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PORTLAND, OREGON, TUESDAY. 31 ARCH 31, 1914. PRICE FIVE CENTS. VOL,. I.TV. NO. 16,644- JUSTICE SPEEDS UP ANTI-TRUST CASES Record-breaking Clean Up Due This Week. "TIME" CALLED ON "STALLING" Failure of Concerns to Heed . Demands Means Suits. DEPARTMENT MAKES MOVE Tobacco, Elgin Butter, United Gas Improvements, Wanamaker Un 1 devaluations and "Smelting Trust" Due to Pass in Review. WASHINGTON, March SO. This week promises to shatter every record for Department of Justice activities under the Sherman anti-trust act. unless there is some unexpected hitch in the Gov ernment's plans. The following cases are up for action: 1. A settlement will be reached with the Metropolitan Tobacco Company of New York, or that company will be the object of anti-trust action. 2. The Elgin Board of Trade will cease to defend the anti-trust action brought against It in 1912, and a de cree against it will be recorded at Chi cago. S. A final report on fhe facts in con nection with the charge of violation of the Sherman act in the case of the United Gas Improvement Company of Philadelphia is expected. AVanamaker Case Near End. It is regarded as probable also that final disposition will be made of the; report of the investigation Into the alleged Wanamaker customs under valuations. The report on the Investigation of the "smelting trust" Is In the hands of G. C. Todd, assistant to Attorney-General McReynolds, in charge of trust prosecutions, and it was Bald that Mr. Todd will begin the preparation of the usual bil in equity asking for the com bine's dissolution. Several months ago Frederick W. Lehman, ex-Solidtor-General of the United States, was retained by the smelting interests, and the Department of Justice has been asked to notify the smelting company before It enters suit. This request will be granted, and a settlement may be reached without re sort to litigation. Tobacco Negotiation On. Negotiations between officials of the department and representatives of the Metropolitan and other tobacco companies are in progress in New "York. Attorney-General McReynolds is convinced that these companies are operating in violation of the Sherman act, and the bill against them is ready to be filed If negotiations fail. According to reports here. United States District Attorney Wilkerson, at Chicago, is near the end of the con ference with representatives of the Elgin Board of Trade by which the suit against it will be discontinued. The Government has insisted upon a decree which will give it every relief demand ed in the original complaint, which charged restraint of trade in butter and butter fat and arbitrary price fixing in these commodities- through the United States. Gas Reports Incomplete. Partial reports have been received at the department of investigation into the United Gas Improvement Company, but a final report of the facts as found by a department agent has not been made. Complaints against the company have alleged that it monopolized the field of gas fixtures. The department is expected to drop the Wanamaker customs duties case. This subject has dragged for several months, but it was said that further action against the ex-Postmaster-General or his son, Rodman Wanamaker, will not be undertaken by the depart ment. Mr. Wanamaker turned over to the Government about $100,000 a year ago In payment of duties which the Government failed to collect In a long period of years. Another investiga tion brought more evidence to the at tention of the department $300,000 WILL BE SPENT Irrigation Work in Yonna Valley to Be Heavy This Year. KLAMATH FALLS. Or., March 30. (Special.) Charles Horton has begun work on strengthening the dam, clean . Ing ditches, etc, preparatory to Irrigat ing in Yonna Valley, this season. The work on the reclamation of the project on the Klamath Indian Reservation has begun and it is Intended to expend about $100,000 there this year. The Reclamation Service will complete the enlargement of the Adams Canal, place several concrete structures on that canal, and extend the Griffith lateral to cover several hundred acres of land not previously provided for. The arrangements for work on the Horsefly project are complete and as soon as the proposals for the sale of the bonds are opened In April, the man agement intend to proceed with that work. Altogether, It is believed about $300, 000 will be expended on these works in this vicinity this season, aside from the regular operation of the canals already completed and in use. ' TOLEDO TROLLEY RIDING COSTLESS COMPANY REFUSES TO ACCEPT FARES OF THREE CEXTS. Passengers Refusing More Allowed to Travel Free Injunction Pe tition TTp Today. TOLEDO, O., March 30. With de cisions in all caurt proceedings in volving Toledo railways and light com pany franchises delayed until tomor row, Toledo citizens who insist still are riding free on streetcars. Reports issued by the company to day showed that 22,000 passengers, 15 per cent of the traffic, were carried free Saturday. Sunday the percentage had increased to 18 per cent. No fares are collected from passengers who re fuse to pay more than three cents. The decision on the company's ap plication for Injunction to restrain the city from enforcing the new three-cent fare ordinance and hearing of prelimi naries in the city's suit to collect $250 dally rental from the company for use cf streets on which franchises have expired are scheduled. MR. REDFIELD COMPLAINS Washington Congressmen Abuse Peo ple Who Help State, He Says. SEATTLE, March 30. Secretary of Commerce Redfield, speaking at the headquarters of the Democratic State League tonight, complained good-naturedly of the discourtesy shown, he said, by members of the Washington delegation in Congress in assailing the Wilson Administration after all that Administration had done in the way of developing the Pacific Northwest and Alaska, The Secretary thought it would be wiser for the Representatives to co operate with the Administration. "They abuse the very people," he said, "who are trying to help their state." SWEARING MAYBE BARRED Oregon City Major Suggests Prohib iting Profanity in Town. OREGON CITY, Or, March 30, (Spe cial.) "Swearing is becoming alto gether too popular in Oregon City, and I believe that It will probably be neces sary for Oregon City officials to en force the ordinance which prohibits the using of profane language in public places," said Mayor Jones today. "I believe it would be better to direct some o the- energy toward enforcing this law rather than the ordinance which prohibits the use of tobacco by minors." TRAIN" CREWJS ATTACKED Mob of 500 Creates Strike -disturbance on Pennsylvania. PITTSBURG. March 30. A freight crew on the Monongahela division of the Pennsylvania Railroad was at tacked early today at Fredericktown, Pa., by a mob of 500. Stones were thrown and shots fired but no one was hurt. - The crew finally was rescued by po lice sent from Brownville. This was the most serious of a series of disturbances that characterized the strike of trainmen on the division in the night. NEW P0ST0FFICE OPENED Oregon City Structure Built of Tile and Finished In Stone. OREGON CITY, OrT, March SO. (Spe cial.) Oregon -City's new postofflce cpened this morning. All the equip ment, furniture und boxes are new, excepting the stamping machines and mail sacks, which were brought from the old office. The new building has 312 lock boxes. The structure is one story high and is built of tile and finished In stone. The floor of the lobby Is tile and the In terior finished in highly polished oak. It is considered the best postofflce in Clackamas County. FAIR SLAYER NOT FAVORED Madame Calllaux Treated According to Law, Say Officials. PARIS, March 30. Madame Caillaux has not received any favors, except such as are permitted by the French prison act, according to a note made public today by the Bureau of Prisons of the Department of Justice. Madame Caillaux is awaiting trial for shooting Gaston Calmette dead. Henri Boucard, the investigating magistrate, examined today Paul Bour get, the academician, who was with M. Calmette when Mme. Caillaux' card was presented to him. BABY EVERY 12 MINUTES California's Quota to World Com puted by Health Officer. SACRAMENTO, Cal, March 30. Cal ifornia adds one baby every 12 min utes to the population of the world, according to the figures of Statistician Leslie, of the State Board of Health. In 1913 there were 43,852 births re corded, a rate of 16.4 per 1000 popula tion. SCHOOL BOYS SAVE HOME Bucket Brigade of 20 Put Out Arleta Fire in Seven Minutes. A bucket line of 20 boys from the Arleta School saved the one-story frame dwelling of Mrs. W. Wild, of Fifty second avenue and Sixty-fifth street, from destruction yesterday morning. The blaze was extinguished in seven minutes. TOLL CLASH BRINGS "CR01JIHG INSULT" Wilson Laments "De generacy of Debate." KNOWLAND'S ATTACK MEANT Vote Today Expected to Carry Repeal, 30 to 75 Majority. DRAMATIC SCENES STAGED J. Hamilton Lewis, Picturing Dire Possibilities Says "Trust to Presi dent" Criticism and De fense at High Pitch. WASHINGTON, March 30. On the eve of the vote in the House on the repeal of American toll exemption in the Panama Canal, Congress today was completely absorbed in the controversy. While opposing rorces were clashing in oratorical flights at the Capitol, President Wilson took occasion to dis cuss the situation with callers, express ing keen regret that what had prom ised to be a dignified contest over principles had degenerated Into a fight upon the Administration. Mr. Wilson characterized as a crowning insult of a number of insults, in the debate, the declaration of Representative Know lnd, of California, that the Adminis--ation had made a deal to repeal the toll exemption with Sir William Ter rell, secretary to Sir Edward Grey, British Secretary of Foreign Affairs. Final Vote Is Today. With the final vote on the Sims re peal bill in the House scheduled -for late tomorrow. Interest in the con troversy revived, enthusiasm increasing with the approach of the end and the closing speech of Speaker Clark In op position to the repeal serving as the chief objective point of anticipation. Little doubt as to the result of the vote on the bill Is entertained by any one, the majority for the repeal being estimated at from 30 to 75 votes. All ears will bo strained for the Speaker tomorrow. There is much speculation on the course the debate on the bill will take. His friends expect hini not to attack the President. Some Democrats believe he will not refrain, however, from allusions to political en tanglements. Senator V run Compromise. Discussion of the issue in the Sen ate today was enlivened by Senator James Hamilton Lewis, who pleaded for the President's cause, urging, how ever, a compromise giving the Presi dent authority to suspend tolls. Thus he proposed to find "some Intermediate (Concluded on Page 2.) T t INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature. 46 degrees; minimum, 41 degrees. TODAY'S Occasional rain; southwesterly winds. Foreign. Aaqulth, resigning seat In House of Com mons, takes War Secretaryship as latest move in Ulster crisis. Page 2. Rational. Declining earnings of railways do not mean they are Inadequate, says higher-rate Protestant. Page 3. Closing hours of debate on toll repeal brings "crowning insult" to Wilson. Pase 1. Department of Justice speeds up on anti trust cases. , page 1. Domestic Toledo trolley-car riding is costless. Page 1. Minnesota educator sees danger In making too. much of Monroe Doctrine. Page 1. Suffrage fight at Des Moines conference probable today. Page 3. Sports. "Play ball!" only barrier to Coast ball sea son opening today. Page 1. Aberdeen experts to secure Victoria baseball team. Page 10. Despite varying views of merits of Wolves, taking series would be feather In McCre- die's cap. Page 10. Baseball court attraction as "Hunky, Shaw's case Is beard, page 10. Air race over ocean. New York to" Bermuda, announced. Page 10. Pacific Northwest. McMurray outlaw gets meais at point of gun. Page 5. Commercial and Marine. Export grade flour advances with increased wheat cost. . Page 15. Prospects of -record Winter wheat crop cause break in Chicago market. Page 15. Advance in Wall street stocks, led by West ern railroad shares. Page 15. Steamer Aroline on first voyage north from San Francisco by Coos Bay brings passengers. Page 14. Portland and Vicinity. Union avenue selected as bridge approach. Page 1. Weather report, data and forecast. Page 15. Minneapolis banker makes plea for higher rates for railroads. Page 7. Cheaper construction of school buildings fa vored for economy. Page 9. LANDSLIDES SCARE ITALY Villages Near Venice Menaced and Hundreds Flee. VENICE, Italy, March 30. A great landslide threatens the villages of Clausetto and Vitodasio, in the Prov ince of Udine. Parts of the villages, which are In habited by about 3000 persons each, have already been evacuated in the fear of more extensive slides caused by the overflowing of the rivers. ; KENTUCKY TOWN FLOODED Hazard Reported Inundated and Rain Swells River. LEXINGTON, Ky., March SO. Re ports reached here today that Hazard, Ky., is Inundated and several othet' smaller towns are threatened as the result of the overflowing of the Ken tucky River and its tributaries. Heavy rains have fallen In the mountains for the last three days and all the streams are out of their banks. CITY TO BUILD DANCEHALL Chicago Council Votes $500 0 for Municipal Equipment. CHICAGO, March 30. A municipal dancehall In Chicago was assured to night. The Council appropriated $5000 for the project. SEE WHO'S HELPING W00DR0W. 'PLAY BALL!' ONLY BARRIER Coast League Forqes in Opening Cfe-uday. V BATTLt ARRAY IS COMPLETE Portland Beavers Ready to At tack Sacramento Senators. KLAWITTER IS HIG'S FOE Governor Johnson to Open 1914 Sea son AVith First Throw and Um pires Tiajes and Guthrie to Preside at Initial Game. WHERE THE PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE BASEBALL TEAMS PLAY THE OPENING WEEK OF THE 1914 SEASON. March 31 to April 5. Portland at Sacramento, T games. Oakland at Los Angeles, 7 games. Venice at San Francisco, 7 games. BT KOSCOE FAWCETT. SACRAMENTO. Cal., March 30. (Spe cial.) Pacific Coast baseball gets the jump on the rest of tne hemisphere at 3 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. All six managers have burst sapiently into print as follows: "I seldom make predictions in Spring, but " And that proves it. President A. T. Baum's latest literary effort shows Portland opposed to Sac ramento, here in the state capital, for the opener; Oakland at Los Angeles and Venice at San Francisco. So far as the Portland-Sacramento clash is concerned everything is serene along the levee-banked Sacramento River tonight. In fact, the two deadly rivals are bivouacked in the same ho tel; eat the same victuals, warm the same leather upholstered chairs and flirt with the same chic cigar girl. -Cataclysm In Presaged. But the tenseness in the atmosphere( around the lobby rendezvous presages a great cataclysm of some sort, and said tenseness knows Its business. Tomor row a miniature civil war, all over again, will be staged at Buffalo Park; friends will be arrayed against friends; ex-teammates will lust for each other's life blood. Like busy little bees excited knots of men can be seen talking over the 'mor row's conflict in the secluded corners of the foyer. You can smell brimstone in the air. To Umpires Hayes and 'Guthrie has been delegated the task of pulling the (Concluded on Page 10.) PERIL IN MONROE DOCTRINE IS SEEN MIXXESOTA EDUCATOR SAYS IT GIVES TOO BIG A JOB. Dr. Xorthrup Commends Mexican Policy and Hopes Villa and Huerta. May Swallow Each Other. MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., March 30 The United States should not make too much of the Monroe doctrine, Dr. Cyrus Northrop, president emeritus of the University of Minnesota, asserted in an address here today before a large audi ence of preachers representing several denominations. Dr. Northrop com mended Woodrow Wilson for his stand in the Mexican situation. "Our attempt to make this Govern ment responsible for the good order and humanity of every Nation in the Western Hemisphere is a job that is too big for us," he said. "There are other South American republics capa ble of looking after themselves and their neighbors, if need be. There are Argentina and Brazil, for instance. "As for Mexico, the situation there ia horrible. If Villa succeeds in con quering Huerta, it will be terrible. If Huerta succeeds in conquering Villa, Jt will be terrible. If either one is left, it will be bad. If each swallows the other it will be better." INHERITANCE WINS BRIDE Former Portland Man Gets $7 77 7.7 7 and Rushes East to Sweetheart. MEDFORD, Or., March 30. (Special.) A. K. Welsh, formerly a member of the Portland fire department and who was up to a few days ago an employe of the Oaks Billiard Hall, has received $7777.77 as the share of the estate of his uncle, H. M. Kitchen, who died In Los Angeles recently. . With the money in his pocket Mr. Welsh left today for Grand Rapids. Mich., where he will marry Miss Kath erlne Garber, of that city, to whom he has been engaged for many years. Heretofore -slender finances made mar riage impossible. OIL TRAIN BREAKS RECORD Smudge Special Carries 90,000 Gal lons to 'Save Medford Fruit.. MEDFORD, Or., March 30. (Special.) -Running under a pink manifest, used only In case of war or emergency, the first smudge special in railroad his tory, consisting of seven cars of crude oil distillate, arrived in Medford today after a record run from Richmond, Cal., in 22 houTS. The special train was ordered yes terday by long-distance telephone, when It became certain that another week of frost fighting was inevitable. The train brought 90,000 gallons of crude oil. valued at $4500, at a cost of $1 a mile, or a total cost to the grow ers of $5000. PRESIDENT PLEDGES AID Mr. Wilson Personally to Investigate Miss Tyler's Dismissal. WASHINGTON, March 30. President Wilson today promised Miss Mattie Tyler, granddaughter of President Ty ler, to investigate personally her case and to do what he could to continue her as postmistress at Courtland, Va. Postmaster-General Burleson recently appointed B. A. Williams to the post mastership. Miss Tyler appealed personally to the President, charging that a clique of Virginia politicians had displaced her and that if the civil service rule were to be applied. Miss Sadie Cole, her as sistant, should be appointed. MAL0NE NOT MOUTHPIECE President Says His Own Tongue Is Ills Only Agency. WASHINGTON, March 30. President Wilson was asked today if Dudley Field Malone had spoken for the Ad ministration when he expressed oppo sition to Governor Glynn's recent ap pointments in New York. The President replied that the only "mouthpiece" of the Administration was his own tongue and that he did not intend to reflect on Mr. Malone's utterances, but merely wished to Indi cate that the views expressed were In dividual and not Inspired. HOBO KILLS ONE AND SELF Baggageman Slain ,and Railroad De tective Seriously Wounded. AKRON, Or., March 30. Jesse Arm strong, a baggagemaster on the Balti more & Ohio Railroad, died tonight and Frank Moran,-a detective of the road, was seriously wounded in a gun battle with an unidentified man today. The man committed suicide. The double killing took place at the Howard-street station when the man, who was roughly dressed, Jumped off a freight train. Detective Moran sought to arrest him. ALASKAN COAL DELIVERED Freighter of 900 Tons for Naval Test Says Product Good. CORDOVA, Alaska, March 30. Jack Dalton and his men, who freighted 900 tons of coal from the Matanuska coal field to tidewater at Knik, on Cook In let, for tests by the Navy to determine Its steaming qualities, arrived at Chitina Sunday, having completed their work In the coal fields. Dayton says the coal Is clean and of good quality. The coal was taken out under the direction of the United States Bureau of lllnesv UNION AVENUE IS E FOR BRIDGE Washington Street in Vancouver Selected. DERBY FAVORED BY MR. HART Champions of Other Possible Approaches Heard. LAND PURCHASE REQUIRED Engineer's Figures Show That Ac cepted Route Will Bo Most Con venient for Approximately 233,000 Residents of City. After a debate of more than two hours, in which representatives of every proposes approach district were heard, the interstate bridge Commis sion yesterday morning adopted, by a vote of five to one. Union avenue on the Oregon side, and Washington street, on the Washington side for approaches to the interstate bridge to be built across .the Columbia River, connecting Portland and Vancouver, Wash. When Clerk Marshall called the roll, after the long discussion. Commis sioners Lindsay, Rawson and Secrist, of Clarke County, Washington, and Commissioners Holman and Lightner, of Multnomah County, voted to adopt the recommendations of J. L. Harring ton, consulting engineer, who selected the Union-avenue and Washington street approaches. 4 ommissionr Hart, of Multomah, votd against the Union avenue . approach. He submitted a minority report favoring the Derby street approach. Sleeting Is Orderly. Before the business of the meeting was commenced, a telegram was read from Governor West in which he au thorized the commission to cast his vote with the majority in the selection of both approaches. Ho 1 advised further that the matter of street im provements and the acquisition of prop erty now held by the Portland Railway, Light & Power Company, contingen cies upon which Mr. Harrington recom mended the Unioi--avenue approach, be disposed of at the earliest possible time. , ' There was hardly available standing space In the Circuit Court room, where the meeting was held, when Chairman Holman called the meeting to order. He announced that .the meeting had been called to transact most important , business, and asked all present to re frain from any applause, that the con sideration bf Mr. Harrington's report might be completed with dispatch after all interested in the Selection of an approach site, who cared to speak, had been heard. .Only once or twice was it necessary for him to call for order. Mr. Hart In Minority. Resolutions adopted by the Clarke County Commissioners at the adjourn ment of the Interstate Commission, last Thursday, indorsing the recommenda tions of the engineers, selecting Wash ington street for the Vancouver ap proach, were read. Commissioner Lightner then made the majority re port of the Multnomah Commissioners, In which he and Commissioner Holman concurred, approving the Union-avenue approach. Commissioner Hart sub mitted a minority report, favoring the : Derby-street approach. That all might be heard. Commis sioner Holman announced that he would ask that only recognized rep resentatives of the different sections be heard until each of the four pro posed approaches had been discussed. Derby-Street Ivocate Heard. Basing his appeal for the final selec tion of Derby street for the Oregon ap proach, because he believed such action would be right and fair to all, George M. Hyland, at the invitation of Chair man Holman and C. C. Colt, asked that the recommendations of the engineers, as to routes, be set aside, and Derby . street chosen for the Oregon approach. "When these engineers stepped from their position as engineers into the realm of citizenship, and exercised a civic duty in recommending a site for -an approach, they were in foreign fields, and their recommendations are no more valuable than ' would be a recommendation from 1000 citizens," he said. "I do not dispute their ability as engineers, but I do ' believe thfs matter of an approach should not be determined by them. CrltlciHm Is Volcefl. "I commend the commission on itfl choice of engineers, but I bel'reve the contract for the approach should have been separate, for we are paying this engineer $37,000 in commissions for constructing these approaches that any engineer who can look through a tran sit could build. "Why should we abandon the right of way from Derby street, a right of that may be had for nothing now, but which, if needed later for a second approach would cost the county thou sands of dollars. The selection of D-Uy street would deprive Union avenue of no rights or Interest or privileges it has now. ' Grade Urged nm ObjSctlon. "The future of the city must be considered also, for posterity -will pay the bills for the work we are providing for at present and the future will be served best by this Derby-street au- XConcluded on Page 9.) CHOC R 108.2