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Jrbziyv T 4 E 1 ' 76 Pages Six Sections VOL. XXXVI.-XO. 3G. PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER . 9, 1917. PRICE FIVE CENTS. POULTRY PRODUCTS PRICES TO SOAR TORRENT OF HATE TURNS Oil AMERICA FIEND MUTILATES 3 AUT0ISTS ARE DASHED TO DEATH COLLECTOR BURKE INDEX QF TODAY'S NEWS 10 -YEAR -OLD GIRL FINALLY UNSEATED BUTTER EXPECTED TO BE HIGH EST SINCE CIVIIj WAR. TWO WOMEN AND MAN THROWN VROM CHEHALIS RIVER SPAN. Section One Pages 1 to20 Hll CARRIES GER1I1IG IB Foreign Office Agent for Secret Messages. Farmers Kill Spring Chickens for Food and Thanksgiving Turkey Will Come From Storage. U. S. OBTAINS TRANSLATIONS Cipher Reports on Argentine . Situation Are Transmitted w From Buenos Aires. EXPOSE STIRS DIPLOMATS Llondon and Buenos Aires Surprised at Intrigue Un it, earthed by America. LONDON, Sept. 8. Intense interest lias been aroused in diplomatic and political circles here by the Washing ton dispatches concerning Sweden. The Associated Press learns that the Foreign Office at Stockholm has been acting as a telegraph office for the German government and for the last three years has regularly trans mitted cables in German cipher under the guise of Swedish government mes sages. Swedish Minister Signs. Cipher dispatches bearing the sig nature of the Swedish Minister of Foreign Affairs and addressed to the Swedish Legations in certain foreign countries have been handed by the Swedish Legation to the German Le gation in the country to which the messages were addressed, the mes sages being in reality in German code. In the same way the German Min isters in various foreign countries have been in free telegraphic com munication with Berlin ' by ' handing their cipher messages to the Swedish Minister, who signed and dispatched them as Swedish government mes sages direct to the Foreign Office at Stockholm, whence they have been cent to Berlin. England Learns of Policy. In the Spring of 1915 the British government, learning of the employ' ment of Swedish telegraphic 'facilities in German interests, brought this in formation to the notice of the Swed ish government with the intimation that unless definite assurance could be given that this practice had ceased it would be necessary to place re strictions on Swedish telegrams, in cipher, as far as the use of British controlled cables was concerned. Sir Eyre Crowe, Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, by Sir Edward Grey's direction, spoke to the Swedish Minister in this sense on May 11. After some delay the Swedish Minister, on behalf of his government, gave formal assurance that no cipher messages of the kind would be in the future allowed to pass through Swed ish official channels. Stockholm Makes Promise. Similar assurances were given at Stockholm. On July 2, 1915, the Brit (Concluded on Page 6. Column 3.) SOME PREDICTIONS. The price of eggs and poultry will be as high or higher than last Winter. Butter will be higher than since the Civil War. Farmers have killed practically all the Spring chickens. Milk-fed chickens have decreased to one tenth the usual supply. Thanksgiving turkeys will have to come out of cold stor age, where there is a plentiful supply. CHICAGO, Sept. 8. (Special.) The Chicago Butter and Kgg Board today Issued a "bullish" official statement in forming the public of serious curtail ment of supplies of butter, eggs and poultry. The Board calls attention, to the fact that the Government warehouse report for September shows a decrease of 12, 320,000 pounds, as compared with Sep tember, 1916, In the butter supply, and that, while there is an excess of 418, 000 cases of eggs, as compared with last year, the extraordinary demand will quickly absorb that. . Compared with two years ago there Is a shortage in eggs. At the present time there are 71,- 262,000 pounds of butter in storage, compared with 83,582,000 ppu -ds in September, 1916. There are 3.794,000 casts of eggs, compared with 3,376,000 cajes. "Butter will be higher in price this year than we have known it to be in this country since the Civil War," reads the statement. The poultry situation is serious, the farmers having killed practically all Spring chickens for food, while only one-tenth of the usual supply of milk fed chickens Is now available. There are few live turkeys for mar ket, but there is a supply in cold stor age sufficient for Thanksgiving feasts. Anathema of Germans First on Russia. 'GOTT STRAFE ENGLAND' NEXT Emperor Gives High Order to Lissauer for Hymn of Hate. AMERICANS VILIFY WILSON I. W. W. GETS 45 DAYS Frank Woods Convicted of Hamper ing Raiding Officers. Frank. Woods, arrested for interfer ing-with the -Government raid on the W. W. headquarters last Wednes day, was sentenced to a 45-day so journ in the city bastile by Judge Rossman yesterday. Woods said he came -from England 15 years ago, but had never taken out his citizenship papers because he would rather be a member of the I. W. W. than a citizen of the .United States. He then admitted that he had only been a. member of the I. W. W. a year. FREQUENT RAINS FORECAST Xo Decided Change In Temperature Expected This Week. WASHINGTON. Sept 8. Weather predictions for the week beginning Sunday, Issued by the Weather Bureau today, are: Pacific states Fair, except frequent showers, over northern districts. No decided temperature change. OCEAN MESSAGE RECEIVED B. Swanson Adrift at Sea According to Communication at Aberdeen. ABERDEEN, Wash., Sept. 8. (Spe cial.) "Adrift at Sea B. Swanson" reads a message found yesterday in a bottle on the Westport ocean beach. It is presumed that It was cast overboard by some fisherman. No fisherman of that name is known in this section. Germans, Naturalized Citizens or United States, Make Practice of Inflaming Minds or People Aga!nst Adopted Country. BY JAMES W. GERARD. American Ambassador to the German Im perial Court. July 2S, 1013, to February 4. 117. (Copyright. 1017. by tha public ledger Company.) On my way from Berlin to America in February, 1917, at a dinner in Paris I met the celebrated Italian historian. Ferrero. In a conversation with him after dinner I reminded him of the fact that both he and a Frenchman named Huret, who had written on America, had stated In their books that the thing which struck them most in the study of the American people was the ab sence of hate. Ferrero recalled this, and In the dis cussion which followed and in which the French novelist. Marcel Prevost, took part, all agreed there was more hate in Europe than in America, first. because the people of Europe were con fined in small space, and, secondly, because the European, whatever his rank or station, lacked the opportuni ties for advancement and consequently the eagerness to press on ahead, and he lacked the fixing of the thought on the future instead of the past, which formed part of the American character. In a few hours in Europe it is pos sible to travel in an automobile across country waere the people differ vlo lently from the countries surrounding them, not only in language, customs and costumes, - but in methods of thought and physical appearance. Americas Melting; Pot Envied. The day I left Berlin I went to see Herr von Gwinner, head of the Deutsche Bank, with reference to a charitable funyl which had been, collected for widows and orphans in Germany. In our talk Von Gwinner said that Euro peans envied America because we seemed to be able to. assimilate all those people who, as , soon, as they landed on, our shores, sought to forget their old race hatreds and endeavored as speedily as possible to adopt Amer ican clothes, language and thought. I told him I thought it was because in our country we did not try to force anyone, that there was nothing to pre vent a Pole speaking Polish and wear ing Polish dress if he chose and that the only weapon that we used against those who desired to 'uphold the cus toms of Europe was that of ridicule. It seemed to me that it was tile re pressive measures, such as, for example. the action taken by Prussia against the Poles and the Danes, the Alsatians and the Lorrainers, that had aroused a com batlve Instinct in these peoples and made them cling to every vestige of their former nationality. German Bate Centers First on Russia. At first, with the coming of war, the concentrated hate of the German people seemed to be turned upon the Russians. Even Llebknecht, when he called upon me in order to show that he had not been shot, as reported in America, spoke of the perils of Czarlsmus and the hatred of the German people for the Concluded on Page 3. Column 3. The Weather. lESTERDAT'S Maximum temperature. 68 degrees; minimum temperature, 09 de , grees. TODAY'S Cloudy;, moderate northerly -winds. . War. England advises Washington that Wilson's reply to Pope is substantially England's reply. Section 1, page 1. ' Americans building biggest of war bases -in France. Section 1. page 2. " Austrians retake Monte San Gabrtele and - ground In Hermada, sector. Section 1, page 4. German fleet makes way north in Baltic . Sea. Section 1, page 4. Foreign. Gerard tells how torrent of German hate turned from Russia and England upon America. Section 1, page i. Mlchaells suppresses important fact In order to make point. Section 1. page o. National. 'Too much La Follette' one cause of defeat of heavy tax on war profits. Section 1, Page 5. Swedish Ambassador at Buenos Aires trans mits Cerman official message. Section 1. ba?A 1. Food Administrator will not vary fixed wheat price. Section 1. page 4. Distillers cease manufacturing of beverage liquors. Section 1, page u. War tax on amusement parks eliminated. section l, page 18. Domestic. Poultry products - and butter prices to soar this Winter. . Section 1, page 1. Two killed by explosion, lu Frankford arsenal. Section 1. page 4. Death of widow discloses husband's old will. betionl. page 3. " Roosevelt urges woman suffrage as right. not lavor. section 1, page 11. Pacific Northwest. Fiend mutilates body of ten-year-old girl. section l, page 1. Three autolsts killed when car dashes from Driage. Section 1. page 1. Washington State Fair to be Improved. Sec tion j, page i . State Fair will be larger and better than ever, section l. page 7. War on fire In forests of West by organized government service described. Section 1, page 8. Douglas launches road construction cam paign. Section 1. page 8. Baker sleuths foiled in efforts to trap blackmailer. Section 1, page 10. Jack" Carey, of White Salmon and Port land, writes from battle zone. Section 1, page l. Women to vie with men In patriotism res istration aay. section 1, page 1-. Vancouver and Clarke County turns out to Dia select service men good-bye. Sec tion 1, page 13. Regular Army commissions given 10 Cor vallls graduates. Section 1, page 13. Well-fed workers rebuff agitators at Camp oecuon a, page 13. Sport. Multnomah Amateur Athletic Club gives ifiany memoers to me Army. section -. page 1. Pacific Coast League results: Portland 21-, Salt Lake 1; Los Angeles 5, Oakland O; n .rrancisco -a. Vernon 3. Section paga 1. All Interscholastlc elevens have star coaches. bectlon ::, page Portland bowlers are active. Section 2,. page O. A. C. plans full military and physical in struction course, section z page Spltball used by leading Coast League puttiers. section , page 3. Boxers getting in trim for. Vancouver bout. oecuon page 3. Ty Cobb seeks most of honors in American . league. becuon z, page 3. Oregon City hunters get 0 deer. Section page 3. Interest in Tia Juana -racing' programme luuins. aeciion i;, page XV. A. uoss' tennis career is notable. Sec tion 2, page 4. Harry Krause, Coast League's workhouse. according to statiatics. Section 2. oaire ' Trap -men sad when opportunity knocks and they ..fail to respond. Section page 4. JttarK Arle perrorms great feat at National trapshootlng tourney. Section 2. page 4. Portland and Vicinity. ' Collector or Customs Burke and Marshal Alontag unseated and nominations for successors maae by president. Section 1, Report on poultry made in food campaign. oeciiou a, page 14. Portland mother of sailor hears of welcome given ooy at Huenos Aires. Section 1 page 16. Head Consul Boak. Woodmen of World says cost of Government Insurance will be colotsal. Section 1, page 14. Wheat movement awaits new decision In pnce-llxlng. section 1. page U. Victory in war for democracy declared to depend upon spruce of Pacific North west. Section 1. page 18. . Thirty-nine try out for position as firemen. beccion l. page 14. Council urged to repeal fireproof ordinance for business district. Section 1. page 15. New department' added to Y. M. C. A. Sec tion 1, page 14. Two Portland men become Instructors In aviation. . Section 1, page 1(1. Mose Chrlstensen says Jazs was frowned on by danplng masters because of fear of rowdyism. Section 1. page 10. Portland .man. discovers way to relieve pain of wounded. Section 1, page 15. Certificate of sanitation to be given grocers and confectioners. Section 1, page 17. City opposed to higher car fares. ' Section 1. . page 17. Registration card for women prepared for next Saturday. Section 1. page 18. Ex-Judge McGinn declines to run for United Sta-tes Senate. Section 1, page 18. Veterans in British recruiting station help . swell The Oregonlan tobacco fund. Sec tion 1. page 19. Miss Claire Wilcox weds Cameron Squires. Section 1. page 19. Weather report, data and forecast. Section 2. page 14. Little Mamie'Torkko Accuses Engineer. VENGEANCE VOWED BY MINERS Men Quit to Search Hills of Carbonado for Fugitive. FIRE BUILT AROUND CHILD Man Suspected of Deed Educated ind Fluent Talker Bags of Childish Delight Betray Where abouts of Missing Tot. TACOMA, Wash., Sept. 8. Scouring the woods about the mining town of Carbonado, the posse in search of Ma mie Torkko, the 10-year-old child who disappeared last Wednesday evening;. found her at noon today, bruised, mu tilated and burned. 100 yards from th road below the graveyard where he father and brother are buried. The child was conscious but very weak. The discovery was made by Crooked Joe Ginsky, and shortly before that a bag- of peanuts and a package of unopened crackerjack. tossed over a log at the side of the road, found by John Johnson and Thomas Thimm at 11:30, led to the discovery of the child. Child Accuea Engineer. Mutilated little Mamie Torkko fixed the guilt for her condition on a miss ing' "loki" engineer of the Carbon Hill Coal Company in her few moments of consciousness this afternoon. Her words, carried from the hospital to the silent hundreds gathered about its doors, fanned the flame of fury of the miners, and absolute certainty sent hundreds more into the great hills and woods under the direction of Sheriff Longmire. The search continued all night. Threats of lynching, made covertly before the man's guilt was certain. were open as, - the- men " scattered through the hills. Girl Found Under Los;. ; - Her body had been pushed under a log in the deep brush and other logs piled over her in an evident attempt to set fire to them. Her face was swollen and black, her yellow hair burned and bare arms and legs blackened. . . . A shout from Ginsky brought posse of 50 men headed by Sheriff Longmire and City Marshal June to the spot. Boys relayed the call for a doctor and Drs. Shaw and Brenton met the group on the 'way down the road. the child being carried tenderly by a sturdy miner. 30O Search HlIIsu When discovered the child weakly opened her eyes and said, "A man pushed me over the log last night.' Later she described an engineer who had been in the employ of the mining company. This man was closely ques tioned the second day of Mamie's dis appearance by the town marshal, and when the Sheriff was called Friday the man dropped out of sight completely. After the story of the little girl to day the posse of 300 miners with the Sheriff and several deputies and a number of horses began a systematic search for the girl's assailant. " 'ltl' Man Did It. Tot Tells. "That man pushed me over the log." the child muttered, when her little body, nearly destroyed, but still alive, had been lifted from its tomb under a rot ting log. "He said we'd take a little, walk." she murmured, sleepily, when the doc- Mrs. Eva Avery, Miss Bachelor and W. Stoy, on Way to Kim a, Die " When Car Leaves Bridge. CHEHALIS, Wash.. Sept. 8. Special.) Walter Stoy, formerly a well-known Chehalis barber, and two women com panions, Mrs. Eva Avery and Miss Stella Bachelor, were killed yesterday in an automobile accident on the Long Blockhouse Smith bridge across the Chehalis River between Oakville and Cedarville. A man named Sciffort, who was also a member of the party, es caped unhurt, although the car tore through a trestle railing and fell 25 feet to the gravelly shores of the river below. Miss Bachelor was driving the car and the party was en route to Elraa to ttemi the fair. The slippery road is thought to have caused the car to skid on the turn on the bridge. Stoy, Mrs. Avery and Miss Bachelor were thrown free from the car and badly crushed. Sciffort was caught underneath the car as it fell. Mrs. Avery died as she was being carried up the bank of the stream. Stoy died a few minutes later at the Cedarville end of the bridge. wnere he had been carried. Miss Bach i . . I.. i . . , , . . iKtu until sne was taken to an Oakville hospital, where she died later. The women were sisters and formerly lived Jn Chehalis also. Stov lenvoa wife and child and his parents. Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Stoy. who live in Salwr Vol. ley, near this city. GORDON V00RHIES MAJOR West Point Graduate Enters Train lng Camp, Receives Appointment. SAN FRANCISCO Cal., Sept. 8. (Spe ciai.j Orordon oorhies, well-known Portland man, today received an ap pointment as Major in the National Army and leaves immediately for Amer lean Lake. Major Voorhies Is a West Point grad uate, having resigned from the Army several years ago with the rank of Captain. He entered the officers' train ing camp here ten days ago and his ap pointment. received today from Wash ington, followed. Major Voorhies likely will be de tailed as an adjutant. He has been or dered to report to General Henry A. Ureene. (Concluded on Page 5. Column 3.) FIRE HERO. 8, REWARDED Railway Shows Appreciation to Boy for Saving Bridge. PENDLETON, Or., Sept. 8. (Special.) Eight-year-old Nelson Murray, son o Pete Murray, rancher on the Umatilla reservation near Mission, today is a mighty happy boy. As a reward for saving the railroad bridge near his home from fire recently, he was brought to town today and presented with a complete new outfit of clothing from stockings to military hat, at the ex pense of the railroad company. Fire caught from sparks from a pass lng engine was well started when the lad discovered it. He ran nearly a mile to where the section crew was working and brought them back in time to save the structure. SLAIN AMERICAN NAMED W. T. Fltzsimmons Victim of Ger man Raid on Hospital. Chamberlain Evens Up Old Score. WILL MOORE IS NOMINATED Customs Appointment in Port land Up to Senate. M0NTAG IS DROPPED, TOO WASHINGTON, Sept. 8. The death of First Lieutenant William T. Fltz simmons, medical corps, U. S. A., killed Thursday when German aviators bombed hospitals behind the lines in France, was announced in a dispatch received by the War Department to night from the American embassy at London. No mention was made of other Amer icans reported killed in press cables. Lieutenant Fitzslmmons joined the Army medical forces at Kansas City, his home, last May. He was just 20 years of age and a graduate of Kansas University. George E.-AIexander, of Portland, la Chosen for United States Mar shalPresident's Act Is Echo of Old Political I'cud. It's a cold, hard world this day to Judge Thomas C. Burke, collector of customs at Portland, and to John Mon tag. United States Marshal, for George E. Chamberlain, senior United States Senator from Oregon, has won his point. Senator Chamberlain has insisted with great vigor that Judge Burke should not be reappointed as collector of customs in the reparceltng of Fed eral Jobs for President Wilson's sec ond term. Will Moore Nominated. And yesterday the President sent to the Senate the name of Will Moore, of Pendleton, for the post. -vlr. Moore is eminently satisfactory to Senator Chamberlain. At the same time George F. Alexan der, of Portland, was nominated for United States Marshal, to succeed Mr. Montag. Probably Mr. Montag will not take his rejection too greatly to heart, for it has been an assured fact for soma time that he would be removed. For one thing, he ran with an entirely dif ferent political crowd than Senator Chamberlain. He was a protege and warm personal friend of the late Sen ator Harry Lane, who was responsible for his appointment in 1913. Burke Strongly Supported. With Senator Lane's death. Mr. Montag's political days were numbered, for he has never been what is known as a "Chamberlain" Democrat But Judge Burke had high hopes to the very last Moreover, he had warm supporters in Washington, including none other than Secretary of the Treas ury McAdoo and John Burke. Treasurer of the United States. The President himself has been regarded aj favorable to him. There is an interesting story behind Senator Chamberlain's opposition to Judge Burke. It dates back to 1914.' when Senator Chamberlain, seeking re election, was opposed by William Hanley, of Burns, the Progressive nom inee. Senator Chamberlain gained the Im pression that Judge Burke favored and even supported Hanley for Senator. There were certain facts that lent con siderable weight to this Impression, though Judge Burke himself always asserted that the Senator was mis taken and that he was guilty of no disloyalty. Appointment Is Surprise. Even before "that, however. Judga Burke and Senator Chamberlain were never what could be termed real po litical tillicums. This was not due to differences between them, but to the tact that prior to his appointment aa collector of customs in 1913 Judge Burke had not been a political factor of any great moment in the state. His appointment shortly after the be ginning of President Wilson's first term was. in fact, a surprise and a blow to the boys in the Democratio (Concluded on Page 3. Column 1.) GLIMPSES OF THE WEEK'S NEWS AS CARTOONIST REYNOLDS CAUGHT THEM.
