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Section One Pages 1 to20 76 Pages Six Sections VOL,. XXXVI NO. 40. PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY. 3IORNING, OCTOBER 7, 1917. PRICE FIVE CENTS. TEMPEST OF FIRE IS LIKE HURRICANE STREET-CAR MEN HOLD CONFERENCE RUSSIA'S HOPE SEEN IN WOMEN SOLDIERS CHAMBERLAIN MAY TAKE HAWAIIAN TRIP DEADLOCK GOES IN SHIPYARDS STRIKE FEDERALRESERVE DIRECTORS NAMED WHITE SOX PinnTTC m UIUUIIL IG 1! GERMANS SEEK SIMILE TO DE SCRIBE BATTLE. SENATOR DESIRES TO REGAIN HIS HEALTH. FIVE MEN WILL HANDLE BIG EI NANCIAIi AFFAIRS. WIN MA OTTO muiLll Denial of 6-Cent -Fare Plea Brings Crisis. OUTCOME NOT DETERMINED Action Follows All-Day Session With Mr. Griffith. COMPANY GIVES PROPOSAL Offer Made to Pay Men Every Cent That Can Be Saved Under j. Suggestions for Curtail 1 ment of Service. ' What is to be their next move In their effort to obtain higher wages a fid an eight-hour day is being decided by platform men of the Portland Rail way. Light & Power Company at a meeting that began at 8 o'clock last night in Odd Fellows' hall. East Sixth and Alder streets, and that probably will last into the small hours of this morning. The meeting is being held behind) closed doors. The platform men came to the hall last night and early this morning as they finished their runs. A vote on whether to call a strike is one of the grave possibilities of the meeting. , ' The action of the Public Service Com mission in denying the application of the company to increase its fares to 6 cents, so it could meet demands of Its men for higher wages and an 8-hour day, has precipitated a serious crisis. All-Day Conference Held. There was a conference lasting near ly all day yesterday between Presi dent Griffith and the executive com mittee of the carmen's union. At this conference the situation con fronting the company as a result of the Public Service Commission's ac tion was thoroughly and frankly dis cussed. a When the committee left to attend the meeting of carmen. It is under stood that it took with it a definite proposition from President Griffith to Brant the men the largest possible wage increase that the company could give. Suggestions Are Invited. Neither President Griffith nor the men would discuss this proposition. From an authoritative source, however, it can be said that President Griffith made them this offer: The company will guarantee to pay the men every cent that can be saved under the suggestions for curtailment of service, increase in price of tickets from 4 cents to 5 cents, and of school tickets from 3 to 4 cents, as made by the Public Service Commission. Further, it is understood that Pres ident Griffith guaranteed that this would give the men an increase in wages at least equal to and probably greater than that which they asked in their demands, which was for 2 cents an hour over the present scale. Present Scale 20-34 Cents. The present scale ranges from 29 cents to 34 cents per hour for a, 10- hour day, varying according to the length of time the carman has been in the employ of the company. On the other hand it is understood that .President Griffith informed the committee that it was impossible for the company to grant the demands of the men for an eight-hour day, be cause under the attitude of the Public .Service Commission in declining to per mit the company to increase its fare, it simply cannot raise the money. . To grant an eight-hour day would (Concluded on Page 2, Column 1.) - ' One Participant In Recent Fight Says Allies' Curtain of Fire Resembles AVaterfall. COPENHAGEN, Oct. 6. The German general staff has been forced to invent a new term "hurricane fire" for the terrific and continuous bombardment with which the latest battle in Flan ders was inaugurated. " The day when the term, "drum fire," represented the culmination of artil lery activity has long passed. The army authorities next introduced the term, "whirlwind fire." to describe a greater degree of Intensity, and now have gone to the West Indies tempests for a simile in describing the awful night of Wednesday's and Thursday's tempest of fire. The reason the Germans are slow In launching the counter attacks called for by Field Marshal von Hindenburg's methods in an effort to regain the im portant heights lost in the Tpres sector on Thursday may be found in a descrip tion by Lieutenant-General von Ar denne, military expert of the Tage blatt of Berlin, of the cjrtain of fire through which the German storming troops had to pass in the battle of - September 26. This a participant compared to a water- watching falling shells and sprinting forward in short dashes, each man for himself. Immediately after a shell burst. chancing the liability that another would drop in the same place. All who fell had to be left on the ground. MAYOR WANTS TWO GIRLS Who of Fair Folk Are Willing. to Correspond With Oregon Boys? Wanted, by Mayor Baker, two girls to write letters to lonesome Portland boys with the Third Oregon regiment at Camp Greene. The Mayor received letters from the two boys yesterday asking that they be put in touch with girls willing to correspond with them. The Mayor has withheld the names of the two boys, but will furnish them to girls interested if they will call at his office or telephone his stenographer at the City Hall. TINY GIRL DRINKS GASOLINE Maysel Harris, .Aged Mistakes Liquid for Water. CORVALLIS, Or., Oct. 6. (Special.) Maysel Harris, 2 years pld, is danger ously ill as a result of drinking a glass of gasoline. Her father, L. E. Harris, has interest in a tailor shop here. The little girl got into the cleaning department, and, seeing gasoline in a glass, mistook it for water. She was rushed to Ir. Anderson's surgery, where the poisonous liquid was pumped from her stomach. She is still dan gerously ilL DEPUTY SHERIFF KILLED Two Draft Resisters Dead as Re sult or Conflict. SAN ANTONIO, Tex., oA 6. A tele phone message from George West, Live Oak County, says tonight that as a re sult of two days' effort on the part of the county officials to arrest members of the Loso family, Mexicans, for al leged failure to report for service in the National Army, Deputy Sheriff William James and two of the Loso brothers are dead and Serapio Loso, their father, is fatally wounded. WOMEN RESUME PICKETING Eleven Arrested, Including -Alice Paul, One of Leaders. WASHINGTON, Oct. 6. Silent senti nels of the Woman's party resumed picketing the White House this after noon. Eleven were arrested. Alice Paul, one of the leaders, among them. SOME TURBULENT ASPECTS OF THE WEEK'S NEWS ARE GIVEN i Place, ot owardly Men Taken. HORDES EAGER TO ENLIST Butcher's Wife Is Organizer of "Battalion of Death." ARISTOCRATS NO LAGGARDS Rheta Chlldc Dorr Tells of Tense Feeling as Bolshevlkl, Sworn to Prevent Coup, Try to Spread Disaffection. BY RHETA CHILDE DORR. (Fifth of a dally series of articles telllnc the Inside story of Russia's revolt. Copy ilsht, 1917, by the New York Mall. Pub- Ushed by arrangement.) The women soldiers of Russia, the most amazing development of the revo lution, if not of the world war. itself. I confidently believe, will, with the Cossacks, prove to be the element need ed to lead. If it can be led, the disor ganized and demoralized Russian army back to its duty on the firing line. It was with the object, the hope, of leading them back that the women took up arms. Whatever else you may have heard about them, this is the truth. I know those women soldiers very well. I know them in three regiments, one in Moscow and two in Petrograd, and I went with one regiment as near to the fighting line as I was permitted. I traveled from Petrograd to a. military position "somewhere in Poland" with the famous Botchkareva ' Battalion of Death. Women'a Action Inspiring. I left Petrograd in the troop train with the women. I marched with them when they left the train. I lived with them ' for nine days in their barrack, around which thousands of men sol diers were encamped. I shared Botch kareva's soup and cassia, and drank hot tea out of her other tin cup. I slept beside her on the plank bed. I saw her and her women off to the firing line and after the battle Into which they led reluctant men, I sat beside their hospital beds and heard their own stories of the fight. I want to say right here that a country that can produce such women cannot pos sibly be crushed forever. Battalion of Death Formed. It may take time for it to recover from its present debauch of anarchism, but recover it surely will. And when it does it will know how to honor the women who went out to fight when the men ran home. The Battalion of Death is not the name of one regiment, nor is it used exclusively to designate the women's battalions. It is a sort of order which has spread through many regiments since the demoralization began, and signifies that its members are loyal and mean to fight to the death for Russia. Sometimes an entire regiment assumes the red and black ribbon arrowhead which, sewed on the right sleeve of the blouse, marks the order. Regiments have been made up of vol unteers who are ready to wear the in signia. Such a regiment is the Bat talion of Death commanded by Mareea Botchkareva (the spelling is phonetic). the extraordinary peasant woman who has risen to be a commissioned officer in the Russian army. Batcher's Wife la Leader. Botchkareva comes from a village near the Siberian border and is, I should "judge, about 30 years old. She was one of, a large family of children, and the family was very poor. They (Concluded on Page 3, Column l. Senator and Mrs. McXary and Rep- rcsentative and Mrs. McArthur Will Come West Soon. . OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington, Oct. 6. Senator Chamberlain has not made definite plans for the future. ' He has been invited to join a Congressional party that will leave for Hawaii the middle of October and may accept for the benefit he. may. de rive from the sea voyage. Senator and Mrs. McNary and Repre sentative and Mrs. McArthur will leave for home as soon as they can obtain train accommodations, and Mr. Hawley and Mr. Slnnott will leave the first of the week. Senator Jones, of Washington, left for home tonight. ' Senator Poindexter will make the Hawaiian trip. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 69 degrees; minimum, 55 degrees. TODAY'S Fair; northerly winds. War. "Hurricane fire." latest description of allies' artillery work. Section 1, page 1. Seaplanes destroy U-boats. Section 1, page 6. - National. - Senator Chamberlain may take Hawaiian trip. Section 1, page 1. Domestic. California labor ousts I. W. W. elements. Section 1, page 3. Snort. White Sox win first world series game from Giants. Section 1. . page 1. .. Clcotte may face Giants again. Section 2, page 1. Pacific Coast League-results: Portland 5-4. Salt Lake 7-4 ; San Kranclsco -, Vernon 0; Oakland 4, Los Angeles '2. Section 2, pasa . -'. . i Beavers to lose four star men. Section 2, page 2. Beavers to' scatter at season's close. Sec tion . 2. page 2. Cobb and Roush lead leagues in batting. - Section 2. page 2. Raleigh links will be busy today. Section 2, page It. Women's fcolf matches on at Waverley Club. Section 2, page 11. Multnomah Club seeks Northwest boxing and wrestling tourney. Section 2, page 3. City golf links " aid to spurt. Section 2, page 3. City swimming and diving competitions to be in November. Section 2. page 3. Diets has advantage over rival college elev ens. Section 2. page 4. Commission regulation of boxing helps sport - in Portland. Section 2. page 4. Interscholastic elevens who lose fall to score. Section 2. page 4. Multnomah Club eleven defeats Vancouver Post Hospital, 13 to 0. Section 2 page 4. Oregon Aggie eleven to be light. Section 2, page 5. Besdek has no hope of -wuiMng- - footbull team. Section 2, page ". Roads and Automobile-. Hudson six hanffg up new record for fast time. Portland to San Francisco. Section 4, page B. Trip to Biddle Butte advised. Section 4. page T. Hudsons have 40-mlle country brush. Sec tion 4, page 8. . Portland and Vicinity. Directors of Portland branch of Federal Re serve Bank are named. Section 1, page 1. Streetcar men take strike vote. Section 1. page 1. Shipyards strike at point of settlement. Section 1. page 1. All plans completed for fire-prevention dem onstration In Portland next Tuesday. Section 1, page 4. Jury-drawing system to be changed. Sec tion 1. page 11. Solid front shown In liberty drive. Section J. page 12. State backs liberty loan drive. Section 1, page 12. War films donated . for big show patriotic week. Section 1. page 11. G. K. Weeks discusses new liberty loan issue from technical standpoint. Section 1. page 13. New tax law not In ful'l effect yet. Section 1. page 14. Major W. A. Starrett gives figures on cost of 1H Army cantonments. Section 1, page 14. Four-minute men assigned for war talks. Section 1, page 15. Pythian Grand Lodge of Oregon to meet 'here Tuesday. Section 1, page 16. Wheat movement to Portland and Seattle grows heavier. Section 1. page 17. Tag day for babies is success: more than S2.00 Is raised. Section 1. page 17. City fish market crowded with patrons and other dealers reduce prices. Section 1, page IS. Police say petty thievery will stop with ar rest of five. Section 1, page IS. Union labor organizer said to have threat ened to tie up Aberdeen shipbuilding plant. Section 1. page 11). Mrs. Gregory convicted of sending poison through malls. Section 1. page 111. AAA , 55 Federal Mediator Harry Makes Appeal. SPIRIT OF COMPROMISE URGED Adjustment Proposed on Basis of San Francisco Settlement. EMPLOYERS AGREE IN MAIN Employes' CommlKee Has Not Power to Accept, hut Will Take Matter Up With Unions Today. It Is Hoped Strike Is Over. Adjustment of the shipbuilding: strike here and in the Columbia River basin on the basis of the San Francisco set tlement is a proposal made by G. Y. Harry, Federal mediator, to the two factions engaged in conferences yester day. It has been accepted by the em ployers, with certain modifications, and the understanding that it shall not in terfere with the Labor Adjustment Board's activities when the members reach this city to take up local issues. The modifications included in the em ployers' reply to Mr. Harry resulted from the fact that the San Francisco and Portland wages were not the same in all Instances before the strike was called, and the increases in San Fran cisco were made on percentage basis. The employers propose to pay the new scale, as it has been agreed on in San Francisco, and in some instances higher wages. A flat wake of $3 for common labor is conceded, while in San Fran cisco the pay for this class of labor is $2.88. Common labor includes 60 per cent of the payroll. Kmployra Accept Condition. The employers embody their conclu sions in the following conditions, which they accept: 'l. An increase of common labor to a minimum of $3 per day. "2. The application to our steel plants of the minimum scale of wages now paid in San Francisco arid under whfch employer and employe are mu tually satisfied. , "3. That all wards abide by any de cision of the Federal Adjustment Board, which shall be retroactive, If so di rected." Committee Not Authorized. The employes' committee of five, meeting with the employers' committee, were not authorized to accept a sched ule, but will take the proposal before their unions today and tomorrow morn ing and will make reply at a meeting to be held between committees at 3 o'clock in Mr. Harry's office. "While it cannot be definitely stated that the strike Will come to an end through this means, it is believed there is great hope of that result, so that the situation again looks much brighter. There were 30.000 men on strike in San Francisco when Gavin McNab was named as mediator there, and it was soon arranged that they should return to work temporarily on a wage scale that was mutually agreeable until such time as the Labor Adjustment Board fchould reach there and come to a per manent conclusion. It is the hope that the same result will be reached here. . Mr. Harry did not submit his sug gestion until both sides had conferred repeatedly and apparently were about to break up In a deadlock over the "closed" .shop provision, demanded by the unions. Elevators and Janitors to Meet. The elevator operators and janitors of Portland will hold a meeting this afternoon at 3 o'clock at the Labor Temple. ATTENTION BY CARTOONIST REYNOLDS. 1. In Some Degree Xcw Institution Has Taken Over, Work of Port land Clearing House. Directors of the Portland branch of the Federal, Reserve Bank, of San Francisco, were named yesterday and announced by John Perrin, chairman of the board of directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. They are: W. A. Day, of San Francisco, acting manager; A. L. Mills, president of the First National Bank; J. C. Ainsworth, president United States National Bank : Judge Thomas C. Burke, Collector of Customs, and Nathan Strauss, of Flelschner, Mayer & Co. The Portland branch opened last Monday in rooms formerly occupied by the Lumbermens National Bank, and has entrances on Stark street. Man ager Day has been in charge since It opened. The bank is primarily a bank ers' bank, and is an important addition to tne city s financial facilities. To a degree It has taken over the work of the Portland Clearing-House. and occu pies an important position in that re spect, as well as functioning as a part of the Federal reserve banking sys tem. PRO-GERMAN. IS OUSTED Postmaster at Blngcn, Wash., Put Out After 12 Years Service. WHITE SALMON, Wash., Oct. 6. (Special.) On account of expressed pro-German sentiments, Edward H. Suksdorf, postmaster at Bingen, Wash., has been deposed by the department. This office has been held by members of the Suksdorf family for 20 years the last incumbent acting for 12 years. The office has been turned over tem porarily to C. S. Meade. TRADE COUNCIL PROPOSED President Considers Board to Gov ern Commerce During War. ,. WASHINGTON, Oct. 6. A war trade council, to take entire control of the country's foreign commerce, is under consideration by President Wilson. The new organization would absorb the present exports administrative board and become one of the most im portant of the Government's war agencies. RAIN ON COAST FORECAST Generall Fair for Pacific States, Weather Bureau's Statement. WASHINGTON, Oct. 6. Weather pre dictions for the week beginning Sun day issued by the Weather Bureau to day are: Pacific States Fair with normal temperatures, except for occasional rains on Washington and Oregon coasts. VOLKSBLATT OFFICE RAIDED Secret Service Seizes Records of Cin cinnati German Paper. CINCINNATI, Oct. 6. The Cincinnati Volksblatt, German daily newspaper, was raided late today by United States Secret Service officers and letter files, letters and ledgers and other account books seized and taken to the' United States District Attorney's office. RICHARDS DENIED PARDON Blackmailer of Former Ambassador Kefuscd Plea by Governor. OLYMPIA. Wash., Oct. 6 Governor Lister today denied executive clemency to Frank J. Richards, of Clallam Coun ty, convicted of blackmailing D. E. Thompson, former United States Am bassador to Brazil and Mexico. Comiskey Machine Is Baseball Sensation. 32,000 FANS SEE COMTEST Game Replete With Startling Catches and Double Plays. CHICAG0S APPEAR FASTER Feminine Folk Conspicuous by Their Absence at First of World's Se ries Touch of Color Given ' by Men From Sheridan. CHICAGO, Oct. 6. Eddie Clcotte. ot Detroit, pitcher extraordinary to the Chicago Americans, piloted his team to victory today over the New York Na tionals by a score of 2 to 1 in the first game of the 1917 world's series played at Comiskey Park. At the wheel of the White Sox ma chine he was the master of the Giants at every stage of the combat, which thrilled 32.000 followers of the local American League champions, and sent them away from Comiskey Park con vinced that, after several years of wait ing, the highest honors of the baseball game were to fall to the share of Chi cago. While Clcotte was the master mind of the victory, he was ably assisted by the White Sox machine, which played almost faultless baseball against the. determined stand of the National; League standard-bearers, who would not admit defeat until thp final catch of Robertson's fly by J. Collins ended a contest which equaled in every way. the expected battle between the rival clubs of the two major leagues. His teammates played with the confidence, of certainty behind Cicotte and the combination proved too much for the vaunted power of the Giants. 973,1.1:: to lie Divided. An even 32.000 spectators paid ad mission to the field of the local club, witb a.reault that $73,152 was divided among the players, clubs and the Na tional commission. Of this amount the players received $39,502.08; each of the clubs, $13,167.36, and the National com mission. $7315.20. Had Comiskey Park been able to accommodate all those who desired to witness the first clash between the White Sox and the Giants, these figures might easily have been tripled. As it was there was not a vacant seat within the baseball amphitheater when the players took the field and hundreds of disappointed fans thronged the adjacent streets. Every point of vantage which in any way overlooked the diamond was occupied by men and boys long before the game began, and as the struggle progressed the groups grew in numbers. The sloping roofs and towers of the Seventh Regiment Armory were thronged with soldiers and sailors, while the trees and fence of a small park bore human burdens thai neither nature nor archi tects had intended in the original plan. Inside the park the crowds over flowed both bleachers and pavilions un til the fans were rows deep behind the center field fence. Most of these had stood in line all night and were lined . up by thousands at the gates when the portals were opened early in the fore noon. Doom Cloned at oon. By noon the last of the regular seats and other space were filled and the doors closed. After that hour the only persons to enter the park were the fortunate holders of reserved seat cou pons. The scenes among the fans were t Concluded on Page 7. Column 1.) ) i . -"V I I