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Jimml w, MSI pititm iff 84 Pages Section One Pages 1 to 20 SIX SECTIONS VOL. XXXV NO. 23. PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE 4, 1916. PRICE FIVE CENTS. HARMONIZERS SHOW JUSTHDWTQ UNITE All Factions Get To gether on Train. HITCHCOCK IS OVER-ACTIVE Disturbing Element Threatens to Disrupt Party. AID BY T. R. JEOPARDIZED Efforts to Force Through Candidacy of Hughes May Cause Colonel , to Cherish Sore Spot and Re- emit in November Defeat. ABOARD NORTHERN PACIFIC CON VENTION SPECIAL. St. Paul. June 3. (Editorial Correspondence.) A grand jet-together rally has Just been held in the rear car by the reunited Republi can and Progressive delegates and un official, but willing, barmonizers from Oregon, "Washington. Idaho and Mon tana. There was speechmaking, sing ing and a general falling on one an other's necks in sign of reconciliation and a happy future. The Republican orators eloquently admitted that they may not have been altogether without fault in 1912 and the Progressives were disposed to concede that a monopoly of patriotism and Americanism did not abide with them. It was a significant and auspicious occasion, a pleasant augury for next week at Chicago. Apparently the Pro eresslves from the great Northwest have no chip on either shoulder, and Just as plainly Republicans are not in cllned to make conditions of Progres sive return to the fold humiliating or even difficult. Way to TTnlto Made Clear. Tt is once more obvious that you can not be an enemy of a man If you un derstand him or of a party if you give its members and its critics a chance to eat, drink" and be merry together and to talk it out. If the two Chicago con ventions would charter a large steamer and, excluding candidates, bosses, but ters in, button-holers and by-standers, go out on Lake Michigan together for a week or less, all differences would disappear in the glow of mutual good feeling and there would be a mighty homecoming. The way to unite is to .unite. But I am not encouraged to think that the situation at Chicago is so well la hand. The course of affairs there is rather disquieting to anyone who hopes for an agreement between the parties as to platform and candidatea Obviously one grave of a deserved oblivion has opened up too soon and dedicated to schemes of mischief, the materialized ghost of at least one ac compllshed and past master of failure has emerged. Hitchcock Is Disturber. 5 refer to Frank Hitchcock, the self. appointed and self-annolnted prophet and evangel of the Hughes movement. He made a lot of unnecessary trouble for Taft, and now he has sought to grab the drum-major's big baton and lead the Hughes procession. He does not belong there. Nobody belongs there. The Hughes candidacy la not a manipulated creation of old-time steam-roller inspiration. It is and will be nothing if It is not a genuine and spontaneous product of compromise and elimination self-elimination of avowed candidates, who should be per. mitted to retire srracefully and in good order. Now Hitchcock and his busy-body lieutenants have made or sought to make of Hughes a partisan candidate, who will override everybody and every- (Concluded on Page 4, Colu mn 2.) TWO ZEPPELINS LOST; 1 IS AFLAME FISHERMEN REPORT CREWS OF BOTH PERISHED. Fishing Cutter Reaches Denmark Port With 1 4 Empty Torpedo Tubes Found at Sea. KSBJEBG, Denmark. June 2, via Lon don, June S. Two Zeppelin dirigible balloons axe reported by fishermen returning- to port today to have been de- troyeiL Of one airship all the mem bers of the crew are said, to have per ished. The Avis Lamvtg states that fisher men arriving this afternoon report that yesterday they saw a Zeppelin in flames as the result of gunfire and that the air vessel was destroyed 40 miles off the Thyboroln Canal. The fishermen say the entire crew per ished. The Ekstr-Dladt says fishermen ar riving- at Rinv KJoblng say they saw another Zeppelin destroyed yesterday several miles from these waters. A fishing cutter today brought into Esbjerg 14 empty torpedo tubes. TELEPHONE RATE REDUCED Grays Harbor Residents to Get Serv ice for $1.50 Monthly. ABERDEEN, Wash., June- 3. (Spe cial.) Cosmopolls residents hereafter will pay 31.60 a month for telephone service, instead of 32.50. according to a concession made by the Pacific Tele phone & Telegraph Company. Cosmopolis united with the Aber deen Chamber of Commerce in asking this reduction before the public service commission, but before the hearing was completed the telephone company agreed to make the requested reduc tion. DEMOCRATS' PLANS MADE Wilson and Marshall to Be Nomi nated Saturday Morning. ST. LOUIS. June 3. President Wil son and Vice-PresMent Marshall are to be nominated as the Democratic party standard-bearers for the Presi dential campaign some time early Sat urday morning at tne final session of the Democratic National Convention. Plans for the session have been agreed upon by National Chairman Mc- Combs and the committee on arrange ments. BROKER 'COMES TO SENSES' 4 NV-v Yorker Who Disappeared at Duluth Wakens In Minneapolis. DULUTH, . Minn., June 3. Rush G. Estee, prominent New York broker and clubman, who disappeared Wednesday night from the steamer yacht Rambler, returned to Duluth today. He reported that he "came to his senses ' in the Great Northern Rail road yards in Minneapolis this morn ing and hurried back to Duluth. KING'S BIRTHDAY IS QUIET Firing of Salutes Dispensed With at London by Royal Wish. LONDON, June 3. This was King George's birthday, but the only official celebration was a general hoisting of flags on government offices and other large establishments. In accordance with the King's desire, there was no firing of salutes and all ordinary observances were dropped. FAIR WEATHER PREDICTED Weather Bureau Forecast Says Rose Festival Week Will Be Warm. WASHINGTON. June 3. Weather predictions for the week beginning Sunday, Issued by the Weather Bureau today, are: "Rocky Mountain and plateau regions and Pacific States Generally fair tem peratures above seasonal averages. PICTORIAL PREPAREDNESS IS CRY OF THOUSANDS Patriotic Procession Passes in Review. GIGANTIC CROWD IS THRILLED Estimate of Marching Throng From 15,000 to 20,000. BANDS PLAY MARTIAL AIRS Portland Men and Women Partici pate in Noteworthy Ceremo nial to Express Belief in Defense of Homes. Prepare! This was the unquestioned sentiment of what Is variously estimated at be tween 15,000 and 20,000 citizens who marched through Portland's streets last night, their shoulders squared, their heads up, alert and radr facing the duties of today with confidence and courage. ' " It was one of the biggest parades ever held in Portland. It required one hour and five minutes to pass a given point. On this basis it is estimated that the number in line was approximately 16, 000. This was the figure of Judge C. U. Gantenbein, chairman of the com mittee on arrangements, who saw the entire lines pass in review. Other unofficial estimates placed the number at as high as 20,000. "Prepare!" declared countless ban ners that the marchers carried, differ ent slogans being prominent, but all speaking for this one idea. Music Is Militant. Even the 15 brass bands in the in terminably long line of march blared "Prepare" for the lively marching and patriotic arrs they played could mean this and nothing else. The footfalls of the marchers spelled out this same slogan on the asphalt. The applause of the massed thousands of spectators who filled every pos sible vantage point on the downtown streets where the parade passed echoed and re-echoed the warning of the marching hosts, "Prepare!" The marching column called atten tion to a world on fire, and drew all eyes to the lamentable fact that Amer ica is living in a house immeasurably far from being fireproof. The flags that fluttered everywhere waved the message to prepare,- to guard the country from every possible ill. and they roused in the watching thousands the spirit of the occasion Last night's parade was a tremendous and impressive demonstration for pre paredness. It brought that lesson home to the city as nothing else could do. It was a vivid object lesson in patriotism and at a moment when the country is aflame with the patriotic spirit. Agred Veterans Make Impression. In all the long column there was no more impressive section than that con taining the veterans of the Civil War. Nearly 100 of the "Boys of '61" marched buoyantly along behind the stirring music of a drum corps, disdaining the use of automobiles that the committee had placed at their disposal. Several score of others, however, too feeble to walk, rode in the machines, waving American flags at the cheering crowds as they passed. Continuous applause also greeted the motor cars containing a dozen Confed erate veterans. They proudly displayed the stars and stripes on the body of the cars, and carried small flags in their hands. The roll of drums, the blare of bugles. the rhythm of men marctiTng In long, (Concluded on Page 3 6. Column 1.) COMMENTS BY CARTOONIST REYNOLDS ON SOME INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTFRDAVS Maximum temperature 75 decrees; minimum. GO degrees. TODAY'S Fair, northwesterly winds. Chicago Convenlon Delegates en route to Convention find true key to harmony. Section 1. page 1. Oregon delegation leads Hughes movement by calling supporters together for organi zation. Section 1, page 4. Republican leaders admit that Hughes holds lead on first ballot. Section 1. pace 6. Movement toward Hughes takes on apeed. Section 1, page 5. Irvin . S. .Cobb writes of thousands of favor. He sons In parade. Section 1. page 1. Pro-con ventlon snapshots. Hectlon 1, page 5. War. ' ' England's gloom lightens in face of later reports. Section 1. page 2. Losses In naval fight nearly even, British think. Section 1, page 1. Rational. General revision of neutrality laws proposed in memorandum to Congress. Section 1, page 6. Secretary Lansing replies to critics of Na tional Government. Section 1. page 3. Land grant conferees agree on basis of 70 per cent to Oregon. Section 1, page 0. Domestic. 130.214 march In Chicago preparedness parade. Section 1, page 3. Tnnes is found guilty. Section 1, page B. Nine bodies recovered from Packard, Iowa. wreck. Section 1, page 3. Sports. Northwest tourney at traps will open here today. Section 2, page 1. Stanley Coveleskle, ex-Beaver, beats Red Sox, 11-2. Section 2. page 3. Giants defeat Reds, 7-4. Section 2, page 2. Oregon takes meet; four Conference records broken. Section 2. page 3. Ritchie and Gruman irs ready to clash Tuesday night. Section 2, page 2. Wisconsin wins track meet. Section 2. page 3. Battling Nelson very low after operation. Section 2, pags 6. Sixty entered for state golf tournament. which opens tomorrow. Section 2, page 4. Public golf links at Seattle pays. Eectlon 2, page 4. Four teams may tie for Inte'rclty League lead today. Section 2, page S. Mayor Albee will bs roller marathon starter. Section 2. page 6. Festival week will have big sport pro gramme. Section 2. page 4. Mediocre golfers to have tourney at Port land Club. Section 2, page 4. Ty Cobb la regaining; stride in batting. Sec tion z, page o. Pacific Coast League results: Portland 14. JUos Angeles 10; an Francisco 1, Oakland 0: Vernon 0, Salt Lake 4. Section 2, page 2. Pacific Northwest. Indian chiefs confer with Governor Lister over fishing privileges. Section 1. page S. Polk County Republicans organize for vigor ous right. bection 1. page 4. Commencement exercises open auspiciously at Linlversity of Oregon. Section 1, page 17. Commercial and Marine. Eastern Oregon wool sells at sharp advances. bection page la. Twenty-cent decline in local flour quotationa. section z, page ij, Railway earnings in April show large gains. bection pags ia. Prospects at San Francisco brighter for settlement of big strike. Section 1. page i. Portland Chamber of Commerce to seek meana of settling strike. Section 1. pags . Looting of wrecked steamer Santa Clara being investigated. section 2, page Is. Portland and Vicinity. Mob rushes woman who desecrates flag. Sec tion l, page l. R. P. Hutton indicted for political criminal libel, fcecllon 1. pags IS. Plans for dedication of Columbia Rlvsr .Highway are complete. Section 1, page la. Many stats conventions scheduled for festi' val weea. becuon 1. page la. Business men are invited to attend military training camp. section j, page 1W. Stats Bankers' Association to meet in Port land tins week, bection 1. page Is. Club and other courtesies to bs extended visiting- naval officer. Section 1, page 17. Children to take extensive part in Ross Festival, bection 1, page 14. Tenth of fund needed for Armenians is given. bectiyn -i, page n. Peru chagrined by slight of McAdoo party. becuou x, page x. Festivities start for Reed graduates. Sec tion 1, page lit. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Dwler, early settlers. aie a wee apart, becuou j, page 14. Weather report, data and forecast. Section 2. page 7. Maxamaa to climb Marys Peak. Section 1. pags 13. Judge Langguth tests street car speed and acquits motorman. Section 1, page 12. Large Oregon delegation signs for Los An geles Knights Templar conclave. Section 1. page 13. Pacific University reorganises faculty for Fail term. Section 1. pags 12. Move to consolidate Pacific University and Albany College Interests alumni. Section 1, page 12. Mrs. Pankhurst coming to Hellig Tuesday. Section 1, page 10. . . Mrs. Vaughn wins appreciation for cooking lectures. Section -1, pags 11. Two thousand at Seventh Day Adventlst camp meeting. Section 1, page 1L Republican state committee may meet after delegates return. Section 1, page 10. New York writer reaches Portland after soul-stlrrlng auto trip. Section 1. page 8. Perjury in successful suits against streetcar company is confessed. Section 1, page 6. Thousands march for preparedness in Port n land. Section 1, page 1. 61te for banking home at cost of $200,000 week's biggest deal. Section 4, page 12. FAVORITE SOUS BY T NOTED Irvin Cobb Says He Saw Them Parade All Day. SELF-SACRIFICE IS AMAZING Writer Wonders That so Many Are Willing to Be President. NOBODY VERY DEFINITE Principal News Gleaned Is That Chicago "Will Be Dry for Two Days, but That Kentucky Delegates Have Oasis. BT IRVIN S. COBB. CHICAGO. 111.. June 3. Hardly had I landed in this pleasant city this after noon when I encountered indisputable evidences that the impending Republi can National convention aireaay nau assumed proportions unparalleled in the history of American politics. At the moment of emerging from the station I heard band music, not one band only, but dozens of bands If one might judge by the confusion of har monic sounds, and in the same instant beheld, advancing in my direction down the wide straight avenue, a pageant of impressive bulk, and appar ently of length. Immediately by the exercise of that power of trained dis cernment which all experienced re porters admit to having. I knew the turnout for what It wasi. It was a parade of favorite sons, accompanied by their friends, well-wishers, pledged delegates and publicity accelerators. Flock of Favorite Sons Koted. Leading the van came a splendid band playing with rare forethought and appropriatenees the good old hymn "Just as I Am Without One Plea." and Immediately behind the band. 20 abreast and a city block deep, their faces all alight with hope, their eyes beaming welcome upon the crowded sidewalks marched the first grand division of favorite sons. Looming high above the reat while yet the head of the line was some dis tance from me. I thought I recognized the tall slender and erect form of the Honorable Charles Warren Fairbanks, of Indianapolis, a state which has never yet failed to hearken when the cry went up from the Nation for favorite sons. He seemed to be wearing a blue polka dot necktie, and Summer trousers of red and white stripes. But when tne serrieo. ranKS arew nearer I saw my error. It was not Mr. Fairbanks at all; it was a half furled flag, and what I had mistaken for a necktie was the Star Spangled Union. But undoubtedly Mr. Fairbanks must have been there, and along with him all the other favorite sons, including Senator William Alden Smith, of Michigan, who is not a regular favor no son. out only a volunteer; and Senator T. Coleman DuoonL who has the pivot at State of -Delaware right wnere he can put his band on it. and who. I imagine, was accompanied by his favorite hunting dog. Duponto, and an tnose other favorite sons, whose names and voting address for the moment escape me. Naabei la Lesion. Readers of the dispatches emanat ing from Chicago during the last few days may have gathered that there never were favorite aons more numer ous than at the present moment. Even so. the country at large cannot possibly realize the combined strength of the favorite sons movement. To set any thing like an approximate conception of its growth and Its extent the aver age citizen should have been able to (Concluded on Page 6. Column 1.) HOUSANDS EVENTS IN THE PAST WEEK'S NEWS VMjVHS' &?7VSH SfS MOB RUSHES WOMAN DESECRATING FLAG DR. MARIE EQCI BREAKS STAFF AND CRUMPLES EMBLEM. Opposition to Preparedness Indi cated by Banner She Carries". Action Infuriates Crowd. Dr. Marie Equl was mobbed by SO men 1 last night at West Park and Taylor streets Just as the Preparedness parade was starting, when she crum bled an American flag handed her and broke Its staff. Dr. Equl was riding in an auto carrying a banner - on which read: "Prepare to Die. tt'orklngmfn, J. P. Morgan & Co. Want Preparedness for Profit. Thou Shalt Not Kill." T. K. Crowley, a plumber, saw the banner and rushed to Dr. Equl offering her an American flag. She scorned it. and. according to Mr. Crowley, crum bled It and broke the staff. A crowd of men. seeing the enact ment of the desecration, rushed to the scene, and. led by T. J. Kelly, a long shoreman, grabbed the banner which Dr. Equi carried, and it became bits In the hands of the infuriated crowd, which numbered by that time more than 50 men of all walks of life. Patrolman Cash intercepted and took Dr. Equl.' Mr. Crowley and Mr. Kelly to the police station, where their names were taken and all released on their own recognizance. Mr. Kelley and Mr. Crowley declared they would swear out a warrant against Dr. Equi charging desecration of the flag Monday. Dr. Equl said she would swear out a warrant charging disorderly conduct by the men. On another occasion during the pa rade Dr. Equi was "rushed" by crowd of lawyers marching at Eleyenth and Hall streets.' Her sign was broken up mere also, but no arrests were made at that Place. Friends of Dr. Equi said she carried a flag on her uto. The lawyers said she did not. MAIL RIFLED OF $4000 Pouclt Is Robbed in Depot and Bank Remittances Taken. ROUNDUP. Mont.. June 3. A pouch containing registered mail was cut open and rifled of between $4000 and 15000 In currency in the Milwaukee depot in Roundup Thursday night, according to information which was today given ou by postal authorities. The cache is said to have consisted of bank remittances and postal funda from Klein to the depositary at Helena, The registered packages were In closed In an ordinary first-clasa mail pouch, which waa sent to the depot a the usual hour for train No. 17. The robbery was not discovered until the clerk on the train opened the pouch to sort its contents. LETTER 10 YEARS ON WAY Dr. Knott, of Hoseburg, Receives Missive Mailed in Iowa in 1006. ROSEBURO, Or.. June 3. fPpeclal.) Ten years ago a letter, written in an Iowa city, was mailed to Dr. Knott, at that time a single man. Last Saturday Dr. Knott went to the postofftce at Glendale and received the letter. The letter had beep lost for a decade, but nevertheless was received with pleasure by its reclpiant. No explanation of the delay was of fered. WAITE T0BE DIVORCED Judge Announces He Will Give De cree to AVlfe Before Execution. GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.. June 3. Judge Major S. Dunham today an nounced that be will grant a divorce on July 1 to Mrs. Clara Louise Peck Waite, wife of Dr. Arthur Warren Waite, who recently was convicted in New York of the murder of Mrs. Waite's father, John E. Peck, of this city, who is to be electrocuted during the week of July 10. Mrs. Waite will probably go to Cali fornia for a long rest Immediately after ehe obtains her divorce. WAS- . i-VSis I L LOSSES ABOUT EVEN IS BRITISH BELIEF Sea Battle No Longer Regarded as Disaster. SUPREMACY OF WAVES KEPT London Maintains Only Part of Fleet Was in Action. BERLIN SAYS ALL FOUGHT English Ilorror-Stricken by Iai.s of Life, Only Few Hundred of the 6 000 on Sunken Vessels Be ing Sarefl From Death. LONDON. June 3. The latest reports from the British fleet, from neutral vessels which witnessed parts of the great naval battle in the North Sea, and from survivors, cause the British publlo to believe the engagement was not so near a defeat as at first re ported and In no wise a disaster. The British losses, with all the craft en gaged accounted for. were three battle cruisers, three cruisers and eight de stroyers. The German looses are believed to have been about the same number of ships, although of a much lesa aggre gate of tonnage. Supremacy f sra Held. British naval experta maintain thai Great Britain contlnuea to hold the supreme command of the sea by a safe margin and that her enormous navy could better afford the losses It suf fered than could the smaller German establishment. The first reports of the heavy loss of life have not been revised. Great Britain mourna for more than 4000 of her best seamen and the whole nation la oppressed with sadness, which is reflected In the facea of all the peo ple of London. There were some 6000 men on the ships which sunk, and only a few hun dred have been saved. The horrors of modern naval warfare, far exceeding those when wooden ships fought and continued to float even when they ceased to be fighting units, were real ised to their utmost. From five of the largest ships which went under with a complement of more than 4000 men, only seven Junior officers and a few seamen were rescued. No Ships Surrender. Rear-Admiral Honorable Horace Lambert Hood, second in command to Vice-Admiral Sir David Beatty. and Captains Sowerby. Cay and Prows were lost with many others, whose names are not yet known, because the govern ment has not so far Issued any casualty list. There were, no surrenders, and the ships which went down carried with them virtually the whole crews. Only the Warrior, which was towed part way from the scene of battle to a British port, was an exception. Of some thousand men on the Queen Mary, only a corporal's guard la ac- -ounted tor. The same is true of the Invincible, while there are no surviv ors reported from the Indefatigable, the Defence or the Black Prince. Its-ports at Variance. It is Impossible to visualize any co herent story of the great battle, which lasted many hours, with the different units at times fighting scattered en gagements. The British and German reports contradict each other flatly on the main fact. The British assert that the German fleet retired when the British battleships appeared, while the German official statement maintains that the German forces were in battle with the entire British fleet. The British assert that they had only two divisions engaged and that all the (Concluded on Page 2. Column 2.) -e ,A,fZD: AOH vj