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so I mk$ Pages 1 to 18 VOL. XXXI "0. 41. PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, . OCTOBER 13, 1912. PRICE FIVE CENTS. V K V ROSE SAYS BECKER ORDERED MURDER Gambler Testifies Hired Gunmen. He THOUSAND DOLLARS IS PAID Witness Admits Motive Is to Save Own Neck. DEFENDANT IS STOICAL 3fan Who Has Turned State's Evl dence Says Crime Was Deliber ately Planned at Police Official's Command. NEW YORK, Oct. 12. Long hours of cross - examination by supperless lawyers before a supperless court and Jury failed tonight to make "Bald Jack" Rose vary the story toe told earlier In the day of the part he played and the part he says ex-Police Lieu ten ant Becker played in the murder of Herman Rosenthal the gambler. "Becker told me," he testified, "that he wanted Rosenthal murdered, shot, croaked or dynamited. At his bidding I got the gunmen to kill Rosenthal. hid after, the murder. I. saw Becker that morning and later talked with him over the telephone. I paid the gunmen $1000 for Becker, and told them be said not to worry but to lay low. Lawyer on Verge of Collapse. "I gave myself up and became state's witness because Becker deserted me like a dirty dog and was getting ready to throw me to the wolves." Justice GofC convened the afternoon session of court at 2:15 o'clock. Shortly before 9 o'clock tonight he declared it adjourned untlMonday morning, after John F. Mclntyre, Becker's lawyer, pro tested he was on tne verge of collapse. Court, Jury, counsel, witnesses and the accused man had been without food since noon. Becker, cool and stoical, leaned. on the table at which he sat, his chin in his hands, his elbows on the table, dur ing the long cross - examination. Twenty feet back, in the first row of seats usually reserved for spectators, sat his wife. Once, only once, he glanced back at her and smiled. Rose Cornea Out Unruffled. "Bald Jack" Rose, thick-lipped, wide eared and without a hair on his head. was unruffled by the ordeal. Rosa admitted that he had lied, had perjured himself, had been a gambler and had been engaged for 20 years In illegitimate business. He admitted that he was testifying to save' his own life, but said he was telling the truth now. He said he had concluded to become state's" witness only when the electric chair stared him In the face, and added that he was not ashamed of his de termination. Without emotion, in a slow drawl, he said he had deliberately planned, at Becker's request, to put Rosenthal where he would never wor ry anybody else. He knew, he added, that it was a terrible deed to plan. Personal Motive Denied. "Where was your conscience?" de manded the lawyer. "I don't know," he said measuring his words and facing the lawyer squarely, "I never saw It." "Do you now Intend to lead a re spectable life?" "Yes, but not In this community. I value my life too much and I wouldn't bo a free man here.". Wlth words tumbling over each other in their haste. Rose declared he had been a "true friend" to Sam Schepps Harry Vallon and had lnter ' (Continued on Page 2.) ra GTM&z y Yj AFTER 42 YEARS FATHER MEETS SON IS SPOKA3TE PAWNSHOP SIRE RECOGXIZES "CHILD" OF 52. 'Dad," 73, Until Testerday Had Xot Seen Boy Who Went to Sea at Ten Both Are Cooks. SPOKANE. Wash.. Oct 12. (Special.) John' Nichols, 73, and James Nichols. 52, father and son, after a separation of 42 years, during which each considered the other dead, met in a loan office at 411 Main avenue this morning, and the father recognized his only offspring despite the change time has made. The elder Nichols, who has lived in Epokane for 33 years, was purchasing a pair of spectacles from Mark Seas, proprietor, when the son walked Into the establishment to make a purchase. The old man watched his son pay for bis purchase with a check and glanc ing at the signature shouted: "Jim, you're my son." - The son was born in Canada 52 years ago and at the age of 10 went to sea." The mother died, and the father came West. Until today neither father nor son had seen each other nor had they corresponded. Although there Is some resemblance between sire and son, the one strange coincidence is that both are cooks, the son following the occupation of the father after he had left the sea. Father and son celebrated tonight. according to the son, a "Dutch" dinner In a Main-avenue restaurant. WHALE MAKES. MEN RICH Sea Animal Coughs Up Valuable Bit of Ambergris Near Seward. SEATTLE, Wash., Oct. 12. (Special.) A. C. Gould, an Alaska mining .man, who arrived on the steamer Spokane today, tells of the' flnding of a valuable piece of ambergris by Dr. Elliott and George Bowes, near Seward, a few weeks ago. Elliott end Bowes were on a launch In Seward Harbor when their way was barred by a large whale. They stopped the launch and watched the animal until he swam away. He left floating on the surface of the churned water a lump of ambergris weighing 63 pounds. 'There were really nine lumps of It, Mr. Gould said, "all strung together like a long string of sausages. They brought It into Seward and had it tested by a chemist there. He told them it was the real stuff, and as the real stuff is worth 140 an ounce, Elliott and Bowes were, pretty well repaid for being"delayed half an hour by a whale with the stomach ache. Their find. is worth $832,280." " MAMMOTH TUBERS GROWN Little Old Back Tard Tlelds Abun dantly for Portland Man. Potatoes, many of which weigh three pounds ea6h, with many others weigh ing more than two pounds, are being raised right In the back yard of a resident of Portland. The grower Is Al Wilson, stagehand at the Orpheum, and his potato garden is situated in the rear of his home at 297 Ivy street. In a lot 50x50 Wilson has grown ten sacks of potatoes, the supply being sufficient for his own needs and for generous gifts to relatives. The po tatoes are a blend of the Early Rtse and Burbank varieties, many of them being ten inches long and a large num ber measuring 12 Inches In circum ference. PETTICOAT MAKERS FAIL Close-Fitting Dresses Worn by Wom en Cause of Bankruptcy. NEW YORK, Oct. 12. The Jackson- Mack Manufacturing Company, one of the largest makers of silk petticoats in New York, went Into Bankruptcy today. The failure is the culmination of a widespread complaint among petticoat manufacturers that the close fitting dresses now worn by women nave so reduced the demand for petticoats as o make them a glut on the market. PICTORIAL BEDIENT WINS DUEL II Boston Takes Battle in Fog 2 to 1. ONE MORE GAME IS NEEDED Wizardry of Red Sox Youth Mystifies Giants. VICTORY COMES IN THIRD Hooper Starts Sharp Batting Bee When He Catches Matty's Fade Away for Drive That Results In Three Bases. BOSTON. Oct. 12. Overcoming the New York Nationals by a score of 2 to 1 today, the Bostons, pennant-winners of the American League, need only a slnsrla victory to attain the world's baseball chamnlonshiD of 1912. The world's series now stands: ' Boston, three games won; New York, one -and one contest a tie. More than 84.000 persons, a record- breaking baseball crowd for Boston, saw a pitching duel In which Hugh Bedlent, a youngster, sparkled as new star in the baseball firmament. Three hits were the Giants' portion from Bedient's effective service. Only for an error by Gardner the young twirler would have turned back the New York club to defeat In nine score less innings. Bedient's Work Best so Far. Only a shade less brilliant than the box work of Bedlent was the skill of the old master, Christy Mathewson, who, except for two long-distance drives In the third inning, held tho Red Sox helpless Ty the magic of his. curves. Bedlent pitched the best ball that has been shown so far In the world's series. He had not been regarded as a likely choice for mound duty during the championship games and It was not until several Innings had passed that the thousands of spectators realized that the Giants were facing a Quality of pitching that was most baffling when hits meant runs. The only New Yorkers to fathom .Bedient's benders were Mathewson, Meyers -and Merkle. Those who suc cumbed on strike-outs were Davore, Snodgrass, Merkle and Mathewson. ' Blooper Begins Rally. Harry Hooper started the sharp bat ting bee that gave the Red Sox their two runs. A fadeaway curled up to the plate, and Hooper, catching It fair and square, shot the ball past Herzog along the left-field foul line, where the ball ricochetted between the angles of the fences to the confusion of Devore. On went the flying Hooper and before the ball was returned to the Infield the Red Sox outfielder was perched on third. There was pandemonium in the stand when Yerkes drove . the first ball pitched to left center, where It rolled up against the fence and bounded past Snodgrass. Hooper came over the plate and Yerkes made third whence he tal lied when Doyle made a bobble of Speaker's grounder. That ended the scoring for Boston. Thereafter Mathew son showed his skill in returning to Boston's benches every succeeding player who went to the plate. 20 Men Face "Matty." Seventeen men In order went out from the middle of the third to the last of the eighth inning on grounders to the infield, pop files to fielders, or as strike-out victims. Those who fanned were Gardner and Wagner. Mathewson (Concluded on Pag-e 5.) I COMMENTS BY CARTOONIST REYNOLDS ON THE INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 72 degrees; minimum. 46 degrees. TODAY'S Pair, followed by increasing cloudiness and cooler weather; easterly winds, shitting to southerly. " Foreign. Europe looks for spread of Bulgarian-Turkish war. Section 1, page ,1 Politics. Ex-Senator Fulton says Bourne confesses truth In his reply. Section 1, page IO. Stephen A. Lowell says Bourne's excuses foi running are flimsy. Section 1. page 8. Ben Selling makes reply to Bourne's charges. Section 1. page 11. Parallel is seen In Colonel's campaign on " trlbutlons and liorlmer's fund. Section 4, page 1. Colonel attacks Wilson's record as Governor. Section 1, page 5. Domestic. Three killed, five seriously hurt by storm In Chicago. Section 2, page 7. McNamara letter to unions, suspending ac counting of funds, identified. Section 1, - page 4. 20 convicts escape from Wyoming; peniten tiary. Section 1. page 3. "Bald Jack" Rose testifies Rosenthal was killed by order of Becker. Section 1, page 1. Southern Paclflo prepares for Coast line con struction. Section 1. page 9. Sport. Coast League results: Portland 7-8. San Francisco 2-3; Oakland 6-8, Sacramento 4-2: Vernon 6-10. Los Anseles 4-4. Sec tion 2,' page 2. Fullerton tells how Boston beat Giants. Sec tion 2, page 2. McGraw gives Bedlent credit for fine pitch ing, but says "breaks" were with Sox. Section 2, page 2. Soccer football playing begins In earnest today. Section 2, page 6. stultnom&h fears defeat by O. A. C. Section 2. page 0. Swarthznore College defeats - Pennsylvania, 6 to S. Section 2, page 8. University of Oregon defeats Willamette, 12 to v. Section 2. page 3. Boston defeats Giants, 3 (o L page 1. Section 1. Automobile and Roads. Columbia Association to hear Bowlby's re port on highway plan. Section 4, page 4. Woman has final word usually In automo bile purchases. Section 4. page S. Economy Is proved In auto drays. Section 4, page 5. Paclflo Northwest. Party lines give way to personalities In county division In Idaho. Section L page 8. Washington Industrial Commission says first report shows success. Section 1, page 9. After 42 years, father- meets son thought dead. Section 1, page 1. Holiday halts, progress of Pasco murder trial. ' Section 1, page 6. Brigadier-General Maua says few elk are left. Section a, page 10. Salem will celebrate completion of Portland. Eugene & Eastern bridge. Section 1. page 7. General . Wood favors retaining Vancouver post, section 1, page 6. Grant B. Dimtck replies to URen. Section .1, pag-o 7. Beal Kstate and Building. Greater Portland plan report Is ready. Sec tion 4. page 8. Early development of 8outh Mount Tabor Is expected. Section 4, page 8. Plan to extend Stark to Nineteenth Is under way. Seotion 4. page a. Campaign for more factories la started. Section 4. page 9. - Many colonists seek permanent homes in Oregon. Section 4, page 9. Commercial and Marine. Oregon hop market lifted to 20 centa Sec tion Z, page 17. Daisy Freeman goes on bar at Astoria. Sec tion 2, page 17. , Multnomah launched before admiring audi. ence. section 2. page 6. Portland and Vicinity. Oregon Electric to operate sleeping cars. first of type In America, section 1, page 16. Opposition grows to granting Heusner fran chise for Interurban cars on Seventh street. . Section 2, page 18. Afternoon automobile ride on Llnnton road ends In tragedy. Section 1, page 1. Dairy show at stockyards November 18-23 promises good advertising. Section 1, page 14. Mayor calls on citizens to observe "back yard cleanup day." section l, page Itf. Dates and topics given out for extension lectures oz Reed college, section 1. page 17. '. Mr. TJ'Ren, quibbling, refuses to debate with Mr. Shields. Section 1. page 18. Confessed forger's quick disguise Ineffectual. Section 1, page 1. Functions of first Portland Land Products Show set forth. Section 1, page 14. Red Pencil day clears , $3000 for Baby Home. Section 1, page 12. Ng Poon Chew says New China bids Amer- lean merchants enter, section l, page iz. CHEMICAL COW INVENTED Machine Digests Vegetables and Gives Milk That Scientist Likes. . LONDON, Oct. 12. (Special.) Three Germans have Invented a machine which digests vegetables like a cow and gives chemical milk. Sir William Crooks, 'scientist, tasted some of the milk and said he liked It. gl03.0 J EUROPE BELIEVES ii Concert Fails at Criti cal Time. . COLLECTIVE NOTE IS WEAK Sultan Foreshadows Reply in Ordering Mobilization. GREECE PREPARES OPENLY Turkey Expected to Send Great Force . Against Bulgarians, Leaving Montenegrin Outposts for ' Present to Fate. PODGORITZA, Montenegro. Oct. 12.- After sua engagement lasting until mid day, the Montenegrins broke through ' tne Turkish ranks near Tosht and In vested the town which la completely cut off from Scutari. . The; Montenegrin army baa been fighting; for four days alons the whole front, penetrating the Turkish terri tory slowly, owing to the many forti fications. Turks have burned several Mallsaori villages. Many wounded Turks have been brought to Podgoritza. LONDON, Oct. 12. The war cloud has settled over Europe., No rays of peace strike through any quarter. Montenegro continues to assail the Turkish forces, but the cracklings along that border are as mere fire crackers compared with the general ex plosion confidently expected within a week. The historic "concert of Europe" in the supreme test has failed to suppress the Balkan clash, which It averted time after time In the last quarter of a cen tury. ... The final exhibition of the help lessness of the great powers was given in the collective- note to Turkey pub lished today. That note, which was the best they could devise after earirest ne- gotlations, merely says that they will discuss reforms with the Sublime Porte, and gives no promise of any results that might placate -Slav nations. Sultan Exhorts His Army. The Turkish cabinet has been en gaged in framing a reply to the note, but at the same time the Sultan fore shadowed the nature of the reply by the Issuance of a proclamation for a general mobilization, which is a formal notification of what Turkey has been doing the last fortnight, and by an ex hortation to the army to fight worthily. Greece is equally above board with her preparations. Crown Prince Con stantino left Athens today to take command of the army. Vienna advices show Turkey will put 460,000 men against the Bulgarians and leave only two divisions to oppose Montenegro. Turkey apparently Is willing to sacri fice her outposts on that border for the time being. Losses Heavy at Tushl. Latest advices from Podgoritza say the Montenegrins have occupied the town of Tushl and that great losses have occurred on both sides. The mobilization of the Greek army has been successful beyond expecta tion. Troops to the number of 125,000 will be concentrated on the frontier by Monday and another 20,000 are being equipped. The mobilization centers of the government are overwhelmed with volunteers and it has been decided to enroll no more recruits for the -present. The Bulgarian government has framed a reply to the Russo-Austrlan fCoD eluded on Pago 4.) WAR WILL SPREAD PAST WEEK'S LEADING EVENTS. QUICK DISGUISE IS 1 NOT EFFECTIVE FORGER CAPTURED AS HE STEPS FROM BARBER SHOP. By Simple Method Credit Is Obtained and Checks to Amount of $600 Are Passed. "Hist!" The sleuths are upon my trail. I must change my disguise.' Edward Stokes, 33 years old, self confessed forger of $600 worth of bad checks, played the leading role In melodrama on the old stock company lines last night before he was captured by Plain Clothes Officers Martin and Tackaberry a role which would have been a thriller 10 years ago. Stokes had forged checks on two jewelry stores, a tent and awning house and a hardware store, and was engaged In making his getaway when the officers picked up his trail. He wore a heavy mustache and when he was "tipped off" that two officers were looking for him, he thought he must change his looks. Into a barber college at Fourth and Couch streets, where shaves are but 5 cents each. Stokes went. His. mus tache he ordered shaved off, his hair he required clipped. Fifteen minutes later he emerged from the shop, 'an other man to all personal appearances. But the disguise was not sufficient to elude the officers. He was arrested as he stepped through the door and was hurried to the police station, where he confessed to the forgeries. In his confession he showed how he had deposited balances In the East Side Bank and In Hartraan & Thomp son's Friday; $50 in the East Side Bank and $70 in Hartman & Thompson's. Be fore the figures In each bank book he placed two "ones," so that his balance In each bank accumulated $1100 at once. At Jaeger's jewelry store, where he passed a check for $325, he showed the bank book as he wrote a check, using the same device at. each place. On Marx & Bloch he passed a check for $85, on the Willamette Tent & Awning Works one for $20, and on the Honeyman Hardware Company a bad check for $150, explaining that because it was a legal holiday, he could not get the money from his bank. He had seven diamond rings when taken. POSTCARD SHOWER IS DUE Spokane Snffrngists to Send Con gratulations to Sirs. Dnnlwaj. SPOKANE. Wash., Oct. 12. (Special.) Spokane- women suffragists will join in a "post card shower" In honor of the 7Sth birthday of Mrs. Abigail Dun- lway, 292 Clay street, Portland, known as the "Mother of Equal Suffrage" -In the State of Washington. Women throughout Washington, who appreciate the ballot, are asked to send the aged suffragist post card con gratulations on her birthday, October 22. Mrs. M. A. Hutton has received a post card from Mrs. Henry Waldo Coe, acting president of the Oregon Equal Suffrage Association, telling of the initiation of the post card shower. Mrs. Hutton says: "I heartily indorse the idea and sug gest that all who appreciate the right of the ballot send cards to Mrs. Dun iway." MARYLAND SJSENT SOUTH Cruiser Will Join American Warship at Corlnto. SEATTLE, Oct. 12. Orders to sail Immediately for Nicaragua were re ceived tonight by the armored cruiser Maryland, which arrived yesterday from the Orient. The Maryland Is at tho Puget Sound Navy-Yard, coaling for the southern trip, and is expected to get away before noon tomorrow. The Maryland will call at Acapulco, Mexico, and proceed from there to Corinto, where she will Join the war ships unier command of Rear-Admiral W. H. H. Southerland. The Maryland will put in at San Francisco on the way down the coast. iH KILLED, 2 Unruly Cow Sends Car Over Embankment BROKEN NECK CAUSES DEATH Alice Holmes Dies Instantly After 40-Foot Crash. LINNTON ROAD DRIVE FATAL Two Women and Driver Have Ml racu'ous Escape When Touring Car Plungea Off Highway at Treacherous Place. Killed. Miss Alice Holmes, 21; neck broken. Injured. Miss Bertha Holmes, cut on faca and se'erely bruised, George F. Brlce, contusions of arm and leg. One woman was Instantly killed and two others and one man, the driv er, miraculously escaped death and suffered minor injuries when an auto mobile, seeking to avoid a fractious cow, overturned on the St. Helena road. about two miles below Llnnton, yes terday afternoon. Slipping Into a treacherous bank, masked by ferns, the automobile tilt ed slowly, then gathered momentum and hurtled down a 40-foot embank ment, leaving the passengers strewn along the incline, one of them near the bottom with her neck broken. Those in the car were George F. Brlce, attorney; Mrs. H. B. McCabe, wife of an employe at the Baker Theater, liv ing at 445 Tenth street; Miss Alice Holmes and Miss Bertha Holmes, sis ters of Mrs. McCabe. Cow Gets Unruly. The driver, Mr. Brlce, had Just turned the car toward the city, after driving down the highway and had not yet gathered speed, when a farmer lead ing a cow, cut across his route. As the machine approached, the animal swerved violently, dragging its leader, and, to avoid hitting one or the other, Mr. Brlce turned his car to the edge of the road. In doing so he overstepped the margin of the Bafe roadway and the two outer wheels sank into a bed of ferns, masking a crumbling bank. We all felt the car going over,'' said Mr. Brlce, in telling of the accident last night, "and my first thought was to disentangle myself from the steer ing gear, realizing that in case of an overturn, if caught under it, I would be helpless." "I cannot describe what followed, it happened so quickly. The next thing I knew I was picking myself up and coming out of a daze, down the bank. about 16 feet below the highway. Miss Bertha was beside me, half-swooning, and I picked her up and carried her to the road. Miss Alice lay about 10 feet farther down the embankment, lier head crumpled under her body, and motionless. Mrs. McCabe, In some re markable manner, escaped from the car at the edge of the road." Miraculous Escape Pussies. Mrs. McCabe can give no explana tion of her quick and safe escape. "It all happened In an Instant," she said, "and we were all dazed by the shock." She escaped with only a severe shak ing. The wrecked car rolled clear to tne foot of the bank and came to rest be side the tracks of the Astoria & Co lumbia River Railroad. Mr. Brlce, who has been a friend of (Concluded on Page 12.) Af'SSO(JZt WO