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OFFICER OF GERMAN
NAVY IS ARRESTED
Los Angeles Prisoner Held as
Suspect in Connection With
. Welland Canal Plot.
CAPTAIN WORKING ON FARM
Alfred Frilzen Taken ty Department
of Justice Agent Following Ex
tensive Travels in Amer
ica, Mexico, Cuba.
LOS ANGELES, March 9. In the ar
rest of Captain Alfred Frltzen, who
says he is an officer of the German
navy, the Federal authorities believe
they have one of the men Involved In
the plot to dynamite the Welland
Canal.
tl M. Blanford, special agent for the
Department of Justice, made the ar
rest last night at Hartwood. near this
city. Captain Frltzen spent the night
in the City Jail here, much to his dis
trust, and said he would not oppose ex
tradition to New York, where he is
under Indictment.
Captain Fritzen had worked on a
ranch, but said he had plenty of money
and could give bail of $20,000, or In
any reasonable amount. He declared
he had wealthy relatives and powerful
friends and that the German govern
ment did not provide him with funds.
Charse Declared Absnrd.
He Classed the charge against him as
absurd, although he said he was in
New York at the time of the plot.
Captain Fritzen said he was an
officer In the German navy for 20
years. He was on shore duty for five
years before the beginning of the war
and was In New York City on a leave
of absence when war was declared. At
the time he held the rank of captain
on the active list, he said.
"I tried to get back to Germany to
fight for the fatherland," he added,
"but I couldn't do it."
He went to Havana a few weeks
later, he said, "because the feeling
even at that time In New York was
strong against Germany. I learned
that Government officers had been
trailing me."
Trip to Mexico Attempted.
Soon, he said,- he returned to the
United States, went to New Orleans,
then came to Los Angeles, worked for
Mr. Hart, then went back East and to
Cuba, from there to Vera Cruz, In an
attempt to reach Mexico City, but fail
ing, returned here January 15.
Later he went to San Diego and to
Tia Juajia, Lower California, in an
other attempt to get to Mexico City.
Failing to find means of transporta-.
tion, he returned here.
Ke denied acquaintance with other
Germans implicated in the Welland
Canal, plot or with any German offi
cials except consuls to whom he re
ported on his travels.
INDICTMENT NEARLY YEAR OLD
Fritzen Suspected of Acting With.
Yon Papen and Others.
NEW YORK,.. .March 9. Alfred A.
Fritzen. arrested at . Hartwood. Cal.,
last night, was indicted by a Federal
Brand jury in this city April 17. 1916,
in an alleged conspiracy hatched In the
ITnited States to blow up the Welland
Canal.
Indictments were returned at the
name time against Captain Franz von
J'apen, ex-military attache of the Ger
man Embassy; Wolf von Igel. his sec
retary; Captain HanH Tauscher. agent
in America of the ICrupps, and Con
Btantine Covani, alias Giovanni Gon
zales. With the possible exception f
Covani, Fritzen is the only one of the
alleged conspirators now, in this coun
try. Von Papen was sent back to
Germany, and Hans tauscher and Wolf
von Igel are returning to Germany
with Count von Bernstorff. The where
abouts of Covani is not known.
Fritzen, who was formerly manager
in Hoboken of a German sailors' home,
is laleged to have been one of five
men who at the instance of Von Papen
carried dynamite t Niagara Falls por
the purpose of blowing up the canal.
Tauscher was alleged to have sup
plied the explosive, but was tried and
acquitted of this charge. It was said
at the Federal District Attorney's of
fice arrangements would be made to
have Fritzen brought here.
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The dream of a lifetime has been realized
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SESSION IS CALLED
President Also Issues Order
for Arming of Ships.
U-BOATS MENACE TO CANAL
WAR IS PUT UP TO WILSON
German Foreign Minister gays Pol
icy Is Firmly Fixed.
LONDON. March 9. On being asked
by a representative of a Budapest
newspaper whether war between the
United States and Germany was ex
pected, the German Foreign Secretary,
Dr. Alfred Zimmerman, as quoted in
an Exchange Telegraph dispatch from
Copenhagen, replied:
"I do not know. It depends on Presi
dent .Wilson. Since the severance of
diplomatics relations we have been
without official information from
America, but I can say this: We shall
prosecute the submarine war with all
means at our disposal.
Dr. Zimmerman said he believed
there would be no change In Germany's
relations with the neutral nations of
Kurope during the war.
Liquor Case Compromised.
SAN FRANCISCO, March 9. The
Government accepted today a compro
mise offer of about S30.000 In the case
of the Julius Levin Company, whose
$200,000 stock recently was seized In
connection with charges of illicit ship
ment of liquor, mostly to Seattle. The
stock will be released.
THEY WERE RUNDOWN
How often we hear it said of a man
or woman that "they were rundown in
health," which accounts for their
present sickness. For that reason it
is important that when you find you
tire easily, when your nerves are
troublesome or your work is irksome,
you should commence immediately
to strengthen your system with the
blood-enriching, tissue-building food
in Scott's Emulsion which is a con
centrated liquid food of high nutritive
-alue and is totally free from alcohol
or harmful drugs. Scott's
has been prescribed by good
physicians for forty-three
years. . Keruse snDstitutes. jt
Bortt a Bowm. FhaAM, N. .
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Mr. Wilson Convinced Berlin Is
Prepared to Carry Reign of
Terror Into American
Waters if Necessary.
(Continued From First Pase.)
and Father Guillaume Leroux, Catholic
missionaries, in the Bear Lake country
east of Fort Norman, in the Winter of
1913-14, are prisoners at Herschel
Island, and will be brought to Fort
McPherson later. The priests had gone
to the Bear Lake country to convert
the Eskimos to Christianity.
The first news of the murder was
brought to Herschel Island two years
ago by a big game hunter who found
a band of Eskimos wearing the gowns,
crucifixes and vestments of Catholic
priests. On investigation it was found
that , the missionaries were missing.
The priests were natives of France and
about 35 years of age.
The alleged murderers were arrested
by Captain Lenauze, who crossed Coro
nation Gulf and went to the Bear Lake
country.
APRONS OCCliPy SOCIETY
BIG SALE OX MARCH 26 WILL BIS
IMPORTANT EVENT.
rather than involve the country in war.
The President feels little concern now
about either of these groups. He is sat-
sfied the country is prepared to trust
him and he proposes to go along his
own road, asking Congress for support
only when support seems necessary.
Legislative Programme Outlined.
Besides obtaining authority to act in
any way he may deem advisable for the
protection of American lives and Amer-
can rights and obtaining sufficient
money to enable him to do, it is the
purpose of the President to insist that
Congress shall pass the following
measures:
Authorizing combination of capital in
the export and import trade of the
country as circumstances of interna
tional competition have made imperative.
Increase of the membership of the
Interstate Commerce Commission.
Conservation, whereby the mineral
resources of the country now locked up
will be released and unused water
power will be employed.
Appropriations for the support and
enlargement of the Army and the
maintenance of the military academy
at West Point.
Appropriations for the civil estab
lishment of the Government. '
Extending the powers of the ship
ping board.
Increase of the gold reserve.
Universal Training to Be Considered.
The President also will desire Con
gress to study seriously the question
of universal military training.
No time is to be lost In arming
American .merchantmen. What ships
will be armed and with what guns they
will be equipped the President es
pecially asks the newspapers to refrain
from printing.
Whatever, ships are armed will be
supplied with naval gunners.
If a hostile submarine should, be
sighted, it will be fired on, for its pres
ence will be regarded, as proof of a
purpose to attack. The policy of Ger
man submarines' has been to attack
without warning. The German govern
ment has publicly and officially an
nounced this policy.
Under the circumstanoes the gunners
will not withhold their shot until the
torpedo for the destruction of their
vessel has been loose-a.
STEFANSSDNHEARDFROM
ARCTIC EXPLORER WINTERING IN
PRINCE OF WALES STRAIT.
New I Brought by Northwest Police
Captain, Returmlns With Allesred
Eskimo Murderer.
DAWSON, T. T.. March 9. A North
west police expedition arrived here
from Fort McPherson by dogteam with
news that Vilhjalmur Stefansson, the
Arctic explorer, discoverer of new land
in the Arctic north' of Prince Patrick
Island, is wintering with the gasoline
schooner Polar Bear, at Prince of Wales
Strait. This Information was brought
from Herschel Island to Fort McPher
son by Captain Lenauze, captain of po
lice at Herschel Island, who made the
trip of 200 miles from the Island to
Fort McPherson alone with dogs,
Stefansson, who passed last Summer
exploring his new land, is hopeful that
the ice will break early this Spring
and let him make his way to the north
and east, and after accomplishing the
northeast passage, sail up the St. Law
rence River to Montreal.
The two Eskimos charged with mur
dering Father Jean Baptist Rouviere
Some of City's Loveliest and Most Fas
cinating; Girls Will Preside Over
Booths in Stores.
Society will talk aprons, think aprons
anad dream aprons from now until
March 26, when everyone will buy
aprons to help the work of the Junior
League, for the date has been set for
the second annual "apron day" of the
organization.
All Winter the girls of the league
have maintained a sewing-room, in
MISER
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HOUR HER
Condolence Telegraphed to
Widow of Count Zeppelin.
SOME BRITISH PAY TRIBUTE
TEXT OF PROCLAMATION FOR
EXTRA SESSION OF CON
GRESS. WASHINGTON, March 9. The
President's proclamation calling
an extra session of Congress fol-
lows:
"Whereas, Public Interests re
quire that the Congress of the
United States should be convened
In extra session at 12 o'clock
noon on the 16th day of April,
1917, to receive such communica
tions as may be made by the ex
ecutive; "Now, therefore, I, Woodrow
Wilson, President of the United
States of America, do hereby pro
claim and declare that an ex
traordinary occasion requires
the Congress of the United States
to convene in extra session at the
Capitol hi the city of Washing
ton on the 16th day of April, 1917,
at 12 o'clock noon, of which all
persons who shall at that time
be entitled to act as members
thereof are hereby required to
take notice.
"Given under my hand and the
seal of the United States of
America the ninth day of March,
' in the year of Our Lord One
Thousand Nine Hundred and Sev
enteen, and of the independence
of the United States the One
Hundred and Forty-First."
which they have given employment to
scores of needy and industrious wom
en. The grand finale of this movement
will be the sale of hundreds of aprons
that the women have made in the sewing-room.
Arrangements have been made with
the big department stores to dispose of
the aprons at gay booths, in which
society girls will be the saleswomen.
The day was so successful last year
and the work proved so sensible and
practical In helping women to be self
supporting that the league members
determined to make it an annual affair.
To come up to the standard of the
first year's effort is the determination
of the members. The committees and
"shop girls" will be announced within
a few days. Some of the loveliest and
most fascinating of the society girls
of the city will be among the most ac
tive workers. They ask all who are in
terested in solving the problems of
poverty are unemployment to patronize
their booths on March 26, when "the
best aprons for a small price" will be
on sale.
Other Editorial Comments Are Not
Appreciative of Ingenuity in
View of German's Dream of
Destroying London.
AMSTERDAM, March 9. via London.
Emperor William, says a Berlin dis
patch, has sent the following telegram
of condolence to Countess Zeppelin:
"With deep regret I have Just learned
of the death of your husband General
of Cavalry Count Zeppelin. I person
ally feel most painfully the death of
this excellent man, distinguished by
rare gifts of genius and of the heart.
The whole German people stands with
me in mourning at the bier of one of
the greatest sons of the fatherland.
"In the tenacious. lndefatlirnhle
struggle for the masterv of th air
le experienced successes which made
Us name immortal across the forntiers
if the emni r a rmt nH t Ant!-. i .i
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Called away in the midst of this gi
gantic war in which he so energetically
co-operated combating our enemies, it
was unfortunately not given to him
personally to participate in the end of
the fight, but his work will be con
tinued in his spirit by the army and
navy.
Memory Held Sublime.
"The Almighty may console von and
your family in the great sorrow for the
deceased whose fame is immortal. The
memory or him will always remain
sublime and dear to me.
"WILHELM."
LONDON, March 9. Count Von Zen-
pelln was suffering from dysentery for
some time prior to his death and a
complication of the malady necessita
ted an intestinal operation, according
to a uerim aispatcn to .neuter's. The
operation was successful, and his re
covery was hoped for when mumos de
veloped, and later. Inflammation of the
lungs. He died at noon Thursday.
Morning newspapers today print long
obituaries of Count Zeppelin, whose
career is viewed in most instances dis
passionately, and In some cases with
tributes to his patriotism and persever
ance. London's' Destruction Ills Dream.
The reputed ambition of Count Zep
pelin to lay London in ruin and his
alleged confidence in the ability of his
machines to achieve this object are
recalled, while failure to realize such
an ambition is regarded by some writ
ers aa sufficient ground on which to
base the statement that Zeppelin's
career of strange vicissitudes ended
in disallusion and defeat at one of the
lowest points in his fluctuating for
tunes. His least appreciative commen
tator says:
"His chief feat is that he killed or
wounded 1500 British citizens, mostly
non-combatants, by disloyal means
and gave Germany her greatest disap
pointment of the war."
Magazine Transmits Relief Fund.
x,w xjtjv, March 8. one meal a
day for seven days was guaranteed to
1,200,000 destitute Belgian children to
day when the Literary Digest handed
Herbert Hoover, chairman of the Com
mission for Relief in Belgium, a check
for $300,000 contributed to the maga
zine's relief fund.
One must fight as an archangel for
freedom but in freedom one must live
as a saint. Serbian proverb.
Lipman-Wolfc $5.00 hats are famous both far and near!
They have come to be used as a standard by which other
hats are judged! Now, for today, we're ready with $5.00
hats that will set a new style and value mark I
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In every one of these $5.00 hats you will find
that indescribable '.'something" which distinguishes all
Lipman, Wolfe hats that "something" which takes
them away from "merchandise" and lifts them into
the "art" class! ,
And, then, too. you're going to enthuse over the great number of differ
ent styles and the fact that there are very, very few duplicates I -There
are big hats and little hats and hats just in between dress hats
and street hats and sports hats in all the colors of the rainbow!
Third floor Lipman, Wolfe & Co.
At 25c
Shades of Night
Out of the Cradle
Naughty, Naughty
Poor Butterfly
Missouri Waltz
2 for 25c
Arrh, Go on. Pm Golns;
Back to Oreson.
Xhere's n Little Bit of
Bad In Every Good
Little Girl.
Be May Be Old. bat Be
Has Vouns; Ideas.
Rollins; Stones.
Ireland Most Be Heaves.
Mezzanine Floor.
The last day of
Miss Gold's
demonstration of
Porter
Hair Frames
Last day to buy
them
At 10c
First Floor
Lipman, Wolfe & Co.
Everything new in the girls' own store!
Splendid new coats at $6.95 to $28.50
- Youthful, girlish styles that the misses and small women will want and. we may
add, there's something different in these coats an undefinable style all their own.
Come, see them!
New plaids, checks, block checks, velours, Poiret twills, in mustard, apple
green, gold, bnght green, navy.
"Flapper" suits for the young girls
Some very good ones at $14.50 to $25.00
Not just "good ones," but suits with style that even the young girls are not slow to
appreciate. Pleated styles that are girlish, others are belted or Norfolk in effect- Navy,
copen, rose, mustard are the much-wanted colors.
Coats for the girls 2 to 15 years old
You'll agree are unusual at $4.00 to $20.00
Made of such materials as silk poplin, fancy checks, softest velours, silk taffeta, twills
and other of the new fabrics for Spring. The styles well, why describe them when
we couldn't possibly do them justice! But mothers never saw such cunning coats before!
Skirts so smart and new for misses
They're very moderately priced at $4.95 to $5.95
In this day and age, the high school girl wants something "unique," and oftentimes a little exag
gerated. But these skirts will strike the happy medium, and please both mother and daughter while
the materials are dashing enough, the styles are just what a young girl should wear! Bright colore, too!
A group of new tub dresses yj
for a special Saturday feature O
-They remind one of grandmother's day the quaintness of the styles are adorable,
and so different from anything else we have ever shown! That in itself should be a
special inducement to come in to see them today, for Lipman-Wolfe's tub frocks are
always decidedly in advance of others. Sizes 6 to 14 in these frocks.
Another line of wash dresses you'll want to see are priced
at $2.49. Also for girls to 14 years. These are a little
more elaborate in detail, but not a whit better when it comes
to material and finish than the dresses we have mentioned
above! Fourth floor Lipman, Wolfe & Co.
ECONOMY IS ENJOINED
PUBTLI SmiJtS WABXED AG.USST
WASTE IX USING PAPER,
Discontinuance of Return Privileges
and Purchases Only for Urgent
Needs Are Advised.
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"WASHINGTON, March 9. News print
paper price arbitration, undertaken by
the Federal Trade Commission, will
succeed, in the opinion of the Com
mission, only if publishers practice the
closest economies in the use of paper.
Blank agreement forms sent to pub
lishers throughout the country today
inform them that to benefit by the
price-fixing plan they must not only
consent to relinquish 5 per cent of
their paper requirements, . but must
agree to discontinue return privileges
and must buy additional paper only to
meet the most urgent needs.
The Commission expects to go ahead
"Oh, say, fellows I Do you know that Lipman
Wolfe are going to give away one of their dandy
Langham - high suits FREE
to the boy in each of the high schools who
writes the best essay on
"Hov much does good tasle in dress influence success?"
"I am writing an essay and so are all the other fellows in our
bunch! It's a mighty easy way to win a good suit, I think.
"And talking about suits say, do you know those
LANGHAM-HIGH suits? They've got more snap and life
to em than any I've ever seen and, say, you should see the
way they're priced almost as if there was a sale! I saw some
humdingers at $15, and. of course, there are others at higher
prices, too!
"You better go up to the fourth floor at Lipman-Wolfe's
today and get all the particulars about this contest, for it's to
close .on Saturday, March Zl
"P. S. Some of the Langham-Highs are in one
windows tonight." Fourth floor Lipman, Wolfe
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Just because you may be
Tvilling to give anything to
protect your eyes, is no good
reason vhy you should give
up everything!"
For fifteen years Dr. Dallas,
now in charge of our optical de
partment, has been helping the
eyes of' discriminating folks in
Portland.
His experience in this work
is exceptional. In spite of this
unusual service, the charges are
no higher than for ordinary
service. This includes the
grinding of all lenses, includ
ing the immediate replacing of
broken glasses, on the premises
under his personal direction.
Second Floor, adjoining
Ladies Rest Room.
Kryptok specialist.
with its plans as soon as enough pub
lishers come Into the arrangement to
make it practicable. The price-fixing
proposal, as advanced by manufactur
ers, will be operative for six months.
The commission has set a price of
J2 50, but in its notice to publishers
says this price will be tried first for
three months and then if found too low
will be readjusted.
To insure that small publishers get
paper the commission is working on
a plan under which manufacturers will
sell to them first the paper released
by large publishers.
DUTCH BAR ARMED BRITON
Merchant Later Enters Rotterdam
After Dropping Gun In Sea.
BERLIN, March 9. (By wireless to
Sayvllle, N. 1 .) "The British merchant
steamer Princess Melita was not per
mitted to enter the harbor at Rotter
dam because she was armed," says the
Overseas News Agency, the official
German news bureau. She left 'that
evening and returned to Rotterdam
the next day after throwing overboard
her gun and its mou .ing.
The Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant
says that in the week from February
25 to March 3 only seven ships arrived
in Rotterdam harbor, as compared with
57 in the corresponding week last year
and 197 in that week of 1914. The
Handelsblad says that in that week
only five ships arrived at Amsterdam,
compared with 26 last year.
Centrallans Hear Dr. Kloeber.
CENTRALIA, Wash., March 9. (Spe
cial.) About 60 Southwest Washing
ton employers, mostly mill men, in the
local Commercial Club rooms yester
day afternoon heard Dr. Kloeber. of
North Yakima, explain the details of
the first aid measure passed by the
State Legislature. Dr. Kloeber, who
was one of the men who drew up the
act, was brought here by V. B. Hub
bard, president of the Eastern Railway
& Lumber Company, who recently
heard Dr. Kloeber lecture In Tacoma.
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