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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 2, 1917)
THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN. PORTLAND, SEPTEMBER 2, 1917. PERSHING ADVISES PATIENCE IS HEEDED Ins patrolled by Kentucky National Guardsmen and the civil authorities have augmented their night police patrol as the result of a series of out breaks In the principal streets here today between negroes and soldiers. Tonight the town Is quiet but sup pressed excitement and ill feeling Is apparent and threats of further trou ble are heard. The street fighting today was the culmination of a series of disorders between soldiers camped at the edge of the city and negroes who have been flocking to Lexington during the week from a fair nearby. One negro was taken to the hospital in a serious condition, while numerous other blacks receiver lesser injuries. The soldiers escaped with minor bruises. 71 if 4 Kir-, demssoissisf i-'"wtmUnse8saKsmimat Force Suitable for First Line Fighting Not Made by Wave of Wand. v G GIANT STRIDES ARE MADE 2Vo Effort Will Be Made to Take Place at Front Until Army Is Capable of Doing Share at i Side of Its Allies. PARIS, Sept. I. Major-General Per shing, who has remained in Paris clear ing up the work at his old headquar ters and who is not going to field head quarters until Sunday or Monday, de clared today in connection with the plan for the coming Winter that the American people must learn the mean ing and value of patience and not ex pect that the expeditionary forces landed in France can be rushed imme diately to the front line trenches. To put an inadequate, insufficiently sup plied force into actual combat, he said, would merely be making a mistake which the Germans unquestionably ( have hoped and expected the United j States would make. It is the deter mination rather that when America does take her place in the line shoul der to shoulder w.lth the other allies next year she will be fully prepared to go through the Summer campaign and make the Germans feel the full weight of her mlttlar'y power. Tank Is Immense. "Those of us who have fully studied the situation and who know what must be done," said General Pershing to the Associated Press, "are anxious that the people at home shall strive to realize the immensity of the task in which we are engaged and shall, through pa tience and confidence, strive to accom plish that task in the shortest possible time. Everything is going well with us both as a Nation and as an Army. We are making giant strides day by day, but we are just started. "We came into the war without an army. We always have been a peace loving people and undoubtedly the great majority of us hoped we should be spared war. So now we must build an entire new organization and build it so big and so strong that we can take our place along with our allies, who already have had three years' time and experience. Great Problems Solved. T realize how very difficult it Is for the people at home to visualize the war, to visualize the effort that lies behind the war. Our problems are greater than any France and Great Britain has to solve, but we are solving them and will continue to do so. - "It is impossible to create a vast fighting machine merely bythe wave of a. wand. I wish that it was possible to do o and that we might be fighting the German government this minute. We know that the only way to defeat the German army is to hammer and keep on hammering it. That is what we expect to be doing with all our fresh strength and enthusiasm during next year's campaign. 'But "until we can properly take our place in the line, the people must be patient and a"s confi dent as we are, who know what we are doing and what we must do." CONCERT INTEREST HIGH DOBSON AND DOSAHTE TO SING AND PLAY FOR SOLDIERS. Proceeds of Programme of Clever Yonng Musicians Will Swell Third Oregon Ambulance Fond Widespread interest has been aroused in the benefit concert that will be given on the night of September 17 at th public auditorium by Tom Dobson, well-known Portland singer and com poser, and Lester Donahue, the New York pianist, now quite a sensation in Eastern music circles. The concert is arranged under the auspices of the Oregon Army and Navy Auxiliary for the benefit of the Third Oregon ambulance and emergency fund. The local committee is composed of Mrs. A. D. Charlton. Mrs. S. B. Huston, Mrs. George L. Baker .and Mrs. G. J. Steele. The entire seating capacity of the Auditorium will be offered at $1 a seat and the advance interest indicates the Auditorium will be crowded. Mr. Dobson will include in the pro gramme many of his own compositions. These compositions include reveries of the child world. Southern and Irish folk songs, a modern French group and a group of songs written by Mr. Dobson in collaboration with Mr. Donahue, with whom he has frequently appeared in the East. Mr. Donahue is recognized as a. bril liant pianist. He gave a concert in Portland last season under the auspices of the Portland MacDowell Club. He will offer several interpretations from Liszt and Chopin, among other things on his programme. MEAN THIEF IS ABROAD THIELHOR.V LOSES TROUSERS HAIDEX ISLAND. ON 500 SOLDIERS -TO MARCH Vancouver, Wash., Plans Great Pa A radc for Labor Day. VANCOUVER, Wash., Sept. 1. (Spe cial.) One thousand workmen, 500 reg ular soldiers and three big bands, in cluding the Fourteenth Infantry band, from Vancouver Barracks, the S., P. & S. band and the Juvenile Artisans' band will make up- Vancouver's greatest Labor day parade Monday morning. The parade will move at 9:30 sharp, the military section having orders to nrch at that hour, which will be strictly followed. Members of the va rious unions which will be represented In the line of march will assemble at 9 o'clock. Many from Portland are expected to attend. Speeches at the City Park and field day sports are planned for the afternoon. Violin Teacher Saved From Going Home Draped In Barrel Th.oofih Kind ness ox strangers. Bathers should beware the trousers thief of Hayden Island. Emil Thlelhorn, well-known, violin teacher, was his victim yesterday. Mr. Thlelhorn was lounging on the sands of the island preliminary to a dip in the Columbia. He thinks he must have dozed, for he discovered his clothes, rolled into a bundle, had been disar ranged and the trousers, containing a watch, diamond ring, bunch of keys, an English marine glass and loose change, had disappeared. It was only tne kindness of dwellers in a nearby houseboat that saved Mr. Thielhorn from going home in a barrel. Moreover, he was so annoyed by the theft that he no longer felt like swim ming and was made to lose his dip. Mr. Thielhorn's loss was considerable. His ring was worth more than S100. He was put to no end of inconvenience through the loss of his keys, to which was attached his name and address. The scene of the theft was on the north shore of Hayden Island, near the Interstate bridge. A few days ago a Finnish swimmer, disporting in the water at that point, also suffered the loss of his trousers. FOOD SCARCE IN 0STEND s German Deserter Says Sugar Unob tainable and Bread Limited. HAVRE, Sept. 1. Milk, butter, eggs and vegetables are not obtainable in Ostend, Belgium, according to a de serter from the German army, who has arrived here. Meat is scarce and when obtainable the administration of the commune distributes 75 grams weekly to each person. Bread, he said, brings 5 francs a kilogram and sugar is not obtainable. Three hundred grams two-thirds pound) of bread is distrib uted daily to each person by the Ameri can relief commission. The residents of Ostend, he adds, are depressed by misery, but are always hopeful of victory. The general morale Of the population is good. TRIAL RESULT TO BE TOLD Military Inquiry in Waco Case "Will Not Be Kept Secret. SAN ANTONIO. Tex., Sept. 1. Major General John W. Ruckman, comman der of the Southern Department, an nounced tonight after reconsidering his decision earlier today not to give out the findings of the courtmartial of the negro members of the Twenty fourth Infantry who clashed with civil authorities at Waco July 29. that he would make a report Monday covering the proceedings of the trial. FIRE INJURES THOUSANDS Population of Russian City Driven Into Fields for 3 6 Hours. PETROGRAD, Sept. 1. Several thou sand persons are reported to have been 1 killed and injured in the fire which Bwept the city of Kazan on the Kazan, ka River, 430 miles east of Moscow early this week. The fire burned for 36 hours, driving most of the population outside the city. LUMBER COMPANY SUED Brokerage Concern Wants Damages, Alleging Breach of Contract. Lumber prices have nearly doubled since April of this year, according to the complaint of the Duncan Lumber Company, which started suit yesterday against the Willapa Lumber Company for a $15,700 judgment on an allege? breach of contract. " In April, the complaint aets forth, the plaintiff contracted with the de fendant concern for 431,500 ' feet ot lumber at an agreed price of : $42 ' a thousand feet. The defendant company has, failed to deliver the greater share of lumber ordered, and the price for the same quality is now $75 a thou sand, it is asserted. The plaintiff com pany wants damages amounting to the difference in cost it is now required to pay. DEER HUNTERS ARRESTED Three Men of Coquille Violate Gov ernor's Proclamation. MARSHFIELD. Or., Sept. 1. (Spe cial.) P. Endicott, Milton Epperson and Otto McGill, of Coquille, were caugSit in the closed deer season with two bucks and a doe, and were arrest ed by Deputy Game Warden J. M. Thomas and ordered to appear in the Circuit Court, October term. Deputy Thomas spent two days about the camp of the hunters. He was as sisted by Constable J. G. Houser, of Bridge. Mr. Thomas says he has evi dence the men knew of the closed sea son and that they made slighting re marks about the Governor and his proclamation. Irrigation Ditch Polluted. BEND, Or., Sept. 1 (Special) Plead ing guilty to the charge of polluting an irrigation ditch, John Marsh, John Harper, Charles Anderson and A. Har per, who were arrested yesterday aft ernoon, were fined each $10 and costs in the local Justice Court. The charge against the men was that a sheepherder in their employ let sheep lie in the water, causing a severe epidemic of dysentery and one death among users of the water. TROOPS AND NEGROES RIOT Lexington, Ky., Patrolled by Sol diers Following Several FJghts. 1- LEXINGTON, Ky., streets of Lexington Sept. 1. The tonight are be- Blanket Ofdcr Issues. WASHINGTON, Sept. 1 Proposed commodity rate increases of all sorts throughout the east were disposed of temporarily today by the Interstate Commerce Commission with a blanket order suspending the operation of rates until December 30. A selected list ot articles excluded from the pro posed increases, vhich were to become effective today, will be announced within a few days. Marriage Licenses Issued. TACOMA. Wash., Sept. 1. (Special) .marriage licenses were issued here to day to E. Erickson, Seattle, and Jean. ette Clovis, Portland, and to Francis D, Yeager and Blanche Brown, both of centra.ua, IIUUUG KENNEDI 3 IA.XE COW1. IM iinlfcril SrminhTfma HiMTi li ill iil'giimimill. TUEDA BARA s "Cleopatra, the Siren of the Nile.' si 4 fii- XINE ELLIOTT Ail 2J MAE MAK9H in 'P-olly of the Circus." 7 v'.Jr -11IL.J. KARMM is comilis In pictures even bigger thau The fepoilers." U. .- I HI W 3 H-ct- Ml d -nr it fc-ii -ff S- --Vi U Imirlsm coopeii.- -.-. y --vatm I (jne of the Honoris .??- - -." -.-x'Amm 1 System stars Mi. 1 . .""-."",s,':? 'r& Announcing The biggest combined programme of stars and plays ever shown any where in the world in the entire history of motion pictures. Commencing yesterday with "Skinner's Baby," the funniest comedy drama ever shown in this theater, the Majestic will offer to the public during the coming sea son the most gigantic collection of super-pictures ever known. At enormous expense the entire programme has already been purchased, and there will not be a single week during the next nine months that the Majestic will not have an attraction of supreme quality. The programme is so good that every pic ture will.be shown a week, and the policy of the house calls for the opening of all at-, tractions on Saturday, instead of Sunday, as formerly. The following is a partial jpfr , 'y , v "The Honor System" (Coming very soon) "The Spy" "Jack and the Bean Stalk" Annette Kellermann in "Queen of the Waters" Theda Bara in "Cleopatra" and "Camille." William Farnum in "The Conqueror," "When a Man Sees Red," "Les Miserables" and "The Doctor' (by Ralph Connor). Dustin Farnum in "North of Fifty-three" and "Du- rand of the Bad Lands." Madge Kennedy in "Baby Mine," "Nearly Married," "Twin Beds," "Fair and Warmer." Maxine Elliott in "Fighting Odds" and "The Eternal Magdalene." Jane Cowl in "The Spreading Dawn." Mae Marsh in "Polly of the Circus," "Sunshine Al ley," "Fields of Honor," "The Cinderella Man." Mary Garden in "Thais." Mabel Normand in "Joan of Flatbush.' Rex Beach production, "The Auction Block." British Official War Pictures "Battle of the Somrae" and "The German Retreat From Arras." J) DCSTIX FAHXUM is coming back in some real masterpieces. i Fox special production ranking with '"The Daughter of the .Gods' 3 the Beanstalk.' '9 w fci wiiin,iijiv-ni .j mi w i iiiwnrPi., i'wi.jj ' 'I'm n. m hiuii wwy"w 1 -" " - -" -- - - - r' ' 'nir""L"TT "111. 7. 17.'. .d.-.'"". V.'"" Vwi'i!!!! J l.m,.m. ;-- , , MnmMitm'r m n i m ,.r.lh.i,T.Mtyl,l.l vv...,tv....mr,mli , illfl ft'' CLATSOP VALUES GO UP ASSESSOR MAKING VP ROLL ON 100 PER CENT BASIS. Multnomah County Assessment TV'tll Be Continued, as in Former Tears on 60 Per Cent Plan. ASTORIA, Or., Sept. 1. (Special.) Assessed valuation of taxable property In Clatsop County on the roll now In preparation will show an increase of approximately 40 per cent, when com pared with last year's roll. It is understood a si.nllar increase is being made in practically, every county in the atute. at the request of the State Tax Commission, which has expressed a desire tor higher valua tions in a hope of securing a propor tionate reduction in tax levies. Assessor Leinenweber, who Is pre paring: the new roll, will not total the figures until after the board of equali zation meets, but it is expected the roll will be nearly 27,000,0OO without the holdings of public service corpora tions. Taxable property inside the city limits will total approximately 17, 500,000. Assessment rolls in Multnomah County will not e totaled until late in October. Henry 12. Heed, Assessor, last night said thero would be little change in the assessments. Some weeks ago the State Tax Com mission sent out letters to all coun ties asking that property this year be assessed pa a 100' per cent basis. As sessor Reed assumed st night that the Clatsop Assessor was conforming to the requet of the Commission. Mult nomah County assesses on a basis of 60 per cent for all classes of property. The Multnomah assessment will remain at 60 per cent for this year anyway, and so far as Mr. Reed knows, no other counties have adopted the 100 per cent plan. AUTO LICENSE GAIN IS BIG More Titan 45,000 Machines Regis tered in Oregon. SALEM, Or., Sept. 1 (Special.) The total amount of license fees received by the automobile department of Sec retary OJcott'a office up to today for this year Is $183,386. as compared with $137,596 for the same period in 1316 and $146,254 for the entire year of 1916. During August this year 7247 in fees was paid in. these fees being paid on 1693 automobiles, 123 motorcycles, 10 dealers' licenses and 270 chauffeurs' licenses. So far this year 45.558 auto mobiles have been registered, as com pared with 31.847 for a similar period last year, or 33,917 for the entire year in 1916. The number of motorcycles registered so far this year is 3281. as compared with 3368 for last year for the entire year and 3294 for a corre sponding length of time last year. Sclo Fair Publicity Man Named. ALBANY, Or., Sept. 1 (Special.) Ralph R. 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