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THE SUNDAY OKEGONIAJi, PORTLAND, JUNE 20, 1915. ARIZONA, GREATEST WORLD'S GREATEST PROJECTED SUPER-DREADNOUGHT, WHICH WAS LAUNCHED , YESTERDAY, AND BEAUTIFUL ARIZONA GIRL WHO WAS HER SPONSOR. North Bank Rail 26 Hours Ocean Sail -to- ; ' Vast Crowd Sees Vessel Chris ; tened With Wine arid Wa lt ter Slip Into River. am Jrraiici YOUNG GIRL IS SPONSOR 6 WARSHIP, LURCHED SCO Secretary Daniels, Speaking at Cere mony, Say Dreadnought Still Is "Backbone of Navy" Other , Bis Ships Vndcr Way. , v- i . t KAfTS A BOl'T AMKR1BAN WARSHIP nF.SI(iED TO LEAD NAVIES !' WORLD. Cost, complete. $15,000,000. Main battery. 12 14-ifich puna, mounted three each in four turrets. Secondary battery. 22 five-Inch runs, with four submerged tor pedo tubes. Dimensions Length. 608 feet; beam. S7 feet; draught. 28 Vs feet; displacement. 31.400 tons. Complement, 915 officers and men. t'ost Of one broadside. $12,000. Shells from bis: guns weigh 1450 pounds each. ; NEW YORK, June 19. In the pres ' r ence of a vast concourse of spectators in holiday attire, looking on not only ; I from the precincts of the Navy-yard , . itself, but from the spans of two great bridges, from docks and piers and from housetops, the superdreadnought Ari- ' r.ona. mightiest warship in the world. was launched today. Not an . untoward incident marred .the graceful slipping of the leviathan of war and sea into the still waters ,. of the East River. Two broken bottles, . bound together, crashed against the side, and the warship's beautiful young sponsor said, in a treble that was heard by all around her: "I christen thee Arizona." Both bottles, one containing wine, another water, broke simultane ously against the great steel bow. Navy See Good Omen. "A good omen for the Arizona," said young naval officer, standing near. For the men who fight at sea have their superstitions, and one of them is "that ill-luck attends the ship on which the bottle of baptism fails to break at the first attempt. The time-honored practice of having & marine at hand to finish an uncompleted Job only partly overcomes the hoodoo, real sea logs aver. The sponsor was Esther Ross, of ' TVescott, Ariz., chosen by Governor Hunt because, it is said, she is the most beautiful young woman In Ari zona. tJhe is 17. She was as calm and self-possessed as if the christen-,-lngof dreadnoughts had been an every day duty with her, and she joined, with girlish enthusiasm, in the cheering that " made the Navy-yard echoes ring as the vessel took the watery glide, smoothly and easily, into the stream, and then waited, as if in obedience to command, for the tugs, to make fast to her and guide her to her temporary anchorage. The day was filled with ceremony as befitted a day in history. Secretary Daniels, of the Navy Department, de- livered an address, in which he de scribed the work on three of the five dreadnoughts authorized by the last 4 Congress, and told his hearers also that the Navy was now experimenting with devices by which it was hoped to pro tect future warships against attacks by submarines. Daniels Telia of Knvy'n Growth. "The launching of this big dread nought," Mr. Daniels added, "is an event which tells better than can be , spoken by any words the steady and orderly growth of the Navy. Within the last year, 1 have had the pleasure of witnessing at Quincy the launching ' of the Nevada; at Camden, of the Okla homa, and at Newport News, of the s Pennsylvania, and now today of the r Arizona. 'This follows close upon the completion of our two latest dread noughts, the New York and the Texas. TV "As soon as the Arizona leaves the . ways we will here begin construction t work upon the California, much of the i material for which has already been contracted for, and which will be equipped with electrio propulsion, be ting the first of the modern dread noughts of any country to utilize this recently tested and successful new motive power, which promises to be a -revolutionary Invention. . . J,: "It is estimated that by its use, the v oil-burning California, E teaming- at 12 1 J knots, will be able to steam for 11 days , longer than a coal-burning dread j nouKht and that during: that time she could go more than 3000 miles farther." Dreadnought Still Chief Reliance. The Secretary said that the "back bone of the Navy" is still the powerful ' dreadnought, but declared the Navy ,was keeping abreast of progress in the -building of submarines and destroyers. X, He also referred to the laying of the keel, at the League Island Navy-yard today, of the largest transport yet authorized by Congress, and of the de " velopment of the Navy aviation school at Pensecola. i By the time the Arizona' the com pleted, she will have cost $15,000,000. .She is virtually a counterpart of the Pennsylvania, but she bases her dis- tinction as the world's greatest war . vessel on the fact that she is a few J. tons larger than her sister ship, in her construction, speed is sacrificed to might. Against such a ship as the Ari zona with her broadside fire from 12 -34-inch guns and protection of more ,han a foot of the toughest steel that , can be made around the vessel's vital -parts like a wall, a battle cruiser I would be helpless and must depend on -i her speed and seek safety in flight r There are few ships in any navy tit F to cope with the Arizona, ship to ship. "V. Gm Win Shoot Many Miles. 7 Th Ja.rl,e,0f,tne Arizna's guns is lrom 12 to 13 miles as they will be set -'in her turrets, or as far as her gun pointers and observers can see in brightest weather. As previous ships - carrying the 14-Inch guns, the Arizona's 4. main battery will have a maximum "elevation of nearly 20 degrees. It would ..be possible it is said. almost to double that elevation and add miles J to the range of the guns, but already they can shoot and hit farther it is probable, tiv.-n they will ever be called J upon to do. -uea V Tho-Arlzona will carry the three-gun J turrets which have been developed by t-American naval constructors, her 12 -big rifles being housed in four turrets two forward and two after. In addition! - he will have a secondary battery of' . 22 five-inch, long-range rifles for de afen se against destroyers, torpedo-boats and submarines. The big guns can be P fired over either broadside and around the entire circla with tho exception of f an arc of less than 30 degrees directly f forward for the after-turrets and dl- redly astern for the forward turrets. 4. "Four of the secondary battery guns. two on each side, are so placed that they can fire three degrees across tuo A tK it,: f :. 1,.-;'. J' ' $ - - - ! f tit i " t l-- U I hi'!' BATTLESHIP, ARIZONA ship's bows, taking the place of bow- ohasers of the old wooden ship days. 'm Oregon Like Toy by Comparison. Compared with the Arizona the old battleships of the Oregon class are al most like toys. . The , new ship could engage a fleet of three of them at the same time, turning upon each as ,many guns as it could brine to bear, and her guns would be bigger and of Ions- er range. In addition, she could, steam away from them or overtake them at pleasure, developing 21. knots against their 16 or 17. The remarkable, thing- bout the great increase irf size and gun power, however. Is that each of the smaller ships would need as many or more men than the Arizona., which will carry a complement of 915 in her crew. The new sea fortress as she took the water today cost more than $7,000,000. That was for hull and machinery alone. The guns and armor will cost as much more, and other equipment necessary to fit her lor duty will add another million to her total cost. She is long er and wider than any but the newest trans-Atlantic liners. If it is aesirea to put her through the Panama Canal the locks and bends in the channel will be taxed almost to the limit to give her passageway. The Arizona is the fourth battleship to be built in a Government yard, and her place on the ways will be taken at once by the California, a larger and faster but similarly armed ship. BIG TRANSPORT'S KKFIi LAID Work -'Begun on Vessel to Carry 2500 Men, I'ully Equipped. PHILADELPHIA, June 19. The keel of the largest transport ever auth orized by Congress was laid at. the Philadelphia Navyyard today In the presence of a great crowd. The lay ing of the keel inaugurated the build ing of modern ships at the Philadel phia Navy lara. . The new vessel will be 483 feet long and will have accommodations for carrying 2500 men with full equip ment. CANAL GRAFT -CHARGED EX-COMMISSARY MANAGER AGAIN INDICTED BY GRAND JURY. Acceptance of More Than Sr.5,000 From Supply Contractors on Panama work Specifically Alleged. INDIANAPOLIS. June 19. John Burke, of this city, ei-manaser of the commissary department of the Panama Railroad, is cnargea witn accepting graft amounting to more than $55,000 in two indictments returned by the Federal grand jury and made public here today. Ricardo Bermudez. said to have been an ex-Governor of Colon, Panama, and Pascal Canavagglo, a former merchant of Panama, both now living In New York, were indicted with Burke, all of whom, with Jacob L. Salas, have been indicted previously in New York. All of the men are under bonds on similar indictments returned in New York. In- the indictment voted today, it is charged that Burke obtained $28,000 from Bermudez. who had large con tracts to furnish supplies to the com missary department of the railroad de partment. The other indictment alleges that Canavagglo sold $71,000 worth of wines and macaroni to the railroad and that Burke collected $6000,- which was de posited to Burke's credit in Indianapolis banks. It Is said also in the Indictment that Burke collected about $22,000 from Salas on tobacco contracts.' Takes Ont the Itch and Sting. 6ntiwptic Is first id' for mosquito flea 4 thr inM-t hlte. OWfn Instant relif nl vra fort. Keep supply ua baud. Uc Ail druse Ut. 1 Mi w ..... .. . . i . 1-Y : . -: .... - . r :.: : ? V ASD 17-YEAH-OLD ESTHER ROSS, OK GAS DEFENSE British Prepare Helmets Use of Men at Guns. for MICA WINDOWS SUPPLIED Soldiers Equipped to Remain. In Trenches Three flours Under At ; tack Soldier Finds That Chewing Tobacco Helps. LONDON, June 19. (Correspondence to the Associated Press.) Elaborate plana for defending positions subject to gas attack are being pushed to com pletion by a special committee of ex perts at the British War Office. For the artillerymen and machine-gun men, suits of "armor" are being- modeled after the suits worn by divers or col liery fire-fighting experts. The hel mets will provide a complete cover for the head, with 'mica windows for the eyes, and a heavy respirator covering the mouth and nose and supplied with a constant dampening of chemical from a small tin reservoir under the hat. Clad "in this equipment, the machine guns and artillery can maintain a po sition even if the Infantry has to re tire. - For the Infantrymen, the crude respirators at first supplied are now being replaced by hoods, like the so called Balaklava helmets. A flap cov ers the face, mica windows being in serted to protect the eyes, while the respirator pad is of cotton waste and large enough to last an hour without replacing. Bach soldier will carry two extra pads, enabling him to remain in his trench position three hours undert ordinary circumstances. A chew of tobacco in time has saved many a soldier's life during German gas attacks, according to a Corporal of Canadian' artillery in a letter to Rev. C. R. Durrant, of Freston Rec tory, Suffolk. He gives his reasons as follows: Gas makes the air green and yel low and It chokes and poisons a man when he stands. The first time, we began to feel pretty choky at the guns and wondered if tobacco would help us. We thought we would try it, and put a big chew In our mouths. It made us spit the gas up. Now, when we notice the gas in the air, we Just take a chew of tobacco." SEGREGATION LAW VALID Races Must Uve on Separate Blocks In Louisville, Ky. FRANKFORT. Ky., June 19. Con stitutionality of the Louisville, Ky., segregation ordinance, designed to pre vent persons of either the white or the colored race occupying for a home or as a place of public assemblage a building located in a block, a majority of the residents of which are of the other race, was upheld In a decision yesterday by the Kentucky Court of Appeals. , The ordinance was passed by the Louisville Common Council in May, 1914. Body "Will Be Taken Eat. VANCOUVER BARRACKS, Wash., June 19. (Special.) The body of Mrs. Sophia S. Davis, who died in the post yesterday, will be taken' to her old home at Bridgeport, conn., tomorrow MADE a -vi N 3 h - 1 14 1 r PRESCOTT, ARIZONA. by her daughter, Mrs. Moore, wife of Captain Richard C. Moore, of Company K, Kngineers. Captain Moore has been in California for several months: Mrs. Davis, a native of Pennsylvania, had been living with her daughter here for the, past year. ' - RAISULI NEARLY PERISHES Pretender to Morocco's Throne Fired On by Error. MADRID, via Paris, June 19. Raisu 11, brigand and pretender to Morocco's throne, had another narrow escape from death, according to the Heraldo, when 10 members of his suite were killed by the fire of Spanish troops near Arzilla, a Moroccan seaport. Desiring to visit the region he for merly controlled. Ralsuli asked General Marina, military governor of the Span ish zone, for a safe conduct and his request was granted. Accompanied by 40 native notables he was on his way toward Arzilla when a brisk fusillade was opened by a detachment of troops. Only the swiftness of his horse saved Raisuli. Several Junior officers have been arrested and an effort will be made to fix responsibility for tho attack. ALL MEXIC0JS SEARCHED American Consuls Increase Effort to - Find Portland Man. OREGOMAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington, June 19. At the further request of Senator Chamberlain, the State De partment today sent telegraphic in structions to all American Consuls In Mexico to endeavor to find Charles S. Dalrymple. the Portland man who has disappeared, and who was last seen at Victoria. ' The State Department recently re ported it had been unable to find Dal rymple In Victoria, and said further search was . useless, but in the belief lie may have removed to some " other part of Mexico, Senator Chamberlain asked that other Consuls be Instructed to make inquiries In their respective districts. $12,500 BOND ISSUE VOTED Union High School Plan Meets With Favor in Four Districts. OREGON CITY, Or., June 19. (Spe cial.) The towns of Gladstone. Park place, Jennings Lodge and Clackamas will have a union hiKh school sooner or later, as a result of the favorable action today- of the voters of these places In favoring the $12,500 bond issue, with many votes to spare, the vote cast be ing 164' for and only 67 against. Harvey Cross has donated three acres In Gladstone Park for the building, construction on which will start as soon as the Circuit Court passes on a contest started by some residents of Jennings Lodge, . who opposed the proposition. . SERBIA BUYING SUPPLIES Autos, Railroad Equipment and Hospital Requisites Wanted. NEW YORK, June 19. Colonel Yev ram Fopovitch, of the Serbian army, accompanied by Dr. Radomir S. Mais torovitch, a government chemist, and Vivota Lazarevitch, textile expert, ar rived here today on the steamship Themlstocles from Greek ports, on a mission to purchase automobiles, rail road equipment and hospital supplies for Serbia. Colonel Popovltch said that Serbia was fast getting the best of the scourgeof typhus that had raged siuce the war began. Six-Deck, Triple-Screw, 24-Knot Steam ships of Trans - Atlantic Magnifi cence, bpeed. Comfort and Safety. , S. S. GREAT NORTHERN AND NORTHERN PACIFIC ".GREAT NORTHERN" Sails From FLAVEL Thursday, June 24 SPECIAL EXTRA SAILING OF "NORTHERN PACIFIC" From FLAVEL, Friday, June. 25 - Regular Sailings, June 28, July 1, 3 and Every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. Make Reservations Early. Steamer Train Leaves 9:30 A. M. S. S. Arrives San Francisco x - 3:30 P. M. Next Day. Sun Parlor and Glass-Enclosed Promenade Shower'Baths and Bachelor Apartments Suites de Luxe Orchestra Deck Games Palm Garden Free Refreshments, Midf ore noon Bouillon, 4 o'Clock Tea, Buffet Lunches. "Go South Today the Ocean Way." $30, Round Trip to San Francisco One Way, $8, $15, $20 Meals and Berths Included NORTH BANK Ticket Office, Fifth and Stark Station, Tenth and Hoyt AID WAITS ON PROBE v Congressional Committee at Klamath Falls Today. IRRIGATION BIG PROBLEM Party Will Not Visit, in Portland, but Will Make Trip TJirougli Yakima Valley on Tuesday, Umatilla on Wednesday. -. Federal aid""for Northwestern irriga tion enterprises depends largely-upon the investigations of the Congressional committee on appropriations, which will arrive at Klamath falls on a personal tour of Inspection today. The com mittee will inspect the principal proj ects in which the Government is inter ested In Oregon. Washington and Idaho, and will determine, probably, what ap propriations shall be recommended to the next Congress. The Klamath project will be inspected today. A dinner will be tendered the visitors at the White. Pelican Hotel there tonight under the joint auspices of the Klamath vater users and the Commercial Club. Mark Woodruff and J. W. Brewer, representing the Portland Chamber of Commerce, have gone to Klamath Palls to meet the committee. They will travel with them tomorrow on their trip to Portland. At Grants Pass the entire delegation will be met by the Oregon Senators and Represen tatives in Congress, by Governor Wlthy- combe and by other persons interested In -irrigation. The party will not visit in Portland. They are due here late tomorrow night and will leave at midnight for North Yakima, traveling In special cars on the O.-W. R. s N. train No. 6. The cars will be "set out" at Umatilla and oper ated to North Yakima in a special train. They will visit all the irrigated districts in the Yakima Valley on Tues day and will.be the guests of the North. Yakima Commercial Club at a banquet on Tuesday night. Wednesday wHl be devotod to the Beautiful Dental Work for p x r -nV j (mzmS TEETH Dr. S. G. Ausplund. Mgr. No matter where you live, teeth. Our reputation and very BEST DENTISTRY We Give a 15-Year Written Guarantee OPEN EVENINGS Lady Attendants We are always biuy, because our ELECTRO Jm the Two-Story Building. Umatilla and West Umatilla districts, with visits to Hermlston. Stanfield, Echo, Pendleton and other points Jn that territory. They will continue the journey then to Caldwell, Idaho, and other towns in the southern part of Idaho that have been developed through Federal irriga tion aid. Representative John J. Fitzgerald, of Brooklyn, N. Y., as chairman of the House committee on appropriations. Is in charge of the party. Other members of the committee are: William P. Borland, of Kansas City. Mo.; Joseph W. Byrns, of Nashville, Tenn.; Charles R. Davis, of St. Peter, Minn.; Fred It. Glllett, of Springfield, Mass.; James W. Good, of Cedar Rapids, la.; Frank W. Mondell, of Newcastle, Wyo. James W. McAndrews, of Chicago; Robert N. Page, of Biscoe, N. C. ; Swagar Sherley. of Louisville, Ky., and Thomas U. Sis son, of Winona, Miss. The following officials of the recla mation department also are In the party: A. P. Davis, director and chief engineer; Will R. King, chief counsel; W. A. Ryan, controller; S. B. William son, chief construction engineer; J. L. Clancy and K. A. Clark, clerks. The clerical force for the committee consists of James C. Courts, chief clerk; SI. C. Sheilds, assistant clerk; II. B. Weaver, official stenographer, and K. F. Rea, of the Senate committee on appropriations. The party will bo escorted over each reclamation district by the engineer in charge. William McMurray, general' passenger agent of the O.-W. R. & N. Co., will accompany them over the company lines. WAR IS FELT IN AFRICA Warring Nations Drive Out Enemy Aliens and Shoot All Spies. NEW YORK, June 19. Bishop Joseph C. Hartaell, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, who has just re turned from an 8 months" tour of Episcopal visitation In Africa, said to day that as a result of the European war martial law prevailed in every section where he held his mission con' ferences under the English, French, Belgian or Portuguese governments. "This war," said the bishop, "is hav ing great influence in bringing; peoples of different religions, races and social positions into closer -relationships. "In German South Africa there Is a British army of 40.000. In the Kame. runs colony France on the one side and Great -Britain on the other are over, comlnar the Germans gradually. Ger-i Is What We Give You, Performed Without Any Pain it will pay you to come to Portland and let us fix your guarantee stand back of all our work. It means the at prices that will astonish you. Examination and Estimate of Work Cheerfully Given FREE Flesh-Colored Plates. . . 10.00 Good Plates 5.00 22k Gold Crowns. .3.50 Porcelain Crowns $3.50 22k Gold Bridge . .$3.50 Gold Fillings $1.00 Painless Extracting 50 success la due to the fact that we do the very best work at very low-sat prices. - PAINLESS DENTISTS Corner of Sixth and Washing-ton Streets, Portland, Oregon. PHONES Broadway 920 A 6671 man traders, residents and missiona ries, with few exceptions, are either held as prisoners or driven out of English. Belgian and French colonies. Any who are proved to be spies are shot. Germany is pursuing the same policy toward the English. Belgians and French." Hoy, Playing Indian, Shoots SclT. NEW YORK. June 14. Playing "Indians" while his parents vere at church. Albert Brltton, 12, of No. 57 West Eighty-fourth street, shot him self in the forehead with a tarjret rifle. Doctors at Knickerbocker Hospital sal. I he would recover. Cyrus Roberts, 10. of No. 62 West Eighty-fourth street, was detained by the police to explain how the shootlnir occurred. DIGNIFIED CCOfVOMV JS A MANS ASSET There is dignified economy in the properly designed, well made clothes we are offering. The art of saving: money is properly spending it. Spend a little of your time and some of your cash in this cloth ing shop and you'll get a better idea of what we mean. 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