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PORTLAND, OREGON, THURSDA1C. FEBRUARY 1, 1917.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
HUT WAR Will
BE U1IRESTRICTED
Berlin Sends Note Which
Smashes Peace Hope.
WASHINGTON IS STAGGERED
Super-Crisis Created by Dec
laration for Use of Every
Weapon Against Allies.
3ERMANY CREATES ZONES
Sudden Move to Starve Brit
ain Outdoes Even Von
Tirpitz' Proposals.
HIGHLIGHTS FROM GERMANY'S
NOTE DECLAIUNO FOR UN
RESTRICTED WARFARE.
Germany 'will gladly co-operate
In all efforts to prevent future
wars.
The freedom of the seas . .
has always formed part of the
leading: principles of Germany's
political programme.
A new situation has been cre
ated, which forces Germany to
new decisions. Since two years
and a half England is using- her
naval power for a criminal at
tempt to force Germany Into sub
mission by starvation.
Each day shortening the war
will on both sides preserve the
lives of thousands. -
The German government could
not Justify . - the neglect of
any means destined to bring about
the end of the war.
The imperial government is
. . . now compelled to continue
the fight for existence . . ..with
full employment of the weapons
which are at lis disposal.
? The imperial government begs
to express its confidence that the
American Government will warn
American ships against entering
the barred zones . . . and also
will Warn ' its cltlsens against
taking passage on or confiding
goods to ships plying to ports in
the barred zone.
WILSON'S PREVIOUS
THREAT RECALLED
SEVERANCE OF RELATIONS
MENTIONED IN SUSSEX CASE.
Alternative Given Germany in For
mer Crisis . Was Immediate
Abandonment of Flan.
"WASHINGTON. Jan. SI. The decision
as to what the course of the American
Government shall be in the new crisis
lies with the President, who in the final
note on the Sussex case, said:
"It it is still the purpose of the Im
perial Government to prosecute relent
less and indiscriminate warfare against
vessels of commerce by the use of sub
marines without regard to what the
United States must consider the sacred
and indisputable rules of international
law and the universally recognized dic
tates of humanity, the Government of
the United States is at last forced to
the conclusion that there is but one
course , it can pursue.
"Unless the Imperial Government
should now immediately declare and
effect an abandonment of its present
methods of submarine warfare against
passenger and freight-carrying vessels,
the Government of the United States
can have no choice but to sever diplo
matic relations with the German Em
pire altogether.
"This action, the Government of the
United States contemplates with the
greatest reluctance, but feels con
strained to take in behalf of humanity
and the rights of neutral nations."
"WASHINGTON. Jan. 81. President
Wilson went to bed) at 11 o'clock to
night after spending the evening alone
in his study with a copy of the German
note. This apparently disposed of sug
gestions that some action might be
taken before morning.
The President saw no callers but is
understood to have used the telephone
freely. As far as could be learned, no
plans have been laid for him to go be
fore Congress, as he did to announce
the Bending of the Sussex note, threat
ening to break off diplomatio relations.
NO SHIPS ALLOWED
TO LEAVE NEW YORK
Dash by Interned Teu
tons Is Feared.
LATE UNION PACIFIC
TRAINS REACH CITY
STORM-DELAYED ARRIVALS ARE
MADE AT ATI, HOURS.
BRITAIN HAS FLEET READY
4000 Small Cruisers to Keep
Ocean Lanes Open.
ALL VESSELS KEPT IN PORT
TOWN TO CURB ELECTIONS
West Linn to Vote on Curtailing
Initiative and Referendum.
OREGON CITY. Or.. Jan. 81. (Spe
cial.) An election to prevent elections
has been set by the City Council of
West Linn for March S, when a charter
amendment will be submitted to cur
tall the use of the initiative and refer
endum as applied to city affairs.
The action is brought about by the
calling of a special election by James
Downey, whose offer of a $300 lot for
a flrehouse site -was rejected when the
city found it could get a better lot for
less money. The" Council also started
an appropriation measure for the other
lot, despite the action of the voters on
Downey's petition.
J" WASHINGTON, Jan, 31. Germany
V has declared unrestricted submarine
i warfare,
I A starvation blockade of England,
I the like of which the world never has
1 seen, was announced to the world to
!ay in notes delivered to American
Embassador Gerard in Berlin and to
LState Department here by Count
3ernstorff.
iindenburg's Plan Carried Out,
thus begins the long-feared cam
paign of ruthlessness, conceived by
on Hindenburg, it is said here, on
.i magnitude never even contemplated
by Von Tirpitz.
Again the United States faces sev
erance of diplomatic relations with
llermany with all its' eventual possi
bilities. President Wilson's repeated
"arnings of "a-world-afire" and Sec-
JVtary Lansing's "verge-of -war" state
l lent are being recalled in the capital
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misgiving.
Super-Crisis Created.
Germany's action is super-crisis of
fhose that have stirred the Ameri-
government in two and a half
s of world war.
ralk of peace in Europe and of
feans of preserving the peace of the
I v'orld has gone glimmering. Presi
f ent Wilson, incredulous at first when
y- he unofficial text of Germany's
varning was brought to him, at once
;. ailed for the official document, which
ad just been presented to Secretary
V; ansing by the German Ambassador.
''Ir. Lansing absolutely refused to
omment. President Wilson began im-j-
lediately a careful study of the docu-
aent.
Three Courses Presented.
"f The President has the task of decid
er ig what shall be the course of the
C fnited States. Three immediate steps
ppear among the possibilities. The
V 'nited States might solemnly warn
r" ,ermany against a violation of her
ledges; it might be decided that the
. erman warning is sufficient notice of
k . intention to disregard those
jj Ledges and a sufficient warrant for
: -eaking off diplomatic relations; it
, ight be decided to await the results
J .' the blockade and determine the
BANK R0BBERYJS FAILURE
Safe at Seres, Cal., Withstands Sev
en Charges of Explosion.
CERES, Cal., Jan. 31. Bank robbers
isolated Ceres early today by cutting
telephone wires; manacled a -watchman
with his own handcufs, and then
exploded seven charges of nitro-gly-cerine
in an unsuccessful attempt to
crack the safe of the Bank of Ceres.
The robbers reached Ceres in an au
tomobile stolen from another banker,
George Cressey, of Modesto.
The California Bankers' Association
warned eountry bankers today to be
vigilant as it is believed a gang oper
ating previously in the Middle West
has transferred the scene of its operations.
(Concluded on ra.ua 4. Column i.Jt
BRITISH LOSE 32,000 MORE
Total Sorarae Casualties Now Given
as 552,371.
LONDON, Jan. 31. The total of
British -casualties as reported in the
published lists during January are 960
officers and 31.394 men.
British casualties for January show
a considerable decrease over those of
the preceding month. No lists were
published during the Christmas holi
days, but the total for the first 23 days
of December, was 815 officers and 36,
350 men. The January total brings the
sum of British casualties since the be
ginning of the Somme offensive to
552,371.
Entente Allied Merchantmen to
Rave Convoys and Swift War
ships Will Scour Sea In
Hunt for XT-Boat.
NEW YORK, Jan. 31. At Mldnlgbt SO
patrolmen were dlapatcned to docks
at the Hudson River and One Hundred
and Thirteenth streets, where five
Hamburg-American line ships are
tied. Many other patrolmen vrere held
In reserve In stations as far north as
Spnyten Dnyvll. The officers were not
.old what their duties were to be.
NEW YORK, Jan. 81. The port of
New York was sealed tight tonight by
order of Dudley Field Malone, collector
of the port. Vessels of every descrip
tion, including tugboats, were turned
back at Quarantine by the torpedo-boat
stationed there to maintain neutrality
of the United States.
The purpose of Mr. Malone's order re
mained & mystery upon which he de
clined to throw any light. He has full
authority to act upon his own initiative
in case of emergency, as he is held re
sponsible for enforcing neutrality.
Dash by Interned Ships Possible.
While there was no apparent basis
for the belief that such drastic action
resulted from information that one or
more of the great German liners in
terned at Hoboken was preparing to
make a dash for the open sea. it was
significant that a deputy collector con
ferred tonight on the Hamburg-American
line dock with the Chief of Police
of Hoboken and representalves of the
steamship company.
Twenty-four steamships, some of
them the largest in the world, owned
by- German interests, are tied -up at
piers on the New Jersey side of the
Hudson River, while three Austrian
vessels are docked at Brooklyn piers.
All of them have been under constant
surveillance of United States agents to
prevent any violation of neutrality. A
neutrality squad was organized more
than a year ago under the direction of
Mr. Malone.
Thoroosh Preparation Made.
It has been understood since the be
ginning of the war that prompt action
would be taken if an international situ
ation should arise under which the
crews or agents of the steamers might
desire to destroy their own vessels.
Deputy Collector of the Port Lamb
Weather Moderates and Wyoming
Line Open East bound Trains
All Pass Omaha. '
Delayed Union Pacific trains kept
arriving at the Union Depot at all
hours yesterday and last night, from
one to two days or even more behind
schedule. Today trains aboutone day
late will arrive, and schedules soon will
be back to normal, it is promised.
Train No. 17 from the East, due yes
terday at 7 P. M.. will get in this aft
ernoon, and trains S and 19, due yester
day, will follow soon thereafter.
Delayed train No. 6, 50 hours behind
schedule, reached the city yesterday
morning at 9:50. Train No. 17 came in
at 2:40 P. M.. No. 19 at 4:30 P. M. :
another. No. 17, at 9 P. M., and No. 5
was due this morning about 1 o'clock.
Weather has now moderated on the
Union Pacific lines to the East. There
is no wind, nor new snow, it was re
ported yesterday, and . after - today
trains should run on time.
William McMurray, general passenger
agent of the O.-W. R. & N. Co.. was
advised by telegram that the line in
Wyoming had been open, contrary re
ports notwithstanding, since Tuesday
morning. It was not blocked Tuesday
night, as reported, and schedules were
normal again in the trouble sone. All
delayed eastbound trains, it was stated,
have passed Omaha.
The snow in Wyoming and on the
Short Line section of the Union Pacific
system was said to have been the worst
in years.
BRITAIN TO KEEP COLONIES
Secretary of Overseas Dominions
Makes Announcement.
LONDON, Jan. 31. The colonies cap
tured from Germany during the war
will never be returned, said Walter
Hume Long, Secretary of State for the
Colonies, speaking as a representative
of the Overseas Dominions, in an ad
dress today.
"We acquired possession of different
German colonies in various parts of the
world as a consequence of this war,
no Baia. iiei no man tnink these
territories will ever return to German
rule."
(Concluded on Paso S. Column 3.)
NOBEL PRIZE FOR KAISER?
Constantinople Educators Suggest
Emperor as Recipient.
BERLIN, Jan. 31, via London. Feb 1,
The legal and literary faculties of
Stamboul University," says a Constant!
nople dispatch, on being asked to sug
gest a candidate for the Nobel peace
prize, has named the German Emperor
as the "forefighter for the peace idea.'
ALASKA DRY BILL ASSED
Senate Measure Is Yet to , , Before
Lower House.
WASHINGTON. Jan. 31. The Senate
today passed the Jones bill to make
Alaska prohibition territory. The bill
would prohibit manufacture or sale of
Intoxicating liquors in the territory and
also the transportation thereto.
It has not yet passed the house.
PEACE TIP DUE TO,
'CLEVER DEDUCTION'
MAN FOUND SHOT;
WIFE GOES TO JAIL
Gossip Also Factor,
Broker Testifies.
ORIGIN OF RUMORS NOT FOUND
Wilson's Brother - in - Law's
Partner Tells of Note.
B0LLING IS EXONERATED
Francis A. Connolly Tells Investi
gators Any Clever Person Can
Get Much Valuable Infor-'
mation in Washington.
NEW YORK, Jan. 31. Francis A.
Connolly, the Washington broker and
partner of R. W. Boiling, a brother-in-law
of President Wilson, who on De
cember 20 gave to E. F. Hutton ok Co..
New York brokers, an-accurate reaume
of the President's peace note 10 hours
before it was published, failed in two
and a half hours of grilling examina
tlon by the Congressional inquisitorial
committee today to name the exact
source of his Information. He spe
cifically exonerated Boiling, however.
from all responsibility for the "leak"
on the note.
To the best of his knowledge, Mr.
Connolly smilingly told the committee
repeatedly, his advices to the Hutton
firm were based principally on "gossip
and rumor" he gathered in his office
and deductions he had made from a
speech he heard President Wilson de
liver at the Gridiron Club dinner in
Washington. December 9.
Efforts Are Fruitless.
la vain did Sherman L. Whipple,
counsel for the committee, and all its
members, six of whom are attorneys,
attempt to draw from Mr. Connolly the
name of a single person who gave him
any of the information he forwarded to
New York.
Even declarations by Representative
Bennett, of New York, that Mr. Con
nolly must have been possessed of a
remarkable gift of prophecy and that
he had strangely worded his resume "in
the language of the highest . form of
statesmanship," failed to disturb him.
Any "clever person," Mr. Connolly said,
who would mingle in the right circles
in Washington "with nls ear on the
ground" could, gather much information
of great value.
Witness Is Radiant.
Connolly's examination waa unfln
ishtj when the committee adjourned
tonight. He still was radiant and eager.
apparently, to help, but the committee,
according to certain members, were
somewhat at a loss as to what angle
his interrogation should take when it
is resumed tomorrow.
Although Connolly in his resume,
copy of which he had drafted from
(Concluded on Pa ire 8, Column 1.)
ACRE GIVES LIVING FOR 2
Oakville Man Realizes Profits Prom
Varied Activities.
ABERDEEN, Wash., Jan. 31. (Spe
cial.) T. J. Watklns, a 68-year-old
farmer living near Oakville. earned a
living for himself and wife on one acre
of irrigated prairie land near Oakville
last year. One-quarter of the acre is
devoted to loganberries, gooseberries
and blackberries, and from these he
received $70. On the rest he grew veg
etables, which he sold for 355. besides
having plenty for himself.
This land also furnishes fodder for
two cows which earned $200 last year,
and supports 150 hens which returned
him a large profit.
94 OF 700 SPELL RIGHTLY
In La Grande School Contest Aver
age Is 91.5 Per Cent.
LA GRANDE. Or., Jan. 31. (Special.)
Out of 700 students from the fourth
grade and up to the senior class In the
high school, who competed In a spelling
match here, 94 handed in perfect pa
pers.
The general average of the con
testants was 81.5 per cent,
LAWSON WAS RIGHT; THE LEAK WAS UNDER THE KITCHEN SINK.
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POLICE SAY FORMER MANICUR
IST WAS INTOXICATED.
Woman Resists Arrest and Three Offi
cers Carry Her to Wagon.
Victim Is in Hospital.
Harry Bloor, meter reader for the
Portland Railway. Light & Power Com
pany, lies at St. Vincent's Hospital with
a bullethole in his abdomen and his
wife. Florence, 30 years of age. former
manicurist at the Board of Trade build
ing, is held at police headquarters as
a result of a shooting affray at the
Bloor home, near Thirteenth and Hall
streets, at 7 o'clock last night. Police
believe the shot was fired by Mrs. Bloor
while in an intoxicated condition.
When found by Motorcycle Patrolman
Frank Ervin shortly after the shooting,
Bloor was oi. the bed in the bedroom.
conscious and witji one ehot fired from
a 32-caliber revolver that was found In
his pocket. His wife lay on the couch
in an adjoining room and resisted being
taken to the station by Officer Ervin
and Detectives Price and Mallett. She
used violent language and the officers
had some difficulty in trundling her
down the hill to the wagon, as she
stoutly refused to walk. It took the
three officers to get her to the police
patrol.
Officers said they smelled liquor on
her breath and they believe, upon su
perficial examination of the facts, she
shot her husband.
Neither Bloor, who was conscious un
til taken to the surgery at St. Vincent's
Hospital, nor his wife would say any
thing about the shooting.
Mrs. Bloor was hysterical when taken
to the station, talking of her little dog,
and in another breath she asked.
"Where have they taken my laddie?"
LONGER SESSION POSSIBLE
Legislature Considers Meeting Again
to Handle Leftover Matters.
SALEM, Or., Jan. 31. (Special.)
There is considerable talk among mem
bers of both houses of the advisability
of extending the present legislative
session over the 40-day period. There
is an immense volume of important
legislation to be disposed of.
It is felt that it will require at least
a week or 10 days' extra time. After
the 40-day session it is suggested that
recess be taken and then that the
Legislature reconvene.
99 VESSELS CONFISCATED
AH hut Fonr of Ships Seized by Cen
tral Powers Are British.
BERLIN. Jan. $1 (By wireless to
Sayviile, N. Y.) "It is said on compe
tent authority," says the Overseas
News Agency, "that at the beginning
of the war there were confiscated in
the ports of the central powers 19
hostile tihlps, with a total gross ton
nage of 189,000.
"Of these ships 95, -with a total gross
tonnage of 173,500, were British."
MERGER BILLS ABE
TO COIf UP TODAY
Committees Agree on
Draft of Measures.
HOUSE MEMBERS MAY TURN
Thomas Reserves Riqht
Vote Against Propos-
to
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GOVERNOR'S VIEW IN DOUBT
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Weather.
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, ST
aeiraea; minimum. J-i degree.
TODAY'S Probably rain or snow; warmer
southerly winds.
Submarine Crisis.
uermanr declares ror unrestricted use of
suDmarinea. rage x.
German note is staggering surprise to Wash
ing-ton. rare o.
President's threat to sever diplomatic rela
tions in ouuex cue recalled, rage X.
Interned German ships g-uarded, as port of
xew iora is seaiea. 1 ag l.
Press comment on German note. Page 8.
Legislatures.
House votes to extend school suffrage.
raro a.
Senate kind to nearly all bills presented.
Page 7.
Legislature must lop eff $1,630,120 to keep
within 6 per cent limitation amendment.
Page 6.
Olympla drys block amendments. 77 to 18.
Page 9.
Consolidation bills to be presented today.
Page 1.
Roirue River fishing bill fight is. bitter.
Page T.
Foreign.
Four held for alleged plot to kill Lloyd
George. Page 3.
National.
Malor-General Wood assails National Guard
system, but not men and officers. Page 2.
Peace note tip baaed on deductions and gos
sip. Bays broker. Page 1.
Army officers admit Columbia River chan
nel is adequate. Page 2.
Domestic.
Daylight saving plan urged before National
Chamber of Commerce. Page 2.
Sports.
Ritchie praises Bronson's ability. Page 18.
Two Beavers have not yet signed. Page Is.
Three quintets tied In Interscholastlo Bas
ketball League. Page 17.
Shel McCool trims Sammy Morris at Ore
gon City smoker. Page 17.
Multnomah Club five defeats University of
Washington team. S3 to 20. Page 16.
Pacific Northwest.
Snow ties up shipbuilding and logging at
Aberdeen. Page 20.
Commercial and Marine.
Wheat trade In Northwest halts pending
foreign developments. Page 21.
Selling of wheat at Chicago induced by
peace rumors. Page 21.
Shorts sell stocks on lack of favorable re
sponse to Steel statement. Page 2X.
Schooner Muriel la unexpected arrival In
river. Page 20.
Portland and Vicinity.
Mr.' Dleck demands Mr. Blgelow investigate
Commissioner's side money. Page 15.
Chamber of Commerce defends School of
Commerce. Page 15.
R. A. Hume asks for vacation of United
States Cashier Company receivership.
Page 10.
Romany wdmen are fined for fortune-telling.
Page 11.
Collection of taxes to begin today. Page 11.
Princess Convallnskys tale is astounding.
Page 10.
Lines deny blame for car shortage. Page 8.
Crowds still hover about auto show. Page 8.
Steelworker Is killed .In accident at Audito
rium. Page 9.
Man Is found shot and wife goes to Jail.
Page 1.
Late Union Pacific trains reach city at all
hours. Page 1.
Portland man to receive small part of $1,-
J.'.O.OOO estate. Page 11.
Weather report, data, and forecast. Pass 21.
Public Service Commissioners Are)
Not Wholly In Favor of Plan,
as They Feel AVork of De
partments Would Suffer.
STATE CAPITOL. 8alem. Or.. Jan.
31. (Special.) The first Joint effort
of the Senate and Houjso committees
on consolidation will be presented to
the Legislature in identical bills to
be introduced in both Houses tomor
row morning.
The measure to be so introduced sa
a joint committee bill is the one ten
tatively approved by the committees
last Friday, but over which there -was
a sharp disagreement last night.
It provides for the consolidation of
the Industrial Accident Commission,
the Labor Commission, Child Labor
Commission and Industrial Welfare
Commission, Into a new department to
be known as the Labor and Industrial
Accident Commission. I
Two Commissioners Dropped.
The outstanding feature of the bill
is its elimination of two of the present
three Industrial Accident Commission
ers, leaving one Commissioner at a re
duction of salary from $3600 to S3000
a year, to handle the work of the In
dustrial Accident Department.
It was this elimination of two com
missioners that caused, the disagree
ment Tuesday night. Representative
Thomas, of the House committee, took
the stand that the Industrial Accident
Commission, as recommended by Gov
ernor Withycombe, should not be dis
turbed. Though this disagreement was Ironed
out tonight to the extent that all the
members of the two committees voted
to have the bill Introduced in both
houses tomorrow, members of the
House committee are by no means a
unit behind It. On the other hand, the
Senate committee appears to favor it
unanimously.
Two Refuse to Pledge Vote.
Representatives Thomas and Fort
wood both reserved the right to speak
against the bill and if they so felt when
It came up for final passage, to vote
against it also.
"I am willing to have it introduced
to start things going." said Thomas,
"but I prefer that it be introduced
without recommendation."-
When Representative Thomas at
Tuesday night's mealing expressed his
belief that the Industrial Accident
Commission should be left Intact, the -joint
committees put the matter up to
a subcommittee to adjust.
This subcommittee, composed of Sen
ators Cusick and Orton. and Represent
atives Thomas and Rltnerrroet at lunch.
today and after considerable discussion
decided to report in favor of the orig
inal bill and this they did tonight.
B1U to Be Committee Measure
As urged by Representative Thomas,
however, they suggested that the bill
should be introduced in both Senate
and House without recommendation.
(Concluded on Pasfe
Column a.)
Yesterday in the Legislature
NO measures of outstanding impor
tance were acted upon in either
branch of the Legislature yesterday,
but today the "bone-dry" prohibition
bill will be up in the Senate for final
action. If passed, as seems altogether '
probable, it will go Immediately to the
Governor for his signature, and this
has been assured In advance.
Identical bills will be introduced to
day in the Senate and Hous providing
for consolidation of the Industrial Ac
cident Commission, the Labor Commis
sion, the Child Labor Commission and
the Industrial Welfare Commission. In
troduction of the measure was agreed
upon at a meeting last night of the two
committees having the consolidation
programme in charge in the respective
branches.
The House yesterday passed a bill
removing the property-owning Qualifi
cations from voters at school elections,
except upon questions involving issues
of bonds. The bill now goes to the
Senate. '
In the House 17 bills were passed
yesterday, three failed of passage and
three were indefinitely postponed, in
suring their defeat. It was the last
regular day for introduction of bills.
In the Senate yesterday nine bills
were passed, none of which was of
more than local importance. Among
the measures passed was one validating
the creation of Deschutes County, now
a portion of .Crook County.
Up to the close of today's session
the Senate had passed 81 bills since the
Legislature opened. It haa killed but
17 measures.
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