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76 Pages SixSections VOL. XXXVI. '0. '38. PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTI331BER 23, 1917. PRICE FIVE CENTS. vo IGEL PAPERS GENERAL SCOTT TO SEE BATTLE FRONT TRAGEDY REVEALED BY GERMAN'S DIARY Section One Pages lto20 STAR-GAZER FINDS LUNA'S VAGARIES HUM Still INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS F or PLOia EX-CHIEF OF STAFF WILL BE RECALLED TO ACTIVE Dt'TY. DISCOVERY IS AXSOCXCED BY PROFESSOR SEE. $2.05 NORTHWEST PRICE FOR WHEAT Portland is Terminal by Hoover Order. e in V V Intrigue Against Peace ful Land is Clear. SPY SYSTEM WIDE-SPREAD German Aid for Irish Revolu tion Drags in Name of New York Justice. HOLLAND IS INVOLVED Trouble Fomented in Munition Plants and Thousands u Spent in Publicity, ' WASHINGTON, Sept. 22. Further disclosures of far-reaching German propaganda, Intrigues and plots in this country prior to the diplomatic break with Germany were made today by the committee on public informa tion. In a bulletin styled "Official Ex pose," the committee quotes numer ous letters and extracts from letters seized by the Department of Justice in April, 1916, in a raid upon the New York office of Wolfe von Igel. i German Embassy Involved. Von Igel, in carrying on this mani fold pro-German and anti-American activities, the documents show, was in constant touch with the German Em bassy and with Count von Bernstorff, German Ambassador to the United States. "In the form of letters, telegrams, notations, checks, receipts, registers, cash books, cipher codes, lists of spies and other memoranda and records," the committee says, "were ound in dications in some instances of the vaguest nature, in others of the most damning conclusiveness that the German imperial government, through its representatives in a then friendly nation, was concerned with i American Laws Violated. "Violation of the laws of the United States. "Destruction of lives and property in merchant vessels on the high seas. "Irish revolutionary plots against Great Britain. "Fomenting ill-feeling against the United States in Mexico. "Subornation of American writers and lecturers. "Financing of propaganda. ! Spy System Maintained. "Maintenance of a spy system un der the guise of a commercial inves tigation bureau. "Subsidizing of a bureau for the purpose of stirring up labor troubles in munition plants. "The bomb industry and other re lated activities." The committee, of which Secretaries Lansing, Baker and Daniels are mem bers, and George Creel, chairman, has this to say concerning Holland: "It has long been an open secret that Holland is merely a way-station tConrludedon Page 4. Column t- t fTHT- j89HMfg&e n a specie us. capitol:I -WSffM U U" 1 Observation Tour of European TVar Zone to Be Preparatory to Com manding Training Area. WASHINGTON. Sept 22. There ) reason to believe that Major-General Hush L. Scott, who automatically re tired today as chief of the Army Gen eral Staff, soon will see. the battle fields of Europe, although the only of ficial statement as to the duty he will undertake when recalled to active serv ice is Secretary Baker's announcement that it will be in connection with the training of troops In the United States. ' An observation tour In France and England appears probable, as prepara tion for active command of a training: area or division. ' General Scott saw the Russian of fensive in Galicia when he was with the Root mission. Orders . recalling- General Scott to active service will be Issued tomorrow, having; been prepared today when he was succeeded as chief by Major-General Tasker K. Bliss. FRANCE RULES ON LIQUOR Heavy Penalties Provided for Repe tition of Public Drunkenness. PARIS. Friday, Sept. 21. The Cham ber of Deputies today adopted a bill ag-ainst drunkenness in public places, which, having already passed the Sen ate, now becomes a law. The bill has been back and forth be tween the two houses for more than two years. The measure provides punishment by fines and imprisonment. Persons in curring four convictions within three years may be deprived of the right to vote or to be elected to office, to carry arms, to serve as jurors, and may also be deprived of parental rights over children. WAR AFFECTS SCHOLARSHIP Whitman College Women Make Better Showing Than Men. WHITMAN COLLEGE, Walla Walla, Wash.. Sept. 22. (Special.) The schol arshlp records of the various groups in Whitman College for the year 1916 1917 have just been issued by the reg lstrar. These records show the effect of the war upon the men students last . Spring, for the averages of the women are above the average of the college, while- all men's groups fall below that line. Another Interesting feature is that the fraternity men and women have a better average than these not belong' lug to those organizations. "PERSONAL SPY" INTERNED Dr.-Karl . Graves Asserts He Acts .Direct for Kaiser. KANSAS CITT, Sept. 22. Internment of Dr. Karl Armgaard Graves, claiming to be the Kaiser's personal spy, was or dered today in a telegram to Federal authorities from Attorney-General Gregory. He was taken to the Federal prison at Leavenworth. Kas.. where he will be confined for the duration of the war. Graves was arrested here August 18 by Federal agents as an enemy alien. SOLDIERS TOOPEN FAIR Guardsmen Will Be Guests of Board at Salem Tomorrow. SALEM, Or., Sept. 22. (Special.) The remainder of the soldiers at Clack amas will be gueits at the opening of the State Fair Monday. Word was received today from the War Depart ment that the guardsmen will be here. A big reception will be held for the soldiers, at which Governor Withy combe will speak. The khaki-clad lads will be the guests of the State Fair Board. Sweetheart Victim of U-Boat Commander. SUICIDE FOLLOWS DISCOVERY Booklet of Hans von Tuebinger Replete With Thrills. RECORD SAVED BY STEALTH Transfer From First Vessel Wel comed, as Members of. Crew Are Declared "o Like Their Busi ness of Butchery Too Well. (Copyrlrht. 1017, bv the Xew fork Herald Company. All Rights Reserved. Copy right Canada bv New YnrV HaraM Com pany. Translated from the original um.ii uy irving tt. t$acon. 19145 March. Not the least of the pleasures since my arrival at Stockholm " has been the meeting- with Sven Larsen, whom I knew in the gymnasium, quite by accident, while sipping coffee at the Opera ICaeliaren. He took me to his home and I found his father, Lars Lar sen, and mother and sister (I believe her name is Minna) most charming- peo ple. The father Is an old sea dog, but full of good-natured raillery. The daughter is very good looking, remind ing me of a Graetchen In come "Faust" production that I have seen. Sven has studied a great deal since we left school and speaks on all sub jects with an air of authority. Our conversation was of beauty, inspired, no doubt, by the good looks of his sis ter. She left the room soon after this subject was broached. Her modesty made her forbear taking part In a dis cussion of which she was so eminent a living exposition and exemplar, yet lacked theories about. Beauty Topi of Debate. I maintained that beauty was a sort of national affair varying in accord ance with the standards of the various nations. Sven Insisted that It was something deeper and more, philosoph ical. "It is the outward expression of the perfect agreement of the parts with the entire organism, in relation to the pur pose for which the organism is in tended," he said tersely. Scarcely know ing whether I had understood him, I nevertheless ventured the query: "What is the criterion as to this concord of the parts to the whole and also as to the purpose for which the organism is intended?" Mole Taken, as Example. "Have you ever seen a mole?" he asked. "When I had answered affirmatively, he said: "Then you have noticed the big shovel-like paws. Well, they were made of that shape for shoveling. Shoveling is the chief occupation of a mole throughout its life. Its eyes are little better than rudimentary. It does not need eyes, digging, as it does, nearly all the time in darkness beneath the surface of the earth. Shovel-like paws and barely perceptible, sightless eyes are features of beauty about a mole. They would disfigure an eagle. Just as the wings of an eagle and lis large, intelligent eyes would look hideous in a mole. What an awful monstrosity hands would be on a tree! Why? Be cause a tree does not require them to fulfil any of the purposes of Its ex istence. Man needs them for a thousand different purposes. Hence their beauty. Adaptability of means to an end, Hans (Continued on Page 7.) THESE EVENTS IN THE The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature. 61 decrees; minimum, C4 degrees, TODAY'S Unsettled. probably showers: moderate southwesterly winds. Mar. Expose gives new proof of German plots. Section 1, page 1. Tragredy revealed by German U-boat officer's diary. Section 1. pace 1. British warships bombard Ostend. Section 1. "page 2. Five steamers and two British destroyer re ported sunk. Section 1. page 2. Argentina sends ultimatum to Germany. Section 1. page 1. Entente awaits second note from Pope be fore discussing peace. Section 1. page 3. American troops to be equipped for hand-to-hand fighting. Section 1, page 6. Pope wltl send second peace proposal, based on replies to first note. Section 1. page 3. Justice Cohalan denies knowledge of views quoted by Von Igel. Section 1. page 4. Domestic. Astronomer announces discovery of cause of fluctuations of moon in its orbit. Sec tion 1. page 1. Texas Senate sustains 10 of St Impeachment charges against Governor Ferguson. Sec tion 1. page 5. Italian airplanes hover over National capitaL Section 1, page S. National. Northwest wheat growers win signal vic tory in getting1 $2.05 basic price for Portland and sound delivery. Section 1, page 1. General Scott to see European battlefields. Section 1, page 1. Insurance section of civil rights bill to be redrafted. Section 1, page 8. Hope of settling ship strike by temporary wage agreement is seen, section l, page 10. Conferees define "capital" in war tax bill. Section 2, page 16. Sport. Freshmen " rule to remain unchanged In Northwest Conference. Section 2t page 1. Speaker cuts down Cobb's lead in batting. Section 2, page 2. Pacific Coast League results: Portland 5, Oakland 0: Los Angeles 3-3, Vernon, 1-0: tian Francisco 2, Seattle 1. Section 2, page 2. Boxers training for fight here next Friday night. Section 2, page 2. Seal fans expect their team to capture pen nant. Section 2, page 2. Eastern college gridiron teams out. Section 2. page 3. Oregon football hopes bright. Section 2, page 3. Big classes turn out at Portland Turnverein. Section 2, page 3. Scholastic football teams ready for kick-off. Section 2, page 3. Pheasant season opens October 1. Section 2, paze 3. Mat and ring to see new faces. Section 2, page 4. Viftv thousand athletes to be in big under taking at Camp Lewis. Section 2, page 4. Good golf form is deemed essential. Section 2. page 4. Pacific Northwest. Baker's only cemetery con be made ev- cluslve burial ground. Judge holds. Sec tion 1. page 2. McEachern f'ompiny appeals to patriotism of shipbuilders. Section 2, page tt. Six new champions win at Pendleton Round up. Section 1, Page 8. Scandinavians to appear In big festival at Salem today, section a. page a. Shad O. Krantz. for seven years with The Oregonian, appointed member of faculty Of University OI uregon. oecuon page ft. Philomath College hss 50-year work. Sec tion 1, page 10. - Major-General Greene Issues appeal for funds for war libraxy. fcei)on z. page jb. Portland and Vicinity. C. A. Steele writes of Slam's advent Into war. Section 1, page 5. Theater managers to aid officials to stamp out immorality among young gins, sec tion 1, page 12. Irrlngton Club's plans for Winter announced. Section 1, page 12. Manager McGettlcan makes annual Or- pheum announcement. Section 1, page 13. Sumpter Valley rate case heard by Inter state Commerce "Commission, section l i page 13. United States Attorney makes statement re garding offenses of now defunct Deutsche Zeltung. section l, page x. Oregon cavalry at Camp Greene. Section 1, page 16. Poultry ihow December 3 to S planned on extensive scale. Section 1. page 11. Colonel Young, local recruiting officer, tells how to address mall to soldiers in Lu rope. Section 1. page 16. Plans for Reed opening to be discussed by faculty. Section 1, page 17. M Oregon dairymen form protective organiza tion. Section 1, page 17. Forces marshaled for library drive. Sec tion 1. page IS. New building code to be considered by City Commissioners next Wednesday. Sec tion 1. page 18. War-time menu to be commenced in Port land cafes Tuesday. Section 1, page 19. Health officials and fruit dealers agree to co-operate in barring bad fruit from mar ket. Section 1, page 10. Money pledged to Red Cross has not been paid. Section 1. page 19. Debate on proposed 6-eent carfare held at Civic League luncheon. Section 2, page 6. Movement of drafted men the biggest seen so far In Port-wTid. Section 2, page 16. Shipyards plan to resume work, tomorrow. Section 2, page 6. Portland shipbuilders expect Washington conferences will be renewed Monday. Sec tion 1. page 10. Captain Boehm ex-Portland resident. Sec tion 1. page 4. Weather report, data and forecast. Section 2. page t. WEEK'S NEWS IMPRESSED CARTOONIST REYNOLDS. ell 101.0 FARMERS WIN SIGNAL VICTORY Figures Show Lack of Ton nage on Pacific False. GROWERS ARE SATISFIED Volley, of Tacts Fired by Northwest Congressional Delegation and Producers Batters Down All Opposition. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, "Wash ington, Sept. 22. Food Administrator Hoover, after consultation this morn ing with M. H. Houser, of Portland, and Julius Barnes, head of the Government wheat corporation, at which the pro test of the Northwestern farmers was discussed and digested, announced the establishment of a base wheat price of $2.05, No. 1 Northern or equivalent, at Portland, Seattle and Tacoma for bulk wheat, with the usual premium (5 cents per sack) for sacked wheat. Wheat below grade will he pur chased b the food - administration on sample. Sigrtial Victory AVob. Thus the delegation of wheat growers, backed and supported by the unani mous congressional delegations from Oregon. Washington and Idaho, won a signal victory and forced the food ad ministration to back down from its original Stand in opposition to their demands. As the announcement of Mr. Hoover's order is made officially, there will be no need of taking a further appeal to the President. The. farmers who came to "Washing ton to present their case are entirely satisfied with the result. Reversal of the first stand of the food administra tion was brought about by the presenta tion of cold facts aftd clear logic. Fmclfle Tonnase Soo. Available. Mr. Hoover and Mr. Barnes could not hold out against the showing that the Chicago price, with a 20-cent dif ferential, worked a discrimination against Northwestern wheat growers no more could they hold out where the wheatgrowers produced official figures to show that there is or soon will be available on the Pacific Coast three times the amount of American ocean tonnage, necessary . to . move the 11,- 000,000 bushels of wheat available for export. And, on the question of tonnage, the wheat men today produced new, but official, figures showing that in ad dition to the American tonnage avail able on the Pacific Coast there is today engaged in trade through the Panama Canal British tonnage which could, if so desired, move five times the amount of wheat -to be offered for export in the Northwest. Brief Announcement 9Iade. When the delegation of wheatgrow ers. Senators and Representatives called at Mr. Hoover's olfice this morn ing they found him concluding an hour's conference with Mr. Houser and Mr. Barnes. .At that conference tha three food officials had studied care fully the facts presented to the Presi dent, a transcript of the White House conference having been sent over by the President. They also considered the briefs of the wheat delegation. At that preliminary conference the decision was reached to grant the farmers substantially what they asked for. Mr. Hoover, in few words, an (Concluded on Page :i. Column S.) yo & stj- yo yss 0 7VS &J?SVSro Earth Weakens Sun AVaves, Causing Motions of Moon, Which Have Heretofore Defied Calculations. ST. LOUIS, Mo, Sept. 22. The cause of the fluctuation of the motion of the moon in its orbit, which long has been a puzzle to astronomers, has been dis covered by Professor T. J. J. See, di rector of the Naval Observatory at Mare. Island, Cat., according to a state ment which he gave out today. Profes sor See has been here- visiting his mother in Montgomery City, Mo. Professor See states that the electro- dynamic waves. of the sun, which, he announced two yeara ago. are the force of gravitation in the solar sys tem modified, are modified as to the moon because the force is exerted through the mass of the earth. This interposition of the earth between the sun and moon causes the electro-dy- n&mic waves of the sun to undergo circular refraction, dispersion and ab sorption. This, said Professor See, weakens the action of the sun on the moon when that satellite is near the shadow of the earth, as at the time of lunar eclipses, and causes the fluctua tions in the moon's revolution in its orbit. "For 60 years, said Professor See, "the motion of the moon) has defied calculations, and astronomers have been greatly puzzled by the departure of the moon from its predicted place. In 1878 Professor Newcomb furnished an elaborato Investigation showing that the moon's motion is irregular and from that day to this the irregular! ties of the moon have defied all as tronomers and mathematicians." Professor See's announcement states that the irregularities in the moon's motion may be calculated and that thereby the accuracy of the predicted places in its orbit may be increased twelve fold. He regards his discovery as corrobor ative of his theory of the cause of gravitation. He has sent a report to the Royal Astronomical Society, London,- and to scientific societies in Paris, London and Edinburgh. POTATO PEEL GOOD SEED Fine Crop Is Produced by. Aberdeen Restaurant Man. ABERDEEN," "Wash.. Sept. 22. (Spe cial.) Two sacks of as fine Wash ington Beauty potatoes as one would wish for were raised here by Joe Pavelitch, a restaurant man, from gallon can full of potato pealings gathered at his restaurant. He put but one eye in a hill as a rule and some times two, and never more, yet each hill produced from eight to 13 spuds, most of which weigh around' half a pound. The ground was heavily fertilized, and a little of the potato was left around each eye. T. R. NOW NEWSPAPER MAN Colonel Puts In Morning at Desk In Kansas City Star Office. KANSAS CITT, Sept. 22. Colonel Theodore Roosevelt made his debut as a member of the newspaper profession today when he spent the morning at his desk in the office of the Kansas City Star, to which newspaper he is to be a contributor and a member of its staff. Colonel Roosevelt is here to make a speech Monday night during the "pa triotic week" celebration. - SHOWERS ARE PREDICTED Week's Forecast for Northwest Says "Occasional Rain." J WASHINGTON. Sept. 22. Weather predictions for the week beginning: Sunday, issued by the weather bureau today, are: Pacific States Fair weather over southern and occasional rains over northern districts. & 0 yyor 0USStfSS- Formal Statement De manded of Berlin. TWO COURSES ARE POSSIBLE Action Depends on German Attitude Toward Course Taken by Luxburg. APPROVAL HELD INSULT Declaration of War Would Re- a suit in Few Changes in Argentine Cabinet. BUENOS AIRES, Sept. 22. The Argentine government has sent an ultimatum to Germany. In its note the government de mands a formal statement from the German government of its attitude toward the behavior of its Minister, Count von Luxburg, and a repetition of the promises made respecting Ar gentine shipping, in connection with the Toro settlement. Verbal Explanation Insufficient. The Argentine government has re ceived no explanations from Berlin since the disclosures by the American Secretary of State, except a verbal statement from Baron von Dem Bus-sche-Haddenhausen, Under Secretary of the German Foreign Office, made through Dr. Molina, the Argentine Minister to Berlin, which Argentina considers insufficient. . The Argentina Foreign Minister made a statement in the Chamber of Deputies today regarding the situ ation and it was understood that the Radicals had prepared a resolution which they intended to introduce, de claring a state of war already exists with Germany. Reply Anxiously Awaited. The government is anxiously await ing Berlin's response before deciding on a rupture of relations or a declara tion of war, and,, according to the Foreign Office, if the German gov ernment's reported appreciation of Von Luxburg is confirmed, Argentina will consider it an insult and declare war immediately. If no confirmation of this report is forthcoming, only a rupture of relations is likely. A declaration of war would result in a shake-up in the Cabinet, several of the Ministers maintaining that no cause for war exists, although a ma jority of the -Ministers and the public generally are willing to follow the government even into war. Mass Meeting Favors War. A great mass meeting was held to day and there was a unanimous call for an immediate break with Germany. SANTIAGO, Chile, Sept. 22. The Chilean papers are discussing the vote in the Argentine Senate relative to a rupture with Germany. They charac- (Concluded on Page 2. Coiumn 2.)