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Newspaper Page TextVOL,: T,IV. NO. 16,G94. PORTLAND, OREGON. THURSDAY, MAY 28, 1914. PRICK FIVE CENTS. WAR MATERIAL FOR HUERTA IS LANDED Ammunition and Wire Reach Dictator. VESSEL SEIZED BY FUNSTON Doubt Exists as to Disposition of Second Cargo. MEXICAN LAW IS VIOLATED Absence of Manifest and Diversion of Steamer to Port for 'Which. o Clearance Was Made Will Incur Fines. VERA CRUZ, May 27. The German steamer Bavaria has been held hers on her arrival without manifest at Brigadier-General Funston's order. The Ba varia recently landed a large quantity of ammunition on Mexican soil. It Is estimated that the Bavaria put shore 1,800,000 rounds of ammunition. The cargo was destined for "Vera Cruz, but was diverted to Puerto Mexico. The steamer reached here Sunday. The captain could not produce a manifest, declaring to the captain of the port that it had been taken away from him by the American authorities. Later he admitted landing the cargo, which in cluded also 3000 rolls of barbed wire. Skipper Liable to Fine. General I'unston understands that the ammunition and wire reached Cor doba yesterday by way of Tierra lllanca. The captain of the Bavaria is liable to a fine under the Mexican laws, which re being administered by the collector of the port. Captain Herman O. Stick Iiey. The shipment of arms, Consigned for Vera Cruz, but landed at Puerta Mexico, forms a violation of the laws, and the absence of a manifest a sec ond violation. Brigadier-General Funston said the question of fines was entirely in Cap tain Stickney's hands, but the collector ald today that lie hud ; not actually levied them. Clearance Refused Pending Payment. Tho Bavaria is held here only be cause clearance will be refused until the issue of lines is adjusted. The customs officials assert that so far as they know tho arms shipment on the Vpiranga of the same line, which pre cipitated the seizure of Vera Cruz by tho American forces, was still aboard when that vessel left here for Puerto Mexico two days ago. They assume here that there is no possibility that the 250 machine guns, 15,000,000 rounds of ammunition and other war material aboard the Ypirango would be landed, as the liner is under charter of the German government at the present time and was ordered to Puerto Mexico by the German minister to pick up German refugees. Other Deliveries Reported. Rumors have been current that some of the war materials for which Huerta had contracted in Germany had been filtering through by way of Puerto Mexico. Virtually every German liner touching at the gulf ports has car ried arms or ammunition shipped under that contract. The Bavaria incident is the first one where positive Informa tion of the landing of these supplies has been received, although there have been intimations here that the Army or Navy has knowledge of other landings or attempted landings. Outside of Army circles the Ameri cans hero arc inclined to believe the Huerta officials desire the Bavaria war supplies for strengthening their north em lines against tho constitutionalists. General I'unston admitted that he had no information as to what became of the shipment after it reached Cordoba, end it is generally assumed that it Is already on the way to Mexico City from which point it probably will be taken to Federal strongholds, where Itmmunition is badly needed. The barbed wire will be of immense Value to the small garrisons along the railway from the capital, which are protecting the federal lines of com munication. AUTO STREETCAR PLANNED Service for Pendleton Promised With Regular Schdulcs. PEXULETOX, Or., May 27. (Spe cial.) An automobile 'bus service as the best substitute lor a streetcar system is soon to be inaugurated in Pendleton by Penland Brothers, according to an ouuncement made by them today. Regular routes through the streets carrying the heaviest foot traffic are to be laid out and the auto 'busses run on a regular time schedule. SUGAR FIRST CANAL CARGO Initial lelglit at Panama Paid on Shipment Towed Through. NEW YORK, May 27 The steamer elon. which arrived today from Cristo bal, brought the first freight that came through the Panama Canal. The cargo consisted of 21,000 sacks of sugar, and was towed through the canal on barges. It is the first cargo to pay through freight. ANDREE'S BALLOON REPORTED FOUND REPORT COMES ITiOM IX) REST IX TAR SIBERIA. Swedish Government Orders Inves tigation of Report That Slay Solve 1 7-Xear-Old M ystcrj . STOCKHOLM, Sweden, May 27. What is believed to be the remains of the balloon in which Professor Salamon A. Andree ascended from Dane's Island, near Spitzbergen, July 11, 1S97. in an attempt to reach the North Pole, have been found in a forest in Eastern Si beria, according to a telegram received at the Swedish Foreign Office today fsom Yakutz. Investigation of the re ported discovery has been ordered by the government. The Arctic explorer was accompanied by two scientists, and after they left Dane's Island no report was received from the party. Although traces of Andree's balloon have been reported at various places, and while even the body of the famous Swedish Arctic explorer was said to have been discovered on the coast of Labrador, nothing has ever been estab lished definitely as to what actually happened to the expedition or what be came of the balloon. Andree and two. companions, Messrs. Strindberg and Fraenkel, started from Dane's Island in the hope of being car ried by trade winds to the North Pole. The explorer believed the steady cur rent of air would take him into the polar regions in a week, carry him over the pole and land him safely in North America. Five buoys from the balloon have been picked up. Many searching expeditions have re turned unsuccessful. In January, 1910, dispatches from Prince Albert, Sask.. said that Bishop Pascal announced he had received letters from a missionary telling of the supposed finding of An dree's balloon by Eskimos near Rein deer Lake, in the Arctic circle. 900 miles north of Prince Albert. FOUR AUT0ISTS ARRESTED One - Driver Smashes Into Lamp post, 3 Ilitvo So License Tags. Four automobile drivers were caught in the police dragnet yesterday. Arthur Rudeen, a butcher, 19 years old, was arrested at First and Montgomery streets, by Patrolman Courtney, on a charge of reckless driving. Courtney says that Rudeen went up First street at such speed that he ran into a lamp post when he met a wagon coming down the street. The automobile was wrecked. No one was injured. Thomas Reynolds, a collector, 30 years old,' was krrested at Fourth and Oak streets for an alleged violation of the state automobile law for having no state license tag. Oscar Golien, a chauffeur, IS years old, and R. S. Farrell, a merchant, 44 years old, were arrested on similar charges. ELK HERD IS NUISANCE Game Animals Imported Into Puget Sound Destroying Crops. SEATTLE, Wash., May 27. State Game Warden L. H. Darwin has asked the United States Government to take back the herd of Montana elk liberated near Startup, Snohomish County, the animals having become a nuisance be cause of their depredations on farms. The Federal authorities will ship the Startup herd to Oregon if the beasts can be corralled. It was supposed that the animals would browse in the mountains, but instead they have come down to the river bottoms, seeming to know that they were protected by law. SPELLING BEES ON TODAY Twenty Thousand Portland Pupils AYill Enter Contest. Today marks the renewal of the spelling bee In the Portland schools for pupils In those grades between the fourth and ninth inclusive, some 20,000 in number. Fifty words will be pro pounded today and the remaining 50 of the allotted number tomorrow. Frizes will ultimately be awarded to the school having the highest average, to the school having the largest num ber of perfect individual scores and each of the grades that excels in its particular class. MERCY TO CRIMINALS HIT Society Is Too Ready to Intervene, Says ex-Chief Justice. CHICAGO, May 27. Society is too ready to Intervene in behalf of the criminals, according to John B. Wins low, former Chief Justice of the Su preme Court of Wisconsin, in an iad dress to the Illinois Bar Association to day. "The unwritten law, or sentimental nonsense, is invoked to prevent ade quate punishment," he said. "Our pres ent system operates to defeat justice, and mercy to the criminal is cruelty to the state." TIME CHANGE IS ASKED Council Urged to Operate Spokane on Mountain Time Hereafter. SPOKANE. Wash., May 27 The City Council of Spokane had before it today a communication asking that the Coun cil order that Spokane be operated on Mountain time instead of Pacific time. The reason is that Spokane would then have one hour more of daylight In the evening. The railroads change from Mountain to Pacific time less than 100 miles east. PROTOCOL WITHIN WEEK IS EXPECTED Principles Said to Have Been Settled. MEDIATORS CONFER ON TRAIN Mexico's Internal Problems to Be Partly Avoided. DELAY THUS IS PREVENTED Except That Huerta's Dignity AYill Be Upheld, Xo Information as to Kate of Dictator Is Of fered by Officials. NIAGARA FALLS. Ont.. May 27. Disposition of the Mexican problem by mediation had so far progressed at the end of today's conference that it was predicted a protocol would be signed within a week. The main Issues are understood to have been satisfactorily worked out in principle and it now only remains to be determined whether certain issues of comparatively minor importance shall be Included In the scope of the negotiations. Issues of this nature were understood to have been the sub ject of a conference held today in To ronto between the mediators and the American delegates before attending the garden party given to the Duke and Duchess of Connaught and the mediation colcny. , Issues Discussed on Train. En route tonight from Toronto back to Niagara Falls the mediators com municated the views of the Americans to the Mexican delegates in informal discussions aboard the special car. The points yet to be taken up, it is understobd, relate chiefly to internal problems, and it is known to be the disposition of the mediators, if it is de cided to seek an agreement upon them at all, to treat them only in the form of recommendations for the guidance of the new provisional government, which it is hoped will be established in Mexico. - - - Internal Problems Avoided. The attitude of the Mexican repre sentatives is that these internal prob lems, while by no means unimportant to Mexico itself, should not be entered into by this tribunal, inasmuch as the discussion of one would lead to an other. Thus almost interminable de lay would result before a common understanding could be reached. In this connection the Mexican dele gates brought up. as an illustration, the Governorships of Mexican states and the problem of the relation of the state governments to the provisional federal government, when it shall have been tConcluded on Page a. fe ALL INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Wemtlier. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature. 61 degrees; minimum. 47 degrees. TODAY'S Fair and warmer, northwesterly winds. Mexico. War material tor Huerta landed at Puerta Mexico; Punstoa - siezes vessel at vera Cruz. Page 1. Protocol within week is expected by media torn. Paze 1. Foreign. Remains of Andree's balloon reported found in Siberian forest. Page 1 -Domestic. Missouri Republicans invite Progressives to . return to fold. Page 1. - Presbyterians favor study of Bible in " pub lic schools. Page 3. Existing- treaties declared not so advanced as tuose of years ago. Page 2. Heat and humidity Intense in East. Page 1. Captain Griffiths will plead mental unbal ance In defense. Page H. Astronomer confirms nebular hypothesis. Page 5. Sports. Coast League results Portland 5, Los An greles ; Oakland 4, Venice 2 (2(1 innings); Sacramento 3. San Francisco 1. Page 14. Northwestern League results Spokane 3, Vancouver 2; Victoria 3, Tacoma 1; Portland-Seattle game postponed, rain. Page 14. W. M. Ladd and Mrs. J. C. Alnsworth win mixed foursomes. Page 15. Durbar II. American Colt wins English Derby, carrying 32.C0t stakes. Page 10. Cofts get Elmer Hanson. Page 1. Oaks beat Venice in 20 - inning same. Pase 14. New auto record established at Indianapolis. Page 16. laclfic Northwest. Premium list announced for Multnomah County Fair. Page . Commonwealth conference begins two-day session at Oregon University. Page 6. Commercial and Marine. Local fruit Jobbers decline to be dravn into banana war. Page 21. Wheat averages higher at Chicago owing to decrease In world's supply. Page 21. Sharp grains scored by leading wall street stocks. Page XI. Necessity for dredging channels emphasized by Federal engineer. Page 20. Lighthouse Inspector Beck rearranges "aids to navigation" in Columbia. Pago 'JO. Fortlmnd and Vicinity. Queen of Rosaria and aidea filmed among rosea Page 20. City's efficiency system declared to be dis mal failure. Page 13. W. W. Robinson and E. K. Oppenheimer ex onerated on conspiracy charges. Page 7. Weather report, data and forecast, page 21. Dead to be honored by Portland ' on Me morial day. Page 9. Clergy will watch by dead bishop's bier until lunerai. rage v. News about railroads. Page 21. WASTE OF BILLION CHARGE Americans Declared Good iariners and Had Spenders by Banker. ' OAKLAND, Cal., May 27. "Americans spend more than $1,000,000,000 a year in a search for useless, senseless pleas ure, and this is threatening the finan cial prosperity of the land," said L. P. Behrens, president of the California Bankers' Association, to delegates at tendhrg- the stater- convention which opened, today. ."Americans know how to make money; but they do not know how to spend or save it," Mr. Behrens said. "The people or this country dislike to be told they -are not thrifty, but they are thriftless in the extreme. Convict Sets Himself on Fire. SAN QUENTIN, Cal.. May 27. George Brown, a convict, is dead today, having made a human torch of himself in the observation cell of San .Quentln peni tentiary by pouring oil over his cloth ing and then touching a match to the saturated garments. This was Brown's third attempt to commit suicide. Brown was serving a three-year term for burglary. READY TO RESIGN WITH DIGNITY. LATCHSTR1NG OUT FOR PROGRESSIVES Missouri Republicans in Hospitable Mood. COMMON MISSION T3.uQ Disastrous Policy of Present Administration Denounced. PROTECTION HELD NEED Those Who Will Stand Side by Side in Fight for American Policy Sot to Be Asked About Votes Two Years Ago. ST. LOU IS. May 27. The state con vention of the Republican party held out open arms today to the Progres sives of Missouri to return to the fold of Republicanism. It ratified the Na tional committee's proposal of a reduc tion of the representation of the South ern States at the National convention and denounced the present National Ad ministration as one with a "vacillating, un-American and disastrous" policy. James E. Watson, of Indiana, Repub lican "whip" of the National House of Representatives under the Roosevelt administration, made the principal ad dress of the day and at its height was overcome by the heat. For half an hour three physicians were in attendance on Mr. Watson and then he resumed his address amid cheers. Disastrous Tariff Denounced. He was referred to by subsequent speakers as a "man who would some day soon be a candidate for an office upon which the whole country votes." Both Mr. Watson" and Representative Dyer, of- St. Louis, in addresses as serted that the recently enacted tariff law was proving disastrous to the United States arid quoted statistics from reports of the present Adminis tration to prove this contention. "The Democratic party has failed signally to carry out the pledges of Its party," Mr. Watson said. "Wilson dur ing his campaign declared himself against secret legislation. let never before was a tariff bill railroaded through Congress as was the Underwood-Simmons bill. Congress Held Under Compulsion. "President Wilson dragged the House up like a third-reader class and the Senate like a fifth-reader class and said to them, 'Recite or you get no pie.' They recited. "As to the Progressives, I want to close the door on that matter. If a man will stand at ray side against our common enemy the Democratic party I will not ask him how he voted -two Concluded on Page 2.) WEATHER IN EAST IS HOT AND HUMID STREET XUEBMOMEIEKS -IS WASHINGTON' REGISTER, 100. Mercury Near Record - Breaking Mark in Many Slates Real Re lief Delayed Lntil lYiday. A wave of accompanied ..'.teiiae midsummer heat by enervating humidity, settling over the Atlantic States and the Ohio and the Middle Mississippi valleys, brought temperatures today near record-breaking points. Richmond, Va., with a temperature of S3 degrees, was the only place where the mercury established a new record. In Washington the enclosed ther mometers at the elevated Weather Bu reau registered 95 decrees, while those on the streets marked 100, the official figure within one degree of the record for the warmest May day since 1870. In many cities throughout tho East tho temperature reached a point only one degree lower than that in Wash ington. New Tork, Boston and Phila delphia all sweltered, with the official thermometers showing 94 degrees. In the West, St. Louis, Evansvllle and Terre Haute had temperatures of 92 de geres. Slightly cooler weather was prom ised the East during the remainder of the week by the Bureau experts to night, but the indications are that no real relief will come until Friday, when a disturbance swooping down from the Northwest may bring general thunder showers. EX-ACTOR TO DRILL CHOIR Church Buys Auto for Frltzl Scheff's Once Leading Man. HOOD RIVER, Or., May 27. (.Spe cial.) O. T. Wedemeyer, for two years leading man with Fritzl Scheff, the in comparable French singer, will be choirmaster of the Unitarian Church for the next two years. Mr. Wedemeyer lives on his West Side orchard. He declined to undertake his new choral duties unless the church bought him an automobile to get back and forth. The automobile was pur chased today, the first instance, per haps, that a church in the liorthwest has made such an enterprising Invest ment. OREGON BOX WINS' POINT House Committee Agrees to Get Ac . tion on 1 taker Bill. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, May 27. Representatives Hawley and Sinnott, of Oregon, and Raker of California, appeared today before the House committee on coin age, weights and measures and urged a favorable report on the Raker bill adopting the Oregon apple box as the standard container for apples through out the United States. After hearing their argument the committee agreed to take the bill up for action Friday and the Western members were led to believe the bill will be favorably reported. REFERENDUM HALTS WORK Million Dollar Station Waits While People Vote on Agreement. SAN FRANCISCO, May 27. The southern Pacific Company stopped work today on the construction of $1,000,000 station at Third and Town send streets as a result of the filing of a referendum petition for a vote of the people on the agreement made be tween the company and the Supervisors regarding the new terminal. Work was being rushed to finish the terminal for 1915. Two hundred and twenty-five men were laid off. INDIANS HELP DRYS WIN Xcz Perce County, Idaho, Lost by Wets, Despite Lewiston Majority. SPOKANE. Wash., May 27. (Special.) . Nez Perce County, Idaho, voted "dry" at today's local option election, the Fro hlbiton forces having a majority of 22. Lewiston proper voted "wet," but the county unit prevails, hence the whole county will be dry. The election will be contested by the "wets" on the ground that Indians were allowed to vote. The Indians are said to be on the prohibition side. CLASS OF 24 GRADUATES Grants Pass High School Has Its Closing Exercises. GRANTS PASS, Or.. May 27 (Spe cial.) Graduating exercises of the high school were held in the opera house tonight. The address to the class was made by Governor West. The diplomas were delivered to the graduates by George Calhoun, chair man of the board of directors. There are 24 in the class that received parch ment. Flowers in profusion decorated the stage. CANAL ZONE HAS QUAKE 30-Second Shock More Violent Than Last but Locks Xot Hurt. COLON. May 27 A severe earth shock lasting more than 30 seconds oc curred tonight. It was much stronger than any of the seismic disturbances felt in the Canal Zone last October. No damage was done locally, so far as reported. The officials at Gatun de scribed the shock as very strong, and had no knowledge up to a late hour of any damage to the canal. WILSON DESCRIBES SCHOLAR'S MISSIOII President Says Know! edge Banishes Hate. "INSIGHT" UNITING WORLD 'Races We Despise' Are Those We Do Not Know. NEW UNIVERSITY OPENED Ceremony Attended by President and Two Cabinet orflccrs Daniels Sas Patriotism and Relig- -Ion Go Together. WASHINGTON, May 27. President Wilson and two members of his Cabi net, Secretaries Bryan and Daniels, participated today in the formal open ing of the American University, tho new National. Methodist Episcopal school located on tne Potomac Heights overlooking the Nation's Capitol. Bishop Earl Cranston, of Washing ton, presided at tho ceremonies, held on the university campus and attended by thousands of educators and church men from all parts of the United States. The late President McKinley and Colonel Roosevelt laid cornerstone of buildings for the university, which was projected 25 years ago by Bishop Hurst- ' Comprehension Is Real Difficulty.'' "Scholarship, It seems to me," Fresi., dent Wilson said in his address, "is the mastery, the exact mastery, and comprehension of great bodies of knowledge, and the comprehension is more difficult than the mastery. It is much easier to aoquire than it is to Interpret, and yet all knowledge is dead which is not interpreted. The vision of the scholar Is worth more to the world than his industry. "It la knowledge, properly Interpre ted, seen with a vision of Insight, that is uniting the world, the spirits of the world." People Despised Because A'ot Know a. The President told an anecdote of Charles Lamb, who said he was never able to hate any man he knew. "There are races whom we despise," he added, "and it generally turns out that we de spise them because we do not know them. We have not found the same common footing of humanity with which to touch and deal with them. "The object of scholarship, the ob ject of all knowledge, is to understand, is to comprehend. Is to know what tho need of mankind is. That is the rea son why scholarship usually has been more fruitful when associated with re ligion; and scholarship has never, so far as I can at this moment recollect, been associated with any religion ex cept the religion of Jesus Christ. Christian Auspices Appropriate. "The religion of humanity and the comprehension of humanity are of the same breed ana kind, and they go to gether. It is very proper, therefore, that under Christian auspices a great adventure of the mind, a great enter prise of the spirit, should be entered upon." President Wilson emphasized the fact that the mind owes allegiance and sub. servience to nobody but God, and sug gested that the opening of another uni versity was but the addition of one more means of emancipating the hu man mind from fear and misunder standing. In conclusion he said: "So we are here setting upon this hill, as upon a high pedestal, once more the compass of human life with its great needle pointing steadily at the lodestar of the human spirit. Let every man who wishes to know come and look upon this compass and thereafter de termine which way he will go." Religion and Patriotism Kin. Secretary Daniels described the Navy as a great university and emphasized the fact that patriotism and religion have always gone hand n hand. He in sisted that religion and education must also be united. "Only this week," he said, "a distin guished preacher in New York declared that 'our universities are controlled by capital and do not heed the call of struggling humanity.' Your university, fortunate in its environment and for tunate in its scope, cannot fail to hear the call to serve humanity. It will hear the clear call that Wesley heard at Oxford and put all learning and sci ence under contribution for the open ing of doors of help and opportunity to struggling men and women." "EUGENICS" MOVE OPPOSED Medico-Psychological Society Votes Against Marriage Supervision. BALTIMORE. May 27'. The Ameri can Medico - Psychological Association, at Its annual convention today, refused to go on record as favoring hygienic marriage laws. The resolution adopted by the council of the association recom mending the enactment of laws requir ing a clean bill of health and evidence of a normal mind before the issuance of a marriage license was tabled by a large majority. Resolutions recommending the segre gation of the feeble-minded, Imbeciles or other mental delinquents, and the establishment of separate institutions for their care, were adopted unanimously.