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JAPAN SITUATION CONTINUES TENSE Tokio's Attitude Re mains in Doubt. PRIDE OF NIPPON SUFFERS Imputation of Racial Inferior ity Deeply Resented. BRYAN WAITS ON JOHNSON Governor Believed to Intend Taking Pull SO Days Allowed lor Stg ture Chinda Has Not Been Technical. WASHINGTON1. May 18. TenBion ever the Japanese situation continues to excite attention In official and diplo matic quarters, but there were no specific developments today at the White House, the State Department or the Japanese Embassy. Mne of the SO days Governor John son has under the California consti tution to sign the alien land bill have elapsed, and the Impression Is begin ning to gain ground here that the Governor will avail himself of the full measure of time, even though he has declared his purpose to approve the Webb bill. Art of Signature Awaited. Secretary Bryan has not communi cated with the Governor since the re ceipt of his telegraphic message set ting out his reasons for upholding the action of the Legislature, but Is simply watting for the final act of signature before making reply to the Japanese note protesting against the legislation. Whether the Japan' e Embassy will continue to await the expiration of the full 30 days' period of grace before making fresh representations -on this subject to the State Department de pends entirely on the Judgment of the foreign office In Tokio, for from this point forward all of the proceed ing In the negotiations will be "ad referendum." It has been suggested that, although there may be some pre liminary exchanges before the event, the Japanese government can find no technical reason for demanding relief before the commission of some action under the terms of the Webb law to the detriment of a Japanese subject. Farther Delay Probable. ' In that case a further considerable delay is probable, as the act will not go into operation for a period of 90 dsys after It receives the approval of the Government. It Is generally accepted that one of the primary points of protest by Japan Is that the California law Is in con travention of the treaty of 1911. but exactly wherein has not thus far been disclosed. Governor Johnson's last communication to the Federal authori ties analyzed the treaty and the law to the end of showing that the latest enactment is In no way a contraven tion of the treaty. The first and most fundamental Issue, therefore, appears to be over this question of whether the law is, or is not. contrary to the treaty. 'Eligible" Clause Objectionable. While the Japanese viewpoint has not been made known from any offi cial source, yet It Is believed here that they consider the first clause of the new law as the one contravening the spirit. If not the letter of the treaty. This first clause allows aliens "eligible to citizenship" to hold lands. As the Japanese are not, under the present naturalisation laws, eligible to citizen ship, this clause specifically debars them from land ownership. Aside from the Issue on the technical construction of the treaty. It is be lieved here that the Japanese are chiefly concerned In the general effect of the legislation In placing them In the posi tion of an Inferior race. It was pointed out here today that It is against this they have been contending since the memorable visit of Admiral Perry to Japan, when they began the movement which later established them on a mod ern basis among the nations of the world. Bads-e of Inferiority Resented. One of their first steps was to termi nate the old extra-territorial system by which the United States and other for eign countries carried on courts In Japan in order to try American citi zens, on the theory that Japanese laws were, not sufficiently modern to secure justice for foreigners. The extra-territorial treaties were brought to an end through the efforts of Minister Kurlno at Washington, and this served as a start in terminating them with Great Britain, France and other countries. It was regarded as a distinct recognition that Japanese law has advanced to a modern stage where there was no fur ther need for foreign courts, and as terminating a system which Japan re garded as placing on her a reflection of racial Inferiority. The present attitude of desiring equality in the matter of land ownership is regarded in official circles as somewhat similar to the pre vious movement of Japan to terminate what they consider a badge of infer iority on their race. Chinda Not Technical. Some of the diplomatic observers ex press surprise that larger advantage has not been taken of those Informal amenities which frequently have a pow erful Influence in supplementing for- (Concluded on Page 2.) CAPITAL'S SLUMS MAY BE PARKED SIRS. WOODROW WILSON" LEADS IX WASniXGTO.V CLEAX-UP. Society Gasps at First When Presi dent's Wire Becomes Interested, Now 3000 Are Enrolled. WASHINGTON. May IS. (Special.) When bills transforming uoi anej Snow's court, two of Washington's worst slums, into parks are Introduced in Congress this week. Mrs. Woodrow Wilson will have accomplished more . .iinimiinr Dovertv. vice and disease In the capital than any other President's wife has ever done. Her recent slumming trip, on wmcn h w nreonmanled by Representa tives Kahn and Curley, are the reason for the determination of Congress to clean up Washington, whose alleys, rookeries and ancient tenements vie with the worst slums of New lorK. iea bv vn Wilson, a mass meeting of Washington women will be held next Wednesday to consider these conditions further. Three thousand women, many ih.m from the blahest Washington so ciety, are expected to enroll under the baner Mrs. Wilson has unfurled. Society gasped at first; now it is in terested. Never befofe has a Presi dent's wife gone slumming. LAWS AHEAD OF KANSAS Governor Wants State to Have Chance to Catch Up. morr A Vn Mav IS. (Special.) Governor Hodges would have the Kansas Legislature cease meeting for eight or ten years so the state could catch up with the laws now on i -..,.. hnnv TTor six years Kansas BUti U - - Legislatures have been passing the most "progressive" enactments in iu ...,. Hor are some of the first things Kansas did and which other states are copying: Kansas blue sky law, copied by i states. Ahniinhed common drinking cup. cop ied by 28 states and the Government. Abolished the common roller lowei. rr.t.d the first small debtors' courts where lawyers' fees are unknown. Provided efficiency tests tor an employes. Provided the first rating oureau iu. fire Insurance. -Tt th Legislature dlsbana tor sev eral years until the state catches up." said the Governor. "We have a greater .,.. of progressive laws on our statute books than any other common wealth." LAUNCH NEARLY WRECKED Roamer, Cruising Off Newport Is Beached for Repairs. x-r?wtirt. Or May 18. (Special.) Unfamiliar with the coast. A. Angus. running his launch, the Koaraer, on this point, mistook the lights of cot tages along the beach at Nye Creek for Newport and was attempting to n l.indlnir when Intercepted by Captain Carner of the launch Ollie S.. which was Just putting to sea on a fishing trip. uti. Ans-ua accompanied by his friend. Captain J. B. McCallum. had been cruising up ana aown iue o for five hours locking lor a piaco io land when help arrived. Th. Tionmer Is a 40-foot boat ana was crippled, having sprung a crank above the rudder, and being tn a leaky condition. She was towed ashore and beached for repairs. CARS COLLIDE, TWO HURT Miss Bcnlah Hayes and Little Daugh ter of K. A. Rltien Injured. In an automobile accident at East Eleventh and Stanton streets yester- av. one vounc woman sustained se vere injuries, a little girl was badly cut about the face and one of the cars In the collision was damaged to the amount of 1200. Those injured were Miss Beulah Hayes, whose shoulder was wrenched, and the little daughter of E. A. Ritxen, proprietor of the Mon- tavilla Garage. One of the cars was driven by Mr. Ritzen and the other by Miss Edith Gray, daughter of R. M. Gray, a prom inent merchant. With Miss uray were L. Menefee. Miss Hayes and W. B. Clark. When the machines came to gether the Gray car was forced up on bank. Miss Hayes and Mr. Meneiee being thrown to the pavement, but the latter escaped injury. CRUISER TO BE REPAIRED Colorado Arrives at Paget Sound to Be Drydocked. SEATTLE. WasITTMay IS. The ar mored cruiser Colorado arrived at the Puget Sound Navy Yard from San Fran cisco last night and will go into dry dock tomorrow for a general overhaul ing. Repairs costing 1100,000 will be made. The armored cruiser Pittsburg, of the Pacific Reserve fleet will not, as at first Intended, take the Colorado's place on the active list, but will remain at the Navy Yard for further repairs. MAIL BOXES TO BE GREEN Red Objected To as Causing Confu sion With Garbage Cans. WASHINGTON, May 18. Red no longer Is the official color designated by the Po8toffIce Department for street letter boxes. An order that the boxes be painted vermllllon or coach red was abrogated, because the pro tests from many cities that mail boxes frequently were confused with fire alarm or street garbage boxes. Dark green probably will be adopted. crisis impends m MEXICAN SITUATION Refusal to Recognize Huerta Vexes. MONROE DOCTRINE INVOLVED Powers May Be Forced to Collect Own Loans. WILSON YET UNDECIDED Administration Sees Xeed of Action by United States, but Docs Not Want to Recognize Man It Re gards as Madero's Assassin. WASHINGTON. May 18. (Special.) Another crisis Impends in the Mexican situation. It has direct connection with the Monroe doctrine. A large part of President Wilson's two-and-a-half-hour conference with the Secretary of State yesterday was devoted to Mexico, tor the Administration's Mexican policy Is In a tlirht nlace. The Wilson-Bryan policy thus far has consisted simply of a refusal to recognise the Huerta gov ernment until an election could be neia and a constitutional President elected. General Huerta's protests that he is constitutional President fell on deaf ears in Washington. Because of this lack of American rec ognition and the unsympathetic atti tude of the Administration toward bankers, the great New York banking houses have refused to make the Hu erto government a loan necessary for the prosecution of a campaign against the revolutionists. The agents of Hu erta have scoured Wall and Broad streets in vain. Agents Sent to Europe. . Other agents were dispatched to Eu rope. Great Britain, without awaiting the initiative of the United States, rec ognized the Huerta government. France did likewise. Ainrmrrf at the prospect of a full war chest at Mexico City, General Venusti- ano Carranxa, the most prominent, ui ih revolutionary leaders In Mexico, who styles himself "Chief Executive of the Mexican Constitutional Govern ment." gave out through his agents in wo.hlne-ton and elsewhere' that his government would recognize no debt contracted by President Huerta. Thin means that If the revolutionists gain control of the government at Mexico City, they will repudiate any loan made the Huerta government. Notwithstanding this warning, cer tain London and Paris bankers are pre pared to take a considerable Mexican loan, but it must be offered at 80 and be amply secured. Should President Huerta, despite this prospective acquisition of funds, (Concluded on Page 2.) INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. ' YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature. 61 degree: minimum. 49 dogreea. TODAY'S Fair, northwesterly winds. Foreign. European society agog over marrtage of Kaiser's daughter to Prince Ernst. Pace 3. Japanese situation still causes tension In official Washington. Page 1. National. Atlantic fleet being qutetty groomed for duty. Page 2. Hitchcock's friends say he la treated un fairly by Wilson Administration. Page B. Mrs. Woodrow Wilson leads In move to transform Washington alums. Page 1. Secretary Garrison says land sides of forts are Inadequately protected. Page 2. Party lines In Senate strengthened by Wil son's declaration. Page 1. Reclamation hearings show flaws in admin istration of laws. Page S. Crisis again ImoenSs in Mexican situation. Page 1. Domestic. Archibald Guthrie, railroad builder, dies in Chicago. Page 8. Rivals for girl's hand overdo In trying to win father, who ejects both. Page 3. Rockefeller Investigators make census of Gotham's underworld. Page 5. Boston Spiritualists seek to find out from dead palmist who removed his brain. Page 1. "Mother" Jones makes belligerent address Boston savant - predicts that love-making will soon yield to science of eugenics. Pace 3. Pacific Northwest. Southern Oregon cities hosts to admen of Northwest. Page 1. Proposed Columbia bridge declared great est link In pacific highway. Page 14. Sports. Northwestern League results: Victoria 2. Portland 1: Seattle 7, Vancouver fl: Spo. kane 2. Tacoroa 1. Page S. Pacific Coast League results: Los Angeles 6-8. Portland 0-3: Oakland 2-5. San Francisco 0-S; Venice 3, Sacramento 0. Page 8. Tacoma Tigers to open In Portland today. Page 8. Giants at last strike pace in National League. Page 0. Ryan is surprise of Los Angeles team. Page 9. Cavil! to repeat lean from bridge in sack at Rose Festival. Page 11. Portland and Vicinity. Hudson Identified as Charles H. Wax, of Qloversvllle. N. Y. Pace 7. More records of candidates given. Page 10. Weather report, data and forecast. Page 1L Mazamas enjoy hike to Marmot. Page 11. Rev. J. H. Bennett lays stress on Sunday observance. Page 14. Demands for speeches by Mr. Albee too numerous fur candidate's schedule. Pact 4. ROSES TO BE PLENTIFUL Few Days of Sunshine Will Start Bushes to Blooming. Although the season Is about two weeks late, there will be an abundance of splendid roses for the Rose Festival, June 9-15, in the opinion of those whose business and pleasure it is to cultivate the blossom of which Hafia and Omar gang. " With normal weather, there will be plenty of roses. -A few days of strong sunshine, such as may be -reasonably expected, will bring them on rapidly. "The season is unusually backward," said William S. Sibson, who picked tho first full-blown rose in his gardens yes terday, two weeks later than the pion eer bloom last year. "I do not believe that the roses on Portland Heights will be In full bloom by Festival week." said Mr, Sibson, but there should be a multitude of blossoms down in the city proper. The fact that the season is late does not mean that theve is any danger of a rose famine, for .the plants are all ready to bloom and can put forth in all their glory with but a few days of encouraging weather." TREAT 'EM EIGHT. ' EFFECT OF WILSON'S DECLARATION FELT Party Lines in Senate Are Strengthened. CAUCUS WILL BE BINDING Committee Will Not Amend Either Wool or Sugar. OTHER CHANGES PROBABLE Conference Xow Seen to Be Neces sary After Senate Passes Tar- . Iff Bill Underwod Pre pares His Slate. WASHINGTON. May IS. The effect of President Wilson's public declara tion that there would be no compro mise on free wool and free sugar in three years In the new tariff bill has been the subject of constant discus sion since the Chief Executive made his pronunclamento last week. Administration leaders declare that the President's vigorous assertion has served to strengthen the party line in the Senate. President's Influence Felt. , Before the President came out so strongly in the face of the tremendous lobby influence that completely sur rounds the Capitol,' the legislative air was surcharged with uncertainty. On every hand was heard the report that the finance committee was planning to nut a dutv on wool or to cut out the three year free sugar provision and to leave sugar at the end or a tnree year period with a small tariff. When the President reaffirmed his determina tion to stand by the schedules which he virtually dictated Into the tariff bill, only Senators Ransdell and Thorn ton, of Louisiana, broke through tho party lines to remain outside until the end. The interpretation of the Democratic platform as relating to free sugar giv en by Senator J&rlX Kentucky, as the spokesman for the Administration, gave a further indication of the exact situation. James Scores for Wilson. Senator James declared that the par ty did favor free sugar; that it cam noirncH on that issue, and with the President he challenged any one to find a man who could truthfully assert that Woodrow Wilson ever said he op posed free sugar. Again the Adminis tration scored. For two or perhaps three weeks the bill will be in the hands of the finance committee and, whatever other sched ules may be altered, the assurance has gone out that no change in wool or sugar will be recommended when the (Concluded on Page 2.) BRAIN LOST; DEAD ASKED TO FIND IT SPIRITUALISTS SEEK TO COM MUNE WITH FLETCHER. Leading Mediums of Boston Deny Police Charge That Palmist Committed Suicide. BOSTON, May IS. (Special.) Crowds of devout worshipers filled Spiritualist temples and churches here today, where all pastors, by a previous ar rangement, made persistent efforts during the service to get Into com munication with the spirit of John W. Fletcher, palmist, to learn what had become of his brain, which disappeared mysteriously after his death. April 22. Some of the leading mediums of the city have reported receiving communi cations from Fletcher since he died. Policemen went to Fletcher's lavish ly appointed apartments in Hotel Pelham to arrest him on a serious charge, and he fell to the floor uncon scious and died at a hospital within a few hours. The police charged that he took a poison tablet and committed suicide. Fletcher's many powerful friends and spiritualists declare the charge by the police was baseless. They are striving to establish communication with the spirit so as to work in unison in estab lishing his Innocence of the police charge. It was spiritualists who first made the discovery that Fletcher's brain liad been stolen from his head after his death. Mediums announced that in communications received from Fletcher he said his brain was taken and is now concealed in a bottle back on a dark shelf in a dark office In the congested district of the city. An investigation proved the truth of a part of the state ment. GERMANY AIDING TURKEY Sultan Using Every Resource to Pay Army and Continue War. CONSTANTINOPLE, May 18. (Spe cial.) When peace negotiations opened in London last Winter it was predicted from inside knowledge that they would end in a fiasco. The Turks still are holding Constan tinople and will hold out Indefinitely. Turkey, on German advice, and with German assistance, is reinforcing with men and German guns Chataldja lines. Until those lines are forced Turkey will never sign a treaty of dereat. Fubllc revenues being crippled through amputation in Europe and ex hausting in Asia, the Turkish Govern ment is borrowing in driblets to he extent of about 60 per cent of her nor mal revenue in order to pay the army and carry on tho war. In the mean time seeds of fanaticism, sown delib erately last Fall by a committee of Union and Progress, are bearing fruit In the campaign of massacre In Ar menia, while Syria and Arabia are or ganizing their violent detachment from the erstwhile Ottoman Empire. 'TIMBER PRINCE' UNMOVED Lumber Tariff Removal No Cause for Worry, Says Weyerhaeuser. SPOKANE, Wash., May 18. (Spe cial.) In an interview at Sand Point, Idaho, Saturday. Charles A. Weyer haeuser, member of the world's great est family of lumbermen, declared that the removal of tariff on lumber would have little or no efect on the Industry In the United States. "I can see no reason why the lum bermen of the United States cannot oaeiiv niiixt themselves to the removal of tariff without any aDoarent effort," stated Mr. Weyerhaeuser. "The tariff, as it stands, is so low that the removal will not seriously affect the Industry. We are not worrying." Mr. Weyerhaeuser left today for the Coast, where he will Inspect holdings of the Weyerhaeuser interests, alter which he will return to his home In Little Falls, Minn. He came West to attend the funeral of William Deary, the Potlatch lumberman, who died re cently. TAFT, JR., ISOLD CLO' MAN Ex-President's Son Has Busy Week In Charity Undertaking. r 4 Tit BRIDGE. Mass.. May 18. (Spe- oioi T?nhert A. Taft. son of ex-Presi- dent Taft, last night finished his task as collector of old clothes at Harvaro, where he is a student at the law school. He turned over to the committee of the Phillips Brook's House one of the largest collections of the week. Each year a small group . of Har vard students makes, a canvass of the entire 'University for cast-off clothing, old shoes and the like. These are later packed and sent to missions and the Sailors' Home In Boston and New York. Mr Taft was assigned to the task of collecting old clothes from 150 mem k.r. nf th senior class of the law school and has led the busiest seven days of his life in accumulating oia clothes. 8000 HOMELES BY FIRE Pressburg, Hungary. Swept by Big Blaze; Financial Loss Heavy. PRESSBURG, Hungary, May IS, Eight thousand persons were made hnmaliiss. one child was burned to death, many persons were injured and heavy financial loss was caused Satur day by a great fire in the center of this city. The flames started in the upper floor of a large building, and, fanned by a strong wind, quickly involved several blocks of houses. OF VIEWED BY ADMEN Cities on Route Are Hosts to Travelers. VAUDEVILLE GIVEN ON TRAIN Tiny Girl Mascot Sensation of Trip to California. MEMBER OF PARTY IS HURT John DeWltt, of Spokane Club, Run Over by Automobile Fight for 1914 Convention Planned In Behalf of Northern Cities. ASHLAND, Or., Aboard Admen Spe--clal En Route to Sacramento, May 18. (Special.) Having started the Rose burg Strawberry Festival on its way, opened a new county bridge at Med ford, and Inspected the famed peach orchards of the Rogue River Valley, the Northwest delegates to the Paclflo Coast Convention of Advertising Men were busy with the details of a vaude ville performance when the train passed through Ashland ai 2:30 this afternoon. The theatrical performance will bo given tonight in the observation car, Spokane, Seattle and Portland talent being used. The Ad Club special reached Rose burg at 8 o'clock this morning, where a delegation from the Commercial Club, headed by Frank E. Alley and R. A. Booth, invaded the train and lit erally dragged every passenger to au tomobiles and whisked them away for a 30-minute Inspection of the wonder ful progress made by the strawberry capital. Spokane Delegate Injured. John DeWltt, song writer of the Spo kane delegation, was seriously In jured at Roseburg, being thrown from tl.Q running board of a machine as it turned a corner. Both wheels passed over the legs of Mr. DeWltt, who sus tained a sprained knee and a number of severe bruises. At Medford the Southern Pacific depot grounds looked like Alder street before the passage of the ordinance reguic-:'ni? automobiles. Every machine In Jackson County was banked around the place, and in two minutes after the Portland delegation concluded their songs of greeting the autos had run out to the new bridge, where Queen Caroline Testout scattered flowers, while Miss Spokane chanted an Indian Invocation addressed to the Gods of the Harvests. Little Mildred Tucker, as Miss Caro line Testout, is the sensation of this trip. Wherever the train has stopped people have been most anxious to get a glimpse of her, and when the dele gation arrived at Ashland this after noon she was compelled to run out on the car platform that women and girls might admire her. Fight for Convention Seen. According to information received aboard the train today. Southern Cali fornia is already planning to use the Pacific Coast Admen's organization for selfish purposes, and this knowl edge has served to cement tho Spo kane, Seattle and Portland delegation Into a voting unit. Los Angeles plans to capture the convention for next year, which would give it to the south for two successive years. Then, as al ready scheduled, the convention would go to San Francisco in 1916, making three years It would be held in Califor nia. The Northwest will fight for Vancouver or Seattle for 191-i, and practically are assured of the 50 votes from Sacramento. That city has the honor of entertaining the convention this year because of the support given by Portland delegates last year. Port land Is now demanding a square deal for the cities on the Sound. The special train will reach Sacra mento at 8 o'clock Monday morning. The convention begins at 10 A. M. In the evening a reception will be given by the Elks, and on every other night of the three-day stay some feature of entertainment is to be offered. The Portland delegation will be banqueted at Oakland Thursday noon and at San Francisco Thursday night. Ashland Greets Admen. ASHLAND. Or., May 18. (Special.) This afternoon over 100 members from Ad clubs of leading cities of the Pacific Northwest were met at Talent by rail way and city officials, and representa tives of the Commercial Club, and es corted over various points of interest throughout this city. The visitors de trained at Medford and came in auto mobiles as far as Ashland, where they rejoined their special, leaving on sched ule time for Sacramento. OCEAN LET INTO CANAL Giant Blast Demolishes Dike That Holds racifio Back. PANAMA, May 18. The waters of the Paclflo Ocean were let into the Panama Canal today. A giant blast of S2.750 pounds of dynamite was shot, demolishing the dike to the south or. the Mlrafloros locks and allowing the water to flow Into an extensive section, in which ex cavation practically has been completed. RICHES 1)