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THE MORNING OREGONIAN. WEDNESDAY, 3IAY 10, 1915. RUSSIA LOOKS TO ALLIES FOR RELIEF Phones: a,"! Entire Army Corps Are Moved . by Germans From France to Eastern Front. Broadway at Stark THEATER Today and All This Week NEW BATTLES DEVELOPING Offers Every Day This Week 3 ffo - A rctrosrart Sajs Invaders of Provinces rn Defensive and perme F.fl'orls Arc Made Teuton to Cros San. Baltic on on had renewed west. T.ONT'ON, May 1. On the extent ot tlie pressure brought by the new offen sive of the allies In France and Belgium iVe irmn depends the lurtnrr fcjs of the Austro-German assaults the Russians in Courland, Poland end Galicia, it is believed by military observers li.ere in view of recent dis patches from rctrograd. These declaro that heavy reinforcements have been brought recently to the eastern war zone from the Western fronts. Kntire army corps and separate divi sions have been moved from France jind Belgium to inc. Baltic provinces nd Oalician front, according to the fetrcrriid renort. which adds that completion of the plan evidently keen Interrupted by the activitv of the allies in the Son Not' Crotmed ly Teuton. The report declares that the Ger Ti;ins have been put on the defensive in the Baltic provinces. I temperate efforts are being made by the Austro-Ciermans to cross the river linn in Galicia. says one Russian dis patch, which adds that the enemy has not even gotten within striking dis tance of Jaroslau and other fortresses that form the strongest Russian line of defense. The Austrian official dis patch issued May 15 said the Teuton allies had captured Jaroslau. The Herlin official report of today says flighting for a passage across tho San is still in progress. A terrific battle is under way north of Pr.emvsl, for possession of the Rus sian fortifications along the River San. Another big battle has been going on since early yesterday near llsea and Lagow ur.il in the vicinity of Stry, tays the Berlin dispatch. Austrian Railroad Captured. The Russian War Office concedes a further retreat in Russian Poland be tween the I'ilica and Vistula rivers on part of the long front over which they have been, compelled by the Austro tlBiniaii armies to fall back. The railroad lino between Kolomea and Pclatyn. which has been of great Importance to the Austrians for main taining? communication with their base In Bukowina. is reported today to be in Russian hands. It has been de fended stubbornly by the Austrians. The evacuation by the Russians ot their positions in the Carpathians be came inevitable as the Germans pro ceeded with their powerful drive from Cracow upon the Russian right. This threatened the cutting off of the whole Carpathian army of the Russians, whose rear communications were only narrow foot paths. Russian critics hint that the Carpathian! campaign was an unwise undertaking, since it led to a great extension of the front which was not easily defendable. PEACE PLAN IS SUGGESTED Iooiali.-t Committee's Proposed Pro Sraniiiic Sent to The Hii?ue. CHICAGO, May 18. The peace pro gramme devised by the National Com mlttee of the Socialist party in pur nuance of resolutions adopted here last week was communicated to the Inter rational Pe-H.ce Bureau at The Hague today. It provides: Terms of peace at the close of the present war in Europe must be based on the following provisions: No in demnities; no transfers of territory ex cept on the consent of the people with in the territory: all countries under foreign rule to receive independence if demanded by the inhabitants of such countries: an international congress vvith permanent committees to con sider International disputes; inter national ownership of strategic waters neutralization of the seas; universal disarmament; abolition of manufacture of arms for private profit; no increase In existing armaments; no naval or military appropriations; political dem ocracy; abolition of secret diplomacy; universal suffrage. Umder the With Williamson's Submarine Expedition 3 Most amazing pictures ever shown. I One hundred miles of under-ocean journey. f$ Seven astounding reels, revealing to the human eye wonderful views of the floor of the ocean. f This record-smashing sensation of the age has been proclaimed the greatest marvel of all time. Showing; all this week at the regular admission of 10 cts. I School Children's Big Matinees Friday and Saturday, beginning at 9 A. M. Watch papers for coupons. RESCUER IS WARNED Liner Prevented From Going to Aid of Lusitania. STORY TOLD BY CAPTAIN Klonian, Who Received Wireless Call Orr Kinsdalc, Sees Two Sub marines Transylvania Has Encounter, Also. BOSTON". May 18. According to her captain, W. F-. Wood, the Leyland steamer Ktonian. which arrived from Liverpool today, was prevented from going to the rescue of the passengers of the sinking Lusitania by a warning that an attack might be made upon his own vessel. The Ktonian left Liverpool May 6, a day before the Lusitania disaster. When Captain Wood was some 40 miles from Kin Bale he received a wireless call from the Lusitania for immediate assistance. The call was also picked up by the steamer City of Exeter and Narra gansett. The Narragansett. Captain Wood said, was made a target for sub marine attack, a torpedo missing her by a few feet, and her commander then warned Captain Wood not to attempt to reach the Lusitania. Captain Wood, after receiving the Narragansett's warning. sighted the periscope of a submarine about a quar ter of a mile away. He ordered full speed, ahead and left the submarine slowly. "No sooner had we lost sight of the submarine astern," he said, "than I made out another on the starboard bow. This one was directly ahead and on the surface, not submerged. "I starboarded hard away from him. he swinging as we did. About eight minutes later he submerged. I con tinued at top speed for four hours and saw no more of the submarines. It was the ship's speed that saved her; that's all." LONDON. May IS. Passengers on the Cunard liner Transylvania, who arrived at Glassrow yesterday, said the vessel encountered a submarine off the Irish coast Saturday. They said a periscope and part of a conning tower appeared about 400 yards away and remained in sight several minutes. The shin steered a zigzag course until dan eer was passed. Some passengers said the submarine discharged a torpedo and that they saw the trail of the pro jectile. Others disputed this. o indicate that the criminal provl- ions of the anti-trust law are unen- forcible and that "general acceptance of this view even if mistaken, will have the gravest of consequences." The Government holds that the Cir uit Court's decision was based on "a fundamental misconstruction of the anti-trust law," "mistaken views of monopolization." "a conspiracy in re- traint of trade," in applying the tatute of limitations and to the re quirements of indictments under the anti-trust law. Concluding the brief declares that the estimony which the Circuit Court it self sets forth in its reversing opinion shows that these men were steeped n a deliberate guilt; not merely technically guilty of technical offenses, but knowingly guilty of offenses that he men in the street would recognize as flagrantly and unmistakably wrong." COWLITZ CLOSING OPPOSED Kelso Fishermen Ask Mr. Lister to Delay Action. KELSO, Wash., May 18. (Special.) When Kelso fishermen learned that an effort i3 being made by fishing inter ests on the Columbia to secure action through the State Fish Board closing the Cowlitz River to commercial ft? ri ng much indignation was aroused and plans are being laid to fight the propo sition. The following telegram was sent this morning to Governor .Lister by the Kelso Commercial Club: 'We understand there is a movement on foot to close the Cowlitz River to commercial fishing. People are indig nant. Will hold mass meeting to pro tect May 20. Want to know who is responsible for this action and the rea son. Demand that nothing be done un til we have time and chance to have a hearing." Xewherg F'lrm Suspends. XEWBKKG, Or.. May 18. (Speci The firm of Hodson Brothers, give notice of suspension, is the old In its line in Newberg. Kor many years it lias been supplying the people of Newberg and the surrounding country with clothing and men's furnishing goods. It is composed of J. C. and Charles A. Hodson, but the former went back to Indiana, his native state, sev eral months ago. Their father was an early settler in this vicinity and J. C. Hodson was superintendent of New berg schools in former years. Another brother is a druggist in Newberg and the youngest son of the family is city engineer. Sealed bids for the stock have been advertised for and are to be opened next Monday. & FEDERAL APPEAL FILED GOVKRNMENT IRGES IMPORTANCE OF CASH REGISTER. CASES. Hoy Karnam Paces New Trial. ROSKBCRCi. Or.. May IS. (Special.) It was made practically certain here yesterday that Koy Farnam, serving a term in the penitentiary on a serious harge. will be tried for the murder of Kdna Morgan, of Cow Creek Valley, during the May term of the Circuit Court. The charred body of Edna Mor gan, 14 years old. was found in the ruins of the barn of H. H. Beamer, near lilendale, on December 9, 1914. Far nam was convicted of a statutory crime after three trials. Reversal of Conviction Declared to Give Color to Opinion Anti-Trost I.avrs Are I'nemforctble. WASHINGTON. May IS. The De partment of Justice today filed in the Supreme Court a petition for a writ of certiorari to bring the criminal anti trust case against the officers of the National Cash .Register Company of Dayton, O.. before that tribunal. John II. Patterson and other officers of the company were convicted of con spiracy to violate the anti-trust law in the United States District Court for the southern district of Ohio, but the convictions were reversed by the Fed eral Circuit Court of Appeals. "This," says the Government In i brief filed with the petition, "is one of the most important criminal cases ever brought under the anti-trust law." The reversal of the conviction, the brief says, has been taken by many COUPONS TO BE VOTED FOR QUEEN OF THE ROSE FESTIVAL. Not Good After May 21, 1915 THE ROSE FESTIVAL QUEEN CAMPAIGN This Coupon will count for 10 Vote For Mias. Candidate of. Good for 10 votes when filled out and sent to the Campaign Depart ment by mail or otherwise, on or before the above date. No coupon will be altered in any way or transferred after being received at tho Rose Festival Headquarters, SSC Northwestern Bank building. HHSHIPPflOBED NOVEL TYPES SAID TO BE OW MAKING ON CYLDK. IN NORTH SEA RULES CHANGED British Admiralty Warns Neutrals to Get Permits to Sail. WASHINGTON, May 18. New Ad miralty directions for navigation in the North Sea, designed to safeguard commerce from mine nelds, were an nounced in a dispatch to the State De partment today from Consul-General Skinner at London. The announcement, dated yesterday and superseding the Admiralty's regu lations of November 30, "strongly urges" shipmasters to obtain latest of ficial notices before sailing from Brit iah ports. Lights may be extinguished. it says, and other changes made with out previous warning. Neutral vessels seeking to use the North Sea routes are required to apply through their foreign representatives for permission. PEACE WOMEN IN BERLIN Flea for Find of War to Be Made to German Government. THE HAGUE, via London. May 18. An embassy from the International Congress of Women, headed by Miss Jane Aadams, of Chicago, left the Dutch capital today for Berlin to inter cede with Germany in favor of peace. The embassy, in addition to Miss Addams, comprises Dr. Aletta Jacobs and Mrs. Richard Palthe, of Holland, and Signora Genoni, of Italy. The delegation was received yester day by Premier Asquith and Foreign Secretary Grey In London, when they presented to the British government officials copies of the resolution in favor of peace recently adopted by the Women's Congress. British Admiralty Makes Appeal for More Skilled Labor. Needed to Com plete Vessels Under Way. GLASGOW, May 3. (Correspondence of the Associated Press.) That the shipyards on the Clyde are turning out several fighting ships of entirely new types which are expected to prove de cisive factors, both in the North bea and in the Dardanelles, was revealed in an address made to a meeting of business men here by Captain J. J Barttelet, of the Admiralty office. In urging the necessity of recruiting sev eral thousand skilled workmen for the ship-building works, he said: Our main concern up here and on the Clyde - is the fleet. These yards are building ships of new types, and great issues depend on their arriving at their stations. To get these ships ready there are wanted many i more men. especially ironworkers. In order to beat the enemy we shall have to pool the whole of our resources of skilled labor and put them on government work. This will mean a considerable displacement of labor, but 1 feel confident, by the readiness with which the representa tives of the employers and men have come together, that the efforts will be successful. "Many firms have already most will ingly met by request to divert men from their works to other firms en gaged on government work, and the representatives of the boilermakers and other trades have also given me as sistance. But the transference must be done on a larger and larger scale. Transfer of men naturally involved fi nancial loss through inability of firms to carry on contracts, but the govern ment will arrange suitable compensa tion in these cases. ceraa City With Pauline Frederick Actual Scenes in This Great Dramatic Production The Pope's Jubilee Procession Mob Scene Before St. Peters The Mob Before the Vatican Marvelous Vatican Gardens In the Castle St. Angelo The Villa D'Est A Drama Actually Filmed When the Story Was Placed in Imagination Performances at 11 A. M., 1, 3, 5, 7 and 9 P. M. in Port! surra Being Played in New York for $1.50 BIDS ON PAVING ASKED Washington Seeks Offers to Build Pacific High-way Stretch. OLYMPIA. Wash., May IS. (Special.) The state highway department has advertised for bids to be opened June 14 fdr the construction of seven and one-half miles of the Pacific Highway in Clarke County, from the end of the present paving north of Vancouver toward La Center. The work is to in clude not only grading and draining, but also the surfacing of the new high way, which will eliminate what is now one of the worst stretches In the state on the Pacific Highway route. The es timated cost is $65,000. It is still uncertain whether Clarke County will build from the end of the state work with its permanent high way funds. The old board of County Commissioners promised the state high way department to expend $40,000 on the Pacific Highway it the state would spend $60,000. The highway department also has called for bids for June 14 for con struction of a 468-foot steel cantilever bridge over the Cowliti River at May field, Lewis County, on the National Park highway, for which $30,000 is available. CHECK BUTTLES RULAnVK ttl'IET PRKV.IILS FLAXDERS AND FRA!VCK. French Say Wen of Germans Canal B I .eft SOOO Dud rlia Telia of British. Railroad Bays 14,4 3 Cars. PHILADELPHIA. May 18. Orders for 14.043 steel freight cars for re placements were placed by the Penn sylvania Railroad Company today. This will represent an expenditure of approximately $16,000.000. Linn and Benton Growers Klect. ALBANY, Or., May 18. (Special.) Ira Hutchings. of Brownsville, has been elected general manager of the Linn and Benton Co-operative Growers' As sociation and will have charge of its work its first season. For the past few years Hutchings has been in charge of the cannery at Brownsville which was purchased and taken over by the association. Spokane Has $150,00 0 lire. ruivAit;. may is. rne building and stock of the Powell-Sanders & Co.. wholesale grocers, burned early today. The loss is estimated in excess of $150,000. The Insurance is $135,000 Heavy Losses to LONDON". May 18. The official reports from Paris today nay that on account of continuous rains and thick mist, operations have almost ceased in Inlanders and France, even the can nonading being weak. Paris tells of finding -000 German dead on the ground west of the Yser Canal taken by the allies Sunday and Tuesday. The official report from Berlin declares that "on the eastern bank of the Yser Canal, fighting developed at some points and continues today." The earlier official report from Paris said that several Oerman attacks were repulsed yesterday, and added: "As for ourselves, we captured as a result of a night advance a group of houses near the cemetery of Ablain. Along all the front north of Arras the artillery fighting is continuing by day and by night. The Germans have bombarded Arras with particular ferocity. "In the region of Ville-au-Bois, near Berry-au-Bac, the enemy yesterday undertook a fresh attack, but he was easily repulsed." The Berlin official report, also dealing with the events of yesterday, concluded by saying: "Renewed French attacks on the heights of Lorette near Ablain and west of Souchez resulted in failure. 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