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78 Pages Section One Pages 1 to 18 Six Sections VOL. XXXIV. XO. 29. PORTLAND, OREGON. SUNDAY MORNING. JULY 18, 1915. PKICi: FIVE CENTS. W T LINER ATTACKED WITHOUT NOTICE Torpedo Misses Orduna by Only Few Feat, SHELLS FIRED BY PURSUER Cunarder Has 22 Americans on Board, Who Give Details on Reaching New York. HELP SLOW IN ARRIVING Scene of Incident Is Within 20 Miles of Graveyard of Ill-Fated Lusitania. NEW YORK, July 17. The Cunard liner Orduna bound from Liverpool to New York with 227 passengers, inr eluding 22 Americans, was attacked without warning, it was learned on her arrival here today, by a German submarine on the morning of July 9. Twenty miles from the graveyard of the Lusitania, off Oldhead of Kin Bale, the Orduna escaped the Lusi tania's fate by half a second of time or 10 feet of space, the German tor pedo churning the water that distance behind the liner's rudder. Then the Orduna sped away. She was followed by the submarine, which rose to the surface, manned a . gun on her deck find shelled the fleeing steamer. Attack Made in Early Morning. The attack was at 10 minutes to 6 o'clock in the morning, when all but a few of her passengers lay sleeping in their berths. Aroused by stewards, the passengers dressed hurriedly and went to the upper deck, where they put on life belts and took their places at the lifeboats. They heard the scream of the shells and saw the ocean spit up columns of water where the shells struck. When the fire grew hot, they were ordered, for their own protection, to the next deck below. For half an hour the Orduna showed her heels to the assailant. Through marine glasses the passengers watched the dark splotch on the water's sur face astern. They saw the low-lying German warship coming on with a bone in her teeth, but the Orduna's flight was faster than the pursuit and after seven shots had been fired with out effect, the submarine gave up the chase. Help Arrives in Four Hours. A wireless call for help was sent out by the Orduna when the torpedo was seen. She was then 37 miles south of Queenstown. The reply, Cap tain Taylor says in his official re port, was that help would be given within an hour. It was four hours be fore the first British vessel, an arm ored yacht, the Jeannette, appeared. Protest will be made to the Amer ican Government by at least one citi zen of the United States and possibly others who were aboard. William C. (Concluded on Faije Column 3. I W.iStV. r , , i-, V tnsrs jtCK - I IT-rr r-a-a II ll WWW I ft 1 1 U. r?Z7,J-- II II x C f nr-.M Vu.e- L f McADOO EXPECTED TO QUIT CABINET SECRETARY ITiARS EMBARRASS MENT OF PATHER-IX-MW. Several Business Offers Are Open and Governorship of 'Reserve Board Is in Pro?pcct. WASHINGTON. July 17. (Special.) It is reported again that Secretary Mc Adon has expressed his intention of leaving the Cabinet. In the coming fight in behalf of President Wilson, his father-in-law. he does not wish the charge made againet him that he is in the fight particularly for his own job. and ho fears it may injure the Presi dent to have a member of his own fam ily in his Cabinet. Several business offers have been made Mr. McAdoo, among which is the presidency of one of the largest bank ing institutions of New York. His pre decessors. Secretary Shaw and Secre tary Gage, took advantage of such op portunities and have become rich. Secretary McAdoo could be the governor-general of the Federal Reserve Board it he would accept. The term of Mr. Hamlin, the present governor, expires the first of the year, and Mr. McAdoo could then be appointed for the long term on the Federal Reserve Board. Mr. Hamlin is expected to make the race in Massachusetts for Governor or for United States Senator if the Ad ministration is' behind him. and Mr. Mc Adoo would be retained at the head of the Federal Reserve Board, which he created. There are two other resignations scheduled for the first of tne year in the Cabinet, and the fight for Wilson durine the next year will be led by new. and reinforced heads of the Ad ministration. MARYE WILL NOT RESIGN Ambassador to Russia Denies Step Ever Was Contemplated. PETEOGRAD, via London. July 17. George T. Marye, Jr., the United States Ambassador to Russia, when apprised today of the report circulated in America regarding his resignation denied that he had ever contemplated such a step. "I have found my duties In Russia most congenial and I am glad to have an opportunity of rendering important service at this' critical time," he said "Nothing is further from my mind than . a desire to abandon my duties. Mrs. Marye will return to Petrograd In the Summer." ACME SOON TO SEE TRAIN Siuslaw Line to Itcacli Most West ern Point in Two Weeks. EUGENE, Or., July 17. (Special.) There will be train service to Acme in two weeks, Willamette-Pacific of ficials announced here today. The ballasting will be completed by August 1 and temporary docks for taking freight and passengers are being con structed. Acme is the most western point on the railroad into the Siuslaw and marks the turn of the Coos Bay line southward along the coast. The es tablishment of service to Acme will tend to develop the coast beach re sorts. CARTRIDGE SENT GOVERNOR Minnesotan's "Stop This War" Box Attributed to Joker. ST. PAUL, July 17. A small paste board box addressed to Governor Ham mond and containing a cartridge, to which was attached a fuse, was re ceived by Secretary Andrlst in the Gov ernor's office .in the capltol today. The box was opened in police head quarters and was found to contain no means of exploding the cartridge. Various trivial articles were also In th box. which was finally regarded as th work of a joker, though outside it bore stickers reading "Stop this war." Governor Hammond Is in Spokane, Wash. WAR'S PHASES, SHRINERS' r JLIllHl I L H II - B,ssc? IMir CRISIS THREATENED Issue May Turn on Ab sence of Warning. R0Y0GATI0N HELD LACKING Vessel Without Munitions or Contraband in Cargo. AMERICANS IN DANGER Washington Expected to Call Facts to Attention of German Govern ment Lusitania Exchanges Further Complicated. WASHINGTON. July 17. Into the grave situation that has developed be tween the United States and Germany over the sinking of the Lusitania was thrust another issue today, when it was revealed that the British steamer Or duna, carrying a rcore of Americans. had been attacked by a German sub marine. Should first reports of an attempt to torpedo without warning be borne out by the official investigation about to be instituted. It was Indicated in of ficial quarters that the United States probably would regard the incident as adding a grave element to the already strained relations between the two countries. tirave I'onaibllltlra Recognized. Lacking information as to the cir cumstances of the attack officials were unable to predict tonight to what ex tern wie urauni case would aggravate tne situation: but they thought the question would certainly compel serious consideration by President Wilson and his Cabinet in formulating the next step in the policy of .the United States toward the activities of German sub marines and the. safey of Americans on tne high seas. Although the Orduna escaped unhurt this in view of officials does not re lieve the case of grave possibilities The fact that a belligerent merchant ship bound for the United States with Americans on board and without arms and ammunition or contraband cargo which has been the reason assigned for the provocation for previous attacks was assailed while her passengers slept convinced many officials that the theory they had entertained of an actual change in the practice of Ger man submarine commanders apparently had been dissipated. Qiacstloa- of Waralwsr Inporlnl, One point on which the entire case, so far as the United States is con cerned, may hinge is whether any at tempt was made to halt the Orduna by the customary warning signals, either by flag, megaphone or shot across the bow of the vessel. As yet the case is not officially be fore the State pepartment. but as soon as some of the American passengers file their statement of what took place the question undoubtedly will be brought immediately to the attention of the German government for a report from its submarine commander on the circumstances of its attack. The captain and officers of the Orduna have said that no warning or signal had been given when the tor pedo was seen streaking through the water. Officials here thought, there fore, that any attempt made by the Orduna to escape was probably Jus tified. Her subsequent actions, they believed, could be upheld in the in terest of self-defense. Americans Still In Dancer. Irrespective of whether or not a sig nal was given to the Orduna to halt or whether the shots fired by the Ger- (Concluded on Psge 6. Column VISIT, LIBERTY BELL AND INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS Tbe Weather. YESTERDAY'P Maximum temperature. o degree; minimum, js des;recs. TODAY'S Funtlay fair, warmer: northerly winds. Orduna. Liner Orduna with - Americans on board attacked without warning br German submarine. ejection 1. pas 1. Washington finds Lajsltanta eschanse com plicated by new Incident. fectloa 1. page J... I War. Baron Rosenkrantz describes attack on and successful fllgbt of Orduna. Section 1. paga i. British m omen hold monster demonstration to demand chance to make war muni tions, hectlon 1. page 6. British court hold l.usltsnla was torpedoed Kith deliberate Intention o( destrolos Uvea. Section 1, page 6. Welsh miner.? refus settlement: Brltsln pre pares to enforce "oo strikes' act. -section 1. pas -! Kronen Minister saa huge ir debts will limit future armameuta. Section S. paga . War I backward tp In evolution says Will Irwin. Section 1. page 1 Russian Regiments have, patron tow ns. Sec. tint 1, page lu. Mexico Villa massing troops for stand at Torreon. cccuun i, page z. National McAdoo expected to resign from Cabinet. Section 1, pae 1. Dotnestlf". Students In camp In sight of Fair study war tactics. Section 1, page Mr. Bourne's press bureau to have revival In one to be opened hy National Pro gressive Republican Union. Section ! pace S. Wheat area of vorul Increased generally, despite war. Section 1. psga It. Mazamaa In camp on Mount Shasta mak ascents daily. Eectlon 1. page a. Sport. San Francisco 4-2 (first ganio lu In- nlngai; Los Angeles 2, Vernon 0; Oak land a. Salt Lake I. Section IS. pag 1 Loss of three stars likely to prove expansive in Far western stakes, section z. page e. White Sox retain American leadership br winning second game of double-header from Boston. Section 2, paga 1. Cube defeat Phillies despite Alexander. Section 2. page 1. Track and field records broken at Central meet. Section page 2. Jack Ness holds bat leadership.' Section 2. Pace 2. Slim Love leads Coast pitchers on new rating system. Section 2, page 2. Portland nlmrods prepare for big ahoot at Tacoma. Tuesday. Section 2, page S. Matty denounces t'mptr Eaten for catling strike a ball. Section 2, paga 3. Maurice Mclaughlin wins wonderful five-set tennis match from Wlulara Johnston. Section 2, page 2. Pacific Northwest. Senator Borah brings rrtela hy stand for lduho primary law. Section 1. paga t, Flying la pastime of Portland druggist, who naa built hlpiane. election l, pag J. Conference advises rhangea In school sye tern. Section 1, page 10. Colonel TE. Hofer describes wonders of trip by automobile to Redding. Cal. Section 1. p-vge 3. Real Issue In Washington patronage fight la future Democratic power. Section 1 pa go 0. Work on Roseburg-Rock Creek railroad to begin by August 10. Section 1. pag S, Moonshiners still In wilds of McKenxle I raided. Two In Jail. Section 1. page Moro experiment station Is success. Sec , tlon L. page . Rains lneflt crops about Baker and dam ag hay la som other districts, eectlon 1. Pfge S. rortlnnei and VleJelty. Laundry convention opens tomorrow. See tlon 1, page 10. Noted Fhrlner bring up vanguard of pro cession. section l. page 1-. Failure to sell apples at auction at Boston coms Northwest growers heavily. Sec tton 1, page 13. Buyers week -expected to bring more th W merchants to city and purchases $1.00u.0VO held likely. Section 1, pa 13. New rchool room device explains workln of solar system at a glance. Section page 11. Wisconsin t'nlverslty "land Is closing a gagement at Th Osks. Section 1. pag Columbia Hltrhway Park Is promised by Forester tjravva. Section 1, paga II. Colonel Ueorge A. Armee. famous soMI- among first to arrlv rrom Kant for con ventlon of Sons of American Revolu tlon. Section I. pas la. Dr. I'laxton shows what could be achieve educational'? for cost of army msln tenance. Section 1, page 10. It. II. Schwarts outlines plan to brln about settlement ami development Oregon and California, grant lands. Sec tlon 1, pag 14. Ohio educators visiting city pralso Portlan and State of Oregon, section I. page Id. First Assistant Postmaster-General. Port land visitor, tells how fresk addresses Impair service. Section 1. pag -4. Senator Tillman describes canal. Section I. page 11. Defense shows that commission on stock ssles was only remuneration received by Cashier officers. Section 1, peg 1. Vernon Community House praised In article . In Country tientleraan. Section 2, pag 1. Work on at three points on Montavllla trunk sewer and Job is quarter Hon. Section 2. pa-(e 14. Art and oratory charm Chautauqua audi ence. Section 1. page lu. Georgians arrive in Portland by auto on ls.uou-mlle tour. Section 2. pag 14. Chamber of Commerce plesaed with G. E. Hardy's acceptance of managership. Sec tion 1. page 4. P. A. Frakes Is host to merry crowd at barn dance and dedication. Section 1. page II. NATIONAL DEFENSE VAR IS BACKWARD STEP 111 EVOLUTION dea Becoming Fixed in Minds of Nations. MILITARY FALLACY REJECTED "Survival of Fittest" Not Rule of Modem Battle. BEST MEN ARE VICTIMS Cannon Has Xo Eyes,' Quotes Will Irwin, Pointing Out That Genius Often Is Killed When Vntler eized Dolt Is Spared. BY WILL IRWIN. (Copyright. 1!15. hy th New York Trib une. Published by arrangement.) NORTHERN FRANCE, June 20. It taltes a long time usually for a new idea to get itself fixed in the minds of the nationa. In the normal count of events the sound and original thinker Is fortunate, very fnrlnnalA it V. m r- n . .. r.- t look forward to Im- t . ' j planting nis idea in k . two or tnree gener- . --iT--v It t'v , Inn TK I 1 " V . "' extremely highbrow introduction to sn rticie about the war. but It must be written. For I am coming to some thing fairly sensa tional and perhaps Will IrM im. a good desl more aignif icant In the long run than the retreats or victories o this or thst srmy. In the brief period between July, 1U. and June. 1911 new Idea, hardly coneidcred before the war. has taken hold of the more civilised nations of Western Kurope. tlnv germ of thought has grown into a full-fledged tree. What only a few advanced scholars knew before, th people of the workshops, the cottage and the farms know now. It Is this: War doesn't ray. ra never ray again, because of its effect on human breeding. It will weake toward the vanishing point any breed of men that ever undertakes it again. Expressed in the language of th schools. It is a bsckward step In evolu tlon. Theory Discredited Before War. I have talked war with British offl cers and British Tommies, with Kng llsh ladle of fashion and with Knglls housewlves. with French Deputies snd French cabmen, with French dress makers and French mondalnea. and I all minds slike I find the same Idea fixed. What la to become of the Frenc race and the British race yes. and th German race if this thing keeps up? All of which wss a new. obscure ai perhaps rather discredited theory be fore the war. It was seldom put for ward as an argument to prove the foil of warfare. Even Norman Angell I his peace classic. "The Great Illusion." devotes only a page or so to this as pect of the subject, and he writes at this point rather hazily and in auch fashion as to show that he has not put his best thought to it- The only man I know of who has stated the Issue squarely Is Chancellor David Starr Jor dan, of Stanford University, and Jor dan has tried In vain. It seems to me. for a large hearing. -Krllaleai ef Valor Rejects Idea. In the year before the war Jordan lectured on his theories among the Ger man universities. A Stanford grad uate who heard him once told me last Winter about his reception. The lec tures did not drsw." The students tonluld on I'ac Column 1.1 FURNISH INSPIRATION CfOWY &UZL- ?JE"C Saturday's War Moves HE British steamer Orduna. only recently put into commission by lie Cunard line, has brought into port he story f an attack ly a Uerman ubmarlne while bound from Liverpool for New York with 227 passengers, In- luding Americana. The captain of he Orduna. in his official report on the Hack, says: "Not the least warning was given, nd nearly all the passengers were asleep at the time. A torpedo missed the liner by only 0 feet and seven shells were fired at cr In a half hour's chase. The attack on the Orduna nas aroused Intensu Interest at Washing- on. where the opinion Is expressed by officials that ihia Incident must receive serious consideration in con nection with the next step which the American Government must take with respect to German submarines and the rights of Americans on tho seas. Continuation of the heavy fighting of the past few days which has tossed he lines of cacU aide to and fro along he battle front In France is indicated n the latest official reports. Paris records the repulse of two Ger man attacks in the Argonne. which has been the scene of many of the recent engagements. It also tells of the break ng up hy artillery fire of an attempt by the Germans to recupture trenches at Ban de i-apt. in the Vosges. which they recently loet. and the breaking up of an assault in the forest of Farroy n Lorraine. It is in the east, however, that oper ations. of the widest magnitude and importance are developing. The Ger man move through Courland is believed by military observers to be directed st Riga, on the Baltic, and seems to be gathering force. The armies which Field Marshal von llindenberg is thought to be commanding also are exerting such pressure southward from the Hast Prussian frontier that the Russians admittedly are drawing back their lines along the Narew. In the Przasnyss region I'etrograd asserts that the Russian troops are doing bet ter than holding their own. Buth the AuHirians and Germans are again active on the fronts in south Po land, near the Russian advance in Ca lkin, the simultaneous advance of all the Teutonic armies being helj to In dicate the beginning of an attempt to encircle the Russian forces. Reports from the Austro-Itall.-tn front Indicate difficult fighting In mountainous territory with no material advances by either side. PEDDLER PAYS BACK LOAN t I.lcenr-e Collector IMert-c I'.tcn Pro oil res Intereft for Ills $5. Several months a a peddler ap peared in the ofTIca of the City Treas urer and applied to IJcense Collector Pierce for a license. He lacked $5 of enough to make payment. When he discovered this he broke down crying and declared that he had raked to gether every cent ho could and that that was all he had. He said he had a wife and several children to sup port. , On the strength of his story Col lector Pierce . lent him the 13 and, having had experiences along the r-amt line, kissed the money good-bye for ever. He was surprised yesterday when the peddler walked into the office and in Addition to putting down the Ji. presented a box of cigars as IntereM. CARE FOR SERBIAN BABIES American Ited Cross AVill KMubll-li Ilot-pital for I-lttle Ones. WASHINGTON. July 17. The Ameri can Red Cross will establish a baby hospital In Serbia. About IC300 already has been contributed. The institution will be known as the Mabel Groultch baby hospital. In recog nition of the Red Cross activities of Madame Slavko Grouitch. wife of the Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs for Serbia, who formerly was Miss Mabel Dunlop. of West Virginia. Swiss Prohibit Gold Kx ports. PARIS. July 17. The Swiss Federal Council has decided to prohibit the ex portation of gold In any form, says a Havas tlispa:cli from Berne. FOR CARTOONIST REYNOLDS. tAfS SALARIES PAID CASHIER OFFICERS Commissions on Saleb Only Remuneration. SELLERS PAY OWN EXFENSES Ex-Auditor Describes Book keeping Methods. MACHINE IS USED IN BANK Allorney lor Oefensc Declares That Special Account" Was Private Memorandum to Check. Sales and Will Ho "explained. An interesting point in favor of two of the defendants in the United Stales Cashier Company trial, Frank Menefee. president, and F. M. LeMonn. sales man ager, was made yesterday when Attor ney Martin J, Pipes brougnt out that the 10 per cent commisloi which was paid to each on stock sales was In lieu of salary. That is. Menefee and IMonn were allowed a 10 per cent commission or. all sales of company stock, but, on the other hand, did not get any salary for their ervlces. This fact will be used by these defendants to show that un der the circuniNtances their commis sions on stock sales were not exorbi tant, as the Government has sought to nhow. lolaat Scored laa t'reaa-Kaaasalaatlon. Mr. Pipes scored his point in his cross-examination of Hiram S. House, expert accountant for the Government Mr. House had testirtcd that commis sions en the sale ot 20 shares of stock for S.100 to t. A. McMahon, of Harney County, totaled 1150. Of this. 10 per cent, or 110 each, went to Menefee and LeMonn. he said, while JO per cent, or SM. went to Oscar A. Campbell, director of the company and one of the defend ants in the trial, who had made the sa les. He a!6 testified that on a sale or :o share to John Marshal, another Har ney County citizen, by Mr. Campbell for the same price, commissions totaled 1J5. of which Mr. Campbell took 50 per cent, Mr. Menefee 10 per cent and Mr. L.vMonn.5 per cent. , Mr. Caaaantkell's Maarc g!Kt.V7. You have testlfled In this and numerous other Instances that Mr. Menefee got a commission of 10 per cent." said Mr. Pipes. "Is it not a fact that the records of the company also show that he did not receive any sal ary 7" Mr. House said this was true. On direct examination. Mr. House testified further In regard t Mr. Campbell's commissions as a stork salesman. He told the Jury, in re sponse to iuestlons by United Stales Attorney Ileamcs. that the books showed Mr. Campbell h.d sold stock for the company for J31.717."i0. not in cluding any transactions In tho pus xling "Frank Menefee Special Ac count." on which subscribers had paid in 110. SSI. 73. Mr. Campbell's commis sions, he said, totaled 93:5.7. He was cross-examined on this tes timony by Attorney Robert F. Ma guire. who was added to the attorneys for the defense a few iasjr ago. Mr. Magulre took a special Interest in the statement that Mr. Campbell had made 30 per cent In commissions on sales in Harney County. 'Mr. Campbell didn't get any salary, did he?" questioned the attorney. "He did not." said the witness. "Po the books show that he rc- rUnled on i'arc lO. olumn l. S7 HAS C?Ua& ory tAci.: SAW That veeos