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VOL. XXXni-XO. 49. PORTLAND. OREGON. SUNDAY MOBXIKfl. rwr n ,o,. .
UTILE CENTER
SOUTH OF LODZ
Heavy Fighting Also Rages
North of City. :;;
GERMANS REINFORCE CENTER
Russian Successes Declared
Due to Tireless Aggression
of Siberian Troops.
BAYONET IS MUCH USED
District Is Graveyard, With
Hospital Corps Three Days
Behind With Wounded.
PETTtOGRAD, via London, Dec. 5.
The' center of the field operations
in the .eastern arena of the war has
moved to the south of Lodz in Rus
sian Poland. The German effort cen
ters at Szczerczow, 20 miles west of
PiotrhTow, with that town the objec
tive.
Heavy fighting is reported also
along a line from Glowno, 16 miles
northeast of Lodz, to the Vistula
River.
Germans Estimated at Five Corps.
The strength of the German forces
opposing the Russian left wing is es
timated at five corps, each corps oc
cupying a front from eight to ten
miles in extent.
There are indications that owing to
exhaustion of the troops composing
the German center, most of those regi
ments which lost a large percentage
f their fighting strength have been
withdrawn or are resting on their
arms, and that fresher troops are
holding the' line during a temporary
cessation in the battle.
Siberian Troops Tireless.
News dispatches from the front at
tribute the Russian success in crush
ing the German forces near Lodz
chiefly to the miraculous endurance
and tireless aggression of the Siberian
troops.
The entire wooded region from
Brzeziny is described in , these dis
patches as a German graveyard. Here
a unsupported Siberian battalion is
reported to have charged a battery of
heavy German artillery and to have
bayonetted the gunners.
Field Not Clear of Wounded.
The dead and wounded in this dis
trict are reported to be so thick that
the Russian hospital corps, . after
working three days, had not cleared
the field. Most of the Germans
treated showed bayonet wounds.
The fire-blacked ruins of the vil
lage of Kurpin, despatches from the
front say, are packed with charred
Concluded on Page 8.)
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GIRLSEENSTEAL1NG
TAKESAC1DANDD1ES
MARTHA FAIR. .MAX, OK MULT
XOMAH CLUB, EXDS LITE.
Need. Is Said to Have Prompted
16 -Year-Old Marathon-Swim
. "Winner, to Rifle Locker.
Leaving- a farewell' note to her
parents and brothers, .Martha F airman,
winner of the Marathon swim in Port
land last August, drank carbolic acid
at her home at 90 Texas street, yes
terday and died shortly afterwards at
the Good Samaritan Hospital. The
police say she committed suicide be
cause she was caught rifling clothes in
a locker-room 'at the Multnomah Club,
An employe of the club is said to have
detected the girl searching the pockets
of clothes In the -ladies' locker-room
yesterday morning. Miss Fairman was
taken before Superintendent Dow Walk
er, who told her no charges would be
preferred against her if she would go
home, tell her mother about It, and re
turn with her mother at 4 P. M. She
went home and drank acid, the police
say.
Following Is a police copy of the
girl's note:
"Mother Dearest Don't take it hard.
Go to Mr. Walker at the club at 4
o'clock. He will explain, all.. Tours
with lots of love to John. Papa, Bob
and yourself."
Kriends of the girl say the tragedy
was the result of Miss Fairman's am
bition to excel in athletics. She joined
the club, they say, when the family
was in prosperous circumstances. Last
Summer she won the five-mile Mara
thon swim given under the auspices of
the Multnomah Club. Lately, friends
of the girl say, the family has been in
straitened circumstances, and they be
lieve that she committed theft because
of real need.
Miss Fairman was 16 years old. She
was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John
Fairman. This was her freshman year
at Lincoln High School. She is sur
vived by her parents and two brothers.
BLAST BLOCKS
RUSSIANS
Up, Severing
Great Tunnel Blown
Servia-Roumania Communication.
AMSTERDAM (via London). Dec. 5.
The great tunnel near Tychjetchar
(Tekija) has been blown up by dyna
mite, thus severing communication be
tween Servia and Roumanla. according
to advices from Nish. Servia. to the
Rotterdam Courant.
The passage of Russian transports
along- the Danube, the dispatch says,
has therefore, become impossible. , ,
INCREASED REALTY.. .SALES
GIVE TAXfilBUi EVIDENCE
. OF PROGRESS.
An Indication of the trend of
the times may be read in the
number of realty sales that were
closed last week, involving the
transfer of ownership of business
and residence property v in Port
land -and of farm holdings
throughout thestate.
During the week the officials
at the Courthouse were kept busy
recording the transfer of 427 dif
ferent parcels of local property.
The aggregate value of the prop
erties exchanged waa quoted at
1238.296. but if the real consid
erations had been announced the
total would have crept far above
that figure. Nearly 30 of the
deeds admitted consideration
ranging from $2000 to $100,000.
The war tax was the means of
bringing out several old deals,
but a great majority of those re
corded told of recent transfers.
In the real estate department
of The Sunday Oregonian im
portant farm sales and trades
are listed as follows: A $100,
000 sale in Union County, a $90,
000 sale in Douglas County, one
126,500 and another $7800 sale in
Morrow County, a $50,000 trade,
a $28,000 sale and a $25,000 trade
at Eugene, in Lane County, and
a $12,000 trade at Albany, in
Linn County.
CARTOONIST REYNOLDS COMMENTS PICTORIALLY ON SOME LEADING EVENTS IN THE PAST WEEK'S NEWS.
4 lilLl :7H
4.
i 1 11 :
UNION OF TWO CITY
BODIES ADVOCATED
Now Is Best Time, Say
Business Leaders.
ECONOMY PROMPTS MERGER
Tie of Chamber of Commerce
and Commercial Club Looms.
PLAN IN GENERAL, FAVOR
Prominent Members or Both Organ
izations See Greal Opportunity
to Make One Big Portland
Force for Good Out of Two.
FOUR REASONS A3EJ GIVEN
FOR CONSOLIDATION OK
OROASIZATIOV3.
Opening of the Panama Canal
and the attention attracted to
Pacific Coast in 1915 make thia
time especially opportune for
united effort - in development
work for Oregon.
Greater strength and efficien
cy can be obtained by union of
two great and successful com
mercial forces In the city.
Reduction of overhead expenses
would make for economy and
make possible a larger amount of
work on the same funds.
Duplication of work in various
departments of both organiza
tions would be eliminated.
Consolidation of the Commercial
Club of Portland and the Chamber of
Commerce in 'their work for thtf de
velopment of Oregon is most desirable
and the present is especially opportune
for the development of a definite plan
of consolidation. ' This is the almost
unanimous , opinion expressed yester
day by members. and officers of both
organizations. ., . '-. . '7 . ,
That the ' two civic bodies have de
veloped to a. condition of high effi
ciency In the lines of service in which
they have' been active and, combined
at this time to concentrate their ef
forts in the future promotion of the
state s development, would seize the
beginning of a new epoch in the
growth of the West In which their
combined work could produce wonder
fully efficient results, is the general
belief.
Mr. Averlll for Mercer.
"I have dreamed, talked and strong
ly advocated the consolidation of the
Portland Commercial Club and the
Chamber of Commerce for years," de
clared A. H. Averlll. president of the
Chamber of Commerce and the head of
the Averlll Machine Company, yester
day. "The time Is ripe when this should
be accomplished. It is useless to have
two commercial bodies, both doing the
same work, both having the same sub
committees and both accomplishing
the little things. I look on this pro
posal from the standpoint of a busi
ness man and It appears a waste of
money and time for the business men
of this city to be paying for the up
keep of two bodies performing the
same functions. . -
"v Waste of Time Fiamres.
"Then again, there is the time
wasted. Many business men are mem
bers of both organizations. For in
stance, on a Monday night a business
man attends a committee meeting of
the Commercial Club. Tuesday he at
tends another at the Chamber of Com-
tContlnucd on Page 18.
ALL. Ofr IASCS AS
s-?jl G o7jS
s
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
TESTE RD AT" S Maximum temperature. 4T.S
degrees; minimum. 37 degree.
occasional
rain; southerly winds.
' War.
British observer says Germans destroyed
Tpres In revenae lor failure to capture
It tif1 Inn 1 - T.
Italy's position praised In Germany.
! inn 1 . . ..
Civic Federation urges creation of council
v. .iuvui uvieun, oecuon J. page a.
Lord Roberts was opposed to war censorship.
' Section 1.- page .
Center of desperate battle in east is now
nnth nf T .-.. - .1 . .
British .cruiser .Venus driven on English
coast by gale. Section 1, page 6.
British poet laureate .takes band In football
mwuwu j. yac a. -
Mexico.
Saluar and Camp bead new revolution in
Mexico. Section J, page 10.
National.
Senators stirred by Lane's frank character
isation of coUeagues as "mutts." Section
L naae B.
Colonel Roosevelt denounces Admlnlstra-
tlon s poller toward Mexico. Section L
Page 1.
Domestic.
President- Snroule.- of- Southern Pacific, says
Canal comostitlnn v. . . v-- .. . . .
tatlon crisis to West. Section 1. page 10.
" accuser or. millionaire charged with
bribery, marking policy of scrutinizing
motives in "white slave" cases. Section L
nace 5.. .
Little girl brutally killed In church In Sae
ramcnta. smh.. -i - .
Colorado mlneowners' attack on union labor
.uvcBugation. section 1, page 4.
Sports.
Evan Evans to be sold by McCredle. Section
Z. navM A.
chlef Bender fourth famous baseball player
ox x- cucmiij irom -otaer leagues in
week. Section 2, page 4.
Berry plans trip to East to snare players
lor Seals. Section 2, page 4.
Best boxers of city promised for last Ar
mory Club smoker of season. Section a.
Dace K
Maty fInd lessn 'n Boston victory for
- o are at tau-ena. section z,
Pe e;'
Stanford's interest In California's fight for
American football high. Section 2. page 2
Seals lead Beavers In starting double plays
rrom shortstop. Section 2. page 4.
Basketball and soccer get turns in spotlight
at State Unlvrsltv o i
Basketball draws all Aggie eyes. Section 2,
First game of hockey to be played Tuesday
night. Section 2, page 2.
Golf is peculiar unto Itself. Section 2,
Page S.
Proposed Johnson-WIUard fight raises storm
Of Drotest RMtln. o - .
v.
l-wenty-round bout now permitted in only
one state. Section a, page 5.
Washington falls to dictate schedules ti
. conference. Section 2, page 1.
Pacific Northwest.
Elections to be held In Linn County to
morrow. Section 1. page 11. ...
Budget system to be suggested as comple
ment to state administration. Section 1.
Page 8. . '
Industrial Insurance declared success ' by
pace 9 tOD "im,nl,itrator- ' Section 1.
Representative-elect Schnebal will offer bill
to repeal all standing appropriations.
Sectlo.-i L cage 11.
Labor data shows that 80,878 women work
in Oregon. Section 1, page B.
Moral Milwaukee is demand of speakers at
massmeetln. sotm.., i . .. .
s vj u.
CMorce Kolomorr Is indicted jointly 'with
JiVr: va1 Grler for murder of Qrier near
Mill Cit''. Kerflnn f T
Almost all Washington Industries employ-
-w.uou jho minimum wage recom
mendation; , Section 2. page .7.
. Cemmerclal and Hsriaa.
Mention of Oweenee's speed brings defiant
. 1.1 u.u ot inaia attach.
Section 2. oun a
Oregon ports hopeful of having cherished
protects carried out. Section 2, page ft.
Columbia bar data out. Section 2, page .
Wheat holders In Northwest in strong po
sition. Kectlnn 2 nor- i K
Chlcairo wheat market higher because of
- u li j .us- secuoa page 15.
Stocks advance, but bonds decline in Wall
w owuuu , page io.
- Portland and Viclnltv.
Merger of chamber of Commerce and Com-
. ,u" aavocaiea cy leadera
Section 1. Yiajm 1
Present defense system of country thought
. . . "i j vuicor. section l,
sue 1&.
Slngers. dancera comedians await big Mult, i
nomah Club show. Section 1, page 19.
Farmers urged to produce denatured alcohol
ouffivuioui. iBwiiae xuei. section 1. 1
na i'M 1j
North Plains sends carload of supplies for
Associated Chanties Christmas fund.
Section 1. nna-M 1ft
Sessions of Oregon Cheese and Butter Asso-
.-... n uuv uci uccDniDer v to 12. sec
tion 1. page 13.
Body of ' late Professor Warren lld in
mausoleum in Klvervlew. section L
-page 16.
T. W. Bucklev takes charge of sneclaJ v.n.
at Livestock -show. Seettnn i - to
Martha Fairman. 16. commits suicide after
being caught rifling Multnomah -Club
locker. Section. 1. page l.
Kyo Kumasakl. new Japanese Consul la
banaueted by Oriental-Pacific Society.
Section 1. naare A
County advisory budget committee recom-
TYl ..Till, 'i T mill Ini'u ..11 . .. . .
- " 'J ..iliii i. j. xieeus.
S.'tton 1 n. 10
Ben Selling gains pledges of votes dally for
Speakership of House. Section 1, page 6.
Steel frame for iron plant rushed. Section 4,
NATIONAL DEFENSE
IS STRONGLY URGED
Creation of Council Is
. , Advocated.
JORDAN AGAINST ARMAMENT
Educator Would Rather Lose
Pacific Than Fight Japan.
G0MPERS FAVORS ACTION
Civic Federation Takes Strong; Stand
for Preparation Against At-
tack Xavy tc Hold Sea
for Year Suggested.
NEW YORK, Dec. 5. Resolutions ad
vocating the creation by the United
States of a council of National defense
were adopted today by the National
Civic Federation after a discussion on
National preparedness against attack
that occupied much of the time of the
last day of the federation's conference
here.
The duties of the- council recommend
ed would be "to consider, decide and
report to Congress what legislation is
necessary to provide for the National
defense without waste or unnecessary
expense."
Definite Peace Policy Wanted.
Any recommendation of the proposed
council should, in the language of the
resolution, "aim to i-nr ih.
ciency of existing forces on land and
sea ana a definite policy to insure
peace."
. The resolution, moved by Talcott
...mains, director of the School of
Journalism of Columbia University,
was adopted unanimously, being sup
ported in remarks by prominent mem
bers of the federation who had previ
ously discussed from various angles
the question of National d r ATI : The.
speakers included Dr. David Starr Jor-
oan. cnancellor of Leland Stanford Uni
versity; Colonel Robert M. Thompson,
of the Navy League of the , United
States; Franklin P. Roosevelt, Assist
ant Secretary of the Navy, and Samuel
Uompers.
Jordan Opposes Mere Armament.
Dr. Jordan protested against what
he called a "tirade against the so
called inefficiency of the Army or the
Navy." and declared we should protest
against an agjtation for more arma
ment "at a time when the nations of
the earth are crumbling each other be
cause of their 'perfect equipment.' The
lesson of this war is that preparedness
for war brings war." he declared.
"Now that the world is drunk it is
not the time to lay in additional
liquor."
He asserted that there need h.
fear that Japan would attack u
- L1IC
United States. As for the
the Pacific, he said:
I would rather give up the Pacific
than see this country a-o in w.r
Japan. .
Plea for Navy Made.
Colonel Thompson, on the other hand,
advocated a Navy that would be able
to hold the sea for a year against any
Invader. "That would give us time to
make ready our army for the field."
he said.
Mr. Roosevelt said there should be
resentment against the classification as
a "military", of every person who does
not believe in total disarmament. Re
garding suggestions that this country
should lead in disarming, he asked his
hearers to Imagine North America un
armed, with Europe on one side, and
Asia on the other, and then of a pos
sible disagreement arising between the
United States and another great power.
Samuel Gomperg. while speaking for
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OJLO WAfZ GOO
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Saturday's War Moves
ALTHOUGH fighting has been re
newed on both the eastern and
western fronts, there have been no ma
terial changes in the
posy
ttlons of the
belligerents during me last 21 hours.
It would seem as though the vast ar
mies have been engaged largely in
making preparations for new battles.
Here and there heavy -cannonades or
Infantry attacks have occurred, all of
which, however, were more In the na
ture of feelers to try to rind out the
enemy's strength than a serious design
In the way of an offensive or for the
purpose of an advance.
In Poland the Germane, whose dar
ing stroke to penetrate the Russian
center apparently has ended in failure,
with heavy 'losses, according to the
latest reports from Petrograd. are
forming a new line extending roughly
from Kutno in the north to Cracow in
the south.
The right or southern wing of this
army, which rests on Cracow, is com
manded by General DankL He is sup
ported on tho north by the army under
General Hetxendorf. which is based on
Czenstochowa, while the new army which
was sent from the west fills the gap
between this force and General Macken
sen's army, which, after extricating
itself from the Russian meshes, is now
In the new position extending from
Kutno southward. The eighth East
Prussian army presumably has taken
up the northern part of the line.
Thus it will be felt that an entirely
new battle is about to be fought, for
the Germans are determined at all costs
to keep the Russians out of their ter
ritory. The English correspondents
are confining themselves to reports of
the previous battle around Lodz, which
is described as the most sanguinary
of the war.
On the western front, interest tends
to shift from Flanders to Lorraine and
Upper Alsace. There has been little
fighting in that part of Belgium still
held by the allies, and the French have
taken some old German trenches, which
has given rise to the belief that the
Germans have decided to fall back to
new positions.
Operations of more serious Import
are taking place on the borders of Alsace-Lorraine.
In Upper Alsace the
French apparently have made consid
erable progress and they also are mak
ing desperate efforts to sever the cdm
municatlons of the German force which
has been holding St. Mlhlel on the
Meuse for many weeka Everywhere,
however, siege warfare prevails and
for the most part the gains extend
hardly more than 100 yards.
In the near East similar conditions
prevail and nothing haa occurred which
might be termed a battle.
Naval warfare, so far as Northern
waters are concerned, haa been post
poned by reason of the weather, which,
as usual at this time of the year, has
been exceedingly severe.
BRITISH PRIVATE WINS V. C.
Conspicuous Honor Bestowed on
' Soldier Who Captured Gun.
LONDON. Dec. 5. The Victoria Cross
has been bestowed on Private George
Wilson. Second Battalion Highland In
fantry, for "most conspicuous gallantry
on September 14 near Verneuil in at
tacking a hostile machine gun."
The official announcement describing:
Private Wilson's gallantry says:
He was accompanied only by one
man. When the latter was killed he
went on alone and shot the officer and
six men who were working the gun,
which he captured."
I Z ETTA JEWEL IS MARRIED
Former Footllght Favorite Bride of
Member of Congress.
OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash
ington, Dec. B. Miss Izetta Jewell, once
footllght favorite in Portland, and for
the past two years leading lady of a
stock company in this city, was married
in Baltimore today to Representative
Brown, of West Virginia.
Reports from Baltimore say the bride
will give up her stage career. Several
tmes in the past few years it was
falsely rumored that Miss Jewel was to
be married to Frank H. Hitchcock, ex-
fostmaster-General.
SMIL.E
at w - aWe.'V 7r
COLONEL FLAYS
MEXICAN POLICY
"Futile, Inglorious War"
Declared ;of No Avail.
far-reachi?:g harm done
Nation Made Responsible for
Some of Wcrst Acts Ever.
Committed in War.
AMERICANS MADEV!CT1MS
Bryan Said to Have Cited
Crime Against Iowa Women
to Justify Non-Action.
OUTRAGES FOR WHICH ROOSE
VELT DECLARES UNITED
STATES IS ; I II, Til, Y
RESPONSIBLE."
Violation of scores of nuns.
Murder of priests and others in
cold blood.
Wholesale robbing and expell
ing of priests and nuns.
Sacking of schools. Institutions
of learning and libraries, and de
struction of astronomical and
other valuable machinery.
Profanation of cburch-es and
sacred vessels "in a thousand
ways," including "orgies of the
soldiers and their women before
and around the altars." and
throwing the sacred hosts into
the feed of the soldiers' horses.
BY THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
(Copyrlfht, 191. by the Wheeler Syndicate.
Incorporated.
An astonishing proof of the readi
ness of many persons to pay heed ex
clusively to words and not at all to
deeds is supplied by the statement of
the defenders of . this Administration,
that President Wilson haa ''kept us
out of war with Mexico" and has
"avoided interference iu Mexico."
These are the words. The deeds
have been: First, an unbroken course
of more or less furtive meddling in
the internal affairs of Mexico carried
to a pitch which imposes on this Na
tion a grave responsibility for the
wrong doing of the victorious fac
tions; and, second, the plunging of
this country into what was really a
futile and inglorious little war with
Mexico, a war entered into with no
adequate object and abandoned with
out the achievement of any object
whatever, adequate or inadequate.
Denial Is Mere Play on Words.
To say that wo- did not go to war
with Mexico is a mere play upon
words. A quarter of the wars of his
tory have been entered into and car
ried through without any prelimiuary
declaration of war and often without
any declaration of war at all. The
seizure of the leading seaport city of
another country, the engagement and
defeat of the troops of that country,
and the retention of the territory thus
occupied for a number- of months,
constitute war; and denial that it is
Contlnued on rage T.)
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