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Newspaper Page TextPRICE FIVE CENTS. AUTHOR TO SEEK WORLD IN FUTURE BRYAN'S POLICY OF CANOE CAPSIZES; TO DEEPEST JUNGLE TO BE NOISELESS HARVARD MEDICAL PHOFESSOK MAKES PREDICTION. GIRL IS DROWNED "PEACE" IS BLAMED KLEIN TO LAND NO WHITE MAX HAS VIS I TED ' IS OBJECTIVE. KATE O'CONNOR. OF JIONTAG CE CAL., CORVALLIS .VICTIM. PORTLAND, OREGON, MONDAY. APRIL 31, 1913. UN PURSUE BELGIUM MAY MARKETS FARMER S LEADING PROBLEM Ei SOC Deep Feeling Is Shown at Ccn'erence. EARLY REFORMS DEMANDED Waste Between Grower and Consumer Strikingly Shown. NEW BUREAU ASKED FOR Professor MacPherson. of Oregon Agricultural College, Analyzes Recent Chicago Meeting Ap peal Made to Congress. BT HECTOR M ACPH ERSON. CHICAGO, April SO. (Special Cor respondent) The first National conference on -Marketing and Farm Credits'" has now passed Into his tory. It Is worth while at this point. I believe, to review its contribution to agricultural economic thought and ask what lt practical effect is likely to be In solving the problems of the farmer. In the first place, this conference did not originate among farmers. The spark which set the name going was kindled in the brain of Colonel Frank P. Holland, of Dallas. Tex., while off tin a bunting expedition. Now. Colonel Holland Is president of the Associated Farm Papers, an organisation which includes. In addition to Holland's own paper. Farm and Ranch, eight others of the largest farm papers of the country. Snaplclon Qaif-klr Dispelled. Immediately on his return to civili sation Holland laid the plan before his association, and the call for the conference was Issued. On account of Us origin among: the big farm Journals, some were Inclined at first to view the conference with suspicion. They thought It would amount to little more than a big ad vertising scheme. The call, however, was one which could not be disre garded. It was for a conference on -Farm Credit and Marketing." the most live topic before the American peo ple today. People of Interests the most diverse sat up and took notice when the call for a conference went forth. It ap pealed to all to the politician, the philanthropist, the railroad man. the publisher, the educator, the middleman, the consumer, and the farmer. Interest was Intensified by the fact that the best-known thinkers In the country were secured to lead in the various topics of discussion. Oafereaee Widely Repreaeatattve. To make a long story short, there gathered In Chicago, during the three days of the conference. 441 regular delegates. Besides. It Is estimated that about half as many more attended the conference who either could not or did not register. The registered delegates represented 34 states, four Canadian provinces and the Republic of Mexico. They represented widely different In terests: yet. from the beginning to the end of the conference, there never was a minute when sentiment favorable to the best Interests of tte farmer did not dominate the meeting. Let me Illus trate this by two Incidents, represent ing the two great topics under consld eratlon. "Marketings' and "Credit." There were present at the confer ence three representatives of the United States Department of Agriculture. The most prominent was W. J. Splllman, who was there as the special re pre Tentative of Secretary Houston. Uw of Prices) Dlaeraaaed. Mr. Splllman applies the law of normal value -to the prices of agricul tural products, and thinks we will be somewhat disappointed In our efforts to secure better prices for the farmer. The law of normal value Is that, under conditions of free competition, there la a tendency for prices to equal the cost of production. Including wages of labor, rent for land and Interest on capital. We cannot here examine this theory; but, notwithstanding Mr. Spillman's argument, I am convinced that It plays but a small part In determining the farmers present Income, and will be a still smaller factor under organised systems of credit and marketings. Now. Mr. Splllman was chairman of the committee under whose supervision the new office of Markets in the Fed eral Department of Agriculture began its existence. He waa desirous, there fore, that the reports of the various official committees make due recogni tion of the new office. Both the com mittee on resolutions and the commit tee on distribution brought forward strong pleas for a Federal bureau of markets, entirely. When the committee on distribution brought In Its report, Mr. Splllman urged the advisability of recognizing the beginning which had been made In the office of markets. He was abso lutely overruled by the vote of the conference. Whether rightly or wrong ly. It was the opinion of those present that the new office, with Its $50,000 appropriation, is utterly inadequate to cope with the situation, and amounted to little more than a sop thrown to the farmer. In the course of the discussion Hatton W. Summers. Representative In Con gress from The Dalles. Tex district, declared that Congress "must create a marketing bureau, clothe It with al most unlimited discretion, supply It j iCuncludcd on U WcIfHrc Committees Will Be land ing Factors Believing Suffer ing From Sound. CAMBRIDGE. Mass, Ppril 20. Dr. Clarence J. Blake, professor of ethnol ogy at the Harvard medical school, forecasts a comparatively noiseless world In the years to come. "In time we shall have, while not a soundless world, a world that will practically be noiseless," said Dr. Blake today. "I'nnecessary noise in the factory. In the mill, the mines and the outdoor worH. is dally claiming its toll from the mase by causing a diminution in the hearing power. Welfare commit tees are working industriously to abol ish these Injurious conditions and these associations will be the greatest factors lu bringing about a noiseless world. "Deafness can be attained through irHiatfri iniifoni membranes in the throat and nose as well as from sound." Among the occupationsin mcu ikAua .mnlnv, J suffer crreallv from deafness. Dr. Blake cited dealing In hat.. nlH r.TI nrt hlnwinor OD wind Instruments. Cutting mother of pearl is tne most oangerous oi an iru Its effect on the hearing, he says. CANNERY TO OPEN MAY 9 Corrallis Plant Will Run Night and Day During Season. CORVALLIS. Or., April 20. (Special.) Having finished a two-story addition 50x50 feet, and added new equipment and completely renovated the old plant, the Corvallls cannery will be thrown open for inspection May . The open ing Is to be a booster occasion, the feature of which will be a dinner served by members of the Benton County Growers' Association. DriiMi.it Ttnhert Strahorn and other prominent officials of the Portland. Eugene & Eastern Railroad have prom ised to be present and appear on a pro gramme with representative business men of Corvallls and Albany. The cannery has been given the financial support necessary to put It on its feet, and the growers of- Benton and Linn counties are co-operating with it in such way that Manager George H. Tinker has made plans for continu ous operation, night and day, through the season. The cannery will care for everything raised In this section that will admit of canning. FEEDING STATION . CHOSEN Short Line Elects Ontario, Or., as Place for Handling Stock. nVTARIO. Or, April 20. (Special.) An official of the Short Line Railroad while in Ontario last week made ar rangements with Dave Magill. stock man, to take charge o( the feeding sta tion for cattle, which will be estab lished here. The railroad official said . . . i. ...in, nrntilf! be made un here and sent Into Portland without a stop for feeding the cattle. Work will be commenced on the yards and pens at once. Announcement of the railroad's fu ....... ni.n st'DntArln Is expected soon. Everything seems to indicate that the Short Line will make Ontario the prin cipal division point between Salt Lake City and Portlana. MIMI'S DEADARE HONORED Friends of Vessel's Victims Hold Service at Seaman's Home. Friends of the late Captain Albert Crowe, sailors and other victims of the Mlmt disaster gathered to honor their memory in the Seamen's Institute. J29 Everett street, last night. Among those present were Mrs. Crowe and her son and daughter. A. C. Newlll led the Episcopal service. Rev. Mr. Bischler itdrnmi the assemblage In German and Rev. E. H. Roper, chaplain of the Institute, delivered an address In which he eulogized Captain Crowe. Mrs. Ruth Q. Gilbert sang two solos. Among the hymns 'which were sung was "Nearer. My God. to Thee." As Captain Westphal and the German sail ors had left Portland, none of the sur vivors were present. L0VETT TO MEET JUDGES Dissolution of Harriman Lines Mer. gcr to Be Discussed. ST. PAUL. April 20. Robert S. Lov ett. chairman of the board of the Union Pacific Railroad, arrived here today and tomorrow will hold a conference with Federal Judges Sanborn. Hook and Adams relative to the dissolution of the Union Pacific and Southern Pacific rail roads. An application for additional time In which to consider the case will be filed In behalf of the railways unless a method of dissolution is agreed upon at the conference. Mr. Lovett declined to discuss the case. CHURCHMEN END MEETING Coos-Sub-District Minister- and League Convene at Bandon. BANDON. Or, April 20. (Special.) The Coos Sub-District Ministerial As sociation and Epworth League Con vention for the Eugene district of the Methodist Church held their eighth annual session at Bandon during the week. Rev. S. R. Steele, of Bandon. made the welcome address and District Su oerintcnder.t Rev. J. T. Abbott re. responded. The ministerial delegates present were Rev. H. I. Rutledge. of Marsh fiaM P.v n ft nixhnn n a rA ry T? v R. C. Young. Coqullle: ilev. C H. Bry an.' Myrtle Point, and Rev. A. S. Hisey, of North Bend. The sessions of the conference entied tonight. j Japan's Attitude Be lieved Sequence. SMALL NAYY NOW RIDICULED Administration Embarrassed by Disarmament Talk. RAKER TO MEET 'WILSON Californian Will Tell President His State Shonld Enact Law and Let Japan if Aggrieved Appeal to Courts. WASHINGTON. April 20. It is no secret In Washington that the Admin istration finds Itself embarrassed in dealing with the present' Japanese question by Secretary Bryan's "peace policy. Mr. Bryan has been strongly in favor of a smaller Navy and com parative disarmament, and It .Is de clared here that officials to a large extent attribute the belligerent atti tude of Japanese across the water to this fact. This has hampered not only President Wilson in dealing with the issue, but has proved embarrassing even to Mr. Bryan himself. Advocates of an adequate Navy are laughing in their sleeves today at the predicament in which the Secretary of State finds himself. They do not hesi tate to say that they believe the Sec retary and those Democrats who have been trying to block the building up of the Navy are likely to have their eyes opened before the Administration gets out of its present tangle.. Bryan Hears From Johnson. Further consideration of proposed alien land legislation in the California assembly tomorrow Is awaited with deep interest here. Secretary Bryan today received a telegram, reported to be from Governor Johnson, acknowl edging receipt of the President's mes sage of yesterday, outlining the Ad ministration view of the situation, but did not make the contents public. Cali fornia representatives issued state ments discussing the demand In their states for alien land laws. "This matter will be settled satisfac torily. Legislation with reference to holding of land by aliens will be enact ed," said Representative Baker. "The people of California want the question settled once for all." Mr. Baker asserted his confidence that the California Legislature . would put through a bill. He Is not yet ln- (Concluded on Pag 3.) j nAS jT C0ME T0 THIS? v ZL 4 : '.-. Body Remains 'Under Water and Companion's Efforts to Effect Rescue Are Unavailing. CORVALLIS, Or, April 10. (Special.) Kate O'Connor, of Montague, Cal., a Junior student in the domestic science class at Oregon Agricultural College, was drowned at 5:30 P. M. today while canoeing on the Mary's River with Robert Savage, of Salem, a sophomore in the class of mechanical engineering. The girl's body was carried below the surface at once and never came up, so her- companion was powerless to render any assistance. . The accident occurred four miles up stream from Corvallls. in a swift cur rent, and the canoe was capsized by striking a log while the occupants were endeavoring to turn round. Three students, R. J. Chrisman. G. M. Stambach and G. Schumaker, witnessed the accident and rendered all the as sistance possible. A large party was organized at once, and systematic search recovered the body shortly after 10 o'clock. The party, which included Miss O'Connor and Mr. Savage, left Corvallls at 3 o'clock and were breaking a strict rule of the .college, which forbids any girl going on the water without first having filed the written consent of her parents to engage In aquatic sports. RACE IS LOST; BRIDE WON SorUalcxw, Indian Athlete, Runs to Win Penobscot Maid's Hand. BOSTON, April 20. (Special.) An drew Sockalexis. the Old Town (Me.) Indian who finished second in the Bos ton 25-mlle Marathon race yesterday, was running for a greater prize than the medal signifying victory, it de veloped after the race. Sockalexis, who was beaten by exactly two minutes by Fritz Carlson, was fighting for the added prize of,the hand of Pauline Shea, of the Penobscots, who waited anxious, ly at the finish and swooned as the In dian staggered across the line. When Miss SHea had been revived sho told the judges of the race that she would marry the redman anyway. PRISONER LEAPS FROM CAR Man Handcuffed Leaves Fastly-Mov. Ing Train, in Idaho. : BOISE. Idaho, April 20. E. P. Mar shall, wanted In Sacramento on a charge of issuing fictitious checks and who was In charge of Detective J. J. Thlelen, of Sacramento, leaped from a train run ning 30 miles an nour, two miles east of Nampa, and escaped last night. Hold ing up a farmer, Marshall took a file from the wagon and cut oft his hand cuffs, later fleeing into the desert. A posse from Nampa was sent out on his trail. Marshall was. arrested In Pocateilo on a fugitive warrant from Sacramento and Thielen brought him to Boise. Ex tradition papers were, granted and the officer was taking him back to Cali fornia when he escaped. MissNewcombRefuses to Drop Case. STORY OF COURTSHIP TOLD Purpose Now Is to See Other Women Are Protected. VICTORY WON IN ILLINOIS Chicago Detectives Say Von Klein Was Arrested In Galesburg, 111., When 1 Years Old, for Steal ing From Young Girl. CHICAGO. April 20. (Special.) Miss Ethel Newcomb, who caused the arrest of E. C. von Klein, alias "Jack Lewis," son of Professor Carl H. von Klein, declared today she would prose, cute the young "diamond broker" de spite Influences brought to bear up on her. She Insists Von Klein is the man who inveigled her Into a marriage and took her Jewels. It is said that re cently $3500 was offered Miss New- comb If she would not appear in Judge Williams' court Tuesday morning. when Von Klein Is to be arraigned. Von Klein Is at liberty on 114,000 bonds, signed by a surety company, and it is said that since regaining his freedom he has been constantly shad owed by employes of the bonding con cern. It is also predicted there will be an Interesting legal clash when Von Klein is arraigned. He is being represented by Charles E. Erbstein, and Miss New comb has engaged Robert E. Cantwell to look after her Interests. Miss Newcomb won a victory in Springfield Friday when Governor Dunne Issued a Governor's warrant to Detective Sergeant Day, of Portland, for the return of Von Klein to Port land to stand trial a charge of grand larceny. She appeared person ally at the state capitol. She is pre pared to accompany the officers in charge of Von Klein to Portland to prosecute the case there. Sergeant Day listened to the original complaint made by Miss Newcomb in Portland and was detailed on the case. He said today that he learned that on the morning Von Klein, then known as Jack Lfwis, disappeared he showed a barber in the Portland Hotel several diamonds, with the remark: "They are beauties, and I got them easy, so good-bye." Detectives Rieck and Shubert, of the Concluded on Page 3.) Stewart Edward White Outfitting for Forests Filled With Sav ages and Wild Animals. LOS ANGELES. Cal., April 20. (Spe cial.) Steward Edward White, the au thor, is outfitting an expedition at Santa Barbara for the Arfican wilds, this time to enter recesses never before visited by a white man. White intends leaving Santa Barbara next month for New York, to sail for Naples and thence for Africa, where he will Join a Mr. Cun ningham, who will be his only white traveling companion throughout his trip. Cunningham is a native of Scotland, but has spent the greater part of his life on the game trails of the most re mote spots in Africa and is also a famous elephant hunter. He accompanied Mr. White on a former trip. The territory selected by White for exploration lies southeast of the great Nyanza Lake, the largest In Africa, and is a stretch of mountains and thick for est inhabited by unknown savages. Other parts of the country Mr. White and Cunningham will penetrate are thought to be inhabited only by wild animals. The trip will cover eight or nine months, or more, during which Mrs. White will travel in Europe and also spend a few months with her aunt in Scotland. She will Join her husband in Italy after his explorations and return with him to Santa Barbara some time next year. WOMAN FINDS SKELETON Discovery May Explain Disappear ance of Percy Jaquith. HILLSBORO. Or.. April 20. (Spe cial.) Mrs. Thomas Haines today found a skeleton on her husband's ranch, 10 miles southeast of this city and south nf SfAnlla A revnlvpr WAS lvinfiT near and the skull had been penetrated by a Dunet. To doming was juunu. The discovery recalls the disappear- .nn. f Pnrr..f T tl r , 1 1 1 f h 23-VAfl.r-Old SOn of W. W. Jaquith, of Scholia, who left home July 18, 1911. His ciotning ana mqaU nr.,. fnimH nn tho hank of the Tn.i.Hn Pfvpr nhntit a mile and a half from the place where the skeleton was found today. The youth had a revolver at the time of his departure, n is sup- that tha Vnl, n IT TT1 0 Tl dfillOSited his clothing on the river bank and walked away and shot himself in a se cluded place, trusting that his body would not be discovered. Tha teoth Vihvp cold, cement ana bu Allium, hut rnrnnflf Rnrrett has VDI UJIIIIfiO, uuw . n ..i .otahlishnrl identification by this, means. Young Jaquith had a few hundred dollars aeposnea in a boro bank. Hugh Brady, the Portland diver f,..ui.oDiv eftArrhAil the Rowell & Co, mlllpond, above which the clothes were found, shortly after tne Disappearance. CHARTER ISESSAY TOPIC High and Grade Students to Write on Commissoln Government. The future voters of Portland are to have an opportunity to express them selves on the proposed new charter. The charter campaign committee has offered a prize of $23 for the best esay whitten by a student in any Portland high school on the subject, "The Bene fits to Be Derived From Commission Form of Government." Prizes of $15 and $10 will be given for the best and second best essays on the same subject written by students of the grammar grades. All manu scripts must be received at charter headquarters, 175 Broadway, by 2 o'clock Saturday, April 26 - There are no other conditions, except that the essays are to be kept within 500 wcrds in length, and must be plain ly written cn one side of the paper. Further information may be secured by calling at headquarters or telephoning Marshall 6600. NEED OF FAITH ASSERTED W. J. Bryan Addresses Endeavor Meeting iu Washington. WASHINGTON, April 20. Secretary of State Bryan told an audience of men in the second of a series of Sun day., afternoon Christian Endeavor meetings that there never was a time when faith was needed more than at present. "Without faith," said Mr. Bryan, "it is impossible to accomplish anything worth while. A man must have faith In God, faith in himself, faith in his fellow men and faith in his govern ment before he can do any work of Importance In the world. Faith in the government does not mean that men shall not see its defects. They must try to perfect It. Our form of govern ment makes it possible to make the Government Just as good as the people deserve." WARM WEATHER FORECAST Storm Slated to Appear in Far West Tuesday or Wednesday. WASHINGTON, April 20. Moderately warm weather will prevail throughout the Great Central valleys and the Rocky Mountain region and the plains states the coming week. The weekly bulletin of the Weather Bureau says: "The first storm of importance will appear in the Far West Tuesday or Wednesday, move eastward and cross the great central valleys Thursday or Friday and the Eastern States near the end of the week. This disturbance will be' preceded by a general rise in tem perature, be attended by showers and thunder storms and be followed by considerably colder weather, which will overspread the Northwestern States Thursday and Friday. Belief Is End of Strike Is in Sight. GOVERNMENT IS CONCILIATORY Motion Providing Reform of Franchise System Framed. SOCIALISTS HAVE HOPES Leaders Declare Proceedings In Chamber of Deputies Show Thin End of Wedge Has Been In serted Order Obtains. BRUSSELS. April 20. The opinion now is general in political circles that at the session of the Chamber of Depu ties Tuesday the government will ho prepared to accept the conciliatory mo tion of the Liberal leader, M. Masson. This provides that if the parliamentary committee appointed recently to con sider the reform of the provincial and communal franchise system evolves a plan which appears to be a manifest im provement on the present methods, then the advisability of revising parliament ary elections along the same lines shall Immediately be considered. Adoption Would End Strike. The adoption of this motion by the chamber would mean the end of the strike which is paralyzing Belgium's industry. The Socialists assert that there will be 500,000 men out tomorrow. Twenty thousand persons assembled at a great meeting at Liege today and listened without the slightest disorder to addresses on the strike .situation throughout the country. Tho Socialisf leader. Emlle Vandervelde, said the proceedings In the Chamber of Deputies seemed to show that the thin end of the wedge had been Inserted. Strikers' Meeting Sanctioned. The Burgomaster of Charleroi has sanctioned a meeting of all the strikers in the province on Thursday on condi tion that the strikers themselves ap point police to preserve order. The lib erals will participate actively in the demonstration. The Antwerp diamond cutters, by a vote of 1021 to 162, decided today to Join the strike movement. A detach ment of clerical union workers also will go out. Three thousand members ot tne Antwerp civic guard are protesting against further detention from their business since there has been no trouble. NAVY PLANS LONG CRUISE Atlantic Fleet to A'isit Mediterranean Next Winter. WASHINGTON. April 20. Secretary Daniels announced today that next Winter practically the entire Atlantic fleet would be sent on a three months' cruise to the Mediterranean. This will be the new Secretary's first step In pursuance of his policy to make the Navy In times of peace a great educa tional force for the enlisted men anu to afford them opportunity to enjoy the broadening advantages of first-hand knowledge of the great countries of tho world. The Secretary believes such a cruise will add greatly to the sailor's useful ness. 'I believe we should offer to the en listed men every opportunity which lies In our power to obtain knowledge of other countries from personal observa tion," he said, today. "Tho cruise will be so timed as to give every man in the fleet shore leave at every port oC Interest. Instead of usual annual Win ter maneuvers at Guantanamo. Cuba, the whole fleet, including the torpedo- boat destroyers and auxiliaries, will make the foreign cruise. The exact dates and details of the voyage had not been definitely de. termined, EX-KING MANUEL TO WED Bride-to-Be Princess Augustine Vic. torla, Relative of Kalscr. BERLIN, April 20. (Special. King Manuel, of Portugal, Is betrothed to Princess Augustine Victoria, daughter to Prince Wilhelm of Hohenzollen, a relative of the Kaiser. The formal an nouncement has not been made, but it is understodo that arrangements have been completed and an official state ment will son be forthcoming. King Manuel is now visiting Sigmar lngen Castle, the home of Princess Augustine's father, and he has spent much of his time there since last Fall. The marriage will not bring the ex King into close relationship with the Kaiser. Even though Kaiser Wilhelm and Prince Wilhelm are both Hohen zollerns, they belong to different fam ilies, although they are distantly re lated. The Kaiser calls the Prince "cousin," but a blodo relationship be tween the two would ouly be found hundreds of years back. Prince Byrne Is Bend. SALEM. Or., April 20. (Special.) Prince Byrne, a well-known resident of this city, died this morning.