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80 Pages SIX SECTIONS Section One Pages 1 to 20 VOL. XX.XIV.-XO. . ", , PORTLAND, OREGON WILSON FIGHTS FOR HIS POLITICAL LIFE Issue With Bryan Is Squarely Drawn. FORCES TO BE ASSEMBLED Message to Congress and Ad dresses to Ask Support. REPUBLICAN AID WANTED JOx-Sccretary Meanwhile In Statc ( merit Asks Himself What Plans Arc and Iteplies They Have Kot Been Formulated. ' 8T JOHN' CALLAM O'LAl'GHLIN. WASHINGTON, Nov. 6. (Special.) As a result of William Jennings Bry an's denunciation of his National de fense programme. President Wilson has come to realize that he is embarked upon a bitter struggle with the Ne braskan for the leadership and control of the Democratic party. The President realizes, however, that the feeling that will be aroused while the clash with Mr. Bryan and his fol lowers is in progress will gravely im perii his own chances of re-election. President Mobilises Resources. In view of this realization of the JJemocratie situation it is the intention of the President to utilize all the re sources at his disposal to gain a deci sive victory. He intends to confer rersonally with Democratic leaders of both the Senate and the House. He will insist that the Democrats of these two Chambers shall hold caucuses and enforce the caucus rule that the deci eion of the majority is binding upon all. ile also will favor cloture in the Senate and the reporting of rules in the Ho -ie. which will enable the shut ting oft of debate and the casting of votes when the time for action is at hand. Appeal Made fop Support. Besides the use of these weapons, the President intends, in his annual address to Congress, and in speeches Tie will deliver from lime to time, to strengthen public sentiment in support of the de fense programme which he regards as necessary to prepare ourselves "to vin dicate our right to independent and un molested action by making the force that is in use ready for action." Finally the President will appeal for the support of the Republican Senators and Representatives. It was with this purpose in mind that in his address before the Manhattan Club, of New York, he declared he would ask for the hearty support of the country, of the rank and file of America, of men of all shades of political opinion. Bryan's Plans Kot Formulated. No one realizes more than Mr. Bryan the power of the President. In a state ment he issued today in which he asks himself the question: "What plans have you made for opposing the Presi dent's programmer he gave the answer: "I have no plans formulated." The inference, of course, is that he Is formulating plans and that he will be ready to put them into effect when the proper time arrives. Mr. Bryan, proclaiming .himself as a mere" "coun try editor," asserted in a. series of ques tions that it was neither disloyal nor unpatriotic for a Democrat to differ from a Democratic President on a non partisan issue. He did not reiterate his own friendship for the President, but he asked why should "a Demo crat's" friendship for the President be questioned "because he differs from the President on an issue like this, ti-oncluded on Page tj. Column :i.) MASSACHUSETTS' 1 1 rf FYPFm??nlMiNy LIVES LOST Ifl rORTL.SD WORK MAY BE UN ' DER MAY IX JANUARY. Draftsmen Work Night and Day With View or Advertising for Bids Before Close f Year. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington. Nov. 6. Plans for the new Portland postoffice building are being expedited as the result of Secretary McAdoos recent visit to the Pacific Coast and the Treasury Department has been assured by Architect Ilobart in San Francisco, that all the drawings wiir bo ready for approval not later than December 1. Part of the draw ings were submitted to the supervis ing architect a month ago, but com Plete drawings never have been for warded to Washington. After, his visit to Portland Mr. Mc Adoo brought pressure to bear on Mr. Hobart, with the result that his drafts men are now working night and day and expect to finish in three weeks. The plans when completed will be re viewed by the supervising architect and he then will prepare the specifi cations. Assistant Secretary Newton said to day he hoped to advertise for bids be fore the close of the year and expected to award the contract and get the work under way some time in Janu ary. WOMAN DEFIES OFFICIALS Owner of Dairy Herd Says She Will Shoot to Protect Cattle. CHICAGO. Nov. 6. Mrs. Scott Du raud, wealthy owner of a prize dairy herd, today, threatened to shoot any state officials who came to her farm to harm any of her cattle. She re cently saved the cattle from slaughter when suspected of foot-and-mouth dis ease by an injunction. Mrs. Durand today armed her em ployes. "I will shoot the first person who attempts to harm any of my cattle," she said. "I have a revolver of my own, and I intend to use it." HOLLAND INTERNS U-BOAT Stranded Vessel and Its Crew Taken in Charge by Government. LONDON, Nov. 6. The Amsterdam correspondent of the Exchange Tele graph Company says that a German submarine which stranded near Ter scbelling. has been interned with its crew by the Dutch government. The German submarine U-8 was towed into Terschelling by a Dutch life boat on November 4, after the under water boat had stranded and had made signals of distress. A dispatch from The Hague said the submarine was be ing closely guarded. ALASKA VOLCANOES SMOKE Two Great Peaks and Four Tall Cones Heretofore Inactive Revive. SEWARD. Alaska, Nov. 6. The great volcanic peaks, lliamna (12,000 feet) and Redoubt (11,300 feet), on the west shore of Cook inlet, are smoking. These volcanoes were active in the Summer of 1913 and afterward sub sided. Four tall cones northwest of Re doubt, which oldtimers have never known to be active before, have their chimneys busy. The Cook Inlet coun try has never known so many volcanoes smoking. Escaped Woman Is Found. GRESHAM. Or., Nov. 6. (Special.) Mrs. John Larson, who has been close ly watched because of her mental con dition, escaped from her home early thi3 morning and wandered off scantily clad. A party of 75 searchers went out ill quest of her as soon as her absence was discovered. She was found about a mile from the house, attempting to hide, wedsed In between two logs.- She will be examined as to her sanity. PICTORIAL SIDELIGHTS ARE PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORXTXH ynvBMPirn -.-.-. GREAT FiS: 12 Known Dead, Others in Smoking Ruins. GIRLS AMONG THOSE BURNED Swift Blaze Cuts Off Escape of Fleeing Workers. CORONER BEGINS INQUIRY Number of Those Trapped in Build ing Reduced by Dismissal, Only Short AVhile Before, for Sat urday Half Holiday. NEW YORK, Nov. 6. Twelve men and girls are known to have lost their lives today in a fire that destroyed an old four-story brick and wooden factory building in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn. A search of the ruins is expected to uncover the bodies of 13 other victims, eight of them girls, who were reported missing tonight. Of the 40 injured in hospitals, many were expected to die and a score more were less seriously burned and bruised. The building was occupied by a candy manufacturing concern and three firms manufacturing clothing, whose em ployes normally totaled 300, but more than a third had been dismissed for a Saturday half-holiday before the fire started. Fire Discovered by Girl. The flames were discovered shortly before 4 o'clock by a girl employe of the candy factory, which occupied the ground floor and basement, and were soon roaring up the elevator shaft, around which wound the principal stairway. There was one other stairway in the rear of the building, and some of the entrapped persons escaped by that, but before the firemen arrived men and women were leaping from the windows. The flames had quickly mushroomed from the elevator shaft into the fourth floor, and scarcely had the first streams of water entered the building when the roof collapsed. The other floors soon after fell; one by one. Tragedy Worst In Years. Today's disaster was the worst fac tory fire in New York since the Tri angle Waist Company was burned out several years ago with . loss of 148 lives. The flames spread so rapidly that escape for most of the employes in the building by stairs and elevators was impossible. The only fire escape be came jammed. The flames drove the frightened men and women to the win dows and forced them to jump. Of the 11 bodies recovered from the ruins, six were taken from the fire escape and four were found hanging out of the windows, charred beyond recognition. Several of these were girls, burned to death In the sight of a great- crowi of helpless spectators. Destruction Wrought Speedily. No one could be found tonight to tell how the fire started, but within half an hour the roof of the building had collapsed. In another hour it was nothing but a tottering shell of brick walls, enclosing smoking ruins and probably the bodies of the missing. Not until the list of employes In the building had been checked up and the ruins searched were the police willing tonight to believe that the death list would exceed 25. One of the victims taken to the hospital, a man, died soon after from a fractured skull. Coroner Wagner started an immedi ate investigation- of the cause of the .disaster and other city officials were soon on the scene for the same purpose. Concluded Page r.. Column l. THROWN BY CARTOONIST REYNOLDS ON SOME H& - came yo 1 : INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS TllM W'Mihw tfOYi fBROAY'fi-Maximtim temr.er.tnr aeRreeb; minimum, 41 degree. TODAY'S Fair; westerly wlndc' War. Bulgarians capture Nish. Serbia. Section 1. paec 6. ... Kitchener goes to Eastern nar field; new drive in Dardanelles predicted. Section 1, page 1. " Foreign. Japan wild with national loyalty as Mikado Journeys to coronation. Section 1, page 5. National. " Plans for Torlland Postoffice . to be ex pedited. Action 1, page 1. Control of Senate may be snalehed by South by caucus and cloture. Section 1, page 5. Fight on McCombs to develop when Demo cratic National convention time arrives. Section 1. page 2. Federal Trade Commission proves Its worth as aid to business. Section 1, page 2. Bryan's attack forces Wilson to fight for political life. Section J, page 1. Trading stamp Issue in hands of highest court. Section 1, page B. Domestic. Chicago "wets" plan mounter parado for today. Section J. page 1. Oregon's entertainment for state executive noteworthy event. -Section 1, page 3. I. W. TV. threatr-n Utah officials over 11111 serom conviction. Section 1, page 7. Many lives lost In New York factory fire Section 1, page 1. Commercial and Marine. North Pacific Company buys steamer break water to replace Sai.ta Clara. Section 'J. page 6.- Exporters prepare to ship wheat to Europe by way of Atlantic ports. Section Page 10. Outlook for large gain In visible supplv holds wheat down at Chicago. section -. page 13. Stock values weakened by professional sell ing. Section '2. page 13. Boom in metal shares feature of week in Wall street. Section 2. page 15. Pacific Coast exporters trading In Australia face new income tax. Section page ti. Pacific Northwest. Chehalis club gives banquet for Milwaukee officials. Section 1, page 10. Air raids on London described by resident. Section 1, page 0. Washington Is still virgin field for Repub lican Presidential candidates. Section 1 page 8. Survey of university is laudatory. Section 1, page 9. Party leaders relieved that saloon issue Is to vanish in Idaho. Section 1, page 8. Sports. Washington State College defeats Montana, 27 to 7. Section 2, page 2. Washington University squelches California. 72 to 0. Section H, page 3. Bob Franklin holds lead for individual bowling race. Section 2, page 4. "On to Kugene" Is slogan at O. A. C. Sec tion 2. page 2. , School elevens are entering on final lap in 1U15 race. Section 2. page 4. Oregon eleven has three more battles this year. Section 2, page 3. Oregon Agates defeat Idaho, 40 to 0. Sec tion 2, page 1. . Harvard defeats Princeton, lO to 6. Sec tion 2, page 3. Multnomah Club football team oft for Cal ifornia today. Section 2, page 2. Boxing benefit is given for aged Billy Jor dan. Section 2, page 5. . Mrs. May Sutton Bundy soon to be seen on tennis courts. Section 2, page 5. Wilt G. MacRae predicts Coast League will economize nextyear. "Section 2.' page 5. Salem High School defeats Eugene High School, 29 to 0. Section 2. Pate 3. Aggies' welcome to team Is memorable. Section 2. page z. Coast League fielding averages out. Section 2, page 1. Land Show. Fruit and vegetable prizes awarded at Prod ucts Show. Section 1, page IB. Eastern Oregon has . bulky exhibits at Land Show. Section 3, page 17. Land .Show has big programme in store for last week. ' Section 1, page 16. Mongrel to have day at Land Show. Sec tion 1, page 1G. Orenco delegation captures Land Show visitors. Section 1. page 17. Jefferson High School students win two oganberry song prizes. Section 1, page Portland and Vicinity. Campaign to start against law permitting divorced fathers to desert children. Sec tion , page IS. Mrs. Whiting allow-ed temporary alimony of $220 monthly. Section 3, page IS. Semaphore installed to guide traffic at Third and Morrison. Section 1, page 18. National prohibition is Issue in campaign in Oregon beginning tomorrow. Section 2, page 7. Report on budget due tomorrow. Section 1, page lo. . ' Saloon men discuu plans for next year when state goes dry. Section 1. page 15. Dr. Eleanor Rowland, Reed Professor is honored by Washington College. Section 1, page 14. Winners In City Beautiful contest are an nounced. Section ls page 14. Horticultural Society will exhibit at Cor vallls meeting. November Itj-lS., Sec tion 1. page 14. Loss of pier not vital setback to Interstate bridge. Section 1, page 18. David Strauss, gono 17 years, amazed by Portlands growth.' Section 1, page 13. .Estimate of total taxes for city property holders 23 mills. Section 1. page 12. Sal of Red Cross seals to fight tubercu losis begins December 1. Section 1. page Commissioner Baker alters views on Associ ated charities. Section 1, page 12. Sunday closing law knocked out. Section 1. pag- ll. yvss GHIGAGOWETS PLAN MONSTER 'PROTEST "Personal-Liberty" Pa rade to Be Held. MAYOR DECLINES INVITATION Promoters Say Many Women Will Participate. CITY. OFFICIALS HOSTILE K.xecutivc Declares Demonstration Shows Disrespect Tor Law and Design to Intimidate Offi cials Doing: Duty. CHICAGO. Nov. 6. Officers of the United Societies for Local Self-Govern-ment declared today that the "home rule and personal liberty parade to be held tomorrow through the down town, streets of Chicago, as a protest against Mayor Thompson's action in enforcing the state law closing saloons or, Sunday, will be the largest demon stration of its kind ever seen In this country. They predicted that scores of thou sands would be in line, including many trade unionists and numerous women. More than 2000 organizations of vari ous kinds, representing 20 nationalities were announced as having accepted in vitations to participate. Liquor Organisations Stay Out. No organization directly or indirectly representing the liquor business will be allowed In the column, sponsors for tne demonstration announcing that brewers, saloonkeepers, distillers and bartenders who desire to march will do so as individuals or as members of other organizations. An effort was made to provide" automobiles for all the women who desired to appear in the -..uuouanon. flans also were made tor the construction floats. of hundreds of Mayor Thompson decline i..s. tion to review the procession, sending letter in which he denounced the demonstration as showing disrespect for law and as an attempt to intimidate officials sworn to enforce the statutes. Permit for Stand Refused. A further evidence of hostility to the parade on the part of the city" ad ministration came in the refusal of the building inspector's department to per mit erection of a reviewing stand on the La Salle-street side of the City Hall. W. R.Moorehouse, Commissioner of Public Works in the Mayor's Cab inet, informed the United Societies offi cials that granting a permit for a stand in front of the City Hall would place the administration in the light of giv ing Its sanction to the protest. Invitations to review the marchers were also sent to Governor Dunne, of Illinois, and other state, county 'and city officials. The United Societies for Local Self Government, under whose auspices the parade will be held, consists of 973 aux iliary organizations. "Mighty Protest Intended. Mr. Landau, who is president of the United Societies, said today: "The parade was planned as a mighty protest against the action of Mayor Thompson In closing the Chicago sa loons Sunday. Wo want the officials and the citizens of the city, county, state and Nation to know how a ma jority of the population feel on this question. There will be more than 100,000 patriotic American citizens in line. If the weather is fine there may be 200.000 marchers." The police department Issued a per mit for the parade, but was not asked to guard the line of march. Instead this police work will be done by mem bers of the German, Polish and Bohe mian turner societies. IMPORTANT EVENTS Saturday's War Moves THE Bulgarians have occupied Nish, the Serbian war capital, which gives them complete control of the railway from Prahovo, on the Danube, and thus opened a through ' route for the central powers to Sofia and Con stantinople. In addition the Bulgarian and Ger man main armies have effected a junc ture at Krivivir. so that the campaign, which has been somewhat slower than expected, probably will move at a faster pace. In fact, except for the southern part of Serbia, the invasion Is already gathering more headway and despite Serbian resistance the in vading armies have all made consider able progress. in the south, however, the allied forces appear to be too strong for the Bulgarians, who admit that they are faced by superior numbers. It is re ported through the Serbian legation at Athens that the British. French and Serbians have inflicted a severe defeat on the Bulgarians at lzvor, 10 miles west of the Vardar River, where the French left wing joins the right of the Serbian southern army, and that the Bulgars are retreating toward Velcs. More allied troops are being sent from Saloniki to the scene of the fight ing in the hope that they will be able by the capture of Veles to compel the Bulgarians who advanced west of Uskup to retire and clear the Salonl-kl-Mltrovitza railway so that assist ance can be sent to the Serbian north ern army. All assistance that reaches the Ser bians apparently must be sent by the British and French, for despite the de feat of the Zaimis government and the triumph of Venlzelos in the Greek Chamber, there Is no evidence that Greece Intends to change her policy. It was reported yesterday that M Zaimis had undertaken to form a new Cabinet, but this lacks confirmation, as dispatches from Athens are being much delayed. There is also lack of news concern ing the Russian expedition, which was reported early in the week, on the Roumanian frontier. While Roumania, like Greece, is maintaining her neu trality in the face of agitations in the country for intervention, Russia, how ever, is preventing the Austro-Ger-mans from dispatching any additional troops from her front to the Balkans. The Russian armies have success fully countered Field Marshal von Hindenburg's -efforts to reach Riga from the west and are attacking both west and south of Dvinsk and on the Styr and the Stripa rivers. In the Dvinsk sector the Russians are advancing a little westward, but on the two southern rivera there is no change in the positions, the armies of neither side seemingly being able to make any progress, although they are launching heavy attacks. In the western zone the Germans continue their attacks against the new French positions in Champagne, but here, likewise; little ground is chang ing hands. There is evidence of renewed activity In Gallipoli and the impression pre vails that another big attempt will be made to open the. straits before Ger man ammunition reaches the Turks. .November 7. 114. Germans make renewed efforts to reach Boulogne. Japan reports capture of German cruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau along the coast of Peru. British release American copper ves sel after cargo is unloaded. BRITISH TRADE GROWING Imports Increased by $82,065,000; Kxports by $16,835,000. LONDON. Nov. 6. The Board of Trade figures for October show an in crease in imports of 16,413.000 f$82, 065,000). Exports Increased 3,367 000 U16.835.000). The principal increases in imports were: Food, f3,000,000; chemicals and drugs, 1.000,000; raw materials. 8.000,000, of which cotton from America contributed 3.000,000. . The principal increases in exports were in iron, steel and textile manufactures. IN THE PAST WEEK'S NEWS. FIVE CENTS. KITCHENER GOES TO EASTERN WAR FIELD New Drive in Darda nelles Predicted.' TOUR MAY INCLUDE EGYPT Effort Made to Co-ordinate Efforts of Allied Staffs. LONDON GLOBE SUSPENDED Critic or British WnP Department Punished as Mote Is Made to Korco Developments to j Speedier Conclusion. ; LONDON. Nov. ..-"Lord Kitchener. feV r rfqu?st of hi colleagues, has left Lngland for a short visit to the eastern theater of war - 'T- . . announcement, made tonight oner a caotnet council an unusual meeting for Saturday audience which Premier nd a long Asquilh had with th i.-inn. . - . ' rest rumora cur iv ine war secret tary s present intentions. Plant of London tilobe Seized. Almost simultaneously with the an nouncement of Lord Kitchener's pro posed visit to the east, the authorities seized the printing plant of the Lon don Globe, together with the issues of yesterday and today. This is the first action of the kind taken by the authorities since the out break of the war against a daily paper in the United Kingdom. Some weeklv papers, both in England and Ireland including the Labor Leader, were sim ilarly treated some time ago. but the Labor Leader, after a secret trial of the case, was allowed to resume pub lication. Newspaper Attacks Bitter. The Globe, while one of the oldest papers published in the country and long considered a staid and conserva tive organ, lms latterly lost that char acter and has been chiefly noted for its violent , attacks-on public men during the administration of the Liberal gov ernment. It has been one of the gov ernment's bitterest opponents and has. since the war, attacked virtually all of the members of the government. On Friday it bitterly attacked Sir Frederick E. Smith, the new Attorney General, whom it had heretofore sup ported and who the evening before had defended Premier Asquith against what he described as "discreditable personal attacks." Report of Resignation 1'rlnied. The Globe also published a report of the resignation of Lord Kitchener, this being based chiefly on the fact that the War Secretary had been re ceived in audience by the King Thurs day night and a brief announcement in a morning paper that a change of the utmost importance was about to take Place in the conduct of .the war. The Globe is edited by Charles Pal mer, for many years its Parliamentary reporter. The announcement that Lord Kitch ener is to visit the East did not come as a surprise. It was generally be lieved when it became known he was about to undertake a mission that the Balkans would be his destination, for there is no General in the British Em pire better equipped with a knowledge of the near-Eastern affairs, military and political, than he. Kxtenslve Tour Projected. It is thought that his activities will not be confined to this theater of the war. however, but that he will visit Egypt to inspect the defenses of the Suez Canal against a possible German or Turkish attack: Mesopotamia, where (Concluded ou Page 6, Column 8.) tfiTCWFAjEx: UfJLJ. vol.
