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Newspaper Page TextTFTE arollXTXG OREGOXTAJf. SATURDAY, 3IAY 13, 191G. TWO M ORE IRISH REBELS EXECUTED Commandant-General and EdU tor of Journal Opposing Recruiting Shot. ..I BRITISH OFFICER TRIED Cotvrt-Marlial Now Considering Re sponsibility for Shooting of . Mieehy Skcffington Before Martial Law Kuled. TVCBLIN. via London. May 12. Jamas Connolly and John McDermott were shot today for complicity in the re bellion. The official headquarters announce ment regarding the executions ia as follows: "The trial of two prominent leaders of the rebellion whose names were ap pended to the proclamation! issued by the so-called provisional government, namely, James Connolly and John Mc Bcrmott, took place on May 9. The sen tence of death was returned in each "ase, and the sentences were carried out this morning1, after confirmation by the general commander-in-chief." TrinI Delayed by Wounds. James Connolly was styled by his associates Commandant-General of the Jrish Republican army. lie was one of the seven signers of the proclamation issued by the insurgents at Dublin at the outbreak of the revolt. Connolly was wounded during: the fighting and was taken prisoner. It was announced in Ixindon last week that he could not be placed on trial at the time on ac count of his wounded condition. Mr. Connolly lived for several years in New York, where he was active as -t Socialist and writer on labor topics. Jle returned to Ireland about five years ago to assist in organizing the Irish Labor party. He was about 60 years old. McDrrmoU Brilliant Oritur, John McDermott was known to Irish men in the United States as one of the most brilliant orators in Ireland, and as one of the so-called inner circle of revolutionists in the recent uprising. Authorities in this country on Irish :if fairs say that be was one of the original organizers of tho Irish Volun teers in November. 1913, in Dublin. At the outbreak of the war Mc Dermott was editor of Irish Freedom, a Dublin journal ardently opposed to recruiting- The paper later was sup pressed. During a visit of Queen Mary to Dublin several years aso McDermott, his friends declare, was arrested dur ing a disturbance and so roughly han dled by the police that he became per manently a cripple. LONDON, May 12. A Central News dispatch from Dublin says that a court martial is trying today the officer be lieved to have been responsible for the putting to death of K. bheehy Skeffingr ton, the Irish editor who Is said to have been executed without sanction of the military authorities. OFFICIAL WAR REPORTS Germans. BERLIN, May 12. (By wireless to Sayville.) The text of today's state ment by German army headquarters is as follows: "Western front Southeast of the Hobenzollern redoubt near Hulluch, German battalions from the Palatinate yesterday stormed several lines of a British position. Up to this time 127 unwounded prisoners have been brought in. feeverai machine guns were taken. The enemy suffered heavy losses, espe cially during a futile counter-attack. "In the Argonne the French attacked La Fille Morte. using flame throwers. The attack failed. "In the'Meuse district there has been artillery fire by both sides. Aside from a feeble attempt by the French in the Thlaumont wood there has been no im portant infantry action. "Eastern front A German air squad ron dropped numerous bombs on the Horodzieja station on the line between Krashin and Minsk." L stopped firing and turned back in the direction of Mytilene." French. PARIS, May 12. The text of today's official statement follows: "On the left bank of the Meuse (Ver dun front), there was an intense artil lery activity from the sector of the wood of Avocourt to Dead Man Hill. The Germans vainly attempted to dis lodge us during the night from the po sitions we captured May 1 in the west ern slope of the hilL Two successive attacks were repulsed by our fire. "On the right bank the bombardment in the region of. Douaumont-Vaux continued." Turkish. CAR DECISION IS DEFERRED Verdict to Be Given Monday In Case of Alleged Speeding. Decision in the case of C. W. Brown, conductor of a streetcar on the St. Johns run. charged with exceeding the speed limit, hu been postponed again in Municipal Court. Judge Langguth announced yesterday that a decision would be rendered Monday, at which time attorneys for the streetcar com pany and the Jitney Drivers' Union will appear with briefs. Brown was arrested on complaint of George "W. Walker, a jitney chauffeur. Interest is rife in the case, because of the question raised as to whether the speed of streetcars Is regulated by the franchise held or by the traffic ordinance. -CONSTANTINOPLE, via London. May 12. The War Office announced today that the Russian troops which were defeated on May 8 in the Mount Kope sector of the Caucasus front, being ex pelled from positions nearly 10 miles in length, have been pursued to the eastward. The announcement says: "Mesopotamia front The situation is unchanged. A hostile aeroplane was lilt by our guns and dropped in flames behind the trenches of the enemy. "Caucasus front The enemy troops which were expelled on May 8 rrom their positions were pursued eastward. They are making every effort to main tain themselves in new positions. "Dardanelles front Five hostile guardships which attempted to ap proach Tekke Burnu were driven off by our artillery. "In the waters or Smyrna a nosiue monitor appeared off the Island or Kensten and opened fire. Our batteries replied and hit the monitor, destroying her funnel and mast. The monitor Friday's War Moves SWITCHING their attack from the Verdun region against the French, the Germans have begun again a sharp offensive against the British line around Hulluch. Preceding their movements with the usual heavy bombardments, the Ger mans launched an infantry attack against the British lines in the region of Vermelles and were euccessful in capturing first-line trenches over a front of about BOO yards. The Urjllsn admit the loss' of the positions, but say that part of them were retaken in a counter attack. Berlin declares that in their defense of the trenches, and especially later in the counter-attacks, the British suf fered heavy casualties and in addition lost men taken ' prinoner and several machine guns captured. Around Verdun the French on the left bank of the Meuse have recaptured points of vantage previously taken from them southeast of Iiaucourt by the Germans. Bombardments are again taking place in the vicinity of Le Mort Homme and Cumieres. and against the French first and second-line trenches on the right bank of the Meuse between the Haudremont Wood and Vaux A German attack southeast of Douau mont was repulsed. IRIGTOHISKED Committee Starts Work to Protect Fine Home District. LARGE FUND IS RAISED (' V Store Opens Store Closes at 8:30 A. M. tfJllTV at 5:30 M Saturdays f fi X?OI OjT&54 v jtjCX fl XJ Saturdays at 9 A. M. at 6 P. 51. Phone: Phone: Marshall 50S0 The Most in Value, the Best in Quality a 2112 In the Austro-ltalian theator intense artillery actions are ensuing in the Col di Lanaxzonc, and the Italians have put down two Austrian attempt to at tack apairiHt captured positions on Mount Cukla. Petrograd reports further progress for the Russians fiffhtinpr aprainst the Turks near the Persian frontier, with Bag-dad as their objective. Here the Turks attempted to take the offensive, but Petrograd says the movement was repulsed. Farther nofth, nar Asch kala. which is situated home ;0 miles west of Erzerum, the Russians say they have made further projrress westward. This, however, is at- variance with the assertions of Constantinople, which says that the Russians, driven out of their positions at Mount Kope, west of Krze rum, are making- every effort to main tain themselves in new positions. Two other leaders in the Irish re bellion. James Connolly, known as commandant-general of the Irish republican army, and John McDermott. have been tried by court martial and shot. FRENCH HOLD FAST German Assaults in Region of Verdun Are Failures. NO RETREAT PERMITTED committee appointed yesterday by fresiaent Jewett. of the student body, to prepare a resolution In answer to the latest move of the faculty in refusing to reinstate Maxwell Ball in the uni versity, asked this morning; for mo.e time before presenting their resolution, they were promptly met with a motion to postpone the matter before the com mittee indefinitely. The motion was carried. The meeting at once ad journed. The motion seems to have stopped at present any further discus sion by the student body of the rein statement of Ball, who was suspended for his participation in tethering a cow in chapel on April 13. Canvass to Bo Made to Renrw He Mrictlons Against Erection of Ttuslnens Houses-Prominent Men Become Active. The protest asrainet the building of any stores or garaprea in lrvington, one of the finest residential sections In the city, which was started Wednesday night at a meeting of the lrvington Club, after It had been reported a grocery and butcher shop building was being planned for erection on a prom inent corner In tho district, took on large proportions yesterday when a committee of formidable strength was appointed and started work. The com mittee numbers some of the most prom inent business men of Portland and also represents the active forces behind a large fund already raised by lrving ton residents to fight the proposed com mercialization of the district. The crisis arises with the expiration July 1 of this year of the building re strictions, which thus far hare pro tected lrvington and made of it one of the sightly residence districts. The proposed store, it is said, is to be start ed after July 1. The committee will start at once to take the necessary action to have the restrictions renewed and the wishes of about 97 per cent of the property owners in the district regarded. Peti tions will be circulated in a house-to- house canvass and will pledge the sign era not to patronize any store or parage which might be built in the district. The petition Is not a boycott action, but la intended to be a warning. The petition was started yesterday and many have signed. Tbe fund being raised will, be to carry on the action to have the restrictions renewed. Following la the committee which Is to lead the fight: C. C. Colt, Jimery Olmstead. J. L. Bowman, Colonel S. H. Martin, J. r Carroll. W. K. Woodward. A. R. Porter, C. A. Morden. F. S. Doernbecher, J. S. Hen 1 1, w. J. Hofmann. John F. lxgan, H. W. Mitcheel. L. J. Wentworth. John T. Dougall. Thomas Mullen, Walter M. Cook. Robert D. Inman, Edgar W. Smith. J. C. Costello. H. M. Haller, J. P. Jaeger. K. J. Mautz, F. S. Myers. E. J. acger, O. M. Plummer, R. L. tabin, M. reppleton. R. G. IS. Cornish. V. B. Bowman, Oeorge E. Frost. H. B. Miller. Walter Holman, Ixiuis Gerlinger. Sr.. Kilts F. Lawrence. William Albers, John II. Stevenson, Judge W. K. Uatcns and B. F. Irvine. Great Underprice Sale Thousands of Yards Most Beautiful Ribbons Plain Taffeta, Moire Taf fetas and Messalines, Hair Bow and Novelty 17. Warp Prints, Yard ' C Regular 25c and 35c Grades Ribbons that will be in greatest demand for hair bows, millinery and trimmings. Beautiful, crisp and new. All wanted plain shades and rich novelties in clever combinations; trood wide widths in plain Taffetas, Moire Taffetas. Satin Messalines, light and dark Warp Prints, Novelty Stripes, Checks, Plaids, Floral Effects, all colors, as well as the extremely fashionable black and white checks 1 7 and stripes. Qualities regularly sold at 25c and 35c a yard, on sale Saturday at C ,rr DISABLED WOMAN SUICIDE Twenty-Five Years in Wheel Chair Ended With Bullet. GRASS VALLEY, Cal., May 12. Twenty-five years of life in a wheel chair ended today for Mrs. Robert Al len with a bullet. A revolver was found beside the aged woman's vehicle and she was dead. Mrs. Allen was formerly a woman of means In Oakland, Cal. BRANDEIS' CASE SCANNED (Continued From First Pare.) nought the opinion of Mr. Brandeis. whose views in past had often differed from his and who could, therefore, be regarded as unbiased. This time they greed that the merger would violate jio law. "Mr. Snow and I had a heated argu ment on the Question." said Mr. Ander son. "He said he knew nothing about) lie Interstate commerce laws and I said that nobody did." Commissioner Harlan said he had always regarded Mr. Brandeis in the 5 per cent rate case as counsel for the commission and not for the shippers. Mr. Harlan Qacationed Closely. Mr. Borah and Mr. Works on the Republican side closely questioned Mr. Harlan as to the terms of his letter in viting Mr. Brandeis to enter the case, loth insisting that Mr. Brandeis had been employed specifically to represent the shippers and that he had at the last, without notice to the other ship- pers representatives, thrown the case away. Mr. Works nally got Mr. Harlan to admit that the question of the adequacy of the railroads' revenues -was fundamental and that Mr. Bran deis admission affected the whole case, o far as counsel was concerned. Mr. Borah said that he found great : difficulty in making out from Mr. Harlan's testimony Just what Mr. ' Brandeis' relation to the case was. He said Mr. Brandeis seemed to have been a tenth commissioner. On the other ' hand, he said, quoting from Mr. Harlan's letter asking Mr. Brandeis to serve. Mr, Harlan had told him that the railroad side would be fully presented, but that the commission wanted the ship pers' side fully stated and asked Mr. Brandeis to present that side fully. The sub-committee hopes to report on today's hearing to the full com ; mittee next Monday. French Start Gives Oat Order to Its Generals That Every Position, Even If It Be Overwhelmed, Shall "Hold On." LONDON. May 12. The battle of Verdun continues, hut as has been the rasa recently. German and French re ports are at variance. Paris declares that two strong efrorts or me Germans last night to recapture positions on the western slope of Dead Man H1U were frustrated by effectual French artillery fire. There positions were captured bv the French on May 10. The German official report says of the Verdun re gion only that there has been "artillery fire by both sides in the Meuse dis trict." and that "aside from a feeble attempt in the Thleumont wood there has been no Important infantry action." Relative to reports that a general of the French staff at a certain stage of the batsle of Verdun contemplated the retreat of the forces from the right bank of the Meuse, an official state ment given out today at Paris says: "At no moment during the battle of Verdun has the chief In command given orders for. a retreat of the French troops on the right bank of the Meuse. Quite to the contrary, on the morning of February 23, General Langle de Cary commanded the troops em the right bank that every point, even if over whelmed, that every small position, even if completely surrounded, should be held at all costs, and that the only word would be, 'Hold on." "On the evening of the 24th the commander-in-chief Issued Instructions to 'hold the front between the Meuse and the Woevre with every means at your command. "At tho same time h directed Gen eral Castelnau to go to Verdun, and the next day General Castelnau tele phoned General Herr that the positions on the right bank must be held at all costs. Lastly, on the evening of the 25th, the commander-in-chief, in send ing General Fetair to take command. Issued the following order. 1 gave orders yesterday that the right bank of the river to Verdun must be held. Every commander who issues an order to retreat will be court-martialed." ' KAISER HONORS BOY-ED DECORATION BESTOWKD OS CALLED ATTACHE. BLUEBEARD' LIST LONG EIGHTEEN AVOME'V BELIEVED VIC TIMS OF Hl'XCARIAX. Bodies of Three 'Are Found In Sealed Ldn Casesj American Women Among Correspondents. Order of Red Eagle Given German Ae ensed of Conspiracies While Sta tioned in America. LONDON; May 12 A Central News dispatch from Amsterdam says that Captain Karl Boy-ed, formerly German naval attache at Washington, has been decorated with the Order of the Red Eagle, third-class, with swords, by the Emperor, "in recognition of his serv ices in America." Captain Boy-ed was appointed to the Washington Embassy' in December, 1911. After various charges had been made against him in regard to his con nection with passport frauds, the equipment of German commerce raiders from this country and German intrigues in Mexico, President Wilson requested his recall. After the President had de clined a request from Berlin to explain the reasons for the demand for Captain Boy-ed recall, the attache was or dered home last December. The charges against Captain Boy-ed continued after his departure from this country. In March of this year, when Horst von der Goltz was arrested In New Tork In connection with the plot to blow up the Wetland Canal in Can ada, he made a statement to the United States District Attorney charging that Captain Boy-ed had proposed an lo vaslon of Canada from this country. DISCARD OF jiYPHEN IS AIM "American Club" to Be Organized to Include All Nationalities. TACOMA. Wash.. May 12. (Special.) "The American Club," intended to be a National organization to absorb all hyphenated clubs in the country, will be organized here tomorrow. It i planned to extend It to other Coast cities and then East. August Cultum, a native of Norway, and a naturalized citizen of the United States for 43 years, is head of the men who have signed the call. The signers Include natives of Germany, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Greece, Italy and the United States. "There has been altogether too much hyphenation," Mr. Cultum said. "We want all foreign-born citizens of the United States to be real Americana, with their allegiance all for their adopted country. We want to make real Amerl cans of them and the organization will probably comprise an equal number o native American and foreign-born citi zens." Irs ELL-ANS Absolutely Removes Indigestion. One package proves it 25c at all druggists. BUDAPEST, May 12. Further offi cial investigation Into the case of the modern Blue Beard in the village of Cinkota who, it develops, was known as Bela Kiss, shows that the man made a practice for years, according to the police, of decoying women by marriage advertisements, obtaining their money on marriage promises and then mur dering them. Tho police have a record of 18 women with whom Kiss was at various times associated, eight of whom have long been reported as missing, while 10 others have not yet been found. In the house he had occupied were dis covered packages of love letters from all parts of the world, including the United States. Four of seven sealed leaden cases found In the dwelling were opened. Three contained the bodies of strangled women, while in the fourth were seven women's dresses. One was identified as belonging to a young woman who had been missinir for 10 years. There appears to be no doubt that Kiss died at Valjevo, serDIa, as re ported. Although ho rarely worked, he spent money so generously that he was known generally as "the American uncle. Cow Incident Dropped. WILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY. Salem, Or.. May 12. Speclal.) When the Mr. Baldwin Gets Convention Job. OREGON I AN NEWS BUREAU. Wash tnffton. May 12. Edward D. Baldwin, eecretary of the Oregon state Republi can committee, today was appointed as sistant secretary of the Republican Na ional Convention H APPAM CASE IS ON TRIAL Washington Contends Treaty Does Xot Protect Vessel. NORFORK. Va., May 12. When the proceedings to determine possession of the captured British liner Appatn, brought as Germanprize to this port, were beirun In Federal Court here to day. Judge Waddill, over the protest of counsel for the German Embassy, made public for the first time the State De partment's communication of March 2 to Count von Bernstorff. It disclosed that the department con sidered the case one involving legal questions to be decided by the courts, and contrary to what has heretofore en generally understood, expressed the view that the Appam did not fall within the protecting clauses of the Prussian-American treaty. It pointed out that the treaty granted asylum for vessels of war accompanying prizes, but does not protect the spoils of war deposited in American ports. WASHINGTON. May 12. The German government claims possession of the Appam under article 18 of the treaty of 1799 which provides that the ves eels of war. public and private, of both Germany and the United States, shall have free entry and departure with their prizes from the ports of both countries. The contest arises over the fact that the Appam was not brought Into Hamp tun roads by a German warship but came wholly unaccompanied. dustrlal School at Salem, Or.. Clara, 14- ear-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Aydeletto, of Prelrie City, will not have n make the trip to htlem with J. o. Kllpack, district Investigator of the Boys' and Girls' Aid Society of Oregon. Mr. Kllpack was called because of com plaints of delinquency against the girl. The grarwi jury ana inninci Aiiorney rerommended her commitment, end 250 ON STRIKE FOR AIR Windows of Mill Said to nave Had Only Eight-Inch Opening. LAUREL. Minn, May 13. About 250 weavers and spinners in the j-aurei Cotton Mills went on strike today for more fresh air. The strikers alleged that the windows in tho mill were nailed down, leaving only an eight-Inch opening. The management closed the plant, leavinr about 500 employes idle, but It was thought the differences would ce adjusted tomorrow. TOBACCO TAX DEFEATED Vote Said to Have Wrecked German Imperial Revenue Scheme. LONDON. May 12. '"The German gov emment has suffered a defeat in the Reichstag, which has voted against the tobacco tax" says an Exchange Tele graph Company dispatch from Amster US II'. "The tax was stoutly opposed by th Socialists. The defeat wrecks Dr. Ilelfferteh'a (Secretary of the Imperial Treasury) taxation scheme. COMMITTED GIRL RELEASED Alleged Delinquent of 14 Tnrned Over to Relative's Care. BAKER. Or, May IS. f8peclal. After being committed to the State In Assets $9,900,000.00. Topeka, Kansas, April 7, 1915, Mr. F. M. Sanders, Tr. Old Line Bankers Life Ins. 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Double rows of Valenciennes edging and embroidered insertions, or German Val. edging with three rows of insertion of same, with smocking or tucks makes an attractive garment. We also have some plain, though nevertheless attractive pat terns in shadow and ribbon trim or (all-edge-worked) with feather stitch ing. Also beautiful hand embroiderings worked in silk are taking. Gowns that will please all 0S and .SLID Others at $1.50, J? 1.75, $1.98 to $8.50 Kmbroidered Chemise , $1.1 S Others at $1.50, $1.75 to $:I.50 Corset Covers and Camisoles. . . . 08r to $1.75 Secure a Full Season's Supply at This Sale Women's Silk Hose at 55o BFST Ke QUALITY This is a special closing. out sale of one of the best known makes of Women's Iure Thread Ptlk Hos. and means a big sav ing to thost who take advantage of tho opportunity thus afforded. They are made with rini'orc-ed lislo hTl, toe and garter top. and come in all sizes in black and white. 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British Columbia's financial depression was ouly in part duo to the m-sr. The rwal rsuse was the collapse In 1012-13 of boom which fellem-sd several ysars of proaper Ity. rharaetartsed hy speculation and ab normal a-rowth ef the eliloa and towns. This Jimj Either they are wrong or you ore missing something Thousands and thousands of men all over this country a number bigger than several army corps have selected Fatimas and stick to Fatimas. Either these thou sands of men are all wrong in -their judg ment or-you are missing something if you haven't tried Fatimas. Why not try them? You will find that Fatimas taste cool and comfortable to the throat and tongue WHILE you are smoking them. And they leave you.feeling fine and fit AFTER you smoke them even though you may smoke more than your usual number. Is it any wonder men call Fatimas one of the most SENSI BLE cigarettes made? 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