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VOL. LYII NO. 17,587.
PORTLAND, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4, 1917.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
VAR DECLARATION
TODAY PROBABLE
La Follette Alone Blocks
Action in Senate.
FAMILY MEN TO BE
LET OUT OF GUARD
SPIES HONEYCOMB
NATIONAL CAPITOL
GERMANY NOT TO
WAGE WAR ON U. S.
BRITAIN IS STIRRED
WAR PUTS WOMAN
AT STUDENTS' HEAD
BY WILSON SPEECH
HUSBAXDS AliSO TO BE EXEMPT
FROM FIRST CAIL.
ATTITUDE U3f CHANGED, WHAT
EVER CONGRESS DOES.
TABOO AT UNIVERSITY OF ORE
GON SET AT NAUGHT.
Ml ARMY TO BE
YOUNG III ONLY
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24-HCUR DELAY IS FORCED
House Expected to Adopt Res
olution With Whoop at
Start of Session Today.
PACIFIST GROUP DISARMED
Senators Generally Enthusias
tic in Support of Proposal to
. Wage War on Germany.
' WASHINGTON, April 3. The
way was cleared on both sides of the
Capitol today for prompt enactment
of the Administration resolution de
claring a state of war exists with
Germany and directing the President
to prosecute it with all the Nation's
resources to a successful termination.
Balked by Senator La Follette in
their efforts to have the resolution
taken up immediately after it had
been reported from the foreign re
lations committee, Senate leaders de
cided to begin tomorrow morning at
10 o'clock a plan to continue until a
vote is taken.
Continuous Session Planned.
Letters signed by Senators Martin
and Gallinger, respectively the Demo
cratic and Republican leaders, went to
each Senator tonight announcing the
plan for a continuous session. If the
leaders can hold a quorum, as they
were able to do in the closing hours
of the last session on the armed neu
trality bill, it is probable that there
will be action late tomorrow night or
Thursday morning.
It is not expected there will be any
attempt to filibuster, but no one knew
tonight how many Senators would
speak.
House to Act Swiftly.
Adoption of the resolution by the
House before tomorrow night is ex
pected by the foreign affairs com
mittee. The committee will meet in
the morning, and is expected to re
port back quickly the resolution as
approved today by the Senate com
mittee. A special rule probably will be
asked from the rules committee to
expedite the resolution, regardless of
its progress in the Senate, and little
delay is looked for, once it reaches
the House floor. Sentiment on the
House side is almost unanimously in
favor of the measure.
Few Speeches Expected.
Senators who have looked over the
situation believe that if friends of the
resolution can be prevented from con
suming time in speech-making a vote
in the Senate need not be delayed
many hours. They expect few votes
against it and not many speeches in
opposition.
Republicans in close touch with the
situation believe that Senators La
Follette, Gronna and Norris, on the
Republican side, will speak and vote
against the resolution, and that they
will be joined by Senators Stone and
Kirby, on the Democratic side.
Lane's Position Not Sure.
Of the position that will be taken
by Senators Cummins and Lane, who
were in the group President Wilson
blamed for failure of the armed neu
trality bill, they were not at all sure,
Enthusiastic approval of the Presi
dent's address is general among Sen
ators. There are a few Republicans
who express doubt about what he
meant when he said the entrance of
the United States into the war would
involve "the utmost practicable co
operation in counsel and action with
the governments now at war with
Germany."
Some Want Speech Explained.
Some of them who think this might
mean a close alliance and an active
participationin all the policies of the
entente, extending even to the period
after the war, are anxious to have the
exact intent of the phrase made clear
before they vote to give the President
the broad powers conveyed in the
resolution.
There may be also some disinclina
tion, particularly on the part of Re-
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Skllled Workmen In Some Indus
tries, Who Continue Work,
Will Be Excused, Too.
WASHINGTON. April 3. National
Guardsmen with dependent families
will be mustered out of the Federal
service, it was announced today at the
War Department.
Departmental commanders have been
so instructed.
Complete plans are being drawn up
at the War Department for exempting
certain classes of men from active mili
tary service in case Congress approves
President Wilson's plan for raising an
army on the principle of universal lia
bility to service.
In addition to exempting, on the first
call, married men and men with others
directly dependent upon them, provi
sion also will be made for exempting
skilled workers In many industries.
Such workers will be looked upon as
performing military service if they con
tinue labor necessary for the industrial
welfare of the Nation.
Among the workmen so exempted
probably will be skilled farmers. The
Government realizes that one of the
most pressing problems before the Na
tion Is the Increase in the output of
foodstuffs, so as to continue to supply
the needs of the United States and en
able the Government to send large sup
plies to the entente allies.
Of the new men enlisted In the Ore
gon National Guard, none will be af
fected by the Government order to
muster out men with dependent fam
ilies, as Adjutant-General George A.
White, contemplating such a move on
the part of the Government, has asked
his officers to accept no married men
unless they signed an affidavit that
they would not call on the Govern
ment to take care of their families.
The large proportion of the several
hundred new members of the Guard
are single men without dependents.
Of the old members of the Oregon
National Guard the order will affect
probably 15 to 20 men to a company
on an average. It is not believed it
will run over 20 men in any com
pany. ,
VILLISTAS ARE EXECUTED
65 Hanged to Cemetery, 50 on One
Bridge, 17 From Tree.
JUAREZ, Mex., April 3. Sixty-five
Villa followers were executed in the
Chihuahua City cemetery yesterday by
order of General Francisco Murguia,
refugees arriving from the state
capital today said. These refugees said
the number of Villa sympathizers and
followers who were hanged following
the battle of last Friday numbered
more than 200, including two Villa gen
erals.
Fifty were hanged on one bridge, 17
were seen hanging on one tree and
seven were hanged In the Cathedral
plaza opposite the state palace, one
refugee said.
CITY DROPS DISLOYAL MAN
Short Sbrlft Given Jjewiston Em
ploye Who Insulted Flag.
LEWISTON, Idaho. April 3. (Spe
cial.) Edward Strong, an employe of
the City of Lewlston, was promptly
dismissed from the service yesterday
when it was learned that he denounced
the flag of the United States. The city
was being decorated with flags when
Strong made a slurring remark con
cerning them.
He was rushed to the police station,
given a prompt hearing and imme
diately discharged from service. He has
been an employe of the city for many
years.
DISLOYAL CANNOT PARADE
Ban Put on Unpatriotic Demonstra
tions in Portland.
In case of war unpatriotic parades
and demonstrations will be strictly un
der the ban in Portland, according to
announcement yesterday of Mayor Al
bee. The Mayor's action is in accord
ance with resolutions adopted at a
mass meeting of business men in the
Armory Saturday night.
The resolutions as forwarded to
Mayor Albee are signed by Bishop W.
T. Sumner, A. W. Orton, Lloyd I' Smith
and C. W. Garland.
RUSSIAN'S WIFE WOULD DIE
Ex-Premier Stnrmer's Mate . Cuts
Throat In Suicide Attempt.
LONDON, April 3. The wife of the
ex-Russian Premier, Boris V. Stunner,
has attempted to commit suicide, ac
cording to a Reuter dispatch from Pe
trograd. After receiving a letter, the
contents of which are not known, she
cut her throat.
She was taken to a hospital, where
she was said to be in a dangerous con
dition. She Is 66 years old.
REPARATION IS PEACE PRICE
Poincare Makes Promise to Liber
' ated Frenchmen.
PARIS. April 3. President Poincare
today visited the towns in the Somme
region devastated by the Germans dur
ing their retreat.
Addressing the townspeople the Pres
ident said the French nation was re
solved to continue the war until a vic
tory which assured the victims of full
reparation for all atrocities committed
was obtained.
German Trail Found in
State Department. .
EVEN RULE IN CONGRESS TRIED
Brains of Vast Organization
and Lieutenants Known..
SOME MAY BE HANGED
Hundreds of Arrests Will Follow
Passage of Espionage Bill at
Present Session ; System Rep
resents Xears of Work.
BT JOHN CATALAN O'LOUGHLIN. . .
WASHINGTON, April 8. (Spe
cial.) President Wilson had solid
foundation for the statement he made
In his address before Congress last
night, that the Prussian autocracy had
filled "our unsuspecting, communities
and even our Government offices with
spies." Their, trail has been found In
some of the roost closely guarded pre
cincts of the American Government,
and not even the State Department has
been free from invasion.
Because the authorities are still on
the trail of men who are paid agents
In the German service and are employed
at this moment in Government depart
ments, a great deal of secrecy Is
thrown about the information in their
possession.
Chief of Spies la Known.
Nevertheless The Oregonian Is ad
vised that the whole network of spies
centering in New York and extending
to Washington, Chicago and other
cities, continues to encompass the
United States. This in spite of the fact
that the American Nation is in a state
of war With the imperial German gov
ernment. The man who Is the brains of the
vast organization is known to the au
thorities. They will place their hands
upon him the moment the President
signs the Joint Congressional resolu
tion, formally declaring the existence
of a state of war. Many of his agents
are known. They, too, will be round
ed up.
Tiro Employes Discharged.
Every department of the Government
is under sharp surveillance by the local
authorities. Only the other day two
men were discharged from the Coast
and Geodetic Survey because, of their
championship of Germany. They im
mediately obtained work in the Wash
ington naval foundry, where guns are
manufactured for American dread
noughts. Secretary Redfleld at once
notified Secretary Daniels. These men
are still on Uncle Sam's payroll, but
their days are numbered.
There is not a bureau of the Govern
ment where German-Americans are not
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Berlin Says Submarine Policy Will Be
. Continued, but Not - Espe
cially Against America.
BERLIN, April 3. (Via London, April
4.) The press report of President Wil
son's "state of war" message reached
Berlin at 10 o'clock this morning.
It is declared here that there would
be no change in the German attitude
even If Congress adopted President
Wilson's views.
Germany will not declare war nor
take any step to wage war against the
fnited States.
The submarine war will be continued
as. it has been conducted since, teo
ruary 1, but this, declare the officials,
is not directed more against the United
States than any other neutral.
It-also' was declared there will be
no change In the treatment of Amer
ican citizens in Germany, who have
now the same freedom as all other
neutrals. But Germany expects that
the United States will continue the
same treatment of Germans in that
country.
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LONDON April 3. An Exchange Tel
egraph dispatch from Amsterdam says
it is reported there from Berlin that
the German government contemplates
sending to all neutrals a protest against
the expected American declaration that
a state of war with Germany exists.
., It is hoped in Germany, the dispatch
says, that the protest will influence
South American republics as it will de
nounce President Wilson's policy as
perilous to the neutrality of the re
publics of Central and South America.
GAG ON ENEMIES WANTED
New Tork Grand Jury Would Have
Seditious Remarks Punished.
NEW YORK, April S. Resolutions
urging immediate steps to suppress se
ditious utterances in public places were
adopted today by the grand jury of the
county of New York.
The District Attorney is requested by
the Jury to prepare a bill to be sub
mitted to the Legislature for prompt
action, making any disloyal utterances
"a crime punishable by a severe pen
alty." MESSAGE BRINGS RECRUITS
Americans In Canada Rush, to Consul
General to Enlist.
WINNIPEG, April 3. President Wil
son's message to Congress last night
was followed today by a rush of United
States citizens to the office of the
American Consul-General here In an
effort to enlist.
Several others applied for enlist
ments in the Canadian battalions and
were accepted.
G. 0. P. HONORS WILSON
Dyed-in-the-Wdol Republican Body
Electa President Member.
SAN FRANCISCO, April 3. The Union
League Club, of San Francisco, a dyed-in-the-wool
Republican organization,
elected President Wilson today an hon
orary life member.
THE SPIRIT OF 1917.
Drastic Policy Is Elec
trifying Surprise.
COMMONS CHEERS PRESIDENT
Document Regarded as One of
Greatest of War.
PRESS SEES GERMAN DOOM
A Second Iilncoln" Is One Com
mentUse of Airplanes to Drop
Copies Behind Teuton Lines
Suggested by Official.
LONDON. April 3. President Wil
son's message aligning the United
States with the nations fighting
against Germany, was warmly wel
comed and unanimously acclaimed by
the British people. They recognize
that no decision with a weightier In
fluence upon the result of the world
struggle has been given since Great
Britain, after a few days of considera
tion, resolved to march with France.
No news of the last year has so
stirred the country, save only the Rus
sian revolution.
There have been no street demonstra
tions or exhibitions of excitement, such
as the first weeks of the war saw in
London, because the war has long
since passed the state of excitement,
and Is regarded here, as in America, as
a heavy and solemnly borne duty.
Surprise la Electrifying.
The substance and tone of the Presi
dent's message was an electrifying
surprise. The directness of his indict
ment of the German methods and his
whole-hearted statement of America's
duty to maintain her rights and of her
duty to civilization was more than the
public here expected.
Dispatches from America In the last
month had represented the President as
so reluctant to enter the war that rec
ommendations to Congress limited to
defensive measures for the protection
of American commerce would have ful
filled the general expectation.
Commons Given Applanae.
The heads of the government con
sider that courtesy requires them to
withhold comment until the American
situation has developed further and
the voice of Congress has been heard.
Premier Lloyd George will move a res
olution in the House of Commons as
soon as he thinks it fitting. But the
members registered their sentiments in
applause when President Wilson was
mentioned in the House of Commons
today.
The American colony is enthusiastic
over the news.
Intense interest centers upon the re
ception of the news by the Germans.
It is considered questionable here
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President and Vice-President Are
Called to Colors, so Miss Jen
nie Huggins Takes Post.
UNTVERSITT OF OREGON, Eugene,
Or, April 3. (Special.) War's exigen
cies have made a co-ed president of
the associated student body for the
first time in the history of the univer
sity. Owing to the enlistment of Pres
ident Nicholas Jaureguy and Vice
President Ernest Watkins. and their
withdrawal from classes today. Miss
Jennie Huggins, prominent senior from
Portland, becomes acting president of
the student body. She will begin her
duties Thursday.
Miss Huggins has been active in stu
dent affairs and was elected to the sec
retaryship of the student body at the
election a year ago. Tradition has
made the office of president taboo to
women, but the enlistment of the presi
dent and vice-president in the Coast
Artillery Corps of Eugene with the be
ginning of the university term last
September, and the subsequent war
crisis, has left the two' high offices va
cant. Mr. Jaureguy has been a varsity de
bater and orator for four years. He is
from Tacoma, Wash. Ernest Watkins
was a member of Bill Hayward's track
team, and was a senior in the univer
sity from Bandon. Both men attended
their last classes today.
SCHOONER 60H0URS LATE
Phoenix, Carrying No Passengers, Is
Believed in Trouble Along Coast.
BANDON. Or., April S. (Special.)
The steam schooner Phoenix, en route
from San Francisco to Bandon, is more
than 60 hours overdue. No trace has
been found of her along the coast. She
left San Francisco Friday night. Her
usual trip requires 47 hours.
The Fyfe Wilson Company, under
whose charter the vessel is operating,
believes she has met with trouble or
has gone to the aid of another vessel.
She carries no passengers.
POLK FARM HANDS ENLIST
Scarcity of Labor May Force Women
to Work in Fields.
MONMOUTH. Or.. April 3. (Special.)
Monmouth has displayed its patri
otism by sending 19 young men to
Join the National Guard, all but three
of whom were recruited within the
last week.
So many of the farm hands have
gone that there is apt to be a scarcity
of help of this kind during the Sum
mer and women may have to be called
on to help out in the seasons of plant
ing and harvesting.
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Weather.
TESTERDAT'S Maximum temperature, 53
degrees; minimum 43 degrees.
TODAY'S Rain; southerly wlnda.
" War With Germany.
One hundred and ten persons from U-boat
victims missing. Pass 8 .
Spies honeycomb American Government De
partments. Page 1.
Colonel Roosevelt says Wilson's message to
Congress is "great." Page 2.
United States to learn allies' secrets for
chasing U-boats. Page 6.
Married men to be mustered out of Na
tional Guards. Page 1.
Congress expected to declare state of war
with Germany today. Page 1.
New army to be limited to young men.
Page 1.
Germany declares It will not wage war on
America, no matter what Congress does.
Page 1.
"What will Edison do?" France asks.
Page 16.
War plans are rushed at Cabinet session.
Page 6.
Britain Is stirred by Wilson speech. Page 1.
All Germans over 14 may be interned.
Page 15.
Rapid progress being made In mobilizing
"woman power" of Nation. Page 4.
War.
French and British make big gains oa west
front. Page 4.
All four central powers unite ia repeating
peace offer. Page &.
Foreign.
100.000 Russian exiles racing from Arctic
Siberia to liberty Page 5.
National.
House committee chairmanships handed out.
Page a.
Patriots replace pacifists at Washington.
Page 3.
Domestic.
Oregon students win honors In Eastern
Schools. Page 7.
Bankers of Northwest set forth claims of
respective cities for Federal Reserve
branch site. Page 15.
Sports.
Bees defeat Beavers. S to 0. Page 14.
Fans sigh for Hlgglnbotham when Beavers
lose opening game. Page 14.
Howard banks on youngsters to win from
Oaks. Page 14.
Billy George la defeated by Al Sommera.
Page 15.
Stanley and Harry Coveleskle may pitch
against each other. Page 14.
Paciflo Northwest.
War puts woman at head of student body In
aplte of taboo at university. Page 1.
Western Union tax decision handed down at
Salem. Page 7.
Commercial and Marine.
Wheat higher with larger local and Califor
nia demand. Page 19.
Stocks decline when Senate falls to act on
war resolution. Page 19.
Ten new shipyards are anticipated here.
Page Its.
Portland nnd Vicinity.
First Battalion leaves Vancouver for unan
nounced destination. Page 8.
War Department seeks young men for First
and Second Lieutenants. Pago !.
Business houses helping to equip Machine
Gun Company. Page 9.
Ray D. Gould, king of auto thieves, is sen
tenced. Page 11.
Flag decorations still fly along Broadway.
Page 8.
Cannery labor and employers confer on
wages. Page 13.
Final tax rush Is on. Page 13.
Movies being used to stimulate recruiting.
Page 9.
Monster rally Is held by Red Cross. Pag 9.
Weather peront, data ana forecast. Page 19.
Age Limits Likely to Be
18 to 23.
UARD CfOT GO ABROAD
First 500,000 to Be Called
Not Near Total Needed
for Waging War.
CONSCRIPTION IS PLANNED
Eligible Single Men Who Pass
Physical Test Will Be
Selected by Lot.
WASHINGTON, April 3. Admin
istration plans for raising an Army
on the principle of universal liability
to service, to be submitted to Con
gress as soon as the pending war
resolution is adopted, are based on se
lective conscription of young men to
be summoned to the colors as rapidly
as they can be trained and officered.
A detailed scheme for the registra
tion of eligibles has been worked out.
After married men, others with de
pendents and those whose service ia
required in industries have been
exempted, others within the age lim
its fixed will be examined physically
and those found fit will be selected,
possibly by lot, until the first 500,000
to be trained -re secured.
500,000 Nowhere Near Needs,
t It was made clear today that 500,
000 is nowhere near the limit needed,
and that it is expected that more than
500,000 available will be found in the
first classification. Others will be
trained as rapidly as possible by of
ficers from the regular Army, Na
tional Guard and officers' reserve
corps.
Maximum and minimum age limits
for the first call are fixed in the Ad
ministration plan, but will not be
made public until presented to Con
gress. In recent discussions a min
imum of 18 years and a maximum of
23 years have been mentioned.
Preliminary military steps possible
under existing laws were added today
to those already taken. They included
direction by Secretary Baker that the
first class at the West Point Military
Academy be graduated April 20, sup
plying 125 highly trained young of
ficers. American Fleet to Aid Allies.
At the Navy Department it was an
nounced that steps have already been
taken to insure close co-operation be
tween the American fleet and those of
the entente allies when the necessary
authority has been granted. The
American Embassy in London has
been in close touch with the British
Admiralty.
Standardization of the munitions
industry will be one of the first direct
steps taken under direction of the Na
tional Defense Council. A continuous
and adequate flow of weapons and
ammunition of all kinds will be in
sured, not only for the American
forces, but to the entente armies.
The National Defense Council has
been planning to recommend legisla
tion to standardize plants for Army
supplies and munitions, but it has
been discovered that under the Na
tional defense act of June 3, 1916, the
supplying of all kinds of material is
made obligatory on all firms and in
dividuals "at a reasonable price to be
determined by the Secretary of War."
Firms Willing to Co-operate.
In case of violations the Govern
ment is authorized to seize plants and
institute criminal proceedings. So
far, however, firms generally have in
dicated entire willingness to co-operate
with the Government.
One big move in preparation for
war remains to be made in the Navy
Department. That is mobilization of
the Naval Militia and the various
classes of the Naval' Reserve. The
former will go to the reserve ships of
the line, filling , out skeleton crews
and making the ships ready for
action. From the latter will come
the men for the coast patrol and submarine-chaser
service, as well as ad
ditional men for line ships.
Probably 15,000 men could be added
to the Navy personnel at once by this
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