K VOL; LVI. NO. 17,529. PORTLAND, OREGON, ritlDAY,' JANUARY 2G, 1917. PRICE FIVE CENTS. 2-YEAR TERM GIVEN CLEAN BILL GIVEN ELECTION CALLED OVER $300 LOT OWNER OF REJECTED SITE FOR FTREHOUSE TAKES ACTION. REOLIGHT OPTIONS CLOSED IN VAST TIMBER DEAL TAX ON LAND IN IS CRITICISED IDAHO REGIMENT GRANT AREA AIM TO ASK VOICE IN FATE HIGHER SCHOOLS SENATE IXVESTIGATEfG COM- REPRESENTATIVE BEAN TO IN MITTEE FILES REPORT. TRODUCE BILL TODAY. WOMEN MUCH ALDERMAN y v Action Is Opposed by S. P. Lockwood. DELAY OF MONTH IS URGED Women Want Time to Present Case Against School Head. MRS. C. A. HART IS SPEAKER Two-Group Plan, Advocated by Mr. Alderman, Also Authorized Over Mr. Lockwood's ProtestOther Officials Are Re-elected. L. R. Alderman, superintendent of Portland schools, was re-elected yester day by the School Board for a two year term, dating from the expiration of his present contract on June SO. D. A. Grout and C. A, Rice, assistant superintendents, and R. H. Thomas. school clerk, also were re-elected for a like term. There was no change inlfIcial3 to explain their action, salaries in any of the four offices. The vote for the re-election of Mr. Alderman and his assistants was over- whelming. O. M. Plummer made the motion ana there was but one vote against It, that of S. P. Lockwood, who a year ago, when Superintendent Alder man was re-elected for a one-year term. voiced the most bitter opposition to his continued tenure in office. Mr. Lockwood Stands Alone. Director Lockwod again announced btmself as against the retention of Mr. Alderman as head of the Portland school system at yesterday's meeting. After a short talk, however, he gained no support and voted alone in the negative. Mrs. Charles A. Hart, one of a group of Irvington women who were present, asked the board If she might be heard at the conclusion of Mr. Lockwood's remarks, which were met with some applause from these women. The re quest was unusual, as the Directors are vested with the sole right to choose a city superintendent. However, the Directors gave her the right to speak, and she asked that the election be delayed one month and that notice be given of the date chosen. The request was not given further consideration by the board Plea for Delay Denied. Mrs. Hart said. afterward she wanted the election delayed so that a show lng might be made In opposition to the retention of Superintendent Alder man. However, as the meeting broke up, a number of the women present wished Mr. Alderman success. The motion by Director Plummer, seconded by Dr. Alan Welch Smith, for the re-election of Superintendent Al derman brought a quick note of opposi tion from Director Lockwood. "I was opposed to the re-election of Mr. Alderman a year ago, and said so at that time," he declared. "Every thing I said at that time has been con firmed. In my own mind, in our experi ence since. "I believe that when a large per cent of the community is opposed to any man, whether he be a good man or not. he is not suited to a position such as this. . Two-Group Piatt Adopted. It is a well-known fact that a large percentage of the community do not give their confidence to the superin tendent. So far as I am concerned, I shall vote against his re-election at this or any other time." Mr. Lockwood also moved that the election be postponed for one month, In accord with the request of Mrs Hart, but he received no second. Di rectors Beach, Plummer, Smith and Drake voted for the re-election and Mr, Lockwood against it. Director Lockwood also saw his hopes blasted yesterday when he tried to defeat the adoption of the two group plan in Portland schools. He alone opposed the plan, and the vote was four to one In favor of it. Su perintendent Alderman was directed to establish this system in such schools as he shall see fit. Plans call for the new mode of operation In 18 schools, to become effective at the beginning of the new semester. Flan Declared Llfe-Saver. By means of the two-group plan, as it is called here, time is saved for the teaching sian. ir. nas Deen in eiiect in some of the city institutions, and it has been found that 510 out of the 1420 minutes of the school week can be saved in a school where it is put Into operation. Superintendent Alderman submitted figures yesterday to show that $20,900 can be saved In a year by adopting the system in the 18 schools where change is desired. Under the two-group plan, a teacher hears one class recite while another is preparing its lesson and the work of teachers is taken over in part by su pervisors. Under the bid plan a teacher handled as many as 10 subjects, in all of which she could not be expected to be proficient. Charts were shown the Board that indicated gains ini efficiency In two- group schools of 15 per cent and more. and at the same time greater economy was urged for it. This point was objected to by Di rector Lockwood. He gave figures Concluded oa Fae 0. Column 4.) Major Martin, Chief Mustering Of ficer, Arrives at Request of Colonel to Give His O. K. BOISE. Idaho. Jan. 25.- (Special.) The second Idaho Regiment and the United States Army officers in charge of its demobilization at the Boise Bar racks here were given a clean bill of health by the Senate Investigating committee of the Legislature when it filed its report today. . Simultaneously with the filing was the arrival In the city of Colonel J. B. McDonald, Inspector-General of the Western Division of the War Department, who is here at the request of Major Amos Martin, chief mustering officer, to inspect the regi ment and barracks "for the good of the service." Major Martin made the request for his official stamp of approval because of the action taken by the Legislature and charges made about the sanitary conditions, deaths, food, etc., at the post. FAIR CANDIDATE MAY SUE Woman Declares Husband Counted Her Out of Contest for Constable. DAVENPORT, Wash.. Jan. 25. Mrs. Chris Lyse, who claims to have been elected constable of Govan by a. vote of four times that of her nearest .' ponent but who was unable to qual ify because of the election board re turns showing the election of a man. says she may require the election of- A peculiarity of the case Is the fact that one ot tne election officials, the presiding judge, was her husband. Tno actual complexion of the vote waa made known last week, when the legislative committee counted the entire ballot of Lincoln county to de cide a legislative seat. Mrs. Lyse has consulted authorities to ascertain her rights in the case. In anticipation of some action of that kind, Frank Kiner, who was declared elected, also has failed to qualify. CASCADE COUNTY DEBATED Oregon City and Estacada Delega tions Speak Before Committee. STATE CAPITOL. Salem, Or., Jan. 25. -(Special.) Proponents of the pro posed Cascade County presented their pleas before the House committee on counties and a crowd of nearly 1000 persons tonight. Walter Givens was the principal spokesman. Opposing him were O. D. Eby and a big delegation of Oregon City people, who want Clackamas Coun ty to remain undivided. Estacada is to be the county seat of the new county If the Legislature cre ates it. PRIESTS TO GET CHANCE American Intervention Obtains Fair Trial for Accused Pair. WASHINGTON. Jan. 25. Represen tations by the United States for a fair trial for two Mexican priests sentenced to death at Zacatecas on charge of aid ing Villa have been successful. The American Embassy in Mexico City has been informed that as a re suit they will not be tried under a law which gives them no opportunity for defense. ARIZONA RECOUNT IS ON New Phase of Gubernatorial Contest Begins In Court. PHOENIX. Ariz., Jan. 25. The Arl zona Gubernatorial contest entered new phase today, when the recount of the ballots was begun in Judge Stan ford's division of the Superior Court. One hundred and fifty-seven ballots had been counted before adjournment, 15 of which were alleged defective by one side or the other, and laid aside for judicial determination. PRECEDENT IS SMASHED President Wilson Walks Over to Treasury to See Mr. McAdoo. WASHINGTON. Jan. 25 President Wilson broke another precedent today when he walked over to the Treasury Department from the White House to see Secretary McAdoo in his private of fice. It was said unimportant routin questions were discussed during the 10-minute call. TRAMP HAS REAL FUNERAL Illinois Village Stops Work and Buries Victim of Exposure AVON, m.. Jan. 25. Rather than see a friendless tramp, wno aiea or expo sure, buried In a. pauper's grave, th residents of this place gave him a pub lie funeral today. Villagers closed their shops for half a day, bought floral offerings and fol lowed the hearse to the cemetery. STEAMER SALE CONFIRMED Minnesota Said to Have Brought Its " Owners $2,750,000. ST. PAUL, Jan. 25. Sale of th Hill steamer Minnesota was confirme today by L. W. Hill, president of th Great Northern Railroad. The ship is said to have sold for $2,750,000. Pastor-Crusader Con fronted in Church. VICE LAID TO LOW WAGES None Willing to Leave Life for $10 a Week. SUGGESTION LAUGHED AT Leader Denounces Men as Respon sible for Conditions, and Says Mothers Should Rear Their Sons Differently. SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 25. Five hun dred women invaded the church of Rev. Paul Smith here today to find out what he proposed to do about women of the underworld in carrying out a vice cru sade he has been leading. They took the position that they were directly in terested. Motion picture men were on hand and took pictures of them as they swarmed up the steps of Rev. Mr. Smith's church, the Central Methodist Episcopal, located downtown. The women were under the leader ship of Mrs. R. M. Gamble, said by the police to conduct a disorderly house. news of the affair spread other omen joined In. Vice Mass Meeting: Held. A mass meeting was held tonight to protest against vice conditions in the uptown tenderloin, in Bplte of the fact that the Board of Police Commission ers conceded last night practically every demand of the anti-vice cru saders In the way of reform regula tions for the resorts against which the fire of criticism had been directed. Rabbi Jacob Nieto, who was to have been one of the speakers, declined to attend on the ground, be said, that when the Police Commissioners acted as they did last night the object of the campaign had been achieved and there was nothing to "mass meet' about. Others who spoke were Bishop Wal ter Taylor Sumner, of tne Episcopal Church of Oregon, who headed an anti- vice crusade in Chicago in 1910-11, and Walter MacArthur, United States Ship ping Commissioner and labor leader. As a preliminary to the meeting arlier in the day at which the women appeared, two policemen were stationed at the door of the ch.urch and the men hangers-on of the vice district were ordered out of the auditorium. Mrs. Gamble began with a statement that she had conducted a disorderly house for eight years, and continued: Small Wages Not Inducement. I want to ask first how many of the women in your church would ac cept us Into their homes, even to work? Tou would cast us out where to There isn't one among us here who would not quit this life for decent work. But we won't quit for a wage (Concluded on Page 5, Column 2.) West Linn Council Thinks Price Too High and Property Too Far From Center of Town. OREGOJf CITY. Or.. Jan. 25. (Spe cial.) Over the question of the pur chase of a $300 lot. the city of West Linn will have an election. James Downey, of the Willamette district. who tried unsuccessfully to sell to the City Council a lot for a site for a flrehouse, has deposited with Recorder Porter petitions calling for an initia tive election March 5. The petitions will probably be for mally filed tomorrow, as the Recorder has 10 days after receiving the peti tions to go through this formality. The City Council, while not agreed on the site of the proposed firehouse. s unanimous in opposing the Downey lot, which Is not on the main street of .West Linn. Mr. Downey wants 1300 for his property, and the city has had offers of lots nearer the center of the town for J100. Mr. Downey circulated petitions ask ing the Council to buy his property, and as soon as- he learned that the Council Intended to purchase other property he drew up petitions for an initiative election. FOX PELT IS WORTH $1000 Idaho Mining Man Catches Fine Silver Tip Specimen. LEWISTON. Idaho. Jan. 25. (Spe cial.) A silver-tip fox pelt estimated to be worth Its size In $100 bills Is be ing exhibited in the Central Idaho country by John Hanson, a Leesburg mining man. who made the lucky cap ture. It s two feet long from tip to tip and almost black except for a snow ball at the end of the brush and a few white spines along the back. The w'llte Is strikingly distinct against the black fur of the body. It Is reported that foxes of this descrlp xion nave been seen for. several years in the upper Salmon River district In Idaho. Experts value the pelt at $1000. HAWAII'S "DRY" BILL IN Committee Reports Favorably Dras tic Measure to Souse. WASHINGTON. Jan. 25. The Ha waiian prohibition bill, designed, like an Alaskan measure already agreed on, to make the territory "bone dry. was favorably reported to the House today by the territories committee. The measure goes before the House with drastic provisions against manu facture, sale, transportation, gift, pos session or other use of intoxicating liquor, with certain exceptions as to medicinal or scientific use. LANSING NOT TO RESIGN Persistent Reports Are Officially Denied In Washington. WASHINGTON. Jan. 25. Flat de nlals were authorized by the White House and Secretary Lansing today of published reports that Mr. Lansing Is preparing to resign. The Secretary said he attributed per sistent circulation of such reports to an attempt to discredit President Wilson's policies through an appearance of dls cord within the Cabinet. WHAT'S THE ANSWER? Rich Spruce Holdings in Coos Are Taken. EASTERN COMPANY IS BUYER Consideration of $3,000,000 to $5,000,000 Involved. LAND TOUCHES RAILROAD Survey Expected to Show at Least 3,500,000,000 Feet, Divided Be tween Fir and Spruce Spot Cash Is to Be Paid. MARSHFIELD. Or.. Jan. 25. (Spe cial.) With options just closed on more than 100,000 acres of spruce and fir tim ber land on the Lower Umpqua and Smith rivers, a large Eastern paper manufacturing company today placed a number of cruisers on the property and will have It cruised as quickly as pos sible with a view to completing the purchase at once for cash. According to the figures of owners of the lands the purchase when com pleted will embody 3,500,000,000 board feet of timber and the price will be somewhere between - $3,000,000 an $5,000,000. 100.0O0 Acres Involved. The cost is estimated in connection with the prices and I)rmer cruises. It Is believed the new cruising will prob ably increase the amount of timber supposed to be contained on the 100,- 000 acres rather than lessen it. The options cover practically the last great body of spruce on the Pacific Coast, and although the timber is not so large as some found in Northern Washington, it is of the very finest quality paper spruce. The land under option lies contiguous to the Wil lamette-Pact fto Railroad for approxi mately 20 miles, about 10 north and the same distance south of the Umpqua, Spruce Is Near Sea. The spruce belt runs in a somewhat regular line and Is several miles broad and ranges from six or eight to 10 miles from the sea. The belt follows the river towards the east as well. The spruce area, as it Is classed, has a very heavy proportion of "this timber, run ning generally from two-thirds to three-fourths spruce and the remain der fir. This is the property on the Umpqua and along the railway. On the land optioned on Smith RlveT the timber runs almost wholly fir. The heavy holdings of fir will not detract in any manner from the availability of the timber for papermaklng. since it can be used together with the spruce in certain quantities. One MlM to Get 1 ,230,000. Following is approximately the acre age under cruise: The Gardiner Mill Company, 35,000 acres; C. A. Smith Lumber & Manufacturing Company, zi.uuu acres; sparrow & Krali, SpO' (Concluded on Page 5 Column 3.) Proposal Will Be Made to Relieve Counties of State Assessment Until Payments Come In. STATE CAPITOL. Salem. Or.. Jan. 25. (Special.) Despite the Federal .... I n I .. .1.1- f. la..,. 1 of the Oregon & California grant, the Legislature may assert the sovereignty right of the stale to tax those prop erties. Representative Bean, of Lane County, one of the counties in which a big area of the Oregon & California lands are situated, has prepared a bill asserting such rights and wlU Introduce it In the House tomorrow. The measure Is Intended to empower the Assessors of the several counties to list the lands on the 1916 assess ment rolls and to relieve these coun ties from the payment of state taxes thereon until these taxes are collected. Under provisions ot such a bill the counties naturally would look to the Southern Pacific Railroad for their taxes. The Southern Pacific, as lessee of the Oregon & California corporation. had title to the property until divested of it by the Federal Supreme .6urt decision. The grant Involves 2.360.492 acres. of which 2,075,616 acres are patented. Their assessed valuation Is $22,564,270, on which the affected counties in West ern Oregon received $400,000 annually In taxes, until the Government won its suit for title. TAFT, LAUDS WILSON'S ACT President's Address to Senate De clared "Epoch in Foreign Policy.' BANGOR, Me.. Jan. 25. Ex-President Taft. In an address here tonight, de clared President Wilson's recent ad' dress to the Senate was "an epoch in the history of our foreign policy," and his advocacy of our participation In a world league was a most powerful aid to its formation. Mr. Tatt said he was In cordial sym pathy with the President's Insistence that the United States cannot join world movement to preserve "a peace whiota is unjust and contains In its un- fair terms assurance of its temporary character." INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The We-1 br. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 55 degrees ; minimum temperature, 42 de gree. TODAY'S Fair; westerly winds. legislature. Report on state school made to Legislature. Page 1. Clean bill given Idaho regiment by legisla ture. Pago L House has one of busiest days of session. Page 7. Bone-dry bill to be before House Monday. Page fl House members In generous mood Indorse California town's plea for Federal cash. w- ways and means committee. Page 14. Agreement of consolidation problems seems tiAor Pn cm 14 Legislature memorialize congress ror early development ot water power. Page 6. Olympla. dry bill again delayed. Page 7. nt area will be proposed In Page - Tax on land gran cur oy ean. i senate decides Ben Bingham name never was on payroll, rage o. Mexico. Lansing gives Mexican hint as to objec- tlonaoie leatures ol constitution. Page -0. Foreign. Japanese Emperor dl-norves House of Repre sentatives. Page z. National. Doctrine held no Monroe stronger than Navy. Page 5. Borah Introduces resolution opposing Wil sons plan for entangling alliance. Page 4. Senate committee agrees . on strike MIL Page B. Wilson sharply rebukes critics of National Guard for unrestrained language. Page 2. Attempted frauds under 620-acre homestead law charged. Page a. Domestic. W. A. Brady says there Is no money In motion pictures. Page 2. San Francisco women of redlight district Invade church to demand voice In de- termlnlng their fate. Page 1. Jury weeps as H. J. Bpanell tells of shoot- lng of wife and Colonel Butler. Page 13. War. Britain's portion compared to that of North In Civil War. rite 4. German editors call Wilson animated theor ist. Psge . German airmen reported victorious in sev eral engagements. Page 4. Sport. Three teams tied in Winnipeg. to-St.-Paul dog race. Page lo. State Game Warden Shoemaker replies to charges by llnn County sportsmen. rise it. Jefferson quintet defeats Lincoln. Page IS. Bees likely to be much stronger. Page 18. Paclfio Northwest. Labor Federation ends session. Page 14. Options closed on vast Oregon timber deal. Page 1. Robert A Hood, photographer, convicted by Fpokane jury of murder In first degree. Page u. City election called over t300 lot. Pag L Commercial and Marine. Steamer Kuskokwlm River purchased by Grain Inspection measures are considered by local dealers. Page 21. Early advance In wheat at Chicago reduced by realising sales. Page 21. Moderate gains in stock market are main tained. Page 21. Portland and Vicinity. Superintendent Alderman re-elected for two- year term, page l. Bishop Sellew styles President's peace plans mm "Utopian. fage la- Retail hardware dealers elect G. W. Hyatt. of Enterprise, president. Page 8. Ex-lovers at war, court orders harmony. Page IB. Heads of three charitable Institutions sued because rats eat supplies. I'&ge 20. February Z designated as Thrift Day. Page 17. Wife scorns spouse when accident leaves him cripple. Page 15. Felix W. Isherwood appointed receiver of Monarch Lumber Company properties. Page 15. East Side Business Men's Club celebrate year's work. Page 9. "The Lilac Domino", at Keillg. fascinate. Page 14. Weather report, data and forecast. Face L Legislative Committee Would Bar Frats. ft I 1 1 JtALuUuICO U HAH U til Townspeople Accused of Prey ing on Students. SINGLE BOARD ADVOCATED Consolidation of Administration ot University and Agricultural Col lege Recommended In Re-, port Filed Yesterday. SALEM. Or.. Jan. 25. (Special.) That there is a tendency on the part of Corvallls and Eugene citizens to take advantage of the students at the, University of Oregon and Oregon Ag ricultural College In charging them for living facilities and sometimes "grafting them to the limit"; that a condition exists among the Greek- letter societies at the university that "is undemocratic and dangerous"; that a feeling of jealousy-exists be tween the university and the Agri cultural College, and there Is little or no tendency between the two institu tions to co-operate in educational mat ters, with a tendency to duplicate work. condition "that Is detrimental to both. institutions." are some of the findings made by the special legislative Inves tigating committee, which filed Its re port with the Legislature today. The statement also is made that the university and Monmouth Normal School should keep within their mi.lage I taxes. Committee. Dates to 1015. The committee was authorized to make the Investigation by the last Leg islative Assembly and members of the committee were Representative Charles Chllds. Senator W. H. Strayer, Rep resentatives E. V. Llttlefield and W. W. Cardwell and Senator George M. lie Bride. Representative Childs and Sen ator Strayer are members of the pres ent Legislature. Speaking of living conditions at tne schools, the report says that the high cost of living will bar many stuaents. that living is high at both Corvallls and Eugene, and that In some cases house rent is 100 per cent higher than it should be. It declares tnat in one case a group of students was found I r,ovinr 1900 a year rent for a house th.t could be built In any city in Ore- I ffon for 14000 or less. These conditions let" . i t j nraetically the same ai oowi uu , . , ..whii. th. ii tutlons. It is asserted. W hile there 13 apparently nothing that the heads or I tne Institutions can do. we feel that the Ht ire not getting a square deal." .Hts are not getting a square says the report. Cliques Found Disadvantageous. Referring to sororities and fraterni ties, the report says mi tlons are really helpful In the begin ning "but cliques soon develop and different fraternities entertain eacn other ... At the University we find It costs as much to Join tne ween let ter fraternity as It does to Join a lodge Ike. the Masons or Oddfellows, in some cases $25 or 130 to become a member. . Students can become memoers by Invitation only. At the university we find fraternities and sororities, or girls secret societies, flourismng. ana we understand that there are more w be added. A condition exists there that is undemocratic and dangerous. we believe that no more secret societies should be allowed to be organised and that the fraternity system be discour aged as much as possible." It Is declared that at tne university the fraternity system flourishes to such an extent as to threaten to dominate student body affairs, and it is declared that the university girls who live at the small dormitory have a better rec ord and better average grades than any of the sorority house girls. Single Board of Regents Urged. Failure to provide a proper housing system is said to be the cause, ana the fault is not placed with the stu dents, but with the heads of the insti tutions and past Legislatures, in fall ing to provide for adequate dormi tories. The report, after commenting upon I jealousy existing between the two in stitutions at Corvallls and Eugene, de clares In favor of one board of regents for both. , Students from foreign countries should pay tuition, the report advo cates. ' In making recommendations for the University of Oregon the report urges that the school of commerce there has been issuing several bulletins that are practically worthless and should not be Issued by any state educational In stitution. , It is recommended that the depart ment of commerce of the university be discontinued. It also is urged that the department of art appreciation be discontinued. The average number of working hours at the University Is found to be far lesa than those at the Agricultural College, or in most Institutions of a slmll.tr character. It is urged that sufficient dormi tories be constructed to house properly all the girls attending the University. The report finds 146 people on the payroll of the University, "which we (Concluded oa l'ase 5. Column 4.)