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K VOL. Vlil-XO. 17,419. PORTLAND, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1916. PRICE FIVE CENTS. LEADS IN GIRL'SDANCEINART CLASS STIRS BOARD HUGHES DENOUNCES LATEST 'FOBCE DILL' GOWNS HAVE BAGGY TROUSERS EFFECT STRIKERS IN RIOT POLICE OREGON WILL LOSE REGIMENT MONDAY WHITMAN DIRECTORS KNEW OF TRUST, IS CHARGE Cement Company Of ficials Accused. INDORS EMENT RACE INSUFFICIENT GAKB CHARGED BY SCHOOL AUTHORITIES. MASCULINE TOUCH APPEARS IN NEW WOMEN'S STYLES. MUSTER-OUT DATE IS SET BY CAPTAIN WILLIAMS. OVERPOWER K V Seabury Lags Behind in New York Contest PROGRESSIVE VOTE IS LIGHT Calder Slightly Ahead of Ba con for Senator. RESULT IS STILL IN DOUBT Ex-Cliairman McCombs Has Two-to-One Iicad Over Conway lor Demo-. . cratic Nomination Repub , licans Are for "Whitman. KEW YORK, Sept. 20. With returns one-third of the districts in the state received at 2 A. M. Governor Whitman was leading Judge Seabury. Democrat, for the Progressive indorsement for Governor. Only a fraction of the 46,000 enrolled Progressives in the state voted, an average of only about 4 to a district. Returns this morning- showed Gover nor Whitman leading- by such a small margin that it was not considered safe tor him. Governor Whitman has received 6471 to 4491 for Seabury in 2240 of the 5719 districts. Leaders Support "Whitman. Returns from 550 districts out of 3640 outside of Greater New York show that Governor Whitman polled 989 Progres sive votes to 987 for Seabury. In New York City the vote was not so close. Governor Whitman pulling away from his opponent slightly. The Progressive vote aroused much interest among state and National lead ers, for it was regarded as giving some light on how the strength of the party would be divided in the National elec tion. A majority of the Progressive leaders of the state supported Mr. Whit man's candidacy. The leaders of the so-called insurgent wing who gave their aid to Judge Seabury professed to be more than satisfied with the re sult. ' ' Calder Leading Bacon Slightly. The victor in the contest for the Re publican nomination for United States Senator remained in doubt at 2:15 o'clock this morning. At that hour, with 4124 districts heard from out of a total of 5719 in the state, William M. Calder was leading Robert Bacon by about 1200. ' The figures were: Calder, 109,551; Bacon, 108,384. Bacon Is a former Ambassador to France. William F. McCombs, ex-chairman of the Democratic National Committee, who was designated for the Senatorial nomination by the unofficial Democrat ic state convention, was leading his op ponent, Thomas F. Conway, a former Lieutenant-Governor, by more than 2 to 1 at midnight. Conway Gets Own County. Conway carried his own county, Clin ton, and polled an unexpectedly large vote in several of the northern coun ties. In the Republican primary for the Gubernatorial nomination Gover nor Whitman swamped his opponent. State Senator William M. Bennett, 87, 696 to 15,671. For the Republican nomination for State Controller, Eugene M. Travis easily defeated James F. Hooker. Barne Mak Boast Good. "William Barnes, the Albany leader, made good his boast that he would give Bacon a big majority in his own county over Calder. The Albany boss rolled up a majority of nearly 8000 for his candidate. Returns at midnight indicated that Henry H. Curran would win the Pro gressive nomination for president of the Board of Aldermen over William H. Chorosh. Curran was unopposed for the Republican nomination and Frank i. uownng lor the Democratic. BETTING FAVORS HUGHES Abundance of Wilson Money Beats , Down Odds to 8 to 5. NEW YORK. Sept. 19 (Special.) Betting on the Presidential election was more active today than at any time during the campaign. One .wager of $2000 to $1000 on Hughes was reported. Wilson money was more plentiful to day, and the odds on Hughes- were beaten down to 8 to 5. A brokerage house, it is said, has $100,000 to place on Wilson "when the odds are a little better." BULGARS LEAVE M0NASTIR Archives Are Being Transported Hastily fo Uskub. LONDON. Sept. 19. An Athens dls patch to the Exchange Telegraph Com pany says information received there indicates the Bulgarians are beginning the evacuation of Monastir. It is said the Bulgarian archives are being hastily transported to Uskub. AUSTRIA LEAVING TRIESTE Diplomatic Authority Given for Story of Early Evacuation.' ATHENS, via London. Sept. 19. It is said in the most reliable diplomatie sources here that the Austrians are preparing for the evacuation of Trieste. Censure Is Given San Francisco Teacher Entertainment Beau tiful, Says Superintendent. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 19. The Board of Education, after a secret con ference and hearing to which were summoned James E. Addison, principal of the Polytechnic High School, and Miss Marea Van Vleck, head of the art department of the school. Issued a statement censuring Miss Van Vleck "for want or discretion in not recog nizing that to students of high school age" a Grecian dance given September 15 at an entertainment by the Apollo Art Club, in the. school auditorium, "is directly injurious." - It was specifically charged by some members of the Board that the girl who appeared in the dance was insuffi ciently clad. This charge was denied by Miss Van Vleck. Superintendent of Schools Alfred Roncovleri. who was not present at the meeting, took issue with the Board in defense of Miss Van Vleck. He said, among other things: "To some anything beautiful , Is wicked. "Evil be to him who evil thinks. "There is nothing wrong with bare foot dancing; I think none of the en tertainment was wrong." HINT IS GIVEN GERMANY Litigation Over Non-Delivery of Goods Slay Be 'Two-Edged Sword. WASHINGTON. Sept. 19. Reports that German firms may go to court in Germany with their complaints of non delivery of goods contracted for in America, but held up by the allied blockade, drew the suggestion from officials here today that such litigation might prove a commercial sword that would cut both ways. Should the German courts confiscate American property because of alleged breach of contracts, it was said the State Department would intervene dip lomatically to prevent miscarriage of justice. P0ST0FFICE PERMIT TAKEN Completion of Portland Building in 22 Months' Called For. A", building perm4t -for -"Portland's proposed new postofflce was Issued yesterday by the city, building inspec tion bureau. The permit calls for a structure to cost $1,000,000. Inasmuch as the building is exempt from, the Portland building laws, no fee was paid for the permit. The per mit was issued to Grant Fee. contrac tor, of San Francieco, who has estab lished an office at 126 North Broad way. The permit calls for completion of the building in 22 months. Plans for the structure will be filed with the building inspector. REBEL DRUMJS RETURNED North and South Shake Hands at Confederate White House. RICHMOND, Va.. Sept. 19. North and South shook hands today in the White House of the Confederacy, now museum of the Confederate Memorial Literary Society, when the Worcester Continentals returned a Confederate drum captured on a battlefield near Winchester, Va. Crowds lined the streets and cheered as the Continentals, escorted by the two battalions of militia remaining in the mobilization camp here, marched to the Davis Mansion with the drum. , MINES SHUT BY STRIKE Order Affects 1850 Workers in Amador County, California. JACKSON. Cal., Sept. 19. Nearly every large mine in Amador County was closed down today following a strike order issued last night by the Amador County Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers' Union. About 1850 mine workers are idle. The strike order affected imme diately only between 700 and 800 union men, but the mine operators closed down the mines as soon as the strike order was called. WOMEN REQUEST EMBARGO President Asked to Stop (Wheat Un til Home Supply Is Ample. CHICAGO. Sept. 19. An embargo on the exportation of wheat until the sup ply shall exceed home consumption is asked in a resolution addressed to President Wilson which was adopted at a meeting of the Chicago Women's As sociation of Commerce at a meeting to day. The women have begun an Inquiry into the Increase in the price of bread which bakers had announced would go into effect next week. MEAT CHEAPER IN BERLIN Reduction Follows Similar Decline in Bread Prices. BERLIN. Sept. 19. (By wireless to Sayville.. N. Y.) The reduction last week in the price of breadstuffs was followed today by a lowering of the meat prices in Berlin. Roasting beef was reduced from three marks to two marks, 80 pfennigs a pound: other beef from two marks, 60 pfennigs, to two marks, 40 pfennigs: veal from two marks, 10 pfennigs to one mark, 90-pXeaaiSfl,. Demand Called Humil. iating Spectacle.. 8-HOUR DAY IS NOT PROVIDED Phrase Included to "Tickle Ear of Public." FAIR INQUIRY IS DEMANDED Burden Ultimately Falls on Public, . Says Nominee, and It Is Entitled to Know Details of Delicate . Questions Involved. SPRINGFIELD, III.. Sept. 19. Charles E. Hughes, addressing an audience In the arsenal here tonight, renewed bis attack on the Administration for pas sage of the Adamson law in the face of the threatened railroad strike. Mr. Hughes discussed and called "futile" the reasons advocated for its passage. quoted from President Wilson's address to Congress on the subject, challenged the statement of Representative Adam son that the law was passed to "meet an emergency," and cited a declaration attributed to Grover Cleveland In sup port of the contention that the law was "surrendered to force." -' "We have seen." Mr. Hughes said, "what appears to be -the consideration of Immediate political expediency at the expense of public welfare. Hasty Nature Admitted. "Mr. Adamson said. "It is hasty leg islation, I admit, to meet an emer gency,' " Mr. Hughes continued. "What emergency? The emergency of force to which the Administration has capitu lated. "Senator Underwood said: We have no information on which to legislate and to fix rates of wages, which we are going to and are attempJng to do.' ' "Contrast' the action of the Adminis tration," the nominee added, "with what was said by Grover Cleveland in 1886 with respect to labor legislation: 'All legislation on the subject should be calmly and deliberately undertaken with no purpose of satisfying "unrea sonable demands or gaining partisan advantage.' "Easter Way" Chosen. "It is Idle to excuse the action by the request for additional legislation with respect to the future. That legis lation was not obtained. We are deal lng with what was demanded and actually enacted. "We have an unjustifiable attempt to use public sentiment with respect to an eight-hour working day in order to justify a bill which does not pro vide an eight-hour work day but re lates solely to an increase In wages. We have seen the choice of what seemed to be the easier way, which escaped, the necessity of a determined stand for principle. We have seen what appeared to be the consideration (Concluded on Pago 3, Column 1.) Every Suit Must Have Fur-Trimmed Gauntlets to Match as Substi tute for Old-Fashioned Muff. , CHICAGO. Sept. 19. (Special.) A dainty substitute for the mufT that has the blessing of Dame Fashion herself and will keep the hands. of the wearer as warm as the old-fashioned muff was shown today at the semi-annual style exhibit conducted by the Fashion Art League of America. Every suit must have its white kid fur-trimmed gauntlet gloves to match, just as it has always its harmonizing hat. To add to the mascuine touch, a startling suggestion of baggy trousers was seen in some of the skirts shown, which, though not actually . divided, were bagged in at the hem and worn with out petticoats. A bridal negligee of filmiest satin and madranet and trimmed in tiny pink roses that seemed to climb over it as over a trellis was one of the fea tures of the show. . "But as a general thing the styles are simple in line, high-waisted and without freakishness," declared Mrs. Allie E. Bailey, president of the league. "Practical wear and grace of line are the two alms of dressmakers of today In creating modes." An Indian princess gown called the "Dawn Mist" took its inspiration from the straight lines and bead trimmings of our predecessors on this continent. DOG TEARS CHILD'S FACE Little Robert Goodrich Victim of Playful Pet at Eugene. EUGENE. Or.. Sept. 19. (Specials Robert Goodrich, seven-year-old son of Cashier L. L. Goodrich, of the First National Bank, Is in the Eugene Hos pital tonight as a result of injuries re ceived today while playing with a large bird dog belonging to a neighbor of the Goodrich family. . The dog, evidently in play. Jumped on the little fellow, badly lacerating his face in three places. Seven stitches were necessary to close one cut above his right eye. POLAR PARTY HEARD FROM Expedition Sent to Hunt McMillan In Greenland in July. NEW YORK, Sept. 19. News of the relief party headed by Dr. Edmumi Otis Hovey, which was' dispatched by the American Museum of Natural History to help the McMillan Crocker Land ex pedition, was received here today. Dr. Hovey wrote July 10 from Parker Snow Bay. Greenland, that he was starting for North Star Bay and that the entire expedition was in good health. From North Star Bay he planned to go to Battle Harbor. TIDAL WAVE WRECKS SHIP Ground Swell ' Washes Vessel on Rocks at San Juan, Porto Rico. SAN JUAN, Porto Rico, Sept. 19. The four-maeted schooner J. Holmes Birdsall, of Philadelphia, laden . with coal, was washed on the rocks at the entrance to the harbor here today by a 'ground swell and was abandoned by her crew. The loss will reach $200,000 and is, covered by insurance. IRRESISTIBLE! Carbarn Employes Are Put to Flight. SEVERAL PASSENGERS HURT Numerous Arrests Made in New York Disturbance. PLAN FOR PEACE FAILS Transit Company Faces Walkout by 11,000 Loyal Men, if Union Ment Now Out Are Recognized, Citi zen Committee Is Told. NEW YORK, Sept. 19. The most serious rioting since the transit strike in this city began two, weeks ago oc curred tonight in various sections of Manhattan when attempts were made to run cars on the Forty-second and Fifty-ninth-street crosstown surface lines. Mobs of strikers and their sym pathizers stormed two carbarns, over powered the police and put to flight all railway employes in the vicinity. Several motormen and conductors who had not joined the strike were beaten. Much property damage was done before police reserves arrived. Deliberate Plans Charged. The police assert that the strikers took advantage of the fact that many policemen were detailed to polling booths in today's primary election. The strikers apparently planned their at tacks, it was said, as disorders occurred In many places at the same time. At Forty-second street and Broad way, one of the busiest spots in the city, a large crowd bombarded a car with stones they had gathered from a subway excavation. The police reported late tonight that all surface cars had been ordered to the barns. Several rawgeriBurt, ' Numerous arrests were made and many of the rioters were clubbed. Sev eral passengers were hurt by missiles. Later, the strikers attacked the ele vated trains from housetops with bot tles and bricks. Policemen then were stationed on the roofs along elevated routes. After a citizens' committee had failed to effect a basis of settle ment between the striking union car men and their employers here today, it was announced tonight that apparently the only hope of avert ing a threatened sympathetic walkout of 700.000 workers, set for Friday, now lies in a final appeal to be made to the labor leaders Thursday. The citizens' committee probably will con fer with Mayor Mitchel and Oscar S. Straus, chairman of the public service commission, tomorrow in an effort to find some solution of the problem. After a conference today with tho Mayor and Mr. Straus the committee visited Theodore P. Shonts, president (Concluded on Page 4, Column 2.) mi Parade Will Be Formed at 9:30 and Service Completed, After Which Men Will Be Paid. The Third Oregon Infantry will be mustered out of service next Monday, September 25, at 9:30 A. M. That is the date set yesterday by Captain Kenneth P. Williame. of the United States Army, chief mustering officer. Following this ceremony the old Third Oregon, as such, will cease to exist. Those who have not volun teered for service in the new regiment to be formed under the new Army regu lations, will be free from further mili tary duty. Absentees from the regiment have been ordered to report at camp for the muster-out except those detained by illness. The troops will form for parade on the target range at 9:30. After the muster-out the men will be paid. TRAIN BURNED BY BANDITS Passengers on Mexican Central Are Robbed Even of Clothing. EL PASO. Tex., Sept. 19. An Ameri can arriving from the interior of Mex ico said that on September 9 bandits captured a southbound passenger train on the Mexican National line about 35 miles south of Torreon. After robbing the passengers and taking such cloth ing as they had. he said they burned the train. The passengers were picked up by a northbound train and taken to Torreon. FAMOUS DIPLOMAT I.S DEAD William J. Calhoun Succumbs to Complication of Maladies. CHICAGO. Sept 19. William J. Cal houn. ex-Mlnister to China, died late today at his residence here. Mr. Cal houn was 68 years oKT. He had been In ill health for some months, having been stricken with paralysis, and there after a complication of ailments set in. Mr. Calhoun gained fame as a diplo mat through his mission to Cuba just pending the war with Spain and as special commissioner to Venezula for President Roosevelt. RIFLE PLANT TO RESUME Government Wants Men for Small Arms Factory at Rock Island. ROCK ISLAND. Ill- Sept. 19. The small arms plant at Rock Island is to be opened September 25 and the Gov ernment wants workers. Congress at its recent session passed an appropri ation which will enable the plant, which has been discontinued since 1912, to re sume operations. Rifles are to be manufactured. It is expected that at least 800 men will have work In this department alone. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. TESTERDATS Maximum temperature. 7t degrees: minimum. 54 degrees. TODAY'S Fair; northerly winds! War. New English war machine is adaptation of caterpillar tractor, an American inven tion. Page 2. Question of "proportionate effort" of allies raised in French Chamber. Paso 2. Foreign. Belgian Minister repeats charges of extor tion by Germans. Page 2. Bohemian glass Industry center devastated by flood. Page 3. Politics. Mr. Hughes says Adamson bill is a "force bill." Page 1. Governor Whitman leads In race for Moose IndorsomenL. Page 1. President Indignant over tales he Is uneasy about outcome of campaign. Page 3. National. Census discredits its own figures. Page 5. Domestic. Scope of beauty blackmail conspiracy wid ening. Puge 4. Women's skirts to have baggy trousers ef fect. Page 1. Strikers In N'W York riot overpower police. Page 1. Dance before art class ahocka San PYanclsco School Board. Page 1. Sports. Pacific Coast League results: Portland 3. Oakland 2: Los Angeles 1. San Francisco 0; Vernon 12, Salt Lake 0. Page 14. State Fair entry list Is big. Page 15. Carl Mays pitches Boston to victory. Pag 14. Robins beat Reds and climb in National League race. Page 14. Six bouts on card Tuesday night at Rose City Athletio Club. Page 15. Freddie Welsh spends few minutes In Port land. Page 15. Pacific Northwest. Josephine County Fair opens. Page 7. Polk County Fair opens auspiciously. Page 4. O. H. Hasktte. Bend carpenter, commits suicide. Page 7. Commercial and Marine. Withdrawal of European bids checks wheat trade in Northwest. Page 19. Bulge in wheat at Chicago on buylnr by foreigners. Page 19. United States Steel advances to new record. Page 19. Last of salmon pack from Alaska arrives. , Page 16. Portland and Vicinity. Common law wedding declared legal by Judge Davis in Ford trial. Page 6. Grocers to hold annual sessions In Pendle ton this week. Page 11. Aman Moore's attorneys say cement com pany directors knew trust existed. Page 1. Alleged liquor brokor's offices raided. Page 10. Policeman, clad In overalls. Ignored by motorist. Page 8. Bids for pacing Interstate bridge are opened. Page A. Murder t.f Axei Nelson remains mystery. Page 8. Third Oregon to be mustered out Monday. PaRe 1. Hearing on car shortage today. Page 18. Republicans plan grand state rally for October JO. Page . gamuel Hill, back from Europe, urges de velopment of tnitlo with Russia an prt-pareuness. t'ag v. Weather report, data sad forecast. Paga 19. LIMITS ON TRADE ARE CITED Aman Moore Affirms He Gave Notice of Conditions. CASE IS ARGUED IN COURT Attorneys for Defendants Insist Injunction Kestraining Direc torate From Its Ordinary Du ties Would Be TJnjusU Allegations that the officers and members of the board of directors of the Oregon Portland Cement Company, whom Aman Moore, the vice-president and treasurer of the company, is seek ing" to enjoin In the Federal Court from discharging; the duties of their offices because of an alleged combina tion in restraint of trade, and for other reasons, had knowledge of such a combination, though they refused to take action, were made before Federal Judge Wolverton yesterday afternoon. The sudden calling away to Califor nia of Federal Judge Bean necessi tated the postponement of cases dock eted for Judge "Wolverton's court and the assignment of the so-called cement trust case to Judge "Wolverton. The hearing was held yesterday in the grand Jury room on the third floor of the Federal building. Territory Limited, la Charter. . It was stated in affidavits filed by the complainant's attorneys. Coy Bur nett. John'F. Logan and I. N. Smith, that Mr. Moore, both by letter and at a meeting of the board of directors of the company, had given notice that the trade territory of the Oswego company had been restricted to the Willamette Valley almost entirely, where even there it was In competition with California firms; that although cement could, at $1.65 a barrel, be manufactured and sold at a profit, the Oswego company was bound to a schedule of prices agreed upon by several other com panies, in which R. P. Butchart and C. Boettcher are said to have heavy in terests; and that the Oswego company was not allowed to bid on cement contracts outside its small trade ter ritory unless It bid higher than other companies who were supposed to have tho trade. Mr. Burnett alleged that the com pany was not. anowea iw vmcm i territory east of the Deschutes Kiver. although tho cost of production and the freight rates In force would allow it to enter the territory as far east as Walla Walla or Western Idaho. Other HoldinKa Cited. The plaintiff, through numerous af fidavits, sought to establish the con nection of Mr. Butchart and Mr. Boett cher with other cement companies in Washington. Nevada and California and British Columbia. Mr. Moore's affidavit recited the allegation that either Mr. Butchart or Mr. Boettcher was heavily interested in other cement concerns In Washing ton. California. Utah, Nevada and Brit ish 'Columbia. It alleged that Mr. Butchart was interested in the Vancou ver-Portland Cement Company. of British Columbia; In the Pacific-Port land Cement Company, and the Wash ington-Portland Cement Company, or Seattle. It alleged that Mr. Boettcher was owner of stock in the Cement Se curities, of Denver; the Three Forks- Portland Cement Company, of Butte; the Colorado-Portland Cement com pany; the Union Portland Cement Com pany, or tjgaen; ana ton -...-. Portand Cement Company. Xew Price) Schedule Agreed On. Tt wa aleo alleged by the palntiff that, after the reorganization of the old Oswego company had been effected. Mr. Moore was made the vice-president, treasurer and sales manager un til the Oswego plant began to make cement, when he was removed from the office of aales manager. Clark M. Moore was then imported to take charge of the sales of the com pany, recites the complaint, supported by affidavits. Clark Moore, it Is al leged shortly after his arrival here. consulted with representatives of sev eral of the other concerns in which Mr. Boettcher and Mr. Butchart are inter ested, and a schedule of cement prices was agreed upon that would not allow the Oswego plant to encroach on the territory of cement concerns to the north, south and east. Deal Shakes Faith. Mr. Moore asserts that although he believed both Mr. Butchart and Mr. Boettcher to be highly honorable and believed that the Oswego plant would be entirely independent, he received the first intimation that such was not ' the case about the first of the year. He said that Mr. Butchart told him while In British Columbia that Cali fornia companies had exported to Brit ish Columbia a shipment of 40.000 bar rels, and that he, Mr. Butchart. would try and send an equal amount of ce ment to California to make up for the encroachment in British Columbia of the California plants. Mr. Moore said that he had been told by Mr. Butchart that Mr. Butchart was temporarily un able to supply the British Columbia demand no that the transaction between .Concluded on Page, 4. Column. 3.1