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82 Pages Section One Pages 1 to 18 SIX SECTIONS VOL,. XXXIV NO. 41. PORTLAXD, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 10, 1915. PKICE FIVE CENTS. FULL IS GIVEN GARRANZA Embargo on Arms to Enemies to Follow. CONFEREES OF ONE MIND Mexican Leader Expected to Adopt Liberal Policy. DETAILS LEFT TO FUTURE Diplomats Who I'rgc Waiting Tor ' From i ses to Be Kept Arc Told Moral Support Will Hasten lay of Fulfillment. WASHINGTON. Oct. 9. Recognition of the party led by General Carranza as the defaeto government in Mexico was unaniirously agreed on today by the Pan-American conference as the step to be recommended to their respective governments. Secretary Iansing, on behalf of the United States Government, expressed Its intention to recognize General Car ranza. and the Ambassadors of Brazil. Chile and Argentina and the Ministers tf Bolivia. Uruguay and Guatemala transmitted tonight the decision of the Washington Government, as well as their own opinions in agreement with It. J'ull Asreement Reached. Mr. Leasing has obtained the ap proval of President Wilson to the plan. and before the conference began all the Ministers in the Latin-American corps also had given their adherence to it. The attitude of today's conference was regarded generally as the most important diplomatic step in the Mex ican situation since the United States decided to withhold recognition from th, Huerta government, more than two 3 ears ago. It means that the Carranza government will receive the moral sup port of the United States and that an embargo on shipments of arms to op posing factions will be laid as soon as recognition actually is extended, which probably will be within a fortnight. Liberal Attitude Counted On. The conference was in session for three hours. Officials believe many elements in Mexico will align themselves with Car ranza. and that the latter will himself adopt a liberal attitude toward his op ponents, permitting of a reconciliation of the various branches of the original Constitutionalist party, of which he was one of the founders. Secretary Lansing made it clear that while the L'nited States could not con dition recognition on the giving of amnesty or the settlement of other questions of a strictly internal nature, satisfactory assurances on these and other subject have been received from the Carranza government. Ciunrantexr Are Reviewed. These guarantees are as follows: 1. Foreigners will be protected in their lives and property. The Carranza government assumes full responsibility for claims growing out of the revolution and will adjust them equitably by means of interna tional commissions. 3. No one will suffer in his life and property on account of religious beliefs. All priests and nuns who have no part In Mexican politics will be permitted to return and will be protected, provided they do not participate in politics, and obey the Mexican laws governing the separation of church and state. 4 A decree of amnesty is ii. prepa ration which will enable all elements. Irrespective of political affiliations heretofore, to return to Mexico, with FOG DISPELLER MAY CLEAR CITIES CSEFITXESS IX' RAILWAY OP ERATION' ALSO SEEX. Transformer Xow in Experimental Stajre Declared Improvement on. That of Sir Oliver Lodjre. STANFORD UNIVERSITY. Cal.. Oct. !. While he believes that, the high voltage transformer now being experi mented with as a fog-dispeller at the Panama-racific Exposition will be able to drive fog from congested city districts and small enclosed areas. Pro fessor II. J. Ryan, head of the elec trical engineering department at Stan ford University, does not think it will be successful in clearing large tracts, such as San Francisco Bay. "This method of clearing fog." he said today, "is not a new one. It was demonstrated in England 12 years ago by Sir Oliver Lodge, who was able to drive fog 75 yards from aerial anten nae with only 250,000 volts of elec tricity. Now we have built transform ers capable of producing 1,000,000 volts. "The action of the electricity turned into the air through the antennae tends to form a circuit with the current In the ground by means of the fog as a conductor. This charges the drops of moisture, forces them together into large drops, making them too heavy to remain in the air. Fogs could be dispelled- from the neighborhood of ferry slips and wharves, and T do not see why London should not be fog-free, whereas now black fogs occur which make fast traf fic Impossible at times In the business districts. "At present we can send fog twice as far as Sir Oliver Lodge could, and with proper apparatus street-car and railway lines could be relieved of the danger of accidents through the fail ure of trainmen to see signals because of fog." stuffed: pheasant shot Attorney-General Brown One of Several to Fall Into Trap. ROSEBURG, Or.. Oct. 9. (Special.) "I'll get that bird," was the remark of George M. Brown, Attorney-General of Oregon, as he slowed up the automobile in which he was riding, placed his rifle to his shoulder and fired at what he supposed was a fine China pheasant, perched on a stump in a field some dis tance north of Roseburg. The bullet took effect and the bird dropped to the gj-ound. Running, through the field, the Attorney-General came upon the bird, which he found had been stuffed and plaoed on the stump to deceive the unsuspecting hunters. ' It is understood that fully a dozen local people also shot at the "pheasant" during the past few days. l Concluded on Patf Z. Column 2.) doctor marries nurse Walla Walla Miss Will Itcekle In Castle Itock, Wash. Dr. Eben W. White, of Castle Rock. Wash., and Miss Elinor Mae Uibbard. of Walla Walla- Wash., were married Tuesday evening, October 5, by Rev. John II. Boyd. The ceremony'was per formed in the First Presbyterian Church. Dr. White is well known In medical and educational circles In Washington and the bride, who Is a registered nurse, for the last year has been iden tified with the Portland Open-Air San itarium. They have left for a wedding trip through Oregon, and after Novem ber 1 will be at home at Castle Rock. REJECTED SUITOR SUES 3 Can Wants Sale of House Canceled and Money Returned. Rudolf Johnson states In a complaint filed In Circuit Court y-esterday that he bought a house from Victoria Irola on her- promise to marry him. He complains that after he had paid about $500 of the purchase price she backed out of the marriage agreement. He now wants a cancellation of the agreement to buy the property and his money back. T .. nun nil ill rii . - n , Dnllrliri 111 MIIIVlI hT:-' INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS FAILURES MULTIPLY Heavy Sacrifices Are Without Result DOMINANT NOTE IS DISGUST Russia's Situation Only Deep ens Despondency. ENORMOUS COST IS SHOWN Casualty .List for First Year, 3 81, 982, and Total or Money Voted' - to September 8 Is. More Than $6,000,000,000. LONDOX, Oct. 9. (Special.) At no period of the war have doubts and mis givings prevailed in England to such a lusibrious extent as at the present moment. Xot even the 'most steadfast British, optimist or pro-British sympa thizer could by any stretch of imagin ation pretend that the situation in Eng land or for England is either cheerful Or encouraging. IMsgust, rather than downhearted ness, is the dominant note. Four full months of ideal fighting season May to September have gone by and Ger many is as firmly intrenched in France and Belgium as ever. In the Dardan ITese 12 miles of front at a cost of 87,000 casualties (including 41,000. men lost In the last 34 days) are all that Lord Kitchener was able to mention to Parliament as the results of the ter rific Galllpoli campaign against the German-led Turks. RuMla'a Situation DiMconraslns. Of Russia on speaks only In accents of utter despondency, -which Is little alleviated by Kitchener's amazing dec laration that the Germans in the east ern theater "have nearly shot their bolt The imminency of Vilna's fall, the continued menacing of the Fetro grad railroad line, and the serious sug gestion, that - Ilindenburg a.ud Mackerv sen's limrltless sweep may even have Odessa as its objective, with a pounce on 'Constantinople and co-operation with the Turks, with the Dardenelles as its purpose, are not evidences to the British public mind that the Kaiser has nearly "shot h!s bolt in Russia. A few days before Kitchener's flat- footed optimism Jn the House of Lords. Mr. Lloyd George wrote a preface for a compiled edition of his "Wake Up, England, " war speeches. In it he plainly suggested that Russia, not Ger many, had "shot her . bolt." He de clared: "Poland Is entirely German; Luthuania is rapidly following; Rus sian fortresses .deemed Impregnable, are falling like sand castles before the resistless tide of Teutonic invasion. When will that tide recede? When will it be stemmed?" Czar Resarded Badly Beaten. If Mr. Lloyd George's animadversions In regard to Russia mean anything they mean that Russia is badly beaten for the present at least and that her power to be of slightest assistance to the allies is lamed for many months to come. With the Minister of War and the Minister of Munitiona so widely at odds as to whether Russia has "shot her bolt" or not, it is not surprising : that distracted Britain, collectively known, as "the man in the street," does not know what to think. Meantime the arithmetical evidence of his own eyes is not conductive to good cheer. Within the same week in which the two Cabinet Ministers chiefly responsi ble for the war on land were con tradicting themselves as to Russia, the government submitted twx memoranda showing what the struggle has cost in lives and treasure to date and iToiKluded on face V Column 2. The Weather. - YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature. 59 degrees; minimum, 54 degree. TODAY'S Fair; northwesterly winds. World's Serin. Foster is hero of Boston's sensational vic- tory over Phillies. Section 1, page 1. Grantland Rice regards gamo &s one of best ever staged world series. Section 1, page 1. Second game is replete with sensations. Sec lion 2. page 1. War. ' British deeply despondent over war situa tion. Section 1. pae 1. Sweden confronted with possibilities of wax. Section 1. page. 7. French aviation service under criticism. Sec tioa 1, page 7. Greater part of Belgrade captured by Teu tonic allies. Section 1, page t. German says If Turkeys own affair how Bhe deals with Armenians. Section - 1, page tt. Mexico. Recognition of Carranza faction formally decided on at Washington. Section 1, page 1. Villa, says war In Mexico is only beginning. Section 1, page 2. KationaL Secretary Daniels now realises superiority of pig ships. Section 1, page X. Domestic Nation-wide congress of peace societies to begin sessions today. Section J, page 11 Dr. Hill to fight breach of promise suit to bitter end. Section 1, page 3.! Horse Show at exposition proves full of thrills. Section 1, page 5. Fog dUpeiler devLsed that promises to clear cities and railway lines. Section 1, page 1. Sports. Columbia University to meet Lincoln High . School eleven this week. Section 2, Page 3. .Idaho game occupies attention at Oregon. Section 2. page 3. , . Washington State College eleven swamp t'niversity of-Uregou, JS to 3. Section . Page 2. AgRlo onslaught defeats Whitman, 31 to 7. Section page 2. For eighth time Ty Cobb wins American lCHgue batting championship. Section 2, page 4. i Duck hiintel have no great success. Sec t'on pi 5. Multno-nah a ntictpates hard game with Washington Athletic Club Saturday. Sec tion 2, page 3. Aggiea are com dent of team's ability. Sec lion 2. page . Plan Is afoot aiAOreson to modify Inter collegiate a thistles. Section 2. page 3. All bowling leagues show changes in stand ing for week. Section 2, page 0. Will G. McRae writes of success of Class A.V ball Jn Salt Lake. Section 2. page 4. "Lefty Williams passes Al fiium for pitch ing honors. Section 2, page 4. Battling Nelson fails to cause a ripple In San Francisco. Section 1, page 5. Pittsburg flogs Navy eleven, -47-12. Sec tion 2, page 2. Pacific Coast League results: Salt Lake S, Portland 7; t?an Francisco 4, Vernon 1; Oakland 4. Los Angeles 1. Section 2, page l. Pacific Northwest. Mr. Lister w)U name commission to help draft "first aid" amendment to work men's law. Section 1, page 10. Professor scouts idea of substitution of phe nomena la for loganberries In making juice. Section 1, page 10. Success of Baker 'Fair i credited to co operation by people. Section 1, page 9. Urtdce work or.j task remaining for WH1 amet to-Pacific. - Section 1,- page 9. D. W. Davis out for Idaho Governor. Sec tion , page v. Commercial and Marine. Merchant skipper gets Naval gun salute, from moving-picture "battleship." Sec tion 2. page tt. British steamer Valleta is chartered for inited Kingdom grain cargo at 100s. Section 2. page 6. Navy mar. wins girl on steamer Bear, and wedding is planned. Section 2, page U. Apple selling is salesmanship test. Section 2, page 15. Portland and Vicinity. Ex-Senator Fulton blames railroad tariff wall for loss, of Portland commerce. Sec tion 1. page J 2. City Commissioner Baker says he has en tered no Council agreeement on lulfi budget. Section 1, page 16. Mr. Strahorn says co-operation needed to bufid proposed railway. Section 1. page 11. Republicans Invited to hear Mayor of Chi cago Tuesday. Section 1 page 33. Censure and applause greet Civic Leagu aucussions oi military school training. .Section 1, page IS. Spectacular parade brings fire prevention wees to cose, section l, page 13. More than 200 exhibitors enter Manufactur ers' ar.d Land Products Show. Section 1, page 17. Senator Walsh and colleagues of Montana delegation report on water-power confer ence. Section 1, page 17. Oregon grand lodge Knights of Pvthla to gather here Tuesday. Section 2. page 7. Distinguished leaders of Royal Nenghhora will be visitors today. Section 3, page 13. "Heidelberg graduate" ha!d on bed check charge. Section 1, page 16.. W. Earl Flvnn health lectures extended for week. Section 1, page 14. Stores plan remarkable "Dress-Vp week" displays. Section J, page 14. Washington High girls Icarn to manags homes. Section 1, page 13. Mayor plans saving In police bureau by auto purchases. Section 1, page 12. L. O. Ralston baa S.'tK.OOO In property t offset possible Judgment. Section 1. page 11. "Saloon" in dry state to be products show exhibit. Section 1. page 17. FOSTER IS HERO OF SCINTILLATING GAM E Breaks Favor Bostons, Who Win 2-1. PHILLY DEFENSE MARVELOUS President and Fiancee Attend and Root for Quakers. PITCHER WINS OWN GAME Saturday's War Moves Rod Sox Midget Holds Hue to 3 Hits, Makes Tliat Many Him self, and Wins Virtually Alone. End Jammed With, Thrills, BY ASSOCIATED rP.E.SS. PHILADKLPHIA. Oct. 9. The breaks of the same, those fickle favors of fortune that sway the pendulum of baseball fate, favored Boston today, and tonight the red hosed champions of the American League and Fhllade' pliia, pennant-bearers of the National circuit, were on their way to Boston with the honors of the 1915 world's series all at evens. President "Woodrow Wilson and . hi financee, Mrs. Norman Gait, shared the honors of the second contest with a stoutly built young Boston pitchor known to baseball fame as Georgle Foster. Foster may never, go down in history as an Alexander, a Walter Johnson or a Christy Mathewson. but when the etory of the second battle of the current series Is filed away In the archives of the National pastime It will be found that all he did today was to hold the fighting Phillies to three base hits, to strike out eight of their best wielders of the willow, to make as many hits himsetf as he allowed the entire opposition. Including; a glazltng smash in the ninth that sent Gardner across the plate with the winning Bos ton run. Foaters IMay Seasatlonal. In addition to these meager activities In the box, Young Foster sped to flrst base a couple of times and took throws from his fellow-fielders that turned two teeming errors into sensational outs. Mr. Foster on the field and Mr. Wil bon In the stand were the heroes of the day. Foster won by 2 to 1. The President had a wider margin, for the more than 20,000 baseball enthusiasts crowded in the friendly little Phllly park were on their feet for "and with Mr. Wilson time after time. They greeted him with cheers when he came and forgot the sting of defeat to send him on his way to Washington with shouts that echoed for blocks around. Mrs. Gait was greatly admired by the baseball throngs and was smilingly happy over the attentions showered upon her. President Root for Phillies. The i'residenf rooted royally for the home team. When the signal for "all up' came In the supposedly mystic seventh inning, Mr. Wilson was among the first on his feet. In the last half of the ninth, when the Phillies' plight 'was desperate a band in the grand stand began to play "The Slar-Spangled Banner." Mr. Wilson caught the first strains of the National Anthem and again was on his feet followed by the entire crowd. The bleacberites in the far field stands beard and music, too, and Joined the standing throng with, huts In hand. The scene was one of genulned ramatic tenseness. " It was real baseball today from the moment that Hooper, the first man up. a far-ted the contest until Tris Speaker ended it by reaching Into the center field bleachers to snatch a bullet-like drive from Paskert's bat and turn a potential home run Into a meteoric out. BELGRADE, the oM capital of Serbia, or the greater part of it. Is In pos session of an enemy army for the sec ond time since the outbreak of the war, while other Austro-Gcrman troops have crossed the Save and Danube rivers and are attempting to make a great drive Into Serbian territory. " . The capture of Belgrade has been expected by the allies, aa It was not thought that t..e Serbians would make any serious attempt to save the citj-. It is situated on a point of Serbian soil at the junction of the Save and Danube, jutting toward Austria, and could consequently be attacked from three sides operations which the Aus-tro-Gcrmans found little difficulty In carrying out successfully. The real tests of strength will come when the Invaders reach the main Ser bian positions In the mountains, where the Austrians were severely defeated last December. The present, however, is a more formidable attack, the i cw army group, under the command of Field Marshal von Mackensen. having been organized for that purpose. Its strength is not exactly known, but it is supposed that its artillery Is com posed chiefly of Austro-Hungarians. with a stiffening of Germans, and Is largely commanded by German officers. Generals von Koevess and von Gallwitz. who took part in the great offensive against Russia, have commands under von Mackensen. RED SOX ARTILLERY BEATS PHILLIES ,2-1 Quakers' Great Defense Alone Saves Rout. LBOSTON'S RUSH TOO HEAVY The Bulgarians, acting In concert with their new allies, are adxancing rom Sofia toward 11 rot. on the Serb ian frontier, the fortress which covers the road to Xlsh, the Serbian capital. The French and British are landing troop at the rate of 14.000 a day nt Salontkt to send hy railway to the assistance of Serbia. The Balkans, therefore, have taken their place with the Kussian and west ern fronts as a center on which the Interests of the world will rest for some time to come. From indications, the Black and Aegean seas also will be the scenes of greater activity, for as soon as Bulgaria strikes at Serbia the allied fleets will give the Bulgarian ports their attention. Although the Bulgarian Minister at London, who has not received or asked for his passports, declared today that Bulgaria had no quarrel with England, an attack on Serbia would be consid ered by Kngland. as sufficient reason for a quarrel. Turkey, according to a dispatch from Salonikl, Is sending 60,000 . men to Varna and Dedeagatch to help in the defense of those ports. Greece's attitude is somewhat ob scure. The Greek Minister at Paris today reiterated that Greece's neutral ity would continue to'be one of tcntvo- lence toward the entente powers. More than that had been expected, and the allied capitals are awaiting a definite statement from the new Greek Cabinet. Bancroft Gains Glory by His Spectacular Play. There has been more very heavy fighting around Looz, In Artols, which the British took in their big attack three weeks ago and which now ap parently Is defended by the French. The latter assert that the Germans, who were the aggressors, were "mowed down." Berlin declares that the at tack made- some progress. while a British attack northeast of Vermilles failed. In Champagne the fighting seems to have resumed the character of trench warfare, the French holding virtually all their gains, while there alio has been a resumption of activity In Lor raine, where the Germans record the capture of a much-contested height near Lelntrey. "or.-ludfa in Faen Column 1.) Field Marshal von Hindenburg Js again striking at Dvinsk ar.dhas maJe some headway, but along the rest of the front it is the Russians who arc doing most of tho attacking. The gen eral belief In London is that the Aus-tro-Germans are concentrating troops on both wings of" the eastern line and intend to make one more effort to se cure the line of the Dvina, River in the north and drive the Russians across the Bessarabian frontier In the south before dlgsing themselves in for the Winter. October 10, 1014. Armies fighting hand to hand near Lille. Antwerp garrison reported safe. Battle along front m France becomes artillery duel. THRILLS BEDECK 'CONTEST Last Ba.ll Hit Sa.il: Toward lnc and Ouly Spectacular Catch by Speaker Trcveiits Home Ran. Philadelphia's Hope Wanes. BY GRANTLA.ND RICK. PHILADELPHIA. Oct. 9. (Special.) Our apologies go out to tho ghost of Napoleon. The great Corslcan wasn't always wrong. There are times, even ia baseball, when the god of battles la on the side of those having tha mightiest guns. All the expert testimony of tha analysis all the intricate autopsies of the frenzied soothsayers passed upon the roistering October winds today be fore the booming chorus of Boston bats. It was the heavy artillery that did the work the old-fashioned hick ory finish that, plus the redoubtable pinion of George Foster. Before this combination Erskina Mayer and the fighting Tlills were reeled from the main highway Into the gravel ditch by the narrow margin of 2 to 1 in one of the grandest ball games that ever thrilled the red heart of a fan- From Friday's drab and colorless affair, baseball today went back to the varl-colored radiance that has helped to make it the main sport of a sport-loving Nation of 100.090.000 soula, Olasar Holda Crowd, . Xha glamor and. thv yrlp. that many thought had vanished into a dim and distant past, once more took control of a capacity crowd. The President was there with the woman who Is to share his destiny. So there was ro mance to help start the occasion with eclct. But. after all. it was tha ball game with that crowd which counted most, one of those old-time games that tear Into the heart, that send a ripple and a quiver down the spine, and that lift the human scalp at stated Intervals from concrete base. It was a game that reeked with, lusty clouts the intoning roar of hickory vs. horsehlde the sweetest of all songs to those who have not yet turned their backs upon a game no w in the shadows, but a game that 10 years from now will be greater than it ever was before. But. above even the tingling melody of the swat, this was a game that reached its greatest height upon de fense, w here brilliant plays studded tha occasion as thickly as pink stars stud a twilight sky. Bancroft Lead. Stalvrart Defense. Boston went into this gamo to win, not only through tho pitching power In George Foster's arm, but through tha slugging power that lay In. her war clubs. Protected defensively by Fos ter's superfine pitching. Boston 'went In savagely to hammer her way through by main force, and it was only tha game and stalwart defense of tha Phillies, led In the main by Bancroft and Stock, that held the Red Sox' bom bardment to a brace of runs. Mayer, backed up by this rare sup port, pitched with more nerve than stuff, with greater gameness than with skill, for he fought a losing fight to the final wallop of tho chilly aftcr- 4 "on-luIod n Pate. J : EVENTS IN THE WEEK'S NEWS AT HOME AND ABROAD ARE ILLUSTRATED BY CARTOONIST REYNOLDS. I I 1 'A . .. . .11 1 i cr j I 1 1 ..::Sr?ft, i 1 1