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VOL. LVI. XO. 17,339. PORTLAND, OREGON, SATURDAY. JUNE 191G. PRICE FIVE CENTS. MERCURY AT 92; tSIIFPRARF flFRHTF ROBBER LOOTS BANK AT SULTAN, WASH. CASHIER IS LOCKED" IN VAULT AND $3000 STOLF.X. WRECKERS EXPECT TO REFLOAT BEAR ENTIRE BERRY CROP SOLD BY CONTRACT MEXICAN GENERAL SEASON'S HIGHEST tNLIVtno otoolUN RELIEF PROMISED FOR TODAY BY WEATHER OBSERVER. HOOD RIVER AND WHITE SAL MON GROWERS ARE JUBILANT. 00 in BV STEAM ROLLER WANS PERSHING Lone Wilson Foe Crushed Jn Flight From Menace. ACT IS ST. LOUIS TDPLINER Western Dplenatfis Defeated y by South in Fight for Suf- u frage for Women. BRYAN NOISE IS DISTINCT Clamor for Commoner Makes Going Rough at Times for President's Machine. COLISEUM, St. Louis,. June . 16. (Special). (Editorial Correspond ence.) No delegate at the Demo cratic National convention will as an individual admit that he believes in i-igns or fears a hoodoo, or worries about unlucky days, r numbers, or omens. Yet more .than 1000 men and several women acting together just a few minutes before midnight yesterday proclaimed their supersti tious dread of an eminent Friday by precipitating the nomination of President and Vice-President in a way to upset uniform Democratic prece dent. The news reports have perhaps covered fully this most curious inci dent. If they have, they showed how, after the tedious and neglected speech nominating Woodrow . Wil son, and .a .seconding speech or two, "the steam roller was brought into action, the call of states suddenly terminated, the rules suspended and .motion to nominate by acclamation made and jammed through over the vociferous protests of a lone delegate from Illinois who was there to vote against Wilson, and who was gagged and hog-tied before he knew what happened to him. Even Newspapers Surprised. The project of dodging the fearful menace of the deadly hoodoo was carried out with such sudden celerity that it was some seconds before even the newspapers knew that Woodrow Wilson had been nominated by ac clamation. It took only a minute or two to name Vice-President and the convention breathed a great sigh of relief and happiness. . . It was an episode so amazing that it stands out as the supremely inter esting feature of the convention with a single exception. It occurred in spite of the fact that President Wil son laughs at ghosts and delights in challenging the fates by calling Fri day his lucky day, and acts accord ingly But here in the South where ignorance is widespread and the hoo doo and the voodoo are still profound- y believed in by many people, a Democratic National convention fell a panicky victim to its environments. The other interesting happening of the convention was the lively battle today over woman suffrage. It was in a sense an issue between the West and the South. The West where women vote, and the South where men, and white men, too, are alone permitted to enjoy that inestimable privilege. South Fears Suffrage. The South greatly fears suffrage, the West proudly proclaims the eman cipation and freedom of its women. The majority proposal of the plat form committee was little better than a straddle, though it contained a real crumb of comfort to the suffragist and was quite as explicit as the Re publican plank adopted a week ago. Indeed, Republican and Democratic utterances are essentially alike. The majority report today recommended votes for women "by the states." In other words, the question was deftly passed to the states just as the Re publicans did. This was the fruit of a long fight in committee, which was warring neither over Americanism nor prepar edness, nor prohibition, as many sup , posed, but over suffrage. It was in- y teresting to hear the old-fashioned ar gument of the Texas Governor for state rights, and against invasion of a Bovereign state by another state, or all the states, in any question as to control of the qualifications of its voters. The pretension of the Democracy to Concluded eo fin 2. Column 3.) Hottest Place In TTnited States Yes terday Was Phoenix, 110; and Coldest North Head, 56. Yesterday attained a temperature that wrested the laurels from the pre vious one, also lifting; any number of hats while the owners mopped their brows and admitted that It was warm. The mercury reached 92 at the weather bureau, registering one degree more than on Thursday. On June 14, 1915, the hottest day of the corresponding; week, the temperature attained a maxi mum of 77 degrees. Today will be clear, cooler, and un fretted by any augury of storm, pre dicts the weather bureau. The hottest place In the United States yesterday was Phoenix, Ariz., where the mercury registered 110 de grees, and the coldest was North Head, Wash., where the maximum for the day was 66 degrees. At Pendleton, Or., the record showed 101 degrees, at Medford. Or, 100. and at Roseburg, Or., 98. "Walla Walla was high in '"Washington with 100 degrees, and Spokane sweltered at 94. . The hourly temperatures in Portland yesterday were as follows: Decrees. Degrees. 1 3P. M 85 2P.M 88 8 P. M. 0 4 P. M eo 5 P. M. 92 B. A M. 6 A. M. 7 AM. 8 AM. SAM. 10 A. M. 11 A. M. Noon . 63 6 P. M. 7P.M. SENATOR BURLEIGH DIES Maine Republican 111 Only Few Honrs With Indigestion. AUGUSTA, Me., June 16. United States Senator Edwin C. Burleigh died at his residence here tonight. Senator Burleigh's death was due to acute indigestion. He was 111 only a few hours. His wife died a month ago in Washington. He was a Republican. Mr. Burleigh was Governor of Maine from 18S9 to 1893. In 1897 he was elected to Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Representative Seth L. Milliken, and served until the Democratic landslide In 1910. He was elected to the Senate from Maine for a six-year term by the Legislature of 1913. HOUSE PASSES BOND BILL Government Lands in Organized Ir rigation District Affected. WASHINGTON, June 16. (Special.) The House today passed an impor tant bill Introduced by Representative Smith, of Idaho, which provides for making Government lands within an organized Irrigation district subject to the same state laws as security for the Issuance of irrigation bonds as pri vate lands within the district. It is contended that the legislation will enable many Irrigation districts to dispose of bonds so that they may obtain money to construct their Irri gation systems which are now unable to do so. LIFE IS RISKED FOR FROG Hood River Physician Falls Into Well but Is Rescued. HOOD RIVER, Or., June 16. (Spe cial. An attempt to rescue a frog from a well 16 feet deep, almost cost Dr. W. M.- Post his life. , Dr. Post was standing half way down in the wll, clinging with a hand and foot in the crevices of its stone wall, when he slipped. Although bruised by the Jagged rocks, he managed to hold on to the rod of a 'pump and attract the attention of his small son, who came with a rope, by which the father was rescued. The frog was rescued later. BRITISH GAIN IN AFRICA Three Towns Are Captured From Forces of Germany. LONDON, June 16. British forces ac cording to tonight's official statement, operating in the eastern part of Ger man East Africa, have maUe further ad -varices, occupying Kilimanjaro and an other village near by. A large German force Is confronting the British in this sector. Farther south, near the coast, the British have occupied Korogwe and to the northwest have seized positions in the Victoria Xyania sector. SURVIVORS HAVE MISHAP Train 'With People From Hear Runs Into Gang of Laborers. SANTA ROSA, Cal., June 16. The Northwestern Pacific special train car rying the survivors of the wrecked steamer Bear from Eureka to San Fran cisco ran into a gang of' laborers on a handcar a few miles north of here to night, cutting off the leg of one man and seriously injuring another. The injured laborers were taken aboard the train and removed to a hospital on arrival here. 17 BUILDINGS BURN DOWN Ten Business Houses and Seven Res idences Lost at Lakevlew. LAKE VIEW. Or, June 16. (Special., Ten buelness houses and seven resi dences were destroyed today by fire which started at 4 o'clock P. M. and burned two hours. The losses will total about 175,030. Plank Saved by Plea Wilson Wants It. TIDE IS TURNED BY WALSH 'State by State" Declaration Finally Is Adopted. DEMOCRACY IS TURBULENT Fight Is In Air From Time Conven tion Is Called to Order Thun der Storm Competes With Din of Protest. ST. LOUIS. June 16. The Democratic National convention finished its work today by adopting the party platform exactly as approved by President Wil son and submitted by the re'solutions committee, including the planks on Americanism and favoring woman suf frage, but not until the harmony of Its three days' session had been rip pled with a row over the suffrage plank. No voice was raised against the declarations of the Americanism plank. At one time it looked as if the suffrage plank has been lost .but after Senator Walsh, of Montana, had told the convention that President Wil son himself considered it vital to party success it was voted into the platform, 888 to 161 H. The whole platform then was adopted without roll call. Suffrage Favored, 'State by State." As It went into the platform the suffrage plank stands: "We favor the extension of the fran chise "to the women of this country, state by state, on the same terms as to the men." . . . . The women suffrage leaders consid ered it a much more favorable declara tion than thoy got from the Republican convention at Chicago; they 'threw all their force behind it and won the sup port of the Administration leaders, who were found fighting for them when danger threatened. Haggard and worn from an all-night session, the platform makers were not ready with, their report until after noon, when Senator Stone, sleepless for more than 30 hours, took the speaker's stand and explaining that he was too tired to read the document gave over this task to Senator Walsh, of Montana, and Senator Hollis, of New Hampshire. They "spelled" each other reading the long declaration. The fight on the suffrage plank was in the air. Everybody was keyed up to it when at the conclusion of the reading of the platform Martin Lom asney, of Boston, a delegate, claimed the attention of the chair, it was thought that he was opening the fight. It was several minues before the shouts of approval and cries of dis approval could be stilled sufficiently to hear that he wanted to put the con vention on record as sympathizing with "the people of Ireland." "Raus mit him," roared a Baltimore (Concluded From Pag 3. Column 3.) THE SAME m wmw- ilia Sheriff With Deputies and Dogs Is Trailing Desperado up Sultan. River. GOLD BAR, Wash.. June 16. (Spe cial.) A lone robber entered the Citizens Bank of Sultan at Sultan, five miles west of this place, at noon today when Kenneth Startup, assistant cash ier, was closing to go to lunch and or dered him at the point of & gun to get down on his hands and knees and crawl behind the counter. The robber then helped himself to all the gold and currency In sight and drove his captive into the vault on his hands and knees and took all the money he could there. Hethen locked Mr. Startup in the vault and escaped. Mr. Startup, after a half hour, lib erated himself by taking: the hinges off the vault door. The man who committed the robbery had rented a room opposite the bank a week ago and is supposed to have studied the movements of the employes. . It Is thought that about $3000 was stolen. Sheriff McRea and deputies were at the scene of the robbery an hour after it was reported. Dogs were brought from Monroe and are on a trail up the Sultan River. Seventy-five men are in the posse. Mr.. Startup is a sophomore at the University of Washington and is work ing during the vacation in the bank of which his father, George Startup is president. BLOCKADE NOT TO SLACKEN Misconceptions on Part of Neutrals . Removed, Says Briton. LONDON, June 16. As a result of the discussion of the blockade at the recent allied conference in Paris con clusions were reached which will re move many misconceptions. on the part of neutrals, according to Lord Cecil, Minister of War, who attended the con ference as a British representative. What these conclusions were. Lord Robert would not say, but he asserted there -would be "no Blackening" of the blockade and that It would work better as a result of the conference. PROGRESSIVE QUITS RACE Nebraska Aspirant for Senator Comes Out for Hughes. - , OMAHA. June 16. Dr. W. O. Henry, candidate of the Progressive party In Nebraska for United States Senator, to night announced his withdrawal from the race. In a statement he advised Progressives to support Charles E. Hughes and Charles W. Fairbanks in "the interest of the country." He asked other candidates of the Progressives' to follow his example and declares it "will be almost criminal" for Progressives to fail to support the Republicans in this campaign. AVIATOR ART SMITH HURT American Breaks Leg In Fall From Machine in Japan. TOKIO, Japan, June 15. A dispatch to the Hochi Shimbun from Sapporo, Hokkaido, says that "Art" Smith, an American aviator, has broken his leg. He fell from his aeroplane while giv ing an exhibition flight. OLD DONKEY AND THE SAME Outlook for Saving Vessel Is Good. POSITION IS HELD FAYORABLE Crew Start Engines and Put Winches in Operation. VALUABLE STALLION LOST Inquest Reveals Fact That It Was the Pet Dog of Mrs. Green, Thrown Overboard From Lifeboat, That Caused Capsizing. EUREKA. CaL, June 16. (Special.) With the death list from the steamer Bear reduced definitely today to five, interest In the stranded vessel centered in the efforts made to refloat the vessel. Fire and engine crews of the Bear were aboard the vessel at daybreak. and soon had steam In the boilers. By noon the winches were working, while a raft was in service carrying baggage to the shore, 150 yards distant from the stranded vessel. Ten wagon loads of small baggage had arrived at Cape Town tonight. Vessel In Easy Position- Complete examination of the steamer was made today. It was found she was resting In an easy position on a small rock and sand bottom. The outer shell is slightly damaged, but she is taking no water and Is considered seaworthy. In view of the excellent condition and of the favorable weather, as well as the advantage of her position, it was decided to make an effort to float her. All day the arrival of the wrecking steamer Iaqua was awaited anxiously. Reports tonight, however, were that the Iaqua would not be off the wreck until after 'dark and Captain Nopander said he believed nothing could be done before high tide tomorrow. The captain and other officers are confident of floating the vessel. The Coroner's jury conducting an In quest into the deaths of the Ave per sons who were drowned brought in an open verdict today without fixing the responsibility for the disaster. The wreck victims came to their deaths through the capsizing of a life boat on leaving the stranded steamer, read the verdict. The two women whose bodies were washed ashore have been definitely identified as Mrs. L. F. Green, of Deer Park, Wash., and her daughter, Aileen. Wcmei, Trylas; to Save Pet. Die. It was revealed today that it was a pet dog that was the unknowing cause of the death of Mrs. and Miss Green. The dog was thrown from the lifeboat and in their frantic efforts to save their pet the women knocked an oar from the bands of a sailor. The boat turned broadside to the sea and was capsized, the two women being drowned. At the inquest the captain did not tes tify. No details additional to previous (Concluded on Page IS, Column 8. OLD BRAY. Every Carlot of Strawberries Will Go to Dakota Firm ; Biz Price Re ported; Harvest at Peak. HOOD RIVER. Or., June 16. (Spe cial.) The Hood River Apple Growers' Association and the White Salmon Fruit Growers' Association have sold their entire output of strawberries of the season to'C. H. Bobbins & Co.. dealers. of Grand Forks, N. D. The deal, made by Wilmer Sleg, sales agent of the local organization, is said to be the largest ever made in straw berries in the Northwest. It is now estimated that 150 carloads, in addition to express shipments that will be dis posed of in local markets, will roll to the North Dakota commission men. who distribute the berries through Montana, central Canadian points and the Dako ta. The price is not given out by the as soclation. Mr. Sleg, however, said that the returns of this year, because of the contract price, will be the best in the history of the Hood River and White Salmon berry industry. The total returns will be more than $ 150,000. The deal was made before the be ginning of the season, although not announced until today. Growers, with the harvest now at its peak, are jubl lant over the prospects. Last season the North Dakota dealers purchased from the Apple Growers' As sociation in a single contract 40 car loads of berries. TROOPS COME ON BANDITS Three Mexicans Killed In Engage ment on American Soli. BROWNSVILLE, Tex., June 16. United States troops came on a band of between 25 and SO Mexican bandits about 10 miles east of San Benito, Tex., late tonight, and after firing a few shots the Mexicans scattered. It is reported three Mexicans were killed. So ar as known there were no Ameri can casualties. The troops engaged came from San Benito. Two companies of the Twenty sixth Infantry were immediately dis patched in automobiles from Bar llngen. Texas, to O lml to. 10 miles north of Brownsville, in an effort to cut off the bandits. 981,401 ARE REGISTERED Greatest Number of California Vot ers Recorded as Republicans. SACRAMENTO. June 16. There were 981,401 registered voters in California on June 1, according to figures com piled today by the Secretary of State's office. Of this number 421,707 were regis tered as Republicans. 179,173 as Demo crats. 41S06 as Progressives, 28.065 as Socialists, 25,700 as ProhAitlonists. and 295,237 did not give any party affilia tion. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. T ESTER DAT S Maximum temperature tt2 decrees ; minimum, A3 degrees. TODAY'S Probably fair, not so warm; westerly winds. St. Ixrals Convent Ion. Democrats closing; session embittered by fight over suffrage plank. Page L Democrats accept National committeemen chosen by voters. Page 2. Democ ratio stage management impresses Irvln Cobb. Pace 3. Democratic platform asserts big achieve ments by Administration. Page 0. Women denounce suffrage plank aa in adequate. Page 3. Vance McCormlck made president of Demo cratic committee after fight on Wilson dictation. Page 3. Democratic steam roller outruns hoodoo. Page 1. Mexico. Mexican general warns Pershing not to move exoept In northerly direction. Page 1. Politics. Perkins sees Colonel and says plans for reunited party are under way. Page IS. War. German Chancellor answers reproaches that he tried to reach understanding- with Britain before war. Page 4. Csernowlts captured by Russians, Face . Domestic. Railway leaders on both sides think strike may be averted. Page 6, Marlon Lambert's mother testifies against Orpet. . Page . Effort will be made to- float Steamer Bear. Page 1. , Sport. Pacific Coast league results: Portland S, Vernon 2; Fan Francisco 6, Los Angeles 2; Salt Lake 0. Oakland 2. Page 14- Eddle Collins rises up and smites Red Sox. 7-4. Page 14. Braves shut out Pirates. 2-0. Page 14. Work on municipal links unlikely this Summer. Page 14. Fast and varied races held at Independence. Page 15. Pacific Northwest. Bend falls Into hands of Hoo Hoo. Page 6. Hotel Belle proprietor Is convicted for third time on liquor charge. Page 4, Lone man robs Sultan, Wash., bank. Page L Veterans In session at Eugene urge pre paredness. Page 1 2. Commercial and Marine. England araln delays placing; of cmbtrro on American hop. Page 19. Wheat declines at Chicago on Improved crop outlook. Page 19. Late Mexican news starts selling in stock market. Page 19. River steamer Beaver raided at Kalama. Pa ire 18. Captain J. X Meanv promoted to Inspector of bulls at Honolulu. Pago 18. Portland and Vicinity. Portland has hottest day of year, with raeixury at 92. Page 1. City has $2,699,215 In all funds. Page 20. Mr. Benson offers mile of pavement as grift to Hood River County. Page 18. School election today. Page 12. Weather report, data and forecast. Pace 19. Discharged sewer Inspectors may be rein stated. Page 10. Backward pupils at Allen School show skill In handicraft. Pag-e 11. Fairy Queen leads Willamette Heights children's parade. Page 12. 191 graduates of Lincoln High School get diplomas. Pag 13. Jefferson High graduates 142. ' Page 13. Washington High graduates 123. Page 12. Arson defendant say labor leader offered him S6O0 to confess. Page lL Troop Movements to Be Held Hostile. SHARP ULTIMATUM IS GIYEN De Facto Forces Hold Ameri cans in Strategic "V." ATTACK THOUGHT PLANNED Army Officers Not Alarmed Over Ex peditionary Force, Which They Believe Can Take Care of It self in Emergency. LAREDO, Texas, Jme IS Reports that any American Military attempt t. rroM the HI. Crude la the Xwn Laredo district la pnrsnlt of bandits weald meet with energetic resistance, were confirmed here tonight oa what la believed to ho nalmpeachable au thority. Carraasa troops to Laredo, tt la said, have Instractleas to pat ap a fight to resist possible erosaiBg lata Slexleo of American forces, regard, less of the eaase, CHIHUAHUA CITT. Mexico. Jans II. General Jacinto Trevlno. commanding the Carranzista army of the North, to day advised General J. J. Fershins. American expeditionary commander, that any movement of American ta'cops from their present lines to the south, east or west, would be considered a hostile act and signal to begin warfare. General Trevlno acted upon specific In structions from General Carraia. SAN ANTONIO. Tex- Juno 16. Over night dispatches to General Funston's headquarters say General Rlcaut has ordered 1000 de facto government troops Into the territory opposite San Ignacio to pursue the bandits who took part in the attack oa American troops.. General Rlcaut expressed regret that the attack had been made, and st the same time gave warning that if Ameri can troops crossed the border Car ranza forces would attack. Major Gray Crosaea Border. For two hours today Major Alonzo Gray scoured a strip of the country on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande for traces of the bandits who ytsterdsy raided his camp at San Ignacio. He crossed set Kamiereno. six miles below San Ignacio, with a part of the two troops of the Fourteenth Cavalry that fought off Luis Ee La Rosa's men Thursday. Most of the bandits are known to have crossed into Mexico, and Major Gray td received Information that some of vhem were concentrating on the other side for a second attack, either on bis force or the detachment at Zapata, farther down the river. No trace of the Mexicans was discovered, however. Three Mexicans alleged to bavo par ticipated in the raids were captured on the American side of the river dur ing the day, and the body of one of those killed in the fight was recovered, bringing the total Mexican loss in dead to nine. Troopers Shot Leaving Tents. More detailed reports made by Major Gray today showed that the three men of Troop M who were killed were shot as they were leaving their tents to go Into the trenches. EL. PASO. Texas.. June 1. All American troops stationed in El Paso and Its environs were ordered . to quarters tonight to be held under arras until further notice. The orders fol lowed reports to military headquarters that placards printed In Spanish had been posted in Juares Instructing citizens to gather at designated points dally to receive military Instructions that they may be prepared to repel possible Invasion. The notice was signed by Jesus Valdez, a private citizen, who said he wished his people to "be pre pared in the event of a break with the United States." At the office of General George Bell. Jr.. commandant, no explanation erf the order was given. It being asserted that the orders "were mere precautionary ' measures." Dispatches from Chihuahua City that General Trevlno had notified General Pershing that ny movement of his command other than In a northerly direction would be constructed as a hostile act aroused no apprehension among Army officers here tonight. K was asserted that the expeditionary command is amply prepared to care for Itself In any eventuality. NOTE TO CARRANZA OOSirWTTF. Carranza Can 1carn Substance b Heading Party Platform. WASHINGTON, June 16 President Wilson today virtually completed his reply to me utrranz hulc, wnuo iu substance was being written Into the Democratlo platform at St. Locjs. The reply itself may not be dispatched for several days, but Administration offi cials indicated that General Carranaa, had only to read the party's Mexican plank to learn In advance what the American note would say. The note, the body of which was put into final form at a conference today between President Wilson and Secre tary Lansing, will not be sent. It Is (Concluded From Fas Column .) IFT1 1 05.0