rr PORTLAND,' OltEUOA. FRIDAY. FEBKUARY 13, - 191S. VOL. LVIII. NO. I7-S.3S. PKU'K FIVE CENTS. 38 BABIES DIE III AUTOS CRASH AND WOMAN IS KILLED HAYS WANTS "OPEN NATION-WIDE NET NO TIME TO STRIKE, DECLARES HP TROOPS AND TARS TO CATCH ALIENS TO SEE BEST FILMS 11 MRS. EDGAR HEATON IS VICTIM I FAILCRE TO REPORT PROPERTY PRODUCERS TO GIVE GOVERN ' MEST MOTION PICTURES. or COLLISION. MEANS FIXE-AND PRISON. NEW RUSSO-TEUTO N POLITIC WAR SEEMS NEAR ft Ruins of Grey Nunnery Give Up Charred Bodies. DEATH LIST HAY INCREASE Further Search Likely to Make ' Number of Victims A--, One Hundred. HEROIC RESCUES EFFECTED Hundreds of Sick Soldiers and Other Helpless V. Inmates Saved. MONTREAL, Feb. 14. Thirty eicht children arc known to hare per ihcl in a fire that destroyed the west win? of the Grey Nunnery ia this city tonicrht. The charred bodies of these rirtim have beea recovered. As the aearch of the mokinff ruin and the checking up of survivors proceed, the belief is crowing that the number of dead will be materially increased. Some esti mates of the possible mortality are aj hitch as 10O. All the inmate of the great build ing except the children are beliered to haTe escaped. They included nuns. nursing sisters, wounded or sick sol dicra from nrerea. aged. irk or crip pled men and women to the number of almost 1000. Nans ! Heroic Service. When th flame were discovered la the west injr the alarm wa quickly given and all those able to help themselves led to places of safety. The heroic nans and nursing sisters atrov valiantly to save the sick and wounded, as well a the infants under their charge. Wounded Soldiers Saved. The children were housed in the see tion of the building where the fire started, and the flame spread so quickly it was impossible to save them all. None of the soldiers suffered in Jury, however, although nearly 2X o them were quartered in the building. Some Victims Few Days Old. The ages of the innate of the nunnery ranged from 2 or 3 days to almost 100 years. Many of the in fant who died in the fire and smoka were only a few days or a few week old. The elderly inmates were housed in another section of the nunnery and were not immediately menaced by the flame.. 100 RESORTS BLACKLISTED Camp Lewi Official rat Ban on Tacosna KMabllsbmem. CAMP LEWIS, Tacoma. Feb. 14. ? .ldrs stationed at Camp Lewis have been forbidden to patronise ISO restau rants, soft drink establishments, bar ber and manicure shops In Tscoma which were pUred on the blacklist lo cljjr by Colonel ti. M. Masnidtr, 1'nlted Kt.te. Public Health Hervtce. Military police have a list of the places and mm are stationed near by to see that the orders are compiled with. Some i'l establishments have been rit.n certificates of Inspection show tng that they have compiled with Gov ernment requirements. As soon aa the r-'-..-Minted places have compiled with requirements as to sanitation they will be granted certtftcatea. Colonel Wa gruder said. allure of soft drink parlors to wash (lasses with hot water and lack of sanitation have been the principal re.isona for closing these places to soldiers. Colonel cruder has charge of sanitation of the entire section tribu tary to Camp Lewis. PATRIOTS BEGIN LONG TRIP Alaska Hojs to Travel Mile lo I'allst la t". 8. bervlce. a ABERDEFN. "Wash.. Feb. 14. (Spe elalr A !-ml I Journey to get a ebanco to enlist la the aviation service has Keen started from Neaana. Alaska, by Lawrence Vernon and a companion, according to word received by V.mon s parents. Mr. and Mrs. Watson Vernon, of this city. Tho two boys plan to go to 8aa Diego frm Alaska. They left Nenana. for the Alaska coast towns In a lightly, loaded dog sled and planned to get Into Cattle at the earliest pus. i bis moment Machine Driven by Husband Struck! by Another Driven by J. J. Green berg on Eat Side. Mrs. Edgar Heaton. JTi East Forty- first street, sustained a fractured skull from which she later died, early last night, when the automobile In which she and ber husband, who Is an engi neer at the Hawthorne dock, were rid I nr. collided with an automobile driven br J. J. Greenbera-. at East Twenty fourth and Cast Everett streets. Mrs. Heaton was thrown to the pavement. She was sent to L. Vincent's Hospital by Dr. W. A. Trimble. 737 East Burn- side street .who was jailed. She died an hour later. Accordln gto Mr. Heaton. he was going weatwaro. on -t-ast tvtrtu at-reei and Mr. Green berg was driving south on East Twenty-fourth street. The two BilrhlRH rm mm (Az,ih,p Anil Mr. Hea. ton s car was thrown on the sidewalk and against a telephone pole. Mr. Heaton la survived oy ner Hus band and a daughter. Mrs, G. H. Hin- nenkarnp. 6)7 East Davis stret. Mr. Cireenbers lives at 94S Hassalo I street. FLAGS ARE HALF-MASTED James B. turner. trXTVEr.PITT OF OREGON. Eugene. Feb. 14. (Special.) University flairs are at half-mast In respect o Private James B. Uurney. of Glide. Or, the first unlv.rslty man to die In th service hroogh an act of the enemy. Private yurorir was one of the 1(4 Americans who lost their lives In the sinking of th troophip Tuscsnla. and were burl.d "somewhere along the coast of Scotland. His resting place Is marked by a board bearing the number 0. Private Gurney entered the unlver- Ity as a freshman last October, but withdrew early In December to enlist the loth Engineers. Ills brother. Stephen M. Uurney. was also aboard the Tuscanla. but waa listed among the urvlvora. ROOSEVELT IS SITTING UP """ Physicians Report Colonel Is Making 'Kemarkablo Headway." NEW TORK. Feb. 14 Colonel Roose velt has so far recovered from his re cent operation that he la able partly to sit up. After an examination of the patient lasting about an hour and a half today too attending physicians Issued the following bulletin: "Colonel Roosevelt's condition I steadily Improving. Ills adjustable bed .o raised that he Is pamy sitting In bed. He bad a restful night and Is realty making remarkable headway. Cablegrams of syn.pa.7iy expressing hopes for the ex-Preeldents speedy re covery were received by "Urs. Roose velt from President Polncare. Premier Clemenceau and Foreign Minister Fi ction, of France. MONTANA SDI DNS MEET mvii inun tas" w saw w i as' Extra Se.on of legislature Called to ConMd-rr War Measure, HELENA. Mont.. Feb. 14. An csi session of the Montana Legislature, called by Governor & V. Stewart to consider war measures, opened here to day. The Senate placed on second read ing a measure providing for a state nunui di uri.ii.c. , iia ii"u. i i i . . . on second reading a bill defining sedi- I i . , -1 t Tk. U...- lion and imposing a fine of liOO to 810.000 and a maximum tmprosonment of 10 years; a bill defining criminal syndicalism, and providing a maximum of 1 years .Imprisonment or a max! mum fma of 8-00U. or both, and an other bill providing for the council of defense, similar to that In the Senate. To make the committees non-par tl.an and expedlal legislation, they were selected by lot. Y. M. C. A. SCHOOL TO OPEN S. P.-WIIon. of Banker-) Mortgage Corporation, Will Lcoture. The T. M. C. A. school In business administration and accountancy will be opened this evening at o'clock with a free public lecture delivered the T. M. C A. auditorium by S. F. Wilson, of th Bankers' Mortgage cor poration. The educational department of the T. M. C A. finds there is aa unusual demand for trained accountanta n connection with military administra tion. The second semester of the pharmacy course, to which women have been ad mitted a a war measure, will open next Monday evening. Many men pharmacist have taken up military ervlca and women In many Instances are filling their places. YORK ON SCHOOL STOPPED Civilians Barred at Xlght Through Fear of Enemy Aliens. SAN DIEGO. CaL. Feb. 14. Because the head of th military aviation school t North Island has refused to allow civilian workmen to remain on the sland all night, construction on the new barracks and hangars baa been topped. Th military authoritiea fear that an nemy alien, passing himself a a workman, might. If allowed to remain on the Inland at night, damage gulp meat or secure, military Information. NewRepublicanLeader Outlines Plans. FULL PUBLICITY DEMANDED Cards on Table in Sight of A! Indiana Idea. EYES TURN TO ROOStVfcLT Winning of War Is First Concern, Says New Chairman; Political Ac- tlrlty Assured, but Must lie Open and of High Character. BT ARTHUR M. EVANS. .a'DIAXAPOLIS. Ind.. Feb. 14. (Spe Mat I Th. Imllun. 11 . . (ha "i . n door" In politics, with the cards on top of the table In Bight of the voters, is what "Will Hays, new Republican chair man, proposes to apply to the G. O. P. He Intends to wipe out 1911; to treat the former Moose with as much constd eratlon as If they had remained Repub licans, and to Insist that full publicity be given campaign funds, and that real Itemised accounts be kept. Since 1913 the Hoosler leaders have brous-ht about an amalgamation of the Republicans and the Bull Moose contin gent that is without psrralel In other Mates. It has been a complete absorp tion. Hays has been the leader in sponginK out the old lines. He Is con sidered the man who put Indiana In the Hughes list In lsl. and today Re publican leaders flooded him with mes sages expressing their delight over his ,lecllon. As the G. O. P. views It, the National party had m fine old house cleaning yesterday and., with the ma chinery reorganised, the spread of the "Indiana Idea" through all the states Is the thing to which they may pin hopes of breaking back Into power. Scores of Telearmaso Car. Score of telegrams came In. They may be epitomised by the following from Colonel Roosevelt: Will H. Haa Your election meana mora to the country and the Re publican party thnn anything else at this time could have meant. Several committeemen came here to day from tit. Louis to confer with the new chairman. Others saw him for a few minutes' at the station an their trains paased through. The Indiana crowd, which Is the best organised lit tle machine In the country, spent the day at the Hotel Severen fighting- the St. Louis fight over again. There was luncheon at m hlch Mr. Hays outlined some of his views. One feature of the table speeches was a declaration from John T. King, of Connecticut, who was T. R.'s pick for National chairman. that he via going out Into the ODen I'0 work for ttbe nomination of the On Dro nopal Acut.sA wan th . tablUhment of Dermanent hHdnii.nm iConriud on Pane 3. Column 3.) . fsr'lL?sZS( je ) -It I W5 I Xs-r . I i I Dragnet Is Now Spread to Nab Those Who Do Not Inform Gov ernment of Their Holdings, WASHINGTON, Feb. 14. A Nation wide dragnet is being spread by A, Mitchell Palmer, alien property cus todian, to locat enemy aliens who, through ignorance of the law or mali cious intent, fail to make report of their property holdings to his office. In a statement today calling on loj'al Americans to assist the Government in apprehending violators of the law, Mr. Palmer gave warning that Federal agents are searching the country from Coast to Coast for outstanding; alien property and that holders of uncovered property are liable to a fine of $10,000 or 10 years' imprisonment, or bgh. Full notice has been given ailw the time for filing reports has been, lib erally extended. Mr. Palmer said, and the law will be impartially enforced against all Its violators. ARMY HEALTH IS IMPROVED Report Says New Cases Are Less, Although Deaths Shove Increase. WASHINGTON. Feb. 14. Continued improvement in health conditions at all Army camps Is noted irv the War De partment summary for the week ending February 8, made public tonight. The hospital admission rate decreased from the preceding week, while the death rate, although slightly higher than the preceding week, was below the average lor the last two months. Measles and pneumonia continued to decrease while scarlet fever and menin gitis showed slight increases. The total number of deaths in the National Guard was 68. of which 46 were due to pneumonia: the regulars had lt deaths, six from pneumonia and he National Army 91 deaths. 54 from pneumonia. TWO AVIATORS ARE KILLED English Flyer and American Cadet Lose Lives In Texas. FORT WORTH. Tex., Feb. 14. Avi ator Cadet Clifford N. Murray. Royal Flying Corps Squadron, of Welahshire, Kngland, was killed at Ben brook Field ere today when his machine fell. HOrSTOS, Tex..' Feb. !. Donald W. :ieanon. of Delphla. N. Y..' aviation cadet, was killed today when the air- lane in which he was making a cross country flight from Ellington Field ropped into a tail spin and fell to earth near Texas City. PENDLETON SETS HOURS Pool Halls Regulated by City Coun cil to Conserve Fuel. PENDLETON. Or.. Feb. 14. (Spe cial. ) On March 1, cigar stores, pool halls, candy stores and bowling alleys in Pendleton will open at 6 A. M. and close at 11 P. M. The order was issued on the passage of an ordinance by the City Council as a war measure to conserve light and heat and for the further regulation of pool halls by the city. SHE WAS EXPECTING CURDS AXD WHEY. ChairmanServesSharp Notice on Men. EASTERN WALKOUT REPROVED Shipyard Employes Urged to Return to Work. MUCH DECLARED AT STAKE Telegram to Union Heads States That Mothers and Fathers of Soldiers Will Resent Labor '9 Obstructive Tactics, WASHINGTON,' Feb. 14. An urgent call to striking carpenters and joiners in Eastern shipyards to return to work was issued tonight by Chairman Hurley of the Shipping Board, who sent a tele gram to union heads declaring mothers and fathers giving their sons 16 battle will not long permit continued Inter ference with the shipbuilding pro gramme. The telegram was inspired by reports of strikes at yards in the vicinity of New York and at Baltimore, where the men are demanding the wage scale re cently granted for the Pacific Coast of 86.60 a day. It went to W. L. Hutch- eson, general president of the carpen- , ters, at Indianapolis, and to union lead ers in the districts In which strikes have been carried. Mem Freed to Return. Mr. Hurley insisted that the men go to work pending an adjustment of their grievances by the wage adjustment board, which within a few days will recommend a general wage scale for 75 per cent of the yards on the Atlantic Coast. Mr. Hurley's telegram follows: "While the people of this country are mourning the loss of the brave young Americans In the Tuscanla horror while thousands of American homes are anxiously watching the lists of sur vivors slowly coming in to make cer tain that another precious life has been snatched from the Atlantic Ocean, a telegram comes and with it the grim announcement that "the carpenters in shipyards are now on strike. Adjustment Board Ignored. ''Before any Government agency Is given an opportunity to act and de spite the good record of our adjustment board's promptness and fairness in dealing with all labor matters, you at tempt to paralyze the shipbuilding in dustry at the port of New York. "Do you realize that you are adding to the fearful danger our soldiers al ready face, the danger of starvation and the danger of slaughter If food and ammunition are not sent over in ships and In many ships at once? "Do you think the fathers and mothers whose eons are making this sacrifice will sit patiently by and per- ConcludeJ on P.-tge 4. Column 1.) Magnates of Industry Agree to Co-operate lu Effort to Provide Boys With Entertainment. NFW TORK, Feb. 14. The motion picture films of many of the country's leading producers ave to be placed at the Government's disposal for the ben efit of the soldiers and sailors in serv- ice at home and abroad. This announcement was made here today by P. X. Powers, who has been appointed by the War Department chairman of a committee representing the motion picture industry, who will co-operate with Raymond B. Fosdick, chairman of the committee on training camp activities of the Wan and Navy Departments. i The latest and best photoplays of all the principal companies will be shown at the various camps and training sta tions, Mr. Powers said. 'With him on the picture industry committee are D. W. Griffith, Adolph Zukor, J. A. Berst. William Fox, George Kleine, Samuel Goldfish and others. COMMON CAUSE. BINDS ALL Kinsr George and President Wilson Exchange Felicitations. WASHINGTON, Feb. 14.-k-The ex change of greetings between Earl Reading, the new British Ambassador, and President Wilson, when the former presented his credentials yesterday were made public today by the State Department. On behalf of King George, Earl Read Ing expressed the highest gratification that relations . between the United States and Great Britain were to be strengthened by participation in acorn mon cause. President Wilson, replying, said: "I believe that the righteous cause we are now prosecuting? will serve to bind more closely the people of the United States and the people of Great Britain and the people of all the other nations . which desfre the triumph of justice and liberty and the establish ment of a peace which shall last." LIME BOARD IS SANGUINE Appropriation of $20,000 for Lime Plant Deemed Sufficient. SALEM. Or., Feb.' 14. (Special.) It developed at a meeting: of the State Lime Board here today that the Board expects to get its Initial work estab lished without creating a deficit, re gardless of the fact that an appropria tion of but 820.000 was made for the work by the last Legislature. It is expected lime will be ready for delivery to the farmers of the Wil lamette Valley early in June. GREEK PLOTTERS TO DIE Army Men Who Mutinied at Insti gation or Ex-King Found Guilty. ATHENS, Tuesdr.y. Feb. 12. Three lieutenants and two soldiers have been sentenced to death by court-martial in connection witn the mutinous out breaks early this month at Lamia, which are said to have been engineered by agents of ex-King Constantine. Another lieutenant has been degrad ed and sentenced to prison for one year. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAT'S Maximum temperature, 43 TODAY'S Fair; westerly winds. Foreign. New war between Russia and Teutons be nevea in prospect, rage 1. Court-martial sentences Bolo Pasha, French Many OaOies perlsn in fire at Montreal. i H I 1. Hike of first Americans to reach battlefront oeeeriaea oy correspondent with troop.. s " '- Ambassador Fletcher to confer with Car- ranza over trade agreement. Page 4. National. Enemy aliens warned to report property noiuings 10 government. -age 1. Billion dollar urgent deficiency bill favor ably reported to House. Page S. Overman bill, giving President vast powers. noi lajtea seriously oy senate. Page Domestic. Best films to be shown soldiers and sailors. Page. I. Chairman Hurley, of Shipping Board, sharp ly reproves smpyara striKers. Page 1. President orders Inquiry into charges of misuse ot Government money at Hog jsi.-na .nipuuiiuing plant. raga 3. New Republican chief wants open door 'In politics. Page 1. Four Germans, claiming to be eitlzens of heaven, refuse to register, page 3. .Sports, Rosebuds meet Seattle at Ice Palace tonight. rage ... Baseball outlook in Northwest appears orignter. page l. Washington quintet loses star guard on eve or trip. Page 4. Commerce defeats James John in Inter- acnoiastlc basketball. Page 14. Commercial and Marine. , Cold storage holdings of poultry are re duced. Page if. Corn In demand and higher at Chicago. page la. Port of Portland raises wages of dredge men. Page 14. s Railway stocks feature of Wall Street mar ket. Page 19. Portland and Vicinity. Mother brings accusations against Juvenile Court. Page 20. County worker, for third liberty loan await signal to start. Page 7. Weather report, data and forecast. Page 14. City Attorney upholds Civil Service Board against council. Page 7. Women-, restroom opened by management of Northwestern Bank building. Page 11. Rumors of ground glass in bread unfounded. Page 13. Title to Mendenhall estate entangled through belief in star gazer. Page 6. New World Life Insurance Company trouble Is bared. Page ti. Mis. Deckman. arrested at Salt Lake In ternment camp, former Portland resi dent. Page 4. Oregon Food Administrator fixes poultry Kuehlmann, Czernin and Trotzky Clash. VIOLENT RUPTURE REPORTED Seeds of Future Conflict Be lieved Sown. GERMANS REALIZE PERIU Assertion Made That Order - Has Been Issued to Stop Circulation of Order Issued for Demobili zation ot Slav Armies. - ZURICH, Feb. 14. The Munich, Ba varia, correspondent of the Neue Augs burg Zeitung says he learns that the discussions at Brest-Litovsk last Sun day between Dr. von Kuehlmann, the . German Foreign Secretary; Count Cser nin, the Austro-Hunearlan Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Leon Trotsky, the Bolshevik Foreign Minister, were par ticularly stormy and ended in a violent rupture which bore all the seeds of a future conflict. "That is why the conference at Ger man main headquarters is discussing the eventuality of very energetic mili tary measures against the Russians,' the correspondent eays. AMSTERDAM, Feb. 14. The lino of demarcation along the eastern front must be maintained, in view of the Rus sians' refusal to sign a peace treaty, a Vienna dispatch to the Lokal Anzeiger, of Berlin, says. .Turks to Hold Territory. Turkish troops will take possession of all Turkish territory which hitherto has been occupied by Russians. The writer of the dispatch, who as serts his information has been received from an authoritative source, goes on to say that although maintenance of a cordon along the Russian part of the eastern front will demand a not incon siderable number of men, the greater part of the forces now there, especially the artillery and technical troops, will be free for employment on other fronts. Ronnanla'R Decision Awaited. On the southern section of the front. the future position depends upon the decision of Roumania. which, says the writer, must either seek a peaceful so lution or reckon upon eventual intern ment of Its army in Ukraine. V state of preparedness in the East is an important military question, the correspondent adds, especially on ac count of the struggle between Ukraine and Northern Russia. AMSTERDAM, Feb. H. Judging from the latest indications in the Ger man press, much dissatisfaction and suspicion has been aroused by the lat est move of Foreign Minister Trotzky. Important political and military lead ers are said to be conferring busily to find the best solution to the puzzle. Peace IVot Suggested. The Kreuz Zeitung. of Berlin, on Tuesday declared "on reliable infor mation, that Trotzky's proposal in no circumstances is to be regarded as a peace offer, while it is pointed out by other papers that the Russian war the ater was mentioned especially in the official army report of Tuesday. A Berlin telegram to the Koelnischa Volks Zeitung of Wednesday says: "The government is not willing to continue relations with Russia on any basis whatsoever unless the present Russian government signs a regular peace treaty. As, however, it must be reckoned, for the present at any rate, that Trotzky does not think of signing; any formulated peace declaration, a situation is created which makes nec- " essary a thorough discussion Detweon the government and the supreme army command. The correspondent, in an apparently inspired passage, adds: The chancellor is resolved in no circumstances to conduct further nego- (Concluded on Page o. Column 1.) FREE WAR COOK BOOK FOR AMERICAN WOMEN. The Oregonian will send you, free, one copy of "The War Cook Book," just published, written es pecially for use in the present emergency. This book contains the latest and timeliest advice. It is com piled entirely from official sources and published by the United States Food Administra tion. 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