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PORTLAXD, OREGOX, SUNDAY 3IORXIXG, MARCH 28, 1915.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
VOL. xxxiv. xo. 13.
F-4 SLIPS BACK
INTO
OCEAN BED
Effort lo Raise Unfortu
nate Submarine Fails
HOPE FOR ffl ABANDONED
Air Bubbles Coming to Surface
Cause Rescuers to Re
double Efforts.
HOLD OF CABLE IS LOST
Vessel Lifted 50 Feet Before
Mishap Occurs Subma
rine Crater Adds Difficulty.
HONOLULU, T. II., March 27.
Hope that the submarine F-4 would
be raised before nightfall faded today
when a chain loop attached to the dis
abled craft slipped and the F-4 settled
back again on the bed of the ocean.
The most optimistic of the naval
officials here conceded tonight that
there was no reasonable chance of any
of the submarine's crew of 21 men
being taken out alive.
, Bubbles Show Vessel Is Filling.
Streams of bubbles continuing to
come to the surface of the ocean, in
dicating that the submarine was fill
ing rapidly with water, caused Naval
officials tonight to decide to continue
throughout the night the work of try
ing to raise the craft.
Brilliant moonlight assisted the op
erations. . . Mrs. Ede, wife of Lieutenant Alfred
Louis Ede,. commander of the F-4, is
prostrated.
Weeping Relatives at Water's Edge.
Crowds continued early tonight to
line the waterfront, among them other
weeping relatives of the crew.
The tackle with which the rescue
ships are equipped is said to be hard
ly adequate for emergency work of
this kind.
Need of diving suits for deep water
was apparent, officers said, and the
big dredger, they pointed out, was so
unwieldly that much difficulty was
being experienced in manipulating the
cable cradle with which it is hoped to
secure a firm grip on the submarine.
At 5 P. M. today the dredger Cali
fornia still was unable to make fast
to the submarine. Then it was re
ported that the officers directing the
rescue work, convinced that the F-4's
men were all dead, had decided to post
pone further efforts to raise the sub
marine until tomorrow in order to give
their wornout crews a night's rest, but
the appearance of the air bubbles
shortly afterward caused them to
change their decision.
The California, from the Tearl Har
bor Naval station, had lifted the F-4
50 feet before the mishap occurred
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6 MEN IN SMALL
BOAT BRAVE
SAtLORS QUIT CKAFT IX PERIL
FOR AID 700 MILES AWAY.
Party From Disabled O. M. Clark
Goes Through Storm W ithout
Food and Water.
SAN LUIS OBISPO. Cal.. March 27.
Traveling the 4ast two days almost
without water or provisions, a boat
load of six men from the disabled
steam schooner O. M. Clark, ended a
700-mile voyage today when they ar
rived at Port San Luis.
The schooner, which was bound from
Hilo, Hawaii, to San Diego, broke a
tail shaft on March 13. when three days
out Progress by sailing not proving
successful, a small boat was started
last Sunday for the California coast
to repair the tail shaft and return.
The chief mate. E. M. McCallister,
and his five sailors had to row most
of their six-day voyage as a south
easter made raising their small sail
dangerous.
The Clark was riding nicely. McCal
lister said, when he left it 400 miles
off Point Concepcion. He expects to
get the tail shaft repaired and then
will return, probably in a gasoline
launch.
SAN FRANCISCO, March 27. The
United States revenue cutter McCul
loch was ordered late today by radio
gram to proceed at once to tho assist
ance of the steam schooner O. M. Clark,
which was reported disabled 450 miles
southwest of San Diego by members of
her crew, who reached Port 6an .Luis
In one of the ship's boats.
The McCulloch was hove to near
Pigeon Point in a heavy southeaster
when the message reached her, and
preparations were made at once to pro
ceed. The McCulloch was en route to
Monterey, Cal., to investigate the pres
ence there of the Japanese cruiser
Chitose.
60,000 ALBANIANS ATTACK
Du ra zzo Assa u I ted i n Kit ort to Force
President's Resignation.
ROME, via Paris, March 27. Sixty
thousand Albanian rebels are said to
be engaged in the assault upon Durazzo,
designed to forco the retirement of
Kssad Pasha, the Turkish provisional
President.
The bombardment of the port con
tinues and several persons are said to
have been wounded. The residence of
Essad Resha ha3 been badly damaged
by shell fire.
RIVER ROAD OPEN TODAY
Koadmabtcr Yeon Says Highway ia
in Good Shape to SVarrcndale. .
The Columbia Highway will b open
to motorists and all others today, Road
master Yeon announced yesterday. He
said people from Portland should g"o by
the Upper Sandy River bridge. The
scenic drive is open to Warrendale.
No trouble will be experienced in
Setting over the route. Sir. Yeon said,
for there is no mud anywhere and the
road is in good condition.
3 SHIPS WITH IRON SUNK
German Steamers I-oSt in Baltic and
One Crew Perishes.
STOCKHOLM. March 27. via ondon.
The loss in the Baltic of three Ger
man cruisers, the Bavaria, the Ger
mania and the Koenigsberg, all laden
with iron ore, is announced today in
the newspaper Social Demokraten.
The Bavaria went down March 15
with her entire crew. The cause of her
sinking is not revealed. No details of
the destruction of the other vessels are
given.
Ex-Governor Moving to Portland.
SALEM. Or., March 27. (Special.)
Oswald Wetft. ex-Governor of Oregon,
who is practicing law in Portland, an
nounced today that he would move his
family to Portland early next week.
His home will be on Johnson street,
near Twenty-third. The ex-Governor
ha as a law partner Claude McCol
loch. ex-State Senator from Baker
County.
CARTOONIST REYNOLDS HEREUNDER SHOWS HOW SOME LEADING NEWS EVENTS OF PAST WEEK APPEAR FROM
TRnnHEERED
tAbrary
KY ARTILLERY FiRE
Infantry Attacks Then
Follow Quickly.
BOAR OF GUNS IS TERRIFIC
Soldiers, Working Stupendous
Engines, 50 Feet Away.
OFFICERS EMULATE WOMEN
James O'Donnell Bennett Portrays
Vivid Picture" of Work on Border
With Shells From Russian
Guns Falling Near Him.
BY JAMES O'DONXELL BENNETT.
rwn,. mrr,Rmndant of Chicago Tribune.
copyright, 191ft. ty me tjmcaso
furnished ty arrangement.;
BOL.INOW, Russia, Feb. 24. This Is
a typical artillery day. Its purpose, as
defined by a smiling Germany officer
who appears to have no nerves. Is "the
destroying of the positions of the en
emy and especially the nerves or tne
enemy." In the night this shattering
of intrenchments and temperaments
will be followed by infantry attacks.
The Russian shells are falling 1000
meters to the south of us, a statement
that creates an impression of larger
dauntlessness on the part of "us"
than it you said they were falling
three-fifths of a mile away.
Giant Gun Shoot in Tnrn.
On each side of the highway leading
into Bolinow stand an Austrian 30-
centimeter gun which Is reeking with
groase and which every half hour emits
hellfire and destruction to the amount
of nearly four tons, turn and turn
about, each gun every IB or 20 minutes.
These guns are stupendous engines,
but they work with the delicacy of a
Swiss watch and travel on their own
motor trucks at a rate of three miles
" hour.
Our automobile, toiling up tho Boli
now road from Liowicz, halted J5J feet
from these guns and we all dismount
ed to watch the firing. Three minutes
later I went back to the motor to see
whether the sausage and black bread
were safely stored away, but when I
reached the car -another matter de
manded attention.
Who In thunder did that?" I began.
-What blithering idiot has poked a
rifle barrel through that glass?"
Then It dawned on me.
The concussion of the 304-centime-
ter gun at 150 feet had shivered into
50 pieces the sheet of heavy glass
three feet long, two feet wide and one-
quarter of an inch thick in the front
of the car.
Hoof Torn From Cottage.
And the, draft created by the shell as
it left the gun took basketfuls of the
thatched roof of the cottage standing
30 feet distant right up into the sky.
Five minutes before either of the
guns is fired everybody is halted by
sentries posted 150 feet up and down
the highway. But if you are not mount
ed you can come nearer to the gun
than that.
Then a shell is uncrated In a casual
way that never fails to give me qualms
and it is run smoothly forward on light
trucks to the mouth of the gun. A
good minute before the bis smash the
more innocent bystanders begin to
scurry away.
The soldier that works the wires that
fire the gun is stationed 50 feet away
from It. Others like 75 feet. 1 am
quite reconciled to 100 feet myself,
the surge and roar of sound being so
terrific that it has a tendency to make
one sick at the stomach at first.
At the end of an hour or so all that
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INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Weather. -
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 69. t
degrees; minimum, 4o.2 degrees.
TODAY'S Showers; cooler; southerly winds.
War.
French official account reviews 40 days'
battle that completed barrier to sea. ca
tion l, pure 7.
Russian raid into East Prussia checked. Sec
tion 1, page 6.
All classes In Holland angered by German
attacks on Dutch vessel. Section 1.
page t.
James O'Donnell Bennett portrays vivid plc
. ture on Austro-Russian battlefront. Sec
tion 1. page 1.
French capture long-disputed heights 10
Battles in Carpathians raging under terrible
weather conditions, bectlon 3. page o.
Vosges Mountains. Section 1, page T.
Mexico.
Villa's army begins attack on Matamoras.
Section 1, page 2.
Rational.
Prin. Eitel Friedrich expected to avoid In
voluntary Internment, bection l, page .
Senators of ship bill lobby Investigation say
nothing will come of it. Section 1, page-.
Wllon-. an A Taft tnlcM rtt rt in laving Of COT-
nerstone of new home of American Red
Cross. Section 1, page i.
Domestic.
Railroads compelled to pay more for money
than industrial concerns. section j.
sua 3.
Boy 16, and girl 15, break record for youth
fulness in elopement. Section 1, page 7.
Cable slips while F-4 1s being raised and
submarine sups dqck into m;cu uvu. op
tion X. page 1.
Spurts.
N'esroes pound Coveleskie and defeat Bea
vers. 9 to 1. Section 2, page 1.
Chicago baseball expert picks Beavers to
finish fourth. Section 2, page 5.
Coast League decides to return to double
umpire system. Section '1, page 2.
Manager Rowland, of White Sox. thinks
Venice and Los Angeles will be pennant
contenders. Section i, page
Polo falls to prove attractive at San Fran
cisco Fair. Section 2, page 4.
The Oregonian will hold roller-skate con
test during Rose festival. oection
Dace 4.
Wlllard more powerful than any man John
son ever has fought, section z. pge .
Pacific Univorslty wins non-conference hex-
athlon meet. Section 2. page 4.
Governor Withycombe to be asked to throw
first ball on opening or coast ijeasuo
here, section 2, page 2.
Coast League race opens Tuesday with Bea
vers at Los Angeles, becnon z. page j..
Loss of Nick Williams as coach severe blow
to Aggie baseball team, bection z, page .s.
Aggie track team strengthened by return
of Dewey, section a, page a.
Johnson-Wlltard fight postponed uutil April
... section 2. age t.
Portland Golf Ot to start directors' cup
tourney April 1. Section 2. psge u.
Pacific Northwest.
Statements of Oregon banks regarded as
eminently satisfactory, section 1. page lo
Federation Club chairman predicts big suc
cess in stato cleaning campaign. Sec
tion 1, page 8.
One boy loses eye and three others are
wounded by blank: cartridges In Ontario,
Or., sham hattle. Section 1. page 9.
Plans for Linn and Bonton Growers' Asso
ciation go ahead rapidly. Section 1,
page 8.
University class hears art of advertising
compared lo architecture. bcction ,
page 10.
Much propTly changes hands at. Albany's
second "Sales day. &ecuon i, page i.
State Railroad Commlnslon orders O.-W. It.
Jfc N. to install additional sarety device
at East Fifty-fifth and Sixtieth streets.
Section t, page 10.
Real Estate and Bnlldlng.
Realty deals in city numerous. Section 4,
page 10. -Council
orders immediate steps for erection
of auditorium section 4. page jv.
Automobiles and Koads.
Columbia Highway is lauded by visitor. Sec
tion 4, page 7.
Burden on dealers in autos Is heavy, says
Fred West. Section 4. page 3.
Grandson of President Hayes is successful
auto salesman. Section 4, pago o.
Commercial and Marine. .
Government will place large contract for
oats and hay. Section 2, page 15.
Chicago's wheat market lower in spite of
heavy export buying, section page l-.
Wall street stocks close at highest prices of
week. Section 2, page 15.
Big Celllo celebration Is to be extensive.
Section 1, page .
Oregon Stevedore Company succeeds to
business of Mccaoe company, section x,
page 1.
Portland and Vicinity.
Campaign for $1,250,000 road bond issue to
be carried to every part of county. Sec
tion 2. page 18.
Teacher works early and late helping chil
dren make garden. Section 1, page 16.
Misaing official of precinct 37 to testify in
election fraud probe. Section 1, page lb.
Jitney ordinance may be passed Friday.
Section 1. page 16.
Memberships for new chamber continue to
come. Section 1. page 16.
Campaigns for Commisslonershlps are in
full swing. Section 1. page 14.
Church campaign designed to increase effi
ciency starts Tuesday. Section 1, page 13.
Charities reports giving aid to 2023 during
four months. Section 1. page 12.
Campaign started by Civic league to find
jobs for heads of needy families. Sec
tion 1, page 11.
Special train to carry excursionists to Larch
Mountain country April 11. Section 1.
page 11.
Chines tricks immigration officers twice In
vain. Section I. page 11.
KING OF BELGIANS
STILLWITHOUT FEAR
Headquarters Are Near
to Firing Line.
LIFE IS FREELY EXPOSED
War Was Unavoidable, Mon
arch Tells Correspondent.
GERMAN MACHINE BLAMED
Conflict Would Have Come at Time
or Last Balkan War, He Adds,
if. It Had Xot Been for Eng
land's Efforts for Peace.
BY HENRY N. HALL.
. . -. . . A v. cw Turk World.
Stall CIHTCTpuiiumi. - " . , .
who has Just returned to New York after
four weeks spent at tne iront ...
allies. Copvrlght. 1015. by the ires, run
n.h,n r-omnanv. Published by arrange
ment with the World.)
NEW TORK
March 23. Day after
day I saw King Albert of Belgium, at
tended by only a staff officer, go from
point to point along the Belgian lines
wherever the artillery duel was most
violent. Under fire almost continually.
he never flinched, never got excited.
He was never tired, never down
hearted.
Only two thinjs moved him tne
suffering of the wounded and tne
bravery of his men. I have talked with
him for hours at a time, and behind
his reserve, which Is more than half
shyness, I have found a simple and
rnhi. nul. In thought and In
deed, no less than In looks, he is every
Inch a King.
Belgium Seeks Only Peace.
"Rto-inTn seek, onlv peace." he said
on the occasion of my interview with
him. "We had no quarrel with anybody,
and the welfare and happiness, the
progress and prosperity of my people
were what I always worked ior. mei
had no thought of war. Now our towns
,.v Seen burned.' -mv ueacef ill people
massacred and there is mourning over
ho whole of Belgium. But one has
only to see our soldiers to know that
the spirit of the Belgians has not Deen
crushed.
"No honest man could have acted
otherwise than I did. Belgium never
nurteH fnr an instant nor in the
slightest degree from the strictest neu
trality, and Belgium was always the
loyal friend of each and every one of
the- powers that guaranteed her neu
trality. At first Germany openly ad
miha4 ihnt in violating the neutrality
of Belgium she was doing a wrong, but
now for the purposes of a campaign
of propaganda in neutral countries an
attempt is being made to cast a slur
upon Belgium and hold her up to scorn
as having perfidiously departed from
ier neutrality In connection wim tne
o-called Anglo-Belgian convention, of
rhich so much is being made.
Urrman Indignation Assumed.
'T ran sav this. No one in Belgium
over cave the name of Anglo-Belgian
conventions to the letter of General
Ducarne to the Minister of War detail
ing the entirely informal conversations
with the British military attache, but
I was so desirous of avoiding even the
semblance of anything that might be
construed as un-neutral that I had the
matters of which it is now sought to
make so much communicated to the
German military attache in Brussels.
When the Germans went through our
archives they knew exactly what they
would find, and all their present sur
prise and indignation Is assumed."
Here is one of the most striking
things King Albert said:
"This war was unavoidable. It had
been postponed several times within
(Concluded on Paae .."
Saturday's War Moves
WHILE there has been some fight
ing along the East Prussian fron
tier and in Bukowina, the mountains of
both the east and the west are the
scenes of the most Important engage
ments at present.
In the Vosges the French, after a
long fight, the position changing hands
more than once, have finally established
themselves on the summit of Hart-raann's-Weilerkopf,
a mountain peak 15
miles northwest of Meulhausen and a
few miles north of Thann. This is con
sidered an Important success, as It gives
the French command of a considerable
amount of country occupied by the Ger
mans. The fight for the position has
been a bitter one, and has been going
on for many days.
In the east the Carpathians are still
the scene of the most violent battles,
the Russians attacking night and day.
In their last official communication they
said they were advancing successfully
on the Bartfeld-Uzsok front. In spite
of the fact that the Austrians hate
been strongly reinforced.
Last night, however, the Austrian of
ficial announcement said that the Rus
sian attack had miscarried, and that
the Russians had suffered heuvy losses.
The Austrians also say they have re
pelled the Russian offensive in Buko.
wina and have forced their opponents
back to the frontier.
The struggle here has been on under
the most terrible weather conditions,
the men having to haul the guns and
carry their charges through deep snow.
On the western front, beyond the
French success in the Vosges, where
the Germans abandoned a large quan
lty of material and left numerous dead
on the ground, there have been no
events of importance, neither side ap
parently being ready as yet for the big
effort which everybody has been ex
pecting. There have been the usual
bombardments of tho positions and
mine warfare and the aviators on both
sides have shown much activity.
Each day allied airmen fly over the
German lines in Belgium and France,
gathering Information. They vary this
duty by dropping bombs on railway
junctions and doing as much damage
as they can to military works.
A Zeppelin yesterday passed the
Island of Schiermonnik-Oog. north of
Holland, flying in a westerly direction
and an attack on some English town
was expected, but if such were her
intention, her arrival along the Eng
lish coast had not been reported late
last night
The official returns for the last .week
of the effects of the German submarine
blockade of Snglund show that three
vessels were sunk and one was tor
pedoed but reached port, while the total
sailings and arrivals numbered 1)50
vessels.
Holland's request for an c. plauailon
from Germany of the sinking of the
.Medea and the capture of two other
Dutch steamers is creating much in
terest in diplomatic circles, where it Is
pointed out that the vessels of other
neutral countries have not been mo
lested. Diplomacy continues its activity in
Italy and the Balkans, the latest report
being that Germany is making an offer
of part of Turkish European territory
to Bulgaria in return for Bulgaria's
continued neutrality.
INTERNMENT IS PROTESTED
Germany Contends Dresden's Crew
Are Castaways.
SANTIAGO, Chile, March The
German legation here has sent a pro
test to the Chilean government against
the internment in this country of the
crew of the German cruiser Dresden.
The warship was sunk off the Chilean
Island of Juan Fernandes March 14
by a British squadron and the crew
brought here by a Chilean, cruiser.
The German legation contends that
the German sailors should be treated
as though they were castaways.
Thieves Escape With $4000.
CHICAGO. March 27. Eight masked
robbers early today entered the mail
order house of Babson Bros., felled the
watchman, John Kastory, with an iron
bar, blew open two safes and a vault
and escaped with mere than, $4000.
Kastory's wounds were superficial.
WHERE HE
-ii n :
MEMORIAL TO
IS
Cornerstone of Red
Cross Home Is Laid.
WILSON AND TAFT ATTEND
Ex-President Lauds Sacrifice
Greater Than That of Men.
EARNEST OF FUTURE SEEN
Chaplain t'oudrn Expresses Hop
That War In Europe Will Itcsult
In Revolution That III
End .Ml Wars Eorcvcr.
WASHINGTON", March rresidrot
Wilson and ex-President Taft were the
central figures here today at the lay
ing of tho cornerstone of an ISOO.00
marble home for the American Red
Cross, erected as a memorial to the
heroic women of the Civil War. They
knelt together to spread mortar be
neath the cornerstone.
A distinguished gath'-rlng, including
members of the Cabinet and tho Su
preme Court and officers of the Army
and Navy, attended the ceremony. Mr.
Taft. Assistant Secretary Brocken
rldgc, of the War Department, Mi
Mabel T. Boardman. t hairmati of the
executive committee of the Red Crottx,
and Justice Lamar, of the Supreme
Court, spoke. The President did not
deliver an address, but personally su
pervised the laying of the cornrtone.
He placed various historic articles in
side the stone.
Moral ufl'erlnr Rcroicniaed.
Mr. Taft referred to the building as
a "concrete evidence ot the removal of
the scar of our sectional conflict and
of the complete union of the pooplc of
our republic." Ho praised the Red
Cross a3 offering to tne people of th
United States a rortaln and effective
means of relieving numan niibery in
thnir own country and In the world."
Mr. Taft declared the new structure
would be "a memorial of the past and
an earnest of the future," adding that
"it is a recognition of moral rather
than physical suffering, aROny and
service, therefore of a higher sacrifice
even than that ot men iu war."
Woman's Sympathy .Manifest.
"It is a loving testimonial, not only
to the patriotism of womtn," he con
tinued, "but to tho silent tenacity of
their gentle sympathy and affection for
their fellow beings, of which the love
of the mother, the sister and the daugh
ter are types. In Its future significant
it gives body and substantial form to
an Instrumentality for tho manifesta
tion of the same traits, not only toward
our own people, but toward tho people
of the world.
"The Red Cross is a suci rssor In
this country of the sanitary commission
of the Civil War and now exists In
most of the countries ot the world as
a mean of ameliorating human dis
aster and thrusting Into the horror
and cruelties of war the touch of
manity and the saving and remedial
effect of medical science and trained
nursing. The list of Its achievements
in relieving human suffering wouM be
too long to recite. Th nemlnal head
ship of the Red Cross when I was Sec
retary of War and President made ire
know them and to realise and Insist
upon tho Importance of foterlng nd
encouraging it a ene of the greatest
institution of our country.
Red from I Permanent.
"It offers to the people of the 1'nited
States a certain and effective means
of relieving human misery In their
(Concluded on rase . 1
SITS.
HERO
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