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ILEAK PROBERS SUPREMECOURT "ngle sams $15,000.000 battleshsp offtosea;RhMANR 5, ;
NEW ARMY FOR
HIGHWAY BONDS UNABLETOAGREE MAKES POSSIBLE I All , s j ON OFFENSIVE j
PASSES HOOSE OPON COUNSEL REALPROHIBIIIONi ; : 'flf , ALONG SERETH
Measure Calling for Issuance of Se
curities to Enable Oregon to Take
Advantage of Federal Good Roads
Measure Through Lower House
Will Enable Construction Highway.
SALEM, Jan. 18. The Itean bill,
providing the issuance of statu high
way bonds to enable Oregon to take
' advantage of the co-operation of the
federal government in highway con
struction, pussed the house today by
a voto of 21 to9, without amend
ment. "Will 0. Steel, Crater luke park
commissioner, and Engineer Allen of
t tic federal bureau of highways, who
are here in the interests of the Crater
lake highway, express themselves as
satisfied that the provisions of the
bill will enable state co-operation in
building of the highway. The bill is
as follows:
The. Itcan Bill.
"Whereas, under the apportion
meiit of the federal fund provided
under said act marie by the secretary
of agriculture, there is and will be
available during the next live vear
for the state of Oregon the sum of
"S -r'l,180,:10..r" (seo senate document
No. 518, sixty-fourth congress, first
M-ssion), for the construction of
rural post roads, under the provision
of section 6 of the above set out act :
and there will also be available dur
ing said period of time the sum of
$1338,9 70 for the construction or
maintenance of rouds and trails
within, or partly within, the national
forests in this state, under the pro
visions of section 8 of suid act.
"Now, therefore :
"He it enacted by the people of the
state of Oregon :
ilVovislons Accepted,
. "Section 1. That the stale of Or
egon hereby accepts the provisions
of said act and agrees to co-operate
with the federal government in car
rying out the provisions thereof.
"Section 2. The slate board of
control of the state of Oregon is
hereby authorized, empowered and
directed each year during the next
five years to sell the bonds of the
state of Oregon ill an amount suffi
cient to raise enough money which,
taken together with any money avail
able from appropriations from other
funds of the state of Oregon, if any
there be, to equal the amount requir
ed of the stale of Oregon in order to
fully meet the requirements, condi
tions and provisions of said federal
statute, and the federal officials op
crating under said statute.
Hoard to Make Contracts.
"Section 3. The state board, com
missioners or officers having control
of the state highways in the state of
Oregon, arc hereby authorized, em
powered and directed to enter into
such contracts, appoint such officers
and do any other act or thing neces
sary to fully meet the requirements of
the United States and the officers
acting under said federal statute.
"Section 4. The attorney general
shall, under the direction of the state
vjboard of control, prepare a form of
bonds of the state to be sold as above
required, which bonds shall be pay
able absolutely twenty years from
the date thereof, and shall bear in
terest at the rate of 4 per cent per
annum, payable semi-annually at the
office of the state treasury of the
slate of Oregon, and if said board
shall so direct, said bonds may also
provide for payment at some other
place. Said bonds shall be payable in
gold coin of the I'nitid States of
America, of the present value of
weight and fineness at the date of
issue thereof, and shall be in a form
(Continued on Pase Five.)
CAI.EXICO, Cal., Jan. 19. Heavy
cold rain interrupted today the srout
ine of airplanes over Iower Califor
nia and Sonora In their search for
the two army aviators, Lieutenant j
f'olonel Harry G. Bishop and Lieu
tenant W. A. Robertson, missing
eight day ago. It was impossible
to see for any distance,
Administration Leaders Favor Sam
uel Untcrmyer Others Favor Gar
risonDemocrats Charged With
Caucusing Without Consulting Re
publicans on Committee.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 18. The
conference of (he rules committee de
clared today to select counsel for the
leak investigation developed that
strong ndminist ration forces were at
wyrk to have Samuel I'uterniver
chosen. Two democrats were report
ed to have urged his selection.
Postmaster General I'.urleson and
Solicitor General Davis conferred
with the committee and the members
declined to discuss a report that Mr.
Iturlcnon had come io I'ntermyer's
interest.
Opposition to rntermycr as coun
sel has arisen both in the committee
and on the floor of the house, yes
terday during the debute those who
opposed him pointed out that he re
cently took a trip to South America
with Secretary .McAdoo as a personal
guest.
The conference broke up without
deciding anything. v
lli publicans Indignant.
Kepresentative Campbell, ranking
republican of the committee, after a
conference with bis colleagues and
with licptihlican Leader Mann, issued
a statement assailing the democratic
members for seeking to agree upon
counsel without consulting republican
members, lie charged such methods
were partisan and would discredit
counsel to be employed in advance.
"To t lie astonishment of the repub
lican members of the committee,"
said lieprcsentutive Campbell, "the
democratic, members met behind clos
ed duors; it is said, for the purpose
of agreeing upon the counsel and ex
perts the house directed the commit
tee to employ. The minority mem
bers were surprised on arriving at the
bearing room to find a placard on the
door announcing that the hearings
had been indefinitely postponed. This
investigation must not be smothered
or strangled. It must he made and
every available source of evidence
must be exhausted."
Garrison Favored.
I.imllcv M. Garrison, former secre
tary of war, it became known, is be
ing urged upon the committee to act
as counsel in the inquiry by many
members of the house.
Thomas W. l.awson has left Wash
ington, but will return whenever de
sired. Doubt was expressed in some
quarters whether the hearings would
be resinned before next week.
Out-of-town witnesses, including
Frank A. Ynndcrlip, Pliny Fisk and
other New York financiers who ap
peared yesterday in response to sub
poenas, wcie permitted to return
home by order of the committee un
der direction to come to Washington
at once if summoned.
REFUSE 10 REDUCE
L
XKYV YORK, .In ii. IS. The su
preme court today refused to reduce
the hail, fixed recently at -fl.i.OOM, of
Oliver H rower, indicted with Marry
K. Thaw, on the charge of conspiracy
to kidnuu Frederick Gump, Jr., of
Kansas Citv.
Justice Cohalan ruled today that
this was "not an ordinary ca-e" and
that he was convinced that there had
been excellent reason for stipulating
high hail.
THAW OECIECIIVE
ALSO GOES CRAZY
PHILAOKLPHI A, Jan. 18. -The
condition of Harry K. Thaw, who 1
in a hospital here recovering from
razor woiiikU self-inflicted a week
aKo today, i1 reported as ;atisfar try
by his physician.
A private detective rn duty in the
house w!itH Thaw attempted to eoin--it
nub li, lic:ame hymeneal today
and het:it shooting around the room
v here Thaw was found, the police
sap. He claimed mium one hI.ohI
;o aunt him.' '
After Years of Lawmaking and Un
making, Tinkering and Agitation,
State for First Time Has Power to
Banish Demon Rum From Its Bor
ders, Barring Federal Control.
My t il AS. KDWAim IilSSKl.L.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 18. After
all Ihese years and years of law
making, law tinkeiing. revoliug, un
voting, agitation, appeals and ora
tory in so many states, it remained
for the supreme court to enact pro
hibition. You can look t that fact from six
different angles, and from each of
them it will appear or.e of the Invest
of these times.
Iues any state really want prohi
bition? Does it want, in fact and not
merely in allegory, to seize the Hum
Fiend by the neck and beat off his
hideous, horrible head Does it want
in reality, and not in words, to ban
ish from unions n this blight, curse,
stain, stigma, abomination and the
rest ?
Here's the Chance.
Does it want 'prohibition for the
rich as well as the poor, for the club
man and the worker, in residences
as al the tenement house corner !
Here's its chance.
I'p to this point any prohibition
state had a good, workable excuse for
suffering; Ihpior to exist within its
borders.- It might pass all known
kinds of prohibitory laws, nnnnihil
ate the grog shop and put an end to
manufacture or open sale. It could
not slop importation from other
states.
The supreme court of the United
Stales stood in the way.
II had planted across the road its
famous "original package" 'decision
and there was no getting around that.
Lienor shipped from one stale to
another, the court held, came under
the head of interstate commerce. The
control or regulation of interstate
commerce was strictly a federal func
iion. No state could interfere with it.
Can lie Truly Dry.
In any dry state, therefore, yon
could bring in liipior from a wet
slate until your head went around
and nobody could say you nay.
The court has now reversed thai
celebrated decision and held exactly
the other way.
A state may now interfere with in
tcistale commerce to the extent of
shutting out the bnoze, original pack
ape or no original package, ami fed
eral control has nothing to say
about it.
Therefore, you see, as before ob
served, a state with a prohibitory law
can be as dry as a bone. It can keep
out the smallest drop of alcohol if it
wishes.
This is a great and sweeping vic
tory for prohibition, and no wonder
the anti-saloon men rejoice. Heboid,
their ancient enemv is in the dust.
MACEDONIAN LEADER
DEAD FROM CANCER
AMSTKKDAM, .Ian. 18. Dr.
Vlndoff, a tonuei' chief of llic .Maci
donian movement, lia died in Sofia
of cancer, a dispatch from llic Uni
tarian caialal todav announce-.
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LONDON, .Inn. 1 S. (It neral M. A.
Hnliaf-tf lias lieen appointcil minister
of war in place of (lencral Chouv.i'
ieff, wlio hart lieen niaiie a meniiier
of tlic council of empire, acc-onling
to a Petrourad dispatch lo llnulei's.
Ceneral ite'iaeff was formerly h-;-sistnnl
ndi,lnr of war ami cliicf of
the general staff.
General M. A. Ileliaeff is ",4 year:
olil. ite v:s eiluruted in the, classi
cal schools of I'ctrograd and re-
ieejved his military inslructlon in the
j artillery scliool and the academy of
;the general staff, from w iiich he was
itfradnated wllh hii:ii honors. Duriiif;
1 tlin ItiisKo-.lapancso war (Jcio-ral
Ileliaeff was chief staff of the first
Munch'irian army and uctiiiK chief
of staff of tin' commander ill chief.
For his service?; in the war he re
ceived a number of special distinc
tions In addition lo tlic, regular mili
tary decorations.
j Hem-nil Ileliaeff Is the fourth min
iistcr of war Kusr'ia iias had since the
loiltbreal; of llic war.
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j WASHINGTON, Jan. IS. Great
Britain's supplementary note ampll
' f. viui; the entente reply to President
I Wilson's peace note has i;ivcn much
encouraccment to American officials,
; who are lookinK forward to some sort
of leimue of nations to preserve
peace. ,
j AllhoUKh the principal portions 111
! rorolKn Minister llallour's note, de
livered lo the stale department yes
terday ore designed to justify the
! severity of the terms set forth by tile
'entente In their reply to Hie note of
President Wilson, the formal accep
1 tame in principle of some sort of
national namtion as a force behind
treaties and International law Ih re
garded as of ureal Importance.
II has been slated officially that
j President Wilson's next step has not
been determined upon. Many olflc
: ials believe the terms of the British
'note may afford llic opportunity for
! move toward the establishment of
some such national sanction, even If
il lie wi'.h llic view of haviim it come
'into force alter Hie close of the war.
EXPLOSION
lil I ( t Kiicj
W I'l l I, OIL' illlltlllJie-.
Tile licit w.'i- -o II 1 1 -li - the phi, I
Mcckcnsen's Aggressive Apparently
Halted British Near Loos Driven
Back After an Advance in Connec
tion With Mine Explosion Raiding
Operations in Galicla.
The ltuflKlans apparently still are
on the offensive aloiiK the liumiinian
front. Berlin. In Its official report
today, records no iikki'ohsIvp activi
ties by the Teutonic forces, except
for a rnldlus; operation on the .Molda
vian frontier, while meutionliiK the
repulse of a strong attack by the Rus
sians in the OlUr valley replon.
On Hie Kruuco-llclKlnn front, the
driving hack of the British near l.oos
after an advance hi connection with
a mine explosion Is reported hy tho
Gorman staff. The recent British at
tack near Serre was made upon an
advance position, which had been
evacuated by tlie Gernuins, it Is de
clared. Teutons llcotllsftl,
I'lOTItOGItAII. Jan. IS. The ro
pulse of Teutonic attacks alons the
northern numanian front Is reported
in today's official announcement,
which follows:
"Kneniy attempts to take the of
fensive against the heights south of
the Klvor Oituz. were arrested by our
fire. The Rumanians repulsed a
German attack south of Monestu
Kuchinul, on the Klvor Kusino.
"Southwest of Priileii, the Itumiin
inns surrounded a heluht occupied by
the enemy and took a great number
of prisoners and four inachlno guns.
"On the remainder of the front ns
far as the Danube Juiid along that
river, there lias been an exchange of
fire."
Raiding Opciiitions
BKItl.I.V, Jan. IS. Raiding opera
lions and artillery activity along tin
front in Russia and Galfrla are re
ported in today's army hcaduuartori
statement on the situation In this
war area, which also says:
"North of Krashln, Russian raid
ing detachments of tenfuld numcr!
cal superiority entered an advanced
post. The outpost Is again lu our
posesslon.
Ill" It I. IN, Jan. IS. Illy wirclcs
to Sayvlllei An attack made by tile
Russians yesterday on Hie northern
Rumanian fror.t s.uih of the Oit'.z
road bro'i do.' u u:iccr the Gel ni'i
fire, the war office announces.
On S'loiiiie I'roiil.
BHItl.lN. Jan. 1 S. Kvacualion of
German positions near Serre on the
Somnie front was announced by the
war office today. British attack
near l.oos was repiilsed after violcr.;
righting.
The statement r a,l;;'
"The explosion of a British n I no
near l.oos was followed by a n.-icf
engagement during v. hl"n the cneaiv
who had advanced, was speedily re
pulsed lu violent hand lo hand fight
Ing.
"After engagements near Serre,
portions of an advanced position held
by us were evacuated in an orderly
manner on the night of January 12
13 without molestation hy Hie
enemy. Since then each day a heavy
fire had been directed against the
abandoned trenches. Yesterday a
British attack upon Ihem which was
expected by us was launched into the
air. causing severe losses to Hi
enemy.
OKLAHOMA flTV. OIHa., Jan. IS.
Miss Nellie M. Dunn, a school
teacher, was shol Ihroiigh Hie head
wlillo in Hie main corridor of the
Wheeler school building here loday.
Shortly alter Miss Dunn was killed,
Rowland I). Williams, vinal teacher
and prominent In loial music circles,
was shot and killed by an unknown
man lu Ills slndio.
Poilce began winking ou the
theory thai the man who killed Miss
Dunn and Hie slayer of Williams was
Hie same person, and a search was
made for John ,M. i h, Miss Dunn's
brothcr-ln-law.
Plan tor Adequate Defense Without
Compulsion Outlined by Head of
Marine Corps Americanize Army
by Abolishing, Snobbery and Legal-.
Izeil Caste.
liy (1II.SOX (iAUDNKli. -YVAKI.11XOTOX,
Jan. .18. An urnifl
with less snohlicrv and legalized eusto
is the impose of n hill now be 111-3
drafted for Senator ( 'luimberlnin'n
snb-eominitteo on military affairs.
Plans for .such ait army were outlined
to the committee hy .Major W. C
Ilaiilee of the I'nited States mnrinci
corps. The eommittce was so much
intereMed in wlmt Major Harllee told
them of his experience and ideas
Uml they asked him to submit a hilt
embodying his plan.
As outlined to the committee, flij
llarllee plan is;
Harllee Plan Outlined.
''A neu army eneh year. It poriot
of training to he not over six months,
perhaps shorter, to accommodate tho
vacation period of colleges. Have iu
oath of enlistment. Pay its Iowe.sb
yrade respectable pay, but withhold
all except a nominal monthly sunt
until the end of the period. If any
one wants to (juit, let him tml, but;
without compensation, (hi tho other5
hand, if anyone is not desirnble, simp-i
ly discharge him and not resort to
jails, etc., to try lo reform him or
make him obedient. One month all
Inn-racks rendezvous for individual
instruction, the remainder of the tim0
afield. At the end fy'f the period nfw
ter mandiinjr hack to the-reudczvouN,
discharge everybody. Tie no siring
to the men. . ,
'I'lipiip this force with nothing but
working: elothes, a kuii, some nminmn
it ion, a bay for carrying ration?, Kiiit-
able cook in if utensils, a water bottltij
and a blanket.
Itcappolnt ticadcrH. i
"At the time o' discharge reap
point the leaders for the next your.
Rearrange the present grades so that'
the commander of ten men will bo nut
officer in us strict a sense as any
other commander and as proud of hist
job. Appoint him in the -ante way
and -jive him a respectable salary, t
would have (he other commanders up-'
pointed at the same time, each srndu
selected by the next higher fomnui ti
de r under whom they are to serve,
and lo be selected from the next
lower jirade so thai an of I ieer must
advance a jrrnde each year or o out,
"This would send into civil lifrf
each year officers experienced in all
grades, who would, have been through
the proce.-s neccsnry when we havo
to form volunteers into armies. Il;
would furnish rapid advancement in
youtiLT men of deiuon-drnlcd capacity.
Those who select their own subordin
ates may be relied on to select tho
proper men becau-e then own
clijince for future selection will de
pend upon I lu work id these men.
Organize Lenders,
"Alter llic discharge of the army
and the election id' the next year?
lenders, these leaders could be organ
ized in a srhool and lungM special
-.abject- and advanced military work;
and when it came time to organize the
next year.- army thee would he tho
I'on-e to rei'iuil this army.
''Atlcr one month of individual in-slrttcli-Mi
I would have the different
part- ul the army nioe ouf without',
any ti-ni- and -pend the remainder of
the time aheld in bivouac jitul on the
mandi, a--t'mliliuur with other bodies,
f"nuin lartrer bodies nnd movinir to
ward the uovcniuicnt ic-crvnlion
where fir-t evcri i-e with actual imn-
(Continuecl on Pane Five.)
KILLED IN BATTLE
OKC.UAII. (iMa.. Jan. 1. Onn
dcpiify -beiitt and one alleged bank
robber were killed ami a ,-econd rob
ber wounded ami captured early to
day by an Ok I u-l.-e cnitnty po-.se of
leu men. I he men aic believed lo be
two of li.i-e who held up the State
Hank of llarrah I'rulay la-t, and
since then have been pursued and en
gaged in -cvciiil cla-hes wttll por.se-uicu.