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THE MORNING OREGONIAN, FRIDAY, JANUARY 5, 1917. II PUPILS KILLED III OKLAHQMATORNADO Frame Schoolhouse Wrecked and Bodies of Dying Are 4 Blown Across Ravine. TEACHER'S JAW IS BROKEN Of 23 Children in Building, Only !Tvo Escape TTnliurt One Father loses Three Farmhouses S Carried From Foundations. StTJSKOOEK. Okla.. Jan. 4. Eleven school children were killed, four prob ably fatally hurt and eight seriously Injured when a tornado wrecked the Vireton rural schoolhouse, 13 miles northwest of McAlester, shortly before noon today. The one-room frame schoolhouse in which were 28 children was shattered by the tornado, every child except two being- killed or injured, according to reports received by telephone. Runners dispatched from the scene of the disaster in Southeastern Oklahoma to Blocker, Okla., seven miles away, reporetd the disaster. Father Lose Three Children. One father Is said to have lost his three children. Two girls by the name cf Warren, two others of the Davis lamily and a fifth, daughter of B. War ren, a farmer, are known to be dead. As soon as reports of the storm were received at Blocker virtually all the town's 131 inhabitants departed for the Bcene. Reports tt deaths in other local ities appear to be unfounded. The school building, a Baptist Indian mission and four farmhouses were wrecked and a half dozen other farm houses were lifted from their founda tions in the storm which swept a nar row path for a distance of six miles. Miss Vera Carter, the schoolteacher. Sustained two compound fractures of the jaw and was badly cut about the face and head. Dying Children Hurled Across Ravine. The storm struck first at Richville, seven miles southwest of Vireton, in I'ittsburg County, in Southeastern Oklahoma, wrecking a boiler-room and tipple at one of the coal mines, then lifted and did no further damage until within a fourth of a mile of the school building. Dying and injured school children were hurled down a hillside and across a ravine, some of them being picked up as far as a hundred yards from the cite of the building. Timbers, some of them whole sections of the walls, were scattered a distance of 200 yards. Only two children of the 28 in the building, Fred Perry and Ralph Brum nrett, escaped uninjured. FAIRVIEW GIRLS WHO WERE IN FATAL ACCIDENT AT LINNE MANN JUNCTION YESTERDAY, ONE HAVING BEEN KILLED AND ONE SERIOUSLY INJURED. ' - FORCED ACTION OH PEACE IS RESISTED Senators Are Warned Against Leap Tnto Dark in Inter national Affairs. EARLY VOTE IS REFUSED Defender of Administration's Policy Says It Is Only Natural One Side or Other Should Mis interpret Intention. things by too much adherence to the letter; but if the President of the United States is to be adjudged by precedents, then there must be truth to .the historical facts that men may be Judged truthfully and Justly." Arena at Ions Only Natural. Turning to the criticism that the note had been construed as favorable to Germany, Senator Lewis said: , . . I can hardly Imagine any document In a crisis like this that would not re ceive Jts construction from one side or another. There are always those interests from one viewpoint or the other. Surely there can be no expres sion from the President of the United States in a matter so grave as this, but that those interested would readily draw from It a construction and thus indulge 'the construction by making accusations. But Yt all tbat be true, shall that defeat the purpose merely because there might arise a construc tion of conduct on the part of those who find it gratifying to themselves Indulge II?" t DEAD MONK IS ASSAILED RCSSIAXS COMMENT ON RASPUTIN'S SINISTER INFLUENCE. AT LEFT MISS ROSALIND LtSCHER, WHO WAS BADLY INJURED. AT RIGHT LILY LUSCHER, WHO WAS KILLED. GIRL DIES IN CRASH Estacada Vehicle Hits Auto at Linnemann Junction. CARS SLIDE AFTER STRIKING Wrecked Machine Carried 200 Feet, Although Train la Checked at Once Sisters, Unaccompa nied, Driving to Funeral. (Continued From First Page.) . INVESTIGATION OF WATERWAYS ADVOCATED BY PRESIDENT. Amendment Embodying Plan to Co ordinate Works to ie Attached to Flood Control or Harbor Bill. WASHINGTON, Jan. 4. President Wilson indicated definitely today that the Administration will favor the crear tion at the present session of Congress of a commission to investigate plans for co-ordinating as far as possible all Governmental -work connected with the interior waterways of the Nation, Including river improvements, drain age, irrigation and flood control. Details of the plan were discussed by the President yesterday with Chair man Sparkman, of the House rivers and harbors committee, and today with Sec retary Baker, Senator Newlands and 'Chairman Fletcher, of the Senate com merce committee. The proposal is to have the commission composed of the Secretaries of War, Commerce, Agriculture and Interior and three civilian engineers appointed by the President. It was decided that an amendment embodying the plan should, be at tached either to the flood-control bill which has passed the House and is sending in the Senate, or the rivers and harbors appropriation bill, which will be reported soon by the House rivers a-nd harbors committee. RECORD 10 BE EXPUNGED JtDCE TAZWELL ORDERS MRS SPRINGER'S NAME OFF LIST. Stellgloua Feeling Said to Have Incit ed Commitment of Madras Woman for Insanity.. Records of the County Court dealing with the commitment of Mrs. Winnie Springer to the State Hospital at Sa lem in January, 1915, will be expunged as the result of a decision made yes terday by County Judge Tazwell. The Judge declared that the records were defective and incomplete as they stood and on that ground based his action. Evidence was also brought forward by W. T. Hume, attorney for Mrs. Springer, to show that she was not Insane. Mrs. Springer, who is the wTfe of C. G. Springer, principal of the school at Madras, Or., was committed to th State Hospital on January 8 and was there until May 31, 1915. The charge was made that relatives had sent here there in order to get he away from certain religious teachings which she is said to have been taking up. She declared on the witness stand that she was thrown into the County Jail with no charges preferred against her. Dr. Sandford Whiting and Dr. Curtis Holcomb examined her for insanity previous to her commitment. Motorcar President Is Suicide. CINCINNATI, Jan. 4. Frank J. En ger, president of the Enger Motorcar Company, of this city, shot and killed himself while in his oitice at the mo ' tor coracanr's- factory tonight. Mr. Knger is said to have been in ill health for months. He was as years old. Only One "BROMO QUININE." To t the renulne. call for full name. LAXA TIVE BROMO QUININE. Look for signature cf E.W.OROVE. Cures a Cold In One Day. 2Sc. ELL-ANS Absolutely Removes Indigestion. Onepackage 1 :t. rer j n j i proves iu ocat au druggists. known last night who would place Mr. Lrnnan la nomination. t-harter members of the board say that this will be the first annual elec tion that has presented a contest. always before the name of only one man has been presented. Thus far H. L. Idleman. George En glehart and Fred W. German are the only names mentioned prominently for the vice-presidency, but other names will undoubtedly be brought forward today. The re-election of Paul A. Cowgill, executive secretary for the past two years, and W. A. Barnes, re cently chosen treasurer following the resignation of Samuel R. Norton, seem assured. In addition to the nominating speech es and the election the board's time will be taken up this noon with annual reports of both" officers and commit tees. CASE IS WON BY HOME edy, Richard Forbes, whose home ad joins the right of way, and Mrs. C E. Cook, who was Just leaving the Forbes home when. the crash occurred. These two say that, apparently. neither the young women nor the mo; torman had time to avert the col- ision. The automobile was pushed and rolled before the train, a portion of the wreckage being forced beneath the first car, where.lt severed the air con nections. Despite this, which instantly ut on the emergency brakes, the heavy cars slid for a distance of 200 feet. The combined weight of the two cars is about 90 tons. Vle-rr Is Obstructed. There was no crossing bell," said Deputy Coroner Smith, after his In vestigation, "but obstructions of the view undoubtedly contributed to a large extent. On the north side of the track there is an obstruction of the east view, owing to a high embank ment, and at the end of the embank ment is placed a 30-foot billboard, which continues the obstruction. Trav elers have a view of only about 100 feet of the tracks until they are within 30 feet of the grade, owing to these obstructions. As soon as word of the accident was received In the Portland Railway, Light & Power Company general offices B. F. Boynton, claim agent, hastened to Linnemann Junction. 'The crossing where the accident oc curred is several hundred feet east of the station, said Mr. Boynton, and a station whistle was blown by the mo torman as he approached it. Mr. Smith, the motorman, has been In the service 13 years, and is one of the best men we have. He has a reputation for cau tion and good judgment. It is apparent from his statement that the auto driven by the young women dashed out from behind the signboard at a rate of speed that could not be checked when they saw the train. As the auto reached the grade the train was almost on top of It, not more than eight or 10 feet away. I do not think that the train could have been making more than 20 to 25 miles an hour. The impetus of those heavy cars is tremendous, and. al though the air-lines were cut by the wreckage, the train slid on its locked wheels for a distance of 200 feet. do not see how our crew is In any way to blame. A singular coincidence exists In that. at almost the exact time of the tragedy, a talk on the dangers of the grade crossing was being made by Frank J Miller, chairman of the Oregon Public Service Commission, before a meeting of the Commonwealth Conference at the Hotel Multnomah. An Inquest will be held tonight at 8 o'clock at the offices of the Coroner in the public morgue building. Deputy Coroner bmith stated that the dan serous signboard, which belongs to Portland advertising firm, will be dls cussed with the County Commissioners without delay, with a view to Its 1m mediate removal. COURT DENIES DAMAGES TO MARY E. O'NEILL, EX-EMPLOYE. Person Circuit Judge Dnslcy Holds) Working for Charitable Institu tion -Cannot Recover. An employe of a charitable Institu-1 result. Mnn cannot recover, damages for In-1 'In 1812, juries received as the result of negll when there was war be tween the United States?" and England, gence on me pari ol mai. mwiua tor notwithstanding the fact that Rus its heads. , ia at that time was in an alliance This Is the substance of an opinion I with England. England declined her rendered yesterday by Judge George offices, and the Senator will recall that R -Rnirlpv- of Hillaboro. who is sitting sir James xucintosn announcea mat ELECTION RAGE IS HOI REALTY BOARD TO CHOOSE PRES IDENT AT NOON TODAY. Frank L. McGuire, Frank MeCrilll. and L. W. Cronan Yet In Contest and Rsult Is Problematical. The crystal dining-room of the Hotel Benson today noon will be the scene of the most spirited political battle i the history of the Portland Realty Board, the members of which must choose between Frank L. McGuire, Frank McCrillis and L. W. Cronan for the presidency of the organization. All day yesterday conferences were held between the candidates and thei campaign managers with the idea arranging the withdrawal of all three candidates in favor of a compromise candidate, but this compromise move ment failed. Clarence R. Hotchkiss has been, selected to present the name of Mr. McGuire. and O. V. Badley will nominate Mr. McCrillis. It was not WASHINGTON. Jan. 4. The Ameri can note to belligerent powers suggest ing a discussion of peace terms was de bated a train lnthe Senate, but two hours of attack and defense failed to brine- to a vote the Hitchcock resolu tion indorsing President vmson a ac tion in sending it. The resolution will come up tomorrow, with the prospect of further antagonistic speecnes ny re publicans. . An effort bv Senator Hitchcock to se cure unanimous consent for a vote late tomorrow failed on objection by sen ator Brandesree. Senator Stone, chairman of the ror- eisrn relations committee, with whom President Wilson consulted two days ago, spoke briefly, saying the news had gone forth to the world tnat tne -resi dent's note was under discussion and that the Senate should consider and act on it at once. Senator Galllnger, the Republican leader, replied with a warn ing that any attempt to force action would not be met witn approval. Leap la Dark Deprecated. The principal speeches today were made by Senator Lewis. defended the President's action, and by Senator Lodge, who, concluding his attack be gun yesterday, declared Adoption or ine resolution would be a leap in the dark into international negotiations with which Congress had no legal concern and no knowledge. Senator Lewis answered In detail the criticisms of the Massachusetts Senator. Replying to the assertion that the note had been taken as a favorable move for Germany, he said, it was only nat ural that one side or the other to such controversy should so Interpret move for peace and declared that this was no reason to defeat so great an end. He strongly dissented from the view expressed by Mr. Lodge that the adoption of the resolution would mean the dragging of the United States into European politics, with danger to the Monroe Doctrine and important Demo cratic policies, and accusedthe Massa chusetts Senator of incorrectly reciting history to put a Democratic President in a bad light. Good Offices Tendered. This note,' said Senator Lewis, on its very face merely tenders the good offices. When good offices are ten dered It is not customary, though per missible, first to sound out the par ties. The contrary course often Is adopted, lest those involved averse to peace would be busy to Intercept its in Denartraent No. 5 of the circuit Court in the absence of Judge Gatens. The opinion was given in the case brought by Mary E. O'Neill-against the Oddfellows' Home of Oregon, in which he demanded $10,025 damages for per sonal Injuries which she declares she the reason was that Russia tendered herself as mediator and not her good offices; In 1838 the United States Instructed Its Minister at Paris to acquaint the French government of the readiness of the President to afford assistance In sustained while in the employ of the his good offices to bring an end to home. According to the complaint, sne me guniniverajr ueiwoen x- rnc uu fell from a stepladder November 11, Mexico, mu wunuui any previous no tail ..Anlvlnir ft nua Inlnrlea. into lu eiuier priy ur iu mcir aiuuhs i .V.... n. hi. niaintiff nnmmcd ladors. The President said he would last night that the decision would be feel no delicacy In tendering his good appealed to the Supreme Court. offices and was only then deterred by The case came UP for argument be- muwiuuist, wmi. nio o"in euoru fore Judge Bagley yesterday on a mo- ment naa oiierea mediation. tion on the pleadings. I Civil .War Held Not Precedent. Judge Bagley's judgment for the de- The rejection by the United States of fendant was based upon the Supreme j tenders by Great Britain and France to Court's decision in tne case oi nui end the Civil War, Senator Lewis said, versus Tualatin Academy, ine juage was in no wise a precedent. further held that such a charitable cor- I "When the Civil War was on," he con poration did not come under the em-1 tinued, "England had already given in plovers' liability act. ' dications of her willingness to aid th South in the success ol secession. She had .TtAnflMl rtrktrl rtr M v-mna t ri I jk. a n A ANTI-TOXIN SHOCK DEADLY her approval She therefore was no " I longer neutral. Her attitude was known to our Government. It was not a ten Injection oi serum in isoy is fol lowed by Death. SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 4. Two uni versity professors. Dr. William Ophuls, of Stanford University, and Dr. A. M. Rush, of the University of California, were called In by the Board of Health here today to investigate the death of Tommy Pinnington, six years old. who died yesterday au minutes alter an injection of diphtheria anti-toxin, ut. H. L. Curtis, of the Board of Health, made the Injection. According to Dr. Wnliam C. Hassler, Health Officer, death was due to ana phylactic shock, which is said to oc cur with fatal results not more than once In 10.000 cases. An autopsy report of Doctors Ophuls and Rush bore out Dr. Hassler's diag nosis that death was caused by shock due to Injection of the serum. I COUNTY PAYMENT SOUGHT Residents Objection to Assessment for Viaduct to Be Up. At the request of City Commissioner Dieck'the Board of County Commis sioners will decide at a meeting today whether or not the county will provide funds from the Interstate bridge fund to pav a part of the cost of construct ing the Union-avenue viaduct, which forms a part of the . approach to the bridge. Property owners along Union avenue and neighboring parallel streets have been assessed for the cost of tne work. They have protested to the City Coun cil against being charged the full amount. k V - School to Give Play, i .. ."The Village Lawyer" will be present ed this afternoon and tonight at the Brooklyn school auditorium by the Alumni Association of the school. Among those in the cast are Herbert Pippy. Alice DeMent, Kalpn Wood, Geneva Robertson, T. Gerde, Alexander Robertson. Guy Travis, Delora Jeffer son. Clarence Wood, Helen Plppy and Margaret Mollner. Ralph Wood is diJ recting the production. t Gresham Family Has Reunion. GRESHAM, Or.. Jan. 4. (Special.) The Metzger lamny neia its annual re union on New Year's day in the Grange hall, where, after the business ses sion, an interesting programme was given. Officers were re-elected as fol lows: President, J.- E. Metzger; secre tary. George W. Page: treasurer. Miss Elsie Metzger. The meeting was at tended by 47 members of the family. der of their good offices. It was an offer to mediate. They tendered them selves, both France and England, to mediate and themselves offered th terms of peace between the States.' "So far as 1 am concerned, he added, 'I am not much interested whether the President of the United States con formed to precedent or whether he did not. Of all offenses that have been committed against liberty in America, it has been that idolizing of preceden which has no application to modern events and which slays the spirit of HlKh Personages, Ia-ludlna: Several Mlaiatera, Declared to Have Been Debtors for Patronage. . PETROGRAD, Jan. 3, via London, Jan. 4. A more lenient press censor ship has allowed the newspapers here to publish all conceivable versions of the story of the death of the monk, Gregory Rasputin, some of them dec orated with the dramatic touches and colorings of an Arabian Nights adven ture. Comment also is made freely on the life and influence of the dead monk. It is said that Professor Milu koff and Vladimir N. Purishkevich. vice-president of the Union of True Russians, have received numerous tele grams of appreciation for their action in being first to call the attention of the country forcibly to the evil influ ences at work, chief of which is de clared to have been that of Rasputin. The Bourse Gazette, however, derides the tendency to exaggerate Rasputin's importance In Russian politics, and says that it is a mistake to regard him, as symbolic of conditions in the country or consider his fall as a Chang lng point in the history of the na tion. The Rech discusses Rasputin's influence over important officials and names persons, including several mm lsters. who not only owed their ap pointment to the monk's patronage but were in daily contact with mm, seek lng his advice. "His counsel was asked in every mat ter." says the Rech. "and nobody was ashamed to receive from his hand what they wanted to get. But the main thing is not Rasputin himself, but the conditions which made his career possible and allowed such a man to play such an exceptional part. His role was such, in short, that It made it necessary for every resolution recent ly adopted In the Duma to contain the phrase 'dark forces." " TWINE COMBINE PROBED X7NITED STATES LAWS DO NOT COVER ACTION BY MEXICANS. Department of Juatlfe, However, May Consider Connections of American Bankers With Yaratan. WASHINGTON, Jan. 4. High prices of sisal, the binder twine hemp con trolled by the Commission Reguladora. a Yucatan Corporation, was taken up at a conference today between Sec retary Redfield, Chairman Hurley, of the Federal Trade Commission, and Charles D. Orth.'of New York, a dealer In hemp. Later they went to the De partment of Justice. Yucatan sisal provides more than 89 per cent of the binder twine used In the United States and the great in crease in price during the last two years has cost American farmers mil lions of dollars. The Commission Reguladora Is Mexican corporation and so far the United States Government has found no means of curbing its activities. American bankers, however. have financed the monopoly and there are intimations that the Department of Justice, if it takes up the question, will consider their connection. Liquor Law Violator Fined $50. SEATTLE, Wash.. Jan. 4. H. F. russner. oi curiington. wash., was fined (00 and 'costs here yesterday for having taken' out two liquor permit within the state In 20 days. The first permit was obtained in Skagit County, Kussner's home connty. March 6. and the second here in King County March 20. This is - the first conviction foi violation of that 'section of the state prohibition law providing that no per son shall be allowed to obtain more than one permit in 20 days for the ship ment of liquor into the state. Read The Oregonian classified ads. Every Every Every Every yir iff SUIT Reduced COAT Reduced DRESS Reduced BLOUSE Reduced A wonderful collection of all that is newest in ready-to-wear apparel excellent examples of the authenticity of Lipman. Wolfe Fashions. Models that so closely follow the advanced modes for Spring that you can't possibly make a mistake in anticipating your Spring needs in this sale. Stilts selling regularly from $32.50 to $85.00 Now special $26.75 to $63.75 Coats selling regularly from $20.00 to $75.00 Now special $16.85 to $59.50 Dresses selling regularly from $15.00 to $75.00 i . Now special $11.85 to $59.50 Blouses selling regularly from $1.00 to $17.50 Now special 89c to $15.65 Third Floor 4 c7"MercK-nd.t cf cS Merit Only Our New Optical Department has been specially installed on the second floor, under the. personal direction of Dr. E. M. Dallas, . whose high-class work in this line has been favorably known to the Portland public for many years. ' Appointments by phone. Main 6417. or Marshall 5000. H 2222. Second Floor January Clearance Sale Genuine Reductions on Infants' Girls' and Boys' Furnishings READ THESE TYPICAL BARGAIN'S MANY UNADVERTISED Children's 50c and 60e Outing Sleepers and Gowns, 2 to 6 years.. 39c" Infants' Flannel Skirt and Pinning Blankets. 75c and 85c ones..48 51.25 and $1.50 ones, 98f; $1.85 -to $2.50 kind $1.48 35c to 45c Fay Stockings, black only, all sizes 19 23c to 50c Pink. Blue and Tan Hose, all sizes 19 Boys' Blouses and Shirts one great lot, 50c to $1.25 kind 39 Clearance Children's Wool Underwear, 50c to 65c vests and pants 39 85c to $1.25 vests, pants, 69; 30c to 40c cotton vests, pants 2o Attend Today and Every Day. Member Greater Portland Association Outfitters y- CntldreiVy 143 Sixth St. H opposite gj Meier & j Frank. Q 'Tve':: Got the . Goods'9 e Tailored to Measure My enormous stock of fine merchant tailor's woolens which I bought before prices went "high," enables me to make for you now just as you Vant it a Suit or Overcoat . ts18: ; While the Woolens Last What's Mine Is Yours Folks: I am happy this January because hundreds of well-dressed men who know a dollar from rim to center, who know which side the eagle's on and where the lady is located, also will know where to find my ' tailor shop during the year 1917. This is the closest you'll ever come to "getting something for nothing; yet my usual high standard of workmanship, regular linings and a coat front guaranteed not to break or pucker, go with every order. So what's the "joy" in paying about this much for a "store suit" made for no one in par ticular? - A small deposit today will re serve your favored pattern for future delivery. Ray Barkhurst Portland's Leading Tailor Sixth at Stark Street