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. I - z. " . . '" " " ' ' PORTLAND. OREGON. SATURDAY, HI ARCH 21, 1914. PRICE FIVE CENTS. VOL.. LIV.-XO. 1C,G36- WILSON UNBOSOMS 11SELFT0CR0NIES Desire to Be Just Hu man Overpowering. - 'PERSONALCONDUCT'WEARYING Guides So Numerous They Hide Objects They Would Show. 'BLESSED INTERVALS' COME President Confesses Resort to Detec tive Stories to Forget Official Character Scenes Abroad, However, Preferred. PRESIDENT'S fil'IDKS OBSTRUCT VIEWS THEY TRY TO SHOW. "The minute I turn up anywhere, I am personally conducted to beat the band. The curator and the as sistant curators and every other blooming official turns up and thev show me so much attention that don't nee the building. I would have to say. 'Stand aside and let me see what you are showing me Borne day, after I am through with this office, I am going to come back to Washington and see It." From address by President to his fellow Press I'lub members. WASHINGTON, March 20. Woodrow Wilson unbosomed himself to the mem bers of the National Press Club of Washington today. He told them In a frank, conversational way how he felt as President of the United States. It was an intimate picture of Wood row Wilson, drawn by himself, on the occasion of the "house warming'" at the Press Club's new quarters. The Presi dent did not intend to have his re marks reported, but later, at the re quest of the club, the unusual speech was made public. It follows: "I was just thinking; of my sense of confusion of identity sometimes when I read articles about myself. I have never read an article about myself in which I recognized myself, and I have come to have the impression that I must be some kind of a fraud, because I think a great many of these articles are written in absolute good faith. False Impressions Made. "I tremble to think of the variety and falseness in the Impressions I make and it is being borne in on me so that I may change my very disposition that I am a cold and removed person who has a thinking machine . inside which he adjusts to the circumstance which he does not allow to be moved by any winds of aft'ection or emotion of any kind, but turns like a cold searchlight on anything that is pre sented to his attention and makes it work. "I am not aware of having any de tachable apparatus inside of me. On the contrary, if I were to Interpret myself, I would say that my constapt embarrassment is to restrain the emo tions that are inside of me. You may not believe it, but I sometimes feel like a flro from a far-distant volcano, and if the lava does not seem to spill over, it is because you are not high enough to see into the basin and see the cal dron boil. Many Things Need Correction. "Because, truly, gentlemen, in the po sition which I occupy there is a sort of passionate sense of being called with my fellowmen in a peculiar relation ship of responsibility not merely the responsibility of office, but God knows there are enough things in the world that need to be corrected. "I have mixed first and last, with ull sorts and conditions of men there are mighty few kinds of men that have to be described to me, and there are mighty few kinds of experiences that have to be described to me and when I think of the number of men who are looking to me as the representative of a party, with the hope for all varieties of salva tion from the things they are strug gling in the midst of, it makes me tremble. It makes me tremble not only with a sense of my own inadequacy and weakness, but as if I were shaken by the very things that are shaking them, and If I seem circumspect it is because I am so diligently trying not to make any colossal blunders. If you just calculated thu number of blunders a fellow can make in 24 hours if he Is not careful and if he does not listen more than he talks, you would see something of the feeling that I have. A ew lands' Remark Amuses. "I was amused the other day at a remark that Senator Newlands made. I had read him the trust message that I was to deliver to Congress some 10 days before I delivered it, and I never stop 'doctoring' things of that kind until the day 1 have to deliver them. When he heard it read to Congress lie said. 'I think it was better than it was when you read It to me.' I said, 'SenaH tor, there is one thing which I do not think you understand. I not only use all the brains I have but all I can bor row, and I borrowed a lot since I read it to you first." "That, I dare say, is what gives the Impression of circumspectness. I am listening; I am diligently trying to col ' lect all the brains that are borrowable In order that I may not make more blunders than It is inevitable that a man should make who has great limi tations of knowledge and capacity. And (Concluded on Page 2.) MAN'S LIFE RISKED BUT BABY MAY DIE RUNAWAY PUPPY LEADS CHILD IN FROXT OF TRAIN. Conductor Lowers Himself Ahead of Cars and Seizes Tot, but Is In jured and Loses Hold. TACOMA, Wah., March 20. (Spe cial.) The 2-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Walker, ranchers near Puyallup, followed his runaway puppy onto the railroad tracks near his home. As a result he is In a critical condition at St. Joseph Hospital here and Con ductor Harry J. Keif, of a Milwaukee freight train, who risked his life try ing to save the baby, is at his home, suffering from severe injuries. The baby toddled in the garden, when his dog ran away. A few mo ments later an engine pushing a string of cars and a caboose approached. Con ductur NefT, on the rear of the caboose, saw a child ahead between the rails. It was leaning across one rail. He tried to signal the engineer. It was too late. He swung from, the step and lowered himself almost to the rails ahead of the cars. He seized the baby, but the impact loosened his grip. The weight of the child overbalanced film until one lea: dragged on the ties. " As he tried vainly to work back to the platform a bridge was reached. The baby slipped from his grasp. It fell beside tbe track, clear of the wheels. A greasebox struck it and hurled it further away. Neff, his leg lacerated, worked him self back to a safe position. It was found that Ahe blow the child received had injured Its head near the base of the skull. OREGON PRODUCTS SERVED Many Portland Persons Attend Made-ln-State Banquet at Albany. ALBANY, Or., March 20. (Special.) More than 300 nersons' attended a l'Made-in-Oregon" banquet in the Francis Hotel here tonight, at which only Oregon products and goods pre pared by Oregon manufacturers were served. Included among the guests were many Portland manufacturers. The proceeds of the-banquet are to be used for the benefit of Riverside Cem etery here. H. M.' Crooks, president of Albany College, was toastmaster. After an In vocation by Rev. D. H. Leech, pastor of the First Methodist Church of Albany, L. M. Curl, Mayor of Albany, welcomed the visitors. David M. Dunne, of Port land, president of the Oregon Manu facturers' Association, responded. Toasts were responded to by J. S. Van Winkle, president of the Albany Com mercial Club; Thomas B. Kay, of Sa lem, State Treasurer; Elbert Bede, of Cottage Grove, president of the Oregon Press Association: T. S. Mann, of Port land; r. H. D'Arcy, of Salem: George H. Crawford, of Portland; Edith Tozier Weatherred, of Portland: A. G. Clark, of Portland, president of the Pacific Coast Ad Men's Association: R. W. Raymond, of Portland; Dan Johnston, of Albany, secretary of the Albany Re tail Merchants' Association, and B. B. Bartchtr, of Albany. LINN TO HAVE ROAD DAY Plan Is to Have Every Resident of County Work on Highways. ALBANY, Or., March 20. (Special.) The County Court plans to set apart a day on which every man and boy in Linn County will work the roads. The date will be some time in April. According to plans, business of all kinds will be suspended throughout the county and the efforts of every resi dent, irrespective of occupation or vo cation, will be devoted to road work. The county plans to assemble all of its road-building machinery at con venient locations for use. KIDNAPING SAVES JUNIORS Sopohomorcs Spirit Freshman Ball Team to Hills to Prevent Game. STANFORD UNIVERSITY Cal., March 20. Under the eyes of several students scattered about the campus, a party of sophomores kidnaped today the entire freshman baseball - team, bound them and spirited them to the mountains, 20 miles away, in order to forestall the team winning today the baseball cham pionship of the university. ' The game was scheduled with the juniors. GRANTS PASS VETERAN DIES a AbraTiam Smith, 85, Taken by Drop sy at Home of Daughter. GRANTS PASS, Or., March 20. (Spe cial.) Abraham Smith, 85, father of Mrs. C. G. Gillette, and prominent resi dent here, died at the home of his daughter last night of dropsy. Mr. Smith was a Civil War veteran, being on the Confederate side. He was a prominent member of the Masonic lodge. He leaves two daughters, Mrs. C. G. Gillette, of Grants Pass, and Mrs. Teulah Myers, of Mineral Wells, Tex. J BIG BALLOON RUNS AWAY Military Dirigible Breaks From Men Holding Hopes at Start. JOHANNISTHAL, Germany, March 20. The big military dirigible balloon Zeppelin V narrowly escaped destruc tion as it started on a voyage from the aviation field today. A squall tore the craft from the hands of the soldiers holding the ropes. . By a timely sacrifice) of ballast, the airship cleared a grandstand by . scant foot. . . . VILLA WITH 12,000 IN INVESTS TOWN Struggle to Capture Torreon Is Begun. DEFENDERS NUMBER 9000 Commander of Besiegers Be comes Energy incarnate. "CANNOT FAIL," VILLA $AYS No Opposition Is Met on March Southward - Across Desert and Progress Is M-ade Slow by Numerous Obstacles. CONSTITUTIONALIST HEADQUAR TERS, Yermo, ' Chihuahua, Mexico, March 20. General Villa and his army of 12.000 rebels invested the federal stronghold of Torreon today. The khaki-clad columns occupied the environs of the city without opposition and time was spent in wheeling or dragging the field pieces into position to shell the federal trenches, which have been dug at every point where the federal commander. General Re fugio Velasco, expects attack. Mountain Pauses Fortified. The federad army is estimated to number 9000 men. South and south west of the city his position is re garded as almost impregnable byrea son of the mountains, through which only three passes run. and these have been made almost impassable by' forti fications and barbed . wire entangle ments. In other directions the city Is reached through the desert and high hills. Villas's recent progress has been slow, because it was necessary to re pair the railroad tracks and bridges. The road was open from Yermo today, however, where the troops have been mobilizing, to Mapiml and Bermejillo, which are only a few miles north of Torreon and are virtually suburbs of that city. Troops Suffer la Transit. At these two cities, after suffering leng hours In the cars,, where they were stuffed like figs in a box and with a Bcant supply of water, the troops de trained and formed in columns in the intense heat. There was little loss of time , in plunging into the desert, some mount ed and others on foot. Great clouds of fine desert dust marked their mov ing over hummocks of cacti-crowned sand and through dry water courses. Great tank wagons laden with tha wa ter supply, which has been Villa's greatest problem, rumbled in the train. (Concluded on Page 2.) i n jvixZo- r.,tt 77- It I II ' JM. ('WUiii'UO u It t I V I V . A-53S!S& Jt9" AW-i IT r S S jTjr S S S S J S S . Br vr- JffX T I I i ; ; , : Ut ' " : INDEX OF TOWS NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 7a degrees; minimum. degrees. TODAY'S Fair; moderate easterly winds. "o reign. Villa's army Invests Torreon. Page. 1. , National. Eleanor Wilson receives costly solitaire a - engagement ring. Page 3. Representative Humphrey reiterates charges that Forester pinchot knew. Page 4. President Wilson sighs for chance to te plain human being. Page 1. British government reinforces garrisons In Ulster. Page 1. Ex-Minlsters of France and public prosecu tor testify concerning national scandal. Page 2. .Domestic. Girl of 6 Is traveling alone from Kansas to Oregon City. Page 8. Suffragist says men have failed to prepare world for children. Page S. Sport. Aberdeen will bid for Northwestern League club. Page 7. Seals "dark horse" in Coast League race, says "Kid" Gleason, famous big leaguer. Page 7. , ' Beavers take joy ride, on eve of battle with black Giants. Page 6. ' Chicago 6, Venice 4; Chicago 0, San Fran cisco S. Page (3. raclfie Northwest. Railroad Commission to make ruling on in terchange of traffic by competing lines. Page 7.- Unique dam enlarged. - Page 1. " Commercial and Marine, Dates fixed for 1011 Oregon wool' tales. Page 17. Wheat depressed by corn break at Chicago. Page 17. Substantial advances in New York stock market. Page 17. Distributive trade in West shows improve- - ment. Page 17. Inverbervie chartered to carry European goods to Portland. Page 1". " Portland and Vicinity. Board rescinds action to buy site for Agri cultural High School. Page 10. Bonds of Willamette Valley Southern line meet ready sale. I'agc 10. Final canvass for signatures for meter ref erendum being made today. Page 16. Proposal to date Inspection of meat causes dispute at second public hearing on ordi nance Page 11. Foreboding, dunning letter causes out-of-work teamster with sick wife to commit suicide. Page 9. Y. M. C. A. membership contest closes at 7 P. M. tonight. Page 5. Weather report, data and forecast. Page 17. Ex-Mayor Howe goes to ranch for needed rest and dies. Page 12. Confessed poisoned candy plotter bound over to Federal grand Jury. Page 1. PARTY ON; THIEF BUSY Burglar Walks In During Card Game and Out Again "With Jewelry. While S. B. Lowenberg andjils guests were playing cards in the Lowenberg home af 742 Hoyt street Thursday night, a robber walked into the house, ascended the front stairway and stole about $750 worth of diamonds and Jew elry from the bedrooms. During the lull in a card game steps were heard on the front porth, but the game went on. . .- - ' Mr. Lowenberg reported the robbery to the police yesterday morning. CABARET HAS EXTRA HOUR Contemplated Ordinance Meets With Approval of New York Mayor. . 4 NEW YORK. March 20. The 2 A. M. curfew for cabaret shows and tango restaurants was approved today by Mayor Mitchel on recommendation of a special committee, which recently investigaled the situation. This ian hour's grace over the 1 o'clock closing law enforced during the Gayhor administration. FRESH SENT REGIMENTS NTO ULSTER Government Prepares to Forestall Uprising. LEADERS COUNSEL CALMNESS Danger of Sudden Collision With Volunteers Recognized. '18 REARRANGED Troop Movement Partly in Pursu ance or Policy Not to Compel Soldiers to Cattle Where They Have Friends. LONDON, March 20. "War in Ul ster" is the startling headline which the sensational London newspapers are displaying in the blackest type. Tha government began to place its regular troops in Ireland today, so they might be in a position to deal with any situation that may arise. The cooler men among the loyalists and the Ul ster Unionists, however, believe noth ing resembling war is in sight. The army council some time ago con sidered tha possibilities of home rule strife and instructed Lieutenant-Gen-eral Sir Arthur Henry Fitzroy Padget, who commands the Irish garrisons, to take necessary f precautions to maintain order and safeguard property., A gen eral redistribution of the forces in Ire land therefore was begun today. Ulster Garrisons) Reinforced. Two regiments were sent from the south to reinforce the Ulster garrisons, while tha troops in Ulster were moved to new statio'tis In conformity with the custom that in the event of hostilities or rioting soldiers should not be com pelled to encounter people with whom they had formed friendship. The possibilities of a collision be tween the British soldiers and the Ul ster volunteers resulting from tho su perheated political feeling are recog nized, but . the - leaders on both sides are trying to exert a pacific influence. John Redmond today telegraphed the Nationalists in Belfast an urgent ap peal to abandon a parade arranged for Sunday in Londonderry. Sir Edward Carson and the members of the Ulster Council invoked calmness on the part of the volunteers. - Volunteer Organization Strone In view of tho partisan claims re garding the number of men, the or ganization and equipment of the Ulster volunteers, statements by Colonel Da court, military correspondent of the London Times, and H. W. Nevinson, a prominent liberal writer of the Nation, (Concluded on Page S.) MOST UNIQUE DAM TO BE ENLARGED CRESCENT - SHAPED BARRIER WILL RISE 90 FEET NOW. Narrow Structure of Malheur Live stock & Land Company Has Unusual Strength. SALEM, Or., March 20. -(Special.) State Engineer Lewis today gave per mission for the enlarging of the most peculiar dam over erected in Oregon for storing water for irrigation purposes. The permit was granted to the Mal heur Livestock & Land Company, which will increase the height of its present dam from 55 feet to 90 feet to provide 2840 acre-feet of water. The dam is only 5.2 feet thick-at the base and three feet at the top. Its unusual strength Is due to its being built of concrete and steel, and the engineers declare there will be no danger of a break even when its height is almost doubled. It is crescent shape, with the curve toward the water. The promoters say their reason for making the strange type canal is that cement has to be hauled 80 miles in wagons, and it has been found cheaper to use steel in cory necuon wttn it. "I am satisfied the dam will hold," sa ! Mr. Lewis, "but the type is an un usual one. Even should the semi circular structure give way there would be no lives lost, for the water would descend into a desert. However, there is no danger of anything like that. The enlarging of tho dam will cost $30,000.' MORE DECLARATIONS FILED W. T. Vinton, of McMiiinvillc, Seeks State Senate Nomination. ' SALEM, Or.. March 20. (Special.) W. T. Vinton, of MnIinnville, today filed his declaration as an aspirant for the Republican nomination for State Sen ator in the Tenth District, giving as his slogan: "JjOwer taxes, payable semi-annually. Abolish unnecessary commisisons." R. C. E. Basel, of 'Astoria, aspirant for the Republican nomination for Rep resentative of the Nineteenth District, in the Legislature, wants the follow ing printed after his name on the bal lot: "Promote good laws for all." Allen' Eaton, of Eugene, who wishes to represent the. Third District in the Legislature, has no slogan. He is a Republican. Alta King. Democrat, of Cottage Grove, seeks his party's nomination for Representative of the Third District in the Legislature. He says; "I will perform the duties of such office to tho best of my ability." P. H. Dencer, aspirant for the Demo cratic nomination for Representative of the Twenty-first District in the Leg islature, says: "I ttand at all times for statement No, 1: for rood roads, gov ernment for the people." FOREST FIRE REPORTED First Blaze of Year in Oregon Tinr- ber Appears Near Grande lloiidc. SALEM, Or., March 20. (Special.) The first forest fire of the season was reported to State Forester Elliott today by Charles Unicume, chief fire warden for the James D. Lacey Company. The fire - is near Grande Ronde and started in an old burn. Mr. Unicume was Instructed to make every effort to subdue the blaze, the state fire wardens not having been assigned to duty as yet "It is the earliest forest fire in this state on record," said Mr. Elliott, "und is due to the dry weather of the past week and the lack of snow on the mountains." . APPEAL" FILEQ BY STATE Dismissal of Case Against Board of Control Disapproved. SALKM, Or.. March 20. (Special.) Attorney-General Crawford today filed an appeal in the case of the state against the State Board of Control in volving about $16,000 said to have been spent improperly . The money was a part of the peni tentiary foundry fund or revolving fund, and was spent by Governor West to make, improvements at the peni tentiary. The Attorney-General, in the suit, alleged that the Hoard had no right to spend the money, notwith standing the fact that the state got full Value. Circuit Judge Kelly sus tained a demurrer to the complaint and dismissed the suit. BANKING LAWS TO CHANGE Washington Commissioner's Report Shows Deposits of $05,656,823. OLYMPIA, Wash., March 20. (Spe cial.) The' enactment of the National currency law will make it. necessary for the state to make material changes I in its banking laws to keep pace, says State Bank Examiner Hanson in his an. I nual report to Governor Lister. He ! recommends a state-wide meeting of persons interested, one or two months prior to the next session of the Legis lature to draft proposed new laws. The state banks of Washington have an aggregate capital of S14.704.200 and surplus of $7,605,4ti5. The deposits of state banks are $95,656,823, and Na tional banks, $104,964,899. I FOUNTAIN 'DIP' NEAR-FATAL Willamette Co-ed. Almost Drowns in Shallow Waite Memorial. SALEM, Or., Marcn 20. (Special.) Although the water is not more than I two and a half feet deep. Miss Florence I Cook, of Ellensbursr. Wash., a student of Willamette University, almost drowned in Walte memorial fountain on the Capitol grounds last night. Miss Cook and Miss Clara Perkins, of Portland, decided to see if there I were any fish in the fountain. As she leaned over Miss Cook I tumbled into the water. Because of the sloping, slippery bottom she was unable to regain .her feet. Miss Pur kins seized her and dragged her to 1 the edge. CONFESSED SENDER ROUND OVER In Default $5000 Bail Mrs. Hawley Held. PRISONER'S MOTHER AT SIDE Federal Charge Now Placed Includes Intent to Kill. CASE PSYCHOLOGY STUDY Plotter Repeats- "I Jut Didn't Like Them," When Asked J,hy She Sent DojK-d Candy to Su-pchil-d renDetectives Ba re St ri fe. Under $5000 cash bail, which she was unable to furnish, Mrs. Edith Edna Hawley, by her own confession sender of six packages of poisoned candy through the mails , to three step-children, her own baby, and a woman of whom she was jealous, was bound over to the Federal grand jury at a preliminary hearing before A. M. Can non, United States Commissioner, late yesterday afternoon. I The charge against her was sending poison through the malls with intent to kill. Four counts may be pressed by Clarence Reames, United States Dis trict Attorney. The penalty on any one of them, under tho Federal statute,' is up to $5000 fine and 10 years in the peniten tiary. The extreme penalty on the four counts would be $20,000 fine and 40 years in the penitentiary. I'rlsoner'M Mother Present. ' Mrs. Hawley passed the night in the County Jail, as a, United States pris oner. Her mother, Mrs. Robert Kobinson, a little woman in black', sat by her through tho hearing yesterday. Mrs. Hawley herself presented rather a sombre figure. She, too, was dressed In black, and she wore a large hat, a dash of white in Hhe crown, but trimmed heavily in black. -Under the brim showed heavy colls of her bright blonde half. fc But she looked far from the part of the poisoning Borgia she is accused of being. Thin-faced : nd sharp of fea ture, with the pale face and look of a drug-user (she Is addicted to strych nine), she would re too Insignificant appearing to be taken for a master criminal. Eyes Flash Angrily. Much of the time she gized fixedly at Mr. Reames, who sat across a table from her in the United States grand jury-room, in which the hearing was conducted. Now and then, though, through dark eyes, half shut until only the pupils were visible, she would look angrily about. She displayed no other emotion than this occasional ono of anger, with a touch of.defiancc E. C Clement. United States postal Inspector, who heard Mrs. Hawley's confession at police headquarters Thursday night, was tho only witness. He told how she had related having sont tho candy through tho mail, in tending to kill tho recipients. Mrs. Hawley flashed an angry look at hiin. "No, sir, I never made such a statement," she snapped. Mr. Clement detailed other parts of her confession. Again Mrs. Hawley looked at him with her peculiar half shut gaze. Poisoner Says Little. "No, sir, no such conversation was carried on," she asserted vehemently. She appeared throughout to be keenly alert to the court proceedings. She did not take the stand herself. She also "declined to be interviewed, except to cay, when asked if she had confessed to sending the candy: "No, sir, I didn't say that I did say I sent it but I didn't say the rest of what that man said up there." The case of this woman, three times a wife, though she is only 34 years old, and with two children of her own, has presented a curious study in psychology to police and postofflce Inspectors. She appears rational in every way, without a sign, so far. of insanity. They have endeavored to fathom the work ings of her mind to explain the motive of her self-confessed attempt to poison a whole neighborhood. "I just didn't like them," is her principal comment when she is j?rkTd why she tried to poison her stepcltil dren. Jealousy Seems Factor, In the case of Mrs. Alice Bcillay, a,t whose home her husband and ster7n. Stanley, aged 11, went to, live after domestic trouble that led to separation of husband and wife last January, Jeal ousy and a strain of vindlctlveness thread through the evidence. The main trouble that led to the poi son attempt began last J?,nuary, say Tom Swennes and Tat Moloney, the po lice detectives, who by a remarkable piece of detective work completed Uie case against Mrs. Hawley and got her full confession in one day. , It started with the illness of Stanley Hawley, the bright little stepson, whose quick-wittedness in refusing to "divide up" with playmates wfcen a bjx of the candy was sent him at the Arleta School in care of Principal Ball, because It didn't "smell right," saved the lives of probably nine or ten children. Hatred Shown In Many Was. Stanley had been living with hU father and stepmother and her baby girl Helen, i years old. Mrs. Ha-Yley (Concluded ou Pago 10.)