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