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....... a. A , a. A. PORTLAND, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL, 12, 1916. PRICE FIVE CENTS. VOL. I. VI. NO. 17,282. CAR KNOCKED OFF TRESTLE; 1 DEAD TRAIN THROWS STREETCAR IXTO TIDE FLATS. LIST OF SHIPS SUNK READY FOR WILSON ROOSEVELT'S If RATE OF INTEREST TRAGEDY FORESEEN SCOTCH CAPITALIST BUYS ESTATE HERE CHINESE REARED 111 AMERICA IS EXILED REDUCED BY BANKS iiVlS FATHER LOSES IN ILLINOIS ul SAVIXCS DEPOSITS WILL- OXLY COUNTRY HOME TO BE BUILT OX 430-ACRE MEDFORD SITE. DRAW 3 PER CENT. V Number Since March 23 Given as 65. Lansing chills bernstorff German Ambassador Gets Hint Methods Are Unpopular. PKESIDENT IS DISTURBED Cbuntry Seems to Accept Repeated Violations Witli Too Mucli Calmness to Assure Support , for Drastic Course. T JOHN C ALLAN O'LOUGHLIN. WASHINGTON. April 11. (Special.) Since March 23 German submarines have sunk 65 merchant ships, many of them without warning. Sixty-four of these were destroyed In the vicinity ... of the British Isles. BOSTON, April 11. Wage advances. One, reported to the State Department which will put the pay of textile op by cable today, the name of which is eratives in many of the mills in New unavailable, was sunk in the Meaner- rwnean, also without warning. I Some of the vessels sent to the bot- I torn carried guns for defensive pur-1 poses. Others did not. Most of them belonged to the belligerent nations. The remainder flew the flags of Hol land, Norway and Sweden. statistics Gathered for AVtlson. The statistics have been gathered by the State Department for the informa tion of the President in connection with the action he contemplates taking hi i a o i w 1 t ii i" United States. - Germany gave assurances to the United States last September that liners thereafter would not be sunk without warning. Since then the Ancona and Persia were destroyed in the Mediterfa- nean, the first admittedly by a German submarine. The cause or the destruc tion of the esecond never has been re vealed. Only a few days ago the Sus sex, was torpedoed in the English Channel. . Germany's assurances as to liners did not include freighters, so far as the Atlantic is concerned. As to the Medi terranean, Germany pledged herself not to sink ships without warning. Austria-Hungary did likewise. Mediterranean Warning "Violated. Now the latest case, according to the consular report, shows that a ship was torpedoed without warning in the Medi terranean. ' The whole submarine issue was dis cussed by the Cabinet at its regular meeting today. Various reports were In circulation following the meeting as to the action determined on. The Presi dent and his advisers feel something must be done, not in the form of a note. to terminate what has become an in tolerable condition, In connection with the list of ships Bunk, the State Department has no in formation disclosing the number of lives destroyed or the value of the ves sels or the cargoes they carried. The money loss must mount into the mil lions. One American was killed on the Eng lishnian and several were injured on the Sussex. The Administration holds, however, that American life must not bo menaced, except in accordance with the rules of international law. The Administration is much troubled over the apparent calmness with which the country is accepting the repeated violations of solemn promises made by the German government. It feels the time for action has come, but it feels also that a large part of the population would not be disposed to approve such a step as is in contemplation. Von BerastorlTa Reception Cool. Count von Bernstorff, the German Ambassador, received a chilly recep tion, according to all accounts, when he called at the State Department yes terday. Secretary Lansing by his man ner did more to convince the Ambassa dor as to the feeling- which exists against the recurrence of the German "sink-on-sight" methods than anything else possibly could have done. It is known the Ambassador is great ly concerned over the .situation, but he is hopeful that in some way it will be solved without a break of relations. SUBMARINE WAR GROWING Germans Estimate Enemy Tonnage Snuk This Month at 81,000. BF-ItLlX, via London, April 11. The growth in Germany's submarine war fare is shown, according to estimates published here, by the fact that 81,000 tons of merchantmen of countries at war with Germany have been destroyed since April 1. This compares with 20,000 tons for lhe month of January, 40,000 tons for February, and 103.000 tons for March. MEXICANS "ILL -TREATED" Carrams Is Asked to Protect tion's Citizens Abroad. Na- QUERETARO, April 11. Reports of 111 treatment of Mexicans in Guatemala have aroused public feeling in Mexico. Newspapers call on the Carranza government to take action to protect lezican citizens abroad- All Other 2 5 Passengers Injured, Six Seriously, in Mishap at Seattle Suburb. SEATTLE, Wash., April 11. Twenty- five persons on an outbound Alkl Point streetcar were thrown headlong throug-h windows or buried in mud and debris tonight when the car was struck by an Oregon-Washington Railroad & Navigation Company freight train at Spokane and Whatcom avenues. une passenger was killed and all the others more or less Injured. Dead: May E. Sommie, aged 70, S228-A Sixteenth street, San Francisco. Injured: Sanford Besselman, aged 10, cut, bruised, possibly Injured internally. Peter Olsen, hurt internally. H. J. Abrahamson, cut and bruised. Mrs. Henry Scholen, hurt internally. Mrs. P. Hibbard, cut and bruised. Otto Johnson, cut and hurt internally. The motorman and conductor say that the freight train, backing up without any light at the rear, struck the car amidships. It rolled over once and then slid off the edge of the trestle Into the tideflats. TEXTILE MILLS RAISE PAY More Than 30,000 Operatives Af fected ; More to I'ollow. England and New Tork State on the highest basis in the history of the in jUstry, were announced today. The American V ooien Company, em ploying 25,000 operatives, issued notice of an advance of 10 per cent. The Ar lington mills, of Lawrence, and the affiliated Merrimac mills announced an advance to approximately 6500 oper atives. Similar action will be taken this week by other manufacturing in terests. EARNS MILLIONS Holland-America Total for 1915 Is More Than $9,000,000. NEW YORK, April 11. The Holland America Line, in which the Interna- tional Marine has an interest, earned $9,014,560 in 1915. an increase of $6,235, 00, according to its annual report received here today from Holland. From this sum there is deducted for depreciation, extra reserves against war taxes, ordinary taxes and profits on founder's share, approximately $2,800,000, leaving a surplus available for stockholders of $6,336, 400, MAIL SWAMPS RAILROAD Routing by Willamette-Pacific De lays Train Xearly Two Hours. MARSHFIELD, Or.. April 11 (Spe cial.) llouting mail by the Willamette- Pacific Railroad swamped the service yesterday and delayed the train an hour and three-quarters between Reeds- port and Coos Bay. Nine thousand pounds of parcel post mail was transferred to the ferryboat at the Umpqua River, and there were large quantities of baggage besides. Travel over the Wilamette-Pacific is heavy. CANADA OPENS U. S. MAIL Censorship Protested to Washing ton; No Action Taken. WASHINGTON, April 11. Several protests have been made to the Post- office Department recently by postal authorities at offices along the Cana dian border that American letters have been opened in the Dominion and passed on by a censor. 'n ii i " t ton has been taken, and it was understood today to be the feeling of authorities here that mail in Canada is subject to such regulations as the Canadian government may take. NAVY'S GAIN IN MEN IS BIG Personnel Passes 54,000 Murk for First Time in History. WASHINGTON, April 11. More en listed men are in active service in the Navy now than ever before in theoun try's history. Secretary Daniels an nounced today that the personnel for the first time had reached the 54,000 mark. "There are now 54,011 men in the enlisted personnel," said the Secretary, "showing a net gain of 6664 since March 4. 1913." B0HLER REJECTS OFFER Pullman Athletic Director Not to Go to Oregon Aggies. PULLMAN, Wash., April 11. (Spe cial.) Coach Bonier has turned down! the offer of the Oregon Aggies to be director of athletics and will be with Washington State College next year. An increase in salary was granted by the State College Board of Regents! today. Dr. Ixweland Speaks of Masonry. Dr. Frank L. Loveland. pastor of the First Methodist Church, delivered an address on "Masonry" before the Im perial lodge, number 159, at the Ma sonic Temple last night. A feature of his talk was a discussion of the archi tecture from the dark ages and to the present. Special talks on phases of I masonry are given once a month before the Imperial lodge,. Harlan Fails to Break Delegata Slate. SHERMAN'S SUPPORTERS WIN Roger Sullivan Democrats Pre vail in Their Party. MAYOR THOMPSON UPHELD Ex-Governor Deneen Admits Defeat. Women Neglect Opportunity to Vote Primary Is Marked by Much Violence. CHICAGO, April 11. (Special.) Ac cording to early returns tonight Illi nois will send a solid Sherman-for President delegation to the National convention. John M. Harlan, who was running alone on a strictly Roosevelt platform does not appear to have gained enough votes to send him to the convention. This was the only hope of breaking the slate, and the result is considerable of a. surprise, as Harlan is a first- class campaigner. He had toured the state, and whatever Roosevelt senti ment there was in Ttitnols was ex pected to make a showing back of Harlan. Bull Moose Almost Extinct. Tonight's returns are a disappoint ment to the Roosevelt men, for they indicate the rank and file of the party are determined to be regular, and that the Progressives, as a party, have al most become extinct in the state. One thousand and twelve precincts out of 2168 in Chicago gave President Wilson 13,39-6 votes, while 43 voters wrote in the name of Speaker Clark. Senator Sherman in the same pre cincts received 32,670 votes. Colonel Roosevelt's name was written in by 4960 persons, Hughes' by 301, Root's by 43 and Mayor Thompson's by 2. On the Democratic side the Governor Dunne-Senator Lewis-ex-Mayor Har rison faction appears to have received a hard beating from the Sullivan Dem ocrats. This not only applies to Chi cago, but the entire state as well. This battle lacked any importance from a viewpoint of National politics or poli cies, as all Democratic factions are pledged to the renomination of Wilson. The result, however, is highly important as marking the waning power of the Governor and the further pushing into the background of Carter Harrison. Thompson Claims Victory. In Chicago and Cook. County, the principal fight as far as the news papers are concerned was to defeat any candidate bearing the Mayor Thompson brand. The returns indicate the voters did not become enthusiastic over the proposition. Mayor Thomp son, speaking of the returns, said: "It is the greatest victory in the his. (Concluded on Pago -4, Column 4.) T . iff- cJs i 1 IT a I'll S S S Tm-J -f - IT "Mf V. " I M 1 1 11 I f rT fl "W IP W fr T at I Portland Clearing-House Association Declares Lower Cliargo to Bor rowers Is Responsible. Interest on savings deposits in Port land banks will be reduced from 4 per cent to 3 per cent beginning July 1. This action was decided on by the Portland clearing-house banks in spe cial session yesterday. They also de termined to reduce the interest rate on certificates of deposit to 3 per cent for six-months periods and to 3 per cent for periods in exces3 of six months. No certificate of deposit will be given for less than three months. In taking this step the Portland banks are conforming with, the banks in Tacoma, Seattle and Spokane. In creased costs of doing business and de creasing interest rates on loans and commercial paper are assigned as the cause. All the banks in Portland, with the exception of a few smaller ones, are bound by the action of the clearing house, and it is expected that those which are not represented in the clearing-house will pursue the same course. . VENIZEL0S IS ACCLAIMED Popularity of cx-Prcinier Alarms Greek Government Circles. ATHENS, via Paris, April 11. The extent to which ex-Premier Venizclos has obtained popular support since his re-entry into politics is causing grave concern in government circles. Meetings of adherents of M. -Veni- zelos are being made occasions for ex traordinary demonstrations, and it is impossible to predict the result of the campaign against the present govern ment. AUTHOR MAY AID BAKER Meredith Nicholson Practically Chosen for War Department. WASHINGTON, April 11. Meredith Nicholson, of Indianapolis, an author, practically t has been agreed upon by President Wilson and Secretary Baker for appbintment as Assistant Secretary of War. Mr. Nicholson is a close personal friend of Mr. Baker and understood to have the support of Vice-Presiden Marshall. AUXILIARY REGISTRATION BOOKS CLOSE TODAY This is the laBt day in which you may register at any of the auxiliary registration booths throughout the city. Six more days remain for registration at the Court House, where the books will close next Tuesday. Yesterday was a heavy day with 1297 registrations, of which -619 were women and 678 men. This brings the total registra tion for the year to 58,534, divi ded as follows: Republican 42, 129; Democrat, 12,055; Independ ent, 2036; - Prohibitionist. 1102; Socialist, 675; Progressive, 537. "PANCHO VILLA, THE FOX Letter Found Predict ing Girl's Murder. AUTOPSY REVEALS ATTACK Walla Walla Student Warned to Beware of C M. Frazier. SUICIDE THEORY DOUBTED Lack of Noto in Girl's Writing and Peaceful Attitude in Death Sug gest That Poison Was Given Under Guise of Medicine. WALLA WALLA, Wash., April 11. (Special.) That I O. Hawn, of Ellens- burg, father of Mary Hawn, had a premonition of trouble if she had any thing to do with her step-grandfather. C. M. Frazier, was shown here today when a letter from her parent was found among the effects of the girl whose dead body with that of Frazier was found in a. hotel room yesterday afternoon. A Coroner's jury today decided that death of the girl was due to poison and of the man to a gunshot wound. Whether it was murder and suicide or double suicide was not brought out. Remorseful Pact Possible. Execution of a suicide pact or murder of the girl by the man who later com mitted suicide, after one or both had awakened to serious realization of their illicit relations these are ele ments of a new theory being enter tained tonight. It either was a double suicide or. a murder and suicide. The cause, in either event, is the interesting feature to many. Physicians, who performed an au topsy on the girl, declared there was proof of immoral conduct immediately previous to her death and that it was the first experience of it kind for the girl. The bodies were found on the bed the man's head at the foot, the girl's at the head resting on a pillow. The girl was lying as though sleeping, her hands folded across her breast. .Her clothing was not disarranged and the bed had not been occupied during the i night. IJcce-ptloa In Theory. Lack of a note in the girl's hand writing and her peaceful attitude in death lead the officers to believe that she may have been induced to take the poison on a pretext that it was medi cine' and that she dropped off to pain less death without being aware that she had taken a deadly poison. The man was found with his revolver tightly clenched in his right hand, the revolver so wrapped in a blanket that the sound was deadened. His room was in an Isolated part of the hotel building. He and the girl Concluded on Pae 4. Column 5.) Young Son of Sir Francis Webster to Be Sent to Oregon and Par ent Plans Yearly Visits. MEDFORD. Or., April 11. (Special.) The popularity of the Rogue River Valley as an all-year resort is shown bv the purchase today of the Emil Britt property of 430 acres by Sir Francis Webster, a wealthy flaxspinner of Arbroth. Scotland, for $9300. Sir Francis did not buy the property for an orchard or a commercial ranch, but merely for a country estate, where he expects to place his younger son and also spend a few months himself every year. The Britt place has no fruit trees, but is a picturesque tract near Jacksonville, nestling attractively among the foothills with a splendid view of snow-capped Mount Pitt and the Rogue River Valley. Sir Francis is said to be one of the wealthiest manufacturers of Scotland and plans to make the Britt place one of the most attractive properties in the valley. A rambling' country house will be'erected at once and the grounds laid out by one of Sir Francis Web ster's' own gardeners. Sir Francis was the guest of E. i. Guthrie of Medford. several months ago and became so attached to the valley that he at once looked over the ground for a future home for his you n sr son. Sir Francis elder son, an officer in the British army, was killed a few months ago in France. OFFICER! CALL A COP!! Detective Is Robbed by Captive Chi nese Youth. Chin Yuen. Chinese boy, 18 years old, yesterday robbed City Detective Price of his pocket-knife while being held prisoner at the police station. De tective Price missed his knife, and on searching the prisoner found it in his being arrested yesterday b City Detectives Price and Mallett, Chin Yuen confessed, according to the de tectives, to having stolen $65 from Chin Mow. a relative living at 89 Second street. Chin Yuen was turned over to the Juvenile Court. JANITORS TO GO TO SCHOOL Course of Lectnrcs Is Decided On bv School Clerk. In this progressive age one cannot be a janitor successfully unless he is educated to the position. This is the view of School Clerk Thomas, who is starting a school for Janitors. Lec tures are to be provided for them so they will "janit" scientifically. The first in the series will be given April 22, room 304, Courthouse. The lectures will be given under the auspices of the extension department of the Oregon Agricultural College. ARMY DOG FOOD rS ASKED No Funds Available lor Animals Trained to Find Wounded. , WASHINGTON. April 11. Surgeon- General Goigas today asked Congress to authorize the Army to feed its dogs, He told the House military commit tee that the sanitary corps, after ac cepting as a gift six dogs trained to lo cate wounded men on battlefields, had found itself without funds to buy food for them. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 58 difres; tginimum, 4:i degrrees. TODAY'S Fair, warmer; westerly winds. Mexico. More supplies pent to l'ershlnj;: rumor ot villa deatli accepted wiui reserve. I'uge '2. War. French closely watching attitude o Amcr ii-H. I'ae 4. ltrttill charge plot in I nited fctatea to run blo-kad to Germany on gigantic scale. I'age -'. N'ationnl, Senate, adopts suDSUtuiu sugar reauiunvu. i'age 2. OreKon delegation united in movement to puKll Columbia naval lR(e projeet.. i ase . River and harbor bill, carrying fw.uw.vw, passed by House. I age o. Domestic, iriii finds self famous after 17 years in iusauo asylum. I'age l. Kooaevelt rsndldate for delegate defeated in Illinois primaries. 1'ago l. report. F-nrifirc Coast League results: uaKiatta J", tortlnd 2: Vernon 4. s-an r ranriseo v l.os Angeles 14. fait Lake 10. Page 14. Major leagues start play today. I'ase 14. I'aclflc Northwest. Mr. Borah explains opposition to retention of Philippines., i'age o. Walla Walla tracedy prophesied .by victim" father. Paste 1. Mvnr rtill of Seattle dismisses nict wi Police anil names anoiner. mse v. Commercial and Marine. First Oregon mohair pool sale at Browns vllle Saturday. r8 i- Farlv advances in stocks lost at Close oi dull session. rage in. New business in slsht for Port of rortlanu, Page IS. Portland and Vicinity. Jin- T.nnir Gwong, reared and educated In Portland, bauienea to tmiia, rase j. Wi-atber report, data and forecast, rage C. P.. Moores files declaration ot candldac for Secretaryship ot fetate. t age .. Rules for slaughtering meat issued by Ma nlcinal Bureau. age b. Railroad official predicts slump after war. Page JO. Protest of Northwest against possible strike increases. rase i. Many respond to call for meeting to arrange Clean-up campaign. rw o. Driver in Highway accident .may face fel ony charge. Page 18. Mrs. Edith "Witherspoon sas her escape from Joe Howard was lucky. Page 7, Clearing TIouso banks cut rate of interest on savings deposits. I age I. . V. H. Evans out for District Attorney Page 7. Centuries to Roll Back for Jue SungGwong. ROMANCE IS NIPPED. BY LAW Deportation of Oriental Who Came at Age of 7 Ordered. UNREAL LAND WAITS YOUTH Young Man, Educated at Old Bishop Scott Academy, Banished to Land of Silk Worms and Junks by Legal Freak. BY C. II. WILLIAMS. A man without a country. Jue Sung Gwong, will probably be on his way back to China, much against his win, ithin a week. This, too, after a quarter of a cen- ury in t'ortiana. jne came ueic, .c says, when a lad of 7. China will be as nreal to his astonished eyes as the onderland where Alice of childhood memory pursued her delightful ad- entu res. It will be a jump from the 20th to he first century tor Jue. rime win turn backward for him and it will be similar transition to that of the Con- ecticut Yankee, whom Mark Twain ntroduced at King Arthur's court. Fight to Stuy In America Lost. For Jue has lost his fight to stay in the land of his adoption ana a eaerai officers were expected last night to pick him up and hold him in jail until April IS, when the next steamer sana from Seattle to liongKonK. it safe bet that Jue will be a passenger. rolling across the Pacitic to t.ie home of his childhood, and all much to his regret. The- Chinese came to rortiana in 890 with an uncle, he says. He was educated here" in the old Bishop Scott Academy. He speaks pertect lingusn and Portland, the city of roses, is home viitn. He wants to end his days here. Another poignant regret because of the action of the Federal autnorities causing his deportation is that wants to marry a Chinese girl of in he the local colony. IMans Go All Awry. But Jue's plans are all awry. He is declared to have no right to stay in Portland, and when he reacnes nis ow h country he will be a stranger, without friends or kindred. The river Ke, near Jues Dirmpiace. still ripples to its banks and the moor fowl cry, just as they did the day Jue was born. His native village has not changed, save in the yellow faces that throng its crowded streets, isui to ju it will all be strange, foreign and for bidding. The Ta-Tu-Ling Mountains, in view of his town, still raise ineir tupw- covered heads against the horizon, cm they hold no attraction ror mm, in hose childhood memory mey appear . -. - . 1 f n. All I Vl 1 vague ana inaisiinci, n Kiang province, his native state, una not changed in 10 centuries, but to Jue his transition will be as great as that of a passenger who climbs from a mod- rn six-cylinder auto reluctantly inw ... - fin. an ox cart witn wuuuen nui-' ish his journey. Strange SiBhtm Promlae "o Joy. The silkworms that spin their in- . 1 lrtn IhO terminable cocoons in tue ou" oiwB -. V. . . ,Ka mail siirln rows oi muiDerry inreo "j "- will be at their incessant usk, jutv where they were when Jue left China, so many, many years ago. but the homeless man without a country ... take no joy in the strange signts &j stranger people that he sees. He is banished from moaern tunes into mediaeval Cathay, with tho envir onment and irienas Ot -a yeare """" hitn. Not for him will there De mucu interest in the thronging junks that ply tho Yellow river, the human swarm of his own countrymen mai uio-. China a veritable beehive, or the thousand things that would mane China a mysterious box of trtck3 and a delight to a willing traveler. Legal Fight Kxhaunt Funds. ' Federal authorities say Jue failed to comply with the registration iiw. un less a Chinese in this country is enner merchant or traveler, he is classi fied as a laborer. Laws preventing the immigration of Chinese laborers were passed by Congress in 1882, 1S89 and the registration law passed in 1S92. Taken before the immigration authorities, Jue was ordered deported some time ago. He appealed to the United States Olstrict Court, where hi3 case was heard and the decision went against him. His deportation was or dered. He again appealed to the United ?red. He again appealed to the United tates District Court of Appeals, being ;leased on bail, and this appeal is now ending. It costs money, however, to fight the States rele per United States in legal proceedings, and it is a question with Jue of funds to carry his case to that high tribunal. He telegraphed yesterday to an uncle in Louisiana for aid in carrying on the appeal. .... ... Law Said to He Agralnat Jue. But the law is said to be all against him, and Federal officials maintain that" he will. lose, no matter how Ions he fights the decision of the local courts. It was expected last night his appeal would not be carried further because of lack of funds, and that Jue w-ould be taken in charge by the au thorities and held for denortation on April IS.-