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VOL,. LVI.-NO. 17,266. PORTLAND, OREGON, FRIDAY, 31 ARCH 24, .1916. PRICE FIVE CENTS. HERRERA TO RESIST A i,i E R CAN ADVANCE Carranza and Villa Also Held Foes. MEXICAN CHARGES BETRAYAL First Chief Deserted for Per mitting Invasion. CONSUL DENIES REVOLT D Tacto Government Agent Says He Has Telegram From Herrera 1, Himself and Another From V Carranza. Field Chief. " F.L r.SO, Tel. March 23. Consul Gircli made public tonlsht a llmrm which be said he had received from General Gavira. announcing; that the Carransiataa had defeated Villa today at Santa Gertrude, near Aaniiquipa. According to the announcement. Villa, after leaving; aeveral dead and wounded In the field, abandoned lOO horse and fled to El Oso. EIj PASO, Tex., March 23. General Luis Herrera baa revolted against Gen eral Carranza and has declared that he will resist with all his power the entry of American troops Into Mexico, but is still opposed to Villa, according to reports from sources believed re liable received here today. The news of Ilerrera's defection was considered sufficiently authentic for General Bell to telegraph General, Funston at San Antonio that he be lieved It to be true. Revolt Denied by Consul. General Hell added to his message, however, the emphatic denial of Her Tera's reported revolt issued here to day by Mexican Consul Andres Garcia, which was supported by telegrams eaid to have been received from Gen eral Herrera himself and General Gutierrez, Carranza's field chief. General Herrera has been known as a personal enemy of Villa. His pres en position is said to be that the de facto government has betrayed Mexican interests in permitting the soldiers of the United States to enter Mexican territory and that this betrayal out weighs whatever offenses Villa has committed. Fhysician Discredits Report. Among arrivals here today from Chihuahua City was Dr. J. O. H. Newby, an American physician, who formerly was chief surgeon to Carranza's army. iJr. Newby said that he was no longer officially connected with the army, but that he was transacting some business between the de facto government and Washington. Jle insisted that the re ports of Herrera's defection must be untrue, as he knew the General well and believed him absolutely loyal to General Carranza. Dr. Newby said General Gutierrez had 4000 men strung out between Chihua hua and Santa Ana, the latter town about 20 miles south of Namiquipa, with which he believed he could pre vent Villa from breaking through to the south. He said, however, that there were many desertions from the Carranza army on account of the low pay. The government soldiers, he said, received two Mexican dollars a day, worth about 5 cents - in American money. Task Held Almost Impossible. According to the physician, the Amer ican troops have an almost impossible task to catch Villa if the bandit chief ver reaches his haunts in the Sierra Madre around Guerrero. "I know that country well." he said, "and with good reason. For 30 or 40 days I was hunted there by 300 to 600 Orozco soldiers who wanted to drive me out of a mine I had. I was alone. but they never had a chance. I had a .rood rifle with a powerful telescopic ight and I used to sit up there in those mountains watching my pursuers passing backward and forward. There was never one that got within 800 yards that I did not wing. It took 18 months for General Miles to capture Geronimo and the Villa prob lem is Geronimo over again, only mul tiplied about 100 times." Dr. Xewby said that up to three days ago the people of Chihuahua City knew nothing of the crossing of American troops in Mexico. ntPOKTS ri'ZZLE JTXSTOX KcfuUs of State Department Inquiry Awaited Anxiously. SA.V ANTONIO. Tex.. March 23. With a message from General Bell be fore him confirming his report of yes terday that General Luis Herrera had revolted with 2000 men in Chihuahua, and a collection of evidence at hand from unofficial sources denying the alleged revolt. General Funston was as puzzled tonight as to the exact status of affairs in Mexico as he was this morning. General Bell was the first to Inform General Funston that Herrera was re ported to have Joined Villa In his fight against the United States. General Funston instructed General Bell to in vestigate the report and inform him of developments. The laconic message late today that he had "confirmed" his report of yesterday was General Bell's reply. He did not report additional facts concerning the sew movement (Concluded on Fsss 3.Columo I.) VILLA STOPS TRAIN TO KILL AMERICANS BANDIT CHIEF PERSONALLY SEARCHES COACHES. Force of 1500 Men Seen at Town 85 Miles From Flacc Where Outlaw Was Said to Be. EL. PASO. Tex.. March 23. Garcia Flores, a Spanish merchant of the city of Chihuahua, who arrived here to night, said that Francisco Villa had held up a train on which he was travel ing at Moctezuma, 85 miles northeast from Namlqulpa, where the Carranza authorities have insisted the bandit chief was located. Flores is well known in business circles in El Paso. "We were traveling north from Chihuahua City," he said, "and were ne.aring Moctezuma on Wednesday when we encountered a large force of men. mounted and on foot, surround ing the station. There must have been 1500 in all. "When we reached the station we were amazed to see Pancho Villa him self enter the train. We had supposed he was many miles to the west. He walked through every 'carriage, de claring that he was searching for Americans and that he would kill any he found. 'I am not fighting Mexi cans,' he announced, 'except the first chief and those traitors with him who have turned Mexico over to the Amer icans.' "Villa stopped to chat with some friends of his who were on the train. He told them that General Herrera had Joined him three days, ago with 2000 men, fully equipped and armed, who had followed him from Chihuahua City. He finally left the train without mo lesting anyone, but he took some sup plies which he said he needed badly. RUSSIAN LOSS 2,542,639 Jeivisli Correspondent liases Fijrnrcs on List Obtained Secretly. NEW YORK. March 23. Losses in the Russian army, killed, wounded and missing, for one year, January 1 to December 31, 1915, were 2,542,639, ac cording to Boris S. Schumacher, a Jew ish newspaper correspondent, who ar rived here today from Petrograd via Copenhagen on the steamship United States. Mr. Schumacher exhibited printed lists of names which he said were of ficial Russian reports of casualties and which he said he secretly ' obtained while in Petrograd. LEGATION CLERK ARRESTED Bulbars Accuse American of Bribing Government Employe. PARIS, March 23. A dispatch to the Balkan agency from Bucharest todav says the chief clerk of the American legation at Sofia is reported to have been arrested by the Bulgarian author ities, accused of giving a present to an employe for using greater haste than ordinary in issuing passports. The American Minister is said to have protested energetically to the Bulgarian government, insisting on the clerk's immediate release. DAY'S REGISTRATION IS 965 Total to Bate 10,17 6, of Which 28,793 Are Republicans. To date 40.176 voters have registered at the Courthouse. By April 18, 1914, 70,000 voters had registered. Only 23 more days remain for registering. For a time last week the daily totals exceeded 1000. Yesterday there were 965 names added. The total registration is as follows: Republican, 2S.793; Democrat. 8354; In dependent, 14C9: Prohibitionist, 749; Socialist, 475; Progressive, 3t8. BIG TANKER IS ORDERED American Steamer Costing $1,250. 000 to Be Built on Coast. SAN FRANCISCO. March 23. Con tracts for the construction of a steel oil tanker steamer, costing $1,250,000, which will fly the American flag on the Pacific, were let. today to the Moore & Scott Iron Works by the Hausteca Petroleum Company of New York. The vessel will be built in Oakland. It will be 425 feet long, with a beam of 57 feet and a depth of 34 feet. Con tracts call for its completion in 15 months. AIRCRAFT OFFERED ARMY Aero Club Also Enlists Volunteers for Service in Mexico. NEW YORK, March 23. In a tele gram sent to President Wilson today, the Aero Club of America offered for Army use in Mexico two high-powered aeroplanes, which, the club says, ex cel in every way the present army flying' equipment. The telegram also said the Aero Club had already listed 19 licensed aviators as volunteers for service in Mexico. WILSON'S EYES TREATED President Makes Secret Trip to Philadelphia for Examination. WASHINGTON. March 23. President Wilson was back in Washington tonight- after a brief visit to- Philadel phia to have his eyes examined. The President was seen by a com paratively small number of people In Philadelphia because his plans had been kept secret. After seeing the ooculist, he called on his sister. Mrs. Ann Sows, ARMY MEN EXPECT CALL FOB MILITIA Presidio Thinks Order Is Imminent COAST ARTILLERY IS WAITING Men May Be Sent to Front in Mexico as Infantry. FEW REGULARS REMAINING Only 18 Companies of Mobile Troops licft in Western Department. Headquarters Looking for Orders to Move South. PAN FRANCISCO. March 23. (Spe cial.) All members of the National Guard of the states included In 'the Western Department are likely to be called into active service at an hour's notice, it was rumored at the Presidio today. The militia force in this department numbers 583 officers and 8796 men. It is unofficially understood that It may be only a matter of days before the organized militia from all parts of the United States will be called on to serve with the colors. Under the ex isting militia law the guardsmen must so anywhere within the borders of the United States that they' are ordered to go, but they may not be sent outside the United States until they are mus tered into Federal service. Coast Artillery May He Sent. Coast Artillery troops of the regu lar Army may be sent to the Mexican border as infantry, leaving the Coast Artillery reserve to safeguard Pacific Coast fortifications. It is believed, however, that the regular Coast artil lerymen will not go to the front un less in case of great emergency, but there is still a chance that they will be called to the border. There today remain in the Western Department only 18 companies of mo bile troops. Four of these companies are in Alaska. It is expected that within 24 hours all the companies, other than those in Alaska, will be ordered couth. The troops that will be the first to uo are the fiye remaining com panies of the Twenty-first Infantry at Vancouver barracks and the eight com panies of the Fourteenth Infantry at Fort Lawton and Fort George Wright, Washington. Hospital Corps Kxpecia Orders. Orders are expected here at any moment to entrain Field Hospital Com pany No. 2 and Field Ambulance No. 2 from the Presidio of Monterey to the border line. The cooks' and bakers' school at Monterey is expecting orders' to go south. Army officers here believe that it will be merely a matter of days before word comes to recruit volunteers for Mexican duty. These are only a few of the local de velopments in the Mexican situation (Concluded on Pare '1. Column 1.) ONE OF THOSE IRVIN S. COBB TO COVER WILLARD-MORAN FIGHT FOR THE OREGO NIAN. Irvin S. Cobb, one of the ablest descriptive writers in America, as well as one of the most celebrated, will cover the Willard-Moran fight in New York next Saturday night for The Oregonian. Mr. Cobb has been engaged by a large Eastern syndicate to paint a word picture of the world's championship battle for a select number of American, newspapers. In Portland The Oregonian will be the only pa per to publish this splendid fea ture. Mr. Cobb will have a place at the ringside and will file his story on the telegraph wire there. In his own inimit able style he will describe the fight and accompanying scenes fully and completely. Mri' Cobb is the correspond-' ent who, when the European conflict broke out, hastened by .steamer to the coast of France and thence "went to war in a taxicab." Some of the articles he wrote at the front appeared in The Oregonian. Others were published in the Saturday Evening Post, to which he is still a regular contributor. - In addition to Mr. Cobb's arti cle The Oregonian will publish a full and accurate account of the fight to be furnished by the Associated Press, which has made adequate arrangements for covering the great event. A ringside description of the fight by rounds will be included in this report and there will be other features. Nothing will be omitted which may contribute toward -making complete The Oregonian's covering of the big sporting event of the year. SECOND RAIDER IS FELLED - . Only - Two German. Planes Escape After Attack on Kent. LONDON, March 23. Advices received from Dover by the press association say that a second German seaplane was brought down after the raid made by four German aeroplanes over the Kent coast last Sunday. It ie said a British airman who was crossing the Channel in a new aero plane saw the raid in progress, and joining in the chase of the Germans succeeded in bringing down one of their machines. Hungary Kxteuds Its Active List. LONDON, March 23. Men of the Hun garian landsturm born in 1868 and 1869 and also the men belonging to the classes of 1S65 and 1897, who hitherto have been employed in making mate rials of war. now are dismissed from this service and ordered to join the army on April 5. according to a Reuter dispatch from Zurich. OCCASIONS WHEN A FELLOW NEEDS A FRIEND. nicnpon SON-IN-LAW IS HELD New York Dentist Cow1 DUAL LIFE IS CONFESSED Affinity Is Sought; Suspect Drugs Himself Too. VICTIM'S WIFE DEAD, ALSO Grand llapids Pair Die Within Few Weeks and Cause of Million aire's Death -Revealed by Mysterious Telegram. NEW YORK, March 23. In a stupor from self-administered drugs, Dr. Ar thur Warren Waite, a dentist and well known as a tennis player, was In the custody of detectives tonight and will be charged with the murder here on March 12 of his father-in-law, John E, Peck, a millionaire drug manufacturer of Grand Rapids. Mich., as soon as he can be taken Into court. With the arrest of Dr. .Waite, the District Attorney's office believes it has uncovered what will prove one of the most remarkable cases in many years. Estate of $1,300,000 Left. Mr. Peck, who is reputed to have left an estate valued at about $1,500,000 and his wife, died within six weeks while visiting their daughter and her husband at their Riverside Drive apart ments here. By the will of Mr. Peck, his estate was equally divided between Mrs. Waite and Percy Peck, of Grand Rapids, his son. Mrs. Waite now Is seriously ill at, Grand Rapids. District Attorney Swann said today he had learned she has been instructed by Dr. Waite to make a will In his favor. When detectives went to the Waite apartment today, they found the young dentist in bed, apparently in great pain. Dr. A. A. Moore, the physician who at tended Mr. . Peck v.-hile he was here, declared Dr. Waite was suffering from overdoses of narcotics. Three Different Drusa Found. Considerable quantities of three dif ferent drugs were found in the den tist's clothing, and he said he had taken some of each kind, beginning yesterday morning. Asked how much he had taken, he replied: "Plenty." District Attorney Swann went to the house with a stenographer to take a statement from the dentist but Dr. Waite was in a stupor. Dr. Moore said his patient probably would be able to go to court tomorrow. In the mean time. Dr. Waite will be closely guarded. The arrest of Dr. Waite was ordered today after an investigation by Dis trict Attorney Swann, based on the re sult of an autopsy on Mr. Peck's body, which revealed strong symptoms of poisoning-- The case was placed in the hands of the grand jury today after Dora Heiler. a negro maid at Dr. (Concluded on Paso 4. column 4. DOG TEAMS RUSH STRIKE MEDIATORS AliASKA RAILWAY ARBITRATORS HURRY TO CAMP. 600 Disaffected Laborers on Govern ment Road Continue Work i Pending Wage Settlement. SEWARD, Alaska.. March 23. J. A. Moffet. B. M. Squires and Hywell Davies, members of the Mediation and Conciliation Commission, appointed by the Department of Labor to settle the wage dispute between the Alaska En gineering Commission and workmen em ployed on, the construction of the Gov ernment railroad, arrived today from Seattle. Chairman Moffet said the Commis sion would leave over the trail for Anchorage tomorrow. Three of the best racing dog teams at Anchorage have been sent to convey the Com missioners from the end of Mile 34 to the construction camp. The Commis sion conferred today with R. J. Weir, engineer in charge of the Government work here. The labor trouble at Anchorage be gan February 7. when 60 track layers quit because their demand for increased pay from 37 cents an hour to 50 cents an hour was rejected. A fed eral labor union was organized at An chorage. with more than 600 members. and a general strike called to enforce a minimum wage of 60 cents an hour. Upon the recommendation of Presi dent Samuel Gompers. of the Ameri can Federation of Labor, the men went back to work pending a settlement of the wage dispute by the arbitration commission. CIRCUIT COURT THE HAGUE International Strife Settled by Com' mission of Lawyers. V "H m, so the international dispute has come to The Hague for settlement," commented . Circuit Judge McGinn when Attorneys C. T. Haas and Hurl- burt & Layton appeared before him and declared that the prospect of se curing a neutral jury in the German Italian disagreement was remote, and suggested arbitration. The attorneys formed a committee, went into executive session and emerged with a peace pact that was signed by all parties and approved by the court. The German Publishing Company, accused of trying to wreck L'ltalico, agreed to pay claims of the plaintiff company. KETTLE COOKS CHILD Curious Baby Places Mouth Over Steam Spout Death Averted. TACOMA, Wash., March 23. (Spe cial.) Infant curiosity nearly caused the death of Carl P. Klemme, Jr., 3 year-old son of Carl P. Klemme, a sur veyor, who is in the hospital recover ing from his investigation of the spout of a tea kettle. The' little fellow took advantage of his mother's momentary absence from the kitchen to stand tip-toe and put his mouth over the spout of the steam ing kettle. The inside of the child"; mouth and throat was cooked by the steam and boiling water, so that breathing was almost stopped and the child nearly choked to death. Prompt medical care saved his life. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The "Weaiheiv- TEPTERDAT'S Maximum temperature 47 degrees; minimum, do decrees. TODAY'S Partly cloudy and occasionally threatening wcatner; westerly winds. Mexico. Arm y men expect call for militia soon. Page 1. Villa holds . up train to kill Americans. Page 1. General Herrera to oppose American in vasion, fight Villa, too. Pace 1. Iost Army aviator reduced on desert. Page 1 Vancouver battalion leaves this morning for Mexican border. Page 6. Border disturbed by rumored movements of Mexican troops. Page 2. Con press ready to authorize more troops ior .Mexico on snort notice. Page J. War. Russians take three lines of German trenches with bayonets. Page 4. Moewe's commander jclves reminiscences of raiding voyage. Page 4. French position held precarious. Page 4. Foreign. Chinese republican army demands resigna tion of Yuan Sh Kai. Page S. National. Army bill passes House, 402 to 2. Page S. Plan to force cities to buy grant lands in dicated In Hcuse. Page 6. United States soon to define Its attitude toward entire submarine question. Page o. Domestic. Millionaire's death from poison laid to son-in-law. Page 1. Sport. Wlllard takes sport In hard training. Page 14. Bout h worth' plans 50 steals this season. Page 14. Beavers battle gingery six innings for theater tickets. Page 14. Pacific Northwest. Rev. Mr. Trimble answers Commissioner'a latest criticism. Page 7. Enthusiasm greets railroad's party of agri cultural experts. Page J. Inauguration ceremonies begin at Pullman. Page T. Dog teams rush mediators to Alaska rail way strike scene. Page 1. Northwest f rultmen organize at Spokane. Page 3. Commercial and Marine. Prohibition of hop imports into England will injure American market Page 19. Wheat declines at Chicago on renewed sub marine activity. Page 19. Mexican shares, especially oils, drop in Wall street. Page 19. Seamen's dilemma is placed up to Washing- ington bureau. page is. Norwegian bark Undfleld. from Portland, sunk in war sone. Page 18. Portland and Vicinity. E. T. Gray, one of Mr. Daly's foremen. ; charged with scores or offenses. Page 8. Civil Service Board and Council agree on modification or rules. Page . , Landseekers' line now numbers 13. Page 8. ', Portland and Seattle Y. M. C. A. to com pete for members. Page IS. Opera season opens tonight. Page 11. Governor Strong says Alaskan trade is opea to Portland. Pag a 6. LOST ARMY AIRMAN RESCUED Oil DESERT American Lieutenant Is Foodless 24 Hours. TANK FILLED; FLIGHT RESUMED Officer Stays by Plane After Gasoline Leaks Away. MOTOR TRAIN FINDS HIM I'll Get There This Time Say Aviator, as He Hiscs and. Flies Toward Casas Grandes AH of Squad Now Safe. COLUMBUS. X. M., March 23. Lieu tenant Edfrar S. Gorrell. of the United States Aero Corps, who has been missing since last Sunday, was found today three miles south of Ascencton by a motor truck train under Lieu tenant J. L. Tarkinson, Twentieth In fantry, according to reports made to night to military headquarters here. Lieutenant Gorrell was uninjured, but was out of gasoline and had lost his way. Lieutenant Gorrell had been alone for 48 hours in the middle of a sand swept, uninhabited plateau on the bor ders of Lake Frederico, formerly used for a watering place for stock, but suf fered only slightly from exposure. His plane was intact. Gaitollue Leak In Caune. All of the eight army aviators who left Sunday to fly to Casas Grandes have been accounted for. The flyer said that shortly after the start he lost sight of the other planes and missed his way. After flying for miles over the surrounding country in an effort to determine his whereabouts he was forced to alight on the plateau because of a leaking fuel tank. The gasoline oozed away and he was unable to find the leak In the darkness. There were no signs of human habi tation and no vegetation on the height except burned clumps of bunchgrass. He finally made his way to a recently abandoned American camping place on the wagon trail about six miles south east. There he placed a note telling of his whereabouts and conditions on a stick which he drove firmly in the ground near the trail. Man Koodleaa 24 Hours. Being unwilling to leave his plan unprotected, he made his way back to the lake, with the realization that it he attempted to find a village he prob ably would wander in the hills at the risk of- encountering banUits or wild animals. He said he was confident that his note would be found before the three days' rations with which he was supplied gave out. When he was rescued he had been without food for 21 hours and said that ne- had about determined to attempt to find his way to succor. Aboard the trucks which reached him were several barrels of gasoline, and, with the aid of some tools obtained from the truck men. Lieutenant Gorrell soldered hi tank and resumed his flight, which he predicted would end in Casas Grandes in an hour. He left the earth with a wave of the hand to the soldiers on the truck train as he shouted, "I'll get there this time, boys." Death Regarded Possible. The party from the motor found Lieutenant Gorrell sitting under the wing of hi plane in an attempt to shade himself from the intense glare of the sun. "It was a long, lonesome wait," he said. "One in which I could not help but feel that I was face to face with death. But I .was comforted by the thoughts that some of the American troops on their way to Casas Grandes could not help but find my note. Tet, there were times when 1 was about ready to give up." For several days aeroplane scouts and cavalrymen from Casas Grandes have been searching the hills of North ern Chihuahua for some trace of Lieu tenant Gorrell. or of his plane. When he failed to report today Army men practically gave up hope of his safety. MR. DILL TREATED AS BABY Representative Front 'Washington Does Not Impress Mere Clerk. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wasl- ington, March 23. Representative Dill, of Washington, one of the "baby mem bers" of the House of Representatives meaning a first-termer appeared at the National Press Club with other new members at a baby night entertain ment- When called on to speak, Mr. Dill related some of his experiences as a new member. One day Mr. Dill had a matter to at tend to at the Indian Office, and went there in person. He was referred to some mere clerk, who listened more or less inattentively to what he had to say. After Mr. Dill had made known his wants, the clerk magnanimously said. "All right; you go back and tell Repre sentative Dill I will attend to this for him." Bootlegger Suspect Arrested. SALEM, Or.. March 23. (Special.) Frank Lyniss was arrested today by Sheriff Esch on a farm tn miles north of Salem. He la wanted by author ities at South Bend, Wash., on a charge of bootlegging. Lyniss recently time here with his family from South Band.