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TTIE MOKXIXG ORECOSTAX. TIIUR ST) ATT 3fAT 20, 1915. ?sn"spj25Bi. huib mil 1 mmsfriMLW iuil.m jiiijjiainKmp O -LL li LL Lx COi 11 C Tl 66 o F M YLAND 95 A METRO PICTURE Has Stood the Acid Test of the ISdost Exacting Competition. Since Sunday May 16, 23,000 Lovers of Movies Have Seen T7 1 it ATTluin) y""M 'aMnra w.wr rmmsr: ya. -f n3 A TTs, PTTn t'-4.w1 til A I Jij.sJL JLL I N THE A W A ' s-gssagpga w.hujw iY Bmiriiiffliwirnr-'i Every Patron Has Been an Advertiser. Evening Prices Are 20c IStatinees 10c Thus Denying to Is7o Patron a Chance to See This Great Spectacle ays More Only "-Today, Friday and Saturday This Great Metro Attraction Is the Most STUPENDOUS, THRILLING WAR SPECTACLE on a Patriotic American Subject That Ever Flashed Across a Screen -a ir inree u Saturday From 1 0 A. M. to 2:30 P. M.' Special Matinee for Schools COMING SUNDAY, MAY 23d EMILY STEVENS in "CORA"---5 Acts About a Social Parasite Who Greedily Coveted a Woman's Honor and Who Paid With His Leprous Life the Penalty of His Unspeakable Sin. IS n I pi 1 id hi f i Pi r r Pi 1 1 en r 1 '"'! - to iki.jnniiiwiim mrnrw-f ni J ATTACK IS DETAILED C!innAK rf AmApinon Chin Cushing Reaches Philadelphia. MURDER INTENT CHARGED .Attempt Made by German Airman, . - Anril "8. to Drnn Bomb Ttown Kiinnel of Steamer With Stars i'- and Stripes Floating. v ' rHIkADELPHIA. May 1 9.--Ca.ptain 7,;lara Ijtnsen Herland. of the American tanker Cushing, arrived hr today , jii lth his ship and anhmltted to Ms em , -Tleyers a report dealing: with the at 1 Jack made on the Gushing April 28 i ly a German aeroplane, which dropped : three bombs, one of which struck, the -rail of the vessel. In this rrort the captain refers to the bomb-dropping as a "dastardly L.art. a deliberate attempt to sink an unarmed vessel and murdrr the mem bers of the crew," A eapy of thlq re-, port will be forwarded to the State De partment at AVashlngton. The Herman airman swept in narrow circles over the tanker, trying to get directly over the funnel, with the idea, apparently, of dropping a bomb down it and wrecking her engine-room. The orev.-, at first bw arming on deok. quickly beat a retreat to the forecas tle, and no one was hurt by the ex plosion of the bomb which did strike the Cushing. " Attack Xfr Antwerp. The attack occurred while the Cushi ing was about 23 miles from Antwerp and eight miles from the North Hinder lightsii ip. It was near ? o'clock in the evening, but the sun had barely touched the horizon and there was ample light for tbe officers and crew to see every de tail of the attack, and also for the pilot of the biplane to see the words, "Gushing, New York. U. S. of America," painted on each side of, the vessel In letters eight feet high, and to note the Stars and Stripes at the masthead and the taffrall. When the airship was flrst noted by the lookout it was several thousand feet in the -air and was eoming appar ently from the coast of England. It began to drop down as it approached the ship," and soon was only about 600 feet in the air. Kverybody watched with interest the skillful way in which the lone pilot of the biplane handled his machine. An attack was not even considered a possibility, for up to that time all thought the flying machine was an English craft. Suddenly the biplane swooped down ... r COUPONS TO BE VOTED FOR QUEEN OF THE ROSE FESTIVAL. Not Good After My 22, 1915 , THE ROSE FESTIVAL QUEEN CAMPAIGN f This Coupon will count (or 10 Vote For Miss Candidate of. Good for 10 votes when filled out and sent to the Campaign Depart tnent by mail or otherwise, on r before the above date. No coupon will be altered in any way or transferred after being received at the Rosa Festival Headquarters, s xtoruiweiurn out ouuuinj. until it was only 300 or 400 feet above the Cushing. A second later there was a tremen dous explosion and. a wave of water flooded the stern deck. The crew fled for the nearest hatchways and dived dewn just as a second bomb fell, missed the port qyarter by a foot or so. and dropped into the sea. Another explosion sent another wave cascading over the lower deck. The biplane swung up Into the wind, hung motionless for a few minutes, apd then headed for the Iutch coast. When the biplane dropped down so close to the ship it was seen that she was flying a white flag with a black cfoss in the center, the admitted pen nant of the German air fleet. The Cushing at the time of the at tack was bound for Rotterdam with 9000 tons of crude oil consigned to the government of Holland. ILLINOIS CANAL ADVANCED FJTorts to Invalidate 550,000,060 Measure Are Voted Down. SFRTNOPIKLJ5. May IS. Governor Dunne's $50,006,009 deep waterway bill. providing for a continuous water route between the Great Ukea and the Gulf of Mexico, wen Its first victory in the Legislature today when all efforts to invalidate t by added amendments were voted down. . The measure, which provides for the construction ef an eight-foot channel connecting the Chi cago drainage canal and the Illinois River, will come up for flnal action in the House Tuesday. In advocating the waterway plan before a joint session of the Ijegtala ture today. United States Senator Lwis said it was his idea that in the event the United States ever became in volved in an international war, which might make it expedient to remove the National capital from Washington to ai Inland point, which undoubtedly would be Chicago, such a waterway would prove of the greatest value. IVoman Hurt at Fire Xcar Eagene. EUGENE. Or., May 19.--(Spec!al.) Mrs. TJ. Lt Briggs was injured and had barely time . to escape with her life when the country home occupied by herself and Mr, Briggs, three miles south of Eugene, was destroyed by fire before 5 e'elock this morning. Mr. Brigss arose at 4:30 o'clock, built a fire in the stove and stepped out of the house. When he returned a few min utes later the house was blazing. He awakened Mrs. Briggs- She fell a she was leaving the house. The house waa partly, insured. It cost 43000. BANK ACTS SCORED Untermyer Defends Punish ment of Riggs National, OFFICIAL ARDOR PRAISED Existence of "Pipe IJae'1 Between Jiggs BanW, National City Bank and Treasury Orta rg d R e -form Is Insisted Ot, WASHINGTON. May t. X)enuneia, tien of the financial practices of pffi cers of the Rig rs National Bank and eulogy of the "ardor and enthusiasm" of Seeretary McAdoo and Comptroller Of the Currency Williams characterized the argument today of Samuel Unter myer, counsel for the Treasury offi cials, supporting the Government mo tion to dismiss the temperary injunc tion secured by the bank Mr. Untermyer occupied the entire day in court with an argument that dealt with the histery of the Rlggs bank and its relations with the Na tional City Bank of New York and the Government for the past J6 years. Final argument against the motion to dis miss will be made tomorrow by exi Senator Bailey. Difficulties between the bank and the Treasury officials, which culminated in this suit, Mr. Untermyer argued, were due not to the arbitrary use of power by the comptroller, but to reforms In atituted by Secretary MeAdeo and Comptroller Williams, which abolished 'illicit favors" the bank enjoyed In the past and aroused the resentment ef the banks officers. Penalties Declared Justified. The penalties imposed by the comp troller, he said, were legal and fully Justified by the conditions he found. He reviewed allegations of "dummy loans," of excessive loans to officers and of a stook brokerage business con ducted by the bank's officers through the bank In violation of the law, and asserted that the comptroller was only pcrloitnias bis duty in Insisting that he be acquainted with the details of al these transactions. "The eomptreller had a right to know who was interested In these accounts and what security was behind these loaps," Mr. Untermyer said, "'and in no instance was a demand made for infor mation by the comptroller which was not justified by conditions in the bank. He is not to be criticised for the heat with which he insisted on his demands He is rather to be complimented on the ardor and enthusiasm with which he performed his duty. "The refusal of the bsnk to comply rannot pe justified- I suppose they had been se long the czars of Washington that they had been filled with rage and disappointment when their control and their 'pipeline' to the Treasury col lapsed together." fMM-Uii' Is DfKOHnrrd. Mr. Untermyer was particularly em phatic in his disousion of what he called the "pipeline" between the Riggs hank, the National City Bank and the Treasury Department. Through thip arrangement, he declared, the banks re? celved large Government deposits with out interest, which. In the case of the National City Bank, "was simply giving it to Wall Street speculators." Assistant Attorney-General Charles Warren filed a brief for the Treasury officials in which he supported the legal authority af the eomptrollef te impose the contested 1500 penalty on the bank, and argued that the court had no Jurisdiction which would enable it to Interfere with the discretion of the eompt roller in this actiwn. America's Greatest Cigarette Maim Jtht Hifhest CradeTmiaA and Egyptian GgarrtttsmtfieWW J TRACK LAYING ON SOON TWIHTT Mfl.KS OF- RAILS TO BU SBUT BY BO AD TO COOS BA. Willamette Peelfle Hairlta Work fr'rem Beth Kada of l.lae Sites ef .ew Bridges. EUGENE, Or.. May" It. ISpeelal.) Twenty miles of steel rails are te be shipped from the Willamette Tacific's material yards in Eugene this week. They will go by way ef Portland te Coos Bay, and their arrival will mark the beg-lnning of track laying from Coos Bay to meet the rails from Eu gene. The move is one step in an ef fort te rush to completion this year the road to Coos Bay In compliance with the recent orders of Chief Engi neer Heod- Another 30 days will see the rails extended from the Eugene end to Acme, according to H. P. Hoey, assistant en gineer, in charge, and with the rails pushing north from Coos Ray to the Umpqua. this will leave but 10 miles of steel to build upon the completion of the Suislaw and Umpqua bridges It is also prohahle that steel will tit shipped up the Umpqua and pushed north, making the entire road ready for the completion of the two bridge. These are to he construuled almo.-L simultaneously. In tho past two weeks a small settlement has sprung up si the site of the Miuslaw structure at Acme, where the ionstruci ion rainpx have been built. The erection of Urn falpe work has already commenced. himI witli the arrival ef rails from Maple Ion, near where they were long delayed hy a right-of-way difficulty, actual bridge construction nill begin. T. O. Ruswell, assistant Southern Pa cific engineer, in charge of the con struction of the Willamette wagon road, announced yeMlerHay that h will place a ferea of 40 men and 30 horxen at work this week on the Upper Willam ette. The railroad will spend from I1O.00A te $l.j,00o on this wagon road this Summer. ;irl fntrltiteH f'nuslit at Klnia. KI-M A, Wash.. May 19. ISpeciU.i' Florence Thayer, of Ceres, and Louise Geilder. of Seattle, 17-yer-old girls, who ran away from the Wtnte Indus trial School for Girls at (irand Mound on May 10, were arrested here yester day by Marshal James Fm'th. Trev were returned to the school lat night, rioth seemed to have plenty of money.