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
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Home Phone
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The Most in Value The Best in Quality
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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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SILK AND METAL LACE
In 18 to 40-Inch Widths at ?1.75 Yd.
For Values to $4.50.
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."
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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.
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when I was a gal," s.te exclaimed in a
gentle rebuke.
"The old
Smoker and
I have been
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