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Newspaper Page TextPages 1 to 16 VOL,. XXXII XO. -23 PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE 22, 1913. PRICE FIVE CENTS. 0 RESIGNS CAUSTIC TELEGRAM Federal Attorney Re sents Orders. PROSECUTIONS ARE STAYED Defendants Declared to Have Boasted of Power. EARLY REPLY DEMANDED Government's Cases Against Men Ac cused Under Wnlte Slave Act and Fuel Directors Said to Be In Jeopardy. SAN FRANCISCO, June SI John L. McNab. United States District Attorney for Northern California district, an nounced today that he had telegraphed his resignation to President Wilson and requested an immediate acceptance by telegraph. As his reason, McNab assigned re cent orders by the Attorney-General for postponement of prosecution of the Western Fuel Company, charged with having perpetrated frauds In weighlD coal imports, and the Dlggs-Camlne , so-called white slavery cases. In letter to Mr. McReynolds, May 20, Mr. McNab said that evidence in his hands showed that the Western Fuel Com pany had defrauded the Government of fully Jl, 000,000 due on coal. Honor Put Before Salary. A statement given out tonight by McNab said: "I have been ordered to stay the prosecution against Maury Biggs and Prew Caminetti for white slavery, and the prosecution of certain of the direc tors of the Western Fuel Company for their part in a gigantic conspiracy to rob the revenues of the Government. I have done what any man who prizes his honor more than his salary ought to do. I have told the President of the United States, for whom I have the pro foundest regard, that I will not consent to remain United States District Attor ney for another hour under such condi tions.". McNab was appointed to office by President Taft, Telegram Sent to Wilson. McNab's telegram to President Wil son was as follows: "June 20, 1913. Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States, Wash ington, D. C, I have the honor to ten der my resignation as United States Attorney for the Northern District of California, to take effect immediately. I am ordered by the Attorney-General, over my protests, to postpone until Autumn. the trials of Maury Dlggs and Drew Caminetti, indicted for a hideous crime which has ruined two girls and shocked the moral sense of the peo ple of California, and this after I have advised the Department of Justice that attempts lave been made to corrupt the Government witnesses and that friends of the defendants are publicly boasting that the wealth. and political prominence, of the defendants' relatives will procure my hand to be stayed through influence at Washington. In these cases, two girls were taken from cultured homes, bullied and frightened in the face of their protests into going to a foreign state, were ruined and de bauched by the defendants who aban doned their wives and infants to com mit the crime. Vsefulneaa of Office Destroyed. "On receipt of the Attorney-General's telegram, I prepared my resignation to take effect at the conclusion of the trial of the Western Fuel Directors and the J. C. Wilson stockbrokers' . cases, both (Concluded on Page 2.) I -:s LIGHTER PHABES OF SOME OF THE PAST WEEK'S EVENTS ARE INTERPRETED PICTQRIALLY BY REYNOLDS. 1 STORM BLOWS SIX CARS FROM TRAIN PASSEXGER COACHES ALMOST FLOODED . BY RAIN. JTraffic Tied TTp on Great Northern by Remarkable Wind and Elec trical Demonstration. WHITEFISH, Mont., June 21. A rain and wind storm, accompanied by sev eral accidents, caused a complete tieup of the traffic on the Kalispell division of the Great Northern Railroad for the past 24 hours. A broken flange on a boxcar ditched eight other cars on an eastbound freight near Browning and blocked the track. The engine of a wrecking outfit struck a rockslide and the huge locomotive jumped the rails and turned over on its side. The engi neer and fireman narrowly escaped death. A wind and electric storm ac companied by rain and hail then swept down the Kootenai River and Flathead Valley and struck the Oriental Limited of the Great Northern just after leav ing Libby. ' The hailstones battered in the windows on the coaches, and the rain falling in torrents almost flooded them. Miles of wires were blown down aWd big trees were hurled across the tracks. At Radner six boxcars were blown out of a freight train and several houses were toppled over near Eureka. WASTE HIDES EXPLOSIVE Dynamite Caps and Fuse Fonnd Near Los Angeles Public Buildings. LOS ANGELES, June 21. (Special.) -About 200 dynamite caps and 15 feet of dynamite fuse, discovered in a rub bish receptacle between the Hall of Records and the Courthouse by a gar bage collector are furnishing material ?T speculation -by detectives around . county offices. A San Diego news- .per of 1300 was found near the ex plosive material. The rubbish collector, who makes the rounds of the County Courthouse, today left & package at the county Jail, requesting that It be given to Jailer Gallagher personally and saying It was found where the waste baskets from the county offices are dumped. On opening the package containing the fuse and caps. Jailer Gallagher notified Malcolm McLaren, detective in the District Attorney's office, who is investigating the case. CRAFT NARROWLY ESCAPES Schooner Ah waned Hangs on Spit After Losing Propeller. NEWPORT, Or., June 21. The schooner Ahwaneda, . which arrived here today from Portland, narrowly escaped, going ashore while entering the harbor at 8:30. The tide was ex tremely low and she hung up on the outer point of North Spit. The launches Ollie S. and Fish, and the life-saving crew went to her assistance, but she managed to work off without help. While coming down the Columbia River the Ahwaneda struck a drift log and lost one propeller and made the trip down the coast with only one engine running. LOFTY ART CORNICE FALLS Missile Tumbles 200 Feet on Busy Chicago Corner, Piercing Car. CHICAGO, June 21. The head of a terra cotta eagle, an ornament on the cornice of the lofty Columbus Memorial building, fell 200 feet to State street today, striking a street car, passing through the car like a cannonball, cut ting a clean hole in the roof and through a seat, which was empty. The head measured IS Inches long and was more than a foot thick. The corner where the accident happened is one of the busiest in the down-town business district. Harvard Captain Gets Gold Bat. NEW YORK, June 21. Daniel Win gate was re-elected captain of the Har vard baseball cluD at a meeting of the team at the Harvard Club. Captain Wlngate was the recipient of a gold- piatea oat. AUSTRIA : HUNGARY SEEKS FRIENDSHIP Balkan Problem Takes New Angles. ALLIES' INTERESTS DIVERSE Greece Antagonizes Ambitions of Bulgaria and Servia. RUSSIA HAS ANOTHER IDEA Czar Favors More Intimate Quadru ple Alliance, Based on Foreign Policies, Tariff and Trade and Industry. BT DR. WOLF VON SCHIERBR AND. VIENNA, June 21. Now that a def inite peace on the Balkans seems to be in sight at last, the statesmanship of Austria-Hungary begins to - bend, its energies seriously in the direction of effecting, if not a close and friendly understanding with the young Balkan nations, at least such a one as will stand the everyday wear and tear of contiguous existence. In fact, from the point of view of the dual monarchy, this task Just now is the one supersed ing all other political and economic ones in importance. Right here the remark comes apropos that the guiding spirit of Austria-Hungary's foreign policy. Count Berchtold. has displayed rare and patient wisdom in his handling of the Balkan problem ever since the outbreak of hostilities last Fall. Through good and evil re port he pursued just the one aim throughout the war in the Balkans: Non-interference' with conquests, but safeguarding the economic and com mercial Interests of the Hapsburg em pire. This programme has found throughout the hearty approval and co-operation of Emperor Francis Jo seph. Rossi Fovara New Alliance. Under Russian inspiration largely the Balkan states are. being. .urged to effect a new and much more intimate quadruple alliance, one joining them practically into one single unit so far as their foreign policies, their tariff question, their trade and" industry are concerned. The Russian press has been advocating this move ably, sometimes witli strange but effecive arguments, such as saying to the Servians: Leave Bulgarians alone; reserve your powder for Austria-Hungary, where your "Ir redeemed" fellow Servians in Bosnia, Croatia and Dalmatia are waiting for you to liberate them from their yoke. But to bring this plan about will likewise necessitate the overcoming of many obstacles. The two most im portant members of the Balkan union, Bulgaria and Servia, are eminently agricultural nations, while Greece has no industry but a lively commerce an tagonizing the interests of its two al lies. Hence there, is and can be no community of economic Interests be tween these allies. Austria Watching Game. Be that as it may, Austria-Hungary will not stand idly by and see its own material interests ignored. It argues that it has put no spokes in the wheel of the Balkan allies while fighting went on, but that it wants to retain as much of its trade supremacy in the region of former European Turkey as the circumstances admit. It is Austria-Hungary's direct neigh bor, Servia, above all. which comes into question in this matter of effect ing a new economic deal. Servla'a ef ficient representative In Vienna, Jovan Jovanovlc, said of negotiations begun with him for a new commercial treaty: "If the aim of Austria-Hungary is (Concluded on Pace 6. ) INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature TO degree ; minimum, 5S degrees. TODAY'S Showers; southerly winds. River Reading. Stage of "Willamette at ' Portland, 25.8, a fall of .2 of a foot. Foreign. . Co-operative credit system in Hungary is success. writes Hector Mucpherson. Section 1, page 5. Austria-Hungary seeks friendship: Balkan problem takes new angle. Section 1. page 1. National. Members of Cabinet and Democratic lead ers in Congress at outs. Section 1, page 5. Federal Attorney McNab resigns; orders from Washington resented. Section 1, page 1. Caucus makes few changes In tariff. Sec tion 1, page 1. Domentlc. Kothsehllds help finance rival of Standard Oil. Section 1, pago 6. Oregon Naval Militiamen make great show ing aboard ship on cruise. Section 1. " . page T. Adolphus Busch loses 910.000 wager on his grandson's wedding. Section 1. page 6. American Bankers' Association expresses at titude on currency question. Section 1, page 3. Sulzer says Murphy conspired to ruin him. Section 1, page 4. Investigators say girls' low wages are not real cause of vice. Section 1. page 6. Storm blows six cars from track. Section 1. page 1. racifle Northwest. Jackrabblts menace vast area in Eastern Oregon. Section 1, page 9. Carload of honey bees brought Into Oregon by canby men. Section 1, page 1. La Grande plans to vote on novel commission- charter employing city manager. Section 1, page 8. State heat fight started by contract award. Section 1, page 9. Portland plays prominent role In Walla Walla saengerfest. Section 1, page 7. Textbook Commission recommends radical changes. Section 1, page 6. Washington outlaw cheats flames by shoot ing self. Section 1, page 7. Sport. Pacific Coast League results: San Francisco 5. Portland 2; Los Angeles 11. Venice 6; Oakland 4, Sacramento 2. Section 2. page 2. Northwestern League results: Spokane 4. Portland 2; Tacoma 2-11. Seattle 3-1; Vancouver-Victoria game postponed, ram. Section 2. page Burman expects to lower automobile record on Country club track. Section 2. page . Whlskbroom II wins Brooklyn handicap. Section 2. page S. Tennis men aroused over 1913 official guide of North Pacific Association. Section 2, Page 7. William Johnston wins Pacific Coast tennis cnampionshlp by defeating- 12-year-old tooy. Section 2. page 6. Northwestern golfers tie Middle West cracks In final play. Section 2, page S. Syracuse wins main event at Poughkeepsie regatta. Section 1, page 1. Melchoir Is real "comeback." Section page 2. Portland Colts lead in fielding. Secion 2, page . Pitchers in Coast League rank high as bat ters. Section 2. Dane 3. Portland crew to practice hard tor regatta. Section 2, page 5. - Admiral Morgan chooses regatta aides. Sec tion 2, page 5. Madden, picked as heavyweight championship possibility. Section 2. page 8. Real Estate and Building. .Scenic high-line boulevard- on . "West-Side hills Is planned. Section 4, page 8. Progress is made in farm development. Section 4, page 9. Realty market- .shows steady activity In small parcels. Section 4, page 0. . Commercial and Marine. New-crop wheat contracting starts at conn try points. Section 2, page 17. Wheat higher at Chicago, owing to Balkan situation and rain In harvest area. Sec tion 2, page 17. Stock market bears sell entire list down to lower level. Section 2. page 17. New York banks in sound position. Section 2, page 17. Rose City passengers view novel sights at Sea. section 2, page 17. Portland and Vicinity. Royal Oaka guard" Rosarians' rosebush In Oakland. Section 2, page 18. Continue Rose Festival is general request of business- men. who urge new plan Section 1. page 13. Railroad pay check forger supspects ar rested at Vancouver, B. C. Section -1. page 4. Weather report, data and forecast. Section 2 page 7. S. Benson expects favorable action on plan to curb whisky traffic. Section 1. page 12. Special meeting of Council to consider Heus ner franchise likely. Section 1. page 10. Political Interest turns to state affairs. Sec tion 1, page 10. More than half of $150,000 fund to promote Oregon is raised. Section 1. page 11. Harry Young, veteran of "Railroad Row " celebrates 74th birthday. Section L page 15. Mayor-eloct and Commissioners choose heads for four city departments. Section 1. page 10. Oregon exhibits to be sent East to land shows. Section 3, page 12. Parole records show only 4 per cent of Federal prisoners break faith. Section 3, page 12. Children on Willamette Heights have min iature rose festival parade. Section 1. page 12. "School City" officers are Installed. Section 3. page 11. A. J. Biehl, convicted orchard bond man. denies he Intended to Jump bail. Section 1. page 15. Portland arranges big farewell to survivors oi Gettysburg, bectlon 1, page 2. CAUCUS FilAKES FEW CHANGES IN TARIFF Party Harmonious in . Action Taken. CHEAP AUTOS ARE DEBATED Question of Further Reduction Is Left Open. FURTHER DATA ASKED FOR Income Tax Provision Awaits In formation as to Effect of Re ducing Exemption From $4000 to $3000. WASHINGTON, June 21. The Under wood - Simmons tariff revision bill, agreed on by the Democrats of the Senate committee, went through a full day's session of the Senate Democratic caucus today with practically no change, and with harmonious support for most of the alterations the finance committee members had made in the original Underwood bill. The tariff duties on chemicals, oila and paints, on earthenware and glass ware, and on two-thirds of the articles comprised In the metal and machinery schedule had been disposed of when the caucus adjourned lata this after noon. Exemption to Be Decreased. Democratic members of the finance committee met tonight to finish redraft ing the Income tax section of the bill. The important changes to bo made in this provision, reducing the exempted incomes from $4000 to $3000, probably will be completed on Monday, and the Income tax and administrative features of the bill then -will be turned over to the caucus for consideration. Criticism of the tariff bill In today's party conference was limited to a, few specific rates, and a half dozen of the Items were sent back to the finance committee for further investigation and report.. Automobile Issue Left Open.. The committee's report putting ce ment on the free list was sustained after some debate. Cheap automobiles as necessaries of business and farming life were the subject of much debate. The finance committee Democrats had already cut the rates of the Underwood bill from 45 per cent ad valorem to S5 per cent on motor cars valued at less than $1500. Several Democratic Sena tors urged a. further cut, and recom mended that the tariff be only 10 or 15 per cent on machines valued at less than $1000. This demand was made on the ground that cheap automobiles were now commercial necessities. The caucus did not settle the auto mobile controversy, but asked Chair man Simmons and his colleagues on the finance committee to investigate fur ther. Advocates of the lower duty contend the Government would lose little reve nue, as the high-priced machines pay most of the tariff. Leaders Predict Harmony. Harmony was predicted by the Demo cratic leaders today after the caucus broke up. None of the bitterly-fought sections of the bill had been reached, however, and no effort has been made thus far to assert the binding author ity of the party caucus on individual Senators. Senator Kern, the party leader, said the caucus would bind all its members on all features of the bill except where they had made pledges to their con stituents or felt that they could not conscientiously abide by the action of the majority. Caucus consideration of the bill will . ............... ' . a v I CARLOAD OF BEES SENT TO MOLALLA DISTRICT IS BELIEVED IDEAL FOR, BEE CULTIKE. Honey Makers Will Be Shipped to Hood River When Apple Or chards Are in Bloom. CANBY, or.. June 21. (Special.) The first carload of honey bees ever shipped into Oregon has just reached Canby and will be taken to an apiary in the foothills west of Molalla. The bees are the property of M. J. and G. R. Lee, of Canby, and comprise 1000 stands of the Caucasian variety, the honey gatherers that date their lineage back to the land of Caanan. It Is believed that this apiary will be the largest in Oregon and is made pos sible because of the building of the Portland, Eugene & Eastern electric to the Molalla district. It is contended that honey cannot be successfully transported to the markets by wagon haul because the Jolting causes the comb to break, and it is also pointed out that bee culture has died out in the valley because of the necessity of spraying orchards and small fruits during most of the year. The new electric road opens the foot hills of the Cascades, where the fire weed blosscms in profusion during the entire growing year. Orchardists believe that bees are the best aids to pollenation. therefore the Lee Brother have planned a traveling apiary for the Spring of 1914. When the orchards of Hood River and other portions of the state are in bloom the bees will be shipped to various points and set to work making a crop of honey and aiding in loading the trees with fruit M. J. Lee figures on shipping 50 tons of honey next season, or three carloads. KING RENOUNCED FOR VOTE Sister-in-Law of C. K. Henry Gets Citizenship for Use or Ballot. Catherines Emily Sloan. of 341 . Montgomery street, retired school teacher, was admitted to American cit izenship in Circuit Judge Catena' court yesterday. She is a sister-in-law of Charles K. Henry, who was one of her witnesses. In 1S72 she came to the United States from England, where she was born in 1854. Miss Sloan took out her first, papers In January, 1908. She gave as her chief reason for desiring citizenship the fact that she wishes to vote. Naturalization examinations, which had been on for three days.were con cluded yesterday. One of the cases to come up was that of Frederick Henry Francis, who came to Oregon from Ire land in 1874. He made his declaration of Intention in 1877 and stated on the stand that he has voted practically every year since, but. to use the words of Naturalization Examiner Hazard, "he had never read the Constitution and didn't even know what it- was. His ignorance of our form of government was lamentable." Francis, who is a fireman, was given 30 days to study. Due to the fact that Paul Wessinger had found his final papers, which he thought lost when he made a new ap plication, his application was dismissed. SUN SETS CAR ON FIRE Womeu Xear Panic Wlien Patent Roof Bursts Into Flame. LOS ANGELES, June 21. (Special.) With bells clanging and roof on fire, dashing wildly through the streets, a Glendale car of the Pacific Electric line halted at Sixth street and Broadway at noon today and let its 25 near ly panic-stricken women passengers alight. The crew, assisted by three or four of the women, then formed a bucket brigade from the entrance of a grocery store, and in a few moments the fire was put out. No one was hurt. Inspectors of the company put the blame for the fire on the hot sun. They say the sun's rays, beating down on the patent roof of the car, made it soft and Inflammable, and that sparks from the trolley, falling on the roof, set it on fire. SYRACU SE EIGHT IS AT REGATT Washington Spurt Too Late to Win. CONTEST'S FINISH DRAMATIC Four Boats Bunched, With Seattle Third and Gaining. WESTERN ENTRY SURPRISE Sixty Thousand on Banks Seo Co lumbia Lose Lead and Fall Into Ruck Witli Orange Taking Place in lYont. POUCHKEEPS1B. N. V.. June 21. The National character and caliber of rowing in the United States were dem onstrated here late this afternoon in the four-mile feature race of the annual intercollegiate regatta. After winning the two preliminary events of the pro gramme, Cornell, usually conceded t be the leading university of the coun try in rowing, was forced to lower her colors to Syracuse, and Just escaped be ing defeated by the University of Wash ington and University of Wisconsin. In a driving and spectacular finish, such as has not been seen on the Hud son River course, the Orange varsity oarsmen rowed across the line a scant length ahead of Cornell, while pressing the exhausted Ithaca eight came Wash ington, less than a length behind, and Wisconsin's bow lapping the stern of the Seattle entrants for new varsity rowing honors. Columbia "Cooked to a Tarn." Columbia, the pacemakers for the first two miles, Aere fifth, "cooked to a turn," to use a coach's expression, while far In the rear Pennsylvania, trailed in the wash of the five preced ing crews. , It was a race and finish that drove the 60,000 spectators on observation trains, yachts and river banks almost frantic with " excitement and enthusi asm, and the usual organized cheering and singing lost all unison and became a mere series of shrieks and yaps under the strain of the pressure of college loyalty. The victory of the Syracuse crew was a surprise, but the wonderful showing of the Middle and Far Western eights was the feature and topic of conversation among the veteran oars men after the regatta. Time for Course Fast. The official time of the race is, per haps, the best indication of the close ness -of the long struggle down the four-mile course, and the courage and stamina with which five of the six com peting eights fought until the very finish. Syracuse finished in 19 minutes 28 3-5 seconds, Cornell 19 minutes 31 seconds, Washington two seconds later and Wisconsin three seconds behind Washington. Columbia crossed the line 19 minutes 38 1-5 seconds after the start, and Pennsylvania trailed in last in 20 minutes 11 1-5 seconds. The time of the winning crew was the fastest since 1909, and but 35 2-5 seconds be hind the record for the course, made by Cornell in 1901. when Courtney's star crew sped over the four miles in 18 minutes 63 1-5 seconds. Ideal weather conditions prevailed throughout the afternoon. The sky was Just enough cast to temper the Summer rays of the sun and the broad stretches of the Hudson were minus even the ripples that usually are seen on the river at this point The pre dicted closeness of the races and the presence of the championship crew of the Pacific Coast all helped to attract a gathering of rowing enthusiasts that VICTOR