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WIACKENSEN IN
RETREAT BURNS
DOBRUDJATOWNS
Pelrograd Reports Teutonic Invaders
Retiring Bulgarians Forced Back
in Cerna Region Serbians Within
Four Miles of Monastic Somm'e
Drive Halts.
I'KTROfiRAD, Nov. J (I. An nrlil-
lei'y hoiiibnrtltiH'iit is prcwossinir nil
alimn the Iiussinii front, the war of-.
J'ici' n')orts.
I'KTROfiHAI), Xov. lti. The war
office nnnoimees thai Field .Marshal
Yon Maekensen's army is in retreat
in Dnlirmlju, bui'iiim," villajjes as it
falls haek. On the Transylvanian
l"ronl in the region of Cainpulim. Ru
mania, fierce fihtiii',' is in progress.
SOFIA, Xov. Ifi. Tlio retreat of
the (!erman-!n!arian i'orees in the
t'erna heml, under the assaults of
the Serbians is admitted in the offi
cial statement issued by the war of
fice today. According to the state
ment, the Unitarians have fallen
back on a line four to six miles west
of Iven, the last town west of the
Cerna reported captured by the Ser
bians. On Macedonian Front.
1'AIiIS, Xov. lti. French and
Kussiim troops on the Mneedonian
front are now within Jour miles of
Alonustir, it was announced official
ly. The war office says the pursuit
of the defeated Jluljjarians continues.
On the!enstern end of the line the
Itritish troops . hnve njiain assumed
the offensive, defeating the 1'ulaN
inns in (lie region oT the Hiver
Siruma and captunnj; the vilhig-o of
Kavakaskn.
liraiARKST, Xov. Ifi. Ihimnn
tan forces operating: in southern
1'i'iinsylvania yesterday retired to
wards A refill and Hadieincsti, in the
Alt valley, and in the direction of
Wnpacionsa, on the .liul valley, ac
cording to an official statement is
sued today hy the liumnnian war de
partment.
On Soiiinu- Front.
I.OXDOX, Xov. lti. The Itritisli
advance in the Ancrc region in France
seems to hnve halted. London an
nounces only artillery activity dur
ing the night. Berlin, however, re
ports heavy attacks hy (he, British
yesterday, notably "tie on the villa-re
of Orandcourt, which is declared to
have broken down.
Tin successes against the French
scored hv the Ciermans north of the
Somme vestenhiv are reported hv
Berlin today. They consisted, a
cording- to the statement, in the can-
lure, in house-to-house fighting, of
the eastern section of the village of
Sailliscl, where the "French were men
acini; the German positions at St.
Pierre Vanst wood and of French
trenches on the northern edge of this
wood.
For their part the French reacted1
nirninst the (lennans south of the
Soinmc, near C'ha nines, where a
German counter-attiick was nn
noimccd yesterday to have wrested
a part of the village of Pressoire
from French possession. The French
recaptured this ground last night.
J'aris announces today.
The invasion of Rumania, is contin
uing snecessfully, Berlin declares, al
though increasing- resistance is ap
parently he in encountered hy Gen
eral Von Falkenhnyn, the tenacious
defenc of the Hutnaiiians heinjr men
tioned. A Bucharest dispatch forwarded
from Home to the Wireless Press
says snow is falling in the Carpath
ians where the cold is intense. In
Dohrudja torrential rains have fallen
IN SHOE LEATHER
ritlCAfiO. Xor. If,. Five hundn d
mcmhers of the National Aseintioii
of Tiinuer-, in uniiiuil convention here
tod;iy, siiiil tlnre would 1m no :id
Minee iu the jriee o' slne leather un
b . the nations nt war make foo hi'
it dernnnd 'n the -undu4 stock now in
the hands ut tnnnm and Iioe mnn
ur.teturer. Hides nnd skin. h -ever,
were declared tu be scarce.
i:iATHERlS
CALIFORNIA SHOWS nnnncDATinMrnD
NO MATERIAL CHANGE uUUrtnAMUlNrUK
-. NATIONAL PARK
SAX FHANCISCO, Xov. n;.
O. K. Cushing, democratic lend-
er, today declared that the of-
fr i'icial count of votes in the state
3 Tor republican and democratic -J-
electors would show no material
change. i
! "There is not a eliauce on
J earth Unit Wilson's lend will he
affected," lie said. All hut 12
counties luive finished ihe of-
I'ieial count. $
RESTA LEADING,
COOPER SECOND,
VANDERBILT RACE
SANTA MONICA. Cal.. Nov. hi.--
Nineteen drivers Lit awav today in
ihe eleventh Vumlerbilt nip road nice
with -M. J. Mo-ie ami Lewi Jackson
el tiny: the starter's flair lirM, ihe
liters following in pair.- at lcn-.-ec-
ond intervals.
Aitken led at the fifth hp, making
the -12 miles in 2:1. minute-, ;tll. sec-
mils, bettering I icPah'ia- record
oer three niiuules. Cooper vn see-
n d ami Itcsta third, with the field
trailing.
.lohnn y A il ken and Fa rl Cooper,
fifth and third in starling order,
drove, into the lead immediately and
crossed the line at llie end of the
lirst lap, with .loosie, first to start,
third, and the field following. I'nof-
1'icial time on the first lap was ( I
minutes and ! seconds, hcltciing- (he
record.
Cody was out in the third lap and
litckctibnchcr dropped out with ii
.-plil year in the fifth, leaving sev-
eiiieeii in the race. Aura, ami Lent.
bailing to Mart.
Aitken had increased his lend over
I lie t it-Id at the tenth lap. Ile-ia was
pressing- him clo-cly, with Cooper
third and Thomas fourth.
Aitken's lime was ."iS minutes. I'J
2-."i seconds.
Ii'esta passed Aitken hi llie lour
teetilh lap and al the end of the fif
teenth the order was liesla, Ail ken,
Cooper, Weiuhtman and Pullen.
li'esla's lime was 1:27:1" l-", a rate
of hetter tlian Kb miles an hour.
KiiekMcll dropped out in the eighth
lap with h'tiitinn trouble and Jackson
and Toft ave ii the race in the
ninili.
Re-ta miiiiilaiiicd hi- lead at the
end of the twcnty-filih lai. His time
was J:2"i:41 a -teady pace of
Sli miles an hour. Cooper was -ee-ond.
WASI 1 1 NGT N, No . 1 (i.Kdwiu
O. Kduerton, stale ladroad roinini-
-ioner of California, recommended
today ill a report to llie National As-
soeiation of Kailwav Coaimi-.-ioiier-.
in se--ion here, that the power to
reuulate the stoek- and hornl- of the
inter-twte carrier- and public utili
ties he taken fnun the ariou-. -late
eoiunii--ioli- and hulked in one eeii
tral body, lie al-o advoeated the
passage of a national iticnrimra l ion
act, de-iuiicd to make inter-late cor-piratitn-
-oibjeet to lederal aiithor-
it v.
GERMAN AIR FLEET
LONDON'. Nov. l.iPiiti'nai.t
f;enral Von lloemicr has been placed
hi ronunand of the nru atrial fort es
lioard of Or many, arcordjni; to iir,
A lustenhim diliateh to Keuter'K uo(
iim an offiefal Merlin aiinoiin 'in"iit.
The new h(iarl hit? control of all a via -
tion and auti-aip raft riuirnicnts of
the lifnnan army and hiis Im-ch form
ed in recognition of the Inerea-lni:
Iniportunee of aerial warfare.
Assistant Secretary of Interior Tells
of Plans for Development of Cra
ter Lake Seeks Adequate Facili
ties for Tourists and $100,000 Ap
propriationPlans for Highway.
i il v i o-opcrnlinn of Medfoi'd
ami Jad;-iii conniv in the devrlon-
ment id' ('rater Lake national park
ind in inakiii it aeees-iote was a-k-d
hy Sleplien T. .Mather, a i-tant to
see ret a rv of ihe interior and in
haie of national parks, at a linieh
on tejidered li tin Thur-day noon at
Ihe .Medt'ord hole! hy the . Med ford
Oommeivial elub, lie told of hi- ef
forts to intere-t Portland capital in
ori:nnizinu' n .-U'JtK l,i HJO company to
lake over the hotel concession- and
provide adequate facilities for Ihe
comfort of lotiri-rs and visitors, am'
with llicsc assured, the department of
the inleiior would ask congress for
1 tiU.HOO for improvement.-. If Oie-
uon capital lad- to appreciate its op
portunity, tie staled that California
capital would he enlisted.
San Franci-ro people, he stated,
were spending $:iO0.HU0 tit make the
Vo-eniile national park a toiiri-t-
.Mecca, and as this amount was in
adequate, he was uoiiii; to rciuest an
additional 4:11111,(100. Co-opcralimr,
tin LrnVcrnni( at would spend la rue
-urns.
Seattle and Tacoina have n arced to
expentl ., M in Uainier national
palk, and ihe depaTiineht is a-kiny
flim.Miil) from Uic overniiienl for
co-opcraltoi!, ' f t. v t
v. Oilier Cities Aiding.
Los Anueles i- willing and anxious
to spend hundreds of thousand- of
dollar.- on Sequoia park, hut the gov
ernment is tint readv tor Ihe im
provements there. It is phlnned to
make improvements in Mount Kuinicr.
Crater lake and Yoscmile parks dur
ing ihe coming year, then proceed
with Scnuoin park and perhaps the
tirand canyon. Mr. Mallnr i- of the
opinion that eoii-jre-s will make a
national park of (he Cram! canyon
within a shoi I time. Crater lake, he
Mated, had hceu pronounced hv the
late F. 11. Ilarrimau the irreatc-I at
traction id' them all, and an opinion
eominir from such a source deserved
the highest attention.
-Mr. Mather, in urLMnir local support
of Crater lake, said :
''In the operation of national park-
private individual- are virtually part
ners of the "ovcrninenL The govern
ment keep- up t he road-, cares for
the iidinini-tiation and collect- fee
from antoinohili-l - and llie like for
admini.-t rat n e expenses. A rrane
menls are made whereby Ihe aovern
ment reccic- a percentage of the
)ro il s from t he coimm -ions a i
llie iutcrc-t ha- been paid.
oii in (he Chain.
"Crater Lake national park, with
out aileipiitle toiiri-l faciiitii'-, luakc-
a uap in the chain of national parks.
I'lidcr Ihe direction of the nrm
engineer's office in Portland, consid
erable work has been done on tin
road- in Crater Lake park during the
past two or three year-. Thi- work
will be cont iuued.
"We are al-o very much interested
in a mik-!o-.park highway," stated
Mr. Mather, "and of course the Col
'tmbia hiidiuay will form a part o) il
Il i- planned to have the road start
the lioeky Mountain park in Colo
rado, i;t i Hurt hu c- to Yellow - tone,
then to (ilacter park, over to (lie Ml.
ilainii-r couiiiry and on down to Port
laud, where one will ride ocr that
beaiilitul road von Jotk- have con-
(Contlnifd on Pane Two.)
OPERAIED IN EASE
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o'. SiMi'i.hm, Kun-
i wa- broii'dit oiil
of llie 'aliloniia-
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leli-udiini in t'tc I 'nitcd
Shile- di-lie-t court here. He ad
mitted thai he had ojmtMciI m Kaii-
-a- Cilv under Ihe name o) Hianioiid.
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Tli(vt piclmvs sliow hmv Hit pi'o.sidenliiil t-iiniliiliiN's lunkcil wlirn tlu'y
vnliMl hir thi'mx'lvcH. Unfiles, at tup. Is slmwii with liiillnt . l:t. ulttcli
he voted :tt mII in it New York laundry. Wilson is shown h-avlnu ltu
Mills in u firo hoiiso nl l'rlnivtont . J., wIiim-i' he votes hullot Xo. ."SO.
SLAIN BY VILLISTAS
i
KL I'ASO, Te
dure 1 loeniuller,
nil, Chihuiiliuji.
wife nnd luii'y '
., Nov. 1 ii.--Theo-i
merchant of Pitr
louellier with bis
ic Killed by Villa
li.'indits when Villa nccupicil Parral, 1
a re. port n re r.l here ly a Pafral i
mini ns coin pan,' Mia I loeiiinller .
is said to he a (leinwiu subject.
According to the report made to
the milium company by a Chinese and
A rati refugee from I'arrat, Hoe mill- ,
Icr's execution ;i orib-red because
lie had permitted a display of is
pairs of ears i -ut from Carrnna sol
diers, together v.ilh an insulting let
ter aainsl ill.i. iu the window of
his store in t'arra!.
The ears, tlo- refugee said, had
beeii cut from CuiTmiza soldiers of
the Parral .uarrf'on captured hy Vil
la's bandits t hrci monl lis before.
These ejirs re s'iil to fleneral ller
rera, the reiiiu'ets state, U an In
vitation to have litem for breakfast.
The cars, to''thi !- willi an open let
ter denomif inc. !h cruelty of Villa,
were placed on di-vbty in the Moeimil
ler store by Central Herrera, accord
ing to ref imei .
'h-n VUla an! his bandi's arrive,!
In I'arral they burned of the display
of the ears and of the letter criticis
ing Vil'a. This is said to have
angered Villa to the point of frenzy
and he ordered I locum I Ut and his
family killed, the refugee. de- hirei!.
TURKS DEFEATED
SOUTH OF TEHERAN
PKTItOHl' n, Nov. 1'
Oflic'al
announcement made here lod.:'
of a Wm-sian i!oiv over Ihe Tnr': in
thi vicinity of Suliattabai!, In Persia,
l.'u miles Methne,t of Teh'Taii. Til"
stateiiierii follow :
"In I Ik direction of llidj;ir our de
liohiiteuts have iliiven the Tiirkb out
of the regions of Koxask a ml Hj.m-i;i-A(;;di,
south of Suit ana bad."
THEY VOTED FOR THEMSELVES;
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IS SUNK WITHOUT
I
l,OM)()X, Nov. Hi.-- The official
press bureau .unve out toilay the fol
lowing official (leiniJin statemeul,:
"On November '. a (ierman sub
marine sank by a torpeh. a hostile
transport of about l:!.wni tons, cilil
nautiiiil miles west of Malta."
The lirhish admiraltv apiends this
commr-nt :
"The announcement is an obvious
at l em pi to explain a w ay an out
rageous and inhuman act in (ornedo
ihK a mail sleanier willioni warning.
Tlie only ship, punk in t In- Mediier
raneau on Novenmcr ; was Ihe penin
sular ami Oriental steamer Arabia.
7. !:;:! tons, sunk v. il bout wa nil tin
ahoiit ,: m ii milc;; east of Miilta."
EOS 53 NAVY SHIPS
WASHINGTON. Nov. i C Navy of
fii -hi Is and n r i r-nt ai ivev of ship
builders ri-su me, ct)ii ffi eni-e toda
over awarding cont ra- ts for the
new ybit't, for which hid- have bf-cn
rceiv-d.
I'pon l he out I'ome may depend
whether the rn nont will under
take (he bniMnK; of tlie fl e or I' t It
(io lo private ards. wiiich propose
mat))' nunliflcat ions. i
SWEET REAPPOINTED
TD OLD POSITION
W SII INCTON. mm', t W. K.lvv iu
I. Sweet, who rsj;'?nd as a-.-lstaut
secrf t'ir; of ct'inmerce lo run for gov
ernor of Mb hiiran i-nd was de.
feated. giver, il recess HppfdllC
liient. to his foi liter position today hv
President Wilson.
PRECEDENTS
SMASHED
Proi,icssive, Forwaril-Loolciny and
Forward-Actint) Slates Defeat the
Boss-Controlled Reactionary Cen
ters of ti c East Wilson Distinct
ly Favorite of the Common Man.
Mv (Itl.SON CAli'HNKli.
. WAMIIXOTON, Nov. Ki. - A nres
id: tu ele ted without New York! Thai
i- the tii' -cuuliou in l In WiUon vic
tory. It i- a -inashiii"' ol nil history,;
an obliteration nf preeedenl. Il i
ihe Win uiui-e that fooled .M.-inlml-j
tan. It is whal sent, tin- New York!
cdiloi off into their 'jicut blunder
I' elaimin-4 Ihiiilic ch-clion hy a
fwecpinii ii-torv when llie wesl had
not heen heard from. Il inauuniiile
a new iru in poliiic-. II U the weet-e.-t
victory to Hie deinoerals they
have ever hml: much veeier iliun il
would hu ve been had I hey en rricil
New Yoj'li anil securcil tin ovei wheliu
1 1 1 nmjorilv in the electoral eolletie.
To win wiihout New 'ork nml Illi
nois ami Indinnti is n ibinir believed
hy all polil ieiaji- to In impossible and
eonlitiry lo nature. It never bail
hapiielicd. In the lcico of politic--il
couht no) happen.
The solid west ami the -olid south
hnve overcome Ihe irreat New York
tradition ami the rcat myth ot' "In
iliana. the pivotal state."
Significance ol Kb'ction,
.Moie than this I her is of 'sivmfi-
ciince in this victory. Wilson has
won without the lliree hi'j; democrnlie
ho.sses ;iihl their corrupt political mii
iii;e -t'liarlie Murphy and Tam
iiiiiny iu New "orli ; h'oiier Sullivnu
ami the Cook eoiiuly Illinois mnehine,
aihl llie Smith-Nugent nmchiue iu New
Jersey. Murphy's organization delih'
eralety ktiil'i'd the democratic li-kel
iu New York: Sullivan evidenllv did
not iel out Ihe Chicago vote, ami the
New Jersey machine Tailed to carry
ihe pre-idi'iil's home slnle for him.
In (he case of Alinpliv it i.s known
thai the president refused to make
term- with Tammany, -ayini: )'i:inkl
thiit he 1 1 1 r 1 1 1 rather lake the coiise-ipienec-
limn lo lie himsell' up in the
ii.alli'r of palronam and olhei' fav
ors which Tamilian1' demanded, lio'r
er Sullivan ha-- nominally always
siipi'orled Wilson, bid iu Illinois he is
a part of Ihe lupa rl i-a n Sullivan-Lot,
imer machine m yaiiiii I ion. ami 1 his
organization worked harmoniously
toelher iu Chicago and Cook county
for Iln-Jie- and l.owiien. The Sulli
van vole- did little harm lo I.owilei
Is I'i ojirevsive Verdict.
President Vilou ha- riceivi-d
u mi i da I e from t he ino-1 pro-j re iv
si:. it-- in the e.nintrv. The proxies
-ii-ia nf the west could not he de
ilivcicd In ihe Perkins. Ihtrjhes outfit.
The v.c-l V'''e Hie pre.-ideiit a Vote oi
j confidence They a"'.rl(vcd hi- in
jlcru;'! polirie- and hi- mana'emcut o
I ore mn a I ! a ii s, and I lie lieu v v v oti
for Wil-ou of ihe four slates border-'
iiim on Mexico w oidd iudi'-alc aji
pi'oal "I his liundliur of the Mexican
problem.
Wilson is di-iincl!v lire favorite of
the common imin. Hiy eejil cr like
New Yoi U .'ind I 'liieao, -nbjc-t to
I lie in 1 liicin e- of hi-i bu-ine-s. went
for llnhc-, hut the plain citizen sup
plied the dciicit cau-cd b Hu- with
drawal of ole- by bi-- hiisine-- in
tin- ea-t ami in ll" middle we-l. It
i- di-t ind ly I he plain citizen' vie -torv
: a vciv dt-tin-t homo;' mid one
hat i- L'leatly appiecjalcd hv Pre-i-
i drill Wil-on.
W hat P.i vaii Hieiinied Of.
It i- u Jm I I'i van dreamed of in
1S!M;, but nii-scd bccjiu-e Ihe ri-in''
w;i'c of j;i il ifji li -mi at that time did
(f'otitimiPil on I'HKt! Two.)
IDENT
HIMSELF IN STUDY
WArilll(;TO
Nov. !;. Prcsi-
dent Wilson ."Inn hiiucf in lil? Htinl
toilay and relit - d to pee many po
litjial leaders, who desired lo confer
wllli htm. He faced a desk piled hi-h
w ith pardons and o, .icr execut iv.1
papers demanding his attention. Of
fh ials said he would see only Ihe
most Important callers during Ihe re
mainder of the week.
BY THE ELECTION
GERMANS DENY
INGAT
Captain of U-Boat Says Crew Owes
Life to Precautions Taken hy Ger
mans Steamer Attempted to Es
cape No Shots Fired After Ves
sel Slopped Wirelessed fur Aid.
ItKltUN. Nov. I ii Assertions that
t he ( let man submarine, which sank
Hie l.rltish shin Uowanmore on which
I here were several Americans, fired
upon lifeboats containing nu.mb;rs of
the crew, are dismissed as utterly
false In the report of the commander
of the submarine, further details of
which became known today.
Kurtbeniiore the men on tho
liowanmore owe their lives to tho
precautions taken by (he Hermans
and the skill with which Iheip opera
tions were carried out. During tho
lih-niinute pursuit of thn steamship.
tlie submarine's shots worn shot
astern to limit tho dnnyer to tho
crew In the bow. The Rywanmore
was hit 10 times, the last shell dlfl-
abUnn the propeller.
The submarine ceased firing, the
report contiuues, immediately It was
observed the Itowaumorn had de
creased her speed and abandoned the
effort to escape. No shots were fired
at the men In the boats. Just before
she stopped the Itowaumorn hoisted
a signal, but it was impossible, to read
it from the subnturlne. at that time,
about" i.uoo. yards nway. Later it
was shown that the signal was "I sur
render." The master ot tle Kowanmorc. at
tempted to ej.euptf( ihe- stibinm-ino
commander reports, hy the assart ion
that, he desired to gain time to launch,
boats, hut. this pretext was not. uc
eepted. Later the Itowannorc's cap
tain was made a prisoner of war for
aiteinptini1; to escape and for mini
moiilim assistance by wireless, which
speedily brought up a Mritl&li de
stroyer. Thereupon the Kowaiimore
was sunk by a torpedo.
SAN FUAXCISCO, Nov. Hi. Kull
u re of the Plrst Congregational
church of this city to re-elect Dr.
Charles I". Aked pastor Is expected to
day to result in a bitter factional
fli;ht.
fir. Philip Itlce, former deacon of
the congregation and leader of the
pro-Aked faction, declared today that
he would resign immediately. Others,
he said, would follow suit.
Or. Ilice branded last night's no
tion, in which l)r. Aked failed to get
the necessary two-thirds vote to re
turn him to Ihe pa -Morale, as the
"most disgraceful scene he had ever
witnessed.''
Hr. AUc( resigned his $10, nun pas
torate in I he Pirsl. Congregational
church to go to lOuropft with the Konl
peace party. He recent l.v resigned
I rum Hie peace conference and re
t urned to A inerlca.
ST. PAI't., AH nn., Nov. Hi. Mr.
Hur.hes made a slight net Kain in
Minnesota today throuirh a corrected
unofficial vote 'on Houston county
and Hie auditor's sheets from Ijc
Sueuer, Morrison. Mower and .Mas
seca counties. The totals at noon
stood :
Wilson, t 7 7.7 J I ; Hughes ITn.213;
Hughes' plurality I2P.
SAI.K.M. Or., Vox. Hi. Spence
o?'iman, Poitbtnd, was today ap
pointed deputy -caler of weights and
men Mire- to -iiceccd Kled (i. Ihtehtcl,
I'ottland, who was elected public .er-
vice ruiniiii -sioiiei at the rei-ciU election.
FR
W
OF ROWANMORE