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Newspaper Page TextVOL. LIV. XO. 16,630- PORTLAND. OREGON. SATURDAY, MARCH 14, 1914. PRICE FIVE CENTS. PEACE ENDOWMENT TOLLS Carnegie Funds Used Against Exemption. DIRECTOR TELLS OF EFFORTS Million Copies of Pamphlet Sent Out Broadcast. LOBBY WITNESS COLLAPSES Senate Committee Impeded in Ef forts to "Learn of Activities of shipbuilding and Steam ship Companies. WASHINGTON. March 13. How the Carnegie endowment for international peace has aided in tho fight tor re pe.il ot the tolls exemption clause of the Panama Canal act was revealed toflav before the Senate lobbv commit tee. Dr. James Brown s'cott, secretary and a member of the board of directors of the endowment, appearing under subpena with books and papers, told the committee that a total of more than $30,000 had been appropriated for "circulation of Panama Canal litera ture." Detailing the efforts of the endow ment. Dr. Scott said a million copies of a pamphlet urging repeal of the exemption clause and signed by prac tically tho entire directorate had been ent throughout the country and 700, 000 copies of Senator Root's speech In ' the Senate urging the repeal had been mailed under the Senator's frank. Pence Society Fund Kxplained. Annual statements of the endowment show that the American Teace Society, of which Senator Burton, of Ohio, is president, draws a subvention of $31.- 000 a year from the Carnegie organ ization. This money was used, Mr. Scott said, to distribute pamphlets be-iring on peace propaganda subjects. The committee displayed great interest In these publications as dealing with Panama Canal tolls or general trade treaties. Mr. Scott agreed to furnish copies of all such documents.' No questions were asked -the . wit ness relating directly to charges made in an executive session of the Senate recently by Senator O'Gorman that the actual purpose of the endowment was to promote an alliance between Great Britain and the United States, Its peace propaganda serving merely as a cloak for that purpose. Senator DemandM Explanation. SenatorReed, however, demanded an explanation of. tho relation between in ternational peace and the tolls charged for use of the Panama Canal. The pamphlets sent out by the endowment, he asserted, urged that the United States "yield"" to Great Britain and that had been Senator Root's view as expressed in the Senate. "My understanding of Senator Roofs opinion is that we either should re peal the exemption clause or submit the disputed portion of the treaty to arbi tration," Dr. Scott said. "I believe one of these courses should be followed. 1 understand that there is a difference of opinion between the Senator and myself: but I am not here to defend my opinions. I am here to furnish the committee with Information as to the Carnegie, endowment for interna tional peace." Expected Witness Collapses. Chairman Overman interfered to stop discussion along this line. Kfforts to learn what effect if any to impede the repeal of the exemption clause had been .made by shipbuilders and steamship men of the United Stat 2 was temporarily halted today by the Illness of Clarence W. DeKnigut, a Washington attorney, who admitted yesterday that he had spent 15 years nrging legislation of various kinds on Congress. DeKnight had a nervous collapse after his ordeal with the com mittee. De Knight testified yesterday that he haj entered Into a contract with Admiral Bowles, now president of ths l'"oi e River Shipbuilding Company, to watch out tor the interests of that concern during the pendency of the canal act. He-trad promised to produce tod:iy the contract and various other pavers showing the nature of his ac tivities. COPPERFIELD STILL EXISTS Kegist ration of 25 Reported to County Clerk. BAKER. Or., March 13. (Special.) Copperfield may have been declared oft the map by Governor West, B. K. Law son, the Railroad Commission et al., but the town sent in 25 registrations to the County Clerk's office today, showing that there are at least some adults In the town which it has been said was rapidly being deserted. The majority of the names are of those persons who attained prominence or notoriety in the recent upheaval. New York Educator Dies. NEW YORK, March 13. Dr. James J. Ehepard, one of New Tork State's leading- educators and principal of the High School of Commerce in this city since its organization in 1902, died today at his home in Morsemore, N. J. He went abroad several times as a delegate of the National Civic Federation to inspect uropean schools. ADVOCATES CLINIC FOR WOMEN SMOKERS FOUNDED SPKAYING ' THROAT FOUND CURE, SAME AS FOU MiKN. First Feminine Cigarette Smoker to Apply Girl Who Began in Bray ado, Now Wants to Mop. CHICAGO, March 13. A clinic for women smokers was established today by the Anti-Cigarette League, , which has been successful in breaking of the cigarette habit boys who have appeared in the Juvenile Court. The treatment is simply spraying the throat with 'a special solution. "Fifteen women have already been treated by us," asserted Lucy Page Gaston, president bt the league. "In every instance the desired aversion for cigarettes was the result. Our first feminine applicant was a chorus girl, who began puffing cigarettes in a spirit of bravado. One of her associates taught her how to inhale and the habit obtained such a hold on her that she often rose in the night for a smoke. "We are opening the clinic because we believe there are thousands of girls and women in Chicago who would rid themselves of the vice if they had the opportunity. "It is intended to treat women smok ers who are sent to the House of Cor rection." SI EG EL OFFERS 40 CENTS Settlement Suggested at Jlccting of Depositors of Bank. NEW YORK. Marcii 13. An offer to settle on the basis of 40 cents on the dollar will be made tomorrow to the depositors in the private ' bank of Henry Slegel & Co. This was announced tonight at a meeting of the depositors, Louis Hoff man appearing on behalf of the attor neys for Henry Slegel and Frank F. Vogel, partners, who are under Indict ment in connection with the failure of the Siegel department stores here. 1 The stores will be closed tomorrow night and the assets will be invento ried and sold by the receivers. More than 2000 employes, who will lose their jobs when the stores are closed, heard today that they were like ly to suiter, in addition to the loss of their savings, the disappearance of the sick benefit fund, which cannot be found. LATIN DIPLOMAS OPPOSED Washington Graduates Want Some thing They Can Read. r SEATTLE, Wash., Marcii 13. (Spe cial.) Protesting against diplomas which cannot be read by the students receiving them, the Senior Men's Coun cil last night called on the faculty to have the University of Washington di plomas engrossed in' English instead of Latin. The University of California already has taken this move. The wearing of the caps and gowns was opposed by the council and the matter will be brought up at the senior class meeting next week when the women of the class will be present. FRIDAY, 13TH, HOODOO ON Thirteen Husbands' Charged With Abandonment -in Chicago Court. " CHICAGO, March 13. Friday, the 18th, was unlucky for truant husbands in Chicago.' Thirteen women appeared before the clerk of the Court of Do mestio Relations and swore out 13 war rants for 13 husbands on 13 charges of abandonment. The warrants were sent to 13 pdllce stations. Andrew Higginson, the 13th defend ant, on the docket today charged with abandonment, was ordered to pay his wife $13 a week. BIG PAUNCHES UNDER BAN Policeman's Chest Must Be Larger . Than Waist, Board Decides. Portland is to have no more police men whose stomachs protrude farther than their chests. The Municipal Civil Service Board has included this proviso In the qualifications which will figure in a civil service examination for pa trolmen, for which 365 have applied. The examination will begin Monday. No man will be passed who is shorter than 5 feet 7 inches and weighs less than 140 pounds stripped, or whose stomach measurement is greater than his chest measurement expanded. LAUNCHING SET FOR MAY 11 Syndicate Announces Time for Send ing Cup Candidate Into Water. BATH, Me., March -J 3. The racing sloop Defiance, a candidate for defense of the America's cup, will be launched on May 11, according to George M. Pynchon. of New York, managing di rector of the Tri-City Syndicate, which is building the boat here. This is the flr3t date definitely an nounced for the launching of any of the trio of yachts which will enter the elimination trials. WIRELESS PHONE, SUCCESS Marconi's Tests With Italian Wars-hips Satisfy, Says Kcport. AUGUSTA, Sicily. March 13 Tests in wireless telephony made during the last week between warships of the Italian fleet by William Marconi on the battleship Reina Ellena, flagship of the Duke of the Abruzzi, were successful, it was announced tonight. The Duke d'Abruzzi presided over the experiments and expressed his admira tion of the results obtained. EXPRESS GOMPHNY VOTES TO DISSOLVE Parcel Post, Reduced Rates, Blamed. SPEEDY LIQUIDATION DESIRED United States Concern to Dis pose of Contracts. WELLS FARGO TO BENEFIT Domination of Piatt Family Once So Complete No Meeting of Stock holders Was HeJd in More Than Half Century. ' NEW YORK. March 13. Directors ef the United States Express Company voted unanimously today to, liquidate its affairs and dissolve it in the short est possible time. A committee on liquidation which embraces the reports of the leading in terests in the company, including Charles A. Peabody, president of the Mutual Life Insurance Company and the chief financial adviser of the Har rlman estate: William A. Reed, Sena tor W. Murray Crane, of Massachusetts, and Haley Fiske, vice-president of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, was appointed to undertake the work of dissolution. Contracts to Be Transferred. The precise means to be adopted for realizing on the company's assets were not disclosed, but it is thought likely that a syndicate would be formed to take them over so that they m-y be disposed of to the best advantage. There have been various estimates of the company's assets, but persons fa miliar with their value assert that the return to the shareholders will be be tween $90 and $100 a share. There' is considerable real estate of value, as well as costly equipment and outstand ing contracts with railroads, which it is expected will be transferred to other express companies at a fair profit Step Once Officially Denied. The step, taken by the directors to day was foreshadowed a few weeks ago, when the stock which had sold down to 38 last December suddenly rose on large dealings from 65 to 81, the price of last tWednesday, and Wall street was soon of the opinion, despite official denials, that disintegration was under way. The success of the parcel post and the recent order of the Interstate Com merce Commission resulting in a IS per pent reduction in express charges are held directly responsible for the com pany's retirement from business after 60 years of continuous operation over (Concluded on Page 2.) THERE'S i" . r2 INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. . - YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature. Go decrees; minimum, 4 .degrees. TODAY'S Probably occasional rain; south erly winds, y Foreign. Picturesque cantlnlerea oi French army no Imiger to share honors and rigors of war. Fage 3. National. farneplo peace endowment admits .alvity h gainst toils exemption. 1 rtr1.4 Credit expansion under SSQi system predictedP--'T-T Idle a rm casks in sunshine white authorities disagree, Fage Clinic to cure women cigarette smokers established. Page 1. Big correspondence school accused of "high finance" methods. Page 3. United States Express Company to go out of business. Fago 1. Murderous car robebrs captured, one killed. Fage li. Engagement of Eleanor Wilson to Secretary , McAdoo formally announced. Page 1. Sports. White Sox play like majors, again shutting out Han Francisco. Page 6. Tri-State League regulem Is sounded. Fage 7. McCredle thinks he has great pitcher In Young Hanson. Page 6. 'Kid' Mohler due to leave Colts is report. Fage 6. Foul call would have won for Ad Wolgast, says referee. Page 7.- Pacific North-neat. One of accused Seattle Councilmen resigns, .second is exonerated. Page S. Three babies, alone in Idaho home, die in fire. Fage 1. , . Head of religious Beet convicted under Mann Act In Seattle. Page 3. Commerrlal and Marine. Sixty-five car of Chinese ei;gs will be stored ou Pacific Coast, Page 17. Wheat advances at Chicago on war talk from Europe. Page 17. Unexpected turn for better in stock mar ket. Page 17. Course of general trade is. still Irregular. Page 37. Liner Glenroy damaged more by fire than at first indicated. Page 12. Movement begun for new harbor launch as result of limitations of present craf at fire. Page 12. Portland and Vicinity. Observance of Salmon day is Nationwide. Pago 11. C. M. Clark declares prosperity of country depends on prosperity of railroads. Fage 36. Vacancies in Police Department filled. Page 10. Weather report, data and forecast. Page 17. Shrlners glad to get back from Far Eastern junket. Page o. Taxpayers rush to aid of movement for me ter referendum, pase 1 Current political gossip. Page 4. Contention Is court has no Jurisdiction in tax case. Pace is. OFFICER KILLED BY WOMAN Mrs. Sadie King Takes Own Life Also at Tacoma. TACOMA, Wash.. March 13. George B. Stone, a Deputy Sheriff, was shot and killed tonight by Mrs. Sadie King, who 4hen killed herself. Two men across the street from Mrs. King's home saw the man run from the house, pursued by Mrs. King, and heard the shots that followed. Stone was married. SUICIDE FOLLOWS PARTING Well-Known Lake County Man Leaves Unfinished Note to Wife. LAKEVIEW, Or., March 33. (Spe cial.) The body of Dave Cleland, who shot himself at Plush, was brought here today for burial. ' Mr. Cleland, who was a well-known resident of Lake County, had separated from his wife, and an unfinished letter to her was found by his body. A STRANGE PET IN THE JAM SIGNING PETITIONS STARTS WITH RUSH Voters Hurry to Seek Meter Referendum. 500 CIRCULATORS VOLUNTEER 4000 to 5000 Signatures Are Obtained First Day. EVEN BACKERS SURPRISED Indications Are Enough Names Will Be Procured by Monday Night, , Says 'J. W. Conway, Mem ber of Committee. RKI'KRENDCM COMMITTEE'S 1'I.AN OF OPPOSITION TO WATER METERS. Persons desiring to volunteer their services in circulating petitions may call at 412 Railway Exchange build ing or telephone Main ISO and blank petitions will be mailed them at once. As soon as a petition is filled with names the committee desires that it be brought to tlie headquarters at 41S Railway Exchange building for verification and filing, as this will facilitate the handling of the cam paign. Any person who is a citizen of Portland, mora than 21 years old. Is entitled to sign the petition. In signing the petition the name and the home address (not an office address) should be given. Taxpayers great and small, repre senting every section of Portland, crowded the headquarters of the refer endum movement against the expendi ture of $500,000 for installation- of water meters and all day yesterday Hooded the committee with volunteer aid in circulating and signing up the petitions. .The enthusiasm shown at the mass meeting the preceding night was, if anything, more vigorous than before. "From the expressions of those who came for petitions, and the zeal they are showing in getting them filled,", said J. W. Conway, a member of the refer endum committee of the citizens, last night," I believe that the petitions will show more than enough names early next week. Protfably we will have more than enough names by Mop day 'night. "75 Petitions Ready." "Fully 400 petitions are already more than half filled and about 75 are filled and ready to be returned to headquar ters to be validated and filed. "This means that between 4000 and (Concluded on Page 2.) CLOSET 3 BABES, ALONE IN HOME, DIE IN FIRE MOTHEK RETURNS AND FIGHTS TO ENTER FALLING HOUSE. . ' 5 Idaho Woman Overcome by Tragedy Fatal to Her Children; Fear for lJccovcry Felt. MOSCOW, Idaho, March 13. (Special.) Three children, aged 4, 2"- year and 15 months, respectively, were burned to death last night at Collins, three miles north of Bovill, when fire de stroyed the home of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Bisaw, parents of the children, who were absent when the blaze started. According to reports the father was working at "Horse Ranch," eight miles distant. The children had been placed in bed and the mother had gone to a store for supplies. On her return home a few moments later the roof of the building had fallen in and it was im possible to rescue the bodies. The frantio mother was restrained with difficulty from entering the burn ing house. It is believed a lamp was overturned. The bodies of the two older children were, recovered, but that of the infant could not be found. The father is distracted and the mother was overcome. Fears are felt for her recovery. ' BRYAN NOW BRAZIL'S PERIL T. K.'s Easy Lecture "Pickings" May Inspire Commoner, Is Fear. NEW YORK. March . 13. (Snecial.) John T. Lenfestey, of Chicago, who re cently said in an interview that Colonel Roosevelt presented a bill for $3000 to the Historical Society of Rio Janeiro for a lecture, arrived today on the Mauretania. With him was Drurv A. MeMillin. of St. Louis, another passen ger, who is press agent for the Bra zilian Traction Company. "The only fear Is now," said Mr. Me Millin, "that Mr. Bryan, seeing how easy picking Is down there, will decide to go there also on a lecture tour." KING OBJECTS TO SLIT Belgian Huler Has Dance Guest Es corted Out With Diplomacy. BRUSSELS, March 13 (Special.) Albert, King of the Belgians, on seeing a woman at a court ball wearjng a slit skirt tonight, whispered to" his court marshal, who thereupon offered his arm to the lady in the most deferential manner and escorted her from the! ball room. When they arrived outside the court marshal said: "His Majesty noticed that your gown was torn on one side, and asked me to escort you to your carriage so that you could go home and have the damage repaired." GOLD BARGAIN DECLINED Miner OHers Newport Citizens 'Dust' Below Par. NEWPORT, Or.. March 13. (Special.) G. H. Coin, a miner, offered Newport citizens at bargain prices real gold he had extracted from black sanU on the beach. The Western State Bank, stores and business men alike declined to take ad vantage of the cut prices for ready cash on the virgin gold, of which Goin had a mustard can full. Goin thought the joke was distinct ly on Newport and proceeded to ship his gold dust to the San Francisco mint. CITY AFTERFALLS TRACT Negotiations for Land Adjoining Multnomah Cascade. By unanimous vote tho City Com mission yesterday adopted a resolution Instructing City Commissioner Brew ster to negotiate with the owners of Multnomah Falls along the line of the O.-W. R. & N. for the purchase of the property adjoining the falls for park purposes. This is in accordance wUh the plan of S. Benson to donate the property to the city. The resolution provides for condem nation, in case the owners do not want to sell. CAT AND MOJJSE ACT CURBS Government Takes No New Steps Against English .Militants. LONDON, March 13. Valuable pic tures in St. Paul's Cathedral have been removed until the danger of attacks on them by suffragettes has passed. It was announced today in govern mental circles that no new steps would be taken to suppress suffragettes, since the "cat and mouse" act was working so well that the militants were able to command ihe services of only seven women who were willing to commit outrages. MOTHER-IN-LAW MUST PAY Conspiracy to Hac Daughter Meet Another Man Costs $3000. WALLA WALLA, Wash., March 13. (Special.) Louis Kenworthy was given judgment for $3000 against Frank Richmond and Elizabeth Garrett in Superior Court today. Kenworthy sued for $10,000, charging alienation of the affections of his wife. Mrs. Garrett is Kenworthy's mother-in-law and Kenworthy charges her with conspiring with Richmond to get Mrs. Kenworthy to leave her home In Portland and come to Walla Walla, where be charges she met Richmond. ELEANOR WILSON TO BE WEDDED IN JUNE Formal Announcement Made by Famiiy. CAPITAL DEEPLY INTERESTED Secretary McAdoo to Remain in Cabinet After Marriage. FRENCH MISSION DENIED Bride-to-Bc Is Father's l"ct and Prospective Husband Especially Close Friend of President. Society Not Surprised. WASHINGTON, March 13. (Special.) Formal announcement of tho engage ment of Miss Eleanor Randolph Wilson, the youngest daughter of the President and Mrs. Wilson, to William G. Mc Adoo, Secretary of the Treasury, was made at the White House today. By direction of the President, Secretary Tumulty handed out a brief announce ment reading as follows: "The President and Mrs. Wilson an nounce the mgagement of their young est daughter, Eleanor Randolph, to the Hon. William Gibbs McAdoo." Mr. McAdoo Old Friend. Mr. McAdoo is 50 years old and for many years has been an intimate friend of the Wilson family. He has six chil dren, two of whom are married. Miss Wilson is 21 years old. The marriage will probably take place at the White House in June. The fact that Secretary McAdoo and Miss Wilson were engaged has been known among their intimate friends for several weeks. Until about a week ago denial was made at the White House every time the rumor was pub lished or any Inquiries were made re garding the reported engagement. For the last few days the fact that an en gagement has existed for some time became definitely known and the White House officials stopped even denying it. Runors of Opposition Forentalled. In view of the repeated publication of the engagement during the last few days, the l'resident and Mrs. Wilson decided that this would he an oppor tune time to make formal announce ment of the engagement so as to fore stall possible rumors that there was opposition to the match from the Presi dent and Mrs. Wilson or from Miss Nona McAdoo, the Secretary's young daughter, who has presided over the Secretary's household since he came to Washington from New York to enter the Wilson Cabinet. Miss Wilson is fond of society and Is a good dancer. She is also an ex cellent rider and recently joined the Riding and Hunt Club. She was edu cated in the private schools at Prince ton and spent two years at St. Mary's College at Raleigh, N. C. Following the example of her mother, she ac quired a fondness for art and took two years' study in the academy. Wedding 4tb at White Houw, The wedding will be the 14th cele brated at the White House. The 13th was the marriage of Miss Jessie Wood row Wilson to Francis Boyes Sayre, on November 23, 1913. Mr. McAdoo was born at Marietta. Ga October 3, 1S63. He attended the University of Tennessee, but left cc-1-lege In his junior year to become deputy clerk of the United States Cir cuit Court at Chattanooga, ile went to New Y'ork in 1S9 and in 1S9S formed a partnership with William McAdoo, afterward chief magistrate f New York City. In 1902 he organized the company which acquired the old fcuji nel under tho Hudson tiiat was begun in 1S74 and proved a failure. In 1903 he was elected president of the Ilild son & Manhattan Railroad Company, the $70,000,000 corporation which built and controls the Hudson River tulei. Mr. lcAdo to Stay lu ( nhlr.irt. Mr. McAdoo's first 'wife was Sarah Houston Fleming, whom ho marflwJ" in 1SS5. Many officials of tlie AdmiiistraUon speculated tonight when they learned of the engagement what effect tlji marriage of tho Secretary of the Treas ury to the President's daughter would have on his official status as one of . the President's Cabinet advisees; u was generally admitted tha-many em barrassing situations axe' liable to arise If the President's son-in-law continues to' be his Secretary o the Treasury. Reports that Mr. McAdoo would leave the Cabinet, however,' and perhaps In come Ambassador to France were set at rest tonight by White House official who said emphatically he was expected to remain at the head of the Treasury Department. Brlde-o-Be la I'nlbfr'n Pet. The youngest of the family. Mis Eleanor, is said to be her father's pet, and there is a strong personal friend ship between the President and the man who is to marry his daughtr. Washington society has not been al together unprepared for the .news of the engagement, for the couple 1ive been seen together at many a dance and social function. Though Secretary McAdoo is 50 years of acre and Mils Wilson is 24, intimate friends of the Secretary said tonight i.e was "as youngnk a man of 30."