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THE MORNING OREGONIAX. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21. 1917.
PLOT IS BARED BY
HINDU WITNESSES
Jodh Singh and Sukumar Chat
terji Disclose Details of
Conspiracy.
Gt'RMANS ARE IMPLICATED
JTeuton at Manila, Active in Scheme,
When Short of Funds, Wired
Consul at Chicago for Money,
Which Was Furnished.
SAX FKAXCISCO, Nov. 23. Jodh
Singh, who appeared as one of the
Government's principal witnesses in
the recent so-called Hindu plot trial in
Chicatto, will appear in the same role
here Tuesday, when' he will testify In
the trial of 34 persons charged with
conspiring to overthrow British rule in
India.
Singh was named In the indictments
which broug-ht the Chicaco and San
Francisco defendants to trial for par
ticipation in the same alleg-ed plot. His
name and alleged activities figured to
day in the testimony of Sukumar Chat
terji, another Government witness, but
his status in the trial, like Chatterji's,
will bo that of a witness for the prose
cution. The cross-examination of Chatterji
was completed late today. His etsimony
was confined principally to a journey
which he is alleged to have made from
this port through the Orient to Bang
kok. Piam, and the Hindus and German
consular officials he is said to have
co-operated with in furtherance of the
alleged conspiracy.
AVItnews Kate Vncertiit.
After describing his arrest in Bang
kok shortly after his arrival in that
city and telling of the three state
ments he said he had made to the Brit
ish officials there and at Singapore, the
witness testified that whether he still
was a military prisoner and liable to
imprisonment or execution was a mat
ter of conjecture.
The witness denied that there had
heen any misunderstanding' between
himself and the British authorities as
to what bearing his testimony in the
plot trials would have in the disposal
of the charge of treason still pending
against him in India.
Further details of the Intrigue that
joined German consular officials in
Chicago, other American cities and Pa
cific Ocean island ports with Hindus
and adventurers, in an alleged con
spiracy to foment revolution against
British rule in India, were revealed
today when Chatterji took the stand
again for the government.
German 1-r-ttrr Delivered.
Chatterji, a Brahmin native of Ben
gal, continued his direct testimony and
shed light on a journey to China that
he said he made in the interests of the
conspiracy. At Manila, he testified, he
was given a letter which had orig
inated in the German consular office
there. This bore a queer inscription,
which was to serve as a means of iden
tifying the man to whom he was to
deliver It in Amoy, China.
Jodh Singh identified himself in
Amoy by showing a copy of the in
scription, the witness testified, and he
gave the letter to him.- Singh later
told him the letter had been safely de
livered to the German Consul at Amoy,
Chatterji testified.
A man named Boehm appeared to be
active in the conspiracy at Manila,
Chatterji 6ald. When this man ran
short of funds, he asked the German
Consul at Manila to wire the German
Consul-General at Chicago for more
money, which, Chatterji said, was
promptly furnished.
Two Letters Destroyed.
Tn describing his journey from this
city to Bangkok, ' Siam, where he said
he was to have been joined by other
persons Interested in the alleged con
spiracy, Chatterji said he had devoured
two letters in his possession when he
was arrested by the authorities In
Bangkok, having received secret ad
vices that his arrest was impending.
Cnder cross-examination the witness
said he had studied philosophy in India
and America, engineering journalism
and aviation in San Francisco, and that
he had known that societies with large
memberships have existed in India
many years, having as their object the
overthrowing of the British govern
ment "You have testified you were asked
by Ram Chandra to write for the Ga
dar an article asserting Germany had
gone to war simply to free India of
British rule," declared Theodore Roche,
an attorney for the defense, "will you
no' admit that you knowingly wrote
something which you knew was to de
ceive your countrymen and others?"
"Yes," Chatterji answered.
Later Roche said:
ltindti See German Consul.
"You have testified that you met the
German Consul at Bangkok. Don't you
know for a fact that there is not and
never has been a Ger-.in Consulate in
Bangkok?"
"No," replied the witness. "The man
with whom I came in contact was in
troduced to me as the Ge: nan Consul."
Chatterji said he had not met the
German Consuls of either Manila or
Swatow, China, but that he had met the
German Consul at Amoy, China.
"But I did not know his name," he
explained.
He told of having worked at the state
fair In Sacrament i, Cal., In 1S13, and of
having worked for a 'Japanese rancher
in Stockton, who, according to Chat
terji, was known as "the potato king."
Title of Prince Assumed.
"You worked In Stockton for a
month," said Roche. "Then you left
and came to San Francisco. Later'y.ou
returned to Stockton as a member of
the nobility and with the title of prince.
Do you admit that you did this for the
purpose of deceiving the Hindus with
whom you had come in contact In
Stockton and whom you planned to in
terest in this alleged conspiracy?"
The witness answered "Yes."
Former members of the German con
sular force in turn rose from their seats
in the courtroom. Chatterji said he had
never seen them before. He said he
had met Gopal Singh in India. He
failed to identify the latter among the
Hindu defendants.
An admission that he had told the
British officers who arrested him at
Bangkok that the Germans were not
aiding- the Hindu plot, and that he
knew this statement to be untrue, was
made by the witness. He described his
arrest and subsequent solitary confine
ment in Singapore In detail, saying
that the British soldiers had told him
that he was liable to be executed for
treason.
The defense introduced excerpts from
the evidence given by Chatterji in the
Hindu plot cases in Chicago recently,
but refused to answer a request of the
Government attorneys that they tell
how they secured this evidence.
FALL OPENING IS DENIED
0.-C. GRANT LANDS TO REMAIN
CLOSED UNTIL SPRING.
Representative llnltj-'j Efforts to Get
Homesteaders Located This Year
Meet 'With Refusal.
SALEM, Or., Nov. 23. (Special.)
Clay Tallman, commissioner of the
General Land Office, has written to
Representative Hawley stating that
none of the Oregon & California grant
lands will be thrown open until next
Spring, when some of the classifica
tions will be in shape that people may
go on the lands early.
Mr. Hawley had requested that some
lands be opened this Fall, particularly
those around Grants Pass, which could
be cultivated to crops next season if
opened at this time.
Mr. Tallman states that so many
unavoidable delays in bringing about
the final payment of taxes" have made
it impossible to give sufficient notice
of the opening and bring it about be
fore the late Fal or the early Winter.
"It seems to me that this would be
a very unpropitious time to bring about
She opening of the lands under the
homestead laws, which require the ap
plicant to testify that he has examined
the lands and speaks concerning them
of his own knowledge. My thought has
been that such procedure would be
unfair and detrimental to the best suc
cess of the opening," he writes.
Mr. Hawley left for Washington yes
terday and Mr. Tallman's letter has
been forwarded to him there.
MINE MEN CRITICISE TAX
LOW CAPITAL CORPORATIONS DE
CLARED HARDEST HIT
Representation of Exhaustive Interests
on Excess Profits Board Is
Vrged.
The war excess profit tax provision
of the recently passed' income tax law
is being criticised, by mfing: men as
levying disproportionate war taxes
upon the mining- and. oil industries of
the country.
A telegram, received by H. N. Lawrie,
chairman of the ,Oregon Bureau of
Mines and Geology, from the American
Mining Congress at Washington, D. C,
defines the attitude of the Congress
toward the tax law.
The mining industry ia not seeking to
avoid '.iunt taxation, out desires uniformity
and simplicity: The present act places pro
portionately heavier burdens upon producers
with small Invested capital and corporations
of low capitalization than upon those of
large capitalization. Provisions of the new
law cannot be thoroughly applied to the
mining Industry because money invested in
losing development cannot be charged
against successful operations except by large
corporations engaged in general Federal de
velopment work.
Requests should be made urging represen
tation of. the mining and other exhaustive
industries in administrative council, and es
pecially upon the recently appointed excess
profit board.
"The war tax question is important
in its relation to Oregon's mining out
put," said Mr. Lawrie yesterday, com
menting on the message. "The major
ity of Oregon producers are those with
small capital Invested;."
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105 FIFTH STREET,
Third Floor.
Sale Ladies' Trimmed Hats..50c to SI
'Sale Ladies' Separate Jackets In
cheviots, serges and broadcloths.
all shades 25c
Men's Fine Silk Ties 5c
Men's Good Derby Hats ZSc
Men's, W o m e n's and Children's
Shoes from 5 to 82
LACES, COLLARS. LADIES' - WAISTS,
WOOL SWEATERS, MEN'S SHIRTS
AND NCMEROI S OTHER THINGS.
THIRD FLOOR.
Keeping the Quality Up.
LAXATIVE BROMO OUIN1.VE. the World
Famous Cure for Colds and Grip, Is now 30c
per box. un account or the advance in the
price of the six different Medicinal, Concen
trated Kxtracts and Chemicals contained in
l.AXATI E BBOMU UU1MNB. it was nec
essary to increase the price to the Druggist.
It has stood the test for a Quarter of a
century, it is used by every civilized riatlon.
POOLING IN PROSPECT
GOVERNMENT SALE OF ALL COAL IS
HELD POSSIBLE.
Scheme Already on Trial by Fuel
Administration Advantages Are
Clearly Shown.
WASHINGTON. Nov. 23. Eventual
Government pooling and sale of all
the coal mined in the United States was
seen as a possibility here today in the
fuel administration's approval of a
producers' pool just formed at Cleve
land which wil handle shipments of
mines in Ohio, West Virginia, a part of
Pennsylvania and perhaps Tennessee
and Kentucky. Creation of other pools
win te encouraged.
If Government pooling is put into
effect it will be made operative next
spring and will supersede the ship
pers' pools. Under such an arrange
ment the Government would requisi
tion at the mines the entire output.
selling it without profit.
Advantages in a Government pool
pointed out today by officias would be
that distribution would be easier, since
the Government itself would direct
shipments and more efficient operation.
LABOR NOT CHATTEL
Opposition to Government, by
Injunction Reaffirmed.
COURT HELD REACTIONARY
Federation ' Klects Officers Today.
Xo Opposition to President
tiompcrs and Associates
Is Expected.
BUFFALO, N. T.. Nov. 23. The
American Federation . of Labor today
reaffirmed its position against govern
ment by injunction and declared that
any injunction dealing with the rela
tionship of employer and employe
based on the dictum that labor is prop
erty "be held as usurpation and disre
garded, let the consequences be what
they may."
The declaration was adopted in con
nection with a resolution relating to a
recent decision of the Supreme Court
of the state of Washington, enjoining
strikers from picketing. The resolu
tion asked the convention to condemn
the "reactionary attitude" of the court
and to give its best counsel and effort
to workers.
A committee favorably reporting the
resolution to the convention added:
"This committee holds that decisions
and practices of this kindi are more
hnrmful to our Government, than any
other influence In our land."
The election of officers was made a
special order of business for tomorrow
morning. No opposition to President
Gompers and his associates is looked
for. Final adjournment probably will
not come until late Saturday night.
An application of "several local un
ions of bookkeepers, stenographers
and typewriters for a National charter
brought to the convention floor diffi
culties that have involved the clerical
forces of the federation headquarters
at Washington, in connection with
which W. M. Pollock, of Washington,
issued a circular attacking Secretary
Frank Morrison.
The circular proved a boomerang,
being the principal cause of the con
vention voting to adopt a committee
report refusing to grant the National
charter sought. Secretary Morrison
was accused of not following the pre
cepts of unionism with regard to his
clerical forces.
CAVE-IN INJURES WORKER
here today when J. L Rand opened
for the plaintiff and Judge William
Smith for the defendant. The case
promises to be the most sensational on
the local records.
Mr. Hand read the complaint. in
which J. B. Messick. Baker's former
County Judge, who was recalled, ac
cuses a group of prominent stockmen
and Baker business men of circulating
false statements and affidavits for the
purpose of defaming his character.
Mr. Rand pronounced the defendant's
answer as a mere repetition of the
libel.
At the close of the opening rebuttal
Judge Smith moved that a judgment for
the defendants be granted on the face
of the pleadings, arguing that the
complaint failed to specify wherein
libelous language had been used by any
of the defendants. Judge Anderson
ruled, however, that the motion could
not be allowed because it had been
made too late. The time required by
the argument of the motion prevented
the Introduction of testimony today.
QUICK AID APPRECIATED
ACTION TAKEN" BY MR HOl'SER
RELIEVES FARMERS.
rwjm it luiiihiimimiu
Robert Stevens, of Aberdeen, Suf
fering From Bruises and Shock.
ABERDEEN", Wash., Nov. 13." (Spe-
uuuiuj ivau ueai xtiiia.. nearly lost nis
life today when the sides of a deep
hole in which he was working caved
In. He was completely buried.
Fellow workmen shoveled him out
within a few minutes. An examination
showed he suffered from bruises and
nervous shock.
Prompt Settlement for Train Permits
Growers to Arrange for Far
ther Planting. -
The efforts of M. H. Houser. agent of
the Food Administration Grain Corpor
ation, in obtaining a prompt settlement
with farmers who had been under some
difficulty in disposing of their wheat, is
appreciated by the graingrowers of the
Pacific Northwest. F. M. Driver, a
farmer of Wasco County, wrote to Mr.
Houser saying that in expressing nis
thanks for assistance so afforded he
knew he voiced the sentiment of the
farmers of the entire Inland Empire.
Mr.-Driver pointed out that the farm
ers had been doing their utmost in
assisting the Government in food pro
duction, yet faced a serious handicap
In being unable to obtain funds unless
they sacrificed. The lack of money
with which to discharge all obliga
tions to farm hands prompted the lat
ter to seek other employment. More
men were drawn from the farms by
the National Army draft, so, Mr. Driver
says, the farmers faced a problem in
preparing for the 1918 crops when the
financial adjustment was made.
Xegro Soldiers to Dance.
TACOMA, Wash.. Nov. 23. (Special.)
One more public dance hall will be
permitted in Tacoma.
Police Chief Smith said today that
the negro residents of the city had
asked permission to open a recreation
house and dance parlor for the bene
fit of negroe soldiers at Camp Lewis
and that he would grant the request.
Blackleg; Appears Among Cattle.
BAKER. Or.. Nov. 23. (Special.)
Henry E. Tweed. Baker County's new
agricultural agent, arrived here todav
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Brinjr the boys in early tomorrow for some of these good,
warm Winter Clothes. There are hundreds of garments from
which to choose.
Steel Fiber Niks Suits $8.50
Extra strong, serviceable suits for active boys. The
trousers have double seat and knees. A real two-in-one suit
at the price of one!
Boys' Norfolk Suits
Tweed, cheviot, cassimere and novelty weaves.
$5 to $20
Wool Surface Raincoats
Real weather-repellers, moderately priced:
$6.50, $8.50
Complete Stocks of Boys' Furnishings.
Second Floor Elevator.
BEN SELLING
Leading Clothier
Morrison Street at Fourth
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to assume his duties, just as the report
came from Hereford that an epidemic
of blackleg has appeared among year
ling calves. Several ranchers are report
ed to be heavy losers, but with the aid
of an expert it Is expected that the dis
ease will soon be stamped out. Mr.
Tweed plans to organise an advisory
council to . Include the more successful
farmers and stockmen of the county.
rro-German firecks Arrested.
ATHENS, Tuesday, Nov. 20. About
150 pro-German Greeks have been ar
rested, charged with espionage, propa
ganda and diffusion of false news.
They will be expelled.
Von lis Bandits Get $2 00 0.
DENVER. Nov. 23. Two thousand
dollars was obtained from the cash
drawers of the ItaJian-American bank
here today by two young men. appar
ently Italians, who held up the cashier
and five customers and escaped' in an
automobile.
Ex-Covcrnor renbody Dead.
DENVER, Nov. 23. James Hamilton
Peabody, Governor oT Colorado during
the Cripple Creek strike In 1903, when
tbere were a number of clashes be
tween the state troops and the strikers
and their sympathizers, died here to
day. Mr. Peabody was 65 years old. He
had been ill several months.
Kail road Laborer Killed.
ABERDEEN, Wash.. Nov. 23. (Spe
cial. 1 Andrew Yost, railroad workman.
was instantly killed near Elraa yester
day, when a gas handcar on which ha
was riding was hit by a locomotive
coming in the opposite direction. His
father is believed to live in Seattle,
but has not been located. Yost had
only been on the job one day.
AVInlock to Have New Mayor.
CENTRALIA. Wash.. Nov. 23. (Spe
cial.) Mayor H. W. Raught, of Win
lock, has refused to accept a second
term, as tins also Councilman Crocker.
A Mayor, Treasurer and two Council
men will be elected at the municipal
election December 4. Treasurer Clyde
Kennedy is not expected to have any
opposition for re-election.
Phone your want ads to The Ore
gonian. Main 7070. A K09S.
TELEGRAPH LINES BOUGHT
Great Northern Buys Property Worth
$2,000,000 From Western Vnion.
ST. PAUL, Nov. 23. The Great North
ern Railroad has taken over all of the
property of the Western Union Tele
graph Company along the former's
right-of-way between St. Paul and
Seattle, it was announced here today.
The property is valued at more than
$2,000,000, it Is said, and the transfer
eliminates the old operating contract
between the companies.
BAKER STIRRED BY CASE
Damage Suit by ex-County Judge
Messick Is Under Way.
BAKER, Or.. Nov. 23. (Special.)
With the selection of a jury completed,
the Messick S30.000 damage suit began
R. G. FITHIAN IN FRANCE
Portland Lieutenant Is Student at
Tours Aviation School.
A cablegram from Tours, France, re
ceived by O. H. Fithlan yesterday, an
nounces the safe arrival of hs son.
Lieutenant Robert G. Flthian, of the
United States Aviation Corps.
The message was brief, but said that
Lieutenant Fithlan Is now a student
at the great school of aviation at Tours,
where men are trained for actual aerial
battle. Prior to his arrival in France.
Lieutenant Fithian was for severl
weeks stationed in England.
Until last May he was associated
with his father in the Flthlan-Barker
Shoe Company, of this city. He studied
at the Berkeley school of aviation
Upon completion of the course, he sailed
for England and France to enter active
service.
Every House Has Hoover Card.
BEAVERTON, Or.. Nov. 23. (Spe
clal. Through the efforts of the teach
ers of Beaverton's High School and pub
lic school all students were organized
In a committee of the whole last week,
a thorough canvass of the town was
made and every home in town has a
Hoover card displayed. The teachers
and students are jubilant over the re
sults accomplished.
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Casey Jones'
Big Jazz Band
Is the Hit of Dancing
. Season
Arcadian Garden
Multnomah Hotel
Dinner 5:30 to 8:30 P. M.
Supper 10 to 12:30 P. M.
Favors Tuesday and
Friday Nights
The
Multnomah
Luncheons
50c - 35c
Allied Red Cross Bazaar at
Auditorium
December 5, 6, 7, 8
hat Arica Must Do
In the Face of Russian Anarchy
and Italian Reverses
' Germany will be defeated by France, Great Britain and the United States, and at the
last, the lion's share of the task will belong to the United States. This opinion, advanced
by many competent observers since Russia's lapse into anarchy and Italy's staggering
reverses, is accepted by our press in all parts of the land in a spirit of quiet and unfalter
ing resolution. "We have drawn the sword and we might as well throw away the scab
bard," exclaims the Chicago Herald, "for it is to be a fight to a finish and German successes
in Russia and Italy indicate that the struggle may be prolonged."
The only German drive that the allies have reason really to fear, many of our papers
declare, is the coming drive for peace terms that will leave Germany secure in the posses
sion of her present absolute control over middle Europe, and which will doubtless find expres
sion through various pacifist outlets in America. "What I am opposed to is not the feeling
of the pacifists," says President Wilson, "but their stupidity. My heart is with them but
my mind has a contempt for them. I want peace, but I know how to get it and they do not."
The leading article in THE LITERARY DIGEST for November 24th deals with the
present war crisis and it throws a flood of light upon the subject that is stirring the soul
of America.
Other important topics covered in this number of "The Digest" are:
America's Vast Labor Army to Cooperate and Win the War
Union Heads in Many Branches of Industry Declare Their Adherence to President Wilson's
Programme for a "Stand-Together" Policy Until the War Is Won
China Objects to Our Japan Pact
The Dawn of Order in Russia
The Jews to Rule in Zion
Volcanic Ireland Near Eruption
Wine for the French Soldiers
The Microphone in the Trenches
Shakespeare Has a Chance in London
Varieties of Anti-Germanism
The "Poilu's" Protest Against Un
clean Plays
Many Striking Illustrations, including
Negro Segregation Unlawful
The Causes of High-Food Prices
"(Prepared by the U. S. Food Administration).
Ingenuity of the Camera-Man
Sanitary Soda
Voting by Electrical Signal
A War Call for the Schools
Shall We Despair of Civilization?
News of Finance, Industry and Commerce
Full Page Reproductions, and Cartoons
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