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VOL,. I.VI. NO. 17,471. PORTLAND, OREGON, 3IONDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1916. PRICE FIVE CENTS. JUDGE W.N. GATENS DROPS FROM SIGHT NATIONAL LUMBER MOVE STARTS HERE SALEM MAN WEDS BY QUAKER RITES MONASTIR IS TAKEN BY FRENCH FORCES LAUNCH HITS LOG AND THREE DROWN STRANGER CALLS FOR JTJKIST IX YELLOW AUTO. WOMAX, CHILD AND MAX DIE AT TWO WOMEN ANI MAN DIE AT CASTLE ROCK, WASH. CASTLE KOCK, WASH. NATION IS FACING GRAVE PROBLEMS AMMAN BREAKS AMERICAN RECORD International Issues Be come Acute. SUBMARINE QUESTION FIRST Five Critical Cases Pending and Wilson Must Decide on Policy for Future. TRADE BLOCKADE LOOMING All but Most Pressing Domes tic Affairs to Take Back ground for Present. WASHINGTON, Nov. 19, A por tentous and complicated international situation now faces President Wilson and for the next few weeks will en gage his attention and that of his ad risers to the 'exclusion of all but the most urgent of domestic subjects. From now on the President expects to deal with all foreign questions without embarassment. While it is not evident there will not be any fun damental change in policy, fear that any move at all would be misinter preted as inspired by an internal po litical struggle has been removed. Weighty Issues Await Decision. The President must 'decide how the United States shall meet the German submarine question on the one hand and the entente allies' trade restric tions ion the other; whether the re taliatory legislation shall be enforced; whether the traditional theory of iso lation shall be abandoned for con certed neutral action; whether the country shall have an aggressive or a passive policy toward the peace con ference after the war; the permanent league to enforce peace and, during the rest of the war, the question whether America's attitude be gov erned by benevolent interpretation of international law according to its own best interests, or shall it be strictly legalistic, regardless of whom it af fects. The most disquieting problem is the German submarine-' situation. Five critical cases are pending, one involv ing a loss of six American lives, the others involving American ships. Complications Hard to Avoid. Increasingly serious is the fast growing conviction that any kind of a general submarine warfare is intol erable. Germany is known to be building submarines rapidly and there is the possibility of a starvation cam paign against England. The United States may find it difficult to avoid complications. The American attitude is flat and final. Np technicalities will be ad mitted. Ships must not be sunk with out warning or without provision for the safety of the passengers. The armed ship issue will not be accepted. Secretary Lansing foresaw it last March, when, without announcing his reason, he decreed that merchant ves sels could carry a small defensive gun. Future Rests With Germany. The future of the submarine situa tion is felt to rest entirely witti Ger many. Two possibilities are feared: Either that Germany will decide she can starve England by an undersea campaign or that she may endeavor to involve this country, and thus insure the participation in peace conferences of a generous enemy. Beyond this, the Lusitania case remains unsettled. Germany has admitted liability and offered indemnity: But the delicate matter of its amount has not been set tled. Attempts made to close the is sue have been repeatedly blocked by unexpected new U-boat complications. The ravages of the U-53 off New England were displeasing to the Gov ernment. It was said that continuance of the practice would not be permit ted, as it would constitute a practical blockade of American harbors. Neutrality Held "Intolerable. Relations with the entente allies are less clear-cut. Sea power has en abled them, through the blockade and the imposition of the blacklist, vir tually to destroy all foreign trade hos tile to them and divert all commerce to their own uses. Constant bellig erent encroachments on neutral rights have led President Wilson to say that (Concluded ou Page Column 1.) Wife Asks Police to Aid Search When He Falls to Return After Many Hoars. Circuit Judge William X. Gatens left his home at 510 East Twenty-fifth street north at 3:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon to perform a wedding cere mony for a stranger who came for him In an automobile, and at 2 o'clock this morning- the police were asked by Mrs. Gatens to Institute a search for Judge Gatens. as he had not returned nor been heard from. Mrs. Gatens said a man had called by telephone and had asked Judge Gatens if he would perform a ceremony and soon after had appeared In a yellow automobile. Mrs. Gatens said that she had asked Judge Gatens where he was going as he was donning his coat and hat and that he had replied: "I don't knpw where or with whom I'm going." Mrs. Gatens described the mysterious stranger as being a short man with a derby hat. She was worried by recent threats which had been made against Judge Gatens, but these threats were apparently political in nature and In dicated a purpose to injure Judge Gatens politically rather than to do bodily harm. Possibility of an acci dent seemed more plausible to the po lice. Judge Gatens was re-elected to the Circuit bench this month. FAIR AND WARMER NEXT Weather Man Gives Oat More Favor able Prognostication. Fair and warmer! Such is the "Blue Monday" predic tion for today at the hands of the Weather Bureau man, who adds that It ought to be an Ideal "wash day." The chilly wave that has swept over the Pacific slope has about spent Its force, and rising temperature should be the order for the next two or three days, according to the signs. For Portland the winds are now In the north, but they give Indications of twisting around to the southeast, which will be the sign to resurrect raincoats and rubbers. Early yesterday morning the tem perature was down to SI degrees, and rose only 10 degrees at the warracBt time yesterday. However, Bhortly after dark last night the moderation set In. and it should be reasonably warm today. PIPE SETS WOMAN AFIRE Mrs. E. Delameter, 80, Succumbs to Injuries From Barns. CASTLE ROCK. Wash., Nov. 19. (Special.) Mrs. Elizabeth Delameter, a West Side woman, more than SO years old, passed away Friday night, the victim of burns. Her companion. Miss Little, heard her screaming about 10 o'clock Friday morning, and found her completely enveloped in flames. There was not an inch of her body which was not' burned. The doctor was summoned and her sufferings re lieved as much as possible. She was apparently quietly sleeping when she died, about 11 o'clock last evening. Her clothing had evidently caught fire from her pipe. ARKANSAS MAYOR FREED Young: Wife Rushes Into Arms of Husband on Murder Trial Verdict. BATESV1LLE, Ark.. Nov. 19. Gilbert Richardson. Mayor of Batesville, was acquitted of murder by a Jury In Circuit Court here late Saturday. The Jurors deliberated three hours. As the verdict was read, Richardson's 17-year-old wife, the alleged cause of the killing for which he was tried, rushed Into his arms and they wept to gether. The trial ended exactly two weeks from the day on which Mayor Richard son killed young Farrell Padgett. The shooting occurred at a dance. MACHINE GUN IS STOLEN Michigan Guard Organization Asks for Help of Police. EL, PASO, Tex., Nov. 19. The offi cers of the machine gun company of the Thirty-third Michigan Infantry re quested the police tonight to assist in their search for a stolen machine gun automobile belonging to the company. The automobile is the only one of Its type in the Army. It has a searchlight forward, another on top and two ma chine guns mounted to the rear. It was taken from In front of a cafe to night. POSTAL SAVINGS ENORMOUS Increase for October $4,700,000 Over Same Month Year Ago. WASHINGTON. Nov. 19. Deposits In postal savings banks continue to show record-breaking gains. The increase of October was $4,700,000, or twice that for October, 1915. In the four months since July 1 the deposits have increased more than $17,000,000, almost as much as for the entire year ended June 30, 1918. On-October 31 postal savings deposl tors numbered 650,000, and had $104. 200,000 to their credit. Adamson Law Attacked in Montana. HELENA. Mont.. Nov. 19. The Chi cago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad filed the stereotyped suit against the Adamson act, in the Federal Court here late Saturday, it was learned today. Captains of Industry Portland Visitors. POWER TO COMBINE SOUGHT United Effort Urged for Pas sage of Webb Bill. AFTER-WAR TRADE OBJECT Meetings With Local Men Will He Held Today at Chamber of Com merceGreat Development Flans Are Discussed. The Eastern and Southern captains of the lumber Industry, representing an annual output of billions of feet '. of milled lumber, have chosen Portland as the place to start the movement to get thoroughly behind the United States Chambers of Commerce In thier efforts to have enacted a law which will dif ferentiate between monopoly In re straint of trade and trade combination In the interest of the development of natural resources such as lumber or cooj, Kannnn Starts Move. Charles S. Keith, of Kansas City, a director of the United States Chamber of Commerce, who, with a dozen or more Nationally prominent lumbermen, is In Portland, communicated with the United States. Chamber of Commerce officials yesterday, and it is under stood, received the sanction of that body to take up the problem of legal izing industrial' combinations in the interest of large National resources. His talk today at the members' council of the Chamber of Commerce, in the Oregon building, is expected to lead up to this movement, and solicit the aid of the Portland business men. President Offers Support. The bill now proposed by the Cham bers of Commerce of the Unit J States' would tend to make more flexible the so-called anti-trust laws of the United States, which now make no practicable distinction between combinations in re straint of trade and of industrial development-President Wilson favors the plan of the lumbermen, and has said that he will urge Congress to enact the neces sary laws. Mr. Keith also will explain a move ment undertaken to have American Red Cross representatives placed in all mills of the country with complete Jurisdic tion over safety-first devices and other agencies for the conservation of human energy and human life. The Red Cross representative would have absolute sway under the proposed arrangement and would not be identified in any way with the mill companies. He would be strictly a Federal agent or Inspector. The lumbermen who now are in Port- (Concluded on Page 10. Column AN lilil I V, WC V V Y iT WWW WW . W W.' ' r. . v E t- W . A X. "Ti Couple Rise From Seats TTnheralded ' and Recite Services Minister's Part In Ceremony Small. SEATTLE, Wash., Nov. 19. (Special.) The congregation In the Memorial Friends Church, at Twenty-third ave nue and East Spruce street, was sur prised Sunday when Mrs. Mary R- Hornaday, of Seattle, and Enos Faes nall, of Salem, Or., who had been sit ting on the front bench, arose and went through the ancient 'Quaker wedding ceremony. All that the minister. Rev. Robert E. Pretlow, did in the ceremony, was to offer a prayer and fulfill the legal re quirement of pronouncing the couple man and wife. The wedding. Rev. Mr. Pretlow said, was the first Quaker ceremony, accord ing to the old English rites, wjucb. has taken place in Seattle. The church service had Just been fin ished when the couple arose from their seats, entirely unheralded and unknown to the congregation, and t-ie man start ed to fipeak. The couple Joined hands during the service, the bridegroom first reciting his part of the service, and then the bride repeating her share of the rites without assistance from the minister. CALIFORNIA VOTE STANDS Xo Change Found as 4 2 Out of 5 8 Counties Are Canvassed. SACRAMENTO. Nov. 19. Returns from 42 of California's 5S counties had been officially canvassed tonight by Secretary of Stato Jordan without de parture from the semi-official tabula tion of the same districts. As the statutes require the completion of the canvass by November 27, and as the missing counties include the larg est centers of population, the statisti cians face the probability of working night and day the latter part of this week. GREEKS' ARMS DEMANDED Anglo-French Commander Calls for Surrender of All Munitions. ATHENS, Saturday, Nov. 18, via Lon don, Nov. 19. Vice-Admiral Fournet, commander of the Anglo-French fleet in the Mediterranean, last night pre sented to the Greek government a note demanding the surrender to the entente allies of all arms, munitions and artil lery of the Greek army. Exception la made of some 50,000 rifles now in actual use by the forces remaining after the last step of de mobilization. RACE VICTIMS RECOVERING Three Injured at Santa Monica Sat urday Are Improved. SANTA MONICA. Cal.. Nov. 19. The three persons injured yesterday by the racing automobile driven by Lewis Jackson, one of the entrants in the seventh International Grand Prix road race, when it swerved from the course, causing the death of himself and three others, were reported recovering to night. No date for the Inquest has been set. ACTIVE VOLCANO RIGHT IN OUR Serbian City Evacuated by Defenders. LOSS ADMITTED BY BERLIN Decision Not to Make Sacri fice Reached by Staff. POSITION IS NOT TENABLE Serbian Government Again Gets Hab itation on Own Territory, but Germans Insist Victory Is Only of Local Scope. PARIS, Nov. 19. French troops to day captured from the German and Bul garian forces the chief southern Serbian town of Monastir. according to an of ficial announcement made by the French War Department. News of the occupation was received In Paris as one of the most Important of the late developments In the war. News came too late for general com ment In the French papers. Tne Temps points out the success Is likely to have a great Influence on subsequent developments n tho Bal kan campaign, as the place commands all the practical routes between the Aegean sea and the Adriatic sea. War New Open to Italians. The fall of Monastir. the newspapers say. involves the early fall of Ochrida, 25 miles northwest, and the region of the Macedonian lakes and assures an effective Junction of the army at Sa lonikl and the Italian troops operating in Albania. BERLIN. Nov. 19. (By wireless to the Associated Press via Sayvllle, N. Y.) The Macedonian town of Monastir was evacuated In the night by the Ger man and Bulgarian troops, who retired ncr'h to prepared positions. Xews la Not Surprise T' e news of the evacuation of Mon astir docs not come as a surprise, the Asuocif led Press having been informed some days ago that the question whether Monastir's political Importance was great enough to Justify the mili tary sacrifices necessary to defend te town was being weighed by the gen eral staff. Monastir Is situated at the bottom oi a bowl surrounded on all sides by dominatiTig heights. It was. therefore, tactically untenable, as the enemy forces gained a footing on the rim of the bowl. Heavy Sarrlfl.ee TVot Justified. Since the opening of the campaign ia the Roumanian theater, which Is re prarricu here as the decisive theater of the wl.cle war front, it was considered a collect decision strategically and tactically not to rail upon the defend iioiiclinled on t'l km A, Column 1.1 MIDST. KG Mrs. Bort Ilcljcerson, Daughter and Brolher-ln-Law Lost One In Party Is Saved. CASTLE BOCK. Wash. Nov. 19. (Special.) Three persons were drowned in Silver Lake, six miles east of here, today, . when their launch struck a submerged log and capsized. The dead: Mrs. Bert Helgerson, formerly Miss Bertha Cross, daughter of Mrs. Maggie Cross, of Oregon City. Or.; Mrs. Helger son's 17-mon t hs'-old daughter and Riley Helgerson, brother-in-law of the dead woman. Mrs. Annie Helgerson. mother of Riley and Bert Helgerson. and the only other occupant of the boat, saved her self by clinging to the overturned craft until rescued. The party had been out for a pleas ure cruise, and had also taken aboard supplies at Barnes' store, at tSilver Lake for their home on the opposite side of the lake, wjtn the disaster occurred. Riley Helgerson. who was 21 years old. was entangled In the ropes and held beneath the overturned vessel. The bodies were recovered and the bodies of Mrs. Helgerson and her child will be sent to Oregon City tomorrow for burial. SHIPS FOUNDER IN GALE Groat Tidal Wave Sweeps Itegton of Marseille. PARIS?. Nov. 19. Kxtraordinary weather conditions prevailing in France in the last 4s hours culminated yester day In a tidal wave in the ro-jlon of Marseilles, on the Mediterranean ciast, in which many vessels foundered, and disastrous gales on the southwest coast, on the Atlantic Ocean. According to M. Angot. director or the weather bureau, the fluctuations of the barometer yesterday beat ail the records of 60 yers for quick cs."ng!. From 721 miiimeters, which already was 39 below normal. It dropped 44 mllimeters In 36 hours. Snow fell heavily along the Brills l battle front, and there were heavy rains and high winds In Paris and other parts of France. At Marseilles all the cabins on Cat alan Beach were carried away, and tie high waves inundated Corinc i Road, stopping the street cars. The storm btfct all records for 20 years on the Mediterranean coast. HOME BECOMES HOSPITAL Historic Mclvinloy Residence Util ized by Sisters of Mercy. CANTON. O.. Nov. 19. The old rest dence or v miam McKinley. now the property of St. Peter's Cuthollc Church and used as a residence far nurses of Mercy Hospital, will be jjnverted Into an annex of that hospital this week. Eventually the building is to be dls placed by a modern structure as an annex to the hospital, it Is announced by Father Stuber. who has supervision over Mercy Hospital. DAILY CITY STATISTICS The Weather. YZSTKR DAY Maximum temperature. 41 aegre.-a; minimum. 21 degrees. TODAY'S Fair, with rising temperature; varlabla winds. National. Vatlon faring inv International problem. Pate 1. General cioethala says canal slides will be absolutely conquered. Fas a. War. Serbian town of Monastir occupied ky r rencn. rssv J. British and Canadians win trenches In diiv. Inr iimwfclorm. Pace 4. British scldiers trust Herman privates, but not oiiictra. rif , British welcome measures of food control Pans 4. Korelgn. Vienna receptive to ta!k of peace. Pare 6. Mexico. Americana to Insist that Mexican conference rrsch conclusion. Page -. American kl'led by Villa bandits at Jlmlnes; tour omers prisoners at farral. Pare 2, Doment lc. YVomn breaks American record for aua tained fllKht of aeroplane. rage 1. Ltor Federation may ask that was pact be Included Ir peace settlement. Pace S. Period of wild speculation dawning- Pare 5. Sports. Football form Is thrown to winds on Eastern gridirons. Page 14. Oregon expects to be Invited to p'ay East's best tam at Pasadena, page 14. Frank Chance stteka by salary demands on Cubs. Page 13. Amateur Athletic t'nlon to decide on allow ing n-w records today. Page 15. Multnomah Club expects to defeat Oregon on Thanksgiving day. Page 14. Pacific NortbweM. Lister Democrats war on State Chairman Fogarty. Pago 7. New head for State Prison may be chosen today. Page 7. Seattle woman woundi her sister and kills herself. Page 6. Salem man weds Seattle woman by old tjuakrr rites. Page 1. Three drowned In launching party near Castle Rock. YVah. Page 1. Marine'. City of Portland tl-d up In Austral'a on maiden trip. Page 13. Portland and Vicinity. Chevrolet Company expected to build as sembling plant In Portland. Pago 11. Judga Gatens mysteriously missing. Page 1. Heavy Increase In auto license fee ia pro posed. Page lO. New conception of religion urged by Rev. Thomas Jenkins. Pago 11. Cover design wanted for factory loan fund booklet. Page 10. Congressional committee to make study of railroad situation. Page 12. Senator Chamberlain will Introduce bill for direct eU-cuon of President. Paga 18. Reed Col;ege student definea National Hu mor. Page Fortieth anniversary of St. Francis church commemorated. Page 11. - Weather report, data and forecast. Page 1. Man thought recovering from accident dies suddenly. Page 10. National lumber trade development move starts in Portland. - Page 1. Religious education keynote of Episcopal masa meeting. Page IN Classic "Alt Hcldtlbcrg'' ia ably resented. Sustained Flight of 680 Miles Made. ANTIQUATED BIPLANE IS USED 'Joke" Is Turned Against Pro fessional Aviators. START OBSERVED BY FEW Miss Tiuth Law Covers Distance From Clilcugo to Horncll, X. V.. at 113 Mile an Hour I'ndrr Exceptional Difficulties. CHICAGO. Nov. 19, (Special.) In a decrepit old Curtis biplane of a type Ions since considered obsolete. Mts.3 Kuth Law today captured the Ions- distance sustained airplane fiisht rec ord of America. In the presence of only a few casual spectators Misa Law took to tho air in Grant Park at 7 : - a A. M.. and landed at Horncll. N. V.. at 1:33 P. M. Tho distance of approximately 6&0 milcn she traversed at an average speed of 113 miles an hour, the total elapsed time beins fix hours and seven minutes. The I'luchy aviatrix was compelled to land to secure a new fuel supply. Dij'n Kllcht 750 Miles. Arising again at 3:24 P. M. t-hc con tinued on her way until a sain com pelled to descend at Binshamlon. X. Y, on account of darkness, covering a total distance of T.'iO miles. Had it not been for the long delay at Uurnell. oc casioned by difficulty In securing gaso line, and defective spark plugs. the would have succeeded in reaching New York, her objective. Miss Law ex ceeded the distance of Victor Cnrl strom. who attempted a similar feat November 2, by S08 miles. The latter landed at Erie. Fa., 452 miles from Chi cago, which he covered at a speed ut 103 miles an liour. " " The young; woman expects to con tinue her Journey tomorrow, and will attempt to land on Governor's Island. Extraordinary Ulfnrultlea Overcome Miss Law's flight, which waa officially observed by James S. Stevens, of the Aero Club of America, under ordinary circumstances would have been un usual, he said; under the handicaps with which she contended it Is remark able, "Her machine, which Is of the Cur tis: type, was built for exhibition pur poses." Mr. Stevens said. "It is a model used several years ao with a steering device which is particularly tJid to handle, us it must be kept under con trol every second, and the physical and nervous strain Is territic The seat of tho machine is well out In front of the planes, and la exposed to tha weather. "When Miss Law announced her In tention to attempt the. Chicago-New York tlisht In her old-time Curtisa. the feat waa conidercSl next to impossible. That she went ahead and did It provri that sho Is one of America's boldest and most skillful aviators." Project Treated mn Joke. Chicago newspapers, the public gen erally and professional aviator in par ticular treated Miss Law and her plans as a Joke, and gave her no attention. So the simply started without any ad vertising or demonstration, and turned the launh on all the wise ones who had made fun of her and her archaic machine. Miss Law's alrplaine la comparatively small, with a 2!-foot wing spread and a 54-gallon tank. She had dirllculty in overcoming tho erratic air currents when she started, and her average alti tude as she disappeared was less than 200 feet. Had an accident occurred to her motor death would have been cer tain, as the height was not sufficient to permit her to volplane to earth. Miss Law governed her Ilisht by a compass and a map tied to her knee. As a result It Is almost a true "air line." Miss Law's experience has been gained wholly In short exhibition flights. Her flight today was held under the auspices of the Aero Club of America. Previously. Miss Law had never made a single flight longer than 25 miles. world's ki;coi:d woman's aim Miss I .aw Says tlie More She the More She Wanls to Fly. B1NGHAMTOX, X. Y.. Nov. IS. Special.) Miss Kuth Bancroft Law. a plump, smiling, fair-haired 'woman of 25. is now the champion non-stop, cross-country flyer of the United States. She is also. It Is perhaps ac curate to fay, the champion woman flyer of thu world. Outside of being a little tired, she was all right when sho reached this city. So was her machine. "The next time I'm going to do it," she said to the correspondent of The Oregonian tonight, "I'm contented to have broken the American record this time, but the next Might I'm going to get a world's record. "The weather man in Chicago had promised me a breeze of 36 miles an hour and I fisure with that to he'.p me I could have had plenty of gaso lino to got to Binghainton and per haps farther. The wind was blowing like sin when ' I rose above Chicago, but soon it swun? around from thj iCuueluUed toa P mi. Culuuui 1.4
