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THE MORXIXG OKEGOX1A3P, THURSDAY, . JANUARY 28, 1915. ANTWERP SEEN BY CABINET MINISTER'S DAUGHTER AND HER FRIEND, WHO WILL GO BERLIN SOLEMN Oil ABROAD AS NURSES. ALL GOODS. BOUGHT TODAY AND THE BALANCE OF THE MONTH, WILL BE CHARGED ON YOUR MARCH 1st ACCOUNT DUO UNDER GUARD Last Week of the January White Sale MAIL ORDERS FILLED BY EXPERT SHOPPERS cNerchandise.cfc( Merit .Only" Kansas Photographer Enliv ens Correspondent's Jaunt to German Prison. - Celebration Takes jon Deep Religious Aspect Because of War Conditions. Phone Marshall 5000 A 6691 BLACKENED FORTS SEEN GIFT SENT BY EMPRESS KAISERS B RTHDAY C Vs. Viulcrstrappers Take Xo Chances With Suspected Spies and Men. Are Treated With Stern Military Discipline. LONDON. Jan. 13. At last we were nearinsr Antwerp not as newspaper men. but as prisoners of the Germans "Great stuff, old top." Thompson, th Kansas photographer, finally remarked, cominc out of a reverie. "How do you like being arrested?" I observed that it would make story, and that it was quite interesting thus far. "Storv nothine!" he laughed. "You ain't going to write no story." "No?" "I should s-a-y not! German prison for you till the war is over." He lit his oipe. threw the match acci dentally in the lap of the guard sitting beside him. put on a very serious looK and said: "lou may get out of this, Wheeler, but it looks bad for Topeka, Kan They've sot me spotted. We were tipped ntt way up the line. Sure thing. Well kid. if they stand us up against the wall we'll show 'em we can take our medicine like true Americans. Never, show any fear to these guys. Bluff 'em, They admire nerve. If this is the end. why it's the end, that's all." Thompson was a cheerful little trav eling companion!-. Thompson "Makes Ilia Mill." Then he told me where his trunk and a considerable sum of money was stored and gave me Instruction as to how his effects should be gathered up and sent back to Topeka. This was partly in jest, but not all. There was one rather serious phase of the whole proceeding, which, up to this time appealed to me in a sort of opera bouffe light. They had relieved us of our passports on the frontier. Thomp son remembered that a German spy had been shot a few days before in the tower in London and that he carried an American passport. We both under stood fully that we were of no more importance in the war zone than the ash on our clgaret. We entertained no lofty opinions of the protection our American citizenship might afford. Besides, we were without credentials, no one could speak our lan guage or understand tis, and we were . aliens without a tag. We might be con veniently "Inst," as Thompson put it. and no one would be the wiser for it. "I'm not afraid of this bunch," finally the shrimp' allowed, "but I don't mind telling you that I don't like this pass port business. If I had my passport bacK I would tell 'em all what I thought of them." Arrest and Muskeeters Forgotten. The truth is the whole business ap- reared to me only as a "story." We ' forgot about our arrest and the two musketeers beside us and cracked a lot of jokes. Then we got into the fight ing ioho the battlefields that marked the retreat from Antwerp and the out er ring of forts that was leveled by the 4 2-centimeter guns. It was my first view of a real battle field water soaked trenches, fields plowed with shells, hedges scorched with rifle fire and shrapnel, stone and brick farmhouses perforated with solid shot or smashed into a mass of debris, - whole wood lots leveled, acres of barb wire entanglements, swept aside by the invaders like so many cotton strings, and the demolished forts. Antwerp was supposed to be one of the best fortified cities in Europe. Mil itary experts had considered it practi cally impregnable and capable of with standing an indefinite siege. But the war of tho nations quickly demon strated the uselessness of such fortifi cations. They turned out -to be death traps rather than defenses. They only made good targets for the big howitz ers and were blown up as if they had been but small mole hills on the land scape. We passed within 60 feet of several, both on the outer and inner line of fortifications. , Ratherine Britton. I I t-s-?-..' &r.&itK2imm i Photos by Bain News Service. Top Miss orm McAdoo. Below Misa It Rolm of Big Porta Seen. seemed as if the earth beneath them had been convulsed with eruptions ana naa snot them into the air to fall in a confused heap of stone, cement, steel and smashed cannon. We crept along by several of the iemolished forts on one side and blackened and scorched walls of build ings on the other, with helmeted sold iers, officers and sentries everywhere. We were pulling into the Grand Cen tral Station at Antwerp when the guard with the great red beard and the squint eye examined the lock of his rifle. He kept one eye on us while he removed five cartridges from the box and dropped them into the gun pouch. He let the stock hit the floor with a thud and spoke brusquely in German to the guard who sat between Thomp son and the window. "What did that guy say?" Thompson whispered to me. "He said." I replied, that if we started to run we would be shot full of holes." While the translation is somewhat Hinplilled. that. In fact, was the purport of his words. "I never did like this running busi ness nohow." smiled Thompson. "I'm the best little walker you ever did see." We sat in the train for fully half an hour, while they got everybody but the soldiers out of the station. The under strappers were taking no chances with s-usperted spies, and. until we had been turned over to the kommamiant. It was their duty to treat us with -all the sternness of military discipline. "Ilinnur la Welcome t'ommaad. Now anil then an officer wearing the great gray coat, shining military boots, glistening spurs, an elaborately mount ed sword clanking from his hip strap, a mustache that emulated the design set by the Kaiser, and the long gloves, would walk briskly to our coach, look In with a frigid manner, emit a grunt of satisfaction, turn on his heel and walk rapidly away. Finally an officer came to our win dow and unlocked the door. It was a joy to behold the squint eyed landsturm with the sunset beard. I never saw any human stand so straight up as he did. How he did pre sent arms! He was like a statue. Then he stepped out on the platform, whirled half way round, and sang out: "Hinaus!" We "h in a used" all right, grabbed our gepack and started down the platform. "Halt!" How he did roll it out! "Xicht so rasch!" we slowed up a bit. An officer at the far end of the plat form signaled with his hand and again old bronzebeard rolled out the com mand: "Halt!" He walked around us, presenting a Dno picture of duty being rigidly -done j to the officers who swarmed along the platform. Real Soldiers Take Charge. There came another signal. He pre sented arms, took a goose step, and commanded: "Vorwart!" We started to walk right lively we were hungry and thjrsty, when he turned around, his eyes flashing, and sang out: "Nicht so sehr! Nicht so sehr!" "What is this guy talking about?" blurted out the photographer. "He doesn't want us to be in such a hurry," 1 explained. "O. very well," smiled Thompson, that's all right with me." Then we were halted again after about a dozen paces, and here we sat on our suitcases for another, Id min utes, smoking our pipes and watching the troop trains load. Finally a squad of real soldiers six of them attired in all the panoply of war, from helmets to hobnails, seven-league boots, with rifles over their shoulders, marched up to us. There was a little confab between the offi cers to one side and a verbal report of the arrest before we were com manded to get up and "vorwart" again. Americana on Way to Prison. The news that a fresh consignment f spies had been brought in from the frontier apparently had spread through the downtown center during the nour we were detained in the station, for when we were marched out of the de pot a crowd was waiting that remind ed one of a holiday throng outside of Comiskey's Park. Men and boys and vendors with thei og-driven carts, made up a motley looking crowd. They were roped off at the station entrance, but as we tarted down the middle of the street, they fell in behind, ran along beside us. or scrambled across tne street in front of us. And thus we hiked down that long walk through the Place de Meir. A mist was falling and the cobblestones were somewhat slippery. Thompson and I stumbled along, carrying our grips and pulling away at the bl pipes. We knew now we were on our way to prison. GIRLS TO BE NURSES Secretary McAcfoo's Daughter and Friend Go to Europe. GADETSHIPS ARE OPEN SIXNOTT TO BASE APPOIXTMEXTS OX EXAMINATIONS. Ella-lbles of Second District Have Chance February IS At Klamath Falls. Baker and The Dalle. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, Jan. 21. Representative Sin- nott will make his appointments to the Naval Academy at Annapolis this Spring on the basis of a competitive examination to be held in Klamath Falls, Baker and The Dalles on Mon day, February 15. The United States Civil Service Commission will conduct the examination for Mr. Sinnott. Any young man between the ages of 16 and 20 years who is an actual resident of the Second Oregon congressional dis trict will be allowed to take this exam ination. Those desiring to do so should write at once to N. J. Sinnott, House of Rep resentatives, Washington, so that he can list the candidates and send each one specimen questions. The examina tion will consist of algebra, geometry and grammar, for which th-ee hours are allowed: and after an intermission of one hour, geography. United States his tory and arithmetic, for which three hours are allowed. Candidates should report to the Secretary of the local civil service board at Klamath Falls, Baker and The Dalles promptly at 9:30 A. M., February 15, prepared to take the examination. The candidate who makes the high est average grade in this competitive examination will be appointed by Mr. Sinnott as principal, and those ranking the next highest will be appointed first, second and third alternates respective ly. The official examination for en trance to the Academy takes place April 20, 1S15. Should the principal candidate after being appointed fail to pass the official examination (physical or mental) the alternates will be con sidered in the order of their rank. TRAINING COURSE TAKEN Pique at Fatlier's Marriage to Presi' dent's Daughter Said to Have Caused Miss McAdoo Make Her Venture. to WASHINGTON, Jan. 27. (Special.) Miss Nona McAdoo, daughter of the Secretary of the Treasury, will become a nurse on the battlefields of Europe. With her will go Miss Katherine Brit ton, her friend, a society girl of Wash ington. It has been whispered In Washing ton that Miss McAdoo was none too well pleased when her father embarked upon matrimony again Dy marrying President Wilson's daughter, and that she has undertaken the present enter prise in pique. Miss McAdoo has recently been de voting much study in a nurse's train- ng course. With her Miss JJrltton also has been working. Now the two young women are pronounced lit and Dom are preparing to depart across the ocean. ' Miss Britton's father is Alexander Britton, one of the best-known business men at the capital. He says that the two young women intend to go to Lon don to Join Mrs. Hope Nelson, another American, and go with her to a nursing station in the south of France. Miss Britton speaks French fluently. OLEO MAN IS CONVICTED ILLICIT MANUFACTURE IS PROVED AT ST. L,oris. Confab on Fishing- Requested. STATE CAPITOL, Salem. Or., Jan. 27. (Special.) Senate concurrent reso lution, providing for the appointment of a committee composed of six mem bers of the House and five of the 'Sen ate to confer with & similar commit tee of the Washington Legislature re garding fishing on the Columbia River, was adopted in the fcenate today. Kel- laher asked if it carried any appropria tion. Bingham, replying in the nega tive, the Portland man supported the resolution. . In an eleetrle grin Invented In England, irhieh awn to be successful, a projectile in hurled throuch a tube by the action oi electrlo masnals on the outside. . Other Men on Trial Are Said to Have Boasted Operating an Illegal Business for 14 Years. ST. LOUIS, Jan. 27. Lester H. Ken nedy, president of the Mound City But- terine Company, was convicted of col oring oleomargarine without paying the internal revenue tax In the United States District Court here today. George Mayer and Charles Wintergerst pleaded guilty to similar cnarges. The chief witness against iienneoy was Miss Laura jfcicKnarat, wno tesu fied that she unwittingly had helped Kennedy in the illicit manufacture of oleomargarine and in evading the Fed eral tax by transferring the product into previously used tubs on which the internal revenue tax stamps naa been preserved. Miss Eckhardt and several otner ex employes turned state's evidence. Calvin P. During and George Ellis of the Commercial Creamery Company were put on trial today. The evidence included doors a foot thick built of three-ply oak and steel, heavy iron gratings and other barricades, which internal revenue officers , broke down in raiding the place. Internal Revenue Agent Fowle tes tified the defendants had boasted to him that they had been in the busi ness for 14 years, although the cream of the Government's officers were as signed to catch them at work. Press, of All Shades of Opinion Unites in Expression of Loyalty ' and In Prediction of Suc cessful Outcome. LONDON Jan. 27. Emperor Will lam's birthday was celebrated with en thusiasm In Berlin today, although wiflr- a degree of solemnity which would not have been expected in times of peace. A dispatch by Amsterdam from Ber lin describes the celebration. The city was decked with flags. Members of the diplomatic corps, court officials and representatives of state and municipal governments attended a service at the cathedral. Son and Daughter Attend. Crown Princess Cecilie and Prince August William attended the service, and were cheered enthusiastically. A reception was held later in the City Hall. . The Emperor's birthday was cele brated generally in the other cities of the empire. Religious services were held at the headquarters of Emperor William, whero the Emperor delivered an ad dress expressing his satisfaction with the progress of the war and in which he asked his officers to continue to di charge their dutie to the Emperor and the fatherland as they hitherto had done. The Berlin newspapers, including the Socialist organs, publish warm eulogies of the Emperor and predict that he will emerge from the war not only vict orious but with his reputation consid erably enhanced. Empress Sends Altar Cover. long, affectionately worded telegram to the Emperor. As a birthday present altar designed by herself. Emperor William received telegrams r rancis juseDn. ol Ausina, aiiu uit: oui tan of Turkey. The German Emperor, answering birthday congratulations bf the King of Bavaria, has sent t he , following message: "Thank you most cordially for your friendly wishes upon my Dirtnaay. Your brave Bavarians through their heroic courage have gloriously contrib uted towards the confidence with which the fatherland hopes for a vie torious termination of the struggle for existence forced upon It. May the Lord God continue to stand by our Just cause. - ' - "With hearty greetings in thorough friendship and reverence. "WILHELM." RADIUM EASIER TO REDUCE Bureau of Mines Simplifies Method, Aiding Cancer Treatment. WASHINGTON, Jan. 27. Announce ment that the Federal Bureau of Mines had worked out a process of reducing radium by simplified methods was made in the House today by Representative Foster, of Illinois, who congratulated the country on the discovery. Members gathered about as Repre sentative Foster displayed a case con taining two tubes containing $11,000 worth of radium produced from ore by the bureau. He read to the House a letter from Dr. Howard A. Kelley. of Baltimore." saying that the work of the bureau insured the successful treat ment of many conditions in cancer cases. Oregon Man Admitted. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington. Jan. 27. Edward D. Baldwin, of The Dalies, secretary to Represen tative Sinnott and secretary of the Oregon State Central Committee, today was admitted to practice before the Supreme Court, on motion--of Senator Borah, GOETHALS GIVES LECTURE Unique System of Government Over Canal Zone Is Described. PRINCETON. N. J.. Jan. 27. Colonel George W. Goethals, Governor of the Panama Canal Zone, deliveerd his first address here tonight as a "Stafford Little Lecturer" at Princeton. He spoke chiefly on the forms of govern ment whioh have been in operation on the Canal Zone and described the pres ent system as unique and differing from any established method of ad ministration." Retarding the difficulty experienced with "slides. Colonel Goethals believed there was no remedy except in digging. 'The present settling will continue," he said, "until the material is entirely removed. The only course to be pur- i sued is to deepen xne cnauei i. a filled up from the slides." LECTURE GIVEN ON SHARPE Miss Farnhain, of Pacific University, Speaks in Portland. Mary F. Farnham, dean of women at the Pacific University, spoke in Library Hall last night on the subject, "Will iam Sharpe, Fiona Macleod, a - Dual Personality in English Letters." Miss Farnham gave a brief SKetcn of the work of dual personalities in literature, with special reference to Sharpe. She pointed out the effect of Sharpe's work on English literature, saying that it had a tendency to add a charming mysticism to English letters. As a critic Sharpe wrote under his own name, but it was not until later in his life when he became influenced by the I romonticists of his age that he adopted I At-.$1.19 We Will Hold on Thursday, Friday and Saturday of This Week A Shirt Sale Extraordinary Offering the Finest $2 and $1.50 Spring Shirts OF 3 for $3.00 Distinctively Tailored Faultlesssly Made Shirts Of Finest Woven Madras, Light Weight Flannels, Fine Percales, Granite Cloths and Soisette Showing the newest Spring designs in stripes and figured patterns. Soft Bosom, Soft French Cuff Style Every Shirt New In All Sizes First Floor New Flannelette Night Gowns 69c Regular Price $1.00 Full cut, full length, best material. Made with double yoke, back and front. trimmed with crocheted edge and braid. Fourth Floor New Coverall Apron Sets 59c Set Regular Price Would Be 75c This set consists Vf full-size regulation cov erall apron and "Dutch"-style cap, to match. Made of Good Quality Percale In same style as illustrated. - Fourth Floor 3 . A New Style JusJ Received COMBINATION House-Dress Aprons Special 57c If Sold Regularly Would Be 75c Made of plain and figured percale -In same style as shown in the illustration. 4th Floor Toilet Goods Sale Six Cakes of Ivory Soap for 18c In the Small Size Only six cakes will be sold to a customer and delivered only with other purchases made in the Toilet Goods department. No phone orders filled, or C. 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Introducing Some New Spring 1915 Wash Fabrics Floral Stripe Crepe de Chine Very Special, 59c This is an endrel) neru fabric in silk and cotton mixed material. 36 inches wide, and about half sill(. Showing a broa3 colored stripe rvith a floral design, alternated niih a while stripe in the following color combinations: Cadet and pinl(, navy and pinl, black and pinl(. black and while. This material is exceptionally attractive and .gii be used for parly dresses as well as for waists. Basement the name "Fiona Macleod," and wrot as a woman. TEMPERANCE WORKER DIES fT. t. Sheldon, ex-Superintendent of Anti-Saloon teagrue, Passes. Harvey L. Sheldon, ex-state superin tendent of the Anti-Saloon League, died last Friday at Pasadena. Cal. He had been suffering from anaemia for four years and was given a six months va cation last May to aid himto recover. Transfusion of blood was attempted last week, his wife furnishing- the stamApd oil for mm cast The condition of yoor car after a term of service its value ta dollars and cents, is determined largely br the kind f lubricating oil you ue. ' Zerolene lengthens the life of your car keeps . down depreciation by its efficient lnbrication. Healers every- where STANDARD OIL COMPANY . ieniii) necessary blood, but the operation failed to save his life. Among temperance workers Mr. Shel don was a leading figure. He led the fight as a member of the South Dakota legislature to prevent the repeal of the slate prohibition law. lie foiiKbl for the Illinois law which banished many saloons from that stale. Dr. Sheldon leaves a. widow, a 14-year-old daughter, and a brother, all In Pasadena. Why Are Ten Tons cf Quinine Used Every Year? This enormous quantity of Quinine alone (representing about l-30th of all the Quinine produced in the world) is required for the preparation of Laxative Bromo Quinine, Seven Million (7,000,000) Boxes of which are used every year because pf its extraordinary merit. Whenever you feel a .Cold coming on think of the name Laxative Bromo Quinine but remember there is Only One "Bromo Quinine99 That Is Laxative Bromo Quinine USED THE WORLD OVER TO CURE A COLO AT ONE DAY Look for Ihlm mlgnmtitrm on tho box. Prloo 3t6o.