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ft FUND PLEDGED FOR CLASS RATES TO THIRD PARTY ALBANY GETS FIRST ELECTRIC TRAIN IS CENTER 43D BALLOT FINDS NEEDY DELEGATES OREGON LOWERED ENDS IN OF HOWLING MOB DELEGATES NEW JERSEY BANKER TO . PAT BILLS OF WILSON MEN. INTERSTATE COMMERCE COM MISSION MAKES RULING. ttttTi USE EXTENSION WORK WELCOMED BY CROWD. pnRTTyn. OREGON. TUESDAY. JULY 8. 1918. PRICE FIVE CENTS. VOL.. LII- SO. 16,101. , , , : . . I .1 l 11 AVIATRIX AND HER PASSENGER KILLED BRYAN ILLINOIS FIRM Deadlock Is More Com plicated Than Ever. WILSON GAINS MATERIALLY Clark Drops to Low-Water Mark Since Start. BALLOTING IS MONOTONOUS Speaker Journeys From Capital to Baltimore but Does Not Address Convention Tired Members Act Mechanically. BALTIMORE, July 2. The deadlock in the Democratic National convention over a Presidential nominee seemed more complicated than ever -when ad journment was taken at 12:43 A. M. until noon today. , Woodrow Wilson had made steady gains during Monday's balloting; until he reached a high-water mark of 501 votes on the 29th ballot. He remained stationary on the 40th ballot and then began to lose ground. The last ballot was the 42d. when Governor Wilson polled 494 votes. Clark Tote at Loir Ebb. Speaker Champ Clark reached the lowest ebb of his candidacy on the bal lot where Wilson reached a crest. - He went down to 422 votes at that time but immediately began to pick up and had gone to 430 when adjournment was taken. The Speaker came over to Baltimore during the evening and was a guest at the home of Mayor Preston, near Con vention Halt. He returned to Wash ington shortly before midnight. ' The convention went through another monotonous round of balloting last night Roll calls, in which Governor Wbodrow Wilson gained steadily and Speaker Champ Clark as steadily lost, were taken without decisive result. Wllaoa Gafna at "tart. " v The evening started auspicious!? for Wilson with the 26th ballot and on the 39th he had passed the 500 mark with one and one-half votes to spare. Clark in the same ballots lost 11 votes. On the 40th call of the roll Wilson's 501 H remained the same and Clark gained . a single vote. leaving him 423. Mean time the vote for Oscar W. Underwood fluctuated within 10 votes of the 100 mark. The delegates sat in a sort of stupor. The roll call clerks entered the vote mechanically, often without waiting for the responses from the various states. At the end of the 40th ballot a tired Alabama delegate moved to ad journ, but when a roll call en the mo tion was demanded, by the Wilson forces, he withdrew It. CeavcBtloa Hall Bratrsrrd. Convention hall was almost stam peded tonight by thousands of persons who were refused admission after Chairman James ordered the police to admit no one except delegates, alter nates and members of the press. When the order was Issued the po lice were having trouble preventing crushes at the doors and in the streets around the hall. Within a few min utes the authorities were confronted with a situation so serious that re serves were sent for and the crowds driven from the doors. In front of the hall the street was roped off at each entrance of the building and double lines of police stationed across the streets. No one was permitted through these lines without a delegate badge and ticket or press badge and ticket. , By 10 o'clock it was estimated 25, 00 persons were packed in the streets, clamoring for admission, but none could elude the police. It was the first time of the convention that the precautions were necessary to avoid possible trouble at the doors. Police Ordera Strict. The police orders were so strict that several delegates who had forgotten their badges, were excluded from the hall for an hour before they could get word to the inside and obtain Identi fication. The hall itself was filled to capacity, hundreds standing in the aisles around the sections ' on the ground floor. A weary, bedraggled, peevish aggre gation of delegates and alternates to the Democratic; National convention drifted Into the convention hall to night, with a long, dreary night ses sion in prospect. They confronted the same monotonous grind of balloting that had continued from: last Friday morning. A weary, bedraggled, peevish aggre gation of delegates and alternates to the Democratic National convention drifted into the convention hall tonight, with a long, dreary night eession in pros pect. They confronted the same mo notonous grind of balloting that had continued from last Friday morning. Almost a full week of controversy between rival factions had sorely tried the patlenee and temper of the dele gates and the crowd was an Irritable and excitable one. The tensity of the situation had shown itself In a semi riot on the floor in the afternoon when W. J. Bryan found himself In the midst of half a score of fist fights. Police were warned to exert extraor dinary vigilance In the future.- The Officials and 'Visitors Make Initial Trip From Salem Biff Cele bration on Fourth. ALBANY, Or.. July 1. ( Special.) The first train over the Salem-Albany extension of the Oregon Electrlo reached this city at 7:07 tonight and was met by a large crowd. The crew placing the trolley wires reached Flftn and Lion streets, the site of the Ore gon Electrlo passenger station, at noon today and at 3 o'clock this afternoon the first electrically operated train over the new road left Salem. The train, which consisted of two cars, made good time when running, hut frequent stops were made for the in spection of the work. The track was found In first-class condition for the operation of fast trains. The .first train carried C. A. Cool edge, general manager; L. B. Wlck ersham, chief engineer: Carl Gray, Jr.. assistant engineer; C. G. Phillips, su perintendent; A. C. Adams, superinten dent of motive power; L. B. Kramer, electrical engineer; M. Cunningham, assistant electric engineer; J. Allen, station agent at Salem, all of the Ore gon Electric and a few visitors. The train left for Salem on the return trip at 8 o'clock tonight . Regular service on the new line win hn ln&ucrurated on July 4. when the big Oregon Electric celebration will be held here. ' PORTLAND HOLDS RECORD City Best In World for Infants. Is Report Made. City Milk Chemist Calloway an nounced at the meeting of the Health Board yesterday that Portland is the most healthful city in the world for infants. The death rate last year for each 1000 births ' was 70.4. A record obtained from the health department of New Tork shows that when the re port was made the lowest death rate recorded in any city in the world was that for Sydney, Australia, with a mor. tallty of 83 for each 1000 birth, Healthful climate and pure water are given as the chief causes for the low death rate. To this has been added in the last three years the pure milk ordinance and the system of dairy in spection. BIG BANK INCREASE SEEN -'.- - .f, .- - - Total of1 Deposits Jumps Several BUllion In Portland. SALEM. OrM July 1. (Special.) An increase of 34,058,836.07 in the deposits in the banks of Portland between June 7. 1911. and June 18, 1912, Is shown In the report or Superintendent of Banks Wright, which was completed today as far as the Portland banks are con cerned. The total deposits with the last report were $73,358,198.42, while in 1911 they were SS9.299.3s2.35. Overdrafts have shown a decrease of 318,408.64, being now only 398.118.03, as compared to 3112,254.57 for the preced ing year. Loana and discounts have increased 34.377.389.81, the total now aggregating (43.078,923.32 as against 338.699,531.01 for the preceding year. Assets for June 18. 1912. total 387. 910,053.36. as compared to $82,442,220.65 for the preceding year. This is an in crease of $5,467,832.71. LA FRANCE FUNERAL TODAY Man, Who Died In Clackamas River, Burled by Lodges. OREGON CITY. Or July 1. (Spe cial.) The body of James C La France, which was found near the. north fork of the Clackamas River, nine miles above Estacada, Saturday, by a party of fishermen, was taken to Estacada yesterday by Coroner Wilson, and will be burled there tomorrow. La France left his home in Portland June 18, on a fishing excursion, and had not been heard from since that time. The funeral services will be held under the auspices of the Woodmen of the World and the United Artisans, of which lodges Mr. La France was a member. He was secretary of the Ar tisans. He is survived by his widow and three children. NAVAL OFFICERS RETIRED Twelve Still on List Who Will Be Let Go Compulsorily. WASHINGTON. July 1. Several naval officers were retired today on their application, thus reducing to 12 the number of officers who must be compulsorily retired. They are: Captain James P. Parker, on court-martial duty at New- York; Richard M. Hughes, commanding the Washington; Captain John F. Craven, Captain at the Naval War College; Commander Wilson W. Buchanan, com manding the Ohio; Commander Guy W. Brown, commanding the recruiting ship at Mare Island; Commander Albert L. Key, on leave, and. Commander Wil liam G. Miller, under treatment at the Philadelphia Naval Hospital. JUNE RAINFALL IS LIGHT Astoria Observer Reports Deficiency of 1.04 Indies. ASTORIA, Or.. July 1. (Special.) The records in the offloe of . Local Weather Observer Gllmore ahow that the rainfall in Astoria during the month of June was 4.14 inches, or 1.04 Inches less than the average for the corres ponding month of previous years. There were 11 days on which rain fell. 16 days were clear and 15 were cloudy. The maximum temperature was 90 degrees and the lowest was 43 degrees. Nebraskan Resents Act of Missourians. CLARK BANNER IS FLAUNTED Every Delegate in Convention Joins in Riotous Scene. ' BLOWS STRUCK W TUMULT Commoner Goes to Platform Where He Is Permitted to Make Short Speech Which . Chairman James Brings to Halt. BALTIMORE, July 1. William Jen nings Bryan was the center of a riotous scene Just before the 34th bal lot was taken in the Democratic con vention today. The Missouri delegation attempted to carry a Clark banner in front of Bryan. . He. indignantly re sented the move and twice tried to reach the platform. A howling crowd surrounded him. pushing and demonstrating. Once he reached the platform, then returned and 'engaged in angry demonstration wi$h members of the Missouri delega tion; then again mounted the platform, escorted by a policeman. He stood there pale and apparently deeply moved, while pandemonium reigned, and the convention was in a frensy of disorder. Missouri Banaer Raised. The Missouri banner was pushed for ward to the platform, then thrown back by an opposing throng. Every delegate in the convention was on his feet, shouting madly. A fist fight occurred immediately in front of the delegates while, the tumult was at its height, policemen separating the combatants. Bryan, from the platform, arose to a question of personal privilege. ' Mayor Fitzgerald, of Boston, made a point of order against Bryan's speak ing. '"" 's " : The point was temporarily laid aside and Bryan prooeeded. Bryan said he had asked for the re moval of the Missouri banner from in front of the Nebraska delegation. Chairman James ruled that Bryan had not raised a question of personal priv ilege and refused to permit the 'speech to proceed. Bryan left the platform amid great disorder and returned to bis seat. Portland' People in Chicago. CHICAGO. July 1. (Special.) A. B. Thompsan and Mrs. K. M. Thompson, of Portland, are registered at the Majestic Report That Many Are on Point of Departure Because of Lack of Money Brings Offer. SEAGRlT. N. J., July 1. A pledge of $5000 to pay the bills of Wilson dele gates to the Baltimore convention was made tonight by Samuel Ludlow, Jr., a banker of Jersey City, and Joseph E. Bernstein, a merchant of the same place. Reports from Baltimore that on ac count of the extended session many of the delegations . were -hard .un.... caused the Jerseiu of 0 Library I8XOVI2F their offel . . : X- mit Governor Wilson's fight for the Presidency to fail at ' this crisis for lack of funds." said Mr. Ludlow. "We will be prepared to pay the hotel bills and other living expenses which the Wilson delegates at Baltimore are un able to pay. We expect to spend at least $5000 this way. If necessary, we can raise $50,000 In 24 hours and will do so. We will pay any sum needed to keep these men in Baltimore." Mr. Ludlow said that he and Mr. Bernstein would, appear in Baltimore by 8 o'clock tomorrow, ready to succor the needy Wilson supporters.. SWIMMERS SHOCK TEACHER Dr.- Iuella Clay Carson Calls Police to Onst Boys at Girls' Campus. ' OAKLAND, Cal., July ). (Special.) Consternation reigned supreme on Mills College campus this afternoon when three weary, dusty, perspiring boys, coming back from a tramp in the hills, found It impossible to resist the temptation of a swim in the cool lake near the famous college for young women. Clad only in radiant smiles. - they splashed about to their hearts' content and were having the time of their lives until Dr. Luella Clay Carson, president of the college, taking an afternoon walk with several of the young wo men passed nearby. A riot call was sent In to the Melrose police ' station. Armed with a supply of blankets, the police descended upon the boys and restored peace and dignity to the campus by carting them off to the station. All the. youngsters were under 13 years of age. After tearful apologies and promises never to do It again they were permitted to don their clothes at the station and go home. TILLAMOOK-GETS AIRSHIP Chrlstofferson Promises to Fly Over Bay If Wind Aids. TILLAMOOK. Or., July 1. (Special.) Telegrams to the committee in charge of the Fourth of July celebration an nounces that Silas Chrlstofferson, the aviator who made a flight from the Multnomah Hotel in Portland during the Rose Festival, will arrive here to morrow night and be ready for two flights on July 3. He will use a headless Curtiss bi plane and plans to make flights over the city and bay. A possible trip over Bay Ocean and out over the Pacific is contemplated, but conditions of wind will direct this largely. ' SO NEAR, YET SO FAR. Activity Subsides When Colonel Departs. NO CONFERENCES ARE HELD Leaders Uncertain When They Will Plan Campaign. VAGUE STATEMENTS MADE MedUl McCormlck, Who Is Direct ing Roosevelt Cohorts, Asserts ' That There Slay Be No News for Two Days. CHICAGO, July 1. (Special.) Inac tivity has taken the place of the stren uoslty which marked the third party propaganda directly following Colonel Roosevelt's visit to Illinois. While leaders who were active In the movement while the Oyster Bay candidate was in the city, decline to discuss It, there has been a marked ennui prevalent, especially since the Baltimore Democratic convention took on its progressive appearance. Conferences, which had been planned as forerunners of Colonel Roosevelt's new party battle in Illinois have failed to materialize and considerable dissat isfaction admittedly has arisen over the question of placing a third party state and county ticket in the field in Illi nois. McCormlck at Oyster Bay. R. R. McCormlck, who was the 111! nols member of the convention creden tials committee and one of the Roose veltians who refused to bolt when Colo nel Roosevelt gave the "walk-out" sig nals on the first night that the com mittee met. was at Oyster Bay today, conferring with the Colonel, He is said to have discussed the Illi nois situation frankly and to have ad vised Mr. Roosevelt that It would be more advisaye to "go along" with the state organisation, which particularly had been friendly to him so far, rather than ' to run at cross-purposes with Governor Deneen and his adherents. Medtll McCormlck, who has assumed the reins of the new party movement In Illinois, was alone in. the third party headquarters in the Congress Hotel, when a reporter arrived Leader Is Uncertain. "No news today," he said, looking up from a newspaper he was reading. "When will the conference of Illi nois leaders be caned," he was asked. "I'm not certain," he said "I don't think there will be any news along that line for a couple of days. (Concluded en Page 2.) Willamette Valley Tariffs on Freight Coming From Missouri River Held Unreasonable. WASHINGTON, July 1. Class freight rates from the Missouri River and points of origin east to destinations In the Willamette Valley through Port land, Or., today were held by the In terstate Commerce Commission to be unreasonable. . Reductions averaging approximately 12 per cent were qrdered. "It is evident that the commission has acted on the theory that no rate between two points shall exceed the sum of the local rates between the same two p-oints." said J. N. Teal, traf fic attorney lor the Portland Chamber of Commerce, last night. "Either that or they have established a rate for the Willamette Valley towns which is equal to the sum of the rate from the Missouri Valley to Portland plus the rate from Portland to the Wil lamette Valley towns and which, on the basis of the class rate schedule established by the state commission last year, is equivalent to about a 12 per cnt reduction. 1 "The probable effect will be to give the Willamette Valley points closer re lations with Missouri Valley points on business governed by class rates. It will not disturb the relations between Portland and the Willamette Valley, however." DAVIC, AUTHOR, TO REWED Bessie McCoy, Varna Yama Girl, Wins Famous Divorced Writer. NEW TORK, July 1. ( Special.) Bessie McCoy, of Yama Tama fame. and Richard Harding Davis, the for mer war correspondent and present author, are to be married. Tonight Mr. Davis said at his home in Mount Klsco that he and Miss McCoy will be married on July 8. Asked for some details about where the marriage will take place, he refused to say a word. "We are going to keep It a secret,' said Davis. "We want to keep from being bothered. We are going to be married a week from today and that's all you need. As a matter of fact we haven't made our plans yet. anyhow, because we don't want them to leak out." WILSON COOL IN CRISIS Governor Says Votes Come "Slow as Cold Molasses." " SEAGIRT,; N. J July 1. "They are coming as ' slowly as cold molasses, was Governor Wilson's comment to day upon his gain In strength at Bal timore. "But at that we are doing better than we did last week. During the week we gained 83 votes; Today alone, up to the present, we have gained 71. The Wilson lines are holding solid; the gain is very satisfactory." To all outward appearances the Gov ernor was little concerned In the de tails of the contest. CAR RUNS AWAY ON GRADE Motorman, Trying: . to Save Life, Loses Ik Six Others Injured. SEATTLE, Wash, July 1. Motorman George C. Shinolt. aged 32, was killed and six persons were Injured late to day when a streetcar on the Broadway line got beyond control near the June tion with the Eastlake line and turned over when It hit the switch at the Junction. None of the injured was dangerously hurt. Shinolt was Instantly killed when the car turned over. He tried to Jump, but bis body was caught In the folding gate and the car crushed him against the pavement. TAP LINE CASES DROPPED Commerce Court Finds That It Han Lack of Jurisdiction. WASHINGTON, July 1. The Com merce Court dismissed today, for want of Jurisdiction, the so-called tap line cases filed recently. The petition presented by the tap lines required injunctions against the Interstate Commerce Commission's or der determining tne status of tap lines with relation to the various trunk lines. The tap lines contended they were com mon carriers under the law and that the Commlsslson had no authority to exclude them from the divisions of through rates with, trunk lines. CONGRESS THANKS SAVIORS Captain and Crew of Carpathia Re membered for Work. WASHINGTON. July 1. The thanks of Congress are conveyed to Captain Arthur H. Rostron and the officers and crew of the liner Carpathia for their rescue of 704 survivors of the Titanic, In the Senate bill passed today by the House. The measure now goes, to President Taft for signature. The bill provides for a 81000 gold medal for Captain Rostron. MRS. HUTT0N SPOKESMAN Spokane Woman Announces .Votes of Washington Delegation. CONVENTION HALL, Baltimore, July 1. (Special.) Mrs. May Arkwrlght Hutton, of Spokane, is announcing the votes of the Washington delegation In the convention. Miss Harriet Quimby Falls 1000 Feet. TWO VICTIMS STRIKE IN BAY W. A. Willard in Monoplane With Woman at Helm. WIND TURNS TAIL OF PLANE Both Are Hurled From Craft as It Plunges Toward Water Bodies Strike With Fearful Impact and Are Burled In Mud. BOSTON. July L Miss Harriet Quim by, of New York, the first woman to win an aviator's license in , America, and the first woman to cross the Eng lish channel in an aeroplane, was Instantly killed this evening with her passenger, W, A. Willard, manager of the Boston aviation meet at Atlantic, when her Bleriot monoplane fell Into the Dorchester Bay from a height of 1000 feet. The accident happened when Miss Quimby and Willard were returning from a trip over Boston Harbor to Boston Light, a distance of 20 miles in all. The flight was made In 20 min utes. Machine Is Latest Model. The Bleriot. one of the latest mo dels of military monoplanes, circled the aviation field and sosred out over the Savlnhlll Yacht Club, just outside the aviation grounds. Heading back lnt the eight-mile gusty wind. Miss Quim by started to volplane. The angle was too sharp and one of the gusts caught the tall of the monoplane, throwing the machine up perpendicular. Por an Instant It poised there. Then, sharply outlined against the setting sun, Wil lard was thrown clear of v the chassis, followed almost immediately by Miss Quimby. Hurtling over and over, the two figures shot downward, striking the water 20 feet from shore. They splashed out of sight a second before the monoplane plunged down 15 feet away. It was low tide and the water was only five feet deep. Bodies Embedded la Mad. Men from the yacht club. In motor boats, were on the spot quickly and leaping overboard dragged the bodies out of the mud into which they had sunk deeply. Death probably was in stantaneous. Both bodies were badly crushed. Sev eral of Miss Qulroby's bones were broken and there were many large bruises. Willard, who weighed 190 pounds, hit the water face first and also sustained several fractures and bruises. The clothing of both flyers was torn and the bodies were so covered with mud that it was several minutes before the doctors could determine the full ex tent of the injuries. Troops Hold Crowd Back. The bodies were laid on the ground on the edge of the aviation field. A troop of state cavalry held the crowd back, while Dr. George Sheanan, the field surgeon,. with his staff and nurse. made hasty examinations. In a few moments the bodies were taken to a hospital. Miss Blanche Stuart Scott, another avltrice. was fry ing at the time of the accident. Mix Scott Sees Fall. From her high altitude Miss Scott had watched Miss Qulmby's splendid flight and was near by when the gust upset the monoplane. In the excite ment of the moment no one noticed the lone avlatrlce, but when Miss Quim- by'B body was brought ashore all eyes were directed aloft and Miss Scott was seen making sweeping circles over the field at a height of about 600 feet. Twice she started to descend, but each time she was seen to falter. In another moment summoning all her nerve, she turned the nose of her ma chin downward and landed safely, col lapsing In her seat before anyone could reach her. A. Lee Stevens, of New York, manager for Miss Quimby, and Miss Qulmby's friend, Mrs. Helen Vanderbllt, who were both witnesses of the accident, were prostrated. Both Joke Before Flight. Before going up on their last flight. Miss Quimby and Mr. Willard were talking and laughing with their friends. Willard making Jokes about his welRht and Miss Quimby talking confidently about her plans to make an altltudo record in the future that would stand as a woman's high mark. In crossing the English Channel on April It. Miss Quimby flew at an alti tude of 6000 feet, which was believed to be the record for women. Miss Quimby said today she felt sure she could beat this mark, although she did not believe she could excel the rc ord of 13,943 feet set by Garros. Discussing the subject of coming into the water, if the engine should fall In the flight over the harbor. Miss Quim by said to a friend Just before she left the ground: 'A water landing is all right in Bleriot until you come down head first. In that case the heavy motor at the forward end of the machine would drag the monoplane deep into the water and sink it.- But if we came (Concluded oa P 8.) i P ' Concluded on Fas .)