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PORTLAND, OREGOX, THURSDAY, JANUARY 20, 191G. PRICE FIVE CENTS. BRYAN MAY TRAfL CALIFORNIA FLOOD IMPRESARIO ASKS AID FROM COUNTY POVERTY PUT FIRST AS CAUSE OF VICE WOOD SAKS ENEMY COULD LAND EASILY FUNDS FOR ALASKA VOL. LV SO. 17,211. HOMES OF WEALTHY RAIDED FOR LIQUOR Seattle Stocks Worth Thousands Seized. RAILWAY REPORTED WILSON ON STUMP CONSTRUCTION WILL BEGIN- IN EARNEST IN SPRING. PEACE TALKS TO FOLLOW CAM PAIGN FOR PREPAREDNESS. HAMMERSTEIX, WITHOUT COLN". WANTS HELP IX LAWSUIT. DAMAGE $2,000,000 Lesson Is Drawn From Gallipoli Venture. COAST IS OPEN TO INVASION Gold Declared Valueless Un less Stiffened With Iron. GARRISON PLAN RAPPED National Guard "Composed of Fine Personnel, but Cursed by Hope less System" Storm Sig- , nals on All Sides Seen. WASHINGTON". Jan. 19. Major-General Leonard Wood told the Senate military committee today the coast line of the United States was open to attack by any well-organised foreign rmy. despite its equipment of forts, mines and submarines, and that the oceans formed no serious barrier to invasion. He maintained that in the country's present state of utter unpreparedness for war. a trained force of 150,000 men could inflict incalculable damage before an army could be assembled to meet it. Possibility Preved by Gallipoli. Events of the European war demon strated clearly, the General said, that the sea was the best medium for the movement of troops, and he pointed out that a force of 126,000 men fully equipped had been landed at Gallipoli from a single expedition of 98 ships, against submarines, mines and an un derwater screen of barbed wire which fringed every available landing place. Emphasising his conviction that troops cannot be improvised to meet regulars. General Wood said the funda mental basis of any policy of adequate National defense must be the principles that with suffrage goes an obligation for military service. Such a policy was advocated by George Washington, be said, and if It had been adopted Can ada would have become part of the United States in the War of 1812. Preparedaeaa Shorteas Xearotlatloas. 'Only once in our history have we been prepared for war," he added. That was Immediately after the Civil War. when we had a million and a half of trained soldiers. Our diplomatic cor respondence with France at that time concerning Mexico was brief. It re quired only one note, because o.f our preparedness. France was told to get out of Mexico and she got out. -There is not going to be any weak ness abroad after this war Is over. You will find that more male children will have been born than have been killed or Injured. "You will have all the gold, per haps, but It will not do you much good unless you stiffen it with iron." Amy of 3IO.UOO Advocated. As to the Immediate needs of the reg ular Army. General Wood expressed the opinion that the force of regulars with the colors . should be maintained at 210.000. Of these, he said. 20.000 equipped and supplied for a year's time should be kept in the Philippines; an other 20,000 in Hawaii and 13,000 in Panama. He urged that the regulars should have a reserve system under which In a six-year enlistment men would be transferred into a reserve whenever their company commanders reported them efficient, to be definite ly assigned to war stations. Equip ment for members of the reserve would be kept at their stations and once every two years they would be required to Join the colors for 10 days' training to keep them up to date. General Wood said that if universal military service were not to be ob tained, be favored a continental army scheme substantially as proposed by the War Department, "provided It is adequately divorced from the organized militia." .arrlMa Plas) Inadequate. The increases for the regular Army proposed by Secretary Garrison he characterised as "absurdly Inadequate and Indicating a failure to appreciate the lessons of the European war. par ticularly as to the proportion of field artillery." He recommended that the proportion of field guns be fixed at five to every 1000 rifles or sabers. The present Army standard is 3.9 per 1000. although In actual equipment the reg ulars are nearer two per 1000. The board recently created In the War De partment has fixed on 5.9 per 1000 as the number necessary. . Reverting to the condition of the country to face war the General said the United States was utterly unpre pared and knew nothing of the prob lems it would have to meet. At least S.ooo.OOO men would be needed, he as serted, and they could be obtained, he believed, only by compulsory measures. At present there are only 700.JOU modern rifles and 300.000 old model weapons in Government arsenals, he haid. and up to live days ago the ca pacity of all American plants to pro duce rifles was only 32.000 a day. Eng land alone, he said, wanted 65.000 a day, while Franca, called for two rifles In reserve for every man in the Held. atlaal Uuard System Hopeless." General Wood was positive in assert ing that the National Guard was com posed of a nne personnel, but cursed by a hopeless system, unless It could be taken ever by the Government and severed from any connection with the .jUIIi Mil T' I'rgent Ucficlcncy Bill Adds Two Million Dollars to Credit of Commission. WASHINGTON", ian. 19. Two million dollars with which to push work on the Alaska railroad with the opening of Spring and 975,000 for the con fidential diplomatic fund used by the President and the Secretary of State are included In an urgent deficiency ap propriation bill favorably reported to day to the House. Construction of the Alaska railroad will begin In earnest in the Spring. The commission in charge already has had 12.607.000 placed at its disposal and the ultimate cost of the project is to be 93S.000.000. Money provided In the present bill is to start actual building of a track 45 miles from the Matanuska River to Chickaloon, center of the Matanuska coal fields 9718,530; 45 miles from Kern Creek to Ship Creek Junction. 3K94.000; from Matanuska Junction northward toward Talkeetna, 9187,500, and to provide two gasoline electric motor-cars for passenger traffic on the Alaska Northern 940,000, and additional marine equipment 975,000; for Alaskan Northern Railway 9180,000 (purchased by the commission for 91.150,000 of which 95)0,000 already has been paid on account). MONTENEGRO TO FIGHT ON Paris Says Conditions Imposed by Austria Were Refused. PARIS, via London, Jan. 19. The fol lowing official statement was issued today. "The wireless news of the surrender of the Montenegrin army appears some what premature. It is now announced from another source that negotiations between Austria and Montenegro have been broken off, the conditions of sur render imposed by Austria, having been found quite unacceptable by Monte negro. "The King, the royal family and the diplomatic corps are about to proceed to Italy." BALTIC PR0VES OBSTACLE Britain Troubled in Conforming to Civil War Precedents. LONDON, June 19. From views ob tained in official circles it Is known that the obstacle in the way of sub stituting an actual blockade of Ger many for the situation created under the orders In council is provided by the Baltic Sea. The problem of the controlling of the Baltic so that the precedents estab lished during the American Civil War may be met is giving the government considerable trouble and on Its solu tion depends the decision of the Cabi net as to the cancelling of the orders in council. LITTLE BOOTY LEFT TURKS British Cut Constantinople Figure to One-fourth or Eighth. LONDON. Jan. 19. Harold J. Ten- nant. Parliamentary Under-Secretary for War. said in the House of Com mons today that he thought a quarter or an eighth of the 2.000.000 attributed in the" Turkish reports as the value of the booty left when the British evacu ated Gallipoli Peninsula would cover everything left behind. Mr. Tennant said the primary object was to bring the troops away safe. No doubt more stores might have been saved by the sacrifice of life, he added. The. bulk of the stores left behind had been destroyed, he declared. BIRDS FED FROM TRAIN Pood Scattered Along Track; Hay to Be Provided for Deer. REDDING. Cal.. Jan. 19. Half a ton of wheat was taken out of here today on a northbound train to be scattered along the track between Pit River and Sims for the relief of birds starving be cause of heavy snow. Food will be supplied daily for the birds and hay will be sent to certain spots for the re lief of deer. Many quail have entered farm yards and eaten with the chickens. RIOT WIDOW SUES COUNTY Damages Demanded Under Ohio Law for DeaJSi of Husband. YOUNGSTOWN. O.. Jan. 19. Mrs. Irene Davis, widow of and adminis tratrix of the estate of Robert Davis, killed in the East Youngstown riots, today filed- suit for 810.000 damages against Mahoning County for her hus band's death, under an Ohio law that holds counties liable for damages caused by riots within the county. Davis was shot down by an unknown rioter. NORTHWEST SUMS 0. K.'D Defieieney Appropriation Bill Is Re ported to House. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington. Jan. 19. The deficiency appro priation bill reported to the House of Representatives today carries the fol lowing amounts for Northwestern pub lic buildings: Oregon Roseburg. 839.000. Washington Vancouver. 95.000; Aberdeen. 945.0J0: Ellensburg. 930,000. lUahair-Twjtt Fail, 115,002. EXCLUSIVE CIRCLES SHOCKED Rare Old Whiskies and Wine Taken by Squad of Deputies. SOME WORTH $60 QUART Cellars of W. E. Boeing and D. E. Skinner Are Emptied by Offi cers, Who Are Treated Court eously by Families." SEATTLE. Wash., Jan. 19. (Special.) Seattle's wealthiest and most ex clusive circles which got their first shock Monday when the Rainier Club was raided on search warrants under the new prohibition law were rocked by a social volcano today when the homes of two millionaires were raided by deputies acting under orders of Sheriff "Bob" Hodge, the coal miner aspirant for the Governorship, and large and valuable stocks of fine wines and liquors were seized. Where the law officers' lightning will strike next is the topic tonight in the homes of Capitol Hill and the Richmond Highlands. Butler Leads Searchers. The palatial home at the Highlands of W. E. Boeing, millionaire lumber man, was raided at noon Wednesday by Deputy Sheriffs. Sheriff Hodge had been told that an 98000 stock of liquors belonging to the Seattle Golf and Coun try Club had been secreted there in vio lation of the dry law. E. F. Clark, butler at the Boeing home, led the searching party through the premises. In one room in the basement the deputies said they found a specially fitted device by . which great numbers of bottles were put away, corks down. The liquors were of the richest kind. Including bottled Scotch, rye and Bour bon whiskies, vermouth, champagne, including some of the vintage of 1830, and valued at 860 a quart; a case of Pol Roget, Chartreuse and other liquor and. three cases of beer. In the butler's pantry were found 18 bottles of beer and about 15 bottles of assorted drinkables. Coarteay Shons Raiders. The Highlands is 11 miles north of Seattle, and is a short distance from the Country Club. The raiding party included Deputies Halley, Campbell, Madden and Spalght. The liquor found in the basement was said by the Deputy Sheriffs to be worth at least 82000. "We found about every kind of wine," said Mike Halley, chief jailer, who took part in the raid. "Some are said to bo the only samples of their kind west of New York." The officers were treated with the utmost courtesy Dy persona in the house. Mr. Boeing is president of the Green- (Concluded on Page !i. Column 3.) A MODERN ST. President, However, Will Ndt Alter Plans and First Trip Will Take Him to Middle West. WASHINGTON. r Jan. 19. Reports were current about the Capitol today that ex-Secretary Bryan may follow after President Wilson on the latter's proposed speaking tour in behalf of National defense and speak in favor of universal peace. Representative Bailey, of Pennsyl vania, said that he had a letter from Mr. Bryan, written at his Winter home In Florida, in which the statement is said to be made that Mr. Bryan is "will ing to go any place at any time where lie can be of service to the cause of peace." President Wilson's plan for going before the country on . the National- defense issue took definite shape today. A revised outline of ' the first trip to day called for visits to eight or nine Middle Western cities. The President probably will start West immediately after his visit to New York ' January 27 to deliver addresses before the Rail road Business Association and the. Mo tion Picture Board of Trade. . Reports that opponents of increased military preparations will speak in the same territory as the President on the other side of the issue, it has been made plain at the White House, will not lead to a change of plana. BLOOD IS HEIR TAX LIMIT Marriage Relationship Is Exempted From Inheritance Law. SALEM. Or., Jan. 19. (Special-.) Relationship only exists between blood relatives and not between those related by marriage in applying the provisions of the inheritance tax law,- Attorney General Brown ruled today in an opinion submitted to State Treasurer Kay. The decision was given in reply to the question propounded by the State Treasurer, as to whether the niece of a deceased husband can be considered the niece of his widow upon her death for the purposes of the inheritance tax law. - The Attorney-General ruled that this could not be done. TWO WALK ON COLUMBIA John Winters Falls In .Three Times In Effort to Cross on Ice. .VANCOUVER. Wash., Jan. .19. (Spe cial.) John Winters and Kenneth Blair attempted to cross the Columbia River on the ice this afternoon. They went out on the ice half a mile above the Government dock and reached a point about midstream, but were com pelled to turn back after Mr. Winters had fallen in three times. Both said tonight that they would try again tomorrow. The ice in many places will bear a man's weight. VILLA DECLARED OUTLAW Carranza Authorizes Any Citizen to Execute Rebel. WASHINGTON. Jan. 19. General Carranza notified the Mexican Embassy hero today that he had formally pro claimed Francisco Villa, Tablo Lopez and Rafael Castro outlaws because of the massacre of American citizens at Santa Ysabel. Under the decree any citizen of the republic is authorized to execute the outlaws without formality. GEORGE WHO TAKES THE EASIEST Towns Begin to Feel Pinch of Famine. WIDE AREA IS INUNDATED; - -.tlft C lyA Railroad Ser e os An geles Partly Restored. TRAINS' MOVE PART WAY Clearing Weather Is Predicted tor Today Arizona Also In Path of Storm and Colorado River Continues .to Rise. LOS ANGELES. Jan. 19. Snow storms in the mountain regions, accom panied by falling temperatures and clearing weather in the valley sections of Southern California gave some relief tonight from the flood conditions re sulting from the heavy rain which has fallen in this section since last Satur day, with only occasional lulls. Railroad service had been restored late today on some of the railroad lines entering Los Angeles. Railroad officials, representatives of other public utility corporations and individuals were making every effort to repair the damage, which, according to estimates, will mean a loss of ap proximately 82,000,300. Heavy Damage Done. Dozens of bridges have been washed away, many others have been weakened by the flood water, railroad yacKB have been washed out and long stretches of state and county highways have been undermined. Thousands of acres of cultivated lands were Inun dated. Houses have been flooded and in numerous instances the occupants were forced to flee for their lives. Others were removed by rescue parties. Several towns which were isolated by the floods reported a scarcity of food, but with railroad service gradually re stored it was thought this condition would be remedied before there is any serious shortage. , Clearing Weather Predicted. The local Government weather fore caster said late today that the storm was practically over. He predicted clearing weather tomorrow. Arizona also war in the path of the storm and the Colorado River was ex pected to reach the 26-foot stage near Yuma before midnight. One man was drowned in the Salt River, near Phoenix, Ariz., today. Both the Coast and valley lines of the Southern Pacific Railroad were opened for traffic today between Los Angeles and San Francisco. Southern Pacific overland trains, which had been delayed at Yuma. Ariz., moved as far as Indio, Cal., 125 miles from here, late today. Washouts west of Indio made further progress impossible. Wires to San Diefro Restored. Telegraphic communication with San Diego was restored early tonight. That city has been shut off from communl- (Concluded on Page 2. Column 4.) WAY AROUND. Good Will, Property and Business Said to-Have Been Sold for $1, 200,000 Few Years Ago. NEW YORK, Jan. 19. Oscar Ham merstein, former grand opera impre sario and builder of many theaters, asserting he was penniless, today ap- . 'ed to the District Attorney's office v. . . me county s aiu in recovering au -est he claims in the Lexington- . i Avenue Opera-House erected by him a few years ago. He said he made a friendly transfer of the property on advice of an at torney and now cannot recover it. Hammerstein originally equipped the Lexington-avenue house with a view to re-entering the grand opera field here, which he abandoned in 1910, signing an agreement not- to produce grand opera in this city or Boston for ten years. He is said to have received 81,200,000 for his good will, properties and busi ness. An involuntary petition in bank ruptcy was filed against Hammerstein only a short time ago. COOS SUFFERSJN SILENCE No Alcohol to Be Had, for Druggists Refuse to Sell It. MARSHFIELD. Or., Jan. 19. (Spe cial.) Those with ills which can only be relieved by application . of alcohol, interior or exterior, must suffer in si lence in Coos County, for there is no way for them to obtain a supply ex cept to order from another state. The druggists of the county agreed at their last meeting in 1915 to handle no alcohol, and all are said to be stand ing by the compact. The public, how ever, was not aware the druggists had taken such a step and the call for alcohol has been astounding, being many times as frequent as before the first of January. People who ask for the fiery fluid at the pharmacies all meet with the same reply: "We don't sell it." COLUMBIA AT H00D FROZEN Party Crosses Stream on Ice First Time in 22 Years at That Point. HOOD RIVER, Or., Jan. 19. (Spe cial.) For the first time in 22 years men walked across the Columbia River here this afternoon on Ice. Bert Kent. D. P. Gillam, H. J. Friedrlch. Raymond Meigs and Frank and Aaron Larsen, all from Underwood, crossed on the ice from that city this afternoon. Pecking a hole in the ice in mid-, stream, Mr. Kent found it to be three inches thick. Toward the banks and in eddies the ice is from six to eight inches thick. Cold Threatens Eastern Linn Stock LEBANON, Or., Jan. 19. (Special.) If the present weather continues much longer there will be considerable loss of stock in Eastern Linn County. The dry fall made Winter pasture short, and the little jgrass is covered with snow. The supply of hay is short and many farmers are about out of feed. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 26 degrees; minimum, 15 degrees. TODAY'S Probably rain or snow; southerly War. Munitions scandal rife in Canada. Page 4. Writers on war front draw fire of Bulgarian artillery, Page 7. National. General Wood says Gallipoli teaches that enemy would easily land- invading army on our shores. Page 1. Two million-dollar item for Spring work on Alaska railway reported. Page 1. Submarine E-2 long known to be in danger. Page 6. Democrat!:; Senators stave off action on 1 Mexican situation. Page 7. Lusi'.ania Issue may be settled without furmnt disavowal of submarine com mander's act. Page 7. Admiral Fletcher details shortcomings of American Navy. Page 2. Bryan may follow Wilson on speaking tour. Page 1. Domestic. Investigators say poverty is chief cause of commercialized vice. Page 1. Southern California floods cause $2,000,000 damage. Page 1. Brothers indicted for plotting to kill par ents. Page 4. Chauffeur says Mrs. Mohr paid to have hus band murdered. Page 8. Oscar Hammerstein, penniless, asks county for aid in brirging lawsuit. Page 1. Oregon man gets Carnegie hero medal. Page. 2. Sports. Long list of -Federal League players are re- leased. Page 18. Curley's bid for Willard-Moran fight ac cepted by Jones. Page IS. James John High School to play first inter scholastic game today. Page IS. Pacific Northwest. Former Portland nurse and physician battle snow and rain in race against death in Eastern Oregon. Page 7. Oregon delegates to Republican convention will have little time for trip. Page 7. Big stocks of liquors seized in homes of Seattle millionaires. Page 1. Commercial and Marine. Wheat buying in Northwest for export of large volume. Page 19. Chicago prices carried down by selling for profits. Page lit. Conditions In Mexico and Europe utilized by bears to depress stock prices. Page 19. Bear breaks way In through Ice of Colum bia. Page .15. Portland and Vicinity. Temperatures drop to 14 degrees. ' Page IX Ad Club and Rosarians parade to big mall bos. in Summer attire. Page 9. Bride of forger leaves, smiling at manner in which she was duped. Pago 20. Fire Marshall gets $40,000 insurance on tin cup. Page IX Composer of slogan invites President Wilson to Rose Festival. Page 14. Oregon's largest herd of elk faces starvation in snow. Page J6. Chamber hears Wisconsin lumberman urge revision of seaman's law. Pane l.i. Judge McGinn says Supreme Court Imputes prejudice by reversing and taking away case. Page S. Republicans issue call for mat's meeting for organization of new Republican club. Page 14. .Weather ret-urt, data and forecast. Page 18. Finding Is Emphasized by Investigators. MINIMUM WAGE IS FAVORED i Conditions of Domestic Em ployment Are Arraigned. "HIGH-CLASS CAFES" HIT. Highest Standard of Morals Found to Exist Among Girls In High Schools, Colleges and Vnl- versifies of State. i SPRINGFIELD. 111.. Jan. 19. Poverty is the principal cause of immorality, the minimum wage for girls and worn en is fixed at- S8 a week and unregu lated conditions of domestic employ ment render the home, In many cases, a breeding place of commercialized vice, according to the Illinois Senate whir Kin va investigation committee's report, made public tonight when for mally presented to the State Senate. That poverty ia the principal cause, direct or indirect, of immorality is the most strongly emphasized finding of the commission. Thousands of girls. It says, are driven into prostitution "be cause of the sheer inability to keep body and soul together on the low wages paid them." Domestic System Condemned. The system of domestic employment in America is condemned in posltiv terms. "Unregulated conditions of do mestic employment, uncertain hours, absence of definite social status and. lack of creative opportunities render the home, in many cases, for the wom en servants, a breeding place of im morality," says the commission's re port. Investigations conducted by the com mittee, the report says, disclosed tha fact that more women of the under world fall into dishonor from domestic employment than from any other work. "It is a peculiarly strong compliment to the sensing faculty of the female," says the report, "and her intuitive avoidance of sexual danger, that the occupation proved by actual statistics to be productive of most prostitution ia the occupation she most shuns." In this manner the committee accounts for the constitutional unfilled demand for domestics. Minimum Fixed at 8 a Week. Eight dollars a week is fixed by the committee as the least amount that will meet the necessary demands of a, bare living for a slrl employed in a large city. The report says wages were found to be discouragingly short of this figure. Attention is called to testi mony taken by the committee of wages running as low as S2 a week, of fore men who abuse girls in short dresses, shake them until tha arms are black ened and occasionally hurl boxes at them, and of the manager who found his factory besieged with the agents of professional white slavery. A condition whfch the report declare strikes directly at the home Is fount in what is termed the "call girl" sys tem. On this subject the report saya in part: "A detective told of a 'call' list which, he had seized in a raid. More than 20 names were on the list; first names only being given, then opposite the, telephone numbers. He checked up tha names and numbers. Mother Servea a 'Call Girl.' "Some of the women were 'respect able' married women. Two were young daughters. Others were working glrla. The case of a young mother serving as 'call girl' and using the money she made in buying necessities for her baby, is merely illustrative of the character of some of the women in this Bystem." - High-class cafes arc hard hit la the report. The conspicuous place of in u.i..nii in the, undoing of many girls is dismissed as a" matter of such gen eral knowledge as to require no eiaD ...iin. Th renort savs there can be no disagreement as to the effects on the young woman or alternate urum ing and dancing as practiced in many fashionable restaurants. "The free and easy manner of intro j,.tnn adrla to the danger. Most !,!. ...v, r remit-nt the Dooular resta- rants given over to dancing are very young," it continues. The commission found that the high est standard of morals exists among tha elrls in the high schools, colleges and universities of the state. Improvements Are Recommended. Tmnmvemnnin in conditions were recommended by the commission. They follow: 1. Enactment of a minimum wage law. Tjeneal of social laws fallen into disuse, and strict enforcement of all others. 3. Encouragement of uniform stato social legislation. 4. Improvement of conditions tor girls In domestic service. t r.iahllshment of homes for moral and industrial scnooilng of reformed women. S. Extension of vocational educa tion. 7 Abolition of the "fining system in the treatment of immoral women." Registration of minor boys and girls in employment. 9. Prohibition of printing in news- iCujiLiudtu on Pugo ii, Coluuia i.i