80 Pages
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Section One
Pages lto24
VOL.. XXXVII NO. 25.
PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE 23, 1918.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
RUMOR TURNS 30
BIG GUNS ON PARIS
STARS OF ARENA
PERISH IN FLAMES
AMIMI
DRIVE
MESSAGE WRITTEN
MILE FROM EARTH
CITY MILK SUPPLY
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
RE SHUT OFF
GERJfiXS SAID TO HAVE 8 TO
30 LOXG-RANGE CAXXOX.
LANE COUNTY MAX GETS "AIR
RIDE OX PAPER."
FIR LUMBER PRICE
IS ADVANCED $2.75
Southern Yellow Pine
Boosted $4.80.
AY
iii umy BLOCKED
Enemy Pays Dearly for
Attack Along Piave.
NO OBJECTIVES GAINED
Great Offensive Spreads Over
Battle Line More Than 90
Miles in Length.
GERMAN AID EXPECTED
Teutons Will Not Be Likely to
End Drive Against Italy With
Results Indicating Failure.
(By the Asacclated Preas.)
Blocked in their advance across the
Piave River by the Italians and Brit
ish and with their line of communica
tions threatened by the rising waters
of that stream, the Austro-Hungarians
apparently have closed the first phase
of their offensive against Italy.
Viewed after a week of fighting,
the offensive has been little more
than a demonstration in force over a
battle line more than 90 miles in
length. It has gained none of its ob
jectives and has cost the Austrians
very dearly. ..
Power of Attack Insufficient.
From the first day of the attack it
was seen that the Italians were not
called upon to meet a tremendous on
slaught on some strategic key to
their position, such as was launched
at Caporetto last October.
They had, rather, to defend their
lines over a wide front against at
tacks which were launched seemingly
without sufficient power to penetrate
more than some of the advanced posts
of the Italians and their allies.
The second phase of the offensive is
expected to begin at any time. It is
not believed the Austrians will be
willing, nor will they be permitted by
Germany to end their drive against
Italy with the results indicating an
almost total failure. ' .
, Germany Expected to Help. .
There have been intimations that
Germany would assist in the attack
which is coming and which may be
launched against the mountain sector
of the front. Large bodies' of men
have been assembled there.
ROME, June 22. "The enemy's of
fensive pressure, broken heroically or
withheld along the whole front of bat
tle by the firm resistance and counter
offensive spirit of our troops, has not
been renewed since the evening of
June 20," says the official report from
headquarters today.
"The enemy yesterday launched an
other strong local attack in the direc
tion of Losson, southwest of Fossalta,
but was sanguinarily repulsed."
Infantry Advance Crushed.
"He carried out violent concentra
tions of fire on Montello and in the
Grappa region, which were effectively
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Premier Clemenceau, Before Senate
Army Committee, Treats Story
as Idle Gossip.
PARIS, June 22. Premier Clemen
ceau and Leon A. Braml. under-secre-tary
for effectives and pensions at
the war office, bad a lengthy hearing
before the Senate army committee to
day on the question of effectives.
It has been widely rumored that the
Germans have placed a number, vary
ing from eight to 30. of long-range can
non for the bombardment of Paris.
Several questions were put to Pre
mier Clemenceau. most of them con
cerning this rumor, but he treated It
as idle gossip.
YEOMANETTEWEDS OFFICER
Miss Ada Evans and Sergeant Chelf
Married at Tacoma.
TACOMA, Wash., June 22. (Spe
cial.) Miss Ada Evans, yeomanette at
the Bremerton Navy-yard, who re
ported for duty there from her home
in Medford, Or., was married in Ta
coma today to Sergeant Gordon F.
Chelf. of the Marine Corps. Rev. H. P.
Williams, of the First Christian Church,
performed the ceremony. Mrs. Chelf
after her marriage returned to her post
of duty at Bremerton.
She enlisted in the service when the
United States declared war and has
been at Bremerton ever since. Ser
geant Chelf is now on recruiting duty
in Tacoma.
ESCAPED PRISONER FOUND
Boy Who Leaps From Train With
Weight on Foot Captured.
LA GRANDE. Or., June 22. (Spe
cial.) After two days of freedom in
which he covered some 25 miles with
a weight of iron tied to his ankle,
Dewey Potter, who jumped from a
moving train while on his way to the
penitentiary to serve a three-year
term, is again In custody.
Bloodhounds led Sheriff Warnick to
the hiding place of the fugitive. The
prisoner is a boy.
EXPRESS RATES WILL RISE
Federal Commission Approves " In
crease of 10 Per Cent.
WASHINGTON, June 22. Ten per
cent increase in express rates was ap
proved todtay by the Interstate 'Com
merce Commission. .
At the same time the committee dis
allowed an application for an Increase
to 15 per cent. The now rates will be
come effective as soon as the express
companies file new tariffs, probably
within two weeks.
U-BOAT OUTPUT" BEATEN
Two-thirds of Submarines Built Be
ing Sunk by Allies.
PARIS, June 22. (Havas Agency.)
Two-thirds of the German submarines
launched are already at the bottom of
the sea, according to a statement made
to the deputies by the Under Secretary
of the Navy.
to the peputies by the Under-Secretary
tary, "we are destroying them twice as
fast as they are building them."
BIGGER ARMY APPROVED
President May Call All Men of Draft
Age Into Service.
WASHINGTON, June 22. Approval
was voted by the Senate military com
mittee today of the provision In the
$12,000,000,000 Army appropriation bill
as it passed the House empowering the
President to call to the colors all men
of draft age who can be trained and
equipped
SOME OUTSTANDING
60 Dead, 129 Injured in
Circus Catastrophe.
TRAINS CRASH TOGETHER
Wreckage of Coaches Bursts
Into Flame.
WATER SUPPLY LACKING
Famous Clowns, Riders and Acro
bats Victims of Disaster to Wal
lace & Hagenback's Show
Near Gary, Ind.
GARY, Ind.. June 22. Sixty per
sons are known to be dead and 19
are In hospitals in Gary and Hammond
tonight as a result of a rear-end colli
sion at dawn today between an empty
troop train composed of Pullman cars
and a Wallace Hagenbeck circus train
on the Michigan Central Railway, five
miles west of Gary.
Virtually all the victims were mem
bers of the circus.
Clowns, bareback riders, trapeze per
formers and acrobats, many of them
veterans in the circus world, perished
in the first great crash. Other victims
were suffocated and burned.
Water Supply Lacking.
. Attempts of the Gary Fire Depart
ment to curb the flames and make pos
sible 'quick access to the imprisoned
victims were unsuccessful because of
lack of water supply in that outlying
district.
Survivors struggled about the wreck,
screaming for relatives or friends and
only force prevented two or three men
from rushing into the blazing
wreckage.
Hours after the crash, todies charred
black were still being received as
the derricks of wrecking trains thinned
out the pile of debris.
Thirty-eight bodies, all except one
charred beyond recognition, have been
placed in Gary undertaking establish
ments tonight.
Few Bodies Identified.
Twenty-two bodies , have been
taken to Hammond. Identification of
all except a few bodies was not at
tempted today.
Those who died of injuries In hos
pitals were known, but efforts to Ident
ify the burned, multilated bits of hu
manity taken from the wreck were re
served for tomorrow.
. The identified dead were:
-Mrs. Alex. Todd, Bloomlngton, I1L
John Collins, property man.
Arthur Derrlx, Belgian strong man.
Mrs. Joe Coyle and two sons. Howard,
age 9, and Joe, Jr., aged y.
Noted Performers Missing.
Manager Gollman. of the show, named
the ' following among the missing:
Rooney family, bareback riders.
Meyers family, animal trainers.
Cottrel family, bareback riders.
Art Darick, strong man, died in hos
pital. Rosie Rosalind, equestrienne.
Donovan family, elephant trainers.
Robert Ellis and wife, aerialists.
Mrs. Jennie Codd. Bloomlngton. 111.,
performer, died on relief train.
Joseph Coyle, clown.
Ben Carpenter, of Everett, Wash.,
suffered a fractured collar bone and
bruises In the' wreck.
Among the injured at the Illinois
Steel Company Hospital were 20
"razorbacks," Including six white men
and 14 negroes.
Employes' Money May Be Lost.
William F. Curtis and his wife also
were at the hospital. Mr. Curtis is
superintendent of ,the show, and his
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EVENTS IN THE PAST WEEK'S NEWS INTERPRETED PICTORIALLY BY CARTOONIST REYNOLDS.
The Weather.
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature. 78
degrees; minimum temperature, 6 de
crees. TODAY'S Probably showers; gentle west
erly winds.
War.
Austrian drive in Italy blocked. Section
U pas 1.
Germane put Profeteor Emery Into prison
camp. Section 1. pass tt.
General March says United States Is five
months ahead of its war schedule. Sec
tion I. page 2,
Paris hears rumor of many Ions-range guns
to shell city. Section 1, paga 1.
Sea power is greater than aver. Section
1. page 7.
French repulse Carman raids. Section 1,
Page 4.
Official casualty list. Section 1, page S.
Human wreckage sent back to Prance by
Huns. Section 1. page 6.
Forrlaa.
Bolshevik regime menaced by Czecho-SlovsK I
movement. Section 1. page 2.
Austria seems on verge of revolution. Sec
tion 1, page 8.
National.
Fir lumber price advanced 82.73. Section 1.
page 1.
Women count up cost of suffrage cam
paign. Eectlon 1. page 6.
U. 8. plans biggest outlay for artillery in
world's history. Section 1. page 1U.
All U. S. to go on sugar ration of three
pounda a month. Section 1, page 2.1.
89 vessels to be launched July 4. Section 1.
page 3. j
Domestic.
Sixty parish. 128 are Injured in circus train
wreck. Section 1. page 1.
Mr. Slnnott urges land for soldiers. Section
1. page 4.
Aero Club of America offnrs to finance
trans-Atlantic airplane flight. Section 1.
page 23.
Sports.
Miss Campbell and Miss Johnson win tennis
doubles championship. Section 2. page 2.
Troeh wins first day's shoot. 95-92. Sec
tion 2. page 1.
Foundation wins shipyard pennant. Sec
tion 2, page 1.
Trotter la American horse. Section 2. page 8.
Harold Kruger sets new record. Section 2,
page 3.
Double-header scheduled for Vancouver. Sec
tion 2. page 2.
Louis Chevrolet wins auto derby. Section 2.
page 2.
Flaeger wins amateur golf title. Section 2,
page 2.
Coast boxers plan busy season. Section 2,
page 8.
Howard Drew's comeback notable. Section
2, page 8.
Fans await Fulton-Dempsey bout. 8ectlon 2,
page 4.
Pacific Northwest.
Lane County man gets message written mile
from earth. Section 1, page 1.
New wage scale for loggers to be set. Sec
tion 1. page 7.
Training camp at Eugene opens tomorrow.
Sctlon 1, page 10.
Political showdown In Idaho on Non-Par-tlsan
League expected Monday. Section
1. page 8.
Tacoma Stadium to stage military spectacle
Section 1, page 8.
Mill employes at Oregon City attacked by
former strikers Section 1, page IS.
Commercial and Marine.
Demand for Columbia River canned salmon
exceeds supply. Section 2, page .Id.
Corn prlcea weakened at Chicago by break
ing of hot wave. Section 2.: page IS.
Sharp advance In stock market after un
certaia opening. Section 2, paga IS.
Camouflage may not be used on small steam
ers. Section 2. page 16.
W. B. Dodson goes East for conference.
Section 2, page 16.
Liberty type, latest ship design, evolved by
Portland architect. Section 2. page 18.
Portland and Vicinity.
Portland's milk supply may be cut off July
1. Section 1, page 1.
War savings drive to start Tuesday. Section
1. page 22.
Big parade to feature National holiday.
Section 1. page 1U.
Bishop Sumner tells story of trip to big
spruce camps. Section 3. page 20.
Touns women of Portland respond to Red
Cross call for nurses. Section 1. page 14.
Reed gets expert In war reconstruction work
Section 1, page 12.
Automobile accidents In Portland for six
days total 10", two fatal. Section 1.
pago 1j.
Oregon's development topic of conference.
Section 1. page ID.
Reed College measures up to duty, says pres
ident of board of trustees. Section 1.
page 12.
Girls to use Camp Wlllapa.- Section 1.
page 18.
Second call in 24 hours Is for 2500 more sol
diers. Section 1, page 11.
Medical school alumni meeting opens here
tomorrow. Section 1. page 11.
Summer school at Reed Is distinctive. See-
tlon 1. page 14.
Homesteads filed upon by 123 in local Land
Office. Section 1, page 17.
French women who have suffered worse
than death still smile, says Dr. Lovejoy.
Section 1. page 18.
L. C. Gltman named director of railroads for
Oregon and Washington. Section 1.
page 22.
J. D. Brown, of Portland, is National party
candidate for Congress. Section 1, page
22.
Fake Army officer taken by police. Section
1, page 22.
Ardgour fete for British Red Cross great
success. Section 1. page 2:1.
War stamps sale boosted. Section 1. page 23.
Weather report.- data and forecast. Section
2. page IX.
ACTUAL INCREASE ONLY $1.35
Pacific Coast Mills Show a
Heavier Production Cost.
COMPETITION TO BE KEEN
Priority of Government Orders Re
asserted; Official Order Amounts
to Government Taking Option
on All Logs and Lumber.
OREGOXIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash
ington, June 22. Formal announcement
of an average, advance In pries of
Douglas fir lumber of approximately
2.75 a 1000 was made today by the
pr.'ce fixing; committee of the War In
dustries Board, the new prices to be
f. o. b. at the mill, and to apply alike
to Government orders and to the trade
generally.
This advance was granted as the re
sult of a recent showing by Pacific
Coast lumbermen that costs entering
Into the manufacture of lumber had
advanced.
Southern Mills Are? Favored.
But while an advance of 2.75 a thou
sand Is allowed on Pacific Coast lum
ber, an advance of $4.80 a thousand has
been granted on Southern yellow pine,
notwithstanding, the Pacific Coast mills
showed a heavier production cost than
id the mills of the South, which employ
largely negro labor on a 10 and 11-hour
basis.
The price fixed on yellow pine is
substantially the commercial price that
has recently prevailed In the South,
though an advance of nearly $5 a thou
sand In the price the Government Is to
pay. The new Douglas fir prices, ac
cording to official announcement "wttl
result in a very slight, if any, average
advance to the commercial trade."
Aetual Increase Only S1.3R.
While the Government announce
ments state that Pacific Coast prices
have been advanced $2.75. the actual in
crease to mill men will be less than
this amount. From the 'advance must
be absorbed advances allowed logs and
an Increased freight rate on logs, leav
ing an actual advance of $1.35.
Federal Trade Commission figures
show it is now costing $25 per thousand
feet to manufacture fir as against $23.28
for southern pine. These figures in
clude fir stumpage at $2.53 and south
ern pine stumpage at $5.08.
The official order covering these
lumber prices amounts to the Govern
ment taking an option of all logs and
lumber in the fir and pine regions. On
lumber, if maximum prices are ob
tained by the mills, the average log-
run price will be $26 for fir and $28 for
southern pine. This Includes ship and
airplane lumber at West Coast mills..
Competition 'Will Be Keen.
It Is expected that under the new
order the competition between fir and
southern pine will be very keen. That
the fir interests are fighting hard to
extend their markets is shown by an
order taken here Friday calling for the
delivery of 50 cars of fir to Charleston,
S. C, and the fact that fir Is being seri
ously considered for an extension of
the big cantonment at Little Rock, Ark.
Ten of the IS cantonments are to be
enlarged Immediately, calling for the
use of a great deal of lumber. The
list includes Camp Lewis at American
Lake, but the enlargement there will
not be as great as that at other points,
judging from the lumber schedules now
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Student Aviator at San Diego, at
Elevation of 6000 Ecee, Writes
Letter to His Father.
EUGENE. Or, June 22. (Special.)
Probably the most unusual letter re
ceived from any Lane County boy since
the entry of the United States Into the
war is that received today by William
E. Stacey. of Natron, from his son. Ber
nard, who is a student in the aviation
school at San Diego, Cal. It was writ
ten while young Stacey was on a prac
tice flight with an Instructing officer.
a French "Ace," traveling sometimes at
an elevation of 6000 feet.
The letter is about 500 words in
length and In It Stacey gives his father
a description of the country over which
he traveled from North Island to River
side as the flight progressed. About an
hour's time wu required to cover the
distance of 140 miles.
"Well, I have to relieve him on the
controls pretty soon, so wait a min
ute." he writes. "Ten minutes' drive
and we have traveled 15 miles. We
have got 6000 feet now. I let it climb
some when I bad the stick. Now we
are following a canyon and you can
hardly see a house and can't see an
animal of any kind. On our right is a
town Oceanslde, 1 believe. It looks
like a checker on a checker-board."
In closing he tells his father that he
has tried to give him "a ride in an air
plane on paper." "I was over a mile
from the earth when I wrote and I'll
not write any going back, but enjoy
the sights," he says.
OREGON APPLES $500 BOX
Sonic Sold at $25 Apiece at Red
Cross Benefit Auction.
A box of Oregon apples brought more
than $500 when auctioned off at
Niagara, N. D.. recently, at a Red Cross
benefit.
The apples were put on tbe block at
a Woodmen's picnic, according to a
letter from Mrs. D. A. Olson, of Ni
agara, to her niece. Miss J. Beckett, of
Portland. "The box sold outright for
$350 after spirited bidding." Mrs. Olson
wrote. "Then the buyer auctioned off
the Individual apples. These went at
$25 apiece for a while, and a number
went at $10 apiece. The remainder
found bidders at $1 until the whole box
was twice sold."
RAIN DUE ON WEDNESDAY
Pacific States to Have Above Xornial
Temperatures In Interior.
WASHINGTON. June 22. Weather
predictions for the week beginning
Monday issued by the Weather Bureau
today, are:
Pacific States Fair except local
rains on north coast about Wednesday;
above normal temperatures in the in
terior. NEW TURKISH LOAN FAILS
Little Over One-third of Total Has
Been Subscribed.
WASHINGTON, June 22. Failure of
the latest Turkish loan was reported
today in a dispatch from Switzerland
announcing that only 13.000,000 pounds
was obtained of 32,000,000 pounds
sought.
Germany has already advanced to
the Ottoman Empire nearly 180,000,000
pounds.
GREAT BOYCOTT LAUNCHED
Movement to Shut Out German
Made Goods Starts.
WASHINGTON. June 23. Starting a
movement to boycott German-made
goods, the American Defense Society is
sued an appeal here tonight for 20,000,
000 signatures to a pledge not to buy
anything bearing the German mark.
July 1 Date Agreed On
for Action.
CONTROVERSY STILL RAGING
Producers and Distributors as
Far Apart as Ever.
LEAGUE ACTION CRITICISED
Members of city Milk Commission
Declare Dairymen Arc Responsi
ble for Trouble Need of Co
operation Strongly Urged.
Portland milk distributors heretofore
supplied by producers who are members
of the Oregon Dairymen's League will
have their supplies cut off on July 1.
unless the controversy between the dis
tributors and the league over the ad
vance of the price of wholesale milk is
satisfactorily settled prior to that date.
Such was thededsion of the league at
a meeting of more than 500 members at
Central Library yesterday. Members of
the executive board of the league and
President Alma D. Katz expressed the
belief that the city milk commission
would secure an adjustment before
July 1. if this is not done steps will be
taken to establish an Oregon dairymen's
distribution plant In Portland, through
which all league milk will be delivered
to consumers.
At the meeting yesterday league offi
cials laid the blame for the controversy
upon the shoulders of the distributors,
while two members of the milk com
mission. Henry E. Kced and W. L.
Brewster, bluntly told the milk pro
ducers that the league had brought
about the trouble through action of its
executive board. Failure of league offi
cials to co-operate with members of the
milk commission was declared by both
milk commissioners to be the cause of
thei present controversy, which has
brought about a serious situation for
Portland milk consumers.
fe Members I nulmoei.
The league members were unanimous
on every question raised, with the ex
ception of calling a general milk
strike on July 1. A minority of the
membership advocated a general milk
strike as a means of whipping the
distributors Into line, but such drastic
action was frowned upon by the ma
jority of the producers as bring unfair
and .not likely to reflect credit upon
the organization.
The morning session was enlivened
by an unexpected episode when, amid
Jeers and -cat-calls, Charles R. Eckle
man. ot the Riverview dairy, left the
assembly hall.
Eckleman attempted to kddr 3 the.
convention, but was not permitted to
speak. One non-member of the league)
asked the president why he should not
be given an opportunity to address the
gathering.
"That man is Charles Eckleman. of
the Riverview dairy. He is a con
tinual trouble maker." said President
Katz. "He is a aubject of the imperlar
government of Germany. He is not an
American. He has not been naturalized.
He is allowed to have free acess to our
homes and to handle foodstuffs for
our consumption."
"Tsrew lllm Out" Cries Heard.
Cries of "throw him out" and "back
to Germany" came from various parts
of the hall. A chorus of "Noes" greeted
President Katz' question as to whether
Mr. Eckleman should have the privi
lege of the floor.
President Katz began appointing a
committee to escort Eckleman from the
room, but the creamervman told the
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