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-ITS ALL. HERE Ar fll lTf l " ' X CLOoC Tonight and IT'S ALi TRUE" ( C V j a JT er!y winds. Hu- :. I VOL. XVI. NO 85. PORTLAND, OREGON, TUESDAY EVENING. AUGUST 21, 1917. FOURTEEN PAGES. PRICE TWO CENTS ON TRAINS AND NEW STANDS FIVE . CENTS III TO GET WAGES,REPDRT Government Takes Hand in Labor Trouble Confronting Huge Industry, and Solu tion Appears in Sight. J. M. WITHERSPOON. prominent technical expert and head of a leading Chicago engineering firm, who has been given the contract to prepare the plans for Portland's new 1,000,000 bushel bulk grain elevator to be built at St Johns. IDFICATONS PROPOSED PORTLAND STRIKE IS POSTPONED Final Decision as to Wages and Conditions to Be Left to Commission. Washington. Aug. 21 (U. P) A nationwide strike In steel shipyards working on government contracts will b prevented by wage Increases paid by the government. In Ms first flash with organized la bor on war work, Uncle Sam will rec ognize the claim that increased cost of living warrants a higher wage scale. This developed today from the diffi culties Into which the requisition of ship-construction enmeshed the ship ping board. Shipyard-owners whose contracts have been taken over by the government refused to make now wage agreements with the International Metal "frades union until the shipping board approves the Increased wage scales. Commission Will Decide The final decision is to be left to a special commission of three members one appointed by President W llson. one I by President Oompers of the American Federation of Labor. and the third member to be appointed by the shipping board. Officials of the government and tho V'nlon which controls bollerrnakers. d-lllers. shipsmlths. molders and prac tically every employe on steel xhip bulls. Indicated there Is no doubt that the demands of the men will be grant ed. The new scale !s an advance of 6l rents a day In some rases The cmly wnse of these men will be $6 and lit wards Over eight hours' work will be at time and one half rate. Expect Settlement of Strike The increase will be granted In In dividual yards when present union agreements expire. Where no joint agreement Is now in effect at a ship building center, the case will be sub mitted to the proposed commission. The New York shipyards strike may be settled before the special commis sion plan !s fit Into effect. The union Is cleaning up the situa tion on the Pacific coast before turn- aaassssssssssBssssM jdv r. c i iv y s ' - " 'tr' V -1 OF RULES FOR DRAFT PLANNED President Wilson, It Is Under stood, Will Make Recom mendations for Changes to Affect Married Men. BIGGEST BATTLE OF WAR RAGES ON THREE FRONTS; LARGE BODIES OF TEUTON TROOPS ARE CAPTURED ALLIES JOIN IN VERDUN AGAIN BECOMES THE CENTER of French activities, this time as the base from which General Petain is operating to force back the German ring about the cHy. The dotted line shows the original German positions about Verdun toward which the crown prince is again being driven by the French. CLASS DISTINCTIONS ARE CREATED. CHARGE; Protests at Severity of Regu lations Have Flooded the White House. (Concluded on 1'ige Tuelie. Column Four) 1 MOORE IS ill A. INDORSED TO FILL WAR REVENUE BILL IS WITHERSPOON NAMED UNSOUND, ACCORDING TO DESIGN PORTLAND'S TO SEfUAJOLLETTE NEW GRAIN ELEVATOR Additional Levies on Big In- Chicago Firm Will Send Ex- comes and Swollen Profits Are Urged. War Take Bundle, Hot a Trunk Washington. Aug. 21. (U. P.) Loving mothers. sweet hearts and kind friends must not load drafted men with a lot of clothes and comforts when they start to camp September 6. Provost Slarshal General Crowder ruled today. The 206,100 boys entraining for cantonments will be allowed to take very little. Trunks are absolutely taboo. SuUca8es and handbags will be frowned upon. The war department prefers that each man bring only neces sary toilet articles and one change of linen and undercloth ing, done up In a neat, small bundle. ..." yRiOrU, 7 e, r imVMKL j 9&T?r&0B32r De TALOU wwiHOAtr i j GIGANTIC DRIVE TO CRJJSHENEMY British, French, Italian, Rou manian Forces Prosecute Vigorous Offensive; Troops in Macedonia May Follow BURKES POSITION New Collector of Customs at Portland Appears to be the Program. Washington. Auir. 21 (WASHING TON BURKA1' OF THE JOURNAL.) Thomaj Carries; Burke will not be re appointed collector of customs at Port land If 8enator Chamberlain's recom mendation Is followed. It Is under stood the senator favors W. A. Moore of Tendleton. who was indorsed by the OreKon Iemocratlc state central com mittee. Burke's commission expired in June, Mr. Moore Is a Pendleton wheat buyer and is chairman of the Umatilla county Democratic central committee Major Jewett Transferred Major Henry F. Jewctt has been transfi-rrod to duty at the American Lake cantonment, according to an an nouncement today. Mayor Jewett. for the past two years, has been In charge of the river anil harbor work for the federal government on the lower Co lumbia and Willamette rivers as a member of the United States engineer corps. Fruit Shipment Discussed Washington. Aug. 21. Representa tive Sinnott today conferred with Sec retary of State Lansing on the question of allowing shipments of 1 apples to Scandinavian ports when space is avail able. In order that the secretary may fully understand the conditions, he Is now In diplomatic exchange with Great Brita-in. Gold Painted Liner's Action Mysterious An American Port. Aug. Si. (I. N. S. An American steamer arriving here today reported that last Thurs day a large liner, painted gold color, was seen about 130 miles off the American coast, zigzagging and clr cling about and firing its guns. In aH about 25 shots were fired. The learner arriving here did not Invest! gate further but kept on its way. Washington. Aug. 21 (I. N. 8.) Cor:scription of wealth to finance th war wa advocated In the senate thl afternoon by Senator La Follrtte Wisconsin. He charged that: The 2, 000, 000. 000 revenue blU framed by the finance committee 1 ui sound ; It will raise less than IT per cent the first year's war expenditures; It necessitates the Issuance of hll lions of dollars worth of bonds; Bends mean inflation and higher c(.st of living He urgt-d the adoption of amend rrv nls proposing arMSUonal levies upon bit; iniomes and swollen war profits which would bring the total of the bll up to about $3. 500, Out. 000. Charging wealth has never yet aac rificed itself on the altar of patriot lein in any war." Senator Lu Koliette assailed the program of Issuing bonds In the ratio or la to 1 of direct taxa tion. He called It a benefit to the rich and a acheme to escape paying for the war. "So long as a man can be found who la making war profits I am In favor taking auch portion of those profits ur taxation as me government needs. said La Follette, - and if U needs them ail. i am in ravor of taking them all before one penny is added in taxat.on rh. . . . .1 .. . i V. . ....... ) mj iv vv iuiwcA iijo Mian m. 1 1 4v y stag fing unuer wie loaa OI nign prices caused by tbe war. This may be a prin cipie new in war finance, but It la the very least ttiat the tnaaea of the peo pie snouia De asxed to accept, and is mucn less tnan even handed Justice would demand for them. "They pay the cost of the war though not directly taxed a dollar for iL They pay It In Increased prices ana In excessive hours of labor. They pay n in nermt, not oniy on the battle fields, but wherever men and women ton in tne dreary occupations of life- More than all, they pay It with their oiood and tnelr lives and the greatest sacrifice of all with the blood, and life of their loved ones." Would Protect Men In Sale of Railway Ammunition, Dump Bombed by British London. Aug. Jl. (U. P. British naval airplanes at midnight last night dropped many tons of blmbs on the ammunition dump at Middlekerke and the German works at Burgeolse, the admiralty announced today. President of Saa rranclaeo United Railroads peclflea Term on Wales ale SClfst X Mad. San Francisco, Aug. 21. (1 N. 8 Protection of the employes of th United Railroads who remained loyal tt the company when 1750 platform men last veek called a strike for an eight-hour day at $3.60 waa made a condition today by Jessie LilienthaL president, of any sale of the company's system to the city. Monday the supervisors voted to open negotiations for the purchase of the united Railroads. This morning President Lilienthal had posted in all oar barns a signed statement in which be said that overtures with the munici pality would not be entertained "ex cept upovthe indispensable condition that the mft.o have remained loyal to the service shall in any event per manently retain their' present posi tions." The lines of the present municipal system employ only union men. Several arrests were made during the night in connection with strike dis orders. Early today a motoric an In the suburbs wis the target of a shot fired by one of four' men. pert Engineers Here to Di rect Plan Preparations, Fulfilling the prediction by The Journal Monday. J. M. Wltherspoon, president of Witherspoon-England company. Chicago, is to be the design ing engineer of Portland's million bushel bulk grain elevator. The contract foe his bervlces was executed yesterday by a specially au thorized committee of the dock com mission, composed of John II. Burgard and G. B. IlegarJt. chief engineer of the commission. Engineer Will Come According to the terms of the con tract, Mr. Wltherspoon will Immedi ately send here the chief designing engineer of the firm, a man by the name of Munn, who will remain in Portland during the four mcnths re quired for the drafting of the plans. Another engineer of the firm will su pervise the plans for the electrical equipment or tne elevator, it is to be operated entirely by electricity, and the electrical equipment must be in stalled so that It will be under instant control from any part of tne build ing. An executive of the engineering firm will supervise the preparation of the working plana and specifications. The work is to be done in conjunction with. Chief rigineer Hegardt. Mr. Wlther spoon will personally supervise the preparation of all the plans and will make about five trips to Portland dur ing the next four months. The com pensation agreed upon is 1 per cent of tne cqst of the structure or approxi mately tsuoo. Contracts Heady Xiater It is expected that the contract for the construction can be let at the end of four months and that the elevator will be ready for use In one year, or n time to handle the 1918 grain crop. Meantime the development of the site of the elevator west of St. Johns will be rushed. The course of Gattun slough will be changed. The port com mission will dredge out a ship basin in front of the property and fills neces sary will be made. The railroad will roceed to maJte the necessary track age connections. An abstract of the title to the Ogden and Malarkey tracts which were bought by the dock com. mission as a site for the J3.00u.000 freight and grain terminal will' b. ready, it was said this morning by he time the first issue of the craln elevator bonds is sold, September 6. Washington Aug. 21. (I. N. S.) President Wilson Is going to modify the draft regulations as applied to married men. This was forecast today by a source close to the White House. From the same authority It was learned that the president's ideas of how the law should be carried cut in this respect will be made plain before the week ends, probably in the form of a letter to ! Secretary of War Baker. The fol lowing modifications of the regula tions will be among thoso to be sug gested, it was said today: First Men with dependent children will be exempt in every case, unless they are men of wealth. At present, under Provost Marshal General Crow der's interpretation, such men are not exempt If the parents either of them selves or wife are able to take care of her and the children. Class Distinctions Cnaifsd It Is maintained that the present in terpretation of the law creates class AUSTRIANS LOSE TEN THOUSAND PRISONERS TO FORCES OF ITALY Losses in Dead and Wounded Are Estimated at Minimum of Same Figure, (Con tinned on Pige Three. Column Two) ALSACE-LORRAINE TO BECOME AUTONOMY IF NATIONS AGREE German Chancellor Michaelis Said to Have Made Proposition. Zurich. Aug. 21. (U. P.) German Chancellor Michaelis will announce Germany's decision to grant autonomy to Alsace-Lorraine at this afternoon s session of the main reichstag commit tee, according to a special army dis patch received here. Wheat Price Will Be Set on September 1 Washington. Aug. 21. (I. N. S.) Rumors that a price already has been fixed for the country's supply of wheat were set at rest today, when it was announced the food administra tion will set a figure on September 1 French Officials Comment Washington. Aug. 21. (U. P.) Ger many cannot evade demands that will be made by the allies as jart of their peace terms by attempting to dispose of points at issue to her own liking. This was the reply from allied sources today to the Zurich report that Chancellor Michaelis would announce granting autonomy to Alsace-Lorraine, In his address to the reichstag. "Absolutely unacceptable," was the response from high French officials here. "France would never make Alsace Lorraine a war issue before ll14," this French authority declared to the Unit ed Press, "and now that Germany has invaded France, the French nation will never consent to seeing Alsace Lorraine anything but a French prov ince." Red Men of Oregon In Annual Council By John Hearley Rome, Aug. 21. (U. P.) Capture of "well organized enemy defenses" be tween Corite Selo, near the fortress of Starllokva. in the Italian offensive was announced in the war office state ment today. Rome. Aug. 21. (U. P.) Italy's prisoners in the greatest of all drives her troops have made in the world war reached a total of 10,000 today. Semi-official estimates placed the Austrian losses in dead and wounded at a minimum of this same figure. On the three fronts today the Jul ian, Carso and Isonzo General Cador na's drive was continuing in a fierce combat of men and of guns that re sounded over nearly a hundred miles of front. Italian airmen reported desperate at tempts by the enemy to reinforce breaches in the line already achieved by the attackers. Prisoners declared hurry calls had been sent for reinforcements from Prussia. The unprecedented fury of the Italian attack is believed to be un dermining the morale of the Austrian. General Cadorna's great offensive sTarted, peculiarly enough, at the very moment when Austrian airmen were carrying out a vigorous campaign for peace. They were dropping tnousanas of printed messages, urging Italian "comrades" not to fight British monitors Joined In the of fensive today, shelling Austrian posi tions along the Gulf of Trieste, England Sends Pope Message On Peace Plan Plan Will Bo Examined "in i Benevolent and Serious Spirit" Is Declaration. London, Aug. 21. (U. P.) England, first of the belligerent powers to an swer the pope's peace suggestions, pre sented a formal note to the Vatican today, through British Minister De salts, declaring the holy father's plan would be examined "in a benevolent and serious spirit." Cardinal Gasparrl. papal secretary of state, expressed his gratification at the response. Cardinal Gasparrl said he hoped all belligerents would admit of agreement on four fundamental principles, which. he said, had already been approved by England. France. Russia, Germany and Austria. He declared PreslJen Wilson's peace note of last Decembe Implied all that waa contained in the pope's program. It is not clear what four fundamen tai principles tne belligerents men tioned above have agreed upon. So far as cable dispatches have Indicated, no common ground has yet been reached by any of the belligerents of ficially. PRACTICALLY ENTIRE WEST FRONT N MIDST nr Trnmrin nirri r Ml- H-HU H Kfl I 1 1 M Ul ILIimtlU UniILL Fighting Extends for 435 Miles, From Sea to Borders of Switzerland, The great council of Oregon, Im proved Order of Red Men, K. A Coe, i great sagamore, of Svensen, Or., pre I siding, met in Eagles hall for its twenty-sixth session this morning. There are 30 local councils from vari ous sections of the state, represented by nearly 100 delegates and officers. A banquet will be given at the Hotel Multnomah , tonight. Frederick O. Downes, great prophet of the United States, is a guest of honor of the Ore- The delegates will be Connecticut Troops To Be Sent Abroad New Haven, Conn., Aug. 21. (L N. S.) Connecticut infantry now under orders to go to Charlotte. N. C, for training will not go south, but will make up par, of a new division to be sent abroad Immediately, according to a report reaching here from Washing ton this afternoon. Baltimore Man Is Named U.S. Minister i Adjutant General of 0. N. G. Is Promoted Oeorge A. Walts to Become Assistant Divisional Adjutant General, With Sank of Major. Washington, Aug. 21. (WASHING TON BUREAU OF THE JOURNAL.) George A. White, adjutant general of Oregon, has been appointed assistant divisional adjutant general, with rank of major. This will place him on the division staff with the troops in Call fornla. Reports that the price had bn t 11.65 and various other mark. wr i son council. today characterized as the last final taken over the Columbia river highway rrorts to sway tne markets for spec- j - lative purposes. AM1 1 Tl J UKiauuinans uemana Gore's Resignation Hugo. Okla., Aug. JL (U. P.) Aroused over Senator Thomas Gore's attempt to force an amendment to the appropriation bill, prohibiting use of funds In waging war outside of United States territory. 400 citizens of Hugo and Choctow county today demanded that Gore resign. The demand took tho form of a telegram dispatched to Gors at Washington. Bold Robbers Make - Big Jewelry Haul Boston. Aug. 21. (I. N. 8.) Four young men walked into Solomon Rob inson's Jewelry store In Tremont street today and came ct with 115.000 worth of unset diamonds and jewelry, leaving Israel Breast, Robinson's clerk, unconscious on the floor from a blow on the head. .. A . . Washington, Aug. 21. ((I. N. S.) President Wilson today nominated John W. Garrett of Baltimore to be minister to the Netherlands and Luxemburg. lOOOMen Will Guard City After Troops Are Gone 9 One thousand men are to aid ai In the guarding of Portland and JsM. IBg Multnomah county from depre- m B datlons after the federal troops fcj are gone. IN SI At a conference attended by fea IE Adjutant General White, Mayor tn, B3 Baker, Sheriff Hurlburt and pss, Chief of Police Johnson this Ra. Jsn. mornirrg the organization was Kb. fca. completed. IN The organization will have JN Nl nothing in common with the ha. IN Oregon State Guard. It will be N IN composed of members of mil- b IN ltary organizations such as he Nt IN Elks, Irvlngton and Laurel- Nl N hurst club and Multnomah Nl Nl club. Nl N Uniforms, arms and equip- Nl ment have been, arranged for Nl Nl and the men will drill In the Nl N armory. Nl Adjutant General George A. White has as yet received no orders appoint' lng him assistant division adjutant gen eral, as mentioned in Washington dis patches. However, the honor. If given him. Is a signal one, and shows that the gov eminent has watched the remarkably careful and -speedy manner in which Oregon's troops have been prepared and sent out. The post would be one in which his duties In preparing and mov ing troops would be even heavier than they- have been here for the past six months The appointment is not to the ad jutant general's liking, however, for he has confidently expected to land in France shortly. The above appoint ment would postpone his departure for the battle front indefinitely. General Wedgewood to Command Washington, Aug. 21. The war de partment confirms the report that General Wedgewood, formerly adju tant general of Utah, will command the Eightieth division, in which the Oregon National Guard is Included. fieath Penalty for Slackers Possible Chicago, Aug. 21. (I. N. S.) Hin ton G. Clabaugh. c!ief of the Chicago office of the department of Justice, to day said slackers who fall to appear at the cantonments after being called may, under the law, be ehot as de serters. "They will not be subject to court martial, and the extreme penalty is death by shooting,'" he said. Operators Agree To Deny Demands Mlddlesboro, Ky.. Aug. 21. fl. N. g.) Operators holding out against the strike of 15.000 miners In the Kentucky-Tennessee district agreed at a meeting today not to yield to the de mands of the anion men. About 3500 miners, their terms gTanted by smaller operators, were back at i work today. With the French Armies In tho Field, Aug. 21. (U. P.) The greatest battle of the world was being fought today. From the seacoast to ths Swiss frontier over 435 miles ths allied forces were fighting a practicallypon tlruous offensive? France's great assault at Verdun. (till driving on today, completed the chain of battles which were welded lr. the forge of war into one gigantic ac tion of unprecedented extent and power. The great battle started with the Anglo-French offensive in Flanders, extended to the British offensive at Ltns. thence to the French attacks around St. Quentin, then to the French offensives at Chertiin des Dames, Moronvilliers and Verdun and con cludo with heavy artillery fighting In Lorraine and Alsace down to Switzer land, i -Allied Superiority Is Assarted7' The western front has never seen such an extensive battle. Nor has the allies' superiority everywhere been so asserted. With three more months of fighting weather this year, Germany's hold on the western front may become pre carious before winter. Perfect and coordinated strategy underlies the English and French at tacks. They have been so timed as to convert all the fighting into one great battle. Once before the allies timed such a blow, but not Jn the force of that which waa pushing with terrific power today. On April 1 the French at tacked the southern pivot of the Hin- denburg line a week after the English attacked the northern pivot rrench Attack Southern Flrot Today the French are attacking the southern pivot where the German linos Canadians Meet Germans With the British Army in the Field, Aug. 21. (U. I'.) The Canadians attacked the German lines west and noitlrwest of Lens early today. Terrific fighting developed. As the Canadians went over the top the Germans emerged from their trenches to attack the Canadians. The first line of the Ger mans was already in No Man's Land. when the t'uniidiano struck thurn. Whirlwind hand to hand fighting, ensued, both using bayonets, lubbed .rltles and automatic pistols; After a half hour's bitter hand to hand fighting the Ger mans gave way and the Cana dians followed Iliem Into tlie front trenches of the German lines. st ' . w (Coocludvd on Pace Two. Column Fire) I. W. W. Failure Is Discussed byDentler National Guard Colonel Belleres Agi tators See Government Will Hot Per mlt Interference WttB War Plans. "The threatened I. W. W. strike,' says colonel C. E. uentier, head of the national guard for the western di vision, "has, like the Arab, folded up its tent and stole away. I don't know when I have seen anything fall as ut terly as did the strike. 'I am fully convinced that when the organization understands that the gov- rnment is going to take summary ac tion against any opposition to the war program, all such opposition will be ropped. "Our-orders give us the authority to take drastic action to suppress any hin drances to the progress of the war. When a nation as great as the United States faces as great a crisis as this, there must be the greatest degree of cooperation. Any opposition is likely to prove a great drawback. "That the I. W. W. realize our posi tive stand in all similar matters Is well shown by their dropping the threatened strike."- London, Aug. 21. (U. P.) England, France, Italy and Belgium Joined to day In the most gigantic offensive yet directed against Uermany. The west front from the Belgian coast to Switzerlund, was one gigantlu battle, with French. British, Belgian and Portuguese troops attacking. Southward, Italy's most formidable offensive threw millions into a grapp.s over a front of almost 10U miles. Field Marshal liaig's drive in Flan ders was pressing forward, while told Canadian troops gripped tighter around Lens. General Petain's troops wcr driving fiercely out of Verdun, while steadily increasing their pressure alone the Chemin des iames and in Cham pagne. Russia alone of the great allied powers was not participating In tha concerted assault. Even little Koumanla, through her. reorganized and revived army, waa making stubborn opposition to a great Teutonic attempt at encroachment ou the fragment of Koumanla left in al lied hands. Every one of the assaulting morel was strategically timed and co ordinated. The Frencn offensive at Verdun came aj; a time when the Germans Were massing effectives to oppose further British successes in the Lens and Ypres sectors. Italy's offensive came when Aus tria, flushed with success of Teutonic machinations by which Russia's troops ' melted away, was diverting men from the Carso, Julian and Isonzo fronts to sweep forward beyond Gallcla; The Macedonian front was the only one today in Europe from which thera was no report of an allied offensive. Military experts, however, believed (Concluded on Page Two, Column Ooe) ' ' 74,000 Acres Will Be Opened to Entry Washington, Aug. 21. (WASHING' TON BUREAU OF THE JOURNAL.); The interior department has approved Oregon's relinquishment of segregation list 20, covering 74,000 acres of . land In Crook county, and announced opening of these lands under the homestead laws September 24. Applications will be received at The Dalles land office 20 days prior to the opening. Members of Sect To Work, Not Fight Washington, Aug. 21. (I. N. S.) Six representatives of a Pennsylvania and Indiana religious sect called Ornish vis ited Secretary of War Baker today to obtain assurances they would not be required to fight in the national army if drafted. The secretary told them their followers would be treated as non-combatants and used In work not connected with actual fighting;. , British Labor Vote For Peace Meeting London, Aug. 21. (V. P.) 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