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TIIE MORNING OREGONIAN, TIIUIiSDAY. JANUARY 11, 1917. MRS. ALEXANDER IS -HEARD IN DEFENSE shani and Fundenl has forced the Rus sians and Roumanians across the Sc reth River, taking in the latter opera RAIDER MAY BE SUNK p!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 1 Watch for Our KRYPTOK Ad in Saturday Evening Post H tion ooo prisoners. There has also been severe fighting near the mouth of Riminik-Sarat River west of Galitz, and along the Kaseina River, in which both Berlin and Petro grad claim the advantage. Berlin re ports that the Russians attacked the heights along- the Suchitza Valley, but met with a sanguinary reverse. British Cruiser Said to Have Destroyed Enemy Craft. Experience in Educational Work for Last 18 Years Is Recounted Before Board. PUPIL'S WORK IS ISSUE Sister Assumes Responsibility . Jor Records at School and Another . Says She, Kather Than Prln- . . clpal, Chose Displays. Aside from the Russian and Rou manian theaters and an attack by Brit ish Indian troops against the Turkish line at the bend of the Tigris River, northeast of Kut-el-Amara, the fight ing in all the other , sectors has con sisted of bombardments and minor in fantry attacks. On the Tigris the In dians captured Turkish trenches over a front of 1000 yards. In one of the minor engagements on the . front in France the British east of Beaumont Hamel captured and held a German trench -and made three officers and 140 men prisoners. "William Graves Sharp, the American Ambassador to France, has been handed the reply of the entente allies to . President Wilson's peace sugges tions for transmission to Washington. A bored School Board .listened to the latest chapter of the Alexander hearing at the Courthouse last night. The audi ence was listless, too, during the great er part of the evening. Women in at tendance chatted amiably among them selves, while some napped briefly. Or der was called repeatedly by Chairman Beach so that the replies of witnesses could be heard. The Alexander serial has been run ning for months already, and the end is not yet. Like a moving-picture chain of installments, some of thai reels are more interesting than others. Last night's episode was voted rather dull. The next chapter will be ' seen tomor row night. Mrs. Alexander Tells of Experience. Mrs. Alexander, on the stand for a ahort time last night, told of her ex perience as a teacher, that covers 18 years. She started teaching in Eau Claire, Wis., where she was a principal for eight years. She was supervisor of kindergartens at Manitowoc, Wis., and taught in Idaho for a year and then came to Portland in 1908. She has taught here since; first in the Thompson school for two years, then in the Atkinson school for a like period. When the Girls" Trade School, now the Benson Polytechnic, was moved 1o Lownsdale and Morrison streets, she became principal there, a rosition she held until removed late last year. She was trained, she said, In the Eau Claire High School, where she was graduated in 1891, in the Jones Kin dergarten Training School, at Eau Claire, at the University of Wisconsin and in Summer schools. Mrs. Alexan der will continue her testimony tomor row night. Sister Takes ResnonMblUty. Mrs. Sarah Cadwell, sister of Mrs. Alexander, and her secretary at Ben son Polytechnic, told in detail of the keeping of records there. She as sumed responsibility for the school Eta tistics and said Mrs. Alexander did not have time to attend to them person ally. Mrs. Alexander has been accused of having given good grades to ab sentee pupils and of lax methods. Teachers at the Benson School, said Mrs. Cadwell, were "remiss in advising her of students who dropped out, so that they were not marked on the rec . ords as being dropped until some time after they had, in fact, left their classes in some instances. She said in one case a pupil who had left school was kept on the records by her teacher for a month after and got a class standing of 100 per cent dur ing that . time. Difficulty was experi- mced in getting correct records from the teachers, but it was stated Mrs. Al cxander had nothing to do with the records at all. Teachers, Not Principal, Select. Harsh weather of last January, she aid, was responsible for a consider able slump in attendance at the school. Teachers were made respon sible for exhibits prepared at the school for the San Francisco Exposi tion and Mrs. Alexander "had no direct supervision of them, it was stated. Mrs. L. E. Thomas, teacher in sewing, was recalled to the stand by the de fense to tell of the preparation of cer tain sewing exhibits sent to the fair. She said she chose the pupils to do the work, not Mrs. Alexander. It was contended that Mrs. E. Chalker, a pu pil, was an accomplished seamstress vho made a suit for display at the ex position and that her work hardly rep resented that of an inexperienced pu pil. Applause Greets Witness. 'Do you think it was right that her work should have been exhibited as that of a pupil?" asked Attorney Rob ert Maguire, who represents the School Board in the hearing. "What more could I have done?" re plied Mrs. Thomas. "I don't know of any more yon could have done, but I would rather suggest you might have done less," was the answer. "If you had an exhibit to make, Mr. Maguire, wouldn't you have made the hest showing you could?" asked. Mrs. Thomas. The answer aroused the audience and applause swept the room. 'It seems to be the contention that If anyone knows anything about sew ing she could not be a pupil," observed A. E. Clark, counsel for Mrs. Alexan der, and again applause burst out. Appeal Right Declared Lost. A motion to dismiss the appeal of the School Board to the Supreme Court from the decision of the recent man damus action in the Circuit Court favorable to Mrs. Alexander was filed Monday by her attorneys. It is set out as grounds for the action that the School Board has shifted ground in its contentions and that they are no longer tenable. First, it is held, the Board took the position that Mrs. Alexander was not a principal. When the Circuit Court decided she was entitled to be restored to her position, it Js held that the Board reversed its position, and Super intendent Alderman and the Board then filed charges to remove her from the Position of principal. It is alleged that the right of appeal has been lost by the action of the Board in filing charges subsequent to the decision of the Circuit Court on the mandamus action. Unofficial advices from Athens are to the effect that Greece will answer the entente allies' ultimatum in due time and that the Council of Ministers favors accepting its terms. . FOREMAN LOSES KENTUCK IXLET CASE DECIDED AGAIJiST SOCIALISTIC TEACHER. SEVERAL VESSELS LOST Action for 910,000 Damages From Mrs, Abe Anderson Attracts Whole District to Trial. MARSHFIELD. Or.. Jan. 10. (Spe cial.) Flora I. Foreman, socialist school teacher, notorious in many parts of Oregon for trouble in school affairs. lost her $10,000 damage suit against Mrs. Abe Anderson, of Kentuck Inlet, in the Coos County Circuit Court tonight. when the jury returned in two and one half hours, finding for the defendant. The case, owing to the Bchool troubles in the Kentuck Inlet district, was or much interest to citizens of the county, and nearly the entire population of the district was at the Courthouse, arrayed on one side or the other. Mrs. Foreman's suit was based upon gossip alleged to have been spread by Mrs. Anderson, who was wife of one of the school directors. Another cause leading up to the suit was the alleged beating which Mrs. Foreman said she sustained at the hands of Mrs. Abe Anderson when she went to collect her pay. Mrs. Foreman came to Marsh field to obtain medical attention, her face being severely lacerated and many bruises about her shoulders and arms were in evidence. Mrs. Anderson declared Mrs. Foreman was the acEressor. The affair was in vestigated by the Coos County grand jury, but it found no true bilL While the grand jury was in session and a large proportion of the citizens of the school district were at the county seat. Mrs. Foreman's home burned down at midnight and all her property was de stroyed. Nobody has been arrested for the incendiary act, although it was in vestigated by the grand jury. Mrs. Foreman is now engaged in the school at Broadbent, a station six miles from Myrtle Point. GILL WAITS INDICTMENT SEATTLE MAYOR. EXPECTS FED ERAL GRAND JCRY TO ACCUSE. Overdue Steamship YoTtalr Is Re ported at Bermudas After Es caping German Alexan drian Sunk, Is Report. ' NEW YORK. Jan. 10 Persistent r- ports that a German raider -was - met in the Atlantic and sunk by a British cruiser yesterday afternoon were cur rent in well-informed steamship cir cles. Details are lacking, as is the identity of the vessels engaged and the location of the encounter. coupled with these reports was a statement today by the Lamport & Holt line, owners of the overdue steamship Voltaire, that rumors had come to them that their vessel was in one of the ports of Bermuda. The officers of the line said they had heard that the Vol taire, after capture by a German raider. had been recaptured and taken to Ber muda, but that their Information was unofficial. The Voltaire was last reported to have left Liverpool on November 28 for New Tork. WASHINGTON, Jan. 10. Guarding against depredations by a mysterious German raider supposed to be hovering somewhere around the windward pas sage in the West Indies, the British colonial authorities have ordered the extinction of the lighthouse and navi gation lights in Carlisle Bay, Need- ham's Point, South Point, Barbadoes, Castries, St. Lucia, St. Georges, Gre nada, all Jamaica harbors; Nassau, Guadelupe and St. Johns. Antigua. The British legation at Panama, in, an nouncing this action, also warns ves sels not to enter Carlisle Bay at night. NEW ORLEANS. Jan. 10. The Ley- land line steamer Alexandrian has been torpedoed and sunk, presumably near the English coast, according to a tele gram received by the line's local of ficials today. The Alexandrian sailed from New England December 21 for Liverpool and carried about 7000 bales of cotton. In addition, to miscellaneous cargo. The Alexandrian, 4467 gross tons, carried a crew of about 45. The mes sage received said it was reported all the crew had been saved. LONDON, . Jan. 10. The British steamer Lorca has been posted at Lloyd's as overdue. The Lorca left Pensacola on October 21 and Norfolk on October 29. last, for Queenstown. She Is a vessel of 4129 tons gross, built at South Shields in 1910. The British steamer Andonl has been sunk, Lloyd's, Shipping Agency an nounced today. The Andoni was an Elder line steamer of 3188 tons gross." LONDON. Jan. 10. Lloyds announces the British steamer Baynesk, 3286 tons, has been sunk, and that the British steamer Lynfield. 3023 tons, Is reported to have been sunk. Witnesses Are Declared to Be Law breakers Who Are Trying to Get Revenee for Prosecution. SEATTLE, Wash., Jan. 10. (Special.) Mayor Hiram C. Gill said last night that he expected the United States Grand Jury, now in session here, to indict him as a result of its invest! ation of alleged violations of the Federal liauor laws. "I fully expect to be inatctea, ne said, "but I am not worried. At first I considered an indictment against me impossible; now I think it very proo able. "This bunch of fellows lawbreakers out out of business by me are now telling the Federal authorities a lot of rot that is reported to implicate me. They may tell conneciea enougu stories to convince the Grand Jury oi something, but no court will ever hold their evidence good, once it is sifted and the motive revealed. The whole gang is running to cover." Can you read that type and with the same glasses see distant objects clearly? MRS. OLIVE JJDURBIN DIES Widow of Isaac Durbin Passes Away at Salem at Age of 7 7. SALEM, Or., Jan. 10. (Special.) Mrs. Olive Kay Durbin, 77 years of age, died last night at her home in this city. She crossed the plains in 1872, coming from Illinois. In 1837 she was married to Isaao Durbin, who died about four years ago.' Isaac Dur bin was a brother of Solomon Durbin, one of the best known of the Willani ette Valley pioneers. Mrs. Durbin was a member of the Independent Evangelical Church. She is survived by two daughters, six grandsons and four great-grandchil dren. The funeral will be held at 2 oclock tomorrow afternoon from the residence in this city. FRENCH FRONT IS QUIET Rain Interferes With of Armies. Operations LAND OFFICE IS RUSHED The Dalles Officials Vnable to Keep Up With Applications. THE DALLES, Or., Jan. 10. (Spe cial.) The Land Office has become so over-rushed that it is now two days behind in keeping the records up with the entries. The rush Is increasing daily and Is assuming large proportions. Many ap plications are coming In from land com missloners In the Interior. BERLIN. Jan. 10. (By wireless to Sayville, N. Y.) Rain has Interfered with activities on the Franco-Belgian front, army headquarters announced In today's statement. PARIS, Jan. 10. There were no Im portant developments on the French front last night, the War Office announces. WAITER FIRST SUBSCRIBER Spokane Employe Buys 200 Shares of Stock in Farm Loan Bank. SPOKANE. Jan. 10.--Virgil Pittman, a waiter, became the first-stockholder in the Spokane District Federal Farm Loan Batik today by subscribing for Progress of the War. THE battle in Northwest Russia In the region of Riga apparently is growing in intensity, but owing to di vergent reports by the Berlin and Petrograd war offices, the results thus far attained are somewhat beclouded. While Berlin asserts that southwest of Riga all attacks by the Russians have been without success, Petrograd re ports t,snw near Lake Babit the Rus sians captured German positions be tween the Tirul marsh and the Rivei Aa and advanced their line about one and one-third miles southward. The Germans in the region of Kalnzem de livered a counter attack on the Rus slans, who Had occupied a position east of the village, but it was put down by the Russians. In the past six days in this region the Russians report the capture of 21 heavy and 11 light guns and large quantities of arms and equipment. German Field Marshal von Macken sen's army, operating in Southern Moldavia, has crossed the Putna River north of Fokshanl, and between Fok- Brown Funeral Held. The funeral of Harry G. Brown, late of Vancouver, B. C, was held yesterday at the chapel of J. P. Finley & Son, Rev. W. J Beaven officiating. Miss Alice D. Juston and Norman A. Hoose sang. Pallbearers were Phil Patrick, N. H. Keck, Dell Moore, W. Taggert, A. Dolson -and George Finney. Inter ment was made at Riverview Cemetery. Mr. Brown is survived by his wife, Mrs. Pauline Brown, of Vancouver, B. C. 10 w I E N T S The advice "given by the Council of the Par ent - Teacher Associa tion is worth follow ing. It points to better liv ing for less, just as the large Holsum Loaf provides more and better bread than two small ones. tLoGCABtri . Baking Co IF you cannot, then you need COLUMBIAN KRYPTOK (pronounced Crip-tock) Glasses the invisible bifocals which combine near and far vision in one crystal-clear lens. COLUMBIAN KRYPTOK Glasses enable you to adjust your vision from printed page to distant view, instantly. . You see everything as clearly and distinctly as with the eyesight of youth. 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Pielow, proprietor of a transfer com pany, pleaded guilty today to several counts In indictments returned against them by the Federal grand Jury, charg ing violation of the Federal liquor laws by importation of large quantities of liquor Into the state of Washington from California. Sentence was deferred in each case. It is said semi-of f Icially that the four men will be used as witnesses against men yet to be Indicted and who are al leged to have permitted the importa tion and sale of liquor by the Billings leys. Proceedings in the Federal in vestigation of the liquor transactions have been at a standstill owing to the refusal of the Billingsleys to accept the terms of the United States District At torney's office. Training School Paper Out. SALEM. Or.. Jan. 10. Special.) A neat 16-page monthly. "The Training School Monitor." has appeared from the presses of the State Training School. All of the work is done by the boys at the school in the school printshop. Aberdeen Librarian Named. ABERDEEN', Wash., Jan. 10. (Spe cial.) Miss Lillie Lilliequist, of Spo kane, has been appointed librarinn of --dl-.. - Q I t- - Rl o THE HAM WHAT AM In the Stockinet Covering An txrluriri Armour ftatur. . Paitnt applied Jar. Armout's fte". The famous Armour cure imparts to Star Ham all the high qualities of taste and flavor; smoking in the Stockinet Covering retains all the goodness. The re sult is the ham that sat isfies the last bite as good as the first, AR MOU R'AcOM PANY Charles M. Soramer. Mr, 13li and Klaadea St... Portland. Or. FhoM Mala 781. Order a Whole Star Ham from Tour Dealer Today ana! YtUtu) Oval Sign on jfoar dalr' iter front. the Aberdeen public library in place of Miss Ida L. Rhinehart. who recently resigned. She is a graduate of the University of Washington and also of the Spokane High School. More Pledge Allegiance. LA GRANDE, Or., Jan. 10. (Special.) Uncle fiam'e family has grown by about a dozen as the result of citi zenship papers Issued today by Judge Knowles. The following were admit ted after taking the oath upon a flag for that special purpose: Emil Ntederer, formerly of Switzerland; Rudolph Becker, formerly of Germany: Daniel Tanner, formerly of Great Britain; Adrlph Chrlstman, formerly of Switz erland; Francis O'Connor, formerly of Great Britain; Norman Desilet. form erly a subject of Canada: John Pat rick Donovan, of Great Britain. Rend The Oreeonlan classified nds. COPPER AND ALUMINUM Yw- kitchen nieniiili take on a s ' L"Frr cAeerful newneMwben . v i"o or ikTiL ini.icir Th Wfnrlr nrr!n9 M a.fu - .4 . l . 11 , I V EcL- 1 Two .ire Mm mi a)) Ciroorrr. Hrtwr 1 '"'T lktrtarkataaaaa. EXCURSION RATES EAST January 20 and 21 NORTHERN PACIFIC RY. The Yellowstone Park Line To ST. PAUL, and Return, $60.00 To MINNEAPOLIS, and Return, $60.00 To CHICAGO, and return, $72.50 To ST. LOUIS, and return, $70.00 Return limit February 18. Stopovers permitted in both directions. Take advantage of these low fares. Ask about the diverse return routes. Full information, tickets, berth reservations City Ticket Office, 233 Morrison St. Phones: Main 214, A 1244 A. D. Charlton. A. G. P. A., Portland, Or.