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VOL. LIV. XO. 16,904. PORTLAND, OREGON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 28, 1915. rillCE FIVE CENTS. BITTER COLD GRIPS ALL MIDDLE WEST 40 Below Zero Noted at Some Points. MERCURY STiLL IS FALLING Zero Wave Sweeps From Northwest on 24-Mile Gale. STORM MOVING EASTWARD Coldcot Weather of Winter Promises to Be Prolonged Drop in South west Bodes III lor Early Vegetable Crop. ' CHICAGO. Jan. 27. (Special.) Old Winter, with a backbone that does not show the slightest indications of bend ins or breaking. Is making a fresh on slaught on the trenches of the Middle "West. The cold wave, one of the most severe of the season, arrived in 111! nois tonight and is sweeping rapidly east and south. It will probably envelop the Ohio val ley by tomorrow and the Atlantic Coast will get the sweep of frigidity by Frl day morning. Mercury Drops to 40 Below. Some of the Western and Northwest rn states report "the coldest weather of the Winter, and this is worth noting in view of the fact that the present "Winter has been remarkable for its long sustained periods of cold weather and heavy snows. The Dakotas report 40 degrees below zero at some points. Minnesota northern points have 38 be i low, with prospects of being still colder before morning. Iowa, Nebraska and "Wisconsin have cold weather running as low as 20 below and sinking rapidly tonight. Chicago's highest temperature was recorded at 1 o'clock this morning, when the mercury reached 20 above. The drop from that figure was steady all of the day and official forecasters predict 5 below zero by morning. All Shipper Are Warned. Warnings were Issued to all ship pers today to prepare for below zero weatffer. Western Canadian points show 42 below, with high southwest winds. The zero wave is being swept in from the northwest on a 24-mile Kale, and the cold area Is so extensive that there is not much hope for any warmer weather for several days. Government forecasters say the worst of the cold wave will pass Chicago to morrow, but that the temperature will rise slowly for two days. In the Southwest the rapidly falling temperature was accompanied by heavy snow, especially in Arkansas and Okla homa. All of Arkansas is reported blanketed with snow, ranging from three to 10 Inches in depth. The snow fall in Oklahoma Is expected to be the heaviest on record. tela Period May Be Extended. Government experts say the present will be the coldest wave of the Winter. Tile previous record was made Decern ber 26, when Chicago experienced 4 be low zero, but the attack at that time was quickly over. The present siege will be more extended. The spread of - the cold wave to the Southwest bodes ill for the early vege table crop, on which Northern cities depend for their supplies. Kastern Texas points show as low as 2", while the Panhandle reports 8 above and some snow. New Orleans was down to 41 last night and Tampa, Fla., sup posed to be immune from cold waves, reports 52. which means that Northern tourists would be better off at home. Snow I Widespread. ' Snow Is reported tonight f rom ilichi ran. Wisconsin. Central Illinois, Iowa, Western Missouri, Oklahoma, Northern Kansas, Arkansas and Central New York. Some of the cold spots at 9 o'clock tonight are: Bismarck, N. P.. 34 below; Charles City. Ia, 20 below; Devils Lake. N. D., 28 below; Dulutli. 24 below; Huron. S. !., 22 below; Mooreliead, Minn., 30 be low; St, Paul. 18 below; Williston. N. IX, 4 below. Western Canadian points register from 24 to 42 below and clear. STORM SPLITS GOING EAST New York and Interior Gulf States Espi-etcd to Bo Cold. WASHINGTON. Jan. 27. The cold wave which has covered the Central and Northwest slates, sending the mer iurjr down far below zero, was tonight sweeping eastward witti a speed that promised below-zero weather in New England. New York and Pennsylvania on Thursday night and freezing tem peratures among the Atlantic states as lar south as the Carolinas. Weather forecasters observing the approaching - disturbance predicted it "would fllow divided paths in its course eastward. They thought one would lead due east to New York and the other would branch south Into the Interior Gulf states. Tennessee and Northern Mississippi, where the tem peratures would drop from the freez ing point to It and 20 degrees above zero. EnglL-li in Belgium Arrested. LONPOX Jan. 28. General von Bia sing, the German governor of Belgium, according to the Daily Telegraph, has crdered the arrest and transfer to Ger many of all Englishmen in Belgium. AUSTRIANS RETAKE ' CARPATHIAN PASS RUSSIAN'S ARE DRIVEN FROM IMPORTANT POSITIONS. Terrific Battle Waged Three Days. Violent Engagements Continue on Other Fronts. LONDON. Jan. 28. An official an nouncement received from Vienna re ports the capture of TJzsok Pass, in the Carpathians, which has been in Russian possession since January The text of the statement follows: "Yesterday evening (January 2) the Russians had been driven back in the upper Ung Valley from their posi tions on both sides of Uzsok Pass. Thl is one of the most important of the Carpathian passes, for the possession of which during the course of the war many violent engagements have been fought. Since January 1 it has been occupied by the Russians. "It was strongly intrenched and stubbornly defended in several good positions.. one behind the other. It is now again in our possession after three days of -fighting. "To the northwest of Uzsok Pass and in the Latorza and . Nagyas valleys fighting continues." Terrific engagements on the East Prussian, Gallcian and Polish fronts are reported, none, however, changing the situation. 27 ON SHIP BELIEVED LOST Italian Steamer Is Thought to Have Sunk Off Cape Henry. NORFOLK, Va, Jan. 27 The reve. nue cutter Itasca reported here by wire less tonight that it was believed the Italian steamship Angelo Parodi had sunk about 300 miles off Cape Henry with all on board. Marine men said the vessel carried a crew of about 27 men. After standing by the Parodi for four days, the revenue cutter reported last night that she had lost the steamer in thick weather. The Italian ship was helpless because of shortage of coal Her food supply also was exhausted. High seas bad prevented the Itasca from getting a line to the ship. The revenue cutter Mohawk had been or dered from Newport. R. I., to assist the Itasca in getting the Parodi to port. HINDUS OFFER BRITISH AID Company Being Organized at Vic toria Is Eager to Reach Front. VICTORIA, B. C. Jan. 27. (Special.) A large number of Hindus who have seen service with the British army in India and China and who, since their discharge, have found their way to Vic toria, are organizing a company. Al ready they have asked to join the third Canadian contingent. The same request has been made of Major-General Hughes, the Minister of Militia, by East Indians of Vancouver. The Oriental ex-soldlers are exceeding ly enthusiastic. They are following the course of the war with close attention and are eager to get to the front. FIRE ENDANGERS SLEEPERS Girls Near Suffocation Awake Time to Save Family. in EUGENE, Or., Jan. 27. (Special.) Nearly suffocated with smoke, Mar garet and Dorothy Evans, of 990 Alder street, awoke during- the night to find their room afire. Their calls saved their own lives and probably the whole family, said their father. A pipe which passed through the room from a stove below ignited some clothes on a chair. The clothing smouldered for several hours before breaking into flame. Mrs. Evans, after beating her way through the smoke at the call of the children, by seizing a blanket and wrapping in it the blazing articles, threw the whole out of the window. The remaining fire was extinguished easily. PHONE RATE 25 CENTS Beaver Creek Company's Churge Said to Be Lowest in United States. OREGON CITY, Or.. Jan. 27. (Spe cial.) The lowest telephone rate in the United States is said to be that of the" Beaver Creek Telephone Company, which servves 270 subscribers at 25 cents a month. Since the company was organized' the rate has never exceeded 25 cents. Each subscriber buys his own instrument and pays his share for the Installation of division lines. The company has 26 divisions. The officers are: Presi dent. Abel Thomas; secretary, E. W. Smith; treasurer, Albert Mehnke. BAKER BARS WOMEN 'COPS' Mayor Accedes to Objections Mado b Police Cliief. BAKER. Or., Jan. 27. (Special.) Mayor Falmer has decided against em ploying' a woman as a member of the police force, a move which has been under advisement for some time. Chief of Tolice Jacjvson begged May or Palmer not to have a woman on the force, putting' forth arguments that she would be compelled to be up too late at night, that it is too cold for a wo man to be out on the streets and that he wanted his police system to have a thorough trial before any changes were made.- Dry" Bill Approved in Montana. HELENA, Mont.. Jan. 27. The Sen ate of the Montana Legislature has adopted a report recommending the passage of a bill submitting the pro hibition amendment. The amendment not only prohibits the manufacture, sale or use of ardent spirits in Montana, but any compound. CALLED TO DISCUSS DEFICIT Expenses Far Exceed Hopes of Revenue. WAR TAX MAY BE EXTENDED Sweeping Cut in Appropria tions Only Alternative. RURAL MAILS MENACED Abandonment of $34,000,000 Har bor Bill Suggested as Another Possibility Administration Manifests Real Alarm. WASHINGTON, Jan. 27. The Ad ministration has taken up in earnest the question of how the Government's expenses shall ,be brought within its income during the coming fiscal year. A' Cabinet conference today debated the situation at length, and tomorrow President Wilson will go over the prob lems involved, witfe Secretary McAdoo, of the Treasury Separtment; Postmas ter-General Burleson, representative Underwood. Democratic leader in the House, and Representative Fitzgerald, chairman of the appropriations com' mittee. War Tax May Be Extended. Estimates of expenditures for the year far exceed the most extravagant hopes for revenues, and Administra' tion leaders are agreed that something must be done to prevent the deficit they are facing. , While no . final conclusions were reached by the members of the Cabinet, it Is understood that most of them could see no way of avoiding the necessity of extending the time limit on the war tax law unless Congress would Reduce all appropriation bills as much as possible without imparing the efficiency of the Government. Harbor Bill Threatened. Abandon the 134,000,000 river and harbor appropriation bill. .- Adopt Postmaater-General Burleson's plan for reducing the cost of rural free delivery service by putting car riers on a contract basis. The Cabinet officers realize that Con gress will not easily be persuaded to eliminate the river and harbor bill en tirely. Mr. Burleson proposed to Con gress that it reduce rural free delivery expenses from 152,000,000 to 35,000, 000, but the proposition was rejected by the House. These two items taken out of Congress' plans for appropria tions would maKe a large saving, it was pointed out today, and possibly re- ieve all embarrassment lor tne pres ent. It was also said to be likely that (Concluded on Page 2- CABINET tT rA"" A75"? ' vcT&JFfz s- 1 Jl ' JJ sr .i- o SCCJSS rw.e wtffl J if Kpi-s'vyvrtiJ y a GPf?SH'rATtjr TO OKEQOM H P&OBABI.Y JV&&K. (7 SCOTCH VfYHf SOM i THTXASCS BWGAY jfMTlr "tX' TMfS TO JOV-eT PC- Sir ! mow .n - jlias scsy ooryo- i rjrf J V ' J-.' 'f I zGfS-Arir zeeoKos or- cPi rJ-A -A.yooS ocr o- INDEX OF TODAFS NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 34.2 degrees. minimum. 29.S degrees. TODAY'S R- - . receded by light rOUB' To, s terly winds.. COt!KT w 1 .-. . rt y Supreme Court q - v..ia act is likely to be defeated in either house. Pae 1. Reform measures many in day's session of Idaho Legislature, page 7, Radical changes proposed to Washington primary law. Page 7. House passes bill repealing appropriations totaling close to jiKHi,XHJ. rage e. ' 1 War. Austrians defeat Russians and retake Carpathian pass. Page 1. Germans make important gain in France by determined assault following hail of heavy projectiles: repulsed at other points. Page 2. Americans to obtain robber through British Consul. Page Correspondent sees ruins of forts as he is being taken to prison. Page 3. German exports greatly decreased by war. Pate 2. Observance of Kaiser's birthday marked by intense religious feeling. Page S. Mexico. - Villa-Zapata army and provisional govern xnent flee from Mexico City. Page 1. - National. ' Patronage fight between president and Ben- ate not compromised. Page u. Witness says Sullivan's unpopularity in Santo Domingo is not proof of unfitness. Page 8. Itomestic, Secretary McAdoo' s daughter and friend to be nurses in Europe. Page J. Burdens put on railroads by laws are laid before arbitration board. Page 5. John D. Rockefeller admits possibility of danger in big foundation. Page 9. Bitter cold grips Middle West. Page 1. Sport. Coast Hockey League will demand five men in drafts if peace is declared with Bast. rage i. . - Beavers to play Indians ofAmerican Asso ciation in March at Fresno, rage i. Ballplayers start soon on cougar hunting trip, rage i. Commercial mod Marine. Eastern Oregon woolgrowers expect very high prices. Page 10. Chicago exporters are without grain to offer. Page 19. Stock market affected by weakness of Steel common. Page 19. American-Hawaiian line will add two mod ern lumber carriers to fleet, rage 13. Great Northern, Pacific Coast liner, starts maiden voyage irom rnuaaeipnia. Page 19. Portland and Vicinity. Authorities believe Sergeant Stahl was killed In testing vigilance of his patrolmen. Page 13. All films have Interesting romances In plots. Page 20. TWO AEROPLANES COLLIDE Three Airmen, Including Two Offi cers, Killed at Johannisthal. AMSTERDAM (via London), Jan. 28. According to Berlin newspapers re ceived here a collision between two aeroplanes in flight took place last Thursday above the flying ground at Johannisthal. Three airmen were killed in the crash, including two officers. GERMAN COMMANDER DEAD Leader of Kaiser's African Force Is Accidentally Killed. CAPE TOWN (via London), Jan. 27. Colonel Seydebreck, commanding the German forces in German Southwest Africa, has been killed at Windhoek, according to advices received here. He was examining hand grenades when one of them was accidentally ex ploded and caused his death. SOME LEGISLATORS AS CARTOONIST REYNOLDS VILLA-ZAPATA ARMY FLEES MEXICO CITY Convention Govern ment Also Take Leave. CARRANZA FORGES NEARBY Food Supply Is Low and Price Is Beyond Reach of Needy. BUSINESS HOUSES BARRED Provisional President and Military Commander Leave ou locomo tive to Establish Capital at Cuernavaca. MEXICO CITY, Jan. 27. Provisional President Garza and his government left the capital early today for Cuer navaca. where a new seat of govern ment will be established. ' The last contingents of the army of evacuation were hurrying through the streets late today. The army of occu pation lingers on the outskirts of the city, but is expected to enter soon. All the commercial houses and banks, and even private dwellings are barred and shuttered, although no disorder has attended the fight of the forces of Zapata and Villa. Food Supply la Iw. The National Palace, the federal tel egraph and postofTlce and other, gov ernment establishments are closed. The incoming Carranza forces - are com manded by General Alvarado, ex-post commander here. When they enter the city It is expected some sort of gov ernment will be established. The price of foodstuffs -has soared beyond the reach of the needy. The supply of food is very low in the city and unless the railway line to Vera Cruz is opened soon it is believed'there will be much suffering. The decision of the government to quit the capital came after a heated discussion at a session of the conven tion held Tuesday night. It was de cided Presi:dehtUar"za, his government and the members of the convention should proceed after midnight to Cuer navaca. Colonel Garza and General Ernesto Santos Coy are reported 'to have departed on a special locomotive. Obrea-on'a Force Is Near. The deputies who have not left al ready will be forced to proceed from the city in automobiles, as there is no fuel for the locomotives. . The troops of General Zapata are en training In 30 electric trains in Xochi milco and Morel 03. There is a rumor in circulation that the vanguard of General Obregon's troops Is now'four miles from the cap ital advancing. In a secret session of the convention (Concluded on Page 2.) SEES THEM, Wednesdays War Moyes THE advance guard of the Turkish army, which is undertaking an In vasion of Egypt, has reached the Brit ish outposts to the east of the Suez Canal, where the first skirmish of the war In this region took place Tuesday. The fight, according to official report, apparently was a small affair, only one British officer being wounded, but dis patches from Cairo say the Invaders suffered severaly from the machine guns of the British troops. The dispatches do not disclose the size of the Turkish force, but say the engagement took place east of 1 Kan tara, which is on the Sues Canal, and Is the terminus of the caravan route from Rafati, the border station be tween Egypt and Syria. The distance from Rafati to El Karrtara is 153 miles, and, as the British had filled In all th wells along the caravan route, the invaders would have had to carry the! own water. Even EI Kantara Is sup plied by a pipe line from a fresh-wate stream which runs under the Suez Canal. It Is believed the fighting of the British forces was with the Kurdish horsemen employed by the Turks as scouts for the main army under DJema Fasha, which consists of three army corps and which Is believed to have had hardly-time to cross the desert, The British have a strong force with which to guard the canal. Nothing has been heard of the mill tary venture which It was reported the Germans were preparing for Em peror William's birthday, unless thel attacks on the French at Ypres and on the British at La Bassee were In tended as such. All the official ac counts agree that these attacks were exceedingly severe, but beyond this there Is nothing In common between the accounts of the allies and the Ger mans concerning the fighting. lne trench communication repeats the statement that the .Germans were repulsed with heavy losses, while the Germans say the British were unable to recapture their former positions. Similar contradictory statements are mado regarding the severe fighting which Is taking place near Craonne and Perthes, In the Argonne, and in the vicinity of St. Mihiel. In all these cases both sides claimed the battles resulted. In their favor. There has been Increasing activity along the eastern front. The Rue sians there are reported to be push ing their offensive both In East.Prus sia and in Poland to the north of the Lower Vistula, while the Germans are said to have been repeating their" at tacks in Central Poland. In Galicla an Austro-German force attempted an of fensive which, according to the Kusslan accounts, 'did not meet with success. Itoumania, which has Just received a loan of $25,000,000 through the Bank of England, is said to be watching closely the concentration of the Aus tro-German force in Transylvania, which might be used either against her or the Russians, who are advancing through Bukowlna. The loan to Roumanla was advanced by the Bank of England to the Bank of Roumania against treasury bills. MOVIE WEDDING ARRANGED Photoplay Pianist at The Dalles Be comes Stage Bride. THE DALLES,. Or., Jan. 27. (Spe clal.) Manager Cullins, of the Casino Theater, a movie house, was told yes terday by his piano-player, Miss Grace Marvel Baldridge, that she could not work tonight on account of "an Im portant engagement." Questioning de. veloped the fact that the "important engagement" meant a marriage cere mony. Manager Cullins then offered his stage as the scene of the wedding, agreeing to provide the license, the preacher and a bouquet for the bride. "You're on," said Miss Baldridge, "but wait a minute, perhaps I had bet ter speak to 'him about it." She returned soon saying it was all right with "him," bo on the theater stage tonight James Dorlson Nelson, who came here recently from Tacoma,' and Miss Baldridge were married. BASEBALL VALUE SOUGHT Reappraisal of Holdings of Giants' Late Owner Is Ordered. ALBANY, N. T., Jan. Because of charges that its value had been greatly under-estimated. Comptroller Travis ordered today a re-appraisal of the estate of the late John T. Brush. Stock in the National Exhibition Company, which owns the New York National baseball team, was so underestimated. it is said, that unless It is re-appraised the state will lose a large sum In taxes. No consideration was given In the ap praisal, Mr. Travis says, to the price Mr. Brush and his colleagues paid for ballplayers, the number of players owned at the time of his death, nor the value of the New York National League franchise. NOTABLE'S SISTER MISSING Mrs. E. H. Dickey, Kin of W. V. Her rin, of Southern Pacific, Gone. Four days after going to the Waver leigh Crest Sanatorium for a rest Mrs Emma Herrin 'Dickey, of Eugene, 40 years old, sister of William F. Herrin, of San Francisco, vice-president and chief counsel of the Southern Pacific Company, disappeared and since Jan uary 7 no trace of her has been found. David C. Herrin, an Insurance man of Portland, has been conducting a search for Mrs. Dickey but his quest has been futile. Mrs. Dickey's home is in Eugene, where lives her sister. Mrs. A. C. Dixon, wife of the manager of the Booth-Kelly Lumber Company of that city. Detec tive H. H. Hawley has been assigned to the case. , i PLEA IN BEHALF OF FERRIS ACT MAY DIE Doom Seems Certain in Either House- CONVENTION IS SUBSTITUTED Resolution to Urge Conference by 11 Waterpower States. DIVIDED REVENUE FOUGHT Oregon In Document Declares Need or lljdro-lileotrlc Markets Great er Than That of Tower Leg islation Fate Dubious. BY DOXAI.D J. CALL.VEKT. STATIC CAriTOU Sslem, Or., Jan. !7. (Staff Correspondence.) It 1 now pretty certain that the memorial to Congress to pass the Ferris water power bill will be killed In the House or where it originated the Kenate. In lieu thereof a resolution will bo prn. scntcd calling a conference of dole gates elected by the Legislatures of 11 waterpower states to meet In Portland next Summer or Fall to declare the principles the states Involved desire to see incorporated Into waterpower leg islatlon by the National Comma. The resolution Is In process of forms, tiorf In the committee on Federal rela tions. It will be reported out as committee substitute. It commits the State' of Oregon to the principle that the waterpowers of all iion-navlgabln streams not now appropriated or of which the state has not divested title belong exclusively to the State of Oregon. Ferris Rill IrHit-lsed. By implication It criticises the Ferris bill on the score Unit that measure seeks to gain a profit from state ne cessity. In other words, the resolu tion will put the state on record as as serting that the waterpower Is much more valuable than the Government land needed to develop It; that. In fact, the proportion which Is Implied by tlio Ferris bill as equal Is. In fart, about In the ratio of SO to 1. This ratio Is said to be practically that adopted by pri vate waterpower corporations In vulu- ng their hyro-eleetrlc properties. Instead of acceding to the provisions of the Ferris bill, that state and Gov ernment should divide the revenues from water power development evenly between them and that the Govern ment should have a preferential rever sionary Interest In developed projects, the resolution declares that on the grounds of public policy the Govern ment should convey to the states the lands necessary to water power devel opment under such terms as will guard the public against monopolistic or speculative control. Market Xtr Asserted. It is further asserted In the resolu tion that the need for water powsr legislation is no greater than the need for creating markets for hydro-electric power and that the creation of such markets Is hindered by the existence of reservations and areas of other Gov ernment lands in the West, aggregating in Oregon alone to nearly 60 per cent of the state's area. mi The conference, if the call is success ful, will comprise five delegates elect ed by the Legislature of each of the following states: Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Norrh Dakota, South Dakota, Colorado, Wyoming, Nevada, California and Utah. Representative Delegation Assured. The resolution Is one of the moat specific declarations of tho state's at titude on public land legislation tliat has been presented to any representa tive body In Oregon. The provision that the delegates shall be elected by the Legislature and not appointed by the Governor Is held not to be a reflec tion upon Governor Wlthycombc. It la argued with considerable force that the adoption of that plan by all the states will insure that each will send dele gates thoroughly representative of the sentiment therein. The resolution pro- , vldes for no expenditure of public moneys so far aa Oregon Is concerned. What the fate of such a resolution will be is problematical. I believe, from talks I have heard Senators make on water-power legislation, that It will carry In the upper house. The senti ment In the lower house Is not so easily gauged. It will, of course, arouse the opposition of those timor ous beings who still believe that the people of Oregon are not capable of managing their own aff.trs. On the whole the House members do not aeem to be a timid set of men. Hill Not i,vrrr'a. Some of the Individuals about the Statehouse who, for political reasons, have been wishing to see trouble be tween the Governor and the legisla ture, thought today that they had dip covered evidence of a panning of the executive by tne Senate. Kellaher had a bill In the Senate providing for a trade commission and appropriating $5000 for a special agent. The Gov ernor had suggested in his mease that some of tne money expended In the effort to attract Immigration could well be utilized for such a purpose. The Kellaher bill had adopted ver batim some ot the language of the message. It was decisively defeated. As 'a matter of fact the Governor's office, in view of the Implied attitude of the business interests of Portland, as expressed through the Commercial (Concluded on Fag 8 )