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PORTLAND syrarv coUrt "o L A Y MORNING, 3IARCII 19, 1916.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
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HR. ALDEHMAH WINS
111 STORMY SESSIOfl
M'CALL MENTIONED
TO STRIKE. KEYNOTE
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103,890 REGISTER
FOR STATE PRIMARY
SITUATION FULL OF
PERIL FOR WILSON
MEN GO MEEKLY TO
LEAP-YEAR PARTY
ROOINIA PLANS TO
JOIN ALLIES IN HAY
iiHriumiiL) hi
NIGHT AFTER VILLA
REPUBLICAN' COMMITTER TO
BAY NAMES CHAIRMAN.
REPUBLICANS HAVE 68,829, OR
0 6 PER CENT OF TOTAL.
ECGEXE CO-EDS BCRLESQC1C
MASCULINE ROLES.
ARMY
Minn u n a
Re-Election Is for One
Year Term.
MR. LOCKWQOD IS OPPONENT
Religion and Personalities Are
. Introduced.
JUDGE MUNLY IS BITTER
flntirc l'iglit Waged on Superin
tendent, Otlier Officials Being
Returned Without Opposition.
Audience Takes Sides.
At a meeting marked by acrimonious
discussion, at which offensive person
alities were bandied, the School Board
yesterday re-elected L. R. Alderman
Superintendent of the city schools for
the coming year. D. A. Grout and C. A.
Hice were re-elected assistant superin
tendents and R. II. Thomas school clerk
for a like period.
S. P. Lockwood was the storm center
of yesterday's session, which was re
markable for its charges and counter
charges. He opposed strongly the elec
tion of Mr. Alderman, declaring that If
the Board members elected the Super
intendent for another term they would
be voting, not for the public interest,
but for their own private interests.
Mr. I.orli woofl Makes ChareR.
Asked to make his charges more spe
cific. Director Lockwood declared he
was reluctant to enter into personali
ties, but being dared to submit his evi
dence, he would do so. He said V. D.
C. Beach, a substitute teacher in Lin
coln High School, is a son of Director
Beach and was appointed irregularly.
He also declared he thought Judge
Munly would, naturally, be quite ready
to vote for Mr. Alderman because the
latter had been able to do many thinrs
for the Board chairman during his term
of office.
Followed then recriminations be
tween the three Directors, groans from
the spectators in answer to statements
by Mr. Lockwood and applause for
Judge Munly' s replies. Dr. Alan Welch
Smith, who is convalescing from a se
vere attack of pneumonia, sought to
pour oil on the troubled waters, but
failed. O. M. Flummer started a peace
expedition also, but he was about as
successful as Henry Ford. At the close
of the meeting there was no hand
shaking by the participants in the row.
KlKht Only On Mr. Alderman.
Upon a vote being taken upon the
motion of Director Flummer, seconded
by Director Beach, that Mr. Alderman
be re-elected for one year, Messrs.
Munly, Flummer, Beach and Smith
voted aye and Mr. Lockwood no. The
-election of the others followed, but the
action was merely perfunctory. There
was no "pep" in the proceedings, and
the vote in each case was unanimous.
Yesterday's fight among the Board
members was all brought about by the
failure of the Directors . to hold an
executive session and exclude the pub
lic. Dr. Smith made a motion to that
effect, but a protest was made by O.
M. Flummer, and the Directors pro
ceeded to the attack, with a number
of clubwomen, parent-teacher officials
and others present. The gallery was
all with Judge Munly, and showed it.
After the meeting they warmly con
gratulated him.
Change of Heart In Related.
Director Lockwood took the floor
when the motion for Mr. Alderman's
re-election was made. lie launched
forth into an address that savored of
some preparation. He became more
bitter as he progressed and as he be-
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Borah. Mann, Knox, Osborne and
Lodge Are Considered to Open.
Campaign and Convention.
CHICAGO, March IS. (Special.)"
Governor McCall. of Massachusetts,
was brought to the front today as pos
sibly the man who will sound the "key
note" at the National Republican con
vention, which meets ,in the Coliseum
June 7. The selection of a temporary
chairman, who will give this "keynote"
speech, will be the chief business before
the sub-committee of the National Com
mittee, which meets here tomorrow.
Political leaders who have kept in
touch with the committeemen declared
today that the expectation was that a
temporary presiding officer would be
chosen before the meeting adjourned,
but that so far no particular candidate
had developed strength. They report
ed Governor McCall as the strongest
possibility at present.
Other names mentioned are those of
Senator Borah, of Idaho: Representative
Mann, of Illinois; Philander C. Knox,
of Pennsylvania; Chase Osborn, of Mich
igan, andi Senator Lodge, of Massachu
setts. Governor McCall's claims for recogni
tion are based on his victory over ex
Governor Walsh, when the old Progres
sives went in with the Republicans and
elected Mr. McCall, and on the strength
he displayed on his Western tour last
year, when Western leaders were re
ported to have said that if the nomi
nation for President were to go to New
England, they would prefer Governor
McCall to Senator Weeks.
PICTURE GIRL TRACED, -WON
Owner of Handbag, Lost at Fair, Is
Married After Long Hunt.
HUDSONVILLE. Mich.. March 18.
George N. Howard, a planter of Birm
ingham, Ala., found a handbag on the
Panama-Pacific Exposition grounds at
San Francisco last September. The
bag contained a photograph of a young
woman. On the picture was the word
"Wisconsin."
For six months Mr. Howard traveled
throughout the Middle West, seeking
the original of the picture. He found
her ,here. They were married this
week.
The bride was Miss Nettie Telsma, of
Oshkosh, Wis.
FREIGHTER'S CARGO SHIFTS
Japanese Vessel Puts Into Yoioliama
Damaged by Storm.
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SA& FRANCISCO, March 18. The
freighter Dairen Maru. which left
Tokohama March 9 for San Francisco,
put back into Tokohama Thursday with
a list to starboard and a shifted cargo
after encountering heavy seas, accord
ing to advices received today by the
Chamber of Commerce.
Some of the cargo was damaged and
is being discharged.
INCOME TAX EXCEEDS HOPE
Revenue Is to Be 5100,000,000. or
$15,000,000 Above Estimate.
WASHINGTON, March 18. The in
come tax will place in the United States
Treasury this year approximately
$100, 000.000. or $15,000,000 more than
was estimated last Fall, according to
preliminary estimates compiled today
by the Internal Revenue Bureau..
So far $19,484,000 has been collected.
GOTHAM COLD IS RECORD
Temperature of 6.6 Above Is Lowest
Since March 18, 1871.
NEW YORK. March 18. Today was
the coldest March 18 in New York since
the local Weather Bureau was estab
lished in 1871.
The temperature at 5 A. M. stood at
6.6 degrees above zero.
SOME EVENTS IN THE PAST WEEK'S NEWS
Fugitive Believed Def
initely Located.
MOUNTAIN REFUGE IS SOUGHT
Bandit Leader Plans to Make
Joke of Expedition.
SUPPORTERS "MAY DISBAND
Mexican Consul at El Paso Thinks
Large Rewards Offered for Cap
ture Give Best Hope Fly
ing Columns Favored.
EL PASO, Tex., .March 18. The first
phase of the American expedition into
Mexico, the rush along Villa's trail to
the endangered Mormon colonies, was
an accomplished fact tonight com
pleted, according to reports reaching
the Columbus base, without the firing
of a hostile shot by the Americans.
The second phase already was be
ginning, it was indicated here, as the
Americans turned somewhere from
Casas Grandes to resume their night
marches under the brilliant Mexican
moonlight toward the rough mountain
slopes, where it is known Fancho
Villa already has preceded them, with
more than 100 miles start.
Pleating; Expected Soon.
Warning that this second act in the
chase might not be passed without
fighting against bandits was implied
in a new and more stringent censor
ship imposed at Columbus. Further
leakage of news of military movements,
the censor said frankly to the Ameri
can press, would be likely to cost sol
diers' lives.
There was brief excitement today at
Columbus ' when from across the hot,
dusty Mexican border, two soldiers on
stretchers were being brought into the
camp. Both were cavalrymen. Excite
ment passed when if was learned that
one had been thrown from, his horse,
injuring his leg, while the other, who
at first was said to have been shot in
the abdomen, was suffering from a
well-known form of stomach ache.
Mexican Pride la Saved.
When the Washington officials an
nounced that the American columns did
not intend to occupy cities, a menace
to Mexican national pride was removed.
The Carranza garrisons, which have
been passed by the marching Ameri
cans, and which, therefore, are now in
the Americans' rear or on their flanks,
continued tranquil, so far 'as reports to
El Paso indicate.
General Gabriel Gavira, at Juarez,
commanding the territory which for
four days the Americans have been
penetrating, himself announced that for
a time the situation as reported to him
had been "very delicate, and even
serious." With evident relief he said
the crisis had passed. This crisis, it is
believed, reached its height last night,
when couriers dashing into Casas
Grandes announced "with careless en
thusiasm that the American troops
would enter that city by midnight.
General Gavira telegraphed immediate
ly orders to his troops not to permit
this.
Villa In Western ( hlhnabua.
Dawn showed the long lines of
cavalry horses Just outside Colonia
Dublan, the troopers dismounted and
in camp at rest.
Villa was located to-day with some
degree of def initeness, if weight of
evidence counts in pinning down his
rapid shifts. From several sources
constitutionalists received messages, all
of which placed him in approximately
the same portion of Western Chi
huahua. These dispatches had him
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Secretary of State and County Au
ditors Urge Voters to Hasten
to Avoid Congestion.
SALEM, Or., March IS. (Special.)
Oregon's registration for the coming
primary election this week passed the
100,000 mark. The totals received from
the 35 counties of the state aggregate
103,890. The . registration so far has
been uniformly slower throughout the
state, with the exception of Lane
County, than in former years. From
indications the registration for the
primaries this year will not exceed
200.000.
Secretary of State Olcott and all
County Clerks are urging voters to
register in greater numbers to avoid
congestion during the last few days
preceding the closing of the registra
tion books on April 18, just one month
from tomorrow.
So far 68,829 Republicans have regis
tered. This is 66.25 per cent of the
total registration. Of the Republicans
listed on the books, '30,558 are in Mult
nomah County. Democratic registra
tion totals 26,336; Progressives number
635; Prohibitionists, 2367; Socialists,
2576 and miscellaneous registrations
total 3147.
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Weather.
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 57
degrees; minimum. 43 degrees.
TODAY'S Partly cloudy and occasionally
threatening weather; light, variable
winds.
Mexico.
Night marches after villa begun. Section 1,
page 1.
Pursuers will change plans if Villa does not
make stand soon. Section 1, page 6.
Battles between Carranza troops and outlaws
in Central Mexico reported. Section 1,
page 6.
War.
Germany lays much stress on Turkish rail
roads. Section 1, page 7.
Roumanla preparing to Join allies in May.
Section 1, page 1.
Society woman cnsagefl in war relief work
threatened witU death. Section 1.
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National.
Army bill reaches amendment stage in the
House. Section 1, page li.
Political situation full of peril for Wilson.
Section 1, page 1.
Iomestlc.
San Diego exposition reiledicated. Section
1. page j.
Pacific Mall buys three Dutch steamers.
Section 2. page 16.
Governor McCall mentioned for Republican
keynote speech. Section 1, page 1
Sports.
South worth. Qulnn and "Skeet" T?igbee
shine for Beavers in rout of St. Mary's.
Section 2, page 2.
Intercity League clubs to - practice today.
Section 2, page 3.
Big fighters slow and generally fights are
uninteresting. Section 2, page G.
Public links in Chicago are crowded. Sec
tion 2, page 4.
Rally to use of firearms begins. Section
2. page 4.
Christy Mathewson no surer of job than
any recruit. Section 2, page 3.
Soldier Napoleon Kreschette brings joy to
Seal camp. Section 2, page G.
JacMr Cody gives second lesson in ad vice
on swimming. Section 2, page 4.
Chicago reveals story of Jess Wlllard; pu
gilist, who bit the hand that fed him.
Section 2. page 5.
Northwest trapshoot tourney comes here
June 4, 5, 6, 7. Section 2, page 3.
Portland Golf Club announces tournament
schedule. Section 2, page 4.
Wilie and Sothoron fail to get transporta
tion to training camp. Section 2, page 2.
Pacific Northwest.
Coast Artiliery gunners qualify by study.
Section 1, page 8.
Scandal promised in Idaho's political cam
paign. Section 3, page S.
State Engineer urges development of water
power now wasted. Section 1, page S.
Henry McBrlde is Washington Gubernatorial
candidate. Page 9.
Portland and Vicinity.
School Board re-elects I R. Alderman City
Superintendent after stormy session.' Sec
tion 1, page 1.
Four hundred volunteers will clear brush
near Ockley Green School today. Section
1. page 13.
State Commissioner says fire insurance com
panies lost money. Section 1, page 32.
O. M. Clark due to start soon on South
American tour. Section 3, page 12.
Oregon Congress of Mothers protests child
labor bill opposition. Section 1. page 12.
Contest for Rose Festival queen opens today.
Section, 1, page 33.
New employment bureau invites farmers'
co-operation. Section J, page 16.
New bridge rule approved by drivers. Sec
tion 1, page 14.
Free dispensary makes report of cases han
dled. Section 3, page 17.
Home breaker escapes at Seattle. Section 1,
page 10.
Portland attorneys will form militia auxil
iary. Section 1, page 19.
Los Angeles also finds auto street f 1 ushers
uneconomical. Section 1, page 3 9.
RECEIVE ATTENTION
Future Is at Stake on
Foreign Policy.
VACILLATION IS CRITICISED
War, With Nation Unprepared,
Would Hurt Chances.
ACTIONS CLOSELY WATCHED
President Realizes Tliat ti' Conflict
"Were Precipitated, People Would
Want Leader With Mili
tary Experience.
BY JOHN CALLAN O'LAUGHLIN.
"W ASHINGTON, March 18. Poli
ticians in Washington are discussing:
with intense interest the following;
questions:
First Did President Wilson's pre
cipitation of the armed merchantmen
question into the debate of Congress
Improve his chances for re-election?
Second Will the announced policy of
the President "to get Villa" produce a
like effect?
Party Leadership Established.
The President's control of the Demo
cratic party was demonstrated by the
action of the Senate and House in con
nection with the armed merchantmen
issue. Now that & proper perspective
can be obtained. It Is realized by every
Democratic politician that Mr. Wilson
has established beyond all doubt his
title to the actual leadership of his
party. Admittedly he will have no op
position for renomination which will
amount to anything:. t
Speaker Clark has never believed
there was any chance that the nom
ination would go to any other man than
the President until the latter volun
tarily withdrew his name. William
Jennings Bryan has been forced to the
same conclusion, in spite of the single
term plank.
.Strong" Artlon 3Vow Desired.
Having learned their lesson, the
Democrats in Congress are not dis
posed to criticise the President's Mex
ican policy. They, in fact, strongly de
sire something "strong" should be done
in order to relieve the curse of "watch
ful waiting." Even Mr. Bryan was
compelled to approve the President's
purpose to send troops to capture Villa,
and his approval has been made the
more emphatic by Mr. Wilson's dec
laration that he has not the slightest
intention to intervene in the neighbor
ing republic.
The President, however, has em
barked on a sea filled by political sub
marines. It is for him now to bring
to a successful conclusion the sub
marine negotiations with the central
powers. If he should be able to induce
those powers to observe international
law his prestige will increase. If he
should be unable to do so, if he should
involve the country in war, it is real
ized that he would be seriously handi
capped in the coming campaign.
Mexican Question Has Its Perils.
This likewise is true of Mexico. If
the President should fail to go into
Mexico and Villa, should continue to
roam about, and perhaps make another
attack on an American town, Mr. Wil
son would suffer enormously. If the
troops, after entering Mexico, should
come in conflict with the Carranzistas
and precipitate intervention, Mr. Wil
son would be blamed.
It is argued by some of the sup
porters of the President that war would
work to his advantage. They point out
that invariably the American people
have re-elected a President in time of
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AT THE HANDS OF CARTOONIST REYNOLDS.
Women. Draw Lots for Partners.
Send Flowers, Make Calls, Re
pair Auto En Route to Dance.
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON. Eugene.
March 18. (Special.) Exercising their
leap-year prerogative, the senior co
eds of the university held a lottery,
drew their senior men partners, then
adopted masculine roles and induced
the men into submissive effiminacy for
a big "stepping" party last night.
The whole affair from the beginning
to early this morning was a huge bur
lesque. Flowers were sent to the men,
the women calling later in taxis. The
co-ed seniors of the Chi Omega and
Kappa Alpha. Theta houses hired a
small delivery truck for their taxi,
bundled the -men in, and were merrily
proceeding to the dance when the
truck broke down. The men, under
compulsion, were obliged to forego gal
lantry and stay in their seats, while
young women climbed out, investigated,
and repaired.
Today the men were forced to admit
that the suffrage movement had gained
many new followers. Freedom of
"smokes" was denied them. And even
their choicest language needed remod
eling. Following the dance the men were
escorted to" refreshment parlors, and
finally home.
Mrs. G. T. Gerlinger, of the board of
regents, was the honorary guest of the
evening.
ALBANY TO HAVE MARKET
Operation Tliree Days Weekly Will
Be Arranged by Grange.
ALBANY. Or.. March 18. (Special.)
A public market will be operated in
Albany three days each week under
the auspices of the Grange.
To handle the matter, the Linn Coun
ty Pomona Grange, composed of rep
resentatives of the various Granges of
the county, named a committee that
will meet here next week to select
ground on which to conduct the market
and develop plans for its establishment.
ITALIAN POSITION TAKEN
Austria ns Report Taking 449 Pris
oners, With Three Officers.
BERLIN, March 18. (By wireless to
Sayville, N. Y.) The capture of an Ital
ian position north of the Tolmino
bridgehead on the Isonzo front is re
ported in today's Austro-Hungarian
headquarters statement received here
from Vianna.
The Austrians took prisoner 449 Ital
ians, among whom were 16 officers, bo
sides capturing three machine guns and
a mine thrower.
JONES RAPS LIQUOR MEN
Senator Charges Intimidation in
District of Columbia.
WASHINGTON. March 18. Senator
Jones charged in the Senate today that
liquor interests had intimidated busi
ness men here to secure support of a
movement for a prohibition referendum
in the District of Columbia.
The campaign, he said, was calculated
to keep Congress from acting on the
Sheppard bill for prohibition in the
district.
1 1 0OTH TRIP ACROSS BEGUN
Parser on Atlantic Liner to Quit,
Having Made 4,000,000 Miles.
NEW YORK, March 18. Thomas
Kinsey, purser of the American liner
St. Paul, sailed for Liverpool today on
his 1100th trip across the Atlantic
When he reaches home Mr. Kinsey will
retire.
He is the oldest purser in the service
and !: traveled by sea since he started
in 185.1 more than 4,000,000 miles.
Munition Works Busy
Night and Day.
SUPPLIES GO VIA RUSSIA
None but Military Trains.Mov
ing Toward Border.
SPRING OFFENSIVE TIMED
General Joffre Believed to Bo Pro
paring for Great Offensive on
All Fronts, Hoping to End
War Early in j'uly.
LONDON. March IS. (Special.) All
doubt as to Houmania's course is un
doubtedly at an end. On the authority
of persons high in allied councils,
whose names, for obvious reasons, can
not be divulged, it can be predicted
today, as far as it is possible to antici
pate events, that Itoumania will join
the allies in May.
Additional assurances to this effect
were given today by a French official
who has just returned from a mission
in the Balkans. He was as confident
that Roumania would cast her lot with
the allies as that Verdun would resist
the Germans successfully.
Ararnah II tiny la;ht and Day.
Roumania today is astir with prepa
rations for war. Like England, she has
had to create great munition establish- .
ments. Her factories and arsenals are
running night and day to create the
implements and supplies formerly fur
nished by Krupps and the Skodas.
One of the great reasons for Rou
mania's continued neutrality has been
her shortage of munitions. Before the
war her ammunition reserves were con
sidered adequate for all emergencies.
But on the present scale of extrava
gance they would last scarcely four
months. Shut off by Turkey, Bulgaria
and the central powers, she had no
avenue of supply from the outsid
world except through Russia.
Way Opened Through Ruamla.
By an agreement with Petro ;rad
this latter avenue has now been opened .
up. Machinery for shell maklrg and
war supplies of all kinds ar; being
rushed from England through Russia,
unimpeded by the countless clerks at
the frontiers.
Railroads from Bucharest to Prednl,
on the Hungarian border, have u
pended all passenger traffic. For ten
days, says the Havas correspondent at
Bucharest, nothing but military trains
have been allowed to move toward tli"
frontiers. Trenches have been prepared
and everything made ready for defense.
Entry Timed With Allies.
Roumania's entry, it is believed. Ihim
been timed with the grand allied of
fensive on all fronts. On the east,
fresh Russian armies, re-equipped and
re-munitioned, are awaiting the com
ing of Spring. In the Balkans the al
lies have gathered through the Winter
300,000 troops at Saloniki for the re
conquest of Serbia and the invasion f
Bulgaria and Thrace. They are under
the command of General Sarrail, tho
former French commander of Verdun,
one of the few commanders who has
gone through the war with the repu
tation of never having experienced a
defeat.
Reports from Sofia indicate that rail
road schedules have been suspended
for the operation of troop trains.
Every available man has Deen pressed
into the army and all exemptions, as
in Austria, have been cancelled.
Bulgaria' Finance Bad.
Additional alarm has been threatened
in the camp of the central powers by
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