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K VOL. I.III.- NO. 1C,577. PORTLAND, OREGON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 10, 1914. PRICE FIVE CENTS V V EARLY DRAFTS OF TRUST LAW READY Committee Ready to Consult Wilson. THREE SUBJECTS COVERED Greatest Emphasis Placed on i Interlocking Directorates. PRICE - FIXING IN MIND .Especial Erfort Made to Prevent Gentlemen's Understandings and. i Secret Agreements So Fnr as Is Possible. WASHINGTON. Jan. 9. General out line of the tentative draft of anti trust legislation prepared by majority members - of the House committee on the Judiciary for action by the full committee, subject to a conference with President Wilson, became known today. The proposed bills so far have not the Administration stamp and they will be discussed at a conference between tho President and the committeemen on the President's return. The bills, drafted as result of the conferences between Chairman Clayton, Representative Carlln, of Virginia, chairman of the trust committee and Representatives Floyd of " Arkansas, McCory of New Jersey and others, cover these three main points: First Interlocking directorates. Second Trade relations and prices. Third Injunction proceedings and Oamase suits by individuals. Individual Penalties Provided. In every case President Wilson's Idea of providing penalties for Individuals s well as for corporations In case of violations has been followed. It was decided that It would be better to draft several bills Instead of in corporating all the anti-trust proposi tions in an omnibus measure, supple mentary to" the Sherman act. An at tempt to define combinations and con Kpiracies in restraint of trade as far as lossiblo has been made In the bills already prepared. The bill to inhibit Interlocking directorates is regarded by the committee membeirs as the most important of the three. It deals not only with banks and trust com panies, but applies to every industrial corporation engaged In Interstate trade. The tentative draft of this measure provides: "After the 23d of December, 1914, an officer or director of a Federal reserve bank, a branch bank. National bank or banking association or any state bank, banking association or trust company admitted to membership In the Federal reserve bank shall not be an officer or director of any other bank, banking association or trust company or of any financial corporation. Institution or as sociation engaged in the business of banking. Nor shall he engage In the banking business individually or as a member of a firm or association en gaged in such business; nor shall he be an officer or director of any other cor poration, organization or association, the principal part of whose authorized or actual business is to buy or sell or to hold the stock, bonds, securities or evidences of Indebtedness of corpora tions, organizations or associations or to finance the sale of such stock, bonds, securities or evidences of indebtedness or to negotiate loans to corporations, organizations or associations; nor of any other corporation, organization or association owning stock of or an Inter. est in a corporation, organization or association conducting principally such authorized or actual business. "A director of class A of a Federal reserve bank may be an officer or a director or both an officer and a di rector of but one member bank." Industrial Feature Sweeping;. The other two classes are prohibited in the currency law from holding the other offices. This part of the measure was drafted by Representative McCoy, of New Jer sey, and is understood to have the ap proval of Chairman Clayton, Mr. Car lln and other Judiciary members. The effect of the industrial corpor ation feature of the Interlocking dl rectorate bill, the committeemen say, would be of the most sweeping charac ter, cutting out the interlocking ar rangements and enabling the director ships and control to pass to a large army of new men. Instead of keeping the industrial control of various lines of activity in the hands of a few. Under the terms no officer or direc tor In any industrial corporation en gaged in interstate trade would be permitted to be an officer or director Sn another industrial interstate cor. poratinn in allied business. Manufac turers of railroad cars, locomotives, railroad rails and structural steel.' or men engaged in mining or selling coal. would be barred from becoming direc tors or other officers or employes of railroads engaged in interstate com merce. Two Years Delay Allowed. Tho bill would not become effective until two years after passage. In order to allow adjustment of business ar rangements. The other measures would take effect immediately upon passage. Tho bill designed to stop agreement for regulation of prices is designed to stop the controlling by wholesalers o the prices at which the manufactured article shall be sold to the public and ConcluUea uu fag 2.1 GARMS AND CREW MAY HAVE SUNK SCHOOXER REPORTED IX DIRE STRAITS OFF CAPE FLATTERY. Crescent, in Trouble Also, Unable to Render Assistance, and Ta toosh Is Dispatched. SEATTLE, Wash., Jan'. 9. (Special.) .Dismasted and leaking badly, the four-masted American schooner Wil liam F. Garms Is helplessly adrift 100 miles southwest of Cape Flattery and Captain J. Peterson, her master, and the crew of ten men are In grave dan ger of being lost. The powerful tug Tatoosh, which rescued the passengers of tho steamer Washington, in peril at the mouth of the Columbia two years ago, was ordered to sea from Clallam Bay at 4 o'clock F. M. today. News of the plight of the Garms waa brought to Clallam Bay by the five masted American schooner Crescent, which returned today in distress. Both vessels were in the recent gale which caused havoc along the coast and drove a. score of ships to shelter. The Crescent spoke the Garms last Wednesday. The vessel had been bad ly battered by the storm and only about 20 feet of her foremast was left standing. She was leaking and in grave danger of foundering. The Cres cent, In her damaged condition, could render no aid. She had lost her own deck load in the storm, had her cabin stove In, when part of her cargo of timbers was carried away, and was leaking. The best the master of the Crescent could do was to promise to report the condition of the schooner as soon as he reached port. The William F. Garms Is owned by Olsen & Mahony, of San Francisco. She put to sea on December, 28, bound for Santa Rosalia, Mexico, "with a cargo of mining timbers loaded at Coupe ville. Wash. PARIS STYLES BOLDER YET Brick Red Hair, Green Coats and Corkscrew Skirts Proper Mode. NEW YORK, Jan. 9. (Special.) Brick red hair, to be worn preferably with green coats and corkscrew skirts, is what the ladies of Paris are wear ing, according to Charles C. Kurzman, a man milliner who has been abroad Btyle-huntlng. He arrived on the Lusi tania today. The corkscrew skirt can only be donned by the fair wearer of the gar ment whirling round and round like a music-mad Dervish. Once safe inside it. she drapes a. few yards of lace around it corkscrew style, and there you are. With the brick red hair of the women and the sky blue locks of the more aesthetic of the Parisian dandies, Mr. Kurzman said that fashionable Paris looked like a futurist picture' of a railroad yard on a rainy night. TEACHERS LOSE BY FIRE Belongings Found Destroyed on Re turn to Their Apartments. Discovery that they had lost all their personal belongings by fire was made yesterday by Miss Steffen, Miss Nel son and Miss Foster, schoolteachers, hen they returned to their apartments at 633 East Main street, "between 4 and C o'clock yesterday. The place was conducted by Mrs. W. B. Fox, and the blaze, which was due to an overheated furnace, ate its way through two floors of the frame structure. The building is owned by J. H. Rhelnhart, of the Fred A. Jacobs Com pany. The loss, not including personal property lost by patrons, amounts to about 11000, partially Insured. WOMAN CAPTURES BURGLAR V Illinois Matron Marches Negro to Police Station Then Faints. CAIRO, I1L, Jan. 9. Mrs. John P. L. Glynn, wife of a wealthy warehouse owner, captured a negro burglar early today, marched him to the police sta tion at the point of a revolver, and then fainted. Mrs. Glynn, with her daughter, were alone in their home when they heard someone trying to get in the house. Mrs. Glynn picked up a revolver, opened the door and faced the negro. Taken by surprise, he obeyed her command to hold up his hands and marched obediently to the police station. KING OF R0UMANIA ILL Throne, in Event of Monarch' Death, Will Revert to Nephew. VIENNA, Jan. 9. King Charles of Roumania Is seriously ill. He was born April 20, 1839, and ascended the throne in 1881. In the event of the death of King Charles of Roumania, who is childless. the throne would revert to Prince Ferdinand, of Roumania, son of Prince Leopold of Hohenzollern-Sigmarlngen and a nephew of King Charles. Prince Ferdinand was born August 24, 1865 and married Princess Marie, dauhtei of the Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. GANGSTERS' SHOTS KILL 1 Frederick Strauss Innocent Victim of Gotham Street Battle. NEW YORK, Jan. 9. Frederick Strauss, 65 years old, a prominent Ger man and a veteran of the Franco-Prus sian War and for the last 25 years a clerk in the city courts, was instantly killed tonight by a bullet as he was approaching the scene of a street fight In which shots were exchanged by gangsters. , Several arrests .were jaadg LYMAN SENTENCED TD TERM IN PRISON Prisoner Begs Court for Mercy. PLAN FOR REFORM IS MADE Life to Be Devoted to Aiding First Offenders. OWN STORY IS REVIEWED Promoter Says Wife Lett Him, Mother Died With Broken Heart, Friends Hare Faded Like Snow Before Spring Snn. LOS ANGELES, Jan. 9. Dr. John 3rant Lyman, the Panama land pro moter, received a penitentiary sentence of 15 months. In the United States Dis trict Court here today for having used the malls to defraud. He announced tonight that on toe completion of his term he would devote his life to try ing to help first offenders. His efforts in that line, he said, would be in Los Angeles, where before his ar rest in 1911 he mingled in exclusive social and business circles and where afterward he was a priSoner for nearly two years in the county Jail before he received his penitentiary sentence. Philanthropist Offers Tract. Lyman said that a tract of 70 acres. wlthln'75 miles of Los Angeles, already had been offered by a philanthropist for the purpose of reclaiming first of fenders and that he would do all in his power to further the work. The court directed that sentence be carried out in the penitentiary at Flor ence, Ariz. Lyman himself addressed the court before sentence was passed and made misfortune a plea to temper Justice with mercy. "Twenty-eight months ago I had a devoted wife and a worshiping mother. 1 was a member of many clubs and had a high social standing," he said. In an evil moment I broke my mar riage vow. My wife, had forgiven much, but when I was arrested as a felon she obtained a divorce. My mother died of a broken heart; my friends faded away as snow before a Spring sun and, alone in this court today. I ask that Justice be tempered with mercy." Stay of Execution Allowed. The sentence was imposed on Lyman after Judge Wellborn, of the United States District Court, had overruled a motion for a new trial. Fifteen days' stay of execution was granted, how- (Concluded on Page 2.) ax -.Ygo SAC. KJ INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature. 44 degrees; minimum, 88 degrees. TODAY'S Probably fair; easterly winds. Foreign. Archbiphop of Paris orders those who dance tango to do pennance. Page 2. Strikers In South Afrlcadynamlte trains. Page 1. National. Preliminary draft of anti-trust laws ready for submission to President. Page 1. Wilson pleased by way business Is adjusting Itself to new conditions. Page 2. Domestic Impersonator of Adolph. Busch III may be extradited. Page 3. Dr. I-.yman sentenced to 16 months in prison. Page 1. Inefficient women's colleges, blamed for large number of bachelors. Page 2. Moyer declares he will not leave copper district. Page 1. Boston Tech and Harvard Engineering Scbool united. Page 4, Sports. Pittsburg Federals offer Jake Danbert, Brooklyn star. 30,000 for three years. Page 6. Chicago Federals sign four bis players. Page S. . Henley-McArdle,Eaum trade reviewed. Page 6. Cleveland secures Hagerman. Page 6. Commercial and Marine. Hopgrowcrs decline offers at top prices. Page 17. Chicago wheat market again independent of corn. Page IT. Wall street bears unable to lower, stock prices. Page 17. Trade prospects Improve In nearly all lines. Page 17. Big cargo of lumber sent to Shanghai. Page. 13. Pacific Northwest. Schooner William F. Garms and crew re ported in dire straits. Page 1. Legal tangles likely in Copperfield ease to day. Page 7. The Dalles Mayor backs up' on threats. Page 6. State officials will be arrested today to test application of eight-hour law. Page 7. Excess rate case lost by Sumptar Valley Railroad second time. Page 2. Independence one of richest towns in Ore gon. Page 16. Telephone merger in Southern Oregon un covered in rate bearing, i'age o. Men fleeced by matrimonial agency in Spo kane. Page 7. Portland and Vicinity. Governor's signature now alone lacking to make bridge contract complete, page 12. Gerllnger trial baited till Monday by Judge. Page 12. Methods of alleged fake Masons described at trial. Page 10. Ex-Police Captain Slover to be tries', by church. Page 12. Boys and girls of Glencoe school have cake-baking contest. Page 10. Two hundred organize Drama League. Pago 10. Friday Night Club has fourth dance of season. Page 10. Weather report, data and forecast. Page 17. Auditorium ample for many purposes, ad vice of committee. Jewels worth $1000 stolen from Irving-ton home. Page 1. Commissioners send resolution, criticising new tax measure, to Governor. Page 11. Men injured in mad scramble for tools at rockpile. Page 9. A. "W. Moe killed when fellow policeman drops gun. Page 12. Life insurance agents say The Oregonian an nual la business getter. Page 16. MAYOR GIVES PAY INCREASE Boston Firemen and Policemen Ben. cfit toy Second Grant. BOSTON, Jan. 9. Mayor Fitzgerald tonight announced an advance in wages for firemen and policemen, affecting 2600 men. It was the second Increase granted by the Mayor within two years and was due, he said, to -the greater cost of living. The new scale will add from $100 to $200 to the yearly pay of each man. THE RALLYING PLACE. STRIKERS IN AFRICA DY A ITE TRAINS Engine Wheels Blown Off; None Hurt. VIOLENCE GOMES SUDDENLY Proclamations Call Out Citi zens in Transvaal. FOOD PRICES SHOOT UP Leaders of Railway Workers Declare Entire Rail Service Will Be Stopped Today Martial Law Is Expected. JOHANNESBURG. South Africa. Jan. 9. Attempts to dynamite three passen ger trains and the arrest of principal strike leaders put a serious aspect on the strike situation of the South Af rican Railwaymen today. Sticks of dynamite were exploded under the Cape mail train between Denver and Jeorges Coch tonight but no passengers were Injured. The wheels of the engine were blown off and the track damaged. A second 'explosion occurred on the railway tonight be tween Johannesburg and Cleveland. Track: Walker Averts Wreck. Another attempt to wreck a train was made between Witpoortje and Llupaardsvlei, but the charge of dyna mite was found by a track walker Just before the arrival of a crowded pas senger train from Zlerust. . The government Is credited with a desire to fight the trades federation to an end. The principal strike leaders arrested today are Toutsman, secretary, and Nield, assistant secretary of the Rall- waymen's Society; Waterson, secretary of the South Africa labor party, and Conlln Wade, a labor member of the Germlston Town Council. They had been prominent in the last Rand strike. All were held without bail and charged with sedition. Martial Uw Expected. . It is declared that martial law will bo declared in Pretoria tomorrow. The Federation threatened to call a general strike unles3 the men arrested were liberated. Three proclamations were gazetted In Pretoria today calling out the citi zen forces throughout the Transvaal and the citizen reserves in many dis tricts and prohibiting the sale or trans portation of arms in the. districts of (Concluded on Page 2.) IRVINGT0N HOME IS ROBBED OF JEWELS TIIOUSAND-DOLLAU LOSS XOT DISCOVERED FOR HOURS. Burglar Believed to Have Entered Residence of E. M. Whittle as Bulldog Guards. Theft of more than $1000 worth of jewels and precious stones was reported Thursday to the police by Mrs. E. M. Whittle, wife of the superintendent of the coast division of the American Ex press Company. Mrs. Whittle reported the robbery Thursday, saying It must have occurred Wednesday night, when she and her husband and son attended a moving picture theater, leaving the valuables hidden In their home at SS0 Schuyler street, Irvington. Mrs. Whittle said she did not dis cover the theft until shortly before noon Thursday, when she prepared to take luncheon with friends. She went for her purse, which was in a drawer, and discovered that the money, a small amount, had been taken out and the drawers ransacked. Immediately going upstairs she further discovered that her Jewel case, hidden with linen in a laundry bag, had been emptied. She then called the police. In the meantime Mr. Whittle had departed on a business trip to Denver, Colo., and knew nothing of the theft. The police found marks of a heavy shoe on the stairway and also at one of the windows. The stolen gems included diamond rings, brooches, amethysts, pearls and bracelets, all gifts from her husband. Mrs. Whittle saved 12 valuable set rings, which Bhe wore to the theater the night of the robbery. A bulldog was in the house at the time the robbery is supposed to have occurred. TAFT ANDELI0T DIFFER Compulsory Teaching of English in Philippines Becomes Issue. BOSTON, Jan. 9. A difference of opinion as to the merits of the policy of compulsory teaching of English among the Filipinos developed tonight between ex-President Taft and Dr. Charles W. Eliot, of Harvard. They were speakers at a banquet given to W. Cameron Forbes, ex-Governor-General of the Philippines. After Dr. Eliot had said he was doubtful of the value of the plan, Mr. Taft remarked that compulsory teach ing of English was necessary, because 12 or 13 different dialects were spok en, none of any great value. The natives are eager to learn Eng Hsh, and today English is spoken more than Spanish, the language which It has supplanted." AIR LIFE PRESERVER TRIED Girl Steps From Aeroplane 85 0 Feet Up, Descends Safely. LOS ANGELES, Jan. 9. One of two women passengers carried today by Clenn Martin, an aviator, stepped from his machine when it was 850 feet in the air. She reached the ground safely and demonstrated, to Martin's stals faction, the practicability of an aerial life-preserver. Spectators saw the girl. Miss Tiny Broadwick. fall 75 feet like a shot. Then a parachute attachment on her shoulders unfolded and she descended gradually and with no apparent effort at balance. Martin said tonight he had been working on the idea two years. LINE DIVISIONS MERGED Portland and Los Angeles Sections of Sonthern Pacific United. SACRAMENTO. Cal., Jan. 9 The Los Angeles and Portland divisions of the Southern Pacific Railroad are to be merged temporarily, according to an nouncement here tonight by railroad officials. The territory under the supervision of D. W. Campbell, of the Portland di vision, and H. V. Piatt, of the Los An geles division, will be extended from Red Bluff south and from Fresno north to bridge the Sacramento division. MISSING MAN IS INDICTED T. Walter Danziger Accused of Em bezzling $22,320. NEW ORLEANS. La., Jan. 9. Indict ments charging embezzlement of $22. 320 from the Teutonia Bank & Trust Company and the Mitchell, Borne Con struction Company, of which he was liquidator, were returned .by a grand Jury today against T. Walter Danziger, the real estate broker and clubman, who disappeared December 23. The police have found no trace of the missing man. REGINA FEARS OUTBREAK Unemployed Threaten to Bnrn City and Mounted Men Patrol Streets. REGINA, Sask., Jan. 9. One hundred and fifty mounted police are patrolling this city tonight in anticipation of a possible outbreak of unemployed men who threatened to burn the city If work were not provided for them. Women and children were ordered to remain off the streets. The authorities assert they have the situation in band. ' Gladys Drew Is Dead. NEW YORK, Jan. 9. Gladys Drew, the actress wife of Sidney Drew, the actor, died here tonight, aged 40 years. Mrs. Drew was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. McKee. Rankin.. IYER SAYS HE'LL STAY IN DISTRICT Union Leader Demands State Protection. GOVERNOR FERRIS LEAYES Fruitless Effort to Settle In dustrial War Ends. GRAND JURY IS ATTACKED Miners Federation Objects to Attorney-General's Presence Dur ing Proceedings Course Warmly Defended. 1 HOUGHTON. Mich.. Jan. 9. Declara tion of Charles H. Moyer that he in tends to remain in the copper strike ,f district as long as he pleases. Intima tions from union sources that the grand Jury proceedings are to be attacked on legal grounds and the departure of Governor Ferris without making an effort to settle tne trouble marked the progress of the luval industrial war to day. Moyer appeared before a mass meet ing of strikers and sympathizers which crowded the largest hall in Hancock beyond its capacity. Other speakers Included Seymour Stedman. of the in vestigation committee of the Socialist party; J. W. Lord, of Peoria, 111., and several local men of the same political faith. Moyer explained that under the ad vice of physicians he could not make an extended address. Protection of Un Demanded. "I came back here because I had a right to," he said. "Under the laws of Michigan and the Consttiutlon of the United States I am entitled to protec tion. Those responsible for my leav ing on December 26 violated the laws . of the state and Nation by taking the law into their own hands and commit ted a crime for which they must be punished if there is any law at all in the State of Michigan. "When the shot was fired Into my back it. was not into Moyer alone, but that shot reached every miner on tho continent. It was a shot In the back of the working class, and especially into the back of all organized wage workers." Moyer said there had been no change in the policy of the Western Federa tion of Miners and referred to a state ment made by Governor Ferris earlier in the day that "advice of outsiders would do more than anything else to prolong the strike." Direct Conference Proposed. The union leader said he had tele graphed to the Governor that ho ac cepted the state executive's opinion that a conference between the men and employers would settle tho difficulty and had asked him to propose such ac tion, "to bring about a settlement and get the men back to work." Interest in grand Jury proceedings was intensified by the Governor's dec laration that he would take no execu tive action while the judicial machinery of the state was in motion. Iutima- ' tions came from the union's attorney that the presence of Grant Fellows, Attorney-General of the state, in the jury room had voided the body's legal ity and that there was no Michigan rule that would permit the county to hire George Nichols as special prose cutor under the circumstances in force here. Grand Jury's Action Defended. Mr. Fellows was quick to defend his course, saying that he not only was in the grand jury but had questioned Moyer. "No statute on the Michigan books prohibited this action and as chief legal officer of the state I had a right to be present," he said. The allegation of the grand Jury's illegality because of Mr. Nichols" part in the proceedings was defended from other sources. It was pointed out that many special prosecutors had been used in the state. Mr. Fellows, James Cunningham. State Commissioner of Labor, and Ed ward J. Minock, the latter's attorney, left late today for their homes. The mission of Mr. Cunningham was to col- lect information for the Governor and check the testlmonyt brought out at his' public hearing. Others Immediately concerned in the state executive's In quiry into strike conditions left with the Governor at noon. ORE TO BE SENT BY MAIL Offer of Three Carloads Worries Rural Mailcarriers. SPOKANE, Wash., Jan. 9. Postoffice Inspectors received today telephone calls from worried rural delivery car riers, asking aid. The carriers who ride horseback from Paradise, Or., to Anatone, Wash., 18 miles, notified the Inspectors that a man at Paradise Is ready to ship 8600 pounds of timothy seed by parcel post. The carrier at Elk City. Idaho, tele phoned that mlneowners had three carloads of concentrated ore ready for shipment by parcel post to the smelt er, a distance of 60 miles over moun tain roads. The inspectors have put la Requisi tion for teams to help out the Idaho carriers. i