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VOL. jLV. NO. 17,063. PORTLAND, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 4, 1915. PRICE FIVE CENTS. i BRITISH COURSE : HELD JUSTIFIE . vKevv Conditions Require New Rules, is Reply. ElOCKAK POLICY DEFENDED American Protest Declared Untenable in Law or Inter national Equity. CIVIL WAR CASES CITED United States Said to Have Then Developed Continuous Voyage Doctrine. OCTL1SE Or COSTE3TIOSS or GREAT BR IT A 1.1 .S TO BLOCKADE RIGHTS. ChtDitd condition, of war de dared to require new application Ion j iw. I In of principle of International la t'nlted States cited aa bavin "developed, applied and en forced" doctrine of continuous voyage. in civil War by seixlnr Britten ahip bound for Wcat Indies. Blockade limited" to German porta, says note, would leave open man; routes for German commerce. Fundamental principleof block ade asserted to rest on right of belligerent to Intercept com merce of enemy American commerce held to bare profited by more than enough to atone for loss of Ger man and Austrian trade. Supplemental note says prise courts are subject only to In struction of their own sovereign. Right of arbitration still open to those who contend they hare t been treated unfairly In prise- J court decisions. Reply In Neches case Is denial t allow free passage of good i originating In territory under J German control. WASHINGTON. An?. 3. Great Britain's) replies to the latest Amer ican representations against interfer ences with neutral commerce reject entirely the contention that the orders-in-council are illegal and justify the British course as being- wholly within international law. LiuuabBinauiv cuuer in point 01 law or upon principles of international ; expaty" s the British reply to thej American protest against the blockade of neutral ports, with an invitation to ' submit to international arbitration! any cases in which the United States I , is dissatisfied with the action of Brit- ish prize courts. j Conditions of Warfare Changed. Great Britain's reply, embodied in two notes, one supplemental, was made public here tonight and in London simultaneously by agreement between the two governments. With the notes j was made public also the correspond ence over the American steamer Ne ches, seized by the British while en route from Rotterdam to the United States 'with goods of German origin. All the correspondence aggregates 7000 words. Changed conditions of warfare, the British note contends, require a new application of the principles of inter rational law. The advent of the sub marine, the airship and the alleged atrocities by German troops in Bel gium are cited as justification for the exercise of extreme measures. Blockade Held Justified. The blockade is justified on the contention that the universally recog nized fundamental principle of a block ade is that a belligerent is entitled to cut off "by effective means the sea borne commerce of his enemy." The note reiterates that Great Britain will continue to apply the or ders complained of, although not with out every effort to avoid embarrass ment to neutrals, and observes that the American statistics show that any loss in trade with Germany and Aus tria has been more than overbalanced by the increase of other industrial ac tivities due to the war. Measures Declared Reasonable. In the general reply to the Amer ican representations against the orders-in -council Sir Edward Grey, the Foreign Minister, addressing Ambas sador Page, begins by expressing the hope that he may be able to convince the Administration in Washington "that the measures we have announced are net only reasonable and necessary in themselves, but constitute no more than an adaptation of the old princi- (Concuded Pate X Column I t SEATTLE FOLK TO FORM AIR CORPS niCH TIMBERMAX LEARNING TO FLY AND WILL GIVE PLANE. Society Women Are Among: Mem. bcra of Club Organised to Aid Country If Needed. SEATTLE. Wash, Aug. . (Spe cial.) W. E. Boeing-, president of the Greenwood Timber Company, promi nent clubman, student and one , of Seattle's wealthiest cttlsena. Is taking Instructions In California In flying; an army aeroplane, and on bis return her will proceed to perfect the or ganisation of an aviation reserve unit for bis country's defense. - He Is a the Curtlss Aviation School. San Diego. It la understood tbat while In' San Dleg-o he will order a 108-horsepower Curtlss warplan and donate the ma chin to the Seattle Aero Club, o which 10 persons, four of whom are well-known Seattle society women, al ready have aimed the roster as char ter members. G. C WestervelL. assistant naval In structor In the United States Navy, as signed to duty to the Seattle Construe tlo Drydock Company by the Navy Department. Is aiding- in the forma tlon of the Washington aerial reserve. Tills reserve eventually will become a portion of the Aero-Military Service Federation of America, now consisting of the First Aviation Corps, with Mor timer Pelano aa Acting- Colonel Com' mandant. This corps Is. the aeronau tical arm of the - provisional Federal Volunteers of the United States of America, and Is authorised In time of w-r to form Into aviation regiments under the terms of the Hay war volun teer bill of 114. LAKE FREIGHTER WRECKED Crew Prajnrcd Through Breakers by Amatear IJfesavers. TORONTO. Aug-. . In the 40-mile gale which raged on Lake Ontario to day, the worst In several years, accord ins; to the weather bureau, the freight steamer Alexandria of the' Canada steamship lines, .bound from Montreal to Toronto, ran ashore at Scarborough Bluffs, three miles east of this city. The surf was too heavy to permit the launching of a boat, but Captain Bloomfleld and his crew, 23 men all told, leaped Into the breakers wearing life preservers and were dressed ashore - by an amateur Hfe-savlng brigade. CABINET ASKED TO STAY Elder Statesmen Seek to Adjust Dif ferences in Japan. TOKIO, Aug- S The elder statesmen have recommended to Emperor Tosbl hlto that the Cabinet, headed by Count Okuma aa Premier, be requested to re main In office unconditionally. This decision was communicated by Prince Oysma and Field Marshal Yama- gata to Count Okuma. who raid he ould take up with hla colleagues the question of withdrawing their resigna tion. PROMINENT OSTEOPATHISTS WHO ARE FIGURING ml -'rLy f f Y -ft ' V "J -.'! ' . I I ,;4''.' 1 - i ' kf DAMS BURSL25 ARE KILLED AT ERIE, PA. Property Damage Esti , mated at Millions. BUSINESS SECTION FLGODED At Least 50 Houses Reported to. Have Been Washed Away. FACTORY IS CARRIED OFF Xevrs Sent to Ontalde World by Op erator, Who Wades In Water TTp to Armpits to Reach Tele graph Office. ERIE, Pa.. Aug. . Twenty-five lives lost, aa estimated by the police, millions of dollars In property damage and the city In total darkness Is the result of a cloudburst shortly after o'clock tonight that culminated In a flood that Inundated a large section of the city. The heavy precipitation caused dams south of the city to burst, flooding the main business streets to a depth of five feet, and In some sections reaching to the second story windows of dwell ings. Among the first plants to go out of commission waa the Erie County Elec tric Company, which supplied the city with light. Then the ETie Dispatch, a morning paper .whose building adjoins the electric light plant, was Hooded, and all Idea of getting out a morning paper is abandoned until midnight, when the staff waa moved to the plant of the Erie Times. Operator TV a ties TTareagTs Streets. In the meantime the first bulletin of the flood was sent to the outside world by the Associated Press operator, , who waded In water, up to his armptta to the Western Union Telegraph office, a distance of five blocks. It was several hours before crippled telegraph and telephone communication could be restored in part. - At Ninth street, along Mill Creek, the flood was at Its worst. It Is Impossible tonight to ascertain how many actually have lost their Uvea there. Many were still Imprisoned in their houses at a late hour. Section Cat OnT Flremea Missis. The eastern section of the city is cut off by the water. ' Among those missing' are Assistant Fire Chief Buernon and four firemen. Reports were received that a bouse floated down Mill Creek with two wom en and four children clinging to it. , lOoneluded on Pnge , rVilumn t.l INDEX OFTODAFSNEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 18 TODAY'S Fair; westerly winds. ' . War. Crest Britain defends Its blockade po.icy and declares United States itself developed doctrine of "continuous voyage." Fage 1. British editor -urges Americans to be gener- our la interpreting blockade policy. Pars London renews hope that Warsaw may be saved, rage . Warsaw Intact on August i ana military forces hopeluu rage . . . ' '. Mexico. . Latin-Americans promise to' aid In solving Mexican prooiem. . rage o-- --" "' Domestic' Gormen-Americans plsu to aid Germans In Canada, rage o. Faeifle Serlhwwt; Seattle folk. Including society women, er .nii aerial reserve corps. Page 1. Governor's friends Indignant at criticism ef Woltman pardon. Page 4. Pendleton musician regains sight suddenly after belnc blind. 15 years, rage . Three'cloudbursts wreak havoc In Deschutes . ..Valley. - ge . Commercial and Marine. Bumper potato crop in Oregon is indicated. Fage 17. Wheat lower at Chicago, owing to lack of export buying, i-age ii. Railroad stocks advance on more favorable amines reports, rage n. Historic prison ship Success docks at Yamhill atreet sna win am wjmu tlon tomorrow. ' Fage 13. Sports. Faculty control of athletics tentatively ap proved by presiaems oi iimweiiH. o reran and Washington. Page 10. Mcfredle signs young Eastern Oregon Ditcher. Page IS. Da.ii. r-fwtflf Lnrni reeulta: Los Angeles . 5. Portland I; Salt Lake . San Francisco ; Vernon 4, vasiana z. x-ese i H. Van Dyke Johns wins tennis match at Tacoma toorr.ey. rage is. Port land and Vicinity. ' Weather resort, data and forecast, rsge is. Jewelers to eonsldei . remedies for trade evils t state convention tomorrow, .rage j Five miles of paving for which bonds were voted laid -sna nan oi tv niiei to v " nlace br FalL rage 17. Julius L. Meier announces official opening of Columbia Kiver Biinwij to 12. . Pass T. Co-oneration regarded as one or greatest benefits or Buyers- wees, rage aw. Twenty Boyers'-Week vuitors to present word pictures ot nome w ,wnww luncheon. Page 11. Benefit to business re'.t with Inauguration of Buyers" week, rage i Typographical Union Ignores Labor council s demand for reprimand or men who con demned attack on Liberty Bell. Page 8. Government completes Its esse against Cash ier Company oiricisi. rage l. Osteopaths treat hip ailment heretofore de nied ana y uhwivcij i ctu.uiiu.i.. damage case procedure. Page 1. Catholic loyalty urged by Papal delegate. Page . . Alieky bulMIng burns with loss of I23J.O0O. Fage 15. - Entertainers chosen ' for Buyers' Week. Fsge 11. Choir girl becomes stsge fsvorlte. Page 0. $10,060S FOR 'RIGHT GIRL Aged Man Wtnli Caretaker and More Than 100 Apply- ' CHICAaO 'Aug. 3. More than 100 applications for. the position of "mem ber of the family" of James W. pank hurst," a wealthy' farmer, who prom ised to will 10.ooo to the -satisfactory girl," were received by the Federal employment bureau, today. PankhursL who is 75 years old. wrote to the Federal . employment bureau here two days ago offering 13 a week to "an unmarried girl not less than 17 nor more than 40." who would take care of him and his wife for the remainder of their lives, his will to contain a 310,000 bequest to the "right person." - : ' IN THE NATIONAL CONVENTION ) 0VER1EIII ESIS IN CASHIER TRIAL C Expert Account f i es tifies to Finances. $63 OF $944,227 IS ON HAND Real Estate, Etc., Received .Said to Total $1,532,811. COMMISSIONS TAKE HALF Witnc Pays $250 to Be Paid One Man - Was All Any Stockholder ' Ever Keccived In Dividends. Defense to Occupy 3 Weeka. After 19 trial days. In whicn hun dreds of letters and other records have been introduced and scores of wit nesses examined, the Government rested Its case late yesterday against Frank Menefee. president, and six other officials and salesmen of the United States Cashier Company, charged with- conspiracy to use the mails In a fraudulent stock-selling scheme. The defense expects to take at least two weeks in presenting its case. Ar guments of the 11 attorneys on both stdjes probably will take another week. On request ot Attorney Martin U. Pipes, chief of counsel for the defense. Federal Judge Bean declared a recess until 10 o'clock Thursday, giving the defense a day in which to prepare its case. Mr., Pipes explained tnat . tne number of defendants and the com plications of the case made the full day's recess necessary, and that the recess would really expedite the trial. 9844,227 Received! V63 on Hand. Hiram S. House, expert accountant for the Government, was the last wit ness called by United States Attorney Realties. '"......" He testified that the company's book and records showed it received a total in cash from all sources of 1941,237.31 How - much caiSh did the company have on hand when it quit business in Portland and removed Its, machinery to Terr Haute. Intl., January 31. 1917' asked the United States Attorney. "It had 183 59 in cash," replied the witness. - - All told. Including not only cash, but real estate and notes taken- for stock, Mr. House testified, the company re ceived 11,632,811.92. Cash payments for stock amounted to I771.82B.21 CO Fer Cent Paid .la Commissions. . Commissions paid for selling stock ate a large hole In these cash receipts. Mr. House testified. The total of the ( Concluded on Page 3. i.'plumn 'J. ) IN PORTLAND. u iS lAtn rffrh era . BORDER RAIDERS ESCAPE SOLDIERS C'vV &?flAN KILLED AND TWO .a A - v-v Tvrrtrrvmn Martial I.atv in Force Xear Browns vllle. While Ranchers Prepare to Defend Themselves. - - . BROWNSVILLE, Tex., Aug. t. Mexi can raiders, believed surrounded north of Brownsville today by United States Cavalrymen and American posses, have escaped, according to information re ceived here tonight. After today's battle. In which Private McGuire, of the 12th Cavalry, was killed, and Privates Curtis and Clap' saddle wounded, the raiders were re ported entrenched about IS miles from here, but when the place was rushed the troops found only six saddlehorses Two Mexicans are believed to have been killed, while two were captured. Martial law practically has been put in force In the region of today's fighting and every ranch and farm house in the commounlty has pre pared to resist further raids, while posses and Cavalrymen tonight con tinued scouring the country In search of the men who escaped and who ap parently have taken to the brush afoot. County Judge Yates today appealed to the War Department for 1000 to 1500 more troops to patrol the lower Rio Grande Valley. He also asked Governor Ferguson, of Texas, for as sistance and was assured the. Gover nor would do everything in his power to obtain additional troops. GERMAN EXPLAINS DEFEAT Kaiser Is Advised Force In Africa Was Surrounded. BERLIN, via London, Aug. 3. The Emperor, it is officially announced, has received a dispatch from Dr. Seitz, governor-general of German Southwest Africa, explaining his surrender to General Louis Botha early In July. Dr. Seitz says that the surrender was due to the fact that further successful re sistance was impossible, as the Ger man colonial force was surrounded by enemies greatly superior in numbers and cut off from the base of supplies. The condition of the horses, for which no oats were available for sev eral months, he added. Tendered it hopeless to attempt to break through the enemy lines. CITY TO TEACH JOURNALISM Xew Course Is Added to High School of San Diego. :.SAN DIEGO, Cal., Aupr. 3. The es tablishment of a department of Jour nalism and printing- at the high school as a regular part of the curriculum has been announced by the . Board of Education. Charles G. Rowan, a San Diego newspaper man of many years' experience, has been chosen as head of the department. The term will begin August 30. A small" newspaper and commercial printing plant will be installed and everything connected with the publica tion of a modern newspaper will be taught. WOMEN URGE PREPARATION Appeal Made to Sex's Instinct Sel f - Preserva t Ion. of NEW YORK, Aug. 3. The Special Relief Society of which Mrs. William Alexander, of this city, is the presi dent announced today the beginning of a campaign "to arouse women of Amer ica to a full realization of immediate preparedness" for war. ' A statement issued by the society says that "if war is ever to come the mere Instinct of self-preservation directs that women, too, should be pre pared to defend American ideals ' of liberty, peace and honor." TONGS PLEDGED TO PEACE Los Angeles Chief of Police Slakes Chinese Leaders Shake Hands. LOS ANGELES, Aug. 3. Nipping a projected Chinatown tong war In the bud. Chief of Police Snively summoned to bis office today Wang Kong, head of the Bing Kong tong, and Wang Wing, leader of the Hip Sing tong. together with the principal Chinese merchants. In the presence of Mayor Sebastian, he forced the chiefs of the warring clans to shake bands and agree to perpetual peace. STRASSBURG IS ATTACKED French Airmen Drop Bombs on . Capital of Alsace-Lorraine. PARIS, Aug. 3. A flotilla of Anglo- French aeroplanes today flew over the German city of Strassburg and dropped bombs, according to a dispatch from Geneva to the Havas Agency. The extent of the damage caused by the explosion of the missiles haa not yet been ascertained. Strassburg Is the capital of Alsace- Lorraine and lies 80 miles southeast of the German fortress of Metz. SWEDEN DETAINS CARGOES American Wheat for Malmo Found to Be Intended for Germany. COPENHAGEN, via London, Aug. 3. The Malmo (Sweden) correspondent of the Berlingske Tidende telegraphs that several ships laden with wheat from America have been detained. It was discovered that the wheat, which was consigned to & Malmo mer chant, was destined to Germany. OSTEOPATHS TREAT ii TroublesSaidtoBeDue to Sudden. Jolts. ' THEORY MAY AFFECT SUITS Blind Demonstrator Sho Difficult Operation. . s PLEASURE MOMENTS FEW Scores - of Clinic. Cases Handled, Including Straightening of Spine for Woman; Excursion Set for - Today to Bonneville. Surgical science, as applied by osteo paths, may bring about an upheaval in legal strategy as a result of demon strations and operations being per formed in Portland during the National convention of the American Osteopathic Society. Certain anatomical conditions which. It is declared have been held im possible by the "ol3 school" of sur gery experts, do exist, according to delegates in attendance at the conven tion and demonstrations now under way daily at the clinics in the local hos pitals, and may bring about a revolution in the decision of courts in many cases of personal injury against railways and other corporations, it is declared by delegates attending. Chief of these existing anatomical conditions demonstrated is the possi bility of an anterior lesion of the in nominate, which in plain English has to do with bone structure displacement n the hip region. It has in the past been declared impossible for a lesion of this particular kind to exist. Osteo paths attending Jhe convention deny the statement and say they do exist, and that several cases . now ar.e hing ing on this vital question. . Lectures and Clinics Divide Crowd. The second day . of the convention, which' is on at the Multnomah iHotel, threw the delegates iiito actual work. Lectures, cflnies, addresses and exhib its demanded attention ' in a hundred places at one time, but the work is being spread out. so that the 6S0 or more delegates -who are attending have recourse to practical ' and theoretical work in whatever branch they may be interested. ' : Leading specialists say the conven tion promises to mark an epoch in. the art of healing, as demonstrations now being pronounced here will go -down on record as facts, whereas heretofore I hey have been largely concealed dur ing the preliminary experlmetal stages in the offices of the individuals con cerned. Heretofore the knowledge has been in the process of .being proved. The convention in Portland will de clare the facts obtained thereby to the world. Physician Arts as I'ntlent. Dr. H. H. Fryette. of Chicago, head of the department of technique in the Chicago School of Osteopathy, demon strated yesterday the process of cor recting a lesion of the innominate, his patient being Pr. Chester Parrish, of Whitewater. Wis. Technically , the condition is desig nated as an anterior lesion of the In nominate, which was explained for the benefit of the layman as an upward and forward displacement of the hip bone. Owing to the general conforma tion. of the hip bone, it was held, up to a few years ago, in the accepted works on anatomy that such 'a dis placement could not possibly occur. Osteopaths declared that it could oc cur in certain cases, and their position is upheld, they say. In later textbooks on anatomy, thus overturning' one of the strongholds of defence of many a corporation In personal injury cases. For, it appears, one can receive such a lesion in. Jumping on me streetcar or in stepping from a Jitney bus, or in ny circumstance that may bring one heavily to the ground and throw a sudden strain. upon the thigh bbne'and the hip. . , ..,'.'. In handling the clinical demonstra tion yesterday. Dr. Fryette was as sisted by Dr. F. D. Teeter, of Daven port. Wash., an osteopath who ' is totally blind, but who has had marked. success in his profession. This dem onstration was one of the most impor tant in the clinics yesterday and the room was packed with spectators, who applauded with enthusiasm when, after a' series of careful manipulations, the demonstrator, with a sudden jerk of the patient's leg, snapped the mis-' placed bone into its proper place.' Dr. Fryette. will demonstrate the Lorenz operation for remedy of con genital hip dislocation. Woman's Spine Corrected. Dr. R- Kennedy Smith, of Boston, and Drv C. H. Spencer, of Los Angeles, held,xlinlcs yesterday ' afternoon on the diagnosis of orthopedic eases, and next Thursday,. Dr. Smith will demon strate a Lorenz operation at the Good Samaritan Hospital. One of the striking cases at. the clinic at the Good Samaritan Hospital yesterday was Dr. George Laugblin. of Kirksville. ,Mo., who operated on a young woman for correction of a seri ous spinal curvature. Dr. Laughlin has performed success fully more than 2000 operations of. this, nature, the operation consisting of. a radical and immediate straightening of the crooked spine, which will be ol lowed by three months encasement of the patient "in a cast, after which the (Continued on. pace, 12, . Column 1.). . HEW BOIIEAILIIIT V t