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itapttiait -i S VOL. LY-m 17453. " PORTLAND, OREGON, 'MONDAY, NOVEMBER 15. 1915. PmnR FUT nKVTS1 FIRING ON ANCONA'S LIFEBOATS DENIED Austria Says Vessel Tried to Escape. SHELLING NOT CONTINUED Great Number of Boats Said to Have Been Unoccupied. FATALITIES LAID TO CREW Submarine Declared Not to Have Tired Torpedo Until 50 Minutes Had Elapsed After Xotiri- . cation to Ijcarc. BERLIN, Nov. 14, by wireless to Say ville. N. T. The Austro-Hungarian Admiralty today officially announced that the Italian steamship Ancona at tempted to escape at full speed after a -warning shot had been fired across her bows and that the vessel stopped only after being shelled several times by an Austrian submarine, says the Overseas News Agency. The submarine commander, it is fur ther asserted, allowed the Ancona's passengers and crew 45 minutes to abandon the ship, after which the ves sel was torpedoed, sinking three-quarters of an hour later. The-report that the submarine fired on the lifeboats is denied. Steamer Said to Have Fied. ' The statement issued by the Austrian Admiralty, after declaring the foreign press had spread false rumors regard ing the Ancona incident, says the sink ing took place as follows: "The submarine fired one shot in front of the Ancona's prow, whereupon the steamer fled at full speed, in ac cordance with the order issued by the Italian authorities, which instructs ship commanders to flee or to sink the submarine. The. submarine pursued the steamer and continued firing, but the vessel stopped only after being hit several times. "The submarine allowed 45 minutes for the passengers and crew to abandon the steamer, on board of which panic reicned. but only a small number of boats were lowered and these were oc cupied principaly by the crew. Many Boat Unoccupied. "A great number of boats, probably sufficient to save all the passengers, remained unoccupied. "After a period of 50 minutes, and as another steamer was approaching, the submarine submerged and torpedoed the Ancona, which sank after an addi tional 45 minutes. "If any of the passengers lost their lives, this was due to the fault of the crew, because the steamer tried to es cape after it had received orders to stop and then the crew only eared themselves and not the passengers. "Reports published in the foreign press that the' submarine fired on the Ancona's lifeboats are mendacious In ventions. When the steamer stopped the submarine ceased firing." WASHINGTON MORE UNEASY Submarine Controversy With Austria Jtcarurded as Tossible. WASHINGTON. Nov. 11. Conflict ing reports in the press today" con cerning the sinking of the Italian liner Ancona caused uneasiness among high officials of the United States Govern ment. which was intensified through their failure to receive any official information from either Ambassador l'age. at Rome, or Ambassador Pen field, at Vienna. From the Austrian statement, as quoted in the press dispatches, offi cials thought the case might develop a parallel to that of the British steamer Falaba. torpedoed by a Ger man submarine with the loss of Leon C. Thresher, an American citizen. In that case warning was given the ves sel, but it was torpedoed when it was believed by the German submarine commander that the ship had sum moned help by wirpl.M tr- ....... tempting to escap. A settlement was 4 cav.iru ii account or conflict ing testimony of passengers and crew. Although the United States has in sisted that vessels carrying non-combatants be, not sunk without warning, no case has as vet dAvpinn.fi tv.. - of the Washington Government as to what time is considered ample for the passengers to escape beyond the gen- si.icmtni. mat ait passengers should be removed to a place of aieiy. as provided in the declaration of London- Officials are so completely in the dark, however, as to th. ri ,.. they would not hazard tonight any iirtaiciiona as to whether or not the case would become one of internation al gravity. If It should develop that the shin was Runic hv - f . uciw.u BUO marine, it was regarded as probable mv entire suDmarine controversy might ass.ume renewed seriousness. Assumption of responsibility by the Austrian government would lead, it is believed, to an exchange of views be tween the Vienna .nri nr.Di.i . ..wjlUUBl(in governments relative to submarine operations, in order ht a , : night be safeguarded in the future " """".. lueo tor tne losses . .uUua 4.1 ab euy. TINY WORM COSTS OREGON ITS PRIZE i EXPOSITION SCALE TURNS IN FAVOR OF WASHINGTON. Last Apple Picked Up by Judge Has - Flaw Tbat Decides Neck-aod-Neck Contest at Exposition. BY ANNE SHANNON MONROE. OREGON EXPOSITION BUILDING. San Francisco. Nov. 14. (Special.) Oregon's garden of Eden has been in vaded by a -descendant of the original serpent, who has left, the Oregon "family" bowed with humiliation. The grand apple prize was coveted and expected. Our new Fall apple ex hibit in the Palace of Horticulture, largely from Hood and Rogue Rivers, was conceded to be the handsomest on the grounds. The famous Oregon sec tion, which won the grand prize last Spring on installation, was a magnet to the crowds. The jury began its work last Mon day. Box after box was carried up stairs from every state, and there the arduous work of comparison went on. Every famous apple center in America was represented. Gradually state after state was eliminated until the contest lay between Oregon and Washington. Friday it was a tie; Saturday Oregon was in the lead with a rating of 99 per cent perfect. Saturday afternoon a box was taken at random from each of the two -states and the apples were examined and compared apple for apple. Oregon had all but won when the Judge picked up the last Oregon apple, turned it carefully over, and discovered that the bloom end was a shade dark. Ho adjusted his magnifying glass, then slowly halved the apple; and up perked the head of a tiny worm. This threw Oregon out and Washing ton was proclaimed the grand prize winner on perfect winesaps from Oka nogan. This one worm lost Oregon the grand prize. 500 JAPANESE CELEBRATE Hope of Close Friendship Between Japan and America Cheered. HOOD RIVER. Or. Xnv ii cial.) In solemn assemblage at the K-nignts of Pvtnias Hall ii.r. ki ernoon a large portion of the 500 Japa nese residents of the Hood River Val ley cheered the expression of a hope that a close friendship would endure between their fatherland and the home of their adoption. The Nipponese wera srathoroH tn. ..i.. brate the coronation of Km no-.-,- -v ShlhitO. the local observant-a r,t 4V. event of last Wednesday having been postponed until todav in m-rio- h. the Japanese farmers nf t v a ,a,in.. might be free to participate. iv. Jtumasaki. Japanese Consul, of Portland, was present. DEATH CUTS ROMP SHORT Veteran Engineer, Playing With Tot3 Arter Long Run, Succumbs. SOUTH BEND. Wash.. Nov. 14. (Special.)" Only a few hours after he had guided a Northern Pacific train into South Bend today. James Tnat.r with the road more than 20 years, and one of the best known locomotive en gineers in the Northwest, dropped dead in tne Kentucky Hotel here. He had been playing with tin, r-t,i- dren of the proprietor of the hotel Just a few minutes before. The only complaint he had made of ill-health was of rheumatism. He is survived bv a (amIK. in To coma, where the body will be interred. GLE1MDALE OFFICE ROBBED Postmaster's Safe Looted Second Time Within Two Years. GLEN DALE, Or.. Nov. 14. (Sn.M,i The Glendale postoffice was robbed last nignt, the second time in two years. All the money in the safe, stamps and money order blanks, were taken, except one 49-staxnp book and one two-cent stamp. Entrance was affected through the back door and the safe forced with a Jimmy, as the outer door had not been replaced since the first rohh.rr it was blown off. Inspector Wood Is n nis way irom Medford to check up the loss. CORN SOLD TO 'GERMANY Bulgaria to Send 20,000 Tons or Grain to Kaiser's Realm. BERLIN, via wireless to Sayville, N. Y, Nov 14. Bulgaria has sold to the Merman Duying commission 20.000 tons of corn for immediate export on the Danube River, according to the Over seas News Agency. It is expected ship ments will be in progress by the way of the Nish-Belgrade railway soon. Under an agreement Just concluded the entire Bulgarian surplus - of pro visions and fodder will be placed at the disposal of Germany. PRINCE ALBERT TAKEN ILL King George's second Son Surfers From Obstinate Disorder. LONDON. Nov. 14. Prince Albert second son of King George, is suffer ing from an obstinate gastric disorder and will have to remain in London a Tew weeks to undergo special treat ment. Prince Albert, who is a midshipman in the British navy, was stricken with appendicitis in August. 1914. After undergoing an operation he rejoined his ship last February. He is 20 years old FOREMOST NEGRQ EDUCATOR IS DEAD Booker T. Washington Passes at Tuskegee. NERVOUS BREAKDOWN CAUSE Trip South Made When It Is Realized That End Is Near. LIFE BEGUN AS . SLAVE Career as Teacher Early Developed and Work for His Race Extensive. Economic Independence of Ne gro Was His Aim. . TUSKEGEE. Ala.. Nov. 14. Booker T. Washington, foremost teacher and leader of the negro race, died early today at his home here, near the Tus kegee Institute, where he was founder and president. Hardening of the arteries, following a nervous break down, caused death four hours after Dr. Washington arrived from New York. , Although he had been failing in health for several months, the negro leader's condition became serious only last week, while he was In the East. It was then realized the end was near, but be determined to make the last long trip South. He had said often: ."I was born in the South, have lived all my life in the South, and ex pect to die and be burled in the South." Death Soon Follows Arrival Home. Accompanied by his wife, his sec retary and a physician. Dr. Washing ton left New York for Tuskegee at 4 o'clock Friday afternoon. He reached home last midnight and died at 4:40 o'clock this morning. His last public appearance was at the National Con ference of Congregational Churches in New York, where he delivered a lecture October 25. ' . A widow, three children and four grandchildren survive. John H. Wash ington, a brother, is superintendent of industries at Tuskegee Institute. The funeral will be held at Tuskegee Institute Wednesday morning. Booker T. Washington was born a slave near Hale's Ford. Franklin County, Va., about 1858. Education Obtained With Difficulty. After the Civil War he went' to Mai den, W. Va., where he worked first in a salt furnace and afterward in a coal mine, obtained some rudiments of edu cation in a night school there, and fin ally, after many difficulties, recounted in his autobiography ("Up From Slavery," 1901), went to the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute (Va.), where he studied In 1872 to 1875. After a two years' Interval of teaching at Maiden, he obtained fur ther training at the Wayland Semi nary, Washington, and in 1879 was made an instructor at Hampton. He had charge of the work of the Indian pupils then being experimentally in troduced Into the institution, and es- (Concluded on Page - Column 2.) v OTJ,, J RONT tmf fr SERBIA 1 ; WEDDING WAITS ON FORGOTTEN LICENSE MISS RUTH AVOODCOCK'S MAR RIAGE DELAYED HALF HOUR. George Gales Grlnnell Is Absent Minded ; Bridegroom ; Bride's .Classmates Surprised. . Essentials for a wedding: One bride, a bridegroom, someone to tie the knot, witnesses and let's see that's all; proceed, parson. Such, in effect, was the stock taken and found ample by George Gales Grlnnell when he stood beside Miss Ruth Woodcock yesterday ' afternoon all ready for their wedding ceremony. But ministers of the gospel are sticklers -on form. So, when Mr. Grin rell could not produce his license to wed. the nuptials were delayed a whole half hour, until a friend could be dis patched to his home and recover the document from the deep recesses of a dresser drawer, where the bridegroom-to-be had safely hidden it the day previous, forgetting it when he started for his bride. The wedding took place at the home of the bride's mother, Mrs. Fred Hutch inson, 333 Dekum avenue, in the pres ence of about 30 friends and relatives. The Rev. A. L. Hutchinson officiated. The bride attended Jefferson High School last week and would have grad uated in February. Her wedding was a surprise to her classmates. Miss Naomi Woodcock was brides maid and Paul Carey acted as best man. Mr. and Mis. Grir.nell left for Astoria, where they will live. Mr. Grinnell is a fraternity man and mem ber of the Multnomah Amateur Ath letic Club. 30, KILLED BY AIR RAID Three Austrian Aeroplanes Drop Bombs on Verona, Italy. ROME, via Paris, Nov. 14. Thirty persons are dead in Verona as a result of the dropping of bombs on the city by three Austrian aeroplanes. Thirty other persons were seriously and 19 slightly injured. The bombs of the aircraft found most of their victims in the principal square of the city, where citizens and peasants from the outlying districts were at tending the market. Nineteen persons were killed by one bomb. The aeroplanes visited various parts of the city, but none of the missiles dropped by them fell near any of the military buildings. TROOPERS EAJ0UT TOWN Guaymas Near Famine Since Visit or 30,000 of Carranza's Men. SAN FRANCISCO. Nov. 14. (Spe cial.) Tales of hunger in Guaymas and the investment of the city by 30, 000 Carranza troops, were brought to port tjxlay by the steam schooner Fair Oaks. Troopers of Carranza went into the city half-starved and ate everything in tight. They slept alongside the railroad tracks with their women and children and begged food from the master of the steam schooner. Prices of all foodstuffs are prohibitive. W. S. Xewbury's Condition Grave. The condition of W. S. Newbury, ex Mayor of Portland, who is ill at the Alco apartments. Union avenue and East Couch street, remains grave, and his ultimate recovery is not yet as sured, lie is 81 years old and suf fered a severe paralytic stroke about 10 days ago. He has been a resident of Portland for 45 years. HAS HE GOT ENOUGH FUEL? I 1 11 I I ! CRITIC OF WILSON LOSES POSTAL JOB Remarks on E00age ment Is Punished. PROTEST IS SENT WASHINGTON Winnetka, III., Postmaster Re . moves His Assistant. HEARING DECLARED DENIED Action Taken Without Authority ot President, Says Statement Is sued From White oHuse; De partment Approval Given. WASHINGTON. Nov. 14. A state ment, issued at the White House to night, revealed that Postmaster Kloep fer. at Winnetaka, 111., had removed his assistant from office because he criticized President Wilson's engage ment to be married. The White House statement said that the action was taken 'without the authority or knowledge or rhe President," Published reports brought the inci dent to the attention of White House officials today, and at the same time It. was learned that the dismissed as sistant postmaster, George Burkitt, had appealed vainly to the Postoffice Department to overrule his superior. Dinloyalty Is Charge. Postmaster Kloepfer. according to published correspondence, called on Burkitt to explain a remark credited to him that the President "should wait at least a year before re-marrying." Burkitt admitted making the statement, but denied being guilty of any disrespect. Therw the postmaster, charging him with disloyalty and call ing attention to demerits placed against his record for "unsatisfactory service," asked for his resignation. In appealing to the Postoffice De partment. Burkitt protested that his removal had been irregular; that no formal charges had been filed against him. and that he had no opportunity to reply. Roper May- Issue Statement. Daniel C. Roper, Third Assistant Postmaster-General, is said to have replied that the civil service laws had been fully complied with. Mr. Roper, when asked about the case tonight, said he did not remember it clearly, but had the impression that other matters other than the remarks about the President led to Burkitt's removal. He said he probably would issue a statement tomorrow. DEMERIT MARKS ARE DENIED Discharged Man Declares Disrespect for President Xot Shown. CHICAGO, Nov. 14. George Burkitt was discharged from his position as assistant postmaster at Winnetka, a suburb, on November 4 by Postmaster Kloepfer. who wrote Burkitt a note giving as a reason. "Tour disloyalty to the President and the unsatisfactory (Concluded on Page 2. Column !.) ' " PORTLAND TO FEAST ON 35,000 TURKEYS fy -"" ll-- 1VV !!. V .llii'. TO ARRIVE SOOX. Big Demand Anticipated. Supply Is Ample and. Other Cities to Be Supplied From Here. Portland dealers are preparing to sell about 35,000 turkeys in Portland for Thanksgiving, according to a promi nent dealer, and several times that number w'lll be handled here for vari ous sections of the Northwest. Turkeys are not expected to arrive in the city in large numbers before next Saturday, but after that time until Thanksgiving day the popular fowls will be shipped in and out by carloads and will be the principal feature of the trade on Front street. . Dealers predict that there will be a good demand and an- ample supply. "While it Is difficult to predict." said a prominent dealer last night, "present indications are that the price for tur keys will be about the same as it was last year, which was 22 to 23 cents wholesale." The quality of the birds is expected to be about the same as last year. They are expected to be In good condition, although, as one dealer explained, there is always a certain amount of poor fowls sent in. By far the largest number of the tur keys handled here are sent in from Southern Oregon and the Willamette Valley. (Mmy are also sent from Idaho. Bastern Oregon and Washington. In addition to supplying the local market dealers here ship many fowls to Seat tle. British Columbia and other points in the Northwest. LINER BOSNIA IS SUNK Three Lifeboats From Italian Vessel Land, Fourth Is Missing. ROME. Nov. 14. The Italian steam ship Bosnia has been sunk by a sub marine flying the Austrian flag. The passengers and crew boarded four life boats. Three of these craft have been landed, but the fate of the occupants of the fourth boat is not known. The Bosnia was of 2561 tons gross and was built in 189S. She was 307 feet long, 39 feet beam and 25 feet deep. The home port of the Bosnia was Venice and she was owned by the So cieta Nazionale de Serviza Marittima. of Rome. COLONY CALLS OUT 10,000 Union of South- Africa Js Advised England Can Send Xo Troops. CAPE TOWN, via London." Nov. 14. The government recruiting committee has called for another 10,000 men for service in German East Africa. It is said that the call was made at the request of the British government, whose available troops are now so fully occupied that it could not be expected to provide men for campaigns the world over. AFGHANS READY FOR WAR Fighting at Several Points on In ' dian Frontier Reported. BERLIN, by wireless to Sayville. N. r., Nov. 14. Afghanistan is preparing to war against the British possessions in India, according to telegrams -received by the Overseas Agency from Constantinople. "Fighting on the Afghanistan-India frontier." the Turkish advices add. "al ready has begun at several places." Bishop D. H. Moore to Visit. Bishop David H. Moore, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and for merly resident bishop in the Portland district, will spend Tuesday in this city, accompanied by his daughter. The Men's Methodist Social Union, of Port land, will entertain them at lunch at noon at the Chamber of Commerce, and take them for an automobile trip over the Columbia River Highway- in the afternoon. Bishop Moore and his daughter will hold an informal recep tion at the Virginia Hill in the evening from 7 to 10 o'clock and invite old friends to call on them. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS Thm Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature. 48 degrees; minimum. 40 degrees. TODAY'S Occasional - rain; southeasterly winds. War. British destruction of enemy submarines at tributed to new "divins; shell." Page a. Domestic. Woman shot in battle in "district of Lake Michigan." Pare 1. Tiny worm costs Oregon grand priie for ap- pica a.i exposition. rage 1. French induct rial commission arrives to arrange for purchases after aar. Page 3. Hport. Coast League cuts salary limit to $4500 a month. Page 11. Comparative scores show four teams in Northwest to be about on even basis. Page 10. Oregon football fans give credit to Bezdek for California's comeback. Page 10. Multnomah and Olympic Clubs play score less tie. Page 10. Washington can claim only King County championship. Page 10. Marine and Financial. New McCormlc schooner chartered at high rate before she is completed. Page 9. Increase in value of four Oregon industries shown. Pago 9. Portland and Vicinity, Two of cruiser Boston crew to be punished following girl's confession. Page 14. New Orpheum bill opens with fine playlet and good numbers follow. Page 14. Govern men t leader of extension work be . walls lack of economic knowledge among women. Page 5. Rev. w. O. Shank preaches on success in life for girla Page 8. Mr. Alderman answers -critics of vocational training. Page 12. Insurgent Methodists protest against pro posed mortgage. Page 8. More of watchman's loot is found In cache. Page 8. New film plots are varied. Page 7, DISTRICT OF LAKE MICHIGAN INVADED Woman Shot in Battle With Police. BEER SEIZED AS CONTRABAND Redoubtable Captain Streeter Defies Sunday Liquor Law. SOLE AUTHORITY ASSERTED Attorneys and Backer of Man Who Refuses to Recognize State Law Ueclare He Is Victim of .Po lice Conspiracy. CHICAGO. Nov. 14.(Special.)War broke out in the "District of Lako Michigan" today, and -when the 35 in vading policemen, several detectives In plain clothes and a squad of firemen departed they had shot one woman, clubbed two men. including the re doubtable Captain George Wellington Streeter. and George Mantis, a Greek, who recently stood off 31 policemen with a pair of magazine revolvers. The contraband of war seized in cluded 10.800 bottles of beer. 16 pris oners, including three women: six mod ern repeating rifles, one old-fashioned Army rifle with bayonet attached, four . heavy revolvers. several hundred rounds of ammunition and a chest con- -taining all the private papers of Cap tain Streeter. !. Raid Made Under Liquor Lib. The raid was made on a charge that Streeter and his followers were violat ing the state liquor laws by selling in toxicants on Sunday. Nine detectives first went in and bought liquor and then gave the signal for 33 patrolmen to make the raid. Streeter discovered the ruse and seizing a rifle, fired twice, but hit no one. One of the policemen hit him over the head with a billy, putting him out of the fighting tem porarily. The police assert that Herman Hoist. Streeter- bodyguard, fired at them twice with a repeating rifle. Ho was stationed in a wagon on wheels, where he and his wife lived. The officers fired a volley at Hoist, one bullet strik ing Mrs. Hoist ant lodging near the base of her spine. She was taken to a hospital. Firemen Urnollah Shai-k. After the others were arrested the firemen were called in and they demol ished the shack occupied by Mantis, the Greek! Mantis had been knocked down before he could get to his weapons. ''I ain't shaken a bit by this affair." said Captain Streeter. "I'll get these skunks yet if I have to use a bomb; they plan to steal my property, but they won't do it as long as I live." He was booked on three charses assault with a deadly weapon with in tent to murder, violation of state, liquor laws, and conducting a disorder ly house. Bond of $2500 was furnished promptly. Streeter's attorney and his backers declare the raid today was part of a police plot to kill Streeter, at the instigation of men "higher up" who are trying to get possession of the property, worth 536,000,000. Plan of Settlement Suggested. H. E. Cabcock, for many years "a Wall street operator, now interested in Nebraska real estate, has worked out a plan whereby the entire con troversy can be peaceably settled and title to the district cleared. Streeter and his backers and many of the dis puting property owners have agreed to the plan, but a title company has been holding off. although it has not re jected the plan. Since the Chicago saloons have been closed on Sunday, Streeter has been doing a wholesale business. He con tends that his district is subject to no laws except his own. and that he can do as he pleases. He made the mistake of voting at a Chi-jigo elec tion and registering as a Chicago citi zen, which gave his enemies the first loophole through which to attack his claim. His attorneys say they will produce . evidence of a conspiracy at his trial ' Tuesday on a previous charge of as sault with intent to kill. Land In Faahlonable DUtrlrt. The land claimed by Captain Street er is north of the harbor and in the center of the fashionable Lake Shore residence district. Streeter and hi wife came there years ago when their " vessel was wrecked on a bar. The sand filled in between the wreck and the shore. While 'the city never has admitted Streeter's' title, many purchasers have preferred to make a settlement with him to obviate the possibility of his questioning in court their right to pur chase. Streeter called the new-made land "the United States District of Lake Michigan." and has refused to recog nize any authority but that of the United States, and has defied for weeks Mayor Thompson's Sunday saloon clos ing order. Since the Sunday closing order, it is said, Streeter has done a. thriving busi ness in bottled beer. His shack, which he christened the "Oasis," was oely a. short distance from Lake Shore drive and easily accessible to automobile parties. He often wae summoned to court and numerous cases for selling liquor without a license are pending.