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VOL. 1.1 1 1. NO. 1G.420. - PORTLAND, OREGON". FRIDAY. " JULY 11, 1913. PRICE FIVE CENTS. MORALS, NOT WAGE, ISSUE, SAYS WOMAN Girls Bad on $6 Not Good on $8, Is View. ASSUMPTION HELD AN INSULT Seattle Sociologist Startles Charities Conference. PORTLAND WOMAN SPEAKS Mrs. Millie Trumbull Makes Address on : "The Honor System of Prison Labor' In' Place or Governor West and Answers Gatens. ilVKW OFFICERS OF NATIONAL . CHARITIES A NO COIIRKC- ! TION COJiKEnEME. President Graham Taylor of ! Chicago. , Vice-Presidents Dr. A. J. Me Kelway. Atlanta. Ga.; Mrs. 'John i M. Glen. New York; W. Gates, fan Francisco. Secretary William T. Cross, Columbia, Mo. S RATTLE, Wash., July 10. (Special.) Speaking before the National Con ference of Charities and Correction here on th minimum wage law and Its pos sible effect upon the social welfare, Mr. Anna Y. Reed, a sociolosy expert of Seattle, startled her hearers by de claring that the minimum wage has little or no effect upon the moral wel fare of. young girls, of the department store, laundry and factory workers' class. She asserted that every decent work ing girl would resent the public as sumption that she wag moral on ?8 and immoral on $6 a week or In other words that society can pay for her morals at the rate of $2 a. week. Mrs. teed completed, this line of 'at-' tack by pointing out that a. Federal In vestigation shows that 78 per cent of delinquency is credited to domestic service where the girls, the speaker said, presumably are subject to the In fluence and guidance In the homes of the best American women; 17 per cent to the factory and 3 per cent to the department store. Mrs. Reed said: . Character Great Need. ".There is Just one thing that ever has made, or ever will make, good morals, and that Is not money, but character. Good character and good morals go together money Is' . merely 'Incidental to either. It haa been well xald that every decent working girl will resent the public assumption that she will be moral on $8 per week and Immoral on $6 or in other words, that society can pay for her morals at the rate of $2 per week. "Again, if the object of the law be to deal with immorality, why does it deal specifically with the regulation of wages within those industries from which immorality secures the least recruits? Our law includes only oc rupations without the home, while a large percentage of the law-breaking women come from occupations within the home "It is quite customary, when speaking ot the social evil, to allow the depart ment store and the factory to bear the brunt of the criticism. I wonder if this Is because-we are sure that these, and certain other occupations are conducive to, and actually are Increasing Im morality,' or If it is because we know that salaries are low and temptations grrater In these lines, and hence we Jump both at the conclusion and the remedy?" Mrs. Trumbull Spnki. The report of the committee ou pro bation, prisons and -parole was read at the general session of the conference tonight by Colonel C. B. Adams, super intendent of the St. Charles (111.) School for -Boys. Governor Oswald West, of Oregon, hod been announced to speak on , "The Honor System of Prison Irfibor." but was unable to be present and Mrs.. Millie Trumbull, of Portland, took his place. Mrs. Trumbull made a stir in the audlrnce when she declared that she Hd not agree" with her fellow towns man. Circuit Judge W. N. Gatens, who dcclartd at Wednesday's session that ha had no use for the application of psychology to the study of criminals and defectives. She declared that it v. as one of the few certain methods, of ascertaining the nature, the limitations and the culpability of the prisoners, many of whom, she Insisted, were land ed in jails and reformatories through the blunders or the guile of lawyers and policemen, to say nothing of Judges, who knew and cared very little unfortunates.SCSheralsed a loudTahfWI LS0N - LOST IN WOODS and much applause when she added: "I wonder what would happen If the psychology tdst were applied to the police, to the prison officials, to the lawyers and to the Judges who handle our so-called criminals! What would we find out about them? What would they say .or do if the psychology test were applied to them?" Tteaulta at Home "Feared." ( And when the applause died away the added: "I hope the newspapers don't print that. . ' I don't know what will happen to me when I get back to Oregon If they print that." Discussing "The Prison of the 30th (Concluded on Page 5.) FRUIT TO BE SAVED BY STREET MARKET DALY SEEKS WAY TO STOP LOSS BY OVERSCPPLY. Tons or Edibles Now Condemned to I'lre Would II nd Way to Con sumer Under New Plan. Reports from . the city crematory that hundreds of tons of spoiled fruits and vegetables have been burned in the last few .weeks as a result -of temporary over supply of the markets, occasioned the announcement yester day by City Commissioner Daly that he would start at once to work out a plan whereby produce arriving here when the market is overstocked can be sold at public auction on the streets. Details of the system will be submitted to the Commission at its meeting: next Wednesday. At present when produce arrives and can find no. market it remains in the cars or in storage houses and often spoils. It is then taken to the crem atory and destroyed at considerable expense.' Mr. Daly proposes to estab lish ' an ordinance designating some place in the business district where auction sales , of such produce may be held each day between certain hours. This plan,-he says, will be a great as set to farmers and to consumers. It is his plan to have the sales so regu lated that bad. fruit cannot " be sold and so that there can be nothing fraud ulent about the transactions. . The latest report from Superintend ent Otis of the crematory shows that in the bast week there has been burned at the plant 15 tons of cherries. The greater - part of. this fruit was con signed to the Oregon Packing Company plant on the East Side, where it could not be handled because of a strike. The company will lose ' about ' 15000 as a result. Other consignments of - cher ries, arriving at a time when the mar ket was. oversupplied, resulted In the loss of thousands of dollars to farmers.- ' . . . CROP f IS . BELOW, AVERAGE Ear AVest, Except California, How ever, Is Exception to Rule. WASHINGTON, Jyly -10. Drought and early-frost in certain parts of the country brought the average condition of crops in the United States on July 1 down tq nearly 1 per cent lower- than on the same date last year,-and to 1.7 lower than the average crop condition on July I for some years past, ten years. In most cases. ' ""'" " Conditions are .below the average. the . Department of. Agriculture an nounced today,, in the. Atlantic and North Central states, except Virginia, Florida. - "Wisconsin, Iowa and Nebras- ku. They 'are about average in the South Central and far Western states. except Kentucky, Alabama, Montana, Utah and California. The lowest conditions are found in California,' where July 1 found the crops 15.7 per cent below average. Wyoming Is . highest above average with 9.3 per cent, followed by Nebras ka, 7.7; Texas, 6; Washington, 6.5, and Oregon, 5.2. Corn shows the most flourishing'con dition, standing at 103.5, or 3.5 per cent above its ten-year average. FOUR GUNMEN IN' FEUD KILL "Moses the Strong Arm" "While on Crowded Street Is Shot. - NEW YORK. July 10. Four gang sters intercepted. Maurice Reich, known to the polico as "Moses the Strong Arm," on a crowded East Side corner late today and two knife thrusts and revolver- bullet wounds in chest and back ended his career on the spot. A gang feud is believed, to be the cause for the murder. After the shoot, ing the assailants separated and fled. David Wolk and Jack Willis, the latter a 16-year-old bellboy, were later ar rested, charged, with I civs: members ol the gang which participated in the mur der. ' , .Another gangster, Peter McCabe, said to be a leader of the so-called Gopher gang, was shot and killed on Staten Island, by a special policeman, Thomas Bananza. TAMALPAIS FIRE IS OUT Threatened Towns Definitely Beyond Recurrence of Danger. MOUNT TAMALPAIS. Cal., July 10. The forest fires on Mount. Tamalpais are out. Here and there linger a few smouldering fembers, but after four days and three-nights of fighting. Mill Valley, Larkspur, Corte Madera and the Muir Woods are definitely beyond the return of danger. . Not a house has been burned save the cottages of the Mount Tamalpais Rail way at the foot of -Redwood Canyon. Not a life was lost. These are the facts show by the first trip to the Summit since the Tamalpais tavern was iso lated on Tuesday night. President Silent on Return as to Attitude Toward Strike. CORNISH. ,K. H., July 10. President Wilson got. lost In" the New Hamp shire woods late today, finally reach ing- here at 8 o'clock an hour late for dinner, after the longest automobile ride of his visit .here, When the President returned the correspondents submitted a few ques tions to him as to whether he would take any action in connection, with the threatened strike of railway conduc tors and trainmen on Eastern lines but the President let It be known that he ' had -nothing to --say. ROUfilANIATQ WAGE WAR ON BULGARIA King MakesFbrmal Declaration. SOFIA MINISTER IS RECALLED Strip of 2500 Square Miles on Black Sea to Be Occupied. TURKEY IS ALSO ACTIVE Porte Threatens to Drive Out Foe Unless Territory Is Evacuated Immediately Complica . tlons Dela'y Peacel LONDON, July , 11. The ..King of Roumania has. declared vfca.r on Bul garia.' .The Roumanian Minister at So fia, has been recalled. The Sofia corre spondent of the Times sends this an nouncement early this morning. , It. is expected that Roumania'a first step -will be the occupation of the 2500 square miles . of territory which she claims from Bulgaria as compensation for her. neutrality In the late war. This strip extends from Turtukal to Balt chlk,' ori the Black Sea, and Includes the city of Silistria. The Bulgarian plan to drive a wedge between .the Greek and Servian armies in the neighborhood of Guevghelt has failed completely.- The last reports of the fighting received from Athens to night show' ' that '.the Servians and Greeks at this, point are combining their forces, while the Roumanian army is beginning an invasion of Bul garia. : i . . , -Bulgarian ' Df saenstona Reported. . The latter fact doubtless was the-de ciding factor in the Bulgarian' appeal to the powetsfor-peace: How far Bul garia's defeat Is due to -dissensions in high . military .quarters, . which resulted in the resignation of -General Sa-voff, and how far to the fact that the Bui garlan troops, which bore the brunt of "the hard fighting In the last cam paign, wens ' more exhausted - than the Greeks and Servian forces, will prob ably never, be. known. Nothing can be predicted at the mo ment as to how events will shape them selves, the. Roumania invasion of Bul garia having- brought an entirely new factor into the. problem. Russia and France are devoting their efforts to persuading the allies to adopt a mod erate attitude in order to facilitate a peaceful settlement. The Servian Premier is quoted hi the (Concluded on Page 4.) THE OPEN" Sf LOBBYISTS? fJ 1 d, JfUfrJL Jl I miJ f hat holloa m rJ(F ii -.. .....'.....,.,,,.. ..... .....,....;,....... ..,,,,,.. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. - YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 68 degrees; minimum, 7 degrees. TODAY'S Fair and warmer; northwesterly winds. ForeUrn. Roumania declares war on Bulgaria. Page 1. Jack Johnson announces his headquarters in future will be In Paris. Page - ... - National. . Lobby committee to Investigate labor wars. Page . Women to be heard on creation of suffrage committee in House. Page 5. Tariff -bill conflicts with Canadian reciproc ity act. Page 2. Domestic. Canada begins campaign for next Christian . - Endeavor convention. Page 2. Jake Oppenheimer, California's "human tiger," to die on gallows today. Page 4. . Sports. Northwestern League results: Tacoma 11, Portland 2: Victoria . Seattle O; Spo kane 3-6, Vancouver 0-1. Page 8. Coast League results: Portland S, Venice 0: Sacramento 8, San Francisco 5; Oakland 6, Los Angeles 5. Page 8. . Many Aid Multnomah football stars missing from tentative lineup. . Page 8. American tennis sharks defeat Germany's best. Page 0. Pacific Northwest. Working girls bad on $3 a -week would not be good on S8. declares speaker at Char ities and Correction Conference. Page 1. National Guard officers solve problems ot real war at Tillamook. Page 5. Centralia rumors say work - soon to start on new- railroad. . Page 7. Legal fight is begun In -Spokane recall. Page 6. .... . Milwaukee road . projects north -and -south road - through Central Washington. Page 7. : - City Treasurer Barnett recedes from original stand In The Dalles - conflict. Page 7. Girl from .Alps wins- big Chautauqua aud ience at ' Gladstone Park. Page 14. Bandoo sends editor , Into - exile ; today. Page 1. - I. W. W. trial case at Oregon City now In nanas or jury, rage 4. Commercial and Marine. - Sharp demand for old hops at all points on coast, f age J w. Wheat firmer at Chicago, with good export ouying. . rage. 19. Further decline in coffee options with ex cited trading, -Kge Jl. ' Port Commission may buy second-hand tug - tor use, on Dar. Page 18. Portland and : Vicinity. Expert declares county pays too much m surance. Page 11. . Brothers, clash in . municipal scandal probe. Street markets may save tons of oversupply irult. page l. Returning veterans declare Gettysburg re- union all harmony. . Page 13. Weather report, data and forecast. Page 15. Dance to be igivcn tonight in. honor pf Miss . Helen Ladd. page 12. Purchasing Agent Wood plans saving in city supplies.. . rage J-. . ... New Commission begins work under band! cap.' Page 14.' Cannary strike agitators notified' they must vacate streets about the plant. Page 12. Portland, grain' sold by sample; So'und by certificate. 'Page IS.-. 1 WEDDING LONG DEFERRED California Couple Married on JA cense Four "Years' Old. -" SAN FRANCISCO, July 10. Armed with a license procured four, years ago; Alton ,Val Quardsen .and Bernlce Ma- lone, both of San Francisco, were mar ried In Oakland. on July 1 by Rev. TJ. M. Leach, of the Lutheran Church. They are how at home here. At the time of the issue of the licence on June 7. 1909, , Val .Quardsen . was 33 years old and Miss Malone gave her age as 30. , - The - couple " refuse to divulge- the cause leading to the postponement of their happiness. SEASON FOR LOBBYISTS IS STILL ON. LOBBY INQUIRY TO GO INTO LABOR WAR Gompers and Mitchell to Be Called MANUFACTURERS SENT FOR "Inside History" of Great Strikes May Be Told. STRANGE TALES PROMISED Even McXamara Case Slay Be Inves . tlgated Mulhall "Reported to. Have Been Threatened and Guard Is Considered. WASHINGTON, ; July 10. All the "wars" that have been fought between labOT and capital, all the efforts that both have made to secure legislation which .would profit them,, and the tangled skein woven about their relations in the last ten years are to be Investigated by Congress. The Sen ate lobby . committee in executive ses sion " tonight decided that the "wars' must be inquired into. 1 Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, will ap pear before the committee on July 25 and a subpena was issued tonight for John Mitchell, vice-president of the Federation and former head of the United Mine Workers. At the same 1 time the committee subpenaed George Pope and J. P. Bird, general manager of the National As sociation of Manufacturers. Dark Secrets May See Light. - One Senator said tonight that the quest - might . reach back into some of the dark corners of the McXamara dynamiting case and might bring into the light the inside story of many of the great strikes that have paralyzed industries and thrown thousands out of work In the last few years. .He intl mated, " too, that it might develop by far the most marvelous, of. all the strange tales that "the, committee has heard In the last six "weeks. The committee expects to finish with its -investigation of' wool -and sugar activities tomorrow and. will take up the charges made by Martin M. Mulhall, former lobbyist for the National As sociation of Manufacturers. Mulhall will take the . stand tomorrow after noon. Thousands of letters Involving many men who -were once prominent in Congress -as well as some still in public life have been furnished the committee and his examination may take several days. - - The committee decided tonight to (Concluded on Pane I'.) T DISTURBING EDITOR ORDERED TO EXILE DR. B. K. LEACH MUST LEAVE BIT 2 P. M. TODAY. Determined Citizens, to Number of 600, Take Decisive Action to Nip in Bud I. W. W. Invasion. EANDON, Or., July 10. (Special.) Some 600 citizens of Bandon met to night at the Commercial Club to form plans for nipping in the bud the con templated agitation of Industrial Work ers of the World. The trouble-makers are led by W. F. Edgeworth, who was deported recently from Marshfield. As a result of tonight's meeting a committee waited upon Dr. B. K. Leach, of Bandon, and demanded that he leave the town at 2 P. M. tomorrow. Dr. Leach is editor of a paper known as the Justice. It is alleged that Dr. Leach has shown decided sympathy for the Industrial Workers of the World; that he lent editorial support to their cause; that he has attacked the flag and is a menace to the best interest of the town. ' . Leach was escorted to the place of meeting and told he was wanted no longer in Bandon. He denied the accu sations. but was told to leave at the appointed time and was assured that lie would be escorted out of town. The meeting was peaceable-and adjourned with the understanding that the stores will close tomorrow at the hour set for the departure of Leach. T. R. OFFERS AID TO JAPAN Roosevelt Writes to Tokio That He Wil Try to Solve Land Question. jKjn.iKj, juy iv. Tne Tai Hoi Yo News Agency today says that Viscount Kentaro Kaneko has received a letter from Theodore Roosevelt expressing the view that American public opinion will not permit the naturalization of Japanese in the United. States, as it would lead to a similar claim on the part of the Chinese. . Colonel Roosevelt, according-to the news agency, promised to use his ef forts in the solution of the California alien land ownership situation. Viscount Kaneko is a graduate in law of Harvard Universitw. He was the unofficial representative of Japan in the Lnited States during the Russo- Japanese; War and delivered many ad' dresses all over the country. ENGLISH VISIT CONCLUDED American Agricultural Commission Entertained in London. LONDON, July 10. The Knglish visit of the American Agricultural Commis sion was concluded tonight with a din ner given by the Board of Agriculture. Two hundred were present and Right Hon. Walter Runciman, president of the board, presided. Among the guests wre the American Ambassador and Mrs. Walter Hines- Page, Lord Strathcona, Sir George Reid, Earl Grey, ex-Governor-General of Canada; Sir Rider Haggard, the Earl of Shaftes bury, the Earl of Denbigh, Baron Blyth and Baron Islington. President Runciman congratulated the Americans on the success of their tour and spoke of the good relations existing between the two countries. BUSHNELL QUITS BY CABLE Wisconsin Professor Resigns to Be Pacific "University President. APPLETON. Wis., July . 10. (Spe cial.) Professor C. J. Bushnell. head of the sociology department ot Law rence College, the oldest Methodist college in this part of the country, to day filed his resignation by cable, to become president of Pacific University at Forest Grove, Or. Mr. Bushnel) had been re-elected a faculty member with advanced salary at the June ' meeting of the college trustees, and had been given a month's extra- vacation to study - abroad. He received the Oregon offer while travel, ing. however, and it was so marked a promotion that he . has resigned by cable, and the college " accepted the resignation with congratulations. MOVE ON LISBON FAILS Ship Equipped With Arms and Am munition Is Stranded. MUNICH, July 11. The Post pub lishes a story to the effect that a ship was recently fitted out with arms and ammunition by the Duchess Carl Theo dore of Bavaria in an attempt against the Portuguese republic. The Duchess also supplied a large sum of money. The ship started from London for Lisbon but was stranded on the Belgian coast. The Duchess has appealed to the Belgian King,, who is her son-in-law, to give up at least the cash but King Albert has refused. The Post asserts that several banks have undertaken obligations to sup port ex-King Manuel in case the re public is overthrown. RANKS ARE THINNED TO 14 Majority of Mexican War Veterans Blind1, Deaf and Tottering. LONDON. O., July 10. America's oldest living war veterans, survivors of the Mexican war, today opened their an nual National oncampment here. From a'once goodly host., only It of tha pld soldiers were physically able to at tend. . A majority of the It are blind and deaf and so feeble with age that th&y had to totter about, using the eyes tnd ears of grandchildren and great grandchildren in place of their own. - BROTHERS CLASH IN POLICE PROBE Robert Armstrong Ap pears Before Jury. CHARGE IS HURLED BACK Former Commissioner Gives Inquisitors Evidence. CAPTAIN - KELLER TALKS Police Official Admits He and Crad dock Studied Together but at Same Time " Always iWas Wary of Detective's Aims. Brother lined- up against brother in the grand jury -probe of municipal scandal yesterday, when Robert Arm strong is said to have told the jury that A. P. Armstrong, County Superin tendent of Schools and formerly City Civil Service Commissioner, furnished him the advance list of questions upon which Joe Keller and Robert H. Crad dock prepared themselves, for the ex amination for a police captaincy. The charge is hurled back by th former Commissioner, who said private ly, and is believed to ' have told the Jury, that his brother, who is manager of a billiard room, must have taken, from his desk, lists which contained some of the questions to be asked. Superintendent Armstrong also brought the name of ex-Mayor Rush light into the case for the first time. Ex-Mayor "Wished Keller Well. "It looks to me," he said, "as if they were trying to involve Mr. Rushlight In this thing. It Is a fact that the ex Mayor did remark to me that he hoped 'Joe would get a good rating, but that was all that wars said." Mr. Armstrong went before the jury at his own solicitation and. probably will appear again today. What line his examination took was not disclosed by Deputy District Attorney Maguire. but there was an atmosphere of expecta tion, seeming to Indicate that develop ments today will, be interesting, to say the least. A feature of the-case which has not been reported upon, but which prob- ably has been threshed out by the Jury, is the allegation that Detective Crad dock spoke of having contributed ?50 or ?100 to Armstrong's campaign him self. . This charge was made by several of the young officers who were called as witnesses with reference to the al legation that they had been solicited to pay Armstrong money for ratings on the eligible list as patrolmen. Crad dock, while telling frankly of othcr transactlons, is said to have passed this off as having been said merely as a "bluff," but the detective was before the Jury again yesterday and may have been questioned on this point. . Statement Is Withheld. As to the major charge, that he ac cepted 20 brought by Detective Crad dock from C. E. Kllngensmith, an ap plicant for appointment to the police force, the nature of Armstrong's vol untary statement to the grand jury . has been withheld, and It is probable that this will be taken up when he re appears today. Captain Keller, of the Police Depart ment, was before the grand jury yes terday, with reference to the state ment of Detective Craddock that they had had an advance copy of the ques tions to be asked at the captaincy ex amination and had met at Keller's house to prepare their answers. "The fact is." said Keller, before going into the grand jury room; "that Craddock came to me, and hemmed and hawed and scraped the ground with hia foot for awhile, and then said that he had some questions that might be asked at the examination. Naturally, looked them over. There were IS or 20, and among them were, some how many I cannot say which were on the list the following day. Craddock and I did study together, but I had been studying for a year and I deny that his questions were of any materiul as sistance to me. I was wary at the time, figuring that Craddock thought I would be the successful candidate and then would boost him along for - the next vacancy." ' - Xirkkan Now Missing. L. II. Markham, Armstrong's former partner, who has been mentioned re peatedly as a go-between in the case, is missing from the city at a time when hia testimony is much desired. That he knows much of what went on is evi dent from the statements of the so licited officers, several of whom tell ot negotiating with him for the payment of" money Into Armstrong's campaign fund. Ex-Chief of Police Slover was a wit ness yesterday, and, as Deputy Maguire denies that he was questioned as to the bribery charges, is assumed to have been examined with regard to the 100 per cent efficiency rating he gave Keller at the examination, when Crad dock and Sergeant Lyon were rated 00 and the other candidates at 70 or be low. A tilt has developed between Cap tain -Slover and Captain Baty over the responsibility for the attempt to force policemen to aid the Rushlight cam paign by subscribing and haing their friends subscribe to the Daily News. Slover is said to have attempted to evade the part of the proposer of this niovc and "pass the buck" to Baty. but (.Concluded on rage 2.)