o K VOL. jLVI XO. 17,495. PORTLAND, OREGON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1916. PRICE FIVE CENTS. AT PORTLAND IN FOG LIKE LONDON PALL FIERCE ECONOMIC BATTLE FORECAST 2 ENGINEMEN ARE KILLED IN WRECK OSCAR LUND HERE, RELEASED AT ONCE SCANT, CLINGING SKIRT IS DECREED DAM. CRAIG. 87, PASSES AT SALEM 'SPANKING' FOR BOTH TRAFFIC CREEPS CAUTIOUSLY ALOXG CITY STREETS. .NORTHERX PACIFIC TRAFX HITS FASHION SNIPS txCHES FROM LENGTH OF WOMEN'S SUITS. IiOG SEAR CARLISLE. AUAMSQfJ HIS Repeal of Wage Bill to Be Tought. PUBLIC IS TO BE CONSIDERED Railroads and Men Declared More Willing for Peace. SUIT MAY BE WITHDRAWN PY.in for Investigation of Threat ened Strikes Expected to Result from Conference Compro mise Seriously Sought. WASHINGTON. Deo. 17. Reports that railroad and brotherhood heads In peace conferences have planned to propose the repeal of the Adamson act and the substitution of a working agreement of their own making? for it. today aroused Representative Adamson, au thor of the law, to declare that Con gress would "spank" both sides to the controversy If necessary. Mr. Adamson Is willing- to co-opera In any plan employes and employers may evolve for the Interpretation of his law, but will oppose vigorously re peal of It. Measure Passed In Good Faith. "The measure was passed In good faith and It Is a constitutional enact ment regulating hours of labor and not wages." he said. "Let the roads and their men settle their wage disputes. "Congress will see that the public gets a fair deal. If it becomes neces sary to spank both aides, we'll spank them, though I hope that won't be necessary." Representative Adamson says the re sult of the Presidential election made the employers more eteer for. peace than they were last Fall and that the growing belief that the President stands for compulsory arbitration law has put the brotherhood leaders in a conciliatory frame of mind. Suit May Be Withdrawn. Neither labor nor Congressional leaders here have official reports a to Just what phases of the rajlway situ ation the conferees have taken up. Be lief Is current, however. In Congres sional circles that the foremost fea ture of the final agreement will be an Interpretation of the Adamson law so satisfactory to both sides that the suit to test the act's constitutionality now before the Supreme Court may ba with drawn. A plan for the Investigation of threatened strikes also Is expected to result from the deliberations. Labor is determined that no compulsory arbi tration law shall go on the statute books, but realizing that the President Is determined to prevent a strike crisis, without investigation, they will exert every effort to draft a compromise plan that will have his indorsement. Unanimous Consent to Be Asked. Mr. Adamson will make an attempt In the House tomorrow to get unani mous consent for action on his resolu tion designed to provide for a con tinuance of the life of the Newlands' commission investigating all phases of the transportation problem until Jan uary 1, 1918. Friends of the state regulation of railroads are expected to oppose the resolution vigorously. " Assurance of the President's desire to have the resolution adopted is ex pected to be sufficient to carry it through the House. OREGON'S 1916 FRUIT CROP WORTH $9,000,000. Oregon's 1916 fruit crop will net -the growers fully $9,000,000. This is the valuation placed on the commercial shipping crop, and does not include the value of fruit consumed at home. Taken alto gether, the crop was worth $1, 000,000 more than in -, any pre vious year. The apple crop proved to be better than had been anticipated. The total shipping crop is esti mated at about 3000 cars. On ac count of the continued car short age, a large proportion of the crop remains yet to be moved. While apples head the list in point of value, the prune crop takes first rank for the amount of outside money brought into the state. The 1916 production of Oregon Italian prunes reached the 40,000,000-pound mark, the shipping value of which was $3, 000,000. There was a creditable showing in other varieties of fruit. A review of the 1916 crop pro duction will be fully presented in the forthcoming Annual Orego-nian. View From Council Crest Is Swirl- las Gray Cloud St, Vincent's Hospital Single CitadeL Any lonely Londoner would have felt very much at home In Portland yesterday. The famous fog of that metropolis was all but duplicated by the pearl-gray pall that Invaded the city In the small hours before dawn. From Mount Tabor to Portland Heights the fog billowed over the city. St. Vincent's Hospital was a single citadel that thrust above it. From Council Crest the watcherB beheld a splendid spectacle. Below them the city was a great lake of swirling gray, now lifting, now lowering. Upon it the sunshine danced. The hills beyond were ramparts, bathed In light. But It was different in the depths. Streetcars crept along, cautiously ap proaching each crossing, their gongs sounding incessantly. Automobile headlights peered redly through the mist. The chauffeurs felt their way carefully, with horns and sirens sound ing. Objects but a few paces away loomed vague and indistinct. Shortly before noon the vapors had dwindled to drifting wreaths of gray. Towards night the city was again en compassed. Traffic accidents were at a minimum, doubtless because of the extra caution of the motorists and pedestrians. None were reported to the police. The fog was not so thick on the lower Columbia River and practically no difficulty was experienced by ship ping. VANCOUVER, Wash.. Dec. 17. (Spe cial.) Dense fog obscured the city most of the day and interfered with all forms of traffic Early today the ferry had difficulty navigating on the Columbia River, and trips were later made every 30 minutes instead of every 25 minutes, the streetcars in Portland not being able to make full time. RUMANS GO TO PETROGRAD King, Foreign Office and Parliament Are Now Exiles. . BERLIN. Dec. 17. (By wireless to Sayville, N. T.) The correspondent at Stockholm of the Lokal Anzelger tele graphs that at the meeting of the last Roumanian Crown Council It was re solved that the Roumanian Foreign Office should be transferred to Fetro grad. the other ministries for the pres ent being established at Kiev. The "Roumanian Parliament, it is. re ported, will meet at Petrograd. King Ferdinand is said to have declared that he would stay one week In Russia and then go to England. AUSTRIAN CABINET NAMED i Composition of New Ministry Is An nounced In Germany. AMSTERDAM, via London. Dec. 17. Austria's new Cabinet, as published in the Cologne Gazette, is composed as follows: Premier, Alexander Epitzmueller; Minister of Interior, Von Handel; Min ister of Defense, F. von Georgl; Min ister of Education, Von Hussarek; Min ister of Justice, Von Schenk; Minister of Railways, Dr. Z. von Forster; Min ister of Finance, F. von Wlmmer; Min ister of Labor. Von Arnica; Minister of Agriculture, Seydler; Minister for Gali cia, Michael BobrzynskL. WINEMEN ASK INDEMNITY French Opponents of Prohibition Say It Will Hurt Agriculture. PARIS, via London, Dec. 17. - The government's Intention to prohibit the consumption of alcohol in France has aroused strong opposition among the large wine and spirit dealers. A protest signed by a Paris syndi cate of wine and spirit merchants de clares that the proposed measure will have a serious effect on agriculture as well as the wholesale and retail dealers. Demands are to be made for substantial Indemnities If the new measures go Into effect. CHILDREN CAUSE KILLING Families of W ealth and Social Prom inence Involved In Affair. SNYDER, Tex., Dec. 17. Two fam ilies of wealth and wide social promi nence in the Southwest were involved In the killing yesterday of Edward C. Sims. Sidney Johnson, a brother of Sims' divorced wife, Mrs. Gladys Sims, was released today on $5000 bond to await a preliminary hearing tomorrow. Witnesses of the shooting told the Sheriff's office that dispute over the two Sims children precipitated the affair. BOYS DRAFTED FOR WORK Conscription Decreed by Schleswig, Copenhagen Dispatch Says. LONDON, Dec. 17. A Reuter dis patch from Copenhagen says that the government of Schleswig, Prussia, has proclaimed civil conscription of school boys. They will be used particularly for railroad work and the loading and unloading of trucks. Effort to Float Transport Stops. NEW YORK. Dec. 17. Efforts to float the United States transport Sum ner, which went aground off Barnegat, N. J., last Monday night were tem porarily abandoned tonight by order of the War Department. Farseeing Men Seek to Curb Extravagance. PEACE MAY FORCE CRISIS Discussion Too Late if Early Armistice Is Called. BIG GOLD STOCK MENACES Countries of Europe Certain to Seek to Sell Liberally and to Buy Sparingly While Recover ing From War. BT FRANK M. HUSTON. CHICAGO, Dec 17. (Special.) Problems which this country faces In its relations with the belligerent na tions of Europe have been brought Into - greater prominence (during the last week by the peace proposals of the central powers than would have been possible by any other develop ments. ( For weeks the possibilities of the future have Impressed themselves upon the minds of the more thoughtful among the bankers and business men. Reaction Deemed Inevitable. With the new credit afforded by the tremendous influx of gold fully ab sorbed, it was evident. that when the war did stop and gold began to go out, first through a witrfdrawal of a consid erable part of the 500,000,000 bank balances carried in the banks of this country by European .banks for busi ness purposes, something would have to give way. Invariably the security market Is the first to respond to the demand for a contraction In the loan item at the banks; theri as Is frequently the case where the credit has gone Into the more fixed forms, business, which is usually the, most liquid next to the Stock market, tracts, and this contrac tion is always far-reaching. Check on Expansion Desired. What bankers and others desired to accomplish was to check further ex pansion of credit and build up an available credit that would protect general "business when the war ceased, by using the new gold in a way to avoid the absorption of all available credit based on the new gold. Should the present suggestions for peace negotiations progress so that an armistice is arranged, it Is probable that . this discussion of preparedness for the future is too late to be effect ive, and liquidation will have to come In the normal way, if the new credit made available by the Influx of" rold is as fully absorbed as many seem to think. Whether peace Is near or not, the Berlin suggestion is serving the pur- (Concluded on Page 3, Column 1.) r-i. ...............,....,,.,,. WHO'S SOUND ASLEEP? , i ' ' 'x rW i : m,,;,,,.,,;, ., ,..,,;. I Bodies Pinned In Cab When Tender "Jackknifes" and Remain Until Wrecker Arrives. (HOQUIAM. Wash.. Dec. 17. (Spe cial.) Engineer James Heasley and fireman L. F. Rape, were killed when train 145. bound from Hoqulam to Mo clips, struck a log that had fallen across the track about 15 miles this side of Carlisle . tonight. The line Is the Grays Harbor branch of the North ern Pacific. The engineer died almost Instantly, when the tender, which, with the engine and baggage car, had hurd led the log and had landed on the frack, jacknifed and pinned both the men in the cabin of the engine. Fireman Rape, who has a wife and a baby at Tacoma, lived about 15 min utes after the accident, which occurred at about 7:15. o'clock. v- To all appearances the log had fallen across the tracks Just as the train ap proached. The bodies cannot e removed until the wrecking train that had started from Tacoma arrives on the scene to morrow morning. In his last moments. Rape gave a message to Conductor J. T. Foster to be carried to Mrs. Rape. Both men lived at Tacoma. . Mr. Heasley was stationed at Van couver, Wash., until our years ago. TURKEYS TO BE CHEAPER Roseburg Dealer Says Price Will Be 2 to 4 Cents Lower. ROSEBURG, Or.. Dec. IT. (Special.) That turkeys for the Christmas trade will briftg from 2 to 4 cents less than demanded by raisers prior to Thanks glvlngfwas the prediction made here Saturday by a number of local poultry dealers. - Tbe decrease In prices, the dealers ay, is due to the light demand for tur keys during the few days preceding Thanksgiving. Thousands of birds re mained unsojd In the hands of the re tailers at that time, and these were placed In cold storage awaiting the Christmas demand. Choice turkeys brought 26 cents here prior to Thanks giving and was the highest price re corded here for many years. IRATE HUSBAND SUES CITY Damages Asked After Wife Attacks . Po Ell Officer Witl Club.- . CENTRALI A, Wash. Dec. 17. (Spe cial.) A claim for 82000 has been filed against the town of Pe Ell by George Knafszyk, following an order of the town Council to the Marshal to remove fence posts placed by Knafszyk In a Pee Ell street. When Marshal Burns went to carry out the order he was attacksd by Mrs. Knafszyk with a club. The officer deputized two citizens to hold the wo man until he completed his task. Armistice Is Not Asked. LONDON. Dec. 17. Telegraphing from Copenhagen, the correspondent of the Exchange Telegraph Company quotes the Frankfurter Zeltung as say ing: . "Germany does not want & cessation of fighting, but merely a conference at which all the belligerents shall openly state their peace proposals." Bartholomew Says Man Isn't Paul Lund. YOUTH COMES TO CLEAR NAME Trip Made Alone From Los An geles to Solve Mystery. COINCIDENCE IS STRANGE Suspicion Virtually Banished ' De spite Striking Resemblance to De scription and Fact Lund Was Here When Llnd Was Killed. "He isn't Paul Lund- I never- saw this man in my life!" This was the positive' Assertion of Edward Bartholomew last eight when confronted with Oscar Alexander Lund, according to Mr. Lund'a statement re garding .the meeting, which District Attorney Evans refused to discuss. Mr. Lund arrived in Portland last night after a three days' Journay from Los Angeles to clear his name, if possi ble, of the suspicion that he was the Lund whom Bartholomew " had said killed John Lind a year ago and forced him to aid In disposing of; the dismem bered body of the victim. Young Man Released. The young man was released on his own recognizance, and Mr. Evans ad mitted that he did not believe he had any connection with the green, trunk murder. "I have never seen that man before," declared Mr. Lund, when first shown an excellent likeness of Bartholomew, and later when he met the murder sus pect at the County Jail. A charcoal drawing of the man whose body was found in the trunk which was half submerged in the Willamette the morning of November 19, 1915. met with no sign 'of recognition.. Mr. Lund said the drawing represented no per son he had ever known. Whereabouts Not Determined. The young man he is 28 years old did not deny that he might have been in Portland at the time the murder was committed, but thought it quite as likely that he was in Hillaboro. He had some dates we'll 'fixed, in his mind by which he said he hoped to trace his whereabouts at the time of the crime. Mr. Lund is tall, blonde, good-looking, clean-cut. and is not the type of man who would answer to the public conception of a person who could, in cold blood, batter In a man's skull, hack up the body and stuff the remains Into a trunk, for the sake of $250 the amount Llnd Is supposed to have been carrying shortly before his death. In talking of the affair last night on the train. Mr. Lund's- sole concern seemed to be for the effect his being (Concluded on Page 4, Column 2.) Hoop skirt and Pannier Effects toJ Go and Soft Materials Will Bo Popular Next Season. CHICAGO. Dec 17. (Special.) Short skirts are to be shorter than ever; also they are to be "clinging." Such was the. edict of the Designers' Association at Its annual style revue. In accordance with the rise In cost of living, cost of materials, cost of hosiery and cost of dyestutfs, two or three Inches are to be chopped off the skirts of Milady's Spring street frocks and suits. The flare and the plait of last sea son will be seen no more. The Spring designs are decidedly scanty when com pared with the wide, rippling folds which skirts formerly displayed. Evening gowns will be long and clinging and will show a marked con trast to the hoopsklrts and pannier effects now being worn. In fact, most of the materials will be of the cling ing variety. Silk Jersey, pongee and khaki cloth will be popular. The association Introduced a "style cabaret" as the feature of the con vention. Live models sang as they pa raded In the new gowns. . There was a special meeting of the designers to day to discuss suggestions offered by out-of-town merchants, as well as hear lectures by New Tork buyers. JURY CONVICTS WOMAN Verdict of Guilty of Manslaughter Is Found In Montana. MISSOULA. Mont.. Dec 17. Mrs. Bessie Leigh, who killed Fred Hoffman here. last October 4, was found guilty last night of manslaughter. Sentence-) will be passed by Judge Duncan next Tuesday. Mrs. Leigh shot Hoffman while both were In the custody of the Sheriff and on their way to Mlssolua. where Hoff man was to- be tried for charges brought by the woman. TRANSPORT TESTS ORDERED Fuuston to Compare Merits of Mules, Motors and Caterpillars. SAN ANTONIO. Tex.. Dec 17. Major- General- Funston has ordered a test of pontoon transportation to decide whether the best method Is mules, mo. tor trucks or caterpillar tractors. The test will be made first at Fort Sam Houston and vicinity and later farther west, where the roads through the unsettled districts are almost im passable. BOOT CONTROL AGREED ON British Government and Manufac turers Reach Understanding. LONDON, Dec. 17. Owing to diffi culties in the boot trade it had been expected that the Ministry of Muni tions would shortly take over all boot and shoe factories. It was said tonight, however, that the manufacturers and the government have agreed to the scheme of control. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 39 dcjreM; minimum. 34 degrees. TODAY'S Partly cloudy and ocr-aalonally threatening, southeasterly winds. War. Germanr regards military operations In Wallachla as complete. rage 4. National. Mr. Adsmson says both sides In railroad con troversy may be spanked. Pare 1. Congress at wits' end to find sources of revenue. Page 2. Domestic. Far-seeing- economists seek to meet crisis they beeve certain to be precipitated by peace. Page 1. Colonel H. T. S. Harris, Chief Army Surgeon of Western Department, found dead In bed. Page -. Jacob M. Rlake, former Marahfleld lawyer. asphyxiated in rian Francisco. Pago -. Fashion decrees scant, clinging skirts next season. Page X. Fog hampers salvage operations on H-3. Page 2. Bport. New' four-busher rule worries Coast mana gers. Page 12. National Ueagua owners to raise prices and. cut salaries. Psga 12. Tennis gains remarkably In few years. Page 12. Multnomah Club lortsr team prepares for game with Oregon. Page 12. Parlfta Northwest. Iangers said to lurk In tax limitation. Page" 4. Advance figures on Washington official bal lot count are announced. Page 5. Oregon wool men oppose lOO per cent Increase In gracing fee. Page 8. David Watson Craig dies at Salem. Page 1. Description of Eugene highwayman Is sent out. Page 7. Marine. Steamer Northwtern taken for "Big Three" fleet. Page 13. Portland and Ylrlnlty. Osrsr T.und arrives to rlesr name and Bartholomew Says he Isn't Paul Lund. Pagal. Portland In fog like London pall. Page 1. Fhlpyard strike looms up nearer. Page 13. Shippers pleased with railroads' action on rates. Page 7. rr. Hlnson preaches. Psge 11. Rev. C. B. Waller preaches at White Tem ple. Pagn 1 1. Fred W. Jobelman lays out "friend"' with blow of hammer. Page 16. Reed co-els sell holly for dormitory fund. Page 10. Missionary from Belgium describes war con ditions to church-goers. Page 11. Portland Music Festival Association frames constitution. Page 9. Belated Christmas shoppers face grand rush this week. Page 10. Welfare Bureau enters final week of cam paign. Page 6. Multnomah delegation to meet Thursday to plan for legislative session. Page 6. Two englnemen killed near Carlisle, Wash. Page 1. t Multnomah legislative delegation will meet Thursday. Page . Weather report, data and forecast. Page 13. H. C. Leonard, pioneer trader and public utility man, dies at 03. Pag, ft. Journalistic Work in State Begun in 1853. CAREER IN POLITICS NOTABLE Pioneer Known as Founder of Republican Party in Oregon. DEATH NOT UNEXPECTED Man Long Connected With Xews- paper .Publication in Willamette Valley Personal Friend ot Lincoln in Ante-War Days. , SALEM. Or.. Dec 17. (Special.) David Watson Craig-, known as the founder of the Republican party in Oregon." a personal friend of Abraham Lincoln and pioneer newspaperman of the state, died at 12:15 o'clock this afternoon. In his ' 87th year, at the home of his son, F. S. Crats, 310 Belle vue street, this city. Death came unexpectedly -ut peace fully. For two weeks he had been bedfast, but today had planned to sit up during; the afternoon and had ex pressed a desire to his son to sit up for a time, and was arranged In his chair. "When his son returned to bring; him a glass of water his father was dying:, and expired a few minutes later. Friendship fer Lincoln Great. Although Mr. Craig retired from act ive newspaper work In 1893. he wrote frequently for newspapers since. From that time until 1913 he lived on a farm south of the city, but In Septem ber. 1913. following the death of his wife, he moved to alcm to reside with his son. '. Mr. Craig was a warm friend and champion of Abraham Lincoln. He studied law In Mr. Lincoln's office at Springfield. 111., and during- the bitter moments of the Civil War proved to be one of the staunchest supporters of the martyred president. Probably no man in Oregon had more friendships among politicians and statesmen of Oregon than had Mr. Craig from old territorial days down to the latter part of the last century at least. Journalism Taken I'p aa Youth. David Watson Craig was born In Mason County. Kentucky, July 25. 1829. He attended school In Augusta and Covington, where his parents lived, for several years. In January. 1S39. they removed to Hannibal. Mo., made famous by Mark Twain, and it. was at Hannibal, at the age of 11 years, that Mr. Craig first, entered the newspaper business, when he became apprenticed in the of fice of the Hannibal Journal, where ha remained for seven years, beeominjr foreman of the office at the age of 15. A pewtion of that time he attended school. In 18t8 he removed to Springfield. 111., where he was engaged as a re porter on the Illinois State Journal, and also there became efficient as an editorial writer in connection with the late Simon Francis, of Portland, who was editor and proprietor of the paper. Call of Politics Strong;. In the Spring of 1850 he was ad mitted to the practice of law in Illi nois, his good character being vouched for by' his personal friends. Abraham Lincoln and J. II. Matheny, the latter then clerk of the court at Spring field. Regardless of his proficiency In the legal field, the fascination of news paper life and politics could not be overcome. He made frequent trips to Washing Ington, D. C. where ho formed the ac quaintanceship of many men prominent in National affairs, and a portion ot the time held a clerkship under Presi dent Fillmore. With the Incoming of the administration of Franklin Pierce, he was dispossessed of office, and de cided to come to the Pacific Coast, making the trip via the Isthmus of Panama. Stopping on the Isthmus, ho found employment as foreman on the Panama Daily Star, also as assistant editor, where he remained over six months. Korly Activities Varied. Leaving for the North, he arrived In Oregon November 25, 1833. Arriving In Salem December 3 of that year, he lm fedlately took employment under A. N. Bush, as well as on public work for the territorial Legislature, which had Just started its session. In addition to news paper work he also was engaged In teaching, later taking charge of the Oregon Argus, at Oregon City, for W. L. Adams, its proprietor. Ho remained there for eight years, four years as foreman and assistant editor and four years as proprietor. In May, "1S63, lie removed the paper to Salem, where, with J. N". Gale as a partner, he continued ite publication. In October of that year he entered Into an agreement with J. XV. P. Hunt ington. Ben Simpson, Rufus Mallory and C. N. Terry to buy the Statesman from Mr. Bush and unite the two papers. better to support the administration of President Lincoln in prosecuting tha Civil War. This deal was consummat ed and the name of the Argus was dropped. Statesman Owned for Many Years. In a year or two more Mr. Crais purchased the Interests of the other proprietors In the Statesman. Mr. Craig sold the paper in the Fall of 1S66 and iCcmcmucd on P&go 6, Column 4.) i 1 P3 110.2 r