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Section One Pageslto20 ' VOL. XXXVII NO. 7. ' PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 17, 1918. PRICE FIVE CENTS. END SEEMS HEAR SHIPYARD STRIKE President Prepared Take Action. to NEW WAGE SCALE IS AWARDED Other Unions Not Expected to Support Carpenters. NO COERCION IN PROSPEC lltttcneaoa, -Head of Tlrothrrhood Sends Telegrams to Wilson and Daniels to EnlL-t. Their Prr- . , atonal Efforts for Peace, WASHINGTON. Feb. If. Effort by th Government to end the strikes of carpenter In Eastern shipyards brought two Important developments today, wh Irh off trial declared promlM to effect an early settlement. President Wilson prepared to take m actio in the situation, the nature f which haa not been disclosed. The shipbuilding labor adjustment board handed down a ( award cor ring Delaware Rlvsr and Maryland shipyards, which will form the basis of a general Eastern shipbuilding wave rale. The President la expected to express definite views on the situation In reply to a telegram he received tonight from William L. Hutcheson. president of the brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners. asking an opportunity personal y to put the situation before him. Other t'steee Stay Oat. Cther developments In connection with the strikes during tha day were: Indications that the heads of other anions will .not support Ifutcheaon'a position and assurances from New Tork metal workers that they will continue work awaiting an adjustment by the wti adjustment board. A statement by the Shipping Board that no effort will bo m.'e to coerce the strikers by threatening to call them Into the military service. A declaration by Chairman Fletcher, f the Senate eommerrs committee,' ln iti!lr shipping, thai the Govern ment should tak over the operation of all shipyards and fix a genera! scale, A request by shipyards that they be permitted te crush the strike In their wn way. Caipeateew Isse ntaa4o Ateoew Hutcheson's refusal to leave a settle ment to the Labor Adjustment Hoard drew from officials of the board to night the statement that the carpen ters organisation alone of all the trade engaged In shipbuilding, has de clined to let It adjust difficulties. Officers of the American Federation of Labor. It was declared, have little sympathy with Hutcheson'a attitude and are likely to repudiate him. Or ganisations of the carpenters on tha Pacific and Oulf coasts and along the Keqth Atlantic. despite order from 1 Hutcheson. are leaving to the Adjust ment Board. Its members said tonight, all questions affecting their relations with tbelr employers, Talfee-BS Seal Awarded. The Delaware and Maryland award establishes a uniform wag scale and working conditions In ( per cent of the Atlantic Coast yards. It gives car peatera a minimum wage of fs.it a day. and the striking Baltimore carpenters, although not parties to the agreement, will be permitted to accept Its pro visions If thy so desire. The award will be used as a basts for arranging other agreements. The ad justment board will go South nest week, after which It expects to take! '"'-,'jill en lr. I. rolatna 1.1 I to. Kk VnCOv VcTA ctRekt contest W - i j 'y s1s! I i ' ' " ' 1 i aaass. . a... .....ae. ass. .... -a. ...... a a-asa. as. seas. ..... .......as. ssseaeaassseseesse sssasss aaaaa eee.e....... 1 GREATEST DRIVE DUE IN NEXT LOAN ADVERTISING CAMPAIGN" MOST EXTENSIVE IN HISTORY. . Ceer of Newspapers to Be Asked to Assist 31 ore' Generously Than la Previous Drives. KEW TORK. Feb. !. Because It Is expected the third liberty loan w ill be "of tremendous else. a proportionate effort la being planned to Insure Its overwhelming success. It was an nounced by ibe liberty loan committee her today. A featur of th coming drive for -liberty dollars will bs on of th most Intensive advertising campaigns In history. It waa stated. This will be Imperative because of the great variety or demands upon publio attention at this time. It was said. A special endeavor will be mad to have users of newspapers and other varieties of advertising who assisted generously In the first and second lib erty loan campaigns, contribute still greater allotments of space, the com. mltte announced. TUSCANIA LIST INCREASED War Department Receives 1 1 More Names of V-Boat Victims. WASHINGTON. Feb. If. Eleven ad ditional namea of American soldiers who lost their lives on the torpedoed liner Tuscan la were received tonight by the War Department from London. Ten of them previously had been re ported In the list of 111 identified re ceived by the Associated Press from a Scottish port last Tuesday. The one not In that list waa that of Private James A. 3c h less. HIc Lske. Wis. Th War Department's list of known dead now Is J, it having received SI name by cable last night- The Asso ciated Press dispatch referred to an nounced that a total of Mt soldier vie tlms had been burled In Scotland, but that 31 of them had not been Identified. PRICE OF RICE TO DROP Karrlna of Croo Now In United 6Utea I $ ISO, 000, 900 Pounds. WASHINGTON. Feb. If. Reduction In the pries of Mc Is in prospect for April 1. the Food Administration an nounced today. Distribution figures show that there Is a surplus, after deducting the mil lion bags purchased for -export to Eu rope, of 1o.0.ot pounds. This surplus is atnpl for domestic requirements. " . The Increase fa th cost of rice dur ing th last few month, the admlnls- ration explains, has beea cue to me fact that most rice mills are working to capacity In supplying the allies. LINE DRAWN AT PIGS Neighbors Stood for Horses. Covft nd Chickens, but There' Limit. Jo Singer, sanitary Inspector In the bureau' of health, in charge of the North Kast Side district, stood for horses, cows and chickens In the back yard of L. V. Hullt. ISO-East Twenty seventh North, but when he Installed a litter of pigs that was too much. As a result. Hullt. upon formal com plaint of Mrs. c. D. Clayton, living JVi feet from the Hullt house, waa arrested, and in Municipal Court yesterday was fined 7.S and was ordered to dispose of his porkera. RAILWAY WOMEN STRIKE Section Hands Want $1 a Day In Place of $1.80 for t Hours. POTTSVILLE. Ta.. Feb. 1 f. Women section hands employed by th Lehigh Valley Railway on the fhenandoah-Loat Creek branch, are on a strike. They receive II. SO for a nine-hour day and they are striking for fx. They will be organised by a union organlxer today. PEN PICTURES BY HUGE PROFITEERING FRAUDS CHARGED U.S. Declared Robbed of Many Thousands. WORTHLESS STEEL IS SOLD Defective Metal Furnished for Ship Engines. SAN FRANCISCAN ARRESTED Prosper J. Forrest Accused, Follow ing Secret Raid on Offices His Company. Supplies , Federal , . Plants -In Northwest. SAN FT.ANCISCO. Feb. If. (Spe ciatj Profiteering by wholesale in steel parts of engines destined for ships under construction at Pacific Coast ahlpyards for the Federal Emrr gency Fleet Corporation is charged by the Federal, civil and military au thorities, following a secret raid Fri day night on the offices of the Edwin Forrest Forg Company and the arrest today of Its secretary and manager. Prosper J. Forrest. Simultaneously with th arrest of Forrest and bis release on ball of fSOOe by Commissioner Francis KrulL Assistant Cnlted States Attorney Cas par Ornbaun announced that the case would be taken before th Federal grand Jury Tueaday. Fraads Declared Widespread. It Is said that the Forrest company haa already defrauded the Government out of hundreda of thousanda of dol lars, and it la declared by Ornbaun that similar practices all over the country are being Investigated. Threat ened destruction of evidence precipi tated the srrest bene. . . . . Following a conference with the mil itary authorities. Ornbaun. indicated that others in San Francisco weie in vojved and that arrests would follow. The prosecutor hinted that the inves tigation will not stop with the pres ent case locally. . r-srtlaad fssmKI. Bsli, Forrett was arrested at his offices today at If Fremont street. In the complaint h is aocused of defrauding th Government by substituting for steel passing the Federal .test defective and valueless Inetat The Forrest firm has contracts with the Government through Seattle, Ta- coma and Portland shipbuilding plants engaged In constructing vessels for the Emergency Fleet Corporation. Thousands of tona of metal. It is said, have been turned into steel pro peller shafts by the Forrest firm since Christmas, and it la into some of these shafts that the company is accused of using defective steel. , - afaalpalatlaw Process Alleged. The complaint sworn to by Preston, who assigned his assistant, Ornbaun, to Investigate, charges: "That the said Edwin Forrest Forge Company at said time was under con tract to supply and manufacture cteel products to be used In the raid ma chinery of vessels, out of steel of an approved and tested quality; that by a process of manipulation the said com pany used In the manufacture of said steel products to be used in the said machinery of vessels steel of an in ferior quality, claiming that the steel so used was of an approved quality, all of which th said defendant then and there well knew. All Hhlpsseat t Be Traced. . The arrest of Forrest marked the beginning of an investigation by the Emergency Fleet Corporation to trace all shipments of steel parts from" the (Concluded on Pass 2, Col urns X.) CARTOONIST REYNOLDS INDEX OF TODATC NEWS War. General Robertson, chief ef British staff, retlsnn. Section 1. page 3. Northwest troops in France bonor French war heroes. Section 1, page 5. . Bodies of Hun sailors IS sea Indicate naval engagement.- Bectlon 1, page 6. American gunners st lively pace on French trout, taction 1, paga a. Foreign. Germany masses troops In Ukraine t' fight Bolehevlki. Bectlon 1, page 1. Japanese publicist hints atronrly at .early Intervention of Mikado in Russia In inter est of peace, oectloo 1. page 2. : Poland becomes danger point in Germany's political scheme. Section 1, page X. National. , "Greatest drive" to come with next Mberty loan campaign, bectlon i. pace J. Speedy pares;, of rsilroad bill urged. Sec tion x. page s. , Naval base for Columbia River needs unity oi snorts., bectlon 1, page a. Domestic. . n Franciscan arrested on charges ef huge pronteenng in ship machinery contracia. section 1. pace 1. New York Municipal Judge arrested en se al uon ensrre. bection 1. page 4. Garfield says drastic fuel order permitted shipment abroad of ' two billions tons of Army supplies. Section 1, pace 4. Sports. Fans . enthusiastic over Portland's victory over Seattle "Mets." Section 2, page Visiter McCredte leaves for San Francisco. Section 2, page I. ¬ Vancouver. Wash., plan for Pacific Interna tional rranrhue meets with favor In Se attle. Section 2. page 2. - Interscholasttc - basketball schedule winds up Ibis week. Section 2. page 2. Million dollars to be saved in 191S baseball ralsrles. Peel ton 2. page 2. O. A. C;. girls-basketball team will take en Oregon s . co-ed. squad tn March. Sec tion 'J, page 2. Oregon Yacht Club campaigns for members. Section -, .psge 2. - Oregon Ian shoot to. begin March J. . Section 2. page 3. Newly organised Association of Shotgun Owners prospers. . Section 2, page 3. February 27 to be big night at Eleventh Street Playhouse. Section 2. page S. Cochran msy defeat Hoppe at billiards. Section 2. page a. Monster Indoor track and field meet is plan for April. Section 2. page 4. M. U Kline bowlers to enter Pacific Coast tournament. Section 2. pace 4. Pacific Northwest. Management of Sloan shipyard undergoes another chsnge. Section 1, psge . Suit to gain control of sfTalrs of New World Insurance Company nied at Spokane, bee tion 1. page 7. Seattle will vote at primaries Tuesday. See' tion 1. page 8. University of Oregon regents not to tolerate disloyalty. Section 1. page lo. Public Service Commlaflon defended by Buchtcl. Secttoa 2. page 5. Commercial and Marine. Potato prices slump In nearly all producing sections. Section 2. page 14. Oats reach highest point ef season at Chi cago. Section 2, page. le. Shipping shares are strong feature of Wall street market, bection 2. page lo. . War Trade Board agent Issues statement on expbruk- section 2. page 14. School for officers for merchant marine needs more pupils. Section 2, page 16. Contractors assemble gesr for St. Johns ter minal excavstion. bectlon 2. pegs Its. Pert land and Vicinity. Valentine drpnped by stork on steamer Rose City. Section J, pace . Mrs. S. Lipnian dies after Illness lasting a year. Sectlou I. psge 10. Reed College to 6pn course for reconstruc tion aides. Section 1. page 11. Girl wife unfolds story ef cruelty and abuse. Section X. page II. NorthweHtsrn Bank .building epens elab orately furnlehed rest room for women tenants. Section 1. psge 12. , Demand for spruce opens way for perma nent Industry ia Oregon. Section 1, pegs 12. More volunteers for work in shipyards wanted. Section 1. psge 13. Prises offered for liberty loan posters. Sec tion 1. page 14. Chinese gunmen, under sentence of life Im prisonment, spparently nappy. section 1. psge 14.' ' French papers praise work of American Red Cross. Section 1, psge 14. Time for Republicans to act has come, says K. D. Baldwin. Section 1. page 15. Smtleage book cam-paign starts tomorrow. Section 1, page 1. Ststs Tresaurer Ksy gives results of flax Investigations, section 1, page 16. Cowllts River fishermen defend raising price of smelt, section l, page is. State Bar eulogises ex-senator Fulton and Judge Moreland. ' Section 1. page 17. Auto driver charged 'with murder of Mies Alderaon, Section 1. page 19. Judge Stspleton and James N. Davis an nounce candidates for Judgeships. Sec tion 1. page 19. War Income tax law explained by Revenue Collector. Section 1, page 19. Red Cross basaar nets total of f41.357.4S. Section 2, page t. Flab prices high despite huge stocks In storage. Section 2. page 14. Talks and views of Oregon delight. Eastern ers. Section 2. psge 14. La Grande Woman Resigns. SALEM. Or Feb. 18. (Special.) Governor" Wlthycombe today accepted the resignation of Mrs. 'Bertha Will iams Griffith, of I -a Grande, as a mem ber of the State Board of Examination of Graduate Nurses. Alias Elizabeth Darling was appointed In her stead. ILLUSTRATE SOME OUTSTANDING FEATURES IN linrniiDi ipjiiie mav IILIUULIUHIIJ IIIHI GONFER IN SPRING Nation-Wide Meeting Is Hays' Pe MANY PROBLEMS IN SIGHT Full: Discussion of Political Outlook Desired OUTLINE OF PLANS NEEDED New Chairman of National Commit tee Believes Such Conference Will Be Effective Preliminary ; Move for: Next Campaign. CHICAGO, Feb. 16. (Special.) Will H. Hays, of Indiana, the new Repub lican National chairman, has a big; proposition in contemplation. It is like ly to develop into the first blK and concrete move that he will make to elect a Republican' Congress In No vember and a Republican President in 1920. The idea, in substance, is to have the Republican National Committee call a Nation-wide conference, to be held some time in April, probably in Chi cago. The purpose will be. If such a session is summoned, to have, a free and full discussion of National political affairs and, if found advisable, to pre pare a statement that, in effect, would be the Republican National platform adjusted to conditions that have arisen since the Chicago convention of 191. The statement would be .in accord with the "clean-sweep" policy adopted this week at St. Louis, when Mr. Hays was elected chairman, and the execu tlve. campaign and advisory committees of the Hughes campaign were elim inated. . Meat of PTosnlMeaee Considered. It is understood that the men who would be expected to sit in such a con ference would be the. members of the Republican national committee, the Chairman of the Republican state com mittees of the various states, all of the Republican United States Senators and Republican members of the House of Representatives, and the Republican Governors of states. The tentative plan of action includes preliminary conferences, during which Chairman Hays would work out the constituency of the new executive com mittee which he Is to suggest . and which will be elected, in fact, by the national committee, in accordance with the new rule embodied in the Howell resolution adopted at St. Louis, direct- ng that all committees, henceforth. having to do with national party or ganization, shall be elected by the com mitteemen and not appointed by the chairman. Procedure Ia Made Plain. Chairman Hays at Indianapolis, after hls'electlon, made it plain that. the cor nerstone of the policy that he will pursue, is that it is the business of the National committee to elect the party cadidates- and not to nominate them. In line with this, he holds that it is not the prerogative of the National committee to amend or construct the party platform. No legal method exists, it is admitted. of summoning a delegate National con vention, prior to the nominating of 930, and men who have expressed an opinion as to the advisability of holding National conference as quickly as one can be arranged, are in agreement that a body, constituted as is suggested would be entirely representative of the party and of all the factions that were amalgamated successfully, according to 11 indications, by the election of Chair- ma Hays at St. Louis. Chairman Hays expects to go to (Concluded on Page 2. Column 2.) BABY BORN AT SEA ABOARD ROSE CITY MR. AND MRS. HENRY STRUCKE RECEIVE VALENTINE. Nine-Pound Girl 'Arrives hy Stork "'-Route and Is Named Rose. Af ter Captain Parker's Ship. - Away out on. the deep : Pacific, 13 miles off the Southern Oregon Coast, a valentine was received - aboard th liner Rose City just before midnight Thursday. " Rose Sturclte is the valentine's name and she weighed nine pounds. Today she is cooing and crowing in th Sisters hospital at Astoria. She was given , the name of Rose in remem brance of the ship, and her birth cer tificate is unique, inasmuch as there is no official form provided for maritim births, so Captain Clyde Parker has compiled one of his own. The document will tell that Ro? Sturcke came Into the world at 11:5 P. M.. February 14, in Latitude 42.8 degrees north: Longitude 124.40 degrees west, or 13 miles seaward from Crook Point, Or. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Sturcke, th parents, were passengers, bound from Sacramento to Seattle. . In welcoming the yotlng lady Into the world honors are said to be equally divided between C. Mercer, steward of the Rose City, Captain Parker and Mrs. P. Hutchinson, of Spokane, a passenger. When the liner reached Astoria late Friday night the family was escorted ashore, to remain until all arrange ments are completed for Miss Rose to travel north. i FRANCE TAKES OVER SHIPS More Believed in Co-operation With Other Allied Powers. PARIS, Feb. 16. A decree published in the Journal Officiel this morning provides for the requisitioning of the entire merchant marine of France on March 10., Government commissioners will con fer with , the ship owners as to the conditions under which the govern ment will take over the vessels. This official announcement in Paris follows close on the heels of the action of the Government at Washington in making the entire foreign commerce of the United States subject to con trol by license in order to conserve tonnage fon the transport of troops and war supplies. The French action is .presumably taken with the same end In view tn pursuance of the- ca-ordinated-policy .of the nations at war with Germany and Austria-Hungary- STUDENT BEATS SCHEDULE Lloyd Edwards, Pacific College, Fin ishes Course Ahead of Time. NEWBERG, Or., Feb. 16. (Special.) Lloyd Edwards, well-known athlete and editon of the Crescent, the college paper, for the past two years, finished his work in Pacific College this week. V months ahead of the schedule time. He made an excellent record as a tudent. When asked as to Ills plans for the uture, Mr, Edwards said: "Well, France seems to be the most promi nent place at present, and I presume it's the Friends reconstruction unit for me." Lloyd's father, C. J. Ed wands, of Tillamook, was a member of the first class graduated from Pacific College. APPEAL TO WOMEN ISSUED Alumnae Committee Asks Co-Eds to Enter Nurses' Training Camp. NEW TORK. Feb. IS. An appeal of 5000 you.ig college women to enter the training camp for nurses which opens at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N. T., June 24, wis issued today by the alum nea recruiting committee of the in stitutions. The camp will be conducted by the Red Cross and Council of National De fense, '1f THE WEEK'S NEWS. GEliSB TO STRIKE BOLSHEVIK! Battle Line Forming in Ukraine Territory. WAR NOW SEEMS CERTAINTY Berlin. Fears .for Prisoners Held by Slavs. HOSTAGES MAY BE-KILLED Austria-Hungary Serves Notice That Her Armies May Be 'Used Only for Purposes of Self - Defense, . . . AMSTERDAM, , Feb. . IS. German,' forces are already being , concentrated In Ukraine to attack the BolshevikU according to a Berlin dispatch to th Tldd, and declarations looking to the active prosecution of th war against the Bolshevlkl 'in' North Russia also will be made at Berlin next week. The German authorities are anxious regarding the fate of German prison ers in North Russia, whom the Bolshe vik! are holding as hostages and who, Berlin dispatches say, may be killed if the Bolshevik! are driven to des peration. Germany has already served notice on the . Bolshevikl authorities that she will enforce reprisals If the German prisoners are harmed. Csernla Serves Notice Count Czernin, the Austro-Hunga- rian Foreign Minister, has notified Berlin that Austrian troops must not be used against Russia to support any policy which Austria has not approved. but only for purposes of self-defenss against marauding bands. AMSTERDAM. Feb. 16. The Bolshe vik! are making wholesale arrests of Germans In Russia and holding them as hostages, according to a Riga dispatch received by way of Berlin. Three hun dred Germans and many pro-German Esthonians iat Dorpat have been ar rested and transerred to KwistadU. Air the food in the Dorpat ddstrict has been confiscated and it Is almost im possible to feed the German women, and . children. Wholesale Slaughter Theatcaed. The lives of those arrested, as well as Germans and German supporters who have not yet .been arrested, are hourly in great danger, adds the dis patch, as the Bolsheviki threaten wholesale butchery. The Bolsheviki have officially declared the Baltic no bility outlaws. The Lokal Anzeiger (Berlin! says there is great excitement at. Warsaw, Cracow and Lemberg as a result of the Ukraine treaty. The Warsaw news- apera are appearing wtth black bor ders. Soldiers, mounted and on foot, re patroting the streets to prevent demonstration. The director of affairs. Count Rostvorovskl, has resigned... Papers I'rge Strike. At Cracow the papers appeal to Po lish parties to declare a one-day gen eral strike. A general strike has been called at Lemberg for Monday... when work will be suspended In all the Po lish factories, shops and government offices and the schools will be closed. AMSTERDAM, Feb. 16. A Vienna telegram ascribes to "a well-informed source," the statement that if Ger many resumes military operations against Russia, the attitude of Austria Hungary will not be influenced there by. An agreement on this point is said to have been reached by the central powers. BERLIN, via London, Feb. 16. The commissioners representing the central (Concluded on Page 4. Column tf.) f