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v ii VOL. LV-XO. 17,092. PORTLAND, OREGON, SATURDAY, SEPTE3IBER 4, 1915. PRICE FIVE CENTS. 54 U-BOATS LISTED BY PARIS AS LOST British Celebrate Work With Banquet. SIR JOHN ACCOUNTS FOR 42 Information Is Sent to Friend in American Army. SOME DECLARED CAPTURED French Authority Makes Announce ment With Reference to Reason "Why Germa n y "Will Aban don Submarine Warfare. PARIS, Sept. 3. (Special.) With re gard to the statement that the chief reason the Germans are preparing to abandon submarine warfare is because of their heavy losses, it is authorita tively assorted that 54 of the U-boats have been lost. A naval banquet was held in England recently to celebrate the destruction of the 60th submarine. WASHINGTON, Sept. 3. (Special.) tp to three weeks ago the British navy alone, without regard to the navies of France and Italy, had sunk or captured 42 German submarines. Sir John Gives Information. This information is contained in a personal letter from Field Marshal Sir John French, commander-in-chief of the British army in Flanders. The letter was written to one of the best-known officers in the American Army, who is an old friend of Sir John's. This information would indicate that Germany had lost from all sources at least 50 " submarines since the war began. Three weeks ago antedated the sink In, of the Arabic by a German sub nialine, and the list does not, there fore. Include that submarine, which is reported sunk the day following, on August 20. The French torpedo destroyers are known to have accounted for several submarines, and Italy may have ac counted for one or two. Figures Show Few Left. The number mentioned in Sir John French's letter is only two short of the full number of German submarines built and building July 1, 1914, as offi cially announced by the bureau of naval Intelligence of the Navy Department. That was one month before war was declared. "In the Fleets at "War," a work pub lished in England by Archibald Hurd, a naval expert, the German submarine strength last Fall was fixed at 36. This would mean that nine submarines had been launched since July 1. Of these 36 the boats numbered U-27 to U-36, the nine latest, were described by Mr. Hurd as of the highest known efficiency, each displacing about 900 tons, and mounting guns as well as torpedo tubes. AMERICANS G0 TO WAR More Than 5O-0 Vnder IS Dis charge From British. Army. WASHINGTON. Sept. 3. More than BOO American boys unaer IS years old, have been discharged so far from the British army upon requests1 from the btate Department. Most of these boys went to Canada and misrepresented their ages to recruiting officers. Peter Dougal, of Lambert, Minn., after having been discharged once on the application of the State Depart ment, escaped from his parents and re-enlisted. He 'was released again only to take passage on the Arabic and escaped death when that liner was sunk by a submarine. The Walsh twins, of Boston, though only 15 years of age, also managed to enlist twice and the last time were found on Salisbury Plain just about to be embarked for France. GEM. GOETHALS AT FAIR Customary Kftrmal Reception De- . dined by Canal Digger. SAN FRANCISCO. Sept. 3. Major General George W. Goethals with Mrs. Goethals and his daughter-in-law, Mrs. G. W. Goethals, Jr., arrived here to day on the steamer Northern Pacific from Portland. At Ms own request he went immediately to his hotel without the custornary formal reception ten tiered by Exposition officials. The builder of the Panama Canal will be honored next Tuesday by the celebration of Goethals day at the Panama-Pacific Exposition. He will remain in California about three weeks and will preside over the International Engineering Congress here, beginning September 20. Standard Oil Adopts 8-Hour Day. NKW YORK, Sept. 3. Announcement of the adoption of an eight-hour day by the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey was made here today, on behalf of the board of directors of that con cern. Tweniy-five thousand workers were said xo be affected by the order. which will become effective Septem ber 13- CASHIER LOCKED UP AND $1350 TAKEN SELAH, WASH., BANK ROBBED IX DAYIjIGHT BY MASKED PAIR. Elmer Dablin Is Held at Bay by AVeapon Till 5 0 Pounds of Sil ver and Bills Are Found. NORTH YAKIMA. Wash.. Sept. 3. (Special.) Two masked men held up the Selah State Bank at 4 o'clock this afternoon,, obtaining: $1350 in currency and silver, locked Cashier Elmer Dahlin in the -vault and made their escape, going north on the Ellensburg road in an automobile. Officers are scouring the country following: clews, and tele phone and telegraph are being: used, but nothing has been discovered to Identify the robbers. Mr. Dahlln was alone in the bank, sitting at his desk with his back to the door. He heard some one enter and command him to put up his hands. As he turned, the command was repeated and he wheeled to find a masked man close to him, with a leveled revolver. The second robber entered, locked the door and pulled down the shades. Mr. Dahlin was forced to open the vault and hand over the currency and silver. The highwaymen inquired for gold, but were told the bank had none. Silver totaling $450 and weighing about 50 pounds was taken. The robbers thrust Mr. Dahlin into the vault, locked him in and fled. So quickly and quietly was the robbery done that none of the townspeople no ticed the men when they left, but per sons arriving a short time later from Ellensburg reported meeting two men who answered the descriptions of the thieves. Mr. Dahlin lighted a match as soon as he heard the robbers leave, liberated himself within two minutes with a screwdriver and gave the alarm. The bank had been paying out considerable sums on pay checks during the day. But for this fact the haul would have been much greater. Burglar insurance was carried. HURRICANE WARNINGS OUT Two AVest Indian Storms Are Headed for American Coasts. WASHINGTON, Sept. 3. Two West Indian storms are headed for Ameri can coasts. Hurricane warnings have been ordered on the Gulf. The more pronounced disturbance was in he Gulf of Mexico, this morn ing headed northwestward. Weather Bureau officials said it would strike the Gulf Coast probably Saturday morning somewhere between Cedar Keys and New Orleans. The second storm, about which little Information has reached the Weather Bureau, is in the vicinity of the Ber muda Islands, where the pressure re mains abnormally lower. That storm apparently is moving in a north-northwest direction toward the Carollnas and the Virginia Capes. FRENCH SOLDIER SUICIDE Haunted by Hallucination of Inser tion Lieutenant Ends Life. PARIS. Sept. 3. The idea that a soldier of France should desert the army at the time of his country's greatest need, so weighed upon the mind of Lieutenant Poncet that he committed suicide today under the hal lucination that he himself was a de serter. ' The Lieutenant was a clerk of the Supreme Court, and had been detailed to -act as a representative of the Min istry of Justice before the second court-martial of Paris. He was called upon to investigate many cases of de sertion.. His mind thus fixed upon this subject it came to haunt him, and preyed upon him until he became deranged. Today he shot himself. M'ADOO WILL CUT COSTS Committee Named to Find Economy System for Treasurj. WASHINGTON, Sc pt. 3. Secretary McAdoo today appointed a committee of treasury officials to investigate and make recommendations to place that department on a "more efficient, economical and business basis." Mr. McAddo says in- a letter of in structions to the committee that his experience had taught him that there was room for many improvements. MORTAR SCORE IS PERFECT Xcw York Fort Makes 12 Hits With 1 2 Shots in Practice. NEW YORK. Sept. 3. A perfect scare was made today, it was semi-officially announced, in the firing of 12 shots from the 12-inch mortars at Fort Tot ten at a moving target between 5000 and 7000 yards distant. The moving target was a 12-foot square of canvas representing a bat tleship moving diagonally across the line of fire. MR. WILSON NOT TO REST Plans Given l"p to Attend to Mexican and European Situations. WASHINGTON", Sept. 3. President Wilson has given up all plans for re turning to his Summer home at Cornish, N. H., this year. It was said at the White House to day that he considers his vacation over, and will remain In Washington to be in personal touch with the European and Mexican situations and'prepare for the next session of Congress. MEXICANS FIRE ON AMERICAN TROOPS Soldiers at Brownsville Reply to Attack. AEROPLANE IS FIRST TARGET Encinal, Tex., Menaced and Much Movement Noted. BANDIT DEAD .NUMBER SIX Woman Accidentally Killed Ma rauders Being Hunted Down. Cavalrymen In Battle Haid ers Spare Supposed German. BROWNSVILLE?. Tex.. Sept. 3. Mex icans on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande late today fired nearly 100 shot3 at an American Army aeroplane flying over Brownsville. and then turned their guns against a squad of American soldiers on guard at the Brownsville electric light plant. When the firing started the soldiers got behind shelter and returned the fire. , There were no casualties. A message from Laredo says a band of Mexicans are reported at Encinal, Tex., and have threatened to attack the town. Three of Bandits Killed. A considerable movement of strange Mexicans along country roads in Webb County was reported last night. Three of the Mexican bandits operat ing just north of Brownsville were killed last night by county officers at Los Cuatros. five miles east of Bar reda station, 14 miles north of Browns ville. In addition to the Mexicans killed last night, it is said, a Mexican woman, deserted by her husband when the Mexican outlaws appeared at their home north of here last night, was accidentally killed hy .United States' soldiers when she approached them in the - darkness in search of protection. Mexican lard as Shield. Stanley Todd, an American who was held prisoner yesterday by the Mexi can bandits who killed J. S. Smith and Earl Donaldson, and who finally es caped the bandits, today told the fol lowing story: "Early yesterday I went to my pump ing plant six miles from San Benito with three Mexican workmen. We were working in a pit when suddenly five Mexican bandits came up and covered us with their guns. "I quickly pulled one of my Mexican workmen in front of me. Otherwise 1 should probably have been shot on the spot. As the bandit took J. S. smith, foreman of the plant, and myself out of the pit, Earl Donaldson drove up in a wagon and the Mexicans held him up. "After the bandits hyd escorted us (Concluded on Page 2, Column 1.) TODAY IS INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS Th Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 84 degrees; minimum. 53 degree. TODAY'S Pair; northerly wind. , War. British troop ship awl 1570 live reported los; off Dardanelles. page 2. Grodno. last Kussian fortress in Poland, cap tured by Germans. page 2. Selah. Wash., cashier locked up and $1300 taken by daylight robbers. Page 1. Fifty-four German submarines lost, says French authority. 4 Page 1. Mexico. American soldiers at Brownsville return fire from Mexicans. Page 1. National, More bodies recovered from hull of Ill fated F-4. page 5. Great Britain borrows between. $50,000,000 and $100,000,000 in America. Page 1. lomesttc. Japanese pageant Interests Oregonians at San Francisco Exposition. page 3. Mrs- Nphr says murderers of her hustand d her to mitigate crime. Page 3. V. Bporta. Coa st O je results : 45an Francisco B, Port lk. Vernon 4, Los Angeles 3; Salt La kiatid game postponed, rain. Paere 14. '. Oregon Kid again In Astoria regatta. Page 5. N v Robert A. Gardi. vf-in brilliant match in golf semi-final.. tJage 16. Johnston defeats 1. Jn sensational ten nis match. Pape Pacific Northwest. Robert C. Markee. Portland, to succeed W. TV. Elder, Soldiers Home command ant, removed. Page 1 Commercial and Marine. New railroad demurrage rules menace Port land's grain trade. Page 15. Wheat lower at Chicago on heavy selling;. Page 15. Coalers are strong feature of New York stock market. Page 15. Schedule of several carriers on way for west coast cargoes announced. Page 11. Portland and Vicinity. City Council adopts amended Daly ordinance when Mayor breaks Jitney deadlock. Page 9. Teachers air grievances In closing session of county institute. Page 10. Mr. Baker announces campaign for muni cipal economy. Page 9. Bankers think decline in British exchange will affect wheat sales. Page 10. H. D. Eastabrook, prominent New York lawyer, to speak at Benson Park dedica tion. Page 10. Weather reiort. data and forecast. Page 11. CANAL COULD CARRY FLEET Naval Academy Practice Squadron Proves Waterway's Capacity. WASHINGTON, Sept. 3 Proof that the entire present main American bat tleship fleet, made up of four divisions of five ships each, and a flag-ship, a total of 21, could be passed through the Panama Canal in one day has been af forded by the handling: - of the Naval Academy . practice , squadron in the canal locks on its way to and from the Panama-Pacific Exposition. The squadron, composed of the bat tleships Missouri, .Ohio and Wiscon sin, the largest warships which , have so far used the Canal, were put through the locks at Pedro Miguel and Mira flores, the Missouri and Ohio simul taneously in parallel, with the Wiscon sin directly In the rear. MAN WILLS ALL TO PEOPLE Gratitude Shown for Hospital Care in Many Places. LOS ANGELES, Seut- 3. "Grateful," he says, for "incomputable hundreds of dollars' worth of hospital care at many tin.es and places in the United States," Frank Ide Dysrert, 80 years old, of Springville, N. Y., has be queathed all his property, real and personal, to "the people," according to a will filed here today. The property in California is a valu able lot in Pasadena, Dygert directs that a sufficient sum be retained from the estate to give him burial. PORTLAND DAY AT THE ASTORIA 2.og ? c WELL EcCs!im, AW " s jnvaT cArOAj.s J BRITISH BORROW AMERICAN MILLIONS Temporary Loan toCor rect Sterling Rate. LARGER CREDIT LOAN SOUGHT New York Financial Men De cline Information. COLLATERAL IS ALL HERE Rates Rally In Spectacular Manner, Sterling Soaring 10 Cents or More at Opening of Market. Substantial Gain Recorded. NEW YORK. Sept. 3. All indications today tended to confirm a reoort cur rent in Wall, street that Great Britain had borrowed from $50,000,000 to $100. 000,000 temporarily in this market to correct the exchange rate on sterling, ifhtil such time as her commissioners shall reach New York and consummate negotiations looking toward the flota tion of a much larger credit loan here. There was no confirmation or denial of this report by the big men of New York's financial world. Most of them refused to discuss it and the few who did speak said that there was nothing in the way of an announce ment that could be made at this time. According to the report, the col lateral on which this preliminary loan was issued was brought to New. York in four lots and aggregated the ap proximate figures of the sum borrowed. Two of the shipments of collateral, totaling about $55,000,000, were brought from Great Britain to Halifax aboard British men-of-war and shipped thence to New York with about $40,000,000 in gold within the past 30 days. Securities Come in Liner. The two other bundles-of securities were said to have been brought here aboard the liners Adriatic and St. Paul which reached N,ew York yesterday. This loan, if made, was regarded as only a makeshift to clarify the surcharged atmosphere of foreign ex change markets. Supported by an un seen stimulant, rates rallied in a spec tacular manner today, sterling soaring 10 cents or more at the opening of the market. They fell back later, but on the day's transactions a substantial gain of 34 cents was recorded. Ster ling closed at $4.66. Conservative estimates of Great Britain's needs here in the form of credit placed the sum today at a mint mum of $500,000,000, with twice that sum mentioned as an outside total. Bankers to Conter. To furnish this staggering sum. It was said, the bankers of all the chief cities of the country would be called on to participate. Boston, Philadel phia, Chicago, ' Pittsburg. Atlanta in tact all reserve centers and some cities where there are no reserve (Concluded on Page 2. Column 3.) REGATTA Fridays War Moves THE Germans In their official report yesterday said they carried by as sault the fortified bridgehead at Lenne- wada, on the Dvina River between Friedriehstadt and Riga. This is con sidered for the Russians the most criti cal point on their whole front, for should the Germans succeed in cross ing the Dvina. the Russians would be compelled to evacuate Riga, and their position between the Dvina and Vllna, and even southwest of the latter city, would be jeopardized. However, the Germans have" not crossed the river, which is being de fended by a reinforced army commanded by General Ruzsky. who stopped the previous German advance on the Bzura River In front of Warsaw. Military critics believe that the Russians will make a stubborn defense on the Dvina. the opinion being expressed that should they fail here the German fleet would gain command of the Gulf of Riga, and. by landing troops at Pernau, would considerably shorten the projected march to Petrograd. In vieW of the importance of the bat tle raging along the lower Dvina, the fighting elsewhere loses some of its interest. Grodno, which the Russians evacu ated, apparently proved an empty shell to the Germans, as they captured only 400 prisoners after street fighting. To the northwest of Vilna the Russians are on the offensive, and while the Germans say the Russian counter at tacks have been a complete failure, it is said in Petrograd that the counter offensive seriously threatens the Ger man left dank and communications with the army of Lieutenant-General von Bichhorn. There is still some doubt as to what the Austro-Germans Intend to do in the southeast, military experts being di vided in opinion as to whether they will advance on Kiev or attempt to pro ject a wedge between the .Russian armies and Roumania, which would make a serious matter for the Rou manians to refuse longer the German demands for a free passage of muni tions over Roumanian railways for the Turks, who are reported to be short of shells necessary to prevent the al lies conquering the Gallipoli Penin sula. .The continued successes of the Austro-Germans in the east leads many writers to the conclusion that the sus tained bombardment of the German lines in the west means an early move by the entente allies. PASTOR IS HARVEST HAND Oregon City Preacher Walking Home From Beach Works in Field. OREGON CITY. Or., Sept. 3. (Spe cial.) Walking from the coast to his home here. Rev. George Kelson Ed wards, pastor of the First Congrega tional Church, like David Grayson in "The Friendly Road.'v spent a day this week working on the farm of J. W. Kohler, near Carlton, as a member of a thresher's crew. The Rev. Mr. Edwards spent a week at the Tillamook beaches and Monday started home afoot. Tuesday he reached the Kohler farm. The preach er volunteered when he learned a man was needed and spent Wednesday working under a hot sun in the harvest field. Using inspiration gathered on his long walk. Rev. Mr. Edwards has se lected for his topic Sunday morning, "The Open Road." CURACAO IS WITHOUT FOOD Catholic Bishop Says Crops Have Failed for Four Years. CHICAGO, Sept. 3. Death by starva tion through four years of crop fail ure faces the 75,000 inhabitants of Curacao Island, In the Dutch West In dies, unless help is sent them, accord ing to the Right Rev. M. O. Vuylsteke, Catholic Bishop of Curacao, who ar rived here today seeking aid for the Islanders. VThe suffering in my diocese is fully as terrible as In the war-stricken coun tries of Europe," said Bishop Vuylsteke, "and all that is needed to alleviate the conditions there is bread, seeds, water and food of all kinds. For four years there have been no crops and the is land is turning into 'a veritable desert. The bishop said that 50,000 colored people, 15.000 Indians and more than 3000 Hollanders were in distress. ATTACK ON ROUMANIA NEAR Austria Is Expected to Declare War Immediately. ROME, Sept. 3. (Special.) A dis patch from Bucharest today declares that a declaration of war by Austria Hungary against Roumania Is hourly expected. Preparations for the impend ing conflict are being rushed in Rou mania. and the war fever there is con stantly increasing. Volunteers are flocking to the colors. King Ferdinand, alluding to the al leged wholesale arrests . and prosecu tions of Roumanians in Transylvania, is said to have affirmed that he was prepared to make every sacrifice In a war of redemption. FIRST SUBMARINE BASE SET New London, Conn., -Chosen as Quarters in Xew Defense Flans. WASHINGTON". Sept. 3. The first of the American submarine bases contem plated in the plan for an inner defense line of submersibles along all coasts will be located at Xew London. Conn. The Kavy Department is working out details and the new base probably will be in operation in a short time. It is planned to give crews of coast defense submarines shore Quarters. The ships will run out- to sea on dally cruises or on patrol duty. HEAD OF SOLDIERS' HOI IS REMOVED R. C. Markee, Portland, to Be Successor. CHANGE EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 1 Complaints at Management Many, Says Governor. MR. 0LC0TT SCORES MOVE Prison Superintendent Declares AVood Ordered Xot l"p to Re quirements and Refuses Pay. Water Tower Called Danger. SALEM. Or.. Sept.- S. (Special.) W. W. Elder, commandant of the Oregon Soldiers' Home at Roseburg for the last 12 years, will be removed Octo ber 1. He will be succeeded by Robert C. Mirkee, of Portland. Removal of Mr. Elder came today at a meeting of the Board of Control. Governor Withycombe making the mo tion. State Treasurer Kay voted with the Governor for Mr. Elder's removal, while Secretary of State Olcott regis tered his opposition. In making the motion for Mr. Elder's removal. Governor Withycombe said he deemed a change would prove to be for tne best interests of the insti tution. "I have received many com plaints trom persons familiar with con- ' ditlons at the home," the executive told the other members of the board, "and believe we should make a change. Mr. Slarkee Is well known in Portland and indorsed highly by the old soldiers." Mr. Olcott Condemn Move. Secretary Olcott was emphatic in his declarations to the board that he be lieved Mr. Elder should be retained, asserting that if. as he had heard, the removal of Mr. Elder was due to" charges which had been made against the commandant's daughter, that she had received pay from tho state while employed elsewere, he could not con demn the action enough. He said that an affidavit made in connection with the charges against the young woman had been refuted in another affidavit by the same person. "I have the utmost contempt for the methods of character assassination which Mr. Klder's enemies seem to have adopted," remarked Mr. Olcott. "I know of nothing against Mr. Elder for which he should be removed. I consider that Mr. Elder has been a model command ant. He has conducted the home in an efficient manner, decidedly different from experiences with that institution before he was at its head." Daughter Not Involved. "I want t make it plain." replied the Governor, "that this change has nothing to do with any charges- that may have been made against Mr. El der's daughter." Controversy between Superintendent Minto, of the penitentiary, and W. J. Turnidge, of Crabtree, over the pay ment for 500 cords of wood delivered at the prison was appealed to the Board for settlement, but adjustment was left in the hands of R. B. Goodin, secretary of the Board, and Messrs. Minto and Turnidge. Turnidge objects to the superintendent holding out $763.40, 20 per cent of the contract price for the wood. The prison head declares the wood is not up to con tract specifications. Water Tower Called Dangerous. - That the water tower at the peni tentiary is in a dangerous condition and liable to fall was the statement of Superintendent Minto, who said that a new tower was needed. The problem of obtaining funds to build a new tow er was taken under advisement by the Board. On recommendation of Mrs. Hopkins, acting superintendent of the Girls' In dustrial School, Mabel Schulter and Mary Begg wen allowed paroles. A parole also was given to Rexal Shields, an inmate of the State Training School, on condition that he leave the state. Heads of the state institutions were urged to collect grains, grasses, fruit and vegetables, if possible, and for ward them to the exposition at San Francisco for the Oregon exhibit. Captain R. C. Markee. commandant elect of the Oregon Soldiers' Home at Roseburg. is a Union soldier who marched with Sherman to the sea and who cast his first vote for Abraham Lincoln. Mr. Markee lives at 618 Pres cott street and is engaged in the jew elry business on the East Side. Captain Markee has been a member of the Grand Army of the Republic for more than 30 years. He was born in Harrison County. Ohio. June 20. 1845, and moved to Illinois in 1849. He was brought up on a farm located with the scrip given his father for services ren dered to the United States in the war of 1812. When the Civil War broke out Mr. Markee enlisted in Company A, Thirty-fourth Illinois Infantry, and It was with this regiment he marched with Sherman to the sea. and then on to Washington. In 1870 Miss Lucy Churchill, of Moores, Clinton County. New York, became his wife. The charge at the Roseburg home will not be Captain Markee's first in that he was identified with the Sol diers' Home at Quincy, III., for more than 20 years. Six years ago he came to Oregon and for a time lived' at For est Grove. He is a member of Sumner Post, No. 12, Grand Army of the Republic.' t