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1 ' ' . .i w ' .... i , , - PORTLAND. QREOOy, THURSDAY, AUGUST 5, 1915. RICE FIVE CENTS. GERMANY FIRM IN FRYECASE Pay Offered, but Violation of Rights Is Denied. - EARLY PROPOSAL ACCEPTED Adjustment of Damages by Commission of Experts Declared Agreeable. TREATY POINTS ARGUED Construction of Compact Ex actly Opposite to That of United States. WASHINGTON. Aug. 4- Germany Is unyielding in her refusal to con cede that the sinking of the American ailing ahip William P. Frye by the auxiliary cruiser Prim Eitel Frieder fch in the South Atlantic last Janu ary was a violation of American rights under the Prussian-American treaty or of international law. In reply to the last representations f the United States, the German Foreign Office, in a note made public here tonight by the State Department, reiterates a previous justification of Germany's course, declares again her willingness to pay for the ship, and accepts a proposal first advanced by the United States that the amount of damages be fixed by two experts, One to be selected by each country. Stipulation Is Made. Such a sum the German government pledges itself to pay promptly, with the stipulation, however, that the pay ment shall not be viewed as a satis faction for violation of American rights. Should that method be unsat isfactory, Germany invites the United States to arbitration at The Hague. The unofficial view here is that reparation through a commission of experts probably will be satisfactory to the United States, with the express provision, however, that it is not a wahrer of treaty rights for which the American Government contends, but applies only to the matter of damages. Crssatioa to Be Insisted On. It is practically certain that if the United States allows the dispute to go to The Hague for interpretation of the treaty provision, or continues the academic discussion of principles through the channel of diplomacy, it will insist that meanwhile Germany refrain from violation of what the United States contends are its rights. The entire dispute revolves about Article 13 of the Prussian-American treaty of 1799, which was revived and included in the treaty of 1828. That article, the United States contends, specifically protected the William P. Frye from being sunk, although it did not protect a contraband cargo. Ger many takes precisely an opposite view. contending that the article only obli gates her to pay damages. Ship Held Liable to Confiscation. Furthermore. Germany replies that as the Frye's cargo of wheat destined to England was contraband, the ship was liable to confiscation, and that as an attempt to take the prize into a German port would have imperiled her captor, the destruction of the Frye "was according to general prin ciples of international law." "The right of sinking," says the German note, "is not mentioned in the treaty, and is therefore neither ex pressly permitted nor expressly pro hibited, so that on this point the party stipulations must be supplemented by the general rules of international law. It is not disputed by the American Government that according to the gen era! principles of international law a belligerent is authorized in sinking neutral vessels, under almost any con ditions, for carrying contraband. German Interpretation Presented. The note argues at length for the German interpretation of the disputed treaty provision, contending that its intent is to establish a reasonable com promise between the military interests of the belligerent contracting party and the commercial interests of the neutral party. "On the one hand," says the note, the belligerent party is to have the right to prevent the transportation of war supplies to his adversaries, even when carried on vessels of the neutral nmrtv: on the other band the com merce and navigation of the neutral party is to be interfered with as little as possible by the measures necessary TOO MANY FRILLS LAID TO SCHOOLS EVEUr-DAY OCCUPATIOSAIj ED UCATIOX DECLAKED NEED. Race Betterment Speaker Also Make Plea for Recognition- of Sentiment In 3farrlage Choice. SAN FRANCISCO. Aug-. . There ara too many frllla In tha public schools and not enough Instruction along- prac tical lines, according to Dr. Samuel Q. Dixon. Commissioner of Health for Pennsylvania, whose paper on "Raca Betterment" waa part of tha pro gramma today at the opening session of tha National Conference on Race Betterment. "The curriculum now used by our educator.' Dr. Dixon eald. "demands radical alteration. We are teaching too much theory an4 not enough of the practical, everyday occupations." Dr. Dixon also discussed eugenics from the standpoint of sentiment. -We cannqt afford." he declared, "to discourage sentiment in selection tor marriage." v Edgar I Hewett. director of the United States bureau of ethnology, discussing the Mexican situation, said that It would be a mistake for the United States to attempt to give the Mexican people a civilisation accord ing to American Ideas. The Lnltea States, he said, should have no Mex ican policy until the Mexican was oet- ter understood. DOMINIONS TO HAVE VOICE Booar Law Hints All Britons Will Take Part In Making Peace. LONDON. Aug. . -Andrew Bonar taw. Secretary for the Colonies, speaking at Folkestone tonight, said It was his belief that as a result or the war the time would come, and come soon, when the whole self-governing dominions in proportion to their population and resources would Uke their part in the duties of governing- the British Etnplre. It was already understood, he aaaeo. that when the time came for peace negotiations the dominions would have their say in those negotiations. WESTERN TRAVEL GROWS Exposition Attendance Expected to Increase Vntll Close, SAV "RANCtSCO. Aur. 4. Average dally attendance during July at. the Panama-Paclflo imposition was an nounced today as 9.01 In a statement which predicted gradually Increasing attendance until tba closing .date. De cember 4. tour months from today. The dally average since the opening, Feb? ruary M. was ftl.XfS. Statistical Information from rail roads, state commissions and other sources. It was said, showed travel from the Middle West In particular would grow larger during the next four months. BUSINESS 0N UPGRADE Full Measure of Improvement Malts on Marveat Time. . WASHINGTON. Aug. 4. General business conditions throughout the country continue to show Improve ment, but until crops ara harvested the full measure of this Improvement cannot bo Judged, according to the monthly bulletin of tha Federal Re serve Board Issued today. Crop prospects are unusually bright and In several reserve districts war orders have brought a boom to many Industries. DISTINGUISHED h A ':' ' (wo' . :- :m ' TrTeat of . EUROPE'S WAR LOSS TOTALS 14, Dead Alone Estimated at 5,290,000. AUSTRIA IS WORST SUFFERER Number of Killed Is Almost Equal to That of Wounded. FIGURES. SINCE SWELLED FVench Ministry's Compilation Is . Carried to May SI Price Paid by Serbia and .Soldiers on Sick List Not Included. PARIS. Aug. 4. (Special..) The losses of Europe in the present war up to May II. as compiled by the French Ministry of War. are as fol lows: Killed. Wounded. Prisoners. Total. France. 4(i.no emooo 180.000 1.3o,ooo Ensl'nd JM.Ot0 JuO.OOO 90.0.KI fjl.OO" H-rm 40.0OO 4U.UO0 1S.OOO 113.0(H) Rueala. l.IWi.Ooo l.Si).ml 8"0.O0O S.TSO.OrtO Germ'y. l.atO.OrtO l.Skft.OnO .190.000 4.O0O.OK Austria. 1.H10.OO0 l.i.o0 Slo.000 4.3S5.00O Turkey. 110.000 144.O0O 03. OOP S4D.0OU Totals5.HK.0O0 e.478.0OO J.630.000 14.308.000 Serbia's Lesa Alsa Larse. This table originally was prepared for publication, but finally was with held because authorities feared the enormity of figures might have bad a bad moral effect upon the popula tion. The computations, while prob ably not exact may be taken as the most complete record of losses which has been put together. The losses of Serbia are not .available, but as that country has suffered from plague In addition to the war, these must be con siderable. The largest total loss is charged to Austria-Hungary; the largest propor tionate loss to Belgium. The number of killed In Europe up to May SI was S.I0.00. or enough Individuals to pop ulate a country like Sweden. Since May II there have- been many violent bat tles to swell the totals given here. Dead Alsaast ICsjaal WoaarfeeU The French offensive north of Arras, where 15.000 are said to have been lain; the Austro-Italian engagements, the great battle in Galicia and the Ger man offensive In the Argon ne, all go to swell the totals, and the war is not over. The most astounding feature of this table la the ratio of killed to wounded. In previous modern wars the number of wounded has been to the number of dead as four or five to one. Here tbe t categories are approxi mately equal. Many of the wounded have rejoined their regiments, but many ara crippled for life. Tbe sick, who have been nu merous In all armies, are not listed here. Mine Pays Big Dividend. WALLACE. Idaho, Aug. 4. (Special.) A special dividend of $78,000. or 7 cents per share, has been declared for the month by the Heel a Mining Com pany. This makes a grand total for the year of im.OOO paid by the Hecla, or a total since production commenced of IJ J75.000. SPECIALISTS AND GRADUATES 398.000 I i 1 INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS Tbe Weather. -YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 82 decrees; minimum. 85; clear. TODAY'S Fair, northwesterly winds. War. Europe's total war loss already exceeds 14.000.000. Pae 1. Berlin knows nothing- of report of Warsaw and la after bluer came. Pass 2. Mexico. : American diplomatic mesaenser describes outrases by Zapata soldiers. Pare a, XatlonaL 1 Germany maintains no rliht was violated by elnktof Frye. but otters to pay for ship. Pace 1. Border reinforced on ee of conference re garding Mexico. Page S. Domestic. Schools declared to have too many frills. Page i. Erie's loas by flood and fire estimated at S3.000.000. Psge 1. Sport. ; Pacific Coaet League results: Los An geles . Portland -; San Francisco 0. Salt Lake 4: Oakland . Vernon 2. Page 14. Boston Braves, with IS games won In laat 21 bidding for National League pennant. Pa'gs 14. Rheumatism may fores Hammond to bench for remainder of season. Page 14. Mlas Stella Fording, ot Portland, beaten at Tacoma tennis tourney. Page IS. Commercial and Marine. Western wools selling freely In Eastern mar kets. Page 15. , Wheat advances sharply at Chicago on black rust reports. Page 15. Called (States still leads in Wsll-street activity. - Page IS. Forty-four grain vessels are dus to load cereal at Portland. Pags 10. Portland and Vicinity. Deputy County Clerk discharged on charge of Improper Interest in Dodge case. Page Id. Chairman Tillman, of Senate Naval affairs committee, favors great Navy Yard at Bremerton. Page B. Democratic Senators look for no special ses sion. Psge . Manarer Cord ray entertains 11,417 tots at Oaks. Pags S. Ex-offlclal ot Caehler Company will testify for defense. Page 10. Ex-Oovernor Slaton, who saved Leo Frank from gallows, visits Portland. Page S. Osteopaths predict decresse In surgical op eration Pags 4. "Slnslng Parson" may lose pulpit for appear ing on stsgs st Empress. Page 4. Weather report, data and forecast. Pags 15. LOST TITLE VALUED AT $50 Rev. It. K. Richardson Asks City to Pay for Injury at Tennis. Alleging; that Injuries sustained while playing; tennis on the Sell wood Park tennis court July 17, resulted In his losing the tennis championship of the state. Rev. L. K. Richardson, ex tennis champion, has filed with the city a claim for J50 damages. Rev. Mr. Richardson says that he was giving in structions in tennis at the request of the Sellwood Park Playground direc tors at the' time of the accident,' and that be stepped into a bole back of tbe baseline of the court and wrenched his ankle. In addition to the accident Spoiling his chances for successfully defending tbe Oregon state tennis title. Rev. Mr. Richardson says that he was caused to be absent from his pulpit for two Sundays. JAILBREAK BAKER'S FIRST Trnrty About to Be Dismissed and Anotlter Prisoner Escape. BAKER. Or, Aug-. 4. (Special.) The first Jallbreak in thte history of Baker County took place here last night, when Ralph Harris, held to the grand Jury on a forgery charge, and Joe Valmlta, charged with burglary, es caped from the County Jail by prying off two Iron bars from a window and sliding SO feet down a wire cable. The escape was discovered this morning when the rope was seen hanging from the window. The men squeexed through a space V4 by 10 Vi inches. . Harris was a trusty and a movement was under way to dismiss the charge against him. OF PIONEER INSTITUTION ERIE'S FLOOD LOSS PUT AT $3,000,000 21 Dead Listed, Many More Missing. STORM IS WORST IN HISTORY Three Hundred Housv.o5' ana Fifty Stores Swept Away. MILITIA GUARDING SCENE Freaks of Flood Xumeroos Auto mobiles, Seemingly Undamaged, Are Found Resting , in . Tops of Trees. ERIE, Pa., Aug. 4. Erie had listed 27 dead tonight In the mile-long wreck age strewn path through the heart of the city, swept' by last night's flood. Little impression was made on the vast amount of wreckage, piled in places 100 feet high, and believed by the Coroner and others to conceal as many more victims. The work of recovery will be slow. It may take a week to turn over the debris. Damage Estimated at 3,OO0,O0. The early estimate of property loss, placed at 13.000,000. was not changed today by Fire Chief McMahon after he had received reports from big manu facturing plants in the flood sone. He said that 300 houses and 50 store build ings were demolished by the waters of Mill Creek, sent out of its bank by a cloudburst and the bursting of the Glenwood dam. The city's loss on damaged culverts, bridges and the water supply plant will be heavy. There was a semblance of normal condition- tonight in the city, which last night was in the . grasp of the most destructive rainstorm in the memory of the oldest inhabitant. SS Trains Are Released. The Lake Shore Railway was able at noon to resume Us through passen ger service between New Tork and Chi cago. 15 trains stalled on the outskirts of this city since early last night get ting away. Light and power plants re sumed .operations, but telephone and telegraph communication with the out side world was still subject to much de lay. Three morgues in widely separated sections of the flood sone were besieged by thousands throughout the day. Men, women and children watched the searchers and when they saw a body uncovered would rush to the morgue to which it waa taken to learn if it was that of a missing one. Then all but a few would return to their vigil at the ravine. City Pats eta Meurnlns. This city went into mourning- when it awoke to a full realization of the extent of the disaster. All the depart ment stores and business houses on State street were closed and the people opened their hearts and purses to the flood sufferers. Relief funds were started, charitable societies sent food and the city authorities opened houses for those who had lost their own. May or Stern 'issued a proclamation calling on the people to show their generosity (Osncloded on Page 2. Column 2.) ATTEND NATIONAL OSTEOPATHIC Wednesday's War Moves nr FTER having tried for three, weeks f to force the Russians to evacuate Warsaw and the Polish salient' by en circling movements from the north and pressure from the west, "the Austro Germans have " begun attacks on the fortresses of the capital and those of Lomia and Ostrolenka, to the north east, and Ivangorod to the southeast. Berlin now asserts that the Russians have been driven back to the advanced defenses of Lomza; that the Narew had been crossed near . Ostrolenka; that, driven out of their Blonie posi tions A" ssians have fallen back frtj5 JV i "nes of Warsaw, which c vons are attacking, and that 0viAu8trians have captured the west ern part Ul LIl C iviuvao vfc a.h&w.w. Thus what should prove a decisive battle for the Polish capital has be gun in earnest. Reports meanwhile are current that the Russians already have completed, or nearly completed. Its evacuation. In the meantime, Field Marshal von Mackensen is slowly advancing from the southeast between the Vistula and the Bug In an effort to cut off the Russian armies, which apparently are making a leisurely exit from Warsaw and the western lilies; while General von Buelow, in his wider encircling movement through Courhind, has reached Kuplschki. some 50 miles west of Dvinsk, on the Vilna-Petrograd Railway. Although the operations of Von Mackensen and Von Buelow appear to offer the most dangerous threats to the retiring Russian armies, the Rus sian general staff is paying more at tention to Field Marshal von Hlnden burg, who has been trying with more or less success to force the line of the Narew. . Here the Russians are offer ing the most stubborn resistance and, according to an official dispatch from Petrograd, In two battles of three days each succeeded in checking the Ger mans and inflicting . heavy losses on them. The Russians also admit se vere casualties. When the dispatch was sent a third battle was in progress. Berlin asserts that in this battle the Germans have been successful and 'have forced a crossing of the Narew near Ostrolenka. On the whole, the Russians, so far as can be gathered from the official reports, are making an extremely or derly retirement. They are losing comparatively few prisoners and, ex cept for the 32 guns abandoned to the west of Ivangorod, the Germans make no claims to the capture of heavy pieces of artillery. -A French prize court has confirmed the, seizure of the American steamer Dacia, loaded, with cotton for Germany. It is expected that the United States Government will protest the decision, which carries with it the seizure of the steamer, but not of her cargo. An appeal would be a test case of the right of a neutral country to grant registry to a ship owned by a belligerent. New moves of the greatest Import ance are expected in the near east. Ministers of Great Britain, France, Russia and Italy have had a confer ence with the Greek government. A dispatch from Paris says that an Ital ian officer recently arrived at British headquarters in the Mediterranean to arrange for this. On the diplomatic side of the war Germany, in a note to the American Government, adheres o her previous contention that the sinking of the American ship William P. Frye, laden with wheat for England, was Jutifiable and not in contravention of the Prussian-American treaty or international law. Germany again offers to pay for the ship and accepts the American pro posal that the amount of damages be fixed by two experts, one to be selected by each country. - CONVENTION. LESS USE- OF KNIFE PREDICTED AT CUE Surgery Challenged by. Noted Osteopaths. GOITER RELIEF IS AHNClJ Many Appendicitis Operations " Said to Be Unnecessary. CHILDREN'S ILLS TREATED Demonstrators Say Afflictions of Ear, Eye, Xose or Throat Do Not Require Surgery and Sfethod of Cure Is Pointed Out. Relief for ills commonest of con tributing causes to human unhappiness received the bulk of attention at the clinics yesterday of the American Os teopathic Association's National con vention In Portland. Less use of the knife for appendicitis, surer relief for the much-offending goiter, were among the hopeful prom ises of the manipulating and surgical experts who are in the city demonstrat ing the application of osteopathic sci ence. Surgical removal of adenoids and tonsils among the most common treat ment for ailing children will be less common as the science of osteopathy spreads and is developed, according to the leaders at the clinics. Clinics Spread Information. Each of these clinics yesterday had a practical bearing on the health of the masses as differentiated from the health of the classes. The clinics took up common dreaded ailments and pronounced the osteopathic, benedic tion on them in demonstrations, opera tions and in a series of lectures. The National convention of the os toepaths Is a veritable clearing-house of information. At this annual meet ing the results of years of study us ually are brought forward, and in Port land the accomplishments, some of which are more or less new In the health-restoring world, have been many. Old-School Methods Chancered. . Osteopathy was held to contain all the elements of a complete therapeutic system, as expounded by its founder, and old-school methods, especially in treatment of eye, ear. nose and throat diseases, and of appendicitis and other acute abdominal diseases, were chal lenged by the leading osteopathlsts c the United States during the '-. Their challenges were backed up with clini cal demonstrations on a score r- -lore cases. v All of this was done in spite of the fact that yesterday was schedu for the "quiet day" of the convention, since arrangements had been made to give over the afternoon to an excur sion up the Columbia River arfl the evenl' class and fraternity re unions. I),. iitrators Relieved Seldom. The fact that it was the slack day of the convention, however, did not bring about a jot of relaxation in the working energy of all of the "' '-"and convention departments right up to the hour when the delegates left to take the train for Bonneville. Even after their return from the excursion part of the evening was devoted to further clinical work, in spite of the various reunion meetings that were scheduled to be held In different parts of the hotel. Dr. T. J. Ruddy, of Los Angeles, was especially prominent in the clinics of yesterday morning, giving practical demonstration of his assertions that surgery and medication are of sec ondary Importance in the treatment of afflictions of the nose and throat. Operations Called Vanecessary. Excision of tonsils and surgical re moval of adenoids he held to be un necessary, and the treatment of deaf ness by the use of drugs ir. the eustachian tube he declared to be an uncertain and unsafe method. "Osteopathy shuns surgery and drugs in nearly all of these cases," he said. "Don't cut away the swollen parts in the nose or throat; retain them for the purpose for which they were put there and correct the causes of their diseased condition." Liberation of the blood supply to the diseased parts in cases of nose and throat trouble, by osteopathic treat ment and manipulation ot the con trolling nerve centers will, he main tained, in all but extreme and unusual cases, produce cures. Deaf Cases Are Treated. Dr. Ruddy demonstrated his methods on a great number of cases in the clinic yesterday morning, especially in his treatment of deafness by osteopathic handling, and relief was apparent in the majority of the cases handled. Dr. W. V. Goodfellow also demonstarted in eye, ear, nose and throat clinic. The rapidity and deftness of these operators made it possible for them to handle a larger number of cases yester day morning in the clinics than have been treated in those of preceding days. While the clinical demonstrations were being made, addresses on surgery and Its relation to osteopathy were being made by some of the leading men of the United States' in the profession. Dr. J. Foster McXary, of Milwaukee, admitted that the knife is sometimes necessary In treatment of appendicitis. (.Continued on l'a , Culumu 1-1 " iCeadudel i. Co I ma .)