THE MORMNG OREGONIAX. SATURDAY, JUNE 12, 1915.
BIG
AUSTRIAN
GUN
EXCELS GERMANS'
Unmistakable Signs of Enor
mous Power Seen in Path
of Victorious Army.
SHELLS USED ..SPARINGLY
Missile Weighs More Than 2500
Pounds and Costs $8 00 Horses
and Men Blown to Pieces by
Compression of Air.
TARXOW, Austrian Galicia, May 11.
(Correspondence of the Associated
Press.) The German 42-centimeter
mortars, with which Liege was bat
tered into submission, are declared not
to have been as effective as the Austro
Hungarian ' weapons of the same
aliber two of which were used
against the Russian troops in Tarnow
in the great May victory in West Ga
licia. They have left a few but un
mistakable signs of their power in
the shape of demolished houses and
bigr craters in Tarnow, fired at a rangre
of from five to eight miles.
The first shell, landing in the city at
the time it was occupied as a Russian
headquarters, caused the- Russian
General and his staff to abandon their
comfortable quarters in Tarnow, the
largest city in the radius of many
miles, and decamp to a spot ten miles
to the rear. Thereafter the Austrlans
fired only five shots more from their
big mortars into the city, for it is,
after all. an Austrian town and they
had no desire to damage unnecessarily
their own property.
Sheila Dropped on Supply Trains.
As the advancing Austro-Hungarian
army slowly pushed forward against
Tarnow the spot to which the Rus
sians clung longest during the big
May battle in an attempt to save the
enormous quantity of supplies stored
in this vicinity and to give other parts
of their army a better chance to re
treat undisturbed by the big 16-inch
twins were twice moved forward to
spots from which they could drop
shells into the supply trains and on
the men attempting to save the stores.
The correspondent of the Associated
Press, now visiting the battlefield in
Western and Middle Galicia on which
the great victory of the allied German
and Austro-Hungarian armies was
won, has not been permitted to see
the new guns, but he has seen the
sites from which they were fired and
the destruction caused by the shells.
At one place the guns were concealed
behind a village, where the glazier is
now replacing window panes destroyed
by the concussion of the discharge.
Crater Swallows House.
In Tarnow one shot struck, appar
ently by error, a peasant's house of
brick. It is now a mere mass of
bricks, curiously level with the
ground, house and all having appar
ently been swallowed up in the crater
made by the bursting shell. Three
persons were killed In this house. A
block away is one of the city schools,
which the Austrlans believed, rightly,
was being used as quarters for Rus
sian soldiers. A gaping cleft, 30 feet
wide and extending from cellar to
roof of the four-story building, shows
with what precision the gunners found
their mark.
A second school building, a half
mile away, was hit squarely on the
roof. The wall on the side toward
the courtyard is torn out bodily. On
the side facing the street a hole 20
feet in diameter was carved out neat
ly in the thick brick and concrete
wall, the aperture being as nicely
rounded as if the circle had been laid
out with a pair of compasses. The
trick work circle came out with such
accuracy and force that it has left its
imprint, again as a carefully rounded
semicircle, in the high fence of grated
Iron before the school building.
Homes and Men Destroyed.
Another shell struck the cavalry
barracks in the great courtyard, in
which Russian soldiers at the mo
ment were busily loading supplies foi
the retreat. Horses and men were
blown to pieces by the air pressure
from the explosion or killed by the
shower of bricks, roof-tiles and frag
ments of shell. In the low, one-story
building surrounding the barrack
square is at one point a great gap
which the correspondent paced out as
24 yards wide the measure of the
force of the explosion.
The new 42-centimeter shells weigh
more than 2500 pounds More thaA
those of the Krupp gun and each
shell costs $800.
BRYAN ISSUESAN APPEAL
(Continued From First Page,)
that Germans would stand by their
adopted country in case of war be
tween the United States and Germany;
maintained that killing of innocent
women and children, either by drown
ing or starving, could not be justified
and suggested a change in the shipr
ping laws to exclude passengers from
ships carrying contraband or ammuni
tion. Attachment Declared Not Disloyalty.
Mr. Bryan's statement follows:
"To the German-Americans: Permit
me to address a word to you as one
American citizen speaking to fellow
citizens in whose patriotism he has en
tire confidence. It is natural that in a
contest between your fatherland and
other European nations your sympa
thies should bo with the country of
your birth. It is no cause for censure
that this is true; it would be a reflec
tion upon you if it were not true. Do
not the sons of Great Britain sympa
thize with their mother country? Do
rot the sons of France sympathize with
theirs? Is not the same true of Rus
sia and of Italy? Why should not it
be true of those who are born in Ger
many or Austria? The trouble is that
the extremists on both sides have mis
taken a natural attachment felt for
birthplace for disloyalty to this coun
try. "The President has been unjustly
criticised by the partisans of both sides
the very best evidence of his neu
trality. If he had so conducted the
Government as wholly to please either
side it would excite not only astonish
ment but misgivings, for partisans
cannot give an unbiased judgment;
they will of necessity look at the ques
tion from their own point of view, giv
ing praise or blame, according as the
act, regardless of its real character,
helps or hurts the side with which they
have aligned themselves.
Rales Cannot Me Chaased Now.
"That the Administration has re
ceived more criticism from German
Americans than from the allies is due
to the fact that both sides are at lib
erty, under the law. to purchase ammu
nition in the United States. The
allies, because of their control of
the seas, have the advantage of be
ing able to export it. It is unfortunate
that partisan supporters of Germany
should have overlooked the legal re
quirements of the situation, and thus
misunderstood the position of the Ad-
sition has not only been neutral, but
it could not have been otherwise with
out a palpable and intentional viola
tion of the rules governing neutrality.
This Government is not at liberty to
change materially the rules of inter
national law during the war, because
every change suggested is discussed,
not upon its merits as an abstract
proposition, but according to the effect
it will have upon the contest. Those
who wanted to lay an embargo upon
the shipment of arms defended their
position on the ground that it would
hasten peace, but it is strange that they
could have overlooked the fact that the
only way in which such action on our
part could hasten peace would have
been by helping one side to overcome
the other.
Patriotism of Partisans Xot Questioned.
"While the attacks made upon the
President by the extremists of both
sides were unjust, it is equally unjust
to suspect the patriotism of those who
took sides. I feel well enough ac
quainted with the European-born Amer
icans to believe that in a war between
this country and any European power,
the naturalized citizens from that coun
try would be as quick to enlist as
native-born Americans. As I am now
speaking to German-Americans, I am
glad to repeat in public what I have
often said in private, and would have
said in public before but for the fact
that it would not have been proper for
one in my official position to do so,
namely, that in case of war between
the United States and Germanv if so
improbable a supposition can be con
sidered German-Americans would be
MASKED BAND TRIES
TO KIDNAP CHILDREN
Would-Be Abductors of Boy
and Girl Are Routed by Cal
ifornia Train Crew.
PASSENGERS FEAR HOLDUP
Attempt Is Made After Son and
, Daughter of Divorced Couple Are
Put in Custody .of Their Moth
er's leather by Court Order.
QUINCY. Cal., June 11. (Special.)
Passengers on westbound Western Pa
cific train No. 2 were treated to all the
thrills of a holdup last night, when
COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF ITALIAN ARMY NOW IN FIELD.
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X?y
GENERAL CARLO CA2SOVA.
ministration. The Administration's po
as prompt to enlist and as faithful to
the flag as any other portion of our
people. What I have said in regard to
the German-Americans is an introduc
tion to an appeal which I feel it my
duty to make to them.
"First If any of them have ever in
a moment of passion or excitement sus
pected the President of lack of neu
trality or lack of friendship toward the
German government and the German
people, let that thought be forgotten,
never again to be recalled. I have
since my resignation received numerous
telegrams from German-Americans and
German-American societies commending
my actions; I think the senders of these
telegrams understand my position: but
that none may misunderstand, let me re
state it.
President Deslrons of Peace.
"The President is not only desirous
of peace, but he hopes for it and he
has adopted the methods which he
thinks most likely to contribute toward
peace. My difference from him is as to
method, not as to purpose, and my ut
terances since resigning have been in
tended to crystallize public sentiment
in support of his efforts to maintain
peace, or, to use a familiar phrase,
'peace with honor.' But remember
that when I use the phrase 'peace
with honor' I do not use it in
the same sense that those do who re
gard every opponent of war as favoring
'peace at any price.' "Peace at any
price' is an epithet, not a true state
ment of anyone's opinion, nor of the
policy of any group. The words are
employed by jingoes as an expression
of contempt and are applied indis
criminately to all who have faith in
the Nation's ability to find a peaceful
way out of every difficulty so long as
both nations want peace.
"The alarmists of the country have
had control of the metropolitan press
and they have loudly proclaimed that
the prolongation of negotiations or the
suggestion of international investiga
tion would be a sign of weakness and
everything is weakness that does not
contain a hint of war. The jingo sees
in the rainbow of promise only one
color red."
Duty to Help Pointed Out.
Second. "Knowing that the President
desires peace, it is your duty to help
him, and how? By exerting your in
fluence to convince the German gov
ernment of this fact and to persuade
that government to take no steps that
would lead in the direction of war. My
fear has been that the German gov
ernment might, despairing of a friendly
settlement, break off diplomatic rela
tions, and thus create a condition out
of which war might come without the
intention of either country. I do not
ask you to minimize the earnestness
of the President's statement that
would be unfair, both to him and to
Germany. The sinking of the Lusitania
cannot be defended upon the facts as
we understand them. The killing of in.
nocent women and children cannot be
justified, whether the killing is by
drowning or starving; no nation can
successfully plead the inhumanity of
her enemies as an excuse for inhu
manity on her own part.
"While it is true that cruelty is apt to
beget cruelty, it cannot be said Mike
cures like.' Even in war we are not
absolved from the obligation to remedy
evils by the influence of good exam
ple. "Let your light so shine' is a pre
cept that knows no times nor seasons,
as it knows neither latitude 'nor longi
tude. British Case Different.
"Third Do hot attempt to connect
the negotiations which are going on
between the United States and Germany
with those between the United States
and Great Britain. The cases are dif
ferent, but even if they were the same
it would be necessary to treat with
each nation separately. My personal
preference has been to repeat our in
sistence that the allies shall not in
terfere with our commerce with neu
tral countries, but the difference on
this point was a matter of judgment
and not a matter of principle. In the
(Concluded on Face .)
five masked men attempted to kidnap
the' two children of F. Crises and his
ex-wife, Mrs. Emma Storey. The
would-be kidnapers were beaten off and
the children continued the Journey to
San Francisco in charge of their grand
father. The younger Crises and his ex-wife
have been having considerable trouble
in court since their divorce. The grand
father obtained the custody of the two
minor' children and started last night
for his home with them.
The brakeman was in the act of plac
ing the baggage of the family on the
train, when five men with handker
chiefs covering their faces sprang from
beneath a boxcar and seized the chil
dren, a boy and a girl.
He began fighting and the cry of
"holdup" was raised. The conductor
rushed to the rear of the coach, but be
fore he got into action he was knocked
down. The brakeman obtained posses
sion of the girl, but the boy was only
released when his captor was knocked
down.
The masked men disappeared in the
darkness. The weapons used in the
tight were clubs and fists.
OREGON IN AT YPRES
I J It. K. I. PANTO. WHITES Oh' BAT
TLE RAGING AROLWU HIM.
Surgeon in Canadian Army Sees Men
in His Unit Slain While Ambulance
Is on Klrlng; Line.
A description of the great battle at
Ypres early in May, when the Cana
dians distinguished themselves, is con
tained in a letter written by Dr. K. D.
Panton, well known in Portland and
The Dalles, and a brother of Dr. A. C
Panton, of Portland.
" Captain Panton, who is in the med
ical corps of the Canadian army, tells
of the work of surgeons under shell
fire during the tremendous battle. One
advanced dressing station was shelled
out by the Germans three times, being
blown up the last time. Wounded men
and members of the medical and hos
pital corps were killed.
Captain Panton says in his letter: "We
had a hot time at Tpres. The Cana
dian losses were awful, but as we held
up the whole German attack ourselves
for almost a day until reinforcements
arrived it is a wonder there was any
one left. We had all kinds of taffy on
it, but it made us realize the awfulness
of war, and nobody will be sorry when
the show ends.
"The medical work at Tpres was
hot," he continues. "We had four men
killed and two officers and 5 men
wounded or missing in my unit. We
had two motor ambulances and eight
men captured by the Germans, who
fired on them, and we know at least
three men were killed.
"I will never get used to the Jack
Johnsons. All the roads behind the
lines are shelled constantly. Most of
our ambulances were hit with pieces of
shrapnel. Of course our work was
mild compared to what the infantry and
artillery went through. Our ambu
lances set a record of handling 5200
wounded men in six days."
BATTERY GOES TO RANGE
Command to Practice in South and
Keturn to See Fairs.
Battery A. field artillery, Oregon Na
tional Guard, under command of Cap
tain Helm, will leave Portland by rail
Monday morning at 8:1S o'clock, en
route for Gigling, Cal., for target tiring.
The personnel will consist of about
100 men. The battery is equipped with
four guns of the latest three-Inch rapld-
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Around the Store
ports &nti
This year we have gone clear past our old
standards in presenting Summer fashions in these
delightful sports hats. A much greater variety
and a number of decided novelties will tempt
you in this fascinating mode.
The collection, which we have just received
from New York, includes the latest ideas, pop
lin, soft straws, hemp straws, Panamas, hand
blocked Leghorns and golfine are but a few
of the materials shown.
Straw and satin hats, $4.95; of felt
and straw, $2.95; hemps, colored fac
ings, $2.d5; smart silk poplins, $1.95;
golfine crusher hats, 95c; satin and duck hats, 75c; and
an immense assortment of duck and Panama cloth at 50c.
Second Kloor.
NECK WE A R New in Fashion ONLY 29c
A Sample Line, Regularly From 50c to $1.25
Every kind of collar that women want this Summer flat, semi-roll,
coat and dress collars of hand-embroidered organdie, Venise and im
ported net top laces. Vestees of pique or organdie. Guimpes of .net.
white or cream, high or low necks. A few of the pieces are slightly
mussed from display, but nearly all- are crisp and fresh. First Floor
A Fitted Leather Handbag at $1.25
Would Be $2.50 if Sold at Regular Price
The new melon shape bag, of genuine long grain leather, with mirror,
lip rouge holder, hair pin case, powder box, memo pad "and coin purse, in
gold, silver and gunmetal finish. Silk lined. First Floor
SEASONABLE SILK and FABRIC GLOVES
16-Button-Length Pure Silk Gloves, 79c
Pure-silk, double-tipped, perfect gloves. White, black and sand
shades. All sizes.
Double-Tipped, Pure-Silk Gloves, 59c
1 6-button length, pure silk, white only.
Two-Clasp Chamoisette Gloves, Special, 50c
Misses and women's sizes, first quality, washable, best makes. White,
natural, gray.
16-Button Chamoisette Gloves, Special, 50c
White only. Durable quality. Sizes 5 J2 to 8J2.
Elbow-Length. Chamoisette Gloves, Special, $1.00
Superior quality, two-pearl clasps at wrist.
Women's Washable Doeskin Gloves, Special, $2.20
1 2 and I 6-button length, guaranteed washable. First Floor
Agents for Phoenix Silk Hosiery
With the Famous Reinforced Heel and Toe
FOR WOMEN
Silk Boot Hose, in all Summer colors 75c
Pure-Thread Silk Hose, extra reinforced $1.00
Outsize Pure-Thread Silk Stockings $1.25
FOR CHILDREN
Pure-Thread Silk Summer Sox, new styles 50c
Fancy Striped Top Summer Sox, new effects 25c
Kirst Kloor.
Saturday Drug and Toilet Goods Sale
SUPPLY YOUR WEEK-END NEEDS CUT RATE
PRICES
FREE 3 cakes of Palmolive
Soap with every bottle of
Palmolive Shampoo at 39
15c English Tub Soap :.. 9r
25c Packer's Tar Soap 140
50cPebeco Tooth Paste 33 0
25c Amolin. Deodorant Powd. 170
50c Dr. Charles' Flesh Food 290
15c 4711 White Rose Soap...l;j0
50c Pond's Vanishing Cream. 290
50cKalizon Tooth Paste .'$50
25c Cutex Nail Acid 220
10c Face Chamois C0
25c Stearns'. Necessity. . .130
Unequaled Deodorant Powder.
KlrHt Floor.
A Sale of Compelling Interest
New Summer Furnishings at Record Prices
Every day of Men's Week has brought hundreds of men to our
store not just to look around, but to buy. Men quickly realized that
this was not an ordinary sale, but an event that was really worth while,
where they could secure their entire season's outfit at prices that were
really remarkable. This is your invitation to attend the greatest sale of
new, desirable, up-to-the-minute men's wear that we have
been able to offer for many a day.
$5.00 New Silk Shirts $3.85
'S1.50-$2 Summer Shirts $1.19
$1.00 Tailored Shirts 790 -
$1.00 Imported Scarfs 590
50c Tub Silk Ties .....350
$1.00 Athletic Union Suits.. 69
$2.00 Lisle Union Suits. . .$1.65
$1.50 Summer Pajamas ..$1.15
$2.00 Fancy Pajamas $1 .39
$1.00-$1.50 . Silk Hose 790
AGENTS FOR PHOENIX SILK HOSIERY, 50c AND $1
l-'irwt Kloor.
Friendship Bracelets
The Craze in New York
25c a Link
-Start a bracelet for your girl
friends. They come in sterling
silver, dull or bright finish, clev
erly designed.
Links engraved free.
Klrst Floor.
Fourth Floor Section
Boys
Suits
SELLING TO
$8.50
Suits
SELLING TO
$9.50
Suits
SELLING TO
$13.50
$4.95 $5.95 $8.95
WITH ONE AND TWO PAIRS OF PANTS
Sizes 6 to 18 Years
: These sale prices include our best models in Norfolk and English
styles, all the latest style features, in homespuns, tweeds and the new
fancy mixtures, in checks, plaids, stripes, herringbones and diagonals.
All-Wool Best Tailoring Perfect Cut
ouits that were made for durability, as well as style,
taped seams, knicker style.
Pants full lined.
Special Sale on All Boys' Blue Serge Suits
Special Sale on All Boys' Coats, 2 to 16 Years
Boys' Straw Hats
Regular 75c, $1.00, $1.35, $1.75 to $4.00
Sale... 48c, 79c', 98c, $1.39 to $2.98
Summer shapes, regulation, high crown, rah rah, sailor and baby
styles, in plain colors and combinations to match the wash suits.
A hat here for every boy from 2 to 1 4 years.
Boys' Wash Hats
Sold Regularly 65c and 75c
Special Sale.. . 49c and 59c
White duck, white pique, black and white checks, plain blues,
fancy combinations and tan ratines. Rah rah, telescope, regula
tion shapes. Every kind of a wash hat for boys 2 to 1 2 years.
Boys' Fancy Negligee Shirts
Regular Prices $1.50 and $2.00
Special Sale. . 98c and $1.48
Not the ordinary kind of shirts, but smart, snappy pat
terns, made of men's Summer shirtings. Fancy crepes, basket
weaves and new shirtings, in negligee style, French cuffs, some
with extrt. collar. Sizes 2z to 14.
Boys' $1.50 to $2.00 Blouses $1.00
French flannels and fancy soisettes, made in tapeless style, turn
down collars and buttons. In blue, lavender, tan and black and
white stripes. All sizes from 6 to 1 4 years. fourth i-ioor
MIDDY BLOUSES MANY NEW STYLES
$1.35 to $1.50 Middies, 98c
Two styles, with or without dickey. Of all white jean or with
navy collars. Long or short sleeves.
Marguerite Clark Middies, $1.25
One of the newest styles. In all white or white with navy, red
or cadet collars, braid and button trimmed. Sides laced with col
ored laces. Also regulation styles.
Mary Pickford Middies, $1.75
Made with wide belt across the back, tabs on collar, cirffs and
pocket of blue and white striped galatea. laced front. Also reg
ulation middies at this price. Fourth Kioor
Wonderful Reductions in Children's Wear
Straw and Cloth Hats to $2.50, clearance 48c
Baby Bonnets of lawn to $1.25, clearance 59c
75c Wash Bonnets and Hats, clearance 39c
Summer Coats, regular to $7.50, clearance $1.95
Infants' Bonnets to 50c, clearance 25c
EVERY CHILD'S HAT, ONE-QUARTER OFF
Regular $2.00 to $22.50, Sale $1.49 to $16.50
Kourlh Kloor
New-CANOPY STRIPE DRESSES
FOR GIRLS 8 TO 14 YEARS, SPECIAL, $4.95
FOR GIRLS 16 YEARS OLD, SPECIAL, $6.95
FOR MISSES 15 AND 17 YEARS, $8.95
Come See Them Here Saturday
Fourth Floor
Summer Coats
Selling to $12.50
Clearance $2.45
For girls 8 to 14 years.
For misses and small
women
Fourth Kloor
Misses and Small Women
Summer Coats
Summer Suits
At Great Reductions
All New This Season
Fourth Floor
I
New Summer Wash Dresses
For Girls 6 to 14 Years ' p?
$1.25 to $1.50 Dresses, Sale 89c
$1.50 to $3.50 Dresses, Sale $1.08
For Girls 2 to 6 Years
756 to 85c Bloomer Dresses 59c
75c to $1.00 Dresses, Sale 49c ,
A remarkable collection of Summer styles, in checked, plaid and
striped ginghams, white madras, chambray. linens, crepes, percale and -lingerie.
We cannot describe each model, for there are dozens of styles,
but we can say that nearly every pretty style that girls are wearing will -
be found in this sale. Fourth Floor
fire type now used in the regular Army.
The battery will stop a few days at
the Presidio at San Francisco on the
return trip to give the members an op
portunity to see the Panama-Pacific Ex
position. ,
ORDER FOLLOWS RIOTING
Militia on Duty at Johnston City,
III., After Lynching.
MARION", III.. June 'll.--Quiet pre
vailed in this county today following
the riotous scenes of yesterday and last
night, wben a man accused of murder
was taken from Jail at Johnston City
and hanged, and when several business
houses and dwellings at Whitewash,
occupied by foreigners, were burned.
Members of the Illinois National
Guard patrolled the streets of Johnston
City today, and there was no further
sisn of trouble there.-
The trouble at Whitewash and at
Johnston City was the culmination of a
series of lawless acts, including sev
eral murders, which have been attribut
ed to the foreign colony, members of
which are employed in the mines near
here.
Minneapolis Most Prosperous City.
CHICAGO. June 11. Dr. Edward E.
Pratt, chief of the Federal Bureau of
Foreign and Domestic Commerce, who
Is in Chicago observing local condi
tions and consulting with exporters
and importers, in a statement, declared
today that Minneapolis is the most
prosperous city in the United States
and that Kansas City is second.
POSTMASTERS END MEET
Portland Again Chosen for Session
During Festival Days.
The Presidential Postmasters' Asso
ciation of Oregon finished its conven
tion here last night with a banquet at
the Portland Hotel. Postmaster Myers,
of Portland, president of the associa
tion for the coming year, was toast
master. Among the speakers were
United States Senators Chamberlain
and Lane, who were guests of honor.
The convention Is voted by the post-'
masters the most successful they have
ever had. The executive committee ot
the association already has selected
Portland for next year's convention. Al
though the date has not been settled,
it is likely to be held on the Rose
Festival days, again, giving the post
masters and their families the chance
to combine business with pleasure, be
sides the advantage of reduced railroad
rates.