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Newspaper Page Texti VOL. LTTI NO- 16,530. PORTLAND, OREGON. MONDAY. NOVEMBER 17, 1913. PRICE FIVE CENTS. V V HUERTA DISMISSES fll Dictator Says He Will "Play Out Game." ALOAPE ORDERED TO RESIGN Jntrigue for Presidency Divides Cabinet Into Camps. SITUATION MORE TENSE fall of Juarez Is Admitted, but No Comment Is Made De la Barra to Complete Mission That Felix Iiai Began. MEXICO CITT.Nov.16. It vraa learned today that the American charge had aeen President Hnerta and from the I'realdent himself had learned that he wonld not resign and would listen only to such proposals as nwe compatible with his own dignity and that of hia country. ' This Is the substance of a report Tvhlch, it is aald, Mr. O'Shaugbnessy has made to Washington. MEXICO CITY. Nov. 16. What doubt remained regarding General Huerta's Intensions with respect to compliance with the American demands for his own elimination was removed from the minds -of most Mexicans and foreign residents by his peremptory dismissal today of Manuel Garza Aldape. the Minister of the Interior. who was looked upon as the head of the Huerta Cabinet. Aldape led that group of the Cabinet which held the conviction that it would be best to accede to that portion of least of Washington's demands which meant the total abandonment of power by the provisional President, and he is said to have been the only one with sufficient courage to discuss' the Inter national situation frankly . with his chief. Game to Be "Played Out." It was he w;ho.- called, at the, Amer ican Embassy recently and Induced Kelson O'Shaughnessy, the charge d'affaires, to send to Washington his appeal for the reopening of negotia tions. Senor Aldape's resignation was demanded at a Cabinet meeting at President Huerta's house early this morning. Huerta is said to have re iterated at this meeting the statement that he would not resign; that with him it was a case of life or death, and he was disposed to play out the game Certain intimate friends of General Huerta have been indicating to him, it Is said, for some time, that the Minis ter of the Interior was Intriguing for the Presidency and that the Cabinet had become divided Into camps. Those who opposed Aldape included Querldo Moheno. Minister of Foreign Affairs; ueneral Blanquet, Minister of War; and Jose Maria Lozano, Minister of I' omen to. Aldape Sent to Europe. It is said authoritatively that these three ministers assured General Huerta that unless the Minister of the Interior was removed they would resign. Aldape was designated by the provisional President to go to Europe In fulfillment of some undetermined special mission. His friends think it possible that he may be named to succeed Francisco de la Barra as Minister to France. Senor de la Barra has been ordered to Japan as special ambassador to pre sent the thanks of the Mexican govern ment for the participation of Japan in the centennial festivities under For nrlo Diaz In 1910. It was on. this mis slon that General Felix Diaz was pro ceedlng when he decided to return to Mexico to take part in the elections. Senor Aldape was the last remaining Cabinet officer appointed by agreement between Huerta and General . Felix Diaz at the close of the battle in the capital la February. The agreement was signed in the American Embassy. The other ministers then chosen have been eliminated one by one. For a short time Aldape was acting Minister of Foreign Affairs, pending the arrival In Mexico of Federlco Gamboa, Minister to Holland and Belgium, to whom the portfolio had been given. Aldape went into the Ministry of the Interior on the resignation of Dr. Aureliano Urrutla. News of the fall of Juarez was re celved too late to be generally knowr. Mexican officials admit the fall of Juarez, but no one was Quoted or gave any definite statement. The situation at the capital tonight la extremely tense. I.IND STILL NEGOTIATING Washington Adopts Attitude That Situation la Not Critical. WASHINGTON, Nov. 16. Negotla tlons between Charge. O'Shaughnessy and John Llnd and the Huerta govern ment in Mexico are continuing, ac cording to dispatches received at th State Department today, but no tangl ble conclusions have been reached. William Bayard Hale, who has been Industriously conferring with the Con stltutionalists at their Nogales head quarters, also telegrephed at length to the department. That the situation was not regarded as critical was evident from the attl tude of official Washington. The Ad ministration Is confident of the ultl mate retirement of Huerta, as well as CANDID MINISTER (Concluded on Fag 2.) HOOP SKIRTS OR NO TANGO DIP IS EDICT CHICAGO ALSO WANTS 4-IXCH SPACE BETWEEN DANCER'S. Modern Steps in . Modern Splits Fright, Says Censor Without the Split Horrors! CHICAGO. Nov. 16. (Special.) Women who wish to dance the tango in Chicago must go back to the "hoop skirts" of their grandmothers or elim inate the "dip," which now Is considered one of the Intricacies of the dance. They also must provide themselves with tape measures or rulers, set a marker at four inches and make certain that their partners do not cross the dead line." Corporation Counsel Sexton ana the" fflcial censors of the city morals have decided that these rules are imperative and should apply to every public dance hall In the city. The Council undoubt edly will make the order official by an ordinance Monday night. Major M. L C. Funkhouser. the of ficial morals censor of the city, thought ix inches of air between the dancers was the proper distance, out several of the Alderman argue that this makes dancing difficult, so the four-inch rule will prevail. No especial fault Is found with the dip" itself, but the censors say It Is a fright when attempted by a girl wear ing a skin-tight skirt split half way to her waist or even higher. It Is till worse when a slit skirt is not worn. The Aldermen argue tnat no woman canjdo the "dip" in the present style of skirts with any degree of mod esty and that. If the tango is not roado modest, it will be barred. NEW WAREHOUSE PLANNED Front-Street Commission Firms May Move to East Side. A $64,000 commission merchants' warehouse, cold storage and salesroom building, to be built on East Alder treet, between East First and East Second streets, will probably be com menced within the next few weens. The structure will be at least 200 by 100 feet, and two stories hlgh.v A plan to lease a quarter block, giving a frontage on East Washington street, is not yet perfected. Nothing definite will be decided un til Wednesday," said C. G. Ellison, of Palmer & Ellison. "But this marks the beginning of the end of Front street as a commission district. The commission merchants must have cold storage, and they must also be able to switch cars in the daytime." Mr. Ellison refused to state the oc cupants of the new building, but intl mated that four or five firms on Front street probably would move there. IFTY INFANTS BAPTIZED Lengthy. Christening Ceremonies Held by Methodists at Moscow. MOSCOW. Idaho, Nov. 16. (Special.) Fifty Infants were baptized today In the Methodist Church here, the Rev. Robert Warner officiating. For more than an hour mothers with their babes n arms filed past the pulpit, staying long enough to permit the christening. The baptisms were administered in connection with the "Cradle Roll" work of the church and similar ceremonies will be held at frequent intervals dur ing the Winter. The big auditorium of the church was crowded with mem bers and spectators today. This Is said to have been the biggest baptismal class ever recorded in the Inland Em pire. "BABY M'KEE" IS MARRIED Harrison's Granddaughter Becomes Wife of Grandson of A. Busch. NEW YORK, Nov. 16. Miss Mary Lodge McKee, who was the "Baby" McKee of the White House when her grandfather, Benjamin Harrison, was President of the United States, and who was christened In the executive man sion, was married yesterday to Kurt Reislnger, son of Mr. and Mrs, Hugh' Reisinger and grandson of the late Adolphus Busch. The wedding took place In the Cen tral Presbyterian Church here. The bride Is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James R. McKee, of this city. She took an active part in fashionable life at Washington last Winter. TENNIS STAR IS MOTHER Eight-Pound Boy Born to Former Miss May Sutton. LOS ANGELES. Cat. Nov. 16. (Spe cial.) An eight-pound boy who may add new tennis laurels to California was born yesterday to Mr. and Mrs. Tom Bundy at their residence in Brent wood Place, Santa Monica, Bundy and Maurice E. McLaughlin hold the pres ent doubles tennis championship of the United States and. Mrs, Bundy. who was Miss May Sutton, is the champion wom an tennis played of the world. It is the Intention of the parents of the latest addition to the Bundy family to name him Nathan, after his grand father. It is their Intention also to make him a famous tennis player. ACID-THROWING EPIDEMIC British Home Office Considers New Preventive Regulations. ' t LONDON. Nov. 16. (Special.) The British home office is considering adopting more stringent regulations governing the sale by drug stores of acids and. similar chemicals to women. This is due to the unprecedented out break of vitriol throwing in London. In two recent cases women of social post tlon are involved. BANKING LAWS TO BE REVISED NEXT Currency Bill Calls for Further Action. GUARANTEE WILL GO OVER Prohibition of Interlocking Di rectorates Also Postponed. MURDOCK HAS PROGRAMME Third-Party Leader Says His "Pro gressive Trust Triplets" .Will Wipe Out Monopoly and Solve Whole Question. WASHINGTON. Nov. 16. With the Administration currency bill due to be reported to the Senate this, week after long delay, a plan to revise the National banking laws to meet the new currency system has made its appearance In leg islative circles. It will Include Impor tant questions originally contemplated as a part of the currency bill, but set aside until the next session of Con gress, when a general revision of bank ing laws has been promised by the Ad. ministration. In connection with this proposed re vision Congress will take up the far- reaching question of rural credits. One. at the provisions which probably will be inserted in the new law- will forbid Interlocking directorates In National banks. An effort has been made to put this prohibition In the pending currency bill,' but ' the Administration has maintained that It should go into the new banking law. Guarantee of Deposits Goes Over. The Senate banking and currency Administration supporters have ' de clined to consider a scheme for guar anteeing National bank deposits, with the understanding that that question would be taken up next session. Advocates of the bank law revision plan are seeking to place their projects ahead of the proposed anti-trust leg islation in. the . Administration . pro gramme. The Progressive anti-trust pro gramme, the main feature of the third party's legislative plans for the next i session, is outlined in three bills which Representative Murdock, of Kansas. Progressive leader of the House, will introduce- tomorrow. They embody proposals to create an interstate trade commission, to prohibit unfair compe tition and -'to suppress monopolies. These measures will be added to the House Judiciary committee's already full docket of anti-trust bills intro- (Concluded on Page ........................................ ......................................... ANOTHER PESKY PORCUPINE. ' j III , . - - J I f ! I ... , ,, - , ,,,,,.;.,.....,..,. 1 INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 64.5 degrees; minimum. 43. TODAY'S Rain; southeasterly winds. Foreign. Deceased Japanese statesman dissected, as he wished. Page 4. Huerta dismisses Cabinet Minister who cor dially advised him to resign. Page 1. Administration' to amend banking laws to match currency bill. Page 1. Naples wearying of visit of American sail ors. . i-age 3. Burning steamer towed to port and saved. rage 3. Domestic. AnnymoTis donor gives $4,850,000 to Cor nell medical school. Page 1. Jesse Wilson's fiance thinks men who prey vn women are worse tnan murderers. Page 4. Figure au naturel Is rule of fashion. Page 4. Chicago to drape Tango dip in hoopskirts. rage x. Guaymas banks and merchants robbed by troops of garrison. Page 2. Trial of "Prophet of Bun" to be begun . today. Page 2. Sports, Game swells college purses. Page 10. Play upsets ."dope" on Eastern gridirons. Page 10. Sox-Giants worla-tourlng ballplayers may get wetting here tomorrow. Page 11. Roseoe Fawcett does not see any hope for Oregon victory over Washington next year. Page 10. Aggies rejoice over Improvement In team's lorcn. rage 11. t Pacific Northwest. Extension school moves Lewis County farm era to enthusiasm. Page 9. Victim of Bend tragedy sinking, assailant still at large. Page 9. Second week of labor convention to be busy. Page 9. Florence citizens feel Justified for deporta tion of Industrial disturbers. Page 1. Portland and Vicinity. Anabel church Is rededlcated with all debts paid. Page 14. Henry Everding had long- business career in rortiana. page 7. Tablet unveiled at Armory to Captain Farrar. Page 14. Weather report, data and forecast. Page 11. Mayor Albee eager to found detention home lor women, page 14, Reception will be held at Young Women's unristlan Aaspciatlon, Thursday. Page a. Rotary Club will observe apple day at Its iuncneon. page a. Wets in six Oregon towns contest election results. Page 1. Checkers and dominoes replace poker in police circles. Page 8. Likeness of souls shown In "The Bird of Paradise." Page 3. V, JEWELS WORTH FORTUNE Washington Widow Brings $2 5 0,00 0 In Gems From Europe. NEW YORK, Nov. 16. (Special.) Mrs. Richard H. Townsend. prominent in Washington society, arrived here to day from Europe with $250,000 worth of Jewels and 35 trunks. Mrs. Town send received permission to send all her belongings to Washington In bond, to be examined and appraised at leasure. She reised to discuss her reported betrothal to M. Constantin Brun, he Danish minister. , CROOKS BEATJOHN M'RAE Penny-Matching Game Costs Pallas Resident, $8 0 In Chicago. CHICAGO. 111., Nov. 16. (Special.) John McRae, of Dallas, Or., was swin dled out of $80 by two men with whom he matched pennies in Grant Park to night, . They met McRae while he was wait ing for a train at the Grand Central station. FLORENCE AWAITS WEST'S MESSAGE Justification for De portation Attitude. FACTS WILL BE PRESENTED Whole Town Declared Impli cated in Ejectment. OWNER OF MILL RETURNS Citizens Declare That Industrial Workers Proposed to Call Strike Which Would Result in Dis turbing Community's Peace. FLORENCE, Or.. Nov. 16. (Special.) No word has been received from the deported Industrial Workers of the World since they were started north along the beach Friday, and Florence had settled back to peace and quiet until news was received that Governor West was sending a personal represen tatlve to Florence to investigate the deportation and intimation that the Governor might attempt to prosecute those responsiblle. Arrival of the Governor's agent is eagerly awaited. Action Declared United. Practically every business man and all the leading citizens of Florence were united In approving and carrying out the deportation, so that any action the Governor may take will be practi cally against the community as a whole. for It will be difficult to single out anyone as leader It is considered prob able that Florence citizens will sug gest how the situation may be handled at a minimum of trouble ond expense to the community. The deported men were reimbursed for the rent they had paid In advance for the building they occupied, were not injured in any way and were given food to last them until they could reach another town. None of them had any property or personal belongings and nothing was left behind by them except some records and literature of their organization. Evidence Is GntJaered. Evidence concerning their plan to call a strike here will be furnished to the Governor to show why such prompt action was taken to protect the com munity and the Governor will be asked whether deportation carried out with out turmoil was not less expensive and more certain than martial law or other measures to prevent loss of life and property that might follow such (Concluded on Page 4.) $4,350,000 FUND ANONYMOUS GIFT CORNELL MEDICAIi SCHOOL IS BENEFICIARY OF BIG SUM. Previous Generosity Indicates Pres ent Donor Is Colonel Oliver Payne, of New York. ITHACA. N. Y.. NovTl6. (Special.) An anonymous gift of $4,350,000 to Cor nell University Medical School, New York City, was announced today by President Jacob Gould Schijrman, of Cornell University. Dr. Schurman said he was not at liberty to discuss the name of the donor and no official an nouncement of it will be forthcoming. On account of his magnificent gener osity to Cornell Medical School In the past, however, it is the general belief that the man who made the gift to the medical school is Colonel Oliver Payne, of New York City. The report was circulated here a few weeks ago that a gift approximating $4,000,000 had been made to the medical college, presumably by Colonel Payne, but President Schurman at that time denied it. The gift was actually made to Presi dent Schurman in New York City last Friday. The sum will Insure the med leal school a yearly income of about $200,000. None of the money Is to be used for a building, but all will be de voted to paying the annual running ex penses of the college. It will be used entirely on the medical school of New York City, none going to the Ithaca branch of the medical department. WEATHER IS UNSETTLED Rains and Snows In. Northwest Ex pected to Travel South. WASHINGTON, Nov. 16. A week of unsettled weather throughout practic ally the entire country was predicted tonight by the Weather Bureau. Rain will set In Monday over the extreme Northwest, reaching the central por tion of the country Tuesday and Wednesday. In the Southwest the weather will be generally fair. About the middle of the week a high area will appear In the Northwest, with local snows and with much lower temperatures and the colder weather will extend eastward and southwest ward, reaching the central portion of the country Thursday or Friday. West of the Rocky Mountains condi tions will also be unsettled and the rains and snow over the northern dis tricts will extend southward Tuesday and Wednesday and will be followed by lower temperatures over the inte rior districts. RAILROAD MEN ON JUNKET Northern Pacific Officials Visit . Maryhill on Way to Bend. MARTHILL, Wash., Nov. 16. (Spe cial.) A special train bearing Colonel Clough, chairman of the board of di rectors of the Northern Pacific, of New York; George T. Slade, vice-presi dent of the Northern Pacific, and other Northern Pacific officials, accompanied by Superintendent J. P. Rogers, Traf fic Manager W. D. Skinner, Traveling Passenger fcnd Freight Agent J. T. Hardy, J. Russell, general superintend ed the Spokane, Portland & Seattle, stopped at Maryhill two hours this aft ernoon as guests of Samuel Hill. The party covered several miles by automobile over Mr. HlU's faaious good roads, going to the top of the range overlooking Klickitat Valley. The en tire party left tonight for Bend and will come north from Bend tomorrow. CAVALIERI COMING OVER Diva and Tenor Both Parry Ques tions About Marriage. PARIS, Nov. 16. (Special.) LIna Cavalierl and Lucien Muratore. the tenor, said to be her latest intended husband, sailed on the France today. Mme. Cavalier! answered only with a brilliant smile when asked If her nup tlals with Muratore would be cele brated In New York. Muratore also turned aside the question, but, glanc inj at Cavalierl, said gallantly, "How happy I am that I cross the ocean in such charming company." Mme. Cavalierl wore a long fur trimmed wrap and a round toque with out a feather. "Oh, no. I wear no aigrette," she said. "I do not wish to vex these nice customs men on this side. It would be a bad omen for the season for me to get into trouble right at the start." $300, ASKED, $700 GIVEN Pastor of Salem Church Thinks Fi nancial Conditions Good. SALEM, Or., Nov. 16. (Special.) After a collection amounting to more than $700, for use in repairing the church, had been taken in 16 minutes. Rev. H. E. Marshall, pastor of the Fir.st Baptist Church here, gave it as his opinion that financial conditions in this city were far from being bad. Mr. Marshall said that he asked for only $300 or $400 and that the money came in so fast the secretaries were swamped with coins and certificates of various denominations. PULM0T0R SAVES HUNTER Marshfield Man, Who Is Apparently Drowned, Is Resuscitated. MARSHFIELD, Or., Nov. 1$. (Special.)- Frank Davis was resuscitated by a pulmoter today after having been taken apparently dead from the lower bay. Davis, Ronald M. George and Guy Torrey were hunting ducks on the bay. Their scow upset. Mr. George and Tor rey were conscious when help arrived. WETS CONTEST 6 Question of Legality of Election Raised. LOCAL OPTION LAW IS CITED Irregularities In Signing of Petitions Also Charged. INJUNCTIONS ARE SOUGHT County Court Is Restrained In liar, rlsburg Case Oregon City Suit ' Filed After Town Declared Dry by County Court. Though 13 Oregon towns classed pre viously as "wet" voted "dry" at local option elections held in conjunction with the special state referendum elec tion on Tuesday, November 4, cortests have been taken into court in six of the towns. These towns are Salem, Harrlsburg. Oregon City, Springfield. Gresham and Hillsboro. All are In different counties. In general, the main point of attack in each case is the same that the local-option election was illegal because it did not take place on the date of a general state or a city election, but at a special election called merely to pass on questions submitted under the ref erendum. Election Law Cited. This stand of the liquor men Is based on the construction their attorneys have placed on a part of the local option law, which makes special pro vision for holding local-option elections in towns and cities In years when there is no general state election. This par ticular part of Section 4922, Lord's Ore gon Laws, reads as follows: "If, under the provisions of this act, an election shall be demanded wholly or In part in any incorporated city or tewn or any ward or precinct therein, to be held at the time of the city or town election occurring in a year In which there Is no general election, then the County Clerk shall notify the proper authority of such city or town that such election has been demanded in order that such city or town author ity may cause the official ballots to be prepared in accordance with the provisions of this act. ..." lay Is Specified. The same section specifies that a. local-option election shall be held only on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November of any year. The liquor forces contend in most of the contests that the requirement that the election be conducted by the city in a year when there is no general election, has not been complied with; and further, in most of the towns, that there was no city or town elec tion on November 4, and that In conse quence the local option results are entirely null. At Salem, for example, where the Prohibitionists polled a majority of close to 500 votes, the assertion was made in a suit filed last Wednesday to enjoin the county authorities from de claring prohibition to be In effect, that the Judges and clerks of election were not appointed and qualified under the charter of the city, but were appoint ed by the Marlon County Court under the general election laws of the state, though there was no general election, on November 4. It was further con tended that there was no city election on November 4 and that under the Sa lem charter there could not be any city election on any other date than the first Monday In December. Irregularities Also Charged. Irregularities In obtaining signa tures to the petitions for the local op tion election and fraudulent voting also were charged. At Harrlsburg prior to November 4 the only spot in Linn County where an alcohollo thirst legally could be quenched, virtually the same ground Is taken by the liquor men. It is as serted that the election boards .were appointed by the County Court and the notices of election issued by county of. fleers, whereas the election should have been conducted under the super vision of the officers of the City of Harrlsburg, if at all. Pending a hearing of the case. Cir cuit Judge Kelly has granted the liquor men a temporary Injunction, restrain ing the County Court from declaring the city to be "dry." Tons Kuy'a Action Issue. The same question has been raised at Springfield in a slightly different form, and with a local Issue, concern ing the alleged actions of Tom Kay, one of Governor West's "special agents," injected into the case. There was a regular city election at Spring field, but the liquor attorneys assert that the local option election was, nev ertheless, illegal, In that the liquor question should have been on a sep arate ballot instead of being on the same ballot with city measures. Fraud and intimidation on the part of Kay in his alleged preventing of "legal voters" from casting ballots, and in ordering them out of the polling places, Is charged. Saloon men of Gresham, in Eastern Multnomah County, have prayed the Multnomah Circuit Court to set aside the dry returns there on the ground that the local option election did not take place on the date either of a general state election or a city elec- OREGON TOWS .IConcluded on rage 8.)