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PORTLAND, OREGON, TUESDAY. JANUARY 16, .1917.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
SPRINGS
SHIP BEARS VITAL
THAW'S COMPANION
ORCHESTRA QUITS;
WOMEN SAVE DAY
E-DRY' BILL TO
ARCTIC COLD GRIPS
EASTERN OREGON
v VOTE TO VALDEZ
1ST FACE
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GO TO HOUSE TODAY
SENSATION
ALASKA'S DELEGATE TO CON
MRS. PANT AGES AND FRIEND
PIATT FOR MATINEE.
TEMPERATURE NEARLY SO BE
GRESS TJP to Bristol bay.
LOW AT XORTH POWDER.
BON
CONSOLIDATION OF
STATE BOARDS Alfil
CHAR
HEW
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Secretary McAdoo Hamad
in Leak Inquiry.
iBERNSTOEFFRLlOR REVIVED
Tale
That German Ambassa
dor Made $2,000,000 in,
Market Is Told Again.
SENATOR IS KNOWN S "0'
Boston Broker Says Chairman
Henry, of Rules Commit
tee, Gave Information.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 15Thomas
W. Lawson, haled before the House
rules committee to tell what he knew
or had heard about a stock market
leak on President Wilson's peace note
or be punished, calmly declared today
the Congressman who told him a
Cabinet officer, a Senator and a
banker were engaged in a stock
gambling pool was none other than
Representative Henry, chairman of
the committee.
Then, before his hearers had time
to' recover from the shock, Lawson
sprung one sensation after another by
declaring that the Cabinet officer re
ferred to was Secretary McAdoo; that
the banker was H. Pliny Fiske, of New
York, and that he knew the Senator
only by the initial "O."
Bemstorff Rumor Repeated.
To complete the sensation, Lawson
went on to charge that Paul M. War
burg, of the Federal Reserve Board,
had knowledge of the leak machinery;
repeated a rumor that Count von
Bernstorff, the German Ambassador,
had made two millions in the stock
market, and to mention a list of well-
known men he thought should be
questioned. The committee prompt
ly issued subpenas for all of them.
Mr. Lawson said he had been told
that Malcolm McAdoo, the secretary's
brother, knew of the leak, as did C.
D. Barney & Co. and Stewart G. Gib
boney, of New York. A Mrs. Ruth
Thomason Visconti, of this city, he
said, had declared" to him in the pres
ence of her attorney that Secretary
Tumulty "received his bit" and that
W. W. Price, one of the White Hoiise
correspondents, was "the go-between
for Tumulty and others."
Banker Is Designated.
H. Pliny Fiske, Lawson said, was
the banker he referred to previously
as dominating a Cabinet officer, and
. Archibald S. White, he said, had given
him this information.
Representative Henry was said by
Lawson to have told him at the con
ferences that preceded the opening of
the leak investigation of reports con
necting the Cabinet officer, banker
and Senator and also had told him of
reports that Secretary Lansing had
been seen conferring with Bernard
Baruch, the Wall-street operator, said
to have made a clean up on the falling
market which accompanied the peace
note.
Lawson declared Henry had asked
him on patriotic grounds not to press
his charges. At no time, the Boston
financier testified, did he ever say. he
had direct information.
Henry Swears to Denial.
When Lawson had finished his re-
cital, Chairman Henry took the stand
and swore that at no time had he men
tioned to Lawson the names the fi
nancier brought out on the witness
stand; that he had no information then
and had none now of his own knowl
edge and denied generally and com
pletely all of Lawson's testimony re
lating to him.
When he had concluded Lawson rose
and solemnly declared that every word
he had uttered on the stand was the
"truth, so help me God, without vari-
ation."
To back it up," Lawson said that im
mediately after leaving Henry at their
first conference he laid his informa
tion before John Ollara Cosgrave,
Sunday editor of the New York
World; Erman J. Ridgway, president
of Everybody's Magazine, and Donald
McDonald, publisher of a Boston fi
nancial paper.
Lawson Almost in. Tears.
"Call these men," he demanded.
(Concluded on Fas 2. Column 1
Remote Precincts' Ballots Cast at
Xo-vember Election on Steamer
Dora, Seward Reports.
BE WARD, Alaska, Jan. 14. Official
returns of the November election In
Bristol Bay precincts, the most remote
in Alaska, reached here today in a rear-
lstered mail pouch on the steamsnip
Dora, addressed to the clerk of the
United States District Court at Valdez.
It will be six days, before the Doa
arrives at "Valdez with these returns,
which will decide whether James
Wlckersham. Republican, .or Charles
Sulzer, Democrat, has been elected del
egate to Congress.
As to the number of Bristol Bay
ballot, or the nature of the result
mere, ms vessel uiuusul iiu miulm
tlon, other than the sealed official re
turns. At the time of the election ice had
closed Bristol Bay and the returns were
taken overland with the first Winter
mail by an Eskimo-carrier from there
to Cold Bay, where the Dora called
early this month.
Official returns from all precincts
except those from Bristol Bay give
Wlckersham a lead of seven votes. In
one of the precincts from which re
f -ns have been received a contest has
been filed. If this contest should be
decided against him his present lead
would do reaucea iu twu vyica.
The Dora carried the first news of
President Wilson's -re-election to the
residents of Cold Bay.
SCHOOL MAY BE FLOATED
Aberdeen Considers Use of Scows to
Move in Building.
ABERDEEN. Wash., Jan. IS. (Spe
cial.) The moving from three miles
up the Wishkah River to Aberdeen, on
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SCOWS, OI iwu-iuum omwi.- I
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being considered by the Aberdeen Board
of Education, the building to De piacea
in North Aberdeen, if moved, for the
use of lower grade pupils of that sec-
tlon.
Auto trucks are being sent to that
farming district dally to bring in and
return home the children attending Mr. Black argued that copies of tele
Aberdeen schools. grams under" data of January 6, which
CANADA TO RUN MINES
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Labor Trouble Among Coal Miners 1
Causes Government to Act.
OTTAWA, Ont.. Jan. 15. Government
operation of the coal mines m '"""t
B. C, was foreshadowed in a statement
eiven out tonight. The mines furnish
coal for settlers in Alberta, Brttlsh Co
lumbia and Saskatchewan.
The miners demanded Increased
woe-PS to meet the higher cost of liv-
ing, and the operators have refused to
make the advance. The government
announces It will operate the mines and
Ds-v for their operation out of the
money received from the coal sold.
ECONOMY BOARDS CREATED
Prussian Ministry Seeks to Safe
guard Food Supply.
AMSTERDAM, via London, Jan. 15. I
The Berlin Vosslsche Zeitung says that
in order to safeguard the food supply
the Prussian Ministry has created
war economy board Jn each province.
The bodies consist of government of
ficials and farmers whose duty it is to
encourage agricultural production and
supply labor, -horses and machinery.
The bodies have no powe.r, however.
to requisition goods for distribution, or
as aids to production.
'0LAND NOT RECOGNIZED
American Consul-General Gets -In
structions From Government.
LONDON, Jan. 15. According to the
Cracow newspaper Czas, the American
Consul-General at Warsaw has in
formed all neutral Consuls there his
Government has Instructed him not to
recoernize the kingdom of Poland of- I
ficlally until the end of the war.
Nevertheless, he is quoted as saying
ho will confer with the Polish govern
ment and State Council on purely po
litical matters.
ALLIES SEIZE GREEK ISLE
Occupation Supposed Due to Use as I
Submarine Base.
ATHENS, Friday, Jan. 12, via Lon
don. Jan. 15. The allies occupied the
island of Cerigo on Wednesday.
Cerlgo is the southernmost of the
principal of the Ionian Islands belong
ing to Greece. It s in the Mediterra
nean, off the southern extremity of
Morea. Several other Greek insular
possessions have been occupied by the
allies, supposedly on account of the
establishment of bases for hostile sub
marines. HAWAII'S EX-QUEEN IS LOW
Liliuokalani Suffers Breakdown Due I
to Advancing Age.
BAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 13. The con
dition of ex-Queen Liliuokalani. of Ha
waii, is again critical, according to ad- I
vices received here today from Hono-1
lulu.
The ex-Queen rallied from an indis
position some months ago, but is now
suffering from a general breakdown
due to advancing age, it is said. .She
wad bora la 1S3S.
Accused Conspirator to
Go to New York.
CONNECTION IS ESTABLISHED
"Dear Master" Letters in
Pocket Held to Be Evidence.
THAW'S . LAWYERS GATHER
Officials Believe Legal Effort to
Prevent Removal Will Be Made.
Judge Says Philadelphia
Is Sick of Case.
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 15. Judge J.
M. Patterson in Common Pleas Court
todav decided th.t Oliver A- Rrowpr.
charged wlth; conspiracy to kldnap
Frederick Gump, of Kansas City, who
accused Harry K. Thaw of beating
him, must be returned to New York.
Henry J. JScott, Brower"s attorney.
enumerated several reasons why his
client should not be released, but Judge
Patterson ruled the question of ldentl
flcation was the only point in the case
with which the local courts were con
cerned, whereupon Scott quickly ended
the proceedings by admitting that
Brower was the man named in the in-
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on January 6, the time of the alleged
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rniladelpma sick, or cue.
Judge Patterson prefaced his ruling
with the comment that "the Thaw case
had left a trail of shame and Fhila-
delphia wanted little of it."
Thaw is said to have sent to Long
about of th 7, i the
"dear master" letter which Tnaw is
alleged to have dictated to Gump, fore-
im to describe the effects of flog-
6"Bi " ' '
time of his arrest here and were con-
. . evidence of the alleged con-
ipiracy.
Frank P. Walsh, of Kansas City,
formr chairman of the Federal Com
mission on Industrial Relations and
counsel for Gump, was present at the
hearing. He said he knew of no con
templated action by the Gump family
tQ Kue Thaw for $250,000 after the
disposal of the present charges, as has
been reported.
- Mrs. Thaw at Son's Side.
Thaw's mother, who is staying at
the hospital where he is recovering
from an attempt at suicide, was at
her son's bedside nearly four hours
today, comforting and consoling him.
She would not disclose what legal
moves were to be made in Thaw's be-
(Concluded on Page 2, Column 4.)
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Performance in Seattle Theater Not
Interrupted and Trouble Is
Patched Up Later.
TACOMA, Wash., Jan. 15. (Spe,
cla.1.) Mrs. Alexander Pantages, wife
of the millionaire vaudeville magnate.
stepped Into the pit of her husband's
theater here this afternoon, raised her
bow and proceeded to play through the
entire show, assisted by her friend. Mrs.
Earle Edmunds, also of Seattle, at the
piano.
The women got along famously and,
for the first time in history, the per
formers failed to complain about the
music They Jumped In and helped the
leader put over the music The women
were relieved from duty tonight, for
a disagreement over working hours
was arranged, temporarily at least, be
tween, the musicians' union and J.
Meyers, the house manager.
When the break 'came last night be
tween orchestra members and the man
agement, Mrs. Pantages announced that
she would step in and help her hus
band in the crisis. She was on the job
early, this morning, conducted a re
hearsal and was ready then for the
matinee. She was a professional vio
linist engaged in lyceum and vaude
ville work before her marriage.
SOUTH IS ICE-COATED
Traffic Delayed and Navigation
Made Dangcfous by Storm.
Is
MEMPHIS, Tenn., Jan. 15. Snow and
ice coated the South today from Texas
to Virginia, interfering with traffic
in many places and, with heavy fogs,
making navigation perilous.
Georgia and Florida escaped the
worst rigors of the storm, but nearly
all the other Gulf and South Atlantic
states had snow and sleet, accompanied
by freezing temperatures. No imme
diate relief is promised by the Weather
Bureau. The snowfall in North and
Central Texas was the heaviest in his
tory.
BOYS TO HONOR CODY
Cleveland Scouts to Collect
School
Children's Nickels.
CLEVELAND, Jan. 15. The mmeory
of Colonel William F. Cody ("Buffalo
Bill") is to be perpetuated through 'a
movement Inaugurated by Cleveland
Boy Scouts.
The organization this week will start
the collection of contributions of 5
cents each from Cleveland children, the
fund to be used to erect a monument
at Colonel Cody's grave on tl-.e top of
Lookout Mountain in Colorado.
BAKER IS FOR SUFFRAGE
Secretary Would Let Ohio Women
Tote for President.
CLEVELAND, Jan. 15. When Secre
tary of War Baker was consulted by
Cleveland members of the Ohio Leg
islature here today he came out strong
ly for Presidential suffrage for Ohio
women.
"Presidential suffrage should be
given Ohio women as a matter of Jus
tice and right," said Mr. Baker.
WHAT A LITTER OUR CAT HAS
what's ) tJ-
Dr. J. E. Anderson to
Introduce Measure.
ACT BRIEF BUT STRINGENT
Search and Seizure Feature
Omitted by Framers.
EMERGENCY CLAUSE BORNE
Proposed Prohibition Law Will Be
Considered by House Committee
on Alcoholic Traffic and by
Senate Committee.
STATE CAPITOL. Salem. Or- Jan. 16
(Special.) Representative Anderson,
chairman of the House committee- on
alcoholic traffic and Senator Eddy, of
the Senate committee, completed the
draft of the "bone-dry" prohibition bill
which will be introduced In the House
by Representative Anderson tomorrow
morning.
At the same session Senator Eddy's
memorial to Congress for a National
prohibition amendment will be brought
before the House with a favorable re
port from the resolutions committee
and doubtless will be adopted. It al
ready has gone through the Senate
with unanimous vote.
St. Johns Member Has laesoliatlosu
Another proposed memorial, offered
today by Representative Lewis and
vigorously opposed by all the "dry"
forces of the Legislature, will come in
tomorrow without recommendation by
the resolutions committee. The Lewis
memorial asks Congress to submit the
question of National prohibition to a
referendum of the people.
Dr. Anderson and other dry leaders
question the good faith of the Lewis
memorial as they point out that there
is no constitutional provision for a Na
tional referendum.
The "bone-dry" bill will be unex
pectedly brief. It merely is designed
to carry into effect the amendment to
the state constitution adopted by the
people at the November election, pro
hibiting the importation of liquor for
beverage purposes. It will be offered
simply as an amendment to the Ander
son prohibition law passed at the last
session. Only four of the 42 sections
of that law will be changed.
Eratrgtncy Clanae Affixed.
The principal provisions of the new
bill are as follows:
The law will become effective im
mediately after it is signed by the Gov
ernor, as it carries an emergency
clause.
It will make the importation of liquor
or alcohol for beverage purposes by
common carrier or by anyone not
common carrier, whether for private
use or for delivery to another person.
a misdemeanor.
It will be unlawful, under this provl
(Concluded on Pare 12. Column 6.)
GOT1
Haines Has SO Below Zero and Baker
0 Below Railway Traffic
In Idaho Hindered.
BAKER, Or., Jan. 15. (Special.)
School attendance fell today with the
thermometer, in the second coldest day
of the Winter. That still colder wea
ther may be expected was the predic
tion of the Weather Bureau tonight.
The temperature was 9 degrees below
zero this morning, sending residents
here indoors. Plumbers were kept busy;
pipes in homes and business houses be
coming frozen because of the long-con
tinued -cold.
North Powder had a temperature of
nearly 30 degrees below zero: Haines,'
20 below, and Virtue) Flat reported 13
degrees below zero.
Railway trfafic here has been little
affected, but reports from Idaho tell of
engines "going dead" because of the
bitter cold.
LA GRANDE, Or, Jan. 15. (Special.)
Cold waves are whipping Eastern
Oregon. The temperature here was :
degrees above zero last night. A mod
eratlon in temperature is indicated here
tonight. Only on one occasion has last
night's mark been reached this season.
THREE CAPTAINS DROPPED
Fraud In Examinations Causes Dis
missal of Officers.
LEAVENWORTH, Kan, Jan. 16.
Three Captains of the United States
Army have been dismissed from serv
Ice, according to a message received
by the commanding officer of Fort
Leavenworth today from the War De
partment.
They are William H. Armstrong, Fred
H. Gallup and Harry Graham, who
were tried by court-martial l.st July
on charges of tracing maps of the
Fort Leavenworth reservation and
turning them in as their own draw
ings. The men were student officers
t the post at the time.
Girl Hunters Rescued.
MARSH FIELD. Or, Jan. 15. (Spe
lal.) Misses Dora Brown and E.
Wilkinson, of the Golden Falls dis
trlct, became lost in the mountains
while hunting last Saturday and re
mained out until 4 o'clock Sunday
morning, when a posse of 25 friends
came upon them, having heard Miss
Wilkinson fire her rifle.
The young women had presence of
mind to remain where they found
themselves at dark Instead of wander
ing and when found were only two
miles from home. Although the night
was cold, they suffered- little lncon
venience, since they kept moving and
warded off the chilL
NDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Wrather.
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 41
degrees: minimum umperaiure, 2e ae-
degreee.
TODAY'S Fair; continued cold; northeast
erly winds.
Legislature.
Bone-dry bill will be Introduced Into House
today. Pass 1.
Child "Welfare Commission makes report.
Pare 13.
Senate calls for return of Oregon troops.
Page 6.
War.
German Foreign Minister ssts peace door la
closed. Paso 1.
Berlin reports British attack on Serre la
failure, rage .
Italy repudiates Idea of conquest. Pace 4.
National.
Lawson names prominent men In leak in
quiry. Pass 1.
Berlin asked about expulsion of nentral
diplomats from Roumanla. Face 2.
Daniels explains request for appropriation
for more Kavy-yaros. rare a.
Mexican-American Commission abandons ef
forts. Page 2.
Supreme Court upholds DlKSS-Camlnettl con
viction, r&se 3.
Admiral Dewey dying. Page 5.
Domestic.
Man accused with Thaw must go to New
York for trial. Page 1.
Moose chairman takes affront at action of
Republican committee. Page 5. -LegiHlatnre,
House aro'-s on record for consolidation of
commissions and economy, rare i.
Tacoma Methodists want ao wins for sao-
rament Page 7.
tvegtslature to pass on claims for reward for
Bartholomew. Face e.
Anti-boycott bill may be Introduced. Page 6.
Sport.
Benson Tech bssketball team beats Hill
Military Academy. page la.
Seals to present many new players. Page 15.
Baseball Players' Fraternity mar enter
American Federation ol Labor. Page 14.
Portland and Seattle hockey ternns to play
tonight. Page 14.
Eddie O'Connell challenged. Page 14.
Paetfio Northwest.
Eastern Oregon In grasp or Arctle cold.
Pane 1.
Belated election returns on ship to decide
Alaska's delegate to congress, rage 1.
Orchestra quits at Pantages Theater and
Mrs. Pantages piays accompai
Pegs 1.
Estacada section nearly solid for county
division. Page 7.
Commercial and Marine.
Bids for wheat In country markets are
raised. Page iv.
Lack of export buying weakens wheat at
Chicago. Page 18.
Launching postponed because river la low.
Page 18.
Attempt to float cruiser Milwaukee la un
likely. Pass is.
Steel strike virtually settled. Page 18.
Sits for factory taken. Page 18.
Portland and Vicinity.
Detroit Y. M. C. A wants A. m; Gtilley. of
Portland, page ,
Charges against Kdward J. Myrlck laid be
fore grand Jnry. i-i.
Blgnway cooo
explained to Chamber.
Page 11. .
O. F. Gallegly. accused of embesxlement and
btcajny, broughx to Portland. Page 13.
Stanley Tomllnson. aged 7, tells of choking.
Page 3.
James Brusco describes slaying of G. E.
Stark, asserting self-defense. Page 1Z.
Educators organize to entertain National
convention. Page 33.
Steamer KUburn's engineer also is arrested.
Pwge 12.
I Gypsum rate at Issue. Page IT.
' Pastor criticises divorce. Page 11.
4 I Weather report, data and forecast. Page 13.
House Rebukes Op
posing Committee.
ADYERSE REPORT REJECTED
Debate Fiery and Stand for
Economy Is Definite.
SIDESTEPPING IS CHARGED
Bill Introduced to Pay National
Guardsmen 75 Cents Daily for
Service on Border Report on
National Prohibition Due.
STATE CAPITOL. Salem. Or.. Jan. 15.
(Special.) If the House has its way
a comprehensive and effective consoli
dation programme- will be adopted at f
this session.
This was plainly Indicated this after
noon when the Brownell consolidation
resolution, bearing an adverse report
from the resolutions committee, was
recommitted after a fiery debate In
which various members reminded the
Representatives of their platform
pledges for consolidation, efficiency;
and economy.
Representative Burdlck, chairman of
the resolutions committee, explained
that the unfavorable report was not
due to lack of sympathy with the con
solidation programme provided by
Brownell's resolution, but to the pro
vision which placed upon the revision
of laws committee the burden of out
lining the method of procedure and
drafting the necessary bills.
Attitude ( Press Cited.
Representative Stott. a member of the
resolutions committee, who also is
chairman of the revision committee,
asserted that It would be impossible
for his committee to do the work re
quired under the Brownell resolution.
T can't understand this sidestepping
this hesitancy about carrying out
our consolidation programme." pleaded
Brownell.
"I tell you that the people are
watching this Legislature. We have to
make good or we are not coming back.
The people are demanding retrench
ment. They are demanding economy.
All the papers in the state, big and
little, have been pounding on this ques
tion for two years. Most of us were
elected on promises to economize and to
abolish useless boards and commis
sions. Republicans Are "Warned.
"We're on trial here. A majority of
us are Republicans and the Republican
party is on- trial. A lot of our Demo
cratic friends are watching us with,
eager expectancy and If we don't per
form In accordance with our pledges, X
tell you we are going to get licked in
the next election. Now is the time to
come up to the mourners' bench and
do something.
The responsibility for economy leg
islation rests largely "with the House,
for the voters have a peculiar con
fidence in this House.
"The people still believe, and perhaps
not without reason, that the Senate la
not close to the people that the cor
porate interests wield just as much in
fluence there as ever.
"Now we have been sidestepping this
question for the last four years and I
believe that the voters out in the state
are getting mighty tired of delay."
Special Committee. Likely.
A few other members poured out
some of the same line of talk and as a
consequence the resolution went back
to the committee with the understand
ing that it is to come out so amended
that a special committer is to be
created to work out a consolidation
programme that really will consolidate.
This was the busiest day the House
has had since the session opened.
Six bills were adopted at the morn
ing session, a heavy grist of committee
reports was received and an agregate
of 23 new bills were introduced. Near- ,
ly every committee with business -before
it started to grind this afternoon
or tonight and the wheels are whirling
and buzzing In the old familiar way.
All the bills passed today were com
paratively unimportant. The House
showed a disposition not to be too
sevei e in salary limitations when it
voted to increase the salary of the School
Superintendent of Sherman County from
$1000 a year to S1&00 a year.
Session Approprlatloa Paused.
The measure appropriating $25,000
partly to defray the expenses of the
present session went through the House
and will be up in the Senate in a few
days. It carries the emergency clause.
As soon as it is signed by the Governor
the members and clerks can begin
drawing some of the pay due them.
Representative Stott Introduced a bill
in the House this morning appropriat
ing $33,000 to pay the members of Troop
A and Battery A. now in the service
on the Mexican border, at the rate of
75 cents a- day from September 1 to
March 1 or until the time they are.
called home.
The purpose of the measure is teV
show the boys on the border that the
state of Oregon has some substantial
appreciation of their service and to
encourage future enlistments.
Representative Lewis again poured a
heavy avalanche of proposed legisla
tion IntoT the hopper. One of them will
cause lilore or less disturbance. It
would abolish paid chaplains at the
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