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.
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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.
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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
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