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PORTLAND, OREGON, TUESDAY, MAY 30, 191C.
PRICE FIVI$ CENTS.
200,000 HOME IS
BOUGHT FOR BANK
Deal Involves Third
Street Property.
CONCERN TO START SOON
Quarters Once Occupied by
Portland Trust Company.
APARTMENTS GO IN TRADE
Sale Made to Harrison G. and Rob
ert Treat Piatt, Who Are Organ
lslng Institution That Will Con
fine Loans to Local Realty.
The old banking: kom of the Port
land Trust Company at the southeast
corner of Third and Oak streets was
sold yesterday for a consideration of
1200,000 to a syndicate of Portland and
Eastern capitalists, headed by Harrison
G. and Robert Treat Piatt, who, with
their associates, expect soon to occupy
thev property with a savings bank
which they now are organizing-.
The property consists of 100 by 100
feet, covered by two-story semi-fireproof
buildings. The building- on the
corner lot was occupied, until two
years and a half ago, by the Portland
Trust Company and the Northwestern
National Bank, both of which now are
housed in the 15 - story Northwestern
Bank building: on Morrison street, extending-
from Broadway to Sixth street.
Title to the property was held by the
Portland Trust Company. Title, under
the new owners, is in the name of the
Fidelity Trust Company, of which Har
rison G. Piatt is president and Robert
Treat Piatt vice-president. - Both ends
of the transfer were handled by the
F. E. Taylor Company.
Arrangements for the organization of
the new bank bave not yet been com
pleted, but the concern expects to be
ready for business within the next three
months.
Bnstness to Be Restricted. - '
This new bank will conduct a strictly
savings business. No commercial ac
counts will be carried. Neither the
capitalization nor the personnel of the
board of directors has been determined.
It Id certain., though, that the Platts
will hold a substantial share of the
stock and occupy places on the di
rectorate. Robert Treat Piatt now Is
a director of the Lumbermen's Nation
al Bank. He said yesterday that a
number of Portland men and some
Eastern capitalists will be Interested
with him and his brother In the new
enterprise.
In launching their new enterprise
the Flatt brothers express the belief
that they wll provide Portland with
sn economic and a commercial neces
sity. RoDert Treat Piatt pointed out
yesterday that there is now no savings
bank in the city strictly divorced from
commercial banking business. Obvious
ly, he said, this acts as a handicap
both on the banks doing a savings bus
iness as" well as to those who would
attempt to obtain loans from savings
banks on real estate security.
While the detailed plans of operation
have not been determined. It is under
stood that the new bank 'will pay 3
per cent on savings deposits, which will
be the prevailing rate of the existing
banks after July 1.
Depositors May Get Dividends.
A plan providing for the payment of
extra dividends to depositors is under
consideration, however. Under this ar
rangement a maximum dividend rate
would be fixed for the stockholders.
and the surplus net earnings would be
pro rated among the depositors.
In further discussing the enterprise,
Mr. Piatt said:
"The purchasers are convinced that
ft city of the size of Portland should
hava several large savings banks which
will not n- a commercial business and
the business of which will be restricted
to the leaning of money on real estate
and accumulating the savings of the
community for that purpose. They
point out that the city of San Fran
cisco, which is a little more than twice
the size of the city of Portland, hai
1200,000,000 in its savings banks, where
as tl e ctty of Portland has only about
510.000,000 of savings deposits In Its
tstata banks, which are available to be
loaned upon real estate.
Benefit Is Cited.
"Trie purchasers are also convinced
that the depression in real estate val
ues and the lack cf adequate move
ment in reel estate in this city is large
ly due to the absence of local savings
money ready to be loaned upon local
real estate by men who believe in the
town and its future. At the present
time the owner of the small home, as
wvil as the owner of the large city
property, highly improved, is forced, if
desirous of placing a mortgage loan
upon his property, to pay a high com
mission in order to obtain desultory
funds from Eastern and foreign cen
ters, operating through loan brokers in
this community. It ought to be pos
sible for the small home owner on the
East Bide, and the owner of the sky
scraper on the West Side, who want
first mortgage loans, to walk into
savings tann ana obtain such loans
without any commission whatever, and
with a modicum of expense.
"The absence of such a plan, simple
state of sf fairs is an economically un
round condition, and this town cannot
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GIRL UNDERPAID;
DRESSMAKER HELD
K3IFLOYE IS NOT WORTH $2
WEEKLY, COURT IS TOLD.
Eugenia Sail, Admitting She Told
Kniploye How to Mislead Of
ficers, Bound Over. ,
"Although I paid Freda 2 a week,
she was not worth it." explained Eu
genia Sail, a dressmaker with quarters
,in the Strand building, to District
Judge Bell yesterday when cited for
paying less than the minimum wage of
i6. She continued, "I consider myself
a very good dressmaker, and I spent
more time in teaching her how to do
things than if I had done them myself."
- The prosecution contended that 19-year-old
Freda Behncke was not taught
much dressmaking, but was used chief
ly in .running errands.
"The time I spent with her ought to
be worth an errand or so on Freda's
part." said the dressmaker. "It is very
humiliating to me to be brought into
this sort of thing."
"Did you not tell the girl to pretend
to investigators that she was getting
a dollar a day?" demanded Deputy Dis
trict Attorney Mowry.
"No, not exactly." was the reply.
"Freda did not want to lose her posi
tion and asked me what to do. I told
her the only way she could keep it
was to say she got a dollar a day. I
did not ask her to say it, but I spoke
of It."
Judge Bell found Mrs. Sail guilty of
violating the minimum wage law and
held her to answer to the grand Jury.
WAITE CASE APPEAL SURE
Dentist's Brother Says Action Will
Be Taken Despite Prisoner's Wish.
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.. May 29.
Definite .announcement was made here
today by Clyde Waite, brother of Dr.
Arthur Warren Waite, that an appeal
would be taken "from the verdict re
turned against the young dentist last
Saturday by a Jury in New York, which
found him guilty of murder In the first
degree for poisoning his millionaire
father-in-law. John E. Peck, of Grand
Rapids.
Clyde Waite, who, with his father,
returned today from New York, said
an appeal would be taken, irrespective
of Dr. Waite's wishes.
MRS. MOTON IS EJECTED
Negro Kducator's Wife Ignores .His
Advice Regarding Sleeper.
MONTGOMERY, Ala., May 9. The
wife of Major Robert B. Moton, the
negro educator who succeeded Booker
T. Washington as head of the Tuskegee
Institute, and Blanton Moton, the
Major's brother, were ejected from a
Pullman car at Troy, Ala., today on
complaints from white passengers and
required to ride in the coach provided
for negroes under the Alabama law.
They "attempted to travel in the
GROUP OF
sleeping-car. Major Manton said here,
against his advice.
MR. TUMULTY WILL MARCH
President's Secretary to Lead White
House Employes in Parade.
WASHINGTON, May 19. Led by Sec
retary Tumulty, employes of the White
House will march in the preparedness
parade on Flag day, June 14.
President Wilson probably will re-
iew the parade.
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Alabama Asked to Give
Place to New York.
ROOT AND T.R. FORCES OPPOSE
Roosevelt Headquarters Are
Opened at Chicago.
ANTIS FIGHT SUFFRAGISTS
Mr. Hitchcock Outlines Plan to
Place Mr. Hughes Name Before
Convention at Outset and
Says lie Will Accept.
CHICAGO, May . 29. Republican
Roosevelt headquarters were opened in
Chicago today by Herbert L. Satterlee
and Lawrence Graham, of New York,
and active work getting delegate
votes for the candidate begun. The
headquarters were opened several hours
before Colonel Roosevelt arrived here
en route to Kansas City, where he is
to deliver an address tomorrow. .
George Von L. Meyer, ex-Secretary
of the Navy, is expected In Chicago to
morrow to assume charge of the pre
conventlon campaign for Roosevelt.
Indications are that the plan of
Frank H. Hitchcock to have the name
of Charles E. Hughes presented to the
Republican National Convention as the
first candidate may result In an inter
esting fight between the Root, Roose
velt and Hughes forces.
Alabama to Be Asked to Yield.
Mr. Hitchcock's arrangement is, when
the roll of states is called In alpha
betical order to make nominations for
President, to have Alabama, the first
on the list, yield in favor of New York
so that Hughes may have the advantage
of having his name presented first.
When friends of Root and Roosevelt
learned of this plan they declared they
would attempt to get recognition from
the chairman to present the name of
their 'candidate before Hughes. They
said that the chairman of the conven
tion would be obliged to settle the dis
pute at the time it arises.
Headquarters for Hughes will not be
opened in Chicago, according to a state
ment made by Mr. Hitchcock.
"Mr. Hughes is not an active candi
date for the Presidential nomination
and therefore no headquarters for him
will be opened here, but his friends
who are urging his nomination will
CHARACTERISTIC SNAPSHOTS
work in his interest as
said Mr. Hitchcock.
. "llis views on Americanism, prepared
ness and. other important public ques
tions are sound and were frequently
stated by him in public addresses be
fore he becanw a member of the United
States Supreme Court. There is no
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HUGHES
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Weather. ,
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature. 5
degrees ; minimum, 43 degrees.
TODAY'S Partly, cloudy, winds mostly
westerly.
James J. Hill. '
James J. Hill, 'empire builder," dies. Page. 1.
Funeral of. James J. Hill to be held today.
Page 1'.
Death of James 3. Hill real blow to Oregon.
Page 2.
Foreign.
England objects to Mr. "Wilson's statement
of indifference as to causes of war.
Page 6,
War.
Sentiment for arly peace expressed ty
members of British Commons. Page 3.
Mexico.
Failure of Carranza to aend note puzzles
Washington. Page 4.
ational.
Senate to - take aeries ' of recesses - through
tomorrow. Page 1,
Rivers and harbors bill passes Senate.
Page 6.
Amended land grant bill reported to Eenate.
Page 1.
Iomeatlc.
Mr. Hitchcock plans to present Mr. Hughes
same to 'convention ' before any oiher:
Page 1
Methodist conference ends. "Page 4.
Negro question swings Women's Federation
votes to Mrs: Cowles. Page 4,
Sport.
McCredle asks-waivers on Harstad and Hol-
locher. Page 12.
Browns win 8-2 and then lose to Tigers. 1T-S.
Pago 12.
The Oregonlan roller marathon prizes put on
exhibition. Page 18.
Matty takes 17th In row for Giants.' Page 12.
Commercial and Marine.
Lower prices bid for -wheat -In Northwestern
markets.-. Page. 17.
Chicago wheat declines on breaking ot
drouth in Southwest. "Page IT.
Stock market irregular with -more gains than
losses. Page 17.
Sharp decline In' hog prlcea at local stock
yards. Page 17.
Rlvermen's strike question still is unsettled.
Pane 10.
Portland and Vicinity.
Ministerial associations not strong for pre
paredness parade. Page 16.
Armenian appeal made to Oregonl&na.
Page 9. .... i
Ore thousand two hundred attend The Ore
gonlan Better Food, Better Homes School.
Page 10. .
John Robinson circus dellghta Addison Ben
nett. Page 18.
At least 14,000 marchers expected In pre
paredness demonstration. Page 18.
Patrlcola makes hit at pantages. I'age 18.
Tent city -rising for Bcventh-Day Adventiat
conference Thursday. Page 18.
Old home of Portland Trust Company sold
for 2UO,000. - Page 1.
Arrest for paying less than minimum wage
"humiliates" dressmaker. Page 1.
Memorial lay programme given. Page 16.
Weather report, data and forecaat. Page 17.
550 KILLED IN BRITAIN
Sea and Air Raids on Isles Cause
Total Casualty List of 2166.
"CONDON, May 29. In the attacks on
the British Isles from sea and air dur-
lntr the war, 2166 persons have been
killed or wounded. The number of
deaths is 550.
The figures were given in the House
of Commons today by Herbert I
Samuel, the Home Secretary, as fol
lows: "In the three attacks from sea, 61
men, 40 women and 40 children were
killed, and 611 persons were Jnjured.
"In the 41 air raids. 222 men, 114
women and 73 children were killed,
and 1005 persons were Injured."
OF "EMPIRE BUILDER," WHO DIED
individuals" f . - 1 J.'
JAMES J. HILL, AS HE APPEARED VARIOUSLY IX A!D AROtTJf D POHT-
LUO.
J. J JILL, EMPIRE
BUILDER," IS DEAD
Great. Railroad Finan
cier Passes.
FUNERAL WILL BE TOMORROW
Son, Louis W. Hill, "Likely to
Succeed to Control.
FAMILY AT BEDSIDE AT END
Attempt to Ward Off Death by Op
eration Is futile Stock - in
Great Bank Transferred to
. Son . Two Weeks . Ago. .
ST. FAUL. May 29 James J. Hill.
aged 78 years, railroad builder who
probably more than any other one
man has aided in the upbuilding of
the great Northwest, died here today
following an illness caused by Intes
tinal catarrh of several years' stand
ing, but only of recent severity.
The "empire builder" and financier
his wealth Is rated In the hundreds
of millions became gravely III only
several days ago and operations of
Friday and Saturday failed to check
the Infection which had resulted and
Mr. Hill gradually lost strength, los
ing consciousness late last night and
remaining In a state of coma until life
passed at 9:30 o'clock this morning.
Family . at Bedside.
All the members of Mr. Hill's imme
diate family, with the exception of
Mrs. M. Beard, of New York, a daugh
ter, were at the bedside when the end
came.
The funeral will be held Wednesday
at 2 P. M, and interment will be In
a private mausoleum at Mr. Hill's Sum
mer home Ave miles from St. Paul.
Louis W. Hill, son of the railroad
builder and general manager of his
properties and business interests, was
visibly affected upon leaving the Hill
residence with Rev. Thomas J. Gibbons,
vicar-general of the St. Paul arch
diocese, who was with Mr. Hill at the
end. He will probably remain as the
head of the various Hill interests, be
coming executor of the vast estate.
Stock Given to Son.
That the absolute control of the First
National Bank of St, Paul passed from
Mr. Hill to his son. Louis, two weeks
ago became known today, following
the death of Mr. Hill.
The First National Bank has a com
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YESTERDAY.
DELEGATES OF NEW
YORK FOR HUGHES
rOLIi SHOWS CLEAR MAJORITY
FAVORING JUSTICE.
Letters Sent by William Barnes to
All Kmpire State Men Calling
for Meeting; June 6.
NEW YORK, May 19. A majority of
New York delegates to the Republican
National convention favor the nomina
tion of Justice Hughes for President,
according to a statement given out to
night by Frederick C. Tanner, chair
man ot the Republican State Commit
tee and a delegate-at-large.
"A canvass of the New York delega
tion, just received, shows a clear ma
jority for Justice Hughes." Chairman
Tanner declared. He continued:
"This is notwithstanding the high
regard for Senator Root's ability and
experience and is In spite of Justice
Hughes' refusal to take any part in
the contest."
A letter eigned by William Barnes,
as Republican national committeeman
and made public here today, announced
there would be a meeting in Chicago
of the New York State delegation to
the Republican National Convention
Tuesday evening, June 6. "Jfor the pur
pose of organizing and transacting such
business as may come before the meet
ing." The letter was sent to every
state delegate.
Some politicians interpreted the let
ter as a call for "a count of noses" of
the Roosevelt. Htighe and Root fac
tions, in view of reported threats by
delegates from all three camps to in
troduce resolutions at their first meet
ing looking to that end.
VOTERS ORDER IRRIGATION
25,000 Acres In Malheur Are to Be
Watered From Reservoir.
VALE, Or., May 29. (Special.) Land
owners in the Malheur Valley voted 84
to 11 Saturday to organize an irrigation
district, which contemplates construc
tion of a dam at Riverside, holding
200.000 acre-feet of water Government
engineers have reported It to be the
most feasible and cheapest project in
the West and 25,000 acres of new land
will be put in cultivation.
Ten thousand acres are owned by the
Oregon Western Colonization Company,
of St. Paul. Directors are Oeorge Mc
Laughlin. R E. Weant, James Harvey.
C. W. Mallett, A. W. Trow, and treas
urer, T. W. Hulliday.
PASTOR'S HOME IS ROBBED
lfou.se Is Looted While Minister
Preaches Evening Sermon.
nie nev. it. n. r'arnham, pastor of
the United Evangelical Church, pre
sided at Sunday evening services,
thieves entered his home at 1140 Gay
street, securing various articles of
jewelry and clothing. Entrance was
gained by forcing a window at the
rear of the house.
City Detectives Royle and Vaughn,
who investigated, found that a small
link gold watch chain, a gold lockek
an amethyst ring, a pocket flashlight-)
ana a box of stockings were taken.
Tracks beneath the window support
the theory that the theft was commit
ted by boys.
ASSASSIN'S PLOT FAILS
Attempt to Kill Au&tro-IIungarian
Minister to Persia Unsuccessful.
BERLIN, May 29. (By wireless to
Sayvllle.) An unsuccessful attempt to
assassinate the Austro-Hungarlan Min
ister to Persia is reported in a "Con
stantinople dispatch to the Overseas
News Agency today.
The attempt, according to the dis
patch, was made by Djemel Bey. "who
several years ago was Involved in the
assassination of Mahmoud Schefket
Pasha, Turkish Grand Vizier and Min
ister of War."
SANTA FE FOREST BURNS
Many I 'I res This Spring Traced to
Human Agencies.
SANTA FE. N. M., May 29. Fifty
men ended a 72-hour battle today ex
tinguishing a forest fire that burned
300 acres and threatened the town of
Gascon. Forestry officials report nine
fires this Spring In the Santa Fe National-Forest
alone, which they say
were started by human agencies. Ap
proximately 3000 acres were devastated.
Late today a fire was reported In
Pecos County.
STEAMER IS TORPEDOED
Unidentified Submarine Sinkt
Briton; Crew Saed.
ALGIERS, via Paris, May 29 The
crew of 26 men of the British steamer
Trunkby, sunk by a submarine of un
known nationality, have arrived here.
The Trunkby measured 2635 tons gross
and was owned by R Ropner & Co., of
West Hartlepool. She was built in
1896.'
The steamer was last reported aa
having arrived in the Clyde March 23.
ALL -WOMAN JURY SITS
Four Mexicans, at San Diego, Are
Convicted of Robbery.
SAN DIEGO, Cal.. May 29. A jury
composed entirely of women, sitting in
the case of four Mexicans accused of
robbery, returned a verdict of guilty
after three hours' deliberation today.
This is the first time on record in the
Superior Court here thst a case was
tried exclusively by women.
GRANT BILL CHANGES
PUT UP TO SENATE
Amendments to Be Con
sidered Wednesday.
EARLY PASSAGE IS FORECAST
Compromise on Oregon-California
Land Act Sought.
SOME PROVISIONS IN DOUBT
Chamberlain Plan Would Give 90
Per Cent of Sales Proceeds to
State, Counties and Districts.
- Ferris Is for Quick Action.
OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash
ington. May 29. (Special.) The Ore
gon & California land-grant bill,
amended to give Oregon, the land-grant
counties and port districts an aggregate
of 90 per cent of all receipts from
the sales of grant land and timlper. waa
reported to the Senate this afternoon,
by Senator Chamberlain.
Under special agreement of the Sen
ate. it will be taken up for consld
eration Wednesday.
Karly Senate Action Likely.
It is Senator Chamberlain's expecta
tion that the bill will pass after a
few hours' discussion, and following its
passage by the Senate he will urge its
immediate reference to a conference
committee, in order that the differ
ences between the Senate and House
bills may be compromised and the con
ference report adopted before Congress
suspends active business for the con
vention period.
Chairman Ferris, of the House com
mittee, is of opinion the bill must
become a law before June 9, and will
co-operate with Senator Chamberlain
in hurrying final action.
louse May Oppose Some Itrma.
There is little or no prospect that
t.:e House will agree to all the Senate
amendments In their present form.
In lieu of the House plan of divid
ing the proceeds from the grant lends,
the Senate amendment provides that
10 per cent shall go to Federal treas
ury. 10 per cent shall go to the re
clamation fund for exclusive use on
Government irrigation projects in Ore
gon; "Thirty per cent of the funds
arising from sales of land and timber
in Multnomah. Tillamook. Lane, Doug
las and Coos counties shall be paid to
those counties for roads and bridges,
and 20 per cent thereof shall be paid
to the respective port districts within
the counties named for reducing the
bonded . indebtedness of those districts
and for general harbor improvements,
and where there is more than one port
district in any county, the county court
shall determine what portion of the
fund shall be credited to the several
port districts."
Timber Salea Plaa 1 haased.
The amendment further provides
that 35 per cent of the proceeds in
the other counties shall be paid to
those counties for roads and high
ways, and the -entire balance remain
ing in the land grant fund shall be
paid into the state school fund. This
means that the five counties in which
the port districts He will receive 50
per cent of the receipts in those coun
ties; the other counties without port
districts will get 35 per cent, and the
state school fund will get, in the ag
gregate, a little more than 40 per cent
of the total receipts.
The bill as reported also changes,
the plan of selling the timber. The
Senate bill vests the sale of timber ex
clusively in the hands of the Secre
tary of the Interior, cutting out the
Joint authority conferred by the House
on the Secretary of Agriculture, and
requires that all timber shall be sold
for cash, and under competitive bids
only. A separate bid is required for
the timber on eac"-t 40-acre subdivision,
but a. purchaser can bid on as many
40s as he likes.
Timber Taxable on ale.
Purchasers of timber will receive a
patent for the same. The timber be
comes taxable on sale.
Another new provision stipulates
that "timber thus purchased may be
cut and removed at any time within
the discretion of the purchaser, and
until it shall be removed the land upon
which it stands shall be subject to the
possession and control of the owner
of the timber." but the purchaser can
only use the land for purposes of pro
tecting, cutting and removing the tim
ber. Senator Chamberlain anticipates
opposition to the timber sale amend
ment from the conservationists of the
Senate.
Anotiier Senate amendment gives
preference 'right of entry to settlers
who bave resided on grant land since
December 1. 1915. Instead of since De
cember 1. 1916, as provided In the House
bill.
Power Site Disposition Cat Oat. i
Another amendment cuts out the
House provision authorizing withdraw
al of power sites In the land grant, but
leaves the authority for disposing of
that under whatever water-power laws
may be in force wnen they are applied
for.
Had Senator Chamberlain reported
the land-grant bill Saturday, he could
have had it considered in the Senate
this afternoon, and might have secured
its passage tonight. After the passage
of the river and harbor bill and when
the postoffice appropriation bill was
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