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a EFFUSIVE GREETING NOTED ENGLISH SUFFRAGETTE, HER EQUAL RIGHTS HUSBAND AND DELEGATION OF PORTLAND WOMEN WHO GREETED THEM ON ARRIVAL IN PORTLAND. BAXMYER DEATH IS NOTPROVEDSUIGIDE GIVEN SUFFRAGETTE mart woiic cxsj.voj -"Mer chan dise;cf d Merit .Only Murder Possibility Develops at Inquest Over Portland , Man in Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. Pethick Lawrence Showered With Flowers on Arrival in Portland. yiEWS ON WAR ARE GIVEN WATCH CLASP IS DAMAGED TTTTC arORNTXO OREGONIAN, SATTJBBAT, MARCH .13, 1915. mi wm 6UO 0T or Sfoled Hunger Striker Declares lir ot Suffering Kails on Women and They Are Denied Voice in Councils of Nations. BY LKuNE CASS BAEK. Kr.gland's noted suffragette, and onel f hr nmiiiHr "huiiirer strikers." Mrs-I l'-titi.-' ijir- rpm'. accompanied by an I equally ardent suffragette husband, al- fO a "hunger striker." toting their real English luirca-.-, stepped modestly, with no fanfare of trumpets, off the Shasta I Limited yesterday and straight into thel crectinzs of a small group of repre sentative clubwomen of Portland. Mrs. A. K. Borlhwick. Mrs. I- W. Thrkclsen. Mrs. G. I. Buland, Miss Vir ginia Arnold and Miss Alice Fundstedt ahouered the arriving visitors with iapny messages and loaded their arms with flowers. One huge bunch of hns- lish violets brought appreciative notice from the rosy-cheeked smiling Irs. Tethick Lawrence. After we had been driven to the Benson Hotel the famous HiifTmirctte amiablv consented to post pone tor a few moments a drive around the "Citv Beautiful. planned dv miss Tinth ratlin, who is hostess for thel Pethick Lawrences during their stay here. Miss Callin met them, and visit ed in their home last year while she was in England. -Womea IVar'a Sufferers." Mrs. Lawrence talks easily and ear nestly. "Women, not men. are the suf ferers of war." she says. "The lot of the soldier who is facing death in the trenches is Infinitely to be preferred to that of women who are left behind to face the complete disorganization industry." Mrs. Pethick Lawrence's English home is occupied by officers, and many of her klnfolk and close friends are i active service. "This war is proving more than all else that every war i waged upon women and children," ah says, "and now a new policy has been announced. Great Britain and Oer may are going to starve each other out. The people who will starve first are the women and children, 'ine peo ile who will starve last will be th men in the army and navy. It Is final illustration of the essential truth beginning to dawn on the world that women, through motherhood, are al wars, first and last, direct sufferers from every war. -Women are the custodians of huma life. They have paid the price and the disposal of human life is essentially matter that concerns them. They shall ay if their sons are to be slaughtered. Men have defended their monopoly f irorernment by assertions that wo men have no business acumen," sh went on. 'They have drawn absurd Imaginary pictures of women In official ' positions, and have pictured and printed and Blazed the muddle that tneir en trance into the administrative life of nations would portend. No picture. however overdrawn of woman a igno ranee, error or folly could exceed in tragic horror the spectacle with which male governments are furnishing his tory today. The failure of male state craft is complete. The foundations the civilization they have erected in KuroDe have proved rotten. The sole influence that could have preserved the balance! Interests has been shu out. By their political existence women would have reminded governments that the life- of a people is more than ma terial accumulation. Upon the ruins of civilization a new world will have to ba built and In this work it is vital to the interests of humanity that the mother half be called to take part Hone Seen laj Amrrlra. Mrs. Pethick Lawrence believes that the United States must be the arbiter of the present war and that it Is through American women that peace will be established in the world. Speaking alone these lines she said: "The solidarity of men is a mighty mall thing compared to the sisterhood of women. Back of all nations, under neath all nations lies the lnter-natlon of mothers. And as women begin to become conscious of this solidarity new and vital force for peace and brotherhood is generated in the world.' Mrs. Pethick Lawrence denies the ex istence of the brotherhood of men. "Men have many ambitions, many aims and many vocations which conflict with the others," she says. "Women have only one vocation and one achievement. That is the creation. the preservation and the protection of the human race. It is this one vocation that unite women all over the world with a union that goes far beneath any cleavage of nationality. In this solidar ity of motherhood is rooted the solidar ity of the human race." Militancy la Advocated. Mrs. Pethick Lawrence is a militant. i?hc told me so. But she qualified the term as we have learned to know It. "I am not connected with the extreme revolutionary movement." she ex plained. "To be militant means to be readj- to serve, ready to fight for free dom. Militants are hose who take up the attitude of political protest. We militants are in earnest. We are pre pared to risk any injury or suffering to ourselves, but we are not prepared to inflict it on others. The revolu tionary militant goes further. They believe in inflicting the minimum in Jury in order to win the maximum good. I am surely in sympathy with them. too. 1 think it is wonderful that they have terrorized a nation, had mil lions of dollars' worth of advertising of their wrongs on the front pages of newspapers all over the world, and all of It without Injury of life or limb for one person." Mrs. Lawrence has been in the Kng lish jiils live times for her activities on behalf of woman's right. The first time was in 19 for taking part in a protest Inside anu outside the House of Commons: the second time for leading a deputation against the House of Com mons to protest against the exclusion of the votes for woman in the King's apeech, and again In 1911 for heading a deputation against Westminster when JLloyd-Georso "torpedoed" the concilia tion bill. In 1S12 she was sentenced for conspiracy, kept in prison three weeks, being refused bail, and again later in the same year she and Mr. Lawrence were sentenced to nine months, being released on pressure brought to bear from people all over the world. Mr. and Mrs. IVthick Lawrence have been married U years. On their mar riage. Mr. Lawrence took also the fam ily name of his bride Pethick and ainee- then has been known as Mr. rethlck lAwrence. He will address the Civic League today on "War and Peace" and Mrs. Tethick Lawrence will speak tomorrow night on "Peace and Wom an's Movement." under the auspices of the Congressional Union for Woman's SuXXraca, u , . I Lett. , .v) v 1 fen , w - ' A. I IIUIIUII UUIIUU UULUI lit Vs "Sf''-'--.! II ' ... v fCV. i I I n-,.: Tuicoinn.i I If . I I 000 Francs Are Subscribed. L; . . . ' ; II. y. .. i . . 8r ' .smfaneXl-,xJ S ;,j'i"as.:sssfl I AMERICAN CASH RECEIVED Z - II I - -if!! !. .ftr6 i'ifcrt)ri..r... . . Miii'oi'iS Bourse Kxcludes Transactions In Sc- I I tXj.ff fey Ja&'ty rt rnnKpm rrpvini iiv iirain I r : a j .v on Nation's Sloney. I I VT'iti' s'li; i i e . 9 - tit a x srf . PARIS, March 12. Deputy Albert Metin. reporting for the tfudget com mittee in the Chamber of Deputies to day on the bill authorizing the gov ernment to raise the issue of national defense bonds to 4.500.UO0.00O francs, announced that the subscriptions in France to these bonds already had reached 3.003,000,000 francs. This amount, added to the foreign subscriptions. Deputy Metin said, made a total of 3.684.000,000 francs, of which sum 51.800,000 francs had been placed in the United States. Bourse Bara Allen Securities. The French Minister of Finance, Alexander Ribot. said today that the governing body of the Bourse had de cided to exclude provisionally from transactions in that market all securi ties owned by foreigners. Explaining the significance of this move, Mr. Ribot said: "You have asked if this was not adverse to the interests of Americans. The purpose of the regulation is to prevent the sale in France of German or Austrian-owned securities, with the object either of drawing cash from this country or of depressing and manipu lating ' the market. Our friends, the Americans, will not be affected by this agreement because, with the excep tion of a few American stocks, securi ties listed on the French Bourse are not held In America. Defense Boada Not Listed. 'Xational defense bonds, some of which have been taken in the United States, are not listed on the Bourse-. Thev are reallv bills, discountable at the Bank of France." Concerning the financial resources of the French people. M. Ribot said: The private stores of cash or ine farmer, small tradesman and working man have scarcely been touched for government needs. Subscriptions for short-term bonds from these accumu lations are flowing in steadily and seemingly jnexnaustioiy, aimosi wiui- out effort and simply in response to the invitation extended by public no tice. Cash from every commune m France is being placed at the disposi tion of the government." M. Ribot added that there wa gen uine appreciation in France of "Amer ican good will and sympathy." V j-Tfe. f-r - x - Tol Rroot Raw. Mr. aad Mr. yirn. A. K. Bortbwlck, Mra. I. Alice F"nntedt and Mra. U. I'cthle It Lawrence; Back Row, Left to Right, . W. Therkelnen, Mtaa Vlrarlnia Arnold, Mlaa I.. Bo land. Eclon Hr. Pethick Lawrence. LIS! GROWS MEXICANS SLAY AMERICAN (Continued From First Paire. City and Vera Cruz be kept open for transportaion of foreigners, regaraiess of what authorities are in control at either end. The murder of McManus overshad owed all other diplomatic phases of he Mexican situation. Messages trans mitted by the Brazilian Minister from he wife of the dead man were sent to wo relatives, biiza jiciianus, ur.icago. and Charles B. vood. Uenver, Colo. Secretary Bryan made no comment on the affair beyond revealing what steps had been taken by the United States Government. The Brazilian Minister has instructions to see that punishment inflicted on the offenders without delay. It vaa believed the American Government would not go beyond this nd tho arrangement for an indemnity to be paid the family for the present. Kvacuation Solves Problems. Evacuation by the Obregon troops solves many of the problems which had threatened to force a crisis in the relar tions between the Carranza government nd the United States. The rood and water supply now can De replenished nd the Imprisoned merchants released. What disposition has. been made of the priests imprisoned by Obregon Is not known, but it is believed that they now will be released. The Villa agency gave out the follow- ng statement The confidential agency or the con vention government of Mexico has no nformation whatever regarding the re ported killing of the American citizen. John B. McManus. The agency wishes to state, however, that duo punishment nd reparation will be made If the American in question has been mibject ed to death by soldiers under Ocneral Zapata's command."- Britain Declares More Articles to Be Contraband. WASHINGTON IS SURPRISED Cottonseed Products, Oik-c Declared to Be Free From Danger or Seiz ure, Are Placed In Condi tional Group of Article. attitude has been brought about be cause of the fact that cottonseed oil and its derivatives are Important food prod ucts. Because little wool is normally ex ported from the United States to Ger many the addition of that staple to the list will make practically no differences, particularly If the action results in facilitating the release to American mills of large quantities of Australian wool which have been held up by em bargoes. Why such articles as aniline, para- pherine wax, iodine and the like should h,e declared contraband is not under stood by officials of the United States'. While formal comment Is withheld pending receipt of official notice of the British action, it is expected that stron protests will follow the seizure of such articles as those mentioned. Camera Carried to Train Platform Where Body Was Found Is Miss ing Mucli Money Usually Car ried by Victim, Says Nephew. CHICAGO. March 12. (Special.)-. Unusual circumstances surrounding the finding of the body of Christian F. Baxmyer, 63 years old. of Portland, Or., who was shot to death aboard a Pull man coach of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad train, No. 60, yester day, developed at the inquest today. Possibility of murder and robbery caused the inquiry to be continued until March 26. These facts were disclosed: Mr. Baxmyer's watch chain was found dangling with the snap bent. The ring and stem wind thumb screw were missing from the watch. The revolver, a collar button and a Canadian nickel were found under his body. The body fully clothed, was on the back plat form of the rear coach of the train. Much Money Usually Carried. Deputy Coroner Hermann conducted the inquest in Sheldon's undertaking rooms. F. W. Ruedel, of Pittsburg, a nephew, testified that his uncle for merly had been wealthy, was separated by agreement from his wife, who holds valuable property in Pittsburg, and that he was in the habit of carrying large amounts of -money. A week ago he had borrowed J150 from Ruedel's father. Mr. Baxmyer carried accident insurance policies of $7500, he said, in addition to life insurance. Mr. Baxmyer was traveling from Portland to Pittsburg. In his clothing s found a message dated Chicago and addressed to the nephew at Pitts burg and it is supposed he intended to file it at a telegraph office on his ar rival here. It said lie would be in Pittsburg Saturday and Sunday. Shot Not Heard by Crew. V. O. Zise, a brakeman. testified he saw Mr. Baxmyer go to the rear with a camera, to take a picture from the train, after it left Aurora. He had seemed in good health and spirits all the way, the witness said. The camera was not found. Neither Zise nor G. ". Younker. the Pullman conductor, heard a shot, they testified. Mr. Baxmyer lived In Portland two years, residing at the Nortonia Hotel and at 744 Clackamas street. He was secretary of the Storey Manufacturing Company for a year. M. W. Storey, president of the com pany, said last night that Mr. Baxmyer resigned hi3 position there several months ago to go East on business. During his stay with the Storey com pany Mr. Baxmyer was reticent con cerning his past and little is known of his early life. "Mr. Baxmyer worked alone in the office," said Mr. SUirey last night. "I don't think be had any intimate friends here. I guess I knew as much about his affairs as anybody, but I know practically nothing." St. Johns Ilcsidcnt Drops Dead. ST. JOHNS. Or., March 12. (Spe cial.) Alton Struble dropped dead yes- crday while in the grounds at his oine on Swift boulevard from what was pronounced by the attending phy- ician to be heart ' disease. He had been in his usual health. Mr. Struble as a widower and is survived by one aughter, Mlsa Memeta Struble, of Moscow, Idaho, and a brother, living In Troy. Idaho. The body was taken to St. Johns undertaking ehapel, where It will be held until funeral arrange ments are completed. He was 60 years old and had made hla home in SU John for, even, year. i LONDON, Harch 12. The British gov ernment, it was announced today, has added the following articles to, the ab solute contraband list: Wool, woolen and worsted yarns, wool tops and nails, tin, chloride of tin, tin ore. castor oil, paraffin wax, copper. iodine, lubricants, hides and all kinds of leather suitable for military equip ment. ammonia and its salts, aniline and its compounds. Foodstuffs for animals, heretofore on the conditional contraband list, are broadened to include oleaginous seeds, nuts and kernels and animal and vege table oils and fats, other than linseed oil. suitable for the manufacture of margarine cakes and meals. This apparently makes cottonseed and all cottonseed oil products conditional contraband. The announcement that wool has been made contraband probably will re sult in an alteration of the arrange ment whereby wool was consigned to American banks and held to tho order of the chairman of the Textile Alliance for release to American mills. It is expected that the action of the rovernment will facilitate the granting of licenses and the shipment of wool bought for America at the last auctions and still in this country. The wool mar ket is firm. The congestion of trans portation facilities is acute. ACT SUTiPniSES WASHINGTON Strong Protest Is Expected to Fol low Seizure ot New Items. WASHINGTON. March 12. News to day of considerable additions to the al ready formidable list of contraband laid down by the British government was received with surprise at the State De partment. Official notice of the new order in council has not yet reached the department. Officials frankly confessed their in ability to understand the underlying principles of the British action, which is expected to result in further seri ous embarrassment to American trade. Already the list of commodities an nounced by the British government as contraband compares in length with an American tariff act, and includes many staples never before regarded as even conditional contraband. The addition of cottonseed oil to the absolute contraband list, coming on top of the difficulties placed in the way of the free export of cotton from the United States, is looked on as particu larly Irritating because assurances had heen received early in the war from Great Britain that cottonseed oil and its products would not be declared contra band. It la assumed, that the change, ol LIMIT ON PRICES ASKED BRITISH WORKERS' COMMITTEE PETITIONS GOVERNMENT. GOSSIP DENIED SOLDIERS SILENCE REGARDING ARM V POSED ON GERMANS. Order la Given on Theory Valuable In formation Might Reach Enemy, With Harm to Fatherland. Resolution Demands Supplies of Wheat and Coal for Re-Dlstrlbutlon Amona; Populace at Fixed Figures. LONDON. March 12. Under the auspices of the workers' war emergency national committee. Arthur Henderson, M. P., presiding, a mass meeting was held here today to discuss the prices of food and fuel. A resolution urging the government to commandeer the stock of wheat in the country at a fair price for resale to the public was adopted. The price of these resales should not exceed 40 shillings per quarter, it was declared. ' The meeting also urged action to con trol more ships to bring wheat from Argentina, Russia and Canada and to guarantee a fixed price for the 1915 crop. James Andrew Sedoon, chairman of the British Trades Union Congress of 1914, addressing the meeting, advanced the argument that if the government had acted the same way with wheat it has with sugar there would have been no increase in its price. The speaker ascribed inflated prices to three causes first, inaction on the part of the government; second, gambling in the wheat markets of the world, and. third, the "criminal exploitation and robbery by the shipping ring in this country." Subsequently the meeting adopted resolutions calling on the government to commandeer all supplies of coal and distribute them to consumers through municipal and co-operative agencies. The resolutions also recommended that railway facilities be pooled and oper ated in such a way as to obtain the greatest possible economic advantages. INVADERS PUNISH LILLE Honor to French Prisoners Meets With Fine and Other Ticprlsal. it i i n l r l BERLIN (via London), March 12. I lnaHlDenain S VOUHO IxemcUY T-. . 1. - I . I. I . . , I ... I - in France occupied by the Germans,! I really Cannot praise Loam made a demonstration in honor of a I krlain'it Couffh Remedv too highly, says bamuel oleepy, COLOGNE, Feb. 13. (Correspondence of the Associated Press.) The German so'dier's duty of silence, as well as of fighting, which In bold type is empha sized on all railroad trains, is reiter ated in an announcement by the au thorities of the fortress of Cologne, as follows: "The great Interest which the Ger man people has shown in everything connected with the war is the cause of the heartiest congratulation. The necessity, however, of guarding against revealing military movements is ob vious. The revelation of such matters can eaaily result in the greatest harm to the fatherland. "Often one thoughtless word about new formations, tne uirecuon usen o troons or transports or the names of commanding officers suffices, if heard by unfriendly ears, to do untold harm to the fatherland's cause. "The layman may not appreciate that the repetition of news wmcn reacnes him from the field is anything but harmless. It should oe rememDerea, however, that the enemy has a far reaching information -service with an tennae stretching far into our country. and that from such information impor tant conclusions sometimes can do drawn which enable him to make the proper counter moves. The ffovernment tnereiore consiaers it a duty to point out the situation and to sound the warning In public places, especially in hotels, railroad carnages and the like, to guard against the rev elation of military news to strangers." ATTACKER IS IDENTIFIED German Submarine Fired On by British Yacht Vandtiara. LONDON, March 12. The identity of the vessel described in a recent wire less communication from Berlin as a Have Prepared for Today In Their Section a Most Interesting Exhibition of Showing the Latest aster T JtliUiiiciT Jill Identical xviih the offerings of the most authentic A'cn York anal Paris fashions our patrons have every a.ss!ira7ce that every hat shonm represents a prevailing style correct in every detail, no matter ion modestly priced your selection may be. The remarkable growth and unquestioned prestige of our Afillinery Section Jvas never more noticeable than now an ever-increasing patronage bearing testimony to our Millinery Supremacy. Today We Place on Exhibition Over 1500 New Trimmed Hats Special $3.95, $4.95, $5.95, $6.95 to $18.50 ouoman WO c Mer chan dise of ttc Merit Only" A Men's Dollarlyke Neckwear Is Introduced on Saturday With a Great Display and Sale of the Newest Spring Styles, Woven Of Specially Selected Silks Loomed for One-Dollar Four-in-Hands Saturday 55c Large flowing end shapes in brocades, novelty stripes, Roman stripes and flowered patterns, in colorings and com binations that heretofore have never been successfully pro duced except in the highest-priced exclusive necl(Wcar. . Through a special arrangement with one of the foremost makers of men's neckwear we shall offer exclusively 1 1 the City of Portland "Dollarlyke" neckwear. Today the initial showing of this really wonderful necl(Wcar is made both in our IVashinglon-St. windows and on our men's nccl(Wcor counters, in the Furnishing Section, just off the W 'ashington St. entrance. First f loor yacht which fired on a German sub marine in St. George's Channel, Feb ruary 1, was revealed today in an announcement given out by the Ad miralty, which said: "H. JI. S. Vanduara, an auxiliary armed vessel, engaged a submarine February 1. The German government alleges "that she did not show her colors before ilring. The commanding ofTicer of the Vanduara reported at the time: 'I was flying no colors. but hoisted naval llairi the while enslKn (British before nin-niim r .' " Vermont Will Vole on Proliibilifiil. nil i:. Gov- .MONTri:i.ii:i;. vi.. m.i ernor Gates ittt-d I'mIav tin- iwolil -bltion referendum bill. As a rti'iilt tit- voters will rlccldo nt the miinl'l:il elec tions In JIarcli. 1 S 1 1. whether to nub stitute state-wide pi iihllnllmi for local option. Constipation. If you are frequently troubled with constipation you should avoid strong cathartics, as they take too much water out of the system and make a bad mat ter worse. The more you take the more you will have to take. You should take a laxative like Chamberlain's Tablets. They are mild and gentle, and when the proper dose is taken the effect Is so natural that you can scarcely real ize that it was produced by a medicine. PruggistR have them. Price 25 cents. group of prisoners of war brought into the city, the German military authori ties in control imposed a tatf of 600. 000 francs to be paid by the city before March 20. The people of Lille also were for bidden to leave their houses between 5 o'clock in the evening: and 7 o'cloci ih morning. T. Terre Hill, Pa. This remedy is a favorite for coughs and colds in many homes where its good qualities are known and appre ciated.. - Merchandise of cJ Merit Only" Announce a Very Comprehensive Display Today of . Spring lpparcl for Small Women, Misses and Girls In Their Fourth Floor Section Every effort has been made to represent as adequately as possible the newest Spring and Easter modes most in de mand. Particular attention is directed to the exclusive styles shown and to the youthful modeling of all our Misses' and Junior Apparel. New Suits, New Dresses, New Coats At Prices That Are Extremely Moderate 1 l oiirlti rior.