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THE SUNDAY OKEGOXIA'. PORTLAND, JULY SO, 1916. UNDERSEAS TRIP LACKS ADVENTURE UNPUBLISHED PHOTO OF SUBMARINE AND MAP SHOWING DIFFICULTIES OF HER EXIT FROM CHESAPEAKE BAY. V r Official Train Chamber of Commerce Deutschland's Log Dry as Lon don Times, Captain Tells Henry Reuterdahl. Excursion to Coos 6 & Bay a U-BOAT SKIPPER MODEST Gernumy to Commission Fleet of 300 Jiig Submarines and Others to Destroy British Trade, Says t. . Famous Pilot. BY HENRY REUTERDAHL. (Associate United States Naval Institute and first American writer permitted on Bal timore wharf to see submarine.) It is generally assumed Captain Ivoc nig, of the Deutschland, is just a. plain tailor. But to be the captain of a sub marine you must know the gear you must know the margin of safety you must be a thorough technical me chanic. "When the Deutschland was given to me to command, I took numberless trial trips until I got to know her every inch until I was thoroughly familiar with what sha could do." he explained modestly. "And it is foolish to believe that any of my men have come from the German naval submarine service. ? hey have all h:id their training in the ieel shops of the Germaniawerf in Kiel, where the Krupps are making Diesel engines." What is there behind the building of the largest submarine in the world for purely cargo purposes? The ugly nose of the Deutschland has put a great punch into international law. With its arrival, a successful blockade ceased to exist. It would be foolish to state that the Deutschland has smashed the British blockade. One Deutschland even two are Just experiments. But with 300 Deutschlands running, the old fashioned blockade will assimilate a. bad jolt. Bis Fleet Suggested. Captain Koenig grinned when he vis ualized Deutschlands running on sched ule time. Carrying 750 tons of rubber and nickel, as the Deutschland does on her return trip, will be but a drop in the bucket of the present German de mands. The creation of tho Deutsch land shows Imagination and spunk. It is not a new mechanical achievement, but the natural result of technics pushed on by the stress of the neces sity of war. He told me that this war has done more to develop them than 60 years of peace time. Her existence Is the result of the tremendously high development of the Diesel engine in Germany, where the steamless mode of propulsion has advanced further than in any other country. Captain Koenig and his crew do not get fancy wages. One American paper reported that their pay was equivalent to that of a Major in the German army. On the contrary, the crew is aid in accordance with the ordinary Nord Deutscher Lloyd wage scale and the engineers are getting the pay of ekilled mechanics. Captain Koenig in sists that each one is there for the love of it and not for fancy wages. He (bays that undoubtedly some sort of gratuity will be given them upon their return to Germany, but that is all. A submarine has few comforts. Dur ing the trip over there was very little 'washing, very little shaving, and few took off their clothes. It is the same yarn for all submarines during war catch your 40 winks when you can and stretch out on your bunk when you can, for any moment the signal may come to dive, and all hands must be on the job instantly. The boat is very hot. and the Diesel engine makes a tremendous racket as well as generat ing intense heat. In rough weather there is only one inlet for air and that is in the conning tower, which serves es an air duct for the air, compressor. Interior Like War Boats, In outward appearance, the Deutsch land is not a thing of beauty. Her false works, surrounding the circular part, make her squat and ugly, and her little conning tower is liko a knot on a log. Her appearance is improved by her two masts. The Deutschland sent no signals, but received dally communications from the German stations until 500 miles off the American coast. The only flag signals exchanged were with a German scout outside Helgoland. Curiously, the Deutschland fell In with no vessels while crossing the ocean, but, during her submergence in the English Channel,- the sound of the propellers of the British patrol ves sels was heard in the telephones. She was never seen at all, however. It was because of bad fog that Koenig de scended in the Channel, not wishing to risk coming up alongside a British vessel. Log Dull Reading:. . 'Our submarine experts believe the cargo-carrying Deutschlands and bel ligerent T"-boats wili break the war," declared Captain Koenig. "They argue as follows: The function of war is to keep the enemy from getting supplier. 3f you succeevi in this, war stops auto matically. And thus the Deutschlands will break the blockade. The Germans elho will luiild hundreds of large sub marines, armed with 30 or 40 torpedoes, large and small, one torpedo for each Knglish ship. Realize what this means. Germany is self-supporting. England is not." I asked Captain Koenig if I might see his log. ! "It in as vlry reading as the London ! Times or a technical work on high me chanics." he replied. "The run into the Virginia Capes brought us no adven tures, no narrow escapes, and here we are loaded to go back. All I did was to navigate a ship across the ocean, tind 1 am going to navigate, it home again, something I have done hundreds of time before. You can see the log. l"i t you won't read it. It is really a report of a technical nature. Every thing workevl precisely as we had in tended. And the Deutschland will be back again." Shall the arrival of the Deutschland be lost on our own navy? As yet, we have no submarine that can duplicate her journey. The youngsters in our submarine service say it can can be ione. and that .the future of the nub marine lies in the big type, able to operate 4000 miles away. But the non experts in Congress believe in the small vessels. With us professional advice does not count. tCopyrlgl-.t. t!1. by John V. wheeler. Inc.) TRADED HOME IS BURNED Family, Preimriiiff to Move, Even loosen Money in Fire. ' ONTARIO. Or., July 29 (Special.) After trading his farm for Seattle residence property and packing his household goods to move there, the home of C. J. Anderson, a farmer liv ing west of Ontario, was destroyed by fir Friday. All the personal belongings of Mr. Anderson, his wife, two sons and two laughters were destroyed, including their money. . )rr " "m, 3 V I Vn h ,t ')fm -. '. U : ' - rh ; . . 1 &yxy DUELS W011 OVER Columbia Naval Base to Be Recommended. SENATOR LANE CONFIDENT Secretary of Navy Is Said to Regard Item as One of Most Meritorious in Measure Providing Appropriations. OKEGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, Jluy 29. Secretary Daniels, of the Xavy, in a telephone conversation with Senator Lane, today positively assured the Senator that he would recommend to the conference com mittee on the naval appropriation bill the retention of the Lane amendment appropriating ?500,000 for a submarine and torpedo boat base on the Columbia River. The Secretary did not go to the Capitol today as the Columbia River item has not. been reached, but said he would go at the proper time. Senator Lane now expresses complete confidence that this appropriation will be agreed to by the conference com mittee. He says further that he learns that the Navy Department now regards this item as one of the most meritorious in the naval bill and the one item above all others that most contributes to the naval defense of the Pacific Coast. Early Operations Likely. If this amendment Is retained, and the House members from Oregon are agreed that It will be if Secretary Daniels makes the proper recommenda tion, the commission which is to in vestigate sites for naval and sub marine bases will this Summer visit the Columbia River and determine the exact site where the submarine base shall be located, and when that is. de termined the Navy Department will proceed at once with plans looking to the acquisition of the necessary land and the erection of buildings, piers, ways, etc. The commission while on the Colum bia River will make a thorough exam ination and determine whether sr not it is advisable at this time to expand the submarine, base into a full naval ba3e such as the people have been demand, ing. Farther Appropriation deeded. Their report on this latter point will not be made public until submitted to Congress next December. Among other things, the commission will inspect the various sites which the citizens of Astoria have offered to donate. A. further appropriation will have to be made next session, as th J500.000 carried in the Lane amendment is only for the beginning, but this amount is thought to be ample for the coming six months. There will be another naval bill passed before March 4 next. TROOPS ARE DEFENDED FEW GUARDSMEN SENT TO BORDER . IX DAY COACHES. No Reason Existed for Asking; Pood of Civilians, Secretary of War Reports to Inquirers. WASHINGTON', July 29. In response to House resolutions of inquiry. Sec retary Baker made a report today on the transportation of National Guards men" to the bordet. The resolution asked for information on charges that the Guardsmen had been transported in day coaches; that their trains had been unreasonably sidetracked and .that they were insufficiently fed and cared for. Secretary Baker says the guards in some instances were transported in day coaches but that no cars without lights were used and that troop trains were not sidetracked unreasonably. "Regular Army rations more than suf ficient for the joflrney were furnished all troops, he asserts, either en leav ing mobilization camps or -en route and that all cars used ware - inspectad to remedy, detects or deficiencies that - ' '.'--"' x '- v.1.. - : x ..'V-.'V.'"'-:-i:v3S:.o-lv(" THE DKITSCHLAXD would imperil the health or safety of the troops. The report says day coaches were used only in cases where, owing to the urgency of the situation and the large number' of troops moved at one time, it was not practical to delay. Wherever it cold be done, arrange ments were made to transfer troops from day coaches to tourist sleepers. Regarding rations, the Secretary re ports that no reason existed for troops seeking food from civilians. Acting Quartermaster-General Sharpe reported that to have moved all the troops in Pullman or tourist cars would have required 3000 cars. The Pullman Company made available for the troops 80 per cent of all tourist cars it owns. EXECUTION FACTS ASKED BRITAI.V REQUESTS AMERICA V EM BASSY TO REPORT. Efforts of Mr. Gerard, in Berlin, to Have Captain Kryatt's Trial Post poned Is Without Avail. LONDON, July 29. The Foreign Of fice today published' the communication it sent to the American Ambassador, Walter H. Page concerning the case of Captain Fryatt. The comr.-.unication says: "His Majesty's government finds It difficult to believe that a master of a merchant vessel, who, after German submarines had adopted the practice of sinking merchant vessels without warning and with no regard for the lives of the passengers or the crew, took the step which appeared to af ford the only chance of saving not only his vessel, but the lives of all on board, can have been shot to death de liberately in cold blood for this action. "If the German government has, in fact, perpetrated such a crime in the case of & British subject held prisoner by them, it is evident that a most serious condition of affairs has arisen. "The Foreign Secretary therefore is obliged, on behalf of the government, to request that an urgent inquiry may be made to its embassy in Berlin as to whether the report that the shooting of Captain Fryatt is true, in order that the British government may have, with out delay, a full and undoubted ac count of the facts before them." The communication adds that Ambas sador Page sent to Foreign Minister Grey in answer to his notes of July lg and 20 a message from Embassador Gerard in Berlin saying he had asked postponement of the trial of the Brit ish captain, but without avail. FISH PARASITE PUZZLES Expert Vnable to Name Grub That Is Spoiling Anglers Catches. SEATTLE. Wash., July 29. (Spe cial.) Efforts of Game Warden Rief to name the parasite that is found in the fish caught by sportsmen in Klaus and Short lakes, in the northern part of the county, have not been suc cessful. He is making a thorough study of the grubs that oftentimes become as big as a quarter of. an inch and ren der the fishermen's catch worthless. Excellent baskets have been obtained after long tramps to the lakes Klaus Lake is six miles from a wagon road but the fish have not been edible be cause of the parasites. J. G. Priestley, in making an exam ination of the fish he caught recently, found that the parasite grows rapidly outside of the water, as well as in side, and that it has lived longer than three days after emerging from the ocean, which is the natural state within the fish. , EXTRA PROTECTION DENIED Contlnued From First Pa?e. treasury and navy department officials, it was ruled that no extraordinary pre cautions could be ordered, because the United States views the Deutschland as an ordinary merchantman. New Highway Started. ABERDEEN', Wash.. July 29. (Spe elal.) Construction of another arterial road between Aberdeen and the upper county towns was started Monday by August aim, Aberdeen contractor, and will be completed by Fall. It will follow the south bank of the Chehalis. It. will t of particular advantage, to Cosmopolis people, who will be two miles nearer Montesano, !, (V V -. ' V " - ......... . . '.V ' - -.... .... .. - : -i . . '. . . - . . AD CAPTAIN KOEMU. ABUSE IS CHARGED Germans Force French to Work Under Fire, Says Paris. APPEAL IS SENT NEUTRALS Investigation of Conditions in Be partinents Occupied by Foe Is Kequested Long List of Ac cusations Is Made. - PARIS, July 29. As a protest against the action of the German authorities toward the population In French de partments occupied by Teutonic forces. France sent today an official note to the neutral powers. Premier Briand ad-dresaed to J. J. Jusserand, the French Ambassador at Washington, anj to the other French representatives in neutral countries, a note reading as follows: I ask you to call the attention of the government to which you are ac credited t the treatment to which the populations of Lille, Houbaix and Tourcoing have been subjected by the German authorities. "The French government in the pres ence of revealed facts invokes the ap plication of article 3 of The Hague convention concerning laws and cus toms of conducting land, warfare, to the end that Germany be held respon sible for violations of these rules by its armed forces. . Appeal la to Public Opinion. "Until a tlecteion by arms has per mitted the reconquering of these oc cupied regions, the sole means of mak ing this effective is by pressing an appeal to the sentiments of justice and humanity "of neutral powers and the public opinion of all nations. Protests Are in Vain. "Today, all our protests having been vain, we place the evidence before the eyes of neutral powers, assured of the judgment that universal conscience will pass upon such conditions and that it will be Incumbent on the German gov ernment. In case it undertakes to ques tion this evidence, to permit an im partial inquiry. To this end the Ger man government must . authorize the neutral powers to conduct an investi gation, notably of the events occurring at Lille. Roubaix and Tourcoing and surrounding communities from the 22d to the 29th of April, 11. If they refuse to authorize an inquiry it will be a recognition of the veracity of the facts denounced." The note ia accompanied by a mass of testimony concerning the seizure for work in fields of thousands of women and young girls. The document says that the events which occurred at Lille, Roubaix and Tourcoing were only the application of the cruel system of work forced on the population, and describes the various forma of valolence the Germans are accused of having prac ticed. Aged Men Labor. - The note says: "A woman who was removed from B affirms that her husband was shot for refusing to obey an order to requisition, supplies, and that eha her self was imprisoned for two days. "In F , Meurthe and Moselle, work assigned to Mayor being uncompleted in time, he was suspended from tree by means of .rope passed under his arms, and he" was left in this position about an hour. The note cites cases of men TO to SO years old made to work; of women forced to labor under the fire of French troops and of others compelled to dig trenches. It also maif s & charge, baeed on the testimony of a witness, that in October. 1914, the Germans took from the department of Pas de Calais a party of inhabitants, that they used them as shields against the fire of the French and that 40 were thus killed. The document says the German gov ernment on January 24, 1916. denievl mistreatment of inhabitants, but, ay the French note, "sworn testimony re garding measures taken in April at Lille snows the degree of faith which can be placed in their denial." Pe Ell Faces Dark 'Winter. CENTRALIA. Wah.. Jwiy 29. (Spe cial.) Manager Bush, of the Central Light Power Company, has refused to submit a bid for lighting the streets of Pe Ell, starting August 1. as re- V I 731 sr.. quested by the Town Council, and lndl cations are that Fe Ell will be dark all Winter. The power company's dam in the Chehalis River was washed out during the high water last Winter and nas never been repaired. Manager Bush says that he cannot furnish the required current. GOVERNMENT TO FIND JOBS Labor Clearing-Houscs to Bo Opened in All States. WASHINGTON. July 29. Plans for establishing Federal labor clearing houses in every state were announced tonight by Commissioner-General Cam inettl of the Immigration Bureau, who directs the Department of Labor's em ployment service. Mr. Caminetti also has worked out arrangements with the War and Navy departments by which it Is hoped that all men on retiring may find the kind of work they want in the place where they want it. In addition, special ef forts will be made to preside employ ment for members of enlisted men's families. A young men and boys' department similar to the women and girls' depart ment inaugurated last May is to be created by the service. This will have the double purpose of securing employ ment for boys over 16 and under 21 and of developing their efficiency through elementary and vocational training. TURKEY H0LDSUP SUCCOR American Supplies for Relief of Ar menians Halted on Way. ATHENS, via London. July 31. It is learned in semi-official Greek circles that the Turkish government is hold ing up the distribution of American supplies intended for the relief of Ar menians. The condition of Armenian refugees is said to be most pitiable. The total number of civilians massacred up to this time lsput at 800,000. according to estimates made here. PIN PRICK CAUSES DEATH Lane County Woman, 84, Extracts Sliver and Dies. EUGENE, Or., July 29. (Special.) Mrs. Dinzilla Nye Folley. 84, was buried at Walterville. Lane County, yesterday. She died on Wednesday from blood poisoning, caused by prick ing her finger with a pin. - Mrs. Pol ley ran a sliver into one of her fingers and used the pin to ex tract it. Doy Pioneers to Bo Scout Auxiliary. NEW TORK, July 2. For American boys residing in rural communities where no Boy Scouts of American troops have been' formed. a new class of scouts, to be known as the Boy Pioneers is to be organized, it was announced at the National headquarters nere to day. Heretofore it was stated, thou sands of boys in sparsely settled dis tricts have been unable to enroll as scouts because of insufficient numbers to make up troops. Dallas Masons Are Hosts. DALLAS, Or.. July 29 (Special.) About 200 members of the Masonic or der participated in a big banquet given by the local branch of the order in this city last night. The banquet followed lodge work'in the conferring of degrees by the team of the local lodge. Visitors from Newberg, McMinnville. Sheridan, Independence, Falls City and Salem attended. Seven Cnrloads of Cattle Shipped. EUGENE, Or.. July 29. (Special.) Seven carloads of cattle bought in Eu gene and vicinity during the past week were shipped to California last night. The purchasers were Bonlon Bros., of Oxnard. CaL.'and C. W. Cook, of Ven tura, Cat. Liqnor Fine of $150 Paid. THE TJALLE". Or.. July 29. (Spe cial.) Tom Hale, of Antelope, who created some excitement here .last Tuesday with an auto full of whisky, and who was fined ?40 In the Police Court and later re-arrested by county officers, pleaded guilty in the Justice Court yesterday to a charge of violat ing prohibition laws and was fined Telephone ytlr of ;. mnMM or a hfavy wire t ar being mid In Kurope. Th poles mrm rural y broken, will nlthr rot aor ruat an 4 art impregnable to laect. To Participate in Celebration Over Completion of Railroad Connection Leaves Portland 11:15 P. M. Wednesday, Aug. 23. Returns to Portland Sunday Morning, August 27. ROUND-TRIP FARES, INCLUDING ALL MEALS: Upper Berth in Pullman, $23. Lower berth in Pullman, $27. " Compartment for two persons, $30 each. Drawing-room for three persons, $32 each. Drawing-room for two persons, $35 each. EXCURSION WILL FOLLOWING J. L. Bowman John F. Carroll Nathan Strauss H. J. Blaesing Frank C. Riggs W. F. Grier C. J. Mathis J. E. Werlein C. S. Loveland Rufus Holman Charles F. Berg Make Reservations Now at Room 504 Chamber of Commerce, Oregon Building Phones: Broadway 440, A 6091 Jollity Acquaintance $150 which he paid and was released from custody. POLK RECALL IMPENDS j Removal of Two Members. of County' Court Is Proposed. DALLAS, Or, July 29. (Special.) Interest in the proposed recall of the members of the Polk County Court has seemed to lag during the past few days. It is reported that the petitions are being prepared and will be circu lated floon. As yet, Herman Petrie, named by the recall meeting as a can didate to run against Judge John B. Teal, and George McCullock. named to run against Commissioner Clyde Beck ett, have not accepted, and it is not known that they will accept, though the committee in charge of the circu lation of the petitions assert that both will be available. The charges upon" which the court is sought to be recalled relate almost en tirely to the trouble that ensued over the Independence bridge and pavement Improvement. Lane School Attendance High. EUGENE, Or.. July 29. (Special.) A report by E. J. Moors, superintendent of schools in Lane County, shows 11,721 children of school age in Lane County, of whom 5850 are boys and E971 are girls. The number of teachers em ployed Is 446. The report shows that the percentage of attendance for the entire county during the last year was 98.4. V. C. Cook Laid to Rest. William C. Cook, who died at his home, 1798 Woolsey street, July 27. was burled yesterday afternoon, services be ing held at Flnley's chapel. Rev. A. B. Waltz conducted the services. Dr. BE IN CHARGE OF COMMITTEE: Dean Vincent Edward Cookingham A. L. Fish C. C. Colt W. J. Hofmann W. F. Woodward Frank McCrillis O. C. Bortzmeyer J. Fred Larson . J. C. English George E. Hardy on the Bay Business Stuart McGulre sang "The End of a Perfect DflV" nnri "Rnniifffni Somewhere." Pallbearers were George noDPri nammond. Martin Martin, Steve Bryan. Ed Curtis and Frank Taylor. Interment. was in Rose City Cemetery. Mr. Cook is survived by his widow and a son and daughter. Vera JE. Cook and Rav M rnnk nr thi. city. NEGLECT E . YOUR TEETH And You Will Have to Pay the PENALTY izr 'y DR. B. E. YiRiCilT The penalty is pain, ill health and loss of personal at tractiveness. Come to me at once. If you have lost a few teeth I will re place them with serviceable, fine-appearing substitutes. 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