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' I ' II 'jwits Ai,ii here . t'--' ' LI I LA ' l fir: nAwl M nMl n rtr 1 1 i1111:. nM1UWfJn ;1WK. .'Triiv f i: -r TV : w ionignr, an a , . PRICE TWO CENTS ' P.11 AK . : VOL. XVL NO. US. , - ,: PORTLAND, OREGON, THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER iy 1917. TWENTY, PAGES y y r si taa0aM liiVA ! : lUmiif If : llf-iAii Miann "!f . ...... . . . . : .'. ' , .. , '' I UlH n s :ss iiiKiiibi m, she mm uu, ?LiZT:l headofnavy ill it nrirmrn the British 1 hi iiiinT nw . nrvi i n mi n n mi i uiuimi-u n - - 11 u u vu RETURIB Transport Finland Torpedoed) m Foreign Waters After f Having Delivered Contin . gent of Soldiers in France -r-Vessei Slightly Damaged ' ,y " " 1 Projectile Fired From U-Boat Completely Concealed by Waves Official Statement Indicates That No Lives Were Lost Ship in Port. WASHINGTON, Nov. I. (U. P.) r-The American trans l port Finland was torpedoed .in f o r e i gn waters, homeward . bound, Secretary of the Navy j Daniels announced today. There was no loss of life and the transport returned to (" foreign port under her own - steam. The damage to the .. . ship was alight. - Secretary of the Navy Daniels' state nentwas as follows: .' "Th navy department has received dispatches statins that the transport Finland was torpedoed while returning jfrora foreign waters. . i"Tn damage to the shjp was slight And aha returned t prt under her own team. Tfb Finland was under escort tut no. sign of .-the. torpedo or the sul iaarln was Vfltn.t' fc.f-,,.,.-'. i ,' 'Second "Transport Attack4 : --TheFlnland la tha second transport to' be- attacked while returning from It 4ftisson t Europe. The Antilles, on October 17, was tor pedoed and. sank with the loss -of fl? Tha dispatches to the navy deparf ent regarding the attack on the Fin- md stated that no submarine was sen. as was tne cae in the attack on ?-.ie Antilles. . , ri Whether 1 the" Germans are using a ' ffew system in hiding their assaults 3 n transport ships is a question ! ussllng naval authorities. , : t- Secretary Daniels has asked for fur- B her infornfetion on the submarine at t' ack. No details were given In the ir irst dispatches to the navy depart fment to Indicate -whether . an v -wan t aboard the vessel other than the crew 4 lit was not stated, either, whether any (Oncwhided oa Pace Mzteen. Colnmn Four) Bailway Men to Ask Wase -Raise. Belief w Chtearo. Nov. 1. (I. N. S.1 Demajid a per cent or me, present scale will e formulated,. It is believed, at a con 'erence of representatives of 250,000 allway employes throuahout the united States Which began here today. i"he oosference is expected to continue J-Haaera or the conference have re used to discuss Its object or admit .bat wage demands will be the subject -'V' ... jompanion Slew Boy : To Secure His Rifle Uoa; Afrgeles. Nov. 1. (I, N. s.) dwara Anaarson, 14 years old, whose ody was found in a wash, near Kes er Junction,' Tuesday afternoon, was murdered by a boy companion for his 'if la, according to potlce here today, ho arrested Albert Templar, 19, at en Pedro, and claim to have a signed oaieasion from Templar that he mur- ered Anderson. V . . Oeclares Soldiers WiU. Operate Mills ; Seattle, Nov. 1.-TJ. iP.X '.The gov niment will soon begin 'operating lum er mills. In the northwest .with sol dtera," J. O. Brown, president of the Bhingle ; Weavers junton,- declared to "Ten thousand soldiers are being re cruited," declared Brown, "to operate tha -mills. None of -them .will work more than eight hours." ., New SHipyard Scale : Is :Near Completion Ban Traneisco, Nov. 1. (I. N. S.) . federal; labor.! adjustment board tas tn conference wttn representatives ,oth sides of the shipyards contrn trsy behind closed doors today, the vil discussion berore a waxe scale the coast plants Js decided. The ard announced It hoped to give,' out s, l m wsye scaie oy tonignc or tomorrow v.J.r,the..latesu-v,C- y;f 4' - ? M -'.. ..." .. i " ' v t ": i ' . - ONDON, Nor. i.---(U. P.) England has sunk nearly naif of Germany's submarine fleet during the war and is now sinking them at a faster rate than ever before, Sir Eric Geddes told the house of commons this after noon in his maiden speech as first admiralty lord. Notwith standing this fact, he said, Ger many is likewise speeding up on the building of submarines. Sir Erics,facts were the first revelation from official sources of comparative figures showing the success of England's war of extermination against the sub marine. England has heretofore kept strictly silent on how many submarines have 'been bagged. Sir Eric announced sweeping changes, in the admiralty, tending to divorce naval experts, from -purely administrative details so tnat they can concentrate on naval establishments. - He : an nounced that it had been decided to -construct -four' new national shipbuilding yards to speed up construction on merchantmen, ' He declared that Sir John Jel Iicoe, first sea lord, would here after devote his time and atten tion wholly to naval and staff mat ters. He added that it will be necessary that a. civilian lord be appointed to succeed Sir Francis Hopewood. The admiralty lord declared that the total net loss in tonnage of British merchantmen during the entire war was'two and a half millions, and that October's total exceeded that- of September slightly. ' The first lord said he was "sat isfied the disposition of forces was the best possible," Irf refer ring to the. convoy plan for mer chantmen. Defending the lack of cooper ation by the British navy with the Russian Baltic sea fleet in. the Gulf of Riga against the German fleet, the speaker declared re sponsible naval opinion had been against that step on account of the mines which' would be en countered, as well as the long .rime taken lor sucn a voyage, j MEDIATOR COMING IP NEEDED Telephone Strikers' in North west Cities Urged to Re turn to Woric Pending Out come of Conferences. an Francisco, Nov. 1.' (u! P.) Al though trio members of the Electrical Workers' union employed by the Pa cific Telephone & Telegraph company here had not gone on strike up to 1:45 p. 'm. today. It was stated at that hour that the men were only awaiting the word to strike before staging a walkout in accordance with the orig inal strike order Issued two weeks ago. San Francisco, Nov. 1. (TJ. . P.) If the -strike of telephone operators and other employes of . the" Paclflq Tele phone & Telegraph company in Se attle.; Portland and other northwestern cities is not called of f. Verner Z,, Beed. United States mediator, may leave here for Seattle tohight. Although no definite announcement to this, effect was made, tne statement was made on high authority. Wires .were sent to Seattle and Port land this morning by representatives of Reed and officials of the electrical workers, urging the strikers in these ciues na lacoma to resume work under old conditions pending the out come of further conferences between Reed and representatives of both sides in the controversy. uespite the agreement reached by Mediator Reed ' and officials of tha Electrical workers' Union hat the pro posed coastwide strike, of electrical workers would be deferred, the strike went into affect' early today In Seat- tie, . jroniana. upokane. Walla Walla, ioma ana otner northwestern cities, . Dispatches from the northwest stat ed tnat leaders of union locals in Washington and Oregon ordered the strike to proceed, regardless of t.io agreement to defer it reached In thfs city, because they considered the tele gram of instructions from the Inter national officers here as not: suffl. clently clear. , The Instructions to defer the strike were sent out bv International vjf President L. C. Crasser after he and officers of the district council of the union had conferred with Mediator Reed. Tha union, men accented Reed's request for such action but stipulated tnat sucn action cid not annul the sin ae vote. Reed " held- a 'aeries of conferences today with representatives of the el- trical workers and telephone compan officials m an eflort; to reach a basis of settlement. - Nineteen Oat In Vancouver Vancouver. Wash Nov. 1. Nineteen Of the SO telephone rlrla here as operators by the Pacific Tele phone & Telegraph company have re sponded to the call and are out on a (Oooeluded en Pae Six, Column Tareet Spanish Cabinet Not Yet Formed Madrid - Nov. 1. '(V Nj. s.-:nAr Toca has failed to organise a cabinet to succeedT tha Dato ministry, it was announced, today. . Senor Maura ha. beeo invited, to form, a. new body...- L' NORTH UU I I lUltlLU I I . Beerihibi,- mffa Al 1 111111 M l MUUSE "Si Telephone Com Says 600 Girls Are Fitting Out of Force fit 7 Declare v 500 Have Quit. Unions rators PACIFIC LINEMEN LS0 GONE ON VE RIKE Girls f and JWen TakiyUp Picket Duty at Varfuis Switchboard Offices po lice Warn Girls Not to 'Ac cost Those on Duty. ? PATROLMEN at neon herd ed picketing operators away, from the entances f to the offices at West Parte .nd Alder streets and at Stark and 'Park, where they xrere addressing persons entering and leaving the building, and ordered them to keep half block away from the door ways. ' With members of the linemen's and operators' unions . picketing each of the seven switchboard offices' in Port land, the strike of the electrical em ployes of the Pacifio Telephone A Telegraph company Is on la full blast today. A complete.' tieap of the approxi mately 51,000 Pacific telephones In tne elty has so far been averted by the company which, according to J. A. Ha'- llday, division commercial i superin tendent, has C00 girls for switchboard work out . .of . the regular it orce of nearly 760. :.. . .- . . . Officials of the-company-are opti' mistlCi "regarding, the maintenance of service and declare that they ' expect to haVe mo trouble with nearly a ca- pac!l'f?r wBiSiaatt'.1Utta3f5 to, of ; the Bhifta, j . ; ; d J - - Men and (MMa on Tlnket TJka '.vA ; half ' dbsen giris and four J men from the linemen's union are posted at each of the switchboard offices in the -city' aar- will continue to their picket duty in shifts as long- as th strike lasts, v Chairman Quinn of the electrical workers', strike committee announced at noon. ', i. Although no disturbances of any na ture have been reported, several of the girls on picket duty ere this morn ing warned by .patrolmen to, cease ac costing employes of the company pass ing to and from work. A detail of two and three patrolmen Is being maintained at the offices of the switchboard "exchanges. No In structlons iiave been given, however. to arrest picketers. . Company officials declare they will not press the observ ance of the picketing statute unless employes are molested, f '.;- Zdaemen Predict Trouble ' Officials of tne union say that though the company has . maintained service during the first hours of the strike, a pressure Is bound to be fel when . inexperienced operators ( art, forced to work long hours to keep th- Iines open and when ' the . network of the system begins to break from the lack of constant . surveillance by lint; men. Practically all of the -linemen are said to have struck. ; About 260, all said to be members of the union, are employed by the company. "When the . company finds It dif f 1 cult to obtain . enough switchboard operators in normal times I don't see how the demand, will be met when practically all of - the experienced operators nave waikea out," said Frank J. Shubert, business manager for the jaectncal w oncers' local. "Tne scnooi ror operators had in training about 100 girls, and some of these have been pressed into service. (Concluded on Pes Six. Column One) UV S. Makes Huge Loan to England Washington, Nov. X. (L N. S.) The United States today extended 10 Cireftt Brttaln a-redlt of $435,000,000, the largest loan vet made by this coun try to any of its allies. . the loan brings the total that, has been loaned to England to Jl, 860. 000, 000. To ell the allies there has been loaned 3,566,400,0i). American Aviator : Killed in: Japan Toklo, Nov 1. I. ' N. S.) Frank Champion, an. .Ajnertean , aviator, was killed yesterday) while making an ex hibition flight at Koehl on the Island of Snikoku, acoordlng to word reach ing here today. His machine fell 4000 feet.. Champion's homo was In Kan sas city. 9000 Oil Workers " Go Out on Strike Houston. Texas.- Nov. 1. (TJ. P.) Following oat . their proposed strike schedule. 9000 - oil workers In: Texas and Louisiana fields struck today. The worgers, oeeiarea : ; the operators re- fused to recognise their union or wel come governmental conciliation, - - -Urn T ONDON, Nov. 1. (I. N. S.) I Beersheba, 40 miles ? southwest of Jerusalem, in Palestine, has been occupied by British -troops, it was announced today. . . Beersheba, in Biblical times, was tne southern limits of the Holy Land, giving rise to the saying among . the Hebrews "from Dan to Beersheba." Dan. being the northern landmark of Palestine. The modern name of the city is Bir-es-Seba. RIVAL CANDIDATES ATTACK HILLQUIT Import of , Socialist Claims of Electing Nominee as New York Mayor Awakens the Managers of Opponents. New-TTork, Nov. 1. (U. P.) Repub lican, Democratic and fusion man agers In New York's hottest mayoralty campaign In recent years awoke . suddenly today to the . Im port of Socialist claims ' of elect ing the 'mayor of the nation's biggest city on November, 6. The result was concerted drive by all three parties against Morris Hlllquit, the Socialist candidate, who Is making the most strenuous camapign any member of his party has ever waged In New York. The Socialists' claims and aspira tions are based primarily on the divi sion created In the ordinary voting strength of the old parties. Mayor John Purroy Mltchel, a Democrat, running on a fusion platform, lost the Republi can nominatfon on which ho won at the last election. William Bennett, a Republican, got it. He could not be induced to withdraw, and has gone Into the race with the support of a number of the old conservative Re publicans. ; Botb Big Party Totes Split Mltchel' s name will go on the bal lot by Independent petition. The mayor Is supported' by most of the Republi can city organizations, and many of the anti-Tammany Democratic ones. John F. Hylan, almost unknown in city: polities, won. the : Democratic nomination with Tamnanys backing. ! Because fi JMVtarlyvnknojwj i mairy Tammanyitea including- tn strong ' Sullivan clan," will ' knife' him to . vote for Mltchel. : TheDemocratic yote la Just as badly split on Hylan as the .Republican Vote Is on Mltchel. ; Hlllquit is rousing the east side to tremendous meetings by people's gov ernment pledges. He has garnered some support from former Democrats and Republicans notably, Dudley Field Malone, former collector of the port and one of the "original "Wilson men." and Amos R. Plnchot, reformer and ex-Bull Moose. HlllaulVs Royalty Attacked The drive on HiUquit centered to day on attacks by all other candidates on the Socialist candidate's American Ism. Hillquit demands an Immediate peace of all belligerents exactly what Germany wants.. He refused to purchase Liberty ! bonds. He was one of the three So cialist delegates To whom the govern- i ment reiuseo permission to attend th i German-Inspired Stockholm "peace) conference." As such, be came in for ) poweriui denunciation trom Charles Edward Russell, William Ens-itah Walling and others of the . "American branch" of Socialists, being branded an assistant Victor Berger In pro-German Socialism. Hlllquit was born Iq Riga, Russia, and because of this com mands tremendous strength amonr New York's great Jewish population. Mayor Mltchel continued his cam paign today against Hylan's allea-ed close association with German propa ganda movements. Morrison Funeral Service at 2 P. M. Funeral services for Finley Mor rison, a timberman well known throughout the Northwest, who died Tuesday at his home in Portland, will be held at Masonic temple at 2 p. m. today. Services will be under the aus pices of the Knights Templar and Scottish Rita Masons.: Rev. S. Earl DuEols will Officiate. , Knights Templar will escort the bodv from - Masonic temple to the crema torium and will hold brief ceremonies there. ' ' Mr. Morrison has been a resident: of Portland for 17 years. In business and social life he waa known through out the northwest states. H Is sur vived by a widow and six children. all residents of Portland- Nation's CapitaMs Among Dry Cities Washington, Nov; l.The - nation's capital, is dry. today for the first: time in history, all bars being closed, at 12:01 o'clock this morning, by . the drv law. About -20 of the capital's most sincere drinkers were all that could act boisterous enough to te arrested. - Ninety per cent of the. hard drink emporiums were locked, barred and shuttered by 10 pm, - " ; ermanEesembling Hans Berg Arrested Mobile,' Ala.. -Nov. l.-i-I N. S.1 . A ,Grman- ajDswerlng; the' desciioUon of Lieutenant Hans Berg, who escaped from Fort MePherson- was arrested on Wednesday by secret service agents. He gave me , name, of Alois ulrich 1 and claims to he a blacksmith of Orange, 4. eaasi, -- t , r ' . i Most Violent Aerial Battle London Has Yet Seen Marks Flight of Many Ger man Planes Over British Capital in Night. TEUTON FLYERS ARE DIVIDED IN 7 GROUPS Number Ranged Between 35 and 70 Machines, Belief About 30 British Aviators Engage Invaders Dam a'ge Is Slight. London. No' 1. (I. N. S.) Eight persons were killed and 21' Injured 'n last night's air raid over sections of London and the eoutheastern part of England, it was officially announced this afternoon. The damage, it was stated, was very slight. London, Nov. 1. (U. P.) The most violent aerial battle London has yet seen marked the raid of German air craft over the i British capital last Bight., "Three hostile aircraft penetrated to the heart of London." Lord French an nounced today. "Bombs were dropped southeast and southwest. About ,20 machines engaged the Invaders." The commander-in-chief of home de fense forces reported that seven groups of air raiders had been sighted over the Thames estuary and along the Kent and Essex coasts. Clouds pre vented decisive engagements with British aircraft. "Our casualties were comparatively light .considering .the number of ma chines and the "nature of the attack," Lord French asserted; All seven groups of the German ma chines followed a systematic course by the Thames, apparently all aiming to reach London by sighting their war on tha bank of the river. 1 ; aircraft- faaraaaed the, .German vialtors i all : along , their route af flying. - The roar of shells was continuous and ear splitthig, -' . ,- -' ' London's official statement does not give the number of German machines in each group. On other occasions. C" JT" " " L ."T -J' customed to . fly In groups of from five to 10 machines. , This would meau that the total of the air armada whica Germany eent out on her latest baby kllllng expedition might have run any where from 25 to 70 planes. Belgian Station Bombed London, Nov. 1. (I. N. S.) British airmen continue their raids against German military stations in. Belgium. SparappelhOek was raided yesterday, it -qras announced today, many bombs being dropped. One German machine was shot down. All British machines returned safely. . People Demand Reprisals London., Nov. 1. (I N. S.) The cry for reprisal afr raids against German v grew stronger today 'following lasf night's attack on. this country. 4 Japanese Sees Need J n tpi r . they leaped, irom mimmocn to nant I It f- ClVP.f 1T1 In P.n t mock. Many men lost their footing. v v v-xj. u , - - San Francisco. Nov. 1. (U. P.) It is not only a physical impossibility, but strategically inadvisable, for Japan to send her armies to the European battle fields. In the opinion of Baron Megata of Japan, head of the. special financial mission to America, 'i ir, in the race or a physical itnpos aibllitv. J&Dan should be t oolharriv hi enough to make a superhuman effort to send troops, and If she speedily be-1 came exhausted, then who would pro-' tect the Orient If Germany, still re mained undefeated V was Baron Me gata's answer- today to the question of Japan sending an army to aid Italy, - Lack of tonnage, difficulty of com munication ' and need of the army at home 'are the problems which would confront Japan, Baron Megata de clared. Commission Arrives From Japan San Francisco, -Nov. 1. Abroad one or the Dig Japanese liners, the special finance, commission of Japan,! headed by Baron Tanetaro Megata, arrived here Wednesday.- This beina 1 the birthday of the mikado, the ar rival was made a holiday by . local Japanese. . Great importance is attached to the visit of these eminent, economists, merchants and financiers. , Francis B. Ioomls, president of the Japan Society of San Francisco,, holds that no commission of higher fm port ance i dudki aupaicBto to inim eouatry since, i the opening of the door1 of Japan by ' Commodore Perry. Tha- mission probably will leave San Francisco next Saturday for a tour of the United States to last several months. Strike of . Employes :V0f'S.:P.' Is Failure , I, " ' . ' Saramento.CaUTNov. 1 tT.P. i The strike -of the local Southern Pa cific 'employes for an increase of 29 pervcent in wages, which was called for ft :30 o'clock this morning, by Edward Castro of Oakland, organizer of the Federated Shop and Yard Employes' onion, failed to materialize. The znea refused to walk out.N EXTENT OF THE ITALIAN RETREAT Map! showing THE GREAT ADVANCE of; the Austro-Gerrnan forces against the Italians, the heavy dotted line representing the battle line when the tide turned a week ago, and the shaded one the country captured since then by the' Teutons.1' No. 1 shows where an Aiistro-' German army is coming down the Carnic Alps .to the head waters of the Tagliamento tiver to attack the flank of the Ital ians, who are massed on the west bank of the Tagliamento. No.. 2 is the point of farthest advance by the Italians, and No. 3 the present Austro-German line. ,.i DEEP HD FAILS ' TO STOP BRITISH Tommies Gain Oblectives After Ploughing Through Swampy Mess -Hold Gains Against Bavarians By William Philip Simm With the British Armies In .Flan ders Nov. L--."U. P.l-!-i-A- drab' landt f BCaper.yowtsh gray bum in unauiai ing oozy ridges, slimy greenish reddish water pools spattered muck on nakd twisted trees and underbrush that is Flandera today, around Paddlebesk bOg. : " Imagine this setting and then stl rk ! into the picture bedaubed figures plas .muddy drab on the'ground. They lonk like animated aUtues of clay. They are British Tommies. They mlgn just as well be Germans as far as any recognition from outward appearance went except the difference in shrap nel helmets; United Press readers can Visualize the sort of fighting In the Brltlsn drive in Flinders today if they can imagine just the sort of a general scheme of mire and bog thus Indicated In Wednesday's rig ruing, for in stance. British troops crossed - the slimy., slippery, oottomless1-pit which is Paddlebeek bog. under the fire of the Bavarians and got what they st out to get. , .Shells Splaeh Walls of Mud , The barrage flraqulrted a veritable wall of mud up ahead of these troops as It struck the quavering swamp. Be hind it the Tommies, holding; thel auns aloft, : swam tnrougn the same viscid mess. They twisted and fell ss piunginff face down in the muck., Some were so inextricably mireo mat tnat. comrades had to yank them out., Qun barrels were choked with the mud. cartridges gummed with it. Through It all the Tommies went onvphil- sophically. but swearlngly cleaning emeared-up guns and fighting tooth and nail when they came to clinches with the enemy. ' The British heia an jtneir gams to day aespite vrin counter iuu: where the fighting at times was CI the bitterest Character. Joining Guard Now Is No Bar to Draft Washington, Nov. 1. I. N. 8.) Men within the draft age who Join national guard organizations now being lormed in several states are subject to call f o-. duty with the national army, the war department ruled today. Protests from governors, who asked that1 men Joining new organizations or tate militia be exempted from the draft in order to encourage enlistments of guardsmen, were responded to by the department referring to the se lective draft law wtflch provides only for exemption of members, of national guard organization prior to the first call of the national army. Turk Torpedo, Boat Sunt T)y Russians Petrograd. Nov, 1. U. P.) Sinking of a Turkish torpedo boat In the .Black Sea and burnlnghf two steamers was announce! officially today. On the Riga front the war office said the enemy at some points -was retiring to previously prepared positions, Italy Appreciates : , ; American Sympathy Romel NoV.' l-KU. P,-i-PremierOr. Ian do today cabled ' President ' Wilson Italy appreciation- of America's sym pathy in her hour of trial.. - i is REORGANIZED Kerr, Gifford & Co. Makes Changes; Seattle House Purchased; Grain Men! Ex . pect Big Gains After War. Announcement of tha reorganisation of Karr ClXttnrA 1 -At tri"' , Asa M Mill saatt ATft caeaoaant jl n4Z0ikfX9itTUni'wi made by officials of thec6mpany; this morning. The announcement also told of the purchase of the business of the Norta Pacifio Grain company of Seattle, one of the largest grain exporting, houses on Puget Sound. - The reorganlsod company will now -be known as Kerr, Gifford & Co.. Inc. The reorganisation was partially du to the anticipation of the grain mn of the vast volume of business that is to come after the war. A Seattle house will be maintained and it was also said that other branch offices probably will be opetied later'. .! The active managemetn of the sew corporation-will be ia the bands , of Peter Kerr, president; II. H. Rasmus a&n, vice president' and general man ager, and N, A, Leach, assistant man ager. ;... Andrew Kerr and Thomas Kerr will be associated with these officers in constituting the board of directors. Mr. Rasmussen haa. been head of the North Pacific Grain company In Seattle. The business of the corporation will be conducted as usual from the Portland offices on the tenjh floor of the Lewis building. Kerr, Gifford & Co. for a number of years was in the active control of the three Kerr brothers. Peter. Andrew and Thomas. About two years ago Thomas Kerr, withdrew from the com pany, and Peter and Andrew Kerr re mained in charge. Thomas Kerr now returns to the corporation a di rector, -but will not have an active part In conducting the business, it Is under stood. N. A. Leach, i assistant 1 man ager, has been in charge of grain buy ing for Kerr Gifford & Co., almost since the company, was started, Means Indicted for Murder of Mrs. King Concord, N, C. Nov.' L tjj P.)'- Gaston Bullock Means was formally charged with the murder of Mrs. Maude a, King, here today, when the grandcJ jury returned an indictment. l Mrs. King, Means' benefactor' and friend, was killed at Blackwelder Spring near here by a rifle shot.! . . Prosecution, and defense at1 ones began sparring for location and Jury personnel of the trial. The indict ment followed three days Investiga tion by the jury, which examined, a score of witnesses. Including a group of Chicago bankers and witness ea. , The feature of the , Investigation waa the Jury's Insistence on discover ing a clear-cut motive for, the crime. Mrs. King met her death at the lone ly spring the night ofMsy 29. Means waa the only person with, her at the time. :, ' ' : : n . )..-'.' j Arrests Are Made In Dynamiting Case Tulsa.' Okla.ti Nv.il(l;Ni .) Two .more arrests have been made In tne case resulting from, dynamiting Monday morning . of - the- home of J. Edgar Pew, general manager of the Carter Oil company. The police refuse to , make , public their names,: saying that more saspecta are being ought. Two hundred and s fifty home guards were sworn An, last night Iih anticipa tion of a reign of terror scheduled for t6aay., ; Guards around ll4 properties have been increased.'' Many TL W. W. members have failed to show up m the past few : weeks and the police think the publicity upset .the Diana of the GRAIN HI cc&splratora. S R H T if R I I UN II UU Whole Section of Italian Army on Defensive Surren , ders to Advancing Austro German Forces, Near the . Lower Tagliamento Riyerv Italian Commander Ex-" presses ConJence in Abil ity of His ; Retreating f Ar mies to Checl: Enemy and Safeguard Country; BERLIN, via London, Nor. 1. J (U. P.) Blity thousand ; Italian soldiers "laid down thfelr arms east of the lower -Taeliamento," the offlcUl statement announced today. The war office i announced : !l the total of prisoners taken ' I In the great Italian drive bad' If now reached 180,000 men, and . 1500 guns were taken' Rome, Nov. 1. (TJ, P. "Deluding the enemy's plans ty detaining - his advancing troops the Italians withdrew to . the Tagliamento. onder . dlffl-' .cult conditions," today's offl cial statement asserted. ; Washlngton, f Nor. , lr-tVt ! P,) British And French Hln ; L; f .tu x orcemen ts -as ve ajri ybu .u wi, 4w Tagliamento, front In Italy, , " Rome cables today stated. The allied troops were enthusiasts ' cafly welcomod by the Italian " f populace and soldiers. The j ;j ; dispatches gave no Indication t v of the Strength or nature ot the reinforcements. Italian-correspondents at the ' battlefront 'were quoted as - i ; firmly of the belief that the Invading Austro-Oerman-Turk( ish-Bulgarian horde will , be ' Stopped, '' ; .v"-; ' i'y -; .Tondoh, - Nov. 1. (U. rF. Aostro- German' forces have reached pfaetl caUyi the line of General Cadorna r Tagliamento rjver defenses, and have been checked, there ; lh their ; forward ' advance, according to the interpreta- - tion .placed here this afternoon 1 on . Berlin's own official statement. Berlin claimed to have, stormed the eastern bank defenses of the river at . DIgnano and Codrolpo. Bqt as London read in between the lines. General ca doma haa succeeded In establishing . himself on the west bank of that of fensive waterway.' ' ,y - . , ,;; ShuTeadex Oanse of VWoTrjr.,;. The greatest apprebsnaion.' however, was aroused here over: Berlin's claim -of . the capture of 60.000 soldiers in tba ' . section where it was known Oenerai Cadorna's third army, was seeking to ; escspe from the. visa like grip of Oen erai von Mackensen's armies between .. him and the . coast lias., v 4 - - v One section I of the German official ; statement seemed to indicate that Italian forces iwera covering the re- -t treat of this army, btrt the Oerhsan an- ;t nouncement that 0.o0 Italian soldiers ? had surrendered. If confirmed, would seem to indicate a crushing blow to u this ,force. . ! :" ' - ' ''. . y- 4' JUgnaao West of TJdlae -J A --The ItaUans retired fighting to the r west bank of ! the ,TagUnento,'?: ' the - -. Berlin war office declared, "at tha. Pousano. Dlgnano and Codrolpo bridge- '; Coolade4 ee Tf alsteea. CsiuM Oni Punished by Bussia. k rinland Pat Vadav Jnrlsdletlos of ' jrorthera rront ana, mads fog, aV4 mtalstratloa. Seaiea VaTalae. PetrogradV. .Nov. lv (U. P. The provisional government .. took, sternly ' repressive measures against two re- " calcitrant Russian . provinces today. ' Finland was announced as havlnr been put under Jurisdiction of the northern front because of refusal of authorities there to cooperate , la evacuatloo of certain points. H ., 'Q'" - Ukraine la J hit evan harder." Th y t government decided - to cut off , all ' money from the . central u- government heretofore given the province for ad- V mlnistratioa because of the growth of , ' a movement there for autonomy.? More -' vigorous measures it was, stated.. axe ! "-t to yiew.i', ffifj-'.'v'v- v .jf , ., 4 -.,.v Presumably I the transfer of Finland to "Jurisdiction of the northern front." means a sort of martial law has been proclaimed i there. . The . "evacuation" mentioned probably refer? 'to the city" of Helsingfors, ' where dispatch ea week ..ago reported a- civil, evacuation ordered, presumably due to the menace of . an attack by the German Baltia sea .' '-! t