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Section One
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vol. xxxvi xo. 16.
PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, APRIL 23, 1917.
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BALFOUR PARTY
ARRIVES li! U. S.
British on Way to World's
Greatest War Council.
WHEREABOUTS KEPT SECRET
Special Train, Held 5 Days, Is
Traveling Over Closely
ji Guarded Route.
PLANS BEGUN INFORMALLY
American State and Military
Notables Escorting Visit
ors to Washington.
with the balfour party,
April 21. Great Britain's high com
missioners to the International War
Council, to begin in Washington next
week, set foot on American soil today
our! now are on their "way to the
Capital.
Arthur James Balfour, Secretary of
State for Foreign Affairs of the Em
pire, ex-Premier, and often called the
dean of the world's elder statesmen,
was the central figure of a party that
included some of Great Britain's most
prominent men.
American Aid Appreciated.
With a genial smile playing over his
features, he consented to a brief inter
view, warmly expressing his appre
ciation of all the United States has
done as a neutral in charitable and
relief work in Belgium and in German
prison camps, his gratification that
England and the United States now
were allied for a common purpose, and
his conviction that this country in its
war efforts would astound the world,
particularly Germany. .
The object of the commission, Mr.
Balfour said, was "to make co-opera
tion easy and effective between those
who are striving with all their power
to bring about a lasting peace by the
only means that can secure it, namely,
a successful war.
Submarines Are Evaded.
"Your President, in a most apt and
vivid phrase," Mr. Balfour added, "has
proclaimed that the world must be
made safe for democracy. That self
governing communities are not to be
treated as negligible simply because
they are small; that the ruthless dom
ination of one unscrupulous power im
perils the future of civilization and
the liberties of mankind are truths of
political ethics which the bitter expe
rience of war is burning into the souls
of all freedom-loving peoples."
England's leading statesmen, hav
ing safely evaded the German subma
rines and mines which sent Lord
Kitchener to his death, were received
with the highest honors as guests of
the American people when they ar-
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TURKISH RELATIONS
WITH U. S. BROKEN
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AMERICAN AMBASSADOR IS TOO
ILL TO LEAVE XET.
Example- of Austria-Hungary as
Ally Is Followed by Ottoman
Government In Action. '
LONDON, April 21. The Turkish gov
ernment on Friday evening officially
Informed the American Embassy that
diplomatic relations with the United
States had been broken off, according
to a Berlin dispatch forwarded by Keu
ter's correspondent at Amsterdam.
American Ambassador Elkus,' who Is
suffering from typhoid fever, the re
port adds, will have to remain some
time In Constantinople. The Ambas
sador's condition has shown some im
provement. BASEL. Switzerland, via Paris, April
21. A dispatch from Constantinople
dated today says the Ottoman govern
ment has notified the American Em
bassy that, following the example of its
ally, Austria-Hungary, It has broken
diplomatic) relations with the United
States.
MARINER DIES AT WHEEL
Captain John Johnson CoquIIle Bar
Pilot for S3 Years.
BANDON, Or.. April 21. (Special.)
Captain John Johnson, 56, dropped dead
at the wheel of the bar tug Kllhyam
Just as his craft crossed out through
the last line of breakers this morning.
Acting Mate Llnd seized the wheel, pre
venting disaster.
Captain Johnson had piloted vessels
over the Coquille bar for 33 years. He
died while going out to bring in two
steamers. A wife and two grown chll
dren survive him.
BOMB FOUND IN GRAIN CAR
Plot to Destroy Elevators Suspected
by Authorities.
DENVER. April 21. Federal author
ities are investigating what Is believed
to be a plot to destroy grain elevators
by mean of bombj, it was announced
today. Investigation was begun fol
lowing the discovery yesterday of what
is believed to be a nitroglycerin bomb
in & carload of oats received by a large
local grain company from a. grain com
pany at Omaha.
The bomb was dropped into the Platte
River by a police officer.
STRIKE., IS .LAID TO SPIES
Illinois Mine AVorkers President
Asks Federal Investigation.
SPRINGFIELD. 111.. April 21. Be
lieving that agents of Germany are
trying to foment strikes among the
miners to harass the United States Gov
eminent in the war, Frank Farrington,
president of the Illinois District of the
United Mine Workers of America, has
asked the Federal Government to in
vestigate the strike at Kincaid, No
komis and Witt, near Springfield.
PORTLAND SECOND IN UNION
Xew York Leads With 55 Navy En
listments to This City's 32 3.
OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash
ington, April 21. Portland is contribut
ing more men to the Navy than any
other city save New Tork, according to
figures given out by Secretary Daniels
for the week ending April 12.
There were 355 Navy enlistments In
New York and 323 In Portland; in Seat
tle there were 184 and Salt Lake 170.
WHEAT REACHES $3 MARK
New Record Is Made in Prices at
Fort Worth, Texas.
FORT WORTH, Tex, April 21. A
new record for wheat was set here
yesterday.
A carload of Texas No. 2 hard wheat
sold for $3 a bushel to a Texas mill.
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OREGON ORGANIZES
TO USE RESOURCES
W. J. Kerr Will Direct
Food Production.
EFFICIENCY IN WAR IS AIM
Governor Presides at Notable
and Earnest Meeting.
PRICE CONTROL DEMANDED
Co-operation Pledged by Individ
uals and Organizations and Rec
ord of Achievement at Confer
ence Declared Unexcelled.
W. J. Kerr, president of the Oregon
Agricultural College, was authorized to
take complete charge of Oregon's food
production and conservation campaign
at a meeting of representatives of most
of the state's industrial, commercial,
civic and social Interests at the Cham
ber of Commerce yesterday afternoon.
The meeting also went on record.
unanimously, in favor of strict Federal
supervision of food distribution and
Federal regulation of food prices.
Every speaker who demanded legis
lation that will curb the unpatriotic
manipulations of unscrupulous food
speculators was applauded with vigor
and enthusiasm.
Price Regulation Urged.
The meeting authorized the dlspatchJ
of telegrams to the Oregon delegation
in Congress demanding action that will
prevent the further unnecessary In
crease in food prices.
Governor Wlthycombe presided. More
than a score of earnest, determined
speakers, including J. D. Farrell, presi
dent of the O.-W. R. & N Company:
L. C. Gilman, president of the North
Bank road; various Etate officials and
heads of several enterprising civic or
ganlzations were hearC
Councilman t Be Named.
The Governor explained that he had
been authorized by" President Wilson
to appoint a committee of seven mem
bers on the State Council of National
Defense to co-operate with the N
tional Council, now in session at Wash
ington, and that he would appoint a
delegate to represent Oregon on the
National Council at Washington during
the continuation of war.
The proposed state council, which
will be named by the Governor early
next week, will co-operate with the
work that President Kerr and the fac
ulty of the Agricultural College were
authorized to carry on. They will work
in complete harmony, too, with the
Oregon Patriotic Service League, to the
end that no important effort in this
direction will be duplicated or mis
directed.
Patriotic League to Assist.
H. II- Ward, president of the league.
attended yesterday's meeting and de
clared that the whole force of the or
ganlzation would be at the disposal of
the Agricultural College in this work.
Yesterday's meeting was held In re
sponse to requests from Federal au
thorities. Those attending It were fair
ly representative of every " Important
activity In the state and their action
now makes President Kerr the official
head of all the agricultural conserva
tlon work in Oregon and the direct
representative here in that capacity of
the Federal Government.
Secretary Houston Telegrraphs.
Even while the meeting was in prog
ress, President Kerr received the fol
lowing telegram from Secretary D. F.
Houston, of the Department of Agri
culture:
"Glad to hear of plans for efficient
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SOME NEWS EVENTS OF THE WEEK AS SEEN FROM WHERE CARTOONIST REYNOLDS SITS.
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Weather.
TESTBRDArS Maximum temperature, 57
degrees; minimum, 43 degrees.
TODAY'S Probably fair; northwesterly
winds.
War.
Turkey breaks with United States. Section
1, page 1.
Germans captured by thousands as French
sweep on. Section 1. page 1.
Australians welcome open battle. Section
1. page 2.
Two Belgian relief ships sunk. Section 1,
page 3.
Argentina demands Immediate satisfaction
for sinking, of ship. Section 1, page 3.
Shipping Board plans to be ready this week.
Section 2. page 16.
Two German destroyers, possibly three, sunk
when raiding Dover, bectlon 1. page 4.
British Foreign Minister and party arrive
In America for war council. Section a,
page 1.
Belgium's conquerors blush at own brutality
says Brand Whltlock. Section 1. page e.
Senate clears way for Army bilL Section 1,
page 3.
European allies require only few staples
from United States. Section 1. page 6.
Russian radicals gain few followers. Sec
tion 1, page 7.
Foreign.
Mllukoff says Russia looks to United States
lor victory.. Section 1, page 7.
National.
Will H. Parry, of Seattle, and member of
Federal Trade Commission, dead. Sec
tion 1, page 6.
Two hundred million dollar war loan over
subscribed In three days. Section 1,
page 1.
America's food vuddIt will last only until
fan. says agent of Agricultural Depart
ment. Section 1, page 7.
West to furnish 2500 men for officers train
lug camp. Section 1, page 8.
Domestic.
War sits lightly on New Yorkers. Section
page a.
Mexico.
American envoy hissed; German cheered In
Mexican House of Deputies. Section 1,
page C.
Sport.
Rain delays angling season somewhat. Sec
tion z, page 4.
Ray Barkhurst to lead Baseball Boosters'
parade. Section 2, page 2.
Beavers and Seals open here Tnesday. Sec
tion 2, page 3.
Tacht Club season will open soon. Section
page 4.
Big golf tourney won't be postponed. Sec
tion page 4.
Pacific Coast League results: Portland T.
(JaKland 4: Salt Lake o. San Francisco 8
Los Angeles 4, Vernon 2. Section 2
page 2.
Four new faces will be In ring Tuesday
nignt. section 2, page 3.
Northwestern League season starts en Tues
day. Section 2, page 2.
Corvallls relays furnish many thrills. Sec
tion J, page 3.
Pacific Northwest.
Expense of I. W. W. trial at Seattle pro
tested, bectlon 1, page 9.
Military training at State University put
Ilrst or all. Section 1. page 8.
Food train party welcomed at last stop In
BEKer. bectlon 1, page 10.
Western Governors plan to attend National
nerense conference. Section 1, page 11.
Oregon Public Service Commission orders
hearings on Eastern Oregon farm prod
ucts tariffs. Section 1, page 7.
Emergency Board to probe Pacific Livestock
Company case. Section 1. page 1L
Coos County rallies to road bond Issue. Sec-
. tlon l. page a.
Commercial and Marine.
Wheat barely steady In Northwest despite
small stocks. Section 2, page 15.
Two new ship orders and Vancouver ship
yard Interest marine circles. Section 2,
page 10.
Rules Issued for vessels In defensive sea
areas. . Section 2. page 10.
Shipbuilders plan to mobilize labor. Sec
tion 2, page 16.
Portland and Vicinity.
Food production of state put In hands of
W. J. Kerr. Section 1. page 1.
Irvlngton Club has bright outlook. Section
1. page 12.
Official reports ' shows wonderful daring of
Italian troops. . Section 1. page 12.
Farmers favor road bonds. Section 1,
page 14.
H. L. Corbett outlines policy of Chamber for
coming year. Section 1. page 14.
Company H, First Regiment, plans great
reunion. Section 1, page 10.
Prize-winning essays In road bond contest
are announced. Section 1. page 16.
Newspaperman who nearly elected President,
gets bride from campaign. Section 1,
page 17.
Plans ready fop big road rally Saturday.
Section 1. page 18.
Funeral rites held over 2000 quarts of
liquors at Courthouse. Section 1. page 18.
City Attorney holds two-platoon plan does
not authorize new tax levy, bectlon 1.
page 20.
Ice war ends and prices Jump. Section L
page 20.
Navy makes start on campaign for 600
more men. Section 1, page 21.
Honor Guard Girls will give big benefit on
May 10. Section 1, page 21.
Shakespeare Club presents film of "King
Lear" as hospital benefit. Section 1.
page 21.
League to enforce peace is formed here.
Section 1, page 9.
Foreign-born residents fill Library Hall for
patriotic meeting. Section 1. page 9.
Portland couple married for 68 years. Sec
tion 1, page 12.
Use of potato eyes as' seed explained. Sec
tion 1, page 13.
Tea dansant to be given to aid blind. Sec
tion 1, page 19. .
Weather report, data and forecast. Section
2, page 16.
WAR SITS LIGHTLY
UPON NEW YORKERS
Atmosphere Fervid and
Vocal, but. Blithe.
MANY TURN OUT TO MARCH
Way, However, Leads Not to
Recruiting Station.
SERVICE LEFT TO FARMERS
Fear of Dry Regime Gives Gravest
Concern to Gotham Billy Sun
day Rivals War and Broad
way as Reigning Sensation.
NEW TORK. April 21. (Editorial
Correspondence.) If one were to shut
his eyes and open his ears and listen
to the gossip of the hotel corridors, the
smoking: cars, the street corners, or the
Congressional lbby. he might imagine
himself to be In Portland. It is Just
the same spirit and atmosphere of fer
vid and vocal Americanism every
where. It would almost seem as If the aver
age citizen is glad that he Is in the
war or rather that America Is In the
war. The distinction Is obvious. There
Is no Army, and there are no satis
factory signs that there will be one un
til there Is conscription, which there
will doubtless be. But of that some
thing will be said later.
City Boys Moat Needed.
The day of the night we arrived In
New Tork via Washington there had
been a tremendous "Wake-Up-America"
parade. It totfk seven hours to pass a
given point. There may or may not be
significance to the fact that it marched
grandly up Fifth avenue to Central
Park and not to the recruiting station.
I mean no sneer at New Tork. It Is
not different In New Tork at least not
greatly different than at Chicago, or
San Francisco, or Portland; but It is
somewhat different from the situation
In Tonkera. or Sllverton, or Cathlamet.
In these latter places the farmer boys
are enlisting as volunteers, being fired
by the appeal to duty and the spirit of
sacrifice. The farmers are, however,
more needed at home than the boys on
the bleachers In the baseball park, or
In the billiard parlor, or the picture
show. The city boy does not enlist
because the crowd doesn't enlist. Tou
may supply your own reason as to why
the appeal to the country boy is the
more readily answered. I am not will
ing, however, to think or to say that
the latter Is more patriotic, "for I be
lieve that the fiber of the American
youth, urban or rural. Is of identical
quality.
War Interest Evident Visually.
The physical signs, the scenic evi
dences, of New York's Interest in the
war are most pleasing. . Fifth avenue
and Broadway and other streets are
bordered with flags and bunting. Not
all are American flags, for there are
occasional French and English em
blems. The crowds hurry along the
avenue much as usual past the great
mansions of the famous and Idle rich.
At Forty-second street and Fifth ave
nue today two young fellows In khaki
were addressing a somewhat languid
crowd In a call for recruits. They were
aided by one or two ardent women, out
there seemed to be no Immediate re
suits. It Is curious to note that the
passers today report that & reaction
has followed the mighty demonstration
of Thursday and that recruiting has
slumped. Last night at a theater, Just
before the curtain rose, the orchestra
played "The Star-Spangled Banner" ana
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FIRST WAR LOAN
OVER-SUBSCRIBED
$200,000,000 OFFERING IS TAKES
IN THREE DATS.
Government Officials Believe Action
Presages Great Response on
$5,000,000,000 Issue.
WASHINGTON. April SI. The first
American offering of war securities In
any form, $200,000,000 In Treasury cer
tificates, has been heavily over-subscribed.
How great the over-subscription
is, officials were unable to say
tonight, as many of the banks had not
been heard from.
The certificates were offered only
to financial Institutions. The response,
officials believe, presages a patriotic
outpouring of funds to an extent un
paralleled In the history of any na
tion when the $3,000,000,000 bond Issue
is placed before the general public
Offering of the certificates was made
Informally because the 7,000.000.000 fi
nance measure Is not yet a law. As
soon as It Is disposed of by Congress,
probably by Wednesday of next week,
the formal offer will be made and pro
ceeds of the subscription called for at
once.
The Informal offering of the certifi
cates has been before the banks of the
country only three days. It was pre
sented by the 12 Federal reserve banks,
which will act as the Government's
agents. The certificates will bear 3
per cent Interest and will mature
June 30.
It Is probable that as soon as the
extent of the over-subscription of the
present Issue la ascertained. Secretary
McAdoo will authorize the Immediate
Issue of an additional amount to care
for the over-subscription.
GERMAN PARTY ARRIVES
Diplomats and Consuls From China
Reach San Francisco.
SAN FRANCISCO, April SI. Paul von
HIntze. ex-German Minister to China,
arrived here today with 27 other mem
bers of the diplomatic and consular
corps of Germany, expelled from China
when China broke relations with Ger
many. Department of Justice agents,
with customs Inspectors, boarded- the
vessel, taking charge of the party's
baggage and effects, which. It was said,
would be thoroughly searched.
iaier tne von wmtze party win go
East, under safe conduct, to take pas
sage for a neutral country.
FAIR WEATHER PREDICTED
Occasional Showers Along North Pa
cific Possible This Week.
WASHINGTON, April 21. Weather
predictions for the week beginning
Sunday issued by the weather bureau
today are:
Pacific States Generally fair except
for occasional showers along the North
Pacific Coast; temperature somewhat
below seasonal average.'
BALL PARK FARMS ADVISED
Louis Hill Also Favors Plowing Up
Golf Links.
ST. PAUL, April 21. Use of baseball
parks, golf links and all greenhouses
for the growth of garden products was
recommended by L. W. Hill, president of
the Great Northern Railroad, who re
turned today from California.
"They are not playing golf In Berlin
nor spending the afternoons shouting
at hall parks," he said.
FLOUR MILLS TO BE SEIZED
British Food Controller to Take Over
Plants April SO.
LONDON. April 21. Baron Devenport.
the food controller, today Issued an
order for the taking over of all flour
mills In the United Kingdom by his
department.
The order will become ' effective
April 30.
ARTILLERY IS Ifl
SMASHING DUEL
33,000 Germans Captured
in Recent Drive.
FRENCH GAIN AT ALL POINTS
First Sunny Day of Present
Campaign Inspires Assail
ants to More Daring.
ADVANCE IS METHODICALJ
Every Man of Vast Army Is in
Right Place at the Proper
Time; 330 Guns Taken.
PARIS, April 21, -Violent artillery
fighting between the Somme and the
Oise, particularly south of St. Quen
tin, is reported in the official com
munication tonight.
The number of German prisoners
taken by the French and British
troops since the beginning of the pres
ent operations is placed at more than
33,000 and the guns at 330.
(From a Etaff Correspondent of the Asso
ciated Press.)
GRAND HEADQUARTERS OP
THE FRENCH ARMY ON THE
FRENCH FRONT, April 21. Smash
ing artillery duels marked today's
fighting all along the front from Cra
onne Plateau to -Auberive, inter
spersed here and there with forward
drives by the French infantry. Night
and day the Germans were incessantly
harried.
Positions Are Reorganized.
All the positions carried by the
French have been reorganized, and in
places further extensions have been
made. Nowhere did the Germans suc
ceed in retaking any point. Hurtebise,
where the French are solidly astride
the Chemin-des-Dames, which gives
to them the opportunity of reaching
Laon Plateau, was the point where
the Germans today directed their
strongest effort to eject them, but in
vain.
The clearing up of the reconquered
ground behind the advancing front
waves is extremely perilous owing tor
the presence of small bodies of Ger
mans in farms, valleys and woods,
who do not realize that they are en
tirely cut off and continue to fight in
the hope of relief. Some of them
were brought in today.
Weather Favors Germans.
Atmospheric conditions have again
turned in favor of the Germans, the
heavy mists hindering French obser
vation. The French generals are
sparing their men as much as possi
ble; they never send them forward
until the objective has been subjected
to a terrific bombardment, calculated
to paralyze the occupants. The ad-
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