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VOL,. JLIV. XO. -16,63G. PORTLAND. OREGON. TUESDAY, APRIL, 14, 1914. PRICE FIVE CENTS. SALUTE DEMANDED TO AMERICAN FLAG On Huerta's Compli ance Depends Crisis. WILSON BACKS UP ADMIRAL Affront, Due to Arrest of Yan kee Marines, Bids Apology. PRESIDENT, MOVED, STERN Tremendous Offensive Power of Tnited States Fleet Orr Tampico Renders Resistance Out of Question Is Belief. DANCING MASTERS O.K. PURGED TANGO PARIS MEETING BRINGS OUT HOT DEBATES OX DANCE. DYING GUNMAN SAYS BECKER NOT IN PLOT Conference Hopes to Be Able to Pick Out One Dance to Serve as Typ ical Figure for World In 1014. PARIS April 13. The International Academy of Dancing Masters discussed at their annual meeting today various dances from which it is hoped to select one which may serve as a typical fig ure for all the world during the com ing year. Forty-five dancing masters from the United States and Europe at tended the congress. The delegates debated on the desir ability of the tango, which was at. tacked and warmly defended. It was finally decided that the tango might be danced on condition that it be purged of . certain objectionable fea tures. , s A Parisian professor of dancing, who has invented a figure known as the.Tatao with the object of maintain ing the purity of the art. argued against the "regrettable-tendencies of certain teachers which were responsi ble for conditions-which had "aroused violent hostility on the part of a large section of the public" GIRL, 11, OUTSPELLS 28 WASHINGTON". AdHI 13. Upon whether the commander of the Huerta forces at Tampico salutes the Ameri can flag in apology for the arrest of American marines last Thursday de pends immediate developments in the Mexican situation. President Wilson declared unoffi cially today that he expected the fed eral commander at Tampico to fire salute to the Stars and Stripes, as de manded by Rear-Admiral Mayo, and he fpoke with a confidence that implied Insistence. The Navy Department still was unadvised tonight as to whether or not the salute had been fired. . It is understood that instructions have been sent to Charge O'Shaugrhnessy to represent to the Huerta government the feeling of the Administration here over the affront, but there has been no announcement on the subject. Lind and Bryan Confer. "The presence in Washington of John Lind, President Wilson's personal rep resentative in Mexico for the last eight months, gave the Washington Govern ment an adviser with special knowl edge of the military situation at Tarn pico. Mr. Lind reached here from Vera Cruz aboard the Presidential yacht Mayflower early today and spent sev rai hours with Secretary Brvan. . To morrow lie will see President Wilson, accompanied by Secretary Bryan, for au hour just before the Cabinet meet' ing Authoritatively it is said that Mr. Lind's reportB on the general situa tion were so comprehensive and com plete that he really did not have to come to Washington to supplement them. I Llnd la Hetlcent. Mr. Lind himself was incommunica tive, saying merely he had sought a vacation and was at the orders of the Government. His presence here, how ever, at this time is considered oppor tune should any unuBual situation arise out of the demand for a salute at Tarn, pico. Direct communication between Tam pico and the cable end at Vera Cruz, which is the only means whereby news of what is going on at Tampico can reach Washington, can only be had by wireless and owing to the prevalence of storms this communication fias been exceedingly difficult. The Huerta gov ernment itself, it is understood, had been obliged to communicate with Tampico by messages sent on steam boats and it is suggested by naval offi cers that if it becomes necessary for General Huerta to send Instructions to the federal commander at Tampico in a very limited time he might have to resort to the use of the radio outfits of the American battleships, even in dealing with a subject so delicate as the demand for a salute. Bryan to Leave Capital. Administration officials are hoping that the salute will be fired and the Incident closed. Their optimism is such that Secretary Bryan, who has been in ill health, is planning to go to Miami, Fla.. tomorrow for a rest, while I'resident Wilson will leave here again on Thursday night for White Sulphur Springs, W. Va, to bring Mrs. Wilson back to Washington. Mr. Llnd is understood to have told Secretary Bryan that there would be a lull in the diplomatic side of the Mexican situation while the contending forces In the north fought for supremacy. . The former Minnesota Governor took the opportunity to come to the United states while there seemed to him lit tle prospect of the Huerta government yielding. He is known to believe that only the conquering armies of the Constitutionalists can force General Huerta to retire at present. The defeat at Torieon of the Federal forces Is unknown as yet throughout the greater part of the territory controlled by the Huerta government and a rigorous censorship both within Mexico and on news being sent abroad from the Mexican capital is being maintained. I.lnd Kress Sphinx Attitude. Mr. Lind has found life in the tropics somewhat fatiguing, but he declared today his health had not suffered. Mr. Lind had just completed his confer ence with Secretary Bryan when the newspaper correspondents were ush ered In. Mr. Bryan presented Mr. Lind. and with a smile announced: "You may quote 'him to any extent." Mr. Lind laughed and justified his title of "The Man f Silence." s-ecretary Bryan merely said that a conference had been arranged for President Wilson for tomorrow, and that Mr. Lind's plans thereafter had not been decided upon. Mr. Bryan 'Dago Frank' TellsWho Killed Rosenthal. FOUR GO TO DEATH IN CHAIR 'Gyp," "Lefty Louie" and Val Ion Fired Shots, He Declares. CONFESSION IS VOLUNTARY 'It Was a Gamblers' Fight," Avows Condemned Man on Motlier's Plea to Tell Truth Just Before Paying Prescribed Penalty. 180 Pages of Speller Required to Make Charlotte Nash Champion. OREGON CITY, Or., April 13. (Spe cial.) One hundred and eighty pages of a spelling book were covered before littletMiss Charlotte Nash, 11 years of age, was declared champion ov?r 28 picked spellers at the "Bee" held at Milwaukie "Monday afternoon. Char lotte is the youngest pupil to win at a spelling bee in the series now being held in this county. She is a Milwau kie school pupil. The previous record for number of pages covered before the spellers were reduced to one, was 140, set at Estacada. Seven schools took part, Mil waukie, Oswego, Wichita, Oak Grove, Harmony, East Mount Scott and Arden-wald. M'ADOO WEDDING IS MAY 8 Miss Eleanor Wilson's Marriage to Be Witnessed by Few. WASHINGTON; April 13. Although there has been no formal announce ments from the White House of the date of the wedding of Secretary Mc- Adoo and Miss Eleanor R. Wilson, the youngest daughter of the President and Mrs. Wilson, friends who are in a posl tion to know say Friday, May 8, has been tentatively selected. The affair is expected to be private, Mr. McAdoo's colleagues in the Cabinet being practically the only guests out side of the two families. HIGHWAY STAKES SET Stale Engineers Begin First Grade Work on Astoria TTnit. ASTORIA, Or., April 13. (Special.) This morning W. M. Peters, of the state highway engineer's force, set crew of men to work setting grade stakes along the line of the proposed Columbia highway, between here and Westport. The route is also to be divided into sections of approximately seven miles each, so that, contractors may bid on the construction work by sections or on the entire project. ALBANT, N. T, April 13. Shortly be fore "Dago Frank" Ciroflcl went to the death chair in Sing Sing prison early today he told Warden Clancy that "Gyp the Blood" Horrowitz, "Lefty Louie' Rosenberg and Harry Vallon. an In former, fired the ehots which killed Herman Rosenthal, tor which crime the first three anil Frank Seidenshner ("Whltey Lewis") paid their lives. 'So far as I know Becker had noth ing to do with this case," the gunman also asserted. "It was a gamblers' fight." Ciroflcl averred he was five miles away at the time the crime was com mitted, and that "Whltey Lewis" Seld enshner, although present at the scene of the shooting, did not fire any of the shots. Part In Plot Net Denied. Ciroflcl made no attempt, however, to deny that he was Included In the origi nal plot to slay Rosenthal, even admit ting that he and other gangsters had sought Rosenthal two nights before the slaying. They were frightened away from Rosenthal on that occasign by men they thought were detectives. ' The condemned man also admitted that early on the night of the actual killing he was on the gray "murder car" with the gunmen, but he ipslsted that he left them before they shot the gambler. He did not explain why he left the other gunmen just prior to the shoot ing, but two reasons are advanced. On is that be became frightened and th other that he deserted in order to ball out his sweetheart, Jean Gordon, who had been arrested. Mother's Plea Win. The statement, which waa made ver bally In the prison-keeper's oftice about 4 o'clock this morning, was the result of the insistent plea on the part of Cironcl's mother and his sister for the truth. They had been here and made an unsuccessful plea to the Governor to save the prisoner's life. Returning to the prison near dawn they were met INDEX OF TODAYS NEWS IMMEDIATE RIVER The WntbT. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature. degrees; minimum, 60.0 degree. TODAY'S Fair, probably preceded bjr ahow- era durlnc tne lores oo a. I'erelcaT,. Trousers for Mexico's poor men Is Huerta's plea to bis rtcn. supporters, face X. Italian troops are called out to act In threatened railway strike. Pace 8. Danclne masters, meeting- In Paris, ask Uat tango be purged. Page 1 National. Mexican federals saluttt to American flag demanded. Page X. Treaty phase of toll repeal issue discounted in Senate. Page Z. Wilson frowns on proposal to curtail trust programme. Patfe 1. Domestic . One of four gunmen, just before dying in chair, says Becker was not in murder plot, page 1. Guns used modern war viewed as "hu mane. Page 8. Secretary Daniels bares "secret" of Admin istration popularity. . Page Z. . Flore nx Zlegfeld, Jr.. and BiUle Burke ad roit wedding. Page 3. Sport. 1 Beavers home this morning; Oaks open to day and record crowd -expected. Page Opening day finds American and Natlopai League clubs greatly changed. Page , Japanese defeat Columbia C boys in 8-1 game. Page 7. Fielder Jones fixes rules and assigns um pires for opening games. Page o. Baseball Boosters hold lsst p re-sea son meet ing and predict record crowd at opening game. Page o. Pacific Northwest. Eugene Mayor gives police department rad leal shskeup. Page o. Addison Bennett writes letter . describing Juneau. Alaska. Page 5. Commercial and Marine. Country points offering higher prices for oats. Page It. Green bug scare subsides and Chicago wheat market declines, page 1 Steel stock pressed for sale in Wall street market. Page 17. Royal Mall asks facts of Port Commission and ships may follow. Page 11 Gasoline schooner Nenamoshe nearly wrecked on Peacock spit. Page 3. Portland and Vicinity. Waterways Association delegates urge canal isation of upper rivers and pushing work at mouth ut Columbia, page 1. Miss Helen Fltxgerald leads in race for Rose Festival queen. Page 11. Weather report, data and forecasts. Page 17, J. JC Fred lander may sue city for $19,000 architect fees. Page 16. Rhattuck School will face parks. Page 11. New Methods of freight soliciting described for Transportation Club. Patfe 17. Governor Lister estimates needs of West for Irrigation S40.00O.00o. Page 18. WORK IS DEMANDED Canalization Is Plan Waterways Body. of Columbia Navigable to Canadian Line and Snake to Iewlston, la Idea Kept Before Convention. Developing Power Seen. HALF MILLION COLLECTED Clatsop Count;-Vet Has $170,000 of 1913 Taxes Unpaid. ASTORIA. Or.. April 13. (Special.) The County Treasurer has submitted report showing that, up to the first o the present month, the date when th charging of penalties was commenced, I536.9S1.S1 had been collected on the 1913 tax. roll and a total of C3v9 re celpts were Issued. The amount collected Includes 1170.7 for fire patrol tax. This leaves In th neighborhood of $170,000 still to be col lected. but quite a portion of the latter sum consists of 'second halves. (Concluded on Paee 3.) FEDERAL RAILWAY BEGUN 20-Mile Government Line in Arizona to Transverse Big Project. YUMA. Aril, April 13. Constructio work started today on the Government owned and controlled railroad to ru from Yuma 20 miles southwest throug part of the land reclaimed by the Fed eral reclamation project. The engineer in charge announced that the road would be open for traffl by the middle of June. The road will carry both freight and passengers. EARLY SURVEY -SiQERED HUERTA, IN JOCULAR VEIN, SCARES RICH PLEA, AT FIRST THOUGHT FOR MOXEY, IS POU TROUSEKS. Hasmng Improvements Mouth Also Is Urged. at ENTHUSIASM RUNS HIGH Immediate completion of pending im provements at the mouth of the Co lumbia River and an early survey of the tributaries above Celllo with a view toward their ultimate canaliza tlon, are two of the big- development projects that the fifth annual conven tion of the Columbia-Snake River Waterways Association, which opened at the Commercial Club yesterday morning, is considering. Plans for development of the Upper Columbia and the Snake River on a basis that not only will rnake those streams navigable, but will provide water and power for reclamation pur poses.' were earnestly discussed In the afternoon and at night. Make River Navigable, ! Demand. "Make the Columbia navigable to the Canadian line and open the Snake River to Lewlston," were the demands emphatically expressed by a score of visitors from Eastern Washington and Northern Idaho. Discussions and formal addresses all were based on the theory that eventu ally the great Columbia River drain age system will be supplied with water transportation through the use of these streams together with canal or other artificial channels. The natural barriers, such aa rapids and waterfalls, must be overcome. It pointed out. Speaker after speaker set it forth as the plain duty of the convention to devise means to overcome these bar Hers. Active co-operation of every In terest from the mouth of the Columbia to the international boundary was de manded. Individual efforts of the sev eral communities are useless, it was asserted. Convratloa Pounds at Idea. The convention started to work along these llnej from the time It opened and kept pounding hard in that direc tion throughout the day and evening. Knthuslasm prevailed at every session. Those who came merely to listen went away enthused. Knthuslasm reached its highest pitch Mexican President Addresses 1C0 Millionaires on Uplift Work and Invites Aid to Commoners. MEXICO CITT. April 13. One hun dred and sixty members of the Jockey Club. Mexico's most aristocratic organi sation, stood before President Huerta today and listened to his earnest and convincing appeal for their support in the great uplift (movement he is about o Inaugurate In behalf of the poor. ou men are millionaires most of ou." began the President. The members of the Jockey Club be gan to show, signs of nervousness, which was allayed, however, when they earned tnat be did not want money for war, but for trousers trousers of the ordinary cotton variety worn by the aborlng man. V hen the world thinks of Mexi cans. President Huerta said, "it does not think of men dressed like you and me, but of those poor, ragged, dirty cotton-trousered men. Now 1 want you to help me. I shall appoint a committee of two men for each of you. Please keep your eyes out for each of these poor men needing trousers, and pro vide him with a pair." It was explained that President Hu erta now regards the condition of the country as so Improved that he can afford to devote more time to civic at fairs. Ho Joked today with his fash lonable callers, who visited him at hi summons, about their club and the! life of ease. There were a few Ameri cans among the number. The President added that he was thinking of establishing a new club, to which they were now Invited to be long. His eyes twinkled when he In formed them that his club waa to be a military organisation and to be eligible It would be necessary to be a soldier. VILSOH FROWNS OH HASTY TRUST CUB E Plan to Curtail Pro- gramme Resented MOVE IS GROWING, HOYEVER President's Disapproval Proposal Is Unqualified. of SINGLE DRAFT IN MAKING SLUMS' HOPE IN TRAINING Women's Efforts Will Not Avail in Cleaning Up, Says Educator. WALLA WALLA. Wash.. April 13. (bpeclal.) "If our cities are to be cleared or saloons. It will not be through the efiort of women's organi zations. It will be through training tne school children In how to make home for themselves and how to keep It. v e have the wrong Idea when we think we want Is to ormg the children of wa want In to bring the childru of everyday life iito education and take the things of education and tneir scnooung into the lives of the pupils.' declared Superintendent J. II. Francis, of the Lor. An soles schools, before the iracners institute today. o uoitmieu mai ir uny people on earth would do business the wav school roi-pio ire compelled to do it in many Instances they- would be arrested and examined for lack -of common lenae. t'onci ulel on Phrc 14) CHILDREN WILSON GUESTS Annual Kastcr Egg-Rollins Contest Knjojed by President, Too. WASHINGTON. April 13. President Wilson had as his guests today the children of the National capital. The occasion was the annual frolic and egg rolling on the White House grounds. From early today until nearly dusk the little folk, with the full freedom of the grounds accorded them, enjoyed the President's hospitality. President Wil son and members of the Cabinet watched the children at play. TOWN DRIVES OUT "OASES" "Medicinal Liquor" and Soft Drinks to Go at Decatur, III. - DECATUR. Ill, April 13. Decatur citizens avowed today their intention of making the township as 'dry as powder. Sale of liquor for medicinal purposes or otherwise will be barred in drug stores, no soft drink parlors will be allowed to operate and shipment of liquor into the city will be prohibited. IT'S A POPULAR OLD VEHICLE NOW iCoocluded on pace 2.) POWER PLANT DESTROYED South Baker Building Burns With Estimated Loss or $75,000. BAKER. Or, April 13. (Special.) The South Baker Power plant, proper ty of the Eastern Oregon Light & Power Company, was destroyed by fire early tonight. The origin of the fire is unknown. The loss is estimated at 175,000. QUEBEC HAS "WORST" DAY Snow, Gale and Temperature 10 Be low Among Other Reasons. MONTREAL. April 13. A heavy fall of snow, a gale of wind and a tempera ture 10 degrees below freezing charac terized the day here. It was declared one of the most un pleasant April days that the Province of Quebec bas ever known. RISONER LEAPS OFF TRAIN W earing "Oregon Boot" Man Jumps While Deputy Warden Sleeps. KUCKFORD, 111, April 13. While -i nomas Kinnine, deputy warden of Leavenworth . prison, slept In a berth beneath him. Carl Miller, also known. It is said,' as August Brlnkman. serv ing a ten-year sentence for forgery. crawled from his berth and leaoed from a train today and escaped. Kin nane discovered his prisoner's absence when he awoke at Davis Junction. near here. Miller, who wore a 20-pound "Ore gon boot." was being taken to Mad lson. Wis, to be re-sentenced. It was said there was a flaw in his former sentence. Senator Xrwlamls Announces Rill Will Be lrtlicomlng Soon and Five-Sectioned Measure Seems Likely to Be Offered. WASHINGTON, April 13. Unquali fied disapproval was expressed by President Wilsjn today of the proposal In Congress to curtail the anti-trust legislative programme for the session. Members of the House judiciary sub committee, who had conferred with the President on the subject later, asserted that an effort would be made to report out quickly a single measure embody- ng the substance of ail the separate tentative trust bills, and that legisla tion also would be passed to meet the demands of labor for restriction of the injunction power of the courts. Oaaoaltlea la Grtslig, That opposition to carrying out the full trust legislative programme in growing among Senate and House Democrats continued in evidence during the day. notwithstanding determination to revive the effort to perfect measures affecting Interlocking directorates, holding companies, price discrimina tions and other evils. beseral Bill Dae swa. Senator Newlands, chairman of the Senate Interstate commerce committee, said his committee expected to report a general trust bill soon, although the members had not agreed -upon details. Before the committee finally deter mines upon its course, however, it will pass upon the amendments already pre pared to preclude at this session any thing but a bill to create an Interstate trade commission with broad powers and express direction to Investigate the whole problem of big business and to recommend to the next Congress what legislation supplemental to the Sherman law should be enacted. T. R. MAY HURRY RETURN Colonel to Abandon Trip to Spain for Son's Wedding, Is Report. NEW YORK, April 13. An earlier return of Colonel Theodore Roosevelt to this city than expected was fore shadowed tn messages received here from Brazil today. Mr. Roosevelt will arrive In New Vork during the third week in May. His projected journey to Spain before returning home In order to be presen at the wedding of Kermlt Roosevelt. his son. to Miss Belle Wlllard may not be undertaken, it was said. WHISKERS GONE TOO LONG Man Who Wanted $60,000 for Beard Dclajed, Says High Court. WASHINGTON. April 13. E. A. O'Sulllvan. a New Orleans lawyer, wanted to sue Paul Felix and William W. Stiles for 160,000 because they cut off his whiskers in 180. in an election prank, but the Supreme Court decided today he had waited too long, and threw out his case. OIL PRICE IS CUT AGAIN Third Reduction In Week Due Overproduction, Is Report. to INDEPENDENCE, Kan, April 13. Another cut of & cents In the price of crude oil in the Kansas-Oklahoma fields, the third within a week, waa announced today, making the present quotation 90 cents a barrel. Over-production is assigned as the cause. Oleomargarine Tax Allowed. WASHINGTON. April 13. The Su preme Court upheld today the right of Montana to Impose a tax of 1 cent pound on oleomargarine sold wlihln the state. The Hammond Packing Company, selling1 Illinois oleomargar ine In Silver Bow, Mont., attacked the law as arbitrary and unconstitutional. Five Sections Probable. Unless this plan Is agreed to the committee will proceed to perfect the tentative measure it has worked out In five sections. The first section would create a commission to regulato corporations; the second would pro hibit forms of interlocking director ates In competing concerns; a third would regulate holding companies; a fourth would deal with stock watering and the Issuance of railroad securities and a fifth would attempt to eradicate price discriminations which affect com petition. Besides the members of the House judiciary sub-committee. President V. lson conferred with Representative Webb, of North Carolina. Speed One f Alias. After the conference the sub-committee determined upon the following: Speeding up of commHtee considera tion of the anti-trust legislation with a view to reporting as quickly as pos sible a single bill comprising the prin ciples of the Clayton bills on trade re lations. Interlocking directorates, hold ing companies and definitions; Inclu sion of the anti-injunction plan In this bill or In a separate measure, to regu late the Issue of Injunctions and re straining orders In strikes and other labor troubles, to provide due notice to all parties concerned and Jury trial rights in contempt proceedings for vio lation of Injunction decrees. Chairman Clayton, of the judlclsry committee, said tonleht he hoped to have the anti-trust bills out of his com mittee and reported to the House with in a fortnight. A section of tho Clayton bill, which will be offered before the committee as a basis for the anti-injunction meas- sure would estop any restraining order or injunction in any case miiui or growing out of a dispute concern ing terms or conditions of employment unless necessary to prevent irreparable Injury to property or to a property right of the party making the appli cation." and these rights would have to be sworn to by the applicant "with particularity." The Interstate Trade Commission bill waa reintroduced in the House today by Representative Covington, of Mary land, for tho Interstate commerce com mittee with some minor changes. The principal change tn the bill as already made public is an amendment to pro vide that in any equity suit brought under the Attorney-General's direction under the anti-trust law. tho court may, on the consideration of the tes timony refer the suit to the trade com mission to ascertain and report an ap propriate form of decree, and that upon surh report exceptions may b filed. The court may adopt or reject the trade commission report, in whole or In part." Judge Philbrick Is Dead. SPRINGFIELD, 111, April IS. Judge Solon Philbrick, of Cnampaign. member of the Appellate Court for the Third District, died today after an operation for gall stones.