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ff VOL. LV NO. 17,011. PORTLAND, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3, 1915. PRICE FIVE CENTS. ft A. IAWIJATIOPIS WILSON'S GUIDE Neutrals' Right to Travel to Be Insisted On. EARLY ANSWER DEMANDED Note to Germany to Place Single Issue Before Ail . Other Questions. CABINET APPROVES POLICY Technical Discussion of De tails Raised by Berlin to Be Avoided. WASHINGTON", June 1. President Wilson . determined today that the United States must ascertain definite ly and promptly from Germany whether the imperial government in tends in the future to be guided by the accepted principles of internation al law and the rights of neutrals or to follow its own rules of maritime warfare. The President listened to a varied expression of opinion at a meeting of his Cabinet, taking little part in the discussion himself. Later he began the preparation of a note to be dis patched before the end of this week embodying his own ideas and what seemed to him the consensus of 'opinion of his official family. Reply Held Unresponsive. The verdict of a majority of the Cabinet was that the German reply to the American note following the sinking of the Lusitania was unre sponsive and unsatisfactory; that it disregarded the good will of the United States, doubted its facts and disclaimed all blame for the destruc tion of the merchantman with Ameri can lives. The questions of fact raised by Ger many were regarded as irrelevant at this time. The trend of opinion was that the United States must inquire and obtain an early answer as to whether Germany intends to recog nize the hitherto accepted principles that neutrals may travel anywhere on the high Beau on unarmed merchant ships, whether or not such vessels carry contraband, and that merchant men which do not resist capture must be visited and searched and the pas sengers and crew transferred to a place of safety before the vessel is destroyed. Future Measures Considered. An unfavorable answer to this in quiry would lead, it was predicted in official quarters, to a severance of diplomatic relations on the ground that the United States could not con tinue intercourse with a government which repudiated these principles. Steps then would be taken to in form Americans of the dangers to which they were exposed, as a result of this action and such measures as necessary adopted to safeguard the lives and interests of citizens of the United States. Should Germany accept the princi ple in a way that would constitute a guarantee for the future, the Ameri can Government would reiterate its demand for a "strict accountability" for violations of this principle and the killing of Americans in the torpedoing without warning of the Lusitania. Definite Decision Reached. The decision to base the American note on the principles of international law, to obtain an affirmative or neg ative reply and not enter into a tech nical discussion of details raised in the German communication, which avoided the main issues, was the single development of the Cabinet council. Some of the Cabinet members fa vored even excluding any reference to the facts asked for by Germany, set tling first the point as to whether Germany intended to disregard the American warning of last February that it would insist on the exercise of the right of visit and search with respect to vessels on which Americans were traveling. Delay to Be Avoided. One Cabinet officer believed the 1 into an investigation of the points J raised by the German answer, submit- v -4jing its proof and giving the German vernment an opportunity to .do like- (Concluded on Page a, Column L BRIDE IS WEDDED 1ND0ME0FCAPIT0L GIRL OVERLOOKS NEW HOME AS CEREMONY PERFORMED. Miss Violet Brown Becomes Wife of D. X. Foster at Top of State House at Salem. SALEM, Or, June 1. (Special.) In the domt of Oregon's Capitol, from which the farm of the bridegroom In Polk County may be seen. Miss Violet Brown and Daniel N. Foster were mar ried today. Many weddings have been solemnized In the bis state building, but the one today was the first at the top of the great brass canopy above the corridors of the structure. It was the bride's wish that the ceremony be performed In the novel place. She said she wanted to be where she could see her future home as she became the wife of Mr. Foster. Rev. J. M. Hickeon, of this city, per formed the ceremony, and others pres ent were the bridegroom's mother, his sister, Lorraine Foster, and William Nlchol, a farmer of Polk County. The wedding- was a secret one, to the extent that none at the Statehouse, with the exception of the superintend ent of the building, who gave permis sion for the use of the dome, knew anything of It until long after the party had departed. Mr. Foster is a well-to-do farmer. Mrs. Foster's parents also live in Polk County. TINY NATION IS WAR POWER Neutrality of CS Square-Mile State Means Much to Austria. ROME, via Paris, June 1. The little republic of San Marino, 22 square miles in area, although entirely surrounded by Italian territory, forms an abso lutely Independent state. A. serious discussion is now going- on In this re public as to whether it shall remain neutral. The question Is more Important than at first sight. San Marino, standing on a high mountain a few miles from Rimini, dominates the Adriatic. If it continues neutral Austrian aeroplanes, in time of need, could take refuge there, repair, take on new supplies and return home. This would not be possible if San Marino joined wtih Italy in the war. LONE ROBBER GETS $500 Savings and Loan Society in Heart of Spokane Looted at Noon. SPOKANE, Wash., June 1. A lone robber entered the office of the Citi zens Savings & Loan Society at noon today, backed the bookkeeper, George F. Preston, into a rear room and es caped with $500. The robber carried two revolvers, which he pointed at Preston, who was alone in the office, located on the street floor of the larg est office building in tne city. As soon as he obtained the money the robber backed into the street and mingled with the crowd on the street. The office of the society has been robbed twice within three months in the same manner. BIG FREIGHTER IS SAVED Sister Ship Conducts Seward to Cor dova After Cargo Shifts. SEATTLE, June 1. The agent of the Alaska Steamship Company reports that the copper ore cargo of the com pany's big freighter Seward shifted last I night off Cape Hinchinbrook, causing the vessel to head for Cordova, where she arrived safely, convoyed by her sister ship, the Cordova. No damage was done. SEWARD, Alaska, May 31. A wire less message from the steamship Mari posa, en route from Valdess to Seward, says: doing to assistance of steamer Seward." BOY ADRIFT ON BAY SAVED Yaquina Coast Guard Rescues S-Year-Old Lad Two Miles Out. NEWPORT. Or.. June 1. (Special. )- Rich Chatterton. a member of Yaquina Bay Coast Guard, rescued the 0-year- old son of J. "". Flowers, of Newport, today by overtaking a drifting row- boat in a launch. The child had clambered into the boat, cut the lines and had drifted two miles on the bay rrith the tide. The rowboat probably would have upset when rough water was reached. NEW YORK CENSUS BEGINS City's Population Believed to Be 5,806,532; State's, 10,250,000. NEW YORK, June 1. Six thousand enumerators began today a decennial census of the population of New York State under the direction of the Secre tary of State. It was estimated the count would show a total of 10,250,000, as compared with 9,113,611 in 1910. The population of New York City was! estimated at 5,806.532, as compared with 4,766,883 in 1910. WAR SHOWS IN BIRTH RATE Number in Paris In May Less Tlian Half That of Year Ago. PARIS. June 1. Births are beginning to show the effects of the war. According to the statistics for Paris there were 1850 births in May, the 10th month of the war, as compared with 3890 in the same month last year. IS TO ITS WOUNDED Germany Thorough in Care of Heroes. ' ENTERTAINMENT IS PROVIDED Life in Cities of Empire Con tinues Almost Normal. PRICES LITTLE HIGHER Bennett Says Feeling Toward Amer icans Is Undergoing Change, but May Be More Plainly Mani fest After War Is Over. BT JAMES O'DCNVELL BENNETT. Copyrlght. 3915, by the Chicago Tribune. Published by agreement.) KOBLENTZ, Germany, May 7. It was a wonderful experience to fare from silent, smoldering French villages into the peace and sunshine of the valleys of the Mosel and the Rhine. After being stuffed to sickness of soul and body with the squalor and devastation of war, we- turned the car eastward and glided away from all that toward the things that assuage and ameliorate, the things that help to keep alive one's faith in the race. From Metz we traveled by auto down the banks cf the Mosel through an cient Trier to Koblentz, and all along those peaceful ways we . caught glimpses, of the old, old finale to man's warmaking and adventuring the sight of the bruised and broken lads who had come home to be made well again. . Often we could see an old mother tottering from the cottage door to the arbor to minister to hr boy where he lay in the sunshine. But more often the government has gathered the sons of a thousand mothers in some villa or seminary and is playing a mother's role to them. Nation Pet" Its Wounded. It is so here at Koblentz under the shadow of Ehrenbreiten. where the Mosel comes to join the Rhine, and it is so all the way down the Khine to Koln. And Germany mothers her wounded to the point of doting. Even the after math of war can produce a cheerful sight, and there is none more serene and homelike than the sight of the convalescents, who are petted to their heart's content, sunning themselves these beautiful Spring days on the lawns or In front of private or govern ment buildings which have been con verted into hospitals. The soldiers wear a kind of com bination uniform of pajamas made of washable fabric of blue and white stripes. Superb gardens are their play ground. The Rhine flows at their feet. The blue Drachenfels guard the hori zon line. Many of them are making their con valescence in places that contain - pic tures galleries which were once points AID OTHER (concluded on raje , column i. city uouncn. is assureu. (Concluded on Page 2, Column 3.) f THE COLLAPSE OF WATCHFUL WAITING. i I : i i t f t I f r " 7TTT : ' iTTT.n amitv UOPlTAll ! 1 1 : 1 INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The- Weather. YSSTERDATS Maximum temperature, 66.2 degrees; iminlmum, 61.5 degrees. TODAY'S Wednesday fair, northwest winds. War. Forty thousand Turks lost defending Dar da.rda.ne lies. Page 2. Stry and 9000 Russians captured by A astro Germ an a. Page 2. Italy regards entry of Rouxnania and ' Bui pari a into war as accomplished fact. Pago 5. Germany pampers its wounded on vast scale. Page 1. French eye witness describes capture of Im portant position near Arras. Page 2. National. Cabinet gives final approval to new policy toward Mexico. Page X. Supreme- Court rules Mississippi anti-fraternity law Is constitutional. Page 4. Wilson to Insist that ' Germany declare whether It will be guided by international law governing rights of neutrals on high seas. Pago 1. Pacific cmlse of Atlantic fleet definitely abandoned. Pago 1. Iomecttlc. W. Mackenzie King says Chairman Walsh seeks to create prejudice in Federal labor investigation. Page 3. Sport. Christian denies that he has been released by Oakland. Page 16. "Smoky Joe" Wood beats Tanks In great 13-inuing game. Page 17. Braves win great 11-innXng game from Phillies. Page 16. Washington State College wins conference baseball title. Page 16. - Pacific Northwest. Miss Dorothy Conner, of Medford. describes Lusitania sinking. Pago 6. . Wedding performed In dome of Capitol at Salem. Page 1. Complaints accused Oregon City Moose of ficers cf liquor law' violations. Page 6. Evidence-taking In Farnam trial Is expected today. Page 6. . Commercial and Marine. 1 Steps taken to place local egg trade on bet ter basis. Page 17. Wheat slumps at Chicago on estimate of large gain in crop over last year's. Pago 17. Stocks dull and heavy as consequence of Germany's answer. Page 17. Bills of lading now can be made out direct to Havana, Page 12. Portland and Vicinity. Rose Society is ready for annual exhibit, July 9 and 10. Page . Entries are pouring in for floral parade. Pago 18. Adventist elder denounces Sunday closing laws as violating constitution and infring ing liberty. Page IS. Chamber opposes fee-free garbage and urges Jitney regulation. Page 13, Money fur water meters merely wasted, facts show. Page 11 Two women and two men of pleasure party drown at 3 A. M. Page 7. Address of Mrs, Percy Pennybacker Is fea ture of opening day's session of Gen eral Federation of Women's Clubs. Page 1. Mayor of St. Johns makes appeal to Port land voters to ratify annexation. Page 2o. Mayor and Commissioner clash with member of Civil Service Board. Pago 13. Emerson Reid, automobile racer. Indicted for involuntary manslaughter. Page 7. New York Mayor, visiting Portland, urges city to develop shipping -facilities. Pago 33. Many noted guests heard at Chamber of Commerce luncheon. Page 3. Candidates in race- Tor Cm nrisslonershlps agree to abide by peoples vote on meters. Page 13. Dr. W. T. ' Foster urges clubwomen to take firm stagid for peace. Page 4. "Everywoman's Road" at Ileillg dellghte large audience. Page 3. Bureau of Commerce chief tells Portland Chamber of America's gain by European war. Page 5. Weather report, data and forecast. Page 5. SEBASTIAN IS 274 BEHIND Los Angeles KIcctlon Is Close, Witli Half of Vote Counted. LOS ANGELES, Cal., June 1. Late returns tonight grave Frederick J. Whlf fen a slight lead for Mayor over Charles E. Sebastian. The Incomplete returns from 263 precincts out of 460 give Whiffen 22.080. Sebastian 21.706. Both sides will await the official count. - The election of Mrs. Ka telle L. Lind sey, the first woman member of the City Council, is assured. CABINET RATIFIES POLICY IN MEXICO Notice to Be Served on Leaders Today. COALITION TO BE FOSTERED Formal Recognition Will Be Given New Government. EMBARGO PART OF PLAN Constituted Government Alone to Be Permitted to Receive Arms. Plight or Civilians Still Chief Consideration. WASHINGTON, June 1. President Wilson and his Cabinet today adopted a new policy to be pursued by the United States toward Mexico. It has for its object restoration of order and the relief of millions of non-combatants from the devastations of Mexico's mili tary elements which have brought about conditions regarded as intoler able. The President read to the Cabinet a statement which is to be communicated tomorrow to the leaders of all Mexican factions, serving notice that unless they, themselves, compose the situa tion, some other means will be found by the United' States to bring about the establishment of a stable govern ment In the republic. The statement was approved after prolonged discus sion. It will be made public tomorrow. Coalition Will Be Supported. The specific course the United States will pursue in the event the contending factions fail to agree is not outlined In the President's statement, but the Ad ministration's present purpose is to give moral support to a coalition of the bett elements in Mexico aud accord the government . thereby created formal recognition. With such recognition would come an embargo on arms per mitting the constituted government to receive munitions of war to the exclu sion of all other elements and factions. That the Government's policy, if un successful In this course, might re quire intervention ultimately has been considered and the intention to insist on a settlement has not been swayed by the possible necessity of such ac tion. Official Washington Confident. In high executive quarters, however, confidence prevails that the expres sion of the American Government's at titude will clear up misapprehension as to its intentions that have existed in Mexico and bring about the desired coalition government. The Administration's policy is the culmination of several weeks of con ference between the President and his official family. The return of Duval West, who spent three months "per sonally investigating conditions in Mexico for the President, was the de ciding factor Ho brought back re- FLEET WILL NOT COME TO PACIFIC DECISION TO OMTIT CRUISE DEF INITELY REACHED. Chance That Vessels Would Be Cut Off From Atlantic by Slide In Canal Will Be Avoided. WASHINGTON. June 1. (Special.) The Atlantic battleship fleet is to re main in Atlantic waters indefinitely. The plan to send the fleet through the Panama Canal next month for partici pation in the Panama-Pacific and Panama-California Expositions has been abandoned. Admiral Fletcher will come to Wash ington tomorrow for a conference re garding . the Summer plans for ma neuvers of the fleet in Atlantic waters. No announcement of the decision to abandon the cruise to the Pacific Coast has been made and no official in the confidence of those who know the facts will consent to a formal announce ment of the plans for keeping the fleet in the Atlantic Ocean. It was ascer tained today definitely, however, that the decision to omit the cruise of the fleet through the canal has been made. The decision to hold the fleet in At lantic waters is predicated on two prin cipal factors. First, there undoubtedly will be another slide in Culebra cut, in the Panama Canal, some time this Summer, and it would be regarded as highly undesirable to have the fleet on the Pacific with such a slide inter posed between Admiral Fletcher's ves sels and Atlantic waters. Second, the general situation of American foreign affairs, growing out of relations with Germany, are such that it is consid ered unwise to send the fleet to the West Coast and leave the Atlantic Coast unguarded. JUNE 11 IS MADE HOLIDAY Governor Issues Proclamation for Last Day or Festival. The Governor of Oregon has pro claimed Friday, June 11, a legal holi day, to give residents of the entire state an opportunity to close up their places of business, visit Portland and help to make the last day of the 1915 Rose Festival one which will be a record- breaker. The Portland Chamber of Commerce will close all its departments and urges all business houses to make arrangements so that on June 11 they can close their doors. BIG WAR ORDERS DECLINED East St. Lonis Manufacturers He fuse to Make Monitions. EAST ST. LOUIS. June 1. George F. Heller, proprietor of a forgo works here, today declined an unlimited order from the French government for shrap nel casings. The order would have amounted to $90,000 a week. Mr. Heller declined the order because he is opposed to war. A few days ago Theodore Philiippe, of East St. Louis, declined an order for $900,000 worth of machinery . for the manufacture of cartridges. Tuesdays War Moves IN THE face of recent Russian asser tions that the Austro-Russian grip on Przemysl had been broken and that the offensive in the great Gallcian struggle had passed to the Russians. came both German and Austrian' official statements last night asserting that the Austro-German troops have been suc cessful to the north and the southeast of the fortress and that the forts gird ling it to tno north have fallen into their hands, while to the southeast they have wrested Stry from the Russians. In fact the Austro-Germans say that the campaign is running in their favor everywhere in the eastern zone, from Llbau in the north to the southernmost tip of the Galician battle line. It Is apparent that the Russians, since being forced back to the San. have been rushing up heavy reinforcements in the hope of averting tbo fall of Przemysl. The Austro-Germans, unde terred by stupendous losses, have as yet shown little disposition to accept a purely defensive role. . No British official communication was issued yesterday. The French con fine themselves, generally speaking, to recounting their success at Ablain-St. Nazaire. The German official statement ignores this, and tells of minor gains else where. It says that the French effort to break through the German lines has failed. A Zeppelin raid over London, the Germans announce, was in the way of reprisal for the recent bombardment by allied aviators of Ludwigshafen and resulted in the killing of four persons and the injury of a few others. This raid has resulted in a renewal of at tacks by mobs on German business houses in English towns. Details of the raid are not given as extensively as on previous occasions of air attacks, and the accounts published in London and permitted to be sent from there give evidence of increasing severity of censorship. The British authorities especially emphasize the injunction that no information shall be given out as' to the localities in London that were af fected by raids. Austrian aviators have flown across the Adriatic and dropped bombs on Baria and Brindisi, in Southern Italy. The casualties were small. A British official statement says that a Turkish prisoner captured' two weeks ago In the Dardanelles campaign as serted that up to that time the Turkish losses on the Gallipoli Peninsula were more than 40,000 men. GLOB WOMEN HEAR MRS. PENNYBACKER Efficiency Is Note of President's Address. MID-BIENNIAL COUNCIL OPENS Thorough Work by Members Is General Plea of Speakers. YOUNGER WORKERS NEEDED Head of National Body Tells Her Auditors That Success Depends on Efforts of Individuals. Attendance Is Large. 1 PRINCIPAL EVENTS O.V PRO GRAMME AT WHITE TEM PLE TODAY. 9:30 Session opens. Morning speakers, Mrs. George Zimmer man, of Ohio; Mrs. James C. Wil son, Wenatchee: Dr. Carter H. Jones, Seattle; Mrs. Frederick 1L Cole, Nebraska; Mrs. Josephine Corliss Preston. Washington; Mrs. Roy E. Fletcher. New York, and Dr. George Rebec. 12:30 Luncheon for Mrs. John D. Sherman, of Illinois, at Com mercial Club, Oregon State Con servation committee and Forestry Club hostesses. 12:30 Luncheon served in White Temple for those desiring. 2:30 Afternoon session. Re port of magazine, Mrs. Harriet Bishop Waters; address. Dr. C. H. Chapman; report, Mrs. Thomas G. Winters. Minnesota. P. M. Auto rides for officers and delegates. 8:00 "Every woman's Road," at Hellig Theater. BY EDITH KNIGHT HOLMES. Efficiency, loyalty and vision, requi sites urged by the president of the organization in her address, seemed indeed to be In evidence In all the ad dresses and discussions that marked the first day of real work for the dele gates attending the mid-biennial coun cil of the General Federation of Wom en's Ciubs, which opened formally in the White Temple yesterday morning. At the stroke of 10 Mrs. Percy V. Penny backer, of Austin, Tex., president of the organization that represents -.000.- 000 women, called the cuiil to order. Stage Prettily Adorned. The large stage, on which were seat ed the officers and distinguished speakers, was adorned and banked in greenery and rosea to represent a luxu rious garden. Balconies and archwajs were festooned with vine maple and ferns and many baskets of roses were hung in artistic fashion. The auditorium was well filled when the Rev. W. B. Hlnson, pastor of the White Temple, offered the Invocation a prayer for peace for the Nation and a blessing on the work of the club women of the country. A cordial welcome to the state of Oregon was extended by Governor Withycombe. Mayor Albee turned over the keys of Portland to the club officers and dclegtites, and said, "If there are any more keys that you want, ask for them. We are proud and glad to welcome you." Women Indorsed mm Voters. Mayor Albee told of his faith In the work the women were doing and said that the day has passed when woman's duties cease with the rocking of the cradle, and if the women of today are able to raise their sons well to hon orable manhood, they certainly are also able to cast a ballot. Mrs. Sarah A. Evans, president of the Oregon Federation, who was introduced as the woman who made possible the meeting here, gave a brief and cordial greeting. To all of the sincere words of welcome Mrs. Samuel B. Sneath, of Ohio, vice-president of the General Federation, responded. She spoke in the highest terms of the Northwest and , urged the people of Portland to keep on with the custom of holding a Rose Festival. Mrs. Sneath is .one of the many who has been captivated by the wealth of roses here. PreMldent Wulu Young Women. One of Mrs. Pennybacker's strongest pleas In her stirring address was for more and more youth in the federa tion. That the women In the rural dis tricts need the deep thought of the clubwomen, and that the conditions of the immigrant should also be their deep concern, was suggested by the president. In part Mrs. Pennybacker said: Today ire must face the situation that w should be even more concerned about the efficiency than the growth of our organiza tion. The greatest foe to efficiency is lack of thorough study before undertaking action. 1 must beg that yon will allow me to repeat Goethe's words: "Nothing ts more danger ous than Ignorance at work." On tills last official trip, as on all previous ones, I have seen work duplicated, time wasted, needed action "ignored, enterprises condemned to failure, simply because leaders and followers did not know real conditions; did not under stand the best methods. Would that v e might have emblazoned In flaming letters on the cover of each club calendar tbesa words: "Investigate, eliminate, concen trate." We shall never bo truly efficient until (Concluded on Po 4. Column 1.) h Ira 108.2T