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P. 9ft -CfMCff VEAT11EI$: ' ! m Probaply ; jt&r tonight apfd Tuesday; west erly winds. Wu midity 89. PORTLAND, OREGON, MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 23, 1914 FOURTEEN PAGES. VOL. CIII NO. 12. PRICE TWO CENTS. giF ant new. ,n t- .f TiCxil Ul JlW L; I I 1 k h S . iJ ft NW J J M paper than is con- I Vr KZ V rJCSL V. V JvIA Vt UvNX X V V i4 VffiSito TH I sKVVVVjlV' W VV kmc mrm tatnedin the "help H wanted ads? XLjOlg W - -UQ Uu - v REBELS' NET IS DRAWING CLOSE ABOUT TORREOH Suburbs of Federal Strong hold Falling Before Villa's Advance and His Well Di rected Artillery Fire. DECISIVE STRUGGLE TO POSSESS CITY IS NEAR Gomez Palacio and Lerdo Are Attacked Simultane ously With 4000 Men. (Trilled Prens leased Wlr..) Constitutionalist Headquarters, Be fore Lerdo, Mex., March 23. The big battle of Torreon was on today. Be fore closing In on Torreon Itself it was necessary to take Its suburbs. This the rebels were doing as rapldli' as possible. At midnight the combined armies of Generals Urbana. Hernandez and Rodriguez, E000 men strong, attacked Lerdo under General Villa's direction. Lerdo is six miles from the center ot Torreon. Into it a heavy artillery fire was directed. General Angels, Car ranza's minister of war. commariued the guns. Simultaneously with the attack on Lerdo" the combined forces of Generals Ortega. Garcia and Pe- reyra, numbering 4000 men under Or- tesrn'ti command, opened on the suburb of Gomez Palacio. four miles outside Torreon. Both assaults were In progress to day. They were extraordinarily fierce and losses were heavy. From General Bernavides came the report that he had occupied the towns of Zuragoza and Matamoras aunaay MRtanioras is a town a short distance outside of Torreon and not the place of the same name opposite Brownsville Texas, In the state of Tamaulipas. General Contreras' brigade was be Moved to have attacked South Torreon last night, though no report had been received from him. General Natera and the Arrleta brothers were cooper ating with Contreras from the south west. Kl Verjei. nine muea ouisiue r- reon, was occupied oy oerm wnctsi men Sunday. It was from El Verjei thaUOftega pushed on under cover of darkness to Gomez Palacio. General Villa was keeping the clos est watch tyi all roads leading out of Torreon to prevent its defenders irom he believed they would J escaping, as try to do When they realized the inevit ability of defeat. ' KefuiEoes Are Arrested. w.hinftn.'.' ' March 93. Generul BUss telegraphed to Secretary of War Garrison today that la Mexicans liJ been arrested by border patrols trying to e"ter theI7nited States at Zapata, Texas. The men said thSy were flee- fng from Guerrera, on the Mexican side of the border opposite Zapata. From Admiral Fletcher a wireless! niessage.was received saying the situa tion at Tampico was unchanged. Executions Were Necessary. Mexloo City, March 23. "I have no apologies to make for the execution of the 149 mutineers put to death at Jojutula barracks," said War Minister Blanquet to a United Press represent ative today. "Investigations proved their guilt. Treason is recognised as punishable by death throughout the world. Had there been but one traitor uorn rrom appearing in me ano at Jojutla no one would have been gether" on the stage of the Renais shocked at his execution. There were eance theatre in the last act of "Aphro- 149. In principle there was no dir- ference between executing them and In executing one. - In proof of the effectiveness of the execntlons, Jojutla is now quite hab- itable." Communication between Mexico City asjd Torreon was cut today. Woman Tries to Kill A Parisian Justice Shoots Six Times at the judge, But Ho One Is Hart; Arrested and Is Believed to Be Insane. Paris, March 23. A woman whose name could not be learned fired three revolver shots today at the judge In the sixth chamber of the Palace of Justice. She was arrested and the police said they thought she was In sane. No one was hurt. BANDITS MURDER CHINESE Pekln. March 23. News was received that bandits had massacred 300 Inhabi tants of a village near Slang Yang, Hupeh province, and were increasingly active throughout central China. Feet Must Be Clean And Hats Eemoved . Agents for the government in the collection of the income tax must wipe their feet on the door mat and take off their hats whenjthey enter houses to make investigations Into the prlvatefortunes of individuals suspected of evading the tax regulations, according to in structions that have been re-, celved by Internal Revenue Col- lector M. A. Miller. Evidence Of Jack of courtesy, says the order, Vwlll result in reprimand or dis missal, ine warnings to be polite have Just been sent out by Commissioner of Internal Revenue Osborn, who has re solved that the Income tax shall re popular ana mat his agents shall be just as popular as the e " tax O'Shaughnessy May Resign; Health Bad President Commends Work Son by American Charge in City of Mexico; Tolls Tight is Democratic Squabble. Washington, March 23. President Wilson practically admitted to the newepaper correspondents here today that Charge d'Affaires O'Shaughnessy at Mexico City may resign. He added, however, that if he did bo It would be s&lely on account of poor health. "O'Shaughnessy has handled every trying situation with credit to himself and to the United States." Bald the president. President Wilson also admitted that the - Lind-Rajos conference had not produced any real plan for a solution of the Mexican situation. The president told call ers that there was no disposition on the part of the administration to postpone action on trust legislation until the next session of congress. He said he hoped all es sential trust measures would be enact ed by June at the latest. The president Faid the tolls fight was nothing more than a squabble within the Democratic party, and that he was confident the house would pass the resolution for the repeal of the ex emption clause this week. He denied that he had demanded a rule limiting the debate, and declared he did not be lieve 'that ttie special interests were aligning with either side. Country Produce By Parcel Post Postmaster General Burleson Signs Order Today That Brings Producer and Consumer Closer Together. Washington, March 23. An order permitting the shipment of eggs, poultry, butter, vegetables and fruit by parcel post was signed today by Post master General Burleson. The plan will be "tried out first in Washington, Boston, Baltimore. Atlanta, Philadel phia, Detroit and San Francisco. Later, if the arrangement proves satisfactory, it will be extended to all points. Commenting this afternoon on the order. Mrs. Elliott Logan, president of the Federation of Women's clubs in the District of Columbia, said: "The postmaster general's order has struck the high cost of living a ter rific blow. It places housewives in di rect communication with producera, eliminates troublesome marketing and reduces its cost." Robber .Drives to Bank in Taxicab TeUer Drops TTiUtar Counter and Thief Seises Sum of Money and Escapes, Shooting a Depositor on the Way. Altoona, Pa., March 23. Driving up to the Union National bank in a taxi cab shortly after the bank opened for business today, a lone robber, with drawn revolver, ordered Paying Teller Burkctt to surrender the cash in his care, and to "be quick about it." Bur kctt refused and dodged under the I counter. The robber fired, slightly wounding Burkett, the bullet grazing I""3 hlunlalu' Cashier Rupert and an assistant es- l cape& by a rear door, and the thief seized $1000 and fled. At the door he met William Blackburn, a depositor. and shot him in the leg. Nude on Stage Not Prohibited m Pans Paris Prefect of Police Says as Long as They Pose He Will Hot Stop Girls; Dancing Prohibited. Paris, March 23. Prefect of Police Hennion refused today to stop Mile. I nite." It was graceful and artsitic. he said, and no more to be objected to than was a nude picture or status. Those who had asked Hennion to inter- fere were surprised at his attitude, in view of his prohibition last week of nude dancing in cabarets. The pre fect ruled, however, that cabarets and theatres were different things. WASTE WORSE THAN BATTLE, SAYS REDFIELD Unnecessary Loss of Human Life and Efficiency Is Re gretted by Secretary of Commerce at Berkeley. SOCIAL BILL OF RIGHTS IS BEING WORKED OUT Points to Cartage as Being Far More Costly Than Freight Rates. (Inked Prew Leaved Wire.) Berkeley, Cal., March 23. "On of the most interesting moments of to day Is the growing social conscious ness," said Secretary ol! Commerce William C, Redfield, discussing "The Larger Outlook," as principal speaker at the University of California's ex ercises in the Greek theatre In observ ance of the forty-seventh; anniversary- today of the granting of a charter to the university. j "The movement of which I speak," he continued, "is not socialism. It is not led as a unified Whole by any definite group of leaders. Rather do men prominent in many walks of llfo associate themselves with it as with a force hardly to be ignored. "It is not paternalism,; though here and there . it may seem i to have pa ternalistic features. j "The city, state and nation follow In this matter rather tha?i lead. What they may do is the result of a con viction and purpose farmed among their citizens which impels them to action rather than the Outcome of a fatherly kindness extended to needy and thoughtless children Has Sound Economic Basis "The movement is not has features in which joice, but often where It altruism. It altruists re Is most high ly developed it claims to be severely practical, and indeed to have a sound economic basis. "It surely Is not pessimism for It is the development of a social hope and in all its forms is! the farthest removed from doubt and fear. 'It is not empty optimism, for it does not take the form bo much of a belief that things are and shall. be well as it does that of J the doing of those things which couikt for further social and spiritual progress. "It is not the work of the few but the outcome in large degree probably of the almost or quite unconscious thought of the many. J "It has become almost a habit for the largest retail establishments to provide restaurants and rest rooms. often hospitals, for vnelr employes. Profit Sharing Proposals. "One of the large associations of retailers is planning a scheme of shar ing profits among the force of sales men and clerks. A great warehousing company employs a welfare secretary whose influence extends among tho workmen on the docks and into their homes. A factory opens the way to thrift and endeavor by i engaging that its piecework rates shall not be cut because the workmen earn largely. "The president of the United States writes of a new freedom which is in substance the clearing ot the path of progress for the average man. The nation regards a great j industrial dis pute not so much as a far off matter which solely concerns the disputants, but rather as affecting; the body poll tic like something which deranges the nerves of our physical - frame. Social Quarrel Concerns All. "So the social quarrel, take what form it may, concerns us all. The so cial consciousness may! not have fully found Itself, but It is busily at work nevertheless. "So workmen's compensation acts (Concluded on Pace Six. Column One) BEGINNING Religious Worker Killed at Seance Enthusiast Goes Insane at Meeting of "Christian Mystics" in Is Angeles, Shoots Man Seated Beside Sim. Los Angeles, March 23. Going in sane at a meeting of the Order of Christian Mystips today, E. D. Medd calf of Vancouver, B. C, drew a re volver and fired a bullet Into the brain of Victor Hugo, a religious worker, who was seated beside him. Hugo is dying at the receiving hospital, while Medd- calf is under arrest. Mrs Thomas Gibson was addressing the meeting of 19 Mystics in a room in the Black building when the shoot ing occurred. Both the men involved were visitors and not members of the cult. While a selection from the Psalms was being read and commented on by Mrs. Gibson, Meddcalf leaped suddenly to his feet, . pulled his re volver and fired at random. The de votees, -most of whom were women, fled screaming into the street. "I Just wanted to see him drop," said Meddcalf when asked why he did It. Employers Blamed By Jonn Mitcnell Michigan Mine Operators Opposed to Paying Pair Wages, He Tells Con gresslonal investigating Committee, Washington, March 23. Denuncia tion of the operators in the Michigan copper mining district was voiced to day before the congressional committee engaged in Investigating the Calumet strike bv John Mitchell. the labor leader. "The operators' cry of 'red social ism,' " said Mitchell, is merely a pro test whereby they are trying to justiry their opposition to employes Joining the American Federation of Labor. They are really opposed to payln their employes fair wages." Mitchell said it was customary for mine owners to make similar excuses when thes wished to dodge union 1 sues. He asserted that living and wage conditions at Butte, Mont., where the men are organized, were much better than in Michigan. Mrs. Lyons Takes Poison in Chicago Pound Unconscious in Grand Pacific Hotel With a Partly Emptied Bottle Beside Her. Chicago, March 23. Mrs. Vivien Ly ons, a Denver divorcee who gained considerable notoriety when she shot and nearly killed Robert J. Widney, a former wealthy Los Angeles real es tate dealer. In a San Francisco hotel last year, was believed to be dying here today from poison swallowed with suicidal Intent. She was found uncon Bcious in the Grand Pacific hotel yes . . . wiL 1 1 1! . 1 1 t . T. uiuay wun . nail empueu uolxia poison beside her. Widney arrived from Kansas City ir.is aiternoon and was expected sned some light on the affair. As soon as he arrived, Widney went to see Mrs. Lyons at St. Luke's hosDital and telephoned that he would rDort to police headquarters immediately Ambulance Brings Caller to Wilson Hlne-Tear-Old Boy, Too Sick to Walk, Has Wish Gratified Through Inter, cession of Mrs. Wilson. Washington, March 23. Harry Da vis, 9 years old, was brought here by his mother last week from Sewickley, Pa. The lad was suffering from heart disease. Mrs. Davis tried vainly for her son to see President Wilson, and then wrote ,Mrs. Wilson, explaining that If Harry could see the president it might help him in his fight for life. Presi dent Wilson became interested in the case and the boy was brought to the White House in an ambulance. When he left the White House Harry carried a bouquet of flowers, given him by Mrs. Wilson, after he had gratified his am bition to shake hands with the presi dent. TO PULL ! Mme. Caillaux Treated Like Guest in Prison t k . m . m m. Fellow Prisoners Reported to Have Mutinied Mme. Henrietta Caillaux, wife; of the French Minister of Finance, who Figaro. Caillaux Is 6hown above and Calmette WW V --Js0 - VJ" ' ' v-o nrrw avrcx No Luxury Is Denied Woinan Held for Shooting of Figaro Editor; Mysterious "Monsieur X" Figures in Tes timony Taken In Hearing, (United Press Leased Wire.) ! Paris. March 23. Because of the favoritism shown to Mme. Henriette Caillaux, who shot and killed Editor Gaston Calmette of the Figaro j as a climax to a series of fierce editorial attacks the latter had been making on her husband, Finance Minister Joseph Caillaux, it was rumored todays that 800 prisoners in St. Lazare Jail had mutinied. The prison officials would not discuss the report. There was no question that Mme. Caillaux was being treated with a con sideration strongly suggesting; that ideration sirongiy "'"Inot provea. Rochette was a financier he or her husband continues to! wield , whovwaa arrested ch,r -ith enormous . power fehe nas a "PM RU1IH 111 I 1 i.-i'M. in " -" ury, has her meals brougnt in rrom one of the best restaurants in Paris, and receives visitors when she pleases and treats the jail attendants rather as servants than her custodians. ; Information Held as Club, The general impression Is that the two Caillauxs possess Information which men In high positions in Paris cannot afford to have made public, and. they will do all in their power to protect the ex-finance minister's wife from punishment for killing Calmette. Today's investigation bore out mors strongly than ever the theory that somewhere back of the Caillaux-Cal-mette affair there figured the same mysterious individual who appeared dimly in the background of the Steln heil case. Veiled references have been made to him in the testimony as "Monsieur X," but his actual name has not been mentioned a common enough thing in French legal proceedings. Similarity to Steinhell Case. All that appeaVa even moderately plain is that what appears on the sur face Is not all there Is to the Caillaux tragedy; that the real facts of the Steinhell murder never were made known and that the reason for the mystery is that "Monsieur X's" name must not be dragged into unpleasant notoriety or somebody will suffer se verely for it. That "Monsieur X" is Henri Roch- ette has been openly charged, though involving upwards of $20,000,000. His trial was mysteriously postponed he was released on bail and then disap peared, going, according to the popu lar belief, to Mexico, where he is said to be living. Scandal About Disappearance. The names of Caillaux and of th then Premier Monls have been men tioned in connection with this disap pearance, Maurice Barres having as serted In the Echo de Paris that Ro chette got away "thanks to the oblig ing messieurs Aionis ana caillaux. Not only, it was rumored, was Ro chette allowed to escape but he was given time before doing It. to gather up the loose ends of his frauds and take nis loot with him, which need not nave neen tne case. isoooay imagines, however, that Monis and Caillaux assuming thwn to have been involved In the Rochette affair were the only Important per sonages mixed In the scandal, and the supposition Is that so many exalted reputations are m danger that the pressure in tne interests of silence Is iremenaous. Through all , these concerns Mm. Caillaux does not appear. The fact remains tnat it is believed her rasn mai oi mine. Biemneii ana the Roch ette case are all a part of the same general affair. Mme. Caillaux was taken to nriann In the palace of Justice ugain today for runner examination, she was heav 11 y guarded. More cabinet resignations wr re ported to be imminent. Caillaux was a witness today before the chamber of deputies committee on Investigation of the Rochette case. He denied that he had anything to do with me postponement or Rochette's trial. Humphreys and Mann Make Faces Declare They Aren't a Xot of School Boys, and Demand to Know Who Has the Bight To Baa Them. Washington, March 23. An attack on President Wilson was made in the house today by Representative Hum phreys of Washington and Mann of Illinois. "The president Is laboring under the Impression that he is dealing, with a lot of schoolboys," said Humphreys "It Is getting so that it is impossible to do anything except under. Instruc tions from the other end of the avenue." Representative Mann charged that the president had ordered a certain congressman to fight for a 15-hour limit on the Panama canal tolls repeal debate. Both Humphreys and Mann denied they were attempting a fili buster. Representative Shirley, the presi dent's reported emissary in the house, denied knowledge of the president or dering a time limit on the debate. shot M. Calmette,. Editor of Le below. PROFESSOR PECK IS T SELF AT SI ormer Columbia Faculty Member,. Literary Author ity, Kills Himself, (Hnlfed Prs Leased Wire.) Stamford. Conn., March 23. Harry Thurston Peck, formerly professor at Columbia university, committed sui cide here today by shooting himself with a revolver. Peck's body was found In the room ing house here where he lived. He was in night clothes, and by his side lay a 32-callber revolver. The bullet entered the right eye, and, coming out at the back of the head, lodged in the wall of the room. Mrs. Mlntz, proprietress of the house, found Peck dead when she went to his room with a telephone message. Peck had lived alone for two weeks. His first wife, who nursed him when he was stricken with paralysis, and Bald she had cured him with mental suggestions, lives at Sound Beach, a suburb. His second wire left him and Is now living at a small town on Sta- ten Island. N. Y. In June, 1910 Esther Qulnn of Cambridge, Mass., sued Professor PerVt for $50,000, alleging breach of promise and Improper relations. Althougn Peck was a married man. Miss Qulnn won the breach of promise suit and then won a $100,000 libel suit against him. The suits ended Peck's educa tional prominence. In January, 1912. unable to pay the Judgments, Peck went Into voluntary bankruptcy here. He fixed his liabil ities at $161,000 and his assets, he said, consisted merely of royalties de rived from his writings. Peck was professor of Latin at Co lumbia university until he was forced out after a quarrel with President Butler. At the time he threatened to sue Butler for $50,000 damages, but the suit was never filed. Pneumonia Cure Found. New Tork. March 23. Rockefeller Institute scientists announced discov ery of a new serum which cures 90 per cent of pneumonia cases. Boys Offer Apology For Getting Caught On a card pinned to a com- plaint filed with the Juvenile court this morning Is the fol- lowing apology: "Mrs. Hender- son: We broke your house and 4 got caught and we, will come 4 and appolige. We will be e there at 7:30 o'clock. Please forgive us. H. F. A. M." The report states that Pa- ' trolman George Anderson ar- e rested Harry Friker, 14 years- e old, and Alfred Mankertz, 13 e years old. for breaking a glass door in a house belonging to e J- R. Henderson at 151 W. For- et street. Anderson reported: e that he took the boys home after securing the "confession.' They wHl probably appear in : e Juvenile court next Saturday. SUICIDE AMFOkD CONN FOR START mB IRISH TROUBLE - i . Ceneral Commaftqing Troops . in Ireland Will Be Held Re-' sponsible j foi Wholesale : Resignation's If Officers. - Si. MISUNDERSTOOD ORDERS EXPLAINS WAR MINISTER He Intimates Many Who Re fused to Serve. Against Ulster to Be Reinstated. t-nlteI Vrrm !.t wb-e.T London, March 23 --Th threatened disruption of the British army, as a result of the wholesale resignations of orricers who refused W fight for Irish, home rule, overshadowed all'other top ics or discussion throughout the coun try today. In the house of cojjnfnons War Min ister Seely admitted fiat many army officers had refused'Hlo serve In the event of an occupatir of Ulster. He attributed their attiiiwle to a misun derstanding of thel Borders. Recent movements of tmpsin Ireland, Seeiy asserted, were Bolely5with a view to protecting supplies otjrmi and ammu nition. 4 This explanation dfil not satisfy the anti-home rulers. S6rl tiad hardly finished before A. Bopjjr Law, the Con servative leader, was. $n 'his feet with, a demand for f ullertdebate on "this amazing instance of Vernmental paltering.-' Then: he rd a letter In which General Sir Ajcthur Paget was quoted as saying thai "active opera tions" were about txiegln, and stat ing that the war office had ordered tbfcm. yj. Conservatives Defend Paget. The Conservativesplalnly intended to defend Paget, Infuriating that they did not Intend to ajept the version . that the whole trouble was due to a ' misinterpretation oai jhls part of his Instructions. Seely.'s intimation was that Sir Arthur toofci too seriously a hint that it would jte well to learn his subordinate of jeers' home rule views and antagonized them by his questions. Premier Asquith pistead of Secly answered Law. He jjdenied that the movern?riT6f t troop!; trr Ireland was preliminary to the Conquest of Ul ster, or that the arjfiy officers there were told they wouSr" be dismissed if they refused servlca -against the Ul atermen. i That Generals Pret. Gough and others had misunderstood their orders he said was true, ott'he commanding generals in IrelandfWere informed In December," continued the premier, "that possibly it w"oild be necessary for the troops to hejtilthe civil author ities It was explained, however, that the offlceis stationed! in Ulster would be excused. This wJild be done now if there were any intention o active aggression in connection with the present movement afi troops." Ctougn to econldr. It was understood that General Gough, who Was onekrf those to resign, had reconsidered hi fiction and would resume his command-, tomorrow. Other officers were said 0;be following his example on learning -there had been misunderstanding. Premier Asquith 'tiiblished a state ment In the TlmesVtbday, which that newBpaper editorial! summed up to the rouowing eireci:;. - "It is understood -"that the ministry's view is that there "has been a quite honest misunderstanding concerning the nature of the duties the army offl- ers have been asked to perform In reland. and that tlte Intention Is to reinstate those who -have resigned and attribute the whole: business to a blun der." KM From what the ;Tmes said it was generally inferred that General Sir Ar- hur Paget, wr.o was: in charge of the troops In Ireland iwlu be made scapegoat. '- jkf The premier's exposition, too, was looked on, even bylLlberals, as a con fession of weakness It was again- ofxially denied that (Concluded on Pigelne, Cola ton Four) F-855, R-875 & R-683 ' B-898 has a 'Tj-find new 8 room house" and wantJa buyer. Class, 61. F-855 will Ukfljone or two' lots an first paymfeift on a new S room bungalow. Class. 61. 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