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THE MORNING OREGONIAN, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1916. MARVELOUS COSTUME WORN BY SOCIETY GIRL AT "BALL OF THE GODS." IK! AMERICA HAS FEW Store Opens 13 t Sp.S Phone: - rh0ne : Marshall soso The Most in Value, the Best m Quality A 2112 ' MILITARY SECRETS General Holds It Unwise to Keep From People What Every Possible Foe Knows. v- T- A .li fct PUBLICITY NOW GENERAL Only Experimental Work Is Kept Secret When Plans Are Adopt- ed Policy Is to Distribute Descriptive Books. "WASHINGTON'. Feb. 18. The British Navy today is approximately twice as strong- as the combined fleets of Ger many and Austria, while the Teutonic combination is about double the sea fighting- force of the United States, ac cording to information in the posses sion of tha Navy Department. The facts were disclosed to the House naval com mittee today by Captain Joslah Mc Kean. of the staff of the chief of op erations. Captain McKean also said the French navy was from 15 to 25 per cent strong er than the American, according to lat est information. He explained that these were rough estimates and that harts showing the specific, relations of the various navies would be sub mitted later by Rear Admiral Benson, the chief of operations. America Outranks Japan. So far as is known, the Captain told the committee, the Japanese building programme adopted several years ago. which will not be completed for sev eral years to come, provides for a modern fleet of eight dreadnoughts and right battle cruisers. It was possible, he added, that additional building was in progress, as all nations but the United States had secret building poli cies. On the strength of the known programme, however. Captain McKean yaid. Japan would have only 16 capital ships when the 17 American dreaa noughts built, building or authorised were commissioned. The witness disagreed with Rear Admiral Grant, chief of submarines, who preceded him. as to the advisabili ty of abandoning the present smaller submarine types in favor of 800-ton boats. He believed 30 of the large boats should be built and attached to tha fleets, but that smaller ones should operate from shore bases established at frequent intervals along the coasts. Bill Held Too Drastic, The House committee received, how ever, a written statement from Brlga dier-Gencral William Crozier, giving his views on the Tillman bill to pro hibit the disclosure of military secrets. As drawn. General Crozier said, the act was too sweeping and would forbid giving out information of any charac- RROTH ERS RERT ARREST tor. whether confidential or not. HePnUmCn0 nCOIOI MnnCOl thought this unwise. "Within a few days," the General wrote, "a case has been brought to my attention in which an individual pro posed to publish a map showing the location of all the powder factories in the United States. A section of the Tillman bill would authorize the gov ernment to prohibit the publication of any Information which would operate against its military interests. "I am familiar with the statement that our government has no military secrets, which is In great part true although not absolutely so, since this department has a few. The facts re sult, however, not so much from un authorised disclosures of confidential matter, as from our own practice of spreading In reports, hearings and other public documents, information in regard to our own military secrets. Secret Hard to Keep. We do this largely for the reason that such subjects are exceedingly difficult to keep secret and that If we should refrain from publishing them thy would still be known to foreign military staffs and our own Deoole would be the only interested parties not jnrormed. "This department usually can keep confidential any experimental con struction which it Is engaged upon, but once they are adopted and issued to the service and descriptive hand hooks concerning them are printed for distribution, it is thereafter almost im possible to keep them secret and the best course seems to be to -give our own people, especially those in the ser vice, the fullest knowledge possible in regard to them, in order to promote ef liciency in their uses." SPECIAL ELECTION CALLED Milwaukic Voters lo Act on Water Company Purchase. IHLAVAUKIE. Or., Feb. 18. (Spe cial.) Saturday, March 4, was the date fixed last night by the Milwaukie Coun cil for the special election for sub mitting to the voters the question of authorizing the Council to acquire the Plant or me .Milwaukie Water Com pany for the sum of $5500. A petition signed by 160 was presented to the Council asking that this special elec tion be called, A pamphlet will be Issued by the Council setting forth the reasons for ailing this special election. In W.H .'o. 1 the polling place, which formerly was in me juy Mall, was changed to the fire station near Front street for convenience of voters. ft Xi - 5Ay-k:W ft - . so ' si 2&izc Hill EDITORS ARE IN TOILS 0 M MIND TEST FRIED " New York Police Supplied With II List of 20 Questions. IIII v Mexicans Taken in Los An geles for Incitng Murder. Y. M. C. A. DELEGATES GONE Fifteen From Eugene Will Partici pate in Corral lis Conference. UNIVERSITY OF OREGON. Eugene, Feb. 18. (Special.) Fifteen delegates from the campus Y. AC. C. A. left this afternoon for Oregon Agricultural Col lege at Corvallis to attend the ministry missions' conference called by the col lege Y. M. C. A's of Oregon. Among the delegation from the university Is La mar Tooze. student representative on the Ford peace expedition. He will deliver an address at the close of the conference Sunday night, having as his subject "Our Responsibility in the Teace Movement" The theme of the conference will be the world-wide call for Christian leaders. Gale Seaman. Coast student secretary for college associations, will preside. Kalnier Has First Liquor Arrest. RAINIER. Or.. Feb. 18. (Special.) The first arrest in this city under the .nderson law was made yesterday, when Sheriff Stanwood arrested J. F. Roth on a complaint signed by W. H. Cooper. District Attorney. Several cases of liquor was seized and is now locked up in a cell of the city Jail awaiting the outcome of the trial, which Is set for Monday. Roth was re leased on cash ball of $50. niea Cnrca is t 14 Days. Crucslsu refund money If PAZO OINTMENT to ear Itrhlnc. Blind. Bleeding or Pro txuduis Piles, first aspUcatloa relieves. , Federal Warrants Served on Magons, Who Accused Wilson of "Conniv ing With Curranza" and Advocated Bloodshed. LOS ANGELES, Feb. IS. Enrique Flores Magon and Ricardo Flores Ma gon, brothers and editors, of El Re generacion, an avowedly Mexican rev olutionary publication, were arrested early tonight on charges of using the mails to incite murder and revolution, after a battle with deputy United States marshals and city detectives, who, armed with warrants based on Federal ndictments, invaded their newspaper plant at Ivanhoe, a suburb. Three indictments were returned. each containing three counts, based on editorials which appeared within the last six months in El Kegeneracion Two indictments were against the Ma gon brothers, the third being, it-was said, against William C. Owen, who is named as editor of the English section of the newspaper. Owen has not been found. One of Tl rot her M ounded. When the officers entered the news paper plant, the Magon orotners re sisted arrest. In the struggle in Bmall room, Enrique Magon was struck on the head by F. G. Thompson, deputy United States Marshal, with the butt of a revolver ana seriously injured. Rirardo 'Magon, according to the of ficers, also resisted, but was over powered quickly. During the fighting. six Mexican printers and about la men and women rushed in and, according to the officers, tried to prevent them from taking the Magon brothers away. They were cowed by a display of fire arms. The Magon brothers were taken to the county Jail, the hour being too late for them to provide bonds, which were fixed by United States District Judge Trippet at $3000 each when he issued bench warrants earlier In the day. F.diiorlnla Accuse Wilson. The editorials, according to the in dictments, charge President Wilson with conniving with General Carranaa because the latter has agreed - "to de liver the Mexican people to the rapa cious Americans. They urge the readers of the paper to kill, if necessary, those who oppose them, "because it is necessary to ini tiate a revolutionary campaign of house-cleaning." The Magon brothers were arrested here in 1912 on charges of inciting rev olution among Mexicans and thereby violating the neutrality laws of the United States. They were convicted and served a term in the Government prion on McNeil's Island, Washington. Photo Copyright by Underwood. Miaa Angelica Brown. One of the most striking costumes seen at the Ball of the Gods, the great est social event in years, was the one which Angelica Brown, one of the best known of the younger society set, appearear It was a marvelous creation of heav ily embroidered velour, so arranged that when Miss Brown raised her arms it appeared as if she had wings. Not for years have there been so many society members gathered at one event. Fully 2000 persons, most of them In the Social Register, were on the floor of the grand ballroom at the Hotel Astor. New York. February 11. It is estimated that fully $250,000 was spent on costumes. SIMPLE PROBLEMS GIVEN SHIP ROUTE IS CHANGED DUTCH VESSELS AVOID MINE FIELDS IN NORTH SEA. Boata Flying Nentral Flags Are Be lieved to Have Put Explosives OAT Mouth of Thames. LONDON, Feb. 18. The prevalence of mines in the North Sea is causing a complete change in the routing of Dutch shipping. Recently Dutch lin ers bound for Oriental ports gave up the Suez Canal route in favor of the Cape of Good Hope passage. This change has proved successful. Dutch freighters bound for America are now advised to creep up the coast within the three-mile zone until a point is reached where they can cut across to the north of Scotland, instead of using the usual English Channel pass age to the Atlantic Dutch authorities recently discovered mines which had been causing dis asters to their shipping off the mouth of the Thames, A mine which was. struck by a Dutch ship yesterday and which was recovered, shows by a Ger man marking that It had an anchor which held it a few feet below the surface. It is believed the mines are laid by vessels flying neutral flags. NEW HAVEN MAKES PLEA PERMISSION -TO RETAIN STEAM. SHIP LINES DESIRED. Official of Subsidiary Argues That Rail road Could Run Out Line In dependently Conducted. NEW YORK, Feb. 18. If the Gov ernment should' require the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad to get rid of its steamship lines, the railroad probably would provide such an ade quate rail service for freight that in dependent water lines could not com pete successfully, in the opinion of J. H. Gardner, vice-president of the New England Steamship Company, a New Haven subsidiary. Mr. Gardner was witness at a hearing begun here today by Interstate Commerce Commissioner Clements on the New Haven appllca tlon to retain control of its steamship lines under the Panama Canal act. Continuation of the New Haven's control, Mr. Gardner declared, means public convenience and commercial ad vantages' for New England, and will not reduce or exclude competition by water by any independent lines. At the ports where the New Haven's boats touch, he said, there was plenty of wharfage room for other lines if they cared to compete, and he asserted that the New Haven was doing nothing to prevent the establishment of independ ent service.. "Suppose the water lines were cut loose arva each stood on its own merits," asked Commissioner Clements, "would there then not be greater competi tion?" Mr. Gardner replied that 70 per cent of the New England freight shipments is interchangeable between boat and rail lines, and that, if vessels were operated independently of Joint con trol, the railroad, instead of furnishing co-operation, would try to get the long haul and gradually "dry up" the Long Island Sound lines. The present boat service of the New Haven he described as "100 per cent perfect," and declared that divorcement would mean service that would be "unstable." WAR ORDER STIRS CUBA CIgarmakers Alarmed by British Or der Against Imports. HAVANA. Feb. 18. The British proc lamation prohibiting, after March 1, except under Board of Trade license. Importation of manufactured and un manufactured tobacco, including cigars and cigarettes, is causing much uneasi ness in Havana. It is feared that it wilt result in much distress among the cigarmakers and a great loss to manu facturers and planters. All the fac tories are reducing their output and discharging workers. Should the appeal of the Cuban Minister in London for the British gov ernment to exempt from the operation of the decree contracts for cigars al ready made result in failure, many factories would shut down, throwing out of employment . upwards of 5000 cigarmakers. for whom, government aid would be oegssaxy, - Persons Who Do Not Know What to Do When They Miss Train Likely to Be Held on Suspicion of Mental Deficiency. ' NEW YORK, Feb. 18. Each of the E52 police lieutenants of this city was today supplied by Dr. Louis Blsch, of Columbia University, official physiolo gist of the police dapartment, with a list of questions to be propounded to persons taken in custody on suspicion of being mentally defective. Black boards also were given to the lieuten ants, with form board tests and Mi simple problems to be submitted for so lutlon by suspects. "What ought one to do when one has missed a train?" is one of the questions to be asked. "What ought one to do when one has been struck with some thing by someone who did not do it on purpose?" is another. Descriptions of books, tables and horses, as well as an explanation of the differences between wood and glass, paper and cloth, flies and butterflies also will be asked. The suspect will then be required to count backwards from 20 to 1, making up a statement using the words "New York," "money" and "river," with other words that may be necessary to form a complete thought, and give three words that rhyme with "day," "Sprin, and "mill." AH must be answered satisfactorily or the subject will be sent to Dr. Bisch for further examination. Dr. Bisch believes that the new plan will greatly increase his supply of laboratory material. FRENCH MINISTRY WINS SOCIALISTS DEFEATED IN ATTACK ON WAR POLICY. Premier Stands by Refusal to Discuss Issue Publicly and Is Sus . talned by Deputies. PAJUS, Feb. 18. The Ministry or Aristlde Briand was triumphant in the Chamber of Deputies today over the extreme Socialists and the radical So cialists, who, after long preparation, sought to overthrow the government on the question whether it was not delegating too much authority to the general staff. The proposed attack on the Ministry has been common talk in Parliamen tary quarters for a month past. It was based more on political rivalries than on real differences over 'the conduct of the war. M. Briand met his opponents by declining resolutely to have their interpellation discussed in the Cham ber and demanded a vote of confidence in the government. This was given, 394 to 169. Not all those voting against post ponement of M. Ferry's resolution may be considered as opposed to the Minis try. Rather they believe that it is better to discuss questions of policy publicly at all times. AUDITORIUM BIDS ARE LOW (Continued From First Page.) in addition to the main general plan. This was done to assure the buildings cost coming within the amount of money available. The specifications omitted considerable ornamentation which could be left out. and the gen eral bid was on the structure so modi- fled. Then the bidders were asked to submit figures on items of additions in ornamentation or materials. The bids demonstrate that the city can put everytning into tne Dunning that was provided for in the original design as prepared by Friedlander & Seymour," architects. No ornamentation need be left out, and the best o ma- riala may. be used and the cost still SAXiE OF NIGHT GO WHS Neatly and Attractively Trimmed Garments Shown in All Popular Styles. All Well Made and of Fine Materials. 3 Lots to Select From as Shown in Our Third-Street Window 53c Lot 1 Choice For Lines Regu larly Sold to 85c Lot 3, AQ Choice... plW For Lines Regu larly Sold to $1.35 y of Muslin Gowns Lot 2, Q Choice For Lines Regu larly Sold to $1 Manv women like to renew their supp about this time of the year, that they may have a generous supply for the coming seasons. Here is an exceptional oppor tunity to do so at a splendid saving. The showing includes all popular styles, neatly and attractively trimmed with laces, embroideries, tucks, ribbons; all are well made, of fine mate rials. Come look at these garments; then go and see what other stores offer at like prices. We know you will be back and purchase here. Reg. values 85c to $1.35, and t -i (q in this sale you have choice at 53, 69 and P l.wU Sale Negligee Shirts With Mili tary and Regulation Turn-down Collar Ea. Both Light and Dark Stripes and in Plain Blue Ferguson & McKinney Guaranteed 75c Shirt Through a special price concession w-e were prompted to purchase a splendid lot of Men's Negligee Shirts and at this sale we turn them over to our patrons and store friends at the biV saviner. Thev are made of excellent wearing materials, guaranteed not to fade and to wear to your satisfaction. They come in styles with military or regular turn-down collar and in all sizes in plain blue chambray, or in light or dark stripes. A Ferguson & McKinney Guaranteed 75c Shirt, on a q sale at NEW SPRING STYLES Children's Dresses 59c, 85c, $1.25, $1.50 and $1.75 An unsurpassed showing of the new season's styles in plaids, stripes and plain colors. The materials are Amoskeag ginghams, chambray and Anderson's Scotch ginghams. All are extra well made and neatly finished and trimmed. All sizes, from 6 to 14 years. Moderately priced at 590 to $1.75. Ribbons 25c a Yard Novelty and staple Hair Bow Ribbons in all the most popular Spring colors. Nar row Gros Grain and Georg ette Hat Ribbons in the new Spring shades of old rose, blues, greens, purples, black, white, etc., specially ofi nrippH flt CJv hi ill! M V . J 1 1 I . i kept well within bounds or tne available. Bids Jot iioBc. By adding, all the alternate PJvj- sions to the bid 01 : r tender is stlli ny iar mitted. Following IS a the bids as opened: Bids for General Contract. Sound Construction and Engineering Company, Incorporated. t 0;jo Bingham & sneney ----- ..M 000 Kravmn cuKiiicciiiin , a ato Boyajol-.n-Arnold Company ..... 'Mnno Dinwiddle uonBiruuimu , Olson & Johnson Company.. 42s 400 Prlberg. McLennan Company S74 4ft0 Pearson Construction Company oTBOOO Robert Wakefield ai7'inn Bids for numbing Contract. Ktisniient na ' ti 1-; 1 nn. A H . inc. i llllllo.u v . . AOTI Appling Griggs Company ai 660 J F snea Soha Sturses & Sturges.. y.....---- Sft'sOO " 'js.yso Fox & Co ' - ftoft ri..mhinff rnmnanv dd,UU Alas rvs, nuuiuiuB The bids were all referred to wmie house & Fouilhoux, architects. lor u ...! Hfi. H'rvlll 1 nOllX HB1U pected 'to be' able to refer them back to the Council next weaneou, award of the contract. in the raid made upon the Japanese bootlegging establishment in this city last Saturday night. Medals for Would-Be Heroes Proposed in Congress. Prise Freak. Bill Also Has Clause to Pension Aspirants to Bender Ultra-Patriotic Service. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington. Feb. IS. The prize freak bill of the present Congress is. one in- kf T?pTresentatlve Jvent, 01 California, "for the encouragement and relief of might-have-been heroes, wwu w hill of itself, is a Joke, it effort on the part of its author to accomplish by ridicule wnat he could not accomplish Dy oui-aau-uui. opposition. ' Recently the nouse passeo. a. ting an "Army and wavy mean ui i hnil" nrovldine- tor special re wards for soldiers ana sailors wno uio .!,, ih thomselves conspicuously by gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of their lives, anove ana ueyuuu of dutv. Mr. Kent aoes not oeiieve in that bill, hence his own measure. Thfl Kent bin provides; T-....a. it Ik necessary to recognize such heroism that goes beyona tne can m uu..... even In time of peace, to cause tne exni- bition of sucn nerouiin. m u . . to. . . . m he Be it enaciea. iui on ... ---- j C-.-..1. rt wili-HIca aspirations who . i nMventfil from exhibiting their heroic patriotum and enjoying the emolu ments thereol. inducing mo """""S " "-it- k notion of mollycoddles no have prevented war, shall be examined os u .itrrt xfiinxfArbers- and Theo- dore Roosevelt, and that in consideration of services that thty might have performed It given opportunity under the ennobling con ditions of modern war, that they should be granted medals ot nonor lor i Uve patriotism that they might have ex hibited which might have gone beyond the call of duty. If not prevented irom eucn ex hibition by tne mouytuuu. ..,-.. Section 2. mat ou 01 iuu..cjo 1 ..nprnlTatRQ. SUCn nilKlll-"Bl'-u heroes sall receive a pension of S25 a"10"" from and alter u i.'s ' ---- until the time (to be guessed at by sa d sychologlsts) wnen duj eservation 01 p v -' , lght have lived or perished gloriously In the super-heroic excess 01 uh-wu sacrifice. . Liquor at Dallas Is Destroyed. nAT.ruiS. Or.. Feb. 18. (Special.) In view of about 100 interested specta tors. Sheriff John Orr, with assistants, yesterday publicly destroyed the 144 quarts of "squirrel whisky' confiscated ELL-ANS Absolutely Removes Indigestion. One package proves it. 25c at all druggists. GOVERNOR PARD0IIS TWO G. M. Gulbrandscn Freed and Citi zenship Restored to J. II. Wrlght. SALEil, Or., Feb. IS. (Special.) Governor Withycombe today granted a conditional pardon to George M. Gul bra'ndsen. who was serving an Inde terminate sentence In the Penltontliit y of from six months to ten years for assault with a dungerous weapon. 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