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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (May 22, 1916)
uL M hi mm VOL. L.VI XO. 17,316. PORTLAND, OREGON, MONDAY, MAY 22, 1916. PRICET FIVE CENTS. IMS SISTERS ARE CLOCKS MOVED UP ALL OVER BRITAIN PORTENT NOTED IN. MEN MAROONED 58 DAYS ARE RESCUED M0HLER "NAGGED" OMAHA BELIEVES RAILROAD RUMOR IS NEW YORK MADE WORK T7NEX DURABLE. REPORTED ALIVE SAVES THREE IRE XATIOX SACRIFICES HOUR TO GAIN DAYLIGHT. SURVIVORS OF WRECK TAKEN FROM BARRFX ISLE. A CAVALRY II DROWNS, DARING OREGON PRIMES II BRITISH Aid Mysteriously Gomes to Forces on Tigris. ADVENTUROUS RIDE REPORTED Genera! Gorringe Routs Turk ish Army and Carries Re doubt on Right Bank. BAGDAD ROAD MAY BE CUT Swift and Stealthy Movement of the Muscovites in Asia Minor Is Proved. LONDON, May 21. A force of Russian cavalry has joined the Brit ish army on the Tigris, in Mesopo tamia. An official communication, is sued tonight concerning the situation along the Tigris, follows: "General Lake reports that on the 19th the enemy vacated Betahalessi, an advanced position on the right bank of the Tigris. General Gorringe, following up the enemy, attacked and carried the Dujailam redoubt. The enemy is still holding the Sannayyat position on the left bank of the river. Cavalry Makes Bold Ride. "A force of Russian cavalry has joined General Gorringe after a bold and adventurous ride. "The first news of the operations n the Tigris since the fall of Kut-el-Amara, sent today by Lieutenant- General Sir Percy Lake, commander of the British forces in Mesopotamia, although it shows that the Turks are still holding the Sannayyat position, on the left bank of the Tigris, where the British check made it impossible to carry out the relief of General Townshend, brings the welcome but astonishing intelligence that a body of Russian cavalry, after an adventurous ride, has succeeded in joining General Gorringe's forces on the south bank of the Tigris." How this important junction was effected is still , unknown, and the 6tory will be awaited with intense in terest. Methods of Arrival Puzzling. The supposition is that this detach ment came from the Russian army that is threatening Khanikan, but it still remains a puzzle where and how the Russians succeeded in crossing the river. Their sudden appearance . with General Gorringe also has raised the question whether the Russians have already cut. the Bagdad railroad at Mosul. In any case, the unexpected appearance of this body of cavalry is as great a surprise as was the first landing of the Russian troops at Marseilles, and is another instance of the swift and Stealthy movement of the Russian forces in Asia Minor. CHILD RUN DOWN BY AUTO liila McBain Badly Hurt by Car Driven by Herman Aschwander. i-.ua McBain, six years old, was knocked down by an automobile, rented and driven by Herman Asch wander at Kast Twenty-second and Oregon streets early last night, and is in the Good Samaritan hCouital In a critical condition from a fractured skull. Aschwander told the police that he was dodging two children playing on the right-hand side of Oregon street when the injured child ran into the fender of his machine from the left. He took her to the hospital and then reported to the police. The girl is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. McBain, 730 Oregon street. Aschwander lives at 962 Kast Nineteenth street north. IRISH AND TEUTONS JOIN Societies March Together to Adver tise German Bazaar. SAN FRANCISCO. May 21 Irish and German societies Joined in a parade here today to advertise a German bazaar being held in the exposition auditorium for the relief of German war sufferers. Armed and uniformed, the societies represented in the parade Included the Hanover Vereln. the Independent Rifles, the San Francisco Turner Schuetgen, Pacific Turnbezlrk. Irish Volunteers, Hibemia Rifles and the Austrian Mil- itary and Benevolent Association. Railroad Timetables Not Altered and - Business Continues as Usual. Farmers Only Objectors. LONDON. May 21. Great Britain lost an hour this morning between 2 and 3 o'clock through the inauguration of the daylight-saving experiment. Two o'clock Sunday morning was chosen as the time ol the change on the repre sentation of railroad companies, as fewer trains are then running. At that hour clocks in stations, signal boxes and telegraph offices throughout the country .were changed by the men in charge. A few long-distance trains, which were running at the time of change, will arrive an hour late, but arrange ments were made for connecting trains at junctions to wait for them. Time tables were not altered and everything continues automatically as usual. The change was welcomed generally, though there were some minor incon veniences in London, when alterations to thousands of public clocks began and continued throughout the night. ' The fact that neither France nor America adopted the scheme caused novel complications in newspaper of fices, news from both these countries having the appearance of being de layed an hour. The only opposition to the change comes from the farmers in North Hamptonshlre. who at a meeting yes terday recommended that the new sys tem be ignored as far as possible in working farms, but not to the extent of defying the railroad time tables. DENTIST ON TRIAL TODAY Insanity and Belief in Dual Person ality Dr. Walte'a Defense. NEW YORK, May 21. The trial of Dr. Arthur Warren Waite for the mur der of his wealthy father-in-law, John E. Feck, of Grand Rapids, wilt begin here tomorrow. Among the 115 wit nesses who have been summoned by the prosecution to testify against Waite Is his wife, Mrs. Clara Peck Waite. of Grand Rapids, who has sued him for -a divorce. While the defense has made no offi cial statement as to what its course will be, a plea of insanity will be offered. Waite has contended that he was possessed of two personalities, the evil one of which impelled him to take the lives of his wife's parents. It is believed the first two days of the trial will be consumed in em paneling a jury, because of the wide publicity which, has been given the case since , it -was learned the aged Michigan millionaire's death was caused by poison which his son-in-law has confessed administering to him. . AUTO BANDITS IN TACOMA Trio Rob Store and Later Hold Up Japanese, Taking $30. TACOMA, Wash.. May 21. (Special) Three masked and armed automo bile bandits held up two employes and a woman in the branch store of Mac- Lean Bros. In a fashionable residence district last night, and took $135 from the cash register. They made no ef fort to rob the clerks or customer. While two men worked swiftly the third stood at the curb and kept the engine running. As soon as the job was completed the three jumped to the machine and escaped. The car bore no number. Shortly after the store robbery, a Japanese laborer reported that three men riding a motorcycle, in another part of the city, held him up and took $50. MURDER SEEN IN DREAM Father Appeals to Sheriff, Body Is Found, Suspect Arrested. LIBBY. Mont.. May 20. A man named Jack Miller was placed in jail here today, charged with the murder of Dallas Greene, 20 years old, of Pleasant Valley. Greene's body was found buried near a cabin which he and Miller had occupied. It Is thought that Greene was killed April 25. His father, J. W. Greene, of Spokane, told the authorities he had dream, in which he saw his son's head crushed in with an axe. It was after the father had related his dream to the Sheriff that a search was made for the young man. JAG0W MAY RESIGN SOON Swiss Hear Von Buclow 'Is to Be come Foreign Minister. GENEVA. Switzerland, via Paris, May 21. French newspapers say that travelers who have just arrived In Switzerland from Berlin have the im pression that the resignation of Clem ens Delbrueck as Vice-Chancellor and Minister of the Interior will be fol lowed by the retirement of Gottlelb von Jagow, the Foreign Minister. It is reported Prince von Buelow, ex Chancellor, will become Foreign Min ister. HUMANE SUNDAY OBSERVED Dumb Animals Have Hearing in Pul ' pits of .California. SAN FRANCISCO, May 21. "Humane- Sunday was celebrated today in spe cial sermons delivered from many pul pits here and throughout California. The devotion of one day to discus sions affecting the interests of dumb animals Is part of a plan Inaugurated by the American Humane Society for the purpose of promoting "kindness to animals" sentiment throughout the country. East Sees Evidence of Strength of Hughes. RESULT IS NO MERE STRAW Defeat of Favorite Sons One Important Feature.. LONG LEAD IS CONCEDED New York Herald Poll Shows 452 Delegates for Hughes Already Chosen, Only 4 2 Short of Xeccssary Majority. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington. May 21. Editorials and Wash ington dispatches printed in Eastern newspapers today show uniformity of belief that unusual National signifi cance attaches to the result of the Ore gon Presidential primary, and the opinion seems general that as a result of that primary Justice Hughes has be come the central figure of the Repub lican Presidential fight. Some of the editorial and news comments on the Oregon result follow: The New York Sun says editorially "Oregon is no mere straw; It Is a sturdy oak. The returns from Friday's Presi dential primary in that state, where the favorite sons made a brave flg-ht for the preference and the Progressives from policy lent assistance to the at tempt to keep down the Hughes vote. served to strengthen the widely enter tained and rapidly growing expectation of the impartial that the , contest of 1916 will be between real whiskers and false." Importance la Conceded. A Washington dispatch to the Sun says: "Everybody who: Is anybody in poli tics in Washington conceded today that the election of Hughes delegates in Oregon over the representatives of Senator Cummins and ex-Senator Bur ton goes a long way toward assuring the nomination of Justice Hughes as the Republican candidate for the Presi dency. "Admissions are made by spokesmen of the favorite sons and by Roosevelt men in Washington that at this time it looks as if Justice Hughes had out distanced all competitors and that his nomination is now a certainty. "In fact, there was a report today that within the next few days one of the favorite sons, who is conceded to have a hundred or more delegates pledged to him. would soon announce his withdrawal from the race in favor of Hughes." Predominating Position Made Secure. A Washington dispatch to the Balti more American says: "Justice Hughes today has full con trol of the Republican Presidential situ atlon. He has only to say the word and the nomination is his, even without the asking. His position, already pre dominating, was made absolutely se cure, when the Republican voters of Oregon declared for him by an over- (Concluded on Page 2. Column 2.) TEDDY'S LIGHT Two From Launch Success Reach Port After Long Wait at Mouth of Cook Inlet; 2 Drowned. SEWARD. Alaska.. May 21. After having been marooned 58 days on one of the barren islands at the mouth of Cook Inlet. Captain Charles Han sen and E. H. Mitchell, formerly of San Francisco, survivors of the wreck of the launch Success, arrived here to day from Seldovia on the steamer Ad miral Farragut Thomas Campbell, formerly of Brem erton, Wash., and John Larson, the other two men who were on the launch, were drowned. TURKISH PLOT SUSPECTED Guard Over ex-Sultan Increased to Prevent Liberation. GENEVA, via Paris. May 21. The Tribune's Constantinople correspondent says it Is believed In Constantinople that a plot is on foot to liberate ex- Sultan Abdul Hamid and that his guards have been greatly increased. The cor respondent adds that the pension of Abdul Hamid has been reduced from 1000 to 250. Abdul Hamid was deposed as Sultan in 1909 and was taken a prisoner to Saloniki. A dispatch from Bucharest in March of last year said Abdul Hamid had regained his freedom and shortly afterward a newspaper dispatch from Athens said the ex-Sultan was living in Smyrna. BRYAN ATTACKS SALOONS Struggle to Keep Boys From Drink Declared Worse Than War. ATLANTIC CITY, N. J.. May 21. William J. Bryan was the principal speaker at a meeting here today under the auspices of the Presbyterian Gen eral Assembly which is holding Its 128th annual convention in this city. Mr. Bryan spoke for an hour, confining his remarks chiefly to temperance. "The most pathetic struggle in the world," he declared, "Is not that on the battlefield, by men inured to hard ships, but the mother struggling to save her boy from the Influence of the saloon." Referring briefly to the European war, Mr. Bryan said it was America's duty to relieve the suffering on both sides and "turn them like prodigal sons away from the husks on which they feed and establish a world-wide peace." REMARRIAGE IS OPPOSED Presbyterian Assembly Advocates Strict Observance of Sabbath. ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., May 21. An overture urging members of the church as citizens to work in every state for the enactment of such laws as shall Invalidate any contract of remarriage of parties forbidden by law or decree of & court to remarry was presented to the general assembly of the Presby terian Church Saturday , by the New York synod. It was referred to a com mittee. In the report of the committee on Sabbath observance, considered today. automobiles and moving pictures are added to things which the committee says help desecrate the Sabbath. BRIGADE WILL HAVE TO GO SOME Girls Said to Have Gone to Alaska. one wf Saloonkeeper Snohomish Chief of Police Re- i lates Circumstances. GEORGIA HOME MENTIONED Property of Former Mrs. Eloise Den nis, Now Said to Be Mrs. Buck ley, Reported by Attorney to Be lit Xelms Xame. SEATTLE, Wash.. May 21. Mrs. Eloise Nelms Dennis and her sister. Miss Beatrice Nelms. of Atlanta GaH In connection with whose mysterious disappearance several years ago Mr. and Mrs. Victor E. Innes, of Eugene, Or., were tried In Texas, were living in Seattle and Snohomish. 30 miles north of here until August. 1916. ac cording to Information gathered by J. E. Bylling, chief of police of Sno homish. Mr. Bylling said tonight that he had not positively established the identity of the women, but he had strong rea son to believe they were the missing Nelms sisters. Alias la Reported. Mr. Bylling said that the evidence he had gathered indicated that Mrs. Den nis had been living here and in Sno homish as Mrs. Patrick Buckley, wife of a former Snohomish saloonkeeper. Mrs. Buckley's first name was Eloise. Her sister. Beatrice, Mr. Bylling said, lived in Seattle until August. 1915, when they went to Alaska to join Mr. Buckley, who left Snohomish in Octo ber. 1914. He did not know their pres ent whereabouts. The. Buckleys went to Snohomish in the Summer of 1914. Mr. Bylling said, and Buckley conducted a saloon until October of that year, when he sold out and went to Alaska, leaving Mrs. Buckley in Snohomish. Her sister, he said, lived on Tenth avenue in Seattle, but he did not know the 'exact address, nor did he know the name by . which she was known. Mrs. Buckley, he Bald, had properly in Seattle and spent part of her time, there before going North. Residence la Cieorfrta Mentioned. "Mr. Bylling said that Mrs. Buckley, with whom he was acquainted, never mentioned the Nelms nor Innes cases in his presence. Although she did not say she came from Atlanta, she fre quently referred to the fact that she had lived in Georgia. Mr. Bylling said he believed she joined Buckley in San Francisco two years ago. Mr. Bylling described Mrs. Buckley as a stout woman, five feet eight Inches tall, 30 to 35 years old, of dark com plexion. The names of Patrick Buckley. Mrs. Eloise Buckley. Mrs. Eloise Dennis and Miss Beatrice Nelms do not appear In any Seattle directory. M. J. McGuinness. as City Attorney (CoDcluded on Page T. Column 1.) AT CHICAGO. Tendency of Eastern Interests Said to Have Been to Make Clerks of Officials In West. OMAHA, May 21. (Special) That a nagging policy upon the part of New York officials of the Union Pacific Kail road was responsible for the resig naton of President Mohler- and Gen eral Manager Ware, of the Union Pa cific System, Is rumored in railroad circles In this city. It Is represented that men in full vigor, as were Mr. Mohler and Mr. Ware, would not throw away 'positions with salaries of 130.000 and J15.000 respectively unless matters had become so unpleasant they could not endure them. There is a growing opinoin among railroad men here that with the re tirement of Mr. Mohler and Mr. Ware the executive committee in New York will practically manage the affairs of the big system from that city, making mere chief clerks of the system offi cials of Omaha. For years the New York office of the Union Pacific has been tightening its grip on the executive authority and management, and month after month has insisted that the balance show greater surplus, regardless of the traffic or expense. At times it has been neces sary to trim the expense in order to make the monthly statements show the necessary gain. To expend even a small sum of money the Omaha officers have been forced to refer the question to New York. The retiring officials assert that the most pleasant relations exist between them and the New York officers of the company, but gossip in railroad circles says the treatment that has been ac corded tended to make their work in tolerable and hastened their resigna tions. AUSTRIAN LOSSES HEAVY Determined Fighting Still Continues Along Plateau Front. GENEVA, via Paris, May 21. Re ports received here from Innsbruck are to the effect that severe fighting con tinues along the Italian front. The report says that 3500 Austrian wounded have arrived at Laibach and the Austrian losses since the beginning of the offensive are estimated at S100. The Austrlans are said to have from eight to 10 army corps in the province of Trent. 1300 FRENCH "CAPTURED Berlin Reports Advance on Hill in Vicinity of Verdun. BERLIN, via London. May 21 More than 1300 French, includlrrg 31 officers, 16 machine guns and eight cannon, were captured in a German assault on the Verdun front in the region of Dead man's hill, the War Office announced today. The statement says the German lines were advanced on the south and south west slopes of the hill. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YEPTERdAT'S Maximum -temperature, 50 degrees; minimum, 4o degrees. TODAV'S Probably showers; northwesterly winds. War. Russian cavalry joins British on Tigris River. Pass 1. Foreign. All Britain turns clocks up one hour. Page 1. Herr von Jagow says British "reprisals" must cease, since provocation has ceased Page 4. Mexico. Bandits trailing American troops fire on them from hiding. Page 8. ' National. Ex-Senator Bourne presents figures to show that except for war trade, country would be hard bit by Democratic: tariff. Page Domestic. British military surgeon describes how Irish "Joan of Arc" led her followers in re bellion. Page 3. Methodists to debate amusement Issue this week. Page 7. Oklahoma town wiped out by tornado. Pago 3. Prosperity almost attains physical limis. Page .2. "Nagslng" by New York Interests saM to have hastened Mr. Mooter's resignation. Page 1. East avreea Oregon primaries have had mo mentous effect on political situation. Page 1. Sports. Paclf'f Coast League results: Portland . Salt I.ake 2; Vernon &-. Oakland 2-5 (afternoon game 10 Inning); Ls Angeles r.-, San Francisco 2-7 (afternoon game 10 Innings). Pag 12. Willamette wins non-conference track meet. Page 12. . - - Inter-Olty league Results Bradfords 6. Baby Beaver? 1 : St. Helena 4. Woodland H; Kalem 6, Klrkpatrlrks 2; Woodburn 6, Montavllla 5. Page 13. Giants, for eleventh straight victory, crush Cincinnati. Page 12. Cleveland loses to Washington, Johnson out pitching Covcleskle. Page 12. Olanta set National league record by spurt from bottom to first division.. Page 13. Pacific Northwest. One drowns, two boata lost and others saved from thrilling wreck off Sunset Hay. Pago 1. Baptista to co-operate for efficiency. Page 7. Eight ranchers are arrested in revival of nWht rider cases. Page T. Nelms sisters reported to be alive in Alaska. Page . Maxwell Victor nominated for Sheriff of Clackamas County. Page S. Marine. rive vcsrels arrive In port. Page 11. Portland and Vicinity. Woodlawn Methodist Church celebrates 23th enr.lvtrsary. Page 11. "Better rood Better Homes" Lectures start next week. Page 16. 250 Neighborhood House youngsters aeo Co lumbia Highway. Page lO. Standardization of loganberry juice Is to be dUcussed May 3. Page 10. Marshall X. Dana leads for Democratic County Clerk nomination. Page . Dr. Ionant. of Seattle. Is first Northwest Methodist to be made bishop. Page 11. Bennett Thompson at home night of Jen nings murder, says sister-in-law. Page J ft. Weather report, data and forecast. Page 11. Rev. Dr. Boyd scores Introduction of re . liglous clement into recent campaign. Pago S. 2 Boats Lost Off Coast of Southern Oregon. FISHERMEN POUNDED ON ROCKS One Craft Sinks Aiding Other; Rescue Boat Still Battles. RAGING SEA IS DEFIED Small Vessel Goes to Aid or Men Struggling: in Breakers at En trance to Sunset Bay In Spite of Angry Waters. MARSH FI ELD, Or.. May II. (Spe cial.) Another sea tragedy which cost the life of one man and the loss of two sea fishing: boats occurred this morn ing: at Sunset Bay. when Charles Baker attempted to tow to harbor Thomas Patterson's disabled boat. Mr. Baker had picked up the Patter son boat during: the nigrht oft Bandon. while It was being: tossed about in a helpless condition, and towed it to Sunset, about 20 miles, by 6 o'clock this morning:. In the Baker boat was M. J. Clint, his partner, and Mr. Patterson was ac companied by Kd Engbloora. Wave I'paets Craft. Floyd Galbraith. of Sunset, was the sole witness of the tragedy. He saw the two boats approaching: the bay under fair conditions, but a heavy sea was stirred up in five minutes as they came nearer to port A huge wave up set the Baker boat, and the occupants were thrown into the sea among: the rocks at the entrance of the harbor. Mr. Clint gripped the keg: buoy as he went Into the water, and Mr. Baker was thrown Into the pounding surf with only a board for a buoy. Mr. Baker obtained a hold on a rock, but Mr. Clint, who could not swim, held to his buoy, and after floating: about for three-quarters of an hour -waa-chllled and sank among: the rocks. His body came ashore at o'clock. Struggling: Men Heacned. Thomas Patterson stuck to his crate, and with anchors and oars tried to man age from being: swamped and run on the" rocks. His partner. Engbloora, swam for shore. He was buffeted about and seemed lost, when Hans Hansen, a fisherman who had been In port, put out and picked him up as he was about to give up" the struggle. Frank Harrison and Jack Davis, fishermen, put out with the Sea Doff to rescue Messrs. Patterson an! Baker, and amidst breakers rescued Mr. Baker from the rocks and got Mr. Patterson Into their boat as his craft was being drawn Into the rocky shore line. The Sea Dog put to the open water with the men. and was still off shore today at a late hour, and it could not be learned whether either of the fisher men were injured. Man's Life Apparently Charmed. Charles Baker seems to bear a charmed life, for this is his third seri ous sea adventure within two weeks. Last week he drifted 30 miles from Coos Bay with his engine broken down, and got It started as he was about to be dashed on the rocks at Four Mile. Later his craft picked up another fish ing boat that was being tossed about among the rocks at Shore Acres. Mr. Baker's boat sank immediately when it was overturned today, and the Patterson craft, when deserted, went ashore. among the rocks and broke up. 'OREGON BIRD DAY' IS SET Eucli Boy and Girl Urged to Gel Acquainted With "Friends." SALEM. Or.. May 21. (Special.) Governor 'Withycombe has designated May 26 as "Oregon Bird day." In re sponse to petitions he received from school children of the state. The proc lamation reads in part: "Whereas, The designation of such a day in other states has given real im petus to healthy educational work in this fieli: "Now, therefore, I do hereby set aside and proclaim Friday, May 26, as "Oregon Bird Day," and I urge that each boy and girl In Oregon on that day tries to become better acquainted with the bird llfj of the state, and. If possible, to do something toward promoting interest "n the activities of our fiathered friends. WAGES RAISED; MEN QUIT Southern Pacific Mystified by Un explained Action of Gang. SACRAMENTO. May 21. (Special.) Officials of the Sacramento division of the Southern Pacific Railroad are still wondering why a section gang of 100 men employed near Roseville quit sud denly and without explanation last week. The gang had been working on a particularly hard stretch of road and In line with its policy of raising wages of the unorganized workmen, an in crease of 25 cents a day was given the entire gang. The next day every mau on the Job quit without a word of ex planation. The new gang of 100 Is receiving the benefit of the wage increase.