VOL. XIV. NO. 127.
PORTLAND, OREGON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 4, 1915. TWELVE PAGES.
II
WARSAW, SAYS
BERLIN REPORT
German News Service Claims
Russian Legation at The
Hague Has Officially An
nounced City's Evacuation.
EIGHT .OUTER FORTS
AT IVANGOROD TAKEN
Russian Statements Do Not
Confirm Alleged Fall of
Warsaw, However.
Berlin, via wireless tn London, Aug.
4. (V. P.i To the west of Warsaw,
the Russians have been pushed hack
from Blonie and are now fighting
from behind the outer defenses of the
Polish capital, an official statement
from the war office announces this af
ternoon. Hlonle is but 15 miles west
rtf Wa rsaw.
Prime Leopold of Bavaria is head
ing the Teuton assault against Hie
outer works of the city.
Berlin, via wireless to Sayville, L. I..
Aug. 4. (U. P.) The Russian lega
tion at The Hague has officially an
. nounced the evacuation of Warsaw,
.dispatches here stated today.
'i The evacuation was ordered because
iof a lack, of ammunition, the Russian
legation is uuoted as stating. De
struction of the Vistula bridges was
-ordered before the Russians retired.
The encircling of lvangorod is pro
ceeding satisfactorily, it was an-Inounct-d
today. The Austro-Oermans
"have stormed eight of the outer forts,
and tho possibility of the Russians
around lvangorod escaping is rapidly
diminishing.
RUSSIANS NEED TWO
DAYS MORE IN WHICH
TO COMPLETE RETREAT
Petrograd. Aug. 4. (U. P.) If the
t Russians along the Narew river front
hold their lines for two days more, it
Ja believed the- main armies will reach
tt- new positions assigned uj mem
".beyond the Vistula and - tiwpwwitbor
Grand l3uke Nicholas will be a com
tplete success.
The drive of General von Gallwitz
"against the railroad from Warsaw to
1'etrograd has been checked. Although
' heavy losses are admitted to have been
suffered by the Russians in resisting
this thrust, the Germans are declared
to have been brought to a halt. The
lesistance centered along the railway
running through Vyskof where the
; Russians were concentrated. For two
v days assaults have been hurled against
the Russian positions, but today's com
munique from the war office said:
Heavy Xioases Admitted.
"We are valiantly resisting the
enemy on the Narew lirie."
The communique then admitted
heavy losses to the Russian forces, but
.the. statement of last night and dis
: patches from the front make it evident
Hhat the Gerrnaps' losses are even
heavier. They are making terrible sac
rifices in their efforts to breakthrough
before the retirement of the main army
Is completed, in the hope of enveloping
it least a portion of the grand duke's
. forces. The official statement of last
night reported the Germans progress
ing along the Narew, "but only with
tnormous losses."
Buaaian idne Retiring.
To the southeast of Warsaw the
Russian line continues to retire slow
ly, but everywhere determined resist
ance is offered and quantities of am-
munition and thousands of men axe
being used up in the German effort.
It is reported here that owing to the
stubborn defense shown by the Slavs
along the Narew, reinforcements con
tinue to arrive for the Germans from
the west. The retirement of the main
Russian armies is said to be proceed
ing In good order, and with the rail
road, toward which General von Gall
witz launched his drive, protected, it
is believed Grand Duke Nicholas will
be abl to take up his Brest Litovsk
line-with his armies intact.
French Removal Emphasized.
Giving further details of the Narew
operations, today's communique said:
v "Although enemy infantry succeeded
,ln crossing the Narew near Schvka,
we prevented their artillery from
crossing. In the meantime our own
artillery annihilated several units
"which were without the support of
their guns.
"The . Germans are utilizing heavy
reinforcements from France in an en
deavor to advance- to the east from
behind Ostrolenka."
CASHIER COMPANY
DEFENSE TO BEGIN
TOMORROW MORNING
The government having rested its
case against the seven former offi
cials and salesmen of the U. S. Cash
ier company, on trial in the federal
., court for alleged fraud, this afternoon
. the attorneys for the defense are
holding their last conference prepara
tory to opening of their side of the
case tomorrow 'morning.
. Indications are that the defense
will be .based; on "good faith" in the
transactions f the company and dis-
posal of the million and a half dollars
secured by" it through stock sales and
;from various other sources during its
career In . Portland from, organization
in September of IBM until January 31,
f (Concluded on Page Klne, Column Taree.) '
RUSSIANS QU
ry TREET SCENE IN WARSAW, reported to have been evacuated by the Russians,
three great German armies. Kaiser Wilhelm, who it expected to make a triumphal
city. Type of Russian cavalry retreating from Warsaw. These Russian soldiers
entered Przemysl when captured by the Russians.
-Photos by International . Neva Serrice.
BUT FULL OF FAITH IN
FUTURE, RENEWS VOW
King, Cabinet, Wounded, in
Huge Crowd That Sings
"Rock of Ages."
By E4, L. Keen.
'London, Aug. 4. "Humility and rec
ognition of weakness replaced blind
confidence and the cocksureness of a
year ago when Great Britain In a
thousand meetings today observed the
anniversary of the declaration of war
on Germany. But with this change in
spirit was a stronger determination
for victory, and in the many meetings
the empire, without reserve, again af
firmed its purpose to continue the war
to the bitter end.
Everywhere the contrast In the Brit
ish spirit of the present and that of a
year ago could be observed today.
Throughout the meetings ran the feel
ing that Great Britain had seriously
erred in the pat, but was now dis
playing a bulldog determination to
profit by the mistakes and not repeat
them.
Sanger Xs Slacussed.
The newspapers frankly discussed
the empire's grave danger, and de
clared that only by a supreme, unified
and sacrificial effort could it be saved
from disaster.
The anniversary program which was
observed throughout Great Britain
and the colonies today was arranged
by a central committee for national
(Concluded on Pase' Nine. Column-Two)
Barred Plymouth Rocks
Six Pairs of Pillows
These "Want Ads," complete,
will be found in our "Want Ad"
columns under their various head
ings. Tou will find in Journal
"Want Ads" just what you are
looking for: -
Housekeeping1 Rooms Private
Family 73
"Two extra large front rooms,
ground floor, running water, gas
range, lights."
Automobiles Accessories-
"Herresholf - roadster for $275,
or will trade for late Ford and
pay cash balance."
Fox Sal Mlsceilanou 19
"For sale 6 -pair pillows, duck
and goose feathers, freshly ren
ovated." .
Poultry and Pigeon 37
"Barred Plymouth Rock cock
erels, 4 months old, 10 of which
are nicely marked. $1 each."
Furnished Plata 50
"Modern close-in 4, 5 room
flats. furnished, unfurnished,
$17.60, $20. Sleeping porch. Free
phone."
, Exchange Baal Estate 84
"Want land close to R. R. suit
able .for subdivision; will trade
business comer. . Income $1200
prlce $20,000." - - " " 1
ENGLAND
hum ny
7 ft ml s; A-'r V --A.,
Ea-GOVERNOR SLATON
WHO SAVED
. FROM GALLOWS, HERE
Man Who Defied Georgia
Mob Talks of ; Famous
Case; Views Highway.
Ex-Governor and Mrs. John M. '
Slaton of Georgia are seeing Portland
and the Columbia river highway to
day. Mr. Slaton was the governor :
who defied the threats of the angry j
mob and commuted the death sentence '
of Leo M. Frank, who was convicted :
of murdering Mary Phagan, a young i
factory girl. j
"There were about 10,000 pages in
the record of the case and I read them i
all," said the former governor. "They ;
did not satisfy me of Frank's guilt, j
I spent a night considering the matter j
and then went to my good wife. j
" 'Sally,' I said, '1 have finished con- I
sidering this case and I am not sat- I
isfied that the man should hang. It
(Concluded on Page Eleven. Column Two)
TWO PRISONERS SAW
WAY OUT OF COUNTY
BASTILE AT BAKER
Baker. Or., Aug. 4. Ralph Harris
and Joe Valeini, inmates of . the
county jail, made their escape between
last midnight and this morning by cut
ting the bars from a corridor window
and' climbing down the building on a
steel cable, which had been used to
hang blankets on.
The corridor had been left open
from the cell, Harris being a trusty,
and having practically the freedom of
the jail during the day. He was
awaiting action by the grand jury, on
a charge of obtaining .money under
false pretenses, for passing an alleged
worthless check.
Valeini was bound over from Hurrt
ington for burglarizing a residence.
There was little evidence against Har
ris and authorities say he would have
been released in a few days.
Authorities believe the saw was ob
tained by Harris, who was often out
side helping about the courthouse.
Two heavy bars were sawed complete
ly off. Tearing strips from the blank
ets, the men wound the cable to pre
vent cutting their hands. Three other
prisoners were given a change to go,
but refused. . "
Every effort is being- made by de
puties, local police and special offi
cers to locate the pair, but no .trace
has been found until noon.
Sheriff Anderson is out of the city,
his deputies being In charge of the
office.. ' .
Fori additional late news
see page 6 ; . -
FRANK
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APPENDICITIS CURABLE
WITHOUT KNIFE, SAYS
OSTEOPATHIC SURGEON
Specific Spinal: Center May
Be Treated With Success
to Allay Inflammation,
Osteopathy can and does cure appen
dicitis, and the knife is necessary In
but a minority of cases, according to
Dr. J. Foster McNary, a well known
osteopathic surgeon of Milwaukee, who
addressed the session of the national
osteopathic convention at the Multno
mah hotel this morning;
This was surgical day at the con
vention,, and Dr. McNary shared the
program with Dr. ; George Still of
Kirksville, Mo., surgeon in chief of tha
American School of Ostopathy, and
Dr. George Conley of Kansas City.
Dr. McNary made the claim for the
science of oteopathy that there is a
specific spinal center in the eleventh
dorsal segment for the direct treat
ment of the appendix.
Osteopathic treatment at this point,
it is asserted, makes for a constriction
(Concluded on Page Eleren, Column Three)
L DOCK AT
HOOD RIVER FOUND
TO BE POSSIBILITY
Officials Find That City
Owns 40-Foot trip of
Land on Columbia,
Hood River, Or., Aug. 4. That the
city of Hood River actually possesses
a strip of land 40 "feet wide on the
Columbia river, was. made evident to
the city council last-night when offi
cers of the Tahoma steamer line pre
sented the facts as shown by the
records of the city and county.
A number of years ago ihe city ac
quired a strip of land 20 feet wide
leading from the city tQ the- steamer
landing on the Columbia and later an
additional .strip of 20 feet vas pur
chased from the Oregon Lumoer com
pany and dedicated as a city street.
The matter came; tovan issue as a
result of complaints bytheDalles-Co-lumbia
Line and t Tahoma steamers
that they were being barred from land
ing by the Regulator line at this point.
The city officials; expressed surprise
to find that the city owns a 40-foot
Water frontage, although it is out of
the city limits. and;the street commit
tee was instructed ; to take steps im
mediately to make 'provisions for the
landing of all steamer lines on city
property. : f i. , -
i,A number of citizens favor the build
ing of a municipal dock on the city
property. .
MUNICIPA
who are retreating before
entry into the ancient Polish
were photographed as they
ALL EASTERN STATES
SUFFER FROM STORM
GALES ON ATLANTIC
Vessels Blown Ashore on
New York and New Jersey
Coasts,
New York. Aug. 4. (I. N. S.) More
than 100 lives lost and 'property dam
age aggregating millions today was
i.bjaftaijyj44rftUytf.? night's
countrywide storm. ; . .
Every Section of the country, from
the Atlantic to the Great Lakes, suf
fered, and every hour was bringing
additional reports of deaths and dis
aster. New York and vicinity was a heavy
sufferer, torrential rains and high
winds throughout the night swamping
boats, demoralizing transportation and
flooding city streets, in several places
two feet or more deep.
7chts and Houseboats Wrecked.
From Coney island came report of
30 pleasure craft sunk and estimated
property loss of $50,000.
In Barnegat bay, three fishing
smacks were swamped and one man
drowned.
Two auxiliary yachts and a house
boat were ashore at New Rohcelle, and
ferry service between New Rochelle
and Seacliff, Fort Slocum and Glen
Island, bay shore and Fire Island, to
day entirely suspended.
'A bursting sewer put the Brighton
beach elevated to Coney Island out
(Concluded on I'age Nine. Column Two.)
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CLOUDBURST IN
ERIE FATAL TD
FR0M30T0 SO
Mill Creek, Running Through
City, Made;200-Yard Path,
Sweeping Down Homes and
Large Business Houses.
MILITIA IS RECOVERING
BODIES OF DROWNED
Armory Thrown Open to Care
for 400 Homeless People;
Many Are Destitute.-
Erie. Pa., Aug. 4. (U. P.) Kvery
hour from one to 'three bodies were
being uncovered today by firemen,
police '.or volunteers struggling in the
midst of debris piled high in the
streets which swept Erie last night,
following a sucoefteion of cloudbursts.
Most of the dead were being taken
from wreckage lining Mill creek,
which runs through the town and
which overflowed its banks and leveled
homes on every side on its wild
rampage.
It was estimated this afternoon f.-om
30 to 50 men, women and children per
ished in the flood. At the creek's out
let into Lake Erie volunteer -workers
stretched nets this afternoon and some
bodies carried down stream were re
covered when thus caught.
The local company of militia was on
duty with the police and firemen delv
ing in the wreckage and preserving or
der. The armory was thrown open and
400 homeless were cared for there. In
the Herald bulldUig the dining room
was opened free to the flood sufferers.
In response to an appeal from Mayor
Stern, citizens who escaped the rav
ages of the flood began raising a re-
( Concluded on Page Eleen. Colimn Four)
Mexican Raiders
Burn Tram fridge
Also Cut Telegraph Wires In Vicinity
of Harllngen; Another Posae Starts
la pursuit of Bandits.
Brownsville Texas, Aug. 4. (U. P.)
Mexican raiders burned the 533 foot
bridge of the St- Louis, Brownsville &
Mexico railroad, 38 tniles north of
Harllngen, today, following the raids
yesterday during which an American
trooper and12 of the bandits were
killed. ,
Telegraph wires about Harlingen
were cut - by the Mexicans. The cav
alry border patrol was on duty
throughout the night In the raided
sections and the worst trouble was
believed to have passed. With the
new outbreak today, however, a posse
set out again in pursuit of the bandits.
Seizure of Dacia
Held to Be Legal
Paris, Aug. 4. (I. N. S.) Seizure
of the. American ship Dacia today was
declared legal by the French prize
court.
THEIR FRIEND!
Greek Premier
Confers With.
Allies' Envoys
Official Statement of Audience Is
Pulsed by Censor, Indicating
Greek and Roumanian View.
Ijondon, Aug. 4. (I. N. S.) Greece's
entry iito the war, probably with Kou
mania as a partner on the side of the
entente allies, was believed today .to
be at hand following a joint visit of
the British, Russian, French and Ital
ia ministers to the Greek premier,
XL Oournaris, In Athens today. Offi
cial Information on the subject was
meagre, but the censor's permitting
the passage of Athens dispatches, tell
ing of the visit was taken here aa
indicating that the allies were so near
their end that German ignorance of
the move no longer was important.
Advices from Bucharest, while also
vague, indicated that Hou mania- is con
cerned in the Greek expected move,
Roumania has, definitely and finally
rofjsed Berlin's request to permit
transportation of munitions for Turkey
across its territory and in Berlin to
day KeverJl newspapers editorially ad
mit that Germany and Austria have no
more to hope from Koumania. In the
Tages Zeitung Count Keventiow - bit
terly scores "Roumania for denying
passage to Teuton munitions while
permitting llussla to ship .freely to
her Serbian allyl
ECCLES MAKES OFFER
FOR 40 MILLION FEET
OF OREGON TIMBER
If Deal Goes Throgh New
Road Will Be Built From
Durkee.
Baker, Or., Aug. 4. At a meeting
of representatives of 25 or more own
ers of timber claims near Durkee, on
Burnt river last evening, L. II. Eccles,
millionaire head of the W. H. Eccles
lumber company, operating in Baker,
Ogden, Utah, awd Hood River, -made
an offer for a one year option on the
whole tract represented, embracing ap
proximately 40,000, 000 feet of whita
pine and Douglas fir.i
If the deal goes through, a railroad
to tape the timber belt, from Durkee in
proposed by the Eccles company..
Some owners believe the price of
fered not enough, but still chances aro
believed good for the deal going
through.
Terms of the offer were not made
known.'
,
Ambassador Page's
Daughter Is Bride
In presence of Xlatlmralshd Assembly
JCatherln Pago weas cuarus c. cor
ing In St. James Palace.
London, Aug. 4. (I. N. 8.) Kath
erine A. Page, daughter of American
Ambassador Walter Hines Page, today
became the bride of Charles C Lorlng.
Tha weririlnfir took rjlace in the rovat
chapel of St. James palace. Bishop
Carpenter performing the ceremony.
fremier Asquim, oir Minuru urejr,
the American embassy en masse and
the Italian and Japanese ambassadors
were only a few of the notables pres
ent. 1
BRITISH NOTES
DO HOT ADMIT
ANY HARDSHIP
Reply to American Protest on
Restrictive Measures Says
Great Britain Will Continue
to Apply Them. t
ALL CONTENTIONS OF
AMERICA ARE REJECTED
Tone Is Friendly, But Extra-
ordinary Attitude Is Held
to Be Necessary.
lly C. P. Stewart. '
Washington,! Aug. 4. (U. P.) "We
will continue to appfy these- measures
(the blockade pi Germany) with every
desire to occasion the least possible
inconvenience fto persons engaged lii
legitimate commerce."
This, briefly, is England's answer
to the American protest against tho
blockade of neutral portJ . through
which tha BritlsM believe Koodn - May
reach Germany, and the interference
with neutral commerce . through en
forcement of the llrltleh order-ln-coun-cil.
It Is this rejection of all Ameri
can contentions, with tha absolute
statement that tha measures com
plained of w 11 be continued, tnut
President Wilson and Secretary of
btate sensing have to consider :r
framing a rejoinder to Great Hrltain.
- "Woto's Tone Friendly.'
'The three communications from
England made public last night,, and
which reject the administration's de
mands for frjeedom on tho seas, aro
friendly in tone. They are not as
friendly a Germany's last notes in
verbiage, but: are none the . less ao
In effect. i , . .r
Sir" Edward Crey wrote aa 1f Jie
(Coticludeii ou I' go Nluf, Column lour)
BULLETINS
IJoy Dies to Escape 'v.
Oakland. CaL, Aug. 4. (L. P.) -Rather
than face death in the Ger
man' trenches, where he expected im
mediately to, be ordered should he hn
sentcJttQrWa.rrattve country, 17-year-old
Leon Mayer, son of a promi
nent Rulzheim, ifavarla, banker, and
nephew of a San Francisco reMlty
broker, hanged himself fn the county
jail during the night, "Today his case
was to have been turned by I'robu
tion Officer .Leonard, Compton to tho
Immigration authorities in Han Fran
cisco, who had announced their In
tention of deporting him. ; Hla offense
consisted of a series of petty thefts
committed in Berkeley rooming houses.
Mexico Confiscate jnn.j
Washington,; Aug. 4.-(TJ. P.)-All
parsons In Mexico City, foreigners In
cluded, must j surrender their arms,
upon penalty of death. The state de
partment was advised this afternoon
that the, Carranzlstas, now In control
of" the city, have issued an order de
manding that all arms be turned over
to -the army f occupation, . (. '
Street fighting marked the occupa
tion of Mexico City' by the Curranzlnta '
and several non-combatants were killed.
the - state department was aluo In
formed. The telegraph line from; Vera
Crua to the capital is now open, -the
message said, . .'. ' ' f
New. Offensive .fn Argon ne. -Paris.
Au 4 (i N. 8.) Attempt-
Jng to cut the.Frencli line of communi
cations toward Verdun, the German
forces have started another of fenslvo
in the Argonne, . according to today's
communique from the French, war of
fice, '. ;' ' " . 1 -
Claim is made that violent Gncman
attacks in tho district between Hill No.
214, ; Fountain Aux Charges and'Marl
eterese were repulsed. Fighting In tne
Vosges Continued, German counter at
tacks near Barrenkopf also being re
pulsed by the French. j.
American Aviators'; Killed.
Nogales, Aria., Aug. A: (XT. i i'.)
Two American aviators lnthe5 Mexican
service wero reported killed here this
afternoon- in the battle between Car
ranzlstas and VllHstas for posnesgion'
of Nogales, Sonora, just over the bor
der from this city. The Carranzlstas,
commanded by General Calles, afe two
miles from Nogales and advancing
steadily. Crowds ot- Americans arc
watching the fight. , j 1
Villa May Resign, j
El Paso,' Texas, Aug. 4. U.: P.)
The retirement of General Vifla is sup
posed to be the subject of a conference
between Genfral Angeles, American
Consul Carothers and prominent Vil
lietas here today. Villa is scheduled to
meet General Angeles in Juarez later
this afternoon.
New Revolutions In Portugal.
London, Aug. 4. (I. N. S.) Three
separate revolutions have broken out
anew in Portugal, according to dis
patches dated. August 1 received ber
today. .
A strict censorship Is being enforced
and no details of the outbreaks have
filtered through.
i Nashville Ijands Marines.
Washington. Aug. ,4, (IT. P.) The
cruiser Nashville has landed marines
at ,Cape Hatien, a report to th navy
department stated this afternoon. They
will endeavor to protect the-city from
the revolutionists that are expected to
arrive soon.
' , Schooner Founders.
New York. Aug- 4. I. N. 8.)
Caught In a irale off Scotland HghtHhlp,
the schooner M. V. . Chase foundered
today. Captain Tuttle and -a seaman
meeting death. Sandy Hook const
guards saved the other members of the
crew. ,