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jUEDFORD. ORKdOX. FRIDAY. IMT.Ii lrAl V ' 1917
JnlavrunJar.
I ail Tribune
MEBFO
PRESIDENT
IWAY lWAIT e
OVER! ACT
. POD RDfAPU
iuii uitLnuii
"Very Near Future to Develop Some
thing Very, Very Serious," De
clares Cabinet Member After Can
vassing Situation With President
"Nothing to Announce,". Is State
ment Issued at White House Sen
ators Consulted by President.
WASHINGTON', Feb. 2 AfLcr to
day's cabinet meeting this statement
was issued at the white house.
"The prescient and the ciblnot
thorough!,' canvassed the sitca:l)n
hut there is nothing to announce. "
One of tn cabinet members broke,
t lie rul'i of silence ecough to say:
"The (! near fu'.ure will develop
something very, very serious."
The cabinet generally agreed, it
wan learned, that the United Slates
could not countenance Interference
t;i with American rights as proposed hi
tho German note.
Whether Immediate action will be
taken or whether an overt act wIM
be awaited was not made clear.
Another cabinet member said:
"The last chance has not yet gone.
While Clormany has announced her
purpose, she has not carried it into
effect so far as we know.'' lie re
fused to say whether action would
como within the next 2 4 or 4 3 hou.s
CouMilt.s Senators.
Immediately after a cabinet imp
ing lasting two hourH ancCn half.
President Wilson hurried to the cap
ital to discuss the submarine situa
tion with Chairman Stone of the for
eign relations committee.
Xo announcement on the conclus
ion reached by the cabinet was made.
Secretary Lansing merely said the
presldont would discuss tho situa
tion with Senator Stone.
Senator Stone has previously been
.assured that he and his committee
will be consulted before tho L'nited
States breaks off displomatlc rela
tions. Finding Senator Stone at this Cap
itol, the president went Into confer
ence with him in tho office of the for-
oltm relations committee. No out
else was present.
Xo Itcply Sent.
Secretary Lansing authorized the
statement today that so far no com
munication had been sent to Ger
many. ine secretary reiused to say
whether any instructions had been
sent to Ambassador Gerard and de
clined to make any statement for the
delay In announcing tho course of
tho United States. Secretary Lan
sing said he was unprepared to dis
close whether any announcement
woula bo made today or not.
On every hand officials are con
vinced that nothing less than a
JScak in diplomatic relations is the
ultimate development. Opinion was
about even as to whether any com
munication had been dispatched to
Berlin. There seemed to be no doubt
However, that some communication
had gone to Ambassador Gerard,
probably warning him of the steps
the United States felt compelled to
take and giving him an opportunity,
however limited, to make some effort
to alleviate the possible hardships
of Americans In Gormany. The goy-
(Continued on i age Two.)
SUSPENDED BY DANES
LONDON, Fell. 2. A f'openh.naen
dipntch to the Times nys that the
underwriting has been temporarily
vu.spcnded by the Ilanih war insur
ance office. The I'nited Shippins
eiuupanv has ordered hip in Knli-h
ports to leave before Sunday if nc--Mble.
Tile Seanilinavian-Ameriean
liner llcllis Olav, now in New York,
ha been ordered I,, remain there.
AND CABINET DISCUSS GERMA
UROPE AWAITS
IK REPLY
TO
Neutral Shipping Being Held in Port
or Recalled Traffic With Conti
nent Held Up Action of President
Awaited With Intense Interest by
Both Belligerents and Neutrals.
li(,NDOX, Feb. 2 The whole of
Knriipc,' neutral and belligerent, is
anxiously awaiting Hie action of the
I'nitcd'Stutes on Jciiiiiiiiy's nule an
nouncing: her new submarine puliey.
.lcunwhilc a large proportion of neu
tral fcliipiiini; is beius held iti purl or
recalled.
Traffic between Kn;jliiiul and Hol
land, ami Knglnml and II"' Scandinav
ian countries, so far as it is carried
on bv neutral vessels, is held up. This
is as serious for the neutrals as foi
Kni;laud, as the smaller countries de
pend upon Great Britain for many
things, particularly lor coal.
Americans Leaving.
Liverpool ship owners today ex
pressed the view that the new declar
ation of the submarine warfare will
not affect trans-Atlantic traffic, but
the number of Americans who con
templated returning home during the
next few weeks have hastened their
bookings.
The Holland-America and the Norwegian-Atlantic
lincrs are the only
ones whoso voyages have been can
celled or postponed.
' Thus far the results of the new pol
icy have not been rcl'lecled in Hie
losses of ships recorded by Lloyd's
Shipping agency, today's list being
about the same average size as for
some weeks past.
Watching Wilson.
The comment of the evening news
papers on the sititationjjjllows large
ly that of the morning journals.
Most f Ihein arc oncerned with what
President Wilson will do: The 1'all
Mall Gazette says:
"President Wilson has a very sim
ple question to answer. It is whether
lie will play the German game or take
sides with civilization."
The Globe says: "If America does
not at once and in most emphatic
terms repudiate the German note .she
ceases to be a sovereign power."
The Standard says: "Kvcr since the
presidential election President Wilson
has danced to the tune of Ilerlin. It
remains to be seen whether the last
German step, the most dire affront
ever offered a great power, will prove
a miscalculation."
y. s.
WASHINGTON". 1'eb. !. Immedi
ate construction of 100 Mibmarino,
ciizhty I'or coast defence and twenty
for licet operations, was ,roposei in
a special bill introduced today by
Senator I'oindcxtcr, of Washinston.
These would be in addition to the
eighteen submarines propo-ed in the
regular naval bill now iicmlins in the
hoiiM'.
The bill would direct that not less
than six of the fleet submarines anil
not less than tw'cnty-fi e of the coast
submarines would be built on the Pa
cific roast. It would authorize the
M"Tctnry of the navy to spend
t l.unO.lMMI to cipiip government nnvv--ards
for construction of the vessels.
AVALANCHE UPSETS
E
PKNIU.KTOX. Or., Feb. 2. A lo
comotive, cabooso and rotary snow
plow were overturned by an ava
lanche of snow which slid off a hill
side at llaron. Oreson, Just before
.daybreak today Immediately after all
eastbound trans continental I n:on
Pacific train had passed the spot,
according to reports reaching line.
Flremnn Cox, was burled in the rlldrt.
GERMANY
LIQUOR
I W it'll 1 W- w
i m mm
I fi M mi it M,
l-gan IlilliiiKsTey, one of the heads f k 'Vij v V If I I A
of .he Heatllo liquor .syndicate and t A ."UW , 1 jt i?
aihgcdc.de, of bo-rs. 'fj O f
WINTER BLOCKS ISI L- - 1
ARMY PROGRESS - mWMCM
ON ALL FRONTS UJia&VBB kM
I!KUI,1N, Feb. 2.- Artillery and
n'connoltering activity is reported in
today's army headquarters statement
from the Franco-Belgian front. Thei
artillery duel was paitlcularly sharp
between tho Ancre and the Sonine, !
whuo if. the (iuedecourt sector on
the Somme front, rn operation by a
British force resulted
man lines oeiug entered on a smaii i
liuiil, lilt! uciiimiw niicinuiu tiuui-
iiig the position by a counter attack.
"Owing to the severe cold and
heavy snowfalls there were no Im
portant events." says today's official
report regarding tl.c Kusso-Galiclan
Trent.
No chaiie,:; on the Rumanian or
Macedonian fronts Tro recorded.
PARIS, I'V'i. French trenches
ronlh of Le.utiey. in I.orraine, were
attacked last evening by the Ger
mans. The attack failed, the war of
fice announced today.
There were artillery actions last
night at Louvemont, north of Ver
dun and at Mctzeral. ln the Vosges.
A German aviator dropped five
bombs yesterday on Dunkirk. The
war office statement reports the
damage w-as small and that there
were no victims.
CIIIJIST IANIA. Norway
The regular daily mail and
Keh. 2.
pa:-sender
service between Norway and Holland
was stopped today while the Norwegian-
American liner Kristinninf iord,
which was scheduled to -aid today, is
brim: held for further orders. The
Norwegian postol'fiee i ib-elinin to
I accept mull lor the I lilted State-, a.
both Ihc direct route and that by way
of Finland is rinsed.
The shorla'e of coal has reached n
serious stitue. There i- oidy a three
weeks' supply on hand, and it is
feared the lartorirs will be forced to
clo-e. The municipal committee ol'
I t'hristiania has commandeered nil
fuel and has put the inhabitant
j the capital on rations.
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REPUB1G S1EEE
XKW YnliK. Teh. J. -The liepuhlie
Iron & Steel company, one of ihe
mtiny industrial coi point ions which
have profited largely hv war eon
traefs. reports net earnings of -flit,-."i4-l,(i.tl
in its annun! statement for
1 0 Hi. js-ued today. Thin is an in
crease of -fl l.lu;,,(i:tS over the pre
vious year.
Thr Itahiiii-e ajii!ahle to the com
mon stock utter deduction of preferr
ed dividend- and charge is eo.ua! to
i7.!J."i pr ci-nt on that i-Mie, coiepar
ed with H.'Hi per ''ent hct ear.
Thf eompan v's -.trplus was in
creased to 1 H.J."r.'J.")j. or hy almost
Hin per cent
In the Ger- i
GRAFT CHARGED TO SEATTLE OFFICIALS
1 VI&J
4- fc 5
I sr V ' i
STOCKS YIELD TO
E
XKW V MiK. IV1
from yestcrdny'
market was ajaiu :
sellin-r during the
. L After a rally
!rnsh the stock
uhjeeled to heavy
la to trailin-; this
afternoon mi rumors that definite de
velopments in the suhmai'ine situation
would he fortlictimili: today.
The nmrket he.Lfan to say soon after
noon and during iRe Inst hinir per
sistent sellini; in rcpreentative
shitres, inelndiiiL; niilrond issues, de
veloped. The latter yielded one to
four points to the lowest levels uf the
current movement.
I'nited States Steel, which had
shown smiic steadiness during the
forenoon, fell to a fraction nhove par
in the last half hour, four points hc
low the mnMM.'.im (plot tit ion of (lie
day.
( ther iinlu-t ria Is, including the
equipments, coppn-s. motors and oiU.
fell in svinpatliy with declines else
where. LACK OF LICENSES
CAUSES ARRESTS
Offenders auain-t the motor vehiel
law were haled into ju-tice court in j
schools, the police net hav ing heeii set !
yesterday follow ii: the annouacc-j
men! hy Chief Mitt --on that heyinnint; j
Kehrunry ail m-'lniist-, imt havin
l!M7 lieeiisi' on their ears would he1
a nested and fined.
Those pa viirj line- for this nil
Thiir-d:iy afleniona and Kridav ncivi
Waiter Mowne. M-! e llanlev. Chester
Ki.hli, A. W. Cla:k. l. C. Martin. .1.
li. rellinijiii. J. f . i ameron. nail
Lawrence, Kd 1'ierce, Cotiro riero.
FEES
WASMIX'iToN. Keh. An in-creji-p
of '2't per cent in the yiazing
fees on all national foiests, instead
of ::! t-lt per eul as originally con
templated, will be made for Ihc 1D.I7
season. Secretary llou-toit today an
nounced. Add it ion ;il i.-icreasc- will
he made afler March 1 next vcar.
when t he real v aluc uf The forage
upon any fore-t i- found to he urire
than the at ml -IiaiL'cd.
In renter Hiiiun (Jill, mayor if
Scuttle. At liht, top, Hub limine,
former sheriff, llelow, Chief of Po
lice ('. li. IteckliiKham.
AH ol' these men luive hmi imlieted
by the IVderul liCiiiicl jury on e)itire
of aeeeiinu Iiiihe-. uinl vinlatHijr the
deml liuiior laws. Since uiosnue t t"
the drv In w in Wahiui:lon the state
j has been in a turmoil over shipiiini: nl'
; heuxe into the dry territory nnd the
iinlietinenl come as a rlianlx to
jchares of oruunized ol Tieial and po
lice protection.
ESUMPTION
liKlil.lX, I'Yh. The official re
porl of thi- morning's sc-inn of the
I rciehslau eotninitlee says that after
I declarations liy ;i repre-eittativo of
j the socialist party, furthi-r cvplana
J lions wen; made hy lr. Alfred Zini
! inenuaun, the foreign secretary; Dr.
i Karl Ilelffefi-!i, lite viee-ehaneellor,
and Viee-Admirnl t'npelle, minisierot'
the navy.
A repre-enlal ivc of tin eonscrvn
lives explained the -tandpnint of this
pn rly. 'ice Admii'a I ( 'a pelle made
further re'marl;- and (U nc;al (rociier,
eliicl" of the war oftiee, atilre-s( d the
counnil I ee. The foi'eliooii sitting Was
(dosed u-iHi a -pi h hv a reprc -enta-
live of the radical socialists.
The i'--ioi- of Ihc committee, iis
previously, were closed to ttie pie-.-.
'fhe hoiitT wn-. Inioyanl upon IIkj
sidnuaiiiic aiitioitnceiiiehl, hih was.
r'lcd a- 1 -i 1 1 i ii -r 1 nearer.
! IimIii-
trial
and iiii i'al ion
! iMiinls.
-ccurMie!
i'om.
lo :
W'A SH I N"( i'foX, ("i-l
A ic-n
i ,t,jnn declaring it to he the
j .,.Mllte (Imt the president
n-c nl
it Ihc
; ,,f the Kai
pen 11 v
1 r should en
aly with lite
o'l-t h utc an
iinal to set-
deavor lo nojnlilo a Ii
powers of tlo world to
1 internal ion, 'I jadieia I 1 1 1
tic dispute-, whs introduced today by
j Senator Shafrolh and relerred lo the
foreign relation- otnmil tec, without
debate.
TWO OF SHELDON'S BILLS
PASS THE HOUSE
SAI.K.M.
bills have p
M. I'.. !o.
properly jv
Keh.
The
following
lt'cmo iag
voters al
Meqilil ing
equivalent
-chooU.
i--('d (lie hoiisi
hy Sheldon
1 1 id ions 011
si hoot elections.
II. M. -Jl'i, by Sheldon
eighth-grade diploma or it
for ndniH-ion to free hi-.di
1
!26 KILLED IN
Fire Follows Blow-Up Which Wrecks
Three-Story BuiMing in Chicago
Persons Buried in Debris for Hours
Are Rescued 21 Injured, 23 Res
cfed or Accounted For.
CIIICAC.O, Keh. 2. At noon, It
hours titter an explosion and lire
which wrecked u West Side tenement
ImildiiiK at St:t West 14th place :it
1 ii. m. today, the police announced
ll:iit 2 0 persons were missing and
pronably (lend. Mnety-ono persons
rcHided In tho building, uccordlnf; to
the u'ii! reprcsentins it. The jan
itor accounted for 19 of theso as he-!
iiiK away at work, leaving 7-', whom1
he assumed were in Cie building at
the time the leaking huh exploded.
Tluso tho police accounted for as
follows:
Known dead 2; injured 21; miss
ing, probably dead, 2ti; known res
cued or accounted for, 2:!.
Heard foe Miles.
The explosion was heard for mllea.
Hy some freak of tho shock, build
ings a few yards away wero uiulam
agod while windows were broken
many blocks further distant. Hun
dreds of Hebrews, Lithuanian, Pol
ish and Russians tenants of the dis
trict rushed into the street scantily
clad although tho weather was the
coldest of teh year ten below zero.
Tho explosion wrecked one end of
the tenement building which con
tained 2 1 flats, It! of which wore
occupied. '
The flames burst throughout the
lower story immediately. When
firemen arrived they were able to
rescue a few children who were drop
ped h.v their parents from tho upper
windows. Some adults also were
saved In thiH way.
Tlie ruins are so hot that it would
be many hours before complete
search of the wreckage could bo
made and nn acurate account of the
loss of life ascertained. The water
thrown on the ruins froze almost as;
fast as H tell and tho burning g;ii
which remained alight long after the
material of the huil;;ug had reaped
to burn presented an unusual spec
tacle, much as if an iceberg were on
lire.
Cnuli f in Trap.
Tatrick Donahue, an assistant tiro
marshal, said that when he reucned
tho scene a great flame of gas was
leaping across West Kourteontu
place.
"A lot. of these people," he said
"must have been caught like rats in
a trai. They were in bed and asleeo
and had o chance to escape. Where
gas and flames did not cut them olf.
falling stairways and crumbling
walls did."
After working for an hour at ihc
wreckage where Ihe moans came from
firemen came upon a man and wom
an in a seuit-cnuseloiitt condition.
The firemen .uhl that the voics
were becoming plainer and that a
number of persons seemed to be tin
prisoned 1 a sort of wreck -choked
grot'o arched over by fallen timbers
E
T
SAI.K.M. Or.. Keh. J
he "hone dry" before I
nor James Withycomln
nomiccd today that In
absolute pi'ohihit ion hj
passed Ihc legislature,
Oregon will
iglit, (lover-
having an-
1 Mil the
which, has
at I o clock
t his a I lei noon.
Immediately upon Hie
approval the bill will hi
and 110 more liquor can
shipment into ' iregon a:
I'limi
coMIC
he s
i.ler
lau
!d for
the're
si rie ion
la vv,
Kivc da
dealer- in
orders re
t he jioven
lull. Af!
intended
cros- the
of tlie present prohibit ion
grace will be i:iven liquor
it her state- to -hip Oregon
iv ed up nut il the minute
r put- hi- si.jiui (tire t-i the
t he I iv e days not a d 1 op
il hev erage purpo-e- can
) h-uatlv.
TENEMENT BY SENDING WIRE p
GAS EXPLOSION FROM CONNOLLYS
I SILENCE
OPERATORS DENY I
Telegraphers Flatly Contradict Testlt
mony Given by Washington Broken
Regarding Sending of Resume of
President's Peace Ncte to Huttonj
. Hearing Adjourns to Washington,
XKW YOliK, Keh. ,2. When the
congressional "leak' inquiry commit -4
tee ad journed lodtiy to nieel in AVash
iu.uton, the testimony of K. A. Coin
holly, the Washington broker. retnmU
iug his sending: n resume of President)
Wilson's pence note to K. V. Iluttoii
& Co., .New York brokers, hud heeu
disputed by every telegraph operator
in Hullon's. emplov, who, Sherman Ii.
Whipple said, might have handled
ConuoMv's message.
Connolly had testified he sent thd
message over a private wire between
his house and llutton's between 1 :1
p. m. and I :o(l 11. in., December 2iK
-Joseph W. Meeker, llultons operator
on this wire, first swore yeslortliitf
that he received no :-uch message :
Operator's Denials.
The other operators who followed
todav with denials that they received
it were John I'. Hummell, who work
the other regular wire into Connolly'
office, and others who might have vum
lieved either liecker or .Hummell.
During the examination of the opcr-i
tilors, it developed that prior to thein
coming to the hearing' today. K. Yd
Mutton, head of the firm, criticised
Meeker in the operating room in tho
presence id' the other operators, for
his testimony. Mutton contended, no
cording o the operators, that Meeker
could not remember at this date
whether he received the Connolly's
message.
Doubtful whether the Connolly mes
sage diil reach the Mutton house by
tele-iruph. ihe committee will investiJ
rule oilier channels through which it
might have arrived. The fact devel
oped today that Connolly s pnvato
wire is interchangeable between tele
phone and telegraph, has aroused in
terest and this will be gone into more
fallv.
Kllix lo Testify.
tlcorgc K. Kllis, the member id' the
1 1 lit t r mi firm who wrote a warning to
customers from the Connolly Tesunm
of the note that it was coming, will
he Ihe first witness called in Wash
ington, lie now is on his way north
from Savannah, Ma., and bus been ad-,
vised by telegraph stop off alj
Washington.
Inoiiirv idso will he made soon, into
another telegram which, like ConnoU
ly-. is missintr. According to the tes
timony of M. W. Mallhy, 11 Mutton om
end or, today, Mr. Clement, id' tho
Clement-Curtis company of Chicago,
sent the Mutton house a message oC
protect touching on the president's
note, information disseminated by K.
K. Million i Co., which has not bee
produced.
SHIP NOT TO SAIL
WASHINGTON, Keh. 2. The slate
dcpii rl nicnl has made no reply to the
I eleg 1 a 1 a I l om the International
.Mercantile company, asking instruction-
for movement.- of American
j ships. No announcement similar to
Oeraiany's has been received from
A.istria.
Kroin the official refusal to affirm
oj- deny that any mc-sage hud gone
forward to Ambns-ador (lerard, an
iitipre-sion n'W tiiat -oine such mes
-si -age iiad la-en .-cut. ittii it was thought
nl ino.-t i mesai;e to outline tii'st
l preluainai v statement of the Ameri-
- jcan viewpoint without definitely com-
J mitt ing the counlrv
tilt
final dc
ion ha- been reachc
Secretary I.an-in;
opinion il would In
d.
uf said it was his
belter if the
American liner St. Louis did md sail
tomorrow, or until the is-uc had been
denied, and that he probably would
-o ailvisc lic Intenuilional Meivntt
tile Marine.
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