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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (April 25, 1915)
5 JOHN D. JR.. SAYS. HE WILL GIVE FACTS FORMER PRESIDENT ON "WITNESS STAND IN LIBEL TRIAL Stein Bloch Smart Clothes inferences Drawn From Cor respondence by Chairman Walsh Resented. TESTIMONY TO BE GIVEN THE SUNDAY OKEGOXIAX; PORTLAND, APRIL 25, 1915. .Federal Commissioner IJoplit-s YiUi Challenge and Says Public Will Want to Know Details or Circumstances ltintcd At, NEW YORK. April 24. John D.Rock, efeller. Jr., gave out a, brief statement today in reference to the correspond ence between himself and L. M. Bowers, chairman of the Colorado Kuel & Iron Company, which was made public yes terday by Frank P. Walsh, chairman of the United States Commission on In dustrial Relations. lie said a complete statement would bo issued Jlonday. Mr. Rockefeller asserts that Mr. Walsh had drawn inferences without ascertaining -whether they were cor rect, "a proceeding- which is wholly in defensible." .' Public to Have KirVt". He said further that he would be glad to appear to give additional testimony before the commission at any time, "for we are desirous that the public shall have all the facts." KANSAS CITY, April 24. "Mr. Rocke feller's statement in which he declared he would be glad to return to the wit ness stand and answer any questions concerning- his interests in Colorado is the most important and most gratifying the Commission has received," Frank P. Walsh, chairman of the Federal Com mission on Industrial Relations, said In a statement tonight. Walsh luura Challenge. Concerning a full statement of cir cumstances brought up in the corre spondence retween Mr. Rockefeller and his Colorado agents at the time of the recent coal strike, which Mr. Rocke feller said would bo issued from his of fice on Monday, Mr. Walsh says: "In the statement which Mr. Rocke feller says he will make I challenge him to say whether I M. Bowers told the truth In his letter of April 4, 1914. in which he said the Colorado Fuel & Iron Company leads in fixing prices and conditions of labor. "Under date of June 14, 1914. Mr. Rockefeller wrote to his publicity agent. Ivy Lee, a copy of which letter has been filed with the Commission's records. The letter says: " 'Several points in my memorandum, however, could well, even more appro priately, he used in the letter from Governor Ammons to President Wilson, which you are proposing to write as soon as the Major's memorandum reaches you.' Kull Memorandum Called l-'or. "The public will not be satisfied un less Mr. Rockefeller sets out in full the memorandum which he desired Mr. Lee to use in the letter from Governor Ammons to the President. The state ment should also give the name of the Major referred to and details of the memorandum made up by the Major. This will be of Importance In view of the fact that Governor Ammons has de clared It to be a lie that Mr. Lee fur nished him any draft to be used in a letter to the President or to the Gov ernors of other states. Also Mr. Rock efeller should let the public know how the drafts of the letters for the Gov ernor to sign, as referred to in the correspondence with Mr. Lee, reached the Governor. "Mr. Rockefeller should give the pub He the names and locations of friendly newspapers referred to, so that the public may be .able to properly weigh the comment which will follow Mr. Rockefeller's forthcoming statement. Name of "the Gnng Wanted. "In his letter to Mr. Rockefeller, August 16, Mr. Bowers said 'the political gang at Washington was at its wits' end to find some way out of the pit they had helped the striking miners of Colorado to dig.' Mr. Rockefeller should give the public the names of the Individuals In Washington whom he claims constitutes 'the gang.' "Mr. Rockefeller's denunciation of my conduct in giving the facts respect ing the Colorado strike to the public as wholly Indefensible is, to my mind, the strongest possible recommendation of the value and Integrity of the work which is being done by the Commission and its staff." JOBLESS SWAMP BUTTE Xews of Copper Revival Starts Rush to Montana Town. BUTTE, Mont., April 24. Butte can not hope to take care of the army of unemployed men moving upon it from every direction. Officials of the min ing companies said today they had advices that unskilled laborers, attract ed by the news that Butte was striking its old pace as a result of the copper boom, were headed this way by the tnousands. "Already there are more men of this class in Butte than can be employed said C. F. Kelly, vice-president of the largest company here, today. "We sim ply cannot provide work for these men. While the companies have been putting on guinea miners, they have no em ployment for men who are without ex perience." BANKER GOES FOR FUNDS Authorities Permit Trip in Hope of liaising Cash for Deficit. PUEBLO, Colo., April 24. With the permission of county authorities, W. B. Slaughter, president of the closed Mer cantile National Bank, at liberty on $40,000 county bond on a charge of em bezzling J20.000 county funds deposited in the bank, left here late last night for Dallas. Tex. According to his attorney, he plans to raise several hundred thousand dol lars at Dallas to meet the reported deficit of the bank. PAPER SELLER PATENTED Ievice Will Deliver Single Sheet or Sunday Edition. CENTRA LI A, Wash., April 24. (Spe clal.) Charles Dueber and Roy Crock er, two Wlnlock boys, have patented a newspaper vending machine. The re ceptacle holds 100 papers and by drop ping a coin in a slot the paper, auto matically comss out of the machine. The device will deliver single sheet or a Sunday edition and Is arranged to take care of 2-cent, 4-cent and 6-cent papers. iAsWf., wss.. c , "-' , ' ' ' " f" -it'"' ; S . . y r : ..J "v vy" 1 'it-. . . : t. . J gl I Jf ...... ; - ?&:. 6. Ji.i .-.., : v sc . : s.;-'' , : s- ' f :. " v! ..' .vi!itv. - .. - -s V : 'l n., ' . " - . . - . . i S . ' , - ..' ? f x f ' v v a . , . II J IB f : v. - T f s- ; - - r - v t - 1 . - - ill ";$;- i Ijij I. R. IS TAKING REST Trial of Barnes Suit Is Ex pected to Last Two Weeks. VICE EVIDENCE SOUGHT Colonel's Lawyers to Miake Stren uous Efforts to Introduce Tes . timony Concerning Moral Conditions in Albany. SYRACUSE. N. T.. April -'4. Theo dore Roosevelt spent today, as he will spend tomorrow, In resting from his four strenuous days upon the witness stand and preparing for further cross examination when the trial of William Barnes" suit against him for alleged libel is resumed on Monday. The Colo nel held a uhort conference with his counsel, and then took a long automo bile ride into the country with his host. Horace S. Wilkinson, a Progressive leader. After a erie3 of conferences, attor-i neys on both sides gave it as their opinion tonight that, because of the great amount of evidence yet to be pre sented, it was doubtful whether the case would reach the jury insied of two weeks, if even-then. i Syracuse hotels are crowded with wit nesses. Some have been here since the tiral began, -others arrived today and still more are expected tomorrow and Monday. . - Despite the fact that Justice Andrews has ruled that a legislative committee report dealing, among other things with vice in Albany, was not admis sible, several detectives who assisted in an Investigation for the committee were In Syracuse' tonight with subpe- nas. It was said that a strong effort would be made by the Roosevelt at torneys to get at least a part of their testimony before the jury. Mr. Barnes is expected to return here tomorrow from Albany, where he went after the week-end recess was declared yesterday. ROAD WORK WILL RESUME Columbia County Commissioners Act on Contractor's Petition. ST. HELENS. Or., April 24.-The pe tltion of the Consolidated Contract Company, of Portland, which was pre sented to the County Court here last Monday, asking that a board of arbi trators be appointed to settle the dif ferences between this county and the company for services performed in con struction work on Columbia Highway last year, was acted on by the County Court here today. The final report of ex-State Highway Engineer Bowlby shows there is about $54,000 due the contract company, which contends that that amount does not cover its claim. No specific amount Is set up in the pe tition as being due the contractors. The answer of the court does not entertain any proposition to arbitrate with the contractors, but is an orde ror me contractors to resume construe tion work. llleteitrlOenteiarntiwht shrd shrd shrs AUSTIN HOMELESS SUFFER Damage" Reported Within Million, Number Drained Not Above 3 5, AUSTIN, Tex., April 24. Heavy rains falling here late tonight brought new Photo ROOSEVELT. COLOXEL THEODORE! been badly damaged by the floods and who have endeavored to continue, to live in them, despite the damage they have sustained. v . ; - While both Walter and Shoal creeks are higher tonight as the result of the rains, there appeared to- be.no' danger of additional damaging floods from the creeks. The Colorado River is high here, but the city is believed not to-be in danger from it. With 14 bodies recovered there were reports tonight of.. 21 persons missing. although no more bodies were recovered today. Mayor Wooldridge today, at the met ng of the City Council to repudiate 'exaggerated reports of damage," de clared that with the most generous es timate not more than $1,000,000 in dam age to property has been done. like wise, he denied "extravagant reports of the number of drowned that . have been sent out. It was believed , here that the death list here will not exceed , if it runs that high. , . Eighteen lives lost Is the total re ported to date in the flood. JITNEY IS HELD LOSER OAKLAKD COMMITTEE KINDS THAT OWNER: IS "EATING MACHINES." ive-Cent Radius Only Three Milra, Iii - nmc .1.5 Cents a Mile, at Cost of - T Cents on Average. OAKLAND, Cal.. April 24. (Special.) The Investigations of " the special transportation committee of the Oak land Commercial Club into the jitney, from- a community standpoint,- was con cluded today by - the issuance of an exhaustive treatise. -,. - The jitney, says the report, serves a city within a radius of thre miles from the center. In doing this, it com petes with the profitable part of a street railway system. With lessened profits, the car company cannot main tain the unprofitable service in outside districts and thus cannot develop those districts The report then, taking the stand that the Jitney cannot operate more than three miles fdr 5 cents, con cludes: "If the public supports the jitney and puts the streetcars out of busi ness, it must expect a zone system of fares for the jitney. Three miles is the outside limit of profit at present rates." The report takes Jitney figures. from various jitney cities and makes its average 'from all compilations totaled. The jitney is found to travel 137 miles day, with an income of 5.8 cents a mile. Considering depreciation of auto, cost of operation and $3 a day for the driver, the report finds that operation costs 7 cents a mile, and concludes that the jitney owner Is "eating hi machine," since he cannot allow for depreciation and is really living on his original investment. IMPRISONED MEN NAMED Germany Gives List of 39 British Officers, 10 in Solitary Cells.. LONDON. April 24. There, was re ceived here today a list of the 39 Brit ish of ficers . placed in detention -.bar racks, 10 of them in solitary - confine' ment, by the German government-. In retaliation for the declination of Great Britain to accord honors of ' war. to crews of captured ' German submarines. This list, which was supplied to Am bassador Gerard at Berlin by the' Ger man government, consists of the names of seven Captains and 32 Lieutenants. Included in the list -are-, the names of Lord Garlles, Alexander Frazer, mas ter of Saltoun: Lieutenant Gosohen, son of Sir William Edward Goschen, former British Ambassador to Berlin; Robin Grey, a nephew of the British Foreign Minister, and many sons of peers. Nearly all the prisoners belong to crack regiments. ' Copyright by Underwood & Li.aerwood. ' .' . LIQUOR VIEW GIVEN T. M. Gilmore Assails Attitude of R. P. Hutton. OREGON LAW IS RIDICULED President of Model License League Declares Anti-Saloon Organiza tion Is Dangerous Political Movement and Big Graft. LOUISVILLE, Ky., April 20. (To the Editor.) My attention has just been called to an article in The Oregonian of the 12th. headed "Gilmore Plan Re jected." - Further on it Is explained that R. P. Hutton, state superintendent .of the Anti-Saloon League -of Oregon, in an address . delivered -before the Vernon Presbyterian Church on Sunday morn ing, April 11,: said that he had been challenged by ..Tom Gilmore through the columns of The Oregonian to Join In the support of a law that would prohibit the purchase and possession of alcoholic beverages after prohibi tion takes effect In your state. Furthermore, that Mr. Hutton said that "the Anti-Saloon League will not aid such a proposition, because it has been ROSE NOTE THE PRICES! Corner 4th and Stark. "wA-sajo-.i.. -fl ... t ..;v. a. ' 4 .a rv iru- r 3 : " 1 ' i'it.-,:i'Wv,"-ii'v L -til w V-W " : ... 0-J-..V... .iX.-. 4kV - y M SSI 5 There's an unmistakable air of style and smartness about them that puts them head and shoulders above the ordinary See the BEN held that under the Federal Constitu tion such a law is unconstitutional." Now. Mr. Editor. I have a reason able sense of humor and I do not ob ject to a good Joke, but a practical joke such as the Anti-Saloon League has put over on Oregon is cruel. b cause it is silly and because It is frightfully destructive. Law Held Not Prohibitory. If the confiscation of millions in vested in breweris, wholesale and re tail liquor houses and hotels that can not prosper if denied the right of serv ing wine and other such beverages to their patrons, and if the thousands of working people who will be thrown out of employment in your state next Janu ary was to result In prohibition, then I would offer no protest on behalf of our trade or of common sense, because It might be said that the end Justified the means. The Oregon law, however, that Is to go into effect on the first of January, 1916, is not to be a prohibitory law, because the mail-order houses, which are the most active and aggressive con cerns connected with the business, are fully legalized by this law to do busi ness In Oregon, and they will see to it that no one will be inconvenienced in securing as much whisky, wine or beer as he may desire. Of course these mail order houses will pay no revenue to your state and they will take hun dreds of thousands of dollars out of your state, and they will ship the cheapest liquor made to your drinkers. Lieasrne Declared Daasrerous. The Anti-Saloon League is a tremen dous organization, and it has the back ing of a number or religious bodies, and it is followed blindly by a large percentage of our. earnest women, but all the same it is, in my opinion, the most dangerous political movement ever known in this country and the biggest graft that, ever spread its hungry hands over an emotional peo ple, but it is not a prohibition move ment, and my purpose in issuing tne challenge to Mr. Hutton was to dem onstrate that fact. If prohibition does not prohibit peo ple from drinking, then I ask again. In heaven's name, what Its purpose is? If Oregon Is to be flooded with liquor through mail-order channels, bootleg gers and blind tigers, what object is there in destroying millions of prop erties without compensation, which the laws of Oregon have heretofore en couraged, and in destroying vast rev enues and in throwing thousands of people out of employment? League Stand .Challenged. If prohibition prohibits the manu facture and the sale of alcoholic bev erages. It should also prohibit the pur chase and the possession and the use and the interstate shipment of auch beverages, because otherwise there can be no prohibition. If you were merely to prohibit the sale of tea and coffee in Oregon, and permit the shipment of tea and cof fee into the state for personal use, would any family In Oregon be de prived of its tea and coffee? But, ex plans Mr. Hutton, "The Anti-Saloon League will not aid such a proposi tion, because it has been held that under the Federal Constitution such a law is unconstitutional." I challenge Mr. Hutton to show any such decision from the Supreme Court of the United States, and I call his at tention to the fact that the purpose of the Webb-Kenyon law passed by Congress is to aid any state in enforc ing a . law prohibiting the interstate shipment of liquor. A state is sovereign, and under Its police regulations has the power to protect its citizens from anything that is dangerous to life, or to health, or to good order, and if Oregon, will prohibit the shipment of liquor from other states for any purpose whatever, the Webb Kenyon law will immediately serve CITY PARK BARGAINS a. 8 Easy Terms I Owners., models at $20 and $25 SELLING Portland Agent for Dunlap Hats, $5; Brewer Hats, $3 Clear Your Skin Eczema, psoriasis, ring worm, pim ples, scales and crusts are due to myriad deeply buried germs in the skin. To secure relief and cure these germs must be destroyed and elimi nated. The D. I). D. Prescription, a mild compound In liquid form of oil of wlntergreen, thymol and other heal ing elements, will give instant relief In all cases. Unlike salves, it pene trates to the deeply buried germs, kills and washes them out. All druggists have D. 15. D. A generous trial bottle for 25c. 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Mr. Hutton knows as well as 1 do that a sovereign state possesses such powers, and that the State of Oregon can shut out liquor for personal use as well as for &ny other purpose, and he further knows that there can be no prohibition if you do not prohibit per sonal use or the delivery for personal use. But Mr. Hutton does not favor prohi bition, and I again challenge him to advocate an amendment to the Oregon law that will take the joker out of It, and that will stamp liquor out of Oregon absolutely. I happen to know, even as Mr. Hut ton knows, that the only reason the Anti-Saloon League secured a majority in Oregon last Fall was because of the promise that prohibition should not prohibit. T. M. GILMORi:. President National Model License League. STOPS FALLING HAIR This Home-Made Mixture Stops Dan druff and Falling Hair and Aids Its Growth. To a half pint of water add: Bay Rum 1 ox. Barbo Compound a small box Glycerine "4 os. 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