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VOL. -XVI. NO. 42.
DRAFT PLAN
A;i;iriufiCED
Every Safeguard Against UnT
fairness in Selection of
Men Provided For; First
Draft of 1,000,000 Men to
Come in Few Weeks.
VARIOUS GROUNDS FOR
EXEMPTIONS ARE GIVEN
Burden of Proof for Exemp
Claimant, Who Must File
Affidavits With His Peti
tion to Be Relieved.
Washington, July 2. (U. P.) Presi
dent Wilson today created and set into
motion the gigantic machinery of the
draft.
By a proclamation of regulations
the president started the huge labor
of singling' out the manhood of the
nation for America's armies
The regulations fix the general
classes of men free from military ser
vice, set up the exemption boards that
sift out the men and define their du
ties. Only a very small group of classes
of men are exempt from bearing arms.
All others must appear before the
tribunals. Upon hearing of evidence
they will be discharged or drafted
into the army as the case may be.
Kvery action of the boards is hedged
with double safeguards against un
fairness and wide open to the public
gaze.
Draft to Corns in Tmw Weeks
The exact method of the lottery is
left for a later proclamation. Within
a few weeks the draft will be made.
In military quarters it is stated that
one million men will be -drawn in the
first levy.
Upon proof of their status, the fol
lowing classes are exempt:
Ken Indispensable to Industrie that
M necessary to the maintenance of
' the military establishment or too na
tional Interest.
Hon with wives, ohildren, parents,
brothers or sisters dependent solely
npon them for support.
Members of well recognised religious
N F. Johnson
Named .Chief
Of City Police
Mayor Baker Directs Present Chief,
; John Clark, to Become In
spector of Police.
N. F. Johnson, director of the pub
lic employment bureau, is to become
chief of police and John Clark, pres
ent chief. Is to become inspector of
police in the reorganization of the 'po
lice bureau, according to announce
ment of Mayor Baker today.
The change is to be made August 1,
and in the reorganization, according
to Intimation by the mayor, a largo
number of changes are to be made In
the places of captains, lieutenants and
sergeants in the bureau.
In confirming the story of the
changes as printed in The Journal Sat
urday, Mayor Baker declared that it
was Intention to run the police bureau
as economically as possible.
"We'll save money under the new
arrangement," he said.
An ordinance creating the position of
inspector of police was passed un
animously by the city council this
morning. It provides that the inspec
tor shall have charge of the detective
and investigating forces of the police
bureau. It further stipulates that the
inspector must be a man of at least
10 years' experience and be under civil
service regulations. The mayor is
given the authority, however, to make
a temporary appointment pending a
civil service examination.
N. P. Johnson, who becomes chief,
has been in charge of the public em
ployment bureau since its reorganiza
tion two years ago. John Clark was
appointed chief of the police bureau
by Mayor Albee in 1913
Johnson, Clark and Captalna of Po
lice Moore and Baty conferred with
Mayor Baker this morning over the
prospective changes.
FIRST PHOTOGRAPHS OF GENERAL PERSHING'S ARRIVAL IN EUROPE Abov-e, group picture of General
Pershin2,headof the American expeditionary force, and his staff, made upon the arrival of the party at Liverpool. Front
row, left to right, Lieutenant Colonel Harbord (chief of staff), General Pershing, Colonel Albord (adjutant general), Colonei
Brewster (inspector general). Back row, left to right, Colonel Ireland (medical corps), Colonel Taylor (engineering corps),
Major Dodd (air corps), Colonel McCarthy (quartermaster general), Colonel Bethel (judge advocate), Colonel Russell (signa
corps), Lieutenant Colonel Williams (ordnance department) and Captain Margetts (A. D. C). Below, a group at Easton station
upon the arrival of General Pershing in London. Left to right. General Pershing; the American ambassador, Walter Hmes Page;
Admiral Sims, U. S. N. (commanding our fleet abroad), Lord Derby, Lord French and General Sir Francis Lloyd.
Japanese Proposes
Exchange of Islands
Opposition Member Suggests to Parlia
ment Trade With United States of
South Be Islands for Philippines,
Toklo, July 2. (U. P.) A proposal
that Japan negotiate with the United
States for the exchange of the Phil
ippine islands to Japan for the South
Sea Islands, seized by the mikado from
Germany, was made in parliament to
day by Kotoran Mochizuki, an opposi
tion member.
Mochizuki expressed the belief that
the United States would consent to
such an exchange, thereby removing
many of the difficulties that have
tended to cause friction between Amer
ica and Japan. In discussing the Japa
nese policy in the orient, he declared
the United Sttaea is suspicions of the
imperial government's attitude toward
Chtna.
Vlscount Motono, foreign minister,
replying to Mochizuki, declared there
Is no cause for fear regarding. Japanese-
sects whose creeds forbid bearing arms, ! American relations, as recently they j
students of divinity and ordained min
isters.
legislative, judicial arid executlTe
officers of the TJnitedj States or the
States of th Union.
. Men In the army or nary of the
United: States.
Aliens who hare not taken first citl
senshlp papers and subjects of Ger
many. Workmen In the armories, arsenals
. ana nary yards of the United States
and men engaged In the transmission
of United States malls.
Pilots end mariners In the merchant
marine of the United States.
Criminals convicted of felonies and
the morally deficient.
The most vital power that of de
ciding which men are lndlspenslble end
the necessary Industries, is placed in
. the hands of the district boards.
One or more boards is created for
each federal district in the country.
The entire burden of proof for ex
emption Is put upon the claimant.
Appeal from the rulings of the tri
bunals is provided for in the regula
Hons.
As outlined In the rules, the follow,
ing are the steps leading up to the
ordering of the men into camp..
! A local exemption board of three
members for approximately each 30,
000 of population Is set up. Most of
these tribunals are already formed. In
many cases they are the registration
boards.
Other higher boards or each federal
Judicial district are formed. They are
composed of five men of the highest
standing and known as district or
appellate boards. Any member of A
have shown marked improvement.
Auto Held to Be Only
Auto, Not a Boudoir
Constable's Peek Through curtains Xed
to Arrest of Woman Preparing for
Dip In Briny Seep.
Oyster Bay. N. Y., July 2. (rSN. S.)
An automobile is an automobile and
no boudoir, ruled Squire Robert V.
Duvell today, after investigating com
plaints that fair bathers were dressing
and undressing in their cars at Bay
vlle beach without sufficient curtains.
Constable Thompson led -the first
raid. He saw a big limousine parked
near the beach and through a vent in
the curtains 25 per cent of a Septem
ber Morn. " He drew nearer.
"Well, what do you see?" snapped a
woman, who said she was Mrs. Edna
Durdett
"Enough." said the constable, mop
ping his brow. I ou are under arrest."
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Early Seizure of
Shipping Forecast
Washington, July 2. (I. N. s.)
Early seisure of private shipping for
government use was forecast today
when Secretary Kedfield of the de
partment of commerce announced he
was preparing a statement addressed
to the shipping interests, asking them
to be prepared.
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Four Slackers
Sentenced in
Federal Court
Sixty Days in County Jail Meted
to Three Young Men Who Hall
From PrineTllle.
Three slackers were sentedced to 60
days in the county Jail by Judge Wol
verton In federal court this morning.
They were Guy Jenkins. Perry Mor
gan and William Hund. all of Prine
vllle. Harry Hyde, pleading guilty
also, was permitted, in view of cir
cumstances, to act upon his promise
to enlist and sentence was postponed.
Clarence Estrp. under similar indict
ment, was given 30 days.
Leonard Anuron, charged with
theft of government property from the
"Dreadnought," pleaded guilty. Sen
tence was postponed until after the
arraignment of others implicated.
William Collins of several alalses.
Sam Rubber ani Donald Matheson. in
dicted for alleged conspiracy to rob a
postoffice, were given until Tuesday
to plead.
COAST MAY BUILD AS
RUSSIANS If
DRIVE TIE
10.173
IE
MANY
WOODEN
SHIPS
AS IT
CAN
PRODUCE
L. J. Wentworthi Represent
ing General Goiethals, Talks
to Chamber of Commerce,
War Office Announces Total r
Captured in Sunday's 24
Hours of Fighting; More'-
Are Being Brought in To
day, Says Statement.
TOWN OF K0MINKHY IS .
TAKEN, GERMANS ADMIT
Minister of War Kerensky In
forms Premier Lvoff New
Russia's Armies Have Be
gun to Play Part With. Ar
mies of Her Allies.
PRESIDENT WILSON ISSUES PROCLAMATION ON THE DRAFT
Washington, July 2. (U. P.) Tl draft system is one of equal
ity and fairness, President Wilson explained today in a proclamation ac
companying exemption? and draft regulations issued today.
His proclamation said:
"The regulations which I am ioday causing to be promulgated, pur
suant to the direction of the selective service law, cover the remaining
steps of the plan for calling into service of the United States qualified
men from those who have registered; those selected as the result of
this process to constitute, with the regular army, the national guard
and the navy, the fighting forces of the nation, all of which forces are,
under the terms of the law, placed in a position of equal right, dignity
anT responsibility with the members of all other military forces.
"The regulations have been drawn with a view to the needs and
circumstances of the whole country -and provide a system which it is
expected will work with the least inequality and personal hardships. Any
system for selecting men for military service, whether voluntary or in
voluntary in its operation, necessarily selects some men to bear the bur
den of danger and sacrifice for the whole nation. The system here pro
vided places all men of military age upon an even plane, and then, by
selection which neither, favors the one nor cenalizes the other, call
out the requisite number for service.
"The successful operation of thb law and hese regulations de
pends necessarily npn the loyalty, patriotism and justice of the mem-
bers of the boards to whom its operation is committed, and I admonish
every member of every local board and of each district board of review
that their duty to their country requires an impartial and fearless per
formance of the delicate and difficult duties entrusted them. They
should remember as' to each individual case presented to them that they
are called upon" to adjudicate the roost sacred rights of the individual
and to prove untarnished the honor of the nation.
"Our armies at the front will be strengthened and sustained if they
be composed of men free from any sense of injustice in their mode of
selection, and they will be Inspired to loftier efforts in behalf of a coun
try in which the citizens called upon to perform high public functions
perform them with Justice, fearlessness and impartiality.
, Z ; . "WOODROW WILSON."
Liner Battles
With U-Boats
andSinksOne
Four Submarines Attack Her, but
Patrol Boats Arrive in Time
for Rescue.
An Atlantic Port. July 2. (U. P.)
How a liner on Friday. Juno 14, sank
one out of four German submarines in a
running fight of five or six hours was
told today by passengers from England
oh the arrival here. ' Tho liner evaded
all the Germans' attempts at firing
torpedoes, as well i-s eufire.
One of the liner's shots carried
away a submarine periscope, and then
one following struck the hull of the
U-boat. There was a big explosion
and the submarine went down.
The three remaining sunttnarines
pursued he liner until dawn, when
British patrol boats beat them off.
The passengers also told of the tor
pedoing of the Cunard liner An son la.
All aboard were saved - and the vessel
itself was towed Jnto port. The An
sonia is a steel vessel of 8153 tons. -
Steamer Haverford Hit in Gale
An Atlantic Port, July 2. (I. N. S.)
Arriving here Sunday on a steamship
froma British port, passengers con
firmed the sinking of the steamship
Haverford, of the International Mer
cantile Marine.
The sunken steamer should have ar
rived at the same tima as tUe ship
which arrived Sunday, as they left
the English port together, but bad
weather made the detection of sub
OF
CHINA ANNOUNCES HE
WILL RESUME THRONE
Divers Attack
U. S. Collier,
Are Driven Off
FOUR OKLAHOMANS IN
PRISON
CHARGES
Northern China Ready to Bat
tle for Monarchy, South
for a Republic.
Peking. July 2. (U. P.) Hsuan
Tung, former emperor of China, de
posed in the revolution which made
China a republic, today announced his
succession to the throne again and
asppmption of the government. At
Kttig martial law throughout tne
empire was ' formally proclaimed.
President Li Yuan Hung has been
formally ordered to relinquish all
authority.
Civil War Near in China
San Francisco, July 2. HI. N. S.)
China is on the vers of civil war,
with the north prepared to fight for
the return of the Manchu dynasty and
the south united for a republic, accord
ing td cabled advices received ' here
today by the Chinese Nationalist
league.
The league is the reorganized Toung
China party, which financed and di
rected the first revolt against the
Majichus six years ago.
Representatives - In parliament have
gone to Canton, In Southern China, to
make a new government. The 'coun
try's warships will help the south
Vessels Exchange Shots, When U
S. Destroyer Arrives, Driving
Off Submarines.
An American Port. July 2. (L N.
S.) A battle between a United States
collier and two German submarines
was revealed today wheu the collier
arrived here from France.
The collier, which is armed, was
exchanging shots with aU-boat when
a second submarine came up. Be
fore the second submarine could at
tack an American torpedoboat de
stroyer steamed into the battle zone
and the U-boats submerged.
The collier, was handled in a verr
skillful manner to avoid being tor
pedoed. Throughout the fight sho
was kept steaming -rapidly around
in a circle. -
OF ALLEGED VICTIMS
"flhtaininfr Mnnp.v Under
False Pretense" Charged
Against Tulsa Locators,
Hydroplane Bombs Submarinr
An American Port, July 2. (I. N
S.) A suDmanne wnicn aitacaea a
big Italian passenger liner Is be
lieved to have been struck 'by a
bomb dropped by an Italian ' hydro
Diane. 90 miles off Genoa, the liner
reported on her arrival here today.
Yankee Gunners Hit U-Boat
London, July 2. (I. N. S.) -Three
submarines were seen by an American
liner which "has arrived here. The gun
crew fired on two of -the U-boats, and
As many wooden ships will be built
on this coast and on the Atlantic coast
as we can produce the labor and ma
terials necessary for" their construc
tion, " declared U. J. Wontworth, rep
rpsentative of General Goethals, in an
address before the members' council
of the Chamber of Commerce this afternoon.
Mr. Wentworth asserted that to
build 1000 wooden ships would require
11 the cutting and manufacturing re
sources of the northwest for at least
two years, that not lesa than S. 000.000.-
000 feet of lumber would have to be
cut to get the 1,500.000,000 feet of lum
ber necessary in the construction, that
an army of 40,000 to 60,000 men would
have to be produced Immediately:, that
50 sets of ways would b required.
200 or more band saws, a very large
number of traveling cranes or other
hoisting devices, the purchase and in
stallation of an endless amount ot
auxiliary machinery Including air
tools, power equipment and so forth.
Wages to Be Attractive
"This equipment," continued Mr.
Wentworth, "Is not available in a
minute, as you all know, for the de
mand upon the manufacturers and
producers of the country today is be
yond anything we have ever seen;
consequently careful consideration has
to be given to the ability of con
tractors to get their plants in work
ing order in time to be of material
benefit for the outturn of completed
hulls and ships by the end of 1918."
Saying that the wages which will
be paid should be attractive to me
chanics. Mr. Wentworth added:
"While the general impression seems
to be that the work is going rather
slowly. I feel Justified in asking that
you withhold any hasty Judgment in
his matter, for I believe that the
passing upon contracts Is going for
ward with reasonable dispatch consld-
ring the necessity of careful and
conservative investigation of all pro
posals before award.
Many Tesssla Contracted Tor
To date contracts have been
awarded on this river for 2) com
pleted vessels and by completed ves
ts I mean hulls, power and machin
ery and full equipment. In addition,
four wooden hulls have been given
to the Coast Shipbuilding company of
.Portland ana proposals from other
bidders on this river are now under
consideration and doubtless some de
cision will be arrived ut In the imme
diate future.
To date nearly 200 completed steam
ers'- and hulls have been contracted
xor, ana as tne organization gets more
proficient in its work you will doubt
less see proposals given much quicker
consideration and prompter decision
than it has been possible for General
Goethals and his staff to give in the
earlier days of the work.
Za Accord With Policy
"I do not believe you need have any
rear tnai Didders who show proper
rinanciai responsibility, rroper admin
istratlve and skilled organization for
shipbuilding work, will be given not
only careful and honest consideration
of their proposals, but will be encour
aged to build as many vessels or hulls
as reasonable business prtvluce will
permit the field officers of the organ
ization to recommend."
Mr. Wentworth stated that, because
of the preat. strain which will be put
on the lumber industry to produce ma
terials for ships, he is n full accord
with General Goethals' policy of secur
ing as many an possible of both wood
en and steel ships.
Petrograd. July 3. (TJ. P.) 4Jen ,.
eral Brusiloff's offensive took 10,171
prisoners In -i hours, according to war
office announcement today. This wss -(
the total of those captured on Sunday
alone In free Russia's smash in Oa j
licla. More Teutons were reported as -being
taken in the active fighting in ;
progress today.
"Artillery fire of great intensity,"
was reported in the official war office t"
statement in the direction of Zolt-.':
chov and Drsezany (Gallcla). '
The town of Kominkhy was cap-
tured. according to official war offlc
statements. More prisoners, are com
ing back of the lines hourly.
I Here in Petrograd. Minister of War -i
Kerensky formally called on Premier
Lvoff to inform him that new Kussie
has begun to play her part with the ,
allied armies.
Allied attaches here hailed the news ,
Joyfully, believing that the new Rus- .
sian army, relnvlgorated by Its free- -dom
and knowledge that it was fight
ing to keep that which had been won
by the revolution, would give a spleo
did account of Itself.
General Brusiloff is driving again ;
at the Gallcian city of Lemberg. . to
' tCxinttaoed on fr Tw, Colnw'Twt
1B1F500 SWEEPS : :
EAST ST. LOUIS 'BUCK
BELT' IN RACE RIOTING -
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Two Negroes Killed, Bystand-,
er wounaea, uies; miima
Powerless; Saloons Closed
On charges of obtaining money under
false pretenses, four of the land sales
men in the exhibit car "Oklahoma,"
stationed at Hoyt and Park streets.
were arrested this morning by Deputy
Sheriff Bob Phillips.
The men arrested are J. C. Rellly.
G. Owens. A. Sinclair and E. Mc
Carrell. The latter is -the car man
ager.
At noon they were still in the coun- i
ty Jail, unable to furnish bail of $1000
each. , ;
A fifth man. named Steele, had not
been apprehended. These men reached
Portland some time last week, and be
gan an extravagant advertising cam
paign, that they were locating people
for a fee of $135 on unallotted Indian
lands in the state of Oklahoma, about
to' be sold by the government. These
lands, it .was represented, were rich
in oil deposits and the wildest kind
of "get rich quick" scheme was pro
mulgated by the advertisements and
the agents personally.
The complainants are Victor Johns
burg, 1044 East Washington street,
and , W. ' H. tins worth, S92tt Belmont
street, two young laborers who went
Steamer Disaster Is
Under Investigation
Over 100 'Witnesses Called to Testify
Xegardlaff Crushing of Steamer by
Water Tsak At Xeazt 15 Dead.
Milwaukee, Wis., July !. (I. N. S.)
District Attorney Zabel today took
uu investigation of the disaster to the
excursion steamer cnrisiopner joium
bus which cost at least 15 lives, by
subpenalng over 100 witnesses for the
state 'inquiry. Meanwhile government
officials were investigating .nd the
coroner was holding an Inquest.
Divers lowered into the Milwaukee
river searched for an hour around the
huge water tank, the falling of which
crushed the upper decks of the steam
er, but reported they would be unable
to recover any more bodies until thj
tank was lifted out of the mud.
Tne wnrisiopner uojumpus was
towed out of the river today and
started for Manitowoc, Wis., under ts
East St. Ixtiis, 111., July 2. (L K -8.)
Kast Kt. Louis is riot-ridden ds
spite the presrjice of three companies
(ft state militia A mob of 500 men . . '
swept through the "black belt" this v
afternoon, snooting and beating ne-.
groes. . :' -
Two negroes and the mob engaged in '
a revolver battle. William Keyser.
hardware dealer, a bystander, was shot A
and seriously wounded In the melee.
The two necroes were killed. ';'-
Keyser died this afternoon, bringing
the death toll up to four. , .
Militiamen patrolled the streets with drawn
bayonets but have not fired or ."
charged upon the rioters. Two mors'V"
companias of militia will arrive bers 4
thls afternoon.
Mayor Mollman ordered the saloons ' ' ,
closed at 2 p. m.
Following the fatal shooting last
night of Detective Sergeant Samuel
Copped ge by a gang of negroes, about
a hundred armed white men this -morning
swooped down on the "b'lack-.;-belt,"
shot one negro and beat several J
oihtrs. -
I,ouis Haege, aged 90. a bystander. -was
shot and injured in the melee.
The timely arrival of two companies -.
Of Illinois militia dispersed the mob. .
Indignant whites will bold a mass .
meeting to decide what to do to curb ,
the blacks. . .
In the riot last night in which De- '
tectlve Sergeant Coppedge was killed, r
five others were injured. About ,
negroes are under arrest today. Forced
out of their Jobs by imported negroes, .
white men here about a month ago
atarted an uprising against the blacks, -
hhootlng and wounding several ne
groes. . j - t
; , y . ,
Militiamen Sent to Scene -
Springfield. 111., July 2. L N. S.) . , -Six
companies of the Illinois National -Guard
were on their way to East St. v
Louie this morning to prevent a re
currence of the rioting between white ,
residents of that city aad blacks.
which broke out last night.- The com
panies were ordered out by Colonel
Rlchings J. Shand, In the absence of
Adjutant General Dickson. ...,-. ,
All the companies were from the '
Fourth regiment. They were company
I of Vandalla, company O of Effing
ham, B of Newton, F of Benton, H of
Shelbyville and E of Carbondala. There
was a total of sos men. : .
Auto Bandits Bob '
Cashier of Payroll
Chicago, July 8. (I. N. 8.)-F1ve
automobile bandits held up-Clarence
Beard, cashier of the National Tea .
company,- as he stepped : from John
Ruroo's private bank today with bis
firm's payroll, and escaped WUA ' be
marines Impossible.
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