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THE tnTETK rj AT, TUESTTAT, DECEMBER 2, 1919. 4 RESOLUTION BATTLENOWLOQWiS Administration Is to Fight Substitute Measure. - TREATY STILL IN OFFING Informal Attempts at Further Com oromise Made Immediate Ac tion Is Bfot Expected. WASHINGTON, Dec. 1. Negotia tions for a compromise ratification of the peace treaty were renewed to day with the reassembling of con gress, but the general feeling of senators on both sides was that . it might be some weeks before the movement reached the stage of formal action. Republican and democratic leaders found themselves in agreement that the legislative programme should not be longer delayed, and that the treaty should not be brought again before the senate formally until a way to dispose of it finaliy had been opened by private discussion. There were indications that the resolution to de clare a state of peace might also be delayed irhtil important legislation had been cleared away. The disposition to leave the treaty sidetracked for the present was ex pressed by the senators generally to be reflected in the message which President Wilson will send to con gress tomorrow. I,odge Against Yielding;. Democratic senators who approached republicans about a compromise were told to put their proposals into con crete form. They promised' to do so within a day or two. To these discussions, however. Sena tor Lodge, republican leader, was not a party. He has announced his opposition to any further compromise and is understood to have counseled his colleagues to stand squarely be hind the reservations accepted by the majority at the last session. Senator Hitchcock, democratic leader, predicted that the compromise efforts would succeed and that within a few weeks it would be possible to bring in the treaty and ratify it quickly. He oxpeotp to see President Wilson soon and is expected to ascer tain what reservations the president would accept rather than see the treaty die. Peace Resolution to Be W-uKht. During the day Senator Hitchcock was in communication with White House officials and is understood to have told them there would be no urgent necessity for him to see the president for four Wr five days. A conference may be arranged late this week. Although Senator Lodge is under stood to be anxious ' to ring up as soon as possible his resolution declar ing a state of peace, other prominent republicans predicted that action on it in the immediate future would be impossible. The administration forces contend ing that peace can be established properly only by ratification of the treaty, are prepared to stubbornly oppose the resolution and it was said a fight for its adoption now would mean another long delay of legisla tion. Early Presentation Planned. Action on the resolution by the house will be sought at once, how ever, the republican leaders making plans today to have it presented there within a day or so. So far it has been introduced only in the sen ate, where it now rests in the foreign relations committee. No meeting of the committee has been called to con sider it. today a compromise proposal was said to have come from democratic senators active in the treaty fight, although not directly from the demo cratic leader himself. While the republicans who were ap proached declared they would never consent to any material modification of the majority reservations, they are eaid to have shown a willingness to consider any concrete proposition. The qualification of article 10, char acterized by the president as consti tuting rejection of the treaty, and the preamble requirement that other pow ers must accept the senate reserva tions, continud to hold the center of interest in all compromise discussions. Some republicans declared their be lief that slight changes in these two parts of the majority programme would satisfy the democrats and make ratification possible. On the demo cratic aide, however, no one cared to predict what minimum of modification would be acceptable. H. J. Koch, a pioneer of Washington and Oregon, laid in the public morgue before it was identified. Mrs. Koch was stricken by paralysis as. she sat on a street bench, while waiting for car. The police were called by passersby and the woman was taken to a hospital but death had ensued. Identification was impossible for several hours. Mrs. Koch had Just been initiated into the White Shrine of Jerusalem and had left thehall alone to go to her home when death took place. She was 61 years old and the daughter of the late W. P. Daugherty, a noted pioneer of both Oregon and Wash ington, j DALLES EPIDEMIC WANES Health Officer Turns From Small pox to Cope With Mumps. THE DALLES, Or.. Dec 1. The smallpox epidemic which has been rampant in the city the past month is now on the wane, according to a statement made this morning by Dr. Fred Thompson, city health officer. He says the disease is under perfect control and that unless the unfore seen occurs, the public has nothing to fear from the malady. As a consequence of a large number of cases of mumps prevalent among th-m jchool children. Dr. Thompson CONGRESS ASKED TO FID FIVE BILLIONS Staggering Estimates Pre sented by Secretary Glass. ARMY AND NAVY IN LEAD Yearly Interest on War Debt Xow Is Greater Than Appropriation Total of Any Peace Congress. now are fighting to seize control of the public schools as a preliminary etep to coming city,, county, state and national campaigns. Leaders of the Wiswell-Listman campaign, who are on record as sympa- kuicre wiin ia soviet system or gov ernment fancied in some parts of Rus sia, have expressed concern over the fate of L W. W. and bokihevist pris oners, and have given banquets to men on the road to jail for violation of federal statutes in time of war. And in tomorrow's election the vot ers of Seattle, who repudiated ring rule and school politics 20 years ago and since have kept the schools of the city clean, must decide whether the policy that has endured for a generation is to be upset to make room for radicalism. .SHUNS LOSE APPEAL OPERATORS OF FtNX PAPER MUST GO TO PRISOX. PACKERS' EMPLOYES TO GET MORE PAY Court as Arbitrator Grants Part of Demands. SHORTER WEEK DENIED WASHINGTON, Dec. 1. The record Attack on Soldiers and Sailors Re- billion dollar congresses of ordinary peace time faded into the past today when Secretary Glass, presenting the annual estimates, proposed appropria tions of practically five billion dollars SERVING IN RUSSIAN WOMAN'S BATTALION OF DEATH. suits In Conviction and Sen tence ol Two Tears Apiece. SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. 1. The BEAUTIFUL ITALIAN GIRL FLEES FROM BOLSHEVIKS AFTER United States court of appeals here today affirmed the convictions oi a. J. Partan, general manager of the Western Workmen's Publishing so ciety of Astoria, Or., and W. N. Reivo, editor of Toveri, a foreign language newspaper published at Astoria. Both men were found guilty of vio lating the espionage act and were sentenced to two years each at Mc Neil's island. Partan and Reivo, according- to evi dence adduced at their trials, sold a book entitled "Bees and Butterflies," reviling soldiers of the United States army and opposing the army and navy of this country. . Evidence in the trial of Partan and Reivo, in the federal court in Port land, disclosed that their Finnish language papers were the only pa pers read by many thousands of Finns in Astoria and vicinity, and that injected into articles was a "slant" calculated to make the read ers of the paper disloyal. The defense charged a frame up because a copy of the book on which they were convicted, was sold to an agent of the naval intelligence bu reau. The defendants had published a translation of "War What For?" and copies of this translation and "Bees and Butterflies," it was testi fied, were found in the homes of readers of the Finnish language papers. Red Cross workers testified that the editor refused to give them pub licity, as he did not believe in or ganizations of the kind. The govern ment did not take steps against Par tan and Reivo until after the war, although repeatedly reports had been made by loyal citizens who demanded that something be done to curb the activities of the publishers. The de fendants were finally indicted and tried by B. E. Haney, United States attorney, and his assistant, Barnett Goldstein. 4$r? - - ' s' , J -' -' , Jt 1 i , - Thoto copyright by Underwood. DOMiA FLAVIA POTESSKL Donna Flavia Potenski, a beautiful Italian miss, disguised herself as a priest and fled from the bolsheviki. She served as a private in the Russian woman's batallion of death. She was living in Petrograd at the time of the outbreak and she became involved in Russian activities. 1240,000 OREGON'S QUOTA EPISCOPAL CANVASS WILli BE STARTED XEXT SUXDAY. Basic Eight-Hour Bay and Double Time Are Not Allowed, as They Are Held Unwarranted. CHICAGO. Dec 1. Employes of packing house firms were granted in creases in wages aggregating $12,000,- 000 a year in an award made by led- ral Judge Samuei Alschuler, arbi trator, today. One hundred and twenty-five thousand stockyard orkers in Chicago, Kansas City, maha, Lincoln, Fort Worth, St. Paul, East St. Louis and Sioux City are ffected by the award, which is re troactive from September 1, 1919. The men asked to have the increase date from July 14, 1919. Unskilled workers, who comprise about 75 per cent of the employes of the packing houses, will get an in rease of 74 per cent, which it is said will amount to $1.50 a week. Slaughtering; Crews Raised. Members of mechanical trades are to have an increase of 12 per cent. hile their helpers are allowed raise of 8 per cent. Men engaged in the killing and cutting gangs are iven an increase of 3 cents an hour, The demand of the men for a 44- hour week and double pay for over time was denied. At present the men receive time and a half for overtime and holidays. Many other demands of the workers were denied by Judge Alschuler. mong them were: Denied the basic eight-hour day for private policemen and watchmen. Denied demand of Kansas City teamsters and chauffeurs for a basic ight-hour day. Denied demand to abolish piecework in the car shops. The men won their demand for the maximum rate of pay where hog kill ng and cutting gangs are -combined for periods where there is not suffl cient work to keep both gangs en gaged as separate units. Demands Held Excessive. In commenting on the demands of the men. Judge Alschuler said: 'While I believe that conditions are uch that the employes generally, nd some of them more particularly. are entitled to some further consid- ration, it seems to me that the de mands as presented are in the main so excessive that an "arbitrator would ot be justified in granting them. With what great benefit to them selves and to all might those twin giants, capital and labor, make prac tical application of the aptly Shake spearean truth: 'It is excellent to have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.' " urges that children in homes where the disease i prevalent do not at tempt to attend the public schools. It is hoped by this the spreai of the mumps may be mitigated, t FARMERS' HEADS ARRIVE Oregon and Idaho District Meeting Opens at The Dalles Today. THE DALLES, Or., Dec. 1. (Spe cial.) The initial session of the Ore gon and southern Idaho district locals affiliated with the Farmers' Educa tional and Co-operative union of America will convene tomorow morn ing at 10 o'clock in the Wasco county courthouse. The three heads of the state organization arrived today. They are: J. D. Brown, president, of Portland; W. Burkholder of Coos Bay, vice-president; F. A. Skyes of Corval- is, secretary. The meeting will be turned over to President Brown by local union President J. C. Johnston. Mayor J. P. Stadelman will deliver the address of welcome to, visiting delegates and members. Walter Pierce of La Grande will answer the welcoming address, and immediately after the routine business of the union will be taken up. The conven tion will adjourn at noon to convene again at 1:30 o clock in me aiter- noon. for conducting the peace-time activi ties of the government during the coming fiscal year. According to these figures it will cost more than five times as much to conduct the peace-time affairs of gov- rnment as it did in the year immedi ately preceding the world war. The greatest individual estimates for expenditures, of course, are for the army and navy. The yearly in terest on the war debt is $1,017,500, 000, which sum alone is greater than John Ii. Etheridge, Diocese Cam. palgn Chairman, Declares Money Will Be Used In State. , Two hundred and forty thousand dollars was announced yesterday by John L. Etheridge, diocesan campaign chairman, as the Oregon Episcopal diocese quota in the nation-wide campaign for the every-member can vass. which begins next Sunday. While the total may seem large. it nevertheless is smaller than we expected," said Mr. Etheridge. "This money will be used to pfi it- all the appropriations for all purposes I cute energetic work by the church It. whatsoever of any peace-time con-1 Oregon RAISIN M BUB PACKERS CALIFORNIA COMPANY PRKSI DE.M GIVES TESTIMONY. Federal- Trade Commission Told That Aim of "Associated" Is "to Emancipate Growers." WASHINGTON. Dec. 1. W. M. Grif fin, president of the California Asso . ciated Raisin company, testified be fore the federal tr:wie commission to day that it was the present policy of the organization to manufacture and sell direct the raisins produced by member growers and not to sell to packing concerns in order "to emanci pate the growers from the packers.' The associated had refused to sell to a jobber but once, he declared, add ing that the organization intended to refuse to pack raisins in private brands for distributors. The firm at opening price form of contract used by the associated. Grif fin said, would be dropped if the com mission thought be.n as the organiza tion was not dependent on thie meth od. He added that too low a pric had been set on raisins at $110 a ton in 1918 in agreement with the food administration of California. Actua cost, including interest and deprecia tion. he said, was $135 a ton. He thought the complaint against this year's price was because of "marked increase" over the 1918 figure. Griffin . said that out of 10.000 growers and 123.000,000 consumers of associated raisins, there was "not one appearing here against us." The packer complainants, he said, did not have the interest of the public at heart. SOUTHERN J3ANK ROBBED Los Angeles Institution Looted by . Trio in 'Daylight. LOS ANGELES, Cal., Dec. 1. Three armed robbers held up the Union Square branch of the Hellmann Com mercial Trust & Savings bank here shortly after 3 o'clock this afternoon, forced the five persons in the bank at the time into the vault, and escaped with cash and liberty bonds estimated at approximately $2o,000. None in the neighborhood witnessed the robbery, the first alarm being given by the cashier telephoning to the mam bank after the robbers had departed, and he and his four com panions had emerged from the vault. Mrs. II. J. Koch Unidentified for Many Hours at Taconia Morgue. TACOMA, Wash., Dec. 1. (Special.) For many hours the body of Mrs. POUND DROPS TO $3.99 Lowest Mark on Record Is Reached in British Exchange. NEW YORK. Dec 1. All previous low records for British exchange in this market were exceeded today, when the cables on London fell to $3.9914 to the pound, while demand bills were quoted at $3.96. -The- lower rates were made after-the close of the regular market, when dealers reported an absolute lack of inquiry for these remittances. ' The decline caused no surprise among International bankers, predic tions of new minimum quotations hav ing been quite general after the close of last week s heavy market. DATA ON SIBERIA ASKED Mrs. Rhodes Wants to Know How Long Americans Are to Stay. WASHINGTON, Dec 1. Informa tion as to how long American soldiers V are to be kept in Siberia was sought -Jrf the state department today in rlUNttn Ultb Kin b I Khfc I b resolution by Representative Rhodes. republican, Missouri. It asked also if Japan had defined its Siberian policy and for the strength of British, French. Italian and Japanese forces in Siberia and whether any draftees ace among the American troops there. - 'For example, we hope to see erect ed at the University ox Oregon a re ligious community center for the stu dents on land now owned by the Epis copal church. Poor missionary cen ters are to be financed and equipped with vicars. . Five small automobiles are asked for to enable the church to penetrate rural centers. Logging camps are to be equipped with chap lains as a means of combating bol shevism and I. W. Wjam." INFANTE GIVES UP TITLE Antonio of Bourbon Reported Severing Spanish Nationality. grese. Department Total Hng-e. The estimated appropriations for the principal government departments were presented as follows: Legislative (conn-ess), S9.025.297.2S. Executive (White House and government departments). 14U.lll,4o3.77. Judicial. 11,634.190. Army, $989,578,657.20. Navy, 54--'.031.804.80. Pensions, tl5,030.0oO. Public works, $283,921, 810.17. Miscellaneous. $833,717,637.96. Foreign Intercourse, $11,243,250,91. The total of all estimates, includ ing some comparatively minor items not included in the foregoing, is $4,865,410,031.62. - Army aad Navy Costly. The billion-dollar estimate for the! MADRID, Dec. 1. (Havas.) El Sol army includes some $S5.000.000 for the I announces today that the Infante An- national guard. The normal peace-1 tonio of Bourbon of Orleans has by time estimate for the army before an acknowledgment signed November the war was between ten and fifteen 20, renounced hie title as infante of millions. The $542,000,000 estimate Spain and the privileges attached to for the navy includes provision for I this title. the programme of increase and is f The nev-spaper adds that he also comparable to an annual estimate of t relinquished his Spanish nationality some fifteen millions before the war. and severad family ties with the Span For the treasury deparunent more ish royal fan-ily, than $247,000,000 is asked, which goes largely to enforcement of prohibition and collection of income, corporation and excess profit taxes. For the shipping board $448,000,000 is asked to wind up its programme. An estimate of $287,500,000 is to go toward a sinking fund which ulti mately is to retire the public debt. which includes some thirty .billions spent on the war. SEEK OFFICE Musicians to Aid The Dalles. THE DALLES. Or., Dec. 1. (Spe ciaL) To assist in the concert o The Dalles chorus to be given the night of December 10,- two Portland soloists, Jane Burns Albert and Bom Zan, will be included - In the pro gramme. The chorus is working hard on the programme for the concert. which will prove to be one of the big musical events of the year. SEATTLE SCHOOL DIRECTORS TO BE ELECTED TODAY. NAME "BAYER" ON GENUINE ASPIRIN Leaders of AY is well-List man Cam paign on Record as in Favor of Soviet Government. Safe, proper directions in each Bayer package SEATTLE. Wash., Dec. - 1. (Spe cial.) Seattle will elect two school directors tomorrow for three-year terms. The polls will be open from 8 -A. M.-to 8 P. M.. thus giving the voters a full half day more time than has characterized school elections in the past. Walter J. Santmeyer and George, H. Walker entered the campaign for school directors independently and ! with their own general views of -edu cational policies, but of one accord on the necessity for keeping the public schools purged of political influence and upstanding in the theory of 100 per cent Americanism. The principal opponents of Santmeyer and Walker were- brouzht into the race by organization that is frank only in its admission that it is political. The nominations of Mrs. Wiswell Wilson and George P. Listman were made by the so-called "triple alliance" organized under the direction of cer tain radical labor leaders who have sought in the past to draw labor into politics as a class organization and I11 These Strenuous Times we are reminded of the philosophy of Benja min Franklin "Make Haste Slowly." - The fact that a scarcity of labor and of raw material exists, affords no excuse for the lowering of standards. Rush tailoring is not acceptable to this store. Every garment sold by us must measure up to our established standards ot dependable woolens and correct tailoring, thus insuring clothes-satisfaction. Regardless of conditions, our guarantee of perfect satisfaction goes with every purchase. New Suits and Overcoats $40 to $125. Winthrop Hammond Co: ...... . CORRECT APPAREL FOR MEN 127. Sixth St-, Bet Washington and Alder Formerly Buffum & Pendleton Co. Established 1884 GERMAN TRADING HEAVY BRITAIN IS IX LEAD, BUT VS. S. IS RAPIDLY GAINING. RATE LIFT ORDER PLACED Higher Phone Charges in - Hood River Valley Provided for. HOOD RIV R, Or., Dec. 1. (Spe cial.) The Oregon-Washington Tele phone company today received an order from the public service commis sion permitting a general Increase of 25 cents per phone on all classes of service. An advance of 25 cent is also permitted for desk telephones. Patrons, however, have the right of free transfer to all phones for 90 days from today, when the new rates be come effective. The order permits a toll charge of 5 cents for all calls between the Mood River and Odell exchanges. The old rate permitted such charges only on messages between upper and lower valley points, with Booth Hill a divid ing point. C0NFESSI0NIS SCOUTED Centralia Man Acquitted in Mis souri on Murder Charge. CENTRALIA, Wash.. Dec. 1. (Spe cial.) Word has been received here confirming the news carried in recent who several months ago confessed here that he murdered his 18-year-old daughter at their home in Urbana, Mo., 25 years ago and who was taken back to Hickory county, Missouri, for trial, has been acquitted by a jury. Hicks' confession was made shortly after he moved to Centralia to make his home with his .son-in-law. He said he killed his daughter following her admission of a clandestine love affair. The jury held that the father's confession was the result of an un balanced mind and that the girl had committed suicide. the trial, and the services of an in terpreter were constantly in use. To Fortify the System Against Grip Take LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE Tab lets, which destroy germs, act as a Tonia and Laxative, and thus prevent Colds. Grip and Influenza. There is only ono "BROMO QLlNINt;." E. W. GKOVKS signature on thu box. 30c Adv. American' Exports in 10 Months $52,420,095, While Imports Total $4,914,787. WASHINGTON, Dec 1. Since the signing of the armistice, the United States and Great Britain have re sumed heavy trading with Germany, as shown in reports made public to day by the department of commerce. Exports from .the United States to Germany for the first ten months of the year totaled $52,420,095, and im ports from Germany J4.914.7S7. Great Britain, from the signing ot the armistice to October 1, exported to Germany goods valued at more than $80,000,000, and received imports from Germany valued at J1.0S3.000. Of the total American exports to Germany, $20,663,521 were exported in October. Officials of the department of commerce stated that although Great Britain apparently has started off with a rush, the United States was overhauling her rapidly. S. & H. Green Holman Fuel Co. Adv. stamps for cash. Main 853. A 3353. BEADED DRESS SUIT CAUSE; Indian Woman Wins Contest for Property of Dead Aunt. J LEWISTON, Idaho, Dec 1. (Spe cial.) A valuable beaded dress and several other items of personal prop erty, the estate of Mary Barrett, an old Nez Perce Indian woman who died some time a: ), caused a suit which occupied nearly a week in the local courts. The property was awarded by a Jury verdict to Carrie Parsons, a niece of the late Mary Barrett, who con tested a will leaving it to other per sons. 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