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l -Ai . - ! V i VOL. LVIXO. 17,486. PORTLAND, OREGON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1916. PRICE FIVE CENTS. . ! BUCHAREST DUMA PRESIDENT RESENTS INSULT 'TWAS SO SUDDEN! GASP UMATILLANS WRECKAGE POINTS TO SEA DISASTER VICTIMS WELCOME WAX ON HIS RETURN MAX LUCKE TELLS OF INFORMING B0PP . l SECONDS NAMED TO WAIT ON LEADER OiT OPPOSITION. STEAMER SANTA BARBARA AP PORTLAND DEUTSCHE ZEITUN EDITOR IS WITNESS. t - PARENTLY IN TROUBLE. LLOYD GEORGE IS CHOSEII PREMIER 111 i i V -t 1 Ploechti Is Captured, Too, by Invaders. LINE OF RETREAT IS CUT Southern Part of Roumania, Including 50,000 Square i Miles, Conquered. MAIN RAILWAY IS HELD Sacrifice of Capital to Enable Defenders to Escape Long Expected by Critics. BERLIN, Dec. 6, by wireless to Say ville. Bucharest, capital of Rou mania, has been captured, it was of ficially announced today. Ploechti, the important railway junction town, 36 miles northwest of Bucharest, also has been taken. ' The capture of Ploechti, on the main railway line running north from Buch arest, cuts the main railway line of retreat for the Roumanian armies op erating in the Bucharest region. Serious Plight Possible. The official statement does not in dicate whether the entry of the Teu tonic forces into Bucharest and Ploechti was simultaneous. The capture of Ploechti before that of the capital would be far more se rious for the Roumanians. ': Many military observers looked for the Roumanians not to attempt a de fense of the capital at the last, ex pecting an evacuation in time to save the forces defending it by a withdraw al by the railway route remaining to them. Vast Territory Conquered. The taking of Bucharest virtually completes the conquest by the Teu tonic forces of the southern section of the Roumanian kingdom, embracing territory of more than 50,000 square miles. BERLIN, Dec. 6, by wireless to Sayville. Russian troops again at tacked yesterday in the Carpathian forest, north of Tartar Pass and on the Ludova. The War Office report of today says the new assaults of the Russians brought them no success. The Russians made a strong attack in the Trotus Valley and succeeded in reaching the German second positions. North of Cituz Pass a Russian point of support was captured. Von Mackensen Sweeps On. Field Marshal von Mackensen's troops, advancing victoriously, ap proached the railway line running northward from Bucharest to Ploechti, causing the Roumanians to evacuate "their positions north of Sinia. South of Bucharest, the Teutonic troops have occupied other towns along the River Alt and are advancing toward the Roumanian capital. M ore than 6000 Roumanians were captured yesterday. HALF OF NATION CONQUERED Rapidity of Offensive Is Almost Un paralleled. WITH THE GERMAN ARMIES BE FORE BUCHAREST, Rouraanta, Bee. 4. (By courier to Hermannstadt and wireless to the Associated Press, via Sayville, N. Y.) The armies of Field Marshal von Mackensen and General von Falkenhayn after a campaign, the rapidity of which has been almost un paralleled in military history, have ewept through half of Roumania, have crushed the resistance of the Rouma nians at one point after another and now, having driven the Russo-Rou-manian forces beyond Bucharest, both to the north and the south of the cap ital, are clamping their tentacles on the Roumanian city from three sides. The Germans, with tne aid of Austro Hungarians, Bulgarians and Turks, have battered their way through West ern Roumania to their present centric position around Bucharest within a wonderfully short time. They have breasted the natural fortifications of the Transylvanian mountains and the Danube River and have beaten their way through the strongest kind of scientific defenses, obviously prepared long in advance. They have thrown the Roumanian army, numbering hun dreds of thousands of men, back in such disorder that even apparently Im pregnable positions, such as those along the Rivers Alt and Argechu, could not be held more than a few hours. The line of the Argechu River, with (Concluded on Page t. Column -.. Strength Shown by M. Rodzlanko, AVlio Is Called "Babbling Black guard," Shakes Minis-try. PETROGRAD, via London, Dec. 6. After yesterday's session of the Duma, in which the scandal caused by M. Markoff, leader of the extreme right, who Insulted President Rodzianko, led to a clear definition of the overwhelm ing strength of M. Rodzianko's sup porters, further ministerial resignations are now considered inevitable. The extent and nature of the Cabi net reformation will probably be dis closed soon. LONDON. Dec. 6. Michial Rodzianko, President of the Russian Duma, who resigned recently when Insulted by the leader of the extreme right, M. Mar koff, has appointed seconds to wait upon M. Markoff and demand satisfac tion for his honor, according to a Reu ter dispatch from Petrograd. M. Markoff, at a session of the Duma, called President Rodzianko a "babbling blackguard" and explained that he was deliberately insulting the Duma in the person of its President. MOTION FOR PEACE LOST Italian Chamber of Deputies Defeats Measure, 343 to 47. ' ROME, Dec. 6. A motion introduced by the Socialists in the Chamber of Deputies today urging peace was de feated by a vote of 343 to 47. Those who voted In the minority were mostly Socialists. Premier Boselli asked for the rejection of the motion, not, he said, because he wished the Ital ian Parliament to vote against peace in itself, but against an Italian initiative for peace while the country was pledged with its allies not to end the war until victory is attained. SCHOONER OAKLAND AFLOAT Further Salvage Operations Delayed Through Some Hitch. WHEELER, Or.. Dec. 6. (Special.) The stranded schooner Oakland was successfully floated four days ago, but owing to some hitch in preparations no attempt has been made to haul her out to sea. The vessel is in fine shape, and floats easily. Captain Roberts, who has put the ship in shape to be saved, will leave to morrow for Portland to urge the owner to take prompt action before another storm drives her back on the sand. 300,000 SEEK MORE PAY 80 Per Cent of Railroad Men Hold Adamson Law Discriminates. WASHINGTON". Dec. 6. Petitions in behalf of the- 80 per cent of railway employes not affected by the Adam- son law and signed by 300,000 of them were presented to the Senate today by Senator Newlands. The petitioners complained of having been discriminated against and con tend that Congress should extend such legislation to all employes. They fa vored fixing wages by a Federal com mission, and compulsory arbitration. HATCHERIES BILL IS READY Appropriations foe Northwest States Expected Today. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington, Dec. 6. The House of Repre sentatives practically concluded con sideration of an omnibus fish hatchery bill which carries $50,000 for a hatch ery in the Columbia River or its trlbu taries and similar amounts for hatch eries on Lake Quinault in Washing ton, and another in Idaho. The bill will pass the House tomor row. PAPER EMBARGO PROPOSED Bill Introduced in House Fixes Heavy Penalties. WASHINGTON. Dec. 6. A bill de signed to place two years" embargo on exports of news print paper was intro duced today by Representative Camp bell, of Kansas, and referred to the commerce committee. Penalties ranging from fines of $1000 to $20,000 and imprisonment of not more than 10 years would be provided by the measure. HAWAII SEEKS STATEHOOD Prince Kalanianaole Takes Bill Along to Washington. SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. 6. A bill for statehood for Hawaii and another for equal suffrage for the territory were in the suitcase of Prince J. Kuhio Kalanianaole. delegate to Congress from that territory, who was here to day, n route to Washington. Princess Kalanianaole, accompany ing her husband, said she expected to work for the suffrage bill. RECEIVER IS APPOINTED J. C. Lynch to Take Over Affairs of Casualty Company. SAN FRANCISCO, ' Dec. 6. John C. Lynch was appointed receiver today for the Pacific Coast Casualty Company, by Judge William C. Van Fleet, of the United States District Court. The 'company ceased business last February after reinsuring its business with the Casualty Company of America, Women Take Every Of fice at City Election. SURPRISE COUP TURNS TRICK Mayor Defeated by His Wife Comments on Result. 'WE DIDN'T KNOW,' HE SAYS Mayoress-Elect, Four Councilwomen Elect, Recorderess-EIect and Treasuress - Elect Promise Business Administration. UMATILLA, Or., Dec. 6. (Special.) The feminist administration-to-be of Umatilla, consisting of a woman Mayor elect, four Councilwomen-elect, a wom an Recorder-elect and a woman Treasurer-elect, all of whom were swept Into office by an astounding campaign coup at yesterday's election, defeating an all-man ticket, proposes to give Uma tilla a business-and-economy adminis tration. Mayor E. E. Starcher. whose wife ran against him and defeated him for re election, declared tonight that the men candidates were taken completely by surprise, and were defeated almost be fore they knew any opposition cam paign was under way. "The women put it over on us," was the Mayor's comment tonight. Mrs. Starcher defeated the Mayor, her husband, by a majority of 28 votes out of 174 ballots cast. These are the women elected to office: Mayor. Mrs. E. E. Starcher: Council. Mrs. C. G. Brownell, Mrs. Roy F. Paulu, Mrs. B. Spinning and Mrs. H. P. Moans. City Recorder, Mrs. J. H. Cherry. Treasurer, Mrs. Robert Merrick. Marshal May Be Woman. The town marshal is appointed by the Mayor, and there is talk here to night that that official, who also will take office after January 1. will be a woman. The men doubt this action and hold out hope of winning at least one office, even though it Is appointive. It was not until 2 o'clock, long after the polls opened, that the news spread over the town, and particularly to the Town Hall, where the 'election was held, that the women had a ticket In the field. That was the first the men cf the community knew of it. They laughed at the rumor. But it wasn't a rumor. It was such a cold fact that the men, who also were running for offices, are still wondering tonight how It all happened. The women won't tell. They won't say whether it was a slate "cut and dried" at some sewing circle or church (Concluded on Page 17. Column 1.) SEE 1 Sfej-yoy Lumber, Deckhouse and Life Pre server Washed Ashore on Brighton Beach, Oregon. WHEELER, Or., Dec. 6. (Special.) Wreckage which continued to come Into Brighton Beach today, all the way from Necarney Mountain to Brighton, Indi cated that the steam schoouer Santa Barbara had lost part of her deck load and probably was otherwise in trouble. Among other bits of wreckage picked up 'was a life preserver marked "Santa Barbara." Some of the wreckage ap peared to be pieces of the vessel's house. The southerly gale which has been blowing might have caused the vessel to lose her deckload and get Into trou ble that way. A great deal of lumber and part of the cabin have been washed in so far. The Santa Barbara is a wooden steam schooner, of 695 tons gross and 527 tons net register, with a lumDer-carry-ing capacity of 650,000 feet. She was 183.5 feet long, 37.5 feet beam and 13.5 depth of hold. She was built in San Francisco in 1900 and has been In Port land frequently. She carries a crew of 21 and has passenger accommodations. The Santa Barbara sailed from San Francisco for South Bend. Wash., No vember 28, and was reported In South Bend December 1. The vessel carries no wireless ap paratus. The Santa Barbara, according to in formation from South Bend last night. left Willapa Harbor early Wednesday morning, after having been barbound all Tuesday. Lewis & Reed, agents at Raymond, Wash., said she carried a full load of lumber but no passengers so far as they knew. The Santa Barbara is owned by the J. R. Hanify Lumber Company of San Francisco. WOMEN EJECT OFFICERS 3S00 at Meeting Throw Out 3 Men and Go on With Session. LINCOLN. Neb., Dec. 6. An attempt of Secretary Whitten, of the Commer cial Club, to prevent Anna M. Lowry, self-styled ex-nun, from speaking In the City Auditorium today, resulted in a riot in- which a constable and two policemen were roughly handled and thrown out of the building by the women. Thir j -five hundred women packed the auditorium when the officers en tered and attempted to arrest the wom an on a. warrant sworn to by Secretary Whitten, alleging trespassing. After throwing out the officers the women proceeded with the meeting. MANY GREET PRESIDENT Hour Is Set Aside to Receive Con gressmen's Congratulations WASHINGTON. Deo. 6. This was congratulations day at the White House. President Wilson set aside an hour late today in which to receive Sena tors and Representatives who had asked 'for appointments with him, and nearly 100 of them came and congratu lated him on his re-election. WHO'S KEEPING THEM IN THE Women Once Courted Greet Prodigal. MISS TANZER NOT YET SEEN Identification as "Oliver Os borne" Is Positive. SIGNATURE IS DUPLICATED Girls Once Loved by Central Figure in Romantic Adventures Ex press Sorrow for Plight and Some Shed Tears. ' NEW YORK, Dec. 6. Positive Iden tification of Charles H. Wax as "Oliver Osborne," elusive swain of a score of young women In this city, was made today by eight persons. He has yet, however, to face Miss Rae Tanzer, the factory worker, whose $250,000 breach of promise suit against James W. Os borne, a prominent attorney, whom she accused of courting her as "Oliver Os borne," led to a succession of legal proceedings and revelations of a. long chapter of sentimental adventures in which "Oliver" played the dual role of hero and villain. Wax has admitted It was he who made love to Miss Tanzer. The Federal authorities probably will not invite Miss Tanzer to call upon Wax. They maintained that James W. Osborne already has been vindicated of the charge of having wooed and. won Miss Tanzer under the alias of "Oliver." Perjury Charges to Be Reopened. Assistant United States District At torney Roger B. Wood announced the charges of perjury and extortion against Miss Tanzer and several of her witnesses in the breach of promise case will be reopened, and the cases rushed to trial. Wax' identification began as a legal proceeding but developed Into a wel come home reception. He was greeted with all the warmth of a returned prodigal. Among the visitors were some of the young women he had courted. Instead of condemning him they wished him good, luck. Miss Rose Helen Kaiser, who is said to have succeeded Miss Tanzer in his affections, took both Wax' hands in hers and said with tears in her eyes. "I'm so sorry for you." Another young woman. Miss Blanche Younger, when asked by one of the Government representatives why she did not shake hands with him, said that she would if Wax would permit her to. She, too, told him how sorry she felt for him. The persons who established the identity of Wax as the elusive "Oliver" (Concluded on Page 3, Column 2.) AIR. Government Presses Connection Be tween Agent of Berlin and Dynamiting of Ship. SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 6. The al leged connection between the German Consul-General at this port and bomb outrages in May, 1915, at Seattle and other points was pressed by United States District Attorney John W. Pres ton through several witnesses today in the United States District Court here. Consul-General Franz Bopp, with Baron E. H. Von Schack, Vice-Consul ; Lieutenant Wilheim von Brlcken, at tache, and four others, are on trial for conspiracy to destroy munitions ships, railway tunnels and ammunition ship ments of the entente allies in viola tion of American neutrality. (Max Lucke, editor of the Portland (Oregon) Deutsche Zeltung; John H. Degen, a Tacoma, Wash., storekeeper. and James Bashford, marine reporter for the Tacoma Tribune, were among the last witnesses examined today. Lucke, who was formerly assistant secretary of the German House, a semi- benevolent Institution here, testified that he learned from Louis J. Smith. Government witness, of a 2000-ton dynamite shipment intended for Rus sia and that he brought the German consulate's attention to it and placed the consulate in touch with Smith. Degen identified Smith as the man who later sought marine news at his store at 740 Pacific avenue, Tacoma. Bashford related how he had informed Smith, in Degen's store, of the date of departure of the Kaifuka Maru for Vladivostok. Smith has informed the District Attorney's office that he sub sequently tried to place a bomb on board the Kaifuka Maru, but failed. Smith, who is star witness for the Government, probably will not be called until next week. Testimony was br ught out today that Lieutenant von -Brlcken hurried to the German House in a taxicab to meet Smith after Lucke's message. The Government prosecutors said they would try to show that out of this meeting the German Consul-General through C. C. Crowley, a detective, hired Smith to do dynamiting jobs in the Northwest and in Canada, for J300 a month and a bonus of equal amount for each explosion. MORE WOOL RAISING URGED Present Prices Will Be Maintained 10 Years, Is Forecast. NEW YORK, Dec. 6. Wool raisin on a. larger scale in the United States to meet problems confronting the in dustry was urged by Albert W. Elliott, of Boston, in an address on the wool situation at the 10th annual meeting of the American Association of Woolen and Worsted Manufacturers here today He declared the outlook for wool after the war is good and that present prices would be maintained for the next 10 years. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, degrees; minimum. 35 degrees. TODAY'S Fair, winds mostly westerly. War. Bucharest falls. Page 1.' German submarines sink French gunboat. Page 4. Mexico. Carranza expected to sign protocol. Page S Foreign. Lloyd George becomes new Premier of Great Britain. Page 1. Lloyd Georgo is idol of British democracy. ir'O-gC 3. President of Russian Duma sends seconds to wait on lnaulter. Page 1. Pope gives credit to Plus X for recodifica tion of church laws. Page National. Treasury to have surplus at end of fiscal year. Page s. Inquiry into causes of rising cost of living to be nationwide. Page 3. Senate proposes to provide penalty for elec tlon betting. Page 4. Federal incorporation of railways opposed by state commissions. Page 4. Government military preparatory schools ad vised by War Secretary. Page a. Domestic. Edith Colby found guilty of murder in second degree. Page 2. Bryan advocates prohibition, suffrage, di rect1 vote for President and more flex, lble Constitution. Page 16. Max Lucke, of Portland, tells of Informing . German Consul-General of munitions in tended for Russia. Page 1. Pretty victims of Wax welcome him home as returned prodigal. Page 1. Sports, Dates for fairs In Pacific Northwest fixed for 1317. page 18. "Uncle Sams hope to retrieve recent de- teat ht-r tomorrow, night. Page 18. Faclfio Coast League magnates meet at Salt Lake. Page 18. Pacific Northwest. Establishment of linen plants in Willamette Valley urged. Page 7. Surprise coup wins city election at Umatilla tor women. rag i. Stage driver killed, mine payroll stolen Page 6. Governor sees bright future in flax work. Page 7. Robbers with auto hold up Bothell bank and Ilee with S4000. page lu. Vancouver acts to save Post. Page 16. Commercial and Marine. Flour -prices are again tending upward in Coast markets. Page 22. Wheat bulge at Chicago due to huge expo sales. Page 22. Stock speculation increases with decline 1 call money rate. Page "'1. Auxiliary schooner Alpha to be launched today. Page 1. Port of Portland ship coaling case goes into courts. Page 19. Portland and Vicinity. Pigeons have day at Poultry Show. Page 17 Juvenile tramps sent home. Page 8. Keep's charges of fraud fall. Page 11. Fat stock brings record prices at Interna tional show here. Page lo. Council overrulca Mr. Daly and cuts ou charge for water in standplpes. Page 13. Railroads agree to increased demurrage charges. Page- 22. Boycott causes egg prices to drop again Page 17. Bank of Sympathy plans campaign to sell stock. Page 18. Mr. Baker blames public for Jitney prob- li-m. page 5. Weather repurt, data and fort-casu Page 23. King Galls Council to Avert-Crisis. BONAR LAW REFUSES POST New British Government to Be Coalition, as Was Old, but Harmony Is Lacking. NEW FACTIONS CREATED Laborites Bitter Foes of Suc cessor to Asquith-Party Government Impossible. LONDON, Dec. 6, 11 P. M. David Lloyd George has overthrown the As quith Cabinet and will become Prime Minister himself. The new govern ment will be coalition, like the old one, but probably without the same measure of harmonious support which attended the formation of the first co alition government, because its birth has created additional factional dif ferences. This result has emerged from an other day of active and hurried party conferences and a day of intense sus pense and interest throughout the country. King Calls Party Leaders. There was a prospect this afternoon that the personal offices of the King might solve the situation and many thought that the Asquith regime might be continued. The King called the party leaders to Buckingham Pal ace and conferred with them for more than an hour. Mr. Asquith and Mr. Lloyd George, of the Liberals; Mr. Bonar Law and Mr. Balfour, of the Unionists, and Mr. Henderson, of the labor party, were with the sovereign. It is many years since a British ruler assembled the representatives of the different factions face to face when they had shown themselves unable to settle their differences. But no such serious crisis has before arisen to require such action by the King. Council Happenings Secret. Whatever passed in council is held secret, but the inference that the King tried to arrange a reconciliation ap pears a most natural one. The five statesmen departed separately, four in their motor cars and the working men's spokesman afoot. Afterward the King gave an audi ence to Mr. Bonar Law, who declined to undertake the formation of a new ministry, and then to Mr. Lloyd George, who accepted the responsibil- ity, as everyone expected he would if the opportunity came to him. Party Government Impossible. The official announcement tonight that Mr. Lloyd George had undertaken the task, with the co-operation of Mr. Bonar Law, was a notification that the new government would be a coalition. Any party government would be im possible, because neither the Union ists nor the Liberals have a majority in the House of Commons; either one must attach the Irish Nationalists or the Laborites to itself to command a majority. The Nationalists have refused to participate in the government until home rule becomes established. The Laborites are sworn enemies to Lloyd George, because they resent his ac cusations that the workingmen have put their personal interest above the national interest at times during the war. Old Leaders to Be Retired. The country awaits the rising of the curtain on the next ' act of this his torical and remarkable crisis with an expectancy which never surrounded the birth throes of any previous gov ernment. The Lloyd George ministry means the direction of the war by a dictatorship in the form of an inner council of the Cabinet, and means the scrapping of those elder statesmen whose supremacy in the councils of the nation, unless they choose to withdraw from the scen voluntarily, has always heretofore been regarded by the British people as a matter of course. Mr. Asquith, Mr. Balfour, Viscount Grey and Lord Lansdowne '"must go," the Lloyd George press has been cry- t Concluded ou Tats o. Column 3.J 1 .ft t -' 1'?: v . '.- K i. ' f