THE MORNING' OREGONTAN. ' MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1918.
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SLACKER TO HAVE
HO REST ON EARTH
Dragnets Set, Ready to Land
Service Dodgers, Says
General Crowder.
MEXICANS DESPISE EXILES
Hen Who Fled to Avoid Draft Are
Subjected to Insults Abroad.
Prosecutions Follow Re
tarn Home.
WASHIXGTOX. Sept. 1. (Speclal.)
In advance of registration on Septem
ber 12 of all male citlzena between 18
and 45 under the new draft ezteneion
Jaw. Provost Marshal-Geners! Crowder
erred notice today that powerful ma'
chlnery had been built up by the Gov
rnment to round up slackers who fail
to register.
"By registration day," General Crow
der said, "there will be agencies in
very part of the country to point th
finger of accusation at every man of
draft age who attempts to evade regis
tration."
General Crowder pointed out that
failure to register constltutee a mis
demeanor and that the law provides
for trial In the United States Court and
Imprisonment up to one year upon con
victlon. The convicted slacker also
will be registered and required to serve
his military term after release from
prison.
Thoaaaads Roanded T"p.
The ways of slackers under the orlg.
tnal draft Jaw have become Increas
Ingly hard," General Crowder said. "It
la estimated that between 20.000 and
5,000 have been rounded up since June
5. 1917. The names of others not ye
apprehended, because of absence from
the country, are In possession of the
Government, and prosecution face any
one of them who. having fled the coun
try to escape the draft, attempts to re
turn.
General Crowder revealed that the
Department of Justice has on file the
names of 3000 slackers who fled to
Mexico before June 5, 1917, to escape
registration. Against each of them,
he said, a complete case has been pre
pared, to that Immediately prosecution
can be undertaken the moment the man
attempts to recross the border, whether
the attempt is made during the war, or
afterwards. The present whereabouts
of these slackers in Mexico is known,
tnd they are being closely watched.
Discussing the unhappy plight of the
American slackers in Mexico, General
Crowder said:
Mexicans Tanat Slackers.
"Despite the fact that the majority
of these men are from wealthy fami
lies in the United States who keep them
supplied more or less liberally with
funds, their lot Is one of constant ha
rassment. In Mexico City, for example,
where the more wealthy ones have es
tablished a sort of colony, they are os
tracized completely, not only by other
Americans resident in the city who are
above draft age, but by the natives as
welL They are constantly subjected to
insults and taunts as they raes through
the streets.
"The status of those less well
quipped with funds is in many In
stances desperate. Numbers of these
slackers have sought peace in camps In
isolated sections In the mountains, oth
ers have been compelled to accept the
jowest Kind or menial labor on ranches.
despised by e-.en the peons with whom
uejr worn."
Aaylnra - Canada.
The Government also has the names
of those who fled to Canada to escape
registration. These men must either
face conscription into the Canadian
army, or return to the United States to
face Imprisonment and ultimate induc
tion Into the eervice.
"Women in all communities, nartlcti-
larly those having relatives at the
front." General Crowder added, "have
been particularly helpful to. the Gov
ernment In ferreting out jounj men
who failed to register. Tips from such
women have tlr nd again resulted In
round-ups of slackers."
BRUSH FIRES PUT OUT
BLAZE NEAR ROJE CITT PARK
E.XTIREI1 EXTINGUISHED.
Oa Portland Heights Flamra
Smoulder Bat All Danger I
Regarded as Past.
Still
An of tha brush fires which have
Wen burning for the past several days
round Portland were reported to be
either out or nearly so yesterday after
aoon and no new ones have been heard
cf.
The fire which burned over ahmil
10 acres in the outskirts of Rose City
Tark Just north of the Sandy boule
vard was reported to be completely ex
tinguished and all fire apparatus with
drawn.
On Tortland Heights the fire was
Btill burning and one line of hose was
till being played on the flames. This
fire, however, was entirely under con
trol and no further trouble was ex
pected to develop In that neighbor
hood.
The fire at Tigard. Or., was practical
ly extinguished when the Second Com
pany Oregon Military Police left it
after a fight of seven hours Saturday.
A few citizens were left guarding what
remained of that blaze.
tomary articles of civilized life. He
also claims to have discovered that
frozen meats are Just as nutritious as
cooked meats, and says that Eskimo
never have scurvy, save when eating
white men's diet.
Stefansson did not hear of the .war
until a year after It had commenced.
He registered here today ' under the
Canadian man power census. He is a
native-born Canadian, but for years
was both farmer and newspaper editor
in a small town in Dakota, until he en
tered the Arctic eleven years ago.
The Canadian explorer says that the
mystery area 'of a million square miles
around the Pole still needs exploration.
A telegram from Nome, Alaska, Just
received by Stefansson, reports that a
revenue cutter arrived here from the
Arctic brings no word from Stefans-
son's lieutenant, Storkersen, who start
ed across the ice last Spring from
north of Barter Island, on the Alaskan
coast, to travel eastward for Meville
Island. The cutter got within 30 miles
of Barrow on August 15, but could go
no further. It returned to Wainwright
and landed freight and mall. The
schooner Herman passed Point Hope on
August 6, working toward Barrow, but
was not sighted by the cutter.
The cutter reports adverse ice con
dltions for vessels rounding Barrow
from the eastward and consequent!
no word from Stefansson s ship Polar
Bear was received. He is hopeful that
change of wind will open the road
for ships around Barrow before the
freeze-up, which In average years
comes in September. One day is enough
to break the ice open.
TALI
EDITORS
GUESTS AT DINNER
Speaker Expresses Admiration
for Hearty Welcome Ex
tended by City.
TRIP TAKEN OVER HIGHWAY
GUARD TO GIVE CONCERT
FREE PROGRAMME AT ICE HIPPO
DROME TOMORROW NIGHT.
Machine Gum Drills, Bayonet Drills and
Military Maneuvers Will show
Work Being Done.
The Multnomah Guard has a full
calendar, with several events of its
own In prospect and with constant calls
upon Its units and its band. Organ
ized upon the principle of service, the
regiment ia responding, though its busi
ness and professional recrulta frequent
ly are summoned after a full day's
work at their own professions.
Tomorrow night at the Ice Hippo
drome the Guard will give a free pro
gramme to Portland, comprising a band
concert, machine gun drills, bayonet
drills and military maneuvers, field
drills for the hospital corps and a band
concert by the 100-piece organization.
Last night the Multnomah Guard
band played a concert for the military
class at Benson Polytechnic, where sev.
eral hundred soldiers are under quar
antine. Tomorrow at noon the band
will march from the Auditorium to the
Union station, accompanying the tank
section recruits who are entraining.
Proof of the growing interest la the
regiment is the fact that Captain R. C
Dolbin, regimental adjutant, will visit
the Albina Machine Company's plant
Friday for the purpose of mustering in
as an auxiliary 120 recruits from that
industry.
Enthusiastic n, Praise of Scenic
Route, Distinguished Party Lose
Hearts to Portland and Will
Spend Labor Day Here.
MILLIONS GO TO ROADS
NEARLY HALF OP 9500,000,000 FUND
EXPENDED.
Enormous Total In Loans and Rental
Payments Advanced by Federal
Administration.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 1. Nearly half
of the $500,000,000 revolving fund pro
vided originally for the Railroad Ad
ministration, has been consumed in
loans and rental payments to individ
ual roads, according to a Railroad Ad
ministration financial report.
Since April 1, 202,000,000 has been ad
vanced.
rrevlous payments raise the total
to nearly $250,000,000.
In addition $39,553,000 has been paid
out from accumulated surplus earnings
turned over to the Railroad Ad
ministration by various roads. Au
gust payments to 39 roads amounted
to $38,137,000, the Pennsylvania being
the largest borrower.
Some of the advances of more than
1,000,000 above current earnings made
August were: Pennsylvania Rail
road. $9,500,000; Chicago, Burlington
& Qulncy. $1,600,000; Missouri Pacific,
50,000; Southern Pacific. $1,300,000;
hicago, St. Paul. Minneapolis & Oma-
$1,200,000; Chicago, Milwaukee &
t. Paul, $1,000,000.
Portland has so completely won the
hearts 'of.members of the. Italian edi
torial commission that they have de
cided to remain here another day.
Following their trip over the Columbia
River Highway yesterday, the editors
voted unanimously to spend Labor day
aa. guests of Portland and" will view
the hosts of labor on parade.-
There is no programme of enter
tainment arranged for the visitors, as
they expressed a desire to secure a
respite from travel, prior to entrain
ing for Tacoma, Seattle and. Spokane,
where they will view industrial enter
prises that have been launched to aid
in winning the war.
Members of the commission who
were amazed at the activity in the
Portland shipyards, as viewed Satur
day, were as greatly surprised at the
beauties of the Columbia, Been yester
day during their automobile trip over
the scenic highway. And they mads
no effort to conceal their delight.
Perfect weather added to the enjoy
ment of the occasion, and save for a
slight haze in the atmosphere, which
interfered with long-distance views.
the day was ddeal. The editors, upon
returning to the city last night, were
keen to secure photographs and views
to take back- to Italy.
Dinner Taken at Chanticleer.
Dinner at Chanticleer Inn proved to
be the closing event of a perfect day,
this being an informal affair, presided
over by Robert M. Schmeer, chairman
of the entertainment committee. On
behalf of the visitors, Senor Aldo Cas
suto expressed appreciation for the
hearty welcome extended the commis
sion by the city of Portland and paid
his respects to the Chamber of Com
merce for its Interest in the object of
their visit. '
Mr. Schmeer responded on behalf of
the entertainment committee, voicing
the pleasure of the entire community
In having had so distinguished a com
mission for its guest.
Will Leave Tonight.
The editors expect to leave tonlghf
for Tacoma, accompanied by Italian
Consul Brenna, of Seattle, who is here
to act as escort. Their itinerary has
been changed, owing to the decision
to remain one day longer in Portland,
and but one day will be spent in Ta
coma, two days for Seattle and one for
Spokane.
Members of the commission who
were guests on the auto trip and at
the dinner yesterday are Orajio Fed
nassl. Franco Raineri, Aldo Cassuto,
Antonio Agrasti, Leonardo Vltettl
Paolo Cappa, Pietro Solari. With the
party are Enrico Falcidia and his wife,
of New York, publisher of the leading
Italian newspaper in the United States
Carroll Hutchins and Robert L. Whit
Ing, of Washington. D. C, the latter
being In charge of the party.
Portland people who accompanied the
commission on the trip were Robert
M. Schmeer, William McMurray, R. W.
Childs, M. M. Linnehan, Sydney B. vln
cent, Edward Weinbaum, Dr. Albert E.
Bonaschl, Mrs. E. D. Bradbury and Miss
Doris Bradbury.
automobiles and the burglary of a store
at Rockwood, Or., a week ago, and of
another store at Parkrose, on the Sandy
boulevard Saturday night. He- told
the police that several other boys were
connected with the robberies.
All the automobiles and a part of
the things taken from the two stores
have been recovered by the police. The
lad spent IS months in the) State Re
form School, and was paroled for good
behavior last May. .
After, it is stated, burglarizing the
store at Parkrose Saturday nigh'.,
Crews and his alleged fellow workers.
with a quantity of knives and candy
they had appropriated there, drove to
Salem in a stolen automobile belonging
to Ellen B. Minlch, 5006 Fifty-second
street Southeast, leaving their loot with
other boys at the reform school and
then starting back to Portland.
The authorities at the reform school
notified the police here that the stolen
goods were In their possession, and tha
trail was taken up. Crews is lodged
in the County Jail, pending action by
the Juvenile Court.
WEEKS TOURS HIGHWAY
MEMBER OF CAPITAL ISSUES COM.
MITTEE DRIVEN TO SALEM.
M. COMSTOCK IS DEAD
Former Mayor of Spokane Succumbs
After Rallying From Operation.
SPOKANE, Wash- Sept. 1. (Special.)
J. M. Comstock, former Mayor of
Spokane, president of the Spokane Dry-
goods Company, and honored member
of the G. A. R-, died this afternoon at
the hospital after undergoing an oper-
tion for serious complications and rat
ing in a manner which gave hope
for his recovery.
Mr. Comstock had been In the dry-
goods business in Spokane for a quar-
er of a century and has helped to
uild up the largest enterprise of its
nd between Portland and Chicago.
is widow and two daughters survive.
The estate is large, but a detailed
tatement was not available tonight.
He was about 75 years old and vlgor-
us until the beginning of this serious
illness.
TRIP IS HELD LONGEST
STEFANSSOX TRAVELS 800
IV EIGHT MONTHS,
MILES
Peals Mnakoxea, Caribou and Polar
Bear Regarded mm Good Food
By Arctic Explorer.
DAWSON, T. ., Sept. 1. Vilhjalmur
Stefansson, the Arctic explorer now
here en route home after five years
In the North, cla-us that nn his recent
trip he has accomplished the longest
trip in history across Arctlj Ice. He
traveled 800 miles in eight months.
t'hereas in their dash to the Pole
others covered only 450 miles In a round
trip of three months on the Ice.
Pole dashers used the relay system
of supply sleighs, while Stefansson
adopted the Eskimo system of living
entirely off the country with his rifle.
subsisting on seals, musk oxen, caribou
and polar bear.
He says that now he Is accustomed
to Eskimo diet and prefers it to fresh
fruits, eggs, meat or any of the cus-
YOUTH 'INSTANTLY KILLED
James Doyle Victim of Aulo Mis
hap Near Centralis-
CENTRALIA, Wash., Sept. 1. (Spe
cial.) James Doyle, aged 21, em
ployed at the Eagle Mill near Tenino,
was instantly killed this morning
when an automobile in which he was
riding, driven by Lawrence Kratz, of
Tumwater. went into a ditch two and
one-half miles west of this city. Doyle
was pinned under the. car and crushed.
Krats escaped with a few scratches.
Doyle's parents, Mr. and Mrs. P. S.
Doyle,' reside at Waconda. Wash. A
sister, Mrs. A. P. Laurie, lives in Port
land. The young man's body is at the
parlors of Coroner Newell.
VICTIM OF AUTO IS BURIED
Former Playmates Pallbearers
Funeral of Charles Cates.
VANCOUVER, Wash., Sept. 1. (Spe
cial.) The funeral of Charles Cates,
10 years old, killed by a Governmen
automobile at Tenth and Washington
streets Friday noon, was held at 2:30
o'clock today at the Knapp funera
chapel. Rev. John D. Nisewonder,
United Brethren, officiating.
Interment was in the City Cemetery
and the pallbearers, all boy playmates
of the unfortunate lad, were Kenneth
McPhaden. James Robinson, Raymond
Ridley, Wilbur Sparrow, Emil Harmon-
son and Earl Kopp.
The deceased was the son of Mr. and
Mrs. G. C. Cates, of this city, and was
riding on the handlebars of a bicycle
of a friend when struck.
PEACE MANIA SEIZES HUNS
Germans on Frontier Indifferent to
Prospect of Boclie Defeat.
AMSTERDAM, Sept. 1. The Ger
mans have' been seized with a sort of
peace mania, according to the frontier
correspondent of the Telegraaf. The
events In France have made such
profound Impression that the Germans
one meets along the frontier are indii
ferent to the prospect of the defeat of
the central empires, and only wish to
get peace as quickly as possible.
The correspondent says two German
regiments in Russia refused to go to
the western front and that 130 of the
soldiers were shot, and that 700 of the
bodyguards at Munich refused to go to
the front, barricading themselves in
their barracks until they were com
pelled to surrender.
LUMBER SHIPMENTS LARGE
Total or 34,156,182 Feet Sent From
River In August.
ASTORIA. Cr, Sept. 1. (Special.)
In the month of August 24 vessels and
two rafts with lumber and logs from
Lower Columbia River plants left for
California, their ct ,oes- totaling 29,
050.000 feet. Two vessels car. ing
1.74", 026 feet sailed for foreign porta.
In the eame period seven vessels
loaded 3,358,256 feet at upriver plants,
making a grand total of 34,156.182 feet
of lumber and logs which left the Co
lumbia River in cargoes and rafts in
August. In addition to this, 583,358
shingles were shipped from Astoria to
Honolulu,
AMERICANS MAKE ADVANCE
Line-Straightening Movement
rled on Fast of Bazoches.
Car.
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY ON
THE VESLE FRONT, Sept. 1. (By the
Associated Press.) The Americans
made a slight advance In their line
straightening process east of Bazoches
early Saturday, the Germans not learn
ing of the maneuver until it was near
ly completed.
The enemy started a barrage and
with machine guns endeavored to drive
out the Americans, who dug in before
daylight and held a position north of
the Vesle along the railroad. Later the
Germans turned their artillery on the
Americans, but did not use their in
fantry at this place.
PAROLED BOY ARRESTED
Walter Crews Said to Have-Stolen
Fight Automobiles.
Wallace Crews, aged 15 years, on
parole from the State Training School
at Salem, was arrested yesterday after
noon at Sellwood by Detectives Hellyer
and Leonard charged with larceny, and
baa coniesse4 to the tieit oX eisiit,
Unofficial Inspection Made Regarding
Application for Expenditure of
9590,000 for Roads.
For the purpose of demonstrating
that Oregon highways are used for
commerce as much as pleasure, George
K. Weeks, of San Francisco, member
of the Federal capital Issues commit
tee, who is in Portland as general cam
paign r anager for the liberty loan
campaign of the Twelfth Federal Re
serve District, was escorted on a tour
of the Pacific Highway to Salem, re
turning via the West Side road.
As a member of the capital issues
committee, Mr. Weeks is one of those
whose duty it is to pass upon all high
way bond issues during the war. "While
the trip was made unofficially, it has a
bearing on the pending application
of the State Highway Commission for
$590,000 to be expended In road con
struction and improvements from the
$6,000,000 bond issue recently approved
by the voters.
Accompanying Mr. Weeks were Rob
ert E. Smith, campaign manager of the
fourth liberty loan for Oregon; S. Ben
son, chairman of the State Highway
Commission; R. A. Bopth, member of
the commission, and J. C. Ainsworth,
also a member of the capital issues
committee.
During the automobile tour of the
route, which was offered as an example
of Oregon highway building, rural set
tlement and use, members of the party
discussed with Mr. Weeks the state's
highway needs and aspirations, with
the purpose of presenting the avail
ability of proposed improvements for
actual produce hauling and commer
cial traffic, as well as for scenic routes.
Though Mr. Weeks let it be under
stood that he made the tour in an un
official capacity, it was at his sugges
tion that the trip of inspection was
undertaken and it is presumed that he
will devote the information obtained to
a consideration of the application now
on file with the capital issues com
mittee.
IXICAfi REVOLT
NEWS CONFIRMED
American Tells of Outbreak of
80 Out of 110 Federal
Troops at Culiacan.
YAQUI UPRISING DESCRIBED
General Calles Admits Rebel Indians
Are in Mountains; No Bad Feel
Ing Against Americans, Says
Sonora Governor.
TEACHER TO -GO OVERSEAS
Miss 31. Bechner, of O.
signs Position.
A. C, Re
ASTORIA, Or., Sept. 1. (Special.)
Miss M. Bechner, of Corvallis, who has
been director of home economics at
Oregon Agricultural College for the
past three years, has resigned to go
overseas for service in devastated
France.
Having a six-weeks period before
she leaves for France Miss Bechner
plans to spend it on the coast. She
will be the supervisor of 50 Portland
women volunteers who are going to
Allendale to pick cranberries. Any
one desiring to join Miss Bechner's
camp should apply at the office of J.
W. Brewer, Federal farm help special
ist, in the Oregon building, Portland.
VANCOUVER WILL JOIN IN
Washington City Union Men Coming
to Portland's Parade.
VANCOUVER, Wash.. Sept. 1. (Spe
cial.) Charles Diekman has requested
that all union men assemble at 7:3d
A. M. in the City Park. A parade will
be held through the business section
of Vancouver, and at 8:30 o'clock the
members will go to Portland and join
in the big demonstration to be held
there. Ample car service will be pro
vided, it is announced, as the street
car company has been notified.
After the Portland parade, many of
the members contemplate returning
to Vancouver to witness the great
roundup and Wild West show to be
held by the soldiers in Vancouver Barracks.
LIVES PLEDGED- TO WAR
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
Gives Labor Day Message.
CLEVELAND, Sept 1. "We are
proud of the unselfish motives actuat-
ng the entry of the United States into
the present- world war," the Labor day
message of Timothy Shea, acting presi
dent of the Brotherhood of Locomotive
Firemen and Enginemen, says, "and
to the realization of the noble ideals
proclaimed as its only motive in par
ticipating in this appalling conflict we
pledge our lives, fraternity and our
sacred honor to the end that liberty.
fraternity and equality be established
throughout the world politically, so
cially, economically and Industrially.
RAILROAD MEN SHUT OUT
(Continued From First Page.)
NOGALES, Ariz., Sept. 1. Confirma
tion of the report of the revolt of the
federal garrison in Culiacan, Sinaloa,
Mexico, was received here today. The
news was brought to the border by an
American mining man. Eighty of the
110 soldiers of the Culiacan garrison
participated in the revolt. There is
conflict as to the date of the occur
rence, the American stating it hap
pened last Sunday and other reports
stating the time as Tuesday.
According to the mining man . th
Hotel Rosales was the first place looted
and $2000, Including $280 belonging to
the American, was taken from the safe.
From the hotel the mutineers wen
to the telegraph office and killed the
manager. The store of John Schwab,
a Swiss, also waa looted.
Governor Reported Driven Out.
One report reaching Nogales is to the
effect that Governor Iturbe was forced
to flee from Culiacan, but had re
turned.
Additional details of the Yaqui re
volt at Ortiz and Torres, Sonora, were
received here today. Wives and chil
dren of the 'revolting Yaquis are held
as hostages at Torres.
Reports of a revolt of Taquis at La
Colorado, south of Hermosillo, Sonora,
were received here tcaiay.
General P. Elias Calles, Mili
tary Governor of Sonora, ad
mitted last night that Yaqui Indians
near Torres had: revolted Monday and
that they are in the mountains. He was
inclined to minimize the importance of
the revolt and said he had not heard
of the Culiacan revolt, news of which
reached the border today.
General Calles said 50 Yaquis were
killed and wounded in the battle fought
near Ortiz Monday, following the re
volt and that five federals were killed
and six wounded. ,
No 111 Feeling Against Americans.
Sitting in his private car, parked in
front of the custom house in Nogales
Sonora, General Calles made the fol
lowing statement ta the Associated
Press regarding the recent trouble on
the border here:
"There is no bad feeling between
Mexico and the United States, but there
is bad feeling between the customs
guards and this was responsible for all
the trouble here Tuesday.
"No German agents had any part In
the affair, but 1 do believe it was
caused by enemies of the Mexican gov
ernment in the United States and in
proof of this, two men were seen to
flee to the American side after the
shooting Wednesday night.
"I came to the border at the order of
President Carranza to stop the trouble
and I brought 2000 troops with me, in
cluding three battalions of Yaquis. The
result is to be seen, ffr everything ia
quiet ana peaceapie nere, is It not? "
The Bank of California
National Association
Portland Branch
Third and Stark Streets
Capital .$8,500,000.00
Surplus and Undivided Profits.... 8,571,214.33
For convenience of our depositors, our Savings Depart
ment will be open on Saturday evening; from 6 to 8
o'clock until further notice.
Interest Paid on Time and Savings Deposits
E SCALE ACCEPTED
THEATERS ENTER, INTO AGREE
MENT WITH EMPLOYES.
Substantial Increase for All Workers
Assured and Advance In
Prices Ia Expected.
announced, the Director-General says:
Let us demonstrate to the American
people that under Federal control
railroad officers, attorneys ana em
ployes cannot be made part of any
political machine nor be used for any
organized partisan or selfish purpose.
Let us set such a high standard of
public duty and service that it will be
worthy of general emulation."
Stalled Anto Wrecked by Train.
Stalled on the railroad track at a
grade crossing about three miles be
yond Llnnton, an automobile was' com
pletely wrecked yesterday by an incom-
ng Spokane, foruana or Seattle train.
No one was injured, as the occupants
of the car, hearing the approaching
train, sought safety before the crash
occurred. The crossing is partly ob
scured to the enginemen of trains ap
proaching Irom the West.
Excessive Speed Charged.
C. P. Deverex, City Councilman of
Eugene, reported to the police yester
day that while he and a party of friends
were driving on Columbia Highway an
automobile bearing Oregon dealer's li
cense No. 2038 was going at excessive
speed and narrowly missed colliding
with his machine on a sharp curve. Mr.
Devereaux said he would appear against
the driver i tfee latter la arrested.
Theater and motion - picture - house
owners accepted the new wage and
working agreement presented b:' their
employes without open opposition yes
terday, so far as reported. The agree
ment becomes effective as of yester
day's date. Officials of the Theatrical
Federation were called into conference
with representatives of the owners and
managers about midnight Sat irday and
advised that the new terms would be
accepted, so far as they were concerned.
Under the revised scale there will be
substantial wago increases for prac
tically all theatrical and motion - picture-house
workers, including musi
cians, stage hands, engineers, machine
operators, bill posters and lithograph
ers. To just whafextent the added ex
pense entailed by' the wage increases
and granting of a six-day working
week wll be passed on to the public
in advanced admission prl- a Is not
yet known. It is expected, however,
that some showhouses will be obliged
to raise prices.
Musicians who received $26 per week
under the old scale will now receive
$31. per week. Others have been raised
rom $30 to $35 and from $37.50 to $42.50,
the variations covering a wide range
according to the class of the theater.
Leaders are now all uniformly to re
ceive $10 a week more wages than their
players. Under the old scale many of
them received $5 a week more.
The greatest increases-are granted
motion-picture machine operators. Men
of this craft who formerly received
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Pay of stage hands is varied accord
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$40: electricians, from $25 to $34.50.
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BIG AUDIENCE THUS
Alexander, Man of Mystery,
Sets Minds Busy.
MANY LAUGHS PROVIDED
Magic Master Runs "Gamut of Cos-
tume, From American Evening
Dress to Flowing Hindu
Robes; Humor Bubbles.
BT LEONE CASS BAER.
Pine fun is Alexander. His pro
grammes say that he's been in India
and way points since last he established
a precedent in Portland and set a lot of
folk to thinking, who had heretofore
regarded their heads as merely a more
or less decorative diock on wnicn 10
carry a hat. If Alexander never did
another blessed thing, he at least has
caused an epidemic of thought. That
in Itself is a missionary act. But Alex
ander goes further. He provides some
thing for us to think about, ana ex
cellent entertainment while he's do
ing it.
Alexander, who is nitra-American
one moment, wearing his smart eve
ning clothes quite like magazine-cover
heroes and dashing around the stage
nrforminar clever sleight - of - hand
tricks and magic while he chats affably
and In hiarh. good humor. Is one in
dividual. Alexander, enveloped In yards
of colorful drapery, topped by a tur
ban and slowly pacing the Heiiig
aisles, bearing aloft a crystal, into
whifh he neers and answers the ques
tion you have just written and sealed
and stamped and see reposing on the
stand on the stage, is another individ
ual, save that he retains his marvelous
gift of humor,
noiis-htful. spontaneous, sparkling
humor it is, ready with a clever sally
or keen observation befitting the mood
of the questioner.
Questions about everytnmg on iana
or sea, on th
car was going east on Overton street
and Mr. Harper was driving south on
Twenty-fifth street. He was driving
close behing another machine, and
when he turned into Overton street
was struck by the streetcar. The in
jured were taken by the Ambulance
Service Company to the Good Samari
tan Hospital.
MOTORCYCLIST IS INJURED
Joseph Jjissey Gets Ugly 'Wound
When Hit by Auto.
Joseph Lissey, of 2038 East Burnslde
street, was severely injured yesterday
when the motorcycle he was riding
was struck by an tutomoblle driven by
William J. Jackson, of Troutdale, at
Twenty-fourth and Flanders streets.
Lissey received an ugly wound in the
left leg.
After striking Lissey the automobile
careened to the curb and turned over.
Jackson and L. Helming, occupants of
the automobile, were not Injured.
ENEMY AGENTS ARRESTED
Wireless Operators Taken Into Cus
tody In New York City.
NEW YORK, Sept 1. George Fergal
and Guildo Gassa,, wireless operators,
were taken into custody by agents of
the naval intelligence bureau yesterday.
It is alleged the two men, enemy
aliens, are familiar with the confiden
tial code of the Austrian 'government
and papers found in Fergal's possession
indicate he belongs to the Imperial and
royal wireless departments of the Aus
trian navy.
Japanese Shippers Seek Docks.
TACOMA. Wash, Sept. 1. (Special.)
S. Ito, of New York, representing the
Mitsubushi Goshl Kaisha line, is in Ta
coma seeking dockage facilities for
Japanese steamers. He said three other
Japanese companies are looking to
wards Puget Sound for warehouses and
docks. United efforts of commercial in
terests of the city will be made to bring
the companies here.
7000 Cavalry Horses Cared For.
HOOD RIVER, Or, Sept. 1. (Spe
cial.) Virgil Absten, now on furlough
visiting his father, G. R. Absten, pio
neer of the Frankton district, has been
r- earth or in the heavens for several months at the Camp Lewis
v,,. f marrimrea Dast. present and I remount station. The station cares for
HAWAII NEEDS LABORERS
Sugar' Crop Shortage Threatened If
. Men Are Not Obtained. '
HONOLULU, Aug. 30. (Special.)
Unless Hawaii can secure some 6000
laborers for the plantations within the
next few months the sugar crop of
1920 will be reduced by some 150,000
tonsils the prediction made by a local
capitalist and planter, W. H. Mc-Inerny.
Aa yet, the Planters Association has
been unable to get a ship to bring
some 2500 Porto Ricans from ' Porto
Rico : who are. willing to come with
their families.
Intermediaries Are Named.
WASHINGTON, Sept 1 Representa
tives of the Emergency Fleet Corpora
tion to promote good relations between
workers and employers in shipbuilding
districts were announced tonight. They
include: S. A. Protherton, of San Fran
cisco, for California yards, and Henry
W. McBride, ex-Governor of Washing
ton State, for all Washington yards, j
future, of work and war and love and
law. thev ask the subtle Alexander, and
Alexander answers tnem.
Wnw his does it. is not told in any
of the explanatory footnotes on tne
programme. Alexander disclaims being
fortune teller ana Diimeiy ieu iu
rioiie-htful chat that could he pre
dict, or could anyone predict, or could
he read a human mind, that he could
take a hundred dollars to Wall street
and read a few minds and corner all
the money in the world, tie oisciaims
the Anna Eva Fay contraptions of elec
trical connections through his heel into
the floor, and discards the telephonic
communication by cnasing an over me
stage and up and down tne aisies.
Alexander claims nothing o fthe su
pernatural and says naively and can
didly that any of us have the power to
do all he does if we had followed it as
long as he has. which is some 26 years.
He isn't a spiritualist or a mystic or a
voodoo. He's just warmly, intensely
hi.miin with erood fun and logic and an
-abiding understanding of psychology
and a perfectly uncanny insignt into
human nature. Plus his engaging per
sonality and his amazing parcel of
tricks or achievements or demonstra
tions or whatever you call 'em, he is
far and ahead the best single-handed
entertainer who comes to see us. He
keeps us guessing.
We all adore to be fooled. A packed
theater at the Hellig paid good money
to have Alexander fool 'em pleasantly.
He will fool 'em at a matinee (for us
girls only) tomorrow, and at an even
ing performance every night this
week.
TWO HURT IN COLLISION
HARPER AND WIFE HURLED TO
PAVEMENT.
7000 cavalry horses.
Whisky Found In Suitcase.
H. Smith was arrested yesterday by
Patrolman Cameron at Sixth and Glisan
streets and locked up in the city jail
charged with violation of the prohibi
tion law. A search of a suitcase in
his possession disclosed 13 pints of
whisky.
Fifth Wood Vessel Launched.
SEATTLE, Wash., Sept. 1. The fifth
of a contract for 10 wooden vessels be
ing built by the Fatterson-MacDonald
Shipbuilding Company for the Austral
ian government, the Bethanga, waa
launched here today. The Bethanga is
a 4800-ton vessel.
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WANTED 2 ehinglers. 2 paperhangers, 4
roofers, 2 roof painters. 608 Tourny blag.,
1 o'clock.
WANTED Cash boys; steady positions. Ben
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Automobile and Car Crash, and Two of
Four Occupants of Machine Are
Thrown Out.
C. Harper and his wife, of 123 Kil-
lingsworth avenue, were severely In
jured last night when the automobile
in which they were riding, driven by
j. w. Harper, their son, came into col
lision with a Depot and Morrison street
car at Twenty-fifth and Overton streets.
The auto was turnea completely
around by the force of the crash and
was jammed against the curbing, mr.
and Mrs. Harper, who were lnjurea,
were thrown to the pavement.
Mrs. Harner sustained a severe sprain
to her back and a badly bruised thigh,
besides several small cuts about the
face and hands. Mr. Harper received
a badly cut hand and a deep cut on his
face. - ....
George Harper, a son, ana j. jonn-
son, the otner occupants ul mc -o.,
were not injured. Motorcycle Officers
Mekkers and Tully, who investigated
the accident, reported tnai tne etreei-j
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