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DAILY EVENING EC: IN Forecast for Eastern Oeearon by the United States Weather OtmrtW at Portland. DAILY EVENING EDITION TO ADVERTISERS. Tb But Oregunlan Inn the largeet paid in illation uf any paper In iireg.ni. eaat ot Portland and over twice tb circulation In I'eudletoo ot anjr other newapaper. Fair tonight and Thursdo . cooler tonight COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER NO. 8637 DAILY EAST OREGONIAN, PENDLETON, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1915. VOL. 27. GREEK SOLDIERS ATTACKED NEAR BULBAR BORDER Incident Brings Greece Dangerously Near to Warfare Won't Sit Idly by When Assailed. AUSTRO GERMANS GAINING Invader in nii-, Inside Sorbiuu Bonier at Many Place; Repulses Met Willi In MM Stvllons; KOTC soulli Along saw River, LONDON, on. 17, Tbe Serbian flghlJn.; is. almost In Hit- last ditch, adjnittedly. in the Morava ralk) tin oaatral ,,v - are wa bm ihini . U M-h. Thcj have pas-cd MilaJuc. i Hi' in.i' - aoBllaaaat and wtdja the Serbians make rrH'nixl standi-, they art- l tie slcudlh ili,,i ii hack. To lie -t of svllojae the advancing llm- extendi, almost unbroken for mill-. (in LONDON, Oct. 2" How danger ously near Greece may be to war la evidenced by mall dispatches from Athena reporting that Greek troopa were attacked near Doran, along the Greek-Bulgarian-Serbian border, but repulsed aaaaulta with losses. That Greece won't Hand Idly by Is the belief In many quartera. Austro-Gernian Gain. VIBNNA. Oct. 27. Austro-Ger-man Invadera are forty mllea Inalde of Serbia at many points South of Belgrade they have taken the heighta eaat of ArangalJevovac and Torpola. In the northwaatern corner the Aua trlans are moving southward along the Save river where earlier the Serbs strongly reilated ihem By occupying Obrenovac In northwest ern Serbia the Austrian! control both sides of the Kolubara river aa far as Lavarevac. In the vicinity of Vlcegnrd to he west of the Serbo Montenegrln batter they are repuls ed. Northeastern Serbia, eaat of Klizura Narrows is cleared of Serbs aftei heavy mountain fighting. Germans Fight in Vain Against French rASU0i Oct. -inf repmac Qarmaa attacks In the Loos region! on in, weiern nont i ii'i'in'ii "' flclalh "Strong Oerman patrols win repulsed and dispersed south of Loos," said the Communique. "The CJermana tried to recapture the ('out-, tine trenches In Champagne last night. Put the machine guns of lue Infantry repulsed them." Kl in out of the last nine Cr.ars of IIus-mh have I n iiHsassinated. Local Brewery Will Turn to Making Oyster Cocktails Instead of closing down when the prohibition law goes Into effect on January I, the City Hrewery In I'en- dleton will continue operations us a bottling plant for soft drinks and oyster cocktails. Manager William Roeach was in I'ortland and Seattle a week ago and purchased 15000 worth of the latest equipment and -I I ts tl have It Installed within six ki Mr Koesch plana to operate the works on a wholesale basis and will put salesmen out to work nil of the eastern i iregoti territory. lie will WALLA WALLA CONVICT PEEVED AT MANNER IN WHICH DYNAMITE WORKS WALLA WALLA, Wash.. Oct 27. Harry Edwards, a convict, took a ,hor. course In explosive, a few daya ago and It proved a short cut back to prison. A member of the gang at tne non- or camp at Cuburly canyon, Douglas county, he tried to extract some "soup." the technical term used by yeggmen for nltro-glycerlne from dynamite used in road worK. na- er tne landscape. There was no ev Wardt knew all about getting thojldence that other convicts were 1 ln "soup'1 qui of dynamite, but what he; volved In the plot. Edwards was did not know was that the state considerably "peeved" nt the state for highway department had selected providing dynamite which proved so "soupless' powder for the state work.; tricky. ordinary dynamite will yield 'aoup'j The convict la expected at the pris by boiling In water, the "soup'' rls- on this morning. Officials say he lug to the surface where It la skim- will be kept where he need not wor med off. The nltro-tellurln dyna mite used by the state, however. JUNCTION MADE T Central Allies Join Forces in North eastern Serbia Making Road to Constantinople Open. AIRSHIP RAID ON VENICE German official ltort Show us- tro-Gcrmau and BalgarialM Hum 1'nlted After lii-Mralc ReaUtance; Turkish Capital Now tin- Goal. BERLIN. Oct. 27. After days of alow, BaatJattnJ progress against fiery resistance, the Austm.Germuns and Bulgarian invaders Joined forces. ut I.Jubict-yac In northeastern Serbia. ' Thus thi' mad t'1 Constantinople, their ultimate goal is open. An official -t., . m.1,1 told of the junction fttid de flared the defenders were hurled buck at all points, "GeoafaJa Von Qoavaag and Von Gallwiu have driven tiack the Serbians ever w here they attempted to stand, " said the official statement. "We are In direct com muiilrutlon with the Hulgarlans at I.Jublcevac. We have taken Dobfen and Xeresnlca." Air Itald on Venice. VIENNA, Oct. 27. --Heavy damage I w as done to Venice In air raids Mon- I day und Tuesday It Is officially stat- ed. The bombs ruined from 10:311; Monday night until past midnight, up- j on the arsenal, electric plant, railroad stullon. fortiflcationa and barrurks. A number of fires resulted. Tuesday's raiders observed these xtlll flaming j and followed up the previous night j work by nrnhlprv bom hard I tit ha near ITVl t Germany to Prevent Sale of Steamers WASHINGTON. Oct 27. flermuny has prohibited the transfer or sale of (Jennim merchantmen. Including vessels Interned In harbors here, ac cording to a cablegram from American Ambassador Gerard. II Is believed to lie designed to conserve German merchant ma line for use after the war. it prevents the sale or transfer to another flag of any of the one hundred and fifty merch antmen interned In American waters i bottle loganberry Juice, the new pop-j ular soft drink, and other true fruit! j drinks, ltesldes he will bottle ovster! cocktails in crown cork bottles audi , intends putting out a superior urtlcle The brewery plant on Baal Court j f street will afford plenly of room for the bottling works. The BOttUni ! plant will be located in the basement. the ground floor will be used for packing and tbe top floor as a store room. When he has his equipment Installed, Mr. Koesch believes he will have one of the best equipped bottt. ing works on the coast. when boiled produces nltro-glycei hie compounds In such volntlle form that " " " " .Ulnll.,n ............ 1. - ii 1 la This la evidently what happened at BETWEEN EUTON AND BULGARIAN the honor camp. After an explosion1 Greek aowiers urea upon near uor whlch wrecked a corner of the bunk- der. house and Inflicted minor Injuries to! two sleeping convicts. Edwards was ! found fully dressed, while fragments of a metal kettle were distributed ov- ry over Being brought in contact Wit II dynamite. Porter Charlton aaaK SaSaaaL Jaaaaaaaaf aaaaaHLaPF 'UfaWlV 1 i i t flB TL BB HS1 tM Wg? A IPVaaPaW'-V aaaBKKHBBBBaBaaaaf f VaaBBBBBBalBT kTal MjV I ( t i cKst i a Aw H ansHK fi aaBBBaaaaiBBBBBBaaWJ i f maVTMaT JJfJr -Jl WKim 4JfX jfBJ .aCflB7 I i f 1 Zal taiaaaaaaaaBf 4"aaaaaaaaaaK jArl"!? aaaaaaH The Charlton, the lung Americ now ' ( on trial at Cumo, Italy, for the kill-j GOVERNOR WHO HURRIED BRITISH NURSE TO DEATH aaflasjBjBSBajBaaBjpasajsjnaM ' MlJuarj Governor of Belgium, Genera von Hissing, military gov ernor of Belgium, is the man who re fused, despite the protests of Ameri can Minister Brand Whitlock and other neutral foreign envoys In Bel gium, to delay the execution of the NEWS SUMMARY Austro-Grrnians made junction with Bulgarians. Conimons m question Asqiiith as , wlir. Millionaire In plot. son urrei ed for part Locali Twttelioill-I honiMn npxal Is ut good la-fore supremo court. i n firaaalti rrndlnon fiMiiimii eiiinc in-re Friday. I it, al brewerv will turn into MaCtl ittg plant. in Court, The Judge i cam a mtmxOMerl stint hmuanm CAltixlBtwZGiMia ing of hU wife in Jum in tlie prisoner enge opening of the trial. The insert! (;euernl von Ilisslna. death sentence of Miss EC British nurse, convicted ;i Brussels. She was shot spy in! death ! while those who were interceding for her w ere trying to gel delay to appeal j to Knlser Wilhelni Chicago is Down Liverpool Strong CHICAGO. Oct 27 At the cloae today. Dec. 11.01 3-4. --(Special) 99 1-2' May Partlaad. PORTIND, Ore.. Oct. 27. espe cial) Merchant's Kxchnnge prieei today, club, 8S bid. SI stem, 91 bid. 93 asked. asked . blue- UvCtt4sM (Vcstcrdai.) 1.1 Wit t'OOI. Oct "S - -Wheat - not No. L' Manitoba lis 4 I -Id: No j 3. Us 3 l-2d; No. 2 hard winter, old 12s .1 l-2d; Chicago new, lis 2d In American terms the highest Liverpool price is 11.71 4-;. pet buahali and Prosecutor should be definitely informed. Aa seate.l show Baron Sciacci, the Judge, and QadUt, too has indicated he plans ta j, ,.. . i make a statement of the war sltu- ai the M,U the aroascutor of the ation soon, though he did not indl- k:ng. who is handling the cane for cate how far he will care to go in the Italian government SPY TRIED 10 BRIBE BETRAY HIS COUNTRY EVIDENCE IX I AV CAM; SHOWS MONEY OFFERED NAVI GATOR. NEW YoIiK. Oct. 27- urn uan ,, no- uei.i, iiik oi vesseia laoen copper for the allies was to taken In the alleged conspiracy leral agents to prevent war mu with nitions from teaching Kurope from hi- COUntrj was under discussion jn- der federal authorities today, fallow-1 in- hi additional confession made to secret service officials by Robert Fay. ! aid to be a former lieutenant in the Herman army charged with conspiracy delay proent tne sailing of war munitions ships from this country gave a de-' tailed confession to Wa. J. FlynnJ chief of the secret servle. In it, ac-i onling to the federal authorities, he j repeated his former confession made ; to the oolit e at Weenaw ken M I l ut slated in addition that his mis- sion. besides placing bombs on the propellers or rudder of ships, was to endeavor to bribe the commanders ! of Russian vessels. He said the plan he was to endeavor to carry through 1 Was to induce a Russian commander ! lo run a cargo of copper into a Ger I man port, at which place a large sum I ot nioncv was to be paid to the Rus i sian captain. i.iivernment officials said they i'1'un tww uiimiotti I'i'iiiis. ne main- were Inclined to give little credence ulMd ,he ,0W(,r court erred in to this phase of Fays storv. but itinR the iaintiff8 challenge at ju- Wai made a part of the evidence up- rur lbe ground, ,hat tnev ad. " la' w,re "' over ;or , further hearing. Four of the men charged with I conspiracy were locked up under feo- era! custody today. These Included hay and Walter U BchoL his broth- er-in-law. PARDONED HUSBAND WANTS $50,000 FOR I nop nr inn imrr MISS IIF H WIFF' fcWWW Ul I U ..II L VANCOUVER, Wash Oct. 27. Suit for $50,000 for the alleged alien-! alion of his wife's affections was. riled by Albert E. Wlllsher against Dr. J. H. H. Chalmers. Wllsher was recently pardoned from the peni tentiary where he was serving a term for assault on Dr. Chalmers. To secure her husband's release the com- nlalnt aliened Mrs Wi'le-.. m.. fessed to the governor her relations with chalmers and also that he se creted her while Willsher's trial wui in progress. . Mlla to lice ut I nlied rial EL PASO. Texas. Oct. 27. Gener I i B-u - otta i. - - .i . .. . inoi' .inn m ih.iiik , - lo flee Mexico and seek refuge In the 1 I nited States 1 xv "h his revolution's progress al j m"st blocked by America's recognl- '"n v arrania. an omnargo on arms and a'timumtion. Villa's fiscal acents toalgBl were turning into cash their available soods DOES ASQUITH STILL PLAN TO FIGHT TO END? Bryce Will Question Premier-Answer Expected to Inform Country on! Cabinet Attitude. WINTER ON IN THE EAST ! Kaaaaaa Itepurts Show Fleming SUU on in IHina itcgion: o uermau , i I., i. - in Iliut Keglon: rWtunce aro Varying on Eastern Front. LONDON, Oct 27. A. Bryce, liber al inailllatr. announced in the com Btoaia he intends to Interrogate Pre jinier Aiuith whether . any official l'i ace negotiations are proceeding. .ihether any neuirul nation It inquir regarding peace, and whether As - ; .;i:ith ttill adheres to his Guild Hall i di duration that England will BOt stop lighting until militarism is crushed, i rlajiura freed and the safety of small countries guaranteed. It Is believed 1 aaojulttl will answer Kryce. as the cab ! inet members agree the country (this. Winter Adds to Horror. LONDON, Oct 27. A Russian of ficial statement says fighting is still in progress in the Dvina region and denied the German claim of progress in the llluxt region. The Germans are prevented from Initiating an of fensive. The Styr fighting is raging with various fortunes. Further west "heaps of enemy dead cover the ground'' the statement declared. The blasts of winter are adding to the ter ror of fighting on the eastern front. Page Wont Resign. I LONDON Oct. .American Am Page ha reports he intends , the origin of the s1 : to him. Typhoon Hits Tobacco. MANILA. Oct. 27.--One hundred -re reported killed by a typhoon which partly destroyed the town of Tobacco. Relief was sent. LAWYERS ARGUE APPEAL' IN IflPAl rUIIACC Oil IT 111 LUUnL UMinnUL. UUII SI'lT nvrrcHEUi - Thompson BEFORE Sl'PREME COCRT JUDGES. Argument on the appeal of the Twit. hell-Thompson oamage suit Tata made this morning before the su preme court in session here. Jud$e A. S. Bennett of The Dalles appear ing for the appellant and Col. J H. Haley for the respondent. Quite a number of local people were in the iourt room to hear the arguments. Judge Bennett based his appeal m,tlei, indebtedness t' National Bank of wh ant is president Tr such jurors and they eliminated from the J tne . i-h the !!!! torv challenges. Judge ply the i ham e" governs lo an a where a Bennett doctrine sought ap- es in which both parties lent are negligent and of the two has the lasi clear chance to avoid the accident. Bennett admltatd that Mr Thompson, driver of the car that struck the Tw thing in his ft dent after he iy, did every vert the accl the boy but contended that had he not been talk- ing to his companion at the time, he would have observed the Impending danger in time to avoid it. inasmuch j as his companion had testified thai he noticed the boy wben 1&0 fee; away. Col. Kale contended that this doc trine could not be Interpreted toj OOvdl the case at isswe and. in regard 1 'he ruling of the lower tourt In re fusing the challenges, he contended! that. Inasmuch as the attorneys for! the plaintiff did not exhaust the It peremptorlee In getting rid of the men having dealings with the bank j they tacitly accepted the decision oil the court. The other cases argued and sub.j mined today were all from Hiker county. They are John Spain, reap - ve. O -W RAN, appl - E. Lucl! I aialkaa et at rear, wa It silvk-r appl.; Effle L. Turk rep vs. J,,m- Dalton. appl. and Mary H Dtrb) appl. v Albeit tllmlla net ,il reap MAX BREITUNG ARRESTED FOR BEING IN PLOT Millionaire's Son Bound Over for Trial Nov. 4--Held Unde $25,000 Bail to Appear. JURY INVESTIGATES FAY Intcnaitlonal Ik-telopmraw In ManJ- lion- t'i'i, .ivtuit on i nni'imi mi cecdingx in "ew York Owe May Be Taken l"p With Germany. NEW YORK. Oct. 27. Max Brei tung. nephew of the millionaire E. N. Bheitung, appeared at the federal building where he waa given a pre liminary hearing on the charge of participating in an alleged German : conspiracy to blow up munition ships. ple is held on 125.000 bail for hia appearance November 4. Brettung stepped from the train while detectives were waiting for him. He eluded them. th--n went at once to his home and later to his It torney's offices. Finally he apapared unexpectedly In court. He refused to discuss the case, referring his in quirers to his attorneys. Invretigatln; Fay. WASHINGTON, Oct 27. The. grand jury criminal proceedings against Robert Fay and his alleged co-conspirators in the German bomb plot, mast be held in New York be fore International developments oc cur the state department officials ex plained. For the present the attor ney general is Investigating and he will report later to the state depart ment a basis for presentations to Germany If such la necessary OF CAVELL GASE AMERICAN A M lis.sAlK)R BE&G1TM i ORRECTS RE PORT. TO BERLIN. Oct. 27. A denial of ' r ish reports quoting American M Minister Whitlock in connection with the execution of Miss Cavell by tha Germans at Bru-sels was issued In in i inspired statement. "Minister Whit lock." said the statement, "atatei that Great Britain's publications re garding .Miss Cavell's case are untrue s far as he is concerned. Especial ly was It untrue that the German au thorlties put him off by vain prom ises in order to conceal the sen tence, meanwhile executing her." The statement continued: "S:r Edward Grey said the authorities did not keep their promise to info in Whitlock regarding the progress of the trial. No such promise w,. made. Whitlock admitted. He -a ! he had been put under a painful . -flection by the publication and Im mediately informed Ambassador P-ts-o at London and the American govern- GERARD WILL AID SAYIN6 32 IN BEL6IANS WASHIN'i Ambassador Oerard. decided to use hi i behalf of J2 persons at Liege. The Belgia appealed for aid. but tii.ter he fie ahseit. of information concerning (lie W fenaes the department told 'ierar art nnK- I' nroiier to tin ho ft i. , den,t(J thf lrnilirm had p,,,,,,, appealed to "iermany In their beha't. Protest is on the Way to Britain a WASHINGTON DM 11 The kaaaraaaa neta areaaatlm against Brltlah Interfetet . a with American asaMMfea '- ii ready on its way la IsM a special messenger it 4 known. A f- ' Bl 'I ment la expei tt-.i wnaa 'to- Biaa, 4 aetn(--r r- tches 4 WIIITLOK DENIES ENGLISH VERSION