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THE aiORXIXG OREGONIAN, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1915. 1 GINS DECLAR E BRITISH BLOCKADE Waters Around Islands, In eluding Whole Channel, Put in Great War Zone. ALL SHIPPING IS WARNED Enemy Vest-els to Be Destroyed Jiven it Crew and Ia.sscngcrs Cannot Be Saved, and Xcutrals May Also Be In Danger. BERLIX, Feb. 5. (By wireless to Say Vllle. I I.) The German Admiralty Issued a notice yesterday virtually de claring all the British Isles In a state of blockade. Ships of the allies in these waters are to be sunk ruthlessly, it is announced, even though it may not always be possible to save passengers or crew, and notice is lurtner given that neutral shins In these waters will fca in crave dancer, inasmuch as "it cannot always be avoided that attacks meant for enemy's ships endanger neutral ships." The text of the state input was: -The waters around Great Britain and Ireland, including the whole of the Knglish Channel, are declared a war zone from and after February 18, 1915. "Kvery enemy's ship found in this war zone will be destroyed, even if it Is impossible to avert dangers which threaten the crew and passengers. "Also, neutral ships in the war zone are in danger, as in consequence of the misuse of neutral flags ordered by the British government on January 31. and in view of the hazards of naval warfare, it cannot always be avoided that attacks meant for enemy's ships endanger neutral ships. "Shipping northward anound the Shetland Islands, in the eastern basis of the North Sea and in a strip of at leaet SO nautical miles in breadth along the Dutch Coast, is endangered in the came way." LONDON. Feb. 4. The British For. elgn Office, in a statement Issued to day. said: "The apparent intention, however, of the German government to sink mer chant ships by submarines without bringing them into port or providing accommodation for their crews, and re ccardless of the loss of civilian lives, and the attempt to effect this even against a hospital ship, has raised periously the question whether Great Britain should adopt In retaliation more stringent measures against Ger man trade. "It is recognized that when any such decision to this effect is reached due care must be taken not to inflict loss upon neutral ships which have sailed before any warning has been given or decision announced. CLARK IS RENOMINATED Speaker in House Will Continue In Chairmanship. ' WASHINGTON". Feb. 6. Democrats elected to tlie House in the 64th Con gress unanimously nominated Speaker Clark tonight to succeed himself and ciiose Representative Claude Kitchin. f North Carolina, to become chairman of the ways and means committee and majority flour leader when Represen tative Underwood goes to the Senate. Applauso and cheering greeted the nominations, both of which were by acclamation, and the Speaker and Mr. Kitchin responded with speeches, urg ing Democratic harmony. The caucus named all of the re elected members of the ways and means committee and chose the following to fill vacancies: Representatives Crisp of Georgia. Olrifield of Arkansas. Casey of Penn sylvania. Allen of Ohio, M-Gillicuddy of Maine and llelvcring of Kansas. The makeup of the committee follows the usual plan of having the Demo cratic representation on the committee equally divided between the North and fcoutli. police. Mrs. Dunn, who was known as Mrs. Sauer or Sauyer in Portland. Is charged with kidnaping Phyllis Corinne Johnson, the 5-months-old daughter of Mrs. Emma Johnson, of Portland. "I will welcome a court hearing on the case." said Mrs. Dunn today, "because I am Innocent. "Several weeks ago I took a trip to California and Mrs. Johnson asked me to take her baby along. I had made other arrangements and returned the child to Its mother. After a brief visit in California, I returned to Portland and again cared for the child. I came to Tacoma unexpectedly, and brought the child with me. Soon after arriving, married Mr. Dunn. "We both decided to place the baby with friends at Spanaway. In the meantime, I wrote Mrs. Devenpeck, as she is sometimes known, that 1 had the baby with me. I heard nothing from the mother and considered every thing was all right. "Mrs. Devenpeck did not want friends to know she was a mother. She told me her husband had deserted her and asked that 1 care for the baby. 1 liked the child and took it with me. Now. because- of my kindness. I am jailed on a charge of kidnaping." After a consultation with her hu band tonight, Mrs. Dunn announced that she would tight extradition. She added she did not want the child, that the local police know where it Is "and if the mother wants it let her go and get It." LARGEST CLASS AT JEFFERSON LEAVES TEACHERS ARE ELECTED SCHOOL BOARD MAKES APPOINT MENTS AT ITS MEETING. Maximum to Be Offered for Couch Addi tion and Kins'f Second Addition Tract la Set at S500. The School Board will offer $8300 to Morgan. Fliedner & Boyce for a school building site in block 281. Couch Addi tion, and a strip of land adjoining block 19, King's Second Addition, according to action taken at the regular meet ing of the Board Thursday afternoon. The land was offered for $9600 but the Board thought that price was too high. Among Important business transacted was the election of teachers for various schools. Some of those elected and the branches they will teach follow: H. T.Vance, Jefferson High School, com mercial department; Hortense Greffoz, Jefferson High School, English; Mr. Gearhart, Lincoln High School. Spanish; Ruby Hammerstrom, franklin High School, German; Matthew M. Linnehan, Washington High School. Spanish; Fred Goldiman and Anna Iverson, School of Trades. In order to provide for the new cook ng centers, ready at Kerns and Fail ing schools, Fern Winter and Mrs. C. V. Batterson were chosen for part time work in those departments. H. W. White was elected to take the place of V. W. Williams of the commercial department of the Franklin High School. Mr. Williams has leave of absence and is out of the city. Mrs. Edna H. Wilkins was chosen to take the place of Rowena Arthur, trans ferred. In order to co-operate with the com mittee of the Rose Festival Associa tion, which has declared February 12 to be "clean-up day," the Board decided to have a half holiday in the schools of the city on the afternoou of that day. It was decided that the proposed Franklin High School be built to ac commodate approximately 2000 students. Diplomas Are Handed to 72, Record for Graduations at " School in February. JOY OF LABOR RECITED A. F. Flegel Pictures Reward of Toll and Expects Students to Take Burden of Advancing All In terests of State and West. 2 IN RELIGIOUS ROW DIE AXOTHKIt FATALLY ttOl-VDliU TEXAS GU.V BATTLE. VETERAN MILLMAN PASSES Jlonrr A. Young, 7 9, Succumbs to Illness of Five Years. Hnry A. Young1, apod 79 years. pioneer .sawmill man of Portland and Oak Point. Wash., died Thursday nipht it-his residence, 415 Larrabee street. J.lr. Yotin had been an invalid for live years, during which time he had lived in Portland. Mr. Young was a veteran of the In dian wars. lie came to Portland in 1S52. His widow, two sons, William, of Portland, nnd Claude, of Winnipeg, and four daughters, Mrs. J. J. Quinn, of Stockton, fa!.; Mrs. James Scott, of Winnipeg; Mrs. Hufch Foster, of Ore con City, and Mrs. Carl Brown, of Portland, survive. Funeral arrange ir.ents have not been completed. SOLOMON BEARY PASSES Oregon. Pioneer of 1850 Succumbs at Home of Daughter. Solomon Beary. aired il years and 4 months, a resident of Portland for Z 5 years, d i ed T h u rsday mornin g at The home of his daughter. Mrs. Carrie R Tilzer, at 5SI Marshall street. Mr. Beary eame to Oregon by ox tram In 1S50 and settled on a donation land claim. In 1 S59 he married Miss bertha Steinheiser. of Portland. Mr. Beary was a member of the con cri'cation of Temple Beth Israel. His luneral will, bo held today at 2 P. M. Rt the residence of his daughter. In terment following: in Beth Israel Cem etery. His daughter and two sons, Samuel L. and J. Beary, survive. MILLIONAIRE- PACKER DIES tdwnrd TilUen Victim of Blood Poi soning Due to Dental Work. CHirAGO. Fob. 5. (Special.) Ed ward Tililen. millionaire packer and tanker, died here early today. Death was due to blood poisoning, ensuing from bridgework to his teeth, according to his physician. The den tistry developed a sore tongue and the ensuing: poison was the reason given lor his death. HUNTED WOMAN IS TAKEN Frlciu! of Mother AYho Lost Babe Is A r res led. TACOMA. "Wash.. Feb. 5. (Special. Mrs. Jay Dunn, a 13-year-old bride of two weeks, is in the city Jail here, penI ins the action of the Portland Fight Occurs in Hotel Room After Attack on Catholic Church by Self-Styled Ex-Pi-letst. MARSHALL, Tex., Feb. 5. Two men are dead and a third is expected to die us a result of a pistol battle last night n the room of William Black, a lec turer of Bellaire, O., who was killed. The other dead man is John Rogers, of this city. John Copeland, bank cashier, was mortally wounded. The shooting occurred within two minutes after a committee of Marshall men, Copeland, Rogers and Ryan, called on Black witli a request that he stop hies lectures here attacking the Cath olic Church. Black had said he was a former Catholic priest. His first lec ture here Tuesday night caused great feeling. Black, Uis adopted daughter and C. F. Hall, a companion of Black, were in Black's room in a hotel when Rogers, Copeland and (Jeorge Ryan visited them. The shooting followed. Ryan is charged with killing Black and C. F. Hall, Black's companion who registered from St. Paul, with killing Rogers and wounding Copeland. At a preliminary inquiry here today into the deaths last night of William Black, a iecturer of Bellaire, O., and John Rogers, a local contractor, Clar ence F. Hall, of St. Paul, testified htj killed Rogers after Rogers had at tacked Black in Black's room at a ho tel. Miss Sadie Black, 17 years old, adopted daughter of the lecturer, test ified that Black was shot and killed by "a man they say is Mr. Copeland." MRS. BRECK DIES AT 87 Widow of Former Mayor Passes After 60 Years in Portland. In the- death of Mrs. John Malcolm Breck. at her home. 935 Corbett street, last Wednesday, Portland lost another pioneer woman. She was 87 years old and had lived here since her marriage to Mr. Breck in 1S54. Her husband, J. M. Breck. was one of the first mer chants in the city and at different times had municipal offices, including that of Mayor. He died in 1900. Annie Ashmead Breck was born In Lancaster, Pa., February 17, 1S28. Her father was a Presbyterian minister and writer, a volume of his sermons hav ing been published in 1830. He died almost at the beginning; of his work, but his memory has been preserved in a square named for him in Charleston, S. C. Mrs. Breck was the youngest of a large family of children. Her mother was the founder of a young women's school in Philadelphia. Mrs. Breck is survived by a daugh ter. Annie Breck Sto we, of this city, and a son, George Breck, of San Francisco. The joy of labor was the message brought to 72 members of the graduat ing class of Jefferson High School Thursday night by A. F. Flegel, -who de livered the commencement address at the High School auditorium. "That Joy," he said, "is the greatest reward labor can give. I hope you will early learn to love your daily toil, for you have not been prepared for lives of idleness, but lives of labor." Speaking of the value of prepared ness, the speaker 6aid: "Opportunity is a constant visitor with the man or woman who is prepared." Mr. Flegel told of the great development prob lems which are just ahead. Part In Development Told. "Here in the West," he said, "is to be the development of the most won derful empire the world has yet seen and you graduates are to assist In building it." The gold medal for proficiency In German was presented to Miss Jose phine Hitter by Otto Schumann on be half of the Confederation of German Speaking Societies. There were several musical num bers on the programme, all rendered by members of the graduating class. Selections by a girls' chorus, consisting of Misses Florence Mayfield, Kditb Williams, Helen Tjernlund, Dorris Mace and Dorothy Flegel, were well re ceived. A quintet composed of Robert Pritchard, Harold Poling, Larl W. Murphy. Leonard Parker and Roger Holcomb sang a song and an encore. Solos were sung by Miss Kdith Wil liams and Roger Holcomb and piano solos rendered by Miss Lois Oakes and Miss Elinor Anderson. Musical Programme Given. The processional and recessional were played by Miss Lillian Bowen, at the niano. and rl. A. rounc. wno gave a cornet obligato. "The music was In charge of v. H. Boyer, director. Diplomas were presented by Dr. Alan Welch Smith, member of the Board of Education, who congratulated the stu dents on having attained that step in their educational career. The 72 graduates, comprising the largest February graduating class in the history of the Jefferson High school, follow: Commercial course Stephen Fay Cook, William Prentiss Choate, Emilie Eisenhauer, Emma Augusta Kirschner, James L. Lakin, Clara Oleta Miller, Florence Margaret Mayfield, Evelyn Lucille Ostervold, Robert Arthur Pritchard, John F. Palm, Vera Tichenor, Helen I. Tjernlund, Chester Adna Weber, Is'ellie Catherine Shadduck. College preparatory Kenneth D.Joy, Clara O. Love, Dorothy Flegel, Dorothy Glenellen Osborne, Krfye Williams, John Robert Rooney, Helen Rose New man. Mary Margaret DuBois, Doris Pauline Mace, Hazel Adele Raymond, Ruth Skelton, Montana Skelton, Walter B. Petersen, William Everett McAllis ter, Martin Webster Jones, Rita Lynn. Domestic science course Allie Marie Beach, Elinor Van Buskirk. English course Aileen Jna Town send, Helen Kathryn Harrington, Will iam M. Brosy, Mary Elizabeth Dunbar, Meal D. Gulovson, Donald William Mc Leod, Harold Wayne Poling, Max Merle Wareham, Lois Oakes, Dorothy Elling ton Robertson, James G. Christiansen, Mildred Mary MacRae, Ella L. Holzer, Paul B. Kellogg, Donald Elsworth Clark, Dorcas Dunbar, E. Leona Whit ney, Frederick William Reynolds. Ralph Reid, Holland II. Houston, Eari W. Murphy, Sherwood G. Felker. German course Josephine V. Hitter. Latin course- Roirer Holcomb, Grace Ziegler, Harry B. Wilson. Manual training course Ariel B. Chitty, Samuel Jensen Engholm, Leon ard Clifton Parker, Marion E. Syrek. Teaching course Elinor M. V. Ander son, Edna Mae Dalziel, Edna Allette Lindberg, Ruth Maria Olson. Margaret Anne Nottingham. Inez Donahue, Edith Anne Williams, Violet Verona McCarl, Anne G. Jackson, Dagmar Solie Jeppe sen. Honorary graduates, iwth a grade of 90 per cent in every study during their senor year, were: Donald Clark. Marga ret Dubois, Mary Dunbar. Samuel Eng holm, Dorothy Flegel. Neal Gulovson, Ella Helzer, Edna Lindberg, Violet Mc Carl, Florence Mayfield, Aileen Town send, Ruth Olson, Hazel Raymond, Fred Reynolds, Josephine Ritter, Helen Tjernlund. STEAMER COLON GROUNDED Cruiser Goes to Aid of Vessel in Danger on Harbor"s Bar. ON BOARD U. S. S. SAN DIEGO. off West Mexican Coast, by wireless to San Diego. Cal.. Feb. 5. The American steamer Colon, formerly a Mexican ves sel, has grounded on the bar at the entrance to the harbor of Topolobampo. A heavy norther, is blowing and the steamer's plight !s reported to be critical. The United States cruiser Maryland responded to her wireless .calls for help and is now standing by. GOVERNMENT GIVES RADIUM Metal Refined by Xcw Federal Pro cess Exhibited in House. WASHINGTON, Feb. 1. Eleven thou sand dollars worth of radium bromide, refined from Colorado ore by the new simplified process worked out by the Federal Bureau of Mines laboratory at Denver, was formally turned over by the Government to Dr. Howard JS. Kelly, of Baltimore, for use by the National Radium Institute in treatment of cancer cases. The event was celebrated at luncheon at the Bureau of Mines, at which Secre tary Lane of the Interior Department made a speech congratulating the bur eau on what had been accomplished and expressing the hope that proof of the Government's ability to refine radium by its own process, independent of the closely guarded European methods, would cause Congress to enact the radium conservation bill. Later Representative Foster, of Till-' ois, chairman of the mines committee, exhibited the bureau's product in the House and predicted that the discovery of the new refining process would put the radium treatment within reach of many sufferers who heretofore have been unable to obtain it. w . VN"SV IGU t National $ f , ipremacy X CXCCUT.VtOFF.CES. . W?W!KaL WMW t Jt S regal bu.ld.no j !Pttl;' V - ' V I B.mar ."urk'c 1HR wnnIN C NEOAL. FACTO ICS 2 6 4 isra'w- " rcu"r "irnai I Washington L W L : "V 1 1 A Lll l ll Washington Street ( f i M J ( 1 f jh MP I Street , Building t",M 1 1 ' ' Building 'FACTORIES WHITMAN, MASS. M.LFOnO.MASS. PHILADELPHIA. PA. TORONTO. CAN ADAl 'Ca.iC ADoactSc.l , GROU. P1CTUBC -MEN'S AND WOMKNS HCOA1. PACTOICS regal, Shoe; Company opening -of the- REGAL SHOE Today Saturday, Feb. STORE 6,1915 The nations most popular shoe for men and women. Made in quarter sizes. Fashions latest models for immediate wear. Advance Sprinq styles now ready. We shall he pleased to have you inspect the Regals. Mens $4 to $6 Women's $3.50 to $5 All Regal Shoes are Guaranteed 264 GARHANZA MENACES SPAN ISH MINISTER Deportation Threatened Un less Countryman Is Sur rendered for Trial. BELGIAN CASE RECALLED Partisan ot Villa Charged With Hav ing Aided in Levying Blackmail. Conditions in Capital Reported Quiet. OFFICER'S ESTATE $14,000 Lieutenant Harms Administrator for Stalil Properties. Police Lieutenant Leo A. Harms i named administrator of the estate of Sergeant Ralph H. Stahl, who was shot accidentally and killed by Patrolman C. E. Klingensmttb. last week. Petition for administration of the estate, which is valued at nearly $14,000. was filed in County Clerk Coffey's office. The relatives mentioned in the peti tion are a brother and three daugh ters, who live at the Stahl home. -495 East Thirtieth street. The estate is composed chiefly of Portland real estate. ir . l'tj iw-rnv TTp.h. 5. General Carranza has called upon the Spanish Minister at Mexico City, on threat or deportation, to surrender within hours Angel del Caso. a Spaniard, who says he is an agent of the Spanish gov ernment, but whom Carranza charges with heinsr active in the service of General Villa. This information was received today in private telegrams from Mexico City, which say that Del Caso is supposed to be hiding in the Spanish legation. The incident recalls General Carran za's experience last September with the Belgian Minister to Mexico, who, be cause of the severity of his representa tions concerning Belgian concessions, was ordered deported, and notwith standing intervention of American Con sul Silliman and the Brazilian Minis ter, was compelled to leave the country. Del Cuo'i Arrest Ordered. While Elizo Arredondo, head of the CarTn-nv.A aarencv here, declined to dis cuss Del Caso's whereabouts, he issued" a statement based on advices from .Mex ico City as follows: "General Alvaro Obregon has issued an order for the arrest of Angel del Caso. Del Caso is a man who has been intimately connected with the Villatsta movement ever since its inception and at one time during the past year went so far as to call himself Villa's personal representative in Washington, D. C. "Later he was with Villa in Chihua hua and Zacatecas busying himself lw revolutionary affairs, and has steaa fastly been one of the men in whom Villa has reposed great confidence. In Mexico City on account of his wide ac quaintance he was able to designate for Villa prominent persons who, after they were arrested or threatened with arrest, would pay ransom or blackmail to Villa. He was the perpetrator of many thefts and frauds with the con nivance of Villa. "JiefarloiK" Actlvltr Charged. "While he was doing this nefarious work for Villa he attempted to pose as the confidential agent of the Spanish government before the Gutierrez ad ministration, notwithstanding the fact that at the time Spain was represented by her Minister. "It is thought that Del Caso is in hiding and will endeavor to escape trial for the many crimes he has com mitted by taking refuge behind a plea that he is a Spanish citizen and shield himself with the flag of the Spanish legation. "Del Caso, when apprehended, will have a fair trial and every oportunity to free himself of the serious charges that will be lodged against him." Del Caso is well known in Washing ton. He was received by Secretary Bryan and was understood to have in terceded with Villa to secure better treatment for Spaniards at the time that threats of confiscation of Spanish property in Chihuahua were current. Advices from Mexico City were meager today, saying that the city was quiet and railroad communication with Vera Cruz improving daily. At the Spanish embassy here it was said tonight that Del Caso is the con fidential agent of the Spanish govern ment detailed to accompany General Villa, Just as George C. Carothers does for the American Government. The embassy here appealed to Acting Secretary Lansing, of the State De partment, who telegraphed to American Consul Silliman to use his good offices in the situation: Canadian Airman Killed. LONDON, Feb. 5. Lieutenant Sharpe. of the Canadian contingent of the Royal Flying Corps, was killed today while flying at Shoreham. He was return ing from a trip when his biplane sud denly dived to the earth. The machine was smashed and Lieu tenant Sharpe died within a few min utes. ' THEATRICAL FETE GIVEN BIRTHDAY PARTY FOR FRAXK HARW'OOD HELD OX STAGE. OrrlieHtra Leader Remembered Will. Many Gifts BurleaqulnB Theat rleal or Musical Profession. Unique in birthday parties was that given Thursday night on the stage of the Orpheum Theater in honor of Frank Harwood, director of the orchestra at that house. About 100 guests were gathered behind the drop curtain while Mr. Harwood was engaged in the busi ness office of Manager Conlon, and at 11:45 the conference "out front" was allowed to adjourn. The curtain was rung up as Mr. Harwood emerged from the manager's office, and while the played the Orpheum recently. Sketched on the picture was the figure of goat, labeled "Harwood." Trnnfliitcd. the Joke meant that Mr. Harwood could not play her niule to suit her, and related to her classification of Mr. Harwood among the shecpherdcrs of tlio old country. Mr. Harwood was the recipient of many gift, most of tlwm btirlexuulnn the musical or theatrical profernilons. Toastmaster Stevens referred to the gathering as a "Wilson pesce parly," and pointed to tlio fait that represen tatives of every nation now at wr were drinking the health of an English man. A feast of steamed clams and trim mings was served. HANDSHAKE DISJOINTS ARM Mattress-Maker Jtuhhcd to Hopitul After Greeting l-rlciid. While shaking hands with a friend at First and Mndison streets Thursday friends of the little English violinist night. William Rose, a niattress-niakrr. cheered he was escorted to a seat at the right of Edwin Stevens, Orpheum star, and toastmaster for the occasion. On the. center table stood a huge birthday cake, decorated with a large figure of a violinist at work. As Mr. Harwood cut the cake he came upon the photograph of an actress who 48 years old, dislocated his shoulder i severely that he was taken to the po lice emergency hospital for treatment. Assistant City Physician Pice set the bones and sent the man home. 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