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vol. LIT. , 0. , , , I mi li I'rtrnnnn llfnillin IP GERMANY DEMANDS FRIENDLY CONSULS America Allowed Three in Belgium Now. DIEDERICH AT ANTWERP 0. K. Liege and Brussels Other Cities Now Approved. ACTION THOUGHT MILITARY Though Germany AVitliliolds Rea sons for Move, Was hington Thinks Precaution Aimed to Prevent Release of Information. " WASHINGTON, Jan. 25. Secretary Bryan made public tonight the text of the note from Germany annulling the exequaturs or certificates of authority of neutral Consuls in Belgium, and is sued a paraphrase of tne American Gov ernment's reply. While the German note considers the exequaturs of neutral Consuls to have expired," the American Government takes the view that they merely have been "suspended." In this way the Washington Government avoided com mitting itself to the question of whether or not the sovereignty of Belgium had expired with the German military oc cupation. At the same time the United States Indicates a willingness to make ar rangements for the continuance of Consuls personally not objectionable to the German authorities. ( Antwerp Consul O. Kd. American Consul-General Diederieh, at Antwerp, already has been recog nized by the Uerman government, and iha American note makes inquiry Whether the Consuls at Liege and Brus sels, the. only two other places where neutral Consuls now are permitted by the German military authorities to do business, are personally satisfactory to the local authorities. : '" " '" Tho announcement from the State Department follows: 'The department received by mail the following communication, dated November 30, 1914, from the German Foreign Office: " 'Now that th German army has occupied various portions of enemies countries, the German government con siders the exequaturs of the Consuls, formerly permitted to act in suchdis trlcts, to have expired. Wishes of Others to Be Met. " 'The imperial government, how ever, would be disposed to consider fa vorably any wishes of allied and neu tral countries respecting the estab lishment of consular offices in the dis tricts in question, excepting, of course, those districts where military opera- i,..,. r still in course: " 'In Belgium consular activities in the provinces of East and West Flan-jo-o oornrdinsrlr would not be permit- 4 c-A at orcsent. With regard to the ihr narts of Belgium, consular of llcers would be permitted to act for the . i- RruisselH. Antwerp and HCOCUb i i.r hut not at other points. The imperial government would not consider the issuance of formal ...muiur advisable to consular w fleers whose names are communicated to the foreign office, but simpiy wouiu cr.mt temporary .recognition iu able them' to act in their official ca pacity under reserve of the usual in vestigations respecting their records. Consuls Friendly Only Wanted. 'In view of the peculiar clmcur stances contingent on military occupa tion, the Imperial government would be grateful if only such persons should be nominated as are assuredly friend ly to Germany or have at least neutral onnviRtionS. 'In bringing the above to the at tention of the embassy, the Foreign nffira has the honor respectfully to request that the American Government - may be notified In the above sense. As the embassy is aware, the German ,,.,m.nt already has recognized rn,i.r,niral Diederieh at Antwerp, assuming this to be the wish of the American Government. "To this memorandum the depart ment replied on January 21, 1915, as follows: America ot to Dispute RlB- - .. "ri,i. ivrmmit has considered .,. note verbale of the German gov ernment dated November 30. Since Consular officers are commercial and not political agents of a government and permission for them to act wumn certain districts depends upon the au thority which is in control of those districts without regard to the question cf legal right, and further, since tne Tact that the consular districts re ferred to in the memorandum of the German government are within terrl ton- accUDied by German military forces, this government is not disposed at this time to raise the question of right of the German government to suspend the exequaturs or tniieo. States consular officers within the dis tricts occupied and subject to military Jurisdiction. "This government takes note that all the districts in Belgium occupied by the German army, excepting Brus sels, Liege and Antwerp, are consul red by the German government to be within the sphere of military opera' tions and thai in those districts other (Concluded vo Page S.) SKULLCAP COSTS BARTENDER $250 COURT DECISION" IIIXGES OS AP PAREL OF PATKOS. Boys Who Say They Were Served AVith Liquor Identify "Guest" Who Is Hchi for Perjury.. Upon whether or not a skull cap was worn by M. . BnouEr, ing salesman, in Goldie's Place, a sa- ... . . . ... .t.l.v loon at 287 Alder street, laoi night, hinged the conviction of Carl Nipple, bartender, for selling liquor to a minor, in the Municipal Court yes terday. ' Snodgrass said he had never worn a kull cap In his lite, ana hoj.l.., denied that the boys who testified to buying liquor in Goldie's Place had seen him wearing one and singing Tipperary." Municipal. Judge Stevenson was ai ost convinced that the boys were ilstaken for the saloonman had five witnesses who said they were in the saloon at Its closing hour, Friday night, when the boys said they were present, and all swore that they had never seen the lads before. City Attorney Stadter was sent to the rooms of Snodgrass so denial of possessing a skull cap might be substantiated. A skull cap was found on the dresser and Snodgrass was remanded to jail without bail. He will be prosecuted for perjury. Nipple was fined 8250. 11 SHIPS SUNK IS REPORT Leipsic's Information as to Destruc tion by Karlsruhe Doubted. BERLIN. Jan. 23. (By Wireless to London.) It is reported from Leipsic h Reman cruiser Karlsruhe has sunk 11 commercial ships during the last fortnight. ti.i i In Central Germany, sever al hundred miles from any port. It Is not likely that news concerning the Karlsruhe, in the ordinary course m events, would reacn ieipsic m rt T?rl i n. The Karlsruhe is one or tne lew u- man warships still on the high seas. She has sunk a large number of Brlt h onrt Wrench vessels, successfully eluding hostile warships that for weeks have been pursuing ner. Jnu, , ,-r.orted that the Karlsruhe had been sighted off Moro. Porto Rico. SCOTCH Wl DOW IS W ILLING Woman, With 'Two Lovely Children,' Would Wed Lonely Italian. A Scotch widow, 30 years old, wim lovolv children." is the first ap plicant for -the hand of the Italian worth 8000 and with a steady o-a-day job who has asked Miss Marie Cham bers, of the Widows' Pension Bureau, to find him a suitable wife. Miss Cham bers received a letter from the widow yesterday, as a result of the publica tion in The Oregonlan Sunday of a story about the proxy love affair. Miss Chambers win give iu. letter of introduction to the appll . , . . .tfei worthv can- cant, ana aisu iu . didates. An introduction is an i . " had told Miss Chambers. "Just intro duce me. and 1 11 do the rest. GIRLS PRACTICE IN COURT Presence of 10 Young Women for Several Days Arouses Curiosity. rr r,rettv girls sitting around a long table in Circuit Judge Gatens' rimnm during an eight days trial which has been going on there, have caused no little comment. All were busily engaged in taking notes on trial as the testimony was given. Judge Gatens' explanations to casual infiiiirpra were evasive. "Ornaments. They make the room cheerful." he grinned. The 10 girls are shorthand students t whom the Judge had given perrois inn to Dractice in court. They visitea the courtroom every day under the su pervision of Mrs. E. O. Gardner. GERMANS CALL MEN OF 50 Untrained Lanilsturm of Branden burg Ordered to Report. AMSTERDAM, Holland. Jan. 25. via London. A telegram received here from Berlin sets forth that in the Province of Brandenburg, in which Berlin is 10 cated. there have been called up for medical examination the 50-year-old untrained men of the landsturm. These are men of the 1886, 1S87 and 1888 classes. ICELAND IS IN DRY COLUMN Stock of Liquors Remaining Has Been Exported. COPENHAGEN. Jan. 25, via London. The Parliament of Iceland. 34 of whose members are elected by popular suffrage, has passed a measure lorDia- ainir the sale of alcoholic liquors. All the remaining stock in the Danish dependency has been exported. RUSSIA PLACES BIG ORDER Pennsylvania Firm Will Provide 1,000,000 norseshoes. CATASACQUA, Pa, Jan. 25 An nouncement was made here yesterday bv a local firm of the receipt of an order from the Russian government for 1.000,000 horseshoes. The plant la running day and night. HAIR IN HANDS HP !l index of topay-s kews j ai 1 1 U aHUW lb UH Monda? s War M0TCS IWPUU uuu 10 a aw v - DEAD HOI PENDER'S Texture Similar to That of Sierks. GOVERNOR INVESTIGATES CASE Prison Superintendent Direct ed to Trace Clews. EXPERTS MEET AT SALEM Exhumation or Bodies of Mrs. Wehr man and - Child Asked to Con tinue Inquiry Microscopical . Examination Is Made. STATE CAUITOL, Salem ,Or., Jan. 25. (Special.) Proof that the hair found in the hands of Mrs. Daisy Wehr man. who, with her little child, was mysteriously slain in her home near Scappose In September. 1911. was not from the head of John Pender, con victed of the crime and saved from the gallows by the passage of the amend ment abolishing capital punishment, was established today in the office of Governor Withycombe. It was also established that the hair has the same characteristics as that of John G. H. Sierks, the inmate of the State Insane Asylum who confessed the crime and later repudiated his story, saying he had made it to free Pender. Another feature brought out in the microscopical examination of hairs taken from the slain woman's hands, samples of Sierks' and Pender's hair and that of other feeble-minaea per sons, is that the hair of persons of Sierks' type is similar and entirely dir- ferent from that of persons of normal minds. The microscopical examination, which was conducted by Dr. J. A. Gil bert, of Portland, at the instance of Governor Withycombe and George Thacher. Portland criminologist, is said to eliminate.. Pender so .far as this. bit of evidence is concerned, but does not eliminate Sierks. Exhumation Is Asked. Governor Withycombe probably will have- the bodies of Mrs. Wehrman and her child exhumed to determine whetn er the hair found in her hands was her own or that of her child. - The x ecutive is taking an active interest in the investigation, for upon the result depends whether Pender is to remain in the Penitentiary for lire or be par doned. The bodies of Mrs. Wehrman and her child are buried at Eldora, la., ana there probably is no legal means for having them exhumed, but in the hope of having it done Governor Withycombe has written to Governor Clarke, of Iowa. The case becomes more mysterious all the time." said tiovernor vv nny comb. "It has strange features. I am open to conviction in this case. I have (Concluded on Page 2.) THE Utilise ' The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature. 3.u degrees: minimum. 28.J degrees. TODAY'S Fair; easterly winds. legislatures. Ronald G. Callvert write, of S.TO.000 wound on taxpayers Inflicted by House. Pas. 1. Min Clark's first vote In Senate Js to ex tend right of jury duty to women. Page . Public utilities bill denounced by city at torneys at Olympla. Page o. vir.,, recalls entl-contlnutnc appropriation WU and I bill to put .h and game money. . ...i fmiH . Paea 4. J aeon L. awre " and Summer. Poge 0. War. Germany d.-mands friendly Consuls m Bel--i.. America accedes, rase 1. Serb victory Is due to plea of Pr' be allowed to swp - Page 2. ... success. 1'age . Domestic. Western railroad enlinemf-n iw ..i. c-ifi nno ooo rise, i'age i. Harry "k. Thaw asks examination into .anity. Pase 6. . Sports. - Homer Haworlh. catcher for Portland-Fal- lard team last year, uo" -- Manaser of Uncle Sams predict, victory to night and winning oi by Portland. Page li. Pacific Northwest. Vlrm ...- r- U.1 U I T" bUSUie&S UlOiriCl. I ... i .i . hair In handM.of dea-1 is not Tenders, but sunnor i . Sierks. Page 1. . . Commercial and Marine. Bids for wheat are advanced in local mar- lfta Pnj. 1 I. New high record price tor Jiay wne.i Chicago. i'age xt. Resumption at steel plants on Increased scale. Page i. All class of livestock msner at .-ona ru.- Ice hampering navigation in uregon Iraho. Page 10. Portland and Vicinity. Auto show heralded wnn noisy Page 1. Klamath restrained from paying old war rants aggregating M33.000. Page 18. Skullcap costs bartender J230 and owner faros ieriurv charge. Page 1. Y. M. C. A. ski trip on - Mount Hood is thriller. Page 11. Grain dumped In river by burning of dock being salvaged at great prom. r f. Belgian relief steamer Cranley leaves today. Pasra IS. - Charley Grapewln, Orpheum actor, recall. tart on stage here 20 years ago. rg Mother gots kidnaping warrant for friend who disappeared wnn Daoe. ' "K" --. LADY SENATOR HAS A BILL Miss Clark, of Douglas, Flle9 Her First legislative Measure, STATE CAPITOL, Salem, Or., Jan. 25. (Special.) Miss - Kathryn Clark, Senator from Douglas County, at the afternoon session Introduced her first measure. : It was a resolution author izing a constitutional amendment em Dowering the Governor to remove Dis ttrlcts. .Attorneys Shcjffa-pr Constables for derelictions of duty; and to nil tne vacancies by appointment. The resolution is in line of a recom mendation made by Governor Withy combe in his Inaugural address. It was referred to the committee ort resolu tlons. HUNGARY WON'T QUH YET dealer's end of It, it could not be bet nUIVUHn I I ter It presages a big year to follow. Minister or Interior Tells How Peace Only Will Be Made. VENICE, via London, Jan. 25. Count Julius Andrassy, former Premier and Minister of the Interior of Hungary, according to a dispatch from Budapest characterizes as utterly mendacious a report that Hungary is tired of the war and is desirous and seeking a separate peace, and declares that peace will be concluded only In union with Germany and on terms satisfactory to both countries. '! IJON TAKES A NIP AT THE DACHSHUND. IN BLAZE OF BLORY Real Opening Held With Noisy Processio . 8 : ' V SUCCESS ALREADY ASSURED Numerous Sales Reported by Dealers First Day. NEW MODELS ARE SHOWN Visitors Said to Be Making Many Inquiries for light Touring Cars and Variety of Novel Conven iences Offered 1915 Buyers. BY RALPH J. STAEHLJ. While the Seventh Annual Automobile Show opened at the Armory on Satur day night, the actual initiation of 1915 models of American cars occured last night when dealers, motorists and truckdrivers joined in the "Honk-Dong" parade. After that parade there remained lit tle doubt about the auto show really being on. It started at 7:30 and after . tour of the East Side wound up at the Armory, which was closed until the arrival of the "Racket Sublime. Old Saylne Given Troth. When they heard It coming down Morrison street they thought it was th advance agent of the European army making known his arrival. When it approached them they stopped think ing. The true meaning, o'f "so much noise you couldn't hear yourself think" was first brought out by that parade limt nierht. The rivet-hammers in the city could not comDare with that parade lor noise. in short it was about the biggest noise the town heard since the night before election when stump-speakera were making their last efforts. Show Is Big S access. ComDaratively speaking, .the second day-of the automobile show was as big a success as the parade was a noise. From the standpoint of the spectator and the dealer the show which is now on has been termed the most successful which the Portland Dealers' Association has yet staged. Sales from the floor have been more numerous than usual and so, from the The touring car of the light order is the leading factor and seems to in terest most. Sixes are exceedingly pop ular. Many Contemplate Touring. Every dealer encounters the visitor who says: "I want to do some long-distance touring this year and want a light car, yet one which will hold up and make a comfortable journey. The 1915 car is essentially an easy riding car, designed to answer the pur- 'Concluded on Page 3.1 THE sudden stiffening of the Aus trian front at the eleventh hour, to check the Eussian Invasion of Hun gary, as a natural sequence of the oc cupation of Bukowlna, seems -for the present to be the event of chief mili tary imporp". The Russians seem to regof -pfe and all recent dls ij't & trograd have em- cc Secc Cov v Austro-German offensive eoutneastern tneater. econd in important, perhaps, are tho Russian movements near the east and West Prussian frontiers move ments of which the German statement takes cognizance, although insisting that no new advances into German tcr- itory now are feared. In the western theater tlicre has been so little change that the British news papers print the-official communica tions with scant comment, preferring to feature Sunday's naval action. The facts concerning this engagement are not given in detail, and the Admiralty up to last night bad added nothing to the original announcement. With great battles soon to be fought out at her front door. Roumanla has not yet decided to Join In the conflict, but it Is patent that the situation in the Balkans is simmering, and It Is believed action will come suddenly. The Italian. Greek and Bulgarian Min isters were among the callers at the Foreign Office in London yesterday. The Swedish press Is showing re newed irritation against the uriusn contraband policy, and some of the Stockholm papers suggested reprisals for forbidding the transportation of goods destined for Great Britain over Swedish railways. One paper says the country should strengthen her defenses, by means of which she would be able to command respect for her neutrality. Desperate fighting at close quarters Is In progress In Central Poland, where many men have died from cold. The most determined efforts of the op posing forces have not resulted in breaking the deadlock. On the Western battle fields revere encounters continue in Alsace and the Argonne. The German official reports of Sun day's engagement in the North Sea say that "according to information avail able," a British battle cruiser was sunk. This is at direct variance with the official English version of the fight, which states that none of the British vessels was lost The German report confirms the sinking of the Ger man armored cruiser ' Bluecher and says that the other German vessels returned to port. To the English people the combat means the triumph of their long time confidence in their big gun fleet and It calms the fear of the East Coast of frequent repetitions of the Hartel pool and Scarborough raid. Sir David Beatty, the youngest Ad miral in the British navy, has become the most popular hero of the war. The question of food supply is being considered urgently In both London and Berlin. The British government has appointed a cabinet commission to consider the matter. The Labor party has demanded that the government take over control of British shipping. As to the food situation In Germany, the Berlin press is reinforcing the de mand voiced at a mass meeting that the government commander all stocks of food, and by way of Rome there have come reports of bread riots In Austria and Hungary, during one of which the Governor of Croatia was badly wounded and his palace burned .down. According to Vienna reports the Austrians have administered a definite check to the Russian army, which in vaded Bukowlna. Nothing definite has been learned with regard to Germany's claim that the British lost a cruiser In the sea fight Sunday. Russia is said to have reinforced tne Serb army with Cossacks and also to have sent considerable quantities of war supplies into the kingdom. Ger many has seised all stocks of wheat in order to insure a supply of bread until the next harvest. Stocks of wheat will be distributed according to the necessities of the various communi ties. The British armored merchant steamer Vlkner has been sunk with all hands off the Irish coast. The ves sel either foundered or struck a mine. It is stated in London that, owing to reports that Germany is- seising all foodstuffs for military use the Amer lean steamer Wllhelmina, bound from New 'York for Germany with food, is likely to be stopped by the allies un less a positive guarantee Is given that her cargo will not reach the German army. Amsterdam reports that the 50-year old untrained men of the landstrum li the Province of Brandenburg, In which Berlin is located, have been cited to appear for medical examination. GERMANY SEIZES WHEAT Government Will Safegnard Bread Supply Till Next Harvest. BERLIN, via Amsterdam to London. Jan. 26. All stocks of wheat have been seized by the German govern ment according to the official state ment In order to safeguard the bread suDDlv until the next harvest ,This measure, it is said, was made necessary by the fact that the people have failed to economize. The stocks will be distributed according to the population of the various communl ties. More German Refugees Arrive. SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 25. Another band of German refugees, deported from Tsing-Tau by the Japanese, ar rived today on the Pacific Mall liner Siberia. The party included S3 chil dren who are being returned to their homes In Germany under the care of the German government. INFLICTED BY HOUSE Legislators Rush to Nurse Taxpayers. CONTINUING FUNDS TO BLAME Experiment Stations and Farm Demonstrating Excepted. EASTERN OREGON IN FRAY Agricultural Collrsc .May Sjiaro ' Kxlra Coin Baker leinoerut Wins Attention Woman Jury May Bo ItecoiifluVrcd. BT IlON'At.D O. CALLVBItT. STATE CAP1TOU Salem, Or., Jan. J. .Staff Cerres-pondenee.) The Inno cent onlooker, and by that I mean the watchful taxpayer, was the one who was wounded In todny's legislative but tle. I UBe the word wounded advised ly. The injuries suffered are not be yond repair and some careful nurslnir h. .lre.dv beirun. that the House finally may be acquitted of assault with intent to commit financial Injury. It happened In consideration oi wo . . I 1 1 rtnMtlnlllllS OmnibUS Dill to rrpr.1 appropriations. As the rase now stem a the House has adopted tne repurv the committee of the whole eliminating from the repeat the continuing appro priations for experiment stations and f,.n demonstration work now con ducted under supervision of the State Agricultural College. Kastera Oregea Klgkta. t h.hilf of keeping this work on a continuing basis much pressure has been brought to bear on llouso mem bers and the Eastern Oregon Represen tatlves are uniformly opposed to the requirement that they come Legislatune every biennlum to see funds for carrying on what Is general ly recognised as work of paramount importance to Oregon's development. But the minority was not that requirement Those who wished to repeal such continuing appropria tions argued that the Agricultural Col lege hereafter would have mure than ample revenues to carry on extension and experiment work In the fund, de rived from the millago tax by the last Legislature. 150,000 More la Bala. Briefly the Agricultural College, the extension work and the experiment, stations combined received a total ap propriation last year of 24.DOO. This year the mlllaae tax it Is estimated will produce 1380.000. To that sum would be added for experiment farms and extension work, nearly i0 000 more If todny's record stands unlm paired. Thus for activities which in 1914 cost 1281.500 there is to be a probable sum available this year of $430,000. It does not make a noise like economy. I can see some force In the argu ments of the Eastern Oregon members that they were asked to give up tse continuing appropriations In advance of any provision being made by law for utilising part of the colleges' mill age tax funds. Perhaps the latter law ought to have been passed first. The advocates of thei-e continuing appro priations In arguments today said. "Cut the mlllage tax If you do any thing." but that procedure would take the Ud off the logrolling tactics which were supposed to be safely canned and packed away as regards both the Af rl cultural College and the State t nlver lty when the mlllage tax law was passed. Trouble May Be Defiled. It certainly seems that the college ought to be able to spare liO-000 for the outside work from an Increase In revenues approximating fl&O.OOO. and efforts made after adjournment to get together on that basis give promise of success. There also wss a minor slipup In the Senate today In what was otherwise a meritorious measure. Senator Strayer e bill providing for state registration of animal brands turns over l fee for each brand to the State Veterinarian. One Eastern Oregon Senator estimates that there are 20.000 brands to be recorded in Oregon, and that the addi tional clerical work Imposed upon the State Veterinarian will not be so large but that a big surplus will be left for him to put In his pocket In the first two years the act is In operation. Therev after there will be a neat little revenue and probably not sufficient work to make necessary the employment of extra clerks. Uesaecrat Wains AHeatloa. In Senator Strayer Baker County seems to have at last elected a Demo crat who can gain the attention of his fellow Senators. His bill passed unani mously, although there was a protest voiced against the one fault in it. An effort is to be made to have that cor rected with the consent of the author of the bill. , . A movement also is under way in the Senate to obtain reconsideration of the vote by which the bill admitting women to Jury duty passed today. The protest comes from the isrge, sparsely settled counties where. It is asserted, the privi lege given women of claiming sex alone as legal excuse from Jury duty will pile up the expenses of serving Jut summons at points distant from the county seat This was the day on which the me- (Concluded on rage .) 3105.0