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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 28, 1917)
78 Pages Six Sections Section One Pages 1 to22 VOL. XXXVI SO. 43. PORTLAND. OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 28, 1917. TRICE FIVE CENTS. SECOND LIBERTY 10AII SUBSCRIBED Five Billions Is Nation's Response BANKS REPORT AVALANCHE Last Titanic Drive Throughout jauntry Rounds Up More Than Billion. PUYERS EIGHT. MILLIONS Reserve Agencies Are Strug gling Under Mass of Last : Minute Subscriptions. ' WASHINGTON. Oct. 27. The liberty loan apparently has passed the $5,000, C00.000 mark. The last drive of titanic proportions throughout the Nation rounded iip more than $1,000,000,000 and was believed to 3iave carried the total several hundred tnillion dollars beyond the maximum Him Treasury official had hoped for. Federal Ileserve banks were strug gling tonight under an avalanche of last-minute subscriptions to form some Jdea of the granl total. Indications re that they will not complete their tabulations for several days. Eight Million Subscribe. At least 8,000,000 persons throughout the country wrote their names on ap plication blanks. How many more did so will not be known until the final count several days hence. The number may go as high a 3 0.000,000. Kach of the 12 districts appeared to have passed its minimum and indica tions were that most of them, had ex ceeded the maximum as well. Thousand. Still in Line The Treasury's early tabulation of returns, based upon estimates re ceivsd from the reserve banks, showed a total of $4,555,000,000. This was ad knitted to be an under-statement of the result. At the hour the tabulation was made subscribers' were standing? In line in thousands of cities and towns throughout the country and most of the 26,000 banks were swamped with tinreported subscriptions. Today's compilation by districts: Boston, $500,000,000; New York, $1,- EOO. 000,000: Philadelphia, $425,000,000 Cleveland. $450,000,000; Ttichmond, $180,- 0110,000; Atlanta, $100,000,000; Chicago, $550,000,000; St. Louis. $200,000,000; Minneapolis, $130,000,000: Kansas City, $160,000,000; Dallas. $85,000,000; San fiancisco, $275,000,000. Maximum Probably Passed, "Subscriptions to the second liberty loan have probably passed the $5,000 000,000 mark," said a Treasury official. 'Kroni every district come reports that It was almost impossible to estimate details as the subscriptions were pouring in so rapidly that it was with the greatest difficulty that they were being received. New sales were re ported by telephone, telegraph and messenger, it was declared, from coast to coast. None were so bold as to say it would be possible to give an ac curate accounting of all sales before ntxt Wednesday." Wednesday is the day on which tanks' subscriptions must have readied the district Federal Reserve banks. tricts to throw up Its hands." the state ment continued. "With eager pur chasers crowding every bank and Wiying booth in the district at 2 P. M.. I Concluded on l'afce "J, Column "J. n (WHAT ARE r AH -n ;V Wfs fnfiilOHS -glisC (SSY SCS& S7'7'C7'Z ?-CO V?S jSZ-jL. THE DALLES VISITED BY TERRIFIC WIND L.VV.NCHES ARE STOVE IS AND TREES ARE I PROOTED. Ferries Arc Put Out of Commission and Barn Containing Several Head of Cattle Destroyed. THE DALLES, Or., Oct. 27. (Spe cial.) A terrific windstorm visited this locality this morning and before it spent its force caused heavy damage to the shipping and wharf boat sec tion. The wind attained such a ve locity that it caused 10-foot combers to rob the beach ot everything mov able. Five gasoline launches were stove in and sunk, some of them, beyond re pair. The boat wharves were manned by extra crews to keep them from breaking their hawsers. The Dalles ferry made the trip to Grand Dalles safely, but when she attempted 'to Te turn within automobile the wind drove it about three miles up the river to Seuferts. The ferry returned to Grand Dalles, but did not reach The Dalles until late this afternoon. The Bailey Gatzert. on lier up trip, was thrown on a sand bar near Under wood, and is still held. The Dalles City is attempting to get her off, and if she don't succeed, the Tahoma will give help. In the business district many plate glass windows were broken and small buildings overturned. On the high lands big pine trees were uprooted. On the outskirts of the city a big barn containing cattle was blown down and while none of the animals were In jured, the owners had a difficult time extricating them from the ruins. The gale ceased about 4 o'clock. This was one of the heaviest wind storms ever experienced in this section. HOOD RIVER, Or., Oct. 27. (Special.) -The wind storm here today took an estimated toll of $10,000 in apples blown from the trees, the total loss being borne by & lew owners of large acreage who had not finished their picking, according to loggers from the Oregon Lumber Company's camp in the southwestern part of the county. The blow was terrific in the forests, felling trees by the scores. Several parties of motorists encamped in the Lost Lake country have been marooned by fallen trees. The work of clearing the roads will require sev eral days, it .is said. The Regulator line steamer ' Bailey Gatzert, blown aground at Underwood, Wash., this morning, was towed to deep water by her sister steamer, the Dalles City, tonight. RESTRICTION IS ORDERED Enterprises Not Essential to Conduct of War forbidden. WASHINGTON, Oct. 27. The Gov ernment tonight took steps to restrict enterprises not essential to conduct of the war. The use of open-top freight cars on and after November 1, for transporta tion of materials for roads and high ways, theater construction, and manu facture cf pleasure vehicles, furniture and musical instruments, was for bidden. HARDEN CURBED BY HUNS Paper Suppressed, Editor Now Is Forbidden to Lecture. AMSTERDAM. Oct. 27. The Lokal Anzeiger of Berlin says Maximilian Harden, whose radicalism several times caused the. suspension of his newspa per, the Zukunft, has been forbidden to lecture.' DOLLAR, DOWN IN DENMARK Slump of 83 Cents Is Reported In Copenhagen. COPENHAGEN. Oct. 27. The dollar has slumped to less than 83 cents here. The German mark touched a low record of 42, depreciating 53 per cent. OREGON SOLDIER IS ARRESTED AS SPY Convincing Record of Guilt Is Held. ACTIVITY COVERS LONG TIME William Dolfen Holds Post as Chief Cook of Company C. OTHER GERMANS INVOLVED Treasonable Vtterances Against tlie . President and Trading In Offi cial Documents to Detriment pt Gallon Crime. William Dolfen, chief cook of Com pany C, Third Oregon Infantry, until 1:30 o'clock yesterday morning, and holding title to five $50 liberty loan bonds, wearing the uniform of a United States soldier and having taken the oath necessary to become such, was lodged in the Multnomah County Jail last night and will be Interned as an alien enemy under President Wilson's proclamation for the period of the war. "If the United States goes to war with Germany, I hope the first man shot will be President Wilson," is the exact statement made to Government witnesses by Dolfen prior to the dec laration of war by this country. It was this verbal outpouring of his 'sen timents that eventually brought about his arrest at Pendleton at an early hour yesterday morning on a Presidential warrant. Others May Be Involved. "Were we not so far removed here from the actual scene of the carnage of war this man probably would be more severely dealt with, perhaps shot," was the terse statement made by Robert Rankin, Chief Deputy United States District Attorney; last night. As: matters stand, it may be said that some of. the most prominent Germans in this city, at least one of whom Is a former German government official, are dangerously near United States Government action, in. conection with Dolfen's operations. It is not certain, either, that they will escape, as Fed eral officials have data covering the entire situation, dating back several months, and have positive evidence of their relations with this spy. Records Show Activity-. While Dolfen holds no high rank, either in the American Army or a German organization so far as known, nevertheless, he has occupied a position where he could and did, according to positive evidence in the hands of the Federal authorities, work great mis chief. He has been very busy, prior to and after the declaration of war. While assigned to duty as a cook when with the Third Oregon Regiment on the Mexican border a year ago, he was detailed as a cook in Fort Rose crans, and while there, according to Government evidence, he obtained plans of the fort. later brought them to Port land and disposed of them to a promi nent German, formerly an official of that . country, in Portland. According to Dolfen's own statement to friends, he received $1000 for the plans and Mr. Rankin said yesterday he would not be surprised if they were now in the German War Office at Berlin. Pacific Coast Forts Photographed. Dolfen also obtained photographs of some -of the fortifications along the Pacific Coast, probably ai some point on the Columbia River, as he was in that vicinity for several weeks recently and visited prominent Germans of Astoria. When called to account October 23, (Concluded on Page 6, Column 4.) EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. TESTE RDAT'S Maximum temperature. 55 dl!rre; minimum. 48 degreer. TODAY'S Fair and colder; moderate north westerly winds. War. AuFtro-German held In check In passes near lsonzo. Section J, page French troop in powerful drive capture several villages and farms. section -i. Page 3. Austrian people, above everything, want peace. Section 1, Face 4. Huns say British are outfitted best. Sec tion 1, page I. 9 American troops Bid" by side with French in trenches. Section 1, page 1. Foreign. Rusaia has land problem also to face. Sec tion 1.- page 7. Germans bare Kaiser's peace humbug. Sec tion 1, page 6. National. Liberty loan pan five billion mark. Sec tion 1. Fage 1. Americans asked to ent down consumption of meats, wheat, butter and sugar. Sec tion 1. page 1. Food Administration calls attention to world's lessening meat supplies. Section 1. Page 7. Changes in coal prices announced by Fuel Administration. Section 1. Page 7. Southern lumbermen get price advanced by Defense Board. Section 2, page 16. lomestle. Washington. r. C. goes dry Thursday. Sec tion 1. page 4. Phone strike called oft until October 31. Section 1. page 5. Soldiers' morals declared Nation's concern by Mr. Baker. Section 1. page 5. Seventh Bay Advent ists now in session In Minneapolis. Section 1. page 3. Red Cross worker commits suicide at sea. Section 1, page 2. Sports. Oregon eleven defeats Idaho 14 to 0. Sec tion 2, page 1. Boxing being overdone in Seattle. Section 2, page 1. Knights of Columbus prepare for work in Army camps. Section 2. page 1. Sportsmen to consider China pheasant situ ation. Section 1. pace 1. Navy defeats Haverford SO to O. Section 2. page 2. Multnomah eleven defeats Fort Stevens 20 to ft. Section 2, page 2. Medical Corps and illst Division elevens play scoreless tie. Section 2. page 2. California defeats Oregon Aggies 14 to 3. Section 2. Page 2. w,,hlnemn State College eleven defeats Whitman 1! to 0. Section 2, page 3. Oregon Agricultural College takes up indoor baseball. Section 2, page t. Football thrives despite war. Section 2, page :l. Mare Island Marines' eleven is powerful team. Section 2. page 3. Week's Intel-scholastic football games put Franklin ahead. Section 2, page 3. Pacific. Coast League results: Portland R. l.os Angeles fi; San Francisco 0. Oakland 4: Vernon 11, Salt Lake 1U. Section 2, page 4. War hits Coast League clubs. Section 2, page 4. Eddie Collins most consistent baseball player. Section 2. page 4. Babies become good swimmers. Section 2. page 4. Race horses arrive at Tia Juana track. Sec tion 2. page 5. American naval officers stationed in Europe ardent golfers. Section 2. page 5. IUihee Golf clubhouse completed. Section 1. page 1U. Pacific Northwest. The Dalles visited by terrific - wind storm. Section 1, page 1. Idaho lining uri for great politics! battle. Sectlon 1. page 8. Professor Dryden gives advice regarding poultry. Secton 1. page 8- State highway department working fast. Sectlou 1, page . Oregon state employes may be put under Civil Service rules. Section 1, page 10. Labor commissioner scores rise of theater prices. Section 1. page 10. Portland and Vicinity. Oregon soldier arrested as German spy. Section 1, page 1. Oregon subscribes 2., 703,000 to second lib erty loan. Section 1, page 1. Incomplete figures give Benton County high est liberty loan honors. Section 1. page tf. Ad Club to investigate street railway altu - atlon. Section 1. page ,11. Hawley mills expected to resume tomorrow. 'Section 1. page 11. Mirk producers talk of putting In distribut ing plant. Section 1, page 12. Workers for liberty loan perform gigantic task. Section 1, page 13. Red Cross appeals for aid in getting Christ mas packages started. Section 1. page 13. "Richest Kansan" lured by beauty ot West ern Oregon. Section L page 14. Land Show to be unique and instructive. Section 1. page 14. Pledge week opens today. Section 1. page l.". City employes pledge $81,350 to liberty loan. Section 1. page 3 7. Christmas packages for soldiers, in France needed now. Section 1. page 17. List of exhibitors at Livestock Show, No vember 1U, made public. Section 1. page IS. . Roadbuilders now in demand for service In France. Section 1, page. 19. Salvatore Gattuccio. arrested, admits slaying Salvatore Sunseri. Section 1, page 20. Members of Oregon Poster Association com mended for work in loan campaign. Section 1. page 20. Artillerymen from Columbia River forts en tertained at luncheon here. Section 1, page 20. Judge Tazwell declares man dead whom nephew says Is in Seattle. Section 1. page 21. One dead, two hurt, as result of shipyard accident. Section 2. page 16. REVIEWED PICTORIALLY THJ 4?MyS &OUYCYG- JFA7 0 AMERICAN TROOPS ARJi TiltNGHES Nation Is Thrilled by News From France. "NO MAN'S LAND" IS FACED United States Gunners Sup port Battalions of Infantry. SOLDIERS IN FINAL SCHOOL News Tliat German Shells Are Breaking Over "Our Boys" Fans Sew Flame of Patriotism Throughout Count ry. WASHINGTON, Oct. 27. The Nation was thrilled today by word that Ameri can troops at last were face to face with the Germans' across No Man's Land. Announcement by General Per shing that several battalions of his infantry were in the front-line trenches, supported by American gun ners who already had Bone into action against the enemy, fanned a new flame of patriotism throughout the country. The absolute silence with which Sec retary Baker and War Department of ficials greeted the news, however, showed that, although the movement into the trenches had been expected at any time, it was regarded only as th final phase of the men's training a military finishing school conducted un der fire, a school of blood and iron. German shells are breaking about the Americans and, although they have not taken over the trench sector, rifles, machine guns, bombs and bayonets in American hands will greet any enemy attack. No Official Report Received. The silence of Secretary Baker indi cated that no official report of the oc cupation of the trenches had been re ceived. Ceneral Pershing probably did not inform the Department of his plans in advance, as every effort was made to prevent the enemy from learning what was afoot. It Is certain, however, that the De partment was prepared for the news, Secretary Baker's latest review of the war situation this week indicated that American troops in France were bear ing the end of their training behind the lines. Events prove that they have progressed so rapidly in the art of trench warfare that their commanders and French Instructors believed them ready for the final lesson. Caanaltlea to Be Expected. Casualties among the American forces are -to be expected. Reports from the front already show Intermit tent artillery Tiring and a well-aimed shell may claim American victims at any time. There is nothing to indicate, how ever, that an offensive operation by the Americans and their French asso ,ciates is to be expected, outside of pos sible trench raiding. The sector where the front line training school has been established is described as one of the quietest on the front, and if this con dition continues it will tend to mini mize losses. There is believed to be some good reason why the sector is quiet. It may be the feeling on both sides that noth ing is to be gained by attack and counter attack. The character of the country, disposition of reserve bases, difficulties of transportation or many other considerations might be respon sible for the inactivity. Trench Doty to Be la Relief. The report from the front indicates that all American forces will be given trench duty in reliefs as the final touch of their preparation. The whole btisi- (Concluded on Pag 5. Column 1.) BY CARTOONIST REYNOLDS. SYO IAS S.BENSON RECEIVES "BLACH HAND" NOTE $1800 PEJIAXDED OX PENALTY OF BLOWLNti I P HOTEL. Second Threatening Letter in Year Is Believed to Be Work ot Hair-Wilted Crank. For the second time within the year a threatening letter has been sent to S. Benson, prominent Portland, capitalist and owner of the Benson Hotel. Fri day night he received a "black hand" letter in which the unknown writer threatened to blow up the Benson Hotel if Mr. Benson failed to deposit $1800 in a vacant lot at Kast Twentieth and Halsey streets. Mr. Benson said last night that he would pay no attention to the letter nor would, he turn it over to the police for investigation, believing, he said, that it was written by a half-witted crank. Written in an uncertain scrawl, which bespoke illiteracy, the letter stated that Mr. Benson must leave the $1800 at the vacant lot mentioned. No time nor place was specified, the only threat being that if the money was not forthcoming the "old hotel" would be blown up. Mr. Benson received a similar letter last Winter. At that time he was com manded to place $10,000 in a certain place under the Broadway bridge at a certain hour on a certain night. That letter was turned over to the police, who kept a vigil at the appointed place. The man. however, failed to show up. Although there Is no similarity in the penmanship, both letters contain the feared "black hand" drawing. SOLDIER SON BRINGS CURE Dying' Mother Said to Have Chance tor Recovery Xo. LOS ANGELES, Oct. 2f.. Private Jo seph S. Echabarne, of G. Company, 364th Infantry, received word at Camp Lewis that his mother. Mrs. Mary Echabarne, of Los Angeles, wa dying and wanted to see him before she went Today Private Echabarne reached home and his mother was so cheered by his return that her physicians said she might recover. "The Army halted its business for me," said . Echabarne, "and no one can tell me the Government is incon siderate." EUGENE B0YFATALLY HURT Jack Campbell Fell With Shotgun AVhile Hunting Saturday. EUGENE. Or., Oct. 27. (Special.) Jack Campbell, 17 years old, son of Mrs. Idaho C. Campbell, of Eugene while hunting with his two cousins near Harrisburg this afternoon, slipped and fell with his shotgun, shooting himself in the forehead, dying in stantly. Campbell was a guard on the Eugene High School football team and popular In local athletics. COLDER WEATHER IN SIGHT Occasional Rains Promised to Ore gon and Washington. WASHINGTON. Oct. 27. Weather predictions for the week beginning Sunday, issued by the Weather Bureau today, are: Pacific states Occasional rains in Washington and Oregon at short in tervals throughout the week. Colder weather at the end of the week. CHILE SUPPORTS BRAZIL Santiago Paper Desires Triumph of International Justice. SANTIAGO. Chile, Oct. 27. The Mer curio. speaking of Brazil's proclama tion of a state of war, with Germany, says public opinion in Chile supports Brazil and desires triumph of interna tional justice, which should be the cause of all South America. STATE SENDS LOAN UP TO $25,000,000 Portland Gives Half of Grand Total. WHIRLWIND FINISH IS MADE Rural Districts Make Best Eleventh-Hour Showing. DRIVE DECLARED SUCCESS Campaign Managers Say That State Would Have Met Maximum De mand if $30,000,000 Had Been Emphasized by Leaders. HOW THE LIBERTY LOAN CAMPAIGN IV OREGON FADED. Portland. Up to Friday night, of ficial but not com plete $12,050,600 Saturday subscriptions, estimated 1,600,000 Total Portland ...$13,650,600 Outside. Mall reports of sub scriptions up to Fri day night, official but not complete....? 7,833,700 By telegraph, reported baturday - 4,218, 00 Total outside $12,052,400 Grand total .$25,703,000 Oregon has subscribed $25,703,000 to the second liberty loan. - - - This total Is not absolute, as last night telegrams from outside points were still pouring into headquarters, bringing new totals and .cheering news from the. country. A later total will be compiled. - Approximately 00.000 Oregonians en tered into partnership with Uncle Sam during the past four weeks to help rid the world of autocracy by arming and supplying the military arms of the Nation. Country Banks Respond. The feature of yesterday was the splendid way In which the country re sponded to the call for more bond sub scriptions. Many banks doubled their former subscriptions yesterday. Luring the closing week of the cam- paign it was the country districts and not Portland that made the greatest gains and reached highest toward the $30,000,000 desired. Although the final total falls short of the $30,000,000 maximum, it is well above the $18,000,000 minimum. If one more day remained, said State Man ager Miller last night, he believed he could still attain' the state maximum. Rural Dlatrlcts Praised. "However, trie showing made is grat ifying," said Mr. Miller. "The coun try has outdone the city in patriotism and it is to the people of the rural communities that we must direct our warmest thanks for pitching in and working like Trojans during the clos ing hours of the campaign in a sin cere effort to reach the $30,000,000 maximum." "The country districts responded gloriously," said C. C. Chapman, in charge of publicity. "Portland showed somewhat lesser enthusiasm on the home stretch, but the result Is satis fying. "The official maximum quota as (Concluded on Page 16. 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