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THE MORXIXG OREGONIAX. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1917. 5 VICE GLEAN-UP AT SEATTLE PROMISED Mayor Gill Is Moved to Act After Conference With John McCourt. DANCE HALLS ARE TARGET Determination of tlic Government to Make City Sate for Soldiers Is Realized Now State Authori ties' Also to Take Hand. SEATTLE. Wash.. Nov. 2. (Special.) Mayor Gill brought a new broom into play tonight to rid Seattle of disor derly women, and any other kind of vice running loose. He did so after a conference with John McCourt, former United States District Attorney for Ore gon, who had made a personal inves tigation of conditions in the city and had reported his findings to Washing ton. The first indications of the new broom was an order sent out to the Chief erf Police instructing him to close all dance halls that had come under the ban of the Government investigator. A suggestion from Mr. McCourt that the housecleaning would be facilitated and expedited if Chief of Police Beck ingham were removed from office, met with resistance on the part of the Mayor, and Inspector M. T. Powers is now manipulating the broom ordered Into action by the Mayor. Mr. McCourt Gathers Facts. Mr. McCourt was the man who first made known the determination of the Government to have Seattle and Ta- coma made safe for soldiers, even if the Government had to go to the ex tent of prohibiting soldiers and sailors from visiting these cities on their lib erty leave. He obtained his facts first hand, and did not hesitate to sneak right out, even at a time when Mayor oin and Chief Beckingham were loud ly proclaiming the virtue of Seattle. Said Mayor Gill today: "While Mr. McCourt did not demand that I remove Chief Beckingham, he did make a recommendation that I make change in the department, inti mating that he did not consider Beck ingham equal to the task of cleaning up to the city. As a matter of fact. I do not consider that he has any right to tell me whom I shall or shall not ap point to city offices. I informed him that I would not remove Beckingham, but that I would see that his sugges tions for the cleanup of the city were carred out. I told him that I always had placed my services at the disposal of the Government in this matter and had invited suggestions. McCourt was courteous in his manner and attitude, and our conference was friendly." Vice to Be Curbed. This was a busy day in Seattle. Attorney-General Vaughn Tanner came - down from Olympia and conferred, with Prosecuting Attorney Lundln on the vice situation. Mr. McCourt conferred with Mayor Gill, United States District Attorney Clay Allen and Albert J. Rhodes, president of the Chamber of Commerce -and Commercial Club, and everybody ' was on the qui Vive to help In straightening out the situation. General H. A. Greene, who has been specific in his charges of organized vice in Seattle with men "high in au thority" controlling the syndicate., ar rived in the city to address a meeting at the University of Washington, to night, but he did not participate in the conferences. Attorney-General Tanner announced the preparedness of the state to move in and make the clean up If the Mayor's efforts prove futile. BONDS SHOW DECREASE 3Iunicipal Improvement Issue Brings Bid of Only 104.10. A material decrease in the market value of municipal improvement bonds was indicated yesterday, when bids were opened for an issue of $29,187.72 in 10-year 6 per cent bonds, issued to finance street improvements. The high est bid for the entire issue was 104.10. Bids as high as 5 per cent above par were submitted for parts of the issue. The bonds will be taken by the city at par for investment in one of the sinking funds. The bids as received were: Morris Bros., 104.10 for all; Se curity Savings & Trust Company. 101.08 for all, 104.37 for $5000; Lumbermen's Trust Company, 102.09 for all; Louis V. Simonsen, 105 for $1000; United States National Bank, 101.97 for all; W. P. Snider, 103 for $2500. The last issue of bonds of this, type sold for much higher prices than any of these bids. Progress of the War. Germans have retreated from points along the historic Chemin Des Dames sector on the Aisne front in France, where for several months the French troops of General Petain had been keeping them sharply to task. Just where the retrograde movement took place and how far it extends can not yet be told, as the German offi cial communication announcing it merely says that the Teutons "unno ticed and undisturbed by the enemy' systematically withdrew their lines from the hilly iront in this section. The entire line to the north of the Aisne, where the Germans were last reported as facing the French, is un dulating in character from the Sois sons sector eastward to the vicinity of Craonne, and therefore it is impossible from the rather terse acknowledge ment of withdrawal to delimit the ter rain in which has been given up. Nevertheless it seems apparent that the Germans, tired of the terrible or deal they had been forced to undergo for some time from the French artil lery and violent infantry attacks, have decided to -fall back upon Laon, capi tal of the department of -the Aisne; which with its network of railways has been the quest of the French. It is possible and seemingly probable that the withdrawal of the Germans will compel also the falling back of the German forces in the turn of the bat tle line in this region running north ward to St. Quentln, if indeed it does not affect the German positions as far corth as Arras. On the Italian front the Austro-Ger-mans and Italians are in combat along the middle and lower regions of the Tagliamento River with the Teutonic forces on the east and General Ca dorna's army on the western side of the stream. As far as is known the enemy has not yet been able to cross the river, which is !n freshet, but it seems apparent that from the Carnic Alps south along the battle line to the head of the Adriatic the Italians now are holding their new line of defense securely. Meantime, sentiment in Italy is seething with patriotic fervor, with even the old Garibaldi veterans, and men invalided home as a result of in juries in the present war desiring to rus-'h to the scene of hostilities. On the other fronts there have been no engagements of Importance. ine British have carried on minor opera tions for gains west of Passchendaele and southeast of I'oelcapelle, in both of which prisoners were captured. To the west of Ypres the German puns have been violently bombarding the British lines. Although according to the Russian Premier Russia is war-worn and be lieves she has the right to claim that the allies now should take the heav iest part of the burden off her shoul ders, the new republic has no inten tion to declare herself out of the war. Help, he said, was urgently needed, es pecially in the form of money and sup plies. He appealed to the world not to lose faith in the Russian reyolution. RUSS LIFE IS PICTURED -VISTI.X LEWIS 1.ECTIHES HEVOLl'TIOX'S CAISES. ON- Oligarchy's Corruption Lack of Indu ration and Resulting? Poverty Are Blamed. The interesting history of the Duma and a general consideration of the va rious factors which brought about the revolution in Russia were presented at the Lincoln High School last night, when Austin Lewis, of Oakland, Cal., lecturer and author, spoke on "The Russian Revolution." "The Russification of the races an nexed to the empire," said Mr. Lewis. Photo by Bushnell. Aufttln Le'vrlH, Who Lectured on RuMMlan Revolution Last .Night. had been, according to the Pan-Slavlst theory, the object -of maintaining the autocracy of the Czardom. The autocracy was the end in itself in terms of this point of view Russia was the autoc racy and the autocracy was Russia. The two things were inseparable. By Czar dom it was meant that the whole of Russian political and social life was merged in one personality, that of the Czar. He was-the center and the per sonification of the religious, military and political life of the country." Mr. Lewis declared that the Czar was not for himself alone, but that he represented the -crown and visible em blem of another class, the governing class, the oligarchy, in fact, the small group of landlords who held in their grasp the economic power of Russia. On the one hand there was the polit ical weight of the Czardom, and on the other the economic weight of the land- holding class," he continued. "Russia bowed beneath this tyranny for more than 1000 years. 'The oligarchy was corrupt. Free from the breath of criticism, it pursued its own tortuous ways, cheating and lying, dependent for its perpetuation upon the most unscrupulous and atro cious detective methods. It was not such - an oligarchy as could be en tered by able men from the outside, for the withholding of education from the masses prevented the attainment of position Inside the oligarchic group. At the beginning of the last cen tury there were only the two classes in Russia the nobility and the peas antry. The peasantry were for the most part serfs. These serfs were in a worse position than the serfs at the time of the French Revolution. "Russia is almost incredibly poor," continued Mr. Lewis. "It has none of the elements of wealth except raw ma terials. The land is not productive to more than a third of that produced in English and German farming. There are no reserves either in food or clothes or anything material to life and com fort. There is no farming machinery of any account and the peasants are so badly educated that they cannot learn to develop their own resources. This was in line with the government poli cies, which would not allow the Zemstvo unions to carry on education." Mr. Lewis spoke last night under the auspices of the Portland Chapter of the Red Cross and vill speak tonight and Tuesday night in the Lincoln High School auditorium. PROPERTY -0WNERS LAX Delinquency In Payment of Interest on Street Assessments Climbs. With property owners running be hind about $500 a day in the payment of interest on street assessments, the city is facing a serious financial prob lem, according to a report made yes terday by City Treasurer Adams. The city has a delinquency in interest now of about $190,000, with $500 being added to this amount each day. It is probable that the City Council will be called on for drastic action against the delinquents. Among them are owners of large real estate tracts. DUDLEY MAL0NE ACCUSED (Continued From First Page.) through every part of these ships." Then follows a list of German names and addresses. Continuing, the article says; "Franz Mayer, . Frederick Dehrlng and Carl Schroeder, all German reserv ists, were made, inspectors - in the quartermaster's department. AH the above-named men, while- receiving pay from the United States Government were drawing German pensions and were a constant source of communica tion for German interests in New York City with regard to the transports be ing prepared for our troops, the num ber of troops to be carried and the probable date and hour, of sailing. All of the men named here have now been discharged from 'the service by order of the Treasury Department. The Journal goes on to relate how. on Febraury 4 it printed the first story of the destruction or damage of ma chinery on all -interned German ves sels; how Malone denied the report and how, two days later, the facts were published, showing the story, had been absolutely, correct. If v it r I - v.i it If' JL ' . i t mc. - ' f iiiiiriiii.iri,VMi..mnnm...- -h,nrt-i r FEDERAL AID URGED Inadeqaate Housing for Work ers on War'Orders Found. NATIONAL LOANS ADVISED Government Commission, With. Ap proval of President,. Suggests That Nation Take Heed of Abnormal Conditions. WASHINGTON. Nov. 2. Government aid, financial and otherwise in quickly relieving the housing problem which In many communities is hindering war work, is recommended in a report to the National Defense Council by its committee on housing. The report made public today has the approval of President Wilson. The committee suggests that the Gov ernment loan funds for housing at low rate of interest to those communities which can show the need of this form of aid. It also recommends that in the future Government agencies making war contracts give due consideration to the labor supply and housing condi tions and that future contracts be distributed, as far as possible, to pre vent undue concentration of workers in any one locality. In its report, the committee, of which Ott.o M. Eidlitz, a New York architect, is chairman, says; . Situation la Critical. "The testimony and records obtained by the committee on housing clearly indicate that with few exceptions the Government contracts for ships, guns, ammunition and other war materials have thus far been -made with little or no Government provision for the housing necessities incidental to a rapid and large increase of labor. "The situation may be well instanced by one New England manufacturing city where 16 concerns are engaged on war contracts. It was disclosed that nearly 10,000 additional men, for whom there now exists practically no living quarters, will be required by January 1 if the plants are to run to their full capacity. "In general the committee is con vinced that under proper safeguards the Government should give quick financial aid to such industries or com munities as clearly demonstrate their right to relief. Aid Suggested by Loans. "In this regard it is suggested that any aid which may be given to the Government should preferably be ren dered in the form of loans at a low rate of interest. Some loss to the Govern ment may be reasonably expected, but the expenditure is negligible when measured by the loss incidental to de lay in the completion of the war or ders already placed. "The committee further recommends that in line with the recent findings of the advisory committee of the Council of National Defense, all au thorized agencies of the Government making contracts for war materials shall give due consideration in the future to the labor supply and hous ing conditions prior to closing con tracts, and that future contracts shall be distributed, as far as possible, to prevent undue concentration of work ers in any one locality." ASTORIA YOUTH IS TAKEN Forty Young Men of Military Age Are Without Registration Cards. ASTORIA. Or., Nov. 2. (Special.) Last night officers of the Justice, Im migration and Customs departments made a visit to the various pool and billiard rooms and other resorts from one end of the city to the other and rounded up about 40 young men of military age who did not have their registration cards with them. The young men were not arrested, but the name and address of each was taken and they were allowed until this aft ernoon to report to Immigration In spector Gooch, with their cards. The officers arrested two men on charges of being slackers in falling to register. One is a Japanese and the other is an enemy alien. They probab ly will be taken to Portland to appear before the Federal grand Jury, which is in session. NEW YORK CAMPAIGN HOT (Continued From First Pagre.) week before election day and. forgotten the day after. Hillquit's strength has apparently been waning for the past few days. In fact, the decline dates from his attack on the liberty bonds, which is a cheer ing sign. Presumably the votes de fleeted from him by his traitorous ut terances will go to Mitchel, for wheth er the accusation of sympathy with the seditionaries made against Judge Hy lan is true or not, it is sufficiently ac cepted to induce a man able to stom ach the Hillquit platform to skip the judge. Mltchel's Popularity Grows. Mitchel is getting strong constantly. He started in the most unpopular can didate of the four, not because he has not been a good Mayor, but because he had antagonized Brooklyn by mak ing certain improvements a tax against particular districts; had infuriated Staten Island by establishing a garb age reduction plant there; had dis gusted the prolelariat by hobnobbing with the rich and socially great, and very largely, Decause ne nappenea 10 Mayor when the cost 01 living lumped to a point where the workers for small wages are Just about on the verge of starvation. Gradually the in dignation of those whose hostility was provoked by one orjne other 01 tnese things has cooled as they compared him with his competitors. They have forgotten to mention Ben nett. the Republican candidate, in con nection with election possibilities, but then everybody else in New York has also forgotten Bennett. He may get 60,000 votes out of a total 01 nearly 700,000. . Fualon Charges Scorned. To get back to Mltchel's chances. If election day were a week further along the likelihood of his overtaking his chief competitor would be excellent, fo the evidence identifying Hyian witn enemy activity is having an effect. His managers say he doesn I need me ex tra week. Around at Hylan headquarters, they grimly remarked that if tho election were not so close Mitchel's lieutenants would not have dared to spring the charges they have made, for the Hyla crowd insist that the letter-head identi tying their man with the peace league in which various men who took German money for German propaganda also figured, is a -flat-footed forgery, and the .charge that .he. participated in stock swindle as an associate of know criminals, a libel. The facts appear to be that Hylan In the course of his political caree looked for support wherever he could find it. If, before the war made peace propaganda near to treason, there seemed' to be votes that could be picke up by joining a league for peace. Ger man votes seemed to him as desirable as any others. There is some indication that his views about legal fees were as liberal as those about votes. As to whether his rise to be a Mayoralty candidate has made him more particular, or only more careful, no outsider has a right to guess. It is the same way about the things that have made New Yorkers hate Mitchel. Somebody had to pay for the sewer improvements and the boulevard that he had assessed to particular dis tricts in . Brooklyn, and the garbage reduction plant had to go somewhere, but this does not do away with the hostility of those Brooklyn districts and of the borough of Richmond. That Richmond vote is not very big, but it was big enough to make McClellan Mayor of New York some administra tions ago when the rest of the Greater City had elected Hearst. Brooklyn Real Battlearound. Brooklyn appears to be the real bat tleground. Brooklyn's quarter of a million votes will be sadly split up. Tammany figures that Hillquit and Bennett will each get 35,000 over there. and that Hylan. being a Brooklyn man and thereby forgiven his Democracy, will get 30,000 more than Mitchel. The Mitchel crowd think the vote will be so close that it cannot affect the re sult, though they say Mitchel will have the best of it. In the Brooklyn vote comes Browns ville and Williamsburg, and that brings us to a consideration of the Jewish question, the garment workers and kin dred trades. This vote belongs to Hill quit. Every newspaper in the city, ex cept the Hearst papers, is fighting for Mitchel. Every Journal that is oppos ing the war is against Mitchel. The pro-German weeklies that are playing hide and seek with the Postofflce au thorities, the Irish World and the aelic American, whose editor was mentioned in the Von Bernstorff pa pers, are united for Hillquit. V1EXIG0 111 DIRE NEED 100,000,000 BUSHELS OP CORN AND GOLD WANTED. mporti Necessary to Avert Economic CrlMla, According to Belief of State Department. WASHINGTON. Nov. 2. Mexico needs 00,000,000 bushels of corn and a sub tantial addition to her gold supply to avert an economic crisis. This conclu- ion has been reached by State De partment officials and members of the food administration after consultation with Mexican commissioners sent here by President Carranza to seek a modi fication of the American export em bargo. The Mexicans have found no excep tion to granting permission for the ex portation of corn, although it has been made clear that the corn must not. be re-exported to ports from where it might be taken to Germany, and it has een suggested that its distribution be nder general American supervision. In regard to gold exports, it was in dicated the United States is not Inclined to let any considerable amount of gold go into Mexico until the Carranza gov- rnment Is ready to reciprocate with ess restricted exportation of Mexican mine products. Louis Cabrera, former Minister of Finance in the Carranza Cabinet, is ow on his way to Washington to as- 1st the .commission. WENDLING MILL PLANNED Booth-Kelly Flun-t to Be Electrified; Xcw Structure Erected. EUGENE, Or., Nov. 2. (Special) Plans for the immediate erection of a arge planing mill at Wendltng and the gradual electrification of the Wendling plant of the Booth-Kelly Lumber Com pany were announced t,oday by A. C. Dixon, manager of the company. The planing mill takes the place of the mill destroyed by fire in September, but will be much larger and have a capacity for handling the vendling sawmill output amounting to 125,000 feet daily. xne improvements will include the erection of an electrical generating plant. Gradually electrical cranes and elec rlcal handling devices are to be in stalled throughout the yards and mill. SOMEBODY SKIPS SCHOOL Principal of Xlght High Wants to Know Where Pupils Are. 'Where are the boya and girls who should be In night school? This is the question A. M. Gray, principal of the Jefferson High Night School, is asking, and it is a question to which he means to get an answer. Mr. Gray will ask the parents and employers and others interested in the young people to visit the school or ring up and find out whether the boys and girls who are supposed to be there are in attendance. "There are splendid opportunities of fered," said Mr. Gray, "and I think the young people should appreciate them We have classes in French, Spanish, drafting, millinery, electricity, cooking and all sorts of useful arts. Some of the registered pupils aren't attending regularly. With the co-operation of parents. I hope we can find out why and have a larger attendance. CITY GARBAGE IS SOUGHT Brisk Competition Among Bidders for Refuse Is Expected. The prospects are that there will be considerable competition among bid ders for the part of the city's garbage supply which can be made into feed for animals. .Bids tor the refuse as de livered at the incinerator on Guilds Lake will bo opened November 15. City Commissioner Kellaher, who has charge of the incinerator, received a telegram yesterday from E. B. Kees, of New Orleans, offering $3 a ton for the refuse delivered to a point mile beyond the city limits. Stop the "Snuf fles" If you want to .make your distressed- babies easy and comfortable, givo Foley's Honey and Tax. It is just what they ought to have fot feverish colds, coughs, "snuffles," and wheezy breathing.- It stop croup, too. Foley's Honey and Tar tastes good and the little ones like it. . It contains no morphine, chloroform or other drug that you wouldn't like to give to young children. Do not accept a substitute. Mr. B. H. Grrt. Scboolfield. Va., write: "My baby wis trickea with a severe couch and cold at one month old. I lave him tea to fifteen drop of Foley's Honey and Tar cverr threa hours and it surely did help him, lie ba 't beca sik s day lisee." " LmmuZII ill -i --mum ... ...... : , . B , ..1l "t Boys! It's Time for Overcoats Here are the good, smart fabrics, tailored into warm, comfy Overcoats, just like daddy's. Overcoats for the little fellow who's just out of dresses; Overcoats for the young- schoolboy; Over coats for the boy who's beginning- to dream of long trousers. Every garment guaranteed for style, for quality, for service. See them today, fathers, mothers. Have your boy prepared for wintry weather. Boys' Overcoats $6J0 to $15 Children's Overcoats $5 to $15 Wool Mackinaw $5 to $8 JO NORFOLK SUITS Here is Portland's largest and best stocks of boys' suits, moderately priced from $5 to $20. t&Yl MILLMEN GET PLEA apacity Production of Air plane Material Held Vital. LUMBER ASSOCIATION ACTS Operators of Northwest Are Told That Fate of American Men and Allies Rests on Output of , Spruce and l'"lr. SEATTLE. Wash., Nov. 2. The West Coast Lumbermen's Association today ssued an appeal to operators of the Pacific Northwest emphasizing the vital necessity of capacity production of air plane material. I. W. W. sabotage and the labor shortage, it is declared, are the greatest obstacles in the way of meeting the Government's require ments. The association attaches such impor tance to the getting out of aircraft timber that it will go so far as to ask the Government to commandeer the mills, if necessary, it says. 'Aircraft cannot be built without spruce and fir," said an association of ficer. "The specifications given us by the Government are the most difficult ever sent into a West Coast sawmill, and in addition logs suitable for the purpose are desperately scarce, due to Middle Wbin Are Here Told the Best Remedy for Their Troubles. Freemont, O. "I was passing' through the critical period of life, being forty-six years of age and had all the symptoms incident to that change heat flashes, nervousness, and was in a general run down condition, so it was hard for me to do my work. Lydia E. Pink ham's Vegetable Compound was recommended to me as the best remedy for my troubles,which it surely proved to be. I feel better and stronger in every way since taking it, and the annoying symptoms have disap peared." Mrs. M. Goddkk, 925 Uapoleon. St., Fremont, Ohio. - North Haren, Conn. "Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegeta ble Compound restored my health after everything else had failed when passing through change of life. There is nothing like it to overcome the trying symptoms. Mrs. Fiabkkck Ibf.lt. a, Box 197, North Haven, Conn. Boys' Shop, Second Floor Ilir 43 lN Morrison Street at I. W. W. sabotage and the general scarcity of labor in the woods." The address to the operators says. in part: "American aircraft will win the war. On this highest military authorities agree. "Spruce and fir, most useful of Amer ican woods, are necessary to aircraft construction. "Never before has an American in dustry been put to such a supreme test as that now confronting the lumber industry of the Pacific Northwest. "Disorganized by seditious labor agi tators and professional politicians, upon this Industry largely rests the fate of American men and their allies when the Spring drive starts. "Regardless of our industrial trou bles and handicaps, the task before us must be taken care of. Give aircraft fir priority over everything except air craft spruce. Each mill must do its bit." MASSES MUST KEEP OUT Socialist Paper Loses Fight for Use of Mails In Higher Court. NEW YORK, Nov. 2. An Injunction granted by Judge Learned Hand re straining Postmaster Thomas G. ratten from barring the August number of The Masses, a Socialist publication, from the malls was vacated today by the United States Circuit Court of Appeals. The higher court held that the maga zine had violated the selective service law and the espionage act and as a re suit of this ruling it is said the Fed eral authorities will soon begin crim inal proceedings against the publica tion. Civic Improvements Planned. CENTRAL! A. Wash.. Nov. 2. fSpe- Aged es th' '!?&t i?ffi, ri nil3 FourtK clal.) All proceeds of Centralia's 1917 1918 Lyceum course, totaling $500. will be turned over to the Women's Civic Club for the civic improvements. The club already has $117.50. season tickets to the amount of $600 having been sold. Read The Oregoninn classified ads. hatasi0htmv skin was until i cleared it with esinol Even if the pimples, redness or rough ness are severe and have resisted ordi nary treatment, a little use of Resinol Ointment and Resinol Soap will usually bring- out the skin s real beauty. Resinol Ointment and Resinol Soap contain only the purest in gra dients and gentlest medication.wbick physicians prescribe widely in th treatment ot the skin. Sold by ail druggists. G.t&t I? LY01A E.PINKHAM MEDICINE CO. LYNM.MASS.