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VOL. LV NO. 17,094. PORTLAND, OREGON, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7. 1913. PRICE FIVE CENTAL COLUMBIA HIGHWAY CHOKED BY CROWDS Thousands Have Part in Inspection Day. BENSON PARK IS DEDICATED .Ceremonies Are Held in Most Picturesque Setting. . PURPOSES OF GIFT TOLD Tonor Says He 'N amed Common Peo ple to Have Kecreution Spot and to Add to Beauty of I "anions Scenic Road. Looks as if they'll have to be build ing another Columola Hiver Highway soon. If many more of these Inspec tion day outings ate neld. it will Just about take two highways to go around, and with precious little room to spare, at that. Literally thousand of Portlanders. tourist-visitors from the East, well wishing neighbors from the Washing ton aide of the river and even parties from Hood River and The Dalles went over that road of a thousand and one engineering and scenic wonders, the Columbia River Highway, yesterday. No use trying to estimate the num ber. One man's guess is as good as another's in a case like this. But they r eurely were plentiful. Stream of Visitor Unbroken. They came out all morning and well into the afternoon in a steady stream of autos. There were big, powerful cars, medium-sized cars, and tiny little cars; brand-new, glittering cars of the 1916 model, middle-aged cars and spavined old wrecks that coughed huskily at every grade: and auto trucks from Portland business houses, whole fleets of them, loaded to the rails with pretty frirls who blew horns in your ear when you tried to pass them. There was even a car of the almost forgotten old steam type, with a whis tle like a vexed locomotive, in the un broken line of automobiles, more auto mobiles and stilt more automobiles that parsed along the highway, coming or eotng, all day long. Prairie Schooner Toura Highway Down from east of the mountains came a man and his wife in a prairie .schooner, behind two sturdy horses, their belongings packed in their rum bling vta;on, who stopped to view the nights before they whipped up 'again on their way to Portland. At Pcnson Park, the dedication of which was one of the main features of the day, and at Multnomah Falls, so many autos were parked along the roadside that Deputy Sheriffs and motorcycle cops from Portland had their work cut out for them to keep other cars coming from both direc tions from setting all tangled up. It was necessary at times to hold up the line of autos going one way for as long as ten minutes while those bound In the other direction passed. RrnNon Park Dedicated. As arranged by the Portland Ad Club, under whose auspices the Inspec tion day celebration was held, three special O.-W. It. & N. trains, of 11 to 14 cars each, took other throngs out from Tortland In the morning to Ben son Park and' Wahkeena Falls, Mult nomah Falls, and Horse Tail Falls, the three especial centers of attraction, and brought them back home in the even Jng. Heautlful Benson Tark, the gift of Flmon Benson to the City of Portland, 'was formally dedicated with appropri ate ceremonies early in the afternoon. The occasion was unique in several respects. No other city in the United States, perhaps in the world, has been endowed for the perpetual enjoyment of Its citizens with such a natural playground. 34 miles from its city 'limits. o oiner city park is situated on such a highway, with three such won ders of nature as Multnomah Falls Oneonta Gorge and Horse Tail Falls within half an hour's walking distance, And probably no other city park has been dedicated in such a picturesque setting as that of yesterday. Dedication Is Picturesque. The park, which includes some 340 acres, extends from the top of one of the most rugged mountains on the highway, to the Columbia River, in a. strip approximately a quarter of a mile wide From the top of the mountain on one side of the park drops Wah keena Falls. The dedication ceremony was held on the flat ground near the river, with the cliff in the background and a nat tiral pulpit of basalt In front. The speakers talked from this pulpit, while the audience stood or sat under the trees before it. The swish of the swift stream which flows from Wahkeena Falls could be plainly heard. X. O. Pike, of the Portland Ad Club, acted as master of ceremonies. The first speaker was George I Baker, Commissioner of Public Affairs, who accepted the park in behalf of the city. In his address he paid a warm tribute to the publlo splritedness of Mr. Ben son and of John B. Yeon, County Road master, under whose direction the highway has been built. Mr. Raker said that through Mr. Benson's public spiritedness. the city evpected soon to add Multnomah Falls Concluded on 4, Column 3.) WATERWAYS BILL FACES BIG CHOP DEFENSE LEGISLATION LIKELY TO REQUIRE MOST FUNDS. Chairman of Rivers and Harbors Committee Thinks Projects in Northwest Vfill Go Ahead. OREGOXIAX NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, Sept. 6. River and harbor legis lation at the next session of (Tongress will be compelled to take a place of secondary importance, in the opinion of Representative Sparkman, chairman of the rivers and harbors committee, who passed through Washington today. "I presume," he said, "that our bill may have to make way for more press ing legislation at the coming session. If President Wilson recommends Na tional defense legislation. with its necessary large appropriations, we may be able only to provide for river and harbor projects already under way. Projects contemplated, but not yet au thorized, undoubtedly will be under taken some time, but I expect the river and harbor bill of next session will have to be .held down because of more pressing legislation urged by the Presi dent." Mr. Sparkman was inclined to believe a bill of reasonable size could be passed to continue 'work on projects now under way, such as the Columbia River, Willamette and other authorized projects in the Northwest, but he thinks there is little chance whatever for adoption of new projects, of which the Pacific Northwest will have several to propose. AVIATORS TAKE REPRISALS French Accuse Germans of Killing Women at Market. '., PARIS, Sept. 6. Reprisals by French aviators tor an attack September 1 on Lainneville, where there is no defence, were taken today on Saarbruecken. by French airmen A French official re port says: "Our enemies brought refinement to the point where they clearly aimed at the populace section, and selected for the execution of their operations the day and the hour of the market. As a consequence, the victoms, unfortunate ly, were too numerous and were for the most part women and children. "As a measure of reprisal 40 of our aeroplanes this morning; bombarded the station, works and establishments of Saarbruecken. The aviators noted that the results attained were consider able." PRISONERS HAVE REAL FUN Governor's Order Forbidding ISoxing Content Arrives Too L.ute. JOL.IKT. 111.. Sept. 6. Labor day was a real holiday for the hundreds of in mates in the state penitentiary here. Forgetting- the walls and bars which cut them off from the outside world the convicts stood up and howled with grlee while two pugilists pummeled each other in a regulation ring in the prison yard. In Chicago, Governor Dunne became incensed when he learned that the box ing bouts were in prospect, lie tele graphed to the warden that the bouts must be eliminated. The telegram, however, arrived too late, as the bouts wer over and the convicts had their tun. NEW THOUGHT SESSION ON One Hundred Delegates Attend Con gress at San Francisco. SAN FRANCISCO. Sept. 6. Rev. Dr. Newo Newi New, !D. X.. of New Tork. arrhbishop of the New Thought Church and prasident of the New Thought science world congress, presided at the first session of the congress which convened in this city today. One hun dred delegates were In attendance. Right Revernrd Sri Mazziniananda Maha Thoro, a Bhuddist high priest of Tibet, delivered the main address to day, lie spoke on "Suggestions and Their Kffect in General and Personal Suggestions," and told of his work with the New Thought religion. TROPICS HURT SOLDIERS Mental and Physical Towers Less After 6 Months, Surgeon Says. WASHINGTON. Sept. 6. P.ear-Ad-miral Braisted, Surgeon-General of the Navy, is studying the effect on Ameri can officers and men of prolonged visits in tropical climates. One ship's surgeon has reported that there is a pronounced deterioration of the mental and physical powers after a six months' stay in the tropics. ALTITUDE RECORD IS MADE German Plane Rises 3 2 00 Meters With Four Passengers. BKRLI.V, Sept. 6. by wireless to Say ville, Ts". Y. At the aviation grounds at Potthausen, Rhenish Prussia, an aeroplane of the Condor type ascended 3200 meters, carrying four passengers. The Overseas News Agency says that this excels by 150 meters the previous world's record. TURKISH DESTROYER SUNK Allied Submarine Scores Victory in Sea of Marmora. ATHENS, via Paris, Seplv 6. The Turkish torpedo-boat destroyer Yar Hissar has been sunk in the Sea of Marmora. An allied submarine Is credited with the destruction of the Turkish vessel. GARRANZA" AIDS IN BORDER NEUTRALITY General Gives Orders to Stop Fighting. INTERMITTENT BATTLES END Mexican Leader's Aide Calls' for More Troops. TEXAS RANGERS ACCUSED General Nafarrate Declares Mexi can -Soldiers Huve Been Blame less and Says Americans Have Started Most of Shooting. BROWNSVILLE, Tex., Sept. 6. First Chief Venustiano Carranza took a hand today in the Texas border imbroglio, according to a statement by General E. P. Nafarrate. of Matamoros, com manding the Carranza troope opposite the Brownsville station. At the same time Major W, H. Hay, chief of staff for Major-General Fred erick Funston, took a trip along the border above here. He had not re turned tonight. It was believed his trip contemplated an important dis position of a small army of American troops, either now here -or en route, to enable them better to control the skir mishing across the international line. , Intermittent Fighting Ends. Today for the first time in several days none of this intermittent fight ing was reported by Army patrols or Texas rangers. General Nafarrate said that General Carranza telegraphed him to enforce strict neutrality along this border. General Nafarrate said that he replied that to do this he must have more troops, lie was tonight awaiting Gen eral Carranza's answer. General Nafar rate, saying that he wished to co operate with the American military au thorities' gave the following outline of border fighting as reported from his side of the line: "We have received orders from First Chief Carranza to observe neutrality strictly and not to help in any way the Texas revolutionists. Unfriendly reports have said several times that our men have crossed to the Texas side to fight. This is wrong, because our review list, the first of this month, shows no man is missing. We have given orders to our officers, not once, but three times, not to fire on Ameri can troops, even if they fire on us. T Rangers Aroused. "Two days ago we received a tele gram that at Cavazos Crossing Texas rangers and Sherirr Baker's men came to the American side of the river and fired on our troops, killing two civilians and wounding one Carranza officer. This officer did not order his men to return the fire, but inste'ad to retire immediately from the river bank. 'o"cl fj o" rage;:, Colurrm l . ' fry tr. m yourf i tf? , 0 J-- f THACH ERl S y igl I lWr To W'LLIE BROvJn INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. . YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature. 68 degree; minimum. 03. TODAY'S Fair and warmer, northwesterly winds. Wax. German press declares Bernatorfra note con tained Implied restriction. Page 2. British battle fleet suffers heavily in action at the Uardaaelles. Page 2. Mexico. General Carranga takes steps to enforce neu trality on border. Page 1. 2s'atIonaU . Austrian ' Ambassador admits planning strikes in American munition lactories. Page 1. Washington officials withhold criticism for sinking of Hesperian. Page 1. Rivers and harbors appropriation likely to be cut heavily. Page 1. Democratic leaders in Cor press oppose Na tional defence programme. Page 5. Domestic. High political influence ' believed to be at work to p rev eat lire. Mobr's prosecution. Page 3. '"Friends of Peace" cheer proposal to put embargo on war munitions. Page 2. Federation of Labor Secretary indorses pre paredness but not militarism. Page 5. New Jersey judge is murdered. Page 3. Rhode Island judge murdered. Page S. Sports. Pjicific Coast league results: San Fran cisco 10-3, Portland 3-1; Los Angeles 5-4. Vernon 3-2; Oakland 6-3, Salt Lake 3-10. Page 14. Piedmont Maroons win City League cham pionship. Page 14. Johnston defeats Williams in sensational match. Page 35. Brooklyn climbs Into second place in Na tional League. Page 14. Girl of 1'2 nearly qualifies for Woman's Na tional golf championship play. Page 14. Pacific Js'ortbwewt. .Four" thousand attend barbecue and shoot programme at Riddle. Page 17. Firemen's tournament opens at Oregon City. Page 3. Vancouver Fair opens auspiciously with big parade. Shows' is success. Page 6. Seattle entertaining 1S00 bankers. Page . Commercial and Alanine. Tith transactions in new-crop hops in Cali fornia. Page 10. Heavy receipts at local stockyards and slower demand. Page 39. Barkentinc Lahalna due in today. Page If. Portland and Vicinity. With vacations at end, courts begin work In earnest today. Page -0. Mrs. Kent, suffrage worker, arrives. Page 12. Labor day made general holiday in Port land. Pace 7. Governor of Pennsylvania moves jovially In atmosphere of schoolroom. Page 16. Two killed on way to Columbia Highway whn train hits auto. Page itf. Inspection -Day crowds fairly choke Colum bia Highway. Page 1. Increased attendance expected when schools reopen today. Page 7. New bills at vaudeville theaters. Page 9. CITY TO RECEIVE $80,000 Owners of Big Tracts Promise to Make Good delinquencies. Agreement of a number of owners of large tracts of improved property ' to pay up all delinquent interest on their street, sewer and sidewalk assessments may eliminate the necessity of the City Council patting- up from the city's gen eral fund, amounts sufficient to pay the delinquency. The Council had ex pected to be required to advance ap proximately $80,000. City Treasurer Adams has negotiated with the large concerns and has re ceived promises of payment. MISSING PIANIST IS FOUND Leopold Godowsky Reported on Steamer Round Tor England. NEW YORK. Sept. 7. Leopold Go dowaky, the . Polish . pianist, who has been missing for several days, has been found, it was announced today by Her man Wasserman, a friend and associate of the pianist. Mr Wasserman would make no fur ther statement at this time, but friend.-! said that they had heard that Godow sky is safe on a steamer bound for England. THE FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL DIPLOMAT ADMITS PLANNING STRIKES Adrian Aims to Cur- tail. Munitions. WASHINGTON MAY ASK RECALL German Military Attache Is Likely to Go, Too. CASE HAS NO PRECEDENT Ambassadors 1'rom Vienna and Ber lin Arc to Explain Matters to Sec- retary of State Today Law Violation Is Doubted. WASHINGTON. Sept. 6, Secretary Lansing has granted an interview at the State Department tomorrow to Dr. Constantin Theodor Dumba, the Austro Hungarian Ambassador, who desires to discuss his admission to newspaper re porters that he has taken part in a movement to interfere with the produc tion of war materials in the United States. Ambassador Dumba's request for a conference reached Mr. Lansing late to day. It is understood here that he wishes to make an explanation regard ing dtspatcnea. sent by him to the For eign Office at Vienna and seized by British authorities from James F. J. Archibald, an American war correspon dent, who was acting as messenger. Cane Has Precedent. These dispatches, which are said to reveal that the Ambassador suggested plans for handicapping munitions plants and had undertaken to warn Austro-IIungarian subjects that they were violating the criminal code of their native land by accepting employ ment in American establishments making war supplies for the allies, are declared to have raised a subject for which there is no precedent in Ameri can diplomacy. The question of dual citizenship, long disputed between this Government and Beveral KUropean powers, is involved and because of this the matter will be approached when Ambassador Dumba arrives, without prejudice. Violation of I.nw Doubted. Officials doubt, that there has been any violation of law. As to whether there has been a breach of diplomatic propriety or in ternational ethics. Secretary Lansing must decide after he has heard the Austrian Ambassador's statement. Copies of papers taken from Archi bald in London have been forwarded to the State Department by Ambassador Page. They had not reached here to night, but it was understood that Dr. Dumba would take copies with him when he called at the State Department. The text of the Dumba letter, ob tained from London tonight, leaves no doubt in the minds of the officials here that the President must act vigorously against the representatives of the Aus-M-oncluded on .Page 2, Column 2.) Mondays War Moves THE menace to Riga, an important Russian seaport in the Baltic, is becoming more serious. The Germans still hold the bridgehead at Frredrich stadt. the occupation of which effec tively cuts off Riga's railway commu nication to the south, while German aircraft are active in the gulf, per haps presaging another naval clash as part of a concerted German move ment from land and sea to complete the isolation of the city and force its abandonment by the Russians. According to an unofficial Berlin dispatch, received by' way of Copen hagen, the Germans claim possession or ihe gulf, the Russians having aban doned Dagoe,' the northernmost of the three islands just outside the gulf. Berlin official communication lays no claim to further progress by Field Marshal von Hindenburg from the Bal tic to Grodno, but thence southward the arraise of Prince Leopold and Field Marshal von Mackensen are said to be moving forward, while the Austrian official statement covering the battle line further south and east records nothing but Teutonic gains. The great artillery duel in the west goes on unabated, with the French and presumably the British the aggres- ors. The fact that it has continued for a fortnight unabated leads to the belief In some quarters that It may mean preparation for an alliec. offen sive before the approach of cold weath er. The lavish use of shells by the French would seem to indicate some great undertaking, but the plan is not yet apparent. September 7, 1014. Great Britain orders German and Austrian consular officers to leave Egypt at once. - Paris gaiety moves with French capital to Bordeaux. Austrlans' attempt to break through Russian line disastrous failure. RESTORED VISION IMPROVES Pendleton Musician Believes Men tal Concentration Is Cure. PENDLETON", Or.. Sept. 6. (Special.) After a little more 'than a month's enjoyment of his sight, which was sud denly restored while he was walking along the street with the aid of a staff, which had been his guide for 12 years. Karl Guiott. Pendleton's blind musician, is more than ever convinced that the return of his vision is due to his mental concentration. He has now discarded the cane and has learned to write legibly. He spends all of his leisu re time out doors, and says his sight is constantly improving. He will continue giving instruction In piano and violin play Ing. INVESTIGATION IS ORDERED Blame for Smash of Submarines, at Honolulu to Be Fixed. HONOLULU, T. II.. Sept. 6. Lieuten ant-Commander Mark St. C. Ellis, of the gunboat Princeton, was named chairman of a board of Inquiry today to investigate and fix the responsibil ity for the collision between the United fatates steamer Supply and three sub marines of the F type yesterday. The x-l. I--2 and F-3 were damaged by the Supply when the latter attempted to dock here. Divers who examined the hulls of the submarines today reported thedivS ing clearing gears of the flotilla dam aged. They will be drydocked later tnis week. The search of the hulk of the F-4 for more dead was suspended today to give the searchers a holiday. MASKED MEN F0RCE RiDE Driver or Bussry l-'acesTCevolver for Six Hours. During Night. T A CO MA, AVash.. Sept. 6 (Special.) Six hours in a buggy with two armed and masked highwaymen, one of whom kept a revolver shoved either against his ear or prodding his ribs, Francis D. Stewart, of Fernhill, whirped his horse full speed from Just beyond Fife Station on the Tacoma Puyallnp Highway to the beginning of the pavement in Parkland. The rob bers climbed into his buggy at 9 Sat urday night and the ride continued to 3 Sunday morning. Stewart had only 10 cents, but the bandits made no ef fort to search him. "That's all," snapped one of the masked men as the pair jumped out at the edge - of Parkland. "You can go home now." DADDY DEAD AT PLAY HOUR Baby Daughter or O. K. Davis Dis , covers llonips Are Over. T A COMA. Wash.. Sept. 6. (Special.) The baby daughter of Oliver Edward Davis, age 55. Milwaukee Railroad secret service agent, found her father dead when she ran to jump in bed with him this morning for her accustomed romp before breakfast. "Mama, mama," she called, "daddy won't play with me." The mother,' running into the room, found her husband had died of heart failure as he slept. Mr. Davis had lived in Tacoma three years. He had 'been subject to at tacks of heart trouble. Albany, X. V., Carmen Strike. ALBANY. N". Y.. Sept. 8. All of the 00 conductors and motormeri on the Albany streetcar line went on strike today. Traffic ceased Immediately and Charles S. Hewitt, general manager of the United Traction Company, ordered the barns locked. A dispute over the dicharsre. and suspension of men caused the trouble. WASHINGTON WAITS FURTHER ADVICES No Blame Placed .for Sinking Hesperian. FLOATING MINE MAY BE CAUSE Officials Have No Report o! Submarine's Being Seen. 26 ARE BELIEVED LOST Administration Not Inclined to Ques tion Good KaitJi of Germany's Unqualified Assurances That Warning Would Be Given. WASHINGTON. Spet. 6. Nothing in today's advices regarding the sinking of the Allan liner Hesperian served to change the waiting attitude of the American Government. Judgment is suspended .pending complete informa tion and in spite of the statement of the Hesperian's captain that his ship was the victim of a torpedo, and had no warning, high officials here are not disposed to question the good faith of recent unqualified assurances from the German government that her sub marine commanders had been ordered to attack no more liners without warn ing. Reports during the day from Ambas sador Page at London added few details to the story told in the brief cable message in which Consul Frost at Queenstown last night announced that the vessel had been torpedoed with a loss of about eight lives, none of them American. Statement of (inn I namendrd. The Consul'st statement that the ship carried on her stern a 4.7-inch gun was unamended, though the Allen line officials have declared that ehe had no gun when she left Montreal. News that the crippled Hesperian had foundered while being convoyed toward Queenstown dissipated the hope that an examination of-her hull might prove beyond a doubt the nature of the wrecking explosion.' The fact that the vessel was struck forward when well outside the asonc in which the German submarines usually operat has caused same veteran Naval officers here to advance the theory that she struck a drifting mine. Xe Submarine Seen. It is pointed out that Consul Frost reported that while the British Admiral- believed the ship was torpedoed without warning there had ' been no official announcement to that effect and that r.one of the accounts of the disaster speak of submarine being sighted. This being Labor Day. a legal holt day, all the Government departments were .-loied. President Wilson and Secretary Lansing received copies of Ambassador Page's dispatches, how ever, and read 'carefully all newspaper reports from London and Queenstown. It Is understood that they think some word will come from Berlin as' soon as it is possible for the German govern ment to determine whether one of its U boats was responsible for the attack, and if so, under what circumstances. 25 ITX ACCOUNTED KIR OX SHTP Captain Tells Company Orriciala Hesperian AVas Torpedoed. QUEENSTOWN. Septus. Six second cabin passengers, six thirdcabin pas sengers and 13 or the crew or the steamer Hesperian, torpedoed 150 miles off Queenstown Saturday evening, were unaccounted for tonight, according to the revised official figures issued by the Allan Line. This brings the prob able death list. Including Miss Carberry, of St. Johns. N. F.. whose body is here, up to 2 6. The captain of the stricken liner re mained by his ship until it sank. He declined to comment on the disaster for publication, hence the official state ment as to whether he believes his ship was the victim of a torpedo or a mine must come from the Admiralty, al though the captain is quoted as having told an Allan Line official today that the Hesperian was torpedoed. Most of the survivors, passengers and crew will- leave Queenstown tomorrow by special train and boat for Diver pool. Captain Main and the officers,- who remained aboard the steamer, while efforts were being made to . tow the liner to port, were able to save some of their effects before the ship lunged to the bottom. 78 miles southwest of Fastnet, not far from the scene of the attack, taking with her 3545 bags of mails, much of it originating in neu tral countries. The flooding of the forward com partments, which caused the Hesperian to sink so much by the head as to throw the propellers out of the water, made the task of towing the liner to Queenstown impossible in the rough sea. The names of the missing second -cabin passengers follow: Miss Bannister, Mrs. Fisher. Joseph Fowler, Mrs. -Hannah Fowler. Maria Jenkins and Miss Murray. Offense to America Charged. ROME, via Paris. Sept. 6 The Mes saggero, commenting on the sinking of the Hesperian, says: "It is obvious that Germany oocs not mean to keep her promises. Her submarines will continue to sink mer chant ships without warning. This constitutes not only a new offense against the laws of humanity but against the dignity and prestige of 1 the American Government."