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VOL. IATi. NO. PORTLAND, OREGON, SATURDAY, APRIL 1. 1JI16. PRICE FIVE CENTS. VILLA ROUTED BY DODD'S TROOPERS STUDENTS' PRANKS FAIL TO MAKE HIT CONGRESS FAVORS BREAK WITH BERLIN WOMAN FIGHTS, BUT TWO 'COPS' ESCAPE NIGHT ATTACK ON MALANCOURT WINS BE CHEERFUL IF CLOTHING FADES BOOZE SALE WAVERS; PROSPERITY GAINS LINCOLN BOYS SENT HOME TO DOIT SPORT SHIRTS. WIFE AIDS COXTKACTOK IX RE SISTING WARRANT. NOTHING ELSE TO DO, AXYWAY, DEALERS SAY. Bandit. Loses 31 or More Men in Fight. ATTACK IS UKE WHIRLWIND Leader, His Hip Shattered, Flees in Wagon. FOUR AMERICANS WOUNDED Cavalrymen March 53 Miles In 17 Hours, Take Camp by Surprise and for Five Hours Chase Dispersing Outlaws. EL PASO, March 31. Four hundred American cavalrymen, under the com mand of Colonel George A. Dodd, whirl ing down "from the granite slopes of the great continental divide, have fallen like a thunderbolt on t!ie main body of Francisco Villa's bandits at the San Gerontao ranch, scattering them like chaff in the wind and driving the ban dit chief, wounded and crippled, to seek a hiding place in the mountains over which he has ruled for so many years. Villa was hurried from danger in a carriage. The battle opened at 6 o'cloel? in the uorning of March 29. Exploit Thrill Border. The news of the brilliant exploit of the American troopers was flashed over the Mexican wires into Juarez today and sent a thrill along the border. For 17 hours the veteran Colonel Dodd and his picked riders of the Seventh and Tenth Cavalry drove down the valley "of the PaTita Maria River. At the end of a 53-mile ride they burst upon the unsuspecting camp where 500 bandits were celebrating the massacre of 1 Carranza soldiers two days previously at Guerrero. Villa, shot through the leg and with one hip shattered, was hurried from the scene barely in time to escape the onslaught of the soldiers of the North. Rrnlstanrc Brief, Hut Honelcws. The bandits made a brief but hopeless stand before the fierce charge of Colo nel Dodd and his troopers. Then they broke and fled, laving 31 dead oh the field, including their commander. Gen eral Eliseo Hernandez. Two machine guns, several horses, rifles, ammuni tion and equipment fell into the hands of the victors. Among the known wounded is Pablo ".opez, Villa'e lieutenant in the Colum bus raid. The American casualties were four privates wounded. The American soldiers did not linger on the field of victory. For five hours they drove the enemy before them into the wilderness of mountain peak, desert and canyon, where roads, or even trails, are unknown and where a mts ' step means death to horse and rider. They halted only after the chase had led them ten miles from the battlefield md the fugitive were scattered far and wide in little bands of half a dozen men each. Villa's Power Broken, Villa's career has ended. His power has been broken. His death or capture is a question only of days, perhaps only hours. Such is the inevitable conclu sion reached here as little by little the details of "Dodd's ride" seep acro6s the border. It seems impossible that the crippled, defeated bandit can remain hidden long even in the mountainous wastes in which he has sought refuge. The scene of Colonel Dodd's victory Is a broad valley lying at. the bead of the Rio Santa Maria. On the west there are barren foothills of the con tinental divide and to the east is a trail, made famous by Villa, which leads through the Laguna de Castilla district to the ill-famed Santa Ysabel. It was at the latter place that Villa killed IS American mining men, a crime which r'tit a thrill of horror throughout the I'nited States and marked the begin ning of what many believe to be the end of his bloodstained career. It was toward Santa Ysabel that he was be lieved to have been heading when the Hoopers of the United States swept down from the North on his camp. Attack 1m Complete SnrpriNe. From the meagre details which have reached here from Mexican and Ameri- an military sources, it appears that 'Lionel Dodd's men made their way un-roti'-ed through the arroyos. or deep Kulclies. which split the foothills in nil directions, and were almost in the camp before the alarm was given. Villa is reported to have been in a nnall tent nursing his injuries when the crash of the American volleys awoke the bandits to panic-stricken action. The extraordinary hold the bandit "hief has over hie followers is shown ' y the fact that their first thought was lo save him. Unable to walk or ride, he was placed hurriedly in a light wagon and driven over the rough mountain trails to some secret lair. While 31 of the bandits are known to have been killed, it is said that the number may have been considerably larger. Nothing is yet know n as to the number of wounded, although pre sumably it is in proportion to the dead. American Reported Massacred. The last outrage placed to the ac count of Villa occurred at Minaca, a town about 10 miles southeast of Guer rro, on the Mexico & Orient Railroad. Here the bandits are reported to have murdered Herman Blankenberg, a mine Concluded on I'awe u. Column 3. j Girls Required to Tie l"p Stream ing Ifair and Old Custom lb Brought to an End. The spectacle of 220 bays and girls, members of the June, 16, class of Lin coln High School, attending classes, the boys in the soft sport shirts, with out ties, and the girls with their hair streaming rather unkempt down their backs, did not set well with Miss Caro line Barnes, senior class adviser. The result was many of the students who came thus attired were sent home to "do" up their hair and slip on neck ties; others who lived too far from Lincoln, being sent scurrying to the cloak rooms to make ties out of rib bons; to tie up hair with whatever they could borrow in the nature of pins and ribbons, and otherwise to tidy tip a bit. Principal Davis turned the trick after Miss Barnes had shown her disfavor. It has been a custom at Lincoln to do things that were attempted yes terday. It was understood that one day of the final term should be set aside for the girls to come to school with their hair streaming, and the boys to come in soft shirts, overalls, "loud" socks, and generally at variance with the well-laid rules of befitting school attire. Yesterday was set for the day. But Miss Barnes chose to bring the custom to a halt, and it is understood appealed to Principal Davis, and the edict was issued. WHIPPING POST ADVISED Judge Morrow Would Return to Good Old Days for Wife-Beaters. "Oh, for a whipping post!" sighed Circuit Judge Morrow yesterday. "With a whipping post law in effect I could mighty soon stamp out 90 per cent of these petty forgers and wife-beaters. Son, who needs a little money, and signs papa's name to a check would discontinue such practices if he thought, they would lead to a whipping post. Same way with lots of other small criminals. All they fear is pain." Judge Morrow was speaking apropos of nothing in particular. He is, and always has been, a strong advocate of the whipping post. When such a law was in effect, the result was salutary, he said. There Is need for it today, the jurist believes. BRANCH BOOTH HELD LEGAL Attorney-General Gives Opinion on Registration Law. Branch registration booths through out the city, as planned by County Clerk John B. Coffey in compliance with the requests of leading civic or ganizations are legal. This was the opinion of Attorney-General Brown yesterday when the quetsion w.s put up to him by District Attorney Evans. Appointment of deputies about the city . had been delayed awaiting legal construction of the registration law. A drop of more than 250 in regis tration was noticed yesterday, when the total for the day was 844. The year's total is divided as follows: Re publcan, 34.319; Democrat, 9S21; Inde pendent, 1668; Prohibitionist, 917; So cialist, 539; Progressive, 447. BILLY SUNDAY MAY COME Portland Ministers to Consider Invi tation to Evangelist. Billy Sunday may be brought to Portland to conduct evangelistic serv ices. The question of extending him an invitation to come to this city as soon as possible will come up Cor con sideration at the regular meeting of the Portland Ministers' Association to be held at 10:30 in the auditorium of the Young Women's Christian. Associa tion. Jack Godwin, converted gambler, who is conducting meetings at Centenary Methodist Episcopal Church, will he the speaker of the day. He will take as his subject "My Life in Christ." CHILD FALLS 200 FEET Girl Near Pendleton Survives, but Is Seriously Injured. PENDLETON, Or., March 31. (Spe cial.) Velma Fletcher, the little 6-year-old daughter of Robert Fletcher, a McKay Creek rancher, had a. narrow escape from death Wednesday when she fell over a cliff 200 feet high. As it was she sustained a bad scalp wound, a. fracture of the thigh and many bruises. The cliff was not perpendicular the full distance or death would have been certain. She rolled part of the way, bounding from ledge to ledge. $400,000 SAWMILL BEGUN Silverton Plant Will Employ About 500 Men When Completed. SILVERTON, Or., March 31. (Spe cial.) Ground was broken here today for the proposed new sawmill for . the Silver Falls Timber Company. The date for completion has been set for September 1. The new plant will cost about $100. 000. About 300 men will be employed at the mill here, and about 200 more at the logging camps. Fish Hatchery Included in Bill. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington. March 31. Representative Haw- ley s bill appropriating $50,000 for fish hatcheries on the Columbia River has been included in an omnibus fish hatch ery bill soon to be reported to the House Reports Change Senti ment of Leaders. PLEDGES BELIEVED BROKEN No Question of Armed Mer chantmen Involved. DETAILS ARE AWAITED President to Proceed With Greatest deliberation, So There May Be So Suspicion of Precipi tate Conclusion. BY JOHN CALLAN O'LAUGHLIN. WASHINGTON. March 31. (Special.) Additional facts which-have been re ceived by the State Department from American Ambassadors and Consuls in Europe strengthen the view held here that Germany has violated the assur ances given to the United Ctates with reference to submarine operations against unarmed merchantmen. As to the Sussex it has been dis closed that the torpedo sent against her was aimed at her quarter. Seeing the missile, the commander of the Sus sex turned the helm hard over, which caused the torpedo to strike the bow of the ship. The Eagle Point was tor pedoed without warning in a rough sea 142 miles from land. The crew escaped by a miracle. Periscope Seen Distinctly. The Manchester Engineer was tor pedoed without warning and before the missile was fired the periscope of a submarine was distinctly -sighted. With reference to the Englishman, it appears that she was still in motion when torpedoed; consequently there Is some justification for the attack on the ground that the vessel was trying to escape. Because of the seriousness of the sit uation and of the action he will take In the cases which have come to his at tention, the President, it was announced tod:'.y. intends to proceed with the greatest deliberation. He believes the Government should exhaust every pos sible source of information in order that the charge may not be made that relations with Germany were ruptured merely on suspicion and without tan gible evidence of guilt. Independent Inquiry Made. Therefore, he will wait until the Ger man government has received reports from its submarine commanders en gaged in anti-merchantmen operations. Within 10 days these reports" should be at hand. In the meantime the United States will continue its inquiry inde pendently. As soon as Germany has responded to the questions put by Am bassador Gerard, the President will be in a position to lay before Congress the situation and tell that body what he has decided to do. At the meeting of the Cabinet today, the German situation was discussed with the greatest care. Beyond decid ing to continue the Investigation, no 1 1 "on'-lutitd on Pag 4. Column l. t ' -, oun PETS. I I mut,st2o I HARD FOR HIM J r& WM JSfvfeW I j TO CRACK jk C:J j i dUpr IT I - t ... ....................... .................... ............................... ,4 First Policeman Gets "Worst of If and Second Is Sent. Botli Return Safely. Two police officers attempted to serve a "recog" warrant on W. O. Mun son, 1193 Mixter street, charging him with leaving dirt on a sidewalk last night, but Mr. Munson refused to ac eept service, and. the discomfited po lice had no recourse except to report that Mrs. Munson had slapped, one of them. Motorcycle Patrolman Morris was dispatched to the Munson home with the warrant. Nothing more was heard of the case until a woman neighbor of Mr. Munson's called the police station. "There's one of your officers out here In a fight," she said excitedly. "You'd better send him some help, for he seems to be getting the worst of it." Motorcycle Patrolman Tully was sent out ana the two at length returned safelj. The warrant did not empower the police to lock up Mr. Munson, because Judge Langguth had. specified that the man was to be released on his own recognizance. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YliSTER DAY'S Maximum temperature, 60 desrees; minimum, 4& degrees. TODAY'S Fair; northerly winds. Mexico. Villa routed hy Dodd's men ; escapes, wounded, into mountains; bandits lose many men. Page 1. Colon 'l Dodd, who led attack on Villa, to . retire fur agj in July. Page 2. War. Germans capture Malancourt by night at tack, on three sides. Page 1. Foreign. Liner Chiyo Maru ashore off Chinese coast. Page 5. Aviation servjee of Army shaken up. Page 2. National. Sentiment In Congress will support break with Germany when proof is adduced. Page 1. Government trailing men who plotted de struction of Welland Canal. Page 4. Daniels abandons plan for monster sub marines. Page 4, ' Domestic. Suits bought after this season not to be guaranteed against fading. Page 1. Stowaway describes his attempt to capture British steamship. Page Sport. Stars reach Corvallis for big meet. Pae 12. Fights in audience mark final game In world's hockey series. Page 12. Colored Giants slam Higginbotham and Sothoron to 5-2 defeat. Page 13. Benny Leonard outpoints Frddle Welsh. Page 12. . Pacific Northwest. Many farmers attend talks on dairying at Kelso. Page 4. Lumbermen at Centralia meetuip agree good times have ret urned. Page 7. Hood River growers may have stormy ses sion today. Page 6. Bank deposits in Oregon increase more than ?y,tMH,00o in year. Page 5. Commercial and Marine. Portland still leads Puget Sound with March wheat shipments. Page 16. Higher sugar prices in domestic markets are predicted. Page 17. Wheat lower at Chicago on better crop re ports. Page 17. Bear drive carries down rail stocks at New York. Page 1 7. Portland and Vicinity. Civii service head may be removed, is City Hall run. or. Page 10. Weather report, data and forecast. Page 17. Washington Hirh clean-up day is success. Page "l ti. Wood PhoT-'uKc fiToWs to 1I0O cords. Page 9. Lincoln High faculty spoils old - custom. Page 3. Political gossip. Page 5. Boom influx wavers, but prosperltv gains. Page 1. Spokane and Nevada protest rates granted to t 'oast cities. Faze Applirants to get 10,000 acres jcod'ay. Page tj. Walmreas clinch lead in Y. M". C. A. contest. Page 7. Germans Assault VII lage on 3 Sides. OTHER TRENCHES CAPTURED French Say They Have Won Back Part of Ground. FIERCE BATTLE IS FOUGHT Throughout Night Before De fenders Abandon Ruins 3 28 Prisoners Taken. PARIS, March 31. The Germans, in a fierce attack on French positions northeast of Hill 205 in the Le Mort Homme region, some three miles east of Malancourt, gained a footing in some of the French first-line trenches, but were immediately driven out In a vigor ous counter attack, according to the French communication Issued tonight. The Germans have made no attempt to debouch from Malancourt, which they hold VillBKe Taken by Storm. The village of Malancourt was taken by storm, attacks being delivered from three sides last night. The village is In ruins, but the French War Office declares that French troops are still holding the outskirts. Fierce infantry fighting lasted for the entire night before the French withdrew from the untenable position in the village, the official statement adds. The Germans again tried to carry by assault the position which the French had won back in the Avocourt Wood, but they were repulsed. East of the .Meuse the night was calm. Battle I.antM All Night. "West of the Meuse. the bombard ment of Malancourt has gone on with redoubled violence," says the official statement issued early today. "Last night the Germans delivered a series of attacks in massed formation. They ad vanced from three sides at a time upon the village which formed the advanced salient of our line .and which shel tered one of our battalions. "After furious fighting all night long which entailed considerable sacrifices on the part of the enemy, our troop evacuated the ruined village, but we still hold its outskirts." BERLIN', via London, March 31. Capture of the village of Malancourt, in the Verdun region west of the Meuse. was announced by the War Office to day. The Germans took 32S prisoners. Portland Real Estate Man Elected. NEW ORLEANS, Marrh 51. Milwau kee was chosen as the 1917 convention city of the National Association of Real Estate Exchanges, and Henry P. Una?, of Pittsburg, was elected pres ident today. Frank N. Clark, of Port land, was elected as one of the vice-presidents. Supply of l ast Dyes Wholly Inade quate and Manufacturers Re fuse All Guarantees. NRW YORK, .March 31. Purchasers of new suits after the present season are warned by the National Associa tion of Clothiers, in a circular sent out today, that, if the garment fades, "they must learn to accept the situa tion as one over which no m-tll. manu facturer or retailer can exercise con trol." "The complete cessation of imports of coal tar dyes." the letter, which is sent to all retail clothing merchants In the United States, continues, "the rapid exhaustion of domestic supplies, and the Inadequacy of American pro duction have caused most woolen and worsted mills to refuse color guaran tee of their fabrics for the Fall and Winter seasons. "Surely the American public can be trusted to meet this condition cheer fully, if everybody is frank about it." OREGON DEER SENT EAST Grants Pass Dealer Ships Two to Washington and Eight to Missouri. GRANTS PASS, Or.. March 31. (Spe cial.) A consignment from the Wells Fargo express office in this city to day which attracted more than ordi naary attention was that of 10 Colum bia blacktail deer shipped by Herman Horning,' a confectioner and wild ani mal dealer of Grants Pass. The deer range from yearlings to 7-year-old animals. Two were consigned to the Zoological Park in Washington, D. C, while eight were for a private deer park at Independence, Mo. Mr. Horning has shipped a great many deer and panthers to Eastern zoos and museums. GRIEF KILLS J. J. LAWLER Dcntli of Husband Ascribed to Loss of Wife and Infant. To grief at the death of his wife and child is ascribed the demise of James J. Lawler, of 755 Williams ave nue, who passed away yesterday morn ing at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Lawler, 300 Eugene street. Mrs. Mario Lawler. his wife, died February 12. and her new born baby survived only a few weeks. The husband was employed by the Log Cabin Baking Company as a baker. He leaves a little son, Edward. At 9 o'clock Monday morning funeral services will be held from St. Mary's Church. GIRL ATTACKED BY BOAR Neighbors Rescue Las of 12 After She Is Badly Mangled. WOODLAND, Wafh. March 31. (Special.) Word has just reached here of the serious and perhaps fatal mang ling of the little 12-year-old daughter of N. Franklin, who lives about three miles east of Woodland. The little girl, while passing through the pasture of a neighbor, was attacked by a boar In the herd, who tore a piece out of the girl's thigh, and also out of the left forearm. The girl's screams attracted the at tention of neighbors, who rescued her before the hog had devoured the flesh torn from the girl, which ho ihad stopped to do after the attack. ALCOHOL SALE REGULATED Aberdeen Requires Permit l'rom Chief of Police for Purchases. ABERDEEN. Wash.. March 31. (Special.) For the purpose of pro curing more rigid enforcement of the dry law the Aberdeen City Council has passed an ordinance requiring all pur chasers of alcohol to obtain a permit from the Chief of Police. The ordi nance prohibits an"y drug store from selling liquor to a customer without a permit. The penalty for the viola tion of the new law goes as high as a fine of $100 plus a jail term of 30 days. Alcohol sales in Aberdeen have grown tenfold since January. NEW YORK WOMAN IS SPY American Artist to Do Banished by Swiss for Aiding Germans. BERNE, Switzerland, via Paris, March 31. ;Charlotte von Kuehnan, an artist of New York, who has been re siding for some time in Lucerne, was sentenced today to imprisonment for two months, followed by banishment, on a charge of havirg engaged in se cret service work in behalf of Ger many. It id said she was implicated in a plot with a German agent named Latt ke and a girl named Corlln, both of whom received the same sentences as the New York woman. BLUEJACKETS DIE IN GALE Forty Britons Drown Attempting to Reach Ship. LONDON. March 31. During the gale of Tuesday night between 40 and 45 bluejackets belonging to the British light cruiser Conquest lost their lives while attempting to rettirn to their ship. The men werebeing towed out in a large cutter when the hawser broke. The cutter drifted away and presum ably capsized. March Has a Slight Drop in Arrests. BETTER LIVING IS INDICATED Druggists Join Police in Fight on Alcohol Evil. "JOY-RIDING" IS ON WANE Merchants Report Increased Trade. With Cash Available Savings Accounts in Banks Con tinue to Increase. THREE MONTHS OF PROHIBI TION IV PORTLAND. March shows slight slump in arrests for drunkenness and vagrancy. Violators continue to trifle with dry law and pay penalty. Express shipments will show double increase over momh of February. Chief of Police Clark says bootleggers and blind pig of fenders are learning their les son. He predicts a gradual wan ing of the illicit sales evil. Druggists would welcome re striction of alcohol sales, tend ing to prevent perjured affida vits. Business men are satisfied with conditions, which are improving. More money is being spent for the necessities and comforts of life since booze wont by the board. March came Into the Portland arena with the lion of liquor roaring his fiercest. The previous month had shown a marked increase over Janu ary in the external evidences of intem perance, and the condition seemed prob able to continue Its wayward course. Yet the month comes to a close with the slightest slump apparent in the liquor traffic. It has not been a successful monti: from the prohibition standpoint far from it but the figures of arrests for drunkenness and vagrancy show a de crease. The squad of tipplers who appearer' hi Tolicc Court during February mus tered 16n offenders. Up to last night the total for the month of March ar rested for drunkenness is -58. IJto Arrested In ' 'elrunry. In th" month of February l.;0 grants were taken in charge by the po lice .nd sentenced to Jail or hustled out of the city. March records show only 123 arrests of those whom the law classifies as vagrants. These figures compare significantly with the records for the month ot March in 191F. under the "wet" regime During the same month of the previous year 537 arrests were made for drunk enness and 296 arrests for vagrancy. The totaled figures compare at 2S1 to 833 and the police are grateful for the relief. Those who persist in believing that an easy living may be mad: from the sale of liquor in violation of the "dry" law will soon be weeled from the city, predicts Chief of Police John Clark. Police Carry On Campaign. "Every man on the force has Instruc tions to keep right after them all the time." said Chief Clark. "And we're going to keep after them. We have made more than 60 arrests for viola tions of the 'dry" law since the first of the year.. The trouble was that many of them had stocked up heavily. They want to get rid of the booze, and they take all sorts of chances to get the money. As soon as this stock Is ex hausted things will ease up." Typical of the measures resorted to in bringing liquor into the city for the underground traffic was tlie rectf f shipment of two heavily-laden trunks from San Francisco. They were unload ed at the North Bank depot as appar ent baggage. Someone smelled out the secret, perhaps, for '"ie prorer author ities were notified and the trunks found to contain a complete stock of wines and liquors and nothing else. No One Iuts In Claim to Liqnor. The owner never appeared to claim them. One of the defendants in a re cent liquor case Is believed to be the consignee of the trunks, which were taken to the District Attorr.e s office as confiscated evidence. Due to the increased vigilance of the police and their growing familiarity with the game of eatch-ng the pestifer ous bling-pig operator and bootlegger, the arrests of prohibition violators dur ing the closing month show an increase over February. Seventeen arrests -were made on that charge during February. March pre sents 27 booze vendors. Of the 27 cases for violation of the prohibition law tried before the Mu nicipal Court. 17 convictions were ob tained. Three were discharged after trial, fix dismissed because of insuffi cient evidence and one bound over to the grand Jury. The grand total of fines levied in the Municipal Court against prohibition (.Concluded m Pact 4. Column