THE MORNING OKEGONIAX, TUESDAY, JULY 23, 1918. ARRESTS DISCLOSE WAR-ORDER FRAUDS Rainr.nat Contracts Declared , Tainted With Bribery . and Conspiracy. GOODS SAID TO BE ROTTEN Officials and Employes of Manufac- turin? Concerns in Custody, Officers of Army Reported . to Be TTnder Surveillance der the provisions of the Bancroft bonding: act for the past 10 years, will be sold. The council yesterday adopted a report presented by Commissi one Kellaher which reads as follows: Referring to the sale of property for un paid bonded assessments bonded under the Bancroft act and the amendments thereto, the Commissioners in 1013, on account of the inability of property owners to pay the Installments and interest on the bonded as sessments against their property when they oecame due. because ot the conditions pre vailing at that time allowed the property owners to pay the Interest only on assess ments bonded prior to July 1. 1915. This policy bas been continued to this date. The City Treasurer was instructed to stamp upon each receipt issued for inter est only, this waiver: "This money Is paid and received on tne express condition that no right of the city shall not be estopped from Immediately asserting all rights that It had before ac cepting this payment of Interest." Conditions have now changed so in at property owners should be able to pay both the Installments and Interest on the bonded assessments against their property. I, there fore, respectfully recommend that where the 10 years allowed for payment of bonded assessments have elapsed and the payments have not been made that the property be sold for the whole uppatd bonded assess ment and Interest, and that where tne iw years have not elapsed I recommend that commencing; with August 1918, that a pay ment of not less than one installment and one year's interest be accepted. BILL IS BREEZY ONE ALLIES ADVANCE IN SOISSOHS SALIENT Speed of New Attack Brings Up Nearly AH Yankee. Troops From Marne. NEW TOKK, July 22. Extensive conspiracies involving: bribery and graft in connection with Army con tracts for rubber raincoats sent to sol diers in France were disclosed tonight by department of justice officials, simultaneously with the arrest of 17 officers and employes of 15 manufacturing- companies in New York and Brooklyn. They are charged with bribery, fraud or conspiracy. Officers of the Quartermaster's Corps involved are under surveillance and probably will be arrested soon in I Washington or other cities. Hundreds of thousands of dollars of raincoat contracts are tainted with fraud already uncovered by Depart ment of Justice agents, and other dis closures affecting Army . orders for clothing, soldiers' equipment, machin ery and supplies, and involving arrests on criminal charges may be made soon, it was learned. Some Colonel, Majors Suspected. Most Army officers at whom the fin ger of suspicion points are of the lower ranke, but a few of the ranks of Major and Colonel are said to be under inves tigation. Direct bribery of unnamed Army of ficers who had charge of letting con tracts or inspecting goods is charged against a number of those arrested to night. Among those arrested were: Felix Gouled. a -wealthy clothing manu facturer, who is charged with acting as go between for other contractors and with seektng to solicit contracts under the illegal contingent fee system. Joseph Hydemen, Wm. Sydeman and Joi. Wood of the Sudeman Rubber Company. Ralph Cohen of the Yorkshire Manufact ing Company. Ralph Rosenthal of Haneuer & Rosen thal. Alfred Zeittel of the Automobile Raincoat Company, Inc. Louis Fried S. Halpren of the Interbor ough Raincoat Company. Polly Clamons of the Manchester "Water proof Coat Company. I. M. Halpern of the National Cement Company. Simon Harris of the Karris Raincoat House. lWris denser of Iesser & Stenge. Joseph Pines of tife Pines Rubber Com pany. L.. T. IT. Tellim of the Eureka Rubber Manufacturing Company. Fraud Look Investigated. The round-up follows weeks of in vestigation by agents of the Depart ment of Justice and War and Navy Departments. The arrests are an outgrowth of the Government's campaign against the illegal system by which scores of agents have obtained Army contracts on a contingent fee basis. Department of Justice officials to night declared that many of the. rubber coats furnished by rontractors charged with fraud were reported unsatisfac tory by General Pershing. Investigation developed, it was said, that through the bribery of Inspectors rotten cloth and rotten rubber were used for the coats, dimensions were scanter than specifications, and seams were not cemented properly. A few rain storms were sufficient, it was eald, to make these coats fall to pieces. It was announced that in some cases manufacturers intimidated military or civilian Inspectors of raincoats by threatening to use influence in Wash ington to obtain their dismissal if they did not approve the coats manufac tured. Others practiced fraud by secretly shifting rejected goods to other plants to which inexperienced inspectors or those who would "play the game" were assigned. PANTAGES OFFERING HAS BOTH HUMOR AND VARIETY. Flirty "Hoosler Girl" Is Topline At traction, With Billr Tate and Two Others. Another bright and breezy Summer bill is on view at Pantages this week. The bill is exceptionally well balanced and starts a good pace at the outset which keeps going at a uniform mo mentum until the last note of the exit march. "Hoosier Girl" is the topline number. It is a flirtation in two appointments featuring Billy Tate, who is an Al Jol- soneque funster in white face. Bins Cushman and Evelyn Bennett. It is all set to gay melodies and a Broadway Beauty chorus in smart raiment pro vides background. Tate is funny and sings a brave comedy ballad about Car rfe and Harry which is a riot. His singing voice is excellent. There are a half dozen clever songs and dance spe cialties in the act, and it is scenically beautiful. A clever turn is that of Green Mc- Henry and Dean, who introduce melo dy from farm life. With one happy chap at the piano, another dancing in fine style and the other singing in a big, melodious voice, this turn is high ly humorous. Richard the Great is not another Tarzan; he is a real ape, but he has made a fine little man of himsell ana nuts over an assortment of tricks. Dick is going to hold a reception for children at the Saturday matinee. A surprise act is offered by a trio of talented girls, Doris and Alma Wilson and Lillian Brown. One is a butterfly and coaxes the other two as elderly spinsters from their cocoons until they, too, are lovely and smart. The very room Is made to undergo an astonish ing transformation and the dialogue is smart at every turn. Jimmy Lyons is a Hebrew statesman who saunters in to talk of the war and women and politics and a lot of things. Mickey Feeley belles his last name as far as his head is concerned for if he could "feeley" in his cranium he surely couldn't use it for a bouncing board. Mickey is a comedian athlete and so is his acrobatic partner. Bam Dura. The Pantagescope is an exhibition of interesting pictures taken of Alas kan and the northwest industries. BRIDGES JO BE TESTED COUNTY COMMISSIONERS RETAIN KANSAS CITY ENGINEER. WAR LECTURES GIVEN INCREASINGLY LARGE CROWDS HEAR DR. HARRY H. POWERS. MORE PRISONERS ARE HELD has -managed the spaghnum moss cam paign for Coos Bay Red Cross work, re ports that the headquarters is ask ing for supplies of the moss for cities in other parts of Oregon. Dr. Haydon has been giving 15 days of each month to the service and has gathered large quantities sufficient to keep the Coos Bay chapter busy for another month. To give ' people familiarity with spaghnum moss he placed on exhibit an endless variety of thia family of mosses, only one of which is adaptable for Red Cross bandages. The dry season has been favorable to gathering large quantities, which have mostly been obtained seven miles from Marsh field on North Inlet. Many people eend In assertions of finding new bogs, and Dr. Haydon has traveled much in exam ining useless beds. The supply gathered here is said to be of an excellent quality. Reports That Spans Over Willamette Are Unsafe Are Cause for Action. Immediate examination and investi gation of the safety of the bridges across the Willamette River in Port land is to be made by Ernest E. Howard, of the engineering firm of Harrington, Howard & Ash, of Kansas City. Authorization for this investiga tion was given yesterday by the County Commissioners. Mr. Howard is now in the city and will start his examinations at once. This investigation is ordered because of conflicting reports made recently concerning the safety of the Morrison and Burnside bridges especially. Two different engineers have submitted en tirely opposite views as to the safety of the bridges, and the County Commis sioners determined to call in Mr. Howard for a third examination. One report, submitted some months ago by State Bridge Engineer Purcell, stated that should two heavily loaded streetcars and two heavy trucks meet at the same point on the east approach of the Burnside bridge, the structure would undoubtedly collapse. Since that report was made minor repairs have been done, but the board wants to sat isfy itself as to the safety of the other bridges as well. Germany's Dream of Empire and Rus sia's 'Desire for Outlet to Sen Causes of Present War. "This is not the Kaiser's war," said Dr. Harry Huntington Powers at the Lincoln High School auditorium last night. "It is the wax of every last Gretchen and Hans in the German em pire." ' Increasingly large crowds are attend ing Dr. Powers' illuminating and in teresting lectures on the war, which are given under the auspices of the Uni versity of- Oregon. In last night's lec ture he showed how inevitable it was that France and Germany should one day meet on the field of battle. Ger many's dream of empire and her failure to get territory in any part of the globe coupled with the desire of Russia for an outlet to the sea were determining causes of the present struggle; accord ing to the convincing explanations of Dr. Powers. Another reason for war was the large sums of money which French banks had lent Germany on call. The first drawing of the sword was stopped by the French banks in lr-ll, when they threatened to call in their loans should the Kaiser open hostilities. A particularly interesting sidelight on the war was Dr. Powers' statement that the reason Germany developed her dye-stuff industry so thoroughly was that the dye-stuff factories could be changed to explosive manufactories on few hours notice, and that the raw materials used were largely the same. This evening Dr. Powers will discuss the reasons for England's entrance into the war. The lecture begins at 8 o'clock and is free to the public Headquarters and Units Move With Rapidity French Generals Give High Praise to American Officers and Men. BT CLAIR KENAMORE. (Copyright by the Press Publishing Com pany, the New York World. Published by Arrangement.) WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY ON THE MARNE, July 22. Around the salient from Soissons on the north and to beyond Chateau Thierry in the south everything is going forward de spite heavy German counter attacks. The speed of the new advance had brought nearly all the American troops from the Marne up to last night. The tired fighters in the front ad vance have been allowed to rest In i the tracks of fresh Americans. French and British, who leap-frogged through them to the vanguard of the battle line. Pontoon Bridges Used. The allies have crossed the Marne on pontoon bridges at many places, but despite their speed they were not al ways able to keep in contact with the enemy owing to tha rapidity of the German retirement. The French and Americans, however, have added to their long list of prisoners. Headquarters and units of all sizes have moved with such frequency that it is impossible to keep track of them and each day finds new American units added to the attacking force during the previous night. General Petain and Premier Clemen- ceau in a visit to the front paid their respects to the American Generals and ventured into some of the captured towns. Troops In Fine Spirits. The tremendous uplift of the advance fills the llarne Valley with exultation. It is like a dally Fourth of July cele bration. The troops are in fine spirits. All arms of the service are on their toes In an epidemic of cheering con fidence. The arrival of British rein forcements going forward through the smashed villages has brought new cheer to tht holiday makers. Two hundred civilians Immured in Chateau Thierry since June 4 wept and cheered as the Americans and French entered and the last Germans withdrew from the other side of the town. The occupation has left their loved town a wreck, the streets filled with litter from vandalage and shell fire. Wine cellars were emptied and barri cades in the streets built of the bar rels and furniture, camouflaged in many places of curtains, tapestry and bedclothlng. Tumbled masonry, piles of cobblestones uprooted by shells, gutters- flooded by broken mains, walls breached, were everywhere. Cathedral Badly Damaged Through this marched the French advance forces while the hysterical town folk wept with joy. The idow Depred. 87 years old, was greeted by the French general in command. She said she had cared for Boche wounded and in return her house and shoe re pair shop were not harmed. The civilians had sufficient food dur ing the occupation and were not mo lested except for an occasional search. The cathedral was badly damaged, its pictures being torn down. Artillery ana motor cars were parked there, gun wheels crushing the floor tile. All civilians were locked in the cathedral last night and on releasing themselves this morning found the foe gone and friends coming up the street. Old men and women kissed the blushing Amer icans who wandered into the town to see tne wreckage. STUDENT NURSES WANT VOLUNTEERS ARE SOUGHT TO RE PLACE WOMEN SENT ABROAD. ! College Education May Shorten Train ing but Will Not Be Essential. an To train nurses for service so as to relieve those already trained for over seas duty, the National Council of De fense Is calling for 25,000 young women of America to volunteer. Mrs. Alice Benson Beach, who is chairman of the State Council of De fense, will act as recruiting agent for Oregon. The call is for women be tween the ages of 19 and 25. Intelli gent, responsible women of good edu cation and sound health are wanted the pick of the country. A college education Is a valuable asset, and many of the hospitals where the training win oe given will give credit for col ege work. Some schools of nursing, on the other hand, do not require even a high school education. Women will be given an opportunity o enroll in the United States Student Nurse Reserve, as the unit is called, in any one of three ways. They may en gage to hold themselves In readiness until April 1. 1919, to accept assign ments to nurses schools and will be sent to schools as fast as vacancies occur: they may become candidates for he Army Nursing School, established by the War Department, with branches n selected military hospitals, or they may hold themselves In readiness until April 1, 1919, to accept assignments either to a civilian training school or to the Army Nursing School. Those who enroll thus will be called as soon as the need arises. The Government will rely on the etu dent nurses to fight disease at home. to care for those injured in hazardous war industries, and to make themselves ready to serve when the time comes as fully trained nurses, either abroad or at home. The course of training will vary from two to three years, according to the re quirements of the school where the women are sent. Student nurses get their board, lodging and tuition free and, in most schools, get a small allow ance to cover the cost of books and uniforms. DELINQUENT MUST PAY UP Property Owners Urged to Wipe Ont Bonded Indebtedness. Froperty owned by people who have failed to pay bonded indebtedness un Ringworm Scalp Sores If ran want speedy help trr D. D. D. rrsseriptien. So easy to applr. not greasy or umsbt. U washes into the scalp sod the relief Is instant. Try ft today. It is gwuteed. Uc see sad 3LD.TXP.in. SKXDMORE DRVU CO. OWb DBVQ CO, NEW YORK ADMAN TO TALK Portland Club Will Have Two Ex perts of East as Guests. Tomorrow noon, at its resrular weekly luncheon, the Portland Ad ciuo will listen to a talk by W. A. xnompson. or New York, dlrecton of tne advertising bureau of the Ameri. can Newspaper Publishers' Association The meeting will be held at the Hotel Benson. Another guest will be Maior E. F! tjrltcnfieid, of Critchfield & Co., of Boston. Tonight at the Benson the Rotarians will assemble at 6:30 for the hearing of reports from their delegates to the recent war work convention of Rotary uiuos at ban francisco. PRANK IN WATER IS FATAL Diver Seizes Woman's Foot and She Dies of Stroke of Apoplexy. SAN FRANCISCO, July 22. (Special.) Nick Jalis, accused of having caused a fatal stroke of apoplexy to Belie Mrs. Clara Spooner while the two were In the water at an Alameda bathing resort Sunday, was today charged with bat tery by John Spooner, husband of Mrs. Spooner. The battery charge was filed on rec ommendation of the District Attorney's office to hold Jails temporarily while the case is investigated. Jails is ac cused of having grabbed Mrs. Spooner by the foot as he dived into the water: Mrs. Spooner became highly hysterical and her nervous condition resulted in a stroke of apoplexy from which she died this morning. Jails is 31 years of age and a. laborer. BLAZE STOPS CAR SERVICE Trestle Xear Vancouver Burns; Pas sengers Are Transferred. VANCOUVER, Wash.. July 22. Ope clal.) Street car service between Van couver and Portland was interrupted today and many shipyard workers were late to work due to the burning of a portion of the trestle of the Portland Railway Light and - Power Company near Columbia beach early this morn ing. About 100 feet of the trestle was damaged. A freight car, which is kept at the Hayden Island end of the line, was pressed into passenger service until temporary repairs could be made and passengers were transferred during the greater part oi tne aay. 21 SPEEDERS ARE FINED Lucelle Keats Pays $35 for a Fast Trip on Williams Avenue. Twenty-one speeders and three vio lators of the traffic ordinance drew fines In Police Judge Rossman's court yesterday. The biggest fine (35 w Imposed upon Lucelle Keats, who was said to have been going down Williams avenue at about 50 miles an hour. Others contributed in varying amounts down to 5. William Waicka was saved from Jail sentence by telling the judge he was awaiting a call Into the U. S. M rines. His fine for an alleged speed oi 4b miles an hour was 825. Others were fined as follows: H. A. Carpolis 810, R. C. Hubbard 85. Sam Hornstein 5. Bert Stone 816. J. F. Mc Farland J5, J. E. Riggs 810. E. R. Gady 815. Roy Slmms 812.50. Ray Neblock 815. C. B. Malarky 815, Roy Beevls 810 D. B. Catton 815. Dick Edwards 820, Steve Williams 817.60. F. L. Gaines 817.60. G. Murphy 810. J. C. Story J8 A. Vinton 813. H. Wanke 817.50. All but the first three were on SDeedinar cnarges. POISON ENDS WOMAN'S LIFE Mrs. Mary" C. Bauer. Dcsnondent Swallows Lye Salts. Mrs. Mary C. Bauer, of 801 Ivon street, was found dead in her room yes teraay atternoon by her 16-year-old daughter. Taking of lye salts caused her death, according to Coroner Earl Smith. Despondency over ill-health is thought to have led to the act. Death came after much suffering, according to the coroner. Mrs. Bauer was 43 years of age. She is survived by a husband, a daughter and two sons, all of this city. The body was taken to the Lerch un dertaking parlors. Funeral arrange ments will be made today. BAND CONCERT IS TONIGHT Municipal Organization to Play a Forestry Building. There will be a Municipal Band con cert tonight at 8 o'clock at the Forestry Building, under the auspices of the Bureau of Parks. Percy A. Campbell director of the band, announces the following programme: March "The Ambassador" E. E. Barley) overture "Comlque (Rels-Bela: patrol. "Amerloan" (request). (Meacham); suite. --Alianus. (-fin loat continent") ( qursij iaxraneK); excerpts rrom the ope retta -ner oomiflr jioy (request), (Craw ford-Romberj?) ; waltz, "Bower of Beauty' (Kills Brooks): Idyll. "The Mill in th Forest" (request). (Ellenber-) ; National anthems of the allies; community sins, "America." The next concert will be given at South Park Blocks, Thursday evening at 8 o'clock. 1 a mil 'i p- 1 1 i Hi I Si I Fresh Beef Travels on a Rapid Schedule Fresh beef for domestic markets goes from stockyards to retail stores within a period of about two weeks. Although chilled, this meat is not frozen; hence it cannot be stored for a rise in price. A steer is dressed usually within twenty-four hours after purchase by the packer. The beef is held in a cooler at the packing house, at a temperature a , little above freezing, for about three days. It is then loaded into a refrigerator car, where a similar temperature is maintained, and is in transit to market on an average of about six days. Upon arrival at the branch distrib uting house, it is unloaded into a "cooler", and placed on sale. Swift & Company requires all beef to be sold during the week of arrival, and the average of sales is within five days. Any delay along the above journey means deterioration in the meat and loss to the packer. Swift & Company, U. S. A. Local Branch, 13th and Glisan, Portland, Ore. '4 6H PARIS FOILS AIR RAID German Machine Attempts Day Attack on City. region of Courmount. Roncheres and Vllleneuve the same day. Our aviators brought down nine enemy machine." LONDON. July 22. The aviation an nouncement tonight by the British Air Ministry says: "On July 21 the very strong west wind and low clouds almost entirely prevented flying except on a omall part of the front. The machines in this sector dropped bombs on various targets. Including railway stations, where a direct hit was obtained on an ammunition train. "In combats five hostile machines were brought down. Four of our ma chines are missing. Read The Oregonlan classified ads. FONCK LANDS 56 PLANES CHERRY CROP IS RECORD Sheridan Cannery Has Prepared Five Carloads This Season. SHERIDAN. Or., July 22. (Special.) Harvesting of the cherry crop for 1918 Is neanly completed. The Sheridan dis trict has yielded the largest crop of Bings, Royal Anns and other varieties in years. The cannery at Sheridan Is running to capacity. The employes are nearly all women. It has canned more than five carloads of cherries, logan berries and other small fruits. The cannery Is under the supervi sion of Roy Graves. The need of pick ers of the remaining loganberry crop Is great. MORE SPHAGNUM NEEDED Coos Bay District Is Asked to In crease Supply. MARSHFIELD. Or.. July 22. (Spe cial.) Dr. W. Haydon, of this city, who Merchants Vrged to Meet. The 6tate Council of Defense has called a meeting for Thursday night at 8 o'clock at Library Hall, when all merchants affected by the one-dellvery-a-day regulation will be taken up and discussed. All merchants affected should attend, say otitciais oi tne council, as there are certain problems to be worked out and remedies and plans suggested for maintaining the greatest possible efficiency under the war time regulation. Army Promotion Looms. George F. Mackenzie, sergeant in the Medical Corps at Camp Lewis, who has been recommended for the central of ficers' training camp. Is a Portland boy, the son of John Mackenzie. He is also a brother of Lieutenant Aeneas Mackenzie, who is held In a German prison camp at Heidelberg. I IllUlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllilllllllllllllllllllllllll Activity of Bombing Machines Main tained at High Pitch; Fifty Tons of Projectiles on Enemy Rail road Communications. PARIS, July 22. A German airplane made an unsuccessful attempt to reach the region of Paris today. It was driven off by the French anti-aircraft fire. This -was the first attempt to raid Paris - by daylight since the German Taubes flew over the city in September, 1914. Lieutenant Rene Fonck, a leading French, ace, brought down two Ger man airplanes on July 1. two on July 18 and three on July 19. Fonck's total Is now officially 66 machines. "The activity of our bombing ma chines was maintained at a high pitch on July 21. During day and night 50 tons of projectiles were dropped on enemy railroad communications, can tonments and bivouacs in the valley of the Vesle and the Ardre. "The stations at Laon,' Fismes. Berry au Bac and Fere en Tardenols, crowded with troops and convoys, were the objects of very violent bombard ments. A great fire followed by sev eral explosions was observed. Another fire broke out in the Fismes station. "Tens of thousands of cartridges were fired at German troops and bat teries ' which were silenced in the Yes; S. S. S. 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