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8 NTERESTING EVENTS AT I F'. - v . . . ' . :. -V. f: m r S3 All Principal Events of Week Briefly Sketched for In formation of. Busy Readers General News. I T LEAST two men were killed and 10 fn-rl'msly burned hv an cxpl.i- i . Blon of gas i" the I.ehi:',h Valhy ! Coal comiany's IViifih i t olliii, m ar Wllkesbarre. officials admit that I -njrii wore caught in tin explosion, ami that only four hnvp been removed. Tourists and rt sidents of l.ajolla are : dill ' discussing the unique marriage, ceremony performed 011 a dizzy i liff, Han Diego, Cal.. J 00 yards a hove th booming Pacific, when Annlstead Xi l-Bon-Collior and Miss Miriam I'e Ford were Joined in wedlock. Moth youim people are writers, well known in lit erary circles. That a boycott be placed upon rail roads refusing to pay claims on fruit and vegetables was the recommenda tion In the annual report of Traffic Manager George I . W. Knight, of the Western Fruit Jobbers, . says Los An geleK report. The C'osfon red light district injunc tion law, which has been copied by many state legislatures desiring to pass similar legislation, was declared Invalid by the Iowa supreme court, be cause Speaker Feeley failed to sigh it. Its author, announced that a new law would be introduced. The effect of the Cosson law in Des Moines on the California red light law Is problematical. Attorney Walter lAn . forth, who represented those who at tacked the law in California, is of the opinion that the California statute will be seriously affected, inasmuch as it . was based on the Iowa law. Three, hundred passengers on the steamer He d'ltalla, bound for Naples, were thrown into a panic when fire broke out in her forward hold as she was preparing to leave her dock at Mew York. The fire was controlled after an hour. Her cargo was damaged and several passengers slightly bvirned. Following in the wake of destruc tive earthquakes, flood waters caused toy heavy rains were causing grave anxiety throughout Italy. Streams . everywhere are out of their banks and thousands of people in low-lying dis tricts have been driven from their homes or are held prisoners in the up per stories of the houses. The San Francisco police were con vinced that Mrs. Margaret Binnard, who shot her husband, Abraham Hin nard) and committed suicide in their room in the Windmere apartments, was temporarily insane. Binnard, who is at St. Winnifred's hospital with a bul let In his head, may recover. The lower house of the Massachu setts legislature passed, a resolution submitting a constitutional amendment granting the ballot to women. The resolution had previously passed the senate at the last legislature, and, aft er the governor signs it, will go to the voters at the next election. David Shanahan, the veteran, Repub "lican leader of the Illinois legislature, was elected speaker of the lower house on the sixty-eighth ballot at Spring field, 111. Secretary of the Interior Franklin Lane, stopping at Chicago en route to San Francisco, where he will represent President Wilson at the opening of the Panama-Pacific exposition Saturday, advocated In an Interview the estab lishment of municipal truck farms, where unemployed people could be pro vided with work. It was noted on good authority at Athens that Greek Minister Parnas had left Constantinople, owing to Turkey's failure to satisfactorily explain an al leged Insult to a Greek attache. Min ister Parnas, it was reported, left the embassy In charge of his secretary. European War BKRLIN notified neutral powers that she would put Into effect a block ade of the British Isles at mid night February 17, In retaliation for British acts in seizing cargoes bound for Germany. United States sent a sharp protest to Germany ftr extending the war zone ifo as to menace ships approaching the Uritlsh islands, and warned Germany that she would be held accountable for damage to property or death or Injury to American passengers. Berlin reports a victory for the Turks, the British infantry having re created with losses after the engage ment. Forty French and English aeroplanes raided Ostend and other Belgian towns, the raiiers being given orders to con fine their attacks to military positions as far as possible. Two mine explosions destroyed the British steamer Dulwloh, bound from Hull for Rouen, while 25 miles off Cap Antifer. Premier Borden, of Ottawa, an nounced that the entire Canadian con tingent had crossed over into France, and that the soldiers were now giving good account of themselves at the front. Alsace has been divided Into two : parts by the Germans, one part for military operations, and the other as a neutral zone, declares a Berne, Swit zerland, report. How is the time to put an end to the worst vil of the human race, namely, war, declared Viscount Bryce, ex-Bnt-Isb ambassador to the United States, in a scientific lecture at London. Norweslan ships proceeding to or from the British Isles have been or g4 to paint the word "Norge" in big tl ' sjr i ' ... Mr j it-vie: k if . - letters on each side of the hull, amld ship. and to paint strips of national colors fore and aft of this word. To prevent farmers from feeding their potatoes to stock, the German government increased the price of the tubers from $1 to $1.45 for each 110 pounds. The British navy is ready to meet Germany's submarine raids. Only tho admiralty knows just what the plans are, but there is evidence of a more confident feeling than has existed at any time since (Jermany served notice of her intension to establish a war zone. Escorts, it was believed, will be pro vided for the British merchant fleet, and a majority of the sailings will pro ceed on schedule time. A flotilla of destroyers and torpedo boats will be assigned to duty along steamship lanes as guards against German attacks. The 6inking of the Dulwlch was ac complished ' as the opening of the Ger man submarine campaign. Advices from Havre say the crew was given time to collect its affects, but official3 here declare they have information to the contrary. All Scandinavian vessels reaching ports had national colors painted on their upper works and their names prominently displayed. Details of various engagements alont? the whole battle line extending from the Swiss frontier to the North Sea in the official statement of the war office announce"?! that another great battle may be commencing. Germans have resumed their activity about Verdun, where the crown prince's army is located. In the Argonne a line of German trenches has been de stroyed. Attacks in force by the enemy be tween Tour de Paris and Boureullles have been repulsed with heavy losses in killed and wounded, the statement asserts. Many prisoners are declared to have been taken in this engagement, German troops attacked the French positions in the Champagne region 10 times in one night, the war office as serting that all tnese assauus were repulsed. It is announced that ail of the French airmen who participated in the raid on the Ghistelles aerodrome, in Belgium, last night, returned safely to their stations. Eight men participated in the maneuver. Simultaneously 40 British aeroplanes soared over Zee brugge, Ostend. Mlddlekerke and Blan kenburghe, all important German bases, and dropped bombs. Hardlv a single regular sailing of any British steamer will be suspended on account of the German submarine blockade, says London report. Following a conference at London of managers of lines conducting cross channel 'service, it was announced that their vessels would sail as usual. Service to Irish ports also will con tinue as usual, though it had been re ported channel and British mail service would stop. Steamers cleared as usual for Scan dinavian ports. Lifeboats, fully pro visioned, swung from their sides, and the passengers' lists wer smaller; but this fact was chiefly due to the desire of the steamship companies to discour age travel. It was reported that some of the vessels from the United Staes would be diverted to LrJsh ports, but official Information on any subject regarding the blockade was unobtainable. Twenty-eight steamers from New York, carrying more than 10,000 Amer icans, are speeding toward the war zone, and may be the subject of the retaliation ordered by Germany against England. A dozen freighters and smaller ves sels, some with valuable vargoes, were due to enter the extended German war zone a few hours after the kaiser's de cree went into effect. Five of these are British ships and two are Amer ican vessels. Trailing these were 14 other steam ers, which sailed from New York for English and continental ports last week. The liner Philadelphia, of the American line, is due in Liverpool Sun day with. 250 passengers aboard; the Orduua, with a large passenger list, will reach here a week from tomorrow. THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SUNDAY MORNING. nplS TYI i mfe-i Ill .... c wgiwmiiuuiw if' J SsSsssasssss.aMss I av, '! 1 II If 1 FT I 7l.-i -f, i J 1 Chaplain and sailors from the British, ship Tiger heading the funeral procession at Queensferry, England, of the men who were killed In the naval battle In the North sea in which the German cruiser Bluecher was sunk. 2 Sailors from the Bluecher who were rescued by sailors of the Arethusa on their way to quarters under armed guard, after having been fitted out with clothing. 3 Miss Eliza beth Kolb of Germantown, Pa., who has been selected by Secretary of the Navy Daniels to christen the dreadnaught Pennsylvania when she is launched March 16. 4 Miss Natalie Win'slow, daughter of Rear Admiral Winslow, United States aavy, during the christening ceremonies of the torpedo boat destroyer Winslow, February 11. & A French armored aeroplane used in military operationB; 6 Design for the monument to be erected in Arlington cemetery in Washington, D. C to the military and naval heroes buried there. The design is by Carrere and Hantings. Congress has appro priated $750,000 for the monument. 7 Thomas A. Edison poses for his photograph on his 68th birthday anniversary. 8 Italian soldiers distributing soup tickets to the homeless at Sora In the earthquake zone. 9 The torpedo boat destroyer Winslow, leaving the ways at the Cramp yards, February 11. ' The Niagara, of the French line, bound for Havre, will pass through the zone early next week. Warnings were published at Berlin that the German people must not be too anxious for quick results from the proposed operations of submarines against British commerce. The article admits the possibility of the destruc tion of neutral ships, but insists that Germany cannot be blamed, as she has given tua fullest possible warning. Again in outlining the German gov ernment's position on the proposed Ger man blockade the Nord Deutsche Zel tung declared that, though every pos sible precaution would be taken to pro tect neutral nations, mines would be placed before every British harbor en trance. A Budapest dispatch to the Tage blatt, Berlin, says the Russians have been forced to evacuate Czernowltz, the capital of Bukovina. Wireless advices received at New York from the Norwegian steamer Strlnda said she had been halted by a British cruiser seven miles off Sandy Hook. The cruiser, the dispatch said, sent an officer on board to examine her papers, and then permitted the Strinda to proceed. Reports from German sources re ceived admit that two sheds in which submarines were being mounted were destroyed in a raid on Zeebrugge Fri day by British aviators. Twenty work men were said to have been wounded. Following the decision of the allies to pool their resources, the French minister of finance removed the em bargo from all exportations to the al lied nations and to America. Executive. SHARP criticism of the Rockefellers and Colorado coal mine operators for their conduct of the coal strike in Colorado, as well as blame of the miners for some of the violence during that dispute, was included in the re port of the house committee which in vestigated the strike. England notified Washington gov ernment that it had placed the steamer Wilhelmina's cargo up for considera tion by a prize court, but had not un loaded the .vessel. It was explained that this action was taken before the HOME AND ABROAD CAUGHT BY CAMERA -; h"A rim - . I x .Jyr;- III American request for a delay waa re ceived. The administration never really con templated buying interned ships under the pending ship purchase bill, was the opinion expressed by Bernard N. Baker, millionaire ship owner of Balti more, who testified before the shipping lobby investigating committee. The interstate commerce commission held that the Oregon Short Line's charges on carload lots of bituminous coal from Kemmerer and Rock Springs, Wyo., to southern Idaho points were reasonable. The "house adopted a resolution which had previously passed the sen ate, asking President Wilson to Invite representatives from foreign coun tries to attend the international educa tion conference, to be held in Oakland, Cal., this year. Secretary of War Garrison declared that the present haste to complete the Panama canal fortifications was only part of the general plan to finish that work. It had no bearing: whatever, he said, on tho international situation. Legal and Criminal. THE Los Angeles county beard cf supervisors appropriated $1000 to defray the expense of sending District Attorney T. L. Woolwine and two county detectives to New York to take charge of M. A. Schmidt, wanted in conn3ction with the dynamiting of the Los Aageles Times building here in 1910. Accused of smuggling Chinese from Mexico into the United States, Goldie Evans, woman smuggling leader; K Chilsen and H. Dugkley were held on $3000 bail each by United States Com missioner Williams, at Los Angeles. Pleading guilty to a charge of violat ing the Mann white slave act, George Grand, a buyer for a Los Angeles clothing firm, was sentenced to one year at McNeil's .Island by Federal Judge B. F. Bledsoe, of Los Angeles. Grand made a trip from New Y6rk to Los Angeles accompanied by Vivian Aleott. a beautiful cloak model. Depositions attacking Miss Maude Armfield, who is suing Bryant How ard, of San Diego, for $600,000 for breach of promise, were introduced In Superior Judge Wilbur's court at Los Angeles. Tbe depositions, which charged mild lapses on the part of Miss Armfield, were from former acquaint ances of the young actress. "Jack' Cudahy, millionaire meat packer of Kansas City, was made de fendant in a suit at Los Angeles to collect $S65. The action was filed by Attorney Irving C. Iuis, acting for the Cady Olmsted Jewelry firm, for diamonds purchased In 1313. The first Jitney holdup has been re ported to the police at San Diego. A jitney driven by Fred Stammer waa held up by a robber armed with a re volver. After the thug had taken 75 cents from the driver, a passenger dis armed him and he fled into the dark ness. Defense testimony tending to show the financial standing of Bryant How ard Jr., of San Diego, occupied a ses sion of the trial of the Armfield-How-ard $500,000 heart balm suit at Los Angeles, in Superior Judge Wilbur's court. W. R. Rogers, a San . Diego banker, testified that Howard's fi nances were at a- low ebb. Mearob Avedlsian, 63, an Armenian, was probably fatally crushed between the wall and an elevator in the Black building at Los Angeles. He was held prisener for an hour until firemen could tear out the marble wall and re lease him. The police and three private detec tive agencies searched for a "tall, dark man," who is supposed to have killed Jacob Votrel, wealthy banker, and his wife, of Frultvale. Vogel's slayer is believed to have been a man who knew all of the capitalist's habits through Intimate acquaintance with his move ments. Testimony at New York at an inves tigation of the advance in the price of wheat and bread, Henry Heinzer, ex pert statistician of the New York Pro duce Exchange, absolved speculators from all blame. He asserted that ab normal exports were responsible for the high prices. Four bandits at Chicago bound and gagged President Frank Roti. of the Western Savings bank and escaped with $2000. Roti was alone in the bank at the time of the robbery. The New York police were trying to connect Matthew A. Schmidt, the al leged accomplice of John J. and James B- McNamara in the dynamiting of the FEBRUARY 21, 1915. Photographs copyright. 1915. br International News Sendee. Los Angeles Times, who was arrested Saturday night, with the recent out rages at St. Patrick's cathedral. The federal grand Jury at New York began another secret investigation into the affairs of the New York, New Haven & Hartford railroad. Former President Charles S. Mellen waa the first witness called. PANAMA-PACIFIC EXPOSITION NOW OPEN TO VISITORS (Continued from Page Seven.) and to rush to completion their plans for displaying, in the midst of war, the arts of peace, to the peoples of the world at the San Francisco exposition. With what pressure activity then commenced can be Judged when it is related that one cablegram alone, ex pended in Instructing the officials of the exposition to proceed with the plans for the French national pavilion, cost 50.000 francs. On the trail of that cablegram came the famous French architect. M. Henri Guillaume, from Paris, personally to superintend the work. Three days was the time occupied by the exposition architectural bureau in completing the plans for the French building, a record being established for a work of such magnitude, a $100. 000 structure. Double shifts of draughtsmen worked to rush the draw ings and triple shifts of workmen were then installed for the actual construc tion work of the French pavilion. This pavilion, one of the most beau tiful of the entire exposition scheme, is an exact replica of the famous Pal ace Of the Legion of Honor at Paris. Originally the home of the Prince de Salm, beheaded in the revolution, it was sold then at public auction, but taken' over by Napoleon in 1S03 and made the headquarters of the order established by him so that rewards suitable to their deeds might be be stowed upon soldiers and civilians for notable achievements in the service of France. The original, located be tween the Rue de Lille and Qual de Orsay, is a mecca for visitors to Paris. The original is in caen stone, taken from the catacombs, and this effect haa been splendidly maintained In the exposition copy. The pavilion is with in two minutes' walk of the Palace of Fine Arcs, which is enriched by so many masterpieces from the great French galleries. On one side is the Japanese pavilion, on the other the Cuban, while directly opposite, across the Avenue of All Nations, is the Italian pavilion. Facing direc tly north, on slightly rising ground, this noble pile will be a conspicuous feature of the many inspiring edifices that greet the visitor as he traverses the broad Avenue of All Nations. All of the things that go to com- 1 nrisi French national life and indutt- trial activity will be displayed here and in the exlilbit palaces, from wines of noted vintage, delicate products of the art Jewelry workers, exquisite cre ations in women's wear to the stabler things of the manufacturing indus tries. It will be France in perspect ive for the pleasure and the instruction of the visitors who will assemble at the exposition. Italy's Participation Significant. When it Is recalled that ' one of Italy's illustrious sons first discovered America there Is a profound and poetic significance Id the magnificent par ticipation by Italy In the exposition which celebrates America's greatest achievement the completion of the Panama canal. Italy's participation is on a scale and of a scope worthy of her historical place in the events lead ing to the beginning of American his tory and of the history of the United States. It is not the tourists' Italy which will participate, not the Italy of ven erable piles, venerated shrines and hoary relics of and before the early dawn of the Christian era. It is es sentially a modern, practical, progress ive Italy that will take a notable place in the exhibit halls with the other great industrial nations of today. The aim of the Italian government and of the individual exhibitors is to show what Italy is accomplishing in the manufactures, the arts and crafts. An cient arts will be seen only in repro duction, but these will be of the fin est workmanship. The government ex hibit will include models of great mon uments, of the new Parliament palace and of great public works like aque ducts. From the Industries will come exhibits that will be a revelation to those not familiar with Italian activi ties. Stilt making in Lombardy will be a big feature. It "may not be gen erally known that a lyilf million Jtal luns arc engaged in raising ullk worms and in the silK indumry. The straw plaiting industry will bo represented, with wonderful hats made by th women of Kermo, the Alpine villagua of Venzenia and the communes of Megsina. Italy has had a tremendoua revival of the woolen Industry, the government having installed looms at Naples to teach young Italians the art. This Industry will be shown, ainLcot ton goods from Ixjrnbardy, Piedmont and Ligura. Venice and the islands of Italy will show needle and bobbin laces of the finest workmanship. The making of furniture alter antique models will be elaborately displayed. In ceramics It aly lias long held a leading place. The products of the Arte delta Ceramic took first prize at the St. Louis ex position, and Italy confidently expect first prize at Ban Francisco. Floren- tine and Venetian mosaics will b shown and the famous marbles of Italy will be on display. Followers of international autooio bile races have recognized Italy's com manding place in the manufacture of racing automobiles. Many of these models will be on display and cannot fall but be objects of tho greatest In terest. From heavy machinery to products of the gold and silversmith's art, It aly's participation will example th range and variety of Italian productiv ity. Italy is out to show the world and Is sparing no expense in doing wf. The Italian participation represents . an appropriation of $400,0i0, Italy nationul pavilion being outt b( tn moat imposing in tho iortlgn section. At the Nebraska State University Is a duck Hurned largely to soap. Sci ence says the duck was 'fat and lay in the alkali and tho sun did the rest. Thew tiny CAPSULES ars superior to Bsltam of Copaiba, Cubebi or Injections, and RELIEVE In (MIOY) 24H0UR8 tha tarns disease! with out Inconvenience. Sold fry aft r0ve. ro tocrcoM in Price
