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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (May 18, 1913)
78 Pages j j Pages to 1 16 VOL. XXXII NO. 20. PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, MAY. 18, 1913. PRICE FIVE CENTS. RECORDS .OF MANY CANDIDATES GIVEN Facts Compiled for In formation of Voters. PLAIN TRUTH IS SET FORTH Aspirants for Commissioner ships Interviewed. TAX ROLLS ARE SCANNED Data Obtained From Candidates Themselves, From Acquaintances and From Citjr Hall and Court house Records Available. The Oregonlan herewith presents rec ords of various candidates for commlssionershlps at the city election June 2. The Information has been secured from the candidates themselves, from the records at the City Hall, the County Courthouse, from acquaintances and friends of the candidates and in other ways at the command of this paper. No attempt is made to withhold any thing either favorable to or against a candidate except that moderation Is used In making statements regarding mat ters In dispute. The statements regard ing taxes have been secured from the tax roll of 1913 at the Courthouse, from the deed transfer books. The figures have been secured both by clerks in the Assessor's office and by a repre sentative of this paper. The taxes, as stated, relate only to taxes paid by the person mentioned and do not In clude taxes on property held by a can . didate's wife or by a candidate jointly with other Dersons unless the deed is . in his own name. The records of the other candidates be printed In succeeding Issues, and -later The Oregonian will Indicate to the voters the names of those who are undoubtedly Qualified for the office of Commissioner in point of character. ability, business experience and who have sufficient political strength to be factors In the contest. Ralph C Clyde Born In New York in 1880 of Jewish parentage. Newsboy in boyhood days. Came to Portland ears ago. Since then In advertising and printing business. Among other tilings published a newsboy's paper railed "Newsboy's Calamity Howler. Publication was radical, full of libels and absurdities and often classed as repulsive. Went into the advertising business In 1900. In 190 took Herbert Booth King Into the business and - a few months afterward they made failure. When the firm went under the indebtedness was about $600. A num ber of post dated checks In the irms name were In the hands of creditors with no funds to cover them in the banks. Reason for Irregular practice of post dating checks is not certainly known; probably because the firm was skating on thin ice. Claimed by Clyde that it was the practice of the firm in Issuing time checks which caused trouble. The checks were issued. dated ahead and signed by Clyde and King Jointly. The number Is dis puted, it being reported that there were Jl. but Clyde declares that there were only eight. John Manning, who at that time was District Attorney, had the checks In his possession and was urged to issue a warrant for the ar rest of Clyde. He refused to cause his arrest declaring that there was nothing criminal In the bad check transactions. Clyde went to work at wages and between 1907 and 1910 made all the checks good, paying them on the installment plan. Secured letters of receipt and vindication for his aatlons in squaring the debts of the firm. Also paid interest on the checks In several instances. Was elected to the Legislature In 1910 and was considered an obstructionist and a radical. Took part in the anti-capital punishment (Concluded on Pace IS.) JWf M M I . 1 . it rW T H il I ' -; - I T .Wf 1 I r ir 1 1 T . I . LAl S . I lira V - It ""iw JESSIE'S MIDNIGHT PHONE CALL BARED PAGE, OS LARK, KINGS WHITE HOUSE AT AVITCHIVG HOCR. After Five Weeks Secret Service Men Trace. Attempted Xlght Wlre "Spoon" With Miss Wilson. WASHINGTON. May 17. Secret Serv ice men, after five weeks hunt for the origin of a mysterious midnight tele phone call to Miss Jessie Wilson, one of the President's daughters, found out today that It was only a mischiev ous little page of the House of Repre sentatives bent on a lark In a dull mo ment and that he is now safe at home in Texas, where he ctnnot even be of ficially spanked. The White House telephone tinkled late one night and a voice said: "I wanna talk tuh Jessie." Then it developed the little chap lost bis nerve and hung up, while the secret service men began a weary chase, final ly tracing the call to the Republican cloakroom of the House, to find that everybody on the House side oft he Capitol knew who did it MARRIAGE FEE HELD GRAFT Oak Park Minister Says Rite, God's, Should Be Free. if CHICAGO. May 17. "Marriage fees are ministers' grafts," said Rev. Alrrfer Pennewell, pastor of the Euclid-Avenue Episcopal Church, of Oak Park, In a statement today. If the church Insists that marriage is a rite that belongs to it," Rev. Mr. Pennewell said, "then the church should make marriage free to all. "The minister who does not need a fee. should be ashamed to take it and; a church whose minister needs the fee should raise his salary. No minister should be forced to stand at a wedding wun nis hand out. REED TACTICS IN FAVOR Democrats to Cancus on Rules to Circumvent Republicans. WASHINGTON, May 17. Warned by the Republican strength in opposition to some of President Wilson's nomina tions in executive sessions, the Senate Democrats expect to caucus on Monday on Senator Williams' amendment to the rules which would allow the counting, when a quorum Is called for, of mem bers present but not voting. The Williams amendment, if adopted. would make the rules in this particular much like those of the House when Speaker Reed made use of the same de vice in counting a quorum. PORTLAND CRIES FOR AID Court Docket SoIIcavy Chief Justice Hurries to Rescue. SALEM. Or. May 17. (Special.) Chief Justice McBride today Issued an order directing Judge Calkins, of Ash land, and Judge Hamilton, of Rose burg, to go to Portland and hold court there during June In order that the congested docket for that district may be relieved. The order was made In pursuance to a request made by Judge Davis, of Portland, he representing that the docket in the district was so congested that aid from the outside was neces sary. BORAH MAY BE PRESIDENT Harper's Weekly Predicts Idaho Man Wilt Be Republican Nominee. NEW YORK. May 17. (Special.) Harper's Weekly today makes the fol lowing editorial forecast: We predict today that the next Re publican candidate for President of the United States will be William E. Borah of Idaho." More than a year before Woodrow Wilson's nomination Harper's made a similar prediction, which fact is re ferred to editorially by the New York Sun this morning. AGAIN Jl ALBANIA MENACES PEACE OF BALKANS Fierce Tribesmen In sist on Freedom. AUSTRIA SUPPORTS CLAIMS Hill People Capable of Wag - ing Relentless War. CZAR FOMENTING STRIFE Russia Regarded as Having Sought to Disturb European Concord at Same Time Desire for Peace Was Being Asserted. BT WOLF VON SCHIERBRAND VIENNA, May 9. It may be useful to give, even at this late 6s, a strictly authentic statement of the genesis of the Balkan alliance and of the result ant developments. My data come from a high official Russian source in this city, no less a personage than tne Russian Ambassador, M. de Glers, who has no objection to their publication, Thu a,one lt seems to me. Is a strong proof of their being correct. The first steps, those between Servla and Bulgaria, date back to 1911. The Servian Premier, Paslc, and the Servian Minister at Sofia, Spalajkovloh, did their utmost at that period to bring nhnnr rl riser relations between these two chief Balkan powers. In their ef forts they found enthusiastic backing on the part of Dr. Daneff. the leading Russophlle among Bulgarians, ana GueBhoff. the Bulgarian chief states man. Spheres of Influence Fixed. Between them and their friends the main troublous problem the exact definition of the respective "spheres of Influence" in Macedonia was solved for the time being. However, negotl: tions continued until March, 1912. when the Joint resolve was arrived at that the complete "autonomy" of Macedonia should primarily be sought. Conquest was not spoken of at that time. The "sDheres of Influence had been settled roughly by making Struga, on the Lake of Ochrlda, and thence the old Serbo-Bulgarian frontiers the di viding line. This understanding was reduced to writing, and Daneff, presi dent of the Bulgarian Sobranye, car ried the Instrument to Llvadla, where Emperor Nicholas of Russia was then rrsidinr. with the request that the monarch should, on occasion arising, act as arbiter in disputes between the Balkan peoples. Csar o Be Arbiter. That promise was, after considerable urging and after some, time, given by Nicholas, to whom it had been strongly represented that on Holy Mother Rus sia and on him necessarily devolved that task. It required no great . urging and no elaborate documents to get Montenegro to Join this agreement Montenegro, in fact, deputed General Martlnovlc to meet Daneff on the lat ter's return from Llvadla, the meeting place of the two being Vienna. In July, 1912, a sweeping military and po litical convention was signed between Servla and Bulgaria, and Montenegro came In simply in an addendum to this Instrument. - The treaty between Bulgaria and Greece was not effected until August, 1912, although preliminaries had pre ceded It. Greece was admitted Into the Balkan confederacy at the express wish and counsel of Russia, the Czar mak ing this stipulation as a condition of his patronage and support of the whole scheme. However, this treaty speaks only of Joint action of Greece and Bul- (Concluded on Paps 7.) CARTOONIST REYNOLDS INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, decrees; minimum, 41) degrees. TODAY'S Showers, westerly winds. Porel-n. Situation In Albsnla may prove menace to peace of Europe, becuon l, pace x Royal heirs wed In Prussia. Section pace 6. Militant suffragettes set fire to tenement house at Cambridge. Section 1, pan) o, National. Bookbinders who nrotest acalnst Ambassa dor Page repudiated by allied printing trades. Section 1. pace 0. Senator Lane pleads with Secretary Lane In behalf of Oregon reclamation projects. Section 1. page 1. Time promised opponents of tariff bllL Sec tion 1, page 2. Domestic, California Legislature affixes 1000 new laws to books. Section 1, page 2. Midnight phone call to Jessie Wilson traced to House page. Section L page 1. Plans for student army camps are outlined. Section 1, page 3. Thaw's attorney found guilty of attempted bribery. Section 1, page 6. Cincinnati car strikers riot all day; Mayor applies for receiver when Governor re fuses troops. Section 1, page 6. Progress made toward union of at least two Presbyterian organizations. Section 1, pace 6. Two miners killed and many others en tombed by explosion. Section 1, page 4. Sports. Pacific Coast League results: Portland 5. Los Angeles 2; San Francisco 3, Oakland O; Venice S, Sacramento 3 (called end ninth, rain). Section 2, page 2. Northwestern League results: Portland Victoria game postponed, re.ln; Seattle 8, Vancouver 1: Tacoma 0, Spokane 3. Sec tion 2, page 2. Portland wins three boxing championships at Seattle. Section 1, page 4. Eligibility rules to keep star athletes from lnterscholastlc meet. Section 2, page 3. Aggies are in dark horse class for meet two weeks Hence. Section 2, page S. Portland rowers to compete at Coeur d'Alene. Section 2. pago 3. Temporary stands fall under weight of crowd at "Frank Chance day" game. Section 2, page 8. Bees leading batters of Northwestern League. Section 2, page 4. Bill Lindsay undergoes operation. Section 2. page 2. Zimmerman tops Coast batters. Section 2, page 4. Yale defeats Harvard on track. Section 2, page 4. Grammar School League games almost over. section, z, page o. Two big fights slated for Tuesday. Section 2, page 5. Columbia wins elght-oared boat race. See- tion 2, page 4. Pacific Northwest. State Grange backs preferential system of voting in final session. Section 1, page i. Oregon City sets June 1 as Hobo Show date. Section 1, page 7. Bank president sentenced to prison and cash ier found guilty, section 1, page . Roseburg Carnival with wild West features is at hand. Section 4. page 1. Downpour of rain christened Woodland's 160,000 bridge, welding llnK in Pacino Highway. Section 1. page 8. Sale of dock site In Seattle at big profit being investigated. Section 1. page 5. Commonwealth conference starts move for Oregon's evolution. Section 1, page 1. Automobiles and Roads. Glacier Park is reliability run goal. Section 4, page 4. Auto dealer discusses upkeep problems. Section 4. page 5. ... American auto makers top world, says J. N. Willys. Section 4, page 0. , Rose Festival-Golden Potlatch run Is pro posed. Section 4. page 7. Real Estate and Building. New carllne to serve growing district. Sec tion 4, page 8. Conveyancing of real estate is explained. section 4, page v. Powell Valley section has record growth. Section 4, page 8. Commercial and Marine. Wheat sales made at bes"t prices of season. section 2. page 17. Share upturn given to Chicago market by buying, section 2, page ii. Bond values hold well, but stock trade is narrow. Section 2. page 17. Favorable weekly report Issued by New York banks. Section 2, page 17. Bear makes early arrival on north-bound trip. Section 2. page 6. Fortland and Vicinity. L,tquor dealers promise aid In war on law- breaking saloonkeepers. section i. page 12. Advance in flour not expected this Spring. Section 1. page 11. Weather report, data and forecast. . Section 2, page 7. Memorial Day parade route announced. Sec tion 2, page e. Pupils to give essays on parks and play grounds. Section J, page J. Rose Show lists prepared with object or affording equal opportunity to all grow ers. Section 1. page 12. British societies to have annual picnic at the Oaks. Section 1, page 14. Survey and soundings of Columbia Slougn are made. secLion l. page la. Arthur CavlII, crack swimmer and diver. crashes 65 feet headlong into Duoy. sec tion 1. page S. Qualified voters In city number 76.6M, or whom 24, 1ST are women; -seciion j, page 1. Candidate Albee takes stand for municipal ownership on paving plant question, faec tion 1. page 10. Hearing of contest of new charter set for Alay 23. section j, page . FINDS HUMOR IN SOME OF THE WEEK'S EVENTS. if xa ak.m v " i v ry - LANE PLEADS FOR OREGON TS Senator Makes Impres sion on Secretary. FRANKNESS IS WELL RECEIVED Deschutes Region Pictured as "Garden Spot." VIRTUAL PROMISE GIVEN Department Has Set Aside $50,000 for Preliminary Work and Is Impressed by State's "Will ingness to Co-operate. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash lngton. May 17. Senator Lane, of Ore gon this afternoon appeared Before Secretary of the Interior Lane and put In a hid tor the allotment of money from the reclamation fund sufficient for the construction of the West Uma tilla and Deschutes irrigation projects. He not only demonstrated the equity of Oregon's claim against the reclama tion fund, but pointed out the feasl blllty and desirability of both projects. and then showed Secretary Lane where funds could be found ample to build these two projects. As Senator Lane concluded his state ment he was congratulated by Secre tary Lane, who told him his was the "most encouraging talk" he had heard in the course of the hearings covering the "past two weeks. Oregon's Claim Recognized. Senator Lane showed by official fig ures how Oregon had been discriminated against in past apportionments of the reclamation fund, but Secretary Lane said he need not dwell on that feature because he was thoroughly convinced that Oregon had not been dealt with fairly In the past. Senator Lane pointed out the grounds on which Oregon people are asking for the construction of the West Umatilla project. Secretary Lane said he was hanrtiiv in HvmDathv with their de mand, but he was concerned to know wharhnr that nroiect coul'. stand a water charee of $135 an acre, while the present estimate is J 100, the' Secre tary said that hearings had shown that no projects had been built for the cost originally estimated, and he therefore could not depend on estimate of $100 an acre at West Umatilla. Investment Regarded aa Safe. Senator Lane argued that this land, once irrigated, would easily be worth $200 an acre and he said there would be no question that the Government would recover Its full Investment even up to $135 an acre, provided settlers had sufficient time In which to make payments. Speaking of the Deschutes oountry included In the proposed co-operative project. Senator Lane said that It was the "garden spot of the United States." He described its climate as perfect, its location as ideal, its markets nearby and transportation as already avail able. "When the people of Montana are snowbound," he said, "those in Des chutes country will be picking flowers and riding in automobiles. Even though the settlers on that project might make lesser profits than those on some other projects, he said, they would be compensated by their charming surroundings. Preliminary Work Ordered. Secretary Lane said that he had al ready set apart $50,000 as the Govern- (Concluded on Pago 5.) c 76,651 QUALIFIED TO VOTE JUNE 2 WOMEN ELECTORS IN NUMBER 24,18 7. CITY County Clerk Estimates That 169 Precincts "Will Have to Be Added to 102 Already Established. The registration books closed last night and will not be reopened until June 4, two days after the city elec tion. During the extra week of regis tration provided for by resolution of the City Council and Just ended the number eligible to vote on June 2 was added to by 3392, of whom 2041 were women and 1351 men. Party affiliations of these new voters were given as follows: Republicans, 1975; Democrats, 794; Progressives, 241; Socialists, 80; Prohibitionists, 65; Inde pendents, 267. The total registration by parties in the city Is as follows: Republicans, 53,659; Democrats, 14,6o9 Progressives, S592; Socialists, 1546; Pro hibitionists, 1253: Independents, 2467. The grand total of city voters now is 76,651, of whom 24,187 are women. Mr. Coffey ascertained by checking over the registration figures yesterday that at least 169 precincts, probably more, will have to be added to the 192 already In the county under the law which requires a precinct to contain no more than 300 voters. The new regis tration Is to be permanent. MRS. LEA SEES DISASTER Japanese Prepared to Minnte for War, Says "General's" Widow. NEW YORK, May 17. (Speclal.)- Mrs. Homer Lea, widow of the pic turesque Callfornlan who called him self General Homer Lea, and whose book "The Valor of Ignorance," caused a stir In the Army a few years ago. sailed for Europe today on the steam ship George Washington with dire prophecy of defeat at the hands of the Japanese on her lips. "The people of California and the test of the Paci-flc Coast are deliberately forcing the Japanese Into war," she said. "The subjects of the Emperor of Japan are prepared to the minute and lt is my Arm belief that the Japanese could seize and hold for an indefinite time all of California, Oregon and Washington if they suddenly launched war against us. "If war between this country and Japan comes it will be before the Pana ma Canal Is opened for battleships. The war would be over before we were half started." MISSING MARINER SOUGHT Friend of King: George Making: World wide Search for Edward Watts. NEW YORK, May 17J (Special.) Making a trip around the world, look ing for Captain Edward Watts, of the bark Lottie Moore, Is the object of Charles Robinson, a friend of King George and officer In charge of the Parliament building at Wellington, New Zealand, who arrived here today on board 'the steamship Adriatic. . In every port where Robinson ar rives he summons the newspaper men and asks them to help him find his friend. Captain Watts, who disappeared from New Zealand more than two years ago. Robinson will go to the Pacific Coast from New York. UTILITY ACT SUPERSEDES ttorney-General Gives Opinion In Mcdford Case. SALEM, Or., May 17. (Special.) In an opinion rendered today Attorney General Crawford held that the public utility act supersedes all city charters when it comes to the regulation of the rates of public utilities. The opinion was given at the request f Medford, where the Home Telephone Company holds a charter from the city. the company contending the Railroad Commission had no jurisdiction over its rates because of this charter. VGY GONFERENGEOPENS STATE'S EVOLUTION Commissions Author, ized at Eugene. POWER RESOURCES EMINENT Reed College Head Shows Uni versity's Function. TRAIN LEADERS' NEED SEEN State Engineer Lewta Say9 No Other Oity of Its Size in World Similar ly located at Tidewater Has Power Portland Has. UNIVERSITY OP OREGON, Eugene, Or., May 17. (SpeclaL) Practical ben efits to the state from the fifth com monwealth conference of the University of Oregon were Insured by the adop tion of a resolution at the close of the final session today providing for commissions to work for the better ment of business and educational con ditions and the development of water power resources In Oregon. The reso lution reads as follows: Resolved. That the chairman of this session of the commonwealth confer ence, Hon. H. B. Miller, be authorized and requested to appoint standing com mittees as follows: 1. A committee of seven members from the Oregon institutions of higher education to be an auxiliary to the Oregon Citizens' Educational League and the Peoples' League of Higher Edu cation to serve as their .division of ex perts in prosecuting their work of edu cational readjustment In Oregbn. Economic Changes Sought. 2. A commission of seven members on adjustment of our business organi zation and relations, having in view the attainment of an economic order in which the principles of co-operation may find most practical application and highest degree of industrial and social Justice may be realized. 3., A committee of 15 to undertake Investigation at home ana arjroaa, iunas therefor having been provided, of the problem of the right and fullest devel . . . opment of Oregon's water power re sources, and on the basis of the results of the findings from such Investigation to draw up plans mar snan emuauy the features of a permanent state policy in respect to this great public interest of water power development and to carry on an educational cam paign to that end, the superintendent of public instruction to be ex-offlclo chairman of the committee of educa tional experts auxiliary to state edu cational' leagues, and the Hon. H. B. Miller to be chairman of committees on economic readjustment and water power development. The reinforcement of 500 excursion ists from Portland and Corvallls to the delegation of visitors already present, the holding of a' special meeting for women and another for editors of the state. In addition to the regular ses sions of the conference and the ex ceptional programme which had been arranged combined to make today memorable in the history of the Com- , monwealth- conference movement. University's! Keed Vital. President Foster, of Reed College, declared In his address beforo this morning's session that the State Uni versity Is of vital importance in train- , ing leaders for the Commonwealth. "This," he said, "is the function of a liberal education, as distinguished from the education for Immediate results." "The education for Immediate re- 'Concluded on Page .) Cosy Of j.issy$