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3 PANESE READY PEACE DELEGATE WHO WILL RETURN TO PORTLAND TODAY. ivlsig rooms livable! OR SUDDEN BLOW ake TIIE 3IORSTVG OREGONIAX, MONDAY, JANUARY 31, 1D1C. M lerican in Hawaii Says In- asion of Philippines Is Counted Easy Feat NAL WOULD BE BLOCKED Iking ot Liner in Waterway E ected to Divide American Navy, While Honolula Is Seized as Base of Supplies. WASHINGTON", Jan. SO. (Special.) legation that Japan lias compuwo tns for an invasion 01 me uncu ntes In the event of trouble between two countries and lor the capture the Philippines and Hawaiian Islands t forth in a remarkable mem- andum which Henry A. Wise Wood -s submitted to a high official of the vcrnment. The memorandum was prepared by American, vouched tor by Mr. vvooa. i savs that alter years 01 associa n with the Japanese in the Hawaiian nnrii uid on the Pacific Coast he inci "access to the plans whereby ey are confident they could attain ;eir ambitions. Philippine lavaaloa Held Easy. JThe most striking part of the docu , n r follows: Japan estimates that she can take session of the minpptnes wna u.- than one-third 01 ner isesaion of the men and lead t Avy. "Japan's invasio Japan's Invasion of the Philippines arranged to take place during a ty- oon and preferably while tne tnnea flt in At nractice. f "Her Idea Is to withdraw the United ates fleet from the Pacific Coast. iibonta strategy has been devised prevent its return. The plan would ; something: as follows: A landslide i the Culebra Cut or the foundering : a Toyo Kalsen Kaisha liner, from ow York in heavy ballast, segregates le Atlantic fleet. Japan s army ironi outh America sails for Mexico ana in Diego. The Honolulu Railway Is estroved. the wireless cut off, the truncations undermined and the Jap nese army of occupation ia in com- and of the main roads. Finbrrmra t Saw Mines. "Japanese fisherman ow a belt of -ines around Pearl Harbor. "Honolulu, occupied by the Japanese, rcomes the base of supplies during no attack on the Pacific Coast. Japan an land an army on Honolulu in six ays. From Honolulu the present army an be landed at any point on the Pa ine Coast in the same time. Japan an constantly reinforce this army to he extent of i.000,000 men without any nterference or strain on her own de ense for home purposes, as she can nine the Japan Straits and cut the Eastern world off completely. The increase of her merchantmen which have been specially designed for ransports has made her auxiliary sea power complete. "Especial preparation has been made regarding colliers and oil boats. "This incidentally reminds me that these two branches are conspicuous by Their absence in the I'nlted States Vavy and Japan treats this point as a welcome asset to victory. EIGHT-HOUR DAY WANTED (Continued FTm First rare. . - - i s?W 'J V'SL 9IISS GRACE DE GRAFF. Bushnell Photo. these unions have now suommea to thir r.snective members lor approai. not one of rates, as previous de mands have been. For purposes 01 collective action this would be impos sible. Ostensibly it Is for a shorter working day, and in addition a higher rate of remuneration than they now pet for any time worked in excess of this limit. Railroads Fear Bankruptcy. Were this demand to be granted the railroads say it would Increase their operating expenses from 23 to 40 per cent. They are about to insist and at tempt to point out to the public that without an increase in freight and pas senger rates to cover such an increase railroad in this country could Keep out of bankruptcy. Within the last three years every one of these unions has received in creases in pay and changes in working conditions, most of them as a result of arbitration awards. With these awards the leaders of the unions ex pressed dissatisfaction, though obliged to accept them under the terms of the arbitration agreements. Another fact of interest is that within this period irany men had to be laid off on account of lack of business. This condition has now changed and the railroads are giv ing employment to virtually all available men in nearly every section. Both Slides netermiaed. The men believe this Is a favorable time to thresh out what they regard as the inevitable struggle. The rail road managers at the same time con tend that accruing demands are re suiting in excessive increases in the operating expenses of the roads, and that should it continue in this manner tUe margin between income and outgo . Kr.i,n Ia .li.annear Thev nr.. thr. fore in favor of going to the mat on trie eight-hour day demand, believing that coming on top of the recent wage Increases the struggle would find pub lic sentiment on their side and a vic tory be achieved that would clear the atmosphere in the railroad world. The Western arbitration is conceded 10 nave peen instrumental in Dringing the four unions together and in influ encing their leaders to submit the eight hour demand to the men at this time. Some of these leaders have been out- poken ever since in their criticism of the board that passed upon this dis pute and have voiced on many occa sions their disappointment at not get ting more than they did. Overtime la Leading Issue. In all of the awards made by the different arbitration boards by which a standard was supposed to be fixed for all railroads in a district, the rail road day was declared to be "10 hours or less." In these cases, however, the point in dispute was the rate of pay chiefly. Today virtually all the railroads In the country have a "10-hour day." Itut this merely means, so the railroad managers contend, that after 10 hours the men can charge overtime. It is held that even a 10-hour day Is an im possibility In the freight service in many cases because of the unusual conditions which surround the railroad business. What the men would be asking for. rhould they approve of the present de mand, according to the railroad man agers, is the privilege of collecting a sreat deal more overtime pax than at present. Under the present 10-hour day rule the amount of overtime when business is as good as it is at present is roughly about 2j per cent. This overtime Is computed at the pro rata rate, but should the men enforce the j-roposrd new rule it would be com muted at time and halt the jxo is. la rate. On some runs this would increase the day's pay of an engineer and fireman about 31 per cent. The fact that the operating expenses of the railroads were 67.7 per cent of their operating revenues in 1904 and :.2 per cent in 1114. according to the figures of the Interstate Commerce Commission, shows, the railroad of ficials say, that the increases in wages have reached a danger point. In the case of the engineers the railroads point out that they were pVy ing out in 1914 over $1,000,000 more in wages than in 1912, while employing 2300 fewer engineers. Taking all the employes of the railroads, there were some 4500 more in 1912 than in 1914, bad year for the roads, yet the total wages jumped from $1,245,034,000 to 3 1 3.422.000, a difference of more than J128.000.000. The increases in these years were lor the most part among the classes represented by the four unions involved in the present eight hour day question. There Is probably no other Industry n thin country in which the unions are so strongly represented. There is no such thing really as a non-union rail road. Practically all the engineers in this country are members either of the engineers' or firemen's union. It is estimated that about 70 per cent of the firemen are union members, virtu ally all of the conductors and possibly per cent ot the trainmen. Length of Day Not Limited. These are the unions which are ikely to demand of the railroads what they have referred to as "the basic eight-hour day." Under such a rule. their leaders frankly admit, there would be no limit to the hours worked. only a larger proportion of this time would be at a higher rate. This, the railroads assert, would be ruinous to them, would deprive them of all chance of making improvements now urgently needed, as shown by the freight con gestion, and would prevent any return on much railway capital now paying dividends, as well as destroy all hope ot dividends now suspended. With 47.000 miles of railroads now In the hands of receivers they assert that It is no time for them to be forced to assume any additional burdens of this character. MISS DE GRAFF DUE Ford Peace Delegate to Reach Portland Today, MISSION IS HELD SUCCESS Reports Declared Distorted by News men on Voyage Dlssention Is Attributed to Those Who AVcnt Only for Trip.. Sold by all dealers. No exclusive agents. BRITAIN TO M TRAVEL ASSESSMENT ALSO TO BE MADE AGAINST AMUSEMENTS. Duty of 33 Per Cent on Imported Auto mobiles and Pianos Included In Bndget, Says Newspaper. LONDON', Jan. 30. The Weekly Die- patch says that the next budget will In clude taxes on theaters, music halls. motion picture theaters and other amusements. Railway tickets, it says, will be taxed, while it is probable that there will be a 33 per cent duty on im ported automobiles and pianos and that other unnecessary imports will be taxed, due regard being paid to the feelings of the colonies and the neu tral countries. Proprietors of places of amusement already have considered the probability of taxation and will raise the prices ot seats, believing that the public is will ing to pay anything during the present craze for amusements. It is an open secret, the dispatch says, that the lat est revues cost $75,000 to produce and that the producers already have realized a full return on their investments, al though the productions have not been running long. The tax on railway tickets, the dis patch adds, is due to a belief on the part of the government that there is much unnecessary travel. Centralia Team to Debate. CENTRALIA. ' Wash., Jan. 30. (Spe cial.) The next series of debates in the Southwest Washington district will be held next Friday night. The Cen tralia High School team, which has won both of its arguments on the neg ative side of the question. "Resolved, that the Monroe Doctrine should be dis continued," will support the affirm ative side of the question against Win look. Centralia will be represented by Olive Martin. Nora Pishong and Cran ston Goddard. Miss Grace DcGraff will be back to day. She left the Ford peace ship: visited in Brockton and Boston, Mass., and is coming home for the opening of the new school term. According to statements made by Miss DeGraff during her stay in Brock ton, Henry Ford succeeded in his pur pose. On the same authority It is de clar-sd that the reports given out re gardlng the trip were wrong. The cor; respondents on board the ship were severely scored by Miss DeGraff in ad dresses made before the teachers of Brockton last Tuesday. Of the reports sent out and their authors Miss DeGraff is quoted as say ing: "The public has been greatly mis. informed by garbled and twisted re ports of the doings on board the ship. Few accurate reports were made of the conferences and it is not surprising when a great many newspaper corre spondents were carousing all night and were not in a condition to see or hear anything right. Newsmen Are Assailed. "It Is a mystery to me why editors sent men to cover such a trip do not believe, could report accu the activities in their own borne Of the alleged quarreling among the peace people. Miss Deurafr declared that there was no dissension among the real peace delegates, but that the trouble was caused by a number who from the first had intended not to enter into the effort designed by Mr. Ford, but who were just going along to get a free trip. Henry Ford's claim to success, ac cording to Miss DeGraffs statement. lies in the fact that through bis ef forts, six delegates have been placed In The Hague, where they will fight for peace on neutral grounds. Of his illness and the manner of treating patients, the report states Mr. Fords illness was a great mis fortune, but in spite of it he succeeded. 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Milan, Vienna m R01ANIA IN DOUBT German Correspondent Views Situation With Alarm. do not conceal their hope to force Roumania, as well as Greece, to take sides with them when their much-dis cussed great general offennive begins. 2 CITIES CUT DOWN DEBTS ENTENTE STILL HOPEFUL T7nder Arms, Greater Part of It Concentrated Facing Bulga ria and Hungary. ship and the medical treatment was a I great surprise. Medical Treatment I'naanal. 'It was vastly different from what American physicians give. 1 assisted in caring- for one woman of our party, who was prohibited by her physician from taking; any fresh air. This was I nk.li.n.kl. a.., heated and opened the porthole and uitrafii . . , .u she got well. Mr. Ford had no one to ions aispaicn, BBen care for him, as his wife was not with situation in Roumania has not directly him and there was no one to make him grown more acute, me agiiauuu refuse to obey the doctor's orders.' BERLIX, Tia London, Jan. 30. The Miss DeGraff also was a delegate to The Hague last year, when she went to attend the great gathering of women who were called together by Jane Ad dams and who formed the Women's Peace Party. She is principal of Ken- entente powers continues undimin ished and although it has scored no positive success, yet the situation h become such that the central powers should rearard it with misgivinjrs. As a result of "this weak attitude of the present Roumanian government. ton School and former president of the I well-informed circles steadily have National League of Grade Teachers. I formed an unfavorable impression of conditions In Roumania, Dotn economic insurance Agent Organize. nneQnmre'd wblrt AurtrTa' ana SALEM. Or.. Jan. 30. (Special.) Germany were to receive 60,009 car- The Salem Life Underwriters, consist- loads of gram and fodder, tne entente lng of 20 life Insurance agents of this powers naa been ame 10 piace various city was organized Saturday. The pur- difficulties In the way or the execu nose of the organization is to advance tion cf the contract by themselves ife Insurance interest in tnis section. Duyins, greui quauuun m sm,"- Officers elected were: A. H. Gage, president: C. H. Pruner, vice-president. Grain Prices Rising. Advertisements of the British Lega- J. nrnn. h. lotrioio.i,.. appearing; - vitinir Roumanian CHIEF FACTORS IN PROPOSED EIGHT-HOUR DEMAND ON RAILROADS. Railroads Involved AH roads in the United States and some In Canada, Mileage covered Two hundred and fifty thousand miles. Unions Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. Brotherhood of Locorftotive Firemen and Engineers. Order of Railway Conductors, Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen. Number of men Involved Between 350.000 and 400.000. Total wages paid this class of railroad employes, 1914 $386,000,000. Total operating revenues of railroads affected. 1914 $3,047,019,908. Total operating expenses 3.;00.313.159. Total capital securities 820.247.300.000. Proportion of railroad revenues paid to labor, 191445.14 per cent; 1S07 11.43 per cent. Proposed demand "Eight hours or less" to constitute a day in stead of "10 hours or less," as present agreements read. All overtime to be paid for at time and one-half the pro-rata rate Instead of mere ly the pro-rata rate. Estimate of railroad managers as to Increase this would mean in operating; expenses From 25 to 40 per cent. When demand will probably be made March 1, on conclusion of present referendum vote. i; grain dealers and farmers to sell their supplies to the Legation's agents.- The result is that grain prices are rising rapidly and that Roumanian rreient cars are so fully employed in this traffic that ex portation to Austria and Germany threatens to meet with difficulties. The military situation Ira Roumania attracts In still higher degree the In terest in political and diplomatic cir cles in Sofia." says the dispatch. "Al though Roumania has not yet ordered general mobilization, eight-tenths ot the Roumanian army is under arms and the greater part of it is concen trated on the Bulgarian and Hungarian boundaries. RsmIu Border Neglected. The troops on the Bessarabian bor der have not, received any special rein forcements. Similarly, a part of the Roumanians' heavy coast artillery is still stationed on the border facing Bulgaria and Hungary, where they were brought from the Black Sea coast some months ago." The Tageblatt'a correspondent de clares that these facts demand the greatest attention on the part of the central powers, as the entente powers; Progress Indicated by Vancouver and Xortli Yakima Tax Reports. OLYMPIA, Wash.. Jan. 30. (Special.) Annual financial reports of cities. now being made to the State Bureau of Inspection, show that on a tax levy reduction of three-quarters of a mill Vancouver, Wash., has in the past year reduced its whole indebtedness from $476,988.17 to $450,807.31. Vancouver's assets exceed liabilities by a balance of $1,299,132.09, total assets amounting to $1,823,630.20 and liabilities $524, 497.21. Another optimistic business indica tion is the report of North Yakima for 1915. That city has paid $19,000 on its bonded debt for the period and $65, 231.55 on Its local improvement obligations.- BAD CHECK MAN FLEES Hills-boro Stores Victims of De . fraudcr, M"ho Dashes Away. HILLS BORO, Or.. Jan. 30. (Special.) The T. C. Reynolds' grocery and Weil's department store were made victims of a bad check artist last night- The first check was for $21.60 and the other for $31.75. The man, apparently a laborer, made small purchases. The checks were drawn on the Cornelius State Bank, payable to A. Hogn and signed "W. Schmit." After cashing one check Mr. Reynolds became suspicious, but twhile he was telephoning Cornelius the man dashed out of the door and disappeared. OREGON SHEEP ARE FINEST F. A. Koser Back From San Fran cisco, Where He Won Prizes. SALEM, Or., Jan. 30. (Special.) With $1483 in prizes won by his herd of 24 Cotswold sheep at the Panama Pacific Exposition, F. A. Koser, of Rickreall, has returned to Oregon from San Francisco. Mr. Koser s herd cap tured all the first prizes for sheep of this breed at the exposition. His Baron Duke and Duchess 129 were declared the champion Cotswold ram and ewe over sheep of similar breeds competing, from all parts of the United States and Canada. high school tuition fund law, under which the county will raise $27.7"43.85 to pay tuition of students from districts without a high school. The total sum is divided into the following items: Stater county, schools, road and library, $545,916.57; special schools, $113,967.53; high school tuition fund. $27,753.85: special roads. $70.- 281.28; cities, $61,075.55, and forest pa-; trol. $334.21. Tax collecting here will begin Mon day. ICE SHUTSVANCOUVER MILL River Is Blocked and Logs Are Not Available for Use. VANCOUVER, Wash., Jan. 30. (Spe cial.) The plant of the Du Bois Lum ber Company was closed Saturday until such time as the ice in the Co lumbia River will permit it to get logs to the mill. The ice pushed the boom so that uo logs can be towed to the mill. The ice blocked up from the railroad bridge to the mill this morning, the bridge form ing an obstruction for the ice to pile up against. Iijle Road Survey Completed. LYLE, WASH., Jan. 30. (Special.) The preliminary survey for work to be done this Spring on the Lyle-High Prairie road has been completed and next month the permanent survey will be made. The road is to be hard-sur faced, either gravel or oil-bound mac adam, for four miles, beginning at the center of the local business dis trict. County and state appropriations CLACKAMAS TAXES HIGHER Tuition I jaw Increases Roll to ' $819,318 This Year. OREGON" CITY, Or., Jan. 30. (Spe cial.) Clackamas County will raise $819,318.99 this year in taxes, com pared with $784,378.64 raisfd in 1915. The increase is attributed to the now Tfi3 Boy is Father to the .Ian Old sayings like this are fraught with a most important meaning. And what will aid the expectant mother in conserving her health, her strength, her mental repose and the ab sence of veiati o o a pains Is a subject of vast moment. Among the recognized helps is a splendid rem e d y known as "Mother's Friend." Applied to -he muscles It sinks in deeply to make them firm and pliant, it thus lifts the strain nn ligaments that produce pain, it lightens the burden on the nervous system, induces calm, restful nights of healthgiving sleep and makes the days sonny and happy. Get a bottle of "Mother's Friend' of any druggist and yon will then realize why it has been considered true to its name in our best homes through three generations. It is perfectly harmless but so effective that once used it is recommended to all expectant mothers by those who went through the ordeal with surprising ease. By writing to BradSeld Regulator Co, 412 Lamar Bldg-, Atlanta, Ga, you can have a free copy of a wonderful stork book that unfolds those things which all expectant mothers delight to rc.nH Writ. today, i for the work, which will be done by contract under state supervision, total nearly $25,000. It is expected that active work will begin about April 1. Columbia Wealth Quadrupled. DAYTON. Wash.. Jan. 30. (Special.) It has been noted by statisticians of this county that the wealth here has doubled twice in the pa3t 15 years. Part of this is said to be due to the increased value of land, but there has also been an enormous addition to per sonal property holdings, in 1900 the property of Columbia County was as sessed at $2,000,000. In 1910 it had reached the $4,000,000 mark, and now the holdings in the county are well worth $9,000,000. Water Delivered by Wagon. LYLE, Wash.. Jan. 30. (Special.) The local water system has been seri ously damaged by the cold weather, and consumers are at present being supplied by delivery from wagons. The quantity to each patron is necessarily limited, and much inconvenience is be ing experienced. The water system draws its supply from springs near town and is brought down by gravity. It may be several weeks before the damaere can be repaired. Dr. Paul C. Yates PAINLESS DENTIST. I HAVE CUT PRICES l will save you 60 cents on every dollar on the best dental work made oy human hands and without pain, GOLD CROWNS 3.00 to 5.0O BRIDGE WORK 3.0O to S.OO KILLINGS fl.OO PLATES S10.00 and BP ALL, WORK GUARANTEE! FIF TEEN YEARS. 3. J. PITTINGER, MGR., Second Floor of Rothchllil Bids Fourth and Waahinartoa. THE UNITED ARTISANS INSURE THE WHOLE FAMILY Four up-to-date Plans Adequate Kates Assets Over $1,000,000 Headquarters 608 Beck Bldg. Main 1220 A 1112