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Newspaper Page TextVOL. XXXYI.-XO. 42. ; ' PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY 1 3IORXIXG, . OCTO 21, 1917. , PRICK FIVE CENTS. ' , i . RAID OF ZEPPELINS ENDS IN DISASTER French Airmen Attack and Destroy Five. AIR DEFENSE SERVICE PERFECT Enemy Squadron Scattered Like Frightened Birds. CHASE IN SKY EXCITING tondon Attack Made at Great Height by Vnhcard Monsters 2 7 Persons Are Killed and S3 Are Injured. LONDON, Oct. 20. A fleet of Zeppe lins that raided London last night met disaster on their return, in crossing France. A swarm of airplanes rose to the attack ahd five of the huge air craft were brought down in French territory. Reuter's correspondent at British headquarters in France telegraphs: "The approach of 11 Zeppelins was ignalled throughout France late in the evening. At once the air defense squadrons and batteries all over the country were warned and the enemy's airships were attacKed and scattered all over France like a flock of fright ened birds. "One Zeppelin was Drought down at St. Clement, near Lruneville, by anti aircraft guns. Two others were brought down or forced to land, one at Ver pennes. in the department of Cote I"Or. and the other at La Marche, in Houte-Marne. One of these was dam aged by French airmen and the others by gun. "A fourth Zeppelin after being chased - -throughout Central France, through the districts of Lyons, Dijon and St. Marcellin, was brought down at Gap in the Haute-Alps. ' "No bombs were dropped in France toy the Zeppelins, which were practically at the mercy of the French air defense service from the moment they crossed the coast. "The four Zeppelins brought down In France were airships that had taken part in the raid on England last night. It Is believed a fifth. Zeppelin was de stroyed at Bourbonne les Bains." (This probably refers to the Zeppe lin brought down at Rambervillers, near the Alsatian border). PARIS. Oct. 20. A Zeppelin was brought down in flames late last night at Kambervillers. near the Alsatian border, and two others were forced to land. They belonged to a squadron composed of a large number of Zeppe lins which flew ovtr the Vosges. TWEXTV-SEVEX PKRSOXS DEAD Zeppelins Fly at Cireat Height and Are Unseen In London. LOXrwDX, Oct. 20. Of the 27 deaths officially reported as the result of last night's air raid, seven person were killed outright by bombs that fell in the shopping district of London and 13 by a torpedo which destroyed three bouses in the residential quarter. Of the latter victims, eight belong to one family a mother and her infant, four girls and two boys. Fifty-three persons were injured. It is reported from an eastern coun ty that seven Zeppelins remained over head there for several hours last night and dropped 50 bombs, including sev eral of incendiary nature. No casual ties resulted. In the suburbs of London shortly be fore 11 o'clock lust night five or six bombs were dropped in close proximity but no damage was done. An aerial torpedo fell within the Lon- Concluded t '"' ' ' 1 , , . 1 I TACOMA OFFICIALS GET AFTER BAKERS MAYOR DECLARES TRCST IX TENDS TO KEEP PRICES CP. City Attorney Asks Los Angeles How It Forced Bread Price Reduction. TACOMA, Wash., Oct. 20. (Special.) Determined, he says, to enforce the manufacture and sale of a 5-cent loaf of bread and a large 10-cent loaf. City Attorney U. E. Harmon telegraphed to Los Angeles today for information re garding the mode of procedure taken there recently to force the bakers to reduce their prices. "I had the bakers in a pocket last Winter for a time and some of them admitted it." said Mayor Fawcett to day, "and this Winter I am going to make more headway because I believe I have the co-operation of the United States Government to back me up. There is no question in my mind now, and never has been, but that there is a bakers' trust in. Tacoma, and un less they are compelled to do other wise they never intend, to decrease the price of bread or the size of the loaf.' UNPAID TAXES $640,064.69 Multnomah County Delinquency Greatest in Seven. Years. Unpaid taxes of the 1916 tax roll in Multnomah County aggregated $640.- 064.69. the heaviest, amount of delin quent taxes in this county in the last seven years. The total of taxes on the 1916 tax roll -was J8.118,713.59, of which the record compiled by Chief Clerk Huckaby, of the Tax Collector's office, shows the collection of $7,478, 648.90. The percentage of unpaid taxes, which became delinquent October' S, equaled 7.8 per cent of the total roll. Delinquent taxes for the preceding year aggregated $595,907.91, or 7.5 per cent of the total tax roll of $7,981, 937.33. The amount of taxes becoming delinquent in preceding years ranged rrom JX47.321.01 in 1910 to $355,015.01 in 1914. The records of the tax office show that the amount of delinquent taxes in this county has increased an nually since 1910. , JUDGE SEAWELL IS DEAD Distinguished Coast Jurist Passes Away at Bay City. SAX FRAXCISCO. Oct. 20. Superior Judge James M. Sea well. San Fran cisco's oldest active jurist, died here early today of pneumonia. Death had been expected since yesterday. Judge Seawell had handled practical ly every suit in which the city was in volved since 1892 and his record showed b'ut few appeals. He was born in Fort Gibson. Indian Territory, in 1S36. His father was an officer in the United States Army. Judge Seawell, who was widely known to the bench and bar throughout Cali fornia, was a graduate of Harvard and of the University of Kentucky law school. FAIR WEATHER FORECAST Short Period of Rain Expected Wednesday or Thursday. WASHIXGTOX, Oct. 20. The weather forecast for the week beginning Octo ber 21, announced today by the weather bureau. Is: Pacific States Fair except for short period of rains on Wednesday or Thurs day; no decided temperature changes. WOMEN RESUME PICKETING Four Members of Party Arrested on White House Grounds. WASHIXGTOX. Oct. 20. Silent senti nels of the women's par.ty resumed picketing the White House gates to day and four of them, including Alice Paul, were arrested. They later -were released on bond for trial Monday. SOME EVENTS ESCAPED AMERICAN RELATES HARDSHIPS German Oppressors Are Outwitted. THRILLING STORY IS TOLD Seven Hard Months Spent Teuton Prisons. in CHANCE FOR BREAK COMES Charles W. Smith, Taken Captive in One or Moewe's Raids, Tells of Tough Experiences in Captors' Hands. ,. in. y tic,e by J"" O'Donnell Bennett explains in .detail the hardships undergone by Wlllot Charles Smith, of esca.De wa.m 1 turufa last week, by Stockholm.) Minister Morris BY JAMES O'DONNELL, BENNETT (Special Cable to the Tribune. Copyright. 3917. by the Tribune Company. STOCKHOLM. Oct. 15. Looking: like a wild man, a week's growth of beard on his face, his tongue swollen from six days' , raging thirst, eyes blazing with fever, body shaking with nervous chills, but still full of fight, his German prison uniform ragged, an American made a flying leap for liberty from the deck of the German freighter Undine Norrkoeping. Sweden, yesterday morn ing. He had suffered seven months of hard labor in the German prisons at Kiel. Dulmen. Brandenburg, and Lu back following his capture by the Ger man raider Moewe. Smith is from Norwalk. Conn., where he was employed as a brakeman on the New Haven Railroad. He is 34 years old and unmarried. Smith leaped right into th Swedish dock Doliceman realizing that ho had not aun-ht ghost or a maniac. demnHH v was. while the mate of the Undln- w. shouting the same question from the deck. For several seconds Smith's lib erty hung in the balance while the po liceman, the mate and he stood gaping at each other. Aided by Stevedore. "Where do you come from?" hnnrlH the mate, from the bowels or whose ship Smith had leaped. Hearing the mate speak Ens-liKV Smith shouted in reply. "Same place you "did Lubeck," whereupon the mate plunged below, evidently to rout out the captain. The Swedish stevedores, grasping- the situation and manifestly sympathetic, shouted the policeman to move farther away from the ship with Smith, which he promptly did. Smith, with imploring gestures. begged for water. The policeman, un derstood. He guided Smith to a hy drant, where he thinks he must have drunk a gallon of water without stop ping, the policeman patting him on the shoulders the while. Prison Mark Ripped Off. He was taken to the police station. A telegram was sent to the American Con sulate at Stockholm. Immediate ar rangements were made to have Smith sent to the Consulate, where he is now being cared for. The Germans could not make any pursuit nor demand Smith's- return, to them after he had touched Swedish soiL for he had taken the precaution to rip the yellow armband lettered in black with the words. "Kriegsgefangener Nummer Neun" (War Prisoner No. 9) from his sleeve during the days he was in hiding on the Undine. His unmarked clothing, therefore, indicated that he was a member of the crew, so the Ger mans could make no claim for him. Desperate from German prison fare and the deadly monotony of the life. IN THE PAST WEEK'S - - - ' - - . Concluded on Fife 8, Column 1.) 1 INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWCA' The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 68 degrees ; minimum temperature, 44 de crees. TODAY'S1 Fair; moderate easterly wind. War. Eleven vessels, including- two British de stroyers, sunk by Germans in North Sea. Section 1. page 3. Montana draft board rules that temporary exemptions cannot be - made absolute. , Section 1, page 5. , Great Zeppelin raid proves disaster; five air ships brought down. Section 1. page 1. Many Army promotions recommended at Camp Greene. Section 1. page ti. Russian fleet caught in trap by enemy. Sec tion 1, page . Foreign. . American captured In Moewe raid tells of experiences in German prisons. Section 1, page 1. Russia faces doom as workers loaf. Sec tion 1, page 4. National. Sweeping changes in Army draft system an nounced. Section 1. page 1. Major Harley, of Astoria, to have training hydroplane tried out by Navy. Section 1, page 1. President calls Nation to prayer for success of American arms. Section 1, page 3. Liberty loan campaign halts just short of day s expected total. Section 1, page 18. Roads and Automobiles. Odomoter is strong witness for Amity route. Section 4, page 6. Germany reduced to tires of cork. Section 4, page 6. ... 1 Automobile row invests In liberty bonds. Section 4, page 7. Manley Auto Company gets latest model from factory. Section 4, page 7. "All-year" car show big success. Section 4, page 8. boniest lc. Sugar famine has come, says Food Admin istrator Hoover. Section 1. page 2. Oregon soldiers at Camp Greene may hold liberty bond record. Section 1, page Coast telephone strike postponed to October 27. Section 1, page 4. More light thrown on German use of money -In this country. Section 1, page t. Sports. Multnomah Club eleven defeats Company A, 6 to 0. Section 2. page 1. Oregon freshmen eleven looks good. Section 2, page 2. Pullman defeats Oregon eleven. 26 to 3. Section 2, page 2. O. A. C. eleven defeats Idaho, 26 to 6. Sec tion 2. page 2. Many baseball stars are good marksmen. Section 2. page 3. J Winter work starts at Portland Rudlng Academy. Section 2, p&ge 3. Billiard tourAey begins Monday. Section 2. page. 3. e Scholastic eleven in close race. Section 2, page 3. Three big football games this week. Sec tion 2. page . Pacific Coast League results: Portland 5, Oakland 6; Los Angeles 2, Vernon u; San Francisco 10, Salt Lake 7. Section 2. Dage 4. Criticism of Portland club roils McCredie. Section 2, page 4. Rudolph Wilhelm and Tr. Tuttle meet for club title 'today. Section .2, page 4. First ice hockey game Friday. Section 2, page 5. "Joudge" Flanigan awaits sound of gong on -Octobw 30. -Section 2, page 5. Expert tells how to do lancy skating. Sec tion 2, page 5. . ... l'mciflc Northwest. Tacoma officials determined to force reduc tion In bread prices, tseciion a. pe . Drafted men at Camp Lewis are malting rapid progress, section l, page o. Forts Columbia and Canby hold meet. Sec tion 1. naxe 7. t -i Idaho irrigation projects Inspected by Com missioner Tallman. section x, page .. Colonel Williams has lengthy service rec ord. Section 1, page i. Soldiers at Vancouver Barracks deplore no toriety connected wita vice orusaae. sec tion 1. page 8. Com merclal and M a rln e. Food administration may take over control of grain bag market. Section page lo. Local cattle prices strong In face of heavy receipts. Section 2. page i. Corn and provisions break sharply at Chi cago. Section 2, page lu. Multnomah County mills will furnish ma terial for 20 schooners. Section 2, page 16. Port Commission questions advisability of building towboat now. Section 2, page 16. Portland and Vicinity. Success of liberty loan In Oregon regarded assured. Section 1. page 1. The Martha Washington is formally opened. Section 1, page tl. Week of grand opera comes to successful close. Section 1. page 10. Thousands of dollars to be spent in Kaola plant here to enlarge it. Section 1, page 12. Reed College campus cleared. Section 1, page 12. Roadmaster Yeon upheld in contention by four engineers. Section 1, page 13. Eastern Oregon honor guards active. Section 1. page 14. "Bill" Koyle, former city detective, now avi ator in France. Section 1, page 16. Committee to aid .wounded formed. Section 1. page 16. Human fly crawls up facade of Falling building. Section 1, page 20. Liberty loan parade open to all organisa tions. Section 1, page 20. Schools to observe Frances E. Willard day Friday. Section 1, page 22. - Milton A. Miller discusses provisions of new war tax law. Section 1, page 22. Rallies in behalf of soldiers' fund will begin today. Section 1, page 23. Shipyard strikers to return to work Monday morning. Section 1. page 23. Weather report, data and forecase. Section NEWS PICTORIALLY INTERPRETED BY CARTOONIST REYNOLDS. i : flflf"! IS MADE SIMPLER Registrants Divided In toiFive Classes.. CALLS. IN ORDER PROVIDED Complications of Old System Are Eliminated. LOCAL BOARDS RELIEVED Men Hereafter TV1U Be Summoned in Order of Their Eligibility for Military Service Difficult Problems Are Solved. WASHINGTON', Oct. 30. A sweeping change in the macninery of the select ive draft, based on division of the 9.000.000 remaining registrants into five classes in the order of their eligi bility for military service, was an nounced today by Provost Marshal-General Crowder. Details of the plan, which has been approved by President Wilson, are not disclosed. It is calcu lated, however, to do away with vir tually all the complicated machinery of the first draft, and to make the opera tions of the local boards hereafter lit tle more than rubber-stamp proceed ings. The plan was worked out at con ferences with local and district board officials and approved by the various state authorities. Its chief features are that every registered man will know his exact position and be able to arrange his affairs accordingly, and that no man deemed necessary in any important industry or needed at home to support his family will be called to the colors unless the military situation Is desperate. Procedure la Simplified. Provost Marshal - General ' Crowder Issued this statement: "With the completion of the draft of the first Army of 37.000 men. a. new system will be installed for the crea tion of succeeding armies, which will greatly lessen the labors of the local and district boards. So far has this been accomplished that it is believed that under the new system 80 per cent of the work will be eliminated, while the forms to be used will not exceed 20 in number as compared with approx imately 182 forms which the present system requires. -Along with the reduction of labor there will be provided a system which will classify each one of the 9,tf00,000 men who have not yet been inducted Into military service, and . each man will have been given his place In the National scheme of defense. "To do this it has been determined to obtain from each man complete in formation of a character which will definitely fix his economic worth as compared with his fellow registrants, and from the information thus obtained, to place him in one of five classes, each to be called in turn as the need arises Full Information Sousht. "The method of obtaining this infor mation is through a 'questionnaire' a series of questions calculated to pro duce the Information required. This document will be mailed to every reg istrant not yet in service, on a day to be fixed, seven" days being given to each registrant to complete .and return the same. Every opportunity will be offered to each man to complete his questionnaire fully and without error. "The local boards will then examine each questionnaire and assign each reg istrant to one of five classes. . "These classes will be based upon every conceivable condition from the family or occupational standpoint, that MACHINERY NAVY TO TRY OUT HARLEY AIRBOAT ASTORIA MAVOR, IX WASHIXG TOX, COXFERS WITH ADMIRAL. Rumor Says Xo. Pacific Coast Xaval Base Appropriations Are to Be Recommended. OREGONIAX NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, Oct. 20. Mayor Harley, of As toria, was in Washington today ar ranging with the Navy Department, to demonstrate his training hydroplane next week at thja Navy Aviation Field, near New York City. The Department authorized the use of its fields for Ahe purpose and will detail several officers to witness the tests. Mayor Harley, with his engi neers, has just completed a new ma chine, which can be manufactured for a third to a half the cost the Gov ernment now is paying for training aeroplanes, and if his tests meet Navy requirements he hopes to have his ma chine adopted by the Government for the training of Navy aviators. Mayor Harley, while at the Department, con ferred with Admiral Helm, head of the Naval Base Commission. Admiral Helm said that his board, in render ing its report,' had done all it could for the Columbia River, and it is now up to the Congressional delegation to get the appropriation which has been recommended for a submarine base. It has been reported in Washington dur ing the past few days that Secretary Daniels, as an economy movement, will not recommend any appropriations next session for naval bases of any kind on the Pacific Coast, and will ignore the Helm board report. Mayor Harley heard nothing of this, but pointed out that if the Department does not include the naval bases in Its regular estimates it wllj be necessary for the Oregon, Washington and Cal fornia delegations next session to make a joint effort to get funds for carrying out the Helm board recom mendations regarding- bases in all three states. REWARD GOES INTO BONDS Money Received for Capture of Jcfr Baldwin Invested in "Liberty." ALBANY, Or., Oct. 20. (Special.) The 850 reward which Deputy Sheriff Joseph R. Frura, of Albany, received for capturing Jeff Baldwin, notorious escaped convict from the Oregon Peni tentiary, has gone Into a liberty bond. Frum received the money from the state today and at once put the money, with an additional amount, into bonds. Baldwin was captured September 25 after he had emptied his revolver at Frum and the officer had fired three times at him in a running battle in the streets of Shedd. GUARD OFFICERS WARNED Information Regarding Troop Move ments Xot to Be Divulged. WASHINGTON, Oct. 20. A sharp order has gone out to all National Guard officers, forbidding them to communicate to state authorities any information as to movements of their own or other units of the Federal armies. Two recent instances where messages of this character have come from Eu rope, revealing facts which the Govern ment wished to be withheld from pub lication, prompted the action of the War Department. FITZ MAKES BRAVE FIGHT Physicians Hold Out Littlo Hope for "Bob's" Recovery. CHICAGO, Oct. 20. Robert Fltzsim mons. the pugilist, who Is critically ill at a Chicago hospital, is making a brave fight for his life, although the attend ing physicians hold out little hope for his recovery. He was unconscious most of the day and is gradually losing strength. His wife, who collapsed yesterday after being at the bedside for 48 hours without sleep, recovered sufficiently to resume her vigil today. MONEY POURING FOR LIBERTY LOAN Official Figure Is Over ' , $8,000,000. LEADERS SURE OF SUCCESS Oregon's Quota, on Basis of Wealth, Is $18,000,000. EASTERN SECTION AROUSED Plans Made for Whirlwind Finish, With Addresses In Various Dis tricts of State and Intensive Work Throughout Portland. OFFICIAL. SUM MAR V OF ORE. GOVS LIBERTY BOND ' SUBSCRIPTIONS. Portland. Reported previously. Reported yesterday. ..J4.378.150 988.300 ..J5.366.4S0 ..1. 970.850 .. 720,650 ' ..J2.691.500 . .J8.057.930 Total Outside. Reported previously.. Reported yesterday. Total Grand total Oregon will raise its liberty loan quota by Saturday night. This was predicted yesterday by lead ers of the campaign after a stirring and successful day. A new minimum for the state waa fixed yesterday when the former figure of J16, 500,000 was put at J18.000.000. This is because the new compilation of bans: deposits of the state calls for a larger total, the quota being one eighth of deposits. Oregon must make it a J10,000,000 week to do Us bit. but this is now fore cast with confidence. FUcure Nearly ffi.0OO.OOO. Six business days remain for the completion of the task and it means that Oregon people must give over $20,700 a minute during the 10 busi ness hours of each of these days. In other words, it will cost Orego nians about J290 for every heartbeat during the 10 working hours of the next six days. Eastern Reports Delayed. Optimism spread around headquar ters yesterday, when L. J. Simpson, of North Bend, returned from a state speaking trip. He found Eastern and Central Oregon banks active, but re ports have been delayed. They have failed to report the progress they are making and this week, he believes, will see a veritable deluge of liberty bond money. "Oregon will do its full duty," de clared Chairman Miller, of the Oregon campaign. last night. "Oregon's former minimum of J16,-500.000,- said Mr. Miller, "was too low because it was based on bank deposits that have increased largely since the former figures were fixed. OrHTon'M -Wealth Growing;. "The original quota of J16.500.000 was taken on a basis of the last bank official report, but since that time ap proximately J12, 000,000 has been added to the bank deposits in Oregon which has only Just come to light. "The new figures are based on com bined deposits of all the banks in the state eliminating inter-bank deposits.