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Newspaper Page TextTITE MORNING OHEGONIAN. TUESDAY. MARCII 2, 1915. LIFE ISTHREATENED, SAYS IS. STEGLER End of Charges Reflecting on Germany DemandeS in Let ter Bearing Symbol. JURY INDICTS HUSBAND Keporter Charging Woman W ith At tack Barely li-capes I'rofsecution on Her Counter Accusation. Court Dismisses Case. NEW YORK, March I. Mrs. Richard P. Steslcr. whose husband on beins arrested on a fraudulent passport charge involved the naval attache of the German Embassy at Washington, today turned over to the Federal authorities a letter postmarked San Francisco, February 23. threatening her and her husband with death if they did not cease their "calumnies against the German government." The letter was signed with skull and cross bones. drawn In red ink. The litter wus given to the officers following Mrs. Stealer's discharge by the Municipal Court, where she had been arraigned on a charge of assault, made by Arthur riateiket, a reporter for a Germnn newspaper. IfUfthand 1 lodicted. Almost at the moment of Mrs. Stea ler's discharge in Police Court the Fed eral pi and jury returned an indictment charging her husband with conspiracy against the United states, in obtaining an American passport falsely. Stegler is a German naval reservist. . Two oth crs were indicted with him, Richard Madden, in whose name the passport was issued, and Uustuve Cook, of Ho boken. who, it is charged, participated In obtaining the passport. Mrs. !te:rler spent the night in cell in a police station. Matciket, who appeared against her, told the court ehe had attacked him in a bedroom at Oregon pioneer of 1851, died here Feb ruary 19, after an illness of about 18 months. Mrs. Hembree, who was born on April 8, 1839, near Cincinnati, ., crossed the plains by ox-team with her parents in 1852. The family settled in Champoeg, Or., where she was mar ried to Albert Hembree on December 2S. 1854. Mr. and Mrs. Hembree resided for manv years on a farm in Yamhill Coun ty. "Later they conducted a farm for about. 28 years near Eugene. Or. After a short stay in Harney they removed to California. Her husband, her only living sister and three children, Minnie. Rose and Loren, were with her at her bedside. Mrs. Hembree had endeared herself with her neighbors by her patience during her long illness. Mrs. Hembree is survived by her hus band and these children. Alice Sim mons, of Fallon. Nev.; Annie Hamilton, of Enterprise. Or.; Emma Moomaw, of Baker, Or.: Minnie Wooley. of Kedondo Beach. Cal.: Eugene F. Hembree, ot Princeton. B. G: Rose McGrath. of Trenton. Miss.: John L. Hembree. of Dixon. Cal.: Guy Hembree, of Jliley, Or., and Loren C. Hembree, of Lo Angeles. LIQUOR CASE REVERSED GERMANS KEEPING PACT IN BELGIUM Head of American Relief Com mittee Says Foodstuffs Are Not Despoiled. ARMY RESPECTS CIVILIANS SHIPMENT IXTO KAS5A5 I I-llfcl.u BY SUPREME COURT. Wholesaler Enjoined by State Trlbanal I Protected Under Interstate Commerce Statute. WASHINGTON. March 1. The Kir- mever liquor case, one of first im nnrtinm to the prohibition laws of Kansas, was decided in the Supreme Court today against the state. It was alleged that after receivers had been appointed to oust various wholesale liquor dealers from doing business in Leavenworth. Kan., M. Kir mcyer went across the river Into Mis souri, established a warehouse there and continued to deliver beer In Kansas. The Kansas Supreme Court held that his removal was a mere device to evade thn Kansas liauor law and that the trade was not interstate commerce "in trnnti faith." The Supreme Court today held that Kirmeyer was entitled under previous decisions of the court to protection for his trade as interstate commerce ana dismissed an injunction issued by the Kansas Supreme Court. Justice McReynolds said in the opin ion that the Kirmeyer case arose be- f..f tim nnqe9tri nf thn Webb-Kenyon a hotel with a seltzer bottle and then ,t,iKitinr shinments from wet to dry territory' and that neither its con had beaten him over the head with cane. He showed no marks of an en counter, however. The testimony brought out thai Matciket and another man had accompanied two women to the hotel, one of them being Mrs. Steg ler: that the party had obtained ad joining rooms, where they remained until 1:30 o'clock. Woman Make Counter Charge. Mrs. Megler testified the party re mained together the entire period they were at the hotel, and that the two men had tried to disrobe her. At no time, sho testified, wero she and Matci ket alone. She characterized the charge against her as a "frameup. Mrs. Annetta Stegler has appeared prominently in the passport fraud charges in the defense of her hus band. Richard P. Stegler. It was through her Influence, she said, that Stegler gave up the idea of being a German spy, and ehe affirms she caused him to make a confession in which he alleged that Captain Boy-ed, naval attache, was behind his activity for the German cause. In discharging the complaint against her this magistrate said he would he Inclined to scud Matciket and his male companion to the workhouse if the testimony concerning their alleged at tempts to disrobe Mrs. Stegler were more definite. struction nor application was invoivca or would be passed on. Justice McReynolds said decisions oi the Supreme Court precluded further discussion of the following facts: Beer is a recognized article or com merce. The ngni 10 sena ii irum no state to another and the act of doing so are interstate commerce, the regu lation whereof has been committed to Congress: and a state law whlcn acmes such right or substantially Interreres with or hampers the same is in conflict with the Constitution of the United States. Transportation is not complete until delivery to the consignee or tne expiration of a reasonable time there for and prior thereto the provisions of the Wilson act of 1S90 have no ap plication." T GERMANS APPLAID WELSHMAN OA OPPOSITE FIRING LIVE. Herbert C. Hoover Reports That Kaiser's Forces, Despite Awkward Situation, Are Xot Interfering: .With Re'licf Supplies. Cheery Sound Breaks Dull Monotony On Flemish Morass and Both Sides Agree to Stop Shooting. CLACKAMAS COUNTY SUED More-Titan $5000 Asked by City of Canby and by Individual. OREGON CITY. Or.. March 1. (Spe cial.) Two suits against Clackamas County, totaling 854:17.17, were filed In the Circuit Court today. The suit of the city of Canby for $5437.17. alleged to be due in road tax collected within the city limits since 1908, is the larger. The city charter of Canby contains a clause providing that aJl road money collected on prop erty in the city limits shall he turned over to the city and used on the roads and streets within the city and that the city superintenednt of streets shall act as road supervisor. The County Court has authorized that certain por tion of the road money shall be turned over to the city and Canby is suing for the balance. The other suit is that of Joseph P. Diiooghe. who was injured last Novem ber while driving on the Likewise Hill road two miles north of Colton. He asks for $2000. While driving along the road a wheel of his bujrgy was caught in a rut. he alleged, and he was thrown to the ground and his arm was broken. PARDONED SLAYER IN TOILS Man, Freed by Weft In 1911. Is Utah Holdup Suspect. 'ow EUGENE. Or.. March I. (Special.) Pert Heaton. granted a full pardon by Governor West in 1911, after robbini and killing a Lane County saloon keeper, is the same man recently ar rested and who is said to have con fessed to participation in a hold-up at Bingham. Utah, according to word re ceived today by J. C. Parker, Lane County Sheriff. Heaton killed Ben Tracer in Junc tion City in 1902. His capture after the murder attracted much attention over the entire Northwest. Heaton was in the saloon one night Just before closing time. When Tracer stepped to the rear to lock up Heaton shot him. He apparently disappeared. but a few hours later W illiam Withers, Lane County Sheriff, dropped from sight, and for two weeks neither was heard from. Then word came from Withers in Nevada that he had fol lowed bis man there and captured him. He received a life sentence. LONDON. Feb. 10. (Correspondence of the Associated Press.) A song inti which a Welsh soldier with a magnin cent voice put his heart and soui broirght about a temporary truce during the fighting near uixmuae recently. The soldier wno writes oi the incident says: "It was a miserable night. A heavy rain had filled the trenches knee-deep with half-frozen mud. There was no sound except the 'plop" of a German bullet against the earth of the parapet and the crack of a British rme in return. We were unprepared for any break In the dull misery of our routine, when out of the darkness came a voice. It was a merry Welsh ballad called Hob y deri Dando,' sung in as fine a voice as one could near on tne stage, n was the cheeriest sound I ever heard. At the end a round of applause came down the trenches. But imagine our sur- Drise to hear clapping and calls for more, in pood English, from the Ger man trenches. Thereupon the gallant Welshman gave us Mintra Gwen.' "Meantime, .we realized tnat not shot had been fired by either side during the song. We had forgotten all about war. So a bargain was struck with the Germans that if the Welshman would give us another song, neither side would fire any more until day light. "The third song was Mien wiaa xy Nhadau.' It was perhaps the first time the Welsh national anthem was ever heard on this dismal Flemish morass. SELLS ACCUSES SLIGH PRISONER TEU.S OF PLOT TO KILL, FRANCIS J. HENEY. OREGON MAN MADE CONSUL Wcnatchcc, Wash., Citizens Xamed by President. Also WASHINGTON, March 1. Among nominations to the consular service made today by President Wilson are the following: Consul, class 8 John P. Putnam, Mount Hood. Or. Consuls, class 9 Francis J. Dyer, San Francisco: O. Gaylord Marsh, Wa- ratchec. Wash. They will be assigned to posts after confirmation by the Senate. Two 3len Held at I.os Aaselea live DnM(ii( Testimony Aa;alnat Each Other, but Tell Nothing of Selves. UOS ANGELES. March 1. Using the statements of one to elicit further ad issions or accusations from the otner, police detectives sought today to in duce Charles E. Sligh and Alfred Sells, arrested as bandits last month, to con tlmiA further confessions. So far they have involved each other In a score or crimes. Including suspicion of the mur der of Jacob Vogel. an aged Frultvale hanker, and his wife. February 11 a holdup of the Southern Pacific Lark train near Eurbank last September and the robbery of a San Diego photog rapher last October. At the same time the officers tried to get me name oi a girl manicurist who is said to have been a "diamond cpotter ior mem. Another crime which Sells said was contemplated was the assassination of Francis J. Heney. the former graft prosecutor, for his efforts to expose gambling operations In Oakland last November. The only reason Heney was not killed. Sells declared, was -that Sligh could not get a guarantee of $200 for the work. 19 National Banks Authorized. WASHINGTON March 1. Nineteen PlflWFFR OF OREGON DIES PPcations to organize National banks r I UIH ten ur uiio were approved during February, as- I rordinsr tn an announcement today by A. Hembree Passes in ,h Controller of the Currenev. The total number of National banks doing business February 27 was 7610. with authorized capital of $1,076,454,175 and BF.LVIDERR Cal., March 1. (Spe-1 outstanding circulation amounting to cial.) Mrs. .Mary Aiaaino xiemoree, i iiit.tis.voi. Jlrw. . Mary Culifornia After Long Illness. LONDON. March 1, 3:12 P. M Her bert C. Hoover, chairman of the Ameri can Belgium relief committee, today Is sued the following statement: "It Is desired that certain facts be perfectly clear in the discussions going on in the American press with relation to the work of this commission. "First The German authorities agreed with us In December that there should be no further requisitions or purchases of foodstuffs by the German army In the occupied zone of Belgium. The oc cupation zone. comprises the whole of Belgium with the exception of territory immediately adjacent to the fighting line. The German authorities have car ried out this undertaking with scrupu lous care. There never has been any interference by them with foodstuffs imnorted by this commission, and the whole of these foodstuffs or their equiv alent have gone -to tne .Belgian civilian population. Awkward Situations .Met. "There were awkward situations in some localities: lor instance, wnero troons were billeted on the people and where German officers and soldiers were eating in public restaurants, but these difficulties were solved by the issue to this commission by the Germans from their military stores of a liberal 'quid Dro auo.' "Without entering into tne aiscus- sion of right or wrong of requisition ing foodstuffs from the civil population during the early part of the occupa tion of Belgium. 1 wish to point out that as Belgium normally imports five sixths of her foodstuffs, even had no such -requisitions been made, Belgium would long since have been without food except for the Imports of this com mission. All Belgians on Ration. "Second Every Belgian is today on a ration from this commission. Food and money are not interchangeable. A Bel gian man with $1,000,000 in cash can obtain no more bread than the man who Is destitute, and without any opinion on the Justice or Injustice of levies in the way of forced issues of paper money, can reiterate that the Belgians can only be saved from starvation by the imports of this commission. The Ger mans cannot and will not supply 10. 000,000 people north of the German line with food. Those in Belgium who can still pay us with paper money are no less de pendent upon us for food than the des titute, and every pound of food we are able to introduce into Belgium by the mercy of a charitable world prolongs just that much more Belgian life, and has nothing to do with the taxes, in demnities or monetary transactions." THIEVES WORK DURING FIRE Women In Apartment-House Escape on Hopes of Bedclothes. LOS ANGELKS. Cal., March 1. Dur ing a panic which followed the discov ery of fire early today in a large apartment-house, robbers, equipped with pass keys, entered a number of apart ments and stole several thousand dol lars worth of Jewelry. Police believe the fire was started by the robbers in order to give them the opportunity to work unmolested. Dense smoke in the halls drove a number of women on upper floors back into their apartments, where they tied bed sheets together and slid down these to safety. The Casque Combs Strikingly effective when ornamenting the latest coif fure. This fact is empha sized (tji the illustration, where the I o w "Psyche knot" is shown, and the dain ty jeweled comb questions if any more attractive hair dress could be desired. Many of the combs arc outlined with a single row of rhinestories, and others are without stones, ornamented only with carving. Women favoring: a differ ent style comb will find oth er styles equally as new and attractive in plain and stone-set effects. There is also a choice of light or dark combs, including imi tation shell, demi-amber and amber. Prices front 50c to $4.00. First Floor The Panama Exposition Colors "Flagpole T e d" "w all blue," "exposition gold" and "lattice green' are now being introduced in the new dress goods and new Spring silks. Also in the new tailored suits, waists, as well as ribbons and trimmings. Mail and Telephone Orders Filled by Expert Shoppers C " MorcKa nd is of J Merit Only" Phone Marshall 5000 Phone A 6691 The Pictorial Review April Patterns New Embroidery Book and April Fashion Book now ready for distribution. eeonfl Floor Novelty Boudoir Sets of Pink Poplin in single pieces and sets to match. Stamped ready to be embroidered in white and finished with new lace edg ing. Pin cushions, table cen ters', glove and gown cases, bureau scarfs, handkerchief cases, corset cases, blanket protectors, 25c to 85c ea. Art Needlework Section, Fifth Floor The "Fox Trot" Necklace Fashion's New Fad Very becoming and smart. A narrow band of velvet circles the neck, finished with a bow in front, from which long pendants of jet or Oriental colored beads dangle on the front of the blouse. 50c each. Flrnt Floor. Nearl500 Boys' New Wasln Suits In This Sample Line From a Prominent Manufacturer . Offered Tuesday at 98c For Suits That Would Sell Regularly From $1.50 to $2.50 in Sizes trom J to a iears rC-r- ' Suits of calateas. kinderearten cloth, srinz- jtt. hams, poplins and percales and some of pique. Showing all the very newest styles in middy and Oliver suits, in plain colors and fancy combinations, in the new checks, stripes and plaids, in navy blue, browns, tans, plain white. Trimmings of plain-colored bands, of novelty striped materials, of ties, some with laced fronts. Four of these models are illustrated. Fourth Floor All Silk Jersey and Silk Messaline Petticoats Special Tuesday $1.95 New Models Selling Regularly at $2.75 Each With the New Wide Flaring Flounces and Fitted Elastic Tops These petticoats are quite a revelation to us, as we heretofore have not found anything that can compare to them for less than $3.00. In two very new models one of fine all-silk messaline wilh the new plaited full flaring flounce and fitted clastic top; the other of all-silk Jersey with deep full flaring and tucked flounce of messaline silk. In Belgian blue, battleship gray, sand, putty, emerald green, hunters' green, maize, black and navy blue. Third Floor A Truly Exceptional Presentation of Smart Ready-to-Wear Trimmed Hats at $6.95 T T i f 1 "L1. I l. J Cr riiln. tuvKan an1 lannrv P nais or Drignuy uuisucu auaws m uuii m"""" mi juumj small shapes. Some are faced with hemp braid or shirred silk of a contrasting color, and most attractively trimmed with plait ings of silk or velvet ribbons, finished with tailored ornaments of ostrich. Many with wreaths of brightly colored flowers or small fruits combined with ribbon loops and streamers. In sand, blue, green, brown, purple, black and white. Two very smart models are illustrated. Second Floor SHIP BEATS OWN RECORD GREAT JfORTHERX CLIPS TIME OS BO FROM HAWAII. OPERA COMPANY BANKRUPT Chicago Organization Unable to Fay Because of Lack of Patronage. CHICAGO, March 1. The Chicago Grand Opera Company filed a voluntary petition in bankruptcy today, scheduling liabilities of ?264,400 and assets of S61.500. The petition included ten typewritten pases or names of singers to whom the company was indebted. Lack oi attendance at the operas presented by the company was (rivei as one of the contributing causes. LABOR TROUBLES ENDING Manufacturers of "War Material Go Back to Work In England. LONDON. March 1. 2:45 P. M. Many of the striking laborers at the Clyde Engineering Works resumed work to day. In. accordance with instructions is. sued by the Government. These labor troubles threatened to interfere seriously with the supplying of equipment and war material for the troops in the field, and the government took a hand in their settlement on the basis of nations! necessity. Flag Carried at Half Mast, in Mourning- for Portland AVomen "Who Died in Auto Accident. LOS ANGELES. March 1. (Special.) Smashing her own record, the steam ship Great Northern, her party of 3So excursionists from Los Angeles and other joints saddoned by the automo bile tragedy at HHo in which two Port. land women were killed, arrived here today from Hilo, Hawaiian. Islands. The trip took five days and five hours. After one hour s stay in tne Los An geles harbor the floating palace turned her nose seaward again and started for San Francisco, carrying many Los An geles society people to the exposition. Carrying her flag at hair mast ana with her passengers in sorrow over the tragedy, the steamship made a swift run, until she ran into a foe: bank off the Coast. This delayed her two hours. The accident in which Mrs. Mattie 13. Rule and Mrs. Miles Bell, both of Portland. Or., and a Japanese chauf feur, were killed on the way to the crater of the volcano Kilauea was witnessed by rr. Godfrey Holterhoff. treasurer of the Santa Fe in Los An geles, his wife and Mrs. D. F. Robert son, wife of the agent of the Great Northern, who were in an automobile following the ill-fated car. NEW DISCOVERY EXPLAINED Gasoline 13 lerlvcd From Cheaper Oil, Says Inrentor. NEW YORK, March 1. Dr. Walter F. Rittman, whose discovery of a new process for deriving gasoline, benzol and toluol from petroleum, was an nounced bv Secretary of the Interior Lane in Washington last night, lives in this city. In speaking of the dis covery today Dr. Rittman said: "I do not pretend to have cheapened the process of producing benzol or toluol, nor for that matter, do I say 1 have lessened the cost of deriving gasoline from petroleum. My process makes It possible, thougn. to get -raso-1 line from cheaper oils for example, the California oils and In this way the cost Is lessened." STRIKE MEDIATION LIKELY President Wilson tay Bo Asked to Intervene in Ohio. WASHINGTON, Slarch 1. President Wilson may be asked to intervene di rectly In the Eastern Ohio coal strike. Representative Francis told the Presi dent today he might later ask him to take steps to restore industrial peace in that region. Secretary Wilson, of the Department of Labor, had an engagement today to discuss the strike situation with John P. White, president of the United Mine Workers and other leaders of the miners. Representatives of the coal operators also are expected here. Two Divorces Given at Walla Walla. WALLA WALLA. Wash.. March 1. (Special.) Two divorces were granted Saturday and one new case started. Martin Knight received a decree from Kthel Knight and Delia Somorlndyka won n separation from Harold Somerln- dye. Edna Myers, after -2 years of married life, with Frank Myer. a--l a divorce on the ground of cruelty. Thcv have fivo chiMron. Kred Urnntnn, e.f Pomeroy, ohtalned a H'-rnfrO to t '! hi rtlvoreod wife, Mnrtlwi. A VOID 1,7 PURE r.llUC for Infants and Invalids Got HORLSCK'S It mean the Original and Genuine MALTED MILK "Gt6ct ifmitatiau Th Food-Drink for all Ages Rich milk, malted grain, in powder form. For infants, invalids and growing children. Purenutrition,upbuildingth whole body. Invigorates nursing mother and the aged. More healthful than tea or codec. TaHo no aubstltuto. Aak for MORLICN'S JIORLICK'S Contains Pure Milk r9 III 1 1 TORLDSrOLDEST C-lffMETTES , ' -ffl "THE. ' .r' BROWN! I -. r 1 WHIRL OF THE WORLD Wednesday Night in the Arcadian Garden After the performance Wednesday night, that tuneful comic opera, "Whirl of the World" (which plays all week at the Heilig Theater), the entire company of stars composing this great production, will be guests of the hotel management at supper m the Arcadian Garden. All of the clever "hits" of the show will be reviewed by these celebrities for the benefit and pleasure of guests in the grill singing, comic stunts, etc. This is by far the most unusual event ever staged in Portland. The fame of the opera, the celebrity of the players and the originality of the plan will bring society out en. masse: therefore, the management requests you to engage your tables at once. Re member it is WEDNESDAY NIGHT AFTER THE PERFORMANCE. ARCADIAN GARDEN HOTEL MULTNOMAH II. C. Bowers, Mgr. L. P. Reynolds, Asst. Mgr.