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VOL,. IAT. 0. 17,098. PORTLAND, OREGON, SATURDAY. SEPTE3IBER 11, 1915. PRICE FIVE CENTS. AUSTRIA fiY SEND HHL PENFIELD HOME Action Would Not Sur prise Washington. AFFAIRS AT HIGH TENSION Germany's Note on Arabic May Be Studied Affront. EVENTS ARE CO-RELATED President Xot to Be I'orced Into Role of Aggressor, but in Xext Xote 'Will Refuse, to Ac cept Proffered Excuse. BY JOHN CALLAX O' LAUGH LIN. WASHINGTON, Sept. 10. (Special.) . The relations of the United States and Austria-Hungary and Germany are In a state of high tension as a result of the Dumba incident, and the char acter of the German reply on the de struction of the liner Arabic. It would surprise no one here not even high officials of the Administra tion should Austrian-Hungary express her displeasure at the recall of Am bassador l)umba by giving passports to the American Ambassador, Freder ick C. Penfield. Nor would they be surprised to learn that - the German note, with reference to the Arabic was prepared in the light of information mat the American Government con templated serious action against the Austro-llungarian Ambassador. Kventa Keearded.au Related. In other words, the two events are regarded as correlated. If this con clusion be correct, then there are rough waters ahead. The United States specifically told Germany that the destruction of an other liner would be regarded as a "de liberately unfriendly act." The Arabic was sunk after this no tice was served. Germany not only has failed to disavow the act of the sub marine commander, but has indorsed it. Moreover, she has declared she will not acknowledge any obligation to make reparation, "even if the commander should have been mistaken as to the aggressive intentions of the Arabic." AMiirancea Are Repudiated Thus Germany has called the bluff of the United States that she would be held to "a strict accountability" if , .as a result of German submarine oper ations any American lives were t lost Moreover, the German Arabic statement is accepted as a repudiation of the as surance received officially from Count von Bernstorff. the German Ambassa dor, that liners w.ould not be sunk without warning unless they resisted or tried to escape. The suggestion of Germany that the difference of opinion as to the respons ibility for the destruction of the ves sel should be submitted as a question of international law to The Hague tribunal for arbitration is regarded as wholly unacceptable and as having been made more for the purpose of em barrassing the Administration than with any expectation of its acceptance. Germany, as well as the United Btates, is bound by International law, and international law ' forbids the destruction of a vessel without prelim inary visit and search and without provision for the security of the pas sengers and crew. Action May Be Foreed. The inevitable conclusion of officials from their review of the facts is that Germany has sought to create a situa tion whicn will cause the United States to take action in the case of Count von Bernstorff. the German Ambaj sador. The Berlin government feels that it would be good politics to make the American Administration appear in the light of the aggressor. The President will not rise to the German bait. Count von Bernstorff is not to receive his passports for en trusting a report to James F. J. Archi bald, the American citizen who car ried the Dumba letters. The report was merely a copy of a statement filed with Secretary of State Lansing. Nor is he to be sent home on account of the Arabic. Sharp ote to Be Sent. Further consideration, however, has induced a decision to act more em phatically with reference to the Arabic than was originally intended. Another note will be sent to Berlin. It will be a refusual to accept the German ex cuse, a reiteratioik of the purpose of the United States to hold Germany to a "strict accountability" Tor the Ameri can lives lost on the Arabic and a plain intimation that no further explanations will be asked in case another liner should be sunk. In such case the United States will act Should the Austro-Hungarian gov ernment defend Dr. Dumba and this is expected he will be dismissed with out delay.. As coon as the formal reply from the Austro-Rungarian government is re ceived, the 1'residcnt will take up the case of the Austro-Hungarian Consul in New York and Captain von Papen, the German military attache. Diplomat- jo Be Cleared Oat. When all the facts are received con cerning Von Papen. measures will be taken for his departure. In other words, there is to be & gen eral clearing out of diplomats who have iCouciuded on 1 a 2 Coiuiua 1.) WIND STORM DEALS DEATH IN CHICAGO BOY BLOWN XJXDEK WAGOX, CAK STBICK BV LIGHTXISG. Man Fatally Injured and Wife Badly Hurt When Home Is Unroofed and Many Basements Are Flooded. CHICAGO, Sept. 10. One person was killed and several injured in a severe wind and rain storm which swept over Chicago today. Frances Weber, 14 years old, was knocked down by the wind and run over and killed by a wagon. Thomas Hilliary, 58 years old. was fatally injured and his wife was se verely hurt when the wind swept the roof off their home. A trolley car, crowded with passengers, was struck by lightning at East Twelfth street and South Wabash avenue. The roof of the car caught fire and the pas sengers fled to the street without in jury. Five men in a motorboat and two men in a rowboat were rescued in Lake Michigan a mile from shore. A dozen fires caused by crossed elec tric wires directly due to the storm were quickly extinguished. Scores of signs were blown down and thousands of basements were flooded. ARSON BAND BURNS HOPS Migratory Workers Seek to Avenge Murderers of Prosecutor. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 10. Fires of incendiary origin which have within the last week caused an estimated loss to Sonoma County hopgrowers of $50,- 000 have aroused the county authorities to an attempt to run down what they believe is an organized arson band. The barn of O. B. Blalack at Hopland was destroyed yesterday by fire which consumed 24,000 pounds of hops, valued at $15,000. Before that the hop barn on the ranch of Mrs. M. T. Woodward, near Santa Rosa, was destroyed, with a loss of $35,000. Police and detectives openly charge that malcontent migratory workers have organized a campaign of destruc tion in the hopgrowing districts as a protest against the continued imprison ment of Richard Ford and Herman Suhr for the killing of Frank Manwell, District Attorney, in the Wheatland hop riots in 1913. WOMAN RUNS LOS ANGELES Transaction of City Business Ham pered by Many Deputations. LOS ANGELES, Sept. 10. For the first time in its history, Los Angeles had a woman Mayor today. Mrs. Estelle Lawton Lindsay, president pro tempore of the City Council, assumed the duties of chief executive of the municipality in the absence of Mayor Sebastian and his second in command, Martin Betkouski, president of the Council. Then she attempted the transaction of city business, but deputations of newspaper photographers, fc reporters, city officials seeking- advice and counsel and finally clubwomen kept her busy talking1. The clubwomen desired her to go to luncheon with them, but she offered her regrets. GRAIN PILE WEDDING ALTAR Thresher Returns to Work and His Cook-Bride to Ifer Wagon. SPOKANE, Sept. .10. (Special.) One of the most unique weddings took plac today at the Gipsy ' Scott ranch, south of Oakesdale, Wash., when Ernest Guypt, a sack sewer in the threshing crew of Charles Matney, of Rockforo., and Miss Irene "Whitehead, of Rockford, who has been cooking for the crew. were married standing on a pile of sacks of newly threehed grain. Threshing operations' were suspended during the ceremony and the crew gathered around as witnesses. The Rev. J. A. Hedges officiated. After the ceremony the bridegroom returned to his sack-sewing and the bride to the cook wagon to prepare the wedding feast. RISEN EX-CARMAN HONORED Electric Trainmen Choose ex-Go-Worker as Official Physician. Tears ago in the early days of street cars in Portland L. O. Roberts was a conductor on the Piedmont line. He en gaged in the business of collecting fares and being in general charge of the car for a number of years, study ing during his spare time. In due time he obtained a medical education and won a doctor's degree and a title with it Yesterday in recognition of that fact and as a former co-worker, the Pied mont Division of the Brotherhood of Electric Trainmen of the Portland Rail way, Light & Power Company elected Dr. Roberts to be official physical ex aminer for them. BIG FAIR ENTRY PREDICTED James V. Crawford Says State Will Offer Fine Show. Entries at the State Fair to be held at Salem probably will be more nu merous and of a better quality this year than last year. according to James W, Crawford, who has just been appointed chief clerk of the entry de partment of the fair. "The entries began rather slowly," Mr. Crawford said, "but indications are that they will come in rapidly until the close. September 13." Mr. Crawford was formerly First As sistant Attorney-General' of the state LOSS IS $50, 000 BY 4 HOP FIRES Suspicions Aroused as to Origin of Twa STATE PROTECTION PROPOSED T.A.Livesley Loses 1250 Bales and Plant Worth $32,000. ROOF FALLS, PICKER HURT Women Offer Skirts to Aid Men in Attempt to Stifle Flames, but Blaze Spreads to Neighboring ' FieldsI. W. W. Investigated. SALEM, Or., Sept. 10. (Special.) Pour fires, two of which are believed to have been of incendiary origin, to day caused a loss of about $50,000 at hop plants in this and Polk counties. The biggest blaze was at the ranch of T. A. LIvesley & Company, four miles south of this city, where about 600 pickers were employed. It is prob able that a large number of them -will be thrown out of work or forced to seek employment in other yards. About two-thirds of all losses were coverec. by insurance. Because of the intense heat main tained In hop kilns ranging from 145 to 170 degrees fires are not uncom mon at picking time. The large num ber today, however, leads to suspicion that "firebugs", were active. Growers in the Independence district, according to reports here, are thinking of ap pealing to the Governor for protection, although there is no proof any of the fires were set. Seven Buildings Are Lost. Price of picking was reduced this year from 50 to 40 cents a box, and many pickers openly complained that the remuneration was npt adequat especially in view of the fact that the yard is smaller than in seasons when the higher price was paid. Growers beside T. A. Livesley & Co. sustaining losses are: E. M. Toung, yard four miles north of Independence; George Ruef, yard near Independence, and Wlgrich Richardson & Co., yard south of Independence. Seven buildings and the same num ber of balers were destroyed at the Livesley yard, entailing a loss of about $32,000. Two-thirds of a crop from about 200 acres had been picked and was being dried. The entire corps of pickers was working in the fields near by when a blaze was discovered in the roof of one of the buildings. Women Offer Skirts as Blankets. Men. women and children rushed to the building and it soon was evident that the flames would be communi cated to four other buildings, five com prising a group. There were two other buildings about 200 yards away, and still two others on the other side of the ranch. Heroic effort was made to confine the fire to the building in which it originated, but without avail. Men Concluded on Page 2. Column 2.) ' hNDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAT'S Maximum temperature, 75 degrees; minimum, 49 degrees. TODAY'S Fair; northerly wind. War. German attache and possibly Corfnt von Bernstorfr involved In . Dumba affair. Page 2. Rud yard Kipling describes trip through trenches. Page X. Austria may band passports to Ambassad. r-emieia. .f age 1. Iomestlc. Retired merchant rescued- half crazed from Hell's Half Acre. Page 3. Lieutenant-Colonel Goodier summoned before court-martial at Presidio. Page- 3. Chicago experiences severe storm. Page 1. Sport. Coast League results: .Oakland 6, Portland 2; Los Angeles 1, San Francisco 5; Salt Lake 12, Vernon 5. Page 10. Cravat h's longest and most remarkable drive wins game against Giants when Tesreau weakens. Page 10. Western tennis players clinch all honors In East. Page 11. Women's golf semi-final match requires four bye holes. Page 10. McFarland fights Gibbons at Brighton Beach tonight. Paga 10. Pacific Northwest. Body of Twin Falls horse trader found In well and Pendleton man admits crime. Page 5. Four hopyards burned, loss is $50,000. Page 1. Addison Bennett finds Hoquiam is city of large payrolls. Page 5. J. G. Megler, pioneer salmon cannery man, dies at Brookfield, Wash. Page 5. Commercial and Marine. Large flour buyers await settlement of wheat market. Paite 15. High premiums paid for Immediate delivery of wheat at Chicago. Page 15. Stock market under pressure, owing to latest international developments. Page 15. Commission advertises for bids for trackage at municipal dock No. 2. Page 12. Portland and Vicinity. Society leaders loin bucket brigade and save fine W'averley Heights home. Page U. Suit of $20,000 against Mayor's secretary and moral squad tiLBmissea. page V. Sergeant Pearson makes perfect score Clackamas range. rage 7. Doctors make plea against operations for appendicitis. Page 1. Visiting bankers feted in Portland. Page 12. Weather report, data and forecast. Page 15. LINER OFFERED JAPANESE China Will Remain on Pacific Run if Deal Goes Through. HONOLULU, T. H., Sept. 10. Siochiro Asano, president of the Toyo Kisen Kaisha, who arrived here today on his way home to Japan, announced that the Atlantic Transport Company had of fered to sell him the liner China, one of the first vessels recently bought by the Atlantic Transport Company from the Pacific Mail Company. Mr. Asano said that if the deal went through, he would keep the China on the trans-Pacific run. The China is a vessel of 5060 gross tons register, is a single-screw steel vessel and was built in Glasgow in 18S9. RECTOR QUITS FOR FARM Roseburg Pastor Finds Two Estates Encroaching on Pastoral Duties. ROSEBURG, Or., Sept. 10. (Special.) His two farms having encroached upon nis pastoral duties until he has come to feel that he must resign the latter out of justice to his charge. Rev, Charles Wilson Baer, of St. George's Episcopal Clurch, will sever his con nection with the RoseDurg church on October 1. Rev. Burr G. Lee. of Salem, has been appointed his successor and will ar rive here within the next few days, Rev. Mr. Lee is the 12th" tn standing among the members of the Oregon diocese and is counted one of its most efficient pastors. "TRUSTING THAT OUR RELATIONS WILL NOT BE KIPLING TELLS OF TRIP OEHCHES uns of Eoemies Im- personal as Sea. MEN KNOW SHELLS' VOICES Conflict More Than War; It Is Eating Up of People. TROOPS REST IN CAVES Frencli Soldiers Brilliant and Senti mental and Affectionate In Relations With Each Other and With Officers. BY RCDYARD KIPLING. (Copyright. 1015. In the United State. By special caoie to tne xiicasu inuuuo The Oregonian.) LONDON, Sept. 5. "It's a pretty park," said the French artillery officer. We've done a lot for it since the owner left. I hope ne'll appreciate it when he comes back." The car traversed a winding drive through woods between banks em bellished with little charity of a rustic nature. At first, the chalets stood their full height above ground, suggesting tea gardens in England. Farther on they sank into the earth till at the top of the ascent only their solid brown roofs showed. Torn, branches, dropping across the driveway, with . here and there a scorched patch of undergrowth, explained the reason of their modesty, laexploded Shell In Wall. The chateau that commanded these glories of forest, and park sat boldly on a terrace. There was nothing wrong with it except, if one looked closely. few scratches or dints on its white stone walls or a neatly drilled hole under a flight of steps. One such hole ended in an unexploded shell. "Yes," said the officer, "they arrive here occasionally." Something bellowed across the folds of the wooded hills; something grunted in reply. Something passed overhead, querulously, but not without dignity. Two clear, fresh barks joined the chorus, and a man moved lazily in the direction of the guns. "Well, suppose we come and look at things a little," said the commanding officer on observation post. German an Withers Grass. There was a specimen tree, a tree worthy of such a park, the r rt of tree visitors are always taken to admire. A ladder ran up It to a platform. What little wind there was swayed the tall top and the ladder creaked like a ship's gangway. A telephone bell tinkled 50 feet overhead. Two invisible guns spoke fervently for 'half a minute and broke off like terriers choked on a leash. We climbed till the topmost platform swayed dizzily beneath us. Here one found a rustic shelter, always of the tea garden pattern, a table, a map and a little window wreathed with living Concluded on Page 2, Column 4. DISTURBED." Friday's War Moves THE Germans have repeated in the Vosges Mountains the attempts which they made to break through the French lines in the Argonne forest, which seemingly indicates that the long-expected offensive in the west will not much longer be delayed. Iu these attacks t.he Germans assert that they were enabled to occupy some French trenches. The French report, issued later, admits this, but says the German progress was accomplished by the use of the asphyxiating Erases and that in counter-attacks the French re gained the greater part of their lost ground at Hartman's Weilerkopf, and later repulsed another violent attack against that position. Hartman's Weilerkopf, which was taken by the French in their Spring and Summer operations, probably has been the scene of as much hard fight ing as any place on the whole front. It has changed hands a dozen times. The Germans by assault Thursday again got a footing on the summit, but, according to the French report, were driven down again in the night. . Out side these events, the armies in the west have been engaged in almost con tinuous artillery duels, bomb-throwing and -air raids. In the East there is little change In the situation. The two Russian suc cesses on the Sereth River. Galicla, while they made a big capture of men and guns, have not interfered with the Austro-German advance. Farther north the Austrians have taken Dubno, the second of the triangle of fortresses to fall into their hands, and with the help of the Germans are advancing to Rovno, the third of these fortified cen ters. Meanwhile the Germans from the south of the Pripet marshes to the region southwest of Vilna are fighting hard and with some success for the strategic railway system of the Brest Vilna area. Most of this railway system is al ready in the possession of the invad ers, but fhey are row aiming particu larly at the main trunk line which, starting at Riga, runs through Dvlnsk, Vilna, Llda and the east Pripet marshes to Rovno and onward to Lemberg, Galicla. Military critics express the opinion that once this line is in the hands of the Austro-German forces they will go into Winter quarters, for the more important military purpose of bringing any large part of tha Rus sian forces to a decisive battle under disadvantageous conditions now seems out of the question, as the Autumn rains already have set in. The three main Russian armies, under Generals Ruzsky. Everett and Ivanoff. although reduced and outnumbered, still are full of fight, as is shown by their offensive on the Sereth River, and the Austro Germans must look to their own de fense before reinforcements reach their opponents. There is still a dearth of news from the Dardanelles. On the" Austro-Ital ian frontier the Italians continue their attacks in the mountain regions, where their progress is slow. It is disclosed by the Sofia corre spondent of the Asscociated Press that Serbia has offered to cede Macedonia, as far as the Vardar River, to Bulga ria, but that the latter wants the whole of Macedonia. This Is where the nego tiations. It was feared, would reach a deadlock, for above all things Serbia desired to maintain a common border with Greece, while Bulgaria has al ways demanded the cession of Monastir, which, being near the southwestern border, would make a common border impossible. September 11, 19in. Koenigsberg bombarded and part of city in flames. Pope urges peace. British reported victorious over 400 Germans in Nissaland, South Africa Belgium commission which is to call on President Wilson arrives in New York. Belgians turn on Germans, driving them back from Louvain. EXPOSITION SHOWS PROFIT Cash Xet Income to September 5 Given as $914,605. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 10. In a statement of the finances of the Panama-Pacific Exposition covering the period from its opening February 20 to September 5 submitted today by Rodney S. Durkee, controller, a net cash income of $914,605 is showiv. The total income for the period was $4,647, 018, balanced against a total expendi ture of ?3,732,413. .The report of the . controller showed that the unadjusted claims against the exposition company will not exceed $50,000. MAN MAKES PERILOUS RIDE En gen e Fa rmer Clings to Wa gon Tongue as Horses Run Away. EUGENE. Or.. Sept. 10. (Special.) After hanging on the underside of the tongue of a wagon for more than a mile while his team was running away at top speed. Burr Fitch, a farmer. was rescued yesterday by District Attorney Devers and Deputy Sheriff Bailey, three miles west of Eugene. The officers left their auto as they saw the team and stopped it. Mr. Fitch had been kicked by the horses repeatedly and his body was covered with bruises. CHRISTINE NIELSON DIES Opera Singer Succumbs to Pneu monia in London. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 10. Christine Nielson, the opera singer, died in Lon don two days ago from pneumonia ac cording to a cablegram received by her father, Jacob L. Nielson, here today. She was born and reared In San Francisco, PLEA FOR APPENDIX IDE BY DOCTODS Hesitation Before Oper ation Advised. GOOD ONES REMOVED, IS VIEW Operations Declared No Relief in Many Cases. HOME INSTRUCTION URGED Many Ills Sent Unnecessarily to San itarium, Says Dr. Hockey, and Luch Depends on Nurse. Several Physicians Agree. The old practice of diving into a man's abdomen after his appendix and. slicing it off in triumph as soon as ho exhibited symptoms of the "belly ache" got roughly handled at the con cluding session of the Oregon Stato Medical Association at the Multnomah Hotel yesterday. The modern theory appeared to be quite different. The general advice, aj brought out in a spirited discussion, of two well-presented, papers on ap pendicitis, was to hang on to your ap pendix just as long as you can. The difference was emphasized, how ever, between acute and chronic ap pendicitis. If you have the acute type, it was generally agreed, it is often better to get the appendix out ani have done with it, though, even then, it was declared, it is by no means al ways necessary to operate. ,Kcpp Appendix, la Advice. But if you should be troubled with the so-called chronic appendicitis, pro tect the appendix, stand guard over it, refuse to give it up until the most . careful study of the case seems to in dicate beyond doubt that it can't bo made to behave in any other way and deserves to be taken out In case of doubt, it seemed to be the consensus of opinion, keep your ap pendix. At least be reasonable with it and give it a chance. Don't condemn it on whim, or just because some one is willing to cut it out for you. In fact, the poor, lambasted appendix of other days, the once cause of many of the ills of mankind, would have been astounded at the warm defense it got. The reason for the extreme caution to be observed in removing the ap pendix in cases of chronic appendicitis, it was brought out by Dr. Charles E. Sears in a paper on "The Study of the Condition Commonly Called Chronic Appendicitis," is that in a great number of cases appendicitis isn't the trouble at all, but only a symptom. Some Operations Not Relief. Dr. Sears made his paper doubly in-, teresting by showing lantern slides of X-ray pictures of cases that had come under his observation within the past 15 months. All the patients had been sufferers from chronic appendicitis, and most of them had had previous opera tions for appendicitis which not only failed to give relief, but in some in stances had even made the trouble worse. By means of the pictures Dr. Sears showed clearly that the trouble in real ity has been due to bad conditions else where in the abdomen, which the ap pendix bad only reflected. Ha cited facts as to the cure of many of these patients and their relief from all appen dicitis symptoms by proper diet and mechanical treatment. "No surgeon should remove a normal appendix." declared Dr. K. A. J. Mac kenzie with emphasis. In commenting on this paper. "I have discovered a number of pa tients who have been injured by re moval of the appendix. I confess it. When you are dealing with a doubtful case, there should be no operation at all until you are sure of your ground." Normal Appendices Removed. Dr. Mackenzie said he had recently had some fine results in determining doubtful cases by X-ray pictures. He added : "A good many men are still oper ating on normal appendices, because they have not made these observa tions. They do not have the oppor tunity of studying that way." Dr. Park Weed Willis, of Seattle, after some humorous references to the flank attack of the doctors of in ternal medicine on the surgeons. In declaring that there were too many appendicitis operations, said: "I am firmly convinced that we have operated on many appendicitis cases which "should not have been operated on. But I don't think we are do ing that today. "However, let me say that the day is past when we are going to make a beautiful little incision when we cut out an appendix, for if there is any opera tion that should require a great big incision it Is that for chronic appen dicitis, because of the-many other con ditions that might be present." Common Senwe Advocated. Dr. A. E. Rockey emphasized the need of good, plain common sense in deal ing with all appendicitis cases and pointed out that the medical profession is not doing its full duty until all branches of it unite to teach the pa tient how to take care of himself. "Do you recognize the fact that a little common sense instruction would (.Continued ou Fage 12; Column ii-.
