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THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, PORTXAND, OCTOBER 10, 1915.
BIG SHIP VALUES
DAWN ON DANIELS
MEMBERS OF if AVAL. ADVISORY BOARD, WHO HELD FIRST MEET ING LAST WEEK.
Good Judgment
British Success Against Ger
man Submarines Changes
it Secretary's Opinion.
EXPERTS ARE VINDICATED
Ajnerlcxui 2Savy Xow Ijackin in de
fense Agninst Under-Water At
tacks, bnt Experiments
; Are Xow Being Made.
OREGO.XIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash
ington. Oct. 9. The fact that Great
Britain has destroyed or captured up
wards of 50 German submarines since
the Germans undertook the blockade
of the British Isles, and the further
fact that few large warships have been
sunk by submarines since the war be
JCan. has been made plain to Secretary
Daniels, and, according to late advices,
ho is now disposed to again change his
mind on the question of naval appro
priations and to follow the recommen
dations of the general board more
closely.
Naval experts all along have insisted
that the American Navy is more in
need of dreadnoughts and battle cruis
ers than of any other type of warship;
they have insisted that the '"big-gun"
vessels were the type on which the
Navy must rely. Not fewer than four
dreadnoughts and not fewer than two
battle cruisers was what the general
board recommended.
Daniels Inclined to Disapprove.
Secretary Daniels, however, on re
ceipt of the report of the general board,
expressed disapproval and indicated his
personal preference for submarines, and
lie went so far as to slice the pro
gramme of the general board as to
heavy ships, while retaining: their full
recommendation as to submarines. The
Navy Secretary has been deeply Im
pressed with the effectiveness of Ger
man submarines, especially in their
operations looking to the destruction
of British commerce.
It was not until the Navy Depart
ment received detailed advices from
naval attaches in London and else
where in Europe, telling of the sur
prising success of the British navy in
exterminating the German submarines,
that Secretary Daniels showed any
signs of wavering. The fact, however,
that the British, by the use of nets,
mines, small destroyers and other
means had been able practically to end
the blockade of the British Isles, when
brought home officially, in reports on
which the utmost reliance could be
placed, made Secretary Daniels wavfr,
and he is now understood to be more
liberally disposed toward the battle
ships and the battle cruisers.
1 Submarine Defense Lacking.
Ht present the United States Navy
has but a single instrument for fight
ing submarines the destroyer but the
battleships and cruisers are equipped
with torpedo nets whose efficiency is
none too great. The submarine being a
fixture in the modern navy, especially
as. a weapon of defense and always a
possibility as an offensive instrument
of., war, the Navy Department has
turned its attention to the study of
means of combatting the submarine,
and experiments, confidential in nature,
are being conducted with such instru
ments as have been employed success
fully by the British, and with otber
contrivances of American origin.
The probabilities are that an Im
portant feature of the naval estimates
will call for a liberal appropriation for
experimental work, which will include
experiments with apparatus and de
vices of this general character.
3 COMMISSIONERS HELD
Boiinl at South Bend Involved in
Irregular Payroll Case.
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SOUTH BEND, Wash.. Oct. 9. (Spe
cial.) w. B. Donaldson, chairman of
the. present Board of County Commis
sioners, and H. M. Wilson and F. G.
Crawford, former members of the
Board, have been also indicted on seven
counts each r-y the grand jury. The
indictment of tho trio was known a
week ago, but the court would not re
lease publication until ex-Commissioner
Wilson returned to the city. He was
found at his home In Bay Center by
Sheriff Bell All three gave bonds of
J1000 each, signed by somo of the
most substantial business men of the
city and county.
The Indictments are almost like
those returned against Blaine, the road
supervisor, and have to do with the
validating of the warrants for the al
lied i-rcgular ryroll submitted by
Blaine.
COUNTY LEVY 22.2 MILLS
South Bend and Raymond Clubs
Succeed in Effecting Cut.
COUTH BEND, Wash.. Oct. 8. (Spe
cial.) Through efficient co-operation
between committees from the 8outh
Bend and Raymond Commercial Clubs
and the Board of County Commission
ers, the estimates anticipated a month
ago in the county tax budget have been
reduced $75,S!5. The county will raise
8.T9S and the consolidated state and
county levy has been placed at ap
proximately 22.3 mills.
The current expense that threatened
to be 12 mills has been reduced to 4.9
mills by the elimination of 60.000 that
was to have been raised to provide
for the prosecution of the 46 indict
ments against North River "night
riders" nnd'others. It is believed that
not moro than three of these trials
wU be had this year.
ITuming Mixtip Decision Reversed.
SOUTH BEND, Wash.. Oct. g.(Spe
cUl.) A peculiar judgment was ren
dered by a Pacific County jury yester-
uy id me appeal rrom Justice Court
" or Jones vs. Don Smith J
yeRr ago Jones' three hound dogs at
.tcivra ana Kiuea some or Smith's goats
on- Lower North Tt-.- i . l.
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two and wounded one of the dogs.
mni rotovtrta a:o ror th
loss of his dogs. Bmlth appealed t.
the Superior Court. Th.
five minutes and gave Smith judgment
for $1. The costs in the suit will run
up to between $300 and J400. Jones
is an itinerant hunter and has helped
i u iiiucii oi in- country or bear, cou
gar and other forest animals.
land Commissioner Aide Sues.
ABERDEEN, Wash., Oct. 9 (Spe
cial.) Assistant State Land Commis
sioner W. W. Hopkins, of Copalis. has
stsriea sun against the Copalis L.um.
ber -Company for $3764 for alleged in
Juries received in an automobile acci
dent. - A train hit his automobile. Web
ster Leonard also was injure! and Is
suing for 33076.
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FOREST FIRE LOSS IS GUT m -' ' ;f 5
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WASHINGTON ESTIMATES DESTRUC-
TION AT $10,000 THIS YEAR.
Total of 13.835,000 Feet Killed and Br-
819,000 Feet Wiped out Part of
Timber May Be Saved.
OLYSIPIA. Wash., Oct. 9. (Special-)
The value of Washington timber de
stroyed by fire this Summer will not
exceed $10,000. State Forester E. W.
Ferris announced this week, giving a
compilation of the reports of losses by
counties in the state.
Total fire losses were 13.S35.000 feet
of timber fire killed, practically all of
which can be logged before it deteri
orates, and 5949.000 feet destroyed.
Last year losses were 26,850,000 feet
killed and . 18.141.000 feet destroyed,
while total financial losses, owing -to
destruction of much logging equipment,
was many times as great as this year.
The estimate or the Washington
Forest Fire- Association, based on
Western Washington counties only,
agrees closely with the figures of the
state forester, being 17,000,000 feet
killed and destroyed this year, with
the loss set at $9000.
The state and the Washington For
est Fire Association each spent ap
proximately $5000 more oi regular
patrol work this Summer than last
year, yet each reports a saving on to
tal expenditures of $4000. Much smaller
forces were employed in actual flght-
ng, in spite of the fact that from King
County north an extraordinary Summer
drouth was experienced. In this sec-
(1) Henry Ford and Secretary Daniels In Consultation. (2) John W. Richards,
3) Thomas A. Edison. (4) M. II. Sellars, (SI Hudson Maxim. (6) K. F.
S perry, (T) Henry A. Wise Wood, (8 Iluirard K. Coffin, () A. 1. Riker,
110) H. C I.ammc, (It) F. J. Sonjnif, (13) Frofessor A. ' G. Webster. (13)
Robert S. Woodward. (14) Alfred Cravln. (13) Andrew Mnrrajr linnt. (ltt)
W. R. Whitney. (17) Leo H. Balkeland. (18) William L.. Sanders, (10) Ben
jamin B. Thayer, (20) Dr. Peter C. Hewitt, (21) Thomas Robbins, (22) Will
iam Ie Roy Kmmett, (23) Spencer Sillier.
tion, practically all the destructive fires
occurred.
The following statement by Mr. Fer
ris shows timber losses in detail by
counties:
Timber Timber
Comity Killed. Destroyed.
Clallam IUO.000
Gray's Harbor loo.uoo
Island 400,0'in
Jeffersoa , flo.ooo so.ooo
Kins 1.7ou.ooi suo.uuo
Klickitat liOO.Uuo 220,003
Lewis loo.noo
PUrce ... HIO.O00
Pen d' Oilelle 300. ooo
Skafrlt 500,000 1'iO.Oon
SnohcmUh 1OS.0OO 21J.OH0
Stevens 20.000 :;7.ooo
Spokane loo.ooo r.o.ooo
Whatcom 11.000.ooo 4,000,000
Total 13.S85.0OO 6,41),000
ACCIDENTS ON INCREASE
RATE UNDER WASHINGTON COM
PENSATION ACT SHRINKS.
COMPLETE ROSTER OF MEMBERS OF NAVAL ADVISORY
BOARD WHICH MET YESTERDAY.
Chairman Thomas A. Gdison.
American Aeronautical Society Hudson Maxim, Brooklyn, ordnance
and explosive expert; Matthew Bacon Sellers, Baltimore, authority on
aeronautics.
American Society of Automobile Engineers Howard E. Coffin, De
troit, Mich., and Andrew J. Rlker, Bridgeport, Conn., inventors, auto
mobile builders and now vice-presidents of large automobile manufac
turing companies.
. Inventors' Guild Dr. Peter Cooper Hewitt. New York, inventor of
appliances for telephones, hydroplanes, aeroplanes, balloons and elec
tric lights, and Thomas Robbins, Stamford, Conn, inventor of many
mechanical devices. Including the belt conveyor for coal and ore.
American Chemical Society Dr. W. R. Whitney, Schnectady. N. T.,
creator and director of the research laboratory of the General Electric
Company; L. H. Baekeland, Tonkers, N. Y., a native of Belgium, famed
particularly for the invention of a photographic paper.
American Institute of Electrical Engineers Frank Julian Sprajue.
New York, an early assistant of Edison, who built the first electrically
trained gun for the Navy; Benjamin G. Lamme. Pittsburg, inventor and
head of a committee which passes upon all Westinghouse Inventions.
American Mathematical Society Robert Simpson Woodward, presi
dent of the Carnegie Institute at Washington, D. C, and an authority
on astronomy; Dr. Arthur Gordon Webster, Worcester, Mass, professor
of physics at, Clark University.
American Society of Civil Engineers Andrew Murray Hunt. New
Tork, experienced in development of hydro-electric steam and gas
plants; Alfred Craven, New York, chief engineer of the New York
Public Service Commission. '
American Institute of Mining Engineers William Lawrence Saund
ers, New York, inventor and engineer, and Benjamin Bowditch Thayer,
New York, metallurgist and explosive expert.
American Electro-Chemical Society Dr. Joseph William Richards.
South Bethlehem, Pa, professor of metallurgy at Lehigh University,
and Lawrence Addicks, Chrome. N. J, metallurgical engineer.
American Society of Mechanical Engineers William Leroy Emmet,
Schnectady, N. Y, engineer and inventor and first serious promoter of
electric ship propulsion, and Spenser Millar, South Orange, N. J, in
ventor of apparatus that has simplified coaling of ships and of
breeches buoy service now used by the coast guard service.
American Society of Aeronautic Engineers Henry Alexander Wise
Wood, regarded by many as the world's foremost authority on the en
gineering features of the art of printing, and Elmer A. Sperry, elec
trical inventor and manufacturer.
Larse Majority of Cases Comlna
Under Commission's Notice Due
to Ron-Mechanical Causes.
OLYMPIA, Wash., Oct. 9. (Special.)
Statistics dealing with four years'
experience with the compensation act
are being prepared by the Washington
Industrial insurance Commission for
its forthcoming; annual report, these
statistics being more nearly complete
than those of any other state since
Washington was the first to put such
an act into effect.
Although accidents for the second
year showed a marked increase over
the first year, the records indicate a
reduction la the rate for the last two
years.
The Washington act went Into full
effect October 1, 1911. For the first
year there were 11.898 accidents, in
cluding 27$ fatalities, reported. The
second year the number increased to
16,336 accidents, including 371 fatali
ties. For the third year the first de
crease was shown, the reports drop
pine? to 1S.08B accidents, with 824 fa
talities, and for the last year there
were only 13,163 accidents, of which
215 were fatal.
Of 210 fatal accidents Brought to
final settlement within the last year a
Large majority. It Is shown by the
Commission's statistics, were due to
non-mechanical causes. Of this total
23 claims were rejected on the ground
that the accidents did not come within
the act. of the remaining 188 only 30
were attributed to machinery, and 158
to non-mechanical causes. Of these 35
accidents were attributed to rolling
logs, 24 to falling trees. 10 each to
falls of rock or coal in mines and to
drowning, nine to falls from ladders or
scaffolding and eight to falls from
machinery.
Grand Jury Indicts 46: Disperses.
SOUTH BEND. Wash, Oct. . (Spe
cial.) Tho county grand Jury closed
Its sessions yesterday and was finally
discharged from further duty by Judge
E. H. Wright. It has been grinding
since last June, except for a brief Sum
1 mer vacation, and has been auita an
expense. At its Spring sitting 16 In
dictments were returned against al
leged "night-riders" and seven against
H. F. Blaine, road supervisor In the in
fected Iorth River district. In con
nection with alleged irregularities in
the construction of the Brooklyn road.
Iter. E. P. Kyle Dies at Salem.
SALEM. Or., Oct. 9. (Special.)
Rev. Edwin P. Kyle died here today at
the age of 12 years. Funeral services
will be held Monday from the United
Presbyterian Church. Rev. H. D. Tat.
man officiating. Rev Mr. Kyle was a
native of Pennsylvania, and had lived
In Oregon for 20 years. He formerly
was pastor of the Nazarlne Church
but retired from active work a few
years ago. A widow survlces.
Oregon Postmasters Appointed.
OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash
ington, Oct. 9. W. J. Mariner, post-
master at Blalock, Or, has been re
moved from office and Harry E. Long
appointed tv succeed him. Charlotte
Bement appointed postmaster at
Arrow, Or, vice Edith Reterel, resigned.
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weight for weight, none can
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MY GUARANTEE
Your - money back if the equal
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First In buying an instrument, it is a great mistake to
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Second It is equally as great a mistake to pay an ex
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