FRIDAY MARCH 9, 1917. 'CONQUEROR OF AIR' DIES 111 GERMANY cal order, and had gone only as far as June of last year when Special Prosecutor Reames read and offered as evidence the copies of telegrams and letters between Billingsley and the manager of the Jesse Moore Hunt Liquor Company, of San Francisco. At the morning session Walter S. Fulton, counsel for Chief Beckingham, made his opening statement, and ex coriated Logan . Billingsley. He ac cused the government witness of a myriad of crimes and declared "he would scuttle a ship full of people without turning a hair." Federal Judge Neterer then denied a motion for a directed verdict In favor of the defendant Hodge. The motion had been made on the ground that the HILL LIE HAS EYE lowed the fashion of European women in adopting overalls. Mrs. Grant con tinues to wear skirts. She does, how ever, wear a man's old felt hat and a heavy, warm, blue sweater. , In this costume she climbs from cellar to roof and does her day's work. "There Isn't any architect to consult." she said in reply to an obvious ques tion regarding her work". "There isn't any builder. There isn't any contractor. There isn't any foreman, because I am the whole works. I'm captain of this ship." With some reluctance she told of her first experiment in building. She had two lots that would not sell unless they were improved. She decided, she says, to build two bungalows "with a shoestring." It was almost heart breaking, she declares. The bills mount ed up way beyond what the builder had estimated. So she eliminated the workmen and finished the Job herself. "Of coarse." she concluded, "they were a terrible fizzle. I didn't make a cent, but I broke even. That was some satisfaction." 1 Picture Framing to your order. Lowest Prices. Sixlh Floor. Pictorial Review Patterns for your Spring sewing. Second Floor manoita (& (So. Merchandise ofc Merit Only" Count Zeppelin, First to Per fect Dirigible, Victim of Malady of Lungs. Trackage Agreement for Entry by Way of Eureka Said to Be Completed. FORTUNE GIVEN TO WORK EXTENSION IS OUTLINED TIIE. MORNING OREGONIAN, SAN FRAIJCISGO First Ascension Made in United States at Time of Civil War and Great Triumph Achieved at Advanced Age. LONDON; March 8. Count Zeppelin Is dead, according to a dispatch from Berlin received by Reuter's Telegram Company. According to a Berlin tele gram transmitted by Reuter's Amster dam correspondent. Count Zeppelin died this forenoon at Charlottenburg, near Berlin, of inflammation of the lungs. Count Zeppelin was born in 1838. He became famous at the age of 70 as the builder of the world's first practical dirigible balloon. On his 75th birth day he navigated his 20th airship to celebrate the occasion. But before he had achieved fame he had devoted a half century of his life, exhausted his personal "fortune of 1750,000 and sacri ficed a brilliant career as a German cavalry leader, in conquering the air. Emperor William recently proclaimed Count Zeppelin to be "the greatest German of the 20th century." First Ascension Made In America. It was in the United States that Count Zeppelin made his first balloon ascension, while he was following Gen eral Carl Shurz in the Civil War as a military observer for the German army. A captive balloon in use for military observations by Union troops greatly interested the young German officer and he was taken up In it in 1863. Count Zeppelin was a member of a wealthy family. He fought through the Austro-Prussian and the Franco Prussian wars. Serving in the Ger man cavalry for three decades, he rose to the rank of general at the age of 42. lie retired ten years later a "dis tinguished soldier, to devote all his time to the problem of aeronautics. From a wealthy nobleman, owning vast estates. Count Zeppelin was gradually reduced to an aristocratic mechanic living in a humble cottage on fin allowance supplied by his friends. He met many narrow escapes from death and disaster repeatedly overtook his airships. These became so frequent that pert paragraphs began to appear in the German press in ridicule of his efforts. Tide Turns In Day. Then in a day the tide turned. He electrified a skeptical world in 1908 by staying aloft for 37 hours in the fifth airship he had built and by sailing in a straight course for a distance of nearly 900 miles. Emperor William and all Germany, in fact, hailed him as "the conqueror of the air." This monster balloon, 4C5 feet long and of the rigid type and resembling a huge cigar, soon met with disaster, as had its predecessors. Each wreck was a great financial loss, for Zep pelin's balloons were valued as high as $500,000 each. When one of his airships was torn from its moorings by a gale and wrecked, the public sub scribed $1,000,000 to a fund, of which the Crown Prince was president, for the inventor. The German Emperor frequently appropriated several hun dred thousand marks for the purchase of his airships for the German army. At the close of his remarkable ca reer. Count Zeppelin had retrieved a large part of his fortune. STATE CONTRACTS LET Improvements on Buildings Award ed by Board of Control. SALEM, Or., March 8. (Special.) Distribution of architectural work on tstate buildings to be constructed was made by the State Board of Control today. . Ij. W. Thompson won the work on a J20.000 building at the Soldiers' Home; lloughtaling & Dougan. of Portland, received the contract for the amuse ment hall addition and tubercular pa vilion at Jhe Oregon State Hospital, $13,000; Fred Legg. of Salem, work at the School for Feeble-Minded, $30,000, and W. C. Knighton, of Portland, work n a $6000 barn at the Eastern Oregon Hospital, at Pendleton, a $4000 building at the penitentiary and some small work at the training school and the tubercular sanatorium. BOOTLEGGER BARES RING (Continued From First Pa pe. ) evidence that would have convicted him of violating the laws. Billingsley ewore before the grand Jury that the return of the letters and telegrams was part of the service for which he paid a bribe of $4000 cash to Gill In the Mayor's office. Billingsley displayed no nervousness and no emotion of anv kind on the wit ncss stand. In Oklahoma, he said, he pleaded guilty regularly to selling liquor in violation of law. but by ar rangement with the police, and thus really paid a monthly fine. Billinersley's str-ry ran in ehronologt AN UNDIGESTED DINNER ' "Worse than a badly cooked dinner la a dinner that you can't digest. Do you know wha'j it 13 to turn away from the best food, ill-humored and without ap petite, though you knowthat it is dinner time and that you need food to sustain you? This is nature's way of telling you ihnt your digestion is out of order. Your stomach is not in a fit state to absorb food if you eat it, or your blood able to carry the necessary nourishment to your nerves, brain and muscles. First of all, put off eating until you are hungry. It yoa eat when you re not hunerv you can't digest the food. To put your blood in the right state to derive good Irom your tood, take Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. Without any rmreative or weakening effect thev purify your blood and enrich it, so that you net only have an excellent appetite for food, but are aDie to digest it com' fortablv and eefc benefit from it. So many dyspeptics have been helped by this simple treatment tnat every bui f erer from stomach trouble should try it. A diet book, "What to Eat and How to Eat" will be sent free on request by the Dr. Williams Medicine Co., Schen ectady, N. Y. Your own druggist sells Dr. Williams' Pink Pills or a box will be sent by mail, postpaid, on receipt of City cents. : r t I ;ftt ; f - f It X v'v;:i -. t . ' x$ - 1 & i t- , 4" f ' ' ' v v' i I :-A- , I - I'-'" 1 t - '- j I t' sy..',; -yf I Count Ferdinand Zeppelin. Build er of First Practicable Dirigible Balloon, Who Died Yesterday in Berlin. Government's opening statement had not indicated any case against Hodge, CHINESE CABINET BACK DIFFERENCES WITH PRESIDENT BELIEVED SETTLED, Construction From Bend to Trini dad and Detour and Tunnel to Avoid Wlllits Grade Believed to Be Decided On. . SAN FTtANCISCO, March 8. The Chronicle will publish tomorrow details. based on "information from an appar ently authentic source." of a plan of the Hill railroad lines to enter San Francisco by way of Eureka. "Corroboration of this information has been secured," the Chronicle will say, "disclosing negotiations for a trackage agreement by which the Hill lines would assume one-third of the cost of the Eureka-San Francisco line of the Northwestern Pacific, which was built jointly by the Southern Pacific and Santa Fe." Detoar and Tunnel Planned. The plan, according to the Chron icle, provides for the construction of a line by the Hill interests from Bend, Or., to Trinidad, a few miles north of Eureka, where a Junction will be made with the Northwestern Pacific's through line to Sausalito. The Southern Pacific, according to the Chronicle's Informa tion, will build a connection between Trinidad and Marshfield and a detour and tunnel will be constructed to avoid the present steep grade over the Wlllits Hill. Louis Hill, president of the Hill lines, said to have worked out the details while on a recent trip over the pro posed route. Mountain Haul to Be Avoided. The Chronicle article concludes: "Ever since the through rail line was opened to Eureka it has been under stood that the plan of the Southern Pa cific was eventually to complete its line along the coast north and thus cut out the heavy haul over the Siskiyous on tue Siiasta route. "That this will be done in connection with the Hill Joint trackage agreement is the information that comes from Southern P.-.cific sources." LOVE FRAUD IS CHARGED HARRY LEROY INDICTED FOR IM PERSONATING HEIRESS. 15 SHIPS REPORTED SUNK BERLIN LISTS VICTIMS OF FEBRU ARY IN MEDITERRANEAN. Washington Uninformed aa to Whether Agreement Has Been Reached on Attltnde Toward Germany. WASHINGTON, March 8. Dispatches to the Chinese legation here today said China's cabinet, which resigned be cause of a disagreement with President Li Tuan Hung over the proposed break with Germany and left' the capital for Tientsin, had returned to Pekin. It is assumed that the constitutional diffi culties between the President and the Cabinet have been compromised, but whether that means an agreement has been reached either to sever relations with Germany or to declare war, as desired by the entente, is not known here. The Cabinet, under the PremiershiD of Tuan Chi Jul, voted unanimously for a break with Germany. The Presi dent, however, held that such power belonged to the Presidency alone. word also was received at the lega tion today that Dr. Wu Ting Fang. For eign Minister, had not resigned, as re ported before the Cabinet crisis and still was in control of the Foreign Office. This was pointed to the lega tion officials as indicating that the Chinese administration is firmly united again and will be able to arrive at a wise foreign policy without domestic dissension. Several Transports and Armed Steam era Included in Latest Returns Made to Headquarters. BERLIN, March 8. (By wireless to Sayville, N. Y.) Announcement was made by the Admiralty today that there have been sunk by submarines in the Mediterranean eight steamships and seven sailing vessels of more than 40, 000 tons. Among the vessels sunk, says the statement, were the following: "February 19 A heavy laden trans port steamer of about 8000 tons, near Porto d Anzio. "February 20 Norwegian steamer Doravore of 2560 tons, with parcels Irom Genoa to London. 1 feoruary (our sailing vessels with coal tor Italy. "February24 British transport steam er of about 8000 tons, armed with 15 centimeter cannon and protected by trawlers; Greek steamer Mioulis, 2918 tons, with cotton seed for London, both eunk south of Crete. "February 26 Armed British steamer Clan Farquhar. 1858 tons, with cotton and coal for England. "February 27 Armed British steam er Broadmore, 401 tons, with frozen meat. "One captain and two engineers were made prisoner." . The sinking of the steamers Doravore and Clan Farquhar have been previous ly reported. The British steamer Broadmore, 365 feet long, was built in West Hartlepool in 1890 and was owned in London. The steamer Miaoulis is probably the Greek vessel referred -to. She was built in Sunderland in 1893. She was last reported leaving Alexandria on January 12 for Oran and Hull. BANK-CASHIER SENTENCED South Bend Considers Bonds $600,000 for Good Roads. for SOUTH BEND, Wash., March 8. (Special.) Judge W. O. Chapman, of the Pierce County Court, has denied the motion for a new trial of Ellas Pierson, convicted cashier of the defunct First International Bank of this city, and sentenced him to serve from one to ten years in the State Penitentiary. His attorneys have started their appeal to the Supreme Court. A movement was started last night looking to the issuance of $600,000 bonds to complete and project a com prehensive road-building plan in this county. Some of the substantial prop erty owners of the county met here to discuss the plan. APPEAL MADE TO LANCING Governor Asks That Rights of A. Venator, of Burns, Be Protected. SALEM, Or., March 8. (Special.) Governor Withycombe today tele graphed to the State Department at Washington urging all action possible to assist A. Venator, of Burns. Or., in maintaining his rights and property. Venator recently was arrested in the state of Sonora, Mexico, by Mexican of ficials and 888 head of cattle threat ened with confiscation. Venator de clares in a telegram to the Governor that the entire move was "a contempti ble and dastardly frame-up and steal on tne part of a few petty Mexican of flcials and ex-officials." Pictures of Mary Plckford Declared to Have Been Mailed Prospect and Money Obtained. SEATTLE. Wash., March 8. (Spe cial.) The Federal grand Jury respon sible for the Indictments against Ma yor Gill, Chief of Police Beckingham and others was dissolved today by an adjournment to a future date to be set by the court. Judge Neterer, in granting the motion of the District Attorney, thanked the Jury for its serv ices. ' It is presumed ia Federal circles that at the next sitting of the grrand Jury questions involving the high cost of living may occupy attention. Prior to adjournment, the grand Jjry returned five Indictments embrac ing accusations of violations of Fed eral immigration, postal and drug laws. All of the accused are in custody of the Federal authorities, and among them is Harry Leroy, the young man who is said to have inserted an ad vertisement in a periodical devoted to advertising for prospective wives or husbands and pretending to be a beau tiful young heiress, persuaded gullible prospective husbands to contribute var ious sums for different fictitious purposes. With the letters Leroy is alleged to have written his victims he frequently sent his correspondents "her" picture. usually mailing a photograph of. some well-known motion picture actress, one of his favorites being Mary Pickford. One of his victims informed the Fed eral authorities of the hoax, and Leroy was finally arrested and the grand Jury indicted him for misuse or fradulent use of the mails. Judge Neterer fixed his bonds at $1000. Dis D'Zaneuloff. a Russian alleged by Assistant District Attorney Martin to have committed a similar offense pre viously, was indicted on a charge' of bringing aliens into this country in vio lation ot'tbe Federal statutes. Three not true bills were also re turned. PUPILS HAVE $323,289 More Than 18,000 San Francisco Children Are Depositors. SAN FRANCISCO, March 8. The school children of San Francisco are thrifty. Their sayings account, in the Public School Savings Bank total $323.- 289. which was deposited by a youthful army of 18.751 in the 86 grammar and primary schools in the city. The figures are from the announce ment recently made by A. H. Giannini, vice-president of the Bank of Italy. where the funds of the school savings banks are deposited. He declares that this record exceeds that of any other city in the country. More children from poor families than from the rich have savings ac counts, says the announcement, and more from those in moderate than from either the poor or rich. Thirty per cent of all the children in public schools are depositors. An average of 5329 pur chase savings bank stamps every week at school. BUNKER HILL A SULLIVAN 91 GET 1.25 DAILY INCREASE. Raise In Pay of SS Cents a Shift Is Surprise and Unsolicited, and Doe to High Lead Prices. KELLOGG. Idaho. March 8. (Spe cial.) The Bunker Hill . & Sullivan Mining Company, largest single em ployer of labor in the Coeur d'Alenes, sprung a surprise on its employes to- $5000 ASKED FOR ANKLE Longshoreman Sues Lumber Con cern for Injury While at Work. ASTORIA. Or.. March 8. (Special.) Hoy Dolan filed a suit in the Circuit Court today against the Westport Lumber Company asking $5000 general damages for personal injuries and $391.20 for loss of wages, hospital and physician a fees. The complaint recites that the plain' tiff ia a longshoreman and on January 3 of this year he was assisting in load ing lumber on the steam schooner Daisy at the defendant company's wharf. Continuing, the complainant avers that a pile of lumber that had been carelessly stacked on the defendant's wharf tipped over, and. striking the plaintiff, smashed his ankle. As a re suit of this the plaintiff was confined to the hospital for 31 days and will be partly disabled permanently, he says. NEW UNIFORMS RECEIVED American Officers' Fatigue Garb Has Greenish Hue. EL PASO. March 8. United States Army officers attached to Brigadier- day when the announcement was made 0enerai George Bell s staff have re that, effective March 1, the bonus to be paid the men would be increased 25 cents a shift, making the bonus for March $1.25 a day. The company plans to pay this ad ditional bonus a's long as the price of lead remains above the $7.50 mark. During February the lead market hovered around the $10 mark. There had been no agitation here to increase the amount of bonus paid. The com pany management felt that the con tinued high prices of metals war ranted the increase. It was not learned here whether other mines in the district have taken similar action. Woman Hates Dishwashing, so Turns Carpenter. Sklrta Worn, Rather Than Overalla. bnt Man'a Kelt Hat and Sweater Complete Costume She Ia Archi tect, Builder and Foreman,- All in One. SAN FRANCISCO, March 8. "Bah! I hate dishwashing." In this brief sen tence Mrs. L. U. Grant. San Francisco's only woman carpenter and house build er, epitomizes the thousand and one reasons she might give for engaging in the business .she does. When she made the statement she was clamber ing about the third story of a new house she is building in one of the residential sections. Unlike other women who have 101- ceived fatigue uniforms made of the new service cloth adopted by the Quar termaster's Department The uniforms came from the Philadelphia supply de pot and have attracted much attention among the Army officers in this dis trict. The new service cloth is darker color than the old issue of olive drab. It has a greenish tinge to it and 1 rougher and has more nap. The cloth is said to be similar to that now used in England for the British armies and marine corps. All officers on the border will be sup plied with the new cloth uniforms as soon as they can be made. Smartest nev "Korrect" Skirts just arrived! Here only, in Portland. Third Floor. t We are Agents for the popular Klos-fit Petticoats! Third Floor. Coats for Spring beautiful coats! t1Aft5 Go on sale today, at a most attractive price -. r ' ildom Tvill vou have the good fortune to feuv such coats as these, at so low a price. They're not old-style coats no, indeed. But the very newest Spring Coats from Neiv York just unpacked from the boxes, with the wrinkles scarcely out. The materials are wool poplin and gabardine, and the colors navy, Copenhagen, desert sand, black and Spring green. 45 inches is the average length, and these coals are all half lined with plain or gay fancy silks a fea ture that you don't often find at $16.85. Third Floor, Lipman, Wolfe & Co. j Th e woman w ho IS New clever at making her hats Has a great surprise in store! Spring shapes are he re A multitude of smart hats, just ready for trimming. Oftentimes a woman knows the style and shape most becoming to her face and type and for this woman, these untrimmed hats were selected chosen from thousands of the newest, smartest Spring and Summer models and you may see for yourself just how well our Millinery Chief has chosen. Milan Hemps, Lizere, Shin) Straws, Milans, WenchoTv, Hinoki. Banf(ok, And a world of satin and straw combinations In all, it's just about the most representative collection imaginable, and an assortment that cannot be found anywhere else in Portland! Every shape, every style, every crown, every brim style is here READY! Prices ranging from $2.00 to $10.00. Wonderful hat trimmings You couldn't fail to make a stunning Spring hat The fairies themselves couldn't have devised a greater variety of fanciful, unique and altogether wonderful things for milady's hat! Some are im ported, and others are made right here in our own United States! Flowers in every hue of Mother Nature. Ornaments of silk, gold and beads. Cock Utile wings and feather fancies. Coque effects to give you more height. Oriental trimmings simply indescribable! . You must see them it will be well worth a special journey downtown today! Prices are from 25c to $4.00. Third Floor Lipman, Wolfe & Co. ;i'tri 'flTii Cc.t.a Ariitownumtw '. j urn... For one day TODAY REMEMBER! 28 dinner sets LESS First quality American Porcelain 15 sets of 26 pieces. Edwin Knowles. two gold .Q band pattern 3Z.ZV 5 sets of 51 pieces. Potters Co.. two gold j Qr band and black line Jpn-Vj 8 sets of 100 pieces. Potters Co., two gold . Q Q band and black line V.VJ Sixth Floor Lipman, Wolfe & Co. What pleasure you'll have Curtaining your windows with These scrims at 19c They're so dainty, these marquisettes and scrims, which you may have perfectly . plain for the living and dining-rooms, and prettily bordered in Springtime colors for the kitchen and bedrooms! The grounds are white, ecru and rich cream, and widths 36 to 40 inches wide enough for any kind of window. , And last, but indeed not least, there are the curtain ma terials that will give you pleas ure every time they're Washed so fresh and crisp they'll be! Fifth Floor Lipman, Wolfe & Co. i i i -u.ionii- William Casterline. Corvallls; Mrs J l2 Taylor. Boise, and Mrs. John M. Gibson, of Eugene. University Has Officers' Corps v WASHINGTON, March 8. A- senior infantry unit of the rese"r f training corps has been established, it was announced by the War Depart ment, at the State University of: Iowa. A Junior infantry unit has been au thorized for the University of Nebraska. MRS. G. P. KNOWLES BURIED Past Worthy Matron of Eastern Star Survived by Children. COTTAGE GROVE, Or.. March 10. (Special.) Mrs. George P. Knowles, whose funeral was held last Sunday, was a past worthy matron of the Cot tage Grove Order of Eastern Star, past noble grand of Cottage Grove Rebekah Lodge and also a member of the Royal Neighbors. . Lenora Belle Casterline was born In Minnesota 36 years ago, coming to Ore gon when a small child. She married George O. Knowles in 1902 and has been a resident of Cottage Grove since 1910. The husband survives, also two daughters, Eleanor, aged 13 years, and the newly born baby, 'three weeks of age. The following sisters and brothers survive: B. J. 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