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16 20 TO 1 AMERIGAN ; COLT WINS DERBY Durbar II Takes Best-Known English Classic in Canter. Stakes $32,500. 33-T0-1 SHOT IS SECOND 100 to 1 "Outsider" Finishes Third as King and Queen, Look On 10p som Victory Iirst for American Since Croker Won. in 190?. EPSOM, Eng., May 27. Durbar II. the American colt owned by Herman B. Duryea, and the only American horse entered, today won the Derby, the best-known of the English classio horse events. With the victory Dur bar II carried away $32,600 stakes and It is understood big winnings for the owner, as the betting was 20 to 1 against the three-yeax-qld colt Just before the start of the race The bet ting against Hapsourg, who finished Fecond. was 33 to 1 and against Peter the Hermit, who finished third, 100 to 1. Durbar II had no trouble in dis posing of a field of 30 horses, the largest since 1863, winning by three lengths, in a canter. The time of the race was 2:38, a fraction of a second Quicker than the average. A length and a half separated Hapsbiiowned by 1-f. Cholmondelay, and PeterJhe Hermit, owned by H. J. King. Royalty Witnesses Race. King George and Queen Mary wit nessed the race, as did almost the en tire staff from the United States Em bassy, and many other Americans. The winner's recent form in France had been considered so poor that he was regarded here as a rank outsider, and odds of 25 to 1 were freely laid against him in the clubs last night. The last American race horse owner to win the English Derby was Richard I'roker, who carried off the classic race with Orby in 1907. The Derby stakes was established In 3 780, but races had taken place on the same course as early as 1640. The stakes is valued at $32,500. and is for rolts and fillies of 3 years old. The course Is about 1 miles in length. Kor this year's race there were orig inally 37 entries. The great favorite for this yearte race. The Tetrarch, was scratched a few weeks ago. Winner Bred in France. Durbar II, today's winner, is a bay colt by Rabelais out of Armenia. He was bred in France. The public favorites never flattered their supporters at any stage of the race. Kenneymore, who led the bet ting, behaved so badly at the post that be delayed the start, and when the field was finally sent away he was left in a bad position. Polycrates made all the running to the half distance, with Black Jester. Hapsburs, Dan Rus sel and Durbar II close up. Rounding Tattenham Corner, Durbar II jumped in on the rail and took up the running. He held the command to the finish, easily stalling off several challengers. Dan Russel was fourth. Duryea had great faith in his horse, which was backed for large amounts by the American contingent. The Jubi lation among the big crowd of trans Atlantic visitors was distinctly notable as the winner was led into the paddock. After Durbar's moderate display at Longchamps May 17, when he finished unplaced in the purse for colts Valued at $20,000, Mr. Duryea decided not to send him to compete in the Derby. On the elimination of the "wonder horse," Tetrarch, however, the American turf man determined to give the colt a chance. Mr. Duryea was not surprised at the victory of Durbar II. "I knew he would run differently than he did in the French Guineas," he said. "The Epsom course suited him better and he can stay forever." The jockey, MacGee, said he had never had an easier race in his life. "The Epsom course had no terrors for- me, he said. "Mr. Duryea said rood boy to me when I dismounted and Sir John Thursby, owner of Kenny more, the favorite, congratulated me." Militants Are Anticipated. The past glories of the journey by road from London to Epsom departed with the advent of automobiles, and the high spirits usually characterizing the crowd on Derby day were in some degree dampened by the presence of an army of police encamped about the ground and forming lines along the course to prevent any attempt at vio lence by militant suffragettes. It would have required an airship to circumvent the precautions taken. Ada Rice, supposed to be a militant suffragette, was arrested on Epsom Downs today after she had discharged pistol loaded with blank cartridges t a policeman. The policeman was slightly burned. The woman asserted that her bus hand had handed her the weapon this morning for use In case she was mo lested. She indignantly repudiated the suggestion that she was a suffragette. SENATE MAKES 500 IDLE River Appropriation Bill in .Pigeon hole Stops Mississippi Work. LA CROSSE. Wis., May 23. More than 500 men in the La Crosse district of the Upper Mississippi River Im provement Division are out of employ ment because Congress has not passed t he rivers and harbors appropriation bill. The measure has been passed by the House, but is beinr held up in the Sen ate, and as a result not a boat is em ployed In Government work. It is feared the delay will make it impos sible to complete the work mapped out between La Crosse and Brownsville. Contractors engaged in getting out brush and rock for dam building also have ceased to work. Not a Government fleet Is at work between St- Paul and St. Louis, and the 3000 men employed yearly between these two cities are being forced to cek other employment. TWO-ROOM WIFE WANTED 1 owi Karmer Says Sno Aleo Must B Good' Cook and Loving. CHICAGO. May 23. The new bureau on marriage and divorce threatens to become a matrimonial agency as well. 1'. J. J. McCarthy, head of the bureau, received a letter from A. F. Cummings, a farmer of Ottumwa, la., asking him to supply him with a wife. She must be middle-aged, "a good looker, good dresser, kind and loving, a good cook, fond of raising chickens." and willing to live in a new two-room cottage, "with plenty of grub to cook." Mr. McCarthy said he would place the letter on file. ONE Or THE TRIM YACHTS TO DECORATION DAY t. jr. medp:hai,l's "Virginia," trim class b sailor. With the launching of T. C. Luke's little class A yacht, the flotilla of white-winged craft which will disport Saturday afternoon at the Oregon Yacht Club is completed. The race this year is expected to bring out some new champions. The boats will not be new, but Frank Creasey's "Sparrow," the win ner for some years back, is getting old, and the sailors would not be surprised to see some other craft run away from him. Two of the "Bear Lake" type of boats are in the meet. They are T. J. Mendenhall's "Virginia" and H. F. Todd's "Grayling." AUTO MARK FALLS Boillot Goes 100 Miles an Hour at Indianapolis. 30 WHO WILL RACE NAMED IVencu Driver in Tri;! for 5 0-0-3ile Speed Test Saturday Makes Fastest Time Ever Seen in This Country. THIS IS HOW TO PRONOUNCE Jr'ORKIGN NAMJCS FICiLHING IX AUTO SPEED TEST. The pronunciation of foreign names connected with the 500-mile race at Indianapolis Saturday baa worried many a motor bus to distraction. For the benefit of the uninitiated the following: phonetic key Is given. Cars Peugeot, Pay-Jo; Delage, Day-Lawge. Drivers Qoux, Goo; Boillot. Boil-o; Chassagne, Chas-saw-in; Guyot, Gee-o (hard G) ; Christiaens, Krees-tt-an; Thomas, Toh-mah, and Friedrich, Freed-rlsh, or as close to the German ch as an American can get. All other foreign names. Including Mercedes, Isotta, Bugattt, Duray and Mazzucco, are generally pronounced as English without Impropriety. INDIANAPOLIS, May 27. After three days of the fastest automobile racing ever seen on the Indianapolis motor speedway, the 30 drivers "who will start in the annual 600-mile race here Saturday were selected, tonight. Georges Boillot, the French driver, who set today a new United States record on the two-and one-half-mile track, circling it in 1:30.13, led the list of successful drivers. Boillot drove his car around the course at a rate of a fraction less than 100 miles an hour. Jules Goux, teammate of Boillot's, was second, having sent his French car around the track in 1:31.71. and Teddy Tetzlaff, in an American car, was third. Ralph te Palma, known as the "hard luck" driver, who had been unable to get the required speed out of his ma chine, qualified on his third and last trial lap. He was 20th in the list and required 1:42.12 to go the two and. one half miles. Boillot, who traveled today at a speed faster than ever seen in this country, is the winner of three grand prlae races in France. Goux won the race here last year and this team is favored in the betting as winner of this year's contest. Fifteen of the drivers who had en tered, cars in the race either withdraw or failed in the elimination runs. Bob Bur man qualified with two cars. He is permitted to select another driver for one of the machines. The. track will be used tomorrow for final practice and on Friday it will be closed, so that it may be cleaned and the oil washed off. The successful drivers and the order in which they finished are: Boillot .. Goux Tetzlaff . Thomaa . Dawson . l:30.lStGuyot 1:40.95 . . . . 1 :31.71 Chassagne 1:41.91 . . . .1:33.40; Muiford 1:42.03 lS'.S.UOiRichenbacher ..1 :4:!.ll I::i6.0-De Paima 1:42.12 1 :36. 40: Cooper 1 :42.23 1 :3tJ.SO Brock 1 :42.47 Carlson . Bragg ... Wish art i :;-!(. H' t- nedricn l :42.09 Christians . . . .1 ::J8.67:chandIer 1 :42-f 1 Wilcox . . .1 :3.ltf Oldfield 1:43.15 Anderson 1:39.40 Mason 1:43. Uurman 1:39.55 Keene ........1 :4H.OO Puray 1:40.00 Klein 1:43.60 Knlpper 1 :40.4S Burman 1:43.70 Haupt . 1 :40.t8 lirant 1:44.09 MURDER DIGS UP ODD TALE Ir. Schaefer, in Milwaukee Court, Explains 'World Tour. MILWAUKEE. Wis, May 23. The manslaughter case against Ir. F. X. Schaefer. former head of the Wiscon sin Oddfellows, who disappeared, leav THE MORMXG OREGOXIA3T. THURSDAY, MAST 28, 1914. APPEAR IN YACHT CLUB'S PROGRAMME. ing as a bride the Baroness von Oet tingen, of Berlin, discloses a strange series of wanderings. Dr. Scliaefer was arrested in San Francisco, where he was known as Dr. Carl Miller. He is accused of causing the death by an illegal operation of Mrs. Rose Diedrich, wife of a Mil waukee teacher. Dr. Schaefer, on the stand, admitted going around the world with a woman whom he planned to marry If the Mil waukee case were not pressed. Spe cial Prosecutor Zabel. in the course of the cross-examination, forced Schaefer to admit that he became a citizen of Canada under the name of Carl Miller; that he went to Australia and adver tised in a newspaper for a woman traveling companion; that he became acquainted with a woman named Vic toria Ida Bull, and that with her made a trip around the-world. SON AIDS MOTHER; BOTH DIE Pathetic 'Story of royalty Told by Xew Tort Fire. NEW YORK. May 22 Mrs. Anne Halsted, 65 years old, a widow, and ner JJ-year-old son Harry were burned to death when their flat at 289 Colum bia street. Brooklyn, was destroyed by fire. The son was not In the buildlne- when the fire was discovered, and, learning of it after It had eainerl pun. siderable headway, he hurried there wnn several mends. His mother's flat, which was on the top floor of the ouuaing. was aflame when he arrived, but, although his friends tried to hold him back, he broke away from them and rushed to save his mother. His charred body was found on the threshold of her room half an hour later by firemen. Mrs. Halsted was burned to death in her bed. She was a cripple, and had been an Invalid for a year. Harry Halsted. according to his friends, was engaged to marry and was waiting until his mother's health should Improve before having the cere mony performed. BRITISH BUNTING REFUSED Only Costliest American Article Is Bought for American Navy. WASHINGTON, May 22. Assistant Secretary Roosevelt of the Navy De partment announced recently that, not withstanding the lower bidding of Eng lish manufacturers for the bunting used on American warships, none but Amer ican bunting would be used. He gave this assurance to Representative Rog ers,-of Massachusetts, who called on him in regard to the matter. . Mr. Rogers said! that two concerns in Lowell manufactured all the bunting in this country and that, under the new tariff law, the C. B. Brook Company, of Bradford, England, bid $34,583 for the contract for furnishing the bunting to the Navy, the New England Bunting Company, of Lowell. $44,623. and the United States Bunting Companv, of Lowell, $43,095. LIFE SAVED BY CLOTHES Bullet Goes Through Various Coats and Shirts; Becomes Discouraged. NEW "FORK, May 22. Philip Moretti is alive today because he believes in wearing a good many clothes. When two young men fought a re volver duel at Ninth avenue and Six teenth street the other night Moretti was struck in the left breast. After the bullet had gone through an over coat, an undercoat, two waistcoats, a shirt and two undershirts it was dis couraged and only slightly wounded him. i GIRL USHER DISAPPEARS Mother Calls Police to Aid in Hunt for 1 7-Vear-Ord Daughter. - CHICAGO. May23. Mrs. Marcella Subis. a laundress at the Children's Memorial Hospital, asked the- police yesterday to search for her 17-year-old daughter Marcella, who after re ceiving her wages on August 7 never returned home. The girl was an usher in a motion picture theater. The mother said she believed she must have been enticed away by some actor. SIMPLER POSTAL SERVICE-SOUGHT Department Outlines Chief Purpose of Experiments in Portland Office. DIVISIONS ARE IGNORED Men to Be Assigned to Duty Where Most Needed, Regardless of What Branch It Is Hour Gained on Outgoing Malts. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, May 13. If Portland's "model postoffice" proves to be the success ex pected by the Postoffice Department, and if other "model" offices operated along the same line show improvement in the handling of the mails, the postal service in' all large cities will be re organized within a year and on the lines now being tried out at Portland under the direction of Postmaster Myers. Many of the Innovations which are being tested at the Portland office were originally suggested by Postmaster Myers after he had been in office a few months. Other ideas are those sug gested by a few other progressive post masters who also have been striving to better the service. Tm-DlTlalon I'laa Favored. "Portland has been selected by Postmaster-General Burleson as one of the initial points in his plan for reorgani sing and improving the mail Bervice of the nation," says the statement. "The fundamental recommendation of the committee is for the adop tion of the 'two-division' plan of organization. . Heretofore, the Port land postoffice has had five inde pendent divisions mailing, delivery, registry, money order and finance. Un der the new plan, which became effect ive March 16, it now has only a divi sion of malls and a division of finance. The duties of each are distinct and readily defined, the former having to do with all matters pertaining to the mails and the latter all matters relat ing to financial services and the ac counting, bookkeeping? and records of the office. "The superintendent of mails, assist ed by tvo assistant superintendents of mails, will exercise supervision over the entire mailing floor, including every operation relating to the receipt, distribution, delivery, collection and dispatch of all classes of mail. The superintendent will not be a mere of fice man, but will be on duty directing the actual physical work of his divi sion during the busiest hours of the day. General Authority Fixed. "The schedule will be so arranged with that of the superintendent that from 7 A. M. to midnight one or the other of the superintendent's two as sistants will be constantly in general charge of the whole division. Even during the slack hours from midnight to morning the same plan will be ob served by giving general authority to one of the foremen. The entire force will be dealt with as a unit and clerks will not be regarded as belonging ne cessarily to any branch or kind of work, but each will be assigned from time to time wherever his services are most needed. "The assistant postmaster will act as superintendent of the division of finance. A system of accounting has been worked out, the adoption of which will place a double check on every financial transaction and at the same time the transactions and records will be simplified. Temptation will be removed from the weak by the great ly increased probability of'detection and the chance of suspicion in case of pecu lation falling on Innocent employes will be reduced to a minimum. Kotnre Needs Considered. In conducting its investigation," the Postmaster General's committee of spe cial agents have had regard for the future as well as the present needs of the postal service in Portland. Con gress has authorized the expenditure of $1. 340, 000 for the construction and equipment of a new Federal building. The programme laid down by the com mittee accordingly includes reforms to be instituted when the present post office will become the main station for serving the patrons in the business and shopping districts and the new building will provide for the larger op erations of collection and delivery and the. general handling of all outgoing and incoming mails. "An impartial and standard system for rating the efficiency of clerks and carriers and supervisory officers as well, has been devised. "A plan of handling outgoing letter mail will be put into effect so that letters will reach the railroad station 35 minutes from the time they are deposited at the main office a gain of one hour over the time required under the old plan. "Portland now has one automobile in the collection service and the commit tee has recommended the addition of another machine. The new automobile route will cover territory on the east side of the Willamette River, provid ing for the collection of mail from boxes on at least one principal street in the districts of St. Johns, Kenton, University Park, Rose City, and Sell wood stations, as well as stations B, F and D and portions of station A. The route hag been laid out to include only hard-surface paved roads, on which good time can be made. The additional collections will be made some time after the delivery carriers have completed their day's work. Parcel Post Simplified. "Special attention was given to the parcel post service. In the future this class of mail will be cancelled at the place of deposit so as to relieve the mailing division of this- work involv ing the rehandllng and resacking or the parcels. By this means congestion at the main office will be avoided, the parcel mall will be dispatohed more quickly and fragile parcels will be saved an unnecessary handling and sacking. For the convenience of patrons mailing parcels at -the main office, ar rangements will be made to weigh and receive the parcels, sell stamps and at- THE G ASOL! E;OF QUALITY Not a "mixture," but a straight distilled refinery product the best gasoline the Standard Oil Company can make. Dealers everywhere. Ask our nearest agency regarding bulk delivery. Standard Oil Company (CALIFORNIA) Portland tend to insurance and C. O. E. matters, all at the same window." TONSILS REMOVALURGED SINGERS SEEKING FAME MUST SEE SURGEON, IS ADVICE. Interference of One of 74,682 Altern- tlona In Vocal Mechanism Prevents Timbre, Is Assertion. CHICAGO, May 23 There are 747 682 things wnich may happen to the voice and destroy the career of the vo calist -or speaker. If one would achieve fame, first consult a surgeon and have the tonsils removed. The foregoing is the advice of Dr. J. R. McCleary, of Cleveland, who ad dressed the Illinois Homeopathic Med ical Association. "I maintain that in the future all great speakers and singers will be peo ple whose tonsils have been removed," he said. "Tonsils obstruct the voice muscles. There are 74 of these and 16 nerves, which are capable of 16,000 ad justments, producing 74.682 alterations in the vocal mechanism. If one of these is interfered with by abnormal tonsils, we fail to get the timbre sought by the professionals. "At a congress of surgeons in Chi cago last Fall it was said no great vo calist ever had the tonsils removed but the speakers said they had no ab normal tonsils. Tonsils explain why few become famous as speakers and singers. Ir. H. H. Helbing. of St. Louis, speaking before the Illinois State Electric Medical Society, described a vegetable antitoxin to replace animal serums in the treatment of diseases. The preparation is known as the "sub colloid" of lobelia. "I have given large doses of animal anti-toxine to a diphtheria patient with no results," he said. "One hypodermic Injection of subcolloid of lobelia gave immediate relief," he said. The speaker urged careful diagnosis and prompt operations for appendicitis. OPERA TENOR IS JAILED Debtor of Hammerstein Puts Up $50 00 Bond' and Gets Oat. BOSTON". May 22. After a night in Jail because it was alleged he intended to sail for South America while a $30,000 court Judgment remained un settled, Frolencio Constantino, Boston Opera Company tenor, appealed to Judge Jenney of the Superior Court to release him. Constantino was freed after a bond of 55000 , had been deposited by his friends. The Judgment against him was ob tained by Oscar Hammerstein. Clackamas Students Graded. OREGON CITT. Or., May 27. (Spe cial.) The correction of the eighth grade examination papers of the Clack amas County schools was completed to- HOTEL H0YT , Eoyt and Sixth Sta. New Fire Proof 200 Booms RATES 75c UP Permanent guests solicited Special Rates. One Block from Union Depot. H. JENNING & SONS, Props. W. A. Burleigh, Mgr. day. Of 335 pupils, there were 73 fail ures and 100 conditionals. The condi tionals will take the examinations again in June. One hundred and sixty two passed, which is larger than that in any previous year. About one-third of the eighth grade students were fail ures in 1913. Springfield Boy "Wins Honor. SPRINGFIELD, Or., May 27. (Spe MORE NEW TRAINS and a few changes in schedules. BIG RED STEEL ELECTRIC TRAINS SOUTHERN PACIFIC WEST SIDE New Trains leave Portland for Forest Grove at 2 :15 P. M., 6 :15 P. M., 8 :00 P. M. New Trains leave Forest Grove for Portland at 6:30 A. M., 4:00 P. M., 9:35 P. M. New Train leaves Portland for McMinnville via Forest Grove at 11:15 P. M. New Train leaves McMinnville for Portland via Forest Grove at 5:30 P. M. ,. No. 106 will leave McMinnville at 6:30 A. M.t arriving Portland at 8:35 A. M. No. 114 will leave Forest Grove at 12:35 P. M., instead of 12 :45 P. M. EAST SIDE New train will leave Portland for Newberg at 12:35 P. M.: returning, will leave Newberg at 2:25 P.M. Oswego Locals leaving Portland at 10:20 A. M., 3:10 P. M., 6:20 P. M., are extended to Tualatin; re turning, these trains will leave Tualatin at 11:15 A. M., 4:10 P. M., 7:10 P. M. A new Oswego local will leave Portland at 12 :05 P. M. No. 322, leaving Oswego at 4:55 P. M., and No. 323, leaving Portland 5:35 P. M., are discontinued. No, 319, leaving Portland at 4:10 P. M., will go" to Beaverton via Oswego. New Time Tables ready for distribution Friday. Ask the Agent. , SEE OREGON FIRST Loop Electric Train, for McMinnville, affording 100 miles of continuous scenery, will leave Portland every Sunday at 1 P. M. $1.60 Round Trip. ' Use the Big Red Steel Electric Cars to Oswego Lake for a delightful day's outing. Oswego 25c Round Trip Lake Grove 35c Round Trip FAST AND FREQUENT SERVICE Inquiries solicited at City Ticket Office, 80 Sixth Street, Corner Oak; Fourth and Yamhill Streets; Jefferson Street Station or Union Depot. John M. Scott, General Passenger Agent. Portland, Oregon 33 cial.) Randall Scott, son of C. L,. Scott of the First National Bank, has been awarded the Pacific University scholar ship for being the honor student of the graduating class of the Springfield High School for 1914. Mr. Scott's average for the four years' work is 92.11 per cent. Miss Ida Carson, with a percent age of 91.56. and Miss Grace Male, with 91.53, were close contenders tor tho honor. .