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VOL.. L.VIII. C 17,978. PORTLAND, OREGON, MONDAY, JULY 8, 1918. PRICE FIVE CENTS. SWEDISH ALIENS REFUSE TO FIGHT SPOKAXE EXEMPTION , BOARD STRIKE GALLED OFF EAST EXTRAVAGANT DESPITE WAR NEED RATIONING OF COAL AUSTRIANS HURLED MONTANA FORESTS MURHANS ESPOUSE CAUSE OF ALLIES PopulationQuits Russia as Food Arrives. TO STAY SHORTAGE OVVLTI D I DLAZ.L FROM PIAVE DELTA BY S. J. HOUSES MAY BE HEATED ONLY ALL AVAILABLE MEN SENT TO XO. 5 MAKES NAMES PUBLIC. TO 68 DEGREES. SCENE OF FUMES. UP Telegraphers Will Stay at Their Keys. SENATE ACTION IS AWAITED Prospect of Government Con trol Cause of Change. PRESIDENT MAKES REQUEST 5ccretary of Labor 'Wilson and Sam uel Gompers, President of the American Federation ol Labor, Intervene With. Success. BT ARTHUR. SEARS HEXXIN'G. (Staff Correspondent of the Chicago Tribune.) WASHINGTON, July 7. (Special.) In response to urgent pleas by Secre tary of Labor "Wilson and Samuel Gom pers, President of the American Feder ation of Labor, S. J. Konenkamp, pres ident of the Commercial Telegraphers' Union, tonight called off the strike of his organization set for tomorrow morning. Secretary "Wilson appealed to the telegraphers" chief not to allow inter ference with the transmission of mes sages "of vital consequence in the pros ecution of the war," and reminded him that adjustment of the union griev ances will be afforded by Government control of the telegraph companies un der the terms of the legislation Con gress is now in the process of framing. Gomperi Seconds Appeal. Mr. Gompers seconded Secretary "Wil son's appeal, and urged Mr. Konen kamp to "avoid any hindrance to our Government's war" programme even in the slightest degree. The administration action to stave off tho strike was taken following the refusal of the Senate yesterday to take Immediate action on the resolu tion empowering the President to take over the telegraph companies for the remainder of the war. The President Instructed Secretary Wilson today to see what could be done to prevent the walkout of the union telegraphers. Secretary Wilson Immediately got Into telephone com munication with Mr. Konenkamp in Chicago, and after a protracted dis 'cussion of the situation, obtained the union president's promise to call off the strike, pending consideration of the Government control resolution by the Senate. president Exprcisei Gratification. The assistance of Mr. Gompers was enlisted early in the day, with the re sult that the president of the federa tion telegraphed Mr. Konenkamp. Secretary "Wilson sent word to the White House early this evening that Mr. Konenkamp had agreed to call off the strike. The President expressed gratification at the action of the union president and also of the patriotic at titude taken by Mr. Gompers by which the executive regards an example that will be of the utmost value in pre venting the fruition of strikes likely to hamper the Government in the con duct of the war. The revocation of the strike order does not mean that Congress will abandon the Government control reso- lution if the President has his way about it. as he generally does. Mr. "Wilson is prepared to step in at the first sign of faltering in Congress and insist upon the passage of the resolu tion authorizing him to take over the telegraph and telephone systems. I n Ion Would Be Recognized. The President believes that, irre spective of the relations of employers and employes, the Government should be in a position to assume control of the lines of communication whenever war emergencies dictate. His first act under Government control, however, would be to assure recognition of the telegraphers union, the denial of which by the Western Union led to the calling of the strike. It also is a foregone conclusion that the Govern ment would raise the telegraphers' wages, as it raised the compensation of the railroad employes. The President will make it clear to Senate leaders tomorrow that he wants the resolution passed, no matter how much Senators may wish to take a re cess to attend to their campaigns for re-election. Movement for Recces to Be Revived. Senator Lewis, Democratic whip of the Senate, said tonight that the call ing off of the strike undoubtedly will revive the movement for a recess of a month. It has been represented that it will take' three or four weeks to pass the resolution through the Senate committee on interstate com rrerce which already has decided to hold hearings on the measure. There is scarcely a majority of the committee in favor of the legislation and action upon it will be extremely deliberate, unless the President sue ceeds in bringing about some accelera tion. The advocates of a recess of month contend 'hat theifc is no need of keeping Congress in Washington tthile the committee is deliberating. There was much discussion today of the incipient Democratic revolt, against the President which developed in the Senate yesterday when a resolution to recess was adorned in defiance of the wishes of Mr. Wilson for action on the telegraph resolution. Of the 27 Senators voting to recess Young Men Who Are Glad to Enjoy Emits of Freedom Declare Un willingness to Maintain It. SPOKANE, Wash, July 7. (Special.) "Swedish aliens are giving? our ex emption board more trouble than the men of all nationalities combined," said Fred S. Duggan, of exemption board No. 5, yesterday. "While Amer ican boys are fighting for the liberty of the world, Swedish aliens, who find in America a better home than the one they left in Europe, refuse to do their part by joining the military forces of our country. The position taken by the Norwegians is just the opposite. We are having no trouble whatever with Norwegian -aliens. "The American boys here give up their business and go into the Army. The Swedish aliens take the positions vacated by the Americans and refuse to enter the Army. "We have just placed in Al the following Swedes, who are single, have no dependents, prefer America to Sweden because they are better off here and enjoy living here, but refuse to aid in the world struggle: "H. G. Peterson. 523 Mansfield avenue, came here from Sweden in 1906. He stands pat and refuses voluntarily to come under the draft act. "John Erickson, 429 Mansfield ave nue, refuses to take out his first pa pers. He says he would rather fight for Sweden than for America if these nations were at war. "Carl V. Nicholson, 947 Ermina street. is a Swede who would rather be cent back to Sweden than join the Ameri can Army." Records of other boards indicate the same difficulty with Swedish aliens. MAYOR HANSON SAVES LIFE First Aid Given Injured Man Crowd Stands Helpless. SEATTLE, Wash., July 7. Mayor Ole Hanson, of Seattle, today probably pre vented the bleeding to death of E. O. Huse, aged 30, employe of the Puget Sound Navy-Yard, Bremerton, Wash. when he rendered first aid to Huse on the Pacific Highway near Auburn. Wash., after Huse's leg had been nearly severed at the ankle in an automobile accident. While a large crowd of motorists, who had witnessed the overturning of 'Huse's machine by a speedster, crowd ed about the wreck or ran in circles inquiring for a doctor. Mayor Hanson drove up, stopped his car and applied a tourniquet. Huse was losing conscious ness irom the loss of blood, but later revived. He was taken to & hospital in Auburn. SHIP OUTPUT TO DOUBLE Director-General Schwab Makes Im portant Prediction. BERKELEY, Cal., July 7. The pre diction that the recent record of an average production of one 10,000 ship daily, for 60 days would be doubled in the near future was made today by Charles M. Schwab, director-general of the Emergency Fleet Corporation, ad dressing an inspirational mass meeting here. The mass meeting was the opening event of the convention of Associated Advertising Clubs of the World, and was attended by some 10,000 persona. Mr. Schwab spoke of the important part advertising men had taken in the Nation's war preparation, and said criticism in the press had been a fac tor in starting the work of shipbuild ing. ALL WHEAT IS GROUND Northwest Mills Wait for Permission to Resume Operations. SEATTLE. Wash., July 7. Practically all the Pacific Northwest flour mills have ground the wheat allotted under Government regulations, it developed at the first annual convention of the North Pacific Millers' Association yes terday. ' Mills that are shut down are expecting to resume operations soon. but permission to grind grain for the new year beginning July 1 has not yet been given. Delegates from Oregon. Washington and Northern Idaho attended the meet ing here, and went on record as favor ing a policy of aiding the Government in all ways possible n food regula tions. ITALIAN FLYER IS KILLED Sergeant Gino Dashed to Death Exhibition Flight. in MINEOLA. N. T., July 7. Sergeant Gianfelice Gino, of the Royal Italian Flying Corps, was killed in an airplane accident at Hazelhurst Field today while making a nose dive for the bene fit of the Italian Mission to the United States and Major-General William L. Kenly, director of military aeronautics. Sergeant Gino had been Instructing American aviators here. MILK HIGHER IN EUGENE Lane County Dairymen Advance Price to 12 Cents Quart. EUGENE, July 7. (Special.) The price of milk In Eugene has been ad vanced from 10 to 12 cents a quart. Dairymen say the reason for their action is the high price of feed and shortage of pasture resulting from the unusually dry weather. War Correspondent Is Amazed at Luxury. LITTLE SACRIFICE NOTED W. G. MacRae Contrasts Spirit of France With America's. QUICK CHANGE PREDICTED Writer, Just From France, Protests at Waste of Gasoline and Other War Needs by Rich, After Seeing Shortage Abroad. BT WILL G. MacRAE. (Staff Correspondent of The Oregonlan. Late viin ine American Forces in France.) CLEVELAND, July 2. (Special.) This letter will strike many as being a long cry from France. It is written to fill in some of the gaps in my dis patch from Washington. Speaking of things "over there," : ill say again, that while I was in France the double censorship (Ameri can and French) took a special delight in deleting the news that the Pacific Coast troops were a part of the First Army Corps, even though the regl ments are now, or were up to the time I left, used as replacement. Although the powers that be decreed that those splendid National Guard Regiments from tho Northwest were to be broken up, with little or no chance to bring regimental honors to tneir respective states, the folks at home may take solace in the fact that their soldier boys are a part of that American Army which is blocking the Hun march to Paris. There is a man at the head of the First Army Corps who knows personally most of the of ficers from the Northwest regiments and fully appreciates the caliber of men who come from that section of the United States. ExtniTasanee Is Noted. Observing" from the outside some of the larger towns between Washington and Cleveland, one wonders if much of tho subscribing to Liberty" bonds, war savings stamps, the Red Cross and the many other war funds, is not just from the pocket, and only a small part from the heart. One thing seems cer tain, the people of the United States, judging from outside appearances, have not as yet realized what it really means to sacrifice. It is the same in Washington as It is in Cleveland; luxury and extrava gance carried on to the nth degree. In Washington, on every street, I saw thousands of automobiles parked so closely that pedestrians could not squeeze between them; pleasure cars of the rich and near rich, those who have not only mortgaged the home to get the machine, but even have mort- (Concluded on Page 2. Column 2.) rrv GAfosv-? asus i f MWWKvkyVK " -fXJW)' ofov vr 1 troubles!- , Chi It ivtvo sss7-vxvo aza s - 7 '(, v-y V. t CruSTT fOtAS S TVV -4V iAiW Allowance to Be Sufficient for Com fort, but Wastefulness Will Bring Its Own Penalty. WASHINGTON, July 7. Rationing of coal to householders was announced to night by the Fuel Administration as among plans designed to prevent a threaetened shortage of coal next Win ter. Each domestic consumer will be allowed only as much coal as is neces sary to heat his house to 68 degrees, provided every conservation rule has been obeyed. The allowance, the an nouncement said, will be sufficient for comfort, but "the thoughtless and wasteful consumer who finds his al lowance gone before the end of the Winter, will have only himself to thank if he has no -uel with which to heat his house." The plan involves a department of allotments in connection with each local fuel administrator's office. The system will be put into operation at once. Each order for coal will be cen sored by comparison with the rating of the house where the coal is to be used. WAR AFFECTS BEETS PRICE Two Contracts Offered Growers, De pending on Duration of Conflict. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., July 7. (Spe cial.) Question of the duration of the war is now entering into contracts for the sale of sugar beets to refiners, according to the United States Food Administration for California, which today, as an incentive for producers to increase their acreage, announced that if the war continues another year the price will be higher than this year. If the war does not continue that long the price will be lower. Two contracts are being offered beet growers, one sets a definite minimum the other provides for a higher price if there is one next year, but fails to set a minimum. MILL SLIGHTLY DAMAGED Hammond Plant at Astoria to Be Running Again Within Week. ASTORIA. Or., July 7. (Special.) A force of men began work today clearing away the debris from last night's fire at the Hammond Lumber Company's mill. The damage probably will net exceed $15,000 or $20,000, fully covered by insurance. The fire was confined to the central portion of the floor and no damage was done the big saws or any of the machinery on the main cutting floor. The expectation is to have the mill running within a week, although it will have to depend for a time upon some of the other plants for filing room work. GERMANY TO AID AUSTRIA Three Army Corps Promised to Stem Defeat in Italy. PARIS, July 7. Germany will send three army corps to the aid of Austria, according to a Rome dispatch to the Temps. HERE'S HOPING FOR RAIN! - . . . . ................. ................... ....................... Italians Drive Foe to River's Left Bank. ENEMY ADMITS BIG DEFEAT General Diaz' Forces Fortify- a a i ing necapiurea Area. FRENCH MAKE DARING RAID Brilliant Operation on Aslago Plat eau at Zocchl Results In Cap ture of 66 Prisoners and Number of Machine Gun. ROME, July .7. Italian troops have completed their operations victorious ly at the mouth of the River Piave ty hurling the last remnants of the disorganized Austro-Hungarian forces I across to the left bank of the river. according to the war office announce ment today. The official statement declares that the Italians are now fortifying them selves along the right bank of the River Piave. Tribute is paid to the especially brilliant fighting qualities shown by the troops of the Italian 23d Army Corps, which participated in the defeat of the Austrians in the Piave River sector. French Make Raid. On the Asiago Plateau, the state ment chronicles a. raid by the French which resulted in the capturing of prisoners and machine guns. Austro- Hungarian attacks between the Fren- zela Valley and the Brenta were re pulsed. The statement follows: "Between the Sile and the Piave our troops, having reached with perfect maneuvering and irresistible elan the right DanK oi uia new x iavo uuu new driven the enemy to the other side of the river, now are fortifying them selves on the vast tract of ground re captured, every yard of which shows traces of the epic struggle and fur nishes proof that the enemy's losses were much higher than he had fore seen "The Twenty-third Army Corps, hav Ing carried out the difficult operation victoriously, has added new laurels to its glory. The Fourth Infantry Divi sion particularly distinguished itself. The bearing of the troops was splen did. Infantry Kla-ntn Well. "The infantry, among whom were a marine regiment and parties of the Royal Customs Guard, fought with ardor. The artillery of the army corps and the royal navy group con tributed notably to the success with its very effective fire. "Our own and the allied airplanes and those of the Italian Royal Navy (Concluded on Pak 3, Column 5.) Missoula, Denver and Ogdcn For estry Officials Asked to Lend Rangers to Check Fire. MISSOULA, Mont.. July 8. Fires which are threatening to sweep the entire forest tracts of the Inland Northwest clear of their timber axe raging in the Selway, Clearwater, Pend Oreille and Kaniksu Forests, ac cording to reports received at the Mis soula district offices early this mommr. ju. . Tanner, of Richland Center, Wis., -one of a crew of fighters in the Clearwater Forest, was caught be neath a falling tree and killed in stantly. The flames have a two-weeks" start on the fires which made a furnace of the Northwest in 1910. Every avail able man has been sent from the Missoula offices and forestry officials at Denver and Ogdem Utah, have been asked to send rangers to help fight the flames. District Forester R- H. Rut ledge declares the situation to be the most desperate that he ever con fronted during the July season. High winds are fanning the flames and absence of rains has converted the woods into veritable tinder boxes. BOLSHEVIKI ARE DISARMED Czecho-SIovaks at Vladivostok Ren- dcr Opponents Harmless. LONDON, July 7. A dispatch from Vladivostok, dated Sunday, June 30, to Reuter's, Limited, says that the com mandant of the Czecho-SIovaks there sent an ultimatum to the local Bol sheviki. The commandant declared that as the Bolsheviki were opposing the passage of Czecho-SIovaks from Western Siberia to Vladivostok and the local Bolsheviki were showing signs of acting in an antagonistic manner to ward the Czecho-SIovaks. he consid ered it his duty to take such steps as lay in his power to assist his fellow countrymen, and as a preliminary measure he had decided to disarm the local Bolsheviki. HUNS LOOTING ROUMANIA A Food Kcmovcd hy Germans for Home Consumption. FARIS, July 7. Dr. Breckerridge Batne, of Washington, has arrived at Berne from Bucharest, where, for sev eral years, he had charge of a Rou manian hospital. He declares that Germany Is taking all food supplies from that country for home consumption. For example, 'he said, the Germans have left only one cow on every 10th farm. AVIATORS BURN TO DEATH Machine Falls in Nose Spin and Bursts Into Flames. ARDMORE. Okla-. July 7. Lieuten ant E. B. Sullivan, of San Antonio, Tex., and Mechanician Doyle, of Grand Rap ids. Mich., both from Barron Field, Fort Worth, Tex., were burned to death near here late this afternoon when their machine fell into a nose spin while ascending. They came here on a practice flight. HUN AIRMEN OFF DENMARK Deserters In Giant Seaplanes Land on Masnedo Island. COPENHAGEN. July 7. Three more German airmen, deserting their conn try, have landed In a giant seaplane at Masnedsund. on the Island of Masnedo, off the South Coast of Seeland, Den mark, according to a dispatch to th Politiken. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAT'S Maximum temperature. 62 degrees; minimum, uj degrees. TODAY'S Fair; moderate westerly winds. War. Italy hurls Austrians from Piave -ielta. Page 1. Yankee vies with Australian In bravery. Page 2. Official casualty list. Page 3. Murman coast Inhabitants Join entente. Page 1. Allies to decide Russian Intervention. Page i. Allied tanks bring victory. Page 3. Huns fall before Yankee onslaught. Page 3. Foreign. Vice Admiral von Capelle says U-boat power Increasing. Page 4. National. Telegraphers' strike called off. Page 1. Itotnestlc. W. G. Mac Rae amazed at wartime extrava gance In bast, page i. Rationing of coal next Winter announced by Fuel Administration. page 1. Foreet fires In Montana fatal. Page 1. Allied war exposition full of Interest. Page 3. Sports. MeCormick wins from Foundation. Page 8. Daniels and Daubert to Join Bees. Page 8. Chicago Cuba beat Giants. 6-1. Page 8. Buckaroos win final game of year. Page 8. Pacific; Northwest. Swedish aliens In Spokane refuse to fight Page 1. Old parties surprised by N on-Partisan tactics in Idaiio. page o. Portland and Vicinity. Portland to seek Oriental trade. Page 5. Club women doing great work at Kannlng Kitchen. Page l. Weather report, data and forecast. Page 8. Pastor lauds United States flag. Page V. Xew pastor or Wilbur Memorial Churcn apeaka Page u. Funeral of Dr. Holt C. Wilson Is todsy. Page li Reed Summer school - prepares women for hospital work anroaa. x-sge Farmers call to Portland business men. Page S. Portland entertains drafted men. Page 12. Great Wortham shows open in Portland to night. Page 4. Herman McLeod cited for bravery. Pag T. SUPPLIES ARE SENT BY U. S. Vlirbach Killing Surprises Slav Ministers at Berlin. SLAYERS ARE NOT KNOWN Russian Diplomat Sent to Germany by Bolsheviki Expresses Amaze ment and Indigation When Ad vised of Assassination. COPENHAGEN. July 7. The entire population of the Murman coast (on the Kola Peninsula borderinjr the White Sea and the Arctic) has broken with Russia and joined the entente. according to a dispatch from Vardoe, Norway, to the Chrlstiania Tidens Tegn. ProvisloBs Rears Murmansk. A supply of provisions from the United States has arrived at Mur mansk, the dispatch adds. American, French and British ma rines are known to be patrolling cer tain districts along the Murman coast. WASHINGTON. July 7. Leaders of the Murman coast people recently ap pealed to the American and allied Con suls at Kola for protection. German troops are reported to the southward on the railroad leading to the Arctio at Kola. With allied naval forces guarding a store of supplies at Kola and along the railroad, the Murman coast is one of the possible fields for operations by the allies in the east under the new policy toward Russia believed to have been approved by President Wilson at the White House conference. Word From Francis Miaalnn;. In the absence of any word from Ambassador Francis since June 27. the State Department has been obligated to rely on the Indirect reports. The last message from the Ambassador re ported the arrival of local civil au thorities of Archangel, capital of ths province in which Kola is located. The Bolsheviki had seized the otllcials on charges of disloyalty. PARIS, July 7. As soon as the news of the assassination of the Count Von Mirbach, German Minister at Moscow, came to M. Tchitcherln, the Russian Foreign Minister, M. Tchitcherln and hs associate, M. Karakhan, called at the German embassy and expressed the regret and indignation of the govern ment at the occurrence, says a Berlin dispatch, forwarded by the Havaa cor respondent at Basle. Identity Vet Secret. The identity of the assassins has not been established, nor have they been arrested, the message states. It ap pears, according to these advices, that with Count Von Mirbach when he was attacked was Herr Ritzier, the coun sellor of the embassy, and a German officer. Neither was injured. BASLE. July 7. Mikolal Lenlne. Bol shevik Premier, has sent the following message to M. Joffe, Russian Minister at Berlin, regarding the assassination of Count Von Mirbach. the German Ambassador to Moscow: Two unknown men entered the Ger man embassy at 2 o'clock this (Satur day) afternoon, having documents from a special committee. They threw a, bomb in Count Von Mirbach's office, wounding him so severely he died. Hnsslana Expreu Anger. "Government representatives imme diately visited the embassy and ex pressed indignatoin at tne act. which they construe as a political maneuver to provoke trouble. The government is taking every measure to discover the murderers and bring them before a special revolutionary tribunal. "Extra measures have been taken to protect the German embassy and citi zens. The government requests you to express to the German government the Russian government's Indignation and convey its sympathy to the family of the late Count." PARIS. July 7. Alexander F. Ker. ensky. when informed by the Associ ated Press of the assassination of Gen eral Count Von Mirbach, said while he could not "feel elated at the death of a human being," he could not help saying "it is a good thing for Russia." Kerenaky Fears and Hopes. M. Kerensky seemed reluctant to be lieve the news, asking repeatedly, "Are you sure?" When informed that the news seemed perfectly reliable, as it originated in Berlin, he said: "This may be the beginning of the renaissance of Russia." "But now the Germans will surely go to Moscow." he added, sadly. YANKEES BAG PRISONERS German Raiders Enter American Position but Are Ejected. WASHINGTON. July 7. Capture of additional Gorman prisoners by Amer ican patrols in the Chateau Thierry sector, was reported In General Persh ing's communique for yesterday, re ceived tonight at the War Department. In the Woevre a strong hostile party succeeded in entering an American outpost position but was driven out by a counter attack. (Concluded on Page 3, Column 1.) V ED 102.0