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VOL. LVII. XO. 17,808. PORTLAND, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1917. PRICE FIVE CENTS. R. H. STEWART GETS "nCDiyill CRFFllflM WAR AND PEACE RAGE IN RUSSIA DANCE MAY ROB. PULPIT OF PASTOR RAM 110 DAMPER TO RED GROSS LEGIONS HUNS AGAIN DROP BOMBS ON LONDON WOODLAND UNDER 6 FEET OF WATER BIG YELLOW CAR UUB,inn 1 "" 5. .ALMOST .HEBE" Airplanes raid coast towns and some reach citt. . INQUIRY MADE INCIDENTALLY : REVEALS OWNERSHIP. OAK RIDGE' DEMANDS MINISTER AS RED CROSS LECTURER. Fighting Is Continuing in Region of Don. HUNS HASTEN NEGOTIATIONS Ukraine Troops Capture-Many Guns and Much Ammunition. GREAT EMPIRE SPLITTING Recognition Refused Bolshevik! by the Caucasus, Siberia and Other - Jarts of Vast Domain Once Haled by Romanoffs. LONDON, Dec 17. Reports -on -the Russian Internal situation tonight in dicate that fighting- is continuing in the Don region and that reinforcements have been sent south from Petrograd. A Kiev dispatch reports that during the disarming of the Maximalist units there the Ukranlan troops seized 72 cannon, 350 machine guns and 5,000,000 cartridges. It is stated in other advices that the Russian Government commissioners are drafting an ultimatum addressed to the Ukraine rada recognizing the indepen . dence of the Ukraine but demanding an immediate expression of the rada's at titude towards the Bolshevlkl authori ties. The rada bad issued a statement de clining to recognize the people's com missioners as comprising the Govern ment of 'all Russia,' inasmuch as the Don. the Caucasus, Siberia and other parts of Russia have their own govern ments. Peace Delegation Ai(ntti. In connection with the signing and publication of terms of armistice on the Russian front, it is stated that the Russian -delegation at Brest-Litovsk has been augmented' to include M. "Poknovsky, president of the Moscow soldiers' and. workmen's .council, and others. ( . The Maximalist organ Frava takes 'occasion to denounce a untruths the allegations that the Germans In the armistice' - negotiations demanded the evacuation of Petrograd and Finland, the -disarmament of the Russian army and& grant to Germany of a monopoly in .grain exports. ' According to the reports of the Bol shevik! public works department and railway administration the arrivals of food of all kinds in the last few days have been satisfactory at Petro grad. ..Moscow and all the populous places in North Russia and on the north and south fronts. COPENHAGEN, Dec 18 The report that former Premier Kerensky of Rus sia, supported by some thousands of troops, has appeared In the vicinity of Petrograd. is contained In a dispatch from Haparanda, In Sweden, at the Finnish frontier, to the Berltngske Tldende. The Bolshevlkl are said to have sent troops against him. PETROGRAD. Dec 17. The German and Austrian . Foreign- Ministers, Dr. Von Kuehlmann and Count Czernin. have notified Leon -Trbtzky, the Bol shevlkl' Foreign Minister, that they will arrive at Brest-Litovsk tomorrow to begin negotiations lor a general European peace. . The '. evening newspapers announce that Trotzky has notified the allied embassies that , the armistice has reached definite results and that peace negotiations will ' begin and asking them to participate or to state whether they wish peace or. net Up to this evening, the embassies had not replied to the communication and an Informal . conference of the allied diplomats Is said to have reached no definite decision. BOLSHEVIKI CONTROli HARBIN Chinese Troops Dispatched to City to Suppress Disorder. LONDON, Dec 18. News received In London is to the effect that the popu lation of Harbin, Manchuria, is en tirely under the control of the Bol shevlkl and that great disorder pre vails there. A dispatch received here from Pekln says the allied ministers In the Chinese capital decided that at the present Juncture the preservation Df order In Harbin should be entrusted to the Chi nese government and that two bat talions of Chinese regular troops were dispatched there from Klrln.. The dispatch adds It Is officially de nied that Japanese have landed at Vladivostok. CAL1F0RN1ANS BUY ISLAND Formal Transfer to Be Concluded - When Report Is Received. HONOLULU, T. H., Dec 7. Formal transfer of Palmyralsland to the Cali fornia capitalists who wish to estab lish a cannery there will not be con cluded until their agent has sent a re port to San Francisco . said Judge H. E. Cooper, owner of the island, upon his - arrival today after a five weeks' voyage to the little atoll in the fa clflc The agent for the California inter ests. Carl C Kngvoldsen, accompanied Judge Cooper on the trip, The Inten tion of the Callfonlans is to build a cannery and also to' develop th cepra production on the island. Auto Presented by Eric V. Hauser to Red Cross Cause Brings 910,000 Into Fund. ' Capital award of the recent Allied Red Cross Bazaar, the far-famed "yel low demon" touring car, contributed to the cause by Eric V. Hauser, of the Multnomah Hotel, remained unclaimed until yesterday, when, quite by chance. R. JL Stewart, manager of the Baker shoe stores, discovered that he owned it. ' "I wonder who got the big' car?" queried Mr. Stewart, chatting with a friend. "If ' you are Interested In It, you ought to investigate, for the award has been made," suggested the other. Quite casually Mr. Stewart called The Oregonlan - for Information, compared notes and. was told to claim his prop erty, the disposition of which had been -puzzling "William MacMaster, president of the bazaar, for several days. ; The "yellow demon."' otherwise known as the "million-dollar special," bore a brave part In both liberty loan campaigns and in the recent Y. M. C. A. drive. In the second liberty loan cam paign It carried a party of speakers post-haste through Central Oregon, and In every patriotic movement was loaned to the cause by Mr. Hauser.' At the conclusion of the T. M. C A. drive the car was' awarded to the highest local team, which chanced to be that commanded by the donor, Mr. Hauser. The team at once presented it to the Allied 'Red Cross Bazaar. In this last phase of Its 'patriotic service approximately $9700 was raised at the bazaar. "When the award was made, being disposed to make it "even money," Mr. Hauser drew his own check for a sufficient amount to bring the total receipts -to $10.000. TIMBER BRINGS $600,000 Qulnault Company Buys Spruce Tract From Weyerhaeusers. ABERDEEN. "Wash., Dec 18. (Spe cial.) An important timber deal was closed .here yesterday when the Quln ault Timber Company purchased a tract of North River timber from the Weyer haeuser Timber Company. The con sideration was In the neighborhood of $600,000. The tract was purchased be cause of its fine quality of spruce. Logging of the tract, it is understood, will start soon. -.The timber will be moved down the North River into "Willapa ..Harbor. W. J. Patterson and Eugene France, stock holders In the Qulnault - Timber Company.- were Instrumental In-arranging the deal. This -is the largest timber deal re ported here for several years. FALL FROM BRIDGE FATAL Clyde , Shamley, of Cenrralia, ' Per ishes in Shookumchuck River. CENTRALIA. Wash.. Dec 18. (Spe cial.) Clyde Shamley, employed by the O.-W. R. tc .N. Co., was swept to his death in flood waters of the Skoo kumchuck River today, when he fell from a bridge about a mile north of Centralis- His body will probably not be recovered until the water subsides. J. H. Kelly, who was working with Shamley, says that the latter swam about 100 yards and had almost reached shore when he disappeared. j Shamley resided In this city and Is I survived by his widow and two chll- V dren. Mrs. Khamlev is prostrated as a result of the fatality. FIELD OFFICERS TO LEARN School of Instruction Will Be Started sit Fort Sam Houston. SAN ANTONIO, Tex., - Dee. 18. A school for the instruction of field of ficers, the only one In the United States, Is to be established at Fort Sam Houston, department headquarters was Informed today In a telegram from the War Department. A Brigadier-General and three Colonels will be In charge of the school and field officers from all parts of the United States will at tend. ; ' The school will be 'similar to those In which officers of the Army are now ob taining Instruction In France. It is be lieved. DOUGLAS BUYS 4000 BIRDS Turkeys for Christmas Trad Bring Growers 2 7 Cents a Pound. ROSE BURG, Or.. Dec. 18. (Special.) Twenty-seven cents per pound was the prevailing price paid for turkeys today for the holiday trade. Only about half- of the normal consignment for this period of the year was received!. by local buyers. Most of the birds were sold prior to Thanksgiving. Approximately 4000 turkeys were marketed here today, with an average weight of 12 pounds. WILSON BUTTER COSTS $567 Prize Pound of Product Finds Way to President From Iowa, WASHINGTON, Deo, 18. President Wilson received today a pound of but ter for his Christmas dinner which- cost 1567, It was made by Mr.. .C. B. Basterday, of Marble Rock, la., and auctioned at a fair by the Red Cross auxiliaries to Union and Scott townships. LiberalLeader of Reich stag Now Optimist. SOCIALISTS WAR ON TYRANNY Great Sacrifices and Suffer ings Not to Go Unrewarded. WILSON'S WORDS GIVE AID Two Elements of German Populace, Nine-Tenths of the Whole, De clared to Be United In Their Will for Peace.. (This is the first of a series of articles In which will be ' described the forces which are at work In Germany to democratise the nation and meet the demand of President Wilson that a government be established whose leaders will be accepted as "men of their word." Few realise how far this movement has progressed. Mr. Odell has been stationed as a correspondent in the - last two years at Berlin. Copenhagen and Stockholm. He is able In this series to divulge facts which are little known.) BT GEORGE T. ODELL. "There is great hope. For the first time during this war I am able to be an optimist. At last I can see that the tremendous sacrifices of our people and their frightful sufferings are not to go unrewarded, and that our young men, the flower of our country, have not given up their lives In vain. This price, heavy, burdensome as It is. Is not too much to have paid for the freedom of the German people. It Is coming, it Is almost here Masses Become Cohesive. These are the words of a German professor, a great Liberal leader of the Reichstag, and they were spoken ' last October. Professor von Schulze-Gaevernltz had become an optimist only within the last few weeks, because, not until then had he been able to convince himself that the masses had become so cohesive and their forces had been so well or ganized that they can and will throw off the burden of eighteenth century feudalism and the military oligarchy and create a form of democratic gov ernment that will be - responsible to their will through their parliament. Professor Gaevernltz. added to the words above quoted: "No matter what the military out come may be the moral victory of this war will be won by the western demo cratic nations, and that alone will be the greatest blessing that can befall the German people, which they will not be slow to realize. But. to Insure our do-mocratlzatlon, the war must not end until that moral victory has been made complete." Professor Net Alone la Optimism. Professor Gaevernltz Is not alone In his optimism. He Is but one of a very considerable group of the leading lib eral statesmen and thinkers In Ger- (Concluded on Page 6, Column 1.) HE'LL I TV- THE OTYSZ. j Rev. A. M. Spangler, of Eugene, Agrees to Speak Saturday Night at Risk of Being Late Sunday. EUGENE. Or., Dec. 18. (Special.) Rev. A. M. Spangler, pastor of the First Congregational Church 'in' Eugene, Is noV a dancing man. but he will a"" a dance at Oak Ridge Saturday V5 l at the risk of being late to church oun day morning.- that he may perform a service for the Red Cross. 1 In working up a list of speakers for the outlying districts of Lane County Eric . W. Allen, head of . the university school of Journalism, - today called up Oak Ridge on the telephone and opened negotiations ' for ' a meeting Saturday night.' It was explained that a dance was , to be. held. . and the Red Cross meeting would be , held in that con nection. - . : "Send us ' Spangler."'' said the ' Oak Ridge voice. Mr.' Allen sought to ' make It . clear that Mr. Spangler was a minister, and that it . would be Impossible for. him to get back to Eugene from Oak Ridge before 9 o'clock Sunday morning. He mentioned several other speakers who could be had and suggested that a stereoptlcon might be sent up there. "Can't Mr. Spangler bring the stere optlcon?" ' was the response. "Perhaps we could send you 'two speakers," Mr. Allen persisted. "All right. If Mr. Spangler Is one of them. We want Spangler." So It had to . he Mr. Spangler. The Eugene pastor was glad to comply with the request. .. Explaining how it comes that Oak Ridge is so strong for him he offered the information that he was up there once at a wedding, which was followed by a dance. - "We had a great time," he said. "They probably remember It yet. I was- not as spry as some of the young fellows and went to bed. When I got up next morning they were still dancing." DRAFT EVADER IS NUMBER 1 Albert Men'dez, In Jail at Aberdeen, Files Questionnaire. TACOMA. Wash, Dec 18. (Special.) Albert Mendez, who Is about, to com plete a sentence for falling to register for military service, was the first man to file his questionnaire with County Board No. 1, here today. Mendez Is a citizen of Mexico, but says he has no Intention ef returning to his native country. ' He gave his educational qualifications as eight year in grade schools and four year in high school, with knowledge of four languages. He was arrested at Hoqulam. OREGON -HENS ARE HIGH Penrom O. A. C. Stands Second at International Contest. OREGON AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE, Corvallls, Dec. 18. (Special.) The pen of Oregon Agricultural College hens, at the Storrs, Conn., international egg laying contest now holds second place, having gained three places last week. The contest runs f or a year and pens are entered from all parts of the United States, from England and Canada, The scores to date are: Massachusetts, 179; Oregon Agricultural College, 164; Massachusetts, 181. GET ALONG BETTER WITH TWO 22,503 Members En listed in 2 Days. . T I LJ I II' U IIIIIV-IV- National Membership Drive Leader Telegraphs Praise. COOS COUNTY LEADS STATE C. C. Chapman Scores Wealthy Wom en Who Turn Patriotic Solicitors Away With Insult J. D. Far. rell Ready to Co-operate. THEY ARE ALL GETTING WET FOB RED CROSS. "Our workers are getting wet: I am out half the time and am never dry; every district colonel Is wet and most of our captains are soaked to the skin. In addi tion, everyone at headquarters plans to put In at least half a day doorbell pulling In the wet. If anybody has to get wet. why, we'll all be wet together and make the best fun we can of It." - said Rufus C. Holman, city cam paign manager. "Chapman, Reed, Black, Goodwin and the rest have all been out In the rain and they are not asking anyone to do what ' they are not doing themselves." Portland and the state at large have already raised '22.S03 members towards the Christmas membership drive of the American Red Cross, 16,563 in the state and 5910 in Portland. This is 9 per cent of the total quota of 240,000 members, with only two days of the campaign elapsed and eight days more to go. The total embraces Incomplete re turns from 20 out of 36 counties and from but 40 precinct out of 325 In Portland. Coos County, with- a total of 3800 out of 7500 quota, or-01 per cent, heads the entire state. ' State Leaders Eneoanged. Of the 15 counties which have re ported for two days, there is a per centage already achieved of 24, while, excluding Portland, the state at large has an average of 12 per cent of Its task completed. State leaders were wonderfully en couraged at their showing, as they are confident that in the next day or two Portland will swing away towards the top of the column. The leading . counties are Morrow, with S3 per cent; Gilliam and Des chutes, with 32; Malheur, with 81; Har ney, with 28; Western Washington, with 25, and Josephine, with 21. "Great work!" telegraphed George (Concluded on Page 8, Column 1.) SKATES. Invaders Are Met With Heavy Fire From Defenses Extent of Dam age Done Not Yet Known. LONDON, Dec. 18. German airplanes raided English coast towns tonight. Some ' of the raiders reached London, where they were met with a heavy fire. Numerous bombs were dropped. An of ficial announcement of the raid says: "Hostile airplanes' crossed the Essex and Kent coast about 6:15 o'clock and proceeded toward London. Some of the raiders reached London district and dropped bombs.. Bombs also were dropped in Kent and Essex. "Reports, of casualties ' and damage have -not yet been received.. Our guns and airplanes were both In action." WOMAN DRAWS LONG TERM Mrs. Ethel Wood, of Vancouver, Sen tencea for Making False Oath. VANCOUVER. Wash., Dec 18. (Spe cial.) Mrs. Ethel K. Wood, who last week testified under oath that her daughter- was 15 year old. whereas she was but 14 years of age, was today sentenced to a term of from six months to 15 years In the penitentiary by Judge R. H. Back, of Clarke County. It Is a violation of the law in this state for girls under the age of 15 years .to marry. Miss Gladys Wood, accompanied by . her mother and Charles Storey, of Portland, came to Vancouver last week and secured a marriage license, the mother asserting that her daughter was 15. The .mar riage' ceremony was performed, but subsequent investigation showed the girl was only 14 years old. -Mrs. Wood will be taken, to Walla Walla to serve her Indeterminate sen tence as soon as a guard arrives from the prison. . EDITORIAL POST ACCEPTED Will G. Steel to Have Direction of Grants Pass Courier. MEDFORD. Or, Dec 18. (Special.) Will G. Steel, supervisor of Crater Lake National Park,, has accepted the editorship of the Grants Pass Courier and will take up his new duties the first, of the year. - Mr. Steel has re ceived permission from the Government to retain his Federal post. For "many years Mr. Steel was engaged in news paper and publicity business and is well known In Portland and throughout the state. He succeeds ben Sheldon, former State Representative from Jackson County, who resigned as editor and, before returning to newspaper' work, expects to enter Red Cross work as a propagandist. Woman Physician and Mayor Dies LONDON. Dec. 18. Dr. Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, the first woman to be elected Mayor of a town' in England and a prominent physician, died at. her home In Aldeburgh, Suffolk, yesterday. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS I, f The Weather. TBRTERD ATS Maximum temperature, 69 degrees; minimum. 57 degrees. TODAY'S Rain; fresh southwesterly winds. Foreign. Late returns swell majority of Canadian Unionists. Page 6. Reichstag ' Liber, leader declares "German freedom is almost here." Page 1. War and peace race for supremacy in Rus sia. Page 1. Britons stunned by recent reverse in North Sea. Page 3. War. German airplanes again drop bombs on Lon don. Page 1. Engineer regiments Issue call for technical recruits. Page 2. National. New regulations for millers issued by food administration. Page 5. Senate proposes to cut red tape out of ship building procedure. Page 2. Secretary Baker explains distinctions be tween officers and privates. Page 2. Lack of money retards Oregon projects. Page 11. Congress closes down for holiday ra cation. Page 8. Representative Rankin asks for investigation of Camp Mills. Page 4. Army handlcaped by lack of guns, says Rep resentative McCormlck. Page 8, Mc Arthur says West Point and Annapolis should have only best cadet material. Pago 5. Domestic. Alien enemy believed to have blown up Cali fornia Governor's house. Page 3. Nineteen lives lost when submarines collide. Page 16. Sport. Joe Rivers pronounced fit to meet Benjamin. Pass 10. i Football season falls to develop new plays. Pago 10. Job of manasing Bees will be no sinecure. Page 10. Walter McCredle chosen to manage Salt Lake. Paso 10. : Pacific Northwest. Dance' mar rob Eugene pulpit of pastor for one Sunday. Fag. 1. Woodland Is under six feet of water. Paso 1. Commercial and Marine. 'Wool trade await outcome of January auc tions at Boston. Pass 19. Com firmer on decrease in rural notices of consignments. Fare 19. Kflv Tork stocks are Inactive and bonds are depressed. Page 19. Willamette River la rising fast. Pass 16. Portland and Vicinity. Biff yellow ear belongs to R. II. Stewart. Page 1. Rrjn-drenched Red Cross workers pile up new members. Page 1. Two witnesses testify they believe Mrs. Fai nts .was Insane. Page 15. Christmas shopping In Portland la on lavish scale. Page 18. Government teffere bonus on spruce, output. Page 16. Four women from Creston Parent-Teacher Association sell Red Cross seals amount ing to (58.4S. Page 8. Weather report, data and forecast. Page 16. Answered questlonnarles come in alowly. Page 4. Portland and Oregon woefully unprepared aa to hospitals to care for Invalid soldiers. Page 7., , . $1,000,000 Railroad - Bridge in Danger. LIVESTOCK REPORTED LOST Farm Home Burns and Family Is Rescued in Boats. FLOOD WITHOUT PARALLEL' Late at Nlgpt Entire Town 'Was Threatened and Business Men-Began ' Moving Valuable Rec ords to Places of Safety.i OCNTANDnG FEATCHES OP" STORM IX NORTHWEST. Portland Willamette at flood stage. Telephone and train serv ice Interrupted. Plate-glass win dows broken. Tacoma Bridges washed out and interurban service to Seattle discontinued. Seattle Telephone wires, trees and awnings torn down by 46 mile gale. Ellensburg Rain and . snow cuts -off train service. Cle Blum Residents near river abandoning homes for fear of flood. Walla Walla Chinook winds send mercury up to 66 degrees at 2 A. M. NorlS Yakima Stampede Tun r!el under two feet of water and no through trains from East ar rive. . Sheridan Flood In school base ment stops session. WOODLAND, Wash., Dec. 18. (Spe cial.) Lewis River went on a veritable rampage this afternoon and tonight Woodland was flooded and Isolated. The main part of the town Is under from 18 inches to six feet of water, and the current In the steadily rising river Is driving driftwood so swiftly that grave ' fears are entertained that the SI, 000.000 Northern Pacific bridge across the Lewis, three m lei south of town, will go out before morning. It Is reported that 28 head of cattle on- the Groeg Wyman ranch south of Woodland were drowned today. At Kerns, 'one ' mile north,, the . Pacific Highway is under three feet of water. It Is held certain that all roads around here will be washed out. Around Ariel, reports tonight said, rain was falling in torrents and the Lewis was rising- rapid! jv y WooLand In Darkness. The power went otf at 7 o'clock, leav ing the town in darkness, save for an occasional oil lamp or a candle. Fire destroyed the house on the W. H. Edwards farm, two miles south of here, at 5 A. M. It was necessary to remove the- Selby family, occupying the house. In boats. The home and fur nishings were a total loss. The desU tute family Is being cared for by neigh bors. Water in the Lewis River is the high est within the recollection of local res idents. All but two blocks of the main part -of town was flooded - before 7 P. M. The current In front of the Woodland State Bank, corner of David son avenue and Third street, the cen ter of the city, was so strong that pedestrians were swept from their feet. The flood stream was only 18 , inches deep there. School Grounds Flooded. It was necessary to dismiss school at 2 o'clock and even by that hour the flood had made such progress that tha smaller children had to be removed by boats. The school grounds were en tirely under water by night. Six feet of water blocks progress be tween the town and the railroad sta tion. Travelers were transferred by boat today. ' , Woodland la flooded because the ex cess water cannot get west through the Northern Pacific grade, as there are no culverts. This causes it to back up Into town. Business Records Moved. Before darkness made investigations hazardous the rising tide had assumed such proportions that most families al-. ready began moving household goods to higher levels. It was not long be (Concluded on Pace 2. Column 8.) THE FOUNDATION COMPANY DISBURSES 38,0O0 HERE EVERY WEEK. The Foundation Company, one of the pioneer contracting con-' cerns in the United States, was operating large plajits at Newark, N. J.. Victoria. B. C, and Ta coma. Wash., a year ago. Last August it was attracted to Port land, where it installed another plant, which is among the larg est wooden shipbuilding proper ties on the Pacific Coast. - This company immediately en tered Into the local shipbuilding Industry; secured a number of Government contracts and Is to day disbursing approximately 836,000 among its 1300 employes .' every week. The plant is being operated to capacity and its continued ac tivity is assured by the number of - contracts on band. s,