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j r-. , i n UN VOL. L.VIII. NO. 17,937. PORTLAND, OREGON, TUESDAY, MAY 21, 1918. PRICE FIVE CENTS. THREE SLAIN WHILE SLEEPING IN TENT SHOE MACHINERY TRUST HELD LEGAL OREGON PIONEER, AGED 103, IS DEAD MRS. MARY M. FAILRXER SUC CUMBS NEAR ALBANY. SCARLET SYMBOL LOOMS OVER CITY LANE DEDICATES NORTHWEST STEEL TO ENLARGE PLANT POWELL MEMORIAL C. S. SUPREME COtJRT DECISION FAVORS BIG BUSINESS. SECRETARY OF INTERIOR GOES TO GRAND CANYON. JOHNS' NOMINATION CLEARLY INDICATED Portland Man Leads in State by 2000. .Woman and Two Chil dren Murdered. BOY MAKES GRUESOME FIND Bodies at Kelso Morgue Not Yet Identified. AUTO NOTICED NEAR SCENE rtpllcf Is That Man Slew Wife and Children and Then Fled in Ma chineSearch for Clews So Far Unavailing. ".ELSO, Wash., May 20. (Special.) Inside a small tent not 100 feet from the Pacific. Highway, two miles south of Kelso, within the past 48 hours was committed one of the coldest-blooded murders in Cowlitz County's history. Within this tent late this afternoon a small boy, whose home is on a nearby ranch, discovered the bodies of a wom an, about 35, a girl, 13, and a boy, about 11. All the victims of the fiendish mur derer had been shot as they slept. The woman and boy had been shot once, the girl twice. They are preijmably a mother and children. Although Sheriff Clark Studebaker, of Cowlitz County: Marshal Hull, of Kelso, and Prosecuting Attorney Delos Hpauldlng, who were called to the scene immediately, have made a thor ough search of the belongings, no means of identification of the victims nor any clew to the murderer's iden tity has been found. The spot where the crime was committed is a favorite night camping ground for tourists, and hundreds of cars have passed since the murder. In fact, several cars stopped within a few yards of the tent today for dinner. Revolver and Rifle Fennd. Beside the' woman's body was an old, rusty revolver containing one loaded shell and blanks. A high-powered rifle also was found in the tent, but neither of these weapons was used to commit the crime. The position of the bodies precludes any suicide theory. Several Kelso people say they eaw the woman and children in a Ford automobile with a man and dog Satur day afternoon. Some road workers who pass the spot every day also say the party camped there Saturday. The man is thought to have committed the murder some time at night while his companions were sleeping and driven away In his Ford after removing all means of identification. There were no signs of struggle about the tent. Opinions differ as to whether the vie Urns have been dead since last night or Saturday night. Some articles found among their be longings indicate that they had been at tinoqualmie, and Seattle, Wash., re cently. A notation on a slip of paper showed that they had traveled 132 miles Wednesday, Thursday and Fri day, but had not traveled Saturday Husband Believed Murderer. Sheriff Studebaker and Prosecutor Spaulding hold to the theory that the murder was committed by the woman's husband or traveling companion after they had quarreled, and that after committing the crime the man gathered up his belongings and left in the auto. Persons who say they saw the party in an auto say the man was about 6 feet 4 inches in height and weighed about 140 pounds. The man was roughly dressed. The Ford auto was an old-style machine. Officials have attempted by telegraph to get trace of someone in Snoqualmie who answers the description of the man seen driving the auto, but their efforts have been unavailing so far. Meanwhile the bodies were brought to Kelso and are held at the morgue awaiting identification. "Who the mur dered woman and children are and who committed the terrible crime is the question Cowlitz County officials are attempting to solve. FIRE DESTROYS HOSPITAL Seven Patients Carried Safely Out of Burning Structure. ELLENSBURG. Wash.. May 20. (Special.) Fire which broke out in the General Hospital this afternoon about 1:30 o'clock practically destroyed the building. Seven patients were brought out safely and put temporarily in the home of A. M. Wright, owner of the hospital building. Nobody connected with the hospital would estimate the loss. It is thought the fire was due tc a defective flue. Bystanders helped carry out the patients and furniture. This is the third hospital fire In Ellensburg and vicinity in a month. CANTALOUPE! MARKET UP Crate Sells for $10,200, but Red Cross Receives Proceeds. SAN FRANCISCO, May 10. The first box of cantaloupes to appear here was auctioned at a luncheon of campaign workers today for the benefit of the Red Cross. The melons brought $10,200. It was announced that $281,345 of the city's $1,000,000 quota was subscribed. Growth of Bis Combination Declared Due lo Efficient Manage ment, Not Oppression. WASHINGTON. May 20. Through an opinion which some construed as indi cating a new attitude toward big busi ness and on which the court divided four to three, the Supreme Court today refused to order the dissolution of the United Shoe Machinery Company of Massachusetts and its subsidiaries, forming the so-called "shoe machinery trust." While admitting the magnitude of the combination, the court declared Its growth resulted from efficient manage ment and not oppression, and held that the breaking up of such a concern un der a dissolution order would be prac tically impossible. This suit, instituted by the Govern ment in 1911, is the first under the Sherman anti-trust act to be decided by the Supreme Court in a number of years and for the first time in recent history a complete victory has been won by an organization attacked by the Government. In the proceedings the Government not only sought the dissolution of the company, which it contended to be an organization in restraint of trade, but also the abolishment of the so-called "tying leases" by which the company retained control over shoe machinery leased to shoe manufacturers. ENGINE KILLS AUTO PILOT Lawrence Middleton Meets Death and Boy Is Badly Injured. GRANTS PASS, Or.. May 20. (Spe cial.) Lawrence Middleton, 20, was in stantly killed tonight when the work truck he was driving was struck by a passenger train at & crossing about a mile west of Merlin. Jack Beears, 9, who was riding with Middleton, was badly hurt, but It Is believed he will recover. Middleton was going to Hells Gate, about 15 miles down Rogue River. The locomotive struck the truck near the seat and Middleton was thrown some distance, his skull being crushed and a leg broken. It is the custom of the Grants Pass fishermen to leave the city at night and drift down the river to Hells Gate,' beyond which it Is unsafe to go in a boat. The boats are hauled back on trucks In the morning, each truck hauling two boats, the fish and Wie fishermen. ONE VOTE DECIDES PRIMARY M. D. Clifford Wins Democratic Nomination for Judge in Baker. BAKER. Or.. May 20. (Special). Final complete returns in primary election shows M. D. Clifford winner over J. B. Messick for Democratic nomination for Circuit Judge by a single vote, the winner polling E67 and loser G66. Both candidates watched the official -count and when the result was announced Messick congratulated Clifford and told him he would give him full support in the general election. The defeated candidate is the re called County Judge who is now con testing the vote of the recall election. Judge Clifford was for many years on the bench in the Ninth Judicial Dis trict. comprising Grant and Harney counties. He will oppose In the Ken eral election next fall Gustav Ander son, incumbent, who was unopposed for the Republican nomination. RELIEF TAX TO BE LEVIED San Francisco Will Raise $100,000 for Dependents of Men in War. SAX FRANCISCO. May 20. The Board of Supervisors today adopted a measure Incorporating an additional 2 cents In the tax rate to provide a fund of $100, 000 for the relief of dependent families of men in the Army, Navy or Marine Corps resident here. STATE TO GO WHEATLESS Montana Food Officials Propose Six Weeks of Abstinence. HELENA, May 20. A wheatless diet for Montana until July 1 was proposed in a resolution passed today by a state wide conference of food administrators. The resolution for six wheatless weeks, it Is understood, will have the practical e-fect of an order. PIONEER SHOWMAN IS DEAD George W. Hall Introduced Circus to Sontb American Public. JANESVILLE. Wis., May 20. George Washington Hall, said to have been the oldest active circus proprietor, is dead at Evansville. aged 83. He began his showman's career at the age of 13, and was the first to take an American circus to South America. PRICE FOR STEERS RECORD Cudahy Plant at Sioux City Pays $17.75 a Hundred by Carload. SIOUX CITY, la-. May 20. A new top price for cattle was established at the Sioux City Stockyards today when the Cudahy Packing Company paid C. H. TT.i.qlA nf Parker S. TV- 117 7R a hun dred pounds for a carload of steers. ' KELLY SECOND IN CONTEST Upstate Counties Cut Into Multnomah Lead. TREASURER RACE IS CLOSE Thomas F. Ryan Has Lead of Only 39 Votes Over O. I. Hoff F. J. Miller Defeats Fred Will iams for Commissioner. Additional county returns received yesterday clearly Indicate the nomina tion of Charles A. Johns of Multnomah County as Justice of the Supreme "ourt. It is apparent that Mr. Johns will have a plurality of about 2000, with second place closely contested by John B. Coke "and Percy R. Kelly. The additional figures received yes terday, which aggregated several thou sand, reduced Mr. Johns' plurality only 43 votes. Probably not more than 7000 or 8000 votes are yet to hear from and for either Coke or Kelly to overtake him seems out of the question. Kelly and Coke Close. The figures for the vote outside of Multnomah County include returns on this office from 17 counties and all but a few precincts from several others. Returns from several counties were favorable to Judge Coke, who has been listed as third, and brought his total to within a few hundred of that of Judge Kelly. The vote outside of Multnomah Coun ty stands at present as follows: Kelly, 16.680. Coke. 16,937. Johns. 10.697. Kelly's lead, 6983. Jeans Leads by 20OO. Including tbe-complete vote of Mult nomah County, the figures stand: Johns, 25.141. r-T" . , . Kelly, 22.796. Coke, 22,431. Johns' lead, 2346. The later returns, however, failed to clear up the doubt as to the nomination for State Treasurer. The latest com pilation gives Thomas F. Ryan a lead of only 269 over O. P. Hoff, counting the votes from all counties, including Multnomah. Treasurer Race In Doubt. The incomplete returns from up-state counties give the following totals: Adams, 3561. Cusick, 8662. Hoff. 9655. Plummer. 3604. Ryan, 13,316. West, 8296. Ryan's up-state lead. 3660. The addition of the complete Multno mah figures gives the following re (Concluded on Pare 4. Column 2.) Deceased Believed to Have Been ' Oldest in Slate Seven Chil dren, One 8 3, Survive. ALBANY, Or., May 20. (Special.) Mrs. Mary Magdalene Faulkner, prob ably the oldest person in Oregon, died last night at jcr home, 19 miles south east of Albany, aged 103 years and 14 days. She had lived on the farm on which she died contlnuou...,,- for al most 67 years. She was born in Ohio and crossed the plains with hen husband, T. J. Faulk ner, in 1851. Mr. Faulkner died about 0 years ago. Mrs. Faulkner is survived by seven children, the oldest of whom is 85 years of age. The children are: Eliaa Faulkner, M. B. Faulkner, Solomon W. Faulkner and J. S. Faulkner, all re siding in Linn County, and John Faulk ner, G. W. Faulkner, and Mro. Mary Foster, living in Eastern Oregon. OREGON TO BID ON WOOL Two Pounds of Clip of White House Sheep to Be Sold Here. SALEM, Or.. May 20. (Special.) H. P. Davidson, of the National Red Cross, today advised Governor Withyconibe by wire that President and Mrs. Wilson have donated the shearing from the White House sheep to the Red Cross, about two- pounds of the wool to be Oregon's portion to be sold to the high est bidder and the wool is to be for warded to the Governor probably to reach here In time for presentation to the best bidder after the auction. Bids will be received by telegraph or mail. The Governor joins in accord with the plan, inasmuch as the proceeds are for the Red Cross. VICTORIA RECORDS TREMOR Quake Thought to Have Occurred in Pacific Ocean. VICTORIA. B. C, May 20. Instru ments at the Victoria Observatory to day recorded an earthquake, which of ficials estimated occurred about 6000 miles away, probably In the Paclflo Ocean. The record was pronounced, and the tremor lasted over an hour. SEATTLE, May 20. The needle of the seismograph of the University of Washington was thrown out of posi tion today, probably by the earthquake shock registered at "Victoria." Univer sity instructors said only a severe shock would throw the needle from its position. GERMAN PAPERS SUSPEND Spokane Tferold and Associated Publications Assert Patriotism. SPOKANE. May 20. The Spokane Herold, with its associated publications in Seattle, Everett and Belllngham, has suspended publication. This includes the well-known German-American pub lication, the Washington Staats-Zeltung of Seattle. The editor of the Herold. In a fare well announcement, explains that the reasons for discontinuing the paper are entirely patriotic and based on a de sire to remove all misunderstandings. THE ENTIRE WEIGHT OF THE NATION, IF Affairs of Business Are Eclipsed. OREGON'S PLEDGE IS GIVEN State's Sons in France Are Not to Be Forgotten. RED CROSS MERCY'S GUIDON V Portland Has Fixed Purpose to Raise Its Quota in Two Days Pa triotic Enthusiasm Evidenced Greater Than Ever Before. GIVE RBD CROSS FX'SiDS TO OVE SAVR AUTHORIZED SOLICITORS. Contributors to the Red Cross war fund are requested in each Instance of cash payment to de mand receipt therefor and to make no payments'to anyone not wearing the official solicitors' badge of the Red Cross. Solicitors have been Issued these official badges, by which they may be known to the pub lic The badges are of white ribbon, bearing the Red Cross emblem and a caption in blue let tering, "Second war fund, official solicitor." C C. COLT. Portland Chapter War Fund Chairman. Over all Portland today, eclipsing the lesser affairs of business and com merce, looms the scarlet syrnbol of the American Red Cross as the guidon of the second War Fund campaign. LA.nd in every city and town of Oregon the pledge is given ror eacn oi tnese has sent its sons to France. Late last night the total of returns from outer state conntles had reached $107,276, or approximately one-third of the quota, exclusive of Portland, with but one-third of the counties report ing. Within the week Portland is asked to bring 8250,000 to the Red Cross, and the outer state to bring 8350,000 mow This Is the task set for Oregon in the Nation's gift of $100.000,000 and the state that answered first in volunteers, and in the patriotic calls that followed, will not fail to answer as before. Crusaders Meet at Nooi. Captains and team members of the downtown soliciting divisions are or dered by their colonels to report today at noon, 12:16, at luncheon at the Hotel Portland, when progress will be re viewed and instructions issued. Final instructions were given last night to the two divisions of Portland workers for the Red Cross cause, when (Concluded on Pace 8, Column 1.) NEED BE. Arizona Stale Officials Vnlc in Ceremony Monument to Ex plorer on Rim of Gorge. GRAND CANTON. Ariz.. May 20. ; Franklin K. Lane. Secretary of the In terior, today dedicated at a point about mile west of 1"1 Tower Hotel, on Maricopa Point, a monument to the memory of Major John Wesley Towel first director of the Geological Survey and the explorer who in 1869 conducted he first expedition through this world- famous gorge. A number of officials and other Ari zona notables were present. Among hem weie: Governor George W. 1. Hunt and staff. Bishop Julius W. A. Wood, o! he Episcopal Church of Arizona; tarry K. Trittle', son of ex-Governor F. A Trittle. Mr. Trittle acted as mas ter of ceremonies. The monument is on the rim of the canyon, on a promontory 7000 feet above sea level. The promontory pro jects Into the 15-inile-wide gorge of the Colorado River and is 000 feet above its waters. The monument is a massive pile oi native undressed rock. On It is a bronze tablet with a portrait in relief of Major Powell. The names of his party also are Inscribed there, and this simple Inscription: Erected by the Congress of the United Stater to Major John Wesley Powell, first explorer of the Colorado River, who descended the river with his party In rowboats. traversing the gorge beneath this point August 17. 1869, and again September 1. 1872.'" BALDWIN TALKED ENLI.ST Escaped Convict Said He Wanted to Join Canadians. SALEM. Or.. May 20. (Special.) Jeff Baldwin, who escaped from the State Penitentiary Sunday. May 12. made strong efforts to secure an enlistment In the Canadian array Just before his escape. Baldwin expressed himself as ex tremely desirous of seeing service on the western front, and Warden Murphy took the matter up with a Canadian re cruiting officer, but Baldwin evidently reared be had no chance and fled. CHARLES W. FAIRBANKS ILL Physicians Report ex-Vlce-Presldent May Not RecoTer. INDIANAPOLIS. May 20. Charles W. Fairbanks, former vice-president of the United States. Is critically ill at his home here with Bright's disease. His condition was better today than for a few days past, it was reported, but physicians stated tonight that he may not recover. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. TESTERDATS Maximum temperature. B8 decrees; minimum temperature. 45 de gree. TODAY'S Fair; westerly winds. War. Full military runeral given Major Raoul Lufbery. American ace, killed in Tout sector, rage z. French advance on two-mile front near I.ocre. and allies make good gains In Macedonia. Page 7. Foreign. Thirty-seven persons perish in biggest Ger man air raid ever made in London. Page 2. Attempted 81nn Fein revolt said to have been financed by Germany. Pace 2. TJ-boats start unrestricted warfare on IS'or wclan fishing fleet in Arctic Pace 3. Bolshevlki protest to Germany against Turk ish outrages In Caucasus. Page 8. National. President takes aircraft production out of hands of Slcnal Corps. Page 4. Shoe Machinery trust wins In United States Supreme Court. Page 1. President Issues draft call for men of age Inc June S. 1917. Pago 6 Portland, through. War Board ruling, be comes wool center of 'entire West. Page 6. Domestic Schwab practically closes deal for conttrai tion of 8100.000.000 worth of new ships Page S. Trial of Miss Lusk halted while court initiates action against Dr. Roberts. Page 1 Secretary Lane dedicates monument to Major John W. Powell, first explorer of Grand Canyon. Page 1. Sports. Good scores made In state trap hooters' tournament. Pag ft. Kopp steals home and wins for Athletics la 14th- Pace 8. First round In Multnomah Club's women's handicap tennis tournament played. Page 8. Portland defeats Tacoma la first road game, 6 to 2. Pag 6. ractrle Northwest. Mary M. Faulkner, oldest woman ta Oregon, dies; acd 103. Pag 1. Justice Wallace McCamant. ef Oregon Supreme Court, announces Intention te resign. Pace T. Republicans te predominate In Legislature. Pag 8. Woman and two children murdered while aleplnc In tent. Pac 1. Seaside host to more than 1000 Oddfellows. Page 4. Los Angeles literati spend entire Winter In Oriran mountains and nar1y perish. Pas . Commercial and Marine. Local strawberry crop lighter than year aco. Pace 17. Delay In corn planting oauses higher market at Chicago. Page 17. Cheyenne and 8alt Lake to furnish 800 laborers for shipyards In Portland . Pag IS. Portland and Vicinity. Northwest Steel Company to nlarg plant. Pag 1- Scarlet symbol of Red Cross looms over Portland. Page 1. Marquam Guloh playground sees first earth turned for big improvmnt Pag 7. City employe to receive rife In salaries. Pac 12. Portland boards announce names of men called for serrte. - Pac 11. Columbia Slough darning project Is opposed. Pag 18. Big raisin brandy still seized In raid. Pag 4. John's nomlnetien for Supreme Justice clear ly Indicated. Page 1. Wobtr report, eats and forecast, Fi 13, Auxiliary Shipyard Cover 40 Acres. to FOUR WAYS TO BE PROVIDED Site Selected Lies South of Present Location. DUPLICATE YARD PLANNED Complete Facilities lo Be Added for Outfitting BIr Steel Vescls.' Other I .oval Companies Kxpct-lcd to Imitate. Establishment of a steel .shipbuild ing plant, covering 40 acres, to bo lo cated south of Woods street, on the west bank of the Willamette River, Is the latest maritime enterprise . the Northwest Steel Company is fosteNng to provide additional totinace in back ing the Emergency Fleet Corporation to span the Atlantic with the bridge of ships General Pershing has akd for. The tract selected, which is owned by the O.-W. R, x.. lies beyond the plant of the Coast Shipbuilding Com pany, and extends from the river back to the right-of-way of the Southern Pacific. It is not utilized at present, save a portion of it provides moorings ton a few river vessels, and It will only be necessary to shift them and build bulkheads to be prepared for a fill. The lease Is now being negotiated. Fear Ways Be Bwllt. Material taken from the river will serve the double purpose of affording deeper water and filling the tract at the same time. It la understood that the plan under consideration Is for a total of four ways to be maintained, the same number as at the present yard of the Northwest Steel Company, and there will be a duplicate plant in stalled, but adding to it all tools and gear for completely outfitting the bis steel vessels. The Northwest Steel Con utir has about 15 acres In the property now in usj, at the foot of Sheridan street and the Columbia River Shipbuilding Cor poration, adjoining the Northwest's yard on the south, tiaa more then 20 acres, so the new yard being arranged for will be almost as large as the combined Northwest and Columbia River properties as now maintained. Elgat Contracts Received. Recently the Northwest Steel Com pany closed with the Emergency Fleet Corporation for eight steamers, each of 8800 tons, deadweight, while nine have been launched for the Gov ernment and IS others are yet to be launched before the last contracted fop are started. The acceptance r Charles M- Schwab of the responsibil ities as Director-General of the Emer gency Fleet Corporation is said to have brought about the most striking impetus the Government's shipbuilding programme has experienced since It was inaugurated. It is assured that all wooden , ship yards will keep their ways full for months to come and. with Mr. Schwab's knowledge of steel, it is felt that he will expand the plants for that class of construction to the extreme limit. Company Looks te Fsture. That is believed to be the reason be hind the new move of the Northwest Steel Company. Its yard at the foot of Sheridan, the first steel plant in Portland for ship construction since the revival of marine building, has much more machine-shop capacity than la required, and when the first con tracts were undertaken the manage ment looked Into the future, so pro vided auxiliary facilities for making rivets, bolts and nuts, then added to them the manufacture of spikes for wooden ships. The result is those ac cessories are being supplied other yards on the Coast, while the company haa more rivets, bolts and nuts than are needed In the yard now. Two Wars te Be BsUt The Columbia River Shipbuilding Corporation, which has three sets of ways, will have two mora ways short ly, they to be built as soon as more contracts are closed for. which are now under negotiation. There la space for them on the present property. In laying out that plant all facilities for completing ships were included, that meaning Scotch marine boilers also. The boilerehlp output haa Increased to the extent that the company ha sold to other yards and recently took on contracts for SO boilers for the Emer gency Fleet Corporation. Under the system now followed by the Northwest Steel Company, only hulls are built there, the veseels be ing towed to the plant of the Willam ette Iron c Steel Works for machin ery Installation afterward, the Wil lamette building the boilers and auxil iary machinery. In the case of all ISOO-ton steamers built here, the main engines are turbines and come from the East. The work of the two yards haa done much to draw attention to Portland, the Emergency Fleet Corporation re garding them as among the best in the United States, though there are some other plants with more ways. At the same time the percentage of out put has been such that it compares with the others in the West. Without making any special effort, at least not to the extent of striving for records, the Northwest Steel Com- j,Couciuaed en t, Co.uum L Fill 107.0