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PURCHASE OF SHIPS VIEWEDASPER1LOUS Senator Lodge Says Purpose - Is to Take Over German L Vessels Now Interned. WAR DECLARED POSSIBLE 2fot Only England, but France, Rus sia and Japan Interested iu Outcome Democrats Decide on All-Day Caucus. WASHINGTON, Jan. 22. Democratic leaders of the Senate determined today to hold an all-day caucus on the Gov ernment ship-purchase bill tomorrow in the hope of reaching final agreement on all features of the measure. The Benate accordingly recessed until 11 A. M. Monday. The caucus will be con tinued tomorrow until the measure has been perfected. Among the points of difference re maining Is Senator Hoke Smith's amendment which would provide that the" Government lease ships to be pur chased to private corporations Instead of operating them through a Government-controlled corporation, unless the latter Is absolutely necessary. Another detail that is causing considerable con cern la the proposal to bind the Demo crats to caucus action. Several Demo cratic members are firmly opposed to the adoption of any binding resolution on the bill. CnrnnlH Criticises Wilson. Republican opposition to the measure continued today, with Senators Cum mins and Lodge as the speakers. The former assailed President Wilson's In dianapolis speech and criticised what he called the President's "whipping" of Congress. Senator Lodge asserted that the purpose of the ship-purchase bill was to take over German ocean steam ships, which are now idle in American ports. a Insisting that the proposed venture was perilous for the country in any event, he declared that no matter what chips were bought to engage In ocean transportation, particularly in the IS'orth Sea, this country would be "put In measurable distance of war or humiliation." He read Supreme Court rulings to support his contention that the bill was unconstitutional. Purchase From Belllcerenta Unneutral. "To buy the German ships Interned In these ports and relieve their owners from the heavy dally expense In caring lor them and to hand over to them $30,000,000 or $40,000,000 of money belonging to the American peo ple." said Senator Lodge, "would be a great and direct assistance to one of the belligerents In the war now raging. It would be an unneutral act and read ily might be construed as a hostile act and an actual breach of neutrality." Senator Lodge stated he had been Informed that the Administration had determined to send the Dacia, a German-owned ship, purchased by Amer icans and transferred to American reg istry, abroad to furnish a test case. "It seems to me a rather dangerous business to make test cases of this character in time of war, when bel ligerents are protesting against the ac tion, and for the State Department to approve sending forth a vessel which, as late as January 13, our war risk bureau declined to insure." European Trade Alone la Oprn, He said that France and Russia had licld consistently that the transfer of the flas from a belligerent to a neu tral, after hostilities had begun, was not to be recognized, and England the same, although Sir Edward Grey last Summer made some modifications of his opposition to the sale, if the ships were not used in trade with Europe. In view of the present empty cargo space going to South America, Senator Lodgo said the United States could not desire the ships for that traffic, but only for the European trade. In carrying on European trade, he argued the enemies of Germany would till regard the ships as German and as liable to be sunk. The emergency in the shipping busi ness, which had once been advanced as a reason for buying the interned ships. Senator Lodge declared, no longer sup ported the purchase, because ships were going empty to South America, and discharging facilities were not to be obtained for those ships now enter ing the crowded open ports of Europe. Internet! Veuels Vnaaltable. Taking up a list of the Interned vessels, he declared that with two or three exceptions these vessels were un united for the purposes the Administra tion had in mind, and their purchase would be an intolerable waste of money. "Why Is It so earnestly desired to buy them, for with care and effort we could get cargo carriers from our coastwise trade or from other neutral nations?" Senator Lodge inquired. "We vould pick up ships of the proper type here and there, and yet It is evident that the plan of the bill and the plan of the Administration is to buy the German ships In block, or a large, num ber of them. Why? I confess I am en tirely unable to answer the Question, and I do not know that there Is any thing behind this bill except the desires of the Administration. I am certain, however, that there are no good rea sons or arguments in its favor, and I am sure that to allow it to become law without some provision protecting us against the purchase of the ships of belligerents, and the consequent inter national complications, will make it a bad bill, indeed, for the American peo ple, setting aside for the moment all the grave objections of Government ownership." Hands on Ulal Turned Bark. Senator Cummins declared it to be bis "deliberate Judgment that, taken as a whole, the course of the President has. in two years, turned back the hands upon the dial of progress o far that his party will not again be trusted with the timepiece of the 20th cen tury." At length he attacked the President's Influence on Congress and said, with the exception of the tariff law, all measures of general interest consid ered since the beginning of his Admin istration had been initiated in the White House or in the office of a Cab inet Minister. "Somehow the spirit of our institu tions has been transformed." said Sen ator Cummins, "and the legislative branch of the Government has become a mere recorder. What the President really wants is a journal clerk Instead of a Congress." SANDY PLANT PROSPERING Three Directors for Creamery Elect ed and Stock T Sold. SANDY. Or Jan. 22. (Epeclal. At the """! meeting of the alockliolders of the Mount Hood Creamery Company, in the Oddfellows Hall, three directors were elected and much important busi ness was transacted, including the dis posal of 12000 worth of stock for en largement purposes. The directors elected were: F. W. Canning, of .Kelso district: W. Watklns, of Hill Crest, and J. Widmer. of Sandy Ridge district. The reports for the year showed that con cern is In a prosperous condition. It is a co-operative creamery and covers a wide territory. It was Indicated by the reports that the business is on the increase. The $2000 will enable the di rectors to enlarge the plant to meet the demands of the growing business. The present management was approved. The Lyceum discussed the question, "Resolved, That the United States should Intervene In Mexico." the decis ion being In favor of the negative. For discussion at the next meeting the fol lowing has been selected: "Resolved. That we should have Nation-wide equal suffrage." AUSTRIANS OPEN ATTACK HOT ARTILLERY BATTLE FOUGHT iy POLAND. Russians Discover Considerable Con centration of Forces of Vienna Government In Bukowlna. LONDON. Jan. 2L With Russia and Germany saying little regarding oper ations in Poland and Galicla, the out standing feature of the day"a dis patches was the Austrian official re port, which follows:: "North of the Vistula River (South ern Russian-Poland) there was a vio lent artillery battle yesterday. Our artillery worked in the most Southern Nida region and near Chenciny, where the Russian railway traffic was ap preciably disturbed by a full shot on the railway station. Our artillery also had particular successes south of the Vistula. "On some parts of the front our ar tillery battle is raging with changing strength." The following communication was given out at army headquarters in Petrograd today: "On the right bank of the Lower Vistula, from the river up to Knor- jele and farther east, our troops con tinue to be in close toucn wnn me enemy. Collisions of secondary import ance are taking place. "In Bukowlna we have discovered the concentration of considerable Aus trian forces. "We sank on January 19 and 20 sev eral Turkish sailing vessels on the Black Sea, and in the neighborhood of Khopa and Riza we burned and dam aged Turkish military barracks, de stroyed a lighthouse and cannonaded a bridge." NAVAL POSITION IS LOST I'SITED STATES DECLINES FROM THIRD TO FOURTH PLACE, France Crowd Washing-ton Govern ment, as Power, From Old Place Vext to German Empire. WASHINGTON, Jan. 22. The United States will drop from third to fourth place among the world's sea powers with the completion or an snips unaer construction up to July 1, 1914, accord ing to the calculations in tne jNavy Year Book, issued today by the Senate naval committee. France will move from fourth to third place, according to the official table. With the outbreak of the European. war, information as to the naval pro grammes of the belligerents was no longer available, and the book con tains only a list of the vessels lost In action during the war up to January 1 1915. to supplement figures lor con struction prior to last July. The comDanson is cased on tonnage and the official table is as follows for the world's first eight sea powers. and build Completed ins, July tonnage. 1. 1914. Great Britain 2.157,850 2.714.1011 Germany United states France Japan Ita.y Russia Austrla-H unitary 951,713 1,306,377 88.840 519.B40 270.801 221,5211 SH4.SS9 890.01 5 690.018 497.S13 678.S1S 317,503 CANAL PATRONS INCREASE Four to Five Ships Go Through Channel Each Day. - itt i a i -- Taw 9f rnlonel George W. Goethal's. builder of the Panama Canal, speaking today before the West- " i . t and the Chi rr 1 II ijui.ltlj " ,.rs.- -- - cago Engineers' Society, declared that ships were passing tnrougn ine iucn much more rapidly than had been cal culated. , "The only drawback Is tne snaes. ne said. "One great slide, it was said, dis placed 1.500,000 cubic yards. When I i .. i . v. . nriHrTlA nf December. 1.500,- 000 yards had been removed, and it ap peared that there was mucn mure. "We are spending half the time re pairing the damage done by slides and the other half in maintaining the chan nel. When I left the Canal Zone there was an average of three ships a day .... ,hntih tht pnnal. and now the number has reached four or Ave." Colonel Goethals Is to sail for the Canal Zone February 4. ' COMMERCIAL MEN ACTIVE Gold Hill Supports. Campaign for Beet Sugar Factory. rT T TTTT .T . rtr .Tan 25 fSneciaL) Rejuvenated under the temporary title or tne sugar uoei xum.-n, wc local commercial association is waging , campaign or unceasing aL'u i ; k. trm. whlxh will make certain the establishment of a i:nAMka.tEiiir'ip faptfirr In Southern Oregon. Locational differences between the cities and towns airectea nave Deen forgotten in the spirited attempt to make the proposed industry a certainty for the district. More than 5000 acres nave oeen i --i i i .. Vi jiltrtt hptvMti Olen- dale and Ashland, the business men of Medford being particularly active In the conversion of ranchmen and small farmers to the merits ot tne proposal. COPPER IS SOLD ABROAD American Sales to France Heaviest During Last Week. it. a etiiVfTTrtV T tt 9 frnnei" vxl. HAOIil.'" .v.., .. . - . - - a ... 1 Ar4 n1 anH nrrrpfrsHnp Hi- i " l . - ' - 7.S3S.75 pounds was exported last week from the United States, the De partment of Commerce announced to day. France took 3.755.749 pounds, England 2.177.039 pounds. Scotland 887,833 pounds, lenmarh puuuus and Italy 152.040 pounds. Imports of copper amounted to 1.2S1.281 pounus of ore, matte and regulus and i. (,us pounas oi iis. ingots, bars, plates and old. which ended January 16 amounted to 70,337,371 pounds, valued-at e,3iiu,tui. Free Classes for Children EverySaturdayFrom 10 to 12 A.M. In Embroidery, Crocheting Tatting and Knitting Art Needlework Department, Fifth Floor MAIL ORDERS FILLED BY EXPERT SHOPPERS cTMeixKandiso of J Merit Onl Phone Marshall 5000 A 6691 AMERICAN RED CROSS Headquarters for receiving sub- in scriptions and supplies. I Red Cross booth now Zo- 1""" 1 cated at Lipman-Wolfe Post- fc i office, first floor, near eleva tor. A Broad-Gauge Clearance of Boys' Clothing At $7.95 Navy Blue Serge Norfolk Suits Selling to $12.50 And Fancy Mixtures, Norfolk Suits, Selling to $16.50 And Two Pants Suits Selling to $10.00 in sizes 6 to lo i ears A group of excellent new styles in boys' suits in the latest models, splendidly tailored, best quality linings, full-lined pants, taped seams'. Clothes that wear well and look right. In navy blue, gray, tan. brown, black-and-white, in mixtures, tweeds, stripes, diagonals and herring bones. At $4.95 Navy Blue Sack Suits Selling to $1 1.50 Sizes 12 to 18 Sack and Norfolk suits of fancy mixtures, selling to $10. Sizes 6 to 18. Suits for Stout Boys, Selling to $12:50 An assortment of extra fine all-wool suits, perfect-fitting styles, best quality linings. Pants in knickerbocker style. In fact, at $4.95 you will find these suits the best ever offered at such a low figure. At $3.89 Rnvs' Russian CoatS. Selling to $9.00 Sizes 3 to 9 Years (jj f Of chinchillas, mixtures, stripes and checks. Perfectly tailored. Ml Boys' Blouses and Shirts Regular SOc, $1.00 to $2.50 Sale 39c, 50c to $1.00 Laundered and soft blouses and shirts in stripes and plain colors, of soisettes. chambrays. madras and flannels. Blouses in sizes for 6 to 14 years; shirt sizes 2y2 to 14. Boys' Caps Regular 50c, $1.00 and $1.75 - Sale 35c, 59c and 98c Golf caps in fancy mixtures, checks, plaids, lined and unlined. Boys' Pants Regular $1.00 and $1.50 Sale 77c and 98c Fancy mixtures in diagonals, stripes and checks, in browns, grays, tans, black and white. Knickerbocker style. Sizes 6 to 1 6 years. Boys' Hats Regular to $2.00, to $3.00, to $5.00 Sale 25c, 98c and $1.98 This includes beavers, plushes, velvets, French felts and mixtures. Suitable for boys from 2 to 14 years. x Fourth Floor Great Sale of Shoes For Men and Boys At January Clearance Sale Prices 525 Pairs of Men's Shoes, Special $3.95 Our Own $4.50 and $5.50 Grades Just what most men prefer for business or dress wear footwear from the best and foremost manufacturers of men's shoes. In this sale are shoes of patent colt, lace or button, dull calf lace. English last, tan grain storm calf, blucher, wax calf blucher. A fine opportunity to get a splendid pair of shoes at a money-saving price, in shapes to fit every foot. Boys' Winter-Weight Storm Shoes $2.95 Regular $3.50, $3.75 and $4.00 The out-of-doors season is upon us, when" boys will give their shoes greatest use. These are the shoes for hard wear. Winter weigh storm calf, button or blucher style, double soles, wid toe. made of the very best materials used in the construction of shoes. Boys' Unlined Storm Calf Shoes $2.15 Our Regular $3.00 Grade Shoes that are made for the hardest kind of wear that a boy can give them. Of heavy storm calf, blucher style, with nailed soles. Basement . Wash Dresses For Girls At Unequaled Reductions in Prices The dresses in the accompanying illustration were sketched directly from the models on sale. At $1.29 At $1.98 At59c 59c 89c 98c Three Lots of Girls' Dresses in Sizes 6 to 14 Years Regular $1.75 to $2.00 Dresses for girls 6 to 14 years old. Of plain chambray, fancy ginghams in plaids, checks and stripes, also striped galateas. Made in straight and waisted styles. Deep low belts, some tunic skirts. Also some Oliver styles in combinations ot striped and- plain materials. Regular $2.50 to $5.00 Dresses Of ginghams, linens, fancy crepes and lingerie. In plaids, stripes, plain colors, fancy figured and checks. Waisted and long straight models trimmed with braids, embroideries, piques, bandings, pipings and buttons, plain and pleated kirts. In sizes 6 to 1 4 years. 'Regular $1.00 to $1.50 Dresses Of percales, galateas. white piques and ginghams, in waisted style with pleated skirts. Trimmed with white or contrasting collars, cuffs and belts. Wash Dresses for Girls 2 to 6 Years Old Regular 75c and 85c Dresses With and without bloomers, in straight and waisted styles. In checked and striped ginghams, plain chambray and percales. Square and round necks, long and short sleeves. Trimmed with bandings and pipings and embroidery edges. In pink, blue and tan. ' , Regular $1.00 and $125 Dresses All with bloomers attached. Of ginghams, chambrays and galateas. In square-neck style, with striped bandings, short sleeves, buttoning on shoulder or Russian style in. fancy stripes, trimmed with plain bandings. Regular $1.50 to $1.75 Wasted and Straight Style Dresses Of crash, ging ham and percale. Trimmed with embroidery or pique collars, bandings and edges some w,Ui laced fronts, plain and pleated skirts. In all colo s, in stripes. plaids and checks. Fourth Floor Saturday Specials for Junior Girls SKIRTS SELLING TO $8.50 Very Special $1.98 SUITS SELLING TO $23.00 Very Special $6.95 SKATING COATS TO $15.00 Very Special $4.95 COATS SELLING TO $12.50 Very Special $3.98 ALL JUNIOR'S WAISTS AT HALF PRICE Serge and Lingerie Dresses to $14.50, Now $5.00 Rain Coats at Half Price For Children and Juniors Regular $5, $7.50 to $15.00; Sale $2.50, $3.75 to $7.50 Skating Hockey Caps 65c and 79c Red. gray, white and combinations of blue and gray, red and gray. Made in side-tassel or toque style. Children's Dresses at Half Price Wool Dresses Lingerie Dresses Party Dresses In Sizes 6 to 14 Years Selling Regularly From $5 to $20; Sale, $2.50 to $10.00 Children's Coats Selling to $11.50 for $3.98 In Sizes 2 to 5 Years Of corduroys, cloth, zibelines, cashmere and polo doth. FourUi Floor mm Offers the Following Specials for Saturday Each Item an Extraordinary Economy $1.25 to $1.50 Women's House Dresses 95c A large assortment of styles, in striped, checked and figured per cales, trimmed with pipings and bandings. Full range of sizes from 34 to 46. $1.25-$ 1.50 WOMEN'S PERCALE HOUSE DRESSES 95c BOYS' CAPS, ALL SIZES AND SHAPES, SPECIAL, 35c 35c FITTED PERCALE WORK APRONS, SPECIAL, I9c 35c AND SOc MEN'S NECKTIES, 15c; TWO FOR 25c FRAMED PICTURES, COPIES FAMOUS SUBJECTS, 37c DOLLS, ASSORTMENT SIZES AND CHARACTERS, 25c 75c TO $1 NET AND SCRIM CURTAIN SAMPLES, 25c $1.25, $1.50 WOMEN'S KID CLOVES, BR'KN SIZES 75c Great Sale of Cotton Fleeced Blankets 85c Blankets 63c $1.00 Blankets 77c $1.25 Blankets 53c $1.50 Blankets 98c Full, three-quarter and half sizes, in white, gray and tan. L ' 1 . I TRADE MOVING ON Marked Increase of Exports Continues to Be Noted. FOODSTUFFS HEAD LIST Commercial Automobiles of Value 22 Times Tliat or Year Ago Sent to Europe in November Drugs and Dyes Go, Too. WASHINGTON. Jan. 22. Marked im provement in tne foreign trade of the United States is reflected in im ports to the Department of Commerce, an official summary of which, issued today, follows: "Sales ot looasiuns ana cermm of manufactures have been unusually large In November, the latest period for which detailed Information Is at hand. In that month exports aggre gated $206,000,000, or double the total for August last, when, by reason of the outbreak of the war, our foreign trade fell to the lowest level reached in many years. In December there was further Improvement, the month's exports be ing valued at S24S.0O0.OOO, compared With S.233,000,000 in December, 13i3, and within $4,000,000 of the high record es tablished in uecemDer, i". "An analysis of the trade figures pub lished in the summary ot foreign com merce shows that, while American cot ton, mineral oils, naval stores, lumber and agricultural implement are In less demand abroad than in former years, there Is a greater demand in foreign countries for our breadstuffs, meats, sugar, clothing- and other manufactures. especially In Europe, a cuauuu i -few of the larger factors in our for eign trade will Illustrate more clearly this fact. -Of breadstuffs the November exports exceeded in value $40,000,090, or four . : K a (n MnVATIlhcr. 1913. Of commercial automobile, the month s exports aggregatea z.zeu,uuu, or . . . . v. . -i . . o .rnnrtoH in November. lime, " - 1913; of eggs, $1,250,000, or three times as much: r sole learner, eight times as much as in November a i , .-- nt mpt.l-vnrkln? machin ery and machine tools nearly $2,000,000, or twice as mucn as a year cai nci , v. cotton wearing apparel, $2,250,000. or almost three times the value of No vember, 1913. "Striking changes in tne movement of specified articles to given countries during November include $1,000,000 worth of corn to the Netherlands, as against $4000 wortn a year earner, large increases In wheat shipments to . v. TTnffA TTincrinm Italv. Germany and France in sums ranging from $7,000,000 down 10 z-.ouu.uuu; u in crease of $1,750,000 in automobile sales to Prance, the month' total being nearly twice the amount shown in any complete fiscal year; a doubling of the exports of copper to the United King dom, and an increase of 200 per cent in sales of automobile tires to England. French naturalists have discovered a new species of elephant in Africa, smaller than the known types and with shorter trunks, longer necks and no tusks. PASTOR IS ACCUSED Dual Life Charged Against Head of Coast Unitarians. WIFE SUES FOR DIVORCE Los Angeles Girl Is Named as Co respondent in Case Based on Detectives Iteports Regard ins Kcr. A. M. Smith. . avt i vn roi Jan 23 Rev. Ar- UJUVUA.1V, .1.., -. - thur Maxson Smith, president of the Pacific Coast Unitarian conierenuo au ex-pastor of the First Unitarian Church, Berkeley, was today made defendant in a divorce suit, filed by his wife, Mrs. Sarah Bixby Smith, who accuses the pastor of leading a double life, and names Miss Alice Giffen; of Los An geles, as co-respondent. Miss Giffen and the paetor met while he was a professor at Pomona College, and, ac cording to Mrs. Smith's charges, they have visited several cities as husband and wife. Her complaint is based on the reports of private detectives. Mrs. Smith Is the daughter of the late I-lewcllyn Blxby, millionaire min ing man. Following her wedding, she asserts, her money put the pastor Oii.niia'h RuHtern colleges. She asks the custody of five minor children. LOS ANGELES, Jan. 22. The out come of the divorce suit filed against Rev. Arthur Maxson Smith, president of the Pacific Coast Unitarian confer ence, may hinge on the color of the hair of the alleged co-respondent. Miss Alice Giffen. of Los Angeles. In re ports concerning the case Miss Giffen was described as a 'dashing blonde," but the young woman called attention today to her dark hair, as she de nounced stories of her alleged Intimacy with the clergyman as being without foundation. "I knew P.ev. Mr. Smith," she said, "but it was only a casual acquaintance." Miss Giffen waa a student at Pomona College, near here, where Uev. Mr. Smith was professor of philosophy. TRADE IS ON WEST COAST Peruvian Says Eastern South Amer ica Is Bound to Europe. KANSAS CITY. Jan. 21. It is the west and not the east coast of South America that the United States must look to if a permanent increase In South American trade Is to be had, Fedcrico Alfonso Pezet, Minister from Peru, declared In an address before the Knife and Fork Club here. "The people of the United States should not be deluded by the recent In crease of trade with Brazil and Argen tina," he said. "The east coast of Latin America is so subsidized by European capital that as soon as the war is over the greater part of the trade of that district will Immediately return to the countries that held it before the war. "The west coast is open V the United States." New Train Service BKTHEliV PORTLAND CENTRALIA Will Be Inaugurated Wednesday, February 3 BV THK Oregon-Washington Railroad & Navigation Co. Northbound. Southbound. T-00 P M. ,.L. Portland Ar... 10:40 AM 7-26 ! M. .I.v. Vancouver Ar. . 1: Ik A.M. 10-10 P.M. -Ar. Centralis L.v... 7:30 A.M. Steel Coach Equipment City Ticket Office Third at Washington