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PORTLAND, OREGON, 3IONDAY, MARCH 2, 1914.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
EAST IS PLAYTHING
OF RIVAL BLIZZARDS
HatterasGale,Canadian
Storm, Clash Midway
WIRES DOWN INTO NEW YORK
Boston Open Only by Cable by
Way of Nova Scotia.
WEATHER COLD IN WEST
Trains Arriving in Chicago Show
Evidence or Battles With Ele
ments Worst Storm of Sea
son Due Off Coast.
CHICAGO, March 1 (Special.) The
blizzard which came out of Western
Canada Friday night and struck the
Great Lakes region last night Is now
coursing eastward, doing great dam
age to telegraph and telephone wires.
In the East, especially the territory
between Philadelphia. New York and
Boston, the storm developed into . a
heavy, wet snow, which burdened the
wires to the limit.
Somewhere along the. route the bliz
zard met a sleet storm sweeping north
east off Hatteras. The tremendous
clash of rival elements produced a sit
uation net to be described.
Telegraph Wire Down.
Nearly every telegraph wire into New
Tork went down- No business was ac
cepted for points east of Philadelphia.
Washington had limited wire service.
Conditions were practically normal as
far east as Pittsburg and to all points
west and south.
Communication with Boston was
had by way of Montreal and
Canso cable from Nova Scotia into
Boston. It is hoped to pick up many
of the prostrate wires before the open
ing cf stock exchanges tomorrow.
In the WeSt the blizzard was followed
by much colder weather, but the day
was clear. Not much snow felL It was
thin and. hard and driven furiously by
a gale.
Trains Show Scars of Battle.
Trains arriving in Chicago from
Eastern points showed evidences of
ha'd battles with snow and the high
winds, which made difficult the gen
erating of sufficient steam to drive
the locomotives or to keep the coaches
habitable. Incoming trains reported a
blizzard raging over Northern Indiana
and traveling eastward at a rapid rate.
The sleet and wind storm came but
of Hatteras and swept northeast. The
gale blew at 40 miles and the barom
eter warned of worse conditions to
follow. The Government Issued a spe
cial warning to all vessels to remain
in port It is believed the worst storm
of the year is due on the ocean be
tween Maine and the Gulf.
Official weather forecasters said to
night they had no trace of any trouble
in the West. Temperatures are mod
erating in all directions except in the
East and some of the East-Central
states. Government forecasters believe
that any further disturbances must be
short-lived, as the Great Lakes are
comparatively warm and will quickly
dispel any cold wave.
Slan Freezes Sleeping; on Well.
At Connersville. Ind., John Johns,
aged 45, whose mother was a Sioux
Indian, mistook a well platform, for a
bed, hung his trousers and shoes on
a pump-handle, rolled his overcoat for
a pillow and retired. He was found
frozen stiff this morning. He had been
reared out of doors and had been ac
customed to sleeping in the open all
his life. -
An unusual number of fires in resi
dences was reported in Chicago and
other cities and two lives are known
to have been lost through this cause.
CONDITIONS WORST IX YEARS
Snapping Wires and Falling Poles
Impede Railroad Travel.
NEW TORK, March 1. A northeast
storm swerving to the northwest,
which brought rain, then snow, raged
today over New York and vicinity, cut
ting the city almost completely off
from telegraph and telephone commu
nication. Three deaths due to the storm oc
curred here, two when a roof collapsed
under the weight of wet snow, crush
ing a man and a boy. Another man.
blinded by snow, was killed by a train.
Wet snow snapped telegraph and tele
phone wires and in a gale blowing 72
miles- an hour at times many poles
toppled over. On some lines the poles
fell across the railroad tracks, block
ing traffic.
The westbound Twentieth Century
Limited for Chicago was reported halt
ed by fallen poles across tracks north
of Osslnning. Other trains on the line
were stalled at points along the Hud
son River from the same cause.
At local offices of telegraph compa
nies it was said conditions were among
the worst in years. The Western
Union's 50 wires to Chicago and most
of the 151 wires to Philadelphia were
down. Communication early tonight
was possible only as far as Syracuse
to the north and Chicago was reached
by a few remaining wires by way of
Philadelphia and Pittsburg. The Postal
Telegraph Company reported wire
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JACK LONDON WILL
RUN FOR GOVERNOR
WRITER TO ANNOUNCE CAXDI
BACY AS SOCIALIST. -
Prohibitionist Friends Seek Indorse
ment of Their Party Also Un
der Primary Law. .
SACRAMENTO, March 1. (Special.)
- -Jack London, citizen of California,
novelist and Socialist, will run. for Gov
ernor of California on the Socialist
ticket next Fall. London's Prohibi
tionist friends also will try to obtain
for hlra the indorsemnt for Governor
under the direct primary law and make
him a candidate on both tickets.
London, according to his Socialist
friends in Sacramento, will announce
his candidacy when he adresses a mass
meeting of Socialists here next Friday
night. London's friends urged him to
enter the light In San Francisco recent
ly on the author's return from the East
"I'll run," London told them.
The combined Socialist and Prohibi
tionist vote in California in 1912 was
102,567 out of a total vote cast of 707,
776.
Neither London nor hi3 Socialist
friends will enter the fight with an idea
of victory. They hope, however, to
augment materially the Socialist vote
by London's popularity. London has
registered at his Glen Ellen home as a
Socialist. His views and writings on
the liquor question will be used to ad
vance the campaign for the Prohibi
tionist indorsement of his candidacy.
METER BURDEN EXPENSIVE
Ii. 'B-. i-.oe Says Second Pipe to Bull
Run Would Be Cheaper.
"The meter system in Portland will
prove an expensive burden," said L. E.
Rice, of 212 Ellsworth street, yesterday.
Mr. Rice was ap olnted to investigate
the methods of laying water mains in
200 of the largest cities of the United
States several years ago by the Rich
mond Club.
"Reports I received," he said
"showed that In cities having gravity
supply meter systems were the more
expensive. It was less1 expensive to
lay reinforcing mains than to install
meters, with the constant repairs re
quired and the army of men needed
to read them. It will be found, in my
judgment, that it would be less expen
sive to lay another pipe line to Bull
Run than to install the meter system.
We shall have a never-ending perma
nent burden."
TODAY LAST DAY OF GRACE
Time Limit for Income Tax State
ments AVill End Tonight.
Today is the last day of grace for
persons with Incomes of $3000 a year or
more who have not yet filed their in
come tax statements.
Saturday was the last day under the
terms of the income tax law, but by
special order from Washington a time
extension was granted.
Milton A. Miller, United States Col
lector of Internal Revenue in Portland,
and collector of the Income tax in this
district, said yesterday, that clerks In
his office worked until midnight Sat
urday. Persons who fail to file their state
ments by today are liable for heavy
penalties.
AUTO STAGE ESTABLISHED
Centralia-Lincoln Creek Trip to Be
Made Thrice a Week. ,
CENTRALIA, " Wash., March 1.
(Special.) The second auto stage line
ever operated out of Centralia has been
inaugurated by Charles Arndt, who
will operate between Centralia and
Lincoln Creek. Arndt will maintain
a regular schedule of three trips daily
during the week and two on Sunday.
It is believed that the new line will
prove a financial success to both Arndt
and the local merchants, as many resi
dents of Lincoln Creek .and Fords
Prairie will be enabled to come in and
buy and return the same day.
UNDER-SEA TUNNEL IS PLAN
Engineers Propose to Connect Swe
den With Denmark by Railroad.
COPENHAGEN. March 1 (Special.)
A Danish and a Swedish engineer,
Mr. Quistgaard and Mr. Ohrt, have
started negotiations with the Danish
and Swedish government for the con
struction of a railway tunnel under the
sound from Malmo, in Sweden, to Co
penhagen. The distance Is about 22 miles and
the cost is estimated at $25,000,000.
HEATING SYSTEM STOLEN
Owner .Begs Police to Save House
From Thieves.
B. F. Honeyman, of 290 Twelfth
street, reported, to the police yester
day that thieves first took the plumb
ing out of an empty house belonging to
him, then removed the furnace Friday
night.
He asked that the polic keep a
watch on the house, lest it also be
taken.
BOAT SWAMPED; 2 DROWN
Third ' Man in Accident on Lake
Union at Seattle Reaches Shore.
SEATTLE, Wash., March 1. Walter
Schroeder, 21 years old, and his broth
er, Clifford Schroeder. 19 years old.
were drowned in Lake Union today
when a small motorboat in which they
were riding was swamped by the rough
water.
Carl Johnson. 28 years old, who was
with them, managed to reach shore
after a hard struggle,
COMMISSION HALTS
ON WAY TO 110
Pasports RefnJy
neDei AUiionties.
MEMBERS ARE TURNED BACK
Carranza's Efforts to Gain
Recognition May Explain.
BRITAIN IN QUANDARY
Recognition of Hucrta Regime Com
plicates Efforts to Secure In
vestigation of Benton Case
by TTnited States.
JUAREZ, Mex., March 1. The Een-
ton investigating committee was pre
vented today from proceeding to Chi
huahua to examine the slain riton's
body by rebel orders. Colonel Fidel
Avila, military commander here, de
clined to permit them to board the reg
ular passenger train which was wait
ing. An authoritative admission to
this effect tonight dispelled previous
reports that the commission was haltej
on orders from Washington.
Whether the incident means delay or
the permanent prohibition of the mis
sion could not be learned. The mys
tery thrown around the occurrence led
to many rumors of an apparently ex
aggerated nature.
Passports Are Refused. '
The most persistent inquiry here and
in El Paso failed to establish anything
but the fact that passports were re
fused to the commissioners on this side
and they returned to El Paso.
No official in Juarez has authority
to take such action as was taken in
this ca.se. Only two persons in North
ern Mexico have the power Venusti
ano Carranza and General Villa. '
The order came as a surprise to the
commissioners. Villa, at Chihuahua,
has repeatedly expressed his1 desire to
hasten the- inquiry, and his offer of a
special train to take the mission from
this city to Chihuahua, ia which Ben
ton's body is said-to be burled, was
formally accepted by Marion -jetcher,
American Consul there.
Carothers Delays Departure.
George C. Carothers, agent of the
State Department in many of its deal
ings with Villa, also delayed his de
parture for Chihuahua.
EL PASO, Tex, March 1. The trip
of the Benton investigation commission
to Chihuahua was suddenly postponed
or abandoned today shortly before the
commissioners were about to take the
train. Those concerned said that any
explanation must come from the State
Department.
The commissioners, with their lug-
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INDEX OF TODAYS NEWS
The Weather.
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 54
degrees: minimum, 45 degrees.
TODAY'S Fair; westerly winds.
National.
T . bill mirup likely to defeat consid
v auon oi rui-ai credits bill, yage z.
ment Page 2.
Senator Lane drops dredge amendment.
Page 2.
Commission on way to Mexico to examine
lienton s body turned bacK. Page A.
Domestic.
Infernal machine coming by mall kills recip
ient, page 3.
Aviator Beachey falls 1000 feet, but rights
biplane near ground. Page 2.
New fireproof suit stands test of flames.
Page I.
Atlantic States stormbound. Patra 1.
Women opposing suffrage to be heard in
Congress tomorrow. Page 8.
Sport.
Arthur Cavill dies in effort to swim three
miles across Seattle Harbor. Page 10.
Jim Thorpe is hero of world's tourists.
Page 12.
Seraphs' chances for getting Joe Berger
tnougnt sum. page lu.
President Gilmore orders managers to tol
erate no "dirty" baseball. Page 10.
Benny Henderson goes "to bad' In Seal
training camp. Page 10.
Pacific Northwest.
Friends of Governor West denounce trick to
defeat Thomas B. Kay. Page 11. -
Old train robberies may clear up with ar
rest of suspect. Page 3.
Portland and Vicinity.
Mayo Methot scores triumph of career as
Littlest Rebel." Page 14.
Dr. Dyott discusses site for proposed Audi
torium. Page 8.
Weather report, data and forecast. Page 11.
Rev. Frank L. Loveland preaches first ser
mon. Page 8.
Three vessels bulletined for sale at auction
by Government. Page 11.
Rev. W. G. Eliot, Jr., says idea of miracu
lous birth of Christ Is insult. Page 1.
CARS CONVEYING BALLAST
Portland, Eugene & Eastern Finish
ing Road Bed Into Eugene..
EUGENE, Or., March 1. (Special.) A
crew of 60 men under D. P. Newman
yesterday began work with a steam
shovel cutting out a ditch along the
Portland, Eugene & Eastern Railway,
where it parallels a county road for a
mile and a half westward from the
Eugene city limits, preparatory to
placing ballast for the railway roadbed
and for the graveling o the county
road to a level with the track.
All last week the crew was engaged
in spreading gravel from this county
road to the Willamette-Pacific crossing,
which is three miles west of Eugene.
Thirty carloads of gravel a day for five
days were brought from the Corvallls
pits, and the rails on this last section
of the railroad are now within two
Inches of the final grade.
Completion of the three miles or less
of the Portland, Eugene & Eastern will
connect with the city streetcar sys
tem at the city limits on Eleventh ave
nue. West, and will allow the electric
cars, as soon as the southern unit of
the system is electrified, to come into
the center of the city.
SHERIFF MAY FILE CHARGE
Mr. Word to Confer With District
Attorney Over Alleged Plot.
Sheriff Word announced yesterday
that he will place a charge of conspir
ing to defame his character against
Guy E. Fuller, a former member of the
police department, whom Sheriff Word
accuses of assisting in a plot to Induce
Ethel Smith to make damaging charges
against Word.
Fuller still is held in JaiL Sheriff
Word said that he had not yet consult
ed with District Attorney Evans, but
will today and will base his actions on
this advice. '
SHIPPING CdBl
IS BEYOND CONTROL
Dissolution Held to Be
Dangerous.
TRADE'S FUTURE THREATENED
Foreign and Domestic 'Steam
ers Strongly Fortified.
SUPERVISION IS ADVISED
Ciglity Agreements, Involving 14
Different Ways or Controlling
Competition, Are Presented. '
Conditions Made to Order.
WASHINGTON, March 1. Foreign
and domestic shipping of the United
States is so combined by agreements,
pools and conference arrangements
that an attempt to dissolve the com
binations would cripple trade.
This is the conclusion reached by fie
House merchant marine and fisheries
committee in the final report of the
so-called shipping trust investigation,
made public today. The committer,
after two years of inquiry, recommends
that both foreign and domestic ship
ping combinations be placed under
control of the Interstate Commerce
Commission.
The final recommendations of the
committee set forth that shipping lines
in practically every trade route from
or to United States ports are operated
by agreement or conference to restrain
competition. The report sets forth
that the advantages accruing tp both
shipper and ship line through these
agreements are so great that the com
binations should be allowed to con
tinue, under supervision.
Competition Regarded as Futile.
It would be futile, the committee
asserts, to attempt to restore competi
tion by ordering existing agreements
terminated. The report deals with 800
foreign and domestic navigation com
panies and 200 railroad lines. Chair
man Alexander Bays: -
"It is the almost universal practice
for steamship lines, both on the in
bound and out-bound voyage, to oper
ate under agreements and conference
arrangements which have for their
purpose the control of competition be.
tween conference lines or between
them and non-conference lines. Eighty
agreements or understandings, involv
ing nearly all the regular lines operat
ing on nearly every American foreign
trade route, are, in effect, dealing re
spectlvely with the traffic to aid from
Europe, Africa, Australia, Asia, South
America, Mexico, Central America, and
the West Indies.
"In the few instances where several
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FIREPROOF UNIFORM
STANDS HARD TEST
MAX PLAYS SALAMANDER TO
TRY HIS INVENTION.
Running AYater Between Layers or
Canvas and Air Piped Into Hel
met Keep Fireman Cool.
CINCINNATI, March 1. (Special.)
To prove that he has a suit and helmet
absolutely fire-defying. Martin Panlan,
of Eveleth, Minn., allowed himself to
be cast into the flames at a demonstra
tion today. Panian was obscured by
walls of fire for five minutes and then
stepped out through a blazing curtain
of fire cool and calm.'
The helmet is of metal, with two lay
ers of water and fireproofed canvas In
side. There is water between similar
layers of canvas that form the inside
cf the suit from shoulders to feet.
To prevent the water from becoming
heated, vents at the hands allow the
water to escape. The exterior of the
suit is fireproofed canvas' One part of
a hose is equipped with an air fan and
this is driven by water power, the air
rushing through a small tube" and
entering at the helmet.
MRS. CARR WILL BE HEARD
President or Collegiate Alumnae In
Seattle to Speak Here.
With the appearance Thursday eve
ning at Library Hall of Mrs. Alvah
Lemuel Carr, of Seattle, authorized
speaker of the Drama League of
America, the local branch of that or
ganization, recently organized, will
learn what Is being done in other cities
in the league's work of encouraging
the better class of dramatic produc
tions.
Mrs. Carr is a graduate of Wellesley,
president of the Seattle b.anch of the
Association of Collegiate Alumnae, and
councilor-at-large for the Northwest
for the Wellesley Graduate Council.
She will be the guest of the Portland
branch of the Collegiate Alumnae at
luncheon Saturday.
Besides Mrs. Carr's address at Libra
ry Hall Thursday evening Miss Eliza
beth Eugenia Woodbury, of Chicago.
will give a dramatic reading of the
play, "The Great Divide."
HOTEL DAMAGED BY FIRE
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Early Morning Blaze at Xewbcrg
Endangers Residents.
NEWBERG. Or., March 1. (Special.)
Fire was discovered early this morn
ing in the Laurel Cottage Hotel, a two-
story frame building leased by J. V
Sweetz, recently from Portland, and
owned by Will E. Purdy.
From appearances the fire started
at the foot of the f -ont stairway. Dam
age to the amount of probably $700 re
sulted.
The furniture und clothing were in
sured for $1500. Mr. Sweetz says he
was sound asleep and was nearly suf
focated by smoke, out he succeeded in
rousing the boarders and employes. His
wife is in a hospital at Portland.
About a year ago an uninsured store
building belonging to Mr. Purdy was
burned.
TRIPLETS' HEALTH GOOD
Full Long Capacity Ably Demon
strated by Trio at Hospital.
Three chubby pink baby-sisters,
triplets born Friday to Mr. and Mrs.
Daniel Tooney, 269 Graham street,
manifest perfect health through dem
onstrations of full lung capacity, which
is keeping a nurse busy administering
to their wants as they lie on a cot in
Good Samaritan Hospital.
One of the babies weighs only four
pounds, while her big sisters weigh
four and one-half pounds each. Dr.
Fred Gillette says Mrs. Tooney and
daughters are doing exceptionally well.
27 KNIGHTS ARE INITIATED
Members of Catholic Order Make
Pilgrimage to Vancouver.
VANCOUVER. Wash. March 1. (Spe
cial.) More thn 400 Knights of Co
lumbus were ifv the city today, this
being an annual pilgrimage here to
put on the third degree of the order.
Twenty-seven candidates were initiat
ed by the John Carmody team, of Se
attle. Nearly all of the state officers of the
organization were present. After the
degrees were conferred a banquet was
served in the Hotel Columbia, the feast
being spread by the young women of
the parish of St. James Catholic
Church.
ALASKAN BOAT SAILS SOON
First Steamer in New Trade to
Leave Wednesday.
The time of departure of the steamer
Thomas L. Wand, the first boat of the
Portland-Alaska line to leave Portland,
has been definitely set for 4 o'clock
Wednesday afternoon. The Thomas L.
Wand wll leave from the Oak-street
dock.
Exercises in celebration of the event
are planned. W. G. McPherson, as
chairman of the Alaska trade commit
tee of the Chamber of Commerce, has
invited Mayor Albee and a number of
business men to be present, A brief
.programme is expected to be given.
ZAMOR TO BE RECOGNIZED
Bryan Decides Xetv Regime Is in
Complete Control in Haiti.
WASHINGTON, March 1. Haiti's new
government, with General Oreste Za
mor, successful revolutionist, as Pres
ident, will be recognized immediately
by the United States.
ThU was announced tonight by Sec
retary Bryan, who has had the subject
under consideration since reports indi
cated that the new regime -virtually
was in complete control of the repub
lic.
MIRACULOUS BIRTH
IDEA HELD INSULT
Portland Pastor Says
Old Belief Error.
'TAINT ON USUAL WAY' DECRIED
Rev. W. G. Eliot, Jr., Says Doc
trine Slander on Mothers.
EFFECT ON CHURCH TOLD
Minister of Unitarian Congregation
Declares Many Persons Are Kept
From Religions Institutions
by Persistent Teaching.
That the doctrine of the miraculous
birth of Jesus is an "insult to mother
hood and to fatherhood, because such
a doctrine implies that there is some
necessary taint or corruption in being
born in the usual way," was the
declaration of the Rev. W. G. Eliol,
Jr., pastor of the Unitarian Church, in
his sermon last night. His subject
was "The Erroneous Doctrine of the
Miraculous Birth of Christ and Its Un
christian Implications."
"Is not this unintentionally a slan
der upon our mothers and fathers?"
he asked. "Does It not involve a crude
and materialistic view of God's ways?"
Sermon Attract Many.
Mr. Eliot's sermon aroused consid
erable interest and attracted many
people, owing to the recent controversy
over the same question, in which Dr.
Aked, of San Francisco, was the center
and on which many of the ministers in
the churches have preached sermons
upholding the old orthodox view.
"It is somewhat humiliating to have
to preach on this question at all," said
Mr. Eliot last night, "when there aro
so many questions of much greater and
more immediate importance. Problems
of social justice and civic duty, prob
lems of sin and sorrow, vital and prac
tical problems of faith and character
all of these are greater or more imme
diate and of more lasting concern.
Miraclea Are Scouted.
"The doctrin of the miraculous birtii
of Jesus Is important only because
there are still so many people who
think it is Important; who think that
Christianity stands or falls with it. It
is important because there are many
people who have been taught in their
childhood that the Christian religion
is based on miracles, and now know
Just enough to doubt miracles, but not
enough to know that no true religious
faith was ever based on miracles at alt.
"However inevitable or excusable the
belief in miracles may have been in the
past, the time has come when nothing
drives so many from the churches as
this persistent error.
DlMcard of Belief lleilre.
"To show that Christianity is all the
truer and more acceptable and mora
helpful for giving up miracles is a
grateful task. There are a good many
people who would be happy to be as
sured that there are increasing num
bers of churches where miracles aro
diucarded.
"The belief in miraculous birth is not
consummation, but a limitation of
faith.
"There are those who say that you
cannot be a Christian unless you be
lieve in the miraculous birth of Christ.
These are unwittingly driving peoplo
away from all churches. There aro
those who say that the belief in tha
iraculoue birth of Christ is a matter
of indifference; that it makes no dif
ference whether or not we believe in
it. This is a most significant step In
advance. It is a radical change or em
phasis. Taint Declared Implied.
"But will not thoughtful considera
tion lead us a step further? Ia it after
all of no significance what you be
lieve? Only think of the implications
of the doctrine of miraculous birth.
Surely it implies that there is some
necessary taint or corruption in being
born in the usual way.
"Moreover is it anything but very
solemn theological hocus-pocus to
teach that Jesus could be born mirac
ulously and be really and genuinely at
the same time human? And if he were
not truly human; if he was but a mir
acle, what becomes of his influence in
the world of our humanity?
He is no longer a real example and
inspirer, but is become our despair.
If to have been miraculously born was
essential to Jesus' goodness, why is" it
not required for me and for you? If it
was not essential to his goodness, why
is it necessary to believe it in order to
be a Christian?
'The true divinity of man, as of
Christ, is not in some supposititious
non-humanity, but a truer and mor
genuinely God-like humanity. Jesus
and his cross are the undying and uni
versal symbols and attestations that
human beings have it in them to em
body in their humanity, the love and
life of God."
Salem Boys Escupo Drowning.
SALEM, Or., March 1. (Special.)
Royal and Arthur Moore, of this city.
are being congratulated today be
cause they are alive. While boating in
North Mill Creek above the dam, the
craft was overturned by the current.
One of the boys was swept under a
bridge crossing, but saved his life by
holding on to a pier until he was re
leased. The other boy was thrown ft
rope and drawn to the bank. The boat
sank.
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