODAY'S Rain; Increasing; southeasterly winds. War. Artillery duel rages on Alsne front. Page 2. London Observer declares wrong to minimize Italian disaster. Page 2. Allies Join in to aid Italy. Page 3. Italians withstand mighty thrust. Page 1. Traps are left by retreating Germans. Page 3. Foreign. Americans In trenches will have Christmas cheer. Page J. Sir Wilfred Laurler outlines policies to Cana dian people. Page 5. British and French Premiers start for Italy. Page 1. NationaV. Railroads to again seek freight rate Increase, Is belief. Page 4. Iomesttc. White Bear safe and crew aiive In Alaskan waters. Page 1. Federal Adjustment Board fixes minimum wage scale for shipyards. Page 1. Socialist Hillquit Is specter in New York election. Page 1. Telephone strikers warned they must obey conciliation board. Page 0. Secret service unearths pro-German plot. Page 4. Sports. Four Interscholastlc football games sched uled for this week. Pago la. Golfer Oulmet's skill not Injured by Joining army. Page 10. Coach Plpal praises Pullman eleven. Page 10. Joe Benjamin starts training for bout with Anderson. Page 10. Portland and Vicinity. John McCourt says little need be expected from Hi Gill. Page 1. Phone strikers will Ignore California, Page S. Food pledge campaign continued for week. Page 14. Austin Lewis reviews revolution in Russia. Page 9. Valley people will view exhibits at Manu facturers' and Land Products Show today. Page S. Rev. Allen Stoctcdale talks on temptations confronting American soldiers. Page 1L Fred A. Prlngle's fifth attempt to enter service is successful. Page 11. C. I. Ohrensteln speaks at First Church of Christ. Scientist. Page O. Toung logger Joins service and shows type of forestry enlistments. Page 14. War pictures and Nan Hal perl n at Orpheum. Page 14. Fred B. Smith talks before rrowd of 2000 men In White Temple. Page 4. Labor men not pleased with shipyards rul ing. Page 8. Weather report, data and forecast. Pag 11, Knowledge of Vice Con ditions Admitted. DANCEHALL MOVE "TIPPED" John McCourt Tells of Inter view With Seattle's Mayor. CITY DECLARED WIDE OPEN Kxecutive Apparently Trying to Dodge Issue aand Do Only What -Is Absolutely Demanded to Allow Soldiers to Come In. John McCourt. who as a member ot the Fosdlck Commission represents the War Department in the campaign against vice conditions surrounding Army camps and barracks, returned yesterday frorri Seattle, apparently con vinced that Seattle will "white-wash" its vice conditions in an attempt to "get by" with Major-General Greene at Camp Lewis and keep within bounds to the extent that the soldiers will be al lowed to visit the city. It Is Mr. McCourt's opinion that Seat tle will not be morally cleansed under the present administration. The city will merely make an effort to "save ita face" and appease Major-General Greene, according to McCourt. Mr. McCourt, who is a well-known Portland lawyer and formerly United. States District Attorney for Orepon, as a representative of the War Depart ment, Is co-operating with civil author ities in suppressing vice and in provid ing amusement for the soldiers. The general purpose is to keep the soldiers In fit mental and physical condition. Major-General Greene, who has seen 49 years of service In the United States Army, is in command of 50,000 in the cantonment at Camp Lewis, near Ta conia. and recently issued an ultimatum to Mayor Gill, of Seattle, to clean up his city or an order will be issued pro hibiting soldiers from visiting there. For Xhe purpose of making a personal Inspection ot Seattle and of laying the facts before Mayor GUI, Mr. McCourt visited there for a few days last week, returning home early yesterday morn ing. While he In no sense wishes to enter into any personal controversy over the situation with His Honor, Hi Gill, who presides over the destinies of the Queen City of the Evergreen State, nevertheless, it Is not difficult to rea lize, after an hour's chat with Mr. Mc Court, that he is "wise" to the man who "came back'' after being recalled as chief executive of the metropolis of Washington and set the style in his home town for corncob pipes. Mayor Xot Id High Repute. Mr. McCourt did not put it this way. but it may be said without any hesita tion that, after paying his personal visit to Seattle and talking things over with Hi, Mr. McCourt feels that Hia Honor will not purge Seattle to such a degree as to cause any historian to write him down as a very narrow Mayor one who refuses to realize or understand that, in a large city sea port, even innocent amusements must be .carefully watched by a keyhole squad. "All that can be said of Seattle," commented Mr. McCourt, in a dispas sionate manner, "is that it is as bad as it can be and the May6r and his Chief of Police know it. I told Gill so and he didn't even attempt to deny it; In fact, he. said he knew it, as he himself goes down to the 'below-the-line' dis trict about twice a week. I do not ex pect he will go any further than is necessary in a business sense, but it Is entirely up to Seattle, as to whether any of General Greene's soldiers visit that city. I should not be greatly sur prised, either, should the order threat ened by the General, be forthcoming almost any day; I do not believe, know ing him as I do, that he' is going to wait much longer for action at Seattle. Town Wide Open. "There is everything- running in Se attle in a vice way that is known to the underworld. Of course. Gill did order the dancehalls closed. There were 15 of them, but, while he said he did it at my suggestion. I was told by a man who is known to the police to live from the earnings of a woman, the night before that the Mayor was going to do that very thing. So. you see. I had real advance information on that subject. The fact is. Gill was looking for someone on whom to 'hang such an order and I came in handy. am told he is a pastmaster at that sort of thing. "When Gill asked me for suggestions on how to clean up Seattle, you can bet I proceeded to tell him. I said that, were I In bis place, the first thing I would do would be to get a Chief of Police who wanted a clean city and then let him make it clean. Gill refused to re move the chief, but when I mentioned the dancehall situation, he replied, in stantly that he would close them at once. Parasite Are Plentiful. "But it will do practically little good to close the dancehalls and leave all the rest of the conditions untouched and uncorrected. I told Gill that there were probably 600 parasites run ning around the town, wearing dia monds and sporty clothes and refusing to work and that his police knew them, but did nothing. He didn't deny it. "Then, I told him. that In seven so- (Concluded on Page 2, Column l. 1
