Morning Oregonian., March 02, 1917, Image 1

VOL. LVII NO. 17,559.
PORTLAND, OREGON, I'ltlDAI, MARCH 2, 1917.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
GERARD IS SAFELY
CHINA IS ON VERGE
OF ENTERING WAR
AGONIZED MOTHER
GERMAN INTRIGUE
HOUSE VOTES FOR
OUT OF WAR ZONE
COMING TO LIGHT
AFTER SHIP IS SUNK
WINS BACK HER BOY
EX-AMBASSADOR IS HAVETG A
CABLVET CRISIS IMMINENT AS
PRESIDENT HESITATES.
SHIPS CRIPPLED OX ORDER
PLEASANT VOYAGE WESTWARD.
SENT TO BERXSTORFF.
NUTE AUTHENTIC,
PRESIDENT SAYS
AMERCANS
MISSING
DC OF IPS
- i
Wilson Promptly Answers
Gall From Senate.
EVIDENCE DECLARED CLEAR
Information Obtained by Gov
ernment in Present Week,
Lansing Explains.
DETAILS ARE WITHHELD
Further Disclosures Held Not
Compatible With Public
4 Interest Now.
WASHINGTON, March 1. Presi
dent Wilson tonight, in response to
the Senate's call, laid before that
body official information that the
United States is in possession of evi
dence which establishes the authen
ticity of the sensational document dis
closing how Germany intrigued to
ally Mexico and Japan with her to
war on this country.
In response to a Senate resolution
the President transmitted a report
from Secretary Lansing stating that
the evidence has come to the pos
session of the United States within
the last week, and that the authen
ticity of Foreign Minister Zimmer
mann's instructions to German Min
ister von Eckhardt in Mexico City is
established, as revealed by the Asso
ciated Press.
Lansing's Report Approved.
The President's reply to the reso
lution and Secretary Lansing's report
ere as follows:
"To the Senate In response to the
resolution adopted by the Senate on
March 1, 1917, requesting the Presi
dent to furni-h the Senate, if not in
compatible with the public interest,
whatever information he has concern
ing the note published in the press of
this date purporting to have been sent
' January 19, 1917, by the German Sec
retary for Foreign Affairs to the
German Minister to Mexico, I trans
mit herewith a report by the Secre
tary of State, which has my approval.
"WOODROW WILSON."
Note Declared Authentic
"To the President The resolution
adopted by the United States Senate
on March 1, 1917, requesting that that
body be furnished, if not incompatible
with the public interest, whatever in
formation you have concerning the
note published in the press of this
date purporting to have been sent
January 19, 1917, by the German Sec
retary for Foreign Affairs to the Ger
man Minister to Mexico, I have the
honor to state that the Government
is in possession of evidence which es
tablishes the fact that the note re
ferred to is authentic and that it is
in possession of the Government of
the United States, and that the evi
dence was procured by this Govern
ment during the present week, but
that it is, in my opinion, incompatible
with the public interest to send to the
Senate at the present time any
further information in possession of
the Government of the Unit. J States
relative to the note mentioned in the
resolution of the Senate. Respectfully
submitted, ROBERT LANSING."
Letter Arouses No Comment.
The Senate, without comment, or
dered the report and letter printed
and referred to the foreign relations
committee
Adoption of the resolution asking
for the information came at the close
of a day of solemn debate, which
reached a climax with Republican
Senators joining Democrats in con-
demning the attitude of Senator Stone
chairman of the foreign relations com
tnittee, who declared the story of the
plot' was given out by the Government
to affect public opinion, and insisted
upon asking the President whether
the information was received from the
representative of any belligerent na
tion.
Senator Fall, Republican, said he
did not wonder that the President de-
cided to reach public opinion through
the press in view of the attitude of
members of the Senate who ought to
be his advisers.
Senators Express Amazement.
The subject came up soon after the
London Newspaper Correspondent
on Board Infanta Isabel Tells
of Delightful Weatlier.
LONDON. March. 2. A wireless dis
patch received from the Spanish steam
er Infanta Isabel, on which James TV.
Gerard, the ex-American Ambassador
to Germany, and his party are passen
gers, says:
'Finisterre. 8:30 P. M. "Wednesday
Passed German danger zone without
Incident. Weather delightful."
The dispatch was sent by the Dally
Mail's correspondent, who Is on board
the steamer.
MINE ASHORE IN FLORIDA
Explosive Found by Fisherman at
Ijong Key.
MIAMI. Fla., March 1. What fish
ermen describe as a contact mine was
brought ashore yesterday at Long Key,
90 miles south of here, according to
G. W. Dimick, an express messenger on
the Florida East Coast Railroad, on his
arrival here from Long Key.
Dimick said he saw the supposed
mine himself and that a fisherman who
found it first thought It was a buoy.
There was no explanation of where
uch a mine might have come from.
NINE MEXICANS EXECUTED
Six Are Cowboys Who Fought Go
mez, Three Are Villa Spies.
DOUGLAS, Ariz., March 1. Nine
Mexicans were executed at sunrise to
day In Agua Frieta. Their names were
not obtainable.
Six were cowboys who three weeks
ago engaged In a battle with part of
the forces of Major Patricio Gomez In
Western Chihuahua, when apprehended
n the act of smuggling cattle across
the border. The other three were
alleged Villa spies.
RENCH USE BREAD CARDS
Measure Adopted to Prevent Waste
of Food . Supplies.
PARIS, March 1. That bread cards
would be Instituted In France to pre
vent waste was announced today by
EMuord Herriot, Minister of Provisions.
The Minister also Is studying
measures to be enforced in the large
centers of population to assure that
preference shall be given to the
wounded, ill children and the aged In
the distribution of milk.
MUNITIONS MEN LAID OFF
Contract Engaging 1300 Workers In
Philadelphia Completed.
PHILADELPHIA. March 1. Eighteen
hundred men employed by the Baldwin
Locomotive Works In. making 13-inch
shells for the entente allies were laid
off today because of completed con
tracts, according to an announcement
by the company.
Withiu the next six months other
foreign contracts for war munitions
will have been completed.
CUBANS LOOT BRITISH-SHIP
Revolutionists Remove All Firearms
and Ammunition.
MOBILE, Ala.', March 1. Cuban rev
olutlonlsts boarded and forcibly
searched the British schooner Perceler
In the harbor at Nuevitas, Cuba, Febru
ary 14, according to a story told here
today by Captain R. A. Russell, master
of the vessel.
All firearms and ammunition on
board were carried off. he said.
TREATY DELAY RESENTED
Columbia Press Demands With'
drawal From Pan-American Union.
NEW YORK, March 1 The Asso
elated Press today received the follow.
ing cablegram from Bogota signed by
10 Colombian newspapers:
"The Colombian press, commenting
on the indefinite postponement of the
Colombian-American treaty. Insists
upon the necessity of Colombia's with
drawal from the Pan-American Union.'
LACE INDUSJRY HARD HIT
British Ban on Importations Affects
Switzerland.
BERNE. Switzerland, via Paris, March
1. -Great Britain's ban on importations
is expected to affect seriously the Swis
lace, industry.
A large number of manufacturers -at
St. Gall announce suspension of opera
tions or a great diminution of output.
Many employes have been served with
legal notice of discharge.
STEAMER ROCHESTER SAFE
American Freighter Arrives In
Port of Bordeaux.
BORDEAUX, March 1. The Ameri
can freighter Rochester has arrived at
the mouth of the Gironde.
The Rochester and the Orleans were
the first American vessels to leav
the United States for Europe after th
breach of diplomatic relations with
Two of Four on U-Boat
Victim Rescued.
SWAMPING OF BOAT FEARED
Shots Fired at Britisher Until
Crew Puts Off.
6 VESSELS ARE DESTROYED
Xorway, France and Belgium Lose
One Each and Others Are Cnder
English Flag Total Known
Lost Tonage Is 895 3.
VICTIMS OF" GERMAN SUBMA
RINES REPORTED YES
TERDAY. Tonnage.
Clanforquhar (British)... 6.853
Galgorm Castle (British) 1,596
Marie Joseph (French).. 192
Sjostad (Norwegian) 1,165 f
Harriet Williams (British) 157 f
P-13 (Belgian)
Total known tonnage..... 8,953 I
Known tonnage previous- i
ly sunk 466.042 4
Known tonnage sunk since f
February 1 474,998
Siimmar-v- SInr. FebniarT 1.
American 3
Other neutrals .............. 66
British 113
Other belligerents 22
Unidentified 2
Total 194
QUEENSTOWN. March 1. The Brit
ish bark Galgorm Castle, has been
sunk by a German submarine. The
survivors include two Americans, Har
ry Merrett, of Beaver Falls, Pa., and
Harry Richardson, of Boston. They
were 13 hours in the boats. One boat
is missing and it is feared it has been
swamped. This boat contained two
Americarr named Jackson and Cook.
CORK, March 1. Captain Frampton.
of the Galgorm Castle, his wife, and 12
of the crew passed through Cork today.
They had been landed at a western
port.
Submarine Fires Shell.
The Galgorm Castle was shelled and
sunk Tuesday evening by a submarine
which started firing at a mile and a
half range and continued until two
boats got away from the ship.
Harry Merrett (or Merritt) one of
the two American survivors on the
first boat, said that the second boat
was lost sight of during the night and
possibly swamped, as bad weather pre
vailed.
The missing boat contained the chief
and third officers and 10 men. includ
ing two Americans named Jackson, or
dinary seaman, and David Walker,
cook.
The British sailing ship Harriet
t Concluded on Paso 4, Column 2.)
Ruler Prefers to Act With United
States, but Will Join Entente
if Parliament Approves. f
PEKIN. March 1. The French Minis
ter and the Belgian Charge d'Affalres.
representing the entente allies, have in
vited China to enter the war, offering
her remission of the Boxer indemnity
and a revision of the tariff as induce
ments. A Cabinet crisis is imminent.
The Vice-President and the Premier are
urging China to Join the entente.
The President is receiving much criti
cism for opposing immediate action. He
gave out an interview today, saying
he preferred to act with the United
States and other neutrals, but he was
willing for China to Join the entente if
Parliament approves.
Dr. Wu Ting-fang has resigned the
portfolio of Foreign Minister, assigning
deafness, the result of a recent illness.
as the cause.
JOHN D. IS OUT OF STEEL
Oil Man Denies Part In Formation
of Alleged Trust.
WASHINGTON, March 1. John r
Rockefeller and John D. Rockefeller,
Jr., individual defendants In the Gov
ernment's dissolution suit against the
United States Steel Corporation, today
filed pleas in the Supreme Court, ask
ing dismissal of the suit so -far as they
are concerned.
The Rockefellers say they have re
tired from the corporation's directorate,
now own "a negligible" amount of its
stock and took no part In the alleged
trust's formation.
OIL PROFITS ENORMOUS
Standard Company, of Indiana, Re
ports Net of $30,043,614 In 1916
CHICAGO, March 1. Profits "beyond
the dreams of avarice" are reported by
the Standard Oil Company, of Indiana.
in its annual statement for the year
ending December 31, 1916. submitted
to the stockholders at their annual
meeting today at Whiting, Ind.
This company, one of the largest, if
not the largest, producers of gasoline
in the world, earned net profits of $30.-
043,614 for the year, equal to 100.15
per cent on its 30,000,000 capital stock.
ARIZONA GOVERNOR READY
Regiment of Rough Riders From
lscd In Event of War.
GLOBE. Ariz- March 1. When Gov
ernor Thomas C. Campbell, who arrived
here tonight, was informed of the As
sociated Press dispatch regarding the
action of Germany, he said that in the
event of hostilities he would raise a
troop of rough riders from among cat
tlemen now holding a convention here.
Denmark to Ban Spirits.
LONDON, March 1. The sale of all
spirits and other alcoholic liquors has
been prohibited in Denmark, accord
ing to a ReuUr dispatch from Copen
hageri.
The order is temporary and calls for
returns to be made on all stocks of
spirits In the country.
WHO SAID UNCLE SAJkl WAS ASLEEP?
Pressure Exerted on
County Judge.
'MSBSSSSSSSSSSSSaVSSSBSSBSSSjaSa
COURT'S ACTION CRITICISED
Syrian Youngster Railroaded
to Reform School.
NO NOTICE GIVEN PARENTS
Evidence Presented at Hurried
Hearing Mass of False State
ments or Half Truths and
Unfairness Is Apparent.
With tear-filled eyes and choking
olee, a mother appeared before the
court of Juvenile Judge Tazwell yes
terday and told:
Of the taking of her 12-year-old son
from her by officers of that court.
without her knowledge;
Of & frantic search for her boy all
night, a night she will never forget;
Of the finding of her son the next
day In the custody of the Juvenile Court
and of being told to go to court the
day following at 2:30 o'clock;
Of being met that afternoon with the
calm assertion that she should have
arrived earlier as her boy had been
given a hearing in the morning and
was already behind the doors of the
reform school at Salem.
Rehearing Reverses Decision.
What had the lad done? He was a
habitual truant, an incorrigible school
offender, and an evil Influence on his
associates, according to a report from
Hugh C Krum, truant officer, who
is head of the attendance department
of the city schools a report which was
repudiated by the evidence produced
at a rehearing yesterday in the opin
ion not only of Attorney A. F. Flegel,
jr., appearing on behalf of the boy,
or of Prosecutor Charles Roblson, rep
resenting the state, but of Judge Taz
well, himself. -
Judge Tazwell reversed his former
ruling committing the boy to the train
ing school, and allowed Ellas Ellas,
aged 12. to go back to the home of his
father and mother at 66 North
Tenth street as a ward of the court, to
be the subject of friendly visitation of
Mrs. A. F. Flegel. Sr.
Court Officials Censured.
"You can't run a Juvenile court right
so long as petty politicians are allowed
to limit the number of efficient work
ers." censured Prosecutor Roblson,
who stigmatized the taking of the lad
without proper notice to his parents as
an "error of Judgment," the confusion
as to the hearing hour as an "unfortu
nate mistake." and the report of Mr.
Krum as "overzealous, at the best."
Though Mr. Roblson - was opposed
technically to the defense when he
took up the case, the evidence con
rlnced him that gross injustice would
Concluded on Pace 7, Column 2.)
Ambassador, While Berlin Professed
Friendship, Under Instruction to
"Make War Impossible."
WASHINGTON. March 1 Count von
Bernstorff, the former German Am
bassador, was Instructed from Berlin
to arrange the dismantling of German
war-bound ships in American harbors
at the same time he received the Zlm
mermann note for transmission to
Mexico.
This added thread In the mesh of
German intrigue spun around this
country while Germany was still pro
testing friendship was allowed to be
come known today, with the inference
that full and detailed instructions
were sent Bernstorff from Berlin to
make war by this country impossible.
Officials refuse to disclose any of the
other elements in the German plot, but
Indicate that It was general and whole
sale. The next step expected from abroad
is a complete statement by Mexico of
her attitude. Despite the long chain
of suspicious circumstances tending to
connect that country with Germany's
Intrigues, officials expect an indignant
repudiation by th Carranza tovern-
ment.
A new press campaign by Germany to
discredit and counteract the disclosure
is looked for.
EARLY SETTLERS, 80, DIE
Mrs. Clara Tischner and Mrs. Han
nah Billmlre Pass at Eugene.
EUGENE, Or.. Mar. 1. (Special.)
Two octogenarians, early settlers of
Oregon, died In Eugene today. Mrs.
Clare Elizabeth Tischner, aged S3, a na
tive of Germany, settled In Lane Coun
ty 35 years ago. Mrs. Hannah Billmlre,
aged 80 years, had been a resident of
Oregon 54 years. Mrs. Tischner. who
came to America with her parents when
a girl. Is survived by two daughters,
Mrs. Mary S. Chlnorenberg. of Eugene,
and Mrs. Rosa Able, of Marshfleld.
Mrs. Billmlre Is survived by seven
children: G. W. Billmlre, William Bill
mlre. Archie Billmlre. Mrs. L. A. Col-
dren. Mrs. S. E. Sprague. all of Eugene;
Mrs. William P. Barger, Irving; Mrs.
II. V. Johnson, of Junction City.
TROOP B MEN GO TO WAR
Tacoma Guardsmen Will Serve With
Allies In France.
TACOMA. Wash.. March 1. (Special.)
Sergeant Ray F. Miner and Corporal
Francis Fuller, who returned from the
Mexican border with Troop B last
Thursday, made arrangements today
to enter the allies' service In France
Fuller will Join the American Ambu
lance service. Miner desires actual
fighting and does not know definitely
what branch he will Join.
In a few days Sergeant Miner will
sail from Seattle. Fuller left Tacoma
today, and will go east to Boston
where he will make a short stay with
his parents before sailing.
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Weather.
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature. 45
degrees; minimum. 80 degrees.
TODAY'S Fair, heavy trost In early morn
ing; northerly wiuuo.
Submarine Crisis.
Precedent informs Senate not disclosing
German Intrigue is lumoimt. rw a.
House votes for arming of American mer
chantmen, but withholds from Preal-
dent power to employ oiaw iubltu'
mentalities." Page 1.
British amazed by news of German plot
against America, rags
Swiss Minister's Noffer to mediate la pub
lished in Germany. raga z.
Hamburg paper thinks Wilson will hesitate
further. Page
Laming absolves Japan and Mexico. Page 3.
Senators ask for further details. Page 8.
Railways plan to transport armies. Page T.
All Representatives from Northwest vote for
Flood resolution. rage 7.
China on verge of entering war. Page 1.
Gerard is safely out of war zone. Page I.
Two Americans missing from crew of U-
boat vict.m. Page 1.
German intrigues in United States wide
spread. Page 1.
War.
Turkish rout on Tigris Is complete. Page 4.
Domestic
Reaction begins In New Tork food mar
ket Page 4.
Railways plan to transport armies. Page T.
Sport.
Kewstes to defend Independent basketball
title tonight, rage io.
Beavers' sea trip 1 amusing at times.
Page 14.
Oregon rehires Bezdek as football coach
only. Page la.
Brandt attracts special attention from Mc-
Credle. Page 14.
Pacific Northwest.
Ballot titles on referred measures drafted.
Page 3.
Olympla House reverses Senate on probate
code, rage o.
Commercial and Marine.
Britain prohibits shipments of mohair from
South Africa, rage iu.
Chicago wheat higher on foreign baying
of futures, rage J.
Liquidation and short selling carry down
stock prices. rage aw.
Laconla carries down RO.000 bushels of
wheat smppea oy jxl. n. nouow. x-go i&
Portland and Vicinity.
Boy ordered to Reform School freed on
f.Vi.a.rtnfl' Page 1.
Polk's new directory to show Portland with
about SUU.UUU population, rage id.
Judge Stevenson called out of bed twice
first night on bench. Page 13.
Appointment of tourist fund agents matter
of congratulation. Page 12.
Enlistment in Marine Corps outstrips other
branches, rage s.
8pread of rabies is alarming. Page 8.
Weather report, data and forecast. Page 19
Thirty-one returned Guardsmen still need
Jobs. Page 11.
Civil War prices show present day quota
tions low by comparison. Page 18.
Clever forger alleged to have defrauded
chamoermaiaa. rase o.
Convention demonstrates that modern
dairying is science. rage id.
"Blue Paradise" at Helllg Is tuneful suc
cess. Page - 4.
Reed College pledges loyalty but asks war
Authority of President,
However, Is Limited.
HOPE NOW LIES IN SEKATE
Upper Body Expected to In
sist on Use of "Other
Instrumentalities."
PATRIOTISM RUNNING HIGH
Cry of "America First" Taken
Up by Both Parties on
United Front.
WASHINGTON, March 1 Aroused
by the disclosure of Germany's plot to
unite Japan and Mexico with her in a
war upon the United States and then
convinced by official evidence of its
authenticity, Congress today aban
doned the delays and obstructions
which have checked President Wilson's
efforts to be clothed with express au
thority to deal with the submarine
menace.
The House, after a 10-hour debate
and by an overwhelming majority,
passed a bill to empower the Presi-'
dent to arm merchant ships and pro
viding for $100,000,000 bond issue.
Authority Is Limited.
The bill, however, does not contain-
the grant of authority to use "other
instrumentalities which the President
specially desires and would prevent
Government war insurance for muni
tions ships, a prohibition which the
President does not approve.
When the House bill is received in
the Senate tomorrow, the Senate bill,
which the Administration fully com
mends, will be substituted, and that is
expected finally to be accepted by
both Houses as the law.
White House Supports Senate.
Official announcement was made at
the White House today that the Ad
ministration stands behind the Senate
bill "first, last and all the time" with
its provision for "other instrumentali
ties." In the Senate an attempt to
ask the President to disclose the Gov-,
ernment's source of information of the
attempted intrigue with Mexico and
Japan, on the supposition that it came
from one of Germany's enemies, was
defeated after a sharp and sensational
debate.
Instead the Senate merely asked for
official notice of the authenticity of
the dispatch of instructions from Ger
man Foreign Minister Zimmermann .
to German Minister von Eckhardt ia
Mexico Citv. The President trans
mitted it immediately, with the state
ment that it would not be compatible
with the public interests to reveal fur
ther details concerning it.
Members Emotions Mixed.
Members of both Houses of Con
gress, some skeptical of the authen
ticity of the astounding revelations of
Germany's intrigue, others feeling
that it had been permitted to become
public for its effect in Congress and
throughout the country, met the sit
uation with mixed emotions, which.
with a few possible exceptions as the
day's developments were unfolded.
solidified into a decision to 6tand be
hind the President.
Conrrressmen classed with the 60-
called pacifist group in the House,
who have been opposing a grant of
authority- to the President on the
ground that it would be a step toward
war, announced that they would vote
for the armed neutrality bill in the be
lief that to arm the President to pro
tect American rights might be the
way to avoid war.
Aspect Changes Suddenly.
Republican Senators who have been
filibustering against the armed neu
trality bill, not because opposed to it,
but to force an extra session of Con
gress, declared their conviction that
the situation demanded united support
of the President.
A Congress badly divided and in its
dying moments, with its legislative
programme at sixes and sevens and
charges of "playing politics" flying
from every side, suddenly took on a
new aspect.
It was as if the cry, "America
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be avarteo. rae a.