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82 Pages Section One Pages' 1 to 18 K Six Sections VOL. XXXIV. XO. 23. PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY 3IORNING, JUNE 20, 1915. PRICE FIVE CENTS. v. K ALLIES OF BRITAIN URGEG0NS0R1PTI0N Pressure From Russia Especially Strong. PROPAGANDA GAINING GROUND Failure to Press Fighting in West Held Demoralizing. VOICES HEARD AT HOME Pastoral Letter Advocating Forced Sicnico Kcad.in Churches and Labor Men at Front le- mand Compulsion. LONDON. Juno 19. (Special.) Con ecription propaganda is making great ' headway in Great Britain. Despite the cautious assurances of Premier Asquith and Mr. Lloyd George that compulsion is not contemplated, it is well known In Fleet street that a new factor re cently has been introduced into this, the most serious ol the controversies raised by the war. Britain's allies are pressing her to adopt forthwith a sweeping measure of national military service. The de mand is particularly strong from Rus fcia. Emperor Nicholas and his Minis ters feel that England's failure to bring more men to the firing line on the west during tne period of Russian sensa tional advance in Galicia has proved to be a more demoralizing influence on the general fortunes of wa than Win ston Spencer Churchill's fiasco in the first Dardanelles assault. Pressure Kelt Outside and 1 n. Pressure from her allies, according to Mr. Asquith, led England to change her party Cabinet into a national gov ernment, and the Saturday Review de clares that "just as the Radical Premier gave up his lifelong convictions on coalition ministries at the behest of Paris and Rome, so he is being steadily driven by Petrograd to abandon an other Radical prejudice, the unpatri otic and dangerous theory, that con scription would establish militarism in these islands." Now domestic forces are working in the same direction. In the labor world the conscription yeast is fast leavening the whole lump, except possibly the section led by the Independent Labor party. Socialists Joist In Demand. The British Socialist party, which, like its predecessor, the Social Demo cratic Federation, always has favored universal military training, comes out with a demand that the government heed the notorious fact that hundreds of thousands of members of labor or ganizations now with the colors are strongly in favor of the establishment of compulsion. So rapidly is objection to the princi ple breaking down that a pastoral let ter advocating "national service en forced by law," is being read in the pulpits of all the free churches as well as those of the Church of England. SHOT BRINGS BRITON TO tSlcaiUbliip at First Ignores Neutral ity Guard at New York. NEW YORK, June 19. The British steamer Mottisfont while passing out quarantine late to day did not show lier signal letters. The torpedo-boat destroyer Parker, on neutrality duty at quarantine, ordered the steamer to heave to, but she kept on going. The Parker then fired one blank shot and the steamer stopped. The Navy tug Powhattan went alongside and found the vessel's clearance proper, and allowed her to proceed. V BOY WINS COOKING PRIZE OVER GIRLS GEORGE HARUIXG. 11, EXCELS IX LEXTS COMPETITION". ' Best Individual Display of Bread, Cake and Other Articles Made in School Exhibition. George Harding, 11 years old, won first prise for the best individual, dis play of bread, cake and other cooked articles, offered in the domestic de partment, at the fifth annual exhibi tion held Friday by the Lents School He entered the domestic science de partment along with the girls and took the full course. His display attracted much attention especially the bread and cake. This department was well represented, and it was the wonder of the big crowd that a 11-year-old boy should have ex celled the girls in cooking. Ellen An derson won the first prize for the best exhibit of cake. More than 600 children exhibited ar ticles, and altogether more than 1300 separate articles were shown from ev eryj department, including manual training, sewing, plain and fancy cook ing, painting, art coloring and class work, the big assembly-room looking like a' department store. About 1500 persons visited the school in the after noon. City Assistant Superintendent Grout addressed the Parent-Teacher Associa tion in the afternoon on "Three Stages of Childhood." The association served refreshments during the day and made enough money to pay all debts of the lunch department, incurred for dishes. Mrs'. Otto Katzky retired from the presidency and Mrs. Maude Darnall was installed as president. Principal A. F. Hershner and the teachers were in charge of the exhibition. MOHAWK PRINCESS SAILS White Deer to Become Bride of Rus sian Army Officer. NEW YORK, June 19. (Special.) There was one American among the passengers on the liner St. Paul, which sailed for Liverpool today, whose right to the title could not be questioned. She was Princess White Deer, a Mo hawk Indian maiden from the St. Regis Reservation in this state. She is the daughter of Chief Running Deer and granddaughter of the last of the fight ing chiefs of the Mohawks. The Princess is an exceedingly pretty girl and dresses in the height of fashion, sue was educated aoroao and is on .her way to Liverpool, where she will meet a Russian army officer, to whom she has been betrothed more than a year. They are to be married in England and will then proceed to Petrograd. SWEDEN ORDERS CAUTION Shipmates Mast Train Crews, and Keep Lifeboats Tteady. WASHINGTON, June 19. Special safety measures to be observed by ships navigating Swedish waters have been proclaimed at Stockholm, according to advices today to the State Department Vessels in waters where mines have been placed .or may be floating and where other military measures have been taken must have lifeboats swung out and ready for quick launching. Crews must be drilled at the lifeboats at least twice a month. A maximum fine of 1000 kroner, un less general or maritime laws would impose a more severe penalty, is pro vided for shipmasters failing to take these precautions. Smallest Man in Camp Strongest. LAWRENCEBURG. Ind., June 12. George J. Casey, 23, timekeeper for the Baltimore &. Ohio Southwestern Rail road Co., broke the bones in his right hand but won a wager in a contest of carrying a crosstle. Casey weighs 132 pounds and is the smallest man in the camp, but he was the only workman who could carry the heavy tie on his shoulder a distance of a mile down the tracks. When he was placing the timber on the ground he slipped and fell and it Injured his hand. CARTOONIST REYNOLDS' PICTORIAL REVIEW BERLIN SAYS FALSE FLAG DOOMED 11-29 New Turn Given Nego tions With America. PUBLIC IS DEEPLY IMPRESSED Tanker Using Swedish Em blem Accused of Attack. POSITIVE ASSERTION MADE British Abuse of Xcutral Flags De clared to Make It Impossible to Take Measures to As certain Nationality. BERLIN, June 18, via London, June 19- A statement given out today by the German Admiralty to the effect that the German submarine U-29 had been rammed and sunk by a British tank steamer flying a Swedish flag after the vessel had been ordered to stop is expected to have an. Important bearing on the German-American ne gotiations. German naval officers and the public at large ask how it is possible for German submarines to treat merchant men in the way requested by the United States or to take steps to as certain the nationality of ships dis playing neutral flags in the war tone so long as British captains adhere to the rules laid down by the Admiralty. Announcement Made Positively. The announcement published by the German Admiralty regarding the fate of the U-29 was made In a most posi tive form. If the German Admiralty had conclusive evidence on which to base its statement, it will, in the opin ion of well-informed persons here, make a deeper impression on the pub lic mind than would almost any other possible event. The Overseas News Agency gave out today a summary of the statement of the German Admiralty on the subject and added: "Commenting on this, German news papers say it is proor of the British abuse of neutral flags and that the illegal course followed by ships of commerce compels the commanders of German submarines to consider their own safety first and sink such ships without warning." Concession Declared Impossible. Under the headline of "Weddigen and the American Note," the Kreuz Zeitung, in a leading article today, resumes con sideration of submarine warfare. The newspaper declares that the fate of the U-29, as announced by the German Ad miralty, demonstrates the danger of first investigating and then sinking ships, and raises the assumption that the German successes would have been much greater if this consideration had been discarded. "The incident further shows plainly," the newspaper continues, "what mean ing America's demand has that sub marines should not torpedo even enemy merchantmen without first halting and searching them. It would be a complete surrender of the advantage due to technical superiority of the German submarines, and that is not possible. "We have all due respect for Amer ica's business interests, but we must reserve the right to try to keep Amer ican ammunition from our enemies without scruple and with all the means at our disposal, and to cause every con ceivable damage to Great Britain in the war of destruction which it forced upon us. Weapon Not to Be Abandoned. "Therefore, the American demand to render Ineffective our submarine war against every ship carrying American (Concluded on Page 2, Column l. ' -- - - VTT I II ' ' M Bill 1 I I M I M w m - - - W r W fc- : .-rO-iOrV i ' ' ra n f u l j i s i INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 65 degrees; minimum, t2 degrees. TODAY'S Sunday fair, northwesterly winds. War. German declaration that IT-29 was sunk by British merchantman ttnder Swedish flag may five new turn to American negotia tions. Section 1, page 1. Orders totaling $1,000,000,000 placed with American manufacturers. Section 1, page 3. Allies' hold on GalUpoli precarious. Sec tion l', page -. Austro-Cermans rapidly forcing their way toward Lemberg- Section 1. page 2. Allies pressure hastens day of conscription in Britain. Section 1, page 1. Mexico. Carranza faces Cabinet crisis, with Obregon arrayed against him. 3ction 1, page 1. National. Dreadnought Arizona launched.- Section 1. page 6. Domestic. Helen C. Moller. Greek dancer, says she can't make motions, but body responds naturally to music. Section 1, page o. Portland roses draw denae crowd lo Oregon building at Fair. Section 1, page o. Sports. Pacific Coast League results: Portland 5, Oakland C; 1-os Angeles 1. San Fran cisco 0; Venice 6-7. Salt Lake 0-2. Sec tion 2, page 2. Ty Cobb stilt far In advance In American League batting. Section 2. page o. New York Americans lone one of two games and. halt in winning streak. Section page 2, State golf championship won . by Rudolph Wilhelm. Section 2, page 4. Chester Fee. University of Oregon athlete, to reoresent Multncmah Club at San Francisco nceet. Section 2, page 3. Pacific Indians big gun tourney to be held at Tacoma July 1U, 20. 21 and 22. Sec tion 2, page 0. Fast games &ie due tody between teams of City League. Section 2, page 2. Ness, cf Oaks, leads Coast hitters with .362. Section 2, page 3. Dutch Klawiiter and Slim Love about only Coast pltcbers who show improvement over form of year ago. Section, 2. page 3. Four tie in men's golf handicaps. Sec tion 2, pago 4. Coast League teams may travel by water Instead of rail. Section 2, page 1. Pacific North went. Town of Timber swept by $12,000 fire. Sec tion 1. page 1L Winners of school Industrial prizes taken to Fair as reward. Section 1, page 9. School of Journalism beneficiary of com plete printing plant of old Oregon State Journal. Section 1, page 10. Centralia puts on gay attire to welcome delegates to seven conventions. Section 1, page 9. Trial of Attorney-General, Its results, and other incidents cause Idaho political lead ers much thought. Section 1, page 8. University faculty adopts measures to in crease scholastic standing. Section 1, page 9. Washington Commission rejects $11 wage for waitresses, but puts other workers at J9. Section 1, page 7. Commercial and Marine. Vessels of North Pacific Steamship Company to undergo repairs. . Section 2. page 4$. June cereal exports jump upward, but ship. ments to California lower than usual. Section 2. page 6. Right of Northern Pacific and Great North ern to own steamers to b Issue at hear ina; Tuesday. Section. 2, pajfe . Keal Katate and Building. Realty deals of week numerous, but small. Section 4. page 12. $1,000,000 load and other contracts let.' Sec tion 4. page 12. A torn ob ilea and RoavdW. Seventeen speed kings already announced for Tacoma races July 4-5. Section 4, page Twenty-one autos are racing from Chicago to Seattle. Section 4. page 7. Auto tourists arriving from Tla Juana, Mex ico, bring word roads are in good shape. Section 4, page 8. Tourist Invasion begins now roads are in good condition. Section 4. page 8. Official log of Pacific Highway is issued. Section 4, page 9. Columbia Highway is compared with Alpine roads. Section 4, page 10. Portland and Vicinity. Southern Pacific will extend electrification to CorvalUs as soon as tow n grants franchise. Section 1. page la. Wood doalcrs cut prices -nd prepare to fight city when it enters retail business, fcjec ticr. I. page 10. Head if Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen says railroad directors understand each other. Section 1, page 16. Public Works Department has plan for re moving Jogs in streets. Section 1, page 13. Reunion of alumni and early teachers of Couch School held at building. Section 1. page 14. Treasurer Adams will lose his Job. Section 1. page 14. 203 Oregon ploneers.dle In year ended June 1. Section 1, page 12. Fund for Associated Charities one-third pledged Section 1, page 13. Oregon pioneers will gather in forty-third annual reunion Thursday. Section 1, page 12. Two paving contracts signed and work will start In morning. Section 1, page 11. Federal aid for irrigation projects must wait on Congressional committee inves tigations. Section 1 . page 6. Mrs. Thomas K. Walsh denies she is mar ried to handsome young secretary. Sec tion 1, page 7. Samuel P. Lock wood elected School Direc tor. Section 1. page J. Boy 11 years old wins cooking prize in competition with girls of Lents school. Section 1, page 1. OF THE WEEK'S NEWS CARRANZA FACING NEW DISAFFECTION Crisis in Cabinet Sud denly Precipitated. OBREGON LEADS OPPONENTS First Chief May Take Refuge on American Warship. - MOVE ON CAPITAL HALTS Maytorcna .Threatens Resistance it Americans Attempt Landing at Gtiaymas Incident Closed if Indians Arc Curbed. "WASHINGTON, Juno 19. General Venustiano Carranza, original leader of the Mexican constitutional move ment, is face to face -with a situation that may eliminate him as a factor in Mexican . politics unless he yields to the dictation of his commanding gen eral, Alvaro Obregon, and other higrh officers in- his army. Official advices today revealed that four of Carranza's Cabinet ministers had resigned and that General Obre gon -was insisting on their retention, as well as the dismissal of the mem bers to whom theywere opposed. Maytorena'ai Attitude Threatening;. Word also came to the American Government that General Jose May torena, the Villa commander in So nora, objected today to the possible Landing of American marines to res cue Americans in the Yaqui '"alley, indicating that he would regard some such action as a hostile invasion. Inasmuch as Maytorena promised to send troops to the region to protect foreigners, the American Government, which had decided to land marines only if absolutely necessary, it is un derstood will consider the incident closed with the arrival of the May torena troops. Trouble of l.onic Standing. ' The situation in the Yaqui Valley was overshadowed, however, by the Cabinet crisis at Vera Cruz, where a new angle to the entire Mexican prob lem was created almost overnight. The dissension in the Carranza Cabinet, ac cording to official reports, resulted from a newspaper attack by one of the cabinet members on some of his col leagues, but in many quarters here it was believed the trouble is of long standing and is the culmination ( of differences between Carranza and Obre gon, which began when the latter oc cupied Mexico City several weeks ago. The fact that Obregon had tele graphed Carranza insisting on the re tention of the four cabinet members, Luis Cabrera, Rafael Zubaran, Kscu dero Verdugo and Jesus Uerta, the first two of whom were in Washington for a long: time as representatives of Carranza, was generally viewed as an indication of Obregon's ascendancy to a position of political prestige in the constitutionalist movement. Warships Will Offer Axylum. News coming through official chan nels that Carranza had removed his headquarters to the old isolated fort ress. San Juan de Uloa, in the harbor of Vera Cruz, spread the impression that he feared an uprising against him in Vera Cruz. American warships ly ing in the harbor would give him asy lum should he desire to escape, it was said. The cabinet crisis in Vera Cruz has halted the movement of General' Pablo Gonzales on Mexico City. It is not known what his sympathies are, ' but he always has been personally friendly to Carranza. and !t in believed here he has halted his troops to await devel- (Concluded on. Page Column 1.) REFLECTS LITTLE OF A Saturday's War Moves THE strongly fortified Galician town of Grodek, where it was predicted the Russians would make a stubborn stand, has fallen before the Austro German assault, according to last night's Austrian official statement; the River Tanew, believed to be another strong barrier, has been crossed: Komarno, only a few miles south of Grodek, has been taken and the Austro German forces are within less than a day's march of Lemberg, capital of Galicia. These assertions were forecast in the German official statement from Berlin, which preceded that from Vienna. The Berlin statement asserted that the Grodek positions were being attacked, the Russians to the north retreating as far as the Tanew line. The Austrians subsequently recorded the fall of Grodek and said , that the south bank of the Tanew had been cleared of Russians. Earlier in the day a resume of the Galician situation from Petrograd said that the then existing disposition of the Russian forces in the vicinity of Lemberg meant a crisis and that the holding or losing ,of the line would determine the fate of the Galician capital. The French are keeping up their of fensive in the Arras sector, and the British again have attacked the Ger man positions-around Hooge, gaining a considerable stretch of trenches which, according to the latest advices, they are holding. Of this gain, the German official statement makes no mention: The British Admiralty has announced officially that the German submarine U-29, which was sunk the latter part of March, fell a victim to a British war ship, the name of which is not dis closed. , The presumable reason for this tardy announcement became apparent only when a flood of Berlin editorials, in which it was said that the U-29 was sunk by a merchant ship, reached Lon don. This being accepted in Germany as a fact, it was argued editorially that Germany could not relax one whit her warfare against merchantmen which might ram and destroy sub marines seeking to search them before firing a torpedo. At the time the U-29 was sunk it was rumored in England that she was rammed and cut in two by a battleship or dreadnought. The Italian Ministry of Marine an nounced that Austrian warships at tacked the Northern Italian coast lie' the Austrian border Friday and Satur day, but were driven back by Italian warships. JOHNSON TO ENTER RACE Washington "Member of Congress Will Run for Governor. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington. June 19. Representative John son, according to men who traveled with him recently In Hawaii, contem plates anouncing his candidacy for the Republican nomination for Governor of Washington and will oppose ex-Representative Falconer, who already has declared his intention of seeking the nomination at the hands of the Re publicans. Mr. Falconer remained in the East for some time after Congress adjourned and let it be known that he would re turn to the Republican party. He has not yet made public announcement to this effect, however. Representative Johnson will make his campaign as a straight-out Republican. JOHN BURROUGHS IS ILL Case of Overworked Naturalist Diag nosed as Autoloxcmia. KINGSTON. N. Y.. June 19. (Spe cial.) John Burroughs, the naturalist, has been, ill for several days at his honte in West Park. He is suffering from autotoxemia, which resulted in a weakness of the heart. His condition today was considerably improved and no serious consequences are expected to follow. Mr. Burroughs is 78 years old. In the Spring and early Summer he worked unusually hard. His literary labors have been interspersed by long tramps, and he enjoyed his usual good health until a few days ago. PEACEABLE TENOR. IS ELECTED DIRECTOR Dr.SommerLosesPIace On School Board. DEFEAT IN RATIO OF 5 TO 2 All but 2 of 45 Precincts Give Victor Big Majority. LOSER GETS 2 DISTRICTS Atkinson and Failing Show Returns Favoring Member of Board, but Only by Scantiest of Margins. Samuel P. Lock wood was elected School Director, District No. 1. for five years yesterday over Dr. Ernst A. Som mer by a vote approximately five to two. Of a total of 7332 votes cast, Mr. Lockwood received 6284 and Dr. Som mer 2048, giving Mr. Lockwood a ma jority of 3236. The size of Mr. Lockwood's vote was a surprise. He carried all but two of the 45 precincts by a decisive majority in each case. He swept precinct 12. Ainsworth School, which is Dr. Som mer's own precinct, by a vote of 146 to 21. He also carried his own pre cinct. Irvington, by a vote of 2T3 to 210. Dr. Sommer, on the other hand, car ried but two precincts and these by the scantiest of margins. He led Mr. Lockwood in Precinct 4. Atkinson School, by one vote, the final count being 16 to 15. and in Precinct 13, Falling School, he received 66 votes to 61 for his successful opponent. Total Vote I cum Than Last Year. The total vote cast was only a little behind that at last year's school elec tion, when 7793 votes were polled. Despite the fact that the polls were open from 12 noon to 8 P. M. yester day, twice the time that they were at former school elections 'under the old law, the requirements that one must vote in his own. precinct, must be reg istered unless he can show he is en titled to vote, and must, have his name on the tax rolls, undoubtedly operated to reduce the size of the vote. Mr. Locltwood. who is vice-president of the Columbia Title & Trust Company, said last night when advised of hi3 election: "I greatly appreciate the confidence and high honor that have been be stowed upon me. "Hirmoiij" la Watchword. "I hope we can all work together in harmony on the School Board for the continued improvement of our schools, along the lines of better education for our children. "I hope we can inject harmony into the school system so that we will all work with each other and get the best results. "I have no revolutionary ideas at all in school work; to my mind it is simply a case of getting out and wprking to gether for the good of the system." City Divided In 45 Precincts. The city was divided into 45 -school precincts for voting purposes, groups of regular election precincts being combined as to their polling places, which were, with three exceptions, es tablished in schoolhouses. Showers that rell yesterday kept many from the polls, and lack of in terest on the part of thousands of men and women eligible to vote was mani fest. Yesterday's was the first school election under the new law, which pre scribes that only property owners whose names are on the tax rolls may vote. 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