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VOL,. LVI.-XO. 17,336. PORTLAND, OREGON, U'KDXESDAY. JUNE -14,' 1916. PRICE FIVE CENTS. JULEPS PUT ABOVE GRANT'S OLD HOME PRESIDENT TELLS PARTY WHAT TO DO FIRE ON HARBOR FRONT IS FATAL TEMPERATURE IS SPEEDED UPWARD ERIGANISM IS TO OF UNDILUTED SORT in HOSTESS TO DEMOCRATIC DEI.' EGATES GETS Til. 1 TO 10 DEAD, 40 INJCItED IN BLAZE XEAK BALTIMOKE. WEATHER MAN SHOVES MER Cl'RY VP 2 NOTCHES. DEMOCRATS FIND MUCH WORK TO DO PRISONERS POURING Mil RUSSIAN GAMPS Important Phases of Policy Still Unsettled. VOTE-GETTING PROBLEMS VEX Satisfying Suffragists and Dodging Prohibition Are ; Among Difficult Tasks. HUGHES FOREMOST IN MIND Party Bothered Over Method to Be Used to Win Back. German-Americans. ' ST. LOUIS, June 13. (Editorial Correspondence.) The political at mosphere of this Democratic conven tion city is painfully calm and unemo tional. After Chicago, with its series of dramatic events, and its remark able denouement, St. Louis is a pic ture of sober and easy dignity, where nothing but the arranged, bargained and expected is to happen. The Democratic party is giving here a great National demonstration of the American doctrine of preparedness. It has been prepared with a candidate and also has prepared the party with a platform which was prepared for any contingency but Hughes. The town was only lazily prepared for the convention, which is not to be a con vention, but a ratification meeting. The crowds appear to be about one tenth the size of moving and excited throngs which filled the galleries and bleachers at Chicago. There is to be no real fight, and your Democrat dearly loves a fight, Perhaps some one will start trouble, but about what? It will not be about Wilson, and hot about the platform, or rather that part of the platform which Wilson will write. Party "Without Alternative. It is agreed that he may say what he pleases and the Democracy will follow. It has no alternative, so must indorse preparedness, which it believes in only for party purposes, and Mex ico, which it excuses as best it may, and the foreign policies of the Admin istration, which it subscribes to heart ily so far as they have "kept the- country out of war." But there is a chance for a minor fight over woman suffrage, which the suffragettes are arranging militantly, and over pro hibition a bomb which Bryan may light and toss into the pitr but per haps he will not. Bryan- is alive, while he is almost wholly neglected. His claws have been trimmed and he is inclined to be humble and accom- modatine. He riermif-s it in Vmnirti that he is still a Democrat, and will go on the stump this Fall for Wilson. He is only a newspaper reporter, he says, and he plans no particular cam paign for anything, except the tri umph of Democracy. I have been trying diligently today to find what is in the Democrat mind, after Wilson, and I learn that it is Hughes. The reasons for it are inter esting. Hughes' Strength Admitted. It is agreed that Hughes is a strong nominee and that the Republican party is measurably well reunited. Still it is seen that there are certain Progressive middle-of-the-roaders who intend to stay with the wreck, and it may be possible either to work and act with them or to take them bodily into the Democratic party. For the first time the Democratic leaders are seriously considering making a 'bid for the Progressive programme of the social uplift. If they get any real en couragement from the Progressives, or any important part of them, they will do it; otherwise they will wait for developments of the campaign to open a way to the Progressive confidence. So far no Progressive of the first order has gone to the Democrats. The headliners talk still of merging the 'Progressive organization and the oth ers have their own reasons for doing what they have done, or will do, ir respective of any hypocritical and ar tificial utterances in the platform. So it is not at all likely that the Demo cratic platform will be a marvel and a model of progressiveness. Never theless the plight of the bereft Pro gressives is much on the Democratic (Concluded on Page 2. Column 3.) Some Members of Party at Beautiful Buseh Home Wear Hats at Din ncr Silverware Is Taken. ST. LOUIS. June 13. (Special.) Members of the Democratic National Committee and several hundred visit ing newspaper men made a pilgrimage to the old home of General Ulysses S. Grant, now better. 'known aa the es tate of Augustus Busch, the brewer. The little log cabin in which Grant eked out a living in yeaj-s before the' call came which, led to the command of the Union Army and' later "to the Presidency of the Nation - is neaTr the entrance. Some of the visitors turned their heads and got a. glimpse of it aa their automobiles sped by. They dd not get closer. There were more mod ern show places on the estate to see. In a corner of the lawn six butlers were mixing mint Juleps. Nine detectives were ' in the party. Most of them never took a chance on losing their hats by taking them off. even when at the banquet table. Some body said they were to see that noth ing was stolen. They came with the National Committeemen's party. They saved their hats, but the Busch's sil verware was well distributed. Mrs. Busch, who was one of the sev eral who served strawberries to the delegates in a pretty corner of. the lawn, was surprised to find that one of the visitors had left a tip under his plate. YACHT'S WAVES KILL MAN Death of Boat Club Steward Due Indirectly to Mayflower. TARRYTOWJJ,' N. Y., June 13.-(Spe-cial.) Waves , from the President's yacht, the Mayflower, were the indirect cause of the death of Charles Bystrom, 24. years old, steward of the Tarry town Boat Club, today shortly after the President's yacht passed Tarry town on its way from West Point to New York. Bystrom dived into the Hudson for a swim. When he came up near the club's float the waves from- the yacht rocked it so that he received a glanc ing blow on the head and ; was ren dered partly senseless. He sank al most immediately. . BOSELLI TO LEAD CABINET Former Minister to Be President of ' New Italian Council. ' PARIS, June 13. Signor Paolo Boselli, veteran Italian parliamentarian and former Minister of Public Instruc tion, who lias been requested by King Victor Emmanuel to form a Ministry in succession to that headed by Premier Antonio Sajandra, probably will take the presidency of the Council without portfolio, says a. Havas dispatch from Milan today., Signor Boselli is expected to sur round himself with eminent men of all parties in forming the new Ministry, the dispatch says. GRANGE MEET HORSELESS - Of 7 4 Menibers at Lane County . Gathering All Arrive by Boat. EUGENE, Or., June 13. (Special.) Not a horse was to be seen at the hall of the Acme Grange, when 74 of the 79 members of the organization met. according to C. ,J. Hurd, state deputy Grange organizer, who returned from the western, end of the county last night. Every member of the organiza tion present traveled by boat. The in cident was not the result of any pre arranged plan, but due to the fact that the boat is the usual mode of travel in that part of the county. HAMPSHIRE HIT BY U-BOAT German Dress Contends Submarine Sent Kitchener to Bottom. LONDON, June 14. German news papers, according to a Berne dispatch to the Morning Post, state that the British cruiser Hampshire 'was sunk by a German submarine. It was on the Hampshire that Lord Kitchener and his staff were voyaging to Russia. The British Admiral, Sir John Jelli coe. in his official report of the sinking of the Hampshire, declared the vessel was sunk by a mine. GERMANS CAPTURE VESSEL Danish Steamer Is Taken While on Xorth Sea. LONDON, June 14 An Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Copenhagen says that the Danish steamer Askoe has been captured by a German war ship in the North Sea and , taken to Hamburg.' The Swedish schooner Svea,. on her way to England, has been captured in the Sound by a German warship and taken to Swinemunde. TRIAL OF L-9 SUCCESSFUL New Submarine Sinks 2 00 Feet anil Goes at 1 1-Knot Hate Submerged. QULNCT, Mass., June 13. The sub marine L-9 successfully completed her acceptance trial oil Provincetown to day, according to word received by, her builders. She submerged to a depth, of 200 feet and exceeded the speed requirements of 14 knots on the surface and 11 knots under water, it was said. Secretary Baker Is Bearer of Orders.. HARMONY PLAN IS AGREED ON Marshall Will Have Second Place, Without Question. COMMAND IS ' EMPHATIC Most of Platform Also Written In Washington Direct' Invitation to- Be Avoided House Not .- to Manage Campaign. ST. LOUIS, June 13. The arrival here tonight of Secretary Baker. President Wilson's personal representative, bear ing the "President's own" draft of the platform" and 'news that he desires the renomination of VicePresident Marshall, firmly established the har mony programme for- the Democratic National Convention which opens to morrow. Wlien Chairman William F. McCombs, of the Democratic National Committee, let's his gavel sound at. noon tomorrow, leaders expect all pre-convention dis cord to be blended in one harmonious note. A programme of agreement on both the Presidential and Vice-Presidential nominations and the platform as well was apparently arranged by the leaders. Boomleta Fade A Tray. - Vice-Presidential booms and boom lets, around which most of the pre convention fights have centered, wilted away tonight under influence of the personal message from the White House, brought by Secretary Baker, that the President desires Mr. Marshall as his running mate. Secretary Baker also effectually dis posed of the Vice-Presidential boom in his own behalf which had attained prominence in the belief in some quarters that Mr. Marshall lacked genuine Administration support.'' 'The President is for the re-nomination of Vice-President Marshall" was the emphatic statement tonight from Secretary Baker on his arrival with the platform draft substantially com plete and written largely if not wholly by the President himself. Marshall Alone Considered. "So far as I know." Mr. Baker an nounced, "the President has not con sidered any other nominee. As to the movement started in my behalf, I am for Mr. Marshall. I am here as a dele gate from Ohio. I ran in a popular primary pledged to support Mr. Mar shall and obviously could not allow myself to be considered." The "President's .own" craft of the platform a single copy will be de livered by Mr. Baker to Senator Stone, of Missouri, chairman-to-be of the resolutions committee. Little change in It is expected, and Mr. Baker said he came here as the means of com- Concluded on Page 6, Column l. Bomb Theory, in Grain Elevator Conflagration, Advanced Los? I'ifY ;at More Than 2 Million. BALTIMORE. June .13. Pennsylvania Railroad Elevator No. 3 on the harbor front at Canton, a suburb, was burned today with a loss of life conservatively estimated at from four to 10 men and injuries to more than 40 others. The victims were mostly elevator employes and cargo trimmers. Three of the in jured were, in a critical "condition to night . ' - Two steamships, . the Willcm Van Driel, Sr., a Dutch vessel, and the Brit ish steamer Welbeck Hall, which were loading grain at the elevator, also were badly damaged by' fire and wreckage dropped upon them. .- The flames spread to an ore pier next to the elevator, "badly damaging it. Several strings of grain cars in the elevator were butmcd. - While the fire is thought to have been caused by an expjosilon -of grain dust, a theory was advanced that It may have been caused by a. bomb. -This theory will be investigated, it waa said. Con servative estimates placed the loss at more than J2,000,000. Altogether about 1.000,000 .bushels of wheat, oats, bar ley, rye and buckwheat were destroyed. Scores of -men barely escaped with their live's. Thirty-four grain handlers and stevedores who were partially im prisoned In tha hold of the Welbeck Hall fought their way to freedom over piles of grain, lalning the deck of the ship, they fVund their way to shore cut off by the flames. Some of them jumped overboard and were picked up. Launches ran alongside, and took off the others. MURDER HEARD BY PHONE Man In Brooklyn Hears Shot, Kill ins Brother, In New York. 1 NEW YOUK, June 13. rllcnry Green, proprietor, of a liquor store, was shot and killed late tonight by one of three robbers who attempted to hold him up. Green was talking over the telephone with a brother in Brooklyn when the three men entered the store. "Walt a minute, Davie,", he said to his brother. "Here are three cus tomers." A minute later the man in Brooklyn heard the sound of a pistol over the telephone wire. Becoming alarmed whenhe' failed to get any further re sponse from his brother, David Green called police headquarters In New York and asked that an investigation be made. The police found the proprietor of the store dying. 75,000 TO J3EJN PARADE President to Lead Great Army of Marchers at Washington. WASHINGTON. June 13; The capital's response tomorrow to Presi dent Wilson's proclamation calling on the Nation to celebrate Flag day will be a great - preparedness parade down Pennsylvania . avenue with the Presi dent himself marching at' - its head. Later hewill deliver an address.. The day will be a holiday under an executive order excusing all Govern ment employes from work and 1 5,000 persons, including many high Gov ernment officials, are expected to form in the line of march. CAN YOU IMAGINE THE MOOSE FOI l OWlW Drive Into Galicia Part of Careful Plan. SUDDENNESS ROUTS TEUTONS General. BrussilofPs Brilliant Swoop Makes Him Hero. OPPORTUNITY IS SEIZED Withdrawal of Austrian to Meet Kalians Opens Wuy for Mighty Advance by Slavs Under Dapper, Vigorous Leader. BY PICRC1VAL. .GIBBON. PETROGRAD, via London, June 13. (Special.) The people of Kleve are re newing the emotions of the earlier days of the war, when General Bus siloff was storming through Galicia and sending back score after score of trains laden with Austrian prisoners. , Now, after a long lull, the same trains are. thronging in and the hilly, tree lined streets are once more blocked with long, gray columns of prisoners dragging through to the camps. Aantriana Only Make Outcry. Tne police do not allpw cheers or demonstrations of triumph within sight of the prisoners. The only outcries come from the only people in Kieve over whom the police have no control. These are Austrian prisonere, captured earlier in the campaign, who since that time have been employed in street cleaning and similar jobs. They cease their easy-going labor as the columns arrive and greet their former comrades with howls of derisive welcome. Preparations for General Brussiloff s latest achievement included the elimi nation of all the newspaper corres pondents from the front. Therefore, save the skeleton narrative of the of ficial dispatches, added to the meager accounts which leak through from the fighting armies, another stage on the road to victory goes unrecorded. Advance Part of AUlea' Plan. 1 find thai the opinion entertained in official circles here is that this ad vance is the first noteworthy result of the co-ordination of the allies' war plan which General Brussiloff hoped to make last month. The sector upon which the chief progress is being made is on the Kovel Rovno line, where General Puchalow commanded the fourth Austrian army with headquarters at Lutsk. This army waj depleted lately when two army corps were sent to the Italian front, where the Austrian pressures were greatly increased. Hence this sudden movement which General Brussiloff mentioned when he told me that the "allies have a plan which will be ad hered to." Suddcnncaa of Attack Marvelous. It'is impossible within the scope of a cable message to do justice to the re- Concluded on Fasre 2. Column 2.) THIS OTTTF'T- Maximum of 8 7 Decrees Is Main tained for Hour, and Ice War Is Being Waged. The weather man got into bis stride yesterday on the midsummer course, and shoved the temperature up two notches higher than it had been on Monday, reaching a maximum of 87 de gress at 4 P. M., which waa maintained until 5 o'clock. The high mark of the previous day, 85 degres, was passed at 2 o'clock yes terday. Incidentally the weather man has se lected the ideal moment for turning the hot weather spigot,, to keep himself popular with the common people; for there is an ice war on' and the prices have dropped from 65 cents to 40 cents, with indications of a still greater drop. Restaurant dealers aro also profiting by the conditions, for their ice is down to 20 cents. Fair weather is still predicted for today, though not so warm. The hourly temperatures yesterday follow: 6 A. M.. 69; 6 A. M., 60; 7 A. M.. 64; 8 A. M.. 66; 9 A. M., 70; 10 A. M.. 73; 11 A. M-, 75; noon. SO; 1 P. M.. So; 2 P. M.. 86; 3 1 M., 86: 4 P. M.. 87; 5 P. M.. 87. STRIKE TO BE ARBITRATED Butte Unions and Employers Are in Fair Way to Settle. .BUTTE. Mont.. June 13. The strike of the. Butte Workingmen's Union and the Butte Teamsters' Union, which had affected many other trades and crafts and forced more than 2000 men into idleness, was in a fair way to be set tled tonight, when the union leaders decided to treat with the employers. Both sides quickly decided on arbi tration to settle the controversy. BLOCK OF BUILDINGS BURNS Eltopia, Wash., Eire Starts in Com mercial Hotel. ELTOPIA. Wash.. June 13. Fire, starting In the Commercial Hotel from an undetermined cause, destroyed. an entire block of buildings here today, including the building occupied by the Eltopia State Bank. The loss Is heavy. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YERTERDATS Maximum temperature. ST degrees'; minimum. 00 degrees. TODAY'S Fair, not so warm, northwesterly winds. St. Loula Convention. President sends orders to Democratic cod ventlnn by Secretary Baker. Page 1. Juleps more interesting to Democrats tban Grant's old home. Page 1. Irvln s. Cobb tella how well delegates like St. Louis Ice water. Page 3. Oregon delegation to lead In fight for sut frage Indorsement at St. Louis. Democrats find much work to do. Pa go 3. Page 1. War. Canadians regain lost ground from Ger- mans. Page 4. Hundreds of thousands of prisoners pouring into Russian camps. Page- 1. Official war reports. Page 4. Mexico. Washington In growing fear of outbreak in Mexico. Page 2. Foreign. England pays tribute to Lord Kitchener's memory, page 2. National. President Wilson makes plea for American ism and real preparedness. Page "3-. Independents blame Standard Oil companies for high gasoline prices. Page 4. DomcMtia. . Railway strike conference Is failure. Page . Four to ten meet death In Page 1. Girl's chum .makes case Baltlmore fire, against Orpet. Page 4. Hughes defines attitude toward American support. Page 1. Grrman- Sport. Pacific Coast League results: Portland 8, Vernon 5: Los Angeles 3, San Francisco 2; Oakland tf. Salt Lake 2. Page 10. Ham Patterson scores Baum for suspending him. Page IB. Braves and Keds play 10-innlng 0-0 tie. Page HI. Senators drive Walsh -out and beat White Sox. 3 to 2. Page 17. Amateur athletics. Page 20. Beavers may obtain Rowdy Elliott. Page 20. Pacific Northwest. Veterans of two wars to hold encampment In Eugene today; Page 7. Monmouth Normal School alumni hold gay reunion. Page 7. Jury assesses Gladstone Councilman $10O0 for alienating Mrs. Ben K. Stark's af fections. Page 6. Plan to merge Albany College rwlth Pacific University balked. Page i'0. Commercial and Marine. British embargo on American hops not yet in effect. Page 21. Chicago wheat advances on foreign buying of July option. Page 21. Stock market unsettled by Mexican develop ments. Page 21. Stcamboatmen make closed shop sole issue In strike.. Page -'0. Strike conference in Los Angeles la barren pf result. Page 20. Portland and Vicinity, District Attorney Evans leads ticket on final .count. Page 5. Annual meeting of Boys' and Girls' Aid So ciety held. Page 10. July Fourth" celebration to be varied. Page Danger for Hughes candidacy in Oregon ueen in dcublo delegation. Page C. Fund for marketing campaign is sent to O. A. C. by Chamber. Page 15. Eastern Knights Templar, en route to con clave, visit Portland. Page 8. Fund for Armenian relief grows slowly. Pa&e 1S W. G. Roland stands to lose S12.000 estate of Mrs. Harriet Scofield. Page 10. Stiff fines curb traffic violation. Page lO. Portland observes today' as birthday of American flag. Page 22. Re-passage of city links law- asked to allow "up days in case referendum is invoked. ' ' . rage 11. Oregon commercial bodies asked to send del egates to Yellowstone Park meeting. Page 9. Temperature rises to ST degrees. Page 1. Pacific fisheries convention opens here to morrow. Page 1 1. South Portland decides to extend campaign. Page 20. Republicans plan- big ratification xally. 'age to. Bishop Hughes stops over for conference with Methodist li-adrrs. Page 3. Weather report, data and forecast. Pace 21. Hughes Issues Supple mentary Statement. POSITION IS CLEARLY DEFINED Attitude Toward German American Support Expressed. DAY GIVEN TO CALLERS Progressive Leaders Gio l'lcdsca of Support Dato of I'ormnl N'o tilicatlon to Bo Settled Within l ew Days. NEW YORK, Juno 13. Charles E. Hughes today defined his attitude to ward German-American support as one of "undiluted Americanism," In the first statement issued since his acceptance of the Republican nomination for Presi dent. He said: "I stated my position very clearly in my telegram to the convention. My at titude is one of undiluted Americanism and anybody that supports me Is sup porting an out-and-out American and an. out-and-out American policy, abso lutely nothing else." Day Given to Callers. The nominee's day, a busy one. was devoted almost exclusively to receiving callers. Ilia visitors were more numer ous than yesterday. There' were so many of them at one time that a line was formed and they filed past to shako hands and chat for a moment instead of waiting to be received alone. Sev eral Progressive leaders and Republi can supporters of Colonel Roosevelt were among them. Everett. Colby, of New Jersey, who placed John M. Parker in nomination for the Vice-Presidency at She Progres sive convention, and Theodore Douglas Robinson, nephew of Colonel Roosevelt and a former Progressive leader in New York, called during Mr. Hughes absence at luncheon. They left word that they would return in a day or so to deliver in person their pledges of support. Oscar C. Straus sent a tele gram from Cleveland pledging support and followed in person later to con gratulate the nominee and reiterate his pledge. Republican Leaders Make VIxHa. Republican leaders who saw Mr. Hughes included ex-Governor B. B. Odell. of New York: William H. Crock er and M. II. DeYoung. of Pan Fran cisco: Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler and Lloyd C. Griscom. of New York. IHr. Butler, who placed Elihu Root in nom ination at Chicago, spent nearly an hour conferring with Mr. Hughes. Henry Clews, the New York banker, and Frank A. Vanderlip, president of the National City Bank, of New York, made brief visits. Suffrage leaders sought vainly to obtain the nominee's views as to their cause. Miss Lucy Burns and Mrs. Charles A. Beard tried unsuccessfully to see him. Mrs. Laura B. Prlsk. chair man of the woman's Republican com mittee, of New York, had a two-minute talk with him, in the course of which he said he probably would make known his views on suffrage in his formal speech of acceptance. The date of his formal notification of nomination may be settled definitely within a few days, as word was re ceived tonight at headquarters that the siib-committee from the National com mittee might reach here tomorrow to confer with him. Mr. Hughes present plan is to receive the committee be fore he leaves next Monday to attend a class reunion, and the commencement exercises at Brown University. . LINN FARMERS'.6 HOSTS City Eolks to Bo Invited to Bis Fourth of July Celebration. ALBANY, Or., June 13. (Special.) Instead of expecting the merchants of Linn County to provide a Fourth of July celebration for them, the farmers of the county are planning a celebra tion to which they are inviting the city folks. The event will be held under the auspices of the Farmers Union in a large grove about one mile south ot Lebanon. The events of the day will include addresses by several prominent citizens, a baseball game, all the dif ferent foot races and the greased-plg chase, and last but not least a big barbecue dinner to which all have been invited. BOYS' BOX TRADE THRIVES Street-Cleaning; Bureau Reports He suits of Sales During Festival. Portland has some very ambitious lads, ac-ording to a report prepared yesterday by Superintendent Donald son, of the Street Cleaning Bureau. He reports that his bureau after the last Rose Festival pa-ade hauled away 40 truck loads of boxes the boys had taken into the business district to sell for curb seats. Hundreds of tons of paper and other waste materials were gathered up from the streets at the close of the Festival. The paper was taken to the iucincrator while the boxes were dis tributed to poor families for fuel. i 1