Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937, April 03, 1916, Page 2, Image 2

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    TITE MORNING OREGONIAN, MONDAY, -APRIL' 3, 1916.
CAVALRY IS RIDING
OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPH OF AMERICAN TROOPS IN MEXICO AND
LEADER.
LATE PORTRAIT OF BANDIT
STEEL PRODUCTS
IN URGENT DEMAND
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Snow and Rain Cut Troopers
to Skin as They. Search
Mountains for Villa.
MOTOR TRAIL THREATENED
IJxtra Precautions Taken- to Guard
Communications, on Rumors
That Bandits Are Gathering
tor an Attack on Iilne.
.ML.UMBUS, N. M. April 2. North
from the town of Guerrero and east of
the line of the Mexico Northwestern
Railroad, though Arroyos and over
trails that lead through the iuttee ami
canyons of the Sierro Tarahumare,
American cavalrymen of the Seventh
Regiment are riding night and day
seeking Francisco Villa, according to
the latest reports received from field
headquarters at Colonia Dublan.
Little information concerning the
pursuit filtered over the border today,
and nothing definite was received from
official sources. There were persist
ant rumors, however, that the forces of
Colonel Dodd had captured the man
who wag once the "Robin Hood" of
Mexico, but because of the difficulty
in communication have been unable to
make a report. Late advices from the
camp of General J. J. Pershing at the
front said that the track of a vehicle
believed to be Che carriage carrying
Villa in his flight had been discovered.
Cavalry Riding In Gale.
Other advices said that the American
cavalrymen were riding through the
mountains in the teeth of a heavy gale,
which, now mingled with snow and
now with drizzling rain, cut through
the army blouse and sweater into the
very vitals of the men, but that not a
single man indicated, a desire to give
up the eearch.
Army men here were considerably
disturbed today by numerous warnings
from confidential sources that Villista
adherents are gathering in the Chihua
hua desert, both north and south of
Ascension and near the motor trail
leading from Columbus to Casas Gran
des, for the purpose of attempting to
cut the American line of communica
tion. An extra heavy guard of infan
trymen, with specific instructions in the
tvent of an attack, was placed on a
truck train which left here for the
front today. Isolated camps of soldiers
guarding the line were reached by the
field telegraph and ordered to watch
closely for signs of hostile forces.
Americans' "Wounds Not Serious.
Unofficial information also had It
that several score of Villa's adherents,
who were captured or wounded in the
engagement of San Geronimo ranch
last Wednesday, were expected to ar
rive here during the night. The four
American troopers wounded in the same
battle, it was said, suffered wounds
which are not sprious enough to neces
sitate their being brought here, and
they probably will be taken to the field
hospital at Casas Grandes for treat
ment. When Jesus Sanca and his daughter
crossed the American line today a:
Palomas, the first Mexican town
through which the American troops
passed on the way to the front was left
without human inhabitants. A few
lonely dogs were howling at the doors
of the huddled dirty little group of
Mexican huts, which made up the town.
Sanca, 82 years old, crossed into the
United States in a prairie schooner,
such as used by the "Forty-niners."
Loaded in it were his household goods,
while from the rear swung a water
bucket, under which trotted a stubby
tailed dog. The horses were hitched to
the wagons by means of harness fash
ioned from canvas cartridge belts dis
carded by Villistas in their flight from
Columbus.
Sanca said that one by one the resi
dents had left the town. He, himself,
he said, finally left alone, was bound
for Deming, N. M., "para siempere"
(for always).
FISHING BILL HELD UP
X.'nion Asks to Present Objection to
Ratification cf Pact.
. OREGOXIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash
ington. April 2.--The Senate committee
on fisheries. Senator Lane presiding,
was about to vote today on the Cham
berlain bill ratifying the agreement
between the states of Oregon and
Washington governing fisheries in the
Columbia River, when Andrew Furu
seth, representing the Fishermen's
Union, appeared to protest against fa
vorable action.
He insisted that the Fishermen's
Union should have opportunity to pre
sent fully its opposition, and on his
suggestion Senator Lane ordered the
Dill held up for two weeks, and tele
srapnea the union to send a represen
tative to Washington or to submit in
writing its grounds for objecting to
the bill. .
LARGER VESSEL REQUIRED
Ttequest of Aberdeen XaTal Militia
to Be Considered Later.
OREGOXIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash
ington. April 2. The Aberdeen Naval
Militia recently appealed -to Represen
tative Johnson to have assigned for
their use a naval vessel lareer than
the torpedo-boat Fox, now- at their
disposal. Mr. Johnson took the matter
up with the Secretary of the Navy,
and was told there is no vessel how
available for detail, but that consid
eration will be given the request later.
There are 90 men in the Aberdeen
militia, and the Fox has accommoda
tions for only 2S men and two offi
cers. This makes it impossible for the
entire militia to cruise at. one time.
ORCHARDS ARE IN SL00M
Early Morning Frosts Do No Dam
age in Clarke County.
' VANCOUVER, Wash., April 2. (Spe
cial.) The warm weather of the past
few days has been forcing the buds on
fruit trees, and for three days almond
ttnd cherry trees have been blooming
in the city and in orchards near Van
couver. While there was frost Thursday and
Friday morning, the buds were not in
jured. Many farmers are plowing and
eeeding their land, and those in the city
are getting their gardens planted.
Mrs. May Jacobs Dead.
ASHLAND, Or.. April 2. (Special.)
Mrs. May Jacobs, a resident of this
vicinity since 1863, died Sunday morn
ing, aged 84 years. She was a widow
nnd a native of Chautauqua County,
New York. She leaves & daughter, Mrs.
Kugene Walrad, of this city, and a son,
Francis Smith, of San Francisco,
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VILLA IS ELUSIVE
Pershing May Have Been De
ceived as to Wounds.
ANOTHER REVOLT RUMORED
Colonel of One of Heavier Carranza
Forces Engaged in Searcli Is
Said to Have Gone Over
to Bandit's Side.
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been a paragraph in a dispatch from
General Pershing, in which it was said
that half the garrison at the town had
disappeared and it was suspected some
of them had joined Villa.
Americans who arrived here from
Chihuahua City yesterday asserted that
Colonel Cano was with the Villistas
defeated near Guerrero by Colonel
Lodd, but they admitted that their only
basis for the story was street gossip
in Chihuahua.
liATSIiY CAPTIKE HOPED FOIt
AVasbinjrton Expects Co-operation of
Carranza in Chase.
WASHINGTON, ' April 2. Sunday
brought no- news to the War Depart
ment about the hunt for Villa.
Secretary Baker was at his office
most of today and well into the night,
but he received nothing but routine
telegrams from General Funston. Hope
for early capture of Villa still pre
vails in official quarters, but some of
the seasoned Army campaigners fear
that failure to take him at Guerrero
may result in a long chase.
Investigations by commanders of
naval vessels in Mexican waters both
on the east and west coasts of reports
that Felix Diaz is in Mexico heading
a new revolution have failed even to
establish that Diaz is in that country.
The reports tell only of unconfirmed
rumors that Diaz is expected to begin
a campaign against Carranza.
It is expected at the State Depart
ment that this week will see the con
clusion of the protocol with the de
facto government for complete co
operation in the Villa chase.
OAPLAN'S TRIAL IS NEAR
ACCUSED DYNAMITER WILL FACE
COURT TODAY.
Ordeal Expected to He Completed In
Month Murder In Destruction of
Newspaper la Charged.
LOS ANGELES, April 2. David Cap
Ian, charged with the murder of Charles
Hagerty, one of the 21 persons who
lost their lives when the Los Angeles
Times building was destroyed with
dynamite October 1, 1910, will be placed
on trial tomorrow In the Superior Court
here.
The trial will be before Judge Frank
R. Willis, who presided in the case of
Mathew A. Schmidt, who was convicted
on the same charge December 30, 1915.
Schmidt was sentenced to life imprison
nient. An appeal in his case is pend
ing.
It is expected that the trial of Cap
lan will be completed in less than i
month, while that of Schmidt occupied
almost two months. The evidence in
the Caplan case is said to be less to
luminous. .
Thomas Lee Woolwine, District At
torney of Los Angeles County, will per
sonally direct the prosecution. He will
be assisted by two of his deputies. Na
than Coghlan, of San Francisco, will
be chief counsel for the defense.
SURRENDER IS SCORED
M'ARTIIl'R CALtS ABANDONMENT
OF PHILIPPINES SHAMEFUL.
Action Declared to Invite Insurrection,
With Consequent Intervention
. by Another Power.
OREGONTAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash
ington, -April 2. Representative Mc
Arthur last Friday, in the course of the
debate on the Philippines bill, de
nounced the proposed abandonment of
the islands as shameful.
"We annexed these islands," he said
"not from a desire for conquest, but
because we realized that the people
were totally unfit to govern themselves,
and if lctt to work out their own
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salvation, would soon have fallen under
the regime of the astute and selfish
Mestizo politicians the only Filipinos
now clamoring for Independence and
the blood-thirsty tribesmen of Man
danao. As there are more than 3000 islands
in the Philippine group and ,as tribal
and sectional feeling runs high, it is
mpossible to establish any system of
government that would draw these
heterogeneous and Incongruous people
nto a national self-governing entity.
In other words, Filipino independence
means revolution such as we now wit
ness in Mexico and a revolution would
mean intervention by the United States,
or, if not by us, then by Japan or
some other world power. Indeed, it
has been suggested that Japan already
has a covetous eye on the islands and
will seize them on the slightest pre
text after our sovereignty is with
drawn. Thus, it is fair to assume that
the inhabitants of the Philippine Is
lands the P'llipinos, the Moros. the
Igerrotes and other tribes and peoples
are altogether incapable of effecting
a strong national sovereignty and of
undertaking the exercise of functions
of self-government." .
CREW HOBS VESSEL
STRANDED STEAMER DOES NOT
REPLY TO SIGNALS.
Lant Word From Chlyo'a Captain Says
He la Leaving Ship, Which Slips
on Rocks In High Gale.
HONGKONG, April 2. Stranded in a
storm off the Lema Islands, 20 miles
south of Hongkong, the Japanese
steamship Chiyo Maru, whose 229 pas
sengers, mostly Americans, were res
cued by a British warship, now is be
lieved to have been abandoned by her
crew.
Captain Bentz sent a message by
wireless from the Chiyo Maru last
night, announcing that he was leaving
the ship. He said a heavy southeast
sea was running and that his vessel
was slipping on the rocks. - ;. ,
At dawn today , a wireless message
was received from a torpedo-boat de
stroyer, saying that the position of the
Japanese steamer was unchanged; that
the vessel did not reply to signals, and
that it was presumed the crew had
been landed on the Lema Islands, a
group off the entrance to Canton River.
An easterly gale is blowing and a high
sea is running.
The Chiyo Maru left San Francisco
March 2, bound for ports in Japan, the
Philippines and China.
MOREL'S HAME HELD UP
NOMINATION AWAITS ARRIVAL "OF
PROTESTS AT WASHINGTON.
Senators Stand by North Portland Mas
Actions Objected to Attributed
to Illness, Since Cured.
OREGOXIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash
ington, A.pril 2. The nomination -of
George R. Mokel as postmaster at North
Portland is being held in abeyance in
the Senate on request of the Oregon
benators, in order that protests now
on their way may be considered. The
nomination has been favorably report
ed, but will not be called up until the
postoffice committee has considered the
protests.
The Oregon- Senators are not eur
prised that protests have been filed
against Mr. Mokel; In fact, they ex
pected them, but both are firm in the
conviction that Mr.. Mokel is unjustly
accused. . -
Senator Lane ' says that he ' under
stands the charges are based on his ac
tions at a time when he was suffering
from an illness that affected his brain.
Senator Lane says Mr. MokeL, recently
unuerweni n ll upertiiiun wmcn ne 1
informed cured him of his former dis
ability.
Tourist Hotel Purchased. '
CENTRAL! A, Wash., April- 3. (Spe
cial.) The Tourist Hotel in Toledo has
been sold to Mr. and Mrs J, M. Lewis,
proprietors .or the Commercial Hotel.
wood;' Lower by Bain News Service.
Below, Fruciico (Pancho) Villa.
ON ILITAfiTS
Immigration Bill Excludes De
stroyers of Property.
SABOTAGE ALSO v INCLUDED
Champion of Suffrage Says There
Can Be Xo Excuse fcr Permitting
Woman to Enter Tliis Country
Who Treaches Violence.
OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash
ington, April 2. Suffragists of the
militant type will be barred from the
United States if the Senate concurs in
a House amendment to the pending
immigration bill. This amendment de
nies admission to "those who advocate
or teach the unlawful destruction of
property."
While this amendment was not de
signed originally to bar suffragettes.
it was disclosed in the debate that it
later was intended to apply to them.
although the main object sought was to
keep out of the United States foreign
laborers who believe in sabotage. Rep
resentative Gardner, of Massachusetts,
fought the amendment, saying that he
would not bar immigrants who believe
in sabotage as a means of righting
their supposed wrongs.
Raktr Champions Amendment. '
Representative Raker, of California,
was one of the first champions of the
amendment. "There can be no "ex
cuse," said he, "for permitting a woman
to enter this country, call her a mili
tant or what not. who advocates the
unlawful destruction of property that
she may obtain some right. Such ac
tion is nothing but criminality.
"While I believe in woman suffrage
and believe in a suffrage amendment
to the Constitution, I am opposed to
permitting the entrance into this coun
try of those who believe in the doctrine
that they may go on the street and
destroy the mail boxes, tear down mail
pouches, burn property, break windows
and commit -other criminal acts for
which any man would be arrested and
prosecuted."
Gardner Urges Free Belief.
Representative Gardner, who opposed
the restrictive clause, said it was put
in the bill to bar the admission of men
who believe it is right to commit sabot
age. "It was to stop the preaching of
that doctrine that this clause was in
serted," said Mr. Gardner, "and because
I thought men ought to be permitted to
preach any doctrine which to them
seems good that I objected to the in
sertion of this clause. I believe men
ought to be permitted to preach that
which they think right, if they are
wrong, public opinion will take care of
their doctrine much more effectively
than if we try to suppress their ex
pression."
The House, over Mr. Gardner's pro
test, retained the-language that will
keep out both suffragettes and advo
cates of sabotage.
BILL ATONES FOR ERROR
Proposal to Reimburse Homebuilder
Favorably Reported.
OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash
ington, April 2. A favorable report
has been made on the bill Introduced
by Representative Hawley to pay Pres
ton B. C. Lucas, of Tillamook County,
$500 for losses sustained by reason of
anerroneous survey of land on which
he made homestead entry.
Because of the error in survey Lucas
built his house and made other Im
provements on lands which, when the
survey was corrected, proved to be
outside the limits of the quarter sec
tion' on which he made entry, and ne,
therefore, lost whatever was invested.
The bill will reimburse him to the er
tent named.
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Railroads Heavy Buyers of
Rails; Other Industries in
Need of Supplies.
BUILDING ALSO IS REVIVING
Advance in Oil Prices Also Stimu
lates Drilling Operations; Grow
ing Foreign Demand for
Lumber Is Feature.
CHICAGO, April 2. (Special.) The
expectations of the most optimistic in
the steel market and the calculations
of both producers and consumers have
been upset by the events of the month
Just closed.
Further advances averaging more
than $3 a ton en various lines of fin
ished steel, a scarcity of alloys needed
in the manufacture of certain spepified
qualities, embargoes on shipments
throughout the Eastern territory and
a scarcity of labor all of these have
tended to bring about a decidedly ab
normal situation.
Demand for Steel Widespread.
The demand for steel Is coming from
all classes cf consumers, the most
urgent being from railroads, equip
ment companies, shipbuilders and auto
mobile manufacturers. Recently the
urgency of demand has extended to the
oil trade.
All grades of petroleum were ad
vanced last month, in some cases to
the highest prices ever quoted. This
advance will stimulate new drilling
operatiors in all new fields and in ex
pectation of trade requirements there
has been an active demand for oil well
supplies, resulting in an advance in
drilling tools, engines and piping. The
increase in general building operations
is also a factor in the demand tor
iron, steel, copper and other structural
materials. It is recognized, however,
that thore must be a point where the
factor of cost will act as a deterrent
to new construction. "
Railroads Placing Orders Hastily.
There are several reasons why the
railroads are in the market as heavy
buyers of rails, making reservations
far into 19X7. One is that orders are
now being placed hastily because a
movement is reported on foot among
the independent rail manufacturers to
raise the price from $28 a ton, the
figure quoted since 1901, to possibly
$35. Another reason is that the actual
needs of the carriers is greater than
In- several years.
In other industrial lines, aside from
the metals, an almost equal degree of
activity exists.
In the glass industry, present ac
tivity and prospective requirements
have raised the question of shortening
the period of the usual mid-Summer
shutdown of factories this year.
The principal development in the
lumber Industry is the growing foreign
demand, which although still below
normal has steadily increased during
the last 12 months. The last four
months of 1915 showed a progressive
improvement in exports over 1914 and
in December reached a point 74 per
cent above the same month of 1914.
Foreign inquiries and orders are at
present large, but the supply of ships
is far from adequate.
FOOD SCIENCE IS URGED
"EXCIXEER1NG METHODS" HELD
IMPORTANT IN PREPAREDNESS.
Protein Requirement Left Out of Cal
culation in Belgium, Only Heat
Calories Being Considered.
NEW YORK, April 2. "Engineering
methods applied to citizens units by
the careful use of the human alimen
tary canal" should play an important
part in the industrial preparedness
programme in this country, according
to Horace Fletcher, widely known food
expert, who has offered his services
in this connection to the naval con
suiting board.
Mr. Fletcher, or more than 16 months
actively Interested In the food prob
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Yes; they're all healthy and happy because
among other common sense health principles Chey
observe, they breathe frcmh air in the home. And they all
keep warm and comfortable in the coldest, biustnest weather,
too. That's because their home is economically heated with
Warm Air Furnace
Does Double Duty
A warm air heating: system Is just as durable,
serviceable, reliable and trouble-proof as any modern, high,
grade heating system. And it doesn't cost anywhere near as
much to install, nor to operate afterward.
But this system not only heats but VENTILATES.
It forces out vicious germ-laden, poisonous air and constantly
replaces it with a steady stream of heated, pure air -delightful
to breathe and a million time more healthful.
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Improved Type USL Starting
and Lighting Batteries "extra
heavy duty" equipped with
the marvelous USL machine
pasted plates are guaranteed
to outlast any other starter
battery ever built.
Made in sizes to fit alj cars.
Free inspection service at any
time. See us when you need
a new battery.
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The Key to Your Home
Separated from home by county or
continent standing on Broadway or
'longside a water-tank close at your
hand is the key to your home.
WESTERN UNION
keys start your Day Letters and
Night Letters on their way.
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Your "All's Well,, message reaches
home before the mail train gets up
steam. Low rates for many words.
THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH CO.
lem with which the Commission for
Relief in Belgium has been confronted,
declared that the question in its last
analysis was simply one of engineer
ing efficiency. More than $20,000,000
he said, was saved In Belgium during
the first of the war by the applica
tion of these principles, while the death
rate was the lowest in history.
"The feeding of the destitute," he
asserted, "was simplified by being re
duced to the engineering problem, pure
and simple. It had been proved by
experiments, in which I had partici
pated, that the portein requirement of
nutrition might be left eut of the ques
tion of prescription entirely, and that
it was only necessary to consider the
amount of heat calories demanded to
maintain the level body weight under
conditions of idleness and ease."
Students to Give German Play.
ALBANY, Or., April 2. (Special.)
Students of Albany College are to pre-
going to have a new heating plant, you
n nave ine oesr and the most healthful.
PLAN Spfe.ns FREE!
Come and talk the matter over. Let
ns draw up a heating plan to suit your own
needs, tio installation, no charge. INo obliga
tion anyway. Come TODAY.
The W. G. McPherson Co.
432 Alder Street
Chanslor&
Lyon Co.
627 Washington S
Portland, Or.
Phones Marshall 101S.
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sent a German play next Friday even
ing. All of the parts will be taken in
German by members of the German
classes. The purpose of the event is
to raise money for the purchase of Ger
man books for the collpp library.
Absolutely Removes
Indigestion. One package
proves it 25c at all druggists.
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Musterole Loosens Up Those
Stiff Joints Drives Out Pain.
You'll know why thousands use MUS
TEROLE once you experience the g:lad
relief it grives.
Get a jar at once from the nearest
drug store. It is a clean, white oint
ment made with the oil of mustard.
Better than mustard plaster and does
not blister. Brings ease and comfort
while It is being rubbed on:
MUSTEROLE is recommended by
doctors and nurses. Millions of Jars are
used annually for Bronchitis. Croup.
Stiff Neck, Asthma, Neuralgia. Conges
lion, Pleurisy, Rheumatism, Lumbago,
Pains and Aches of the Back or Joints,
Sprains, Sore Muscles, Bruises, Chil
blains. Frosted Feet. Colds of the Chest
(it often prevents Pneumonia).
At your druggist's, in 25c and EOc
Jars, and a special large hospital size
for $2.50.
Be sure you get the genuine MUS
TEROLE. Refuse imitations set what
you ask for. The Musterole Company,
Cleveland, Ohio.
To Avoid Dandruff
You do not want a slow treatment
when hair is falling and the dandruff
germ is killing the hair roots. Delay
means no hair.
Get, at any drug store, a bottle of
zemo for 25c or tl.00 for extra large
size. Use as directed, for it does the
work quickly. It kills the dandruff
germ, nourishes the hair roots and im
mediately stops itching scalp. It is
sure and safe, is not greasy, is easy to
use and will not stain. Soaps and
shampoos are harmful, as they contain
alkali. The best thing to use is zemo.
for it is pure and also inexpensive.
Zemo. Cleveland.
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