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VOL. LV- NO. 17,04G. PORTLAND, OREGON. TUESDAY, JULY 13. 1015. ririci: rivi: cents. EDISOfl WILL HEAD BOARD OF IflVErlTORS Reply to "Call of His Country" Is Made. NAYY DEPARTMENT ASKS AID Secretary Daniels Urges That Submarine Menace Be Met. ADVISORY BUREAU CREATED Great Inventor Agrees to Take Cbarge of Civilian Board to Work Out AVays of Perfecting Fighting MacIUnery. WEST ORANGE. N. J.. July 12. Thomas A. Edison has accepted, an in vitation from Secretary Daniels to head an advisory board of civilian in ventors for a bureau of invention and development to be created in the Navy Department. His acceptance will go forward at once to Washington, where the new plans await word from the man "who can turn dreams into realities." Prominent Men to Aid. Mr. Daniels" idea of utilizing the Inventive genius of Americans in and out of the military and naval service to meet conditions of warfare shown in the conflict on land and sea in Eu rope is outlined in a letter written last Wednesday asking Mr. Edison whether, as a patriotic service to his country, he would undertake the task of ad vising the proposed bureau. The plan is fo have several men prominent in (pedal lines of inventive research as sociated in the work. Among the great problems to be laid before the investigators the Sec retary mentioned submarine warfare, adding that he felt sure that with Mr. Edison's wonderful brain to help them the officers of the Navy would be able "to meet this new danger with new devices that will assure peace to our country by their effectiveness." Attitude Pleases Mr. Daniels. "I have been - intending for some time," Mr. Daniels said in his letter, "to write to you expressing my admira tion at the splendid and patriotic atti tude you have taken, as reported in the public press, in refusing to devote your great Inventive genius to warlike sub jects except at the call of your own country. Such an attitude, in these all too commercial times, is one that should be an inspiration to our young men, and a lesson in the pre-eminent right of one's own country to the best that its citizens have that will be of tre mendous benefit to us all. "I have deferred writing you, how ever, because, at that time, I wanted to take up with you another matter to which I have given a great deal of thought a matter in which I think your ideas and mine coincide if an in terview with you recently published in the New York Times was correct. There is a very great service that you can render the Navy and the country at larsre, and which I am encouraged to believe you will consent to undertake, as It seems to be in line with your own thoughts. Department of Invention Planned. "One of the important needs of the Navy, In my Judgment, is machinery and facilities for utilizing the natural inventive genius of Americans to meet the new conditions of warfare as shown abroad, and it is my intention, if a practical way can be worked out. as 1 think it can be. to establish at th earliest m n m n t a deno rt m -.e vention and development to which all i Ideas and suggestions, either from the service or from civil Inventors, can be referred for determination as to whether they contain practical sugges tions for us to take up and perfect. "There are, unfortunately, no officers now detailed who can take time from ine mass 01 worK wnicn they are called upon to do in order to devote it fully to studying new suggestions and Inventions. "The department Is also unprovided witn the best facilities for work of pure experimentation and investiga tion, with the exception of our testing Fiauon at Annapolis, which Is, as yet. a small affair. Most of all, as I have said, there is no particular place or particular body of men relieved of other work, charged solely with th duty of either devising new things themselves or perfecting the crud ideas that are submitted to the depart ment by our naturally inventive people. Edison Is Asked to Be Adviser, 'I have in mind a general plan of organizing such a department which is still hazy 'as to details, but which. In a general way, meets, so far as th r.avy is concerned, with your ideas o such a department for the Governmen in general. I want to use such faclli ties for experimental and investigation work as we have, under the direction of men particularly selected for ability shown In this direction, to whom would be referred all suggestions of new de vices sent into the department, and would work out such ideas to a prac tical point. "What I want to ask is if you would be willing, as a service to your coun try, to act as an adviser to this de partment, to take such things as seem to you to be of value but which we art not, at present, equipped to In vestigate and use your own magnificent Concluded on Face 3, Column . LOVE TRIUMPHANT OVER DIFFICULTIES PATH WHO TRIED MARK I AGE AT SEA FINALLY WED DEO. American Consul at Shanghai Per forins Ceremony Delayed by High Seas at Xevrport. NEWPORT, Or., July 12. (Special) Love at last has found a way in the case of Dr. R. W. Donohoe and Mrs. Cressey Warnock Hughes, both late residents of Toledo, Or., who were mar ried in Shanghai, China, a few days ago. The young couple had tried In vain to get married in this county, as Mrs. Donohoe was the divorced wife of Allen Hughes, of Astoria, and the legal in terval had not elapsed. They chartered the launch Ollte S. at Newport, intend ing to go beyond the three-mile limit at sea, where Captain Carner. master of the vessel. would have officiated. But fate was against them. The bar was too rough to permit the launch to pass out. and, as they intended to sail a few days later for Shanghai, they abandoned the attempt and went to Seattle. They sailed May 28 on a Japanese steamer and would have been married on board by the captain, but Mrs. Dono hoe objected to a Japanese ceremony. A letter received today by Mrs. Dono hoe' s father, Robert Warnock. of To ledo, said that they were in Japan and soon would be in Shanghai, where they would be married at the United States Consulate upon their arrival. Dr. Donohoe will practice dentistry n Shanghai. He met his wife at Toledo last Winter. DEAD BOY'S MOTHER WINS Mrs. GuSble Wrd Get $1500 Ver dict Against New Market Garage. Mrs. Gussle Ward, widowed mother of 12-year-old Russell Ward, who was killed by an auto truck at Killings- worth and Williams avenues last No vember, was awarded 11500 by a Jury n Circuit Judge Morrow's court yes terday. She had sued for S7500 for the death of her son. The New Market Garage was the defendant. It was for the death of Russell Ward that Fred Skogseth, driver of the auto truck, was convicted of Involuntary manslaughter by a Jury in Judge Gaten's department a month ago. Be cause of the death of the court re porter who took notes on the trial. Judge Gatens recently granted 6kog- seth a new trial. FRENCH CONTRIBUTE GOLD Public Responds Freely to Appeal for Precious Metal. PARIS. July 11. (Delayed In Trans mission.) The flow of gold from the private stocks of the public into the Bank of Prance continues. More than 10,000 persons deposited gold at the bank during Friday and Saturday. Recently the Bank of France extend ed an invitation to the public to turn in its private hoards of gold to strengthen the national reserve. The response was such that the bank had to designate a half dozen receiving tellers to take the coin offered. ENGINE PHEASANT'S PERCH Train at Hood Kiver Pulls In With Maimed Bird on Pilot. HOOD RIVER, Or., July 12. (Spe cial.) When the westbound Pendleton express of the O.-W. R. & N. pulled into the station here yesterday a China pheasant cockerel with a broken leg was taken from the pilot. The bird had flown against the train Just west of the city and managed to maintain perch. It was turned over to Station Agent Fredricy. Mr. Fredricy says tht last week it was with difficulty that he kept pheasant hen out of the station wait ing-room. FRENCH OUTBUY ISSUE Bill Introduced to Increase Defense Fund to $1,400,000,000. PARIS. July 12. The minister of finance, M. Rlbot, Introduced today In the Chamber of Deputies a bill raising the limit of the issue of national de fense bonds from 11,203.000.000 a fixed in the law of May 18, to 11.400, 0P0.000. Subscriptions already have exceeded the previous limit by t30.000.000. The French public in 11 months has taken ?1, 680, 000.000 of national bonds. COLONEL BULGER DOOMED Colorado Supreme Court Affirm Sentence for Murder. DENVER. Colo, July 12. The Colo rado Supreme Court today affirmed the death sentence of Colonel James C Bulger, soldier of fortune, convicted of the murder of Lloyd L. Nlcodemua, Denver hotel manager, in Denver, May 7. 1914. Bulger Is sentenced to be hanged In the week beginning October 31. GARMENT WORKERS STRIKE 10,000 Employes Demand Increase in Wages and Recognition. istw iokx, July 13. A carmen workers" strike, the first for several years, began here today when 10,000 pants makers left their shops. The principal demands of the strik ers are for a sanitary shop, recogni tion of the union and an Increase in wages. ONLY ROMANCE IN WAR BEHIND LINES Slaughter No Longer Has Gild of Glamor. CHILDREN HOPELESSLY LOST "Missing Heir" Theme Will Be Revived by Novelists. FAMILIES TORN APART Belgians See Strange Warriors Take Places In Land From Which They Are Forced to Flee Few Know How to Find Relatives. mr wiiu irwin. NORTHERN FRANCE. June 14. (Special.) For at least a generation, I suppose, no one will have the su preme nerve to write romance about the operations of this War. A few gen erations hence, when time has made us forget some of its plain slaughter and Irt and horror, the romanticists may be busy -with It, as they are busy now with the Napoleonic wars. Some of the brilliant young men now wallowing about In the trenches, caring little at present whether or no a bullet comes to end their misery, may take their pens in hand and turn It Into realistic fic tion after the fashion of Zola's "La Debacle. But not romance no, thank you! It is Just about as romantic as the pig-sticking room of the Chicago Stockyards on a hot day. On the other hand, there is enough romance and to spare behind the lines. All Europe, of course. Is In a state of unprecedented upheaval. A good part of Western Europe has run away to find homes in parts of the world quite strange and unknown to home-staying people like the Belgians and the North ern French. Families have become hopelessly separated. trusts; ! lew Appear. Into this land of the little-traveled have come bodies of stalwart young men of breeds which the people of the little villages have known only from books before Turcos, Hindus, Sikhs, Western Canadians. Americans, even North American Indians. The peaceful waters which surround France and England have suddenly become seas of monsters. Inhabited by steel fish which shoot. The skies are peopled by monstrous birds which drop death. A little Journey across the channel now adays or even a Journey by land In the war zone has become an adven ture, so that the "good luck" which we customarily wish travelers upon their departure really means something nowadays. The romancer of the next few years. If he only study his own times, will not need much of an Imagi nation. Take the "missing heir" theme which novelists used to love in the days of the old three-decker. All over Europe there are potential missing heirs, for (Concluded on Face 5 Column .1. &S" 'J:. fl , 'c v7 fizifb BAo Ml ' t v rfJlYsh voesr- cfoSc-r Vji " n--1- v ' Os!VvvJ s -Jt-kS- K if e V VV rv, " S3 l-Y OOFS m. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The WtMhff. TESTER DAY'S Maximum temperature. TO d a re a , minimum. v dum a. TODAY'S Tutidir (air; northwesterly winds. ar. Will Irwin says only romance of war Is found behind lines. I'as 1 French ryt-.ltn.M graphically describe strusgla tor dominating balght. fas - German cruieer Konisebers la destroyed In Est African river. I'as X Mralr. Villa forces near Mexico City. Paso 2. National. Sharp noto to b sent to Berlin by United Males. face 1. Thomu A. Edison accepts position as neaa of advisory board ot inventions lor united elate Navy, fas 1. Uoarelle. Court denle application of John B. L" aqn tor new triai. J . Alienist declares Thaw Is paranoia. Pag S porta. Dearer to open aeries asalnet Reals today, with McAru: at short. I ae lo. Cincinnati eomee bees and blanks wtani after losing ihl straight same lo iau. Pace 10. Harvard tennle player are eliminated from champion. hip play at ban r"racico fair. Fas 1U. Trio of Multnomah Club a tmmera. to com pete In champlonehlpa at fair, to depart today- l-as 10. mrlfU, orthwee, Tolsdo pair, foiled In plana for marine mar- rlace. era wedded at rihansnai. I'as J Thousand of Bhriners capture beat lie with merry-making. I'as i. Colonel Alden J. Blethen. Feattle publisher. die after ilnsertns Illness. Pas 3. Grand Army "boy- Invade Chautauqua and art gvQ rooalPS welcome. Pas 12. Lejtlalatora unit asalnat special lo en land grant caa. I'as 12. MUltla to entrain Thuradar to act as guard for Liberty Hell In Portland parade. Pag i. Commercial and Marine. W. R. Orae Company announce lumber ear- ne. 10 bo floated In month. Pag 15. Engllih buyars rapidly clearing Coast stocks of hops. Pas 15. Active cattle and hog market at Portland blockyorde. page 1J. Steel in atrong demand In Wall Street stock market. Page 11. Chicago wheat depre.aed by mallnea of vis ible supply decree. Pag li. Portland and Vicinity. Prinelnlea of law laid down by Supreme pi in rtrernn .California land gram caa followed by Judg Woleerton In Coos Bay wagon road grant cm. Tag -glx mor public comfort stations ar sought. Tag 12. Mr. Dodge tells. In court, of deal Involving more than million. Page 11. n..i nl.n, for reception of IJberty Bell are comDleted. Page ft. Four project Indorsed by Chamber of oi niri-e. Pae 1. Tortlind nearly deserted by hrlnr. who attend SeattI conclave, t-ss . v. miii shown at vaudeville theaters. Vaa. 7. Judge Gatens frees bub slayers, denouncing double standard. Pag - Federal wltnea In Cashier caa put tbrougo arrlUlnr croes-exemlnatton. Pag 1. president of General Federation of Women's Clubs passes tnruugn j-oniano. i . weather report, data and forecast. Page IS. WOMEN FRIENDS UNITED Two Separated 4S Years Meet Again at Visit to Albany. ALBANY, Or.. July It. (Special.) When Mrs. Elisabeth P. Lee. of Seattle, and Mrs. Mary E. Boles, of Corvallls. met here yesterday It was the first time they had seen each other for 1 years. They were close friends more than four decades ago. At that time both resided In Brooklyn. N. Y-. Mrs. Lee's husband being pastor of a Prea byterlan church there, while Mrs. Boles' husband was an onlcer of the church. Although both have been on the Pa clflc Coast for several years, they did not happen to meet. Mrs. Lee Is now visiting her son. Dr. Wallace How Lee. of Albany College, and Mrs. Boles came from Corvallls to attend the Al bany Chautauqua. Dr. Ire and Justus Boles, of Corvallls, sons of the two i women, were born only 1J days apart. WHAT DO WE CARE! mi Ann nrni u td I onnnr ncru iu GERMANY EXPFUTED Next Ioce Will Leave No Room for Doubt CRISIS THOUGHT TO BE NEAR Positive Statement as to De mands of America Planned. WEEK'S DELAY PROBABLE I nllctl Stales Xol to Kecede Iom Stand Herlln to Re Called to Ac count for Itefasal to Murow Sinking of I.axltanla. WASHINGTON. July IX Consider ation of the German reply to the American note on submarine warfare overshadows all els today in the work of State Department officials. Secretary Lansing spent most of his time preparing data and opinions for the nest communication to be sent to Germany, and he Indicated that prob ably he would not go to Cornish. N. IL. but that President Wilson would re turn heie at the end of the week. Mtaatloa Described aa OH leal. The situation was described In offi cial quarters aa critical, and there was no concealment of the fact that rela tions between Germany and the I'nlted States had become more strained than at any time In their history. High officials said the policy of the American Government would be care fully worked out, and that to meet the situation firmly the utmost delib eration was required. This Informa tion was given out In order that a de lay of possibly a week or more In pre paring an answer might not be mis Interpreted as meaning that the United Slates Intended In any way to recede from the position It had taken In the two notes already sent to Berlin. teat May He Avowed, there was much Informal discussion among officials of the content of the German reply. The trend of their opla lon was that the ration ot the Ameri can argument In the German notes had narrowed th field of negotiation so that the next communication from the United States must state to soma ex tent the Intention of the Washington Government In rase Its rights are further violated, and declare the posi tion It will take with reference to Ger many's refujul to disavow the sinking of the Lusltania. Something much more specific and positive than has yet been said In the notes which the United States has sent since th submarine war son was de clared is now expected. Net to It Ilrlef. uiliciais gut in Impression that there would be no further argument on the principles Involved: that the note would be very brief and slate a gen eral policy whRh the American Govern ment Intends to follow with respect to I Concluded ou Tec S. Column i. I .1 Mondays War Moves FROM what appeared to be a lull on the western front has sprung sud denly some of the moat severe fighting in months, with the Germans the ag gressors and victors. The touches Cemetery, seven miles north of Arras and hardly half that distance southwest vf Lens, hss been wrested from the French after a gr man gas attack, followed by hand-to-hand fighting with bomb and bayonet. The French admit this loss and ar fighting to regain the ground which they had won at such heavy cost. Slowly the French had been tlcbt enlng their grip on the villas of Sou ches until the ticrmana. aware that the capture of the entire position would be an Important step In the French offensive toward Lens ami Lille, launched a terrific counter stroke, which left them master of the shat tered burial ground with more than ISO prisoners In their hands. Ft.htins among th houses which fringe th western edge of the town still rat;. There has also been a renewal of ac tivity In other areas of France and lirlgium, but nothing comparable wth the strategic Importance of the Soucnea struggle. The German lay claim to th destruction of the BrUl.h position on Hill 0. near Ypres. but this finds no confirmation from either Krench or British sources. The situation in Poland and Gallcla has not yet reached a crisis, and War saw appears to be in no Immediate danger. Whether the British and French or th Germans will be the first to take the general offensive In tb west Is a big question, for It Is felt that one side or the other must strike before long: otherwise another Winter of tedious trench warfare Is Inevitable. The destruction of the German cruiser Koenigaberg In a Jungle-lined river of Eat Africa was learned with surprise, the fact that she had taken refuge there having been forgotten by the gen eral public The Italian attacks against Austria seem to be gaining In intensity, but the Vienna official statement admits no toss of ground. SI 00,000 OFFER IS MADE Dallas, Texas., Socks National 1 cmo cratlc Convention by t'ontrlbutlon. NEW YORK. July It. William F. McComba, chairman of the Democratic National Committee,- received today from Dallas. Te&as, an offer of 1160.000 as a cash contribution, to the funds of the National Democratic Committee should th 114 convention be held In that city. Dallas also pledges a coliseum seat ing 15.000 persons and adequate ac commodations for both delegates and visitors. VICTOR IN AFRICA REPLIES Ilrilicit Cacncral Hopes lo Put Men la ncld la Eurotie Soon. LONDON. July 1 1. General Botha. Premier of the Union of South Africa, has replied as follows to Ijord Kitch ener's cabled congratulations on the conquest of German Southwest Africa. "I most cordially thank ou for your kind congratulations, which are highly appreciated by all. I hope that soon many of my men here will take their share In the greater task In Europe." COLLEGE GETS $500,000 Will or Lusltania Victim II led for Probate Reveals Grant. PlTT?nF.U. ila.s, July II. The sum of tSOQ.OOO la left to Tufr College and 1100. 000 for other charitable pur poses by the will of Dr. Fred S. Pear son. Lusltania victim, late of r.rest Barrlnston. Mass.. and London. Eng land, filed for probate her today. Dr. Pearson left an estate of about f S0.000.000. moel of which goea to two sons and a daughter. WAR GETS 200.000 HORSES Firty Men Added to IVjrce to Handle Animals on Way lYom Wcwt- HtVTOtf. W. Va July II fifty men today were added to the force r quired te handle the war horses fed and watered her on their way from the west to the Atlantic seaboard. Fully JOft.OOO hor.es have been handled sine th European war began. according to th officers In chare. BRITONS GET CZAR'S CROSS Empcmr Honors Submarine Crew iVThtctt Sank fierman. tIVrtflV ti.lr 1J Pmnarar Vlcb. olas of Russia has conferred th Cross or St. George upon ail in on leer ana crew of the British submarine which recently sank a German battleship In the Baltic Announcement of the awarding of the cross was made here today. STEEL TARIFFS SUSPENDED Railroads Increase; on I Late to Coast Held Up FVor Months, WASHINGTON". July I i. Tariff a of th Chicago. Milwaukee V Ft- Paul and other railroads naming Increased rates on structural steel In rarlnads for Pa cific Coast points. Portland. Seattle and some Interior towns, were suspended today until November 1 J. by the Inter- "- Ccmcrca CommUelun. GRILLING IS GIVEN CASHIER WITNESS Testimony of Mr. Sala berry Unshaken. ATTORNEY SEVERE AT TIMES Walter McHenry, Des Moines. Acts for Salesmen. RIDICULE AND SATIRE USED Montana Holder of Stuck Au.-nlu I"irt Purchase Watt Made ou Ad vice of Itaitkcr and lalll In Machines Still Retained. Walter McHenry, attorney, of Des Moines, la-, took an active part for the flri time ye.lerj.ty I . the trial of seven officials and saleenien of th United States Cashier Company for al leged conspiracy to violate the postal fraud statute, when In behalf of two of the defendant salesmen. It K. Hon- newell and 11. M. Toid. he put licit Salaberry, shccprali-cr. of Klmdale. Mon tana, through the sharpest rroa-ex- aminallon any witness l.ss yet under gone. Mr. Salaberry la one of the .;overn ent's Important witnesses. He testi fied Saturday that ou alleced misrep resentations hy Tod and Donne well aa lo patent rights of the company anl big dlM.len.l it wouli pay. ' Invested 3S0 in slovk and that Ms brother. John Salaberrr. and hi ar:nr. John Irigoln. had between them Invested 1 1300 more. I raaa-Kisatlsalles la Srtfre. Mr. Mi Henry w as stern and abrupt In hi methods of questioning. At tl me his tuminil ion was almost sav. age. He used a powerful liars vole lo Its fu:icat ja.lvant.tae, eometimes boomtrg question after question at tb witness. Then be would riold hint up to ridUule, or a!.or him wun satiric e.uerlea. The w:tne. n meek-looking, soft speaking lltlie man. went through this ordeal without budging from the main details of lila original testimony. II could not be shaken from bis story. Banker' 4l-e 1'wllwe.ed. Two admissions that Mr. Mrllenry evidently conMdered of Importance. however, were ohtalned from Mm. On was that he first bought stock on th advice of en acquaintance named Ar nett, employed In the bank of which he was a customer. Th other was that he stl'l has confidence that the com machine exhibited to hitn by the sales men when they solicited hlni to buy stock was all thai they claimed for It. Mr. McHenry began to utechii. Mr. Salabeny as to the number of shares ot stock, at $10 a share, he bad first bought from the salesman, Todd. In which I. Is brother and partner In vested with Mm. Mr. Salaberry paying for the block with hi personal check for liOOO. Flrat Parrssa Iteratled. "Did you buy 100 shares?" asked Mr. McHenry. -I bought JJ1-J share. replied Mr. Salaberrr. -I thought It was 100 .rsresr "That waa what the thre ot us bousht." "Weli. then, bow many shares did you buy youraelfT" "I bought IS 1-1 hares." "Are oj positive It was ii 1-S share T" -Yea.- The Government assert that thi block of stock, which Mr. SaUberry said was o;d to him on th rejueeenta tlon that th money waa lo go Into th factory to Increase the output of com machines, waa really atock owned hy one of tbe officials of the company. Oasrnsls Mast laase. -Who told you th company owned the stock T" demanded Mr. McHenry. -Mr. Todd told me." i "I'ld you ask him If the company owned th stock, or did be volunteer ur "He volunteered It." "Mr. Salaberry. are ou married"" suddenly snapped the lawyer. -No. sir." replied the witness, appar ently surprised. "Your brother or jour tanner mar ried?" "No. slr." "Now, you have testified that Mr. ponnewell. when be sold you 0 shares ot stock at a later date for 110 a share, said It belonged lo a widow. "Yes. slr." "What did be really tell you at thai timr Ptsrsast for Xvldewe Uealcd. "He told me I' o stock belonced to a widow, and that she r-ouldn't keep It. so he would rx-11 It to me cheaper. " "Don't you remember. Mr. Salaberry." demanded Mr. McHenry, "that you said you wanted to marry a widow?" 'No, alr.- "Don't you renirmber that Mr. Bonne well. when he spoke of a widow, was speaking about getting a widow for you?" "No." replied the wnneas. "I dost remember any such convcrsat.on." "Have )ou any srerial fondncas f r widower "Wh-shttr a.ked the witncsA. with iwofecc a 1' Cowmr i f i