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THE MmtNING OREGOXTAN, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1914. UTIN AMERICA WILL ASK HOSTILES TO GO BRITISH WAR VESSEL DESTROYED AND MAP SHOWING SCENE OF DISASTER. Ask for qct. XVith Every Purchase Today Begins The Emporium's 5th Annual YeariEnd Clearance Here. is a sale with a real idea behind it. The idea is to give you even lower prices in December than you ever knew elsewhere in January. Each year this Great Year-End Clearance grows greater! Women know the sav ings are Actual! Stocks are new and up-to-the-minute. No "job" lots or out-of-date materials made up "just to sell." This supreme event of 1914 begins at 9 sharp Friday morning! A big force of Irained saleswomen to give you prompt attention! Nothing reserved! No phone or C O. D. orders! NOTHING EXCHANGED' United States Is Asked to Aid in Having Belligerents Anrpp. tn Kp.pn Awav. Li-' v --..v ' L'H ftlll i ECONOMIC LIFE AT STAKE 1 'A I 4 1 H Neutral Zone Extending Even 200 Miles to Sea From Coast of Na- tlons of Southern Continent Sujrsefrted as Remedy. WASHINGTON, Nov. 26. The United P tales Government has been asked by the principal cations of South America to co-operate with them in negotia tions with the belligerent powers of Kurope to bring1 about the exclusion of all belligerent warships from the wa ters of the Americas and safeguard the trade of Pan-American countries with each other. Argentina, Chile, Peru and TJrug-uay have laid their suggestions before the Washington. Government, while the Brazilian government is considering the advisability of taking a similar step. Practically all the Central and South American countries have been circularized by some of the principal nations, resulting in a series of diplo matic conferences in Washington and the capitals of South America, which are now In progress. Avoidance of Friction I Hope. The movement also has for its ob ject the removal of possible causes of serious friction between the countries of this hemisphere and the European belligerents on questions of neutrality. Already Chile, Ecuador and Colombia have had serious difficulties with the belligerents over the use of the wire less and the coaling of foreign war ships, whose presence in the Atlantic and Pacific is growing obnoxious to South American countries. The Impetus that will make any plan effective, it Is recognized by the dip lomats of South America, rests with President Wilson. The various plans thus far formally communicated to the United States are: 1. The establishment of neutral zones on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of North and South America, within which the belligerents shall be asked to agree not to engage in hostilities, or Interfere with commercial vessels. Warship Coaling: May End. 2. Prohibition by all nations of the two Americas of the privilege hitherto exercised by belligerents of coaling in neutral ports, or the issuance of only a sufficient quantity of coal to enable a belligerent vessel to reach the near est port of another country. Already some of the powers of Eu rope have been sounded on these prop ositions and it is understood that Great Britain is ready to deny her warships entry into Central and South American ports to coal if the United States ap proves the proposal and other belliger ents agree. While many diplomats, who have carefully investigated the effects of the restriction of coaling provisions, be lieve that such a prohibition alone would not be effective In keeping bel ligerent warships from American waters, the fact that Great Britain with her sea power looked with favor on mfiaeioa that wnnM a tclut Yi a Rnnhh American countries in preserving their neutrality and restoring their trade has been a source of much encouragement to the diplomatists here. Washington to Guard Neutrality. Those in a position to know the pre liminary opinions expressed by high of ficials of the American Government In early stages of the negotiations learned that the United States was particularly anxious to take no step which possibly would impair Its influence with any of the belligerents in the eventual settle ment of the European war. South American diplomats, realizing this, have been seeking to find some com mon ground on which to act, so that tangible and practical results will be obtained without embarrassing the , Jicuuoia 111 111 til IDiaLlUUtl W 1 Lii LUO : belligerents. With the economical life of the South American nations threatened by the . rupture of trade connections with Eu rope, the Latin countries are looking to the United States for capital to pro mote domestic enterprises and they be- .lieve the development of their indus- ' tries by foreign Interests will not come until Pan-American trade has been given absolute protection. The idea that neutral zones may be established within which ships of all -nations may move unmolested is an extension of the original principle of .International law which fixed three miles as the territorial limit of nation. This distance was agreed on because it was the range of guns in use when the principle was estab lished. Range of Guns la Twenty Mllrm. Since then the range of guns has ex tended to more than 20 miles and the wireless has introduced a new means of controversy over breach of. neu trality. The countries which favor the establishment of a neutral zone argue that an extension of territorial waters ;to 100 or even 200 miles from the coast Is just as much an inherent right -f a sovereign nation as waa the fixing i ne i.iree-mue limit. - The proposal to deny coal to war ships, it is thought by some of the jhouth American diplomats, would hard :ly be adequate, as much more difficulty 3s being experienced In preventing merchant ships from coaling men-of-var at sea. The idea. also, of dvinc -Warship only enough coal to reach a port or tne nearest foreign country would not seriously affect the ability of the belligerents to coal their vessels. Already Colombia, who was not a. sig natory to The Hague convention, has oraerea mat instead or giving a vessel enough coal to reach the nearest home port, supplies be sold to enable them to make only the port of an adjacent country. This, however, has resulted from the desire of Colombia to restrict the exportation of coal, of which she naj only a limited production. plan of Action Probable. The calling of a conference through the governing board of the Pan- American Union has been widely dls cussed as an instrument for joint action hy the nations of the two continents. nd if decided on probably will be held tn Washington. - While high Government . officials vould not discuss tonight any of the various suggestions that had been of fered, saying they' were all under con sideration, there were intimations in some quarters that some plan for the restoration of trade between the t jpo Americas would be evolved. COLOMBIA DECLARED NEUTRAL. minister Says Every Effort Made to Maintain Position. NEW YORK, Nov. 26. Colombia has maintained the strictest neutrality ver since the outbreak of the Euro pean war and has made every effort to compel neutrality of the strictest J MOT Top Battleship Bulwark. Middle Map by Cross) Where Disaster Occurred, and Thame River, From North Sea to London. Below Drawing; of Deck Plant of Bulwark. sort on the part of all foreigners In that country, Don , Julio Betancourt, Colombian Minister to the United States, declared today. He made this declaration In an official statement given out at his home here, which read: 'Mr. Betancourt. the Colombian Min ister, said today that the government of Colombia had maintained the strict est neutrality and had made every ef fort to compel all foreigners in Co lombia to maintain the strictest neu trality ever since the European war broke out. He said that if either the English or the French governments had proof of violations of Colombia's neutrality by any persons or corpora tions in Colombia and would present them at Bogota he could guarantee that condign punishment would be meted out to the offenders. Minister Betancourt pointed out that the wireless station complained of was now under government censorship In tne same manner rs wireless stations in the United States, but that despite the most active efforts of the Co lombian government to maintain its neutrality at all costs one of the bel ligerents may have succeeded in erect ing temporary wireless stations hidden somewhere along Colombia's long coast lines on the Atlantic or on the Pacific. The fruitless search conducted here to find secret wireless stations reported to be operating In Maine and In Florida shows that such things can happen and are harder to detect on the scantily populated shores of South America than on the coast of Maine." TURKEY EXPLAINS SHOTS UNITED STATES LAVKCH FIRST WARNED OF" MINES AT SMYRNA. Guna Fired,. jaj Not In Direction of Craft, Saya Minister Incident la Regarded aa Closed. WASHINOTOX, Nov. 26. The launch from the American cruiser Tennessee. which attempted to enter the closed harbor of Smyrna, was signaled that she was approaching a mine field be fore shots were fired aa a warning to the little craft, according to the ex planation of the Turkish Minister of War to American Ambassador Mor genthau. This was announced by Sec retary of State Bryan tonight. Mr. Bryan said he had leceived from Mr. Morgenthau a note addressed to the latter by the Turkish Minister of War recording a previous conver sation with reference to the Tennessee Incident. "The note," said Mr. Bryan, "contains the statement from government offi cials that the shots were fired after a signal had been given to prevent the launch from approaching mines and that they were not fired in the direction of the launch." Mr. Bryan said he could not tell from the message whether the Turkish Minister of War made the formal ex planation in response to the represen tations which Mr. Morgenthau was in structed to make, but he believed fur ther dispatches would clarify this point. It is not thought possible, nowever, that the note transmitted to Mr. Morgenthau could have been the tormal answer of the Turkish govern ment to the representations, as ordi narily that would be made by the Grand Vizier, who is in charge of tht Turkish Foreign Office. Some recent messages from Constantinople have Deen so garbled in transmission, how ever, that officials thought the note might have been transmitted through tne xurKisn .f oreign utrice from the Ottoman War Department, which in vestigated the matter. In any event Washington officials are awaiting further intormation be fore making reply, though it is un derstood this explanation was satis factory and the incident, regarded as practically closed. New Argentine Dreadnought Sails. BOSTON, Nov. 26. The Argentine dreadnought Rivadavia today took leave of Massachusetts bay, on the shores of which she was built, and sailed for New York on her. way to the South American republic She was manned by Argentine sailors in com mand of Captain Jose Moneta. Archangel Harbor Frozen Over. BERLIN. Nov. 25. (By Wireless.) A special dispatch In Berlin says that the Russian harbor of Archangel, in spite of the efforts of the ice breakers, is completely frozen up. Consequently the movement of ammunition, merchandise and foodstuffs from England to Russia is now impossible. Showing- Point Off Sheerness f Market! WARSHIP BLOWN OP Bulwark and Almost Entire Crew Lost in Thames. OWN MAGAZINE BLAMED British Naval Experts 'Attribute Ex plosion to Internal Causes Of Company . of 700 or 80O Mien, Only 14 Survive. (Continued Prom First Page.) their aid and picked them up. Some of the crew were badly mutilated. Ship's Band Was Playing. A touch of the dramatic was added to the catastrophe by the fact that the band of the Bulwark was playing when the explosion came. An eyewitness who was on a ship a short distance away from the Bulwark said: "I was at breakfast at about ten minutes to 8 o'clock this morning, when I heard an explosion and went on deck. My first impression was that the report was produced by the firing of a salute by one of the ships, but the noise was quite exceptional. Sky ' Obscured by Smoke. "When I got on deck I soon saw that something awful had happened. The water and the sky were obscured by dense volumes of smoke. We were ordered at once to the scene of the dis aster to render what assistance we could. At first we could see nothing, but when the smoke cleared we were horrified to find that the battleship Bulwark had gone. She semed to ha.v entirely vanished from sight, but a little later we detected a portion of the huge battleship showing about four feet above the water. "We kept a vigilant lookout for the unfortunate crew, but saw onlv rwr men. I don't know whether the other boats rescued anyone. One man we saw was dead. The disaster was the result. oi an accident. ' Ship Seems Split In Two. Another eyewltnes said that when the explosion occurred a great volume of flame and smoke shot into the air. The ship seemed to split in two and then heeled over and sank. She disap peared lr less than five minutes. The Bulwark. 15.000 tons displace ment, was laid down In 1899 and core Dieted in 1902. Sh wa ill r i of 75 feet beam and drew 29 feet of water, .tier armament consisted of fou 12-innh cunn 19. slT.lnnh niA. t in pounders, six three-pounders and four Duuiuci & torpeao moey. BOMB HITS GERMAN TRAIN British Aviator Slakes Explosion Felt for Miles Along Lilne. LONDON. Nov. 27. A dispatch to the Daily Chronicle from a correspondent in Northern France says: " "Wednesday about noon a tremen dous explosion was heard and felt for miles along the allies' line. The source of the explosion apparently was be hind the German line. Later it was learned that a British naval airman had dropped a bomb squarely on a German ammunition train, which blew up." Ivco M. Frank Fails to Get Writ. WASHINGTON. Nov. 26 Justice Holmes today refused to issue a writ to bring the Leo M. Frank murder case to the Supreme Court for review. Justice Lamar previously also had re fused the writ. The application for review will be made to the entire court Monday. 120.000 Suspicious Aliens Watched. LONDON, Nov. 26 Reginald Mc- Kenna, Secretary of State for Some Affairs, said in the Mouse of Commons today that 120,000 cases of suspicious aliens had been investigated by the police. Six thousand houses bad been ransacked, with the result that 342 persons had been interned. dines and Redingote or tunic skirts. - Year-li.nd ( Clearance The very latest $13.95 $19.50 $24.75 $29.50 $35.00 $39.50 "Si Jj4 3 Lots of Skirts LOT 1 Skirts up to $6.95 Odd lot in serges, checks, J0 1 Q voiles 4 c X LOT 2 Newest $5.00 Skirts, plain and tunict0 styles PO0 LOT 3 Newest $7.50 Skirts, flare and tunic (Jy QA styles .4Tt.i7 ALL OTHER SKIRTS REDUCED 3 Lots of Waists Lingeries and crepes dozen dainty new models. $1.60 and $1.75 t - ff Waists J) J. cUvs $1.95 and $2.75 J A r Waists 4 1 0 To $3.95 Waists, some (T Q Q tub silks ;tj)l .CO Petticoats $2.95 Taffeta, Mess aline and Jersey-Top Petti-f A J- coats tP 1. HrO $3.95 Messaline Petticoats, Silk Jersey CiO ?Q tops tPLoO-v MILLIONS CRY 'FOOD' Belgians Have Not Enough to Eat Thanksgiving Day. APPEAL SENT AMERICANS This Country Is Chief Hope and It ,19 Not Sending Near Enough Food to Prevent Starvation; Middle States Do. Share. NEW YORK. Nov. 26. This Thanks giving found 7,000,000 starving: persons in war-swept Belgium crying out for bread,' and only half enough food on hand to appease their hunger. Three thousand tons of food are required each day to feed the sufferers, yet to date the United States, on which the Belgians must depend in main for bus tenance, has furnished less than half that amount. Ten ounces a day will save a human being from death by hunger. The foregoing epitomizes a state ment issued today by the American Commission for the Relief or Belgians, carrying a plea for the small Quantity of food specified for each Inhabitant of the stricken land. A, cable from H. C. Hoover, chair man of the London Commission de clared the situation desperate and urged assistance immediately. He said the commission was chartering sev eral ships for dispatch to the Atlantic seaboard, trusting that Americans would fill them with supplies. The Middle states are leading ..con tributions, the commission says. Presi dent Edmund James, of the University of Illinois, has started a movement to raise $500,000. Each of the 99 counties in Iowa soon will contribute a second carload of flour. Kentucky is giving freely, an example of its charity be ing shown the other day, when J. S. Ellington, a blind and armless soldier, 82 years old, of May field, contributed 50 cents. And In Kansas 10,000 active workers have been organized to work for the cause in Just ten days. A shipload of food will start next week from California and another is being loaded In the State of Washing ton. Salt Lake City has given 50 cars of foodstuffs which will be sent by way of the West Coast. The South, even though it' suffered itself from the war, is helping, too. Alabama will send a shipload of pro visions from Mobile about December 15. Flour will be sent in cotton sacks and when the sacks are empty they can be turned into clothing. Virginia is $13.85 for Suits Up to $27.50 Every conceivable fabric broadcloths, gabar fancy weaves tailored both in and short coat styles; plain 457 Other Suits at Sale Prices models -not one suit restricted. Suits at Suits at Suits at, Suits at. Suits at Suits at S13.95 S17.45 S21.35 S24.85 SS8.15 Every Hat at 2 Price Absolutely nothing restricted. Hundreds of the newest, most charming Mid-Winter Hats. Original prices re main on everything. Pay just half. All Plumes 2 Price Greatest legitimate Plume reduction ever made in Portland. $2.75 Plumes, $1.39 ' $6.75 Plumes, $3.39 $4.79 Plumes, $2.39 2000 Velvet Hats "Flossie Allen" Hats 95c 75 preparing a cargo of 6000 tons for January shipment. PASSPORTS ARE REFUSED State Department Cautious as to- Cltizens Born Abroad. WASHINGTON. Nov. 26. Applica tions by naturalized Americans for passports to visit their native lands are frequently meeting with rejection By the State Department, which is enforc ing a strict application of the new passport regulations recently promul gated by President V ilson. In eacn case officials require It to be clearly shown that the purpose of the appli cant is to make a short business visit and that he has no intention to seeX exception from local obligations while resident abroad because of bis Ameri can citizenship. Many complex situations have arisen since the outbrek of the European war through the effort3 of naturalized Americans engaged in business abroad to obtain Immunity by virtue of that citizenship from regulations and re strictions enforced against their coun trymen, who frequently are competitors in business. This has been particularly true in Oriental countries. TABRIZ MASSACRE DOUBTED Berlin Reports 20 00 Russians Slain; British Scout Statement. LONDON, Nov. 26. Telegraphing from Amsterdam, the correspondent of Reuter's Telegram Company says the Berlin Tageblatt has published a dis patch from Constantinople to the ef fect that 2000 Russians bavo been mas. sacred at Tabriz by Persians. The British official press bureau, while assenting to the publication of the foregoing dispatch. Bays it appears ti be false and to have been spread under German instructlcas. GERMAN LOSSES 1,500,000 Figures Cover War Only to Early October, Says Writer. PARIS, Nov. 26. (Special.) The Copenhagen correspondent of the Temps telegraphs that he learns from diplomatic sources that the total Ger man losses, counting dead, wounded, prisoners, men incapacitated by Illness and those missing for August, Septem ber and the early part of October, amounted to 1,500.000. He adds that he. has complete con fidence in the source of his informa tion. i Teacher of Dentistry Dead. PHILADELPHIA. Nov. 26. Dr. James Truman, a former dean of the dental department of the University of Penn sylvania, who was Identified with den tal work and teaching for nearly 61 years, died today 'at his home ia this city. He was 88 years old. $9.95 for New Coats to $17.50 An astonishingly low price on these much wanted garments. Stylish Balmacaan and cape coats in tweed, cheviot and novelty iaoncs. x ear-n;na Clearance $9.95 Sale Black Coats Sacrifice prices on stunning coats. Black broadcloths, zibeline and Hindu lynx: $14.75 oats, $11.95 $17.60 Coats, S13.85 $22.50 Coats, S17.S5 $26.50 Coats, SSl.lO $29.50 Coats, $23.55 To $14.85 Coats $6.85 A whole rack of odd coats tf Qk priced ridiculously low. Choice fj Q Clearance prices: meuse Year-End COLLECTIONS MADE EASY DISCRETION PERMITTED 1ST SOME WAR TAX MATTERS. Bicycle, Baby Carrlajte and Dot Travel Checks May Be Stamped at Their Destinations. WASHINGTON, Nov. 26 A ruling of interest to all railroads was issued to day by the Bureau of Internal Revenue, interpreting the provision of the war tax law relating to the levy of 1 cent on all manifests .bills of lading or other evidences of ten receipt and for warding of shipments. The law re quires such evidence of receipt on all shipments where the charge is over 5 cents, but the Bureau announces that On iltose CI - - White Coats Reduced Chinchillas and Polo Cloths at Year End Clearance Prices: $16.50 Coats at $12.35 $19.50 Coats at $14.65 $21.50 Coats at $16.35 $24.75 Coats at $18.55 Plush Coats Every fine plush coat at Year-End $17.50 $22.50 $27.50 $32.50 $45.00 $55.00 $13.85 $17.85 $21.95 $25.85 $35.85 $43.95 Dresses To $10.75 neat Wool Dresses in serge, crepe and granite cloth. r.v.ED.d..c.,r$4.95 To $19.50 Dresses of messaline, char- and c r e p :$9.35 Clearance "a literal compliance wtih this require ment Is in some cases Impracticable or impossible." "It is, therefore, hereby provided." says the ruling, "that where freight is accepted by non-agency stations, it must be receipted for by conductors ac cepting it. He must see to it that an Internal revenue stamp of 1 cent de nomination is attached to each of such receipts and canceled as required by these regulations, before such ship ments are accepted." The ruling provides, however, that in case of shipments of perishable nature or in other cases where such receipts cannot be given by conductors, the shipments may be accepted and trans ported in advance of the affixing of the stamp. The receipt in such cases is to be delivered to the "destination agent" and the stamp required of the consignee. Baggage checks for the transportation of bicycles, dogs, baby carriages, etc.. will be- regarded as evi dence of receipts and should be stamped. You can dress in comfort by using a PERF Tion OIL Take it to the bath room, breakfast room, living-room. It makes the whole house comfortable. 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