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VOI. L.VIII. XO. 17,936. PORTLAND, OREGON. SATURDAY, MAY 18, 1918. PRICE FIVE CENTS. iE AIID ii Governor and Senator Have Big Lead. DEMOCRATS CHOOSE WEST Mulkey Nominated for Short Term for United States Senate. SUPREME JUDGE IS CLOSE Johns' Lead in Multnomah 1 May Be Offset in State. Treasurer in Doubt. Charles . L. McNary for Senator and James Withycombe for Governor have swept the state. Outside of Multnomah County, as well aa within, each leads In the totals of the incomplete count. While this count is far short of com plete it is so representative and so consistent in the manner in which the returns come in that there can be no question as to the nominations. Oswald West Nominated. Oswald West has been nominated by the Democrats for Senator, carrying the upstate counties as well as Mult nomah? ' For Governor the Democratic nomi nation' seems to have gone to Walter M. Pierce. Returns on other etate offices are far less complete, and the final results are still obscure. While William Adams ran strong in Multnomah Coun ty for Treasurer, Thomas F. Ryan ems to have the up-state lead. r-State Counties In Doubt. It is . also a qestion as to who will carry the up-state counties in the con test for State Supreme Judge and Pub lic Service Commissioner. The effect of. their pluralities on the pronounced leads given in Multnomah to Charles A. Johns for Supreme Judge and Fred A. Williams for Public Service Com missioner -cannot be definitely fore cast. Twenty-! Conntiea Report. For Republican Governor and Sena tor the Incomplete returns from 26 counties, not including Multnomah, give the following totals: Senator McNary 6800, Stanfleld 4S73. Governor Withycombe 491S, Simp son 2248, Olcott 2T03, Anderson 868, Moser 854, Harley 480. Home Precincts Carried. In the counties outside of Multnomah come of the outstanding features are the large vote given J. E. Anderson in his home county of Wasco, which at present puts him ahead of Moser in the count outside of Multnomah. L. J. Simpson likewise carried his home county of Coos by a very large majority. Ben W. Olcott received his best com parative votes in DeBchutes County, his former home, and in Marion County, both of which he seems to have carried. Mulkey If a. Good Lead. For the Republican nomination for the short term as United States Senator B. F. Mulkey leads in the up-state counties as well as in Multnomah and Ralph Williams has been named as Re publican National Committeeman. The following figures are the totals on United States Senator for Multno mah and 26 other counties combined o far as the count has progressed: McNary 11.034, Stanfleld 7135. Similar figures for Multnomah and the state at large on Governor follow: Withycombe "173, Olcott 3719, Simp son 3500. Moser 2014. Harley 1178. An derson 1031. The following are figures on State Treasurer, not including Multnomah County: Adams 329, Cusick 617. Hoff S89, Plummer 469, Ryan 1663, Ben West 78 i. On Supreme Judge the totals outside of Multnomah follow: Coke. 7SS. Kelly. 2091. Johns, 1202. The figures outside of Multnomah on Labor Commissioner are as follows: Miller. 1441. Williams, 1304. (ram Leads in State. The incomplete returns from the state outside of Multnomah County on Labor Commissioner are as follows: Dalziel, 1040. Gram. 1431. Holston, 736. Nickum. 724. On Water Superintendent outside of Multnomah: Abry, 174. Cupper, 775. Schaeffer, 380. DEXIS AHEAD OF 'WILLIAMS Lav Grande Vote Shows Governor Is Also Leading Field. LA GRANDE. Or., May IT. (Special.) Eleven complete precincts In Union County, most of them urban, give the following results: For committeeman, Dennis. 321 Williams, 105. For Senator, McNary, 258; Stanfleld. 201. For Governor, Andersen. 17: Harley, 8; Moser, 22: Ol Concluded oa face f. Columa !. ran n TOTAL OF LIBERTY LOAN $4, 1 70,0 1 9,650 OVERSUBSCRIPTION" OF 39 PER CENT IS AXXOUSCED. Number of Subscribers Is Approxi mately 17,000,000; All Reserve Districts Exceed Quotas. . WASHINGTON, May IT. The total of the third liberty loan la 14.170.019. 650, an bversubscription of 19 per cent above the three billion minimum sought. The number of subscribers was about 17,000.000. Every Federal reserve district oversubscribed, the Minneapolis district going to 173 per cent, the highest, and the New York district to 124 per cent, the lowest. In announcing these figures today the Treasury explained that the total may be changed slightly by later re ports from Federal Reserve banks. "This is the most successful loan the United States has offered, both In num ber of subscribers and in the amount realized," said Secretary McAdoo in a statement. "1 congratulate the coun try on this wonderful result, which is Irrefutable evidence of the strength, patriotism and determination of the American people. "This great result was achieved not withstanding the fact that the country has been called upon to pay since the second liberty loan and to and includ ing the month of June income and ex cess profits taxes to the amount of approximately 33.000,000,000, which will make a total amount turned Into the treasury of the United States from such taxes and the third liberty loan of about 37.QOO.000.000' CHINAMAN FLOUR HOARDER Officials Find 100 Sacks Hidden In Toppenlsh House. YAKIMA. Wash., May IT. United States Marshal Catlin and District Food Inspector Melrose today unearthed 100 sacks of flour concealed In the resi dence of Charles Lee, a Chinaman, at Toppenish. Lee was absent, but will be taken into custody when he is found. The officials are seeking the dealer who sold the flour, SPOKANE. May 17. Charles Heb- berd. State Food Administrator, today issued an urgent appeal against hoard ing of flour and requested the return of all surplus wheat flour within the next SO days. Some flour has been seized in the state, said Mr. Hebberd, but now failure to return surplus flour will be followed by criminal prosecu tions, he declared. GALE SWEEPS OVER TEXAS Several Houses Are Wrecked by "Wind Preceding Heavy Rain. FORT WORTH, Tex.. May 17. Pre ceding a rain, wind swept over a stretch of country a mile south of Fort Worth this morning. Four farm houses were overturned, half a dozen barns and garages were wrecked and fences ruined. Buildings at the big- American avia tion field at Everman, five miles south west of here, escaped destruction. Nearby in the town, the Masonic Hall, a blacksmith shop and a residence were wrecked. One man was injured. Rains helped the worst drought- stricken section of West Texas. EARLY SENTENCE IS ASKED California Banker's Request Wins Four Years In Penitentiary. LOS ANGELES, May 17. William H. Carlson, ex-Mayor of San Diego and at banker here several years ago, was sen tenced today to four years' Imprison ment for UBing the mails to defraud in the sale of Imperial Valley land. Carlson pleaded his own case. He was convicted yesterday, and asked Judge B. F. Bledsoe, in the United States District Court, to impose sen tence today rather thai. Monday, to shorten the nervous strain of waiting. AIRMAIL FUEL RUNS SHORT Plane, Out of Gasoline, Lands Pre maturely at Philadelphia. PHILADELPHIA, May 17. Lieuten ant Boyle, who left Washington at 11 A. M- today with the airplane mail for Philadelphia and New Tork, reached Philadelphia at 7:25 o'clock tonight. He was obliged to land on the grounds of the Philadelphia Country Club on the western edge of the city because his gasoline had become ex hausted. . P0BT0 RICAN LABOR COMES Recruiting Pushed for Months Makes 75,000 Now Available. WASHINGTON, May 17. Porto Rican laborers are to be transported to the United States within a month for farms in the Southern states and shipyards and other war industries along the At lantic Coast. Recruiting of Porto Rican laborers has been going on for several months and 75.000 are now available. CHICAGO HEAJ KILLS ONE Teamster Falls From Wagon . and Skull Is Fractured. CHICAGO. May 17. The first heat prostration of the year was reported here today and proved fatal to a team ster, who fell from his wagon and fractured his skull. The highest temperature was S3 degrees. ni nr iimtii iiihh tlui v.i in SIIIII FEIN EXPOSED British Call on Irish to Fight Intrigue. DRASTIC MEASURES TAKEN Numerous Arrests Are Report ed Made in Dublin. DRAFT EDICT POSTPONED Steps Taken According to Proclama tion by Viscount French to En courage Volunteers Commu nication With Dublin Slow. LONDON, May 18. A considerable umber sf arrests have been made in Dublin and throughout Ireland, ac cording to s dispatch to the Times from Dublin, timed Z o'clock Saturday son. Ins-. DUBLIN. May 17. A proclamation is sued tonight says a German plot In Ire land has been discovered. In the proc lamation the Viceroy calls upon all loyal Irishmen to defeat the conspir acy. The proclamation of the Lord Lieu tenant says: "Whereas, It has come to our knowl edge that certain subjects of His Majesty, the King, domiciled In Ire land, have conspired to enter and have entered Into treasonable communica tion with the German enemy, and "Whereas, Such treachery is a menace to the fair' name of Ireland and Its glorious military record, a record which Is a source of Intense pride to a country whose sons always distin guished themselves and fought with such heroic valor In the past. In the same way as thousands of them are now fighting in tbta war, and Drastic Measures Ordered. "Whereas, Drastic measures must be taken to put down this German plot, which measures will be solely directed against that plot, and "Now, therefore, we, the Lord Lieu tenant of Ireland and Governor-General of Ireland, have thought fit to issue this proclamation, declaring as follows: "That It is the duty of all loyal sub jects of His Majesty to assist in every way His Majesty's government in Ire land to suppress this treasonable con spiracy and to defeat the treacherous attempt of Germany to defame the honor of Irishmen for their own ends. "That we hereby call upon all loyal subjects of His Majesty In Ireland to aid in crushing such conspiracy. Volunteers to Be Sous at. "That as. a means to this end we shall cause still further steps to be taken to facilitate and encourage voluntary enlistment in Ireland in His Majesty's forces in the hope that, without resort to compulsion, the contribution of Ire land to these forces may be brought up (Concluded on Pare 4. Column 1.) nrmmi SUGAR HELD TO BE WHITE PLAGUE CURE ITALIAX SCIENTIST IS CREDIT ED WITH GREAT DISCOVERY. Injection of Saccharose Declared to Have Marvelous Erfcct on Tubercle Bacilli. PARIS, May 17. Professor Domenlco Lo Monaco, director of the Biochemical section of the Llncei Academy, at Rome, is credited by the Italian scientific press with a discovery which will revo lutionize the treatment of tuberculosis. Professor Lo Monaco, explaining his discovery, said he had observed that sugar had a remarkable effect on the secretions of the human organism. After seven years of study of these phe nomena he became 'convinced that the secretions of saliva, bile and the gastric and pancreatic . Juices were modified profoundly by the introduction of sugar. This gave him the Idea of ap plying this method to the bronchlcal secretlca of consumptives. The first experiments made on con sumptive soldiers gave results far ex ceeding his expectations, he reports. There was rapid Improvement In most cases and he obtained cures which ap peared to be radical. Professor Lo Monaco explained that the bronchial secretion is an indispen sable medium for the existence of the tubercule bacilli and that by the injec tion of saccharose the secretion dimin ishes and finally disappears, the bacilli disappearing with it. SUICIDE SELF.- CREMATED Veterinary Who Contracted Bovine Disease Finishes Job. LA" CROSSE. Wis.. May 17. Suffer ing from lumpy Jaw which he con tracted while treating cattle, Lemuel H.' Jones, veterinary surgeon, of Mel rose, committed suicide and cremated himself on his farm on French Island, across the river from here, at midnight last night.. He left a note at the side of the pit explaining the motive for bis act. Jones sold his automobile yesterday. Informed friends he was going to La Cross for an operation, but went to the island. There he dug a pit six by six feet wide and four feet deep. This he filled with alternate layers of wood and coal and started a fire. At mid night he Bhot out his brains with a shotgun, toppled over into the pit and was burned to a crisp. The remains were discovered, this morning. TEACH ENGLISH, SAYS LANE Secretary of Interior Declares One Language Is Enough. CHICAGO, May 17. Secretary of the Interior Franklin K. Lane left here to day for Denver, Colo., on his Western trip. He ia accompanied by Mrs. Lane and two assistant secretaries of the Interior Department, E. C. Bradley and Lathrop Brown. Mr. Lane in an address here pointing out that there are 40,000 men now In cantonments who can neither read nor write "American." and 700,000 subject to call, insisted that only one language, that of the United States, should be taught In the public schools. Instruc tion in foreign langu .ge, he said, should be left for the colleges. ITS A JOB FOR SPECIALISTS. piirTTMnTrn nr i' ! DUC IlIIINlU lilt, SAYS DR. ROBERTS Girl Accused of Love Murder Hurls Denial. COURT SCENE IS DRAMATIC Grace Lusk's Frantic Protest Electrifies Courtroom. ROMANCE DETAILS BARED Wisconsin Medicine Manufacturer Reflects Seriously on Affinity In Story of Intrigue Lead ing to Tragedy. WAUKESHA. Wis., May 17. Dr. David Roberts took the witness stand today aa the accuser of Grace Lusk. on trial charged with the nurder of hia wife. . "She tempted me." was the burden of all his testimony. "Oh, that la not true," the defendant cried aa ahe struggled from her seat. "She asked me if I loved her and I answered that I honored and respected her," he swore, as he bared the atory of their relations from the time they flrat met at the home of a mutual friend In July, 1914. until he found hia wife dying with two bullets In her body In the little brown house Mlsa Lusk made her home three years later. Blow In Face Alleged. " 'I want you to tell ma that you love me more than anyone else In the world, and I want you to tell Mrs. Roberts so'." he testified that she aaid to hlr.. at one of their meetings which had been sought by ber. "I said absolutely no. and she struck me in the face aa hard aa she could," he added. Later he told of meeting her in Chi cago and Milwaukee hotela and pro duced lettera ahe had written to him and one written by her to Mrs. Roberta, which he had Intercepted before Ita de livery. Letters to Wife Road. . "1 have begged him to go to you and tell you the situation frankly, for I have felt that you were a big enough woman to desire hia happiness." the let ter to Mrs. Roberts read. In June, 1917, he testified, she de manded that he meet her In a Mllwau kee hotel and he did so only after ahe had threatened to tell hia wife of their relatione and "to make a case for Attorney Lockney." At this meeting, he said, she pro duced a revolver, which afterwards was Identified as the same one with which ahe later ahot bia wife and her self, and, pointing it at hia head, aaid: "I will shoot you dead if you do not put your hand on that Bible and swear that you love me and will tell your wife." Dr. Roberta aaid that he complied. 'Concluded on Pas 4. Column 8.) i Latest Multnomah Returns Following are the 1st. .---.-- sanortant and contested offices In nuuaaua Coanty. the (taam rear, seating incomplete con at in 1T ont of 413 n'rectnctai Republican National ran-iii... Williams 32T. Dennis 1732. United States Senator. - Malkey 246. Schnnbcl sal. R.r.. IMS. fatted States Senator, lose term MelVnry 4234, aaflrld 226X Congressman Lafferty S3K7. Mr Ar thur 3938. (Governor Anderson 17T. Harley T4R, Mooer 1X22. Oleott lOIS. Slaanaoa ihel Withycombe 32.1S. State Treasurer Adama -.i-v. tt. Hoff 1531. PInmmcr 4B3, Ryan 683, West 3TO. Pa bile Service faahrio wil ier 33.11, Williams 317S. Thirteenth Senatorial niairies r.nt 3.10, Reed 3945. """cents. Scnntorial District Banks 330. Lewis 1738, ratton 11S. Seventeenth llfiia..i.ii m.a- Lofgren 17S Powers 1.M. Ryncrson Cnatr rahiliiri ' I ii dldatea) Daly 2.164. Holmnn 2702, lioyt The Incomplete const aa H- .---I... city measures follows: Collecting de linquent assessments, for 3I. against 1S city aarbaae collection, for 27, against Sao, bonding- Jitneys, for 7S. agalsat 54a, transferrin- aneciai for 81B. against 3HS, eliminating: bridge ona. nr naainat 1175 rnadlaa; bonded Indebtedness, foe Kia. 41i two platoon, for 814. ngnlnat 0 pmereniini uregoa contracts, for 7.TO, ngainat BoOt tax for aeneral Cn.d. ..- TH. aanlnst 621 1 regwlatina; Jitneys, lor oov, nasi n at B32. BOPP HOME CAMOUFLAGED Liberty Bond Posters Decorate tlie House or Convicted German. BERKELEY. CaU May 17. (SdcI11 Though Franz Bopp. former German Consul-General of San Francisco, has been sentenced to two years at Mc Neill's Island and fined 110.000 for vio lating neutrality laws of th. States, the United States Government win owe mm money borrowed with In terest at 4Vi per cent, when hia term i. completed. Bopp, through bis housekeeper, pur chased several libertv bond anH hi. S-year-old son caused the posters that come wnn tne purchase of them to be pasted In the window of his former home here. The Bopp residence now looks like tha front of a liberty bond booth. BLAST KILLS HUGH IRISH X. -s-n-a-m-mm. Son of Oregon City Couple Succumbs to Gasoline Burns. GREAT FALLS, Mont., May 17. Hugh Irish, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Irish, of. Oregon City, died here to night of burns sustained In a gasoline explosion at the Stalcup ranch last Monday. . Irish was engaged working a tractor and went to the machinery shed to get gasoline. Ho struck a match and an explosion followed. The shed waa burned and he waa fatally Injured. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature. 50 '- .-'- uiiHiiuum, . degrees. TODAY'S Showers; aouthweaterly winds. War. Allies sweep Hun planea from sky In France. Pace 13. American troop reach Flanders front. Fas 7. foreign. Italian scientist declares iticir cure for tu berculoma. Paae 1. Russlana recapture Baku from the Turka Pace 2. Detection of German plot In Ireland an. flounced in proclamation by - Viceroy Pas IS. Kaiser expreaaea optimism la army cemetery. Pare 7. Liner Highland Scot aground off Brazilian msi. rase I. Csecha make threat of revolution to Austria. Pas Nations. Compromise expected In Senate fight over aircraft Investigation. Page 8. George Creel apologises to Congress. Page 4. Rood Administration costs advance to $1 -OOO.OOO annually. Page 6. Third liberty loan exceeda three-bllllon mark by 89 per cent, page 1. Federal Government may commandeer all " ateel mills la United States. Page s. Domestic. Dr. Roberts' aeeusatlona of Grace Lusk dramatically denied by girl accused of slaying Mrs. Roberta Page 1. Leacue to Enforce Peace declares for con tinued war until Germany Is vanquished. Page 10. Wood ship launchlnga average over one dally for month. Page 15. Evidence at Chicago trial shows shipping tie-up planned by. I. W. W. Page 6. President Wllaon goes to New Tork to help launch Red Cross drive. Page . Sports. Washington trlma Lincoln. 7 to 5. Page 14. University of Oregon and Oregon Agricul tural College co-eds swim today for state championship. Page 14. Cleveland 'wins from Philadelphia. 6 to 4. Page 14. Seattle trlma Portland. 3 to 2. Page 14. Pacific Northwest. Washington bar examiners ask suspension- of Edgar G. Mills. Seattle attorney. Page . Commercial and Marina. Hide dealers await Government schedule of coast prices, page 19. Early declines in corn nearly offset by cov ering. Pag IS. J. W. Hall, assistant supervisor of wooden ship construction, praises team-work In Oregon yards. Page 13. Proflt-iaklnr and short selling lower stock values. Page 19. Pert land and Vicinity. Weather report, data and forecast. Page 19. Mayor Baker proposes that auto osrners give uniformed men lift on city streets. page 11. All Portland to help Red Cross auction. Page 20. Wlthycon-.ba and McNary ar nominated. Pago V. McNary and Withycombe carry Multnomah. Page 1. Red Croaa drive work under way. Page a. M'UARY LEAD III COUHTY GUI McArlhur Safely Ahead of lafferty. WITHYCOMBE MARGIN BIG Stapleton, Morrow and Gan tenbein Are in' Front, for Judges. BONDED JITNEY WANTED Two Platoon Winning and Free Garbage Losing. Free Tolls Lose. Incomplete returns from 163 of 412 precincts in Multnomah County give United States Senator McNary a lead of 186S over R. N. Stanfleld and the com pleted count will add substantially to McNary'a majority. Representative SIcArthur is increas ing his lead over Lafferty as the count proceeds. Partial returns from 1S pre cincts give him a majority of 1151 over Lafferty. The vote: Larferty ;ii. McArthur 36st. Wlthyesaske Lead Orsvia. Governor Withycombe has a lead of 873 in this county, with Simpson run ning second. Withycombe'a vote is 2078 and that of his rivals as follows: Anderaon 161. Harley 698. Moaer IK. Olcott 928. Simpson 1205. These fig ures, as well as those that follow for other candidates, are the incomplete returns from 165 precincts at 1 o'clock this morning. For State Treasurer, City Treasurer William Adams has a good lead. Hia vote exceeds that of Hoff. hia closest opponent, by 1032. with Ryan and Cusick contesting for third place. The vote: Adams 2452. Cusick 08. Hoff 1420, Flummer 453, Ryan 610. West 815. Mulkey for Shart Term. F. IV. Mulkey received .-. vote In ex cess of his two opponents for the short term Senatorshlp. The vote now stands: Mulkey 2786, Burton 1424 and Schnabel 836. Republican .National Committeeman Relph E. Williams is badly outdis tancing Bruce Dennis. Willams' .vote is 3655. aa againat 1606 for Dennis. Grass's Lead SI 4. C. H. Gram has a lead of 214 over his three Multnomah County rivals for Labor Commissioner. Dalsiel is his closest opponent. The vote: Gram 1?24, Dalxlel 1710, Holston E84, Nickum 961. Fred A. Williams is maintaining hia lead over Frank J. Mll.'er for Public Service Commissioner. He has a vote of 2956 against 2223 for Miller. J. B. Schaefer and Percy A. Cupper are contesting for Water Superinten dent. Division No. 1, with Schaefer leading by 483. The vote: Abry 643. Cupper 1826, Schaefer 23CS. Marrow Safely Ahead. Circuit Judge Morrow, with a vote of 3618 is running better than two to one against District Judge Dayton for Circuit Judge of Department No. 2. Fon Circuit Judge Department No. 6 tha Incumbent. Judge Gantenbein. leads by 711. with W. A. Carter and Judge W. W. McCredie pressing each other for second place. The vote: Car ter. 807; Davis. 410; Gantenbein 1608; McCredie. 8SE; Owen. 666. Stapleton, Is Resanlsated. Circuit Judge Stapleton. Department No. f. haa been renominated in a con teat in which he had four opponents. He haa a lead of 1172 with Hume. Moulton and Orton running neck and neck for aecond place. The vote: stapleton. 2160; Hume, 987; Moulton. 951; Orton, 963; Wright. 373. Charles A. Johns, of Multnomah County, has a larger vote in hia hom county than the combined vote of his two opponents. His lead over Judge Percy R. Kelly, his nearest opponent. I is 1358. The vote: Johns 2700, Kelly 1342, Coke 1220. W. W. Banks undoubtedly has been I nominated State Senator from Coluxn- Ibia. Clackamas and Multnomah coun ties. His lead is 1547, and the vote: I Banks 3175. Hermon A. Lewis, present Senator. 1628. Dr. H. M. Patton. 1117. For State Senator. John Gill, candi date to eucceed himself, has apparently been renominated against Sanderaoa Reed. He has a vote of 3383 against 2777 for Reed. Powers Holds Load. Dan E. Powers has a lead of four for Joint State Representative from Multnomah and Clackamas over David E. Lofgren, his closest opponent. The vote: Powers, 1835. Lofgren 1S31. Rynerson 1240. John B. Coffey, with a vote of 1925, leads the list of 37 candidatea for tha 12 nomlnationa aa State Representative from this county. In addition to Mr. Coffey the other 11 candidates now In j the lead are: Herbert Gordon. Dr. Chester C. Moore. Eugene Smith, D. C. Lewis. Dr. Earl C. McFarland. O. IV. Hosford. Elmer E. Fetlingell'K. K. 1' Kubli. Oacar W. Home. Joseph G. Rich ardson and W. G. Lynn. Rufus C Holman ar.d Will H. Daly Couuaued ou age , Coiuxun . i HT1 107.0