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s VOL. LVIII. 0. I7.859. PORTLAND, OUEUOX, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1918. PRICE FIVE CENTS. 515 MAN SEEKS BOLO, SENTENCED DEFIED 111 WIFE CHOPS FINGER OFF DRAFT EVADER FOREIGN TRADE TO YIELD TO VAR NEED NATIONAL ARMY 93 PER CENT INSURED TO DIE, APPEALS SHIPYARD STRIKE TO FIGHT RUSSIA FIGHT TO BE MADE FOR RE YOUTH CONFESSES SPOCSE ACT ED AT HIS REQUEST. ' CAMP DODGE LEADS IX PER SOXXEL PROTECTION. VERSAL OF DECISION". HURLEY 550,000,000 LOAN f Morgan Negotiates With Phone Operator STATE DEPARTMENT DRAWN IN Bogus Marquis Arrested and . Indicted. WOMEN ALSO VICTIMIZED I! amble rw Yorker. Gifted With Remarkable Xrn( and Imagina tion. Gives Financiers of r Metropolis Severe Jolt. NT7W TORK. Feb. 15. How a 1S a week telephone operator, posing as "his excellency, the Marquis Kdmond Rous selot dl Cast 1 1 lot. confidential repre sentative of His Majesty. Kins; Alfonso f.w .I' kLT tP",, ?7,itoL,."" with the banking house of J. P. Mor- Fpaln. and by promising that Spain would enter thte war on the side of the entente allies. Drought the state De partment Into the matter, was revealed la the Federal Court here today when three Indictments were returned against Kdmond Rousselot. under the espionage law. Rousselot was pressing bis plan for the loan when chance caused his arrest on another charge, and his castle In Spain quickly toppled. Baakrr Feressa f Jery. WUllam Pier son Hamilton, of the Morgan bouse, was foreman of the grand Jury which returned the Indict menta and was familiar with the entire transaction because be was m member of the firm to whom the matter was entrusted. When the subject of the loan was broached to the bank by Rousselot. I who bad been preperly Introduced by I W. E. D. Stokes, of New Tork City, the I bank Immediately communicated with Secretary Lansing, who opposed the loan to the Spanish government through the regular Government chan- aeJa, lsit Prweedare Cra-ed-, - Rousselot objected to this method of procedure, explaining that the loan was to be made personally to King Alfonso, and It was because of this secret ar rangement be could promise that Spain I was to Join the allies. The negotiations . were tlll under way and Mr. Hamilton bad the matter tinder consideration when Rousselot. about three weeks ago. was arrested on the charge of falsely representing himself as "Count Rousselot. a French diplomat here on a secret mission. Be- ins unable to nht.ln K. II h w.a ..nt I to JalL This led to inquiry, and the whole affair was laid before the grand Jury. Wmus Oae ef Ills Victim. It developed that Rousselot had not houses, but numbered among his con- fidtng friends one woman from whom he had borrowed f 10.000 on oil stocks of doubtful vaJue. but for tpe redemp tion of which he had pledged his "an cestral estates. Another of his friends was promi nent actress, who told the authorities she bad been introduced to "Count Jloussclot" and believing him to be in the French diplomatic service, had vis ited an English warship in the harbor with him. As his credentials were well covered with seals which seemed to be all right. they were taken over the ship and shown every courtesy, she said. fwiiin4nw Alt Created. Rousselot established himself In suite In a fashionable hotel, and there received many letter which are de scribed as being covered with crests nd seals and addressed to him as "Marquis," "Count" and "King's Mes senger." The documents, when examined by the authorities. . proved to be letters apparently written by Rousselot to himself. Oae of them, purporting to have come from the King of Spain, bore a Irge red seal. Impressed by the stamp f the commissioner of deeds of West chester County. New Tork, He also had a rubber stamp bearing the words "Mialstre de la Guerre which, the authorities allege, he used while posing as a French diplomat. Farrtrra Ad Raided. When representing himself as the seat of the Kins; of Spla he used a rrest cut from the advertising of leading furrier, they declared. A Utile later Rousselot moved to the Hotel Anson la. where he 'told Mr. Stokes, the owner, that he was King Alfono's confidential agent in this country, and In support of his state- mn aispiayea nis collection or "cre dentials." tie rurtner explained that be ex pected a visit from Jules Jusserand. the French Ambassador, but did not have the necessary funds to entertain him. Mr. Stokes advanced htm $500 and one of the indictments has to do with this transaction. From this conversa tion Rousselot succeeded In having Mr. Mokes Introduce hira to the Morgan firm. Another Indictment rhargea Rousse lot with forging a Government license permitting him to visit all warships. I and still another alleaes the theft of I official note paper of the Treasury De-1 partmeu J s Prisoner Passes Restless Night ln I Death Cell, but Has Not Yet Given Vp All Hope. PARIS. Feb. IS. Bolo Pasha, who yesterday was convicted by a court- martial of treason and sentenced to death, today appealed from ths verdict to ths court of cassation. Bolo was dressed in prison garb and taken to the death cell on bis return to Sante Prison. He passed a restless night, but was apparently hopeful that ths decision may be reversed on appeal. be said to the guards. One of his claims Is supposed to bs that a witness for ths prosecution was seen during a recess In the trial in conversation with the president of the courtmartial and the government counsel. Bolo's first inquiry this morning; was whether his neighbors la prison had been Informed of the verdict. lie i told that Joseph Calllaux. former Pre mier, was astonished at bis conviction There were many callers at the prison this morning;, but none was admitted. as Bolo was subjected to strict prison regulations and was constantly under the eyes of the death watch. He handcuffed when taken out for exer cise and when brought into court. Deputy Emlle Constant todsy an nounced that he would Interpellate the n r-w. m n An wht ti T m . t th lr- regularities and delay, in the official ,, tlon of tn. Bolo ph, affalr i DANGER PAST FOR COLONEL 1 1 neooore noowwi win tve Leave Hospital in Two Weeks. NEW TORK. Feb. IS. Colonel Theo- Lore Roosevelt has so far recovered from his recent operations for abscesses that be will be able to leave the hos- nit. I foe hi. hotel within two weeks and return to his home In Oyster Bay ten days later. Thla was announced In a bulletin Issued br his private secretary today at Roosevelt Hospital, whsre he Is con- Taicln;. The bulletin read "Colonel Roosevelt's condition con tlnues to Improve. The dixitnes" neces sarily following such an operation la fsst disappearing. All the alarming symptoms have disappeared. Colonel Roosevelt was able today to I read from books and newspapers, it was learned at the hospital. BEAN EMBARGO ORDERED Army Authorities Place Ran Shipments From California. SAN FRANCISCO. Feb. IS. An em- bargo against the shipment of any white beans from California was placed In effect today by Army authorities. The embargo was announced by H. Clay Miller, Pacific Coast represents- live ot ins oivision 01 co-orainauon 01 purchases of the Food Administration. 1 ne emDargo win aueci approxi-1 "lately 40.000.000 pounds of white beans here. "The embargo was declared In order that the Army officials might have op portunity of surveying ths situation and ascertaining their needs, Miller said. 8 YEARS GIVEN CATTLEMAN Illinois Stockman Convicted of Sell ing Tubercular Animals. CHICAGO, Feb. IS. James Dorsey, a cattle raiser of Gilberts, I1L, was sen tencM to serve eight years In the Fed eral penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kan., and fined 13000 by Federal Judge Lan dis today for using the mails to de fraud. Dorsey was charged with having sold tubercular cattle to dealers throughout the Northwest on representation that theT wer, fr. from dlai,e. Pending appeal Dorsey was released in bond of 113.000. BIG PIPE LINE IS FINISHED Oil W ill Be Pumped Directly to Chi cago From Fields. KANSAS CITT, Feb. 15. Local offi cials of the Sinclair Oil Company an nounced today that laying of a pipe line from the Mid-Continent field to Whiting. lnd has ' been practically completed. Within the next two weeks a steady flow of oil will be pumped directly to Chicago. BODY OF AMERICAN FOUND J. D. Bluut, Missing Ranchman, Discovered Dead in Juares Valley JUAREZ. Mexico. Feb. 15. The body of Joh D' B'UDt ,n Amerlcn """' i or a ranca in me wuarea alley, was found late today In aa Irrigation ditch. with a deep wound on the top of the head. He had been missing since Feb ruary t. ARTIFICIAL' FOG IS LATEST Swiss See Hun Zeppelins Equipped With Xcw Device. WASHINGTON. Feb. 15. Two new Zeppelins of large dimensions and pro vided with apparatus for producing ar tificial fog were reported slKhted over Lake Constance in an official dispatch today from France. It Is reported that the craft were enf, to a German seaport. Menacing Situation in East Prolong' -V 1 I IMPORU.,,1 WORK HALTED Federation . Official Roughly Handled by Men. SECOND MESSAGE SENT I Carpenters and Joiners Still Out and Show Xo Disposition to Y'ield. President Wilson Follows Coarse of Strike. NEW YORK. FeTa, T William 1 Helrkftsa, smldret ef the 1'alted Brotherhood ef (ara-eatrra aad Joiners, Ireland late toalght that he was pow- erleas erdrr the shipyard strikers hark work aad eaferee sock aa rdrr. He aaaerted, however, that It was his ,rmmt ,"e veraeat e adjust their leag-etaadlag grievances." wAsmsfimv. Feb ika ..,, I demand that William L. Hutcheson, president of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners, send striking 'hlnyard employes In Eastern plants Dl penaing an adjustment '" " we maae lomgm IT nairman iiuney. ot the snipping I "oard. I Earlier In the day Hutcheson had an I swerea a previous appeal with a com I rnunlcatlon declaring it would be lm I possible for him to act until he had some definite proposition from the Shipping; Board as to working condi tions. Hutcheson's virtual defiance of the Shipping Board presents a situation on which officials decline to comment. Mr. Hurley's request that the men be put back to work Immediately carried no threat and Shipping; Board 'officials would not say what steps they have in mind. Draft Rumor Denied. Reports today that local exemption boards are preparing to call Into the military service striking shipyard workers within the draft age prompted the Shipping Board to send telegrams urging that such action be not taken. Deferred classification for shipyard workers baa been put by the Provost Marshal-General's office in the charge of the industrial section of the Ship p,nc Board heaad br Meyer Bloom fleld and the board dealres that an draft Queations be decided in Washing- ton. , President Wilson is known to be giving personal attention to the labor situation and Is following every move In the shipyard strikes. In his communication tonight to Hutcheson. Chairman Hurley points out that the heads of the carpenters' and (Concluded on Page s. Column a.) Jesse Merle Jones, Mulino Farmer, Is in Jail Following Investiga tion of How He Lost Digit. OREGON CITY, Feb. 15. (Special) Jesse Merle Jones, 22, a farmer resld lng near Mulino, confessed today that at his request his wife chopped off the "trigger" finger of his right hand, in an effort to disqualify him from mill' tary service. The United States Marshal took Jones into custody. Jones and his wife reside with his father, W. H. Jones, a pioneer farmer of the Mulino country. The father and son were subpenaed to appear before the board today, following a report that young Jones, recently placed in Class I. had mysteriously sustained the loss of a finger. Their statements were taken in the office of Deputy District Attorney Burke, before Federal and state officials, and were no conflicting that young Jones was placed In Jail to await further Investigation. Later the young man admitted that state ments he had made earlier In the day were false and confessed to Deputy Burke, Assistant United States At torney Latourette and Clerk Harrlng ton. On January 22, according to Jones. he asked Mrs. Jones if she would cut off his finger. The wife agreed and he say he held his first finger of the right hand on a chopping block while she severed it at the second Joint with one blow from a handj-ax. Mrs. Jones then dressed the wound temporarily and Jones came to Oregon City, where Dr. Strickland gave medical attention to the injured hand. In his first statement Jones said that he had slipped while helping his wife chop wood and that she had accident ally struck his finger. The fatlier under oath said that he had cut off his son's finger accident ally. Jones was married a few months ago At Vancouver. Mrs. Jones Is about the same age as her husband. SOLDIERS OUST 10 I. W. W. "Wobblies" Waste Ho Time Quitting Logging Camp When Warned. ABERDEEN. Wash., Feb. 15. (Spe cial.) Forestry soldiers employed at Schaffer Brothers camp Just east of this city gave ten L W. W, loggers Just 20 minutes in which to leave that camp last night and the "wobblies" got away Inside the llm.lt set.. They had shipped Into the camp as timber fallers and were ordered out by the soldiers as soon as they discovered they were I. W. W. members. No force was used. ... REDISTILLATION IS BARRED War Department Decides Against Use of Seized Alcohol. WASHINGTON. Feb. 15 Because of the expense involved and the danger of impurities, the War Department has decided against proposals to secure al cohol by redistilling seized spirits. In a statement tonight the depart ment said this plan would furnish only an Insignificant part of the total re quirements, which is nearly 100,000,000 pounds for this year. GUARDING THE NATION'S HAM TREE. Exports, Imports Put Under License. LESS ESSENTIALS TO BE CUT Right of Way Given to Troop and Supply Ships. ' ALL ALLIES IN ACCORD New Arrangement Will Probably Result in Increase of TJ. S. Busi ness With Latin America, and Decrease With Orient. WASHINGTON. Feb. 15. All foreign trade of the United States exports and imports was put under license today by President Wilson as a part of a gen eral programme of the American and allied governments for releasing ships to transport troops and supplies to Europe. The less essential exports and Im ports will be reduced to a minimum and materials regarded as necessary will be transported by the shortest hauls possible. The allies are working In close co operation with the United States and the trade routes of the world in many nstances win De shifted to bring the most economical operation of tonnage. Allies to Co-operate. The allies have already cut their foreign trade sharply, but will make further reductions as a part of the general plan. American representa tives sitting in London will work with allied representatives in eliminating and rearranging . ocean commerce to free ships for war service. Licensing of American exports and imports will be handled by the War Trade Board, which has created a spe cial contraband commission with final powers in deciding the country's for eign trade policies. The board, which already issues licenses for the large number of com inodities over which the Government has exercised export and Import con trol. will work with the State Depart ment, the Department of Commerce and the Shipping Board in arranging trade routes. Harvard Authority to Help. The Shipping Board has formed a special division under Dean E. F. Gay, of Harvard University, to prepare sta tistical data on shipping and commerce. To bring about a proper co-ordina tion between the Shipping Board and the War Trade Board it is likely that a controller of ships and cargoes will be named to see that ships are used in the most economical manner. There will be no hasty decisions, it was said tonight. In -determining what exports and imports are to be elimi nated. Trades interested will be given Concluded on Page 3. Column 4.) Secretary McAdoo Announces That More- Than Million 3Ien Have Policies Exceeding 8 Billion. WASHINGTON. Feb. 15 Ninety three per cent of the men In large Army camps are Insured under the new war risk plan. Secretary McAdoo announced today. More than one mil lion applications, representing- Insur ance of almost eight and one-half bil lion dollars, are on file with the bureau of war risk insurance and thousand of applications written up to February 12 have not yet reached the bureau. On the percentage basis. Camp Dodge, la., leads with 99 92-100 per cent of Its personnel protected by United States Government insurance. Next is Camp Zachary Taylor, ly with 99 3-10 per cent, while Camp Funston, Kan.; (amp Travis, Tex., and Camp Upton, N. T., have 99 per cent each. Camp Lewis, American Lake, Wash., which led last week with $284,000,000, has not made its final report. VALLEY IS SNOWED UNDER Fall of 14 Inches Reported in Upper Hood River District. HOOD RIVER, Or., Feb. 15 (Spe ciaL) The hardest snow storm of the season prevailed today in the Upper Hood River Valley and around the base of Mount Hood. Fourteen inches is reported tonight from Mount Hood Lodge. No snow fell in the lower valley. The heavy mountain fall will go far toward preventing a water famine for power concerns and irrigation systems this Summer. NOME LACKS WAR STAMPS Thrift Stickers Will Be Taken to Snowbound City by Dog Teams. SEATTLE. Wash., Feb. 15. Ice bound Nome, Alaska, is suffering from a famine of war thrift stamps, accord ing to a cablegram received here today from F. M. Ayer, president of a Nome bank. The Postofficeis sold out and banks are limiting sales to two stamps for each person, the cable said. More stamps will be sent to Nome by the dog stages over the snow trails. COLLEGE WOMEN TO HELP Service in Places Vacated by Men Is Provided For. WASHINGTON, Feb. 15. A division to place college women fn positions of war service vacated by men has been created under the inter-collegiate in telligence bureau and the bureau has announced the appointment of Miss Louise Shepperd, associate warden of Vassar College, as director. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature. 40 degrees; minimum, 3a degrees. TODAY'S Rain; Increasing southeasterly winds. War. Cfcptaln Vernon Castle killed In airplane fall at ifenorooK neid. rage i. British forces in Palestine advance two miles. Page 2. Foreign. Bolo Pasha, sentenced to death, appeals case. Page x. Germany decides to resume war on Russia. Page 1. Belgians wrought up over arrest of three magistrates by Germans. Page 2. Captain and nine men of .foundered British ship choose death and let rest of crew es cape In lifeboats. Page 3. National. ' Senator Weeks in speech criticises President and war Department. Page 3. All American Imports and exports placed under license. Page l. National Army camps 03 per cent Insured. Page 1. Domestic. American capital and labor to get together and establish basis of relations for period or war. Page 4. Union leader defies Chairman Hurley in Eastern shipyard strike. Page 1. Freedom of German Count from internment camp disclosed as aim of girl in custody. Page 4. Sport. Walter McCredle to give Beaver recruits the once-over at Portervllle camp. Page 14. Sacramento signs "bushers for baseball season. Page 14. Washington wins from Benson in inter- scholaatlc Dasketoall. Page J.i. Big military smoker to be staged tonight. Page 14. New conference wrestling rules drawn up. Page IS. Pacific Northwest. Reparians to meet In Portland In 1919. Page 6. E. J. Frusler, convicted forger, sentenced by Judge Hamilton. Page 4. Wife chops off linger of draft evader. Page 1. Car company Is doing 1U best, says President Griffith. Page a. Bert Belieu shot and wounded by Post mistress at Crabtree. Page a. Sllverton girl is expected to name her as sailant. Page 7. Commercial and Marine. Hide market unsettled In prospect of Gov ernment regulation. Page 19. Oats sell at record price for season at Chi cago. Page 19. Delay of Western deliveries of steel will soon be cleared away. Page 16. Peace rumors cause sharp advances in liberty bonds, and Investment stocks. Page 19. Portland and Vicinity. Weather report, data and forecast. Page 19. Irl B. Lyons bound over to grand jury on manslaughter cnarge. Page 9. Charges filed by Mrs. Almira Johnson against Juvenile Court to be given thor ough Investigation. Page ' 10. Plans for county fairs outlined before grange women a club. Page 11. Tons of salmon said to have been dumped into Columbia Klver las'. Fall. Page 20. Portland dry goods merchants say manufac turers are exploiting public. Page 16. Recreation plan for shipyard workers an nounced. Page 10. School Board adopts labor clause. Page T. Eilers music house in receiver's bands. Pago 4. New contract for grain elevator excavation to be awarded. Page la. Kaiser Replies "No" to Trotzky's Peace. IMPERIAL CONFERENCE HELD Invasion Will Proceed Until Petrograd Falls. SLAVS MENACE UKRAINE Teuton Advices Declare That Bol- shevikl Are Moving Troops Against Young Republic Whose Granaries Price of Huns. AMSTERDAM. Feb. 15. That Ger many and Austria were still at war with Russia was the belief expressed by Dr. Richard von Kuehlmann, the German foreign secretary, at the con cluding session of the recent peace con ference at Brest-Litovsk after Leon Trotzky, the Bolshevik Foreign Min ister, had made his final statement that Russia was out of the war and her armies would be demobilized, but that she would desist from signing a formal peace treaty. The acts of war. Dr. von Kuehlmann said, ended when Russia and the Teu tonic allies signed the armistice, but when the armistice ended, the warfare must be revived. Demobilisation No Factor. He added that because one or two of the contracting parties had demobilized their ar'mles this fact would In no wise alter the situation. LONDON, Feb. 15. Germany has re solved to renew military activities against Northern Russia. This decision is said to have been reached at a con ference at imperial headquarters, spe cial dispatches from Holland say. The conference was attended by Emperor William, Chancellor von Hert- Hng, Field Marshal von Hlndenburg, General von Ludendorff, Foreign Sec retary von Kuehlmann and others. The no-war-but-no-peace plan of Leon Trotzky, the Bolshevik Foreign Minister, was rejected at the confer ence, according to the Amsterdam cor respondent of the Daily Express, and as Trotzky does pot want peace he will get war. Invasion to Go On. Invasion of Great Russia, it is added, will continue at any rate until Petro grad la occupied by German troops. Russia's withdrawal from the war was a real withdrawal and the throw- v ing away of all agreements with her former allies, said Leon Trotzky, the Bolshevik Foreign Minister, in report ing to the all-Russian workmen's and soldiers' councils on the result of the Brest-Litovsk conference, according to a Russian wireless dispatch received here. The dispatch says the councils ap proved Trotzky's policy. The wireless communication says: "M. Trotzky yesterday reported to the all-Russian central executive committee of the councils the results of the Brest Litovsk negotiations. All parties. In cluding the opposition groups, rec ognized that the decision taken by the commissioners was the only correct and dignified outcome of the newly-created International situation. "The question of the possibility of a (Concluded on Page 2. Comma 2.) WHAT YOU SHOULD EAT. Tou face this question three times a day, every day of your life. If you are a woman and the head of a home you must decide it for the whole family. It is one of the most important ques tions in the world. The Oregonian today offers you a free copy of a new book that will help you greatly In decid ing what you or your family should eat. This book classifies the 90 commonest articles of food into five classes. If you eat food from each class every day, your diet is just about properly bal anced. Such knowledge is worth having, you will agree. THE WAR COOK BOOK IS FREE. 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