The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current, November 22, 1914, Section One, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Text78 Pages Section One Pases 1 to 18 Six Sections VOL. XXXIII-XO. 47. PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 23, 1914. PRICE FIVE CENTS. HEIGHTS OF ORES TAKEN BY FRENCH Important Position Oc cupied Near Verdun. TWO BATTERIES' SILENCED Freezing Weather Sets In Throughout Battle Zone. MERCURY IS DOWN TO 25 Snow Falling, Especially In ' North ern .France, in Vosges Mountains and at Marseilles Soldiers Are Warmly. Clad. . 'WASHINGTON. Nov. 21 French forces bave captured the Important heights at Ornes near Verdun and si lenced two German batteries, according' to official press dispatches todayto the French embassy. The Foreign Office, which duplicated today's War Office Information, gave the following supplementary facts: "At Ornes, near Verdun, we have cap tured important heights and silenced two of the enemy's batteries. Nra Trenches Established. "In the Argonne we have obtained Similar successful results, having seized a blockhouse and established a new line of trenches," PARIS, Nov. 21. Freezing weather has set In throughout the length of the battle zone In France and Belgium, the temperature today varying between 25 'and 28 degrees above zero. Fahrenheit. Snow Falling la mountains. Snow is falling, especially In North ern France, and In the Vosges Moun tains and also at Marseilles. The French soldier wears a woolen band provided by the government, which he wraps four or five times around his body. He also often wears ' four or five shirts, adding an extra one from time to time, as the temperature falls. A new crop of stories has arisen that the Germans are sending heavy guns and submarines by rail to Belgium, des tined for the coast, while other reports declare that long trains, capable, all told, of moving 200,000 men, are being prepared to take German reinforce ments to the eastern front. ALLIES ARTILLERY ACTIVE German Report Telia of Heavy Fire on Practically Entire Front. BERLIN. Nov. 21 (By Wireless to London.) An official communication given out by the German general army headquarters today says: "On the whole there is no change In the western war theater. The enemy Is showing great activity with his ar tillery along practically the entire front." The correspondent of the Zeltung am Mlttag visited Dixmude while that town still was under heavy bombardment. The sky was literally covered with moke rings from sharpnel. he wrote. The enemy was commencing to waver under the steady succession of assaults. Fighting is often at such close range that hand grenades are employed most effectively. The presence of the latest French and English newspapers in the trenches, says the correspondent, shows that the allies' soldiers are being kept Informed. GERMAN ATTACKS REPULSED French Report Says Artillery Held Enemy In Woevre Region. PARIS, Nov. 21. The following com munication was issued by the war of fice tonight: "The day has been quiet. There Is (Concluded on Page 4.) I . WARTIME TOPICS IN THE WEEK'S NEWS AGAIN SPEED THE PEN OF CARTOONIST REYNOLDS. I nosm , y j-jyr? cus oxvm r?or? s Qosrtrssv- '? V 'S ? ? I SGvs oat tjv- yyvs ss ssj?j.?vs &y 7yjr iaa? Got? -rzesrsv g eras r syo las ...... ; r .. ' : -. ' , . , - : . " ; t ' ' ' j . . . ..... a BULLETINS LONDON", Nov. The following Auatrfan official statement griven out In Vienna has been forwarded to Ren ter's Telegram Company by way of Amsterdam i "Our attack on the Rus sian main forces continues alona toe entire front. In the battle northeast of Czenstochown two Russian battalions have surrendered." LONDON, Nov. gf. The Cape Town correspondent of the Renter Teleirram Company saya that two sons of Gen eral Christian de Wet, the rebel leader, have surrendered to a magistrate in Capo Town. BERLIN, vl wireless to Snyvtlle, L. I Nov. 21c Reports received here from Copenhn French covers Greek governn able to pay 494,000.000) on set forth that ' the iment has informed - the oent that France will be only 20,000,000 franca i the second Installment lonn of 250,000,000 francs isued In Paris " last year. of the Grecian 1 850,000,000) I BERLIN, by wireless ' to Sayvllle. I I., Nov. 1. Included In the infor mation given out In official quarters, to the press . today is the followlngi "Netherlands newspapers have expressed their appreciation at the efforts of the German authorities to restore normal condltiona In Belgian towns." OTTAWA, Ont Nov. 21 Danish and Swedish army reservists living In Ot tawa called at newspaper offices today and said that they had received orders to report for duty at the earliest pos sible moment. The orders reached them by mall today. LONDON, Nov. 21. Prince August William, Emperor William's fourth son, sustained a fracture on the thlsh and severe contusions of the Jaw as a re sult of motoring accident while making a military tonr, says a Renter's Amsterdam dispatch from Berlin. AMSTERDAM, via London, Nov. 21. Two aeroplanes, thought to be French, made an -attack on the Zeppelin dock and sheds of Lake Constance, according to a Friedrichsholf paper. The aero planes dropped six bombs, none of which .did any damage. One aeroplane was shot down the other escaped. VALUABLE LIVES SPARED Tslng-Tau Surrendered for Sake of Men Versed In Oriental Trade. TOKIO. Japan, Nov. 21. (Special.) It is said here that the true reason for the surrender of Tslng-Tau by the Germans was to spare the lives of a large -number of men in the garrison conversant with trade methods in the Far East. It has taken more than 20 years to give them the requisite training. This Is looked on as proof that Germany still hopes to retain Its vast trade In Asia. BABE DIES IN COLUMBIA Boy, 13 Months Old, Falls From Houseboat as Mother Rests. ST. HELENS. Or.. Nov. 21. (Special.) The 13-months-old baby boy of Clar ence McConkey was drowned in the Columbia River here yesterday. The parents live in a houseboat. While the mother was resting, the baby" pushed aside the board across the gate and fell into the water. The body was found after two hours. QUAKE LASTS 2 MINUTES Shock Is Felt at Several Points In Santa Clara Valley. SAN JOSE, Cal., Nov. 21. A light earthquake was felt at several points In the Santa Clara Valley today. . A shock was registered on all com ponents of the seismograph beginning at 8:24:08 and ending at 8:26. and the wave moved from southeast to north west. Kansas Has Record Wheat Crop. TOPEKA, Kan., Nov. 21. The Kan sas wheat crop of 1914 amounted to 180,924,885 bushels, with a value esti mated at $151,583,032, according to the annual wheat crop report of the Kan sas Board of Agriculture Issued today. This is nearly double the value of the state's next most valuable wheat crop, that of 1900. TURKEY EXPLAINS FIRING ON LAUNCH Shot Meant as Warn ing of Mines. VOLUNTARY ACTION TAKEN Wilson and Cabinet Regard Situation as Satisfactory. GUARANTEE IS EXPECTEDT Governor-General of Smyrna Said to Have Offered to Take Amer- t lean Officer Overland in Ills Automobile. WASHINGTON. Nov. 21. Turkey has voluntarily explained to the United Slates Government through Ambassa dor Morgenthau that the shots flred to ward the launch of the American cruiser Tennessee last Monday were in tended merely as the customary warn ing that the port of Symrna was mined and closed to navigation. Although the explanation was Infor mal and the United States Government still Is awaiting a reply to formal rep resentations which Ambassador v Mor genthau was instructed to make to the Turkish Foreign Office, it was gener ally admitted at the White House. State and Navy departments that all danger of serious complications over the inci dent had been removed. Ministers Make Statement. Ambassador Morgenthau reported that, two members of the Ottoman cab. lnet, the Ministers of Interior and War, had fully explained the occur rence to him and high officials here said his message was filed before the Instructions -sent from Washington to discuss the subject officially with the Grand Vizier could have been re ceived by Mr. Morgenthau. President WilsonJand his Cabinet re gard the informal explanation as a cer tain precursor of a satisfactory formal explanation and that guarantees for the protection of Americans and their Interests will also be forthcoming from the Turkish government. 1 Dispatch Is Summarised The following summary of the dis patch received late today from Ambas sador Morgenthau at Constantinople was given out at the White House to night: "Dispatches concerning the Smyrna incident have Just been received from Ambassador Morgenthau, which were sent before he had received any com munication from the State Department. He Informs the Government that on tne evening of the day on which the inci dent occurred (on. Monday last), the Ottoman Minister of the Interior In formed him that the commander of the Tennessee had attempted to visit Smyrna in his steam launch, passing through the mined zone, contrary to the Turkish government's regulations, and that the boat had been stopped by warning shots fired toward her. Overland Escort Offered. "He added that the Governor-General after the 'incident had offered to take the officer overland .in his auto mobile. The Minister of War later communicated with the Ambassador, fully informing him of the incident and that the Tennessee, which was then at Vourla, some distance from the harbor of Smyrna, had been withdrawn. . "The Embassy had some time ago been officially informed tha. the Port of Smyrna was closed alike to warships and merchant vessels. The Ambassa dor, therefore, requested Captain Decker to withdraw, and he, of course. (Concluded on Page 4.) INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS - The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 60 degrees; minimum, 30 degrees. TODAY'S Rain; southeasterly wind. War. - Turkey makes voluntary explanation of fir ing on American Launch. Section 1. page 1. Antl-apy epidemic sweeps over. England as result-of Lody cast. Section 1. page 1. Germans permit peace suggestions to pass censor and reach Holland. Section 1. page 5. Carl Hans Lody. whom British executed as spy. Is praised for bravery. Section i. page 4. Babel of tongues Is heard In Dunkirk. France, section 1. nage S.. Germans striklns at Russian front In effort to penetrate to . Warsaw. . Section . Put 4. North of England and Ireland alow to rally to colors. Section 1, page 6. Loss of British dreadnought Audacious due to German submarine. Section 1. page 2. Spy suspect, Bridgman H. Taylor, of El Paso, Tex., Is on trial In Loudon. Sec tion 1, page 4. Heights.of Ornes taken b.y French. Section 1. page 1. Mexico. Carranza to evacuate Mexico City today: Americans to leave Vera Cruz tomorrow. Section , page-L Domestic. Apple Day popular In New. York and mar ket prosDecta are bright. Section 1. page 6. Eleven men to be' hanged December 19 In Arizona. Section 1. page 6. - Pacific Northwest. Lake County adds $10,000 unit to Pscifle highway. Section 1. page 8. Washington assured of safe and-sane laws and economy In appropriations, section 1, page 10. Opening address of new University depart ment assails modern architectural study. Section 2, page 16. War veterans hold great meeting at Van couver, Wash. Section 1. page 10. Special commonwealth conference called for December 10, at Eugene. - Section 1. page 10. Search reveals no clew to assassin of Otto Ludke, Clarke County farmer. Section 2, Page iq. Taxation ratios for publlo utility compa nies higher this year. Section 1, page 8. Sport. Oregon clays O. A. C. to 3-to-S tie, making fourth such game In history of two schools. Section 2. page 1. Abraham first man Injured in Oregon-O. A. C. battle revealed by detailed play. Sec tion 2. page 1. Crimson gridiron Juggernaut crushes strug . gllng Yale team. Section 2, page 2. Hunt Club now has 13 entries for annual Thanksgiving run Section 2, page 5. Basketball enthusiasts to plan league and Fair trio at Multnomah meeting. Seo tlon 2. Dago 5. Noted scout for Phillies picks Coast League's best. Section 2. page 4. Geese by thousand about Arlington, says hunter. Section 2. page 4. First games of newly formed Junior foot ball league begin today. Section 2, page 3. Number of "last fights" in California make fans tired. Section 2, page 3. Official averages of Coaat League given out. Section 2. page 4. Northwestern League meeting near, and hard work ahead. Section 2, page S. Washington State College to make Doble men fight hard. Section 2, page 8. Interscholostlc all-star team selected by Earl H. Goodwin. Section 2, page 8. Commercial and Marine. Half -million-dollar grain trade at Merchants Exchange in past week. Section 2, page to. Wheat closes lower at Chicago," owing to bet ter weather In Argentina. Section 2, page 15. Demand for securities Is steadily Increasing. Section 2, page IS. , Master of Daisy Freeman loses license for M0 days because of accident. Section 2. page 6. , Canal trip of six weeks duration outlined for Oregon tars to see big fair. Section X page 0. Means of charting reefs art lacking, says Secretary Redfleld. Section 2, page a. Portland ana Vicinity. Robert' L. Brock, formerly of Kansas, ad dresses Civic League on dry laws needed. Section 1, page 17. First collection of war tax due December 1. Section 1, page Is. Cost of city government shown to be In creased under commission form. Section 1, page 18. Paintings by " Portland artist on view at Museum of Art. Section 4, page 3. Portland statistics show few pupils com plete primary grades and enter high 1 school. Section 1. page 15. ' Letter from Beirut says many may starve In Syria and Turkey this Winter. Sec tion 1, page 17. O. A. C. bulletin on school and house gard ening la based on success ot plan In Portland. Section 1, page 17. Forestry Servlce'a efficiency an own by com parison of 1810 and 1814 seasons. Section 1, page 12. School Board Is divided as to amount ot reauired school tax to recommend. Sec tion 1. page- 8. Opening of new Orpheum halted over boy cott; shows to be presented at Helllg today and tomorrow. Section 1, page 10. Progressive Business Men's Club to cele brate next Tuesday night. Section 1, page 10. Sheriff-elect Hurlburt invites recount of votes. Section 1, page 14. Plana for public meeting bring relief of Belgians one step nearer. Section 1, v page 14. Portland churches unite In services on Thanksgiving day. Section 1. page 16. Weather report, data and forecast. Section 2, page . AflTI-SPY EPIOEiC SWEEPS ENGLAND American Passport Is Found Useless LODY'S CASE CAUSES BREACH Officers Now Make Life Un easy for Foreigners. POLICE VCALL AT MIDNIGHT Mrs. Reginald Wright Kantfman Warns American Citizens of Ger manic Extraction to Keep Away From British Isles. BY RUTH KATJFFMAN (MRS. REGINALD WRIGHT KAUFFMAN.) Special Correspondence of The Oregonlan. CLOUGHTON - UNDER - SCARBOR OUGH. England, Nov. 4. An American passport ia useless in England, and American citizens, with whatever credentials;- had better keep off Albion's shores until the end of the war. If they happen to have surnames of Ger manic origin they had better keep off foreverj For England is In the severe throes of an anti-spy eplde: -lc, and the symptoms are dangerous. Epidemic Waxing Some Time. It has been waxing for some tlms. this epidemic, and it has been rendered acute by the case of Ca.-I Lody, who was convicted as a spy before the first courtmartial held in London for more than 100""" years. Lody seems to have admitted his guilt and to have been a brave man; but the effects of his ad mission are such that there is not one of the hundreds of American reside! . in England who does not wish, how ever ardent one's feelings may be on behalf o? the allies, that Lody had held his peace and been acquitted. That is because Lody's case has made every American a suspect. Lody spoke English with an Amer ican aoecnt hence all that speak Eng ish with an American accent are tracked by detectives: Lody; had an American passport hence an American passport is likely to become the best sort of ticket for a front seat in an English Jail. Soldiers With. "Nerves' Left. The truth Is that, on these dark nights. If you go up to one of the boy soldiers tht are guarding the English coast and whisper, "Spy!" that soldier probably will shoot his cwn head off In his terror. Needing her best men at the front, where they are doing such excellent service. England has left her coast to be guarded by raw lads and officered by men with the sort of nerves popularly attributed to femi ninity. There Is not an American over here who Is not heart and soul with the allies. We have helped with money, with hospitals and nurses, with beds for wounded, with written and spoken word. We propose to go on helping. Sut there Is no blinking the fact that everyone of us Is now looked at as kance and that a great many of us are shadowed by secret service men. Out of a host of cases I take that nearest home: I take that of my husband, Reg inald Wright Kauffman. Cantion Ia Annoying. With him, England's caution in re gard to alien residents would have been funny if it were not annoying. He Is a native ' American, his family having resided in the United States for some 200 years. As a novelist, be Is not unknown, either, in America or the United Kingdom. Having passed every Summer in this country for the past four years, he has many friends in it, and he, of course, possesses a (Concluded on Page 7. ) Saturday's War Moves THE extreme cold weather and the exhaustioln of the troops engaged have virtually brought the battle in Flanders and France to a standstill. A desultory artillery duel continues at some points along the wide front, and there has been an occasional Infantry attack, but for the last three days the fighting has been mild compared with the fierceness of that which for more than a month preceded it. , The Germans, It is evident, have sent their best troops to the eastern front, and even in big guns the alliej appear to have the advantage over them. There are no signs, however, of an offensive on a large scale on the part of the allies, who doubtless are as badly, in need of rest as their opponents. In fact, it is said that the officers and men who have borne the brunt of the fight ing in the trenches are receiving a short leave. This, together with the cancellation of the order for the removal of ship Ping from Dunkirk. Is taken to Indicate that the allies consider their positions safe for the present, and that they do not contemplate any immediate attempt at a forward movement. For this rea son and because the result will have a most important bearing on the war, in terest Is still centered on the battles in Poland. As has been the case heretofore, when important events were impending, lit tle news is coming from either Berlin or Petrograd as to the operations. It is known, however, that the Germans are offering stubborn resistance to the Rus sian advance In East Prussia. General Von Htndenburg, commander of the German troops, and Grand Duke Nicho las, commander-in-chief of the Rus sians, two of the greatest strategists the war has produced, are maneuvering for positions between the Vistula and the Warta, and a big. battle is in prog ress on the Cracow-Czenstochowa line between Russian and Austro-German forces. An unofficial dispatch coming through Rome says that the Russians repulsed two attacks before Cracow, but beyond the Russian official statement that the Russians have had partial success northwest of Lodz, there is nothing to Indicate how the campaign is going. In Socialist headquarters ia Copen hagen, which are In touch with the Socalllsts of Berlin. It "is said that 7,000,000 men are engaged In the battles on the Russo-German frontiers; 3,000, 000 on the Austro-German side and 4,000,000 Russians. The Servian retirement from Vnljevo Is described from Nish as a strategic movement, but the loss of -guns and prisoners Is admitted. DE WET'S SONS SURRENDER Other Officers of Sontb African Rebel Also Give Themselves Up. LONDON, Nov. 22. The Cape Town correspondent of the Reuter Telegram Company says that two sons of Gen eral Christian De Wet, the rebel leader, have surrendered to a magistrate in Cape Town. Several of General De Wet's chief of ficers, together with most of his sup porters to the west of the railway line, surrendered at the same time. EIGHT LIVES LOST IN FIRE More Than Score Injured When They Jump to Escape Flames. NEW YORK. Nov. 22. At least eight persons were killed and more than a score Injured in two fires In tenement buildings on the West and East Sides early this morning. Flames trapped the tenants in their rooms and many escaped death by leaping from roof or window sills. DUMA MEMBERS IN PLOT Arrests Made on Discovery of Revo lutionary Plan in Russia. PETROGRAD (via London). Nov. 22. It Is seml-off icially announced that the police have discovered a new revo lutionary plot in which several mem bers of the Duma are inculpated. Several arrests have been made. MEXICO CITYTO BE EVACUATED TODAY Carranza Forces Move Toward Orizaba STRATEGIC MOYE SUSPECTED American Plan to Withdraw From Vera Cruz Unchanged. FUNSTON HAS DISCRETION Port to Bo Surrendered Tomorrow to Whichever Faction Has Con trol of Surrounding Region. . Recognition Not Involved. MEXICO CITY, Nov. 23. General Lurlo Blanco assumed supreme com maad of the capital at It o'clock; last night. He placed patrols about the city -and occupied the police stations. Gen eral Blanco appointed Colonel Miguel Rodrlgues Governor ef the federal dis trict, and Gnlllermo de Ln Plna direc tor of the penitentiary. Later General Blanco sent SOO men to the penitentiary to prevent the opposi tion from executing political prisoners incarcerated there. The city la abso- " Intely quiet nnd in full possession of General Blanco. ' ' WASHINGTON. Nov. 21. Evacuation of Mexico City by Carranza troops will be completed tomorrow noon, ac cording to official dispatches today to the State Department. Generals Blanco and Obregon. m command there, have assured the Brazilian Minister and John Sllllman, representing President Wilson, that a small force will be left to preserve order. ' The Carranza forces are moving east ward to Orizaba Carranza's temporary capital. Just what their plans are with respect to Mexico City has not been revealed. Villa Holds ttueretaro. General Villa has advanced to Quere taro, which he occupied without, re- elstance. This fact has given rise to the impression in official quarters that hfr entrance into Mexico City also will be unresisted. It Is believed possible, however, that the withdrawal of the Carranza forces is a strategic maneuver and that General Obregon will endeavor to cut Villa's communications with the northern states, while the forces under General Jesus Carranza and other gen erals loyal to the first chief attempt to strike his columns with Orizaba as a base. Wire communication between Mexico City and Vera Cruz is uncertain, and. officials would not be surprised if they lost telegraphic communication with American Consul Silllman when tomor row's -evacuation of the Mexican cap ital is completed. Vera Crus Plana Unchanged. Officials at the State and War De partments declared tonight there was no change in the announced plan of evacuation of Vera Cruz by the Amer ican forces next Monday. It was said officially that the question of, which faction or force would receive posses sion of Vera Cruz had been left to Gen-., eral Funston for determination. It Is understood he will deliver the city to whichever' force is in de facto control of the immediate vicinity of the port. No. question of recognition, it was said, was Involved. . The State Department received today from the British vice-consul in charge of American interests at Ensenada. Lower California, copies of decrees is sued by Baltazar Aviles. Villa's ap pointee as Governor of the state, re quiring all property-owners to make new registry of their lands in connec tion with a new census of real prop cConcluded on Page 2.)