wwgmwm VOL. T.VI XO. 17,2G4. PORTLAND, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, 31 ARCH 22, 1916. PRICE FIVE CENTS. FUIISTOH ASKS FOB "ADEQUATE FORGE" More Troops Needed as Lines Extend. TELEGRAPH LINES TO PERSHING FAIL HARDING OR KNOX T 111 FAVOR NEW OREGON MILL TO: COST $400,000 SILVEll FALLS COMPANY GIVES ORDERS FOR PLANT. iullGRAHTS' SON DEDICATES LIFE TRAIN BLOWN FROM RAILS BY CYCLONE AND WAGES BE REVISED ii BOTH WIRE AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION CUT. TWENTY-FIVE REPORTED IN JURED OX CLOVER LEAF. HOURS THOUGH AY CHASE BECOMES CAMPAIGN Almost Entire Regular Army , May Yet Be Needed. BATTLE REPORTS VAGUE 6nly Unofficial Accounts of En gagement Between Villa Forces and Carranza Soldiers Be i ccired at Border. !AN ANTONIO. Tex., March 21. General Frederick Funston asked the War Department today for more troops to send into Mexico, after long con sideration of the advisability of continuing- the operations against Fran cisco Villa with the forces now com manded by General Pershing. General Pershing yesterday suggested that an other regiment be sent to him, and today General Funston asked the de partment for what he characterized as an "adequate iorce." It was announced at General Fun Eton's headquarters that the Fifth Cavalry, of which one squadron is at Fort llyer, Va.; another at Fort Leavenworth. Kan., and the third at Fort Sheridan, 111.,' would be brought to the border at once, and sent forward along General Pershing's line of com munication to Casas Grandes. Subsidiary. Llnea Weakened. ' The only reason given for strength ening General Pershing's forces, known by the public generally to be consid erably more than 4000, was that his field of operations' had become so ex tended that his main line of communi cation and the subsidiary lines were much weaker than they should be. "Merely a precautionary move," was the way General Funston answered all questions. Some uneasiness was displayed for a moment at his headquarters today when it was reported that the telegraph wires between Casas Grandes and the border had Ween cut, but an official re port saying that the line cut was a "buzzer" line General Pershing had laid and that it had been broken accident ally by some of the American forces crossing it allayed apprehension. Villa May Have Reserves. It is believed, here that General Funs ton is not worried to any extent by reports of alleged growing antagonism among Carranza troops, although he is carefully studying all reports, official and unofficial, on that phase oi the situation. It has not been forgotten at his head quarters, however, that Villa has many more troops somewhere in Northern Mexico than the few hundred said to he riding with him in his flight before the pursuing troops of the two coun tries. In realization of the mobile character of Villa's band, it was not considered wise to expose too much of General Pershing's lines. Lake Babricora, toward which one of his columns was reported, yesterday to be moving, is almost 200 miles from the border and by the time the columns di rected toward Carmen and Namlquipa arrive at their destinations they also w ill be almost ae far south. South of Casas Grandes the cavalry detachments that are following the trails into the heart of the country where Villa la known to have gone are operating in a triangle of approximately 3000 square miles area, ' Chase Beeomes Campaign, The chase for Villa has assumed the proportions of a campaign ami it waa pointed out that if it became necessary to extend the operations much more it might be necessary to move into the field almost all the remaining available forces of the regular Army. At the fame time it would be necessary to leave some 20.000 men to guard the Mexican border. With the exception of four and one third regiments of infantry, two regi ments of cavalry and what amounts to about a regiment and a half of field ar tillery, all troops of the regular United States Army are either already in the border territory ami in Mexico or are on foreign service. This does not in clude the coast artillery corps, or all engineer troops, signal corps companies and field hospitals and ambulance com panies. Regiments left in the United States, exclusive of those in the Southern De partment and Mexico, or on foreign tours. are: Second Cavalry, Fort Kthan Allen, Vt; Fifth Cavalry, Fort Kheridan. 111.: Fort llyer, Va., and Fort Leavenworth. Kan.; Third Infantry, Madison Barracks, New York, and Fort Ontario. N. .Y.; Fourteenth Infantry, one battalion, at Fort Lawton, Wash.; Twenty-first Infantry, Vancouver Bar racks. "Wash.; Twenty-fourth Infantry, Fort D. A. Russell. Wyo.; Thirtieth In fantry. Plattsburg Barracks. N. Y.; Fifth Field Artillery, with the excep tion of one battery. Fort Sill, Okla.; three batteries Third Field Artillery, Fort Myer, Va. Funds Sent to Kmploy Scout. General Funston was advised from Washington today that J20.000 had been placed to his credit for the pay ment of the services of guides, scouts, interpreters and other civilians it misht become advisable to employ. Al ready General Pershing is using many Americans as scouts. They are men Mexicans Virtually Concede Villa Men Have Raided Railway; Army May Use Mounted Couriers. COLUMBUS. N. M.. March 21. Wire and wireless communication between the United States and General Persh ing's punitive expedition in North ern Chihuahua was at a stand still tonight, it was officially announced from military head quarters here. It was asserted that the Army wireless station at Casas Grandes failed shortly before 6 o'clock, the only remaining line of communication' into Mexico being by an Army field tele graph wire, which has been practically useless for several days, because it has been cut between Columbus and its terminus, 30 miles south of the border. If the break in the wireless is not repaired shortly, it is said it will be necessary to depend on mounted couriers to carry dispatches. EL PASO. Tex., March 21 Following hard on the news that the Mexican telegraph and telephone wires between Juarez and Casas Grandes had been cut word came from Columbus tonight in a dispatch passed by the censor that both wireless and ground wire communica tion with General Pershing had failed. General Gavira at Juarez . admitted tonight that he had failed to restore wire communication with Casas Grandes, and it was practically con ceded by the Mexican officials that the cutting of the wires was the result of a Villista raid on the railroad. The extent of the raid and the damage done was either unknown or suppressed. D. T. H0NEYMAN ASKS STAR Speeding Autos Are Menace on Portland Heights, He Says. r David T.Honeyman, treasurer of the Honeyman Hardware Company, has ap plied for a commission as special traf fic officer for duty on Portland Heights. Mr. Honeyman's appointment has been recommended to Mayor Al bee by Harry P. Coffin, chairman of the Public Safety Commission. Mr. Honeyman said that he wanted the Commission because speeding automobiles around his home at 703 Prospect drive, had become a menace to traffic, and especially dangerous to children. He is already a special Deputy Sheriff. The Honeyman family is noted for assistance to the police. BLACK CAT IN 4 WRECKS Animal, Released From Freight Car, Disappears and So Does Trouble. NORTH TAKIMA, Wash.. March 21. (Special.) One closed Northern Pacific freight car,' in w'hlch a black cat was locked at Auburn, was responsible a few -days ago for four accidents. The train had two derailments on the west side of the mountains, the same' car figuring in both. The ill-omened car jumped the rails in the Roza canyon and spilled a ship ment of flour and automobiles. After passing this city it caused another wreck in the lower valley. When the car was opened at Pasco the cat leaped out and disappeared. and no more trouble was encountered. POTASH PLANT IN FAVOR Senate Committee Would Allow $150,000 for Kelp Experiments. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, March 21. The Senate commit tee on agriculture today virtually agreed to report a bill appropriating $150,000 for the establishment of a Government plant on the Pacific Coast to experiment with processes for ex tracting potash from kelp. By means of this plant, department representatives told the committee, they believed they could develop a commercial process for the . manufac ture of potash fertilizer. Ground kelp, they said, is worth now $40 a ton. SPOKANE -HOST TO MINERS Millionaires and Penniless Prospec tors Mingle in Convention. SPOKANE, Wash., March 21. (Spe cial.) Spokane today was the mining capital of the Northwest. Mining men of all sorts and conditions, from mil lionaire owners of big dividend-payers to penniless prospectors, thronged the lobby of the Spokane Hotel, headquar ters of the Northwest Mining Conven tion, and registered at other local hos telries. The visitors were the guests of the Chamber of Commerce and were of ficially welcomed by the Mayor and president of the chamber. TOTEM MUST WEAR PANTS Immodest Effigy to lie Allowed to Enter United States. SAN FRANCISCO, March 21. (Spe cial.) John Oscar Davis, collector of the port, will put pants on the totem pole that has been detained here, then it may proceed on its way to Rev. Dr. J. H. East, the Portland medical mis sionary for whom it arrived some weeks ago. f Mr. Davis said today that the Gov ernment would purge it of its objec tionable features before it would be al lowed to enter the United States. Am putation, he said, had been considered, but pants would be better. Republicans Defer Se lecting Chairman. THREE MEMBERS ARE ABSENT Sub-Committee to Meet Again Probably in April. MINORvPLACES UNCHANGED Senator'Sutberland, of Utah, Consid ered as Possibility Also Man u Is Opposed Because of Ix . cal Chicago Influence. CHICAGO, March 12. (Special.) The Eastern majority of the Repub lican convention sub-committee .took trains for New York today without making definite announcement as to who .will sound the keynote for .19r6. Official assurance waa given to Will iam F. Stone, of Baltimore, that he is to serve again this year as sergeant- at-arms, and a like direction to Lafay ette B, Gleason, of New York, to pre pare for taking up the duties of treas urer, which he fulfilled in the conven tion of 1912, indicated that details of the organization will undergo relative ly little change. Hardiag or Knox Thought Caoitn. A persistent rumor circulated in the Congress Hotel lobbies that the tem porary chairman was virtually chosen today and is either Senator Warren G. Harding, of Ohio, who nominated Mr. Taft in the 1912 convention, or Philan der C. Knox, of Pennsylvania, who was Mr. Taffs Secretary of State. Senator Sutherland, of Utah, repre senting one of the two states that voted Republican in 1912, appealed fa forably to many of the committeemen as available for sounding the 1916 keynote, as did Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia- Univer sity, Mr. Taffs running mate in 1912. Dr. Butler telegraphed from Spokane refusing to be considered. Formal Announcement Withheld; Withholding of any formal announce ment until the meeting to be held In Chicago the middle of April was decided on, however. Chairman Hilles an nounced after adjournment that official action had been postponed out of cour tesy to three absentees from the South and West. These committeemen. Fred Stanley, of Kansas; Thomas K. Nied ringhaus, of Missouri, and E. C. Dun can, of North Carolina, telegraphed re quests that balloting on temporary chairman be deferred until a meeting at which they could, be present. "No ballots were cast," said Chair man' Hilles after the adjournment. "We telegraphed to Stanley, Niedringhaus and Duncan and got word that they could not possibly get here and would prefer to be present when final action is taken. Our discussion, consequently was informal. The middle of April was (Concluded on Page 4, Column 3.) OLD ! "WMnm? ( that ) Jpct DO&'OUT OF Oj Yl'i j f . THE HOUSE m , WWgSl - i'l PP1Y THIS TO ' liiii!ii!i!l!mii Mil ' mm w SPmE ANO wE I WWM 1 1 J .gK THROUGH EASILY ) m : jy& - 3 00 Men to Be Added to Silvcrton Payroll and 200 More to Be Working in Camps. S1LVEETON, Or., March . 21. (Spe clai.) Orders for the immediate erec tion of a $400,000 mill employing 300 men were given today by Jacob Mor tenson,' of Oak Park, 111., president of the Silver Falls Timber Company, who is here looking over the properties of the company. The site in Sllverton for the mill was selected today, and the City Council made arrangements for the vacation of Btreets and the grant ing of water rights. Mr. Mortenson announced that the capacity of the mill will be 250,000 feet in a 10-hour run. The company expects to operate the mill day and nisht. and to employ In its camps 200 men. More than 30,000 acres of timber land .in Eastern Marion and Clackamas counties will be drawn or by the new mill. Mr. Mortenson also is largely inter ested in timber companies in the Fast. DUFUR CAUCUS NOMINATES Mass Meeting Puts Ticket in Field for April 3 Election. DUFUR, Or., March 21. (Special.) The annual citizens' caucus was held here tonight, and the following . nomi nations were made to be voted on at the municipal election April 3: P. W. Knowles, Mayor; L. B. Thomas, Treasurer; Mrs. Bdith Douglass, Re corder; W. L. Vanderpool and Alex Strahan, Councilmen; L. M. Smith and F. B. Ingeles, water commissioners. 65 AIRMEN RAID GERMANS Bombardment of Positions In Bel gium Lasts Several Hours. AMSTERDAM, via London, March 21. The Telegraaf says that the bom bardment of German positions on me Belgian Coast yesterday by a squadron of 65 allied aeroplanes lasted for sev eral hours, " It says a great fire was observed at Zeebrugge after the raid over that point. ONLY 24 DAYS LEFT W WHICH TO REGISTER- Registration books close April IS. until after the primaries. Re member, it matters not how many times you have registered be fore, you must register again in this new, permanent registration, if .you wish : to vote. Then you don't have to register again un less you move out of your pre cinct or neglect your right of franchise for more than two years. Women do not have to give their age in registering. "Over 21" is all that is necessary for you to say. Yesterday only 862 voters reg istered, a light showing. It brought the total registration for the year to 38,217, divided as fol lows: Republican, 27,378; Demo crat, 797D; . Independent. 1325; Prohibitionist, 699; Socialist, 452; Progressive, 384. DOC. BRYAN, THE FAMILY DOCTOR. President r;zallo In- STUDENTS PLEDGE LOYALTY Ceremony Unique in Annals of Northwest. WASHINGTON PAYS HONOR New Head or University Says With out Harmony and Working To gether We 'Are but "Intel Icctual Scrap - Heap?" EPIGRAMS FROM PRESIDENT SIZZAM.O'S ADDRESS. Without any temptation to ag gress, America must be ready to defend the perpetuity of its in stitutions. For this Nation to go down in the competitions of commerce or war would be the saddest tragedy that history could record. Nations, like other spiritual In stitutions, are built down from the top. We should choose our statesmen with at least as much care as we pick our surgeons. America must not risk Its sur vival. It must be loyal, co-operative and solidenough to en dure. SEATTLE, Wash., March 21. (Spe cial.) Before an audience composed of great educators of the country, leading citizens of the Northwest and college men gathered to do him honor, Henry Suzzallo, son of immigrants from the shores of the Adriatic Sea, today dedi cated his life to the tremendous service of making the University of Washing ton a vital force in a democratic America. The inaugural ceremony was p im pressive as to be unique in the annals of the Northwest. When, faculty, regents, alumni, stu dents and citizens pledged their loyalty and support to the new university pres ident, risirfg to their feet and remain' ing standing to indicate their homage. Dr. Suzzallo received an ovation such as has never been witnessed on the Washington campus and has had few equals in American academic. history. Introduced by O. A. Fechter, presi dent of the board . of regents, who voiced a glowing and earnest en comium on the new president's quali fications. Dr. Suzzallo delivered a mas terly, thrilling address that opened new vistas before the eyes of the throng assembled in'Meany Hall and gave a new luster to university ideals and achievement. While in no uncertain terms he enun ciated a policy which will abide by (Concluded on Page 8. Column 1.) Four Cars Are Overturned While Going at High Speed Physl- . clans Are on Way to Scene. MARION, Ind., March 21. Clover Leaf passenger train No. 6, the "Commercial Traveler," was blown from the track four miles east of Marion during a cyclone which passed through this vi cinity about 11 o'clock tonight. The train was. overturned and wrecked while going at a high rate of speed, it was reported. Physicians have gone to the scene. Details were slow -in coming in as all wire communication was destroyed. The train consisted of five cars, four of which were turned over, the other being tilted at an angle of 25 degrees. The engine and tender stayed on the track, and the engineer and fireman brought them into Marion. It, was reported that about 23 per sons were injured. MINER BURIED IN CAVE-IN Placer Streams Uscd in Rescue of Have Manning at McKcnzic. GRANTS PASS. OrMarrh 21. (Spe cial.) An accident which will probably cost Dave Manning his life occurred at the McKenzie mine, 17 miles from Galice, in Josephine County, late last night. The gravel bank on which Man ning was working caved in, burying him beneath the mass. A stream of water under full head from the placer giants was immediately used to un cover the miner and he was soon Tes cued. A physician was summoned from this city and reached Galice late last night, from which point he had to go by saddle and on toot over huge logs and heavily-drifted snow. The injured man has a family living at Vancouver, B. C. CO-EDS SHOW PATRIOTISM rst Aid Corps- Is Proposed at State University. UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, Eugene, March 21. (Special.) Not to be out done by the men of the university forming drill companies, the bubbling spirit of the co-eds has also asserted itself and an endeavor will be made to form a "voluntary first-aid corps" with the ultimate end in view of affiliating with the National Red Cross Associa tion of America. The movement is under the direction of Miss Harriet Thomson, of the phys ical training department. She is now awaiting information from the Red Cross headquarters at Washington, D. C, as to the mode of procedure for affiliation. 50 SOLDIERS DIE IN WRECK Train Is Derailed in Mexico and Goes Over Precipice. MEXICO CITY, March 21. Fifty troopers were killed and more than 100 injured in a railroad accident to day at Sayula, west of Guadalajara, on the Pacific Coast extension of the ilexlcan Central Railway.- The train, owing to a loose or re moved rail, went over a precipice. The train of 15 cars, which was loaded with men and cavalry horses, was burned. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature. 51 degrees; minimum, 42 decrees. TODAY'S Rain; moderate southwesterly winds. Mexico. Funston asks for reinforcements. Pass 1. Two Army -aviators lost. Page 4. War. Von Bethmann-Holl weg has German navy crisis well in control. Page -. Russians mowed down trying ftp relieve pres sure on veraun. rage 2. National. House extends reserve ' features of Army bill. Page 5. v Lind left out in cold by official tinkering with land grant amendment. Page' o. Domestic. Ohio Republicans solidly behind Burton. Page 3. Cigar manufacturers and revenue agents ao cused of stamp frauds. Page 3. Cole Younger dead. Page 2. ' Thirty blocks burn at Paris, Tex. Fsge 16. Harding or Knox probable chairman of Republican national convention. Page 1. ' Sport. McCredie dubious about condition of bis pitchers. Page 12. Moran-Willard fight receipts likely to reach $150,000. Page 13. Bobby Vaughn leaves for training camp. Page 12. Kirkpatrick stars present formidable line up. Page 12. Beaver lineup for start is doped out. Page 12. Pacific Northwest. Co-eds at Eugene to form "first-aid" corps. Page 1. Presi'dent Suzzallo dedicates life to service ot making University of Washington vital force in democratic America. Page 1. Centralians hear dairy addresses. Page 6. Supreme Court holds Roseburg railway bond issue void. Page 7. New rain deluge sweeps Wlla Walla dis trict. Page 6. Orders given for J400.000 mill at Silverton. Pago 1. . Commercial and Marine. Northwestern farmers will carry wheat into new season. Page 17. Large gain in world's visible supply weakens Chicago market. Page 17. War stocks suffer in heavy selling by shorts. Page 17. Settlement reached In cancellation of steamer Mackinaw's charter. Page 16. Astoria orders bids for steamers to combat railroads in rate case fight. Page 10. Portland and Vicinity. Whole question of hours and wages for women may be reopened. Page 1. Greeley-street extension project explained by City Engineer. Page IS. Girl's charges of attack by aged Italian proved false. Pago 7. Mr. Daly's meter assertions are erroneous. Page 9. - Lieutenant Sweeney tells some war experi ences. Page-13. Weather report, data and forecast. Page 17. Effort to Curb Action Voted Down. WELFARE OF WOMEN TOPIC Mill Employes Protest Reduc tion of Working Time. LABOR VIEW IS SUBMITTED Commission Head Declares Meeting Called to Adjust Ambiguities and Correct evasions, but De clines to Restrict Scope. Questions of hours and wages in volving every Industry employing wom en in the state may be opened by the investigating committee recently ap pointed by the Industrial Welfare Com mission. The committee at its meeting in the Courthouse yesterday rejected a reso lution that would have limited the in vestigations to a codification of the ex isting rules on the subject and a cor rection of the vague and ambiguous sections. Whether or not the committee actu ally will revise the minimum-wage and maximum-hour regulations remains to be determined, but its action yesterday opens the way for such procedure, which, if followed, will prolong the agitation ot the subject for many months and perhaps for a year or more. Resulta Are Larking. Further than its decision in this par ticular the committee yesterday failed to take decisive action on any subject, although the whole category of condi tions affecting women workers of the state was discussed both formally and Informally. JtIvpe"tt"Ames, a member of the com mittee representing the employers, tried in every manner possible to ob tain from Father V. O'Hara, chair man of the Industrial Welfare body, a precise outline of the work that the committee is expected to do, but Father O'Hara refused to be put on reconj in this particular. "The prime purpose of calling this committee together," he said, "was to procure corrections for those provisions of the code that have been vague and which, for that reason, &ome employ ers have evaded or violated. Question of Rights Debated. "But if the committee chooses to open the wage question or the hour question Jt certainly has the right to do so." Mr. Ames, as well as Arthur C. Cal len, another representative of the em ployers. ' held to the opinion that the committee has no right to. consider questions other than those which it was called to consider. Discussion centered on this issuo through most of the afternoon, but when the question finally was put to vote a substantial majority opposed Mr. Ames and Mr. Callen. - The full membership of nine was) present yesterday as follows: Mr. Ames. Mr. Callen and Thomas Roberts, representing the employers; Mrs. Ij. Gee, Mrs. Rose Herst and Miss Neil Younger, representing the employes; and E. B. MacNaughton, Mrs. G. J. Frankel and W. L. Brewster, repre senting the general public. Mr. Mac Naughton is chairman. Limit of Action la Advocated. No sooner had1 the meeting opened than Mr. Ames introduced a resolution providing that the committee take no action that would reduce the maximum number of hours, or that woulu In crease the minimum wages now pre scribed for adult women worker. Mr. Brewster offered an amendment reading, "unless otherwise instructed by the Commission." Mrs. Gee delivered an earnest plea in opposition to the resolution, declar ing that the ultimate desire of women workers is an eight-hour day. and that the committee should do nothing that might prevent the consummation of that ideal. "The time has not arrived when we can even consider a step such as that contemplated by this resolution. Tho health of the women is to be taken into account in these questions, and it must be remembered that when a woman gets through working in n. store or a factory her day's work is not done. Only too frequently she must go home and do her own house work. Other states have adopted the eight-hour law with no apparent hard ship to the industries." Labor Resolution Introduces. At this juncture a resolution from a committee representing the Central La bor Council was Introduced and read. It pointed out that women frequently are forced to work because men don't get enough wages to support a. family; that women are attractive to the em ployers because they are willing to work for lower wages than the men. and that the general health of the em ployes should be an important factor in guiding the committee to its conclu sions. It recited that 48 hours a week is the maximum time that women should work and pledged the support of the labor organizations to this end. Mr. Brewster led the discussion back to thje original question proposed by Mr. Ames and expressed doubt as to tho committee's power to limit its investi gations as Mr. Ames desired, lie pointed Concluded ua fago 1, column 3-j