V E DECLARED BEST STAGED HERE Beauty Rides by in Rio of Color. QUEEN EXPRESSES PLEASURE Entries, Numbering 300, Bear Millions of Rose Blooms. ORDER REPORTED PERFECT Oliver X. Jeffery Awarded Grand Prire Dozens of Other Premiums Given and Scores of Attrac tive Exhibits Are Rivals, HOSE KKSTTVAL FBOOUMMB -FOB TODAY. 10:30 A. Eait SI da. Grand ave nue, between Holladay and. Haw thorns, school children's parade, COOS Portland boys and girls participating-. Special drills and evolutions, etc. 11:10 A. M. Judging district dis play of roses, Fesyval Center, Sixth, and Tamhlll streeta l;SO to 4:30 P. M. Reception on United States cruiser Boston by Ore gon Naval Militia 4:00 P. M. Twenty-fifth and Raleigh streets; Campbell's Military Band In attendance. Start of Na tional balloon races under auspices of Aero Club of America; S3O00 cash prises. Starter, O. C. Letter; timer, W. D. Skinner. Entries: Captain H. E. Honeywell. St. Louis, balloon Un cle Bam; Captain John Berry, St. Louis. balloon Million Population Club; Captain John Watts, Kansas City, balloon Kansas City III; noy F. Donaldson. Springfield, 111., bal loon Spring-field. :00 P. M. Concert, Campbell's Ullitary Band, Festival Center, Sixth and Tamhlll streeta :0 P. M. Grand ball at the Oak. Proceeds to be divided be- . tween four of Portland's leadln charitable Institution. Queen Thelma and her Princesses, esoorted by presi dent and members of Rose Festival Board of Governors, will lead the grand march. It 1b possible to apeak of yesterday's automobile and vehicle parade only by dealing- In superlatives. It was the biggest, best and grand est In Rose Festival history and that Isn't mere persiflage, either, as one of the greatest crowds that ever viewed a Festival parade can testify. Seasoned and experienced Festival fans agreed after It was all over that the parade was the best of the eight in Festival history and that the auto mobile section was the bright particu lar feature of the whole brilliant en semble. "It certainly was fine. I hope the people enjoyed It," declared Queen Thelma enthusiastically after she had dropped out of her place at the head of the line and watched the long pro cession pass by. Kntrics Exceed SOO. The parade passed over a route five and a half miles in length, covering some of the principal business streets on both sides of the river. It was more than two and a half miles In length and took an hour and 16 min utes to pass a given point. There were more than 300 separate entries bearing millions of rare and attractive blooms mostly roses, but not forgetting scores of other choice Oregon floral products. Oliver K. Jeffery may have a mon opoly of grand prizes because he has been a consistent winner for many years, but no one dissented from the judges' decision "in awarding the honor to him again this year. The Jeffery entry was decorated in rhododendrons with an ample supply of green foliage. J ne artistic manner in which the flow ers were arranged had as much to do with the result as anything, Cnpld Is Carried. Mrs. Jeffery drove the machine. "With her was Mrs. E. J. Jeffery, Jr. Seated high up on a miniature throne in the rear was little Bradford Carpen ter, son of C. C. Carpenter, dressed in a union suit to represent cupld. True to the determination of the Festival managers to conduct the week's entire programme on schedule time, the parade moved promptly at 2 o'clock. . Every 'inch of the curbs along which the pageant passed was packed with people. The crowd encroached uncom fortably near the starting place at Fourteenth and Morrison streets. The police finally cleared the streets of ob jectionable automobiles and permitted the parade to move without interrup tion. It is generally admitted that the cash prizes Instead of the accustomed cups and ribbons, brought out many entries. Every Entry Passed On. - George L. Baker, superintendent of Festival amusements, and a commit tee of his assistants, passed on the ad missibility of every entry before It was permitted to Join the procession. More than a score of vehicles whose decorations did not come up to re quirements were turned out of line. As a result the entire pageant was made up of attractive entries. At the head of the line rode Captain J. T. Moore. In charge of the police detail, followed, by a sqitad of mounted (Concluded en Page a.) PARAD 2 STUDENTS ELOPE AND SURPRISE ALL UNIVERSITY CO-ED AD JTJXIOR STEAL MARCH OS FRIENDS. Couple Return to Classes, Write Ex ami nations, Keep Wedding Secret. Girl's Mother Makes Discovery. SEATTLE, June 10. (Special.) While their parents and a host of friends and classmates in the State University campus believed they were passing the day in Tacoma with ac quaintances. Miss Hallle Palmerton. one of the most popular co-eds. and Theodore R. Pape, a prominent junior. stole a march on all of them yester day by culminating a pretty college romance with a quiet marriage In the City of Destiny." The couple today attended classes. wrote final examinations and kept their wedding a secret. All went well until Mrs. Palmerton. mother of the bride, learned of it and telephoned to her daughter. The bridegroom is a member of sev eral college honor societies. Ha Is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred E. Fape, 122 Aloha street. Mrs. Pape Is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Palmerton. 502 West Highland Drive. She belongs to Delta Delta Delta Sorority and has been ac tive in undergraduate events. Mr. and Mrs. Pape will take their honeymoon on the steamship Congress, leaving Seattle about July 1 for San Francisco. They will make their home in Sacramento, where Mr. Pape will be employed by an oil company. COUPLE FORGET LICENSE Lapse Defeats Plan to Elude Their Friends by Quiet Wedding. CHICAGO, June 10. -Harry L. Cort. president of the Central Amusement Company, and Miss Margaretta Jones, of Los Angeles, were married today after a plan to elude their friends by wedding in Evanston had been spoiled by Mr. Cort's . forgetfulness. They drove to Evanston and entered a Judge's office when they remembered they had failed to obtain a marriage license. They returned to Chicago and were married. The bride is a daughter of Mrs. L. Ainsworth, of Los Angeles, and the bridegroom a son of John Cort, the. atrlcal producer. DAKOTA WINDS ARE FATAL 2 Dead. Several Injured and Live stock Killed In Storms. BlOUX FALLS, a D., June 10. Two Indian boys were killed and five serl ously injured at Pipestone, Mlnn and three persons Injured, one aerlonsly, ii x lauareau, o. as a result of a heavy windstorm which swept that vicinity la'te this afternoon. The storm wrought great havoc with Indian schools at both towns. Farm buildings were demolished and livestock killed by winds of great ve locity. Telephone and telegraph wires are down and reports are meager. YOUNG HAMMERSTEIN DIES Man Who Devised First Broadway Roof Garden Succumbs at 40. NEW YORK, June 10. William Ham- mersteln, son of Oscar Hammerstein. the impresario, and for years manager or Hammerstein's Victoria Theater in this city, died here tonight of Bright' s disease. Mr. Hammerstein devised the first theatrical roof garden on Broadway. He was 40 years old. ST. LOUIS HAS BIG FIRE One Reported Dead In $1,000,000 Chemical Plant Blaze. ST. LOUIS, June 1L Fire that started In the ether house of the Mal llncrodt Chemical Works here shortly after 2:30 o'clock this mornlne- de- stroyed the plant, valued at more than 1.000.000. It Is reported one man was killed in one of the 25 explosions that rent the building. HIGHWAYMAN DEALS DEATH Baggage Agent Killed After Soo Line Agent Is Robbed. OSHKOSH, Wis.. June 10. Frederick Hlnes, baggage agent, was shot to death by a highwayman as he stepped into the waiting-room of the Soo Line depot tonight. The highwayman, who had just held up the ticket agent and had rifled the cash drawer when Hines entered, es caped. PAGE IN LINE FOR DEGREE Ambassador to Be Honored by Ox ford When Strauss Is. LONDON, June 10. Oxford Univer sity, on June 24, will confer honorary degrees on the American Ambassador. Walter Hines Page, Lord Bryce of Dechmont and Richard Strauss, the composer, it was announced tonight. PITCHER COOMBS IS NAMED Progressives Would Elect Baseball Star State Senator. KENNEBUNK, Me., June 10. John W. Coombs, the Philadelphia American Leaguer pitcher, was nominated for State Senator at the York County Pro gressive convention today. Coombs' home la here. TOLLS BILL FINAL STAGE Senate to Vote Before It Adjourns Today. REPEAL IS CERTAIN TO WIN Amendment Declaring No Right Is Waived Adopted. VOTE SURPRISES MEMBERS Both Sides Had Conceded Amend- xuent Would Carry, but 50 to 24 Exceeded Expectations Strong Feeling Is Manifested. WASHINGTON, June 10. The fight which has raged In Congress over the canal tolls exemption repeal bill for many months will come to a close be fore adjournment tomorrow, barring unforeseen developments. votes taken tonight on amendments designed to' preserve any right the United States possesses under the Hay- r-aunceiote treaty with Great Britain to exempt American ships from toll payment through the Panama Canal Indicated that the forces of repeal would win by a substantial majority. Margin of Tea Predicted. Senator Simmons, who has led the fight for repeal, estimated that the bill will carry by not fewer than ten votes and there is every promise that his es timate will prove correct There was no real test of strength in the voting tonight, but the repeal forces won the first round of the fight when they put through, by a vote of 50 to 24, the so-called Slmmons-Norrls amendment., which declares that the United States does not waive or relin quish any right it may have to exempt American ships from payment of Pan ama Canal tolls. Both sides had con ceded that this amendment would carry, but it had been the subject of attack for many hours today and when the large majority was announced many Senators were surprised. . Vote Surprise Km Optlmlarta. This was the first test vote after six weeks of debate on the repeal bill. Even the most optimistic Senators who favored repeal had not expected the amendment to carry by so large a ma jority. It is believed, however, that the bill Itself cannot be put through by so great a margin. Nine Democratic Senators Aehurst, Martina, O'Gorman, Pomerene, Ransdell. Reed, Shields. Walsh and Williams voted against the amendment. Sev- (Concluded on Page 2. t CANAL NEAR INDEX OF TODAY'S TOTS) The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 70 degree; minimum. 49 decrees. TODAY'S Fair; northwesterly winds. FesUval. Horse and vehicle parade declared finest ever seen in .fortl&na. rage 1. Rose prizes awarded at Fen insula Park sunken gardens. Pace 18. Big balloon race starts at 4 P. M. today, fage 7. Thrilling- fire exhibition is witnessed by 80.- uuv persons, rage . Five thousand children will narada today. Paso 13. JToreixn. Kermlt Roosevelt and Belle Wlllard are married in Spain. Page 2. Sylvia Pankhurst balked In effort to see asquim. .faze s. National. Bouse te vote on National prohibition In Canal tolls bill sear voting stage. Pace 1. Domestic Suffragists win hearing In Federation of women's Clubs. Face 1. Amos Plnchot makes charges SLgainst Qeorge w. x'erjcina. rage 1. Heat on Atlantic coast Intense. Pag 8. v -dexloo. . Mediation strikes another serlema snag: Sports. Coast League results Portland 11. Oak land 2; Sacramento 1. Venice 0: Los Angeles 4. ban Francisco L. Paga 6. Northwestern League results Portland Victoria 1-T : Vancouver 7, Tacoma 0 .10-j innings;; beatue . Spokane X. Fue. Defiance drops out of yacht race and Reso lute wine, page 7. Racing autos have trial spin for race here baturaay ana Sunday. Page T. Harry Legg loses second flight In Trana- aiiasiasippi goix tourney, rage S. Pacific Northwest. Columbia Highway harmony follows Clats- Kanie'mass meeting. Page a. Washington State University couple wed ocreuy. rage 1. Jury procured In murder trial of C E. Potts. at canyon (Jlty. rage a. Commercial and Marine. Unfavorable European hop crop reports are cioseiy watcnea on coast. Page Is. First shipments of new grain weaken Chi cago wneat market, rage 18. Wall street stocks Indifferent te develop ments ox any Kino, rage 19, . Silver eup awarded steamer Beaver by Rose x muvej. rage la. Longshoremen of Paclfle Coast take vote en proposed demands. Fags IS. Portland and Vicinity. Fifteen boys are graduates at Columbia Uni versity, rage li. Weather report, data and forecast. Page IS. 70-year-old "Orendma" Stephenson arrested by United states for cattle straylns. Page 2. Benson finds alleged error en tally sheet. wnicn may give mm victory ever Mo Nary. Page 1. , H. B. Miller quits raoe for School Board: T. W. Vreeland to run. Page 4. 3 CONVICTS ARE CAUGHT Penitentiary Posse Overhauls Men Near Silverton After Chase. SALEM. Or, June Is. (Special.) W. E. Clark, Harry Baker and Frank Mil ler, who escaped from a field on the penitentiary grounds Monday, were captured today by Superintendent Law son and a posse of guards? near Silver- ton. The- men were Tprktog with other convicts In a potato patch when they disappeared In a ravine. Colonel Lawson got word, lata last night that the men had gone in the direction of Silverton and with several deputies started In, pursuit. He over hauled them on a trestle of the Co- burg branch of the Southern Pacific about 1:30 o'clock this morning. They were tired and offered no resistance. The men were headed toward Portland. They said they had not eaten since they left the prison Monday. IT "WAS SOME PARADE f " foOUSEWILLVOTEON PROHIBITION IN JULY Opponents Expected to Force Issue. STORMY CONFERENCES HELD Hobson Himself Does Not Fa vor Action at This Time. ADOPTION NOT EXPEGTED Antls Confident Resolution Cannot Poll Necessary Two-Thirds, Al though It May Have More Than Majority. WASHINGTON. June 10. Nation wide prohibition .will be voted on by the Hons within four or five weeks. 'according to predictions made tonight after the rules committee had post poned until July 1 action on a special rule to provide for Immediate con slderatlon of the ' proposed Hobson amendment In soma Quarters It was said th delay meant no action at this session of Congress, but members of the com mlttee emphatically asserted that they would consider and probably favorably report the Cantrlll rule resolution in July. Political Divisions Ignored. The action of the committee followed a day of stormy conferences between groups of Congressmen without ref erence to political division. It was generally conceded that opponents of the Hobson amendment were forcing the issue at this time, confident that the measure could not poll the two thirds vote necessary for adoption. even though a majority might favor it. Representative Hobson himself does not favor action at this time, al though he said tonight that a vote would be taken in the House tha sec ond week In July. "If the House, fails to adopt my resolution." Mr. Hobson added, "it will be brought up again next December. Committee Defers Action. When the committee by a vote of to 4 deferred consideration of the rule, it was announced that this course had been deemed wise, because of the con servatlon legislation and other impor tant questions now before the House for Immediate disposition. Earlier Mr. Hobson and E. C. Din widdle, legislative agent of a number of prohibition organizations, who had been Invited to appear before the com (Concluded on Page 4.) BENSON YET MAY WIN OVER M'NARY 5 4" ON TALLY SI rr MEANT TO BE "Z4," EXPERT SAYS. Klamath Falls Aspirant to Supreme Bench Benefits by Apparent Mis take Found in Recount. Henry L. Benson, of Klamath Falls, may be declared the Republican nom inee for the Supreme bench over Charles L. McNary, of Salem, by a margin of seven votes. If the recount of the Mult nomah County vote made by an expert employed by Mr. Benson is correct, Mr. McNary appeared to be the nom inee by a majority of 13 votea over Mr. Benson, following the completion of the official count. Mr. Benson announced that ho would nave an expert recounting of tha vote In Multnomah County, and if the re sult showed him to be a loser he would retire gracefully and support Mr. Mc Nary. H. E. Wood, of Portland, an expert accountant who specializes on election returns, was employed by Mr. Benson. With an assistant, he checked the Mult nomah County canvass in 'etall. his work, which was completed Tuesday night, being checked as it proceeded by two deputy county clerks. It was found that la rreclnct 78 In the City of Portland an error had been made In copying the returns from the precinct sheets onto the official sheet. I-r. McNary being given a total of 54 where It should properly have been 34. County Clerk Coffey was called In. and the error pointed out to him. He telegraphed Secretary of State Olcott at Salem. Judge Benson said last night that he would get Into communication with Judge "McNary today and see whether his desire Is to accept tho corrected Multnomah count or to have a further examination made thereof, or returns from other parts of the state. TWISTLESS DANCES DUE Masters Decide to Meet on Coast In 1015 and Purge New Steps. CLEVELAND, June 18. Tha National Association of Maatera of Dancln voted today to hold the 1915 conven tlon in San Francisco. Committees were appointed by Louis Krettow. f Chicago, president to sub mlt to the convention modified forms of the tango, hesitation wait, one-step and maxlxe. v The twists, .dips and other objection able, features of the dances will be eliminated by the committees, and th 300 delegates to tha convention will next season teach only tho forma of the dances that receive the sanction of the convention. CITIZENS SEEK ECONOMY Mass Meeting to Discuss Ways to Cut Down City Expenses. OREGON CITY, Or Juno 10. (Spe claL) A petition, signed by about 400 persons, the larger number of whom are taxpayers, has been circulated in Oregon City to call a mass meeting of citizens on June 20 to consider ways and means of running municipal at fairs In a more systematic and econom leal way. W. E. O'Donnell, an employe of the city for the last IS months, is the circulator. It is proposed to organize a citizens' league which, with the co-operation of a Council committee, will either draft amendmenta to the preaent charter or form a new one. SCHOOL NURSERY IS URGED Instruction of Girls in Care of Babies Favored In Seattle. SEATTLE. Wash., June 10. A petl tion. asking the Board of Education to establish In the Seattle schools a day and night nursery where girls may re ceive competent Instruction In the care of babies, was presented to the Board today. Among the signers are Professor Henry Landes, acting president of the University of Washington; Joseph K. Hart, assistant professor of education; W. S. Black, professor of social science, and several other University of Wash ington professors. Action on the peti tion was deterred by the Board. 1500 WORK ON RAILROAD Employment Given to Many Men by Willamette Pacific. EUGENE, Or., June 10. Contractors on the Willamette Paclfio are giving mployment to all available men. says Thomas Dixon, superintendent for Mac Arthur Perks Company, general con tractors, who returned last night from n Inspection tour of the road. "There are now 1500 men at work," Mr. Dixon said. "The number Is con- tantly Increasing. During May the manager of an employment agency in Eugene sent us 411 laborers." HANDICAPPED GIRL WINS Miss Delia Jackson, After S Weeks of School Absence, Takes Prize. COTTAGE GROVE. Or., . June 10. (SpeciaX) After overcoming the handi cap of a three week's enforced absence from classes. Miss Delia Jackson, a sophomore at the Oregon Agriculture College, has won the highest class honors In scholarship and student ac tivities and has been awarded one of the four .Clara Waldo prizes of S20. Miss Jackson is a daughter of Mr. and S. F. Jackson, of Lerane, and at tended high, school In this city. IT liO WILL UtlfUi I SUFFRAGE HEARING Fight for Indorsement Goes to Floor. "STANDPATTERS'1 ARE BEATEN Dress Reform in Second Place in Big Convention. PLEA FOR FREEDOM MADE Mrs. Burdette Says There Are Manj "Who Would Wear Sane Clothing If Manufacturers Would Per mit Them to Do So. CHICAGO. June 10. After suffrage had scored Its first victory, dress re form In Its relation to morals came be fore the biennial session of the General Federation of Women's Clubs at the penlng session here today. Mra. Robert J. Burdette. of Pasadena. CaL. In a plea for the sane dress, as serted. Wa have 400.000 women fa voring our plan for dress reform, and we will ask tha convention to In dorse It. "Some of the styles are distressing and extreme, and It is those we would like to change," she added. "We would like to see women wear dresses that are large enough for them to step in without Inconvenience. Fashions Made by Shopgirls. "There are any number of women who are ready to dress In a sane man ner if the manufacturers will allow them to. They can dress beautifully, appropriately and decently and still be in good style. "The shopgirl is tha one who makes the fashion for the society woman who goes to a shop and aska for the very latest-' There Is nothing for the girl at the shop to do but to bring out the latest. That Is why we wish to have tha manufacturers join with us in the reform." Led by Illinois women, the suffragists won the right of discussion on the floor of the main convention before the council of the federation. While no decisive action was taken, the sen timent of a majority of the delegates was so strongly expressed that the executive board and other officers can scarcely avoid accepting the advice offered. Saffraaista Wis Opportunity. This will give the suffragists an op portunity to bring their battle for In dorsement to the floor of the conven tion for the first time. The women of the federation. 10,000 strong, threw themselves into the con vention activity with all the ardor of seasoned politicians. Party flags were everywhere and "standpatters" of the organization were lined up against the suffragists, but lost their first clash in the throwing open of the right to discussion from the floor. Mrs. Burdette spoke to an expert and appreciative audience With forbidden knowledge," the speaker said, "came self -consciousness. with self -consciousness came the sense of shame and the protective garment and thus did the transgressions of our first parents cover all future genera tions with a blanket mortgage of clothes which we are paying off with heavy interest. Morals Read la Gowsue. 'Whether clothes were first worn as an ornamental covering or for pro tection matters little, for we seem even to this day to consider the first of prime Importance. No matter if the neck be exposed nearly to the waist line and the limbs nearly half way to the knees, iz only the style Ds fol lowed, health and suggestlveness are lost sight of In the craze to be in fashion. Miss Grace Hutchlns. costume de signer of Columbia University, aaya the morals of a woman are read in her gowns and that slovenly dress in dicates like mental traits; that the woman who Is addicted te extreme styles is sure to be an extremist in everything else. But she adds she does not believe that every woman whj wears Immoral clothes Is necessarily immoral. She rather believes that women are thoughtless and that a large percentage of them recklessly and relentlessly follow prevailing fashions without knowing why." American Women "Clothes Bftedr The speaker, herself clad In unosten tatious white, asserted that American women are clothes mad and that no where else Is seen the same elaborate over-dressing save among tha declasse women abroad. Mra Burdette declared that com merce was another arbiter of fashions. Quoting a newspaper, she said: "Ftr many years the great mass of civilized humanity has been clothed mainly In cottons. Outside of the Orient, which consumes Its own product, 75 per cent of the total production of cotton fabrics is from raw material grown in tha United States. Imagine, then, the feel ings of the cotton growers of the Southern states when that mere tube of cloth, the hobble skirt, came into fashion. By that edict of the leading modistes of Paris and London the de mand for raw cotton to be manufac tured Into dress fabrics was reduced by two-thirds. or possibly three-fourths- The hobble was the supreme effort of tha French designers on ba- iirnRRni urn i nnm wu (Conciuded on Fage 2.)