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Section One Pages 1 to 16 78 Pages Seven Sections V VOL. XXXII-NO. 41. PORTLAND. OREGON SUNDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 12, 1913. ' TRICE FIVE CENTS. i j. . i"a wit, f-riwft ni iThi i ii Idiicciamq riwn imfw li mm niRMnmnu in 135 LOST AS UNbH IS BUHNED AT SEA Storm Holds Rescuers at Distance. VESSEL'S LIFEBOATS CAPSIZE Terrified Passengers Com pelled to Jump Overboard. FIRE IS FOUGHT IN VAIN Steamship Volturno, From Rotter dam, . With Large Steerage List, Victim In - Mid-Atlantic. - 521 Are Saved. LONDON. Oct. 11. Not since the Titanic sank has Europe been so thrilled as by a wireless message today telling; of the burning of the steamship Volturno In mid-Atlantic with a loss, as la at present known, of 135 -lives and the rescue of 621. The survlvoTs are now aboard a ' fleet of steamers sum moned by the Volturno's wireless call for help, some of which are bound east ward and others westward. The Volturno sailed from Rotterdam on October- 2 for New Tork. According to the official statement she carried 22 first-cabin passengers. S38 In the steer age and a crew numbering 96. Storm Checks Work of Rescue. The rescue ships reached the scene of the disaster In plenty of time to save . all. but for hours stood by the blazing vessel, impotent because of the storm to reach the agonized men, women and children crowding the after part of the . ship and within a stone's throw. All night Thursday the lifeboats ' made a desperate effort to get alongside the Volturno, but the waves beat them back again and again, and not until the storm abated at daylight Friday did the rescuers succeed in removing the survivors from the doomed ship. Even- now only the fringe of one of the most thrilling tales of the sea is available. Exactly how the rescue was effected Is not known. Boats Smashed and Upset. The Volturno was equipped with boats sufficient, the agents say, for a thou sand people, but the boisterous sea or lack of boat drill, or panic among the passengers, prevented the- successful employment of them. The rescue ships were able to lower lifeboats, but ap parently most of the boats launched from the Volturno were smashed or up set and the occupants drownod. Two of the boats, crowded with pas sengers, are reported to have got away from the ship, but a search for them has proved fruitless, and they have practically been given up as lost. Th. occupants of these boats are Included In the death-roll. Carmania First to Rescue. The steamer ' Carmania. bound 'from New Tork for Liverpool, was 78 miles away when the call for help sounded. Captain Barr, ordering full steam. In spite of the gale drove through the seas at 20 knots an hour and was the first of the fleet to reach the burning vessel. She was followed by La Touraine, Min neapolis, Rappahannock, Czar, Narra gansett, Devonian, Kroonland. Grosser Kuerfurst and Zydlltz at various hours throughout the day. Try as they might, the rescuing vessels could not get either line or lifeboat to the Volturno, the for ward part of which was almost hidden by a dense cloud of smoke when the Carmania arrived. The burning steamer lay In the trough tof the sea, pounding helplessly, with her propellers fouled by the boat's tackle. The terrified passengers were huddled together as far as it was pos sible to get from the flames, while (Concluded on Page 2.) TS nrixr strMMTnri 1 1 n nr o r- i-i rnri n 1 1 i in i ii ii iiim in nu inijouimiu i mil huh iiimii i ii liii wh n-r.i i TO RF RFSISTEO HUPt Ul" tLtlillUN MCF TODAY'S HtW! ftltlLtllUD UUITLHI LAND N FAR NORTH , W m CONSERVATIONISTS IS EAST ALARMED BY PROSPECT. Contest Expected at National Coli gress Over Growing Demand Voiced by West. WASHINGTON, Oct. 11. (Special.) A big contest confronts conservation interests at the fifth annual National Conservation Congress, to be held In Washington, November 18, 19, 20. The call for the convention comes out with the declaration that the forests and water powers of the country are at stake. The conservation Interests rep resented by the National Conservation Congress show themselves prepared to meet the Issue, whether In Congress or In State Legislatures. The opening paragraphs of the con vention's announcement declare that within the next few months the fight for protection of the National forests and waterways will demand the atten tion of the country. Direct reference is made to- the prospects of a series of contests In State Legislatures. Officers of the Congress today ad mitted they were concerned over ac tivity in the West in the interests of state ownership and control of National forests, waterways and other natural resources. So Insistent Is the demand in some circles that it is understood the conservation interests realize the urgent importance of steps to prevent the states from "wresting the control of these resources from the Federal Government. CANON LAW IS COMPLETE Pope Soon to Sign Most Important Document In Church History. vtnm Oct . 11. (SDecial.) Pope Pius will sign a document next year tvhioh will not onlv be the most im portant to which he has affixed his signature during-the pontificate, but one which is looked on as the most Im portant in the history of the Catholic rtnirrh and one of the greatest reforms ....... o ,i hv hit Pone, namely, the codification of the canon law decreed by Pope Plus in 1904 and now practi cally completed. An Mea of the Importance or tne wnrir mnv be gathered from the fact that the canon law at present consists of written and traditional legisiauuu of the church since the days or me Apostles, documents extending over iak.i'La' I I Cardinal Gaspari. a practical codi fler in charge of the work, says three of the largest rooms In the Vatican are filled with collections of the decrees and constitutions which will cease to have force when the Pope has promul gated the new code. - WOMEN STIR SYNAGOGUE Jewish Suffragettes Interrupt Serv ices and Are Escorted Outside. LONDON, Oct. 11. Jewish ' suffra gettes, following for the first time the example set by those of the Christian faith, today interrupted the service at the West End Synagogue, Bayswater, by reciting: "May God forgive Herbert Samuel and Sir Rufus Isaacs for denying freedom to women. May God forgive Herbert Samuel and Sir RufuB Isaacs for con senting to the torture of women." ' The disturbers were escorted from the synagague after their names had been taken by the synagogue authori ties. ' MILITANTS ATTACK KING Rush Made at Royal Couple at Lon don Charity Performance. LONDON. .Oct"-11. While King .George and Queen Mary were enter ing the Coliseum Theater tonight at a charity performance, suffragettes rushed at them and attempted to strike the royal couple.' Detectives saved them. Miss Bedford, a fierce suffragette, armed with an umbrella stick, led the attack. Dozens of arrests were made. SEVERAL OF THE PAST WEEK'S NEWS JL mam rx a a a uia .. . Miiimiim a a nurrMi. wm n mm ini f . i nniu Tir.n a 1141 a m 11 1 Troops Believed on Verge of Mutiny. WASHINGTON IS FEELING BLUE Administration Expects Crisis in Capital.- PREPARATIONS ARE MADE Emergencies Not to Be Permitted to Take United States Government Unawares Battleships May Be Reassigned. WASHINGTON. Oct. 11. Although latest advices to the State Department tonight declared the deputies arrested by order of Provisional President Huerta had been released from prison, the dissolution of the Mexican Con gress and the invasion of the legisla tive halls by armed troops caused the Washington Government practically to lose all hope of seeing a constitutional election held on October 28 or the paci fication of the country brought about through the authorities in power at present In Mexico City. A crisis Is expected -In the Mexican capital. Administration officials today pointed to President Wilson's reference in his address to Congress last August that "the true state of affairs In Mex ico soon would be revealed." Federal Troops Disgruntled. Evidence that the federal troops are disgruntled and on the verge of mutiny because they have not been paid, and the comparatively easy successes of the Constitutionalists . in capturing such important places as Torreon in North Central Mexico, were significantly re ferred, to by Washington officials ' as revelations and the real situation. The establishment of a virtual dicta torship by Huerta through the use of military force is interpreted as likely to have the most far-reaching conse quences to the Huerta regime. It also was held as vindication of the attitude of the Washington Administration that military assumption of power should, not be recognized, and there is hope now among high officials that foreign governments which hitherto had recog nized the Huerta regime would with draw their support. Government Is Preparing, There was no official pronouncement of . policy today, but the American Government is quietly preparing for any emergencies that may arise. Its advices show the improbability of an election on October 26, not only because of the successes of the Constitutionalist arms, but .numerous illegalities In con nection with the preliminary arrange ments for an election. The dissolu tion of Congress by force is plainly looked upon here asan unconstitutional act. - At the cabinet meeting next Tues day a full discussion of the situation is expected, though Acting-Secretary Moore briefly talked over the dispatches with President Wilson today. ; Battleships to Be Reassigned. There is a probability that devel opments In Mexico may bring about some change In the detail of American battleships in Mexican waters. Senor Huerta's pointed declaration recently in his message to Congress that the six ' months' period allowed American war vessels In Mexican waters would expire on October 2ft and would not be renewed caused the Navy Depart ment at that time to order the Rhode Island, Nebraska, New Jersey and Vir ginia to go to Vera Cruz to relieve (Cot eluded on Page 8.) The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature. TODAY'S Probably fair; westerly winds. Foielgn. Lloyd George opens campaign against land lordism. Section 1. page 1. German Emperor's name drawn Into royal . - opera scandal. Section 1, page s. Emperor Francis Joeph suffers from severe illness. Section 1. page 10. Irish now awaiting struggle in new Parlia ment. Section 1. page 10. "Red Doggers" terrify London. Section 1. Liner burns at sea; 1S5 lives are lost. Sec tion 1, page 1. Rational. . Clayton agrees to remain In House, as Wil son requested. Section 1, page 2. Official hint given Irs. Pankhurst that alias may make trouble. Section 1, page 6. s Washington expects crisis In Mexico: pre pares for emergencies. Section 1. page 1. Democrats in Congress evolve new civil ser vice scheme. Section 1, page 2. . Domestic Timothy L. Woodruff's physicians have llt tie nope. Section lf page Sulzer's promised "revelations" closely guarded in counsel's safe. Section 1. page S. . Kansas City underworld has big moving day. owing to new vice order. Section 1, page 6. Detective In Chicago seeking Ethel New comb thinks she has met with foul play. Section 1. page 6. Eastern conservationists preparing to fight state control. Section 1, page L . Sport. Philadelphia Athletics are baseball cham pions of the world. Section 2, page 8. Pacific Coast League results: Venice 3, Portland 0: Sacramento 10, San Francis co 8; Oakland 2. Los Angeles T-10 in nings). Section 2, page 8. . Christy Mathewson says Giants have best .. team. Section 1. page 1. Oregon Aggies hold Multnomah to T to 7 tie score. Section 2. page 1. White Sox defeat Cubs 5 to 2. Section 2, page 2. Volley ball and hockey "take" at Y. M. C. A. Section 2, page 5. Cobb ends season with highest batting mark. Section Z. page 2. Dugdale Is pleaBed with men obtained In draft. Section 2. page 8. Story of final world's series game Is told In detail. Section 2. page 2. Lober drops from top of Coast League bat ters to tenth. Section 2, page 2. Harvard beats Williams by great sport at end. Section 2, page 4. University of Oregon football team is shift ed. Section 2, pace 4. O. A. C. has able captains for its teams. Section 2, page S. Washington defeats Bremerton, 23 to 8. Boxing game overshadowed by world's series. bection c, page w Horse racing of season reviewed. Section 2. page o. Commodore of Motorboat Club returns from au cruise. . mcuuh pso u- 0.lt.. X. n - Vi .I'M. t Puyallup fruitgrowers work out successful ...,!.. nl,n fiitnttnn 1. naare 7. New aeroboat speeds on Columbia. Section 1. page 8. Washington fund for highway Improvement gains. 6eotlon 4, page 10. Washington County fair revival at Forest tirOVS IS Dig IUCGOM. pouhuu A, Testimony of detectives In Raymond offi cials trial cunirevDi b.u. u-"". -. MM 0. Irate wife trails lumberman and affinity. Cn.ln, 1 naff. U - . Washington children may compete for corn prize in inu. pmiuo x, - ysv ... Hood River man says prevailing apple prices ire guuo iwi ...... r- Big show at The Dalles ends In blass of glory, section i. page o. New continent found In Arctic. Section 1, State convention, of women's clubs at Hood dId.p 1. lu.resa. Section 1. naare 14. Blue sky law to be tested. Section 1, page 8. ' Commercial and Marine. Short crops cause another boom in coffee mark,t. Mention 2. tiaee 17. Heavy selling breaks wheat prices at Chi cago. Decuua jfB it. Bears raid stock market and support Is tonkins'- Kectlon 2. oaxe 17. No verdict is announced In Glenesslln wreck inquiry, oeenuii , jibs. D.l.n anil vtolnfrv. Rose Festival features for 1014 being ar- j ' ....... 1 nnvA 10 . rangeu. oo-mv .. a . Weather report, data and forecast. Seotlon 1 nfltre 8. Knights of Pythias prepare for ftrand lodge i a- .Inn 9 . r 1Q Twent-year employes of Portland Railway, Light & power company lu we -. v.-nm.A. auction 1. Dan 11. Move is started to widen Tenth street. Sec tion 4, page lu. Dleck Itemizes 1014 .budget. Section 4, page 9. Germans to close Wagner-Leipzig centennial celebration tonight at big concert In the Armory. Section 1, page 15. Woman with past turns against alleged criminal husband when he asks her to abandon baDy on doorstep. Section. 1, page 12. One day postponement to be asked in La France trial Monday, owing to date be ing state holiday. Section 2, page 18. Hop market again climbing. Section 1. page 15. Portland Elks consider plans for 20-story building. Section 4, page 8. Oregon clubwomen - would remove courts from politics. Section 1, page 14. Portland budget estimates Issued. Seotlon 2. page 7. Aigrettes on mlladys hat In Oregon are doomed not only by tariff but by state law. Section 2, page 7. EVENTS ARE GIVEN ATTENTION BY CARTOONIST REYNOLDS. UIIII1 Ui uiiiw nun 1 , s DISCOVERED, BY OTHERS. Veteran Bows to Old Master, Plank. CINCINNATI" KIT WINS GAME New York Pitcher Gives All Honor to Victors. BEST .TEAM WON, HE SAYS Mathewson Finds Himself In No Mood to Write Funny Story AHer Defeat In Decisive Contest of World's Series. BY CHRISTY MATHEWSON. (Copyright, 1918, by the Wheeler Syndi cate, Ino.) NEW TORK, Oct 11. (Special.) This seems to me to be the time to write a funny story, only I havent any more laughs left in me than there Is "stuff left in my rm right at this minute. I feal as if It would be more appropriate now to write my baseball valedictory, but I suppose I will be trailing South with the club for Spring practice next March. Therefore it must be a funny story.. Certainly there was a lot of humor in that game. Tou should have watched it from where I did, and you. would have been handed many a laugh. Did "Home Run" Baker win the game for the Athletlcs7 Certainly he did. Whereabouts in the stands did he drive the ball? Why. he didn't drive the ball into the stands -at all. but he won It with what is known as a "Cincinnati base hit," which resulted in two run That was Just as good, or even better, than a home run: except that no fan had a baseball to take home as a sou venir. "Cincinnati," bnt Wins Game. Don't you get the laugh in that yetl Well, maybe you don't know exactly what a "Cincinnati base hit" is. If you do. skip the next two or three lines. Always previous to this season," when there were men on bases, and the ball was bit to the Infield, if the play was made to some other base, besides first, and the attempted play did not go through, It was scored as a fielder's i nil tnwns on the circuit ex cept Cincinnati. This year the scoring rules were revised so that it is scorea i. ...... tnwn as a hit Instead of being confined to the locality of Cincinnati. Hence it Is known as a -T-incmnau base hit," and It was Baker's terrific "Cincinnati base hit" which resulted in the two runs that beat us. If I hadn't had to laugh I would have felt sorry for poor old 'Eddie" oionir nut there trying to beat us with out a thing on the ball. His curve wasn't breaking and he had no speed, and. his crossfire was rotten. In fact, he was so bad that Mr. Klem, the am nlre. had to go out. and teach him to put his foot on the rubber. Plank "Terribly Disgraced." fri . wna a tArrthl ritRCrrap.A frir a 1nan whd had been pitching only 39 years, no, I mean is years, anu ua.ua i learned any more about the game than that. Just to think to De warnea Dy thn nmnlra in front of all those 40.000 persona Did you not see Plank blush. and he went up in ine air so uiga inai he was buried under a shower of two base hits during the entire game I But who xinld vnu exnect when a fellow had nothing on the ball? How am I getting along with this runny story 7 u.v. onv nf thA actor-humorist writers on the World's series got anything on me? . But I can't keep up the pace any longer. Plank beat me by pitching wonderful ball. Well, I take my hat (Concluded on Page 6.) Belief of Explorers That Extensive Territory Lies North of Siberia Confirmed by Czar'a Men. ST. MICHAEL, Alaska, Oct 11. The Russian government steamers Taimyr and Waygatch, under Commander Wil ltsky, which have Teen engaged In Arctic exploration north of Siberia for three years, arrived here today for coal. Captain Wllitsky reports the discov ery of a bpdy of land as large as Greenland extending beyond latitude 81 north and longitude 102 east Admiral Peary and other Arctic ex ninrpm have believed that a large body of land, almost a continent existed in the polar regions. The Canadian government had so much faith in the theories of Peary, Stefansson and other explorers that last Slimmer it sent Vllhjalmur Stefansson to the Arctic with the best-equipped polar expedition that ever entered the ice. Three of Stefansson's boats are frozen in the Ice pack near Point Bar row, Alaska. Two of those boats car ried suDDlles. which were to be landed at depots east. of the mouth of the Mackenzie. The third was to explore the mainland and iBlands already known,, east of the Mackenzie delta. Stefansson. himself, with the whaler Karluk, got "away safely from Point Barrow and steered for the. worm, seeking the unknown continent which the Russian expedition that arrived at St Michael reports discovering. J. FRANK PORTER IS DEAD Prominent Realty Dealer Stricken While in Basement at His Home. J.-. Frank Porter, prominent real estate operator, with offices In the Chamber of Commerce building, dropped dead in the basement of his home. at 412 East Thirty-eighth street North, at 7:30 last night -Mr. Porter had left his wife fora few moments Derore leaving for a shopping tour In the busi ness distinct and went Into the base ment to shine his shoes. After a wait of several minutes, Mrs Porter became alarmed and went down stairs, where she found her husband lying on his LacK. Dr, W. R. Laldlaw was summoned and on his arrival pro nounced the man dead and attributed the cause to heart trouble, with which Mr, Porter had suffered for several years. Mr. P6rter was 50 years . old . and leaves a wife, Mrs. Elsie Porter and six children, Charles, Frank, Frances, Emma, Ruth and Elsie Porter. YANKEE BACKS REPUTATION American Soldier 'Licks' Japanese Who Wanted to 'Lick' Soldier. For upholding the reputation of Yankee valor against a Japanese, Cor nelius Twomey, a sqldier from Vancou ver Barracks, was arrested and im mediately discharged when he ex plained the circumstances in Municipal Court yesterday. The Japanese for feited (25 ball. Twomey was In a Japanese restau rant when a waiter Inquired lf the roan in uniform was an American soldier. Twomey answered affirmatively and the Japanese. Frank Takata. said that he could 'lick'" any American soldier. When the police broke Into the fight Takata was much the worse for wear. BACK BEST FOOTWARMER North Yakima Judge Upholds Wlfe' Right o Use "Heater." NORTH TAKIMA7Wash., Oct. 11. (Special.) The right of a wife to warm her feet on the conjugal back was up held today by Superior Judge Preble in the divorce action, of Viola Mann Heath against Harvey William Heath. Heir husband's refusal was one of ber pleas to show cruelty. "Don't you think I have as much right as he has?" she asked the Judge. "You certainly have' was the Judicial decision. THE IL Lloyd George Opens War on Landlords. WOES OF TENANT PICTURED Living Wage Demanded With Chance to Own Home. GOVERNMENT AID NEEDED Extensive Precautions Taken to Prex vent Attack on British Chan cellor by Suffragettes Flro Brigade Held Ready. LONDON, Oct 11. The campaign t "free British land from landlordism and get the people back on It" was opened today at Bedford by Chancel lor Lloyd-George. Extraordinary precaution had been taken against the militant suffragette and other possible disturbers of the meeting. Barricades had been erected and the local police reinforced, while the fire brigade was ready to use Its hose lf efforts were made to rush the barriers. Firemen were posted on tne roofs and In the hall to spy out the "wild women" who, it. was suspected, would try to repeat the tactics they had previously adopted. "Great Monopoly" Attacked. "Landlordism Is the greatest monopw oly in this land and the people are trusting in the government to put forth its strong right hand ti lift them from the mire," said Mr. Lloyd-George. "The authority of the sovereign is not comparable to the authority of the landlord over his subjects. He could make and maintain a wilderness and he has legal authority to do more than even a foreign enemy could Impose oa the country after a conquest In Ire land millions have be- i driven away from the land by legal process." British System Failure. Lloyd George proceeded to tell - of the ghastly failure of the land system of Great Britain. "Tho percentage of cultivated land here la lower than In any other coun try of Europe," hi said. "This state of affairs Is due to the fatuous and un. businesslike methods of the landlords. "The agricultural laborers of the British isles receive lower pay and work longer hours than any others. It is a scandal that 90 per cent of the farm laborers of this country are in receipt of a scale of living lower than that of the poorhouse. The entire wages of the farm laborers of England and Wales amount to only $120,000,000 a year, whereas the parson and the landlord get $185,000,000 out of the land. Much as I love the parson, I would pay the laborer first It Is no wonder that scores of thousands are fleeing across the seas from such a land of mean bondage." Government Aid Necessary. The Chancellor, In unfolding th government's scheme for the Improve ment of the land system, pointed out that the flaancial aid of tho state would have to be Invoked in order to deal fairly, thoroughly and drastically with the monopoly. "The country must choose," he con tinued, "between the power of the land owners and the prosperity of the la borers. It Is no use tinkering. All the. conditions of the monoply must be re cast and put on a fair business foot ing before considering the purchase of the land, which might Involve an enor mous endowment to the present own ers and burden the community with a (Concluded on Page 6.)