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VOL. LTVI NO. 17.297. PORTLAND, OREGON, SATURDAY, APRIL 29, 1916. PRICE FIVE CENTS. BOMBS ROUT REBEL FORCES IN DUBLIN Heavy Loss Sustained by Sinn Feiners. HALL SHELLED BY GUNBOAT Four Hundred Made Prisoner in St. Stephen's Green. COUNTESS AMONG LEADERS Tolfday-Makcrs Killed by Wild and Hcokless Shooting Ttehcls Oc- ' rupy Newspaper Office, With Military Opposite. It)N"DON'. April 29. The Dublin reb els have been driven out of their posi tions in St. Stephen's Green with bombs after sustaining heavy losses, says the Daily Mews. KINGSTON". Ireland. .via London, .April 29. Four hundred Irish rebels were mad prisoners when the troops captured St. Stephen's Green and drove them out with bomb). BELFAST. April 27, via I-ondon. April 23. The first official intimation of the outbreak in Dublin was received here yesterday. Telegraphic and tele phonic communication between Belfast and Dublin is still interrupted eeri outily. The Belfast News Letter says today It understands the- postoffice at Dublin has been retaken by the military forces. The newspaper also publishes the following? statement: "The police authorities desire the widest publicity in your district of the following: 'During the night (Wednes day?) a. royal naval reserve gunboat shelled Liberty Hall, the headquarters of the Sinn Fein force, and It was sub sequently occupied. Large Reinforcements Arrive. " "Meanwhile large reinforcements have arrived in Dublin. In other por tions of the city the situation is well in hand and repairs to the railway line are being effected rapidly.' " NewB has been received here of the safe return to Dublin of Lord Basil Blackwood, secretary to the Lord Lieu tenant, and Lieutenant Murray Gra ham, who came to Belfast before the outbreak of the disorder in Dublin. DUBLIN. Tuesday, April 23, via Lon don, April 28. Dublin now has been held up for 21 hours by a combination of members or the Sinn Fein Society and followers of James Larkin. head of the Transport Workers' Union, and widely known as a strike leader. There has been the same violence in the city as marked the big streetcar strike in 1913. which was headed by Larkinv but supplemented by the use f an armed force with military pre tensions and the seizure of strategic points designed to give the disturbance the aspect of a revolution. Stern Measures Proclaimed. The Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, in a proclamation today, calls the move ment "insurrectionary," and declares that it is due to foreign prompting. It is. he says, "small." He adds that 'stern measures are being taken to suppress It." The revolution thus far is considered an imitation, though on a much ex tended scale, of "Fort Chabrol," in Paris, which was held by political rioters some 15 years ago. and the riotr in Sydney street in London. While it is declared not to have the support of the people generally, and even is not considered by some of the authorities as a rising, the situation certainly is serious and far beyond the dimensions of a riot. Business at Standstill. The trouble has gone on now for 24 hours and has completely dislocated the life of Dublin. No shops are open nd no business is being transacted. Streetcars have ceased to run and the gas supply has been cut off. Use of the telephone between the city and the suburbs has been forbidden by the military, and the running of trains to and from the country is irregular. Yesterday (Monday) at midday the Sinn Fein revolutionists were as sembled as if for one or their usua' parades. They were supposed to be aoing for an Raster Monday march. come of the rank and file even im agined this was their purpose. PoatoMer In Srir.ed. About 600 of them, however, took possession of the General Postoffice in Sackville street, which at the time was attended by a usual small holiday staff of clerks. There the 600 men remained all day and night and still bold forth. Telegraphic and postal communica tion, insofar as it goes through this, the chief postoffice in Ireland, has reased. The raid was beyond the power of the police to deal with. Small detach ments of lancers appeared on the scene, but after two or three of their horses had been shot and two or three of the men wounded, they withdrew. Since then the Sinn Feiners in the Postof fice have been left alone and they hoisted the flag of the Irish republic over the building. Wire Barricades Ererted. Various corners in Sackvilie street have been occupied by the Sinn Feiners and barricades of barbed wire erected Concluded oa Face Column 2.) MASKED MEN DUCK ALBANY PRINCIPAL UlC.1t SCHOOL STl'DKXTS SAID TO HAVE PAIIT IV AFFAIR. Face of One Is Uncovered During M ,! Hostility at Utiles Hinted. Board Considers Case Today. ALBANY, Or., April 2S. (Special.) Professor W, B. Young, principal of the Albany High School, was tossed in the Thurston-street canal here last night by a party of maeked young men. The mask of one fell off during the melee and his identity is known. The school authorities are said to be in possession of information that some were students of the school and others were not. Professor Young was working at the high school in the evening, and when he started home was surrounded and captured. The motive of the affair is said to be founded in hostility toward Princi pal Youn among the students ovrr some new rules' enforced rigidly this year. It is thought to have come at this time owing to a rumor that he was about to be re-engaged for another year. The School Board will meet tomor row to consider the ducking affair, and decide what action will be taken. KLAMATH FALLS STIRRED Parade Held in Interests of Road to Shippington, Mill Center. KLAMATH FALLS. Or., April 28. (Special.) Two miles of automobiles, motorcycles and marchers tonight paraded in behalf of the new muni cipal highway proposed between this city and Shippington, the important mill center on Upper Klamath Lake three miles north of this city. A measure authorizing an issue of $20,003 of bonds for this highway will be submitted to voters at the regular city election Monday. The entire line of march of the parade tonight was brilliantly illumi nated with red fire and torches and the Klamath Falls military band headed the procession. After the parade speeches were made in the Courthouse Park by City School Superintendent R. H. Dunbar, Charles F. Stone and other prominent taxpayers. REGISTRATION TOTAL GAINS Incomplete Figures Brin;; Xumber for Primaries I'p to 240,005. SALEM. Or.. April 28. (Special.) Heavy registration in the week prior to the closing of the books throughout the state for the primaries May 19 has resulted in an increase of more than 10.000 over the number registered for the primaries two years ago. Figures compiled in the office of the Secretary of State today show a total registration in the state of 240, 005 with not all the returns yet re ceived. Two years ago the total reg istration was 229.601. Republican reg istration so far is approximately 161.000 as compared with 136.282 two years ago. So far only 18 out of the 35 counties have sent in complete regis tration lists. HOOD RIVER VOTES BONDS Grade School and High School An nex Will Re Erected. HOOD RIVER. Or., April 28. (Spe cial.) At the most largely attended school meeting ever held in Hood River, by a vote of 1S8 to 172, a bond Issue of $45,000 was voted today, the proceeds to be used in the construction of a new grade school and for an an nex to the high school. Because of the spirited contest be tween opponents of the issue and those favoring it, and to prevent any irregularity in the election. A. J. Derby. County Attorney, was present to pass on the legality of the voters. County Assessor Jasper Wickham was Judge of the election board. Only taxpayers were qualified to vote. 90 PER CENT FIGHT AGAIN German Surgeon Says Only 1.5 oi Wounded and 111 Die. BERLIN, April 28. (By wireless to Sayville. N. Y.) The annual meeting of the German Surgeons' Association began today in the presence of the German Empress with the Austro-IIun-garian, Turkish and Bulgarian chief army surgeons in attendance. The Surgeon of the German army and president of the association. Dr. Schuerning. read a paper regarding the recent achievements of army surgeons. Tetanus, he said, had been wiped out. while in German hospitals 90.1 per cent of the total number of wounded had completely recovered and were fit for service, and only 1.5 of all the wounded and sick died. WAR ENRICHES RAILROAD Northern Pacific Records Broken by Gain of $2,504,727. ST. PAUL. April 28. Revenue- from carrying war munitions and barbed wire for shipment to Vladivostok, has caused all previous Northern Pacific Railway income records to be broken. The statement shows March operat ing revenue as $6,470,535. a gain of $1,699,093 over March 1915. Net in come for March totals $2.594,727.. an increase of 50 per cent over the same month last year. Railway operating revenues for nine months ended March 31. 1916. was $36. 291.402. a gain over the previous .nine months of $7.78,4T3. ADVERSE BRJUIDEIS REPORT PREDICTED Stormy Debate Breaks Out in Senate. FILIBUSTER CHARGE IS DENIED Democrats Admit Their Party Is Cause of Delay. EARLY ACTION IS PROBABLE Cummins, Republican, and Hoke Smith, Democrat, Agree In State ment That Unfavorable Ac tion Has Reen Probability. WASHINGTON. April 28. A stormy debate over the nomination of Louis D. Brandeis for, the Supreme Court broke out in the Senate late today and, before it was over, predictions were made by two members of the judiciary committee, one of them a Democrat, that an unfavorable report on the ap pointment would follow when the com mittee reached a vote. Discussion was precipitated when Senator Sutherland, a Republican com mitteeman, read to the Senate an in terview published yesterday, quoting Senator Ashurst as charging that Re publican members of the judiciary com mittee were filibustering in order to delay a vote on the nomination until after the National political conventions. Senator Ashurst steadfastly stood by the quoted statement in the course of the heated argument that followed, un til assured by fellow-Democrats on the committee that there was no such fili buster. He then withdrew the charge. Karl j- Committee Vote Probable. It generally was believed tonight that the debate would serve to bring the committee to a vote on the nomination within a few days. All the Senators who took part in the discussion were members of the committee. Senator Sutherland took Senator Ash urst to task both for revealing to news papermen what had taken place in the Judiciary committee and for saying that the Republican members were filibus tering. "Newspapermen did ask me if I thought the Republican members were filibustering against the confirmation and I said I did," declared the Arizona Senator. "I said it and I would like to see the color of the hair of the man who can imprison my thoughts." Truth of Interview Denied. Senator Sutherland replied that if Senator Ashurst had been as faithful in attending the committee meetings as Republican and other Democratic Senators he would not make such a charge, and Senator Clark, of Wyoming, also said the interview stated far from the truth. "I am not one of those Senators who pretend to deliberate after their minds are made up," continued Senator Ash urst. "I can well imagine the con sternation of Republican Senators when 'onelinled on Page Column 1.) ............. ............................................. T THE SHOT FROM nFH(n.. I ................................................................................. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTRR DAY'S Maximum temperature. 57 dcKrcfs; minimum, 44 degrees. TODAY'S Fair, warmer; northwesterly witids. Mexico. Obrepon willing to meet United States half way in conference Page -. Additional forre of American cavalry to cross border today. Page 2. War. British battleship KuksoII sunk by mine in Mediterranean; 1-4 men missing. Page 4. Verdun in ruins as result of long bombard ment. Page 4. Greece on verge of outbreak, rage 4. J oreign. Dublin paralyzed by acts of rioters. Page 1. .National.- Un favorable report on Brandeis forecast In Senate. Page J. Ioinefti. American Ambassador's son returns home with Belgian bride, who met him in luspital. Page 4. Carnegie honors two Oregon heroes. Page 5. Roosevelt boom started in dead earnest. Page o. port. Pacific Coast League results: Portland Vcrnon frame postponed; San Francisco 2, Salt Uke 1; L.oa Angeles S, Oakland 4. Page- 1'2. Who owns Catcher Roche, is worrying McCredie. Page 32. Dr. A. D. Browne will direct athletics at Oregon Agricultural College. Page Pennsylvania wins Pentathlon at annual car nival. 1'age lo. Pacific Northwest. Oswego woman of 70 acquitted on arson chcrge. Pag 6. Corvallis guard company to take practice march and field work. Page 0. Business men's excursion completes round of visits. Page 3 4, Masked young men duck Albany High School principal. Page 1. . Commercial and Marine. Heavy forward buying of Pacific Coast hops. Page 37. Chicago wheat affected by reports of insect damage. Page 17. Rails again lead in stock market advance. Page 17. Keel of Alaska Fisheries craft will be laid at Seattle on Monday. Page 3 4. Portland and Vicinity. New shipyard will adjoin Peninsula Lumber Company plant. Page 1. Engineers pronounce Montavilla sewer per fect. Page 3. Women angry at political trick played by evening newspaper. Page 7. Festival parade plans to be arranged def initely tonight. Page 0. JeffTson Hih interpretation of "Tom Pinch" praised. Page 7. Young surveyor, Cornell graduate, takes life by shooting. Page 6. Weather report, data and forecast. Page 17, MORE RUSSIANS IN FRANCE Military Honors Also Are Accorded Xcw Detachments. PARIS. April 28. A Havas dispatch from Marseilles reports the arrival there of a further contingent of Rus sian troops, the number of which Is not given. The Russians reached Marseilles this morning:, the dispatch says, and disem barked immediately. They wewe .re ceived with the same military honors which were accorded the previous Rus sian detachments and were cheered by the people as they marched to Camp Mirabcau. They will be sent in a few days to Camp Mailly. ANOTHER U-BOAT IS SUNK British Capture 1 8 of Crew of Sub marine Off East Coast. LONDON. April 28. A German sub marine was sunk off the east coast yesterday, it was officially announced today. Eighteen men on the submarine were captured. The destruction of a German sub marine by a British trawler off the north coast of Scotland confirmed by reports today. Dutch newspapers say the submarine was of the latest and largest type and carried a crew of 60. all of whom, were lost. CITY TO HAVE NEW SHIPBUILDING PLANT F. C. Knapp Is.t Head of ,?v v" iect. ARTICLES SOON TO BE FILED Yard Will Adjoin Peninsula Lumber Company's Sawmill. $200,000 MAY BE SPENT Lumhcrnian Says Proposed Industry Is Logical, Safe and Perma nent Business, Develop ment for Portland. DETAILS OK PORTLAND'S NEW WOODEN SHIPBUILDING ENTERPRISE. First investment from $100,000 to $200,000. Auxiliary schooners planned for lumber trade. First unit will comprise five ways, and more space is avail able. Vessels to be sold as com pleted, and others started. Proximity to big mill, drydock and railroad tracks makes site valuable. Home and outside capital in syndicate, headed by F. C. Knapp. backs permanent plant. BY W. K. MAHONET. Portland and Eastern financiers have joined with F. C. Knapp, president of the Peninsula Lumber Company, for the establishment of a wooden ship building plant near the foot of Mc Kenna avenue on property adjoining that of the lumber corporation on the south. Ways will be provided for five vessels there and they will be erected as soon as a fill on the site is com pleted, and. that is to be started next week. Auxiliary wooden schooners are to be turned out, intended for the lumber tra.de, capable of carrying from 1,000, 000 to 2,000,000 feet. Some of the ves sels will be smaller than others, and all now planned will be-built for sale. In spite of the demand for semi-Diesel engines, and the fact certain manufac turers are swamped with orders, ar rangements have been made for the power for these vessels and the first delivery will be made in September. Articles to Be Filed. Articles incorporating the new com pany are to be filed next week. At present it is contemplated to expend from $100,000 to $200,000 on the project. Other land is available below the mill, and the shipbuilding development may be greatly extended. Announcement by Mr. Knapp last night of the launching of the new en terprise, which stands forth as the first Concluded on Page 7. Column 3.) T. R. FOR NATIONAL WOMAN SUFFRAGE HEPIV MADK TO COSGRESSIOX Ali VNIOX COMMITTEE. Statement Says Time Has Come for "Cireatt-r and Truer National ism'' in Country. NEW YORK, April 28. In a signed statement prepared here today for a committee of women representing the Congressional Union, who appealed to him as the head of the Progressive party. Colonel Roosevelt declared that the question of enfranchising women has become National and pledged his support of the proposed amendment to the Federal Constitution giving the vote to women. Mr. Roosevelt's state ment follows: "I believe that the time has come for a greater and truer Nationalism in this country. I believe in the Nationaliza tion of the issues which affect not only men. but women also. '"The great problems of our country are National. In the matter of the railroads, for example 46 different sets of laws for their regulation merely check and handicap their development and management. A universal Federal law is essential for results. In the .same way, the question of the enfran chisement of women has become Na tional and demands Federal action. "I, therefore, heartily endorse any Federal amendment which shall sub stantially provide: "First That the right of the citizen of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States on account of sex. "Second Congress shall have power, and it shall be the duty of Congress by appropriate legislation, to enforce the provisions of this article." SEIZURE IS CONFIRMED British Take American Power Schooner Chartered by Germans. VALLEJO, Cal.. April 28. The re ported, seizure of the American power schooner Oregon by the British cruiser Rainbow in the Gulf of California is confirmed by advices received today at the Mare Island Navy-yard from Guay mas. The seizure occurred on April 23 while the Oregon was en route from La Paz, Lower California, to Guaymas. The Oregon, a vessel of 350 tons, is owned by the Crawley Company, of San Francisco. She is under charter to the German, firm of Lin pa & Co., of Mazatlan, for use in the West Coast trade. ARMY CONFEREES AT ODDS Senate, However, Said to Be Willing to Give Vp Nitrate Plant Idea. WASHINGTON, April 28. Conferees on the Army reorganization bill reached tentative agreements today on many minor differences between the House and Senate bills, but made no progress on the three big point3 at issue the size of the regular Army, the Federal volunteer Army, and the Government nitrate plant. It is generally expected that the Sen ate finally will agree to abandon the latter proposal. Two sessions daily will be held by the conferees until they are ready to report. TIE ORDER STARTS MILLS Rock Creek Plant to Cut Railway Material lor Europe. RIDGE FIELD, Wash.. April 28. (Special.) The ' sawmill of the Star Lumber Company, located on Rock Creek, near the north fork of Lewis River oi the Clarke County side, will resume operations Monday, after being idle for nearly two years. This com pany has secured a contract for fur nishing 100,000 railway ties for Euro pean shipment, which will require at least two months' steady operation to complete the order. The sawmill of the Star Lumber Company cuts about 75,000 feet a day, and"wlll furnish employment to about 80 men. ARMY SYSTEMS COMPARED Colonel Baker, at Vancouver, Dis cusses Swiss and German Plans. VANCOUVER. Wash., April 2S. (Spe cial.) Colonel David .T. Baker, Jr., of the Twenty-first Infantry, delivered an interesting- lecture tonight at the Rex Theater, dealing with the military tac tics of Switzerland and of Germany. He compared the military systems of each country as to power and effi ciency. He discussed the educational training of the young men of each nation. Moving pictures were shown of the Glacier National Park. The Knights of Columbus orchestra entertained. GARRISON'S RELIEF FAILS Ship With Supplies for Troops Shut Vp at Kut-el-Amara Grounds. LONDON. April 28. A relief ship sent by the British with supplies for the garrison at Kut-el-Amara grounded in the Tigris four miles to the east of Kut, it was announced in an official statement tonight. The report eays: "An attempt made on the night of April 24 to send & ship with supplies for the Anglo-Indian forces shut up in Kut. though carried out with the ut most gallantry, unfortunately failed. "Our aeroplanes discovered the ship aground near Magasis. about four miles east of Kut." Service to Be in English. English services will be held tomor row night in Immanuel Lutheran Church, Nineteenth and Irvington streets. Rev. J. Richard Olson, pastor. MONTAVILLA SEWER DECLARED PERFECT Report of All Engi neers Coincides. DEPARTMENT SHAKEUP PENDS Residents of District Ex press Satisfaction. MR. CALDWELL MAY GO TOO Conncilmen Comment on Cost of $2 ISO Forced Vpon City by Un faithful Servants mid Puni tive Action Will Be Taken. Presaging a general shakeup of sewer inspectors, engineers and labor ers in the city's sewer bureau came the final official report yesterday of two committees, one representing the Oregon Society of Civil Engineers and the other the residents of Montavilla, both to the effect that the alleged Montavilla trunk sewer frauds recent ly investigated by the City Council, were without foundation and that the sewer is in perfect condition. The reports which were made after extensive investigations of the phys ical condition of the sewer over its mile and a half of length, constitutes an unqualified vindication of Commis sioner Dieck, City Engineer Dater. Sewer Engineer J. C. Sharp, Chief Sewer Inspector Charles Smith and- the contractor William Lind, against whom the charges as made by inspectors, laborers, engineers and others were aimed. Shakeup Promised Soon. The shakeup in the sewer depart ment will come within a short time. Commissioner Dieck said as much to the Council after the reading of the reports. It probably will be a com plete cleanup of all those who were in volved in the case to the extent of giving testimony as to alleged faulty work permitted in the sewer. No names were mentioned by Mr. Dieck yesterday. He said he is busy now going through the testimony in an effort to determine whom he will try to get rid of. The list may include the following: Richard Walsh, inspector M. L. Dowling. engineer; J. B. Need ham, inspector; Martin McCarthy, in spector; A. F. Lawson, laborer, and C. D. Jameson, inspector. Mr. Dieck also will request the removal from the Civil Service eligible list of two in spectors not now employed. They are II. L. Wright and V. A. Newell. Mr. Caldwell May Lose Head. The investigation may result further in the removal of George W. Caldwell as chairman of the Municipal Civil Service Board because of his activity in the case. Mayor Albee would not announce his plans, but it has. been rumored about the City Hall for some time that this move would result. Mr. Caldwell invoked the wrath of Commissioner Dieck by stirring up the Montavilla troubles in the first place. He conducted an investigation and took testimony which resulted in the Council investigation. Mr. Dieck as serted that he was given no oppor tunity to give his side of the case be fore Mr. Caldwell and that his method of investigating was absolutely unfair. Mr. Caldwell denied this and gave Mr. Dieck an opportunity later to present his case, but the latter refused, pre senting his side to the Council and ignoring the Caldwell hearing which was held the night before the Council investigation! started. Investigation Coats 21K. The investigation of the Council cost $2189. according to a cost record kept. Of this amount $874 went to the re porter who made a stenographic record or the case involving 900 pages of legal cap. "I wish to call attention to the fact that the taxpayers have just paid out J2189 to investigate gossip," said Mayor Albee. "That is absolutely the fact," said Commissioner Dieck. "But it may be worth it," said the Mayor, "if we can get rid of a few of the inspectors who showed their hands in this case." "Well, believe me!" exclaimed Mr. Dieck. "We'd better get rid or enough o them to make the investigation pay," said Commissioner Daly. Discussion Is Harmonious. Commissioner Dieck suggested thai photographic records be made of the. reports of the two committees of engi neers. "And include, the photos of some of the inspectors." said the Mayor. "Yes, in stripes," suggested Mr. Dieck. "And some of the members of the Civil Service Board, too," said Mr. Bis low. "Well, I would say one of them, at least," said Mayor Albee. In the report of the committee of the American Society of Civil Engi neers, comprising George C Mason, .1. P. Newell and J. L. Stannard, the sewer is declared to be in perfect condition. This committee recommends that the city get rid of inspectors who aided in spreading the reports and gossip about the sewer being defective. The report of this committee follows: Gentlemen The. committee appointed by the Portland branch of the Americau Society of Civil Engineers to assist in the investi gation of the Montavilla -wwer. beg to submit the following: report: Inspection Jeclarel Minute. We listened carefully to all the testimony submitted to the Council, and then Inspected (.Concluded on Page 7, Column 1.)