.THE MORNING OREGONIAN, MONDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1918. BATTLE LINES, BOUNDARIES AND CITIES FIGURING IN RECENT EVENTS AS STAGE IS SET FOR PEACE CONFERENCE. AHEAD OF SCHEDULE Battalion of Infantry Leaves Treves for Coblenz. HUN PLANES TAKEN OVER More Thn 6000 Enemy Craft De stroyed by Allies During Last Tea 3Ionths' Fistulas. AMERICANS ADVANCE f J " ' r'Pr ths Aa-Mielatad Pras.) AMERICAN" ARMY OK OCCUPATION. Pre. 8. A battalion of the 39th Infan try left Treves by train today for Co blenz. a fonr-honra run. Th premature occupation of Cob lenz is doe to the request of the Ger man authorities, who are apprehensive cf the conditions that might prevail there after the withdrawal of the Ger man forces. LOMXtS. Pec S. The surrender of the J000 German airplanes required under the terms of the armistice con vention has been proceeding during the past week, and it is expected the full complement of enemy machines will shortly be in the allies' bands. The taking over, examining and parking of the vast fleet has naturally taken time, as the German armies in their excitement are leaving the planes be hind In their evacuated airdromes. Certain difficulties and attempted evasions connected with the precise proportion of the various types of air craft to be turned over and the air worthiness of some of the machines surrendered are now being adjusted in response to firm representations by Marshal Foch on behalf of the allies. Geraaaa lossea Are Heavy. Some light Is thrown upon what this gigantic surrender of aircraft means to the Germans by the official British figures of sir fighting upon the Brit ish western front from January I. 1918. to the date of the armistice. These firures show the number of enemy machines destroyed in aerial combats by the British to have been 3080, while enemy machines driven down out of control numbered 1174. Germany la known to have lost well over 8000 airplanes destroyed and sur rendered during the present year. On the other hand, the resources of the him sra belnr reinforced by 2000 German machines of modern type and In good serviceable condition. v. ,'amiens Jr- r ,r . fiv t-it - S r- i ) C une rojvmot y- ybuhS i . u ut &&r?&z? v rj i r X P gwmsns A JiX, " 5iQUEKnNS j-T-rsoNfc5fi2foi -TV? VoL V- must retire "L T "Ufaiflt J TMlERTe". 5- CHAXORS t J J THOOP J V A" - i-TWc i Oese'' ' CS S fT- fc v ? ' KEY TO MAP t SHAOtD POBTiO SHOWS MUTT OF FBtWtff' son ntLO v 6fAjr3 till TMia toaituiof. o go 30 AO BHa- 1MAL BATTLE LINE. .FARTHEST GERMAN ADVAN CE.TS14. .FARTHEST GERMAN ADvnHCE.1916. XXX-WHERE GRMM ARMY MUST DIMOMUZt NORTHERN FRANCE, BELGIUM AND WESTERN GERMANY, WHERE HISTORY HAS BEEN MADE RAPID I.T FOR THE LAST FOUR YEARS. GIVE VICTOR RECORDS In a Holiday Box The VicLola has become so Universal that today it is a mark of very good taste to bestow VICTOR RECORDS as Christmas Gifts. We have Victor . Records at 85c. $1. $1.35. $1.50. $2. $3. $4, $5. $6 and $7 an immense catalog from which to select. We pack Victor Records intended for Christmas Gifts in an attractive Holiday Box. If you feeLthat you would rather have the one for whom the gift is intended select their own Victor Records, give one of our Christmas Merchandise Orders we issue them in any amount. Victrolas $22.50 to $400 Convenient Payment Terms Sherman, lay& Go, ljxth and Morrison Streets, Portland (Opposite Postoffice) Seattle Tacoma Spokane. 5&S WASHTJfOTON. Dee. 8. General Per shing's communique for yesterday said: -Section A. The Third American Army, continuing its advance into Ger many, today reached the general line r.upperath. Boos, Kempernlch. Mayen, Grelmera. Durg. Slmem. Kellenbach. -Section B There is nothing to re port In this section." BANK DEPOSITS UK PEACE MISSION COMPLETE PLAX OF ORGAXIZATIOX IS AS TET TENTATIVE. General Pershlns, Naval and Mill, tary Attaches and Foreign Rep- resentatlves Included. St CITIES AT TOWXS HATE MORE THAX $1,000,000. Barns and Condon HaveBeen Added to List, Which Has Total or Slf 2,318,56a. SALEM. Or. Dee. S. (SpeclaL) Burns and Condon have entered the class of cities in Oregon having over. OT denoalta. since! 11.000.004 In bank August 31. ISIS, and now 29 cities and towns enjoy that distinction. Salem stands In second place, with Pendleton a close third and Astoria a close fourth. The banks In the 21 cities and towns given hold $1)2,21S.S2 In deposits, or Hi per cent of the whole d-posita for the state which aggregate SJ1'C.2S1.703. There are 2C3 banking Institutions hi the state. Towns having 21,000.004 or more In deposits are: . ritv er town Banks. Deposit Prliasd - J12X.SM.T0S M Irid irton .... ....... 3 Aston ...... Lurn Kaker The OsUes . . Albany Klamath Talks Mdford ...... orrfon City ., Koaburs l.a Graacte . ... MrMtnnvtUe t'nrvallla . Varahfiald .. Happnar .... Hood River . Jrilisboro ... Tillamook ... Fllvartoe ... l.akaviw ... Condoa Bead ....... i ntarto Oraats Paaa Astiiand .... Milton Barns Totals .... e J0 54.1 i S,KoU.SlX4J 6.SS4.&52.29 40Vl.ll.V7-t S.S73.0IW.0t 2.TS.-.l:l.3 J.2."..0:2.l4 1.51. 1.5j.", ! 2,I1M.7.a.l 2.0S.fl2.2'V L4Xt(.S2 1.SX4.S5T.H2 lS.i.120 l.S7.S5.4S J. 63.110.67 1.4M.617.43 1.440.n3.l 1.JT1.82 S 3,37.48.S 1.5C2.3-.7.4S 1.84:1.759 13 1.2S9.398.S 1.13.717 4 1.133.234 89 1.0lX.47.4 l.O0.S4n 24 1.04S.473.0J 102 tlS2.21S.se2.Sl 'Dapoalt ef Fiee eater branch of the first Katlonal Bank Included. MIRROR STOPS SHRAPNEL Lieutenant John C. Burgard Writes ef arrow Escape. Lieutenant John Clark Burgard. son ef Mr. and Mrs. John 1L Burgard, of lllllcrest drive, hss written to his par ents telling them that his life was saved by a trench mirror given hire by his mother while he was stationed at Camp Lewis. Lieutenant Burgard was struck by a piece of shrapnel, which knocked him to the ground. As he staggered to his feet, another shell exploded above him, wounding him In several places. One fragment struck the mirror, which he carried In a blouse pocket over his heart. Lieutenant William Burgard. who also was wounded, has recovered, and Is back with Company M. 364th Infantry. PARIS. Saturday. Dc. 1. The plan of organization of the United States peace mission, which ts now tentative, but which in its essentials undoubtedly will stand unchanged, shows the body which will look out for America's in terests when the world's delegates gmuier at venuuca, aha wuiiiclv ami every detail. 1 Thousands The chart of the organization which has been prepared here shows the large American organization headed by the membera of the peace commission itself, with the chart lines running from this group to that of the first secretary. John C. Grew, to the second. liaison or diplomatic intelligence group, and the third, tne group or aa withdrew several hours later at the earnest request of the Bavarian Pre mier, Kurt Eisner, who hurried to the scene. Hlaister Fereetl te Resign. Herr Auer, the Minister whose resig nation was demanded, was given two minutes to decide at the point of a re volver. He was then forced to put his resignation Into writing and the revo lutionists demanded a statement that the resignation was voluntary. The crowd was led by the former editor, Erich Muehsen. They proceeded from a communist meeting to the office of the Bavarian Courier and appointed a woman as editor of that newspaper. The Keueste Nachrlchten was the only Munich paper able to appear in the morning. LINN COUNTY FAVORS ROAD Memorial Highway Project Strong ly Indorsed. ALBANT Or.. Pec. t.( Special.)- Linn County Is in favor of the proposed Memorial Highvar from Portland to Kugene. At a meeting of the I. Inn 'ounty Good Roads Association here todsy the executive committee was in structed to draw up a resolution fav oring the project and members of the Incoming County Court promised that Linn County would do Its share in the construction of the road. The present officers of the Associa tion were re-elected as follows: R, W. t'avts. Harrlsburg. president; M. S. Allen. Jefferson, vice-president; A. W. Cermack. Afbany. second vice-pres!-dt: Alfred C. Fchraitt. Albany, sec retary and treasurer. j visers, principally technical, with large staffs of assistants. Under the liaison and diplomatic In telligence group are military and naval officers, including the commander of the American expeditionary forces, naval and military attaches and for eign representatives. Under some of these heads are officers dealing with the neace commission, delegates of or ganizations." diplomats and ceremonial officers, whose duties will be along such lines as the making of formal calls and attending to similar matters. . One or the other of the two assistant secretaries will have within his secre tarlal duties the looking after the nrinttng of communications, the dia trlbuting of press Information, filing of-reDorts, coding matter tor trans mission to the Signal Corps and wire terminals, etc A sub-branch of the liaison and dip lomatic Intelligence office Is a bureau in which American civilian activities will be represented, euch as those of Berbert C. Hoover, the Food Adminis trator; the Red Cross, the T. M- C A-, the Knights of coiumous. tne .tmignis of Pythias, the Salvation Army and the War Trade Hoard. REVOLT LEADER IS HELD Arrest Interpreted a Endeavor to r Remove Him Form Scene. BERLIN, Eec t. (By the Associated Press.) A former non-commissioned officer named Gerhard, who is one of the members of the executive council of Berlin and leader of the soldier rev olutionaries, was arrested yesterday. He is under a mild form of detention charged, among other things, with ad vocating? physical opposition to Dr. Karl Liebknecht, leader of the Spar- tacus group of Socialists. The fact that he was arrested at a plenary session of the soldiers' council. at which it was planned to organize a revolt against Herman Molkenbuhr and other members of the soldiers council, is Interpreted here as a suc cessful endeavor to remove him from the scene. GERMAN FACTIONS CLASH f Con tin uad From Fttet Pace.) diers to insist upon party representa tion on all governing boards. The leaders of the soldiers declare that if the present virtual dictatorship system of government Is to be contin ued they will demand an equal vote with the workingmen. Otherwise they Insixt upon the immediate convocation of the national assembly. Public demonstrations on the part of the troops returning from the front are commonly interpreted here aa in approval of the Kbert-Scheidemann group. rtiilip Scheldomsnn Is dettvrlng the bulk of the patriotto speeches and glo rifying the revolution, while th Ha wing ef the cabinet and its ladependent following apparently is in possession of a decisive strategic advantage. MUNICH. Bavaria. Dee. 7. A crowd of armed soldiers last night went to the residence of the Minister of the Interior, and after fo-elng an entrance. demanded the Minister's resignation, which he conceded. Revolutionists also stormed the newspaper office except one. Thsy SALUTES ARE CONSTANT of Soldier Throng Street of Vancouver. VANCOUVER, Wash.. Deo. 8. (Spe ciaL) Vancouver is dally filled with thousands of soldiers from Vancouver Barracks who are off duty. When an officer meets several hundred soldiers on the street an amusing sight is pre sented. One officer came from Portland with his wife. He was carrying several packages on his left arm. As soon as he left the car he began to salute sol diers, continuing the salutes until bs reached the post. When it is raining and an officer carries an umbrella, dif ficulties multiply. So many men come down Main street at times that officer saluting them practically holds his hand at attention. CRITICAL PROBLEMS LOOM CZECHO-SLOVAK HEAD TO MAKE SHORT STAY IN PARIS. ARMY MENTAL TEST HIGH Eleven Per Cest of Men Are Found " Qualified for Officer. WASHINGTON, Dec 8. Eleven per cent of the 1,500,000 enlisted men of the Army subjected to psychological tests were found to be qualified men tally to become officers, while more than 26 per cent of the men examined were rated as above average intelli genca. Eighty-three per cent of the officers to whom the tests were applied met the requisite requirements of the test, said a statement issued Saturday night by the War Department, giving for the first time the data compiled by the division of psychology of the medi cal department. Less than one-half of 1 per cent of the men were recommended for dia charge as mentally deficient. DRAINAGE DATE IS FIXED Oregon Irrigation Congress Will Meet Also on January 8. The annual meeting of the Oregon State Drainage Association will be held in Portland at the Imperial Hotel on January 8. The meeting will be held in conjunction with the session of the Oregon Irrigation Congress and many matters of Importance In irrigation and drainage work will be up for full dis cussion. A complete programme has been pre pared, including talks by W. J. Kerr, president of the Agricultural College: Dr. Samuel Fortler, chief of the Federal Drainage Investigations; Edgar B. Piper, editor of The Oregonlan; Dr. El wood Meade, and others. WORLD POLICY IS SOUGHT Calling of International Convention Urged by Chamber NEW YORK, Dec 8. To bring about world-wide adoption of a policy of In ternational economic co-operation the U. S. Chamber of Commerce favors the calling of an 'International convention of commercial organizations, similar to thnt held in Paris In June, 1914. The conference. It was declared In a report of the chamber's committee on foreign relations, recently adopted and made public last night, should be held st the earliest moment considered prac ticable. Ezra Meeker Yakima Club Gnest. YAKIMA. Wash- Dee. 8. (Special.) Ezra Meeker, of Seattle, pioneer of the Oregon Trail, was a guest of the Yaki ma Commercial Club at luncheon yes terday en route home from Pasco, where he attended the convention of the Washington fitst Goods Roads Association. President of Republic Say Without Strongly Organized Russia Sta ble Peace Is Impossible. PARIS, Dec 8. (Havas.) Professor Thomas J. Masaryk, President of the Czecho-Slovao republic, will make only a brief stay in Paris, having received word by courier shortly after his ar rival here asking him to proceed at once to Prague. Upon his arrival there, he Informed an interviewer, he will convoke the Parliament and will address to it a message explaining the political situa tion and setting forth tiie grave prob lems confronting the republic In the present circumstances, notably having to do with Us relations with neigh boring states. President Masaryk said that the Re publican form of government adopted by his country seems likely to be the lasting form, and in fact the only one possible. He declared, the best rela tions existed with the Jugo-Slava and likewise with the Roumanians and the Galiclan Poles, the aspirations of all being dependent one upon the other. As to the Russian situation. Presi dent Masaryk said he considered it the most critical problem for Europe and humanity. Without a strongly or ganized Russia, he declared no stable peace would be possible. The Russia of tomorrow, he thought, must supply a counter balance for Germany. houses throughout the country, Mr. Coffinberry said. "America's Answer," which had just been offered to the Portland public, was expected to aid materially In the sale of Fourth Lib erty loan bonds. It had been shown in only five cities when the ban was placed on the "movies," and the presen tation was stopped. LEPER'S STORY IS SERMON Service of Spruce Division. Soldier Landed by Major Mills. IS OUTLOOK FOR 1919 WOOL MAR KET COUNTED FAVORABLE. "The Wisdom of God's Fools'" was the subject on which Major T. A. Mills of the Vancouver Barracks preached yesterday morning at the First Con From the Old Testament story of Stte Senator Bnrgess Believes Gov- Naaman, who upon going to Elijah to be cured of leprosy was directed to bathe in the River Jordan and who, be cause he was proud and the direction was simple, at first refused to comply, Major Mills drew his sermon. "N&aman FRENCH PRISONERS SHOT GERMANS EXECUTE NINE AT LAN GENS ALIZA. MEN France Will Demand Separation, a Han -Action Is Declared to Be Unjustified. PARIS, Dec 8. (Havas.) Nine French prisoners were shot by the Germans and 15 other prisoners seri ously wounded at the prison camp in Langensallza. Prussian Saxony, the Spanish Ambassador at Berlin reports. The behavior of the prisoners did not in the least justify the severity of this act of repression, it was declared. The French government, it is Indi cated, is resolved to demand repara tion for this act of the Germans, which will be added to the already long list of occurrences of this and similar na ture. It was reported In a Paris dispatch of December 5 that incidents of "seri ous gravity" had occurred within the last few days in a prison camp in Sax ony. where allied soldiers were con fined, and the allied governments were said to have decided to act energet ically in this connection. It was ap parently this incident which gave rise to the report printed in the North Ger man Gazette of Berlin that allied oc cupation was to be extended, even tem porarily, to Berlin, the reason given in this report being a "regrettable Inci dent during which a supervisor of a prisoners' camp shot three Frenchmen." FRANK COFFINBERRY HERE Member of U. S. Film Division Ar ranges Showing of War Pictures. Frank Coffinberry. formerly manager of local vaudeville theaters, now con nected with the division of films in the United States Government commit tee on public Information, is in Port land arranging for the showing of war films here. The next big picture shown here by the committee will be "Under Four Flags." Mr. Coffinberry said the film de partment of the committee will be dis continued after December 15. The showing of the pictures will be con tinued by arrangements with private corporations. The work of the film division hss been hampered greatly by the Influenza i i whlh v-caiilt, In th. .Inaini. C(;iutiiitvi i . i . . . . .j . . . - . ... ... w..u .......... 0 . of 91 per cent of the motion picture j ernment Will Assist; Record Wheat Crop Predicted. PENDLETON. Or.. Dec. 7. (Special.) expected Elijah to wave his arms, say Though he reported no plans yet formed by the Administration for han dling the wool crop of the country next year. State Senator J. N. Burgess, Uma tilla County sheepman, who returned from Washington yesterday, found a friendly sentiment toward the growers and is confident that means will be provided whereby the Government will aid in taking cars of next years wool clip. The Government. Mr. Burgess said. has about 400,000,000 pounds of wool on hand, in addition to clothing required for the troops and Navy. The manu facturers, however, are stripped, but the retailers seem to have sufficient stocks of manufactured goods on hand The amount of wool in the hands of the Government, he says, is no larger than that usually carried over from one year to another. The danger lies In the method by which It Is dls posed of. Mr. Burgess believes that, even with out a Government agency for handling the wheat crop of the country, the farmers will be taken care of. He believes the wheat crop the coming year will be near a record breaker. East from Chicago, wherever cultiva "Cementing Ties of Friendship" tlon is possible, grain has been planted. I T , V. iriJiTI. Waal f. A K 1 a L dence of concentration on wheat- streets. Mr. Houser explain that ha was in a hurry and did not notice how fast he was driving. The traffio squad broke all records for the past year by arresting 80 persona The arrests were made by Sergeant Brvin, head of the squad, and Patrolmen Horack, Bert and Chrlstensen. London has 1509 miles of sewers ami Paris about 1000. , mysterious and high-sounding phrases and to make a sensational cure, said Major Mills. "When he was told to do a simple and unpretentious deed he objected, and it was not until the direc tion was quietly obeyed that he was cured. "So it is In our lives today," declaied the speaker. "We like to do aome sensational thing that will bring all eyes to us, but it is the nearby and small things that make for good citi zenship. Every man in the spruce dlvl sion wanted to go to France Instead of working in the Oregon woods as a laborer. But it is this work, common place as it may be, that supplied Italy, France, Great Britain and the United States with alrplan. stock. "It Is the application of the smaller duties of life that is most important and does the moct ultimate good. It li the performance of the near at hand and commonplace actions that makes possible world movements and world progress. GOOD FOR WORLD AUGURED 1 Q& (p tB 9B2 ? tSl 1EJ 9) I) D I) A V-nr THOMPSON r V 1 Deep Curve y 1 9 ' Lenses Are Better (Trademark Registered.) Subject of Sermon. America views with pleasure the SnooA rnn Carrnes M. H. Homer. CW.Mb.UI, VL lilt. UUlllVli (.111. Dfll I, among the people of what is called the British Empire." said Rev. Edward Constant of the Highland Congrega tional Church last night, speaking on Cementing the Ties of Friendship. He said that "the fraternization which has taken place between us and the people of Great Britain is an augury for the good of the world. It is for us to foster this new feeling of friendship. There can be no chance of an old world aristocracy getting a foot hold here. The death knell of the old day of class domination has been sounded everywhere. Democracy claims only a clear stage to work out its des tiny. Man's birthright is sovereignty in his own domain, but his highest privilege is that of brotherhood. "America, need enter into no alliance with other nations, but If true to her mission will exemplify the ideals of democracy In ail her diplomatic and trade relations, will always be the advocate of political and economic jus tice and will use her energies for a true friendship with all those with whom America has so much In com mon. . Max H. Houser, grain dealer, will ap pear in the Municipal Court to answer to a charge of speeding today. Patrol man Bert reported tnat ne cnased air. Houser for about two miles, the latter driving 40 miles an hour. The arrest was made at East Thirteenth and Linn MISSIONARIES ARE NAMED Methodist Episcopal Society Assigns 42 Women to Foreign Fields. CLEVELAND, Dee. 8. Forty-two women received commissions from the Methodist Episcopal Women's Foreign Missionary Society at the closing serv ice of tho conference today. They were assigned to la countries. Mrs. William F. McDowell, of Wash ington, president of the visiting mis sionary leaders, presented the certifi cates. Property Returned to I. V. W. Material seized by the Federal officers n a raid on the hall of the Industrial Workers of , the World, months ago. has been returned by the United States Marshal. The material consisted of a I printing press, typewriter and some equipment. The raid was ordered from Washington and the literature and other evidence desired by the Govern ment was used in the trial of the I. W. 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TRY OTO OAILI' LOCH 11 A.M. to P.M. 25c SOc SRe, ffle to 7ftc. tnelod ing soup, vreeta- bl. drinks, dessert. Hear "flrrrs Ori ental Jaas Hand, the beat Jan Band In the Northwest. Our larva dlnlnx room and dance floor era Jnat ono flight upirtalri. whara the vacilla tion la perfact. No tuffy atroophere aanltatioa oar motto. UtTjeiUCA'K AND CH1NK8E DISHISS Served at all Honrs. PrKCIAI. mt-n. day rmrREN DINKER m fBEAL BREAD MotKcr Knotus" Ideal Bread arvd Milk