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TIIE MORNING OREGONIAN. TIIURSDAT". JUNE 17, 1915. PROSPECT OF WAR - DENIED BY ENVOY FIRST PHOTOGRAPHS OF DEPARTURE FROM UNITED STATES OF "GERMANY'S UNOFFICIAL REPRE SENTATIVE" AND LADIES. Mail and Telephone Orders Filled by Expert Shoppers man woue kd vxx Dr. Meyer-Gerhard Ducfted in Norway as Predicting Under standing With Germany. BRYAN'S STAND EXPLAINED Resignation Attributed to Wilson's Action in Ignoring Him and De clared "Domestic Affair." Peace Desire Noted. LOXDOX, June 16. A peaceful set tlement of the questions which have arisen between the United States and Germany is predicted by Dr.' Anton Meyer-Gerhard, who is on his way from the German Embassy at Washing-ton to Berlin to explain the situation to the German government. An interview credited to Dr. Meyer Gerhard is published by the Frank furter Zeitunj? and forwarded to Lon don by the Amsterdam correspondent of Reuter's Telegram Company. The inter view was obtained yesterday at Chris tiansand, Norway, when the steamer United States, on which I3r. Meyer-Gerhard was a passenger, touched at that port. Peaceful Adjnstment Predicted. "The conflicting views existing be tween Berlin and Washington regard ing the Lusitania affair rest on a mis understanding and will be settled peacefully. Dr. Meyer-Gerhard is quoted as saying. "The conflict be tween President Wilson and Secretary Bryan is of old origin and arose from quite different causes than the Lusi tania affair. , "The breach was rendered inevitable by the independent procedure of the President, who rejected the counsels of his responsible Minister and drafted the latest American note to Germany according to his own ideas. As Presi dent Wilson framed this reply to Ger many without even consulting Mr. Bryan, the latter had no other recourse than to request that he be released from office. Breach Called Domestic Affair. "The tension between the two must therefore be regarded as entirely a domestic affair. The feeling of the American people and Government to wards Germany is not at all bellicose; on the contrary there prevails an abso lute desire for peace. "It is not true, as reported abroad, that the American fleet has been con centrated for participation in the Kuropean naval war. "The feeling among German-Americans is splendid. Their' love for the motherland is strong, their Joy in our mighty successes in all theaters of war affecting." BRITAIN RELEASES SHIPS rtecoiisignment of Shipment Ordered as Precaution. LONDON", June 16. The American steamers Wico and.. Gushing, from Philadelphia for Scandinavian ports with petroleum, were taken into Kirk wall; but were permitted to proceed when it was found their manifests agreed with information sent to the British government by the owners. Several consignments on the Ameri can steamer F. J. Lisman from New York lor Rotterdam, and now detained at London, were ordered today to be reconsigned to The Netherlands Over seas Trust. The cargo of cotton of the American steamer Leelanaw, consigned to Russia and detained because it was billed by way of Gothenburg, Sweden, has been reconsigned via Tronlhjem, Norway, to meet the objection of the British government that exportation of cotton from Sweden has been, prohibited. The British authorities, however, have as yet taken no action to release the Leelanaw. IMPERIAL SCIENTIST DIES Commanding Figure in Russian No bility Victim of Heart Disease. PETBOGRAD, via London. June 16. Grand Duke Constantine Constantino vitch. president of the Imperial Acad emy of Sciences and head of the De partment of Military Schools, died last night of heart disease at the age of 57 years. He was a member of the reign ing family and his heir is Prince Jean Constantinovitch. Grand Duke Constantinovitch. who .Was a general of infantry, was one of tne commanding figures in the Russian nobility. He had not been exempt from revolutionist plots, for an at tempt was made in .1907 to blow up the ir.nn on wnicn ne was. a passenger. The Grand Duke, always as deeply interested in the sciences, art and lit erature. In 1009 he staged a play. "The Bride of Messina." before Kmperor .Mwnuias ana tne imperial ramily. FLAVEL IS IN WARRENTON Development Company Loses Suit Hegarding Property Classification. WARRENTON, Or.. June 16. (Spe cial.) Flavel is a part of the City of Warrenton. This was the decision of Circuit Judge Eakin in the .case of the Flavel Land & Development Company vs. Assessor Leinenweber and the City of Warrenton. The action was brought to restrain the defendants from listing the tract of land known as Flavel as a part of Warrenton for taxation purposes. The Flavel tract was originally in the town of Clatsop, but through the effort of Warrenton citizens it was voted out by Clatsop amending its charter and reducing its corporate limits. A substantial majority voted in favor of the release in each territory and later the Flavel tract. Skipanon and other territory by initiative elections were annexed to Warrenton. GIANT AIRCRAFT ON WAY Britain Building H.uge Aeroplanes to Deal Avail Zeppelins. LONDON. June 16. Giant aeroplanes of great carrying capacity are in proc ess of manufacture for the British gov ernment, according to an announcement made in the House of Commons today bj H. J. Tennant, Under-Secretary of the War Office. This statement was made in reply to the suggestion by a member of the House .hat machine of this character were needed to deal adequately with raiding Zeppelins. tf - I - ft; 1 5l K' fJ fat -. Ipsska- s i r ir j- rH .4 i U'v-i v llryi ;f i if ; V-"" .s-r r . I , A r fV . -JJ Photo Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. DR. BERMIAHI) DERXBURG, W1.TH MRS. )KHBI RG (CENTER) AND PRI.NCKSS HATZFEtDT, ABOARD NOR-WEGIAN'-AMERICAN LIXER BERGEXSKJORD, READY TO LEAVE NEW YORK. CZAR'S LOSSES HIGH More Than 160,000 Captured by Austrc-Germans. MILLIONS MAKE ATTACKS England's per capita consumption of cod fish la the greatest of any country's. Kussians Unable to Stop Sweeping : Movement lYom AVest and Re treat Across Border From Czer nowicli, in Butowina. LONDON. June 16. Battles of unheard-of ferocity by numbers almost beyond imagination on the entire fronts ir Galicia are indicated by re ports from Petrosrad, Berlin and Vienna. While both the German and Russian War Offices admit local re verses, the Teutons contend that they have gained sweeping victories. Sev eral small towns, strongly fortified, have changed hands several times after the most stubborn conflicts, all sides giving the enemy credit for vicious at tacks and resistance. The Austrians say they have cap tured, from June 1 to 15, more than 122,000 Russians, .53 cannon. 187 ma chine guns and 58 munition wagons. The Germans say General Mackensen has captured 40,000 Russians and 69 machine guns since June 12. The Russians give no total of the prisoners they have taken, but declare they have inflicted appalling losses on the Austro-Germans, who, however, are declared to have made them good by sending in new organizations not here tofore seen on the eastern fronts. RuawiaMa Rcrroaa Border. Petrograd admits that the Russians have retreated from Czernowich. Bukowina. across into their own terri tory. Russian military critics estimate the total Austro-German forces operating against the Russians are not fewer than 45 German and 26 Austrian army corps (about 2.800.000 men). It is asserted that 14 or 15 German army corps (560,000 to 600,000 men) are operating on. the Lubaczowka - Wisnia front in Galicia. in addition to the Aus trian troops, while it is believed prob able that the Germans have seven army corps (280,000 men) In the Baltic Prov inces. "The defeated Russian armies at tempted on Tuesday along the whole front between the river San. north of Sieniawa and the Dniester marshes to bring the Teutonic allies to a stand still." says the official Berlin dispatch. "In the evening the Russians every where "had been driven from their po sitions near Gieplice, north of Sieniawa in the Lubsyow-Zuwadowka section, south of Niemenow and west of Sa-dowa-Wiezenia. The enemy is being pursued. Germans Admit RtTfrne. "Between the Dniester marshes and Zurawna the Russians have gained some ground." The following official communication was issued at Vienna today: "In Galicia the Russians, despite their obstinate resistance, could not with stand the general attack by the allied armies. Hotly pursued by our victor ious troops the remainder of the de feated Russian corps are retreating across Newkow, Lubaczow and Ja vorow. "South of the'Lemberg railroad the army of General Boehm-Ermolli Tues day night stormed the Russian posi tions on the entire front, driving the enemy across Sadowa, Wisznia and Rudki. "South of the Dniester the fighting is proceeding before the bridgehead. The troops of General Pflanzer yes terday captured Niznlow." ENVOY TO BE PROBED - (Continued From First Page.) one of those schemes; the woods are full of them.'" Mrs. Selma Lewis said1 today: "The. report is substantially correct, so far as it related to me." At the office of the Scandinavian American Line it was said that the German Ambassador's emissary to Ber lin sailed unaccompanied when he left New York on the steamer United States. Printed pictures purporting to be like nesses of Dr. Meyer-Gerhard were said by clerks to portray the man who sailed. COUNSELOR DENIES STORY Official of German Embassy Says Dr. Meyer-Gerliard Is Genuine. NEW YORK. June 16. Dr. Haniel van Halm Hausen, counselor of the German Embassy, now in Summer quarters at ' Cedarhurst, L. I., declared tonight that he had sent a. telegram to Robert Lansing, Acting Secretary of State at Washington, characterizing as "preposterous and untrue" published accounts that Dr. Anton Meyer-Gerhard was in reality Dr. Alfred Meyer, chief of the supply department of the German army, who had been secretly here buying war munitions. Dr. von Haim Hausen said that he actei in the absence of Count von Bernstorff, who was on a motor trip in the Catskills, and whose return was delayed by the rain storms. He wanted it distinctly understood that he was not speaking for the Count. . Dr. von Haim Hausen declared that Dr. Meyer-Gerhard was exactly as he represented himself in this country, a representative of the German Red Cross. He had been here nearly nine months, Dr. von Haim Hausen said, and his capacity was entitled to pro tection under the Geneva convention whenever he sought to return to Germany. LINE LOST AND WON British Renew Offensive in Force on Western Front. GERMAN. POSITION TAKEN that it was desired that the introduc tion be unofficial. "I declined to have anything to do with it. Several days later I met Captain Franz von Papen. military at tache of the German embassy, and told him of Mrs. Lewis and her proposal. He laughed and said it was another of those schemes to keep away from it. Later I mentioned it to Count Bern storff. He threw up his hands. laughed heartily and said: 'Another YAKIMA RECALL LAUNCHED Move Against County Commissioners Definitely Decided On. NORTH YAKIMA. Wash., June 16 (Special.) Proceedings to recall Jim Lancaster, William Stahlhut and James Stuart. County Commissioners, were launched today a- a meeting of repre sentatives of a number of Yakima County districts, where meetings look ing to such a move had been neld. A. D. Dunn, of Wapato, chairman, was au thorized to appoint an executive com mittee of one from each precinot in the county, and steps were taken to get out petitions. The movement is the outgrowth of the recent, report of the grand Jury, which brought misdemeanor indict ments against the Commissioners and severely censured their administration of county affaire. CHICAGO STRIKE ENDED (Continued From First Page.) be taken now to make unnecessary a recurrence of the present trouble when the new contract expires three years hence, the present period of the new wage schedule. Propped up in bed in his Sheridan Road apartments, his eyes swollen from lack of sleep and his voice husky from long arguing in his private office. Mayor Thompson today recounted the dramatic incidents of the-car - strike conference. He went to his home for a few hours' sleep just as the rumble of an elevated train at Belmont avenue announced to the city that the long vigil of its execu tive and officials of the traction com panies, unions and the special commit tee had not been in vain. "I was afraid to let the men go. because I feared I never could get them together again but I couldn't see any way to Keep them, so I locked the door and threw the key over the transom. Mayor Thompson congratulated and commended the committees represent lng the opposing factions. "They were hard fighters." he said. "They had to be. Arbitration will be gin at once, and I believe the decision of the board will be satisfactory to all concerned. "The conditions under which the board will arbitrate will be drawn up Saturday at the latest. Everything goes to arbitration. Berlin Admits Loss, but Says Bat tle Continues; French Report Various Gains; Hundred Pro jectile Fall on Rheims. LONDON. June 16. Sir John French, commander-in-chief of the British forces in France, reports that the Brit ish troops captured and then lost a line of German trenches at Festubert, but that the British have occupied the German positions to the north of Hooge for a distance of 1000 yards. The re port says the Germans exploded five mines on the British front, but that only one of them caused casual ties. It also ajlds that German counter attacks have been repulsed with heavy losses. The official report of the French War Office tonight says gains were made "at divers points" north of Lorette, south of Scuchez and in the "labyrinth." Capture of 300 German prisoners and several machine guns is reported as the result of these op erations. One hundred prisoners, in cluding two officers, are said to have been taken in an advance by the French at Tuennevieres. The report adds: "The town of Rheims has been bom barded. The enemy has thrown about 100 shells, several o ' which were of the incendiary type, and about a dozen of the projectiles fell on the cathed ral." The report of the German War Of fice issued tonight at ' Berlin is vir tually in accord with those of the Al lies. It attributes the renewed activ ity on the western line to the recent Russian defeats. The British gain near Ypres is ad mitted, but the report says the battle still continues. Of the Festubert en gagement, it says that four British divisions advanced and that their at tack was completely repulsed by hand-to-hand fighting. The report con tinues: "The enemy sustained heavy losses and left several machine guns and bomb throwers in our hands. "Since his defeat of June 13-14 the enemy had made no further ventures against the strong positions near Lorette Hill, held by Baden troops. Near Moulin-Sous-Toutvent fighting continued. "An attempt made by the enemy to break through our line in the Vosges between the Fecht and the Launch Valleys failed. Fighting there con tinues now only to the northwest of Metzeral and Hilsenfirst. Otherwise all the attacks were repulsed." MARKET BASKET UP $6.68 Cost of Living Increases, With No Prospect or Dimunition. WASHINGTON, June 16. The cost of living is higher than ever in the United States, so far as Government statistics show, and is increasing each year. In 1914 the year's cost of filling the market basket of the average work ingman's family was $6.68 higher than it was In 1913. and $60.43 higher than In 1907. calculating on relative price figures announced today by the Fed eral Bureau of labor statistics. Stanford to Stick to Rugby. STANFORD UNIVERSITY. Cal.. June 16. Stanford's determination to play Rugby football has been strengthened and the breach between Stanford and California widened, it was said today, by the tatter's action in adopting ten tatively the American game and arrang ing games with the University of Wash ington. The Stanford faculty is op posed to the American game. AERIAL BOARD RULES GIVEN Advisory Committee Not to Spend Money Experimenting. WASHINGTON. June 16. Regula tions governing the national advisory committee for aeronautics, which have just been approved by President Wil son, were made public today in order that its scope and limitations might be made clear, thereby avoiding pro posals of certam lines of work, par ticularly relative to inventions. The committee explains that under the law creating it and under its reg- IMPORTANT NOTICE For One Week. We shall take subscriptions to the Pictorial Review for 8 months for V 59c Sold Over Counter Only Pattern Section Second Floor C Merchandise oT cJ Merit Only Cut Rate Sale DRUG STORE " We Are Very Busy 25cEutaska Talcum 16c 25cLehn & Fink's Talcum .. 16a 25c Rice Talcum '. 10c 25c Wistaria Talcum 14c 25c Vantine's Sandalwood Tal cum Powder .. . . w .lie 50c Madeline Face Powder.. 15c 50c Imported Rice Powder.. 33c 25c Imported Rice Powder.. 16c 25c Euthymol Cold Cream... 10c 25c Peroxide Cream . 15c 50c Pond's Vanishing Cream.29c $1 Vaucaire Galega Tablets. 69c 50cOngaline 33c 25c Bathasweet 12c 50c Violet, Orris Shampoo Pow der 29c 25c Lyon's Tooth Powder... 14c 50cPebeco Tooth Paste 33c 50cKaIizon Tooth Paste.... 35c 35c Witch Hazel Lotion 23c 10c Emery Boards 7c 50cCutex Nail Acid 36c 25c Tooth Brushes 10c AI-Ka-La, the satisfactory tooth paste 25c 35c Cascara Tablets, 5-grain, 100 to bottle 23c 25c Dr. Hinkle's Cascara Pills, 100 to bottle 15c 25c Hydrogen Peroxide 17c 50c Lavoris Mouth Wash.... 33c 25c Witch - Hazel 16c 25cGlyc'n and Rose Water. 16c 10c Household Ammonia.. 5c 35c Sanitary Napkins, doz..25c 35c roll Sterilized Hospital Cot ton 29c 35c Feather-Lite Sanitary Belt for 23c 50c dozen Paper Sanitary Nap kins, special, a dozen 25c $1.50 Fountain Syringe 98c Of best red rubber, 2 .and 3- quart capacity. 35c Rubber Tubing 19c Of red rubber, 5-foot length. $1.50 Hair Brushes 98c Pearson's English rubber -cushion back hai,r' brushes with double boar bristles. 35c Ivory Dressing Combs.. 25c 75c Ivory Buffers 39c 6-in. size, removable chamois. 15c Glass Toothbrush Hlder.lOc Soaps at Cut-Rate Prices 20c Pear's Glycerine Soap 11c 10c Rose Glycerine Soap 5c 10c Tar Soap 5c 10c Almond Soap .5c 10c Peroxide Bath Soap 7c 25c box of three cakes of Soap, assorted odors 16c 15c Verbena Bath Soap 7c 25c English Tub Soap 17c 10c Calif. Medicated Soap 6c 25c Violet Soap, imported. ..13c No phone orders filled. C Mercian tuliao of cJ Merit Only" "Merchandise of cJ Merit Only" Pacific Phone Marshall 5000 Home Phone A 6691 New, Crisp and Charming, Wynall Blouses One Dollar and Fifty Cents This price is so loD and the styles so charming that IVynall blouses meet the immediate demands of all Tvell-dressed tvomen. You can make your selection of a most attractive voile or organdie blouse in plain, tucked, plaited or tailored style, as rvell as embroidered lace- AmJttmidk trimmed modes and some of allover em broidered materials. IVynall blouses are renowned for their beauty, as well as style, finish and workmanship, and are the equal of any $2.00 blouse that you can find elsewhere. Wynall Blouses, Always $1.50 Third Floor ulations, no funds can be expended for the development of inventions or for experimenting' with inventions for the benefit of individuals and cor porations. The committee is to exer cise its functions primarily for the benefit of the military and civil de partments of the Government. It may, however, perform work for in dividuals and corporations provided they defray the actual cost -involved. Two Sentenced at Pendleton. PENDLETON, Or.. June 16. (Spe cial.) -W. 13. Courtney, who says he is a Yale graduate, was sentenced by Circuit Judgre Phelps yesterday to a term of from one to five years' im prisonment in the State Penitentiary, on a plea of guilty to an indictment for obtaining money under false pre tenses. Elmer Hubbard, pleading guilty to assault with a dangerous weapon, was sentenced to a term of from six months to ten years. OA AUDITORIUM Norwegian Luther College Band and 63 Musicians Choral Union ii Singers. Saturday. June 19, at S P. M. Sunday. June 20. at 3 and 8 P. M. Oickrts 60c. Children 25c. Nov on Sale at Sherman, Gley A Co.. 315 Morrison; Ellers Piano House, Alder and Broadway: Wiley B. Allen, Broadway and Morrison; Tonneth Floral Co., 133 Sixth: Langoe Publishing Co., 21.1 Washington, and at The Oak Office. Two Styles in Combination Suits That Are Exceptionally Superior at $1.75 Are Offered in This White Sale at 98c One model has the new organdie embroidered yoke outlined with Valenciennes lace insertion and finished at the neck with rows of lace. "The drawers are also edged to match; ribbon and beading at the waistline. The second model has a yoke of fine embroidery insertion and edging, with knicker drawers; the waistline is ribbon drawn. Splendid Quality Crepe Gowns at 59c The Kind That Sells Regularly at 85c Not the skimpy kind you so often find in special sales about town, but gowns that are full in length and width, made for comfort and fit. Most effectively trimmed with lace edging and insertion, in round-neck, slip-over, kimono-sleeve style. Fourth Floor The Smartest Sports Skirts k Are of Golfine Specially Priced, $545 Another shipment of these popular skirts has just been received. They are so very popular that we are certain they will not last through the week. Theses skirts are not only fashionable, but they are of an extra fine quality white golfine, and made in a style that is suitable for the street, house, as well as sports wear. In flaring style, with one plait down the front, trimmed with pearl but tons, one large side pock el, detachable belt tvith tabs. Third Floor Fox Trot Ruffs Of Softest Marabou $1.48 Instead of $2.50 Youll surely want one of these ruffs. They are the latest fad of the day. In the natural marabou color, which, by the way, is one of the latest shades. These ruffs are 1 8 inches in length and fasten with a satin ribbon bow. 1'irnt Floor. FILL ALL YOUR SCISSORS WANTS In This Great Sale of Magna Steel Scissors These Magna steel scissors are known the world over. Perfectly made, all-steel scissors, fully guar anteed in every way. Scissors Selling to $1.25 for 48c Over 700 pairs in this lot, sizes 2i Xo 7 inches, gold finished or full nickel finish, regular or new finger-shape handles scissors of all styles, dressmakers scissors, scissors for nail and manicuring, lace, stork and round-point scissors. Scissors Selling to 85c for 39c 2V2 to 6Vj-inch sizes, with regular or new finger-shape handles, scissors of all styles, over 500 pairs in the lot. First Floor Wash Suits for the Boys, Special 98c In Sizes That Range From 2yz to 9 Years Regular Prices From $1.50 to $2.75 Middy, Russian Blouse and Balkan Suits In a large assortment of combinations, such as all-white with collars in navy blue, cadet or red. as well as all-white collars, braid trimmed. Also plain tan or cadet suits and fancy stripes with or without collars; long or short sleeves, round, square or V necks; bloomer or straight pants. Fourth Floor SMART But Inexpensive SUMMER HATS $5.00 TO $8.00 TRIMMED MODES Featuring a very large variety of models in small, medium and large shapes a 1 1 most attractively trimmed. June White Sale , Price $2.50 Legh orn Hats Golf and Tennis Hats Very smart mannish hats of Leghorn in the straight and pencil-roll brims, with the s pointed to sunken crown effect, reflecting the very newest blocks, trimmed with rib bon and flat tailored bow Hats' of soft French felt, in white trimmed with heavy grosgrain ribbon in white, navy, scarlet, green and blue. Just the thing for all outing occasions can be rolled up and carried in a suitcase or bag. Special $3.50 $2.95 Second Floor