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Newspaper Page Text82 Pages SIX SECTIONS Section One Pages 1 to 18 VOL. XXXIV.-NO. 37. PORTLAND. OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 12, 1915. PRICE FIVE CENTS. WASHINGTON SEES TROUBLES AHEAD RelationsWithTeutonic Allies Difficult. NATIONS WILL ACT AS UNIT Future Serenity May Turn on Vienna's Attitude. INCIDENTS GIVING CONCERN Aablc, Hesperian and Orduna Af fairs Intimately Connected in S i t u a t ion Kega r ded a s of Grave Import. BT JOHN' CALL AN" O'LAUCHLIN. VASHINGTOX. Sept. 11. (Special.) Troubles are multiplying- fast for the United States in its relations with Ger many and Austria-Hungary. Hero is a list of the incidents which are giv ing: concern to President Wilson and Secretary Lansing: Germany. 1. The Influence on the attltuda of Ger many of the request for the recall of Dr. Uumba. the Ambassador of Germany y' a illy. 2. Curt refusal of Germany to recognize any responsibility whatever for the destruc tion of the Arabic and the loss of American life in connection with that disaster. 3. German explanation sustain! g the ac tion of the submarine commander In at tempting to destroy the liner Orduna. 4. Mystery which surrounds the destruc tion of the liner Hesperian. 5. Question as to the German lnterpr' tation of the assurances given that liners will be respected in accordance with the requirements and limitations of Internatlnal law, which involves the entire submarine problem. Anbtria-Hongary. 1. Attitude of Austria-Hungary with ref erence to the request for the recall of Dr. Dumba. -. Dismissal or the Austro-Hungarlan con sular officers who conspired with Dr. Dumba to disorganize the munitions industry In the Ignited States. 3. Question of the right of the United States to supply munitions to the allies. Two Nations MUl Act as Unit. As a matter of fact, tho incidents Tvith Austria-Hungary affect Germany Also. It is certain that whatever atti tude may be adopted by Berlin on the matters at issue with the United States will be that of Vienna and vice versa. In other words, the two coun tries will act as a unit toward the .United States. The State Department has been i formed that Ambassador Penfield has transmitted to the Foreign Office the request for the recall of Dr. Dumba. "What impressions, if any, he gathered are not known. It Is presumed tne contents of the note were transmitted at once to Berlin and that the foreign offices are now engaged in discussing the situation. It is apparent that whatever Aus tria-Hungary does she will do with the full approval of Germany. . o Further ConcesMlona Expected The latest, notes of Germany are taken as an Indication of the frame of mind of the officials of that country. They will not make any further con cessions. This is a cause of deep concern, to the Administration The President and Mr. Lansing are trying to maintain friendly relations with both powers, but they are beginning to realize that It is almost the impossible task. If Austria-Hungary recalls Dr. Dum ba and sends another diplomat in his place, then the Administration will un derstand that a real desire for peace with this country exists in official cir cles in Berlin and Vienna. Until Austria-Hungary has been Concluded on Page 6. Column 2. i I " ' I ' ' ' WOMAN PICTURES' NEW IDEAL RACE MARRIAGE OF AMERICAN" MEN". JAPANESE W03IEN, ADVISED. Ciiited States Blamed for Picture Bride System, Which It Is De clared People Abhor. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 11. (Spe cial.) "The marriage of American men with Japanese women will produce an ideal race, the children of the union having the best qualities of both j races." Miss Michi Kawai, noted woman edu cator of Japan and leader in young Women's Christian Association work In that country, made this statement to day. Miss Michi Kawai is here to investi gate tho condition of 4000 Japanese picture brides on the Pacific Coast. She says many of them are unhappy and that the United States is to blame. The laws force them to enter this country as the promised brides of men they have never seen, she said. We Japanese do not like the picture bride system any more thai you do, but you force our women into it she added. "My countrywomen haven't lialf chance in this country. They have no chance of mingling with Americans and learning their standards of living. "Your tourists never learn the true side of Japanese life. They only see the cherry blossom festivals and sip tea with the geisha girls. The true women of Japan they never meet." TURK IS CAUGHT NAPPING British landing of Suvla Made Dur ing Religious Kast. ROTTERDAM, via London, Sept. 11. Careless watch kept by the Turks, who were observing a week of'fast pre scribed by their religion, was responsi ble for the successful landing of Brit ish forces at Suvla Bay, according" to the testimony of German officers, says the Constantinople correspondent of the Courant. The newspaper's representative as serts he has been informed no one saw the approach of the British transports and convoys of warships, or the land ing of troops with Artillery. The Ger mans are Eald to have declared that if German troops had been on watch not a. single soldier would have been able to land. WOMEN ARE AFTER BORAH Advocates of Inderal Amendment Want Idaho Senator's Scalp. WASHINGTON', Sept. 11. (Special.) Certain suffragists are after the scalp of Senator Borah, of Ida.ho, according to a statement issued today by the" Con gressional Union for Woman Suffrage. "Senator Borah has incurred the en mity of those women suffrage workers who advocate the Federal amendment to revoke from the ballot the question of sex," says the statement. He will not get any support for the Presidency from the members of the Congressional Union in his state unless he changes his mind. He has come out vigorously against the proposition to enfranchise women through an amend ment to the Constitution of the United States. CHINESE TO QUIT LINER Coren's Crew Fears Danger From Submarines in Atlantic. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 11. (Spe cial.) The Chinese crew of the former Pacific mail liner Korea want to re turn to China, fearing that if they make a voyage to London they will be killed by submarines. Officials around the mail dock know that no Chinese will sail on the Korea for the Atlantic. It said that some agitator, working in behalf of a white crew or for some other reason, has im pressed on the Chinese of the Korea that to leave here on the vessel when she starts for Europe will be to go to certain death. The Chinese beiieve it and they are going back to China on the Persia. CARTOONIST REYNOLDS, AFTER SCANNING PAST KIPLIMG SEES 15" 'GRIMLY: IN French Gun Equal All Emergencies. to BEAUTY NOT ONE OF MERITS Nation's Psychology Changed by War Conditions. TEUTON HELD AS OUTLAW Author Says Iron Nerve and Kndur ance Are New Inheritance of French People, "Fighting Against Wild Beast." BY EUDTARD KIPLIXG. (Copyright, 1915, in the United States, hy Rudyard Kipling. Published by arrangement wilii me iew 1 one bun.) . LONDON, Sept. 7 We left that stricken but undefeated town, dodged a few miles down roads beside which women tended their cows, and dropped Into a place on a hill where a Moroc can regimeni or many experiences was billeted. They were Mohammedans, bafflingly like a half dozen of our Indian frontier types. Though they dpoke no accessible tongue they had, of course, turned farm buildings where they lay into a little bit of Africa in color and in smell. They had been gassed in Flanders, shot down and set up to be shelled again and their officers talked of North Afri can wars that we had never heard of, sultry days against long odds in the desert years ago. Old Foes Best Recruits. Aiterwards is it not so with you also? We get our best recruits from the tribes we have fought. . These men are children. They make no trouble. They only want to go where cartridges are burned. They are of the few races to whom fighting is a pleasure." "And how long have you dealt with them?" "A long time, a long time. I helped organize the corps. I am one of those whose heart is in Africa He spoke slowly, almost feeling for his French words, and gave some of them an order I shall not forget. Nor shall I forget his eyes as he turned to a huge brown Afreedee, like a Mussul man, hunkering down beside his ac coutrements. He had tw sides to his head, that bearded, burned, slow-spoken officer. We met and parted with all in an hour. ( hntena Proprietor at Front. The day closed after an amazing in terlude in the chateau of a dream which was all glassy ponds, stately trees and vistas of white and gold ealons. The proprietor was somebody's chauffeur at the front. We drank his health in the little village in twilight, full of petrol, hundreds of cars and the wholesome flavor of healthy troops. There is no better guile to camp than one's own thoughtful nose, and though I poked mine everywhere, in no place did it strike that vile, betraying taint of underfed, unclean men and gun horses. It is difficult to keep one's edge after hours of fresh air and experience. One does not get the most from the most interesting part of the day dinner with the local headquarters. Here the pro fessionals meet the line gunners; the intelligence, with stupefying photo plans of the enemy's trenches; the sup ply; the staff who collect and note all things and aie properly chaffed, and, to be sure, the interpreter, who by force of questioning prisoners naturally de velops into a Sadducee. It is their little aside to each other, the slang and half words, which if one Concluded on Page 7. Column 3.) INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS ' The Weather. ' TESTERDAT'P Maximum temperature, 71 decrees; minimum, 49 degrees. TODAY'S Sunday, probably showers: south. erly winds. War. Archibald ay he accepted Dumba letter without knowing contents and denies un patriotic intentions. Section 1. page . Driver "f armored motorcar tells vividly ot - Dattre slaughter. - Seotion I. page 6. Troubles multiply in American relations with xeutonic allies. Section 1, page 1. Rudyard Kipling describes French 75' in action. Section 1, page 1. O'Loughlir. shows how delicate is Hesperian problem. Section 1 page 6. Foreign. Sir William Van Home dead. Section 1. page :L National. Wilson advisers for and against accepting arbitration proposal in Arabic case. Sec tion 1, page 7. Domestic. Japanese woman advises marriage of Ameri can men and Japanese women to produce ideal race. Section 1, page 1.. College rally and reception held at "Univer sity of California. Section 1. page o. Best days yet to come at big exposition. fcectlon 1, page 5. New York heiress sails fot France to wed titled, officer. Section 1. page 3. California Governor denounces I. W. W. plos w uesiroy property. section 1, page i. Commercial and Marine. Evenlng-up trades hold country wheat mar- Kets steady. Section 2, page Jj. Chicago wheat depressed by talk of imports irom Canada. Section 2, page lo. Stock dealings slow with tendency down ward. Section 2 page 13. - Railroads place larger orders at steel mills. Section 2, page 15. Scarcity of grain delays carriers. Section 2, page ji. Waterways appropriations will give way to defense bills, is view. Section 2, page Its. Pacific Northwest. .Numerous candidates in Washington seek Republican gubernatorial nomination, bection 1, page 31. Pioneers to parade at State Fair. Section 1, page 11. Both sides promise reprisals for removal of Idaho officiaJ. Section I, page 31. Hoquiam Club celebrates opening Olympic Highway to Lako Quiniault. Section 1, page lu. Sports. Pacific Coast League results: Portland 6-8. Oakland 2-1; I-os Angeles IS, San Fran cisco S; Vernon 10, Salt Lake 7. Sec tion 2, page 3. Mike Gibbons outpoints Packey McFarland. Section 2, page 1. Philli-s increase lead in National League by victory over Pittsburg. Section 2, page 3. Red Sox take 11-inning game from Chicago Americans. Section 2, page 3. New faces appear In Oregon University foot ball team and much work promised. Sec tion 2, page 4. Aggies begin scrimmage at training camp. Section 2, page 4. Statistics show Beaver twlrlers below former standards. Section 2, page 2. Ty Cobb far In lead in American League hit ting, base-stealing and run-getting.. Sec tion page 4. Intersectlonal football games are gaining in popularity. Section 2. page 4. Multnomah plays Oregon at .Eugene week xrom bat unlay. Section 2, page 4. , Eastern tennis players defeat Westerners In every match. Section 2. page 5. American defeats Briton for woman's coif title. Section 2, page 2:. Mrs. W. I. Northup wins women's city tennis cnampioitsiup, section l:, page . Automobiles and Roads. Reo car takes sightseers from Portland to Astoria in five hours. Section 4, page 8. Kissel Kar braiich to build $25,000 home on Lower Broadway. Section 4, page S. C. L. Boss returns from visit to Eastern auto factories and reports all are enlarg ing. Section 4, page 11. Portland and Vicinity. Mystery surrounds case of two waifs taken by Juvenile Court. Section J, pa Interest in dahlia show, September 23, 24 an l 2. is high. Section 1, page 13. Noted financiers pass day in Portland. Sec tion 1, page 12. Land Show space In demand. Section 3, page 12. Washington seta 'Oregon's fee. then declines to extradite G. P. Rossman. Section 1, Paje 14. Vast areas in Western states idle in Federal control. Section 5. page S. "Father" Fl inn's funeral set for tomorrow. Section 1, page Multnomah county Fair exhibits will tax spice. Section 1, page 17. Deep cut in estimates for city expenditures in 1916 assured. Section 1, page 16. Dr. J. W. Hill, leader of peace movement and former Presidential adviser, visits city. Section 1, i age 37. Coroner's jury exonerates Officer White for deaths ot two in collision. Section 1, page 2. Final match for place for state rifle team begins today at Clackamas. 'Section 1, page 14. BENZOL AND TOLUOL PAY Government Withdraws Aid lYonl Xf Established Industry. WASHINGTON, "sept. 11. The Gov ernment has withdrawn from its con tract with the Aetna' Explosives Com pany to furnish not less than $200,000 for development of the Kittman patents for manufacturing benzol and toluol from petroleum. The company's operations have been so successful, however, that the manu facture of the products now is on a commercial basis. WEEK'S NEWS, RECORDS MYSTERY PENDS Ifl CASE OF TWO WAIFS Juvenile Court Acts oh Neighbors' Complaints. ALLEGED GUARDIANS PROTEST Boys of 4 and 5 Declared to ' Be Worth $80,000. KIDNAPING IS SUSPECTED Edgar Sinitb and Wife Assert Chil dren Were Given liy Parent on Way IVom Astoria Awful Con dition of Filth Reported. Mystery surrounds the identity ol two little waifs, 4 and 5 years old. who were taken from a house at 530 Couch street Thursday evening by Mrs. June Nissen and C. T. Evans, officers of the Juvenile Court. "You can't take them!" exclaimed Edgar Smith, who said he was their guardian. "They're going: to be worth $80,000 when they come of age and I'm going to keep them. The two little boys cave their names as Albert and Lloyd Schlappi. Scores of protests from neighbors and bus.i ness men in the vicinity of Sixteenth and Couch streets resulted in the Juve nile Court officers taking a hand. Then their strange story was partly revealed Court Official Evaded. "They're not here." said Mrs. Smith wife of the alleged guardian, when Mrs. Xissen climbed the stairs and asked for the boys. "They go out early in the morning and don't come back until night- I don't know where they are." So Mrs. Nissen started to look. Everybody knew the boys. Confection ers. grocers and some residents, said they freauently fed them. "They're regular little gutte snipes.' " said a garage man. "and awfully -dirty. You've no conception Mrs. Nissen asked several little chil dren who were playing in the street Children Shun Younsstr. "We don't play with them," said little girl. Firemen at a nearby fire station know them. In fact, Mrs. Nissen says, everybody within a -radius of several blocks knew them and asked why th officers had not taken a hand long ago. Thursday night Mrs. Nissen and Mr. Evans returned to the place. The boy had just come in from the street. "You can't take them," protested th woman. "They belong to us. We'l hire a lawyer and fight you. My hus band is going to take them to the country and leave them with somebody. You can't take them." Fight for Retention Threatened. Mrs. Smith said neither she nor he husband could read. They said they had no papers showing that they were guardians of the boys. "Where did they come from? Who are they?" asked Mrs. Nissen. "Well," said Smith. "We were com ing up from Astoria on a boat and a man got on board and gave them to us. Then he went away. I don't know who he was." "We'll find some of their relatives and get a lawyer and fight you. You can't take them away. Their mother has got money." Ividnapln Is Suspected. Then Mrs. Nissen says she became suspicious that the children had been kidnaped. She was armed with a war rant. The boys, clad in nothing but thin waists and rough overalls, sat in a corner and glared at Mrs. Nissen. Their hair was long and unkempt and they (Concluded on Page l. Column Jf. ) HIS IMPRESSIONS OF Saturday's War Moves rHE western front with continu ous artillery engagements, occa onal infantry attacks and the probability that important events now mpending will soon begin, now at- racts as much attention as the eastern battlefields, where the Russians, and Austro-Germans are contending for the mastery of railway lines, the posses sion of which will make the victors more secure when the time comes to go nto Winter quarters. For some time yet, however, the east is likely to be the scene of the more sensational actions. The Russians are ! putting forth a strong offensive on either wing and are making an equally stubborn defensive inthe center, where the Austro-Germans. although gaining ground dally and coming closer to the Vilna-Rovno railway, are meeting with increasing opposition. Each village, stream and road is proving the scene of a sanguinary en gagement. For example, Skidcl. a town immediately east of Grodno, which at last has been captured by the Germans, was the center of a battle lasting several days, with alternate successes. The Germans attacked the town again and again, massing heavy artillery for the purpose, and, accord- ng to the Berlin official statement, Hd not succeed in overcoming the Rus sians until Friday night. Throughout the great marsh district from this point southeastward to Rov no similar contests are taking place. The Austro-Germans are trying by every means in their power to force their way through to the Vilna-Rovno railway before the heavy rains set in and put an end to the fighting for the time being. In the narrow strip of Galicia be tween the Sereth River and the Bes sarabian frontier, the Russians have been strongly reinforced and appar ently are well supplied with suns and ammunition. They .report their third victory there over the Austro-German forces, a success bringing- their tota number of prisoners captured during the week to 22,000, without mentioning losses of men and guns. The Auptrians admit that they have suffered a setback in this region, in the statement that they withdrew their front on the Sereth to the heights east of the Stripa River "before superior enemy forces." On the northern end of the line, southeast of Riga, the Russians also are on the aggressive, with the result that the Germans have made no fur ther progress against the Xvlna River line. Some of the British military writers believe that the Austro-Germans have reached the limit of their penetration ot Russia so far as this year is con cerned, and that they now look to the defense of their present lines. It is reported. In fact, that they are already reconstructing the fortifications of Kovno. which are threatened by the Russian offensive northwest of Vilna. The Russians estimate that the Austro-Germans have 2.500,000 men on their front, 28 corps being in tho Baltic and the Lithuanian region. Included In this army are 11 Austrian and nine German cavalry divisions. September tfllt. - Semlim, opposite Belgrade, captured by Servians. Winston Spencer Churchill says it is war to death with Germany. War-tax bill completed. Russia and Servia report victories. IDAHO'S DRY LAW UPHELD Possession of Liquor Serious Offense Supreme Court Holds. BOISE. Ida., Sept. 11. (Special.) The supreme court today denied the petition for a writ of habeas corpus applied for by Ed Crane, of Latah County, who was found guilty of hav ing liquor in his possession in a pro hibition district. In Its opinion the court upheld the constitutionality of the law passed by the last legislature making the pos session of liquor in L prohibition dis trict a misdemeanor for the first of fense, and a felony for persistent vio lation. . The decision absolutely pro hibits the manufacture, sale, trans portation or possession of liquor In the state of Idaho after January 1. 1916. SOME UPSTANDING EVENTS. YOUTH DROPS FIVE STORIES TO DEATH James Boyle Killed by Fall From Roof. BOY LEAPS INTO LIGHT COURT Cornice Mistaken for Fire- Wall Is Belief. NONE "SEE FATAL MISHAP Injuries Co Lad of lis ... ii. Regarded as Supcrfcial, but In- tcrnal Complications Develop and Knd Conies in 3 Hours. Dropping fiVe stories from the roof of an apartment house at B'ourteenth and Yamhill streets to the stone flag Sing of the court below. James Boyle, aged 16, an only son of Mr. and Mrs J. C. Boyle. 73 Ellis street, was in jured fatally shortly before 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon, dying three hours later at the Good Samaritan Hospital. The only apparent injuries were a broken left arm and bruises, but death was due to internal injuries, the exact nature of which had not been deter mined last night. BIb Ulabe Breaks Kail. It was at first thought that the young man had been saved from se rious injury because his fall had been broken by a large pillar, bearing an electric light globe, stationed at tho right of the entrance to the apartment house. The globe was shattered. Just how the young man happened to fall will never be known, as he was not seen by his two companions on the roof. A theory offered is that he , mistook the buttress about th n..tiH. the roof for the flr-n hi.ui.. ine Duiminfr. and leaped over it. In company with Arthur Burr, aged 21. who lives In the apartments with his parents. Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Burr. and Frank Clark, aged IS. young Boyle " rue root yesterday afternoon for the splendid view of the city. Th younger men were the guests of Burr, who had the freedom of the building, being a resident. Sound of 'nl In Heard. - The vista was much enjoyed. Burr and Clark left Boyle to go to the south portion of the roof, and when on the southeast section called to Boyle, who was on the northeast, to come where they were. Between the boys was a 15-foot areaway. Further west the roof extended all the way across. Neither Burr nor Clark saw the oth er lad coming, and their first intima tion of the fall was when they heard the crash of broken glass and the sound of a body striking In the court below. It is assumed that the young man started to go to his friends by a direct route, and, thinking that the four-foot parapet was but a firewall and that the way was clear beyond, leaped over it. Injuries Klmt Thought Minor. The injured boy was rushed imme diately to the Good Samaritan Hospital and taken to the surgery. There it was found that no bones were broken, except In the left arm. and hope was held out for his recovery if there were not internal complications. James Boyle was a close friend of young Burr and but recently arrived In Portland with his mother from Lon don. Eng., his home. The body was taken to the morgue, but no funeral arrangements considered. There will probably be no inquest.