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THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, FRIDAY, MAY ,28. 1915. OF RENE NOT OF SPY, CLAIM Feel : Certain It Was Acci dental Explosion Which Killed Over 300 Yesterday. BOAT BLOWN TO ATOMS! Excepting- Bits of Floating1 Wreckage ' Ho Trace of. Fine, Sew Craft in the Harbor. Sheerness, May 29.(U. P.) Ru mors were persistently circulated to- qay i nut a. vjermaniiBpy caueeu wie ex plosion which, blew up the steamer Princess Irene with the lees of more than '30d Jives here yesterday. : The admiralty ordered an Immediate Investigation into the disaster, but It wis declared that the explosion would surely be found to have been due to an accident. Officials ridiculed the spy rumor, recalling that following the. blowing up of the warship Bul wark, also- destroyed at her dock, simi lar stories were circulated. Investigation snowed that the de struction of the Bulwark was due to ,itn internal explosion. The nature of the explosion was never published. ' Outside of bits of floating wreckage "there was no trace of the Princess Irene in the harbor. The explosion which wiped out her crew of 250 men and 87 dockyard workmen literally blew the steamer, to atoms. - . Vessel Buiit for C. P. B. Ths Princess Irene, wan built for the Canadian Pacific British Columbia coast service, but was ordered Into the admiralty service at the outbreak of ' the war- , - . How - the explosion which wrecked the Princess . Irene actually occurred may never be known. Not . a single man of the 300 or 400 on board escaped.-; The entire' vessel and its men simply disappeared In a vast roaring : blast of flame and smoke. When the smoke drifted away there was nothing- of the Princess Irene remaining in sight but a piece of stack. f Jack -Hodges was returning to the steamer in a small boat when the ex plosion occurred. .He was in full view of the Princess .Irene .when she was blown to pieces. . . Vessel Disappears Entirely. f' "I was headed " for the ship," said Hodges today, "when, suddenly there came a deafening roar. ; A vast column of smoke and flame . leaped into" the . sky from where only a moment before -X had seen tlie .Princess Irene. There were, a few seconds of dead silence, and then things began spattering down Into the water. There were bits of men's legs, arms, bodies and splinters Of wood and steel. The debris cama down so thick I dodged back into the cabin of my boat to" escape being struck." .Splinters of steel and wood fell nine miles from Sheerness. A giri was hurled to the ground and killed by the lurue oi tuts eKpiuBjuu wuuo tiunajus a .railway bridge at Port Victoria. Members of the crews of vessels an horid Nearby the Princess Irene suf fered ' severely from the concussion. A second child -was killed, at Port Victoria when Hilda Boust, aged 9, was struck in the head by a flying .JJCtW Ui JIVlli I - Built for Puget Sound. SeatUe, May 28. (P N. S.) In tended, originally for use in the pas senger traffic of Puget sound, the aitAtj insYilffc -:. T'tinAici Trn a tx.H I r V wfi t destroyed Thursday on the Thames. ,might now be running between Seat - tie -and Victoria and Vancouver , but for the fact that the British trovprn- ment commandeered her shortly before she was due to all for -the 'Pacific1 coast.- .The Princess. Irene was launched at Clyde last year and was to have been put on the Seattle-British Columbia run In February. The ve3sel was 395 feet long and was capable of making 21 knots an liteur. In construction she was similar toHhe Empress of Russia and the Em press of Asia, owned also byv the Ca nadian Pacific Jtail way company.-; f Benefit Comedy Tonight," Vancouver, Wash., May 28. For the benefit of the deaf and dumb school, the St. Lawrence .Dramatic society of Portland will present a farce comedy, "The Other General Fuller," hero to Tight. Ralston J. Clary is manager of the play, assisted by Frederick Mcj Keown. . " " AN ALASKAN DRAMA National Offers Sunday "The Shooting of Dan McGrew" - . . ' : "Nothing more Impressive," said Melvin Q, Winstock yesterday, 'iiaa ever beenoffered for screen exhibition than "The Shooting of jJan McGrew," which Sunday opens an engagement at the National theatre. - "It is the phOto-dramatizatlon of an American ijoem by a native author and by the artistic quality of its pre sentation puts into the work a vital spirit that thrills with an indescrib able power. In the film Mr. Breese gives a portrayal of the deeply wronged and lonely miner- that will live always as one of -.the classics of the silent drama. " "This is one instancA vli Arc T Thai". sonally assure my friends of a rich treat. It is even better than The Spoilers. Americans j Greatest Cigarette Makers of the Highest Grade Turiish v, wtdgyptjanQgmttesinAtWMi SINKING PRINCESS WORK OFFICIALS MINISTER RESIGNS v LOCAL PASTORATE Rev. J.f B". Parsons Hev. J. B. Parsons, pastor of the Third United Brethren church at Sixty eeventh street and Thirty-second ave nue southeast, Iwa resigned his pasto rate and wll leave fo his old home tn j Indiana Monday, 'Accompanied by his iamuy ne win go east oy way or tne Canadian Rockies. Rev. M.; ' Parsons- has been pastor of Third church for the past 12 months, during whlfch the membership of the church has ben almost doubled and the space in the shurch Building for , Sunday school and social gather ings has betn greatly Increased. Mem bers of the congregation also state that far the first time since its or ganization the church body has be come a harmonious force. The congregation has accepted the retiring pastor's resignation reluctant ly,, but with the : realization that the call Of his aged parents for their son to return home stakes precedence over church work. ; . . '-."' .The parishioners ore unanimous in their praise .of his Work and fare unde niably envious, of tlie. "eastern church that is to have his services. A farewell reception to Rev. Mr. Parsons-and his family will b? held in the church parlors tonight, to which alt members- of the church and friends of Mr. Parsons are invited. Buschfhann Kills Self at Seattle Seattle. Wash., May 28. - (P... N. S.) C. II. . Buschmann, manager' of the, Northwestern Fisheries company, president .of s the Association of Pa cific Fisheries and well known busi ness man of the northwest, committed I suicide here last night. Buschmann's body. was discovered in a: vacant of . f ice a few doors from the offices oc- cupled by his company in the L. . C I Smith building. J Buschmann had been missing since i early "Wednesday morning when he left his office with-".the remark to his assistant that he might . not be back that day. Detectives and friends had been searching for him for more than 24 hours before the body was found. It is believed J that he shot himself shortly before! midnight "Wednesday. .Ill-health and its resultant despond ency is the cause assigned for Busch mann's suicide.; His business associ ates declare that, he was In no finan cial difficulties. Buschmann . was 36 years old and j had been manager of the Northwestern Fisheries company J for the past four years. A peculiar circumstance in connec tion with Buschmann's act is that his predecessor. Captain D. H. Jarvis, also committed suicide in 1911 In a room at the Seattle Athletic club. Raspberries Ripe j Big Crop in Sight East Sld Besldent Exhibits Box of Xmadou Red B.rriea Flckad la Yarfl; Bumper Crop Expected.' Raspberries are ripe. J. Li. Brockniann. who lives at East Burnside. and ; Fifty-second streets, this mornir.g brought in a box of large, red. luscious raspberries that his wife picked.' He said tbey began to ripen several days ago. . "We liv-;d in the east once and never saw raspberries-ripen there as early in the year as this," said Mr. Brock- mann. i. "Indications point to a bumper crop this year. But for the long spell of rain and cool weather, I think the berrlea would have ripened even ear lier. They were given a splendid start during the fine weather in March." Knights Templar Initiation Is Held . Oregon Comrhandery No, 1. Knights Templar, met in Masonic. Temple last night i to initiate seven candidates. William Davis, eminent; commander, conducted the ceremonies. Those who took the degrees were E. C. Morgan. J. B. Argobright, H. S. McGrath, R. C. McDaniels, C. It. Laughlin, J. B. Keefer and T. H, RamsdelL Promi nent members of - the order made speeches after the initiation. The next initiation will be Thursday,- June -17. at which time It is expected tbat D. B. Grant, right eminent grand commander for Oregon, will direct the work. Logging Sidetrack Is in Operation Vancouver, tVash., ! May 28. The new logging sidetrack' on the water front has been completed by ; the Mc Creary & Willard Contracting company ana is now in tise. It is proving to be a big money saver for the logging com panies using- it.; as it - eliminates : the use of a donkey engine for dragging the' logs from: the other track to the waterfront, where they are rafted. The track is mo long that seven carloads of logs may be unloaded at, one time, and extends into the river. One of the rails is slightly higher than the other and the tripping of patent stakes on the cars permits the logs to roll off into th water without, assistance. ' " Cadet Team 'Benefit. ' The National thpatr 1 t rA a v o-lvinv ;a benefit to the ladies' cadet team of iFram Assrmbly, United Artisans. In addition to the three reel films of the regular pr(ram there are several spe cial features put on by members tf Fram i Assembly. - - The. census 1 bureau - has estimated that the population n of the United States Dassed th 100.000.000 murk m 1 COOPERATION SPIRIT PUTS RED .WING ON 1 MAP Money Kept at Home and the 1 ; Wheels . of Industry; Hum in Numerous Lines. I MANUFACTORIES GROWING 1 . . Portand Eu tie Sams and Even Bet ter Chance Than Minnesota City Bays H. I.. HJermstad. By Marshall' Dana.'. What does the name Red Winsr mean to you? --. , - 4 Voes it suggest a song, a romance or an aborigine? ' . 4- : Ever since yesterday it has been to me a synonym for cooperation. -Red Wing means i prosperity. Also, "We can do what we will If . we will work together." -. ! ' l3o hera is a wholesome, round-worded, lesson for Portland. . ?. - ; Yesterday, to explain, I accidently met a quietly enthusiastic man, H. Lk HJermstad, . of Red Wing, Minn. ' He had nothing to -sell, not evert a town lot. ;lle had 'just stopped over a day or so to visit his brother jvho lives here. , ; i "A few years ago," said he, 'Red Wing was a farming center. Before the farms, were developed and white tne trees were being cut, it was a saw mill town. . ... "Suddeny, we awoke to the fact that we' didn't mean much to ourselves or any one else. 1 "Ours was largely a business of trad ing butter and eggs for groceries. ; Campaign Is Launched. "When we wanted manufactured goods we bought elsewhere.. -- "I am under the impression that when we wanted money we borrowed it elsewhere. ; t . j : . "We talked it over together. Talk ing it over together was the beginning of cooperation. If always is.. "We mentioned ' ouj roost obvious need, manufactures. ; "Jliow'? was the next question. "We decided, if we tried, we could find the power within ourselves. . "A strugsling shoe factory, for In stance, needed about $73,000. We raised it among ourselves. , - "The grinding of grain, the crushing Of flax, the manufacture of clay, found mm r COMMERCE abundantly nearby, into pipe and coarse crockery, and other lines pi enterprise claimed attention. ' "Presently we found that local cap ital had financed all industries that were necessary and desirable.' - - "We found we were grinding every bushel of grain, produced in three coun ties adjacent to Red Wing, and crush ing every ounce or flax. : "No industries failed. They couJuj;t on our plan of cooperative support 'and supervision. - j "We have passed through the recent J financial depression - without, slowing "down a wheel or cutting a - dollar from any pay roll. "We had a little census of our own. We" found that the population had more than doubled, that we ranked third in manufactures in - the state of Minnesota, Minneapolis and St. Paul alone surpassing us, and we are con siderably surpassing Duluth which is a larger city by many thousands. This cooperation in lnduetry awaken ed great civic pride. Neither St. Paul nor Minneapolis has so fine a municipal theatre as was built' for us by one of our citizens who presented It to the city. There isn't a home in , the town that the people aren't proud of. ! tlfied. We're wonderfully better off because of practical cooperation. uThe state knows Red Wing as The Beslr- I ohla fltv . . - "We are right on the Mississippi river. Presently, we will begin to in- j crease : prosperity from river business ior they are to operate powered, steel barges from. New Orleans - to Minnea polis. - -.." . r- . . "Portland has, of course, many times Red Wing's opportunity. You've money enough here to finance all your industries if the spirit of cooperation rule. Why don't you make a survey of needed industries and see What could be done to start them?" 1 Pier Work Will Start Next Week T" -' " i Vancouver, r' Wash., May 28. Con crete work on pier N6; 11 of the new interstate bridge will begin within the next two weeks and It Is expected that all of the piling for this pier will have been driven by the end of next week. In the neighborhood of 100 piling, 120 feet long, are driven for foundation of each pier. The caisson for the shore pier -on Hayden island .has bene set into place and as soon as the driving of piles for pier No. 11 has been com pleted the pfledriver will be removed to this. location. Vancouver Marriage Licenses. Vancouver, Wash., May 2S. Mar riage licenses were Issued -, yesterday by the county auditor to the following persons: V Joe Donaldson . and Mrs. tiuta Wheeler, both of Tillamook, Or.; Elmer Nylander and Miss Jannie Man well, both of Vancouver; E. S. Mc- Open Saturday qMojU You Pay "Spruce Up" for Decoration Day! Mem's New Sprimig Siuiits VALUES WE It's the FIRE SALE of STOCKS-AIT CLOTHING GUARANTEED in PERFECT CONDITION If money is of value to you and you want to save bpnng Wearing Apparel, come to this sale you simply cannot afford to miss this sale, as the economies presented " cannot and will not be dupli cated again in Portland, unless it's a sale in which similar conditions exist remember this, kind readers IF YOU WON'T BE COUNSELED, YOU CAN'T BE HELPED. Men s Furnishings at Half Price and Less! $5-$6Pan- $3 Straw 35c 50c $1.50 Underw'r ama Hats Hats Neckwear Belts Shirts at $2.80 $1.45 15c I 20c 79c price 25c 35c. Trousers . 15c Khaki Boys' Hose Hose x at Handk'fs . Pants at Suits at 101 ICf HALF - HALF HALF IOC PRICE &JC PRICE PRICE Fifth and Alder mm Open Saturday Cready and Miss Olive Iembke, both of Portland r -Frank '.C. Burgoyne and Miss -Winifred Edwards, both of San Francisco, CaL; . Loreno Glustl and Miss Bruna Brinati, both of 'Portland; Walter Hoffman and Miss Bessie Trask. both of Portland ; George Ed ward Blum and Mrs. May Otis Wie land. both of Portland;. F. L. Rupp and Mrs. : Margaret .Cornell, both , of Portland. -' - - Student of High - Graduate Tonight Mllwaukie, Or.,' May - 28. Tonight Milwaukie high school's seconl gradu ating clas3 will go out into the outsid.i world. . Prefer sor M. Ij. .Pittman of Monmouth Normal school will deliver the commencement address at the city halL Chairman J. W. Graslo of the Milwaukie school beard wlll present diplomas; to Cprwin Harvey and the Misses Jennie Jones, Esther Jones, Beatrice Buckner, Naomi Hart an-1 Doris Martin. - '''i -' . "."'" Miss Martin,"who has "had the high est .f scholastic standing in the class for four; years,, will read a paper on "The Cry of the Children." Miss Hart will render a piano mjIo. The Misses Jonea will give an Instrumental duet and .the high school girls Glee' club will sing. . - ' ..; ,: - ; Diplomas will be awarded at the hi?li school exercises to the following Mil waukie; grammar -; (school graduates: Margery Smith, Reuben Spring, Eve lyn Walker, Ben. Alexander and Ed ward Rigdon, who graduated last "Feb ruary; Francis Mclntyre, Blanche Wop wood, Frank Taylor, Thomas Sanders, Martin Katzke,' Priscilla Fisch, Eva Birkemeier, Doris Nash, Leona Mullan, Ernest Fischer, "Amy Boh ver, Florence Grasle .aj Ruth Hart. Miss Hilda J. Olsen ia their teacher. s y ; -Principal Robert Goetz Will present certificates of award to pupils .of jtiie grammar and high school who have been neither. absent nor tardy all year. BlacJilnery Arrives. -Gresham, Or., May 28. The exhaust box and syruper . for the Gresham Fruit Growers association's coopera tive cannery at Gresham arrived yes terday, the sealing machinery will arrive today, the tool'.er has been set by FredV J. K aster, process man, and all : the machinery will be connected up within a week. The motor and ma chinery for the separate ice plant ar rived yesterday and was set today. Manager James Sterling made the first. 8hprent .of gooseberries to "San Francisco a . few days ago. - An .aver age of 25 crates of strawberries per day is being sent to The Dalles. The rain has been rotting the strawberries, and the condition of the berry crop is poor. ., : . Till 10 P. M. TO $25.00, NOW SELLING AT EIGHTY the BARON--FULOP Till 10 P. M. COUNTY V. C. T. U. INSTITUTE TO MEET AT MILWAUKIE HOME State President, 7 MrsA Jennie Kempr Will- Be'One i of. the Speakers. ' .'" . Milwaukie,' Or., May 23.At the county W. S. T. U.1 Institute Tuesday morning at the home of ; Mrs. , J. T. Uewellyn,, on Henncman avenue, Mil waukie, Mrs. Jennie Kemp, state presi dent, will tpeak on "The Mission of the Institute" and Mrs. E. C Anderson, county president, who will preside, will speak oh "The Need of the Field." . . ' Mrs.. A: E. Bachelder, county super intendent of the I...T. L., will lead in devotional exercises. Mrs. W.' R. C Brown will speak on ."The Influence of Women's Votes on Moral Reform." "Publications" will be. disouased , by Mrs. Hattie Wilson. ,,-:,: i -. Following luncheon in charge of the refreshment committee, Mrs. R. H. Me Intyre, chairman, Mrs. John Nash will lead in devotional exercises Mrj George' Eberly will speak on "The Ne cessity of Creating Public Sentiment for. Total Abstinence Through . Press, Platform and Individual Effort." Mm Mary MaUttt, Mrs. G. t.. Buland and Mrs. Margaret Huston, state superin tendents, will report. Mrs. Mallett will Bing: r "The Effect of the Euro pean War on tho Prohibition Cause" will be discussed by-Mrs. Harry Moyer. Mrs. Lola G. Baldwin will speak on "The Work of the Police Department. Contract for : New. Deck Let Oregon City,' May 28. The contract for furnishing lumber to redeck the county bridge at Parkplace was awarded 'to George Lammers of Bea ver Creek, by the county court Thurs day. . The price was .0 per tnou sand feet. Work has begun on the . gravel bunkers m the Willamette .Valley Southern Railway company's yards, and the containers Will be finished within a few weeks. Gravel will be dredged from .the Willamette river and stored in these bunkers by the county, preparatory . to placing it on the roads in the northern part of the county. , - " , CO.'S WHOLESALE substantially on New Fifth and Alder West Linn Plans - A Rose Show 1 Oregon City, . May 28. West Linn Rose society will hold a show In the municipal hall tomorrow. The rose show will be an Informal affair. There . will be no Judges; members of the society will award the prizes. A few of the best rose culturists are barred from exhibiting Something no young ' : man can afford, to miss: ; : rrhi$ sacrifice sale of all my vyung men's nobby Spring -V suits Because they're this sea- son's garments in all the smartest fabrics and mod els Because prices, already moderate, have been genu . inely reduced " , Young men's $25 and $30; suits $19.85 ? ! Young men's $15 and $20 suits $14.85. Tomorrow's the last Sat- 1 urday before 'the June days; come in and be fit ted. r Second Floor Only BEN SELLING Morrison at Fourth $75 For Your . Tea uarden xvecipe r giving $100 in gold for the best Tea Garden recipes tor candy, dressings your recipe r UQTit torget Pelican k the twire. kettle Saturday II III v X . Ilnl) ill vmv t JE N M IN G'S Round or oval Guernsey Covered Casseroles with handsome copper containers, heavily nickel plated, with handles riveted on. $2.(W(erole,ggj $2.50 Casseroles, J Qg A rare bargain on an article that every housewife wants Basement Salesroom No Telephone Orders, None Stnt.C. OD., No Deliveries. Henry Jenning & Sons Fifth and Washington Streets for prizesand an effort will be mad to interest' the average resident la growing the flowers. - -A. small program has been prepared, and will be given by the school chil dren. . . . r ' - j -"Patriotic Program. Arleta, May 2S. A patriotic pro gram was. given by Arleta W. C. T. XJ. Tuesday night at Kern Park Christian church, with pastors of five churchea of the 'district participating in the program. . Pyrup w e are v maKing sauces, Send 1 in early. New ' molasses ?Js Specials J April 2. v . I 'f