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jftitwitt $ Jail VOL. LIII NO. 1G,509. PORTLAND, OREGON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1914. PRICE FIVE CENTS. MINOR ISSUES RISE TO VEX PRESIDENT Wilson's Political Fu ture Troubled. . LITERACY TEST IS OPPOSED Party's Attitude Toward Suf i frage to Be Considered. FOES PREPARE MATERIAL Exemption of Labor Unions From Operation of Antl-TrustLaw Is Another Question That May f Rise to Embarrass. WASHINGTON, Feb. 4. (Special.) President Wilson has reached the stage of his White House career where po litical questions Involving his ' future are piling up to bother him. ' These are not questions Identified with the great party principles he primarily was elected to carry Into effect. The tariff and currency revisions are matters that will operate for or against the Admin istration, not by reason of mere gen eral partisan views entertained at the time of legislative -action, but In ac cordance with the degree of prosperity that prevails throughout the country in the next few years. Secondary Ion Perplex. The really perplexing problems are. In a sense, those connected with issues of secondary importance. " They are not matters that vitally affect the economic welfare of the Nation, but they vitally concern millions of the country's voters. There is the literacy test as applied to immigrants, em bodied In the immigration bill as It passed the House today ami which will be kept in the measure by the Sen ate unlees the executive influence works a great change in sentiment In the upper branch of Congress. There Is thp labor organization exemption clause, which again seems likely- to be Included in the sundry civil bill and which means much to all the labor unions of the country, and also there is the woman suffrage ques tion, on which President Wilson will not be called to act directly in con nection with legislation, but which will become a distinct issue in the coming elections by reason of the cold shoul der the Democratic leaders have turned en the new voting element. Embarrassments Are Indicated. As conditions are today everything will favor the Democratic party in the Congressional elections next Fall so far as the big bills already put into force are concerned. President Wil son with respect to these matters has played In great luck. The President Is desirous that his party shall be con tinued In power with emphasized in,. dorsement on the part of the people. In this desire he now encounters the embarrassments indicated. It now is positively known that ttie President Is strongly opposed to the Immigration literacy test and the hints conveyed from the Whtie House are to the effect that if the Senate follows the lead of the House the Immigration bill will be vetoed. This veto, If forth coming, will win favor in some quar ters and incur tremendous disapproval In others. Some 3,000,000 voters de scended from aliens will be pleased by the veto, while the labor unions who Jiave fought for the literacy test will be disgruntled. Labor Vnion Exemption Opposed. As to the exemption of labor unions from the operations of the Sherman anti-trust law. President Wilson clearly exhibited, his disapproval of the idea when he signed the civil sun dry bill, which Taft had vetoed at the beginning of his Administration. He signed the bill as It stood because of the emergency that existed with re spect to general appropriations the measure carried. It was indicated that he would not again approve a bill which discriminates as to enforcement of the Sherman act. The enemies of the Administration al- ready are preparing to make capital of the many issues, aside from tariff and currency, that are multiplying rap idly. NEGRO WOMEN ON BOARD Committee Makes Selection for Cold, Jiirk Polling Places. CHAMPAIGN. HI., Feb. 4. Two negro v.-omen were chosen today to serve on the election board in the first ward of Champaign. The polling place In this ward is without light and heat, and when the City Council refused to pro vide these comforts, the committee having the appointments of election boards In charge decided to choose negroes. Mayor Dobbins said he would not in dorse the appointments. DECKLOAD LOST, COOK ILL Schooner Luzon, Donbly In Distress, Forced to Put Into Port. BAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 4. The schooner Luzon, out 12 days from Grays Harbor, bound for Dunedln, New Zealand, was forced to put into port here today. Her deckload of lumber wu lost In a gale, and her hull was badly sprang. Her cook la ill. ROAD TO SEA TO BE GRADED THIS YEAR COIUMBIA BOXDS ASSURE WORK, MR. BOWIBY SATS. State Highway Engineer Announces Stretch From Portland to Beach Will Be Contracted at Once. SALEM, Or., Feb. 4. (Special.) That the Columbia Highway will bo graded this year from Portland to the sea, was the announcement made tonight by State Highway Engineer Bowlby. This, he said, had been made possible by the authorization of a. Dond Issue of 1360. 000 by the voters of Columbia County. "Everything looks fine now for the completion of the highway," declared the engineer. "Surveys are being made In Columbia County and two locating parties have been working there for some time. The authorities have placed the expenditure of the money in the hands of the state highway commission and contract for the stretch of the road from the Clatsop County line up the river to Rainier will be let In a short time. There will be 52 miles of heavy grading through Columbia County. The county has levied $170,000 tax for road purposes, so that, with the bond issue will go a long way toward giving the county good roads. About $305,000 of the bond .issue is to b used on the Columbia Highway. The Nehalem and two short crossroads also are to be improved." Major Bowlby will go to Columbia County in a few days to take active charge of the work. He said the con tract for grading between Astoria and Columbia County also would be let in a few weeks. "EASTERN EGG" MISNOMER Designation Applied to Chinese Product Declared Misleading. SAN" FRANCISCO, Feb. 4. (Special.) The Sonoma County Poultry Pro ducers' Federation sent a communlca tlon to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors today requesting that body to adopt a drastic ordinance- against the use of Chinese eggs as food In this city and asking that the pure food in spectors be ordered to seize and dump any Chinese eggs Into the bay if sold In violation of this regulation when It is adopted. It Is declared that these eggs are be ing sold in San Francisco as "Eastern eggs," a name used generally to dls tinguish eggs received from Middle Western states. Attention Is also called to the fact that William J. Bryan, In a speech at Santa Rosa, said he would not eat Chinese eggs, but that he was fond of all other varieties. - - WALTZ, TOO, LEG-BREAKER Baker Man Survives Tango and Hes itation, to Kail on Old Step. BAKER, Or., Feb. 4. (Special.) While dancing with a dashing divorcee at' a fashionable dance at which the tango and hesitation waltzes were featured last night, Harry Near, a commercial traveler whose home is in Baker, slipped and with his partner fell to the floor. The young woman was uninjured, but Mr. Near sustained a fracture of the right leg Just above the ankle. He arose and tried to help his partner to her feet and then sank helpless to the floor. It was not the tango nor any new dance which caused the mix-up, how ever. At the time of the accident Mr. Near and his partner were dancing an old-fashioned waltz. WILLAPA WORK FAVORED 'Army Engineers Recommend Gov ernment Help Dredge. Channel. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, Feb. 4. Secretary of War Gar rison today sent tosCongress a report of Army Engineers recommending the dredging of a channel 24 feet deep and 200 feet wide from deep water in Wll lapa Bay to the forks of the Willapa River at Raymond and a channel of same depth and 150 feet wide up the south fork of the river to Cram Lum ber Mill and up the north fork to Twelfth street, the total Improvement to cost $491,500. It is recommended that the Govern ment appropriate $347,950 towards the project, local Interests to pay the re mainder. PIETY GRIPS TOWN "DADS" Major and Chief, Converted, Will Enforce Old "Blue-' Laws. SUN BUR V, Pa.. , Feb. 4. Dr. H. T. Keiser. Mayor, and Merle Shannon, Chief of Police, both of whom were converted at a revival meeting Sun day, announced today they would elim inate all gambling houses, places of Immorality and slot machines. It was also announced that tango dancing and "turkey trotting" will not be permitted, that all business places will be forced to close on Sundays and that all other provisions of the old "blue" laws will be rigidly enforced. FIVE FLY 7382 FEET HIGH French Aviator Establishes New Altl tude llecord With Passengers. CHARTREiJ, France, Feb. 4. M Garalx, the French aviator, established a new altitude record with five passen gers today, ascending to a height o 7382 feet. He made the flight in a new biplane built by Paul Schmltt, an engineer, which reached a height of 5000 feet with seven passengers. The previous record for altitude with five passengers was made last October by the Austrian aviator, Sablatnik, who reached an altitude of 3281 feet. - STEA1VIER VADSO ; ALL SAVED "Calamity" Craft Hits Alaskan Rock. "POSSESSED," IDEA ONCE HELD Iron Vessel Goes Down in 30 Minutes in Snow Storm. 26 PERSONS ESCAPE DEATH At Early Hour Tnesday Morning Boat Crashes In Small Boats Crew Reaches Arrandale Can nery, Where It Is Picked TJp. PRINCE RUPERT, B. C., Feb. 4. The steamship "Vadso, of the Union line. Captain RIcnardson, sank In Na soga Gulf, Portland Canal, at 3:45 A. M. on. Tuesday. The boat, en route for Granby Bay, In a heavy snow storm, hit a rock, sinking In half an hour ' In 170 fathoms. Twenty-six persons on board were all saved, reaching here to day by the steamship Venture. The skipper's own story of the sink ing is that the Vadso struck in a wild storm when it was still dark. The steamer immediately began to AIL Many of the crew were in their bunkl, and had only time to get a few personal ef fects and lower away small boats. All of the freight. Including a big coal shipment, was lost. The survivors reached Arrandale cannery, where they were picked up by the Venture. Vrmel Has Mishaps. Portland canal is the southernmost boundary of Alaska. VANCOUVER, B. C. Feb. 4. The Vadso was one of the oldest vessels in active service o'n this Coast, having been built in 1881 by Messrs. Motala & Co., at Gothenburg and named the Bor deaux, a name which wag afterwards changed when she was purchased by the Boscovfitz Company and brought out here five or six years ago. When the Union " Steamship Company took over the Boscowitz Company In 1911 they took over the Vadso. The lost Steamer, which was con structed of iron and had a single pro peller, has been very unlucky of late years. Only last Winter she stranded n a fog in Baynes Sound and the dam age was extensive. For a long time she lay oft the Wallace shipyards up for sale, but eventually the Union Steam ship Company decided to have her re pired, overhauled and oil burners in stalled at a cost of $25,000. This was done and she again took the northern run In charge of Captain Richardson, formerly of the Northern Steamship (Concluded on Page 2.) SINKS INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 47 degrees; minimum, 40 degrees. ' TODAY'S Light rain or snow; colder; varL aDie -winds mostly nortneriy. National.' House Democrats definitely committed against suffrage committee. - Pae 3. House passes bill for literacy test. .& 2. Scope of trust bills will be limited. Pace 4. Domestic 'Boss" cassidy sentenced to prlaon by Judge he supported. Page 2. Dr. Aked sees comedy In controversy over his Ideas. Pace 2. Carl R. Gray denies he has any intention of resigning presidency of. Great Northern. I'aga 3. Speaker Clark's Baltimore speech sires im pression he is candidate zor president in 1916. Page S. Contest over rich lumberman's will comes to striking; climax in court. Page d. Munitions of war cross Rio Grande for Mexican rebels. Page 4. Adele Ritchie, ' actress, vents wrath on process server. Page A. Minor Issues arise to vex Dernocrtttlo Presi dent. Page 1. - , Paclflo Northwest. Governor West asks stay in dissolution suit. Page s. Farm demonstration train gives stimulus to growing of corn in Oregon. Page 7. Cuteness" said ground that Jury of. women decide against - man. Page 6. Columbia highway from Portland to the sea to be graded this year. Page 1. Wireless enables cupld to complete romance begun on high sea. Page 1. Steamer Vadso sinks 'In Portland Canal, Alaska; crew, all saved. Page 1. Addison Bennett describes town of Haines. Page 7. . Willamette-Association will have exhibit at 1915 exposition. Page 7. Sports. t Mensor advises Ryan not to Jump to Fed erals. Page 13. Coast who's who In baseball named by Mc Credle. Page 12. Federals turn attention to minor leagues and world s tourists. Page 12. Ritchie to finish American programme before going to Australia. Page IX Tame boxing card put on at Armory smoker. .rage iis. Commercial ana Marine. Wool contracting in West assumes larger proportions, page it. Wheat recovers at Chicago on rumors of ex port sales. Page 17. Professional selling checks rise in stock market. Page IT. Higher steamer xassonger rate to San Fran cisco expected. Page lb Portland and Vicinity. Prominent sneakers wtll appear at T". M. C A. banquet. Page 16. O.-W. R. & N.-Soo line train to St. Paul abandoned. Page 18. Francis X. Matthleu, maker of Oregon his tory, dies at 6. Page 5. Hiph Echool diplomas given 1:15 graduates. Page 1. WeatUcr report, data end forecast. Page 17 O. A. C. Glee Club sings before Ad Club. Page 11. Frenzied finance charged in suit asking re ceiver tor unnea oiaicB iasmer company, Page 1. President designates S. Mitchell Palmer to run for Senator in Pennsylvania. Page 2. "RED TAPE" TIES WEDDING youth Halts on Brink of Matrimony When Affidavit Is Asked. SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 4. Carl Ice land Vandeven, of, Santa Barbara, ac companied by his fiancee, applied yes terday at the marriage bureau here for a license. The clerk handed an elaborate affidavit required by the state to the young people. The girl filled out her part but Vandeven drew a line through the spaces reserved for the applicant, crumpled the affidavit and threw it on the floor. "It's too much trouble to get mar ried," he said. Then he turned and marched out of the office. A LITTLE ENCOURAGEMENT. 135 GET DIPLOMAS FR0il HIGH SCHOOLS Exercises Held atThree Institutions. GRADUATES ABLE, TALENTED Prominet Men Give Advice to New "World Forces." SOME TO ENTER COLLEGE Several, Including: Girls, Go Out in World With Power for Karnlng Having: Been Demonstrated During Years of Study. Three high schools of Portland last night sent out as their February con tributlon to "world forces" to battle with new and practical problems 135 students who have finished the regula tion course prescribed by the Portland High School curriculum. Fitting cere monies marked the commencement ex erclses at the Lincoln, Jefferson and Washington high schools, and friends of the graduates thronged the audi torlums of the respective schools. The diploma presentations were Impressive at each school. in the classes from each of the schools were students who had entirely or partly worked their way through the high school course. In this list was Included girls as well as boys. In each school were students especially marked by talents In some particular line, and the students featured the pro gramme. Parting advice and encouragemen were given to the graduates by Port land men prominent In business or the professions. The assembly halls of Lincoln, Wash lngton and Jefferson high schools were thronged last night with hundreds of friends of the members of the gradu ating classes assembled for the Febru ary commencement exercises. Diplomas were given 135 graduates. The class motto of Jefferson's stu dents, "We have crossed the bar, the ocean lies before us," suggests in measure the theme of the addresses de livered before the graduates of each school. The men who spoke all empha sized the importance of character build lng and gave deserved credit to th public school system as a power fo good. "Tou have been a part of the schools, said O. St. Plummer, in making th presentation of diplomas at Jefferson High School, "and I hope you will con tlnue to take an Interest in these same schools and uphold them in every way (Concluded on Page 36.) yrso' WIRELESS AID TO CUPID ON HIGH SEA CONSENT TO TED GIVEN PAIR BY AEROGRAM FROM SHORE. Romance Beginning: Off Seattle Ends With Union of Tacoma Girl and Pomeroy Man at Manila. SEATTLE, Wash., Feb. 4. (Special.) -Having gained the consent of tier parents by wireless from the steam ship Minnesota when in mid-Pacific, Miss Myra. Benson, daughter of E. F. Benson, of Tacoma, president of the Washington Irrigation Institute, and L. N. Knettle, a banker of Pomeroy, were married in Manila Monday. Miss Benson and Mr. Knettle were Intro duced aboard as the Minnesota sailed from Seattle with her pilgrimage of Shrlners, by Miss Wllma Baker, daugh ter of George B. Baker, ot 1129 Twen ly-second avenue North, Seattle, at whose- home Knettle was visiting. Miss Baker and Miss Benson attended Smith College together. When the Minnesota was out several days the couple sent a wireless mes sage to the girl's father. In care of Mr. Baker, In Seattle, asking for his approval of the marriage. Having satisfied themselves regarding their prospective son-in-law, of whom they had never heard. Miss Benson's parents gave their consent. Last Monday they received a message from Manila say lng, "Married and happy." The coupla will return with the Shrlners, who are due to arrive here March 12. Miss Baker said they would no doubt make their home In Pomeroy, E. F. Benson, the bride's father, pre viously was head of the land depart ment of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company. DESCHUTES LANDS OPEN Sir. Si n not t AVins Contention Against Lottery for 18,000 Acres.' OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington, Feb. 4. Representative Sin nott was notified today by the Commis sioner of the General Land Office that more than 1S.000 acres of agricultural land in the Deschutes forest reserve will be thrown open to settlement In April and become subject to entry a month later under the general home stead law. Those first settling on land will have the first right of entry. This plan of opening Is a victory for Mr. Sinnott, who for- months has been fighting against having the land opened unde the lottery system. About 20,000 acre additional, to be eliminated from the Deschutes reserve, will bo held in abeyance for possible irrigation by the reclamation service. BOILED DINNER IN COUR Farmhand Gets Verdict for Indi gestion, Kmplojers Appeal. TOPEKA, Kan., Feb. 4. It is up to the Kansas Supreme Court to decide what a boiled beef dinner that caused indigestion is worth to its hungry vie tim In damages. The District Court of Smith County declared it was worth $1000 and gave a verdict for that amount. J. D. Man lone, a farmhand who ate the dinner, thinks he should have $15,000, while Mr. and Mrs. Henry D. Jones, who served the meal, and for whom Man lone worked, assert the farmhand should get nothing. The case came to the Supreme Court today on appeal by Mr. and Mrs. Jones from the verdict oT the lower court. LOGGING TO BEGIN SOON Mayor and County Commissioner Arc Told of Much Work Coming. Labor-conditions In Portland will be relieved within the next two weeks by the resumption of activities In logging camps, railroad construction and othe lines of industry, according to Mayo Albee and County Commissioner Rufu Holman, after a personal canvass o the city. It was learned that several logging camps will start operations February 15, and that man y others will open u not later than March 1. Many other lines of Industry will put out calls for men between now and the latter date. BR'ER GROUNDHOG HAS TIP Wise Rodent Crawls Back Just in Time in Walla Walla Valley. WALLA WALLA. Wash.. Feb. 4. Special.) Br'er groundhog sure had an armful of wisdom this time when h crawled back In his hole Monday, as Winter started a return engagemer. here today, a cold breeze gatherin clouds this afternoon that sifted ou snow, covering the land. The mercury dropped and indication are for more cold weather. PENDLETON, Or., Feb. 4. (Special.) Snow began falling here about o'clock this evening and Is continuing. It is being welcomed by the farmers. BOY KICKS UP F0RTUN Box Containing $2000 Found Buried in Sand at Bremerton. BREMERTON, Wash., Feb. 4. Wal ter Angell, 14-year-old son of WIlUa Angell, a machinist at the Navy-Yard, kicked a tin box out of the sand whil he was walking on the beach today an when he pried off a small padlock that held the lid he discovered a roll of bill nested In a heap of $20 gold piece The boy's father found that the money exceeded $2000. He deposited it in a bank and in serted an advertisement in a paper for the owner. . - I FRENZIED FINANCE IS CHARGED Iff SUIT United States Cashier Company Heads Sued. RECEIVER, ACCOUNTING ASKED njunction Against Dismantling Kenton Factory Sought. EXTRAVAGANCE IS ALLEGED James S. Birrel, Owner of 10 Shares, Starts Action Accusing Officers of $1,200,000 Oregon Concern. Prominent Men. Figure. Frenzied finance in tho promotion and management of the United States Cashier Company, of Oregon, is charged against promoters and officers of that company in a complaint filed In the Circuit Court yesterday by Clark, Sku-v lason & Clark, attorneys. In behalf of James S. Birrel. owner of ten shares of stock in the company. The complaint asks for the appoint ment of a receiver for the company, de mands an accounting of Its property and of their actions by its officers and prays for a permanent injunction to restrain them from dismantling its factory at, Kenton, from leasing it or from removing it from that place. Action Aimed at Two. Though all the directors of the cor poration are named as defendants, the action is specifically directed against Frank Menefee, its president, and Thomas Bilyeu, inventor of the patent rights, on which the promotion of the company and the sale of its stock was based. These men, it is charged, "have controlled and dominated the af fairs of the corporation," the other di rectors having "through Indifference, lack of knowledge of the corporate af fairs or through design" permitted them to do so. Organized in 1909 with a capital stock of $200,000, the capitalization of the fnlted States Cashier Company in 1910 was increased to $1,300,000. Since that time, the complaint alleges, sub stantially the entire capital stock has been issued and sold. Yet today the corporation, according to the complaint. Is so nearly insolvent that its sole as sets consist of the plant at Kenton, worth probably $50,000, on which there are now two mortgages aggregating $30,000. Accounting la Wanted. To account for upwards of $800,000 alleged to have been obtained in tho meantime in money and properties through the sale or other disposition of the stock, while the company has been under the control of Menefee and Bilyeu, is one of the stated purposes of tht action. It is charged in tho complaint that practically all the moneys and prop erties represented by this $800,000 "have been wasted, misapplied and ap propriated to other than corporate uses. At tho time when the capitalization of the company was increased by $1,000,000, according to the complaint. Menefee and Bilyeu caused to be is sued to themselves as promoters stock worth in excess of $100,000, par value. Improper Transfer Alleged. "And in this connection," the com plaint continues, "the plaintiff is In formed and believes, and so states the fact to be, that large quantities of real estate and equities in real estate, and bills and accounts receivable, and other properties, taken and received upon the sale of the capital stock, have been wrongfully and through various tran sactions and manipulations transferred to and appropriated by the defendants, Menefee. Bilyeu and Campbell (O. -A. Campbell, of Eugene), to their own use, to the great damage of the cor poration, so that the defendants have in one way or another obtained, with out substantial consideration to the corporation, practically all of the prop erties and assets which it has secured through the sale of its corporate stock. And that the defendants have wholly failed to account to the corporation in any manner for the real and true value of the assets so converted by them." Of the factory at Kenton, a suburb of Portland, built for the purpose of man ufacturing the coin paying, coin chang ing, listing and adding machines for which the company was organized, the complaint asserts "that the said fac tory, with Its equipment Is of the prob able value of $50,000, and said factory is substantially, the only tangible or physical property which the corpora tion now owns." Two mortgages have been placed on this factory and its site, it is de clared. The complaint charges that the di rectors, without informing the stock holders of their intentions, have planned to dismantle the factory at Kenton and remove all Its machinery, equipment, dies and patent rights to Indiana, to lease or turn them over to another corporation being organized thero. Should this plan be carried out, it is asserted, the corporation will be completely ruined. Extravagance Is Charged. Extravagance in the conduct ot the corporation, in maintaining expensive offices and in unnecessary traveling expenses. Is also charged. The fact that the Corporation Com missioner of Oregon, acting under the Concluded on Fas 4.) I