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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 13, 1915)
0 7 VOL. LV. 0. 17,132. 8.3-MILL LEVY IS FINALLY ADOPTED Medical -"Inspection in Schools Carries. AUDITORIUM IS TO BE BUILT Public Budget Hearing Devel ops Into Lively Session. MR. BIGELOW'S VOTE WON (After Keen Discussion Over pieces , sily for Fire Station at Six tcentli and Washington Streets V Decision Is to Kliminate. ACTION OK COUNCIL OUT CITY'S BlIXiET. Budget officially adopted amounting to $3,254,527. Tax levy settled at S.3 mills. Final decision reached that the Auditorium will be built. School medical inspection to be continued. Half of park band concerts left out. Fire station at Sixteenth and Washington streets to be abol ished. The City Council's old friend, Mr. Tax payer, went to the bat strong yester day on improvement questions in the 1916 city budget with the net result of changing the vote of only one Com missioner on only one of the many im portant questions which have formed the bone of contention between various Interests during recent Councilmanic budget considerations and 'delibera tions. This one change of vote saved school medical inspection for the city. Com missioner Bigelow, who voted before to ctbolish the school inspection, deserted his compatriots. Baker and Daly, and voted with Mayor Albee and Commis sioner Dleck to retain the service. Oth erwise the former action of the Coun cil majority on budget matters re mained unchanged in spite of all kinds of arguments, protests, appeals and petitions hurled at the Council from every side by a crowded Council cham ber during three hours of the open budget session. Chamber Is Crowded. The chamber was crowded with peo ple interested in one or more of the items to be considered at the meeting. Commissioner Dieck declared afterward that the meeting was "packed" by the proponents and opponents of the issues Involved, and that JLhe representatives of the factions were "nicely distrib uted" about the room so as not to arouse any particular suspicion. Com missioner Bigelow declared that he could see the same thing Mr. Dieck saw, and the other Commissioners nodded their heads to the effect that they also had seen the light. The Council finished its budget for the year with the single exception of finally passing the ordinance fixing the levy. This could not be done at yes terday's meeting. However, the budget was adopted in full the amount being S3. 254, 527 and it was decided to make the tax levy 8.3 mills, as compared with 7.5 mills . for the present year. Nothing now remains undone but the final passing of the tax levy ordinance. Auditorium Wins Out. The Council at yesterday's session first heard the citizens, and then, in executive session, acted upon the ques tions. It was decided definitely to go Khead with the public auditorium as planned, to continue school medical In-s-pection. to leave the park band con certs cut in two. and to abolish'the fire fetation at Sixteenth and "Washington streets. School medical inspection which proved to be the principal topic of Hie session developed into a struggle between the medical freedom people and those favoring medical inspection. The debate was opened by L. D. Ma hone, who said he wanted to see the inspection stopped, but insisted that if it was not he wanted every parent to be able to have the inspection done by a representative of the system that parent favored rather than forcing all to be subject fo the' inspection of one class of physicians. Insult Is Charged. "I don't want any inspection," said Mr. Mahone. "Personally, I don't want any physician passing on my child un' less I can select the physician myself. I'll let n.y family physician take care of my children. One of your inspectors came to my house and was actually in sulting to my wife." "Did you complain?" asked Mayor Albee. "Yes, to you and to the health of fice, and that was as far as it ever got." replied Mr. Mahone. "If I had been there I'd have thrown that in pector out by his heels." "I was health officer when this school inspection was started," said Dr Esther Pohl Lovejoy. "and I consider the service vitally important. When a physician, an inspector, rinds one case of contagious disease in a school he perhaps is preventing an epidemic. If you figure the loss to the citizens by reason of an epidemic you can see that tCu&ciuded on I'asu 1. Column 1.) GOVERNOR SEEKING REMEDY FOR CRIME VOCTH1TL FORCERS FOOD TO BE INCREASING. Penitentiary Now Has 532 Inmates and Executive" AVonders if So ciety Is to Blame for Condition. SALEM, Or., Nov. 12. (Special.) To what extent is society to blame for the alarming ratio of increase in commit ment to the Oregon Penitentiary dur ing the Iat year; what are the causes and where does the remedy lie? Answers to these questions are sought by Governor Withycombe. who views with concern, the constantly growing population of the state's pris on. Today the penitentiary has - 632 inmates, more than ever before in its history, and with this increase an added cost of maintenance is foreseen. Unless a remedy is obtained, the Gov ernor said today, the prison would be confronted by a deficit. "Last year 257 prisoners were re ceived at the pentitentiary," said the executive, "and during the first ten months of this year 229 persons were committed. "It is a striking feature also that 20 per cent of the prisoners were com mitted for forgery or obtaining money by false pretenses, and most unfor tunately the greater portion of this class of criminals is composed of young men just entering maturity. "Whatever influence is responsible for contributing to this deplorable con dition should be remedied, if possible, whether it is due to social conditions or to the general carelessness of bank ers and business .men in cashing checks." NOTED . JAPANESE TO VISIT Baron Shibusawa Is to Include Portland on Itinerary. Baron Shibusawa, one of the wealth iest men in Japan, will visit in Port land en route home from a trip through the eastern part of the United States. This information has been received by K. Kumasaki, Japanese Consul, from official circles in Tokio. Baron Shibusawa arrived in San Francisco a few days ago and left for an extensive trip through the East. His tour of the Pacific Coast will include visits to San Diego, Los Angeles on the way East and Northwestern cities on his return trip. The Japanese Association of Oregon probably will entertain Baron Shibu sawa when he comes to this city. CUE JURORS DISCHARGED One Holds Out 32 Hours for Con viction of Editor. TACOMA. Wash.. Nov. 12. (Special.) After deliberating 32 hours, the jury of 10 men and two women which heard the case of M. E. Cue, publisher of Centralia Daily Hub, "charged with first-degree assault upon Joe Lucas, a theater owner, was discharged to night by Judge Card. --.e jury stood 11 to one for Cue's acquittal. Juror Joe Mezerall, former proprietor of an. Old Town saloon, held out steadfastly from the start for con viction and refused to budge during the 32 hours. PLANE IS TO CARRY MAIL Machine to Be Used on 600-Mile Route in Columbia. NEW YORK, Nov. 12. The Yolandar II. a hydroplane, drawing five inches of water and driven upwards of 40 miles an hour by two air propellers, is here awaiting shipment to Bogota, Co lombia, where she wiU be used to carry the mails and Government of ficials down the Magdalena River be tween the capital and the coast, 600 miles. The boat was built at the direction of C.cnzalo Mejia, a Colombian, and her light draft is made necessary by the shaiiow waters of Magdalena River. SIRE OF 8 LEAPS TO DEATH Thomas J. Leach, Rancher, Pitches Headlong Into Well and Dies. CONDON. Or., Nov. 12. (Special.) Thomas J. Leach, a rancher, 48 years of age, living four miles west of Con don, early this morning leaped head long into a well, breaking his neck. He died instantly. Leach comes from near Willamina, had been in Crook County, and came here two years ago. He leaves a widow and eight children, the young est being a baby in arms. Worry over financial matters is believed to have prompted suicide. He was a member of the Artisans. HIBERNIANS MAKE READY Judge Kavanaugh to Speak at Man chester Martyrs Memorial. Circuit Judge J. P. Kavanaugh has been chosen by the committee in charge of the Manchester Martyrs' Memorial to deliver the principal address at the entertainment in Hibernian Hall. 340 Russell street, Sunday evening. Novem ber 11. Mrs. J. C. Hayes, soloist, will sing. E. H. Deery will preside. Frances McCarthy will sing a sweet Irish lul laby. The programme will be com pleted next week and will include some of Portland's best vocal and in strumental talent. The memory is commemorated the world over each year by the home loving Gaels. Reed Co-Eds Hold Dance. Reed College co-eds held their an nual party dance yesterday afternoon in the assembly room of the Arts build ing. After the dance an entertainment in the dormitory social room was held and a. banquet served a.t -S o'clock. PORTLAND, ALLIES' OFFENSIVE DEEMED FAILURE Germans View Result as Victory for Them. ENERGY IS NOT DIVERTED Teutons Still Able to Spare Men for'other Fronts. SERBIAN PLAN UNSPOILED French and English Orders. Show Tliey Expected to Do Wonders. Attempt Xo Eeint, but Serious Effort to Break Line. BV JAMES O'DOXXELL BENNETT. (War correspondent of the Chicago Trlb S.h'. Copyright llo, by tho Tribune. Pub lished by arrangement.) HOTEL DE L'EUHOPE, LILLE, FRANCE, Oct. 13. The most Important questions in the world today are: "What did the Anglo-French offensive accomplish?" "And what, if anything, is it accom plishing?" Certinly these are the most interest in" questions men. and women in Europe are asking each other today ' and I think they are such vital questions that if one only would get the correct answers to them one might almost know what the issue of the war will be. In this dispatch I want to convey to the reader in as intimate a. way as possible some part of the multitude of tremendous impressions I have re ceived during the last fortnight. Tre mendous though the impressions are, I do not want to write about them in the tremendous manner, but simply to talk as if we were bending over the maps spread out on your big desk and genuinely trying to get the hang of the terrific operations still in progress. Germans Believe They Won. There will be some things in this letter that you will find it hard to" be lieve; some things, too, that I would like to cable because I think they are of immediate interest. But Judging by experience, they -are matters that would hardly get by London, or if they did would reach you In such garbled form as to be meaningless. First, though not the most impor tant of these incredible statements, is the statement that the Germans at home and the soldiers on the west front consider the results of the offen sive as a German victory. Now that opinion might be dismissed as a peril ous delusion and I should so regard it if I had not seen during days of per sonal contact with the German troops on the west front that those troops are not in peril. What is more impor tant and more illuminating, is the fact that the Anglo-French offensive has not distracted Germany from pursuing her operations on other fronts. ' Germans Active in East. The most trustworthy man in my circle of friends among the American (Concluded on Page 2. Column 4.) NOW vxttiuu, flAlUHUAl. KKK 1 I IOT .1 BMMHHHBHMHHM INDEX OF TODAY'SNEWS The Weather. - YESTERDAY'S Maxitrum temperature 47 Degrees; minimum, 38 degrees TODAY'S Pair; northwesterly winds. War. Germans regard allies' offensive in West as complete failure. Page 1. W'22w1S?",f.r chur:ill leaves British t-a-bmet to Join army. Page R0ennrtnl"n.r.r"1 e"tCr War ,f R"ssl 'Uld send J0O.O0O men. Page 2. Asq",th' ''arlJ Peae terms unchanged, say, fair L.dward Gray. Page 2. National. British Columbia lumbermen taking trade rom Oregon and Washington Inter ests. Page o. Admi,rIrtlor to offcr oM nti-dumping provision for tariff. Page 7 Plot to destroy munition plants' charged to German Ambassador and Austrian Consul-General. Pae 3. Domestic. Senpage aT'"eekS P'ds r ship subsidy. Staven frfaT Vai'T8 bceun. at Former waterboy outbids former superior ol- t?d ,obta'n" 'S,OO0,0oo o Cambria fateel fctock. Page 1. Sports. PagVr"""0" Portland Academy. 30 to 0. B'Spa?e,Sl3rn clovens ar ' nearins goals. A"EStto"5ay.f00pteIlIanS' lnt AEsame.beepaV7Jet pracUce . for I'acific Northwest. . Crlm increase leads Governor to seek rem edy. Page 1. Reorganization of Vancouver Chamber ot Commerce is completed. Page B. Commercial and Marine. Wheat moves overland for shipment to Eu - rope. - Pago 17. Record week's wheat exports stimulate Chi cago market. Pago 17. Specialties are strong features of stock mar ket. Page 17. Business progress in East is rapid. Paga 17 BrtMutTr PPageeini4f0rt Under -"stan Portland and Vicinity. ' Helpa.ehllV runs- but strike iB not settled. Report that runaway car was leaky puts new aai;ect on investigation. . Page 13. Awards mcde In Industrial Section of Land Show. Page 6. Muts are In charge of final Land Show pro gramme tonight. Page 6. . Mongrels to have their day. Page 6. Central Oregon Development League to be revived to back railroad project. Page 13. Municipal employment bureau created. Page Martin Beck, head of Orpheum Circuit is here and says theatrical business im proves. Page 13. City levy of 8.;i mills settled after stormy Public session. Page 1. Weather report, data and forecast. Page 17. Missing girls are captured at The Dalles! Page t4. Eva Booth. Salvation Army commander, here on inspection tour. Page la. LAKE BOAT LOST IN GALE Four Lives lost With Steamer Ontario Waters. in " COBALT, Ont., Nov.. 12. News reached here today that four fives were lost on Lake Teralskamihg . yesterday when the steamer Aileen, owned by the Nipissing Pontiac Navigation Com pany, foundered in a gale. Rescue boats sent out have reported that they found wreckage from the Aileen and the body of H. Lacoste. the only passenger. The Aileen carried a crew of three men." WAGES OF 4600 INCREASED Big Hardware Manufacturing Firm Adds Big Sum to Payroll. STAMFORD. Conn.. Nov.- 12. An in crease in wages on all day and piece worjc was announced today by the Tale & Towne Manufacturing Company, makers and builders of ' hardware. About 4600 employes are affected. The increase will add between 200. 000 and $300.000 a year to the payroll. THEY'VE GOT HIM IN AN AWFUL : l'KlUJ-J CENTS. WINSTON CHURCHILL TO FIGHT IN FRANCE T0, Ex-Head oVVrriNavy to Join Army. CABINET OFFICE IS RESIGNED Regret Over Non-Credit for Acts in Admiralty Hinted. VINDICATION IS PREDICTED "Well-Paid Inactivity" Not Accept able, Is Kxplanation in Reject ing Proffer of Place in New War Council. LONDON, Nov. 12. It is officially an nounced that Winston Spencer Church ill, Chancellor of the Duchy, of Lan caster, .has resigned from the Cabinet and will join the army in France. Mr. Churchill, in his letter of resig nation, explains that he agrees in the formation of a small war council and appreciates the intention which Premier Asquith expressed to include him among its members. He foresaw the diffi culties that the Premier would have to face in Its composition, he says, and he makes no complaint because the scheme was changed, but with that change his work in the government nat urally closed. Position Is Rjected, He says he could not accept a posi tion of general responsibility for a war policy without any effective share in its guidance and control, and did not feel able in times like these to remain in well-paid inactivity. Rumors had been current for some time that Mr. Churchill" would resign his seat- in the Cabinet and go out on active service at the front. He is a Major in the Oxford Yeomanry. Mr. Churchill was serving as First Lord of the Admiralty when the war began and filled that office until the formation of the coalition Cabinet last May. He took the position of Chancel lor of the Duchy ot Lancaster in the new Cabinet, Arthur J. Balfour being made First Lord of the Admiralty. War Council Is Approved. ' The following letters have passed between Premier Asquith and Mr. Churchill: "When I left the Admiralty five months ago. I accepted an office of few duties at your request to take part in the work of the war council and as sist the new Ministers with the knowl edge of current operations which I then possessed in a special degree. The counsels which I offered are upon rec ord in the minutes of the imperial de fense and in memcranda I circulated to the Cabinet, an.l I draw your atention at the present time to .these. "I am in cordial agreement with the decision to form a small war council. I appreciated the Intention you ex pressed to me six weeks ago to include me among its members. I foresaw then the personal difficulties which you (Concluded on Page 2. Column 2.) FIX. . . i .1 Friday's War Moves THE continued landing of British and French troops at Saloniki is causing some uneasiness to Bulgaria and Turkey, and the ministers of those - n .... . . . . - ,,.cia jcsieraay again protested - the Greek government, which took rormal notice of their protest. The determination of the entente allies in their Balkan campaign is shown by the large force they are send ing to the Balkans, and news was re ceived from Rome in London yester day that Italy also had decided to in tervene in this region "in a manner worthy of her greatness." and to give sufficient support to the British and French to assure a complete triumph. This is said to have had some influ ence on Greece and Roumania. Rou mania, however, is waiting for the de velopment of the Russian plans. Meanwhile the Austro-Germans and Bulgarians are advancing slowly in their efforts to cut off or annihilate the Serbian army. These efforts, how ever, are growing more difficult, as the Serbians now have occupied, ac cording to their official report, defen sive positions to the south and east of Kralievo and east of Ivagnitza and on the eastern front the left bank of the Southern Morava, where heavy fighting is in progress. Big battles also are proceeding in the south between the Bulgarians and the Anglo-French, but the reports are so conflicting that it cannot be said which side has gained an advantage. Outside the Balkans the most im portant theater of operations is now along the eastern front. In the north the Germans apparently have aban doned any hope of reaching Riga and Dvinsk, at least until the ground freezes, and are falling back or are be ing driven back from the Dvina, which was their objective. The Russians in the Riga region are attempting an out flanking movement and their recent successes have brought them within striking distance of the Tukum-Mitau Railway, which connects the German fighting front with the fortress of Windau. The Germans, also are falling baek before Dvinsk as the result of the Rus sian offensive near Lake Swenton. while in the south General Ivanoff has continued to harass the invaders by repeated thrusts which, during the past five weeks, according to Petrograd dis patches, have brought him nearly 130 -000 prisoners. In the most recent of these thrusts, near Rudka. the bag totaled 60,000, many of whom were Ger mans. The Italians keep up their offensive on both the Trentino and Isonzo fronts and are making another effort to take Gorizia, which has withstood them for so long. On the western fronts heavy artillery bombardments again are beginning in Artois, but with the present rain soaked condition of the ground, this can hardly presage another offensive. Xovfmbfr 13, 1814. Germans driven out of JDixmude. British appeal for recruits. Fierce battle rages along 150-mile front In Eastern. Germany. Vienna admits Austrians have evacu ated Eastern Galicia. HOOPER TEASES DETECTIVE Ion Wagner Gets Furrier's Bulletin From Kscaped Highwayman. "Return in 10 days to John Austin Hooper, or Outlaws" Ranch," was the return mark on an envelope postmarked "Minneapolis" and addressed to Lou Wagner, special agent for the Port land Railway, Light & Power Com pany, received yesterday, showing that the local man has not yet been for gotten by the highwayman. Hooper escaped last Summer from the Sheriff at Grants Pass, and . since has been a large, except for a brief jail sentence in Minneapolis under an assumed name. The highwayman is accused of sev eral bold robberies in Oregon and Cal ifprnia. The envelope contained nothing but an announcement of a rirm of manu facturing furriers of Minneapolis. FRUIT BRINGS MILLIONS Yakima Valley Shipments Aggregate 7100 Carloads This Season. NORTH YAKIMA. Wash., Nov. 12. (Special.) Statistics gathered from railroads, shippers and growers indi cate that the Takima Valley fruit ship ments this season will aggregate 7100 carloads. The returns to shippers are estimated at moje than $3,000,000. The total is about 400 cars less than that for 1914, but prices have been ma terially better. Apples show a reduction, from 5600 cars to 3000. Shipments of other fruits have been: Pears, 800 cars; peaches, 1500 cars; mixed cars, 1000; cherries. 130 cars; prunes. 150 cars, strawber ries, 30 cars; watermelons, 150 cars: cantaloupes. 300 cars; apricots, 10 cars; grapes, 40 cars. OREGON GOATS WIN PRIZES Monmouth Herd Fakes First Honors at San Francisco. OREGON BUILDING. Exposition Grounds. San Francisco. Nov. 12. (Spe cial.) The sensational prize-winning in the swine, sheep and goat show, which closed today, was that of Angora goats, in which Oregon swept almost every thing. William Riddell & Sons, of Mon mouth, carried, oft first prizes in al most every section. F. A. Pierce, of Days Creek, Or., winning the others. Riddell &. Sons won four of the spe cial awards from the American Goa. Breeders Association and F. A. Pierce won one. The competition was strong with. New Mexico and California, EX-WATERBOY BUYS si5,ooaooo STOCK Big Deal in Cambria Steel Completed. SUPERIOR OFFICER IS OUTBffl Young Man . Knows Property and Wants to Buy It. PENNSY RAILROAD SELLS Fight for Control Involves C. M. Schwab, Whose Plan Is Said to Include Giant Kival of Steel Corporation. NEW YORK, Nov. 12. Three hundred thousand shares of stock, or there abouts, in the Cambria Steel Company were bought today for approximately $15,000,000 by J. Leonard Replogle, of this city, who started his business career when 11 years old as a waterboy at less than $3 a week in the Cambria mills at Johnstown, Pa. Mr. Replogle. who Is now 38 years old, bid against his old superior officer. William II. Donner, for the block of stock and won it after negotiations in Philadelphia which lasted all day and virtually all night for several days and nights. Pennsylvania Railroad Sells. The stock was sold by the Pennsyl vania Railroad Company, which for merly owned 450,820 shares of the 900,000 issue a controlling interest in the Cambria Company. The capitali zation of the Cambria Steel Company is authorized at $50,000,000, but only $45, 000.000 (900.000 shares of a $50 par , value) were issued. Of the railroad's original 51 per cent holdings of Cambria Steel, Mr. Donner -already had acquired about 112,000 shares. This was secured in two lots; one of 56,000, on which he had an op- tion. and another, of the same amount, on which he exercised a conditional Clash With Schwab. The condition was that he should find a purchaser for the railroad's holdings of Pennsylvania Steel stock. Mr. Don ner Is president of both the Cambria and Pennsylvania Steel companies. Charles M. Schwab, , the genius of ' Bethlehem Steel, wanted the Pennsyl vania Steel properties, it was reported, to combine them with his Bethlehem plant and thus form the nucleus of another gigantic steel merger. Mr. Conner's interests crossed with this plan and Mr. Donner won in the quest for the Pennsylvania Steel stock. He then tried, it is said, to obtain the re maining Cambra stock owned by the railroad. Property Thoroughly I'ndcrstood. Three weeks ago Mr. Replogle, who resigned as vice-president of the Cam bria company on March 1, began nego tiations to purchase the remainder of the Cambria stock held by - the rail road. During the 27 years he has been with the Cambria company he had risen from waterboy to occupy almost every position successively in lino to the vice-presidency. He knew the properly thoroughly and wanted it- In the meantime, however, the Penn sylvania Railroad, no longer controlling the Cambria Company after Mr. Don ner had exercised his options, sold some of the stock in the open market at a time when Cambria was at the crest of its recent rise. Stock Finally Transferred. Negotiations were begun for the pur chase of the remainder and ended today in the transfer of the stock to Mr. Replogle. So far as is known Mr. Replogle is the largest single stock owner. Whether a fight for control will develop is to be seen. The Cambria property consists of large steel works, mills and blast fur naces at Johnstown, Pa., and extensive iron ore holdings in Michigan. In ad dition the company operates the Cam bria Steamship Company and the Man ufacturers' Water Company, of Johns town. It is regarded as unlikely that the plant will be put to work extensively on munition orders for the allies, an undertaking with which Wall-Street gossip had identified several steel changes recently. 3 DIE ON GRADE CROSSING Freight Train Runs Into Auto Load ed With Human Freight. TWIN FALLS. Idaho. Nov. 12. Three persons were lnstantiy killed and two seriously Injured when a freight train ran into an automobile at a grade crossing here today. The dead, all of Rock Creek, a town 20 miles southeast of Twin Falls, are: Mrs. Lawrence Hansen, Mrs. John Iver son. and M. A. Patterson. Harry Lars en and his wife were bad ly hurt, while their 2-year-old daugh ter escaped without a scratch. Two of the dead and one of the in jured were carried on the engine pilot with the wrecked automobile a quar ter of a mile before the train could be stopped. It is believed Larsen, the driver of the car. failed to see the approaching train. The accident wa witnessed by a large crowd attending a football game.