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PORTLAND, OKEGOX, SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 17, 1918.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
STILLMAN RICHES
NEAR $100,000,000
SON MY ASSV.MK RH.srONHIL
1TIKS LEFT BV BAXkKll.
U.S. BUILDING FEAT
AMUNDSEN TO DASH
PATRIOTISM BURKS
SESSION OF DIR.
INDEX OF T0nAvc EWS
FOR NORTH POLE
lec
el
EIS
OF
IN TRIAL BALANCE
VKHl 8 ll&ximum temperature,
drrrees; minimum. 4 dfgres.
EGG-SHAPED SHIP AND
PLAXE TO BE USED.
AIR
TODAY'S Showers; moderate southeuterlr
wind-.
Mar.
Section One
Pages lto24
1
MNENSE
SHIPYARD
GERMANY WEIGHED
HER
PLANNED
MARVEL
FRANCE
Eastern Men Would
Build Wooden Ships.
MILLIONS BACK ENTERPRISE
Hurley Will Be Asked to Waive
Commandeering.
UcNARY TO PRESENT PLAN
))fliart Capital IntrreMril In Yrn
lore Insists Output IU- Tarnrd
0cr lo Irlaie Owners
4 on Complcliun.
CP.D;OMAXNESBL'nK.U-, Waal
Inston. Marvh 1. Tha lar-et wood
tiipbntl-lins arl on tha Pacific Coast
will ba 1hilhl In tba envlronmen
l f'ortland In tba very naar future, to
build ahlpa for trana-Pactftc and coaat
wua trads. if tha Shipping Board wll
formally ara to permit this yard to
build on pntata account, and turn ov
it output lo private owncra upon com
lilin.
tviaatjra rapital la backins tha n
terpriM. Million aro at tha command
of tha company, which, after a aurvay
of tha cnrlr Pacific l oil. baa selected
1'ortland as tba baat point for estab
lishing a wood ahlpyard of vast mac
Bltuda.
Pljia Laid Hfar Mcary.
For tha tima btnc tha namaa of cap-
ttallats Intrraatad In thia enterprise ara
withheld at th.tr own raqueat.
Throuah tha rVnatora from their
tata. Iha ahlpbuiidara have laid their
plana bafora IWnator McNarjr and put
vp lo him tha taak of aacurins concea
aiona from tha Shipping Board which
will niake It poaalbla for Ihcnt to (O
ah. ad with thrtr projact.
Whan Cttalrman tluriay. of tha Ship
pmg Board, ralorna to Washington on
tnday. iUnator Mc.Nary will lay tha
tuatiwa bafora him and urea that as
auranca ba vlaa that thia company
fay proceed with Ita plans an term
t il ara rblr.
IHaavl l:alaa ta Be t rd.
Tha parpoaa of tha new company la
ta eatabitatt a yard very rloee to Port
land and to build 1 Z waya at the outaet.
They purpoee to build wooden ahlpe
of their own design of approximately
lia tona to ba propelled by Dteael
anglnea and make It knota an bour.
with tha fciea that tbeaa ahlpa ahall ba
employed In tha trana-l'acinc trade. In
trade wth Australia and In carrying
feitratee from fhll.
If tragic la offered In euoTi-tent tuftn
tlty they alao will build ahlpa for the
AUaka trade.
arnlo feapaaf fa Tab Jtblpa.
Sa far aa can be learneil tha .-ompany
which deairea to eataullah the ahipyard
ta not to er-erate Ita own ahlpa. but to
contract them for another company.
w hu b hja perfected plana for building
tip a vat trana-Pacltlc tra-la out of
J'ortljrvt
Tba achema submitted will call for
w coatlnaoua output of wood ahlpa at
thia new yard, for at leaat 1 years to
come, r.gardleea of when tha war may
and. The backer of tha propoeed ahlp
yard and ship operating company aea
aat poaaibllltlea In foreign trade on
the pacific, and regard Portland aa the
Bioat favorable baaa of operations.
aeaeaaadeerlac teawa Haloed.
t'nJer tha eitsting rulo of the Ship
ping Hoar. I. any ship under construc
tion In the United States ran be com
mannered b the Shipping Board at
any tlrre during conetructlon. or after
U ia if'Ml.
The tvuetr rapltattats will not go
forward with their project unlese they
' ) 7j.2. olo suir - iJ l
My ,w Ail tL TLrz. - i.o0f (iD! vr-R SLiy coaw tJ-s I
One of Nation's Vralllile-l Men In
aMc, Afirr 10 Yrara, lo Gain Hc
llcf From Introtlnal Disorder.
NKW YOltK. March !. Meny of
tha business renunslbllitlcs of Jaiuca
Stillman. chairman of the board of di
rectors of tha National City Bank, di
rector in many banks, corporal Ions and
railroads and dim of tha world's rich
est men, who died yesterday, are ex
pected to bo assumed by his son. James
A. Stillman.
I'pon his retirement from actixe busl
nesa soon after tha financial panic of
i7. Mr. Stillman waa aucceeded In
many corporation directorates by rrang
A. Vanderllp. who also became presi
dent of tha National t'lty Bank.
A recent list of tha country's richest
men placed Mr. Stillman aa i:th and
credited him with an Income of H.So.
00 iu 111. On this basis his wealth
waa estimated at 170.000.000. other
estimates, however, place his fortune
at mora than $100,000,000.
Soon after tha entrance of America
Into tba war. Mr. Stillman again as
sumed active connection with affairs
of tha National City Bank. Mr. Vander
llp being released to the Government
for war work. For mora than 10 years
ha had Bought relief from periodical
attacks of Intestinal disorder and sent
much of his time in Paris. Ha re
turned from his Paris home Inst Au
gust apparently recovered and his
death lata yesterday came as a sur
prise, although ha had been confined
lo hla room for the last month.
MAJOR'S HORSE REAPPEARS
Ore jton Officer In France lias lie-
markable Experience.
When Major George A. White, former
Adjutant-General of Oregon, now in the
artillery service In France, received
the assignment of a horse recently and
found it to be the same horse he had
ridden while a Captain of cavnlry in
the Mexican expedition, he concluded
that "the world Isn't ao very large
after ill"
The horse ba rode at tha head of
Troop A on the Mexican border waa
aent to France along with herds of
other horses when the troop and the
Third Oregon returned. Major White
In a letter received by bla wife, calls
t a strange coincidence that he should
get the aame horse In France after
having Darted with h-m month! before.
BILL TO REGULATE FEES
Lawyers Prey on Fa in I lie of Slain.
Says Representative ' Field.
WASHINGTON. March 1. Decep-
lon and fraud base been practiced on
he benrftclartee of American soldiers
killed In the war with Germany. Rep
resentative Fields, of Kentucky.
member of the house military commit
ee, aald today, after ha had Introduced
bill designed to put an end to tha
lleged practices. The measure limits
ha fee of agent or attorneys lo f -5
nd imposes heavy penalties on per
sona collecting more.
Scrvlce of a special agent or altor
nry ta not neaeessry collecting war
risk insurance except In aonie unusual
BRITISH BOMB TEUTON CITY
xpfcK-lvr-a lroppel Willi
t'pon XwcllirniLrn.
Fffect
UDSUOX. March 1 A British air
squadron bombed Zwelbruckrn today.
sas the British official report on avla-
ion lasurd tonight.
Fourteen heavy projectiles and ten
ghtrr bombs were dropped on bar
racks, munition factories ami the rail-
ay atatlon at Zwethrucken." the re
port says, "r.xploelons were seen all
round the atatlon. Our airplane forma-
lon waa attacked by hostile scouts
nd anti-aircraft guns, but all our ma-
rMrea returned safelv
A RETROSPECTIVE
Railroad Yards to Be
Biggest in Europe.
BAKER INSPECTS HUGE WORK
War Secretary Satisfied With
Yankee Achievement.
TRACKAGE IS 228 MILES
improvements .Made lor American
Military Purpose Gives Small
I'ort Potentialities Kqual
to Those of Hamburg.
i By the Associated fress.!
OX BOARD SKl'RKTARY BAKERS
SPECIAI. TRAIN IN FRANCE, March
H. Newton l. Baker. Secretary of
War. spent a large part of today In a
rude observation car. which was only
a flatrar hastily fitted at the luncheon
hour with yplne benches.
The car traversed the railway yards
of the American forces, which spread
over the lowlands bordering a certain
waetr front In France. The yards will
be the biggest thing of the kind In
Europe when finished something to
bring railway engineers from afar in
France to see.
The trackage will be 280 miles end
will provide for 2500 incoming freight
cars and 2500 outgoing cars, as well
as 3200 on the interior switches.
Uelalla Ki plained ta Baker.
General lri'ilnr and Brigadier
Cienrral Atterbury explained them in
at.undant detail as the flutcar with
Secretary Baker was slowly drawn
over the trunk and switching lines dur
ing the afternoon.
A dozen or more French and Ameri
can engineers were in the party, some
of whom were members of the engi
neering staff which constructed the
yards, and they added a point now and
then to General Pershing's explana
tion. Predge are constantly at work I
along the waterfront, and nearby the I
warehouses of Mc-I a'ld M'vsnixed
Iron are rising alon llii- switching ar
teries. Sasall Part ta Have Boom.
This development is purely for
American military requirements and
will provide a rather small port in
France with potentialities ei,ual to
those of Hamburg, as ono of the
French officials said to the correspond
ent. Immensity r Taak Impresses,
Secretary Baker's first work after his
conference with the French statesmen
and American Generals at the capital
haa been to begin his study of what the
Americana are doing and ought to do
in France by a survey of a great port
department.
I am still absorbing," said he at
the ending of a 14-hour duy. "I must
say frankly that I did not know the I
immensity of tha enterprise which we
have undertaken In opening new porta,
and when I see whst wa have accom
plished here I am satisfied."
Tha American War Secretary at the
port In question was attended by Gen
eral Pershing. Major-General William
M. Black. Brigadier-General W. W.
Atterbury and the officers of the en
gineers who bave been creating a vast
new equipment for docking and un
loading ships.
The Secretary walked for' three miles
along the American water dock front,
already constructed or In the process
of construction aa an extension to the
bertha for a number of ahlpa placed at
the disposition of the Americana by
the French government.
Two miles of this new aea frontage
4oniiU4ll on r4. 4. Column 3.k
GLIMPSE BY CARTOONIST REYNOLDS OF SOME EVENTS IN THE PAST WEEK'S NEWS.
Aatwta and liabilities of German militarism
art forth. Section 1. pas;e 1.
Ruawian Soviets ratify German terms of
peace. Section 1. page J,
Neutrals of the North both hate and fear
the Oermans. Section 1, pace S.
Oeneral Scott, former chief of stuff, relieved
from division command. Section
-""ore. en.
Holland agrees to five up shipping to allies.
section l. pace 'Z.
Hindenburs; and Ludendorff anxious about
west front. Section 1. page 2.
Berlin Pan-German publication declares foi
exploitation of Siberia. Section 1. page 3.
.National.
Lmritest wood shipyard on Coast may be
esiaonsnea at 1'ortland. Section 1
Pe I.
Relatives of slain soldiers victimized by
attorneys who seek to collect war insur
ance. Section 1. page 1.
Government's failure to let more wood ship
contracts neia unjustified. Section 1,
page 4.
Domestic.
Stillman eMate placed near 1 100,000.000
nt Mr . 0tuod i, page i.
Food Administration plans further restric
tion In use of wheat. Section 1. page 4.
Rigid suppression of 1. W. W. tn California
contemplated. Section 1. page 6.
Sport.
Mci'redle favors Vancouver as sixth team of
circuit, beet ion 2. page 1
Signal Corps wins track meet at Vancouver,
section . page l.
Shipbuilders' League to open April 7. Sec
non it, page
Portland Revolver Club shoots high score In
contest, beet ion z, page '2.
Many U. of O. track stars now in service.
section page z.
Washington "V" eliminates Intercollegiate
uaseu&ii mis year, section Z, page 1!.
Portland Gun Club shoot to be held today
Section 2, pag 4.
Fishermen begin to get out tackle for sal
mon run. section page 4.
Mount Angel College quintet has successful
season. Section 'J. page 4.
Portland Golf Club will stage membership
urivf. section page 4.
Interscholastfc baseball schedule drawn up
oecnon page s.
M. A. A. C. track athletes to hold first work
out today. Section 2, page 3.
Fast basketball teams will clash. Section 2,
page a.
Maroon F Club to hold dance at Multnomah
notel. Section 2, page 3.
Pitcher Alexander nearly eliminated from
game early in career. Section 2, page i.
Pacific Northwest,
Iane County's first war widow weds former
husband s brother. Section 1. page 1.
Central Oregon sheepmen organize at Bend.
section 1. pHK -
rmen's ntlnlnnary convention opens at
Sulcm Sunday. Section 1. page 8.
St. Maries. Idaho, threatened by I. w. W.,
pi area unaer military guard. Section 1,
page 10.
Women of Berlin tired of war. Section 1,
page .
Senator Borah of Idaho may have no oppo
sition tor re -election, section 1, page 8.
Starch factory at Beaverton is formally
opened, section 1, page 7.
Com m err la! and Marine.
Oregon potato growers hold despite sagging
prices, section i, page iu.
Corn slumps severely at Chicago, with heavy
aeiung. rt-cuon z. page itt.
K'-8(Mn- features Irregular moVfrnent In
Vtall street stocks. Section "2. page 16.
Jrganlxutinn of I. S. Shlpolng Board being
perfected. Section 1. page 4.
Three launch Ings are scheduled for this
week. Section 1. page 11.
Portland and Vicinity.
Patriotism marks session of U. A. R. Sec
tion 1. page 1.
City paving plant to be ready for operation
In month. Section 1, page II.
W. T. Vinton aspire to presidency of State
Senate. Section 1, page 12.
J. W. Be ve ridge. In seeking renomlnatlon
as County Clerk, relies on hfs record.
Section i. puge VI.
Eastern cities Impressed by Riley trav
elogues featuring Western attractions.
Section 1. page Kt.
Northwest logging and mill operators to
meet in Portland, section 1, page 14.
Auditorium will blaxc with patriotic color
for oeneflt dances. Section 1. page 14.
Members of Base Honpltal 44 awaiting call
to service. Section 1. page 14.
Portland to get Columbia River flah at low
(.oat. Section 1. page lo. t
Portland boy. guarding American legation
at Pektn. writes home.
War relics from battlefields to be shown I
for BritlKh Red Cro benefit. Section
1. page tl.
March thrift stamp sales show Increase
over February. Section 1, page Id.
Let boys ralre chickens, says manual train
ing supervisor. Section 1. page 18.
Ban on sale of laying hens may be lifted
soon. Section 1. page It.
Household arts department at University
proves popular. Sectlou J. page 18.
MARSHAL HAIG HAS HEIR
Son Is nqrn to Wire of Famous Brit
ish Military Chief.
LONDON. March K. A aon waa born
to Iady Halff. wile of Field Marshal
Sir Douglas Hale, commander-in-chief
of the expeditionary force In France
and Flanders, on Friday night.
Pinnacle of Power Has
Been Reached.
DOOR OF DECLINE STANDS OPEN
Assets and Liabilities of Mili
tarism Set Forth.
NATION UNITED FOR WAR
Every Economic Strength of Great
Empire Available ' as Working
Capital for Defensive Con
flict of Endless Duration.
GERMANY AS IT IS.
Kor five months past repre
sentatives of the New York
World on Germany's borders and
agents within' her borders have
been gathering; the facts of present-day
conditions in the empire.
A series of 20 articles have been
prepared and they embrace every
phase man power, food, clothing,
financial, socialism, overorgan
ization, railroads, effects of em
bargo, privations of the people,
etc Altogether they give a. re
markable amount of information
concerning Germany and her
prospects.
BY CYRIL BROWN.
I'opyrlRht, liilS. by the Press Publishing
Co. Published by arrangement wlttt me
New i ork world).
STOCKHOLM (By Mail.) Changing
Germany is, in 1918, passing through an
nescapable. evolution in which the
sharply rising power curve seemingly
as reached an iron limit and now wav
ers, with minor vacillations, along i
level line of indeterminate length to
ward the downward-turning point; the
pinnacle of power the threshold of the
Decline. The metamorphosis of Ger
many into a fighting state is complete;
the maximum of fighting power has
been attained and is maintained with
ncreaslng difficulty; beyond lies mll
tarism's decadence.
No department of life has escaped
the revolutionary war change; a revolu-
ion with a clearly defined purpose, en
forced by military necessity and accom
plished under iron discipline, acceler
ated by the ambitious Hindenburg pro
gramme and brought to dramatic cli
max by America's entry into the war.
All Gersnany Orasnlsed for War.
All Germany is today perfectly or
ganized to the point of overorganiza
tion for fighting only; all Germany's re
sources, human and material, are di
rectly, or Indirectly, enlisted for fight
ing on indefinitely already thrown
Into the melting pot of military power,
or duly inventoried, card indexed, as
known mobillzable reserves.
It Is as if in bankrupt peace time
Germany, voluntarily gone into the
hands of the Receiver War, had been
forced through a process of ruthless
liquidation and radical reorganization,
emerging as Military Socialism, with all
Germany's economic assets now avail
able as working war capital for a de
fensive war of endless duration; pre
pared (and still preparing) against ev
ery conceivable contingency except
calamitous crop failure or catastrophal
military defeat to German minds the
only two possibilities of peace compell
ing decisiveness, and both unthinkable
and unthought of.
Balance Sheet Prepared.
The carefully audited trial balance
sheet of the leorganizea War Trust re
veals the elements of strength and
Concluded on Page 3, Column 1.)
Xo Wireless to Be Carried, Because
Explorer Doesn't Want to Hear
Bad News From Home.
NEW YORK. March 16. Aoald
Amundsen, discoverer of the South
Pole, has not abandoned his plan to
reach the North Pole by the joint use of
a specially constructed ship and an air
plane, he announced upon his -arrival
here today from an extended visit to
the American trenches In Europe.
Captain Amundsen said he would be
ready to start on his Journey to the
North Pole in July and was anxious to
return to his home in Christiania, Nor
way, where he has gathered supplies
for a seven years' trip and where the
vessel which is to carry him and his
party to the Far North is being built.
The vessel is an auxiliary steamship,
120 feet In length, has a 40-foot beam
and a draft of 12 feet. She Is shaped
like an egg. Captain Amundsen said, so
that she may be lifted by the ice pres
sure and carried along with the north
erly drifting currents toward the Pole.
Captain Amundsen's ship will carry
no wireless, he said, because he does
not want to hear any bad news from
home. While in the United States he
will try to obtain the services of a
capable air pilot, who will be taken
along to guide the airplane which will
be part of the expedition's equipment
in the proposed flight across the Pole.
COAL MEN UNDER LICENSE
President Announces Regulations lo
Go Into Efrect April 1.
WASHINGTON, March 16. AH coal
jobbers, brokers, selling and purchas
ing agents and wholesale dealers were
put under license tonight by President
Wilson on recommendation of Fuel Ad
ministrator Garfield, who issued regu
lations carefully circumscribing the
charges to be made for their services.
While recognizing that, legitimate
jobbers are "essential to the conduct
jot the coal business." the Fuel Admin
istration said affiliated companies or
ganized solely for receiving the job
bers' margin for the "swapping of coal"
and other fictitious trade operations
will be dealt with severely.
Licenses must be obtained before
April 1. The regulations affecting the
sale of coal under jobbers' licenses do
not apply to contracts for coal before
the President's executive orders taking
over control of the industry.
WAR WIDOW WEDS AGAIN
Lane County Woman Bride of For
mer Husband's Brother.
EUGENE, Or., March 16. (Special.)
Eva M. Knox, widow of Charles
Vivian Knox, the first Lane County
man to give his life in the war against
Germany, was married here today to
hen former husband's brother, Guy B.
Knox.
Charles Knox was a son of F. V.
Knox, of Fox Hollow. He was killed
April 9, 1917, just a year to a day from
the date of his enlistment in the Cana
dian army at Vancouver, B. C.
The wedding ceremony today was
performed by Rev. A. M. Spangler,
pastor of the First Congregational
Church. The bride and bridegroom
have both been making their home at
Fox Hollow.
RAIN FORECAST THIS WEEK
Government Predicts Occasional
Showers for Northwest.
WASHINGTON, March 16. Weather
predictions for the week beginning
Monday, issued by the Weather Bureau
today, are:
Present pressure distribution indi
cates that fair weather will prevail
generally throughout the country dur
ing the week, with temperatures above
the seasonal average as a rule. There
will be occasional local rains on the
North Pacific Coast and over limited
areas in the North, but no general
precipitation is indicated.
Oregon Women Urge
Undivided Loyalty.
SPIRIT OF SACRIFICE SHOWN
Elimination of German Tongue
From Schools Favored.
U. S. RATIONING ADVOCATED
Mrs. F. M. Wilkins, of Eugene, Is
Elected State Regent and Mrs.
Walter Burrell, of Multnomah
Chapter, Is Vice-Regent.
All the people of the United Slates
should be strictly rationed.
German should be eliminated from all
the state schools and public schools of
Oregon.
All teachers who will not swear al
legiance to the United States should be
eliminated from the state schools.
Strict regulations should be placed on
the conduct and speech of enemy aliens.
These were some of the suggestions
urged yesterday by the Oregon daugh
ters of the American Revolution iu the
closing session of their state confer
ence. Contest Develops for Vice-Rcgeci.
The addit.onal spice of a contest for
the office of state vice-regent was of
fered in the nomination from the floor
of Mrs. John F. Beaumont, a former
state regent and member of Willamette
Chapter. Mrs. F. M. Wilkins, of Eu
gene, had just been elected state regent
by unanimous vote and the nominating
committee's report had' suggested the
name of Mrs. Walter F. Burrell, of
Multnomah Chapter, as vice-regent. A
counting of the ballots gave Mrs. Bur
rell the office. She is a daughter of
Mrs. J. B. Montgomery, founder of
Multnomah Chapter.
Other officers elected were: Mrs.
Pearl Gregory Cartlidge, of Suzannah
Lee Biirlow Chapter, Oregon City, re
cording secretary; Miss Bertha Cum
mings, of Eugene, corresponding sec
retary; Mrs. W, E. Pearson, of Wil
lamette Chapter, treasurer; Mrs. J.
Thorburn Ross, historian; Mrs. Charles
Worrel, of Coos Bay, auditor; Mrs. Levi
Tracey, of Albany, chaplain; Mrs. John
Porter Gibson, consulting registrar.
Alma Are Expresaed.
The definite aim of the daughters
was expressed in a resolution, in which
they declared that they would make as
their work this year to encourage the
Americanization of all aliens and the
teaching of the English language to all
in this country.
Thare was considerable discussion
regarding the teaching of German as
a language, a few favoring retaining
it. Mrs. Isaac Lee Patterson, the state
regent, declared that this was one time
when the "daughters begged leave to
differ from Dr. Foster, of Reed Col
lege." Wilson Is Lauded.
I Preceding 'the business session that
completed the fifth annual gathering,
there was an elaborate 'luncheon, at
which Mrs. Patterson presided, and elo
ouent and sincere toasts were given.
First, , Mrs. Mable Holmes Parsons,
of the University of Oregon, offered
the toast, "To Woodrow Wilson, the
Man, the Leader, the Patriot, the
Friend of Humanity, the First Citizen
and the President." She placed a
stamp of disapproval on the New Re
public and Collier's magazine editori
als, in which she declared there is a
"constant negative suggestion" and de
clared it is the duty of all true Ameri
cans to repudiate the argument of all
"political profiteers and flunkies" who
are casting about thoughts of doubt
(Concluded on Page 2, Column l.l