Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937, August 20, 1915, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextPORTLAND, OREGON, FRIDAY. AUGUST 20, 1915. PRICE FIVE CENTS. VOL. IAV-NO. 17.079. ARABIC IS SLINK BY White Star Liner Has 26 Americans on Board. DEATH UST BELIEVED 32 Onfy Six of Passengers Miss ing: Third Engineer Among .i Those Thought Lost. TOTAL ON BOARD IS 423 Vessel Is Attacked Without Warning. Westward Bound. Off Irish Coast. LONDON. Aug. 2. Th biff White Star Lino steamer Arabic, formerly a fsTorrto ship of th Liverpool-Bout on aorviro. bat which on her present trip u on th way to New York, was torpedoed and sunk by a German sub marine at 9:15 o'clock Thursday morn ing southeast of Fastnct. The steamer, according to a state ment of the White Star Line, was at tacked without warning; and went down in II minutes Of tha 4-3 per sons on board l?l passengers and .U members of the crew 32 are musing anj are believed to have per ished. Sis Paanengrrs Are Missing. Mont of thone who h e not been ac counted for belong to the crew. Only six of the passengers are reported missing. There were only 24 citiiens of the I'nited State on hoard. heina- in the second cabin and four in the steer are. The Arabic carried no first-class! rasserirers. bavin r lately been turned into a two-class liner. Survivors Reach Qurenstown. The survivors left the steamer in the ship's boats and were picked up later by passing vessels, arriving- in Queenstown tonight- They are being accommodated by the White Star Line In hotels and boarding-houses in the little town, which so short a time ago cared for the survivors and the dead of the Lusitani. Details of the sinking of the Arabic are lacking, but that the loss of life was not greater doubtless was due to the fact that the weather was fine and that steamers plying in th German submarine war tone now keep their boats swung out and otherwise are prepared for emergencies. Submarine Marksmanship A cm rite. The torpedo that sank the Arabic struck her on the starboard side, 100 feet from the stern. The vessel had left Liverpool Wednesday and taken a southerly course, well off the Irish Cfa.it, doubt less with a view of avoiding the sub marines, which frequent the waters nearer the shore. When some 50 miles west of where the Luitania was sunk in May, the German underwater boat rose to the surface and launched a torpedo. The marksmanship of the Germans, as in th case of the Lusitani. was deadly accurate and. like the Lusitanta. the big liner quickly settled down and shortly di.vppeared from view. Some of the survivors, according to report received here, say that they had just witnessed the torpedoing of a British steamer, presumably the Dunstey, and that this had caused great alarm on board th Arabic. In their fright the passengers had rushed for life pre servers and had barely adjusted them! . . . when th German submarine turned I its torpedo against the vessel's side. Lifr beats Quickly Launched. Ten lifeboats and several life rafts I were quickly got ever the side of the steamer and into these a large num ber of the passengers and members of the crew scrambled. Many of the passer j-ers. however, fell into the wa ter, but they got hold of the rafu and later were rescued. One woman who fell into the sea screamed pitifully for. he'p. Two sailors swam to her as SUBUNE sistance and succeeded in lifting her' upon a raft. Amcng those who were rescued: were: Captain Will Finch, commander I ef the Arabic, all the deck officers,! , ! the chief engineer, the surgeon, the; parser, the assistant purser, the chief' tCaauaae Fags Coluraa 2) EVANGELIST LEADS TEAM TO VICTORY BILLT SCNDAT STARTS 4J-TO-1 MX) RE Ton 3UXISTEKS. Hood River Bankers 'Are Defeated In t'nlque Rati Gam. Played With Tbfrroororlrr Registering 94. HOOD RIVER. Or, Aug. II. (Spe cial. ) Tb presence of Billy Sunday. mho play.d hi. old position la cnlr field. vk.ro to was making a rputa lioa with lb Chicago Whit. Hox at th. tint of Ma conversion, waa th. Inspire tloa of a lua of Hood River mlola- t.ra, who today d.feat.d tha Hood l:iv.r Bank.ra' t.am. 41 to 1. la on. of th. boh onlqu. baseball cam.. vr fr!aad la Hood RlTtr. R.t. Mr. Sunday mad a lb first Bit and tha flrat acora for hi team. Six of tha total maa war marked to bta credit, and a fir never Mcaped him. Th. fcal oa tha open diamond waa l.rrlfle. tha thermometer registering tl degree In tha sun. Oaa of tha raln i.t.rs. Kv. W. P. KUk, waa overcoat for a time. tt MI. ha praplr.d frly. tha noted .v.ngcllsl waa apparently aa (rash when ha entered hi. aatomoblla to re turn to bis Od.ll boroa aa wh.n ba b f aa tha asm. PORTLAND HASWARM DAY Mercarjr Ilearbe Irrgree and Humidity la High. Yesterday was August's hottest day. so far. a maximum teinperatora of harm bean registered at 3 o'clock, and tha thermometer continued at that point until aft.r 4 o'clock. This was not th botteat day for tha Summer, however, aa even li degrees bavins; bean registered by th. Weather Bu reau thermometer last month. Humid ity waa bleh slerdy. official records showing Hourly temperatures yesterday are given by th Weather Uuraa.u aa fol lows: ft A. M ai It !.... a A. i I r. . ..as ...a; ...w ...o .. .0 ...s t a. M e- s l". VI A. M r- s p. at. . : p. T4 I P. M . To a r. at.. I to A. V.. II A. at.. SMOKE LAID TO SLASHINGS Officials Say Hase Over Cily Doe to Forest lire. Not (ttnoke that haa clouded Portland skies for the past few days la not tha rasurt of forest fire, according to 1 officials of tha Forestry Department I In their opinion most of th smoke comes from private slashings, that are burned In tha driest weather by farm- era close to town. No bis fires have bean reported to th forestry officials of this district for several weeks. Several small flraa resulted from a recent electrical storm In th Cascade range, but only one haa Sained any headway. WHISKY MADE IN" PRISON Potato and fruit Concocllou Is Bar tered for Tobacco. STOCKTON. CaL. Aug. 1. Edward Brown, ex-convict, sentenced to four yeara In Kan yu.ntlo for burclaxy by Judge Norton today, explained on tha w Itn.ss-stand that a certain kind of whisky la made and sold resularly within the walla of Folsom and San Quentln prisons. Tha Juice of potatoes and fruiie ar used In preparing tha concoction, ha say a. Tha beverase la tradAJ to offenders for chewing; and smoking tobacco. Urnwn. three montba ao. finished a to-)ear term at Kolaom. SHIP TRIMMINGS ARE FUEL Itrltloh tVeiglitcr's Coal Is I'aed Vp erral Data Front Port. HONOIA'IX". T. IU Aug. Three data late and burning; tha wooden trim mings from her devks to keep up steam In her boilers, the Brlllaft freighter Calliope came into port today. De layed by rough weather, th Calliope ran short of coal several daya ago, and fma-ly In captain resorted to nsing parts of th .re trimmings. Th Calliope Is bound for New Tork with hemp from Cebu. Philippine I'lands. by way of tha Tananva CanaL She was Zt daya In making- Honolulu. FRANCIS JOSEPH IS 85 German Jtulrr aud Princes Send Telegrams of lYIcudshlp. AMSTERDAM. Aug. II. via London. Aug. It. Tha 5th birthday of Emperor Francis Joseph waa celebrated today In '.. . " .,, .. Vienna and Berlin. Emperor W llllam and all the German princes sent tele grams to the ruler of Austria-Hungary a,uritin warm and nnheeakahl fn.ndshlp "In the good and bad for tunes of tbe war." Emperor William ordered that the Austrian flag be dlspla)d In all Ger man cltlea. STROMBOLI IN ERUPTION !ava Forms Lake of Fire De-tween Crater aud Sea. , . , MESSIXA, Sicily, via Taris. Aug. 19. Tne ch(.f .i4nal officer at th. Island of stromboll reports th. eruption of a large quantity of 4ava from Stromboll Te"in Tb. lav Is forming a lake of nr between the craters and the s. Th, .mission of lava is accompanied by loud detonation aad clouds of B m ok ATTACK ARABIC STIRS WASHINGTON Incident Regarded as Violation of Rights. LANSING'S NOTE IS RECALLED "Deliberately Unfriendly" Is Warning Characterization. ACTION IS IN ABEYANCE Drastic Steps Improbable) If No American Live Lost Other, wise Diplomatic Relations May B Severed. WASHINGTON. Aug. I. News of th torpedoing of th British steamer Arabic, of tha Whit Star Una. with Americana on board, cam as a shock to officials of tha United Statea Gov eminent, who bad hoped sine th dla patch of the last American not there would b no further aggravation of an already tens situation between tha United Statea and Uennany. Official Information waa meager, and It waa only through preaa dlapatobes that It waa heard her that tha vessel waa torpedoed without warning. While It waa recognised that a canvass of the survivors might reveal that no Amer ican Uvea were lost, th torpedoing without warning of a vesael carrying Americana liae itaelf bean pronounced by th United Statea Government aa a violation of Its rights, which. If re pealed, would be regarded as "dellb erately unfriendly." L-a Y .rrfs KcewlledU In th last not to Germany, which It waa generally accepted waa th final word on th princlplea of tha question from th United States, Secretary Lansing used th following language In referring to vlolatlona of American rights In th war sona: -Friendship Itself prompt It (th United Statea Government) to aay to th Imperial government that repetition by Ui commander of German naval vessels of acts In contravention of those rights must b regarded by the Government of the United Statea, when they affect American citizens, as de liberately unfriendly. DlplasaatJe Raptar Possible. What th course of the United States would b no official would predict, because of th absence of detailed in formation. It must bo established au thoritatively whether any warning was given and whether the vesael attempt ed to escape. If no American Uvea were lost. It waa thought In most quartera tonight that drastic steps were im probable; but In th event Americans were drowned, a rupture of diplomatic relations was everywhere discussed as likely. The attack on tbe Arabic came with out official Intimation from Berlin that submarine commanders would persist In torpedoing; ships without' warning, j (Continued on Pag. Column 2 INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS Tha Veulur. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature to degrees; minimum. as cegr.es. TODAY'S Friday fur. northerly winds.. Arable. N.w York office, of lin. wholly unpre pared for am, Pag 2. Whit. Ktar liner Arabic sunk by submarine Pas. U Washington, .hocked by disaster, await da tum rag. x. List of American survivors flTfln. Fag. S Cardinal Beraflne Vannotelll dies. War. Pag. ft. Germans continue pursuit of Tag. S. Deaneetlc, Dead and missing In Texas number 239. Page 1. David B. Johnson' elected president of Na tional Education Association, page a. Eilhq Root elected president of American Bar Assoclsllon. Page ft. Published reports of friction m Oregon building declared untrue, page 14. Sport, - Coast League results: Portland 3t Salt Lak. 1. Vernon 3. Oakland 0; San Francisco 10, Xjo Angeles ft. page 12. Despite speed loss, Matty heida hope. rag 1Z. Johnston loses In great tennis matca. I'sgs IX . Ferlfle Xortbweai. Billy Sunday leads ministers' ball team to 43-to-lo victory. Page 1. Spokane has 1ft announcd candid. tea for three piacea in city council, page ?. Cesnmeretal aad Maria. Spot wheat rests at SS cents at Pendleton. lowest price or year. Pa. 17. War stocks drop two to fire points on news ot cisasler. rsg. li. Good crop reports and news of Arabic cause wheat to sag. Pag. 17. New PSrr-ateCormirk company expects steamers at Portlsnd from San s'nsn- clsco every other day. Page 14. Psrtlaad aad V trinity. Congressional cemmltte. learna of plana to atllls. Columbia, fag. l. S. ' Benson flcee from entertainments at fair. Page 11 Schonl Board Is considering veteran janitor's reinstatement. Page. Chamber sets "Dollar day" for September 23. Pag. 4. Nation's lawyers Invited to Oregon-Washing' too sessions. Pas. 13. 0.-W. R. A N. may start grade ellm Ina- tion work by September 1. Pag. 14. Fuss over Jitney law is due to break In Council today. Page 13. Head of Insurance Association says liquor more cosily to llf. than war. Page 11. Waather report, data and forecast- Page 17. Newsboys Inspect each nook of prison ship. i-sg. la. Judge's charge only due before Cashier esse goes to Jury, rage a. ADMIRAL IS BOMB TARGET Military Governor of Shanghai Hal Narrow Escape. SHANGHAI, China, Aug. 19. An un- eucceasful attempt to assassinate Ad miral Tsen Ju Cheng, military governor of Shanghai and director of th Kl angnan arsenal, by means of a bomb waa made last night. . The Admiral waa at the China mer- cbntg' wharf At midnight bidding fare well to his wife, who was leaving for Tien-Tsin. when the bomb was thrown. narrowly missing Its mark. The bomb exploded with a deafening' report, but the Admiral waa not injured. - His rick shaw coolie was seriously hurt SWISS MAKING MUNITIONS Britain and Germany Hoth Arc Said to Have Placed Orders. GENEVA, via Paris. Aug. 19. The Lausanne Gazette says that the English government has recently placed large orders for ammunition, especially shells. with Swiss factories, aupplying the raw material to tbe Swiss through France, and that Swlsa watchmakers by thou sands are engaged In making the more delicate part of projecitlea. Germany, th Gazette aays, likewise aa placed orders for munitions with Swiss manufacturers. HIS ANSW ER, 259 ARE DEAD AND MISSING IN TEXAS Remote Points Report Heavy Losses. 19 DIE IN RAZED LIGHTHW Houses 100 Miles From Coast Are Wrecked by Wind. MANY SUFFER EXPOSURE Sailor Drifts In on Polo and Tells of Wrecked Dredge Sun Shines Again and Trains Expected Ui Reach Galveston Today. KNOWN DEAD OUTSIDE OF CiLVESTO.V Morgan Point Wallaceville 3 Port Arthur 5 Lynchburg G Anahuac 6 Texas City 32 Surfeide 19 Houston 4 Jennings Landing 2 San Leon Seabrooke -. 2 Cedar Bayou 2 Freeport 1 Sour l.ake - 1 Orange 1 Alvin 1 Han Jacinto Battleground 1 Dickinson 1 Scattered on beaches Total . . Missing . ..101 ..264 HOUSTON, Tex., Aug. 19. Know dead outside of Galveston from Monday night's West Indian hurricane were 101, according to reports here tonight. Missing outside of Galveston were 1S8. Of the missing list it waa feared more than half were dead. Communication with Galveston and fexaa City, a distance of 60 miles from here, continued to be a matter of many hours. It was known that Galveston's loss of life was comparatively light and It was evident that the inland city was not rushing out any appeals for aid. Dead Fund at Remote Points. Remote points on Galveston Bay, a body of water the size of an ordinary county, which penetrates the mainland for 60 miles, began to report today, some of them bringing small quotas of unidentified dead. At Anahuac on this bay, the loss of the United States dredge boat No. 12 waa confirmed, but there was no loss of life, as reported from Beaumont. The loss of life at Anahuac was placed at five. Governor Ferguson, of Texas, who is here to take charge of general relief work, today Issued the following state ment: "I trust the papers of the country will be careful in their statements with reference to conditiona In the l Concluded on Page 3. Column 1.) BUSINESS PART OF SCAPPOOSE BURNS ONLY 1 STORE IS LEFT AFTER EARLY NIGHT FTRE. Loss Is About $15,000 Dynamite Is Used to Stop Flames Portland and St. Helens Send Aid. Fire t"" .j l lodging-house i j-o - Scappoose last . fvrs auicklv spread and t'Tu-i clours 12 buildings had been "f.?k:etft.u. But one store, that of Watts rice, was left standing in the town The loss was estimated last night at 115,000, partially covered by insurance. Efforts to combat the fire were fu tile. The water supply failed, as pipes leading from the city tank broke, and a large force of volunteer firemen, num beiing about 300, confined their efforts to saving goods and household effects, as well as pulling down buildings in the path of the conflagration to eon fine tbe lire In as narrow limlta as pos. slble. Holp ar-lved from St Helens within an hour after the blaze started. The Are company from that city did valiant work, and Engine Company No. 17, Twenty-fourth and Johnson streets, made the run down from this city, ar riving in time to give valuable assist ance. A defective flue in the lodging-house over the restaurant owned by Mrs, Lilly Shell and operated by Mrs. Anna Smith ' is thought to have been the cause of the fire. Mrs. 'Shell's loss is .1000, while the loss to Mrs. Smith is half that sum. Tbe residence of Mrs. Shell was burned with a loss of SSOO The grocery store run by M. Mully was wiped out, with a loss of 24000 A blacksmith shop owned by Henry Lambertson and run by his son, Charles, was burned, the loss being about $800. with an equal sum lost when a dwelling owned by the elder Lambertson was burned. The blacksmith shop was dynamited to check the progress of the fire, and the postofflce, loss 2350, was pulled down for the same reason, but the mail and contents of the building were saved. The loss of Byron Malloy, confection er, was 2500, and Harry West, who lost two dwellings and a barn, set his loss at $1500, his insurance being $S00. The garage of E. Stevens, containing supplies for two cars, which were re moved, was burned, vith a loss of $250. By 10 o'clock last night the fire had burned itself out. all buildings within its reach having been destroyed, leav ing, a blackened, gaping hole in the business center of the town. Most of the burned buildings will, it is under stood, be rebuilt at once. DEER INVADES NEWS OFFICE From Linotypist, Animal Takes Copy and Proceeds on Way. ( ItOSEBUBG, Or., Aus. 19. (Special.) Apparently aware'that the open sea son for deer is on and that hundreds of hunters ate combing the woods In quest of venison, a pet deer belonging to Miss Mary Becker, of this city, to day wandered to . the business district. where It invaded the editorial-rooms of the newspaper conducted by Carl X. Shoemaker, state game warden. The animal nosed its way through the front office and into the mechani cal department, where it watched the linotype operator pounding out a grist of copy. Nipping a couple of copy sheets from the machine, the deer leisurely walked out of the shop. RAILWAY SPENDS MILLIONS O.-W. It- & N. Expenses for 1914 in Three States $15,573,356. Compilations Just completed by the auditing department of the O.-W. R. & N. Company show that during the cal endar year 1914 the company spent for wages, '.axes, construction and other purposes incident to the conduct of its business in Oregon, Washington and Idaho, an aggregate of $15,573,355.92, the equivalent of $50,S9?.30 for each I working day of the year. This information is being presented to patrons of the company to inform them of the important part the rail road Plays in maintaining the indus trial Integrity of the community. MINES EMPLOYING GUARDS Coeur d'Alene Producers of Munl- tions Minerals Take Precaution. SPOKANE, Wash., Aug. 19. (Spe cial.; Companies operating mining roperties in the Coeur d'Alenes, es pecially those producing zinc, which is in demand for war munitions, are said to be employing detectives to guard their workings, according to Spokane reports today. No attempts have been made either to bring about labor troubles or to impede production so far as any of the people concerned will admit, but the precaution is considered advisable to prevent the possibility. OCCUPATION TAX PLAN Taconia Faces Loss .of 2)140,000 When Saloon Revenue Is Gone. TACOMA, Wash, Aug. 19. (Special.) To make up revenues amounting to about $140,000 that will be lost next year because of state-wide prohibition. the City Council has instructed the City Attorney to draft an ordinance modeled on Portland's occupation tax law. Lawyers, doctors, dentists, realty agents. Insurance agents and all lines of business and professional men and women will be taxed In amounts rim ing from $10 quarterly for doctors. lawyers and dentists up to i'o quar terly for telegraph companies. PLANS TO UTILIZE COLUMBIA LEARNED Harbors Committee at Celilo Hears Needs. CHAIRMAN INSPECTS SHIPPING Delegation From Interior Tell of. Ambitions. CANAL'S VALUE EXPLAINED Lewiston Reports Private Capital Ready to Build Power Dams If Government Pays for Way " to Open River to Vessels. The ambition of. the territory tribu tary to the great Columbia Klver to expand and to develop through water way improvements was unfolded be fore the Congressional rivers and har bors committee, with wonderful con crete demonstrations of work already performed, on the trip to the Celilo Canal yesterday. While the journey was primarily for the purpose of Inspecting the canal, the locks and other improvements that now make the Columbia and Snake riv ers navigable at certain stages of the year s.s far inland as Lewiston, Idaho, tho committee took advantage of the opportunity to learn from persons fa miliar with the situation the plans for further development that will open ad ditional territory to deep-water navi gation. Interior's Ambitions Explained. Incidentally, the plans of the interior region to develop the arid acres Of Eastern Oregon, Eastern Washington and parts of Idaho through the com bined process of irrigation, water power and, improved navigation were explained by persons familiar with the subject Professor W. D. Lyman, of Whitman College, also had the attention of the committeemen for quite a while. The Walla Walla people, he explained, pro pose to build a road from Walla Walla to Wallula, where the grain can be loaded onto waiting vessels providing the upper river is further Improved so that it can be made navigable in the seasons when the wheat Is shipped. Chairman Sees Portland Harbor, The committees had 'a busy- and an nteresting day. Chairman Sparkman was up bright and early and accompa nied Harbormaster Speler on an inspec tion of the Portland harbor. They made the trip in a harbor patrol boat and covered the waterfront on both sides of the river. Mr. Sparkman was deeply interested !n the wheat and the lumber traffic in the harbor and the volume of the traffic moving in and out of this port seemed to surprise him. At 10 o'clock the entire committee, accompanied by members of the Oregon delegation in Congress and by repre sentatives of the Portland Chamber of Commerce and of commercial bodies la other parts of the state, left in a spe cial car on the O.-W. K. & N. line for Celilo. Mnny Accompany Delegation. The fell delegation from the river and harbor committee made the trip yesterday. They are: S. M. Sparkman, of Florida, chairman; George F. Bur gess, of Texas; Charles G. Edwards, of Georgia; Charles Lieb, of Indiana; Thomas Gallagher, of Illinois, and Kob- rt M. Switzer, of Ohio. They were accompanied by Senator George E. Chamberlain, Representative W C. Hawley. E. D. Baldwin, private secretary to Representative N. J. 6in- ott; AV. D. B. Dodson, of the Port- land Chamber of Commerce; G. J. Hegardt, engineer of the Commission of Public Docks; A. H. Devers, acting chairman of the rivers and harbors committee of the Chamber of Com merce; W. P. LeRoche, of the naviga tion committee of the Chamber; Major Williams, of the United States Engi neer Department; Representative Al bert Johnson, of Washington; G. A. Foster, representing Lewiston, and A. B. Slausson. Value of Celilo Told. They proceeded to The Dalles, from which point they traveled to the canal over the old portage railway. Tha inspection trip was conducted by Major Williams and F. C Schubert, resident engineer in charge of the canal con struction work. ; It was explained to the visitors that this artificial channel now opens tha. Columbia to the moutU of the Snake and that It opens the Snake to Lewis-' ton, but It was further pointed out that to insure a maximum of benefit for the canal Itself further improvements mus't be made on the upper river channels. G. A. Foster, of Lewiston, explained the plans of the people of that terri tory to build a series of dams across the river at the rapids below the city for the purpose of developing power and conserving the water for irriga tion purposes. He said that private capital is willing to finance -the power and Irrigation projects provided thev, Government pays for the canals. This, then, would eliminate the slack water In front of lewiston and open the river to navigation at periods of the year when now it must be closed. Last night the party was entertained by the Portland Chamber of Commerce at an informal dinner. A. H. Devers presided. The committee will go to the mouth of the river today, leaving the North Bank station at 8:30 o'clock. From Astoria the party will go to Grays Harbor on board the torpedo boat Fox. V t