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POKTLAXD, . OREGON, THURSDAY. APR II o, 1917.
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Vote Is 82 to 6 for
Clash With Germany.
LANE OF OREGON VOTES 'NO'
Measure Carries by. Over
- whelming Majority After
. All-Day Debate.
HOUSE WILL ACT TODAY
Williams Flays La Follette for
Audacious Support of
German Policy.
TEXT, OF WAR RESOLUTION
ADOPTED BY SENATE.
"Whereas, The Imperial Ger
man goremment has committed
repealed acts of war against the
Government and the people of
the United States of America;
therefore be It
Resolved by the Senate and
Housje of Representatives of the
Unitd States of America in Con
gress assembled. That the state
of War between the United States
andj the Imperial German gov
ernment which has thus been
thrjLst upon the United States Is
herleby formally declared: and
thait the President be and he is
heifeby authorized and directed
to j employ the entire naval and
military forces of the United
States and the resources of the
Government to carry on war
against the Imperial German
government; and to bring the
conflict to a successful termina
tion, all of the resources of the
rvountry are hereby pledged by
' ie Congress of the United States.
; WASHINGTON, April 4, The res-
v tion declaring that a state of war
: sts between the United States and
... rmany was adopted in the Senate
-light by an overwhelming ma
; rity. It will be taken up for pas
ge in the House tomorrow.
- Senators who cast the negative
Dtes were Gronna, of North Dakota;
:a Follette, of Wisconsin; Norris, of
jTebraska; Lane, of Oregon; Stone,
'of Missouri, and Vardaman, of Mis
sissippi. ! . Vote Is 82 to 6.
'j " The war resolution was adopted by
Ithe Senate tonight by a vote of 82
to 6. It goes to the House, where
' debate will begin tomorrow morning
. at 10 o'clock, to continue until action
is taken.
Senator McCumber's substitute to
declare the existence of a state of
war on .the sinking of another Amer
ican ship by Germany was defeated
without a rollcalL
" f Measure Carefullly Framed.
xne resolution araitea alter con-
fand already accepted by the House
committee, says the state of war
thrust upon the United States by
Germany is formally declared, and di
rects the President to employ the en
tire military and naval forces and
the resources of the Government to
carry on war and bring it to a suc
cessful termination.
Action in the Senate came just af
ter 11 o'clock at the close of a de
bate that had lasted continuously since
10 o'clock this morningw
La Follette Called Foe.
The climax was reached late in the
afternoon when Senator John Sharp
Williams denounced a speech by Sena
tor La Follette as more worthy of
Herr von Bethmann-Hollweg than of
an American Senator.
The adoption of the resolution was
-not marked by any outburst from the
galleries, and on the floor the Sena
tors themselves were unusually grave
and quiet. Many of them answered
their names in voices that quivered
with emotion.
- Galleries Are Filled.
The, galleries were filled to over
flowing, and on the floor back of the
Senators' seats were almost half the
membership of the House. In the
diplomatic gallery was Secretary
Lansing, Counsellor Polk, of the State
Department; Minister Calderon, of
Bolivia, and Minister Ekengren, of
Sweden. Earlier in the evening Dr.
Bitter, the Swiss Minister, in charge
(Continued on Fag 6, Column
Effort to Be Made to Annul Wed
ding Because of Age of Girl and
to Prosecute Witnesses.
One of Portland's "war brides," a lass
15 years old, has come to grief. Her
parents have filed an objection, and
last night sought advice from the po
lice as to how to proceed with the
prosecution of witnesses who swore to
the ages of the couple. The wedding, at
which Chaplain "W. S. Gilbert, of the
Third Oregon, officiated, took place last
Tuesday in Vancouver.
The "war bride" is Miss Margaret
Hohenleltner and her husband is Henry
L. -Williams, aged 18, a private In Com
pany M.
The feminine Impulse to help her
suitor is responsible for the deception
as to ages, and the ill-starred alliance.
Miss Hohenleltner married Private
Williams, she averred, partly because
she understood that a married man had
better chances of advancement in the
Army. The juvenile bride explained also
that she had met Mr. Williams only
twice before marrying him, although
his brother, E. Williams, is the husband
of her sister.
In other words, It was a case of
brothers marrying sisters. The mother
of the 15-year-old bride lives at 463
Beech street, and last night she vowed
she would seek to have the marriage
anulled and the witnesses who swore
that the contracting parties were of
legal age prosecuted.
CHURCH HAS DEACONESS
Albany Organization Honors Woman
First Time in History.
AT.-RA-NV. rr Anril 4. (Special.)
The First Presbyterian cnurcn oi ai-
hanv now has a deaconess. In the an
nual election of officers of the church
Monday evening, Mrs. Viola Price
Trv nklln was elected a member of the
board of deacons, being the first woman
to be elected to a position of this Kind
In the history of the church. Mrs.
Tnnlilln ttt librarian of Albany's city
library and the wife of Dr. F. G. Frank
lin, dean of Albany College.
Frank J. Miller, chairman of the Pub
lic Service Commission of Oregon,
whose home is in this city, was re
elected an elder of the church for a
term of three years, and George H.
Crowell, William Fortmlller and
Charjes H. Cusick were also re-elected
elders for three-year terms.
THREE DISLOYALISTS FINED
G. A. R. Man, Justice Givete Heav
iest Sentence to Flag Remover.
KELSO, Wash., April 4. (Special.)
Three Kelso men ; have been fined in
Justice P. J. Knapp's court the past
few days for expressions of disloyalty
to the country or the flag. Fred Smith
was arrested last week for taking
down a flag from the corner of the
Malone paint shop, and was fined $10
and costs by Justice Knapp for this act
of desecration.
Today two other men were haled be
fore Justice Knapp, who is a Civil War
veteran, on charges of expressing dis
loyal sentiments, and were fined $3
each.
AUSTRIA SURE TO BREAK
Severance. of Relations to Follow Ac
tion by Congress.
VIENNA. April 3. via London, April 5.
It appears certain that Austria-Hun
gary will sever diplomatic relations
with th.e United States if Congress de
clares that a state of war exists be
tween America and Germany.
The government has placed & special
car at the disposal of United States
Ambassador Penfield, who will prob
ably leave Vienna on April 5. Before
leaving, Ambassador Penfield will be
received by Emperor Charles. The Am
bassador will travel by way of Switzer
land. CITIZENSHIP BILL OFFERED
Naturalization of - Germans of Five
Years' Residence Provided.
WASHINGTON, April 4. A bill to
grant American citizenship to all Ger
mans who have lived in the United
States five years was introduced today
by Senator Townsend, of Michigan.
Thousands of Germans who have
lived here a long time, he said, are
anxious now to become citizens, but
had neglected to take out their papers,
3200 MARCH AT BOISE
Great Patriotic Demonstration Held
at Idaho Capital.
BOISE, Idaho, April 4. Thirty-two
hundred persons marched in a patriotic
parade here tonight, after which
patriotlo meetlnc was held at the
Capitol.
The demonstration was said to be the
greatest of the sort in the history of
the state..
AMERICANS ARE STRANDED
600 to 700 Await Chance to Return
From Palestine.
WASHINGTON, April 4. Ambassador
Elkus at Constantinople cabled today
that In Palestine alone there were be
tween 600 and 700 Americans, mostly
naturalized, awaiting an opportunity to
come home, while several hundred
others are scattered through Syria,
Germany Long Plan
ning to Defy America.
BATTLE IN U. S. IS DESIRED
Reservists and Other Teutons
Depended On to Help.
MEXICO INTENDED AS BASE
Inventors Are Kept Busy Designing
Means by Which Submarines Can
Escape Defensive Measures
of Intended Victims.
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tion. Registered In accordance with the
copyright act. Canada, 1917, by the Tribune
Association. Published by arrangement wltn
the New York Tribune.)
BY CARL TV. ACKERStAJf.
NEW TORK. April 4. (Special.)
Germany has more submarines than
trained crews. On February 1, when
the Kaiser defied the United States
by threatening all neutral shipping in
European waters, Germany had 400 un
dersea boats completed or in course of
construction. This included" big U-boats
like the U-53, with a cruising radius
of 5000 miles, and the smaller craft,
with 15-day radius, for use against
England, as well as supply ships and
mine layers.
But not all these were ready for
use against the allies and the United
States two months ago. About 100
were waiting for trained crews or
were being completed in German ship
yards. Crew Moat Serious Loss,
It was often said in Berlin that the
greatest loss when a submarine failed
to return was the crew. It required
more time to train the men than to
build the submarine. According to
Germany's new method of construction.
submarine can be built in 15 days.
Parts are stamped out in the factories
and assembled at the wharves. But it
takes from 60 to 90 d&ya to educate the
men and get them accustomed to the
seasick motion of the U-boats. Be
sides, it requires experienced officers
to train the new men.
To meet this demand Germany began
months ago to train men who could
man the newest submarines. So a
school was established a school of
submarine murder and for many
months the man who torpedoed the
Lusltania was made chief of staff of
educators. It was a new task for Ger
man kultur.
Lusltania Act "Heroic."
For the German people the lessons of
the Lusltania have been exactly oppo
site those normal people would learn.
The honor of non-combatants going
down on a passenger liner, sunk with
out warning, was nothing to be com
pared to the heroism of aiming the tor
pedo and running away. Sixty-eight
million Germans think their submarine
(Concluded on Page 4. Column 1.)
THE ONE
Physicians Say Shooting at Baltl
' more Was Not Accident,
Though Self-inflicted.
BALTIMORE, April . 4. M. Michael
Borzatkovsky, commercial attache of
the Russian Embassy in Washington,
who arrived from Petrograd eight days
ago with a document for the Embassy
from the Russian Minister of Finance,
was shot in the Baltimore Country Club
h -
M. Borzakovsky was found uncon
scious on the floor of the club at 2
A M.. Friends, said he was "toying
with a pistol when it exploded." They
further announced that he was shot in
the breast.
At the hospital, however, it was
stated that the bullet lodged in the
stomach. One of the physicians said
further that the shooting was not an
accident.
M. Borzakovsky arrived here Satur
day from Washington after he delivered
his document to the Russian Embassy.
It is understood that he was to remain
in this country as commercial attache.
E. Griswold The tin, a prominent club
man, stood sponsor for hlra at the
Baltimore Country Club and he had
been staying there since Sunday.
SAN, FRANCISCO, April 4. Michael
Borzakovsky arrived in San Francisco
March 11 on the Korea Maru on an
unexplained mission to the United
States. - A red-sealed bundle, closely
guarded by two Russian detectives.
gave an air of mystery to the treas
ury agent's trip.
WASHINGTON. April 4. Michael
Borzakovsky was a commercial mes
senger for the Russian government.
but had no connection with the Rus
slan Embassy here. Embassy officials
said tonight.
U-BOATS SINK 31 BRITONS
13 of Victims In Week Are of Less
Than 16 00 Tons.
LONDON, April 4. British merchant
vessels of 1600 tons or more sunk by
mines or submarines in the week end
ing April 1 and Including two not re
ported for the previous week, number
ed 18, according to the official state
ment issued tonight. Thirteen British
vessels less than 1600 tons were sunk
In the same period.
The statement says:
"The number unsuccessfully attacked
by submarines was 17. Fishing vessels
sunk numbered six, including four sunk
the week ending March 25.
Arrivals during the week for vessels
of all nationalities of more than 100
tons numbered 2281; sailing, 2399.
FARMAND SUNK BY U-BOAT
Norwegian Steamer Destroyed
Bay of Biscay.
In
NEW ORLEANS, April 4. A cable
gram reporting that the Norwegian
steamer Farmand has been torpedoed
and sunk by a submarine, apparently
in the Bay of Biscay, while en route
from Havre for Lisbon, Portugal, was
received here today by the steamer's
agents.
The Farmand was owned in Norway
and carried a crew of 18.
BRIGHTEST BANNER IN THE FOG
Intensive Training for
2 Years Intended.
MEN IN 20'S CALLED FIRST
Vast Programme for Fitting
Soldiers for Europe Made.
NAVY LETS 200 CONTRACTS
Government Policy Iieaves No Place
for Volunteer Forces Premature
Effort to Send Army Abroad
Not to Be Countenanced.
WASHINGTON, April 4. Detailed
plans of the War Department for rais
ing an Army numbering millions if
that is necessary "to bring the govern
ment of the German empire to terms"
were placed in President Wilson's
hands today in the form of a bill pre
pared by the General Staff and re
viewed and revised in part by Secre
tary Baker and the general officers
who are his military advisers.
The President, as Commander-in-Chief,
already has approved the basis
adopted for the war Army. Secretary
Baker said today the measure would
go to the House and Senate commit
tees as soon as the war resolution was
adopted.
Army to Be at Least 2,000,000.
Major-General Scott. Chief of Staff,
will explain the plan and the military
reasons for the need to train the num
ber of men the bill will produce. This
Is believed to be not less than 2,000,000
to be trained within two years.
In the Navy Department Secretary
Daniels announced that contracts for
approximately 200 submarine chasers
or coast-patrol boats had been let ana
additional contracts were being signed
each day. Preparations to take into
the service a huge fleet of small motor
craft for inshore patrol, work are also
being completed.
Fixed Price Plan Favored.
Mr. Daniels conferred today with
Captain Wilson, chief of the entire pa
trol service on the Atlantic seaboard.
Conferences also were held with the
engineering experts of the department
as to the possibility of increasing the
number of 110-foot patrol craft to be
ordered. The department will order all
that cci lie built and is receiving new
proposals constantly.
Construction on the cost plus 10 Der
cent profit will be avoided if possible
because of the enormous amount of
booking and Inspection Involved. Con
tracts already let are on a fixed price
basis.
Army Programme Is Vast.
The scope of the War Department's
Army plan is gradually becoming clear,
although the details are being with
held until they are sent to Congress.
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OF WAR. V
Instructions From Quartermaster
Lead Portland Man to Expect
Orders in 12 Hours.
Captain E. C. Mears. officer in the
Quartermaster's Department of the Re
serve Corps, United States Army, re7
ceived instructions late last night to
be ready to move within 12 hours. The
order came from the Quartermaster at
Washington, was received at 11 P. M.
and Captain Mears immediately began
putting his affairs in shape to leave at
a moment's notice.
Captain Mears is the first of the
members of the Officers' Reserve Corps
to receive his instructions to move. He
is the only Portland man having a
Captaincy in the administrative branch
of the Quartermaster's Department,
although there are other Portland men
commissioned in . the commercial
branch.
None of the other officers in the Re
serve Corps communicated with last
night have received orders to move.
Captain Mears was commissioned
February 1. 1917. Ho took the exam
inations last November and was one of
the first Portland men to take advan
tage of the Officers" Reserve Corps as
outlined in the military bill, passed
by Congress June 3, 1916.
Captain Mears served In the Quar
termaster's Department. U. S: A., prior
to his coming to Portland, where he
has been engaged in the timber busi
ness for many years.
WILSON WILDLY CHEERED
President Gets Ovation at Theater
After Day of Hard Work.
WASHINGTON. April 4. President
Wilson, attending a theater tonight
after working most of the day on war
plans, was greeted with enthusiastic
cheers.
The orchestra played "The Star-
Spangled Banner," and when the Presi
dent was recognized the audience rose
for a tumultous demonstration.
GERMANS TO GET SPEECH
Aviators Dropping Wilson's Talk
Behind Trenches.
LONDON, April 4. President Wilson's
address to Congress, translated into
German, is belnr distributed liberally
over the German lines by British avla
tors.
It is understood the same thing la
being done by French aviators.
French would celebrate
National Demonstration on Ameri
ca's Entry Is Proposed.
PARIS, April 4. X great National
demonstration to mark the entry of the
United States into the European war
was proposed today to the French gov
ernment.
It was suggested that the demonstra
tlon should be of a popular character.
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Weather.
x ts i k KUAX'Sx-Mtuimum temperature, 61
uogreeB; minimum. degrees.
TODAY'S Showers; southwesterly winds.
War With Germany.
United States Senate adopts resolution that
state of war exists with Germany. Pa.-; 1.
National Army of at least 2,000,000 men Is
planned, rago x.
British Admiralty Impressed by Wilson's
speecn. .rage s.
Government may take over raw wooL Page
1U.
Harry Lane insists he only followed Ore
gon's wish, in voting against war. Page 0.
Berlin press says Germany will win despite
America. f age .
400 U-boats ballt by Germany to wage war
on wonu, .rage x.
War-
More peace talk Is heard at Vienna, Page 15.
National.
House passes four big appropriation bills.
fage z.
McArthur Introduces hilt to encourage pri
vate snip ownership. Page 6.
Transcontinental roads ask continuance of
Coast preferential rates. Page 2,
Chamberlain reintroduces bill to protect
xiag. ragft a.
Iomestin.
Farmer kills three persons and Is shot to
death. Fage o.
Russian embassy attache is shot at Balti
more. Page 1.
Sports.
Coast League results: Portland 9. Salt Lake
8; v ernon 7. Kan Francisco 5; Oakland
3. Los Angeles 1. Page 18.
Four-busher rule do4s not bother Coast
League dubs. Page 18.
Athletics In Interscholastlc League abolished
because oi war. faga 19.
Pacific Northwest.
Montesano prosperous. Page SO.
Car shorts ire In Oregon again becoming
acute, ruga o.
Company K is first to muster into Federal
service. Psge 16.
Commercial and Marine.
Oats markets booming tn all Coast sections.
page zn.
Wheat passes $2 mark In Chicago pit.
Psge 2.1.
Shipping Issues only firm features of Wall-
. street market, rvge
Captain Mason makes last trip as master of
leaver, .rage -U.
Portland and Vicinity.
Business men s training class outgrows
Armory, .rage- 11.
Reed College boys plan to serve country.
Page Itt.
BUI being formed to enable- Guardsmen to
vote when absent. Page 10.
H. S. Butterfleld. pioneer Jeweler, dead.
Page .11.
Four more Initiative petitions filed. Page 13.
Mother of war bride to seek annulment of
marriage, page X.
South Portland asks withdrawal of park
bond issue measure in favor of tax plan,
Page 15.
Thirty-five Portlanders are examined for
reserve corps, rage jn.
S. Benson and John Yeon sue Lebanon
paper for $20,000 libel. Page 17.
Marine corps has places for 4000 men at
once. Psge 10.
Grade teachers elect Mrs. Jessie McGregor
president. page 17.
Captain . C. Mears Is first of reserve of
ficers called out. Page 1.
Weather report, data: and forecasts. Page 23.
Government Invokes
Its Drastic Powers.
EXORBITANT PROFIT HALTED
War Supply Concern Forced
to Furnish Big Order.
NAME OF FACTORY SECRET
TTnlted States Intends to Permit Less
Than 10 Per Cent Profits by
Manufacturers In Mak
ing War Supplies.
"WASHINGTON, April 4. Today th
Government Invoiced for the first time
its drastic powers to strike a. death
blow at exorbitant war profits.
Linder authority of the last naval ap
propriation bill a manufacturer was di
rected to furnish a large order of war
supplies at a price fixed by the Gov
ernment far lower than the figure vol
untarily submitted. If the order is not
obeyed the plant would be taken over
and operated by the Government.
Officials would not disclose the name
of the manufacturer nor the agency
through which the order was given.
It is said, however, that President
Wilson and his advisers were firmly
resolved that only fair and reasonable
charges should be paid by the Nation
to its citizens for the things that are
necessary to make ready for war.
Profit, to Be Held Low.
European governments are paying an
average of 10 per cent profit on war
material purchased in the United
States. It was asserted authoritatively
that the Government of the United
States intends to buy its own supplies
at less than that rate of profit to the
seller.
Standing out sharply against the
background came an announcement to
day by Bernard Baruch. Commissioner
for Minerals of the National Defense
Co lucll, of the voluntary offer of the
brass-making Industry to fill the Gov
ernment's orders at cost of production.
This followed the recent agreement se
cured by Mr. Baruch with the copper
producers and sLmllar arrangements
now in process of completion with the
steel and fuel-oil producers.
Law Is Sweeping;.
The law Invoked in section three of
the last naval appropriation bill fol
lows: The President Is authorized to re
quire the owner or occupant of any fac
tory in which ships or war irxterlal
are built or produced to 'Place at the
disposal of the United States the whole
or any part of the output of such fac
tory, and, within the limit of the
amounts appropriated therefor, to de
liver such output or parts thereof in
such quantities and at such times as
may be specified in the order at such .
prices as shall be determined by the
President."
Behind that clause stand other laws
as grim reminders of the purpose of
Congress to make its will effective.
A section of the National defense act
makes It a felony, punishable by three
years' imprisonment and $50,000 fine,
to fall to meet the Government's de
mands; another section of the Navy
bill authorizes the taking over and op
eration of all or any art of any plant.
It is understood that the concern
against which these statutes have
been invoiced refused to meet the Gov
ernment's requirements as to prices
when the orders were tendred original
ly and in the regular way. So far as
known this is the only case of the kind
yet produced by the present emer
gency. "WHITE WAY" TO APPEAL'
Great Electric Signs to Urge Enlist
ing in Army and Navy.
NEW TORK. April 4 .Appeals to
patriotic young. Americans to enlist in f - ' t-" -. V".
the Array, Navy and Marine corps soon -. i
will be launched in electric lights along ,V -'
New York's "Great White Way," if -i' "
was announced tonight. , "i
Many of the great electrical contrl-vf ' "
ances wnicn nave spreaa mo xaroe
Broadway to all part of the won
have been donated to the Governm
to aid in the recruiting campaign. ' --
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PHONE GIRLS ARE ENLISTED ,yr: '
ThmtannrTs &PA 1f Alii In T?w.a. l ' '
Ing for Navy.
NEW TORK. April 4 Thousands of
telephone girls here were enlisted by
the Navy Department as recruiting;
agents.
Their work, it was said, would be to
"talk up" the Navy to all the young
men they know and urge them to en
list. MINE SWEEPER HITS MINE
British Admiralty Announces Loss
of Old-Type Vessel.
LONDON. April 4. The British Ad
miralty announces that a mine-sweeping
vessel of an old type struck a
mine Tuesday and sank.
The announcement adds that 24 men
are missing.
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