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VOL. XXXV XO. 3.
PORTLAND, OREGOX : TXDAY MORNING, JANUARY 30, 1916.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
SAN DIEGO LOSS
OF LIFEGROWS
Two More Valleys Devas
tated; 100 Are Dead.
AIL AID BY LAND CUT Of
Warship Sends Expedition in
Launches and Barges to
Stricken District.
LANDING PARTY IS BALKED
Village of San Pasqual Gone
Oceanside Is Believed to
Have Been Annihilated.
SAN DIEGO, Jan. 29. (By Federal
wireless to San Francisco.) One hun
dred lives have been lost, as nearly
as any estimate can show, and charm
ing little California valleys for 50
miles north of the Mexican line lie
desolate tonight from floods and
cloudbursts.
With the death toll in the Otay Val
ley seemingly established at 50, and
all relief agencies working in that di
rection, reports reached here late to
day of floods sweeping the San Luis
Key and San Pasqual valleys, doubling
the loss of life.
Bodies Swept Into Bay.
With communication almost alto
gether cut off, it was impossible to
list accurately the number of the
dead; conjecture and meager report
alone were available. Seventeen bod
ies were taken out of San Diego Bay
before nightfall. These had been
swept down when the lower Otay res
ervoir went out, late Thursday, and
the current of the flood was thought
to have carried many others out to
tea.
The town of San Diego remained
virtually undamaged and supplement
ary sources are available to replace
its regular water supply, cut off by
the breaking of the dam.
Hot Springs Hotel Collapses.
Many injuries were reported from
Tijuana Hot Springs, where a hotel
collapsed.
A cloudburst, reports had it, caused
the flooding of the San Luis Key and
San Pasqual valleys. The town of
San Pasqual, an ancient, tiny village,
cuddled in the mountains in a hive
shaped, fertile valley, was said to
have been wiped out altogether. Noth
ing was known as to the fate of the
towns of San Luis Rey and Oceanside,
in the path of the San Luis Rey River,
but if the flood was of the reported
magnitude it seemed impossible that
the former, with its ancient Francis
can mission, could have escaped an
nihilation. Communications Are Cut.
Oceanside is a Summer resort with
two good-sized hotels and a popula
tion of about 1000. The San Luis Rey
Valley contains one of the great
Miller & Lux cattle ranches which dot
tOnnc!udd on Pae 2. t'olumn 1.)
ZEPPELINS DROP
BOMBS ON PARIS
CITY QCICKLY DARKENED AS
OMINOUS KOUJfD IS HEARD,
Ten Persons Injured by Two Explo
sions and City Prepares for Ex
tensive Bombardment.
PARIS. Jan. 29. A Zeppelin was
heard over Paris at 9:10 o'clock to
night, and shortly afterwards two
bombs were dropped, injuring- 10 per
sons.
Other Zeppelins have Just been
heard, and the city has been complete
ly darkened in anticipation of an ex
tended raid. Fire engines and squad
of trumpeters are going through th
city sounding the alarm.
Searchlights are also in operation,
and the noise of other aeroplanes 1
heard in several directions, but as yet
the sound of only two shots has been
heard.
GOVERNOR MARRIES WARD
Bride of Mr. Brumbaugh Member of
Family for 40 Years.
PHILADELPHIA. Jan. 29. Governor
Brumbaugh, of this state, today mar
ried his ward. Miss Florea Belle
Parks, who is a. distant relative and
has lived in the Brumbaugn home for
20 years. '
The marriage license gave Miss
Parks' age as 40 years and that of the
Governor as 54. In the application for
the license the Governor gave his oc
cupation as teacher.
Before becoming Governor last Jan
uary Mr. Brumbaugh was head of
Philadelphia's public school system.
SNOW SAVESWOMAN'S LIFE
Cushion Forms In Front of Train,
Carrying Body Safely 40 Feet
SALEM. Or., Jan. 29. (Special.)
Snow, which piled up in front of a
bouthern Pacific engine at Shaw today,
probably saved the life of Mrs. H. G.
Elliott, of that place, after she had
fallen In front of the locomotive.
Mrs. Llliott, In crossing the track,
slipped in front of the train, which was
just starting. The woman was shoved
along for 40 feet, but the snow which
piled up In front of the engine formed
a cushion and saved her from injury.
GIRL TRAIN VICTIM DIES
nvestigation Begun Into Accident
at Crossing Near Caldwell.
CALDWELL, Idaho. Jan. 29. (Spe
cial.) As a result of injuries received
yesterday, when the buggy in which
she was riding was struck by a pas
senger train at a crossing, Genevieve
Garvin, aged 13, died today. The fu
neral will be held Monday.
An investigation committee Is in ses
sion today taking evidence to fix the
responsibility for the accident.
CUPID LAZY AT ROSEBURG
Only Four Weddings in Month and
Ix-up Year Is Blamed.
ROSEBURG. Or., Jan. 29. The fourth
wedding to occur in Douglas County
ince January 1 occurred here today.
hen Thomas Leatherwood, of Suther-
lin. and Miss Winnie Thornton, of Oak-
and, were married. They will live at
Sutherlin.
Local ministers attribute the fallin
ff in marriages to Leap Tear.
CAPITAL HONORS M'KINLEY
Official Washington Wears Carna
tions for ex-President.
WASHINGTON. Jan. 29. All official
Washington wore carnation blossoms
today in honor of the late President
McKinley's birthday.
In the House, where Representative
Foss, of Illinois, delivered an eulogy
on McKinley, every member and em
ploye wore a flower.
HIGH LIGHTS
JSafcA CAWVA 7H STAStt CELEBZAYJEJJ ASS .' f 'ffT .
- f H i-
PLOT TO ROB BANK
Chicago Politicians
Also Involved.
4 OF BAND ARE INDICTE
Gunmen Imported to Help
Pickpocket Turn Trick.
CRIMES ARE CONFESSED
Importation of Crooks to Start
Crime Wave for Purpose of Dis
crediting City Adminis
tration Is Charged.
CHICAGO, Jan. 29. (Special.) Four
New York gunmen who robbed the
Washington Park National Bank Thurs
day morning of J13.500. were indicted
today. By this action States Attorney
Hoyne made secure his hold on the
criminals, who admit they were im
ported to Chicago by politicians and
crooked police to commit a serlej of
crimes which would get the State's At
torney and Chief of Detectives Hunt
In bad."
Mr. Hoyne denied a report that
boss" of one of the wards west of
the river had been taken into custody
by detectives working out of his office,
but asserted he would cause the ar
rest of ' several persons in the con
spiracy next week.
t'enfcnsloa Involves Policemen.
Fifteen members of the Police. De
partment have been involved in graft
charges by "Eddie" Mack, confessed
leader of the Washington National
Park robbers, according to the an-
ouncement of States Attorney Maclay
Hoyne.
The four robbers indicted are:
Charles Kramer, alias "Big Polly.'
who covered the cashier with his re
volvers.
Harry Kramer, alias "Little Polly,"
who watted outside the bank and drove
the automobile in which the men
escaped.
Harry Fein, alias Fine, who covered
the employes of the bank.
Alexander Brody, who lined up the
depositors against a wall.
Six indictments were voted against
each of these men and returned early
in the day before Chief Justice Burke,
of the Criminal Court.
Kddle Mark Admits Conspiracy.
Eddie Muck, a Chicago pickpocket.
the fifth member of the band which
robbed the bank, was the first to
confess and named half a dozen active
members of the police department and
at least three politicians, who, he said,
guaranteed the New York "mob" pro
tection and conspired to wreck Mayor
Thompson's campaign against crime.
Of the five members of the gang.
Mack, whose real name is Edward
Jerge, is the only one not from New
ork, and the only one not indicted.
He was among the witnesses before
the grand jury.
"Between 15 and 20 detectives and
patrolmen, none ranking higher than
a detective-sergeant, were named by
Eddie Mack, in his story that crooks
are paying for, and receiving "protec
tion' in Chicago," Mr. Hoyne declared.
Crime Wave Planned.
"Mack's statement will be corroborated
if possible. As the matter stands, it is
a pickpocket's word against that of
policemen, and I must have corrobora
tion of the charges before I can pro
ceed." He said there was common knowl
edge that guhfighters were being im
ported from New York to promote a
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IN THE WEEK'S NEWS
POLICE Suci!
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Weather.
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature,- 13
degrees; minimum, 18 degrees.
TODAYS Snow flurries; no decided change
In temperature; winds mostly easterly.
War.
Philip Kerby gives sidelights on trench
warfare. Section 1, page S.
Zeppelins raid Paris. Section 1 page 1.
National.
President, in Pittsburg address, says con
stant dangers menace America. Section
1. page 3. .
Wilson asks - quick action for defense of
country. Section 1. page 1.
Representative Kltchln plays waiting game
in mi opposition to preparedness, sec
tion 1. page 3.
(continental Arm plan faces serious op
position, section 1, page 5.
Domestic.
ou uirgo liooa fatalities reach 100: more
vaueys flooded, section 1, page 1.
Southwest rivers at flood stage and still
rising, section I, page 2.
several reported killed on crippled liner
nyndam. Section 1, page 4.
Chicago police accuse In bank robber's
confession of plot to foster wave of
crime, section 1, page 1.
first rabbit fur hat is Mr. Slnnott'a. Sec
on j, page i.
Beat Estate and Building.
East Side transfers steady. Section
page 12.
sjuo.ouw on plant to be ready soon. Sec
- uod i, page lz.
Woodmen win Improve East Side hall,
tlon 3, page 12.
Commercial and Marine.
Wheat on docks at coast ports will be
shipped East by rail, section 2, page 13.
Reselling br foreigners gives wheat setback
at Chicago. Section 2. page 13.
Stock prices carried downward by selling
uu quiciiL. section z, page 13.
Depression in stock market due to technl
cal causes. Section 2, page 13.
Langdale Is expected to sail with flour this
week. Section 2, page 6.
Heavy lumber shipments to leave soon. Sec
tion page 6,
Sport.
Oregon Ajrgles have six veteran.
nucleus for track, team. Section 2. Dacre 4.
Cold weather mars but doesn't spoil fish
ing, section . page 3.
Uncle Sams face crucial test this week.
section 2, page 2.
Judge McCredle takes issue with nephew on
league rumpus, section 2, page 1.
Infields of Coast teams are comDlete ex
cept for two positions. Section 2, page 1.
Land offered for municipal links by Ladd
estate, section z, page 2.
Pact with California University revives
athletics at Stanford. Section 2. page 3.
Roller skate marathon to be repeated aext
nose Festival, section page 4.
Meehan's comic antics In ring .make hit In
t!.ast. section 2, page 1.
Waverley Gflf Club caddjes required here
after to turn In all scores. Section 2,
rage 2.
Baseball begins to occupy Interest at Ore
gon. Section 2, page 3.
Oregon picks baseball stars from "Dough
nut League." Section 2, page 4.
Pacific Northwest.
Bridge contractors facing heavy loss from
Ice Section 1. page 7.
Farmers week opens at La Grande tomor
row. Section 1, page T.
Ken n wick industries are developing rap-
Mly. Section 1. page 9.
Politics Is boiling In Klamath. Section 1,
Automobile and Roads.
Benefits of show already are felt. Sec
tion 4, pas 10.
10,000-mile highway is defense plan. Sec
tion -I, page 8.
Auto trail blazers begin roads campaign.
Section 4, pa go S. 9 , -
Portland and Vicinity.
Grant land buyers ask refund to $2.50 an
acre, section i, page n.
Government makes' woman employe In post-
orrtce repay n tatter, by sneak, thief.
Section 1, page 1.
Judge Stevenson says police court fails as
reform acency. Section 1, page 1.
High schcoot enrollment to increase by
000. Section 3, page 10.
Drafts of "One Day Rest In Seven" bill are
completed. Section 1 , page 14.
Relief provided for many by county during
year. Section 4, page 10.
Laymen busy arranging missionary conven
tion, bectlon l. page 14.
East Side Bttslness Men's Club plans busy
year. Section 1, page 14.
Chamber estimates $12,853 is needed for Co-
umtua Gorge larK. becuon 1, page lb.
Berger-Jones pictures wilt start on Eastern
tour Tuesday, bee tlon l. page 14.
Time to give to Jewish relief fund is ex
Untied, section a, page is.
Delegates still entitled to J 200 for expenses,
says W. s. U Ken. Section 1, page 12.
Knights Templar to dance Thursday nigut.
Sect lor 1, page 12.
Republican Club gives new life to party.
Section 1, page iz.
Banker takes homeless children. Section 1,
pago 1L. - -
Indian fishing gtound in Columbia declared
state s property. Section 1. page 10.
'Safety First" campaign in school, college.
workshop ard mui planned, section i,
page 10.
Rose Festivtl publicity to center beyond 50-
mile radius or .port la no. section , i.
page 11.
Lairelhurst Club enlarges grounds. Section
1. page 10.
Alcohol found to abound In stock seized at
Perkins Hotel bar. Section 2, page 14.
Ex-pastor and Chautauqua lecturer jailed on
bad check ana " aeaa beat" cnarge. sec
tion 2. page 14. ,
Weather report, data and forecast. Section
page i.
Skamania County pushes big highway task.
Section 1, page 5. -
AS REFLECTED BY THE
WILSON ASKS QUICK
ACTION ON DEFENSE
Changed Conditions
Declared Menacing.
DAY NOT TO BE POSTPONE
President at Cleveland More
Than Usually Grave.
DANGERS ARE OUTLINED
Protection of Americans Abroad
and Obligation to Maintain Lib
erties of Western Hemi
sphere Are Specified.
CLEVELAND, Jan. 29. New circum
stances have arisen. President Wilson
declared today, which makes it absO'
lutely necessary that this country
should prepare for adequate National
defense.
"We are in the midst of a world
that we dU not make and cannot alter,
the President faid. "Its whole atmo
spheric and physical conditions are th
conditions of our own life, also; and
therefore as your responsible servant
must tell you that the dangers are
infinite and constant.
tit- Circumstances Arise.
"I should feel that I were guilty of
an unpardonable omission if I did not
go out and tell my fellow countrymen
that new circumstances have arisen
which make it absolutely necessary
that this country prepare herself for
war. not for anything that smacks in
the least of aggression but for adequate
National defense."
America's improvident neglect to
build merchant slflps, the President
said in explanation, had left the coun
try dependent on those of other nations
to carry its commerce, nations now at
war, all friends of America, but pre
occupied,' stubbornly steadfast in the
maintenance of their main purpose.
Hnlrs Likely to Be Ignored.
Wherever the ordinary rules of com
merce at sea and of international rela
tionship are apt to be thrust aside or
ignored," he continued, "there is dan
ger of the more critical kind of con'
troversy.
America is not afraid of anybody.'
he said. "I know I reflect your feel
ing and the feeling of all our citizens
when I say that the only thing I am
afraid of is not being ready to perform
my duty. I am afraid of the danger of
shame.- I am afraid of the danger of
inadequacy; I am afraid of the danger
of not being able to express the cor
rect character of this country with tre
mendous might and effectiveness when
ever we are called upon to act in the
Held of the world's affairs."
Gravity Marks Address.
The President spoke in Cleveland to-
ight with more gravity and force than
he has shown during any of his pre
vious addresses on preparedness. He
was applaude'd frequently and when
he spoke of defending the Nation's
honor the cheering was tremendous.
"Let me tell you very solemnly you
cannot postpone this thing," he de
clared. "I do not know what a single
day may bring forth.
"I do not wish to leave you with
the impression that I am thinking of
some particular danger. I merely wish
to tell you that we are daily, treading
amidst intricate dangers. The dangers
that we are treading amongst are not
of our own making and not under our
control. I think no man in the United
States knows what a single week, a
single day, a single hour may bring
forth."
"Let us forget," he said, "that this
is a year of National elections." The
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PEN OF CARTOONIST REYNOLDS.
UNCLE SAM'S LOSS
CHARGED TO CLERK
POORLY PAID EMPLOYE
FORCED TO GIVE $200.
IS
Government Charges Woman
Postoffice for Money Taken
' by Sneakthief.
lu
If an employer who is worth so many
millions that he . can't count them
should saddle his trifling losses on a
meagerly paid clerk In his employe it
certainly would be recognized as an
extreme example of parsimony. Yet
that is just the kind it an employe
that Uncle Sam seems to be.
Miss Julia Copperthwaite, postal mon
ey jrder clerk at Station E, from whose
desk some unidentified sneak thief
snatched 200 a week ago, being the
money of a customer of the office who
was buying a money order, has been
compelled to make up the loss herself.
It is the theory of the postal officers
that the Government cannot be robbed;
that such things are mistakes that may
be charged to employes, and stolen
sums are to be made good.
The theft is described by Postmaster
Myers as an "error." The "error" is
declared to be that of the clerk who
handled the transaction, and the 200
has been paid to the Government by
Miss Copperthwaite. Other clerks in
the postal service here gallantly came
to the assistance of Miss Copperthwaite
and contributed a part of the $200 that
was repaid.
Postmaster Myers eaid the clerk
made an error in not being more care
ful of the money, which was pushed
through the wicket to her in 10 S20
gold pieces.
CHILD CRIPPLES HELPED
Million-Dollar Trust Fund Founded
by Mrs. Drexler.
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 29. Establish
ment by Mrs. Klise A. Drexler of i
million-dollar trust fund to support
philanthropic institutions for children
was announced here today following
the filing of articles of incorporation
for a crippled children's hospital school
Marcele Cerf, one of the trustees.
said a 40-acre tract of land had been
brought near Palo Alto on which
-Drexler Hall," the first unit of the
institution, now is being built.
LINDSEY G0EST0 BERLIN
Needs of Children in Belligerent
Countries to Be Studied.
THE HAGUE, via London. Jan. 29.
Ben B. Lindsey, of Denver, has left
Holland for Berlin to study the needs
of children in the belligerent countries.
It is said Henry Ford, before leaving
Christiania, told Mr. Lindsey that if it
were feasible he would prov-de ample
funds to help the children.
Judge Lindsey hopes later to go to
England and will leave there for the
United States.
ADVENTISTS GIVE FREELY
Three-Quarters of Million Contrib
uted to Church in Year.
WASHINGTON. Jan. 29. Seventh-Day
Adventists of North America contribut
ed nearly $750,000 to the church last
year, according to a report to the gen
eral conference made public today. This
was said to have been the best record
ever made by the denomination.
The money went to foreign missions
and to aid educational institutions in
North America.
CITY IN NEED OF CASH
Only Heavy Payments of Taxes
Will Keep Up Treasury Balance.
a
Only unusually heavy payments of
taxes during February will save the
city treasury from running out of funds
during February, according to figures
compiled by those keeping tab on munic
ipal funds. The city will enter Feb
ruary with a balance of $100,000, while
the estimated cost of operation during
the month it. $210,000.
E. IN QUITTING.
SAYS COURTS FAIL
Mr Stevenson Declares
Reform Not Attained.
SOCIAL VICE GREATEST EVIL
Women's Detention. Home Is
Termed Imperative Need.
CRIME HELD WEAKNESS
A. Langguth, Successor to Munic
ipal Bench, Announces Kooming
House and Booze Cases Will
Get Special Attention.
SALIENT REMARKS BY RETIR
ING POLICE MAGISTRATE.'
I have learned to believe in
tempering justice with mercy.
I congratulate myself that
sometimes I have not been a vic
tim of circumstances.
Environment, opportunity and
temptatioa converge together in
making a man a criminal; not
alone is it human weakness.
Men are only grown-up boys.
It does not follow that poverty
and crime stalk together.
Tou don't reform people by
putting them in jail.
As an uplifting agency, the
Police Court is a failure.
Judges know criminal law Is a
beautiful theory, abstractedly
ideal, but not in practice.
The Police Court deals with
crime as a condition and not as
a theory.
Most people refrain from com
mitting crime through fear, not
through respect of the law.
There are a lot of gum-chewing
girls just big enough to use
cosmetics who might be saved if
we had a detention home.
Nine out of ten juries in my
court have turned women loose
too quickly.
That the police, court is a failure in
reforming men, and that the social
problem has not advanced an inch, so
far as the police court is concerned
in the past two years, is the final con
clusion reached by Municipal Judgo
Stevenson, who retires to private lite
Tuesday.
He reached the conclusions yester-
day as he pondered over whether ho
will make his last day tomorrow one
of terrific sentences, to make up for
past leniencies, or one of general am- .
nesty, and he summed up his experi
ences of 31 months.
Court Only Punishes.
The Portland police court, or any .
court to his knowledge, is not an
agency of reform, he declares, but on
the contrary, is an agency of punish
ment and legal revenge, inspiring only
a greater fear of the law, with the .
one exception in the case of paroled
prisoners. In these cases prison sen-'
tences have been avoided and men have
been thrown upon their own strength
to make good, though still with a fear
of the law and penalty.
'Weakness Excites Respect.
He declares that his experience in
the police court, with a continuous
grind of hundreds of human errors
daily to dispose of, according to terms
of the law, has created a great re
spect for those who have fallen, and
he says that he congratulates himself
that he. Judge Stevenson, has not some
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