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PORTLAND. OKEGON, THURSDAY, NOVK.MIJKIt 8, 1917. PRICE FIVE CENTS. DRYS LEAD Ifi OHIO, BUT RAGE IS CLOSE SAW STRIKES PIPE AFTER I.W.W.THREAT WAR CONFERENCE aims w$m BOYS' FIGHT OVER 10-CENT BET FATAL PETROGRAD ON EVE OF GREAT REVOLT PISTOL SHOT STOPS CHAMBERLAIN AUTO I MAYOR GILL READY VOL. LVII. NO. 17,773. TO PURGE SEATTLE Support to Prosecuting Attorney Pledged. ACCIDENT IX NORTH BEND MILL DECLARED SABOTAGE. VANCOUVER LAD DIES WHEN HE MISSES BLOW AND FALLS: TRAFFIC OFFICER AT ALBANY ADOPTS DRASTIC MEASURE. Wets 1446 Behind With 46 Precincts Out. CONTEST SEE-SAWS ALL DAY Adding Error Eliminates Lead of Prohibitionists. - SUFFRAGE BADLY BEATEN Despite Defeat of Proposal, Women Profess to Be Encouraged by New Tork Result and Will Try Again In Ohio. CINCINNATI, Nov. 7. At midnight a number of the miNslnir precincts were reported and the drys once more aa aujued the lead In the prohibition race In Ohio. With 5712 out of 5754 pre. elncta In the state heard from, prohi bition was leading; by 1440 votes. The vote stood i For prohibition, 515,430; against, 513,084. CINCINNATI. O.. Nov. 7. The fate of the prohibition amendment in Ohio re mained In doubt tonight and even the most expert political observers were loath to make a prediction, so close were the votes. With only 150 precincts remaining unheard from, the wets were leading: by 2277, the vote standing: For prohibition 504,074, against 507,151. A majority of the precincts still to corns are from districts which in the two previous elections' leaned heavily to the dry side. After a night and day of excitement at the headquarters of the respective wet and dry factions as the returns continued to show favorably for one side and then the other, tonight the scales shifted toward the anti-prohibitionists, though a lead of 7000 at 6 P. M. had been cut to less than 2500 at 10 P. M. Drys Profess Confidence! The dry forces professed confidence that returns from the remaining Pre cincts would show enough votes in their favor to change the count for them, basing their hopes on the rapid gains made early- tonight. Much of election night the drys were In the lead. The wets forged ahead in their turn and kept it for hours, though their advantage steadily dwin dled, and at noon today the drys over took them. With more than 1000 ap parent majority, the drys were bombed from their hard-won trench by the re port of a mistake. The bomb was exploded by H. L. Gibson, manager of the wets in the Ohio campaign, who asserted that an error which cost the wets 10,000 votes had been dis covered in the Hamilton County (Cin cinnati) tabulation. Statement la Verified. It was not long before the asser tion of the wet leader was verified by a member of the board of elections. Ray Hillenbrandt, a member of the Hamilton County Board, admitted that a mistake had been made in tabulating the unofficial returns from that county last night and that the error made a difference in the vote of 10,000 votes in favor of the wets. Mr. Hillenbrandt declared that the error occurred when the figure seven was hit on an adding machine instead of the figure eight. Following this gain for the wets, re ports favorable for the drys began to come In steadily, cutting down the leaa of the anti-prohibitionists. With the count apparently so close on the prohibition issue it will not be surprising should it require the official tabulation to determine the result. The official count will begin tomorrow. Suffrage Defeat Decisive. Ohio has decisively beaten the Presi dential woman's suffrage proposition, but despite the unfavorable result suf frage leaders here declared that they were undiscouraged and that they would bring the question before the voters again. The victory for suffrage In New York was acclaimed by Ohio leaders with joy and it was declared that the New York result would exert a large influence upon Ohio when the question is brought up at another time. SUFFRAGE WINS IX IfEW YORK Complete Returns Are Expected to Give 100,000 Majority. NEW YORK. Nov. 7. With only 395 election districts missing late tonight out of a total of 5772 in the state, the majority for woman suffrage in the election yesterday stood at 94,292. The remaining districts, which are mostly in rural sections up state, are not expected to change the result ma terially. The vote was: Yes, 641,481 no. 547,189. FUSION" VICTOR IX CHICAGO Democrats and Republicans Cele brate Over Judicial Election. CHICAGO, Nov. 7. Democrats and Republicans in Chicago and Cook County today expressed gratification at the results of the judicial election yes terday in which a fusion ticket carry ing seven candidates from each of these parties was swept into office over So cialist and Independent opposition by i plurality estimated at more than 75.000 (Concluded on. Page 2. Column l.J. Marslifleld Perfecting Plans to Com bat Wobblies; City and County to Be Asked for Funds. NORTH BEND, Or., Nov. 7. (Spe cial.) The threat of Organizer Crotzer last Saturday that Coos Bay would soon have cauee to remember the I. W. W. was recalled today when the big saw at the North Bend mill came Into contact with a length of iron pipe which had been driven into a spruce log. The saw was badly shattered, but fortunately none of the mill hands were struck by flying pieces. The North Bend Mill & Lumber Com pany is engaged. In cutting aeroplane spruce for the Government. One of the principals this evening said the acci dent was undoubtedly a case of sab otage. MAUSHFIELD. Or., Nov. 7. (Special.) Anticipating possible Industrial Workers of the World and pro-German trouble in this county, an organiza tion is being perfected to control the situation. The plan now outlined is to obtain emergency funds from Marshfield and North Bend as municipalities an a liberal appropriation from the county. While the county will be expected to provide in the neighborhood of $10,000, the cities wilf not be expected to fur nish so large an amount. Municipal contributions will be expended in the towns where they are appropriated. It is believed among business men and lumber operators that an arrange ment of this nature will be amply suf ficient to handle any troubles and protect the industries from harm. The movement is made on the theory that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Industries are taking every precaution against sabotage and new men are being added to the espionage. ARMY MAN GETS 15 YEARS E. Wangerin Courtmartialed for Refusal to Obey. CAMP DODGE, la., Nov. 7. Fifteen years in a Federal penitentiary was the sentence handed out today to E. Wangerin, of St. Paul, in the first con viction by a general courtnxartlal at this cantonment. Maor W. A. Graham, division Judge advocate, made public this sentence to day. It was charged that Wangerin refused to obey orders. J. G. Stivers, of Casenovla, 111., a. member of Company A, 349th Infantry, has been sentenced to five years In a Federal prison. It also was made known.' 1 TEXAS LIVESTOCK STARVE Cattle Raisers and Bankers Ask Fed eral Aid to Fight Drouth. .SAM ANGELO, Tex., Nov. 7. West Texas cattle raisers and bankers today sought Government intervention as a result of the long drouth which threatens the lives of thousands of cat tle, sheep and goats. They wired Washington requesting immediate delivery in this section of sufficient cars to ship out livestock. They also asked that Government agents purchase 1500 carloads each of cottonseed cake and hay for animals which cannot be moved, so as to pre vent speculating. MEATLESS DAY IGNORED Tacoma Restaurant 3Ien May Have to Deal With Government. TACOMA. Wash., Nov. 7. (Special.) Defiant Tacoma restaurant proprietors who refused to observe meatless day probably will have to -deal with the Government, and their sources of food supply may be cut off. That action was taken today when S. L. Spencer, chairman of the hotel and restaurant committee of the Food Conservation Commission, said that the names of such men would be turned over to the De partment- of Justice, which is working with Food Administrator Hoover. Those who jibe at wheatless days also will be reported to the Government. DEAD MAN NAMED CORONER Live Socialist Candidate to Get Of- lice Probably Has No Power. RIVERHEAD. N. Y, Nov. 7. The un witting nomination of a dead man for Coroner of Fisher's Island by both Re publicans and Democrats in Suffolk County won the election to that of fice for the Socialist candidate, Nicholas Lewln. However, since Fisher's Island, which Is near the eeastern entrance of Long Island Sound, is now entirely under Government control, it is a moot point whether the Coroner-elect will have jurisdiction. PEACE OFFICES RAIDED Federal Officers Search for Evi dence Against Council's Secretary. CHICAGO, Nov. 7. Federal agents today raided an office alleged to be long to the People's Council of America for Democracy and Terms of Peace, They were searching for evidence in the case of Theodore Lunde, former treasurer of the .organization, who Is under arrest. Search was also made of Lunde of' fice., American Commission Arrives Safely. SECRET CLOSELY GUARDED United States Will Take Ac tive Part in Discussions. LANSING OUTLINES IDEAS Colonel House Is Head of American Representatives; Admiral Ben son Representing Navy and General "Bliss Army. WASHINGTON. Nov. 7. An Amer ican mission landed in England today on the eve of the opening of the first great war conference In which the United States will participate. Colonel Edward M. House, President Wilsons personal friend and adviser, is the officially designated representa tive of the United States. He is accompanied by a staff repre senting every war agency in the United States, including Admiral William S. Benson, chief of naval operations, and General Tasker H. Bliss, chief of staff of the Army. Other members are: Oscar T. Crosby, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury; Vance McCormick, chairman of the War Trade Board; Bainbridge Colby, of the Shipping Board; Dr. Alonzo E. Taylor, of the Food Administration; Thomas Nelson Perkins, representing the Priority Board, and Gordon Auchincloss, .secre tary. Secret Carefully Guarded. Announcement by Secretary Lansing tonight of the arrival of the party "at a British port" released American news papers from a pledge of silence as to the personnel 'of the mission and its movements. The departure of this group of the most. distinguished men in the Government's war councils was a carefully guarded secret until they were safely through the submarine zone. Even many Army and Navy officials were "not. a ware that their chiefs had sailed. The date and place of the conference has not been made public, though the understanding here is that the ses sions are about to begin. Conference Eaaentlally for War. In a statement accompanying his an nouncement, Secretary Lansing em phasized the fact that this gathering is to be a war conference and nothing else, charged with mapping out a plan of campaign against Germany to "bring the conflict to a speedy and satisfactory end." There have been many indications that the conference was called at the request of the United States. In selecting its representatives, the United States has provided in advance against becoming involved In any dis cussion of peace terms or political ques tions. There is no diplomatic repre- (Concluded on Page 8. Column 1.) CHOOSING Harold Tlldcn, 1 5, Succumbs at Van couver as Cliln Hits Curb in . . Scuffle With Johnny Johnson. VANCOUVER. Wash.. Nov. 7. (Spe cial.) Harold Tilden. 15. was Instantly killed tonight in a scuffle with John ny Johnson, 15, over a 10-cent bet the yoJths made today on a bowling match. According to the-story told to the police by Johnny, he asKed young Tilden to pay the wager when he met him on Main street -labout 7 o'clock. On the latter' s refusal he said he at tacked Harold, but was knocked down before he could land a blow. " When he got up he says, he admitted that the larger boy was too much for him, but. he says, Harold started after him again. Harold's second blow missed connections, with the result,' Johnny says, that the lad lost his balance and fell, his chin striking the curb. Death was almost Instantaneous. The dead boy is the son of Ezra Til den, and his family is well known here. His grandfather Just returned from Canada to settle on a Clarke County farm and intended taking Harold with him in a day or two. Johnny's father disappeared from here about five years ago, the boy told the police. His. mother is dead. A sis ter, Mrs. James Wassner, moved from here to Bend, Or., where she is living now. The police are holding Johnny pend ing investigation of Harold's death. INDIANS TO HONOR BRAVES Monument to Commemorate Famous Battle of Two Buttes. NORTH YAKIMA, Wash.. Nov. 7. (Special.) Near the spot where the Yakima Pioneer Society last Summer erected a monument to commemorate the last battle between whites and In dians in the Yakima Valley, Yakima Indians will erect a second monument next Friday in memory of the braves who fell in that encounter, the battle of Two Buttes. The battle was fought In November, 1855. - Several venerable members of the Yakima tribe who took part in the battle will make addresses. L. V. McWhorter, of this city, . an adopted member of the tribe, also will speak. W. P. Bonney, of the State His torical Society, will attend the cere monies to obtain shorthand reports of the speeches of the Indians, which are expected to be of much historical In terest. PORTLAND BOY LOSES GRIP Alaskan Now Holds Washington 'U' Top Record for Strength. UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, Se attle, Nov. 7. (Special.) The honor of being the strongest man in the fresh man class was wrested from Ralph Rees, a Portland lad, today, when Carl Vevelstad, a student from Alaska, ap peared for, physical examaination. Vev elstad, 25 years of age and weighing 168 pounds, scored 2649.2 points against Rees' 2060.6 points. The new champion raised 950 pounds In the leg-lift test and 510 with the back lift. His push-up record was 25 and his pull-up 19. His right hand grip is 220 pounds and his left 215. Vevelstad Is a Norwegian and has worked five years in mining and rail roading In Alaska. BETWEEN THE LADY AND THE MaximalistsOccupythe Telegraph Offices. PARLIAMENT IS SUSPENDED Trotzby Gives Strict Orders Against Outlawry in City. GENERAL LIFE IS NORMAL Kerensky Orders Arrests; Declares Government Will Perish Rather Than Cease to Defend Honor and Independence of State. PETROGRAD, Nov. 7. An armed naval detachment, under order of the Maximalist revolutionary committee, has occupied. the offices of the official Petrograd telegraph agency. The Maxi malists also" occupied the Central Tele graph office, the State Bank at Marie Palace, where the preliminary Parlia ment had suspended its proceedings, in view of the situation. The general life of the city remains normal and street traffic has not been Interrupted. Trotj-.ky Opposes Outlawry. Leon Trotzky, president of the cen tral executive committee of the Petro grad Council of Soldiers' and Work men's delegates, has given strict orders against outlawry, and has threatened with death any person attempting it. Trotzky added that it was not the intention of the Workmen's and Sol diers' Delegates to seize power, but to represent to a congress of Soldiers and Workmen's Delegates,- to be called shortly, that that body take over con trol of the capital, for which all neces sary arrangements had been perfected. Government Stands Firm. The government has decided not to resort to armed force for the present against the military committee of the Soldiers' and Workmen's Delegates, but has ordered the Ministry of Justice to prosecute- the members of the commit tee. The military will take the neces sary measures in case of revolt. The revolutionary military committee of -Soldiers' and Workmen's Delegates demanded the right to control' all or ders of the general staff In the Petro grad district, which was refused. Thereupon the committee announced it had appointed special commissioners to undertake the direction of the mili tary, and Invited the troops to observe only orders signed by the committee. Machine gun detachments moved to the Soldiers' and Workmen's headquar ters. Peaceful Settlement Hoped. The government hopes for a peace ful settlement of the dispute, on which account it reached the decision not-to resort to force for the present. How ever, the soldiers' and workmen's com mittee was decreed an illegal organ! zatlon, and precautionary steps were (Concluded onPag 8. ColumnS.) TIGER. Driver of Car Conveying Senator and Wife to Corvallis, .Charged With Exceeding Speed Laws. ALBANY, Or.. Nov. 7. (Special.) After Traffic Officer Armentrout had punctured a tire with a- revolver shot, the automobile in which United States Senator Chamberlain was riding was stopped here shortly before noon to day for alleged violation of the city speed ' laws. The car was driven by Alfred C. Schmitt. vice-president and manager of the First National Bank of Albany, and besides Senator and Mrs. Chamberlain several prominent local residents were guests in the auto. Mr. Schmitt was taking Senator Chamberlain to Corvallis to meet a speaking engagement there. Armen trout says the car exceeded the speed limit while traversing First street, and that he asked Mr. Schmitt to stop three times, but he increased his speed. He shot a tire on the car when crossing the Willamette River bridge. Mr. Schmitt says he was not exceeding the speed limit, and will contest the traffic violation case and also sue Armen trout civilly for the value of the tire. Senator Chamberlain took the episode good naturedly and joked with friends while the car was returned to a local garage, where a new tire was put on. The Senator was greeted by many per sons today In this, his old home city. BOYS ENLIST, GIRL HOME Stenographer Quits Job to Take Place of Four Brothers. When her four brothers enlisted in the military forces of the United States, Miss Agneta P. Ostruck, for the past four years stenographer and clerk In the freight claim department of the O.-W. R. & N. Company, felt it her duty to leave her job and return to her former home in RIpon, Wis., where she can be with her parents, left alone by the call of all their sons to the colors. She left Portland yesterday. Two of the sons are already in France and two younger ones are in training for Army service abroad. AUSTRALIA TO VOTE AGAIN Second Referendum on Conscription to Be Submitted. MELBOURNE, Nov. 7. The Austra lian government has decided to hold another referendum on the question of conscription. A referendum on conscription was held in Australia last year. The final vote showed that 1,085,000 ballots were cast in favor of conscription and 1,146, 000 against It. SMOKING IS UNDER BAN Jitney Drivers In California May Not Vse Liquor Nor Tobacco. SAN FRANCISCO. Nov. 7. In a sweeping order issued today regulat ing jitney passenger and freight traffic throughout California, the State Rail road Commission has banned the use of liquor or smoking tobacco by any driver or operator while driving a car containing passengers. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 62 degrees; minimum temperature, 40 de grees. TODADT'S Rain; moderate southeasterly winds. - War. British hold ground win in Flanders. Pace 4. Italian troops retreat from Llvenza River. Pace 7. -Sinking- by U-boats fewer. Page 7. Big war conference alma made public. Page 1. Foreign. Petrograd on eve of great revolt. Page 1. Nation In sending War Commission abroad takes high place in world war. Page lu. . National Shipping Board to ask Congress for ad ditional appropriation. Page 16. Domestic. Wets lead in Ohio, but race la In doubt. Page 1. With 26 Republican Mayors named. New York recovers from conflict. Page 2. Second war loan nearly to maximum. Page 7. Sports. Baseball magnates confronted by big prob lems. Page 17. Fight managers can't agree over referee. Page 17. Lincoln High eleven dereats Washington, 6 to 0. Page 16. . i Pullman expects to defeat Oregon Aggies. Page 16. Benson and Commerce elevens play today. Page 14. Pacific Northwest. Mayor GUI la ready now to purge Seattle. Page 1. Northwest Livestock Show opens at Lewis ton today. Page 7. Telephone strike remains in deadlock. Page 4. Sawmill accident recalla L W. W. organi zers threat. Page 1. Boys' fight over 10-cent bet results fatally for one. Page 1. Commercial and Marine. Active trading In feed grains on local ex change. Page 21. Slowness of husking causes advance in corn at Chicago. Page 21. Substantial gains scored in Wall Street stock market. Page 21. Ship rates interest. Page 18. Portland and Vicinity. Vice-President and Mrs. Marshall Portland's guests. . Paga 6. Weather report, data and forecaat. Page 21. C. H. Draucher. who escaped from peniten tiary In June. 1916. now serving in Cana dian artillery. Page 13. Crook County potatoes win first prize at Land Products Show. Page 9. Minister scores disloyal "fat parasites" at end of Congregational conference. Page 8. Confectioners ordered to reduce augar con sumption SO per cent. Page 15. Removal of embargo on Christmas girts to soldiers urged la message to Washing tan. Page 5, DIFFERENCES BURIED NOW Attempt to Be Made to Make City Safe for Soldiers. CLEAN-UP TO BE THOROUGH Executive Says He Will Try to Meet Every Demand of Army Author ities Police Department Gets Instructions. SEATTLE, Wash., Nov. 7. (Special.) Corporation Counsel Hugh M. Cald well brought Mayor Hiram C. Gill and Prosecuting Attorney A. H. Lundin to gether In the office of the city legal department today, and at the close of, the conference it was announced both by the Mayor and Mr. Lundin that they had agreed to co-operate In every way possible to make Seattle a city safe morally for visiting soldiers. "I will give the Government every thing it wants." declared Mayor Gill, "and I have a good idea now what the Government does want. I will under take to meet every demand that the Army authorities may make to better conditions in Seattle. I have instructed the police department to assist Mr. Lun din to gather evidence for abatement cases and to work in close co-operation with his office." Abatement Actiona Are Due. Such differences as there may have been between the Mayor and the Prose cuting. Attorney ostensibly were buried, although Mr. Lundin said after the con ference that thera never had been' any hostility between the Mayor and hlm elftMr. Lundin admitted, however, that the police had not given him proper co-operation in redlight abate ment proceedings. It was admitted that more general abatement actions will be Instituted, and the' Mayor said they would not be limited lo any one section of the city. "The clean-up will extend to every corner of the city,'" said the Mayor, "and I have no doubt that with the co-operation of Mr. Lundin it will be effective." Detail of Clean-l p Withheld. It Is understood that the police have been instructed to make extensive ar rests in conjunction with the abatement proceedings which the County Prose cutor's office will undertake. The Mayor said that he and Lundin had agreed that no more Interviews would be given out regarding the plans for the clean-up. "Publicity now as to the precise steps that are to be taken would de feat their very purpose, but there will be no evasion of the recommendations that have come, or may come in the future, from either Army or Navy au thorities," the Mayor declared. 0R0FIN0 LAWYER INDICTED E. . Hofstede's Opposition to Draft Leads to Grand Jury Action. MOSCOW, Idaho, Nov. 7. (Special.) The Federal grand Jury tonight in dicted K. Hofstede, an Orofino attorney, for inducing Leland Mooers and others to avoid registering for military serv ice June 5. He was given until 10 o'clock tomorrow to plead. He is de- . fended by E. E. Teachnor, of Lewiston. Leland Mooers and King Mooers were indicted with Hofstede for willful re fusal to register. They both pleaded guilty and will be sentenced by United States Judge Deltrich tomorrow. These, with the indictments against Ingwald Berg, of Orofino, and.Vlade Plecas, of Latah County, Tuesday, are the first slacker cases to reach this stage in Idaho. NURSES INCREASE PRICES High Cost of Being III Is Reality in Tacoma. TACOMA, Wash., Nov. 7. (Special.) The high cost of being well has been joined by the cost of being ill. Tacoma. nurses, through their association, have raised their rates $5 a week. That amount has been added to the prices charged by the nurses for different classes of work. High cost of living is ascribed as the cause for the rise. The Tacoma com mittee reported that the response to the call for volunteer nurses at Camp Lewis has been splendid. NEW STAMP TO BE ISSUED 13-Cent Issue, to Bear Head of Franklin, Made Necessary. WASHINGTON. Nov. 7. The Fostof fice Department is planning to issue a 13-cent postage stamp for registered letters and special delivery letters. Heretofore a 12-cent stamp has been In -use, but the Increase In postage makes necessary the printing of a new denomination. The stamp will bear the head of Franklin and will be of the size and border design of the current issues above 7 cents. The color has not yet been selected