Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937, November 25, 1916, Image 5

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Newspaper Page TextTHE MORNING OREGONIA3T, SATURDAY, NOVE3IBER 23, 191G. 5 GERMANY TO DENY PLEA OF -BELGIANS Washington Uneasy, Especial ly in View of Probable Ef fect on Relief Work. DIPLOMATS' TASK DELICATE Sir. Crew's Services as Intermediary Depend on Sufferance Belgian Minister Depicts Situation ' as More "Terrible." WASHIXGTON. Nov. 24. Another ap real from the Belgian government for American influence against the depor tation of Belgians to work in Germany was handed to the State Department today by Minister Havenith. It was in the form of an instruction to the Minister declaring the situation was becoming more terrible every day, and directing- him to beg the Secretary of State to "urge the German government to consider the consequences of the crimes against humanity committed in their name." Charge Grew, of the American em bassy at Berlin, already is making: in formal representations at the Foreign Office in behalf of the Belgians. He has not made a formal report of the Ger man government's attitude, but it was learned today that sufficient informa tion had come through unofficial chan nels to make it evident that Germany will deny that Belgians are being forced to work in munitions plants. Military ..Necessity Insisted On. Germany will contend that the de portation for employment largely on farms is a necessary military measure within the spirit of international law concerning the treatment of population of conquered territory. The fact that enforced Belgian labor has operated to relieve for military duty many thousands of Germans was among the statements laid before the German Foreign Office by Mr. Grew, but this was done only on the basis of the formal complaints from the Belgian officials which he was instructed to Fubrait. The undertakingis of a pe culiarly delicate nature, Mr. Grew not being the accredited representative of Belgium at Berlin, and his services as an intermediary being entirely by suf ferance of the German government. Unfavorable Reply Expected. It cannot be learned that the State Department has yet decided on a line of action in the event that the Ger man reply is as unfavorable as it Is expected to be. No effort is made by officials to conceal their deep concern over the situation, however, especially in view of the broad intimation yester day by Lord Robert Cecil in England that persistence by the Germans in their treatment of the Belgians might cause tjie collapse of the entire Bel ian Relief Commission's work. The appeal submitted here today was in substantially the same language as the instructions sent by the Belgian Foreign OHice yesterday to Madrid and liome for presentation to King Alfonso and the Pope. It reasserts that Bel gians are forced to work in munitions plants and in the building of fortifications. FIVE FACING STARVATION WOMAN AND CHILD AT WELFARE BUREAU IN PITIABLE CONDITION. Iart of Food ! Taken Home to Other Tots and Convalescing Hus band by Weak Wife. Literally too weak to walk farther. a, woman and her 4-year-old son came into the Public Welfare Bureau yes terday. The woman sank down on a chair without saying a word. The little child was hatless and clad In a cotton dress. He kept clutching at the satchel his mother carried, and crying, "Please, Mummy, bread,", while the mother fchook her head and said over and over, "Mummy has no bread." e From somewhere a quart of milk and a box of crackers were produced. Mother and child drank the milk and ate all but four crackers. These crackers the mother begged permis eion to take home with her. At home she has two more children and a con valescing husband. Forced by the specter of actual star vation, the woman has asked for help. To add to their misery, the chimney of the house in which they live was found to be faulty and condemned. The Tublic Welfare Bureau is trying to lind another place for them until they get on their feet. 0. M. CLARK IS HOME President of Chamber Attends Lum bermen's Meetings. O. M. Clark, president of the Cham ber of Commerce, returned yesterday from Seattle where he has been to at tend the meetings of the Insurance bureau, inspection bureau and exploita tion bureau of the West Coast Lumber men's Association, in each of which he Is a board member. The exploitation bureau's work is developing with great promise, accord ing to Mr. Clark, and the near future will probably see a powerful thrust of the lumber industry into new fields abroad, by means of a great and care fully organized exploitation system which Is being worked out. of marriage. Cohn has fled from the city, according to the report made by Detectives Mallett and Price, who sought for him yesterday. The search for Cohn is the aftermath of a fight in the offices of Drj Earl Smith. 612 Oregonian building, in which he is said to have clashed with the girl's uncle, S. Rosen, of 220 Washington street. According to the investigations of the police and the Women's Protective Bu reau, Cohn, in company with his brother. Charles Cohiv a. traveling salesman, went( to Dr. Smith's office to meet the girl, a 19-year-oM stenog rapher, her mother and her uncle, Mr. Rosen. It is said that the meeting was for the purpose of signing an agreement, in which Solomon Cohn was to pledge $500 to the girl. An alter cation arose, it is stated, when Rosen refused the terms advanced by Cohn. which relieved the latter of all responsibility. WOODMEN ARE ELECTED NATB B. CASLER IS "YOUNGEST HEAD OP LODGE IN DISTRICT. &TEFANSSON WILL STAY 2 YEARS IRE Explorer Writes to Peary, but Letter Is Nearly Year Reaching Washington. DOGS THEN DYING OFF OFFENDER BACK FOR TRIAL Alleged Speeder, Allowed to Proceed on Trip, Reports on Return. When Motorcycle Patrolman Coulter halted William Hughes, on Milwaukie road, for exceeding the speed limit, the latter asked the policeman to postpone his cafe until he returned from Salem, whither he was bound. He was ac commodated and will appear in Munici pal Court today to explain his speed of 35 miles an hour, as taken by the patrolman. Three other speeders, arrested by Pa trolman Coulter, were fined $10 each by, Municipal Judge Langguth yester day morning. TZiey were C. C. Saylor. Eli Johnson and Ralph Freese. Ail BOXING PROMOTER SOUGHT Office of Clerk Attract Keen Contest but A. L. Barbnr Wins by 412 to 124 for J. V. Kennedy. Webfoot Camp, No. 65. Woodmen of the World, elected officers last night for the next six months at the largest attended meeting in the history of the camp. Rivalry centered on the office of clerk, nearly 600 votes being cast. Officers chosen were: Consul com- ft j J r f T -N , , ' t r - - ' 3..L-........w..-Awsrl(irflY)l1fln11f?1tt1lTll f I Nate II. Cailer, Youngest Conanl Commander. Elected by Web foot Camp. Woodmen of the World. Last Night.' mander, Nate Casler; adviser lieuten ant. Dr. A. Van Cleve; escort, L. G. De Young; clerk, A. L. Barbur: banker, N. H. Bird; inside watchman. C H. Knowies; sentry, C. Nern; manager, M. T. Woodward; property man. Wil liam Chapin, and musician, L. W. Lewis. In the ballot for clerk, A. L. Barbur received 412 votes and J. Fred Kennedy 124. Nate B. Casler. who was last night elected consul commander. Is a law student, 21 years old, and is the young est man to fill the presiding office in the entire jurisdiction. In the past three years Mr. Casler has passed all the chairs. Not many years have elapsed since he was a Portland newsboy. The new officers will be installed at a meeting lste next month. APOSTROPHE WORTH $1000 Solomon Cohn, Involved in Snlt by Girl, Flees After Fight. A warrant was issued yesterday for bolomon Cohn. a boxing promoter. 24 years old. of 248 Grant street, who is charged with seduction under promise Curtain for "Ma'mselle Capriee" Is Basis of Suit by Armand Kalisz. Omission of the apostrophe in "JIa'm- selle Caprice" is partially the basis of a suit which Armand Kalisz, who was the Orpheum star last week, says he will file in the New York courts. Just before Mr. Kalisz closed his Orpheum engagement here Wednesday night he received an elaborate plush curtain upon which was enscrolled "Mamselle Caprice." The Orpheum star declares absence of the apostrophe Jars on his artistic sense, and that the scenic ar tist is liable for not following the original copy. Tardy delivery of the curtain also is set forth in the actor s complaint. Mr. Kalisz declares the curtain should have been delivered to him in San Antonio, Tex., but instead it trailed after him from the south to Portland, and that It did not arrive here in time to em bellish his headline Orpheum act. Mr. Kalisz asserts that he has instructed his lawyers in New York to bring suit immediately for $1000 damages. ADULTERATION IS CHARGED Sand Put in Pepper Is Allegation of Government. In an information filed Thursday by Robert R. Rankin. Acting United States Attorney, the Hudson & Gram Company are charged with violating the National pure food law by adul terating a consignment of pepper with sand and pepper shells. The information charges that they shipped to Stumberg & Son, grocers, of Vancouver, Wash., cans of the H. & G. brand of pepper, and that they were adulterated and misbranded. A. D. Emery Not Tried by Lodge. A, D. Emery, 105 East Fifty-fourth street, wishes to correct a statement that he was the member on trial by Harmony Lodge, Independent Order of Oddfellows, when the police were called to arbitrate a quarrel between lodge members last week. Mr. Emery says another member was being tried for alleged conduct unbecoming a mem ber of the lodge. No arrests were made. Officers of the lodge confirmed Mr. Emery's statement last night. MacMillan Held Xot to Have. Shown Non-Existence of Crockerland. Old Ice lias Prevented Prog ress to Farthest Xorth. WASHINGTON. Nov. 24. A letter came to Rear-Admiral Robert H. Peary here tonight from Vilhjalmur Stefans son, who for three years has been in he Far North at the head of his Cana dian Arctic expedition. It had been on the way from near Hay Point, Vic toria Island, since December 17. 1915. and part of it was written more than two months before. Admiral Peary thinks Btefansson probably has carried out his programme and returned to or started for his Win ter base. In a letter received recently. dated nearly a month after the one re ceived tonight, the Canadian explorer had told in some detail of his plans, giving notice that be expected to stay In the North until 1918. and asked that no relief expeditions be contemplated before that time. The latest letter follows: "Near Hay Point. Victoria Island, Oct. 7, 1915. Dear Admiral Peary: 1 have you to thank for the highest com pliment you could have paid me. You have consistently expressed to the pub lic the opinion that we were alive and safe. I , take that to mean you be lieved I would not undertake anything in which I did not see a reasonably safe way out; In other words, you had confidence in my Judgment. iSext Spring we will have a better outfit of men and dogs than before and may therefore do somewhat better. I expect to go first to our new land. near where we struck .it (77 degrees north and 118 degrees west) snd then it will depend on the trend of the coast whether we follow it or take a more westerly course. I should like to reach 80 degrees north and 185 degrees west if convenient. I hope then to come east far enough north to have a look for your Crockerland. "From the account of MacMillan's trip 1 don't see that he has shown its absence. McClintock in 1S53 was within some 20 miles of the new land we have found, and did not see it. 1 have lived a part of the Winter at Cape Parry without seeing Ranks Island more than once, though the weather was often apparently clear. "December 17. 1915. The Ice that pre vented our getting farther north in Prince of Wales Straits this year with the Polar Bear was exceedingly heavy ice. several years old. "At the present writing my chief worry is the dogs' sickness. We have already lost several dogs and as the thing is clearly contagious, there is no telling where it will end. - "We are some 400 miles (as we have to travel) from 78 degrees north and 118 degrees west, where our real work begins, and if we are short of dogs 40 miles is a long way to haul dog and man feed. Of course, we can still use our rifles, but the value to us of our pemmican will be much rut down. "VILH.TALMt'R STK KAN'S SON." DRYS NOW FEAR HIATUS OREGOV CITY LEADERS CONFER OVER DANGER OF WET MONTH. Some Suggest That Importer Be Jailed Without Formality of Trial and Others Would Pour Out Liquor. OREGON CITY. Or, Nov. 24. (Spe cial.) Alarm over the possibility that before that final plunge into absolute prohibition Oregon may have one brief month of total freedom from laws reg ulating or prohibiting the importation of Intoxicating liquors, called Oregon City attorneys, ministers and leaders in the dry cause into conference today over the session laws of the 1915 Legislature and recent Supreme Court decisions. Opinion is divided, some maintaining that because of a conflict between the prohibition statute of the 1915 Legis lature and the new bone-dry amend ment to the constitution all iaw regu lating importation of liquor is wiped out. while others hold that it would still be possible to prosecute under the 1915 law. Chris Schuehel. City Attorney and a member of the Legislature which passed the prohibition law. contends that the bone-dry amendment has been a part of the constitution of the state since election day, basing his opinion on a Supreme Court decision. Rev. J. K. Hawkins, pastor of the First Methodist Church, and J. E. Jack, County Assessor, propose that the au thorities simply pour out all liquor as fast as it arrives in town. John W. Loder, member of the Clackamas county Committee of One Hundred and a leader in the recent campaign, sug gests that every person Importing more than two quarts of spirituous or 24 quarts of malt liquors be put In Jail for a day or two without legal procedure. FRANCHISE ISSUE HEARD Vancouver Councilmen Favor Grant ing Rights to Carllne. VANCOUVER, Wash., Nov. 24. (Spe cial.) A special meeting of the City Council was held at 3 o'clock today to consider, informally, the application of the Portland Railway. Light & Power' Company for permission to make a short loop at the Washington end of the bridge, eo that the cars could turn on property nearly all of which is owned or controlled by the company. The company Intends to build this loop around the substation on First street, between Main and Washington streets, and will use only about 100 feet of First street. Property owners and others would be pleased to have the company build up First to Main and up Main to Third, or at least Second street, and loop back, but F. I- Fuller, for the company, said frankly that the company has not the money to do so. and the loop proposed can be built for $3400. Other methods would cost up to $15,000. It would cost the North Coast Power Company, the local traction company, $11,069.23 to build from Third and Main streets to the end of the bridge, going by way of First and Main and down First to the bridge. H. L. Harries, gen eral manager of this company, said that the local company has lost money for two years or more, although each car Is now operated by one man. The consensus of opinion of the Council was that the company could not be compelled to build any farther uptown, and that they would probably grant the request of the company to loop on its own property. The Council adjourned to meet next Monday. How to Prevent Croup Give Chamberlain's Cough Remedy as soon as the child becomes hoarse, or even after the rough, cough appears, and the attack may nearly always be warded off and all danger and anxiety avoided. 3 PAIR TO BE HONORED GOLDEX WEDDING AND DOIBIK BIRTHDAY TO BE OBSERVED. Sumner Post and Relief Corps, Grand Army of Republic, to Pay Trib ute to Members. Two golden weddings and a double birthday will be celebrated at the meet ing of Sumner Post and Women's Re lief Corps. Grand Army of the Repub lic, at headquarters in the Courthouse tonight. Mr. and Mrs. 11. S. Fargo. whose 50th anniversary Is today November 25, and Mr. and Mrs. Henry Spalding, whose 60th anniversary also takes place this month, will be honored for the length of the wedlock; while Mr. and Mrs. John l oung will be hon ored on account of their birthdays. both of which are today. Mr. and Mrs. Young have been married more than 60 years. Mr. Fargo, one of the celebrants. Is a past department commander of the Grand Army of the Republic The programme includes numbers by the Grand Army of the Republic quar tet and songs by Miss Lillian Ward. Miss Maude Peterson will play piano selections. Readings will be given by Mrs. FOueidas K, Scott, a graduate of the Emerson School of Expression, of Boston. Spanish dances will be rendered by the Misses Watson. Joshua Stanneld. pastor of the First Methodist Church, will make a short talk, while W. T.'Kerr. chaplain of Sumner Relief Corps, will also make a few remarks. MOTHERS TO BE GOESTS DAY JVLT1SSERY WILL E.MERTAIX OX Tl'KSDAY MGHT. Programme Is Arranjted for Amiue mrnt and Recreation of Women IVhoMe Babe Are Cared For. Who ran to hp vnm whin I tV!I And would romu pretty utory tll. Or kiss the place to mako it well? My mother. The kind of a mother whom Ann Taylor wrote about, or, mont any rnohr In fnt, will b In mfnrl T'ifday -- Dress the Boys in Ben Selling's Suits and Overcoats Here's a lot of staunch, sturdy, stylish, new Norfolk Suits, with extra knickers. All the heavy, rough fabrics; some in fine, heavy serge. Knickers full lined, seams taped. A display of mighty good suits at a modest cost. Price $6.50 Stacks of nobby Overcoats looks like there was one here for every boy in town. Warm, well made and wearable coats that give a boy that manly feeling. See them today. Boys' Overcoats $6.50, $7, $8.50, $10, S12.50 Juniors' Overcoats $5 New Furnishings for Bovs, Suitable for Christmas Gifts SECOND FLOOR BEN SELLING MORRISON AT FOURTH night at the Pay Nursery. Twelfth and Main streets, when "Mothers' Night" will he the occasion for an evening of entertainment, designed to bring recre ation and amusement to mothers whose babes are charges at the nursery dur ing the das. There will he music and lots of It. and there will he hits of fascinating by-play that will recall to some proud mother how her own babe might mount a chair and recite: Hero I siHnd upon the mage. For to cut a figure. If von want to iiir a speech, vi'alt till I get biKKvr. and all such like. Rut the programme will be diversi fied and interesting- in other particu lars, because It is intended to make it a "night out" for the mothers who work. The patrons of the Fruit and Flower Mission, under whose auspices and care the Pay Nursery has been made to flourish, will give their personal at tention to the evening. These patrons, who number nme of the prominent women of Portland, w r mnklnir the Tuesday night programme an an ex periment, and if successful It wilt bo made a regular event. Anions those who will take part to night will he Miss Nona I-awlor and Miss Katherlne Hranden. who will !r: Mildred Keats and Owena Yolcott. who will dance: Jeane and Ann O'Reilly, who will play violin duets,- and Miss Marjtaret Ksrbert. who will contribute cntcrtainins? numbers. SAWMILL CENSUS STARTED Complete Information on Lumber Production to He Compiled. Census of the sawmills of the T'nited States Is beinsr made by the t'nited States Forestry Service in co-operation with the National Lumbermen's Asso ciation, with the purpose of obtaining complete information on the lumber production of the country. The new movement is on a more com- flOMAS DO Vo-jr- SHOPPING r0 0 iLr 9 READ OUR ADS- o plto and comprehonMv era! than any that has evor bofore been m.-le and in effect, the firt full census of the lumbfp production of the lnltc, State:. Portland. M isouln, Denver. Alhu qurtue. Oirden and Kan KrancJro are the cities from which the survey is to be made. Preliminary statistics will be Issued on the production in th princi ple species in all forms of lumber, and will re extended later to t ho I imbers of less Important varieties. Head The Ore-onlnn classified d IS5E3BJ WELL-KNOWN WHOLESALE JEWELER QUITS this TELLS WHY Holsman's Entire Stock FROM NEWS, FRIDAY, NOV. MUST WATCHES, DIAMONDS, JEWELRY E CLOSE OUT D AS LOW AS 33c ON THE DOLLAR War Forces Big Jewelry Company Out Because the war has made it impossible for the firm to fill Jewelry orders before the holi days, the I. llolsman Jewelry Company has decided to quit business. The firm has been lo cated in Portland for the past 11 years. Its offices and stock rooms are on the fifth floor of the Morpan building. Wholesale Jeweler Selling Out Entire Stock CENT JEWELRY CO. 294 Washington St. Near Fifth LOWEST PRICES EVER HEARD OF OUR MOTTO: ,voril MOSEY BACK IP YOD CAX BUY ELSE WHERE FOR LESS. New Jewelry Stock Sell in tr for Almost a Sonic, Come and See for Youraelf. Never Before and Never A ft a In Such Low 1'rlceH. 6.00 Solid Gold Laval- CJO AO lieres at 0it0 J6.00 Solid Gold Stickpins, set with genuine cut diamond, CQ AQ at only Di.tO $8.00 Brooches, set with dJO OQ extra large cameo 5JtO $7 Solid Gold Lavallleren. Cjo AQ set with genuine cameo.. Wui'lO $12.50 Solid Gold Brooches, set with large genuine tf QQ cameo, now '. wuiOJ $5.00 GenulneCaraeofo -I Q Lavallteres now Ht LJ $6.50 Solid Gold Lavallieres, set with genuine cut lla- CJO A Q mond, now wfcitO DIAMONDS SEE EYERY OUR "U ONE LOW GUAR- PRICES Sfe ANTEED On Small Deposit Wr Will Hold One Until brlatman. flO'Dlamond Kings S -4. OS $25 Diamond Rinprs $40 Diamond Rings IR 1.75 $60 Diamond Rings S-12.50 $75 Diamond Rings So2.. $15 Diamond Karrings.. .. .$ 7.05 ON THE JEWELRY FOR EVERYONE $1.00 Cuff Links or Tie o p- Clasps for OOC $2.00 Gold - Filled Brooches TO- at only lOC $2.00 Lavallieres at our low TQ price of lOC $2.00 Gold-Filled Knives atoo our low price of OOC $2.50 Gold-Filled Babynn Bracelets for OC $1.00 Solid Gold Emblems, f Q our low price 40C SILVERWARE Thousands of Bar gains v COME AND SEE FOR YOURSELF $10 Genuine Community JC QQ 26-piece set, complete... DJI70 $5.C0 Butter Dishes, ouro QQ low price O..Oi7 $1.50 values Cold Meat Forks. Berry Spoons, etc yourAQ choice for only "OC BRACELET WATCHES ""o"" $10 Gold Filled, guaranteed iu years. 10-Jewel move- d(" QQ ment. now Oui70 $15 and $20 Gold Filled, guaran teed for 20 years. 15- JJQ QC Jewel lever movement wtiOJ $25 Elgin, very size; our low price. $18 Genuine Elgin, guar- An QC inteed 20 years, our price Oi.OO Jio bolld Gold, 14-karat; ever movement; best little watch made, small A O O Lack of Space Doen Not Termlc 'm to Quote Prices on Lverjthin BUY NOW F0RXMAS Solid Gold Jewelry AT HALF PRICE AND LESS $3.00 Solid Gold Tlel in Clasp for. dlilS $4.00 Solid Gold Brooches, set with b i r t h stones, now g j 48 2.00 Solid Gold Mounted ?Q Stickpins for.... U JC $3.50 Solid Gold Cuff f Q Links, stiffened post.. . . . O 1 J7 $3.50 Solid Gold Laval- (1 A Q lieres for 01.40 f7.50 Solid Gold Lavallieres. set with genuine cameo, now 4 $3.50 Solid Gold Bbyi Q5 Locket and Chain.. OX iJJ $4.00 Genuine Cmeo f "752 Stickpins for witl O ii-Je wel. S17.88 CRESCENT JEWELRY CO, 294 Washington Street, Near Fifth li )