VOL.. L.VI. XO. 17,525. PORTLAND, OREGON, MONDAY, JANUARY 22, 1917. PRICE FIVE CENTS. SIEGE OF BRITAIN BY SEA IS PLANNED BRITISH MAY LEASE SHIPS OF GREECE 25,243 GUARDSMEN FIVE HURT WHEN CAR TURNS OVER HIGHWAY ACCIDENT CAUSED BY BROKEN STEERING GEAR, PHYSICIAN WHO SAW ARTIST DIE IS FREED BLIZZARD IN EAST IS WORST IN YEARS PUBL1GT0 BEHEARD ON "BONE DRY" BILL ARE ORDERED HOME PROPOSAL; SERIOUSLY DEBATED BY ATHENS CABINET. ST. PAUL HAS 15 INCHES OF SNOWFALL IN DAY. fx. V Germany to Give No tice to Neutrals. 30 SUBMARINES ARE READY Each to Be Held Responsible for Specified Zone. ALL SHIPS TO BE HAILED Entente Vessels Will Be Sunk Re gardless, and Others Tliat Carry ' Contraband No Quarter to Armed Merchantmen. 'NEW YORK, Jan. 21. (Special.) Germany will declare a deep sea bar rier around the British Isles, beginning February 1. This news Is brought to Kew Tork by four passengers arriving from British and Baltic ports on the Philadelphia, of the American, and the Baltic, of the White Star Line, today, gave the same versions of the new plans of the German Admiralty. The deep sea barrier will be patrolled by 30 submarines of the latest type, all of which have been launched in the past two months and are capable of a 6000-mile cruising radius, according to three Americans, travelers from Ger many. Neatrals Will Be Warned. A note will be sent by the central powers to all neutral nations, warning them of Germany's decision, similar to the note sent on February 18, 1915, which received Mr. Wilson's famous re ply in return demanding strict account ability from Germany for any American life placed in jeopardy. This newest "danger zone" is the North channel, which separates Ireland and Scotland; St; George's channel, be tween England and Ireland, and the en trance to the English Channel. All allied vessels, whether carrying contraband or not. will bo stopped, their crews ordered to take to the ship's boats and the vessel immediately (unk. Zones Allotted to U-Boata. The submarines which will patrol this newest zone have a speed of IS knots on the surface and 12 knots submerged, It was said by the Americans, who as serted that they had the highest Oer man authority on this statement. Each submarine will operate in a 10-mile ra dius. and will be held responsible for any allied merchant vessel which slips past Into an allied port. Each submarine is to be equipped with six torpedo tubes, two rapid-fire guns mounted fore and aft, bomb-laying chambers and a large supply of bombs, mines and grenades. They will carry sufficient provisions to last five weeks without revlctualing. In the case of neutral vessels' pas sage through the war zone their car goes will be examined as previously and. If they are carrying contraband, tney. too. wiu De sunk, their crews first having taken to the lifeboats. Food to Be Made Contraband. It is understood that Germany is pre paring a new list of contraband art! cles, which will be In effect as soon as the new note Is sent to neutrals. It is be lieved that large quantities of food stuffs, as well as other necessities of life, will appear on this new contra band list. Allied merchantmen similar to the British steamer Aberleau, which sailed Friday for Southampton via Halifax, with a steel gun turret, to have a six- Inch gun mounted for offensive, a well as defensive, warfare, will be con sidered as an armed cruiser and will be sunk on sight. It Is said. The ques tlon of arming merchant vessels for attack Is thus made a greater question at Issue. PALESTINE DOCTORS DYING Some Villages Lose Last Medical Men in Epidemic. NEW TORK. Jan. 21. Cholera and typhus have claimed so many victims among the physicians who have been fighting these epidemics in Palestine that some of the villages have lost their last medical men and in the cities few physicians remain to cope with the situation, according to statement made public here tonight by Hadassah. the women's sionist organ ization in America. i ne conations in .Palestine were described in an appeal for $75,000 to equip and support for one year a medl cat unit to be dispatched to the af flicted country without delay. FRANCE TO LIMIT SUGAR Confectionery Shops Also Required to Close Two Days a Week. - PARIS. Jan. 21 Sugar cards are to be instituted in France. Their Intro ductlon into Paris, the Department of the Seine, will be accompanied by census with a view of making the measure effectual. The government also has decided that after February 1 all confectionery es tabllshments must close Tuesday and Wednesday or each week, except noli days. On these two days the consump tlon is strictly forbidden of cakes. tarts and candies In confectionery and bread enops, Hotels, cafes and gro ceries. Coal and Insurance Strong Factors in Inducing Decision Removal of Troops Continues. ATHENS, Saturday. Jan. 20, via Lon don, Jan. 21. The Cabinet today dis cussed at length a British proposa to lease the Greek merchant marine. It was decided to take measures, to as sure the retention of the number of ships necessary to provide the food stuff's which Greece requires. According to a high official, two con siderations already have put Greek shipowners In the hands of the entente, namely, coal and insurance. - - The latter. It was pointed out. might be secured in the United States, but the former, according to this authority, was sufficient to Induce owners to ac cede to the proposals of Great Britain. ATHENS, via London. Jan. 21. The removal of Greek troops and war ma terial to the Peloponcssus continues. It is believed the transportation of artil lery will be completed next week, when the blockade can be lifted. The entire transfer will be finished In a fortnight, according to present indications. AUTO HITS CLARA STETZEL Little Girl Bruised and Cut About Face, but Not Badly Hurt. Clara Stetzel. aged 6 years, v ho lives at 1140 East Twenty-third street North, was struck ' by an auto driven by Frank Pugh, 958 East Twenty-fourth street North, at East Twenty-third and Alberta streets, last night. Mr. Pugh took the girl to the office of Dr. L. A. McCabe. in Alberta, where her injuries ere tttended. She was not badly hurt, being bruised and suffering cuts about the face. The driver of the machine went promptly to the police station and re ported the accident. He said the girl Btepped In front of the approaching machine. DRYS IN MEXICO JUBILANT Measure Putting Liquor in Federal Control Lauded. QUERETARO. Mez., Jan. 21. The adoption by the constitutional assembly of a measure placing the control of the manufacture and sale of alcohol in the hands of the federal department of health was discussed widely here to day. Many declared it was a victory Jor those advocating the restriction or the prohibition or tne sale or liquor. The article declares that measures taken by the department of health against alcohol or the sale of "sub- tances which poison individuals" may ba within the scope of the powers of Congress and Bhall be reviewed later"! by that body. HIGHER PAY ASKED FOR Postoffice Employes Adopt Resolu tions Petitioning Congress. SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. 21. Postcf- fice clerks and mail-carriers represent ing their respective National organiza tions in a meeting here today passed resolutions petitioning members of Con gress to hasten the passage of the Mad den bill, which would create $1000 the initial and $1500 as the maximum salaries of postoffice clerks and car riers in lieu of the 800 initial and$1200 maximum salaries now in force. . The resolutions . carried a preamble to the effect that the present high cost of food and clothing made it practical ly a necessity for' the Increases In sal aries provided for in the Madden bill. HOSPITAL SELLS POTATOES Oregon State Institution Clears $2 800 From Vacant Lots. SALEM, Or., Jan. 11. (Special.) Superintendent Steiner, of the Oregon State Hospital, has completed a deal with a local produce house whereby he has disposed of 2500 bushels of po tatoes at 1.12 a bushel, or a total of 2800. Most of the potatoes were grown on vacant lots, owned In various parts of Salem by private individuals. The sale is clear money to the State. labor of Inmates being used. The po tatoes wil be chipped to Oklahoma. COTTON RISKS INCREASED Raiders' Activities Result in Sharp Advance in. Insurance. GALVESTON. Tex.. Jan. 21. An in crease or an per cent in war risK rates on cotton from American ports In Brit ish bottoms was announced today by the British government, according to advices received by a local Insurance firm. The rate now is 3.45 per cent. Ac tivities of German raiders is said to be the direct cause of the advance. NUDE BARRED FROM FILMS Producing Companies of National Association Make Pact. NEW YORK. Jan. 21. The nude In motion picture art has come under the ban of the national board of review, it was announced here tonight. All producing companies that are members of the National Association have agreed, it was said, not to permit the production in their studios of photoplays using such a figure. Oregon Not Included in Official List. EARLY START WILL BE MADE More Than 45,000 to Continue on Border Patrol. GENERAL RULE FOLLOWED Seniority of Service Has Not Always Been Observed, However, Owing to Unequal Weakening of Line on Boundary. WASHINGTON, Jan. 21. More than 25.000 National Guardsmen, now on the Mexican border, have been designated by Major-General Funston for return home and muster out of the Federal service. All these organizations will be started homeward as soon as trans portatlon facilities can be provided. Their departure will leave between 45,000 and 50,000 men of the Guard still in the Federal service doing border patrol. Pershing's Orders Not Mentioned. War Department officials continue to withhold comment on reports that the movement of General Pershing's regu lars out of Mexico soon will be under way and the statement announcing the guardsmen designated for relief does not connect these orders: with the withdrawal plans in any way. The understanding has been, bow- ever, that with the return of the ex pedltlon in Mexico and readjustment of the border patrol all of the state troops would be sent home. Rale Jfot Always Followed. The Department's statement said: "General Funston has 'selected these organizations chiefly In accordance with the rule of returning first those troops longest In service on the border. To some extent, however,' this rule could not be followed without unequal weakening of the border guard and the departures from it are so ex plained. The total strength of the or ganizations selected Is 25,243." The guardsmen designated for re- turn and muster, follow: Arkansas First Infantry. Delaware Two battalions infantry. District of Columbia, Battery B, field artillery. Illinois Brigade headquarters and Third Infantry. Indiana Second Infantry. Ambu lance Company No. 2. brigade head quarters. Iowa First Squadron Cavalry, Field Hospital No. 1. Ambulance Company No. 1. brigade headquarters; Third In fantry. Kentucky Second Infantry. Louisiana First Battalion Artillery, Field Hospital No. 1.. (Concluded on Page 5 Colunm 2 ) CONGRESS IS Victims Only Scratched and After Being Dressed ' at Hospital Are Able to Go to Their Homes. Five persons were Injured early last night by the overturning of an auto mobile on the Columbia Highway near Troutdale. All were taken to the Good Samaritan Hospital, where their In juries were attended and they were sent home later. The injured were: Mr. and Mrs. Jo seph Reed. 507 BIsmark street: Miss Alberta Armbruster, 507 BIsmark street; Mrs. Marie Cox. 749 East Ninth streets and Frank Maedke, 420 Vancou ver avenue. The accident . was caused by the breaking of the steering gear on the automobile, which was driven by Mr. Reed. - The car turned on its side, throwing the occupants out on the road. The injured were brought to Portland by Phil Pollack. All escaped with cuts and bruises. GIRL, 14, RADIO OPERATOR Tacoma Miss Gets Amateur License After Constructing Plant. TACOMA. Wash., Jan. 21. (Special.) The first girl or woman in the North west to receive a Federal wireless oper ating-license is little Miss Wlnnifred Dow, of Tacoma, who Is also said to be the second of the feminine sex on the Pacific Coast to receive such a per' mit. Miss Dow is 14 years old. and a stu dent at the Visitation Academy. She constructed nearly all of her own wire less set. and Is said to have a remark able understanding of electrical prob lems. She. expects to build a trans former that will give her station a long sending radius. Her license Is a second-class amateur permit. WEATHER IS MODERATING Benefit of Cold Spell In Holding Back Buds Seen by Erultmcn. The recent cold has vanished from the entire Northwest and from Puget Sound to California moderating wea ther with rain and south winds is pre vailing. Testerday the temperature fluctuated between 36 and 44 in Port land. The slight cold spelU was welcomed generally and especially among fruit growers who were alarmed at the tendency of trees and other plants to prepare for the budding season. The freezing weather the last 10 days checked the budding impulse of the trees. TRAPPERS SAVE 5000 DEER Slaughter of ' Predatory Animals Is Protection to Herd. ROSEBUEG, Or., Jan. 21 (Special.) Based on the estimates of some of the oldest hunters and trappers, the slaughter of cougars, gray wolves and wild cats in Douglas County last year will have the effect of saving approxi mately 6000 deer this year. Trappers estimate that gray wolves and cougars killed an average of 62 deer a year, while wild cats slaughter about half that number. LOOKING FOR A LITTLE LEAK, NOT A BIG ONE. Police Accept Tragic Story of Suicide. YOUNG WOMAN SETS STAGE Threat to Kill Compels Atten tion to Recital. RUG LAID FOR PURPOSE Limits Within Which Listener Must Stay During Telling of Long Story Is Dertned San Francisco Colony in Mourning. SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 21. (Special.) Sorrow filled the local artists' colony today at the tragic death of Betty de Jong, who shot herself Saturday night in her studio in the presence of Dr. William S. Porter. A cablegram to Miss De Jong's sis ter. Dr. de Jong, of .the Hospital Hotel Dleu in Paris, was sent today by Mile. Marguerite Saligne, with whom the artist had been working In the raising of funds for the French wounded. Nothing so far has been heard from any of the young French woman's rela tives in Paris. Police Inquiry Completed. The police, it was said today, have virtually completed their investigation in the case and that of Dr. William S. Porter, a prominent physician, of Oak land, who was In the room with Miss de Jong when she shot herself. -An autopsy was held, but nothing of importance was revealed. Dr. Porter was allowed to go to his Oakland home late last night, after several hours of questioning by the po lice. The physician has steadfastly maintained, his relations with the young woman were nothing more than mutual interest in art. Dr. Porter is president of the Alameda County Art Association. He says. he .became ac quainted with Miss de Jong at the time of the Exposition of 1915. Doctor's Story Corroborated. The police said tonight they found in the studio not only complete cor roboration of Dr. Porter's story, but evidence Miss de Jong had carefully set the ' stage for her tragic edd. So far as the police is concerned, the case is closed. From the story told the police It was gathered that when Dr. Porter re turned to the studio at o'clock in accordance with a request made by Miss de Jong at the time of her after noon visit, he found the furniture had been rearranged. The big chair In which he had posed for his portrait had been moved near the door. Another chair had been placed by itself near the innermost wall of the studio. Under this chair was a rug about eight feet square. (Concluded on Page 4. Column 2.) Freight Service Practicaly Aban doned and Stockmen Warned to Adopt Safeguards. ST. PAUl, Jan. 11. The worst bliz zard since 1908 raged over Southern Minnesota. Western Wisconsin, North and South Dakota and Northern Iowa today and continued here tonight with slight signs of abatement. No loss of life has been reported. Fifteen inches of snow fell here dur ing the day. All railroads running. Into St. Paul Teport trains many hours late, and on trains from the South Dakota district Indefinite reports are given. Pierre. South Dakota, reports all trains have been cancelled until the storm abates. , Information received here indicate the storm was the heaviest in the South Dakota territory, where telephone and telegraphic communications have been seriously hampered. A decided fall in temperature Is pre dicted tonight. The coldest heretoday was 10 degrees above zero. OMAHA, Jan. 11. One of the worst storms of the Winter gripped Nebraska and Iowa today. Freight traffic has practically been abandoned on all roads in Nebraska and Western Iowa and passenger trains are running hours be hind schedule. A heavy snow fell last night and to day and a stiff wind tonight piled it in huge drifts. Temperatures hovered at zero tonight. Warnings to stock men that "zero temperatures and gales" were coming. It is expected, caused safeguards to be taken against any loss of livestock. Fifteen to 18 Inches of snow has fallen In the western part of Nebraska. WOMAN SCARES BURGLAR Man Caught Rifling Corbet t Build ing Offices Put to Flight. Several offices in the Corbett build ing, including the office of the H. W. Corbett estate. ' were ransacked yester day' by a man who was frightened away finally by Mrs. May Edmondson, who surprised him In the Corbett of fice. Detectives Abbott and Royle, who Investigated, reported that nothing of great value had been taken. Mrs. Edmondson surprised the man by entering the Corbett estate office while he was prowling about the rooms. He said he was an electrician, but fled when Mrs. Edmondson insisted that he be vouched for by the engineer. Mrs. Edmondson described the prowler as 6 feet 10 inches tall, weighing 160 pounds, llght-complexioned and wear ing a dark suit and hat. SILENT MARCHERS VIEWED Woodmen of the World Go to Cen tral Presbyterian Church. Without banner or martial music, a silent throng of more than 200 men, women and children last night filed from East Sixth and East Washington streets to East Twelfth street and north on Twelfth street. People threw up their windows and wondered. The crowd contained Woodmen of the World, Multnomah Camp No. 77, and members of their families on their way from the lodge hall to the Central Presbyterian Church, where Dr. A F, Bishop addressed them. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. TESTERDATS Maximum temperature. degrees: minimum. 86 degree TODAI'S Partly cloudy, southerly wind. &BXilacare. Senatexahead of House en consolidation programme. a. Public hearing on "bone-dry- bill scheduled. raf 1. Foreign. Death roll In I.onfnn munitions explosion near suu. rage . War. British propose to lease Greek merchant marine. rage 1. Germany plans to besiege Britain by a Page 1. National. More than 2R.000 Guardsmen ordered home rrom ooraer. nr x. Daniels defends action In ordering naval shells from British rlrro. Page a. Inaugural committee hampered by lack of runaa. rage a. House Republicans urged to frame aggres sive poiicr. rtf 4. Congress prepares to speed up work. Page 4. President to insist on promoting aide and pnyaician. nil o. Domestic. Troops carry rescued airman IS miles en sireicner. rage 1. Woret bllsxard In years raging In East. rage 1. Entente's external credit not yet strained. rage . Demand for wheat continues strong. Page 8. Sport. Five quintets tied in Interscholastlc League. rase 14. Morrta leads In hockey scoring. Page 12. Lightweights ready for gong. Page 12. Depoelt of $4OO0 guarantee for Beavers' trip to nonoiutu maae. rage 13. Faetne Northwest. Eugene students lionize Richard Wood "dramatic critic" Page T. Mass meeting called at Oregon City to dis cuss xisning legislation, rage o. Marine. Schooners Tf. ft Hall and David Evans are oue tor mm oer. rage la. Portland and Vicinity. Kindergarten bill changed to remove oppo sition, rage in, Spectacular Chinese drama opens. Page 14. Bishop Sellew Illustrates sermon with home ly anecdotes, rage XL. Dreea rehearsal or " Mlgnon Is success. Opera to oe given tonlgnc rage 10. Baptist missionary tells of work In Porto Kico. rage xx. E. P. McDanlel Is electrocuted while work ing in Miiwooo stftDsiatlon. rage 18. Five hurt when car on Columbia Highway upaeia. rage x. Pltcalrn Islanders happy, says lecturer. Page B. Vision calls Ernest Harps to use latent mystic power. Page 11. Creation of county revenue commission pro posed, rage 10. D. S. Rose explains China trade plan. r Page IS. ealher report, data and forecast. Pas 13. Final Meeting Will Be Held Tonight. EMERGENCY CLAUSE IS SURE House Considers Making Pen alty More Severe. ACTION WILL. BE RUSHED Wholesalers to Plead for Certain Exemptions on Alcohol for Medicinal Use Bill May Be Law February 1. STATE CAPITOL. Salem, Or., Jan. (Special.) A public hearing on the Anderson-Eddy "bone-dry" prohibition bill will be held in the House chamber at 8 o'clock tomorrow night under dl- (rection of the Joint House and Senate committee on alcoholic traffic Every one Interested in the bill has been Invited to attend. It is under stood that a delegation of pharmacists and a group of physicians will be here to discuss the sections regarding the sale of pure alcohol. Wholesalers Display Interest. Wholesale and retail grocers also ave written In for copies of the bill. The wholesalers are interested In the provisions regulating the Importation f alcohol for mechanical purposes. They use It for the manufacture of xtracts. and the measure does not pro pose to deny them this privilege, it imposes restrictions, however, that will prevent its abuse. The bill probably will be up for final passage before the end of the week, and will go through the House, bear ing the emergency clause, with at least 50 votes. That is certain. It Is robable that it will have 64 and pos- tbly 67 votes. Emergency Clause Sot Opposed. There Is no organized, opposition to the emergency clause or to any other Important provision of the bill. One or two individual memDers or ine House have made objections to the bill, ostensibly for the reason that it car ried the emergency clause, but inas much as three measures carrying the emergency clause already have passed the House, two of them by unanimous votes, objections on that point are not taken seriously. Representative Anderson, who intro duced the bill, recently made a partial poll of the House and learned that 4S members will vote for it. He did not get to see. all the members. Including five or six who. he believes, also will vote affirmatively. All the House lead ers 'are for It. Minor Changes Possible. One of the seven members who voted against the prohibition memorial adopt ed by the House on the opening day of the session says that he will vote for the "bone-dry" bill. There may be others. " "It is probable that a few minor changes will be made to meet reason able objections." said Mr. Anderson to day, "but those changes will be made by friends of the bllL" Members of the House have received numerous suggestions In the last few days that the penalties for. violation of the law are aot severe enough. No Jail sentence Is required for the first illegal importation. It Is probable that efforts will be made to change the measure In this particular. Shipments May Cease February 1. Any amendments that are found nec essary will be printed early this week, so that the measure can be up for final passage in the House before the end of the week. Inasmuch as the Senate has been voting unanimously on all pro hibition questions this session, no de lay Is expected there. The emergency clause will make the bill a law as soon as it is signed by the Governor, so it appears likely that shipments under the present law will cease about February 1 but not much before. OHIO GUARDSMAN IS KILLED Shot Fired as Guardsman Stands at Attention at Retreat. EL. PASO.Tex. Jan. 21. As he stood at attention" while the regimental band played "The Star-Spangled Banner" at retreat late today in the Fourth Ohio camp, private Harry l. uaKer.oi Mari etta, Ohio, was shot and almost in stantly killed when the rifle of one of his comrades was discharged. A corporal of the dead guardsman's company Is being held pending an in vestigation. BRUSS1L0FFEXPECTS ROUT Russian General Says Foe Will Be Completely Beaten In Year. PETROGRAD, via London. Jan. 22. The Russky-Slovoe says General Brus slloff. commander-in-chief of the Rus sian armies of the southwestern front, addressing his staff officers. Said: "Information at my disposal and my personal conviction warrant me saying that I am as certain, as I am certain I am standing before you. that during the coming year the enemy will bo com pletely routed."