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THE MORNING OREGOXIAN, TUESDAY, JULY 9, 1918. POSTAL SERVICE EXHIBITS FAILURE Postmaster - General Burle son's Administration Criti U cised by Bourne. SELF-CONVICTED IS CHARGE Testimony Before House Committee on Commerce Quoted as Proof Tliat Government Failed Where Telegraph Co. Succeeded. OREGOXIAN XEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, July 8. That the postal serv ice, rather than the telegraph service, has broken down is the assertion made by the Republican Publicity Associa tion in a statement commenting upon tiie reasons given by Postmaster-General Burleson or advocating: Govern ment operation of the telegraph lines. Former Senator Jonathan Bourne. Jr., speaking for the organization of which he is president, said: "III his testimony before the House committee on interstate commerce I'ostmaster-General Burleson advocat ed the taking over of the telegraph lines by the Government and is quoted as Klvinp as one reason that 'the tele praph service is breaking: down as evi denced by the sending of important messages, including those of the Gov ernment, by train messenger.' Telegrams Sen by Mall. "This statement, if made as quoted in the press, forces to public attention the question as to what it is that has really broken down. It is asserted that a telegraph company received Government messages in the evening in New Tork for transmission to Wash ington and in Washington for trans mission to New York and instead of sending these messages by wire, sent them by messenger on a train leaving about midnight and reaching the des tination early the next morning, -when the messages were delivered as though they had been transmitted by wire. "Apparently this was done so effi ciently that the Government officials thought the messages went by wire. There was, therefore, no apparent breaking down in service, though the government was paying telegraph tolls when it should have been paying postage, or nothing at all. "If the telegraph company could take those messages and transmit them by train, why couldn't the postal service do the same? Why was the Govern ment sending by private wire messages which could have been, or should have been, transmitted just as quickly and effectively by its own public postal service? Why was the Government further burdening a telegraph system already congested? Postal tiervlee IVeeds Manager. "Mr. Burleson's statement, if he is correctly quoted, is in effect an admis sion that the postal service has broken down. It has failed to assure the va rious departments of the Government that it can take their messages in the evening in New York and deliver them in Washington the next morning, though there is a five or six-hour train service between the two cities, and the Government maintains a spe cial delivery service in both. "The manager of the telegraph com pany did it. What the postal service needs is a manager who will offer Government service that will success fully compete with parallel service conducted by private enterprise. "There is no doubt whatever as to what service has broken down." JUNE SALES ARE HEAVY rOSTOFFKR SEII.S WAR STAMPS TOTALING .VIS,274.44. ITnder Kercnt Ruling; Parchanerff Are Allonrd to Hold ft2.-(rO Deposit lu Postal Bank. The month of June was a busy one fnr the sale of war .savings and thrift stumps at the Portland Postoffice. The total sales for the month amounted to $".48,274.44, or $21,931 for each business day. From December 3 to July 1, the Tortland .Fostoffice sold $1,578,620.03 worth of war savinps and thrift stamps, ll for cash, no pledges being consid ered. The Postoffice appropriation bill ap proved by the President July 2 in creases the maximum a mount that a i4positor can place in the Postal Sav ings Bank from -$1000 to .$2500, on which the Government pays the de positor interest at the rate of 2 per rent per annum. This money is depos ited in the commercial banks and is made available for the needs of trade and commerce. ITALIAN ACTIVITY GROWS (Confirmed From First Pane.) cent of their effectives were killed, wounded or taken prisoner. The enemy employed 37 battalions, including: some of the Orient corps, pre pared for the purpose of holding Jeru salem. How serious was the menace lu Venice is indicated by the fact that Austrian puns were only five miles away. Sand bars exist along the Adri atic coast, where the ground is solid t nough to support cannon if the Aus trian had been able to advance them. Sailors and soldiers fighting neck deep in mud, water and reeds, blocked the 'Austrian flanking movement. Kightlng was especially arduous on the hundreds of canals behind the Lagoon district, where every cellarless hut had been transformed into a machine-gun nest. The Italians had to make night at tacks, swimming with knives in their teeth until they surprised and killed SOFT COLLARS E & W soft collars give you trimness without binding and style without starch. (Mr CARL & WILSON the machine gun defenders. The artil lery of both sides played night and day freely upon every road built in between the canals. The result of the battle gives the Italians nearly 40 square miles of new territory and a shorter front. James H. Morrison, a New York actor who is working in an American Red Cross refuge, is feeding many Italians daily and has not slept in 10 days. He said: "One night the Austrians mistook the American Red Cross villa for the Mestra railway station and bombarded us severely. They injured the wound ed men and destroyed the estuary in our village." The word "American" seems to act as a charm with the common soldier. For instance, in the course of one night, when there was heavy shelling, an Italian Captain kept up the cour age of a group of reserves by saying each time a shell fell: "The Americans are coming over faster than that." ITALIAN HEADQUARTERS. July 7. (By the Associated Press.) The Ital ian commandant under whose direction the American flyers are working on the Italian front has only one fault to find with them. They never want to remain on the ground. Regardless of the weather, the fierceness of the bar rage or the vigilant enemy chasers, they want to be in the air after the enemy. TEUTONIC PRESS BITTER GERMAN AND AISTH1AN KOITOHS ATTACK WILSOM. Independence Day Speech of 1'resldeot Lnpleasant Heading in Central Kmplrea. AMSTERDAM. July 8. Commenting on President Wilson's Independence Day speech, the Rheinische Westfal ische Zeitung says: "Washington would turn over In his grave if he could hear how his miser able successor in the presidential chair falsifies history and places his war like aims on the same plane as those truly humane principles and ideals of the time of the founding of America." The Cologne Volks Zeitung says: "Hypocrisy and Impudence, thy name is Wilson!" The Essen Allgemeine Zeitung says: "Wilson speaks in the fantastic wrappings of American egotism. The inexperienced Americans allow them selves to be persuaded into political fantasies." The Vienna Neue Freie Presse de scribes President Wilson's speeches as bearing the "stamp of superficiality and untruthfulness." The Vienna Tageblatt says: "It is the Central Powers who are fighting for the good and right ideas which President Wilson enunciates." The Vienna Reichpost says: "President Wilson's latest formula is nothing more than a renewed declara tion of war nothing but an announce ment of mailed fist peace." KAISER PUBLISHERS HERE (Continued From First Page.) Company, accompanied by a pledge of the stock of the S. S. McClure News paper Corporation, had been surren dered to him in exchange for the $100, 000 note in September, 1917. "In other words, by giving his note for $100,000 he had obtained a return of notes aggregating in excess of SI, 300, 000 and stock representing a con troling interest in the Evening Mail." Mrs. Baseh'H Name Mentioned. Rumely has claimed recently that it was Sielcken ' who put up the money in the transaction. Previously he had stated Mrs. Busch had contributed to the fund. Mrs. Busch, however, denies it, and the Columbia Trust Company, executor of Hermann Sielcken as well as Mr. Sielcken's partners in the firm of Crossman & Sielcken, say that so far as they know Mr. Sielcken had nothing to do with this transaction.. Attorney-General Lewis declared that Mrs. Busch, referred to in his state ment, was Mrs. Adolphus Busch, widow of the St. Louis brewer, who was questioned recently by Government of ficials upon her return from Germany. In a statement issued late tonight. Assistant State Attorney-General Beck er said: "The entire amount which went into the purchase of the Evening Mail was derived from the sale of German war bonds in this country, and American citizens furnished the money to ac quire the paper, which was to be used for the purpose of carrying on German propaganda. "While the deal was made with Henry L. Stoddard for the paper, there is no evidence that Mr. Stoddard knew it was German money. Mr. Stoddard retired from the management of the paper and still holds most of the out standing bonds. When the United States declared war against Germany Mr. Stoddard threatened to foreclose the bonds unless the Evening Mail ex pressed loyalty to this country in every way." Various Citira Contribute. According to Mr. Becker, St. Louis contributed $100,000 from the sale of German war bonds and Chicago $200. 000. This money, he said, was first de posited to the credit of Dr. Albert and Count von Bernstorff with tfce Equita ble Trust Company in New Tork, and eventually reached Dr. Rumely. Mr. Becker added that $350,000 of the fund collected was deposited with the Hano ver National Bank and $200,000 with the Columbia Trust Company. An order drawn on the Farmers' Loan & Trust Company for $185,000 in favor of Lyon was signed by G. Amsinck & Co., according to Mr. Becker, who as serted that this capital was the one of which Adolph Pavenstedt; now interned. was managing partner. It is alleged that it was this company that handled the Bolo Pasha funds in this country. According to Mr. Becker. Mr. Palmer requested the Invoice, no informal steps having been taken toward taking over alleged German-owned property in the Evening Mail. WASHINGTON, July S. Official cor respondence made public today dis closed that Cleveland Abbe, Jr., editor of the Monthly Weather Review, re cently dropped from the Government service, was dismissed because of "his well-known sympathies for the im perial German government." SAN FRANCISCO, July 8. Following the loss of their appeal, Lawrence DeLacey, D. J. Harnady and William Mullane were ordered by the United States Circuit Court of Appeals here today to serve the prison sentences and pay the fines given them for an at tempt to liberate Frans Bopp, former German Consul-General here, and his aide, E. H. von Schack, from an in ternment camp. r Pictorial Review Patterns Second Floor Mrs. Oraeme is conducting Knitting Classes. Art Needle Sec tion. Fifth Floor. This Store Uses No Comparative Prices They Are Very Misleading and Often Untrue CORSETS Clearance at $3.95 Nemo, Smart Set, Etoile de France and C. B. Corsets in the most desirable models are offered in this July Sale. Fourth Floor. cMei Merchandise ccJ Merit Only" KODAKERS, Attention! We are told our developing and printing is the best in the city. It should be. We give this work special attention. KODAKS, FIRST FLOOR. BLACK SILKS. 3 Fabrics Clearance $1.59 Even our scarce and most desirable black silks find their way into the July Clearance Sale. Qualities that we know cannot be duplicated again at these prices. Nevertheless, we offer for today 35-inch Heavy Lustrous Black Duchess Satin. 35-inch Chiffon Taffeta, finest for suits, separate skirts, coats, etc 35-inch Soft Charmeuse, in soft finish. Second Floor Lipman, Wolfe & Co. A host of pretty fancy work novelties pillow tops, lunch sets, laun dry bags, lace squares, fancy bags, gown cases mostly of one kind. These will be sold on the Sale Circle, First Floor. Main Floor, Sale Circle Lipman, Wolfe & Co. j Art Needle Novelties, Clearance 25c i GOOD TOWELS I Thousands of o Them in This IyVjj vS Impotant July bale All Sold at Clearance Prices The July Clearance no matter what the conditions, is an unalterable part of our mer chandising system and must be held, for through this event our stocks are made ready for the new season. Every item has a new meaning to all who buy for economy and quality. Appreciating our duty to pur customers, we are not taking ad vantage of conditions; we are not profiteering, but are passing this merchandise along to you just the way we would under ordinary con ditions. Every item is a worthy presenta tion, marked at tempting savings to quickly speed it to new owners. A sale to make the most of, because it touches the need of every person and home. Grass Rugs for Summer Homes Make your home a haven from the heat. You are inviting com fort when you use these cool grass rugs throughout the house. They are serviceable and most attractive, in tans, green, brown, gray and blue. At July Clearance prices: 4:6x7:6, price $ 4,45 6x9, price 7.45 8x10, price 10.95 9x12, price 12.45 Fifth Floor Lipman. Wolfe & Co. Cretonnes and Chintz, Clearance 43c A number of pieces of beautiful art chintzes find their way into this July Clearance Sale. Lengths from 5 to 1 5 yards each. If you have not yet put up your Summer draperies, these will afford you a real opportunity or perhaps for next season. They come in floral and conventional designs. F'flh Floor Lipman. Wolfe & Co. Mm w Buy towels now for home, country or beach use. Every towel in this sale is "way below regular prices, based on today's market, and many are sold less than today's wholesale cost. BATH TOWELS, 23c Liberal size bath towels, ' splendid for seashore and country use and just the quality that will save your better towels. All white with hemmed ends. BATH TOWELS, 39c Splendid quality and extra large size bath towels, very heavy and absorbent. Full bleached, with hemmed ends. BATH TOWELS, 45c Double thread twisted yarns, the best woven towel on the market. This excellent towel is most excep tional at this low price. Pure white, or white with red or blue borders. BATH TOWELS, 59c Extra large and extra heavy bath towels of double twisted yarns. These are very soft and absorbent and pure white. UNION HUCK TOWELS, 35c Splendid quality of hemmend union huck towels, the kind that wear so well for hard, every-day use. White with neat borders. IMPORTED HUCK TOWELS, 50c Each Scotch huck towels, in an extra heavy quality, and about 60 per cent linen, with neat red borders. An exceptional towel at this low price. Second Floor Lipman, Wolfe & Co. July Sale of APRONS V For the joy of feeling comfortable, as well as looking smart, one of these attractive aprons will surely solve the problem. Many new, attractive models in these house apron dresses that can be worn in the garden and for outings. NEW PERCALES, $1.69 Plain colors or fancy figured stripes are these new percale aprons. Button-front style, large fancy pockets, full belted. V-neck and kimono sleeves and finished with neat white bias piping. RUFFLED HEMMED APRON, $2.25 An attractive model of plain colored percale, slip-over-head style, with trimming of dainty white ruffle at neck, sleeves and belt. Also another slip-over style, lace front, with trim ming of black and white polka dot. NEW BILLIE BURKES, $2.49 The ever popular Billie Burkes, in two new models. Plain colors or checked percales; one style with large patch .pockets and wide belt, with collar, pockets and belt of white jean; another model with white collar and cuffs, finished with embroidery edgings, has also a full belt of white material. NOVELTY APRONS, $2.93 Two distinctive new models of extra quality materials; one is of imperial suiting, so excellent for its wearing qualities, made in slip over style, with fancy yoke collar laced in front, with fancy pointed pockets and wide belt. This comes in plain pink, green, blue, with trimmings of striped material. Tfiere is also an attractive plaid apron dress of gingham in slipover style, with V-neck, kimono style, wide belt and side pockets. The belt, sleeves and pockets are finished with dainty ruffles. Also other styles equally as attractive. Fourth Floor Lipman. W olfe 6r Co. Second Day Sale of Boys' Wash Suits $1.29, $1.59, $1.98 Many Less Than Cost Notwithstanding a great re sponse, our assortments are yet com plete and offer a wide choice in boys galatea, poplin, pique, linen and Devonshire wash suits. Clever suits in the smartest styles for youngsters 3 to 10 years old. Fourth Floor Lipman, Wolfe & Co. Georgette Crepe $ 1 .65 36 and 40 Inches Wide For your Summer waist or dress this Georg ette crepe will prove a most satisfactory material. It comes in a standard quality of extra weight and in such desirable colors as gray, Alice, paon. delft, navy, midnight, wisteria, taupe and tan. Main Floor Lipman. Wolfe & Co. 2000 Yards Embroidery 15c Fine nainsook, lawn and cambric, blind designs, in floral patterns; also Swiss eyelet work. A great number of designs to select from; 3 to 5 inches wide. Main Floor Lipman, Wolfe & Co. 5 I i i i i "Globe" Union Suits 50c j These famous union suits have disappeared from j the market at thia price. They come in low neck. I sleeveless style, with lace knee. Sizes 4. 5 and 6. Glove Silk Vests $ 1 .89 j Women's glove silk vests, in flesh, lace trimmed. bodice style, with ribbon shoulder straps. Sizes 36 f to 42. These vests are very special and are sure to I attract a great deal of attention. Main Floor Lipman, Wolfe & Co. t Illicit Still Is Suspected. 5IARSHFIELD, Or., July 8. (Spe cial.) A. B. Chapman, who was ar rested in the vicinity of Powers, when a constable found 16 bottles of whisky in his automobile, was held in bonds of $2500 to appear before the next county Grand Jury. It developed at the trial that Chap man had sold liquor to a soldier and reports from Powers indicate the liquor being sold there is manufactured in an illicit still, hidden away about 20 miles east of that city, in the fastness of the mountains. One soldier in this county has been forwarded to the guardhouse at Camp Lewis for a 60-day stay, a punishment lot liciaa iJitoaicaltd, NORSE VESSEL SUNK Eleven Survivors of Augvald Picked Up at Sea. OFFICIAL WARNING ISSUED Fallacy of Von, Capelle's Statement Relative to German Submarine Menace Exposed by V. S. Officials. AN ATLANTIC PORT. July 8. An other neutral ship, the Norwegian steamer Augvald. 2098 tons, bound from a French port for Baltimore, has fallen a victim of a German subma rine. A trans-Atlantic liner, in port today, brought the news of the sinking: in mid-ocean on June 23 and also landed 11 members of the crew of 27 men. Three of the crew were drowned and the remaining 13 are unaccounted for. The rescued men were picked up by the liner after having drifted help lessly for 11 days, subsisting most of that time on seaweed and rainwater wrung from their clothing or caught In their caps. According to members of the crew. who told their story in fragments over the side of the liner when she docked. the sea wolf adopted the same meth ods as used by the U-boats in their operations off the Atlantic coast. Ship Sunk With Bombs. The steamer was stopped by shell fire, the crew ordered into two boats and the ship then sunk with bombs. Captain Egge, of the Augvald. left the ship with 12 men in his boat and it became separated urom tb otiier lifeboat containing 14 of the crew. For two days the latter boat drifted about and was then upset in a storm. Three of the men were swept away and the others managed to right the boat and bail her out. They lost all their food and fresh water and even their oars were gone. There was a succession of rain storms and the men were almost con tinually drenched. Day after day went by and finally on July 4 the rescue ship came over the horizon and the exhausted and starving men were soon safely on the deck of the liner. Warning; of Danger Issued. Simultaneously with the arrival of the submarined crew warnings were sent out today that the hostile U-boats may be encountered between latitudes 35 and 45 North. On July 5 last an enemy submarine was reported In lati tude 42.32 North, longitude 43.50 West. WASHINGTON, July 8. Optimistic statements regarding submarine accom plishments made by Admiral' von Ca pelle, German Minister of Marine, be fore the Reichstag Saturday were de scribed today by naval officials here as typical of the misinformation which is being given the German people. Secretary Daniels remarked that he preferred to take Admiral Sims' view of the situation. "Admiral Sims always is sure of his facts before speaking," Mr. Daniels said. "You have noticed that he makes very few statements." Von Capelle's statement that an av erage of "five big steamers" per day is being destroyed was branded as a gross exaggeration. Taking. 3000 tons as the average per ship, a low figure, this would mean that the German sub marines are accounting for 450,000 tons per month. Expert Gunners Get Extra Pay. CAMP KEARNY, San Diego. Cal., June 2S. An examination for the ap pointment of expert gunners Is to be held in the 143d (California) Field Ar tillery June 10. and many of the men of this regiment are studying all available technical books In prepara tion for it. The appointments carry wit htUem extra pay of 5 a month. WAR COUNCIL NO MORE STAFF CHANGES LEAVE L1TTLK FOR BODY TO DO. Functions of Connril Will Be Vested in Assistant War SecretarieH and Other Officials. WASHINGTON. July S. Secretary Baker today formally abolished the war council and turned over its principal functions to the assistant secretaries of war. General March, chief of staff, and Major-General Goethals, assistant chief of staff in charge of purchases, storage and traffic. The council was composed of the heads of departmental bureaus, the as sistant secretaries and staff officers. It was formed to aid the secretary in dealing with war problems, hut re organization of the staff and various other changes have . left little for it to do. At meetings with the Shipping Board, War Industries Board and other de partments, the War Department will be represented by Secretary Baker, Assist ant Secretary Crowell, Assistant Secre tary Stettinius, General March, chief of staff, and General Goethals. Major-General Frank Mclntyre, chief or tne insular Bureau and formerly cnier military censor, it was learned today, is slated to become principal as sistant to General March, chief of staff. He will succeed Major-General William Graves, now assistant chief of staff. and head of the executive division, gen eral staff. General Mclntyre has been head of tne insular Bureau since 1912, having previously served in the bureau with the rank of Major and Colonel. has been ordered to point of embarka tion to leave for France with a hospital unit. This news was received yester day by Kd T. Judd. of the Oregon build ing, his father. The young man spent his- boyhood at Salem, Or., but was practicing in Arizona at the time of his enlistment. Six Oregon boys are leav ing for ovmm duty with him. Physician Called to Front. Lieutenant William C. Judd, for mer Portland physician, more re cently stationed at the Medical Re serve Corps camp at Fort Riley. Kan., What Is Rheumatism? Why Suffer From It? Sufferers Should Realize That It Is & Blood Infection and Can Be Permanently Relieved. Rheumatism means that the blood has become saturated with uric acid poison. It does not require medical advice to know that good health is absolutely dependent upon pure blood. 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