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VOL,. LV-XO. 17,013. PORTLAND, OREGON? FRIDAY, JUNE 4, 1915. PRICE FIVE CENTS. V WILSON WRITES POINTED NOTE i Bernstorff at Same Time Will Send Emissary. AUB ASS AD OR KORE HOPEFUL True State of Opinion United Staes to Be Pre sented to Berlin. in PRESIDENT WORKS ALONE Communication Will Present Single Issue of Rights of Non-Combatants. WASHINGTON, June 3. President Wilson today drafted a note, brief and pointed, to be sent to Germany, asking a definite question whether the imperial government intends to be guided in the future by the hu mane principles embodied in interna tional law for the conduct of mari time warfare? It will be submitted to the Cabinet tomorrow and dispatched soon there after, before the week end. Von Bernstorff Sends Emissary. Coincidentally there will start for Berlin a personal emissary of Count von Bernstorff, the German Ambas sador, to lay before Emperor William and high officials of the German gov ernment the substance of what the Ambassador learned from President Wilson in his talk yesterday, the true state of public opinion in the United States toward the German govern ment and the American point of view on submarine warfare. The Ambassador in his interview with the President, it became known today, said he would send within a day or two a man of judgment and breadth to outline the situation to the German government in person. Safe Conduct Arranged. The President made arrangements at Count Bernstorff's request for the safe conduct of the envoy. His name is not known generally, but foreign governments already have given as surances to the United States that he will not be molested. The Ambassador is understood to have explained that he has had dif ficulty on account of cable censorship in making his government realize the feeling in the United States and that erroneous reports had reached Ger many. President Wilson's emphasis yesterday on the fact that the United States would omit no word or act to secure an acquiescence in its position in the Lusitania case was described by the Ambassador in a memorandum which he has transmitted to his gov ernment. German Reply May Be Delayed. Count von Bernstorff saw Secretary Bryan for a few minutes today and is understood to have given him this memorandum to be delivered through Ambassador Gerard to the German Foreign Office. The dispatch of the Ambassador's representative will not affect the sending of the American Govern ment's rejoinder to the last German note, though it may delay Germany's reply. The transmission of a cabled re port on a conference such as occurred yesterday through the courtesy of a foreign government often makes it difficult, it was pointed out in diplo matic quarters, for the recipient na tion to give full weight to the lan guage of the writer of the communi cation, on the assumption that he does not speak as freely and frankly as might be the case if the messages were not read by the officials of an other government. Ambassador Bern storff's idea is to supplement the ca bled report with the personal words sent through an emissary capable of describing the situation accurately. Ambassador Is Hopeful. The Ambassador's plan has caused him to be hopeful of the satisfactory outcome of the delicate situation that has arisen. Believing that his govern ment was uninformed on the feeling in the United States when the last note was written in Berlin, he is said to be confident that officials will now learn important details that will be of guidance in answering the American Government's new communication. Although the President naturally would not discuss the country s rela (Concluded on Page 4. Column L). SUBMARINE SHOTS KILL ON TRAWLER GER3LXS TEX I, CKEW THEY PAID FOR. TRTIXG TO ESCAPE- Men Held Prisoners on Underwater Vessel All Nlgnt Second Traw ler Destroyed by Bomb. LONDON, June 4. Two Welsh trawl ers have been sunk by German sub marines the Hierold of Cardiff, and the Victoria, of Milford. The Hierold was sent to the bottom about 150 miles southwest of Lundy Island, and the Victoria 135 miles from St. Ann's Head. Several men. Including: the skipper, on the Victoria, were killed by shells from the submarine. The remainder of the ship's company and the crew of the Hierold have landed at Milford. A member 6f the crew of the Vic toria, who was seriously wounded, said the submarine, the U-34, fired at the trawler. The men on board thought the shot came from a patrol boat which was engaged with a submarine. Then a shot smashed & small boat and the crew realized that the submarine was after the trawler. The officer of the submarine, accord ing to the sailor, told them that if they had stopped they would not. have been fired on. The fishermen were ke,pt aboard the submarine all night and the following morning were put aboard a small boat belonging to an other trawler. The submarine then sank the Vic toria with a bomb. The men were adrift in the boat for 24 hours in rough, wet weather. They were picked up by the steamer Battater and landed in Milford. The Norwegian steamship Cubano, formerly the BrltlsB" ship Strathmore, was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine yesterday off the Flannan Islands. The crew was landed In the Hebrides, a group of Islands off the coast of Scotland. OREGON GETS CHICAGOAN Instructor In Domestic Science Is Graduate of Rockefeller School. OREGON AGRICULTURAL. COL LEGE, Corvallis, June 3. (Special.) Miss Lillian Francis, of Chicago, has been appointed by the Oregon Agricul tural College as instructor in domes tile science and secretary of the Young Women's Christian Association, and will assume her duties with the begin ning of the -Fall semester. As secre tary of the Y. W. C. A. she will suc ceed Miss Katherine Vance, resigned. Miss Francis U a graduate of the University of Chicago, majoring In so ciology and home economics, and took graduate work in the same institution. She has traveled extensively, and for the past three years has been in charge of the Home Economics work In the Mary Crayne Nursery, which is a sub division of Hull House. ORIENTAL'S WIFE QUITS Woman Repudiates Chinese Cere mony, Husband Seeks -Divorce. SEATTLE, Wash, June 3. '(Special.) Eng Yan, a local Chinese business man, married Ah Fook under the Chi nese ceremony without process of United States law; the wife -later repudiated this marriage and refuses to Jive with him and as the courts refuse to recognize the Chinese cere mony performed in the United States, except where a license is obtained, the husband Is denied even the privilege of a divorce. Eng Yan, however, filed an action for decree In the Superior Court today. QUARTERS OF PRINCE HIT WiUielm's Army Seat Attacked by 3 9 French. Aeroplanes. PARIS, June 3. The headquarters of the German Crown Prince were bom barded early today by French aviators. Twenty-nine machines , dropped 17s shells and several thousand darts. Many of the shells are said to have reached the mark. This announcement was made in the official statement Issued by the War Office tonight. The machines were sub jected to a severe cannonade, but re turned unscathed. ALASKAN VOLCANO ACTIVE Iliamna , Furnishes Spectacle for Steamer Passengers. SEWARD. Alaska. June 3. Iliamna volcano, on the west shore of Cook Inlet, continues in eruption. Its ac tivities were plainly visible Tuesday to passengers of the steamship Marl posa, 50 .miles. distant from the troubled mountain. The snow had been melted from the upper portion of the peak. Smoke and flames burst from the crater at two-minute intervals, but no explosions were heard. Large Transport . Sunk. LONDON. June 3 A British subma rine operating In the Sea of Marmora torpedoed and sunk a large German transport in Pandemia Bay yesterday. This announcement was given out of ficially in London today as having been received from the Vice-Admiral in com mand at the Dardanelles. It is said also this submarine was one of several op erating in these waters. Girl Countess in Prison. AMSTERDAM, June 4. According to a Berlin telegram received here, the 16 year-old Countess Helene Dardey has been sentenced to three months' impris onment for publicly insulting a Ger man officer. PRZEMYSL RETAKEN BY AUSTRO-BERMAHS Russian Forts Are Car ried by Storm. FEAT UNSURPASSED IN WAR Sacrifice of Men Greatest of Present Conflict. MILITARY MEN SURPRISED Assault Lasts 2 0 Days, Big Guns rroving Mo;t KXfective Leni berg Only Large City in Gall cla Held by Czar's Army. LONDON, June 3. Przemysl. the cen tral Galiclan stronghold, was recap tured by the Austro-German forces to day, after a 20-day bombardment and series of assaults that are said to have been more costly to the Teutons than their operations against Calais, France, and the battles of the Yser. Leniberg Is the only Important Aus trian city now held by the Russians. It virtually is unfortified. Indications are that a large number of Russian guns and other booty was captured with Przemysl. RumUa Gnu Used by Foe. The last of the forts on the north of the city were stormed last night. The Russians bad not time to destroy their big guns in the outer works. These were turned by the captors on the inner forts. Big guns and sacrifice of vast num bers of men enabled the Austro-Ger man forces to recapture the city just TO days after the Russians bad occupied it after the surrender of the Austrian garrison of 120,000 men who had been starved out by one of the longest sieges in modern history. British military observers express surprise over the surrender of the fortress for the second time within a few weeks, which giyis it a unique place in history. i It is regarded as a remarkable feat and surpassing in brilliancy any pre vious event in any of the battle zones of the present conflict. Warsaw la Attacked Also. Cracow, the only other fortress of any importance in Galicia and which protects Silesia from invasion, is now regarded as safe from any attack in the near future by the Russians. Simultaneously with the operations against Przemysl the Austro-German forces began another campaign, which is the fourth, against "Warsaw, capital of Russian Poland. The extent of these operations have not been clearly known, but it is considered likely now mat tiie neuronic allies will make a more desperate effort than ever to cap ture the city. With the capture of Przemysl, the Austrian authorities immediately be gan to arrange for the return to 'that (Concluded on Page , Column 2.) INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temprmtur. T2 degrees; minimum. 48.7 degrees. TODAY'S Fair, warmer; northwest wind. . War Anctro-Germans recapture Prwrnyil from Russians. Page 1. I4o-d George tells Britons defeat Is likely unless munitions are increased. Page SL Italian premier says Austria decided in 1918 to provoke war. Page 6. Turks completely routed by British In Mesopotamia. Page 0. WUion writes brief, pointed note to Germany and Von Bernstorff arranges to send per sonal emissary to explain situation to German Government. Page 1. German submarine's shots kill captain and several of crew of trawler. Page 1. Mexlcev . Senator Borah congratulates Wilson on re pudiation mt former Mexican. policy. Page 2. Efforts for relief of Mexicans go on without waiting for reply of military leaders to Wilson's note. Page 2. Federal Court decides against Government In Steel Corporation suit. Fms 1. Domestic Blabop Sumner begins salt to iwjulie counting ot siou.000 fund left by late Bunop Sc&d&icE. Pace S. Financiers and Industrial captains advocate combinations for export trade. Page S Admiral Fisher warns laymen of weakness ot United States Navy. Pace 8. Sport. Pacific Coast League results: Portland, o. Oakland 1; Ban Francisco 4, Loa An geles 2; Venice 1. Salt Lake 0. Page 10. Philadelphia Athletics regain second place by virtue of Brooklyn errors. Page 16. Interscholastic track meet to be held today. Page 17. Oregon-Oregon Aggie track meet Is celled off. Page 16. Pacific Northwest. C. G. Kegley again elected master of Wash. ington btate Grange. Page o. Record attendance - made at Union Horse Show. Page 6. Roaeburg votes $300. OO0 bond Issue for Kea. dall mill and railway. Page ?. Commercial and Marine. Commission declares co-operation with Gov ernment In areoging plans from Portland to sea. Page 18. New local egg and poultry association es tablishes egg grades. Page 17. . Chicago wheat advances, owing to excessive rains Southwest. Page 17. Stock prices, led by Steel, soar in Wall bireet. Page 17. Portland and Vicinity. General Federation of Women's Clubs ends mid-biennial session. Page 1. Robbers blow saloon safe and get- J 1000. Page Is. Chinese financiers and business men to be honored when they visit Portland. Page 12. - J. P. Limerick, charged with cock fighting, held for grand Jury . Investigation. Page 18. Chance to reduce water rates would be taken away by Mr. Daly In Installing metera Page 11. Financlug proposed city garbage system pus ales. Page 11. Dr. Jordan scouts idea of United States In war. Page a. Sailor, evidently thought Austrian spy. at Uicked, drugged and robbed. Page 4. Blltle Burke scores wonderful success in "Jerry" at Hellig. Page 4. Bidrt for school supplies opened by board. rage 18. Weather report, data and forecast. Page 13 DAMAGES WON FOR; HATS "Woman Gets Verdict in First Case in Small Claims Court. In the first "small-claims-court" case heard under the new law, which went into effect May 22, District Judge Dayton yesterday awarded to Miss D. Larsen $18.25 damages for four hats which were ruined by water which leaked through the ceiling of a build ing at 410 Hawthorne avenue. The judgment was against W. L. Morgan, owner of the building. Miss Larsen sued for $20, the maximum amount al lowed in a Bmall-claims-court case. it was judge uayton who drew up the new law and secured its passage by the Legislature. The purpose of the act is to eliminate the large court costs frequently accruing in a suit for an amount less than $20. The new law also gives tho "tti! debtor a chance to be heard without being put to much expense. HAVING FUN WITH THE TAXPAYER. STEEL CORPORATION HELD NO MONOPOLY Government Loses Its Injunction Suit. COMPETITION IS FOUND OPEN Original Intent of Organizers Defeated by Events, MERE BIGNESS NO CRIME Federal Judges Say No Proof Has Been Offered That Return to Old Trade War System Would Be Benefit to Public. POINTS IN DECISION RKFTJS IG TO DISSOLVE STEEL CORPORATION. Foreign trade of corporation not violation of Sherman law. "G a.r y dinner" price-fixing agreements unlawful, but were stopped before bill was filed. Government retains Jurisdiction in case price-fixing practices should be renewed. Test of monopoly is not size of that which is acquired, but trade power of business not acquired. Lake Superior ore monoply declared impossible. Steel trade fully open to com petitors of big corporation. No proof given that return to old trade-war system would ben efit public. Purchase of Tennessee . Coal & Iron honestly made. Organizers of company in tended to monopolize trade, but corporation itself neither at tempted nor was able to do so. TRENTON, N. J June 3. The United States District Court for New Jersey today .handed down a unanimous de cision refusing the petition of the Fed eral Government to dissolve the United Stat ft- Steel Corporation. Tf.'i court held that In acquiring its foreign and home trade the concern' did not violate the anti-trust act, and re fused all the Injunctions prayed for by the Department of Justice. As against the Steel Corporation, the court held that the committee meet ings participated in by 95 per cent of the steel trade of the country, lnclud ing the Steel Corporation, subsequent to the famous Gary dinners of eight or nine years ago, were unlawful com binations to control prices, but as these meetings had stopped before the Gov ernment filed its complaint in Octo ber, 1911, the judges held that there was no occasion for an Injunction. Co art to Retain Jurisdiction. The opinion of the court suggests that auch practices lie within the prov ince of the new Federal Trade Com mission, but adds that if their repe titlon is apprehended the court, on mo tion of the Government, will retain (Concluded on Page 3. Column 1.) Thursdays War Moves W3 ITH the capture of Pnemysl. the Austro-German armies achieved the main object of the great thrust which they began against the Russian lines in Western Galicia just a month ago. They have yet to drive the Rus sians farther back and establish them selves in easily-defended positions which will enable them to detach forces for operations against Italy and the allies in the west. Whether or not they accomplish this, the Teutonic allies have won a great victory, and with a suddenness which overshadows all past operations of the war. It was only 10 weeks ago that Przemysl fell to the Russians after a six months' investment, which was interrupted for a short time in November by an Austrian advance. With . the surrender of the fortress there fell into the Russian hands, ac cording to official reports. 120,000 Aus trian" and 600 guns and an immense amount of war material. Most of the forts, however, had been completely destroyed by the Austrians before they surrendered, and this is considered in military circles here to account for the fact tnat the fortress succumbed so quickly to the Austro-German attack. When the Russians captured rzemysl, they were pressing the Aus trians across the Carpathian passes. Then, on May 3, . came the news of a great Austro - German thrust into Galicia. Advancing slowly but surely and accompanied by a thousand guns, the Teutons compelled the Russians to fall back until the Russian line ran to the right bank of the River 'San. Crossing the river, the Austro-German forces progressed to the north and south of the fortress, and on Tuesday Berlin announced that three forts to tho north had been stormed, while Vienna said that the railway between Przemysl and Lemberg was com manded by Austrian guns. There was still hope in the allied countries, however, that a Russian counter-offensive would hold the in vaders off, but this proved ill-founded, and yesterday the Russians had to give up the city, which, earlier in the war, had cost them so dearly to win. Of the booty the Austro-Germans have captured with the fortress there is no estimate, but it Is fairly certain that the Russians, having-lots of time, got away as many men and as much material as possible and destroyed the guns and ammunition that remained. It is', not expected that the victors will be satisfied with their gain of Przemysl, but that they doubtless will endeavor to push on to Lemberg and even farther, and put the Russians in such a position that they will not be able to resume the offensive for many months, x The British government Is urging workmen and employers to turn out shells in enormous quantities. David Lloyd George, the new Minister of Munitions, Is touring the country with this object, and the expectation is that the new British armies, when they take the field, will be equipped as no other forces ever were. Meanwhile, the French continue their operations north of Arras, where it is declared they are slowly moving the Germans out of strongly-fortified posi tions. The British, on their part, have become more active in the regions of Tpres and La Bassee, while the Italians continue to report the capture of im portant positions along their frontier. In this latter region, however, no news has yet been received of any big battle. COLLEGE LOAN FUND AIDED Total at Corvallis Now $4345, but Need of $10,000 Is Realized. . OREGON AGRICULTURAL COL LEGE, Corvallis, June 3. (Special.) With the addition of almost $325, pro ceeds of the Oregon Agricultural Col lege faculty minstrel show and base ball games with the University of Ore gon to the student loan fund, the amount of the fund Is now $4341.93, according to a report Issued June 2 by W. A. Jensen, chairman of the com mittee. Tho report says further that 178 loans have been made up to May 1. but that until the fund reaches i minimum of $10,000 it will not be pos sible adequately to meet demands made upon it. These demands are for small loans on long time at reasonable interest, made by students whose financial con ditions make it necessary for them to obtain small loans or give up their education until they earn more money. 400 WOULD BE POLICEMEN Civil Service Examination Is Set by Board for June 15. More than 400 men are to compete June 15 in a civil service examination for the police force. The date ot the examination was set yesterday by the Municipal Civil Service Board, having been postponed from last month. Already there are 375 applications for the examination. It is expected there will be between 25 and 50 more before the date for the test. This will be the largest number of men ever participat ing in a local police examination. SEATTLE HAS BIG FIRE Blaze in Coal Bunkers Spreads and General Alarm Is Sounded. SEATTLE, Wash., June 4. Fire which started in the Pacific Coast Coal Company's bunkers on the waterfront near the foot of Dearborn street, short ly after 1 o clock this morning, soon was beyond control and threatening adjoining property. At 1:15 a general alarm was turned in, calling most of the fire apparatus in the city to the waterfront. Klre Destroys Home. Fire last night destroyed the home of Robert Keen. 9902 East Fifty-fifth street Southeast. The cause is un known. CLUB WOMEN END BUSY CONVENTION Conservation of Parks Warmly Indorsed. EUGENIC CARRIAGES URGED Governor Lister Tells of Suc cess of Prison Reform. BIRD PROTECTION ASKED Federation Reorganization Is Pro posed Whirl of Modern Life Blamed by Speaker for In creasing Adult Mortality. BT EDITH KNIGHT HOLMES. Conservation ot natural parks, home economics, women and the peace move ment, reorganization of the federation, the minimum wage, prison reform, eugenic marriages, the biennial for 1916 these were only a few of the' many topics that came up for discus sion in the White Temple at the third days' session of the mid-biennial council of the General Federation of Women's Clubs which closed its meet ing last night after three days of busy work and several preliminary days of board meetings and social activities. The speakers who presented these topics included Dr. David Starr Jordan, chancellor of Stanford University; Gov ernor Lister, of the State of Washing ton, and many other men and women who are acknowledged leaders in the great and practical movements ot the day. Weifrhty Questions Considered. The weighty problems considered and the broadness of their scope made it evident that for the clubwomen to ac complish all that was suggested will keep them busy for a long time to come. i The question box was opened in the laet part of the afternoon and created much merriment. Miss Lutie Steam presided and gave some of her charac teristic and witty answers. Governor Lister, of Washington, told of the prison reform work that 13 carried on In his state. He mentioned the "honor camps" as an efficient method of giving men work In the open air, of creating in them habits of doing manual work and getting honestly tired. For this work the men are paid a small amount of money and receive food and clothing. The re sults, he said, are far better than they were when men were taught trades and were so turnea out -nan uukcu mechanics." Cause of Crime at Home. "We can't do. away with criminality," said the Governor, "until we reach the cause and that lies largely with the parents, who do not properly edu cate and discipline their children at home. We have, we think, the best school system in the United States and we mean to keep It so. The basis of the state Is her citizenship." "It isn't necessary for every child to liave the whooping cough, measles, mumps and chicken-pox," said Dr. Cal vin S. White, In his address on "How Can Women's Clubs Co-operate With Boards of Health In Disease Preven tion?'' He said that the public health problem is one of education, and that through the clubs much can be don. Ho urged the women to spread th knowledge of how to take care of tubercular patients and to continue in the great interest they had already shown. Death Rate ot Cklldrrn l.eim. Dr. James F. Bell read a paper on the work of the Life Extension Insti tute of New York. H-s paid that while the death rale of the children of the country was smaller, that of the people of middle . age is rapidly increasing. The trend of modern life with its con stant whirl of activities was blamed by Dr. Bell for these conditions. "Unless a business concern pays a decent living wage to women it should be abolished." This is the opinion of Dr. M. H. Marvin, or Olympia, Wash., who spoke on "The Minimum Wage Commission." He said that greater effi ciency was obtained from women work ers when they were paid a wage that allowed them to get proper food, cloth ing and housing. Eugenic Marriages Indorsed. "Eugenic Marriages" was the subject of the address given in the afternoon by Dr. Lillian C. Irwin, a Seattle physi cian and a former resident of Portland. Dr. Irwin said: "Tho science of eugenics is the study and cultivation of conditions that may improve the physical and moral qual ities of future generations. "Improvement of the race is simple enough. Let us have legislation con trolling marriages. Let the degenerate, the alcoholic and the diseased be de prived by law from procreating tteir kir.d. Let us have eugenic marriages. "In a few states such legislation has been enacted. Rare Decadence Influenced. "Race betterment cannot be accom plished by legislation, though of course race decadence can, by this means, be graatly influenced. Legislation s good for us insofar as it calls' attention to the dangers of persons with bad fam ily taints taking on the responsibilities of parenthood." From the feathers of women's hats to the great forests of the mountaia side and to the force ot the great Nt- (Concluded on rai& lo, Column 1.) t