the aioRxiyg oregonian, Saturday. December 21, 1918.
GmZEHS ASKED TO
EITEBT1 SOLDIERS
Mayor Baker Issues Appeal to
Extend Christmas Cheer.
DINNER FOR ALL DESIRED
Appeal Is Sent Forth to Families
Wlio Can Extend Hospitality
to Men. in. Service.
MAYOR ASKS THAT DOORS BE
OVE.VCD TO ENLISTED
MEN.
December 20, 1918.
It behooves us. the citizens of
Portland, to show to the men in
uniform that deep appreciation
that we have for the Inestimable
service they have rendered, many
of them working inconspicuously
and unromantically, but never
theless earnestly for the success
ful culmination of the war. De
nied though they were the pros
pect of seeing: service abroad,
they kept on with the work they
were ordered to do.
Now that the Christmas season
is here, may we not assume it a
privilege -to have these men in
our homes to join us in the pro
ceedings of peace and happiness,
and may we not aligrn ourselves
for the purpose of relieving them
of the sadness that, must be
theirs by the enforced separa
tion at this time from the fam
ilies and friends they love and
cherish.
Let us then open up our hearts
and homes and offer to these
loyal men the best of our hos
pitality. GEORGE U BAKER.
Mayor.
Christmas day, with its hours of en
joyment for those privileged to be at
home, will find 12,000 soldiers and sail
ors in Portland and vicinity, most of
them detained far from home firesides.
With discharges so near at hand, yet so
far away, they are the more lonely.
It is one of the plans of the Mayor's
Christmas celebration that every man tn
the khaki and blue at the city's gates
who craves a bit of appreciation, the
friendly touch of hospitality, shall be
entertained at some Christmas dinner
in Portland. This is the point of the
plea he makes. . " .
More Responses Tfeeded.
Through the churches, the clubs, the
hotels, and the theaters the appeal has
gone forth. Some 25,0p0 cards on which
generous families and Individuals may
invite soldier or sailor guests to share
the glad feast have been distributed.
Karly response has been good, says Mrs.
H. Sherman O'Gorman, committee
chairmam to whom the cards are re
turned, but not yet up to expectations.
A thousand more homes should today
and tomorrow send in the card or noti
fication which will bring them one or
more guests, it is said.
Many soldiers and sailors already
have registered at the Soldiers' and
Sailors' Club and the War Camp Com
munity Service headquarters. At Van
couver Barracks Major Percy Smith, in
charge of the Red Cross, awaits 1500 in
vitations which he may pass out to the
men stationed there. The Mayor's call
must be heeded if Portland is not to fall
short of what she is expected to do.
Hotels Give Assistance.
Request cards will be found at the
places designated, at Liberty Temple
and 204 Northwestern Bank Building. If
a card is not readily accessible the
home or individual may telephone re
quest for guests to Main 654 and care
will be taken to record and pass it
along.
Full co-operation of the hotels has
been given. Arrangements have been
made to provide dinners that unat
tached persons may pay for in addition
to those generously donated. Every
payment of $1.50 to this fund will place
in the hands of an enlisted man a din
ner ticket which guarantees him a feast
at the hostelry of his choice. Contribu
tions to this fund have been made to
the War Camp Community Service by
many department store workers and
professional men and women. Payments
may also be left in the hands of any
hotel manager and will be given by him
into the general fund.
BRITISH PRESS IS HOPEFUL
Xation Eager Tor Opportunity to See
President Wilson.
LONDON, Dec. 20. Newspapers here
make extended comments on the im
pending visit of President Wilson to
England. The Daily News expresses
profound satisfaction over Mr. Wilson's
plan and adds-
"Every section of the nation Is eager
for an opportunity to display its grati
tude and admiration of the President's
unfaltering idealism and steadfastness
of purpose."
The newspaper hopes that nothing
may stand in Mr. Wilson's way to pre
vent his coming in personal contact
with the people other than the rulers.
The paper contends that it is neces
sary to press forward to the negotia
tions and name conditions of peace for
Germany and determine the future of
Russia,
"Only swift decision by the allies,"
it says, "will enable Germany to re
sume something like her normal life.
The condition of Russia is a matter
upon which Mr. Wilson's voice can
carry greater weight than any other.
He has no material considerations to
influence him and no question of the
bondholder will affect his Judgment.
He presumably has full knowledge of
the facts which the people of this
country have not and a straightfor
ward declaration from him that the
allies are taking the only course open
to them would dispel misgivings which
"Viscount Milner's statement yesterday
left unallayed."
VICTOR EMMANUEL IX PARIS
Italian King Formally Received by
City Council.
PARIS. Dec. 20. King Victor Em
manuel of Italy was received this after-
For Coated Tongue
Bad Breath, Sour Stomach, Bloating,
Gri, Biliousness, Sick Headache, Indi
gestion, Constipation take the always
reliable
FOLEY CATHARTIC TABLETS
They clear the bowels, sweeten the
stomach and tone up the liver. Do not
gripe.
J. E. Colver. 103 Labor Temple. Los Ange
les. Cal.: "After 06 years' experience with all
sorts and kinds of cathartic remedies. I got
w(s9 to Foley Cathartic Tablets, and they are
the best I ever used." Sold everywhere.
Ailv.
noon at the Hotel de Ville (City Hall)
by the Paris Council. On his way.
through the city from the Foreign Of
fice he was cheered by the large
crowds. The weather was miserable and
there was a drizzling rain.
The victory of Italy has created a
new Italy in a new Europe, declared
President Poincare in toasting King
Victor Emmanuel at a banquet in the
palace of the Elysce.
The greatness of Italy, the President
said, was due to the intervention of the
King, which had resulted in the de
struction of former diplomatic com
binations and the tightening of the
bonds of sentiment and interest, be
tween France and Italy. Italy and
France were allies In the war and
would remain united'ln peace, he said.
King Victor Emmanuel expressed
thanks for the cordial welcome. France
and Italy, he continued, were at the
threshold of an era of pacific collabora
tion and had a great common mis
sion to accomplish.
SHIPPING TP BE RELEASED
GOVERNMENT PLAJTS TO HELP
AMERICAS? TRADE.
Hope la Expressed by Sir. Hurley
Tbat XJ. S. Can. Get Hon Ships
to Bring Soldiers Home.
PARIS. Dec. 20. As a Result of con
ferences between Edward N. Hurley,
chairman of the American Shipping
Board, and General Pershing, plans have
been perfected whereby approximately
1,000,000 tons of shipping now used to
supply the American Army in ' France
will soon be released for American
trade. There are more than 150,000
tons of shipping now lying at American
docks and the increasing need of pro
viding for the products of American
factories which have turned from a
war-time to a peace basis has made
some immediate move necessary.
The American authorities are press
ing for control of German passenger
ships tied up in Hamburg and other
ports, so that they may be used in
taking home American troops.
The total capacity of all passenger
ships at present at the disposal of the
American Government will permit the
return home of about 100,000 men a
month. If the German passenger ships
can be secured. It is estimated that this
number can be increased to 150,000 men
monthly.
The American officials here attach
the greatest importance to the need of
supplying merchant tonnage to indus
tries in the United States. It is under
stood that the British insurance rate
will be reduced soon approximately to
25 per cent as a stitnulus to British In
dustries. A similar step is being urged
with regard to American insurance
rates.
DV1SER TO CHINA NAMED
JAPANESE FINANCIER TO EF
FECT CCRRENCX REFOR3I.
Gold Standard Expected to Bring
Better Trade Relations Be
tween Nations.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 20. Informa
tion that Baron Sakatani, one of the
leading financiers of Japan, has been
appointed financial adviser to the
Chinese government, was received at
the State Department today from Am
bassador Morris at Tokio. Baron Saka
tani in accepting the appointment, Mr.
Morris said, gave a statement to the
newspapers saying he intends to ef
fect a currency reform by adoption of
the gold standard, with an ultimate
view to better trade relations between
Japan and China.
Baron Sakatani is reputed to be one
of the great financial minds of Japan.
He formerly was minister of finance
in the Japanese cabinet, and is a eon-in-law
of Baron Shlbusawa, one of the
richest men in the Orient.
The baron is the head of one of the
peace eocieties of Japan, and long has
urged a strict limitation on armament.
Baron Sakatani spent some time in
China six months ago, and the under
standing here is that he went to study
business conditions generally and Jap
an's opportunity to increase her trade
with the far eastern republic
SETTLEMENT NOT IN SIGHT
CHILE AND PERU MAT APPEAL
TO PEACE CONGRESS.
Thousands of If Urate Workers in
Tarapaca District Ordered to
Return, to Peru.
BUENOS AIRES. Dec 20. Latest
press dispatches from Chile report that
political circles there see small hope
in settling the controversy with Peru
and Bolivia by compromise. It is re
ported in Chile that Peru intended to
carry the Question of the provinces of
Tacna and Arica to the peace congress.
Reports from Lima, Peru, say that
18,000 nitrate workers in the district
of Tarapaca had been ordered by Chile
to return to Peru. Chilean dispatches
say that the nitrate workers are re
turning voluntarily after having been
discharged from their positions be
cause of the present nitrate crisis. The
Peruvian government is reported to
have appointed a commission to care
for the workers.
Press dispatches from Lima today
assert that anti-Peruvian manifesta
tions are general throughout Northern
Chile.
BRITON CALLS FOR TRUTH
(Continued 'From First Pare.)
compatible with the conception of a
league of free nations.
"A great part of the President's pop
ularity is due to the knowledge that
he is the father of open diplomacy,
which it was understood would be the
course adopted at the forthcoming ses
sions. "We, having learned enough of the
evil of secrecy during the last four
and a half years, therefore are alarmed
at rumors which have not yet been of
ficially contradicted, that the doings
of the peace conference are to be
wrapped in a black cloak of silence.
So far as the United States is con
cerned, I have been assured that nei
ther the French nor American govern
ments will exercise any control over
the cables conveying news of the pro
ceedings of the conference, except such
amount of control as is necessary in
rationing to each newspaper and news
distributing agency, made obligatory
by the fact that the Atlantic cables al
ready are loaded beyond their capacity."
Joseph Frantz Dead.
KLAMATH FALLS. Or.. Dec. 20.
(Special.) Joseph Frantz. who has re
sided in the Merrill district for some
time past, died at Merrill this week
from a complication of diseases. The
deceased had worked for Guy Merrill
during the past few months. He is
said to have a sister at Napa, but no
other known, relatives.
GENERAL UPSET IS
AM OF HliEilE
Counter-Revolution In Ger
many Seems Near.
GOVERNMENT IS HELPLESS
Commander and His Associates Be
lieved to Be Developing Plot
to Assert Authority. , .
PARIS, Dec 20. Field Marshal von
Hindenburg has telegraphed the Berlin
government advising it of his I -. tion
to form a new front six miles behind
thi neutral zone fixed by the armistice,
according to a dispatch to Le Journal
from Zurich today.'
The government has asked the Field
Marshal for an explanation, adds the
dispatch, but has not yet received a
reply.
It also is announced that two regi
ments of the active army will be sent
to Frankfort-on-the-Main at an early
date.
Government Held Helpless.
The correspondent affirms that Major
General Scheuch, the Prussian War
Minister; Field Marshal von Hinden
burg and Ceneral Lequid (probably
Lleutenant-General Lequis, former gov
ernor of Metz). who is in command of
the active troops in Berlin, are behind
a counter-revolutionary movement. He
declares the existing government is
manifestly Incapable of preventing the
realization of its scheme.
BERLIN, Dec.-"19. -By the Associ
ated Press.) The congress of soldiers'
and workmen's councils has decided
that elections to the national assembly
8hall.be held January 19. Those op
posed to the summoning of a national
assembly polled only 40 votes out of a
total of 240.
Change Brings Applause.
The changing of the date for the
elections from February 16, originally
agreed upon, to January 19. by this
virtually overwhelming majority, was
greeted by loud applause from the
floor of the house and hisses from the
galleries, which were filled with sym
pathizers of Dr. Karl Liebknecht. lead
er of the Spartacus group of Socialists.
There had been nervous tension
throughout the day in the fear that
Liebknecht might attempt a coup to
disperse the congress. Nothing of the
sort happened, however, the only In
cident being the withdrawal of the
Independent Socialists as a protest
against a statement of Hugo Haase re
garding the attitude of the cabinet
toward the new executive committee
still to be chosen. Haase claimed the
cabinet would be entitled to carry its
measures, even against the advice of
the executive committee, whose only
reply could be to remove the cabinet.
New Committee Completed.
The election of a new central execu
tive committee has been completed.
The Socialist members are largely in
the majority, giving the cabinet a sup
port it heretofore lacked. Not only are
many of the members really able men,
but radicals like George Ledebour. Dr
August Mueller and other members of
the old executive committee have been
eliminated.
AMSTERDAM, Dec 20. All the lead
ing officials of the German Foreign
Office are on strike as the result of the
government's acceptance of the resig
nation of Dr. Solf as Foreign Minister,
according to the Rhenish Westphalian
Gazette. None of the officials has ap
peared for duty in the last several
days. The routine work of the Foreign
Office is piling up and there is nobody
to look after it.
BERLIN, Thursday, Dec. 19 (By
the Associated Press.) Revolutionary
financing as it 'is practiced by the
executive committee of the Berlin
Council of Soldiers' and Workmen
promises to lead to Interesting reve
lations when the final accounting takes
place. Out of town delegates who are
present for the congress of councils
now In session, charge the Berlin ex
ecutive committee- with extravagance
and Inefficiency and this seems only
mildly to characterize the real con
ditions. Treasurer Faces Trouble,
Much curiosity has been aroused
through the contradicting statements
that have been made by the treasurer
of the committee, and the Taeglische
Rundschau asks:
"Whence come the monies?
It calls attention to the fact that the
Soldiers' and Workmen's council at
tached to the home general staff as
serts that 600,000 marks of the official
army funds were seized in the early
days of the revolution, whereas only
450,000 were reported.
"Is is imperative to establish," adds
the newspaper, "whether the full sum
seized was delivered to the executive
committee or whether the persons im
plicated In the seizure made private
disposition of part of the money."
New Committee Trias Task.
The congress yesterday, by an over
whelming vote, declared Itself in favor
of the new central committee to be
appointed assuming the financial legacy
f the retiring board, claiming the
latter to be a purely Berlin organiza
tion. In the corridors of the House of
Deputies yesterday it was asserted
that among other items of receipts and
expenditures which could not be traoed
through bad revolutionary bookkeep
ing was the sum of 350.000 marks, com
prising official funds' seized. the
ultimate disposition of which had not
yet been established.
LONDON. Dec. 20. In discussing the
attempts of the present leaders of Ger
many to shift the blame for the war
and the manner In which it was waged,
the Times in an editorial today says:
Hnaa Not Yet Peaitent.
"The majority of articulate Germans
altogether refuse to confess that Ger
many has been guilty of any particular
crime, either in provoking the war or
In her conduct of it. They deny that
she has been defeated and represent
her as the innocent victim of unheard
of persecution since the conclusion of
the armistice.
"The mass of the German people
were, in fact, accomplices in the crimes,
of militarism. They were accomplices
because they approved Its ends and had
no remorse as to the use of its most
Inhuman means. They hounded on the
former Emperor, his generals and
statesmen until defeat fell upon them
They will do better to confess thi.
truth. They merely add to their turpi
tude In the eyes of the human rac
by trying to shelter themselves undwr
the shameful plea that the great Ger
man people did not know of the crimes
of their rulers or knowing- these crimes
were too craven not to applaud thm."
INQUEST BRINGS SURPRISE
SISTER OF MURDERED HAS
TELLS OF INVITATION.
"Unwritten Law" and Self-Defense
May Be Set Up In Nels
- Carlson. Case.
Recommendation that Nels Carlson,
confessed slayer of Gus Johnson, 927
Williams avenue, be held to the errand
jury, was Included in the verdict of the
Coroner's Jury, which lnvestlsrated the
case last night. The "unwritten law,"
and possibly self-defense, probably will
constitute the defense. '
Mrs. Alfred Johnson, sister-in-law of
the dead man, and at whose home he
lived, sprang the only surprise of the
Inquest. She said her brother-in-law
had told her of Mrs. Carlson's Inviting
him to come to her window at mirinio-K
Wednesday, the night before he was
shot.
"My goodness. I wouldn't dare do
that," she said her brother-in-law told
her he replied.
"Oh, he sleeps so soundly," Is the re
ply Mrs. Carlson was said tn h
given.
Mrs. Johnson said h Yi-M.yr. -k.
Carlson wanted to warn him against
ner nusDana. jonn r. Logan, Carlson's
attorney, dwelt strongly on this portion
of the testimony. Mr. Logan also
evinced arreat interent In wn.. . v. .. .
lay close to Johnson's body.
Jjeputy District Attorney Cahalln
represented the state. Coroner Smith
presided.
Escaped Asylum Inmate Captnred.
DALLAS,. Or.. Dec 10. (Special.)
Phy Ward, who lives near Lewisvllle.
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A Silk Shirt Sale
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In Polk County, this week was sent to
the State Hospital for the Insane at
Salem. Two years aso he made his
escape from the state hospital, and had
been living a quiet life near Lewisvllle.
Ward could not be found' when the of
ficers arrived. Sheriff Orr continued
the search after the others left, and
late at night found Ward hiding in a
straw stack.
Charles Pinkham's Death Reported.
EUGENE. Or.. Dec 20. (Special.)
Charles Pinkham. of Marcola..who en
listed In the army as a etret i-her-bearer
a few days after the United States en
tered the war. was killed in action
August 9, according to word received
by his aunt. Mrs. Wick Huff, of this
city. He wan 2s years old and a grad
uate of the Tacoma High School. His
father. B. C Pinkham, is living In Can-sd:i.
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