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WJOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOfl FORECAST I WEATHER Maximum Vi-sli'i-dny -17: y Minimum Today ;f:l, I'r. IV OCIOOOOOOOOCOOOOCOOOOOOO MKPFORD.. OlMXiOX. Tl'KSDAV. .)ANlTARV -:i. 1917 NO. 12")) SHIP SUPPOSED 10 BE "BLACK RAIDER" AND HER AVENGER SENATE DELAYS f OF PEACE TALK TTt IfT. frortT-alxtb Year. f STOCK EXCHANGE BULGARS CROSS : REFUSESRECORDSi DANUBE. RENEW I TO LEAK PROBERS DOBRUDJADRlVEj WTHDRAW1NG CONSIDERATION PERSH NG FORCES FROM MEXICO 8 President Noble and Chairman Streit Examined as to Methods of Opera i tion Records of All "Short" Deals During December 10 to 23 Asked Ij- Committee. J '.); NEW YOKK, Jan. 23. Governors : of Ibc stock vxvhnuKe toilay postpon-1 v l, til action on t lie request ot tin1 liouie i",Jruli'S fonunittro that they ask their fSncmbers to submit to the committee !n list of nil their transactions, with k'ustomers' names, for the permit from December 10 lo December 2:. I In connection with the postpone ment the board instructed Mr. Noble Jto appear before the committee with .counsel and say that grunting the re- 1" iiiest would impose great hardship . on their members. lioiird itliout rowor. Noble immediately came before the committee and made his report. Not only would the production of the books impose great hardship upon 'a larger number of houses who arc not mixed up in this mailer,'' said Noble, "but it ilid not appear,'' he ksniil, that the board had any power lo enforce the rcipiest. Mr. Noble wanted to know if the request could not he modified. "J do not understand," interrupted .'jfeirney Whipple for the committee, "Hint the quest ion of power is in volved. The question is whether they will make the request to the brokers and turn over to the committee such responses as are received. If the .loard will make the request, the com mittee will determine how lo enforce it, if there is not prompt compliance." I 1'lcniLs Mlsiippivlicnston. ! Whipple, Ktnlinn- , tlmf - there, -had fy)ccn evidently a misapprehension as So I lie nature of the committees re quest, asked that it again be subniit- rd to the board and mat me nonrn cport what it was willing to do. "X am not interested in excuses," fjiiterruptcd Kcpreseniaiive ( tnper- lield, "but in compliance." i, ....i i 11...1 : 1... i 1 res aicni -miiiic nsicn mill, u .a- 'understood that the board did not re fuse to comply with the request, but that. it had been a question of its power, lie said he would reassemble it lie board tonight if possible, but lie 'kliil not think he could do so. I , I NKW YOKK, Jan. 'j:i. Sear.h-i-lighls of the house rules committee in .fthe "leak" inquiry are to be turned . 'immediately on all the ."short" deals nvhioh took place on the stock ex .' change between December 10 and ; December 2.'t. It was on such specu Jation, if any, that profits were made roll advance information regarding the ''.president's recent peace note, it is averred. That this feature of the inquiry I may be expedited the committee at its j first session today ordered II. CI. S. Noble, president of the stuck ex change, to request the governnm iiard of the exchange to order its I members to supply the committee forthwith with a list of all their transactions between December .10 and December '.lt designating all rii tinners by their real names and U"l ) by numbers or nppcll itions. I Ilnsls of I'lufits. .TJie Matemcnts requested also ai, ? to ..how the numbers of stocks bor- rowed, by whom loaned and the (lain returned. With this information in h:M:d, the committee believes it soon cm be , learned if there is any bas;s to the i charge of immense profit -taking through "short selling"' by tlmsff ii possession of "leak" information. Noble was the first witness called " after Sherman I.. Whipple, counsel ,' (Continued on Page Four.) BILL 10 ABOLISH SAI-KM". Or., Jan. 2.1. rinn of Ihc Oregon legislature to economize on public expenditures by consolidating departments nre heinir enrried out. Today n bill was introduced in the -enate whieii abolish. -s the state dc--ert board nnd confer its dulie upon the state land board. Yesterday the state tax commission was consolidat ed with tho public .-crvice emmi--aion. Teutonic Forces Again on Offensive i Near Tultcha Only Minor Engage ments Along Balance of Line Op erations Elsewhere Mostly Raiding Enterprises. A new development in the. Ruman ian campaign was revealed in today's Oernian official statement, which re ports a Bulgarian movement north ward In Dolirudja across the southern estuary of the Danube near TultchiT Along the remainder of the ilu manian front there have been only engagements between advance de tachments, these resulting favorably to 1 lie Teutonic forces. The operations on tho other fight ing fronts have been mostly raiding enterprises. I'iCMitne Advance. UKUUX, Jan. 23. Tho Teutonic troops have resumed their advance in Dobrudju. it is announced officially. Unitarian forces crossed the south ern estuary of the Danube near Tull cha and held the ground against Itussian attacks. The breaking up of a Unysian raid after the advancing troops had en tered the German first line west of Dvin.sk is announced by army head quarters today. Artillery Duels. The statement reads: "At some places in the wooded Carpathians and alonR the frontier mountains in Moldavia there, were livelier artillery duels, the weather beins frosty and bright. "In encasements between advance guards German and Austro-IIuimar-ian troops took from the enemy be tween the Slanic and Pntna valleys 1 il 0 prisoners and south of the Ka slno valley drove hack stronger lio?. tile forces, which were advancing. "On the lower Pntna outpost en RaKements resulted favorably to us. "In Dobrudja. Unitarian troops crossed the southern arm of the month of the, Danube near Tultcha and maintained themselves on the north hank against a Russian at tack." Uritish Itepulso. IJKUL1X, .Ian. 2.1. Successful re eonnolterins operations by a Ger man detachment and the repulse of a British party which attempted to move asainst tho German lines north west of Fronielles on the Franoo-l't i Rian front are anounced in today's headquarters statement reftardint; operations in that war area which reads: . "Northeast of Armentieres a re connoiterinK detachment from Ba varian, regiments entered hosi;'e trenches and returned with some prisoners and machine suns. "HritiKh detachments advanci:ic against our position northwest of Fronielles were repulsed." E WASHINGTON. Jim. -It was staled officially today that President Wii-i.n has received no word from (Vrmnuy that .-he and her allies wcrej willing tn lay their term- of peace, i even confidentially, before him. The statement wn- made in re sponse to recent I v publi-licd stale- nt- that the (ierman tcrni' hail Kl in the ready been -ecretiy phu-cl prc-ident's hand-. STONE APPEARS 10 E WASHINGTON", Jan. -XW. S. Stiiiic. i-.-i mi chief "f Ihf I li-.it ln-rlioorl iif I.iii'iniii'tivc Kiv.-iiiriMs. ami L. I'.. Shi'pi:inl. ai'lini.' rc-iilint of Hit OiiIit nf Uailway Cnmlui'tiir, trsti licil toilay lifl'uiv Ihr limine -"ni-iiiitci' mm it t ci- in n .-it i.in to Ihc AihiMi-nn liill I" picvcnt ititemi;lini nf railluiiil Iral'lic by crcntini; a -'-cial iiivi'-lialicm (i.niiiii--iiiii, ilnriii'.' h.i-c ilclihcialiim -lnl.c aiul !'n-li-iiiiI- nuiihl liu unliiKlu!. 1 ri 'pUDTAIM I rPTIlDIT ; UUUlhlll LLUIUUL ! GIVEN PRESIDENT , RV I (lMllflN P,l f!RF U LUMUUM ULUULj I.ONDON, Jan. 'S.i. 1 he (ilidie, cruiser with two H.'J-itich jtims, sJ siv-inrh kiiils, i'2 iri-iMiiindct t. ii oic-a--kin I'rciflent Wil.-nn what he had , poumlcrs, and ton:- tuncliiue umi'i, Shv eiiiTi4i t(r men and dK;i;ices done "tin jn-tice and Immunity, !or;."HK.T tons. Itelow is the ltritisti cruiser (;ias)wt n-p, to liavf slink the rif-iits of the weak ur the lumni ' I tin rnhlcr in the imIi Atlantic. The Cilnssow IikiU pail in Hie Tnt-imcl nl' the stronu, that ynu hotihl now battle two years una ltiil In 1!11 she carries tw.i ( imh and leu I in''i pro-iime lo lu'ld up llie present cni-Knns, dlsphictn.; ISOfl tuns.' flii't to which we are committed and ( from whii-li you most arct'ully have, held alool",' ;iys lie did not protest auaint tin invasion ol' HcliMum. ami : wrote a note when llie t'liiinrd. Iinei! Kti--it:iiii:i was torpeiloed. I'ontiuti-! ins, the newspaper .-ays: . 'And then vnu wrote a second note! and then a third, because you were j seek'mjr the siilTraue ol" electors in I whose ears the hist, cries of thcirj drmnin comilrymcn were smothered beneath, the tinkle of piling dollars. "Von did nut dure resent the pi r- j ncy and murder, and now, forsooth, we nun nac Knei. our uei nun una. est by the hundred Hiottand tretis nre by the thoti-and million, to save the world, we must at your biildini;' lay down our arms and dream with yon your foolish dream id' peace. "You and the ureal nation whose chief magistrate you are have stirred no fin-ert. prevent mlernnt.onnl law lieinir vmlaled. W may say, ami -ay truly, that the rnited States ha.l not tne power. How, Mien, can ynu; ask lis lo Int.-I our lives and liher ties, the future of our race, the safetv ( of our empire mid the destinies df a mankind to the flimsy guarantee with which you would hack the peace of the world .'" IN NAVAL BATTLE LONDON, Jan. ::!. In an o:ir;h;p nient between British lit-lit naal forces and CJerman torpedo boat dv st rovers! n the North sea last nijvit ! a Ceriuan destroyer was filing and ithe other torpedo craft scattered, it as officially aiii.ouuced today. The sinking or a Uritish torpedo boat destroyer in another engage ment with (icrman torpedo boat de stroyers in the vicinity of Scholium bank last night with the loss of three officers and A of the crew also was announced. EXPERT l-'.vj'crl cwint: !:n-N al llie Schuylkill ar-cnal, Philadelphia, arc -hown llaf- tn lie ii -i ll in Ihc iii,ni'"iratiMii of I'rc-i'lciit WiUmi. The ire-nlcnt L'liitcd Staler llaj: mill many are itc-i 'l il lor llie hix cM-nt. StSCi: 1 . i QL-AfiGOW Above is the ViiK-t, the vessel supposed t he the inyMcrioiw "hhiclt liii'lcr" sinkini; allied mereliaiit vliis FOR PRESIDENT - IN -1 London, . Jan. -President Wilson's speecii in the senate yestcr ,,. v on participation by the United day ou participation States in a league of peace main tained its position as the chief news event in the British eveniiiR news papers, which devoted their front j pape to the text and comment from the morning papers of London and Pjirit nndir lie:tdini4 siicli ns "Pepsi- I ,ont w11k0.b .M jmini' and ' The Washington Sensation." T,C Westminister (lazette asKs whether, if President Wilson had Buf fered what the entente allies have, he would patiently have listened to a third party telling him he must be content to end the war without win ning It and to forego penalties against the enemy who had sprung the war, torn up treaties and com mitted "unheard ol" crimes against humanity." "Hold on with hlood'and treasure until the arrogance of our one mien lift shattered by our unshakeable will In vintnrv ' ;nwt tlin noivwnnnpr nrtHc I "Thus, so far as we are cone-erne i we have no cognizance of nny willin peace without a victory. The Vestmini;-ter (luzette says it is a reasonable inference, from tho president 's mention of the Uermju terms "that he knows something tiial we don't know,-' and concludes: "Mr. Wilson has something further In view than rhetoric," and suggests that "his most practical step, is to tell us what the (Jcrinan terms are. or if he does not know, to induce the (jcrmans to disclose them. We shall (Continued on Page Four.) SEWING GIRLS MAKE INAUGURATION FLAGS I' ' I? in the soul li Atlantic, a prodcttil U. S. SEEKS TO RECOVER OIL LAND XKY YOKK. Jan. 'j:t.Nea rly half a million acre of oil land hi the San Joaquin valley, California, val ued at (Mill, (iiti), is at stake in the government 's .-nil nirnin-t the South em Paeilie railioad on trial here be fore Judjie Bledsoe of the federal court of Los Anucles. From IhK hind, the testimony show-, the railroad company has been taken about !HHI, niili barrels of oil a mouth. If I he government wins its suit 1'or pos.-es-sion of the properly, it is said lhat these oil fields will be u-ed to supply file! for the navy. Julius Knit Iselmit t, chairman of the executive, commit tee .of the Sonth- ern Pacific, one of the firt witncse- called here for the defense, declared ! that when hi- company l'ir-t obtained j title to the hind in di-pute he "never I dreamed" that they contained oil. j The government holds that the Soul hern I'acit ic company obtained , : laud grams from (lie government. ,," V. I" ! inc goeinmcm min'i;ii- hihiitsihoo itiiai tne properly u i ne nscu mr agrii'iuhtra de elopmcut. 1 lie suit : i i.i i , I r." .. aininal ion of wit ne 1 he defendant ra ilroj tinned todav. rcpre-enting ompany con- LONDON EXPLOSION KILLED 69. WOUNDED 400 ! LOTMN. Jan. j:i. The en-unltic-: to date iii ln-l I'Yidnv'- cxplo-ion w ere ot'l icjiillv announced today lo coiupri-e (i!l killed, 72 -eriou-l v iu i jurcd and :'i2S -li-jhttv injured. This, it i hclieed. coinpri-c- the complete i li-1. 44 in m U iti uric of the new jiic-alcnt ial Una i-. ilil lcrcnl I loni nil other , Senator Cummins Wants Week De voted to Discussion of President's Message Resolution Goes Over Until Tomorrow, When Arguments BcQir. Neutrality Code Compiled. WASIMNtiToN, Jan. 'J.'t fuulor Cuinniins of Iowa submitted a reso lution to the .-enalc today which uotiht devote the seimle beginning ue.l .Mouilay lo u full and free dis-i-u ion id the pre-ident world peace policy expressed in his mc-sage of yestciday. Ail oilier liu-inc-s would be excluded until every -ennlor had an opportunity to .-peak iio( more than an hour. Chairman Stone of the foreign relation- committee objected to immediate coii.-iilcrntioti and action uiis detcired until tomorrow. Wants Week of Talk. The re-olntiou cited that inasmuch as the pre-iileut's address calle.' for no oM'ieial legislative action and thai the president hud iuwlcd free and frank cxpres-ion of opinion for ejiid nnce a matter involving the inlcjnn of the nation and peace of the vv..rld. it was the boiiiidcii duly of the sen ate lo thoroughly consider the pro posals and lo advise the pre.-ident re garding them. 'ln the prcsenl pressure of puhlic bu-ine-s," said Senator Stone, ! shall have to object lo selling a-ide a whole week, for that's what it would take, merely In hear speeches or opinions regarding the president's address made ye-lerday. Such a tiling is wholly out of the question nl this time,'' v Sent to Committee. ! Senator Cummins insi-led thai hi-1 resolution had u right tn lie over for a day without reference ami -Jiid he w ould ohec to its going lo I lie com mittee. Senator Slonc then with drew his motion ami llie question will come up loinorrow ami probably will precipitate general debate of all the issues involved, I hsca ion in nil American nations of the underlying principles embodied in I'le-ident Wil-on's nddrc-s js ex pected lo come abotil through the ac tion of the American Institute of In ternational Law, now meeting in Havana, in taking up a code of mari time neutrality prepared at the siig-gc-lion of Secretary Lan-ing. The code i- o be taken up within the next year l:y the societies of inleriiational law in each of the twenty-one Ameri can republics. In this code the principle i- laid down that il neutrals are unable to prevent a conflict they mu-l do ev erything po--ihle to cud it on the ground thai one of the obligations of neutralily is "a duly of pacification toward mankind." The code al-o dwells on ihc free dom of he -efi I'lider the propo-ed code nciitral. may utilize "an inlet-national force" lo puni-li violation- of neutrality. I'AlltO. K.vil. .Ian.' -'.'I. The ncuiaier Al Mmln miy- n joint lorce ot Oelnian- and 'I'nrl;- ha- -eiz-eil the ialace ol the jialliarcli of Mil iniioi I j, ii I Man. nit, ehiireh in the Inn n of I iUi l lif Ii. near lieii nl. in Syria. The Malonite- in the l.elianon ili-tlict. hi' h i- tlicir chief i at. imiiiiI.it ..nine Thcv are in communion with the tinman Cntliolic ehiireh. lint foim a ili-lim t ilcnoniina lion ami al-o maintain a ci-rlnili ile jree of inih'.cnilcnce of the T.nhi-h unvi't inncnt . Accol ililn; to the le.ol l, the oeeil .yiii... fnrei- ill, I "ri-iil ilnlnacc t,, the hiiililiiej- ol Hie -co anil the (lennnn reaioieil lo licilin llie irieele--- lih rary, which containcil nneient niann -ciii:- ami hoi.li- of treat hi-tnrj.-viihic The m t riii reli anil his liiii-.,o-I " .1.1 me r- mil e, to In- ,ri-oii'.. h, Ihc .nlaoe, -iirrniiiiilcil hy ricinian anil Tmki-li li.,,..-. From Ihc -amc miiiicc it i-. learned lhat a court martini in Alcih, Svtin. In'- ' lemiied lo death and cveeiilcil -clilcnce lip. .0 the (in hhi-hop of the tiioct, 1'nlhnhc chinch in Acre, 'or Aklin, Known in the new leMnnuiit ih i'lolenini, ' War Department, With Approval of President. Recalls Expedition As Soon as Outposts Are Withdrawi Movement Begins Villa and Za pata Unite. WASIIINCTON, .Inn. 2:i.--VitH-hav.al ot the outposts or tieneru' Pers!iih:;'s force in .Mexico has heen ordf red by the war dcpartmoiu with the approval of President Wilson. Thero v-re intliualions tody W ut as soon ,is 'lie outposts are .vjuyh' in. the -ive-neut of the main boCy of troops '.oward the hordrr wit! to- begun. No date lot the sending ot Ainyi!? sador Flelcaer to the .Mexlca.i ctp Lal l.aa In en set, it was stated oilie laMy today. The question of lifting the em bargo on the exportation of arms Into .Mexico is being considered, but no decision has been reached because of the complexity of the problem. The position of the government, it was learned, is Hint the eiubareo will be lifted as soon as the administra tion can be sure that the arms will go to the proper authorities. Villa ami Zapata, WASIII'MJTON. Jan. 2 It. A new allianco between Villa and Zapata against Carranza was made by rep resentatives of those two chiefs at n. conference at San Andres, near Chi huahua, last week. Officials here are Icbh concerned in tho alliance than In reporU mndi by Vllla'B field ot'flcerH that thoy havo now concentrated In t.he territory south and west of Chihuahua .eight thousand men equipped to launch a new campaign to carry out Villa's part. Villa's concentration of n strong' force was taken as an indication of. his Intention to contest control OC the region about to lie abandoned y the American expedition under Major (leneral Pershing. (ouiImui All Points. Officials hero hope that Cnrranza will he able to dominate the territory as (lenerul Obregon, minister of war, had ordered Generals Murguia And Dieguez to garrison all points left b tho American troops. Partisans of Villa and other nntl Carrauza leaders, both In the Cnited States and .Mexico, were invited to confer at San Andres for the purposn or co-ordinating. If possible, tho dir- ierent factions and agreeing upon u general pian of action throughout. Alexico. .Many of the representativert were not military men, but professional men and agents of exiled groups rep resenting interests once powerful In Mexico under previous administra tions. They went from Snn Antonio. KI Paso, Los Angeles and New York, BILL 10 REDUCE S.M.K.M, Ore.. .Inn. 2::. Oregon will have a maximum railroad rati) of two ami one-liulf emtH per inlle, Insteaii of tlii-pc. as at pri'Rcnt. If n 1111 liitrodiiccil Into the Itoime of rop respn(atlve today by lteireseitatlvn Clinrles .. Crundall. Vale, beeomfis a law. Mr Cranilall said bis bill wad fashioned after the three-rent law adopted in Cleveland, Ohio, wben the? I.i to. Tom Johnson was mayor. Tho law would apply lo steam roads on hauls of over five miles. REFUSED 10 AID STRANDED DIVER KI'liKKA, ('nl., .Ian. 23. Sirnr. hearings of ehnrnes made by l.leuten anl W. II. Howe, cnnininnding the lulled St a ten niniiliiir Clieyenne, thai Captain Laurence Klllson of the I'nlt ed .states coast unaril statton here re fused to assist In snlvnisim; the sub marine II-;!, were lieiinl hero today liy a lioai d of Inquiry. Captain S. It. W'lntnu), Inspector of tin; coast mtnrd, presided.