THE MORXTSG OEEGO?fIAN. FRIDAY, APRIL" 2, 1915. 6 tobacco raising- be restricted or for bidden so that the fields conld be used r-for the production of food supplies have at last been assured tnat sucn measures will not be taken, for the present at least. . The government is understood to have decided that this step is not necessary. SAYS RATE EXPERT ILL PIGEON SAVES MAN Germans at First Think Expcrimen tal Birds Are Spies. PARIS. March 10. (Correspondence Drowninq Due to Submarine Some Lines Asking Rate In creases Declared to Be Piling Up SurpJus. I Attack on British Liner Re : ported to Washington. of the Associated Press.) Various rumors have circulated in Paris regard ing the ate of Dr. Albert Calraette. director of the Pasteur Institute at NOTE TO BERLIN JS LIKELY Lille and brother of the late directorl a w rn a p p. i inj of the Figaro. He was first reported jMV CflMU C LlO I IS TAKEN as shot and ince said to have been DEATH OF AMERICAN BEING INVESTIGATED ROADS PROSPEROUS v... " '- " IB Ciermany Already Warned Tinted States Will Hold Berlin Govern? f ment Strictly to Account in Such Eventualities. WASHINGTON". April 1. Reports that an American life had been lost In the war rone around the British Isles -were brought officially to the atten tion of the Washington Government Jate today when Ambassador Page and Consul General Skinner, at London, cabled that Leon C. Thresher, an American mining- man, was supposed to have been drowned in the destruction of the British liner Falaba by a Ger man submarine. The reports merely transmitted un; official statements, and instructions -were sent immediately to both officials to begin an investigation and report promptly. No action will be taKen oy th Government until this official version nf Thresher's death has been received and all the facts surrounding the destruction of the .Falaba have been carefully scrutinized. A representative. jf the company which bad employed Thresher saw him .'aboard the liuer before she sailed. That -is as far as official information goes, and Ambassador Page or Mr. Skinner now will undertake to get statements from survivors of the steamer wno an ive Dositive evidence that the American was drowned. No inquiries from relatives or friends of Thresher in this country have reached the State Department and until .today the case had not come to the attention of officials except through press dispatches. - Officials had little doubt that the case eventually would form the sub ject of representations to Germany. In its note after Germany's war sone pro clamation the Washington. Government notified the German Foreign Office that Jt would feel compelled to -bold that government to "strict accountability" lor the loss of American lives oT prop erty through the operation of sub marine against British merchant .shipping. ROSEBIRG ARTItlKRV CAP- I TAIN KLECTKD TO STATE MILITARY STAFF. FULL INDEMNITY ASKED OEIt.MAM' FORMALLY RKftlESTED TO PAY FOR SIXKJXG FR YE. I i ' - i flt t r 1: t fri't --fit v f J. A. Buchanan. ROSEBURG. Or., April 1. (Special.) J. A. Buchanan, Cap tain of the Roseburg Company of Coast Artillery, has been elected a member of the state military staff. The staff to which" Mr. Buchanan was appointed consists of six men high in the military service of the state and acts as an advisory board to the Governor on affairs relating to the state's artillery. They also have con siderable to do with the rminage ment of the artillery, in the au diting of accounts and the regu lation of expenses. Amerlraa Government Contends. Eltel's Commander Hm Xot Warranted In Destroying; Vessel. WASHINGTON. April 1. Indemnity or the full value of the American ship William P. Frye. destroyed at sea by the German converted cruiser Prim -Eitel Friedricli. has been formally re quested from Germany by the Cnited states Government. Acting Secretary Lansing announced today that a note on the subject had been sent to Ambassador Gerard for presentation to the Foreign Office at Berlin. Pending its receipt in Berlin, the documont will not be made public, but it was described officially today as a. recital of the facts and application of a. claim for damages on behalf of the owners or the vessel. No representations were made con cerning the cargo, since it was estab lished after atl investigation by the fcfate Department that it was sold en route and was British-owned at the time of the sinking. The American Government contends In the note that the commander of the H 1 1 e I was not warranted in destroying the Frye. because it could not lawfully -Jiave been condemned as a prize had it "been taken into a prir.e court. The des tination of the cargo was a private firm in England, the United States Govern ment learned, and the wheat could not therefore have been considered as con traband. The general belief in official head- quartern has been that the case would .be settled without difficulty as soon as a full report of the affair, mailed by the German Embassy here, reached Ber lin, which Is expected to be this week. sent as a prisoner to Germany. 'Reli able news recently received through a person who escaped from the city says that Dr. Calmette passed through a critical period with the Germans on account of the discovery in his laboratory of several pigeons. The Germans had posted a notice that all pigeons, whether carrier pigeons or not, should be shot, and those found in Dr. Calmette's laboratory were at once suspected to have been intended for spying. An autopsy of these birds. however, revealed that one was affected with tuberculosis and had evidently served as the object of some of Dr. Calmette's experiments. This discovery saved his life. BRITISH ABUSE DACHSHUND "jtg With German "ame Is Treated Wort-e Than Foe, Says Writer. IXN"DON. March 10. tCorrespond ; ence of the Associated Press.) British prejudice against Germany has even been turned against the kind, of dog that bears "the unfortunate name of dachshund." complains a writer in the . Daily Mail, who says: ".Majr I protest against the cruel and senseless manner in which some peo- . pie are treating the unfortunate turn spit dogs because these poor dumb friends havo been called by the German name of dachshund. These dogs, although popular In Germany, are our old English turn spits, used in bygone days to turn, by means of a wheel, the roast ins; jack in the same way as the donkey at Carisbrooke Castle draws water from the well. On account of their name, these poor dogs are now being .treated not as enemy aliens, to whom we are unpatriotically lenient, but . most unjustly." MILK FAMINE IS FEARED Berlin Dealers Complain to Officials Against Farmers. BERLIN, March 9. (Correspondence of the Associated Press.) Berlin milk dealers, who are fearful that there may be a milk famine, have appealed to the Board of Trade of the capital to induce the authorities to start action against farmers who have failed to live up to price agreements. The dealers maintain that the farm ers annually feed billions of liters of skimmed milk to their hogs, at a loss of 150,000 liters of albumin a year. They ask that this use of skimmed milk be restricted and that freight rates for the transportation of the milk be reduced by one-half. The authorities are asked to "remind' the farmers that they must live up to their previous agreements with the Berlin dealers. If the officials do not step in. the dealers believe, the present shortage of milk will develop into a milk famine. Petitioners Contend Figures Are Based on Strong Companies With 4 7,000 Miles and Weak Ones Willi Only 17,0 00.' CHICAGO. April 1. U. Or. Powell, rate expert of the Nebraska Railroad Commission, was subjected to a pro longed cross-examination at the Inter state Commerce Commission hearing of the Western freight rate case today Ir. Powell presented figures intende to show the roads were generally prosperous and that thex averaged in earnings more than 6 per cent. Cer tain of the roads which would parti cipate in the increases, if granted, h said, were accumulating surpluses. "As an expert -of the Nebraska com mission haven't you always opposed in creases in freight rates? asked C. C. Wright, general counsel for the rail roads. " "I can't say that I have always op posed them, the commission instructed me to get the facts," said Mr. Powell. lou have always been on the op posing side haven t you?" "Yes." The witness said that in arriving at his ngures he had not had time to con slder all the roads involved, but h nad taken a representative list, com posed equally, he thought, of the strong and the weak ones. Among the strong ones, he included the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, At chison, Topeka &. Santa Fe, the Sunset Lines of the Southern Pacific, the Chi cago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha and the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul, He included the Kansas City Southern among the weaker ones. The contention of the roads was that Mr. Powell's figures showing a pros perous condition were based on a ma jority of the stronger roads, represent ing 47,000 miles, while the ones he called weak represented only 17,000 miles. 'You call the Kansas City Southern a weak road when the fact is its earn ings are $13,000 a mile, among the highest in the list" 'That is because of its obligations. It is not paying dividends." Mr. Powell said he had not Included roads in receiverships. "Do you mean a road in the hands of receivers should have no consideration in reference to adequate rates?" - "If their location is representative, they ought to be considered. The witness said he thought it would have been more fair, had he bad time to include all the roads. In reply to questions from Dr. M. O. Lorenz, statis ticlan of the Interstate Commerce Com mission, Mr. Powell said in determin ing his values he had deducted from investment in property whatever had come out of surplus, but in years when the roads paid no dividends he had not added any percentage to the prop erty investment figure. FRENCH DISCUSS PENSIONS Measure Makes Provision for Dis abled Soldiers and Families. PARIS. April 1. A bill was proposed in the Cnamber of Deputies today pro viding for the pensioning of those to tally disabled In .the present war. The proposal, which apparently had strong support, provides for the following pen sions: Officers, two-thirds of their pay on active service; non-commissioned officers. 930 francs O190) yearly; pri vates. S50 francs ($170). If the bill is adopted, pensions and allowances will be made also for wid ows and orphans. CONTROL OF COAL URGED l-ondon Board of Trade Committee Offers Plan to Reduce Price. LONDON. Arril 1- The committee -appointed by the. Board of Trade to "inquire into the causes for the rises la the retail prices for coal for domes tic use recommends In lta report that If the pricea do not return shortly to a reasonable level the government should consider a plan for assuming control of the. output of the collieries during the continunnco of the war. Meanwhile it ia recommended that exports of coal to neutral countries rhould be restrirted: that step be t alien to provide fuel for next Winter; that the freight rates charged on In terned steamers which have been taken over by the government should be re duced and that all enemy ships con demned by the prize court should be used for the transport of coal. Germany lo Grow Tobacco. BKRL1N. March 10. I Correspondence of the Associated Press.) Tobacco growers mJX -a.v .been, worri.log jest BEET SUGARJHELD IS GOOD Acreage Percentage In 1914 Larger Than Many Prerious Years. ' WASHINGTON, April 1. The rich sugar contents of beets and a high percentage of extraction helped make a good crop of beet sugar in the United States in the campaign beginning In 1914. the Department of Agriculture announced today. Production amounted to 722,004 short tons, or about 110. 000 tons less than in 1913. The area harvested was 480, S00 acres and the acre yield, 11 tons, was the largest since 1906. FRAUD GASES FOR JURY JIDliE REFUSES TO INSTRUCT AS TO ELECTION CHARGES. Terre Hante Mayor and Other Officials Not to Know Fate Until After SO Hours of Argument. INDIANAPOLIS, April 1. After Judge Anderson, in the United States District Court, had overruled motions to instruct the jury to bring in ver dicts of not guilty, Milton W. Mangue, assistant United States District Attor- new, today began the opening argu ment in" the trial of the Terre Haute election fraud case. Each side will have 10 hours ' for arguments, which means that the case will not go to the jury until late Monday or Tuesday of next week, Clarence Nichols, attorney for Will iam Doyle and George Woodail, moved that the court instruct the jury to bring in a verdict of not guilty for hts clients, on the ground that the evi dence Introduced against them by the Government was not sufficient to con stitute a prima facie case. A. O. Stan ley, attorney for Mayor Roberts and the majority of the 28 defendants, made a similar motion 1 on behalf of George Sovern, Pearly McKay, Andrew O'Brien,. Joseph O'Mara and Richard Knickey. After United States District Attorney Dailey had spoken in opposition to both motions Judge Anderson made his rui ng. He said the evidence against Doyle was the weakest link in the chain, but that it was sufficient to be given to the Jury to decide. The jury was not present auring me consiaer- ation of the motions. Circuit Court "Convenes at Burns. BURNS. Or., April 1. Special.) An See Alt. Assiniboine This Summer Decide now to spend tHi summer in the "fifty Switz erlanda in one" of The Canadian Rockies Here, in a country of peaks and glaciers, you can drive, ride, tramp, climb moun tains, play golf and tennis. Make your .Home this summer at the excellent Canadian Pacific hotels at Balfour Glacier Field Lake Louise Banff Reached only by the Canadian Pacific Become acquainted now with this ideal summer land. Call or write lor Booklet No. 103. J. V. MURPHY, G. A. P. D. Canadian Pacific Railway, , 55 Third Street, Portland, Oregon adjourned term of the October Circuit Court convened Wednesday. Judge Dal ton Biggs presiding. This term is called to dispose of all motions, demur rers, and to consider all matters com ing before th.e grand jury, and to set cases for trial at the regular April term, convening Monday. ALBANY POSTOFFICE OPENS Transfer to New Federal Bnilding Made Without Hitch. ALBANY. Or., April 1. (Special.) Albany's poetoffice opened this mom ing in the new 875,000 Federal build ing. . The change to the new was made last night, and there was no in terruptlon in mail service. Some of the equipment from the old office was moved to the Federal build ing during the day, but most of It was transferred after l.he office closed at night. C. H. Stewart was to have taken charge of the office this morning, but his commission did not arrive and J. S. Van Winkle is officiating still. WAGON LOAD OF BEES SOLD William Bennett, 80, Sends Hive's to McMlnnville Buyers. VANCOUVER, Wash., April 1. (Special.) One hundred hives of bees composed the unusual load on a hay rack brought to Vancouver last night for shipment to McMinnvllle, Or. The hives were shipped by William Ben nett, an 80-year-old bee raiser of Manor. The drivers on the -wagon were compelled to wear long coats and netting for protection. Mr. Bennett will have about so Jilves eft on his farm. The hives were sold for $3 each. Last year he sold 350 worth of honey from 125 hives. Dr. PAUL C YATES TEN YF.ARS OF HOKE ST DEN TISTRY IN PORTLAND. 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