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MEIVFORD. ORF.OOK. TUESDAY. KKlUiUAH Y (i. 1917
Forty-sixth Tear,
firdlv KlfVfnih Year.
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BELGIANS FACE STARVATION WITH ALL RELIEF WORK STOPPEOISHELL FIRE OF BERLIN REGRETS
T
OF HER PEOPLE
BY PRESIDENT
PREPARATIONS GREAT BRITAIN
FOR WAR GOING ! MOBILIZES ALL
1 1 1 i i " r i ji r
GERMAN U-BOA
POSITION TAKEN
KILLS AMERICAN
STEADILY AHEADI
Germany's Disposition to Regard
Break With Calmness Reassuring,
But Real Test Comes on Carrying
H Out of U-Boat Campaign Govern
ment Getting Ready.
WASHINGTON', Feb. 0. At the
close of a two-hour cabinet meetini:
today it was indicated that nothing
had happened to change the position
of the American yovornment in the
submarine crisis. The state depart
ment, it was said, has received no of
ficial word that Oermnny mh;h( alter
her policy.
Reports made to the cabinet loUT
of rapid progress in carrying out pre-'.
cautionary measures directed, by the
various departments.
WASHINGTON', Feb. G.Cicr
mnny's disposition to regard the
break with the t'nited Stales with
calmness and deliberation and in ti
peaceful spirit, as expressed hv For
eign Minister y.iinmertnann, ' brings
new encouragement to those who
hope that the breach in the relations
of the two countries will jjo no fur
ther than a severance of diplomatic
relations.
The real test, however, conies on
( the actual performance of the cam
paign of unrestricted submarine war
fare, and while all American officials
fervently share the hope Hint the
break will go no further, there is no
disposition to recede from the posi
tion that American lives and ri'nis
will be protected by whatever nieas
ures are necessary.
Work of Irepnin(lon.
The work of preparing for eventu
alities went siondily forward today in
all branches of the government.
Three emergency amendments to
the naval bill were presented to the
house by Chairman Padgett of the
naval committee, after conferences
with administration officials. They
propose :
Issue of .l."i0,000,nnn of .1 per cent
five-year bonds to cover cost of
quick delivery of ships and war sup
plies, including more submarines, de
stroyers and nnimutiition.
Appropriation of $.1,1)00,000 for
.mrchase of basic patents for manu
facture and development of aircraft.
(" Tilimkct Authority.
Blanket authority to the president
and secretary of the navy to order
ships or war matenals lrom any
plant within the limits of appropria
tions; to take possession of any
plants that refuse to give the govern
ment precedence and to draft em
ployes of private plants into the na
val establishment. The war depart
ment put its quartermaster's agents
into the market to bring reserve
stores up to the maximum supply at
oncp.
Tlia air craft amendment would
enable the secretary of war and the
secretary of the navy, "to secure by
purchase, condemnation, donation or
otherwise such basic patent or pat
ents as they may consider necessary
to the manufacture and development
o aircraft."
Available nt End.
Another amendment to place the
retire amount of the bill, carryln
upwards of $352,000,000 subject to
Immediate use in the president's dis
cretion was also offered. Ordinarily
the bill would take effect July 5.
The house added to the bill $1.-
250,000 for machine guns and in
creased the appropriation of antl
craft guns from $341,000 to $029,
600. For naval auxiliaries the house au
thorized ah appropriation of $7,2SO,
000 instead of $1,300,000 as proposed
in the bill. ,
SALEM, Ore., Feb. 6. Oregon's
support in the International crisis
was pledged President Wilson here
today by the legislature. A resolu
tion approving the severance of dip
lomatic relations with Germany,
which passed the bouse of represen
tatives was adopted unanimously by
the senate. Copies will be forward
ed to Ibe president Immediately.
A United Nation's Answer to Ger
many's Starvation Threat a Blow
Between the Eyes Young Men
Needed at Front. Women Enrolled,
Clergy and Doctors to Work.
LONDON. Feb. 0. Arthur Neville
Chamberlain, director general of the
Hiitish national service, outlining
the scheme for national service to
day, said:
"Let nobody suppose that because
Count Hernstorfl' has been given his
passports there Is nothing else to do.
normally Intends to starve ns. The
answer must be a blow straight be
tween the eyes, which will beut the
eileniv down and bring him to bis
senses."
', Arthur Henderson, labor leader
and minister without portfolio in the
British war council, presided at the
meeting which was open to the pub
lic anil Premier I.loyd George anil Mr.
Chamberlain made addresses.
All .Must. Work.
Mr. Henderson said the labor sup
ply would only be met wlieii every man
and woman not in the annv and navy
was employed in some work of na
tional importance.
Mr. Chamberlain said the recent
action of Germany was interpreted as
a sign that she was in a desperate
situation, but that if the allies were
to secure vietorv and save them
selves from the misery (if another
winter's war it would bo necessary to
supply the army with drafts of
voung, physically fit men, who alone
could stand the terrific strain of mod
ern trench warfare.
Mr. Chaiuberhiin announced that
women, would be enrolled, thaj ar
rangements would be made to utilize
the work of the clergy and that doc
tors would lie mobilized. Ireland, he
said, would be included in the scheme,
but circumstances in that eountrv
made necessary some modifications,
lie pointed out lhat volunteers would
have to make sacrifices. The first
thing to do was to start a great pub
licity campaign. Volunteers would be
allotted to occupations for which
they were best fitted by reason of
their past experiences, and a minimum
wage of -.) shillings n week would be
lixed.
Mobilizing Labor.
CoinniisMnnors had been appointed
for agriculture and the industries
who would keep the central office in
formed ns to supply nnd demand.
The question was, Mr. Chamberlain
continued, where labor was to be
found. They could not suddenly de
stroy non-e.-seulial trade. Destruc
tion of capital would interfere wilh
credit. The noccssnry industries, he
said, should recuperate quickly after
the war. They had no intention of
suppressing any trade, hut if labor
ami material had to he retained, the
shortage must, first fall on the less
essential trades.
"The premier urges every man to
place his services and energy at the
disposal of Hi:' state," Mr. Chamber
lain continued. "The notion must
answer the threat of (icrnianv at
once. We must build slops to protect
our merchantmen, in order to demon
strate that murder on the high seas
is futile. We can do it. but the na
tion must be organized. Wo must or
ganize civilization to meet organized
barbarism. No man or woman has a
right to look on whilst others are
struggling for what is equally im
portant to them.''
BL
BILL IS DEFEATED
SALEM, Ore., Feb. 6. There will
be no "blue Sundays" in Oregon, a
bill nimed to close stores, theaters,
baseball parks and other places of
business and amusement having been
dftfeated today by the unanimous
vote of the house of representatives.
Last night at a public committee
hearing held on the'blll. C. E. Mun
roe, Portland, president of the In
dependent Retail Grocers associa
tion, and Dr. If. G. Thurston, of
the Seventh Day Adventlst church,
argued against its passage, while Dr.
Carl Ciresg Done)', president of the
Willamette university, Salem, and
Mrs. Ada Wullacc t'nrnh, Portland,
a prohibition worker, spoke for it.
Destitute llclgiail cliildi lie
In each 21 bourn,
LONDON. Feb. (i. F.ight ships of j
the commission for relief in Belgium,'
of an aggregate tonnage of 4H,000, f
and carrying enormously valuable;
cargoes ol' wheat, bacon and maize,'
are now on Ihe high-seas out of a to- j
'tat of 107,01111 Ions of shipping fly-'
ing the commission's l'lag.
Most of those on the high "seas nrci
from Aiuericiiii ports, and therefore;
carrying the customary safe conduct f
from the German consul at the port ofj
departure. ' ;
The commission today authorized '
the Associated Press to state that)
any plans published for turning over!
the relief work to some other neutral:
may be set down as premature. j
'the iUes.lion as to what neutral I
shall take over hc control of the!
work, if any, it is thought Holland
would he the favorite for the tusk. ;
FIVE SHOTS FIRED
BY S
LONDON, Feb. ti. Five shots were
fired by tin (iermnu stibma rine
at the Americun stenm-hip Westweyo,
on .January :!!, it was announced, offi
cially hero today. None of the shots
tool;' effect.
The announcement follows:
''The muster of the I'niled States
steamer West weyo reports that on the
;Ust (if January, when fifty miles
west of Fa.-lnet, his ship was fired at
from astern by. the (ierman submarine
V-V. Five shots were fired, none of
wbieh, however, took effect. The
master acenrdinly stopped ami sen!
a boat wilh his papers.
"The (ierman submarine comman
der then demanded oil fnim the Wesl
wi'io, his demand.- beiim aernmpan
ied by thre.it- to inl; the ship if it
was refiiM'd."
The We-I wen", a tanker, sailed
from Philadelphia, January 17, for
Burrow.
LOXDOX, Feb. 0. An official ot
the lielittn relief commisHion in
quoted by tho London KNpress a say
ing that every relief ship Ik now held
up and that if tho RteamtTs are held
many days longer the Helgians and
French in the territory occupied by
the Hermans probably will be Htarv
ed. The official added that the Span
ish ambassador at Berlin was making
! representations to the (ierman gov
ernment with the object of having
respected the previous guarantees
regarding rHlef whips.
STANDARD OIL TO
HOLD SHIPS IN PORT
NKW YORK. I'Vli. (I. - Ail lii. ofj
the St.-mi'ord (til coioiiauy in trans-j
Atlantic -ervii e will lie lu-ld in iort,j
neiidinir deveiiiiuient- in the interna
tional situation, it wuti learned today.
fed ; t his oito cliitrf t y meal is fx
SWIIZERLAND
Swiss Decline Break Spain Also Is
Expected to Refuse to Break Re
lations With Germany Alfonso
Hopes to Become Mediator Hol
land Protests Strongly.
.WASHiXCTOX, Feb. (i.- Informa
tion that Switzerland will nd adopt
President Wilson's siium-st ion that,
in the interest of world pence, other
neutrals follow the lead of Ihe I'niled
Stales ami break off diplomatic rela
tions wilh ("Jet many, was received
here today. So far us is known, this
is the l ii.-l re-pons
Spain's taking oyei-of American n
teresls in (lei many and Switzerland's
similar action for (ierman interests
here are interpreted as i-cnnnin1
both these netilrals from pnrticipa
tirm in the break in relation-.
Kin; Alfonso has been officially
stilled on several occasions to be
waitins' for nu opportunity 'thai, may
present itself to farther moves to
ward pence, nnd now that the useful
ness of Ihe I'niled Slates has been
impaired, stands as the most likely
mediator.
Holland Protests.
T1IF. IIACI'F, Feb. b It is known
that Holland has strongly prolesled
gainst Germany's decree of unre
st ricied' submarine warfare, but the
foreiun office refuses to "ive jmv tie
tails.' THF. !1AGIK. -Netherlands, Feb. fi.
Premier Cort Vim Oct IJnden made
tlte following .-tatement in the second
chamber of Ihe Dutch parliament to
day: '"Serious events occupy Ihe govern
ment's attention. At the present mo
ment it is iiiipo-.iblc to give informa
tion regarding them, but the -jovem-mcnl
will not neglect to give the
chamber information us soon as ev
pedieut. There is no reason at this
moment for peej;i anxiety,'
S CAUSE
MAY YolfK. 1-Vli. ti 1,'umors
widely circulated m the financial dis
trict at noon today that (o'l'iiiany had
declared war tti"li the I'llitcd States
caused a shaii lircak in the stock
market.
Trices already -ninevvhat iireiznlar
jjave way iuic tit three pnirit.-, wilh a
special weakness in shipping-, muni
I ions nnd ciitiprni'Mt-.
I'niled Slat-- Steel dropped two
points friini its he-4 price of the jire
viou.s hour, and nther industrials lost
as notch and in smue instances
more.
The rumor proimlily accounted fur
lite concurrent decline in exchange to
(tcrniany and Au-tria. murks or hill
on llerlin lii'iti'4 ituotcil at file', very
chisc to tlie vioiiimuin. while rctnit-lauci-
to Vienna fell to HI. "'.', the
vreutcst ili-cunt yet rcioited.
'I'lie market -oon rccoscred tiails of
its o-, lott continued cxlrciui'lv nervous.
AMER CA S LEAD
cuci h y the only one t hey receive
i
a m GffiEIS
CHEERS, SALUTE
j Kh PASO, Tex., Feb. (! . Field ar
. liltery boomed a salute of 13 gutiK
and whistles blew for five minutes
! this afternoon when Major General
j Pershing arrived from Columbus, X.
j The Eighth Pnited States cavalry
; was drawn up along Sun Francisco
I street and General Pershing was es
teorted down town, where luncheon
I was given in his honor, llo denied
ho was going to Washington to con
ifer with the president. "
j COLUMBFS. X. M., Feb. G. Va
i rious units of the American punitive
I expedition assigned by the war de
partment to stations along the bor
der, broke camp today. The Kleventh
and Thirteenth cavalry, a detach
ment of ambulance company A nnd
j company P., first battalion " signal
j corps, began marching overland to
IKI Paso.
Troop L, lath cavalry, lias been
assigned to Fort Apache, Ariz., nnd
the remainder of tho 10th cavalry
will go to Fort I luachuca. These
troops began their overland journey
also.
J-ntcr in the day the sixteenth in
fantry boarded motor trucks for 101
Paso.
Major General Pershing, accom
panied by his staff, left for Kl Paso.
Tho 24th infantry will remain nt Co
lumbus to garrison the town.
YVASIIIXdTOX, Keb. 5. Tho leak
Investigation committee, alter an ex
ecutive session today, failed to de
termine whether to havo more hear
ings In New York or whether to ex
amine more witnesses In Washing
ton. It. W. J'.ollinK, a hrother In law of
President W'iison, reiterated ut to
day's hearinK his iirevions testimony
that he had no advance information
or tho president's note and never
had any advance Information what
ever of official actions at tho white
house or ft ate department.
.lACKSONVIU.K. I'la., l-'eli. II.
I.atc.t rcioi'ts say the cMnnie cold
id' the la-t three day- has killed 7o
per cent of the stale's viLiclahle
''i'"P: all rciiiainini: oratcjc- and
".rape fruit neie li'nzcn mi the trees
ami in many ca-cs the trees them
solves weic Iru.ea. The los-e- are
expected to run iatn millions of dollar.-.
Losses to I'niil. Ii.nccr, are
-mailer I lui ti vcelahles, n. most of
the cil i ii- truit croi .has liccn ship
ped. FLORIDA ORANGE CROP
ESCAPES SEVERE FROST
TAMI'A, FI,,., I'eli. ;.- Lower Ii m
poraturcs expected In.-! nil,t did not
materialize. The tear of ilauiaue to
this year's orange cruti i- not so
vreat as in, mediately follnwiii'.' the
low tciupcral lire of yesterday.
Consul Frost Repo ts Sinking of the
Steamer Eaveston by Submarine
and KilMnrj of Seaman Vessel
Was Provisional Collier and Pos
sibly in Admiralty Service at Time.
WASHINGTON', Fch. I!.--An offi
cial report of the sinkim; of the
steaniei Fmcston and the killinu of
an American senman reached the
-tatc department today from I'oasul
Frost ,it (Juenislnwn. Tlie ship v:i
a provisional I'oilish collier.
Consul Frost's message said:
"I'lovisional llritish collier Haves
Ion sunk hy shell fire from (ionium
snlnnarine in vicinity of Faslnel yes
terdny ( I'diruary -1. American nc-:
yrn, ahle seaman, liieliard Wallace,
of Baltimore, killed during slieltiu' of
limit a I lor lei 1 Kavcston. I leliiils not
yet a'nilal)le."
Consul Krosl's dispatch descrihin.
the l-'avi'stonc as n tiro'isional col
lier leads to the pussjhililv that the
tlest roved vessel iiiiuht lie classed as
a warship. If al the lime of the
sinkinir the Kavcston was in ndmiral-
ty service, no possihility of troulile
with (lenaany on tlmt score opens up.
Amhassudor Fjimc has heen in
sti'iieted to send on further details.
In any case, otlicials sav it is
douhlful if any inquiry will he ad-'
dressed to Itcrlin.
American First I, lie.
With prospects for another dav of
waiting for development of tlie ruth
less Mihmuriue cnnipuiiiu that muy
living war hetweeu the I'niled Slides
ami- (Icrniuiiy. intincdiute interest here
ceutcrid toilny uiou the destruelion
ol' the British steamer Kmeston, in
which an American citizen lost his
life. Apparently ofl'icials arc confi
dent that this incident will not prove
to he 11 verl act thai will cause
hostilities, hut nevertheless complete
reports are awaited with lii'iivc anx
iety. The scnale fodav was reridy to
adopt a resolution uulm-siim- the pres
ident's action in hreakimj relations
with (lertnatiy and the house is ex
pected to place itself on record in a
similar way.
Xloh Illion Industry,
Tho war and navv departments
continued to formulaic plans for
moliili'.'.aliou of industrial and com-
mcrciai futves, as well as military.
so that these miulit he placed in op
eration under .uovci'iiiiiciit direction on
short orders. Conn! Yon I'ernstorff.
his staff and all Oerinan consuls in
this country, composing a pucly of
more Ihun i If ) , will sail next Tuesday
from New York on the Sciiniliuavinn
liner Frederick VIII lor Chrisl iania.
President Wilson's proclamation
I'orliiildinu transfer of American ships
lo foreii:n registry, n 1 1 Ininuh reoom
aienitcil hy the shipping fioard hefore
the pre-cut iulcrnatiolial crisis ilecl
oped, is cxpeclcd In have a highly
impoilaiil el feel ill the retention of
lonnaye which would he needed in
case of war.
Indications in official circles arc
that ihe cfivernmcnl will not under
take to convoy merchantmen ihioicjh
Ihe prescribed war zone, or to arm
them for ilcfcn-c.
WASHINGTON, Fell. 0, - Slate de
partment officials reiterated today,
that sailings of American ships to
the war zone still were at the risk of
private Individuals anil that the slate
department had taken no action nl
thoa.s.'h the statement of Its attitude
may he Issued soon for their niild
ance. It was also reiterated ihj,( thiT
was no chant,!.' of the status of war
hound (Icraian ships In American
ports. Although (he authorities have
taken possession of them to prevent
destruction or ilanners to navmation,
(hey still are (ierman private prop
erty and wilt he so rosper-ted.
Ill fact, it was emphasized here to
day that all Oerinan private property
III the I'niled .Stale Is luifonuardeil
hy law.
Foreign Secretary Zimmermann Says
Non-Hostile Words Appreciated,
But That Germany Is Firm to En
force Submarine Warfare Press
Says President Deceiving Himself,
I'.KI.'I.IN, Feb. (i.-Foreign Secre
tary .immermanu has made the fol
low in,;; statement to the Overseas!
News agency :
"We rciiict this measure taken' hv
President Wilson, all the more s'nee,
against all traditions and inlcrna''on- .
al law, we are cut off from nil d'.reet
coniiniiuicntion nnd rcidnr inter
course with the trans-Allnnlie world.
We al-o rciuemlicr that American
diplomats ilui'inv; Ihe last months anil
years of the war have cared for (Icr
mnu interests by proxy, in several
lio-tile countries with efficiency ami
si real success.
Appreciates Spirit.
"The text of the president's nies
sitjji1 in tile absence of oilier official
documcnls, has therefore been exam
ined most minutely. Iliivinir no icel
reason for hostility. In the Fnirril
Slales, reinenibcriiis' i lio trnditional
fiienilship which litis existed hetweeu
the countries prnelicullv from the
first days 01; the I'niled Slnte.s, we
naturally appreciate the words of n.
rather, jion-hoslile charncter which,
nnioni; others of n dift'erent ehanic
tcr, arc J'oiind in tlmt message, ns
iransniitted hy lleulcr's. In tl.e'ii
President Wilson sives tissurimce
thai he wishes' no "hostile coufliel.'
wilh (lerniaiiy, and I eiin ndd that wo
appreciate this and other purnuiapli.s.
in t tie niessime .loiuiin; in tins respect
with President Wilson's note.
'"While we think lo u cerium extent;
thai we can see by what reiisons Hit
I'niled Slnles covcrumcnl wasv
prompted to its prescnl altitude, on
the oilier hand, we expect that l'.'.'d
ilcni Wilson to the same extent may,
recognize Hie reasons which prompi
ed us to take our decision. '
Opinion ol' IVoss.
The cnernl oiiniou expressed hy
the Berlin papers on the tleriniin
American sit mil inn is that President'.
WiUon bus failed lo "rasp the real
significance of affairs in Kurupe nnd
has misinterpreted (ieriuaiiy's poi
lion ami intentions. The Lokul An
zci!;er says; "president Wilson lnisi
faded In jud'e the silnation l'ro;n ihe
lolly heinhls of non-partisanship and
is unwillinu' lo eo-operuto in jirevenl
i 1 1 u- further misery and sacrifice. He
has shut his eyes to all the motives
which, after malure deliberiitiou.
caused (ierinany to employ the most
effective weapon in her power n;iiiisc
Ihe most inlimnnii of her eneiuie.s.''
The l.okal Anzeier tlicii speaks of
Prc-idcnt Wilson's "apparent itnwil
linirness Inlioliovc thai Ocrmauy will
do wliul she said," and adds ;
"ll is scarcely lielievalilc Hint.
I'rc-iilcnt Wilson does mil helicve in
the seriousness of our decision. U'
lie really expects that we will draw
back, if he believes that the breach
of iliploiunlic relations will cause lis
lo chance nut- mind, be embraces nit
error which may have Ihe most daii
Merous eonsetiueuccs.''
Not I'linlltciieil.
'flic Anzeiirer says that (Icrmany'is
step was taken alter all possible con
sequences had been duly weighed and
thai "therefore no threat can friulit-
(icoi"'e lieriihard, wriliii',- in the
Vossische Zeiiunjr, adopts the snmu
lone as the Lokal Anzeiuer. '"Presi-
j dent Wil-iui," he says, "i, ntiwillimr
lo believe thai (Icrmuny will do whlif.
.-he says. This time there is no hack
ward step for Oermnny. It is.dntiblv
(Continued on Pauo Five.)
EE
IS A TOTAL LOSS
KI'ltKKA. Cat., Fell. G. Machin
ery, eiiuipment and ammunition
aboard (he stranded I'nlted Stales
cruicer Milwnukee, un the- beach
rorth of here, are, with tho vessel
itself, a complete loss In Hie. opinion
of Inspecting eiiKlneers. Uniting
seas have packed the hull with wind.
Prospects ol floatlUK tiie subma
rine II-:',, also nurounrt near the Mil
waukee, were declared excollont.