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f T VOL. LIII yO. 1G,356. PORTLAND, OREGON, SATURDAY, APRIL 36, 113. PRICE FIVE CENTS. MamMa,, ... ... , , SUFFRAGE COURT- MARTIAL CALLED American Woman Ac cused of "Treason." SUFFRAGETTE RIFT IS SEEN AH of "Cabinet" Out of Jail Attend Meeting. THREE CHARGES ARE MADE Failure to Inform Tnlon or Exact Hoar of Release of Zelle Emer son One of Specifications Against 3Irs. Ford. LONDON-. April !5. A rift between the Women'! Social and Political Union, the organization t militant suffrag ettes, and tta American members was indicated today by the summoning of a "court martial" composed of -General-Mrs. Flora Drummond, acting as Judge advocate, and the "cabinet" of the union sitting as Judges to try Mrs. Mary Ford, of New York, on a charge im.mii ia th society The military features of the court w.r an in correct form, wltn tne ex ception that there was no means of compelling the attendance ot the ac cused woman who failed to appear. Tare Caargea Made. Mrs. Ford said later that she knew nothing of the charge and did not ex pect to appear before the court. The charges against Mrs. Ford as prepared by "General" Drummond were three, as follows: First Falling to Inform the union as to the exact hour of tha release of Miss !lle Emerson, of Jackson. Mich., which 1 .ict was within Mrs. Ford's knowledge and. being valuable to the organisation, she was in duly bound to reveal. Second The allegation that Mrs. Ford had told American press repre sentatives in London that the anion planned the kidnaping of Miss Emerson from her mother. Third That Mrs. Ford had contra vened a strict rule of the onion by an nouncing publicly that she had com mitted specific acta of militancy. Spertae Deeds Kept Secret. In court today It was explained tbst this rule was important and the record was pointed out. showing that the only suffragettes who have been caught were captured red-handed, while the others went scot free. This, it waa said. In dicated that the perpetrators of mili tant acts, while glorying In their Jail records, did not talk about their specific deed In --itir- these facts, which she cent ended were proved by a sheaf of clippings from American papers wnicn she waved aloft. "General" Drummond denounced the American woman as a traitor. When Informed of the charges Mrs. Ford declared she knew nothing of them, and believed herself to be on the most friendly terms with the or ganization, which she had been assist ing by voluntary work In Its press bureau. All Omt of Jail Are Preaeat. fr Ford ridiculed the second charge, saying that h had not in formed anyone of auch a plot which she herself was unaware existed. Today's affair is considered as Im .11 the "cabinet" of the Wo- men's Social and Political Union-out of Jail being present. "General" Drummond declares that the militant organization Is full of spies no fewer than, six or its mem- bers, nn of whom Is an American woman, being agents of Scotland Yard. COUPLE LEAP .180 FEET Antwerp Suicide Compact Carried Ont With Sensational Incident. ANTWERP. April 23. A youth 18 years old and a l-year-old girl were the principal characters In a love tragedy enacted here today. Arm in arm they climbed to the clock gallery In the tower of the Notre Dame Ca thedral and from a height of 180 feet leaped into space, falling at the feet of passersby. Every bono In the bodies of the boy and his companion was broken. As they huttled through the air several men and women who witnessed the sight fainted. According the police the leap from the church tower waa In accordance with a premeditated double-sulclde pact. 3 CHILDREN BURNED ALIVE Mother Severely Scorched In Trying to Rescue Little Ones. BOIaE. Idaho. April 15. Earl and Herman Sehnltz, four and six years old. and Willie Chapman, aged four, are dead and Mrs. George W. Chapman, the widowed mother of one of the chil dren. Is badly burned as the result of a fire started by the boys, who were playing with matches today In a shed partially filled with waste paper. The children were trapped, as the only exit wss through a small opening r-ar the top of the shed, through which tl-.cy had crawled. The mother was i,.,taril while trying to save tbem. HUNT FOR BODY OF FRANKLIN PLANNED CAPTAIN" PETER BATXE PRE PARES FOR ARCTIC TRIP. Survivor of Early Searching Pnrtj Buys Vessel and Will Sail From Seattle June 1. . SEATTLE. Wash., April 25. Captain Peter Bayne. a;ed 69 years, probably the last survivor of Dr. Charles Hall Franklin research expedition that sought for three years, beginning in 1 fififi for the bodies of memDers or. in ei. i.h. Franklin expedition and which .,..r1 In establishing the fact that all its members had perished, has pur chased the old Ajctio scnooner uu. Kr-t. nri in niitflttlntr her here for i Victoria Land, to again search for Sir John Franklin's body, which is buried in a tomb mada by hla own men R.vn. will sail for the Arctic June 1 and exnects to reach Point Barrow. th northern extremity of Alaska, August Tho Summer or 191 ne win eau atrfv. Tl.. 1111 vxnedition that brought hark In 1889 tnuv relics of the Frank lin party, waa composed of 12 men and set out from Repulse Bay. northwest or Hudson Bay. Its success was only partial, because of a feud between the In-Ulirk FskimoiL of King William Jjnl ami the Keltchllle Eskimos, of Victoria Land, over the muskox rang. Dr. Halls Iwllllck Eskimos dareu uut niM th nartv In Victoria Land. A chief of the Neitchille .Eskimos told their men that after Franklins death hi men irnda a vault, ciled atones over the body and placed soft mud between the rocks, making a concrete monu ment Rmvtib sava ha knows within 20 miles the location of Franklin's tomb. Sir John Franklin, with the ahlps Frebua and Terrlr, entered the Arctic In 1845 from the Pacific side. Franklin died Juno 1. 187, according to a cairn record. GERMANS SEEKING LANDS Locations for 350O Farmers Sought Through Oregon Bankers. Through the agency of the agricul tural committee of the Oregon Bank ers Association, three or four repre sentatlvea of a colony of German farm ers now are looking over ' available agricultural land In the state with, a view of purchasing enough land to ac commodate 3500 people. Emery Olmstead. chairman of the committee, has written to the bankers In the various communities that these men are to visit, asking them to direct the visitors to the best land in the com. munlty that can be bought reasonably. The bankers association hopes to bring the prospective purchasers Into direct contact with the present owners. The people with which it Is proposed to populate the land, which these men are seeking, now live In various parts of the United States and Canada, while some will come direct from their homes In Germany. ROSE CITY TO LEAD PARADE As Commodore, Captain Rankin Will Head Rex Oregonus Fleet. George L. Hutrhln. manager of the Rose Festival Association, waa yester day informed by G. L. Blair, general manager of the "Big Three" fleet, that aa the steamer Rose City would be in port from June 1 to June 6, she would be available to head the water pageant of June 5. 'the day the Rose Festival Is to be formally opened with the ar rive' of Rex Oregonus from his river ha ant. This decision makes Captain P,nkln commodore of the Rex Oregonus fleet. , The icose city was tne nrst aeep water vessel to serve as flagship of a Rose Festival water parade in the 1911 event. Her participation waa suggest ed because of her name. Mr. Hutchin caya other vessels have been proffered and it ia planned to have out-of-town clubs given places on different steamers in the column. FIREMEN INVENT DEVICE Pushing Button Sounds Alarm, Tunis On Lights and Starts Auto A unique system for the starting of the engine In the new automobile Are trucks being installed by the fire de partment has been Invented by George G. Chute, a fireman of the Stark-street station, and Chester A. Groat, a former fireman. Patents on the device are pending. The pushing of a button in the alarm room at a Cre station will automati cally sound the alarm gong, turn on the lights In the station and start the engine In the automobile. When the motor truck starts the lights In the station are automatically turned off. The arrangement for starting the en gine la worked by two large bevel gears running from a motor and oper ated by a square shaft running through one of the bevel gears connected with a universal joint attached to a worm driven gear on a crank shaft. PRINCE HOST OF CHILDREN Profits From Book by Iloyal Author Go to Charity Undertaking. BERLIN, April 15. The German Crown Prince made a popular move to day when he announced that he had arranged to lake 100 poor Berlin school children for a three weeks' visit to the seashore at Danzig. The youngsters are to be quartered In the regimental barracks of the Crown Frlnce's command during their stay. The expenses of the vacation are to be defrayed from the pro (lis of the Crown Prince's book, "From My Hunting Diary." published last year. t I I BRYGE APPEALS TO HONOR OF NATION Statement in Address Is Significant. TRIBUTE IS PAID TO BRYAN Secretary Declared , to Have Shown His Fairness. HOPEFUL NOTE SOUNDED Ambassador. Bidding Farewell, Men tions Steili I y Advancing Stand ard -of Civic Duty as Reason for Optimism. NEW YORK. April 25. James Bryce on the eve of his departure for home after six years as Ambassador to the United States from Great Britain, said bis farewell to the American people tonight in an address here before the Pilgrims Society of the United States. He referred with feeling to his cordial relations with the three Presidents in office during his service in Washing ton and said he had no words to convey his sense of the kindness with which he had been received In America. National Honor First Asset. Mr. Bryce did not touch directly on any Issue now pending between the American and British governments. This statement, however, was regarded as significant: "With good will and with a convic tion that, one of every nation's highest assets is that sense of national honor which will make it live up to its In ternational obligation, all questions be tween nations can be adjusted, and I am sure that any questions between your country and mine will be adjusted in that way." Mentioning that more than a dozen important treaties between his govern ment and the United States' had been concluded In the last six years Mr. Bryce said ho had come to admire not only the ''brilliant "gifts of former Sec retary Root, but his fairness of mind a ixl his genuine love of peace." He added that he felt sure that Mr. Bryan "would show no leas earnest wish to work for accord and good will and Mr. Bryan, indeed, has given evidence . of thls.- Mesaage of Friendship Borne "My mission. he said, "has been not merely to represent my sovereign and government for diplomatic purposes but also to bear a message of friend ship from the British to the American people. 'In that friendship there is not and there ought not to be anything exclu sive. I have never suggested that you and we should make any sort of alli ance against the rest of the world. We may usefully co-operate for many pur poses, because our alms and our spirits are substantially the same. But Concluded on Pae 2.) INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 74 derrces: minimum. 47 degrees. TODAYS Showers. cooler; southwesterly winds. Foreign. British suffragettes to court-martial Ameri can woman for "treason. Face 1. National. Tariff "school" open In House. Page 1. Army officer eager to accept Colonelcy of Oregon Third, page 2. Bryan to make Weatern trip aa brief as poaalble. Page 2. Wll(on close engagement llat to see ball game. Page 2: , Notables divided over Bryan's "grape Juice' banquet. Page 3. Domestic. Jack London to art for moving pictures In , .dramatization of his own storlss. rage 1 Ambassador Bryce speaks significantly of sense of National honor. Page X. ' New Haven road secrets hinted at In Boston hearing. Page 2. Prize of 110.000 offered for best American opera. Page 8.- . Millionaire's attorney promises to produce him In "white slave' cases. Page I. Sonora. rebels propose to confiscate indus tries that close down Because or war. Page 3. Bx-6ecrctary Olney says United States has right to fix all ruls for Panama canal. Fage 2., Pacific Northwest. Oregon city Livestock Fair attracts many visitors. Faga 5. Captain Boyne to aearch Arctics for tomb ot Dr. Franklin. Page1. Newberg girl defenda Dr. Ranck and wife. who, she says, befriended her. Page S. State Sunday School Convention brings out decided opinions. Page 5. Sport. Pacific Coast League results: Sacramento 7. Portland 4; Oakland 6. venire S: Lios ' Angeles 4. San Francisco 2. Page 7. Northwestern League results: Portland-Van couver game postponed, rain; Spokane s. Victoria 6: Seattle f. Tacoma 4. Page 7. Dozen or more boxers and wrestlers to be seen In Seattle meet In Alay. Page . Buddy Ryan may return to Beavers. Commercial and Marine. All grains are advancing lu Northwestern markets. Page 1 7. Wheat higher at Chicago on export talk. Page 17. Minor Industrial stocks touch new low points. Page 17. Fine crop outlook basis for optimism in west ana South. Page 17. Hamburg-American and Royal Mail chose North Bank docks to be used In Port land. Portland and Vicinity. Investigators charge waste In conduct of City Engineering Department. Page 10. Discharged Janitor of Buck Apartments ar rested, charged with starting destructive fire. Page 10. Baker Theater to have extra offerings two nights next week. Page 10. Justices sitting en banc to determine whp is at error in enerurs raids on rnts s Russell's saloon. Page 10. Lincoln High students celebrate fourth an nua! "loud sock day." Page 16. FOWLER FLIESAT PANAMA Avlalor Takes Moving Pictures of Cnnal Below Him. Panama; aphi - 25. Robert g. Fowler, tho American aviator, made two aeroplane flights here today. The first flight was around the City of Panama. Ancon and the nearby vil lages. The second was over the site of the fortifications in the bay and up the canal entrance as far as tho Pedro Miguel locks. The aviator took moving pictures 01 the scenes below. Tomorrow Fowler expects to make a flight across the Isthmus of Panama, Aggies Help Oregon City Boosters. OREGON AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. Corvallis. Or., April 25. (Special.) In accordance with arrangements made with the extension division of Oregon Agricultural College by the Oregon City Commercial Club, four represen tatives of the Institution are assisting the boosters of that city at tho stock show. Director Ralph D. Hetzel, of tho extension division, will be in attend ance Saturday to serve as one of the officials. HELPING UNCLE SAM CONSERVE. LIS HOUSE Innovation Puts Mem bers in Uproar. REPUBLICAN ASSAILS BILL Defender Points With Pride to "Dumping Clause." UNDERWOOD IS LAUDED Palmer Declares Just Complaint of American Manufacturers That Ho Is Treated Unfairly Has Been Forestalled. WASHINGTON, April 25. Frivolous and serious treatment was accorded the tariff question today in the House de bate. Representative Moore, Kepublican, of Pennsylvania, contributing a novelty by conducting a tariff primary class for the edification and amusement of his colleagues, and Representative A. Mitchell Palmer, chairman of the Demo cratic caucus, delivering the principal argument of the day in behalf of tha Underwood bill. Representative Keating, Democrat, of Colorado, who declared he was elected upon a free sugar platform, aroused Representatives from beet sugar states with the declaration that every beet sugar factory in the United States was controlled by the American Sugar Refining Company, either by stock or by selling agreement. Selling Agreement Charged. He declared there was a Belling agreement by which the "trust" fixed the price to the consumer, and when challenged by Representative Kelly, of Michigan, Mr. Keating declared he could prove it by business conditions and facta relating to the beet sugar industry of his own state. Mr. Moore's Innovation put the House into an uproar, He presented himself in the guise of a pupil arguing Ques tions in a "tariff primer."- put to him by the reading clerk of the House. The climax came when Representative Lo beck, of . Nebraska, raising his hand while Mr. Moore was reciting his tariff lesson, demanded recognition. Pupil Playa' Part, Too. "For what purpose does' the gentle man riser' asked Representative Gar rett, of Tennessee, the presiding officer, who at this moment assumed the role of principal of the school. "Please, teacher." Mr. Lobeck grin nlngly responded, "may I go out?" The principal's answer was drowned in the laughter and applause, while Mr. Garrett pounded his gavel to sub due his unruly pupils. Representative Palmer championed the Underwood Dill as a measure which would surely bring relief to the people of tho Nation if it received the united (Concluded on Page 2.) OLD? TARIFF SCHflfl OPENED AUTHORTOACTOWN STORIES IN MOVIES JACK LOXDOX SATS HE WILL GIVE PICTURES "PO'CH." Xovcls to Be Dramatized for Films and "Writer .Will Himself Play Leading Part. LOS ANGELES, April 23. Special.) Jack London, author, adventurer, so ciologist, will enact in motion pictures here all of his novels and short stories: giving them, in his red-blooded man ner, "the. punch," that has made his stories famous. Today he completed a deal in this city by which a local con cern gets the exclusive use of London's stories In motion pictures air over the world. . "I have just completed a deal," said Mr. London, "by which I shall appear as the leading actor in all my own short stories and novdls dramatized Into motion pictures. I am going into the pictures to give them "the punch' that is almost impossible to communi cate to another. "Will it mean a fortune fjjn me? Well. I'll buy two or three JerScy cows for my Valley of the Moon ranch with proceeds." VACANCIES CAUSE DELAY Telephone Ca.e Goes Over for Lack of Prosecutors. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, April 25. Because the Govern ment has no prosecuting officers at Portland or Seattle to present Its Bide of the Bell Telephone case to the Fed eral grand jury, the case will be ad journed again until May 5. Senators Chamberlain and Lane called on the Attorney-General today, in compliance with telegraphic requests from home, to urge that the Government make its showing In this case immediately. The Attorney-General explained he was powerless to act because the Senate had not confirmed the nomination of Clarence L. Reames as District Attor ney for Oregon, and the President had not appointed a District Attorney' for Western Washington. The Senators said they had hoped Reames would be confirmed next week, but all depends on the attitude of the Republican Senators. - Senator Lane said that in view of the pending telephone suit he would make application to the Senate to confirm Reames Monday, pointing out that an emergency exists and that the vacancy In the District Attorney's office Is em barrasslng the Government. BELGIANS GET SURPRISE Workers ia Brussels Suburbs Find They Are Discharged. BRUSSELS, April 25. More" than half the Belgian workers who took part in the strike for equal suffrage returned to their employment today, but the resumption of work was ir regular in some parts of the country. Some of the trade unions ordered their men to begin today, others tomorrow, and still others on Monday next, while a few are determined to remain out until May 1. Disagreeable surprises met the hands who had struck at factories in the suburbs of Brussels. When they ap peared at the gates this morning, ready to recommence work, all the old em ployes were refused admission and were told that they were discharged. 0'GORMAN RENTS 'RED TOP' Statesmen Show Liking for Homes of Preceding Notables. WASHINGTON. April 25. "Red Top." noted as the Summer White House in President Cleveland's administration and in which Mr. Cleveland Invariably lived during the hot months when he was not at Buzzards' Bay, Is to be oc cupied by Senator O'Gorman. Many present-day statesmen In Washington are showing a preference for the homes of those who have gone before. Secretary Bryan has leased the former home of Major-General John A. Logan. Throughout the suburbs of Washington other manor houses and garden spots famous In the making of history half a century ago are being repaired and brushed up for their new occupant. GIRL SAVES JFALLING CHUM Toung Woman Slips From Head of Statue of Liberty and Is Caught. NEW YORK, April 25. Elghteen-year-old Margaret Donovan was saved from a 300-foot fall from the head of the Statue of Liberty today by her chum, Gladys Revere, who caught hold of her dress Just as she was slipping from the window ledge that surrounds Miss Liberty's crown. Screaming for help. Miss Revere held on to the dress with both hands until other sightseers came to the rescue and dragged the girl in feet first. Miss Donovan ventured out on the ledge on a dare and became dizzy. POPE IS MUCH IMPROVED American Bishop to Be Received To day by Merry del Val. ROME, April 25. Pope Pius was much better today. Cardinal Merry del Val Informed Right Rev. Joseph Schrembs. bishop of Toledo, that the Pope "is suffering from the conse quences of an attack of grippe, which would have passed unnoticed if it had affected an ordinary person." The cardinal will give an audience tomorrow to tho American pilgrimage under Bishop Schrembs. IE SHAFT AIMED AT SHOE COMPAH O'Hara Asks Missouri to Co-operate. GIRLS UNDERPAID, IS CHARGE Factory Superintendent Told He Is Disgrace to State. EXAMINERS ARE WRATHFUL Young Women Testify They Kecrivc Five Cents for Sewing Tips on 72 Shoes and Are Fined Five Cents for Spoiling One. . SPRINGFIELD, 111.. April re (Spe cial.) Co-operation of tho Missouri legislative white slave Investigation committee with the Illinois commission In an. investigation of wage conditions in factories of the International Shoo Company was requested by Lieutenant. Governor O'Hara tonight in a telegram sent to Lieutenant-Governor Paynter, of Missouri. Mr. O'Hara also sent a telegram to President Wilson informing him that law wages paid girl employes by the shoe company should warrant and In vestigation by him, in view of the fact that the corporation has protested against the pending tariff bill on the ground that It could not compete with the supposedly cheaper labor in fac tories abroad. Telegram Sent to Wilson. The telegram to President Wilson said: , "As I have been Informed that this corporation Is supporting a lobby at Washington In opposition to your pro posed tariff law, on the grounds that If certain duties are removed tho girl workers in their shoe factories will bo brought into competition with tho cheap labor of Europe, 1 believe your attention should be called to the teati mony given here today." Lieutenant-Governor O'Hara's tele gram to the Lieutenant-Governor cf Missouri was as follows: "At a meeting of the Illinois Vkp Commission today it developed tha; girls employed In a Springfield fac tory of the International Shoe Com pany are victims of the worst indus trial condition that has yet come be fore this commission. Mr. Derby, su perintendent of the Springfield factory, stated under oath that the Interna tional Shoe Company Is a 125.000,000 corporation and that its executive of ficers are residents of Missouri." "On behalf of our commission, I re spectfully Invite the co-operation of your Missouri Scnato vice commission In a thorough and complete Investiga tion of the methods of this corpora tion." Wrath Tnrned on Superintendent. The attention of the O'Hara investi gators was directed to this company at today's hearing in the Loland Hotel. S. W. Derby, superintendent of the Springfield factory of the company. In curred the wrath of Senator Juul and Lieutenant-Governor O'Hara. Agnes McGIU and Pearl Brlggs, two girl em ployes of the company, had testified they received 5 cents for sewing tips on T2 shoes, and that if they spoiled a single tip they were fined 5 cents. Thcy were able to mako only from 12.75 to $5 a week, they said. "I want to tell you, Mr. Derby, that I for one wish I had the power to drive your concern from the State of Illinois," said "enator Juul, jumping to his feet and pointing his finger at the witness. "You are a disgrace to the state. 'I want to add that you are the greatest disgrace to tho state that wo have yet encountered during our Inves tigations," interposed Lieutenant-Gov ernor O'Hara. "It was your company which first turned tho investigation of this Commission Into a wage in quiry," continued Senator "uul. "it was a story told by a girl who re ceived 13 a week at the St. Louis fac tory of your company and because of It was driven into a life of shame." PORTLAND BANK IS FIFTH Postal Savings Here Exceed San Francisco by $30,000. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, April 25. Only four postal sav ings banks In the United States have greater aggregate deposits than Port land. Latest reports to the Postmaster- General show that on March SI there was on deposit in the Portland bank $718,745. as against $887,715 at Sun Francisco, $277,910 at Tacoma, $275,467 at Seattle and $107,86$ at Astoria. ... BAR BECOMES PRAYER RAIL Saloonkeepers Invite Revivalists to Hold Series of Meetings. PLAINSFIELD, Wis., April 25. Nearly half a hundred men knelt and prayed before the bar of a saloon here last night while a revival meeting was belnjr conducted by three ministers. Religious meetings have been held here nightly for the last two weeks. Saloonkeepers offered the use ot their barrooms and a series of meetings are o be hc in liquor stores. T