Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937, February 03, 1915, Image 2

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Newspaper Page TextTIIE MORNING OREGONIAN, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1915. GERMAN DYNAMITES BRIDGE IH CANADA Escape Into United States Cre ates New International Problem of War. EXTRADITION IS FOUGHT 3Ian fcays He Is Army OUicer and, Having Committed Act of War, Cannot Be Surrendered to Enemy of ratberland. VAXCEBORO, Me.. Feb. 2. Another international problem incident to the war whs thrust upon the United States today by the action of Werner van liurn. who. operating on the Canadian side of ihe border, dynamited the rail nay bridge over the St. Croix River and then escaped into this state. A few hours later, in a room at a hotel here, Van Horn quietly submitted to arrest, but immediately proclaimed himself an officer of the German army and set up the contention that he had committed an act of war, and, having fled to a neutral country, could not be lisrally surrendered to an enemy of the fatherland. Ill II Charge Made. The Canadian authorities, however, at once Instituted proceedings to ob tain Van Horn's extradition on a charge of destruction of railroad property. I'ending the outcome of these efforts. Van Horn is held at the immigration oifice here in custody of Deputy Sher iff Georsc W. Koss, of Washington County. Tlie bridge which Van Horn sought to destroy was not greatly damaged. The St. Croix iliver for some distance forms the boundary between Maine and r Brunswick. The bridge is owned jointly by the Maine Central and the Canadian Pacific Kailways and is on the direct route of the Canadian Pa cific from Western Canada to the mari time provinces. Over this road have been shipped large quantities of war materials for the allies, which were placed on board ships at St. John and Halifax. Attempt to Return Home Kail. According to the police Van Horn, a n.an of middle age and of military bear ing, told them that ho left Germany five years ago. and for the past four years had been managing a coffee plan tation in Mexico. Recently he made unsuccessful attempts to return to his tial ive land. He left New York City Friday, ar riving here Saturday night and stay ing at a hotel. That night, by appoint ment, he met a man unknown to him at the east end of the bridge. The man save him a satchel containing dyna mite. Van Horn suspended the satchel from the inside of an end post of the bridge, and about 2 o'clock this morn ing discharged the explosive. Tiii done, ho planned to go to Lam bert Lake, from which point he in tended to drive 30 miles to Princeton. The night was intensely cold and he suffered so much that he abandoned tiie trip and returned to' the hotel. There the police found him in bed this morning. At the request of the Cana dian officers he was taken into cus tody. Mate Orders Detention. Attorney-General Pattangall sent word from Augusta tonight to Deputy Sheriff I:oss to hold Van Horn until further orders. While there was no formal charge preferred against him at first, arrangements were made to have a warrant against Van Horn is sued, if necessary, in order to make certain his detention. Van Horn, the officials say, could be charged with damage to a railroad bridge, which is an extraditable offense under an agreement between the United States and Canada, or with damage to property on the. American side of the border, where windows were broken by the explosion. t'p to tonight Van Horn had not seen a lawyer and appeared to take his detention coolly, apparently indifferent as to what charges may be preferred against him. The Attorney-General of New Bruns wick. M. .1. Baxter, telegraphed to of ficials of the Canadian Pacific Railway here asking thein to make a complaint n gainst Van Horn which might be the basis for extradition proceedings to be begun forthwith. It is understood, a preliminary move will be made to determine whether Van -Horn has any standing as a German officer and if it can be established that he has not. the matter of his general 2 csponsibility will be inquired into. ttVXADA DEMANDS liVTHADlTIOX C'liarirc of DeMriictioii of Hallway Properly Is Made. OTTAWA, Out.. Veb. 2. The Cana dian government has applied to the X'niied States authorities for the ex tradition of Werner Van Horn, arrested in connection with the blowing up of a Canadian Pacific Kuilway bridge over the St. Croix Kiver on the international boundary between the State of Maine and the Province of New Brunswick. Van Horn was arrested in Vanccboro. Ilc. but as the offense was committed on Canadian territory, liis extradition is sought that he may be tried by the Canadian courts on a charge of de struction of railway property. The application of the Canadian gov ernment for Van Horn has been for warded to the- British ambassador at Washington for submission to the Ad ministration thore. issuance of the call, but that the prov ocation should be considered. The word Interlocking has been condemned," Mr. Green said, "but the only objection I can see Is the one Mr. Eliot interposed, namely, that the di rector who serves on two or more phil anthropic boards might injure his health by so doing." The methods of the Foundation and the various boards in disposing of funds were also described by the wit ness. "I assure you," he said, "Mr. Rocke feller has tried to avoid paternalism; this eountry realizes that." Mr. Greene said the Foundation was restricted in its actions by law. If it stepped out of bounds the Attorney General of the state might intervene, the witness declared. He thought the idea expressed by some witnesses that the Foundation might attempt to mold the ideas of the people was entirely wrong. Such a state of affairs could never come to pass, because of the activity of newspapers, he asserted. Mr. Goff told of the aims of the Cleveland Foundation, of which he said he was the originator. Speaking of the Rockefeller Foun dation. Mr. Goff said he could not help but feel that the handling of so im portant a trust by a self-perpetuated board presented a possible element of danger. MAYFLOWER CLUB INVITES JCM.Tiulant ot .fnlin am! Priscilla A I don May Join at Albany. ALBANY. Or.. 1-Vb. Special.) A dtrret lineal descendant of John and Vrlsoilia Alden. made famous by Long fellow, Frank M. Tledtield, of this city, has been remiested to join the So riety of Mayflower Descendants. The organization ii composed of lineal de-, M'pndants of those who came to this country in the Mayflower. F. M. Redileld's preat-randfather married an Alden. Mr. Redfield was born in Vermont in 1S42 and has been a resident of Oregon for half a cen tury. He has been prominent for years in the business and official life of Al lHny. lie was Peputy County Clerk of Linn County for many years and served several terms as City Recorder at Albany. JOHN D. JS PICTURED (Continued From First Fag.) called "call to arms" was justified in Colorado. "Why doesn't that man answer?" tie demanded, facing the witness. -Haven't I the right to arm myself to protect my home and relatives? I don't like this dodging business." Cofftigan said he did not counsel the TRADE RECORD IS IDE JAXCARV BALANCE MORfc FAVOR ABLE THAN EVER. Eighty-six Per Cent of United States Exports la f2.T8.574.0O6 Against Imports Totaling 107,440,208. . WASHINGTON. Feb. 2. Foreign trade from January 2 to January 30 through 13 principal customs ports, which handle approximately 86 per per cent of the Nation's export and im port business, netted a balance in favor of the United States of J131.133.888. ex ceeding all records for any one month. The total exports for the four weeks. January 2 to January 30. was J238.574, 096, or an average of 159,643,524 per week. The imports were $107,440,408, or an average of $26,860,052 a week. Officials of the Department of Com merce said tonight these figures repre sented only telegraphic returns, from the principal customs ports and that when complete reports were received fro mihroughout the service the volume of business transacted last month would show a material increase about 14 per cent over the present figures. Of the four weeks mentioned, the last, ended January 30, produced a favorable balance of $35,901,635. Ac cording to the department's records, this shows the largest excess of ex ports over imports for any similar period for more than 10 years. Exports for this week totaled $63,668,139 and imports $27,766,604. BRITISH PRICES PROBED ritKlIF.R A SQL ITH AS-SVJtES MEM BER OF PARLIAMENT. Opportunity of Dincasalnc AVtaole dues. Hon I o be Citven House of Commons cation Is Quiet. lOXDON. Feb. 2. Parliament reas semWed today after a recess for the House of Commons since November -7 and for the Jluuse of Lords since Jan uary 8. The members dispensed with ceremonies and plunsed at once into business, consisting1 of various matters, chiefly financiul, which have. arisen as a result of the war. The House of Commons had an empty appearance. Some -00 of the 670 mem bers are now at the front. - Keplyins: to a question put by George Xicoll Barnes Labor member for Glas gow, whether the government was con sidering the matter of fixing food pricey. Temier Asquith said: "All these matters are being care fully reviewed." The committee now having the mat ter in hand, the Premier continued, was receivings full information from the various departments of the government, but he could not say when the inquiry would be concluded. The povern merit, however, he added, was fully alive to the urgency of the subject and htold the House that it certainly would have an opportunity of discussing the whole question. HOSPITAL SHIP ATTACKED French Accuse t.ermans of Violating Hague Convention. ""PAKIi, Feb. 2. A German submarine yesterday made an unsuccessful at tempt to torpedo the British hospital ship Asturias, according to a commun ication given out today by the Ministry of Marine., thus volating- the formal clause of The Hague convention of 1907 regarding the attacking hospital ves sels. The Austurias. the Ministry ex plained, was 15 miles north-northeast of the Havre lightship when the at tack was made. GERMAN G0JLD INCREASES Tolnl on Hand in Rci.-elibank Is 2,163,753,000 Marks. UKRl-lN. via London, Feb. 2. The Heihshanlc statement issued today shows that the stock of gold increased l..73.00O marks ($4,785,750). making the total on hand 2,163,753,000 marks ($540,930,250). Cash on hand decreased 76,047,000 marks ($18,011,750): loans increased 1.582,000 marks ($395,500); discounts in creased 63.S54.000 marks ($15,963,500); treasury bills increased 494.000 marks t $12.1.500); note circulation increased 174.900.000 marks $43.725.000) ; de posits decreased 171,976,000 marks ($42,934,000). 20.000 Italians Concentrate. PARIS. Feb. 2. A dispatch from Athens to the Balkan agency says an Italian expeditionary corps, composed of 20.000 men. destined to occupy the Albanian seaport of Durazzo and its vicinity is being concentrated at Bari, an Italian city on the Adriatic near Brindisi. 139 German Jurists Killed in War. BKR.VE. Switzerland, via Paris. Feb. 2. According to official statements given out in Berlin today. 1279 Ger man jurists have been killed in the present war. This total is made up of six professors. 275 judges, 240 lawyers, 334 assessors and 424 barristers. DUEL OF ARTILLERY IS DOUBLY INTE French Sav Heavv Guns of Germans Are Particularly Active irt Belgium. ATTACKS ARE REPULSED "Methodical Progress" in Region of Perthes Reported Germans De clare Enemy Has Distorted Facts About Fighting. PARIS, Feb. 2. The following offi cial communication was issued by the War Office tonight: "From the sea to the Lys- the Ger man artillery has tried without suc cess to reduce our batteries. In the section of Arras rifle firing continued throughout the night of February 1 and 2, but the infantry did not attack. "Near Soissons we have done some damage to the enemy's batteries and repelled an attack of an infantry con tingent at St. Paul. "Fresh progress has been made by us near Perthos-les-Hurlus (east of Chalons), at the outskirts of the woods, the occupation of which by our troops had previously been reported. German Attack Repulsed. "In the Argonne, near Bagatelle, we repulsed a German attack. "In the Vosges. Uffholz was bom bardeB in the night and our troops made progress toward Burnhaupt-le-Bas." The official French report issued earlier in the day indicates that the Germans are making an especial effort to recover the great dune near Lom baertzdye. This, however, lias not thus far succeeded. The report said: "The day of February 1 was marked by redoubled intensity in the artillery fighting on our part, as well as that of the enemy, and by a series of Ger man attacks, relatively of secondary importance, all of which were repulsed, when compared to the number of men they had engaged. "In Belgium the heavy German ar tillery gave evidence of its greatest activity on the front of the Belgian troops, and particularly against the various points of support which these troops have been occupying for some time past in the region of Tser. Around Ypres the cannonading was at some places exceedingly violent British Regain' Lost Ground. "Between the Lys and the Somme a German regiment attacked a British position near Guinchy and at first drove the English soldiers back. After a series of counter attacks the British troops reoccupied the ground they had lost and then advanced into new ter ritory, taking possession of trenches of the enemy. "The engagement reported in the an nouncement given out the night of Feb ruary 1. which took place along the roadway between Bethune and Ia Bassee. was particularly brilliant for our infantry. It seems that the Ger mans had at least one battalion in this engagement. The two first attacks were broken by our fire. The third was successful in that the Germans en tered one of our trenches, but an im mediate counter attack at the point of the bayonet resulted in our overcoming the enemy. Only a few Germans suc ceeded in regaining their trenches. All the others were killed or taken pris oners. French Bombard Sioyon. "Between the Somme and the Oise and along the front of the Aisne there was no important development to re port, witli the exception of a German attack on Beaumonthamel, which was not renewed. Our heavy artillery bom barded the railroad station at Noyon, where the Germans were rcprovisioning their forces. Our shells caused two ex plosions, the smoke from which could be seen for more than two hours and a half. "Our methodical progress in the re gion of Perthes continues. We have occupied another small forest to the northwest of this village. "In tho Woevre district the enemy delivered an attack on the western side of the Bouchot forest (northeast of Tryon), which was at once driven back. "There is nothing to report on the front in Lorraine and in the Vosges." German Say Frrorh Katalfy. The German headquarters staff state ment, wirelessed hero today, says: "In the western arena of the war there have been artillery exchanges at several points. With this exception there is nothing important to report. Continuing, the German communica tion says the French war reports dur ing the past few days have contained "grotesque distortions of the truth," as well as what are characterized as "free inventions." The Berlin staff declines to go into details in this regard, simply saying the value of these French state ments is apparent to anyone who will examine them in the light of the Ger man official reports. "OPIUM QUEEN" IS FINED Xew York Woman Must Pay $2000 for Smuggling Drug. NEW YORK. Feb. 2. Mrs. Sophie Ghre. known to tho police as "The Opium Queen, was sentenced by the Federal Court today to pay a fine of $H00- and to srve six months in the Penitentiary for smugrglins opium into the United States. Because of the aid g:iven by her to the Government in ap prehending: 18 men associated with her, the District Attorney asked that the jail sentence be suspended and this was done. airs. Ghee, the wife of a Chinese living in Liverpool, left New York for Liverpool the latter part of December, before she was indicted, and was de ported by the Liverpool authorities on her arrival there. SECRET PLAN IS MADE (Continued From First Faye.) British Cruiser at Callao. CALLAO. Peru. Feb. 2. The British cruiser Newcastle arrived here today and is taking on provisions. The ves sel will remain in port 24 hours. merit that might satisfy their views regarding the permanency of the project A direct stipulation that the Government be prohibited from acquir ing ships from belligerents, it was said. however, was not favorably received, although the intimation was given that there might be no objection to a "declaration of policy on the subject," to the effect that the Government did not contemplate purchasing ships that might be t3o subject oft international controversy. La Foil ett Tlmn Amendment. Another ameaflient proposed by Senator LaFoIlettc, who is expected to support the bill, was suggested . as a mddle ground with relation to the proposed- leasing of ships to private corporations by the Government After all angles of the situation had been canvassed, the Senate having ad- , pourned to await the outcome of the skihmishing. Republican leaders were confident their nght against the meas ure had been won. Senators Smoot, Lodge, Weeks and others declared the bill dead. Democratic leaders, on the other hand, still were hopeful. In addition to discussing the situa tion with Senators Ken yon and Norris, President Wilson sought to learn the position of Senator Poindexter, Pro gressive, and Senator Clapp, Progressive-Republican. The engagement with Senator Poindexter, however, was can celled later and Poindexter was under stood to be definitely aligned against the administration of the bill. Clapp Speaks Frankly. Senator Clapp went to the White House in response to an invitation, but frankly reminded the President that he had recently made a speech oppos ing executive interference with Con gress. Thereupon the President said that under the circumstances perhaps the shipping bill had better not be taken up by them. The question was discussed briefly, howeved. Senator Clapp refused to talk about the interview, but at the White House it was said that there was no . unpleasantness. PITTSBURG WATERS HIGH LO'-LI.G SECTIONS OF CITV ARE FLOODED BY RIVERS. Hundreds of Families Move Out of Homes and Thousands of Men in Ohio Valley Are Made Idle. PITTSBURG. Feb. 2. The crest of the flood, which- began descending on this district yesterday, was expected to pass the point where the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers form the Ohio at midnight tonight. The weather bureau forecast 29 feet at the point at that hour. Early to night the gauge there showed 27 feet. with the Allegheny still rising. The low-lying sections of the city along the Allegheny and Ohio rivers were inundated and trolley and rail road traffic there was at a standstill. Hundreds of families left their homes both here and at points up the Alle- wheney River. Tho breaking of a huge ice gorge at Freeport caused the Allegheny to rise rapidl- today and much ice flowed out- Many manufacturing plants along the three rivers were forced to cease op erations temporarily. At Martins Ferry. O.. 4900 men were forced to quit work. At East Liverpool four potteries and the municipal pump ing station were isolated. Rain ceased falling early today and the thermometer dropping caused the weather bureau to express the hope that the flood's crest would not reach 30 feet. ' ISLAND BILL REPORTED PROMPT PHILIPPINE INDEPEND ENCE IRGED ON SENATE. 'car of Political Agitation, If Measure Is Delayed, Is Expressed by Com Mittee Amendments Advised. WASHINGTON". Feb. 2. With a rec ommendation for- immediate passage. the revised bill for a greater measure of self-government and ultimate inde pendence of the Philippines, was pre sented to the Senate today. The com mittee report urges amendments, in cluding a revision of the preamble. The substitute tor tne iiouse pre amble, the report says, "is deemed to be free of certain ambiguities in tne House preamble and avoids the refer ence to debatable historical events in cluded in the House preamble," and states in plain language the reasons for the present bill and declares the nuroose of the united sstai.es. wnn re gard to ultimate independence under proper conditions. The .Senate committee urgea acuon at this session because longe delay would inflame and provoke political agitation, possibly leading to disturb ance and "increase present business depression in the islands." MORE POOR BABIES DIE RATE IS 5 TIMES GREATER THAN IN WEALTHIER HOMES. .More Than 163 Per Thousand Expire When Fed ArtlBelally, Against One Fourth as Muuy Natnrnlly Nursed. WASHINGTON, Feb. 2. The first re port of its study of infant mortality was made public tonight by the fed eral children's bureau. It is based on conditions found by the bureaus in vestigators in Johnstown, Pa. While it caretully avoids conclusions, the report points out that in the poor est sections of Johnston the death rate was 271 per thousand babies, or more than five times that in the best resi dential sections of the city. Babies whose fathers earned $10 a week or less, the report says, died at the rate of 256 per thousand, while those whose fathers earned $25 or more a week died at the rate of 84 per thousand. Only 46.6 babies per thou sand died under 1 year of age when breast-fed for at least three months, as against 165.8 per thousand who died when fed with artificial foods. When mothers were employed a large part of the time in heavy work babies died at a rap'id rate. DUEL FOUGHT IN BANK Farmer Dead, Cashier Wounded and ITnablc to Tell or Affray. DEWEESE, Neb., Feb. 2. Peter lled rick, a young farmer, was killed and Joseph Peshek, bank cashior, has a bullet wound in his head and two in his body, the result of a mysterious shooting affray here today. Peshek is unable to talk. He is cashier of the State Bank of Deweese. People passing the bank heard sev eral shots in rapid succession. They rushed in to find the one man dead and the other wounded on the floor. Cuban Slayer's Release Cheered. HAVANA. Feb. 2. General Ernesto Asbert, -ex-Governor of Havana Prov ince, who last June was sentenced by the Supreme Court to more than 12 years' imprisonment for killing General Armando Riva, chief of the national police, was released tonight. He was escorted from the prison to his home by cheering crowds. Xokamaru's Cargo Worth $500,000. WELLINGTON. N. Z., Feb. 2. via London The cargo on board the Toko maru. one of the steamers sunk re cently in the English Channel by a German submarine, was valued at about $500,000. The Tokomaru was on her way from this port to London when she was sent to the bottom. Argentina is shipping grapes to England. Ohio now has 5525 saloons. In 1906 it had 13,000. SLIGHT GAIN COSTS GERMANS HEAVILY Six Thousand Killed on Polish Front in Line Less Than One Mile Long. RUSSIANS REGAIN LOSSES Some of Heaviest Fighting ot War Is Staged Before Warsaw, and Results in Small Changes in Positions of Armies. LONDON, Feb. 1. The new German attack on the Warsaw front has led to some of the heaviest fighting of the war in the east thus far. An official statement from Petrograd today ad mits that the Germans succeeded in carrying Russian trenches in the re gion of Sochaczew and Borjimow, near the Vistula and about 30 miles west of 1 1 . k.. that th German suc cesses were of small importance com pared with tne losses mey "" A nD,..i hoH na enormous. On one front less than a mile long more than 6000 Germans are said to have been killed in a week. A lie IlliMmilB i-iim 1 - trenches with bayonets and Petrograd reports that they succeeaeo m fi ning back a large part of them. fniA!n. official communica tion was received today from Vienna: The general situation is um;iiubt A Russian attack in the central sec tion of the Pilica River in Poland has been repulsed. Austro-Germans Successful. "The battle in the Carpathians con tinues on the western front. The Ger man and Austrian troops were suc cessful in the fighting on the middle front." The Russian communication ionows. "On the right bank of the Lower Vis ...... T-,.,n-ii-v. -s i nnv caalrv made a sudden and successful assault upon the German line along i"e irunu uo . ii i nl T.nkA OrezcleJo. 15 versts (10 miles) north of Sierpec. cap turing manv o'.iicers anu ouw0. "The attempt of the Germans on the An,. n 41,0 rtffnlvA movement in the direction of Lipno and Dobrzyn. supported oy ariuiery in. - :hecked. . I.- Kanb- nt thp Vistula front at the villages of Makow and Dyblin. the enemy was thrown back to the line - . . - -. : 1 1 f WAlavA SnH 'fl 7.ic- OE tne lllIttKca vm. newo, northwest of Wloclawek. The Germans in retreating auauuoucu w Makow many of tneir aeaa. "In the course of the day of January 31, the enemy, after having concen- jimow and south of Borjimow a large force of artillery, developed active operations against our puomun -.ua,nnlo firfv Thfi German very . - . offensive was distinguished by great tenacity, advancing in close ranks, strongly supported from the rear. Russian I'nlts Retire. - . i i n.nrotH vlnlont Alter iitLviiife, .ui.i.v-. fire in tho morning upon that region. tne nercenets ui mo vrc.n.c... " - - compelled some of our units to retire to the second line oi irencnes. "In the meanwhile, a counter attack from another detachment of our forces drove the enemy from all the trenches occupied by him. inflicting upon him enormous losses. - "Simultaneously with tins attacic on Borjimow, the Germans delivered a se- r fAlntio naaniiltM aerflinst OUf TICS VJl ACWKlvi.. o front between the villages of Goumlne, tsourgaue ana mogneiy. uoo were supported by very heavy artillery r : I " n miH-Hnv of .IfttlliarV 31. every one of these assaults was driven back some bv our ruie tire aim boic witn tne oayoneu uui uciwcn iinuU. and 2 P.M., of January 31, the Ger mans were successiui in occuiiis. a. part of our trenches. In this they were i. i 1 i..i K an nnnrrMii- u 1 1 1 K 1 1 M - tained artillery fire. A little after 2 oclocK we unoertooK a pcunoi i-uuiuci attack. This was successful and as a result of it the enemy, the evening of January 31, retained but a little por tion of our first line trenches, with a certain chateau in the country. Losses Outwelsrli Success. "It can be said the success of the Germans January 31 In the vicinity of Borjimow were relatively insignificant compared to the losses we inflicted on the enemy with our artillery fire, our counter attack and our bayonet charges. According to reports from our military chiefs the Russian artillery in flicted damage on the Germans. Our guns dispersed dense gatherings of German infantry and reduced their bat teries to silence; this maae it possiDie for us to resist their fierce- attack. "The fighting in the Carpathians con tinues. In spite of the reported partici pation of fresh Austrian troops, which un to the present time have not ac tually appeared on our front, we wer successful in repelling every endeavor of the enemy to assume the ortenslve in the vicinity of Mount Beskid and Mount Wyszkow, and we are continu ing to advance with success along the front froth Nljnia Follianka to Loudov isky. "It should be related that during the night of January 30-31, at a point near Molimow, a Russian detachment ad vanced upon the enemy and dislodged them from certain positions which threatened the heads of our trenches. In this encounter our men used the bayonet freely and we captured some machine guns. , Wounded Ji"lll 60 Wsjcons. "Local inhabitants relate that the enemy, after the Lipno-Dobrzyn fight, used 60 wagons to remove their wound ed. Germans captured near Bermijow are authority for the statement that between January 25 and January SO the Germans, on a front near Borjimow one and one half versts long (a little less than a mile), lost over 6000 men in killed. The wounded were numerous. ''"In the Carpathians, between Janu ary 26 and 29, on the front between Nijnia, Pollianka and Loudovisky, we captured 78 officers, 4065 soldiers, four pieces of artillery and 10 machine guns." The German War Office today said: "There have been no important de velopments on the East Prussian fron tier. "In Poland, north of the Vistula and near Lipno, we have had encounters with detachments of Russian cavalry. South of the Vistula our attacks con tinue to progress." . I'cdcral Food Laws Put Over. WASHINGTON, Feb. 2. Various bills to strengthen the pure food laws, the McKellar bill to regulate cold storage and the Administration bill to supply lapses in the commodities clause of the interstate commerce law developed in court decisions, were put over to the next session in the House today be cause of the pressure of other legis lation to be handled before March 4. Australian Troops Reach Kg pt. LONDON. Feb. 3. The second Aus tralian contingent has arrived in Egypt and has joinedy the first con tingent, . If REE PRONG . The National Has No Rival In house, service or attractions. LOOK AT THIS BILL Y SKAT 10 t K.VTS Friday and Saturday Marshall 5533, A 5533 Oprn oa to II l. M. TOD Y ASD THVKJnY 1 Kxpiolts of l:ia.uc Uront Oraiic Kennedy Mystery torU'. Featuring all-star cttst. (Mut inies). Be sure to fee thvno from start. j I)rrH Suit Ciinc KpUodc Sparkling, wlttv comflv. ;i I'ilHe'M Plain I'urriti I "u n it y beyond ImaKnuition. Ks.nnay npeial. 4 The lrch 2-part Kalm drama. Kiuertuimnff to the laet degree. 5 Flora t'oarflnnh Adventure The villain folU-d by inorv ha I r bread i h encaje. H tlitue! Thorpe Harpist. 7 t lilt t arnry Master Ot -ganint. Geo. L. lnnrum. acn'l. MFCIL BY Ri:qi fT Thursday we will repeat IhM wonderful 3-part drama, "T Women." in addition to the above bill. "Evil Men Do." llear.-l-.Selig Weekly, "The Three lints." "The Hight Girl" and specialties. NAVAL IN OBJECT Hobson Shell Requirement Is Opposed by Board. KIND USED AS GOOD AS ANY Requirement of Power to Tcnetratc 10-lnch Armor at 12,000 Yards Would Put Xation's Prepared ness in Danger, Is View. WASHINGTON, Feb. 2. Secretary Daniels sent to the House today a re port from a special board of naval of ficers expressing the opinion that the Navy"3 preparedness for war would bo nut in teoDardv by the Hobson amend ment to the pending naval appropria tion bill, forbidding the purchase ot i- or 14-inch armor piercing shells, un less it is demonstrated that they can pierce 10-ihch armor at 12,000 yards. This amendment was adopted by the House several days ago, but probub'y will be voted on again when the bill is advanced to the point of final pas sage. The House spent many hours to day and tonight on tho measure. Most of the debate centering upon the pro vision which would abolish tho so- called "plucking board." Shells as tnood as Any. in it rnort on the Hobson amend ment the special board, which is headed by Rear Admiral Flake, said: "The Board Is of the opinion that such a prevision would jeopardize the readiness of the Navy for war. We believe that our armor piercing aliens are as good as any that any antagonist could use against us and are as good as can be made in the present state of the metallurgical art. Mr. Daniels also submitted a report of the board on recent tests of a high explosive shell which has been urged as a substitute for the armor piercing projectile. Isham Shell JKot KfTertlvr. It follows: "The Board on torpedo shells has the honor to report that in Its opinion the experiments held with the Isham shell on January 27 were not conclusive and fell far short of demonstrating tnat the Isham shell can be considered an effective weapon of naval warfare. "All the shells ricocheted that tell at distances of 8000 yards or less. Out of seven fuses only two operated cor rectly, and. the shell being lined witn black powder only no proof wss given !PSiI0 irr: Smokers of Turkish Trophies Cigarette fifteen years ago are smokers of Turkish Trophies Cigarettes today ( Matmtftiefri(hatCnMle'EaiA ad Egyptian GgmOn&ittVU thai if high explosives had been In ths shell It could have been detonated. Ths experiments, however, are to bo continued." Women Vole for Commission. JULIET. III.. Feb. S The Women's vote todsy oven-am tho msle opposi tion and Jolict. a city of SO.ixiO popula tion, will hsve tho commission form of envernnvnt. vsmm l.eadlnic l'fcoo-rlny 'Ihrslrr I West Park and Alder Only 4 Days MORK. flaying to Cipacil llnii;-ps Marguerite Clark IN I The Goose Girl i The Uuvely lloniam-c by Harold .Mi-Urath. NEXT SUNDAY Feb. 7 For One Week 11 JO A. M. to 11 JO P. M. lOc Mary Pickford in Mistress Nell 4 Days StartingToday SIDNEY AYRES in HER BARGAIN A -'-rfel fiocloty frRtnr wtfh a popular I'ortlnml fmortio. 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