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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 24, 1918)
TIIE MORNING OREGOXIAX, TUESDAY, DECE3IBER 24. 1913. S WILSONS' WILL HAVE BIG FREE Age-Long Tradition at Buck ingham Palace Broken. ROYAL GUEST ROOMS SHOW The Liberty's Annual Free Show for the Kiddies of Portland A Present for Every Child Santa Claus Bill Hart Charlie Chaplin "Fatty" Arbuckle 'n Everything. THIS MORNING PROMPTLY AT 9 A.M. BELGIAN SUITE RESERVED President and Wife to Have Quar ters Hitherto TTsed Only by European Crowned Heads. LONDOX, Dec 23. The "Belgian Buite," reserved exclusively for royal guests until now, will be occupied by President and Mrs. Wilson during their etay in London. In the years of its interesting history It has had within its walls many crowned heads, one of the latest, but the least mentioned at Buckingham Palace, being the former German Emperor. It was givin its name during Queen Victoria's reign and was always known as the house ui the King of the Bel gians, when royalty was ' entertained here. At the request of President Wilson, who evidently found that too much is being crowded into his short stay In Rngland. the proposed dinner at Lan caster House on Saturday night has been eliminated. Instead Premier Lloyd George will entertain the Presi dent at dinner Saturday, to meet the War Cabinet. Palace Attendant Puzzled. Those in charge of the details of the arrangements, particularly the officials at Buckingham Palace, are at times puzzled over the niceties of etiquette, the result of the unique situation that there will be no royal guests at the palace. These puzzles, however, have been of momentary duration, except among some of the aged attendants, who have been casting about for guid ance. It is understood that they have been informed that it will be plain "Mr. Wilson" and "Mrs. Wilson," much to their relief. JIuch of the regal pomp of Bucking ham Palace ended at the beginning of the reign of Edward VII., but much was left to be eliminated by the pres ent King. It Is 'still a far cry, how ever, from the formalities of this pal ace to those of the White House. The Presidential party will consist of five, including Rear-Admiral Gray son and two aides. When President Wilson ceases to be the guest of France at Calais at 12:30 o'clock Thursday morning, the British Admiralty will assume the role of host. The President will go directly from his train to a cross-Channel boat, probably the Brighton, which Is an Admiralty-controlled vessel. The steam er will be escorted by a flotilla of Brit ish destroyers, as well as seaplanes, if the weather permits. The crossing will be in charge of Vice-Admiral Sir Koger J. B. Keyes. Ro Americana In Escort. No American crews are included In the plans for the escort. The Amer lean Army and Navy will participate in the reception only through the at taches in the diplomatic service. PARIS, Sunday, Dec 22. Although far away from the White House and the usual 40-pound Yuletide turkey. President and Mis. Wilson will enjoy something of the epirit of Christmas, even though the day is epent in the battle zone. Mr. Wilson recently slipped away from the Murat residence and went on foot through the shopping dis trict, making purchases and looking about without being recognized. Mrs. Wilson has also been shopping alone at odd times and when Christmas morning comes it is fairly certain that Santa Claus will have visited the. Pres ident's special train while en route to Chaumont. Return January 1 Expected. The latest changes made by the Brit ish government In the itinerary of President Wilson's visit to England would bring him back to Paris on New Tear's day. He will spend Thursday. Friday and Saturday in London and will have conferences Saturday. The President . will be at Carlisle Sunday and will make an Important speech In Manchester on Monday. He would re turn to London Tuesday and leave the same day for Paris, where he will ar rive Wednesday. The President's Christmas programme provides for his leaving on a special train at 1 o'clock in the morning, the schedule for the run providing for the train's arrival at Chaumont, General Pershing's headquarters, at 7 A. M. The party will take automobiles thence to Langres, where the review of Ameri can troops will take place. The Presi dent will take luncheon at midday with the troops, returning to Chaumont In the afternoon. On the return the train will leave Chaumont at 4 P. M. and reach Paris at 9 o'clock In the evening. JWjfy ' Avoid the crowds of the de- j&T partment stores and do your X3t Christmas shopping in comfort jfr? lSoKY and safety at the specialty b1 r 3W stores. You pay no more, JD? G'Vyg and secure better service. 2 POWERS APPEAR DILATORY V. S. EXVOYS &SISZ OXES yet OFFICIALITY AXXOCXCED. IT. S. INFLUENCE PAEAMOCSI Viscount Grey Discusses Prospects for League. LONDON, Dec 23. Viscount Grey, former Secretary for Foreign Affairs, has written at the request of the re search committee of the League of Na tions Union an introductory note to a pamphlet entitled "The Peace Confer ence and After." After urging the great opportunity afforded by the peace conference for taking a practical step in the direction of forming a league of nations. Viscount Grey says: "It Is not necessary for the peace conference to create a league of na tions. The conference will in itself be a vital beginning of such a league. All that is absolutely necessary is that it should not commit suicide, but keep itself active by adjourning and leav ing a permanent organization, instead of dissolving itself and destroying its machinery. "This is not all that Is desirable, but It is all that is essential. A beginning that has in it vitality and power of growth is better than a more complete and more attractive creation that has no life. One is a living thing while the other is a piece of furniture. "Two more points I would especially commend to careful and sympathetic consideration. One is the possibility of applying the. principle of trustee ship to those vast tracts, especially Africa, where no independent national government of the native inhabitants can be formed. The other is emphasis on the earnest advocacy of the part to be taken by the united States in help ing to give effect to this principle of trusteeship and in councils of the world. Without the United States any council or league of nations will soon be little better than the old concert of Europe, which was spoiled inva riably by intrigues within it and split Into opposing groups. "It would be as fatal to the future of the world for the United States to relapse into the old idea of strict iso lation as it would be for any power to revive the German policy of s- arate conquest ana uomination. it is. I believe, in this spirit and for this purpose that the people of this coun try desire close and cordial relations 7ith Uie United States.'? f Peace Terms to Be Proposed by Brit ain About Ready and Will Be Known Soon. PARIS, Dec 23. The United States is the only country which has definitely and officially announced the composi tion of its delegation to the peace con ference. News reports have contained names of British, Italian, Belgian and Japanese delegates, but the French Foreign Office has received no notifica tion of these appointments. The work of the American commis sioners will not be delayed by Presi dent Wilson's visit to England. It Is stated that the daily conferences will continue among the delegates and the corps of specialists with such represen tatives of the entente and neutral gov ernments as may wish to communicate with the American delegates. Such discussions will naturally be purely In formal. ' LONDON, Dec. 23. The Cabinet. It Is said, will be able to finish by tomor row night the task of framing the terms- to be proposed by Great Britain at the inter-allied conference preceding the peace congress. The final draft should be ready by Christmas day. It will be discussed at the conferences between President Wilson and the War Cabinet. PARIS. Dec 22. (By the Associated Press.) President Wilson's conferences today and tomorrow will virtually com plete the preliminaries he is expected to dispose of before going to England. The probably will lay the principal part of the groundwork for the actual peace conference. Mr. Wilson considers the most press ing of all problems before the entente nations in a fair way toward being solved. This is the question of supply ing food to the starving peoples of lib erated countries. It now seems prob able that the work will be handled principally by the United States through Herbert C. Hoover. The visit of Premier Romanones, of Spain, to Paris has brought about a definite understanding concerning the status of neutral nations before the peace congress. A member of the American Peace Commission saW to the Associated Press today that whenever a question arose affecting the interest of any neutral nation it would have its opportunity of being heard, probably through delegates called in wnen tneir interests are affected. It developed today that Premier Romanones of Spain plans to return to Paris in the near future to confer with the allied Premiers and the American representatives on questions vitally concerning Spain. The Spanish Pre mier is credited In some quarters wltn the project of raising the question of the return of Gibraltar to Spain and laying it before the peace conference. According to the same sources, Spain is willing to' concede Ceuta, on the Moroccan side of the strait, to Great Britain in exchange for Gibraltar, on the ground that if" military reasons were held to interfere with the trans fer of Gibraltar -to Spain the posses sion of Ceuta by the British would af ford equal strategic advantage in mod ern warfare. BRITAIN TO GIVE ITS BEST President Not Coining for Politics, Says London Paper. LONDON, Dec 23. Commenting upon the visit of President Wilson to Eng land, the Daily Mail says: "We shall give him of our best Mr. Wilson is not coming here for politics. His visit is for international consecra tion and is to visibly cement the two English-speaking peoples, cradled in whose hands reposes the new-born peace of the world. "We behold a Christmas of Joy and a moment unexampled In the rugged his tory of our race. It is the peace Christmas. Many of our soldiers are back again and our tortured prisoners are coming home. Gaiety at last is re leased and glows like fire in our hearts. At this season of alL the President's visit is a heartening augury for the world at peace, since it is founded upon rock, the solid amity and united pur pose of the British and American democracies." Catholics Appeal to Wilson. PARIS. Dec 23. President Wilson is in receipt of numerous petitions from American Catholics, both clerical and lay. Including several bishops, direct ing his attention to the Irish question and expressing the hope that he will endeavor to aid In its solution. Wilson will oppose in the most direct fashion proposals from any source to sink the warships surrendered by Ger many under the terms of the armistice. MR. STETTIN1US TO REPORT Second Assistant Secretary of War Returns From Europe. NEW TORK. Dec. 25. Edward R. Stettinius, Second Assistant Secretary of War, an American member of the inter-allied munitions council, formed for unifying allied shipments of war supplies and material to ship tonnage, returned today on the steamship Cedrlc Mr. Stettinius, who was formerly a partner in the firm of J. P. Morgan & Co., has been abroad since July and will return to Europe about January 15, after making a report to the War Department. He left , for Washington soon after his arrival here. THREE CHARGES DISMISSED Mooney Associate Scores In San Francisco Court. SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 23. Three charges of murder against Edward D. Nolan, co-defendant of Thomas J. Mooney in the preparedness day bomb murder cases here, were dismissed by Superior Judge Franklin A. Griffin to day because of lack of evidence. Judge Griffin is the judge who tried and sen tenced Mooney to be hanged following his conviction as one of the bomb mur derers. Mooney's sentence later was commuted to life imprisonment. Five charges of murder remain against Nolan in two other counts. VERSAILLES SEEKS HONOR City Would Be Capital of Society of Nations. PARIS. Dec 23. The foreign affairs committee of the Chamber of Deputies is considering a bill which would make Versailles the capital of the proposed society of nations. The bill is backed by the deputies from Versailles and the department of Seine-et-Oise. It proposes to put the buildings at Versailles at the disposal of the states represented at the peace conference, giving them extraterri torial rights. Rhine Speedily Bridged. MATENCE, Sunday. Dec. 22. The French threw a pontoon bridge across the Rhine at Nierstein on Friday. This bridge, which is over 1000 feet in length, was built in five hours. DREADNAUGHTS LEAP LINE POWERFUL FLEET WILL REACH NEW YOUK THURSDAY. After Parade All Officers and Crews Will Bo Allowed to Visit Rela tives and Friends. NEW TORK. Dec. 23. Steaming home from participation In the blood less allied vl-tory over the German armada, America's overseas battle fleet, nine super-dreadnoughts, with the Pennsylvania, flagship of Admiral Mayo, commander of the Navy, as es cort, will arrive off New York harbor just in time to lead the great peace review by Secretary of the Navy Dan iels Thursday mnrnlnr. Though officers on the staff of Vice-0 Admiral Grant, commander of the "home fleet," were unable tonight to state the position of the westward cruising squadron, they announced that the returning warships "would not pass the Statue of Liberty before 9 o'clock on the morning of the 26th." Owing to delay of the destroyers and small craft in the overseas fleet by storms, it was said, only 6000 officers and men, two-thirds of the comple ment of Rear-Admiral Rodman's and Rear- Admiral Rodgers' battleship squadron, will march in the parade. This will start Immediately after the naval review, probably shortly after noon, and upon its conclusion shore leaves, affecting in rotation every of ficer and man aboard the returning vessels, will be put Into effect. 6025 SOLDIERS ARE LAUDED CEDRIC AND GEORGE WASHING TON' AT NEW YORK. Rijndam Reported to Have Left France December 19 With 3 000 Officers and Men Aboard. NEW YORK. Dec. 13. The United States transport George Washington, which took President Wilson to France, and the steamship Cedric arrived here today, bringing 6025 men from over seas In time to celebrate Christmas in the United States. The Oedrir. from Liverpool, with 5 1 1 .. .. ... LAST TIMES TONIGHT "Two Years in Hell and Back With a Smile" With "PRIVATE PEAT" IT STARTING TOMORROW FOUR THRILL FILLED DAYS "The Midnight Pa trol" moves faster than the action of a Browning machine gun. 2 J7 it Ct ,n.O J. ill - . t.s a 26 7 Great Special Attraction PRODUCED BY THOMAHJMCE officers and 2168 enlisted men, docked first and was accorded a rousing re ception, but the welcome to the George Washington, which arrived an hour later, from Brest, was perhaps the most enthusiastic the city has yet given a returning transport. The big liner had on board 331 of ficers and 3461 men. more than half of them members of the "Cyclone Divi sion," made up of Indiana, Kentucky and West Virginia National Guard troops. The George Washington's S68 sick and wounded, contrary to custom, were in possession of their honorable discharge papers when the transport landed. They received them last night with cigarettes and candy, at a novel Christmas celebration, arranged by Chaplain P. F Bloomhardt, -of the George Washington.- Colonel Halstead Dorey, of Wash ington, wearing the four wound stripes. was one of the officers on the George Washington. After being gassed twice and wounded once in . the leg. Colonel Dorey's hip was Injured at Verdun by an explosive shelL He Is a veteran of Cuba and the Philippines and a former member of the staff of Major-Gcneral Leonard Wood. Before sailing for France he commanded the first Plattsburg train ing camp for business men. Lieutenant George W. Bury ear, of Memphis. Tenn., who escaped from Ger many by swimming the lihine, after beins: in five German ramp, was an- other passenger. Lieutenant Buryear was captured when he descended after a German aviator he had shot down, and landed, to his surprise, behind the German lines. WASHINGTON. Dec. S3. Sa II In 5 from France of the transport Rijndam on December 19, with about 3000 officers and men, was announced today by the War Department. The vessel probably will dork at Newport Nwi January 1. On board the Rijndam are casual companies 111 and 404. 3Id Brigade headquarters. Coast Artillery Corps; Ninth and 13th Antl-Alrcraft Sections. 114th Ammunition Train, 31 casual of ficers. Including Brigadier - General Charles Zimmerman. The transport has on board also 1000 sick and wounded. Scheldt nivcr Route Adopted. BRUSSELS. Dec 23. It is reported here that Holland has been Informed by Great Britain of her intention to send supplies to the British army of occupa tion In Germany by way of the Klver Scheldt and Dutch Limberg. A Hot One . Chili Con Came 5 Liberty Sandwich.... 5 Good Cup of Coffee.. A whole meal for. . 15 AT WOOD'S QUICK LUNCH 101 Sixth St., Comer Stark ' Wilson Against Sinking Ships. WASHINGTON. Dee. 23. It may be stated authoritatively that President ALL THIS WEEK ALREADY THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE HAVE CHUCKLED, GIGGLED AND LAUGHED at MARGUERITE CLARK IN "LITTLE MISS HOOVER" Fictogrraph Mutt and Jeff NOTE: Here is probably the most delightful Christmas offer ing in the city this year. You chuckle and laugh all the way through it. And you go out with a smile. IT'S "WORTH-WHILE" I Li J - ' 1 I---.- ), L jy i I e , ' si I - A " . Ml 1 'i - "r : r v ?. - - f 2 i is. k . IWrt. Give Living Presents CIeTTnl, Ilf frent. Intrrr(1ni;, Lawtlng. Another Shipment of K.itra Vnnvj Mock, Due Thin llorniaft. Canary Birds We have a beautlfnl lot of lntrr In full son?. Call and ee them ond hear them lnR. You will be pleased. I'lirrolK, Kanrf KlnrhM, Case Ulrda. t'aitmt. Hini and 1'et Suppliea. Gold Fish Our supply was never better. 2.1c to fts.oo. Puppies, Kittens Scotch Collie. Fox Terrier and Doitoa Toy Bull Prralan Kittens. Flowering Plants, Palms, Etc. Very appropriate to ANT ONT. rprhaps yon Know some ONK whom von enn rememter in NO OTHER WAT. We nave a very Inrgee and varied Rtork of hand anme F F R S PAI,M, P01 SK1TH, BEUOMAS, PKIMl l.A. ' (Vn.AMKV, irr priced from TSc to 7..o. Early shoppers tell us we have the larsrest displav at the MOS'l'IIEAM)XARI,K I'HIIKS. Xmas cards free. Plants well wrapped and delivered free. Li7 'it - " 'AfflJJ't.TJ Ferns : I 1 r IIollT Wrnlh. Cedar Itoplns. Cat Holly. Mistletoe, X ii ins Trcrn. r S Routledge Seed & Floral Co. H 143 Second St., Bet. Slorrison and Alder B Store Open Evenings and Xmas Until Noon PHONE YOUR WANT ADS TO THE OREGONIAN, Alain 7070 A 6093