r iviTYHKVKXTII VrUlt X, g3tf 1 e- M ' r -HAWM, OlirAlOS, KATIKDAY SlftllMMi, JA.M AUV 101 M ' PHICK 1-'IVI2 C'IC.NTS LACHMUND IS IN RUNNING FOR SENATE Definite Announcement Is Made That Horticulturalist and Business Man Will Seek to Win Place HOFF ONE OF MANY FOR STATE BOARD McArthur Has Opposition Rxtser of Umatilla Wants Steiwer's Seat -Louis Lachmund, former mayor of Salem, yesterday gave out the authoritative statement that ha will , be a' candidate for the Republican nomination for state senator from Marlon county la the nejl legisla ture. - ! - Mr. Lachmund will doubtless be one of the most formidable of th i four or five men who are looked u on ai certain candidates for the o flee. Ill administration as mayor of Salem was constructive. His bus iness lnterttts as a hop dealer and orchardlst have' given him a wide acquaintance among business ' men both Inside and outside of Marlon . county, while his activity with re cent patriotic drives has extended his acquaintance to many communi ties with which be bad sot before come Into Intimate relationship. He was one of the Active campaigners in the recent YVM. C. A. war : fund drive, and bis work in that rapacity led to requests that he be listed as one of the speakers in the Armenian relief campaign now being conducted la Marion county. ' Is lader fn Industry. I As a fcortlculturalists, Mr. Iach mnnd Is owner of several orchard? near Salem and Is one of the leader? la promoting the walnut Industry in the Willamette-valley. j , Mr. Lachmund's fraternal j rela tions are with the grantee and the pits. lie has served the Salem Elks exalted ruler and represented the local lodge at 'the Grand lodge ses sion In Boston last July. He Is on of the most fluent speakers in the state.. Is strong of personality and counts a legion of friends, I i Senator A. M. La Follette has pub lished announcement of his candi dacy and Sam Brown has given news papermen permission to say that be will be a candidate. Hence these three men may be looked upon as a! rady In the race. George Weeks is expected to announce himself.! Paulsen of Sllverton, Seymour Jones and W. Al. Jones, are still ns certainties, and the latest word from Senator Bishop Is that bo does not expect to enter the lists. Hoff Will Candidate. , It was an important development -in state politics 'when it Jbecame. known that State Labor Com mis sionerO. P. Hoff will be a candidate for state treasurer. At the opening session of the State Federation of Xabor convention In Astoria Monday Mr. Hoff announced that he would not seek reelection to the office he has held for fifteen years. He was appointed to the position In 1903 and was. elected In-1906, 1910 and liM. , ; The post of treasurer for the str U cne of the hotly contested of fices. Four other candidates. As sistant State Treasurer T. V. Itya of Oregon City, O. 11., PI u owner and William Adams of Portland an 1 State Senator K. I). Cu sick of 5 Al bany, are already announced, i Two thrs. Hen K. West. Marion county, assessor, and It. Alexander of Fea Wleioa are expected to make an nouncements. Over la L' mat 1 1 1 a count ya n i nt er ( Continued on Pake Z) i PORTLAND WILL GUARD1 WHARVES Hiycr Baker Issues Order at Request of Federal Government .1 PORTLAND, Jan. 18.-i Acting on nrgent request of the federal govern nt Mayor George L. Daker to ight ordered "Immediate and tit tnosf guarding oLall docks In Port UbU, wharves, and docks In Port land. The mayor warned all per sons not having definite business away from the plants. The police were Instructed to enforce the rule rigidly I : The action came after a confer ence with federal agents. AH police reserves were ordered ouWednesday for this duty.? The reason ts sufficient," i said Mayor Baker tonight. 'I Impress up on the public the jiecessity of, otyy ng the order." Regular policemen have been call d In from their beats to do water front service and reserves are used beats and at the stations. I AVERAGE FAMILY IS INDIFFERENT SAYS STEUSLOFF Selfishness Greatest Stum bling Block in Way of Food Administration 4 HOUSEWIVES GET ANGRY Complain at Grocers and Threaten to Cut Off Their Patronage The great eft stumbling-block now in the way of th food administra tion is the selfiHhness and unpatri otic indifference of the aveiwtre Ore gon family, according to County Food Administrator F. W. SteuslofT, who says that wholesale and retail dealers throughout he state are co operating .splenddidly.- but that the public In general, through Individual greed and selfishness, is proving a obstacle In the successful carrying out of the administration's conserva tlon plans. flacked Up Ily Men. "Many families are splendidly pat riotic" said Mr. Steusloff "and arc loyally observing the conservatism requirements in every detail, but many others are either selfishly or thoughtlessly Ignoring the regula tions, and in addition are making life miserable for the grocers, who must restrict the sales of flour and sugar. Ill-natured complaints and threats of discontinued patronage are made by angry housewives, these complaints and threats in many cas es, being. 'backed up' by husbands or brothers who make special visits to the grocer to voice their displeasure. These unpatriotic citizens will g.i to almost any length- to evade the reg ulations and to secure more than their atfowance, although assured that this Is the surest way of creat ing a shortage and raising prices, whereas, if they will support the food administration In Its carefully worked out plans, there will be plen ty for all at reasonable prices, with a surplus for the steady stream of food staples that we must keep mov ing toward the front If we are to win this war. I Co-operation Imperative. ' "We must have better cooperation and more of It. A more earnest Nwar consciousness Is needed. If the food administration Is to accomplish its purpose of provisioning our larmy abroad and feeding the armies and starving peoples of the allies, every American family mo t help. So that this need may be realized and the war consciousness he made more general. I earnestly ask alt who are so loyally supporting the administra tion to act as missionaries among their friends and neigrbors,-explaining the situation and with patience and that endeavoring to bring those who are selfish or Indifferent to a realization of the fact that they are obstructing the food administration In Its vital war work. Slacken Hard To Fathom. "It Is hard to understand, after alt the publicity given to the conserva tion plana and tfrlnclplesJfor so many months, how any American family can still be In ignorance of the need of Its individual cooperation, or of the fact that Its cooperation is a pa triotic duty. It Is harder1 still to understand how any American fam ily not Ignorant of these things, can go on lanoHng and even defying the regulations of the food administra tion. Let every Oregon frmlly take stock In Hi patrlotlm as represented by Its loyal support of the food ad ministration. If your support Is not 100 per cent, speedily make It so, and then do what you can to -bring your friends and neighbors up to the tame high standard. This is no trif ling matter, but a serious patriotic duty. Each family Is an essential unit in the nation's conservation plan, and the success of the plan Is of vital Importance to the vlnnlng of the war." : -: FOLAND CHOICE OF COMMIITEH Resolution Signed by All Members Is Filed for Action Monday A resolution filed with CHy Re corder Race yesterday by Chairman Frank 8. Ward of the police clmmlt tee of the city council recommends the election of Night Sergeant A. FaIand to ucced the lae M J2. Cooper as chief of the Salem police department. The resolution Is sign ed by all three members of the com mittee and will be acted upon by the city eoubcil at the meeting Monday night. It fs he general opinion of those who are in close touch with city affairs that the unanimous recom mendation of the police committee will mean- the unanimous election of Sergeant Foland. f , The resolution expresses keenly felt regret at the loss of Chief Cool er and declares that be put Into ac tlon many new plans for the better ment of the police service in Salem. WAR TO WIN LIBERTY IS TASK OF ALL People Must Either Go On or Go Under' Lloyd George Tells Trade Unions in Ex plaining Man Power Bill PEACE DISHONORABLE WITH NO ENFORCEMENT Never" Is Enemy's Answer to Demands ; Britain To Have More Men (By The Associated Press.) "Th people niunt eitht-r go on or go undf-r," was the rtirring climax of an address delivered to the trades unions of Great liritain by David Lloyd George, the Hritish prime minister, Friday In London. The premier's address follow! closely .upon the passage by the house of commons of the man power bill which has as its object the rais ing of more men to strengthen th Hrltlah fighting forces. The premier, as of old. evinced strong distrust of Germany's honesty reverting several times to the un trustworthiness of her promises and declaring that no peace terms would be recognized by Kmperor William, Field Marshal von Hindenburg. General von Ludendorff and the other militaristic, elements, unless the British have the power to en force them. Germany had sent the answer of "never" to the demand for the righting of the wrongs of Helgiiim. the premier declared, and also had announced that the strug gle would continue until Mesopo tamia and Palestine were wrested from the tyranny of the Turks. In riving his opn opinion on the sftustion the premier told his hear ers that they might as well stop flghtinx unless they were going to" do It with all their might. "Unless, we are going to do It well, let us stop it," he exclaimed. "There is hd alternativ'o if thre are mend rnr wnp say iny win not go inrosi the trenches, then the men In thj (Continued on page 2) PLOT TO BLOW UP SHIP CAUSE OF SUSPICION Hun Steerage Steward Held After Mysterious Discov ery of Film LETTER GIVES WARNING Michaelis Possessed Address of Enemies Liberty Bond Bought SAN FRANCISCO. Tan. anonymous letter received by j Col lector of Customs John O. Davl! ad vising hira of what the writer si! would be an attempt to blow up the steamer Admiral Schley let tii the detention here today of Ja-o Micha elis steerage steward, on the eve of the vessel's departure for Seattle. A sketch of a mechanical contriv ance, a package of flashlight cart ridges, a camera and a rorr of ex posed but undeveloped films war found in Michaeils' nossesion, ac cording to government officials Michaelis was said to have been unable to account for the alleged sketch and to have Declared he bad planned to use the photographic ap paratus (to take pictures In the en gine room of the vessel. Michaelis also was said to have ad mitted that a Stockholm address found In his possession was a medi um for communication with persons in Germany. Mr. Davis tonight in discussing the letter said that he had not, ob served where the letter was mailed. Officials of the collector of customs office, according to Mr.: Davis de tained Michaelis and later turned hifci ver , t cvfklals e the depart ment of justice. Michaelis said he was born In Oer many 50 years ago and displayed a seaman's certificate of citizenship Issued by the collector of customs in Seattle. Among other things said to have been found In his possession were bank books showing deposit! In two Seattle banks and a $50 lib erty bond. . . . . The undeveloped film said to have been found In his possession was turned over to a photographer. COMMISSION IS APPOINTED FOR RAILROAD WAGES Country Is Divided Into Three Operating Districts by McAdoo LABOR TO BE REVIEWED Findings to be Basis for Sweeping Action Wage Increases Likely WASHINGTON'. Jan. 18. Direct or G n-ral McAdoo announced to night the appointment of a railroad wage commission of four public men to analyze and recommend action on all wage and labor questions Impending 1m-fore the government rail road administration. Including th railway brotherhoods' demands. At the same time the director gen eral put Into effect a new system of government railroad administration by dividing the country into three operating regions, east, south and we?t. and placed a railroad executive at the bead of each as his represent ative. Willeox on Commission. The wage commission consists of Secretary Lane. Interstate Commerce Commissioner C. C. McChord, Judge J. Harry Covington chief justice of the District of Columbia supreme court, and William R. WIllcox. who tonight announced his resignation as chairman of the Republican national committee. It was planned originally to pass only on the four brotherhoods' wage demands, but so many other labor questions have been submitted to the director general since then, that he determine! to refer them all to the boird. It will hear all labor complaints or petitions, making care ful Investigations and recommend a course of action to Mr. McAdoo. The commission's Inquiry will deal with general conditions affect ing the railway employes, regardless of whether any specific request or complaint has been made to the di rector general, or. to railroad man agements before the government as sumed control. U In charge of the eastern railroads. Mr. McAdoo retalned"A. H. Smith, president of the New York Central, who has acted as assistant to the di rector general with headquarters In New York. R. H. Alshton, president of the Chicago & Northwestern., was appointed regional director for ter ritory west of the Mississippi, with headquarters at Chicago. Southeast ern roads were assigned to C. II. Markham, president of the IHinols Central, with headquarters a,t At lanta. fc DivUlon Are Definexl. 1 The eastern division consists of territory north of the Ohio and Potomac rivers, "and east of I.ake Mk-higan and the Indiana-Illinois .Mate line; a1"o those railroads In Il linois extending into that state from points east of the Jmliana-Illinois state line; also the Chesapeake &. Ohio, the Norfolk & Western and ' e Virginian railways." The southern district Is defined as Including "all railroads In that por tion of the 1'nlied States south of the Ohio and Totomae rivers and east of the Mlslslpnl river, except he Cherapeake Ohio, Norfolk & Western and Virginian railways, and also those railroads In Illinois and Indiana extendln g Into thoe states from points south of the Ohio river." The western district Is composed of fhe balance of tbe country. Includ ing all west of the Mississippi and also Illinois. Wisconsin and north .Michigan peninsula. It excludes (Continued on" page 2) " PETROGRAD IS WEHGUARDED Bolsheviki Protect City for Opening of Constituent Assembly Today PETROGRAlThursday. Jan. 17. -,-Barrlcades were - put up today about the telephone station and at ether strategic points and thousands of soldiers and sailors were brought Into Petrogrjad to reinfojfe the Bol shevik! troops in dealing with pos fcible riots at the opening of tbe constituent assembly tomorrow. The enti-Holshevikl already have announced demonstrations and also their-Intention to open the constitu ent assebly. The central executive committee of the workmen and sold iers' delegates have prepared a dec laration which they Inted to rorce the constituent assembly. The cen tral executive committee of the work men and soldiers' delegates have pre pared a declaration which tbey In tend to force tbe constituent assemb ly to adopt declaring that the as sembly must recognize that Russia shall be declared a republic of workmen's peasants' and soldiers' delegates warned the people to stay off the streets tomorrow. REPLY AGAIN POSTPONED' BY HERTLING Report Imperial Chancellor Not Yet Ready to Reply to Allied War Aims Causes No Surprise in England POLITICAL STRUGGLE OCCUPIES ATTENTION Advocates of Peace by Nego tiation Must First be Conciliated LONDON. Jan. IS. According to a telegram received here, German Chancellor von Hertling has again postponed the speech be was to have made In reply to the definition of war alms by President Wilson and Premier Lloyd George., The report that tbe Imperial chan cellor for a third time had post poned his reply caused no great sur prise here, for while It was fairly certain that the German militarists bad won over Kmperor William to their side and annexation of 'occu pied territories was the pollcv to be pursued, the advocates of a peace by negotiation, which Include most of tbe Austro-Hungarian leaders must be. conciliated. The militarists have the support of the junkers and the war pilfit eers, but on the other side are the Socialists and a large proportion of the working classes and of the mod erate middle class, of vhich 1 the Berliner Tageblatt Is the spokesman,- and the financial Interests rep and tho Frankfurter Zeitung. which resented by Dr. Bernard IJernoerg have been emphatic In thlr denunci ation of the annexationists. The attitude of tbe Austrian may be gathered from articles published in tbe'Fremdenblatt of Vienna, or gan of- Count Czernln, the Austro Hnngarian foreign minister, which sharply deals with rumors i thaV Prince Von Buelow Is engaged In Intrigues against Count von Hert ling In order that he may become German chancellor. The article de nounces Von Buelow as a traitor against Austro-Hungary. saying that he offered Italy Austro-Hungarian territory and also gives expression to the dissatisfaction of the .Austrian government with the agitation of the German annexationists fee: the ln: corporation of the great Polish dis tricts in tbe German empire, which It asserts would be a blow at ACS rian interests. The news that the former Bava ian premier. Podewils Duernitz. is to represent Bavaria at the Brest LUovsk peace conference has caused some misgiving;! in Germany. Tfle Frankfurter Zeitung says this will afford new material abroad for the etnprission that there are differences between the South German Mates and I;usiad. Chamber Vhtes Confidence in French Government PARIS, Jan. 1. After violent scenes In the chamber of deputies to day, confidence was vsted In the gov ern day, confidence was voted in the government by a, lante majority. Tbe debate was heated nd remlled in a temporary suspension of the sitting After the- session Deputy Conti cfcal enged two other deputies Business People of Salem Are Best-Natured Crowd on Earth, Declares Collector for Knights of Columbus War Fund They Just Smile and Dig Down m Pockets '"The business people, of Sa lem are the best-natured peo ple on earth." said one of the leading collectors for the Knights of Columbus war camp fund last night. 1 'Ilerei they have been crowded day In land day out with frequent and Insistent calls for the various activities incident to the wisr until thy have ben terribly drained fi nancially, and yet they face the new collector with a smile and t'fir down once again rh'erfulry and generously. The few who find they cannot give csucb their refusal in such cardial and pleasant lan guage that there is no sting or 111 feelinr. And the same is relatively true, of thoe living in the residence sections of the city. Our women workers re port the mot agreeable re ception from 93 per jrent rof tboFe visited, so that the & per cent who may be actuated; jby mistaken ideas or prejudices and try to be di.sagreeableld( not seriously spoil the pleasure of the general experience. . ALLIES GIVING PROTECTION TO KING FERDINAND British Airplane May Have Carried Monarch to Safe ty at Saloniki . . i RUSS THREAT IGNORED Rumanian Authorities Nof Surprised at Move to Take Royal Family LONDON. Jan. 1 King Ferdi nand of Rumania, whose arrest ha been ordered by the Bolshevik gov ernment, is now-under the protec tion of the allies, according t a Pet rograd dispatch to the Dally Express. tl is probable that the king sought refuge In one of the allied embas sies at Jassey. or that ,he has been taken under the protection of the French military! mission attached to the Rumanian army. Jassey Is 350 miles from the British lines In Mace donia and it may tbe tha the king has been taken to Saloniki by afr Pjane. ; LONIK)N, Jan. 18. The latest threat to cause the arrest of the Ru manian royal family has created no Surprise among the Itnmanian au thorities In Londpn, Some time a?3 the Uolshevikl sent troops to .lassy under the leadership of the Bulgar ian reactionary, Rakovsky, o arrest General Teherbatchoff, commanier on the Rnssian-Ilumantari front,, and at the same time to seize the Ruman ian royal famlly and the members of the government. ' General Tcherbalcheff, owever, succeeded In capturing the' ringlead ers of the movement and with the assistance! of the Rumanian army disarmed 15.000 Bolsheviki regular The Bolsheviki ultimatum recently Issued demanded thr release of these ringleaders. s The Rumanian army has refrafneT from armed con wfet with the Ilol.he. vlki. but it is declared, will not tol erate any plans on Rumanian st against the royal family or the Ru manian people. King, Ferdinand and the royal family are, still at Jasy eut-off from the world and living almost entirely upon conned food, with bread three times a week. GIRL IS CAUGHT WITH DYNAMITE CHICAGO. Jan. 18. Carrying dynamite In two small handbagsjjto wreck the union passenger station, a slim, dark-haired girl was arrett ed today as she stepped from a Pennsylvania train from Youngs town, Ohio. When taken before the federal au thorities, the girl gave her name as Linda Jose, 16 years old. She told of being given the 36 sticks of ex plosive at Steuben vllle, Ohio, and of carrying it across three states in pas senger trains to deliver It to an uncle In -Chicago. Defying the se en t service officers she refused to give them the name of either the sender or her uncle. The girt was held on a charge of translating the dynamite In viola tion of the Interstate commerce law, officials declaring tbey believed the explosive belonged to a dangerous band of anarchists. rn ii ie g Considering the 'great . strain borne by everybody,- the people throughout the entire city are certainly lovely. It Is very setdom our .Catholic people go ( out collecting frojm the public. , We are not accujstomed to It. so we are somewhat timid and the good treatment our col lectors are meeting will be kindly remembered for all S time." . j '.'. - The manager of the drive reported good work again yes terday and experts a reason ably successful result when all are heard from. It may. not be -possible for the . limited number of collectors to reach all who would tike to sub scribe and Frank (Davey, man ager of tbe campaign! requests all such to mail htm their checks for such: sums as they think they can afford. Some have already done so and all wlll lie duly listed ,and credited. " - ' A meeting of the eolleefors Will be held tonight at 7:30 it the K.i of C. Hub on State' street, to ascertain results and make further arrangements. 3 President Wilson Approves Order of Fuel Administra tor Garfield and Manufac turing in 28 States hi East Virtually at Standstill j WAR DISCIPLINE URGED BY CHIEF EXECUTIVE Edict Answered by Co-cpcra-tion Ships To Move Mil lion Tons of Supplies tla nitiens Factories Vcrk ' WASHINGTON, Jan. J. The na tion's manufacturing industry In the 2 8 stajtes east of the Mississippi river was virtually suspended today In obedience to the government's or der forbidding the use of fuel. Most of the plants engaged on war contracts are exempted from the or der's operation la telegrams sent out last night, btft few of them learned of it In time and a great majority of them closed down with the other fac tories. The country at large knew nothing of exemptions except the few an nounced last night and it was not until late this afternoon that the food administrator admitted official ly that Important war work was not affected by the order and gave-out a list of hundreds of factories that may continue work on government contracts: only during the five-day closing period. Wilson Approve Order. - Confusion attending on enforce ment of the order was general. Such a flood of telegrams poured Ito the office of the fuel administration ask ing interpretations and rulings and requesting Information concerning exemption Industries that finally the exemption list was given to the press for publication. The day brought a statement of support of the order from President Wilson and a rigor ous defense by Fuel Administrator of the step and the government's purpose In taking It. . r Opposition to the order congress apparently spent Itself In debate In both houses. During the day Dr. Garfield replied to the senate' re quest yesterday that the order be suspended for five days, disclaiming any purpose tor de. discourteous, de clining to comply and again point ing out the "necessity for enforcement of his order. Fowl Administrator Hoover in a statement Interpreted the order to - mean that no check would be put on the operations of any sort of fool handling, manufacturing or distrib uting. War Plants Exetrpte!. The plants exempted from the V prepared by Secretary Haker and Secretary Daniels are those manu- 3 factoring gsc masks, explosives for the government, rifles, pistols, ma chine guns and small arms ammuni tion; forglngs for the government. electrical supplies and tool steel for war purposes, destroyers and de stroyer parts, seamless tubes and condenser tubes, aircraft and air craft parts, signal corps equipment. locomotives, equipment - for ships, woolen goods for the army and navy, white dnck and tentlngs for tbe gov ernment and pptlcal supplies. All shipyards, although not In cluded In- the exempted list, will continue operation under a! special ruling as will hundreds of plants turning out materials which enter army and navy supplies. Most of the big steel plants and a large number of the country's auto mobile factories are Included In the list. Among the collateral Industries which will: be classed as not coming within the provisions of the order will be virtually all mines produc ing ores. In his statement supporting Dr. Garfield's Issuance of the closing or der. President WHson says he was consulted and fully agreed with tfce fuel administrator as to Its neces sity. If the action had not been taken, he declares. Immediate re lief could not hare ben found for the fuel and transportation short age. - The president's statement follow?: I was. of course, corsnlted by Mr- Garfield before the fuel order of yesterday was Issued and fully arreed with him that It-was neces sary much as I regretted the neces sity. This war calls for many sae- "(Continued on ageT t) - . . i