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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 6, 1918)
72 Pages Six Sections Section" One Pages! to22 mm III iM VOL. XXXVII NO. 1. PORTLAND,' OKEUO-N. SUNDAY 3IORNING. JANUARY 6. 1918. price five; CENTS. 3 STREETCAR HUE PUT AT 6 CEtlTS Rise Approved by Public Service Commission, NAVY LADS WRECK NEWSPAPER OFFICE SEATTLE DAILY CALL RAIDED; . ' TVPE THROWN IX STREET. , . INCREASE IX EFFECT JAN. 15 Advance Declared. Necessary to Prevent Receivership of Portland Railways. SCHOOL TICKETS 4 'CENTS Bluejackets bald to Have Bern Led by Two Civilians Office 'Fix tures and Press Smashed. SEATTLE. Jan. B. Led, according to witnesses, by two civilians, IS to 20 American bluejackets entered the of fice of the Dally Call, a radical news paper, here tonight, and almost com pletely wrecked the establishment. It Is said the bluejackets' entered the newspaper office quietly,' drew their revolvers, forced the seven or eight employes of the paper to He down on the floor and then threw the type out Into the street and smashed the office fixtures and press. -v They then withdrew quietly, No arrests were reported. " The raid was so quietly conducted (hat it was all over and the bluejackets had scattered before policemen arrived at the scene. The identity of the sail ors has not been learned. The Daily .Call began publication about six months ago and is said to have been financed by radical Social ists. It was learned tonight that Its 616 EXPLOSION DUE IN SLOAN SGAHDA INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS L Effort to Squelch Sen- ate Probe Is Seen. Unlimited TiCketS vYllI Be SOld application for second-class mail prlvi . am -rr c c f t leges, made some time ago, has not yet ai 3, UI U 9.3 WCIlld a Ticket in Books of 50. HIGH SPOTS I 4J-CETT FAKE ORDER. Fares on the Portland Railway. Light A Power Company, effect ive January 15. 111. under an order of the Publle Service Com mission, will be as follows: Cash fares, C cents. Unlimited tickets, five tickets for 30 cents, to be on sale by all conductors. Unlimited tickets In books. SO tickets for IMS. or (H cents a ticket. Limited school children's tick ets. 4 cents each. All tickets and cash fares shall Include transfer privileges. The Commission finds II Inev itable that If relief Is not ranted' the company . must . go . Into , the hands of a receiver. been granted. ' The Call has been generally regarded as an organ of pacifism and it has prominently displayed and emphasised reverses and setbacks to the allied cause, particularly the defection of Russia and Its probable effect on the outcome of the war. It was learned later that the type and press smashed by the bluejackets was owned by Henry C Plggott. a Job printer, who baa been doing the me chanlcal work on the Daily Call for Us publisher.. Some of the machinery, on another floor, escaped the attention of the raiders. SHIP DEALS "RAWEST" YET Demand for Public Airing and Fixing' Blame to Be Made. CRIMINALS UNDER COVER Story of How Sew York Promoters Csed I'aget Sound Concern to Heap. Enormous Profits Said to - Be Near Disclosure. ! BARBERS WILL MOBILIZE 1 Tac-oma to Have World's Blggee-t fciiop; Workmen Needed. TACOMA, Jan. S. (Special.) The two largest barber shops In the world that sounds like big talk, but It's fart. Camp iiMl will shortly have two barber establishments of it) chairs each. They will be opened for buslnese Feb ruary 1. according to present calcula tlons. Concessions for there establish. menu have been let to Fred lilrpp and John app. of Seattle. Enouich Idle barbers cannot be found eron today, by unanimous rote, issued!10 h Northwest to fill the. situations. so me IT win do imported iren au- SALEM, Or., Jan. 5. (Special.) The Ore -on Public Service Commia- an order ewpowerinjr the "Portland Hallway, Light & Z'o'fieT Company to increase iu cash fasts to a gum not to tjrreed fi rents for each passenger. fornla. BAN IS STILL ON SEATTLE The order also allow the company f Bflgadlrf-General folta Denies Lift to sell unlimited tickets in books, five j Uaa Been Ordered tickets for CO cents, making it man datory teat all conductors carry such cvWP lewis. T acorn. Wash.. Jan. S books and have them for sale. Un-I Brigadier-General Frederick 8. Foltx. limited tickets in books also are to be lB commd at Camp Lewis. Just b nM th rr1.- r,r. 'ore leaving nia oitice tnis anernoon. f 2.73, or at the rate of 6 cents apiece. All tickets will be onlimited, ' with the exception of school children's tickets, which will be limited to sah class of patrons and be sold at 4 cents ,would b Djr hlm DronJly Camp MW I. his office said regarding reports that the ban on Seattle would be lifted tonight, that no such announcement had been made at Camp Lowls and that when such an nouncement waa to be made, if made, it each. All tickets and cash fares are to include transfer privileges. Order Operative Intrastate. The order will become effective on and after Tuesday, January 15, 1918. The application of the order is re stricted to intrssta business, and the commission makes it plain that noth ing contained in the order shall be taken is affecting interstate com merce. The Commission ' finds that th practices and economies inaugurated by the utility, pursuant to the former order, are not productive of adequate return to protect the integrity of the company, and says that umjesa relief . i.'ncii.4 Pas. 14. foloma L Geaerat Forts Is net at camp tonight. He Is attending a dance given by the :!t Hegtmen. COLD WAVE SPENDS ITSELF Moderate Temperatures Forecast for . Week Beginning Today. WASHINGTON, .'in 5. The cold wave has spent Its force and more moderate temperatures will prevail during the coming week. For most parts of the country the weather Bu reau f recasts seasons le tempera tures. Pacific states Generally fair except occasional rains over north portion sec ond half of week. -Moderate tempera tares. OREGON! AN KEWS BUREAU. 'Wash ington. Jan. 5. Unless the Senate com merce committee, -after having uncov ered a scandal In connection with the Sloan ship contnacts, goes to the very bottom and ferrets out the Individuals who engineered the deal whereby the Cllnchfield Navigation. Company, of New York, was about to "clea up' 1740.000. there will be a publlo de mand on the floor of the Senate for thorough probe in order to fix Indl vidual responsibility and lay bare the machinery by which this deal was put over. ' Threats of a publlo airing- of the Sloan matter were heard today, when It was whispered In the Senate cloak room by members of the commerce committee that the Sloan matter might be dropped. ; Explealea Is Feared. ' One member of the committee who has heard the evidence remarked to another Senator that "we are oa the rim of a .crater, and If we go further there may be a terrific explosion. p Testimony given before the commit tee this past week disclosed the fol lowing facts: The Sloan Shipyard Corporation, of Olympla. last prlns contracted to build for the Cllnchfield Navigation Company, of New York, probably a coal concern subsidy of Blair ae Co., four wood ships of ioOQ tons each, at a price of IJKS.000 each. These chips were designed by Theo dore " Ferris, subsequently sppointed naval architect of the Shipping Board. Pre fits Are Eaoraeu. When, General GoethaJs became gen- eral-ln-chief of the Emergency Fleet Corporation Mr. Ferris gave the vice- president of the Cllnchfield Company a letter of Introduction to General Goeth- sls. When this letter was presented the Cllnchfield Company sold to the Emergency Fleet Corporation Its four ships under contract at the. Sloan yards for flSOJIuO. or 1105.000 per ship more than the Sloans were receive under their original contract. At the time of this sale construction had barely started. Mr. Ferris testi fied that the "keels might have been laid." On this transaction the Clinch- field Company made $420,000 out of a tftere transfer of contract. Here Coatracta Oktalaea. Simultaneously the Cllnchfield Com pany obtained for the Sloan yards con tracts from the Shipping Board for 12 additional wooden ships at the uniform price of I49O.000 each, or lloS.000 per ship more than the Sloans had charged tho Cllnchfield Company. For its serv ices as broker In- this ' transaction the Cllnchfield Company -was to receive a Mi per cent commission of 1333,400 over and above what It cleaned up on this sale of its four Ships or. rather, sale of lis contract for four ships. In addition to this, the Shipping Board advanced to the Sloan yard more than $1,700,000 In June and July, with out holding any control over the money Advanced. This wss nearly 25 per cent f the total cost of the It ships. On (Concluded n Pass ft. Column 4 The. Weather. TESTE RD AT S Maximum temperature, 62 desreea; minimum. 4S desreea. TODAY'S Fair;- moderate, southeasterly winds. 'War. . Sbell at Gorilla fella war correspondents on trip of lnapectlon. Section 1, pase .10. Turkey aubmiia peace proposal to Russia. Section 1. pase .- 5,000' German soldiers on Russian front re ported la revolt. Section 1, pace 1. Spain faces new crisis promptly. Section 1. pace 8. , Foreign. " t Justice for all nations democracy's aim, says Lloyd George, Section 1.' para 1. Germans attempt to deal with Russian con stituent assembly. Section 1, pass 2. National. Portland 'assured of more buslneas when re- routine on railroads is reached. Section 1. pace S, Profiteers scent wealth In- shoddy uniforms. section a, pass 3. . Government held up by Southern - lumbar. men. Section 1. pace 4. Washington officials approve Lloyd George's aaareaa. section 1, page 6. Through passenger train serrtce reduced by JHcAdoo -0 per cent. ..Section i. page . Prohibition lobby under suspicion. Sec tion 2. page 5. Big explosion due in Sloan ship scandal. Sec tion i, page l. . .... , Domestic - Coal crials still threatens Xev York. Sec tion 1, page 20. Gaston B. Means called to account for Mrs. lung's money, bectlou 1. page 7. , 8 porta. " Bae-ba.il fans boost favorite players for man. ager of Beavers. Section 2. page 1. Chemawa Indian quintet to play South Park way team Wednesday night. Section Page r. Oregon streams are high and trout are plen tiful. Section 2, page 2. Policy of Intermura! athletics at Reed Col- ege Is held best.- rtection 2. page Rosebuds to meet Metropolitans this week. bectlon 2. page 2. Klamath Falls boy la star on Marines' elev en. Section 2, page 2. "Liberty" playing cards patented by Port land man. Section 2, page 3. Bowling season Is on in full awing. Sec tion -2, page 3. - Plans sre mads for Northwestern League meeting, bectlon 2. page 4. Three negroes to- fight whites bere Janu ary 11. section 2. page 3. Swimmers start training for state cham pionship meets. Section 2, page 4. Judge McCredie puzzled by Weegbman's at tempt to unload discards- on Portland. Section 2. page 4. Walter Camp selects all-service and colle giate football stars. Section 2. page 4. Million paid In purses by Columbus, Ohio, Lrlvlng Association. Section 2. page 4. Pacific Siortnwest. Oregon Public Service Commission authorises six-cent fare for Portland Railway. Light A Power Company. Section 1, page 1. Camp Lewis soldier arrested as German spy. Section 1, page L Policy of Highway Commission upheld by E. J. Adams. Section 1. page 7. Oregon farmers adopt resolutions pledging their support to atlon during period ol the war. Section 1. page 8. Camp Lewis base hospital known as little Oregon. Section L page a. Bluejackets wreck office of Seattle Dally CmJI, radical newtpaper. Section 1. page 1. ' Pino class found In Spokane yarn. Section 1, page Cnlveratty of Oregon offers special military course to citizens. Section i. page a. Health 'cosdltlons Improving 'ate Camp Lewis. Section 1. PSES AD PPORT Commercial ss& Marine. . Increased demand for Oregon seed potatoes. Section 1, pan 21. Fifteenth steel Municipal Dock buslsst en aterf ront. - Section 2, . page. 12. r . Line drawn tighter to prevent alien enemy traveling by water. Section z. page 12. Lloyd J. Wentworth assumes - control of shipbuilding-district, - section 2. page 12. Navy needs women. - Section 2, psge 12. Portland sad Vicinity. Teehnleel violators of traffic ordinance to be warned Deror arrest. secuon L page It. Kenneth Tomlmson, of Reed College, called to colors, bectlon 1, page 10. Movement starts In city to conserve wasted fats. Section 1. page 12. Knights of Columbus to raise 950.000 la Oregon tor war camp iunc. bectlon 1. page 12. Six-cent fare gratifies President Griffith, of Portland Railway, Light le Power Com pany. Section 1. psge 14. Dr. Bertha Stuart, of Reed College, to en ter Red Cross service in t rance. Secuon L page IS. Famous snowplow Invented by Oregon man of inestimable value to railroads. Sec tion 1, page lo. Portland people anxiously await return of Rt. R-v. Walter T. Sumner and. bride from East. Secuon 1, page 16. War-scarred veterans to tell tales of battle front. ' Section L page 20. Portland ninth city In United States In war stamp aalea, Secuon 1, page 18. Ancient copy of New York Herald tells of visit of V. M.C Suva to Richmond at close of Civil War. Section 1. page 19. Four "deserters" Inducted to service at once. Section 1, pago 6. A. E. Carter explains Army' welfare work to Collegiate Alumni. Section 1. page 8. 402 born in Portland in 1817. Section 1. page 10. Passenger service between Portland and Puget Sound polnta to be Improved, Sec tlon 1, page 20. Irrigation men favor including prospective values In bond certification. Section 1, - page 20. Weather report, data and forecast. Section 2. page 12. ' JUSTICE FOR ALL; i or OCRAGY'S All British Premier. States War Purposes. NO CONQUEST CONTEMPLATED GERMAIN SOLDIERS' REVOLT REPORTED 25,000 REPORTED. INTRENCHED AGALXST OTHER rXlTS. Disruption of Germany Object of Allies. ..(':- . . No CZERNIN PLAN IMPOSSIBLE Sanctity of Treaties Host Be Re established and Rights of Peoples Assured, Together With Inter national Iieagne for Peace. .LONDON. Jan. 6. The British Prime Minister, David Lloyd George, today set forth Great Britain's war aims more specifically and at greater length before the delegates of the trades unions than he had ever done before. Having first" declared, that it was not a war of aggression against Germany or the German people, and that the breaking up of the German peoples, or the disintegration of their state, was not one of the objects for which the allies were fighting, he proceeded to mention 'the fundamental issues for which Britain and her allies were con tending. First among these, was the restora tion of Belgium "and reparation for the injuries inflicted. Next . came the restoration of Serbia, Montenegro and the occupied parts of France, Italy and Roumania. France must have Alsace- Lorraine, and to this end, the Premier said, tha British nation ' would stand by tha French democracy to the death. Russia Most Save Herself. The question of Russia was touched upon, and . Lloyd George . said that Britain, as well as America, France and Italy, would have been proud to fight by the: side of the new Russian democracy. ''But now Russia could only be saved by her own people.. He de clared an independent Poland an urgent necessity for the stability of Western Europe. .- v . Roumania is to he protected, and the British and other allies are with Italy la . her desire lor complete union of the people of the Italian race and tongue. Of Austria-Hungary he felt thaC while the breaking up of the dual kingdom was no part of the allied war aims. It was Impossible to hope for the. removal of causes of unrest in that part of Kurope .unless genuine self- government was granted the Austro Hungarian nationalities. The Turkish empire, within the home lands of the Turkish race, with Con stantinople ' as its capital may be maintained. But the passage between the Mediterranean and Black Sea must be inteWiaUonallzed and neutralized. and, in the British view, Arabia, Ar menia, Mesopotamia, Syria and Pales tine are entitled to recognition of their separate national conditions. German Colonies Considered. The matter of the Germad colonies. all of which are now in the hands of the allies, -will be placed before a conference, whose decisions, however, must consider the wishes and interests of the inhabitants the future admin istration m,ust be acceptable to the va- raous tribes. , The Premier made brief reference to the violations of International law committed by Germany, with special emphasis on' the sea. and the peace conference, he declared, must not lose sight of the outrages suffered by Brit ish and other seamen and the services they had rendered. The three cardinal points of the British terms as enunciated by the Reason Given Is That Men Were Unwilling to Be Drafted for Bat- ; tic on Western Front. LONDON, Jan. 5: A dispatch received here from the Russian wire-leas service says that ,2o,000 German ' soldiers In the region east of Kovno have revolted. German deserters stated In conse quence of the government's drafting ail soldiers below the age of 35 for dispatch to the western front,-. the aforementioned number of men rebelled and marched out of the battle line. 'They then entrenched themselves with rifles and machine guns . against the other. German units: The German military authorities have been power less against the revolters and are try ing to cut off their food supplies. The German- deserters declared that one of the motives for the revolt was that the sending of troops to the western front was a contravention of the Russo-Ger- man armistice agreement CAMP LEWIS III IS HELD AS SPY Accused Is Son of High German Officer. U. S. AIRMEN DROP BOMBS Reprisal Is for . Recent Killing of Tankee Woodcutters by Germans. : (By the Associated Press.) WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN FRANCE. Jan. 5. United States avia-. tors have flown over the German battle lines and , dropped bombs, io conjunc tion with British and French pilots. The flight of the Amesicans virtually waa a reprisal for the killing of two American woodcutters during . Ger man bombing expedition a week a0. . Through the courtesyof the British and French flying authorities, the American aviators also have taken part In observation and photographic work. It is not thought advisable. to name the places where' the '.Americans flew oti the bombing expedition, but it was well beyond the German air defense lines at the front. '. ARREST MADE NOVEMBER 12 Thomas . Helmuth Ritter's Service in States Unique. ONE DESERTION RECORDED fim C.ivisie..k'.t at , . wwucwjjj-,,, . uucc&crea career and Post Kacbed Where;' ATI Mail Is Handled. " -; .Concluded on Page , Column 1 SUBMARINE WIDOW WINS Court Holds Insurance Company Must Pay Amount of Policy MADISON, Wis., Jan. 5. Hhe Supreme Court of Wisconsin passed'on its first submarine case today. Dr. Edmund F.Wobds, of Janesville, was submarined on the .Arabic. His widow sued the' Standard Accident In surane'e Company for .2500 insurance. The court decided in her favor today. ? Dr. -Woods -carried accident policies In three eompanles, two or wnicn paid, but the Standard company claimed it could not be held' If the insured came to his death while hunting or if killed by explosives. ' . HOOD RIVER MAN. CAPTAIN . A. Henderson, Oregon Graduate, Gains Promotion at Camp Lewis. HOOD RIVER, Ori-Jan. 8. (Special.) -In a letter to his wife this morning Louis A. Henderson, City Treasurer, who is bow stationed at Camp Lewis with the 316th Engineers, supply de partment, announces his promotion to captaincy. Captain Henderson, who is a graduate of the University of 6re- gon, where he was prominent in stu dent activities, having won recognition as author of the song "Hail, Oregon!" recently returned from Cstmp Leaven worth, where he was in training. RANCHER'S TfclCK EXPOSED Damage to Land Planned So as to Collect From Railroad Company. OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklav Jan. 5. William Easley, Osage County rancher, was held here today in' 120,000 bonds for the Federal grand jury after he tes tified he hired a stranger to plant 153 quarts of nitroglycerine along a stretch of his land the Santa Fe Railroad wished to use to complete ' a line of now road, in the hopes the road 'would pay him 130,000 damages. TACOMA, Wash., Jan. 5. (Special.) Held In connection with the disappear ance of Important . Government jlocu mentS'and suspected of having- di vulged information - of a military na ture along other lines, Thomas Hel muth Ritter, Sergeant-Ma jor to the Di vision Adjutant and holding: the highest non-commissioned rank in the entire Ninety-first Division, is in the County Jail at Tacoma, awaiting telegraphic instruction from Washington. D, C ' -Ritter has. been under arrest sines November 12, it being the desire of the - military authorities to withhold publication of his arrest for the timo being, but United States District Attor ney Clay Allen. of""3eattle. made tho story public late this afternoon. Brother la Kaiser's Service. ' " ; 'Checking up ,' Ritter's record since his arrest showsi'him toj beS3 years ot age, born and ed'"ated in Germany, and .the son. or a .!irtarmaser-Gen-eral of the German irmy, with a brother also io. .the- service nf the Kaiser. His mother still lives in Ger many. . j .Going to. South Africa in 1911, -ho served, in the German artillery organ ization there and in 1913 returned to . Viltt-nttttv. 1nn4 Miminw ... r Sfates iri the Spring, of 1911 by way of France and Italy. 'r Spending ene day in New Tork. he hurried to Chicago and there, tooic out his firs citizenship papers before err listihjr in the American Army and be ing se"nt to the Philippines. While mere he was known to have been on i intimate terms with the Consul Gen- erat for Germany at Manila. V . uopp supplies Fudt. In 1915 from some unknown source he came1 into possession of a lafge sum of money and purchasing his discharge returned to the United States," first at- '. trading attention in . San Francisco. Spending money right and left and . dressed in the latest fashion, he made many acquaintances to whom he stated. that he was being '"taken; care or' by German Consul-Gerieral Franz Bopp. Shortly after ,he Joined tha 14th. In fantry,, a regiment, of regulars, and with that organization saw service on me noraer. ne was exceedingly pro- German, however, so much so that he was constantly getting into- trouble, with his companions and was intensely ' disliked by the men and officers of his own company. Desertion Charge Evaded. So warm did things become' for him that be deserted and for five weeks eluded all efforts at capture. Finally, captured at-Bisbee; Acia, he was- taken back to Nogalea-for trial. In some manner he. managed- to. set around tho court-martial and. was finally tried for absence from duty Instead of desertion. When the National Array was organ ized he was assigned to-. Camp Lewis. where, because of . his . knowledge, of military proceedure' and ability, ha eventually became - 3irrja.5aX:,. sergeant-major, tt ' '' In the office of the division Adju- (Concluded on Page 3, Column l. PEN SKETCHES BY CARTOONIST REYNOLDS ILLUftlTNE SOME NEWS EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. f SEtio tr TO THE . THEY'RE STILL. OPEfi FOG BUS CHESS e e - : I . l-2 jrxrzs ycf" .W.f ris. y oj cr : . tzzm"- I OFFICE I I I V v vin y l J J4t ' tO " ' . " j ! JhfF' try) fft ... ' : ' " " ' . - ' ----- ;: . : " ' , . ' , a-..- " t i , ......