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N VOL. LV.-XO. 17,024. PORTLAND, OREGON, TTTTTRSDAY. JUNE 17, 1915. PRICE TIVE CENTS. V BERNSTORFF ENVOY TO BE INVESTIGATED Reported Hoax Stirs State Department DISAVOWAL IS TO BE SOUGHT Time to Be Given Bernstorff for Voluntary Action. DISCOURTESY IS INVOLVED Diplomats of Allies Consider Slak ing Restrictions on Travel More Strict If It Is Proved "Spy" Obtained Guarantee. " "WASHINGTON. June 16. (Special.) Publication of the story that Dr. Meyer Gerhard, Red Crass lecturer and aleo special emissary of the German Am bassador, and Dr. A. Meyer, of the Ger man "War Office, were the same man created a sensation here today. Measures were taken by the State De partment at once to obtain ,frora Count von Bernstorff, the German Ambassa dor, a disavowal of the story. Pending- this, no other action will be taken, as it is the Intention of the Sec retary of State to give the German Am bassador an opportunity first to clear himself of what, if true, is regarded the most flagrant breach of diplomatic etiquette that has been committed here for many a day. Von Bernstorff Is Absent. The one man, however, who could clear up the whole situation was miss ing from his accustomed haunts. This was Count von Bernstorff, and all ef forts to find him at the embassy, or to find out where he had gone, proved unavailing. Employes at the embassy said he was in the country, probably in Virginia, and they knew nothing about when he would return. Reasonable time will be given to Count von Bernstorff to disavow the statement that Red Croes lecturer and the War Office agent were the same man. If he fails to produce this ex planation, the story will be called to the German Ambassador's attention. "What the next step will be no one in authority would say, but It is not im probable that If the state is not dis proved Count von Bernstorff's useful ness in this country will come to a epeedy end. Allies' Diplomats Deeply- Interested. Diplomats of the allies were intensely Interested in the publication of the ac count of the reported Meyer-Gerhard hoax on the State Department. The view was generally taken that the United States Government, by its as surances to the embassies of allies, had obtained what practically amounted to a safe conduct, though none was given officially, for a German spy. A conference was held by several diplomats representing the governments of the allies today, at which the pub lished accounts were considered care fully. The view that the man known as Meyer and Gerhard were the same man was strengthened later in the day toy a telegram from New York contain ing a statement from the steamship company that "Gerhard" had sailed tUone. Restrictions May Be Tightened. Unless the Meyer-Gerhard tangle is straightened out to the satisfaction of the representatives of the allies here. It was said tonight at one of the em bassies that no further attention will be paid to any guarantees of innocence on the part of travelers or to requests for safe conducts by the Government of the United States. No hint is given that any wrong was done by Secretary Bryan or by anyone else in the employ of the United States Government in the Meyer-Gerhard matter, but the view is taken that if the State Department was "hoaxed" into permitting a German spy to ob tain safe passage to Germany, the rep resentatives of the allies in the future will not be justified in placing confi dence in any representations or re quests of this kind which the United States may make. COXTKACT S1GXED "A. MEYER" Mr. Metz Told Plan Was to Buy American Rifles and Bury Tliem. NEW YORK, June 16. Herman A. Metz. ex-Representative in Congress from New York, mentioned in pub lished stories as having been ap proached by Mrs. Selma Lewis for as sistance in negotiating the purchase from the Government of 350,009 old etyle Krag-Jorgensen rifles in Govern ment arsenals, said today that Instead of seeing Secretary Bryan about the purchase of rifles he declined to have anything to do with the matter. "Early In the Spring Mrs.' Lewis came to me." he said, "and told me that she had information that the discarded Titles could be bought. She said that Dr. Alfred Meyer would buy them and that they would be buried to keep them from falling into the hands of the al lies. She then showed me a typewrit ten document which she said was a contract for the purchase of the rifles, signed by Dr. A. Meyer. "Mrs. Lewis wanted me to introduce Dr. Meyer to Mr. Bryan. I told -her Count Bernstorff was the man to do that if Meyer was what he represented himself to be and to this she answered Concluded oa Page 3, Column 2.) HUGE EXPLOSIVE CARGO IS GUARDED BIG SHIPMENT FROM SAX KRAX CISCO IS MYSTERY. Black Powder, Benzine and Dyna mite Loaded In Bay, With Precau tions Against Damage to City. SAN FRANCISCO. June 16. (Spe cial.) Out in the stream off the water front today the Union Steamship Com pany's steamer Waiheno is taking on the largest cargo of black powder that ever has left this port. "Whom the powder Is for is a secret, and who is shipping It Is also, a mys tery, the solution of which the agents here profess not to know. That the powder 217 tons was manufactured by the Hercules plant at Hercules on the bay shore, and will go to Sydney, Australia, is no secret. The cargo also includes 401,900 gal lons of highly inflammable oils, such as benzine, kerosene and gasoline, and five tons of dynamite. There was speculation on the water front as to what the powder is for. Predictions were made that eventually it would reach England and be used in the war. The only previous shipments of pow der from here that have in any way approximated the size of this shipment were some made by the United States Government for the building of the Panama Canal. . s To avoid possible attack or damage to the city, similar to that caused by an explosion on the bay at Seattle re cently, extreme precautions are being J taken to safeguard the ship. The Waiheno was not permitted to take on the cargo of explosives at the wharf. The powder is being loaded from barges aboard the ship. METAL HELMETS ADOPTED French to Wear Headgear Giving Protection. Against Missiles. j PARIS, June 16. French soldiers In the field soon are to begin wearing light steel helmets suggesting in their design the antique headpieces of men at arms. In color they will be a. gray blue, harmonizing with the'service uni forms which French soldiers have been wearing for several months. The Ministry of War has adopted a design for this helmet after a pro longed examination of various types. The new helmet will afford considera ble protection- to the head from frag ments of shell and rifle bullets travel ing with lessened velocity. The cus tomary cap will be' retained for service behind the front. HOMEOPATHY ON EQUALITY University of California Absorbs Hahnemann Medical College. SAN FRANCISCO. June 16. Es tablishment of homeopathy in the Uni versity of California, on an equality with the allopathic school, was an nounced today at the 39th session of the California State Homeopathic Medi cal Society by Dr. James W. Ward, dean of the Hahnemann Medical Col lege of the Pacific The introduction of homeopathy Into the California cur rlculura was accomplished by the absorption of the Hahnemann College. Dr. Ward said this was the first time homeopathy had been granted equality with the old school in state universi ties, although place has been given it in five of them. MASONS AID WAR VICTIMS Greatest X,eed, However, Predicted After Peace lias Been Made. CINCINNATI, June 16. The Masonic War Relief Association of the United States In a report issued today an nounces that $55,852 has been collected from grand lodges. commanderies, chapters, temples and Scottish rite bodies for the relief of Masons in the European war. Of this amount $13,000 has been distributed among the proper Masonic bodies in England, Ireland, Scotland. Germany, Luxemburg, Switzerland and Belgium. The report adds: "It Is apparent that the greatest need for relief. will be when the war is ended." BIG CASES NEAR DECISION Trust Suits and Oregon Minimum Wage Cases May Be Settled Soon. WASHINGTON, Juno 16. Only 30 cases remain to be decided by the Su preme Court at the present term, and should allof these be disposed of next Monday, the final decision day of the year, a new record in the disposition of work will have been accomplished. Cases pending for decision include the so-called "grandfather clause" cases, the International Harvester Com pany dissolution suit; the Delaware. Lackawanna & Western coal "trust" suit; the Oregon minimum wage case and the Webb-Kenyon liquor cases. ZEPPELIN IS GRAVELY ILL Count Unable to Keep Appointment at Imperial Headquarters. LONDON. June 16. The Exchange Telegraph Company has received a dis patch from its Amsterdam correspond ent, who says a message has been re ceived in Amsterdam from Berlin giv ing the information that Count Zeppe lin, inventor of the famous dirigible balloon, is seriously ill with bronchitis and confined to his bed at Stuttgart. The Count has not been able to keep an appointment to visit Imperial headquarters. SCENE FROFi DURBAR ENACTED IfJ FRANCE King Albert Reviews ., Indfan Troops. EASTERN SPORTS ROLE DAY Dusky Survivors of Trenches Proud of Horsemanship. . BATTLE NOT FAR AWAY Belgian Monarch Takes Bay Off and Peasants Flock to See Him and Strange Fighting Men From Corner of Big Empire. BY FREDERICK PALMER. Correspondent of thet Associated Press at the front in France. BRITISH HEADQUARTERS IN FRANCE, June 16. King Albert, of the Belgians, who has not had many aft ernoons off during ing the last 11 months, took one off to see a show a gymkana. ' He has stuck so close to his job in what' remains of his kingdom as has many a desk-ridden man who cannot be induced to go to the mountains or to the sashore. , Whether living in their own houses or refu- Frederfcit Palmer gees' whose houses in the fighting zone have ' been de molished by shells, the French people in the rear of the British front have not had many afternoons off either. The women, the old, the crippled and every child who could hold a hoe, had taken the place of the able-bodied men away at war. With the crops all in and the wheat ripening, word came that strange picturesque mortals from somewhere beyond the Arabian nights country,' known as the British Indian troops, who had been refrigerating through a raw Flanders Winter In French barns and outbuildings, were going to give an exhibition of horse manship. Heroic Kins la Part of Shan. Everybody was invited and there was no admission fee. It was like a free Wild West show on the outskirts of a New England village, with a chance to see a heroic king, and wheth er he was really as tall as the people had said. The scene was on a small plateau, hardened by the hoofs of the cavalry drill, the one place in Northern France which the industry of those too weak to fight had not made green with cultivation. Across the sweep of fields and groves which hid the trenches and batteries along the Brit ish front was an almost unbroken si- -Conllnued on Page 2, Column l. i ii i -i.... . ... .tii xZOvW , X JSa. MAMMA! (WA AU I " yA-a INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. lESTERDAT'S " Maximum temperature, 66.0 degrees; minimum, 4.7 degrees. TODAY'S Probably fair, westerly winds. " War. Frederick Palmer describes day of Indian sports within sound of -suns in Northern France. Page 1. British renew spirited offensive in Flanders and France. Page 3. Dr. Meyer-Gerhard qqoted in Norway as say ing Germany and America will reach peaceful settlement. Page 3. Washington to Investigate report it. was hoaxed into Intiorsement of German of ficer in munitions department. Page .1. More than 1H0.OOO Russians captured since June 1. Page 3. ' Mexico, Carranza rejects overtures ror peace. Page 1. Domestic. Leo Frank makes last appeal for life before Georgia Governor. - Page C Trade commission Is askjed to sanction ex port combination of Northwest lumber men. Page -. Critic of Oregon building learns something of history ot art. Page 1. Chicago streetcar strike ends. Page 1. Taf t outlines plan for. armed league to pre vent war. Page 2. Big cargo of explosives closely guarded In San Francisco. Page 1. Sport. Pacific Coast League results: Portland S. Oakland Salt Lake 7, Venice 3; San Francisco 8. Los Angeles 4. Page 16. Braves for first time this year beat Cubs. Pago 18. Multnomah may play University of Califor nia at football. Pa 17. Russell Smith defeats boy phenomenon In state golf tourney. Page 16. Pacific Northwest. . State Engineer ignores resolution of High way Commission. ' Page 7. Class of 123 teachers graduated at Oregon Normal School. Page 6. Agricultural College cadets honored with staff places. Page 6. - President Campbell calls for private dona tions for support of State University. Page 5. Commercial and Marine. Prospect for larger prune crops and mar ket weakens. Page 17. Wheat sharply higher at Chicago, owing to harvest delay. Page 17. Stocks turn strong at close after Irregular session. Page 17. Northern pacific due here today for repairs. Pase IX Portland and Vicinity. Mayor is not expected to shift Commission ers. Page 18. James A. Frear. Wisconsin Representative, critises pork-barrel methods. Page 12. Many babies arriving at zoo make Increased activity. Page 12. Dr. E. A. Sommer and S. P. Lockwood. can didates for School Director, begin cam paign. Page 12. Association of Western Short Railway Lines ask regulation of auto competitors. Page 11. Three old friends of Associated Charities enrolled again. Page y. Man hammers family and tries suicide; child may die. Page 9. Senator Oliver, of Pennsylvania, Portland visitor. Page 7. Oregon Grand Lodge of- Masons shows in crease of 1001) members in year. Page 11. Contracts for paving of eounty highways to be let today. Pago . H. A. Dimmer Is new aspirant for State Game Warden. Pace 11. Theodore Kruse files petition in bankruptcy with debt of S7,O0 against Kallbow G.lll. Fan Wither, report, data ud forecast. - Page 7. KARLSRUHE DAMAGE HEAVY Rotterdam Dispatch Says 2 00 Were Killed and Factories Destroyed. LONDON. June 17. A Rotterdam dis patch to the Exchange Telegraph Com pany reports that the damage done at Karlsruhe by the air raid of the French squadron of aeroplanes was much greater than the papers were allowed to tell. "Two hundred persons were killed." says the correspondent. "Fifty bombs were dropped, one of them almost de stroying one of the ducal palaces used as headquarters by the Karlsruhe com mandant. Others destroyed factories engaged In making shells. A great panic was caused and the victims will be buried secretly at night." OH, COLUMBIA, THE HOME OF THE MOLLYCODDLE! ess . y -jj M S : v Or .imn,. f . A ( f a 111 CARRANZA REJECTS PEACE OVERTURES Offer Through Ameri can Gorfsul Ignored. THREE PROPOSALS ARE MADE Villa-Zapata Faction Shows Willingness to Act. PERSONAL TELEGRAM SENT Convention Delegation Asking Gen eral Gonzales for Armistice Is Met With Demand for Sur render of Capital. WASHINGTON, June 16. General Carranza has declined, for the present at least, to accept overtures for peace in Mexico by the Villa-Zapata faction. Three such offers have gone unan swered. The latest, it became known today, was transmitted through the medium of the United States without comment. A few days ago the convention as sembled in Mexico City, over which Francisco Lagos Chazaro presided, for mally presented to the Brazilian Min ister, as the representative of the American Government, for transmis sion to General Carranza through dip lomatic channels,- a proposal for a 30 day armistice, during which arrange ments could be made for establishing a provisional government. No Reply Carransa Says. It was suggested that both sides should maintain a military status quo and that the armistice be extended from time to time while the parleys continued. The plan included the hold ing, of a popular election to be super vised by the factions in control of vari ous sections of the country. The proposal was communicated to General Carranza by American Consul Silliman. On inquiry as to whether there would be any reply. General Cavr ranza is understood merely to have said there would be none. Since last Monday Carranza has had a personal telegram from General Villa urging a conference of their represen tatives for a, discussion of peace terms. It is known here, too, that a delegation from the convention at Mexico City met General Pablo Gonzalez, the Car ranza commander, near the capital and asked for the arrangement of an armi stice and that he demanded, in reply, the unconditional surrender of the city. Military- Campaign to Continue. The . Villa-Zapata followers assert that these efforts demonstrate their willingness to heed the- suggestion In President Wilson's recent statement that the factions in Mexico settle their differences. General Carranza's intention for the present is understood to be to press (Concluded on Page 2-, Column 3.) f?lSE MY BOY I TO 8 A SOLDIEFZ " J Jtrr SOME OTHER. MO-thER S BOY I DO THE lAOUrf I v - - - ART CRITIC LEARNS ART FROM OREGON COLONEL WOOD REPLIES TO STRICTURES OX BUILDIXG. Xeuhaus Is Informed at Fair That Parthenon Was Designed From Wooden Temple. EXPOSITION GROUNDS. San Fran cisco, June 16 In an address on art last night at the Oregon - building. Colonel C. E. S. Wood took up the cudgels for Oregon's great rustic struc ture which has been adversely criti cised by the art critic, Neuhaus, In his public lectures at the exposition and in his book on the exposition sculp ture. Notable artists present warmly applauded Colonel Wood, who said In part: "Why, a book was shown me a few moments ago which gives principles and rules by which you shall admire this exposition, and it says this par ticular building Is faulty because it imitates the Parthenon of Greece iu dark and crude logs; because it sits on. a plane when the Parthenon was erected on the eminence of the Acro polis; that the Parthenon was designed for stone and not for wood, and so you are told that this building is inartistic. "I say that no one can look at it and see the magnificent columns which sur round it, see its wonderful proportions in a certain greater grandeur and not know it is no imitation of the Parthe non, but in a pleasing and grand way is intended to say to the world, "Ore gon holds one-fourth of all the timber of the United States.' I say that if you saw this dark temples away from its surroundings and iYi the great avenues of an 'Oregon forest you would under stand that this, too, is beauty. "Now it is said that the Parthenon was devised' for stone structure. It is exactly what it was not devised for. The early Greek temples were of wooden structure. Their columns were exactly what these columns are at the trunks of trees. The temples in Greece were exactly as these are, made 'of wood, and when the greater genus took tne marble and went on the emi nence it -carried with It all the reli gious traditions of the early temples built of timber, and by that genius of art, which defied all rules of construc tion, it made from white marble the most beautiful temple of the world, modeled from a wooden ancestor." BARTENDERS STAY IN FOLD Culinary Workers Full In Effort to - -. Split Union. .... SAN FRANCISCO, June 16. "Segregation- of bartenders from culinary workers was voted down, 139 to 35, it was announced today at a session of the Hotel and Restaurant Employes' International Alliance and Bartenders' International League of America, meet ing in its 18th biennial convention here. Action came when resolutions were in troduced paving, the way for the con sideration of the question. It was said by those favoring a di vision of the two classes of workers that the funds were spent to fight prohibition for the benefit of the bar tenders to the detriment of culinary workers. KAISER TO DECIDE FATE Death Sentences in Belgium Must Receive Imperial Sanction. AMSTERDAM, via London. June 16. Every sentence of death by a court martial In Belgium must hereafter be indorsed by Emperor William before the prisoners are ' executed, according to a telegram received today by the Tyd from its correspondent at Maas tricht. The writer of the dispatch intimates that Emperor William telegraphed these instructions on learning that eight citizens of Liege had been execut ed for alleged espionage, and that 20 others were in prison charged with the same offense. OREGON BATTERY IN CAMP Artillerymen to Spend Ten Days in Maneuvers and Target Practice. MONTEREY, Cal., June 16. (Spe cial.) Battery A, Oregon Field Artil lery, arrived here today by special train from Portland and went into camp at Gigllng. The Oregon battery men arrived without mishap on their long- trip and will spend 10 days at maneuvers and target-practice with the Sixth Artil lery. BEET SUGAR CROP LARGE Department forecast Indicates In creased Acreage and Yield. WASHINGTON, June 16. This year's sugar beet crop in the United States promises to be a large one. The De partment of Agriculture today in its forecast, based on June 1 condition figures, places the yield at 6,290.000 tons. The area planted is 659,300 acres, 144,700 more than planted last year. KAISER GETS PEACE ADVICE Personal Friend Suggests Mainte nance of Relations With America. f COPENHAGEN, via London, June 16. Albert Balfin, director-reneral of, the Hamburg-American Steanship Com pany, has suggested to 'the Emperor of Germany the advisability of main taining peace with the United States. Mr. Ballin is a close personal friend of the Emperor. CHICAGO TROLLEY STRIKE IS ENDED CrowdsCheerFirstSur face Cars Appearing. MAYOR BRINGS ABOUT PEACE Faction Heads Locked Up and Key Thrown Away. ARBITRATION IS DECIDED Executive of City Is Third and Xcu tral Man at AH-Xight Confer ence Between Officials of Company and Union. ISSCES CONCEDED A1'T PEND I.Q IN CHICAGO CAIl SIBS'S STRIKE. The companies conceded three points in advance of arbitration: 1. Trippers that is, men who have one run In the morning rush and another at night to be eliminated, thus giving every trainman a regular job. 2. Runs on surface lines not to consume more than nine hours' actual working time. 3. Wages shall not be revised downward. This leaves for arbitration the following: 1. Scale of wages. . 2. Period of service before maximum wage i. received. 3. Time in which a day's runs on the elevated are to be com pleted. 4. Adjustment of straight and swing runs on the elevated to eliminate so far as possible waits by employes between trains. - CHICAGO, June 16.--Normal scr-ric on Chicago elevated and surface car lines was resumed today after an all night session of railway and labor rep resentatives and a council committee headed by Mayor Thompson had agreed on arbitration. The eleyated lines resumed service soon, after the announcement of the agreemnet, but it was several hours be fore anything like a normal schedule was in operation. Crowds Cheer Can. On the surface lines the first cars to appear downtown reached the loop about 11 o'clock. They attracted great crowds and were cheered enthusiasti cally. Thereafter there was a gradual increase in the number, but it was not until the rush hours of the evening that the surface lines were in full oper ation. The formal agreement between the companies and the unions was not signed until noon, although the order had gone out to the 14,500 employes to return to work several hours before. Mayor Thompson Is credited with bringing about the agreement and was chosen third or neutral arbiter. Arbiter to Meet Saturday. The arbiters representing the men and the companies will be chosen by the respective interests before Satur day, on which day the first meeting of the three arbiters is to be held. The strike was remarkable in that no violence was traced to a' striker, that, no arrests were necessary, for the good humor with which the pub lic accepted it. Officials of the companies will se lect an arbitrator by Saturday, it was announced. W. D. Mahon, international president of the Streetcar Mer's Union, probably will be named to represent the men. Mayor Locks Men Is. Union leaders, officials of the traction lines and members of the Mayor's Al dermanic Strike Committee were in attendance at the 15-hour conference. Threatened breakups were frustrated, after both labor leaders and traction officials announced they could reach no agreement, when Mayor Thompson in vited the conferees to take oft their coats. The Mayor then locked the doors of his office. He told the men that ho would keep them there until a solution of the situation was reached. The Mayor took a gold horseshoe from his desk .and hung its over his desk clock.. "That was given to me for good luck," he said, "so I'm going to wish that It will bring good luck to thi3 conference." Arbitration Law In Likely. Arbitration amendments to existing traction ordinances are to be written into the law to prevent the repetition of the tie-up that has slo.wed up the in dustries of Chicago for the last two days. It alsc had been proposed to insert in the new contract to be made by the ele vated and surface lines with their em ployes a clause that will provide for submission of any future wage dispute to a disinterested body. The central idea is to provide a fixed plan of mediation that will be included in the contract as the wage schedule and working conditions to be made after the expiration of the agreement to be written by the mediators in the present issue. Business men, as well as Aldermen, are agreed that definite steps should (.Concluded on Page o. Column i.i X