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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (March 31, 1915)
PORTLAND, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 31, 1915. PRICE FIVE CENTS. VOL. LV. XO. 16,957. OREGON WIVES MAY RETAIN OWN NAMES ATTORXEV-GEXERAL BROWN IS SUES AS OPIXIOX. AMERICAN MAY BE TORPEDO VICTIM ROADS WOULD CUT RATES TO INTERIOR SEATTLE GAR PART OF FLEET TO INDEX OF TODAFS NEWS VISIT AT PORTLAND The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 5S.8 degrees; minimum, 4.. degrees. TODAY'S Showers; southerly winds. , War- L. C. THRASHER AMONG MISS IG OF SCN'KEX LIVER. German loss is 000 dead in Alsace battle. H1GG WINS OPENING GAME FOR BEAVERS Page E. STRIKE, QUIT POSTS Traffic Is. Soon Tied Up in City. RIOT CALL GIVEN FOR POLICE Union Men Declare jitneys Will Care for Public. TROLLEY WIRES ARE CUT Movement Is Based on Company'. Refusal to Permit Men to Organ ise Majority of JMnes of City Are InTOlved in Labor Upset. SEATTLE, Wash., Marcti 50. A strike of employes of the Puget Sound Trac tion. Light & Power Company, operating the streetcar lines In Seattle, was or dered tonight at a mass meeting called by the Central Labor Council to con sider the company's refusal to permit its men to organize. The meeting adjourned at o'clock, after instructing committees to go out and take the men off the cars and bring them to the Labor Temple to sign the roll 6f the Amalgamated Association of Street & Electrical Railway Employes. Riot Call Turned IB., At 9:20 tonight a riot call was re ceived at police headquarters from Ninth" avenue and Pike street. It was reported that men from the Labor Tem ple mass meeting were taking men oft streetcars at that corner, which is a prominent junction point. The disturbance on Pike street was not serious, the riot call ha'vrng been sent In because some men cut the line attached to a trolley when a motorman refused to stop to listen to the organ izers. No arrests were made. Within half an hour enough cars were stalled on Pike street to tie up traffic on the Bellevue-Summit and East Madison lines which enter the downtown M-i trict over that route. Trolley Wire Cat. By 10:30 half the cars in the city had been stopped. The company sent Inspectors ,and shop employes out to take stalled cars into the barns. Other cars which had not been deserted by their motormen were being run under direct supervision of inspectors. Guards were stationed on the platforms to pre vent strikers boarding the cars and keep men from cutting the trolley rope. At Third avenue and Union street, one of the most crowded intersections In the city, a trolley wire was cut and fell sputtering to the pavement. Police men kept pedestrians out of danger while a repair crew was hurried from the barns to repair the wire. Cheer Greet Car Meo. frequently great cheers arose in va rious parts of the downtown districts as carmen who had secretly joined the union abandoned their cars or others listened to the appeals of the commit tees and accompanied them to the labor temple. The mass meeting was attended by an enormous crowd. Several hundred who could not find accommodations in the hall held an overflow meeting out side. Sam Atkinson, international or ganizer of the street carmen's union. who has been working here several weeks, addressed the meeting and urged Immediate action. Supporters of the strike movement advanced the argument that with jit neys available to handle traffic the general public would not be greatly inconvenienced by the strike and that the men's position would therefore be strengthened. All Wight Meeting; Planned. When the meeting adjourned, every man in attendance was urged to go out with the committees to induce the car men to join the union. It was an nounced that the labor temple would be kept open all night so that another meeting could be held to perfect the organisation of the union as soon as all the street car employes had signed the roll. The strike affects only the Puget Sound Traction Lieht &- Power Com pany, whioh operate? all but three routes In the rlty. The two short mu nicipal lines and the Seattle. Renton & Southern, operating 12 miles of track, recognize the union. GARRISON STILL AT POST While House Takes Xote of Rumor Secretary Is to Have New Place. WASHINGTON. March 30. Notice was taken at the White House tonight for the first time of persistent rumors that Secretary of War Garrison is con templating restgns from the Cabinet to become Chief Justice of the New Jer sey Supreme Court. Secretary Tumulty made the following statement: "I presume that If Governor Fielder intended offering this post to the Sec retary of War he would as a matter of courtesy consul the President before doinc so. He has not done so. As for the President, he has no desire to lose the co-operation of so fine and invalu able a public servant as Secretary Gar rison." Mr. GarriMn himself, when asked about the report today, laughed anil aid: "Well, you see I'm still in the Cabinet." State's Statutes Make So Provision That .Women 3fnst Take Husbands' Names. SALEM. Or.. March 30. (Special.) Tbe women of the state, in addition to having the right to vote and hold pub lic office, have another important right, .nrdlni- In n nnlnlon of AttOmeV- General Brown today. It is the right to decline to take their "husband's names. mi Murium Khnldon. of The Dalles. elicited the opinion from the state's legal lore fountain. Her questions epitomized were as follows: "Is there a law against a woman re taining her maiden name after mar riage if she has a profession and makes her own living, owns a ranch besides and tho husband only lives on the ranch and otherwise supports himself? "If she married would it be possible for her to prove up under her own name?" The Attorney-General said he could not find a law compelling a woman to take her husband's name, and that an examination of decisions relating to public lands by the Interior Department disclosed no case in which a married 'woman had attempted to complete a homestead under her maiden name. He said that an unmarried woman who entered upon public land with the in tention of appropriating it would not on account of her marriage forfeit her right to make entry, providing the hus band was not claiming a second tract at the time of marriage. The law pro vides that the residence of a woman must be that of husband and the hus band must live on her homestead to fulfill her residence requirement. FRENCH CREDIT ARRANGED Xew York Bankers to Offer at Least $23,000,000 to Investors. k-jtw TORk' March 30. J. P. Morgan & Co.. together with the National City Bank and the First National Bank, have concluded arrangements with the French government under wnicn tnej will Khnrtlv make an offering to Amer ican Investors of one year 5 per cent EVAnch ireuaurv bonds, according to announcement made here today. ine mrnini nf the hnndH to be purchased has not been determined, but if prob- . A t-i; Ann nnn ably win De not jess. inm i.u,vv,.v and may be as much as $50,000,000. Tho hnnrf. will bear date of April 1. and "-ill mature April ., 1916. Interest will be payable semi-annually, ine kn,i. win ho offered to Investors at 99 V4 and interest and will be payable at the option of tne noiaer in new York in dollars or in Paris at the rate nf K 1 R l. francs. The proceeds of these bonds will be. used to pay for purchases made Dy tne French government In this country. LIVERPOOL D0CKERS QUIT Time or Receiving Pay Is Issue and Military May Intervene. LIVERPOOL, March 30. The Birken head dockers tonight refused to do the week-end work until the shipowners agreed to pay them on Saturdays for the work done Friday nights and Sat urdays. John Sexton, secretary of the Dock ers' Union, addressed them, but was unable to persuade the men to change their decision. The suggestion that the military might be called upon to do their work was received with derisive laughter. Government intervention in some form is generally expected at an early date. PULSE JUST 13, MAN BUSY Cottage Grove Resident, Recovering. Has Only 30 Heart-Beats. COTTAGE GROVE, Or, March 30. (Special.) A. I. Flynn. of this city, Is a puzzle to medical science. He has lived for months with a pulse beat of 30 a minute, that would mean certain death to normal persons. During Mr. Flynn's illness his pulse beat was as low as 13 a minute, remain ing that way for several days 'and missing often. During all the time Mr. Flynn was cheerful, refused to go to bed, and planned on the time when he again would be around doing a regular day's work. During much of his illness Mr. Flynn did the chores about the house. BANKER'S COMMENT TERSE "Most Extraordinary Accident," He Says, When Horse Jumps in Auto. SEATTLE, Wash. March 30. (Spe cial.) "A most extraordinary accident" was the dignified comment of E. C. AVagner, manager of the local branch of the Bank of California, after it was all over. Wagner was motoring leisurely with C. H. Ciarke, president of the Kelley. Clarke Coajiany, when a wild-eyed, raging l.rse came tearing down a cross street, smashed full tilt into the auto mobile and turned a complete somer sault over it. crumpling up the fender like paper, without even splintering the glass in the windshield. Barn and Horses Are Burned. PHILOMATH.' Or, March 30. (Spe cial.) Fire destroyed a livery barn owned by Dave Fendall. of this place, last night. All the horpes were taken out but two. and nearly all vehicles were destroyed. The home of Roy Scott nearby was badly damaged. It is supposed the fire started from a cigarette. The loss is estimated at 14000. Secretary Daniels to Send Warships Here. FIRST PLANS AROUSE STORM Chamber of Commerce Calls - on Senators to Act. GOVERNOR SENDS APPEAL Volley of Messages Protesting at Omission of Oregon From' Itin erary of Ships Forwarded to Washington Turn Pleases. Portland will be Included In the itln erary of part of the battleship fleet that will open formally the Panama Canal. Following Its historic cruise through the new waterway dividing the two continents to the Panama-Pacific Exposition, the fleet will be divided and various units will visit Pacific Coast ports and Hawaii. Just what ships will visit Portland has not yet been determined. The news that part of the fleet was to visit this city was tel egraphed from Washington last night after a vigorous protest against ig noring this city had been sent to Sec retary Daniels by the Chamber of Com merce. - The historic battleship Oregon will lead the procession of sea fighters through the Canal. Mobilization at Panama for the Canal trip has been set for July 4. The Orego is expected to go south in June and will Jbe locked through the Canal to Join the Atlantic fleet, leading the other battleships on the cruise to the Pacific Coast. First advices received in Portland were that the units of the fleet would visit Seattle and Honolulu after par ticipating in ,the exposition at San Francisco and this led to strong pro tects from the new Portland Chamber of Commerce, together with the urgent request that Portland be intruded in the ports to be visited. Protests Are Ordered. The first official act of that body at luncheon yesterday, which marked the close of the membership campaign, was a unanimous vote directing that the presidents of the various bodies af filiated with and representing the chamber make a demand upon Secre tary Daniels of the Navy for recogni tion for Oregon in the Pacific Coast cruise of the Atlantic fleet. C. W. Hodson made the motion urg ing action, at the same time calling at tention to the fact that, while San Diego. San Francisco and the Puget Sound ports were included in the itin erary announced by Secretary Daniels, the Columbia River and Portland were Ignored. Following the action of the Chamber of Commerce, it was said that the pro test to " the Navy Department was to be state-wide and it was arranged that Secretary Daniels and the Oregon Eep iConcluded on Paso 3.) ' - j King Albert aaya be is at loss to account for cruel treatment of Belgian people M Germans. Page 6. Rational. American reply to British order in Council cabled to iondon. rage 7. Senator Chamberlain to. push legislation providing for larger Army and trained reserves. Page 1.;. Domestic Rockefeller" Foundation offers $100,000 to help workers In Colorado. Page S. Efforts to raise F-4 fail; vessel proves to be waterlogged. Page 2. Iowa statistician, opposing rate Increase, says railroads are relatively prosperous. Page a. Sport. Portland win opening baseball game of season, 3-1; other games postponed. Page 1. Hlgginbothara earns right to, pitch first contest on Portland grounds. Page 12. Johns.. n and Wfllard both m perfect con dition for April 6 fight. Page 13. Pacific Northwest. Wives In Oreegon may retain own names, Attorney-General rules. Page 1. German Consul technically under arrest at Seattle is exempt from prosecution. Page . Seattle streetcar men strike ; riot ensues. Page 1. Contract for use of patented, paving upheld by Supreme Court. Page J. Commercial and Marine. Scarcity of tonnage cause of advance-m all spice prices. Page 17. Shorthorn cattle bring good prices at stock yards sale. Page IT. Italy's delay in entering war lifts wheat quotations at Chicago. Page 17. War specialties make sensational gains in stock .market. Page 17. War risk details only hold up Christian Bora" charter to load here. Page 14. Portland and Vicinity. Tom R. Sheridan dazed by verdict of guilty on two counts. Page 11. Miss Marie Roberts and G. S. BoUford sur prise friends by elopement. Page 11. P. E. Brigham, prominent retired merchant, dies in California, Page 9. Episcopal Church may take steps to secure presence of C. B. Pfahler in Portland. PairA 11. Railroads would ci!t rate; to interior and re verse long and snort-naui atuiuoe. Page 1. Secretary Daniels orders part of fleet to Portland after Chamber or commerce ap peals. Page 1. Weather report, data and forecast. Page 13. TURKS ASSURE PROTECTION Reports of Atrocities Are Thought by Washington to Be Overdrawn. WASHINGTON, March 30. Assurances that protection will be given to the entire population of Lrumiah, Persia, where attacks on American and other foreigners .and on native Christians have been reported, have been given Ambassador Morgenthau at Constanti nople by the Turkish government In a message to the state .Depart ment, today. Air. Morgenthau said the Ottoman authorities had promised that not only foreigners, but natives as well, would be'protected by the Turkish reg ular troops due at Urumiah last Sat urday. Officials here are inclined to believe that the stories of atrocities at Uru miah were overdrawn. FAT GOVERNOR CUTS GRASS Arizona Executive Devotes Lunch Hour to Mowing Capitol Lawn. PHOENIX, Ariz., March 30. Governor Hunt decided today that he was be coming too stout and forthwith de cided on outdoor exercise mowing the lawns of the Capitol grounds every day. The chosen hour is noon, indicating that luncheon has been taken off the Governor's schedule of meals. Today's mowing was done under the supervision of the ground keepers, who declared the Governor had showed that he knew how. JOHN BULL FINDS HIS WORST ENEMY ENTRENCHED, AT HOME Portland Starts Year With Brilliant Play. ANGELS ARE ROUTED 3 TO 1 Monster Crowd Sees Pitcher's Big Bat Decide Contest. WEATHER IDEAL FOR BALL McCredic's Hurler Gets in Trouble at Outset, but He Works Out, and, Save for One Home Run, la Not Threatened Again. Pacific Coat League Standings. W.L. P.C.I W.L. P.O. Portland... 1 0 1000 Oakland 0 0 .000 Venice 0 O . Francisco 0 n .000 Salt Lake.. O 0 .00O(Los Angeles. 0 1 .000 Yesterday's Result. At Los Angeles Portland S. Los An geles 1. At San Francisco Oakland; postponed; rain. At Salt Lake Venice: postponed; snow. LOS ANGELES, Cal., March 30. (Special.) Ten tnousand of as wild eyed and leather-lunged baseball fans as ever gathered in any park saw their beloved Angels defeatea in the first game of the 1915 season by the Port land Beavers this afternoon. The score was 3 to L It was a gala occasion and it was a good game. Everybody was happy, even the Angels in their defeat. The day was perfect for the game. The sun was warnvthe sky slightly necked with fog clouds, which took the glare from the fielders' eyes, and the wind was nlL Pretty women in pretty gowns were out by thousands, and it was hard to tell who rooted the loudest, they or their masculine escorts. Big Parade Precedes tiarae. A big parade. Inseparable from the great National pastime on opening day, served to put enthusiasm at Just about the right pitch through the principal streets at noon. Mayor Rose with his rheumatism, and Chief of Police Sebas tian with his curls curled more than ever, occupied a place at the front of the line, and back of them came the players and "prominent citizens" in automobiles. All told there were 137 of the chug chugs in line. Whon the procession reached Wash ington Park the grounds were nearly filled, the gates having been thrown open at 12:30 to accommodate the long lines of waiting fans. Kew Uniforms Quickly Muddled. Both teams got right down to prac tice. Just as if it was the last instead of the first game, and it wasn't 10 min utes before the bright, new uniforms looked like their owners had been dig ging bituminous coal in Illinois. When the final practice bell tapped the great crowd was silent, as the exciting mo ment had arrived. - "Fresh, hot-roasted peanuts," yelled some Dervish in the grandstand. "Sit (Concluded on Pago 12.1 Method or Attack on Vnorfendlng Ship Is Tnlted States Matter - w, Says London Paper. ..Alii' 5 LONDON'. March 31. The official announcement is made that among the missing passengers of the steamer Fataba, which was sunk by a German submarine, is Leon Chester Thrasher, an American engineer, who had been living for the past year on the Gold Coast, British West Africa. Thrasher had an American passport and in the form he was required to fill out before embarking, described himself as an American citizen, but gave no American address. He was employed by the Broomassle Mines, Ltd. Inquiry at the offices of tbe company in London elicited the Information that nothing had been heard from Thrasher and that it was presumed he had been drowned. Passengers rescued from the Falaba say that when the submarine ap proached the steamer the German cap tain shouted In English through a meg aphone, "I am going to sink you." Another first-class passenger from tho Falaba reached Liverpool toniht. having been rescued by a trawler and landed at Milford. The Dally Mail In an editorial In con nection with the possible drowning of Thrasher says that the question wheth er the Washington Government will permit a belligerent to destroy an un offending passenger ship, carrying an American citizen, without giving that citizen any opportunity to escape, is raised in its sharpest form. SNOW HEAVY IN KANSAS Fall Reaches Depth of Six Inches; Other States Have Fall. KANSAS CITY. March 30. Heavy snow fell over Kansas today, reaching in some sections a depth of six inches. Light snows fell in Western Missouri LITTLE ROCK, Ark., March 30 A heavy snow falling tonight In Arkansas marked the climax of one of the coldest months of March In the history of the local weather bureau. Early reports Indicated the snow was general over the state. PHILADELPHIA. March 30. Uuusu ally cold weather fg,r this season of the year prevails throughout Pennsylvania. There was snow In some sections and in the mountain regions the thermom eter registered as low as 6' degrees above zero. FORTUNE LEFT BY BEACHEY Estate of Late Aviator Is Estimated to Total $50,000. SAN FRANCISCO. March 30. (Spe cial.) Lincoln Beachey, the aviator who was killed when his new machine collapsed off the exposition grounds March 14 and fell into the bay, left an estate valued at $50,000, according to representations made today by his mother, who applied to the Superior Court for, letters of administration of her son's estate. According to the mother, the estate consists of stocks, bonds and realty holdings, the latter in this city. Tuesday's War Move's g ERMANY'S next move in tho mil- ltary field because some stroke either in the east or the west Is ex pected before the allies "attempt their Spring advance Is at present the chief subject of speculation and conjecture. According to reports reaching here from Petrograd, the German Emperor Is now at Berlin holding a war coun cil with Field Marshal von der Golts, the German milltatry commander of Constantinople, and other leaders, and is planning a new campaign to offset the fall of Przemysl and meet the situ ation in the Dardanelles. There has been nothing of an out standing nature In either theater of the land operations since the surren der of the Austrian fortress. Sniping. mining and bomb-throwing predomi nate along the western front, while fighting, fierce but undecisive, rages in the Carpathians. The British Cabinet met yesterday and there Is every reason to believe that it considered the liquor question, and the stamping out of the evil, which is now one of the greatest problems of the nation. There still Is much talk of prohibition, but it is not generally believed that this course will be adopted, although it Is conceded that some step of a drastic and universal character will soon be taken. The return of ex-Premier V'enizelous to Athens after a short rest, the tumult ous reception accorded him and his reiteration of the declaration that Greece must join in the conflict' on the side of the entente powers have combined to start up predictions as to when the group of neutral states, which have been wavering so long, will take up arms: The materials upon which these predictions arc based are of the scantiest. Tbe inquest at Mllfordhaven in the matter of the sinking of the steamer Falaba has established an official death list of 1-1, Witnesses under oath testified to what had previously been charged, that the submarine fired be fore sufficient time had elapsed for the removal of the passengers. Walter Baxter, chief officer of the Falaba, contributed the odd statement that the submarine crew were dressed in khaki. He also swore that the sub marine, when first sighted, fleir tht Knglish ensign, which was replaced by the German ensign prior to the attack. Long and Short Haul Stand Reversed. NEW ATTITUDE DUE TO CANAL Trade of Portland and Other: Coast Cities in Danger. PROTESTS SEEM CERTAIN Interstate) Commerce Oomtnlsflou to Hold Hearing April 1 2 to Pass on Plan to Do More Than Meet Spokane Demands. 4 Transcontinental railroads terminate Ing In Portland and Puget Sound are preparing to reverse themselves In the historic long and short-haul rate ques tion. After nearly 10 years of persistent ef fort In opposing Spokane and other In. terlor cities In their fight for lower pro portionate rates, based on the rates to the Coast terminals, the Panama Canal has forced the carriers to face squarely about and make rates to Interior points even lower than were asked for in the famous Spokane rate case. They have-presented their proposal!) to the Interstate Commerce Commission and the Commission Is to hold a hearing,-April 13, at Washington, D. C. Protests Appear Likely. Their plan is fraught with such serious consequences to the shippers of Portland. Tacoma and Seattle that rep resentatives of those cities doubtless will enter vigorous protest at the hear ing. The executive committeo of the Chamber of Commerce traffic bureau met yesterday afternoon and consid ered the situation. W. A. Mears. trsfflo manager for the Seattle Chamber of Commerce, was present. It Is prob able that both Portland and Seattle will send representatives to the hear ing. While the California cities are not Involved in the case. It Is understood that a similar situation Is developing there. Caaal Cosspetlt lost Abaadonea. Traffic experts declare that the rail roads virtually have abandoned any In tentions they may have had to com pete with the Panama Canal for busi ness to the Coast terminals. The canal rates are so low that the carriers can find little profit in meeting them, so they have decided to center their efforts on a plan to build up the business at Interior points. It la said. This plan Is hailed with delight at Spokane, Baker, Walla Walla and other Interior cities, but Is "viewed with alarm" In Portland, Tacoma and Seattle. It Is predicted that the proposed rates will enable the Interior cities to build up extensive jobbing and distributing markets at the expense of the coast cities, which heretofore have been the natural jobbing centers for the North west. Inteatloas Are Bnred. That the carriers Intend to strengthen the positions of the Interior points Is Indicated In the following significant paragraph in their recent proposal to the commission: "Lower rates are necessary to insure direct movement from the East und permit reasonable competition. In the distribution from group 4 points (mean ing Interior cities), as against ship ment by sea and subsequent distribu tion of the same commodities from Pa cific Coast ports." Then is enumerated a list of turn commodities. The following examples will serve as Illustrations to show how these proposed rates would divert traf fic from the Coast cities to the In terior cities: . Canned good The present water rate from New York to Portland Is 55 cents per 100 pounds. To this must b added 15 cents, representing the prob able rate from the point of origin to New York, and 5 cents for Insurance, wharfage and handling charges, an aggregate of 75 cenun. Differential la Reaneed. The rates proposed by tho carriers are 75 cents to Coast terminals and SO cents to Spokane and Interior points. a differential of 5 cents. The present rates on this commodity are 10 cent to Portland and 97 rents to Spokane, a differential of 17 cents. Iron and steel, including wire and nails The present water rate from New York to Portland Is 45 cents. Fifteen cents is added for the haut from producing point to New York and, t cents for Insurance, etc. This gives a total of 65 cents. The carriers pro pose a rate to Spokane of 0 cents from Chicago and 75 cents from Pittsburg. The differential on Pittsburg buslne would be only 10 cents. The present rail rate from Pittsburg to Portland and Spokane are 11 cents and II. 0 respectively, a differential ot 21 cents. Paper Rates Alas Cat. Paper The water rate from New York to Portland Is 45 cents. The other charges would bring the total to 65 cents. Thja proposed rates by the carriers are 75 cents and SO cents to Portland and Spokane respectively, a differential of & cents. The present rates are 91 cents and 75 rents to Port land end Spokane respectively, a dif ferential of 16 cents. Similar proportions are maintained on the other commodities on whii:h the railroads are asking a readjustment ot rates. including coffee, lye, soap, (ConducUd os Fag 13. )