o VOL.. LVII. XO. 17,790. PORTLAND, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, NOVE3115KU 28, 1917. 1'KICE FIVE CENTS. NORTH MD SOUTH GREATEST ORDER FOR MEAT PLACED SPIES IN BRUSSELS HILLISI LIES, SAYS FAMOUS FIDDLER 80 ITALIANS TAKEI1 AS FOES OF ALLIES KNIT BAG. TERMED THIEF CAMOUFLAGE MRS. . DE SAULLES STICKS TO STORY SEPARATED BUSY EARLY IN PURCHASE IX CHICAGO IS BIG GEST KECOK0EB. BROOKLYN DIVINE IS ASKED TO RETRACT STATEMENT. TACOMA MERCHANTS SAY SHOP LIFTERS CAN HIDE BOOTY". RUSSIA WAR All Communication Is Reported Broken. HUN OFFICERS AID LENINE Northern Army Reported Seri ously Short of Food. REVOLUTION HELD FAILURE Message From Petrograd Says That Behind Apparent Cliaos Forces That Will Remake Rusia ; Are Active. LONDON, Nov. 27. All communica tion has been broken between North and South Russia. The foreign embas sies at Petrograd are unable to estab lish any touch with Odessa or other points In 'Southern Russia. Official messages, however, are reaching Odes sa by way of Persia. Information was received here today from Petrograd that a number of Ger man staff officers have arrived there and are acting in an advisory capacity to Nikolai Lenine, the Bolsheviki Pre mier. ,Army Short of Food. The Russian army on the northern front has had no bread for several days, according to reports received in Petrograd and transmitted here, and only two or three days' supply of army biscuit is on hand. The army dele gates are reported to have recommend ed the withdrawal of the troops In or der to-prevent a general flight with its consequent excesses. Instead of hundred cars of food arriving daily at the Dvinsk front only 20 have been re ceived. Large numbers of troops being moved to different places have been stopped by the removal of sections of railroad track to prevent their reaching Petro grad. They were stopped at towns - where food could not be obtained. WASHINGTON. Nov. 27. The Ameri can Consul at Tiflis today reported es tablishment of the new government In the Caucasus as a protest against anar chy in Russia. LONDON, Nov. 27. The Russian rev olutionists have made a "ghastly fail ure" of their attempt at administra tion, according to the Petrograd cor respondent of the Morning Post, writ ing under the date of Saturday. He adds: Situation Is Clearing;. "But behind or beyond all this ap parently hopeless chaos the forces which made Russia an empire are not idle and those who know Russian his tory understand perfectly well how matters will end. "Even as I write the situation is be coming clear. The elections to the con stituent assembly will take place, but the constituent assembly will not meet success. The Bolsheviki movement, whatever that movement may really mean, already has damned the constit uent assembly. ".Meantime I would call attention to the following facts: Gold Reserve Is Safe. "The vast gold reserve of the Rus sian empire, which was removed from Petrograd to the Kremlin in 1913, was later carried still further into the in terior. It" is in safe hands. "General Kaledines, hetman of United Cossackdom, Is in secure possession, with trustworthy and disciplined troops of all arms of all those regions of European Russia that produced a har- t this year, and is rapidly captur ing those remaining territories upon which Russia relies for its daily bread. "A vast union, under the name of the Southeastern Union, has been formed. It includes the Don territory, a great part of Little Russia, the lower Volga provinces and Turkestan, the area which feeds all Russia. This union Is extending the promises to cover the Siberian corn land. Kaledines in Control. "General Kaledines, holding the gold reserve and the bread supplies, is master of the situation and those her serves will accept dictation neither from Kerensky, Lenine" nor anybody else, least of all from Germany. "The allies may safely admit a bow lng acquaintance with the curious in dividualities thrown up from the depths by internal disturbances, but for inti mate friendship and future partner ship they must l6ok elsewhere, and in the meantime they must wait uncon cernedly until their old friends reap pear above the present turmoil." PETROGRAD, Sunday, Nov. 25. Elec tion of delegates to the constituent as sembly began today and will continue through Monday and Tuesday. Nine teen lists, representing various parties, factions and organizations, are in the field, including two women's leagues. The Moscow metropolitan committee has announced that the elections there have been postponed for a week. DUKHONIN ISSUES WARXIXG Breach of Entente Treaty Would Be Dangerous, Says Commander, COPENHAGEN. Nov. 27. General Dukhonin, the Russian commander-in-chief, has sent an order to the Rus sian army pointing out that the en- (Concluded on Page 6, Column 2.). Food Administration Buyer for Al lied Nations, Red Cross and Belgium. CHICAGO, Nov. 27. The greatest meat order in the history of the Chi cago stock yards, and probably of the world, was placed here today. Joseph P. Cotton, chief of the meat division of the food administration, was the buyer, and the purchase was for the allied nations, the Red Cross and the Belgian Relief Commission. - The tonnage, the kinds of meats in volved and the time for deliveries will remain secret, as will the names of the 15 packers who divided the orders. The order for the United States Army failed to arrive in time, it was said, and will be. divided later. It also was said the greater part of the order will be delivered after the first of the year. and that cured meats and lard will make up a considerable portion of the whole. The order was placed under the new prices established Saturday by the food administration, allowing the packers not more than 2 per cent profit on meat sales. The order was unusual, in that there was no competition, the whole thing being shared out at the Government's own prices, practically at the dictation of Mr. Cotton. DEATH LETTER DISCOVERED Milwaukee Attorney Is Advised to Prepare for End. - MILWAUKEE. Nov. 27. Another bomb plot has been disclosed in Mil waukee. This was madtSTknown today, when a death letter was opened at police headquarters, and the new de velopment may lead to the discovery that a combined plot had been rlanned. The letter had been writen to At torney Thomas J. Mahon, who defended the three Deputy Sheriffs and Federal agent In the suit started by former Sheriff E. T. Melms, charging them with unlawfully disturbing a peace meeting in Bayview. The letter had been mailed from Bayview Saturday. It was written in Italian and was signed "Deo' and said: "Prepare for death. You have been marked." Attorney Mahon's home is being guarded. GEORGE W. NEWELL KILLED Shipyard Worker Rushing for Street' car Falls Under Trucks. George W. Newell, formerly a clerk for Wadhams & Kerr Brothers, was in stantly killed at 5 o'clock last night by falling under the trucks of a St. Johns streetcar at Baltimore and Jersey streets, St. Johns. Mr. Newell, who went to work ye terday morning for the Grant Smith- Porter-Guthrie Company, shipbuilders, in "St. Johns, was on his way to his home at 1832 'East Everett street when the accident happened. Mr. Newell was one of a party of workmen who made a dash for the car as it slowed down to take on passengers. He slipped "and fell as he jumped for the step.. Patrol man Black sent the body to the morgue by orders of Dr. Earl Smith, Coroner. Mr. Newell is survived by his widow and a brother. FRENCH WELCOME BRITONS Lloyd George, Balfour and Other Of- " ficials Now in Paris. PARIS, Nov. 27. David Lloyd George, the British Premier, accompanied by Foreign Secretary Balfour and other British officials, and Premier Venizelos, of Greece, arrived in Paris tonight. Sir Eric Campbell Geddes. First Lord of the Admiralty: Admiral Sir John Jel- licoe, chief of the naval staff; Earl Reading, the Lord Chief Justice, and General Sir Wiliam Robertson, chief of Btaff at army headquarters, were the other members of the British party They were met at the station by Pre mier Clemenceau, ex-Premier Painleve and Stephen Pichon, Minister of For eign affairs of France. GERMAN IS BLACKBALLED Chicago Club Throws Language and Literature Into Discard. CHICAGO. Nov. 26. German litera ture and the German language today were officially blackballed by the Chi cago Woman s Club. At a meeting or the art and literature section the Ger man study class, consisting of 40 or 60 women, most of them of German extrac tion, was ordered to disband by the executive committee. The propriety, of one section of the club talking and studying German while the other sections were engaged in Red Cross work had been criticised by club members. The action was taken at the request of the members of the class. LARGE ARMY TO BE NEEDED Maintenance After W ar Will Be Large Problem, Says Mr. Eliot. BOSTON, Nov. 27. The United States will have to make maintenance of a large army after war a National prob lem, as Switzerland has, so long as the Nation is to be in a league to enforce peace. President Emeritus Charles W. Eliot, of Harvard University, declared at the meeting of the National Federa tion of Religious Liberals here. "It has been demonstrated," he said, "that a democracy may be slow, but that it is efficient when it gets going." Belgians Bare System of Espionage. POPULACE VERY SUSPICIOUS Crowds Chase Persons of Teu tonic Type Through Streets. WAR RUMORS FLY THICKLY Reports of French Army Entering Mulhouse- and of Alsatians Re ceiving Troops With Joy Aro Heard by Belgians. BY HUGH GIBSON. Secretary of the American legation in Tt mis sels at the outbreak of the war. Copy right. 117, Doubleday, Page & Co., by Otis F. Wood. (Continued.) Our refugee train left this morning and took 800 more of the poor people. Where they all turn up from, I don't know, but each day brings us a fresh and unexpected batch. Many of the cases are very sad, but If we stop to give sympathy in every deserving case. we should never get anything practical done for them. Today's budget of news is that the French have got to Mulhouse and have inflicted a decisive defeat upon the Germans. According to reports, the Alsatians went mad when the French troops crossed the frontier for the first time in 44 years. They tore up and burned the frontier posts and generally gave way to transports of joy. I would have given a lot to see the crowds in Paris. Captive Germans Ignorant. A letter came yesterday from Omer, the legation footman, who is at Tirle- mont jvith the artillery. He said he had not yet been hit, although he had heard the bullets uncomfortably near. He wound up by saying that he had beaucoup de courage and I believe him. It seems that some of the German, troops did not know what they were attacking and thought they were in France. When brqught here as pris oners, some of them expressed sur prise to find that Paris was so small They seem to have thought that they were in France and the goal not far away. Belgians Are Indignant. The King today received through other channels the message from the Emperor of Germany in regard to peace, which we declined to transmit. I have not seen its text, but hear it is practically identical with the message sent us, asking the King to name h conditions for the evacuation of Liege and the abandonment of his allies, so that Germany may be entirely free of Belgian opposition in her further op erations against France. I have heard among Belgians only (Concludede on Page 3, Column 1.) DRUNKEN m i M Krelsler Is Informed lie Can Find Preacher at His Office at Any Time. NEW TORK, Nov. 27. (Special.) A violent controversy is raging between Rev. -Newell Dwight Hillis. pastor of historic Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, and Fritz Krelsler, famous Austrian ivolinist. Should Kreisler care to se cure personal satisfaction from Dr. Hil lis for the latter's criticism of him for sending money to an enemy country, it can be very quickly arranged, it was learned today. Kreisler took exception to certain remarks made by Dr. Hillis in" his sermon on Sunday. He said, in substance, that the minister was a liar. branded the criticism he had made as "cowardly," and demanded instant re traction. Mr. Kreisler said: "In his cowardly. Irresponsible and unethical attack upon me. Dr. Hillis said: 'It is well known that Kreisler is an Austrian Captain, and to obtain his release from the army he promised to send a larger percentage of his in come back to the home government.' "This Is a baseless and malicious lie. Knowing Dr. Hillis to be a minister of the gospel, I refuse to believe that he uttered this lie in full cognizane of its falsity and Import. I expect him to retract this misstatement publicly and without delay." v To which Dr. Hillis replied this morn ing from his home at 6fi Orange street, Brooklyn: "No man can threaten me out of my conviction, rnd I can always be found at my office in the Arbuckle Institute at the corner of Orange and Hicks streets in Brooklyn, and any Austrian officer who is sending comfort and aid to the enemy can find me at any hour of the day, or, if he prefers, at night. and he may an well know in advance that there will be no withdrawal on my part now or at any future time of one syllable of any statement made in be half of our srllies." FEDERAL AID IS PROMISED University of Washington Drug Plant Garden to Be Enlarged. UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON', Se attle. Nov. 27. (Special.) Kxtenslon of the College of Pharmacy's drug plant garden to three acres and the detailing of a medicinal expert by the bureau of plane industry of the United States De partment of Agriculture are promised the university shortly. The expert will co-operate with the College of Pharmacy in Its work and superintend the plant ing and harvesting of medicinal plants with which the bureau wishes to ex periment. The addition to the drug garden will be nsed largely for experimentation with new plants, to determine what va rieties will thrive In this climate and the degree of potency they will have. The present garden has been in cultiva tion for several seasons and valuable results have been obtained. SWISS FRONTIERS SEALED Little Alpine Republic Now Cut Off From World by War. GENEVA. Nov. 27. The Austrian and German frontiers were cloged last night. Both the French and Italian frontiers already had been closed for an indefinite period. Thus Switzerland's four frontiers now are sealed for the first time since the outbreak of the war. AND HELPLESS IN THE TAVERN OF Roundup of Northwest Is Concluov ARMED RESISTANCE IS MET Prisoners Thought Members of Secret Anarchistic Society. GERMAN CAUSE IS HELPED Literature and Papers Found In Raids Strengthen Impression That Blow Was Being Struck at Morale of Italian Army. SEATTLE. Wash.. Nov. 27. As the result of a series of raids conducted by Federal agents working under the di rection of Henry M. White, immigration inspector. 55 Italians, alleged to be in ternational anarchists, are tonight locked In cells at the Seattle Immigra tion station, while a number of others are under arrest at Spokane and Ta coma. It is believed that in all nearly 80 men aro under arrest. Those arrested are believed to be members of the Clrcola Studi Sociall. a secret anarchistic society said to have a membership of 200.000 in the United Slates. They are said to have plotted the assassination of the King of Italy and bloody disturbances in this country as part of the world-wide propaganda for Teutonic victory in the war. Work Commences Sunday. The Federal net, skilfully set for the alleged plotters, began to close Sunday and the last arrests were made today, when Mr. White made official an nouncement of the roundup. Of the 55 men in custody here 22 were arrested In Seattle, 14 at Cle Elum, seven at Roslyn, eight at Black Dia mond and four at Kenton. Many of those arrested here were employed in shipyards working on Government con tracts. Most srC. these from the out lyLng points are coal miners. Officers making arrests here met with armed resistance .in one instance when, deputies, in the waterfront dis trict were fired upon, but none was wounded. Arrests elsewhere were made without trouble. Propaganda Is Alleged. According to Federal officers the sus pects. In co-operation with other an archistic societies throughout the country and Europe, have been plotting to ruin the morale of the Italian armies and injure the cause of the allies by the circulation of the literature branding the war one waged for capitalistic profit. - "We believe the majority of the men taken in these raids are guilty of try ing to destroy the morale of the Italian armies through the circulation of their anarchistic propaganda," said Commis (Concluded on Page Column 4.) FREEDOM. v .1 I t In Future All Women Who Enter Stores With Knitting Bags Will Be Viewed With Suspicion. TACOMA, Wash.. Nov. 27. (Special.) The "handwriting on the wall" has been writ for the knltttng-bag, but not by Tacoma womertr- They have lo, these many weeks, placed their hearts in the capacious "Innards" of that gay and giddy cross between a suitcase and a laundry-bag, with room and to spare for everything from a powder puff to a half-knit sweater for "him," and from party shoes to all the necessary garments for a week-ending in the country. Tacoma merchants have spelled the doom for the knitting-bag. From now until at least the Christ mas rush Is over every Tacoma woman who carries a knitting-bag into a Ta coma store will be under suspicion. She Is as likely as not to have a store detective watching her, whether her name Is spelled in letters of gold in Tacoma's social register or whether she uses the bag in' which to carry someone's laundry home; though the bag be one to bring a ransom from Oriental Prince or a piece of ticking left over from the last home-made pil lows. Merchants say they have lost more goods through shoplifting since the bags came into style than ever before. BOYS TO HAVE LUXURIES Corvallis People Send Members of Company K 9250 for Christmas, CORVALLIS. Or.. Nov. 27. (Special:) Benton County today sent its Christ mas gift to Company K. of the Third Oregon, at Camp Mills. It was in the rorm of a draft for 250 to be expended for luxuries. Although less than 90 of the mem bers of Company K are Benton County boys, the " citizens and Girls" Honor Guard adopted the oth-ir 160 members and wired the Christmas gift to them in camp. A barrel of tobacco also will be sent to the boys later in the week. MITCHEL CAMPAIGN COSTLY More Than Hair Million Dollars Spent in Vain for Re-election. ALBANY, N. V.. Nov. IS. According to statements submitted to the Secre tary of State today. $530, S53 was spent in the unsuccessful campaign to re elect Mayor Mitchel in the recent elec tion. The New York Democratic party spept $122,S21 in the campaign for the election of Judge Hylan, and the Socialist party expended J8038. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 54 degrees; minimum, 4o decrees. TODAY'S Probably rain; southerly winds. War. Brussels beset by spies at start of war, Hugh. Gibson writes. Puge 1. Baker, Or., lud killed in French trenches. Page a. Allies gaining on all battle fronts, says Sec retary Baker. Page 6. American steamship Actaeon sunk off Euro pean coast. Fuse 4. Fierce fighting In Boiirlon and Fontaine vil lages continues. Page 2. Germans spread anti-American reports in all quarters. Page 5. Battle on Italian front continues with Ital ians holding their own. Page 4. Poreiga. Bolsheviki alliance with central powers In prospect. Page 6. All communication between North and South Russia broken. Page 1. National. Navy department, after two months, learns of loss of freighter Kansas City. Page 4. Hunger-striking militants are let out of. Jail. Page 2. Domestic. Record-breaking meat order placed in Chi cago. Page 1. Mrs. de Saulles unmoved by searching cross examinations, l'age 1. Sports. Hollocher writes that he is hunting and fishing these days. Page 14. Washington High School defeats Hill eleven sa-u. Page 14. Coach ?ez4ek says he -will not quit Oregon. Page 14. Oregon would force Washington to pay for cancelled game, l'age 15. Multnomah-Olymplc Club smoker tonight. l'age 14. Oregon Aggie line-up strengthened. Page 14. Pacific Northwest. Elahty Italians arrested in Northwest as spreaders of German propaganda. Page 1. Colonel Savllle writes mother of Tacoma wayward girl that she la total failure as a mother. Page -. Women with knitting bags eyed with sus picion by Tacoma -merchants. Page 1. Commercial and Marine. Record price paid for oats in local market. Page 19. Coarse cereals weaken at Chicago in view of freer railway movement. Page 1U. Railway shares affected by proposed pooling of Eastern lines. Page Id. Home tests sought for boats built in Port land. Page 16. Portland and Vicinity. " Churches will be open for giving of thanks tomorrow. Page 9. Weather report, data and forecast. Page 16. 6700 acres" to be reclaimed la Multnomah -County. Page 20. Dr. Kerr undecided as to accepting Kansas offer. Page 13. Special tax ordinance will come up before City Council today. Page 8. Late Mrs. Fallng'a Interest in poor youth's struggle to gain education detailed on witness stand. Page 8. Portland to entertain soldiers and sailors Thanksgiving day. Page 0. Girl testifies Wilbur served her whisky "straight" and high balls. Page 7. Britons express good wishes for success of allied basaar. Page 6. Spruce men leagued In Loyal Legion of Log. gers and Lumbermen. Page 8. Mrs. J. D. Spencer to give series of lectures on various ways in which fish may be cooked. Page 13. Eugene Ysaye. noted violinist, fears for safety of choice wines. Page 16. National "Bibles for soldiers" campaign will begin December 1. Page 8. Secretary Wilson recovering from attack of luoucliilia. Pasa li. . Attorneys Fail to Move Defendant. TRAGIC TALE IS REAFFIRMED Answers to All Questions Are Deliberately Made. SHOOTING NOT RECALLED Chilian Heiress Who Shot Husband Composed and Self-Possessed; Claim of Mental Derange ment lo lie Pressed. MIXF.OLA. N. Y.. Nov. 27. Four hours of searching cross-examination by District Attorney Charles R. Weeka today failed to move Mrs. Blanca d Saulles from the story she told from the witness stand yesterday in her trial on a charge of murdering her former husband. John L. de Saulles. The 23-year-old Chilean heiress re Iterated her version of the tragedy of the night of August 3 at the De Saulles Long Island home in the same dispas sionate manner In which she testified yesterday. Her answers were deliber ate and were frequently made after pauses in which she seemed to be giv ing them consideration or striving to freshen her recollection. Her attiturto of complete self-possession, notwith standing the unusual nature of the ex amination she was undergoing, was a. subject of comment among the specta tors who crowded the trial chamber. Once, when his questioning had been proceeding In a rather tedious vein tot some minutes, the District Attorney veered unexpectedly and, in an abrupt tone, asked: When did you first know you- had shot your husband?" Question l-'alln f I'nrpone. The questiun failed of Its evident purpose of taking the witness una wares, for she looked steadily at the. Prosecutor, delrberated for some sec onds and finally answered, slowly: "Why Dr. Wight told me." Did he tell you you had shot hjnx in the- back?" was the next question. "I don't remember," the witness an swered, after a pause. There was a reversion to this point some minutes later, wnen tne 1'rose cutor asked: "When did you first know that your husband was shot in the back he was, wasn't he?" "Was he?" questioned Mrs. da Saulles in return. "I'm asking you," retorted Weeks. "Why, It was In court last week when I heard Marshall Ward testify," said the defendant finally. Marshall Ward was an intlmato friend of De Saulles and was called by the prosecution as a witness last week. Shooting; ot ltemrmbtred. Of the actual shooting, Mrs. da Saulles maintained her claim that she could recall nothing that her memory utterly failed to serve her In relation to what happened after her divorced husband told her she could not have her son. She clung to her previous assertion that not until her awaken ing in the Nassau Jail some days later, did she again become rational. With Justice David F. Manning's per mission, the District Attorney sought to assist the witness by asking whether she did not remember having told offi cers who arrested her that they would find the revolver with which she did the shooting lying near a hatrack in the hall of the De Saulles home: that the following morning she wrote a check for J1000, with which to bail out her maid, Susanne Monteau, who had been held as a material witness, and that soon after the shooting she thought of such things as "lawyers and money. On none of these, however, was tha witness able to amplify her story, she declared. Justice Manning intimated today that night sessions might be inaugurated tomorrow so as to hasten the gather- " lng of evidence. Indications are tha trial will extend well into next week before finally going to the Jury. Letters to De Saulles Head. Letters written by Mrs. de Saulles to her husband during the time she al leges he was "Indifferently neglectful" and unfaithful to her were read Into the record by District Attorney Weeks during the crcst-txaminatiotu Endearing phrases and warm profes sions of love contained in them were emphasized by tne lawyer as indicating that Mrs. de Saulles- alleged marital difficulties did not weigh so heavily upon her as she claimed in her direct testimony. "My heart was broken, but I would not let him know; I never told anyone, explained Mrs. de Saulles when asked why she wrote the love letter If her relations with her husband were as unhappy as she had claimed. One of these read In part: "Dear Jack: 1 want to tell you that I am really sorry for having made you so unhappy. . . . That I was not able to make you a good wife will ever be a regret to me. ... I hope, from the bottom of my heart, that you will find the happiness that is your dul." "De Saulles made me believe that X was always at fault," said the de fendant In explaining her reason for writing this letter. A humorous situation enlivened tho ' ICuaciudtid on Pa. A Column J .r 105.5v r