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t Haifa I FULL LEASED WIRE DISPATCHES I Journal CIRCULATION IS OVER 4000 DAILY ii ii y 1 1 in m i 1 i 1 FORTIETH YEAR NO. 18 SALEM, OREGON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 20, 1917 PRICE TWO CENTS ON TRAINS AND NEWS STANDS FIVE CENTS BUSINESS STOPS Oil FUNERAL Hill DEI! Preside Cabinet, Mili tary and Naval Officers Pay Tribute FOREIGN DIPLOMATS AND ATTACHES ATTEND His Fighting Chaplain, Con ducts the Simple Ship Board Services SOLDIERS PAY TRIBUTE E! i'nso, Texas, Jan. 20. On the stroke of o'elock today 40,000 soldiers on border duty here stood motionless one min ute facing northeast and saluted in honor of Admiral George Dewey. The ceremony took place at the hour the funeral was being heled in Washington. All the military bands played dirges. In the city of El Paso all traffic was stopped while civil ians removed their hats and faced toward Washington. Washington, Jan. SO. With brief but impressive ceremonies and before a dis tinguished representation of United States and (foreign officialdom, public formal services over the body of Admir al George Dewey were held at noon today in the rotunda of the capitol. The 30 minute services in which the rigorous -simplicity of ship board was observed were conducted by Chaplain J. B. Frazier, Dewey's fighting parson of his flagship Olympia at the battle of Manila bay. Well before 11 o'clock the hour set for the arrival of the funeral cortege from the: Dewey home, where private services were held the vast rotunda was filled- A solid bank of naval of ficers in full dress uniform, many of Dewey's companions at Manila bay, oc cupied one section. They were flanked by the chief of staff and' officers of the e riny. The diplomatic corps, including for eign, naval and military attaches in full uniform, were present. Shortly before the hour. President and Mrs. Wilson arrived with members -f the cabinet. They were followed by members of the house and senate and 1iie special committees of both houses ie 'formal black. Precisely at 11 o'clock the massive oast doors of the capitol swung- outward and the flag draped casket, borne on the shoulders of 12 bluejackets, was brought in and placed on the shrouded catafalepia in the center of the cham ber. The services consisted of a brief praver, a short reading from the ritual .nid three of Dewey's favorite hymns "Lead Thou Me On," "Nearer Mv God to Thee." and "Abide With Me." The assemblage remained standing during tho services. As the body was removed to the cais son, is) guns boomed out from the lower Potomac, Practically every officer of the navy department and many from the Atlantic fleet as well as the entire student body Continued on Page Seven.) ABE MARTIN A college career is a fine thing t' look back on, but it haint got nothin' on ole boardin' house days. Some folks don't seem t' know when they haint well off. Polk County Officials Promise to Make Trouble Dallas; Or., Jan. 20. Reports from Salem to the efteit that the Polk and Marion county courts had adopted the plans calling lor a steel bridge across the Willamette at West Salem, as pre pared by the state highway commission, are erroneous, according to K. 0. Kirk atrick, county judge of Polk county. Mr. Kirkpatrick said this morning that plans hail been received from the state highwav commission, but as yet had not been adopted. The Poll; countv court, as well as the citizens of Polk county, are op posed to "the construction of a steel bridge, it being the sentiment here that a concrete bridge should be construct ed. Pressure is being brought to bear upon the two county courts interested to force an early commencement of operations. WOUNDED BANKER'S SON Kanapolis, Kan., Jan. 20. .lames Co wie, Jr., son of the president of the Exchange State Bank here, was wound ed in the arm early today in a running fiidit with a band of five men who blew up the bank vault and escaped with $2,500 in cash and $1,000 in stamps NEWS PIRATES LIFT Associated Press and Hearst Service Scooped Do the Best They Can (By W. W. Hawkns, General Manager United Press.) New York, Jan. 20. News pirates feasted this week on the exclusive Uni ted Press cables from South America which gave the first news of the Ger man commerce raider. It was not merely a one day orgy for the pirates; it literally had a four day feast. The United Press not only gave the world the first news, but it gave the first details and continued to lead all other agencies in covering the story by such a wide margin that there was no competition except from the pirates. Hearst 's International News Service "lifted" and "rewrote" United Pres-3 cables in such detail that identification was obvious. But to clinch the proof, the United Press on Wednesday carried the name of the steamer Yarrowdale as " Yanondale. " It promptly appeared as fl Yanondale" iu the International News Service. Hearst's New York Ev ening Journal . simply lifted United Press cables without taking the trouble to "re-write." In one instance the Journal serenely lifted a purposely placed typographical error from the New York Evening World, which re ceived the United Press service. The mails have brought to the United Press general offices from United Press clients numerous copies of Hearst pa pers and "International" news client:' containing alleged cables Containing proof that they were simply "lifted" from the United Press. The New York Globe, a member of the Associated Press but not a client of the United Press, on Wednesday "lifted" bodily a United Press cable story, wtihout credit, and carried it through practically all editions after be ing scooped by the Untied Press papers here- The Boston Globe, another Associated Press member not n client of the United Press, lifted verbatim Pnied Press cables. These are only a few instances. Investigation by the United Press in dicates that the Associated Press it self, although badly beaten, did not lift or appropriate United Press cables in any way. The action of Associated Press members, indulging in piracy, ap parently was taken on their individual initiative. The United Press established and maintained the only comprehensive South American news service at great expense. All United Press papers this week legitimately profited bv this in vestment of money and efofrt. Marion Hotel to Keep List of Rooms Owing to the fact that three largo conventions will meet in Salem next week ami every hotel and rooming house will be filled to capacity, Mr. Charles 6. Miller, manager of the Mar ion ho el has established a rooms and information bureau at the Marion ho tel. Any one who has a room or rooms to rent during this period is invited and requested to phono full information to the hotel. VESSEL IN DISTRESS Halifax. X. S., Jan. 30 Distress calls from an unidentified vessel were heard he - during hc night. The Marconi station at Cape Race received such signals relayed by the Standard Uii tanker John D. Archibald, but said they had not been able to discover the iden tity of the steamer which originally filed the message. It was believed here that the Swedish steamer Scandinavic suupposedly bound from Norfolk to Christiania, might have sent the signals. WOULD HAVE STATE GIVE EMPLOYMENT TO ALL NEEDING IT Educators, Ministers, Officials and Labor Unions In dorse Plan LEGISLATORS ASKED TO BACK UP LAURGAARD His Resoluion Provides for Submitting Plan As Con stitutional Amendment Monday morning on the desk of each and every legislator there will be a copy of a pamphlet directed to the members of the Twenay-ninth assembly asking for support for the measures contained iu house joint resolution No. 2, introduced by Representative Laur gaard, preposing an amendment to the constitution of the state of Oregon re lating to providing citizens with em ployment. The pamphlet, which has the endorse ment of about two hundred of the state's most prominent educators, min isters, officials, and labor representa tives, states that the solution of the problem of unemployment is no longer expected as a result of industrial pros perity. This stand is taken on the ground that increasing numbers of people have been eliminated from industry by ma chinery and the multiplied require ments of skill and efficiency which limited opportunities have not permit ted them to keep pace. These people, accordingly, are not included in the scope of prosperity, however wide it may seem. This measure asks no appropriation. It is planned to have the people vote on the amendment in November, 1!)1S, and not until it has been approved by the people will the details be undertak en. The following brief statement gives the gist of the present system: "The present policy of relief, which is practiced alike by county courts, charitable agencies and individuals, consists almost exclusively of almsgiv ing. This almsgiving constitutes an in direct tax, the aggregation of which would be emply sufficient, if properly applied, to provide methods of relief that would be self-sustaining and thus eliminate the indirect tax of alms and at the same time help the economically dependent to honorable self-support. ' ' The view is held by many people that a large portion of our unemployed have not received their just share of the proceeds and advantages of indus try and that some method of readjust ment should be made. At any rate, those who are both willing and able to work should not be branded as paupers or forced to beg. On the other hand, those who seek to Five without work should be defeated in any such purpose." The resolution which the pamphlet asks support for is as follows: "The right and opportunity of any citizen of this state to secure the neces saries of life in return for labor requis ite to their production, are hereby de clared and established. Provision shall be made for the employment of citizens j for the purpose, of this enactment but ! continuous residence in the state for a period of not to exceed 'five years im j mediately preceding such employment ! may be made a condition thereof. Such I period of residence shall not be definite i ly fixed by law but shall be left to 'such discretion of adinistrati ve author ity, within the limits herein stated, as shall best protect the state from undue j burdens on account of this enactment." ! Monday the Oregon State Federation : of Labor convenes in this city and among the many problems that will come up for discussion will be that re- luting to this resolution and amend I meat. It is believed a strong fight will be developed in the house in favor of this resolution, which has the bad;- t'uontinued on page seven.) THERE who s aid mk' LAUNCHING AT TACOMA Tacoma, Wash.. Jan. 20 The auxiliary schooner Orcas was scheduled to be launched at high tide at l;N this afternoon from the Seaborn Shipyards. Miss Elizabeth Morrison, daughter of Philip Morrison, president of the company, will christen the vessel. The Orcas is the second schooner of the hin. to be launched from this new yard. She will go at once into the lumber carrying trade. T One Proposes Consolidating State Fair and Several Other Boards Two important bills were introduced in the house yesterday afternoon be fore adjournment until Monday at 10:;i0 o'clock on motion of Mrs. Alex ander Thompson. The first was the first consolidation bill to appear and concerns the creation of a department of agriculture with one commission and five directors. This measure provides for the con solidating of the state horticultural' de partment, the dairy and food depart ment, the stallion registration depart ments, the state fair department, the the livestock sanitay bord and board of sheep commissions. Each of the five directors is to have a department and each is to receive $2,400 a year salary, including the commission. The bill was introduced by Representative Forbes. The commissioner is to be appointed by the governor and is to file a bond of $10,000. The directors are each to file a bond of $5,000 and to be expert and trained men in their respective depart ments. The five departments created are horticulture, livestock, dairy and pure food, agricultural aire, and hay and grain. Provision ts made for the di rectors to appoint their assistants with the approval of the governor. Exam inations to determine the fitness of the applicants may be held if it is so de sired. Under the proposed bill the present state fair board and the state livestock boards are retained as advisory boards. These advisory boards are not to re ceive any pay except wen on actual service. The other bill . was introduced by Laurgaard of Multnomah county and it provides for an apropriation of $25,000 for repairg to the reservoirs of the Tumalo project. The bill carried the unanimous endorsement of the desert land board. The bill also contains some changes in the present existing Tumalo law, the principal features of which are ex tending the time of payment by set tlers and contract holders from ten to 20 years, and wire reduction of the interest from (i to 5 per cent to con form with the provisions of the Rural Credits Act. At the recommendation of the Desert Land Board, the time for complying with the regulations in regard to fil ing of assignments of claims by old contract holders is also extended to July 1, 1917. The appropriation is necessary for the reason that after the completion of the project leaks de veloped along the. line of a natural fault in the bottom of the reservoin. This was unforeseen and unavoidable until such a time as the reservoir wai filled and the pressure of water de veloped these conditions. Should the rerair of the leservoir be found feas ible, it will bring about the actual sale of lands and the return of the original appropriation of $450,000 to the general fund, with interest. At the present time, there is a fund of about $100,000 created by liens on this old land which is bearing interest to the. State. Looks as if the British authorities might have to adopt the tank to nauti cal uses. IS NOTHING IN A NAME i mi j jhowinu ioite jieeD Fort, CE ADMAN INTERNATIONAL LAW OBSERVED BY GERMAN RAIDER Only Cargo Boats Have Been Captured Or Sunk by Sea Rover SAY SHE HAS OUTFITTED MANY CAPTURED SHIPS Shipping Stays In Port Await- ing News of Her Sinking or Capture By H. D. Robertson. (United Press staff correspondent.) (Copyright 1917 by the United Pres.) Rio De Janeiro, Jan. 20. First re ports indicating the general location of the German South Atlantic raider was received here today. The Brazilian packet steamer Bahia reported she had sighted a vessel believed to be the raid er, off the coast of Rio Grande Di Norte on Thursday. The stranger was travel ing north at a speed estimated at about 20 knots. No consort was sighted with her. (Rio Grande Di Norte is one of the northeastern states of Brazil forming the northeast ernmost point of the South American continent.) Practically all South American na tions are taking steps strictly to guard the neutrality of their territorial wat ers. The Uruguayan government sent the steamer Corsario from Montevideo today to patrol its coast line. The Bra zilian government-has already dispatch ed several of its war vessels to back up enforcement of neutrality- Meanwhile dispatches up and down the South American coast indicated a concentration of ullied warships in these waters. Wireless advices from the Falkland Islands said that six British warships had sped north from there, searching for the sea terror. Pernambuco report ed arrival of two British auxiliary cruisers. Evidence of the Germans' observance of every rule of war and international law in all his captures was accumulat ing here today. American Consul Gott sehnlk declared today this official ad vices indicated "a pre-determined plan to avoid attacks on pnssenger ships to avoid possibility of the loss of lire of such travelers nd any international complications." Only cargo boats have so far been captured or sunk. The German sea rover is likewise scrupulously careful to hoist his true colors as soon as within gun range of vessels he overhauls, judgng from survivors' stories received here from Pernambuco although in most cases the raider adopted the strategem of flying British colors in the pursuit. All those who have seen the raider unite in declaring that she is capable of great speed and -some of the survivors added that she was jammed to the hatches with ammunition. Allied ship owners here have an nounced indefinite suspension of sail ings and are still anxionslv awaiting news of several vessels which are now overdue. Among steamer Ortoira. profess optimism Shipping on South America h these is the Brit Her agents. hOWel s to her safety, he Pacific coast lilci wise worrit the German raider ir raider sine Lcnei Bpted g now thai the original coinnioi outfitted as auxiliar more of her prizes, sages have been disp e destroyer hris ' raiders one or number of mes tched from Sunti- ULiO. Chilc, to the Tinted States i ing some means of preventing th pfiin war bellu'erentu from han trade between the Americas. John Bull knows now how the lovnl people of the Tinted Slates felt whil" the Alabama was chasing around all 'over the Atlantic ocean. BALDWIN ONT(iADlCT5 H" NAME-, Market Was Listless little Change In Prices New York, Jan. 20. The New York Kvening bun financial review today said : j Save for a few strong specialties like 1 Montana Power, Columbia (las and so on, today's short session of the stock I market was listless to a degree and quite devoid of interest. Price changes in the industrial list were of no sig nificanco whatever and the railroad shares were almost wholly neglected. Heading made but small "fractional gain in very restricted sales. United States Steel rose and dipped within narrow limits. Bethlehem Steel made an I early gain of ten points but Inter sold down five points .or more below Fri day. The shipping and motor shares were in fair demand at substantial ad vances. Trading was somewhat- more animat ed in the late session with odds and ends of market settlement among trad ers to be adisted. The shipping shares made additional gains on good earnings reports. Marine common sold in the neighborhood of 33 and the preferred at 00. Numeros specialties such as Ohio Cities lias, Homestake Mining, Sears Koebuck, Diamond Match, Cuban American Sugar and others, were in fair demand at advancing prices. Bonds were firm and rclativelv ac tive. Would Turn It Over to Public Service Commission Afternoon Business A tangible beginning in the difficult problem of working out an effective consolidation program was. made Friday by the senate committee on consolida- tion of state offices and departments. Through Senator Dimiek, its chair man, the committee introduced in the senate as a substitute for senate bill u, uy uuolo, t Mill iu aiuuoii luv ut,,f ,i..i ,i ,, ;t 18, by Barrett, a bill to abolish the powers and duties on the public service commission. On Senator Dmick's motion the sen ate unanimously suspended the roles and passed the bill to third reading. This brings it on the calendar Monday for final passage. Passage of this measure Monday will givo the senate a running start on tho house in the way of a consolida tion program. The alacrity wtih which the senators suspended the rules to get the bill on the calendar indicated pretty clearly that they had exactly this point in mind. There is still considerable resent ment among the seuators at the re fusal of the house to accept the sen ate plan for a joint scnato and house committee to frame the consolidation measures and its insistence on a sep arate committee of its own. So far neither house has made any overtures looking toward joint action by the separate coinmiatees. The new Dimiek bill, which will bring the consolidation issue squarely before the legislature, abolishes th state tax commission and confers its powers, duties, authority and func tions on the public service commis sion. It provides that any proceed-( ings in which the state tax commis sion may be engaged at the time it takes effect public servi ho comole!,.,! hv the o.nmission, which il j authorised i pioy u.ii i eric it as- 1 J . I si-stance as it may need On its' face, the proposed consolida i tion would effect a saving of close to $30,000 iu the coming bienniuui. ) By abolishing the state tax commis (sion, the $'10,000 appropriation asked in the ludget for its maintenance in the I next two years would automatically In1 eliminated. On the other hand, the j puhlic service commission would lie at some additional expense for clerical as sistance to curry out its new duties. Members of the senate committee ex pressed the belief, however, that only : one or possibly two such assistants would be needed, at a total cost of not more than $4,000 or t8,000 for Hie bien i nitim, as aguiust the fMOOO reipiirod 'by the state tax commission. Th dati an of th. labile si tax 1 a step commented night- "The tux the property of nator Diick to- : commission vuluates if corporations and its in the counties, rvice commission also valuations of public equalizes ass "The publ makes physit service corp cation ut pr thi t this part 'i will not i on the pub the tai oiniiii-sion tail a ii y additional v service i omniissioli. it WW be a small matter for it to take over the further I duty of equalising assessments." Afternoon Bills in Senate. S. B. No. 112, by Baldwin, Providing I for examination and audit of county i records. S. B- No. 113, by banking committee. Defining the trust business and provid ing for the incorporation, organization, liquidation and supervision of trust com panies and the regulation ot hntiks au thorized by charter or urticlrn to do a trust business. S. B. No. 114, by Fierce. Making it unlawful to increase interest rate on a promissory note, mortgage, etc., after maturity. S. B. No. 115, by Lewis, Regulating (Continued on page seven.) LOST AVIATORS TO REACH SAN DIEGO THIS AFTERNOON Lieutenant Robertson Suc ceeds In Reaching Party of Searchers WALKS 30 MILES AFTER COLONEL SUCCUMBS Thought Mexican Laguna Was Satton Sea and In Landing Broke a Wing San Diego, Cal., Jan. 20. A story of endurance and heroic endeavor against death was written today into the annals of the aviation corps of the United States army when Lieutenant W. A. Robertson, Jr., misBing army airman, came back from the dead. Out hi the desert south of Yuma, Ariz., a party of men were bringing into Yuma Lieuten ant Colonel Harry G. Bishop, whom Robertson was forced to leave exhaust ed and all hut unconscious in the Mex ican wastes before he made his final, desperate try for life and assistance. Although weakened and worn, neither man will suffer any ill consequences of his experience after food, rest and warn clothing have restored them both to no mal healah. iv lu . , Yuma, Ariz., Robertson gave ajrapk. To uewspapermcn at Welton and description of his nine day battle with the desert. After he and Colonel Bishop left San Deigo Wednesday, January Itf, to fly for Calexico, he said, their aero plane mounted high in order to crosa . - , . , - . 1 a mountain range. This swung the ma cnine into a. strung cuiiem ut nwu which swept it rapidly southward. Wind Drives Them South. The airmen fouud it impossible to de tect the wind, however, and when they saw, at noon, a large body of wirier they both thought it the. Satton sea. in stead it was a laguna far over the bord er in Mexico, as they discovered wheu they tried to make a landing because their gasoline was low. In landing one wing of the machine broke and mada the car useless. Then it was that tfca flyers found, instead of being in their own country, they were 250 miles from San Diego iu Mexico, Abandoning the aeroplane, the two men took all the food they had carried with them Slid one gallon of water and started the long hike northward to civilization and safety. Robertson, in. his statement, touched only lightly the hardships they had enduredthe deso late stretches of country through which they passed, the almost overpowering ruins by day and icy cold by night. Defying physical exhaustion, the two officers kept their walking night ami I day. For four days they subsisted on one gallon of water, tour oranges and tour small sandwiches. Then their water ran out. That was Sunday. The same day Colonel Bishop begun to break un der the strain. Robertson, too, was I, u..i ........,.. ,1..,,. Ul. .,.,;, , "" s""Bt. !e Bobwtgon proeg Her0. ,, , , ., x i . t u. Thut , !ii.' ihi-. men fncci -smiarelv tho problem of li'i'e or death. They seemed trapped iu a dace where there was uo way out. In a last desperate endeavor to get aid, Bishop proposed that he re main behind on the sands, and that Rob ert son struggle on alone and try to liiul aid. This was done. From that time for ward neither man had a drop to drink anil practically nothiug to eat. Bobertson continued his northward journey. He conserved his strength as best he could and moved only slowly. Wednesday morning he was imbued wtih, now vigor when he struck the trail of human beings. Eagerly he followed it until he cams upon a patty from Welton, Ariz., that vmis searching for him. They had an automobile and Robertson was able to lend them to the spot where Colonel Bishop lay exhausted. Word was then sent to Yuma and the commanding of ficer of the United States troops thcr scut a party into the desert and joined with searchers from Welton and Ajo. At last reports, received by Colonel Glassford, aviation department com mander here, Robertson expected to ar- (Continued on page three.) THE WEATHER Oregon : night and To-Suu- dnv partly cloudy; winds mostly north- w esterly. fi$SKs LIKE)