Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 6, 1918)
JWERHOUSE CANDIDATES !ARE SCARCE TJrce of 1917 Quintet May Aspire to Senate and Une Says' He Is Out of .Game ; , IIirtia VriURun II. D. ELLIOTT HAS t! SUBJECT BROACHED HIM LLn ; Ccsaty Has Men for J-'ijeship If Kelly Goes s is Supreme Bench ; Kecent political gossip which has mentioned the name ..... of several men who are possible candidates for the state senate from Marion coun ty fca riven rise to the question as to who are going to bo In the run ning for the lower house. . u One member of the lower 'houfce of the 1917 session Is a certain can didate for the senate, and Jt 1$ high ly probable that two others of the quintet will aspire , tothe higher louse. The irember who is regard ts i certain candidate for the een $ fe. is Sara Brown. The two prob fl! i::tiM are W. AI Jones and Sey motir Jones. .The latter, however, wonli like to be. speaker of the honse, and If be ees a good chance ti ?p"ar that position be will aga'n la a candidate; for the lower body. ! KlUoU's Xante 3ien tinned. This leaves' only two of the 1917 fjtdntet to teount for. Charier i P. Llfln makes the definite assertion that he will not ran, and Ivan Mar tin makes almost as definite anj as sertion that he will , run. Hence there Is plenty of room for candl-J : fo for the lower house jof th 1319 legislature. , la Salem, at least, little has been r-.il so far about this part! of the 1 .relative ticket. It It known, how evpr, that N. IX Elliott,' secretary of t: a I'arlon Coonty Republican Cen tal committee, has been approached. "Nate", wasn't found In a receptive vd. bat his friends think he- ralf bt 1 ? Induced to change his mind. One other. r.evr, name is mentioned i',jtit with. the. .other possibilities fr the senate racev The, name is 'arfc Poulsoa of Sllverton, Mr. To ulson has good strength in n Is friendships and doubtless would be Continued on par 2) otg rack - to Service Borne m'ercfiaiidiHC ueI to wear too long to suit the pur chaser when style was more important than wearing quality. : ' - ' ' . '" '- t l ' That was before the United State entered the war. Now however the Government is urging that Freak Styles, which are subject to frequent changes, should be avoided andthat ncrchandiswhicb will wear a long time bs setoted with a view of economizing'so.that we may win the war. - Merchandise is" changing from style to senice very - rapidly.: ;.'i. r r- .. X i i ,d tti. Of course there will always be a certain element of style . to consider ltit our Oorernment guggests that cojservatiTe styles should prerail until the close of the war.y j Unless you have kept posted upon conditions existing in factory districts, you cannot realise what a shortage there , vill be as soon as stocks now on hand are exhausted. s Most merclfants have large? reserve stocks and arc earn estly trying to protect their ' enstomcrs against the heavy advances which must come soon, as jf tail prices arc actually 'below wholesale prices , in a great many lines.' . YOU can help! merchants keep prices down 'i , . . " . Hy being reasonable in your demands for service. PAY CASH for eTerytkag you boy Don't ask to hajcr small packages delivered. Don 't complain about slight i in perfidious in merchandise which are al most unavoidable under present conditions, be efise there is an unusual demand and factories are short of help and raw material and are operating only about CO per emt of their capacity and the Government needs demand , half of their output. ' . , , Every unreasonable demand you mako upon a merchant ; fi lds to the expense of doing business, which means higher Trices.,- . , , i j, 'j.i . -,f '. - - - on Our store doses at 6:30 erery t 8 o'cloclc I 25,000 GERMAN SOLDIERS ARE IN BIG REVOLT Drafting of Men for West Front Causes Desertion; .' . London Hears ''' RUSSIAN SHAM MOTIVE Military Authorities Power less Against Well Armed LONON. Jan 6.- A dispatch re ceived here from the Russian wire less services says that ,25.000 Gor- ian soldiers In the region east of Kovno hare revolted. ; German de serter stated that in consequence of the government drafting all sold iers below the age of 35 for despatch to the westers front, the afore-men tioned number rebelled and marched J out of the battle line, v , , r They then entrenched themselves with rifles and machine guns against the other German units. - The Cer lran military authorities have been powerlessr against the revolters and are trying to cut off their food sup plies. .The German deserters de clared that one of the motives for the revolt was the sending 'of troops to the western front was a contraven tion of the Rosso-German armistice agreement. " u Withy combe Cottage" Home of New Building "Wlthycombe Cottage? Is the name of the new women's domltory at the State Institute for the Feeble-mind ed. the new building was accepted yesterday hy the state boa id of con trol and the name official given the cottage. ; ', , . Reading May Be British Ambassador to' America . LONDON, Jan. 5. The Sunday Observer says in regard to the ap pointment of & British ambassador to the United States: 4- I r j : "It is assumed that Earl Reading, lord chief Justice of England, accept-, ing the office In the. pnblUr Interest and at considerable personal sacri fice, will be the new ambassador to the United States. It is known that his appointment would be particular ly acceptable to President Wilson and the American people." ; evening except Saturday r PETROGRAD PEACE MEET filMSSLAVS Delegates of Central Powers Arrive : at Brest-Litovsk Only to Find Message Rus sians Will Be Absent ' 1 NEW INTRIGUE FOR . PEACE IS LAID BARE Huns Attempt to Sharpen f Feeling Among Enemies ; of Bolsheviki LONDON, Jan. 5 With the dele gates of the eentrfl powers arrived at Jirest-Litovsk to resume the peace negotiations they found no Russian delegates there, according to a Vien na dispatch to Zurich, forwarded by the Exchange Telegraph company. All that awaited them was a tele fram from the v gram from the Russians asking -for transfer of the negotiations to Stock holm. ! ' . . Pending the resumption of confer ences at Hrest-LJtovsk today, special dispatches from Petrograd report at tempts by, the German delegates, at Petrograd to make some sort of a clandestine agreement with the mem bers of the constituent assembly. ' : :New Intrigue Evident. '. The correspondent .of s the Dally News l says that the Cermans are trying through a neutral diplomat to get into communication with members of the assembly. Their ob Ject Is obvious, he adds, as the parties opposed to the Bolshevik! are quite ready to profit by . the Bol- Lsheviki refusal to make peace and to tell the people that the Bolshevik i promised them peace but gave them war. v,: ' . ; ! ; ; .The version of the correspondent of the Daily Mail Is, that the Ger mans have been putting .pressure, di rect or Indirect,, upon the govern ment In connection with .the sum moning, of a constituent, assembly, as the Germans: have been . maTlng it pretty, obvious that they are unwill ing to: recognize the Bolshevik! as representatives of a majority of the Russian people or even as temporary trustees of the sovereign power, i : The Dally Kw expresses fear fbat Germany will find, the constitu ent assemblr more amenable " than the Dolsheviki in. regard to making pence' and quotes Foreign Minister Trotzky as saying that the Bourgeois are prepared to give away half the country ; If they can obtain control of the government of the other half. Regarding the attitude of I the Ukraine towards the Germans, the Daily News says that the rada Is willing, to strike a bargain with the Germans. : -l'--' ? The Petrograd correspondent of The Times who Is now in London, writes. that the Ukrainians are deter mined to .send., a mission to Brest- Litovsk, not to negotiate a separate peace, but to ascertain Germany's in tentlons toward Little Russia. The Germans are willing. , he-says, to rec ognize the rada on the basis that the Ukraine supply Germany with food stuffs and recognize German eco nomic Interests In the Ukraine. Nei ther of, these points, the correspond ent adds. Is to Little Russian taste, but If the allies rail to help the Ukrainians or adopt a policy of com promise with the Bolsheviki the rada must have to yield and the. Cos sacks, too. t Newspapers in. Petrograd con tinued to report fighting in the south where, according to the correspond ent of The Times, civil war is wagr ing fast and furious. I The Aiistro-German delegations in Petrograd-profess to have Informa tion that the allies have decided to break relations with Russia, -Perhaps this is th reason why the of ficials of the British embassy have taken pains to assure Trotzky that the departure of Sir George Buchanan- Is purely on account of 111 health and that he would have left last 'March but for the persuasion of former Foreign Minister Terestchen ko, Trotzky also was lold that the other membejrs of the embassy Jiave no intention of leaving Pctrograd'at present. , F. O. Llndley, councillor of the embassy, 'remains In charge. X Amidst the, whirl of events Involv ing tho fate of the nation, the Bol shevik! government has . found time to decree that Russia shall adpt phonetic, spelling, on January H. 1 hree . vottcIs ; ard a one . consonant wero eliminated from tbe Russlaa alphabet. . . WASHINGTON, Jan. 5-Dele-gatfs of. .tho various Lithuanian parties at BtoekhoJm have issued a proclamation demanding Independ ence. of Lithuania. According to an official dispatch received here today, t he declaration Insists that Lithuania !e occupied by. its own army and that the Lithuanian ports of Russia mnst be Joined to the new stat. The firomise Is made, the dispatch states; that the Lithuanian seaport will b freely open to the eommercej of countries that are without open ings to the sea. notably Russia, If she should be so situated. EAST PASSPGER SERVIGif CUT BY 20 PER CENT New Ruling Clearing Roads for Important Freight in I Effect Today LESS TRAVEL IS ASKED Priority Orders Suspended ; McAdoo 1 Has Minor Strikes Called Off WASHINGTON, Jan. 5-To free locomotives 'and crews for the mon important fselght transportation, 20 per cent, of the through passengfcr trains on the eastern railroads will be discontinued tomorrow by approv al of Director General McAdoo. The running schedule of others will be reduced to lower speed to facilitate the movement of freight trains. This policy, announced tonight by the di rector general, will be gradually ex tended to affect train service throughout the country. In a statement tonight the direct or general sou ir M to dispel the im pression which he said had been c ated In California and other Pacific coast states that any radical changes In passenger travel to the coast ar contemplated. In approving" the new -passenger schedule Mr. McAdoo ordered a number of modifications resulting in retention of more par lor cars . than tho railroads had planned. Reduce Travel Is Appeal. Ir. McAdoo appealed tothe pub lie in a statement tonight to .refrain from travel as much ae pocslble. but promised that no subuiban commut er trains or others necessary for proper maintenance of business life la cities will be eliminated. I Congress next week will take up the railroad bills introduced yester day following President Wilson mes sage on government operation, and discussion todayamong members of both houses indicated a marked dif ference of opinion over whether gov ernment control should extend onlr for a definite period after the end of the war, or Indefinitely until con gress orders, otherwise, Coat cott'ncfd to ito forward to day ahead .of other freight. Fuel Administrator Garfield telegraphed the following: , . , j "By direction of Director General McAdoo all priority orders hereto fore ieuetr with respect to transpor tation have been suspended and no further priorities may be claimed thereunder. ' Further orders for pri orities will be issued In emergencies under Mr. MeAdoo's direction as oc casion may require." ' I Mr. McAdoo today took farther steps to prevent friction In the gov ernment dealing with railroad labor by arranging with William IL John ston. president of the International Association of Machinists, to call off several minor strikes of machinists until therallroad administration can formulate a definite wage and labor polHy. :. . S - - : i The director general also' said that as soon as the railroad bill Was passed he would take steps to use more intensively the country's navi gable' rivers and canals. HUNS ATTAGC BRITISH UNES Enemy Has Small Success U. S. Aviators Make Bombing Reprisal LONDON, Jan. 5. -The Germans early this morning made -a strong Joeal attack against British position In the HIndenhurg line east of Bulle eourt In the CambrsJ setor, but on ly a small party of tbc enemy suc ceeded n occupying the advance ae cording to the war office report to night. On the remainder of the front the Germans were repulsed be fore reaching the British position and suffered losses. WITH THE tAMKRiCAN ARMY JN FRANCE. Jan. 6. United Btatea aviators have flown over the Gorman battle lines and dropped bombs, in conjunction with British and French pilots. The flight of the Amfcrleani virtually was a reprisal for the kill' Ing of two American wood .cutter dnr'ng a German bobbing expedi tion a week ago. Hattser Players Defeat Team from Deaf School The Hauser Brothers basketball team won from the deaf team last night by a score of 32 to 11, The game was fast from the. start. The llsoser team players outclassed the deaf school lads. Captain Brooks and Moore starred for Hansers. Captain Brooks says he expects to beat Bishops by the: same majority of points Wednesday. ! Tho deaf team will play a return game next Rttnrdar night in the T. M. -C. A. gymnasium. 6-CEWT FARE ALLOWED 0M STREET LIES Portland Raflway, Light & Power Company Is Granted Adrance of One Cent After January 15 BIG CONCERT! Ta BE SAVED FROM RECEIVER New Conditions Enter Vitally j Into r Action Taken Yesterday J I.MUXrJK KMItODIKD IX OIU ; DKR OF COMMIKMIOX hl)i; YK8TKRDAV That the practices and econ omies inaguarated by the util ity, pursuant to the former or der of this commission, are not productive of n adequate re turn to protect the integrity of the company. The present . revenues de rived hnr thin titlllfv from the opeVatlon of its street railway system are inadequate, i The service now afforded 'is not In excess of the reasonable requirements of the traffic han dled. The rates charged and col lected as rash fares and for unlimited ticket books are un just, unreasonable and lnad iquate. -v''' ' That Just, reasonable and ade qnate rates and practice to be imposed, charged and collected in lieu of such rates and prac tices found to be unreasonable, unjust and inadequate are: 'Cash fares, (P cents eath: nn limited tickets, five tickets for .130 cent, tickets to be on sale by all conductors; unlimited tickets In books, f'fty tickets for 12.75; limited school. chil dren's ticket, 4 cents, each.' All tickets : and cash fares shall . Include ' transfer privi leges. c- .. - , I , Six cents fare will be charged on the local street car lines of PortUnd after January' 15. The state pntlie service commission , yesterday ren dered a decision granting a petition of the Portland Railway, Light A Power company for permission to ad vance Its tares 1 cent. , The decision was slened unanimously oy (the num bers of the -commission. The- de cision Incorporated a statement of opinion y the commissioner to the effect that the 'advance was granted ns the only practical means of rav ins: the company from bankruptcy. A similar petition from the com pany three months ago was denied br the commission, which recom mended curtailments In service as a means of bringing operation costs below- revenues: . Since that, time a considerable rise In tho wage scale of ear operatives has been- granted and last month the company re newed Its petition to be allowed to Increase the fare. New Schedule Given. t , By the order cash fares are In creased from 5 to cents. On the same basis unlimited tickets are to sell at five tickets for; 30 csnts and to be on sale by all conductors. Un limited tickets In books will sell at fifty Alckets for $1.75. Limited school children's tickets remain as at present. 4 cents esch. The ordr is effective on and after January 15. A previous order of the commission, issued October 5, 1917, denied the company's application for an ln Increase, Commissioner Corey writ ing a .dissenting ; opinion. Subse quently every phase of the com pany's business' was probed until the. commission became satisfied that the increase was necessary for the company to remain Intact. , , C1irey Recorted TMiectit. Commissioner Corey In , his dis senting opinion that accompanied he commission's first order favored Increasing cash fares to 9 cents and establishing a rate of six tlekets for 35 cents. For worklngmen's tlek- cts. available to all persons but us-j able only on work days, he sdvoeated a rate of f!fty-two rides for $2.60, this. being on a basis of two ride a day for twenty-six days of each month. Going into the history of the caie the order.issued yesterday says; "On September (, 1917. the ap plicant In the above entitled case ap peared before the public service com mission and presented, testimony in support of- its petition. There were present also representativaa of the city council qf (Portland, for the company's employees, the State Fed eration of Labor, and other similar bodies. In pteparation of tbo. heal ing the commission's engineers and, accountants, had examined the data to be submitted by the company and the commission was therefore enabl ed to arrive quickly at an under standing of the pertinent facts In tho case. ?--v . --- -- (Continued on page"2) WASHINGTON IS EIPRESSED BY NEW WAR MIS Growing Anxiety Caused by German Propaganda Re- ' lieyed by Statement VIEWS ANSWER TROTZKY Premier Still Has Hopes Plan to Humiliate Russia Will Be Failure WASHINGTON, Jan. 5, Premier Lloyd George's address today to the British trade unions on Great Brit ain's war aims created a profound impression . in ' official . circles in Washington. Comment on it, how ever, was withheld! until officials could give It thorough study. . That the address waa not unex-t pected was plain.-! The growing an xiety exhibited by the entente chan cellories since the beginning of the Brest"LltoT8k peace conferences and the openly-expressed belief that some steps must be taken to counteract the Insidious attempts of the Ger man delegates to misrepresent the alma of their enemies had convlncel Washington officials that there soon must come from -some authoritative source a clear, outspoken declaration of the real position of the powers fighting Germany, ; Althoogh it has all the force of an official declaration. It ' was pointed, out here that Mr. Lloyd George's speech after all could not be seized upon by the central powers as def initely binding the entente allies or even Great Britain to a literal ac ceptance of his war alms as the basis of peace. They might, however, be properly regarded as a tentative out line of British and probably entente allied aims which would be broached at any peace conference at which these powers may take part as. the groundwork upon which peace nego tiations might be founded. One Inference drawn from1 the pre mier's address was that be still hopes that the German negotiators at Brest-Litovsk can be balked in the efforts to force a humiliating peace upon Russia, and In that connection It was recalled that hints had been given in semi-official organs- of a willingness of the entente powers to recognize the Bolsheviki government If It acted fairly toward the nations fighting Germany. It also was re garded as, possible that the address might suffice to meet the demands of Leon Trotzky for a statement of the entente war alms within a ten-J day period just about to elapse, without actually commltttlng the powers too definitely HEAD OF RED CROSS RESIGNS Major Murphy J to Serve in Army; J. H. Perkins to T PARIS, Jan. 5, MaJor Grayson M. P. Murphy, of New - York, has re signed as head of the American Red Cross mission to Kurope. It was an nounced here tonight. Major Mur phy will go to the United States to consult with Henry P. Davison, fhalr man of the American Red Cross war council, and later will return to ser vice In the American army, WASHINGTON, Jan. 5. Major James II. Perkins, vice president of the National City Bank of NeW York and now in France with the Ameri can Red Cross commission, WllJ Im mediately take up direction of the commission's work and relieve Major Murphy, who is ' to join General Pershing's expeditionary forces. , . ' -' j- V, Salaries of Additional' Deputies Are Questioned A question pertaining to the salaries- of additional deputies in the offices of the county clerk and the county assessor of Yamhill countjr Is answered in an opinion of Attorney r!.n.ri 1 nrnwn : In renlv to a lettlT from Roswell L. Conner, district at torney for that county. The ouestlon Is whether the county court of Yamhill county Is authoriz ed to allow deputies In toe two or ficcs more than $50 a month or ft year. , The attorney neral find that the statutes provide in lammii county for one deputy in the clerk's ffflce at $600 a. year and for two deputies In the assessors' office at $ Coo each, but also provides that tb? rnnnlv nnrt mi emnlnr addltionAl deputies If -necessary and fix their L c a. a . il m K eaiaries. i nis main . posstoie -ioi court to allow one of the two deput ies in the clerks' (office at the pres ent time' $600, ote or less, as it de sires, and at such- period of- the sear. when more than two deputies are employed in the . assessor's- of fice to adjust the salaries as it sees fit. - . , WRATH FTU Sunday fair; moderate southeast erly winds. WRONGS OF vJimfKWJ -ULiiUliAl-il 1 Belgium Must Be "Hc:!crc 1, France Mast Have A!:cc-' Lorraine England Will Figbt to Last witlr Allies WAR AIMS SET F0HTII BY PREMIER GE0HGE Self-Goyemn:ent Pert cf Lut ing Peace; CcnQucst Ilct Tolerated'. e LONDON, Jan. 5. The Britf h prim minister. David Lloyd Gcorxc. today set forth Great Britain's v.-a-aims more specifically aud at greaf-r length before the delegates of tb . trades unions than he had ever don before. Having first declared that It v a i not a war of aggression-againct Ger many or the Germany people, and that the breaking up of the German peoples, or the disintegration r f their state was not one of the, ob jects for which the allies were ffr? ?- Jng, he proceeded to mention t; fundamental Issues for which BrU' in and her allies were contend! r. First among these was the restor ation of. Belgium and reparation for the Injuries Inflicted. Next car..-; the restoration of Serbia. Monteneg ro and the occupied parts of Frar.c.-, Italy and Rumania. France m t fiave, (Alsace-Lorraine and to V.u end. the premier said, the lirit: ; nation would stand by the Frc . democracy to the death. ..''-.-'Independent Poland Necessary The question of ltusnla vr i touched upon, and Mr. Lloyd C:r r: said that Britain as well as Arn:. ca, France and Italy would f. : v been proud to fight by the isK! s r the new Russian democracy. I; t now Russia could only be. saved 1 y her own people. He dc-clared an I n dependent Poland an urgent r.r-f -slty for the.stabimy of wcytern I -rppe. ,:- ' ' ' -Rumania Is 'to be protected,-! the British and other allies sre-'v. , ; Italy In her desire for corn;' union of the people of the Ital; race and tongue. Of Austrla-Um-arary. he felt that while the break ing up of the dual klncdom was r part of the allied war alms, It v.i Impossible to hope for tho remm : of causes of -unrest In that pnrt r : Europe unless genuine sclf-frovet r. ment was granted the Austro-IIn--garUn nationalities. The Turkish empire, within t? home lands of the Turkish race, u if Constantinople -as its capital, m be maintained. But the passa? -tween the Mediterranean and I'.! sea roust be Internationalized p- ' neutralized, and In the British vi. . Arabia, Armenia. Mesopotamia, f r la sd" Palestine are entitled to r -ognltion- of their separate natior. : conditions. The -matter of the German col -nles. li; of which are now In i -bands of the allies, will b'pl.v. ' before a conference, whose flec-l?.! , however, must consider the wi. ' and interests of the Inhabitant. -the future administration mt I acceptable to the various tribes. Cardinal rolnts Tli ree. The premier made brief reft rer to the violations of Internatinn-1 law committed br Germany, wii's special emphasis on the-sea, and tho peace conference, he declared, ni' t not lose slaht of the outrages f if fered'by British and other seanv -i and the services they had render The three cardinal points of -British terms, as enunciated l.v f ' British prime minister, are:. Tie- -tablishment of the sancltlty of tr - les: ; territorial settlement baxed t .the right of self-determination r , the consent of the governed; t? Creation of an International organ zation to limit armaments and O minish the probability of war. The fulfillment, of apromlfie to dress- the delegates of the tra 1 ualons. who are now dlscusnln tf question of man power with i Auckland Geddes, minister of r. tlonsl service. Premier Lloyd (;eor: made a statement today of the w, alms of Great Brita!ii. ."When men by the millions cr called upon to suffer and die. r vast populations are being subject to the sufferings and privations a war unprecedented In the hli(6r of the world." hewald, "they m entitled to. know for what eatie enses they are making the s;i-1 flees. Only the clearest, gre; and Justcst of causes could J -' t ; the continuance even for a dav this unspeakable agony f natM: "We ought to be a Mo to r! Clearly and definitely not only t principles for. which we are.fi Ing, but their definite c'onerrlo , plication to tho war map rf i world. Wo have arrived at th i ' er! leal hour of this terrlbl" c: ! and before any government t " the fateful decision as to the ra tions under whi"h it oosht t ". i terminate or continue the etrnr oUKht to be satisfied that Hi" r (Contlaucd oai'azts ) u