52 Pages Five Sections Section One Pages 1 to 16 VOL. XXXVII NO. 43. PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 27. 1918. PRICE FIVE CENTS. PRIM SOPHIA SHIKS, 343 PERISH Vessel, All On Board Lost in Alaskan Waters. SKAGWAY SENDS LIST OF PASSENGERS ADDRESSES OF THOSE OX SO PHIA "OT AVAILABLE. MANY VICTIMS TUNERS Disaster Regarded as Wors in Marine History of the Pacific Coast. VESSEL FIRST HITS REEF Terrific Attacks by Storming Winds and Waves Com plete Tragedy. SEATTLE, Wash, Oct 26. Three hundred and forty-three persons, most of them outbound Alaskans and resi dents of the Yukon Territory, lost their lives when the Canadian Pa cific Steamship Company's passenger steamer Princess Sophia was picked op by storming winds and waters, dragged across Vanderbilt Reef ani dropped to the bottom of Lynn Canal, an arm of the Inside Passage not far south of Skagway, Alaska. "No survivors," read a wireless from Juneau, Alaska, telling of the loss, Shipping men tonight said the loss of the Sophia with all aboard was the worst marine disaster in the history of the Coast. Capacity Load Carried. The vessel, 2320 tons gross, had been plying in Western Canadian and Southeastern Alaska waters since she was built in 1912. Lists of passengers and details of the wreck were not available here to night. The vessel, it was thought, was carrying a capacity load of pas sengers, nearly all Northerners who bad taken the last steamboat up the Yukon River before the ice, and had boarded the Sophia at Skagway. The passengers were among the hundreds who left Alaska this Fall to spend the Winter in the States and Canada. They had come as far as White Horse by river boat and there had boarded trains fpf the Alaska port. Storm Encountered Early. Wednesday the heavily-loaded So phia left Skagway for Vancouver and Victoria. Not many hours out, she ran into one of the first snow storms of the year. Early Thursday, in the dark and storm, she ran hard aground on the Vanderbilt Reef. S. O. S. calls were sent out and the United States light house tender Cedar, the United States Government steamer Peterson, and several small boats went to her as sistance. When daylight came it was found the boat was resting easily and the weather calm, so i- was decided not to take the passengers off. Word was sent to Vancouver and the wrecking steamer Tees and the C P. R. steamer Princess Alice were Many Names, However, Identified by Alaskans Who Are Now In Seattle. SEATTLE, Wash.. Oct. 26. A Skag way. Alaska, dispatch to the Associated Press tonight gave the list of passen gers aboard the Sophia, but did not give their addresses. Alaskans now in Seat tle Identified many of the names. Skag way's list, with the addresses added by Northerners here, follows: J. R- Young, San Francisco, engineer Yukon steamer Dawson. C. J. Bloomquist, Victoria. B. C, cap tain steamer Dawson. C. S. Chinery, White Horse, Y. T. H. A. Robinson, San Francisco and Lake Bennett, Y. T. A. S. Bourne, Iditarod. Alaska, book- keeper for the Northern Commercial Company. H. EL Fardin, Ruby. Alaska. WILSON'S APPEAL REACTS 1M OREGON Voters Feel. Keenly Sting of Ingratitude. PROMINENT MEN OUTSPOKEN TOURNAI INHABITANTS REFUSE TO QUIT CITY C1TIXIAXS DEFY HUNS, WITH BRITISH AT CITY GATES. Republicans Point to Record of Loyal Service. ACTION IS HELD INSULT R. it Hall, 'iditarod, wireless oper- President W ilson's Move in Bidding ator. F. E. Sole. Iditarod. Mrs. F. " -aton and two chlldrc Iditarod. D. A. McDonald, Iditarod, formerly of Sedro-Wooley. Wash. W. S. Amlong and wife. Ruby. Mrs. Al Winchell, San Francisco. S. J. Baggerly and wife. Ruby, man ager cold storage plant. Peter Gurkovitch. Fairbanks. II. M. Swartz, Seattle, United States Transport Serv ice. H. B. Parkin. Seattle, general man ager Pacific Coast Cold Storage Com pany. J. F. Pugh, United States Customs Collector of Juneau. II. A. Somerset, Iditarod. G. A. Miles, Iditarod. Mr. and Mrs. It. II. Davis. Davis was purser of the Yukon River steamer Dawson. Mr. and Mrs. Sam Henry. Dawson, y. T-, merchant. William S. Scouse, Dawson, miner. John Zaccharelli, Los Angeles, fectioner. Mrs. George Makus and daughter, Nemna, Alaska. W. K. McArthur, Dawson, Mr. and Mrs. M. S. Eads, DawAn, proprietors Hotel Alexander. Dawson's leading hotel. George Milton. Pantlus, Alaska, coal miner. w. F. Shaw, Skagway, steamship agent. A. R. Garner, Fraser River. Voters to Elect Only Democrats Results in General Criticism. President Wilson's more in bidding voters of the United States to express their approval of the War Administra tion by electing only Democrats to seats in Congress reacted powerfully In Oregon yesterday. Perhaps Oregon citizens, since they have so consistently set the pace fo the Nation in loyally and unitedly sup porting every war cause and develop ment approved by the .President., felt most keenly the sting of ingratitude. However this be, the fact la that dis approval and resentment were voiced by thousands of loyal citizens. criticism was voiced with perfect freedom, too. Why not, since the Presl aent nimseir deliberately swung open the lid long clamped down on partisan feelings? queried the Republican and cun- I Progressive voters. McGIm Reaeata Appeal. Disapproval of the President's appeal ranged from mild declaration that it was untimely and out of place to out bursts of feeling on the part of men who have been untiring in helping the Administration prosecute the war and whose sons are fighting- what they have) conceived to be the battles of the American people. lypicai 01 many expressions was (Concluded oa Pave A. Column 1.) Mr. and Mrs. O. E. Tackstrom. two ln" cutting comment of Judge Henry children. Ruby, formerly of Stanwood. I Wash. I l resent the president's action," said W.-A. Thompson, New York, purser lJuaK McUlnn. "I. resent it with all steamer Yukon. I my might. Whatever I may have Captain John C. Green and wife, mas-1 thought before -now I know and de ter steamer Yukon. I clare the Administration . narrowly A. W. Walker, cook on Yukon steamer I partisax Just compare the situation Selkirk. I Mr. Wilson precipitates with that in J. Santine, Portland, Or., engineer) other nations, where the war crisis has steamer Yukon. brought in coalition governments. The d. sownr, cmei engineer steamer I answering resentment snould cause Dawson. I every voter of such inclination to vote H. Rutherford, Dawson. I the Republican ticket straight, from ttuy jicCrait, Seattle, steward steamer Governor down to Constable. luKon- I Actios. Considered In.alt. "' Z " , ? ' v'"orm Or mark this, from Dan J. Malarkey t vv.ii r. wlth two sons f'Bhting in France and Mrs. Charles Cousins, Victoria. B. Wilkinson, Victoria, second mate steamer Casca. Mrs. Dan Gillls. wife Yukon gas boat operator. Thomas McMahon, Flat City, Alaska; merchant, formerly of Arlington, Wash. George Tribe, steward steamer Dawson. E. S. Ironside, Dawson, collector customs. Mrs. M. Ironside, mother E. S. Iron side. Mrs. C. J. Vifquian and child. Mrs. Vifquian's husband is the Dawson agent for the White Pass & Yukon Railway Company. W. J. O'Brien, Dawson, Canadian Pa cific Railroad agent, wife and Ave chil dren. E. S. Chinery, New York, purser Yu kon River steamer White Horse. H. F. Robinson, Dawson. Captain J. Alexander and wife, owner and manager of Engineer mine, of Wlndyarm, B. C. J. A. Segbers and wife, Dawson, pro prietors Yukonla Hotel. (Concluded on Pag 4. Column -4.) devoting almost his undivided energies to selective service duties: I consider Mr. Wilson's action- an insult. I see no occasion whatever for his act. ' It looks as though' he were taking advantage of the present situa tion to aid a political cause. We Re publicans who have sons fighting 'over there' have been thinking this our cause as much as Mr. Wilson's or the Democratic party's. -I read the reply of the Republican leaders in Congress and heartily indorse every word they said." . Oregoaj Republicans Stirred. Thomas H. Tongue, Jr- chairman Re publican State Central Committee, is sued a pointed statement for the party, as follows: "Heretofore every resident of this state has been so interested in the war that he has. not had time for pol itics. Besides, Republicans took the President at his word when he said 'Politics is Adjourned,' and have been conducting a quiet, clean, Inexpensive and inoffensive campaign. The Presi dent's message comes as a bomb and Thirty-two Thousand Persons -Balk When Germans Issne Edict; Refugees Reach Holland. WASHINGTON, Oct. 26. Thirty-two thousand civilians, despite the order of the Germans, have refused to evacuate the city of Tournal, which is being ap proached by the British forces, ac cording to ' advices received tonisht from Rotterdam by the commission for relief In Belgium. Special trains pu at their disposal by the Germans were unable to leave for lack of passengers. '- Six thousand Belgian refugees have so far reached Holland, the dispatch added. Reports from Brussels say difficulty is being experienced in housing rofu gees from other parts of Belgium and many are suffering from exposure and grippe. GERMANS HUMBLE OBSERVER THUS Peace Move Is Held to Be Made in Good Faith. ZEEBRUGGE WRECKED BEFORE HUNS LEAVE SOLVAY CHEMICAIi WORKS IS RAZED BY GERMAN'S. LUDENDORFF RESIGNS JOB Quartermaster-General of German Army Retires From Post. COPENHAGEN, Oct. 26. General Lu- dendorff. First Quartermaster-General of the German army, has resigned. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS 56 (Concluded on Page 8, Column 1.) The Weather YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, decrees; minimum. 41! degrees. TODAY'S Rain, southerly winds. War. Prisoner recently released la Germany says Teutons are truly humble now. section 1. page 1. . French make bic advance on Oise-Serre front. Section x, page I. Tournal inhabitants refuse to trult city as British near. Section 1, page 1. Huns wreck Zeebrugge. Section 1, page 1. Italians continue to- gain. Section 1, page 8. Americans hold all gains. Section 1, page 3. Uutis begin to crack under Foch's blows. Section 3 page u. Foreign Germans alarmed over solvency of empire. Section 1. page 2. Hungary reported in state of anarchy. Sec tion. 1. page -. National. Express rates will be advanced to yield 'J4,0W,0W more, section a. page . Sensational peace rumors come from Eu rope. Section 1. page o. Inefficiency and waste at National capital charged. Section 3 page a. Donaewtlc Oppressed of Middle Europe tfeclare their independence. . section i, page . Eastern press stirred by Wilson's appeal to voters. Section 1. page 9. Pacific Northwest, Steamer Princess Sophia lost with 343 Uvea Section 1, page 1 . Fifty-three ennvtcts have fted stats prison ln two years;, a only lost, accuon , page 7. . . Students at Cor vail is learn Army technique, section a, page l. Influenza fight at Eugene is success. Sec- tlon i, page 1. List of Sophia passengers sent from Skag way. Section i, page 1. Idaho politics ln state of confusion. Sec tion 1, page T. Sports. . Tracey says demand of fighters are out of j reason. section page a. Multnomah Club team loses 7 to 0 at Camp I Lewis. Section 2, page l. Spruce teams tie, 7 to 7, behind Closed doors, section z, page Atlanta races establish new track records. Section A page d. California and Oregon to clash Thanksgiv ing day. Section , page 4. Football costs 10 cents at Camp Lewis. Sec tion 2, page 2. Commercial and Marine. Increased wheat acreage being prepared In Europe. Section 2. page la. Wall-street market advances ' under leader ship of rails. Section 2, page 15. Two 8800-ton steel ferlghters launched at local yards, section J., page lb. - Portland and Vicinity. President's appeal reacts in Oregon. Sec tion 1, page 1. ;i Portland acts to curb influenza. Section 1. page 10. Model cottage for housing company to go up today. Section z, page . 'Brothers of Jesus" held by Government. Section 2. page 4. Representatives of Eastern Oregon cities urge votes to4 give normal school section x, page 12. Wilson Democrats decry Chamberlain. Sec tion 1, page lo. Nationals choose their candidates. Section 1. page 14. Navy seeks 15,000 men monthly. Section 1, page 15. All Portland ready for war work campaign. Section 3, page 1. Overseas gifts to leave November 15. Sec tion 2, page 5. Foe not whipped, declares Belgian. Section 1, page 13. . . Weather report, data and forecast. Page 10, section 1. EX-PRISONER' GIVES VIEWS Fear of Invasion Chief Actual ing Teuton Motive. DEFEAT HELD RECOGNIZED Enemy People Said to Be Willing to Accept Wilson's Terms In Order to SaTe Their Homes. (Henry C. Emery, formerly head of the tariff commission and representative 01 ine Guaranty Trust Company, of New York, and who was captured by the Germans in the Aland islands, wnne on me way irora in land to Sweden, earlv in March, has arrived in Copenhagen from Berlin.- His release was obtained under the present regime on the same day as Dr. Karl Liebnecht's. that is, he was permitted to quit Berlin on that day. Jle prepared tne lonowinK aiaiemem at tne request of Arao uoscn-r leuroi, cone spondent of the New York World. It ii copyrighted by the Press Publishing- Com- paujj and is published by arrangement. BY HENRY C. EMERY. COPENHAGEN. Oct. 25. (S p e c i a 1 Cable.) Only ona day out of Berlin, after seven months in Germany, where. in the last four months, I was at liberty to spend my time in a study of the German people in the throes of a tre mendous political struggle. I have had close-up view of what has lately transpired in that country. As I was permitted to depart at a moment when my impressions might affect thought concerning Germany and the vital ques tions now awaiting solution, I hesitate to give utterance to my views, and do so only because I have just come from the scene of most important action. When arrested I spent six weeks in regular concentration camp in a dirty,' chilly dugout. .,' Then I was re moved to Lauesburg; Poyierania, where remained for two mouths. In June was permitted to go to Berlin, where remained afterward. During, the latter period the German people underwent a change of heart. ln the direction of democracy and cei Of course, they were under the compulsion of a military situation, but it. must not be. supposed .that the rea son for the whole liberal attitude in Germany today is merely a trick, put up to deceive' the allies into giving peace. - The present attituae was iorcea. Had that not -eea so, democratic Ger many would never have had a hearing. Military defeat was needed to give the Liberal 'leaders ascendency over the junkers. If Germany had kept on winning, probably there never would have been a democratic movement. There had always been rather strong opposition to military Germany, but it was silenced. Movement Began Last Summer. Things lately witnessed apparently began to happen following the discov-i ery by Hindenburg and Ludendorff, in the Summer, that they faced defeat and must have peace. They tried to get a Liberal Ministry which could arrange an acceptable peace. The Liberal lead ers refused to be used; the Reichstag saw no reason why it should follow this bidding, and so the choice of a Chancellor fell on the Liberal Prince Maximilian, who could get the Reichsta behind him. When Maximilian made his first peace tender public opinicn had not yet awakened to the fact that it was a move to prevent military disaster. It was only after. President Wilson re turned an answer and its sincerity was recognized that' the ferman people seemed to realize that on the whole ln British Sailors Are Engaged in Blow ing Vp Mines Which Foe Strewed in Harbor. WASHINGTON, Oct 26. Zeebrugge is the picture of desolation, according to dispatches received today at the Belgian legation. The semaphore and the buildings of the Compagnie Mari time and the Solvay Chemical Works are a heap of ruins. On the mole itself all the buildings have been destroyed and the system of railway tracks and overhead cranes is cut of commission. After the passage between the mole and the shore had been partially closed by a British submarine during the raid of April 23, the Germans set up two heavy guns, commanding the ap proaches to the harbor. A great deal of sand has drifted into the harbor be tween the passage back of the mole and the entrance to the Bruges canal, where the wreck of the British cement laden vessel, sunk in April, still is lying. ' . , The only signs of life, the dispatch says, were the loud reports, followed by huge jets of water and dense clouds of black smoke coming from the ex plosions of the mines laid by the Ger mans, which British sailors axe blow ing up. The whole Belgian coast in the icinity of Zeebrugge bad been trans formed into a series of fortifications bristling with guns, wire defenses and storage depots, connected by a rail way. The celebrated seashore prome nade is broken up by trenches and protected shelters of machine guns and small cannon. The roads are in fairly good con dition, but all bridges and locks were destroyed by the Germans in their precipitate retreat before the irresisti ble dash of the Belgian troops. OISE-SERRE Uir CM III Bt 111 Big Advance Made; 2300 Prisoners Are Taken. MIG SCORES VITAL GAINS LeQuesnoy About to Fall and Flanking of Valenciennes Makes More Progress, U. S. BOYS POUND FORWARD Americans East and West of Valenciennes Seems Aban doned by Germans. CAPTAIN BACK PRISONER Wounded Officer Sow Reported Captured by Germans. VANCOUVER, Wash., Oct. 26. (Spe cial.) That Captain Roscius H. Back is wounded and has been captured by the Germans is the information contained in a letter to his father. Judge R. H. Back, of ithe Superior Court of Clarke County, in a letter from Dr. R. S. Stry ker, now In France, but formerly in practice at Ridgefield, this county. In the letter Dr. Stryker said he saw an item in the Paris edition of the New York Herald saying Captain Back had been wounded seriously, and was cap tured by Germans. . Judge Back has no official word from the Government as to the authenticity cf this report, but It may be true. . . Captain. Back is in a machine gun company and was seriously wounaea nee before this year, and was reported as having been killed. However, he was in a hospital, and when he learned was reported dead, he cabled to an Uncle in Connecticut, saying he was alive and recovering from wounds. Later, he wrote to his father. HUN TO SEND NEW NOTE German Government Will Point Out Changes in Constitution. COPENHAGEN, Oct. 26. The Berlin Lokal Anzeiger says that a new note will be sent by Germany to President Wilson as soon as possible. A crown council, under the presi dency of the Emperor, lasting reveral hours, reached this decision Friday. The note, it is asserted, will point out the changes which have taken place in the German constitution. HUN STATUE TO BE MELTED (Concluded on Page 2. Column 2.) Bronze Bismarck Will Bo Used in Making Cannon. ' NEW YORK, Oct. 26. The New York "metal market," which exchanges war savings stamps for metal of all kinds, received today a bronze statue of Bis marck. It will be melted down for use in the I manufacture of cannon. WITH THE BRITISH ARMY Iff FRANCE AND BELGIUM, Oct 26.-. (ay the Associated Press, 11 P. M.) Heavy enemy counter attacks on the British right in the vicinity of Mount Carmel have forced a slight with drawal by the British. PARIS, Oct. 26. The French troops fighting between the Oise and the Serre have made an extended advance eastward, occupying numerous vil lages, according to the' War Office an nouncement tonight Twenty - three hundred prisoners have been captured in the operations between Sissonne and Chateau Porcien. BRITISH HEADQUARTERS IN FRANCE, Oct. 26 (Reuter's.) British infantry moving along the railway northwest of Le Quesnoy have failed to detect any evidence of Ger mans m the town of Valenciennes. Cavalry patrols are cautiously moving forward reconnoitering the country. By the Associated Press. Germany's hard-pressed soldiers get no rest as the British, French and American forces continue with success their drives on important sectors from north of Valeniiennes to east of the Meuse. Meanwhile the Italians are pushing ahead in the region of Monte Grippa. On the northern end of the front in France, the British maintain their progress in encircling Valenciennes. In the center the French have shaken seriously the German defenses along the Serre and eastward toward the Aisne at Chateau Porcien. The Amer ican troops . east and west of the Meuse not only hold their gain3 against strong enemy reactions, but have further strengthened their position nc.th of Grand Pre. Le Quesnoy's Capture Near. South of Valenciennes Field Mar shal Haig is across the Valenciennes Le Quesnoy railroad and the fall of Le Quesnoy, which is vital to the de fense of Mons and Maubeuge, would appear to be near at hand. The fight ing on this sector continues bitter with the British striving to outflank the Mcrmal forest On the northwest of the forest the 3ritish have advanced somewhat and captured Englefontaine (Concluded on Page 4. Column 1.) "FLU." POLITICS. WAR AND WEATHER LEND INSPIRATION FOR r.EYNOLDS' PICTORIAL NEWS REVIEW. ll ; . - ' - I tJO WAS UTJF2 S-PAT s styesr stow o- tv I fTvl 1 no r 1