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TIIE 3IORXTXG OREGOXIAS, WEDXESDAT, OCTOBER 28, 1914. TWO ROCKEFELLERS DEFENDED lii COURT Lawyer Says Names Were Used in Steel Suit to "Add Drapery and Scenery." - CONNECTION IS DENIED H1H Ore Interests Also Declared In nocent or Monopolistic Inten , tlon Effect of Clayton taw Urged. subjects are getting passports out of Germany for England from American diplomatic and consular agents was filed at the State Department today by Sir Cecil Spring-Rice, the British Am bassador. Information has reached the Embassy that a large number of aliens have crossed the Channel with passports ob tained by .-'misrepresentation and the British officials, ever on the watch for spies, have had their suspicions thor oughly aroused. In submitting the matter to Acting Secretary Lansing, the Ambassador ad mitted that the problem confronting the American officials who represent the interests of Great Britain in Ger many is a difficult one, as it is hard for them to go behind the statement of a man speaking English that he is a British subject. Mr. Lansing said the diplomatic and consular officers would be cautioned to exercise all possible vigilance to pre vent passports from falling into the hands of persons not entitled, to them. GERMAN SAILORS SEIZED BRITISH BOARD AMERICANS TUG ASD ARREST THREE, PHILADELPHIA, Oct- 27. John D. Rockefeller and his son, among the defendants named in the Government's dissolution suit against the United States Steel Corporation, were defended In the Federal District Court today and held innocent by their counsel of the charge that they were co-conspirators in the formation and man agement of the big steel concern. George Wellwood Murray, of New York, who argued their case, suggested to the court that possibly the Govern ment appended the name of Rockefel ler to the list of defendants merely to "add drapery and scenery to give ef fect to the suit." Hill Interests Also Held Innocent. Likewise counsel for the ore inter ests, commonly- known as- the Hill in terests, which leased ore deposits in the Lake Superior region to the Steel Corporation, held his clients innocent of any monopolistic intention when the Great Northern ore lease was made. David A. Reed, of Pittsburg, who began speaking yesterday, largely on the technical side of the case, con cluded today. He maintained that the steel industry is bigger than the Steel Corporation and that it could not con trol the trade as to prices or compe tition even if it so desired. Cardenio A. Severance, of St. Paul, also speaking for the Steel Corpora tion, declared that the concern was al ways fair to competitors and ridiculed the Government's charges that some of the Steel Corporation's so-called inter locking, directors unduly favored the big concern in throwing business in its way while f.itting in railroad or other boards of directors. Rockefellers Merely Sellers. In defending the Rockefellers, Mr. Murray said his clients had no hand in the organization of the Steel Cor poration, that they were merely sell ers of property to the concern. The two Rockefellers, he added, were only nominal directors, never having taken an active part in the property and re signing from the board long before the Government suit was brought. He 'asked that the suit be dismissed so far as it affects his clients. Frederick R. Kellogg, of New York, arguing for the Hill or ore interests. also asked that the proceedings be dismissed against his clients, who in clude 18 land and iron-mining com panies and five trustees of these con cerns, on the ground that they did not participate in the formation ot the Corporation and had no connection with it afterward. The Government contends that the lease of the ore lands to the-Corporation shut out com petitors from getting sufficient sup plies of ore for their use. Decree Prima Facie Evidence. An important point touched on by Messrs. Murray and Kellogg was that a decree sustaining the contentions ot the Government might be used as prima facie evidence under the new Clayton anti-trust law by any person who feels he has been damaged in his business by unlawful combination if the court should declare that the formation ot the Steel Corporation was illegal and the individual defendants were guilty of conspiracy. John G. Johnson, of Philadelphia, will close the argument for the Steel Cor poration tomorrow and he will be fol lowed in rebuttal by Jacob M. Dickin son, chief counsel of the Government in the suit, who opened, the argument a week ago. Members of Crew of Standard Oil Craft at St. John, jr. B., Are Held at Hali fax Right Jfot Questioned. ST. JOHN. N. B.. Oct. 27. The Ameri can tug Security, owned by the Stand ard Oil Company, was boarded yester day by a detail from the Sixty-second regiment and four of her crew were re moved. One, a naturalized citizen, was released. The other three, all Germans, were detained. The tug was at anchor in the harbor when boarded. . The four members of the crew were taken to the armory for examination. They were arrested on the charge that they were subjects of a nation with. which Great Britain is now at war. The tug's papers showed that three of the four men had signed as subjects of Germany. Pending instructions from the mili tary divisional headquarters at Halifax, the three Germans were still under de tention here at noon today. "WASHINGTON, Oct. 27. The right of British authorities to remove German subjects from neutral ships in British harbors already has been conceded by the United States. It is not expected here that any protest will be made against the action of the authorities at St. John. STEEL DIVIDEND IS CUT KEDl'CTIO.V EPfABL.ES CORPORA TIOX TO SHOW SUHPLVS. 61 MINERS KILLED WORKS Twenty-Four Bodies Are Taken From Burning Passages Near Royalton. 15 other dazed and Injured miners in a pocket in the burning? drift led them to safety through an adjoining drift untouched by the flames. 80, OVERCOME, ARE SAVED WHITE NAVAL GARB MAY GO Ideal of Sea Fighters for Tropics Is round Too Hot by Surgeon. WASHINGTON, Oct. 27 The white clothing that has long been the ideal naval costume in tropical countries is unsuitable in the tropics, according to a report today to the Surgeon-General by Passed Assistant Surgeon Higgins, based on the naval operations at Veracruz. He says the white clothing, and es pecially the white hat, is too easily pen etrated by the sun s rays, and, there fore, recommends that khaki or forestry neutral clothing be supplied to the Navy lor landing parties. Rammed German Submarine Safe. BERLIN, Oct. 27. It is officially an nounced that the Havas News Agency of Paris reports officially from London that the English torpedo-boat destroyer Badger rammed and sank a German submarine off the coast of Holland. German official reports of this same incident are to the effect that, while the ramming is a fact, the German submarine returned to harbor safe and without loss to her crew. Three Hundred Entombed for Time, Those E.seaping Taking ITp Task of Rescuing Comrades and Battling With Flames. ROYALTON, 111., Oct. 27. A total of 61 dead is shown on the casualty list issued late tonight by officials , of the Franklin Coal & Coke Company at whose mine near here 300 men were entombed at the going-to-work hour this morning. The heavy decrease in the number of dead estimated earlier in the day was accounted for by the registration to night of scores of miners who had escaped during the iay, but who were too busy assisting in the rescue work to answer tothe rollcall of the rescued. 24 Bodies Are Recovered. Twenty minutes before the explosion 346 men went into the mine, only the last cagerul ot the day force re maining on the surface. Tonight 24 bodies had been recovered and 37 men were missing. It was conceded by officials of the mine that 37 Vtill were entombed and would never be brought out alive. Rescue trains from Benton and Springfield, 111., and from Kvansville, I ?! (I werA rilshrl tn. tha upana oni4 I their crews together with the entire population of Royalton about 1000 spent the entire day and the greater part or the night rescuing the living, attempting to extinguish the fire which followed the explosion and caring for the injured and for the hysterical rela tives of the dead, and entombed. Rescuers Save ISO Men. The fire followed a gas explosion that occurred five minutes before the miners were to begin work. About 50 men had not entered the shaft, but the others had gone down to the various workings. The sound of the explosion was heard in Royalton and every adult person in the town, except the telephone oper ator, hurried to the mine. Rescue par ties quickly were organized and help was summoned from surrounding towns. Gas in the mine, however, pre vented the rescuers from penetrating more than loOO feet into the workings, and they were unable to reach the 105 men entrapped on a lower level, which was in flames. One hundred and fifty men, however, were taken from the mine unharmed, but more than 80 of these had been overcome by gas. Two died at the surface. Some Give l:p Hope of Rescue. Even the nature of conditions in the mine waj not derinltely known. "While some rescuers reported they could find no fire, ex. c:-ienced miners declared fire was raging in two entries and that there is no hope of rescuing alive any of the men still in the mine. James Harris descended late today With one of the rescue crews in -the hope of finding his son. Russell Harris. He failed to reach the boy, but found STRIP GERMANY IS ADVICE fleet, Colonies, Kiel Canal and Krupp Works Must Go Britain. STAFFORD. England (via London). Oct. 27. The serious time of the war, said Lord Charles Beresford, in a speech here last night, would begin when the Germans were forced over the frontier and were In their own country and with their own base of supplies. This was not going to be a short war. Lord Charles added. It would take more than six months or a year to put Em peror William on bis back, he said. Nobody knew what would happen in the next great naval battle in which modern instruments of - warfare were used. Sir Charles continued. The ele ment of luck would come into play, but luck or no luck, Germany, he declared, must be humbled and humiliated. "She must lose the whole of her fleet," Lord Charles concluded, "give up the Kiel Canal and her colonies; her forts must be demolished and the Krupp works razed to the ground." MARITZ' STAND IS BRIEF Losses of African Rebel, Himself Wounded, Reported Large. LONDON, Oct. 27. An official dis patch, from Colonel Wylie at Uplngton, Cape Province, describing Colonel Brits' attack on Lieutenant-Colonel Maritz' force north of Kakamas on October 24, says Maritz defended the town only about an hour and then retreated. The dispatch was forwarded from Pretoria by Reuter's Telegram Company. Losses sustained by the followers of Maritz are not known. The number of wounded and captured is known to be large. Maritz was wounded in the leg, though not dangerously. His forces retreated hurriedly, leaving their tents standing and abandoning large quanti ties of stores and a wagon load or am munition. Horses of the Union of South Africa troops were exhausted and unable to pursue Colonel Maritz. Of the govern ment forces one man was wounded. COURT OUSTS EX-CONVICT Candidate for Juvenile Judgeship . Admits Conviction in Indiana. INDIANAPOLIS. Oct' 27 John F. O'Brien, through his attorney, admitted today in court that he bad been con victed of larceny in the criminal court of St. Louis, and that he had assumed the name "Frank X. O'Brien" in Indian apolis, and as "Frank X. O'Brien" had been nominated on the Democratic ticket for judge of the Marlon County Juvenile Court. The court then ordered the election commissioners to substi tute the name of Newton M. Taylor, in cumbent, for that of O'Brien on the ticket. Judge Taylor filed today the petition which resulted in O'Brien's name being removed from the ticket. EVEN CROSS, SICK CHILDREN LOVE SYRUP OF FIGS If Feverish, Bilious, Constipated, Give Fruit Laxative at Once. Don't scold your fretful, peevish child. See if tongue is coated; this is a sure sign its little stomach, liver and bowels are clogged with sour waste. When listless, pale, feverish, full of cold, breath bad, throat sore, doesn't eat. sleep or act naturally, has stom-ache-ache, indigestion, diarrhoea, give a teaspoonful of "California Syrup of Figs," and in a few hours all the foul waste, the sour bile and fermenting food passes out of the bowels and you have a well and itlayfni .-i,.i. Children love this barmless "fruit laxative." and mothers can rest easy after giving it. because it never falls to make their little "insides" clean and sweet. Keep it handy. Mother! A little given today saves a sick child tomor row, but get the genuine. Ask your druggist for a 50-cent bottle of "Call fornia Syrup or Figs," which has directions for babies, children of all ages and for grown-ups plainly on the bottle. Remember there are counter feits Bold here, so surely look and see that yours is made by the "California Fig Syrup Company." Hand back with contempt any other fig syrup. Adv. 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They demand from the British government an indemnlfica tion of 230,000,000 francs, as the de struction of their goods, thev assert. was not occasioned by the defense of the town, but was willfully carried out by the retreating British troops during the evacuation. MERCHANTS ASK INDEMNITY 5 0 Antwerp Firms Want Britain to Pay for Destroyed Merchandise. BERLIN, Oct. 27 (by wireless). Ac cording to reports received here from Antwerp 60 firms of that city will pre sent to the British government claims for compensation for the destricutlon of goods after the evacuation of the city was determined upon. These claims amo-unfto 230,000,000 francs f46.006. 000) and will be presented through Brand Whitlock, the American Minister JERUSALEM IS IN DISTRESS Jews Receive $10,000 From Jacob Soliiff, Says American Consul. NEW YORK, Oct. 27. Samuel Edel- man. United States Vice-Consul at Jeru salem, was one of the Americans who returned tonight on the steamer An cona from Genoa and Almeria. He said that just before he left his post the Jews of the city received $40,000 from Jacob H. Schiff, to be used for charita ble purposes. Because of depression resulting from Women's and Misses' Tailored Suits for Fall and Winter Showing here a handsome exhibit of newest models. A comprehensive presentation of American and European fabrics. A range of sizes which enables us to fit any woman. Every garment individual every garment made by men tailors. Suits $19.50 to $69.50. All alterations made without charge by our own tailors. The entire third floor daylighted; elevator service. BEN SELLING MORRISON AT FOURTH , . A Shop for Gentlewomen f the war, Mr. Edelman said there is far more than the usual amount of dis tress in and about Jerusalem. EXCESS RESERVE HELD Amount Is $580,000,000 More Than Required by Xew Law. WASHINGTON. Oct. 27. Controller of the Currency Williams made public tonight statements showing the re serves held by- National banks in the 12 Federal reserve districts in the date of his last call for their condi tion, the reserves required under the present National banking act . and those in excess of the amounts re quired by the Federal reserve act. According to his figures, the re serves held September 12 were 580. 000.000 In excess of the amount re quired under the new law. Of this vast sum $53,000,000 was in Boston district, $83,000,000 in New York. $70. 000,000 in Philadelphia. $59,000,000 in Cleveland. $21,000,000 in Richmond. $14,000,000 in Atlanta. tSS.000,000 in Chicago, $18,000,000 in St. Louis. $43, 000,000 in Minneapolis, $57,000,000 in Kansas City, $24,000,000 in Dallas and $50,000,000 in San Francisco. As many as 72 different kinds of wood are used In the manufacture of umbrella handles, cane" and whips In this country. Earnings Almost S2,(M0,000 Larger Than for l"revious QuarterAc tion Is "Taken "VYitti Regret." NEWXeRI,Qct. 7. By reducing the dividend on -the common stock to the third-'quarter of the year from the regular rate of lU per cent to one half of 1 per cent the directors of the United States Steel Corporation ful filled today general expectations and were able to report a surplus of $S9, 479. Had the regular disbursement been declared the deficit of almost $11,500,000 shown after dividend pay ments in the first half of the year would have been increased to almost $15,000,000. Total earnings of $22,276,002 were almost $.000,000 larger than in the preceding quarter, while the net in come of $H.tiS,022 was about $1,400, 000 larger. Analysis of the statement showed that August business was bet ter than that o July, while September earnings were the smallest of the quarter. The reduced dividend is the first change since 1911, prior to which the rate varied from nothins in 1904 '05 to 6',s per cent in 1910. Chairman Gary issued a brief state ment after today's meeting saying that the action of the directors was taken "with reluctance," but that it was made necessary "by the present condi tion of business and the prospect for the immediate future." P A eos with the s learn- the new A r, Ti music or tne Victrola Victrola VI, $25 Oak a s mar rii CANADA TO AID ALIEN FOES Stranded Teuton Recruits to Be Pro vided W ith Necessities. OTTAWA, Ont.. Oct. 27. Food and shelter will be provided by the Cana dian government for the large numbers of German and Austrian army reserv ists who are stranded in Montreal, Toronto, Winnipeg and other cities. Kinployment will be found for as many of them as possible. 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