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VOL. LVI. XO. 17,3.39. PORTLAND, OREGON, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1916. PRICE FIVE CENTS. 4 LOVE OF NOTORIETY MILL RAISES IVIEN'S WAGES 10 PER CENT GRAIN ALCOHOL COCKTAILS LATEST ASTORIA NAVY E AVALANCHES KILL FEDERALIZED GUARD ANOTHEfi CHINESE VICTIM OF GUNMEN MANY-IN GERMANY BILLS D PROVIDED IN BILL SEVERAL DRUGGISTS tSBEB SCSPICIOV IX CITY. FLOODS TAKE TOLL, TOO, IX HOQUIAM COMPANY ANNOUNCES NEW SCHEDULE MARCH 1. SEVERAL DISTRICTS. AS MAY UNDO POISONER INTRODUCE Police Expect Crones to Trap Himself. CORDON OF SLEUTHS EXTENDS Hunt Reaches to Haunts of Anarchists in Chicago.' BOMB SQUADS MAKE RAIDS Thrf Who Put Arsenic in Soup at Banquet Thought to4 Have Left New York Photographs ' in Hands of Detectives. CHICAGO. Feb. 21. (Special.) With the police of Chicago and New York making ineffectual efforts to capture Jean Crones, accused of poisoning the Mundeleln banquet guests, the hunt settled down today to the hope Jthe fugitive chef eventually would trap himself through his passion for noto riety. For the first time since the anarch ist put arsenic in the soup of the ban nucters the Chicago police today were in a position to take up the search in ;i methodical way. Captain Nicholas Hunt of the detective bureau, received a photograph of the poisoner and by nightfall it had been reproduced in the police bulletin and copies were being carried by every policeman in the city. Return to Gbett Expected. Dcapite the fact that a man who said he was Crones called up a New York newspaper by telephone on Sunday, the hunt here did not relax. If anything, it was carried on with renewed vigor. Captain Hunt taking the position that Crones, with the New York police close on his heels, might return to this city and seek safety among the "reds" of the Ghetto. Police here were detailed to guard every avenue of entrance into the city. The "bomb squad" niad several raids during the day, which resulted 1- nothing. One was on a house in t Forquer, near HalstedT" street.'" The place was searched thoroughly, but no evidence was found. Late in the after noon a raid was made on another place. it having been reported that the "reds' used it for a rendezvous. The police returned empty-banded. Kgotisra Is Apparent. "Crones' threat that he will leave New York probably Is no idle boast, said Captain Hunt. "He may come back to Chicago. He is an egotistical anarchist und believes he has accom plished a great mission in life. It would not be surprising if he came back to Chicago and gave himself up.' If Crones reaches Chicago, as a note purporting to come from him declared was his intention, he will have to go through the greatest cordon of man- hunters ever set on a fugitive's trail. From New York to Chicago and ex ' tending far into the South every police department, as well as secret service men of the railroads and employes, is keeping a close guard. LA GRANDE BOYS HEROES Two 1 2-Year-OIds Save Little Chil dren From Drowning. LA GRANDE, Or., Feb. 21. (Spe cial.) Two little Fruitdale boys, Man rred Putckett and Glen Patton, aged 12 Years, are the popular heroes of this city tonight because they dragged three girls and a boy younger than themselves from a temporary Ice pond formed near the Patton home by back water from the river. The six crashed together through the ice into five feet of water. The two children got out readily, but Edith ration and Edna Patton were crowded under the ice. ithout screams of alarm or any display of excitement, the two boys struggled with the ice until the little .irls were saved. MAYOR GILL HAS BIG LEAD Early Returns Indicate Kenomina- lion in Seattle!. SEATTLE. Wash., Feb. 21. Early re turns from today's primary election srie Mayor Hiram C. Gill a two-to-one lead over his two nearest opponents In the contest for nomination for Mayor. Austin E. Griffith, former chief of poiire. has a slight lead over Council man Oliver T. Erickson in the race for M-rond place on the ballot at the elec tion two weeks hence. The count gives GUI 2965, Griffiths 1413. Erickson 1037, Raymer 145. CONVICTED PASTOR LOSES Prison sentence for Mailiug Im proper Matter Is Affirmed. SAN FRANCISCO. Feb. 21. The conviction and sentencing to a three year prison term of the Rev. E. E. Rob bins, a Methodist minister of Salinas, for sending Improper matter through the mail to a young woman, was af firmed today by -the United States Cir cuit Court of Appeals. Robbins, who is 60 years old. has spent much of the time in jail since his conviction in October, 1914. Many of Men Arrested Are Among Those Not Known to Police Court of Old "Wet" Days. Grain alcohol cocktails are the latest in tho "blind pigs." This is the conclusion reached by Sheriff Hurlburt from cases which have come to his attention recently. Drunken men have been seen who have been half blinded and shaken in a manner which ordinary whisky "jags' seldom produced. This has given rise to the belief that the men were fed on highballs in which pure alcohol had been poured. Several druggists are un der suspicion for violation of the pro hibition law regarding the sale of ethyl alcohol and may be the source from which bootleggers are getting their "kicks." ' ' The men under arrest at the City Jail repeatedly have refused to tell the source of their sprees. Many are men who are not known to the police court of the old "wet" days. District Attorney Evans has begun a grand Jury Investigation of drugstore violators and the probe results will be made public in a few days. RUSTY TANK FOILS AVIATOR Louis T. Barin Will Take Testa Prob ably Next Sunday. VANCOUVER BARRACKS, Wash., Feb. 21. (Special.) Rust, formed in the tank containing gasoline, prevented Louis T. Barin, aviator, from getting up in the air yesterday in his attempt to win a pilot's license in the Aero Club of America. It is probable that an other test will be made soon, probably next Sunday. Mr. Barin. who has joined the Oregon Naval Militia, desires to qualify as an aviator, but must obtain a pilot's li cense in the Aero Club of America. The test was to have been made with Cap tain G. F. Blair, of the Oregon Navaf Militia, and Colonel Clenard McLaugh lin, of the Oregon National Guard, as observers and judges. BOOZE TRICKLES llT BANDON Liquor Finds Way to Dances and Lid Will Be Put on Tighter. BANDON, Or., Feb. 21. (Special.) After more than a month and a half of "dryness" Bandon, once said to be the wettest small city in the state, is con verted to prohibition almost. But the lid must be clamped on a little tighter. Booze is evidently being distributed at dances by someone, but the authori ties have not yet located the source, Little liquor has been imported via the common carrier routes and the supplies laid in before the first of the vear are supposed, in most cases, to be exhausted. SUIT FOR BILLION VOIDED Federal Court Dismisses Action Against British Ambassador. PORTLAND. Me.. Feb. 21. The suit brought by Lewis J. Marshall, of Lis bon Falls, against Sir Cecil Arthur Snriner-Rice. the British Ambassador, in which he sought J 1,000.000,000 dam ages for alleged conspiracy to deprive him of his rights and property as British subject, was dismissed in the Federal Court today. Marshall was recently convicted on a charge of using the mails to defraud in connection with a necktie commis sion business. DYE SHORTAGE IS SERIOUS Government to Tell Public to Be Content With Drab Apparel. WASHINGTON, Feb. 21. Clothing manufacturers af the United States are so short of dyestuffs that a Nation wide appeal is to be made to the public to recognize the fact that it must con tent itself with the simplest colors in apparel. This was announced today at the De partment of Commerce after a confer ence between department officials and officers of the National Association of Clothiers. CUPID'S SECRET WELL KEPT Wenutchee Couple Make Admission 135 Days After Marriage. WENATCHEE. Wash.. Feb. 21. (Spe cial.) The news of the marriage of Miss Frances Bradford to B. L. Gulley in Everett on October 3 has leaked out. For four and one-half months they have kept the marriage a secret except from the parents of the bride, Mr. and Mrs. R. F. Bradford. Mrs. Gully is an accomplished young woman, who came nere irom lacoma a year ago. The bridegroom is in busi ness in Wenatchee. BASEBALL CLAIMS VICTIM Little Idaho Girl. While Watching Boys Play, Is Fatally Injured. BOISE. Idaho, Feb. 21. (Special.) The first baseball fatality of the 191 season in the State of Idaho, if not in the Nation, took place Sunday after noon in the country two miles from Nampa. when Mildred.'the 6H-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Marek, was struck over the heart with a base ball and died from the effects a few minutes afterward. The little girl was struck accidentally while watching some boys at play. First-Class Yard Pro vided in Measures. $3,0C0,Q00 ASKED AS START Dreadnought Construction One of Features. Is HOUSE MAY COMPROMISE Submarine Headquarters Likely to Be Limit of Naval Committee, but Larger Project Will Be Fought For in Senate. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash lngton, Feb. 21. Senator Lane today introduced in the Senate a bill identical with one introduced iif the House Feb ruary 3 by Representative Hawley, au thorizing the establishment of a first Class lavai Dase on me miuniuia. nivci, "as near the entrance as may be deemed advisable" and appropriating $3,000,- 000 to purchase the site, and begin con struction. f Both bills contemplate the establish ment of a full-fledged Navy-yard equipped both for construction and re pair of Naval vessels, large and small $3,000,000 Is Beginner Only. The bills authorize the construction of building ways for vessels large and small, drydocks capable of docking the largest dreadnoughts, marine railways, machine shops, aeroplane and boat shops, marine barracks, magazines, a radio station, and all other structures and equipment found at the most im portant Navy-yards of the country. The 13,000,000 appropriated by the bills is not intended to defray the total cost, but is merely to purchase a site and begin the construction of the plant. No limit of cost is fixed. These two bills have been referred to the naval committees of Senate and House, and it is the hope of their au thors that the bills will be incorpo rated in the naval appropriation bill, and if the Astoria naval base is not au thorized by the House bill. Senator Lane will press his bill as an amendment when the bill reaches the Senate. Admiral Favors Harbor. While neither naval committee has yet given especial attention to the As toria base proposition, Admiral Grant, in charge of submarines, when recently testifying before the House committee, recommended the establishment of a submarine base on the Columbia River. Later, Representative Hawley will ask for a hearing before the naval com mittee, and will urge the adoption of bis bill, as distinguished from the plan proposed by Admiral Grant. He already has conferred with Secretary Daniels, but does not yet know what attitude the Navy Department will take. Talks with, members of the House naval committee indicate that that body will not favor the establishment of a first-class naval base on the Columbia River, but may compromise on a sub marine base, where subtr arines can be repaired and where the; can maintain headquarters. J The House will be dis losed to 'grant (Concluded on Pace 2. Column 1.) HE lygo FIGHTER .'j p Wlflflllll WlMW Q1 RST ,N PEACE 4,'t&M$y WfUlfr FIRST IN THE HEARTS F HlSCOU Eh Smrps of Bodies Recovered and Numerous Persons Missing Some Towns Inundated. LONDON, Feb. 21. Avalanches and floods in various parts of Germany have caused scores of deaths, according to reports from several Continental cities. A Berlin dispatch says 65 per sons were killed by a snowslide in the Salsburg Alps, which carried an Alpine shelter into an abyss. Forty-three bod ies have been recovered. Forty-nine tnin.r anH about 30 are still missing. A new shed at Friedrichshafen, on Lake Constance, constructed to hold four Zeppelins, was partially destroyed bv a Rtorm. says a report from Romans horn, the Swiss town across the lake from the German city. It is not known if any war balloons were damaged. Dispatches from Munich say 25 'bod ies were recovered after an avalanche swept away a shelter in the Hochkoe- nig region. A number of children and many cat tie have perished in the smaller places of Bavaria, and numbers of villages In Southern Germany are flooded. Navi gation at Wuerzberg and also on the River Neckar has been stopped and the situation at Mainz is serious. The River Meuse has overflowed over a vast expanse in the neighbor hood of Liege, Belgium, and a part of the city and many towns north are flooded. INDIANS MURDER AGENT Navajo, Apache and Yaqul Tribes at Keams Canyon to Go on Warpath. FLAGSTAFF, Ariz.. Feb. 21. Leo Crane, Indian agent at Keams Canyon, Ariz., was killed by Indians ast Fri day, according to unconfirmed reports received here today from Gallup. N. M.. and Holbrook. Ariz. Efforts . to con firm the report have been unsuccessful. A friendly Indian who arrived here from Keams Canyon stated tnat me Navajo, Apache and Taqui Indians were planning to go on the "warpath." with in three months and that Mexicans would fight with them. ZEPPELIN IS SHOT DOWN French Incendiary Shell- Sets War Balloon Ablaze. PARIS, Feb. 21. A Zeppelin airship was brought down by French guns in the vicinity of Brabant-Le-Roi, in the Meuse, today, according to an official announcement. Tne Zeppelin was, flying from St. Menehould toward the south, and was attacked by cannon from Revigny. Hit by an incendiary shell, the Zeppelin fell in flames in the vicinity of Brabant-Le-Roi. i SCHOOLS ARE OPEN TODAY. Although today is a legal holi day according to the state law, the public schools of the city do not enjoy the same privilege as do the employes of banks,, the City Hall, etc. Classes therefore -will be held 'in all schools of the city, and absence will be inex cusable unless accounted for in the usual manner. ' WAS NOT "TOO PROUD TO FIGHT"! Compromise Made on Continental Plan. PEACE STrVtNGTH IS &75,000 House Committee Agrees pn Expending $1 74,000,000. MILITIA PAY PROVIDED Programme Yields in Many Par ticulars to Garrison Plan Large Standing Army, Reserve and More Supplies Provided. WASHINGTON, Feb. 21. National preparedness legislation took a long step forward in Congress today .when the House military committee reached a practical agreement on the outline of the Army bill it will unanimously present for passage. Chairman Hay was authorized to frame the measure, which is a compromise for the conti nental army plan advocated by ex Secretary Garrison and President Wil son. Complete Federalization of the Na tional Guard will be substituted for the proposed continentals, and the White House was informed during the day that the committee was a unit in supporting the plan, only the language and minor details remaining to - be worked out. The measure will grant virtually the entire programme mapped out by ex-Secretary Garrison for the regular Army and go even farther than he recommended in providing for re serve military supplies. A total peace strength of 575.000 men in the standing Army and the Guard combined will be provided for. with reserve systems to more than double the force in war. Cost This Year 174,OOO,0OO. The expense for the whole estab lishment this year is roughly estimated at $174,000,000, exclusive of Panama Canal defense, carried in another bill. proposals for additional military schools in all states, carried in th McKellar bill favorably reported today by the committee with an approprla tion of 13.840.000 for this purpose, and whatever may later be decided in car rying out a scheme to foster the flxa tion of atmospheric nitrogen" In the United States, giving the country its own supply of ingredients for explo sives. The first year of the Garrison plan would have called for a total ex penditure of $182,000,000. Whether the new bill will be accept able to President Wilson has not been indicated, but tne committee believes its plan will override every objection to the substitution of the Canal guard for the continentals and that Congress has full legal authority for its accom plishment. Army to Be Enlarged. To complete tne committee's com promise with President Wilson on the continental army, the bill will author ize the increase of the regular Army to a total peace strength of 147,000 by adding 10 regiments of Infantry, fou (Concluded on Page 7. Column 1.-) Move Is First In Grays Harbor Dis trict, and Is Voluntary Offlco Forces Are Not Affected. HOQUIAM. Wash., Feb. 21. (Spe cial. Announcement was nijjnc today by the Hoqulam Lumber & Shingle Com. pany that, beginning March 1, wages of employes of the mill will be raised 10 per cent. The advance will apply to all of the mill and yard employes, but does not affect the office forces. This is the first raise to be made by any of the mills of the Grays Har bor district, and is made voluntarily by the mill company, due. It is under stood, to the improved condition of the lumber market. Wages at this plant, under the new scale, will be on the same basis as existed in the first half of last year, but are not yet to the high point of 1913. During the period of depression in the lumber market the Hoquiam Lumber Ai Shingle Company, along with some of the other mills, reduced wages. Others curtailed output and worked the men on short time. Both plana were used in order to give the em ployes as much income as possible, and still meet conditions of the lumber market. FRENCH LEADER AT ATHENS Greek King Pleased by Conference With General Sarrail. ATHENS, via Paris. Feb. 21. General Sarrail, the commander of the French troops in the Balkans, arrived here to day and had an audience with Kin Constantine. Immediately afterward King Con stantine received the Associated Press correspondent and informed him that he was delighted with the result of th interview, which he was thoroughly confident was the first step towar clearing up the differences betwee Greece and the entente powers. LOGGING TRAIN WRECKED Track Torn Up for Some Distanc on Wendling Branch. SPRINGFIELD, Or.. Feb. 21. (Spe cial.) Two cars bearing loys were de molished, two other cats derailed and stretch of track torn up on the South ern Parsific Wendling branch, a mil east of here this afternoon. Uneven loading of the logs cause a car to rock off the track on a shar curve. Wrecking apparatus arrive this evening. The afternoon passen train to Wendling was annulled. Major Callinan, Retired, Dies. ALAMEDA. Cal.. Feb. 21. Majo Daniel F. Callinan. V. S. A., retired died here today. He is survived by tour sons and a daughter. Major Cal linan was born in Ireland in 183?, came to America as a youth, and Joined the Army in 1800. He served throug the Civil War and was in the battl of Gettysburg. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, degrees; minimum, 39 degree. TODAY'S Fair; winds mostly easterly. War. votes British Commons new war credit, Pag 2, 4'oreign. Scores killed In Germany by avalanche and floods. Page 1. National. Senate committee recommends probe Army aviation corps. Pago 3. Oregon State sale oi two school sections held illegal. Page House military committee provides for fed erallzation oz National i,uaru. Pago Bills for first-class naval base ut Astoria introduced. Page 1. Senate to investigate Japanese invasion f'orea as basis of reply to Mr. ItooL Page 5. Land grant bills cxptuAed in few weeks. Oregon State sale of two srhool sections held illegal by Supreme Court. Pugo Domestic. Orpet is held to grand Jury. Page 3. Flood endangers many In T.ufiintana. Page 2. Police think rron.' love of notoriety will be his downfall. I'ago 1. Chicago Mnyor accused of mulcting city em ployes for his j.oor relative, page Sport. Stumpf and Dunn sign with Beavers. Page 12. Multnomah Club names chairmen of com mittees, page 12. Hunt Club will hold its annual paper chase today. Page I-. Bombardier Wells retains English heavy weight title, knocking out Smith In third. Page 12. Paeific Northwest. Newfoundland Is intensely patriotic British possession. Page Grants pass turns sod for $1100,000 sugar factory. Page 7. Hoquiam mill announces 10 per cent wage rise March 1. rage 1. Turks, on way to reinforce Erzerum, turn back. Page IT. Commercial and Marine. Grain bags continue to advance, with no re lief in sight, page . Slump In wheat at Chicago owing to iacK of export buying, l'agc n. Metal stocks firm and standard Issues weak in Wall Street. Page 17. Active demand at local stock yards with good run. Page li. Building of R.ino-ton steamer for Danish In terests discussed. fage j. Portland and Vicinity. Silverton will got $r,no,00 sawmill this Spring. Page 1. Hundreds will make merry at Astoria to night. Page -l-'l. Great production of "Girls of Yesterday and Today staged today at nine i neater. Page 11. Portland will honor Washington and plant roses today Page 3 1. W. G. Preston, early capitalist of North- we.st. passes at S3. Pagu !. osition on rate ruling will be outlined at Chamber tomorrow. Page Kl. Chinese long hostilities renewed by shoot ing. Page 1. Weather report, data and forecast. Page IT. W. W. Hawley. rr.lner of HI, recalls hard ships of early days. Page J1. Great Baptist institute opens In Portland. Page 4. Auditorium bidder will have to pay penalty if he refuses contract. 1'age is. Property tangle involving hank before Judge Morrow, t-age e. Objects of new fruit agency are explained. Page in. BingKongMan,AI!eged Fighter, Near Death. HOP SING SUSPECT IN JAIL Chinatown to Be .Cleaned Up Today, Says District Attorney. DEPORTATION IS POSSIBLE Renewal of Tong War F.nds Peace Talk Police Precautions Avail LittleCunnery Workers Icave City With Escort to Depot. ' Strife between the tongs of Bing Kong-How LfOtig and Hop Sing whs resumed yesterday afternoon at 1:"0. when Wong Ching, of the former tone, was the target for three spiteful pistol. . Four bullet wounds, two of a (.erlows nature, speak for the deadly venom of the attack. Julian Alabero. aged 29. of the Hop Sings, was captured In hiding at l-ourlli and Flanders streets. In a Chinese tene ment. He is held as a suspect. The shooting win staged at Sixth and Flanders streets, where tong trou bles of previous years have been punc tuated with bullets. Saunterer Is Shot. Wing Ching was sauntering along the street. From behind a standing wagon one assassin sprang out and be gan firing. Two other gunmen, on the opposite side of the street, ran acroos to participate, in the uffray. The terrorized man ran down Flanders toward Fifth stict. with the pistols cracking at him. At tlio machine shop of W. F. Matthews he pitched forward througii the open doorway. Into his body the three gunmen fired. One of the three pressed his empty revolver against Wong Ching's temple, and pulled the trigger twice' In an ambitious attempt to make certain. Aaausalna Hide iVenrbj. The assassins then fled down the street, taking sanctuary in the t Inne.-e tenement between Fifth and Fourth streets, one block below the scene ol their crime. W. F. Matthews was in front of hiM shop working at an automobile when the battle burst upon him. Ho left the line of fire and took refuge In hi office. The plank floor ol his work shop, where the wounded man fell. Is scored by two Ineffectual bullets. Of the nine shots believed to have been fired four took effect. Two of the revolvers used, both of 38 caliber, were thrown away in the flight. Both were empty. Mr. Matthews secured one of them and turned It over to Police Sergeant P.obson. The other was ijuickly discovered by one of the gathering crowd and also given to th'. police. K. Andrews, a driver for Frye &. Co.. was in the pathway of tho pursuit. Hoth he and Ills horses were missed by narrow margins when the bullets t,pcd by to the fleeing target. The three gunmen lurnd i n 1 the tenement at a doorway adjoining 2S-. witnesses said. Within a few minute Captain Baty and Police Sergeant P.ob- son had posted men at each entry and exit, while a score of patrolmen and detectives investigated tho devious and darkened hallways of tho building. Poller Force Hntraorr. At some doors the police wcro nu t with bland Inquiries us to what the natter was. At others the Chinese sul lenly resented the intrusion. Many ol the Ifttlo, boxlike rooms 'were burred by bolt and lock, and a number were broken Into when admittance was de nied. Some were empty. In others the nmates dozed in their bunks. All the enement dwellers professed Ignorance of the trouble, or equal Irrnorunco of English. atrolmen Cason and Morelork hat- ered in one door, when no reply was made. Within the room they foil ml ulian Alabero and an aged f'hlnere. Alabero, who Is a young -nan, was Mt- tlng on the bunk, fully clothed as for he street. Detectives Hyde and Ab bott were summoned and the officers scorted him below for investigation. Alabero said he was a Filipino, lie speaks Tagalog, Spanish and Chinese nd has a moderate command of Kng- ish. His appearance is that of w Celestial, and it is thought that he may bo a Filipino-Chinese. Ho was taken to the police station, where it was found that he was a gunman of the Hop Sing tong, with a revious reputation. In the battle of wo years ago he was arrested ntnl convicted of firing five shots. Ho was fined $50 and released. He gives ge as 20. and says ho is a cannery worker. Description Tallica Well. A description furnished to the police by W. H. O'Connor. 206 Cherry street. allies almost exactly with the person nd clothes of Alabero. The young man was an eyewilne.-s Of the shooting. He describes the gunman, who concealed himself behind wagon, as about five feet seven nches tall, wearing dark clothing ami green jumper or sweater. Alabero ears a green sweater. Other d-tnltn ' his appearance are said to rumur ith Mr, O'Connor's description, of the two gunmen who crossed the street, (Concluded oa Tsgu 10. Column l.j