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Newspaper Page TextVOL. LVI1. XO. 17,830. PORTLAND, OREGON, MONDAY, JANUARY 21, 1918. PRICE FIVE CENTS. 1 00,000 'AUSTRI'ANS BRITISH SINK 10 IYI0T0RSHIP0REG0IN FIXED HOG PRICES MISS ANITA PATT0N FEATURED IN PARIS BOLT STRIKE FOR PEACE SENDS CALL FOR AID T BENEFIT NEW BOOK WORKERS TS VIEXSA AND 'EU 6TADT WAR PLANTS QUIT. VESSEL OWNED IX PORTLAND REPORTED ENGAGEMENT OF PERSHING NEWS IN FRANCE. LOSES DECK LOAD. LINES' BATTLE WITH WEATHER STILL Oil Fuel Is Moved, Despite " Great Obstacles. BOLSHEVIK! URKISH CRUISERS PRODUCER TO FORM Ex-German Goebenand Breslau Destroyed. ENGLISH LOSE TWO MONITORS Naval Action Takes Place at Dardanelles Entrance. BEACHED WARSHIP BOMBED At Outbreak of War Cruisers Get Fame by Battling With and Elad Ins Pursuing Fleet Raid la Black Sen Frequent. LONDON. Jan. 20. In a naval action today between British and Turkish forces at the entrance to the Dirdt Belles. the Turkish cruiser Mldullu. for merly the German Breslau. waa aunk and the Sultan Ttwoi Sellm. formerly the German Got ben, waa beached. Th announcement waa made by the Ad Bilralty tonight. The official atatement says: -The Go ben and Breslau. Turklah same Sultan Sellra and Mldullu. with destroyers were In action with th Frltlsh force at the entrance to the Dardanelles this (Sunday) morning, The Breslau was aunk. The Goeben escaped, but baa been beached. ! dently badly damaged, at Kagara Point la the narrows of the straits. Alreraft Flalah Beak "The Goeben now is being1 attacked by naval aircraft. "Our losses reported are the monito rs;tao and a smart monitor, the M-2S. The monitor Raglan, reported lout In the action at the entrance to the Dardanelles was commanded by Vis count Broome, nephew of the late Earl Kitchener. Viscount Broome was chief beneficiary vnder the will of bis uncle and was heir to the title of Karl Kitchener of Khartoum. Not h Ins; baa been reported concerning the viscount's - Utt. Destruction of the two former Ger ran cruisers by the British marks the ad of two warships which from the beginning of the war In A a rust. 1S14, .fare been proverbial thorns In the flash" of the entente allied nationa. Pro Is Made by Rrittok, tot i.oeoen toil -freslaa were pur chased by the Turkish government from Germany. A as; us t 1 4. Ii, for what at the time waa said to have been t-- '.oo. artr they had fled through cordon of British and French warships In the Mediterranean Pea. through the Iwrdanetiee and to Constantinople. After the cruisers' arrival In Con stantinople the Brliieh government protested against the German warships' being accorded refuge. Turkey prom isea mat they would be Interned and placed out of commission until the end f the war. Later, however, their pur- caase by Turkey was announced. Veietla Are tteaasseeV Tha Turks reramed the two ships flduITr- and Sultan Tawus Setim, and In response to the demands of the entente allies gave assurances that the German crews of the vessels had been re-nov-xj ana petMatea. It waa later ascertained, when Turkey formally en tered the war or. the side of the cen tral powers, that most of the German Sailors had In actuality never left the hips, and ever sln-e the two craft have re en manned for the most part by Gar. man sailors. At the outbreak of the war the ooeoen and Kreeian were cruising off the Algerian coast with the lerman cruiser Panther. On August 4. the three craft were reported to have bom barded the Algerian port of Bona, a French holding. The following day a combined fleet of British and French warships, consisting mostly of torpedo boats, swept down upon the Teuton craft and In an engagement In which several hundred shots were fired, the 1 anther was sent to the bottom, "bin Ksnsrass Twreus. Owing to their great apeed SI and SO knots, respectively the Goeben and Breslau eluded the pursuing warships and reached the Dardanellea entrance efly. after stopping briefly at a Gre cian port for supplies and Information of the enemy warships, which waa ob tained through. Aid of spies which Ger. many at that time had scattered thickly through aii countries along the Med iterranean. - That the turning over of the two German warships to Turkey by Ger many exerted a powerful influence In awlngtng the Ottoman empire onto the ide of the central powers la now re garded as certain. Frequent reports have been received Of the activity of the warships in the Black Sea. bombarding enemy land positions and engaging or being en gaged by ships of the Russian Black Sea fleet. Although the Turkish and German war statements frequently an nounced victories for the rechristened Germans, the Russian admiralty on numerous occasions told of bow Rus Isa warships bad sent, them scurrying from the Black Sea Into the Bosphorua, damaged, on fire and showing the wounds the Rosaiaa shells had given them. Shortly afterward, however, the Mldullu and her - sister ship again would appear, and the game of hide Protectants Openly Anti-German, and Hostility Is Voiced Toward Berlin for Forcing War. LONDON. Jan. SO. A general strike Is on throughout Austria, according to an Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Paris today, which reporte 100.000 men quitting work In Vienna and Neostadt, closing down all the war factories. The strikers are described as opsnly anti-German and the movement aa both political and economic and especially aimed at obtaining peace. Public demonstrations It Is added. have been held in many places, at which hostility waa voiced toward Ber lin for Irving; to f ce the Austrians to continue the war. SEVERE COLO CLOGS TRAFFIC METHODISTS ARE MAJORITY Religion Census at Camp Cody Taken for Church Guidance. Is (Ceaotuoed as Fas 4. Celama 2k) DEMING. N. M-. Jan. -0- Methodists are in the majority among the soldiers t Camp. Cody here, according to reli gious census just made for the guia- anco of churches in planning religious work and made publlo today. Five thousand, five hundred forty-two reg istered aa Methodists. Cathollca were second, with (130. They, with Luth ran. FTesbyteriana. baptists ana members of the Christian Church make up (3 per cent. Eighty-one religious denominations are represented. Ice Jams at New York Tie Up Tugboats and Barges. EMBARGO BRINGS RELIEF Clearer Understanding of Govern ment's Aim Brightens Outlook. Business Men Are Ready to ' Observe Regulations. Craft. Taken In Tow Near Honolulu After Distress Signal I Heard, Recently Commandeered. HONOLULU, Jan. 20. The motor ship Oregon, in distress and with its deckload gone, is being towed to this port by anofher ship, according to wireless message picked up here to night. . The nature of the Oregon's mishap is not known. The motorship Oregon was built on Puget Sound aud Is owned by Portland capital, the Alaska-Pacific Navigation Company, of which John Burgard and Charles Burckhardt, of Portland, are the principal stockholders, having built snd commissioned the vessel in the fisheries trade. A week ago the ves sel was commandeered by the Govern ment. The vessel sailed from Seattle De cember 7 for San Francisco and Hono lulu. She was commanded by Captain Johansea, GERMANY IN FLOOD GRIP Rivers Overflow and Inundate VII' Iages and Cologne Is Threatened AMSTERDAM, Jan. 10. Serious floods are occurring in Germany owing to the heavy snowfall. The river Fulda baa overflowed Its banka and Cassel is half under water. In Hesse several villages are submerged. The Rhine Is threatening Cologne. The cellars of all the houses near the river have been hurriedly emptied In order to save foodstuffs from destruction. Hanover also la seriously threatened. The Berlin tram service has been stopped by the snow, which found impossible to remove the lack of laborers. baa been owing to MAN IN CLOSET IS SLAIN Husband Returns and Finds Wife . Acting Strangely. HAUKr.STi.Wrf, Ha. Jan. :0. Thorn I Walter Wade. 3. waa shot and ta stanly killed by Max A. Boyer. son of m althy ritiaeu of Hagerstown. late last night In Buyer's houe. Hover declared he noticed bis wife acting strangely upon his return to his home last night. It Is alleged he, discovered Wade in a closet. Boyer dragged him out and fired two bullets Into bis body. Boyer gave himself up and waa com mitted to Jail without ball. 1 COAL DRUG ON MARKET Montana Coal Mines Producing More Than Can Be Sold. HFLENA. Mont, Jan. SO. A number of Montana coal mlnea will be forced to shut down this week unless the weather changea from warm to cold because the product la a drug on the market. Thia la the information received by State Fuel Administrator Swlndlehurst la a telegram from the Bear Creek Coal Company anent the elack coal produced there, making a formal order to sell this coal at any reasonable prioa. NEW YORK. Jan. 30. Although handicapped -by weather conditions even worse than have prevailed for the last fortnight, rsllroads In the East ern territory were battling manfully today to untangle the congestion which made necessary the drastic embargo on the use of fuel. Reports received at the office of A. H. Smith. Assistant Di rector-General of Railroads, told of the desperate efforts that, are 'being made to move trains In spit of great obstacles. ' The severe cold has slowed up traffic and hampered unloading and clearing of main lines, yards, tracks and ter mlnala. steamships Loaded Slowly. Work of taking loaded coal barges to steamships waiting for. fuel here waa slow and difficult, owing to ice Jams in the harbor, a high wind and a temperature of five degrees above aero. ' Fully' 00 per cent of the fleet of tugboats bast been laid up for re paira because of damage from ice. At the coal pocketa frozen coal again caused great delay. For the 24 hours ending it ( A. M. today it was announced that 1402 cars of anthracite and bituminous coal had been dumped at tidewater terminals. compared with 14(4 the day before. At tidewater yards there were 2019 cars of anthracite and 1469 of bitu mtnous. Hew Be s I a ad Gets Mere CeaL In transit within. Si hours of tide water were 1041 cars of anthracite and 13 of bituminous. There were 321 Vestsels -waiting for bunker coal, com pared with 11 the ' previous 24-hour period. Coal handled for New England showed an increase In the last 24 hours. As the Fuel ' Administration's coal embargo gradually relieves the short see in New York and its, suburbs, the city looked forward cheerfully to its first "heatlesa Monday." Alas of Ksissrss Uadrratevd. ' Clearer understanding of what the Government desires has brightened the; outlook and patriotic business men to night were ready to observe the regulations. A resolution rtllmf for strict com LABOR WILL BE HONORED Loyalty Week Will Be Observed February lo to 1C. NEW TORK. Jan. !0. Indorsement of National Labor Loyalty week, set for February 10 to 1( by the American alliance for labor and democracy, waa announced by the American Defense Society and the executive council for the National Clvio Federation. A resolution adopted by the council urges that loyalty week be made th occasion for all citlxena "to attest their appreciation of the splendid record of American labor since the war." SPANISH RIOTERS ACTIVE Three Killed and Four Injured by - Civil Guard at Alicante. MADRID, Jan. 20. Disorders oc curred yesterday at Alicante, the chief seaport of Valencia. They are report ed in an official telegram from Ali cante, which statea that a mob forced the ' factories to cease work and at tacked shops and private houses. Wom en of the middle class, were compelled by the demonstrators to join them, it is declared. The civil guard fired on the rioters, killing three persons and seriously wounding four others. Market Is Stabilized by ' Packers' Action. MINIMUM QUOTATION IS MADE Agreement Reached Through Food Administration. INCREASED OUTPUT URGENT Action Taken in San Francisco Is Intended to Assure Farmers of Profit and Encourage Pro ductlon In Coast States. ARTILLERY ACTION LIVELY Brisk Fighting at Monle Asolone and on Plave Line Reported. ROME, Jan. 20. Lively artillery fighting in the Monte Asolone sector on the Italian northern frottt is re ported in today's War Office statement. There also was lively artillery activity along the Plave line. No Infantry operations of moment are noted in the official statement. BLIZZARD FATAL TO TWO Kl Paso Swept by Worst Storm Hi story of 'Weather Bureau. in EL PASO, Jan. 20. A blizzard un precedented in the history of the local weather bureau swept down on Kl Paso last night, causing the death of two men and much suffering among the Mexican population. Soto Mallor was found frozen in bis home m the Mexi can quarter early today. ANNA HELD SUDDENLY ILL Act res Is Taken to Hospital and Daughter Summoned From East. (Concluded on Page 2. Column 2. MILWAUKEE. Jan. 20. Anna Held. the actress, was taken to a local hos pital late today. Physicians refused to discuss her .nnililinn. Her rinuirhter is on her wav I from the East. ' SAX FRANCISCO. Jan. 20. A mini mum price for hoars in the Pacific Coast states was fixed today by voluntary agreement between more than 30 packers representing Calif or nla. Oregon and Washington, with the United States food administration, ac cording to an announcement here to night by the Federal Food Commis sioner for California. The new minimum price, fixed at 1 cent under the food administration minimum effective on the Chicago mar ket, which now Is $15.60 per hundred, it was said, was expected to result in a tremendous Increase in pork produc tion in the states affected by the agreement. Action Benefits Farmers. This is the first time in the history of the Pacific Coast that packers have agreed to stabilize hog prices in the Interest of the farmer, it was said, and to co-operate in an effort to stimulate production in the face of a threatened shortage on this Coast. The agreement was reached at a con ference called by Joseph Cotton, chief of the meat division of the food admin istration, with the packers and Federal Livestock Commission of California, and Ralph P. Merrltt, Federal rood Commissioner for California, who re turned here today from Washington. The price from the retailer to the consumer. will, not be raised, it waa an nounced, the producer alone benefitting and being assured a fair profit for his output from now ou. particularly for animals ready for slaughter next Fall. The agreement between the packers and the Food Administration follows Blatter Output Needed. "The Food Administration deem It imperative that steps be taken to in crease, hog production on the Pacific Coast. In order- that producers have confidence that hogs bred this Spring may be marketed at a fair price, the administration hereby adopts the fol lowing minimum policy for the period durtnir which similar mlnlmums are in force In the Middle West: "The average price of packing hogs bought by packers at the terminal points of San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland. Oakland, San Diego, Seattle, South San Francisco, Spokane and Sac Rumor Published in California Sev eral Months Ago Said to Have 1 Sio Tangible Basis. PARIS, Jan. 20. Excelsior today prints a photograph of Miss Anita nation, or Kan Marino. Cal., and says It is reported that she is engaged to General John J. Pershing, commander of the American forces In France. The newspaper adas that Miss Patton "be longs to an old American ramily." Several months ago California news papers published a rumor that Miss Patton would become the bride of General Pershing, who was described as an old-time friend of the Patton family. There was no tangible basis for the rumors, it was stated, except that General Pershing, while on visits to the home of George S. Patton, father of Miss, Patton, showed the young woman marked attentions. Lieutenant Patton, a brother of Miss Patton, Is a member of General Per shlng's staff. . LOS ANGELES, Den. 20. Miss Anita Patton departed early today with her father. George S. Patton. for Thomas vine. Ga. Friends of the Pattons here reiterated her recent denials of reports of her engagement to General Pershing. General Pershing has been a visitor at the San Marino ranch home of the Pat tons on several occasions. Constituent Assembly Closed by Guards. TURBULENT SCENE PRECEDES Social Revolutionists Join Opposing Majority. in MOSCOW CITIZENS KILLED GENERAL DUFF EXPIRES Noted Commander Found Dead ' Bed at London Club. in LONDON, Jan. 20. General Sir Beau- champ Duff, commander-in-chief of the British forces In India from 1913 to 1916, was found dead In his bed In a West End Club this morning. General Duff, who had had a long and distinguished army career, winning honors in active campaigning and fill ing numerous responsible executive positions, including that of assistant military secretary for Indian affairs at the War Office and the posts of Adju tant-General and chief of staff in India before becoming commander-in-chief there, was in his 63d year. In August, 1916, he was succeeded in the Indian command by General Monro. (Concluded on Page 3, Column 2.) BEFORE AND AFTER TAKING. GAS EXPLOSION HURTS 2 American Soldiers In France Injured While Filling' Auto Tank PARIS. Jan. 20. Tk gasoline can ex ploded this morning as some American soldiers were filling an automobile ank at the famoua Moulin ! La Ga lette, dancing hall, now used as a camouflage school for the American Army. The tank also exploded and two American soldiers were seriously in lured. 30,000 NURSES ARE NEEDED American Red Cross Appeals for Volunteers for Military Service. WASHINGTON. Jan. ' 20. Enlistment of 30.000 or more women In the mili ary nursing service will be required. If prospective needs of the Government are to be met. the American Red Cross announced tonight in an appeal for volunteers. In order to meet Increasing demands the age limit baa been lowered to 21 years, and in special cases nurses over it may be accepted. i - -ttm l i r t l p&S sS00y CfOYCr YTO CTOY t i :' i U. S. OFFICES ARE GUARDED Bridges and Strategic Points in San Juan Under Military Protection. SAN JUAN, P. R.. Jan. 20. Military guards today were placed about the Federal building, in which are located virtually all the offices of the United States insular government, after offi cials had received information con aidered important. Guards were also placed on bridges near the city and at other important points. Red Guard Fires Upon Crowd Mak ing Demonstration in Favor of Constituent Assembly. Killing Many; Machine Guns Used. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. TESTERDAVP Maximum temperature. 40 decrees; minimum, 33 degrca TODAY'S rair; easterly winds. Bar. Two Turkish cruisers sunk by British fleet. Pass 1. One hundred thousand Austrian m-ar factory workers strike for peace. Page 1. Pan.Germans again firmly iu saddle. Page Foreiga. Bolshevlkl dissolve Constitutional Assembly and will form new body. Page 1. Miss Anita Patton featured In Paris as bride-to-be of General Pershing. Page 1. National. Senator Stone to launch bomb in Republican camp. Pago X Final . action on suffrage amendment ex pected soon. Page &. Mental defectives to be weeded out of Army. Page 4. Iomestic Hog prices fixed for Paciflo Coast farmers. Page L Eastern railroads continue their battle to move fuel. Page 1. N'ew liberty bonds may draw AVg per cent interest. Page 3. Prohibition hopes now seem bright. Page 4. Juvenile Court official charged with salary grab. Page 3. East faces first heatless Monday of coal conservation need. Page 5. Motorship Oregon in distress near Hono lulu. Page 1. Sport. Princeton resumes intercollegiate sports. Page 10. Ortega and Sommers train for bout Wednes day night. Page 10. Judge McCredie tells of baseball coup staged at Seattle meeting. Page lu. Coach Hunt, of Washington, gloomy over basketball outlook. Pago 10. ' Pacific Northwest. Canadian officers give stirring addresses at Oregon City. Page o. Mayor Gill, of Seattle, candidate for re election, will nave keen opposition. Page 11. Portland and Ticinity. Drive for aircraft spruce to be pushed by Grays Harbor company. Page 7. Girls cheerfully tackle war work drudgery. Page 8. B. Huston, of Portland, snnounces can didacy for U. S. Senator. Page 8. Municipal Judge Kossman threatened by I. W. w. Page . Japanese art exhibit charms. Page 11. Use less oil is plea of Fuel Administration. Page 11. Police force's duties greatly increased with war Page State Guard issues appeal Xor recruits. Page 14. Loyal Legion puts eaootage to route in lumoer camps ana inins. rai 14. Many newly. married men to be impressed into war service. Page 14. Portland oasis of many Shriner caravans. Page 4. Russia to merge successfully from present struggles, says vv. ri. oalvanl. Page n. Army and Navy Clubhouse planned for Port land. Page 12. Chief of Police surveys port to see what ad ditional guards are needed. Page 11. Pastor declares that spiritual needs of man vital. Page 9. Graduating classes of Portland schools to receive diplomas Friday. Page 11. Weather report, data and forecast. Page 12. (By the Associated Pres. PETROGRAD, Jan. 20. The Consti tuent Assembly has been dissolved. The decree of dlSMOlutlon was Issued Inst nlg-at by the Council of National Coro miwMioners and adopted early this morning by the central executive com mittee of the workmen's and aoldiera' deputies. PETROGRAD, "jan. 20. Sailors guards, acting by orders of the Bol shevlkl, closed the assembly at 4 o'clock yesterday morning. "When the constituent assembly voted against the declaration made by the president of the central executive committee after an hour's deliberation," says the official statement, "the Bolshe vlkl left the hall and were followed by the Social Revolutionists of the left, on the assembly showing its unwilling ness to approve the manner in which the peace pourparlers were being con ducted. At 4 o'clock this morning the constituent assembly was dissolved by sailors. Today a decree dissolving the assembly will be published. Break Comes at 3 A. M. It was 3 o'clock in the morning when M. Askokov. Bolshevik delegate, an nounced that the Bolshevlkl were de termined to withdraw permanently from the constituent assembly, which, he said, had proved itself not to repre sent the 'actual -proletariat. . Meanwhile," he declared, "the work men s and soldiers government win consider what to do with that counter revolutionary organization." The hostile attitude of the Maxi malists toward their opponents was evidenced In the epithets hurled at M. Tchernoff, the elected chairman of the assembly, and M. Tseretclli, former Minister of the Interior and leader of the moderate Socialists, by Ensign Krylenko, the Bolsheviki commander, and other members of the Bolshevlkl, in the course of the sitting. Whistling and cries of "traitor," "scoundrel" and "get out" greeted M. Tseretelli's ap pearance on the tribune, and when M. Tchernoff threatened measures acutnBt the disturbers Krylenko shouted: "Try it; your day is over." Tseretclli Denounces Minority. M. Tseretclli spoke for an hour, de picting in dark colors the conditions surrounding the meeting of the as sembly, the delegates faced by threats and bayonets, the country disorganized, the people deprived of liberty of per son and of speech and menaced by famine and with peace negotiations being conducted on a basis tending to r-.ake revolutionary Russia a vassal of German Imperalism and a tool of in ternational capitalists. He called upon the assembly to refuse to submit to the dictatorship of the minority. Tchernoff Adopts Milder Tone. M. Tchernoff adopted a milder tone, but to the same effect. He urged the assembly to take the initiative in con voking an international Socialibl con gress with a view to compelling the government to declare a democratic peace. Chairman Tchernoff, making himself heard notwithstanding the wild stamp ing and shouting of the sailors, an nounced that the assembly would sit until it had passed the land decree. The decree waa hurriedly read and adopted with a standing vote. In response to the plea of M. Stein berg, the Smolny Minister of Justice, and M. Karelein, anothe.- Bolshevik member, the left Social Revolutionists who had remained lr the hall then withdrew. Ttiew Convention Planned. It is considered probable that the workmen's and soldiers delegates and the Bolshevik! constituents now will proclaim themselves in a national convention. Following is a summary of the pro visions of the declarations of work men's rights adopted by the central ex ecutive committee of the workmen's and soldiers' deputies, and read to the constituent assembly: The constituent assembly resolves that Russia be declared a republic of sovetts. The central and provincial power appertains to these Soviets. The republic of Soviets is formed on the basis of a free alliance of free nations under the constitution of a confeder- tion of national soviet republics." Then follows a long series o provi sions. Article 1 declares abrogated the right of private proprietorship ol land, which Is declared to be the prop erty of the state, lu the same article the' principle of obligatory work for all is laid down, and the arming of the working classes, the disarming of the leisure classes, the organization of the Red Socialists and the arming of workmen and peasants are announced. Article 3 approves the policy of th (Concluded on Pagu 2, Colunui 1.