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THE MORNING OREGONIAN. THURSDAY. JUNE M, 191.5. LANSING IS NAMED FOR BRYAN'S PLACE Acting Secretary Receives Re ' cess Appointment as Mem ber of Cabinet. SELECTION IS POPULAR Life lias Iicen Devoted to Interna tional Law and Diplomacy and No Party Lines Are Drawn In Commending Choice. WASHINGTON. June 23. Robert Lansing, who aa counselor of the State Department, has advised President Wil son in law and precedent in the policy pursued by the United States toward belligerent governments since the out break of the European war. was named today Secretary of State to succeed William Jennings Bryan. Few appointments in recent years have given such widespread satisfac tion in the National capital. Mr. Lan sing is a lifelong Democrat, but he has devoted bis time to international law and diplomacy and Is as popular with former Republican officials as with his political colleagues. Members of the Cabinet who talked with the President on the subject were unanimous in their recommendation that he should be ap pointed. Official announcement of the selec tion of Mr. Lansing, who has been serv ing as Secretary ad Interim since the resignation of Mr. Bryan on June S, was made in the following statement issued from the White House at 6 o'clock tonight: "Before leaving this evening for a brief rest in New Hampshire, the Presi dent announced that he had offered the post of Secretary cf State to Mr. Robert Lansing, the present counselor of the Department of State, and that Mr. Lan sing had accepted the appointmenc." A commission was prepared which President Wilson signed tonight, giv ing Mr. Lansing a recess appointment. When Congress reconvenes the nomi nation will go to the Senate. No opposi tion 10 his confirmation is expected. Political Backing Absent. One of the peculiar circumstances in connection with Mr. Lansing's appoint ment is the fact that he personally has no political backing or influence. Suc ceeding William Jennings Bryan, fore most among the leaders of the Demo cratic party, a comparatively unknown quantity in the political world has been ushered into the premiership of the Cabinet. This fact. Indeed, commended Itself to the President's advisers as a reason for the appointment of a man of Mr. Lansing's experience and ability, the argument being advanced that at so critical a time in the Nation's history the people of the L'nited States wished all political considerations subordinat ed. Mr. Lansing takes office thorough ly familiar with the personnel and or ganization of the Department of State, conversant with confidential details of all the important negotiations conduct ed by the United States since the Wil son Administrtaion began. Moreover, he has a wide knowledge of policies under previous Administrations, and an especially intimate acquaintance with Mexican affairs and Far Eastern prob . lems. Gubernatorial Experience EHenMve. Mr. Lansing is 51 years old, a native of Witertown, N. Y.. and a descendant of the family of John Lansing, who represented New Tork in the constitu tional convention of 1787 at Philadel phia and later was Chancellor of the State of New York. After being grad uated, from Amherst College in 1886, Mr. Lansing chose law as -his profes sion and continued in private practice, except when retained by the American Covernment or foreign nations in im portant cases. He has represented the United States in more international ar bitrations than any living American, and a French authority recently wrote that Mr. Lansing probably had had a longer and broader experience in inter national arbitration and had appeared more frequently before international tribunals than any living lawyer. Jn 192 Mr. Lansing was appointed associate counsel lor the Unitel States in the fur stal arbitration, and at tended the sessions or the international tribunal at Paris in 1S93. In 1894-93 he was counsel for the Mexican and Chinese legations in Washington. In 1896 he was appointed by Sec retary of State Olney counsel for the Government before the Bering Sea claims Commission. In 1S9S-99 he was counsel for private parties before the Canadian Joint High Commission and counselor for the Mexican and Chinese legations once more. Technical Experience Extensive. He became solicitor and counsel for the United States Government before the Alaskan boundary tribunal In Lon don, was counsel in the Venezuelan as phalt disputes in 1905; counsel for the United States in the Atlantic fisheries arbitration at The Hague in 1908, tech nichal delegate in the fur seal con ference at Washington In 1911, and special counsel for the Department of State in various pending diplomatic questions. In 1911 he became counsel for the United States in the American and British claims arbitration and from 1913 until April 1, 1914. when he be came counselor of the State Depart ment to succeed John Bassett Moore, he represented the United States be fore this commission. Mr. Lansing was one of the foun ders of the American Society of Inter national Law and has written a book on constitutional law He has associ ated for years with! diplomatists at home and abroad, and: is well liked by members of the diplomatic corps here. For many years Mr. Lansing, who is a man of considerable means, has lived here with his father-in-law, John W. Foster, who was Secretary of State under President Harrison. Mrs. Lan sing is one of the popular members of the official and diplomatic set. They have no children. Versatility la Noteworthy. Aside from his success as a lawyer and diplomatist, Mr. Lansing is known to his friends as a devoted and success ful golfer and fisherman, something of a baseball fan, a skillful landscape painter, as well as draftsman, and the possessor of a gift of verse, known to his friends but not the general pub lic. The appointment of Mr. Lansing as Secretary creates a vacancy in the of fice of counselor of the State Depart ment. It is not expected that any im mediate selection will be made, as Chandler Anderson, counselor under the administration of Secretary Knox for several months, has been specially employed to handle some of the numer ous questions which the war raised. Mr. Anderson does not desire a perma nent appointment. It is considered likely that President Wilson will leave to Mr. Lansing the task of selecting his counselor. CARRANZA SPURNS OFFER (Comlnud From First Pag. ) hausted, and today the society issued another urgent appeal for foodstuffs and money. Twenty thousand persons were reported as practically starving in Guerrero.. How desperate the food situation is, even in Vera Cruz, is said to be indi cated by the case of a talented woman. 23 years a public school teacher, who was found begging in the streets for food. Another sister, well educated, was peddling soap. A summary of reports to the Amer ican Red Cross-made public today gays; "In Mexico City thousands are beg ging for food and flocking about the stations where food supplies are being distributed by foreign relief commit tees and sometimes by the government. Before the harvest is ready both the city and country will be in a mucb more distressing condition. The price of corn and beans is six times the pre vious price, bakeries have closed for lack of flour and foodstuffs are obtain able only in small quantities. A week's cessation of supplies would bring the entire city to almost a starvation point. "Conditions in Durango are better than in any North Mexican state, but at that they are decidedly distressing. Lately there were dangerous food riots. There may be food supplies enough to last until August. The wheat crop is only 20 per cent of normal. "The probable planting this year Is 30 per cent of normal, because of the great scarcity of seed corn, lack of oxen and mules, the disinclination of the people to work because of revo lutionary interference, and the depre ciated paper currency. "Suffering and starvation will first be most acute in small villages, congre gations and all cities from 1000 to 3000 population. People in the country dis tricts can obtain wild fruits and cactus leaves. "One danger of the present situation Is that neither the general public nor the needy will know the supply of corn Is exhausted until after the last liter of corn has been sold. When the needy SCENE OF IMPERIAL VALLEY EARTHQUAKE AND TOWNS RUC'KWOOD, HRAWLKY, KEYSTONE. IMPERIAL, HOLTOX, LA CEXTEB, HBBOJI, CAI.KX1CO A?"P ' ""JC ALI' ALL I.N IMPERIAL VALLKV. ARK SHOWN ON MAP. AS IS RELATIVE DISTANCE fROM SAN D1ECO. go to buy their daily supply they will be told there is no more. "If importations of foodstuffs from Durango have to cease Torreon's food supply cannot last more than 15 days." 13 SAY THAW IS SANE MK I.OXCi ASSOCIATED WITH PRISONER, TESTIFY. Witnesses Include Jurors at Former Trials, Prison Officials. Newspaper men and Attorneys. NEW YORK, Jun 23. Thirteen wit nesses. Including Thaw himself, testi fied today that they believed Harry K. Thaw to be sane. The witnesses in cluded four Jurors at Thaw's former trials, two chaplains, a physician and a keeper at the Tombs prison, where Thaw was at various times confined; two newspapermen, who had been asso ciated with him during the nine years' hiHlory of Thaw litigation; a lawyer, who had met lhaw in New Hampshire, and a Juror ln.clvil proceedings insti tuted by one of Thaw's former attor neys against Thaw's mother. All agreed that Thaw showed, no symptoms of delusion, that he could talk intelligently on many subjects, had never been violent In his conduct to their knowledge and was rational in liis talk and actions. Thaw himself appeared to be com posed when on the witness stand and answered the questions of his attorney without hesitation. He said he had left Matteawan because physicians had told him that he was sane and because he himself believed that he was. That the whole sordid history of the Thaw case, his alleged relations with women, the story of Evelyn Nesbit's relations with Stanford White and the circumstances which led up to his slay ing by Thaw, would be dragged to light again before the trial is con cluded was indicated by Deputy Attorney-General Cook in his address to the Jury. He said the state would prove that Thaw was an Incurable paranoiac and was morally perverted. WHO PAYS? IS QUESTION CONSUMER, NOT FARMER, SAID TO BEAR FREIGHT BURDEN. Issue Argued Before Commerce Com mission In Rate Case Broomcora Gnmn Protest Increase. WASHINGTON, June 23. Whether proposed Increases in rates on grain, grain products and broomcorn by West ern railroads are reasonable was ar gued today before the Interstate Com merce Commission by representatives of the carriers and interested shippers. C. C. Wright, attorney for many Western roads, told the Commission that broomcorn was worth in many in stances as much as $75 a ton, and that In consideration of this fact it "could well afford to pay a higher rate of transportation. Samuel Wasserman, representing broomcorn and broom interests, said that 50 to 100 per cent of the value of a car was charged far this transporation service. "If the rates go higher the people of the East can't get brooms," he added. A. J. Norton, of the Santa Pe, and A. E. Helm, of the Kansas Railroad Commission, made the principal argu ments on the proposed Increases on grain and grain products. Mr. Norton said the farmer did not pay the freight; that it was paid by the con sumer, but the farmers' organizations were fighting the proposed rate In crease in a systematic fashion. Mr. Helm insisted that farmers did pay the freight on grain and said that every Increase in rates was reflected In the price the farmer got for bis grain at the farm. Oregon Postmasters Appointed. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington. June 23. The President today appointed Willtam D. Hardesty post master at Freewater, Or., and Elizabeth M. Moeck postmaster at Rainier, Or. Santiseptlc Cures Poison Oak or Ivjr Drnrelsts refund If It fails. Instantly rellerri Itchlnc, amaxtics and inflammation. Drllghtfnllj cooling and soeUiiiig. 6oc All druggists. PRESIDENT STARTS ON VACATION TRIP Day to Be Devoted to Discus sion of European Situation With Colonel House. . GAME OF GOLF PLANNED Stay at Summer "Wliito House lo Continue Until July 6 Vnlcss Crisis Arises iu Impending l'oreign Questions. WASHINGTON. June 23. President Wilson left tonight on a trip to Roslyn, N. Y., and Cornish. N. H.. "with the ex pectation of being away from Wash ington until July 6, unless some acute crisis should arise in pending foreign questions. ' On the trip north the president win be accompanied by Miss Margaret Wil son and Dr. Cary T. Grayson. He will be joined at Cornish by Mr. and Mrs. Francis B. Sayre and Francis Woodrow Sayre, the President's grandson. The President plans to spend to morrow with his friend. Colonel E. JU. House, at Roslyn, devoting the day to a discussion of Colonel House's recent trip to Europe and to an automobile ride and a game of golf. He will leave there at night for the "Summer White House" at Cornish, where he will ar rive Friday. " Tomorrow will be the first time the President has seen Colonel House since the latter's return from Europe, but they have been in frequent communica tion by telegraph, telephone and letter. They will discuss the war situation generally and the Colonel will Inform the President of the views he gained during personal interviews with the principal officials of Germany, Great Britain and France, concerning the possibility of peace and questions at Usue between the United States and those countries. During the President's stay In Corn ish he will keep in constant touch with developments in the European and Mexican situations by White House and State Department officials. Every effort will be made, however, to pre vent minor questions from reaching him. in order that he may have as much recreation as possible. REALTY MEN TO ELECT DEAN VINCENT IRGED FOR PRES IDENCY AT CONVENTION. Portland Delearatton Also Is Campaign- Ins for Vice-Presidency at Elec tion to Be Held Today, LOS ANGELES. Cal., June 23. (Spe cial.) Political bees buzzed at the con vention of the National Association of Real Estate Exchanges today. The election will be held tomorrow.' At the same time the next convention city will be chosen. Friends of John L. Weaver, vice-president, of Washing ton, D. C. are boosting him for -the presidency. The Portland delegation is campaigning for Dean Vincent. The name of Telfair Stockton, of Jackson ville, Fla.. is prominently mentioned for the honor by the Jacksonville dele gation and many others from the Southern States. II. B. Haas, of Pitts burg, is being urged among the dele gates as a candidate, while the friends of John S. Darling, of St. Louis, are actively supporting him for the place. As Los Angeles waa honored by the convention this year, delegates from Fresno, San Francisco, Portland, Se attle, Tacoma and other points along the Pacific Coast are urging their claim for the vice-presidency. QUAKE DAMAGE $1,500,000 (Continued From Flrat Page.) southeast of Yuma, In order to repair the damage to the wasteway, but if it is, engineers do not believe the water will be shut off more than 36 hours. Rebuilding already has begun. In this city, where an entire block of the busi ness section was ruined, men were at work today clearing the debris. At Calexico similar work was in progress. The damage here was estimated at close to $200,000. The loss at Calexico was estimated at something less than that. Water Tower Collapses. Several fires at Calexico added to the damage done there by the quakes, which threw the municipal water tank off its 60-foot tower last night. The collapse of the tower deprived the town of water pressure and hampered efforts at fighting the fires, which burned sev eral residences and two business build ings. At Yuma and Needles the shocks were feeble, while they were barely percep tible at San Bernardino, 60 miles from Los Angeles. No damage was done any where out side the valley. Communication - with Calexico was entirely dependent today on automo- Your Eyes Snd or Call for Copy of Dr. re Kysers "Book. "TUK KOAU TO HEALTH THKOK.H YOUR HIES." It la Free. DR. A. P. DE KEYSER Eyestrain Specialist, Second Floor Columbia Bid., 366 Washington Street at West Park Street. headquarters there were in a building biles and railroad trains. Telegraph damaged by the earthquakes and mes sages were sent here for transmission. Strict guard was established in the various towns affected by the quakes as soon as the quakes began. Fifty special deputies were sworn in here, and at Calexico a troop of United States cavalry, which has been patrol ling the border. ,kept order and pro tected property-A Across the line Colonel Esteban Cantu, the Mexican commandant, established martial law in Mexlcali, his soldiers patrolling the debris-littered etreets and guarding the ruins of gambling houses where players, when they heard the rumbling which preceded the shock, precipitate ly abandoned their tables, roulette wheels and gold, and sped for the exits. IRRIGATION KEY IS MENACED Battery of Head gates Little Able to Withstand Earthquakes. SAN FRANCISCO. June 23. F. C. Hermann, ex-chief engineer in the con struction of the Imperial Valley irri gation system, said here today that Sharp's heading, built of wood and earth, could offer little resistance to severe earthquakes. He described the heading as the key to the entire Im perial Valley system with Its battery of headgates, through which at times pass 30.000 gallons of water per sec ond, supplying nearly 300,000 acres of productive lands. - Sharp's heading, he said, is the most Important point of the system save Upper heading, a concrete structure on a rock foundation, the intake gates from the Colorado River. He doubted the power of any earthquake to affect Upper heading seriously. Mr. Hermann was of the opinion that WHICH SUFFERED. the tremors last night aYid today have a direct connection, with the mud vol canoes south of Calexico, which are al most continually active. He said there was a live fault line straight through the affected territory, and there is a perfect crater in the Black Buttes on the edge of Volcano Lake, south of the Mexican line. EI Centro Nearly Demolished. This little town, perched on the brink of the great fissure cut across country by the Colorado River 10 years ago, when it swept away levees and created the Salton Sea. was In a sorry plight today. Its adobe huts, housing saloons and gambling dens, were mostly demol ished. Wooden buildings in many in stances held together, but daylight showed their blue, gray, wnite and pink "false fronts" standing as4cew. Several flimsy structures that with stood last night's shocks went down un der the severe quake at 10 o'clock this morning. This quake was felt severely at Calexico also, and pillars that sup ported the arcades erected to protect the sidewalks from the ardent Summer sun collapsed. Mexican officials employed by A. F. Andrade, receiver of the California De velopment Company's property in Lower California,, inspected the main canal to day and all the headings. They re ported Sharp's heading still intact, but found great fissures in the earth all around it. Water Supply Threatened. This heading: controls the entire Irri gation system of the Imperial Valley. If it or the Alamo wasteway, which acts as a governor and preventer of overflow, were to break, the entire val ley would be without a water supply. The flow In all of the hundreds of miles of canals and laterals is con trolled by this heading, but the engi neers of the California Development Company reported to the American re ceiver, W. H. Yiolablrd. of Los Angeles, that there was no danger of a failure of the system unless more temblors, as severe as the shocks of last night, were to occur. PRESSING NEED ADMITTED (Continued From Plrat Page,) the committee. . With the available power they propose to Irrigate 3000 additional acres between the "A canal" and the main feed canal. One of the places that made a deep impression upon the .visitors was that of Mrs. Franz, a widow. Her husband died a few years ago. leaving her the land, undeveloped, and 'a large family of children. She had a few cows to start with. She began growing alfalfa, and today has a place that compares favorably with that of any other in the vicinity. This took the time of the committee up to about noon, when lunch was served by tne -women of the Hermlston Civic Club. Every item on the menu was produced on the irrigated land of the Umatilla project. It started in with fried chicken and ran all the way down tnrougn tne list of gastronomic de- ngnts, including potatoes and cream gravy, caDDage, Deets and numerous minor vegetables, to fresh raspberries, cake and ice cream. This part, perhaps, did not impress me visiting congressmen so much as did the subsequent statements bv Mr. Dodd that less than 10 years ago every root or tne tana over which the party had passed during the morning was covered with sagebrush and that only eisrht years ago the very lawn upon which they were seated, surrounded by Notice to The Public: Although paving has commenced on Sandy Road, we have not raised our prices in Parkrose, which will be tremendously benefited by this public improvement. Lots from $25(Tup; whole acre tracts, regular bowers of beauty, among the trees and flowers, from $1100 up. Now is the time to buy. Call Main 208 or A 2050, or evenings Tabor 2545 or 5533. Phones : Main 6 A 1020. The Pictured Story of a Girl's Heroic Life Battle and a Man's Reg eneration hi fed 1 L M;.,M. Today Friday and Saturday PARAMOUNT PICTURES ARE SUPREME MORE THAN A MERE TRIUMPH B THE gW g CHARMING JTi In Ronald MacDonald's GAIVIBIER'S raaiMiwni.au yiffiu ua An excellent cast of players, including Portland's own Little "Dot" gDOROTHY This Advertisement and 5 Admits School Children to Matinees. Don't Wail to See This Powerful Drama Come Today A GREAT STAR NANCE O'NEIL in her most powerful success PRINCESS ROMANOFF 1011 A. M. to 11 P. M. Daily 10 its stately cottonwood trees, was noth ing but a sand heap. Senator Tane spoke briefly and ex pressed full confidence in the commit tee and in Its intentions of acting for the best interests of Oregon and the other Western states. Truck Ipsets Jitney Bus. A Jitney bus driven by C. G. Balsam was turned on its side last night in a collision with a motor truck loaded with wood and driven by W. S. Miller at Alberta street and Williams avenue. According to a report by Patrolman Murphy, the Jitney was trying to run around the truck, which waa headed north on Williams avenue, -when the America's Greatest Cigarette J end Egyptian OgarrttainthtVirtf Cor. Fourth ai Fourth and Stark. Continuous 11A.M. to 11 P.M. Broadway at Stark Today n Tomorrow and Saturday VT SKV -ink. SA H v tA tJt. Police ments in With Two Cast. C0URTENAY F00TE AND GLADYS afaaasJsaaa AZEL DAWN Melodramatic Romance ADVOCATE ,aiiiiaiuiaujsjii BERNARD AT THE STAR Saturday Is Getting Nearer. Don't Wait Come Early machines came was damaged. together. The Jitney Ohioans Visit Here. Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Cox, of Hartford City, O, are in Portland visiting at the home of Mrs. Cox' brother, Albert To zier, at East Fifty-fourth street and Hawthorne avenuo. Mr. Cox is pub lisher of the Pally News and the Week- SEE 0THEPICKF0RI IN HER GREATEST PHOTOPLAY A. PUtmriMmJ KoatmnHe Nowl By Roy L. MeCardeTI Dramatic! Beautiful Scenes! Spectacular L f ' Climaxes! 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