Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937, November 02, 1915, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextVOL. LV.-XO. 17,142. PORTLAND, OREGON, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1915. PRICE FIVE CENTS. BATTUNG MEXICANS SHOOT OVER BORDER One on Arizona Soil Is Seriously Wounded. WARNING ENDS FUSILLADE Villa Begins General Attack on Agua Prieta. SHELLS BURST ON U. S. SIDE (Heavy Artillery Fire Is Opened on Garrison of General Calles, ' - but It Dies Down Later When Men Entrench. " DOl'GLAS, Arlx., Nov. 1. Corporal J ones, of Company G, Seventh Infantry, late tonight wai snot through both thighs by a Carranza soldier, who leaped from his trench at Agiu Prieta, shouting "Viva Carranza,' and fired six shots at Jones, who hii on patrol ear the boundary In the rear of the custom-house. The American soldier Is not seriously wounded. RUSSIAN ASSAILS. ALLIES' DIPLOMACY INARM DEALINGS WITH TURKEY ARE REGARDED AS STUPID. UAL HOVE IS LAID TO BERLIN Rejection of Roumanta's Offer and Delay in Landing Army in Sa loniki Bitterly Criticised. PETROGRAD. via London. .Nov. 1. Professor Pilenko, of the chair of inter national law in Petrograd University and of the aristocratic Alexander Ly ceum of Law, in an article in the Novoe Vremya today subjects the diplomacy of .the entente allies in the Balkans to severe criticism. Altogether, says Professor Pilenko, the situation has grown worse during the past 14 months. Turkey at first pre tended to bs neutral and the Russian government accepted her assurances. The writer declares that an examina tion of the. Russian orange book; re veals inexplicable blindness to the actual facts. It is full of complaints of Turkish duplicity, but fails to regis ter a single dispatch before the out break o the Russo-Turkish War that war was admitted to be Inevitable. A year ago, says Professor Pilenko, Roumania offered conditions for her adhesion to the cause of the entente allies, but these conditions were re jected. Professor Pilenko says be wonders If they would be rejected now. As to Greece, Professor Pilenko sharply observes that the entente allies could have landed at Salonikl a year ago as easily as now, and says the situation would have been altogether different If they had done so. 'PEACE PLANS' ARE DENIED Spanish Premier Says Official In formation Is Lacking. Chinese Revolt Is Plan, Charge Allies. JAPAN WOULD BE DIVERTED To Stop Munition Exports to Czar, Alleged to Be Hope. REPUBLIC'S END INDICATED DOUGLAS, Ariz., Nov. 1. What ap peared to be a general attack on Agua Prieta began at 6:40 o'clock tonight, when the Villa forces began a heavy tiring from all sides and advanced on the town. The tiring ceased when the Villa troops had reached fpie wire entangle ments on the east sfde of Agua Prieta and began to dig trenches. Cheers Accompany Shots. Meanwhile the Carranza garrison was sweeping from all sides of the town with rifles and machine grun vol leys, guldedby searchlights. Although it is believed the volleys went over the heads of the Villa forces, cheers rang out in the Carranza trenches as every volley was tired. General Villa delivered his long-expected attack on tbe Carranza garri son of Agua Prieta late today and within two hours -arfter fhetirst gun .was fired machine gun bullets and shell fragments showered over Ameri can territory, seriously wounding Louis l' Taylor, a restaurant waiter, and en dangering scores of American soldiers in trenches south of the United States Army camp two miles east of Douglas. Bullets Fly Anionic Civilians. Taylor was shot down In front of the United States custom-house, where more than 70 machine gun bullets sped among a throng of soldiers and Mex ican women and children who were coming across the line. The bullet struck him in the middle of the back as he turned to run to cover, and his spine was seriously injured, paralyzing him almost completely. Shells and fragments of shells fell near Douglas slaughterhouse. General Thomas F. Davis, command ing the 6000 American troops on duty at the border, promptly warned the commanders of both Mexican factions to change the direction of their fire. and citizens on the American side were not endangered thereafter. Nightfall Brtna-a Lull. Nightfall brought a lull In the com bat, but Villa artillery, tiring successive salvos, played on the defenses of the Mexican town, with the apparent in tention of shattering the barbed-wire entanglements, and exploding the trenches preparatory to a rush on the garrison of General Calles. Three houses on the west side of Agua Prieta were blown up by shells. and, according to Carranza reports, on man was killed and eight other per sons wounded, including one woman. One of Villa's wounded was? brought to Douglas for treatment. Two others were seen to fall when a shrapnel shell burst over them. What further losses he sustained among his men could nst be ascertained. A shell burst on one of his Meld pieces, however, putting the gun out of action. Americans Diss no Villa Men. General Calles began exploding mines to the eastward at S o'clock tonight. With four Fhells and a brief dis charge of rapid firers. Villa forces drew n new fusillade from the Carranza trenches at 9:53 and at 10 o'clock to night. Calles reported his losses today at 2 killed and 2 4 wounded. He claimed the dash of the Villa troops to the Agua 1'rleta barbed-wire entanglements had been repulsed with a loss of at least 200 to the Villa troops. American border guards reported that a party of Villa troops caught on the American side had been disarmed. This was unconfirmed at Bridge headquarters. A heavy provost guard, however, was closely watching a large number of Mexicans on the American side. Hun dreds of women and children refugees from Agua Prieta are-suffering here from hunger and cold tonight, for pro visions promised by General Calle: have not yet arrived. Spectators Throne Housetops. Despite warning and advice of United States military officers, the roofs ' of Douglas houses and. the streets open tng on the border line were thronged. Four babies were born on two of the troop trains which today brought re inforcements to the Agua Prieta garrl son via Eagle Pass and I .a re do. Two of the babies were twins. The mothers accompanied their husbands into the trenches. . MADRID, via. Paris, Nov. 1. Premier Dato said today he had no official In formation, concerning the report that Prince von Buelow, ex-German Chan cellor, would come to Madrid to pre sent to King Alfonso an outline of conditions on which Germany might be willing to consider peace negotiations. The Overseas News Agency of Berlin made, denial . yesterday . of the report that Prince von Buelow bad been en trusted with preparations of peace ne gotiations. Reports to Washington Say : Deci sion to Change May Be Announced ' Before End of Year Pekln . JTot to Accept Toklo's Advice. WASHINGTON, Nov. 1. Information received here from otnical sources in China make It appear that the triumph of' the monarchical idea in the elec tions now la. progress in China is al most certain. A change in the form of government may be announced be fore the end of the year. State Department advices are to the effect that elections are in progress in about 1800 counties, where the. elec tors are choosing delegates to pro vlnclal conventions in the local capi tals. These conventions will select delegates to meet as a national con vention in Pekln. Monarchy ai WINDOW GLASS ORDERS BIG Export Business Developing as Re sult of Shutdown in Belgium. . - . , PITTSBURG, Nov. 1. Approximately 5000 workmen in the hand window- glass factories of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Kansas and Oklahoma started work today after the usual . mid-year snutaown at an advance of 3 per cent. Orders were said by manufacturers to be abundant and, while export bus! ness was developing slowly, it was ex pected to increase steadily because of the large number of . Belgian factories that have made no glass since the be ginning of the war. MORE BRITISH GOLD HERE Total Receipts Since January 1 An. nonnced as $321,000,000. NEW TORK. Nov. 1. British sover eigns amounting to $2, 225.000 gold, which were shipped on the steamer New York from London to the Guaranty Trust Company, were deposited at the Assay Office today. Another ship ment totalling $1,000,000 Is expected to be deposited later. The grand total of more than $321,- 000,000 gold has been received here from all sources in the present move ment since January 1 last, it was de' clared here today. DIVORCE CASES HELD UP Xo Actions to Be Permitted. Against British Soldiers at Front. lo.nuon. Aov. 1. Divorce cases against officers and men serving at the front will, have to stand over until they return to Great Britain. Such was the decision of Justice Sir Henry Bar grave Dean when asked for leave to serve a divorce petition upon an off! cer on the fighting line. 'It Is not in the interests of the na tion." says the court, "for men to hav their minds diverted from their duties by such matters." Afterthought. INDEX OFJODAY'S NEWS The -object of the national conven tion primarily was to pass upon the work of the council or state, which has been revising- the Chinese constitution. As an afterthought, the central gov eminent decided to submit the ques tion of the re-establishment of the monarchy. It Is expected that the work of the local convention will be finished by November 20. The national citizens convention will meet at Pekln imme diately to determine the fate of the republic The "Washington Government has de elded to refrain from any action at this stage and has so informed the diplo matic representatives of Great Britain Japan and Russia, who feared another revolution ..in China as the result of the overthrow of the republic. Allies Communicate Separately. An official account of the communi cation recently made by the Japanese. British and Russian diplomatic repre sentatives, to the Chinese minister of foreign affairs has just reached Wash ington by cable. In substance the ac count follows: . "The representatives of England, Japan and Russia made separate rep resentations to the Chinese foreign minister, pointing out that the procla mation of a monarchy might lead to disorders of the strong Kepuoiicau party. They said that if disorder oc curred foreign interests would inevita bly suffer, especially the missionary In terests, and consequently they hoped that while the European war lasted no change would be made in the name or the title of the Chinese government. Republic Regarded Safest. They fully recognize the fact that ".The Wemther. . YESTERDAY'S' Maximum temperature. S V degrees; minimum, -4 decrees.. TODAY'S Rain; variable winds becoming southerly. War. General French reports great - success doe lo new weapons. . American aviators - heroic in " service for i'rtrnch. Paso 8. MexJc. : Shots fly across border as Villa forces at- taca Agua prieta.. rage 1. 1'oreign. Entente representatives accuse Germany of agitating Chinese monarchy. Fuse 1. . ta4loa-U. Federal monthly "bulletin shows business conditions on Coast to be encoura gins Page 13. ; . - ... - Senator Chamberlain arranges to draft de- Tense bills, page 2. ..... Arizona anti-alien - labor law is killed by united States Supreme Court. Page 2. American Trans-Atlantic Steamship Com pany protests at seizure of Hocking by British. Page 1. Domestic, - Herman Kidder, prominent newspaper -pub lisher, dies suddenly. Page 6. Suffrage is main lesue in . New York elec tion today; Pago tf. Physical examination requirement . In ' Ia- Follette seamen's -law .threatens ' to par alyze shipping-. Page 1. Sport. . Ward, Stumpf and Bates may jump to Feds. rage Spellman and MonteJth, Oregon players, sut ler with water on knee. Page u. Pacific Xorthweot.' Oregon now has 101 standard high schools. says buperlntendent Churchill. Page . Commercial and' Marine. Shortage in Eastern onlou' crop ' lifts prices in Oregon. Page li. Largest hog run of year at Portland Stock yards, page it. Chicago wheat hipher on active export de maud. Page IT. Railway stocks are strong feature of Wall street maraet. page 17. Action of Mitsui A Co. may lead to regular steamer line to Orient. Page 14. Portland and-Vicinity. ' First session sees 546,000 cut from ten tative school budget. Page 1. Mr. Bigelow angry at suggestion he pro tected friend on force. , Page 7. Alleged adventurer, in Jail, charges plot in "is repiy to divorce suit. rage n. State rests cate in arson trial. Page 18. Increase in telegraph traffic indicates gen eral business improvement, aays visiting western Union official. Page 11. Railway employes to make merry at big . snow today. Page 11. County "advisory budget committee . elects J. - is. xeai' chairman. - Page T. Weather report, data and forecast. Page 1 Chief HeaJey, of ' Chicago 4 police force. praises Portland system. Page 5. ' Schedule of tolls to be -charged on new Interstate bridge Is announced. page 14. Portland ministers come out boldly for old bunday blue law. Page 14. 010 45 OF 2000 SEAMEN PASS TEST Mondays War Moves THE Ge yovat La FolletteAv?:rPeriIs V Shaping. Sailors Unable to Qualify on Physical Examination. SHIPPERS FACE BIG LOSS MR. BENSON SENDS CHECK (Concluded on Pace 3. Column 1.) Portland Man Pays Out $13,758.05 to Hood River County. In -accordance with his' agreement with Hood River County, made before that county voted the $75,000- bond issue that he would defray the' expense in curred by the building: of the Columbia River Highway in Hood River County above the amount of the bond issue, S. Benson, yesterday through his attor ney, sent to the judge of Hood River County a check for $3753.05. Only a few days before another check had been sent the : Hood River County officials amounting- to $10,000, so to. date Mr. Benson 'has paid $13, 753. 05, : representing the . excess of the contract price above the $76,000 bond issue. ... RUSSIANS LAND AT VARNA London Has Report of " Arrival of Troops in Bulgaria. LONDON. Nov. 1. A dispatch to the Times from Bucherest says: ; 'It is reported in naval quarters tha Russian . troops were landed at Varna in Bulgaria on the Black Sea Friday, LEA MADE TO SUSPEND LAW San Francisco Collet-tor Says Ves. sels With 1-K8 Than 4 0 Per Cent of Qualified Crew Will Not Be Allowed to Depart. HE Germans have occupied Kragu- tz, the arsenal town of Serbia, while their Bulgarian allies are push- g- their way through the mountains to Nish, Serbia's war capital. From all sides the Germans, Aus- trlans and' Bulgarians are slowly clos ing: in on the Serbian armies, the po sition of which grows graver daily. They are fighting fiercely, however, to save their country and have inflicted j such losses on Field Marshal von Mackensen's forces that he has been compelled to send for reinforcements and leave the more' serious work, of invading tbe east and southern part of the country to the Bulgarians, who have had more experience in mountain warfare, such as the Serbians are waslns. 1-rom the junction of the Danube and Timok rivers in the northeast, to Us kup in the south, the Bulgarians are moving westward, driving tbe Serbians out of the towns, into the mountains, but from Uskup southward they have been checked, as the Serbians in that territory have been reinforced by the French and British with modern guns and with gunners who gained valu able experience In France and Gal- lipolt. . Beyond the forces landed at Saloniki, which German estimate places at 70, 000 men, there is no- news of further assistance being rent by the allies to Serbia. $546,000 STRICKEN FROM SCHOOL LIST Only 2 Proposed Build- ings tscape Knite. Vacuum Cleaners Listed at $35,500 Vanish at Stroke. BOND ISSUE IS SUGGESTED SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 1. (Special.) Only 45 out of a total of more than 000 American seamen in this port who- come under the strict require ments of the La. Follette seaman's act had qualified before the local Federal steamship inspectors up to the closing or o trice hours tonight. Unless an order comes from Wash ington setting aside the letter of the law. and. making it flexible in many respects, San Francisco shipping In terests fear that vessels scheduled to depart on the day the law goes into effect will be held in port for want of clearance at the Custom-House. Snips Be Held t'v. Collector of Customs J. O. Davis said yesterday that no vessel which did not have 40 per cent of Its crew list quail fled under the new law would receive clearance papers." San Francisco shipping men yester day manifested a "pertinent interest In the new law in that it possibly meant the holding up of vessels at a large pecuniary loss because seamen could not qualify for service. While more than 350 able seamen had qualified bef ore .the local inspectors yesterday as to profession examina tion, the stickler came in passing the physical examination before the medi cal examiners in the United States Marine Hospital. ...... 'r-lKr Ships Have .UvasUgc fahlppmg men who foresee the pecuniary loss that will follow to them unless the seamen's law is in a large measure suspended kept the wires hot with the Department of Commerce in Washington today. ' It was reasoned that if their vessels were not permitted to clear because of their inability to secure at least 40 per cent of the crew as able seamen, many American vessels both deep sea and coastwise would be unable to clear out of this port for an indefinite time, while foreign ships, over which the new law has no jurisdiction, would come and go as usual. Supervising Inspector of Steamships John K. Bulger, who returned from the East today, admitted that his depart ment was up against an unusual situa tion and that they would do the best they could under the circumstances. In his office it was admitted that the Department of Commerce had apparent- - Russian transports have been re ported off Varna, but the report lacks confirmation. There is, however, evl dence- In dispatches from Bucharest that the people of Roumania at least desire Intervention and that pressure is being brought on the King and Cabl net to induce them to Join the allies and permit a Russian force to pass through Roumanian territory to at- tack Bulgaria from the east. Greece continues her friendly neutrality. The Germans, having failed in two months of almost incessant attacks to reach Riga and Dvinsk . by various routes, are now trying along the rail way which skirts tbe shores of the Gulf of Riga from Tukum and have, accord ing to their reports, reached a point west of Schlok-. ..This is only 'a slight advance, and much low ground over which it is difficult to move lies be tween them and their objective. In' tbe. Dvlnsk sector both to the west and southwest' of that city, the Russians have begun an offensive, ap parently In anticipation of renewed at- tacks by the Germans and they are also on the move 'in the lake -district east of the Dvinsk-Vilna Railway and in Vol hynla and Galicia. The result of these various battles has" not been disclosed, if, indeed, they are concluded. Those at the southern end of the line are doubt less designed to prevent the German and Austrians from sending reinforce ments to Serbia'. In ' France the battle for the Butte De Tahure which the Germans recap tured from the French is still in prog ress without changing the positions o the two armies. There has been som fighting at other points in the west. Whayt the attacks on this front h cost is shown by a. report issued by Field Marshal Sir John French. He say that the published lists of the German casualties disclose that seven German battalions which took part in the Loos fighting, presumably a German counte attack, lost 80 per cent of their strength. (Concluded on Pago 6, Column 4.) SEE WHAT VILLA IS UP AGAINST NOW! CAPTIVES FED FROM HOME British Send Food to Germany and Shortage. Thought Serious. LONDON; Nov. 1. Travelers arriving from Scandinavia, say reports are cur rent there that the British government is now supplying food to British pris oners in Germany. The report aroused interest in of ficial circles, where the opinion was expressed that Germany might be mak ing overtures through the United States for some such arrangement. The be lief is growing here that the shortage of food in Germany is becoming serious. MURD0CK TO REPORT WAR Ex-Representative to Go to Europe as Correspondent for Own Paper. ' WICHITA. Kan.. Nov. 1. Victor Mur dock. ex-Representative in Congress from Kunsas and chairman of the Na tional Progressive Committee.- win go to Europe as a war correspondent. He will report the war for an East ern publication and for his own paper in Wichita, sailing for France about the middle of November. .... OREGON MAN WAR VICTIM Lawrence A. Nixon, of Silverton, " Dies of Wounds. OTTAWA, Ont.. Nov. 1. Four resi dents of the United States are includ in the casualty list of the Canadian contingent, issued by the military de partment tonight. Stanley Sherida Sprug, Washington, D. C, was killed i action. Walter Van Atta, Des Moines, la., and Lance Corporal Lawrence A. Nixon, Sil verton. Or., died of wounds. Barle Merritt Phillips, Hoosick Fall N. Y., was wounded. ROUND PROVISION SLASHED QUARANTINE PUT ON DOGS TCabid Coyotes Reported to Be I Northern California. SACRAMENTO. Cal.. Nov. 1. The State Board of Health today placed a quarantine on all dogs In Modoc Coun ty, due to the numerous cases reported from that county of rabid coyotes run ning at large. The State Board of Health has de layed quarantining Modoc County until a few days ago as none of be rabid coyotes had crossed the state line, al though many cases were reported from the Oregon side. "F" BOATS FIND SEA ROUGH Cruiser Convoy Reports Klotllla Re . larded by Weather. . .HONOLULU. T.. IT., Nov. 1. High winds and heavy seas are delaying the progress of the three "F" submarines, which left here last Friday for San Francisco, according to a radio mes sage received today from . the cruiser Maryland, their convoy. According to the message, the flotilla probably will ' not -each San Fran cisco until November 15. CESSION OFFER , DENIED No Territory to Be Given Italy,- Now ' or Later, Austria Avers. BERLIN, Nov. 1. by wireless to Tuck erton, N. J. A dispatch under a Vienna date, given out today by the Overseas News Agency, says: ' "Competent authorities deny as ab solutely mendacious . rumors spread abroad to the effect that Austro-Hun-g-ary is ready to make territorial con- . i cessions to Italy, to take effect now or 4 I later." . ' - - - Sl'embers of Advisory Conunitte Protest Against Kxtravagance In Vocational Training and Assumption of Paternalism. Approximately $546,000 was slashed from the proposed school budget yes terday when the members of the Board and the members of the committer from the Taxpayers' League assembled at School Board headquarters to 'con sider the 191S school budget. A little more than one-third of the items in the budget were considered, and it will be necessary to have at least one more joint meeting before the budget passes muster. The greatest cutting was done in the matter of new buildings and the pur chase of new grounds. Only two . of the schools that were listed for new buildings in the tentative schedule es caped the knife of the joint committee. These were Franklin High and Benson Polytechnic. The appropriation for Terwilliger, listed at $30,000. was cut to $16,000, and the other districts of the city that were clamoring for new buildings, Nicholson (now Hawthorne), Hoffman and East St. Johns), we.- eliminated, thereby saving for the dis trict a total of. $349,000. Capitol liiU that for'" the past' three years has housed Its school children In portables was allowed an appropriation of $10, 000 for a new building. -Tills figure was not included In the original bud get, compiled by the School Clerk. G round A I lews aces Pruned. . Eighty-one thousand dollars was struck from the proposed figures in tha purchase of new school grounds. Eliot, with $40,000; Holman, with $16,000. anJ Woodstock, with $10,000. were trie only appropriations made for the purchase of school property. The biggest item under the head of "betterments" to receive the ax was the -purchase of vacuum cleaners for the schools of the district. Thirty-five thousand dollars was the figure listed as the purchase price. When the members of the Taxpayers' League, Leo Friede. Dr.' A. J. Giesy and C. H. Labbe, who represented that or ganization in the meeting yesterday, convened with the School Board, posi tive opinions were voiced as to the ex cess to which the district was going in the matter of the provision of voca tional training. Paternalism" Is Criticised. "Where is the limit of all the good things that we are going to j?ive the (public?" protested Leo Friede. one of the members of the committee. He de clared that from an education al stand point the Board was right in appro priating so much money for expendi ture on sewing and cooking courses, but from an economic view it was not proper that the district Bhould provide for so much of the education that should be the product of home train ing. "It seems to me that we are get ting too paternalistic when we teach everyone who wants to learn to cook and sew," he declared. IJr. A. J. Giesy, another member-of the committee, was also emphatic in-his assertions that. the school district w.is providing the education easily that should come from home and should be gained, with somo difficulty attached to its attainment. "We must not lose sight of the fact that when effort is eliminated success is proportionately decreased," said Dr. Giesy. M r. Loclmood Opposes Cot. S. P. Lockwood, a member of the Board, thought that although it was evident too much of the burden of edu cation along domestic tin was lel't to the school district, he did not beJ lleve it would be advisable to make any substantial cut - In the appropriations for the continuance of domestic science work. Mr. Friede asked if it would be ad visable to concentrate all that in one center to minimize. the expense. There are now . 16 fully equipped schools where domestic science and sewinffare taught and 'four demonstration centers. There are 63 schools in the district. The members of the Board and the committee from the Taxpayers' League ' will go this morning to the grounds of the proposed Benson Polytechnic to make a better estimate of the amount needed for the improvement there. Bend Issve Suggested. One item in the budget that some . of the committeemen and Board mem bers wish to cover by a bond issue, so left for further consideration, was the Item listed "streets, sidewalks and sewers." This amounted to $3$, 465. It is the opinion of tie school clerk that a bond Issue to- cover that amount would be inadvisable, as the time for expenditure is so uncertain, so the fate of that item remains unsettled. , Another item not included in the proposed figures was one for $3000 al lowed tor the sealing up and fire- tCouctudtiii on fage 7, Column 1.) lK3 1 10.0