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Section One 74 Pages SIX SECTIONS Pages 1 to 16 court. v-7 SU brary t BYd VOL. XXXV. NO. 3. PORTXAxj, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, JANUARY 16,' 1916. 5 - - PRICE FIVE CENTS. CO-EDS WALK 22 MILES IN SNOW TO KAISER APPEARS IN INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS BERLIN STREETS By MEXICAN DELAY HELP Id DEFENSE COVER ESCAPADES The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, degrees; minimum, -0 degrees. SORORITY SEXTET REFUSES TO WAIT FOR LATE TRAINS. CROWD REMARKS THAT EMPER OR IS LOOKIXG WELL. TODAY'S Fair, continued, cold; easterly winds. War. ah'Mtfi; SENATORS CHAFED ALUMNI ASKED GAS EXPLOSION ON SUBMARINE KILLS 4 HAZING CHARGED TO Country Believed to Demand Action. WILSON AT END OF STRING President to Be Overridden Carranza Fails. TENDER OF AID FAVORED Proposal to Lend De Facto Govern. ment Funds to Strengthen Mili tary Establishment Now fnder Consideration. ' fiT JOHN CALLAN O'LAUGHLIN. WASHINGTON. Jan. 15. (Special.) ' It became apparent to the Admlnistra tlon today that its efforts to prevent Senatorial action with reference to Mexico will prove abortive, unless: 1. There should not be the slightest doubt of General Carranza's ability and purpose to arrest and punish the assassins of the Americana at Santa Tsabel, Chihuahua. 2. Further outrages against Ameri can life do not take place. Loan to Carraasa' Favored. What action, the Senate may take. however, will not be in the form of a direction to the President to intervene. The suggestion is under consideration of modifying and broadening the reso lution introduced several days ago by Senator Lewis, of Illinois. The plan which is meeting with favor contemplates first, approval of the President's demand on Carranza; sec ond, the lending of money to Carranza to enable him to increase his forces and military supplies; third, in' case condi tions of disorder menacing to American and other foreign life continued, use of the Army and Navy in co-operation with Carranza troops. President Oppoaes Any Action. If the Senate should act at all. It will be against the present desire of the Administration, though it is ad mittedly possible there may be develop ments which will dispose the President to have the backing of a Congressional resolution. In his speech yesterday, following a conference with the President, Senator Stone significantly expressed the hope that it was the President's intention "to do whatever he can to aid in strength ening Carranza's hand in Mexico to the end that Carranza can maintain an orderly and effective government In that republic- All the aid the President can give in dependently he has given "to Carranza. He recognized him as the de facto gov ernment in Mexico. He has given him the moral support of the United States. He is preventing intervention and giv ing time to punish the murderers of Americans and to establish peace and Order. Ha cannot lend money to him. and before placing any troops in co operation with Carranza ho would de sire authority from Congress. Mone Confers With Lansing. Senator Stone had a conference with Secretary Lansing tonight and urged him to send to the Senate on Monday the department's reply to the Fall reso lution, which particularly inquired as to the grounds on which Carranza had been recognized. The Senate urged Mr. Lansing to keep the Senate Informed of every development in the neighbor ing country. The answer to the Fall resolution is desired in order that the foreign re lations committee may act promptly upon the nomination of Henry P. Flet cher to be the American Ambassador (Concluded on Pave 6. Column 1.) i yfia r -L 1 J! . hft&LiAffl whoa! feeling his oooNf Women, Dressed in High Boots and Heavy Coats, Fay Visit at Home or One of Their Party. UNIVERSITY OF OREGON. Eugene, Or, Jan. 15 (Special.) Unwilling to wait for belated trains and undaunted by the freezing weather and five inches of snow covering the ground, six uni versity women members of the Gamma Phi Beta sorority, left at noon yester day on a hiking jaunt to Cottage Grove, 22 miles south of Eugene. The trip was undertaken at noon. Six hours later tho young women, Esther Hill, of Cottage Grove; Alice Hill, of La Grande: Harriett Polhemus, of Portland; Helen Currey, of Portland Dorothy Downard, of Portland, and Nita Hunter, of Island City, arrived at Cottage Grove, according to a telegram received from them today. . They dressed warmly for the journey in heavy coats and donned "high-tops' for cutting the sleety roads. They spent today visiting the parents of Miss Esther HilL and will return tonight by train. BOY DROWNS IN SALMON Three Brothers Caught in Leaky Boat Try to Swim Ashore. SALMON RIVER, Or., Jan. 15 (Spe cial.) On the way home from school Thursday, three brothers. Willie. Jlm- mie and Guy. sons' of Mr. and Mrs. Alex Frasier. aged 16, 12 and 7, re spectively, leaped from a swamped rowboat into the icy-cold water of Lower Salmon Biver and Jimmie was drowned. His body was recovered within an hour. The boys started to cross Salmon River, as was their custom every even ins: returning from school. When in midstream the boat began to leak and the lads started to swim ashore. Wil lie gained the bank, but went back to assist his brothers. He saved Guy, but was too late to help Jimmie. VEHICULAR BAN PROPOSED Sops on Washington Street May Be Forbidden by Ordinance. Stopping of automobiles or other vehicles on Washington street in the main . business center will bo, prohib ited if a proposed amendment to the traffic ordinance is adopted. The pro posed amendment is aimed to lessen the traffic congestion on the street. Commissioner Daly says vehicles can move around the corner to another street to stop or park without being more than 100 feet ' away from any business place within the block. BIRD MOLESTERS FINED Aliens at Cosmonolls Caught Trap ping Robins for Food. ' COSMOPOLIS, Wash., Jan. 16. (Spe cial.) Lovers of nature here were greatly aroused during the past few days by the report that several aliens were taking advantage of the tame- ness of the Winter robins and catch ing them in traps to eat. Deputy Game Warden Chris Schock was notified, and as it is against the aws of the state of Washington to molest robins, the men were arrested and heavily fined. STORK GAINS ON REAPER Portland Births Increase While Deaths Decrease. The stork showed nearly twice the speed of the grim reaper in Portland last year, according to official fig ures Issued yesterday by City Health Officer Marcellus. The year showed a material decrease in deaths and an increase in births over 1914. , During 1915 there were 22S3 deaths and 4127 births. In 1914 there were 2354 deaths and 4046 births. PICTORIAL SIDELIGHTS CAST BY CARTOONIST REYNOLDS ON University. Nucleus of Training. Advised. FEDERAL NEGLECT IS CHARGED President of Illinois Shows Possibilities of Work. CO-OPERATION IS DESIRED Dr. James Says Scheme Would Es tablish True American System and - Support Officers for Continental Army. NEW YORK, Jan. IS. President Ed mund J. James, of the University of Illinois, Colonel of the largest cadet regiment in the United States, appealed to the New York Alumni Association of the University of Illinois at the annual banquet here tonight to stand by him and the trustees in their efforts to make this regiment, which Is in fact a brigade,' the most efficient organization of its kind in the world. He charged the Federal Government with gross neglect of its duty toward this work. The State of Illinois has erected at the university an armory, a structure which can be used for a training school and a building as head quarters for a battery of field artillery. Student Required te Drill. The university in its turn requires all freshmen and sophomore male students to spend three hours a week in mild drill, but although there are now 2250 men in the cadet brigade the Federal Government has refused to send more than one Army officer to train these men. "The University of Illinois turns out every year more than 1100 men who have received two full years of such military training as maybe obtained by drilling twice a. week," said President James, "and upwards of 10d who have received four years of such training. and yet the Federal Government de clines to do its part in making this work still more efficient. Why not utilize first of all the men now enlisted instead of making these extraordinary endeavors in trying to get others to enlist before these are trained?" Economical Method Offered. "In this and similar institutions where military service is required the Federal Government will find its most important, most economical and most efficient means of recruiting the large body of officers which a National guard or a real continental army may require. By furnishing a competent corps of from one to five trained officers, ac cording to the size of the cadet regi ment, the Government could make out of these schools military training cen ters of high value second only to West Point and far cheaper to maintain. Military SmoTarahipe Favored. 'If the Federal Government were to offer military scholarships of the an nual value of 9250 to those students who would complete these combined military courses, the University of Illi nois would turn out 250 officers a year at a cost to the Government of $1500 for each Lieutenant. 'By a scheme like this we would es tablish the true American system of co-operation between the state and the Nation in this common function of Na tional defense. The West believes thor oughly in a sensible, that is. a scien tific, scheme of National preparedness for National defense against aggres sion, but it will .not, I believe, be frightened or dragooned into a half- baked scheme which is sure to fail ol its own weight." Movement for German Republic being pre pared in Switzerland. Section 1 page 7. Germany formally notifies Britain she will tako reprisals or Bamlong affair. Sec tion 1. page ft. Russians making heavy sacrifices of men in drive on Austrian. Section-J, page o. Britain expected to declare "actual" block ade of Germany. Section 1, page 6. Mexico. Senators chafe at delay in Mexican affair. bee tlon l, page l. Carranza haa not replied to Washington's demands. Section 1, page 5. Foreign. Kaiser appears in public In Berlin; seems well. Section 1, page 1. National. Four killed, others gravely injured, by ex plosion on American submarine, oecuon 1. page 1. Cabinet officials delay action in land-grant case. Section 1. page Wilson to leave second-term issue wholly to public opinion. Section 1. page a. Senate may kill Ferris water-power bill, Section 1, page 2. Domestic. Noted beauty arrives as member of Russian ballet. Section J, page Maxim says America Is in danger, no matter who wins in Europe. Section 1, page 7. University resident deads for Federal aid in training students as potential Army officer. Section 1, page 1. . Sport. Second break in Jaw sends Gru man's plans awry, section z, page s. Season for migratory birds ends. Section 2, page 2. MuCredle adds three stars to Beaver roster. Section 2, page 1. Many Fed players likely to be hunting Jobs soon, section z. page i. Coast baseball nlayers taking up golf. Sec tion 2. page 3. Joe Stecher. of Nebraska, looms as coming wrestling champion, section z, page Second week of new system In basketball at University of Oregon ends. Section 2. page 2. Eastern tennis authority takes' fling at Pac i f i c C oa s t Assoc ia t to n. Sec t ion page 2. J Two-score candidates out for Doble's place at Seattle. oecuun -4 f0 f Matmen begin to show up at Oregon. Sec tion 2, page 1. Portland hockey team enters next series with reduced lead. Section 2, page 1. Four lnterscholastic basketball games to be played this week. Section J, page Pacific Northwest. Mead plan of rural credit favored at Cor- vallis conierence. cecuon j., id0 o. hi mil faces hard Mayoralty fight, with startling issue as of yore. Section 1, page 9. Multnomah. Or., Commercial Club elects. Section 1, page 8. Addison Bennett describes O.-W. R. & N. celebration at OlympL Section 1, Daxe 11. West Pointer, native son of Idaho, out for Republican nomination for Governor. Sec tion 1, page . Co-eds walk 22 miles when trains are late Section 1. page 1. Secretary Olcott announces fees for filing declarations of candidates. Section 1. page . - Commercial and. Marine. N - No cheap grain bags for farmers this year. Section 2, page 11. Export buying at Winnipeg strengthens Chi cago wheat market. Section 2, page 11. Mercantile marine stocks and bonds feature of Wall-street trading. Section 2, page 11. War stocks decline with general selling. Section 2, page 11. Exporters see no hope of reduction In ship ping tariffs. Section 2, page 4. Great Northern Pacific Steamship Company may be penalized for using .Panama Canal. . Section 2, page 4. Marine fatalities In year In vicinity num ber 22. Section 2. page 4, Portland and Vicinity. Portland to work for nonpartisan tariff board. Section 1,, page 10. Government seeks to restore tribal fishing right to Indians. Section 1, page 14. New York approves Northwest's apple of 1915, says Arthur M. Geary. Section 1, page 15. Call for new Republican club has 500 signa tures. Section 1, page 14. Two children killed as tree crushes cabin at logging camp near Rockton. Section 1, page 14. Girl and Great White Way may enter into hazing case. Section 1, page 1. Bill for game sanctuaries is before Con gress. Section 1, page 13. World-wide publicity is planned for Festival. Section 1, page as. Big surprises in letter-writing this week planned. Section 1. page 13. Orpheum announces stars of vaudeville on way here. Section 1, page 12. Admen caricature Ford peace party at an nual Jinks. Section 1, page 10. No hope given for milder weather today. Section 1, page 11. Y. W. C. A, resumes campaign tomorrow. Section 1, page 10. Mollie Bowers to get child if conduct Is sat isfactory to court. Sec ion 3, page 10. Naval militia must prep ire by study to handle cruiser Marblf lead. Section 2, page 12. ' Three high schools and Benson Tech will graduate 202 Frldaj night. Section 3, Page 7. Central Labor Council puts A. W. Lafferty on "unfair list. S ctlon 2, page 4. Scottish Rite reunion is brought to close. Section 1, page 1 J Operatic Baby Horn benefit scores artistic, if not financial, success. Section 1, page 4. New York Navy Yard Is Scene of Tragedy. OTHERS ARE LIKELY TO DIE Naval Officers Nearly Over come in Rescire Effort. CAUSE NOT ASCERTAINED Victims of Accident at Work on New Edison Battery, but Com mandant Says This Would Generate No Gas. NEW YORK, Jan. 15. Four men were killed and 10 others injured, five of them dangerously, in an explosion which occurred this afternoon on the submarine E-2 while the craft was undergoing- repairs in drydock at the New York Navy-Yard. One of the men killed was an enlisted electrician and the other three civilian workers. At least three of the 10 now in hospitals are nA expected to live. Although the detonation was terrific. the submarine itself, from the outside, shows none of the effects of the ex plosion, the second fatal accident of its kind in the history of the United States Navy. The interior apparatus was badly shattered, but so tight was the vessel's shell that there was no means of escape for gas which accu mulated, and it was more than an hour after the blast before the work of rescue recovering the bodies could be completed. Rescue Party Overcome. A ladder was blown up through the conning tower and fell 150 feet away. The injured men and one body were removed soon after the accident, but the bodies far down in the craft could not be reached until the gas had been blown out by compressed air. Soon after the explosion several naval offi cers led a rescue party Into the dry- dock, but were partly overcome by gas fumes when they attempted to descend into the vessel. It was then that com pressed air pipes were run into the shell and the gas forced out. The number of men inside the sub marine at the time of the explosion is not definitely known. About 20 were working on the craft, but not all of them were in the underwater boat at the same time. It is not thought pos sible that anyone who was inside could have escaped injury. Canse Is Sot Determined. , , What caused the explosion has not been definitely ' decided. Rear-Admiral Usher, commandant of the Navy-yard, after an examination of the craft and questioning workmen who had been nearby, declined to express an opinion. He said: v "The men were at work in the bat tery compartment of the E-2, discharg ing the new Edison batteries through a rheostat to measure the voltage, and the explosion occurred in that com partment while they were working there. The battery will generate no kind of gas'and there was no gasoline on board. The engine was of the oil burning Diesel type." ' Pending the appointment of an offi cial board of inquiry by the Navy De partment, Rear-Admiral Usher named a temporary investigating committee, as follows: Lieutenant-Commander Pope, Washington, commander of the receiv ing ship Maine; Lieutenant L. M. Stew art, of the torpedo-boat destroyer Mc Call; Lieutenant Rush H. Fay, com mander of the submarine division to which the E-2 was attached. The committee immediately began to Conc nded on Page 5. Column 1.) SOME OF THE WEEK'S Lively Conversation Is Held With Guests and Long Conference With Imperial Chancellor. BERLIN, Jan. 15. (By wireless to Sayville, N. . Y.) Emperor William made several public appearances in Berlin ' yesterday, according to the Overseas News Agency. The agency says : "The Emperor yesterday called on several persons and was seen at sev eral places in Berlin. Today he took luncheon at the residence of the Chan cellor, where there were also present General von Bissing, Governor-General of Brussels; General von Beseler, Dr. Delbrueck, the Vice-Chancellor; Herr von Jagow, the Secretary for Foreign Affairs; the Presidents of the Prussian upper and lower houses, and several others. "When the Emperor drove through the streets to the Chancellor's residence he was joyously cheered by the crowd, which remarked that he was looking well. The Emperor stayed for several hours with the Chancellor, in lively conversation with the guests and aft erward in lengthy conference with Dr. von Bethmann-Hollweg." WOMAN LOSES $5000 SUIT Verdict Returned for Klamath Falls in Case of Fall on Icy Walk. KLAMATH FALLS. Or., Jan. 15. (Special.) The trial of the damage suit in the Circuit Court of Klamath County brought by Mrs. Lillian De Hay, of this city, against the city of Klamath Falls has been in progress here since Tuesday. Mrs. De Hay sued for J5000 for damages alleged to have been caused by a fall on an Icy sidewalk here last Winter. She declared she was permanently injured and is now unable to earn her living. The Jury after three hours' delibera tion returned a verdict for the city. Mrs. De Hay's case was conducted by W. H. A. Renner and City Attorney Groesbeck defended the city. BIG NAVAL CORPS ASKED Mr. Daniels Urges Hasty Action for Midshipmen Increase at Annapolis. WASHINGTON, Jan. 15. Immediate action by Congress to authorize an in crease in the corps of midshipmen at Annapolis is urged by Secretary Daniels in a letter to Chairman Padgett, of the House naval committee. The letter says that if a full number Of vacancies be made available for appointments by members of Congress before March, the academy will be able to handle a much larger class next year. SULTAN REWARDS DOCTOR Portrait Sent to German Who Per formed Successful Operation. BERLIN, Jan. 15. (By wireless to Sayville, N. Y.) The Sultan of Turkey has sent his portrait, signed by him self, by special courier, to Professor Israel of Berlin, who some time ago performed a successful operation on the monarch. The Sultan sends word that he con siders his complete restoration to health as a miracle and expresses his thankfulness. SUCCOR PROJECT TO START Caldwell Reports Irrigation Works to Begin in Spring. CALDW5IA Idaho, Jan. 15. (Spe cial.) Construction work on the Suc cor Creek irrigation project will be started with the opening of Spring, according to engineers in charge of the survey work. . The project will re claim 6500 acres in Idaho and 1000 acres in Oregon. Water will be se cured from Succor Creek. 'The estimated cost of the project is 1250.000. NEWS EVENTS. Students Declare Ini tiation Mild. WRONGED GIRL ENTERS CASE Wanderings in "Memory Lapse" Take on New Aspect. THEFT INCIDENT RECALLED Dental College Youth Is Reported to Have Admitted Stealing Micro scopes lo Ray for Care of Young Woman From Reno. The "hazing" through which Ernest Roberts passed, and which his mother says preceded a four weeks' loss of memory occasioned by blows on the back, consisted of the following, as outlined by Roy G. Mellor, "master of ceremonies' at the "initiation" held late in October in the Multnomah Hotel: The boy was blindfolded, his shoes removed, and he was laid across a tablo which he was ordered to kiss as paying respects to a course of study in col lege. Youth Put on "Electric Mat." From there he was taken to the "tossing blanket," where he . waa tossed at the hands of a dozen stu dents, from which process he was placed on the "electric mat" so charged with electricity that he was ob::jd to hop up and down and was glad to rush into the only avenue of escape a gauntlet of students armed with pad dles, who buffeted him along with blows and shoves. At the end of this a piece of "sticky fly-paper" waa plastered on his chest and the initia tion was completed. From this ceremony has arisen one of the most remarkable eries of esca pades surrounding a 22-year-old youth. involving the police of Seattle, Port land and San Francisco, going even as far as Reno. Nev., where a daughter of a supposedly wealtf mily enters tlio affair. Ten-dollar-a-di 3ms in hotels. the ejection fronr of the larger ho-. tels in Seattle, V rest for detention in San Francigct he declared he was about to sail 1 South America, are bite of the re arkable incidents al leged to have occurred during the tlm he was said by his mother to be suf fering a mental amnesia resulting from "hazing." Trick to Hide Escapade Alleged. "I believe this alleged injury to his ind was trumped up to cover up other shortcomings," is the accusation mads by Dr. Herbert C. Miller, president ot the North Pacific College of Dentistry and Pharmacy, who yesterday conduct ed an investigation of the alleged haz ing. He admits that the boy was lightly paddled, and announces that the cere mony will be dispensed with in the future. He tells of the theft from the Dental College of two microscopes, valued at $160, which Portland detectives fast ened upon the boy. At this time tho mother gave a history of the boy's case, he says, relating other strange events in his life, and he had the boy before him, asking him the motive for his theft. Girl Involved in Stery. Dr. Miller declares that the boy told him a story of a surveying party in Nevada; of a companion who, it is alleged, wronged a girl in Reno, and afterward went to the interior of Alaska, and of his promise to protect the girl in case of eventualities.. The girl. Dr. Miller says Roberts told him, was brought to Portland and to pay for (Concluded on Page 2. Column 1.) 1 J HI 1 "5 109.0