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ES' SECRETARY OF STATE, WHO IS CONDUCTING NEGOTIATIONS WITH GERMANY, AT HIS DESK. ZAPATA'S FLEEING Powers Saturday Night Special $ AS ORDERS ROLL IN ARMY IS ROUTED ti Stocks of Concerns Filling Contracts for Allies Sell at Record Prices. Carranza Forces Report Cap ture of Large Stores of War Material. 5 Piece Set r HALF BILLION IS INVOLVED VILLA WINS SKIRMISHES WAR SHAH BOO flJMH Sets mItMiy-r to Sell Conservative Wall Street Views Movement Apprehensively and Margin Business Is Curbfd to Discourage Ttccklessness. KEW YORK. July 18. Speculation in war shares attained a new high mark of activity and strength this week, the stocks of many of the companies now filling contracts for allied armies and navies selling' at record-breaking prices. This advance was made at the expense of the railroad roup. The week's movement in war stocks was predicated on the belief that cer-! tain large contracts for supplies have been definitely closed, while others al ready awarded have been materially added to. At best, the amount of these contracts can only be conjectured, butj it is no exaggeration to say that the eum involved approximates $500,000,- uoo. Foodtftuffa Included in Lists. Supplies included in these contracts consist chiefly of arms and ammuni tion, motor cars and trucks, electrical equipment and railway materials and foodstuffs, the latter including cereals, which have been forwarded in enor mous quantities to England, France and Italy. To a considerable extent manipula tion of "war contract" shares has been mado possible by the small floating supply of some of these stocks. This is especially true of Bethlehem Steel. Crucible Steel and several other issues, which" are capitalized at relatively nominal amounts. The rise has gained additional impetus from a new and formidable element of speculators in the Middle Western section of the country, who were successful in their earlier ventures in the railroad divi sion, as well as in grains, when those staples were at higher prices than now prevail. Wall Street Shows Concern. Conservative Wall street views the rise In war shares with some concern, and old-established brokerage houses are discouraging any commitments in that field, while others are refusing all "margin" business in these securities. Banks are scrutinfzing this sort of collateral with more care and in other quarters there is being manifested a disposition to restrain further reckless trading. Some of today's new high records, with maximum gains over last Satur day, are .as follows: General Motors, 183V4. up 25V; Bethlehem Steel 187, up 20i: Willys-Overland 1394. up 15',; Crucible Steel 44i, up 14H; New York Air Brake 103 H. up 13; Ameri can Can 45, up 1. and Baldwin Loco motive 73, up TV. 1 . EXPORTS OP AUTOS ARE LARGE fcliipments From Xew York Shown to Increase Steadily. KEW YORK, July 16. An indication of the extent of the shipments of sup plies from the United States since the Kuropean war began is given in cus toms records available here, which show that from August 1. 1914, to June 30, this year, automobiles, auto mobile parts and tires valued at J41. 000.000 were transported to Europe through this port. The records of the collector of the port show that for the period August 3. 1914. to May 31, this year, 18,451 cars valued at $34,453,178, were cleared, mostly for France and Great Britain. Official figures for June have not been completed, bat conservative estimates by officials in charge bring the total to July 1 up to 22.051 machines with a value of $40,953,178. Automobile parts and tires, with June shipment esti mated, show a value for the 11 months of $6,098,376. FRENCH REGAPTURE HILL FART OF LOSS NEAR VEKDTTS" RE PORTED REGAINED. Berlin Declares, Hnmr, That Large Quantity of War Material Was Taken in Last Battle. LONDON. July 16 The recapture by the French of Hill No. 285 was an nounced today in a statement from the French Embassy, issued through the British Official Press Bureau, in denial of German assertions of an im portant victory in the, forest of Ar- -gonne. The statement says: "Their gains at no points exceeded a depth tt 400 meters (440 yards). Hill No. 285. which they occupied for : a" time, has been recaptured by us." The hill was taken early this week , In the German move on Verdun which drove the French back three-fifths of a mile along a front of nearly two '. miles, the German reports declared, . i-and resulted in the capture of more ' - than 2500 French soldiers and several -guns. t A dispatch from Berlin says that , German military tacticians point out that the German victory in the forest ; of Argonne, In France, is of special im portance, as it shows that the con- ; nections toward Western France are gradually being cut. It adds that the t j. large amount of war material captured , . by the Germans in the last battle 11- lustrates the importance attributed to ; r the positions by the French com- manders. The Berlin report today says that French attempts to regain ground in the Argonne have failed, and that the . Germans have Inflicted heavy losses on ' the enemy. Since June 20, the report says, 118 officers and 7009' French prisoners have been captured. Lively . battles are reported in progress on me ironi adjoining tne Argonne. f '" The French official communication ; , toniaht records spirited artillery c- . tions in Artois. It adds: "On the right bank of the Aisne, to the west of Soissons. the Germans after having dropped 4000 shells in the Fontenay section, attempted yes ; terday a surprise attack against one ' of our fortified works, which failed . . "On the heights of the Meuse there j . was a voilent bombardment, as there ; ' was also at Les Sparges, in the region of Sonvaux Ravine and in the forest of Apremont j " "A squadron of 10 aeroplanes this morning dropped 46 shells of 75 milli .. meters caliber and six large bombs . on the military station at Chauny, where there are important depots of . war material. Fire broke out In two places. A barge was blown up on the Oise Canal." i - .. , .:-;... .. . ; . " . " . r f- . . -; - J : AX.- " - - ' N,-"--.:.. X-" :" v "' ""1 L . " t'r fr -- . ; ".,':.H- I I -, " ii 'tcgwfcwj.iaM"- , - - " ; "1 "n .-. ' . . V'x N . - ' . nVJ3" ."". .r- . YV ..... - -'": . .- Ssw ' 1 ' GUILE IS CHARGED Paris Editors Say Austria Seeks to Divert Discussion. INCONSISTENCY IS NOTED Request That Kouniania, Permit Transit of Arms to Ally Regard ed as Interpreting Neutrality In Opposite Sense. PARIS, July 16. "Germany Is teo deeply Involved and too thouoghly un masked, so her accomplice comes to the rescue," says the Temps In a col umn editorial on the Austro-IIungarlan note to the United States. The afternoon papers again comment on the note, considering it a subtle at tempt of the Austro-Uermans to 'shift the basis of discussion between Aus tria, Germany and the United States from Germany's act of piracy to a question touching the Austro-Germans more closely, namely,- the shipment of arms to tho entente allies and the naval blockade, as the Temps put it. The Temps points out, nevertheless, that in the Austro-German request that Roumanla permit the shipment of arms to their ally, Turkey, through her neu tral territory, the same obligations of neutrality are "interrupted in their op posite senses," according to the Imme diate interest of those who consider themselves above right and law. La Liberte asks editorially: "Will Americans let themselves be terrorized?" Tho newspaper considers the note "particularly laughable, Austria's ports being pocketed not only by the Anglo French fleet, but also by Italian," and adds: "The note either is a bluff or a warning that the Austro-Germans are going still further in their criminal course of attacks on the persons and the property of the United States." La Presse says: "The export of mu nitions to Europe is a century-old tra dition of American commerce, which neither the representations of the Austro-Germans nor. dynamite attacks on factories and vessels are able to bring the citizens of the United States to renounce." AUSTRIA ACCUSES FOES (Continued From Writ Page.) consular officials who have been ar rested. The Austrian and Hungarians who are being detained in hostile countries can be counted by the thou sands. "The preposterous claim of the hos tile nations to the right to subject the entire population of large countries to famine must be stigmatized as a sac rilegious violation of the rules of war fare. No less sacrilegious Is the act of the hostile governments In tolerat ing, if not actually inspiring, the un precedented agitation of a press which IJiisseminates lies and fosters hatred. .uost or tne excesses to waicn iuuy sands of innocent and defenseless peo ple have fallen victims are the direct outcome of that agitation." Belgians Charged With Brutality. A "typical example" of the treat ment of Austrlans in Belgium is de scribed in a letter from an -tustrlan merchant in the perfumery business who had lived for 15 years in Paris and was forced to leave within 24 hours. "The hostility and brutality of the population of Brussels towards Ger mans and Austrlans," he writes con cerning his v journey through Belgium, "was beyond description. From Brus sels we proceeded to Antwerp, where we were arrested by the Garde Clvlque on the station platform. . . . My poor wife was hurried on with the butt ends of the guards' rifles. As she took no heed of this, she was struck across both legs with a rifle and was injured. We witnessed most pitiable scenes. A child, 9 years, was so frightened that it refused to follow the others and clung with both hands to the railings at the exit; a Garde Civique hit it with his saber and cut its left hand off. ... Woman's Eyes 11 erred With Fork. "An "Austrian couple, who had owned a restaurant at Antwerp for the last 16 years, was terribly Ill-treated by the mob. The poor woman had one of her eyes pierced with a fork, while her hus band had two fingers cut off. Another Austrian woman was expelled from a maternity home with her baby which was only five days old. She had neither dress nor shirt on her body, which was covered only with a dirty bed sheet. It was a heart-rending scene, yet it did not prevent a garde clvlque from mak ing fun of her In a shameless manner; It was such a 'comedy'; amusing, in deed." With reference to the treatment of Austro-Hungarian nationals in France, the chief complaint was against the hardships imposed on innocent women and children in the concentration camps. A deposition of Hiss M. E. Schreiner, a eraduate nurse, pictures conditions 'in ROBERT LANSING. a convent at Garalson to which Aus trlans, Hungarians and Germans were ordered after a march of 20 kilometers. Here they were Informed that they were prisoners of war. "There were altogether about 1000 prisoners," declared Miss Schreiner, half of whom were women and children. There was no furniture available and straw was the sole bedding. There were no provisions made for washing. Insufficiency of food and the weather conditions soon brought about serious illnesses, such as dysentery, and epi demics broke out. The women were confined and had to put up with the most atrocious treatment. Four died." Other cases cited Included the "ma licious punishment, rough medical at tendance by a veterinary surgeon" and the "shameless molestation of Interned girls by French soldiers" at Sables d'Olonne. "The young girls," according to one of the depositions, "were exposed to criminal assaults by the soldiers. In the beginning they were - herded to gether with the young men and had to share their rooms or stables with them. Modesty forbids specification of all the acts of indecency to which we had to submit." iret Britain Also Accused. In Great Britain insufficient food and accommodations, it is said, were ac corded the interned nationals at Deven port and Newbury. In Russia the Intelligence department of the Austro-IIungarlan general staff learned of "barbarous treatment In flicted on the Interned at Arenburg, where typhus and starvation depleted their ranks by tho hundreds." In Ser bia, besides "rough treatmentplunder ing and insufficient food, compulsory naturalization was enforced, prisoners of war were robbed, badly fed and forced to do work for military pur poses." Twenty-seven cases of violations by Russia of the Jaws of warfare and 18 Instances in which Serbia and Monte negro are accused of various trxiti.. are given in detailed affidavits selected many more made by soldiers, offi cers and civilian officials. These in clude. In Russia, not only the use of dum-dum bullets, flrinc , t Cross flag and ambulances, but o. ized looting and killing of civilians and numerous authenticated cases of as saults on women." vinr8e8,"re "corded of looting and killing directed especially against Jew ish civilians, who also "were forced un der the lash to work In ik. 4. -i during their holidays." "..: I'aws mt Warfare Violated. In Serbia and Montenegro the par- thJPS u?, f the civlll' Population In the fighting, the misuse of the white tfi' r partridges filled with wire nails and pieces of vltrol, of . copper, torture of prisoners, the poisoning of w'!" with dead bodies and mud, the Wring on the army service corps by 7-.n ?d c,hild-n. mutilation of bodies and maltreatment of prisoners of war with Insufficient . commodatlon. complete the list of atro- nrmi coTmSUin?1 f by the Austrian army. Under the head of "Violations f.a'-.0'.Wr-! compliant T. 1 ., reruaea to recognize Austrlans described a. the Polish and SussnaTri''0""" b'Eerenti! Tne Russians are accused of hanging them "wherever they catch them." .u .t Roumanian Legions, not less than the Polish Legions," says the book "comply not only with all the j-equi?,! ga'rd toaTvG. COM"' gard to a volunteer corps, but form a part of the army Itself." Charges are also made against the Russian, of "grievous acts of terror? wlna.aKa",,t Greelt Cth" in Bkl- TERMS OFFERED RUSSIA I'MTED STATES MAKES EFFORT TO E.D TRADE EMBARGO. Demand for Raw Material, rreaal.g, and Government Would Guarantee Against Exports to Enemies. WASHINGTON, July 16. Proposal, looking to tlie modification of the Rua sian embargo on exnnrta nt teriala to the United states have been submitted to the government at Petro grad through the commercial attache . ""'n cmnassy here. The embargo, covering practically all Rus sian products imported hv th. States, has been in effect since early in the war. resulting In a decrease in Im ports from Russia to 62.364.192 'during the 11 months ended with May com- parea witn 619.S70.267 for the .am, period of last year. Under the proposed plan, the Amer i.n government practically would "a""' mat- no Kusslan products shipped hero would, ultimately reach Russia's enemies. All such exports to this country would be consigned to United States officials, to be aeiiv... to merchants and manufacturers, who uuiu us requirea to give bond cover- ins approximately tne value of the goons received as a guarantee that they d iniriio, out would be uses in American oomestlc trade. s originally made, the proposal covered hides, skins, furs, mineral and medicinal oils and seeds, but it is ex pected that if the plan is adopted all riu.sian export products except such ' reservea ny tne government for military purposes ultimately will be included. Demand for Russian hides in tne American icatner trade has be come pressing. rhoto by Bain News Service. WOOL TRADE. OPSET Scarcity of Skilled Labor Faced in England. Is RAW MATERIAL PLENTIFUL Suggestion Is Mado That "Tops" Might 11c Imported l'rum Amer ica, or Tliat Product Might Bo Sent Here for Combing. LONDON. June 26. (Correspondence of the Associated Press. The wool sit uation at Bradford is an Interesting one from the American 'standpoint. Ijibor for combing wool there has been depleted to such an extent that the wool men have not only raised the question of the desirability of import ing "tops" from America, but also the Idea of shipping wool to America to be combed- there and sent back here. The suggestion is also made that the difficulties might be met by bringing men back from the front to work the combing machines. All the tops required by the English trade could be brought from Austra lia, but the latter supply seems to be going to Japan, and as the difference In time of transit Is so great, the de sirability of treating with America is apparent. Heaps of wool are available, but few combs to work It with leaves the price at a high level. A Bradford paper reports that the Board of Trade has signified Its in tention of allowing ll.ooo.ooo pounds of Scotch blackfared out of the new clip to be exported to the United States, but no confirmation could be obtained from the Board of Tratle or the War Office on the subject. The fifth series of colonial wool sales, beginning June 29 with 230.000 bales available, representing a value of about 4.500.000 pounds sterling, probably will be prolonged until July 31. Owing to the chaotic condition, at the warehouses and on the railways, selling brokers have agreed to restrict daily offerings to S0OO bales, that be ing the quantity which 'can be con veniently handled. Little wool has changed hands since the last auctions, but the market ex pects a small advance in the price of merino wool of good combing quality, and unchanged rates for croasbreds, as the government Is not giving out fur ther orders for khaki at present. BUILDING NEAR UPTURN ACCUMULATIONS OF CAPITAL INDI CATE EARLY REVIVAL Decrease for June Declared Temporary, With Prospect That I'rearcas Will Exceed All Record. CHICAGO. July 16. Building con struction In the United tftatea in June showed a decrease compared with a year ago. according to an analysis which will be published In the Con struction News tomorrow. Permits were taken out In 1!3 cities for 24.542 buildings, at an estimated cost of $63. 165.308. again 26.S6S build ings to cost 631.978.2S2 in June. 1S14. This Is a decrease of 23 per cent. "The low level Is not below that of a decade ago and it will not be more than two months before the figures will show a gain." the Construction News will say. "It is worth while here to call attention to the large ac cumulations of capital. The accumu lations are large, enterprise Is stifled and the force it will exert when busi ness conditions show a permanently forward tendency and obstacles to con tinued progress are removed will carry the totals far beyond anything ever heard of in this country." MILITIA GETS AIRCRAFT Two 6 tales Accept Offer, but Penn sylvania Avoids Inconvenience." NEW TORK. July 16. The Aero Club of America announced today that the states of New York and Vermont have accepted offers of aeroplanes and the services of aviators during the maneu vers of the National Guards of those states. The offers were made by the Aero Club. It was announced that Ralph Mc Millan, of Omaha, has offered his bi plane for the use of the Nebraska Na tional Guard. Adjutant-General Thomas I. Stewart, of the Pennsylvania National Guard, has notified the Aer. Club that Its offer of the use of three aeroplanes and pilots for the annual maneuvers In that state will not be accepted, "because it would not be convenient to have an aeroplane in camp." y Convention General Denies He Is Defeated and Says If He Is Ap parently Retreating He Will Soon Show Real Aim. WASHINGTON. July 16. General Zapata's army, driven from Mexico City and retreating southward, has been routed by pursuing Carranza troops In the valley below the capital, according to a dispatch today from General Carranza to his agency here. The meKvage dated at Vera Crux to day follows: "I am Informed by General Gonzales that Generals Cosh. Zepeda, Sanchez. Garcia and Machuca and Colonels Mu nez. Klores and Gomez have routed the Zapatistas at Contreras, causing them to lose 5j0 men. capturing five loco motives, a large number of boxcars, nine cannon, more than 100.000 rounds of ammunition, two machine guns, sev eral rases of cannon shells, the entire hospital service and a large quantity of mixed merchandise. Formrr Sfronnhold Occupied. "The Ajusco range of mountains on the southern edge of the federal dis trict and extending Into the State of Morclos, the former stronghold of Zapata and his following, has been occupied by constitutionalist forces. This engagement practically clears the alley of Mexico of Zapatistas." Reports of military activity from other 'parts of Mexico reached the State Department today, messages from Con sular sources asserting General Villa's forces In the coal region near Pare tlon and Hermanas had won in skirm ishes with Carranza'a troops. Reports to the Villa agency here confirmed previous statements that Villa had moved north from Aguaa Calientes. Ohrcaona Advance Part of Plan. "Obregon's advance northward." said a statement issued by the Villa agency. "fits Into a strategic plan which it would be unwloo to disclose at this time. In accordance with this plan. General Villa has moved north of Aguas Calientes. holding Zaratecas. General Villa himself telegraphed the General that the Carranzistas report that he had been defeated and Is movinar his army to Torreon. He said: "'We have not been defeated and If I am apparently retreating, we will soon show tho Carranzistas I have not lost my strength. Obregon's communi cation with his base of supplies has. been cut on for almost ten days and the Vera Cruz reports of his move ments cannot be accounted for.' " Villa ( Ulna Srt Forth. In a statement reviewing the mili tary situation, the Villa auency tonight made the following assertions: "Con vention forces operate in the States of Tobasco, Campeche, Nuevo Leon, Kinaloa, Tamaulipas, Jalisco, MIchoa can. Yucatan, the federal district and in northern and southern Vera Crux. "In the following states, the con vention forces hold more territorythan the enemy: Guerrero. Puebla. Tlaxcala, Mexico. Hidalgo. Guanajuato, (juerc taro, San Luis I'otosi. Aguas Calientes. Coahuiia, and the territory of Tcplc. "Convention forces control the states of Zonora, Zacatecas. Chihuahua. Morelos. Durango and Northern Iwer California. The Carranzistes control Chiapas, territory of Quintana Roo. Coltma and Southern Lower California. The tate of Oaxara has maintained neutrality." VIIliA CHOOSES BATTLKJROrXI) Chance for Defense Keptrdctl as Best South of Torreon. KL. PASO. Tox.. July IS. Jimuloo. 45 miles south of Torreon. has ben se lected by "General FrR.iolsco Villa as the scene for his next encounter with the Northern army of Carranza. After bis loss of Aguas Calientes and Zacatecas. Villa led his army to Tor reon and announced that It was there he would make his stand. There, ac cording to passengers from there, he later concluded his chance for success ful defense was better In the hills about Jlmulco, to which point he Is said already to have moved his head quarters. A few miles north Is the Picardlas bridge, one of the largest between the frontier and Mexico City, and the de struction of this in case of another defeat would, it la thought, retard Obregon's pursuit. Diarrhoea Quickly Cured. "About two years ago I had a severe attack of diarrhoea which lasted over a week," writes W. C. Jones, Buford, N. D. "I became so weak that 1 could not stand upright. A druggist recommended Cham berlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. The first dose relieved me and within two days I was as well as ever." g if) 6- $2 Five-Piece Aluminum (O Qi r Kitchen Set for Only . . .ZsZsZ On Salt After 4 P. M. Saturday Th best Special we have offered in months a splendid 5-piece Kitchen Set made of 99, pure aluminum in the popular new Sun Ray Finish. The set differs sliphtly from illustration and consists of the following" pieces: One 9-lnch Cake Tin, one 2-Quart Pudding Pan, one Handled Strainer, one heavy 3-Quart Lipped Sauce Pan and one 4,-rx84 Bread Pan. Each Set nicely packed in separate carton. Only 240 sets to sell. SKT TO ('1'HTOnRR. XO .o lt:Ll i I I FIRST MAJE LAST DAY CHARLIE CHAPLIN In His Latest Comedy Tlie Woman LAST DAY Only Theater in x Town Snowing New Chaplin Comedies LAST TIME TODAY BLANCHE In Baffling Detective Mystery THE CLUE , Also Latest Pathe News PEOPLES West Tark at Alder. TD STIC V'Af.'"Va , ' . . j ; - ! I , r.- . v., 1 I SWEET PHOK Olt KRI1. ". O. I. OR n Kit!. TH!Dr P. YAMHILL A. r.-;,.u-?7Tr?.7:..T-3.7 1 TODAY Last Tine to See M A F C F O D IN Tess of the Storm Country 11 A.M. to 11 P.M. COMING SUNDAY For Four Days "SEA WOLF" LAST TIME TODAY THEDA BARA IN THE Devil's Daughter 1 JtH WASH. J Mi J