VOL. XXXYI.-XO. 42. ; ' PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY 1 3IORXIXG, . OCTO 21, 1917. , PRICK FIVE CENTS.
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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
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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.