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PRICE FIVE CENTS. JANUARY MONDAY, BADLY By FALL Concussion Sustained While Skating CONSCIOUSNESS NOT REGAINED Union Pacific President in Serious Condition. BLOOD CLOT IS FEARED Accident Happens on Omaha Ice Lagoon; Mr. Molilcr Well Known in Portland, Where He Lived as Head of O. R. & X. OMAHA. Jan. 2J. (Special.) A. I Mohler, president of the Union Pacific Railroad, Ilea in a critical condition at the Immanuel Hospital here aa a result of a fall sustained while skating on an ' Omaha park lagoon early today. Con cussion of the brain and probably other extremely serious injuries render his condition grave. At a late hour tonight Mr. Mohler had not recovered con sciousness. Together with his wife and his mother-in-law. Mrs. W. W. Smith, Mr. Mohler motored to the park to enjoy some exercise in the crisp January air. He had essayed only a few strokes when he fell heavily, striking squarely on the back of his head. Help Slow la Arriving;. For fully 10 minutes he lay prone on the ice before assistance was obtained to carry him to his automobile. Be cause of his large build and weight the efforts of Mrs. Mohler, the chauffeur and several small boys to lift him into the car were futile. A teamster was attracted to the scene of the accident by the boys, who shouted to him as he drove along the boulevard that winds through the park. Unconscious. Mr. Mohler was finally placed in the car and rushed to the hospital. Mrs. Mohler remained at the bedside of her husband throughout the lay. lajury Regarded M Serlona. Physician after a preliminary ex amination pronounced him to be suffer ing from a serious concussion, but de clared that they were unable to ascer tain the actual extent of his injuries until he regained consciousness. Mr. Mohler was resting easy tonight, but had not opened his eyes. What Is most feared and is the most dangerous factor in concussion is the possible for niatton of a blood clot on the brain. Always a lover of outdor sports and possessed of a strong and robust physique. Mr. Mohler enjoyed skating, and is said to have indulged in it fre quently. PORTLAND KNOWS MR. MOHLER Tears Sont in City as President of or O. R. & N. Company. President Mohler is well known in rortland. where he spent some years aa president of the O. R. & X. road. He came here from Minneapolis. There he was with the Minneapolis & St. Louis road and before his connection with that line was with the Great Northern. It was along s in 1898-9 that Mr. Mohler came to Portland, succeeding K. McNeill as president of the O. R. & N. About 1905 he was called to the vice-presidency of the Union raelfic. with headquarters at Omaha. There he has since resided, going to the pres ldrncy of the system in 1911. Mr. Mohler waa in rortland in No vember lat. It was his custom to make a trip here every November to shoot ducks on the Columbia, a sport of which he never tired. Dr. K. A: J. Mackenzie, of this city, is as fond of the sport, and he and Mr. Mohler shot ducks during the latter's last visit here. The mishap to Mr. Mohler is re arrctted by "all his friends here. J. P. Farrell. president of the O. W.-R. A N. road, epoke of his predecessor as one of the ablest railroad executives in the country. Such also was the tribute paid him by William Hurlburt, who was general passenger agent of the O. R. Jk X. Company. but, who afterward left the railroad business. CHICAGO WILL PAY PIPER Wealthy Residents to Make Up 9 1 on. 000 Grand Opera Deficit. CHICAGO. Jan. 33. The grand opera season of ten w-eeka came to a close here last night with a deficit of ap proximately 1100.000. Wealthy Chicago music lovers, as in the past, will make good the loss and will renew their support for the 1916-17 season. WILSONS CUT TRIP SHORT President and His Wife Return Un expectedly to Capital. WASHINGTON. Jan. SJ. President and Mrs. Wilson returned to Waahing ton tonight after a two days' trip down the Potomac River on the naval yacht Mayflower. The return had not" been expected until tomorrow. The President spent most of his time working on speeches for his coming trip through the Middle West. A.L MOHLER WED LUMBERMAN'S SON HELD AS FORGER E.VRL CAMERON ACCUSED OF rSIXG WOMAN'S CHECKBOOK. J. E. Cameron, Father, Provides BaH for Lad, Who Denies Act and Says Checks Were Gifts. Earl Cameron, the young son of J- E. Cameron, president of the J. E. Cam t ,,i m hi. Pnmnnv. of Goldendale, Wash., waa arrested late yesterday at his fathers Portland nome. ioo iuuwi. inn street, on a warrant charging him with forging checks totaling 1128. The checks were arawn uu Mattie Bunnell. 921 East Stark street, to whoso daughter. Miss Irene Bunnell, young Cameron is said to have been attentive. The young man was ar rested by Deputy Sheriff Phillips and F. S. Alkus. manager of the Burns In rioteetive Agency. and taken to the County Jail. He was re leased on 500 cash bail lurnisneo. ojr hi father i.,,rt.itua a4icr voung Cameron found Mrs. Bunnell's check book wnir visiting at her home. The boy is al leged to have stolen the check book and to have forged seven cnecas skilfully that they were accepted by the State Bank of Goldendale, on which they were drawn. T-h- .hir of the Goldendale bank visited Portland and swore out a war rant, charging Cameron witn iorgery. The boy maintains that the checks were given to him by Mrs. Bunnell. Mrs. Bunnell, however, and her husband and daughters have signed affidavits to the effect that the checks are for geries. tv... Ttunneii- and Camerons both formerly lived at Goldendale and the families have long been rrienaiy. PAINTING BRINGS $140,000 Flemish Master's Work, luxu Inches, Changes Ownership, vrw vnPK. Jan. 23. Hans Mem- ling's "The Archer," declared to have been the last work of the great Flem ish painter left in the art markets of the world, has been bought for 140,- 000 by a Fifth-avenue Jeweler, it was learned today. "Thii a rch.r" im n nortrait of a young man painted on a wooden panel 10 by It Inches. Only tne neao ana pai-i r.r . v. . ih.it ,r shown. The nortrait. considered one of Memling's finest, was painted in 1473, wben tne arusi was -. ti. hiirht nf bis nover. It was acquired in 1912 by Paris art dealers. who recently brought it to tne unuea Slates. HOTEL FIRE FIRST IN YEAR $5000 Blaze at Silver Lake Breaks Record of Two Decades. SILVER LAKE, Or., Jan. 23. (Spe cial.) Silver Laae had Its first fire in 20 years, when the St. James hotel was burned the other night, entailing a loss of 15000 or $6000. not covered by insurance. Silver Lake's last fire was Christmas eve. 1894, when 42 per sons were burned to death. The fire the other night was started from a gasoline tank that was used for the lighting system. At one time the fire was uider control when some one pulled the burning tank from the wall, and the gasoline spread fire throughout the building. Two feet of snow on the adjacent buildings checked the fire. STEEL REACHES VANCOUVER Final Shipment of 33 Carloads Ar rives From Indiana. VANCOUVER, Wash.. Jan. 23 (Spe cial.) All of the steel for the Columbia River Interstate bridge has arrived. 33 carloads coming from Gary. Ind.. dur ing the past few days. This has been unloaded. No more will come except the electrical machinery to be used In operating the draw span, which is now completed. The draw span is about 283 feet long and weighs about - 525 tons, which is about r.O tons heavier than the others. Ice in the river has delayed the work on the piers for the past two weeks, but It will probably be resumed some day this week, as soon aa the heavy Ice comes down the river. GRAND DUCHESS TO WED Austrian Husband Officially ITrgcd on Marie of Luxemburg. ZURICH, via Taris. Jan. 23. The Neue Zurlcher Zeitung's Luxemburg correspondent announces that the mar riage of Grand Duchess Marie of Lux emburg probably will take place shortly. Court officials of Luxemburg favor an Austrian archduke. The duchess, for political reasons, cannot marry a Ger man Prince or any of the Bcurbon Frlm-es and the Frlnces of the smaller neutral stations either are too young or are Protestants. SQUAW, PERHAPS 150. DIES Almost Extinct Tribe Said to Have Some Centenarians Left. BAKERSFIELD. Cal Jan. 23. The oldest member of an almost extinct Indian tribe, and said to be over 150 years old. Marie Tevuyas, a Tejon In dian, died last night at the old Indian settlement In Tejon Canyon south of I here. In the tribe, which has lived In the Tejon district since the earliest ex ploration of California, there are said to be between IS and 20 Indiana over 100 years old. BRITAIN RAIDED BY GERMAN AIRCRAFT Planes, Not Zeppelins, Make Two Attacks. BRIGHT MOON LENDS ITS AID One Dead, Six Hurt; -Incendiary Bombs Cause Fires. KENTISH COAST IS VISITED Especial Interest Derived From Re cent Discussion in England of New Type Said to Excel Aeroplanes of Entente. LONDON, Jan. 23. Two hostile aero plane attacks were made on the Kent coast today. In the first, made early this morning by a single aeroplane. nine bombs were dropped, killing one person and injuring 6ix. The second at tack early this afternoon was made by two aeroplanes. No casualties were re ported In this attack. The raiders escaped. The official ac count says: "The War Office announces that, taking advantage of the bright moon light, a hostile aeroplane visited the east coast of Kent at 1 o'clock this morning. After dropping nine bombs in rapid succession it made off east ward. Private Property Damaged. "No naval or military damage was done, but there was some damage to private property. Incendiary bombs caused fires, which were extinguished by 2 A. M. The following casualties oc curred: One man killed, two men, one woman and three children slightly in jured. "Two hostile seaplanes made a sec ond attack on the same locality shortly after noon. After coming under a heavy fire the raiders disappeared, pur sued by our naval and military ma chines. "The enemy effected no damage and no casualties have been reported." The county of Kent forms the south ernmost portion of England to the south of the Thames. It Includes part of the city of London, but the wording of the official statement Indicates that the aeroplane did not reach the city. The point nearest London on the east ern coast of Kent is some 50 miles from the center of the city. New Aeroplane Type Dlscaaaed. A point of interest in the report of the raid is the statement that it was made by an aeroplane. Heretofore Germany has relied principally on Zep pelins for aerial attacks on England. Of late, however, there has been much discussion In England of a new type of German aeroplane, the Fokker, which has been said to excel the air- raft of the entente allies. English newspapers said last week that the British air machines were out-powered (Concluded on Page 2. Column 2.) PORTLAND'S SEVENTH ANNUAL AUTOMOBILE SHOW OPENS P-?HET 9) B PRACTICAL OEM OH- (1 n rijEy B STK4TOH or oPn cow- fipj 1A '" ' - ' INDEX OF TODATC NEWS Tbe Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, degrees; minimum. &S degrees. TODAY'S Unsettled. probably ' occasional rain; westerly winds. German aeroplanes raid England. Psge 1 Turkish submarine now said to have sunk Persia. Page 1. Foreign. . Republic of Yunnan asks powers to be neu tral. Page L. Mexico. Bandits who killed Americans executed by Carranza authorities. Page 1. National. President's coming tour makes preparedness cniei issue in congress again, rage Pan-American 'declaration defining rights of nations made public Page 2. Fictitious treasury showing helped by draw ing plans for over -expensive public buildings. Page S. Wilson proposes to allies that all merchant vessels go unarmed, even ior aeieaae, Page 2. Domestic. A. L. Mohler seriously Injured by fall on ice at Omaha. Page 1. Yuma will rebuild more substantially than ever, rage . Sports. ' Basketball immensely popular at Multno mah Club. Page 10. Washington-Washington State game pre dicted for Fall. Paj?e 10. Washington State picked to win basketball cnaraptonsnip. Page it). Pacific Northwest. Southern Pacific trains held by slides In biskiyoua. Page . Pioneer physician, heartbroken by death of wire. Kins sen. rage 4. Death list in train wrecked by avalanche now placed at eight. Page 4. Steam schooner Central ia is safe and, though damaged, is proceeding on voy age. Page 5. - Financial and Marine. Federal reserve chairman points out objec tion to collateral loans. Page 11. Nearly all ice cleared from Lower Columbia. Page 11. rortland and Vicinity. Storm's violence spent and flood danger lessened. Page 9. Dr. J. W. Brougher says baseball game pre ferred to some sermons. Page 14. Jewish relief to be planned today. Page 12. Orpheum bill praised. Page 14. Washington High graduating class Is s charged by Dr. .tsoya. page v. Dr. A. A. Morrison cals for National defense. Page 1. Auto -show opens tonight. Page 9. Symphony concert pleases. Page 7. Hop deal with E. Clemens Horst reported closed. Page 11. Indian translates carvings on huge boulder at City Hall. Page 4. Kentucky KHck unanimous for nomination 01 Air. nryan. page . Iaymen are sure of -TOO delegates. Page 14. MISS DE GRAFF IN U. S. Ford Peace Delegate Is Expected In Portland Shortly. Miss Grace De Graff, who went to Europe as a member of the famed Ford peace party, arrived in the United States last week. She went immediate ly to Brockton, Mass., where she visited Miss Hallie Thomas, former president of the Portland Grade Teachers' Asso ciation, who was transferred to Brock ton last Fall. Miss De Graff will probably be back in Portland in a short time. . She ia principal of Kenton school and ob tained a leave of absence to take the Ford trip. Last year she went to The Hague to the International Woman's Peace Party meeting which was headed by Mies Jane Addams. SNOW FALLING IN SEATTLE Sudden Drop in Temperature Averts Threatened Floods. SEATTLE, Wash.. Jan. 23. A drop n temperature of 21 degrees from B0 above zero at 8 P. M. to 29 above zero at 5 P. M., and a heavy fall of snow today averted temporarily danger of flood from the warm rains and melt ing snows which caused apprehension yesterday. GARRANZA AVENGES DEATH OF AMERICAN Bandits Ko$f m Ju4,etery. WOMEN PRESENT AT DEATH Brother Protests "Giving Two Eyes for One Tooth." MURDER FULLY CONFESSED Body Is Exhumed to Satisfy Doubt as to Identity and Verification Serves to Allay Bitter Feel ing in' Border Town. EL PASO, Tex., Jan. 23. Bernardo and Federico Duran, the Mexican cat tle thieves condemned to die by the Carranza authorities for the killing of Bert Akera at San Lorenzo, a few miles below the international boundary, Fri day, were executed at daylight in the cemetery at Juarez. The body of Akers was interred here late today. The bodies of both Mexicans were burled immediately, but that of Ber nardo, who confessed to having fired the shots that killed Akers. was ex humed to satisfy a doubt concerning the identity of the slayer. Akers' Companion Admits Mistake. Doug'as Downs, another American who wis with Akers seeking stolen cows and who escaped the bullets of the Mexicans, declared last night after seeing Bernardo Duran that the pris oner was not the man. Downs was at the Juarez cemetery when the face of the executed man was exposed late to day . and then admitted that he had been mistaken. American officials were with Downs, and their certification that the slayer had been duly executed served tonight to calm a feeling at Ysleta, where Akers and Downs lived, which authori ties believed might result in trouble. Men Die Cursing Americana. Three Mexicans previously arrested in connection with cattle stealing at Ysleta were removed to jail in El Paso for protection. The Duran brothers died cursing Americans. Bernardo appealed ' for mercy on behalf of his brother, Fed erico. "It is unjust to kill two of us for one American," he said. "It Is giving two eyes for one tooth. I am willing to die, because I killed the gringo, but my brother ought to be allowed to live." The" bullets of the firing squad killed Federico, but Bernardo was still con scious after he fell and the officers commanding the firing squad gave him the "mercy shot" through the head. American Women. Present. The execution was attended by about 50 Americans, among whom were sev eral women. The first automobile carrying spec tators reached the cemetery shortly after 3 A M. It was greeted by (Concluded on Page 2, Column 5.) TODAY AT THE ARMORY. J OLD? TURK SANK PERSIA IS LATE VERSION AMSTERDAM HEARS THAT ACT IS ABOUT TO BE AVOWED. Report Comes From Berlin That Constantinople Ministry Will Assume Responsibility. LONDOX, Jan. 23. An Amsterdam dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph Company says: "According to a Berlin report the Turkish Ministry of Marine is about to publish a statement to the effect that a Turkish submarine sank the steamer Persia." This dispatch has not been confirmed from other sources. The Persia was sunk off the Island 6f Crete December 30, with a loss of 119 passengers and 21 members of the crew. The vessel went down within live minutes after a terrific explosion forward. Nobody on board saw a sub marine. . Both Austria and Germany have dis claimed the sinking in behalf of their submarine fleets. MEXICAN CONSUL ALARMED Hatching of Villa Plot in Los An gcles Is Feared. LOS ANGELES. Jan. 23. Declaring that be feared a plot might be hatched in Los Angeles among officers and for mer adherents of Francisco Villa, Adolfo Carillo, Mexican Consul, repre senting the de facto government here, declared today he was considering ask ing the United (States Department of Justice to investigate the situation. Carillo admitted he was worried over the gathering: of Villa men in Los An geles, especially because of the alleged formation of a club by some of them, ostensibly for social purposes. ICE BREAKS AT THE DALLES Strong Cliinook May Clear Colum bia for Navigation. THE UALL.ES. Or., Jan. 23. (Spe cial.) The first breaking up of the ice in the Columbia River in this vicinity occurred this afternoon at Ttiree-Mile Rapids, two miles above The Dalles, causing a jam there and forcing the ice at The Dalles five feet down stream. The river is rising here at the rate of an inch an hour, and it is chinook- ing strongly, indicating there will be a general breakup of ice soon, clearing the Columbia for navigation. - . . ICE BREAKS AT CAPE HORN Conditions Believed Favoraole to Release of Steamer Tahoma. CAPE HORN, Wash., Jair, -33. (Spe cial.) The big ice Jam in the Columbia River, just below Cape '..Horn, was breaking up today.' A I,arge quantity of ice went out.- This is In favor of the steamer Tahoma, held prisoner about a mile above the railroad station. There are several inches of water on the ice. The Columbia River is rising, and it is expected that the Tahoma will be freed some time tomorrow unless the weather suddenly turns colder. . 90-MILE ROUTE NOW 950 Mail Requires Two Weeks for One- Day Road Journey. GRANTS PASS. Jan. 23. (Special.) Mail delivery between Grants Pass and Crescent City, a distance of- 90 miles, requires two weeks, as a result of re cent storms rendering the rAads impas sable. Ordinarily the delivery is by auto-stage, requiring- one day. For the first time in 20 years the mail must be sent by train to San Francisco, thence to Crescent City by slow steamer, a distance of 050 miles. COLONEL PLANS HIS TRIP Several Weeks to Bo Spent on Ijcc- ward and Windward Islands. NEW YORK, aJn. 23. Theodore Roosevelt will leave February 10 or 12, it was learned today, for an ab sence of several weeks on the Leeward and Windward Islands of the West Indies. Mrs. Roosevelt will accompany him. They will go to Guadaloupe, St. Croix and St. Kitts, and perhaps to other islands. LANES BADLY SHAKEN UP Secretary and His Wife Dragged Half Block In Runaway. WASHINGTON. Jan. 23. Secretary Lane of the Interior and Mrs. Lane were badly shaken up today when' the horses to a carriage in which they were riding smashed the vehicle into a lamp post and dragged it half a block down the sidewalk. The runaway ended when the h6rses became entangled in the harness and fell. AUSTRIANS TAKE 2 PORTS Occupation of , Antivart,. and Iul cigno Officially Announced. VIENNA, via London, Jan. 23. The Austrians have occupied the Adriatic seaports of Antivari and Dulcigno, ac cording to the official communication issued today. m - This leaves Montenegro only a small strip of coastline, and strengthens Aus tria's naval control of the Adriatic- CALLS FOR DEFENSE Dr. Morrison Has No Use for Pacificist. CHRIST'S USE OF FORCE CITED Four Years of Military Training Is Advocated. FLOCK PRAISES PASTOR Mother Wlio Would Keep Her Son Out of necruiting Office In Time of Need Is N Worthy of the Name; Sons Offered. HOT SHOTS FROM DR. MORRI SON'S SERMOKf OX PRE PAREDNESS. Many believe Christ advocated non-resistance, but I say he did not. The. man or woman who shirks this duty (defense of country) Is as culpable as the man who shirks his taxes. The mother is not worthy the name who would withhold her son from service to the Nation. I cannot understand these in dividuals who cry, even from the pulpit, "peace at any price." The ideal Christian basis of appeal is love an ideal, as ap plicable sometimes as an appeal for love to a lamppost. If we must be prepared at all, let us be prepared in first-class shape. I would be ashamed of my sons if they did not volunteer imme diately if needed. It is t misapprehension to think a new type of virtue will develop from the present war. I' The finger of shame was pointed from the pulpit of the Trinity Epis copal Church yesterday morning at the mother whose love T'for .her son rises above that for her nation. These mothers and .Vpeace at any price" advocates were denounced as a "disgrace to the nation." and an ap peal, based on the teachings of Christ, for proper national armaments, was sent forth by Dr. A. A. Morrison, rec tor of that church, in what was con sidered perhaps the strongest sermon in defense of preparedness ever de livered from any pulpit In Portland. After tho sermon members of the congregation rushed forward to con-, gratulate the pastor. Pulpit Peace Advocate Astonnd. , "I cannot understand these individ uals who cry even from tho pulpits 'n.m at anv oricc.'" he told them. "1 wonder what they would do, if some one in the night should by force steal away their wife and daughter. Would they run after them with their theory of love? Of course not." The teaching of Christ, he declared in answer to those peace advocates who has their theories on the Bible, is not against preparedness. And he cited Christ's scourging or tne money .(.oncrara in th e tpmolc. his chaBtise- ment of the Scribes and Pharisees anrt his advice to sacrifice one's life for a friend. "A misapprehension exists." ho de clared, "over the phrase called Chris ivnrhina.' There are those advo cating peace under any and all circum stances who assert that Jesus taugni a doctrine of nonrcslstance; a doctrine ,.-i,i..h wnnM utterly abrogate the use of force in protecting education or as a defense against evil-doers. Many per sons believe Christ advocated this, but I say he did no such thing. Discipline May Teach Love. Some things under certain condi tions are right and certain other .i-ixc, in not permissible under dif ferent circumstance. Just as there are several methpda to attain tne same 2nd. "The ideal Christian basis of appeal . through love But this is an ideal, about as applicable in aomo cases as an appeal of love to a lamp-post. "Some persons cannot be moved by the'appcal of love, because you cannot make them understand this appeal until oil have applied certain measures 01 liscipline to teach love. Then they may understand. "Jesus was not foolish enougn noi io that fprtain Deonle cannot be -oohoH oxrent through force. He knew persons whose characters were a dis grace to humanity ana wnom ne am not fail to denounce. Christ Called for Sacrifice. He said. 'You scribes, you Phari sees, you hypocrites, you wnitenca sepulchers full of eaa men's bones." v, .onrired the money changers and drove them from the temple, with an absolute fearlessness in race 01 un popularity. He didn't kill any one, but he said, 'a man should lay down his life for his friend.' iH man should lay down bis life for his nation, and if Jesua had iitiui the same subject he would apply the doctrine in the aame way." Here Rev. Mr. Morrison went airecuy to the subject' of national armaments (Concluded wn faga & Column 1.) RECTOR NATIONAL Ice 109.0I