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A THE , MORMXG OREGOXIAN. WEDXESDAT. OCTOBER 14, 1914. CAVALRY DASH TO A! FRO FOR GAIN Neither Side Able to Go Round or Break Through Line of Opposing Force. SMALL BODIES ARE DARING I'rcncli Detachment Saves Allies by Ruse 70 Men Figlit 7000. Trendies Close Together, Foes Hurling Defies. FROM THE BATTLE-FRONT (via Paris), Oct. 13 The battlefield north west of Litle was the point of greatest interest in today's continuation of the great conflict which already has last ed e 29 days. The cavalry of both armies has swept about the country tor days, seeking; to go through or around the opposing lines, and everywhere has encountered th-e forces of the enemy. A successful ruse carried out by a detachment of French infantry in the vicinity of Lens is related in the orders of the day. Having been ordered to hold a position, the small squad did eo throughqut the day, but at dusk the detachment was compelled to retire be fore an overwhelming force of Ger mans. Reaching a country estate, the French commander placed a number of men in the last outlying houses with orders to remain until they heard the bugle call. The rest of the party took up a position a quarter of a mile fur ther on in the open country. Germans Cangkt iu Trap, The Germans continued their pursuit without noticing the French riflemen In the houses. A bugle sounded and fire was opened both on the front and on the rear of the German force, which. after losing many men, retreated. The rench reoccupied their original posl tion and saved the allies' line from be ing pressed. A rench non-commissioned officer wno nad iz men who had been forgot ten at an entrenched post, near Roye, saw 7000 Germans advancing, but the Frenchmen did not budge until their ammunition was spent. Then the of ticer ordered his men to retire through a wood and he rejoined his regiment witn zu or nis command. He was pro moted on the field to be a lieutenant, as his stand had permitted a rein forcement of the allies' line at a critical lime. The weather, except lor some chilly nignts, is ideal tor military opera wua. xi. vcn me men occupying ex posed trenches have recovered from tne a amp spell. Trench duty in the siege operations is now thoroughly organized. The dig ging continues all the time and the trenches of the opposing armies ap proach to within 100 yards of each other at some places. The men in these ditches, especially along the line from Kheims to the Meuse, have been inac tlve often during the past few days ana voices otten ring out from the she. ter calling upon one another to come out and fight. Algerians Display Daring. Borne of the men -have become very daring, the life in the burrows, with the occasional turn at firing, being so monotonous that they go out search of adventure. One party of three Algerians left their shelter and proceeded to a house which was still standing near the lines. There they found seven Germans. The men fra ternized and together searched the cel lar. After regaling themselves on wine, the Algerians, who had brought rifles with them, ordered the Germans to fall In and took them prisoners. Just behind the allies' firing line the grape harvest is proceeding as though nothing unusual were occurring. The crop promises to be good. Chauffeur Wins Promotion. A chauffeur belonging to the Brit lth ordnance corps waa promoted to day for saving five motor trucks, form ing part of an ammunition convoy. The Germans had cut the convoy off from the supply column. After disposing of tne contents of the trucks over the field all of the men of the convoy with the exception of the chauffeur made off. The chauffeur hid Club yesterday announced striking I progress in their various lines of ac tivity in preparation for the observ ance of "Apple day," October 20. The Mats announce that they will distribute 10,000 apples among the poor and inmates of institutions in the city. An effort will be made also to find someone more than 3 years old who has never eaten an apple. The 10,000 apples will be displayed on trucks on the streets before their distribution. Thirty thousand apples will be dis tributed among the children in the city schools and addresses will be made in all of the schools on the importance ! of the apple industry. E. H. Brown i has charge of the delivery of the apples to the schools. Phil Metschan has written hotel men throughout the state, asking them to provide apple menus for tne day. &. Pier and C. C. Colt will appear at the meeting of the retail grocers tonight to ask their co-operation. Streetcars will display placards can ing attention to "Apple day" ana tne slogan, "Eat yourself healthy eat apples 'buy the box." Dorr Keasey win distribute apples among the newsboys ana George aj Baker will endeavor to interest the theater managers in the "Apple day" movement- Committee meetings will be held practically every day from now on, and the plans for the celebration will be worked out completely as rapidly as possible. DEBATE STILL DEBATED 20,000 GIVE UP GUNS Ten Antwerp Forts Blown Up by British, Says Berlin. MANY SUPPLIES CAPTURED DR. S3IITH W RITES ANOTHER LET TER TO MR, MOORES. Democratic Candidate Inatota He Would Like to Discuss Everything: and Calls Dr. WlUycombc Injured. Dr. C J. Smith, Democratic candidate for Governor, has issued another letter to Charles B. Moorea, chairman or the Republican State Central Committee, debating the possibilities and probabil ity of the debate, proposed by Mr. Mo ores, between Dr. Smith and his Re publican adversary. Dr. James Withy- combe. The letter follows: Through the public press I learn of your last letter to me, To date our correspondence Is like this: You began it in numerous newspaper arti cles. In which, you Insisted that I should 1 publicly discuss certain Issues, which you named. I replied with an offer to engage in a lotnt discussion of all issues with Dr. Withycombe. You then replied, proposing that we limit the dl3cusslon to tne tariff and my legisla tive record, provided rr. Withycombe would ; consent. In my second letter I accepted your terms, reserving only the right, in addi tion to discussing with Dr. Withycombe the tariff said my legislative record. present other matters that might occur to me as bearing on the campaign. In your last letter, after asking me originally to discuss issues publicly before the people, you say the "people are not clamoring for a debate" and that you "do not know what trr. Withycombe's accom plishments are as a speaker." From the beginning, l accepted your pro posals to me in perfect good faith, and directed my offer for a Joint discussion in the belief that it is not the campaign man ager, but his candidate, that is supposed be best qualified to discuss public ques tions, that it Is not the manager, but the candidate, that is running for . Governor, and that, not the manager, but the candl- candidate, is the person from whom the people desire a discussion of the issues. ay your replies to my communications i cannot but feel that you do Ir. Withycombe injustice in Insisting' that not the candidate but the campaign manager should discuss the Issues with me and by letter; that not the candidate, but the managers, are by proxy running for Governor, and that the managers think the people want to hear the Issues discussed, not by tne candidate. but by those who are in control of his campaign. French Withdraw Cavalry Toward Arras Artillery Is Engaged at Woe vr e a nd Klieims Ka ler Promotes His Son. LONDON, Oct. 13. The following of ficial statement has been received from Berlin by the Marconi Wireless Tele graph Company: . Enormous quantities of provisions of all kinds were captured in Ant werp. The sjarrison of the north ern forts fled to Ho 11 and, where they were disarmed. -The British them selves are said to have blown up 10 of the. Antwerp forts. The Belgians esti mate that they lost 20,000 men as pris oners. "When the fall of Antwerp was made known to the allies, the French cavalry was withdrawn in the direc tion of Arras. "The interrupted artillery engage ment in the Woevre region was re sumed October - 11. At the same time the Germaif right wing and center re sumed the bombardment of Rheims. 'On. the whole the situation for the Germans is favorable. "Before his departure for the front Emperor William . promoted Prince Joachim, his youngest son, to the rank of cavalry captain. 'It is reported that a Russian fleet of eight large vessels and 10 small ships was sighted Saturday near Kus- tendje, a seaport of Roumania on the Black Sea, steaming in a southerly di rection!" YOUR KIND OF HEADACHE The headache which In addition to the pain, gives the impression of a tight band about the head, la caused by nervous exhaustion. It is a blessing In disguise because it gives warning that you are overdrawing your supply of nervous energy. Unless you stop the mental fatigue and build up your nerves you will be fortunate if you escape nervous breakdown, some form of paralysis or other severe nervous disorder. Rest is, of course, desirable but not always possible and liable to be de ferred, vv ith sufficient rest the nerves will build themselves up. Failing in this, you need something that will build them up and sustain them while they are kept moderately at -work. Dr. Williams' Pink Fills are probably un equalled for this purpose. They build up the nerves in the only possible way. by enriching the blood with the ele ments the nerves need. The treatment ia one of nutrition of the nerve cells, requiring a non-alcoholic tonic and Dr. Williams' Fink Fills have proved use ful in so many severe cases that every sufferer is justified in giving them a trial for any form of nervous debility. They contain no opiate or harmful drug. A little book on Nervous Disorders will be sent free on request by the Dr. Williams Medicine Co., Schenectady, . N. Y. All druggists sell Dr. Williams' Fink Pills. ROLE OF MESSUXGER, DECLINED American Minister Asked to Advise Antwerp of Intended Assault. WASHINGTON, Oct. 13. An official report received here today describes the efforts of German military authorities at Brussels to send word through the American legation to the people of Antwerp of the intended bombardment of that city. German officials asked Minister Whitlock to transmit the notification. which under Article 26 of The Hague convention an invading force is obliged to give to the people of a city about to be bombarded. Mr. Whitlock refused to present the communication, desiring. accordance with the strict neutral ity of the United States, not to be the bearer of military messages to any of tne belligerents, ine Germans insisted all other means of communication had failed. The Spanish Minister, who was in conference with Mr. Whitlock when the representations were made, finally decided to send tne Spanish naval at tache to Antwerp with the notification. 4200 HEAR PROF. HERING Fifteen Hundred Attend final Lec ture on Christian Science. in the woods beside the road and when the Germans retired he returned to the trucks. He found the wheels of the machines intact and one motor in good order. Hitching the trucks to gether, he Drought them sately into camp alone. In Alsace the French continue their advance. Frequent skirmishes are being fought between the German rear guard and the French advance guard. bnow has fallen in high hills in this region, making operations difficult. Fifteen hundred people heard Pro fessor Hermann S. Herlnar. C. S. B., de liver his lecture on Christian Science at the First Church of Christ, Scientist, Monday night. It was Professor Her ing's third and final appearance on his present visit to Portland. The same lec ture was given on Sunday afternoon. Sunday evening and last evening, and the final audience was the greatest of alL Approximately 4200 people attend. ed the lectures. Professor Hering was introduced last evening by Miss Caroline Barnes. who is prominent in Portland educa tional circles and wno spoke, among other things, of Professor Hering's own work as an educator. when he was attached to tne faculty of large university as ProfesBor of electrl himself cal engineering. WOMEN MOURNERS BARRED Man Hating Gossip Makes Dying lie quest That Only Widow Attend. CHICAGO. Oct. 8. The widow of Charles L. Eberle. who died recently at his home, Germantown avenue and Church lane, was the only woman to attend his- funeral. This was - in ac cordance with his dying request. Eberle s reason ..for asking ' bis wife not to permit any other woman to tend the obsequies was that he did not want them "gossiping over the corpse.1 The dying man declared that at every funeral he ever attended the women seemed to be there for no other pur pose than gossip. to "shake down. ' The man met him at South Halsted and West Harrison streets, pressed a eawed-off shotgun to his stomach, pulled the trigger and fled. Although conscious almost until his death, he refused to tell the name of his assailant. D'Andrea came to Chicago from Italy 10 years ago. He was president, of the Sewer and Tunnel Miners' Union, owned several automobiles, employed two chauffeurs and owned real estate and diamonds. He lived at 913 South Halsted street. At one time he was indicted for the murder of Anton Neccio, but was ac quitted on the plea of self-defense. He was feared by men in his organization and was said to operate what is known as the "padrone" system. p2k DRUGS ft0 I1 1 p -SB I I A fe55 I 1 R h.Li H M sr. !E O ft I II drugs! DOUBLE STAMPS. TILL' TWO TODAY WAG TALKS SELF IN JAIL Heady Tongue Causes Arrest, Also Frees Owner. but CHICAGO, Oct- 8. The ready tongue or Leo Lesner, of Z51 4 southport ave nue, landed him in Jail and then got him out. A policeman-had broken up a crap game and bad chased the par ticipants away when Leo " happened along. How much did you win?" asked the policeman. Me? Oh, I won 20 cents, I should say," replied Lee glibly. ne was ia en to tne station and ap peared later before Municipal Judge orison. "I wasn't shooting , craps." Leo ex plained. "I thought this policeman was JoKing and- I said I won 20 cents. didn t know what he was talking He was dismissed. "Clar Wood" Malt Tonic A health ful, nourishine appetizer. Case of 24 bottles $2.75, single bottle for .; 15 "Wood-Lark Salad Oil A pure and wholesome select cottonseed oil preferred by many for salads and culinary use. Pints 25S quarts 50 Kent's Ennrllah Tooth Bruako Val ues up to 60c; special 29c. Every one warranted: there's no better brush than Kent made. This Little Scales for 25 will weigh the baby or check up your household buys. L. Marina, an absolutely pure Castile Soap, the cake 20t Ivory Soap today, special, 8 rakes for 25C Measure your steps, for $1.00. A Pedometer will truly tell you how many miles you walk each day. This Indian, 63c Alarm will last a life time; warranted ac curate. Sandalwood Faggots 25c Something new. Carries the delicate fragrance of the wood. Slumber Socks, new and better than ever. Pair 15d This Alcohol Stove, special, 39c Heavy brass, no smoke, no smell, burns dena tured alcohol gas. In tense heat, .quick service. Wood-Lark Building, Alder Street at West Park ITALY GETS READY Cool $1,000,000 Spent Daily Since War Began. $68,500,000 AID IS GIVEN Two French scientists have huilt world's most powerful 1ertro-magnet. th Italian Foreign Minister Dying and New Minister of War, Appointed, Is Austrian by Birth Great Confidence Is Bestowed. ROME (via Paris). Oct. 13. Italy has spent at the rate of $1,000,000 a day since the war began to place her army in a state of preparedness. A government announcement issued today shows that in addition to the or dinary appropriations the Cabinet ar ranged for the use by the military ad ministration of 341,000,000 lire (J6S.-500,000). The' condition of Marquis San Giu llano, the Italian Foreign Minister, is considered hopeless. The last sacra ments were administered today. The Minister has been ill for several weeks. General Zupelli, the new Minister of War. was born an Austrian subject. His selection is due to the confidence re posed in him by Lieutenant-General Cadorna, chief of the Italian staff. ANTWERP CITIZENS RETURN Germans Enter City, Expecting Am bush, Says 'Writer. AMSTERDAM (via London). Oct. 13. After the Germans occupied Antwerp, the correspondent of the Handelsblad made a tour of the forts with a Ger man officer. The correspondent has sent the following dispatch regarding this trip: "We drove all around the inner line of forts which were deserted, with the guns spiked and the bridges blown up. Outside the city we passed trenches with barbed wire barricades and heaps of Belgian uniforms and kits which had been thrown away. "The German officer who accom panied me was suspicious of an am half the Belgian force had been left behind hidden in houses, ready to re appear in civilian clothing ana snipe Germans. "We continued our Journey to Capel len, where the officer entered the town hall and assured the people that they could safely return home. We went on to Putten, where we encountered two streams of refugees, one flying from Antwerp and the other already returning." VOICE OF DEAD EARNING Administrator Wants Royalty on Xordica's Phonograph Records. NEW YORK. Oct. 7. In an order to uncover assets of the estate of M me. Lillian Kordica Young an application was made in the Surrogate's Court by Leslie J. Tompkins, temporary admin istrator of the estate, for permission to examine officers of the American Phonograph Company. An order to that effect was signed by Surrogate Cohalan. The petition says that on April 29, 1910. Mme. Kordica signed an agree ment with the company by which she was to get one-third of the royalties on all phonograph records sold. She received a check for $450.25 quarterly as her share of the royalties. The administrator wants to find out how bush. He declared he had heard that I much is now due under' the agreement. LEADER DIES; LIPS SEALED Joseph D'Andrea Refuses to Tell Xante of Assailant. CHICAGO. Oct. 8. Joseph d' Andrea. who rose from a common sewer laborer to a labor leader with an income of $30,000 a year, died recently at the University Hospital of a gunshot wound received on the niitht of Sep tember 16. According to the police-he was shot by a man whom he had tried DUTCH MAY DEPORT IXIERXES Holland Heavily Burdened by Refu gees and Army Maintenance. NEW YORK. Oct. 13. Chevalier Van Rappard. Minister from The Nether lands to the United States, announced here this afternoon that a way probably would be found by his government to send away the British soldiers who were driven across the Belgian frontier into Holland after the fall of Antwerp. As to how this might be accomplished the Minister did not say. He added, however, that the detachment of Ger mans who entered Dutch territory un awares recently still were interned, How to provide for the refugees now In Holland was an item of much con cern to the government. Chevalier Van Rappard said. An enormous Item In Hollands expenditures since the be ginning of the war is the cost of main taining her army of 300,000 men, ap proximately $600,000 a day. This army, he said, win defend Hollands neu trality in any event. Although Holland, he said, was try ing tu avoid an antagonistic attitude. she was alive to the possibilities of the situation and vigorous steps had been taken to prevent supplies from reach ing Germany through Dutch ports or territory. A man who tried to get seven sacks of mail across the border. Chev alier Rappard said, was severely pun ished recently. British warships, he thought, were well within their rights in slopping Dutch ships at sea and searching :hem for contraband. 2 2,0 00 Interned, Says Holland. LONDON, Oct. 13. Altogether 32.000 British and Belgian soldiers are in terned at different points in Holland. About 1300 of these men are British. This statement has. been made by the Dutch War Office, according to a dis patch from the Rotterdam correspond ent ot tne Times. ROSE SOCIETY ELECTS E. B. McKariand Chosen President at Meeting Last Xiglit. E. B. McFarland was elected presi dent of the Portland Rose Society at the-annual meeting of the organization I Monday night in the Library. Mr. Mc Farland succeeds Mrs. J. N. Davis, who declined to serve another term. Mrs. F. I. Fuller was chosen first vice-president. Other officers elected were: Mrs. Thomas Gray, second vice- president; Alfred Tucker, recording sec retary; H. E. Hauger. financial secre tary; R. G. Jubitz. treasurer. The treasurer's report showed a balance of $871.07. a little less than last year's. Father George Schoener gave an in formal address, at the close of the business session, urging the members to advertise Portland as a city of roses. who are languid, sleepless and physically run-down get im mediate relief and lasting bene fits from the regular use of Scott's Emulsion alter meals. Its chief eonstitnent is nature's greatest body-building force to strengthen the organs ana nerve centers,' gram by , grain, to rebuild physical and mental energy. No alcohol or opiate in SCOTT'S. Refove Sabmtitatm. 1440 EknalWiUU. fi--. A- !fS 1 ' " I lrlf tail - x 'Sfesi . -f k - I - A - : - - -c-M trxf? - ,4 v ' IIP! Tun . ii, ., "n - WnrT innimi .-i- in iMimiiiiiiii aiiniiririiniii t n -Tin-i -Tim Ji . ,,, v i v.. -. v-l-r.' ttTir.ti-i-fi-rniii MH,,Mim-, .mnmr-n ,i I APPLE DAY PLANS RUSHED Muts and Other Organizations Aid in Observance Programfnes. Bub -committees in the general "Ap pie day" committee at the Commercial AUSTRALIA'S OFFER TAKEN Britain Accepts Men and Will Use Money Given by Canadian Women. LONDON. Oct. IS The official press bureau announced tonight that the British War Office had accepted the offer made by Australia to send an other light horse brigade with a field ambulance corps. It has been decided that the 57,000 (J285.000) which the women of Canada subscribed and transmitted through the Duchess of Connaught for hospital purposes will be devoted as follows: The War Office will utilize 1125,000 in the purchase of motor ambulance cars, half of the machines to be used in France and the other half in this country, and the remainder of the sum subscribed will be used in equipping a naval hospital with 1000 beds, to be known as the Canadian Women's Hos pital. Miss A. Ii. Dimick Recovering. Miss Aphia L. Dimick, principal of the Brooklyn School, and one of the most popular teachers of the public school force in Portland, who has been seriously ill at her home in Tenth street for several weeks, is slowly re covering. Her physician. Dr. Margaret Quigley. said yesterday tha. her con dition was improved. Miss Dimick was teacher in the Ladd, or old Park School, for many years prior to assum ing the prlncipa lship of the Brooklyn School. LADIES! DARKEN YOUR GRAY HAIR Use Grandma's Sage Tea and Sulphur Recipe and Nobody Will Know. Althouirh roost of the eitls in Japan have mod Rifl a wlk ! modern street Dins im practicsll unknown ia the empire. The use of Sage and Sulphur for restoring faded, gray hair to its nat ural color dates back to grandmother's time. She used it to keep her hair beautifully dark, glossy and abundant. Whenever her hair fell out or took on that dull, faded or streaked ap pearance, this simple mixture was ap plied with wonderful effect. . But brewing at home is mussy and c.-of-iate. Nowadays, by asking at any drugstore for a 60-cent bottle of "Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Compound," you will get this famous old recipe which can be depended upon to re store natural color and beauty to the hair and is splendid for dandruff, dry, feverish, itchy scalp and falling hair. A well-known downtown drugzist says it darkens the hair so naturally and evenly that nooody can tell it has been applied. Tou simply dampen a sponge or soft brush with it ami draw this through your hair, taking one strand at a time. By morning the gray hair disappears, and after an other - application or two it becomes beautifully dark, glossy and abundant. Aav. ft Oregon Is Advised to Keep - Her Normal Schools. Resident Prom Minnesota, Where Same F'ipcht Wn WaKed, Snys Action There Should He Lesson Here. (D- L. Kiehle in Sunday Oregonian.) PORTLAND, Oct- 9. To the Editor Coming from Minnesota, a sister state of the same age as Oregon, it was a surprise to find that you are just settling the problem that was forced upon us just 40 years ago. At that time we had two normal schools in the southern and well settled tier of counties, and one at St. Cloud, far north. Populists were then in po litical control. Ambitious leaders who had a record for economy to make in the Legislature of 1ST6, introduced a bill to discontinue the school at St. Cloud and devote the building to an inebriate or insane asylum. It was finally agreed to allow the three schools to continue upon the standing annual appropriation of $5000 each. This left them, not dead, but impov erished and dying. This condition aroused the friends of the common schools to a determined insistence that it be settled once for all whether the state should have any normal schools. If not, let them all be abandoned; if they are necessary to the preparation of teachers for the common schools of the plain people, then let them be provided as and where they are needed, for the new and strug gling pioneer districts as well as for the wealthy and populous. When the situation was fairly and positively put opposition ceased. From that time to this our normal schools have become a positive and influen tial factor in public education. In the five normal schools, well distributed over the state, we have an enrollment of more than 4000 student-teachers and in these 40 years their annual support has increased from $15,000 to more than (450.000. To a late resident of your state it seems as if the time had come when the intelligence and the industrial record of Oregon should be adequately expressed in a generous support of her common schools by providing skilled teachers for her new territory as well as for the older and fertile districts of the valley of the Willam ette. D. L. KIEHLE. DINING-ROOM EASTERN OREGON STATE NORMAL SCHOOL BE JUST TO EASTERN OREGON Although embracing about two-thirds of the state's area. Eastern Oregon now has no state school of any character. Restore to it the Eastern Oregon, State Normal School by voting Mill Cast your ballots for the cause of education, for the betterment of the public school system, for the better training of Oregon's young men and women who wish to become teachers. It will add but a feather's weight to the burden of your taxes. One-Fortieth of a or two and one-half cents annually on every thousand dollars' assessed valuation, as pro vided in the mjllage tax bill referred to the people by the- Legislative Assembly, will restore to the state's use the Eastern Oregon Normal's plant at Weston, consisting of one main building, two dormitories, a president's cottage and 10 acres of ground. Eastern Oregon needs this school. Oregon needs it, and also needs the Southern Oregon Normal at Ashland. Three Normal Schools are none too many for this great commonwealth. Reflect that if you pay taxes on $2000, the permanent and adequate maintenance of the Eastern Oregon Normal will cost you but five cents each year. (Paid advertisement, authorized by F. D. Watts. WHMam MacKenzie, S. A- Barnes, E. O. DeMoss, Clark Wood, Weston. Or.)