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THIRTY-SEVENTH YEAR.
Little Oratory Is Indulged in
and Facts Presented to
Committee
FOR NORTHWEST BANK
Arguments Presented to Show Portland
Is Best Fitted as to Location and
Other Faculties.
UNITED PRESS LEASED WIRS.
Portland, Ore., Jan. 30. Primed with
isalient facts and figures relative to
the diversity of industries of which
Portland is the center, banking statis
tics, maps and charts, jankers and. pro
fessional men of Oregon and a few
from southwestern Washington appeared
ibefore Secretary of the Treasury Mc
Adoo and Secretary of Agricultural
Houston, members of the organization j
FORTY-WINE: DROWN WHEN SBBP .fiHrWH
F01ANDHASHEARING BsFrtei GOWIPERS AD OTHER Late News I EIGHT-HOUR CASE IS ngni HflPoiMIO
10 SUPPORT CLAIM FOR mJury anJs HEADS OF LABOR ARE Bulletins ARGUED HERE BEFORE k (
U.S. REGIONAL BANr- BACKED AS BOOZERS L STATE SUPREME COURT ? U IUL UilHl)
committee of the regional bank board, 1 was employed as a messenger, he lured
at 10 o'clock this morning in the fed-j the boy, with $20 change to a lonoly
ration building, to advance this city's spot, and beat him to death with a pick
claims for the establishment of a fed- handle and a rock. He wanted the mon
eral reserve bank here. evi fle said, to buy a Christmas present
Eighteen prominent men were schid- for a girl.
iled to address the committee at the I ' 1 "
liearing which will conclude tins after
Toon. The narrow quarters of tho United
States district court in the postoffiee
building was packed to the utmost.
Earnestness Is Feature.
Earnestness stamped the whole meet
ing. There was not a sky rocket, not an
iota of perfervid oratory. The whole
tone of the hearing was business-like.
Barely had the two visiting members of
the organization committee, Secretary
of the Treasury McAdoo and Secretary
of Agriculture Houston, taken their
seats at the long table before, like a
piece of well-oiled machinery the hear
ing was on, and the commitee was well
in the midst of Portland's claims for c
regional bank.
Secretary McAdoo opened the meet
ing by describing briefly the purposes
of the federal reserve act, and explain
ing the function of the organization
committee. "This meeting is held,"'
le said, "for the purpose of eliciting
facts. The committee wants facts, and
not orations. We don't object, neces
sarily to oratory, but, as a rule, oratory
is not based on facts." Secretary Mc
Adoo appealed to the patriotism of the
American people to assist the commit
tee in getting this system of curency
reform in running order.
Both members of the committee
should have been gratified, for Port
bind showed anything but oratory.
From the moment A. L, Mills, president
of the First National bank, president of
the Portland clearing house committee
and chairman of the joint committee
on regional bank for Portland, started
Ills argument it was to bo seen that the
it.y would exhaust every available re
source for tho presentation of facts in
support of her claim to a federal re
serve bank center.
President Mills spoke for the Port
laud clearing house nnd Portland bank
ers. He was first asked to give his
name and occupation, and whom he
represented at the hearing. He plunged
directly in to his argument.
"Nature," ho said, "has set apart
the Northwest to be a district by itself.
If it is not qualified to receive a bank
of its own now, there is no doubt but
that it will bo soon in the future. We
stand alone, cut off on the south by
mountain ranged from California, and
on the east by the Rocky mountains."
Portland in Lead.
Then he explained the Portland
Clearing House association's plan of
campaign In gathering figures that, he
said, would demonstrate Portland's
financial supremacy in the Northwest.
Letters, he explained, had been sent to
PfiO banks in Oregon, Washington, Ma
no and Western Montana, asking them
with which cities most of their banking
"business was done. Of the number 613
replies had been received. Of this last
number 279 replied that most of their
banking transactions was with Port-
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Los Angeles, Cal., Jan. 30. The fate
of Lewis Bundy, youthful slayer of
Harold Ziosche, was given into the
hands of a jury Bhortly after noon to
day. The closing arguments of the at
torneys occupied but little time whon
the trial was resumed, and the jury
had retired before the crowd in the
court room was aware that the trial
was over.
For the state Deputy District Attorney
Veitch branded Bundy a fiend, and de
clared that the murder of Ziesch was
premeditated and inhuman, Earl Rog
ers, for the defense, held society re-
sponsible for the crime, arguing that
Bnndy had been made mentally unsound
by cigarette and over-indulgence in ath
letics. He demanded a second degree
verdict.
Bundy, who Is 19 years old, killed
Ziesch, who was 15, on Christmas eve.
By means of a telephone call for modi'
cine at the pharmacy, where Ziesch
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Portland, Or., Jan. 30. An hour af
ter tho safe in ths Farguhar Machinery
company's office on the East side was
blown opon with giant powdor, Milton
McDonald, aged 53, a laborer was ar
rested while hiding under a wagon cov
er on tho wator front by a squad of
Patrolmen and is said to have admit
ted the crime, claiming it was due to
insanity. A warrant charging felony
was issued.
Four Bticks of giant powder were
placed on top of the safe and it was
torn to pieces. The office was dam
aged to the extent of $300. No money
was secured from the safe but the
desks iu the offico were looted of
stamps.
Officers summoned by neighbors ar
oused by the explosion surprised Mc
Dowall while be was searching the
debris in the office, but he escaped by
a rear door, only to be found later on
the water front. Four sticks of dyna
mite wore found hidden in McDowell's
room in the Severe hotel.
CHARLTON TRIAL IS PUT
OFF TO INVESTIGATE
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Como, Italy, Jan. 30. The trial of
Porter Churlton was today postponed in
court. Charlton is accused of murder
Ing his wife and dismembering the
body.
It was understood that the postpone
ment was due to the courts belief in
Charlton's declaration that his wife
was sexually abnormal and possessed
a dual nature. Sensational revelations
were expected from the investigation
ordered by tho judges. Public senti
ment is with Charlton.
STOEY HOUB AT
THE PUBLIC LIBRARY
The stories this week will follow
the plnn of last. The Indian group
have a new story teller, Miss Wolfer
from high school. Miss Case will tell
"Codadad and his brothers" and "City
of Brass," to the Arabian nights group.
The doors are open from 9:20 to 9:35
Saturday morning.
The "pen'
county jail.
is mightier than the
Delegates to Mine Workers'
Convention Calls Them Re
actionaries GOMPERS GIVES HIM LIE
Denies Ho Was With Bunch at Seattle
Howling Drunk and That Federa
tion Is Machine-Controlled.
UNITED PRESS LEASED WIRE.
Indianapolis, Jan. 30. Sensational
charges were made at the session of
the United Mine Workers of America
today.
Delogate McDonald declared all the
executive of the American Federation
of Labor are hard drinkers.
"They are a bunch of reactionary
and fossiled booze fighters," he said.
McDonald declared that during the
labor convention at Seattle a resolu
tions comimtto, headod by Gompers,
made so much noise that he and his wife
who occupied the next room, wore un
able to sleep. After a futile complaint
to tho hotel management, McDonald
said he opened the door to the room and
"saw a bunch sitting around the table,
with Gompers at its head, howling
drunk."
Gompers Calls Him Liar.
Gompers answered McDonald by coll
ing his "a liar and a slandorer." He
also denied McDonald's charge that the
American Federation is machine con
trolled and that socialists were barred
from all responsible and effective po
sitions. Charles H. Moyer, prosident of the
Wostorn Federation of Miners, also de
nounces Gompers.
Drunk on Several Occasions.
McDonald also charged that Gompers
was intoxicated on several occasious
during the Seattbp convention. Ho al
so asserted that $2.0 was voted to
each member of the federation's execu
tive council with nothing to show what
tho money was for. He charged thut
Gompers and other officials of the or
ganization disliked the Western Feder
ation of Miners, and for thut reason
rofused to lond aid to tho strike ot
copper minors now in progress iu Mich
igan. Story Probably False.
Seattle, Wash., Jan. 30. The man
ager of the New Richmond hotel, oc
cupied by Gompers and McDonald dur
ing the convention of the American Fed
eration of Labor last summer, says that
ho hoard nothing of any such trouble
as described by McDonald at Indiana
polis. He soys the rooms occupied by
the two men were on floors two stories
spart and that as far as he knew noth
ing of the sort had taken pluco.
HUSBAND LET HER WASH.
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Los Angeles, Cal., Jan. 30. "He was
so sure that the Lord would provide
ilmt 1 had to toko in washing," com
pliiiiidl Mrs. Anifiin i'rout, who win
til a divorce from James Prout.
Closing Arguments Being Made
in Trial of Leah Alexander
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San Francisco, Jan. 30, Counsel's'
closing arguments were in progress to
day at the trial of Leah Alexsndur,
who killed J. D. Yon Tiaalen hero Inst
October, beeause, after inducing her to
live with him as his wife, on his prom
ise to marry her later, she found he was
already married.
There was no disputo as to the killing
and Prosecutor Horry called it murder.
Attorney Thomas O 'Conner, for the de
fense, maintained that Miss Alexand
er's mind was temporarily unbalanced
by her troubles, and by an attempt she
had made, In her misery, to end her
Everybody
IALEM, OREGON, FEIDAY, JANUARY 30,
New York, Jan. 30. Sentence was
not imposed today upon Angelo Sylves
tro, convicted by a jury here last night
of placing a bomb at the entrance of a
tenement house In Houston street. Just
as sentence was about to be pronounced
District Attorney Whitman announced
in court that the prisoner stood ready
to give information which, it wai said,
would lead to the apprehension of the
loaders of the black hand gang to which
he belonged. The court, therefore de
ferred passing sentence pending an in
vestigation. ,
New York, Jan, 30. Part of yester
day's losses were made up at the open
ing of the stock market today, The
leaders were in good demand, and many
issues were quoted nearly a point high
er. Pressed steel car jumped 2 points,
Canadian Pacifie 1 3-4, Texas company
1 1 and Beading a good fraction. Bum-
ley common dropped to 9 and the pre
I ferred to 26. Bonds were firm. The
market closed strong.
Washington, Jan. 30. The Burnett-
i Dillingham, immigration bill was con
' sidored by the house of representatives
i today. Debate on the measure was ex
' pected to continue this afternoon and
tonight, with the bill scheduled to come
' to a final vote on passage tomorrow,
Kansas City, Jan. 30. Federal Judge
McPherson dismissed hero today the in
junction which restrained the state of
Missouri from putting Into offoct Its
two-cent railroad passenger fare and
prevented Attorney-General Baker from
suing for $24,000,000 overcharges he
asserts the roads made while the law
was In litigation. It was understood
Barker will begin the suitB immediately
in the state courts.
JANITORS TO BE CUSTODIANS.
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Oaklan, Cel., Jan. 30. Because ho
conisders the title degratory to the
deportment's dignity, A. C. Barker, sup
erintendent of city schools, announced
that hereafter, all janitors will be call
ed "school custodians."
.SHOULD HAVE BEEN SPANKED.
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Los Angeles, Cal., Jan. 30. Married
at 13, Mrs. Mary Smoll, 10 years old,
was refused a divorce by Judge Mon
roe. "You should have been spanked
instead of married," said the judge.
"Go get a legal guardian and then wo
will talk about a divorce."
The Weather
The Dickey Bird
says: Oregon, gen
erally fair tonight
and Saturday ox
rept rain tonight
or Saturday north
west portion; and
winds In south
west. life, and that she was not responsible
for her act.
Slapped Oirl'i Face.
Van Uaalen's widow was on tlio wit
ness' stand yesterday afternoon, after
Mis Alexander had left It. She wns
handsomely drcccd, pale ami sad look
ing, but calm. Her testimony was not
of great Importance, relating merely to
a few attempts made by Miss Alexand
er iee Van Baalen iu his apartments
when his wife was present, and to one
occasion when, she said, angered by tho
girl's visit, she slapped the tatter's
face.
A number of ardent love letters writ
w xor jan. su.-oentence was iifi , B .- (j PI fe OS'iriH I
Reads the
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1914.
Widespread Interest in Action
Which May Mean More
Expense for Ciites.
WOULD AFFECT . SALEM
Portland Especially Interested, as
Many More Firemen and Policemen
Would Be Needed.
The supreme court this morning heard
arguments in the suit against Mayor
Albee over the eight-hour law in which
it is sought to settle just who are with
in, or without the operation of the
law. The suit was brought, or rather
a complaint was filed on the criminal
side accusing Mayor Albee and the offi
cials of Portland of violating the law
against employing labor more than 8
hours in any one day. It is a friendly
suit to got the opinion of the supreme
court on tho matter, the city of Port
land contonding that its firemen and
policemon are not laborers within the
intent of the law, and that they there
fore can work longer than eight hours.
It is claimed that the expense of
running , the city would be increased
enormously should the court hold tht
law -applied to city employes such as
named. All the cities of the state are
interested in the case as they will all
be compelled to make new and costly
arrangements for policing and giving
thoir people firo protection if the case
goes against Albee. The decision will
also settle the matter of employes at
the state institutions, which has been
giving the board of control considera
ble trouble, Col. C. E. S. Wood is ap
pearing with Attorney General Ciow
ford in the prosecution of tho case,
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Tho Elks had a very enjoyable social
session Inst evening and the numbers
furnished by the pupils of Prof. Lang
enberg wcro vory pluaslng. Those who
participated in the program wcro:
Misses Alice Skiff, Gladys Cartwrlght,
Nelllo Schwab and Grace Lilly, Mrs,
Bert IC. Lawson and Carl Schwab. Tho
accompanists were Mrs. EJ. Cox and
Miss Leila Sinter, It wns ono of tho
most cnjoyablo occasions in the history
of the lodge, and those who took part
were warmly praised.
An incident which was also much en
joyed wns the presentation of a uniquo
walking stick to Judgo P. H. D'Arcy,
who recently returned from a trip to
California. The judgo was taken whol
ly by surpriso but rallied and his re
sponse was very affecting,
ten by Van Itnulen to Miss Alexander
wero also introduced iu evidence in
support of tho defense's contention that
sn engagement existed between them,
Slid several witnesses were examined to
show the (irl' du.cd and Irrational ap
pearance immediately fallowing the
tragedy, with a view to bolstering up
tho clnini that she wns out of her mind.
Collapse Stops Trim.
Tho tilul was Interrupted for a time
lato yesterday when Miss Alexander
collapsed on the witnens stand, and hnd
to be carried shrieking hysterically,
from the court room until she could re
gsln her compoiuro.
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Survivors Are Thrown in Water and Struggle Desperately
Until Rescued by Nantucket and Other Ships Have Only
Night Clothing on and It Is Feared Some Will Die of Ex
posure Crash Comes in Dense Fog Many Die in State
Rooms.
UNITED PIIB3S LEASED WIRE.
Norfolk, Vs., Jan. 30. The 85 sur
vivors out of the 134 passengers and
Qmon who put to soa from bore last
night on the Old Dominion liner Mon
roo landed in Norfolk again this after
noon. The other 49 all porishod, beyond a
doubt whon the Monroe wont down like
lead at 1:40 a, m,, aftor tho steamship
Nantuckot, of the Merchants and Miu
ers line, had rammed and cut her noar
ly in two off tho Delaware-Maryland-Virginia
peninsula, coaat.
1 None of Them are Clad.
' The rescued included 30 passengers
and 55 members of the crew. Of the
passongcrs not one was clad. The wo
men wore in night drossos; the men
mostly in pajamas. James O'Connor,
of the federal industrial commission,
was picked up in his undorclothos. He
rushod to a telephone In a borrowed
overcoat as soon as he could get down
the gang plank to let his wife In Wash
ington know he was safe.
The majority of the Survivors wore
ill and it was fcarod scvornl of them
would dio from the shock and exposure
thoy had undergone.
The Monroo and Nantucket crashed
In a dense fog. Tho Nantucket was
steaming at half speed, its siren sound
ing dismally nt half minute intervals.
Tho shrieks of tho Monroe's siren,. too,
could be heard plainly but iu tho smoth
ering mist Captain Horry of tho Nan
tuckot mistook the other ship's position
Both captains wero on their owu re
spective ship's bridges at tho momont
of the collision,
Suddenly, those on the Nantucket's
deck fuw tho Monroe loom out of the
fog barely a ship's longth away. Cap
tain Perry reversed his ongines and
strove to get by astern of the other
vessel It was too lato. The Nan
tucket t rashed into tho Monroo amid
ships, crunched her way deoply Into the
dooM 'd liner's side nnd then stopped,
her onn bows badly crumpled, for a
n nniont wedged fast.
An instunt Inter the- powerful screw
drugged her backward anil she drew
off from tho Monroe, which heeled
over at once and began taking In water
in cntarncts.
fcrrtams, Prayers and Curses.
Wit l hysterical screams, prayon,
curse ri;d crlos for aid tho night-clad
inseurs came lushing oil deck. Some
were ti t by splinters. All had been
nroncii from slumber, without a sec
ond's wrrniug, to face death In the
wavts. :
fll tliot.0 who died, the uinjoiitv prob
ably i!id not even have time to get on',
of tlit'lr stiito rooms, so quickly did th.i
ship go dowii.
Wllh tho collision the boat drill sig
nal hnd sounded, The crew worked
like mud men but tliey only got one
bont ovcrsido before tho ship's hull
rolled over and she went down. As
slio disappeared benentli the surface
their sounded first a fierce hissing and
then her boilers blew up with a muf
fled ronr,
Struggle In Soa.
In the vortex the surviving pns
seii((crs and fi.ilo! 1 vcre left struggling,
for their lives, Homo had seized life
belts and these, in most instance, were
the ones who wero saved. More than
half of them were unconscious when
they wore dragged Into the Nantucket's
boats.
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Scarcoly waiting to determine whether
or not his own ship would go down un
der his feet Captain Berry had launched
every craft he had on board directly
after his vessel had swung clear of the
Monroe. For two hours the Nantucket
cruised about tho spot looking for sur
vivors. '
Pull Them From Water,
At first they wore kept busy pulling
the wretched men and women from the
water. Then the rescues grew less
froquent. Finally tboy became con
vinced that no moro of the Monroe's
company remained above water and the
search was reluctantly abandoned.
Captain Johnson was one of those
saved.
The Nantucket reached here at 2:2a
p. in.
Give Them Some Clothes,
Those, on board the ship had fitted
lio survivors from the Monroo out with
souio odds and ends of clothes but it
was still a nondescript company which
finally staggered or wore carried
ashore. None but persons havlug busi
ness there wore allowed on the deck,
The accidont occured in the gulf
stream where the water ia warmer than,
elsewhere in the Atlantio in winter.
Otherwise many moro must have per
ished from the cold.
Two of Saved Die. " (
Two of those saved from tho sea died
on board the Nantucket before Nor
folk was reached, victims partly of in
juries they received in the collision and
pnrtly of tho shock and exposure they
had undergone. The majority of the
others wero ill and It wns feared there
might be moro deaths among them.
. Scarcely one wus entirely uninjured.
Joints wero sprained, backs were
wrenched and a fow suffered broken
bones by being dashed from berths to
the floor or against the Monroe's steel
sides by the force of the colllsiou.
An Earlier Story.
Now York, Jan. 30. Forty-sevta
persons were unaccounted for today,
following the loss at 1:40 a. ui. of the
Old Dominion stoamshlp Monroe, la
collision tiff (lio southern coast of tho
Delaware, Maryland-Virginia peninsu
la, with tho Merchants' & Miners' liner
Nantuckot.
As tho Monroo carried a full comple
ment of lifeboats and rafts, it was
hoped a fow might yet bo alive, but it
was fcarod that most of the misting
1 Wont down with tho ship. ; t '
I Tho Nantucket had Its bow badly
crumpled In the crash, but, though tnk-
Ing water, was understood to have
picked up 85 of tho Monroe's coinpnuy,
including Captain Johnson. Tho Old
Dominion liner Hamilton was stauding
by, and tho rovenuo cutter Onondaga
ami the wrecking tug I, J, Merritt, with
several other, were oil their way to
the sceno to asitist.
Collision in Tog.
. Tho collision occurred In a dense fog.
Tho Monroe left Norfolk for New York
at 7 o'clock Inst evening. It carried
a crew of about 00 men, 1(1 first cnliiu
passengers nnd sonic In the steerage.
The Nnntucket'froni Boston, rammed
It near the Winter quarter lightship,
miles south of Hogg Tslund, The Mou
rns sank In 20 minutes.
1 Tho Monroe, built at Newport News
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