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GERMAN
FACT DNS
IN BLOODY CLASH
Troops and Radicals Stage
Battle in Streets.
NEWSPAPER OFFICES STORMED
Armed Forces Seek Surender
of Executive Council.
PREMIER EBERT CHEERED
llrrr Aucr Forced to. Resign Post
l Point of Revolver Workers
Demand Equal I allot.
Zt nil II. Ihrr. 8. Tke eaa laities la
the flat (las; at Berlin Friday amounted
le IM, nnillit latest erlla ad
vlcw rrfvliH krc Saturday The
Spartaeiao rr radical Sociallata are re
aarlrd be arradlna; with Machine
taree aeetloaa af tke auburaa
Merlin.
Tke markers' ana" Idler eamntlttee
kaa keeoate demoralised aad relnaea t
arms.
lrert riskllas la re sorted ay tke Cm-
Inane- Veirtte ta ke going aa la May
fiee. eanltal ,f (ke province af Raealan
Heeae aad aae af tke nrlnclpul far
treaaea af Ueraaaar. Hair neraana huve
keea killed.
Ft RUN. Dec. 7. (By the Associated
Press.) The i-lasn between government
troop and the follower of the parta
lus. or radical group, resulted in from
IS to 1( persons being killed, according
to various reports. The number of
wounded Is not expected to exceed SO.
JJeveral girls who were passengers on
a streetcar were among those killed.
It appears that the audience from
one of the three meetings of deserters
from the army was marching north
ward in Chaussee Strasse to Join the
audience from a meeting held in a hall
further north. The Kuaillter Guards
were drawn up at the Intersection of
lnvaliden. Strasse and the commander
warned the people to disperse.
Xewsaaster Office Starmed.
The marchers were crying "Forward!
Tne soldiers won't shoot their com
rades." The marchers tried to pierce
the line whereupon the order to fire
was given. Besides the wounded, sev
eral were badly hurt rushing through
broken show windows seeking cover.
A group of soldiers stormed the edi
torial rooms of Karl Liebknecht's news
paper and attempted to . destroy the
plant, frustrated in their raid on the
new.-paper office by government or
ders.' the soldiers then attempted to
arrest the members of the executive
committee of the soldiers' and work
men's council, the soldiers apparently
laboring under the misapprehension
that their officer had been ordered by
the government to make the arrests.
Oppaaiag Traops Clash.
This occurred at the same hour as
the clash between the government
troops and the Sparlacus Insurgents.
The executive committee was holding a
meeting in the former Prussian House
of Deputies. The chamber was invaded
by the armed forces and a demand
made for the surrender of the council
uf :S in the name of the Ebert-Haase
government. People's Commissioner
Barth, who also is a member of the
committee, faced the invaders with a
challenge for their authority.
Meanwhile, Inquiry was made at gov
ernment headquarters and resulted In
the detention of the leaders of the in-
urgent forces who were armed with
band weapons and flame throwers, for
tho purpose of establishing responsi
bility for the attempted revolution.
Raid Cnmalete Flascn.
It developed that the men had been
invited by unattached officers to meet
at a given hour at the Brandenburg
Gate for the purpose of raiding and
overthrowing the soldiers" and work
men's committee.
Such action, they were told, was de
manded in the interests of the Ebert
lUase government, and furthermore
that it was certain to meet with public
approval.
The raid proved a complete fiasco,
aa did aleo a similar attempt an hour
later, which apparently was planned by
Dr. Licbknecht's followers, as it wai
announced at their meetings.
Premier Ekert I'keercd.
Yesterday evening Berlin foot guards
ind sailors marched to the former Chan
cellor's house and called out Premier
Kbert. who made a speech urging the
men to keep their military units Intact
for the purpose of responding to hurry
talla. Premier Ebert was cheered as
the coming Fresldcut of the German re
public He modestly declined to ser
iously consider the proposition, urging
that the Cabinet for the present was
concerned in problems of immediate
urgency, such aa the food situation and
demobilization.
The streets tonight are deserted; the
university is closed, as Its buildings on
the Unter Den Linden have been
requisitioned for the purpose of quar
tering troops there.
BERLIN". Dec. . (By thj Associated
Trra) What promises to be a de
cisive battle for the elimination of par
tUan politics in the soldiers' and work
men's councils throughout Germany
lias already been precipitated by the
announced determination of the sol-
rnciuded a Face X Columa 2.)
MUSTERING OUT HUGE
TASK AT VANCOUVER
more: thax ioo experts are
ENGAGED IX WORK.
Between 100 and 250 Men Will Be
Discharged Dally Under Plan
or 3lilltary Officers. "
' VANCOUVER. Wash., Dec. 8. (Spe
cial.) Demobilization is proceeding
here according to programme, and from
now on between 100 and 250 men a day
will be discharged from service. There
are 30.000 men to be demobilised, and it
will take considerable time for them to
pass through the demobilisation tests.
More than 100 experts are laboring
night and day to return the men to
civilian life. It requires about four
days for a man to pass through the
military procedure, after entering the
demobilisation office.
The Government pays the enlisted,
drafted and volunteer men 3V4 cents
per mile to the point from which they
entered the service. railroad ticket
office has been established near the
big cutup plant, where soldiers may
secure their tickets and Pullman ac
commodations." As fast as the men are mustered out
here, others will be brought in from
the rural camps. It is expected that
about 12.000 men will be held at this
post for an Indefinite time.
When a soldier gets his discharge,
he packs his belongings, says good
bye, and leaves on the first train.
OREGON BOYS RETURN SOON
65th Regiment, Coast Artillery
Corps, Included n Late List.
SEATTLE, Dec 8. Included In the
list of regiments soon to be returned
from abroad, as announced by General
P. C. March, Chief of Staff. Saturday,
at Washington, was the 65th regiment.
Coast Artillery Corps. This regiment
went from the forts on Puget Sound,
and was largely made up of Oregon
and Washington men, formerly mem
bers of the Oregon and Washington
Coast Artillery.
The 63d and 69th regiments. Coast
Artillery Corps, both organized at Pu
get Sound forts, were announced a
week ago to be returned to this coun
try soon. These regiments were re
cruited principally from the Northwest
states!
YANKS LIKEF00D SERVED
So Complaint Is Made at Camps
Containing 300,000 Soldiers. -WASHINGTON.
Dec. 8 The food
served to the American soldier in camp
d In the field has been "universally
satisfactory." Brigadier-General Wood,
acting Inspector-General of the Army,
said in his annual report today. Gen
eral Wood said one Inspector reported
not a single complaint regarding food
had come to him during one trip, which
included visits to camps of 300,000 sol
diers. CAMP FREMONT TO CLOSE
Most of 5000 Men at Cantonment
Will Be Demobilized.
SAN JOSE. Cal.. Doc. 8 Camp Fre
mont is to be definitely abandoned as
an army cantonment January 1. This
announcement was made officially at
headquarters there Saturday. It was
stated that 600d men now quartered
there, most of them belonging to the
development battalions, will be demo
bilized as rapidly as possible and that
the camp will be discarded as soon as
this work is finished.
STEEL SHIPS LAUNCHED
Seattle Floats 89 Vessels Since Jan
uary 1, 1818.
SEATTLE. Dec. . With the launch
ing of two steel and one wooden ves
sels here Saturday, Seattle's total
launchings since January 1, 1918.
reached 63 steel and S3 wooden ships.
Launchings today were the 9,600 ton
Edgefield and 1.800 ton West Elcajon
by the Skinner ac Eddy plants, and the
wooden steamer Allenhurst, by the
Allen Shipbuilding Company.
SPAIN TO EXPEL HUNS
German Ambassador and Members
of Embassy to Go.
PARIS. Dec. S. "La Liberte" today
prints a dispatch from Madrid, saying
that the new Spanish Premier, Count
Uoroanones, intends to expel the Ger
man Ambassador, Prince Nat I bo r, and
aUo several members of the German
Embassy who have been notoriously
engaged In spying and supporting the
anti-dynastic agitation:
KING GEORGE AT LILLE
Enthusiastic PcinonMratoin Greets
Hrlti-.li Ruler.
LILLE .France, Dec 7. (Havas.)
King George of England paid a visit
to Lille today. He arrived at 1 o'clock
In the afternoon, greeted by an enthu
siastic demonstration from the crowds
assembled all along the way he traveled.
He proceeded to the general head
quarters of the British Fifth Army,
where he received the local authorities.
HUNS READY TO EVACUATE
Representative at Warsaw Sends
Word to PoII-.li Government.
BERNE. Dec S. The Polish bureau
here announces that Count Kessler the
German representative at Warsaw, has
officially informed the Polish govern
ment that Germany is ready to evac
uate the districts of Rosan, Flodavna,
Konstantinow and Biala.
SHELL-TORN LAND
VISITED BYEDITORS
140-Mile Trip Taken Along
British War Front.
GHASTLY RUIN EVERYWHERE
Territory Denuded, Homes
Ruined, Fields Ravaged.
WAR'S HORRORS DEPICTED
Only One Bright Memory Remains,
Optimism of People Taking
Up Life Anew.
BY EDGAR B. PIPER.
RADINGHEM, France, Nov. 15. (Ed!
torlal Correspondence.) We were not
sure about Lille. It had been for four
years and four aays In the German
possession, and tne evacuation had oc
curred but five days previously. The
Hun has an unpleasant way of leaving
behind him reminders of his occupa
tion, and o his reluctance to get out,
in the shape of buried mines with time
fuses, or deadly gas deposits, which
overcome those who chance to en
counter them.
General Birdwood, commander of the
Fifth Array, had given our escort a
pass for the editorial party with the
injunction that if the guard at Lille
thought it Imprudent to enter we were
to stay out.
Country All la Ruins. .
For 20 or more miles the party
traveled through a completely denuded
territory ruined homes, ravaged fields.
leveled trees, miles of ghastly trenches,
endless stretches of barbed wire, the
debris and offal of war. The eye grew
tired with the monotony of ruin and
ceased to be attracted by even the
moat freakish performance of ahot or
shell.
The roads, however, were kept In fair
repair basalt blocks, mostly. Lorries
loaded with soldiers or with, stores
were always going or oming. Usually
they kept to the right of the road,
where they belonged.
There is a town of Loos, which is a
suburb of Lille, somewhat remote from
that other Loos which has so often
figured In the war news. As we neared
Loos, a lone woman was seen hunting
for something in the field. She was the
first of the kind to be discovered In
many, many miles.
- German Slgaboarda Not Removed.
Here and there was a signboard of
some kind, in German, marking the
roads, or the headquarters of a regi
ment, or pointing the way to a hospital
or amusement center, or carrying the
characteristic and strictly German
"verboten." No one had yet bad the
time or the Interest to remove these of
fensive relics of the German occupa
tion. After awhile there was a garden,
a cheery oasis in the vast stretches
that seemed able to produce nothing but
(Concluded on Page 4. Column 3.)
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Official Casualty- Report.
TTT ASHINGTON, Dec. 8. Today's
VV casualty list is the largest yet Is
sued in any one day, 'containing 3835
names, classified as follows: Killed In
action, 406; died of wounds, 173; died of
accident and other causes, seven; died
of airplane accident, three; died of
disease, 2C0; wounded severely, 191S,
wounded (degree undetermined), 227;
wounded slightly, 656;' missing in
action, 285.
The total casualties to date, carefully
revised, by the War Department and
taking out the duplications due to the
same soldier being twice reported, gives
the followir.r; .summary, which includes
those reported today:
Killed in action (including 396 at sea) 3,431
Died ot wounds
Died or disease 12.M33
Died of accident and pther causes. .
Wounded In action 06,764
Missing in action (including prisoners) 1-!.S0S
Total to date 116,823
OREGON.
Killed In action
Clostermann, Albert M. (Lt.); George Clos-
termann, 466 East Sherman St., Portland.
Ray. Lee G., Myrtle Point. Or.
Missing In action
Hard! n. James F.. Cottage Grove, Or.
Sclaventts. Nick, Marshfield, Or.
' Died of wounds
Bucknum, Paul K.. Baker, Or.
Wounded severely .
Robertson. Charles A. (Lt), Mrs. Vira Rob
ertson,' 1328 Sandy boulevard. Portland.
William, Ray T. (Lt.), Forest Grove, Or.
Dorris. Benj. F. (Lt.). Eugene. Or.
Lee, Arthur T. (Lt.), Roaeburg, Or.
Scott, Roy, Heppner, or. '
Moak, Newton E.. Wilmer a Moak, 63 East
21st St., Portland. Or.
Krebs, Henry, Heppner, Or.
Tureman. Burr H., John Day. Or.
Beery. Jamea M., Jacksonville, Or.
Uourdeau, Emlle C; Mrs. Louise Gourdeau,
16 Twenty-second street, Portland, Or.
Froat. Philip L., Oawego. Or.
Con Ion. John J., Cascade Locks. Or.
Grano, Adolph, Domlnlo Urano, 424 Secona
street, Portland. Or.
Nielson. Nlela P., C. S. SpeHer. Northwestern
Bank bids.. Portland. Or.
Letainger. Joseph C. Troutdale, Or.
Gllmore. Robert J., Mrs. Jennie Wllllngnam,
873 Taylor street. Portland. Or.
Weller. H. J.. Baker. Or. .
Wounded undetermined
Llndemann, P.obert C, Kufus. Or.
Wounded slightly
Turner. Raymond H-, lone. Or.
Thomas. Clifford H., Newport. Or.
WASHINGTON.
Killed In action
Anderson, Chris (Sgt), Belllngham. Wash.
Wheeler, Logan (Cpl.). Yakima, Wash.
Connelly. I. 11, Spokane, Wash.
Shanshan, J. G., Seattle, Wash.
Mason. R. P., Vancouver, Wash.
Missing in action
Mulloy, P. A.. Seattle. Wash.
Weller. R. H.. Manette. Wash.
Jones, S. C, Seattle, Wash.
1 Vi .1 f wftlind.
Branson, Nelson. Seattle,' Wash.
Died of disease
Rosin. Albert W.. Castle Rock, Wash.
Wounded severely
Charlton. Max R (Capt.). Spokane, Wash.
Jump. Clyde W. (Capt.. Tacoraa, Wash.
Larson, Martin L. (Sgt.), Wilbur. Wash.
Witte, Louis J. (Sgt.). Seattle. Wash.
Roas. Earl A. (Sgt.), Taconia, Wash.
McCormack, Leo K. (Cpl.). Republic. Wash.
Gale. Bruce F. (Cpl.). Puyallup, Wash.
Mil la. Paul A. (Bug.), Sunset, Wash.
Keegan. Lawrence, tipokane, Waah.
Goldstein, George Z., Seattle, Waah.
Judkuis, Thramaa J.. Granger.. Wash. -, .-"
Godwin, William F., Dewmtto,' Wash.
Dollarhlde, John C. Waitsburg. Wash.
Berg, Otto, Prescott, Wssh.
Ansel, John K Everett. Waah.
Willis, Nels P.. Hoqulam. Waah.
Skoglund, John M., Preaton. Wash.
Brown. Avery G.. Taconia, Waah.
Lee, Perry J., Aberdeen, Waah.
McKenney, Georire C, Walla Walla, Wash.
Howe, Elbridge E., Taconia, Wash.
Coe. Richard R, Seattle, Wash.
Anderson. Fred. Tacoma. Waah.
Boland. William. Yakima. Waah.
Martin. William H., Spokane. Wash.
Dorance, Joaeph J., Seattle, Waah,
Coleman, Abney G.. Kent. Wash.
Lamp. Wallaca G.. Seattle,
Kunert, Edward L., Aberdeen, Waah.
Jones, William W., Springfield, Wash.
Senter, Harry H., Spokane.
Farley, Harley E. (Cpl.). Chelan, Wash.
Wounded undetermined"
Merrifleld, Cedrlc R., Seattle, Wash.
Wounded slightly
Heinemann, Elmer H.. Addy. Waah.
Dean, Sidney C Castle Rock, Waah.
Hadlev. Delbert E., Hylobus, Waah.
Campbell, Malcolm J.. Yakima, Wash.
Metzker. Ernest A., walla walla, Waah.
Tammay, Anton, Seattle, Wash.
Blackenburg, Harry, Clinton. Waah.
Canutt, Volney A.. Spokane, Waah.
IDAHO.
Killed In action
Petty, Hurscliel W. Bugler), Welaer, Idaho.
(Continued on Page 6, Column 2.)
A TERRIBLE DISAPPOINTMENT.
CABLE, TELEGRAPH,
PHOWE POOL URGED
Theodore N. Vail Presents
Recommendations.
ONE HEAD FOR ALL WANTED
Dismemberment of Properties
Not Contemplated.
WORLD COMPETITION AIM
Telephone Head Advocates Better
Means of Communication
i
With Other Nations.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 8. Pooling of
the telephone and telegraph facilities
of the country on one hand and the
marine cable lines .on the other, each
with a comprehensive operating or
ganization under a single executive
head, is recommended to Postmaster-
General Burleson by Theodore N. Vail,
president of the American Telegraph &
Telephone Company. In his letter, made
public today, Mr. Vail said the pooling
arrangement would be brought about
without dismemberment of the proper
ties and In such a manner that they
could be turned back to private owners
at the expiration of the period of Gov
ernment control..
"What should be done to create an
Ideal system," said Mr. Vail, "cannot
be done because of existing- laws, nor
would complete consolidation be justi
fied since to undo, such a consolidated
system into its former units would lead
to unwarranted waste.
"There . are, however, many things
which can be done which would not
produce waste, and which might, by
improvement of service, help further to
educate the public and create an aa
tively favorable attitude toward some
co-relation or co-ordination of opera
tion and service with the control and
regulation and restriction through
some combination of governmental au
thority and private ownership or ope
ration, retaining all the advantages and
incentives of both."
Land Systems DlsCassed.
Mr. Vail, who is acting as conflden
tial adviser to Postmaster-General Bur
leson in the control of the wire system
controlled by the Government, dis
cussed the land and marine systems
separately. If the United States, he
said, is to become a commercial and
industrial world center, an American
cable system consonant with the obli
gations and opportunities of the coun
try must be organized
"There must be a United States sys
tem which will place this country di
rectly in communicaton with every
country with- which we have or hope
to have important commercial rela
tions," declared Mr. VaiL
"As it is now we are on one side of
the world system. We must be made
one of the centers of the world system
if we expect to compete on even- terms
(Concluded on Page 3, Column 2.)
PRISON BREAK FOILED
BY WARDEN STEVENS
WILIiARD TAXXER FOUND AF
TER FOUR HOURS' SEARCH.
George Demont, Co-partner In At
tempted Escape, Sentenced From
Clatsop County for Burglary.
SALEM, OK, Dec 8. (Special.) An
attempt at a penitentiary break on the
part of Willara Tanner, notorious as
the partner of Hazel Erwin in the
slaying of a man named Wallace in
Portland, and George Demont, burglar,
was foiled tonight and the two men
were recaptured after a four-hour
search by Warden Stevens and his men.
Tannar and Demont had been given
the freedom of the yard inside the big
walls for exercise. When noses were
counted the men were missing and a
search Instituted. They were found
cowering down in a cold storage house
awaiting an opportunity to make a
break across the yard and go over the
wall.
Tanner has been at the prison e'-ce
September 27, 1912, eerving from one
to 15 years for manslaughter, from
Multnomah County. By coincidence he
was arrested ' under the regime of
Warden Stevens, when the latter was
Sheriff of Multnomah County, and his
partner In the crime, Hazel Erwin, was
captured here after hiding out several
days.
Demont is serving from three to 10
years from Clatsop County for bur
glary. He is also a parole violator.
McADOO FACES MORE LOSS
Director-General Must Work Two
Weeks for Nothing.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 8. Secretary
McAdoo, who quit the Cabinet because
his salary was insufficient, now faces
the predicament of workinog two weeks
for the Government for nothing. He
will retire as Secretary of the Treasury
December 16 and his pay at the rate ol
812,000 a year will stop. Until Jan
uary 1, however, he will continue as
Director-General of Railroads, and for
this service receives not a cent, "al
though bis regional directors receive
840,000 a year. Consequently from De
cember 16 to January 1 he will be off
the payroll.
STOLEN AUTOS RECOVERED
San Francisco Has Record for Pa
cific Coast. Cities.
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 8.-l(Special.)
Of 105S automobiles stolen in San
Francisco from July 1, 1917, to June 30,
1918, all but 628 were recovered by the
police, according to a report made to
Captain of Detectives Duncan Mathe-
son.
In Los Angeles the report shows that
1587 automobiles were stolen last year
and of this number 267 were not re
covered.
In Portland, during 1917, 702 ma
chines were stolen and 645 recovered.
GERMANS TO DOFF HATS
Story of Humiliating British Orders
Comes From Berlin.
AMSTERDAM, Dec. 8. The British
authorities in charge of the occupation
in the German zone assigned to the
British army have ordered all German
men to raise their hats to British of
ficers, according to an official an
nouncement In Berlin.
They must do so similarly when- the
British national anthem is sung.
HUNS HELD UP ON BORDER
Thousands of Soldiers Wait to Re
turn to Homes In Switzerland.
BERNE, Thursday, Dec. 5. From
25,000 to 35,000 German soldiers who
formerly lived in Switzerland are, in
waiting along the Swiss frontier,
anxious to return to their homes.
The Swiss government, however, has
made strict regulations regarding the
crossing of the frontier by these men
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Weather.
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 49
degrees; minimum, 36 degrees.
TODAY'S Rain; southwesterly winds.
War.
Official casualty list. Page 1.
foreign.
Herman factions stage bloody fight. Page 1.
Shell-torn and devastated France visited by
American editors. Page 1.
Americans advance ahead of schedule.
Page 2.
Germans fret under drastic regulations.
Page 3.
National.
Pooling of telephone, telegraph and cable
lines recommended. Page 1.
President calls on Americans to join Red
Cross. Page 11.
Secretary Daniels revlewa work of Xavy De
partment. Page 6.
Preaident believed to hold hope of being
made first chieftain of League of Na
tions. Page 5.
Senate may defeat league of nations. Pag 3.
Domestic.
Mr. .Schwab to reaunje active management of
Bethlehem Steel Company. Pago 4.
America to bid for German dye ' trade.
Pago lo.
Sports.
Mare Island football team has deficit of
S3500 on Northwestern tour. Pago 12.
Abner Blair wins first notch on W. G. Bristol
trapshooters" trophy. Page 12.
1'acific Northwest.
Mustering out huge taslc at. Vancouver.
Page 1.
Prison break foiled by Warden Stevens.
Page 1.
Portland and Vicinity.
Bed Cross campaign plana taking shape.
Page 10.
Methodist ministers meet here Tuesday.
Page 0.
Pacific International Livestock Exposition
opens today. Page 10.
Health bureau announces campaign against
sneezers. Page 16.
New express rate may bring Increase in
price of milk. Page 13.
Red flag address rouses unionists. - Page 1.
Weather report, data and forecast. Pag 13.
RED FLAG ADDRESS
ROUSES UNIONISTS
I. W. W. Remarks Cause
Members to Revolt.
H. H. LAMBERT HOOTED DOWN
Four Men Desert Ranks of
Shipwrights and Joiners.
STRIKE BALLOT IN BALANCE
Seventeen Hundred Workers Assem
ble at Ice Palace and Vote on
Federal Wage Award.
With assertions that the meeting
savored too much of Bolshevism and
that the speaker was un-American, a
group of members bolted yesterday
afternoon from tho session of 170(1
shipwrights and Joiners, at which a
referendum vote on the matter of a
strike against the Macy award was
taken, and announced they will quit the
union.
V"hen he arose and attempted to pro
test against what he considered re
marks of an I. W. W. nature, II. H.
Lambert was denied the floor and was
hooted down, according to statements
of Mr. Lambert. Thereupon he and a
groirp of followers quit the meeting
and declared they would have nothing
more to do with the organization.
Members Surrender Cards.
"If there had been an American po
lice officer or a Government officer in
the hall," declared Mr. Lambert, "the
speaker would not have dared make
the remarks he made. He would havs
been taken out In a hurry. He started
in to give high praise to the Russian
Bolshevikl and to slur us workers in
America as compared to the Russian
Reds. I'm an American citizen and
don't etand for Uat kind of I. W. W.isni.
Neither do the boys that went out with
us and there were lots of others who
felt the same way, though they did not
leave.
I am through with the outfit and
will turn in my card, and the boys here
with me will do the same, won t you
boys?"
The young men whom he addressed
gave their names as E. L. bmlth, L.
Westover and E. F. Scarpelll and de
clared they would quit the union. All
four of the men said they are employed
in the Grant Smith-Porter Ship Com
pany's yard.
Strike Vote in Balance.
The session was that of Union No.
1020, Shipwrights and Joiners. It. A.
Mclnnes, secretary of the Maritime
Council of the Columbia River and
Marshfield sections, presided. It was
held at the Ice Hippodrome, with ap
proximately 1700 ot the union's 2400
members present.
Result of the strike vote taken will
not be made known until canvass of
the referendum of all interested unions,
of the Northwest is made in Port
land. This will take place probably on
Wednesday or Thursday of this week,
officials aver. There is little doubt in
the minds of those knowing the temper
of tho unionists that yesterday's vote
favored the strike in protest against
the Macy award and calling for a
44-hour week.
St. Helena Man Speaker.
Yesterday was' the date originally
set as the limit to which the unions
of the Northwest would wait for prom
ise of readjustment of the difficulty.
A walkout was to take place, today.
Deferment of the strike was brought
about by requests of labor representa
tives now in Washington.
The speaker at the shipwrights'
meeting accused of preaching radical
doctrines was a Mr. Hyde, of St.
Helens. Mr. Mclnnes said last night
tht there had been an interruption
of the speaker and that a few members
left the hall. He dismissed reference
to the charge that disloyal remarks
were made with the declaration that it
is "impossible to please everybody."
MEMORIAL JTAX FAVORED
Yamhill Counly Scnalor-Elect Ap
proves Levy on Gasoline.
SALEM, Or., Dec. 8. (Special.) A
state tax of one cent a gallon on all
gasoline usca Dy auiomuuiiua ami mu.
tor vehicles, the money to be divided
among the counties pro-rating it as
to the place ot purchase, and used in
connection witn Stale Aid Highway
funds for the building of memorial
roadways to returning soldiers and
sailors, is the plan of a bill being .
framed by senator-Elect W. T. Vinton,
of Yamhill County.
Senator Vinton has submitted the
idea to Attorncy-i leneral Brown as to
its constitutionality.
INFLUENZA AT HIGH MARK
Seattle Has 716 New Cases and 15
Deaths in Single Day.
SEATTLE, Deo. 8. .Spanish influenza
has assumed su-h an alarming In
crease in Seattle that health authorities
again are considering restoring the
drastic restrictions on public gather
ings and wearing of masks that pre
vailed duriiift the recent epidemic. Sat
urday 716 new cases of the disease and
15 deaths were officially reported.
The number of new cases exceed that
of any day during the time the health
restrictions were in force.