the aioKxixo oregonian Friday, septejiber 13, 1916.
CORNERSTONE OF
AUDITORIUM LAID
Ovation Paid Third Oregon
Regiment as It Swings
Into Position. -
CHAPLAIN GILBERT SPEAKS
.Impassioned Address Laudatory of
Guardsmen Arouses Enthusiasm
and Mighty Wave of Ap
plause Sweeps Audience.
The Third Oregon. Regiment, in all
its military splendor, helped lay the
cornerstone or she Public Auditorium
yesterday after the military home-coming
parade. With the returned soldiers
massed in Third street, between Clay
and Market streets, and officers of the
regiment, city officials and representa
tives of civic and industrial organiza
tions in a flag-draped stand on the
foundation of the building, the corner
stone was lowered into position.
A short programme of speeches was
carried out before the stone was placed.
The programme was a combination of
a welcome home to the soldiers r.nd a
dedication of the structure which is to
be one of the finest auditoriums in the
United States. Speakers praised the
soldiers and praised the building and
both of these two important features
of the celebration were loudly cheered
by the assemblage. The cornerstone
programme was started as soon as the
troops arrived. As they marched to
ward the auditorium site bombs were
exploded and flags were unfurled. A
large crowd assembled and volleys of
cheers went up as the soldiers were
massed in front of the speakers" stand.
SI r. Baker . Preside.
City Commissioner Baker presided
at the dedication and introduced the
speakers. Chaplain W. S. Gilbert proved
the orator of the day, although he was
slated medely as one of a number of
speakers. He roused a display of en
thusiasm that swept the crowd and
the soldiers and ended in three deafen
ing cheers for Oregon by the entire
regiment. He gave a rousing talk on
the service and. sacrifices of the regi
ment and the prospects for the future.
"There have been men who have seen
us today who have said there is no
need for the Third Oregon Regiment,"
thundered Chaplain Gilbert. "These
men will live to see the folly of their
statements. I take exception to the
statement that we did not see service.
We did see service, and serioUB service,
too. We were there for a serious pur
pose and were willing to give our lives
for our flag. We did all our country
asked us to do.
"And remember, friends, our going
to the Mexican border is just the be
ginning of what the Third Oregon
Regiment will do. To the soldier there
is no time more sacred than when he
comes home. If the coming home of
our boys has awakened a. nobler pa
triotism in the hearts of our citizens
our going and coming shall not have
been in vain. And it is time we should
feel such a throb of new patriotism
when, after we rake and scrape over
this whole hig state of Oregon, we can
only find 150 recruits to send to the
border to fill up our ranks."
BlKhop Sumner Takes Fart.
The opening prayer was offered by
Bishop Sumner.. Mayor Albee, the first
speaker, paid a tribute to "the loyal,
tried and true boys of our common
wealth." "You gave up all you loved to go,"
he said. "The fact that you saw no
actual service is not your fault. Tou
were ready and willing to lay down
your lives, and you come back to us
just as much heroes as if the affair
with our neighbor on the south had
been a more serious event."
Rev. Frank L. Loveland spoke for the
Chamber of Commerce. "We honor
you," said Dr. Loveland, "because we
know that with such men as you with
us our homes are safe, our laws will
be obeyed and our flag will be pro
tected." Eugene Smith spoke for the Central
Labor Council. "The significant fact
today," said- he, "is not that you have
come back, but that you were so loyal
to your country as to go voluntarily, as
you did." Mr. Smith also said as the
labor leader of the city he was glad to
take part in the laying of the corner
stone of a building "honestly voted for
by the people, being honestly built and
being for an honest purpose."
Father O'Hara spoke for the Welfare
Commission and Frederick V. Holman
in behalf of the Oregon Historical So
ciety. David M. Dunne spoke for the
Manufacturers' Association. "Let me
say," said Mr. Dunne, "that if any of
your employers refuse to give you back
your jobs because of your having gone.
Just tell us and we-will go for them."
Colonel McLanKfcHn Cheered,
After the rousing address of Chaplain
Gilbert Commissioner Baker introduced
Colonel McLaughlin, of the regiment,
and the troops and the rest of the as
semblage gave him a rousing round of
cheers. The Third Regiment band
played "America" while the corner
stone was being lowered. The stone
bears the inscription: "Erected by the
City of Portland, A. D. MCMXVI. H. R.
Albee, Mayor; George L. Baker. Will H.
Daly, C. A. Blgelow, R. G. Dieck, Com
missioners." A tub of mortar was furnished, and
those who used the trowel were Com
missioners Baker and Bigelow, Bishop
Sumner, Father O'Hara, Mayor Albee.
Colonel McLaughlin, Chaplain Gilbert.
Eugene Smith. O. M. Clark, F. V. Hol
man and David Dunne. , - -
In the cornerstone In a copper box
is a coin, a Bible, a copy of each of the
daily newspapers, the bylaws and rec
ords of the Daughters of the American
Revolution, records of the Monday Mu
sical Club, which was instrumental in
starting the Auditorium movement: and
a complete typewritten history of the
Auditorium up to the cornerstone lay
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SECRET MAIL IS CHARGED
Two Indicted for Smuggling Jew
' dry From Germany.
NEW YORK, Sept. 14. Federal Inves
tigation of an alleged plot to operate
a secret mail system between this coun
try and Germany was followed by In
dictments here today against Hans Ed
ward Thompson and Frederick Uffel
man on a charge of smuggling Jewelry
worth $25,000 into the United States on
July 11. The men were arrested August
20. TJffelman, It .was said, had been
employed on a steamship between here
and Scandinavia.
Affidavits in support of the existence
of the alleged secret mail system are
in the possession, of the authorities, but
thus far no formal charges have been
made' in this connection.
AUDITORIUM CORNERSTONE AND SCENE AS. IT IS BEING PLACED.
Canada has a herd of 207T buffalo, owned
by the Dominion - fovernment.
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C1TV COMMISSIONER BAKER. SPREADING THE MORTAR JUST BEFORE BIG STOXE IS LOWERED.
TEMPLE MAY GO UP
Labor Council Revives Plan to
Build a Home.
SUNDAY LAW IS ATTACKED
Initiative Bills Considered and
Either Indorsed or Condemned.
Labor Day Deficit Is Shown.
Normal School Passed Up.
The calling to life of the labor tem
ple building committee and the report
of the legislative committee on initia
tive and referendum measures to be
considered at the November elction fur
nished most of the discussion at the
weekly meeting of the Portland Cen
tral Labor Council last night.
Upon the recommendation of Oscar
Home, the building committee, which
has been inactive for months, was in
vested with action and a' meeting of
that body will be called for early next
week by-President Eugene E. Smith.
It was reported that most of the
money with which to erect the build
ing could be procured through sub
scription and that tne question of the
council having a new home did not
appear so remote.
According to the plan the Labor Tem
ple Association formulated when the
question of building a permanent home
was first considered, a sinking fund is
to be created by the payment of 10
cents per month per member.
The labor council concurred in the
report of the legislative committee on
three referendum measures and nine
initiative peitions to be voted upon at
the next general election. Recommen
dations that the council vote yes were
brought in for seven of the measures
and no recommendations were made
for the others.
It was urged that the single-item
veto bill should receive the support of
labor. It was contended that it was
easier to hold the-Governor responsible
than the State Legislature or any of
its members.
Owing to the contention that it would
encourage the registration of ships in
Oregon, the ship tax amendment bill
received favorable recommendation. No
recommendation was given on the so
called negro and mulatto suffrage
amendment.
The' initiative petitions that were' re
ported on favorably and will receive
votes of yes among the laborers If the
letter of the recommendations are lived
up to were the land and loan measure,
anti-compulsory vaccination bill, rural
credits bill, repealing and abolition of
the Sunday closing law and the manu
facture and sale of 4 per cent beer
within the state.
A decided stand waa taken on the
Sunday closing law. The legislative
committee reported that the law should
be repealed, as it was "discriminatory
in character and unsuited to modern
conditions."
No recommendation was made on the
Pendleton normal school bill, as the
committee felt that "it was not the
fight of labor."
The state-wide tax limitation amend
ment also received no recommenda
tion. The report of Otto Hartwig. in chaage
of the Labor day celebration, showed
that a deficit of $62.75 was incurred.
. HANLY DUE TODAY
PROHIBITION NOMINEE TO REICH
UNION STATION AT P. M.
Reception Committee "Will Go to Van
couver t Accompany Party
to Portland,
J. Frank Hanly, ex-Governor of In
diana, and Rev. Ira D. Landrith, of
Tennessee, nominees of the Prohibition
party for President and Vice-President
of the United States, will address a
mass meeting of Portland men and
women tonight at the Ice Palace,
Twentieth, and Marshall streets.
Governor Hanly and Dr. Landrith are
making a campaign tour of the West.
They spoke before a big audience at
Seattle last night, and from Portland
will go to California, making brief
stopa and speeches at the principal
towns en route.
The Presidential train L) scheduled
to arrive at the Portland Union Depot
at 6 o'clock tonight. The mass meet
ing at the Ice Palace will begin at 8
o'clock.
A reception committee composed of
J. P. Newell, state chairman of the
Prohibition party in Oregon; J. Sanger
Fox, state secretary, and B. Lee Paget,
state treasurer of the party, is to meet
Governor Hanly and his party at Van
couver, Wash. c
Dr. Landrith. the Vice-Presidential
nominee, is extension secretary of the
World's Christian Endeavor, and it is
likely that a delegation from the Mult
nomah County Christian Endeavor
Union will accompany the Prohibition
party committee to Vancouver to meet
him.
SEATTLE, Wash., Sept. 14. Less
partisanship and more fighting spirit
is needed by foes of the saloon to make
the United States dry, prohibition cam
paigners aboard the coast-to-coast
special today and tonight told Wash
ington audiences.
"There is too much Charlie and not
enough red blood in this campaign."
Mr. Hanly declared.
"The only reason we won't vote the
Nation dry this year," Dr. Landrith
told members of the Methodist confer
ence at Everett, "is that a lot of pious
old church frauds are too good Demo
crats or Republicans to vote the Pro
hibition ticket."
GUNNERS MAKE RECORD
KIVE OK TWELVE 14-INCH SHELLS
FIRED AT ONCE, HIT TARGET.
Tara of New Snperdreadnousht Penn
sylvania Hit InvUlble Object
11 Miles Distant.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 14. A new
world's record in naval gunnery has
been made by the new superdread
nought Pennsylvania, the Navy De
partment announced tonight. Credit
for the feat is given to the big battle
ship's 12 14-inch rifles, mounted as a
main battery in four turrets, which on
a simultaneous discharge in a recent
trial recorded five hits on a small tar
get 11 miles away. At that distance &
target is not visible to the gunners.
The Pennsylvania is the first vessel
to have its entire main battery mounted
three guns to the turret, and her per
formance is declared by ordnance and
construction officers to be the final
answer to critics opposing the three
gun turrets system.
The Nevada and Oklahoma, also new
additions to the Navy, are - equipped
with two three-gun and two two-gun
turrets. Neither of these has been able
to compare with the Pennsylvania, al
though both made unusually good
scores during their preliminary practice.
WILSON CAMPAIGN IS UP
PRESIDENT CONFERS WITH AIDES
IN ADMINISTRATION.
Democratic National Committeemen
Visit Long Branch Monday to
Complete Flans.
LONG BRANCH, N. J., Sept. 14. The
part President Wilson is to take in the
campaign for his re-election was dis
cussed here today by the President.
Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo.
Postmaster-General Burleson and Sec
retary Tumulty. The plans will be put
into final shape at a meeting here Mon
day between President Wilson, Vance
McCormick, chairman of the Democratic
National Committee, and Homer S.
Cummings, head of the speakers' bu
reau of the National committee.
The President will begin his "porch
campaign at fohadow Lawn next week.
Although he hns decided to make no
speeches away from here except before
non-partisan organizations, his political
advisers said today the President ex
pected to be able to get his views be
fore the country effectively.
The campaign for the re-election of
the President will follow the lines of
nls speech of acceptance. Through
speeches to delegations here and
through letters, he will amplify points
made in that address, and will accept
the challenge of Charles E. Hughes, the
Republican nominee, on the issue creat
ed in the settlement of the recently
threatened railroad strike. '
Mr. Wilson also has decided to devote
himself strictly to telling of the
achievements of his Administration and
to attacks on the Republican party.
The President -will dwell particularly
on the prosperity of the country' and
his plans for the -"industrial prepared
ness." In this connection it became
known today that as soon as Congress
convenes in December he will make
further efforts to have passed a. bill
allowing American exporters to utilize
common selling agencies abroad.
The President plans to leave here
next Monday night for St. Louis to ad
dress an association of underwriters.
It is possible, however, that the trip
may be cancelled If there should be a
sudden turn for the worse in the con
dition of Mrs. Annie E. Howe, his sister,
who is critically ill at New London.
Conn.
RALLY WILL BE TONIGHT
Montavilla Republicans, to - Hear
Campaign Issues Discussed.
.Republicans of Montavilla will hold
their first meeting of the campaign in
the Montavilla Schoolhouse at 8 o'clock
tonight. D. C. Lewis will discuss Na
tional issues of the campaign, and ad
dresses will also be made by Frank K.
Grant. John P. Kavanaugh, Joseph w!
Beveridge and George Tazwell.
Women are especially invited to at
tend the meeting. There will be a
musical programme in addition to the
speaking.
OFFER OF AID MADE
Fear of Sympathetic Strike in
Gotham Leads to Effort.
SCORE INJURED ON CARS
Crews Say Tracks Are Greased on
Hill to Prevent Brakes From
Holding One Line Makes Of
fer to Striking Carmen.
NEW YORK, Sept. 14. Representa
tive business and professional men late
today offered to co-operate with city
officials in an endeavor to settle the
transit strike, whlcn tor the last seven
days has hampered transportation in
Manhattan, the Bronx and portions of
West Chester County.
While James P. Holland, president of
the State Federation of Labor, was tell
ing 8000 striking carmen and their
sympathizers at a meeting in Union
Square after the parade that 70.
000 allied trade unionists would strike
Saturday unless a settlement was
effected in the meantime. Mayor Mitch
ell and the public service commis
sion were in aonfexence with commit
tees from the Chamber' of Commerce,
the Merchants' Association . and kin
dred organizations in an effort to end
the strike.
A score of persons were injured,
some of them seriously. In surface car
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accidents today. Subway and elevated
service continued about normal.
Five trolley cars came together in a
series of rear-end collisions on West
Chester avenue in the Bronx today and
10 passengers were Injured, one
seriously. The accidents occurred at
the foot of a steep Incline and the car
crews, who said they were strike
beakers, declared the rails had been
greased so that the brakes could not
hold.
Frederick W. Whiteridge. president
of the Third Avenue Railroad Company,
tonight invited the strikers to return
to work, promising better working
conditions and an increase in wages
amounting to $50,000 a year. Mr.
Whiteridge said he had decided upon
this course "because the Third Avenue
Railroad officials were convinced that
many of the strikers had been bullied
into going on strike."
AUSTRIAN ARSENAL RAIDED
Italian Airmen Drop l'ivo Tons of
Bombs Near, Trieste.
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ROME. via London. Sept. 14. A
squadron of Italian aeroplanes made
a raid yesterday on the Austrian ar
senal and hangars near Trieste, says
an official statement issued by the War
Office today.
Five tons of high explosives were
dropped and large fires were observed
to result, the statement adds.
GENERAL ONLY WITNESS
BORDER COMMISSION' OBJECTS TO
HKARIN'G .OTHERS.
International Constabulary of Ex-Sol-dtera
of United State and Mex
ico la Favored.
NEW LONDON, Conn, Sept. 14.
Major-General Tasker H. Bliss, assistant
chief of staff of the United States
Army. Is to appear before the American-Mexican
commission tomorrow
when discussion of border problems is
renewed. He will be the first and
possibly the only witness to be inter
rogated by the commission in joint ses
sion, as it is the desire of the Ameri
can commissioners to expedite delibera
tions by keeping the door closed
against an endless succession of per
sons who wish to be heard. It was
thought advisable that General Blss
should explain to the Mexican com
missioners the military aspects of
border plans as seen by United States
Army officials.
No definite plan for border patrols
has taken shape in the minds of the
Commission.
The Americans conferred with Gen
eral Bliss aain today. It was indicated
that the proposal which has appealed
most strongly to them was that a bor
der constabulary be created to operate
as a police force along both sides of th
line. It was suggested that the force
be composed of ex-soldiers of both,
countries, under joint control, and that
the expense be shared by both govern
ments. It was argued that the Mexican
people would not feel toward the con
stabulary the same hostility that they;
displayed toward the American troops.
It also was suggested that the polica
force would be far more effective in
clearing the mountains of. Northern
Mexico of bandits.
The joint commission probably will
adjourn tomorrow over the week-end to
permit the Mexican members to cele-
brate the Mexican Independence day,
September IS.
MURDERER GETS REPRIEVE
Sanity or Denver Hotel Man's Slayer
to Be Investigated.
DENVER, Sept. 14 The State Board
of Pardons today granted a. repriev
to the week beginning November IS
to James C. Bulger, under death sen-,
tence in connection with the klllins
of Lloyd F. Nicodemus. a. Denver hotel
proprietor.
The Board decided to appoint an
alienist to Investigate Bulger's sanity.
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