Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937, September 25, 1916, Image 2

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Newspaper Page TextTHE MORNING OREGOXIAJT, 3IONDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1916. SHERMAN SETTLERS TOGETieSOON EAGLE CAUGHT BY AEROPLANE IN FLIGHT. T 9 m' m n.m.i The Bayer Cross Ycur WILL DEFY TORPEDO Guarantee of Purity" Bayer-Tablets of Aspirin pro tect you against counterfeits. Action in 30 or 60 Days Prob able Where There Are No Complications. California Built to Withstand Wounds and Make Port After Being Hit. Every package and every tab- :t of genuine Aspinn bears The Bayer Cross." Sold in Pocket Boxes of 12. Bottle 24 and Bottle of lOO REGULATIONS ARE ISSUED w.JOff ... 1 .flf .-.i.-x. vW ELECTRICITY MUCH USED -Lt - B ayerTa b I et s NEW DREADNQuGH - . mm wwyft. ' -'t 1 ...... ..f a ..in 1 llSk a Ot o All Claims to Be Filed With Regis ter and Receiver at The Dalles. Red Tape Involved -.Is Un usually Cumbersome. OREQONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington, Sept. 19. Beneficiaries under the terms of the Sherman County set tlers' bill, recently passsed by Con gress, will get the money appropriated for their benefit within 30 or 60 days, if they are able to present clear and unincumbered statements such as are to be required by the Government, but where there are any entangling cir cumstances it probably will be some time before the money appropriated is paid over. The General Land Office has issued regulations providing for the settle ment of these claims, but the machin ery is unusually cumbersome and the red tape involved is appalling. The Land Office declined to carry out the suggestion of Representative Sinnott, which would make it impossible for attorneys to receive the payments on behalf of the claimants. As approved, the regulations provide: "All claims should be filed with the Register and Receiver of The Dalles Land Office. Chance for Corrections Given. "Upon receipt of a claim by the Com missioner of the General Land Office he will at once examine the same, as to its compliance with these regula tions, and if found correct in all re spects, will transmit it to the Secretary of the Interior with recommendation that it be forwarded to the Auditor for the Interior Department. If. however, any defects appear or corrections or additional data appear necessary, the Commissioner will call for such data or corrections, allowing the claimant SO days within which to make such corrections or furnish such data. In the event the terms of the Commissioner's decision are not met, within the time allowed, he will reject the claim, sub ject to the usual right of appeal to the Secretary. If the conditions are met. the claim will be transmitted to the Secretary in the same manner and with the same recommendations as though it had been correct when first filed. ''Claimants mentioned in the bill may file with the Register and Receiver at The Dalles a claim which shall set forth the following facts under oath: That he is the identical person men tioned in the act; his name in full, to gether with his correct postoffice ad dress; that he has not assigned, mort gaged or otherwise incumbered the claim and is still the legal owner ana holder thereof. Copy of Assignment Required. "In case the claimant mentioned in the bill has assigned his claim, the as signee should present the sworn claim, setting forth the matters and things required by the foregoing paragraph, so far as they apply, and in addition thereto a copy of the assignment and a statement of the amount paid by him (the assignee) for the claim. If the amount paid was not in cash, the full circumstance of the transaction should be set forth, to the end that the de partment may be in a position to deter mine the exact compensation for the transfer of the claim, as nearly to a mathematical certainty as possible. "Where the claimant named in the bill has died, leaving a will, the claim should be filed by the executor named in the will, accompanied by a certified copy of the decree of probate, which should include a copy of the will; also an affidavit by the executor that to the best of his knowledge and belief the testator had not assigned his claim and that no legal charge by way of mortgage, deed of trust or otherwise is outstanding against the claim. "If claimant died intestate, his ad ministrator should file the claim to gether with an affidavit setting forth Jn detail the names of all the heirs of deceased, that to the best of claimant's knowledge and belief the deceased had never assigned or otherwise incum bered the same. Certified copy of let ter of administration should also ac company the claim." ADAMSDNLAWASSAILED C. C. CHAP3IAS SPEAKS AT MEX'S font; 3r op methodiSt church. Result Characterised as Taking Money From One Class and Giving; It to Another. The action of Congress In casslnsr the recent eight-hour measure to prevent the impending railroad strike was characterized as one of th rra tout blows which had ever been aimed at me imerties of American citizens by C. C. Chapman in an address delivered before the Young Men's Forum of the First Methodist Episcopal Church yes terday. "It seems to me that such action makes for the tearing down of some of inose principles of personal liberty waicn were estaDiisnea Dy our fathers, he said. The action taken bv Cone-res. Mr Chapman said, was no more nor less than the appropriation of $20,000,000 to so,uuu,uuu irom tne pockets of one class and putting it in the pockets of another class under the guise of waees. He said that the power of Congress to do such an act must ultimately be passed upon by the Supreme Court of the coun try. Mr. Chapman said he did not criticise the motives of the laboring men in their fight for higher wages and shorter hours. He said they were fighting for better conditions. , "I believe," he said, "that they are entitled to all they can get by virtue of any bargain made under free con ditions. However, we must Insist on some more orderly process of settling questions to take the place of the bar barism of a strike." CHURCH FAVORS DEMOCRAT Iowa Methodists Indorse Candidate Declaring for Prohibition. , WATERLOO, la.. Sept. 24. By a vote of 26 to 18 the Laymen's Association of the Upper Iowa Methodist Conference adopted a resolution yesterday in which E. T. Meredith, Democratic candidate for Governor, was indorsed and support pledged to his candidacy. The resolutions declared that Mr. Meredith's championship of state-wide prohibition made it incumbent upon the conference to give him Its indorsement. As J " ' - Photo Copyright by Underwood. UNLUCKY BIRD SHOWN AT RIGHT CAUGHT BY WINGS. This unusual photograph of an eagle caught in a French aeroplane was snapped recently In Europe and shows him hanging by his wings on the wires rence. The-eagle was very probably trying to attack the aviator when his wings were caught in the wires, for tunately for the aviator, for the eagle would have given a better account of itself than many an enemy aviator. Many aviators have lost their lives by birds breaking parts of the machine, so disabling it thta it dropped to earth. WILSON TO: BE BUSY Two or More Speeches a Week on Programme. RAILWAY BILL MADE ISSUE President to Feature So - Called Eight-Hour Law In Practically Every Address; Grain Men Will Hear Him Today. LONG BRANCH, N. J.. Sept. 24. President Wilson will go to Baltimore tomorrow to speak before the rational Graindealers' Association. The Presi dent expects to amplify his position on the settlement of the recently threat ened railroad strike outlined in his speech at Shadow Lawn yesterday. He will do this on the theory that the graindealers are interested in the ques tion as shippers. He was much encour aged today by the receipt of several hundred telegrams praising yesterday's address. The so-called eight-hour law, which the President considers one of the chief issues of the campaign, will be featured by Mr. Wileon in virtually every speech he makes. Mr. Wilson will leave here at 9 o'clock In the morning, arriving at Baltimore shortly after 1 o'clock. He will speak at 2:30 P. M., leaving soon after his speech for Shadow Lawn. All of Mr. Wilson's political lieutenants here, in cluding Colonel E. M. House, who spent the week-end with him, said that from now on the President will be 'much more active pilitically. Mr. Wilson will motor, on Tuesday, to Princton, his former home, to vote in the New Jersey primaries. He is par ticularly Interested in the contest be tween Senator Martlne and Attorney General Wescott, of New Jersey, for the Senatorial nomination. Judge Wescott saw him here yesterday. The President will receive some Boy Scoute Thursday, and Saturday he will speak to a delega tion of young Democrats from New York. From thin on he is expected to make two or more speeches a week. ACTION TO BE PLEDGED (Continued From First Par.) as it is expected here, the Washington Administration will shed no tears. It was this- officer who notified the Amer ican troops that they would not be per mitted to move in any othef than a northerly direction and who directed the "squeezing" operation as a result of which General Pershing was forced to draw in all outlying commands. If Trevino should be removed, the National Administration will draw con clusions from the character of his suc cessor what Carranza's purposes In the north are. Carransa Movement Suspicions. - The American and Mexican Commis sioners will embark tomorrow on the fourth week of their deliberations. That they do not expect to come to an agreement during the coming week is shown by the fact that arrangements are being made to hold sessions at an other resort, in all probability Chelsea, near Atlantic City. The delay to due to a variety of causes, the most important of which was Villa's attack and temporary oc cupation of Chihuahua. Among other causes are Mexican suspicion of Ameri can purposes. In spite of the frank way in which Secretary L&oe and his asso J Art , ' : .- y I ft ' of the framework of the machine. ciates have discussed the President's policy, in spite of the knowledge that the American people have no desire for Mexican territory, the de facto govern ment to which the Mexican Commission reports dally by cable, continues doubt ful of the good faith of the Washing ton Government, Deadlock Seems to Exist. The Mexicans say that if the United States were sincerely deelrous of aid ing the de facto government. President Wilson would instantly order General Pershing's troops north of the border. The American Commissioners under instructions from Washington are de clining to recommend the withdrawal of General Penshing's column until they have tangible evidence of Car ranza's ability to establish and main tain peace and order along the border. Thus, what to all appearance is a deadlock, exists. If it were not that both President Wilson and General Car ranza need an agreement, no matter what its character may be, the nego tiations here would have terminated several days ago. If the President, through his commissioners, can de velop an arrangement to which he can point as a solution, he will be in a po sition to answer Mr. Hughes and other critics. If Carranza can obtain the withdrawal of Pershing's command and immediately thereafter, with the sup port of the United States, negotiate a loan, he may be able to reseat himself firmly in the saddle at Mexico City. Influenced by such considerations, both governments are trying to find a solution satisfactory to both, and es pecially to the subordinates of Car ranza. After all, those who know Mexico say, what may be done here is of less importance than events which may come to pass at any moment south of the Rio Grande. HUGHES GOING TO OHIO NOMINEE SPENDS SUNDAY AT HOME OF MR. FAIRBANKS. Informal Reception at Home of Ex-Vice-President Is Attended by Friends and Neighbors. INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 24. Charles E. Hughes today followed his usual pro cedure of resting on Sunday. He spent the day at the home of Charles W. Fairbanks, his running mate, slept to night in his private car in the railroad yards and will leave early tomorrow to open his campaign in Ohio at Dayton. With Mrs. Hughes and Mr. Fair banks, the nominee went to church this morning and took a motor ride this aft ernoon. There was also an informal reoeption late today at the Fairbanks home, where Mr. Hughes met many of Mr. Fairbanks' close friends and neigh bors. Mr. Hughes expects to be accom panied through Ohio by Governor Wil lis, Senator Harding, Myron T. Herrick, James R. Garfield and other party lead ers. LADDER . FALL IS FATAL Harry Pollock Dies ot Injuries at St. Johns Drydocks. Harry Pollock, a bollermaker at the St. Johns drydock, died at the Good Sa marl tan Hospital yesterday as the re sult of a fractured skull sustained in a fall while working at the dock last Friday. He was ascending a ladder. wnen ne leu 30 leet. Mr. Pollock was the son of Mr. and Mrs. William G. Pollock, 609 East Thirty-first street. He was 25 years ot age. Besides his parents, he is sur vived by two brothers, William and Herbert, and three sisters, Helen, Agnes and Anna Pollock. -.rot ' 'r""" s - i This Is rather an unusual occur SEATTLE BOAT SINKS Triton, Used as Ferry on Lake Washington, Strikes Snag. 25 PASSENGERS ON BOARD Crew Not Aware of Damage fntll Water Ponrs Into Engine Room. Vessel Goes Down 10 Min utes After Making Shore. SEATTLE. Wash, Sept. 24. The Lake Washington steamer Triton, owned by the Anderson Steamboat Company and engaged in ferry service, struck a snag while approaching Byers' Landing on tne east shore of Lake Washington to day and sank Just as she was driven on the beach. All the passengers and crew were landed safely. The Triton was a wooden steamer of 48 tons gross register. The vessel ran a mile after striking the snag before the. crew knew that she was leaking. When the vessel was a short distance from the shore the water began pouring into the engine room, but Captain Hiram Riddle was able to drive her on to the beach alongside the wharf at Byers' Landing before the water stopped the engines. There were only 25 passengers aboard and all stepped safely off the upper deck onto the wharf. Ten minues after the vessel had been abandoned she turned over and now is lying submerged alongside the pier. She was the largest vessel of the An derson Steamboat Company's fleet and was valued at $20,000. FOOD SHORTAGE FORESEEN Only Half Enough Wheat and Corn Will Be Left, Official Says. NEW YORK, Sept. 24. Whether the shortage in the wheat and corn crops and the growing export trade in food commodities will Increase materially the already high cost of living is a question Joseph Hartlgan, commissioner of weights and measures, of this city, asked the Federal Department of Agri culture to answer. In a letter to Secretary Houston, the commissioner cited the Government estimates that the wheat crop is 400, J00.J00 bushels smaller than last year nd that the corn crop is short by 345. 000.000 bushels. He says that "if the present ratio of export, between Ave and six million bushels per week, is maintained only 300,000,000 bushels of wheat will be left for domestic use." He contends that 820.000. 000 bushels are necessary for home consumption. Lincoln's Tomb Decorated. SPRING FIKLD. I1L. Sept. 24. Secre tary of the Treasury W. O. McAdoo. chairman of the Federal Farm Loan Board, and the other members of the board who spent the daySn Springfield made a pilgrimage yesterday to the tomb of Abraham Lincoln In Oak Bldgo Cemetery, where they placed a wreath. Telegraph Building Burned. MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. 24. Fire of un known origin late today practically de stroyed the three-story building occu pied by the Western Union Telegraph Company here. Temporary offices were established and officials of the com pany were of the opinion that opera tions would not be seriously hampered. Clipper Bow Instead of Conventional It am Will Be Distinguishing Feature Dozen 14-Inch Guns In Battery. CHARACTERISTICS OF NEW WARSHIP TO BE BUILT OX PACIFIC COAST. Bulkhead system will prevent sinking despite torpedo wounds. Klectrlcal devices many and varied. Dimensions Length. 625 feet: breadth. 95 feet: depth. 47 feet: mean draft. 30 "4 -feet: displace ment at mean draft, 32,300 tons; speed, 21 knots. Armament Twelve 14-inch, breachloading rifles; four sub merged torpedo tubes; 22 6-inch rapid-fire guns: four 6-pounder guns; four 3-inch anti-aircraft guns; one 3-inch landing guns; two 30-callber machine-guns. SAN FRANCISCO. Sept. 25. Lessons of the European war, especially those taught by submarine and torpedo at tack, have been so well analyzed by United States naval constructors that the new oil and electric superdread nought California will be able to make port in spite of numerous torpedo wounds, say Navy engineers. The hull of the California Is soon to be laid at Mar- Island. The 1022 bluejackets who will man the battleship under 68 officers, how ever, probably will divide their admi ration between this, her dozen 14-inch guns, and some of the many electrical devices, such as the electric potato peeler in the galley, the electric-driven ice-cream freezer, or the electric dish washing machine with a capacity of 1000 dishes an hour. Main Engines Driven by Motors. Use of electricity on the California begins with her main engines, driven by motors supplied with current by generators turned by steam turbines of 2S.000 horsepower. There will be practically no work done on shipboard directly by steam, and-the "black gang" of tradition, instead of heaving tons of coal every hour into ever-hungry furnaces, will manipulate .levers con trolling oil burners under the boilers. These latter will be the usual water tube type, but new methods of installa tion have been devised for practically all the California's engine and boiler room equipment, it Is said. It is understood that the new torpedo and mine-proof construction is gained largely by an improved method of bulk head building. The bulkheads are to be of steel, but less rigid than the ordinary types, and resistance is said to have been increased 25 to 30 per cent. Vessel to Have Clipper Bow. A clipper bow. Instead of the con ventional navy ram, will distinguish the California, and she will have two cage masts bearing fire-control plat forms. The guns of the main battery will be mounted in threes, in four heavily armored turrets on the ship's center line. When Battleship No. 44 was assigned to the Mare Island Yard for construc tion, the name California already had been assigned to No. 40, being built at the New York Navy Yard. The name of the latter was ordered changed to New Mexico, and the California assigned to Mare Island, inasmuch as the Cali fornia, it is believed, is destined to be come the flagship of the Pacific Fleet. The present flagship is the armored cruiser San Diego, which was called the California until the name was needed by the newly authorized battleship. ERROR TO PAY FOR ROAD County to Pay Bend $1500 to Be Used on Highway In City. BEND. Or..' Sept. 24. (Special.) Im provement of that part of The Dalles California highway which lies within the limits of the city of Bend is as sured through the recent action of the County Court in ordering $1500 paid to the city hitherto paid through error to the county as taxes. The fund will be used by the city to improve streets connecting with the highway. The sum of $20,000 is being spent by the state highway commission and the Crook County Court in build ing about IS miles of highway south Bend. EMUS PENCIL SfrV ??a. (3u&(3xi "THE LITTLE GIRL NEXT DOOR" - , "Fell" Would You Like to Know Why She "Fell"? Come to the PICKFORD Next Sunday ths mvrr y I is supBtmr S I POLK PARTY IS UNITED WO.MEX AND MOOSE ENLIST IX RE PUBLICAN CAMPAIGN. Democrats Also Are Werltlns; for Hughes. Being Dissatisfied With Wilson Administration. DALLAS, Or., Sept. 24. (Special.) There has been but little registration of voters in Polk County since the re opening of the books after the May primaries. It is estimated that not more than 200 have registered, and of this number practically two thirds were Republicans. The total number of registered electors in Polk County April 18 was 5361. This is subdivided as follows: Republicans. 3521. divided among; the men and women as follows: Mm. 210J; women. H19. Democrats. 1S5: men. 1084; women. 781. Prohibition. 196; Socialist, 15S; Progressive, SO: miscellaneous, 195. The normal Republican majority Is approximately 60i). According- to the registration flBftres the majority Is 1856. This indicates many Democrats registered as Republicans. The total male registration in Polk County Is S457; female, 2507. Aside from a few voters registered as Republicans, but who are now and always have been Democrats at heart, the Republican vote in Polk County will go almost solidly, for Hughes. Hughes should carry the county by a little better than the normal majority. Defection to Wilson from the Repub lican column are more than made up by the additions to the Hughes move ment of Democrats, many of them for merly Democratic leaders here. Among the Republican women of this section there is an enthusiasm In favor of Hughes that is most notice able. They are proudly wearing Hughes buttons, and are doing much work for the ticket. Democratic hopes that he kept us out of war" would influence these women to vote for Wil son have been blasted. The registration figures above also Indicate that practically all the Pro gressives have returned to the Repub lican fold. SHERMAN FAIR OPENS SOON Exhibit Is One or Bes", From Agri cultural Standpoint, In State. MORO. Or.. Sept. 24. (Special.) The Sherman County Fair will open Octo ber 11 and continue four days. Under the management of F. E. Fortner and the directors, the Sherman County Fair has grown from a small agricultural meeting with a few yrod- ucts to one of the best fairs In the state, showing every kind of fruit .and grain grown in the temperate ion-i. Sherman County is noted for Its high bred horses and cattle, including the famous herd of Shorthorns ownod by L. Barnum, of Moro. Farmers are shipping many cars of hogs and also much butter, cream and many eggs. POLK LOSES INSTRUCTOR Perrydale Principal Goes to Teacli In Salem City Schools.' DALLAS. Or.. Sept. 24. (Special.) Marion County has captured one of Polk County's best instructors. R. G. Dykstra, for several yesrs the princl- SAN FRANCISCO S.S. GREAT NORTHERN S.S. NORTHERN PACIFIC TUB OCEAX WAT Rests Both Mind and Body The thrill of the sea; the exhilaration of its won derful air; The charm of the music, the deck sports, the evening dansant, The roominess of the staterooms, the luxury of the salons, The exceptional excellence of the meals. SAILING TOMORROW. LOW ROUND TRIP TICKETS NOW ON SALE. Connecting Through Standard Sleeping Cars to Tacoma, Seattle, Everett, Bellingham, Vancouver and Through Service East HAWAIIAN CRUISES NOV. 7, 27 Call form Str. Ex pre lv. 0i3O A. Every Tuesday! Tharsd Satnrdi y, f J JA Id and Mor. spinra The trade-mark "Aspirin" fReir. TT. S. Ptt Office) is a guarantee that the monoaceticacidester of Falicylieacid in these tablets is ot tae reliable Bayer maaulacture. iiii Si mm pal of the Perrydale public schools, has been employed to teach in the Salem Heights School at Salem. Under his direction, the Perrydale School has built up one of the largest Industrial club organizations In the county. The Dairy Herd Record Class was organized and easily took first place In the stock judging contest at Corvallis. Out of SO games played dur ing the past season, the team repre senting this school lost but three. Practically all the graduates of the 1916 class will enter higher schools of learning this Fall. Scholarships were given to the following students: Byron Zumwalt. Faelnc University; Albert Burelback and Rosa Jennings. Pacific College. MILLION B0YS TO TRAIN Xation-Wide Movement to Drill American Lads Started. NEW YORK. Sept. 24. An effort will be made to enroll 1.000,000 boys in the United States 'in the military training movement by next Spring, it was an nounced here last night. A National committee is being formed to have charge of the work. Among those who have accepted membership on the com mittee are Major-General Leonard Wood, in command of the Department of the Cast, and Rear-Admiral N. R. Usher, commandant of the New York Navy-yard. It Is planned .during the Winter to give the boys opportunity for weekly and bi-weekly drills under United States Army men at places convenient to their homes. In addition to the mili tary training, industrial training in various trades and professions will be given the boys. A woman ts the Inventor of a sand rass that r'.niis a bell when tha time that It vinrk expires B SLIM SUMMERVILLE Z H and PEGGY PIERCE in 0 5 His Winning Punch A Knockout 2-Reel Film J Mack Sennett Keystone jjj B Comedy 5 Mazamas in the 5 3 Sisters 5 August, 1916, Outing1, in 2 5 Reels, Produced by R. C. u Bruce B B B NORMA TALMADGE as the SOCIAL SECRETARY B Tonight, Women's Style B b Revue b -COLUMBIA. 5 Sixth at Washington J nDHnnanannsasssssC BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB 5 1 S31 '!' I etl & Stark: