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THE MORNING OREGONIAN, THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 12, 1914. BEAUTY OF HAUNES IS BURIED IN DEBRIS Barely 1000 of 60,000 Citizens Left; Ancient Cathedral and Business Houses in Ruins. VICTORS TAKE FOOD, HOMES Few Belgians Who Remain Cannot Stay During Winter Unless Out Bide Financial Aid Is GiTen to Repair Shell Damage. weekly luncheon meeting at the Com mercial Club tomorrow on "Bonded In debtedness and Taxes." Music will be provided by the Woodmen quartet and P. Q. Bald-win will make tunes with "a broom-handle, a cigar box and a piece of catgut." -Fred W. German will be chairman of the day. MALINES, Oct 30. (Correspondence of the Associated Press.) Barely 1000 of Malines' former residents remain In this ruined city, and thousands who are still here cannot stay after the beginning of cold weather unless out Bide funds are provided to repair shat tered roofs and walls cracked by the German field suns. Before the German invasion Malines had 60,000 Inhabitants and was an im portant art and manufacturing center. Bt. Rombold Cathedral, one of the most Interesting medieval church buildings In Eiirone. dates back to tne mceenin century and contained an altar-piece which was one of Van Dyck's master pieces. Rubens' Paintings In Church, Bt. John's Church and the Church of Our Lady contained paintings by Rubens. The historic Palace of Jus tice was once the home of Margaret of Aur. Malines is half way between Ant werp and Brussels, on the principal stone roads connecting the two great cities of Belgium. Cement roads flank this central highway on the east and on the west. It was along this central artery and the two flanking roads that the Germans moved against Antwerp, sweeping away every obsta cle which afforded a refuge to the op posing Belgians. Like most ancient cities, Malines has narrow streets. The main traveled street, along which nearly all traffic moves In passing northward toward Antwerp, Is scarcely 30 feet wide, from curb to curb, and has many turns in It, which made the passage of an enemy exceedingly difficult. Debris Fills Streets. Stone and brick' business houses and residences three or four stories high, built in a continuous line, stood along this street. Many of these were bat tered down by the German artillery and the debris filled the street so com pltely that only enough has been cleared away in places to permit the passage of a single automobile. Where fire did not spread to the wrecked buildings, the ruined stocks of merchants and the broken furniture of their living apartments in the upper stories may still be seen. Such food supplies as were useful for the army were taken by the German officers, and soldiers are billeted in the houses which are-still fit for habi tation. Germans Shatter Cathedral. Malines is Intersected by several arms of. the River Dyle and is prac tically surrounded by a canal and wide boulevards. Visitors entering the city from the south are challenged by Ger man soldiers standing guard at the canal bridge and are again stopped as they enter the great medieval stone arch, forming the entrance to the main portion of the old city. The historic cathedral stands in the very center of the town. In a sort of triangle. Its tower, at least 300 feet high, was evidently a target for the German artillery, whose aim was not sharp enough to bring down the mas sive pile of stone. Corners of the tower were chipped by shells, but the foun dation and walls suffered no serious damage. However, the main portion of the church was less fortunate. Factories Are In Ruins. It stands in- such a way that it pre sented its entire south side as a tar get for the approaching army. All the windows were riddled, the south wall was hopelessly shattered, so badly shat tered In fact that it Is feared the en tire main portion of the building must be torn down. the cathedral were buried In the crushed tile, stone and mortar from the damaged roof and wall. Factories along the river and the canal shared the same fate as resl dences. business houses and churches. The great railway shops were ruined, Hat factories, . tapestry factories, woolen mills and starch factories, which furnished employment to thousands were wrecked by artillery fire. Trenches in the sandy beet fields, which flank the highway leading Into .Malines, and thousands of rifle pits, onow how stubbornly the Belgians re elsted the Germans, Many of the trenches are so long they resemble drainage ditches. YOUNG FORGER SENTENCED John Cornwall Gets Term in Monroe Reformatory. VANCOUVER. Wash.. Nov. 11 (Spe cial.) John Cornwall, alias John Har- wln O Sbaughnessey, alias Jack O'Con nor, who, on October 2 forged the name of A. J. Dorland to a check and cashed It for ?10 on the Curran & Gard ner drugstore, was today sentenced to from six months to 20 years In the State Reformatory at Monroe. Cornwall. 21 years old, represented that he was a. stenographer and had wealthy parents living in San Jose. Cal., and that he forged the checks to get money to go home. Investigation proved this to be untrue and it has been learned that he has served time In reformatories In other states. Cornwall came before Judge R. H. Back for sentence. NEW ROADS ARE SOUGHT Extension of Base Line From Trout dale to Sandy River Desired. ' Petitions are being circulated and have been signed by several hundred farmers and taxpayers asking the County Commissioners to extend the Base Line road from the Troutdale cross-road eastward to the Sandy River and thencTS along the Sandy River to grounds of tho Portland Automobile Club and the new bridge. It ie urged that by .extending the Base Line a saving of two miles would be made and a bad hill avoided. The property through which the proposed road would pass is owned by Sam Strebin, A. B. Conrad and E. B. Williams, and they have signed the petition. This exten sion Is considered important, as the Base Line road connects directly with the Columbia Highway. Another well-signed petition will be presented to the. County Commissioners asking that a road along the east bank of the Sandy River be established from Troutdale to the Base Line road and bridge. Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Darling, of Nome, Report III Effects. MANY LEAVE FOR FRONT Fur. Ivory and Whale- Oil Markets Shattered by Conflict Xo Offer Made for $100,000 Skins. -Stefansson Given Up. CARS . TO OPERATE SOON Willamette Valley Southern Expects to Be Ready Next Month. OREGON CITY, Or.. Nov. 11- (Spe clal.) From the state of construction work on the Willamette Valley South ern officials of that company, here are convinced that the line will be com pleted to Mount Angel by Thanksgiv ing and trains can be operated by De- f-teiDDer. Practically all of the grading work Is completed and the tracklayers now are near the terminus of the road. The power line from the River Mill gener ating plant of the Portland Railway, Light & Power Company to Beaver Creek almost Is completed and a tem porary sub-station ready. Celebrations are being - planned at Molalla and Mount Angel when the first electric car is run over the route. SOCIETY ELECTS OFFICERS Dr. A. M. Webster Chosen to Head Minneaotans for Xear. Dr. A. M. Webster was elected pres ident pro tern, of the Minnesota Society of Portland, which met In room H of the Central Library last night. Mrs. Thomas Hawkes was chosen temporary secretary-treasurer. About 75 persons were present at the meeting, which is a preliminary one to the first regular meeting to be held at the call of the chairmATi. The chairmen of the following com mittees to serve under Dr. Webster were appointed: Samuel Olson, enter tainment and meeting-place committee; Mrs. F. P. McKay, membership commit tee; Frank P. McKay, constitution and by-laws. Permanent officers for the society will be elected at the next meet ing. CARDS TO BE SOLD FOR AID Holland Committee to Dispose of girls'. Pictures for AVar Stricken. Picture post-cards of six Portland girls in Dutch costumes will be sold in Portland next week to provide funds for the relief of Hollanders and Bel gLan refugees who have fled to Hoi land. This Is the plan of the Holland relief committee recently organized here. Girls will visit various clubs of th city and will make a canvass of th office buildings. The work In getting out the cards is being donated by Port land firms. A. H. Metzelaar, of F. N. Clarke Co., is chairman of the relief commit tee. John H. Hartog is secretary and J. L. Hartman treasurer. ALASKA FEELS WAR to that of George Chamberlain resulted n the loss of a good Booth vote. ASLASKA'S GOVERNOR HERE John F. A. Strong Predicts Great Future for Northern Territory. Alaska is' a country where oppor- tunitles for the young man are unlim ited, according to John F. A. Strong, Governor of Alaska, "who is In. Port land to visit the Alaska Insane sent here for treatment. In a. few years, the greatest auartz neias in the world will be near Juneau," said Mr. Strong last night. 'There are literally millions of acres In the interior of Alaska waiting for placer mining and gold dredging; there is tne opening of the coal beds and the proposed railroad, which will cause a tremendous Increase in population. The world over, there is not another spot that can rival Alaska for opportunities, for the next hundred yeara It will be In the course of development, and that is as far as I care to probe into the fu Governor Strong Is an appointee of President Wilson, with a" four-year term. 4000 WOUNDED MEN ARRIVE Germans Badly Maimed at Dlimnde Are Taken to Liege. AMSTERDAM. Holland, vla'London. Nov. 11. Four thousand severely wounded Germans arrived at Liege yes terday from the battlefields around Dixmude, where most sanguinary flght- All the furnishings of dlspatch from Maestricht to the Nleuwa van den Dag. The message adds that 800 Hunga rians passed through Liege today en route to Cracow with several 8.30 cen timeter guns. the Multnomah Hotel for several days before proceeding south. ERROR COSTS BOOTH VOTE Cottage Grove Man Thinks Chamber- Iain la J. II. Chambers, Millman. COTTAGE GROVE. Or., Nov. 11. (Special.) Here is an account of a pe culiar way In which Candidate Booth lost at least one vote in the recent election Two acquaintances were talking over the election. The first one bad voted for Booth.' The second one evidently had intended to do so. "I voted for that fellow that owns all this timber," he explained. "I think his name is Cham bers." He had heard the talk about one of the Senatorial candidates own ing so much timber and the name of the Democratic candidate being - so much like that of J. H. Chambers, the Cottage Grove mill man. he had got things mixed up and voted against the man lor whom he Intended to vote. Mr. Chambers was a Booth supporter Proof that the war ravaging Europe " i,f " has an echo in remote parts of to learn that the similarity of hl name world Is shown in Its enect upon bohi, Alaska. In this far northern town the fur market is paralyzed and many residents have left to enlist in the armies of their native countries. This is the report of affairs brought to Portland yesterday by Mr. and Mrs. E. Darling, of Nome, who are on their way to their Winter home In Berkeley, Cal. Most prominent among the reservists who have gone from Nome is Lord William Percy, son of the Duke of Northumberland. He was in research work in the Arctic region when word of the war reached him. He Immediate ly made his way to Nome and there offered the owners of small boats $6000 to take him to Seattle. They refused because of the risk, and Lord Percy was forced to Wait until the regular boat arrived. To join the Grenadier Guards, of which regiment he Is an officer, this nobleman made a journey of more than 12,000 miles. Markets Are Affected. Though the gold output was greater about Nome this year than it has been for many years past, ana business conditions are encouraging there for this reason, the market for furs. Ivory and whale oil has dropped out of sight. English and Russian capital which has been backing the Alaskan trade with Siberia has been withdrawn. London. England, and Leipsig. Ger many, the srreat lur marKeis oi tne world, have ceased operations, leav ing the traders in a precarious situa tion. Mr. Darling tells of one tra-der wno returned this 'year from the Arctic with the accumulations of flve years in valuable skins, worth more than $100,000, upon which he could not raise a cent from the markets with which he had formerly dealt. With this wealth of furs, the trader finds himself virtu allv -oenniless for the present. From London and Berlin nave come cames to the effect that they will -make no offer on the furs and advance no money. Nome Back to normal. Nome has recovered entirely from the great storm of last year, which wiped out half the town, asserts air. uarung, and 40 dredgers now are at work. If any man. by training and narai- hood. could wrest a living from the Arctic snowfields. that man Is Vil hjalmar Stefansson, said Mr. Darling, but he declares that hope has practlo ally been given up of seeing the ex plorer again, ror tne cnances nave oeen too heavy against mm. Mr. and Mrs. Darling left Nome on th last boat to come out this year. There will be no return steamer until after June 15. 1915. An incident or their departure was the rough which made It necessary to take on the last group of passengers In a net. A huge net swung from a crane was used, and the last boarders made a ludicrous picture with their arms poking through the large meshes. Dog Racers Mrs. Darling's. Mrs. Darling is the owner of the fa mous dog teams that have won three first prizes, three second prizes and one third prize in the annual Nome 408 mile race. In 1909. 1911 and 1912 her team won the first prizes, last year the second prize, and will be a strong con tender for the first prize next ApnL team of 15 dogs will be used, driven by "Scotty" Allen. Heavy prizes are of fered for these races, the largest being $10,000 in 1909. and the lowest $3000. The race Is from Nome, on the Bering Sea, to Candle, on the Arctic Ocean, and return, a distance of 408 miles. The best time made on the route is 74 hours. The rogs raised by Mrs. Darling are Siberian and Alaskan animals. The Siberians have a strain of the fox. but the "Siberian wolfhounds" are a pure fabrication, says Mrs. Darling. The other dogs are A-laskans, a breed with the strain of the setter crossed with the "husky" of the McKenzie River region, or "Malamute" of the Coast region. Mr. and Mrs. Darling will remain at Women's Tailored Suits Reduced A special lot of fine suits bought from a New York suit maker ' at a price which enables me to sell them at Less Than Wholesale Cost! Regular $24.50 to $34.50 Suits Regular $39.50 to $44.50 Suits $14.85 $19.85 The very newest styles at the lowest prices in Portland. early for choice of size and model. See Yesterday's Papers for Particulars Come $10.00 Peter Thompson Dresses $4.95 Misses' and Women's $10 Balmacaans $6.95 BEN SELLING The Entire Third Floor Morrison at Fourth spent annually, will not be done the coming year. The lighting may .be cut out in certain districts. The Council has made a levy of 10 mills for the general fund and this is the limit. MAYOR TO RUN AGAIN Oregon City Executive Takes Stand for Proposed "Water System. OREGON CITY. Or., Nov. 11. (Spe cial.) Mayor Linn E. Jones announced tonight that he would be a candidate for re-election December 7. Petitions are out asking Judge Grant B. Dimlck and CoundlmanE. C. Hackett to enter the race, but neither has reached a decision. Mayor Jones" Interest in the new water project, coupled with his stand for the municipal elevator and the re- paving of Main street, had much to do with his decision. It generally is un derstood that he has entered the race with these three issues as his platform. Judge JJlmlcK is opposed to the pro posed water system, favors the re pavement of Main street, but has taken no stand In regard to the municipal elevator. Councilman Hackett in dorses a programme of the strictest economy. IRECT0R DESCRIBES FAIR . H. Perry Says War "Will Keep Tousrists- at Home for Exposition. "A man spending five hours a day in visiting the exhibits of the Panama Pacific International Exposition for the 288 days the fair will be open will have een almost half of the displays," de clared George Hough Perry, director the division of exploitation of the 915 fair, yesterday, to give an Idea of the magnitude of the great fair to be staged at San Francisco next year. Mr. Perry spoke to the Ad Club at the noon luncheon. In the 12 principal exhibit palaces there are 47 miles of aisles," he con tinued. Mr. Perry explained that the fair will not suffer from the war, as all Euro pean nations, with one exception, will be represented, and the 250,000 Ameri cans who usually go to the Continent will be diverted to San Francisco to ft set the loss of about 6000 Europeans who would have come to the fair. There will be no robbing of the tour ist by the San Francisco hotels, he said. EVANGELIST DRAWS CROWD Appeal of J. Brnce Evans at White Temple Is Convincing. A large attendance at all the meet ings In the White Temple this week at tests the popularity of J. Bruce Evans, the celebrated California evangelist, who has been speaking there every night for the past ten days. Rev. Mr. Evans is a brilliant and convincing orator and Is meeting with success in Portland. There is In his addresses something that makes direct appeal to rich and poor, old and young. Tonight there will be a prayer service at 7 o'clock In the parlors of the church and the regular evangelistic meeting will be held at 7:30. Special musio adds to the interest of the services. All seatd are tree In the White Temple and a special invitation Is extended to all who are Interested In hearing an eloquent address to attend tonight and tomorrow at the same hour, G. W. STAPLETON IS NAME!) Portland Attorney Chosen Mayoralty Xominee at Gresliam. George W. Stapleton, a Portland at torney, was nominated for Mayor of Gresham at a mass meeting held in Gresham Tuesday night. Mr. Stapleton makes his home in Gresham. and was prevailed on- to accept the nomination by many citizens. Other nominations are: Recorder, D. M. Roberts and C. J. Lindqulst; Treas urer, J. H. Metzger; City Marshal. James McKlnney; three Councllmen, L. L. ludder, M. D. Kern, George W. Kenny, Emmet H. Kelly, S. S. Thomp son and J. M. Zimmerman. Mayor Shattuck was not a candidate for re-election. The election will be held December 8. Auditor to Speak of Taxes. City Auditor A. L. Burbur will ad dress the Portland Realty -Board, at Its ADVERTISING TALK NO. 3 Morning Newspapers Are the Best Advertising Mediums x The afternoon newspapers are hurriedly read they reach the home a large majority of them after 5 o'clock. At that time the housewife is either just returning from an afternoon out or is in the midst of preparing diner for the family. After dinner she is hurried with household duties and is ready to go to the movies, the regular theater the vaudeville the dances the women's affairs on clear weather, an auto drive, and the hundred and one other pleasures in these up-to date amusement-seeking times. Thousands and thousands of homes are deserted in the evenings. By the very nature of things, the evening paper can get only a hurried perusal, while the morning paper is in the home all day is read by the husband in the morning, then by the mother and the other women folk of the house. Only a very small percentage of the total circulation comes down town on the v streetcars but that which does is of value to advertisers because it certainly is read in the offices during the day. The percentage of afternoon newspaper circu lation which never reaches the homes is much greater than that which comes from the homes in the morning. The Oregonian is the best advertising medium because it has the largest home circulation and because by the excellence of the paper and the confidence the people have in it as a newspaper,, it brings that same confidence to the advertising. NOOSE RETENTION IS SURE Malheur Returns Make Count on Hangman's Side. 641 Returns yesterday from Malheur County made the vote on the measure before the voters last Tuesday provld lng for abolition of capital punishment virtually complete and served to make sure the defeat of the bill. Malheur returned a net majority of 69 votes against the bill. The total vote now stands 95,746 for the measure and 96.387 against it. The majority against it now Is 641 and it is believed that fully 95 per cent of the vote in the state has been reported. . Inasmuch as every county is included in the avail able returns, the present figures re flect the sentiment of the voters. The three other measures passed last week were: Prohibition, provision for merging cities and requiring voters to be citizens. . CLYDE DAVIS FOUND DEAD Coroner and Sheriff Suspect Murder and. Inquest Will lie Held. WENATCHEE, Wash--Nov.v 11. (Special.) Clyde Davis, aged 27. son of Rev. W. D. Davis, formerly pastor of the Congregational Church at Leavenworth, but now living In Seattle, was found dead in his cabin near Dryden last night by Ray Woodruff. The cause of death is unknown. Circumstances found by Coroner May and Sheriff Kenyon, who aAoed to the man s home last night, point to mur der, but the Inquest tomorrow may show It to have been suicide or pos sibly accidental deatn. Davis was found In bed. but no gun nor any other instrument by which death could have resulted was discovered. His revolver was missing, but two guns in the house had not been discharged. HAWTHORNE FOLK ASTIR PAREMS WANT SCHOOL OR SEW BriLDIXG OK THEIR OWJT. Association Disappointed When Talk Is Cut Off and Routine Work la ' Brought Tp by President. Nearly? 100 members of the Haw thorne Parent-Teachers' Circle met at the Hawthorne School yesterday, many of them eager to voice reasons why the School Board should give them a new school or grant them exclusive use of their present building, but the regular monthly programme was so lengthy that no time was allowed by the presi dent, Mrs. G. L. Buland, for discus sion. '' The residents of the Hawthorne dis trict are up in arms because the iden tity of the Hawthorne School has been virtually lost by the transfer of high school students from the Washington High School to the grammar grade building. It is understood by the Haw thorne parents that the school author ities intend to,, give four more rooms of the Hawthorne building to the use of high school students in February. Petitions are now being circulated and signed generally, requesting the School Board to bar high school students from the Hawthorne building -or else pur chase grounds for a new Hawthorne school. Mrs. Buland. president of the asso ciation, opposed the discussion of the school subject yesterday on the ground tbat important routine business would require all of the time at their dis posal. Accordingly she telephoned to the speakers and arranged with them to postpone the talkfest until next Sat urday at 8 P. M., when a general mass meeting will be held in the East Side Library. City Commissioner Bigelow. M. B. McFaul. president of the East Side Business Men's Club; L. M. Lep per, club secretary, and Whitney L. Boise have been invited to speak. It is probable that at least one member of the School Board will be present. Tha l.'o b f SIiIa Ptialnaea Xf.n'a rl. and the Ladd Addition Improvement Association are co-operating with the Parent-Teachers' Association in sup porting the protest. The fact was told yesterday that the eight associations In the schools in the Creston District would support the Hawthorne petition providing the Haw thorne residents would back them in their demand for a new building. The Hawthorne association yesterday agreed unanimously to enter into this recip rocal agreement. The principal card on the programme yesterday was an address by William D. Wheelwright on his recent trip to Europe and the problems of the pres ent war. 1 m , 2 Jy El n n m LOSS OF REVENUE FELT Dry Vancouver to Cut Expenses to Stay Within Income. VANCOUVER, Wash, Nov. 11. (Spe cial.) The expenses of running the city government of Vancouver must be trimmed on account of the loss of about $18,000 annual revenue paid by the liquor stores and saloons in' the city. Not only will Vancouver be compelled to do without this, but It will have to pay back the sum of $7205.25, the amount due for unexpired liquor licenses, which has already been paid in advance. 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