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Newspaper Page Text-nrmiiiiitnititnifr.ntftmiim .ft 1 FRIDAY, NOVEMBER23, I IS THE DATE Don't miss opening chapter of Belgium's Tragedy. iMHtinHiiiniHiiiiiiimiiimiiifiHiiiHitiiiiiiiiiiiiHiiiiiiiiiHiiiinHiinHMm? 1 BELGIUM'S STORY TO I BE TOLD Read Hugh Gibson's Great I Serial in The Oregonian. 1 VOL. L.VII. NO. 17,784. rOKTLAXD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, KOVE3IBEK 21, 1917. FRICE FIVE CENTS. 1200 TEUTONS FALL INTO ITALY'S HANDS CAPITAL AND LABOR BOTH TO SACRIFICE COAST FIGHT OVER TOT'S CRADLE GOES ON r pi rri SOCIALIST EDITOR FALLS UNDER BAN RUSSIA TO STAY Hint uLtLu itiuLnii GET CONTRACT AND BLOODED STOCK LUMBERMEN 0 inn n HUI RIG WAR, SAYS MISSION End of Bolshevik Re volt Predicted. EMPLOYER AND EMPLOYE MUST SHOW PATRIOTISM. FATE OF BABY HODZIMA - IX CHICAGO STILL UXCERTAI.V. MAX EASTMAX AND FIVE ASSO CIATES WILL SURRENDER. Austrians Crossing Piave Are Captured. HUNS ROUTED IN ALBANIA Central Powers Now Concen . trating Attack in North. ITALIAN FRONT STRONGER Iukc of Aosla, Commanding Tliird Army on River Line, Congrat ulates Men on Glorious Achievement. TIWSHINGTON. Xov. 20. Capture of, 12CO Austrians who crossed the Piave River is announced In a message from Geneial Diaz, the Italian commander-in-chief, to his army, received today by cable. ROME. Xov. 20. The repulse of an Austrian attack in force in Albania Is announcc-d by the War Office. The statement follows: "On the Lower Voyusa River at dawn Runday the enemy attacked in force the Giflik-Idris bridgehead. After brisk fighting he was forced to retire, leav ing in our hands an officer and some men." I T A t. I A N HEADQUARTERS IN NORTHERN ITALY, Monday. Nov. 19. (By the Associated Press.) The en emy i3 concentrating his attack on the north and very heavy fighting is. in progress routh of Quero, where large enemy masses are attacking the Italian position on Monte Tenera and Monte Tomba. Invader Raise Five Flag. Information is trickling across the Piave from the Italians in Eastern Ve netia, now overrun by the enemy. Em peror Charles of Austria-Hungary, it is said, has visited Gorizia and Udlne and King Ferdinand of Bulgaria has passed through Gradisca and Palma- nova. The garrison at Udlne, the former Italian headquarters, made' up of Turk ish soldiers, is using the Church of fe'anta Maria as one of its barracks. On the Citadel of, Udine the invaders have raised five flags Austrian, German, ' Bulgarian, Turkish and Greek. The last flag represents the Greek division which went over to the Bulgarians at Kavala and Fort Rupel and "which oine reports put among the enemy divisions operating on the Italian front. Early in September, 1916, the fourth Greek army corps, with headquarters at Kavala, surrendered to the Bul garians. Its strength was reported to be 2ri,000 men and these were later transported to Germany. Italian Are Congratulated. The correspondent today made a tour of 30 miles along the Piave battlefront, visiting Zenson. Fagare and the Sega mill, where desperate fighting has oc curred and saw the Duke of Aosta, com mander of the Third Army guarding the Piave line, whose men hurled the Austrians into the river and , re-es tablished the solidarity of the Piave front. At the moment the Duke was issuing an address to his army con gratulating them on their glorious achievement. An officer from general staff head quarters accompanied the correspon dent and although the headquarters of the Third Army was reached at an early hour, the Duke was coming out to proceed along the front. He held in his hand a war map which he con suiien with nis aides before giving directions for the route to be traveled. It was a striking picture as the Duke stood there studying the map. He is tall, of athletic build, with gray hair and moustache and face bronzed by exposure. He wore the service uniform oi nign command, witn Boots, spurs and a great coat edged with black fur. He acknowledged cordially the salutes of the correspondent's party and Colonel of his staff explained condi tions along the line. Eormy lu Thrown Back. "everywhere, the Colonel said, the enemy had been thrown back except at the brink of the river at Zenson where a few men were huddled in the bushes unable to go forward or back ward and were, being slowly cut to pieces. At Fagare, Folina and the Sega mill the rout of the enemy was com plete, being ''accomplished in fearful hand-to-hand fighting on Friday night and Saturday. This confirmed previous information and added permanency to the effects obtained. The officer procured a copy of the Duke's address, to. his men. It Is an inspiring document, breathing encour agement and confidence. It said in part: Duke AddreMfM Men. , "Soldiers of the Third Army: The enemy has attempted to pass our de fenses on the Piave, but his audacity has met with defeat before your heroic lines and he is driven back, leaving in our hands a great number of prisoners and machine guns. My soldiers, your commander greets you at the moment of this glorious exploit and conveys to you the grateful acknowledgment of the country. .With you rests the vic tory. With all our hearts we join our efforts for the country, for liberty." The tour along ;he front took the party to the very centers of the hardest fighting and along the edge'of. the inundated region, where the country side was transformed suddenly into a iConcludfcd on Page 3, Column 2.) Address of Secretary of Labor Be fore California Civic League De voted to "Industrial tnrest." SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 20. Patriot ism must be neutral in that it must be shown not alone by the employes, but also by the employers, was the opinion of Secretary of Labor William B. Wil son expressed in an address here today before the San Francisco Center of the California Civic League. Secretary Wilson is here at the head of President Wilson's mediation com mission, which is attempting to settle industrial unrest in the. West. "Industrial unrest is not necessarily the expression of thworkers' disloy alty," continued the Secretary. In many cases it is induced by the fact that the employes see the employers athering In mpst of the 'swag.' and sk for a fair division. One remedy of curing this is to remove the source to see that there is no 'swag' to divide. "The boys in the trenches are making the supreme sacrifice. But the wage- earners who have not been granted any increase since the inception of the war are also bearing their part of the sacrifice. Thus far I have seen no sac rifice in industrial enterprise. I hope we shall never see the time when we shall be compelled to utilize women in positions for which they are physically unfit, as England has been compelled to do. "The great necessity today Is not mobilization of labor alone, but it Is also the mobility of labor. We must be able to shift workmen at short no tice from industries which are not nec essary to the war to those that are essential to the conflict. "Perhaps the greatest reason of the labor troubles of the present can be found in the fact that prices of food stuffs have risen 43 per cent since Sep tember, 1914, with corresponding ad vances in other necessaries." I. W. W. ROUND-UP ORDERED Kansas Oil Fields to Be Cleared of Undesirables. KANSAS CITY,, Mo.. Nov. 20. A rcundup of Industrial Workers of the World in the oil fields of Kansas is to be made immediately, Fred Robert son, District Attorney for Kansas, an nounced late today. More than 60 al leged I. W. W. were arrested In the Butler. County oil fields today,. 11. wu announced. The arrests today were made in the vicinity of Augusta by state and Fed era! agents, it was announced. A quantity of literature was seized. The purpose of the raids will be to rid the -oil fields of the state of un desirables. Federal officers say. and each man arrested will be examined as to whether he has registered. The presence of alleged I. W. W. in the Butler County fields recently led to the placing of armed guards STRIKE IN UTAH IMMINENT Walkout Threatened by Salt Lake Electrical Workers. SALT LAKE CITY, Nov. 20. A strike of the electrical workers of the Utah Power & Light Company threatens to develop tonight, accoiding to represen tatives of the men. For several weeks the men and of ficials of the company have been at tempting to arrive at an understand ing. Representatives of the men de clared that a strike might be called by the workers tonight at a meeting to be held here. Should a strike be called it is said that many cities in Utah and South ern Idaho would be plunged into dark ness. William B. Wilson, United States Secretary of Labor, may be appealed to, according to the representatives of the men. ROMANOFF COIN ATTACHED Former Czar About to Lose Personal Property In Xew York. NEW YORK, Nov. 20. A writ of at tachment on the personal property here of Nicholas Romanoff, ex-Emperor of Russia, was signed by State Supreme Court Justice Russell . Benedict today in a suit for $2,0'.,000, brought against Mr. Romanoff by the Marine Transpor tation Service Corporation for alleged breach of contract. According to Bernhard Noumburg, at torney for the corporation, the ex- Emperor of all tke Russias has several million dollars' worth of property in this city, mostly money In banks, which will be seized under the writ as soon as located. It was explained that the suit was brought against the Emperor as con stituting the then Russian government, BEND PLANT SEEKS MOTOR Five Months' Delay May Be Caused Unless Engine Can Be Found. BEND. Or.. Nov. 20. (Special.) In ability to obtain a motor with which to drive the machinery is delaying the installation of a fourth bandsaw in the Shevlin-Hixon mill here, according to F. P. Hixon, of La Crosse, president of the .company, who Is here today with E. L. Carpenter, vice-president. The whole country has been scoured for the nuroose of finding even a second-hand motor, but so far without re sult. If a new motor must be ordered the band will not be put In for five months. The capacity of the plant will be Increased one-third and employment given to about ISO more man when the improvement Is made. Ship Timber to Be Sent to Atlantic. GOVERNMENT PROVIDES CARS Forty Million Feet of Lumber Is , Called For. RICES NOT MADE PUBLIC Orders Placed With Oregon and Washington Mills Because of Their Proved Ability to De liver in Contract Time. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, Nov. 20. (Special.) Oregon and Washington lumber mills, under contract today, signed by the Shipping Board, will furnish approximately 40, 000,000 feet of big ship timbers to wood shipyards along the Atlantic and Gulf Coast from Maine to Texas. This Doug- flas fir contract is to be apportioned among the mills from two states that are In position to get out keel and other large timbers promptly. The Government agrees to furnish cars as needed. The prices to be paid for these big timbers were agreed to by the Ship ping Board, but they are not an nounced, the prices varying with the size of the timbers. But is is known that the prices which Pacific Coast mills have quoted for delivery at East em shipyards average $8 per thousand less than Southern mills quoted on pine timbers of corresponding sizes f. o. b. their mills. Miss Prices Quoted Sooth. The Southern lumbermen, it is known quoted prices at their mills, and not prices delivered at the shipyards, so the differential is much greater than iS per thousand, as the price on Doug las fir includes the full cost of what would be practically 25 per thousand on shipments to Atlantic Coast points. Another fact of Importance is tha the Southern mills which have taken contracts for these large ship timbers have largely fallen down, and It was because of their failure that resor was taken to the mills of the Pacific Coast, which have shown their ability to make deliveries In contract time Delivery of these big timbers Is to be concluded within 100 days. The orders just placed do not in elude small ship lumber such as plank Ing, decking and finish. That class lumber for Eastern and Southern yard is being furnished with reasonable sat isfaction by Southern mills which now have Government contracts. Further Orders Kxpected. It is likely, however, that further orders for ship timber will later be placed by the Shipping Board with the mills of Oregon and Washington and especially for yards on the Atlantic Coast. Under orders issued today by the j ; I t I (Concluded on Page .", Column 2.) 1 i WHEN THE HOME TEAM GOES UP AGAINST BETTER TEAMWORK ON THE OTHER SIDE. I t ( Of SHUCKS!) If j I t I "SU ' NsNVIS5i , TSSy f , , VX'I S III 7 M wmm I oi 1 Mother Falters in Purpose of Ad ministering Slow and Eusy Death to Sufferer. - O CHICAGO. Nov. 20.- - d - fight rages about the era a utaining the misshapen and suffering little form of baby Hodzima out on North May street. And the battle hinges on the question of whether the child's mother will be allowed to administer slow nd easy death to her oifspring. accord- ng to the plans of Dr. Harry J. Haisel- den, or whether the baby will be clutched back from the grave to a life of suffering. "Mrs. Hodzima has received so many letters telling her she will be guilty of child murder If she follows my In structions," said Dr. Haiselden, "that she falters in her purpose. 'I had planned to bring the child to the German-American Hospital today or tomorrow for the purpose of treat ing it there, probably operating on it, if the mother refused to carry out my treatment, but Mrs. Hodzima does not know whether she will allow this or not. The baby may be consigned to an ndefinite life of suffering by the mis taken and ignorant views of those who have failed to keep . step with the times." . Dr. Haiselden said today he had re ceived hundreds of letters from . per sons suffering from incurable and painful maladies asking that ,he put them out of their misery. NEAR MUTINY IS REPORTED Trouble at Sea Compels Schooner to Return to Port. A PACIFIC PORT. Nov. 20. The steam schooner Pasadena turned back into this port today as a result of what members of the crew said had been near mutiny. Charles Johnson, a sailor, charged that Captain M. S. McGovern, master of the ship, had attacked him and two other members of the crew without provocation and said he and others had refused to continue the proposed voy age of the ship. IOWA IS DECLARED "WET' Official Cunvass Shows Prohibition Measure Was Defeated. DES MOINES. Nov. 20. Constltu tional prohibition was defeated in the October 15 election in Iowa by a ma jortty of 932 votes, according to the official canvass made today by the state executive council. The canvass, made on the lnitia count of the ballots, showed 214.693 for the amendment and 215,625 against it PATRIOTISM IS REWARDED Paroled Men Who Enlist Will Be Restored to Citizenship. SALEM, Or.. Nov. 20. (Special.) Governor Withycombe announced to day that each prisoner paroled from the State Penitentiary who has en listed for service in the war will b granted restoration of citizenship So far eight paroled men have en listed. Northwest Purebreds for Throngs. ' IDAHO STUDENTS JUDGE BEST Corvallis and Pullman Teams Next in Points Won. HOG SALE IS SUCCESSFUL Choice Array of Registered Porkers Wins Approval of Buyers and Prices Rule High Entries Prove Numerous. ' DOINGS AT SEVENTH AXXUAI. PACIFIC ITERVATIONAli LIVESTOCK EXPOSITION'. Today's ProKramme. 10 A. M. Horse judging. 10 A. M. Sheep Judging. 10 A.M. Fat stock auction. 12 M. Entertainment Portland Ad Club. 2 P. M. Ayrshire cattle auction. 6:30 P. M. Short horn breeders banquet, Portland Hotel. Yesterday's Grand .Award. Holstein Bull Sir Nida Yamhill Wayne, owned by C. S. Magee, McMlnnvllle. Or. Fercheron Stallion H. e s i q u e, owned by A. C. Ruby, Port land, Or. "Look, baby, at the great big, woozy cow. Perhaps the animal pointed out was cow, perhaps It wasn't; baby un- questloningly gurgled his enthusiastic approval, for he was not attending the biggest livestock show which Portland has ever staged In the role of & critic, but merely to enjoy the sights to gether with mother and Johnnie and sister and father. Tes, matrons with their infants, eager - eyed children, fun -seeking youths, all were in the throng of 50'io sightseers who trooped .through exhi bition pavilions, milled about the sales and Judging rings, watched the me chanical exhibits in operation or sat in the stands and listened to strains of the bands yesterday at the big North Portland exposition. Railway Kmplojf Attend. Officials announced that it was a larger crowd than attended any day last year. They smiled as they said it and predicted "if the weather Is fair" that attendance today will be larger quite probably the largest of the exposition's history. Greatly augmenting the throngs of yesterday afternoon came the army of officials and employes of the O.-W. R. & N Company, who arrived about 3 o'clock In their special train, paraded ! . i The Masses Staff and Poetess Con tributor Are Ordered Arrested Under Espionage Act. NEW YORK. Xov. 20. Bench war rants for the arrest of Max Eastman, editor of the Masses, and five others associated with the publication were held In abeyance today, when Morris Hlllqult, recently Socialist candidate for Mayor, appeared as their attorney before Federal Judra Mayer and said they were arranging for bail and would I surrender themselves tomorrow to answer the charge of violating the espionage act. The seventh defendant. Mrs. Jo sephine Bell, was in court and was held In t1000 ball after Mr. Hlllqult had informed the judge that her only of fense was that she was unlucky enough to have a poem published in the is sue of the Masses which the Govern ment complains of and that this was her first contribution to the perodi caL In fixing the bail at this amount Judge Mayer said it was not to be taken as a criterion for the other de fendants. AGGIE IDOL IS STOLEN "Iron Woman' Found Hidden Be hind Barn Near University. UNIVERSITY OF OREGON. Eugene. Nov. 20 (Special.) The "iron wom an," taken in a raid upon the agricul tural college campus Sunday evening nd around which the Oregon students held a football rally yesterday, was returned to Corvallis today and re placed on her pedestal In the foun tain at the entrance to the O. A. C. grounds. After being stolen a second time last night the Aggie idol was found in a pile of straw behind a barn near the university. BREWERIES VIOLATE LAW Minnesota. Attorney-General Is In structed to Vacate Charters. ST. PAUL, Nov. 20. The State Public! Safety Commission today instructed the Attorney-General to begin proceedings 1 to vacate the charters .of Minnesota I breweries and to exclude frbm the state I the product of all other breweries I which violated or encouraged violation of the state liquor laws. The state commission's action fol lowed receipt of complaints from vari- ous sections of the state that the state law relating to the sale of liquor was being violated. JEWISH WAR FUND GROWS Jacob II. Schiff Contributes $200,- 000 Toward $5,000,000 Fund. NEW YORK. Nov. 20. Jacob H. Schiff has given $200,000 to start the $5,000,000 Greater New York campaign for Jewish war relief and for the Jew ish welfare board In the United States Army and Navy, it was announced to night. This contribution makes a total in excess of $500,000 which Mr. Schiff has given for war relief during the present war. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The 'Weather. TERTERDAT'S Maximum temperature, 60 degrees; minimum, 44 degrees. TODAY'S PoMibly rain; gentle southerly winaa. National, Allen enemies are being; rounded up. Pare 3. Employers and employes alike must show patriotism, says Secretary of Labor. Page 1. War. Embarjro declared on supply shipments to RusHla. Pace 2. New French irovernment calls for redoubled efforts to win war. Page 3. Allied war council bring: nations closer to gether. Page 1. Lloyd George hailed as Britain's leader In hour of trial. Page '2. Twelve hundred Austrians captured by Ital ians. Page 1. Oomestlc. Trial of alleged revolution-makers opens In San Francisco. Page 4. Albert C. Oemarest and Miss Lilian Mills married at Camp Mills. Page Fight over fate of suffering baby In Chicago! goes on. I'age l Labor reaffirms Its unswerving; loyalty to country. Page 5, Editor and staff of The Manses ordered ar rested under espionage act. Page 1 Alleged fom enters of revolution In India on trial In San Francisco. i'age 4, i Railroads and brotherhoods agree to arbi trate differences. Pass Sport a. Duck hunters few this Fall. Page 14. Columbia defeats Hill, 3G-0. Page 14. Boxing bouts attract Interest. Page 14. Pacific Northwest. Fruit grower says Northwest growers need he ID of 50.0OU Lhinamen. i'age i. Sheridan physician may have Isolated chick- pn-Dox srerm. Pase 1. State Fair Board meets today. Page 7. Twenty-five thousand troops pass in review Camp Lewis. Page y. , State Fair Board meets In Portland today. Page . Commercial and Marine. Progress made In river dyke work. Page 19. Speculation In wool market Is held In check. Page 1. Corn higher at Chicago on prospects of en larged exports. Page in. Portland and Vicinity. ; Russian mission In Portland. Page 1. Members of Japanese mission here. Page ?. Council has right to grant relief to street-car company In decreasing service. Page 8. North Bank Railroad ordered to turn over 4 on boxcars to faouthern Pacific Company. Page . Ice cream makers meet. Page 11. Portland girl to do Red Cross work In France. Page 12. I Long periods of coma frequent with Mrs. Faling. Page 13. Songs wtH be feature of Land Show enter tainment tonignt. Page 13. I Weather report, data and forecast. Page 19. Oregon troops to get knitted goods. Page 20. , Five thousand attend Livestock Show. Page L OUTSIDE HELP MS NEEDED Portland Visitors Explain Country's Attitude. JAPANESE ALSO IN CITY Members of Royal Parliamentary Party Arrive Here. and Are Re ceived With Warm Welcome by Local Committee. REPBESEVTATIVES OK TWO OF AJIKRIC t ALLIES VISIT PORTLAND. Official delegations from both Russia and Japan were Portland visitors yesterday. Each brought assurances of the utmost good will and amity from its respect ive government. The Russian party consisted of two distin guished Russians from the Rus sian Embassy, New York, and the Japanese party included two members of the Japanese Parlia ment, sent here to convey assur ances of good will and co-operation to the United States. The official mission from the Rus sian Embassy at Washington D. C, en gaged in a tour of the United States for the purpose or making clear the attitude of Russia In the great war and the stupendous sacrifices already made by its peoples, arrived in Port land yesterday. Members of the party are: Lieuten- ant-Commander Basil Hwoschinsky, of the Russian navy, who has seen service at the front as an officer of infantry; A. J. Sack, graduate of the University of Moscow, an authority on Russian polltlcal, social and economic condi tions and director of the Russian in formation bureau, of New York, and Major Stanley Washl.urn, of the United I States Army, former war correspondent I at the Russian front for the London Times, and veteran correspondent of the Russian-Japane.s war. Revolt's Overthrow Kiprcted. With them are Franklin Reading, a member of the recent railroad commis sion from the United States to Russia, and James E. Neville, director of pub licity for the tour. The tour was ar- I ranged by the Russian Embassy and is under the direction of ihe State and War departments of the United States. It Is obvious that the party repre sents the provisional government of Russia, now hi conflict with the Maxi malists for the control of Petrograd. Its members are confident that the outcome will Justify their faith and that the Bolshevikl will be overthrown. .. ,, . Their mission to the American peo- ple s Blven at the preat.publu meet ins Iasi nigui t mo nuts trin t-ttz. when thousands heard them speak, is to brinisr home the realization of Rus sia's sacrifice, a conception of what may bo expected from her if she is aided through her hour of trial and of what confronts the United States if substantial Government shall fail in Russia and the Nation retires from. i the war. 'At this most critical moment, in j spite of the gloomy reports from Fetro- prad, which are one-sided because the I Maximalists are still in control of the wires," said Mr. Sack yesterday, "C wish" to frive the most categorical as surance that free Russia, democratic Russia, will never be a slacker in the glorious fight for liberty and Democ racy. Sacrifice Are Great. "The sacrifies of Russia in this war are enormous. Tney amount io uu u 8,000,000 men and if it would only bo remembered under what conditions the (Concluded on Page 4. Column ! W HAT ni'GH GIBSON SAW IX BELGIUM. 4 1. He saw the agitated German Minister returning' from deliver- lng the ultimatum. 2. He took over the German legation when war was declared. 3. He saw the great throng who heard King Albert's speech I I t I T of defiance. 4. He was in Louvain during the burning and pillaging of that city. 5. He was in Brussels when the Germans entered. S. He passed many times through the firing lines between the Germans and Belgians with American dispatches 7. He had all manner of of ficial and unofficial dealings with the Germans. 8. He had many opportunities to see King Albert, both in the field and behind the lines. 9. His journal gives the fullest first-hand account ot the mur der of Edith Cavell, which he used every endeavor to prevent. It will be published In The Ore gonian starting Friday. Nov. 23.