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VOL. LV.-XO. 17,097. PORTLAND, OREGON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER lO, 1915. PRICE FIVE CENTS. VIENNA ASKtDTO RECALL DUMBA Action Is Answer to Am bassador's Explanation. DIPLOMATIC BREACH CHARGE Conspiracy to Cripple Legiti mate Industry Makes En voy Unacceptable. NECESSITY IS REGRETTED Employment of American on Secret Errand Also Viola tion of Proprieties. WASHINGTON, Sept. 9. Ambas sador Penfield, at Vienna, has been in structed' by cable to inform the Aus-tro-Hungarian government that Dr. Conststntin Dumba no longer is ac ceptable as an envoy to the United States and to ask for his recall. Secretary Lansing formally an nounced the action tonight. It was the answer of the American Govern ment to Dr. Dumba's explanation of hie intercepted letter to Vienna out lining plans for handicapping plants in this country making war supplies for the allies. Note Dispatched to Penfield. Ambassador Penfield was instructed by cable yesterday to deliver the fol lowing note to the Foreign Office: "Mr. Constantin Dumba, the Austro Jlungarian Ambassador at Washing--ton, has admitted that he proposed to his government plans to instigate strikes in American manufacturing plants engaged in the production of munitions of war. "The information reached this Gov., ernment through a copy of a letter of the Ambassador to his government. The bearer was an American citizen -named Archibald, who was traveling under an American passport. The Ambassador has admitted that he em ployed Archibald to bear official dis patches from him to his government. Diplomatic Propriety Violated. "By reason of the admitted purpose and intention of Mr. Dumba to con spire to cripple legitimate industries of the people of the United States and to interrupt their legitimate trade, and by reason of the fragrant viola tion of diplomatic propriety in em ploying an American citizen, protected by an American passport, as a secret bearer of official dispatches through the lines of the enemy of Austria Hungary, the President directs me to inform Your Excellency that Mr. Dumba is no longer acceptable to the Government of the United States as the Ambassador of his imperial majesty at Washington. "Believing that the imperial and royal government will realize that the Government of the United States has no alternative but to request the re call of Mr. Dumba, on account of his improper conduct, the Government of the United States expresses its deep regret that this course has become necessary, and assures the imperial and royal government that it sincerely desires to continue the cordial and friendly relations which exist between the United States and Austria-Hungary." News Causes Sensation. In making his announcement, Sec retary Lansing explained that it had been delayed in order that the note might reach Vienna before its pub lication in this country. Ambassador Penfield had notbeen heard from to night, but it was assumed that he re ceived the communication some time today. News that Dr. Dumba's recall had been requested caused a sensation in the capital. It had been known in of ficial and diplomatic circles that Pres ident Wilson and Secretary Lansing regarded the conduct of the Ambas sador as a grave breach of propriety. but there had been a well-defined im pression that the only immediate step' would be the cancellation announced today of the passport of Archibald, the American who carried the inter cepted dispatches. Dr. Dumba left yesterday for the Summer embassy at Lenox, Mass., to wait word as to whether the Admin istration was satisfied with the ex (Concluded oa Face 4, Column !. MIND IS RESTORED AFTER 13 YEARS TROOPER INJURED IX BOER AVAR RECOVERS IX SEATTLE. Recovery Accompanied by Ixhss of Speecli and Presence in Amer ica Is Complete Surprise. SEATTLE. Wash.. Sept. 9. His mind a blank for the 13 years that have elapsed since he was rendered uncon scious beneath a horse's hoofs in a skirmish in the Boer war. Troop Ser geant William Tait. who cays he com manded a party of scouts after the bat tle of Mafeking. has come to himself in the County Hospital here. Tait was found in the woods of the Duwamish River, near Seattle, two weeks ago. and imagined that he still was in South Africa seeking his lost troopers. Shortly before he was found, Tait heard something like two pistol shots explode in his head. The hospital physicians explain that this explosion may have been the bursting of a blood vessel that caused the loss of his pow ers of - speech and at the 6ame time restored his memory. Tait was able today to write details of his early life, and when asked for his British army identification number he promptly wrote, "No. 1645, Scottish Yeomanry." He has no. recollection of how he came to America. FALL KILLS MAJOR BUCK Sumptcr's cx-I'ofetmaster, Hit Cyclist, Dies of Injuries. BAKER, Or.. Sept. 9. (Special.) Major Harvey S. Buck, member of the Grand Army of the Republic and ex postmaster at Sumpter, died this morning- at St. Elizabeth's Hospital, aged 7S. death coming as the result of a fall sustained Saturday, when he was run down by a cyclist. Major Buck was born December 10, 1837, in Gouveneur, N. T. In 1S00 he came to Oregon. In Baker he was en gaged in the employment agency busi ness. He was also a member of the Baker lodge of Masons. He is survived by a brother and two sisters. BIG TIMBER DEAL IS ON Eastern Capitalists Cause Surprise by Lewis County Purchase. CHEHALIS, Wash., Sept. 9. Spe cial.) -A timber deal, aggregating ap proximately $40,000, is being closed here by George F. Stone and James Barnes, of Seattle, representing Eastern capitalists. The timber tract is in Iewi s County, and extends from the Morton neighborhood to the Cowlitz River, in the vicinity of Riffe. This is the biggest timber land deal which has been made in Lewis County for several years past, and the an nouncement comes as a surprise, owing to the fact that no business of this kind had been transacted recently. CHECK ON CITY AUTO PLAN Tevice That Will Make TWnTd Day's Vse" Being Tried Out. of An automobile detector, consisting a little delicate clock arrangement, which indicates every move an automo bile makes during 24 hours, has been tried out on city machines and may be adopted as a check on joyriders. The machine, which is being tried by Traffic Engineer Kirkpatrick, indicates on a record the stops, the length of the stops and the length of time a machine is run. By means of this, it is said, check can be kept on the municipal automobiles by making drivers account for the hours run and the stops made. MOTOR CRUISER LAUNCHED 2 0 -Knot Armed Craft to Operate Asa in st Smugglers of Chinese. LOS ANG1CL.KS, Sept. 9. The Ellin ton, a 20-knot motor cruiser to chase smugglers of' Chinese, was launched today for the United States immigra tion service. The vessel, which is 62 feet long and eqi-ipped with a one-pounder rapid- tire gun, was christened by Hilda Fitz gerald, aged 3, a granddaughter Anthony Caminetti, United States Cor missioner of Immigration. Anothe cruiser for the immigration service still on the ways. 34-YEAR-OLD WHEAT SOLD Grain Lon? Meld by British Karme for His Price Makes Good Bread LOXDOX, Aug. 31. Wheat 34 years old has just been threshed, and it mad exceptionally good bread. The wheat was grown and harvested in 1S81 by a farmer named Selby, near Grantham, Lincolnshire, who swore he would not sell It until it reached a certain price. That price was still a secret when the farmer, died. The grain was then put on the mar ket, bringing a good price. 'RILEY DAY' IS PROCLAIMED Indiana Will Honor Poet-Citizen on October 7. INDIANAPOLIS. Sept. 9. Governor Ralston has Issued a proclamation des ignating October 7 as "Riley day," and urging the people of the state to set aside the day to honor James Whitcomb Riley, the poet, whom Governor Rals ton calls "Indiana's most beloved clti aen." Mr. Riley will be 66 years old on October 7. WILSON WEARY OF GERM "EXCUSES" Relations to Be Sev ered Next Time. COMING NOTE TO BE FINAL 'Do Not Let It Happen Again,' to Be Tenor of Reply. ACTION THEN TO FOLLOW Washington, Not Satisfied by Ber lin's Explanation in Arabic Case "Will Recall Ambassador if Incident Is Kepeated. BY JOHN CALLAN O'LAUGHLIN. WASHINGTON. Sept. 9. (Special.) ntense indignation Is manifested in Administration circles . at Germany's excuse for torpedoing the Arabic. Re ceipt tonight of the German note deny ing obligation to grant indemnity for the loss of American lives has accen tuated this feeling. The President and his intimate ad isers believe that they have been played with long enough. Ks.planatlon Will Not Be Awaited. Tee next time a liner is sunk, no ex planations will be awaited from Berlin. Once the facts are established, Mr. Ger ard, the American Ambassador to Ger many, will be recalled and Count von Bernstorff, the German Ambassador, will receive his passports. It is ridiculous, the Administration feels, for Germany to believe the flimsy excuse given for the Arabic's destruc tion will be accepted by the American people. To contend that the liner was pre paring to attack the submarine when the torpedo hit the ship at right angles and from 90 to 100 feet from the stem is to assert, the Administration holds. what is obviously false. iel ot lilt Wear Bot. If the torpedo iad hit the Arabic in the bow or anywhere forward, there might have been some shadow of plaus ibility for the German statement. It is evident, according to the Admin istration, that the Arabic did not seek to ram the submarine by backing. To say the Administration is dis gusted by the cynical defense made by Germany is to put it mildly. Count von Bernstorff, In the name of his government, on September 1 infer- entially disavowed the sinking of the Arabic by asserting that instructions not to sink liners "without warning and without safety of the lives of non combatants, provided the liners do not try to escape or offer resistance." were decided on "before the Arabic Incident occurred." Arabic's Destruction Defended. Germany not now only does not dis avow the destruction of the Arabic, but defends it on the ground that "the ves- 'Concluded on Page 2. Column a.) UNCLE INDEX GF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. TESTERDAT'9 Maximum temperature. 70 degrees; minimum, 55 degrees. TODAY'S Fair and. warmer; northerly winds. Wilson to sever relations with Germany without further ado next time rights are Invaded. Page 1. Washington demands recall of Ambassador Dumba. Page 1. Heart, of London hit by Zeppelins In raid of Wednesday nig lit. Page 1. Britain not ready to consider peace proposals' unui conditions are met. fage 2. Lloyd George says British workmen still are not doing their best. a Page 3. Domestic. Wealthy farmer, formerly of Portland, mys teriously dead in ban Francisco. Page 4. Hoo-hoo begins concatenation at exposition. Page 14. . . Wealthy New York widow murdered and robbed of ?10,O00. Page 4. Spot. Pacific Coast League results: Portland 6-T, Oakland e-2; San Francisco li-r. Lot Angeles . 0-0; Vernon 1. Salt Lake 4. Page 12. Monster crowd sees Phillies win double- header, from Giants. Page 12. Shore, of Red Sox, pitches one-hit shutout against Athletics. Page 12. Directum I breaks Star Pointer's track pacing record- at Charter Oak. Page lit. Mrs. Vanderbeck plays Onwentsla course In par in National tourney. Page 13. Pacific Northwest. Boer war soldier recovers mind in Seattle afier lapse of 13 years. Page 1. Fair. crowds at Vancouver gasp at daring W ild West feats. Page 6. Linn fair opens with throngs in attendance. Page ti. Keen interest shown in Clackamas County Fair. Ptkge 7. " Bankers end so ions at Seattle. Page 7. Commercial d Marine. Market for all grades of apples is stronger. Page 17. Buying by millers and shippers lifts wheat at Chicago. Page 17. War specialties soar in Wall street Ltock market. Page 17. Movement of Coast shipping Is unusual and many vessels are in port. Page 14. Portland and Vicinity. Rev. s. C. Benson, here on visit, relates detention by Germans as spy. Page lu. Washington Park keeper is badly hurt by bea r' s attack. Page 9. Tentative plans for Benson polytechnic school completed. Page 4. Guardsmen score high frequently at Clack amas shoot. Page 11. Cure of cancer discussed at State Medical Society convention. Page 1. Electrical men predict cooking by current within decade. Page 18. Weather report, data and forecast. Page 17. Jury In moral squad case locked up for night. Page 2. $1000 PAID FOR ONE HOG Delaware College Experimental Farm Makes Record Sale. WILMINGTON, Del.. Sept. 9. (Spe cial.) A prjze Berkshire hog raised by the Delaware College experimental farm, Newark, Del., known officially as Duke of Sussex Sixth, -was sold to day for J1000 in cash the world"s rec ord price for a registered porker to C. H. Carter, of Westchester, Pa. The Delaware College agricultural faculty have been raising registered Berkshire. several years. DESTROYER HAS EXPLOSION One Killed, Two Injured, on Decatur in C'avite Navy-Yard. WASHINGTON, Sept. 9. One enlisted man was killed and two injured in an explosion today on the destroyer De catur at the Cavite Navy-yard. Philip pine Islands, according to a cabled re port to the Navy Department. The Navy Department announced that the explosion occurred while the Decatur was at anchor off the Cavite Naval station and that the cause had not ye,t been determined. SAM WHERE IS THIS LITTLE OLD W AR? LONDON'S HEART HIT BY LATEST AIR RAID Heavy Property L oss Is Si'rrc.. ZEPPELIN'S DEATH TOLL 20 Hotel District, Where Tourists Dwell, Scene of Attack. NO AMERICANS ARE KILLED Censorship Suppresses Details, but City Is Known to Bo Stirred, to Depths Berlin Declares Kr- feot Was "Satisfactory." WNDN', Sept. 9. German Zeppelins succeeded in reaching the heart of Lon don in their latest raid, the night of Wednesday-Thursday. From the fact that the press bureau omits reference to the material damage done, it is sur mised that the property loss may have been large. Twenty n'ere killed in this latest raid. Two were .women, six were chil dren and 12 were men, one a soldier. The number of wounded was 86, of whom 27 were women and 13 children. Those seriously wounded number 14. No Americans were among the victims. Admiralty Withholds Details. The London Admiralty forbids pub lication of other than official reports of such attacks, and these are lacking In detail. An official report Issued by the Ger man Admiralty at Berlin says the air ships attacked the western part. of Lon don, the great factories near Norwich and the harbor and iron works at Middlesfcoro. Heavy explosions and numerous fires are declared to have resulted. Although subjected to a heavy fire from anti-aircraft guns, the BeVlin re port says, all the Zeppelins returned, safely to their base. Total of 132 Killed In Raid. The total casualties thus far caused by. Zeppelin raids on England have been 122 killed and 349. wounded. The inference may be drawn plainly from various cable dispatches which have passed the censor that the German aeronauts dropped bombs on the old city of London proper, in the region which contains the hotels, business dis trict and the landmarks famous the world over. In this district there are normally thousands of American tour ists at this time of the year, although their number is far below the average this Summer, on account of the war. The Germans in their Zeppelin at tacks have aimed repeatedly at Lon don. They have succeeded previously in dropping bombs within the metro politan district, but so far as is known no earlier attempt produced the effects of Wednesday night's raid. In this connection It is significant (Concluded on Pago 2, Column, l. Thursday s War Moves THE German Crown Prince is mak ing another determined attempt to break through the French lines in the Argonne. and, according to the Berlin official statement, has succeeded in tak ing trenches over a front of two kilo meters (one and one-fourth miles) and to a depth of from 300 to 500 meters, capturing 2000 prisoners, 43 machine guns and 64 minethrowers. The French admit that the Germans had gained a partial success, but de clare that in most instances they were thrown back with heavy losses. This is the second effort of the Ger man Emperor's heir to win a victory in this region within the last three months and.- although on each occasion he gained a. small amount of ground, he is apparently as far from his ob jective this time as on the previous occasion. Fighting was in progress all Wednesday and throughout the night and was still going on when the last report was Issued. This doubtless is the German reply to the artillery bombardment which the allies kept up for 15 days, but which now seems to be dying down without any infantry attacks following it. Instead, except for heavy gun ac tion south of Arras, bomb-throwing seems to have taken its place. Along the eastern front things are moving more slowly again after the Russian offensive in the southeast, 11 which they asserted a substantial vie tory, had helped to liven up matters. From the Uulf of Riga to olita, south of Kovno, the Germans say. the sltua tion is unchanged, while their center from that point to and beyond the Pripet marshes continues to advance. Thence to the Roumanian frontier the Russians are still the asgresaors ; they are endeavoring to prevent the invasion of Bessarabia. On the whole, the Russians appear, with fresh supplies of ammunition, to be making a better stand. They are aided, doubtless, by tho rains which are turning- the roads, especially in the region of the Pripet and its affluents, into quagmires. The only news from the Dardanelles comes from Turkish sources, which re port an artillery action in which the allied ships took part. September lO, 1014. Kaiser's note to President Wilson protests warfare by Belgian citizens and use of dumdum bullets. German forces in France reinforced. Maubeugc fortress taken. Appeals of Burgomaster of Ghent brought to America. congress nastens to frame new war tax bill.- - " - - Russians again victorious near Lem berg. 'ADMISSION DAY" HONORED Xntive Californlans Celebrate at San Francisco Exposition. SAN FRANCISCO. Sept. 9 Sons and daughters, grandsons and granddaugh ters, splotched with the yellow of the California poppy, marched here today in a line reaching from the Perry build ing to the Panama-Pacific Exposition in honor of their forefathers who dared the hardships of '49 and made Call fornia a state. It was the ''Admission day" parade. one- little Dana or gray-haired men stepped stoutly along to a constan ripple of applause of the thousands lin ing the streets. They were the pio neers themselves, and they carried th Bear flag of the Republic. Native sons and native daughters from nearly every city in the state were represented. CADETS' DISMISSAL ASKED Annapolis Midshipmen Are Charged With Hazing and Valsehoods. WASHINGTON, Sept. 9. Seven mid shipmen have been recommended for dismissal from the Naval Academy by the acting superintendent for hazing or for falsehoods in connection with the recent hazing investigation. Secretary Daniels today offered the accused mid shipmen opportunities to make explana tions. Their names were not made public. In addition a large number were recommended for disciplinary action for other objectionable conduct not amounting to hazing. BERNHARDI GOES TO FRONT German General and Military Writer Takes Field Command. BERLIN', via London, Sept. 9 Gen eral Fried rich A. J. von Bernhardi has been assigned to a field command at his own- request by Emperor William. He has already left for the front. 1 - General von Bernhardi is one of the best-known"" military writers of Ger many. In a book entitled "Germany and the Next War." written In 1912. he forecast many of the main features of the present campaigns. Before going to the front he served as commander of the Fiftieth Army Corps, which con sists of home units. OLD MULES FIND MARKET More Than 15,000 Animals Bought In Month by British Agents. KANSAS CITT. Sept. " 9 British agents in the last months have bought more than 15,000 pack mules here, ac cording to statements by local dealers today. Some of the mules taken recently were more than 15 'years old, the dealers said. In the last two weeks more than 1500 mules have been shipped out of Kansas City routed by way of New Orleans to Egypt. It is believed the Missouri mules will be used to sup ply transportation for a new Asiatic iDMr-'ja iji inft the Turks. DOCTORS DISCUSS CURE OF CAIiCER Paper by Dr. Mackenzie Opens Debate. LIST OF "DON'TS" IS GIVEN Mortality, From Disease De- dared on Increase. ELECTION FEATURE TODAY tate Medical Association Dele gates Guests of City and County Society at Banquet and Din ner Da nee On for Tonight. If you smoke a pipe, don't hold 1 always in the same position in yom mouth, unless you are an active can didate for cancer of the lip. If you have a rough tooth, don't keep rasping your tongue across it, for that to invite cancer of the tongue. If you eat your food hot, and make it still hotter with condiments, you are tending to irritate the stomach and are making yourself that much more susceptible to cancer of tho stomach. These were some of . the warnings sounded against cancer the only disease of modern times that con tinues to increase in splto of all e.Torts by Dr. Andrew C. Smith, of Port land, at yesterday afternoon's session of the Oregon Slate Medical Associa tion, in the Multnomah Hotel. Dr. Smith was taking part in a lively dis cussion of a paper Just read by Dr. K. A. J. Mackenzie on "The Prevention and Cure of Cancer." TVeed of Haste In ' Cancer Held. In this paper Dr. Mackenzie madu the positive assertion that cancer, if taken in its earliest stages, is abso lutely curable by surgical treatment. Cancer, he said, is always local in i's initial period, and in this local stage. If the knife is used pwmptly. can b eradicate!. He laid great emphasis, however. m the need of haste in treatment of ail cancerous growths. He said that tli-s surgeon must operate at once when ever he. becomes reasonably sure that a growth is malignant, for by waiting for positive signs he may cost the patient his life. "The old method of waiting for definite signs of cancer," he explained, "only means lessening of the chances of cure. 1S.GOO Women Victims. "If taken in the early stages, the proportion of curable cases In cancer of the breast should at the worst be, not less than S6 per cent; cancer of the skin, more than 9S per cent; ranr?' of the lip and tongue, 90 per cent, and cancer of the bones more than 75 per cent. "Eighteen thousand women d'ert last year in the United States of cancer of the breast 18,000 lives needlessly wasted." Dr. Mackenzie went on. "They could have been saved if taken In time. Why wait, when waiting means death? Cancer is always local -nt first. - "Twenty-eight thousand men and women died of cancer of the stomach in 1914 who might have been saved, if the principal of ascertaining promptly the caue of every continued disturbance in the stomach, of every prolonged period of indigestion, and remedying it. had been observed. t lirent roiwInUltles Asserted. "If all cases of cancer were treated in their initial stage in the first local stage 99 per cent, at least, of cures could be effected. Now I want this . statement taken guardedly and with undersanding, for it is easy of miscon struction. I am referring to cancer in its very initial stage. "If prompt surgical action is taken. 80 per cent of all cases brought by patients to physicians before either knows definitely that the patient Is suf fering from cancer, can be saved. "With prompt surgical action 30 per cent of the cases in which the physi cian is able to diagnose the cancer be fore the operation can be saved. General Condition Held Factor. "To sum up. the surgeon is able to effect a cure in vmost every case, un der modern conditions, if it is brought to him when the cancerous condition s still local. Otherwise, he must root out all the ramifications of the cancer, or his work will be of no avail." Dr. Mackenzie, speaking of steps for the prevention of cancer, emphasized the need of keeping in good physical condition. An abnormality of any kind, he declared, should be straight way made normal. All irritations, he said, should receive prompt, and if nec essary, radical treatment. Persons troubled with digestive disturbance extending over any lengthy period should see' a physician, and he recom mended a thorough physical examina tion once a year or so for everyone. I'ncleanllneaa Declared Menace. "And above all. be clean," he added. "Cncleanliness tends to ulcers and to , cancers." "One great factor which stands In the way of our progress In cancer." be said again, emphasizing the necessity for doctors, as well as laymen, to arouse themselves to the danger, "is the skep ticism of the' laity as to the curability of cancer. This condition, also, unfor tunately, exists among many membeis of the profession." Dr. Ernest F. Tucker, in the discve slon that followed, questioned i-r. Mackenzie's statement that 99 per ceat (Continued ou Page 13. Columa &.) 9