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K 84 Pages Section One Pages 1 to 20 SIX SECTIONS VOL. XXXV. XO. 38. PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING. SEPTE3IBER 17, 1916. PRICE FIVE CENTS. CANS EXPEGT FAMILY POISONED BY MORBID WOMAN REDFIELD FAILS TO FIX DISASTER CAUSE VILLA ATTACKS CHIHUAHUA CITY FORCE OF dOO DRIVEN OCTf WITH HEAVY LOSSES. BRITISH SWIFT TO PURSUE ADVANTAGE GIRLS ESCAPE AS DINNER BELL RINGS OREGON BOY FINDS ARCTIC LIFE TRYING WILSON TO INSIST CHILD, AGED 4, DEAD, OTHERS ARE RECOVERING. J 2 OR MORE . MAKE DASH AT STATE TRAINING SCHOOL. V K New Policy Likely if Negotiations Fail. POLITICS PLAYS BIG PART Failure to Agree Before Elec . tion May Cause Break. LAST CHANCE BEING GIVEN Cnrranza Agents Eager to Arrive at Pact Soon, Fearing If Mr. Hughes Is Elected He Will V; Have Sterner Policy. f BT JOHN CALLAN OXAUGHtDI. NEW LONDON. Conn, Sept. 16. (Special.) This is Mexico's last change, This much the Carranza Commissioners at New London nave been flatly told, that unless there Is an agreement as the result of the negotiations in prog ress an agreement which will assure protection of Americans and American interests In Mexico and along the bor der the United States will be forced to abandon the conciliatory policy President Wilson has followed up to this time. Changed Attitude Possible. Eenor Cabrera and his associates rea lize the serious position their country occupies. If President Wilson should be re-elected and the negotiations hero should fail to effect the all-round set tlement desired by Washington they look forward to a radical change in the attitude of the United States. If Charles E. Hughes should be elect ed and there should not be an agree ment to bind the American government, the Mexican agents appreciate he would embark upon a vigorous '"-irse of action with the probability of mil itary intervention as its consequence. Agri-cement Is Expected. That an agreement will be reached here is not doubted either by the -American or the' Mexican commission ers. There may be a hitch, however, from Mexico City. General Carranza has not given his agents full power to negotiate and sign an agreement. They are under Instructions to refer every thing to him for approval. To pre vent a failure at the last moment, Senor Cabrera Is reporting every day the developments taking place during the joint session of the day. He is re ceiving instructions as to the views he shall present with reference to the proposals put forward by Messrs. Lane, Gray and Mott, the representatives of President Wilson. That Mexican opinion may be behind Carranza agents here, Senor Cabrera authorized the dispatch to Mexico City last night of a public statement set ting forth the discussion which has occurred during the conferences held. Mexicans Realize Position. It was for the purpose of convincing the Mexicans at home as well as the representatives here that Mr. Lane conveyed to Mr. Cabrera and his asso ciates the imperative necessity of a complete adjustment of all the ques tions at issue between the two coun tries. It may be necessary for the sec retary during the negotiations of the coming week to be still more emphatic. The American commissioners do not want either to be brusque or brutal, but the iron hand is encased In the velvet glove, and Its soft covering will be removed should the need arise. That Mr. Cabrera understands the situation is indicated by his statement that Mexico is a mouse in a trap and is thinking more of escape than of nibbling at any cheese. The one thing the Mexicans want is (Concluded on Page 3. Column 3.) ' HOW SOME RECENT NEWS EVENTS LOOKED FROM WHERE CARTOONIST REYNOLDS SAT. . p 1 : , . : I 1 ' l-JS!p,,( ' 1 1 a............. ............. .. - - - ....... ...............s.... ............................. ....... .-. .1 . n -,. ' ! ' ,1 !tEl 1 1 Q.2 Carbolic Acid Administered to Lit tle Girl With. Typhoid and Put In Foods. WASCO, Or.. Sept. 16. (Special.) Dolly Vandetta. 4 years old, while tricken with typhoid fever, was poi soned by her mother, Mrs. Andy Van detta. here yesterday, and died Imme diately after the poison was admin istered. Mrs. Vandetta. who was in a fit of delirium, also poisoned her in fant child and her sister, Mrs. W. H. Tancey, of this place, at whose home she was visiting, after which she swal lowed carbolic acid herself. Dr. W. N. Morse rushed to the scene and. by use of a stomach pump, was able to save their lives. Mrs. Vandetta, while mentally de ranged, placed carbolic acid in milk and other . foods about the place in order to make her work complete. Mrs. Yancey took the poison while drinking a glass of milk. Mrs. Vandetta, who has been ill for some time, is quite low, and it Is thought that she may now have typhoid fever. GERMANS QUIT DUTCH LINE Belgians, Long Held Back, Stream Ins Into Holland. LONDON, Sept. 16. A dispatch to the Evening News from Amsterdam reports that the German guards along the Dutch frontier towards both Belgium and Germany have been withdrawn. From Belgium, adds the dispatch, numbers of Belgian families, who for months had appealed for permission to enter Holland, are now streaming across the line at various points, with their belongings pliid on every kind of conveyance. . LABOR FIGHT BRINGS LEVY Every San Francisco Unionist to Bo Assessed 20 Cents Weekly. . SAN FRANCISCp. Sept. 16. Prepara tions were being made by representa tives of the San Francisco Labor Coun cil today to collect the sum of 20 cents a week from every trade unionist in the city for a general fund to combat this efforts of the Chamber of Com merce to make San Francisco an open shop town. The council estimates that there are 65,000 union men In San Francisco and that the 20-cent assessment will create a fund of $13,000 a week. SENATOR LEWIS ON TOUR Illinois Democrat to Follow Rotitc Taken by Mr. Hughes. CHICAGO. Sept. 16. Senator James Hamilton . Lewis, of Illinois, left for Minneapolis today, where he will open his speaking tour through the North west in behalf of Wilson and Marshall Monday. He will follow -the route tak en recently by Charles E. Hughes to the Pacific Coast and return to Illinois about the middle of October to close the campaign in his home state. ITALIANS GAIN GROUND Vienna Reports Repulse of Foe Save on Carso Plateau. VIENNA, via London, Sept. 16 Ex cept on the northern wing of the Carso plateau Austrian troops on the lower Isonzo are withstanding the assaults of the Italians, according to the offi cial communication Issued from Aus trian general headquarters today. The Italians have gained some ground on the northern plateau and the Aus trian! have taken 600 prisoners. Two British Steamers Sunk. MARSEILLES. Sept. 16 The British steamers Llangors E. Buttown and Swedish Prince have been sunk by submarines. The crews of the vessels were saved and arrived here today. Eastland Tragedy In vestigation Dropped. FEDERAL PROBE IS FARCICAL Secretary of Commerce Uses Power to Shield Guilty. , WHITEWASH FREELY USED Only Government -inqulj-j 'Is for Purpose of Preventing Punish ment of Federal Officers Whom Coroner's Jury Blamed. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington. Sept. 16. On July 28. 1915, four days after the steamer Eastland cap sized In the Chicago River, carrying to death nearly 1000 excursionists, mostly women and children. President Wood row Wilson, through his private sec retary, J. P. Tumulty, promised the people of Chicago that he would "make an Investigation thorough enough to satisfy everybody," and gave further assurance "that nothing will be omit ted to bring forth all the facts and to fix the responsibility." No such investigation has been made; there has been no investigation "thor ough enough to satisfy everybody," nor have all the facts been brought forth, nor has the responsibility for the East land disaster been fixed. No Lesriwlatlon Enacted. What is equally important, no legis lation has been enacted by the Demo cratic Congress aimed at curing the de fects in existing laws which were dis closed by the Eastland accident. The Eastlar.c disaster and its lesson have been forgotten by the Administration. That the citizens of Chicago found it necessary to appeal to the President was due solely to the fact that the Sec retary of Commerce, William C Red field, boldly and brazenly undertook to whitewash officials of the Steamboat Inspection Service, who early were shown to have been primarily to blame for the Eastland accident Local inves tigators at Chicago, within two days, disclosed facts ample to show, that the disaster might have been averted, and showed also no small degree of the blame rested upon the Federal steam boat inspectors who had failed to do their full duty. Appeal to President Vain. Secretary Redfield, Under orders from the President, had hurried to Chi cago to "investigate and determine the causes" which brought about the apall ing loss of life. From the moment of his arrival until his departure a week later, the Secretary of Commerce, in stead of delving for facts, constituted himself counsel for thear ccused inspec tors and by his astounding course, brought down upon his head the con demnation of the entire community. It was in the hope of ending the Redfield farce and securing justice that count less appeals were made to the Presi dent, but the appeals were in vain; they brought forth merely an empty promise. Mothers whose children had been drowned; fathers whose children and wives met death In the Chicago River, Mayor Thompson and other city offi cials, labor unions, members of the Coroner's jury, prominent citizens, the Chicago newspapers, citizens' associa tions and Samuel Gompers, head of the American Federation of Labor, all sent telegrams and letters to the President protesting against the conduct of the Secretary of Commerce, Mr. Redfield, and asking for a fair, impartial and thorough investigation by men who (Concluded on Page . Column 1.) Captured Followers of Bandit Are Put to Death General Tre- vlno Wounded In Arm. EL PASO, Tex, Sept. 16. Villa at tacked Chihuahua City today with 600 men, penetrated part of the city, but was driven out with heavy losses by the Constitutionalist army. The captured Villa followers were immedi ately .put. to -death. , General Trevino was wounded in the arm. . . This news was received In Juarez late tonight Immediately upon the es tablishment of telegraphic communi cation with Chihuahua. During the afternoon the operator at the station of Sauz, on the line of the Mexican Central Railway. 25 miles north of Chihuahua, reported that he could hear distant sounds of cannonading. INDEX , OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. TI?STERDAT8 Maximum temperatr.e 1 '.degrees; minimum, 58 degrees. TODAY'S Ealr; westerly winds. Mexico. Mexicans expect President Wilson to Insist on early agreement. Section 1. page 1. War. New Greek Cabinet is named. Eectloc 1. page 4. British win all high ground around Ba paume by mighty drive. Section 1. page 4. New British "tank" cars carry terrors to German lines. Section 1. paga 4. War ends French rellgloua feud. Section 1. page 2. Bulbars, beaten on Macedonian front, win In Roumanla. Section 1. paga 4. British swift to follow up advantage in big drive. Section 1. page 1. National. All National Guard units to be sent to bor der before beinff mustered out. Section 1. page S. Domestic President Wilson's sister dies. Section 1, page 5. Redfield fails utterly to fix blame tor East land disaster as proraused. Section 1. Page 1. President falls to keep promise to Inves tigate Eastland disaster. Section 1. page I. Politics. Senator Beverldge to appear In Portland in campaign f-r Republican National ticket. Section 1. paga 6. Maine election result Is blow at Southern control and Democratic tariff. Section 1, page S. Pacific Northwest. University of Oregon registration shows gain. Section 1, page 8. Cos Bay mill to run. Section -, page 16. Entry lists for Salem fair are closed. Sec tion 1. page 8. State fair grounds hum on eve of opening. Section 1, page 8. J. w. Bennett to be burled today. Section J, page 7. Wasco family poisoned by demented wom an. Section 1. page 1. Steamer Congress Is boarded and engines found intact. Armed men guard safe. Section 1. page 10. Representative Ha-vley " home and plans campaign for re-election. Section 1, page 3. McMir.nville boy finds life with Stefans son In . Arctics is trying. Section 1. page 1. Dozen or more girls escape from State Training School. Section 1, page 1. The Dalles auto bandits confess series of robberies. Section 1, page 5. Sport. Paclflo Coast League results Portland 8-6, Vernon 0-10; Los Angeles 14-3, Salt Lake 10; San Francisco 4, Oakland 2. Section 2, page 1. Philadelphia wins double-header from Chi cago and gains on Brooklyn. Section 2. page 2. Red Sox are dethroned and Tigers go to lead in American League race. Section 2. page 2. Portland and Vicinity. Oregon not getting promised fjO cars a day. Section 1, page 0. Scientists find women more conservative than men. Section 1, page 18. Globe Theater to reopen Wednesday. Sec tion 1, page 11. Lumber market lags. Section 1, page 11. Tax protests continue to come In. Section 1, page 12.-. Life sentence passed on Bennett Thompson. Section 1, paga 12. Dry candidates gather statistics on results of prohibition here. Section 1. page 13. Political headquarters prepare to open real Presidential campaign. Section 1, page 14. Argument made for brewers bllL Section 1, page 14. American Consul to Plymouth talks of British trade. Section 1, page t. County fair at Gresham closes. Section 1, page 18. Oregon will give Mr. Hughes big majority, declares Walter L. Tooze, Sr. Section 1. page . Weather report, data and forecast. Sec tion I, priRe 16, Line Pushed to Within 4 Miles of Bapau'me. 4000 GERMANS ARE-CAPTIVE Berlin Admits First of New Trenches Is Smashed. WAY OPENED FOR FRENCH Haig's Army Sweeps Onward and by Seizing High Ground Paves Way for New Mighty Offen sive on Wider Scope. BY ARTHUR S. DRAPER. (War Correspondent for the New York Tribune. Bv Special Cable.) LONDON. Sept. 15. (Special.) Halg's troops, without pausing after their great effort yesterday, are forging on ward north of the Somme. They won more positions south of the Ancre to day and are now less than four miles from Bapauma, the objective toward which they have been striving for the last 10 weeks. More than 4000 prisoners were taken yesterday and today in the heavy stroke. This in. Itself Is an indication of the extent f the- British success. The quickness with which the blow was carried out left the Germans little time to flea. Way Open for Wider Drite. Along a six-mile front from Pozieres to Combles. the British pushed forward from one mile to two miles In the last two days. This has brought them beyond the high ground which resisted their advance for the last month. The way is now open for a wider offensive. The Germans made only feeble efforts at counter attacks. These were thrown back easily and the British resumed the advance today, taking an additional IT00 prisoners. Berlin admits that Flers, Martinpuich and Courcelette were lost. And this is an admission that the first of the new defense lines has been smashed. New French Blow Pending;. Haig's success enables the French to push forward on both sides of the Somme by bringing his front on a line with Foch's. Fayolle made some prog ress tiorth of Bouchavennes, thus tight ening his grip on the Bapaume-Peronne road and preparing the way for the insertion of a new wedge between these important towns. A new French blow on a large scale seems a thing of a near future. The allied hammer struck first north of the Somme and then south of the Somme, successively, gaining each time. The moment hars almost come when a great combined drive can be set in mo tion. King; Congratulates Hals;. The message of congratulation King George sent to General llaig. interpret ing the British success as. an omen of certain victory, shows how Important the victory Is considered. London seems brighter and happier today than at any time since the opening of the Somme offensive. Even exchange on Switzerland has been keyed up to a point just above "normal. Of greatest significance are reports from the front that the German coun ter attacks have lost most of their power. Even the German artillery has diminished in volume, and the Kaiser's vaunted guns musfnow be content to play second fiddle to the insistent tscs of the allied cannons. Ciernsana at Disadvantage. An explanation of this diminution of German vigor is found In the fact Four Are Captured and Others Are Pursued by Sheriff Probe of Institution Planned. SALEM. Or.. Sept. 16. (Special.) Twelve or more girls, inmates of the State Industrial School, escaped from the Institution tonight and at a late hour eight or more were still at large. Four were captured by Sheriff Esch. who pursued the fugitives in an auto mobile. The Sheriff is on the trail of the other fugitives, who are said to have gone south. About SO young women have been at the institution. The girls who escaped, according to the police, dashed away from the school while seated on the porch at dinner time tonight. Ringing of the bell brought the girls to their feet, but in stead of entering the dining hall 12 or 15 of them dashed from the porch and scattered in all directions before tlhe eyes of the amazed employes. Mrs. Hopkins, matron at the school, had made no check of the girls and just how many escaped was a question. A few months ago conditions at the school were reported to be unsatisfac tory, but of late no complaints have been received by the State Board of Control. To Investigate conditions. however, the Board of Control this week advised the emergency board that it would appoint a committee. The personnel has not yet been announced. IDAHO GETS $147,61 4 CHECK a Surety Company Pay for Looting of Treasury by Defaulter. BOISE. Idaho. Sept. 16. (Special.) The last chapter in the treasury steal was written this week when the state depository board accepted from the Na tional Surety Company a check for S147.614.91. representing the state's loss. The National Surety Company was surety on the $200,000 bond of O. V. Allen, defaulting State Treas urer. After an examination of the treasury books the . total shortage. Including the money Allen and his deputy, Fred M. Coleman, stole and interest, was complied and silt brought by the state against the surety company to re cover it- HEADMAN'S AX EMPLOYED Murderer of Girl Meets Death by Beheading at Berlin. BERLIN', via London. Sept. 16 The headsman's ax was used here today in the execution of Johanna Ullman, one of two participants in a shocking mur der last March. . Her female accomplice in the crime, in which a girl friend of the two was choked, robbed and cut up. Is awaiting beheading. ROME SEIZES STORED EGGS Government Selling Vast Quantity at Half Market Price. ROME. Sept. 16. Ten million eggs, stored by speculators and seized during the last week In Italian cities by the government, are being resold publicly at 2 cents each, half the market price. The purpose is to aid in reducing the cost of living, which has Increased by 25 per cent during the last six months. MINNESOTA HAS BIG SNOW Frost Falls as Far South as North ern Tennessee. CHICAGO. Sept. 16. Frost fell over the Great Lakes region last night, according- to reports to the Weather Bu reau today. The frost extended as far south as Northern Tennessee. A heavy snowfall, with temperatures ranging from 24 to 28 degrees, was re ported from Hlbblng. Minn. Hardships Are Endured With Stefansson. FACE FROZEN SEVERAL TIMES Starvation Faced Often by L. Knight, McMinnville. CORPSE KEPT 5 MONTHS Lack of Meat and Morning Paper Among Greater Privations--Hand-to-Hand Rattle With Bear , Is Break in Monotony. M'MINNVILLE. Or.. Sept. 16. (Spe cial.) Hardships endured in the Arc tics, with Vilhjalmar Stefansson. tha Polar explorer, in command of the Ca nadian expedition, "are told graphically in a letter received by J. L. Knight, of McMinnville, from his son, E. Eorne Knight. Young Knight shipped from Seattle March 25. 1915. as a member of tha crew of the Polar Bear, a private whal ing schooner, owned by Captain Lewis L. Lane. On the cruise in the Arctic Ocean tha Polar Bear party came on Stefansson and two companions, they having bean lost to the civilized world for more than a year. Stefansson. having lost his own vessel, the Karluk, in an lea jam. purchased the Polar Bear and en gaged those of the crew who would consent to accompany him to Victoria Land. Lome Knight was one of the few who consented to stay with the explorer. Privations lOndurrd Months. Months of privation, marked by the freezing of his face and feet several times; more months of semistarvatlon. marked by frequent entries In his diary letter: "If we only could get somo meat"; weeks on weeks spent with tha eorpse of a member of the party who died in November, and wss not burld until the following April these are but a few of thfc experiences that tried the courage of the members, many of whom among them Lome Knight elected to stay with Stefansson even after the natives decided to turn back. A hand-to-hand encounter with a bear which nearly bit off the hand of one of the party, was one of the events that served to break the monotony of the bleak, everlasting day that lay over the snowy waste. A dish of ice cream, when new supplies were finally received, was another epoch marker and the temperature was 30 degrees below zero! War Arguments Staged. Pro-English sympathizers posed as German supporters. "Just to start something." while the parties waited weeks and more weeks for word from Stefansson or some other long over due member of the party who had left for journeys into the interior and whose chances for safe return were not by any means equal. 'Twenty dollars for a morning paper! Gladly would it have been given by Mr. Knight, and his companions, for they did not know, and do not know yet. that the war still continues, or that Oregon and Washington have gone dry. When young Knight's feet were frozen, he stayed for days alone in an ice hut, with nothing to eat but oat meal. Even before his feet had healed he was compelled to travel 70 miles. Party to Return to Ottawa. Mr. Knight is looking forward cheer fully to the return of the party to Ottawa, Canada, after their work Is completed, when he Intends to visit