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Section One Pages 1 to 16 72 Pages Six Sections mm VOI. XXXIV. NO. 3 . i mnws.. . 1 OREGON GUN CREWS SET COAST RECORD National Trophy Won, Belief on Albany. 35 OF 40 SHELLS HIT MARK Lead is Wrested From Wash ington by Wide Margin. SCORE BEATS REGULARS' Work in Contrast to Thai of Last Tear and 3Icn Handle Weapon With Snap and Precision Gained In Practice. TORT ANGELES. Wash.. Aug. 7. (Special.) Aboard Cnltid Ftates ilumtr Albany, off Port Angel. Wash.. Ao. 7. (Special.) Driving 11 oat of 4 five-Inch 5-cliber shell through target that loomed up In the distance no bigger than ordinary calling eards. the Oregon Naval Mllltla today broke all Pacific Coast records for gunnery. With a hit percentage of ITH. It I believed aboard ship tonight that the National trophy for marksmanship, riven by the Navy Department, has bean ecurd. This la competed for by alt the Naval Militia in the United States. Cp to this morning the Washington Naval Mllltla held the supremacy In gunnery by several points over Cali fornia, but the Oregon gunner scored two hits to every one recorded by the recent winners. Score Better Taaa flegmlar. Naval officers aboard say th show in is somewhat higher than ordi narily made by gun crews of the Reg ular Navy. The average percentage of bits of expert gun crews runs little more than SO. they say. The Oregon showing this year is In striking contrast with the target prac tice of last year when the Oregon MUltta failed to score a single bit. The crews manned the big guns with a snap and precision that had been de veloped first on the cruiser Boston, at Portland, and later through 19 days of almost constsnt drill while the mllltla has been on Its cruise to Ean Francisco and to this port. The gunners drove shot after shot homa In record time. One crew scored. four consecutive hits la 39 seconds. Flrlag Signal gewaded. The firing waa on a range laid out yesterday about IS miles cast of Port Anceles. Four diminutive targets ap proximately ona mile away appeared an impossible target as the Albany tmmd throuah her course at alz knots an hour. When the ship hoisted bar battle flags and blew her firing signal, the gun crews, stripped for ac tion. ero on tiptoe. When the order came to load, every roan in the crew shooting did his part In getting the big gun loaded and aimed properly. Pow der charges weighing 20 posnds wers rammed home to propel the SO-pound nrolectllea. Ranges were found by Lieutenant-Commander Blair. Aa shot after ahot tore through the little targets excitement grew on the Albany. Barring hard luck It waa Been that a record waa in sight and this bard luck failed to materialise. It was a Jubilant crew of militiamen and training officers that steamed back to anchorage off Port Angeles at the conclusion of the shoot. Congral ulatlons were showered upon Lieuten ant-Commander Blair and his officers br officers cf the Navy who witnessed th exhibition. Aside from the .efforts to get the National trophy for gunnery, Concluded on Page . Column Z) j I " " aVas t ti t t -"r . MM. . M, itllllinr V assss """M. iillitH'"" . :l ; . - i " ' ... i : , I I . - 1 -. a ,.. A I GREECE WILL NOT CEDE TERRITORY ALLJES rXABLE TO MEET RE QUIREMENTS OF BULGARIA. Premier Announces Unbending Atti tude In Response to Request of Macedonian Deputies. LONDON. Aug. 7. "Oreec will not cede one inch of territory to Bulgaria." ,. the substance of a reply maoe oy Premier Oounarls to a delegation of Macedonian deputlea who asked a state ment relative to th purpose of the government, says a- Reuter dispatch from Athena. Trv the negotiations which have been oonrfuctad bv th alliea of the Quad ruple entente with Bulgaria In an effort to induce her to enter me war wu .k.i- .ih .he has Insistently demanded that the part of Macedonia which was awarded to Serbia at we ciose i n.ikin Win be ceded to her. She also has sought to obtain at least a por- tioo of Macedonia territory wnicn w under th Greek flag in the aame way. Macedonia waa a . Turkish province until the close of the Balkan War. The region embrace a medley of peoples. the chief elements being oini, Osmanlla and Greeks. Th Slav ar Bulgarians and Serbs. The statement attributed to M. Gounarts Is significant in lw of th r.. ih.i th British. French. Russian and Italian Minister at Athena called on him Wednesday and made unitea representation regarding the political situation. Their purpose was to gain th assistance of Greece. Similar representation were made yesterday by the representative of th same nations at Nlsn to the Serbian Premier. COTTON CROP $749,384,978 South Disagrees lo How Much War Has Decreased Value. mv.xr ORLEANS. Aug. 7. In a final report today on the cotton crop of .ftu.it SM.t.rr Hester, of th New Orlean Cotton Exchange, shows that, while 17.04,000 bales were grown, the commercial crop waa only is.ivs.m bales. Th crop's value, including seed. was $I4.U.7. against si.iji.m.m for the preceding crop. How much or tn arcrema was due to the war and how much to f h. record oroductlon la a matter of considerable difference of opinion. Middling grade averaged 7.94 cent a pound, against lf c,Dt during th preceding year. i STING TAKEN FROM X-RAY Electrician Demonstrate H armlets Quality of His Discovery. vkw TORK. Auk. 7. Physicians r. of the leading hospitals of thla city discussed with interest to day th discovery or what was ae scrlbed as a harmless X-ray. . Fourteen nii.tiriini had seen yesterday a de monstration of the new ray by Charles Stanley, an electrician, who says ne nas discovered th ray and who assert ih.i it eliminate th danger hereto fore said to surround th application of th X-rsy. Mr. Stanley held a bulb with th ray burning In hi band for an hour to show the physician tnat it produced no harmful effect. NEED OF OFFICERS SEEN Speaker Clark Would Double En rollment at War Academies. ST. LOUIS. Aug. 7. Speaker Clark . a km todav that ha would Introduc In th next Congres a bill doubling th enrollment at v Point Military Academy and at the Annapolis Naval Academy. The bill also will provide Government aid for schools throughout th country that have military departments. "Th country can get all th volun teer it wants In 4 hour." aald th Speaker. "The great need I for offi cers to train them." CARTOONIST REYNOLDS PICTURES HIS . nwrnnv STIXTIAY MORNING. AUGUST 8, 1915. FURIOUS AUTO RACE IS FATAL TO TWO V Joe Cooper Is Killed Outright in Crash. CAR SAILS OYER HOWL'S EDGE Morris S. Stubbs Dies at Hos pital From Second Fall. RALPH DE PALMA WINNER Billy Chandler, Whose 'Mechanician Meets Death, Also In Critical Con dition Accidents Arc Just Be fore) Crowded Grandstand. ties vniXES. la Aug. 7. Two killed and two injured, one probably fatally. i.v tk initial 300-mile automobile derby on the new mile speedway here . . . . VIA this afternoon, in wnicn Palms was declared the winner, Ralph Mulford second and Eddt O'Donnell third. i -.-.,... w. kiiiMl durlrur the 28th lap of the race when hi car literally sailed over the outer edge or tne ooi. as he was nearlng the crowded grand stand, and landed outside, with Cooper and his mechanician. Loul Pelo. pinned underneath the wreckage. Aceldeat Near Saase spot. Th aocotul accident came near the close of th race, when. In the ISSth Up. Billy Chandler- car crasneo against the inside rail, almost opposite the point where Cooper naa m death. Morrl S. Keeler, Chandler's n.k.nirin at the hospital short ly before o'clock tonight. Chandler ha less than an even chance for re covery. Pelo, one of the victim ci the first accident, was reported also to be in a critical condition. Cooper's skull sraa crushed ' In the first accident and his death was prac tically instantaneous. In both accidents tire blowouts wer ascribed as the cause, although in th case of Cooper a broken - steering knuckle wss said to have been tne inmiui. ruion for hia loss of con trol. After striking the ground outside th track th momentum oi in car w.. a rrl that the car crashed Into th end of the grandstand and forced It way under the tructure. otkuh said Cooper was going at th rat of 100 miles an hour at the tiro. Race Foil of Tartlla, The race ttself waa full of thrills, aside from it tragic features. For the most of the S00' miles it was a nlp-and-tuck affair between De Palma, Mulford and O'Donnell, the former keeping the lead the greater part of the time, la ih. i..t is miles, however, he developed a run of bad luck with hi tire which threatened to lose him first Place, but he forged ahead In the last tnree mnes nt crossed the line ahead of Mulford. So close were the two leaders that th. indiea were for several minutes divided as to who had won. The first announcement was that Mulford was th victor. but this was quickly changed and the official announcement gave D Palma the prise. RESTA GOES AT 102-MILE CLIP Italian Autoist Sets New . World's Record In 100-Mile Race. CHICAGO. Aug. 7. Darlo Resta. driving a French car at the rate of IA1 IK mll.a n.r hnur. WOn the ChlCSKO speedy 100-mlle race today. In so do ing he established a new vonji n 1 1 l v. Honnl fnr th distance. The previous record was established on the same track by Torporato last June. -His time was one hour and 2S Concluded on rage 4, Column 2. ; I INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature. to eagrecBi mmiuiuiu, - - TODAY'S Fair; westerly winds. War. London concerned over Russia's ability to hold new lines. Section 1, pass i. War wiping out governing class of Europe. Section 1. pas 7. , Both campaign against -Warsaw and Rus sian retreat greatest in all history. Sec tion 1. Par 7. Amsterdam hears Hrr von Jasow is to re sign. Section 1, page . Ambassador verifies taking ef Amerlcsn bark with British prise crew Into Cux-hs.-en vy single aerman. Section 1. pace ... Greece refuses to cede sny territory to Bul garia. beCUUB i. , Foreign. James O'Donnell Bennett describes charm of Norway. Section 1, pe Mexico. Carransa agrees to meet enemies. Section 1. pa" Deeaestic Lnther Burbsnk pleads for better race seleo- tton. Section 1. pace S. California auto tour real delight. Section X page 1-4. Padfle Northwest. Idaho deles-ation to seek Federal aid o waterways and land laws. Section 1, pa( 10. Vslue of Industrlsl first-aid teaching la II lua:rated In Wsshlngton. Section 1, pas Hood River folk make ascent of mount. Section 1, . para 1 1. Snorts. Two are killed In auto. race at DesMolnes. Section 1, page X. joa Trier wins Northwest tennis title for third time. section pas Pacific Coast l-earue results: ls Anceles 5, Portland av miuw; " Fan Franclaco 4-8; Vernon 3, Oakland 2. ii..iu. . nmttm 1 - Red Sox win two games from Cleveland. Section 2. pas 1. Entries pour In for maxsthon swim. Section 2. pas Maroons snd Dingbats will clash this after - Williams Is pressing Smith for Northwestern Dailinc niMiura. Bellah. Hobcood snd Fee win honors at National track ana lieia cnampionauipa Sactlon 2. pace 1- Pirates blank Quakers In double-hesder. Section 2, page 1., Commercial aad Marine. Wheat sells on local board at four-cent ad vance. Section 2, pace 13. France preparing to Import 20.000,000 bush els of wheat. Section X. pace IS. General decline In stocks oa light dealing. Section 2. pscevia. Close of wool season In Eastern -Oregon. Coos snd north snd south tributaries cleared or snsc. section 3, pass a. Pltcalrne Islanders thsnk Portland parsons lor cma, . . ' - Antos aad Real Estate. Columbia Hlchway wonders are recounted. Section 4. pas i. F. B. Jeflerr Company snnounees new Standard Four for ISIS at siuuu. oeo- 4. nin a Chalmers factory office opens here. Sec tion 4. pace 7. More than 1.000. 000 la building construc tion nOW OaOW J VU jmu. uauv. linn A. un &. Bsnk home permit stirs up activity. Sec tion , pace o. Transfer of Alder-street building blccest realty deal In rortlsna In week. Mo tion 4. pas 8. E. A. Clark finds weather conditions inauc construction work, section , pace o. run u mw , I...U. , . . Preparation against war" Is slogan, of Ns tidn.l ej.nrltv Ix.ii, Section 8. Dace 7. Law providing for settling on grant Isnda rtmA Kartlon 1. nin IS- Buyers to visit Portland factories, rsnklng with any otners in coumrj. ocwiwu . & a Australian student bsnd to plsy In Portlsnd Ex-Preaident Tsft will address Bar Asso ciation here aususi ao. Dctnuu x, Carl Busch, symphony conductor, tells ot Ksnsas City orcneairm. ocv-nuii r-e i Rusalsn official keeps trip's secret. Sec tion 1. page . Singing parson to preach and sing on stage toaay peiwwn - - " ' - --- OutdnH 1 Mil lfi- Storm breaks st meeting of movie censors. Section 1, page i. Great throng of children snd elders enjoy . i i l'.IIiuuI T r Ca- community picnic at - " Hon , page 15. Stockholders to set on plsn to merge Vinton Pacific snd First National Life Insur ...... -nmnantea. Section 1. pace 14. Reports that foreigners are building hlsn- ways sre aispro. . ' - AD DOMESTIC Race betterment spesker says "hooker" ts greater evil than commonly supposed. Section 1. Page 3. Delay In sale of Cashier coin machines ex .i -1 ... KwMaii 1. nasa 1- Oregon Nsvsl MUitla gunners score SS hits aHQ u sneiia. muui - . . Hon 1. pace 1. Proposal for emerg-ency railway grain tariff to prevent blockade meets favor. Section 1 page 2. .Passengers Baggage Searched. NEW YORK, Aug. 7. The baggage of each of the 670 passengers who left here for Liverpool aboard .the Ameri can liner St. Louis today was carefully searched for bombs or other explo sives. The passenger list was the largest the liner has carried in a long time, every berth but one being occu pied. . DIPRESSIONS OF SOME i i mm mm mum h-im at a i UUHtllflt bALt DELAY IS EXPLAINED Cashier Head Tells of Perfection Efforts. STOCK RISE REASONS GIVEN Ofl Mr Menefee Congis Testimony on 6 c0tt 1911 DEBT PUT AT $23,000 Stock Liability at Time of Develop ment of Lightning Change-Maker Estimated at $55,784 Man ufacture Is , Related. In'the three years that he was presi dent and general manager of the United States Cashlex Company, Frank Mene fee testified in the 23d day of the Cash ier Company trial before Federal Judge Bean yesterday, he drew $91,000 on his contract with the company, and in the same period put back 1103.000 into the company. In 1913 alone, he said, when the go ing was hard for the concern and It found difficulty in meeting its pay rolls, he put up $43,000 in cash. He testified apart from this that the long delays in putting the company's coin-handiing machines on the market were due to th vish to turn out per fect machines. Efforts at Perfection Shows. To this end, he declared. 'several suc cessive mschine models that did not quite attain the desired standard of perfection." but which, he said, with a few changes could have been made commercially successful, were sent back to the factory for further devel opment. ' It was Mr. Menefee's second day on the witness stand. When court ad journed his direct examination had not been finished by Attorney William M. Cake. Judge Bean adjourned the trial to -Mnk nrnndav. ' and "as there are many important points to be covered by Mr. Menefee in his direct examina tion, he may. not finish before late In the afternoon. In this event, Unlteo States Attorney Reamea may not be gin crosc-examinatlon until Tuesday morning. - Testimony oa Amounts Is Glvea. "Out of the money you received for the sale of stock under the terms of your contract with the company, did you put in any to keep the factory go lngr" queried Mr. Cake in introducing the line of testimony relative to the sums Mr. Menefee had given to aid the eomBtnv. "T out in large amounts all the time, for the factory payroll, to meet various bills, end to keep th factory going," replied Mr. Menefee. "Can you tell the jury in round fig ure how much of your own money vmi nut. In?" "From th time of my contract with the company and outside of what I paid for stock, examination of the books by experts shows that I drew from the company $91,000. and that 1 put d&ck into the company during the same pe rinA 1102.000.' "To keep manufacturing at the fac tory aolna?" "Yes." said Mr. Menefee. "In the hard times wa had in 1913 I put in 14.1 000 in cash for that purpose." The witness went on In reply to an ntho.r nueation to say that he had used every effort to have a bookkeeping and accounting department that wouia Keep a. strict account of all expenditures and mwinta of the company. So far as he knew, every transaction was recorded on the books. Mr. Cake devoted considerable at (Concluded on Page 4. Column 3.) LEADING EVENTS IN THE THREE INJURED IN STREETCAR PANIC SHORT CIRCUIT IX CONTROLLER BOX STARTS BLAZE. At Cry of "Fire" on Sellwood-Bound ' Conveyance Women and Chil dren Are Trampled Upon. . Four persons were injured severely and a dozen trampled underfoot at 7:21 o'clock last night in a panic which started on an out-bound Sellwood streetcar at East Twelfth and East Market "treets after a short circuit in vestibule. The passengers - j rusK for the doors, women . cnlldren forming a large proportion Ot tUQ CrUWU, WUiVU llCftllJ xwativ. oar. A woman rj&ssens'er with a small baby, evidently fearing the lives of all In the car would be lost, threw the In fant out the window. Fortunately it was not harmed, and was picked up on the street later. . The severely injured were: Mrs. M. E. Foster, 542, Umatilla avenue, back hurt: A. Rlackman. 707 East Eighteenth street Injured foot; Mrs. C. A. Hlcke, 642 Umatilla avenue, back hurt au.d bruised, and Frank Amlck, the motor man, face, neck and hands burmed. Both were trampled in the rush. Otljers were slightly trampled ana Daaiy frlsrhtenAri in the crush. 4 The nassensrers first became atvare of the fire when the car stopped, and smoke began rolling from the controller box. Motorman Amlck reeled ' back against the front door of the vestibule. "Fire! fire!" was shouted. .Amlck staggered into the body of the car with his face blackened by the smokje. There were more than 40 passengers on board. With one Impulse they rushed for the doors. Amlck and Con ductor Spengler endeavored to check the crowd, but the flames vrere soon leaping from the controller- box 'and cracking the windows of the vestibule. A fire alarm was turnud In, and Euzene No. 23 resDonded To the call The car was empty of passengers and full of smoke when the fircimen arrived. Beyond the damaee to ' the electric connections and the breaking of the front vestibule windows.- the car was damaged but little. 1 The Injured persons were sent to their homes. KING OF ITALY HONORED French Institute Kexjognlzes Author ity on Medals, and Coins. i PARIS. Aue. 7-JKinsr Victor Em manuel of Italy has been elected a for eign' member of tle Academy of In scriptions and Belies Lettres, one of th sections of the Institute of France. The King is an authority on medals and coins. His Miajesty's book on the subject was awarded the academy prize In 1914. ' The French institution has now two heads of states. ' the Kin of Italy and President Foincrre, of France, and one former head of a state, Theodore Koose velt, among its" members. NATIVES .GET SANITARIUM Segregation of Tuberculosis Suffer ers IO Alaska Proposed. i WASHINGTON. Aug. 7. President Wilson, by executive order, has re served for Alaskan natives and the United Suates Bureau of Education than 17 acres on the fhiiltat lilver near Haines. Alaska. Th. Vinreau of education proposes to erect a sanitarium where .-laskan na tives suffering from tuberculosis can be segregated. I . BELGIANS ARE DRIVEN BACK Partiy Evacuate Advanced Positions Tjnder German Bombardment. BERLIN, via London, Aug. 7. The German official report today said: 'In Flanders the Belgians, owing to te effectiveness of our artillery, were Obliged partly to evacuate their ad vanced positions over the Yser, near Herninse, south of Dixmude." ' WEEK'S NEWS IMMCE FIVE CENTS. GERmAriS PRESSING ADVANCE IN RUSSIA Kovno and Ossowetz Are Attacked. ASPHYXIATING GAS IS USED Desperate Fighting Reported Along Narew River. WARSAW FORT IS TAKEN Troops Investing Novogeorglr-Vfck Continue to Advance and Fort ress Is Cut Off on Three Sides by Teutons, LONDON, Aug. 7. Attacks on ths fortresses of Kovno and Ossowetz by the German forces have been begun, according to an official statement is sued tonight at the Russian war office. Tho works of Sosna, part of the Os sowetz fortress, were stormed Friday under cover of a gas attack, but the Germans were dislodged by counter attacks, the statement says. Cities Strongly Fortified. Unofficial reports that Kovno - was being evacuated by the Russians reached London today, but the Russian official statement indicates that they still are In possession of the city, which is the capital of the govern ment of Kovno, in Lithuania, and near ly reaching the Baltic. It is a fortress of the first class. Ossowetz, also strongly fortified. Is about 50 miles northeast of Warsaw on the Narew River and about the same distance southwest of Kovno. Heavy Batteries In Action. The text" of the announcement fol lows: "Near Kovno, tho enemy attacked the positions of the first line of fort resses on the left of the Nieman. Our heavy batteries are bombarding them vigorously. "Near Ossowetz the enemy at dawn Friday developed an intense fire and, launching great clouds of asphyxiating gas. began an assault on the fortress positions. Ho carried works near Sosna but was dislodged by our forces by a counter-attack. "On the Narew there was desperate fighting. On the roads to Ostrov the enemy on Friday, after a series of sanguinary collisions, succeeded in progressing somewhat and extending the ground which he had occupied. Desperate enemy attacks in the Se rock region on the previous evening were successfully repulsed. Desperate Action Fought. "Between the Vistula and the Bug rivers most desperate actions were fought in the direction of Kurow to Kotsk and In the region on the right bank of the VIeprz River north of Leczna." Speculation as to the Russians abil ity to hold the line of defense to which they are retiring divided atten tion today with the probable fate of the Grand Duke's main army. There still is some uneasiness on both points. Berlin officially records today th capture of Fort Dembe, on the right bank of the Vistula River. The fort was part of the defense of Warsaw and its continued occupation by th Russian garrison Is presumed to hav been part of the general plan to cover the general retreat . The Germans also report progress on the west front of Kovno. which is at the northern end of the fortified lin of defense to which the Russians are now retiring. The official German report given out today in Berlin also says: "The armies of Generals von Schols ( Concluded on Page 4. Column S.)