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80 Pages Section One iEVEN SECTIONS Pages 1 to 16 VOL,. XXXV NO. 34. PORTLAND. OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST 20, iHlG. PRICK FIVE CENTS. PRESI DENT APPEALS TO RftlLRDflD HEADS Strike Responsibility Put on Officials. TWO ARE HURT BY CHINESE DRIVER FEDERAL PROBE OFF AND WHEAT SOARS INVISIBLE RULE HAS FOE IN 1. HUGHES GIRL EMPLOYE IS LOCKED IN BANK ALLIES START INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS DRIVE IN BALKANS GOON WTJ CAUSES ACCIDENT AT BUSY CORNER. HALF-HOLIDAY IS PASSED WITH MC STY FILES. BIG EMPLOYERS PUT OFF REPLY Mr. Wilson Wants Insistence on Arbitration Abandoned. DRAMATIC SESSION HELD Executive Tells Presidents or Rail ways That If Break Conies Pub lic Will Know Whom lo Blame. Answer Monday Is Likely. WASHINGTON, Aug. 19. President Wilson appealed to the railroad offi cials today to abandon their insistence on arbitration of the dispute threaten ing a nation-wide strike and to accept his plan of settlement, already agreed to by the employes, because in his opinion the railroads are contending for a principle which It is seemingly Impossible to apply to the present sit uation. In one of the most dramatic scenes i known to the White House in recent years the President declared to the heads of $5,000,000,000 worth of proper ties assembled at his summons: "If a strike comes, the public will know where the responsibility rests. It will not be upon me." Pnblfe Right Announced. A few minutes later ho issued a state ment saying: "The public has a right ti expect" acceptance of his plan. Refusing acceptance for the present, but not giving a final answer. Hale Holden, president of the Burlington road, and spokesman for the 33 rail road officials, urged the President to uphold the prin:ipl3 of arbitration, and declared his plan would "place in peril all that has been accomplished ;n the peaceful ad.1usf.nenr of labor contro versies by methods of arbitration." At the close cf the conference Presi dent Wilson summoned to Washington additional railroad president from the West and executives already here told him they would confer amonr them selves and returi next week, probably Monday. Situation IKsarded Grave. The situation toni.Tht was described by a railroad president as "not hope less, but grave. ' It will be at a stand still -until Monday at least. Discussion of counter proposals and compromises was current, and serious consideration was given to ttao possibility of Govern ment operation of the roads in case 6f a strike. A a result of the day's conference, however, it was said on good author ity that many of the railroad presi dents looked upon the possibility of a strike as more remote than at any time since they came to Washington. Over the week-end it was expected railroad officials will get into com munication with the controlling finan cial interests, 'and it still was con sidered possible that some of the powerful directors of the roads would be called to Washington. - Strike Likely to Be Short. Both among the employers and em ployes talk of arrangements for a etrike continued, and for different rea sons both sides thought if it came it would last less than a week. While President Wilson was still ad ressing the railroad executives, telMng them they faced "a condition, not a rinciple," his statement to the coun try reviewing his plan and character izing it as "a thoroughly practicable and fair programme." was given out at (Concluded on Page 3, Column 2.) t : j "Xl mm jjmmmmfy."S . . - ..... r 1 . ;-' i " . "f ; Amateur Chauffeur Knocks Down Pedestrians at Third and Morrison Crossing. Two pedestrians were injured serious ly and another escaped injury by a nar row margin at 6 o'clock last night when a motor-truck driven by Goon Wu, Chinese, charged through a crowd at Third and Morrison streets. The in jured were: Andrew F. McAtee, 942 Gantenbein avenue, chest hurt and bruises, and Mrs. Carl Lawrence, 491 East Thirty-third street, broken leg, dislocated knee and cuts. Goon Wu and Ray. E. Henderson. 410 Hancock street, who was instructing the Chinaman In driving, were taken to police headquarters by Traffic Officer Bender and will be charged with reckless driving. The men made a statement to Deputy District Attorney Deich and Detectives Royle and Vaughn. Goon bought the truck last week. Yesterday was the third time he had driven it. The two pedestrians were knocked down and dragged a considerable dis tance before the amateur chauffeur got his car stopped. The injured were taken to the Emergency Hospital in a passing auto mobile and then sent to St. Vincent's Hospital in the care of the Ambulance Service Company. They were attended by City Physician Ziegler. Mrs. Lawrence is 69 years old. She is the mother of Ernest Lawrence, 1273 East Seventh street North. Mr. McAtee is about 69 years old. He is a clerk at the T. M. C. A. SOD BROKEN FOR SMELTER Five Thousand See Commencement of $1,000,000 Plant in Idaho. KELLOGG, Idaho, Aug. 19. The first sod was turned today on the ground which is to be occupied by the Bunker Hill & .Sullivan Smelter at Kellogg. The sod was turned with appropriate exercises in the presence of 5000 per sons. Tho smelter when completed. It Is said, will cost $1,000,000. It is ex pected to handle a large part of the output of the Coeur d'Alene mines. FAIR WEEK IS PREDICTED Washington Forecast Says Weather May Be Cool on Coast . WASHINGTON, Aug. 19. Weather predictions for the week beginning Sun day, August 20, issued by the Weather Bureau today, include: Rocky Mountain and Plateau regions Temperatures will average low for the season, with local frosts in the high regions in the north. Pacific states The week will be gen erally fair, with temperatures near or below the seasonal average. M'ARTHUR TO TAKE STUMP Oregon Representative to Aid In Re publican Campaign in Maine. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, Aug. 19. Representative ' Mc Arthur, of Portland, on invitation of the Republican Congressional commit tee, will go to Maine next week to deliver speeches in support of the Re publican ticket in that state. He is scheduled to speak at Bath, Augusta and Oakland. RUSSIANS WIN ON ST0KH0D Austro-German Line Broken Miles From Kovel. 40 PETROGRAD. via London. Aug. 19. The Russians have broken through the Austro-German lines on the Stokhod River in Volhynia, and have made a considerable advance, it was announced today. ' ' PEN PICTURE Price Up 4 Cents in Day of Mad Buying. FURTHER ADVANCE PREDICTED Continued Reports of Shortage Make Market Lively. SOME EXPECT $2 GRAIN British Efforts to Cut Down Chi cago Market Noted Few Heap Great Fortunes Because of the Big Margins Asked. CHICAGO, Aug. 19. (Special.) A load was lifted from the wheat market today when the traders learned that E. N. Hurley, chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, after making an investigation of the recent spectacular advance in wheat prices, returned to Washington and announced that there was no evidence of manipulation of prices on the Chicago Board of Trade. Traders, who have been afraid to venture Into the market while the in vestigatlon was on, bought freely to day. There was an enormous trade in the wheat pit. At the opening there was a rush to buy which continued until the closing gong. The result of this buying was an advance of mors than four cents for the day. England Worried About Supply That the recent advance in prices is Justified by conditions is not disputed anywhere except by British and Ca nadian government officials. England is worried over supplies and it was reported that that government is plan, ning to commandeer the Canadian crop. Ministers of Agriculture In the Northwest provinces of Canada have steadfastly denied that "crops had been injured, but reports from American crop experts now In those provinces tell another story: ' B. W. Snow and George M. Le Count, American crop experts of international fame, have been sending in very bull ish reports on the conditions of Spring wheat. Le Count telegraphed from Brandon. Manitoba, today that one field was threshing out 10 bushels to the acre of 43-pound wheat. Seed Prospect Is Had. Another farmer had a thresher all set up ready to harvest his crop, but decided It was not worth the cost of labor And is burning the field to clear the land. In other sections much standing grain will be burned to get the straw out of the way. Canadian farmers are alarmed about seed for next Spring. There is little wheat in Manitoba that will do for seed. Foreigners have . been paying more attention than usual to the Chicago wheat markets. Local traders believe that the British importers resorted to strategy during the week in an effort to lower American prices. On Tuesday morning, before the Chicago trade had opened, a cable message showing that the Liverpool market had declined 10 pence per bushel reached the trade. More Affecta Shaky Market. With the Chicago trade on the fence because of the Government inveatiga tion of conditions, the Liverpool news had the effect of reducing prices in this market four cents a bushel on the first trades. The Britons, watching this market closely, jumped in and bought on the decline. Later In the day prices advanced nine cents a bushel. Every day the reports on European crop conditions show how urgently they will need the assistance of North American wheat to keep the wolf from their doors. The crop of France is (Concluded on Page !. Column 1. INTERPRETATION OF NEWS EVENTS OF PAST WEEK RY THE OREGONIAN The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 72 degrees; minimum, 4G degrees. TODAY'S Fair and warmer. northerly winds. War. Russian soldier relates remarkable escape. Section 1, page 4. British advance on 11 miles of Somme front. Section 1. page 4. Ita'.lar steamer Sampalla reported sunk. Section 1, page 4. Allies start big drive In Balkans. Section 1, page 1. Official reports. Section 1. page 4. Mexico. Troop A men fit after hard trip. Section 1. page 2. ' List of Third Oregon shows men of mini vocations. Section 1, page 2. General Funston recommends troops do re called from Mexico Section 1, page S. Politics. ' " Mr. Hughes takes stand against Invisible government. Section 1, page 1. Flsht being made tor Senate. Section 1. page 3. Champ Clark opens campaign In Maine. Section 1, page 6. Eastern newspaperman says Oregon will go for Hughes. Section 1, page 8. Foreign. Japanese and Chinese in clash In Mongolia. Section 1. page tl. National. . . President appeals to heads of railroads to abandon demand for arbitration. Section 1, page 1. Itoinestir Wheat soars wnen Government reports prices are net manipulated. Section 1. page 1. Ruin marks wake of Gulf storm. Section 1. page 5. Suspension of new tariffs expected by com- mission. Section 1. page 3. Mrs. "Jack" Geraghty returns to Newport with dogs. Section 1, page 6. I'aclfio Northwest. Washington Supreme Court explains decision regarding liquor rights. Section 1. page 7. Race on for prize timber stand In North west. Section 1, page t. Brownsville Republicans bold rally. Section 1. page 8. Fight for Lister Is launched. Section 1. page 8. Eugene family hurt when freight train wrecks auto. Section 1, page I. Miss Gladys Roddy, of Marshfleld. wins Coos Bay Jubilee bride contest. Section 1, page 8. Seaside cairn fete la huge success. Section 1, page 14. Idaho candidate recalls Mr. Hughes when he asked for Job in law office. Section 1 page 7. Coos bar deepened. Section 1, page 14, Sport. Pacific Coa League scores: Portland 3. Los Angeles 4; San Francisco 7. Oakland 2; Salt Lake 5-6, Vernon 2-5. Section 2. page 1. Philadelphia routs Red. Section 2. page 1. Ty Cobb saves game for Detroit. Section 2, page 1. Far Western records broken at San Diego meet. Section 2, page 1. . National Champion Johnston defeated by c Japanese champion. Section . page 3. Frank Klernan. Jr..rKiid Anna Mayhall win marathon swfro.- Section 2, page 2. Fans speculate on world's aeries. Section 2. paso 2. r. Jake Daubert now leads ' National league , barters. . Section X -page 3. Raising ot player limit -l!i Coast League sug gested. Section 2, page 2. Portland fandom is pulling for Fielder Jones. Section 2, page 3. "Iron Man" MeGlnnlty eensured by North western League directors. Section 2, page 2. Russell Smith win 1016 . Gearhart golf championship. Section 2, page 4. Discarded players from majors . of little help. Section 2. page 3. Northwest anglers to vie In casting cham pionship. Section 2. page 3. Irene Campbell and Albert Wlllman win tennis singles. Section 2, page 4. Commercial and Marine. Sharp advance In wheat prices in North western markets. Section 2, page 14. Chicago wheat sells at highest prices of year. Section 2, page 14. Wall-atreet trade slow, pending stock set tlement. Section 2, page 14. Portland and Vicinity. Recruit on botder writes soldier life is pleasant. Section 1, page 2. Mrs. Roy Pettit, slayer of husband, member of pioneer family. Section 1, page 3. C. W. Embody files cross complaint in wife's suit for divorce. Section 1. page 12. City employes not likely to have payday before October. Section 1. page 12. Foreign trade branch to be opened at Chamber. Section 17. page 13. Girl employe locked in bank for half holiday. Section 1, page J.. Bankers, merchants and farmers hear Mr. My rick on rural credits. Section '1. page 10. Lumbermen will meet here this week. Sec tion 1. page 10. Peace film thrills. Section 1. page 10. Santa Fe Railway insuring all employes free of charge. Section 1, page 10. Two hurt by Chinese driver. Section 1. page 1. Lumber market hit ty unfavorable Middle West crops. Section 1, page 11. Peninsula shipyard to Increase working force. Section 1, page 14. Servlco bureaus to aid producers. Section 1, page li. Reed College extension course free to public. Section 1, page 15. Body of Stanton Bonbright, drowned canoe ist, is recovered. Section 1, page 15. Practical course offered at Reed College. Section 1. page 10. Weather report, data and forecast. Section page . Competent Appointees Held Necessary. TIME FOR SURGERY IS OYER Candidate Favors "Hygienic Treatment" for America. BUILDING UP ADVOCATED Republican Nominee Says Mixing of Politics With Business or De fense Plans or National Honor Not Right. KAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 19. Charles Evans Hughes told, audiences here and, in Oakland today that the Government of the United States could not properly be conducted by mixing politics witn huir with nrenaredness. with the maintenance of international honor, or with other Administrative functions oi government. "When you start out to be military, be military and not political." Mr. Hughes toIl an audience m Actual Facta Wanted. t a kaii.v. we can run this r-,,..-...,..., ml i in it business and politics," the nominee said to a gather ing of business men here a short time before the Oakland meeting. At Oak land Mr. Hughes repeated nis aww tlcn that he favored fostering honor able American achievements in business and adjusting difficulties by Iinaing and acting upon the facts. "You can break down your pruspci ity by prostituting yourself in the face of an unjust popular demand." Mr. uo.h jM "I shall never do that. And the unjust popular demand is only unjust because the facts are not unaer stood. The only thing I am afraid of In this country is the oar, w nen e . . nut into the light of day and see the actual facts we generally . . , , , i n find out where we trust nnu j"""" reamers Kali to, Understand. "Some people live In dreamland." Mr. Hughes continued, in speaking of the need for military and commercial preparedness. "They do not understand the actual world we live in." The nominee spoke of Federal com missions lo investigate various situa tions. "We have developed commissions of Investigation." he said. "What do they amount to unless we have expert com missioners? Commissioners are noth ing except as they are dominated by x onuo InsnireH bv lovalty and gUUU U . . - - patriotism, and controlled by the facts and the Justice or tne case oeiore them. National Oraranlzatlon Needed. "I believe we can put down what is wrong without destroying wnat is good. In weeding our garden we do not want to pull up the useful plants, w H .alri, 1 m rnrri(tln7 n hi 1 ne to destroy the opportunities of suc cess. We are competent, if we go about it In the right way. to destroy . i . . nouses, to BDCurq uieii. inn uc&iiiik. and at the same time make possible "We cannot go forward unless we realize ourselves nationally. We must more than ever understand that na- . 1 ...... 1 . n Ka awa Ib. A ml that national prosperity can be gained only vy ihb iuitzui;jr uu uuiiuiiai i ganizauon. Im falhl f o v r n m rot Oniiovi. Mr. Hughes declared himself op- poseu iu lutis.uie fcuvenwuviii. & u, nt ' Vim M 'vln1hl cn v m man competent administration, not only by (Concluded on Pa.e a. Column Z.) Miss Lulu Bornt, Left Behind by Other Clerks, Is Kept Prisoner Until Evening Session at 5. Miss Lulu Bornt. a stenographer em ployed at the Scandinavian-American Bank, Park and Morrison streets, was locked in that institution yesterday af ternoon quite by accident and was com pelled to pass the time all alone from shortly after noon until 5 P. M. Miss Bornt was Intent upon winding up the details of the day's work and paid no heed when the last bank em ploye with a key left and the lock of the door clicked behind him. The banking day at the Scandinavian- American closes on Saturday at noon. but it was an hour later when the clerks had their accounts straightened so they could leave. The bank opens again at 5 o'clock, however, on Satur day nights for the accommodation of savings depositors. When the stenographer had her tasks arranged and waa ready to go. she found she could not open the door and. although she made efforts to reach some of the banking staff by telephone, she was unsuccessful and she passed the long, languorous Summer after noon in the banking rooms. Her enforced association with so much money was ended when Chester Johnson, a bookkeeper, came shortly before 6 o'clock and liberated her. She said she had put in most of the time profitably at any rate, although she had planned passing the afternoon in another way. She was enabled to do a lot of filing; and other miscellaneous tasks that no one finds time to ac complish in the ordinary working day. TROOPER'S FALL MAY KILL John M. Dunn, of Portland, Gravely Injured by Bucking Horse. CAMP BALBOA. San Diego. Cal.. Aug. 19. (Special.) Trooper John M. Dunn, of Portland, was perhaps fatally in jured at 3 o'clock today by being thrown from a horse which he was rid ing bareback. He was unconscious when picked up and when, after re ceiving first aid from Captain Houck. he did not regain, consciousness, an ambulance was summoned and he was taken to the hospital ' at Fort Rose crans. At a late hour tonight he was still unconscious and physicians said he might not recover. His mother has been notified. Trooper Dunn" was born in Oregon and ia about 21 years old. He rode after cattle around Heppner and Con don. SNOW DEEP IN MOUNTAINS Mazamas Find Depth of Five to 1 0 Feet lu Cascades Timber. EUGENE. Or., Aug. 19. (Special.) Twenty-seven members of the Mazama mountain party arrived in Eugene to day from the Three Sisters and thi others will break camp tomorrow morn lag. W. C. Yoran said that when the re turning party left the Mazama camp yesterday six inches of freshly fallen snow lay on the ground. In the tim ber near the summit the snow is from five to 10 feet deep. BREMEN RUMOR IS REVIVED Tug Which Brought In Dcutschland Again Takes on Coal. NORFOLK. Va.. Aug. 19. Arrival of the tug Hansa. formerly the Thomas F. Timmlns. here tonight for coal re vived a rumor that the German subma rine merchantman Bremen was about to come in through the capes. The tug convoyed the Deuthchland during her stay in American waters, but the captain said tonight he was taking coal because he was under char ter to tow mud scows to Baltimore. CARTOONIST. Offensive Now Under Way on All Fronts. FIYE VILLAGES ARE CAPTURED Attack Resembles Opening of Campaign on Somme. RUSSIANS FORCE BARRIER Austrians Admit Retirement From Gateway to Pass of Carpathians. British Sweep Foe Baek on Western Front. LONDON, Aug. 19. The long-ex pected general offensive on the Sa lonikl front has opened and the grand assault against the forces of the cen tral powers now is In progress in every theater of the world-war. Gen eral Sarrail is attacking the Bulgar German forces along the entire Greek Serbian frontier, a distance of more than 150 miles. Reports from both Berlin and Paris indicate that the entente allies are fol lowing the same tactics in the Balkans that signalized the opening of the great offensive on the Somme. Small bodies of troops are attacking at numerous points along the Bulgarian line, ap parently with the Intention of feeling out their opponent's positions before the real battle opens. Villages Are Taken. The French report the capture of five villages in the initial phases of the of fensive, while Berlin reports the cap ture of Fiorina, a Greek town IS miles southeast of Monastir. from the Ser bians. Serbian headquarters admits this repulse. On the eastern front the Russians have forced their way into the heart of the great mountain barrier between Gallcla and the Hungarian plains. The Austrians admit a retirement wei-t of Jablonltza. the gateway to one of the most important passes through the mountains, which was seized by the Russians this week. In this district the Austrians are retreating toward the Chornahora ridge, the highest c?int In the Carpathians in that region, from this ridge the ground falls rapidly to the plains of Hungary. Rusnlana forced Back. Farther to the south, on the Bukowina end of the battle line, the Russians have been forced back in their ad vance on Klrlibaba. the next pass south of Jablonltza and about SO miles from that point. Daily attacks by the British against the German lines north of the Somme in France are having their reward, and today was reported the most notable gain in some days In the region of Gulllemont- After withstanding Ger man counter-attacks, the troops of Gen eral Haig again assaulted the opposing trenches and gained from 200 to 600 yards along a front of 11 miles. tialn Slade by Brltlah. The pressure of the Anglo-French forces has been exerted strongly re cently where the two forces Join hands between Gulllemont and Maurepas. and the latest British advance was from Foureaux or High Wood to the Junc tion point. In Addition the British re port that they have gained a footing in the village of Gulllemont. Berlin says that Anglo-French attacks north of the Somme were repulsed, except around Gulllemont, where the German line was shortened. While not as active as the British on the Somme front, the French have made more gains in the Verdun region. Fighting took place on both banks of the Meuse, the Germans attacking on (Concluded on Page 4. Column 2.