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VOL. XXXV. NO. 56.
PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER lO, 1916.
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FUNSTON DENIES
DEFINING
DOCTRINE
Revivals too Noisy for
Soldiers, He Says.
RIGHTS OF MEN CONSIDERED
Reply to Baptist Official Is
Colonel Was Misquoted.
X CHAPLAINS GET NO ORDERS
General Says He Didn't Forbid Tell
ing Men They Were "Lost," but
Said Because Man Put On
V Blue He Was Not "Lost."
' 6AVT ANTONIO, Tex; Dec. 9. Major
General Frederick Funston. command
ing the Department of the South, to
night replied to Rev. J". B. Gambrell,
secretary of the executive board of the
Baptist general convention, explaining
the General's reason for not permitting
revivals in the military camps here and
along the border.
Numerous Baptist conventions have
passed resolutions condemning what
they understood to have been the Gen
eral's action, and suggestions were
made that President Wilson, as commander-in-chief
of the Army, be asked
to take official cognizance of the mat
ter. A resolution asking for informa
tion on the controversy also has been
Introduced In Congress.
Denomination Not nt Issue.
General Funston gave out copies of
the letter to the press, in which he
eay in part:
"From time to time I have been re
ceiving copies of resolutions passed by
various Baptist bodies condemning my
supposed stand relative to holding
relleious services among the troops on
the border, and also have received a
t.nthar rf vtrv uniust and in some
cases abusive, letters from ' clergymen
of the same denomination. Incidentally.
I might say that I have had more
letters approving my stand t.ian I
have crtttelsingr it.
"Thie whole disagreeable incident,
with all its annoyance to me, of course,
arises from the statement made by you
after your visit to the headquarters
a couple of months ago, in which you
sought to obtain permission to con
duct a series of revival in the border
camps. You stated your business to
Colonel Barnum. chief of staff. If
Colonel Barnum stated at that time
what denomination you belonged to it
made no impression on my mind, and
If he had it would have made no dif
crence whatever.
"Revivals" Are Prohibited.
"I told that officer to explain fully
to you that while religious cervices
along the usual lines were conducted
In the camps by chaplains and other
clergymen and were welcome, I could
not give my consent to the holding
of revivals therein, giving the word,
as I was justified in doing:, its usually
accepted meaning. I told Colonel
Barnum to explain to yon why re
vival serviceti would be out of place
in' a military camp, citing the dis
graceful performance in San Antonio
last Winter as an example of what
revivals are apt to develop into and
drawing to a certain extent on a gen
eral knowledge as to how revivals, or
'protracted' meetings, as they are
sometimes called, are usually con
ducted. "I further instructed Colonel Barnum
to say to you that I did not accept, in
yct resented, the Implication that be
cause a man had put on his country's
uniform, he was necessarily lost, or
worse than other men; that I thought
there were people who had stayed at
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CRIME LEADS TO
DISCOVERY OF HEIR
MAX FOCXD THROUGH PUBLIC
ITY GIVEX DAUGHTER.
Bellingham Girl's Elopement With
Forger Results In Her Father
Learning He Is Rich.
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 9. (Special.)
Through the publicity given the case
of SIgne Gerstadt, pretty 20-yea.r-old
girl of Bellingham, Wash., who was ar
rested in this city with D. M. Delmas.
alias Allen Dale, noted worthless-check
passer, Hilgar Gerstadt, father of the
girl, was notified today that he had
fallen heir to an immense fortune In
Sweden.
Mr. Gerstadt has been sought for
some years by a Chicago attorney so
that the estate could be settled. Attor
ney Sidney P. Robertson, counsel for
Delmas, today received a. letter from
the Chicago lawyer, asking for Ger
stadt's address in Bellingham. The
girl, through the efforts of the proba
tion officer, was sent back to her
father In the North.
Delmas appeared today before Su
perior Judge Griffin. He is wanted for
escaping from the penitentiary in
Huntsville, Texas, where he has five
years yet to serve for bank wrecking.
Delmas, following his flight from
Texas,-flooded the Northwest with bo
gus checks. While in Bellingham. he
met Miss Gerstadt and persuaded her
to elope to San Francisco. They were
here only two days when Delmas grave
I. Goldman, of Goldman's Cloak and
Suit House, a $100 'bogus check. The
pair were arrested following a. chase.
In court today Goldman said he did
not desire to prosecute, and It is the
intention of the police to send, Delmas
back to Texas to serve out his term.
SIX INCHES OF SNOW FALLS
Fanners Jfear La Grande Pleased by
Blanket Over Wheat Fields.,
LA GRANDE, Or, Dec 9. (Special.)
All Eastern Oregon had snow to
day and early this morning, the
amount ranging: from six Inches in the
Grand Ronde Valley to a foot at Meach
am. Kamela and other summits.
The downfall was quiet and without
wind, hence there were no traffic block
ades or any serious Impediments to'
travel of any kind. Snow fell almost In
cessantly all day and there was no
evidence of a let-up tonight.
Farmers are jubilant, saying it guar
antees protection to wheat fields.
CAPTIVE CIVILIANS TRADED
Britain and Germany Agree to Ex
change Through America.
LONDON, Dec. 9. After protracted
negotiations through the medium of
the United States, arrangements have
been made for the exchange of Ger
man and British civilian prisoners who
are more than 45 years old.
About 4000 Germans are Interned in
the United Kingdom and 700 British
civilians are interned in Germany.
RAINBOW SEEN AT NIGHT
Rare Phenomenon Visible During
Kain Storm at Eugene.
EUGENE. Or., Dec. 9. A lunar rain
bow, a strange and rare meteorological
phenomenon, was visible from this city
this evening: a few minutes after 6.
The arc, a great curved strip of pale
opalescence In the southwestern sky,
was caused by the light of the rising
moon cast upon the falling rain.
EMPERORS MEET IN BERLIN
Charles Visits German Headquarters
and Confers With Kaiser.
BERLIN. Dec. 9. (By wireless to
Sayville, N. Y.) Emperor Charles has
visited the German general headquar
ters, where he conferred with Emperor
William.
Field Marshal von HIndenburg and
Field Marshal Conrad von Hoetzendorf
were present.
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NEW CABINET NOT
PLEASING TO ALL
Popular Demand Met
by Lloyd George.
SOME OPPOSITION IS VOICED
Wisdom of Choice of Balfour
for Post Is Questioned.
BONAR LAW FINDS FAVOR
Business Government for Britain
Generally Approved, but Some
Think Members Will Not
Be Ruthless Enough.
LONDON, Dec. 9. The expected an
nouncement of Premier Lloyd George's
Cabinet has been postponed until to
morrow as some of the appointments
have not been arranged. Latest re
ports give the constitution of the war
council as Mr. Lloyd George, Andrew
Bonar Law, Lord Curzon, Lord MIlnr
and Arthur Henderson. Lord Mllner
will be Minister without portfolio and
Lord Curzon Lord Privy Seal.
A, J. Balfour probably will follow
the example of Viscount Grey in taking
a title to enable him to be spokesman
for the-Foreign Office in the House of
Lords, while Lord Robert Cecil will
continue to represent the department
In the House of Commons. None of
the Liberal members of Mr. Asquith's
Cabinet will hold office under the new
Prime Minister.
Parliament to Meet Tuesday.
After the publication of the Cabinet,
the next official action will be the
meeting of Parliament on Tuesday,
when it is expected that Mr. Lloyd
George will make a speech outlining
the policies of his administration and
the new Ministers will be questioned
concerning conditions in Greece and
other vital matters.-
The new war council is considered an
"xtxemely strong . body,.Lrd Curzon
and Milnei '- are considered two of the
ablest arid most experienced adminis
trators of the Conservative party.
Popular Demand I Met.
Lloyd George's cabinet will be non
partisan, and will meet the popular
demand for a business government. It
will not be a coalition cabinet In the
sense of Asquith's administration, be
cause Mr. Asquith had the co-operation
of all parties, even including the
Irish Nationalists.
The Liberal meeting at the Reform
Club yesterday decided that the old
Liberal leaders will constitute an op
position party in the House of Com
mons, although the opposition will be
one of helpful criticism rather than
of hostility. The newspapers are de
voting themselves to framing possible
cabinets and incidentally are so wrapped
up in the burning questions as to
whether Lloyd George can be called
a conspirator and whether a govern
ment consisting largely of men un
used to politics can be as efficient as
one recruited from the traditional rul
ing class, that they give comparatively
little attention to the events of the
war.
Balfour's Choice Causes Protest.
A surprise was the announcement
made by Viscount Grey In the Liberal
conference that Arthur Balfour would
succeed him In the foreign office, with
Lord Robert Cecil continuing as as
sistant. Lord Curzon. qualified by
former service In the foreign office and
with a brilliant record as Indian Vice
roy, had been thought assured of the
honor. The choice of Balfour came
from a clear sky and aroused instant
protest from papers, which rated him
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HIGH SPOTS IN THE PAST
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Weather.
TODATS Fair; Hindu mostly westerly.
War.
German Chancellor explains Belgian depor
tations. Section 1. page 0.
German cruiser resorted mt larse. Section
1. pa go 5.
One Roumanian army ' annihilated. Section
1, page 4.
Viscount Grey explains allies' position In
Greece. Section 1, page 4.
Kins 'of Greece says he will Join with Ger
mans if entente allies break relations.
Section 1, Page C.
Porelirn.
Some opposition voiced to Britain's now
cabinet. Section 1. page 1.
Mexico. '
Oregon troopers ar at pistol practice. Sec
tion 1, page 7.
National.
White House social programme arranged.
section 1, page 3.
Car shortage hurts Pacific Coast business.
says Federal Reserve Board. Sebctloa l,
page 2.
Federal investigator says waste by house
wives Is biggest factor In food problem.
Section 1, page 6.
Domestic.
Two hundred reserve acts signed to combat
White Bats' strike. Section 1, page 1.
Smith's evidence to be admitted In Bopp
trial. Section 1. page 3.
General Funston says he forbade revivals
because they are too noisy. Section 1.
page 1.
Means of avoiding wars weighed. Section 1.
page 6.
Chicago police chief to resign. Section 1.
page 8. 6
European people declared longing for peace.
Section 1, page t.
Another's crime leads to discovery of long
lost heir at SBclllngham. Section 1
Page 1.
Sport.
President McFar'.and. of Oregon Sportsmen's
League, jpposes opening of Willamette
for commercial fishing. Section 2. page 2.
Hunt Club considers erection of new club
house. Section 2, page 4.
Penn favorite over Oregon by from 10 to
14 points. Section 2, page 1.
Williams leads all In tennis player rankings.
Section 2, page 5.
McCredle favors Sacramento for training
camp. Section 2. page 2.
Stanford's entrance into conference renews
Interest In athletics. Section 2, page 3.
Gibbons-McCoy bout looms. Section 2,
page 3.
World's (?) series to be played here if
Portland wins. Section 2. page 2.
Oregon-Oregon Agprle football game to be
played in Portland next year, ejection
paee
University of Southern California may enter
conference. Section 2. page a.
Washington students d'plore Coach Doble's
departure, section 2, page l.
Commercial and Marine.
Wheat steadier at country points on buying
for shipment East. Section 2, page 14.
Expected revival of export buying leads to
sharp advance in wheat at Chicago, sec
tion 2. page 14. 1
Copper stocks depressed by British govern
ment's latest ruling. Section 2. page 13.
Wool prices advance 3 to 5. cents during
week. Section 2. page 14.
Two officers of Ialles City have licenses
suspended for fire. Section 2, page lb.
Pacific Northwest.
Woman Mayor . of Umatilla may appoint
woman chief of police. Section 1, page 10.
Appointment of William H. Savage to Fair
Board presidency lauded. section 1,
page 10.
Thousand teachers expected at Portland ses
sion. Section 1. page .
Attorney-General Brown may frame dry law
enforcing act. faectlon 1, Page -i.
Clackamas County ..taxpayers vote for more
good roads. Section 1, Page 20.
Portland and Vicinity.
Sweeping changes proposed in Portland
dairy regulations, section 1. page 10.
Red Cross bazaar is now on at German
House. Section 1, page 12.
Separation of child and politics proposed In
bill. Section 1. page 12.
Senator Moser says his election is certain.
Section 1, page 13.
Traffl-. otdlnaneo effective today. Section
1, page 14.
New approach to Interstate Bridge proposed.
shortening distance from city. Section
1, page 14.
Chamber arranges concerts. Section 1, page
17.
Iale estate Is won by Mrs. Mattle Tobias.
Section 1, page li.
Jews plan welcome for Dr. Moselnsohn. - Sec
tion 1, page 16.
Subscriptions to bank of sympathy aggre
gate $4104. Section 1. page 21.
Educators differ over proposed high school
segregation. Section 1, page IS.
Jitney tangle to be before Council again to
morrow. Section 1, page 18.
Good roads conference opens In Portland.
Section 1, page IS.
Romance of livestock Industry appeals to
Paul Clagstone. Section 1, page 22.
Greatest stock show closes. Section , page
22.
Women demand state food warehouses.
Section 1, Page 1.
Von Klein takes new Jewel bride. Section
1. Page 1.
Ex-Governor West writes on proposed dry
legislation. Section 1, Page 1.
Weather report, data and forecast. Section
2. Page 14.
Pavilions for livestock show to cost $100,000
proposed. Section 4, page 20.
State Association of County Courts to meet
Tuesday. Section 2. page 6.
New Year's crowds to be small. Section 2,
page 6.
WEEK'S NEWS AS SEEN
200 AGTS SIGNED TO
DEFEAT WHITE RATS
Vaudeville Managers
Prepare for Strike.
ACTION MONDAY PREDICTED
Stage Hands, Musicians and
Movie Operators May Go Out.
DATE NOT SET, ACTORS SAY
Heads of Booking; Agencies Assem
ble Forces in Fight Stand for
Recognition and Closed
Shop by Vaudeville Folk.
CHICAGO, Dec. 9. (Special.) Vau
devllle managers and executives put in
hours of feverish preparation today for
the strike of the White Rats Actors'
Union of America, comprising most of
the vaudeville actors of the country
which, managers say, is scheduled for
Monday night.
John J. Murdock, executive manager
of the United Booking Offices; Martin
Beck, managing director of- the Or
pheum Circuit, and Patrick Casey, busi
ness representative of the Vaudeville
Managers' Protective Association which
comprises the greater part of the large
booking agencies of the country, are In
Chicago or were expected to arrive late
tonight to take active charge of the
fight.
Reserve Acts Sinned.
More than 200 reserve acts, it is said
have been signed for the big circuits.
There has been a hasty scurrying
among music publishers for song
pluggers" and piano players id be held
subject to emergency calls.
"We have plenty of acts waiting to
fill in any gaps which may occur," said
C. W. Humphrey, manager of the United
Booking Office here. - ...v-
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but if any of these go out others will
take their place immediately." "
Strike May Spread to Movies.
A sympathetic strike of stage hands,
musicians, and motion picture operators
looms as a possibility. Charles D. Shay,
president of the International Alliance
of Theatrical Employes, who made
hasty trip here from New York, will
return to Chicago within the next few
days to take charge of the stage hands'
Interests.
Local officials said that while no ac
tion would be taken on a sympathetic
strike until the White Rats were called
out, the stage hands would undoubtsdly
stand by their union brothers.
Definite Date IVot Set.
The International officers of the
White Rats are already in Chicago
While admitting that all plans have
been made for a strike, representatives
of the actors' unions insist that no defi
nlte date has been set.
"I don't know when the strike may
be called," said Joe Birnes. chief de
partment organizer for the district of
Illinois, tonight.
"I don't know where the vaudeville
managers got their Information about
Monday being the date. We know noth
ing of It here. Of course I may receive
a wire or a message from some repre
sentative which will ' cause an Imme
diate walk-out, but no such action has
been taken yet."
The actors demand recognition and
a closed shop.
Helnrich Governor of Bucharest.
AMSTERDAM, via London, Dec 9.
Lieutenant-General von Helnrich has
been appointed Governor of Bucharest,
according to the Rhelnsche Westfae-lische.
BY CARTOONIST REYNOLDS.
VON KLEIN TAKES
NEW-JEWEL BRIDE
BEDIZEXED DAUGHTER
OF
JUDGE LEd'tO ALTAR.
Debonnaire ex-Prisoner, Whose Ca
reer Is Police Epic, Chooses
Indiana City for Nuptials.
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Edmund E. C. Von Klein, debonnaire
dandy, whose taking ways with women
and their Jewels led him to a term in
the Oregon Penitentiary from which he
was released only a year ago last Sep
tember, has married again, and this
time, as in other instances of his
mottled matrimonial career, he won a
woman with diamonds.
Mrs. Cora Emily Crowley, of New
York City, daughter of a Canadian
Judge. Is the bride, and the ceremony
was performed at the prison city of
JeffersonviUe. Ind., about 10 days ago.
The marriage was so modestly spec
tacular for the quiet display of dia
monds that the reporter for the New
Albany (Ind.) Tribune, unconscious of
the long drama behind the marriage.
was forced to remark:
"Those who saw the couple said they
were the best-dressed elopers seen in
JeffersonviUe for many years. Each
wore a number of diamonds, and the
ring ceremony was used by the dazzled
marrying squire. The bride removed
a handsome diamond ring from her
ringer, and in its place a more costly
one was substituted by the bride
groom." Mr. Von Klein was released from the
Oregon Penitentiary September 7, 1915
and went to Minneapolis, where he
became identified with a Jewelry firm
in which business he was engaged some
years ago. He had been sent to the
penitentiary June 17, 1914, convicted on
a polygamous charge growing out of
his pretended marriage to pretty Miss
Ethel Newcomb, of San Francisco, while
he had at least one wife from whom he
was not divorced at the time. That
wife was formerly Louise Ilstrup, of
Minneapolis.
Von Klein and Miss Newcomb regis
tered at the Portland Hotel in October
1911. a few days after the fake mar
riage in San Francisco. A few days
later she missed $3500 of her diamonds
and Mr. Von Klein was gone. He was
later resurrected in a sensational man
ner in a large grill in Chicago and
laboriously brought to Portland, where
ho made a merry battle for freedom.
Mrs. E. Weber, of Kansas City, and a
Mrs. Isabelle Temple, of Nashville, were
others of his alleged victims.
MRS. LEE HONG IS DEAD
Wife of Prominent Chinese Merchant
Sucoumbs After Illness.
Mrs. Lee Hong, wife of Lee Hong,
prominent Chinese merchant and mem
ber of the Chamber of Commerce, died
last night at her residence, 69 North
Fourth street. Besides her husband,
a son. who ia a student at Lincoln
High School, survives.
Mrs. Hong had been 111 since early
in September. Funeral arrangements
will be completed today.
LANSING'S AIDE RESIGNS
Assistant Secretary of State to Re'
turn to Wyoming.
WASHINGTON, Dec 9 John E. Os
borne. Assistant Secretary of State, re
signed today and will return within the
month to his home in Rawlins, Wyo.,
to devote himself to his private busi
ness. His successor has not been
named.
He was appointed in 1913 and, with
one or two exceptions, held the office
longer, than any predecessor.
RAINY WEEKJS FORECAST
Weather in North Pacific States
Promises to Be Unsettled.
WASHINGTON. Dec. 9. Weather
predictions for the week beginning
Sunday were announced by the Weather
Bureau today as follows:
Pacific states Unsettled with prob
ability of general rains first half of
week; temperatures near seasonal normal.
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WOMEN ASK STATE
FOR F000 DEPOTS
Public Cold Storage
Plants Demanded.
EJECTION THREATENED DUNCAN
Retail Grocer Is Silenced by
Uproar of Audience.
WIFE TRIES TO HECKLE
Boycott Mass Meeting Resents Refer
ence to Lazy House-wives and Re
fuses to Hear Speaker Sugar
Offered Portland Cheaper.
A sizzling, red-hot meeting of im
patient food consumers attempted to
wrestle with the high cost of living
monster at the Public Library last
night.
They didn't get very far.
They attacked the monster first from
one angle, then from another, and
wound up by adopting a resolution
demanding "that the State Legislature
build food warehouses and cold stor
age plants."
The idea is that the state shall
operate these plants for the accommo
dation of all the people particularly
the farmer-producers and the working-men-consumers.
Immediate Reduction Wanted.
The meeting was far up in the air
most of the time. Most of the speak
ers shot wide of the mark the Ira
mediate excessive prices of food.
But the crowd knew precisely what
it wanted, although It didn't seem to
know how to go after it.
What is wanted was an Immediate
reduction in the price of food not a
reduction next year, or next month, or
next week.
This was demonstrated when it re
fused, to listen to theoretical formulas
on how to reduce prices, and when it
grew hostile toward Robert G. Dun
can, secretary of the Retail Grocers"
Association, who insisted on beins
heard.
Women Score Mr. Duncan.
Mr. Duncan had injected a discord
ant note into the meeting of the week
before, and a lot of women remem
bered him.
"He is the man who told the grocers
last week to stick up the prices as
long as the people would stand it!"
shrieked one woman.
"He also said that the women of
Portland were lazy and didn't know
how to run their homes," shouted an
other. "Throw him out," came from a cho
rus of voices.
L. D. Mahone, the chairman, finally
ruled that none but women would be
permitted to speak.
Mr. Duncan, .trying to talk amid the
uproar, finally sat down.
Mrs. Duncan Trlex to Heckle.
Later in the evening Mrs. Duncan,
apparently speaking for her husband,
started to heckle Sanfield Macdonald.
who ha-J introduced a resolution call
ing for a committee to draft a law
giving the State Food and Dairy Com
missioner power to investigate and
regulate food warehouses.
"I thought no more men. were to
speak," clamored Mrs. Duncan.
T don't represent the Retail Grocers"
Association," shouted back Mr. Mac
donald. Mr. Macdonald's resolution was re
ceived with cheers, but it was amend
ed, on motion of Albert Streiff. "de
manding" that the Legislature proceed
with construction of state-owned food
repositories. The amendment was
adopted by a close vote.
Chairman Mahone stirred up the
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