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VOL. LVI. NO- 17,293. PORTLAND, OREGON, Tl'KSDAY. APRIL 23, 1916. PRICE FIVE CENTS. ARGUES VILLA REPORTED TO BE LOCATED AGAIN IRISH KNIGHT IS CAUGHT AIDING FOE THREE ZEPPELINS RAID IN ENGLAND 1.1 REGISTRATION IS BETTER THAN 1914 CHANCELLOR CALLS GERARD TO PALACE FOR LOWER RATES AUT GKNEHAL. PERSHING HEARS Ol' PRESENCE NEAR PARRAL. A in FLKKT SWOOPS UNDER COVER OP DARK NIGHT. REVISED TALLY SHOWS 7 7,468 VOTERS IN COUNTY. TEROR MASKED WOMAN COMMAND Panama Canal Closing Given as Reason. INTER-MOUNTAIN CASE OPENS Steamship Line Officials Say Coastwise Traffic Is Dead. RAILROADS OPPOSE CHANGE Pacific Coat Cities Join in Fight to Kep Tariffs as They Are. Witnesses Aver Competition by Water la of Distant Future. TVASHIXGTON". April 24 Whatever promise the Panama Canal may hold for steamship competition with so called transcontinental railways, the Interstate Commerce Commission was told today it lies in the somewhat dis tant future. Officials of the chief steamship lines which used to ply from coast to coast, testifying in the re opened iitter-mountain rate case, de clared that not only had they ceased to operate their vessels via the Canal, but that there would be no resumption of the traffic certainly for one year, probably for two and maybe for much Ion per. I The Commission heard two witnesses H. P. Hamilton, greneral manager of the Luckenbach Steamship Company, mid H. E. p. Jackson, vice-president of ths American-Hawaiian Steamship Company. To these companies, the for mer with 10. steamers, the latter with 26, went much, of the trade between American ports before the European war. The fleets of both companies are now scattered all over the world. The Luckenbach Company will not resume coast-to-coast business before two years, Mr. Hamilton said, and the American-Hawaiian line will not with in one year, if then, according: to Mr. Jackson. Coast rolntn Join In fight. .Messrs. Hamilton and Jackson testi fied on behalf of the organizations in inter-mountain territory virtually the entire strip of the United States ex tending from a line drawn north and south through Denver to the Pacific Coast who seek to prove that there is no longer reason for permitting the railroads to charge less for shipments from Eastern manufacturing: and in dustrial centers to Pacific points than to intermediate points. The railroads oppose any change in rates and In this stand are Joined by trade and other or Kanizations of Seattle. Tacoma, Port land, Or.; San .Francisco. San Diego. San Pedro and other Pacific Coast cities to which the low rates now apply. Three things, the witnesses said, had Impelled them to discontinue the coast-to-coast operation of their vessels the closing, last September, of the Canal by slides, the much greater revenue to be obtained by placing their vessels in foreign trade and the prevailing low rates by rail. Veel Chartered for Off-Shore Trade. "We chart red three of our vessels the other day to the United States Steel Corporation for a year," Mr. Jackson said, "Jit much higher figures than we had ever obtained by operating them. Four of our vessels are under charter until December. 1917; three are char tered for a year and the others are chartered for three to six months each with ample opportunity for renewing the charters as they may expire." Vessels now building at Seattle, San Krancisco and other Pacific Coast ports will hardly go Into the old trade. Air. Jackson added, because they can make much more money by going into the foreign trade. The last American-Hawaiian Company vessel to sail east In the coast-to-coast service left San Krancisco last October, he said, and the last westbound vessel of his line sailed from New York in February. No other sailings are scheduled. Old Contract Cared For. Of the Luckenbach steamers none has been in the service for two months. Mr. Hamilton said, with the exception of one or two which sailed to carry freight already contracted for. No other sail ings were scheduled on this line, and the witness thought that for at least two years the only steamship traffic, so far as freight carriers were con cerned, from coast to coast via the Canal, would be by tramp steamers, whose movements went by no schedule. Mr. Jackson probably will be the last witness. He will continue tomorrow and at the conclusion of the hearing counsel will argue the proposal to ad just rates. J. N. Teal, of Portland, who is taking an active part in the proceedings, nought to secure from the witnesses ad missions that their discontinuance of traffic is due solely to the closing of the Panama Canal by slides, and that when the Canal ts again open there will be actual and active water com petition. The steamship men, however, insisted that there wlil be no water competition of moment for some years to come, because they can find more profitable business elsewhere. They admitted that when normal conditions are restored throughout the world of commerce that there may be some wa ter competition from coast to coast, but while water competition does not exist, they argued that water rates should not govern transcontinental rates on coast-to-coast shipments. Among those attending the hearing are: J. W. Campbell. Spokane: J. P. Wetrich. Seattle; Jay W. McCune, of Zcoiaaf and isetb. ilann. Sao Francisco. Bandit Is Wounded, but Not Scri- 'ously Carranza Said to Have Large l'oj-ce on Trail. SAN ANTONIO. Tex.. April 21. Re ports from General Pershing today in dicated that Francisco Villa had been located again, this time west of Parral, in the mountains of Western Chihua hua. He was last reported at Nonoava, 85 miles from Satevo. The report also indicated that Villa was wounded, but only slightly, and that he was far from being incapacitated. General Funston regarded the infor mation that General Pershing had se cured as authentic. No troops have been sent out. It was realized that pursuit of Villa in the locality he had chosen could be successfully conducted only after many more troops had been sent into Mexico. Unofficial reports today indicated that Carranza had sent gradually into the north an army much larger than that of the American force, and a great part of the Mexican force is in a posi tion to conduct a pursuit of Villa and his scattered organizations that would be more effective than would be a con tinuation of the American campaign if conducted along the present lines. MOST PUPILS LIKE MOVIES 5 12 Salem High Students Attend and Only 3 0 Do Not. SALEM. Or.. April 24. (Special.) Five hundred and forty-two students of the Salem High School attend mov ing picture shows and 30 do not, ac cording to answers obtained as a re sult of a questionaire conducted by Superintendent of Schools Kiliott. Dra matized novels apparently are liked best, as 101 confessed a preference to this class of moving picture plays. His torical dramas found favor with 82, 48' preferred dramas of no special kind, 20 liked love stories best, and 21 pre ferred travel pictures. Marguerite Clarke led Mary Pickford, two to one. in the vote on favorite actresses. RULERS SEND GREETINGS King George and Czar on Easter Predict Allies Success. s LONDON, April 24. King Georga sent the following telegram on Easter day to Emperor Nicholas: "Today, when by happy coincidence our two nations are celebrating Easter and we are commemorating St. George, I cannot refrain from sending you con gratulations, in renewed confidence in the victory of the allied armies. I fol lowed with delight the recent vic torious achievements of your gallant army." Emperor Nicholas replied thus: "Warmest thanks for your Easter greetings and good wishes. I entirely share your confidence in the ultimate success of our combined efforts AD FRAUDS ARE DEFINED Supreme Court Decision Opens Way to Stringent Supervision. WASHINGTON. April 21. In defining today more clearly than ever before what constitutes dishonest advertising through the mails, the Suprene Court held in effect that advertisers, even though they give purchasers value re ceived for their money, are guilty of fraud If by exaggerated advertising propaganda they have led slients to expect more. Officials declare the decision will pave the way to scores of prosecutions and make possible the enforcement of a much more stringent Federal super vision of mail advertising. NEGROES TEST EXCLUSION Nuns Are Arrested for Refusal to Teach Colored Children. ST. AUGL'STIXK, Fla., April 24. To test the new state law making it il legal for white persons to teach ne groes, three nuns from St. Joseph's convent today were placed under tech nical arrest here. They were released on their own recognizance. The charees were brought by several negroes, who declared the case would be carried to the Supreme Court of the United States. INQUIRY TAKEN TO BERLIN Dutch Orficer to Kind Out If Ger man Toredo Sank Tuhantia. BERLIN". April 21. (By wireless to Sayvllle, N. Y.) A representative of the Dutch Admiralty came to Berlin today to determine by investigation whether the portions of a torpedo found after the sinking of the Dutch steam ship Tuhantia are fragments of a tor pedo of German make. German officials will assist in the investigation. PRICES SOAR IN DENMARK Char pes for Food and Other Neces saries lj 30 Per Cent Since War. WASHINGTON. April 24. Sharp rises in food prices in Denmark have alarmed the people, who fear further increases If the war continues, say consular ad vices reaching here today from Copen hagen. Foods and evcrj'-day necessities are said to te up 30 per cent, with the rate of increaeer growing. Sir Roger Casement Captured on Ship. ARMS BEING LANDED IN ERIN German Vessel Attempts to Put Munitions in Ireland. ENEMY CRAFT IS SUNK Noted Leader or Separatist Faction Aboard Vessel Disguised as Neu tral Merchantman Career as Diplomat Is Notable. LONDON, April 26. Sir Roger Case ment has been captured from a German ship which- attempted to land arms In Ireland and was sunk. This official announcement was made to night as follows: "During the period between the afternoon of April 20 and the after noon of April 21 an attempt to land arms and ammunition in Ireland was made by a vessel under the guise of a neutral merchant ship, but which in reality was a German auxiliary, in conjunction with a German submarine. Sir Roger One of Prisoners. "The auxiliary was sunk and a num ber of prisoners were made, amongst whom was Sir Xloger Casement." Sir Roger Casement, before the out break of the European war. was in the British consular service, having held posts in Portuguese West Africa, the Congo Free State, Haiti, San Domingo and Brazil. In November, 1914. it was reported that Sir llogr, who was the leader of the Separatist faction in Ireland, had gone to Berlin and conferred with the German imperial authorities, his In tention, it was sald,belng to open ne gotiations between the German gov ernment and the anti-English party in Ireland. Assurances were said to have been given to Sir Roger that should the German troops land in Ireland all na tive institutions would be respected by them.. Sir Roger's followers in Ire land were, according' to the report, to give every aid to the Germans. The report of his activities in Germany created a sensation in England, and in February. 1915, Sir Edward Grey announced in the House of Commons that Sir Roger's pension as an ex member of the consular service had been suspended, tion of charges pending an Investiga of disloyalty against him. Work In Brazil Notable. Sir Roger was created a Knight in 1911. He is 52 years old. It was Sir Roger who, in 1912. while Consul-General in Rio Janeiro, nfade a report on the torturing and killing of natives of Brazil by employes of the British com pany operating the Putumayo rubber field. As a result of his report, a British royal commission, headed by hiin. investigated the situation and brought f.'onclUfixi on Pape 'i. Column - RUT OIHE THE 6ARO VQgS- JJ - THUS 7V- Jc2 rf 1. fS. sTAvrtro son r??ZJ JSmk v 7?TZf i l Of IL4SYX?S V .1.i a rJ.L. L. ' ( onf -rue Vt H X C d-USIS-- CO SVOCSjES J-f V CC ? O Hi Incendiary Bombs Dropped in East Counties Attack Unexpected on Account of Breeze. LONDON, April 23. Three Zeppelins visited the eastern counties last night. 'They dropped incendiary bombs, ac cording to an official announcement. The conditions were ldeal for the Zeppelin raiders. The night was dark and the atmosphere clear. There was a light southwest wind, which generally had been considered . unfavorable for Zeppelins, but it was little more than a mild breeze, and any threat of a storm which it might ordinarily have presagjed was lessened by a favorable barometer. The raiders appeared at about the customary hour and seemed a little un certain as to their location, as the early reports showed that only incendiary bombs were being dropped. FRENCH LINER CARRIES GUN Vessel at New York Armed Only for Defense, Captain Says. NEW YORK, April 24. The French Line steamship Rochambeau arrived here today from Bordeaux with a gun mounted on her stern. She is the first French passenger ship to reach this port thus armed. According to the Rochambeau's com mander, Captain Juham, all French pas sengers ships plying to the United States will henceforth be armed, but solely for defensive purposes. .French freighters will also be armed, said Captain Juham. RURAL CREDITS COMES UP Senate Considers Long - Pending Farm-Iioan Bank Bill. WASHINGTON, April 24. The Senate today considered the long-pending ru ral credits bill to establish farm loan banks. The bill creates a farm loan board to control a system of 12 or more land banks, which would make loans to farmers on mortgages, and also a series of farm loan associations, which would represent the farmers In dealing with the banks. JAPS REPORTED IN FRANCE Returned New Yorker Says He Saw Nipponese Troops Entrain. NEW YORK, April 24. Fred Coz zens, an importer of this city, asserted on his arrival' here today aboard the French Line steamship Rochambeau, that he had witnessed the entraining at Marseilles two weeks ago of a force of Japanese soldiers, 200 strong. He was positive the troops wore Japanese uniforms. ARMY INCREASING RAPIDLY 4 6 09 F.nlist in Six AVeeks and Net Gain Is More Than 2000. WASHINGTON, April 24. While 4699 men have enlisted in the Army since March 15, when Congress authorized an increase of 20,000, Army officials today estimated that the actual net gain has been something over 2000. Army officials said the present re cruiting is satisfactory and above normal. A CONTROVERSY THREE HUNDRED YEARS Mystet v,us Leader Is Smartly Gowned. CHARGE OF STRIKERS IS LED Westinghouse Company Guard Helpless in Fight. HOT WATER STREAM USED Two Are Injured in Fray . After Meeting Is Broken Up, but Even Rioters Deny Knowledge of Identity of Modern Joan. PITTSBURG, Pa.. April 24. The first serious rioting in the strike of 13,000 employes of the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company In, East Pittsburg occurred tonight. Several shots were fired and an unidentified striker and a detective were injured. The trouble was the climax of a day of disorder during which deputy Sher iffs and railroad detectives frequently used their clubs. Fifteen hundred strik ers were returning to East Pittsburg after breaking up a meeting of shell makers in Wilmerding, an adjoining borough, when the clash tonight oc curred. When the marchers reached the bridge at the Westinghouse plant, the strikers, it is said, charged past guards and started toward the plant. Unable to check the rush, the guards grabbed riot guns, but this failed to intimidate the strikers. In the fight that followed one of the guards discharged a revolver. A detective knocked an unidentified striker unconscious and he was carried away by companions. As the strikers neared the plant. guards turned a stream of hot water from a Are hose on them. The strikers retreated, throwing stones as they ran. Charles Oakes, a detective, was struck by a rock and a deep gash was cut in his cheek. In Wilmerding late today strikers broke the doors and forcibly entered a ouil-ding in which 1800 slrell-makers were holding a meeting. The strikers appeared just as a resolution was about to be adopted, it was said, providing for the men to return to work tomorrow. The strikers overpowered the leaders and threw them out of the building and then held a meeting of their own, pre sided over by J. H. Hall, whose dis charge is said to have been an indirect cause of the strike. The strikers then left the building and formed in line, at the head of which was a fashionably dressed young woman whose face was covered by a paper mask. At a command of "for ward march given by the young woman they marched off toward East Pittsburg. Strikers professed ignorance of the identity of their leader, who sud denly disappeared when the trouble in East Pittsburg occurred. Ilea it li Lectures will Be Heard. Under the auspices of ' the Naturo pathic Health League Dr. H. A. Stock dale will speak on "Exercise," and Dr. Virgil MacMickle will lecture or. "The Science of t asting, at 8 o clock to night in room G of Central Library. OLD. Aggregate Enrollment Two Years Ago Recorded as 7 5,378, or - 2 090 Below 1916 Figures. OptimisticV though it was in the face of the discouragement of the early months of registration, the estimate of the total registration by Multnomah County given in The Oregonian by- County Clerk Coffey at the closing of the books on April 18 was 528 short of the final total. The total registration before the pri marles for 1916 is 77.468. The Orego nian estimate was 76,940. The flnal total, far from being below the total at the close of 1914 pre-primary regis tration, as was predicted, exceeds that of 1914 by 2090 registrations. The total in 1914 was 75,378. A heavy Republican lead is shown, more than two-thirds of the total being for the G. O. P. The totals by parties this year are as follows: Republican, 55,701; Democrat, 16,190; Independent, 2620; Prohibitionist, 1434; Socialist, 855: Progressive, 668. By way of comparison, the party registration for the Spring primaries of 1914 is of interest. It follows: Re publican, 47,707; Democrat, 17,007; Pro gressive, 33,535; Independent, 2772; Pro hibition, . 2788 ; Socialist, 1205. BRITISH STEAMSHIP SUNK Parisians, En Route to America, Is C-Roat A ictini ; Crew Landed. LONDON, April 24. The British steamship Parislana, of 4763 tons gross, has been sunk. The crew of the ves sel was landed today. The Parislana left Newport, England, April 20 bound for Norfolk. The Parisiana, a vessel 3S5 feet long, 52 feet beam and 27 feet deep, was built in 1911 at West Hartlepool and was owned by Furness, Withy & Co., Ltd., of Cardiff. ALAMO HEROES HONORED Lone Star Flag of Texas Flies Over Historic Independence Hall. PHILADELPHIA, April 24. The Lono Star flag of Texas was unfurled from the tall staff over historic Independ ence Hall today in" celebration of San Jacinto day in honor of the heroes of Alamo Mission, who died in 1836. The flag was the gift of the Alamo Mission Chapter, Daughters of the Re public of Texas. Exercises were held in the room where the Declaration of Independence was signed. COCAINE CACHE IS FOUND Drug, Valued at $5000, Stored in United States Army Transport, SAN FRANCISCO, April 24. Contra band cocaine valued at more than $5000 was found today buried in the coal bunkers of the United States Army transport Logan, which arrived here April 19 from Manila and Nagasaki, Japan. There were 118 bottles of it, which, customs officers believe, members of the crew of the transport intended to smuggle into this country. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS Th Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature. 68 degrees ; minimum, 48 degrees. TODAY'S Showers and cooler; winds mostly souineny. Submarine C'rlHit. Ambassador Gerard confers with Imperial Chancellor at Berlin, rage 1. War. British make more gains in Africa. Page 4. Sir Roger Casement taken prisoner from German ship 1 rying to land arms in Ireland. Page 1. Mexico. General Scott and General Obregon to con fer at border. Page ft. Villa reported located again. Page 1. l-'oreitrn. Impeachment of Chinese ruler demanded. Pag a 3. Natioual. Army bill again biocked In House. Page 3. House subcommittee purposes to rush build ing of great Navy. Page 2. Interior points argue for lower rates. Page 1. Domestic. Pair wanted in Oregon for forgery caught in Canada. Page 4. Nephew sues Dr. Hillls for $50,000. Page 3. New York business man gives up career to help blinded soldiers of alltes. Page 2. Chairman McCombs to quit leadership. Page 4. Woman commands strikers in riot. Page 1. Sport. Ward will be let out by Beavers." Page 14. College of Idaho beats Whitman, 3 to 1. Page 14. Coveleskie scores third consecutive victory over Chicago, 4-2. Page 14. Far-Western boxing championships will open In Seattle Thursday, i'age 15. Pacific Northwest. Oswego woman of 64 on trial for arson. Page . Proposed interstate fishing agreement is as sailed. Page 7. Mr. Cantine will be kept in office. Page 8. Commercial and Marine. Last mohair pool sale breaks all price records. Page 19. Active demand for hogs at local stockyards. ; Page 19. Chicago wheat averages higher on latest diplomatic developments. Page 10. j Stock market recovers part of last week's , lossug. Page 19. Portland's proposed Alaskan line of steamers awaits determination of legal phases, phases. Page IS. rortland and Vicinity. Auto is called deadly weapon In grand Jury indictment. Page 2. Spre-kels Bros, called "the great thirst" ! in lawsuit. Page ft. Portland party of 100 (starts on Eastern Wahhlngton trade tour. Page 20. Ante-primary registration exceeds that ot , 191 I. Page 1. Children enjoy egg hunt on Westover Ter race. Page IS. Shakespearean exercises held at Laurelhurst Park. Page 6. Weather report, data and forecast Page 19. Kaiser to Be Seen Be fore Replying. DISCUSSION IS KEPT SECRET Powerful Influences Said to Be Opposing Break. CONCESSIONS TO BE MADE Ambassador at Berlin Ucports many AVil! Go to Great liengths to Preserve Oiplomatio Status AVltli America. BERLIN, April :4. The American Ambassador was called by telephone to the " Imperial Chancellor's palace this morning. He went immediately and the. conference with Er. von Bethmarin Hollweg lasted a-n hour and 10 min utes. When he camo from the conference. Ambassador Gerard declined to give any information as to the nature of the discussion and would not answer . question as to whether anyone else was present. Or. von Bethmann-Holl wegr devoted the afternoon to conferences on the submarine question with Admiral von Holtzendorff, chief of the Admiralty staff. Several of the higher diplomatic officials participated. Kaleier to Be eea Ap;aln It is understood that the German re ply to the American note will not be delivered before the Imperial Chan cellor has another opportunity of con ferring with the Emperor. WASHINGTON, April 24. Indications that powerful influences in German politics are opposed to any action by the Berlin government which might lead to the severance of diplomatic re lations with the United States are un derstood to be contained in confidential dispatches received here by the State Department from Ambassador Gerard. Social and labor leaders are represented as being particularly averse to any such move. , Concesnlona to Be Made Other dispatches from Mr. Gerard were said to contain strong .intima tions that the Berlin government would make some concessions to the United States in reply to the note demanding the immediate abandonment of present methods of submarine warfare. It still is uncertain, however, whether the con cessions will be sufficiently broad in their scope to meet the American de mands. Officials allowed it to become known that Mr. Gerard's dispatches indicated that Germany would go to greaL lengths to preserve friendly relations with the United States. Mr. Gerard is understood to have gained his' views during conversations with Berlin of ficials, including Foreign Minister von Jagow. His dispatches are said to emphasize the difficulties by which the German government is confronted in endeavor ing to find a way to meet the demands of the United States without arousing the element which insists upon a re lentless submarine warfare against the shipping of the entente allies. Report of Conference Awaited. The State Department tonight was awaiting, a disjiatch from Mr. Gerard reporting the results of a lengthy con ference today with Dr. Von Bethniann Hollweg, Imperial Chancellor. Press Uispatches announcing that the confer ence had taken place were closely read. Officials expressed a particular inter est in that part of the press reports which indicated that the reply to tne American note would not be made until after the Chancellor has another op portunity to confer with the Emperor, who is at the front. The fact that the conference lasted more than an hour was regarded as being a hopeful sign, it being pointed out that if the German government was disposed not to meet the American idemands, it was improb able there would have been a discus sion of such length. A report from Mr. Gerard is expected tomorrow; Dlnpatchra All Confidential. All of Mr. Gerard's dispatches re ceived since the present situation arose are held by Administration officials to be of a highly confidential nature. Con sequently only a general knowledge of their contents is obtainable. MISSISSIPPIBREAKS DIKE Thousands ot Acres Flooded and Some Farmhouses Caught. LACROSSE. Wis.. April 24. Three hundred feet of the Chicago, Burling ton & Quincy Railroad at East Winona was carried away by the rise of the Mississippi River Sunday and w-ater rushed over thousands of acres of land and inundated several farm homes on the Wisconsin side of the river. At the point of the break, the river was 13 feet above the level of the land beyond the embankment and the flood poured through with tremendous force. Snow Heavy at Crater Lake. KLAMATH FALLS, Or.. April 24. (Special.) H. E. Momyer, assistant su perintendent of Crater Lake National Park, reports nine feet of snow at the rim of the lake, which is double the amount there at this time last year. He says that thus far this year there have been 60 visitors registered at headquarter.