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THE MORXIXO OREGONIAN. TUESDAY. SEPTEJITiER 21, 1915. AMERICA IS ASKED TO SAVE ARMENIANS , AMERICAN AMBASSADOR TO TURKEY AND UNFORTUNATES HE PLANS TO AID. "YOU CAN DO BETTER FOB IESS ON THIRD STREET" Store Opens Daily at 8:30 A. M. On Saturdays 9:00 A. M. Store Closes Daily at 5:30 P. M. On Saturdays 6:00 P. M. Hall Million Christians Slaugh tered or Deported by Turks, Says Viscount Bryce. Pacific Phone Marshall 5080 Home Phone A 2112 The Most in Value The Best in Quality i ; 1 WOMEN' TAKEN TO HAREMS t g Population Be-ins Exterminated le- ? liberate!-, Is Charge Request ft , to Germany to Check Its Ally Is Sujrgu&tcd. LONDON. Sept. 20. Viscount Bryce. Great Britain's ex-Ambassador to the United States, has sent to the Associat ed Press a plea that America try to top the slaughter of Armenians. "The civilized world," he says In his plea, "especially America, ought to know what .horrors have been passing? In Asiatic Turkey during the last few months, for, if anything can stop the destroying hand of the Turkish gov ernment, it will be ar expression of the opinion of neutral nations, chiefly the judgment of humane America. "Soon after the war broke out be tween Turkey and the allies,' con tinues the Viscount, "the Turkish gov ernment formed, and since has been carrying out with relentless cruelty, a Plan for extirpating Christianity by killing off Christians of the Armenian race. Women Koroed Into Harems. "Accounts from different sources agree that over the whole of Eastern and Northern Asia Minor and Armenia the Christian population is being .de liberately exterminated, the men' of military age being killed and the younger women seized for Turkish harems, compelled to become Moham medans and kept, with children, in virtually slavery. The rest of the in habitants old women, men and chil dren have been driven, under convoy of Turkish soldiers, into unhealthy parts of Asia Minor, some to the deserts between Syria and the , Eu phrates. Many die or are murdered en route and all perish sooner or later. "In Trebizond City, where the Ar menians number more than 10.000, orders came from Constantinople to seize all Armenians. Troops robbed them, drove them to the shore, took them to sea, threw them overboard and drowned them all men, women and children. This was seen and described by the Italian Consul. Vast Number Slaughtered. "Some in the country escaped by Consenting to accept Islam, and a quar ter of a million escaped over the Rus sian frontier, but perhaps a half mil lion were slaughtered or deported, and those deported- are fast dying from ill treatment, disease or starvation. "The roads and the hillsides are strewn with, corpses of innocent peasants. "We can all try to send aid to the miserable refugees now in Russian territory, but what man can stop the massacres Not the allied powers at war with Turkey. Only one power can take action for that purpose. It is liermany. Would not the expression of American public opinion, voicing the conscience of neutral nations, lead Ger many to check the Turkish govern ment?" MISSIONS DISCONTINUE WORK V American Refugees From. Turkey Returning Home. ! BOSTON, Sept. 20. Continuance or missionary work in Eastern Turkey, where Armenian massacres have oc- $ curred, is regarded as impracticable at this time, according to a cablegram re- " . celved today by the American Board " of Commissioners for Foreign Mis- sions. The dispatch announced the ar ? rival at Stockholm, Sweden, of the " party of American missionaries who fled from Van and were afterward re j ported at Tiflis. It said they were due to reach New York on the steamship j llellig Olav, October 5, and added that J rr. George C. Raynolds, president of j Van College, and another missionary, J Mr. White, who were on their way to Van from this country, were coming back with the refugees. The return of Dr. Raynolds, a veteran in the missionary service, is considered jit the American board headquarters aa y. Indicating that the situation in the Van district is even worse than had been , reported. BRITISH INTERN BARON VOX BISSINQ SPIRITED AWAY TO WORKHOUSE, IS REPORT. English Subject of German Birth Loses I. one Fight for Liberty . After Argument la House. LONDON', Sept. 2v). Baron Von Bia sing, half brother of General Von Bis sing, German military governor of Bel gium, and a naturalized British sub ject, after tighting for months for his liberty, has been Interned. He .was mysterously spirited away today from his luxurious home in Kensington by detectives. It is reported that the 'Islington workhouse will be the baron's domicile during the rest of the war. The internment of Baron Von Bia sing follows a long agitation that he be deprived ofhls freedom in common with numerous other wealthy British subjects of German . birth, against whom popular feeling has run high. The status of Baron Von Bissing has been the subject of debate on more than one occasion in the British Parlia ment. It was suggested in one of JhetiO discussions last February that Baron Von Bisslng had a residence at Hove, in Sussex, from which signaling operations might easily be carried out. .It was denied at the time by Harold si. Tennant, under secretary of war, that Baron Von Biasing had done any thing that would justify his removal Jrom the prohibited area or that he had ever done any secret service work for Germany. Later It was suggetsed in the House of Commons that the baron be de prived of his liberty in retaliation for the expulsion from Belgium by the Germans in April of Gifford Firfrhot, former chief of the United States bureau of forestry, whose sister is the ..wife of a British diplomat. Ir. Krvvin Xow Kxaminlng Surgeon. OREGONTAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington. Sept. 20.. On recommendation jf the Oregon Senators. Dr. R. M. Erwin hast been appointed pension examining surgeon at Hillsboro. Use Sautiseptic After Shaving. Sporbintt, cooling. ref res'ilng. Leaves soft, vel vety finin. instantly rellet-a and prevents Irri tation. Prevents infection. You'll like its cleaalr. htaltiu odor. 50c All druggists. it TVs ' Infill "f-WN -?Jf t - lit ' fMtttit: 1 I J 1 V LOAN NOT BLOCKED Munitions Provision Unlikely to Get in Way. STABILITY CHIEF WISH Anlo-Krench Commission Belief la Tlrat Other Means of Payment for War Supplies Can Be Found if Xecessary. NEW YORK, Sept. 20. Munitions of war will not be allowed to block the proposed big credit loan to Great Britain and France; nor will the $600. 000,000 and $800,000,000 to be obtained be locked up at once In a New York treasure chest, according to a consen sus of opinion today of those In close touch with negotiations for raising the money. ' Exports of munitions, it was esti mated, constitute considerably less than 25 per cent of the total value of American shipments to Great Britain and France. Leaving them out of the calculations. If provision be made for the shipment of soil products and the chief manufactured articles, exchange will, in the opinion of bankers, become stabilized. It would not be difficult for them to find a method of paying for munitions, if it were necessary to adopt a different method, it is believed. Gold or American securities or both, or even some other method of pay ment could be arranged. Views Are in Accord. ' On this point the Anglo-French Com mission was said tonight to be sub stantially in accord with the views of their American associates. The com mission is reported to have taken the attitude that their first task was to stabilize exchange, and that the mat ter of paying for munitions, which was! said recently to have become a ques tion of considerable variance of opin ion, is to be subordinated to this. It was reported tonight, on good authority that the tentative proposals now up for adoption provide for in stallment subscriptions to the loan on the part of the guarantors, such in stallments to be paid as necessity arises for the use of funds. In some quarters it was assumed that the Bum each bank should pledge would be payable in four equal install ments, subject to call, and that bonds would be issued as each installment was paid. In this manner the commis sion would avoid the payment of in terest on the loan before all the funds were needed. Money to Stay In Vault. Another suggestion, said to have been embodied in the proposals, was that the money each bank would guarantee toward the loan should re main in the bank guaranteeing it until occasion should arise for its use. Then, it was said, each of the big syndicates of underwriting banks would be called upon for its proportionate amount, using the ration of the sum desired to the whole sum as the basis of the assessment. For instance, should one bank subscribe for $1,000,000 of the bonds, the full amount would be left in its vaults, it was thought, simply being transferred on its books to the credit of the loan syndicate. With this having been done, should it be found desirable to have one-fourth of the entire credit available in New York, the bank would be called upon to transfer one-fourth of its subscrip tion to New York, or $250,000. The idea of tying up. the full amount of the loan at once seemed to be unat tractive to both parties to the negotia tions. Bonds May Be Issued at 07Vi Many American bankers were of the opinion that the one-half of 1 per cent allowed them for their services would be on that basis for each year of the loan. Thus if the loan should run five years, it was thought, the banks would obtain the bonds at 97 ',4 or' 2M per cent below par. Another proposed feature, it was re ported, that . the short-term bonds, whether live or ten years, had included the privelege of conversion to long term British and French government bonds paying 4 'A per cent interest at the end of the short-term period. By that time, it was thought, the war would have passed into history and the long-term bonds, being a first mortgage on Great Britain and France and having a life of 50 or 100 years, would be regarded as a prime investment and would fetch more than par. . In the absence, of official .announce ment, the situation was said to be en couraging today. In this connection, it was reported, but without confirmation, that a member or one of the chief New York banks of the so-called pro-German group had made overtures to the commission looking toward placing its name on the subscription rolls. MINERS GREET JOHN D., JR. (Continued From First Page.) the men of Berwind camp to represent them in conference with the officers of the company. Dan had just come from the mine and his face was grimed with black dust. The two sat down side by side on the steps of the. mine office and talked- earnestly for perhaps 20 minutes. Rockefeller questioned the miner closely on the practical work, ing of the scheme recently Inaugurated for conferences between officers of the company and representatives of the miners. Rockefeller Eats With Miners. The party took luncheon at th min ers' boarding-houao at Berwind. At fx V Top Armenian Widows and Cnildren. Below Henry Morgenthan. Mr. Rockefeller's right hand sat Tom Davis, superintendent of the mine, clad in blue overalls and black shirt, and with coal dust ground into the wrin kles of his face. Rockefeller engaged in a running conversation with Davis and the other men at the table, rrfean while doing full justice to the beef steak and beans and mashed potatoes. After lunch the party went to Ta basco, stopping on the way to visit the school. At the schotlhouse Mr. Rocke feller Inspected some extensive im provement work done in part - by r the expenditure of money contributed by the Rockefeller Foundation last Win ter to furnish . work for unemployed miners following the calling off of the strike. A sheer side hill has been graded to make a reasonably . level playground, held In place by a high re taining wall surmounted by a wire fence to prevent the children tumbling to the road below. Encouragement Given Miners. At Tabasco the party was welcomed by Charles O'Neill, the superintendent. Rockefeller asked the miners and their wives how they were satisfied with the houses they rented from the company, how much rent they paid and whether they thought the houses were worth the money. "Why don't you have a garden?" he demanded of one Italian at Berwind. "You could fix this place up so it would look much better." Leaving the canyon late in the aft ernoon the party returned to Trinidad, where Mr. Rockefeller was entertained at a picture show and saw a filmed representation of a parade at the recent field and track meet given by employes of the Colorado Fuel & Iron Company. BALKAN MUDDLE GROWS BULGARIA REPORTED MOBILIZING MACEDONIANS. Indignation Felt In Entente Ranks, as Negotiations to Determine Owner ship Are Under Way. PARIS, Sept 26. Dispatches from Sofia, Bulgaria, announcing the mobili zation there of troops made up of residents-of Macedonia has caused another complication to be introduced in the Balkan situation, which already was tense through the presentation by the entente allies of the Joint note requir ing Bulgaria to define her attitude. The mobilization of Macedonians has caused surprise and Indignation in of ficial and diplomatic circles here, as it is said the whole purpose of the pres ent negotiations between the allies and Bulgaria and Serbia is to determine whether Macedonia belongs to Bulgaria or Serbia. That Bulgaria should mobil ize Macedonians while the future of Macedonia still was at issue is de clared in the highest Serb-Greek quar ters to be an affront to the allies and the other Balkan states. NOTE FORGERIES CHARGED Widow Declares Late' Judge Cook "Was in Dire Xeed of Money." SAN FRANCISCO. Sept. 20. Charges of forgery were made today against the late Carroll Cook, formerly judge of the Superior Court, by his widow,, Mrs. Bessie Grim Cook, in an amended answer to suit to collect three notes for J500 each by the Union Securities Corporation. Efforts werf made to ex clude the amended answer from the court records. Her husband, the answer said, "'was in such dire need of money that he feared to divulge it to her." and "that he possessed the peculiar capacity to Imitate the -signature of others." i Judge Cook was a brother of Wil liam HofT Cook, a member of the Cali fornia bar. Bank-Messenger Robbed of $2000. NEW YOjTC. Sept. 20. Vincent J. Maloney, a . Hcnsor of .the Chatham & Phenix National Bank, was held up in a-Harlem streef today by two men and robbed of a satchel containing $2000 in cash and a number of checks. Maloney was seriously Injured. - The thieves escaped. 4 if i5 fixers'" WiSf V y I PLOTCHARGE DENIED Archibald Says He Carried Notes Innocently. LETTERS NEVER SECRET Message by Prince Hatzfcldt Said to Have Been Dictated to Be Csed Only in Event or Anti-American Rising. NEW YORK. Sept. 20. James F. J. Archibald, the American correspondent who carried a message from Dr. Con stants T. Dumba, Austro - Hungarian Ambassador at Washington, addressed to Baron von Burian, Austrian Foreign Minister, which led to a request from the United States for the Ambassador's recall, issued a statement here tonight in which he denied that he had con nived In any way to break the neu trality laws of the United States, or was an official- dispatch bearer. The request for Dr. Dumba's recall was made after the Ambassador's let ter 'was seized by British authorities when Archibald was Intercepted at Falmouth. Archibald First Sees Attorney. On his return here today. aboard the steamship Rotterdam, Archibald de clined to discuss the affair until he had consulted his lawyer and had ac quainted himself, as he explained, "with what had been said in this coun try." Having conferred with his at torney, Archibald issued a formal state ment. "Dr. Dumba's letter," said Archibald, "was given to me most openly at the steamer's gangplank. Just before sail ing. Hundreds of persons were about and there was not the slightest . sug gestion of secrecy. Of its contents I had absolutely no knowledge. I sup posed of course that it simply referred to my work. I feel that the very open manner in which the letter was. given me shows that Dr. Dumba had no in tention of using me or my passport as a shield for the transmission of any improper letters. Parcels Taken . for Friends. "I did not conscientiously break either the spirit of the letter of my passport, or of any law, but merely did what every traveler crossing the ocean does, carry notes or small pack ages as an accommodation to friends, and just as I did when I returned from Germany last year when I carried sev eral letters and official dispatches to our State Department for Ambassador Gerard and packages for Mrs. Gerard and others. "Of course, in doing this for Am bassador and Mrs. Gerard, I did it simply as a matter of friendship; pre cisely as I carried the letters in this case." Archibald said that before leaving for belligerent territory, "to do field work with armies engaged in war." he sought for an Introduction and recommendation. These letters, most of which were' written in German, he said, were delivered to him at his hotel in New York. Hatsfcldt Letter Dictated. "Feeling there might be a strong anti-American sentiment In Germany," Archibald declared, "and not knowing to what extent that might inconveni ence those traveling with me, I asked Prince Hatzfeldt to prepare an open letter stating that I was friendly to their cause." According to Archibald, he suggested almost word for word the letter Prince Hatzfeldt wrote, which, he said, he "in tended to use only in the event we were subjected to any local hostile demonstration." Archibald asserted he did not know the contents of the other letters. Am bassador Dumba's letter, he said, was delivered to him at the steamer by the Ambassador's secretary. while the package he carried for Count von Bernstorff. the German Ambassador, and Captain von Papen. German mili tary attache at Washington, were de livered at his hotel. Secret service men who Interviewed him aboard the Rotterdam at quaran tine, according to Archibald, merely asked if he had been presented with a gold-headed cane or had been asked to deliver a cane to anyone in Europe be fore his departure. Upon his assurance, he said, that he had not. the officers asked no further questions. GRAIN OF WORLD GUIS BIG CROPS IN ALL AGRICULTURALj NATIONS FORECAST. Wheat Totals More Than Three Billion Bushels, or 22. Per Cent of Harvest of Last Year. WASHINGTON, Sept. 20 Big cereal crops this year in nearly all of the world's chief agricultural countries are forecast in cable reports received at the Department of Agriculture today from the International Institute of Ag riculture at Rome, The 1915 production ef eereala In countries included in previous reports, plus Canada and Asiatic Russia, are estimated atl Wheat 3,131,000,000 bushels, rye 1,- Surprisingly Great Are the Values Offered at This Extraordinary Purchase and Sale of Dainty and. Exquisite KTew Laces We will not burden you with the details of this unusual and fortunate trade event' We are will ing to abide by your ver dict of the wonderful sale. Included are thousands of yards and hundreds of dainty and exauisite natterns in denendable nualitv lares $ suitable for every purpose. Here, without a doubt, the greatest lace values ever placed before the women of this city and vicinity. Are yon going to profit thereby? THE NEW In 9 and 12-Inch Widths at 59 Yard For Values to $2.25. A wonderful assortment of these popular, laces 9 and 12-inch widths in a full range of patterns in white, cream, ecru and black. Regular values to $2.25 a yard. This Sale at 59. WHITE ALLOVER SHADOW LACES, 59c TO 75c QUALITIES at 25? YD. Over 300 yards to select from dainty White Allover Shadow Laces, full 36 inches wide, shown in a splendid variety of patterns qualities regularly sold at 59c to 75c rj a yard. This sale at JQ 3 to 12-Inch 18 to 36-Inch LACES AT 8 YARD , LACES AT 19 YARD For Values to 25c. For Values to 75c. Net Top, Cluny, wide VaL and 3 to 12-inch widths; also Venise, Cluny and Ori ental Bands in 2 to 4-inch widths all in choice new patterns. Values to 25c a WIDE NETS At 79 Yard Regular $.25 Grade. A 72-inch beautiful silk-finished net, shown in- white, ecru and flesh color. , BANDS, FROGS, GARNITURES AND TRIMMINGS All Selling at Reduced Prices 5 YARD For Narrow Silk' Braids and Edges in both light and dark colors values up to 25c a yard. Light and Dark Colored Silk Bands in values regularly sold up to 75c -i r a yard. This sale at, yard 1UC 1 r EACH For Black Silk Frogs and Loops for both medium and small AUG sizes. Regular 25c and 35c values. 093.000.000. barley 1,089,000.000, and oats 3.449,000.000. The 1915 production of corn in Italy. Roumania, Asiatic and iiuropean Russia, Switzerland, united States and Japan is placed at 3.292.000,- 000 bushels. Expressed at percentages, taking 1914 production 'as 100 per cent, these 1915 crops promise to be for wheat, 122.9 per cent, rye 116.7, barley 118.5, oats. 125, and corn 110.8. For 10 governments of Asiatic Rus sia the 191? forecast is, for wheat: 144.- 000,000 bushels, rye 28.000.000, barley 18.000,000, and oats 141,000,000. For Italy: Corn in 1915 is estimated at 118. 000.000, and rice (rough) at 26.000,000 bushels. Expressed as percentages of the 1914 crops these crops for Asiatic Russia and Italy are 80.2 per cent. 72.72, 91.2, 85.4, 112.5 and 97.6. respectively. Desertion After CO Years Charged. ALBANY. Or., Sept. 20. (Special.) Alleging that his wife has deserted him after almost 20 years of married life. 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These fine, high-grade Lace Flouncings are .shown in both silk and silk metal effects in exquisite patterns. IS, 27 and 40-inch widths in values to $4.60 a yard. This Sale at $1.75. Shado-w Edges in Oriental Net Top in 18-inch width; cream and ecru yard. Sale at 8 one price. This CHIFFONS At 98 Yard Values to $2.00 Dainty colorings in large and small designs plaids, stripes and checks. Samuel Harris, of "Waterloo, filed suit here today for a divorce from May li Harris. There are three children. l.al and Boy. London Tit-Bits. The o!4 gentleman's wife was get- IF ' 1 1 - " -in sii mi------- - BiiM , alma de Cuba (Bouquet Size) . ies so long, I can't remember when we met. Must have been in the early days of the United Cigar Stores. Nothing could part us now. We love each other like brothers. It's prob ably because neither of us ever change. I'm always the same. So whenever the smoker and I come together our hearts warm to each other. That's what I call complete satisfaction." By the box of 25, $1.25. iii'jr vb-a s I are f. FLOUNCINGS Flouncings in white and cream also 3t5-inch Cotton Nets in white, 35c, 50c and 75c qualities all at Sale at 19. SILK NETS At 98 Yard Regular $1.25 Grade. Fine Silk Nets in 42-inch width. All the new Fall shades in large and small mesh. ting into an automobile and he neg lected to assist her. "You are not so gallant, John, as when I was a gal," s.te exclaimed in a gentle rebuke. "The old Smoker and I have been riTv.'' T.'i ?i J illinium i &s a. I