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THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND. -SUNDAY: MORNING, JUNE . 24, 1917. 3 SPAIN AND AUSTRIA BELIEVED ON VERGE OF DEMOCRATIZATION Emperor Carl Abandons At tempt to Obtain New Min istry, Says Report. MADRID HINTS AT STRIKES Result of Polish Ultimatum Delivered la Belchsrath V tiled by Austrian Censors Affected by BoiiU. London. June 23. (U. P) riohind a heavy veil of censorship there may he concealed tonight the first move ments toward democratization of two more European monarchies. The two are Spain and Austria. Zurich dis patches told of reports from Vienna that Kmperor Carl had finally aban doned his attempt to obtain a nevr ministry under leadership of the re cently reeiffned premier, Clam-Mar-tlnlc. According to this information the youthful sovereign had determined to entrust the task to "an entirely new personality." Cables from Madrid detailed the spread of a genoral str ke movement, particularly among the farmius: classes, and reported miners at Bil-bao as threatening to Join. THflnlrter Forced to Resign Exactly what followed last week's tumultuous scenes in the Vienna Reichsrath when the Polish members delivered an ultimatum demanding as surance of the ocmplete future inde pendence of Poland, has not been made clear In dispatches permitted to pass the Austrian censorship. The Clam Martlnic ministry was forced to re sign, having lost support of the par liament through the combination of the Slavic and Polish party members. There have been numerous reports Indicating that Rum la's success In throwing off the yoke of absolute mon archy has profoundly affected Austr.a and particularly the Slavic principali ties. Dissatisfaction Is Increasing Failure of the separate peace efforts made by Austria and Germany; tho prompt imprisonment of Austrian sol dier delegates going into Russia with suggestions for an armistice; discon tinuance of fraternizing cull have served, it was reported, to augment tho dissatisfaction throughout the dual monarchy. In Spain, presumably, Premier Dato, who succeeded Count Roman ones when the military party forced his retire ment, not now only faces a complete readjust mont of the entire Spanish army to agree with his promises to eradicate despotism and graft, but possible pajalyzaxion of Spain's Indus tries. Strixe Agitation Spring Up , Early in the year a general strike wao narrowly averted throughout Spain. Now the agitation has again sprung up. The agrarian party de mands that the farmers receive more of. fhjtrl excossively high , prices for foodstuffs. The plain people are dis satisfied simply because they must pay exorbitant prices for it. The mili tary party is ready to act if all prom ises to it are not fulfilled. Angr against the pro-German atmosphere of the Spanish court is growing. Every Branch Needs Attention of America Aviation Department Should Hot Be come Overbalanced Declares TJ. 8. Officer on Pershing's Staff. Paris. June 23. (U. P.) America is talking too much about that vast fleet of airplanes and not paying enough at tention to the equally vital infantry and artillery arms of offense, in the opinion of a high member of Major General Pershing's staff. After reading cables to French pa pers on the nation wide agitation In America, urging congress to approve huge aero fleet plana, he declared to day: "While supremacy in the air Is im perative, airplanes alone are not going to win the war. There are three big elements infantry, artillery and avia tion. The three should be considered In balanced co-ordination. One arm Is as important as the other. "In a modern war such as this, the artillery depends on aviation, the in fantry depends on the artillery. "It would be foolish to have superi ority in infantry if we did not have the heavy guns to blast out the enemy and tear up the otherwise uncuttable wire defenses in front of his position before the infantry went into action. "It is likewise just as Ill-advised to have an overbalanced aviation branch if we do not have sufficient guns." Soup Is Served in Factory by Princess Liondon, Jane J3. Princess Mary has been tn the garb of munitions worker and has rubbed shoulders with girls In the factory and served them soup. Her experience was got "som where in Middlesex." Girls rushed to the windows in the factory when the visit was announced and looked for her royal highness in troop companies" whose duties are the string of automobiles that came ; concerned with the "workshops and down the lane. But she slipped Into the : production of field engineering ma plant on foot in a democratic way and j terial; "bridging companies," and their wuen xne msappoiniea worKers went to lunch at the adjacent canteen they found the princess overalled and smil ing, standing by the counter. It was a busy hour for the princess, because so many oT the girls were eager to purchase from her and quite a few came back just to get a royal smile. Following the service at the canteen the princess toured the factory. COZY DAIRY LUNCH Washington St. If ear sixth' Choice Steaks T - Bone 60c Tenderloin Sfrc email Clab 20e. Small Sfrlola l&c Select Roast Beef or Baked Sugar Cured Ham. 16c sUoh Waffles or JBotoake at an konss lOo, Delldons Ooffes, Pies. Pas tries and i AU SXOmT em D THREE LEADERS IN SPANISH AFFAIRS fsMcp i i! sir: jmzW ': Y Sj j5T..n,Il: 'l fry , 1 At the left is Premier Dato, who failed to form a satisfactory cabinet, shown In conference with Kins Alfonso. Tae insert shows Sen or Sanchez de Jaca, confidential advisor to the king. PRESIDENT DECIDES TO NAME BOARD TO Body of Four Will Supplant Present Advisory Commis sion of Council. By J. P. Yoder Washington. June 23 (U. P.) A general upheaval In the war govern ment at Washington is taking place. Coordination has become the watch word, speed the rule and efficiency the object. The president has decided on a "big four war board." This will act in an advisory capacity to his cabinet and be in charge of the tremendous detail coming under the heads of railroad and industrial work. mobilization and dissemination of raw materials, distribution of finished products and general purchasing. It will suDDlant the present advisory commission of the council. To Coordinate War Work This big change, predicted soma time ago by the United Press, is the begin ning of a movement all along the line to coordinate the war work. The press commission ha3 done much in making this possible by compiling masses of aata bearing on all phrases of HANDLE PROBLEMS Sappers Perform Valiant Work at Front In Coordinating Service of the Soldiers Army Engineers Are Called Upon for Variety of Details That Demands Bravery, Tedious Ixmdon, June 23. (TJ. PJ The royal engineers, or "sappers, as th-.y are called, are one of the most effi cient branches of the service. Although the engineer's business is to work rather than to fight, he Is always armed in the manner of the infantry; he has learned how to use his rifle and should occasion arise can hold his own with any enemy. There are in fact certain weapons of offense which are placed solely in the sapper's care; for instance, the German invention of asphyxiating gas, special "gas companies' of engineers, all volunteers and mostly men with i practical knowledge of chemistry, are given this task of dosing the Huns with - their own poison, and anyone who has worked with them has the pleasure of reflecting that now the Huns must bitterly regret that they ever introduced into warfare so sin ister and unnatural a weapon. Divided In Companies Sappers are divided up into differ ent "comDanies." There are "nmv title RUfflcientlv explains their m- ployment; "signal companies' who are responsible for the field telephones and telegraph wires. Tunneling companies are the people responsible for those little explosions which periodically throw skyward whole unts of the enemy together with many'cubio feet of French territory. They are recruited very largely from miners. These fcrave fellows work day and night far underground, worming mine galleries under the enemy's de denses. They must take the utmost care to go undetected by the enemy who. of course, is always on his guard against such enterprises and counter mining to frustrate them. Tunneling Work Is Tedious Thus the new earth that . Is exca vated as the shaft grows longer can not be thrown over the parapet, for that would give the secret away at once, but has to be packed Into sand bags and laboriously carried to the rear. For the same reason the turmalers must work: with some of the most ef fee tire mining' and boring machinery, tor they set up vibrations, and all ar mies are now supplied f with remark able and sensitive instruments which lri IWwMr rUI preparation. Scores of committees will be eliminated as the first step of the war board. An outline of this board's work given the United Press today by a member of President Wilson's cabi net. Indicates an Intention to revolu tionise the government during the pe riod of the war. Material Costs to Be Determined The "war board" will have as one of its functions, It is declared, the determination of a basis of cost of all materials for every one in the country soldier, sailor and civilian alike. This naturally led to the be lief tonight that laws permitting the government to commandeer coal, bit. steel and other necessaries will oe asked of congress. The official outlining these spec tacular government changes said: "Concentrating these powers is ab solutely essential. Ther was no more autocratic government In the world than the United States govern ment in 1864, yet there was no more efficient or democratic government." Says Fuel Will Be Commandeered Secretary Daniels declared publicly tonight "that it is a question of a very short time before the govern ment will be forced to commandeer the oil and coal supply of the coun try." The further the government goes into the war, the more and more evi dent it becomes that powers are to be vastly extended to centralized agents. Fear of this trend in events Is al ready manifest In congress. One west ern statesman declared that business would absolutely collapse unless some thing is done to check the reports of government seizure of big business plants in the nation. But the government plana to use all other efforts before resorting to requi sition. Labor and Technical Skill. detect and record any vibrations in the earth. Most of the larger matters of trench engineering are in the hands of the field companies of engineers and the Infantry working parties usually work under their instruction and guidance. In an attack the business of the field companies Is to construct the commu nications between the old line and ths new. Often they have to stand up right in the open under point blanK machine gun fire digging the connect ing trenches across what was once "No Man s Land." They Pray So Loud He Cannot Slumber Freeport, I I., June 23. Too much praying right out loud gives Ambrose Dunleavy no chance to sleep. Jun leavy lives next door to the negro church here, and since the church has started Impassioned revivalist meet ings he has written to Police Chief Hanse asking that prayers be sup pressed. "Neither myself nor my chil dren are able to sleep," he complained. Dead Snake Poisons Water Gault, Ohio, June 23. Poisoned water caused the death of several horses in this community. H. E. Bone, farmer, who has 80 acras of grouni waiting to seed, lost his only team. The strange poisoning was solved when a dead rattlesnake was taken from the well on the Bone ranch. Do you know thit A GLASS OF PURE. RICH MILK and A NICE, BIG SANDWICH makes the best kin4 of a lunch for the professional man. office man and clerk? This lunch will cost you only 12c. Give it a trial! JOHNSON'S : . ,Th Best PUes 268 ALDER, BETWEEN v", Y i FOOR ADDITIONAL Didier Mason, Douglas Mc Monagle, David M. Peter son and James N. Hall. Paris. June 23. (XT. P.) Four ad ditional American aviators have joined the Lafayette escadrille, according to word received from the front today. They are Adjutant Didier Mason, for-, merly aviation instructor at Camp Avord, and well known through his flying exploits with Carranza's army in Mexico. Corporal Douglas McMonagle. 25 years of age. of San Francisco, whose mother resides at 2000 Broadway. New York. Corporal David M. Petersen. 23. of Honeydale. Penn. Corporal James Norman Hall, JO, of Colfax. Iowa, author of Kitchener's Mob. Adjutant Mason was one of the first Americans to come to France after the outbreak of the war. Because of his long experience in flying he was made aviation instructor. Corporal Hall is the "Phil Hall" who is best known In his home coun try for his book on war experiences. He was discharged from the British army for wounds, but Immediately came to France and began Instruction in the aviation corps. Lincoln Chatkoff of New York, one of the Lafayette escadrille members pltal. At the time of the accident it which was Ben Woodward, an Ameri can ambulance man, was reported still in a critical condition at a base hos pital. At the time of the accident ia was not believed he could possibly survive. , Corporal Harold Willis of Boston, one of the Lafayette fliers, returned tc the aerodrome one day recently with his hands and feet both slightly frozen as the result of a reconnais sance over the German aviation fields in which he ascended to a height of 22,000 feet. San -Francisco Boys May Harvest Crops Pan Franctsco, June 23. If a plan submitted by" Judge Thomas F. Gra ham, chairman of the county council of defense. Is adopted by the San Fran cisco school board, high school boys will be able to go to the country and help harvest the crops and be given their credits the same as If they were attending school. Members of the council have ex pressed th4 belief that the safe har vesting of the bumper crops this fail depends to a great extent upon the success of the plan. Judge Graham's idea is to extend the vacatlcn period for several weeks, or until the crops are all harvested. Recreation for American Troops Paris, June 23. American baseball In the Bois de Boulogne, tennis on the Avenue d'Elyses, French classes, bi cycle expeditions into the country. These are only a few of the things planned for American soldiers, sailors and war workers, expected soon to flock to France in batches of 'thou sands to cooperate with French fight ers against the Germans. X lor Luncheons THIRD AND FOURTH AMERICAN AVIATORS JOIN FAMOUS CORPS AMERICANS RESPOND VITH CASH BETTER THAN DID GERMANS Liberty Bond Loan Oversub scription Exceeds by Far First War Loan in Germany COMPARISONS ARE MADE Approximately 4,000,000 Persons Is T7. S. ZBTMted la Bonds; la O-srxaaay 1,7T735 Gams Torward. Atnerioan ts. Germaa h M- baboUI Supporter of his 0 Ooxuxtry. Ftrst German war tt loan 11,115,000.000 First American if war loan ....... J, 085.228,850 Vumber of Subscribers Germany 1,177,235 m America .4.000,000 i Jfc Washington, June 2S. (I. N. S.) More than three tim m as many I Americans subscribed to the Liberty loan as the number of Germans sub scribing to the first German war loan, according to figures compiled by the treasury and received from Germany through consular channels. The treas ury made today what It declares Is a conservative estimate to the effect that approximately four million Starts Today 1 ? f w J a a -i ' i tr ' T r vx f -v n -JL. JL 'AX' i - - - f' ' -V f-:V I ft W i t LrV V 1 W 'jr-. T 1 ,v ,-rv . . . -list I'. J Iky.?: .. ?OTA 0 f1 !wv. rr fr;AKi- s:-y y'- V'Vf" ..... GEO On A photoplay for the kiddies, for mother, for daddy, and the old folks for everyone capable of enjoying a good story with a fascinating plot a real drama splendidly acted- happily, won derfully pictured Also Two Snappy, Sensational One-Reel Comedies Americans subscribed to the Liberty loan. The consular reports show - that 1,177, 226 Germans subscribed to the kaiser's first war loan. Officials here take this showing to be an in dication that the masses of toe American people are solidly behind the government. The subscriptions to the first Ger man war loan amounted to only $1,115,000,000. which was an under subscription, while the final figures om the Liberty loan show a subscrip tion of the colossal sum of SI, 035, 226,850, an oversubscription of more than 60 per cent. Officials hers declared today that this augurs extremely well for the success of the new war loan which .s to corns next, fall and for the subse quent great financing operations. The experience of the nations now at war has been that later war loan draw mors subscribers than the initial one. Germany s second war loan was' subscribed to the extent of 12.265.009.000 by 2.61,000 persons: her third $2,015,250,000 by 3.966,418 persons; her fourth 32.678,000,000 oy 5,279,645 persons. and her flftn 32,633.000.000 by 3.809.976 persons. "Moral Unfitness" Is Exemption Claim Milwaukee. June 23. One of the "Jokers" In the conscription bill was that exemption might be claimed on the grounds of being morally deficient, but out of the millions registered the only man to -register this claim was a Socialist of this city. The man is Prank Raguse, former state senator, who was expelled from the legislature because of unpatriotic remarks. He wrote on his card "mor ally unfit." Soldier at 81 Years Paris, June 23. The French army probably contains the oldest soldier In the world, a private named il on tsar rat, whose age Is 81 years. A play unequalled for its high Columbia standards question taken all in all "Sel ifi ' M Si'' X mBbbsbbbTbbm R.osidlsidle YEAR-OLD INTERVIEW BY CONSTANT! f E Salvation of Nation Above Money, Power, Throne or Life Itself, He Declared. LONG WAR HIS PREDICTION Deposed Hon arch Asserts - Small 2fa tlons Will sTot Be Considered Sox "Will yennasent Justice Ooms. New York. June 23. (U. P.) "Tell the people of America that the salvation of Greece to ma is more precious than all the money and all the power in the world. It Is more precious than the Greek throne or the life of Constantlne himself.'' This Is what Constantlne, former king of Greece, told a Greek newspa perman In Athens a year ago. accord ing to Atlantis, a. Greek newspaper. Reciting the reasons why he kept Greece from Joining the allies Con stantlne said: "I could have been the most popular of kings, so far as the entente allies are concerned, had I joined in their struggle and led my people to death and destruction. But I knew that Greece could not withstand for a fort night the blows of the Austro-Oer-man and Turco-Bulgarian troops. And, the Greek army once destroyed, all the power of the universe couid not have saved the Greek race from a GREC GIVES VIEWS wholesome humor A picture true to the We're pleased to show it for beyond it is the most satisfying bill of tie week. ; 1 it) s-. i .1.. 'r; . s . - ... ,i: . BEBAK the master artist who has made thousands smile thru their tears in a play that's all smiles all sunshine all happiness all harmony it's called Impressupi Tur co-Bulgarian onslaught First SUf non-combatant populations. Would Save stls Vsttoa T "This Is the fate which threaten! the Hellenic when they eater the w and from this fate I want to sav them. If need be by sacrificing my throne and my life. To force Greece into the war was the easiest way to ' my personal glory and benefit; but I. . the absolutist, the autocrat, the be liever In the divine right of kings, as -my opponents are prone to call me, was held down and nailed to pa cifist policy because the people of " Greece would do the fighting IX War came so 1 opposed war. "Neither the central powers nor the entente allies will be defeated. This strurcl will drag on for years until the belligerents reach the end of their resources. ".vi'r" Thirsts for 3Kaxe Deal "And peace, when It comes, will not take Into account small nationalities. nor wui it establish permanent Justice " a lairsr ior a square deav- as yoi -In America call it. But this has not been given to me even la America. I think an American minister who If hostile to a king would be more pop-' ular In his own country. People la America seem to see more readily their cousins across the Atlantic than they do the king of the Hellenes. "X do not care for my Ufa I bate ne-rer cared much for my throne. If X persist in keeping both I do It for Greece and the sake of Greek people, the only ones for whom I care.' ' ' Prisoners Released ; To Work as Loggers Ban Francisco, June II, The county parole board, at a recent meeting, or dered the release of ST able-bodies men, now serving short terms for mis demeanor offenses. They have been shipped to lumber camps, mills and farms throughout California. T Members of the board announced that this policy will be pursued M long as there is need for men . sS laborers or artisans. . - S.V - ..-.f t -. . ft '. Ji f -r . " .' ,- At