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WHAT YOU NEED- The other fellow may have; what you have the other isllow may want. Come together by advertising in the Press. Wm BARGAIN DAY , Is every day with the Merchant who advertises in the Press he has some thing to sell and says so. Buy Your Groceries From Your Home Grocer VOLUME XXVI. ATHENA, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON,' FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1914. NU3IBER 44. REBIRTH OF AMERICAN MERCHANT MARINE -i itJ-' W I !tl ' " Scene on the deck of the tJnlted Fruit company's liner, Zacapa. when the Brltlsn nag was hauled down and the American flag run up, signifying the change of the steamer to American registry and the rebirth of the Ameri can merchant marine. ' GERMANS ENTER CITY OF OSTEND Occupation cf Belgian Seaport Officially Announced. J own Is Deserted, Business Houses . Boarded Up and No food ' . To Be Obtained. , Berlin, via London and The Hague An official statement issued here Sat urday says! ; . f ' "The Germans occupied Bruges Oc tober 14 and Ostend October 16." Amsterdam, via London The Tele graaf 's correspondent at Sluis, Nether lands, 10 miles north of Bruges, re ports that the Germans have occupied Ostend without resistance. The Bel gian troops retired to France. " ' The German, forces in Belgium are now in touch with their main army, whose right wing rests at Veurne, the westernmost town in Belgium, near the North Sea and 26 miles, southwest of Bruges. . . , :.;".'... " London A correspondent of the Daily News, telegraphing from Ostend describing the entry of the Germans, says: . - "Ostend awoke Thursday morning with the resigned expectation of some catastrophe. The, previous night thousands of refugees assembled in the hope of leaving by a morning boat, uui no du&i. arrived.- "Some hundreds . already had taken refuge in fishing smacks alongside the quays to escape to France or England. The remainder crowded ' together in groups on the quay, looking anxiously for something in the shape of a boat "The town was deserted.- Not a single person traversed the streets. The shops were all closed and their windows boarded up. : No food was to be obtained." HAPPY HERO OF NAMUR 1 L II j Oat of the heroic defuuUn ol Kv mar who found hli wif and child waiting for him on hi rotuni to Religious Songs to Tune of Yankee Doodle Opposed Detroit Setting the old,-time hymns to tunes that savor of the modern music hall or of "Yankee Doodle" was deplored by Bishop Edward W. Osborne, of Springfield, 111.,' at a meeting here of the fifth province of the Protestant Episcopal church in the United States. The remarks of Bishop Osborne were made during a debate on the report of a committee appointed to prepare ah inexpensive selection of Sunday school hymns. "I want to be assured that none of these hymns will have irreverent tunes," said Bishop Osborne. "I notice that 'Jerusalem, the Golden' is among the hymns . listed. . I have heard that hymn sung to a tune that sounded like 'Yankee Doodle.' The latter is all right in its place, but its place is not in the church of God." It was explained that most of the hymns had been authorized by more that 60 years of use, and the report was adopted. German Help Dismissed. London Agitation of the London press against employment of thousands of Germans in the hotels of this city resulted Saturday in announcements that three of the large .and fashion able houses were now entirely free of Germans and Austrians. This was followed by similar announcement from two hotels in the Bloomsbury district. Several important hotels, however, notably in the Strand district, are managed by Germans and Eng! Jp is not desired. British Leaving Turkey. ". London The Amsterdam corres pondent of Renter's says that the Frankfurter Zeitung publishes a com mtmieation from Constantinople which says the British ambassador, Sir Louis Mallet, asked the women of the em bassy to leave the city, and told them: "You must accept the hint without asking the reasons." ' Germans Suppress Noted : Newspaper of Socialists Berlin Although the German So cialists in the Reichstag voted for the 6,000,000,000 mark ($1,250,000,000) appropriation to carry on the present war, and although the members of the party went to the front as enthusias tically as did the non-Socialists, their political creed has not altered. , They Btill condemn and oppose the policies of the government and denounce what they term class consciousness. When the- war is over, they say, they intend to take up anew the battle to free the proletariat from the yoke of capital," and to take the reins of government out of the hands of the bourgeoisie. ., . ; These aims are set forth by Vor waerts, the chief organ of the party, in a remarkable article which has led to the indefinite prohibition of the paper's publication. This is the second penalty inflicted on Vorwaerts, its ap pearance having been recently prohib ited for three days because of an ar ticle giving what the military author ities considered too many details about the German campaign in the South west. : , German Report Disputed. London The British government denied the German assertion, published abroad, that, although Germany had furnished belligerent governments twice weekly with a full list of all their wounded and prisoners, no news has been received by Germany. The British foreign, office says that August 25, it offered to exchange information regarding prisoners of war. On receipt of the German reply. Great Britain sent the first list of German prisoners September 21. The first list supplied by the Germans was October 2. Typhus Attacks Germans. ; -London "Typhus has broken out in the German lines, particularly to the north of Soissons," says a dispatch from Paris to the Exchange Telegraph company. "The French are taking the utmost precautions to prevent the disease from spreading to their ranks. The troops already hare been vaccinated twice." - ' - Aeroplane Brought Down. Ostend Soldiers returning to Ost end from the action about Ghent say that the allies are becoming skilled in winging aeroplanes. A German avi ator, who was observing the allies' movements near Ghent last week, was brought to the ground by skilful firing from the field guns. Austrians Report Re-taking Stronghold on San River Manchester, Mass. The Austro- Hungarian embassy : here has an nounced the receipt of an official wire less message . from the home govern ment as follows : "Our advance in Galicia has forced the Russians to lessen their efforts against Prezemysl. Friday morning our bombardment greatly weakened the Russians, who began to withdraw part of their forces at Lancut. Our advancing columns met strong Rus sian forces, fighting with which still is continuing. Kuzwadow, on the San, has been retaken by us. Polish refugees in Vienna give in formation that the Russians, after the occupation of Lemberg, sent the fam ous Polish library, housed in the Osso linsky Institute, to St. Petersburg. The most prominent public edifices in the town have been undermined and the RuBsians have declared their in tention to blow them up as soon ai they are forced to leave the town. This news has created consternaton and anger in Polish circles." The embassy further reported that the Russians are retreating every where: that the German-Austrian line has advanced to new positions in Rus sian Poland and that Russians who had crossed the Carpathians at three places had been thrown back with heavy losses. The advance of the Austrians in Servia, the embassy said, was proceed ing slowly before the mam Servian army and that the Servains and Mon tenegrins are retreating from the di rection of Sarajevo, after several bat tles. President Wilson to Open , , Land Products Exhibit Portland, Or. Everything is in readiness for the opening of the Manu facturers' and' Land Products show in Portland October 26. Woodrow Wil son, president of the United States, has accepted the invitation of David M. Dunne, president of the Manufac turers association of Oregon, to open the big exposition. President Wilson will file his tele gram in Washington to reach the land products show at 9 p. m. the night of October 26. The message will be re ceived under a canopy of American flags and Oregon roses. - When the first tick of the telegraph instrument is heard the electric current will re lease the clapper in a bell over the booth and thus announce the opening of the exposition. .To accommodate the many communi ties in the state of Oregon to exhibit at Portland, it was necessary to build two annexes to the armory. The tem porary buildings add more than 25,000 square feet of floor space and with the main floor of the armory give a total of more than 80,000 square, feet of exhibit space, the largest exposition of the kind ever held west of Chicago. The exposition is under the auspices of the Manufacturers' association of Oregon and the North Pacific Land Products Show association. Opening October 26, the exposition will con tinue until November 14. The leading business, fraternal and social organiza tions in Portland will have special days at the exposition. Firing On in Black Sea. London A dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph company from Bucharest, coming by way of Rome, says : "Heavy cannonading has been heard the past day off Kuatendje (in Roumania on the Black Sea) It is believed that the ex-German cruisers Goeben and Bres lau, which now fly the Turkish flag and which recently undertook to escort from Sulina (an area of the Danube traversing the district of Dubrudja, Roumania) several transports laden with munitions, are engaged with the Russian fleet , . Italian Foreign Minister Dies. Rome The Italian foreign minister, Marquis Antonio di San Giuliano, died at Z :20 p. m. Saturday. The illness of the marquis attracted deep attention because of its possibli bearing on the Italian policy toward the war in Europe. The marquis was presumed to be friendly to Germany, It has been said recently, however. that Premier Salandra's policy of neu trality would not be changed. - Caring tor Belgium's Refugees Serious Problem London The plight of the Belgian people, both at home and in Holland, England and France, is stirring the hearts and minds already distraught by the horrors of war. Figures are necessarily vague, but a conservative estimate is that 1,600, - 000 Belgians, out of a population of 7, 000,000, have been expatriated. ' Lord Gladstone's committee says 70,000 ar rived in London during the last week and the women's relief committee, which sent a ship to Holland last week, reports that in eight cities of Holland the refugees number nearly 500,000; in other words, they are more numerous than the native population. The Folkestone committee alone has the names of 16,000 refugees on its lists, some among them having little money and only a few having winter clothing. Folkestone already has established a maternity home and two - hospitals. There are many gentlefolk among these fugitive Belgians who are not used to labor and who accept charity reluctantly. . Alexandria palace is being used as the central point for the committee work. Lady McDowell and Lady Em mott head committees for collecting clothing for which work is done by boy scouts. . Belgian wounded are scattered in British hospitals. Their whereabouts has been registered and this informa tion is available at the Grand Hotel in London'. ..-. . fight to Dissolve Big s . Steel Trust Is Begun Philadelphia The first formal step in the suit of the Federal government to break up the United States Steel corporation was taken Wednesday be fore four judges sitting for the 1! ed- eral district of New Jersey.- Jacob M. Dickinson, ex-Secretary of War, who has been in charge of the government's side of the case since it was instituted, in October, 1911, took up the entire day in arguing for the separating into independent units of all subsidaries of the billion-dollar corporation on the ground that their combination into one gigantic concern constituted a violation of the anti-trust laws. Counsel for the government told the court that the corporation, in magni tude and Btrenght, is the greatest com bination of capital ever brought to gether under one control. Mr. Dickin son began his argument by going back more than a score of years into the history of American industries. He told of the sharp competition that then existed in the iron, steel, tinplate and kindred industries; of how pools were formed in the steel rail field and how agreements were made between manu facturers of iron and steel to keep up prices; how captains of industry schemed to put each other out of busi ness, and gradually led up to the form- ation of the gigantic corporation now under fire. Mr. Dickinson told how the five great industrial and financial interests came together and formed the Steel Corporation in 1901. The five great interests he named were headed by the late J. P. Morgan, Andrew Car negie, W. H. & J. H. Moore, John W. Gates and John D. Rockefeller. He went into intricate detail to show how the Steel Corporation's capital of more than $1,400,000,000 was made up and he charged that more than $500,000, 000 of this is water. BIG LINER AFIRE BEACHED IN RIVER Fireman Cremated, but Rest oi Crew Saved Explosion Starts Blaze in Stoke Hole. Man in Quicksand Two Days, , Ware, Mass. After 48 'hours' im prisonment in quicksand, 25 feet below the surface of the earth, . Maurice Al len was rescued Wednesday by a gang of 60 firemen, policemen and citizens who bad dug a ditch 50 feet long and 30 feet deep to reach him. Allen was conscious when rescued, but very weak. He said he had been unable to help himself as his feet were held firmly by a piece of planking. bit and saw which were lowered to him enabled him to work one of his feet free, but another cave-in buried the tools and left him as helpless as be fore. An improvised diver's helmet made from a barrel was lowered into the hole and Allen was supplied with air by a pump. -. Farmers Told "Raise Hogs.' Washington, D. C. Wealth will come more'quickly to the young farmer who embarks in the business of raising hogs than any other branch of farming he may choose. E. T. . Cash, of St, Louis, made this assertion before 700 members of the American Meat Pack ers' association attending the ninth annual convention. - - There is more money in raising hogs than in other branches of farming, Mr.. Cash said, because they can be fed more cheaply and the demand in the markets of the world is daily increasing. Britons Finding Work. Washington, D. C Marked im provement in the unemployed situation in Great Britain is indicated in official reports made public here by the Brit ish embassy, A statement issued at the embassy said: "Unimployment in municipal trades in October was 4.46 per cent, compared with 5.79 for September. These figures are remark able, since unemployment is grenerally increased on the approach of winter. British Submarine Sunk. Berlin (By wireless to Sayville)- It was said officially here Wednesday that the new British submarine E-3 was sunk on Sunday, October 18, by German warships in the North Sea. reighter Santa Catalina Burns on Lower Columbia. . Portland,Or. The steamer Santa Catalina, a huge $700,000 steel freighter of the W. K. Grace Co. s line, plying between New York and Pacific Coast ports, including Portland, took fire and was beached late Sunday afternoon against the Oregon shore of the Columbia river, two miles from St. Helens. She is practically a total loss. ' Two carloads of ammunition in her cargo exploded with the fire, adding horrors and damage. Forty-two members of her officers staff and crew are safe, but one fire man, Gus JohnBon, is dead. He was entrapped in the engine room instantly when the explosion occurred, and heroic efforts of Captain J. F. Rose and his aides to rescue him before the ship was abandoned were futile. Among the rescued are Mrs. Kose, wife of the captain, and .their baby, who were lowered over the sides of the burning - vessel while still in mid stream. , The fireboat David Campbell, of Portland, fought the flames in the big linerjafter making a fast run from rortland. ,i .. The Santa Catalina was capable of carrying 10,000 tons dead weight and had just entered the Columbia river on her second voyage to Fortland. She made her maiden trip last December. She was one of the first great liners to make a passage through the Panama canal, having arrived at San Francisco from New York about 10 days ago. She left San FranciBco Friday and carried about 2000 tons of mixed cargo, 1400 tons of which were for Portland. In the cargo for Portland was a large supply of ammunition, which ex ploded within a few minutes after the vessel took flame. , The exploding cart ridges created a near-panic among the sailors and crew and made the work of fighting the blaze still more hazardous and nearly impossible. Three of the seamen jumped overobard, two swim ming to the Oregon shore, a third be ing rescued by a small river fishing boat, which went to the aid of the Santa Catalina as soon as the explosion was heard up and down the Columbia in the vicinity of St. Helens. Anti-German Riots Started in Many Parts of London London Anti-German rioting in London Sunday night caused the de struction of a score of shops. Damage was done in the Deptford borough and in Old Kent road. In the former dis trict several stores were attacked and Bet afire. In Old Kent road meat markets were smashed and this was followed by the wrecking of a confectionery store. Some of the shops were pillaged. Police were called out and 20 arrests made. Precautions have been taken to prevent further rioting. Great excitement prevailed through out Sunday in Deptford and neighbor ing boroughs. Crowds thronged the streets and refused to move at the or ders of the police. The rioters threatened to attack German places in Bromley and other boroughs if the authorities permitted them to open, The rioting was led by 100 docks laborers, who had been turned out of a lodging house to make room for Bel gian refugees. The men gathered in a German saloon and smashed the win dows and the bar. The dockers charged the owner of the saloon with having started a re port that two British battleships had been destroyed. The shop of a German butcher, in the window of which a picture of Emperor William was dis played, was wrecked. The rioting proceeded for a distance of about a mile before it was stopped by a detachment of soldiers. The shopkeepers all lived above their places of business and their apart ments were sacked. The rioting in the German shops in High street, Deptford, was resumed at 11 o'clock Sunday night. A large force of police who tried unsuccessful ly to put down 'the distrubance had several of its members'injured. German Army' Appears , Near Dunkirk on Coast London That a German army Is be- tweenFurnes and Dunkirk and nearing the latter place, which is on the Eng lish Channel, less than, .50 miles, from the coast of Dover," is reported in a Rotterdam dispatch from a German source to the Daily Mail, under date of Sunday night. A dispatch to the Mail from Dun kirk, 'dated Sunday night, . says that heavy firing has been heard near Dun kirk since 8 o clock Sunday morning. Severe fighting is taking place. It is supposed that destroyers or gun boats.are being used in the canals. Berlin All signs indicate that a tremendous change is impending in the protracted struggle in Northern France, where for weeks the hostile armies have faced each other in such strongly entrenched positions that neither has been able to advance, ex cept at enormous cost. The present effect of. the mutual flanking operations has been to extend the battle lines without either side's finding a weakspot. , , NEWS NOTES OF i CURRENT WEEK Resume of World's Important Events Told in Briel Attack by Submarine Was Complete Surprise Aberdeen, Scotland The attack on the British cruiser Hawke, which was sunk by a Uerman submarine, came as a great surprise to those aboard the cruiser, according to the survivors who arrived here. Nothing was seen to indicate the presence of a submarine until after the explosion, when the periscope of the boat waa detected moving away at some distance. The Hawke sank in five minutes and hundreds of men, some of them in cork jackets and others hanging to pieces of wreckage, were scattered about in the water. ,"I was on the forenoon watch," said one of the stokers, "and we were en joying ourselves. Someone was sing ing and the others had joined in the chorus when the Hawke was struck, The ship vibrated violently and imme diately started to cant over. When I reached the deck the captain waa call ing. 'It s everybody for himself. : "I jumped overboard and managed to keep afloat, although the water was bitterly cold, until picked up by the only boat that there was time to launch. For a time we rowed around picking up men, but the boat was soon overcrowded and beyond throwing life belts to the men in the water, we could do no more. A Norwegian steamer came up and picked up a few men, but for the large majority she was too late. British Losses 13,500. London An official report by Gen eral French, commanding the British expeditionary force, gives the total of British killed, wounded and missing from September 12 to October 8 as 661 officers and 12,980 men. ,The war office issued another casualty list received from headquarters under date of Sep tember 16. It gives 51 non-commissioned officers and men as having been killed, 149 men wounded and 555 men missing. Those of the killed belonged entirely to the Royal Scots, the Royal Irish and the East surrey regiments. Prince Saved by Illness. London That Prince Oscar, the fifth son of the emperor, owes his life to his attack of heart disease is stated in a dispatch from Copenhagen. It ap pears that a party of Turcot were fir ing from trees and shot down every officer surrounding the prince. The sudden excitement led to the heart at tack and the prince fell unconscious. The Turcos believed he was dead and stopped firing. Native Born Canadians in New Army Are few Toronto, Ont. Charges are made that many native-born Canadians are not enlisting for service in the Euro pean war. One estimate goes so far to say that of the first contingent no fewer than 85 per cent were British born, most of whom came to Canada within the last five years. This estimate is combated by many, among others by the Canadian life Insurance companies, who patriotically have decided not to enforce the war clause in their policies, which entitles them to impose a super-premium of $50 a thousand. Instead of doing this they are carrying all policies in force at the time of enlistment at the old rate, thereby substantially increasing their liabilities without any compen sating revenue. They say their lists of policy holders show a large propor tion of Canadian born. However, the highest estimate of Canadian born in the contingent is 40 per cent, 60 per cent being British born, ' although according to the last census the latter number only 11 per cent of the population. That a serious situation is indicated by the circumstance is admitted by Canadian patriots. In explanation it is argued that many of the British ar rivals had miltiary training, and fur ther, having severed home ties, they were freer to respond to the call of war. It is admitted that this Is only a partial explanation and that possibly there is a more serious underlying cause. It has also been pointed out that few French Canadians enlisted for the first contingent. The incident illustrates how slender is the bond of sentiment that now connects "New France" with old France. Nevertheless, in demon stration of loyalty to the British em pire, an entire brigade of French Canadians is being rapidly organized and will be incorporated in the second expedition. Young General Wounded. Paris The youngest French com mander, General Malleterre, aged 45, lies wounded in Paris. His left leg has been amputated and his left arm is shattered. He is being nursad by his young daughter. His wife, who served with an ambulance at the battle front, had ber shoulder torn by a shell. His son, a dragoon officer, also was wound ed. The general was dining, after winning a battle at Bar-le-Duc, when a spy notified a German battery of his whereabouts. As he left the restau rant a shell burst near him. Anti-German riots In London have been renewed. ......... . v The state treasurer of Idaho is re- V moved from office and his books are being audited. Italy has cut import duties of all cereals during the winter months, from 20 to about 60 per cent. Dogs and cats belonging to the ref ugees in Paris are said to be suffering discomforts as well aa human beings. The Panama canal, which was re cently blockaded by a huge avalanche, has been cleared and is open to traffic. Washington government, is permit ting wounded Mexicans to enter the United States to receive medical at tention. , The French government has ordered from a New York firm, 20,000 horses to be delivered by December 1. The order states that the color of the ani mals must be dark. The government again has taken action against German trade in France. It sequestered an important art ' house and various other businesses related to almost every branch of commerce. Three officers and 70 men of Colonel Marits's rebel force In South Africa have been captured and four officers and 40 men have voluntarily surren dered, according to a Pretoria dispatch. A French gun destroyed 15 German mitrailleuses, two of which were pro tected by steel shields, according to a Paris dispatch. A German heavy ar tillery battery also waa destroyed at St. Mihiel. The Russian ambassador has fled from Constantinople, taking the arch ives of the embassy with him to Odes sa, because of the alarming situation in the Turkish capital, according to a Rome dispatch. The court-martial of a supposed American on a charge of espionage be gan in private at the Wellington Bar racks, London. This is said to be the first case in the present war of a spy being handed over to the military au thorities for trial. New Austrian soldiers are required to take the oath of fidelity to the Ger man emperor as well as to the Aus trian emperor, according to dispatches from Trieste. Insurrectionary bands are also reported to be swarming in all parts of the Austrian empire. The German submarine which sank the Russian cruiser Pallada waa the U-26. The crew received iron crosses, Crown Princess Cecelie going in per son to Danzig to bestovA them. The vessel's commander, Baron Berckheim, is now a famous figure among captains. Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland, who recently went to the war zone as head of a Red Cross hospital, and Ma jor Percy Desmond Fitzgerald, of the Eleventh Hussars, were quietly mar ried last week at Roehampton. The duchess has returned to her Red Cross work in France. Thef slayer of Archduke Ferdinand of Austria says he is proud of his deed. The first chamber at The Hague has passed a measure providing for the second war credit of $20,000,000, , A Reuter dispatch from Amsterdam says the exportation of petroleum from The Netherlands has been forbidden by royal decree. The general staff of Kiev alleges dumdum bullets are being used by Aus trian troops. Eight cases of these bullets have been obtained. According to a telegram from Con stantinople, Turkey has informed Ger many that owing to a lack of money she will have to demobilize her army. Princess Mary of England has ap pealed to that nation for assistance in sending a Christmas present to every soldier and sailor of the allied armies. The London Mall 'reports that Brit ish gunboats overhauled and captured a mysterious steamer which was try ing to pass the Downs off Deal. It is supposed that the steamer was trying to sow mines. J ' The Belgian government, before re moving to France,' says a dispatch from The Hague, ordered all male cit izens between the age of 18 and 45 to enter the army (within two days or be treated aa traitors. Prisoners' Exchange Due. London The Amsterdam correspond. ent of Rueter s Telegram company says the Cologne Gazette has published a message from Kiel, saying that 167 prisoners of war, men attached to the British ambulance corps, have arrived at the German-Danish frontier for ex change with an equal number of Ger man ambulance corps men held by the British. The Englishmen will travel home by way of Copenhagen. The London Morning Post "asserts that it has proof that the British fleet has received official orders not to ar rest nationals of belligerent powers In neutral ships. In an editorial the newspaper demands to know who is responsible for the order, what it means and how it can be reconciled with Great Britain's obligations to her allies. - , : j. Two detachments of the American Red Cross arrived in Vienna Wednes day. One proceeded to Hungary and the other to the hoapital In the suburbs of Vienna. .... Strict measures are being taken In Rome to check the attempts of some of the belligerent countries to engage Italians for work on fortifications and intrenehmenta. ' Noel Buxton, member of the British parliament, and his brother, were shot by a Turk while on their way to at tend the funeral of the king of Rou- mania. Both were seriously wounded.