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VOL.. Mil. NO- 16,541. PORTLAND, OREGON. SATURDAY. NOVEMBER 29, 1913. PRICE FIVE CENTS. M'ADOQ REASSURES B1HS OF COUNTRY Restricted Credits De clared Unnecessary. GOVERNMENT READY TO AID Treasury Will Lend Ear to Re i l quests for Extension. OWEN BILL STILL INTACT Indications Now Point to Adoption of Administration Measure by Senate Caucus Only Slight Changes Probable. WASHINGTON, Nov. 28 Secretary McAdoo issued a statement tonight declaring- that banks throughout the country reported to be restricting credits to meet the provisions of the ex pected currency law are making a mis take. He announced that the resources In the treasury would be at the dis posal of the banks to aid them in com plying with the new law when it is put on the statute books. The state ment In part said: "The Secretary expressed the convic tion that the new law would impose no hardships on the banks and that the transfer of capital and reserves to the proposed Federal reserve banks would be accomplished with little or no Inconvenience to the banks and to gen eral business. Usual Credits Justified. The Secretary said the treasury Department had large available re sources at its command: that he should not hesitate to use them to aid the banks to comply with the new law, t-rsd that in his opinion cue banks could v-lth perfect safety proceed with the granting of accommodations to their rustomers in the normal and usual way. The Secretary said he did not, of course, assume to advise the banks he only wished them and the business public to know there was no ground for apprehension: that the attitude of the Treasury Department was to be helpful and he though it could be ef fectively helpful." He said if any banks were laboring nnder the impression that the new law would necessitate or occasion a restric tion of credits, they were controlled by error, as no such thing would result. Dank May Get Extensions. "The Secretary said that up to date the banks had called upon the treasury for only 31,661.000 for crop moving purposes; that the deposits were to be returned under the arrangements in four installments, beginning December 15 and ending March 1. The Secretary aid he would consider favorably and on Its merits the application of any National bank holding crop-moving de posits for a postponement for SO days of the time for beginning repayments. to that payments might commence on the 15th of January, 1914, Instead of on the 15th of December, as now provided.' Practically no material amendments were made today in the draft of the Administration currency bill as pre sented by Chairman Owen and the five Administration Democrats in the bank ing and currency committee to the con ference of Senate Democrats. Some Senators Predict Delay. Several Senators ventured the opln Ion that the conference would be un able to conclude Its consideration of the bill before next Tuesday or Wednes day. The leaders still hope, however, to present the bill to the Senate on Monuay. Arrangements were made today for the opening of the regular session of Congress Monday. Acting Majority Leader Johnson, of the House, at th request of the President, conferred with Senate Leader Kern, and it was ar ranged to have the President read his resular message to Congress Tuesday alternoon at 1 o clock. The currency conference reported bp.ck to the members of the committee etveral paragraphs to be redrawn with changes of phraseology or form. In one cf lliese tne conference decided to pro vide that no member of the Federal reserve board, which will control th new system, bhould be allowed to ac cept a -position with any member baak tor a period of years after leaving the i.-eueial board. Owen Draft to Be Adopted. a he pai-agiapu allowing National banks to act as executors and admi istrators was alsc referred back to the commatec to be drawn so that It would not conflict with the laws of various ttate. The question of the number ol regional reserve banks to be created una been left open and probably will bo taken up tomorrow for settlement. Leaders are satisfied that the Owen draft of the bill finally will be adopt ed, with few changes, and it is expected that a binding resolution will be pre tented after the bill has been com dieted. ... , I'innl Redemption Is In Ciold. The Democratic conference defeated a proposal to broaden the rddemption features of the new currency bill so' that the proposed treasury notes would be redeemable at the United States Treasury "in lawful money.'i The committee had recommended tha the final redemption be limited strictly to gold and, after a lengthy debate to night, this position was upheld by the (Concluded on Pus .). STEFANSSON SHIP DESTROYED BY ICE FOOD, SCIENTISTS' EQUIPMENT ON MARY SACHS LOST. No Mention Made of Crew by Cap tain 'Writing From Arctics." All Believed Safe. , NOME, Alaska, Nov. 28. The power schooner Mary Sachs, one of the boats of Vllhjalmur Stefansson's Canadian Arctio exploration expedition, has been wrecked in the ice off the Arctic coast of Alaska. News of the loss of the Mary Sachs was received here to day in a letter from Peter Bernard, captain of the vessel. The ice crushed the boat into small bits and all the provisions and scien tific Instruments aboard were lost. The letter gives no details of the mishap. As nothing is said of any injury to the men on the boat, it Is believed all are safe, as they could easily make their way over the ice to the shore, where they could obtain shelter with the na tives. No word was received concerning the Karluk and the Alaska. SEATTLE, Nov. 28 The Mary Sachs was purchased at Nome by Stefansson for use of the southern party of the Canadian expedition, which also has the power schooner Alaska. Dr. R. M. An derson, commanding the southern party, ia aboard the Alaska and Ken neth Chipman. the Canadian geologist, commanded the Mary Sachs. Last re ports from the expedition were re ceived at Circle City, Alaska, November 10, and reported the Mary Sachs and the Alaska ice-bound at Colllnson Point. Alaska. The southern party was to make a scientific exploration of Victoria Land and Banks Land, while Stefansson, on the Karluk, explored the unmapped re gion in Beaufort Sea. 4-CENT FARE TO BE ASKED Tacoma Will Endeavor to Get In Un der Ruling in Seattle Case. TACOMA, Wash., Nov. 28. (Special) As a result of the State Public Serv ice Commission ruling in the Seattle 4 -cent fare case this week, the Tacoma City Commissioners today decided to seek a similar concession. The com pany has been selling 22 tickets for $1 on the cars and the Commissioners are to ask 25 tickets and, If refused, will take the case to the State Com mission. If the company can be compelled to sell 25 tickets for a dollar in Seattle, don't see why the same rule should not apply here," said Commissioner Mills. "Anyhow, we propose to take It up." .AND GRANT HEARING IS ON Testimony Being Taken In "Inno cent Purchaser" Cases. Taking of testimony was begun yes terday - before Miss Vivian Flexner, special examiner In the "Innocent pur chaser" cases, involving lands bought or alleged to have been bought by the Pacific Timber Company and Leona Mills Lumber Company from the South ern. Pacific land grant. The suit is brought under the Haw- ley act, which provides that "Innocent purchasers" may turn their land over to. the Government and, on the payment of $2.50 an acre, may secure clear title. The Government alleges that the companies have not complied with the law. MILITANT . CHAINS SELF Police Forced to Smash Chair to Ar rest Shrieking Woman. LONDON, Nov. 28 Militant suffra gettes are returning to their old tac tics. One of them fastened herself to a chair in Caxton Hall tonight with a chain and padlock, from which point of vantage she shrieked "Votes' for women." Right Hon. Joseph Albert Pease M. P. for the Rotheham division of York, .vas forced to suspend his speech for several minutes while the stewards en deavored to remove the suffragette. They were forced to smash the chair before this could be done. SHOT ON DUTY, MAN DIES Constable Queen, of Missouri, 'suc cumbs to Gun Wound. RICHHILL, Mo., Nov. 28. Sam Queen, a Constable of Hume, Mo., shot here last Sunday by a confederate of a prisoner Queen was tatting to th county jail in Butler, died today. Queen had arrested a man suspected of being a member or a band of auto mobile thieves of Kansas City. The confederate entered a Missouri Pacific smoking car, where Queen sat with his prisoner, and shot tlie officer twice. The prisoner and his confederate es caped. Posses that searched the sur rounding country for two days failed to find trace of the two men. "MOVIE" TIGER ESCAPES Whole Section in France in Fear of Fugitive Beast. EPERNON, France, Nov. 28. The whole countryside is living In terror of a tigress which escaped from an enclos ure when a cinematograph tiger hunt was in progress Wednesday find suc ceeded in reaching the forest. A de tachment of soldiers, a number of for est, guards and policemen and a few amateur huntsmen have endeavored to track the animal, but without success. The tigress has occasionally been soen by terror-stricken peasants, but so far it is not known to have killed anyone. SLOVER DENIES ALL ES Police Captain Makes Affidavit Public. ELEMENT OF TRUTH IN SOME Accusers Made Molehills Into Mountains, He Asserts. MOTIVE OF ACTION SEEN Former Acting Chief Says Revenge for "Fancied Injuries" Sought by Certain Individuals "Dozing" in Office Is Admitted. E. A. Slover, captain of police and Acting Chief during the Rushlight ad ministration, made public last night an affidavit he has submitted to the Civil Service Commission, in which he denies all the principal chages made against him at the hearing in the police in vestigation before the Commission, on Friday, November 21. Some of the charges made by wit nesses at that hearing, he says, con tained an element of truth. There was just enough truth In them, he as serts in his affidavit, to enable his accusers to make "molehills into mountains." oDoitns" In Office Admitted. Thus, referring to the charge that he slept at the police station while on duty, he says, frankly: "I have dozed in my chair several times at the station, but not at the times of which I was accused. Take it in the small hours of the morning, after the rush Is over, it is often very quiet and unless one is walking or exercising, he is very apt to get drowsy." In an introductory statement accom panying the affidavit. Captain Slover declared that, to his surprise, he was not cited, either by supena or verbal nvitatlon to be present at the hearing n which the charges were made against him. Rijfht to Deny Clnlmed. 'I am in the difficult position of see ing the gravest charges against my character printed in the daily papers without having received any notifica tion of the filing of such charges," he asserts. "In this difficult position I claim the right to place before your honorable body for your information the facts in the matters, which, accord ing to the daily papers, have been tes tified to at your public hearing. v T have reason to believe these charges have been brought against me In this indirect fashion," the statement concludes, "for tho purposo of secur ing revenge for fancied injuries which Individuals have suffered through my actions as Chief of Police." In an interview last night, the ex- (Concluded on Page 4.) PRINCIPAL G HAB6 INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 45 degrees; minimum, 41 degrees. TODAY'S Rain; high southerly winds, l'orrlgn- Federals scarce in four Mexican states. Page 2-. National. McAdoo advises bankers normal credits are Justified. Page 1. Domestie. Hanlsh found guilty. Page 3. L'ntermyer declares in favor of general am nesty for big business. Page 3. Indianapolis Mayor resigns when business men threaten impeachment. Page 1. Senator Chamberlain tells Latln-Amerlcar. diplomats he would vote for 'Justice for i-'olombla." Page 2. Suffragist leaders of every state gather at Washington for convention. Page 5. Portland Is to be on new vaudeville circuit. Page 1. German Ambassador tells of Nation's trade expansion. Page 7. Bportsi "Doc" Stewart gets credit for building up second place gridiron machine. Page 1. Army and Navy game to be played in New York today. Page 6. Roscoo Faweett picks all-star team of con ference players. Page 8. "Big Bill" James says goodbye to fans here, leaving tonight tor St. Louis. Page 0. Pacific Northwest. Stefansson ship destroyed by ice. In Arctic. Page 1. Proposed commission charter causes hot fight at Pendleton. Page 5. Jackson County formally begins to . build road over Siskiyous. Page 6. Salem liquor election declared invalid by court, fage A. Commercial and Marine. Interior millers otter higher prices for wheat. Page 17. Lack of support weakens wheat market at Chicago. Page 17. Stock speculation checked by advance in call money. Page 17. Mild weather retards demand for wearing apparel. Page 17. y Portland makes lowest tender on parcel of lumber for Government. Page 13. Portland and Vicinity. Welfare Commission modifies order and stores will be open until lO P. M. Page 10. In public affidavit Slover denies all princi pal charges. Page 1. "Japples" in second performance surpass first hit. Page 1. Miss Mary Steiwer to wed P. W. Leelston Smith. Page 10. Large delegation of Portlanders expected to go to Roseburg Commercial gathering. Page 10. Mr. Ladd favors exhibit of Oregon products at Ashland. Page 16. "Any old land" Is order gtven for purchase by accused dealers. . Page 12. - -Weather report, data and forecast. Page 18. Coroner's Inquest exonerates Mrs. Holland. Page 1. Grand Army veterans assail Commissioner Brewster. Page 11. Anglers are ready for war with Governor. Page 4. WATER RATES UNCHANGED Bills Will -Be Sent Out After Jan nary 1 Under New Plan. There will be no change In the water rates in Portland next year. This was the announcement yesterday of City Commissioner Daly. Until' meters are Installed the rates will be, the same as at present- Change in the manner ot sending out bills will be started January 1. Short ly after the first bills for December wlll.be sent out for the Albina dis trict." The following month bills for December and January will be sent to all other parts of the East Side, and in March bills for December, January and February will be sent to all the West Side. The same system of rota tion will be continued through the year, the bills to be sent out quarterly in each district. Bills will be to the premises and not to tenants; the land lord or property owner being respon sible for the bills. By the system Commissioner Daly says there will be a material saving in the expense of the department. JOHN BULL WE'VE GOT TO LIVE UP TO mAYOH SHANKQUIT3 IN FACE OF THREAT Resignation Follows Rumor of Strike. BITTER FEELING IS AROUSED New Indianapolis Executive to Reorganize Police. NEW ORDER IS PROMISED Retiring Official Is Man Who Ran Down Price of Potatoes and Made War Successfully on High Insurance Rates. INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. 28. Rather than face" impeachment proceedings, Samuel Lewis Shank resigned as Mayor of Indianapolis today and was auto matically succeeded by Harry B. Wal lace, City Controller. A committee of business men had prepared proceedings to remove Shank from office in case of any further labor trouble ,in the city. When the Mayor was told by labor lead ers that a strike of union teamsters was imminent, he sent his resignation to the City Clerk. "I thought I did everything on my part to be fair to both sides in the re cent streetcar strike," said Mayor Shank in announcing his resignation, "but after the criticism that has been heaped on me by the safety board of the Chamber of Commerce, I thought that I could not retain my position and do my duty to the general public as Mayor on account of the bitter feeling that has .grown out of the labor contro versy." Police to Be Taken In Hand. - Mayor Wallace Issued a statement in which he said: "I shall do my duty impartially and fearlessly. Life and property must be protected at whatever cost and the fair name' of our city restored. ' Every per son has a right to conduct his own busi ness In his own way so long as he does it lawfully, and I will not tolerate any interference with.it by others." Mayor Wallace said the po'.'ce situ ation was so critical that he would take personal' charge of the department for a time. Shank, has achieved considerable notoriety by his handling of the saloon problem early in his administration. Saloonkeepers who violated the law I were taken before the Mayor and in many Instances their licenses were sus pended for periods varying from a few hours to 60 days. One saloonkeeper's license was suspended until he could show the Mayor a certificate, signed by a minister, that he had attended church. Shank also gained Nation-wide fame in 1911 by his light on tne high cost of living. He found that the city market (Concluded on Page 2.) 'EM, SAM. OS PORTLAND ON NEW VAUDEVILLECIRCUIT ORGANIZATION PACIFIC COAST CHAIN NOW REPORTED. Chicago Representative Says Two Million Dollars More Will Be Spent In Other Cities. , CHICAGO, Nov. 28 (Special.) An other vaudeville circuit has been formed to operate on the Pacific Coast, it was announced here today. The new corporation will be known as the Noo nan & Condon circuit. Thomas J. Noonan is at the head of the new venture and associated with him' is E. J. Condon, an insurance man of Portland. The now company al ready has one house in operation, the American Theater at Spokane, which was built by 'William Morris. The ground for the Portland bouse has been leased and work on the new theater will be rushed. It is planned to establish houses at Vancouver, B. C, Tacoma. Spokane and Seattle, Wash., Portland, Or., San Francisco, Los An geles, Sacramento and San Diego, Cal. Thomas J. Noonan, promoter of the circuit, was for 10 years business man ager of the Illinois Theater in this city. Eight years ago he built the Garden Theater here, now the American Music Ha.ll. "We have secured a choice site for a theater in Portland and work on that house, which will occupy the old library site, will be rushed," said the Chicago-representative. "We expect to spend about $2,000,000 in obtaining houses in other cities on the Coast. Mr. Noonan is attending to that end of the business. He was in San Francisco last week looking over available places." Edward J. Condon, of the Security Development Company, negotiated the deal for the old library site, and is a partner of Robert F. Noonan in the Con- don-Noonan Insurance Company. The work of tearing down the old library is expected to begin soon. The new theater is scheduled to open on July 1, 1914. The building will be lOOx 140 feet. The auditorium will have two galleries and will seat 2000. CHEAP PILOTAGE OFFERED Parsons Reported In San Francisco on Rate-Cutting Mission. SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 28. (Spe cial.) Captain E. D. Parsons, inde pendent Columbia River bar pilot, it is reported, is in town for the purpose of arranging with owners and char terers for taking thoir vessels to Portland at rates far below those charged by the Port of Portland, Captain Parsons, It is said, has the backing of several shipping firms, who have protested against the present rates. Under the new rates the in dependent pilots will board vessels at this port or on the sound and take them direct to their destination at Portland. The Port of Portland has offered a rebate to owners for charterers who will send 12 vessels to the river in a year, but the smaller operator re ceives no reduction. To the latter the new rates are attractive. PLAN HELD TOO COSTLY Mclndoe Opposes Six-Foot Channel, Oregon City to Eugene. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington, Nov. 28. Senator Lane today received word from Major Mclndoe that the latter ha3 reported adversely on the project looking to a six-foot channel in the Willamette River from Oregon City to Eugene. Major Mclndoe regards the project as far too costly for the amount of commerce that would be benefited, even if local communities would agree to bear half the cost. He says a six foot channel could be obtained only by the installation of a system of movable dams. To overcome the fall of 212 feet between Eugene and Cor vallis would require 26 locks and dams, which he estimates would cost 87,000. 000, and to overcome the drop of 136 feet between Corvallls and Oregon City would require 14 locks and dams, cosing $4,150,000. T0LMAN MUST GO TO JAIL "Kins of Loan Sharks' Loses Appeal on Usury Conviction. NEW TORK. Nov. 28. Daniel H. Tolma'n, "king of the loan sharks," must serve six months in the penitentiary for usury. In so deciding today, the appellate division upheld the lower court-imposed sentence. Tolman based his appeal on the ground that the act of usury was com mitted by a woman employed without his knowledge or consent- The court held, however, that in charging 200 per cent interest on a loan, she acted in be half of her employer and to his advan tage and that he was therefore bouud by her act. KING WANTS SECOND WIFE Ruler of Saxony Has Eye on Bavar ian Princess of 3 2. MUNICH. Nov. 28. (Special.) Ru mors are current here that King Fred erick Augustus of Saxony, whose wife eloped in 1902 with Professor Glron, French tutor of her children, and was divorced and became the wife of En rico Toselli, an Italian muslo teacher, is about to marry again. Gossip in court circles here is to the effect that the King wants to make one of the six daughters of King Ludwig of Bavaria Queen of Saxony. He is said to favor Princess' Hildegard, who is 32 years old. Negotiations are be lieved to have been opened between the two royal houses, -- - JURY EXONERATES WIFE FROM BLAME Mrs. Loveland Is Given Her Freedom. ONE WORD LEADS TO DEATH "Celebrate," Which Falls From Woman's Lips, Is Fatal. RUNAWAY MATCH RECALLED Minneapolis Elopement of Seven Years Ago, Followed by n-Hii. band, Who Sought Son, Re vealed at Hearing. "Celebrate." With the word on her lips which pre ceded the killing of her husband. Wil liam A. Loveland, at their home on Portland Heights Wednesday, Mrs. Josephine Loveland, testifying in her own behalf, collapsed into her chair at the Coroner's inquest last night, and brought to an end a three hours' grill ing Investigation into the death. The inquest broke up in an uproar, and six jurors with handkerchiefs to their eyes, went into session and within 30 seconds returned a verdict which completely exonerated Mrs. Loveland from blame for her husband's death. Word Lead, to Death. "Celebrate" was the word which led to the death of Loveland. It recalled to both the night, seven years to a day, before, when she left her first husband, Willard Strickler, in Minneapolis, and ran away with Loveland. It recalled also that Loveland left his family, and that their two lives, thus Joined and later legalized by a church and civil marriage ceremony, had -been a series of quarrels and bickerings. Not considering the fact several dif ferent versions of the killing had been given by Mrs. Loveland; overlooking the testimony that the pistol was Im possible ot discharge In the manner de scribed, the jury, in unmistakable terms, expressed in its verdict onlv the Jurymen's desire that Mrs. Loveland have life and freedom. "Accidentally inflicted," they declared the fatal wound to be; they held that Mrs. Loveland was "not criminally re sponsible" and they further "exonerated her from all blame." , The Jurymen, James A. Beckett. E. A. Kingdon. T. C. Bowen, M. P. Murphy, W. E. Bechtold and G. W. Crowson, after giving their verdict, clustered about the weeping woman and congratulated her. Deputy District Attorney Collier, overwhelmed by the sentiment displayed, immedi ately declared her free, and slie was taken to the home of friends. Runaway Match Itecalled. Seven years ago, to the very day ot the shooting, Mrs. Josephine Strickler, now Mrs. Loveland, ran away from her first husband, taking her son, Willard, and went with Loveland, who left a family, which Is now grown. In Min neapolis. They lived together some time and their respective former mates secured divorces. Then they were mar ried. Mrs. Loveland recurred to the cir cumstances of that elopement when her husband Wednesday started to leave the Thanksgiving dinner she had prepared for him, without giving her explanation of his going or destina tion. "Why can't you celebrate today?" she said she asked her husband. "'Celebrate'? 'Celebrate,'" exclaimed Loveland, according to her statement, "Take back that word 'celebrate.' " As he spoke he grew pale, she testified, and the same thought leaped into the minds of both. "O Will. I will take it back; I will take It back," she answered, and a moment later the revolvor was dis charged and Loveland was killed. Man Seeks Wife and Son. Six months ago, in the latter part of June, after seven years' separation, Strickler came to Portland. He is now 53 years old. He rented an apartment in a house the view of which com manded the hillside on which stood the one-room clapboard dwelling of the Lovelands. With a high-power binoc ular he kept watch on his ex-wlfo and child's movements all day long for sev eral months. Failing to attract her again to him he engaged Attorney Cooper, with offices in the Yeon build ing to try to recover the boy Willard. The case failed and Willard was al lowed to stay with his mother. Then Strickler engaged. Frank A. Dillon, a private detective, to watch the movements of both, while he went to Seattle. Strickler is a traveling salesman and well to do. While in Se attle he lived at 211 Ninth street. One jt his night excursions in the vicinity of his ex-wife's home roused Loveland, who, either knowing who the prowler was, or thinking him a robber, poured five shots from an au tomatic revolver Into the brush on the side of the hill. Strickler Reteru Here. On th-s day of tho killing Strickler returnee to Portland, but when a man who knew him well met him on the street he refused recognition. At last night's Inquest he was represented by Attorney Cooper, and a stenographer, employed by the attorney, took notes of the testimony given. Dramatic to the last degree, Mrs. Loveland's breakdown was the culmin- (Concluded oa Page IS.)