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-." ,---" " "..- . i : .- "" " , - ."'" 1 K tr r .flYour "Lost",.,!; frT ' TUB Is Ulcely to b the.; usa-' , WKATHElt . ; first thine in the V PPr . that, the :' finder will read. Try 'it once and ' ' - tee. . , " ,Plr tonight and Thursday; northwest wind; humidity. ?C 1 3s" - -4.' VOL. XIIL NO. 140. : ' s f :i - - V PORTLAND,, OREGON; " WEDNESDAY vVENING. AUGUSTa9AU91IXTSEN-irrAGSS,T t t :.?; : ; PRICE 'TWO CENTS. 'Ma" irxwr'' ciim Pope Pius X Passes Forts Liege Rej56ed lo Bave , , i , j it , m 3 r I1 ; MIA Mattered u 1. Si Pius :X Hoped and Prayed That Terrible Clash of Arms of Great . European i Countries Might at Last Be Averted. PONTIFF ISSUED AN . APPEAL TO CATHOLICS Fervent Address Asked the Clergy to Take Cause of Peace Before Great Arbiter; Physical. Ailments Over come Leader. Caraw of Fins X. Pope Flus X wat torn at; e Raise, near Venice, , June 2,' 1S5. t ' ' He studied at Rleee, Trev : lso aad Padua. He was; ordained a prtest in 1SSS. . T Me served ' nine years as a , curate. e In 1867 he wae 'appointed; e priest. of the parlMb of 8alza.no. Ja 187S he became chancellor of the diocese. '. . - He became 7 vicar , 'capltalftr p I e HI H77. - .. . . In lisi h was created Blah- In lb'Ji Tie became cardinal and patriarch of Venice. -He was elected pope August (Unitfd Pnwt Uuet Wire.) Rome, Aug. 19. Pope Pius died at the Vatican this after noon. Thoutrh in failing health , , - . , . ' - , vj lung nine, s ins wsc iiis i been considered serious but Yesterday, however, Doctors Amict and Marchiafava admit ted his condition was grave. Early today it was said he was threatened with pneumo nia. How imminent was his dan ger was riot realized even then, until the actual announcement of his death was made. The ' pope lapsed into unconscious ness at noon, Just after the last sacra ment had been administered to him. The .physicians administered oxygen to keep him alive until the arrival at his bedside of the officials which the church rites require to be at " the pontiffs bedside at the end. sjister at Sis Bedside. At 1:30 p. m. the doctors said the patient's condition was desperate. His lever Increased and he wasvery weak. Th physicians could do nothing and the sufferer sank steadily until the moment of his death. His sister, Maria, to whom he was devotedly attached, and who. has lived with or near him for the past 20 years to attend his wants, was, with him at the end, . His holiness was described as af flicted With bronchial catarrh and gout when first taken ill. - It was recognised by his physicians, however, that mental perturbation over ' the European war had more to do with his breakdown than . hs physical ail ments,' gravs- as they were. He died practically of a broken heart as a re sult of the conflict. He fainted when told that hostilities actually had begun. .; Grief Over European War. One of his last acts before it was realised how close he was to death was to Issue the exhortation to the .world:;',"-' '" "At this moment, when nearly the whole of Europs is being dragged into ths vortex of a most 'terrible war, with Us present dangers and miseries and the ' consequences to follow, the very thought of which must strike everyone with . grief and horror, we. ' whose cars Is the. life and welfare of so many clUzens and peoples, cannot but be" deeply moved ana our hearts wrung, with thebitterest sorrow. . "And in the midst, of this universal confusion and peril, we feel and know that both fatherly love and apostolic ministry demand of us that we should with all earnestness turn the thoughts of Christendom thither 'whence come , the help, to Christ, - the prince of peace and the most powerful mediator between God and man. - ' Appeal to the Siety. , 'WVcharge, therefore, the Catholics ' of the whole world to approach . the . throne of grace and. mercy, each and - all of them, and more especially the clergy, whose duty furthermore it will be to make in. every parish, as their - bishops shall direct, public suppllca .'. tlon, so that the merciful God may, as POPE PIUS, X, BORN f - it were, "be 'wearied1 With -the prayers! if NYl of his children - and speedUy 4 remove I - 11 1 1- 'W- -Villi ' " the evil causes of war, giving to them ivnu pie iq mum iuuu(uii ui pears and not of affliction; r "from the pal ace, of the Vatican, the second day of August, 1914. 1 . (Signed) "PIUS X, PONTIFEX AlAXIJUUS., Cardinal Mrry.,del'Valtwas reported already to have recalled to Rome, all the members of the sacred college who recently left; the city. " ' . The pope was born in 1835 and reached the leadership of the Roman Catholic church In 1903 as-successor to L,eo XIII. , ' i Death . Ceremonial Begins. : With the pope's death there began at once the elaborate ceremoniar which has followed each succeeding supreme pontiff's death tor, .centuries past. These ceremonies, continuing for period of nine days, have Ions been conceded , to be' the" most 'solemn. Im pressive and " withal' the most picturesque-funeral obsequies in the, world. issuing in ioua tones tonne. attend ants In -the room adjoining .the death cnamoer ror a canaie, the physicians, in accordance with ; prescribed prece dent, first held the flame close to the dead pontiff's mouth. an nostsUs. .The name Deing unaisturhed, nfe was pro nounced extinct and the corpse was at once turned over to the "penltenzieri," or confessors "of the Vatican, iri whose Care it wa remain unul it is removed to St. Peters. Noble Guards fake Stations, i With the summoning of .the "neni- tenaieri," a body of noble guards took up stations about the death .chamber. .reniienzierv on their part, benan at once .the recitation of psalms and the funeral offices of the dead, which will be continued until Cardinal Cam erlengo's arrival to assume temporary papal authority, pending . the election by the college of cardinals of a suc cessor to the late pope.- In accordance twith the Perfect ma chinery for the succession of the pap acy, rius aeatn naa narmy been es tablished ' before Cardinal Merry del Val, the papal secretary of state, had been notified. He, in., turn, notified the Cardinal . Camerlengo, - or Lord Chamberlain of the "papal household, and the latter began .immediately to make the necessary preparations for taking over the - temporary -authority of the church. . , Crown Prince Shot - At on Berlin Street it n v X i . . .. ,- - 1 fugitive American Bays Xe Saw Two Han Dressed a Priests Draw Sterol , vers and Snoot at ICaiaer's Bon, New York, Aug. ; 19. Richard Baren, a passenger on the liner Finland that arrived today, said the German crown prince was attacked " in Berlin on the night of July 81.. . . - "I was riding in Unter den Linden,' said Baren, -wnen 1 saw the crown prince and his military "- escort. ap proaching. Then-I,. saw.- two.. men, dressed as priests, step from the crowd. draw revolvers and lire. 1 ne prince placed his hand to: his hip, appeared for a second to be. swaying, ancvthen galloped to the palace, I exposure he was wounded. ". ' -.". ' 1 "The crown prince's assailants were spirited away by-soldiers, I tblnklthey were JRussian" spies.'1 "C -' -: " 1835, ELfeCTEDSUPREf.lE PONTIFF. jN- 1S03 j m II 1 " : X ill l : ' 11 1.--.111 ...r.u 2 , Jii ill iff .-..U i?z.$At i Ii . ' . 'jsjBsSrT ':' '. SERVICE Lower picture shows the late , pontl E' HUMBLE STATION BY - FORCE OF HIS ABILITY Pius X'SimpIe in, Policy Yet Just, and Wise; Admrms- trative Powers' Great. ni Pope Plus X-was a; native of the little village of Riese,, in 4;he -Venetian province of -Trevlso. which. In 1S03, gave to the church a pontiff in JJlccola Boceasinl, who ' assumed ." the r. triple crown under the name of Benedict XI. Born June 2, 1835, to a poor and bumble family of the name .of Sarto, Plus X was christened: Giuseppe (Jo- seph and-' known throughout- his life ty, the "dialect equivalent -or uiuseppe, J43eppo." - --' .i- - - - -r The early, life . of Pope .Pius was filled wlth .activity The district of Treviso Is one of poverty, only , those who bave seen it realizing the strug gle for existence that ever prevails. Little "Giuseppe sarto' was -one, of a "family of 10, to feed 'Whose; hungry mouths the rather could not earn any thing approaching a . 'living wage. Tms act-suggesis-wnat.sacnrices j:nei household, had to endure, to ensure .the boy the means of educatloiv.finally se PONTIFF 0 FROM jtCwuchidied- oa Fire. Column: Tatee) PHOTOS f f taking a walk the Vatican. IS k ODESSA DOCKS AFIRE News . Comes From London but Is Unconfirmed;' Ger- mans" Fire on Italians,- (Cnlted PreM Leased Wire.) London, ;Aug. 19. That the Odessa docks were on -fire and that a Russian warship . had been, sunk by a mine In the; Black sea was rumored here -this afternoon, but there , was no confirma tion 'of either report.": and the official information bureau badeheard nothing of them, x " -';,".? ' s The London" Star published a Rome report- that German-soldiers bad fired among a large number; of, Italians con- flnedi in tne narraexs at Aiaagennrg, killings seven and wounding, others; be cause they; bad cheered for Italy. This report, too,, lacked conllrmatKm. , . V'. r"'- : :-- :"' -t ' v , Confirmed at Washington. t Washington, Aug. , 19. The Japa nese -embassy here announced today that. th..TimiuM.Tninitr t.Jurit. I colm had cabled, that the mikado's ul- timatum to-Germany had been received Sb.lUV iVfMtU W4.V .- RUSSIAN WARSHIP REPORTED SUNK AND ATF ' fl f I I FR F OlHu.-biiuLU JO I ILL L-?;liUsi I . 1 1 O hi m M Ml . I1 . IAI eV. " A. y U n 1 A 4 Taken - Forts : arid" Belgian Ficpcrt ! Says ",Fcrts Have : t Jot : Cccn Abandoned.'. KAISEHICLAIHS CIG i:.:GUnS DID' THE' WORK Failure, o.t .'First Attempt Laid - to Small .Numbsr, of V cn VVrVholVere Scnt..0ut J' '," rnlted Trt Leid .TTlrf.K 4U)tterdarj3,. , . Aug, 19. There we 3 much conflict, today in accounts con cerning the t&te. ofLtbeJUege. forts.. - The wireless f press - service, . tanc- thined by the German - governmenf," as serted th. Germans liid taken tb a and were preparing them for their own defense. , Another story, was that the v were still 'holding out as" late, at any rate,' as Monday: - 0 1 Belgian advices Were -that-th forts "appeared to, be stllf held by the Bll&.r. garrisons,' As; nothing had beenhenrd by'the war-ministry of 'their having fallen. 1 '! , .v- A' fourth version wes 'that the Bel gians dynamited and abandoned.' them. The Oerman -account" was that the forts were easily reduced hen artil lery" eat "brought to beat on them, and that the -appearance of ftMayHt t' e outset was due 'to-the fact- tl.st tie first German fores Tttr rf;tch thr-.n v,.is a comparatively -small -and not t"Mj prepared 'body .of" troc- whk'.i v ruslied to the front on e atnr 1 ' 1 'Art-t it ".thB . rni-lr j s j , -he " - J ..Hon. JU tt . The actual German- advance it was declared, was : Just, beginning. , ; -' .The .fighting in -Alsace-Lorraine, it was .asserted,: bad not been important. LONDON REPORT k . - . DECLARES FORTS ' - ARE CAPTURED : (United rre Leaned Wire.) London, Aug. 19. Despite official denials, it -was persistently reported here today that the Liege forts r had fallen; Other accounts were that their. garrisons had dynamited -them -after the German - artillery had so . badly wrecked them that they were no longer defensible. Krom Brussels came the assertion that "at last accounts the forts were holding out." Through central Belgium, from north to south- ran a mighty battle line. Fighting started at dawn Tuesday and still continued today. All dispatches Indicated that the al lies .were- hard pressed before Brussels and Waterloo. Newspapers here pre dicted thfc fall of Brussels. Another German force "was attacking Namur. At the front of the flarhttng line be tween the frontiers of Holland and of Luxemburg, it - was understood the kaiser bad 400,000 men, with 860,900 held in reserve. ' i 1 v . Barred rrom frontier. Yet, even though Brussels should be taken, military experts here de clared they believed it would be Im possible for -the Germans' to reach the-French frontier. .The Belgian cap ital's fall, they pointed out, would still leave the allies between them and -their goal, and it was predicted they wotul never succeed is breaking their way - through ; the latter's ranks. British troops were believed to be aiding the French and Belgian defense. Details.' however, .were -lacking- owing to the strictness of the censorship. The Belgian legation here denied a rumor that Brussels had already been captured. "A very severe battle Is in progress east of the city, the legs tlon stated, "but the Belgian position is considered satisfactory." - ' Germans Effect Junction. The - Germans - were attacking the Belgian outposts at Louvaine and an other struggle - was In progress south of here. . " It was believed the kaiser s troops were approaching Brussels. The can nonadlng was dinstinctly audible in the ' city. ."- .- There was a rigid censorship. - V ra as -I 1nnwn riAwairtto t-Kas Iha- a. A r eaw v s vtvtss V German-army of the Meuse had ef fected a Junction with the first army of the Moselle, and that the two were advancing, the Infantry entrenching as it came- - - . The ' war office here was without news from Liege, but It was believed the forts there were sua noiamg out. v... ... 11. a .1 1 " 1 ' Brussels Is Abandoned? Paris. Aug. 19. Reports that the Belgians had definitely -abandoned the defense of Brussels circulates widely today. They were not confirmed, but offi cials admitted that' perhaps they were true, savins they had never "seriously expected the city would be defended, the Belgian plans looking- rather to the safeguarding ot 'Antwerp. . ;If the general staff had. gone to the latter, place, : it was remarked that it was 'only in fulfillment of their pre vious plans.- - . ; Mo ' information had been; received of any; fighting west of - Brussels. ?r 'Paris Hears of, Brussels Fall. , iParis,-Aug.'v:19;---The foreign office here admitted this r afternoon thatv It had "heard Brussels had" fallen.-"'" J . . .- i.,.--.-' a .- --iK P.- s-t . tf ' - ' -- . """ - X" - " ; ... . . - " WilsohkPicjRs SuiDVerhe justice Attorn GregorySucedd TopAttorn Genitrat -JanM-s C- McRejiiQlds,' selected as successor v to late VnJted States Supreme Bottom- Thomas Gregory 'of .Aatlst, ;.f Attorney General- lIcBeynolds; w The Hew Attorney-General.' - Thomas -Watts Gregory, Just appointed to succeed Attorney- General McReynolds. won a name for, himself as a "trust- 4 buster" attorriey for the -state - of Texas against the Waters- . Pierce end standard Oil. conv- panies.' As a result of his ef- f icient work these corpora- tlon were compelled to pay w heavy penalties and were . 4 ousted - from the ' state. In 1913 he was appointed special assistant to the attorney gen- 4 eral in charge of the N. Y., N. ". - H. & H, R, R. investigation. which has- just- ended . a? com- plete victory for the govern- 4 ment. Mr. Gregory is 6 3. years ; 4) old -and a Mississlpplan - by birth. He has -lived in Texas since his 'youth, making his" home at. Austin. With the-ex- o ception of an assistant attor- o neyshlp be has never held pup- " lie of flee before. He Is a prom- inent Democrat in his state. 4? Interned byVDutch : -'For Best .of thenar . Rotterdam. Aug. 19.. Lieutenant da Moranvllle, 'son of the" commander in chief of the - Belgian -forces in arms against the Germans, wandered ' acci dentally into Dutch territory. today and was disarmed and Interned for the rest of th war. " - - --. - i ' ' 1 : ' ;Jy -.-I'-crjr's ;Honor;: Assaye'r'for, Seat- .1 V ii The JTew'f Supreme Justice. e j .... JL I 1 ' CodK Justice. lrton. . Texas, named to take the place t ; .1 have been CabrrvetfrOffrciaV-Gets .High "'Janksr r. .CTlark Mciteynolds -leaves' President S Wilson's cab--Inet-aS attorney general- to- oc- opy 'seat-i ln the 'United - States .'.supreme court ' recently made vacant by-the death of Justice - Lurtoni" From. 190s to . 1907 ' he was assistant - at- torney g-eneral and following his retirement from offloe Was " long "retained by tne s govern- 1 menr fa anti-trust easest 1 lie was- appointed to the "Wilson 'ciDinet' in 1913. v h' is 2 w years old-' and & native " of Kentucky, but. for 'years- prftc- ' tlced -law at Nashville. ?Tenn. a rKr. McReynoWs is - a" graduate of- VindeTb lit I University. ' where1 he was professor, of law 4 ; from 1900"-to ltDJ. He Is un- married. . :. - - V 'lCslted trci Leaaed Wire.) Washington,. . Aug. 19. - President Wilson sent to the senate today the nomination of Attorney General James CMcReynolds to be a justice of the supreme court of the United States, to succeed the late Justice Lurton. At the same time the president nom inated Thomas Gregory of Austin, Texas, to . succeed McReynolds as at torney general. . The nomination of John w. Phillips to be assayer at Seattle also was sent to the senate. , Home of Cabinet Members. That the little city of Austin. Texas. which Is the home' of Thomas W. Gregory, the new"' attorney-general, has also been the bome tif two other mem bers of President Wilson's cabinet. Sec retaries Houston and Burleson, and is the residence of Colonel E. M. House, the president's closest friend and ad viser, was pointed out this morning by Colonel L M. Standifer, a Portland at tornev. :. "I have known Mr. Gregory quite -a long time," said Colonel Standifer. Tie is yet a young man. tie nrst aiiraciea national attention In the suit of the state of -Texas against the Waters- Pierce Oil company for violation of the anti-trust law. " In this case the state recovered: the, sum of $2,000,000 from IBS vil wmiiu. "Mr, Gregory has never run ror public office. He has recently repre sented the government in the proceed ings against the N. T.. N. H. -aV H. railroads and doubtless displayed in that case his great legal atUInmsnts. - "Austin, Mr. Gregory's home, I fear will get a swelled head. Mr. Burleson, ths Dostmaster-general, ' comes - from that town. -Dr. Houston, the secretary of - sericulture, was until . recently resident ef Austin and president of the Texas university, going from there to accept the presidency of an institu tion of learning at St, Louis. Edward M. House, - the confidential friend and adviser i of the president ' also lives there." - ... ' "So you can see '- that a 'town of about - J0.00O. people which furnishes three cabinet" officers and' a manager for i m president baa ; ample' Justifies 1 tloa-ln patting iiseix-on ineDaca,-; E5 IMUIILM I ItlU JUSTIFIED, SAYS E LOVETT Union Pacific's Chief Be lieves War ;Will Result in . Business Being Conducted "More Conservatively. . l' UW OF SUPPLY AND - DENTAND DOMINATES Railroad Man Declares Law : makers Cannot Control '": Cost of Food. ' - Wan or no war, the railroads ef the. United SUUs will spend less money. ' forr improvements In the next 19 years .than they.have lathe last five. .The .vaulting - prices-' of: foodstuffs . are justified because of the Isw" of supply and demand, the War in, Eu rope 'having cut off sources of pro- ductlort,. which, : calls , for enormous drains-upon, the products of the United States. .. ,"..'-, 1 ' While there !iS'bo spirit of pessisi- -ism In the air,, when conditions settle down to -normal. -business will be con- -ducted on- a more ? conservative, . eub r.intU) btfRls." and the dar of quick ; 1 tnormous profits IU be' ended.- Th. s WHi some ef the observa tion of Jmlsre lw B, Lovett. chairman . or tiie buHi-J of directors of the Union -Vjciile j teni who arrived from Xtw York . l, -iii. night on hi, annual, .iil .-..... Ka oirr tue nyatem llo. ' lie a comianleU ly Mrs. Love: t 'and 'j fit,irlM, i.nd is travellnK slow , ' r ! i i'tt.'.1v, rv.tlisr-frt re and . . i j'r" Lin 'f : ;jis l.e i 'rOi,,. n'iiiHtion turouclJ ,'.ut t lituuw' and through tle eej. aX-varl&uo eifftclnls. "Jwe-pply'an4 Semardl-J'T" -Tn net 'sh'-espert on war ner upm .; food : prlceB.'' Mr. Lovett said -today, "but so far es t eaft see,-legislation has never- yet repealed the law ef supply and demand. While' the women and children of the nations now at war in , Kurope are tilling the field ard gath ering the crops, tlie men the farmers are at the front.' What loss T and waste will Co tne cannot be expected to -be offset by the work of these weaker tollers. Consequently there arises a great demand for "American, products, " either Immediate or ultimate. The drain ' upon American products cannot result in anything else - than 'higher prices. - ' -" - : 1 '""Another result of the war will be the liquidation of American securities held abroad. The closing of the stock exchanges has delayed that process, but it is going on nevertheless. When all Is over, the Europeans will, find they need all their own money to re pair the war damage, with - nothing ICoorluOed hi Page Srreii. Culnms To WARSHIP, FLYING NO ' FLAG, DARK, SIGHTED' OFF CAPE FLATTERY Believed to Be British Cruiser Newcastle Scouting' for Hostile Vessels, 1 (L'olted Press leaved wire.) Seattle. Wash.. Aug. If. A . rays- U terious warship of more formidable type and heavier armament than any ". that has appeared in Pacific coast . waters since the declaration of war, , . believed to be the British cruiser New castle, was sighted off Cape Flattery at a. ro. Tuesday by Captain John A. O'Brien of ths Alaska Steamship . company's liner 4 ' Victoria,- - which ; reached this port yesterdsy. -. , ' Captain O'Brien says he was'awak-' ened by the- lookout and plainly- saw -: a big war vessel with all lights doused - J and displaying no signals, steaming out to the open sea. The vessel wss .' too large to be the British i cruiser - Rainbow, the British sloops Algerine or Shearwater. She wss flying no flag.": The Victoria correspondent of tho- United Press, three days ago reported..,. . tne arrival at victoria of the heavily -armored British cruiser Newcastle. His' bulletin stated the Newcastle had raced across the Pacific to give battler- to the German cruisers Nurnberg and Lelpsic. hovering about Pacific eoest ports and menacing British shipping. A few mo ments after the bulletin was received -by the United Pyess. the message was' cancelled, no reason being given there for, r Little doubt exists - here that the -cruiser sighted by' Captain O'Brien Is the Newcastle and that she is cruising ; off the Flattery coast lying in wait for hostile vessels. ' The last heard' of '' the two Germsn warships on the north' era coast was on Friday .last when they were sighted 40 miles south of , Caps ; Flattery. ; , According to .persons arriving . la Portland this morning from Victoria, . B. C the British cruiser Newcastle ar rived from the .orient three days ago' V i. -t 4.-. ii '.' . -lo.-nMj , ..C..Jk