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ÖF [NINES WEEK HERE IS ONE FAT MAN WHO IS LOVED TEUTON SPIES Try to Paralyse Traffic and Hinder Movement o f Goal Authorities Alert and Guards Doubled. New York — Definite information said to have been obtained by the go v ernment that German agents had been instructed to use all means to paralyze the effort to move freight and clear ships is understood here to be responsi ble for the doubling o f guards Tuesday at all piers, shipyards and terminals. Copies o f instructions sent to Ger man agents by the headquarters o f the Eventa o f Noted People^ Government« German spy system are reported to have been obtained by agents o f the Loyal Adherence to IVlicies Outlined and Pacific Northwest and Other United States government. by Wilson and Lloyd George In« Things W orth Knowing. Orders were received here Monday dicated at Toilers’ Meeting. night to take all precautions to pre vent attempts to do damage. Guards o f all kinds, military and The Philharmonic Society o f New have been doubled at all York has announced that no composi private, Nottingham, England The British tions o f living German composers shall points where shipping and shipping Labor Party Thursday declared its po be played by the Philharmonic Orches interests are concerned. sition as regards war and peace. By tra for the duration o f the war. In addition to extra guards, it was a m ajority o f about two-thirds in a Letters have been sent by the Treas learned that orders were also issued to ury to 12-1,000 ministers asking them scrutinize with more than usual care viva voce vote the delegates supported to impress upon their congregations the credentials o f persons seeking to the war aims program recently pro mulgated by their executive commit that it is their duty to pay their in pass the barred zones. tee. which corresponds generally with come taxes cheerfully and w illingly. The orders came from Washington the recent utterances o f President To the bill requiring the W ar de and were issued by telegraph. It was Wilson and David Lloyd George, the : partment to furnish Army officers with learned they called for prompt action. British premier. uniforms at cost. Secretary Daniels It is understood they applied not only President Wilson figures as one of: has asked the senate military commit to New Y'ork, but to every port on the the Labor P arty’s prophets. In th e ! “ Nobody loves n fat man,“ but when be Is wearing the uniform of an tee to add a provision for naval offi Atlantic and Gulf coasts. opening session his name was men American marine und Is In France serving bis country, nit changes and the fat General observance o f the first heat cers. tioned no less than six times, in each man becomes the Idol o f the people, especially the children. This Jolly plump less Monday was reported throughout case in connection with his recent wari Yankee marine Is playing pupa to these French kiddles and he Is the “ great Two persons were killed and 15 seri the country. aims speech, which was described as est nun In the world" to them. ously injured at Omaha early Monday Many railroads were assisting in the night when a railroad coal car loaded effort to supply homes and trans-At essentially the same point o f view as with cinders broke away from a switch lantic shipping with coal, and were the British Labor P arty’s. The delegates o f the French Social train and crashed into a streetcar load- inoving ilttie general freight. ists gained hearty applause when he ed with passengers. Coal and foot! were virtually the said: A Christiania dispatch says all poli only commodies moving, aside from a “ President Wilson has declared on tical parties agree that the terms o f small amount o f necessary war sup behalf o f the common people o f the exceedingly un|u>pu!nr with the Ger plies. fered bv the United States to Norway whole world the terms which the com Episode Illustrative of One of m an: It had recently put several of The volume o f coal reaching sea mon people want. This statement has regarding food supplies and shipping Many Diverse Phases Ids guns out of action, besides account cannot be accepted. Norway w ill pro board for bunkering ships was steadily now been agreed to by every allied ing for u big mlnenwerfer that had an increasing. pose a new basis fo r an agreement. of the War. government, including the Russian noyed the Infnntry In the front line, State Fuel administrators reported Observance o f the Sabbath by all most office buildings, although per Bolsheviki. In the face o f this unan nnd It was evident that he meant to im ity o f opinion the central govern men in m ilitary and naval service was discover Its position somehow. There mitted certain exemptions, were burn directed by President Wilson in a ing only enough coal to prevent freez ments are silent, but their peoples arc were several German balloons up a* It restless and disturbed, and before long statement issued Tuesday at the W hite wns, though n fortunate rise lu the ing o f pipes. they, too, may come into the agree House. A ll Sunday labor, he asked, ground Just hid the battery from their Department stores and other estab ment. ” be reduced to the measure o f strict ne lishments generally were closet). Three Whistles: Presto, Battery Cam view. Nor was It likely that on a day A ll amendments suggested by paci cessity. when visibility was so good the enemy ouflaged!—-In This Instance Ven fists were swept aside in favor o f a would stop at one ensunl airplane. It The Lokal Anzeiger, o f Berlin, says turesome German Machine PORTLAND AUTO SHOW SOON single resolution o f moderate length, was far more likely thnt he would send that unless Leon Trotzky, the Bolshe Plunged to Earth. welcoming the utterances o f President them over at Intervals throughout the vik foreign minister, accepts the de Wilson and Mr. Lloyd George, and an ilny. mand o f the central powers when he War Emphasizes Economic Importance invitation was put forward to the cen London.— The airplane sentry sat o f Automobiles as Never Before. returns to Brest-Litovsk on January And so It huppened. Before an tra! powers to make known their war on his solitary mound In the middle of 29, the central powers w ill break off hour was past a second speck appeared Portland — Special rates w ill be aims, as the entente allies have dona. 1 the field in the hot sunshine. His busi negotiations. One amendment, which was downed ness was to watch for hostile airplanes In the sky and ngnln the scene shifting ! granted by the railroads to the coming with scant consideration, was a pro- | nnd warn the battery o f their ap took place on the blast of the whistle. For assisting three Germans to pass ' I big Portland Automobile, Truck and posal to eliminate mention in the reso proach. It does not sound a very ardu Tills time the hostile plane was shap from the United States into Canada, ... D u u t I Tractor Show, which w ill be held in lution o f President Wilson and Mr. ous business, but It Is one that requires ing a course that would bring It very Alphonse Bachelder road manager r for new c j Auditorium from Febru. Lloyd George, although the backers o f considerable training If mistakes are nearly over the battery, and the sentry w as! “ ^ w4iX ° rk T v-e0mPaw '- 7 8S *ry ‘ to 13. inclusive. fined $600 and costs by a Windsor, the eco- it carefully explained that it was to be avoided. Airplanes fly too high watrhed It with some concern. On It offered in no spirit o f unfriendliness, nowadays for their distinguishing came, the shrapnel bursting furiously Ont., magistrate. Bachelder professed , i ... * * - .. , v nomic importance o f the automobile as but in the b elief that the resolution murks to be discerned, even through round It, diving nnd wheeling to dis ignorance o f the law. neVer Qne o f the main pur_ It swept would carry more w eight with the the best glasses. The aentry must he concert the gunners' aim. A bill to acquire and maintain a sys- poses o f this automobile show w ill be German and Austrian Socialists if it able to detect the enemy ns soon ns he over the battery, went straight on for n tern o f national defense and m ilitary to demonstrate the many ways in avoided the appearance o f approving comes In sight, at whatever angle be few minutes, then turned and came highways and post roads in Washing- which the passenger automobile the the acts o f “ representatives o f capi may happen to be flyin g; and with so back again. Had It seen anything sus ton, Oregon and California, with later- truck and the farm tractor can help talistic governments.” many different types o f machine In the picious? The sentry scanned the or al roads, to protect the Pacific Coast business and industry and thereby add A t the opening o f the conference air this requires experience and s chard sharply. Everything was In per against invasion, was introduced Tues- j to the war resources o f the nation, fect order, not even a bully-beef tin • Frank Purdy, the president, said that quick eye. day by Representative Baker, o f Cali- | A ll the latest passenger car models i f Germany would not accept the terms lay about to betray a sign o f human The experience he had gained by be fornia. ! w ill be shown, but the truck and the President WilBon. Premier Lloyd ing attached for some days to an anti occupation; there were no tracks visi The $1,000,000,000 aircraft pro- farm tractor particularly w ill have a George and the Labor party had laid aircraft battery whose business It was ble across the grass; every trifle wns down as the minimum, “ we must fight to spot all hostile plnnes nt on ce;! enrefully covered up. It Is on details gram, presented first to congress in ' llacf ° ^ h° n° r 9how,’ The regular estimates last December, tractor has added tremendously to the on.” Purdy said Germany could claim quickness o f vision w h s Inbred In him. f like this thnt the safety o f a battery was explained to the house m ilitary agricultural efficiency o f France and no longer that she was fighting a de for he had un Englishman's love of depends. Upon the slightest hint that anything Is hidden In n particular spot committee Tuesday at a confidential Great Bntaln. In [act farm tractors fensive war. sport. The attitude o f wntchfulness the airplane calls up Its guns and session by Major-General Squier, the have helped so greatly to defeat the seemed nnturnl to him as he sut with i ranges on the place. And ever after ch ief signal officer. The great sum is German submarine campaign by mak his glass slung round his neck, his eyes GOMPERS OFFERS 7 HOURS ing possible ward one has tin- uncomfortable feel to iui be included in the army appropria- ! ,n& P°8s,bIe the cultivation o f in searching the skies all about him, creased acreage for food production, log thut one Is suspected mid thut at tion bill. A couple o f hundred yards away, the that the French and British govern Labor Leader, in Address to Miners, any moment a torrent of shell may ar battery was at the height o f Its morn Government operation o f railroads ments have placed huge orders in this rive. Proposes New War-Time Measure ing toilet. The big guns were uncov has eliminated 10 fresh meat trains country for still more o f them. Pursued by 8hrapnel. ered and the Umber-gunners nnd their between Omaha and Chicago and The United States government is Indianapolis, Ind. — A fte r a spirited The plane wns perceptibly low er; It assistants were performing the morn where form erly 12 meat trains were encouraging the use o f tractors and contest the proposition to g iv e all dis almost seemed as If its suspicions operated every day between Omaha trucks to offset the grow ing shortage tricts in the coal industry o f the coun ing ablutions o f their charges, washing muat have been aroused. It swept off out the bores nnd scrubbing them with and Chicago, but tw o such trains now o f man power and horses and to in try representation in conferences toward home, pursued by the bursting are run. The running time o f the crease food production and business where basic wage agreement is made, the long-handled plasnbu brushes that shrapnel that It dodged as If by a take four men to push through. The trains has been lengthened from 27 efficiency. Added to this is the fact or a policy formulated that is appli series o f miracles. But suddenly It hours to 42 hours per trip. that they are cheaper to operate than cable to other districts, was defeated artificer was testing air pressures; the seemed to quiver. Its tall went up, and section officers nnd tbelr layer« were horses doing only a small part o f the in the convention o f the United Mine It began to dive steeply. The sentry Transportation on the trunk lines Workers Thursday by a vote o f 958 to busy with the sights. Behind the guns, wntched It eagerly through his glusses. east and west o f Chicago virtually has work. again, groups of men were laying shells A large attendance from outside 554. Was It a ruse to escape the shell, or recovered from the effects o f the re The proposition had been before the In rows, taking them from the heaps In was It hit? Slowly the plane began to cent blizzard, and all roads are run- P0'" * 3 ' a expected during Automobile which they had been dumped by the convention for three days and was op Special arrangements ning their regular number of trains, | Show week. turn over ns It fell, ami then, all at are being made for the reception o f posed by district and intei national offi ammunition column during the night. once, all control seemed to leave It, railroads announce. The whole orchard wns a scene o f ac dealers and other visitors from out cers as a menace to the life o f the or tivity, nnd concealment was out of the and It dropped steadily, turning over During 1917, 920 saloons in Chicago side o f Portland. ganization. and over, the sun flashing from Its pol went out o f business, involving a loss The fight was resumed Thursday af question while It Insted. ished fusllage us It did so. Lower nnd of revenue to the city o f $920,000. A rtillery Fire Increases. ter Samuel Gompers, o f the American Sudden Tranaformatlon. lower It fell, until only a few hundred This was announced at a meeting of made a Rome—-Increase in the artillery fire Federation o f Labor, had Suddenly the airplane sentry stood feet from the ground, when It turned the finance committee o f the council to on the Italian northern front, between speech in which he suggested a univer up, gazed nt a distant speck In the sky on Its side and crashed swiftly to earth, frame the annual budget. sal seven-hour day during the war to throngh his glasses for a few seconds, a mile or so from the battery. Brenta and the Piave, is reported in conserve fuel, instead o f the present then blew three blasts upon his whis Oregon carries off first honors for The sentry blew Ills whistle once Tuesday’ s war office sta' ement. Some plan o f having idle Mondays. performance o f patriotic duty under tle. Before the echoes bad died uwny more, and the battery returned to Its reconnoitering operations were carried Mr. Gompers’ speech to the miners a fnrlous scene-shifting began In the the selective draft law as evidenced by work cheering nnd whistling. Every out on both sides. was regarded as labor’s message to the battery. The cleaning squnds put an elaborate report submitted by Pro one had seen the machine come to The enemy’s fire was directed country on the action o f the Fuel ad down their utensils nnd drew up the vost Marshal-General Crowder to the earth nnd wns proportionately elnted. against Italian positions south of Col ministration. Secretary o f War. In three particulars gun-covers, the artificer put his spnn- But. as ntwnys, n chivalrous feeling for Caprile. West o f Osteria II Lepres, a Oregon led all the other states; in all ners In his pocket nnd sprang under their fallen enemy was mingled with few prisoners were taken in a small particulars its record is far better than American Chinese Slack. the nearest tree, where he wns Joined the men’s Joy. surprise action. Northwest o f Monte the general average. Seattle, Wash.— What is said to be by the section officers and their assist Asoloe and in the valley o f Ponte “ Plucky sportsman, thnt,” said one, In declaring the regular semi-annual Della Priula, attempts by enemy pa the first instance in the Northwest of ants. The shell numbers hastily cov and the rest echoed his sentiments. dividend o f 2 } per cent on the common trols were promptly frustrated. ered their work with leaves and brush an Oriental being accused o f violating stock o f the Baltimore & Ohio railroad the selective draft act was brought to wood, and hid themselves under cover Friday in face o f a deficit fo r the past Woman Slays Husband. light Wednesday when Tom Wong, o f the shed thnt acted ns an ammuni GEORGIA PRISON DOORS YAWN year, directors o f the road issued a Boise, Idaho — George Burke, of aged 25, an American-born Chinaman, tion store. In fen seconds, where all statement saying they expected that Mountain Home, near here, was shot was ordered returned to Portland for the activity had been the sharpest eye For Flrat Time In Memory of Oldest any basis o f compensation which and instantlly killed by his wife, Mon investigation. would have seen nothing but a compact Inhabitant Dougherty County might be determined upon for the Bal Jail la Empty. Wong had been taken into custody orchard, with here nnd there a group of day, as a culmination o f a fam ily timore & Ohio under Federal control quarrel. Mrs. Burke accused her hus by the immigration authorities on suz- men sheltering under trees, Invisible would prove sufficient for the mainte band o f anttempting to beat her. Albany. Ga.— Dougherty county Jail She picion o f his being in the United States from the air. nance o f the 5 per cent annual rate. The German airplane made a wide Is empty for the first time In the mem says he fired the first shot, which went illegally, but it was found that he had Mrs. Burke fired been born in Oregon and is liable un sweep iver the lines at a great height, ory o f the oldest Inhabitant. There Ivan Nock, a young engineer o f Bal wide o f the mark. the nucleus o f a scattered. pattern of Is no record o f a time In more than two shots, both o f which took effect. der the conscription act. timore, one of the few Americans re shrapnel that burst nil around It, half a century when such n rendition Mr. Burke was 55 years old. The cor leaving puffs o f smoke thnt bung like existed before, nnd the nnnouneement maining in the French Foreign Legion, oner’s jury late Monday exonerated Bolsheviki Busy Looting. cottonwood ngnlnst the clear blue of caused something o f a local sensation. is said by the Paris Herald to have Mrs. Burke, who pleaded self-defense. Amsterdam -According to a Petro- the sky. Then, apparently not liking Not only Is the Jail empty, the doors died o f the wound received last week grad dispatch to German newspapers the look o f a couple of British fighters o f all Its cells swinging wide open, but in the attack made by the Foreign L e Price-Fixing is Sought. which was received by an indirect that rose to pursue It, It mnde off, there are very few defendants out on gion in the neighborhood o f Fliery. Washington, D. C.— D raft o f a bill route, the Bolsheviki have seized a without having been nnywhere near The house bill for a patent protec g iv in g the President broad powers to portion o f the funds o f the Roumanian the battery. The airplane sentry blew bond. 1 he fact Is the more remark - tion o f “ Garabed,” a mysterious in fix prices o f foods and other products treasury deposited in Moscow banks his whistle once more and the covers nble when It Is considered thnt not vention, said to be a source o f limitless essential to the conduct o f the war or and also have taken the Roumanian were stripped off the guns and the In only are prisoners for the city and superior courts held In the Dougherty energy, was passed Thursday by the fo r domestic consumption was laid be Crown Jewels at Kishinev. terrupted work went on ngnln. county Jnll. but those for the Albany According to the dispatch, Queen fore members o f the house agriculture senate. It now goes to President W il A Second Invitation. district o f the United States court. The son. A t the close of the last session committee Tuesday by President W il Marie o f Roumania has fled from But the sentry redoubled his vigi officers ngree that prohibition Is gory the President gave the bill a pocket son, with the request that it be pressed Kishinev to Jassy, the Roumanian lance. The battery had made Itself largely responsible for the empty Jail. capital. for passage. veto. Brief Resume Most Important Daily News Items. COMPILED FOR YOU German Attitude Toward Peace Brings Call for Allied Aims. U. S. ACTION PLEASES On Watch for Airplane Scout DAYTON HAS LEAGUE TO WATCH ALIENS Dayton, O. The American Protective league, to co-operate with Federal authorities In run ning down slacken and seditious aliens, has been organised here. Practically every factory, shop, buslneaa bouse and Induatrtal enterprise In Dayton la repre- artiled lu the leaguo'a member ship. The medium between the pub lic and government scent agents for the transmission of Informa tion relative to seditious remarks ami efforts to escape the draft la Dayton's postmaster, who la receiving written message* dally from cltlr.cn* furnishing clues. SENSITIVE ABOUT HER FEET Kansas City Woman Resents Rsfar- •nce to Her Pedal Istrem ltloa by Judge. Kansas f'lty. Mo Mr. and Mrs. Uharlea Miller, u bridal couple, quar reled within 4H hours after their mar riage. Their troubles caiue befora Judge Jo.- Kclrtnan o f the municipal court. Mrs. Miller explained that her hus band made u sarcastic remark about her feet, ns she slipped on the tee amt snow, on a downtown corner, and the quarrel ensued. The police hud to Interfere. The Judge admonished them und gave some sage advlee: "T ry to be more careful next time." he advised. As the couple started to leave the Judge remarked: “ Your feet look like they ought to hold you up.” " I hope you fall flat the first min ute you step outside the door,” re plied Mrs. Miller, as, with reddening cheeks, she hacked out of the court room. OLDEST MARINE IS GUIDE CLOSE VIGILANCE NECESSARY J. D. Stlckney who Jolned Ihe Unlte«t. States nnvy In lHC'.l ennie to n French, port wlth bis sqimilron In the Frnnco- Germnn wur of 1870. Mr. Stlekney bas In bis ofllelnl ca- pnclty ns gulde ut the Louvre, Paris, tulked to all the erowned heads o f Ku- rope wlth the exceptlou o f the kalser, Ile In now attached to the American soldlers In Paris und unofllclally acta hm Interpreter. SAYS FRYING PAN MUST G0 Domestic Science Expert Ssys Thla Method of Cooking Food la Wastsful. Eugene, Ore.— "The frying pan must go,” said Miss Lllllnn Tingle, head o f the household arts department o f the University o f Oregon, before her clnss on the conservation o f food. "It Is a utensil of the pioneer, who hnd plenty of food to prepare In tha quickest nnd simplest way. The peo ple o f this country always have been wasteful, and unless we reduce ma terially our consumption o f meat w# shall fnce a meat famine. "French people cook In n casserole, thus saving every bit of tho nourish ment o f the meat. W e could well learn from them In this matter.” PUPILS TO WRITE SOLDIERS Children of Oregon to Do Their Bit to Brlgh«»n Life at Front and In Camps. Salem, Ore.— Schoolchildren o f Ore gon are going to do their hit to aid the soldier* o f Uncle flam at the front or In training enmps. As part o f the reg ular English work In the schools pupils will be required to write neway letters o f loenl happenings, nnd those contain ing real news interest will be forward ed to the soldlers. Scrap books and magazines will be sent to hospital* for the entertainment of convalescing aoF dterm.