DAILY EDITION
VU VIII., No. 7T.
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ARE SAID TO
BE OFF AGAIN
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IX) UIAIIIMAX
GERMAN PLOTS AGAINST SLAVS
rioUhrvlkl anil Rumania l llrNklii
Point nnil Alllr Jimnl Kliiu
KrnlliuHiil
Loudon, Jan. II. The Uolihavlkl
met defeat lu the Aral teat of
Strength, whim the lung awaited
opening of the couslllueut'a assemb
ly took place. M. Tehernoff, noml
dm of lha moderate aoi'lal revolu
tionists and minister of agriculture
In tha Kerentky cabinet, woo the
championship. One reimrt aaya tha
Holshevlkl meuiberi and the left
wing of social revolutionists with
draw from tha astern lily.
London, Jan. If. With negotla-
tinni at Hreat-Utovak again report
ad aa broken off temporarily, tha
Ruealan constituent assembly , baa
opened a session la Petroirad, which
la controlled by tha Holshevlkl, who
demand the approval of Bolnhevlkl
peace terma and land lawa made by
temporary Chairman Bverdloff, rep
resenting tha congress of workmen
and aoldlera. Tha delegates demon
atratlon agalnat tha Bolshevlkl ef
fort a to control tha assembly waa
not no lam aa expected, although
lire parsons were killed and a doxen
wounded by Red tl'iards firing on a
group of paradere.
The German-Austrian emissaries
are aald to be trying to force Rue
ala to oreak off peace negotiation
finally, on aome minor point, an aa
to rant tha blame on them.
, BoUhevlkl and Rumania are at
tha breaking point. King Ferdinand
la reported ai tinder the protertlon
of tha entente allte.
.M'PK.KVIHOII OK THAKKK'
APPOINTOR HV McAIKM)
Kansas City, Jan. If. Jamet P.
.llolden, vie prealdent of tha Kansas
City Southern railway, wat today ap
pointed auparvlaor of traffic for fed-
oral shipping board by Director Me
Adoo. Parla, Jan. After violent
ncenee In the chamber of deputies to
day, confidence wat voted In the
government by a large majority. The
debate wat heated and retulted In a
temporary suspension of the alttlng.
(After the eeeelon Deputy Contl
challenged two other deputlet.
FUEL SHORTAGE IS
IMPROVING IN EAST
Washington, Jan. 1 J. There la a
.steadily IncreValng flow of coal to
-ahlpe, hornet and public utilities. It
the report to the fuel admlnlatratlon
t reault of the aecond day't en
forcement of the order. '
Railroad congestion It not much
affected yet, but 'milder weather hat
Improved conditions In the eatt. Bad
weather la paralyxlng traffic again
In the middle west. At the request
of Garfield, Chairman Hurley, of
the ahlpplng board agreed to pool
barge and lighter facilities at New
'York, the heritor to supply ships.
"TRANSPORTATION IS HKING
j . CIKAKKI) OK (XWtJKHTION
- Washington, Jan. 19. Transpor
tation congestion throughout the
ast la being cleared. Conl Is being
unloaded In Increasingly large quan
tities. Dr. Garfield hat granted tlic
request of tlteutres rtiat they be
Vermlttetl to close Tuesdays Instead
f Mondays.
TO
BE
Tlio NihiI U I rgpnl Hie (intern-
wiit Would Nut Hate AIih fur
Mure Men
lomUiin, Jan. !. Addressing the
final conference of tha representa
tives of tha trailea unliini affected
by tha man power bill, which paaied
tha house' of commona last night,
Premier David Uoyd (leorge today
Hate the governments reaaoni for
the necessity of raining more men
for tha army and also referred at
longth to hl own and the recent
Neerh of President Wllaon regard
ing the war alma of tha antanta al
Una and tha Pulled Btatea.
After thanking the representstlves
for tha iplrlt In which they had mat
tha government, the premier aald
thera waa no alternative for ralalng
men except either by ratting tha
military age, or of tending wounded
men back and back again to the
fighting llnea.
At to the urgency of raiting more
men, Uoyd (leorge tald that ha and
hia colleaguea, who are on tha watch
lower, could not deny It and that
unleee tha need had been urgent
they would not havo brought for
ward tha demand now,
SUP OF 'a HAS
LOAD OF DM1
Chicago, Jan. It. Carrying en
ought dynamite In two amall hand-
bagt to wreck the Union -nation,
alltt, dark-haired girl, was arretted
today 'at tbe 'itepped from a Penn
sylvania train from Youngttown.'O
When taken before the federal an
thoritlea the girl gave her name at
Unda Jonet, 16 yeara old. 8he told
of being given the Ss ttlckt of explo
it vet at 8teubenvllle, O., and of
carrying It aoroat three atatea In
passenger tralna to deliver It to an
uncle In Chicago. Delylng the aecret
service officers, the refuted to 'give
them the namea of either the tender
or, her uncle.
The girl wat held on a charge of
transporting the dynntrlt In viola
tion to the Interstate commerce law
Ofllcert tald today they had proof
that the wat the emlstary of I. W.
W. plotter!. Four other glrle. sua-
lncted of being involved In the plota,
are now en route to California.
MPERIAL HOUSEHOLD
Petiograd, Jan. It. Maxim Gor
ky's newapaper Novala Zhyan aseerta
that German delegatet In Petrograd
asked the representatives of the gov
ernment commissioner to permit
the former empress and some other
members of the late Imperial house
hold related to Emperor William to
travel to Germany. The request not
only was categorically refuted but
waa the Immediate cause of a deci
sion to try the former Imperial per-
aonagei. . .
AT
LUNCHEON WEDNESDAY
There will be no luncheon at the
Chamber of Commerce Monday.
luncheon will be 'served Wednes
day, January 23, a which time Pres
ident Kerr will give an address on
the value of the Oregon Agricultural
college to the state and nation,
ladles wishing to attend the
luncheon should notify Secretary E.
0. Harris. Phone 311-R or the
Chamber of Oonuuerca, No. l.'S,
ITAI.IAXH ltKPri.SK IU XS
AU1XO TIIK Pl.WK HIV.K.R
Rome, Jan. 19. An enemy attnek
along a wide front on the lower
Piave has been arrested.
POWER
INCREASED
WAR COUNCIL
LEGISLATION
IS PREPARED
HOARD OK THItKK MfcX TO UK
A Mi POWrllHI, I'MlKIt TIIK
PHKMIItKNT
CHAMBERLAIN PUSHING MATTER
Member Hliall lie Appointed by the
President and (tmflrmrd by the
Senate
Washington, Jan. 19. Radical
cbangea In the governments war-
making machinery are proposed In
bill to establish a war council of
three tnembert, all-powerful under
the preildent, and to create a direc
tor of war munitions, Approved yes
terday by tbe aenate military com
mittee.
Tbe bill for a director of muni
tions wat placed before the Senate
today and that for the war council
will be Introduced by Chairman
Chamlierlaln on Monday.
Both measures have virtually tbe
unanimous support of tbe commit
tee. Propotala to have the secre
taries of war and navy as ex-offlclo
members of the war council were
rejected by the committee.
Tbe bill proposes that tbe three
members of the war council shall be
apiiolnted by the president, with
consent of the senate, and be direct
ly under the .president and above
tbe eablnet In authority, with power
to "supervise, control and direct all
departments, bureaus and agenclea
of the government In the proaecu
tlon of the war.'!
It Is propsed that tbe council
members shall have no other dutlea
than to form and execute, with the
president's approval and cooperation,
broad war policies and decide prior
ities and disputes between the differ
ent departments and bureaus.
Tbe director of munitions, alto a
presidential appointee and conflrma-
ed by the senate, would have author
ity to control production, distribu
tion and the transportation of war
supplies under the policies of '.he
president and the war council.
PHK.8IIWCNT OPPOHKH A
DlltKtTOH OK MI XITIOXS
Washington, Jan. 19. It Is offi
cially stated that the president oppo
sition to the creation of a minister
or munitions with cabinet rank, ex
tends to the proposed creation of di
rector or munitions and the estab
lishment or a war council of three.
' liondon, Jan. 19. According to a
telegram received here, German
Chancellor von Hertllng has again
postponed the speech he waa to have
made In reply to the definition of
war alms by President Wilson and
Premier Lloyd George.
The report that the chancellor, for
a third time, had postponed his re
ply caused no great surprise here,
for while It was fairly certain that
the German militarists had ' won
over Kmperor William to their side
and annexation of occupied terri
tories was the policy to be pursued,
the advocates of a peace by nego
tiation, which Include' most of the
Autttro-Hunnnrlnn leaders, must be
conciliated.
The militarists have the support
of the unkera and the war proTlt
eers, but oft the other nlde are the
socialists and a large profort;ii of
the working classes and of the mod
erate middle class, of which the Ber
liner Tageblatt Is the spokesman,
iiiimof! i
Oil PIESIDEliT
COAL FAMINE
IN THE EAST
IS RELIEVED
(AltS lll-KJI. .M. NO TO MOTE
mokk khk.ki,y and varus
arb (tkarixu .
GARFIELD MAKES STATEMENT
Nliipa llrlng Uiadrd Homes Helng
Warmed uud Weather MixlerMlnK
la All Hectlone
Washington, Jan. II. Dr. Oar
field, fuel admlniatrator, Issued the
following formal statement late
Thursday afternoon: ...
"The most urgent thing to be done
Is to send to tbe American forces
abroad and to the alllea the-food
and war supplies which they vitally
need. War monitions, rood, msnu
rsrtnred articles of every descrip
tion, lie at oar Atlantic porta In tens
of thousands of tons, while literally
hundreds of ships wsltlng loaded
with war goods for our men and the
allies cannot take the aeaa because
bunkers are empty of coal. The
coal to aend them on their way Is
waiting behind a congested freight
that has Jammed all terminals.
"It la worse than useless to bend
our energies to more manufacturing
when .what, we have already manu
factured Ilea at tidewater congesting
terminal facilities. Jamming the
railroad yards and sidetracks for
Mut distance hack Into tbe ronntyy.
.Vo power on earth can move this
freight Into the war tone where It
la needed until we supply the ships
with fuel. '
"Once the docks are cleared or
valuable freight -for which oar men
are assoclatea In the war now wait
In vain, then again our energies and
power may be turned to manufact
ure more efficiently than ever so that
a steady and uninterrupted stream
of vital supplies may be sent by this
aatlnn to our allies' cry for help.
"It has been excess of production
In our war time speeding up. that
has done so much to cause conges
tion of our railroads, that has filled
the freight yards to overflowing.
that has flooded the docks of our
Atlantic porta with goods watting to
go abroad. At tidewater the flood
of freight was stopped. The ships
were unable to complete the journey
from our factories to the war depots
behind the firing line.
"Added to this has been a dlfflcul
ty of transporting coal for our do
mestic needs. On top of these dif
ficulties has come one or the. most
(Continued on page I.)
Bill SILENT
WILSON'S MESSAGE
and the financial interests represent
ed by Dr. Dernburg and the Frank
furter Zeltung, which have been em
phatic In their deduction of the
annexationists.
' The attitude or the Auatrlans may
be gathered from an article publish
ed In the Fremdenblatt of Vienna.
organ of Count Cternln, the Anstro-
Hunsarlan foreign minister, , which
sharply deals with rumors that
Prince von Buelow is engaged In In
trigues against Count von Hertllng
in order that he may become Gorman
chancellor again. The article de
nounces von Buelow as a "traitor
against Austro-Hungnry " saying
that he offered Italy Atmtro-Hnngar-
ian territory, and also xives- expres
sion to the dissatisfaction of the
Austrian government with the agi
tation of the German annexation
ists for the incorporation or great
Polluh districts In the Gorman i-m-plre,
which. It asserts, would be a
blow at Austrian Interests.
E
207 III CLASS I
Homo of Ri-Klitlrarila la Clime 1 May
lie Plm-rd lu Drfrnrd (1m by
IMntrtrt nrd
The local board . for ' Josephine
county has classified to date, 604
registrants. Of this number ':''7
are In Class 1; It In Class I; SO In
Class I, 208 In Class 4, and 44 la
Class 5. Borne or tbe registrant In
Class 1 may be placed in a deferred
class by the district board on Indus
trial or agricultural grounds.
Notices or final classification are
being sent to all those who have
been finally claasified In Clasi 1.
These cards should be carried by all
registrants, and shall be produced
upon the demand of any officer of
the law. '
Examination of registrants In the
first claaa will begin on January 24,
1118; notices to appear for examina
tion are now being mailed. Regis
trants are notified five daya prior to
date of examination of the hour and
place at which they 'should report
The office of the provost marshal
general has directed the appeal agent
of every local board to appeal all
case of registrant who have mar
ried tine May It. 1117, to the dis
trict board. This ruling Is given In
order to Insure uniformity of classi
fication, as some local board are
placing these registrants In Class 1,
and others are placing them In Class
4.
SIM W lull
CE RELEASED
, Washington,' Jan. 19. Director
McAdoo was summoned before the
senate interstate commerce commit
tee today, to exfflaln the operation
or the government administration or
railroads. He said that certain so
called short line railroads would be
released from government operation
aa soon as an investigation deter
mined which are unnecessary. He
did not propose to keep control of
any unnecessary lines, nor have the
government compensate those not
taken over. ' If some lnteersts nec
essarily get hurt by It, .they will
have to stand it.
CONDITIONS IN EASli ,
ARE GETTING BETTER
Springfield, 111., Jan. 19. Coal
mines of Central Illinois vegan to
feel thn effect or Dr. Garfield's In
dustrial closing order with the first
shriek of the whistle this morning.
Coal cars, released by the strict ob
servance of the order in thia section
were started in a steady stream to
all the mines. Up to noon, It was
estimated the coal production in the
diatrict had Increased 15,000 tons
over yesterday. The normal output
is 60,000 tons. Thia mark Is easily
expected to be overlapped by tomor
row. As soon as the coal was load
ed, engines were , ready to. haul it
away.
COMPELLED TO LOAF
..New York, Jan. 19. This great
center or industry slowed down to
day In compliance with the fuel ad
ministration order while railroads
vigorously attacked the problem of
bunkering the 100 or more ships
awaiting to take cargoes of freight
away from congested terminals.
Possibly forty thousand establish
ments here and In adjoining cities
compiled with the order. Estlinntes
of the number of employes Idle run
over two millions.
J EPHIII
HAS
HE DEMANDS
TO 60 BEFORE
A COMMISSION
Hill UTOTIIK BKIIVK K TUB
CXU XTRV WILL TIE IIVIIED
I.VTO THItKK MHTIIKTH
Railroad Wae DUptitrs Will I to Re
ferred to This OrganbuUloa for
Washington, Jan. 19. Director-
General MeAdoo announced tonight
appointment of a railroad wage com
mission or fonr pablle men to an
alyse and recommend action on all
wage and labor questions pending be
fore the government railroad admln
latratlon. Including the railway bro
therhoods' demands.
At the same time the director-gen
eral put Into effect a new system of
government railroad administration,
by dividing the country Into thro
operating region East, south and
weat and placed a railroad execu
tive at the head of eaeh aa hi repre
sentative. It waa planned originally to pas
only on the four brotherhoods' wage
demands, but to many other labor
uesttons have heen aobmltted to
the director-general since then, that
he determined to refer them all to
the board.
Tt will hear all labor complaint ot
petitions, make careful Investiga
tion, and . recommend a course of
action to Mr. afcAdoo. .
The commission's inquiry will
deal with general conditions affect
ing the railway employes, regardless
of whether any apeciric request or
complaint has been made to the director-general
or to railroad man
agement before tbe government as
sumed control.
The eastern division consists of
territory north of tbe Ohio and Po
tomac rivers; also those, railroad la
Illinois extending into that state
from point east of the Indlana-nil-nois
state line: also the Chesapeake
Ohio, the Norfolk ft Western and
the Virginia railways.
The southern diatrict la defined ta
Including all railroads In that por
tion of the United States south of
the Ohio and Potomac rivers and
east of the Mississippi, except the
Chesapeake ft Ohio, Norfolk ft West
ern 'and tbe Virginia railway, and
also those railroads In Illinois and ..
Indiana extending Into those state
from points south or the Ohio river. .
The western district ia composed
or the balance of the country, includ
ing all west of the Mississippi, and
also Illinois and Michigan peninsula.
2KB EMBED TO
CATCH YAM COYS
Amsterdam, Jan. 19. The recent.
extension by Germany of the barred
tone to the waters around the As
ores and Cape Verde islands, la pre
sumed by the Lokal Anzelger of Ber
lin in a recent issue to be due to the
possibility that they might aerve as
assembling points for American
troops transports and supply ships,
while good harbors and UBeful cable
stations on a part or the ; Atrtcan
mainland were also Included In the
lone lor the same reason.
The newspaper expressed tbe ex-.
pectatlon that from the new exten
sion or the tone will come a weaken
ing of e'ffort oC Germany's enemies
because or the necessity or spread
ing the antl-U-boat defense measures -over
a much larger area. ,
Washington, Jan. 19. The su
preme court has been asked by the
Associated Press to exyeAMe the
suit brought by them, torfem the
Internationa News. Service, or Hearst
Service, from jilwtlng news. ,
M'ASOO ANNOUNCES DISTRICTS