84 Pages
SIX SECTIONS
Section One
Pages 1 to 24
VOL. XXXVI XO. 23.
PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE 3, 1917.
TRICE FIVE CENTS.
2 DEAD, 1 DYING; 5
HURT IN TONG FIGHT
Dozen Chinese Battle
on City Streets.
TWO GUNMEN ARE ARRESTED
Patrolman Makes Capture
After Running Fight.
BYSTANDERS ARE WOUNDED
Suey Sing Tong Makes War on
Bing Kung-Bow Leong Faction
in Spite of Recent Attempts
to Obtain Peace Treaty.
CASUALTIES VS PACIFIC COAST
' TOSG WARS IS 1917.
February 9 M. Len killed; T.
Hokira (Japanese) wounded. In
Portland.
February 24 Ham QuongFong
killed in Portland.
March 4 Wo Sans Wong killed
, In Seattle.
March 6 Five Chinese killed,
two fatally injured, in shootings
that took place in San Fran
cisco, San Jose, Sacramento,
Stockton and Seattle.
March S Fong Hong killed; '
Leong Quong shot through the
leg, in Portland.
March 13 William Eng killed;
Mrs. George (white) accidentally
shot through leg, in La Grande.
March 27 Joseph Gue killed in
. Portland.
March 29 Lum Sun killed in '
Astoria.
June. 2 Chin Hong, 85 Second
street, and Chung Chow, 81 Sec-,
ond street, killed, and Louie Him
mortally wounded, all of Blng'
Kung-Bow Leong tong; W. Rig
glns, grain . handler, of Oak
Grove,, accidentally shot In leg
and hip while on way to station;
.James --Ifussy; - express : wagon
driver, shot through leg and hip1;
: Yuo Horle, 2 years old, cut by
window, glass .broken by bullets;
unidentified woman grazed by
bullet. .
a.
Two Chinese oe'onging to the Bing
Kung-Bow' Leong tong were killed,
one was mortally wounded and several
Americans were wounded in a running
fight engaged in between Blng Kung
Bow Leong gunmen arid Suy Sing
gunmen on Flanders and Sixth streets
and Broadway about 5 o'clock last
right.
The shooting marked a recurrence
of the tong war following an inef
fectual attempt to bring about a peace
treaty at San Francisco.
Dead Belong; to Same Tons;.
The dead are:
Chin Hong, 47 years of age, pro
prietor of the Btore of the Hop Hip
iTfick Wo Company at 85 Second street,
member of the Blng Kung tong.
Chung Chow, SI Second street, also
a member of the Bing Kung tong.
Louie Him, 28 years of age, a mem
ber of the Bing Kung tong from Sac
ramento, was mortally wounded and
was reported to be dying at Good
Samaritan Hospital early last night
with a bullet wound over his heart,
one through his lungs and several
others through his body.
The wounded:
W. Rig-gins, of Oak Grove, grain han
tConcluded on page 14. column 1.)
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27 IN ONE DAY GET
LICENSES TO WED
JUNE STARTS OFF WITH KUSH
TO MARRIAGE ALTAR.
Total of 45 Certificates Issued in
Two Days by Overworked
' Clerk, Setting New Records.
"Whew!"
"Cupid" Cadwell, of the marriage li
cense bureau, wiped a few beads of
honest perspiration from his frowning
brow, cautiously rubbed his aching
fingers, heaved a huge sigh of relief
and closed the marriage license book,
conscious of a work well done. He
had Just officiated In smashing a few
marriage license records for Mult
nomah County, and it. was well after
the big timeclock tolled the hour of 6
before he closed the book for the last
time. He had Issued a total of 27 mar
riage licenses for the day.
It was one of the big days In the
history of the marriage license bureau,
and from early morning until late in
the afternoon he was kept busy pen
ning the necessary licenses and wish
ing the prospective bridegrooms a lot
of good luck. Shortly before 5 It ap
peared as If the rush was over, and
he was Just getting ready to close for
the day when the telephone bell at his
side rang viciously. An excited young
man informed him that a. late train
from the East had delayed his arrival
in Portland, that all plans were com
plete for his wedding last night. Would
the marriage license clerk please wait
a few minutes for him? "Cupid" Cad
well couldn't do anything but grant
the request.
June will more than hold Its own as
a month of brides If the record of Fri
day and yesterday is continued during
the month. Mr. Cadwell thought he
had a busy day Friday, when be lsaued
18 licenses, but he found out what real
work was yesterday.
VANCOUVER,' Wash., June 2. (Spe
cial.) Cupid made a near record in
Vancouver, famed as a Gretna Green,
today, when 21 couples secured mar
rintrn licenses. . Only once has this
number been exceeded In a day, that
day being December 24, 1916.
A majority were from Portland ana
other parts of Oregon.
BIG LIQUOR STOCK LAID IN
Grays Harbor Permits for May 5339,
Prior. to Bone Dry Rule.
ABERDEEN, Wash., June 2. (Spe
cial.) In anticipation of the approach
of J ijne 15, when Washington goes
bone dry, Grays Harbor residents ap
parently did their best last month to
stock up for the long dry spell, for
during May 5339 permits were Issued
In this county. This Is an average of
200 permits a day for the 26 days the
Auditor's office was open.
The heaviest number ' of permits
Issued in any one day was 399. .Ninety
per cent of the permits Issued were for
whisky.
U. S. UNIFORMS IN LONDON
Prominent Place Given Americans
at Royal Ceremony.
LONDON, June 2. American uniforms
worn by Chicago and Philadelphia
units of physicians and nurses now. in
London were in a prominent position at
an open air ceremony in Hyde Park to
day at which King George awarded
war decorations to 35 officers and men
of the British army.
The ceremony was attended by Queen
Mary and other members of the royal
family and government officials.
FAIR WEEK 'IS PREDICTED
Normal Temperature Also Forecast
for Pacific Northwest.
WASHINGTON, June 2 Weather
predictions for the week, beginning
June 3, Issued by the Weather Bureau
today, states:
Pacific States Generally fair wea
ther with normal temperature.
PICTORIAL
GOVERNMENT PLANS
TO INSURE FIGHTERS
$4000 for Each Man in
Service Proposed.
ALL.POLICIES WOULD BE FREE
Pay for Death or Partial or
Total Disability Is Intent.
HIGHER AMOUNTS POSSIBLE
Officers and Enlisted Individuals
Could Take Out More at Their
Own Expense Pension Sys
tem Would Be Eliminated.
WASHINGTON, June 2. Plans for
issuing $4000 free Government insur
ance on the life of every American sol
dier and sailor during the war in lieu
of pension arrangements will be taken
up next week by the Council of Na
tional Defense. A report prepared by
Assistant Secretary Sweet, of the Com
merce Department, ready to be sub
mitted, urge that the insurance be pro
vided through legislation before Amer
ican troops are sent to France.
The ' Defense Council took -up the
question some weeks ago and turned
the whole subject over to the Depart
ment of Commerce for investigation.
The report now ready offers a long list
of arguments showing the advantage
of working out a compensation system
before American lives are lost in the
war.
No Premiums to Be Paid.
The plans as prepared provide for a
flat insurance of $4000 on the life of
every officer and private in the mili
tary and naval service, to be paid to his
beneficiaries wtihout premiums. A
Government insurance bureau would
handle tho whole subject and there
would be provision for a system of in
surance by which officers and men de
siring to do so could take out amounts
higher than the $4000 free policy by
paying premiums at peace rates.
Insurance companies, it is said, are
ready to approve the scheme if assured
the Government will not' continue In
the Insurance business after the war.
War risks are so great that few cor
panies are eager to insure soldiers and
sailors except at high premiums, offi
cials have been told, although many
companies who have on their lists men
now in the military and naval service
have not advanced their premium rates.
Policies Could Be Shifted.
At the end of the war, the Govern
ment, it is suggested, could turn over
to insurance companies Its premium
war business, dropping the flat $4000
policies on all who leave the service,
but continuing it on men who remaii
in the Army or Navy.
One argument advanced for the in
surance plan is that it would Improve
the morale of the troops, since many
would go Into battle, much more will
ingly if assured their dependents would
be cared for if they were killed. The
plan would provide also insurance for
partial or total disability. In case of
death the insurance would be paid in
installments, the amount would be de
termined by a Government board.
Pension System Abused.
Government officials are convinced
the best way to dispose of the pension
problem Is to meet it beforehand. The
history of the pension system since the
Civil War lias shown many abuses
which it is hoped to avoid by provid
ing insurance before men are killed.
Many officials hold that since many
men who will be drafted will be drawn
from occupations in which Government
and state laws compel compensation
(Concluded on Pica 4. Column 4.
COMMENTS BY CARTOONIST REYNOLDS ON SOME SUBJECTS IN THE WEEK'S NEWS.
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
' The Weather.
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 61
degrees; .minimum. 48 , degrees.'
TODAY'S Fair and slightly warmer; west
erly winds.
War.
Japan not alarmed by American preparation
lor war. section 1, page s.
Germans report capture of French position.
ejection 1. page a.
671.000.000 bushels of wheat needed abroad.
but tT. S. can export on!y 600,000.000.
Section 1.' page 5.
German airplane breaks to bits easily, Sec
tion 1. page i.
Second series of student officers to be called.
Section 1. page 0.
Failure of XT-boats to end war dissatisfies
Uermao populace. Section 1, page 4.
' foreign.
Anarchists defy authority in Russia. Section
1. page 4.
National.
Food -survey bill passed by Senate. Section
1. page . . .
Government plans to provide every man In
military and naval service wltn 4ou iree
Insurance. Section 1, page 1.
Publishers object to Increaae in postage
rates. Section J, page 6.
lomestie.
Students at the Presidio have little leisure.
Section I, page 2.
Real Estate and Building.
Flans completed for women's dormitory at
Kugene. Section 4. page 12.
Rural sales unaffected by lull In city realty.
Section 4, Page 12.
Prosperity, not retrenchment, is forecast.
Section 4. page 12.
Australia to use grain elevators. Section 4,
page 12.
Sports.
Pacific Coast League results: Portland 8.
Vernon 8; Los Anfteles 7. Fan Francisco
4: Salt Lake 10, Oakland 7. Section -'.
page 2.
Seattle has fine Memorial day without base
ball. Section 2. page 2.
Hunt Club has cleanup day. Section 2.
page 3.
Trapshootlng device awes. Section 2. psge 3.
Columbia-Willamette shooting tournament
to close today. Section 2. page 3.
Rose Festival river events arranged. Sec
tion 2, page 3.
Flood threatens Waverley course before bl&
tourney. Section 2, page 4.
"Dixie" Fleager regarded as probability in
big goir title contest. Section 2. page 4.
Pacific Northwest.
Two men killed In wreck of logging train
In Linn County. Section 1. page .
States primaries axe less than year distant.
Section 1, page 8.
Hood River haa big patriotic pageant Me
morial day. Section 1, page 9.
State Fire Marshal aska co-operatton of city
fire fighters. Section 1, page 9.
Two gifts of $500 made to University Wom
an's Building fund. Section 1. page IV.
Commercial and Marine.
Higher wheat bids In Northwest fall to
bring out offerings, section ::. page 10.
Sharp advance in wheat at Chicago on bare
market, section 2. page la.
Mexican aharea are firmest features of stock
market. Section 2. page 15.
Increased public Interest In stock specula
tion. Section 2. page lo.
Shipyards f Oregon have 2 vessels now
under way. section page o.
United Statea Chamber of Commerce plana
campaign to aid ship building, section
2. page 5.
Astoria's forehandedness example for Port
'land. Section 2. page S.
Cunard offlcera arrive to take, over War
Viceroy. section 2, page o.
.. Portland and Vicinity. '
In one day 27 take out marriage . licenses
here. Section 1, psge 1.
Saw vim put into - bond sales. Section 1,
page 1.-
Two killed In tone war atreet battle. Sec
tion 1. page 1. ..
Baker and growth or Daly and strife Is elec
tion issue. Section .1. page j.
Oregon Greeters determined to get hotel-
men s convention -for J'ortiana in lyio.
Section 2. psge 0.
Veterans In fire service object to two-platoon
bill. Section 2. page 6.
Daly'a economy claims in street cleaning
prove to be Just plain neglect. Section 1
page 17.
Business of Columbia Life A Trust Company
sold. - section 1. page 18.
Captain William Gadsby urges that uniform
be passport for enllsd men In Portland.
section l, page i.
Italian editors Indicted for libel. Section 1.
page IS.
City Bureau givea ratings to milk dealers'
supplies. Section 1. page 10.
Antl-Commlselon charter backed hy George
S. Shepherd. Section 1. page 111.
Commissioner Baker's record during his ad
ministration Is At. Section 1. page 20.
Government la elding bulk handling move,
ment in Northwest. Section 1, page 21.
Northwest Door Company wins $70,000 in
suit over fire loss, bectlon 1. page 22.
Workers subscribe for liberty bonds with
employers' aid. Section 1. page 22.
Columbia University to hold commencement
Tuesday. Section 1. page IS.
Playground need la seen everywhere In
Portland. Section 1, page '12.
Mr. Reamea ready to deal with slackers.
Section 1. page 14..
Music Festival aeat prices are set. Section
1. page 14.
Methods of voting explained. Section 1.
page 13.
"Free use" of streets abused by Jitneys.
Bectlon 1. page 13.
Rose Festival liberty statue ready. Sec
tion, page In.
Red Cross chiefs meet here tomorrow to
plan financial drive In West. section
1, page 11.
Mr. Daly's water policy declared unsound
and claims of economy refuted. Section
1 . pa Ke 17.
NEW VIM PUT INTO
LIBERTY BOND SALE
City Is Partitioned for
Minute Canvass.
GREAT INCREASE IS EXPECTED
Total Now $3,256,900, With
$1,000,000 in Reserve.
NATHAN STRAUSS DIRECTOR
Country Districts Far Ahead . of
Portland In Proportion so Ear.
Closing of Banks for xt
Two Days Will Interfere.
A systematic canvass of the whole
sale and retail business district started
yesterday has put new Joy and enthu
siasm into the liberty bond campaign.
As a result the subscriptions are ex
pected to swell in volume and In num
ber until the enrjf of the campaign on
June 15.
Actual subscriptions yesterday proved
unsatisfactory, however, aggregating
only $91,400 in the state at large. In
eluding Portland.
Portlands totals for the day were
$74,800. and the outside towns' $16,600,
bringing the total Portland subscrip
tions to date up to $1,018,750 and the
up-state to $1,238,150, an aggregate of
$3,256,900.
Up-State In Lead.
Portland's quota is $6,000,000 and the
state's outside of Portland is $2,500,000
an aggregate of $8,500,000.
As the figures show, the up-state
districts now have subscribed nearly
50 per cent of their requirements and
Portland about 4 0 per cent. .
The organized canvass in Portland
which will take in the residence' dis
tricts as well as the businesa districts.
and the arrangements now being per
fected whereby employes of mercantile
and. industrial concerns will be per
mltted to subscribe on the Installment
plan, are expected to produce the bal
ance of the city's requirement well
within the limited period.
91,000,000 In Reserve.
The comparatively poor showing
made by Portland to date Is more ap
parent than real, however, as more
than $1,000,000 of short-term notes
bought by '.he banks here In April will
be converted into Liberty bonds before
the campaign ends and will serve sub
stantially to swell the totals for this
city.
Nathan Strauss, chairman of the sub
committee on distribution among the
wholesale and retail merchants, com
pleted his plans for the "big drive"
yesterday.
The West Bide of the river has been
divided into 27 districts, with a sepa
rate committee in charge of each dis
trict. The divisions have been made on
a basis of density of business popula
tion and not according to geographic
lines.
las tractions Given Workers.
"This is a big. important and patrl
otic campaign," asserted Mr. Strauss in
his letter of instructions Issued to his
committee men yesterday, "and it Is
sufficiently Imperative to warrant your
personal and energetic attention.
"A general effort all along the line
soon will solve the problem of getting
Portland's small Investors to act on
this Issue.
"Everybody ought to be acquainted
with the fact that this is a patriotic
appeal not only to become thrifty by
Investing In Government bonds paying
(Concluded on Page 4. Column 3.1
TWO BILLIONS IN
SHIPS ARE MERGED
SCORE OP BRITISH LINES ARE
CONSOLIDATED.
Lord Inchcape, Head of Peninsular
& Oriental, Will Direct Elect
of 400 Ocean Liners.
SAN FRANCISCO. June I. A merger
of a score of British steamship com
panies. Including the Cunard line.
Peninsular A. Oriental, Commonwealth
Dominion line, Allan line. Union Steam
ship Company of New Zealand, the New
Zealand Shipping Company, the British-India
Company and several smaller
concerns, has been completed, accord
ing to a cablegram received today by
Reginald Beck, of the Hind-Rolph
Company, agent of the Union Steam
ship Company.
Lord ' Inchcape, head of the Penin
sular fc Oriental Company, will be the
directing head of the new company, it
la stated, and will direct fleets aggre
gating more than 400 vessels, with a
total valuation for the shipping and
other properties of about $1,000,000,000.
The operating companies expect to
effect a more economical administra
tion of their vessels, facilitate better
routings, make easier tho necessary
transfers of officers and crews for the
best operating efficiency, will eliminate
duplicated routings and will consoli
date the numerous agencies, thereby
reducing accounting expenses.
FOOD GAMBLERS INDICTED
Federal Grand Jury Begins War on
Butter and Egg Board.
viiitjAtjtj, June 2. lederal war
against food speculators began here
today when a United States grand
Jury returned Indictments against nine
firms and 16 individuals connected with
the Chicago Butter and Egg Board
charging violation of the Sherman
antl-trast law.
The indictments charged fraudulent
manipulation of the market to es
tablish an abnormal condition and ad
vance eggs to an unwarranted price,
being asserted that Chicago, being the
principal egg market of the country
prices in other cities followed the lead
set here.
AUDITORIUM IS DELIGHT
Mayor A I bee Says Public Will Be
Astounded by Beauty.
"So Inspiring a sight Is the interior
of the new public Auditorium that I
delight in going over there two or three
times a week Just to look at It." Such
Is the opinion of Mayor Albee on Port
land's new structure which is rapidly
nearlng completion.
The Mayor says the public will be
astounded at the magnificence of the
interior when the doors are thrown
open July 4. Even now, Ira its unfin
Ished condition. Mayor Albee says he.
delights in viewing It.
INTERNED TEUTON ESCAPES
Two Held at Immigration Station
Swim River; One Caught.
NEW YORK. June 2. Two Germans
interned in the immigration station on
Ellis Island escaped today by Jumping
into the water and swimming for the
mainland.
une or mem, William schuls, a
young sailor, was caught when he at
tempted to land. The other, named
Steinhard, got away.
STEAMER SENATOR ASHORE
Victoria Report Gives Xo Details
o Disaster.
SAN FRANCISCO. June 2. The
racific Steamship Company received a
telephone message from Victoria to
night that the passenger steamship
Senator, operating between California
and Puget Sound ports, la ashore.
No details were received.
SECURITY OF CITY
HANGS ON ELECTION
Baker and Growth or
Daly and Strife Issue.
QUESTION IS UP TO VOTERS
Daly's Election First Numbei
on Radical Programme.
AGITATORS ALL BACK HIM
Recognition of Baker's Fairness Ij
Demonstrated in Fat-t That
People of Every Class Aro
Among His Supporters. j
TOMORROWS CITY. EJECTION.
Officials to be elected are a
Mayor and two Commissioners.
If George L. Baker is elected
Mayor, a third Commissioner will
be selected by the Council to
succeed him aa Commissioner.
Mr. Baker is pledged. In such
event, to vote for the candidate
for Commissioner whose vote is
next highest to the two that are
regularly elected.
The city ballot contains 18
measures to be pasred on by the
people.
A separate ballot contains 14
measurer, including the fC.000,000
road bond issue.
Tolls open 8 A. M. to 8 P. M.
Shall Portland be turned over to tha
radical labor agitator, the walking
delegate and the I. W. "W.. or shall a
city administration prevail that, while)
guaranteeing Justice to all. will pro
tect the important new shipbuilding
industry that means expenditure of so
many millions of dollars In this com
munity?
Bluntly stated, that Is the Issue th
people of Portland will decide by theit
ballots at the city election tomorrow.
Not In many years has the election
of a Mayor of Portland been of such,
supreme Importance) to the future of
this city as at this election:
The voters must choose between,
Will II. Daly and George L. Baker tot
Mayor.
Either they will elect Mr. Daly, inl
thereby place in power the radical ele.
ments he represents, or they will elect
Mr. Baker, who Is pledged to protect
the shipbuilding and other industries.
The only way to defeat Mr. Daly and
the things for which he stands is to
elect Mr. Baker.
Tho campaign has resolved Itself Into)
a finish fight between these two men.
with Baker leading.
All other candidates are far to thoj
rear. Not one of them haa the remotest
chance of being elected, so defllntely
have the final issues shaped themselves.
As the race stands at the close of a,
heated campaign, it is not simply
contest between George L. Baker and
Will II. Daly as Individuals. It has
become much more than that.
Radicals Behind Daly.
It has become & fight between thn
backers of Mr. Daly, comprising the
agitator, the walking delegate and th
faction that has threatened to make)
Portland a "closed-shop" town at any
cost, or tie up all its industries in the
attempt, and supporters of Mr. Baker,
who stand unqualifiedly opposed to I n
dustrlal strife at a time when Port
land, following a long period of Indus
trial depression, is getting its head,
above water.
Among those supporting Mr. Paltf
t Concluded on rage 4. Column l.i