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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 15, 1917)
r THE MORNING OREGOXIAN. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 191' 1 K BERNSTORFF SAILS WITH SUITE OF 200 Members of Party Receive Wagonloads of Flowers and Bon Voyage Gifts. EIGHT-YEAR-OLD PORTLAND MISS TO START NEW SHIP ON CAREER SATURDAY. DEATH ON WAY CONSIDERED Gorman cx-Ambassador Speaks of Possibility of Hitting Mine; Hope That AVar Will Be Averted Is Expressed on Departure. nOBOKEX. N". J.. Feb. 14. Count X H. von bernstorff. ex-German Am bassador to the United States. Failed for home today aboard the Scandinavian-American liner Frederick VIII. With him was the Countess von Bern storff, besides nearly 200 German dip lomatic and consular officials. The uepanure. wmcn completes the mice 01 cipiomatlc relations wie united states and marred bv sever- between Germany, was Count Bernstorff. his wifp anH nfk members of his suite received several wagonloads of flowers and bon voyage pifts. The Ambassador was so appre ciative that he sent ashore a signed statement through Dudley Field Ma lone Collector of the Port of New lork. in which he said: "I cannot refrain from a last expres 2n.l lbf. Amerlcan People for the wealth of flowers and gifts sent to the Countess and myself. It is hard t tell or the good will sent us both. No expression of gratitude would be ade quate to speak an affectionate fare- Ambassador There Deeply Affected. was mnnv a rr .... aboard the Fred.rik vYll who sailed" away with tears in his eyes The Am- , 1 wle rest of the rn rt v t ri'Sh.ralj. ' the excietePmernt " " I -" 1'"ceae3 the sailing of in the party who" tried 'tZ do theTa'me On tMm - w " lo take the t. " r: . "tu.rn home. Count von on varloux Bernstorff Klonc various OCCa- I ?.VS !e?.re"et"? ot the Asso- I f - i - r , s x '1 ;r ' ' I - , . . m I - t" A - SUBMARINE SINKS AMERICAN VESSEL Schooner Lyman M. Law Is Destroyed by? Austrian, Says Rome, Report. WASHINGTON SEEKS FACTS NAN DIRC KHARDT. When the new motorship Oregon, building for the Alaska trade, goes over board at Seattle Saturday, where she is building in a cradle on the East Wat erway, little Miss Nan Burckhardt. -whose father, C. A. Burckhardt, is head of the Alaska Pacific Navigation Company, owning the vessel, will officiate at the christening. Numerous invitations have been issued for the event and a large delegation of Portlandersare to attend. The launching takes place at 11 o'clock. The Oregon Is to be ready May 1 and at first will ply between Seattle and canneries in the North controlled by the Alaska Pacific Fisheries, probably coming here later in the season with some of the canned products. elated Press his situation. trip. Will I get home all right? Well hwvVr Er,.t,sl1 nd French u ,.nere snould be no uur own submarines. luncver, wnether I have had my fun;"! have hid my play . , ,uBfr as young as I tf r aanEer, so far as is aicacned to this that we may strike n mi. t ' 6 5 hit a mine nd go iff ready to KO- to- A"er all. what difference will it make? If it Has to come, it will come, that's all. Iletlremcnt la Possible. "It is quite probable that my offi cial career is finished. I may retire for good. I have been turned out by y1",ru G,ov'ernmen' 'or something over I had no contro' and no blame attached to me personally. Perhaps this is a good time to step down. How- i. i am a uerraan, and may be governm In personal views on the dan- get home really once I can trip is HIGH TRIBUTE PAID British Comment on Aid Given to Belgians. 10,000,000 LIVES SAVED Ixrd ItoTx-rt Cecil, in Praise of Her bert Hoover and Associates, Ad mits Proposal Was First Re ceived Witli Misgivings. LONDON. Feb. 14. On the ocoasion of the withdrawal of Americans of the Commission for Relief in Belgium And Nnrthprn ITanr. T i w . . . changed by the wishes of my Cecil, who, in his capacity as Minister e . . f Blockade, has been broueht into intimate my plans regara to nis views nn tv, . lbl"ty of the United States entering the war, it should be explained that several times in the days immediately following the severance of diplomatic relations he indicated his belief that it was only a question of hours before some overt act would bring about hos tilities. As the days passed, however, and no overt act appeared to have been committed, the ex-Ambassador became more and more optimistic, finally Bay ing: May be it is possible that war may oe averted. The President is rep resentee: in the newspapers as having made it clear that the next time he went to Congress it would not be to ask for war, but in connection witn protection to American shipping. What does it mean? To me, personally, that could mean but one thing, namely, the convoying oi snips. Progress of the War. CARRYING safe conducts from Great Britain and France for himself. and party. Count von Bernstorff, the retir ing German Ambassador to the United States, has started on his way for Berlin. After touching at Halifax for an ex amination of her cargo by the British authorities, the steamer Frederick VIII, on which the Ambassador is a pas- senger. will sail for Copenhagen, whence the party will make their way into uermany. on the French front the British In the Ancre and other regions continue to make raids on German positions. Wednesday's most successful operation was northeast of Arras, where King ueorge s men entered 250 yards of Ger man defenses and reached their third line. Many Germans were killed and some prisoners and a machine gun were captured. The Ancre raid was south east or Grandcourt, where a strong position was captured. German trenches on the Somme and northeast or Ypres also nave been entered by the British. All along the remainder of the front there have been artillery duels and comb-dropping exploits by aviators of Doth belligerent groups. In the Roumanian theater near Meste Canesti the Germans have captured and Held against counter attacks several Russian positions and made 23 officers and more than 1200 men prisoners. In addition the Germans secured three cannon, 12 machine guns and six. mine throwers. Petrograd admits the capture by the Germans of two heights east of Jacobeni, near the Bukowina-Roumania frontier, and a retirement by the Rus slans there of two-thirds of a mile. In Volhynia. German attacks south west of Lutsk were repulsed by the Rus sians. Still farther north, in the Lake Drisviaty region, the Germans pene trated Russian trenches but later were driven out. Entente attacks against heights recently taken from them by the Ger mans in the Cerna bend, on the Mace donian front, were repulsed, according to Berlin. contact with Belgian relief operations, declared, in a statement to the Associated Press today, that Her bert C. Hoover, chaimian of the com mission, and his colleagues would leave behind them in Europe a reputation w-hich the United States -could count on as a national possession in future years. 'The withdrawal of the Americans from participation in the work of the Commission for Relief in Belgium and Walter Hines Page, the American Am bassador here, and Brand Whitlock, American Minister to Belgium, as pa trons of the commission, will be sin cerely regretted by the entente allied governments," said Lord Robert. "The commission still goes on in the hands of its other neutral members, but you know how in practice the organization of the relief commission, both here and at Rotterdam and in Belgium and Northern France, was created by and in practice depended upon Mr. Hoover and his American colleagues, who for more than two years have sacrificed every personal Interest to this great humanitarian enterprise. System Standi an Bulwark. It is they who have dealt dally. hourly with the Foreign Office here, with the German authorities in Brus sels and with the German headquarters Northern France. They have been constant intermediaries in a series oi most arduous international negotiations and it is they who have built up the elaborate system of guarantees whicn made the continuance of the work pos sible for 28 months and which stands today as a bulwark between the Bel gian people and the invaders. Now, 1 am not going to pay ny tribute to their business organization or their efficiency, as wonderrul as these things have been. The mere fact that for 28 months they have kept alive 10.000.000 people without serious hitch in the machinery or purchase, transport and distribution shows what their organization has been. But this any observer can judge as well as L First Proposals Unpopular. "What I do want to say is this: When the first proposals were made in October, 1914, for the importation of foodstuffs into Belgium after the fall of Antwerp, those proposals were directly counter to the ordinary dic tates of military prduence. The natu ral feeling of the people here was, and long continued to be, that the Germans were in complete control of Belgium and how could a dozen or two neutrals safeguard the supplies imported? It was only with great anxietiesand mis givings that we consented to allow the importations, and I sometimes doubt whether the proposal evjr would have been made or our consent given if ive had known how long the work would have to last or the extent to which it would grow. Yet, in spite of this, the work has gone on uninterruptedly for 28 months and has grown from small beglnnin Into an undertaking which may liter ally be called gigantic. Now the only thing which has made this possible nas been the absolute confidence wnicn air. Hoover and his colleagues Inspired in the allied governments. appeal. We propose to continue our ef forts to secure funds for the one ana auarter million BlEia.n children as before. While our American representatives nave been ordered out of Belgium, we hope to announce at an early date that other neu trals will carry on the distribution follow lni? the well-organized system w have in augurated. We consider it the highest duty of Amerl ca to support other neutral bodies in the same manner as France and Kngland have generously given us their confidence and fi nancial support in the past two and one- half years. The Oregon committee, of which J. E. Werleln is chairman, and of which the Progressive Business Men's Club is sponsor, already has received large amount of money which has been turned over to S. L. Eddy, of the Ladd & Tilton Bank, to whom other funds may be sent, as well as to The Oreeronian. Contributions should be marked for the Belgian relief fund Active work now will start in the fiv months' cmrairn which was in augurated Monday morning, when It hoi-ama known that the German au thorities had refused permission to the Americans to carry on further distriou tion of relief funds to the suffering humanity in the war-stricken countries Whtn seen last night. J. E. Werleln chairman of the Oregon committee, "Yes, we will start our campaign with a rush tomorrow and It will De hummer from what we already have heard from all over Oregon and parts of Washington. Announcements in the daily press will be made of the con tributors and the amounts sent in, be ginning probably tomorrow. c MercVian dis e.of oJMer i t jO nly to o t pnns ems truck GERMANS CAPTURE HEIGH Ietrorrad Admits Retirement on Roumanian Frontier PETROGRAD, via London. Feb. 14. (British Admiralty, per Wireless Press Capture by the Germans of a height near Jacobeni. southwest of Klmpo lung, near the northern end of the Roumanian frontier, is announced in today's War Office statement. The at tacks along the remainder of the front in this sector were repulsed by the Russians. A counter-attack resulted In ousting the Germans from the height, but later they again assumed the offensive and took possession of two heights to the eastward of Jacobeni. the Russians withdrawing two-thirds of a mile and entrenching themselves on an elevation about a mile from the town. VhcUier Incident Is "The Overt Act' Will Be Determined; Ship's Cargo Declared to Consist Only of Lemon Box Snooks. ROME. Feb. 14. '-he American schooner Lyman M. Law was sunk Feb ruary 12 off the coast of Sardania by hostile submarine, says a Stefan! dis patch from CagMari, Sardinia, today The vessel was loaded with agricul tural machinery, the dispatch adds. The crew of 10, of which eight were Americans, says the message, have been landed at Cagliarl. WASHINGTON. Feb. 14. Consul Treadway at Rome cabled a report to ay indicating that the American schooner Lyman M. Law was not tor pedoed, but was destroyed by a bomb placed on board by a submarine. Austrian Is Suspected. Consul Treadway's report said the submarine apparently was Austrian but flew no flag. Secretary Lansing had another re port which said the ship was sunk by gunfire from a submarine. The Government began seeking offi cial information of the destruction of the schooner to determine at once how the case affects the delicate situation between Germany and the United States. The dispatch was taken to indicate that the Law was sunk in the Mediter ranean, where Austria also is conduct ing submarine operations. The main points to be determined are whether the ship was attacked without warning, whether she carried contra band and whether any American lives were lost. Sinking May Be "Overt Act." The United States considers the sinking of a ship carrying contraband a doubtful right, but as in the cases of the sailing chip William P. Frye and the steamer Housatonic has not con sidered It a violation of international law to be compared to destruction which entails loss-of life. Whether the destruction of the Law will turn out to be "the overt act" of the submarine campaign will have to depend on the exact facts. Consul Treadway at Rome forwarded three dispatches, two of which he had received from the Italian Minister of Marine and one from the British Consul at Cagliarl. The latter said that Cap tain Mcuonougn and nine men com prising the crew of the sailing vessel had landed at Cagliarl. According to the Minister of Marine's announcement the vessel was sunk by an Austrian submarine Without a flag. GERMANY IS XOT WEAKENING Official Announcement Made That Rutblcssness Will Go On. LONDON. Feb. 14. A Berlin official statement dated February 14 referring to news from abroad to the effect that the marine barrier against Great Brit ain maintained with submarines and mines has been or will be weakened out of regard for the United States or for other reasons, says: "Regard for neutrals prompts the clearest declaration that unrestricted war against all ea traffic in the an nounced barred zones is now in full ewing and will under no circumstances be restricted." Mrs. Irma Lewis Baker Dies. Mrs. Irma Lewis Baker, wife of Rev. H. C. Baker, of the Sellwood Nazarene Church, died last night at 10 o'clock at the Sellwood Hospital. She had been in failing health for some time. The funeral will be held Friday at 2:30 o'clock from the Sellwood Nazarene Church, Spokane avenue and East Ninth street. Mrs. Baker had been a resident of Portland for about three years. The body will be sent to Ma- Latest reports give five vessels as having been sunk by German sub marines. Among those was the Ameri can schooner Lyman M. Law, which is said to have been carrying to Italy wood for the making of lemon boxes. The crew of the law escaped. The other vessels sunk were British two steamers and two trawlers. The ag gregate tonnage of the sunken vessels. except the trawlers, was 6546 tons. BELGIAN AID TO CONTINUE Portland Committee Notified That Children Will Not Starve. That the work of aiding the poor, starving humanity of Belgium and Northern France will be continued here in Oregon is assumed from the follow ing telegram received yesterday by the committee in charge of the work In Oregon from Herbert C. Hoover, of the American commission: Congratulations on Inauguration of your ONLY ONE AMERICAN WOUNDED Member of Saxonian Crew, Sunk by VT-Boat, Not Seriously Hurt. QUEENSTOWN, Feb. 14. James weygard is the only one of the three Americans in the crew of the British steamship Saxonian, sunk by a German submarine, who was wounded. Wey gard's wounds, caused by a shell splin ter, are slight. London newspapers reported that an other American besides Weygard was wounded. SCHOONER FROM MAINE PORT No Contraband Aboard Lyman M. Law, Declare Owners. BANGOR, Me., Feb. 14. The schooner Lyman M. Law sailed from Penobscot Bay on January 6 with 60,000 bundles of lemon-box shooks, taken on at Stockton a week earlier. There was no contraband aboard, according to the T. J. Stewart Company, of this city, the shippers of the cargo. The schoone was to go direct to Palermo wlthou touching at any other port. The cargo was valued at 131,200 and was insured. The Lyman M. Law, 1300 tons gro! Separate Silk Skirts More Attractive Than Ever Even the sports fashions have invaded the realfn of the silk skirt, for here you will find those strik ingly designed stripes in both bright and dull tones. Even at that the skirts of plain-colored silks con tinue to grow more alluring. Belted and shirred models models with long, graceful sashes of self materials and last, but by no means least, are the many and various styles of pockets that are not only useful, but ornamental the skirt with a Separate bag to match is equally as smart and every skirt boasts of a clever belt arrangement of self material. Third Floor 'Introducing the "Gaybird" Hat A specially designed hat for motoring that can also be worn for stfeet as well as sports wear. Of gaily-colored silks, with plain stitched brim and fancy flowered crowns. A clever arrangement of silk loops for fastening the motor veil makes this hat particularly attractive to the fair motorist. And then, too, they are so attractively priced. Only $2.95 to $5.00. On sale at Veiling Counter, First Floor. .The Auto Scarfs oxf Chiffon Clotli Come in a ivondrous array) of the nen colors thai match these tictv "Gaybir J" hats and harmonize perfect!) rviih the sports shades. They have hemstitched ends and ivoven silk horders. Prices 98c to $5.00. ' First Floor A Peep at the New Sports Ribbons will give you all sorts of ideas for making your Spring ribbon hat. for these soft gros-grain ribbons are shown in every color of the rainbow, some are plain, others with satin edges, and still others in bold, dashing stripe patterns. One-half to two inches wide and from 10c to 35c a yard. 1 Irst Floor. The One-Piece Dresses Were Never So Charming They strike a new note in every line, in the hang of the skirts, in the indefinite waistline, in their clever arrangement of pockets, even to the color and the quality of the trimmings. Fashioned of Georgette, imported silks, fine serges and new silks. Touches of color are cleverly introduced in ornamental stitchery, or hand embroidery. Third Floor. The New Coats Are arriving daily. Me dium weight and light weight models for early and late Spring wear in dashing plaid pat terns and charming new plain colorings. Third Floor See the New Barrel Suit Skirts and Dresses i i I wm fill pbffl f vStfer i o OH o and 211 feet long, was built In 1S30 at West Haven. Conn. She was for merly owned by the Benedict-Manson Marine Company, of New Haven, Conn., which sold her a year ago to New York Interests represented by the Maritime Transportation Company. SIX BRITISH VESSELS SUNK Four Merchantmen and Two Traw lers Added to List. ST JOHN. N. B.. Feb. 14. The sink ing February 12 of the British steamer Inlshowen Head. 3050 tons gross, from Glasgow for this port, was reported in a cablegram received by agents today. Except that the vessel was in ballast and that one member of the crew was lost, no details were given. LONDON. Feb. 14. The British steamer Bayreaulx has been posted at Lloyd's as missing. The Bayreaulx, which left Cardiff October 20 last for Montreal, was a vessel of 3009 tons gross. 325 feet long and built at West Hartlepool in 1895. The F. D. Lambert, a British steam ship of 2105 tons gross, was sunk last night by a German submarine, accord ing to a notice posted at Lloyd's Ship ping Agency today. The crew has been landed. . . Two British trawlers also have Been sunk. NEW YORK, Feb. 14. The British freight steamer Roanoke. Dundee, Scotland, for New York, has been tor pedoed and beached, according to ad vices received by the Maritime Ex change here. She is registered as a vessel of 3755 tons gross, 368 feet long. built at West Hartlepool in 1907 and owned by Furness, Withy & Co. Rust will disappear from steel if soaked in sweet oil for a day, fol lowed with a rubbing with fresh lime. EOPLE Positively Only "33 Today, Tomorrow and Saturday The Lovely, Magnetic Charles Frohman Star, Ann Murdoch in a scent from the Mutual Btar Pro duction, "Where Love It.' f i M V 1 . Ann Murdock In a delightfully appealing' 6-act picturization of - the noted William J. Locke novel, 1 "Where Love Is" An added and timely fea ture, rushed x direct from New York to the Peoples by fast express: "A DAY AT WEST POINT" i l Uncle Sam's ' f ighting men ..-.3 m tne making, umiy Coming Next Sunday: Alice Brady in "Bought and Paid For" A. M. to 11 P. M. "- ;. ' - ---"..'-, ' ""$ 11 V The Security Safe Deposit Company Vaults in the First National Bank are now completed. They are situated on the street level, entrance either on Fifth or Stark streets. These vaults give every protection, to gether with convenience and absolute secrecy. Boxes $3.00 per annum and upwards. Kidney Trouble May Cause Dropsical Swellings Foley Kidney Pill Highly Recommended For This Condition Dropsy, with all. Its signs and eymptoms. Including weak heart, general debility, swollen Joints, an kles and limbs; headache, sleepless ness and nervousness, are all evi dence of a certain kind of kidney trouble. Irregular bladder action, too frequent passage of water, and rising time after time at night, are also proof that the kidneys are not In a healthy state. Foley Kidney Pills have handled Just such cases with absolute suc cess. They have cleared away the dropsical condition, have restored the kidneys to normal activity, and brought the sufferer to a state of sound health. Mrs. Hattle Graham. Box 479, Bat tle Creek. Mich., has written fully in retrard to her case. We quote only part of her letter which says: "I was troubled with kidney and bladder trouble that finally developed into dropsy. I had a dull pain in my back, first my ankles swelled up. and then the whole lower part of my body be came bloated, and swollen. I used . V X. Foley Kidney Pills and the relief was immediate, and after using them for sometime, I feel permanently cured." Foley Kidney Pills are sold every where in 50c and 11.00 sizes. The $1.00 size is the more economical buy, as it contains 2 Va times as many aai the. 60c size.