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Newspaper Page TextK STr. VOL. L.VI. NO. 17,533. PORTLAND, OREGON, TUESDAY. JANUARY 30, 1017. PRICE FIVE CENTS. TALE OF BRITISH TIGHTEN II PRESIDENT VETOES IMMIGRATION BILL LAWSON DECLARED TO BE 'ROMANCING' CLUBHOUSE MONEY nDV mi I PAQQFMH GERMAN BLOCKADE GOES TO BELGIANS! :;:.. 1;, GRAFT IS UNFOLDED PORTION'S OF DUTCH AND DAN- OBJECTION. AGAIN IS MADE TO LITERACY TEST. NEW YORKERS POSTPONE EREC IS1T COAST INVOLVED. TION OF FINE HOME. BUILDING II CMI DAPlC UIC IIILUUH UnU U IIU PHOBRJUUIMEmWIII Sluggers, Gunmen, Ar sonists Employed. ; BUSINESS AGENT IS ACCUSED War Between Rival Unions Is Feature of Case. MORE DETAILS PROMISED Witness In Trial of - Fifteen - Men Indicted for Conspiracy Tells of. Violent and Illegal Meth ods Used by Gang. CHICAGO, Jan.. 29. (Special.) Reve lation of strong-arm methods. of the employment of sluggers and gun men. of bitter warfare between union factions, of Intrigue and arson that all made up the conspiracy to block build lng construction work In Chicago, to day was made from the witness stand In Federal Judge Humphrey's court room. J. F. Nichols, a former business agent of local No. 376, of the Electrical Work ers' Union,- was telling the Jury what he knew of the consniraev to kiwn electrical goods from being Installed in Chicago buildings unless, the goods were made in Chicago. Fifteen Under ladirtment. As" the result of this alleged con spiracy, four former business agents of the union and 11 electrical switch board manufacturers are on trial charged with violation of the Sherman anti-monopoly law. Repeatedly the name of Michael Boyle, business agent of No. 134, was brought Into the case. Boyle Is the man who Is said to have built a 130.000 flat building on a salary of $50 a week out of his savings of four years. Nichols testified that there had been a written agreement to keep non-Chl-eago made goods out of buildings being constructed here and that Boyle had been responsible for the agreement. He declared he had had a break with Boyle and that his local. No. 376, and tne one controlled by Boyle. No. 134, were continually at war. Nichols testifed first that his union had been a party to an agreement with the manufacturers that Included the provision that the workers should not work on the- Installation of nonunion switchboards. Boyle, however, he said. proceeded Immediately to bring about a monopoly of the work for local No. 134, rival of local No. 376. . Manufacturers In Conference. T met the manufacturers in Octo ber. 1911." said the witness, "and we bad a conference about the state of af ralra. wnat was the conference about then?" asked Special Assistant Dis trict Attorney Hopkins. "Well, it was very short and irweet.1 "Tell us what was said." "Well. I demanded of them to know how much they were paying Hike Boyle for doing what he was doing. . They said It was none of my business. that they were dealing with Boyle and not with me." Nichols then told of a quarrel be tween Raymond Cleary, Boyle's assist ant. and one of the labor men on trial, when members of Local 376 were in stalling a switchboard. Sluggers and Gnnmen Called. "Cleary came there In behalf of i gang of professionals," said Nichols. They were sluggers and gunmen. 0jg men were at work on the seventh floor when Cleary and his gang made their invasion. They tried to force ou men off the Job. Cleary said: 'You rats will have to get off the Job, but the rats were too much for Mr. Cleary and his gang." "Did your men get off the Job?" "Not yet. Boyle came around next and said we would have to get off and get off quick. Well, we got off, all right." "The Boyle-Cleary sluggers didn't put us off. They got some lawyers to put us off. The lawyers went Into court and got an Injunction before Judge Pettlt and the injunction kept us from working on the Job." Arson Details Promised. Nichols testified generally as to vari ous activities of his rival union leaders and, their followers, charging that buildings on which members of local No. 376 worked were, in several in stances, burned by arson plotters- No specific instances of this were detailed, but Mr. Hopkins indicated details would be brought out later fof the in formation of the jury. "How did you happen to testify?" "Well, the grand jury just gave me a chance to change my ' mind, and 1 wasn't any fool. I took the chance they gave me and I changed my mind. That's how It happened," and Nichols chuckled while the Jury laughed and the presiding Judge smiled behind his hand. Boycott Wrk4 Out at Meetings. A. J. Cole, formerly connected with Kohler Bros, switchboard manufactur ers, and ' represented that concern in the councils of the Chicago Switchboard Manufacturers' Association. He severed his connection with the Kohler concern and the association, having had ample time to escape the Government's net. He testified that when he was con- Measnre Designed to Restrict War fchipg and Submarines and Raise Bar Against .Ririders. LONDON. Jan. 29. The Berliner Tageblatt, says an evening news dls t?at.;h from The Hague. announces a British blockade of Helgoland Light. Involving to some extent portions of the Dutch and Danish coasts. It says the measure is mainly directed against the entrance and departure of German submarines. Nothing has been officially an nounced here In regard to the exten sion of the "danger to shipping" zone in the North Sea, but the censor has permitted the publication of Scandi navian dispatches referring to the new naval measure. According to tele grams from Copenhagen, Scandinavian traffic with Holland hereafter will be difficult and the Danish fishing Industry will be - considerably hampered. A warning that Great Britain had made a considerable extension to the danger zone In the North Sea was re ceived by the State-. Department in Washington on Saturday from the American' embassy at London. The new line cuts off the entire German North Sea coast and its purpose Is, Action on All Leading Measures Expected. ADVISERS ARE .SO INFORMED Extension of Civil Service to All Postmasters Urged. STRIKE BILL IN DOUBT Vocational Education, Flood Con trol, Land Leasing and lVtport Combines to Be Pressed to Conclusion. WASHINGTON, Jan. S9. After Champions of Measure Lay Plans to ' Pass It Notwithstanding Mar- gin In Both Houses Wide. - WASHINGTON, Jan. 29. President Wilson today vetoed the immigration bill, passed recently by Congress, be cause of Its literacy test provision. When the message was read in the House It was ordered to lie on the table until Thursday morning, and champions of the bill began laying their plans for an effort to override the . veto. Chair man Burnett' announced tonight he would move for a vote Thursday. The House two years ago lacked only four Votes of the necessary two-thirds ma jority to pass the bill over the veto. the ayes being 261 and the noes 136. The attempt having failed in the House no action was taken by the Senate. When President Taft vetoed a similar measure because of the literacy test the Senate succeeded In overriding him by more tnan a two-iniras majority, out the House fell short about a dozen votes. The bll which the President vetoed today parsed the House last March by a vote of 308 to 87. and the Senate In December 64 to 7. land and lessen the " possibility of the e3cape of. raiders. CAT FIGHT UP' TO CITY pr: turned to be to bottle up more I series oi conierences at the capitoi on closaly the German warships at Helpo-I practically all features of his legisla tive programme. President Wilson told his advisers today he believed action could be secured at this session on every important measure In which he Is interested. With different members Council Is Asked to Enact Ordinance of Senate and House he had dis- I cussed means of preventing railroad flood enntrftl. thA e.n.rnl land-lftfljilnir The fight against cats which bas -r,, -r,, v,,,, . ,,,, , been waged for months past In the ' " letters from the nubile" Danes of he newspapers was . shifted yesterday to rnon selling agencies abroad. Increased the City Council. That body ha, been I pay for. Federal employes and thelac- &sked by L. S. Wright, of 310 Ross I Ing of postmasters under civil service. street, to enact an ordinance, prohibit- I The President told. Senator Polndex ing cats from running at large. I ter, . author of an amendment to the The request may stir up a fuss at I legislative, judicial and executive ap- one of the coming Council meetings I propriatlon bill, adopted by the Senate, between those favoring cats and those I which would extend the civil service opposed to them. Mr. Wright says the I requirements to all postmasters, that only kind ot cat that does not destroy birds is one that has had its nine lives blasted out. FRANCE SUFFERS IN COLD Canals Are Frozen, Paris Can't Get Coal and Several Persons Die. he favored the change. At present only postmasters in small towns in the fourth class are selected by examina tlon.. and. the remainder are appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate.. Faahnsater Change Favored. Mr. Wilson said he would be grati fied to have the amendment agreed to in the conference. He has previously urged a proposal of this kind, and Postmaster-General Burleson has In- indorsed it in his annual report. It is (Concluded on Pais 2, Column 2.) Financiers Vehement in Denying Charges. HEARING MAY BE SHORTENED Stock Exchange Records for 13 Days to Be Examined. BARUCH TO BE RECALLED Name of German Ambassador Again Brought Into Inquiry Lawison Said to Have Sought to Arrange Meeting. SPRUCE WILL BE SHIPPED Coos Bay Order for 12,000,000 Feet Not Affected by Boat Scarcity. MARSHFIELD. Or., Jan. 29. (Spe cial.) R. A. Wernlck, Interested in the big British spruce order. Is on Coos Bay and said the recent order that no more English ships were available for lum ber shipments would not affect this order for 12,000,000 feet since the lum -ber is to be forwarded to - different points in the United States for manu facture. Mr. Wernick is at Coqullle today in specting the two mills where -the lum ber will be sawed. PARIS, Jan. 29. France continues to : suffer from exceptionally com weather, the temperature ranging from 10 'to 15 degrees Fahrenheit above expected to meet witn some opposition zero. The coal supply or x-ans is run- -"". -... nlng low. owing to the freezing of the member of the House interstate com- canals of the Interior water transpor- merce comrain.ee, conumwing iuo ran tation system. I road programme, told the president he Traffic has been suspended entirely did not believe me House would ap- ln the central canal, by which coal is I prove the part of the Administration transported from Monceau-les-Mlnes, recommendations prohibiting strikes or and the barns are Imprisoned In the lockouts pending Investigation. lc Several deaths from cold have The President said he would not in- been reported in Paris. slst on any particular form of legisla tlon. out It was aDsoiuieiy necessary to KINU IU LIVt IN nUbolA strikes on the railroads of the' country Administration leaders now are work Rnnmanlaii Sovereign Selects Palace ing on a compromise measure which, I they say, tne f resiaeni prooaoiy . win ana UOTernmeak hiuicb. BERLIN, Jan. 29. (By wireless to Tuckerton, N. J.) According to Rus sian press reports received by the Overseas News Agency. Krng Ferdi nand of Roumanla has selected the Potemkln Palace at Yekaterinoslav. In Southern Russia, as his residence, and the Roumanian government and Par liament, now at Jassy, Roumanla, will be transferred to Russia. Part of the authorities win go to Yekaterinoslav and the others- to Kherson. LABOR TO BE ENFORCED Report Says Interned Enemy Civil ians W ill Be Treated as Germans. . COPENHAGEN, via London, ' Jan. 29. The Schleswigsche Grenzpost, a copy of which has been received here," de clares the General commanding the dis trict of the Ninth German Army Corps has proclaimed that all Interned and other civilians belonging to Nations hostile to Germany shall be forced to do public labor. This will be similar to that required of Germans called upon for civilian services. One Man Subscribes 9100,000 at Dinner for H. C. Hoover, Chair man of Relief Commission. - NEW YORK. Jan. 29. The Rocky Mountain Club of New Tork will post pone the erection of Its luxurious club house In this city and devote Its ener gies at present toward feeding Belgian children. The governors are unanimous In this action and the president. John Hays Hammond, announced "the change at a dinner given this evening at the City Bankers' Club In honor of Herbert C Hoover, chairman of the commission, for the relief in Belgium and a member of the club. William B. Thompson, of the club, started the fund with a subscription of 3100,000, and those in charge feel con fident that $1,000,000 will thus be dl verted from the purchase of deep arm chairs. marV.e bathtubs and other club comforts to nourishing food for the youth of Belgium. In acknowledging this act, Mr. Hoover said that six weeks ago he heard 1600 children In Brussels sing the "Star-Spangled Banner" and he was dls tressed to realize how little of their food was bought with American money. ARIZONA VOTES REJECTED Supreme Court Ruling on Double Marking Said to Aid Hunt. PHOENIX. Ariz.. Jan. 29. Superior Judge Stanford, before whom a recount of ballots for Governor Is going for ward, ruled today that . all ballots marked with a cross at the head of the party colunin and then marked again for Campbell . or Hunt must be rejected. . . The ruling is believed t. be distinct point for Hunt, as there are said to be many more ot tbe ballots marked for Campbell than there are for Hunt. NEWSPAPER SAFE STOLEN Heavy Job of Burglary Yields Only $5 for California Thieves. LOS GATOS. Cal., Jan 29 Robbers carried away the office safe of the newspaper Mall-News early today. Tr.ere was tS in It, with books and records. The iAfo would require three men to lift it. It has not been found. NEW TORK. Jan. 29. Some of the most sensational charges of Thomas W. Lawson made in testifying recently la the House rules committee "leak" in vestigation were vehemently denied to day by Pliny Flsk and Archibald 8. White, two widely known New Tork financiers, when they appeared here before the Congressional Inquisitors. Mr. Flsk. named by Lawson as the banker member of an alleged trio com posed of a Cabinet member. Secretary McAdoo; a member of Congress, known as "Senator O," and a banker, who had a joint account In Wall street, declared emphatically that no such combination ever existed. Lawson Declared HomaarlaK. White, "who was declared by Lawson to have told htm Flsk bad boasted to him that he controlled Secretary Mc Adoo and had offered to call the Sec retary from his bed by telephone at 1:30 o'clock In the morning to prove his assertion. Insisted that Lawson was "romancing." As a result of these denials, commit teemen tonight expressed belief that the length of the ' hearings here bad been shortened materially. Some said they would close within three or four days. If unexpected developments do not arise. Examination of certain Stock Exchange records for 13 days preceding the sending of the President's peace note, of several bankers and brokers regarding general financial conditions during this period, and further examin ation of Barney Baruch. a heavy "short" seller, and a few minor wit nesses Is expected to bring the end here. The committee now is Intent on bringing the inquiry .to a close with an investigation only of the alleged peace note "leak." LawM Weald Meet Bernstorff. The name of Count Von Bernstorf f was again brought into the Inquiry today in questions put to Mr. White, but with what purpose was not made known. Sherman L. Whipple, counsel for the committee, wanted . to know if just prior to the publication of the STUDENTS TO GO TO WAR French Universities Will Graduate 1918 Recruits Before Easter. Emergency Clause Survives Oratory.. W.C.T.U. SEES MEASURE WIN Members Afterward Enioy Loganberry Juice. CROWD APPLAUDS VOTE Measure Goes to- Senate and Is Put on First Reading, With Possi bility of Passage Before End of This Week. STATE CAPITOL. Salem. Or.. Jan. 29. (Special.) Callan. Knbll. Lewis, Macs kay, Schlmpff, Stott and Wlllett these are the names of the only members who voted against the bone-dry prohibition bill today. ! ThA hill w.nl tlirnnirh tti, TTiti mm 1-1 PARIS. Jan. 29. Special examina- ! today after a four-hour siege of ora tions will be held in the universities ! tory' b a vot ot 5 to 7 of France before Easter for students '. "n " tne votB nad be taken belonging to contingents of the recruits , members of the House were served of 1918. which probably will be called . wlth Individual half-pint bottles of to the army In the Spring. ; loganberry juice, and the entire assem- The examinations, it la announced. . blT rested while the bottles were will be less severe than ordinarily and drained. candidates for degrees will be allowed ! Permit for Alcohol Renntren. to choose, for oral questioning, subjects ; Th. bu paased. merely carries "P00 which they feel prepared. j,nto effect the conaUtuUonal amend. j ment adopted by the peop'.e at tbe BRITAIN BUYS PRUNES HERElNovemb,r eIect,on prohibiting iwi lauvn ui niwiioiii; liquors lor oev Chief Clerk Drager Sells Eight Cars for Use of Army. STATE CAPITOL. Salem, Or.. Jan. 29. (Special.) W. F. Drager, chief alerk of the House, is one of the -leading prune dealers in the" state. He received a cablegraphlo order to day from the British government for 5000 boxes, B0 pounds each, of Oregon prunes for the use of the British army. The fruit will be shipped from Salem and Roaeburg and will fill about eight box cars. FLAG SALUTEDBY GREECE Ceremony Is Carried Out, but Pub lic Is Excluded. LONDON, Jan. 29. The ceremony of saluting the entente allies flag by Greece was carried out Monday in the Zappelon, In accordance with the ar rangement recently entered Into be- ween the Greek government and the entente powers, says a Reuter dispatch from Athens. The general public was excluded from the building. (Concluded on Pus 3. Column 1.) IS THIS PEACE WITHOUT VICTORY? (Concluded ea Pa 4. Column 6.) BURNING SHIP NOT FOUND Steamer Carrying Doctors Looks for Vessel Afire on Sound. SEATTLE; Wash., Jan. 29. Follow ing the receipt of a report Lere tonight that a steamer was afire a few miles off Everett, the steamer Kulshan, with doctors and pulmotors. went to the scene to investigate. She made a thorough search of Puget Sound waters in the vicinity of Everett without find ing any wreckage. No vessels are known to be overdue or missing. MANILA WOULD SELL COIN Disposal of 18,000,000 Silver Pesos Would Yield Profit. MANILA. - Jan. 29. A bill has been Introduced In the legislature authoriz ing the sale of 18,000,000 stiver pesos now held in the government vaults at Corregidor, at a profit of 31.250,000. The bill, which seems certain of pas sage, means that hereafter the Island's stiver certificates wtll be guaranteed by gold. After passage, the bill will go to Presdient Wilson tor approval. .... w-as? Y i dSmJM A j . t - - : 1 NDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum ternperatur.e 38 degrees; minimum. 33 eareea. TODAY'S Probably fair and colder; north erly winds. Legislatures. Rouse passes bone-dry bill, S3 to 7. Page 1. Dry a delay own bill at Olympla. Pace T. Sterilization bill passes Senate. Pass . Labor outlines bills tt wants. Paso S. Bills Introduced proposing 13 new counties In Idaho. Pace tt. War. Rnsvfa cannot understand peace without vic tory. Para 4. Porelsn. Deposed Coata Rlcan President asks United states to intervene, pace 2. Japanese election called for. Page X Mexico, leave border la ten erage purposes. It also remedies the existing prohibition laws so that It will be impossible to buy pure grain alcohol excepting on prescription of a physician or permit of a district at torney. Inasmuch as the measure carries an emergency clause It will become a law as soon as it is signed by the Governor probably before the end of the week. Five days are allowed, however, after the Governor signs the bill, for the ex press companies to deliver goods al- eady ordered or In transit. TT. C T. I". sees BUI Passed. There never was a bit of doubt about the passage of the bill through the House. It was absolutely certain front the time the session opened thit it would have at least 50 affirmative oters. Whisky lobbyists and their upporters made a determined effort at various times to knock out the emer gency clause but. obviously, without success. The bill had been made a special order of business at 10:30 this morning. Every seat In the chamber an- the lobby back of the railing were f!ied. White-ribboned members of the W. C T. U. had reserved seats in front. Aathor Explain Mensnre. After the entire bill had been read from beginning to end Representative Anderson. Its joint author, with Senator Eddy, explained its principal provisions in detail, giving particular attention to the several amendments made by the communities since the original bill was printed. Repre.-entatlve Lafferty. who had been a member of the committee, ob- ected to that provision which permits clergymen to import wine for sacra mental purposes in unlimited quanti ties, even though they are required to have permission of their District At torneys. He arguem that this section would enable any group of thirsty in dividuals to organize religious societies and make Importations ostensibly for 'sacramental purposes," Oreron troops may days Pago 5. Armies of two nations to co-operate In amp- pressing oatti riots at border. Pace s. Domestic. Tale of building graft unfolded. Pag 1. New Yorkers postpone erection of fin club - houae to aid Belgians. Page 1. National. Prealdent tells his advisers he thinks his legislative programme wllj go through. Pag 1. Financiers declare Lawson was "romancing." Page l. President vetoes Immigration bill because of literacy teat. Pag 1. Houa paaaes $51,000,000 fortification MIL Pag z. Railroads ignore ultimatum. Pat, IS. Revenu bill reported to Hooa by party vot. Page z. Sport. Lowe Flmmi goes Kaat to box Roddy Mo- Donald. Page. 14. Kan denies that Vernon was robbd of penumt. Page 14. PYmnkl'n High defaats Benson five. P-vire 1 Multnomah Clnb wins sensational overtime hockey game. Pag. lu. rarlflo Northwest. Gruesome find at Goid "Rill indicate fat of John Hammersly. Pag a. Mayor Gill pleads not guilty. Pag 5. Mrs. Wlnnt Braden chosen superintendent of agricultural pavilion at Stat Fair. Pag e. Commercial and Marine. ' Wheat decline again In Northwestern mar kets. Pag 18 fitampede to sell breaks wheat prie at Chi cago. Pag la. Bonds firm and atoeks unsettled In Wall street. Page l. Rw-ord prices paid for livestock at North Portland. Pag 18. 8. L Allard lanncbed at EC Helena. Pa IS. Portland and, Vicinity. Auto show proves big drawing card. Pag a. Mrs. Mining convinces officers that she Is of royal birth. Pag Is. Drama Lagiie plans pretentious pro gramme. Pag 11. Portland Women's Union lar comerston for houi for If -supporting girla. Pug Chamber wants Congress to fore relief In car shortage Page SO. A. R. Clark defends ned of school of com merce. Pag Is. Fair and colder weather promised. Pag 15. Mackay Opposes Emergency. Representative Mackay, of Multno mah County, got up and made a long speech opposing the bill. He based his objection on the emergency clause. Subsequently Representative Elmore pointed to the journal clerk's record showing, that Mackay voted for the II,- 800,000 road bond bill, which carried an emergency clause. Lewis and Callan also protested against the emergency clause and In his closing address Representative Ander son showed that they, as well as Mackay, had voted for three emergency bills the road bond bill, the emergency appropriation bill, which carried a part of their own salaries, and a bill en abling some Eastern Oregon counties to take Immediate advantage of road bonds authorized by the people there. Few Votes Caaagra by Oratory. The House devoted most of the day to consideration of this bill and It la probable that not a single vote wan changed by all the oratory. Represent ative Burton made an old-fashioned temperance speech. He dwelt on the economic value of prohibition rather than "on the moral value, over which latter Issue he said there la no longer any dispute. When the noon hour came the mem bers began to grow weary. Brownell had a long speech on his mind and he didn't want to talk against a crowd of hungry people, so he gained an ad journment. He started in right after the noon recess. He bitterly assailed those members who opposed the bill on account of the emergency clause. -It aiy bill ought to have an emer gency clause," he declared. "It la one that forever kiljs the whisky business In this state." Mrs. Thompson spoke briefly, empha sizing tbe economic advantages of pro hibition. One of the red-hot speeches of the (Coadudal a Peg , Column