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HEALTH AND PROFIT Exercise, alone, mmkea garden inr worth while, but why not make your jtardrn pay? Read The Orejroniasi expert's advice. ONE RIGHT WAY That is the best way in every thing. Gardening is no excep tion. Follow The Oregonian gar den service and be well advised. VOI IsVIII NO. I7.87.. PORTLAND, OREGON, THURSDAY, MARCH 1918. PRICE FIVE CENTS. KELLAHERTOJUDGE MODESTY'S DEGREE WI5C0H1 CASTS c "JROIZiiy BIDS FOB AMERICANS HOLD 8 MILES OF TRENCH obbw wssva-isw- 5-MILE DM ZONES iiLui ni.iYi i uiinin OUT LA FOLLETTE FRIENDSHIP OF U.S. COMMISSIONER PROPOSKS TO SUPPLIES NEEDED ABROAD DE THREE DIVISIONS AT LEAST OCCUPY PRESENT SECTOR. t lX BATHING SCITS. CV NIED RAILWAY SHIPMENT. FIAN F H flRnFRR SHEEPIflDECnfflPS WITH $50,000 HERD Legislature of State Condemns Senator. DISLOYALTY DEADLOCK ENDS House After Week Concurs in Senate Resolution. STINGING REBUKE GIVEN Champion of .rr-ucd Mate-man In 111 lH-r-nc Airnf Profiteer anil uip'r " lack Roosevelt. MADISOV. Wis.. March . The I. fil ial are of Wisconsin condemned Sena tor Robert M. Ij Follette, tcvty as dis loyal to the National Government, then the Assembly, by a vote of S3 to SI. concurred In the Senate amended reso lution. Tns AnrtnMj' dad been deadlocked for a week over the proposition, and pass- of the ril.-loyalty resolution took place at 11 o'clock this morning after an all-nlsrht session. The principal speeches today - were tT Assemblyman Donnelly. Democrat, of Milwaukee, and Assemblyman Evjue. "The state of Wisconsin Is on trial pfor the bar of public opinion." said tr. Donnelly. "The people of this state and the people of the Nation expect the T.e!ttur to condemn and rebuke those In Men and representative places who have sought to obstruct our Gov ernment In the successful prosecution f the war. VA laroaala ase Smirched. Senator Robert M. I -a Follette has hy tils artlons and bis conduct brought the fair name of the stale of Wisconsin Into II repute. The people of this Nation will not be satisfied with any more lip service loyalty. They expect as and demand of ns to rise to the oc casion and publicly condemn those srho amper u In our flcht for democracy. This much we must do: we can do no I'ss- Mr. Kvju' remarks were extensive The fotlosilns; la a ynopls of them written by himself: "Asa-mbTyman Kvjue charged that money had been ased In th city of Madison to further the antl-Follette propaganda, tie staled that a leader In tfco anti-La Follette propaganda who had been In financial slratts had teen advanced enough In take rare of obll rations of $:no by people who were Interested In seelnr the proparanda continued Profiteer, tew. papers Areaaed. "Mr. Evjue save farts concerning do ing; In the city of Madison with refer ence to I -a fot!ette and contended that the campalrn against the Senator had been manufactured by the profiteers and newspaper. II said that what was lm of Madison was tru of Wis eonsln and was true of the I'nlted Paes. "Mr. Fvjue al.o denounced Roosevelt M sail that I -a toilette had never all thins half aa objectionable, at had been u'terd by the Colonel. The r-'sotutlon passed by the Senate week ago and by the Assembly today fallows: "The people of the slate of Wisconsin always have stood and always will e'ssd squarely behind the National Rovernment In all things which are es P-ntlal in bring1 the present war to i 'tcresful end. and we condemn Hen ator Robert I -a Follette and all others who have failed to see tha righteous of our Nation's cause, who have falied t support our Government matters vital to the winning, of the war. jtni vie ncnounce any attltufle or utterance of thetra which has tended In Incite setlltlon among the people of our country and to Injur Wisconsin's fair name before tho free people of the world. 1ii to Delay tails. An amendment by Assemblyman Rosa. 1.a follette leader, which would have auepended Judgment until after the report of the t'nited States Senate Investigating committee, lost. 44 to 45. Assemblyman William Kvjue. who. with Rosa. I'd the fight for La Fol- J-tte. pointed out that stricturea on the Senator's war attitude had resulted in three libel suits. He urged that the Senate committee alone waa la position to Jud"e him. "Senator I -a Follette Is either loyal or disloyal." said Mr. Evjue. "If dis loyal he should be kicked from the Senate." He aald La Follette never has been guilty of such attacks on the President as has Theodore Roosevelt. "Why does not the same staadard of patriotism arolyr he asked. BRITISH DIPLOMAT ARRIVES bir Henry Smith Here lo Alt Fngllsh .mha-ador. AN ATLANTIC PORT. March . Sir Henry Bablngton Smith arrived here today on an American rleamahlp from Knglandarfo assist Lord Reading. Great Britain's special Ambassador to the I'nlted Mates. Sir Henry, aa a memb- r of tha Anglo French financial commission to the t'nited States In lIJ. had a part In rransing for tha Anglo-French loan of JiiiO.WO.OOa - e- - t Try-Ouls on I.I vine Models i-ian. Clubwomen to Aslst In Dcvld Inr on Correct Styles. Commissioner Dan Kellaher. who also acts aa purchasing- agent for the city, announced yesterday that It is his Intention to have proposed bathing suits for the comlna- season st the municipal baths tried out on living models at the City Hall. He will be" tho chief Judge of the degree of modesty, or the reverse, to bo preserved for suits that will be adopted for the season, he hia. but. In order to be perfectly lair, ns probably will call In some prominent clubwomen to assist him In deciding tne correct styles. He also will ask the City Hall report- . . i ers or the various newspapers i en ith him during- the tryouts. which are expected to take place In the not distant future. One proposal to which Mr. Kellshrrls giving thought If to have thr living models takes to one of the city's swim ming tanks and there have them diva; and disport for the benefit of the Judges, so that they (the Judge) may be able to base their final il Irion upon facta and not upon fanr. The whole question as to thsc try outs has arisen over the high prices of cloth for suits and the problem to be decided Is whether the city shall be lenient on the question of modesty or prescribe a minimum of cloth and thereby sava money. Considerable Interest attaches to the coming tryouts. Mr. Kellaher has not decided as ye upon the personnel of the models, but yesterday said he would select young and pretty ones. GIRL BIGAMIST RELEASED Mr. HaicI Sw afford to Secure 1 c- ort-e Emm Hu-hand in Frnm-e. TACOMA. Wash, March .(. (Special.) Mrs. Ilasel Swsffor.l. 17-year-old Yakima girl, who married Private Allen Esplnora when she had another husband, now a soldier In France, will not be prosecuted on a bigamy charge. Justice John W. Llnck accepted her promise to wait six months, obtain I divorce from Strafford and marry Espl nrra. He said that he believed her first marriage was a mora formality. When the girl was released ehe and Elnora fell Into each other's arms. -Tha girl probably will go to Kapl norm's mother, who lives near Los An geles. She denied that she was a "park !lea.int." the name given girl In th Last who flit from camp to ramp mar rying soldiers for their allotments. She took no allotment from either husband. GAMBLING LOSSES $26,400 Ruian Army Officer Loc. Heavily and Attempt Suicide. NKW TURK. March . Cambllng losses of I2..400 at Chemln de-Fer pre' reded the attempt of Captain Nicholas Isegulne. Husnlan army officer, to take hie life here soma time ago. This was brought out today at District Attorney Swann'e vice and cambllng Inquiry when t'aptaln Iseguine was caFLd to the stand aa a witness. He testified to totnz the money nl the Kttx-I'arletbn Hotel In January and that the next day ha was taken to a hospital suffer ing from a revolver wound. Captain Iseguine ame here from Russia before the resolution as a financial representative of the govern ment. He said he was still getting an allowance from the pre.-cnt Russian government. WILSON'S MESSAGE COPIED O.-W. R. Jk. N. Co. to Distribute Ad-dre- to Farmer Ainu Line. Twenty thousand copies of President Wilsons recent mes.-aire to the farm ers of America are bring printed by the O.-W. It 4k N. t'onipuny for general circulation in tha agricultural districts along the company's lines. The mes sage carries an Introductory Paragraph by J. D. Farrelf. president of the line. "President Wilson's address la a splendid public document." declared William McMurray. general passenger agent, yesterday. "It cannot be railed an appeal, for the President spoke In that vein last year, 'ml It Is an appre ciation of the response made by Ameri can farmers, and It urges theru to carry on the work they have so loyally un dertaken." MORE FISHERMEN ASSURED Law Relaxed to Permit Manning American Vessels. of WASHINGTON. March . Dcepsea fishermen, citixena of allied countries, will hereafter be admitted to the United States, even though they cannot read and write. This will bring to Ameri can fishing vessels .ninny rert fish ermen, particularly Portuguese, now plying in the Azores. Tha Canadian government has been asked to exempt fishermen being held In Canada under the Canadian draft law for employment on American fish ing vessels and to grant the United States unrestricted use of Canadian ports for American fishing Vessels. Harmonica band latest Soldier Mouth Organists Organizing at Camp Mead. Maryland. WASHINGTON. March . A band composed of 1000 harmonica players is being orgaolxcd at Camp Meade. Mary land. So many soldiers show ability on this Instrument that the War Department commission on training camp activi ties Is considering organising a mouth org's ban! In each division. Navy Statoamps Freed Fom Alcohol. YALLEJO CONDITIONS WORST California Town Menace Mare Island. to 25 BARS IN SHORT STREET German Said to Control Entire Traf fic? Edict Mentions Also Great Lakes Norfolk, Hampton Road-, Port Royal. WASHINGTON, March) . Dry xoncs five miles wide, irrespective of incor porated cities and towna within those limits, are placed around the perma nent naval training poets and the naval academy at Annapolis. .Md., in a gen eral order announced today by Secre tary Daniel. A statement accompanying the or der indicated that the new restrictions might be made to apply to other ramps or stations later, but for tho present the order applies only to the following: Great Lakes training station, near Chicago; stations at Norfolk and Hamninn Roads: training camp at Mam Island: marine stations at Quantlco, Vs., and Port Royal, S. C and Annapolis Naval Academy. Sosae Kareptloaa Made. Within the five-mile xones. under au thority of the selective sorvico act. the Secretary forbids the sale or giving away of any alcoholic liquor. Including wine or beer, or the importation or sucn liquor except for medical or sacramen tal purposes. As the Army has done In Its regu latlons. an exception is made or the serving of liquor In private homes to guests or members of the family. In his statement explaining the or der. Mr. Daniels said it bad become nrcesssry to protect the younr sailors gathered for training. He referred at length to conditions at Newport and at Vatlcjo. Cnl.. near Mnre Island sta tion, which he said the local authorities had been vainly urged to correct. 'For many months," said the state ment, "evils resulting from the pres ence of intoxicating liquor In the vi cinity of certain placea under naval Jurisdiction haa been brought repeated ly to the attention of the department By various means this liquor finds its way Into the possession of the en listed men of the Navy and Marine Corps stationed at' these places and the moral and physical welfare of these men Is thus being seriously endangered. "A so-called 'dry xnn.c' of only a half- mile In width surrounding these sta tions would be ineffective, inasmuch as. In certain cases, a considerable area in which the objectionable trade in liquor flourishes would not thus be covered. It Is. therefore, tha strong convic tion of responsible officers on the spot li'nnrluried on Pace 2. Column 2. Ten Million Bushels Pile Cp at Chi cago Due to Lack or Food and Rail Co-ordination. CHICAGO, March 6. (Special.) More than 10,000,000 bushels of grain, includ ing about 2,500,000 bushels of corn which have been ordered shipped by the United States Food Administration to the allied nations i.nd the United States Army abroad, are tied up in Chicago elevators and railway terminals because of a lack of co-ordination between the Food Administration and Railway Di rector'a office in Washington, accord ing to Chicago grain men. Cars for mov Ing the grain are not available, it Is charged. , ' Despite the fact that Chicago grain men tell of the visit to this city within the last two weeks of Frank G. Crowell, of the Food Administration, to speed up grain shipments to the Kastern sea board and of other Washington repre sentatives' demands for Immediate ship ment, local food and railroad Govern ment agents declare the "Food Adminis tration Is getting all the grain It wants at this time." An official, of the Chicago Board of Trade explained the situation as fol lows: "We were told by the Food Adminis tration officials, who came here from Washington the latter part of February, that they wanted us to ship at least isO.OOO bushels of kiln-dried corn to the Eastern seaboard immediately and that the Administration would see we got the cars Immediately. 'Several Chicago firms began load Ing this grain Into the cars as fast as they were emptied of corn brought here from the West. When we tried to get our clearance orders from the Railroad Director's office we were unable to do so. Nor have we been able since to get any satisfaction regarding the situ ation. In the meantime the grain lies in Chicago, unavailable not only to the allies, but for home consumption." DRY VOTE GAINS STRENGTH New York Assembly Adopts Report Favoring Prohibition. ALBANY. N. Y., March 6. By a vote of 90 to S3 the Assembly today adopted the report of the judiciary committee favoring the ratification of the Federal prohibition amendment. The measure was then made a spe cial order for consideration next Tues day. AUSTIN. Tex., March 6. The "bone dry" amendment to the state-wide pro- ! hibitlon bill, niaklng it a felony for any person or corporation to have liquor in his possession, except for scientific or medicinal purposes, was voted down today in the lower house of the Legis lature. OLIVER TO BE. PREMIER British Columbia Minister of Rail roads Succeeds Brewster. VICTORIA, B." C. March . John Oliver. British Columbia Minister of Railroads, was summoned by the Lieutenant-Governor today and asked to form a provincial administration. Sum moning of Oliver means he succeeds the te H. C. Brewster as Premier of the province. . .. . The new leader requested the present members of the Cabinet to continue in office. With Premier Oliver presiding, the Provincial Legislature was to as semble late today. REPUDIATED! We Travel Same Road, Says Bolsheviki. POUTICAL AIMS REAFFIRMED Russians Prepared to Retire to Ural Mountains. WAR - COUNCIL ORGANIZED Commander-in-Chief Krylenko In quires of Teuton Leaders Regard ing Continuance of Fighting After Conclusion of Peace. PETROGRAD, March 6. Moscow is to be declared the new capital of Rus sia and the government proposes to publish a statement to this effect im mediately. Petrograd will be pro claimed a free port. Notwithstanding the signing: of peace, the government is determining to trans fer all the state Institutions to Mos cow, Nizhl-Novgorod and Kaxan. Th removal' of the ministries of foreign affairs, communications and finance be gan today.- The population of Petrograd is hast ily quitting the city, but there are many transportation difficulties and al ready the roads leading from Petro grad are crowded with all sorts vehicles. The' Russian delegates returned from Brest-Litovsk today and will report t the executive of the Soviets as soon possible. Hostilities Reported Halted. According to, the latest reports hos tilities have been suspended on all fronts, the Germans having halted o the northern front along the line com prising Narva, Pskov, Vitebsk, Mohllev and Orsha. The Bolsheviki leaders are. prepared to withdraw even as far as to the Ural Mountains rather than submit to th defeat of the revolution, said - Leon Trotxk Bolsheviki Foreign Minister, n an interview with the Associated Press. M. Trotzky said that If the Bolsheviki could go back to the state of affairs which existed last October just before they overthrew the Kerensky govern ment, they would repeat the whol programme which has been put through since that time. "In October we did not exclude th possibility of a holy war," he declared. "Now we consider such a war possible. The soldiers' and workmen's delegates must how fight for organization and order." Qaestloa of Guarantee Raised. M. Trotsky was asked whether the United, States might assist in the process of organization by detailing to the Trans-Siberian railway the 300 American railway experts now waiting in Japan, and also what guarantee the Bolsheviki could give that goods im ported in consequence- of such assist ance would not fall Into German hands. He said that if the Russian govern- (Conrluded on Page 3. Column 1.) Frontage Liable to Extension at Any Time to Regular Allotment for Army Corps. WASHINGTON. March 6. American troops are now holding something over eight miles of trenches on the battle front in France, it was learned today. although In an air line their frontage is xonly about four and a half miles. This frontage is liable to extension at any time to the regular trench allot ment for an army corps. Irregularity of the trench lines is re sponsible for their eight miles of length. They are laid out so that flanking fire may be obtained along every part of the front. Strong points containing ma chine guns jut out for this purpose. The trenches also follow closely any pro tective slopes of the country and wan der up and down hill. The American sector is understood to be a divisional frontage, which means that at least three divisions of American troops are there to give the necessary support in depth for the front lines. This fact has aroused speculation here as to who will be se lected by General Pershing to command the first corps of his army. Major- General Hunter Liaeett is known to have acted in that capacity, but as yet the expeditionary commander has not made any recommendation. It is possible the French system will be followed in the American Armv so far as the appointment of corps com manders goes. It is the custom in France to select any one of the division commanders in a corps and to place him at the head of the corps. He retains his rank as division commander, how ever, and in the case of the American Army that would be a Major-General. If the French practice is adopted, there fore, the grade of Lleutenan t-General may be employed only for field army commanders. AUTO WRECKED BY TRAIN Rev. Jacob blocker and Family Es cape Injury at Salem. SALEM, Or.,. March 6. (Special.) An automobile driven by the Rev. Jacob Stocker, pastor of the' Che-meketa-street Evangelical Church, of this city, was struck by the Shasta limited at the Court-street crossing of the Southern Pacific this evening and wrecked. Although several members o his family were in the car with him, none was injured. The Rev. Mr. stocker struck a woma with his automobile In Portland sevcra months asro, and she died from her juries. Mr. Stocker was exonerated from blame after an Investigation. COLOr.EL READER TO SPEAK Veteran of Battle of Soinme to Giv Addrcss in Auditorium Friday. Colonel John Leader, commander the University of Oregon battalion, will speak at the Municipal Auditorium on Friday, March 22, at 8 o'clock under th auspices of the college women of Port land, with Mrs. Alice Benson Beach as general chairman and Mrs. George Ger linger, chairman of the sale of tickets. Colonel Leader went through the bat tie of the feomme and at one time he and his company were three and a half miles ahead of the regular lines. He will tell of this incident and of others equally as interesting. The college women will have as their guests 2000 shipworkers and soldiers who will occupy the balcony. FARMERS' MEETING CALLED Heavier Production lo Be Urged at Vancfnjver Gathering. e X A NtXIL'VEK. Wash., March 6. (Spe clal.) A meeting of farmers of Clarke County has been called for 10 A. M. Saturday, March 9, in the County Courthouse, . by George B. Simpson, Federal Food Administrator of this county. The object of the. meeting will be to urge increased production this year, and among the speakers will be M. J Newhouse, county agricultural agent; Donald McMaster, Senator E. L. French, E. Gerrard. Robert A. Webster. M. R. Lynch, A. T. Moe. I. R- Fletcher, district fruit inspector; H. W. Sparks, formerly with Pullman State College; Charles Gneely and Koy HoiienDecK. $7500 DAMAGES DEMANDED Astoria Car Company Held Respon sible for Killing Man. ASTORIA, Or., March 6. (Special.) Anglo Peppas, administrator of the es cover $7500 damages for the death of Paul Peppas. The complaint asserts tnat peppas was killed on the evening of January 4 by being struck by one of the defend ant's streetcars on the trestle in the east end of the city. Negligence on the nart of the company is alleged in ot haviner the platrorm at tne crossing properly lighted, not having adequate lights on the front and rear of the car, and in not having a man stationed at the rear end of the car. HONOR FLAG. IS DESIGNED Cities Exceeding Quotas in lxun Drive to Receive Emblems. WASHINGTON, March 6. The third liberty loan, which will open one month from today, is to have a distinctive flag of its own. Red border, white interior field, with three vertical blue stripes this is the design lor tne Honor em Diem hich will be bestowed on each city exceeding its quota of sales of liberty bond. If a city doubles its quota one star ill bo added to its flag: and for trebling of the quota will be recog nized by two stars. Pratt of N-Bar-N Attemps Coup. PLAN HAS GREAT SCOPE Plot Goes Wrong and Plot ters Land in Jail. ACCOMPLICES ARE CAUGHT Eastern Oregon Herder and 6 Oil of Employer's ' Blooded Ewes S(ill MissingMen Taken Are Freed Under Buil of $1500. When Frank Pratt, trusted herder for the N'-bar-N Livestock Company, broke faith with" his employers recent ly, he did it in no half-hearted fashion, but decamped from the Eastern Oregon range with a $50,000 band of blooded ewes, 2400 in numben, according to James H. Murphy, of Portland, .secre tary of the company. Chance alone prevented Pratt and two accomplices. O. 'a. Wheat, of San Antonio, Tex., and C. H. Bo'wn. of Boise, Idaho, from perfecting their coup, i-ays Mr. Murphy. Sought by the Sheriffs of three states, Pratt is rovinR the range somewhere with 600 head cf ewes, while Wheat and Bown have been arrested for the alleged theft. Bown has furnished bail of $1500 and is now at liberty -pending trial. For Pratt's apprehension the company of fers a reward of $1500. Theft Is Largest on Record. Largest of livestock steals on rec ord, shaming the raids of all rustlers in the history of the West, the at tempted theft of the N-Bar-N's herd was boldly planned and brazenly exe cuted; and was foiled only when 1800 of the ewes were offered for sale on the Omaha market. Losses of the com pany through the. death of many of the sheep and the expense incidental to the . affair already amount to $6000. By a fortnight's forced drive, brutally unrelenting, covering a distance for which a month is usually allowed, the sheep were driven from the Malheur range into Nevado and shipped at Win nemucea, Humboldt County, for the Eastern markets. Because many of tho ewes were heavy with lamb, and it is a recognized principle of the industry that such ani mals should not be transferred from the clement weather of the Oregon range to the rigors of an Eastern Win-' ter, the attempted theft was frustrated ' by the suspicion aroused through this circumstance. ; Mexican Furnishes Cl, The band of 2400 ewes, choicest of the company's flocks, was in Pratt's charge on range adjacent to the Hole- in-the-Ground ranch, in Malheur Coun ty, says Murphy. It is doubtful if their absence from the range would have been noted for many weeks had it not been that an itinerant Mexican herder stopped to visit at another of the N-bar-N ranches. "I was at Winnemucca a week ago," said the Mexican. "Funny thing, there. Some fellows were loading a bunch of ewes, just about ready to lamb. They were shipping them East." Bob Acton, a cattle foreman of the N-bar-N, mulled this information over, played his hunch, and on the next day rode across Mahogany Mountain to the sheep range, where Pratt presumably guarded his flocks. Both Pratt and the sheep were missing from the land scape. Acton kept on to Jordan val ley, where he telephoned the informa tion to W. H. Gess, manager of the ranch, at Nampa, Idaho. Livestock Markets Warned. Telegrams to and from the Southern Pacific agent at Winnemucca elicited the additional Information that 1S00 ewes, wearied from a rorcea arive, nati been shipped from that point to Chi- (Conrluded on Pae 2. Column 4.) WHAT PRUSSIAMSM MEANS. The actions of the German armies in Belgium, in Poland and In Northern France have blotted the record of humanity. This policy of Prussianism this deliberately adopted "fright fulness" with Its aftermath of blood and tears, is one of the' great wrongs against which America fights today. The evidence in the case is set forth in an official book just published by the United States Government. A copy of this book will be sent free to any reader of The Oregonian. It is based on the reports of American diplomats and relief workers, on the protests of high church authorities, on official German proclamations, on the field diaries of German soldiers. To secure a copy of this free book, send your name and ad dress with a 2-cent stamp for return postage to The Portland Oregonian Information Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, Director, Washington, D. C. Ask for "Ger man War Practices." F.