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VOL. LV-XO. 17,053. r PORTLANI), OREGON, FRIDAY, JtLY 23, 1915. ruiCE five cents. REPLY TO IS PUT GERMANY 0(1 GABLE Lansing to Give Out Text tonight AIR OF FINALITY IS GIVEN Future Conduct Phase May Not Demand Formal Answer. NOTE TO BRITAIN READY Protest Against Action by Orders-in-Council Contrary to Interna tional Law to Bo Forward ed Within Fortnight. WASHINGTON. July 22. The United States Government before determining the next step in its general diplomatic policy will, for a brief period, await indications from official quarters in Berlin as to the reception of the new note warninqr Germany that the loss of American lives through further vio lation of neutral rights would be re garded as "unfriendly." The note, started on its way to Berlin late last night, probably . will be de livered by Ambassador Gerard tomor row. It will be given out by the State Department for publication in Satur day morning's newspapers. Everywhere in official quarters it was pointed out today that the docu ment speaks the final word on how the United States Government would regard further transgressions of its rights. The general trend of comment was that the repetition, of such a disas ter as befell the Lusitania would Jiiean the convening of Congress by Presi dent 'Wilson for consideration of action to be taken. In the event that the status is main tained, however, and there are indica tions through official or unofficial channels that German submarines in future will conform to the rules of In ternational law in saving the lives of Americans on unresisting merchant men. President Wilson will take up soon the situation that has arisen with "Great Britain over interference with ' American commerce by the allies. Note to Britain Completed. For several weeks a note has been practically completed, addresse I to the British government, reiterating the protest against deviations from inter national law in the operations of the order-in-council against commerce with Germany. The note has not been sent because President Wilson has been un willing to give the impression in Ber- lin that the controversy between the United States and Germany in any 'way could be conditioned on the progrees of the American Government's negotia tions with other belligerents. It became known, however, that If there are indications that the new American note to Germany is received In a friendly spirit and there appears no Intention further to violate neutral rights on the high seas, the new pro test to Great Britain will be dispatched probably within the next fortnight. Demands on Britain Outlined. Data are being gathered at the State Department, but the new note proba bly will not deal to any extent with specific instances, contending chiefly for the general principle involved, with renewed insistence on modifica tions in the order-ln-council to con form with what the United States re gards as the accepted rule of inter national law. The recent filing of a legal caveat announcing that orders-in-council and British municipal law do not affect the rights of American citizens under international law was the first step in the policy which the United States Is' pursuing to obtain acquiescence in its point of view. Interest centered for the most part today in diplomatic quarters on the nature of the new note to Germany. Sufficient of its contents has become known to cause widespread comment on the apparently determined position taken by the United States. NO BRITON SUNK FOR WEEK Record Is First of Kind Since Be ginning of Present War. LONDON July 22. So far as Brit ish vessels are concerned, the German submarines drew a blank during the week ended yesterday. Not a single British merchant ship or fishing craft was sunk. This was the first week since the beginning of the war that some loss to British shipping has not been occa sioned, either by German cruisers, mines of submarines. During the week under review 1326 vessels of more than 300 tons each arrived at or departed from the ports of the United Kingdom. PAY CHECKS NOT CLAIMED Election Officials Fmvorried by Hard Tiroes, Says Auditor. That about 225 of the people who served as Judges and clerks in the city election June 7 are not bothered by hard times is apparent from their hav ing failed to show up at the City Audi tor's office to claim their pay. Two hundred and twenty-five per fectly good cheeks are waiting for the officials. The- total amount of the checks is about $790. GIDEONS TO MAKE WAR ON SWEARING CARD PREPARED TO HAND TO PROFAXE TRAVELERS. Sermon Containing "Twelve Good Reasons" Expected to Be Effec tive in Diminishing Practice. DES MOINES. Ia., July 22. Means of raising funds for state campaign work, of methods to be used In a campaign against profanity, and an explanation and indorsement of the subsidiary or ganization of the Gideons, known a the Inner Circle, were discussed at theJ isationai convention 01 me jiaeons here today. It was determined that the most suc cessful method of securing funds, was the sale of associate and sustaining memberships. The associate member ships are sold for f 5 to any wholesaler employing traveling salesmen. The sus taining membership is sold to the regu lar members, who pay an additional sum for it. In an effort to stamp out profanity among travelers a resolution was adopted providing that small cards sim ilar in size and shape to business card! be prepared and furnished to the mem bers. The cards will bear a sermon en titled: "Twelve Good Reasons for Swearing." When a member encounters a profane man on the train he will hand him one of the cards. NATURALIST LOSES HANDS Smithsonian . . Collector ' Severely Frozen in Siberian Expedition. NOME, Alaska. July 22. Joha-nn Koren, the Norwegian naturalist, who left Seattle in June, 1914, on the power schooner Eagle to collect specimens in the Arctic for the Smithsonian Insti tution, suffered loss of both hands by freezing last midwinter, while his ex pedition wr-s fast in the Ice In the Kolyma River, Siberia. Koren .s shipwrecked near Cape Serge, Siberia, in the Autumn of 1912 while collecting Arctic flowers and birds for the Harvard Museum. Koren made his way along the Siberian coast and, after incredible hardships, crossed Alaska and made his way to Nome, ar riving there in March, 1913. Koren's hands and feet were severely frozen then. MUNITION MAKING FORBID Fatherland to Prosecute Germans In United States Factories. BERLIN July 22. (By wireless via Sayville, N. Y.) An official declaration published here calls attention to the fact that Germans working in factories in neutral countries, particularly in the United States, producing war supplies for the enemy render themselves liable to prosecution for treason under par agraph 89 of the penal code, penaliz ing such assistance to an enemy, with a maximum of 10 years' imprisonment. Another paragraph of the penal code authorizes prosecution In the case of such offenses, even when committed abroad, and it is understood that the German courts will proceed against offenders. I DAMAGED STEAMER IS MET Corwin, on Walrus Cruise In North, Reports Big Hole in Kolyma. NOME, Alaska, July 22. The steam er Corwin. Captain I. J. Healey, ar rived today from a successful walrus hunt off the coast of Siberia, with large quantity of skins, oil and ivory. Captain Healey reports that in the Siberian whaling grounds he met the Russian steamer Kolyma, which was severely injured by the ice that in closed her last Winter, a seven-foot hole having been made in her side. The Kolyma's crew were suffering from scurvy, and the first engineer and second engineer had died from the disease. FRENCH BUY FROZEN MEAT Army Contractors to Be Permitted to Import Duty Free. PARIS, July 22. The purchase for the French army of 120,000 tons of refrigerated meat annually until the end of the war, or until December 31, 1916, has been agreed on by Minister of Agriculture David and Eugene Mau clere, head of the army administration. The companies doing business with the Government will be permitted to import their products duty free. FAMILY HISTORY REPEATS July 21 Anniversary of Two Births and Weddinjj in Home. THE DALLES, Or., July 22. (Spe cial.) July 21 is an anniversary day in the family of Ansel C. Osborn, who lives at Miller's bridge, at the mouth of the Deschutes River. Mr. and Mrs. Osborn were married eight years ago on July 21, which Is also the birthday anniversary of Mr. Osborn. A daughter was born yesterday,, July 2L - SUBMARINES BURN VESSELS Swedish and, Norwegian Barks Car rying Lumber Are Destroyed. LONDON, July 22. The Swedish bark Capella and the Norwegian bark Nordlyset, both timber laden and bound for England, have been set on fire in the North Sea by German submarines. The crew of the Capella was landed at Hull and that of the Nordlyset at Frederickshaven. CARRANZA SEVERS FOREIGN RELATIONS Recognition Demanded as Condition. CAPITAL STILL IS CUT OFF Gonzales Believed Seeking Battle With Villa's Men. NACO PROTEST IS SENT State Department Formally Notifies First Chief That Occupation of Border Town Is Regarded as Violation of Compact. WASHINGTON, July 22. Diplomatic advices' reaching Washington from Mexico today said General Carranza had given notice that he would not receive communications from or trans act business with foreign governments which have no diplomatlo agents ac credited to his government at Vera Cruz. Enforcement of such an order prac tically would cut off the Carranza government from further communica tion with all the foreign nations which have ministers resident in Mexico City. It would not, however, according to the information received, sever his in formal relations with the United States Government. Conxalea Not 1 1 car 4 From. Mexico City remains cut off from communication with the outside world and there have been no advices con cerning Nthe whereabouts of 'General Gonzales, who is believed to be seek ing to give battle to Villa troops under Generals Fierro and Natera in the vi cinity of Pachuca. Neither has the State Department been able to get any convincing news as to the exact con ditions in the capital, or whether the Zapata forces, as reported two days ago. are again in active control of the city. The State Department today took no tice of protests against the occupation of Naco, on the Sonora-Arizona border. by General Carranza's forces. A mes sage was sent to Carranza calling: his attention to the situation and asking him to abide by the Scott agreement negotiated with his generals and those of General Villa, providing that no mil itary operations should be conducted along the border where lives of Amer icans would be endangered. ro May Be Abandoned. Notice was given that the American Government regarded the attack on Naco as a violation of the agreement. Unofficial advices which reached Wash ington tonight indicated that Carran za's generals were preparing to with draw from Naco. Rioting at Cananea, Sonora, last Monday, in which sevef&I Chinese mer- (Concluded on Page 2, Column o.) t I J j 1 INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 82 degree; minimum. &4 decrees. TODAY'S -Fair; northerly winds. Mexico. Carranza will sever relations with forelan natlona that fail to recognise his govern ment. Pace 1. President of Guatemala said to have promised aid to Huerta. Page 2. War. Austro-Germaa offensive in Poland la machine-like. Fij 2. Germany ha supplies ample to continue war many years. Pag 2. Straying Britons returning to country's aid. Page 3. Many soldiers slain by own artillery on all aldea In present ar. page 2. National. Express companies permitted to change ratei so as to Increase revenue. Page a. Germany warned not to take any more American lives. Page 1. Hughes expected to accept nomination II Republican convention deadlocka. Page 7. Aid promised lumber Industry by Govern ment, page 0. Domestic. Two more killed In Standard Oil strike riots. Pag 1. Gldeona start campaign against profanity. Pag 1. Benson day to be grand climax of Oregon week at fair. Page . eporta. Cincinnati divides double-header with Phil adelphia. Pag 13. Pacific Coast Laane results: Portland 4-S, .-alt Lake 6-5 (second game 10 innlnas); San Francisco 4. I.os Angeles 2; Vernon 2. Oakland 1. Page 12. Entry list for Oregon state tennis tourna ment to be kept open until Saturday night. Page 13. Frank Troeh. of Vancouver. U high amateur at Ticoma shoot. Pace 12. rarlfie Northwest. Governor Lister orders Public Service Com mission to glv accounting of expendi tures. Page 6. Second call for forest fire fighters aent to The Dalles. Pag 1. Plans arranged for ransom for rancher's son. Pag B. Commercial and Marine. First sale of n-w-crop club wheat on local exchange. Page IT. Bullish crop advices from Europe strengthen Chicago bwt market. Pag IT. Price changes In Wall street are lesa sensa tional. Page IT. Harbor Park named Mulkey In honor of Dock Commission Chairman. Pag 14 - Portland and Vicinity. Scott Bothwell. In letter to brother here. says Canadians eager to ngni. age i. New hillside scenic boulevard la ready for paving-- Page T. John Austin Hooper, accused of many crimes, leaves for trial ex. Grants Pass. Page 10. Weather report, data and forecast. Pace 17. James R. Nicholson, grand exalted ruler of EJks. due Here tooay. rage 11. Record attendance 1 expected for Buyers' Week. Pase 0. Dodge 14.0oo case in court reata until Monday. Page 11. Crisis impending In city's finances. Pag IT. Auditorium plans approved and early bulld- lng assured. Page IS. Noted sculptor visits Portland. Page 13. Laundrymen to ask Congreas to exclud Chlneae. Page 14. Skamania County's sale of 1210.000 worth of highway bonds makes new Columbia route certain, page 4. New road along Columbia River on north side assured. Pag 4. McMlnnv.il returns kiddles after Joyous picnic. Pase 4. Senator Tillman delrghts in grandfather hood. rage 4. MAN. HURT, RIDES FOR AID Farmer " With Skull Fractured by Steel Chip Driven lo Iootor. PENDLETON. Or., July 22. (Spe cial.) Struck by a bit of flying steel when a bolt slipped while he was re pairing a harvester. Samuel R. Thomp son, prominent farmer near here, suf fered a fracture of the skull at his farm at Easton. Although a dangerous wound was Inflicted he drove his car unaided nine miles to town to get medical attention. It was said at St. Anthony's Hospital tonight that the pa tient is resting comfortably. It was feared at first that a bit of steel had penetrated the brain, but an operation is not now deemed urgently necessary. "WHEN A FELLER NEEDS A FRIEND." TWO MORE KILLED IN OIL STRIKE RIOT Sheriff Asks Governor for Troops. MANY SHOTS ARE TINGED Crowds Jeer Official Who At tempts to Pacify Them. MEDIATION IS POSSIBLE Workmen to Present Demands for 15 Per Cent AVase Increase To day Determined Attack Is Made on Barrel Works. NEW YORK. July 23. Whether the militia would be called out was the question tonight In Bayonne. N. J., where two more men were killed to day in fights . between striking em ployes of the Standard Oil Company. of New Jersey, and anmed guards. Deaths since the beginning of the strike thus total three. Sheriff Kinkead, who had worked earnestly to pacify the strikers, .railed on Governor Fielder for troops after he had been Jeered by the crowds after the fight. Wilbur F. Sadler, adjutant general of New Jersey, was ordered to Bayonne, and on his report rests the calling of the militia. Sheriff Kin kead dl.so appealed to Washington for Federal mediators, and two of them were immediately sent by the Depart ment of Labor. Mediation Offer Accepted. The 1500 strikers today accepted the offer of Henry Wilson, commissioner of public safety, for an arbitration board composed of five city commis sioners. This development, it is be lieved, may end the strike or at least may bring about a truce. The strikers will present their demands for a IS per cent increase In wages to the com missioners tomorrow in writing, and the commissioners will lay them be fore the Standard Oil plant officials. Today' disorders started shortly be fore noon, when several hundred strikers attacked the guards within the Standard plant. The guards replied to showers of bricks, stones and clubs with volleys from their rifles. After two futile attempts to approac'j the plant the strikers retreated.' leaving three of their number wounded. .Two of Attackers Killed? The next and most serious attack was on the Tidewater Oil Company's barrel works, a short distance from the Standard plant. It lasted a half hour. Two of the attacking Darty were kilied by bullets and three others were wounded seriously. ' It was said that none of the guards was wounded. Following the Tidewater riot. Sheriff Kinkead made his unsuccessful attempt to disperse by a personal appeal. lie was hooted and Jeered. Deciding that (Conrludfd on Pag 2. Column tt. Thursdays War Moves THE Austro-German armies continue to press the Russian forces defend. ing Warsaw, but while they have made progress at some points they have not made any serious breach in the well fortified inner lines. The Russians have been pressed back to the bridgehead positions directly west of Warsaw and Into the fortress of Ivangorod, farther to the southeast on the Vistula. At these points they are probably in a better position, to offer stubborn resistance to their op ponents. The two attacks that are being made at the north along t.ie Narew River by Field Marshal von Hindenburg and that which Field Mar shal Mackensen is directing from the southeast on the Vistula and Bug riv ers, apparently have been held up or the Germans are waiting for an oppor tune moment to move forward and catc'.i the Russians, should it be decided to evacuate Warsaw. The Berlin official statement does not assert any advance for Von Mack ensen. while the report, although it says that the Russians have ceased their counter attacks along the Narew, does not mention any success by Von Hindenburg. However, If the Russians hold Warsaw It would surprise military critics in the allied countries who have discounted the loss of the city, attacked from all sides by opponents possessed of superiority in guns and munitions. Grand Duke Nicholas, although able to deliver some stinging counter at tacks and innlct heavy losses on the Austro-Germans. must In the first place consider the safety of his armies, the loss of which would be much more ee rious for the Russians than retirement from the Polish capital and the terri tory around It. In the region of Shavli. on the Du- bls&a. River, and on the Marlampol- Kovno road, the Germans recite a se ries of successes, but nothing is said of the fighting near Riga, for which city another German army Is heading. The Argonne and theVosges still are the scenes of the severe fighting In the west. The accounts from the opposing sides are as contradictory as ever, but It would appear that the French are the aggressors In the Vosges and have made some progress, and the Germans have offset this by a partially success ful offensive in the Argonne. The Italians continue their attacks along the Izonzo; the buttle for the conquest of Gorlxia and the Carxo pla teau assuming larger proportions and more men- being engaged than in any previous battle on the Italian front. The Italians say they are making progress, while the Austrian consist ently report that all attacks have been repulsed. A short official account Issued last night of the recent fighting on the Galllpoll Peninsula Indicates that the engagements have been of a rather minor nature, but have favored the al lies. WEDDING LICENSE AVOIDED Bureau for First Time In Years Grants: Xo Marriage) Permit. Not a marriage license all day. "I don't know what can be the mat ter," said John W. Cochran, Deputy County Clerk, scratching his chin re flectively, "whether It's Just reaction from the June rush, or what." Whatever is the matter, this sets a new record. In the 2S months Mr. Cochran has served behind the mar riage license window, not a day had passed, until yesterday, without the Issuance of at least one marriage license. Previous to his Incumbency. It is believed, several years elapsed with out an entire day's blank In the mar riage license business. BATTLE IS0NJN ARABIA British Occupy Town on Kuphrates and Attack Turks. LONDON. July 22. The British have occupied Sukea-Sheyukh, on the Eu phrates River. In Arabia, according to an official report Issued today, and are now attacking the Turks, who have taken up a position below Nasiriyeh. Reports of British defeats in Irak are declared In the report to be un founded. Irak-Axabl lies mostly between the lower courses of the Tigris and the Kuphrates and Includes the City of Bagdad. HURT MESSENGER GOES ON Bearer of Wilson Epistle Continues on Retraining Consciousness. COLUMBUS. Neb.. July 22. In spite of a fall in which he suffered a broken collar bone and lost 45 minutes while he lay unconscious In a ditch, Hugo Heyn, who carried President Wilson'a message, en route from Washington to San Francisco by relays of motorcycles, from Omaha to this place, arrived here today four hours after he left Omaha. He was scheduled to make the trip in three hours. He was leading his two companions by several miles when the accident occurred. RED CROSS ASKED FOR AID Prisoners In Siberia. Hospitals iu France, Send Appeals. WASHINGTON. July 22. Two more requests for aid in the European war xone were received today at Red Cross headquarters. German and Austrian prisoners In Siberia want clothing and medicine. These will be sent with the consent of the Russian government and in co-operation with a Chicago German-Austrian society. French hospitals have asked for quantities of drugs, disinfectants aad clothing for surgeons and nurses. They will be dispatched at once. CHANGE IN TACTICS GRU ING RUSSIANS Teutons Hope to Stun Foe for Rest of Year. ENVELOPMENT IS UNEQUALLED Baltic-Bessarabia Battle Is Greatest of War. 4,000,000 MEN ENGAGED Auj-tro-Germans Count I.c on Number of Troops and Are Gam bling on Condition of Czar'a Armies, Allowed No Rest. BT KARL. H. VON W I EG AN P. (Special correspondent of the New YrK World. By special caM. Copyrlxhter 1&1.V hy the Pre Publishing Company. Published by arrangement. 1 BERLIN, via The Hague. July 22. (Special.) More than 4.000,000 men fighting on the bow-like front extend ing fro mthe Bal tic, near Rig.a, to Bessarabia, on the Roumanian fron tier, are engaged gaged in what probably is the greatest battle of the war. so far as the number of men and the length of the front is con cerned. The attack of the Germans and Karl H. van Austrlans will re- M Ircant. solve Itself into the decisive struggle of the war in Russia and will brin the campaign to a close for this year. Field Marshal von Hendenhurc. the nemesis of the Russians, who has en trapped and prartically annihilated three Russian armies In the Masurian swamps with his famous Chief-of-Ptaff.. Ludendorff. is directing the op erations on the northern horn or left wing of the vast Austro-German armies. Gigantic Kairlo.mral Plsaaed. Van Mackensen, reconqueror of rnemysl and a newly decorated Field Marshal, with his Chief -of-Sta ff. Gen eral von Seckt. is directing the right a'init or southern horn, which, how ever. Is under the supreme command of the Austrian Archduke Ferdinand. The general offensive stretching front the Baltic almost to the Black Sn Is an attempt at what Is the grentet-t enveloping movement known in the history of wars. It Is a complete chansis of tactics, for the Germans and Austrlans In the Russian campaign hitherto have en paged In frontal attacks before which the Russian Generals, despite thoir continuous defeats and the piercing of their front at Tarnow In May, succeed ed in drawing back their lines so ad mirably well that they have always prevented anything like a decisive suc cess In the form of envelopment. No Ckssee Re Cilvea. Following the taking of Lemlirrg re ports were rife that the Germans wcro moving Immense bodies of troops to the west front, and that Mackensen had been transferred there. Events of the la3t days tend to confirm, however, what I learned at Budapest and Vienna, whence I Just returned, that the Ger mnn and Austrian strategists Falken hayn and Hoetzendorf f. have deter mined to put forth every energy to bring the Russian campaign to a close for the year before the end of Sumner without giving the Russians a t-hance to reorganise their demoralized armies or wait new guns and ammunition which the Russians expect. Conscious of the unbroken series of victories and ith characteristic daring. Kalkenhayn and Hoetxendorff decided on an enveloping movement of the Rus sian armies on an unprecedented scale, so vast that the chance of success lies less with the number of German troops engaged than with their quality and the gambling on the condition of the Russian forces and their lack of re sistance. Itmaalsuia oat Second l.iae. In the north, the Russians have been forced back to their second line of defense on the Narew River. At sev eral points south of the fortress of Otitrolcnka, General von Callditx, com manding one of Hindenburg's armies, has driven the Russians across the river. At no poir.t on the long line are the Germans and Austrians giving the Rus sians a rest, but are attacking day and night. If the present envelopment is suc cessful it probably will settle the fate of Warsaw and the narrow line of forts east and north of Warsaw. With these in thel- possession, the Germans prac tically are assured against any further Russian invasion, even If the war lasts another year. GRIEF LEADS TO SUICIDE Body of Widow of Lusitania Victim Found in Apartment. NEW TORK. July 22. Grief over the death of her husband. George L. Ver non, a film manufacturer who lost his life when the Lusitania wa torpedoed. Is believed to be responsible for the suicide of Mrs, Inex Vernon, whose, boiy was found In her apartment here today. She evidently had shot hers. If severV days ago.