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Jrfcr VOL. LY-XO. 17,Q52. PORTLAXD, OREGON, TUESDAY, JULY 20, 1015. PinCIS FIVE CENTS. " GERMAN ACTIVITY IN U. 5. TO BE PROBED Britain Charges Plots on American Soil. STRIKES AREDEGLARED INCITED Government Withholds Names Until Facts Are Learned. SECRET SERVICE WORKING Persons of High Repute in Busi ness Circles Are Said to Have Been Mentioned by London's Diplomat at Washington. WASHINGTON. July 19. At the in stance of the British government the State Department has called on the Department of Justice to investigate the activities of certain German sym pathizers in the United States who are alleged to have been employing unlaw ful means to strike at Great Britain and her allies. Until Inquiry has developed whether there is sufficient evidence to warrant proceedings, no names will be made public, and officials of the departments as well as those of the British Em bassy are reticent about discussing the matter. It la known, however, that in formation has reached the Embassy concerning all kinds of plots, ranging from schemes to wreck bridges over which railroad trains were carrying volunteers of the British army to In citement of strikes at American indus trial plants making war supplies for the allies. Gompers Accuses Foreigners. Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, in dis cussing the strike that is scheduled for noon tomorrow at the Bridgeport, Conn., plant of the Remington Arms & Ammunition Company, made the as sertion that "foreign interests" have sought by the expenditure of unlimited funds to bring about widespread labor troubles in the United States, with the view of preventing further shipments of supplies to Europe. In one case the British government Informed the State Department it had evidence Involving a wealthy German resident of Detroit, Mich., who was al leged to have supplied money to cer tain persons in Windsor, Ont., to finance an attempt to dynamite a Canadian armory and a .factory making clothing for the British army. Great Britain in quired whether this case, if fully sub stantiated, would constitute military activity on American soil and a breach of neutrality. Secret Service Is Investigating. All of the evidence furnished by the British Embassy will be turned over to the Department of Justice, which will conduct the inquiry through its bureau of investigations. This bureau and the United States Secret Service ; well have been conducting widespread investigations on their own initiative, and several prosecutions have already resulted. It is understood that stories of plots to blow up British ships at sea have been carefully looked Into and that scores of suspected persons have been under surveillance in various parts of the country. According to reports today in official circles some persons of high repute In American business circles have been mentioned In reports transmitted by the British government, but their names are being jealously guarded pending the outcome of the investigation. FIRE THREATENS BIG MILL Quick Action of Fire Fighters Saves North Pacific Lumber Company The entire plant of the North Pacific Lumber Company, foot of Sherlock ave nue, was endangered by a fire which started on the roof of the mill at about 8 o'clock last night. Quick ac tion on the part of the night watch men at the mill and the city fire bu reau was all that prevented a disas trous blaze. The fire started near one of the smokestacks and it is believed that it was caused by a spark. The damage would probably not amount to more than $50. Both fireboats and engines 6. 17 and 26 responded to the call. The fire was first discovered by watchmen of Darge in ine river on tne company s wharf. CZAR LOSES 2- PROVINCES Tuk-um and AVindau Held by Foe; .16,00-0 Russians Captured. LONDON, July 20. The following re port has been received: '"The Germans have occupied Tukum and Windau, provinces of Courland. Between the Vistula and the Bug the battle con tinues with nn.bated violence. "The Austro-Hungarians have forced a crossing of the Wollcza River in the neighborhood of Grabovetz, and ad vanced across the Bug to the north of Sokal. the Russians having during the night retreated along the whole front between the Vistula and the Bug. "The Germans, from July 16 to July 18, captured 16.000 prisoners and 23 machine guns." ITALIAN CRUISER SENT TO BOTTOM SQUADRON IS BESET BY SUB MARINES OFF AUSTRIA. Giuseppe Garibaldi Is Sunk and 3 Others Put to Rout When At tack Is Made on Cattaro. ROME, via London. July 19. An Italian cruiser squadron, comprising the Varese. Francesco Ferruclo, Giu seppe Garibaldi and the Wettor Pisani, proceeded at an early hour Sunday morning to Cattaro, an Austrian sea port In Dafmatla, and opened fire. During the course of the operations the Italian commander discovered that a number of Austrian battleships bad taken refuge in the harbor. These, al though not of modern type, would have been able effectively to face the some what slow Italian squadron. Hence, the Italian cruisers retired. As the cruisers were withdrawing. Austrian submarines were sent out to attack them. According to the offi cial report, the Giuseppe Garibaldi was able to avoid the first attack, but a few minutes later was struck by a tor pedo and sank. The crew Jumped Into the sea and the majority of them were saved. The official statement of the incident follows: "At dawn. July 18. a division of our old armored cruisers approached Cat- tare artd bombarded and seriously dam aged the railway nearby. "While our vessels were retiring. they were attacked by enemy sub marines and the cruiser Giuseppe Gari baldi, after having avoided the first attack, was struck by a torpedo and sunk. The crew remained calm and nearly all were saved." AERIAL DEFENSE OBJECT Congress to Be Asked for $12,000,- 00 0 for Pacific Coast Aviation. SAN FRANCISCO. July 19. An aerial defense of the Pacific Coast Is the ob ject of a .campaign Just launched by the Pacific Aero Club and other sim ilar organizations to train enough men for military and naval aviation so that the Pacific Coast may Becure aeroplane equipment from a proposed 812,000,000 Congressional appropriation. The campaign, it was announced to day, is similar to one started in New York for the Atlantic Coast. FREE REIGN GIVEN LOVE Oregon City Mayor Says Park Spooning Will Be Permitted OREGON CITY. Or, July 19. (Spe cial.) "I remember the time when I was young myself." said Mayor Jones today, when asked if spooning In the public parks will be prohibited this Summer. The executive added that no stumbling blocks will be put In love's sweet path. Sheriff Wilson made the same state ment. As far as he was concerned, he declared, he saw no logic in Portland's attempt to stop love-making. DARDANELLES LOSS 42,434 British Casualty List Contains Names or 1933 Officers Killed. LONDON. July 19. The total cas ualties of the Dardanelles expedition ary force to date in killed, wounded and missing have been 42,434 officers and men. Premier Asquith told the House of Commons today. The total includes both naval and military branches of the service. Out of an aggregate of S0S4 cas ualties among officers, the Premier's statement said the killed numbered 1933. TWO SUBMARINES MISSING Austrian Craft Fail to Return From Trip to Italian Coast. PARIS, July 19. A telegram from a Rome news agency says that a refugee who has reached Rome from Pol a. the Austrian naval base, says two Austrian submarines which left to reconnoiter the Italian coast have not returned and are believed to have been lost. One of the submarines had a crew of 20 and the other a crew of 40. Their supplies of gasoline were sufficient for only four days. TURKS ORDER EVACUATION Inhabitants of Alvali Must Retire to Interior of Asia Minor. PARIS. July 19. The Greek govern ment has received confirmation that the inhabitants of Aivali, a city of 25. 00O in Asia Minor, on the Gulf of Adramytl. have been ordered to evacu ate the city and go into the interior of Asia Minor, according to an Athens dispatch to the Havas agency today. The government has sent an ener getic protest to the Porte, the dispatch adds. BELGIANS CANNOT LEAVE Germany Issues Order to Prevent Serving Foes In Any Way. BRUSSELS, via London, July 19 General Von Bisslng, Governor-General of Belgium, promulgated an order to day for the punishment of any Belgian between the ages of 16 and 40 wh leaves the state to serve in anv ct pacity for any country at war with Germany. The penalty provided Is a fine o 10.000 marks or five years' imprison ment or both. t i i i ri r-s n r-t i r r- s 4 1 - 1 mm HHtrAH U TO GIVE UP WARSAW Gradual Evacuation Is Said to Be Order. GERMANS WITHIN 40 MILES Joint Foe Pinching In on Czar With Mighty Armies. MOVEMENT IS COLOSSAL Von llindcnburg on North and Von Mackenzcn on South Whip Great Arc Around Stronghold and Seem to Hold Slavs In Grasp. LONDON. July 20. :The Morning Post's Budapest correspondent reports that the gradual evacuation of Warsaw has been ordered by the Russian staff. This report, coming Just when mili tary experts in England have been dis cussing the possibility of capture of the Russian fortress, has alarmed the populace and seems to Indicate a -more serious condition in the Czar's realm than has hitherto been suspected. Can Warsaw be held? is a question which has been on every tongue. Czar Fun Great Task. With the German Field Marshals Von Hindenburg on the north and Von Mac kenzen on the south, whipping forward the two ends of a great arc around the city. It Is realized in England that Grand Duke Nicholas, commander-in- chief of the Russian army, has the most severe task imposed on him since the outbreak of the European war, and the mlltary writers on some of the London papers seem to think that his task is well-night impossible. There was sustained confidence that Germany's previous violent attacks along the Bzura-Rawka front would never pierce the Russian line, but the present colossal co-ordinate movement was developed with such suddenness and carried so far without meeting se rious Russian resistance that more and more the British press is discounting the fall of the Polish capital, and while not giving up all hope of its reten tion, is pointing out the enormous dif ficulties the Russian armies have la bored under from the start by the existence of such a salient. Russian Line Pinched. Having been unable to straighten out their line by an advance through East Prussia irt the north and Gallcla on the south, the Russians have perpetually faced the pincers of the Austro-Ger- mans, and If these can now be suf ficiently tightened Warsaw must go and with it the entire line. As was the case on Saturday, when the Austro-Germans recorded the suc cess of their offensive in the east, no official communication from either Berlin or Vienna reached the London newspapers Monday. Saturday's communication was re leased Sunday for publication and up (Concluded on Page 2. Column 1.) HOW ( are the 7) aSss if yJIsIisJwN o I INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. TESTERDArS Maximum temperature. 3 decrees; minimum. 61 decree. TODAY'S Pair. continued warm; wind mostly- northerly. War. Gradual evacuation of Warsaw la reported to be Kuaalan order. Pace 1. Italian cruller Oaleeppe Garibaldi la sunk by Austrian, pass 1. Mexico. Another battle Impending- for possession oH .uy. rsf . National. President and Secretary of State draft note to Ocrmuy. pase 2. German activity tn America to be Investi gated. Pace 1. Mysterious fire burns on Battleship Okla homa. Pace 1. Naval Secretary asks leading sclentlflo so cieties to provide advisory board. Pace 6. Iometrtlc. Threatened strike In Connecticut munition works Is liUd to foreign Interests. Pace 4. Lumbermen say Federal control of compe tition is necessary. Pace 2. International Purity Congress assails vice, Pago J. Sports. Ludr I.snger. of Los Angeles, knocks ft 8-S seconds off quarter-mile swimming record. Page 14. Great crowd sees Phillies beat Cubs. Pace 14. Beavers open at Salt Lake city today. Pace . Red Sox Increase lead by beating. White Box. Page 13. Multnomah club entries are favorites In aquatics at fair. Pace 14. New records st In grand circuit races at Cleveland. Pace 14. Pacific . Northwest. Test of assessments for fire losres to be made by suits against mutual policy-holders, paje S. Commercial and Marine. River-dredging- project 83 per cent complet ed. Puce 1.1. Coast hop markets advance rith avy bad x-ngusn buying. Page 15. Wheat higher at Chicago, owing to harvest conditions. Page 15. War stocks recede, while standard shares advance. Pace 15. illway Portland and Vicinity. Roosevelt here, reasserts position on Lusl tanla, calls peace propagandists "sissies" and avoids politics. Page 1. Attorney Mannlx again tries to prove brib ery charge In K. II. Dodge cue. page lu. Same Colonel greets many Portland frlonua. Page 2. New vaudeville bills presented. Pago T. Laundr)mn at opening session of conven tion hear Chinese exclusion act favored. Pago U. City treasury Is facing depletion. Page 0. Revolution Rons Introduce resolution to oust Mr. claxton. Page 10. Daughters of American Revolution consider officials slighted by rions of American Revolution officers and express Indigna tion. Page 10. MERCURY JUMPS TO 93 Continuation of Summer Weather Is Predicted for Portland. Going up. In 12 hours yesterday the thermometer took a leap of 33 de grees, reaching its high mark at 6 o'clock, when it registered 93. The day was not abnormal for this tlroa of the year, and continued fair and cloud ness weather Is expected by the Weath er Bureau for today. By hours, the temperature rose as follows: ft A. M sua m. .. . A. M 6JI 1 p. M. I A. M e.V 2 P. M. 8 A. M a P M S7 S3 Oil VI A. M 72 4 P. M. 10 A. M It A. M .. .80; 14 P. M . . .he I 8 P. M , n: 113 THAW ARRIVES AT HOME Thousands of Persons Present AVhcn Slayer Leaves Train. PITTSBURG. ' July 19. Harry K. Thaw, slayer of Stanford 'White, ar rived In Pittsburg tonight and went at once to the home of his mother. Mrs. Mary Copely Thaw. Several thousand persons were at the East Liberty station when he slighted from a Pennsylvania train. - DO - YOU - DO AND THEN GOOD - PURITY CONGRESS ASSAILS ALL VICE "Street Mashers" Held to Be Menace. WOMEN DEMAND PROTECTION Los Angeles T;;, ".cdit for Expei:- o T.uesirables. UNEMPLOYMENT IS TOPIC Chicago Woman Declares Indus tries "Which Do Not Support Their Employes Throughout Year Are Parasitic In Nature. SAN FRANCISCO, July 19. "Street mashers" were blamed for. much im morality by Miss Mary Brown, of Se attle, superintendent of the department of curfew. National Women's Christian Temperance Union, speaking before the International rurity Congress In ses sion here. "Women can't walk down the streets of the smallest village without running the gauntlet of Insulting glances by men." Miss Brown said. "God help us! etoma of the men are in the very portals of our churches. Seed of Protection Cited. "Tou can't expect to protect a lamb or a group of lambs with the wolves rushing down upon them. The need of active protection Is proclaimed by al most half a million openly Immoral girls and women of this country. There probably la a far greater number of clandestinely Immoral women. Num bers of schoolgirls are Included in this company. "Wo find this vast army of women ranges In age from IS to 60 years; tn mentality from those almost imbecile to the Intellectually brilliant; and In morals from the coarse and vile blas phemer to the faithful attendant upon religious services, with personal habits of devotion. "These Immoral women represent every class and condition of life. No class is safe from rUln. If the vast army of women should go out of ex istence, scarce a month would pass before it would be replaced by re cruits." LI sn I ted Tralniag Deplored. Speaking before the Congress at the afternoon session. Miss M. L. Carpen ter, who la affiliated with the Univer sity of Chicago's settlement work, de clared that the masses of unemployed in America consist of two types the unemployed themselves and the unem ployable. "Among the latter class." said Miss Carpenter, "are the third and fourth generations of wealthy parents, and the highly specialized workers." The speaker deplored the system of training men for one particular pur suit, arguing that their development should Include a broader and more Concluded on Page 2. Column ft. BYE. BATTLESHIP HAS MYSTERIOUS FIRE OKLAHOMA ABLAZK IX SHIP YARDS AT CAMDEX. Smoke Pours Prom Compartment Wliere Xo Combustible Is Kept. Damage Thought to Be Minor. PHILADELPHIA. July 13. rire of a mysterious origin was discovered to night on bosrd the United States bat tleship Oklahoma at the yard of the New York Shipbuilding Company in Camden. Smoke was seen issuing from the compartment under turret No. 1 shortly after the workmen had left the yard ror the day. The compartment was flooded, and It was believed the fire had been put out. At 9 o'clock, however, more smoke was observed and the com partment was again flooded, the Are being finally extinguished an hour later. S. M. Knox, president of the ehlD- buildtng company, declared he was un able to account for the fire, as to the best of his knowledge there was noth ing that could burn in the compartment from which the smoke came. The Oklahoma Is one of the suncr- dreadnought type, and Is almost ready ror ner trial trip. The builders expect to deliver her to the Government In September. A curious feature of the fire Is that, while there was dense smoke, at no time were there any flames visioie. A similar condition prevailed at a slight Are aboard the battleship Alabama on July 11. at the Philadelphia Navy-yards, which was said by officials at the yard to have been due to crossed electric wires. Mr. Knox said that a rigid Inquiry would be instituted In an effort to learn the cause of the Are. The extent of the damage could not be determined, he added, until the water Is pumped out of the compartment, but he thought tt would be slight and would "not delay the proposed trial trip of the vessel. BLOODED CATTLE ARRIVE Chandler Itanch at Baker Jets Xlne Iowa Hereford. BAKEIt. Or.. July 19. (Special.) Nina head of tine Hereford cattle from Norway. Ia purchased by George Chandler, arrived in Baker and were taken out to the Chandler ranch today. The cost of the stock was tlO.000. Three of the animals are bulls, and six are heifers. Of the first class, one will tip the beam at 2400 pounds. Mr. Chandler will send three of the new arrivals and some from hU pres ent herd that has produced prise win ners at the Portland Stock Show, to the Washington State Fair at North Yakima, the Inter-State Fair at Spo kane, and the Panama-Pacific Exposi tion at San Francisco. He will start with his entries September S. Y. M. C. A. HEAD IS NAMED D. C. Chapman Appointed Gcncrul Secretary at Bakx-r. BAKER. Or.. July 19. (Special.) D. C. Chapman, of Portland, has been chosen general secretary of the Baker Voung Men's Christian Association to succeed F. A. Love, who resigned to go to the harvest fields near Spokane. The governing board made this an nouncement today. Mr. Chapman will begin his work at once, and It Is hoped that he will re main during the Winter, lie was for merly here as collector of the building fund, but has recently been at his home in Portland, where he has done work for the Voung Men's Christian Asso ciation. He will devote much of his time at first attending to the financial end of the institution, but plans for Improving -the scone of the Institution will start tn the Fall. TREES WILL WARN TRAVEL Danger Points Along Lincoln High way to Be Marked. CLINTON. Ia, July 19 Warnings of approved to railroad crossings, bridges and bad turns on the Lincoln Highway will be given by trees, a variety for each, replacing to a certain extent un sightly signs, under plans for the preservation and restoration of nature along the National Memorial road, an nounced today by Elmer C. Jensen. Mr. Jensen is chairman of lh Ameri ca n Institute of Architects general com mittee on tne Lincoln Highway. He has Just completed a trip over a section of the highway. DEATH WATCH IS ORDERED Condemned Arizona Murderer's Appeal II led Too Late. PHOENIX. Arlr July 19. Ramon VlUalobo. who wtth four other Mex icans Is condemned to hang July 30 for the murder of four white persons last August near Ray, Ariz., today was placed under death watch on orders from Wiley Jones. Attorney-General, to R. B. Sims. State Prison Warden. Mr. Jones held that Vlllalobo'a ap peal to the Supreme Court for a naw trial was invalid because It was not filed within the time limit fixed by law. PREDICTED FLOOD FAILS Kansas and Missouri Rivers Recede Daring Monday. KANSAS CITY. July 19. Contrary to expectations both the Kansas and Mis sourl rivers were falling today. This fact gave renewed hope that thi heavy rains of last night would not cause the two rivers to exceed the high marks reached by the Kansas last night and by the Missouri early today. ROOSEVELT HERE; YET HHMJN WAR Peace Propagandists Are Styled "Sissies " LUSITAM YIEW REASSERTED Political Possibilities Care fully Avoided in Talk. FUTURE CALLED UNCERTAIN Conrereuoo Held With Leaders of Progressive Parly, but on His Chance of Candidacy ex Prcsldcnt Yet Is Silent. ' "Precisely." That's how Colonel Roosevelt feels about the Lusltanla affair and that's how he feels about the Mexican sit uation. "I made two comprehensive state ments on the Lusitama, Incident at Syracuse and I stand on them now precisely as 1 did then." he said yes terday. In traveling toward Portland, and he placed characteristic Roose vrltlan emphasis on the word "pre cisely." "I wrote two long articles for the papers on tho Mexican situation and I stand on them now precisely as I did then." and aain he cmphaMxed "precisely." He begins to pronounce the word in a sharp, explosive manner and dwells on the sibilants with a prolonged hissing sound. Views Not tkssied "I haven't changed my views one lota, and the sooner t'nclo Pnm acts on those two statements and Uluhe. two articles the better It will be for the country." and he slapped his knea forcibly, uttering the final words from the corner of his mouth. The Colonel was in Portland only ;0 minutes yesterday afternoon, arriving at the Union Depot from l'u, t Sound at 3:30 o'clock. A big crowd was out to greet him. He lelt at 3:'.o o'clock for the Sin Francisco Exposition, where he is scheduled to speak on the Nation's preparedness for war. "Just watcli for that speech if you want to know what I think about Na tional defenses," he advised. His previously expreed views on the. Lusltanla incident substantially charac terized the sinking of the Lu.-itanta as "not mere piracy, but piracy on a vaster scale of murder than any old-time pi rate ever practiced. . It is warfare against Innocent men. women and chil dren traveling on the ocean. "It seems Inconceivable that we can refrain from taking action In this mat ter, for we owe It not only to humanity but to our own self-reripect. "I can only repeat that when such acts are perpetrated they represent nothing but mere piracy." His published views on the Mexican situation, which he says he has not changed, called attention to the out rages being committed against Ameri can citizens snd against missionaries In Mexico and urged that this country demand respect for its flag and Us in stitutions. VMellyc-oddles" Particularly Scared. The Colonel didn't hesitate, though, to express his notions of the peace-at-any-prlca'' propagandists, whom ha termed repeatedly as "mollycoddles" and "sissies." "It does me a lot of good to see some real men when mollycoddles seem to be so much to the fore." he exclaimed at Vancouver. Wash., where a group of Spanish-American war veterans greeted him with a flag. "I hope he won't grow up to be a mollycoddle," he said to a woman at Kelso. Wash., who held up a small boy to shake hand. Throughout the day he gave frequent utterance to the word "ruollycoddle," using it to lambast oppononts of hon orable warfare. "The only human beinv that I think as little of as I do of a mollycoddle is a crook. To my mind there is no on so degraded as a crook, and a molly coddle is little better than a crook." "What let your definition of a mol lycoddle?"' someone asked him. "What's the use to define a familiar American nursery term?" he asked. More Statemeata Proaalaed. Then, after thinking It over a mo ment, he exclaimed, as the familiar Rooseveltian teeth blazed Into full view in a burst of hearty laughter: "A mollycoddle Is nothing but grown-up sissy a grown-up sissy of either sex." Just then Colonel Emmett Calahan. of Portland, a Progressive party leader and the commander of a Montana regi ment In the Spanish-American war. came up to greet Colonel Roosevelt. "By George!" the Colonel exclaimed. "I am glad to sea you." "Say. boys." he called to the news paper men. -this gentleman can give my views on a mollycoddle." Again. In a formal address from the back platform of the observation car of his train In Portland, be raid his respects to this same class. "From time to time I'll make state ments on subjects affecting the whole country." he said, "but you can de pend upon it that It will not be from the standpoint of a mollycoddle." Pooalar Sobs; Dtnaleaara. Similar sentiments were contained in his messsge to the Sons of the Ameri can Revolution. rr. Henry Waldo Co, ICoacluaed oa Pas Column z.