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' THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SUNDAY - MORNING. APRIL 18,v 1015.
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European War.
A REPORT that 39 British officers
had been placed in a military
Prison was officially confirmed at
Berlin. Their Imprisonment is In re
taliation for the treatment accorded
.German submarine prisoners n Eng
land, it was stated.
How the French liner Niagara, carry
ins 740 passengers, escaped being sunk
by a German submarine, was told by
officers of the vessel at New York
upon arriving: from French ports.
'That Frits Braatz. a naturalised
American, together with four other
men, was taken off the Holland-Amerl-'can
Uner Ryndam by a British cruiser
in ,th English channel is the report
of Braats' wife, who arrived at New
f1ork on the Ryndam.
Germany ha protested through' the
United States against the treatment
accorded by England to captured crews
of German aubmarines.
no! erring io nrmsn cnarges mat
the Germans failed to rescue those
abandoned . vessels sunk by German
divers, Von Jagow said: "Tha inference
that rescues were intentionally neg
lected can be denied with horror."
In his weekly report' made public by
the war office. Field Marshal Sir John
French declared that the situation
alone the British front remained un
changed. . -
At Armentieres the British succeeded
in exploding a mine which killed 20
Germans.
President Wilson personally directed
preparation of the note in answer- to
.the attack on America's neutrality
voiced by Count Von Bernstorff, the
German ambassador. The first thing
the president wants to learn is the
source Of the memorandum.
'The Karlsruh is still on top of
t ha ocean -not at the bottom," was
the statement of Captain Thierfeldt
of the German criuser Kron Prins
"Wilhelm at Norfolk, in denying rumors
that the famous German commerce
raider had been destroyed by the Brit
ish. - ;r
- The commander of the German con
verted cruiser Kroa Prinr Wilhelm
wired Assistant Secretary of the Treas
ury Peters to state the .government's
intention so he may dry dock the Wil
helm for inspection. - The German then
will ask for a definite period of time
lor -which . to complete repairs.
For the first tim rlnce the of
fensive wa launched in the St Mlhlel
Tegion the communique from the war
office made no mention of the opera
tions. . It was merely announced that
calm prevailed.
- The ministry of marina refused to
comment- upon - the : report reaching
London that French aviators had bom
barded Hamburg. The detailed official
ctatement . covering aerial activities
failed to mention the reported feat.
- Muelhausen, the southernmost - Ger
man stronghold . on the Rhine, and
Habstein were subjected to bombard
ment by six French aviators, accord
ing to Paris advices. Although under
heavy fire the daring Frenchmen es
caped unscathed.
German aviators have dropped
bombs upon the Belgian towns of
Poperinghe, Hazebrouck and Kossel,
occupied by he British. The extent
of the damage inflicted is not known.
The French report that allied avia
tors dropped 150 bombs upon the rail
way station at Bruges was officially
denied.. Only 11 bombs were dropped.
It was stated, and no damage was done.
That his orders are not to take any
person not accustomed to living on a
submarine aboard his vessel was the
official explanation .of the commander
of the submarine which sunk the liner
Falaba for his failure to rescue the
struggling passengers of the ship.
The Dutch steamer Katwijk, 2000
tons, was torpedoed off Noorhander
lightship, according to dispatches re
ceived at Amsterdam by the Central
News Agency. All members of the
crew were saved.
Reports printed in England that the
government intended introducing a bill
in the Reichstag extending the age
limit of military service to above 45
years were officially denied at Berlin.
"Germany," the denial said, "still has
large numbers of men under 45 avail
able for military service."
American cotton valued at $65,000
was destroyed in a fire on the Man
chester docks today.
A gain by the French of nearly a
mile after sharp fighting southwest of
Colmar In upper Alsace, was announced
by the French war office.
Fighting along the St. Mihiel wedge
is also mentioned but it would indi
cate that the Germans are on the of
fensive in Lepretre forest. The most
furious fighting is reported there. Sev
eral German attacks were repulsed, it
is announced.
At Orvillers the French heavy ar
tillery completely wrecked a line of
German : trenches. In the Argonne
100 yards of trenches were captured
by the French at Fontaine-aux-Charles,
it was declared.
determined assaults are being di
rected ' upon the hill in Alsace known
as Schnepfenritenkopf. . This position
dominates the region about it for miles
and efforts are being made by the
French to drive the Germans out.
Only isolated attacks have been made
by the French between the Meuse and
Moselle rivers during the past 24
hours, the German war office an
nounced. Assault near- Maroheville
and in Lepretre forest were beaten off.
The Germans maintained their posi
tions near Maronville, Hartsmann
weilerkopf, despite French attacks, it
was stated. The situation on the east
ern front was declared unchanged,
- German air scouts dropped bombs
on towns 31 miles distant from Lon
don. v.- -
Austrian reports claim the greatest
battle in the history of the world was
fought when the Russian advances
were checked. They say 3,500,000 men
were engaged.- ..
, Dr. M. JU Young, one of the oldest
surgeons in the United States, and
member : of the . Alma Mater Medical
society of Chicago, says young Ameri-
I cans will be needed to replenish the
1 St. Michiel, the nose of the famous wedge in the German lines, on which the French conducted an
attack recently. (Photograph by courtesy press department Eastman Kodak Co.)
2 With what is practically the same sort of an. organization as represents a country in the time of
peace, and occupying the embassy building; owned by the country, the Carranza faction is seem
ingly in command of Mexican affairs In the United States. Seated, from left to right, are: Luis
A. Poredo, Elisedo Arredondo (head of the agency), and Luis Antin. Standing, from left to right
are: Daniel Dillon, Jose M. Arredondo, Oscar E. Duplan and Santiago Garcia. (Photograph by
Harris & Ewing.)
3 A wounded Serbian soldier attacked by typhus fever and" unable to proceed farther on his jour
ney. This is not an unusual eight under the existing circumstances in Serbia. (Photograph by
International News Service.)
4 The White House baby and his mother. This photograph was taken at the Wflliamstown, Mass.,
home of Mr. and Mrs. Francis Bowes Sayre, and shows Mrs. Sayre, the daughter of President
Wilson, and her son, Francis B. Jr. (Photograph by International News Service.)
5 The Mexican embassy in Washington, occupied by representatives of Carranza. (Photograph by
Harris & Ewing.) J
population of Europe after the war
ends.
i General News.
CHIEF TWO GUNS WHITE CALF
of the Blackf oot Indian - tribe,
walked from the Palace of Varied
Industries at the Panama-Pacific ex
position with a dazed look on his face,
after talking on the transcontinental
telephone line.
A slight earthquake of three sec
onds duration was felt on Point Loma,
A freak thunderstorm hit Pomona,
Cal. Hail fell, thunder crashed and
lightning flashed vividly. Telephones
popped like firecrackers and the power
on the Pacific Electric line all the way
from Los Angeles to San Bernardino
went off suddenly and tied up all
traffic.
Henry B. Hall, a taxicab driver, who
fell from a third story window of a
hotel at Stockton, died after surviving
46 hours with a broken neck. . He was
22 years of age. Hall fell from a
narrow ledge while attempting to wash
a window.
Less than 18 hours after her mar
riage on her deathbed to Dr. Francis
E. Reynolds, Mrs. Mary D. Murphy,
one of the most prominent business
women of Alameda county, died at her
home in Oakland.
That Raymond Swoboda, spy sus
pect, asked permission to ' take five
gallons of gasoline aboard the liner
La Touralne before that vessel sailed
for Havre on the voyage during which
she caught fire, was the statement
at New York of Paul Faguet. general
manager of the French line.
Cardinals Gibbons. ' Farley. and
O'Connell, accompanied by a large num
ber of bishop and other high digni
taries of the church, arrived at Wash
ington to attend the silver jubilee cele
bration in honor of the founding of the
Catholic university in America.
Their house at Martinez, Cal.,
wrecked by bomb explosions, for the
second time within less than a year,
A Cardinalli and four members of his
family escaped death by a narrow mar
gin. The explosion followed receipt of
threatening letters demanding money.
Secretary of the Navy Daniel re
ceived a telegram from . Charles C.
Moore, president of the Panama-Pacific
International exposition, thanking him
for the personal and official interest
displayed in the affair of the ex
position. "
Joseph E. Willard, American am
bassador to Spain, arrived at London
from Madrid and paid his respects to
Ambassador Page.
En .route to Washington, where he
will confer with President Wilson on
the government railroad in Alaska, Dr.
Leonard 8. Sugard, former Surgeon on
the northwest mounted police and
heavy Alaskan land owner, arrived in
San Francisco from Citefida, Alaska. .
The celebration of the fiftieth anni
versary of the last battle of the Civil
war was a feature of the Columbus
Home Coming" at Columbus, -Ga. On
the night of April 16, 1885, Brevet Ma
jor General- Emory Upton, at the head
of six companies of the Third Iowa
cavalry, led the : assault on Columbus.
- Commemorating - the fiftieth anni
versary of the death of Lincoln, Presi
dent Wilson ordered all flags on fed
eral buildings to be. placed at half
mast. . ,
Gertrude Atherton, the famous Cali
fornia novelist, passed a comfortable
day and -physicians announced late that
her early recovery is expected." The
novelist is a patient at St. Luke's hos
pital at New York, where she is suf
fering with pneumonia. -
A commission to investigate the
causes of unemployment of men and
women was created by the city -council
of Los Angeles. Appointments to the
commission were made , to jtnayor Rose.
Rockefeller contends that this coun
ty has no authority to tax millions of
dollars of stocks and bonds which are
listed, in other states. At the begin
ning of proceeding to force payment.
Rockefeller abandoned his Cleveland
residence and moved to Tarry town,
N. Y. f : - , '
..-'At a dinner of the city Committee
of One Hundred; and Seven, which led
the fusion municipal campaign last
fall. Mayor Mitchell and other city of
ficials elected on the fusion ticket
told they have kept campaign pledges.
Norman Hapgood. chairman, presided.
Manufacturer: of cotton piece goods
protested against proposed freight rate
increase, at the interstate commerce
commission's hearing in . the "western
advance ' rate" case Tat Chicago.
- Minus any Billy Sunday but brim
ming over with : enthusiasm, a big re
vival of New York churches was
launched. One hundred ministers are
in charge. The first meeting was a
union communion service at the Park
Avenue church.
Flags were at half mast at the Panama-Pacific
exposition in commemora
tion of the fiftieth anniversary of
Abraham Lincoln's death. The daily
dress parade of the United States
marines was omitted from the regular
program.
With addresses by Governor Johnson,
Mayor Rolph and President C. C. Moore
of the Panama-Pacific exposition, the
sixtieth annual convention of... the
American Association of Passenger
Traffic Officers opened the civic audi
torium. .
Joe Zajac, bound over to the super
ior court for an attempt to kill Frank
A. Siebert and, his housekeeper, Jean
ette Thomas, at Pasadena. Cal, was
taken to the county jail to await trial.
The shooting followed repeated efforts
on the part of Zajac to collect $55 for
wages.
K. T. G. Matthews, general passenger
agent of the Missouri Pacific, with
headquarters at Kansas City. Mo., .is
suffering from severe injuries at the
Central Emergency hospital at San
Francisco as the result of a collision
between a large touring car and a Jit
ney bus.
Police authorities of Philadelphia be
lieve that the curtailment Of the drug
supply, brought about by the Harri
son anti-narcotic law, will be a power
ful factor in eradicating the wave of
crime which ha reigned during the
last year. - Since the law went into
effect, according to Superintendent of
Police Robinson, there ha been a noted
decrease in the number of robberies
and other crimes. 1
- The community center theory ideal
ized by progressive 1 educators, has
passed the experimental state in Osseo.
Wis. Thi city is to have a municipal
opera house, an art gallery, a moving
picture theatre, a public library and a
gymnasium, according to plans just
launched by citizens.
Hundred of bodies of early Phila
delphia settlers will be exhumed within
a few tlay, when work is begun to
construct a public highway through old
St. Mary's cemetery. The cemetery has
been abandoned and the city has no
records-of the persons buried. .
While the ultimate consumer merrily
pay 25 cents a ton extra for hi hard
coal, "the drama of the Pennsylvania
anthracite coal tax law is slowly but
expensively being enacted in the Key
stone state. The action has been de
veloping for over a year and a half.
Legal and Criminal. -'
EVIDENTLY .suffering from some
strange drug and her mind, a per
fect blank, a beautiful, expensively
garbed woman, wearing jewels valued
at several hundred dollars, was brought
into the receiving hospital at Oakland,
Cal., and given treatment for poison
ing. Practically all hope for George K.
Darling, the Los Angelea teal estate
man, who was shot five times on Mon
day by his brother-in-law, Donald H.
Thanel of San Francisco, was given
up."
A Mexican named Bielrua is ex
pected momentarily to die in the coun
ty hospital at" Santa Ana as a result
of wounds received when he was shot
by Joseph H. Metzger, teller of the
First National bank. Metzger awoke
early and found the Mexican in bis
room. Grabbing a gun he fired and
wounded the intruder.
Arguments , on the legality of the
indictment charging Chief of Police
Sebastian and Earl Rogers, his attor
ney, with attempting to influence the
grand Jury, occupied Presiding Judge
Wood's court at Los Angel-
Declaring that she had worked 15
edness of his family, and that he cer
tainly must have been Insane when he
committed the act, the trial of Joseph
Lococo, who shot and killed George W.
Gray, rich quarryman. started before
Superior Judge Griffin, at San Fran
cisco. Cross examination of Patrick Kear
ney, chief ; witness for the state in the
murder trial of Joseph Lococo, was
productive of hot clashes between De
fense Counsel Nate Coghlan and Dep
uty District Attorney Berry. Lococo
killed George Gray, his employer, at
San Francisco.
The specifications and directions for
the court martial. of Lieutenant rC L.
Hill. Chief Machinist Thomas O Don
nell and Chief , "Water Tender Wr I.
Appleby of the cruiser ban Diego, ac
cused of responsibility for an explosion
which killed nine men on that vessel
recently, arrived at Mare island.
A letter purporting to be a confes
sion bv a: F. Higglns, one of the prin
cipal witnesses against Chief of Police
Sebastian. : has been presented ror ud
mission to the grand Jury. The let
ter purports to be a confession hat
the writer waa hired to discredit Se
bastian." !
Attorneys for Don Roberts, mayor of
Terre Haute, Ind., convicted with 116
other politicians for conspiracy in elec
tion frauds, sought a hearing on an
appeal for. the convicted official, filing
a writ of error in the court of appeals.
While guests at the fashionable Hp
tol Rreen were at dinner. John Mor
ris. 30. killed Otto Fescbner. 26, in
to 16 hours a day from tne time sne h beffient of tne hotel at Pasadena,
was 14 to 26 year, old. Mrs. Clara' rajri .mnloved at the
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Mauntler. niece . of ex-Governor of
Pennsylvania, John K. Tener, president
of the National BaseDau league, toia
the Illinois legilatlv commission
that the proposed eight hour law for
women would be a curse.
The United States supreme court re
jected the claim of the Southern Pa
cific Railway company against the
United State for $56,269.2CT in connec
tion with alleged free service per
formed under the old subsidies laws.
' Superior Judge Fred Wood of Ama
dor county, will preside at the trial of
Chief of Police , Sebastian and Mrs.
Lillie Pratt, who are charged with con
tributing to the delinquency of Edith
Serkln. 17. The trial will begin to
morrow.' ' - ;
Upon the promise of attorneys for
the defendant that an examination of
his mental state would be made within
24 hours, the tase against Frederick
Winstanley, who was charged with at
tempting to kill bis wifej was dropped,
at Los Angeles.
Joseph S. Myers, wealthy real es
tate operator, accused by Miss Agnes
Bendegard of child stealing, waa ar
raigned in police court at Oakland. Cat.
By consent of both sides, Judge" Smith
set May 4 as the date of the pre
liminary examination,.
With his attorney making the state
ment that he wa driven to hi deed
by hungerand the misery and wretch-1
hotel. " Morris struck Feschner with a
sharp instrument and escaped.
Strong appeals for a new trial for
Glen Wfttiand C. T. Oxnam. each in
a different state penitentiary under
the penalty of death for the murder
of Millionaire W. M. Alexander at Los
Angeles, were made before the supreme
court by Attorney Clyde E. Cat e. and
George A. Hooper.
Charging conspiracy Jn connection
with her recent suit against former As
sistant District Attorney James Os
borne, whom she accused of illegal in
timacy with her, the United States
grand jury- indicted Mis Rae Tanzer.
The woman' attorney. David Slade
and Maxwell Slade, and Detective Al
fred McCullagh, were also indicted for
conspiracy,.-
Mexican Situation. '
General !Funton, reporting to the
war department from Brownsville, said
that showers of bullets fell on the
American side of the Rio Grande dur
ing yesterday' fighting ajt Matamoras,
but no one: wa injured. .
Branding General Huerta. now In
New York, "a murderer and modern
Nero." R. ia. Gonzale. constitutional
Mexican consul In San Diego', and 120
member of the' Francisco I. Madero
club, a constitutionalist organization,
sent telegrams to President Wilson de
manding the arrest of jtlie ex-dictator
that he may be punished by the "fu
ture legitimate government of Mexico."
Texas Begins New
War on Illiteracy
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X;rlaltur Fama Law CompeUln
1 - cnooi Mwnatocf o vuum
tween Seven and 13 Tear of Age.
Austin, Texas, April 17. Texas has
fired the first shot rft illiteracy In
the "solid south" by paSMlng a com
pulsory school attendance law. Texa,
the least Illiterate state in the south,
Is tlll the thirty-seventh state in the
Union in degree. Of. literacy. Follow
ing her lead. It lar .expected-other com
monwealth be1w the Mason and
Dixon line will "adv-, t compulsory edu
cation, j
The Texas legrltufe, Just ad
journed, enacted a law to compel the
attendance at school of every child
over seven years Of age at least six
month every yearjuntll the age f 12
is reached. But the bill does not o
Into effect iintJfc" September 1916 and
for the neat tbr year the maximum
of six month,!!, t: enforceable. No
child or 12 year" over tan b com
pel led to atlffiif ool if he has com
pleted the four sradie and hi as
sistance is need in the home.
While the law may not compare fav-
orably with stricter measure in'north
em slate it in innsldflred r fair be
ginning for a state so long steeped In
child labor and -illiteracy. The advo
cate of the measure in the 1915 leg
islature were confident the law would
be Improved in future upsslons. It wil
bitterly fought In both branches cf
thi legislature, :
New Uglithoiiae I'romtsed.
Seattle, Wash., April J7. To he built
at a cost of $000,000, wrk on the nw
government lighthouse j at Cape St.
Ellas. Alaska, will begin on May 1, ac
cording to announcement here today.
The new lighthouse will be located on
Kayak Island' and will be built on a
shelf 52 feet above sea level. A three
mantle lamp with a lens of 180,000
candlepower and a range of 15'4 nau
tical mile is to be Installed. A big
fog signal and dwellings for three
keepers will be other feature of the
lighthouse station. j
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