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Newspaper Page Text78 Pages Section One Pages lto22 Six Sections VOL. XXXVI NO. PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 1917. FIVE CENTS. 4, PLEDGES RUN OVER ;QU0TA, IS RELIEF Stragglers to Be Can vassed Today. FEW FOOD SLACKERS FOUND Herbert Hoover and Doughnut Maker Confused. MOST GERMAN-BORN LOYAL Washington County District Reports 10 of 22 Families Refuse; 95 Per Cent of State's 145,000 Homes on Roll, It Is Estimated. That Oregon will today wind up the Hoover pledge card campaign, vigor ously waged throughout the state the past seven days, by largely exceeding Its quota was last njght the conviction of Federal Food Administrator W. B. Ayer and. Chairman Arthur M. Church ill, active head of the drive. In setting a. goal for Mr. Churchill's organization, Mr. Ayer asked that 80 per cent of the, 145,000 families of Ore gon, or 116,000 households, be enlisted for food-saving service which the Na tional Food Administration is outlining. The chairman last night expressed con fidence that not less than 95 per cent of the 145,000 homes will be enrolled. If Oregon's record comes .up to pres ent expectations, based on quite incom plete returns at hand, Mr. Churchill is confident the state will take high rank in the Nation. Results Complete Soon. It will be Impossible to make .tabula tions showing with any definiteness general ;state results until Monday or : Tuesday, headquarters predicted yes terday. ; A week possibly will elapse before final totals are obtained. In most places where the canvassing has not been completed and in the many instances where it was impossible to -catch the members of working families at home earlier, the pledge card circula tors will be on duty today. There are excellent prospects that many a. householder wiU be awakened from Sunday morning slumbers to meet the vigilant canvassing teams. Froil-. various points has come the intima tion that homes it was Impossible to reach during the week will be visited before 10 o'clock this morning. Ignorance Chief Obstacle. .The proportion of slackers In Port land and over the state, remains to email as to prove a matter.of gratifica tion to the leaders. In few territories have more than 3 per cent of ..the women solicited declined to sign the Hoover cards. Ignorance has been a chief factor in causing refusals, the solicitors have found. Frequently the one explanatory word accounting for a refusal to sign is, "contrary." State Chairman Churchill made these observations in commenting on the un usual number of slacker families found In Washington County, where many Germans reside: "Personally, I had hesitated to call attention to refusals to sign in certain districts largely German for the reason that, generally speaking, the people of German descent have been doing splen didly in this work, as they did in sub scribing for liberty loan bonds. Many touching stories have come to my at tention of people with relatives in the armies of Germany who have given sons to the service here and are joining in every possible movement that could evidence their loyalty , to America. Washington County Criticised. "But I do think, since the Washing ton County situation has. been men-, tioned, I should say that no district in (Concluded on Page 14. Column X-f STEAMSHIP BEAVER IS IN COLLISION BOW OF XOBWEGIAN MOTOR BOAT BAYRD IS SMASHED. Passenger Vessel Escapes With Damage to Steering Gear. No . One Injured. SAN FRANCISCO. Nov. 3. Tha steamship Beaver, outbound for . As tc ria. Or., with approximately 100 pat-sengers. collided with the Nor wegian . motorboat Bavrd on San Fran cisco Bay tonight in a thick fog. None of the passengers of the Beaver was injured, said the ship's officers. The Beaver's steering gear was dam aged and the Bayrd's bow was smashed in by the collision. FREQUENT RAIN PREDICTED Temperature to Be Normal Pacific Coast States. in WASHINGTON, Nov.. 3. Weather predictions ' for the week beginning Sunday, issued by the weather bureau today, are: Rocky Mountain and plateau regions: Fair except snow or rain Sunday in the middle and northern plateau and Northern Rocky Mountain regions, and again, about the middle of the week, over northern districts. Cooler after Monday in the middle plateau region. , Pacific States: Quite frequent rains over Washington and Oregon; fair . to southward, except probably rain Sun day in Central and Northern California. No unusual temperatures. BAKER HAS WIND STORM Trees Suffer Damage and Flimsy Shacks Are Demolished. BAKER, Or. Nov. 3. ( (Special.) A high southerly wind equaling all ve locity records in Baker for November, this morning tore limbs and leaves from trees, strewing them upon the streets and demolished several flimsy shacks. The air was heavily charged with dust. While watching the storm- from his office in the Courthouse, Judge Gustav Anderson was struck upon the head by a pane of glass that was broken out of the window by the wind. He escaped, however, without a scratch, due to the angle at which the pane struck him. LAVALLIERE T0 BE NUN Familiar Figure of Parisian Life Leaves Stage Forever. PARIS, ., Nov. t. Mademoiselle Eve Lavalliere, for years one of the fa miliar figures of Parisian life and long favorite at the Theater des Varieties, has left the tage to take the veil. She has sold all the luxurious furn ishings of her apartment, distributed her dresses, furs and jewels among her friends and in a day or two will enter the Order of Carmelites. RUSSIA EXPECTS ATTACK Germans Planning to Land Troops on Gulf of Bothnia Shore. . PETROGRAD, Nov. 3. : General Tcheremissoff, northern front com mander, said the Germans are planning to land troops on the Gulf -of Bothnia shore, and vigorous action on the Riga front is near. Newspapers expect a German offen sive in Moldavia, with the object Qf invading Ukraine. BRITISH STORMING GAZA First Line , of Defenses on 500 0 Yard Front Captured. .' LONDON. Nov. 3. British forces in Southern Palestine made an .attack Thursday night on Turkish lines de fending the. coast .city of Gaza, The first line defenses on a 5000-yard front were captured, the War ' Office an nounced today. 1 Nearly 300 prisoners and five ma chine guns were taken. CARTOONIST ALSACE-LORRAINE FRENCH AT HEART Freedom People's Pas sion, Says.Blumenthal. TEUTON LOGIC IS RIDICULED 'Germans Boneheads," Says High Commissioner. CLAIMS NEVER MADE GOOD Men of Provinco Loyal to Republic and in French Army Eager to Be Sent to Front Prussian Government Rated. BY WALLACE IRWIN. I did not go to interview M. Daniel Blumenthal, because he has come to Washington as a member of the French high commission. Heaven knows, and my wife is still better aware, that I know nothing about finance, . high or low; and had It been Up to me I should have loaned the French govern ment, via M. Blu menthal. any num ber of billions right out . of Mr. Mc Adoo's Treasury. But it was as the ex-Mayor of Col mar (Ancien Maire de Colmar is the way it Is expressed Wallace Inrln. on the large, foreign-looking card he hands you) that I wished to see and talk to him. Now, Colmar isn't the largest nor yet the second largest city in Alsace. But it is In the heart of that freedom loving little province which has been held by Germany like a caged eagle ever since 1871. The Hohenzollerns have held the bars across Alsace, but they have never been able to clip her wings. And if you think they ever, will, Just talk with Daniel Ulumenthal. A little man with graying beard and round, black, humorous eyes, I found him In a hotel room packing for an other flight with the commission. I told him that since I had heard of his famous escape 'from the Germans, in vading Colmar, I imagined he would be a bard man to coerce into an interview. "To escape .from .America, would, be something," he assured me, talking with all the' fingers on both his hands. "But the Germans! They are what you call It bone-in-the-head." "It would be doing us a. service,"'! said, "to tell America what Alsace Lorraine" would 'prefer to be after peace Is made French or German." "Do you know," he replied, standing straight as a ramrod, "that the Mar seillaise was first sung at Strassburg? Freedom has always been to us the passion, and from us the best blood of the French Revolution went out. Do you think, then, we would . have any business with spiked helmets from Berlin?"' I, had heard talk in the newspapers of a plan to leave the nationality of the twin states to. a plebescite of Alsace Lorrainers. Alsace French to Heart. "A German-made plebesdte would be pretty to see," he informed me with a Smile. "Alsace could vote with scraps of paper, but never by fair election. Why? Because she is. French to. the heart today, and since 1871 she has never forgotten her loyalty to the free republic to which her soul belongs. German' editors write ' editorials full of meaning to show that the children of Alsace-Lorraine today are different from, yesterday, because they speak the (Concluded on I'se 5. Column 1.) REYNOLDS INTERPRETS PICTORIALLY SOME INDEX OF. TODAY'S NEWS . War. Germans deny loss, but surprise on Austrian is confirmed. Section J, page 5. Berlin officially reports first land -capture of "North American" soldiers. Section 1, pags i. Italian situation . is reassuring. - Section 1, pas A. German warships and patrol boats sunk by British destroyers. Section 1, page 4. Foreign. French High Commissioner says people of Alsace Lorraine are French at heart. Sec tion 1, page 1. "Smperor accepts resignation of Chancellor Mlchaelts. Section 1, page 2. Floods In Chins used by Imperial party to work on superstitions of people. Section 1, page 3. Peace league Is topic in Paris, Section 1, page 3. Trotsky outlines Russia's demands for im mediate peace. Section 1, page 1. National. President Wilson admits being blind in one eye. Section 1, page 5. Man In uniform to get moral care outside camp. Section 1, page 10. Domestic. New Tork's bitterest election campaign clos ing. Section 1, page 1. McAdoo and Roosevelt In political spotlight. Section 1, page 4. Patriotic plea made in President's name to telephone strikers. Section 1, page 7. AD NORTHWEST r. 1234306 Sports. California eleven defeats Washington 27 to 0. Section 2, page 1. Oregon Aggie eleven defeats Multnomah 6 to 0. Section 2, page 2. Navy defeats Western Reserve. Section-2, page 2. Marines defeat Oregon 27 to 0. Section 2, Page 2. i Corvallls ready for "Washington State. Sec tion 2. page 3. Interscholairtle football games last week are good. Section 2, page S. War tax hits athletes. Section 2, page 3. Good pugilists few nowadays. Section 2, page 3. Many track stars ntw serving country. Sec tion . 2, page 4. Cloning of Ice Palace will not affect Portland hockey team. Section 2. page 4. Portland's expected entrance into Northwest League to raise It irom class r to Section 2, page 4. Judge McCredie says Beavers are not out of league unttl Sacramento . pays franchise nurse. Section 2, page a. Coffroth denies that Government will put embargo on nay to iia. iun. owu page 5. White Sox lead all big leagues in run-get ting. Section 2. page . Brief boxing bouts numerous. Section A page 5. Beavers third in batting. Section 2, page 6. Limitation in Portland of boxing clubs fa vored, i Section - page 6. Portland newsboys to give smoker November 13. Section 2, page 8. Washington State eleven defeats Idaho 10 to 0. Section 2, page l. ' Paclflo Northwest. ' O. A. C. pledgllngs for 1017 announced. . Section 1. page s Governor Lister attacked In connection wfrn Seattle gas .rates. . .Section 1, page s. Both parties seeking control of Idaho. Sec tion 1. page H. Parlt officials at Washington prevent in crease in herds of sheep. Section 1, page 9. Commercial and Marine. Heavy losses by storage egg speculators are looked for. Section 2, page -la. Actlvu demand for feodsr cattle In local market. Section 2. pa-go 13. I Corn weakened at Chlc-awo by ideal weather for curing crop. Section -', page 13. Continued liquidation or rails nnsettles stock market. Section 2, page 15. Standard ship construction on Columbia Is urged. Section 2, page 10. Captain Charles Richardson enters sea serv- - ice 43 years ago. section 2, page 16. Timber embargo withdrawn. Section 2, page 11. Rear-Admiral Copps advises that mors con tracts for wooden ships will, be awarded to Oregon yards. Section 2, page 10. Real Estate and Building. Realtors hear of danger of Portland's losing prestige as port. Section 4, page 12. Half-ml illon-dollar deal made In timber. Section 4,, page 12. Houses for rent becoming scarce. .Section 4, page 12. Portland and Vlclottj-. Land Show opens. Section 1, page 10. State's quota of food conservation pledges believed to be exceeded. Section 1. 1 page 1. Rev. J. D. Snyder lectures on sex at Camp Lewis. Section 1. page a. No peace talk heard In telephone strike. Section 1, page 7. Nation's call for experienced foresters Is met. Section 1, page 13. Portland campaign for food conservation de clared successful. Section 1, page 14. Benson School offered as reconstruction hos pital for troops. Section 1, page 13. E. G. Hannah, wounded Ypres veteran, to aid Y. M. C. A. fund campaign. Section 1, pags 15. . Oregon to supply 4.500.OOO feet of fir for aircraft. Section 1, page 16. Vice-President and Mrs. Marshall will reach Portland early Wednesday. Section 1, page 17. C. D. Babcock declares health Insurance failure. Section 1. -page IS. Paul Wesslnger approves location of Wash ington County Highway. Section 1, page 19. Seventy-five Oregon legislators to be chosen in 1U1M. Section 1, page 20. Poultry show premium list Issued. Section 1. page 10. . ; Weather report, data and forecast. Section 2. page 7. GOTHAM'S FIERCEST RAMPARN uumu Puzzling Election Sit uation Most Unusual. SOCIALIST VOTE TO BE LARGE Entire Press, Except Hearst and Foreign, Backs Mitchel. HYLAND'S RECORD BARED Tammany Candidate Found to Be Honorary Vice-President of Peace Organization Which Is Ac- cuscd of Disloyalty. NEW YORK. Nov. 3. (Special.) In an uproar of denunciation, accusation and charges of treason, one of the bit terest and most puzzling election cam palgns ever held in New' York City is coming to a close. With National Republican leaders like SUhu Root, Charles Evans Hughes and the volcanic Theodore Roosevelt campaigning for the re-election of Mayor Mitchel, the fusion candidate who was defeated in the contest for the Republican nomination at the direct primaries on September 19, and with his primary opponent, William M. Ben nett, virtually out of the race, the con test offers a situation sufficiently unusual. f But in addition a . socialist vote is expected four or five times as large as in the election of 1913 for Morris HlllCjuit. a lawyer whose campaign has assumed the character of an organized opposition to the Federal Government's war policy in favor' of an Immediate negotiated peace. Malone Falls to Help HUIqult. Indorsement of Hillquit by Dudley Field Malone does not appear to have heped Hillquit. Malone has lost his following and influence. , Virtually the entire press of the city, with the exception of a few foreign language"papers and those owned by William Randolph Hearst, IS backing Mayor Mitchel and fusion. Disclosures in the last w,eek or 10 days of the per sonal record of John F. Hylan, the Tammany candidate and his alleged Im proper . connection in. the past with a certain Black Diamond Automobile Company and with Alfred R. Goslin. a man whose record has been under mos sharp attack, have helped the fusion cause considerably. The ' effect of these disclosures has been heightened by publication of Mr. Hylan's name as one of the honorary vice-presidents of the Friends of Peace, an organization accused of disloyalty. Hylan Mak.ea Appeal. Thus what began as the more or less usual fight of a fusion of Republicans and Independent Democrats against the Tammany machine, which normally controls more votes than any single party in the city, has been complicated by the war passions and what are) said to be the covert appeal of the Tam many candidate to disloyal sections of the German and the Irish vote. The Socialist appeal has been di rectly to the pacifist and anti-war ele ment, and Mr. Hillquit has asserted that his election would be a "man date" for an. immediate peace. The fusion government of the last four 'years admittedly has been one' of the best New York City has ever had. Its bitterest critics admit that the po lice department has been better than ever before and that notable progress has been made In caring for the health of the people; that the streets have been clean and that the city's chart- (Concluded on Page 5, Column 4.) EVENTS IN THE PAST Willi. III-' oo . O tA ONLY FEW OF NEW OFFICERS NEEDED LESS THAN HALF Off IX CAMPS TO SERVE AT OXCE. Others "Will Go on Inactive Ust Un til Another Army Is Drafted, Officials Say. WASHINGTON. Nov. 3. Probably not more than half the men now in offi cers' training camps scattered through out the country have any hope of get ting immediate active service with the new National Army. All those who pass the tests are prac tically sure of getting their commis sions in the Officers' Reserve Corps, but a good half of those will be put on the Inactive list waiting for the call to the colors. The first camps turned out enough officers for the troops now in can tonments, and the remainder of the new officers will not be needed until there are new drafts. LAKEVIEW FEELS SHOCK Buildings Are Rocked and Inhabi tants Are Frightened. LAKEVIEW. Or., Nov. 3. (Special.) A severe earthquake shock was felt throughout this section this morning at 5:45 o'clock. A slight quake, un noticed by many, also was felt at 11 o'clock last night. This morning's quake was of about five or six seconds' duration. It was of such force as to rock build ings violently, swing electric wires. shake fruit from trees and badly firghten the inhabitants. One man was rolled out of his bed. In one house visited the plaster in every room was badly cracked and several other in stances have been reported of similar damage done. Old-timers declare that this shock is the most severe that has ever visited this locality, not excepting that felt at the time of the San Francisco catas trophe. The last previous quake was exactly two years ago today and caused no damage. MILLMAN WITHOUT FUEL Customers All Supplied and Then -Plant Burns Down. COTTAGE GROVE. Or., Nov. 3. (Special.) The old saying about the shoemaker's children going barefooted is well illustrated in the case of J. H. Chambers, of this city, who has sold thousands of cords of wood during the past year, but now finds himself with out a dry stick of wood for his own use. - As Mr. Chambers was manufacturing several cords of wood every day at his mill he saw no need to hurry about putting In his own supply and accom modated others who seemed to be more in need of it. When his mill burned two weeks ago he had not put in his supply. SHEEP PROFIT IS HUGE Coos Man Makes More Than 4 50 Per Cent Profit in 18 Months. MARSH FIELD, Or.. Nov. 3. (Spe cial.) One of the get-rich-quick resi dents of Coos County is E. P. Adams, of the Myrtle Point district, who fore saw good profits In ehecpralslng 18 months ago and Invested in sheep to the amount of $250. Since then he has sold wool and sheep worth 693 and still has 70 animals, valued at $700. This Is a profit of 31143, with another season of high wool prices in sight. Such an instance is only one of many In this section and simply demonstrates what can be done on range land. Loliendorff Believed to Be Spy. EL PASO, Tex., Nov. 3. In the ar rest of Erneat Lohendorff, Government agents here believe they have discov ered an "underground" route by which Information has been transmitted be tween the United States and Mexico City for relay to Germany. WEEK'S NEWS. RUSSIA DEMANDS IMMEDIATE PEACE Bolshevski Programme Outlined by Trotsky. REVOLT OF GERMANS HOPED Army Must Know for What It Is Fighting. PEACE FOR ALL IS DESIRED Should Germans Refuse to Accept Plan of Xew Republic, Russian Soldiers, It Is Declared, Will Stay in Trenches and Fight. BY ARNO DOSCH-FLEUROT. Copyright. 1H17. by the Press Publishing Co. (The New York World.) Published by arrangement. PETROGRAD. Oct. 2S. (Delayed.) Leon Trotsky, president of the Petro grad Soviet, and strongest in the oppo sition, is planning a demonstration for Immediate peace, outlines the Bol shevski programme in an Interview. "We, the Bolshevski." he says, "want an immediate peace, but not a separate peace. We speak for the mass of the army, which refuses to remain another Winter in the trenches unless they are convinced that an immediate demo cratic peace Is impossible with Ger many. But In demanding an imme diate peace we find it inevitable that Russia act alone, because we believe that is the only way to get quick ac tion. Democratic Peace Offered. "The Paris Conference," he declares. "only interests us indirectly, because we are going to make a direct offer of democratic peace to the German peo ple. If the present government re fuses to act alone and directly we must have a government which will. We in tend, by every .possible means, including millions of proclamations dropped by aeroplanes, to urge the German people to revolt and join us in demand for peace. The Indications, such as the re cent revolt in the "German" navy, give us hope of success. An effort must be made to reach the German people di rectly." "But how are you to get Germans to accept your terms of peace without an- , nexation contributions?" was asked. People Casi Force Peace. "The German government won't, but the people can force it," was Trotsky's answer. ; "Suppose the Germans fall to revolt and pay no attention to your offers?" was asked. "Then every soldier In the Russian army," was the answer, "will know he is fighting to save revolution and that he does not know now. I know the state of mind of the army. I received, delegations daily and they demand that every effort be made for an immediate peace or they will leave the trenches. If Germany refuses, they will fight like lions. Big Estates to Be Divided. "We must first keep our promises," he said, "by giving big estates to the peasants to end the present agrarian revolution. Second, we must force loans from the banks and the wealthy men to the limit of their resources. Then we shall have an army knowing what It Is fighting for and provided with every need. "On this programme we Bolshevski demand an Immediate action. We be lieve it is the only practical way of saving Russia, for though interna tionalists, we are also patriots. I don't want the American people with whom I lived, and whom I admire, to think we are unpatriotic and sacrificing Rus sia to an idea. We want to give the German people a chance to end the war Immediately, thus ending the war for everybody."