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VOL. XO. 16,969. BOND ISSUE GOES TO VOTERS TODAY Good Roads or Poor Is Issue. 'POLLS ARE OPEN FROM 8 TO 8 Election Result of Need for Permanent Highways. VOTES MAY BE SWORN IN Public-Spirited Citiicm and Cham ber of Commerce Solid Behind Movement Organized Labor Takes - Views of Question. FACTS ABOl'T TODAY'S SPE CIAL ELECTION. Polls open S A. M. to 8 P. M. Precinct voting booths in usual places, with few exceptions. Full list printed in this issue on page S. All citizens are eligible, wheth er taxpayers or not. Question at Issue Shall the county issue $1,250,000 in bonds to pay for hard-surface pave ments on the following: main trunk highways: Base ' Line, Fandy, Columbia River, Powell, Foster, Canyon. Capital and St. Helens, aggregating 70 miles in length? Bonds will bear 6 per cent in terest, redeemable in ten annual installments, beginning in 1919. Interest charges, t2,500 a year. Estimated annual saving to taxpayers if bonds are issued, 123,500. Estimated number of unem ployed men that will be provided with work if bonds arc Issued, 2000. Good roads or poor roads. Multnomah Conuty will take Its choice between these alternatives at a special election today. If the voters want good roads they will vote 11.250.000 in 5 per cent bonds to pay for the permanent improvement of 70 miles of main trunk highways in the county. If they want poor roads the voters will reject the bonds and the county will continue with its present system of makeshift roads and no roads at all. The election will be conducted simi lar! v to a regular state or county elec tion. The polls will be open from 8 A. M. to 8 P. 31.. and the regular sets of judges and clerks will preside. The polling places, with a few exceptions, remain at the same places as at for mer elections. A full list of the vot ing booths and their locations is pub lished on another page of this issue of The Oregonian. Yetrs Mar Be Sworn la. Every registered voter whether a taxpayer or not is eligible to vote. Those who are not registered can vote by swearing in their votes in the reg ular manner. ' - The bond issue is the only question that will be presented today. , Only two blank spaces are provided on the ballot If the voter is in favor of good roads he or she will register a cross between the figure "300" and the word "yee" on the ballot. "If opposed to Eood road?, the cross will be marked between the figure "301" and the word "no' on the ballot. This election is being held because the proponents of good roads believe an emergency exists in the county. They believe that the modern traffic conducted largely by self-propelred ve. hide?, demands hard-surfaced perma nent highways and that the continu ance of macadam roads and dirt roads will be the source of constant expense to the taxpayers and a great economic waste. They realize, too, that improvement of the roads will provide work for thousands of idle men at good wages. Leading Citizens Behind Movrsaenf. With these facts in mind a committee ef public-spirited citizens two months a0 organized a good roads campaign. This committee consists of John B. Teon. county roadmaster: J. C Alns worth. president of the United States National Bank; Julius L. Meier, of the Meier & Frank Company; Frank B. Riley, attorney and Oregon vice-president of the Pacitic Highway Associa tion; E. E. Coovert, attorney: Whitney L. Boise, attorney; Phil Metschan, Jr.. of the Imperial Hotel, and George L. Baker, of the Baker Theater. They were encouraged and assisted from the start by Simon Benson, the veteran lumberman, hotel owner and philan thropist, and bis son. Amos S. Benson. To secure a special election it was necessary to get the signstures of 5 per cent of the legal voters of the county on a petition to the County Com missioners. JVithin three days more than the requisite number of people voluntarily signed their names at the headquarters of the committee in the Teon building. The Commissioners thereupon ordered the election held Wednesday. April 14 today. Merits of Bonds F.xplnlned. The original committee, assisted by the Bensons and a host of good roads tConcluded on Fase t.) i GIRL SAVED FROM DEATH ON TRACKS H. E. JOrCE, EXPRESS MESSEN GER BOY, ACTS IX TIME. - tad Leaps From Moving Train, Out runs It and Snatches Child From in Front of Engine. EUGENE, Or.. April 13. (Special.) H. E. Joyce, a Portland boy, express messenger on Oregon Electric train No. S. today risked his own life to save that of a 3-year-old girl, when he jerked her from the track within a few inches of the grinding train. Joyce has been accustomed -to Jump ing out of the big side door of his express compartment, directly behind that of the engineer, crawling forward to the engineer's step and dropping off to the ground to shoo stray cattle off the track before the train behind him came to a full stop, thus saving time for his train. Today he looked through the glass door and through the engineer's win dow to see a terrified girl standing between the rails. The engineer threw his emergency brakes, but both knew the distance was too short to absorb a speed of 40 miles an hour. Joyce did not stop to think. The car was less than its length from the girl when he swung off the front of the train. "1 never saw a man run as he did," said H. 31. Conrad, conductor. But Mr. Joyce says he has done nothing more than a man should do. "It was the engineer, F. J. Steven son, who saved her." he says. "He threw the emergency brakes and I could have done nothing had the train been going any faster." 100-DAY DIVE IS POSSIBLE Xew tnited States Submarine to Be Free From Chlorine Poisoning. NEW YORK, April 13. It was an nounced today that a new form of storage battery is made for the United States submarine L-8, under construc tion at the Portsmouth, N. H., Navy yard, which will do away entirely with the chief danger now existing in the operation of submarines the danger to the crew of chlorine poisoning. Oth er features are embodied in the bat tery, among them being the lengthen ing of the vessel's undersea- cruising radius to 150 miles. It is said that in addition to elim inating the peril of chlorine poisoning, the submarine could remain submerged for 100 days without danger of as phyxiation to the crew. - 1 ., . CANADA PROTESTS FLIGHTS Mr. Lister Notified of Alleged Boun dary Rule Violations. OLYMPIA, Wash., April 13. (Spe cial.) The State Department at Wash ington, D. C, today notified Governor Lister that Canadian authorities com plained of continued violations of the war aircraft regulations by aeroplanes from the Washington side of the in ternational border. The regulations prohibit flights over Vancouver or Victoria or any of the Canadian wireless stations, prescribe the town of Chilliwack as the only official landing place fa. Britisli Co lumbia, and fix $5000 fine and five years' imprisonment as the penalty for a violation. MUNITION VESSEL MISSING Schooner From San Diego With 40 00 Rifles Commanded by German. SAX DIEGO. April 13. (Special.) The mystery of the disappearance of the Olson & Mahony schooner Annie Larsen. which sailed from here five weeks, ago with a cargo of 4000 rifles and 4,000.000 rounds of ammunition has deepened within the last two days. Several small craft, fishermen and trading vessels, came in yesterday and today from the southern coast aud shipping .men havebeen asking per sistently about the Annie Larsen, but there is no news. he has not been sighted since she left the Coronado Islands. She is commanded 'by Cap tain F. Schlueter. a German. WATER TO CHRISTEN SHIP Battleship Arizona to Reflect Dry ness of State at Launching. - PHOENIX. Ariz.. April 13. Because Arizona is a dry state, water will be used to christen the battleship Arizona at the New Tnrk Navy-yard June 19. The water to be used by the sponsor, who is yet to be named, will be the first to flow over the spillways of the Roose velt reservoir dam. The water, which attained a depth of 224 feet today, will reach the spillways, a foot higher, tomorrow. The reservoir will then contain nearly 44 6,000,000 gal lons of water. This is the first time it has been filled. SPOKANE JITNEYS STOPPED Police Force All Drivers to Suspend Cntil Bonds Are Obtained. SPOKANE. Wash.. April 13. All of the jitney drivers and Z5 other owners of cars for hire were forced by the police today to suspend operations until they have complied with the new state law requiring 12500 bonds and a state license, and until the drivers of the ma chines have secured permits in accord ance with the new city ordinance. The taxlcab drivers were not mo lested, as the taxicab companies hsve obtained a temporary injunction to pre vent the enforcement of the bonding provisions or tne law. - j PORTLAND, OREGON," "WEDNESDAY, APRIL 14, 1915. HARVEST OF DEATH AND COOPS JOINED Thrasher Is Operated Near Trenches. SIGHT IS STRANGEST OF WAR R. McCormick Looks Through Glass and Sees Fighting SHELL WORK IS MYSTERY Farmyard Scenes and Belching Ar .tillcry Brought Close to Vision by Range Finder -Thrills ot Battle Felt WiUiout Danger. (This is the firt of a series ef articles by Robert It. McCormlck on his observation in France, Belgium and en route to Russia. . BT ROBERT R. M'CORMICK. (Copyright. ,J15, by the Chicago Tribune.) PARIS. I visited the English army at a time when very little fighting was going on. If I had been there in the midst of a battle even -the boundless hospitality of my host could not have found, means to show me around. If a fight had been on I should not have been able to borrow the marvelous French glas3 mounted on a tripod in that station where English and French lines meet and from which more of the battle line in Flanders can be seen than from any other point. Shell Hole 15 Feet Across. Certainly. I could not have spent an hour watching the French and German trenches where they are within 100 yards of each other. I was almost a mile to the rear, but this marvelous in strument brought me on top of them. I could see Frenohmen crouching be hind their sandbags just as well as if I had been there, and so much more comfortably. The place had been shelled very heavily. I photographed one of the shell holes; it was about six feet deep and 15 feet across. It was peaceful on the hilltop, but behind us the armored train waa in action in a wood where I had been a half hour before. , The German, reply was accurate. ' Shrapnel burst in the air properly ranged. High explosive shells were bursting on the ground. On our extreme right the German line ran close in front of a cluster of farm buildings, from among which came puffs of smoke and steam. Threshing Machine at Work. I . looked through the glass. There in plain sight, witltin point-blank range of the French trenches, was a threshing machine at work. If that was not the strangest sight of war, I do not know what was. French farmers were being compelled to thresh their crops for the conqueror. even under the guns of their country men. No German could have lived in that spot, but the French would not fire on their own people. Food may be in great demand in Germany, but as a practical matter the little acquired in Concluded on Page 2.) ARE YOU VOTING WITH THE MOSSBACK TODAY? I ( RECKON I GrOr -C ijiil ' ALOMG FER 'THIRTY ' I t YEAR. WITH THEM .. , Ji f J ROADS, "TH OUT VOTvVf' J Y : L jr-1 i : ; : : -.1 ! 1 . rrrr. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 58.8 degrees; minimum, 45.0 degrees. TODAY'S Fair and warmer, northerly winds. War. , R. R. McCormick writes of battle raging beside harvesters at work. Page 1. Austria declares Russian advance has been broken. Page 2. British military experts believe great ad vance of allies in west is about to uegin. Page 2. German' commander asks for time to repair Kronprini WUhelm at Newport News. Page 3. Great Britain to pay for cargo and delay of American steamer Wllhelmlna. Page 5. Italy orders officers to dull metal on uni forms and scabbards. Page 1. Foreign. Chinese refuse to discuss Japiinese demands for supervision of activate Page 3. Mexico. Villa besiegers at Matamoros worsted in battle following sortie by garrison. Page 6. Priest says murder Is one of "minor faults" of present revolution in Mexico. Pago 5. National Government engag?s special counsel to op pose proceeding brought by Riggs Na tional Bank. Page 7. Domestic. 1 Western Union authorizes inference of ob jection to officers of te-egraphers' or ganization. Page 1. Rae Tanxer, her attorney and detective in dicted for alleged plot against James Osborne. Page 8. . . , Mrs. Sherburne Hopkins, of Washington, gives up society to earn living on stage. Page . . Sports. Venice wins opening game from Portland, o to a. Page 1. Opening same is detailed play by play. Don II ... Pacific Coast league results: Venice 6. Port land 3: 1-os Angeles lu, own rrwiwu v. Oakland 11, Salt Lake 1. Page 14. Pacific Northwest. H. E. Joyre outruns train and saves child's life. Page 1. Six Willamette University Instructors quit. Page 7. Ex-Governor West grilled concerning Copper field policies in trial of saloon man's suit against him. Vase 6. Supreme Court says amendment of 1030 grants it power to retry cases on tran . transcript. Page 6. Commercial and Marine. Aid of grain men will be enlisted In prepar- - . 1 .. - I J .... 1 ing nemiui tiinjia. e Nearly 700.000 pounds of Yakima wool sold . .i .. . . ra in. Falling off ot cash demand weakens wheat at Chicago. Page 19. Wild speculation In Bethlehem Steel stock at iNew iora. r age ia. Portland and Vicinity. Election for bond issue for permanent roads n t.a 1.A1H lit ..mintv laiiav. Paet l. Louis Block praises Columbia Highnay and ' I i.An.a ...in P;ifTt General White and other officers make plea a. Rniurigti litni'hfan for lUDDart of -.111.1. I a rra 1 R Mr. Brewster, in public atf&trs report, advo- ...,.. Park Unn.au Vm-Mlr Pn 2(1. - flOnUH H-l. U 1 1 nw.it ' J ....... ... .... . (, Polling places for today's good roads bond . . i .. ...... -1 - .A maitaA man P... H eiecuuu. io a. -It bonds are voted today, seven highway - leading' to farms are to be paved - Page v. THE OREGONIAST'WILL FLASH. BE'i'URXS FROM BO.'-D KLECTION TONIGHT. The Oregonian has arranged to gather and compile the returns from today's special election and will flash them on a screen op posite The Oregonian building on Sixth street tonight. Efforts will be made to cover every section of the county, but It is probable that authentic in formation will not be available before 9:30 or 10 o'clock. The polls will not close until 8. As the reports come In the results will be flashed upon the screen, probably beginning at 9:30, al though. If the count is prompt, bulletins may be flashed before that hour. In the event the bond issue car ries as soon as the result is definitely known a red-fire sig nal will be flashed from the top of the Yeon building. HEAD OF KEYMEN S UNION IS OBJECTION 9tV Inference Is Authorized by Western Union.- PACT FOLLOWED BY STRIKE No Plaint Made to Postal Be fore Walkout, Says Official. LOAN' SHARKS PREY ON MEN Welfare of Telegraphers Declared Considered by Company Mem bership in Organization Exiled One Worker, He Testifies. CHICAGO, April 13. The commercial telegraph business, present subject of Inquiry by the United States Commis sion on Industrial Relations, in session here, was presented from widely diver gent angles today. The witnesses were S. J. Konenkamp, president of the Commercial -Telegraphers' Union of America, who completed his testimony; Belvidere Brooks, vice president and ' ex-general manager of the Western Union Telegraph Company; Henry Lynch, a telegraph operator who said that his unionism forced him into exile in Winnipeg. Canada; H. B. Per ham, president of the Order of Railroad Telegraphers; Edgar G. Barrett, of Downers Grove, 111., a Western Union employe who confessed himself an ex special agent or "spotter," and Edward G. Reynolds, general manager of the Postal Telegraph & Cable Company. Opposition to Union Is Plain. Mr. Brooks made his opposition to the Commercial Telegraphers' Union, as at present constituted, plain., ,"I will not say that we object to the present officials, but that Infer ence may be drawn," he remarked. "Thirty years ago our company op posed the union, but just prior to 1907, when a strike was called which cost lis $5,000,000, ihe union became reju venated, and we made no protest. Then came strike talk, and we offered arbi tration. On June 20, 1907, through the instrumentality of Dr. Neill, Commis sioner of Labor, and. participated in by Mr. Perham and Mr. Konenkamp, then a member of the executive com mittee' of the union S. J. Small was president an agreement was reached. The next day a strike was called in San Francisco, which eventually spread all over the country. Since then we have not cared to employ men interested ..in the union." Pact Unknown to Strikers. The witness repeated considerable testimony similar to that given by President Newcomb Carlton, of the same company, yesterday, as for in stance that wages were not high enough. i - "We cannot deal with an organiza- Concluded on Page 2.) ITALY TO SUPPORT CLAIMS OF SERBIA AGiFEMEXT WITH ALLIED POW- O13 S REPORTED IX KOJIE. Warlike Order to Army Officers to Dull Metal of Equipment Printed - in Military Journal. LONDON. April 14. "After pro longed negotiations." says the Daily Mail's Home correspondent. "Italy has agreed with the entente powers to sup port Serbia's claims to an outlet on the Adriatic coast." ROME (via Paris), April 13. -An or der is printed in the Military Journal directing all army Officers to dull the metal on their uniforms and the scab bards of their swords. This is a meas ure which ' usually is adopted on the eve of war, . After receiving a warning from the Minister of War that In case, of mobili zation the public schools would be used to house troops the municipal council met tonight (Monday) to discuss what measures would be taken in such an emergency. . It was decided to have school sessions continued in hired buildings, substituting women for malo teachers, who would be called to the colors. It also was decided that so far as possible streetcar and other public utilities would bo operated by women, provided mobilization resulted in a shortage of male employes. GENEVA, Switzerland (via Paris). April 13. German frontier officials still are detaining all the freight cars belonging to Italian lines, whose ship ment back to Italy was stopped last week. Reports received here from Ger man and Italian frontier towns say that the tension between the two countries is increasing. . PARIS. April 13 The Temps says the Italian government has removed all the art treasures from the museum and churches in Venice to Florence in the belief that an Austrian fleet would bom bard Venice if war is declared. The newspapor says the transfer took place at night in order that the population might not be alarmed. BRITAIN TO CONTROL RUM Complete Slate Monopoly of Liquor Traffic Is Planned. LONDON. April 13. The Evening Chronicle, which is in close touch with the Cabinet, says the government Is considering a plan for complete state control of the wholesale and retail trade in the domestic supply of alco hol. The plan.-the newspaper adds, in volves a state monopoly in the- manu facture and sale of alcoholic liquors. . Girl Hikers Keach Glendale. G LEND ALE, Or., April 13. (Special.) The girl hikers arrived at Glendale this afternoon, coming from the Azalia ranch, about eight miles out, today They will give their vaudeville enter tainment at the Auditorium Wednesday night. Tuesday's War Moves TWO gateways into Hungary still re main barred, despite the tremen dous hammering by the Russian forces, and as the Beskid Pass is the less Im portant of the two, strategically, a further advance into Hungary hangs on the possession of Uzeok Pass, where the invaders are meeting with the most stubborn opposition. Several days ago the Russians cap tured a position which gave them com mand of a road leading to the rear of Uzsok Pass, but since then the Teutonic allies have 'checked the movement In this direction. The importance of the r-amathluti operations is Indicated by the half-hearted actions reported from the other sectors on the long eastern front, where even the counter offensive in East Galicia, which evidently was planned to divert the Russian eflorte from the passes, seems to have been prosecuted with little energy. The people of the dual monarchy are to he sreatlv cheered by the num ber of German reinforcements passing through Budapest on the way to the Carpathian front to take part in the operations, which are now believed to be In charge of the German general staff. The whole campaign in the east pivots on Uzsok Pass, where the Austro-German forces are in such front Rtrensrth that the efforts of the Russians to reach the Hungarian plains are likely to be prolonged. In the west the French apparently are satisfied with their recent suc cesses between, the Meuse and the Lorraine frontier and say only that they have come in contact with the German entanglements in this region. Official German reports assert that determined attacks by the French have been repulsed along this sector. Probably no session of the British Parliament since the opening of the war has been awaited with keener interest than the' sitting which will begin to morrow. A "dry" England, unknown except for a period of two years 150 years ago, is not beyond the possibili ties, but the government has given not the slightest official hint as to what ac tion may be expected in its undoubted j.,.in.tinn tn attack the Droblem re stricting the consumption of alcoholic liquors. . Several days ago an opposition paper published a forecast of t1e government plan, which, it asserted, contemplated the prohibition of all liquors, except light beer, which would be manufac tured by the government. This prediction received some con firmation from a government organ, which declared that the entire business of the manufacture and sale of alco holic liquors is to become a government monopoly. - PRICE FIVE CENTS. 10,000 FANS SEE BEAVERS BEATEN Rain Fails to Dampen Ardor for Opening. VENICE TAKES GAME 6 TO 3 Those Frightened by Clouds Don't See Krause Blow Up. DOWNPOUR MARS PARADE Portland riulicrs Batted Hard In Initial Contest on Homo Field. Muddy Grounds Tends to Misplajs l licldcrs. FT R03COB FAWXETT, Alienists tell us that we are Triy becoming a nation of "bugs," I. e., to wit: "baseball bugs." And we believe It. Despite br-r-r-r-r weather and two hours' rain, a large and furiously agitated segment of our population numbering close to 10,000 souls, pud dled Its way into, the Coast League ball yard yesterday to view the openlnir game between the Portland champs and Venice. Result Venice 8. Portland S. It is hard to write sparkling Bur gundy dope on chaser weather, but we desire to insert at this time that while yesterday's crowd was not the "20.000 or Bust" expected by the Boosters' Club it was a Coast League record for such a day. Rain Boosters' Alibi. And the Boosters' alibi for not "bust ing" is that there would have been 20.000 If It hadn't rained. The main reason why Portland got the three and Venice the six was be cause southpaws Harry Krause and Evan Evans were selected to do the pitching for Portland and neither one, had much more control than a two lunged Jitney driven by a man In a I straight-Jacket . - - - Krause cracked in the first Inntns. The way th Tigers started on poor Harry sounded like a Dardanelles bom bardment. Carlisle doubled to right. Kane singled to center, Bergcr doubled to right, and when Krause bounced a widely-aimed globule a gainst Gus Het ling's wishbone Walt McCredie yanked him out of the picture. Venetians Hold Beavers. Evans pitched the rest of the game and four of the six runs were scored, during his Incumbency. Mitchell, late of the Paint Lou'Y Americans, pitched for the Hap Hogan ites until he sprained his ankle slid ing home in the sixth. A till, spindly legged Youngster named Tlercey then ascended to the Venice mound and suc ceeded in holding the Bcavecs at bay the rest of the going. Baseball abounds In thrills and yes terday was Just a fair sample of our great stars and stripes Institution. Nothing makes the hesrt of Ihe fan tango with Joy more than a home run or a wonderful throw to the home plate cutting down a runner. Both were on exhibition. Evisa Makes Home Ran. Rube Evans, a pitcher, mind you, waltzed up to the plate in the third. Inning with the score 3-1 against Port land and proceeded to bring Joy to local heart cockles by a theatrical thump high and dry over the right Held wall. And there were other climactic coups to assuage the Portland rooting sec tion of the champions' opening game defeat. Risberg, in right for the visitor, cut off a sure run in the first inning; by spearlnr a terrific drive by Stumpf in deep right center. peas turned the same measly trick on Risberg, Later our "cap" brought every fan to his or her feet by a sensational throw to the plate, cutting Bayless down In the prime of his middle age. Of course there was some bad ball scrambled in around the fringes. Thero is a law In physics that two bodies cannot occupy the same space at tlie same time. Walter Doane and Bill Stumpf tried to do a simultaneous, or rather Siamese, act and Doane must have thought he was butting into a battleship. Stumpf made the catch and sent Walt sprawling on the grass a furlong distant. Murphy 1'ooxlea Kswy Chance. Shortstop Murphy got mixed up on Berger's Texas Leaeuer back of short in the fourth and let in what was then a costly tally. It is the inalienable right of the pub lic to arraign the player when he loses, and forget all his bad deeds when he wins, so naturally there were the usual blasts of near-blasphemy. As a whole, however, the crowd took de feat with unusual stoicism. Perhaps the fans figured they were lucky to see a game at all. And lucky they were. Just as the parade was priming Its figurative plug hat for big league pageantry the rain began fall ing copiously. It was no bush circuit trickle. For nearly two hours it rained, rippled and gushed and wept all over the opening day parade. Graciously the downpour ceased after everybody in the parade had beon treated to a good soaking. Out at th. park the game was started promptly on time, much to everybody's surprise. For some unknown reason, Governor Wlthycombe did not pitch the first ball, (Concluded ou Fsse 13-