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at 74 Pages Six Sections Section One Pages 1 to20 .THE VOL,. XXXVI NO. 37. PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING,- JULY 8, 1917. PRICE FIVE CENTS. BIG CONVENTION 0(1, TONE IS PATRIOTIC Americanism Is Key note of Addresses. SCHOOLS' IMPORTANCE NOTED All Hold That Virility of Youth w Is Essential. FOOD PROBLEM DISCUSSED ftwo Sessions of National Council of Education Held and Foremost Members ol Profession Have Place on Programme X. K. A. SI A I IV EVENTS TODAY AND MONDAY. Today. Educational Sunday Special sermons in many Portland churches at regular hours of service. 3 r. II. At Public Auditorium, special musical service, with mu sic by Festival Chorus and Audi torium Orchestra. Prayer offered by Right Rev. Walter T. Sum ner, bishop of Oregon. Address by President Aley, of If. B. A. 4 P. M. Reception by his grace, Most Rev. A. Christie, archbishop of Oregon, at St. Mary's Academy and College, Fourth and Market streets. Scenic Excursions -Various trips have been planned to points of beauty and scenic interest within short trip from city 7:45 A. M., Trails Club of Oregon, trip to Eagle Creek; 9 A. M.. Ma zamas' trips to Columbia Beach, Monday. 10 A. M. Annual business meeting of National Council of Education at Hotel Multnomah. 2 P. M. Registration of Na tional Conference of Deans of Women. 4 to 6 P. M. Collegiate Alum nae and Mills College graduates meet with President Relnhardt, of Mills College, at home of Mrs. Helen Ekln Starrctt, 720 Sher wood drive. 5 P. M. Meeting of .active, members to nominate candidates for committee on nominations, ballroom Hotel Multnomah. 8 to 10 P. M. Reception in ballroom. Deans of Women, Hotel Multnomah. All signs and portents point to the active partisanship of the National Ed ucation Association, 'which convened yesterday in this city, for unselfish and incessant effort toward the solving of those economic problems which con front the Nation in its championship of democracy. Clear as a bugle call to action, sound Ing the almost unanimous sentiment of the mighty gathering of American educators, were the preliminary ad dresses and papers delivered by notable members at the two sessions of the National Council of Education yefiter day afternoon and evening, which opened the convention. They touched upon the duties of the schools and Instructors, upon the programme of physical education which is to develop stronger men and women for the Na tion, and upon the value and duty of conservation and thrift. Throughout the day, on every arrlv- (Concluded on Page 12. Column 2.) W? sy esses CQorv von 4 I REJECTED SUITOR KILLS SWEETHEART NORTH DAKOTA ADMIRER FOL LOWS GIRL TO OROVILLE. Opal Harmeston, 19, Comes West to Avoid Frank Musselman, 3 9, . but. Suit . Is Renewed. : WENATCHEE, Wash., July 7. (Spe cial.) Opal Harmeston.' aged 19," was Instantly killed last night about 8:30 at Orovllle, by Frank Musselman, . a re jected suitor. . The girl,, whose home was in North Dakota, arrived; recently for a visit with her sister, Mrs. M. A- Doyle, a Orovllle. Musselman appeared "last ' week, also from Dakota,' and also went to the Doyle home, the men being old ac quaintances in North Dakota. Last night, after spending two hours at the Doyle home and pressing his at tentions on th young girl and again being i ejected, he pulled a revolver from his pocket and shot the girl through the head, killing her instantly. The bullet entered the head back of the left ear and came out near the right ear. Officers were notified, but Musselman managed to elude them. Posses have been organized all through the dis trict searching for the murderer, but until late today he was still at large. Musselman, who is 39 years old, had been trying for several years to In duce the girl to marry him, but she had steadily refused his attentions and came West to elude him. FRENCH HONOR STANFORD University Ambulance Corps "Men tioned in Orders" From Paris. PARIS, July 7. The entire ambu lance section of the American field service sent to France by Leland Stan ford University last February is cited by General Mangin today In orders to the division. The citation of the section is made for its having giv:n constantly since its arrival at the front an example of courage and profound devotion, espe cially at Verdun and at Moronvilliers, In pushing up to the battle lines under bombardment to carry away the wounded. GERMANS LACK POTATOES Drought Makes Inadequate Supply or Vegetables in Cities LONDON, July 7. Hamburg? and pre sumably most - of the other German cities will again have no potatoes in the coming week, nor will any be available until the new potatoes begin to come in. It is almost impossible to obtain ade quate supplies of fresh vegetables, ac cording to advices reaching London to day from the Continent. This is blamed on the continued drought which has de layed and injured crops. The meat ration in Bavaria has been cut to 375 grams weekly per capita. MRS. LEEDS DENIES RUMOR Wealthy American Woman Not to Marry Greek Prince. LONDON. July 7. The Daily sketch quotes Mrs. W. B. Leeds denying her re ported impending marriage to Prince Christopher, youngest brother of the ex-King of Greece. A recent "dispatch said that Prince Christopher was going to London to wed a wealthy American woman. THRONG PROTECTS FLAG Man Who Insults Banner Beaten, Then Sent to Jail. KINNEY. Minn.. July. 7. Tearing down an American flag and crushlng.lt under his heel, while uttering vile epithets, almost cost Victor Salmi his life here today. Police rescued him from a throng after he had been severely beaten. Later be was sentenced to 60 days in prison. ' PICTORIAL TO o? rycrr to 9VE 77V r lr AIR RAIDERS SWEEP II Toll of 37 Lives Taken; -141 Hurt. PLANES DROP NEAR EARTH Activity of Defenders Prevents Fulfillment of -Designs. RAIDERS PURSUED TO SEA Visit- Lasts but 2 0 Minutes, as Enemy Machines, Heavily At tacked, Dump Explosives . and Turn Homeward LONDON", July 7. The second descent upon London by a squadron of air planes was made this morning between 9 and 10 o'clock, when the business sec tion of the metropolis was most crowded. Although. the German contingent was larger, more daring, more deliberate In Its movement and descended much low er than on the visit of June 13, the number killed and-wounded was, ac cording to the first official roll, rough ly, one-third the previous casualty list. The destruction of property may have been greater, but that is impossible to estimate. Dead umber 37. The official report In regard to casualties follows: "Lord French reports that the total casualties reported by the police up to the present follows: "Killed Metropolitan area, men 27, women 4, children 3, total 34; Isle of Thanet, men 1, women 2, total 3; total killed, 37. "Injured Metropolitan area, men 74, women 29 children. 36, total 139; Isle of Thanet, women 1, children 1, total 2; total injured 141." FliKht Lasts SO Minutes. The flight of the Germans over Lon don lasted about 20 minutes. British airmen engaged the enemy for several minutes over the metropolis and anti aircraft guns were fired briskly, dot ting the sky with spherical puffs, but without success as far as concerned the destruction of any of the 20 or more machines which constituted the invading force. The Admiralty was able to report to night, however, that naval airmen who followed them to 'sea brought down three machines. A British squadron sent up from Dunkirk to intercept the returning raiders did not encounter them, because they had taken a more northerly route, but the British air men met and destroyed seven other German machines. Planes Like Flock of tierie. The morning was one of haze, weath er most favorable for crossing' the channel without being observed. On their former visit, made In similar weather, the Germans kept high up In the mists, but today, when they neared their objectives, most of them de scended. Their formation was like a flock of wild geese as they approached, and neither the British pursuers nor the guns were able to scatter them until they spread out before letting loose the bombs. Hundreds of thousands of persons on roofs, from windows and gathered in the streets saw the remarkable spec tacle. All London heard the noise of battle. Bomb Carriers in Center. At first there were a few minutes when the anti-aircraft guns were crashing sharply and the machine guns were rattling aloft. Then came three (.Concluded on Pae Column 1.) DOWN UPON LONDO SIDELIGHTS BY CARTOONIST REYNOLDS ON SOME EVENTS IN THE WEEK'S NEWS. 5 "V H-.HK1HH.fl'". jT .s--V I ft - - w INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. ' YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature. 79 decrees; .minimum, 55 decrees. . .. TODAY'S Fairind continued warm;' north westerly winda . . I Hr. German airplanes raid Tondon, killing; 37 - persons. Section 1, pas 1. Germans use blazing- spirit In attack on Basque line. Section 1, page St. ' Russians battle slowly for Plnsk, on Ct- lician front. Section 1. page 4.'. Artillery activity renewed in Champifae sector. Section 1, page 2. U. S. troops to be billeted In French homes. . Section 1, page 3. . Foreign. Chinese Republicans seek life of young Em peror, who then abdicates. Section l. page 4. National.-. Former attaches of German Embassy and Consulates ordered . to , leave, country. Section 1, page 6. . Senate votes for dry Nation .during war. Section 1. page 1. Liquor interests save whisky sale, taction l. page 4. New York says official farewell to-Russian mission. Section 1, page 6. Domestic. . " Federal Jury .Indicts 141 for complicity In plot to free India. Section 1, page 1- Callfornla Welfare Commission sets mini mum wagea for women. Section 1, page 1. Doofunnles omitted from masculine attlro of 1918. Section 1. page 2. Government issues directions to be posted In million American kitchens. Section 1. page 7. Socialist party upholds anti-war plank. Sec tion l, page . ... Jerome union miners refuse to join J- W. W. trine, section 1, page 3. Pacific Northwest. Rejected suitor slays sweetheart. Section I pare -a.. Governor Withycombe appeals to friends of would-be Judges to stop writing letters. Section 1. page 5. Railways ask for cancellation of Oregon hearings for rise in rates. Section 1, page 5. - Willamette Valley Chautauqua will open at Gladstone Park Tuesday morning. Sec tion 1, page 8. - Governor Lister Issues warning to I. W. W. .that Federal-troops will be used to quell labor troubles. Section 1, pago 9. Belgian mission- on -trip across continent ac quires American slang. Section 1, page 9. Sports. Pacific .Coast League results Portland 12. Salt Lake O; Vernon ii, San Francisco 2; Los Angeles 7, Oakland ii. Section , page i. Seattle unable to hold first place. Section 2, page 2. , Freddie Lough develops into clever boxer. Section -a, -page U. Northwestern League Is about to suspend. Section 2, page . Umpire batting is blow to baseball. Section page a. Veteran players are having big year. . Sec tion 2, page 2. Ty Cobb is hitting -at -.583 clip." Section 2. page 3. Ex-Coast leaguers in majors make good. Section .2, page. 4. . ,' Two choice morsels left in golf play of Pa cific .Northwest. Section 2, page 4. Golf tourney In 1018 hangs on war.. Sec tion 2, page 4. Portland mna Vicinity. Big convention ppens and ton of patriotism prevails. Section 1, page 1. Horn- Industries to be featured this week. Section 1, page 34. Woodsmen needed for regiment of forestry engineers. Section 1, page 14. Engagement of Miss Claire Wilcox And Cam eron Squires announced. Section 1. page 14. Each housewife asked to save two cents of food dally. Section 1. page 14. Numerous .social affairs planned - for con vention visitors. Section .1, page 15. Woman may head N. E. A next year. Sec tion. 1 Paso 13. - Teachers arriving on every train. Section I, page 15. Thrift Is hobby of New York banker attend ing ed ucatlon convention. Sect ion 1. PagO'J.r. Material orders Indicate 20 contracts for steel ships to be built here. Section 2, page u. Wrecked steamer Slnaloa still waits for salving steamers, long promised. Section 2, page fi. i Oregonlans pay honor to Mrs. Ella Flagg ioung at banquet, section l. page IT War Department regulations on draft ex emptions received by Adjutant-General White. Section J, page 7. Battery B already has 50 recruits. Section I, page 10. Roundup will open here July 11. Section 1, page 10. Portland boy gains promotion In Navy. Eoc tlon 1. page 10. University base hospital staff completed. Section 1. page 1L Daniel E. Johnston, aged 72, banker, his torian and author, dies after short Ill ness. Section 1. page 11. United States Attorney Reames says Govern ment has evidence that German funds finance 1. W. W. . Section 1, page 2. Mazamas plan trip to Mount Hood, July 14-15. Section 1, page 18. Portland Y. - M; C. A. - secretaries will have charge of work among troops of Pacific Coast district. Section 1, page 13. Ash-street dock will close tomorrow night. Section 2, page 5. Practical thrift urged by educational coun cil speaker. Section 1, page 1,9. Music Festival's close Is big success. Sec tion 1, page 5. 10OO carmen join union formed here. Sec tion 1, page 3. , Weather report, data and forecast. Section 2, page 5. HAVE you AMYTHiriCr TO SAV WHY YOU ft NAM Shoulo MOT BE Dr?A(AN FROM THE HAT? V1 HINDU AND TEUTON PLOT IN AMERICA Indictments Are Found Against 130. FREE INDIA PUN PROPOSED Agents Try to Bribe Press of China and Japan. BERLIN DIRECTS SCHEME Intrigue Antedating Opening of European War Strives to Ham- -per England In Conflict With Central Powers. SAN" FRANCISCO. July 7. Enemy agents were Bent to China and Japan to attempt to bribe the press of those nations and to procure secret treaties between the German empire and those governments In aid of the Hindu, rev olutionary plot. In which 130 Indict ments were returned today, according to a supplemental statement made to night by John V. Preston. U. S. Dis trict Attorney. Mr. Preston declined to add any fur ther details to the statement which he had given out today. He said, how ever, that the service of warrants will begin Monday morning, but no. arrests will be made in the interim unless in dicted persons attempt to evade process. Return. In Secret Kile. Of the 130 Indictments. 98 bear on an alleged world-wide plot to bring about a revolution against British rule in In dia, and 41 bear on the so-called steam ship Sacramento neutrality - case. In which it was charged efforts were be ing made to provision German warships at sea. The indictments were returned by-the Federal grand Jury here today, after, many weeks' Investigation. The first batch of 98 Indictments was on secret file and John W. Pres ton, United States .District Attorney, refused . to divulge the name of the defendants until their arrest. Those Indicted live in various parts of the United States, and include men rang ing from millionaires to Hindu labor ers. Consols Are Indicted. Former German Consuls In Chicago, Honolulu. Shanghai, Manila and San Francisco, together with members of their staffs and former attaches of the German embassy at Washington, are among those Indicted. The Government charges that men involved in the plot recruited men and collected money In this country to be sent to India In furtherance of the re volt. . Also that ships were outfitted and dispatched with men and supplies for the revolutionary forces. Ctran Official. Involved. The other 41 persons indicted, whose names were made public, include Ger man officials formerly stationed In the United States, local shipowners, cus toms and shipping brokers and mem bers of the crew of the Sacramento. Among these were F. Von Papen, former military attache of the Ger man embassy In Washington: A. H. Von Schack, former Vice-Consul of the San Francisco German consulate; - Hans Tauscher, husband of .Madame Gadski Walter Sauerback, Lieutenant in the German navy, now Interned at Chatta nooga, Tenn. ; Robert Capelle, local agent of the North German Steamship Company: Henry C. Kaufman, former Chancellor of the San Francisco Ger man Consulate: Louis Henstler, for mer admiralty lawyer of the German government here, and former member of the faculty of the University of Cal (Concluded on Page 3, Column 2.) mjp33imiv . : w ir CALIFORNIA SETS MINIMUM WAGE MERCANTILE EMPLOYES MCST BE PAID $10 WEEKLY. Example of Oregon and Washington . Followed in Providing for Minor and Women Wage-Earners. SAN FRANCISCO. July 7. (Special.) Following tbe lead set by the states of Oregon and Washington $10 a week was . fixed today by the California State Industrial Welfare Commission as - the minimum wage for women In the mercantile industry. The order goes Into effect September . A grad uated scale of $6 a week up to 19.50 was fixed for adults and minors who are not deemed experienced workers. The minor "learners" Include both girls and boys under 18 years. The order of the Welfare Commission means Increase of pay for more than the women workers In California de partment stores, millinery stores, five and ten-cent establishments and other places where women are employed, for about 61 per cent of minors In mer cantile establishments are now working for less than JS a week, the lowest pay provided in the Commission's order. The mercantile Industry wage regu lation was made following an ex haustive survey of conditions among the women workers and many confer ences between members of the Com mission and representatives of both employers and employes. The regula tion is the second made by the Com mission under the power vetted In the act of the Legislature May 26, 191S, which established the Commission. Last year the Commission promulgated an order fixing wages fdr women and minors In the canning Industry. Women investigators for the Com mission lived for months Just as the workers of the stores live, and made report to the Commission on the cost of. maintaining themselves properly. Adult and minor apprentices In any establishment shall not exceed 25 per cent of the total number of women and minors employed, under the ruling. RARE GERMAN WINES SOLD Thousands of Bottles Seized on Liners When War AVas Declared. NEW YORK. July 7. Thousands of bottles of Tare German wines were auc tioned through sealed bids here yester day by the collector of the port, actin for the United States Government The liquors were seised along with the Ger man ships Vaterland, Hamburg, Presi dent Lincoln and President Grant, when war was declared. The wines were sold duty free, but the collector retained the amount of the duty, revenue taxes and other charges. The rest of the money will be held in trust for the German government for adjudication after the war. BATTERY C IS FORMING Field Artillery Unit Is Being lie crultcd at The Dalles. THE DALLES. Or.. July 7. (Spe cial.) The organization of a battery of Field Artillery of the O. N. G.. to be known as Battery C, is under way in The Dalles. Millard T. Johnson Is back of the movement and soon after the receipt of a telegram from Ad jutant-General White authorizing the movement he began the work of or ganizing. A large number of local men are interested and . the battery's full complement is assured. RAID NETS 5000 PINTS Virginia Officials Seize Liquor on Sea-Going Barge. NORFOLK.. Va-. July 7. In a raid last night on the seagoing barge Sea King, of the Scully line. Providence, R. I., the local authorities captured 200 cases of liquor, aggregating 6000 pint bottles. The raid was one of the largest since t..e prohibition law became effective in Virginia. LIQUOR REGULATION PUT INTO FOOD BILL Making and Importin or of Whisky Barred. BEER AND WINE UNDISTURBED Government May Commandeer Stores of Spirits. CONTEST IN SENATE BITTER Probably Year's Supply Will Be Withdrawn From Warehouses. . . Liquor Plans Cause Delay With Revenue Bill. ' WASHINGTON. July 7. The Senate went on record today In favor of a dry" Nation during the war, so far as whisky and other distilled bever ages are concerned. Liquor legislation was written Into tho food control bill in one of the Sen ate's bitterest contests, which would strike at consumption of distilled in toxicants by commandeering stocks in bond in addition to prohibiting their manufacture or importation. The beer and wine industries would be left un disturbed. Distilled Spirits Commandeered. In lieu of the section of the House bill to prohibit tne manufacture of foodstuffs into beverages of any de scription, the Senate substituted by a vote of 45 to 37 a provision prohibiting manufacture and importation ' of dis-1 tilled beverages during the war and added. 65 to 12. a further clause direct ing the President to take over all" distilled -spirits in Government bonded warehouses and ray for it on the basis of cost j?lus 13. per cent. While the final prohibition legisla tion will be evolved in -conference be tween the two houses, it is generally regarded as possible that the House will accept the Senate's change after a fight in behalf of the original sec tion. Supply Exceeds 200,000,000 Gallons. .The Senate provision would limit consumption to stocks In retailers' hands or withdrawn before the law goes Into effect. Stocks of distilled beverages in bond were estimated to night at between 200,000,000 and 300, 000,000 gallons and the annual con sumption at, 120.000.000 gallons. To purchase this enormous quantity, of liquor, or what is left of It after withdrawals In anticipation of the leg islation, it is estimated that the Gov ernment would have to spend from $300,000,000 to 81,000,000,000. The prob-. able loss in Federal revenues is placed at from 8200.000.000 to $400,000,000. al though this as well as the cost of pur chase would depend entirely on how much liquor was withdrawn, tax-paid, before the commandeering. Tax: Bill Called Back. The Senate's action promises Indefi nite delay in enacting the war tax bill, further delay on the food control bill and indefinite postponement on adjournment of Congress. The revised $1,670,000,000 war tax bill was with drawn immediately following the final vote upon the liquor question to seek new sources of revenue in case tax ation on distilled liquors is eliminated. Enormous withdrawal of distilled liquors from bonded warehouses before the Senate provision could become ef fective was generally predicted tonight. It was estimated that manufacturers and dealers probably could raise funds enough to withdraw at least half of the existing supply, or enough to meet Concluded on Page 4. Column '2.1