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mm VOL,. jLVIII. XO. 18.128. POItTLAXD, OREGON, 3IOXDAY, DECEMIiEK 30, 1918. PRICE FIVE CENTS. WATCH FIRES TO BURN IN ;FRQNT OF CAPITOL PROTEST TO COXTIXCE UNTIL SUFFR,GE IS ADOPTED. GERMANY. IS RULED BY SIX DICTATORS SINN FEINERS BLOW UP CORK MONUMENT VANDALISM FOLLOWS RESULT OF ELECTION. FIRING ON YEE 1"RsSN PRESIDENT VISITS HOWIE OF ANCESTOR FLAG STARTS RIOT MENACE TO PARIS GONE BE TORE V. S. BOYS IX ACTIOX. STORM FRENCH CHAMBER Socialists Bolt as Peace Terms Are Announced. LEAGUE OF NATIONS FAVORED Annexations Not Desired Final Settlement. in FULL PUBLICITY IS PLAN Defensive Intervention In Russia De clared IneTltable to Prevent Invasion by Bolslicvikl. TASR1S. Dee. 53. (By the Associated Press.) The storm which has been threatening In the French Chamber for the past four days broke this after noon when Stephen Plchon, Minister of Foreign Affairs, amid violent Inter ruptions by the Socialists and inter demonstrations by the government sup porters, outlined France's peace terms. The Minister declared that France is absolutely in agreement that full pub licity be given to the proceedings of the peace conference. . He announced that Intervention In Russia was in evitable, but that it would be of a de fensive character, so far as French troops were concerned, and if offensive operations were undertaken it roust be by Russian troops. Socialists Join In Uproar. While M. Pichon was reading M. Clemenceau'a instructions, pandemo nium broke loose on the Socialist bench. "The war Is beginning anew," they thouted. M. Deschanel, president of the cham ber, threatened to have one of the most unruly of the Socialist members ejected. M. Pichon weathered the storm calmly. He refused peremptorily to answer whether the French government was prepared at the present time to make public the names of its delegates to the peace conference. The chamber was again In an upro in which it was noted that others joined with the Socialists. Chamber Hold Night Seanion. The chamber Is holding a session this evening, as the budget must be voted before midnight December 31 by both the chamber and the senate. There were three sessions today, and two have been held every day this week. But one vote on strict party lines was taken. This was on Friday, when the government did not lose any strength, despite the widely advertised onslaught cf its opponents. It has been evident for the past week that the opponents of Premier Clemenceau were determined to ob struct in every possible way the voting of the budget of 10,500.000,000 francs for the first three months of 1919 un less the Government stated its peace terms either through Premier Clemen ceau or M. Pichon. But it was not expected that the government would do so before Mon day. foreign Policy Attacked. M. Franklin-Bouillon, of the commit- , , ' I to a head, however, by a violent at- t , ' . . tack on M. Pichon and the Govern-1 inent s foreign policy. I rvx. j .,. i Since Thursday the government bench I had sat in obdurate silence, refusing to reply to any queries; but when M. Pi- chon ascended the tribune this after noon he was ready to answer. He de clared: First That the government was In accord that the utmost publicity should be given to the peace conference, thus replying to the interpellation of the Socialist Deputy, Marcel Cachin, of last Friday, when he asked Premier Clemen ceau to state whether secret diplomacy would be abandoned in the peace con ference and the discussion given all publicity. Annexation Not Desired. Second That the French govern ment has adopted the principle of a league of nations and ia now busy working towards its effective realiza tion, thus replying to the interpella tion of the Socialist M. Bracke. Third That the government does not desire any annexations, but reserves tho right to fix the Alsace - Lorraine frontiers, to guard against future at tack, thus replying to M. Franklin Bouillon. Fourth That the government does not think that the question of diplo matic representation of the Vatican arises at the present moment. nnuliD Intervention Inevitable. Fitth That intervention in Russia la inevitable. Upon Russian intervention M. Pichon explained, reading from instructions issued by Premier Clemenceau to the general commanding, that such inter vention was not offensive for the time being, but defensive, in order to pre vent the Bolshevik! from invading Ukraine, the Caucasus and Western Siberia. In the future an offensive interven tion might be necessary in order to destroy Bolshevism. , Such an opera tion must be carried out by Russian troops, of which 100,000 were at pres ent ready at Odessa. Russian troops have captured Perm from the Bolshevik!, taking 18,000 pris oners. M. Pichon, the Foreign Minister. (Concluded on Pass 8, Column 1.) Demonstration Token of Indignation Against Wilson's Claim to Be Spokesman for People. "WASHINGTON, Dec. 29. (Special.) "Watch-fires of Freedom" will be lighted on the sidewalk in front of the White House at 4 o'clock on New Year's afternoon, it was announced today by Miss Alice Paul, chairman of the Wo man's party, to be kept burning until the suffrage amendment is passed by the United States Senate. The fire will be lit in the stone urn dedicated at the demonstration in La fayette Park December 16, and will be kept burning with the speeches of lib erty and freedom delivered since that day by President "Wilson in Europe. Throughout New Year's night relays of women holding purple, white and gold banners will attend the fire, which it is explained, will be a token of wo man's Indignation against the claim of the President to be the spokesman of the people of this country and the leader of world democracy, while his party, in control of the Government, holds half the population unenfran chised. The light of the flames, according to the announcement, will "act as a spot light on President Wilson, who. while he attempts to secure the allegiance of the nations for self-government, de clares himself unable to win one Demo cratic Senatorial vote for self-government in America." - On the upper balcony of the head quarters of National Woman's party, half a block away, will hang a bell which will ring at two-hour intervals when the guard is changed. It will be tolled also to proclaim the arrival of each new democracy speech by the President. HORSE MEAT PRICE SOARS Food Situation In Country Districts of Germany Improve.. WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY OF OCCUPATION, P'rldpy, Dec 27. (By the Associated Pret i.) Horse meat again has experienced another advance in Germany. Meatless daye are being generally observed throughout Ger many. In Coblenz the week beginning De cember 16, was a meatless one. The ruling price of horse meat in the area occupied by the American Army is at present as follows: Per pound Horse sausage, 1 mark 80 pfennigs: horse meat, 1 mark 60 pfennigs; horse liver, 1 mark 40 pfennigB. Reports continue to reach the Amer ican bridgehead of a continuation of the improvement in food conditions in the country districts, of Germany, but not in the cities. This is due to the fact that land long idle is being culti vated by discharged eoldiers. To this fact also is due an Improvement in both the labor situation and the prospects for next Summer's food supply. FRANCE NEEDS PHYSICIANS Hurried Demobilization of Men in Army Requested. PARIS. Dec. 29. In the Chamber of Deputies today during a debate on the budget, Minister of Finance Klot an nounced that the amount subscribed to the Liberation Loan now exceeds the amount announced December 3. Al though the figures still were incom plete, M. Klotz said, the nominal cap ital subscribed exceeded 30,000,000,000 I francs, representing an effective cap- I ital of 21,500.000,000 francs. An appeal was made to have demob- ... .. . , , , ilization hastened, as there are only .... . ... . . . 4000 non-mobilized doctors to care for , .... ... , . the 35,000,000 civilian population, the , , -..ki-. death rate among whom-has doubled, owing to influenza. It was said the army's health was excellent and that 16,000 physicians were with the colors. SCHOOL TO BE COMPULSORY Idaho Proposes That All Must Learn English. BOISE, Idaho, Dec. 29. A bill provid ing that all persons over 16 years of age who cannot read and write the English language .shall attend night school for a certain number of hours each school Tear until Eueh knowledge is attained and making financial pro vision for such schools in all districts was unanimously Indorsed by the mem bers in attendance upon the conference of superintendents and principals and of the executive board of the Idaho State Teachers' Association at the clos- inf? sessions yesterday The last official census of Idaho shows that the state has 5453 persons over the age of 10 years who are illiter ate, or 2.2 per cent. Of illiterate males of voting age there axe 3415, or 3.1 per cent. NEW YEAR'S FUN APPROVED Farewells to 1918 Will Proceed Un hampered by Police. Farewells to 1918 and greeting to the new year will be allowed to pro ceed unchapcroncd by police as long as the celebration does not verge on row dyism, according to a statement by Chief of Police Johnson last night. Ex cept for .the prohibition of confetti throwing by order of the Commission ers, no special police regulations for the occasion have been promulgated. Chief Johnson said that the aim of his men would be rather to promote the merriment of the occasion than to exercise a depressing influence. Spe cial patrols will be abroad, however, to check disorderly conduct wherever it ia observed. Authority Exceeds That of Former Kaiser. POLITICAL CONFLICT IS ON Adherents of AH Factions De mand War Lord's Trial. DR. S0LF ENTERTAINS FEAR Famine and Bolshevism Regarded as Greatest Dangers -United Front Is Desired. BY LINCOLN EYRE. (Copyright by The Mew Tork Evening World. Published by Arrangement.) PARIS, Dec. 29. (Special Cable.) Six men with no popular mandate other than a ewiftly-changing public opinion are directing the affairs of Germany. The erstwhile empire of the Hohenzol lerns is being transformed into a Ger man republic by a half dozen Social ists who, by a hasty seizure of the reins of power, have super-imposed themselves upon a colossal and com plicated bureaucracy through which William' II ruled his realm. The authority which these six dicta tors exercise at the moment is even greater than that wielded by the Kaiser, for there is no Ludendorff or Von Tirpitz to oppose their absolutism. Behind their oliearchcial dictatorship stand the local councils of workers and soldiers, each all-powerful in its own community or district, but subordinate to the central dictatorship In all mat ters concerning the nation as a whole. Selection Made Daring Revolution. The six dictators were chosen in the first hours of the revolution from among the Reichstag representatives of the Social Democratic party. Three of them Hugo Haase, Richard Barth and Wilhelm F. R. Dittman represent the minority or independent wing, and three of them Frledrich Ebert, Philipp Scheidemann and Hans Lansberg rep resent the majority wing of the party. They call themselves the Cabinet or Reichsregierung, the latter term mean ing federal government and not, -as it is still frequently translated in the foreign press,' imperial government. Reich means ; simply "federation" or "commonwealth," the word for em pire being "Kaiserrelch." No one member of the Cabinet is endowed officially with greater ad ministrative authority than any other member. A very important act must have the approval of the majority. (Continued on Pa.ee 4. Column 3.) IF FRANCE HAD A P, T. BARNUM SHE COtTLD SOON PAY HER FROM AMERICAN TOURISTS. i ! Memorial One Erected by Public Subscription to Soldiers of Boer War. (By the Associated Press.) CORK, Dec 29. Sinn Felners on Sat urday night, after the announcement of the- election results, blew up the monument erected by public subscrip tion to the Cork soldiers who had fought in the South African war. HUMAN LIFE CONSERVED Figures Prove Value of Regulation of Liquor Traffic. CHICAGO, Dec 29. Government regulation of liquor traffic coupled with Army life for many 3 sung men who as civilians probably would have been dis solute, has notably affected preserva tion of human life, according to the an nual report of Peter Hoffman. Core r of Cook County. The report ehows that 6119 cares were reported to the Coroner in 1918 and the following fig ares are offered in support of his ob servation on Government regulations: Deaths 1914. 1015. 1016. 1017. 1918. Violence --'94 23 2 312 318 Alcoholism ..!.'. j:;u 151 160 4j LIQUOR SEIZURE IS LARGE Auto and Dwelling Give 914,500 Worth of Contraband. DENVER, Colo.. Dec 29. Whisky, wine and champagne valued at 14500 was seized in an automobile driven by George Knorr, in front of his home here tonight after a policeman had fired sev eral shots at him. A second automobile filled with liquor drove up and also was captured. The police say a search of the Knorr home revealed contraband liquor valued at from $10,000 to $12,000-. The arrest is the first under the new bone dry law. GOETHE'S HOUSE ROBBED National Museum Loses Mementos of Great Poet. BASLE. Switzerland, Dec 29. Bur glars recently entered the former home of Goethe and carried off a quantity of mementos of the poet. Goethe's house was built In 1709 and was occupied by the poet from 1792 to 1S32. It was bequeathed to the state in 1885 by the poet's last grandson and opened at the GoetUe National Museum. SIX MILLION MARKS FOUND Trotzky's Daughter Is Arrested in Warsaw. GENEVA, Dec 28. The daughter of Leon Trotzky. the Bolshevist Minister of War and Marine, and a Bolshevist named Lewow were arrested in Warsaw yesterday, according to the Polish agency at Lausanne. Six million marks were found in the apartment which they were occupying. f "5 Sv. ) Huns Are Defeated and 138 Are Killed. MANY WOMEN ARE INCLUDED German Officer Attacks Auto Carrying American Colors. POLISH GUARD CALLED OUT Battle Lasts Several Hours Before Order Is Finally Restored. Boche Officers Helpless. LONDON, Dec. 29. Firing by German officers on an allied automobile carry ing an American flag was the cause of street fighting in Posen last Friday, says a dispatch to the Exchange Tele graph from Copenhagen. The Germans were defeated in the fighting. About 138 persons, including a number of women and children, were killed during the rioting. The dispatch says: - "There was severe fighting between the Poles and Germans in Posen Fri day, which resulted in 38 women and children and about 100 Germans and Polanders being killed. The affray originated as a result of a German officer firing on an allied automobile which was proceeding to Warsaw carrying the American flag. . Han Officer Insult Flag. "The Germans insulted the flag and the Polish guard was called out. The fighting lasted several hours and the Germans were defeated. "A delegation from the British mis sion to Posen protested to the German commander in the town, GeneraN Schimmelfeng, but the German officer declared that he had no control over the soldiers." BERLIN, Dec IS. (By the Associated Press.) The Lokal Anzeiger's Posen correspondent says there was etrect rioting in Posen Friday evening. Ger man soldiers"marching" through the town are said to have hauled down entente flags. Polish Guard Called Out. A company of Polish civilian sol diers proceeded to police headquarters for the purpose of raiding the prem ises. . German eoldiers with machine guns dispersed the Poles, who are said to have suffered severe losses. Quiet was restored at night. AMSTERDAM, Dec 29. A Posen dis patch recei -cd here says the casual- ( Conclude! on Page Column 2.) WAR DEBT WITH THE PROFITS j t f -OUt TICKET r ".-SV.A here! a-MiLtS fLtMM. u American 14-lnclt Gens Wipe Out Germans at Movie Show; Battle ship Ctah Paper Tells Story. NEW TORK. Dec. 29. The etory of the success of America's land battery of 14-inch naval guns, as told by mem bers of the gun crews themselves, was given to the public here today when copies of the "Big U." a newspaper printed on board the battleship Utah, were circulated on chore. It was the Utah's picked gun crew, the newspaper said, that was sent ashore to "get" the German super-gun which was shelling Paris. The gun was removed, it was said, before tho batteries could get into action, but the Navy men had the satisfaction of smashing away at the German line for several months before the armistice was signed. The shells fired by the naval guns, according to the "Big U," were almost twice the size of those fired by the Germans' super-gun and were to pow erful that on one occasion the explod ing shell hurled two loaded freight cars from a track to the top of a rail way station. Another shell landed In a hut where 100 Germans were watching a motion picture show, and when American troops later reached the spot. 40 iden tification tags were all that could be found to tell the fate of the party. The naval guns habitually fired at a range of 20 to 21 miles, the article said, and more than 800 rounds had been fired when the armistice was signed. It would soon have been nereseary to remove the guns for rc-lining. Describing the activities of the bat tery, the article said that "in the entire battery of 500 men. only three were lost. Two succumbed to disease and the other died of wounds from frag ments of a German shelL" SALEM STOPS GATHERINGS Town to Be Closed to Prevent Spread of Epidemic. SALEM. Or.. Dec. 29. (Special.) Salem will be closed as tight as a drum again tomorrow because of the rapid spread of Spanish influenza since the ban was lifted a few weeks ago. Chief of Police KolanU announced this afternoon that starting tomorrow schools, theaters, churches, poolrooms and puLlic places of all kinds will be shut down, the use of pool and card tables being prohibited entirely. In addition restrictions will, be placed on tho entire business section." Crowds of all kinds will be prohibited,' whether shopping or otherwise. In addition quarantine regulations will be strictly enforced. The latest order is to re main effective for an indefinite period. STATE DINNER PLANNED Kins and Queen Will Honor De parting Guests. LONDON. Dec. 29. The arrangements for a private dinner for President and Mrs. Wilson and King George and Queen Mary, Monday night on the Pres ident's return from Manchester, have been changed. Instead the function will be a fare well dinner in honor of the President and Mrs. Wilson. It will be given in the state dining-room in the Bucking ham Palace, and about 30 guests will attend It. TRANSPORT HAS ARMY PAY $2,000,000 in Currency Begins Long Journey to France. NEW YOIIK. Dec. 29. Two million dollars in United States currency, des tined to pay American soldiers In France, began its long Journey today when it was taken from the sub-treasury to Hoboken In seven large Army otor trucks, guarded by 21 soldiers. Tho bags were hoisted aboard the transport Leviathan, which sails Tues day for Brest. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. TEFTEHDAT'f Maximum temperature. 44 tlrgrres; minimum. S7 degrees. TOIJAY'S Fair, with ccntlo northerly winds. War. Aoirrlnn big guns prove worth in war. Pass 1. Official casualty list. race 4. I'orefgn. Firing on Tankee flas starts riot. Tags 1. rrcMdcnt visits girlhood homo of his mother. Pago 1. Pix Socialist dictators are in control of Ger man uffairs. 1'ugo 1. Itetiiy of pcaco laut hope of BoIbhcviUi. 1'ajce 2. Bcwisir.:d Britishers bewilder Prealdcnt. Storm breaks la French Chamber. 'Fuse 1. Sinn hVtncra blow up monument to eoldiers of Cork. faro 1. Pogroms in Potand said to le fiction. Pase 5. Fleet surrender completes Germany's humll- lutiou. Page o. Irttish electorate btrong for coalition. Page a. German Independents retire from Cabinrt. Page 2. National. Trouble looms for America in Mexico. Page 4. DomrM Ic. Leaeue of nations dei-larxd failure. Page ti. lixplosloi. which may 1-. fata!, attributed lo Kansaa City lrectear fcinke. Pagu s. Watch fires to burn in front of caUo:. Page. 1. Snwrlf. Camp I.cwi halfback, Ira KJaclcwclT. out of Kanitt Hith injured Knee. Pug., io. Mar-5 l."l:ind Marines not In be.sl of shape tor title contest. Pago 1". l'ortlaod and Ylrinltr. Oregon man commands President V'Ilcou's ship I'age 7. Slashing of budget held necessary. Page t. Multnomah County lias f",5T I Itcd Cross mcmbeis. I'ag-j 1. Major Mllla believes In Ner Year resolutions. I -a go . Al KadVr Tempte preparing to receive novitiates. I'age 11. Mrs. Xel'.la Keating disappears. Page 4. Experiences of IMst Division in Argonne for est recounted. page WcatUer'iepuri, Cu'.u uuu fu'ccbt. I'usu 'J. People of Carlisle Give Warm Welcome. CHURCH-GOERS HEAR SPEECH Tribute Paid to Mother and Grandfather. DUTY OF WORLD DEPICTED Belief; Expressed That Nations of "World Will Bo United In Ir- . resistible Moral Torcc. By the Associated PrassO CATtLlSLE, England, Dec. 59. Pres ident Wilson, accompanied by Mrs. Wil son, came to Carlisle today tn rain and a cold, penetrating mist to visit the girlhood home of his mother. But the warmth of the greeting of the people of the town and the thousands of stran gers from the surrounding country more than offset the dreariness of the weather. Large crowds lined the streets and cheered the Presidential party lustily as It drove from the station, where the President was received by Mayor Ber tram Carr and local notables, to the Crown stnd Mitre Hotel, where tho Pres ident signed the free man's roll. PTenldeat Isivlted to Pulpit. The President vitited Annetwell street, where the site of his late grand father's chapel was pointed out to him and the houe in Cavendish place that was built by his grandfather. Later lie attended services in the Lowther street Congregational Church. Hero during the services the Rev. Edward Booth, pastor of the church, requested the President to come into the pulpit and address the assemblage. This the President did. delivering a short speech, in which he touched simply but elo quent.y on his mother. Tho President spoke as follows: "It is witb unaffected reluctance that I Inject myself into thU service. I re member my grandfather very well and remembering him. I can see now he would not approve. I remember what he required of mo and remember the stern lesson of duty he spoke. And I remember painfully about things he ex pected me to know that I did not know. Duties of World Depicted. "There ha3 como a change of times when laymen like myself are permitted to sneak in a congregation. There U another reason why I was reluctant to speak. "The feeling excited in me today are really too intimate and too deep to permit of public expression. Tho mem ories that have conic of the mother who was born here are very affecting. Her quiet character, her sense of duty and her dislike of ostentation have come back to mo with increasing forcu as these years of duty have accumu lated. Yet perhaps it is appropriate that in a place of worship I should ac knowledge my indebtedness to her and her remarkable father, because, after all. what the world now is seeking to do Is to return to the paths of duty; to turn from tho savagery of interest to the dignity of the performance oi right. Moral Force Credited. "I believe, as this war has drawn nations temporarily together in a com bination of physical force, we shall now be drawn together in a combination, of moral force that is irresistible. It ia moral force as much as physical force that has defeated tho effort to en slave the world. Words have cut deep as swords. The knowledge that wrong has been attempted has roused thti nations. They have gone out like men for a crusade. No other cause could have drawn eo many of the nations to gether. They knew an outlaw wa3 abroad and that tho outlaw purposed unspcakablo things. "It is from quiet places like this al! over the world that the forces are ac cumulated that presently will over power any attempt to accomplish evil on a great scale. It is like the rivulet that gathers into the river and the river that goes to tho sea. Eo there come out of communities like these streams that fertilize tho conscience of men and it is the conscienco of the world wo now mean to place upon the throne which others tried to usurp." I.ca-Ktliv' Programme Carried Oat Tho lengthy programme of the day was carried out with tho single ex ception that the President had not in tended to tpcak in the church. The Presidential train arrived at the Cita del Station on schedulo ti:ne. In addi tion to Major Carr, the Lady Mayoress, Miss Klcanor Carr, Ma jor-'Jeneral Sir John Cowan and the High Sheriff were on the. platform when President Wilson alighted from his car. After tho pres entation Ml..i Carr ga.vu Mrs. Wilson a. liuc bouquet. The Presidential party was then con ducted to the entrance of the station, where the square: was thronged with pcopl-j who bunt into hearty cheers which lasted for &omc moments. The St.-ira and Stripes and the British flag were hoisted on tho tower of tho Law Courts simultaneously with tho emergence of the party from the sta tion. The rain continued to fall but tho crowds in tho streets cheered President Wilson Bll the way to the Crown and ic'vuil uuiu uu pufco J, Co.uuia X.