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111 f rfl ill If 1 1 .! VOL. LV XO. 17,095. PORTLAND, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1915. PRICE FIVE CENTS. DLhViEIA INCIDENT IS DF GRAVE MOMENT Breach With Two Na. tions Possible. DIPLOMAT'S ACTS OFFIICAL Interference With Munitions Ordered by Vienna. BERLIN'S AID EXPECTED Request for Ambassador's Recall Likely to Be Followed by Dis missal of Americans by Austria and Germany. BY JOHN C ALLAN O'LAUGHLIX. WASHINGTON. Sept. 7 (Special.) Drastic action by President "Wilson in . the caao of M. Dumta, Austro-Hun-farian Ambassador to the United .States, may provoke serious complica tions between this country and the Austro-Hungarian government and perhaps Germany. The incident has possibilities, the gravity of which the President and his advisers feel they cannot afford to overlook. Ambaiuador Positively Interacted. According to what Ambassador Dumba told Secretary Lansing, his letter was In pursuance to positive in structions received by him from his government. He was specifically di rected to advise all Austro-Hungarian subjects that if they worked in fac tories turning: out war supplies to be delivered to the allies they would be guilty of treason and if they returned to their country they would be tried and punished, the penalty being 10 to 20 years" imprisonment or hanging. It was the duty of the Ambassador to carry out the Instructions of his government. The letter he wrote re ported on the arrangements he was perfecting. Thus the responsibility rests squarely on the Austro-Hungarian government Breach of Relation Feasible. It follows that M. Dumba's action will be wholly supported by his gov ernment. In this case, should the President decide to go so far. It will be necessary to request his recall, and if that should be done it is declared positively that the Austro-Hungarlan government will hand passports to Mr. Penfield, the American Ambassa dor In Vienna. Thus a state of broken relations would exist between the United States and Austro-Hungary. In . the same connection, a question would arise as to the course Germany would pursue. There is no doubt Ger many is in exact agreement with Austro-Hungary as to the desirability of crippling the American output of mu nitions of war. There Is no doubt further; that Austro-Hungary will consult her ally as to the policy primarily and Germany secondarily will pursue. (German Support Rxpevted. There thus arises the possibility that Germany will act In precisely the same fashion as Austro-Hungary acts. In short, should the matter reach the stage where the United States will de mand the recall of M. Dumba and Austro-Hungary hand M. Penfield his passports, Germany will dismiss Mr. Gerard, the American Ambassador in Berlin, and recall Count von Bern tstorff, the German Ambassador. In the circumstances the Administra tion is giving careful consideration to every phase of the situation which has arisen out of the seizure of the Dumba letter. p to this time nothing whatever has been done. It was reported today that Secretary Lansing had cabled the text of the letter to Ambassador Pen field with instructions to lay it be fore the Foreign Office without com ment. This report is untrue. Mr. Lansing paid the Austro-Hungarian Ambassador the courtesy of receiving his explanation and the President will pay him the courtesy of considering it. Decision la Deferred. A decision will not be reached for two or three days. A meeting of lha Cabinet will be callel for Friday. By that time all the facts in the possession of the President will have been con sidered by him. He will lay them and his views before his advisers. A de cision will follow. It is no secret wnat that decision Is at this moment. It is that M. Dumba iiae interfered in the domestic affairs of the United States and should be re placed by another diplomatic represent, ative of the Vienna government. It would relieve the situation tremend ously as far as the United States is concerned If M. Dumba should with draw voluntarily. The Ambassador will do nothing of the kind. From all that can be learned, he feels he has merely per formed the duties entrusted to him. Amhaanadora Viewpoint Kxplalncd. It was his business, as he sees it, end as Secretary Lansing has been in formed, to prevent or retard shipments of war supplies to the enemies of his country. It was his business, as he -ees it. to carry out the instructions lie received, and these instructions, as already said, required him to warn Austro-Huncartans of the penalty in curred by continuing to work in muni tions factories supplying the allies. It was his view that in taking this action be was violating no law of tho United States. In fact his legal ad visers informed him to that effect. On the ether hand, failure to, carry out the instructions of his government would haveJled to his dismissal from the diplomatic service. QUAKE RUINS CITY IN CENTRAL AMERICA JL'glAPA DESTROYED; OTHER "TOAVXS DAMAGED. Casualties Occur in Santa Ana and Churches Fall San Salvador and Guatemala Rocked. LA LIBERTAD, Salvador. Sept. 7. A strong earthquake has occurred in San Salvador and Guatemala, Jutiapa, cap ital of the department of the same name in Guatemala, has been ruined. In the City of San Salvador no vic tims have been reported. In Santa Ana there were a few casualties. The churches in Santa Ana, Sonzonate and other villages of the republic are In ruins. Jutiapa lies 45 miles southeast of Guatemala City and is the center of the cattle and coffee trade of the dis trict. The last available records give Jutiapa a population of about 12,000. MINE DIVIDENDS $6,699,879 Hercules Reopening Adds Greatly to Coeur d'Alene Earnings. SPOKANE, Wash., Sept. 7. (Special.) Dividends paid or declared for Im mediate payment to date in 1915 by Coeur d'Alene mines amount to $6. 699,879. September dividends, includ ing the quarterly disbursement of In ters t ate-Callahan of 25 cents a share to be made at the close of the month, amount. to $1,034,900. The reopening of the Hercules in August is adding from $200,000 to $250,000 to the monthly earnings of the district. The great lead producer will net $200,000 during September. The Bunker Hill & Sullivan already has paid its September dividend of $81,750, or 25 cents a share. WAlTSBURG PIONEER DIES T. VV. Brace Is Son of Former 'Wash ington Townslte Owner. WALLA WALLA, Wash., Sept. 7. (Special.) James W. Bruce, whose father took up as a homestead the land on which the town of Waitsburg now stands, died yesterday, aged 59, after an illness of many years. Bruce was born near Eugene, Or., in 1859. and with his father came to this valley in 1861. J. W. Bruce followed farming and stockraising and became rich, own ing 1000 acres of valuable land. His wife and four children survive him. Mrs. Buckhard, wife of a Pomeroy physician; Emory, Ivan and Hobart Bruce, of .Waitsburg, are the children. WIDOW'S ACT IS ON TEST Eleven Women Ask Mandamus in Marion County. , SALEM, Or., Sept. 7. (Special.) A test case of the widows' pension act was started in this county today, when 11 widows, who had been denied pen sions by the County Court, filed peti tions for pensions and asked for writs of mandamus against the County Court. County Judge Bushey and other members of the County Court have declined to grant widows pensions since the widows' pension act was passed In 1913. Their reason is that the county has always taken care of widows and other indigents. PEGOUD'S FOE HONORS HIM German Aviator, Flying High, Drops Wreath for Adversary. BKLFORT, France. Sept. 7. A Ger man aeroplane, flying at a great height,' appeared last night over Chuvannes, an Alsatian village on the old frontier. The aviator dropped a wreath, which bore the inscription: !To Pegoud. who died like a hero, from his adversary." The noted French aviator, Adolph Pegoud, while making a reconnais sance recently near Petite Croix, was killed by a German aviator, whom he had attacked.' ARMOUR SUSPECT IS HELD "Skyscraper Burglar to lie Con fronted by Victim of Kobbcry. CHICAGO, Sept. 7. Melville Reeves, known as the "skyscraper burglar," was ordered held tonight in connection with the robbery at the home of Mrs. J. Ogden Armour last niarht. The police declared that Reeves, whe had been taken into custody and was being- held in hiding-, answered the de scription of one of the two men who entered the Armour home, neid Mrs. Armour and her three maids at bay with a pistol and escaped with 575 in currency and $3385 in jewels. Arrangements have been made to have Reeves confronted by Mrs. Armour for identification, probably tomorrow morning. TURK MAY CLOSE PAVILION Troubles Over Finances at Fair and Willi Government Rumored. SAN FRANCISCO. Sept. 7. Vashman Cardashian, Turkish commissioner to the Panama- Pacific Exposition, may shut up his country's pavilion withii a day or so. Two reports are circulated. It wm established that he was Tlaving an altercation with exposition official about finances, and it was reported that a recent speech in which he said Turkey was bound to lose in the present war wio matter who won had aroused the dis pleasure of his government. HUNDREDS IN PERIL FLOODS People Take Refuge in Trees and Housetops. LIVES SAVED BY UNDERTAKER Telephone Operator and Four Cabmen Share Hero Roles. MIDNIGHT WARNING GIVEN Six-Inch Rain Over Watershed Xear Fort Scott Causes River to Ix-ave Its Banks and Destroy Many Abandoned Homes. FORT SCOTT, Kan.. Sept. 8. Water from the Marmaton River, which rose 30 feet in a few hours ea-ly today, flooding wholesale and residence sec tions of Fort Scott and imperiling the lives of hundreds . of persons, was receding tonight and fears of loss of life and further property damage had passed. Although scores of persons were rescued from trees and housetops, and many smaller structures' were swept away by the flood, no one was killed, as far as is known. The property damage is estimated at $200,000. Six Divide Honors as Heroes. An unnamed telephone operator at Uniontown, 14 miles away, and four cab drivers employed by George A. Konantz, an undertaker, share with Konantz the hero roles. Uniontown ex perienced a six-inch rain last night. The Uniontown operator, realizing the im pending danager to North Fort Scott, the residence section here, telephoned to Konantz. The undertaker quickly aroused the four cab drivers in his employ. Horses were harnessed and .in a few minutes were driving to the imperiled section. The Marmaton River divides North Fort Scott from the main section of the city. Once into the residence section, the cab men began to shout. Midnight "Warning Heedr 1. "Get out, the flood's coming," they cried as they drove through th streets. Twenty-five hundred persons reside in the district. Fifteen hundred, it is estimated, heeded the midnight warn ing from the cabmen, left their homes and sought safety across the river In Fort Scott. Everyone was warned, and those who remained took refuge In second-story rooms. Before morning the waters of the river, mounting from the six-inch rain that prevailed over the entire watershed, had swept Into North Fort Scott and destroyed many of the abandoned homes. . Passengers Take to Boats. Business generally was suspended today while every available man helped rescue persons who had remained in North Fort Scott. Train service was demoralized. "The water reached six feet in the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway station and it was necessary to take many persons from . trains in boats. Several had to swim from the trains to safety. The passenger trains on the Missouri (Concluded on Page 2. Column 3.) ill KANSAS ! INDEX OF TODAYS NEWS The Weather. t YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature. 73 degrees; minimum, 30 degrees. TODAY'S Partly cloudy, and occasionally threatening; southerly minds. . .War. Dumba, Incident threatens breach -with both Austria and Germany. Pare 1. Earthquake ruins city in Central America. Page 1. National. Admiral loses command of Naval Acad-emy for demanding honesty among cadets. Page 2. Many foreign vessels exempt from pro visions of seamen" s law. Page 2. Domestic Bridegroom, his mother and cousin killed, bride seriously hurt in auto accident. Page 5. Foreign exchange slumps in face of gold Influx. Page 3. Governor Whitman urges incessant work to reduce death rate. Page 2. Exposition honors General Goethals. Page 1. Hundreds in peril in Kansas floods. Page 1. Sports. Beavers are slated for fifth, place or worse. Fa 13. Brooklyn chops Philadelphia's lead to one game. Page 13. White 8ox defeat Detroit la wildly exciting game. -Page 13. Alex Sterling, 17, puts golf champion out. Page 13. v Girl of 17 stars in first round of women's National yolf. championships. Page 1.. Kearns beats Marias in two sets, running 37 games in Multnomah tennis play. Page i:. Pacific Northwest. National banks form new section at Seat- the convention. Page- 7. Columbia River Conference of Methodists ends at Spokane. Page 7. E. C. Von Klein, sentenced " for polyg amy and theft of gems, paroled. Page ti. Riders prove more daring as fair at Van couver progresses. Page 5. Oregon Supreme Court orders deed obtained by fraud cancelled. Page 5. Grace Dollar puts out from Sluslaw. Page 5. Commercial and Marine. Steamer Grace Dollar makes delayed depar ture from Siuslaw Harbor amid cheers of crowds. Page 18. Four wheat standards fixed by Chamber of Commerce committee. Page 18. Chicago wheat market depressed by large Northwestern receipts. Page 19. Hesperian Incident checks stock speculation in Wall street. Page IS. Portland and Vicinity. Representative Mc Arthur promises active support of women's National franchise amendment. Page 11. Pact by which pair lived together prior to marriage revealed in "moral squad" suit. Page 14. First-day registration at schools Is 23,337 Page 14. Jcwisn New Year observance begins today. Page 14. Invisible barrier blocks Roosevelt's return to party, says Mr. McGinn. Page 11. Dr. Sanford B. Whiting further accuses wife iu answer to divorce action. Page 15. Jitney ordinance attacked in court by driv ers. Page 9. Ben Selling returns from Honolulu with news of prosperity. Page 14. BRITAIN RAIDED BY AIR Fires and Casualties Caused by Ger man Attack on Coast. LONDON, Sept. 7. A German air raid on the east coast of England was made last night. The official statement re garding the raid says: "Hostile aircraft revisited the east ern counties Tuesday night and dropped bombs. ' It is known that there have been some fires and some casualties, but particulars are not yet available. The number of the casualties will be communicated to the press as soon as they can be obtained." NEW CANADIAN LINE READY Railway From Montreal Tunnel to Vancouver Is Completed. OTTAWA, Ont., . Sept. 7. From the entrance of the Montreal tunnel to Vancouver the new transcontinental line of the Canadian Northern Railroad, is ready for traffic. Sir William Mackenzie, president of the Canadian Northern Railroad, has just returned from a trip over the line in his special train, being the first to make the run. FAIR TIME AT VANCOUVER. sfe mj Exposures SjaSB DF GAHAL General Goethals'. Day Is Celebrated. PRAISE DIVIDED WITH MANY Work Declared to Have Taken Four Centuries. EVERGREEN TREE PLANTED Guest or Honor Says Not Men of Army or Civilians, but Loyalty and Spirit of Cause Accom plished Great Task. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 7. Goethals day in honor of the "builder of the Panama Canal" was celebrated today at the. Panama-Pacific Exposition, the guest of honor and principal speaker being Major-General Goethals. In the Court of the Universe, In the presence of city, state and Federal Government officials and various rep resentatives of the exposition. General Goethals addressed an assemblage that more than filled the court, reviewing the history of the canal, which he said had been four centuries In the making. Honor Shared With Others. Introducing General Goethals, Presi dent Moore said that owing to the unusual modesty of the man being honored it had required more than a year for the Exposition officials to ar range Goethals day and Anally per suade the General to attend the ex ercises. Beginning his address. General Goe thals said he regretted that all who participated in the construction of the Canal could not be present. "Though I was fortunate enough to be at the head of the organization at the time when the dream of centuries became a reality," he said, "we must not lose sight of the fact that success crowned the efforts not of cne, but of many men, and these, too, of many nationalities." West I. Most Beneated. General Goethals said he Intended ad vocating before the next session of Con gress the opening of the Panama Canal Zone to manufacturers of the United States. He was in favor of restricting: the zone to business purposes only. General Goethals said he had advo cated depopulation of the Canal Zone because he did not believe it wise to have people there whom the United States could not trust in the event of war. "The canal probably will benefit this section of the United States more than any other part," General Goethals said, 'though just to what extent is a subject that must be left rather to one's imagination. It binds this coun try more closely together than for merly and brings the United States more prominently in the foreground in all international affairs." (oethala Tree Is Planted. General Goethals was escorted to the Exposition grounds by mounted cav airy and Exposition officials, United States marines meeting him at the Concluded on Vase 2. Column 4.) (Tuesdays War Moves THE news that Emperor Nicholas had placed. himself at the head of his army, which he announced in a tele gram to Raymond Poincare. President of France, and the visit paid by the French Commander-in-Chief, General Joffre. to the Italian army, fore shadow, it is believed in military quar ters of the allies, stirring events on both the eastern and western fronts. In which the armies of all the allies will co-operate. It Is declared the Russians already are nearly. If not quite, holding their own against, the Austrlans and Ger mans, whose advance at most points has been stopped, and In places are on the offensive. Riga remains the danger point. Stock holm has reported that the place has fallen, but British reports declare the Russians continue to occupy the town after the Germans have advanced to the Dv-ina, southeast of Riga, and this leads military writers to the conclusion that the Russians feel reasonably sure of their ability to defend the river, and in time to push sufficiently far westward to relieve the pressure on their forces on the shores of the Gulf of Riga. Westwardof Dvlnsk and Vilna the Russian offensive has now held the Germans for more than a week and to the military observers those two towns seem fairl safe unless the invaders are able to bring up strong reinforcements. East and Southeast of Grodno, the Russians have taken up new positions across the river St. Chara and its nu merous tributaries and are protecting the network of railways "which run east and northward to the interior of the country. To the southeast again, among the forests' and swamps to the northeastern edge of the Pripet marshes, a great battle is In progress between the army of Prince Leopold of Bavaria and the troops of the Russian center, the lat ter having finally elected to make a Etand. Amid the Pripet marshes, the German Field Marshal Mackensen is working hard for a decisive result. He reports that he has taken two Russian positions. Still another battle is being fought for the triangle of fortifications farther south, of which Rovno and Dubno re main In the hands of the Russians. The Austrians and Russians are facing each other across the Sereth River in Galicla, where the fighting is continuous. The stands which the Rus sians are making suggast that their supply of munitions Is ample. A Petro grad correspondent says the ammuni tion shortage of the Russians has been corrected and that while the produc tion is slow it is incessant and growing in activity and method. For the 13 th successive day, the al lies have bombarded German positions in the west, only varying their artil lery activity by occasional air raids, sapping and mining operations and bomb-throwing. In this fighting the Germans are also taking part and suc cess rests first with one side and then the other. Similar activity is noticed on the part of the Austro-Hungarian army along the northern frontier of Serbia where the Teutons are strengthening their positions on the Rivers Danube and Save presumably preparatory to new offensive movements. FEWER GOING TO CANADA emigration From United States De clines Nearly Half In Year. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, Sept. 7. Because of the war in Europe, or for other causes, the flood of American emigration to Canada ap pears to have declined greatly during the past year. The Canadian Depart ment of Immigration. In its annual re port, says that only 59,779 immigrants arrived in Canada frofn the United States- during the past fiscal year as compared with 107,530 during the year before. Immigration from England showed a larger percentage of decline, dropping from 142,622 to 43,276. The Canadian authorities are already giving attention to the problem of im migration that will arise after peace has been declared, in Europe, and plans are being considered for the settlement of returned soldiers on the vacant lands of th Dominion. The Canadians ex pect thousands of families from con tinental Europe, great numbers coming from the British Isles and from Bel gium, while others from different British provinces are expected to turn toward Canada. EXPECTED BATTLE MISSED William Lawrence Hunted on Charge of Breaking School Windows. BAKER, Or., Sept. 7. (Special.) Heavily . armed, preparatory for a promised battle. Deputy Sheriff Robert Nelson and Constable Claude Bowman searched through the Burnt River dis trict all last night and early today for William Lawrence, living near Unity, who Is charged with wilfully smashing the windows of the Unity schoolhouse and damaging neighbors' property. It was reported from Unity that Law rence would resist arrest, but evidently he has eecaped to the interior of the state. Mr. Nelson and Mr. Bowman re turned tonight, and officials through out the. state were notified to watch for Lawrence. BEND BANK PERMIT ASKED Application Filed to Organize First National With $50,000 Capital. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington. Sept. 7. The Treasury Depart ment today received an application from Ross Farnham and others to or ganize the First National Bank of Bend, Or., with a capital of $50,000. James D. Newcomb was appointed oostmaster of Johnson, Wash "vies L. C, Money, resigned. NEW STAR BEDECKS TEHH1S mm William M. Johnston Is National Champion. M'LOUGHLIN LOSES TO YOUTH Great Crowd's Cheers Die as Master's Strength Wnes. , OVATION IS GIVEN VICTOR Both Californians Show Wonderful Display or Kacquct Wizardry, but Younger Player Excels and Is In Better Condition. FOREST HILLS. N. Y.. Sept. T.A new National tennis champion was crowned here today when William M. Johnston, of San Francisco, defeated Maurice E. McLoughlin. also of the Gol den Gate city, in a gruelling four-set match for the singles title. The youth ful "Californian dashed the hopes of the more famous internationalist by winning at 1-6, 6-0. 7-5. 10-8 and thus preventing for a year at least the ex champlon's hope of clinching perma nent possession of tho huge silver all. comers' bowL With two legs already to his credit on the trophy. McLoughlin made a sen sational Tiattle to take it back to San Francisco with him for all time, but neither physically nor with racquet wizardry was he able to compete with his younger opponent. fourth DenaandM Its Toll. The four-set match ran the gamut from mediocre play to the tennis of the master. Both victor and vanquished had their flashes of brilliancy or poor play, but at all times the pace and strain were terrific, and in the long run Johnston's youth served him better than the greater experience of Mc Loughlin. So keen was the interest engendered by the battle of the far Coast racquet experts that the thou-, sands of spectators, seated in tower ing stands at both ends of the court, arose with each brilliant stroke and settled In their seats again like glit tering, many-colored waves. In the final set the spectators groaned and cheered alternately the winning and losing strokes of Mc Loughlin. whose desperate . efforts til stem the tide of defeat rallied the gal lery to his support. The excited spec tators called outs and nets before the umpire and linesmen could give their decisions, and did not. hesitate to voice their disagreement with the official awards. Ovation Accorded Victor. Once the winning stroke had been made, however, and Johnston had leaped the net in the wake of his flying ball and thrown his arm around Mc Loughlin's neck, the stands quivered and sagged under the impact of pound ing feet and applauding bands. A final climax was given to the picture when both Johnston and- McLoughlin were lifted on tho shoulders of their ad mirers and carried side by side Into the clubhouse. There was no hint of the impending defeat of the champion of 1912 and 1913 when Johnson and McLoughlin started play shortly after 3 o'clock. The "California Comet" was at his best and with confidence In the ball, and at first made his younger oppo nent look like a novice, racing through the set before Johnston could shake of his nervousness. Once the latter got going, however, the whole com plexion of the match was changed. Johnston Solves Master's' Play. Little by little, Johnston solved the tactics and strokes of the master, and. increasing his speed and control, beat McLoughlin In almost every depart ment of play. A careful study of the stroke analysis shows that, despite Johnston's wavering and uncertain start, he outpointed McLoughlin four service aces to three; C3 placements shots to 51; restricted his nets to 37 as against McLouglilin's 42, and ' his outs 26 to 38. In double faults alone did he exceed the ex-champion's errors, the records being 6 to 3 in this de partment. During the four-set contest Johnston scored 24 games and 140 points as against 19 games and 123 points for Mclaughlin. The analysis, however, does not show the skill and cleverness with which Johnston worked out his victory. Con sidering the match as a whole, he proved . his better generalship and stroke ability by forcing McLoughlin to play midcourt most of the time. McLonghlln's Play Too Eager. In the first set, it was quickly re vealed to Johnston that he had abso lutely no chance when McLoughlin swung his racquet close to the net. As a result the youthful San Fran cisco boy forced his townsman to the base 'line with deep .passing strokes or coaxed him to the service lines with short, low, tantalizing strokes which McLoughlin in his eagerness to return drove more frequently into the net or out of court than to uncovered spots In the winner's territory. Not a single point was won or lost without the contestants" making the most terrific efforts and the constant racing about the court in the close and humid atmosphere soon, had both drip ping. McLoughlin showed the physical strain as early as the second set. which he lost at love, thus establishing what (Cooc"! td on Page 1- Column Z. )