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Reflect War NEWS NOTES OF New in Styles Submarine Petticoat* PRESIDENT ASKS CO-OPERATION CURRENT WEEK Chicago Submarine and spiral |>ot- ticoata have arrived. You may take your choice. The fashion show has opened ’at tho Resume of World’s Important Events Told in Brief. Germans declare lish Channel. blockade of Eng The worst enow storm in many year* is visiting Nebraska. President Wilson’s veto of the liter acy test law is sustained by the house. Austria gives up valuable territory in Galicia to the Russians. A Eugene, Or., girl opens a boil with a pin and dies of blood poisoning. The British completely repulse an attack on the Sues canal by the Turks. A palace such as any oriental potentate would envy Is the 14,000.000 house in New York which has Just been completed by Henry Clay Frick, the coke man of Pittsburgh, who is to make his permanent home there. The palace, which will be occupied by Mr. Frick and his daughter, stands on the ground formerly occupied by the Lenox library. MISUSE OF FLAG WORRIES WILSON Stir Caused in Washington by Lusitania Incident. Inquiry by Ambassador Page Ordered and Protests Are Likely to Follow. Is Washington, D. C.—President Wil son Monday sent for Counsellor Lans ing, of the State department, and dis cussed with him for half an boor steps that this government will take to pro tect the American flag from further misuse by belligerent ships. It is understood the President is greatly chagrined at the action of Cap tain Dow, of the Lusitania, in run ning the Stars and Stripes up on his vessel to protect her from German submarines. As a result of the White House con ference, Counsellor Lansing has in structed Ambassador Page at London to cable a full report of the Lusitania incident and also to investigate thor oughly reports that the American flag is being used by British vessels when ever their captains deem it expedient to attempt to hide the identity of their vessels. It is said that the President may protest to the British government against the practice. There was considerable conflict of opinion between authorities on inter national law concerning the extent to which the administration can go to en force its demand that the flag shall not be used by vessels of belligerents. The fact that all available precedents, quoted from statements made by former American Secretaries of State, admit in effect that this government is vir tually powerless to Btop the use of the flag by foreign-owned ships, put the administration leaders in a quandary. Although it was admitted in official circles that the government might be powerless to stop the use of the flag in isolated cases, it was generally con ceded that a protest would be properly lodged with Great Britain if Ambas sador Page's report indicated that British captains are acting in concert with the admiralty in making such use of the flag. Wheat Prices Are Doubled by War months ago. The rise from 87 cents German-American Threat has enriched a great many. Suspected in Washington Who has made all the money? The best informed men at the board Washington, D. C.—Official Wash of trade say the American farmer has ington is still puzxled over the forma reaped the richest profit. Some of the tion here recently of a National Ger farmers assert that the “gamblers at the board of trade" have benefitttxi man-American league, which has let it most and there are wild stories afloat ' be known that its political influence about fabulous winnings of a lot of will be felt from now on, particularly Wall-street speculators who have been at the approaching Presidential contest active in the Chicago market. It is true that both Wall-street and in the 1916 campaign. The league was called together by the board of trade have made money out of the rise in the price of wheat. Representative Bartholdt, a St. Ix>uis In the aggregate the farmer’s profits member of the house, and it held an are believed to have far outrun all that the speculators have made. For the all-day session behind closed doors. farmers have lost nothing by the ad After the meeting it was announced vance and many speculators have. that the league would hereafter work Some of the biggest traders were to "re-establish a genuine American frightened from the market before the neutrality and to uphold it free from wheat passed $1.50 a bushel and they I failed to get the real cream of the commercial, finanical or political sub servience to foreign powers.” rise. James A. Patten says he has had no The formation of the new league wheat since the price left $1.40, but took Washington somewhat by sur he had a lot before it got there and his prise. A few days before it was con profits have been estimated from vened Mr. Barthodt Bent word around $250,000 to $1,000,000. to all the papers that there would be RETURNED TO THEIR RUINED HOME The English parliament has taken action to control the prices of wheat, flour and coal. A Portland girl of 20 is ’arrested on a charge of polygamy. She pleads ignorance of the law. The Southern Pacific will spend 130,- 000,000 to build a ship and rail ter minal at San Francisco. It is announced officially that 1165 British officers have been commis sioned from the ranks since the out break of the war. Centralia, Wash., citizens deport 16 I. W. Ws. by loading them on a north bound freight train, after they had spent a night in jail. The Allied Association of Restaurant and Hotel Keepers of Berlin have de cided henceforth to charge for all bread served at meals. Emperor Nicholas left Tsarskoe-Selo for the front. He was accompanied as far as the railway station by the Em press Alexandra and his daughters. The Japanese cruiser Asama is wrecked on the rocks off the coast of Lower California, and will be a total loss. A U. 8. war vessel is ordered to give all possible aid. While shaking hands with a friend William Rose, a mattress-maker, 48 years old, of Portland, Or., dislocated his shoulder so severely that he was taken to the police emergency hospital for treatment. The American steamer Colon, for merly a Mexican vessel, has grounded on the bar at the entrance to the har bor of Topolobampo. A heavy norther is blowing and the steamer's plight is reported to be critical. By unanmious vote the Socialists of France condemned the peace campaign of Sebastian Faure and put themselves on record as in favor of continuing the struggle until France is victorious and until German imperialism is crushed. Lieutenant Sharpe, of the Canadian contingent of the Royal Flying Corps, was killed while flying at Shoreham, England. He was returning from a trip when his biplane suddenly dived to the earth. The machine was smashed and Lieutenant Shar|>e died within a few minutes. Two men are dead and a thin! is ex pected to die as the result of a pistol battle at Marshall, Tex., in the room of William Black, an anti-Catholic lec turer, of Bellaire, O., who was killed. The other dead man is John Rogers, of Marshall. John Copeland, bank cash ier, was mortally wounded. Pathetic photograph of a French family that has returned to Its home only to find it a mass of ruins. Bread Rule» Tightened. some slight news value attached to the Berlin — The Federal council has organization of the new German- league. Later it Was adopted a regulation giving munici American learned that the news would be con palities power to require all residents fined to a statement “in English” set to make known the amount of flour in ting forth the tenents of the new Ger their possession under 100 kilograms man-American political creed. These tenents when announced «aid (220 pounds), and to expropriate all that the new American neutrality was amounts over 26 kilograms in the pos in favor of a "free and open sea for session of individuals. American commerce and unrestricted Uniform bread has been ordered for traffic in non-contraband goods; the the kingdom of Wuerttemberg, and or immediate enactment of legislation ders have been issued that no pastry prohibiting exportation of munitions may be baked in which rye or wheat of war and the establishment of an American merchant marine.” flour is used. The real sting came in when the last Cards entitling the holder to bread few paragraphs of the resolutions will be issued in Greater Berlin. Cards will be sent to the heads of households adpoted by the league, which set forth in a quantity corresponding to the that the league and its members number of persons in the family. "pledge themselves, individually and Bread may be purchased anywhere in collectively, to support only such can Bill Restrains Smokers. the greater city on presentation of didates for public office, irrespective Boston—An effort to revive an an of party, who will place American in these cards. cient “blue law” abolishing smoking terests above those of any other coun try, and who will aid in eliminating in public will be made at the state- | Peace Plan Is Probable. all undue foreign influences from offl- house before the committep on legal Washington, D. C. — Plans which cial life.” affairs. The committee will consider | a bill which provides that it shall be President Wilson may have, looking to Wage Cut In Accepted. unlawful to smoke tobacco or any other the eventual termination of the Euro Pittsburg—The two weeks' deadlock substance in any form on streets or pean war, were the subject of much sidewalks or in waiting rooms, parks, speculation among foreign diplomats, between representatives of the Amal playgrounds or any part of a hotel open as a result of the arrival in London of gamated Association of Iron, Steel and to the public or on the common parts of | Colonel E. M. House, intimate friend I Tin Workers and the independent sheet a public conveyance. A fine of not less I of the President, on a tour of the cap-1 and tinplate manufacturers over the than $25 and imprisonment for not less itals of Europe. It was said that Col acceptance of a reduction in wages by than 10 days is mentioned. onel House was not authorized to carry the men was broken here Saturday. on any negotiations for peace while in The workmen agreed to accept a cut of Europe, though the President naturally from 6 to 11.2 per cent, subject to its Bread Advance Ordered. Seattle, Wash. — Bread will cost 6 expected to learn much of interest approval by a referendum vote. The and 12 cents a loaf in Seattle after al/out the dipolmatic situation there. employers promised to maintain the February 10. Decision to raise the standard of their employes and to in Turkish forts Attacked. price was made unanimously by the crease wages as market prices of their master bakers here. With flour al London—Four torpedo-boats of the product goes higher. ready |8 a barrel and threatening to allies have bombarded the Turkish go to 19, no other action was possible, forts in the Dardanelles, according to Price of Bread Goes Up. according to the bakers, and they say an Athens dispatch to the Exchange Venice—An official decree issued in another rise when flour goes up again Telegraph company. One hundred and Trieste raises the price of a two-pound is not unlikely. The wholesale price seventy-four shells were discharged loaf of bread from 14 to 16 cents. The of the bread is to be raised from 3.57 and two ammunition depots were set grain markets in Austria are said to cents a loaf to 5 cents. on Are. be in a desperate condition. Chicago — In the six months since the war began the price of wheat has about doubled on the Chicago Board of Trade. The new point for cash grain last summer was around 87 cents. In the last week the price has varied be tween SI .55 and $1.70. Not all the wheat has brought the top price. Millions of bushels were shipped to Europe months ago, more millions were ground into flour, and that process has gone steadily on while the price of the grain has moved up ward. Still there are many millions of bushels left and wheat in the bin today is worth almost twice what it was six The Germans are reported to have captured a mile of trenches from the Belgians. United States exports per cent in January. increase 86 Seven deaths were caused by snow storm in New York. heavy The price of bread in Chicago has risen one cent—to 6 cents a loaf. Two hundred of the 670 members of the English parliament are serving at the front. Reports have it that Serbia is to be invaded again by a large army of Aus- tro-Germans. A German dynamites a Canadian railroad bridge and escapes to the United States. A Ixrndon dispatch announces that the Germans lost 6000 killed on a Polish front less than a mile long. General Villa en route to Tampico, captures San Luis Potosi and is in full possession of the city and vicinity. The steamer Northland loses rudder in storm off Califorania coast, but was taken in tow by the steamer Nann Smith. First Regiment armory. In several booths are fascinating ex hibits of sllk threads, the apools ar ranged primly in primatic colors. An other booth has |>etticoats and negli gees that have attracted a groat deal of attention by reason of their novelty. Tho submarine |>etticoat and negli gee is the oddest of them all. Thu petticoat is of bluish green silk, tho bottom wired out into a hoop. Deco rating tho bottom and half way up to ’ the lop are submarine scenes. One ' large under-water boat drifted placidly through a marvelous deep-sea garden ' of gilt and silver flowers, while bi zarre gilded flah swam around it, peer ing with evident curiosity. The whole is cleverly portrayed, es pecially considering the canvas and I the materials. The spiral petticoat is a maze of ' rutiles, which run spirally up the skirt from the hem to the waist barai. It ; sticks out like an antebellum skirt, and the negligee altove it is quaintly fashioned to carry out tho flshu idea. The lampshade petticoat also holds i its quota of admirers. An innovation in a tailored suit is i one which may be transformed Into a i peace or a war suit. If your tenden cies are toward militarism, tho suit is l worn buttoned up tightly to the neck with martial-looking buttons. Then it . is a moat soldierly in appearance. But If you are peaceful, then it io allowed to fall back unfastened into soft lines. A clever style of the popular suit drees la shown. It is of linen and so i deceitfully fashioned that it would seem to be a separate coat and skirt, but it isn’t. It fools you. It la a dress. World Police Idea Advo cated by Earl Greg Spirit of War in Time of Peace Urged by Executive. Wilson Predicts Shortage of Food and Urge» farmers tu Grow Larger drain Supply. Washington, D. C. — Co-operation between business anti the government in framing laws for the benefit of all the |>eople was urged by President Wilson Thursday night in an address before several hundred representative business men, here attending the an nual convention of the ( hamber of Commerce of the Unite»! Stales. He declare«! that "we must all pool our interests'* In order to discover the best means for handling public problems. Tho creation in the United States in time of peace of tho same kind of united spirit which moves nations dur ing wars was advocated by tho Presi dent, who romarko«! that “when peace is as handsome as war there will bo no wars." “When men engage in tho pursuits of peace In tho same spirit of self sacrific as they engage in wars, wars will disappear. ” Tho President predicted that while there is a shortage of foud in the world now tho shortage will lie much greater later. Ho (»ointod out that under the guidance of tho department of Agriculture efforts must be made by farmers in the United States to grow more grain. In order that the world may be f«l Spooking of the foreign trade of tho United States, the President asked that buaineaa men devise some way of allowing exporters in the United States to combine to secure common selling agencies, and to give long-time credits in such a way that these ro operative devices may be open to the use of all. He declared that apparently the anti-trust laws prohibit«! such com binations now, but he would favor a change if a method fair to all could l>o found. He spoke of tho work being done by tho bureau of foreign and domestic commerce in "surveying the world” for the benefit of all business men. Business men themselves arc to blame if intelligent laws affecting them are not framed, the President asserted. He add«! that they should come out in to tho open and use their knowledge of conditions to bring about fair laws to prevent business evils. Ixmdon — Earl Grey, foreign secre tary, presiding at a meeting held to advocate an agreement among the na tions for the enforcement of interna tional law, said that the preaent con flict probably never would have taken place had the policy of American pa cificists, that the signatory nations to The Hague conventions should under take collective res)>onaibility for the enforcement, l>een adopted. “It is almost certain." said Earl Grey, “that this logical and necessary complement of The Hague tribunal will be adpoted when the nations again meet in consultation. “The neutral powers who signed The Hague conventions missed a great op portunity by not protesting against the i violations of international regulations that occurred in this war, which un doubtedly would have led to a diminu Embargo Argument Has tion of its horrors.” Attention of U. S. Senate A resolution was adopted declaring Washington, D. C. Senator Hitch it to be “imperative that a peace be cock’s bill to empower the President established which shall secure collec to forbid exports of war supplies was tive res|>onaibility by all civilized na urged befor«, tho senate foreign rela tions for the maintenance and enforce tions committee by Horace L. Brand ment of international law." and Michael English, of Chicago, and To Hlockade 1* Not Idea, Say* Germany Berlin The naval measures of Ger many against British commerce are in no sense a blockade. No hostile ac tion against neutral shipping is con templated. German warshi|>s ami sub marines will endeavor by every means in their power to avoid sinking Amer ican or other neutral ships and will take every precaution to avoid a mis take. The above may be taken as the cor rect interpretation placed upon the German proclamation in Berlin. The proclamation declaring the wa ters around Great Britain to be a war zone like similar British measures which were taken as a precedent, is design«!, it is asserted, to warn neu trals that a ship venturing into the naval field of o|>erationB ex|>oaes itself to the risk of being struck by a chance shot. It was s»id that it might be safely asserted that the Germans have no in tention of sinking an American ship unless she is carrying "contraband of war, and then only if her crewman be given the possibility of escape. The warning to neutral shipping, it was assert«!, was consider«! as par ticularly needed in view of the report ed order to British ships to hoist a neutral flag whenever they are in dan ger, an order which, ¡if adhered to, it was stated, wouldjmake it [difficult for a German warship to discriminate be tween hostile and neutral shipping. Solons fear Smallpox. Phoenix, Aris.—Wholesale vaccina tion of members'of the Arizona legis lature here is prescribed by the city health authorities as protection against an epidemic of smallpox among the legislators. Representative Briscoe was'taken to the jiesthouse. Nearly all members of the house have called on him during his illness. President Simms, of the An indication of possible action by senate, was vaccinated, and announced Italy is to be found in a notification is that unless all members took the same sued to Italian reservists in England precautions a quarantine of the legis lature was probable. to prepare to join the colors. A conscience-stricken person sent $15 to the Seattle office of the Union Paciflc railroad, and the fund has been forwarded to the Portland headquar ters. Bills amounting to $15 were pinned to the following note: "U. P. R. R. Co.—I have been in your debt this amount since 1882. ” No explan ation whatever is given as to how the company was defrauded, and the iden tity of the remitter remains hidden. Reports reaching Holland say that 4500 Men Go to Work. the new bread regulations in Germany Elizabeth, N. J. — The assembling have caused so much unrest that 12,- 000 special constables have been ap department, one of the largest at, the pointed to guard the bakeries in Berlin. flinger Sewing Machine Works, has announced a return of all men on a full England notifies U. 8. that ship time schedule. At the office of the ments of foodstuffs for Germany and management, it was said the entire Austria will be considered as contra plant will be back on the old schedule band and will confiscate all cargoes within another month. Early last fall captured without conpensation to the about 50 per cent of the 9000 employed shippers. there were laid off. Representative llartholdt, of Missouri. Mr. Bartholdt said England had en acted a similar law in 1863, just be fore the Crimean War, and regarded It as a domestic matter. Under ques tioning by Senator Sutherland, he thought the effect of the Hitchcock bill would bo to weaken the allies. He cited the biography of Ambassa dor White at Berlin in 1898, during tho Spanish-American war, to show Germany's attitude, It was said there, he said, that a shipload of war materials had left Hamburg for a Spanish port when Mr. White protest ed and the German government, al though it had a clear right to permit such traffic, ordered the ship back to Hamburg to be unloaded. Canada Asks U. S. tor Hridge Dynamiter Washington, D. C.— Formal appli cation for the extradition to Canada of Werner Van Horn, charged with “attempted destruction of human life,” was made at the State depart ment by Sir Cecil Spring-Rice, the British ambassador. The ambassador called personally at the department and presented a brief note to Secretary Bryan based on communications from the Canadian Minister of Justice at Ottawa, inform ing the embassy that Van Horn was wanted on the charge of attempting to destroy human life, through the wilful and unlawful destruction .of the St. Croix river bridge. Turke Defeat Russians. Berlin—A Turkish victory over the Russian army of the Caucasus is re ported from Constantinople, as given out by the Overseas News Agency. The Turkish military headquarters at Constantinople announced a Russian detachment had made an attack on tho Turkish forces at Arthin, in the trans- Caucausus, 34 miles southeast of Ba tum. This attack is said to have been repulsed, with heavy losses in men and war material for tho Russians. The Turkish troops then made a successful attack on two Russian battalions. West Coast Is Stormed. San Diego—A radiogram to Rear Admiral Howard, on board.tho flagship San Diego here, received from Mazat- lan, reporteci that General Iturbe. a Villajiartisan, stormed Aca[x>neta last Monday, after several hours of fight ing, and captured 60 prisoners. His own wounded are being transported to Mazatlan. The cruiser San Diego left here for Ensenada to Investigate con ditions there.