DAILY EDITION
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GRAVTa PAJM, JOHKI'HINK (WIUTT, OKtXiON, Kill DAY, im LMIIKH 7. 1017
whoi.k cmiikr ear.
IS
HALIFAX LOSS
GROWS LARGER
. EACH REPORT
VANADlW MTV hckmc tw om;
Of Wolil.DN UOKMT lll(il
ih;h
BLAST Ai FIRE LEAVE RUIK
i
.AM , ltulwl Iri.m NilulilH.rlnu
tllle. KikmI Aileijimie. ItcHil mill
Injured Will NiihiImt 4,mm
Halifax. Ir. 7. l'p to noon today
there hu beiin im ill mini" In I In'
ii)ll.o l in rt nifii ( ' entlinatc of
3.000 dead mid about (lit en im- num
ber Injured. Alo! (f the liijuilr
have been from ciitii due In fllng
Uw.
The firm are mill burning, hut I
driving snow storm him set In. which
In helping tha fire fighter In sub
duing (ho flu ni kii In Hi" ruin I I
the storm In hindering I he searcher
for the m el and wounded.
Kvery building In Hih rlly wn
damaged tu a more or Irs extent.
Broken glass Mini fallen plastering
am (tm damage suffered by the
house more remote from the har
bor. IhHin ara htteri'd In hun
dred iif building. HuslncK will
ham lo be suspended for several
day.
It ha bean definitely learned tliul
tha Belgian relief ahlp lino rollidrd
with I tin Krenrh miinlilon Mrnni't
Mnnlrblnnc,
Tli exuit number of dt'itd mu'
never bo known. Knllre fnmlll'H
aim mlsainx, and It hiv oa beyond
the power of officials lo know wheth
er anv of Ihe liidlvliliniN f 'hese
have escaped froai III" cl. . li'.t I
return or art al I In bollmii of thu
harbor or have been burned to
aha.
There I no fenr of food short sue
tuc to thi' tlmi'ly arrival of help.
Several hundred children ve...
killed at tha Itlrhmoiid school and
oori'a were Injured nt the American
ngnr refinery. Schools, military
gymnasium, arena rluka, homes, hos
pltala and churches are filled with
the Injured.
Tho telegraph operator .iys tint
ha saw tha bodlc of several 1'nlted
State navy sudor among the dead.
The pnssenuer and crew of tbr Am
erican llnar Nlauw Aninti-dntn are
safe.
Halifax. leo. 7. - The horror of
an air rnld possessed the mlndn of
many when tha explosion on the
Mnntlilnnn shook thla fortre town
to Its vary foiindntiona today,
Thora were three dlKtlnrt shock.
First a comparatively light rmnble
Ilka n aelRtnlo dlHtnrbiinie, atnrtled
tha city. A nioinant later n terrific
hlast nuide even tha citadel fliiaka.
Than a crah of kIum throiiKhout a
wld area, completed the confiixloii.
ThouaiindH of peraona riiHlilnn Into
tha open aaw n thick liind of itccy
iimoka hnnKliiK over the north end of
the city. Thla atrennthened their
conviction of n attnok from the nlr.
(Continued on page .)
Kau KranclKco, Dec. 7. The aup
lireMHlon or agitator, antl-Amorlcun
and pro-dermnn act, I being dln
cunHed at a cotiferoiK'u between rep
reHentatlveH of employer, bm-liu!'
men of California. Urvgon, U'lM
ington, Idaho nnd Mnnliinii; tiiul an
agent of the council of niili:ti:i! do
feiiso.
J. ('. Iteynold, ninnuM'!' of the Ir.t
lend Km.ilrc Kint'loyer um-Iiii'o:i
of So.)lL.t:ie. and I'hH S. Ilale, n.ib-UhIiii-
of the rm'lflc Noilhwwt .!
Pnrt'limd, are umoug thon irc.et.
An executive coiiiin'.llec of nine
bo chosen to net with the c.mnrll of
national defen.-e.
TCRRrEFFOHT
SKI
llttll-i)'l IMIIIIK Milking Hl'He f
MiulU tgnliist YaJImil Itiillmi
. I.lnew Willi Hlltthl (iain i
ItiilllM, line. 7.- -Violent flitlillliK
rout In mo oa the Italian front. The
Indiana are retiring gradually t pre
pured poult lull.
Tha AiiHiru-tieriiiiiiia are making
f run III' atletni'ta tu break thruiinh
ami deboiii h upon Ida plain of Vi ni
tln. In the .Vitiligo plateau battlri
of nt moat unprecedented violence are
taking place, h Teutonic alllea lin
ing a great array of gun and men
In their efforta to overcome tha Ital
ian renlatanca. On the Meletta Hec
tor tha Tautuna loada noma advance,
but only throuuh the ancrlMce of
large number of nieny the Itatlnna
reHlHtlng determinedly.
An enemy attempt to carry tha
lliilliin Una of defenae In tha iitr
flrenla valley met with rep ulna .
hnuvy rafiualtlea.
Ilerlln, lec. 7. Four thnumnt
more Italluua have lieen tMkan irli
oner making IS. onn within the l.it
few day. Monte Rlnemol ha been
raptured hy (form.
AMK.Itlf AV HM IAI.IHT
ST AICIT l'KAI: MOVK
Wellington, )ee. 7.- Kaiieenta
llv London, of New York, hiicIiiIIkI.
lodny Introduced a Joint reaolutlon
"to Initial the organlmtiiin of an
Inlernatlotial lenuue to arciire a dur
able ieare."
AI'I'KAIj TO niKMIOKST
l MTItKrrr t'Alt HTKIKK
WaKhlnglon, I tee. U wua an
notincad today at tha department of
labor that 1ioth aldaa lo the flnfle
apnll street cur atrlke had luld their
cae before 1'iexldent WIIon.
KERENSKY IS SAFE
A
Stockholm, Ifc'c. ". The llelalng
for HiivudHtiiiWIiludet report that
former 1'remler Kereiuky la In a
place- of complete wifety. The new
paper ny he I engaiteil In prepara
tion for the conxtltuenl aeitihly
and already hit been placed on thn
lift of candidate nt many place
throiiKhout tha empire.
BRITISH RETIRE 10
The (icrinun wedne driven Into
tha aullent befoie ('nmbrHl ha com
pelled thn ftrltlh to evacuate the
expoxod point. They Knvu up to the
Uermnna several village west of
Cnmhriil and llourlou wood.
The KrltlHh line In thu ahortoned
n nil mndo more ciimtblo of defense.'
Ilerlln clnlm to huve occupied Mur
enng, four mile went of Camhral.
kasthii x oiti:;o i a h
lMWI(l ll ltl(l'M;HT
Pendleton, l'c. 7. The lateneisH
of fall rnlna iind the grcwlng sliorl-
ngt of men, which will he worse with
the aecond draft, I forcing ninny big
fnrmors to put on night shift.
E
.lnssy, Koiiiniiiilii, Dor. 7. It Im
been decided thnt Hoiiiiinnlan troops
Hhnlf flHMoclnte thmnaelve with the
ItiiHslatiH in the pmpuHcil urmistlcc,
though the Koumnii'iinn have rejeck
etl every atteinpl ut friiternlzctlon
made by the (lerinnn.-i. Hostilities
were suspended today aloas ll:i
whole front.
ALIANS
NATION NOW WANT KHAKI
AT WAR WITH TESTAMENTS
HUN'S ALLY FOR SOLDIERS
I'llUilHIvYr HI(KI WAIt lll-M
1,1 HON AfJtlVhT .11 HI Id .
lit NtJtllV I.ATK TOlt.W
QUICK ACTION BY BOTH HOUSES
ljuli Houm I'aJMeil Mffoaral IImmh;
lullou Which Were lleuxirlM In-
to One. No 0Mmliion ' , ,
Waliliii(1iin, iHx. 7. -(Ite Uia
ial4'b) The Mrlleiit ha algiMI
llm reMdutlun ilm-lMring tliut a alHle
of Mar eilht lMtMeen the l iiltc-d
Htuten nail AiiHtrln-llungni'y,
WliliiBtoa, IH'C. 7. Willi le
than an hour debate, the senate
paed iittanimouMly the resolution
declaring that a Mate of war x(hU
with Austria-Hungary. Senator I
Kollelta left tha senato chamber and
fallvd lo totn. Henatoi tirouua,
Vaidiunun and Norri supported the
raaolutlon.
The limine I debating It resolu
tion. It I expected that only Ixin
don, the socialist will vote aguiust
It. Then a soon a the two reso
lution bave been revom-lled In con
ference;, final action will be quickly
taken,
lteireseitative Miller of Minneso
ta, a foreign affair committee mem
ber, made a brief araumunt for In
cluding Tnrkav and Hnlearia' In the
declaration. Tho attitude of the
house wa evidenced hy. enthusluHtlc
cheering of Itepreseiilatlve Flood'
reply that declaration against them
would follow n oon n the president
believe It expedient.
The senate coimnittee' resolution
make war effective when the presi
dent approve l he resolution. Instead
of, a provided in the house docu
ment, dating tha stnte of war from
noon Wednesday, flper-lfle cause for
war assigned In the bonne draft ulso
are omitted In the senate commit
tee' draft, which I virtually Identi
cal with the declaration analnst Or-niiiny.
HIS CAMOUFLAGE
Wi rlM '
mm )H$rfp m
ai." v, rrr-"''T it trrt - . w wa -r t t j b rfK.tm
S n iOV-W IOK I'.VMI'UO.V Xll
H Xl TO HI TI'LY AMKHICA.V
TIMMHH 8TAKTM
SUGGESTED BY MEN IK RANKS
uola of City Manall and fan taally
I In IUImhI. ftuvermir U'ltbjrcomli
1'rgea PrumH Kanvona
, One of the nation-wide movement
toward whlcb thla city, In common
with every city of the atMe and na
tion, ha been asked to contribute Ita
little in I lo, la that under the auaylces
of the American Bible aoclety for the
veitdlog of Khaki teatauienia lo each
American aoldler aent to France. It
may iceui atrange to many, that
tliese aoldler. who are taken from
their home and aeut among at rang
er ahould Indicate, in their letter
home, thai there It a real demand
tor the testament, but acores of inch
letter have been received In . thi
country.
To meet thla demand, a fund or
I loo.OOO la being rained. The quota
of thi county la $100.
(iov. Wlthycombe In a letter to the
chairman ot this fund sld: "Any
movement calculated to furnish our
soldier with added comfort and in
spiration ahould bave tha hearty
atipport of every patriotic American
and I am grateful for an opportun
ity to expreaa my unqualified en
dorsement 'of (he campaign you tire
conducting for tha 'Bible for the
soldier fund.' The Wide to be
spread among tha soldiers in France
through tha generosity of the citi
zen or Oregon a well as other
stale, will not only Insure good
morale but will tend to make better
aoldler In every way.'
Portland. Dec. 7. The American
j lllble aoclety "Bibles for Soldiers"
I drive, for II o. (too In Oregon t.iKe
place December 9 1 ti to 17th. by au
thorization of President Wilson, the
Oregon slate council of defense and
flovernor Wlthycombe.
I Ht6 BALTIMO! AMINICAN.
COIIVICT NEARLY
JAKES
GET-AWAY
California ' let Tries Ui Ymct
Vnttu Kle.'plng Car In Thi Mly.
lt4Marforr1 After Cliuse
John llcnlon, who escaped from
J. (I at Mod ester; Cal, escaped from
the Shasta Limited last night when
It atopped in the city and gave the
local police and county officials a
merry chase before he wa captured
nd placed behind the bars of the
oounty bastlle. Henlon wai being
held for burglary and escaped a
month ago In company with the mur
derer of a bank official. Ha was cap
tured recently at Portland and was
being taken back to Modesto1 by
Sheriff Davis, when be reached ,bere
he climbed from tbe upper berth,
taking a blanket, left In his night
clothing with a leg Iron around one
ankle. After breaking the chain or
the leg Iron he went to the home of
Joe Varnar, telling that he bad been
robbed of his clothing by hobo, se
cured a pair of trousers and went
on hi way. Chief of Police Mcl-ane
received a telegram from Sheriff
Davis stating that ths prisoner had
escaped and at once started in pur
suit. He located the man near the
western limits of the city, who, upon
seeing the officer ran, not heeding
the shota which- were fired. Later
the county official ware notified and
joined In the chase. In company with
a hastily organized posse and soon
had the man surrounded near the
Rogue River grange hall. After giv
ing a splendid exhibition of run
ning be finally hid In the brush and
was soon captured.
In jail Henlon declared that he
wished he had been ahot, a he had
made a failure of life and disgrac
ed his people. The shots W hich were
fired with the view of stopping him
sefoed 1j have -nit effect trpov hint
although they were striking very
close.
BOND PAYMENTS ARE
C
Washington. Doc. 7. On Novem
ber l.", which was the date on which
the first Installment on Liberty loan
bonds waB due, approximately $!,
400,000.000 was paid in. although
less than a third of that amount wa;
due.
In other word, nearly two-thirds
of the aggregate subscriptions to the
Second liberty loan have been paid
in full, the purchasers not availing
themselves of the right to wait un
til December 15 and January IS to
make the other payments.
MEN ARE WOUNDED
Washington, Dec. 7. American
army airmen who are fighting the
German planes on the west front,
suffered their first casualty recently
when two men, a corporal and priv
ate, were reported to have been
wounded.
WOl LD MAKK CAPITAL
.AHSOLITKLV HONK IHIY
Washington. Dec. 7. Representa
tive Randall, of California, today in
troduced a bill to make the national
capital "bone dry."
IS
Nognles, Dec. . Yaqul Indians
have attacked Ksperanza. "n miles
south of Guaymaa, tfonora, according
to a mesxugp rocoived here.
The storehouse and office 'of the
Richardson Construction company,
an American firm, were burned.
Nothing ha been heard of the . 30
Americans living In that vicinity.
REPORT TELLS
OF FIGHT ON
III
ATTOKXKY CiKIUL'H AXMAL,
KKI-OKT HKALS WITH I'UOB
.VM OP HOMK KXKMIKS
HEW LEGISLATION IS HELPFUL
Price Control and Prevention of l'a
due Pnsfltecrisuj Among Bard
Problems to Handle
Washington, Iec. 7. Only tha
cold figures showing the results of
tbe work of the department of Jus-
tlce In eoplng with German plotters '
In thla country are given In Attorney
General Gregory's annual report sub
mitted today to congress. None of
the details of tbe operations of th
secret service of that department,
touching almost every condition
from tbe romantic to the sordid are
disclosed. Most of those must ne
cessarily remain untold until the end
of the war, when a set of volume
rivaling the most exciting tales of
fiction might be written from them.
Tbe attorney general's report mere
ly tell the story of. results in the fig
ures of prison sentences which the
agent of German Intrigue now ara
serving In federal prisons.
'in dealing wRh the enemies with
in, the department has found that
the espionage law, the trading with
the enemy act, and tbe prosecution
of seditious conspiracy have been
fruitful of results. '
"The government's hands have
b1)uu''muterlany'strengtliene4 that
It now baa power to deal with dis
turbing malcontents," says the at
torney general's report.
Attorney General Gregory renew
his recommendations that the com
modities clause or the interstate
commerce law be amended to meet
supreme court decisions, to divorce
transportation from production.
While the legislation Mr. Gregory
recommends Is Intended particular
ly to cover the coal roads, it would
also prohibit to the last degree a
railway from manufacturing or own
ing anything it transports in Inter
state commerce.
In the enforcement of the anti
trust laws the attorney general says
the department has been confronted
by peculiar conditions brought about
by the war. There are two troad
limitations on the power of the de
partment. Increases of price, brought about
now by agreement, conspiracy or
monoply, but by the common selfish
lmpluse of traders to take advant
age of the extraordinary condition
of the times, are not punishable un
der the anti-trust laws, the report
says, no matter how completely lack
ing they may be of economic JuBti
flcation or how extortionate.
Sales of commodities by retailers
to consumers generally fall outside
of interstate commerce and there
fore are not without the purview of
the federal laws.
Within such limitations. Attorney
(Continued on page 4.)
ARE KILLED
IN
Santiago. Chile, Dec. 7. Accord
ing to a dispatch from La Paz, Bo
livia, serious disorders broke out af
ter a sitting of the chamber of depu
ties, at which former President
Montes undertook to refute certain
charges made against him by the re
publicans. The, chief of staff was wounded
one officer,! two soldiers and four
civilians were killed nnd 17 others
were wounded. , Order was soon re
stored and the dispatch adds that
the trouble was not of a revolution
ary character.