Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937, July 21, 1915, Image 1

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    CABINET IS AGREED
OU TERMS OF REPLY
Responsibility Is to Be
Put on Germany;
NO THREAT, HOWEVER, MADE
Air of Finality Will Put Curb
on Negotiations.
FIRMNESS TO BE SHOWN
Washington Takes Position Future
Must Be Determined by Course
of Berlin and Desires of
American People.
WASHINGTON. July 20. President
Wilson and his Cabinet decided tonight
on the general principles of the note to
be sent to Germany within a few days,
renewing the efforts to secure for
American citizens protection of their
rights on the high seas.
The President referred to his official
family, assembled for the first time in
a month, on a draft answering the Ger
man government's note of July 8, which
failed to grant the demands of the
United States growing out of the sink
ing of the Lusitania. The draft was
complete in form.
Cabinet I I" naniino uh.
On Its character and purposes there
was unanimous agreement and Secre
tary Lansing was at work tonight put
ting in more precise language the ideas
set forth. Members of the Cabinet gen
erally preserved secrecy regarding the
probable contents of the proclamation
and the President cautioned against de
tailed speculation in advance of the
publication of the document, lest mis
taken impressions be cabled abroad be
fore the actual text is received in Ber
lin. Such information as was obtainable
concerning the nature of the new note
was chiefly of a negative character.
No Threat to Be Conveyed.
Cabinet officers made it clear that
It would not be an ultimatum or make
any threats as to the future purposes
of the United States. At the same
lime they pointed out that it probably
would have an air of finality, curtailing
the field of discussion and negotiation
and placing squarely on Germany the
responsibility for any actions that
might subsequently endanger the
friendly relations of the two countries.
The communication will be couched in
friendly terms, although It will follow
the spirit of firmness that has charac
terized previous notes.
Desires of People Discussed.
Today's conference was devoted
largely to a discussion of what the
American people really wanted the
Washington Government to say and do
in. the present crisis. So far as the
Cabinet officers could judge by their
examination of public expressions, the
Is'ation had voiced an insistent desire
that the honor and dignity of the
United States be upheld in the corre
spondence with Germany, but that a
course be followed which would main-,
tain peace.
On Germany's next reply and. the
crystallization of public opinion there
after, will depend to a. large ex
tent, according to intimations from of
ficials, what the action of the United
States would be concerning future vio
lations of American rights.
Orilnnfi Affair to Cause No Delay.
Secretary Lansing said today that no
complete report of what had occurred
in the encounter between the British
liner Orduna and a German submarine
had reached the State Department.
An investigation had been instituted
through the Treasury Department and
a. report Is expected within a few
days, but the dispatch if. the note to
Germany will not be delayed. It was
officially announced, on account of the
Orduna case.
A statement received from William
O. Thompson, counsel of the industrial
relations commission, who was on board
the Orduna, was referred to by Secre
tary Lansing as giving only a part of
information necessary to form a Judg
ment of legality or illegality of the
attack.
Mr. Thompson was aroused only after
several shells had been fired and after
a torpedo was alleged to have been
seen. No testimony is as yet available
to show whether the attack was made
without warning.
Count von Bernstorff, the German
Ambassador, was at the State Depart
ment today on what he referred to as
routine business. He had no informa
tion on the Orduna case and did not see
Secretary Lansing.
LINER WITH 800 ON FIRE
Emigrants From London to Austra
lia In Peril Off Coast of Africa.
LONDON, July 20. A Reuter dis
patch from Durban, South Africa, sayi
that the Peninsula & Oriental line
steamer Benalla, with 800 emigrants
aboard, bound from London for Aus
tralia. Is afire 800 miles east of Dur
ban in the Indian Ocean.
The cargo In one of the steamer';
holds is burning.
The steamer Otakl, 150 miles off,
picked up a. wireless dispatch from thi
Benalla asking: for aid. and tk R.nii
la is now steaming; to meet the OtakL
X-RAY IS USED IN
QUEST FOR BOMBS
PRECAUTION'S IXCKEASED BY
LIXEUS IX "EV TOKK.
Every Box and Package Opened on
Some of Piers and Many Xew
Devices Are Employed.
NEW "FORK, July 20. The discovery
of bombs In the cargoes of several
ships that have left here for Europe
during the last few months has re
sulted in the taking of unusual pre
cautions with regard to the stowing
of freight on steamships now in port.
On some of the piers every box and
package is opened on the dock and
the contents examined before It goes
aboard the ship, the gangways and
hatches being watched to see that the
packages are not tampered with after
being inspected. Electrical devices
and mechanical Instruments to detect
suspicious contents of bales and pack
ages are also in use.
At one pier an X-ray machine is used
to examine bales of cotton, cloth, etc..
lor possible concealed bombs, and at
another pier instruments ara used by
which hidden bombs operated by clock
work might be detected.
Restrictions to visitors to the piers
are rigid.
WOMAN AIDS RECALL FIGHT
Miss Ii.' Thomas, as Justice, Opposes
Yakima County Commissioners. -
NORTH YAKIMA, Wash., July 20.
(Special.) Miss Livia Thomas, youth
ful, petite and pretty, came to the res
cue of the promoters of the recall
against three Yakima County Commis
sioners and qualified as Yakima Coun
ty's first woman Justice of the Peace
in order that she might certify to 145
signatures in Fairview precinct to pe
titions for the recall.
Miss Thomas received two votes at
the election last Fall, but did not qual
ify. The recall committee appealed to
her after a hostile road supervisor
had refused to certify the signatures.
' The committee today announced that
sufficient signatures had been certified
to insure recall elections.
HOOPER, WANTED, TAKEN
Ex-Convict, Wanted In California.
Arrested at The Dalles.
THE DALLES, Or., July 20. (Spe
cial.) Austin A. Hooper, alleged pa
role violator of the Folsom State Peni
tentiary of California, for whom of
ficers are searching through the en
tire Pacific Coast, was arrested to
night by Edward Wood, chief special
agent of the O.-W. R. & N., Sheriff
Chrisman and Ralph Gibbons, a patrol
man.
Hooper was sentenced to a life term
in Folsom for highway robbery in
1900. He was paroled in 1914. He
since has been charged by the South
ern Pacific Company with the rob
bery of Its offices at Grants Pass.
COMMON LABOR IS SCARCE
War Draws Heavily From Ranks of
Railroad Workers.
CHICAGO, July 20. The European
war has caused a dearth of common la
bor in the United States, said Richard
Knight, state superintendent of em
ployment agencies in Illinois, today.
Men employed as track workers are
preparing to leave to join their regi
ments as quickly as possible, Mr.
Knight said. Thousands of Italians,
Austrians and men from the Balkan
states have given up railroad work
within the last few. weeks.
Reports indicate that private agen
cies are finding it extremely difficult
to get common labor for big improve
ment Jobs.
RELAY CYCLISTS ARE LATE
Message From Wilson to Exposition
Delayed by Bad Ohio Roads.
CHICAGO, July 20. The relay of
motorcycles carrying President Wil
son's message to the president of the
Panama-Pacific Exposition, due in Chi
cago at 7 o'clock, tonight was five and
a half hours late at Bryan. O.. accord
ing to a telegram received by Presi
dent Push, of the Sportsmen's Club of
America.
The message said that rains and con
sequent bad roads had caused the
riders to lose time.
RUSSIANS SINK 59 SHIPS
Turkish- Sailing Fleet With Muni
tions on Board Destroyed.
LONDON, July 20. A fleet of 69
Turkish sailing vessels, laden with war
materials for the Turkish army of the
Caucasus, has been destroyed by Rus
sian torpedo-boat destroyers, according
to a dispatch from Sebastapol to Reu
ter's Telegram Company.
The sailing vessels were on a voy
age to Trebizond. a seaport of Asiatic
Turkey, on the Black .Sea. The crews
of the Turkish ships were made pris
oners by the destroyers.
TRAIN DROPS 200 FEET I
Three Killed When Engine and Cars
Plunge Through Bridge.
DALHART. Tex., July 20. A 200-foot
plunge today Into a gulch at Indlanole,
near here, killed three men and
smashed an engine and 10 loaded
freight cars.
The freight was 'on the El Paso &
Southwestern Railroad, and ran
through a bridge over the gulch.
ZAPATA (OCCUPIES
CAPITAL OF MEXICO
Carranza General Has
tens Northward.
NEWS AMAZES WASHINGTON
Battle With Villa Forces at
Pachuca Hourly Expected.
FOOD SITUATION IS BAD
Manager of American Red Cross
Says Relief or People Vnder
Present Circumstances
Is Xot Possible.
WASHINGTON. July 20. Dispatches
to the State Department from Mexico
City late today announced that Zapata
forces reoccupled the capital Sunday,
following the evacuation by the Car
ranza army under General Gonzales.
Zapata officials were said to have re
sumed full control of the city, from
which they were driven ten days ago
by Gonzales, who now has gone north
ward with his troops to meet an ad
vancing Villa force.
This unexpected development came
as a surprise, not only to officials of
the Washington Government, but to
both the Mexican agencies. It had been
supposed that the Zapata army, de
feated and harassed on retreat, was
operating along the railroad to Vera
Cruz, waiting an opportunity to form
a junction with the Villa column ap
proaching from the north.
Battle Near Pachuca Kxpected.
No word has been received of the
whereabouts of General Gonzales since
he quit the capital. News of a battle
near Pachuca, already reached by
Villa's men, is hourly expected and may
already have occurred, messages being
sent here requiring about 24 hours in
transmission. Other reports to the
State Department during the day said'
that railroad communication between
Vera Cruz and Mexico City was sus
pended "on account of the present mil
itary operations," but no details of the
operations were disclosed.
Suspension of railroad communica
tion is viewed here with alarm for the
suffering people in Mexico City, as this
action completely cuts off the sending
of much-needed food supplies.
Food Sttuatlcm Drapmir.
A private message from a responsible
source received today pictured the sit
uation as desperate. The State Depart
ment announcement tonight regarding
the latest change in authority of Mex
ico City said:
"The department is In receipt of ad
vices, dated about noon on the 19th,
from Mexico City saying that the
evacuation of the city is complete. Tl
Zapatistas occupied the city of the aft
ernoon of the l$th and 19th. say some
authorities. They are therefore In full,
power. However, It is said that their
actions Indicate a desire to maintain
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INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Weather.
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature.
lHi degrees; minimum. 06 desraea.
TODAY'S Fair, not so . warm, weatarly
winds.
War.
Cabinet screes on term of reply to Ger
many, putting responsibility on that na
tion for future developments. Pase 1.
X-Riy used In search for bombs In loading
Atlantic liners. Page 1.
Austro-Germana cloatng- In on Warsaw.
Page 2.
20.000 freight cars and 400 locomotive
awaited to send vast war - sup' vati
Kiu.lt Page 3. Q
House of Commons voters ot
ditlonal war credit. P.
Welsh coal strike tentative!.
. 3.
Mexico.
Zapata forces reoccupy Mexico City. Page 1.
Pacific Northwest.
Supreme Court upholds Income tax on Port
land Gaa Company. Page 5.
Eugene banker plays Charlie Chaplin for
day. Pace 1.
Idaho rancher held for 91000
Hugh Whitney la suspected
it porta.
Boston and Detroit victories
ransom and
. Pas 5.
send Whit
Sox to third place. Page 7.
Jack Xess getting no free hits from scorers
Page 7.
Pacific Coast League results: Portland ft,
Salt Lake 1; Vernon la. Oakland 7: Ean
Francisco 6, Los Angeles 2. Page 6.
State tennis champion sprains ankle In
play. Page 6.
Commercial and Marine.
Prune crop prospects In Northwest Improve
' steadily. Page IS.
New hl(tH records made by war contract
stocks. Page 15.
Port Commission and Chamber of Com
merce Investigate need of coal bunkers
here. Page
Portland and Vicinity.
Officers use guise of fishermen to locate
moonshlnlng still. Page 15.
Mercury climbs to even lOO mark. Page 1.
Effort to color-' report of timber cruise
charged against Messrs. Kribs and Jones.
Page 11.
Weather report, data and forecast. Page 15.
Osteopaths to hold convention In Portland
August 2-6; about 1300 delegatea expect
ed. Page V.
Sons of American Revolution add to protect
request to bar Mr. Claxlon'a peace propa
ganda. Page 1.
Agreement reached to hold no more Sunday
funerals. Page 9.
Advisory road board, back from Inspection,
to ask state bond Issue election. Page 11.
VOTE EXACTED FOR LIFE
Man, Saved From Drowning; by Suf
fraglst, Slakes Grateful Promise.
ALBANY, N. Y July 20. (Special.)
A promise to vote for the woman
suffrage amendment at the Kali elec
tion was the reward exacted by Miss
Grace Hank, of Troy, from Albert
Vause after she had saved him from
drowning.
Vause, who was swimming in the
Mohawic River above Troy, was going
down for the third time when Miaa
Hank, who saw hia peril from a boat,
held out an oar.
"How can I thank you?"" murmured
Vause as he regained his senses.
"By promising to vote for the
suffrage amendment In the Fall," re
plied Miss Hank.
He promised.
AUSTRIAN- SAVINGS GROW
Gain in Six Month Made Despite
Two War Loans.
BERLIN'. July 20. by wireless to
Sayville. N. Y. The Overseas News
Agency today gave out the following:
"Reports from Vienna say that sav
ings bank deposit in the first half of
1915 increased 139,000,000 crowns ($34.
750.000). or 8 per cent. This increase
applied to the whole of Austria moans
a gain in savings deposits of 1.600,000,
000 crowns ($400,000,000). This gain
has been made notwithstanding the
great success of two war loans and Is
a splendid illustration of Austrian
economic conditions."
THE NATIONAL LA UN D R YM EN'S
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CUM PROTEST
OF SONS STRONGER
Ban on Additional Peace
ature Wanted.
DISMISSAL OF CHIEF ASKED
Congress Proposes to Stop
'Peace-at-Any-Price' Move.
IDEAS CALLED INIMICAL
Delegates Regard Commissioner's
Efforts as Use of Government
Weapons Against Interests of
Country and Ask Check.
Instead of softening the resolution
against P. P. Claxton, fnited States
Commissioner of Education, which was
introduced on the first day of the Con
gress of the Sons of the American Rev
olution by Christopher W. Horr, of
Seattle, the resolutions committee ex
tended, it to include a suppression
of the publication of American School
Peace League literature through the
Federal bureau.
This resolution was submitted and
adopted by an enthusiastic vote at the
session yesterday.
While the clauses condemning the
statements of Commissioner Claxton
are points that aroused the greatest In
terest when the action was brought
into the Congress, the resolution con
cerning the publication of the Ameri
can School Peace League, if it work
out as Is Intended by the society, will
have a much broader effectiveness In
forwarding the campaign of the Sons
of the American Revolution against
the "peace at any price"" movement.
Slovesnent Called lalmlcal.
This clause was attached to the end
of the Claxton resolution and Is a pro
test against any further printing, under
the authority ot the Federal Commis
sioner of Kducalicn at Federal ex
pense, the laterature used by the Amer
ican School Peace League In Its prop
aganda. The sons of the American Revolu
tion maintained that the publication of
this matter at the Government expense
Is merely permitting the American
School of Peace league to utilize the
instruments of the Government to fur
ther a movement which Is In Itself
Inimical to the. welfare and Integrity
of the Government. .
Resolutions were Introduced urging
that more time be given in the public
schools to. the teaching of American
history and to the Inculcating Into the
minds of the pupils the principles and
traditions upon which the American
Government rests. This resolution was
referred to the executive committee
with instructions to map out a general
plan, for the adoption of which In tho
schools of the country the Society of
the Sons of the American Revolution
will work.
Another resolution was aimed at
William Jennings Bryan, but was re -
("onrluied on Pace 12. rniumn 3
CONVENTION,
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EUGENE BANKER IS
CHAPLIN FOR DAY
MAYOR, CLIBWOM1A AND HISI
XKSS MEN CO.MF.DY ACTORS.
Police Chief Chases VleelnR "Hobo"
In Regular Movie Style and
Crowd Joins In Pursuit.
EUGENE. Or.. July 20. (Special.)
Under a sweltering sun Eugene had the
movie bug today. They all did It. The
Mayor, bankers, clubwomen and others
were the actors In the endlews chases
and the ttme-honored comedy that has
mads the movie public laugh for years.
And Eugene laughed at the real thing
all morning.
Elmer Paine. prominent banker,
rolled Into town this morning in a box
car, a. lean, hunirry tramp. He ap
peared at the back door of the Ray
Goodrich residence, on Ninth avenue
West, and the wife of this banker
knocked the hobo-banker downstairs
with a broom. A similar scene was
staged at another residence. A picnic
was in progress on the F. E. Dunn
lawn at Eleventh and Patterson streets,
in which W. A. Bell. Mayor, and 40
leading business men and society and
clubwomen were participating.
Paine, the hobo, stole a pie from
Dean Hayes, a local merchant, clad In
skirts, as the hired girl. A-chase then
ensued, with the hired girl leading.
It led past the swimming hole at the
university, and the party In turn dived
Into the water.
Downtown the Chief of Police took
six shots at the fleeing banker-hobo
and six times the hobo leaped Into the
air in a painful wriggle. The capture
was effected and he was finally placed
behind the bars.
The photo-play comedy was an ad
vertising feature staged by a local
theater.
BLESSING ASKED BY WIRE
Raker Lawyer Gels Word Daughter
I Wed to Portland Man.
BAKER, Or.. July 10. (Special.)
Springing a surprise on her many
friends. Miss Eleanor, daughter of
Charles F. Hyde, a prominent Baker
lawyer, sent a telegram today to her
father, saying that she had been mar
ried yesterday afternoon to W. II.
Leightnor. a Portland salesman. The
ceremony was performed In the Cath
olic Church at Wlnnemucca, Nf,
where Miss Hyde went. June 1. to visit
her aunt. Mrs. L. J. Wheeler.
After sending the telegram, the
couple started for San Francisco, and
after a visit there and In Portland
they will return to Baker, where they
are expected to live. Mr. Leightner
travels for a Portland house.
DREADNOUGHTS NOT PROOF
Test Shows Modern American Tor
pedo Mosl Disastrous.
NORFOLK. Vs.. July 20. Naval offi
cers made an experiment here today
to determine tho effect of the explosion
of a modern submarine torpedo against
the hull of a battleship.
T,hey used a steel caisson, built for
tho purpose and an explosive charge
equivalent In power to an ordinary
torpedo. While no official comment
was made, the disastrous effect of
the test on the caisson was obvious,
demonstrating, according to War De
partment officials, even the structure
of the latest dreadnought, with Its In
ner hulls, is not proof against the tor
pedo menace.
COLONEL FORECASTS TOPIC
Profane Paraphrase Given to Sub
ject or "War and Peace.
SAN FRANCISCO. July 20. Theodore
Roosevelt arrived hero today from
Portland. Or. On the trip across the
bay the Colonel alluded to what he
called the "ultra-pacificist- and ex
pressed wonder as to what would be
their attitude should real men with
real guns In their hands invade the
country.
"The subject of my address at tTie
exposition tomorrow, he said, "will be
'War and Peace": It might Just as well
be "Damn the Mollycoddles.'"
iARMORY TO BE DEDICATED
Adjutant-General White F"Ijccs Date
for Kufirne Affair.
KUGENK. Or, July ;0. (Special.)
Kugene's new Armory, the best In the
state. Is to be dedicated early in Sep
tember, according to the announcement
of Adjutant-General George A. White.
! of Portland, who was In Kugene to
day Inspecting the structure.
Governor James Wlthycombe Is to
be the leading Iigure In the ceremony,
and the entire general staff expects to
tako part.
"We are very proud of this build
ing." said General White tod-iy. "It Is
the best and blKret modern armory In
the state. Portland has one building
that is larger, but It Is obsolete com
pared to thia new structure."
Six thousand dollars was appropriat
ed for furnishings by the last Legis
lature. CRIME REPEATS HISTORY
Oklahoma Man Is I 'cud Victim on
Spot Where Father Was Killed.
TAHLEQl'AH, July !0. While walk
ing across the same bridge on which
his father was assassinated by a hid
den enemy 14 years ago, Charles West,
Commissioner of Cherokee County, was
hot from ambush last night and prob
ably fatally wounded.
A political feud is believed to have
caused the crlma. Mrs. West, who
with her husband, was unharmed.
MERCURY CLIMBS
TO CENTURY MARK
Tuesday One of Hottest
Days Ever.
MARK BEATEN ONLY 3 TIMES
Record of 102. Made Twice, Is
Closely Approached.
COOLER TODAY IS PROMISE
Thermometer Ileachcs Top Point at
5 o'clock Day Is Wannest
Jnly 20 In H I storj Year's
Previous Hottest 83.6.
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Yesterday was the twentieth day of
July and the thermometer at 5 o'clock
In "the afternoon registered 100 de
green In the shade.
Remarkable. Indeed, but net half so
remarkable as if the thermometer had
plven a similar performance on the
twentieth day of December. Anyway,
cooler weather is promised for today,
although it will he hot enough yet to
be notioenble.
Nevertheless, whenever the tempera
ture gets up over 10 iecree foks her
In Portland besiu to squirm and twist
around uneasily, their underwe.tr be
gins to tu-k to their skin, they cnll
up the newspapers and ask how hot It
Is and want to know when it is go
ing to cool off.
I'leaty f Rerarla Krnkea.
It Is then that the editor knows lh.it
the people w-il want a weather Mory
In the paper the next morning, so here
It is:
To begin with there are plenty ot
broken records to write about.
It was the hottest day of the year
by more than, four decrees ami it w.ts
the hottest July ;0 on record.
It was the second time In the his
tory of the Portland weather office
that the thermometer went up to the
even century mark and stayed there
without solnir farther, although thrice
before It went up over 100.
The hottest time In the history of
Portland so far as hot times can b
measured by the thermometer was on
July iX 1891, when It was 102 decrees.
But this record was tied on July 3.
1907.
Mercury Once at 101.
On July 3. 1906. the mercury wont up
to 101 decrees, only they don't measure
the temperature in the official weather
office with mercury. They have some
sort of apparatus up on the roof of the
custom-hou.e building delicately art
Justcd so that it Is affected by the least
degree of heat or cold, and It record
its feelings down In the weather bureau
by a finely attuned electrical instru
ment which splits the heat units into
the hundre-dth part of a degree. It is
nice and cool down where the elec
trical recorder Is located and the Gov
ernment officials can fit there In their
shirt sleeves In comfort and watch the
wheels go around.
It was on July 25. 1904. that the little
electrical instrument recorded an even
100 !e'rees. and on that occasion It
also happened about a o'clock In the
afternoon.
1 "reseat Heat Rarely Koaaled.
The weather experts have some kind
of a scientific cxrlanatlon ot the tem
perature reaching its maximum height
along toward S o'clock In the evening.'
but It Is sufficient to say that the ac
tual performances of the weather sel
dom vary from this rule.
In only five previous years, other
than those already mentioned, did the
thermometer go up as high as 99 de
grees. The respective dates were:
June 17. 1S76; July 6. 1SJ; May 29,
1SS7; July S. 190i and July It, 1911.
The previous high mark this year
was on July 1. when it got up to 95.6
decrees.
Yesterday's scorcher started in with
the early morning and kept up a
steady business right through the day
until after 5 o'clock, when it started
to recede a little. Ity g o'clock last
night It had cooled off enough to per
mit the men who had hed their coats
during the day to don them once more
with comfort.
WALIA W.VLKl GOUS TO I0O
Unusual Weather Prepares Grain
yields for Harvesters.
WALLA WALLA. Wash.. July to.
(Special.) The mercury climbed today
to 100 degrees, the highest by three
degrees for tho season. Yesterday's
temperature of 9T. coming suddenly
after a cool day, and today's on top of
It. mad the heat especially noticea
ble, but caused no discomfort.
Farmers are rejoicing to see the
warm weather, as It Is hastening the
ripening of the grain, which was still
rreeru Several outfits started work
yesterday and had to cult, aa the wheat
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