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VOL. L.V 0. 17,074. PORTLAND, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1915. PRICE FIVE CENTS. V DUMBA VACATION NOT SATISFACTORY Washington to Insist on Punishment. DISMISSAL IS PROBABLE Lansing Will Not Permit Vi enna to Outwit Him. MUCH -SECRECY OBSERVED Ambassador Kept in TJark as to Ad : ministration's Intentions Until , -After Note Asking Recall -j lias Been Dispatched. ' BY JOHN C ALLAN O LAIK5HLIN. WASHINGTON, Sept. 14. (Special.) With the submarine issue in the dis cussing stage and thereby giving prom ise of a satisfactory solution, the at tention or this government again turned today to the situation of Dr. Dumba and the developments arising therefrom. Dr. Dumba's wireless application for recall by his government "on leave of absence" does not meet the wishes of the President and Secretary of State Lansing. They requested his recall as a punishment and as a disavowal of the measures he intended to attempt in order to disturb the security and neu trality of the United States. His de parture on "leave of absence" will not be approved. . Formal D it nils a! Probable. Certainly the State Department will not obtain a safe conduct from the British government for him under such circumstances. This means that he will be unable to go next week ahe contemplates, unless and this is prob able the United States formally hands him his passports and accompanies this action by the request to Great Britain to permit him to. pass through her Jines to Holland. It is no longer a secret that Secre tary Lansing was apprehensive that Dr. Dumba. would make an application for leave and that it would be ap proved before he could get his note to Vienna. . For this reason the fact that lie had sent the request for the diplo mat's recall was guarded with care. Diplomat Kept in Dark. Dr. l5umba did not know the decision of the President on the day the in structions were sent to Ambassador I'enf ield. Four hours after the dis k patch was put on the cable, he was of, the opinion that the Administration did rot know its own mind. Events show that it did. Events to come will show that it does, not only in the case of Dr. Dumba, but with reference to other Austro-Hungarian agents who are involved in the pro posed plan to inaugurate a strike in the industrial plants. The Department of Justice is looking Into the information which has been fathered and which will be valuable as evidence before the courts. The Dis trict Attorney of New York was at the department today discussing with the officials the case of James P. J. Archi bald, from whom the Dumba and Von Papen letters were taken, and that of the Austro-Hungarian Consul-General in New York. Within a few days an announcement will be made of the course of action to be pursued. Leave of Ahftenrc Inauf flrlent. The State Department has received several dispatches from Ambassador Penfield in resard to the case of Dr. Dumba. This Government will not ac cept the recall of the diplomat on leave of absence as satisfaction for the of fenses charged against the Austrian representative. It is understood Aus tro-Hungary is willing to accede to the United States and to -order the re turn of the Ambassador, but the con ditions which will accompany such ac tion have not been revealed and will not be until the formal reply to the American request is handed to Mr. Penfield. It seems practically certain that the difficulties with Austro-Hungary which Dr. Dumba's activity provoked will be arranged in some fashion, per haps after exchanges of notes between the two governments. Submarine Outlok OptlraUtli-. There is decided optimism about an adjustment of the German submarine isue, as exemplified in the case of the Lusitania and the Arabic. It is real ised in official and diplomatic circles that it will be extremely awkward for the German government to disavow the destruction of the Arabic, especially in view of the fact that it has backed up the submarine commander in a formal note to this Government. Such action would arouse the Von Tirpitz follow ing in Berlin and perhaps enable !t to regain dominance In the imperial coun cils. The Administration has a slight hope that Germany will admit in the light of the evidence presented by this Government that the submarine com mander "may have made a mistake." Knsia to Get Locomotives. PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 11. The British steamship Pafnt Leonarde. the first vessel to clear from this port for Vladivostok by way of the Panama C;nal, sailed today for the Siberian p !--rt. Fifteen locomotives and 60U0 tons of steel rails comprised the cargo. kUuad. t about $575,004- THREATS SENT TO FINANCIAL ENVOYS A-XGLO-FKEXCH COMMISSION" IS CIOSEX.X GUARDED. Pinkerton Detectives Stationed in Biltmore Hotel to Protect Visiting Foreigners. NEW TORK. Sept. 14. (Special.) That threatening letters had been sent to members of the Anglo-French finan cial commission, now in New York to negotiate a f 1.000.000.000 loan, became known today when extra guards were hired to protect the foreign financiers at the Biltmore Hotel. At the same time it became known that a thoroughly organized movement by German sympathizers is at work in American banks to prevent the loan to the .entente allies. . Directors of Ger manic extraction have threatened to re sign and depositors of Teutonic sym pathies have threatened to withdraw their deposits if the banks enter the loan. Six Pinkerton detectives were put on guard today at the Biltmore as the re sult of threats received through the mails, although none of the men con nected with the commission would ad mit it. STUDENTS PROTEST DRILL University of "Washington Has Anti Military Body. SEATTLE, Wash., Sept. 14. A move ment to formulate a protest against compulsory military drill required of freshmen arid sophomores at the Uni versity of Washington was begun yes terday when the State University opened for the registration of students. A pamphlet denouncing student mili tary Mrlli was circulated by the "stu dents' anti-drill society" and a call was Issued for a protest meeting Wednes day night. President Henry ' Suzzalo, ' who said he favored military drill- for every youth, but doubted whether the Uni versity was the place for it, gave per misison for Wednesday, night's meet ing. WOMAN THRICE SUFFERER Husband Dies in "War, Bomb De stroys Home, Son Found Insane. SAN BERNARDINO, Cal., Sept. 14. When the war. broke out In Europe, Mrs. Nancy Brooks, 72 years old, was robbed of ner husband, an officer In the British ffrmy. Zeppelin attacks subsequently destroyed her home In England. She then traveled across the sea and a continent to spend her declining days with her son here. She found him today incurably in sane in the Patton State hospital. The shock of his father's death and the refusal of recruiting officers In Van couver, B. C, to permit him to join the colors had unbalanced his mind. WEST LEADS WITH ROADS Columbia Highway Declared to Com pare Favorably With Europe. OAKLAND, Cal., Sept. 14. James H. MacdonrJd, who was for 18 years Con necticut State Highway Commissioner, said at the convention today that the states of California, Oregon and Wash ington lead the Union in the matter of good roadn. "The Columbia Highway in Oregon and the roads of the Siskiyou Pass in California," he said, "more than equal the famous roads of Europe, as well as the famous palisades drive along the Hudson. This wonderful road prog ress has all been made in the past 10 years." AUSTRALIAN GOLD IS DUE More Than $5,000,000 Expected to Keacri San Francisco Today. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 14. More British gold, nearly five and one-half millions of dollars in sovereigns, is due tomorrow aboard the Oceanic liner Sonoma from Australian bankers. Including tomorrow's shipment the total of British money received here from Australia and New Zealand since June 30 approximates $0,000,000. Early next month $8,000,000 is ex pected. SWISS PUNISHING SPIES Persons Arrested Are Chiefly Ger mans and Austrian?. GENEVA, via Paris. Sept. 14. Since the beginning of the war 84 persons have been arrested by the Swiss au thorlties on the charge of being spies. The arrests, made in variou4owns, were mostly of Austrians and Ger mans. At Lausanne yesterday three spies. their leader a German, were sentenced to a year's imprisonment and to pay heavy fines. DESIGN ON SHIP SUSPECTED Supioseti Explosive Found on Steamer l-aplanl. NKW TORK. Sept. 14. Two bottles, believed to contain a hig-h explosive, were found late tonight on the steam ship Lapland, of the White Star line, at her pier In the North River. The Lap land was to sail for Liverpool to morrow. Inspector Egan, of the bnreau of com bfcres JT tt butttbles, took charge in the bottles and will determine the lr contents to morrow j PRINCE FIGHTS FOB JOB, SAYS KIPLING "Inner History" of War Is Forecast WAR IS BITTER IN ARGONNE Thousands Fall That Throne May Go to Son. FRENCH CORPS IN REVIEW Writer Sees Veterans on Parade; Men Whose Records or Pitched Battles Would Have Satis fled "apoleon. BY RUDTARD KIPLING. (Copyright. 1315. In the United States by Rudyard Kipling-. Published by arrangement with the New York Sun.) LONDON, Sept. 9. Traveling with two chauffeurs isn't the luxury it looks to be, since there is only one of you, and there is always another of these iron men to relieve at the wheel. Nor can I decide whether am ex-professor of the German tongue, or an ex-road racer who has lived six years aboard, or a brigadier makes the most thrust ing driver through three-mile stretches of military traffic repeated at half- hour Intervals. Sometimes it was motor ambulances strung all along a level, or supply trains, or those eternal big guns com ing around corners w-ith trees chained on their long backs to puzzle aero planes and their leafy, big shell lim bers snorting behind them. In the rare breathing spaces men with rollers and road metal attacked the road. Koadl Stand Traffic Well. In peace the roads of France, thanks to the motor, were none too" good. In war they stand incessant traffic far better than they did with the tourist. My impression, after some 700 miles were printed off on me at between 60 and 70 kilometers an hour, was of uni form excellence. Nor did I come upon any smashes or breakdowns in that distance, and they certainly were try ing them hard. Nor. which is the great er marvel, did we kill anybody, though we did miracles down streets to avoid babes, kittens and chickens. The land is used to every detail of war and to Its grime, horror and make shifts, but also to war with unbounded courtesy, kindness and long suffering and the gayety that comes,' thank God, to balance the overwhelming material loss. Every House) Damaged. There was a village that had been stamped flat till it looked older than Pompeii. There were not three roofs left nor one whole house. In most places you saw straight into the cellars. But hops were ripe in the grave-dotted fields round about. They had been brought in and piled. In the merest outline of a dwelling women sat on chairs on the pavement picking over the good-smelling bundles. When they had finished one they reached back and pulled another (Concluded on Page Column 1.) 1KDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperaire, 66 j degrees; minimum. degrees. ! TODAY'S Wednesday fair; southerly winds. War. Pro-German bankers to be invited to help finance credit loan to allies. Page 1. . Anglo-French financial envoys to America are threatened. Page 1. Washington not satisfied with Dumba's plan to be called home on vacation, Paso 1. Washington defers break with Berlin to give Germany further opportunity to study evidence. Page 2. Rudyard Kipling says German Crown Prince is fighting for bis Job. Page 1. A sq tilth admits Question of conscription Is before British Cabinet. Page 3. Mexico. Border vigilanca redoubled. Page 2. Domestic Burning of exposition mortgage cheers California. Page 3. Sports. Pacific Coast League results: Portland 3, Vernon 2 ; San Francisco 4, Oakland o ; Salt Lake 10. Los Angeles 8. Page 12. Red Sox keep up victorious march toward pennant. Page 13. Oregon coach drives his team to get speed. Page 13. Braves pass Dodgers and advance to second place in National League. Page Pacific Northwest. Registration at Oregon reaches 325 on first day. Page 5. Columbia fishermen refuse to sell at packers' prices. Page 0. Attractions of cosmopolis told by Addison Bennett. Page G. Supreme Court rules that Sunday closing law is valid. Page 7. Commercial and - Marine. Co-bperation benefits Northwestern apple growers, page 17. Wheat higher at Chicago owing to r'elay in movement. Page 17. Manipulation ofwar shares feature of New York stock market. Page 17. Hawaiian 11ne building three new steamers lo make Portland. Pago 14. Portland and Vicinity. Secretary of Republican National Committee says trip in West assures him party will win. Pag 1. To protect bond credit,- city orders sale of land bearing street improvement liens. Page 18. Jitneys to provide for referendum in case court decision Is unfavorable. Pago T. Rose Festival in 1U15 pays orf 1014 debt and has surplus of $2889. Page 11. Ten more Austrians bound over for rioting at Linn ton. Page 7. Han ford Currier, oulldlng contractor, in dieted as firebug. Page 14. Wit. reveals ignorance of business men on current history topics. Page 13. Multnomah fair opens at Gresham. Page - Hunt calls Civil - War veteran. iK. Page tt. Weather report, data and forecast. Page 17. ALBERT S. WALKER DEAD First Mayor or Springfield Resident of Oregon for 0 2 Years. SPRINGFIELD. Or., Sept. 14. (Spe cial.) Albert Shield. Walker, first Mayor of Springfield upon Its Incor poratlon in 1885, and prominent in the civic and social life of Springfield, died at his home here this morning after an illness of a year. He was 6H years of age and had lived in Lane County 62 years. In 168 he married Miss Sarah Higglns, of Salem, who survives him. There are also eight children. Herbert K., V. F. Ralph, Joy. Mrs. O. C. Woolfe. of Al bany. Mrs. H. F Parsons, Jessie and Grace, of Springfield. Mr. "Walker was a charter member of the Springfield Methodist Church, the Springfield lodge of Oddfellows and Eugene lodge of "Woodmen of the orld. LONDON DEAD PUT AT 300 Code Dispatch Reaching Xew York Said to Be Xews of German Raid. NEW YORK. Sept. 14. (Special.) The New York Herald' in its evening edition printed the following item: An apparently perfectly harmless cable dispatch reached New York yes terday, saying that "red silk ties in London have gone down 300." It is said that the dispatch means in real ity that the Zeppelins (referred to as silk) killed 300 persons in London (called in the message "red ties.") JOHN BULL LEND ME THE MONEY AND I'LL BUY PRf-liFRMflNfi MAY SUBSCRIBE TO LOAN All Financierr0nvited tfiP- rtilies. DIVIDED SITUATION RESULTS Opponents Said to Contem plate Extreme Measures. EFFECT ON TRADE STUDIED Houses Like Kulm, Loeb & Co. Said to Favor Participation Be cause of Influence on Busi ness in United States. NEW YORK. Sept. 14. The pro-German element of New York's financial world probably will be Invite to par ticipate, if they signify that they de sire such an invitation. In floating the $1,000,000,000 credit loan which Great Britain and France hope to establish in this country. The inonied faction of this element. Wall street heard, would be glad to have a chance to help; another fact. on, composed largely of Middle Western bankers with pro-German sympathies, would bitterly oppose participation in raising funds for the use of Germany's enemies, even though the money will all be spent in the United States. This wa the big feature in today's negotiations of the Anglo-French financial commission with Wall Street bankers who are endeavoring to assist in adjusting the! foreign exchange sit uation.- Policy of Exclusion DiMivoncd. Heretofore, the commission has met and conferred with only such bankers as are pro-ally in their sympathies and connections. Not a banking house with even the remotest connection with Ger man financial interests has been bid den lo send its representatives to the meetinssat which scores of New York and out-of-town financiers have met the members of the commission and discussed possible terms. Some of the largest financial instl tutions in the United States, including the big banking house of Kuhn, Loeb & Co., which is second in New York only to J. P. Morgan & Co., .have thus been excluded by this policy. Ap parently it had been taken for granted that it would be useless to ask finan ciers with German sympathies to con tribute their dollars toward the pro posed loan. Such a policy, however, was disavowed late today by Basil B. Blackett, secretary of the commission. J. J. Hill Sees Jacob Schlff. Overtures looking to the possible participation of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. in the loan, while not made today, were said to be in the making. James J Hill, the railway builder and financier of the Northwest, who has championed the cause of the commission jid con ferred with J. P. Morgan on the situa tion, left Mr. Morgan's today for the offices of Kuhn, Loeb & Co.. and there sat down for a 20-minute talk with his (Concluded on Page 2. Column 2) YOUR STORE. f ,--4 (Tnesday's War Moves i 1 THE German drive toward Dvlnsk goes forward unchecked, accord ing to the Berlin official statement is sued yesterday, and Field Marshal von Hindenburg's army has taken 6000 prisoners in the encounters of the last 24 hours and forged ahead to within about 30 miles of the Dvlnsk fortress. Riga for the time being is left until threatened by direct attack, but should Von Hlndenburg succeed in getting ef fectively astride the Petrograd Rail way farther south it would expose the Baltic port to a serious enveloping movement. All the mid-Poland fighting, the Germans assert, is progressing in their favor, but the Russians are still on the offensive in Gallcia, pressing the Austrians with a vigor that recalls their dash through Gallcia in the lat ter part of last Winter. The artillery duel in the west as yet has not abated. Both sides are making prodigious expenditure of shells. leaving the public to guess when, if at all, any general infantry attack is com ing. After six weeks' recess Parliament reassembled at London, the first ses sion developing nothing noteworthy except the Premier's flat refusal to dis cuss conscription proposals. The Prime Minister will move today a vote of credit variously estimated at J750.000.- 000 to $1,250,000,000. WILY CHINESE MUST GO Famous Highbinder Ordered l)e- . ported After Years of Effort. SAN FRANCISCO. Sept. 14. Wong Doo King, a Chinese famous In San Francisco as a h'.ghbinder, whom the immigration authorities for years have tried to expel from this country, must go at last. His order for deportation was signed today after the case had hung undecided for many months, with the Chinese using every legal device to stay off the decision. Judge Dooling remanded him to the Federal immigration officers for depor tation to China. Always before Wong had been too wily for the Federal officers, who failed time and again to convict him of charges. He is an old man now. SOUND HAS FISH SHORTAGE Washington Fisheries Department Operation Is Threatened. OLTMPIA, Wash.. Sept. 14 (Spe cial.) The fact that the run on hump back, salmon in Pug-et Sound this year was only 30 per cent of normal threat ens to affect seriously the question of operation of the Washington state fish eries department. The new fish code provides that expenditures of the de partment must be limited to its reve nues. It was the intention that the four year period of fish runs should be taken aa the basis for calculation, but it is declared that the language of the act, as adopted, prohibits such an in terpretation. ARGENTINA STAYS ACTION Consideration of Intervention Mexico Awaits Conference. in BUENOS AYRES. Sept. 14. The Chamber of Deputies has rejected a proposed resolution for an immediate interpellation of the Minister of For eign Affairs on the subject of Argen tina's Intervention in the Mexican question. It was decided to await further consideration of the subject by the Pan-American conference, called by the United States. "SPOONING" NOW NUISANCE Police to Stop Sentimental Exhibits in Aberdeen Keadlng-Koom. ABERDEEN, Wash.. Sept. 14. (Spe cial.) Following complaints by mem bers of the Civic Improvement Associa tion, spooning in the lobby of the City Hall has been declared a nuisance by the police. Hereafter it will be prohibited. The lobby is used for a free reading and magazine-room. AUTOS HELP H0RSESH0ERS Hard Pavements Declared to Have Increased Wear Manifold. CLEVELAND, Sept. 14. Delegates to the con-ention of the Master Horse shoers' National Protective Association, in session here today, declared that the hard pavements used on automobile roads was helping their business. They say a .horse's shoes- now are wearing only one-fourth as long as for merly. 3 OF 5 ZEPPELINS RETURN Tito of Fleet Going "West Not Seen On Eastward Journey. LONDON. Sept. 14. In a dispatch from Amsterdam- Reuter'a correspon dent says: "A telegram from Ameland, Hol land, says that only three of five Zep pelins which last .night sailed west ward returned today, flying in an east erly direction." Ridgefield Highway Closed R1DGEKIKLD, Wash.. Sept. 14. (Special.) Permanent Highway No. 4, leading east from Ridgeneld for a dis tance of 57o0 feet, to within a half mile of Horn's Corner, has been closed for 30 rlays on aeeount of the work bein hiitder.-d vy passing teams. O-utieti rod: is beir.z placed raoidly on lire nv hi.u-, lyistely. covered. U'c nvv Krud- u-hioii is almost com- REPUBLICAN POWER IS FOUND 111 WEST James B. Reynolds Says Victory Is Assured. PLAN OF DEMOCRATS BARED Administration Striving Make Peace Sole Issue. to CRY FOR CHANGE IS FOUND Secretary of Republican National Committee Sajs People "Will Force Consideration of Xecd of Xation for Prosperity. James B. Reynolds, of Washington. D. C, secretary of the Republican Na tional Committee, assistant secretary of the Treasury under President Roosevelt and member of President Taft's tariff commission, dropped in on Portland yesterday in the course of a little 'scouting" trip, as he expressed it. to sire up political conditions in the West. They must have pleased him. for he declared with emphasis that the Repuo lican nominee for President, whoever he is, will surely be elected next year. Even the war halo President Wilson's admirers are trying to fasten over his head can't stave off the Republican return to power, said Mr. Reynolds. Field Still Open. "The man nominated by the Repub lican convention in 1916 will be the next President of the United StateB," he asserted. "I don't know who will be nominated. The field is open and there will be presented at least a dozen names of favorite sons. "The nominee will be the man who best fits conditions and who can best handle the Issues that exist in June, 1915. At present it Is difficult to de termine so far in advance just what these Issues will be and who will be the best man for the place. But you can depend upon it that the Republican nominee will be elected." Mr. Reynolds' little "scouting" trip has been rather strenuous. He left Washington 16 days ago. Since then he has stopped in Chicago, Madison. Milwaukee, Aberdeen, S. D., where' h also met leading Republicans of North Dakota, Helena. Butte, Spokane, Se attle, Tacoma, anL finally, Portland. Republicans Met Everywhere. At some of these cities he has had to speak, and at all of them he has held conferences with leading Repub licans. When he arrived in Portland yesterday morning, he was met by C. B. Moores, chairman of the Republican State Central committee, E. A. Bald win, secretary, and Ralph Williams. Republican national committeeman. Mr. Reynolds declares that there has been a great change in public senti ment in the United States since 191-. and that the people will return the Republican party to power next year to bring prosperity to the country again. Peace Democrats' Sole Issue. "Such an era cannot come too'soon," he said at the Portland hotel, where he is staying. "Yet President Wilsoii and his advisers have already fixed on a plan of campaign they hope will be successful in giving him another tern) in the White House. This plan is. to have him run as a 'peace president," and to make that the sole Issue of the campaign. "'Upon all other rallying cries the soft pedal of the administration is to be put, and all the cabinet and the other oratorical lights of the present dynasty are to concentrate -their vocal guns and their fountain pens on the one theme of how President Wilson has kept the United States out of a Euro pean war. "This Is an interesting movement and amusing as well. It is true that this country is not under arms, and that other nations are. It is also true the President has done his utmost to keep this nation from getting embroiled in the war. What President would not do likewise? What man is there of suffi cient fiber to be chosen to the Presi dency who would not exert his every energy to keep his own country from the horrors or organized murder under the name of war? No' Issue Found. "What man would willingly pvrmit any White House act to be the cause of becoming a part of a conflict that is no part of tl-e business of the United States? "There is no such issue before the American people. There can be no issue on a question where all men agree. It requires two sides and opposing opin ions to make an issue. There is only one side to the question of our re fraining from being drawn into a bloody European crisis. "In doing what -he can to keep this Nation well within the bounds of neu trality, Mr. Wilson Is doing only what every sane and patriotic American citi zen would do if he were today the oc cupant of the White House. To make claims in his behalf on such a narrow basis is to assume that other Amer icans would do the things that would make war inevitable on the part of the United States. That is an assump tion the whole country will resent. "Nor can Mr. Wilson and his friends sit down and calmly decide what will be (he issues of the next campaign, and v.-hat will not be permitted to be die cu.ssed. Canipaf! issues upon which (.Concluded ua Pi. a a. ColuiKa.3.. 77"