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2 TIIE MORNING OREGONIAN, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY IT, 191C. LIGHTING ENGINEERS HONOR GREAT INVENTOR ON 69TH BIRTHDAY. nrnni n nn nni m uLUUIlU rUIUUIl lu nrrrr FOUND EN KITCHEN -FTv W-'mWK'T1ll Store Opens , - Store Closes at 8:30 A.M. J$fMt: at 5:30 P. M. Saturdays f Saturdays Phone: JW?ISM' " Phone: Marshall 50S0 The Most in Value; the Best in Quality A 2112 i'::iL i , ( : ; -4W - ! ri; I First Drug Used by Banquet : Chef Now Believed to Have ' - Played Minor Part. " ;i;;.7 v-i. v&tetwG v;mI M . ' J : Mai flf Jw . ilk 1 UhiA Vv KM;.t 1 . is? . .f wsbS . .. 1 ; r i ANOTHER ARREST IS MADE Xew York Tollce Aid Those of Chi v cago, Acting on Tijt Obtained by Arrost of Man Carrying Concealed Weapons. . CHICAGO. Feb. IS. Antonio Tonione. i 24 years old, was taken into custody ; today following receipt of information i from the New Yor kcollco that he was i a friend of Jean Crones, the University Club assistant chef, believed by the police to have put poison In the soup ' of the guests at the Archbishop ftlun- . delein banquet last Thursday night. ; Information regarding the friendship : of Crones and Tonione came to the New York officers, according to Cap J tain Hunt, chief of the Chicago detec i tive headquarters, when they had ar- rested a man named Camlllo. charged ! with carrying concealed weapons. -Un-- der questioning by the New York offl J oers, Camlllo, it is said, admitted know. f ing Crones and told of Tonlone's al ; leped intimacy. i' Chemists today were asked to dls- cover the nature of another poison I found in kitchen utensils used in the preparation of the banquet. It was ! said a new poison was the primiry drug used, and that the one first found ! was merely a secondary poison. ; C. U Abel, of "Watseka, III, today told the police that a man answering I the description of Crones boarded a train on the Chicago & Eastern Kali road February 10. He was later joined by a woman with whom he I made an appointment to meet in Nash , vine, Tenn., saying that he was first . going to St. Louis. The woman left , him at Watseka. Information gleaned from the conver 1 eation was forwarded to Nashville and i to Louisville, Ky., the latter city being named by the woman as her home. Fire today in a locker-room in the riay hall near where samples of soup from the University Club banquet and the chemicals and explosives found in Crones' room are stored was invest! gated as having a possible connection with the poison case. The blaze was peedily extinguished after insignifi cant damage. The cause was not evi dent. A broken bottle retaining the odor of oil was found on the floor. TOWN CALLING FOR HELP Thousand Persons Marooned Breaking of Mississippi Levee. Early Season's Showing and Sale ojt Underiuiiislins 98c Choice From Skirts, Combinations, Chemise, Gowns Worth to $2.00. The zenith of value-giving is exemplified in this special showing and sale of new Spring Undermuslins. Through an unusual and important trade event wo secured several dozen Skirts, Combination Suits, Envelope Chemise and Gowns at a figure that permits us to place the assortment before you at a wonderful saving. You have choice from Gowns in all styles with trimmings of laces and embroideries. Skirts in the popular styles with plenty of fullness and wide flounce; all well finished and exquisitely trimmed. Envelope Chemise of fine materials and the best of trimmings; also Combination Suits of best quality nainsook, shown in vari ous styles with trimmings of medallion, insertions, laces and ribbons. It is a sale that few women can afford to miss, for garments that should sell regu larly up to $2.00 have been priced for This Sale at , 98c Photo Copyright by UnderwoOij. JOH.V W. LIEB, VICE-PRESIDENT OF NEW YORK ED1SOV COMPANY, PRESENTING SCROLL TO MR. EDISON. NEXT TO MR. EDISON IS MRS. EDISON. On the eve of his 69th birthday Thomas A. Edison, the "electrical wizard. " was honored, February 10, by the Illuminating Engineers" Society at a banquet at the Hotel Biltmore, New Y ork. "He has done more than any other man to promote the art and Bcience of engineering," were the words used b y Charles P. Steinmetz, the president of the society, in referring to Mr. Edison. NATCHEZ. Miss.. Feb. 16. An urgent nppeal for help, received here tonight from Newellton. La., where the Mis sissippi levee broke yesterday, said . -aid that 1000 or more persons were marooned by the flood waters with only a motorboat available to take them to safety. Three negroes had been drowned, it was said, and outside the town itself about 75,000 acres of farm land was inundated. - NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 16. A third break within the last two days in the lower Mississippi levees was reported tonight from Ostrica, La., about 70 miles below New Orleans. Heavy dam age was feared in the orange and truck farms in the water's path, but Informa tion reaching here was that there bad been no casualties. RULE IS MODIFIED American Censorship Bows' to Objection by Germany. LANE TO ASK FOR TAXES Land Grant Memorial to Congress Is Being Prepared. . ELGENE. Or., Feb. 16. (Special.) (jno matter what disposition is made of , the Oregon & California Railroad lands by Congress. Lane County will ask that ; H receive the sum of approximately $240,000 back taxes, levied during the List three years, but which were not 'collected because of the Southern Pa cific Company's refusal to pay, pend .Jng litigation involving title to the Jand. This announcement was made :this afternoon by District Attorney J. ; M. Devers, who is preparing a memorial t to Congress, which will be signed by , the Lane County Court. j Lane Conty has more than 300,000 'ocres of Oregon & California land, and unpaid taxes have been accumulating lit tne rate or ?80.ooo a year. NAVAL REPORT EXCLUDED Berlin Wants to Know AVhy News Permitted in England Was Sup pressed in Vnited StatesDan iels Explains Old Regulation. SLIDE KILLS WORKMEN ; Several Injured andvTlree Missin; When Crews, Digging, Are Buried. j: WENATCHEE, Wash., Feb. 16. .Special.) While removing a slide jfrora the Tumwater Canyon, just above Leavenworth and opposite the plant of Jlhe Leavenworth Light & Power Com 1'any, a second slide swept down the teep hillside and buried a gang of 'Japanese and Bulgarian workmen. One . Japanese was killed outright and three were so seriously Injured that they are not expected to live. One of the Bulgarians was thrown Into the Wenatchee River and was drowned. Three other Bulgarians are .missing and a number were taken from the slide badly injured. D. R. FRANCIS MENTIONED Missouri Man May Be Slarye's Suc cessor at Petrograd. "' WASHINGTON, Feb. 16. David R. Francis, of St. Louis, ex-Secretary of the Interior and ex-Governor of Mis eouri. is understood tonight to be un ler serious consideration for appoint 'inent as Ambassador to Russia to sue teed George T. Marye. . t Mr. Marye' s resignation, which was atinnounced yesterday, has not yet been (accepted, but it was said at the State ' department and White House today : that it undoubtedly would be. Ill health is said to be the reason for his decision to give up his post. Torpedo-Plant Official Killed. CLEVELAND, Feb. 16. Charles Ba !er. local manager for the Washington Torpedo Company of Washington, Pa., J was blown to atoms today in the cora- pany's warehouse in Olastad Falls, a " uburb. Eight hundred quarts of nl- troglycerin blew up. WASHINGTON, Feb. 16. Secretary Daniels announced today that he would authorize a modification of the regula tions under which wireless, dispatche are censored by Naval officers so as to permit, when no violation cf neutrality was involved, the passage of messages referring to Naval vessels and opera tion of bellgerent ships. The announcement was made shortly after Count von Bernstorff, the German Ambassador, had asked the State De partment for an explanation of why the American Naval censors at Say ville, N. Y., had rejected wireless dis patches fcom Berlin containing? offi cial announcements from the Admir alty, which the British censors bad passed for publication in England. Mr. Daniels explained that censors had acted under the existing regular tions, drafted by a board of naval offi cers after an exhaustive study of the question of radio censorship, and pro hibiting the transmission into this country of any message referring to "movements or locations of war or other vessels of the belligerents." The object of the regulation, ho said, was to prevent violations of neutrality by the admission of dispatches contain ing information of a military value which might be used by agents of a belligerent nation in this country. In cases of the information coming officially from a foreign government and also printed In the territory of an enemy country, the Secretary said he believed the prohibition could be re moved. The subject will be called to the attention of the Naval Board to morrow. ; NEW YORK. Feb. 16. The Associated Press correspondent in Berlin on Mon day sent a wireless dispatch saying he was informed by the German Ad miralty that the censors at the Amerl can wireless station had rejected sev eral of his dispatches addressed to the Associated Press containing straight and legitimate news matter. He added Certain - rejected dispatches con tained internal official admiralty an nouncements of navaiN actions which the British censors passed for publi cation in England." Thursday's War Moves a Only One "BROMO QnXISE." ' To irrt the rnuln. call for fall name, L.AXA- 5 TIVE nnOMO QUININE. Look for slunatur -4i r.. H.ur.utb Lurv.DiaiflODva. jc ERZERUM, Turkey's chief city in Armenia, is in the hands of the Russians. Heavy assaults by the Rus sians against the long line of detached forts protecting the city, lasting over a period of live days, and described by Grand Duke Nicholas. ' the Russian commander-in-chief, as "unprecedent ed." have resulted in the capture of the fortress. Unofficial reports early in the pres ent month said the German field mar shal. Von der Goltz, with SO, 000 men. were besieged in the city with provi sions for only a fortnight. The capture of Erzerum is consid ered of strategic importance. From it radiate roads leading in all directions. Over those to the southeast and south It will be possible for the Russians now to fight their way toward their compatriots operating against the Per sians and Turks in Northwest and West Persia or proceed south toward Bagdad to the relief of the British bottled up at Kut-el-Amara, on the Tigris, south east of Bagdad. The Immediate effect of the Russian victory on the situation in Persia and Mesopotamia . is problematical, how ever, for, despite the roads, the country is mountainous, and there is still much ground to be covered something more than 200 miles before the Lake Urir miah district of Persia is recahed, and more than 600 miles before a junction with the British at Kut-el-Amara could be formed. MR. BORAH SIMS FUSS INJECTION O' ATROCITY INTO REC ORDS ANGERS MR. STONE. With the advent of stormy weather on the western battle line the heavy fighting of the last few days seemingly has simmered down again to artillery bombardments and mining operations. Berlin reports, however, that the Brit ish and French have endeavored to recapture trench positions taken from them by the Germans, respectively, southeast of Ypres and in Champagne near Tahure, but that the attacks failed. Paris asserts, on the other hand, that near Tahure the French have retaken positions of their former trenches. The British and Germans are still at deadly grips for possession of the trenches captured from the British southeast of Ypres, artillery and hand grenades being employed In the fight ing. London reports that in the attack in which the British lost 600 yards of front-line trench the Germans at tacked over a front of 4000 yards, but were everywhere repulsed with consid erable losses except at the point where the trench was captured. Idaho Senator Asks If We Have Become So Cowardly as to Dread Publicity of Facts. On the Russian front a driving snow storm along the entire line has almost stopped operations. The usual bom bardment, interspersed with infantry attacks, continue on the Austro-Itallan line. In Albania the Austrians and Bul garians are said to have formed a juncture and are battling for the cap ture of the important seaport of Du- razzo. which is being defended by Es sad Pasha's forces, comprising Alba glans, Serbians and Montenegrins. Strumitsa, Bulgaria, has been raided by 13 French aeroplanes, which drop ped 158 bombs and returned to their base unscathed. Several fires were started by the bombs. The Ministers of the entente powers have informed the Belgian government that hostil- ties against the Teutons and their al lies will not be permitted to end with out Belgium's having restabllshed its political and economical independence. They added that the Belgian govern ment also would be called upon to take part in the peace negotiations. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, Feb. 16. When Senator Lodge, of Massachusetts, introduced in the Senate a resolution directing the Presi dent to designate a day for raising funds for the relief of Armenians in the belligerent countries of Europe, Sena tor Borah, of Idaho, interrupted the proceedings to have read a news dis patch from Petrograd telling of the atrocious burning to death of an Amer ican doctor by Turkish troops. The story related the capture of the doctor and described his murder briefly aa follows: v "He was captured and told that, since he had been a good doctor and had helped the wounded, they would not kill him, but that he must accept the Mohammedan faith.' He refused. "They poured oil on him and, before applying the torch, they gave him an other chance to forsake his religion. Again ho refused, and they set his clothes afire. While running in agony i irom the flames the Turks shot him several times. After he fell to the ground unconscious they hacked bis head off. The injection of this newspaper story into the Senate debate greatly roiled Senator.. Stone, of Missouri, chairman of the foreign relations committee, who denounced the Idaho Senator for plac ing such matter in the records. He said he could not surmise the Senator's purpose. Whereupon Senator Borah ex plained, saying: Mr. President, I simply wanted to accentuate the situation in that coun try. I trust it has not become improper for the Senate of the United States to know how citizens of the United States are being treated in other countries. I trust, Mr. President, we have not be coma so supinely cowardly as to dread publicity of facts concerning the treat ment of our citizens abroad." "Bucilla" Crocket and Embroidery Package Outfits Priced Sitt tea 25c to $1 Come in and let us show you the fine assort ment of Bucilla Crochet and Embroidery package outfits we have just received. The lot includes Baby Pillows, Caps, Bibs, Dresses, Towels, Wash Rags, Kimonos, Gowns, Aprons, etc., and a large variety of most attractive novelties to be embroidered and finished with a simple crochet edge, for which clear and concise instruction and detail photographs are included in each package. Sufficient Bucilla Crochet and Embroidery Cottons to entirely complete the work ; also an attractive Alphabet of Initials with marking directions are included in every outfit. Materials of the finest quality only are used throughout, and all garments are carefully cut to correct size and style. Special Sale of Colgate9 Toilet Articles Talcum Powder, in all odors, at 15 25c Dental Cream, this sale at liOc 15c Dental Cream, priced today at 1(M 25c Dental Powder on sale at 15c 25c Shaving Sticks, priced, this sale. . . .'2()C 25c Rapid Shave Powder, this sale liOo 25c Shaving Cream, for today's sale. . . .20 35c Face Powder, special sale price 125c? 15c Cashmere Bouquet Soap priced at. .10c Shaving Soap priced this sale at 5) Charmis Face Powder, today at 25? Eclat Face Powder, on sale at 50c? Splendor Face Powder, this sale at 50c? Toilet Water, assorted odors, priced at. .50c? Florida Water, priced this sale at 45c? Charmis Cold Cream on sale at .J25c? Brilliantine, specially priced at 125c? Special size Talcum Powder priced at. .125c? Large Cashmere Bouquet Soap, 21c, box . (ijj c of Representative Hawley a patent has been issued to Matthew J. Nichols, of Myrtle Point, for a homestead en try which he filed on many years ago. Patent was held up by protests of the Forest Service, which insisted that Nichols had not made the entry in good faith, but simply to get the timber. The land entered adjoins a forest reserve. STEAMER BATTLES U-BOAT Baron Nanicr Returns Fire Outruns German Attacker. and NEW ORLEANS. Feb. 16. The crew of the British steamer Baron Napier, a mule ship which arrived here today from Alexandria, Egypt, brought stories of a battle in the Mediterranean on January 17 between the Baron Napier and a German submarine, in which the steamer escaped. According to their stories the Napier, with 160 men aboard, was about 150 miles east of Malta, when a German submarine began to shell the steamer. The Baron Napier carried a three pound gun and immediately returned tho submarine's fire. The submarine fired about 20 shots, the sailors a sorted, and two men on the steamer were wounded by shrapnel. The Napier, by increasing her speed, escaped. Myrtle Point Man Gets Patent. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington. Feb. 16. Through tho efforts Tho question of submarine warfare still remains an open one by reason of Germany s announced intention to treat as warships all armed merchant men after February 29. Secretary of State Lansing is making a careful study of Germany's latest reply with reference to tne Lusitania question to ascertain if there is anything in the German memorandum concerning arm ed merchantmen which conflicts with the assurances given by Germany in the Lusitania negotiations regarding the sinking of liners and the safety of their passengers. - MATRON KILLSHER RIVAL West Virginia Woman Shoots Victim on Crowded Car. HUNTINGTON, W. Va.. Feb. 16. Mrs. Rose Wood, a young married woman, was shot and killed on a crowded Huntington-Ashland interurban car to day by Mrs. Leonard Defoe, wh6 charged that Mrs. Wood had alienated her husband's affections. Mrs. Wood was seated in the car with Mr. Defoe, it was said, when Mrs. De foe boarded the car, drew a revolver from her muff, placed it against the back of Mrs. Wood's head and fired. Mrs. Defoe surrendered to the police. LOOKING FOR WORK Everywhere men complain about work; even boys and girls in school or business find work tedious and irk some, but it isn't the workhalf so much as their own lack of physical strength that makes it hard. Rich blood, strong lungs and health ful digestion make work pleasurable in business, in school or even house work, and if those who are easily tired who are not sick, but weak and ner vous would just take Scott's Emul sion for one month and let its pure concentrated food create richer blood to pulsate through every artery and vein let it build a structure of healthy tissue and give you vigorous strength you would find work easy and would look for more. Insist on Scott's. Scott & Bowse. Bloomfield, N. J. 15-35 j EUGENE GOES ON RECORD Support for Taylor Forest Appropri ation Bill Asked. EUGENE, Or., Feb. 16. (Special.) The Eugene Chamber of Commerce at its regular weekly luncheon today adopted a resolution urging Oregon's Representatives in Congress to support the TaylBr bill, providing for an ap propriation of 110,000,000, at the rate of $1,000,000 a year, for .the construc tion of roads and trails in forest coun tries. The resolution urges all Oregon com mercial bodies, granges, labor organi zations and all cicic organizations to co-operate in securing the passage of the bill. ' Why Suffer With Backache, Kidneys or Rheumatism Now? Dear Readers: Before using "Anuric Tablets" I had such a terrible backache that I could hardly do my housework, but after taking one box I could do my work with comfort I take pleasure in rec ommending both 'Anuric'" and "Favor ite Prescription," as they have done wonders for me. I would advise oth ers to try them because I know they will find great relief. You all have un doubtedly heard of the famous Dr. Pierce and his well-known medicines. His late discovery, "Anuric," is one that has been successfully used by the physicians and Specialists' at Dr. Pierce's Invalids' Hotel aud Surgical Institute, in Buffalo, N. V., for back ache and kdney complaint. It is good for diseases arising from disorders of kidneys and bladder, such as backache. weak back, rheumatism, inflammation of bladder, scalding urine and urinary AIKH. K. M. SIMONS. troubles. Note No nialtor where you livo. Dr. Tierce can help you if you suffer from any of the chronic t-omplHlnt--.. pains and arhes which no often afflict mankind and womankind. You and Kr. Pierce can gc.t together, by mull, wllli out anybody knowing it, and ha will give you his careful, nlinple, Xpert ad vice as a physician, without fee. To prove that "Anuric" la a crlan uric acid solvent and conquer head ache, backache, kidney and bladder dis ease, end rheumatism, send 10 tents I" Dr. Pierce for a large trial package of ANURIC. and send for FREE incdk-jil treatlEo on any chronic diseMKe whlcli you may name. Kolerlints aflirm that this remedy is 37 times more potent than llthla. If you are a Mifferer, go I" your drugst and a.sk for a 50c box of Anuric. Get geod hlnod flirouab (be iimc of Or. rierre'a Uoldrn Medleul lllarovrr). Hold In either tablet or liquid form. Adv. DANCING BAN ASSAILED METHODISTS WARN AGAINST MAK ING SPECIFIC PROHIBITIONS. "Hideous Results of Casuistry" Held to Show Folly of Making Scale of Demerits for Sins. ' CHICAGO, Feb. 16. The ban on dan cing and card playing in the doctrine of certain branches of the Methodist Church was assailed today by repre sentatives of the Methodist Church. South, at the conference on Union of Methodism in session In Evanston. Professor Fitzgerald S. Tarker, gen eral secretary of the Epworth League, Nashville; Bishop Collins Denney, Nash ville, and Professor Wilbur F. Willett, of Vanderbilt University, Joined in the warning. The Methodist Church, South, Pro fessor Parker said, has adopted in its general rules new phrases eliminating the specific naming of the prohibited indulgences. Those namd In tho doc trine of the Methodist Episcopal Church are dancing, card playing, at tending theaters and circuses. 'Other blanches of tho Mothodlst de nomination have prohibition in matters of dress, diversions, flnirlnK.s, ren1 ings, self-indulgence, hoarding, bor rowing without prospect of rcpayiiiK, and buying without prospect of pay ment, and all tilings that arc "not fcr the glory of God." "Wesk-y, the founder of the Meth odist Church, said that lie could not see a theatrical performance with a clear conscience," said Professor Par ker, "but on his way homo from Oxford he stopped in London to enjoy plays and enjoy dancing with his sihters. "The hideous result of systems of casuistry are a warning to the church of all ages against inuking a cata logue of sins and attaching scales of demerits thereto. "In the old church, a smile was con sidered a vice; a lauish a crime," Multnomah Man Gets Clerkship. OREGON'IA NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington, Feb. 16. Leon Manghum, of Multnomah, Or., has been appointed to a clerkship In tn War nepartment. For the convenience of thousands ot people who could not do their trading last month on account of the ' storm The Clearance Sale of Fine Shoes At Our Store, 129 lOth Street, will be continued all this month Don't miss the opportunity to buy your Shoes at a great saving: now. Raw materials are continually advancing and only the consolida tion of our two stores into one compels us to sacrifice prices in order to gain room for new Spring goods arriving daily. FOR WOMEN $2.95 ELL-AM S Absolutely Removes Indigestion. One package proves it 25c at all druggists. - ,. : REGISTERED ? FOR MEN Hanan's & Boyden's double-sole Shoes in all leathers, sold usual ly from $8' to $10, now $6.95 Dr. Reed's Cushion-sole Shoes in all leathers, now $5.45 Buys any pair of colored cloth top Shoes in button or lace, no matter what the former selling price was. Be sure to get a pair of these Shoes displayed in cen ter case. WE HAVE SrO BRANCH STORES Hanan's Single-sole Shoes in calf or vici kid, regularly $7.00, now $5.95 GREAT BARGAINS IN BOYS' AND GIRLS' SHOES ROSENTHAL'S 129 10TH ST, BETWEEN WASHINGTON AND ALDER S. & H. Green Trading Stamps Given. 1