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VOL. LVIII. NO. 18,137. PORTLAND, OREGON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 9, 1919. PRICE FIVE CENTS. BERGER AND FflUP j WILSON TO WAIVE HIGH ruu" RANK AT PEACE TABLE y YET PORTLY COP' STAR IN. r NATIONAL FILM ROOSEVELT BURIED BRITISH LABOR PARTY TAKES HIGH POSITION ASSOCIATES GUILTY PRESIDENT PREFERS TO ACT IX HOLE OF V. S. PREMIER. 'J.j?- ,KIXG' AVILL BE SHOWS i' VARIOUS. FORMS. CONTINGENT NOW LARGEST OUTSIDE COALITION. MES ILJS60R CONDEMNS WILLIUM I BRYON FINISH BERLIN JOB WITH SIMPLE RITES Socialist Leaders Convict ed in Chicago. ALL FACE TERMS IN PRISON Necessity of Clean-Up Becoming Urgent. Is SITUATION IS GROWING WORSE Clemenceau Informed American Ex ecutive Will Not Appear-as Head of Government. PARIS, Jan. 8. The Temps says H Is able to state that President Wilson has officially Informed Tremler Clemen ceau that he does not desire to be con sidered at the Deace congress as the head of a state, but only as the Prime Minister of his state. The Temps says the United States Constitution makes the President not only the head of the state, but the head of the Government, and that President Wilson will claim only the right to the prerogatives of the last-named posi tion at the peace conference. NEW TRIAL IS DEMANDED vice. President Wilson could not be SHOWDOWN BELIEVED NEAR forced to tako a full day's rest today. I-ate this afternoon he walked with Mrs. Wilson to the headquarters of the Men Held to Have Violated! U. S. Espionage Law. Question of American Inter vention Discussed. Ttrpresenlatlve-F.Icct From Milmau- American mission, where he had a short conference, iraring wm wi kce Expresses Surprise and Will Accept Fate I.Ike Man. CHICAGO, Jan. 8. Five leaders of nr.iiH.nt was recognized by me crowds and returned their greetings. The President spent a quiet and restful morning. He saw no one om- clally and his only activity was some riirtatinn to his stenographers. Al- IIopc Is Indulged That Moderates Will Get Upper Hand and End Menace of Bolshevism. by a Jury after five hours nd 5" I dent did not go out to play golf. minutes deliberation In Keileral Judge Landls' court today of conspiracy to violate the espionage law by delivering public speeches and circulating pu lishert articles with the wilful intent of causing Insubordination, disloyalty I Colonel Reviews Hook on Pheasants . n.l refusal of duty among the mili ib' AUTHOR GETS T. R. LETTER tary and naval forces of the United States and with interfering with the recruiting service and the enforcement of the selective draft law. The men fuund guilty are: Victor I. P.erger, Representative lect from Milwaukee, and editor of the I during Milwaukee Leader. Adolph Germer. National secretary of the Socialist party. J. Louis Kmrdahl. editor of the American Socialist, official publication of the Socialist party. All Fare Prlaoa Terms. William F. Kruse. National secretary of the Young People's Socialist League, Shortly Before Heath. NEW YORK, Jan. 8. Although suf- BT CTRIL BROWN. the Socialist party were found guilty though the weather was fair, the Presi-1 (Copyright by the New York World. Pub. iiiMiru uy armnrmem. I WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY OF OCCUPATION, Jan. 8. (Special Cable.) News reaching Coblenz Indicates such intense gravity In the situation at Ber lin that the highest military authorities here are following it and awaiting fur ther developments with the most in tense Interest. The bulk of the field Army, too, is one edge, discussing the possible necessity for armed American intervention. The correspondent In these quarters has heard the opinion expressed that Germany would have to be left to stew in her own Juice and fight out her in ternal conflict herself and restore or der, for the present at least, without the possibility of military intervention entailing American participation. Showdown Believed Near. The opinion, however, appears to have been scouted. Another now is being expressed that things in Berlin are hastening toward a showdown, and that fering almost constantly from his long standing ailment Inflamatory rheuma tism Colonel Roosevelt not only kept up his public writings, but found time the last ten days of his life m dicrst a ilO.OOO-word volume on pheasants written by w llllam Beene. of the New York Zoological Park,, of which he intended to write a review. On the day before his death, he wrote to Mr. F.eebe pointing out certain errors In the classification of species which he suggested should be corrected in subsequent edition. The book was sent Mayor Baker and Council Approve Pictures in Connection With Safety-First" Campaign. Many a "cop" has starred in the ca tastrophes of the comic films, but Port land patrolmen of the traffic depart ment lay claim to being the first of their clan To become genuine producers of motion picture drama, with chance pedestrians and motorists Impressed as actors. Under direction of Sergeant Frank Ervin, of the motorcycle squad, films are being taken daily on downtown streets for use in the "safety first" edu catlonal campaign. Authorized by Mayor Baker and the City Council, the pictures will be shown in all local mo tion picture and vaudeville houses, and later in the public schools. Captain Harms and Sergeant Lewis, also of the traffic department, are other members of the producing staff. When the traffic patrolmen assigned to motion-picture duty see anyone available for the scenario of hair breadth escapes they call them into the pictures. Some of these are entitled "jaywalking." "the abstracted pedes trian," "perils of failure to give right of way" and 'how cutting a corner called the ambulance." The arrival of the patrol auto and the ambulance lend realism to the films. At least 600 feet of film will be taken portraying traffic accidents and perils, and many stereopticon views will sup plement the motion pictures. The work of "shooting the scenes" will occupy two months, it is estimated. Ex-President Laid to Rest on Snow-Covered Knoll. ALL CLASSES BOW IN GRIEF Kev. Irw in St. John Tucker. Socialist by Mr. Beebe to Colonel Roosevelt the u ,ook8 as ,f the moderates ouId get 'writer and lecturer, formerly director of the literature department of the Socialist party, and author of anti-war pamphlets. The convicted men face prison terms of from one to -0 years, fines of from day before Christmas. This, one of the last letters written by Colonel Roosevelt, was received 14 hours after his death. the upper hand and end the menace of Bolshevism In Germany. In some of the combat divisions the beting Is 50-50 that Americans will soon or late be forced into Germany to help restore order. The chamuions of mili- 11000 to 810.000. or both, at the dfscre-ITWn MFW DF 91 ST RETURN tary intervention view the future with t on or the trial juagc. wno win iix the punishment later. Attorneys for the defendants Imme diately presented a motion for a new trial. Judge Landls fixed January 23 as the date when he will hear argu ments on this motion. The five de fendants were taken In custody In the courtroom, but a few minutes later were released on their old bonds of $10,000 each. Seymour Stedman. chief counsel for the defendants, declared that the case will be appealed to the United States Supreme Court if neces. axy to keep his clients out of prison. Ro.nHI'i Memory Honored. The Jury halted in Its labors for five minutes at 11:45 A. M. out of respect to the memory of Theodore Roosevelt. Out In the corridor the defendants. their lawyers and friends were ordered by the bailiffs to remove their hats while the city paid Its respect to the x-President and statesman. With the exception of Berger. who appeared nervous. the defendants listened to the reading of the verdict without a sign of emotion. Berger said: "The verdict is a surprise to me. I was certain that the Jury would acquit us on the case made out by the Gov ernment. I am no more guilty of this charge than the Judge on the bench. I have been a citizen of this country and stood for the principles for which I have been tried for 3? years. Now If I am to be persecuted for them, I shall accept my fate like a man." Wounded Corporal and Companion Arrive in Vancouver. VANCOUVER. Wash., Jan. 8 (Spe clal.) Sergeant W. W. Dismukes and Corporal Freeman, of the 91st Division, In France, arrived here last night for brief visit before going to Camp Lewis, to be mustered out. During the charge through the Ar- nuxed emotions. On the one hand, men are eager to get home as early as pos sible and are not edified at the prDS- ;ect of more hard clean-ut) work, on the other hand, many of our men feel that they are stuck here for a long, hard occupation anyway and had Just soon be on the forward move as marking time on the Rhine. American Area Well Held. The correspondent was informed from MOTHER AND SONS BURNED Colville Home Set on Fire by Over heated Stove. COLVILLE, Wash.. Jan. 8. Mrs. Wil liam Waltenberg and two sons. George and. Arnold, aged 3 and 9 years, respec tively, were burned to death in their home here this morning, and another son, Lawrence, aged 7 years, was so badly burned he is not expected to re cover. Another son, 13 years of age, and a daughter, aged 11. were taken by their 13-year-old brother from the house, which was set afire by an overheated stove. The father, with two older children, was employed in a lumber camp at Tiger, Wash., near here. Nation's Great Join With Vil lagers in Final Tribute. WAR FLAGS DRAfE CASKET Soldier Guard of Honor Stays by Grave After Interment Mrs. Roosevelt's Plans Unsettled. OHIO GIANT DIES AT 74 Capl a in Vi ates SnccMubs at Home in f gonne Forest, r reeman was wounoea i a nign military source inai mere is not ind Sereeant Dismukes assisted him I the slightest prospect of an outbreak from the battle field. Freeman picked I -omludl on Page 2. Column 1.) up a limb of a tree on the battle field, and made himself a cane with it, which he carries now. Seville, O. MEDINA. O.. Jan. 8. Captain Martin Van Buren Bates, 74, world famous as a giant, died at his home at Seville, near here today. Bates, who toured he world with a circus, was seven feet four inches tall and weighed 360 pounds. He was married twice, his first wife I being over eight feet tall. OYSTER BAT. N. T., Jan. 8. Theo dore Roosevelt lies at rest tonight beneath a cemetery knoll on the ram bling rural highway along which he traveled so many times in boyhood and manhood between the Sagamore Hill house which was his home and the quiet village of Oyster Bay. Perhaps no other ex-President of the United States has been paid the tribute of so simple a funeral as the one which was given Colonel Roosevelt this after noon on the shore of Long Island Sound. Military and naval honors were not his in death, only because it had been his wish and that of his family that the last rites be surrounded only with the simple dignity that might at tend the passing of a. private citizen. Noted Mourners Present. But the American Nation and foreign governments as well sent representa tives, as did also the state and city in which he was born. These noted men sat sorrowfully in the pews of the littlo red-gabled Christ Episcopal Church, while brief services of prayer and scripture readings were held with out a eulogy in which so much might have been said. There was no singing or organ playing. It was noon when, at the Sagamore Hill hoiAestead, all of Colonel Roose velt's family, except two of the sons, Lieutenant-Colonel Theodore Roose- vt.lt, Jr., and Lieutenant Kermit Roosevelt, who are soldiers in Europe, assembled for a few moments of pri vate prayer at the side of the casket in which lay the body. Draped over the casket were battle flags under which the Colonel fought as a Rough Rldsr on Cuban soil more than 20 years ago. Rev. George E. Talmage, rector of Christ Church, said the words v.-hich were the final ones spoken for Position of Official Opposition to Government Assumed -Leader Formerly a Miner. LONDON, Jan. S. (British Wireless Service.) The English Labor party has decided to accept the responsible po sition of official opposition to the gov ernment. This is a landmark In Eng lish Parliamentary history. The Labor party's position as the largest body outside of the coalition has entitled It to this distinction, and its leaders will take their seats on the front opposition bench as the alterna tive combination to the Ministry of the day. At the same time, though the Laborites have the numerical ad vantage, it is to be remembered that there are numerous Liberals in the coalition and that the total number of Liberal members of Parliament is well in excess of the total number of La bor members. The leader of the new opposition will be William Adamson, representing West Fife, who worked as a miner for 27 years. He has strongly supported the government in the prosecution of the war. John Robert Clynes. who held the office of food controller is to be deputy leader. He withdrew from the govern ment in compliance with the Labor executive's decision. Both of these members are looked upon as moderates. Removal of Federal Agent Urged in Resolution. MARIE EQUI INQUIRY ASKED Alleged Attack on Woman Is Topic of Constderation. LIFT SHIP BARRIER, PLEA Convention Goes on Record Favor ing "New Irish Republic" and Proposed League of Nations. (Concluded on Page Column :.) RAIN OR SNOW LACKING First Week in January Presents Un i usual Weather Record. For the first time since official weather records were begun here, in 1S71, the first week in January passed without the occurrence of rain or snow according to Meteorologist Wells. No precipitation has occurred since De cember 29, and there have been onlj five days with precipitation since De cember 14, constituting an unusual record. Though today's prediction is for con tinued cold, with increasing cloudiness and fresh easterly winds, there is room for speculation in the forecast for rain today in Western Washington. Such a storm, say pioneer weather observers, may well find its course down the coast and break the Oregon cold spell with a "change of weather." The maximum temperature yesterday was 43 degrees and the minimum was 31 degrees. LET'S GIVE 'EM SOMETHING MORE SUBSTANTIAL THAN A MERE WELCOME. IDAHOANS RECEIVE JOBS Governor Davis Names Jay Gibson Bank Commissioner. BOISE, Idaho. Jan. 8. (Special.) Governor Davis today announced the appointment of Jay Gibson, of Coeur d'Alene, as state bank commissioner to succeed RusselljG. Hitt, of Idaho Falls, i The nosltlon nava 34000 yearly. Com-I missloner Gibson was associated with Governor Davis In the banking busi ness at American Falls. State Game Warden Jones announces the appointment of W. D. Parkhurst. of American Falls as chief deputy and George H. Isaacs, of Pocfttello, as sup erintendent of hatcheries. BERGCR -YELLOW" SOCIALIST DEBT OFFERED TO STATE Editor-Rcprescntatlve-EIect Doesn't Believe in Bolshevism. CHICAGO. Jan. 8. Victor L. Berger Is "a yellow, a "constructive or his torical" Socialist. lie doesn't believe in Bolshevik tactics. lie thinks the I. W Vf. is "a persecuted labor organization,' but doesn't believe in sabotage. He ays be believes In upholding the laws and is "pro-American." The Milwaukee Congressman-elect, on trial for violation of the espionage act in Federal Judge Landls' court, was last of the defendants to Take the stand, and probably the principal figure in the Socialist movement In the coun try. The veteran publisher-politician by his testimony attempted to put So cialism itself on trlaL Talking with a broad German accent, he delved into every phase of radicalism. R-.garding I!oI.shevlm, he said: "Capitalism succeeded the feudal system and it will be succeeded in turn by Socialism. But It must come grad ually. If you try to bring Socialism In overnight, as the Bolshevik! did in ItUMia. you will simply, to use a com mon expression, 'raise hell."" Then he went on to explain: There are two schools of Socialism, tie historical and the hysterical. They call the historical branch the 'yellows.' I belort; to the historical. The ilolshe vikl confiscate property, but my theory Is to get control gradually and pay as you go. The present outcome of com petition has been the trusts. Tou can't bust them. My Idea is'to buy them." And "constructive Socialism" he de fined: "Sooia'lsm means 'rule by alL" Then. In contrasting Socialism with the I. W. W.. at the same time express ing sincere sympathy for the latter, he said: "They are In Bt way related. So cialism Is a political movement: the .t'-tmc.uiUtl us . Cwiuiua Clarke County Seeks Relief on Bridge Bond Issue. VANCOUVER. Wash.. Jan. 8. (Spe cial.) The Vancouver Commercial Club at a meeting tonight unanimously went on record favoring the absorption by the state of Washington of Clark County's Indebtedness on the Colum bia River interstate bridge. Of the 1500.000 bonds Issued, approximately 8100.000 has been paid. The Commercial Club voted to send a delegation to Olympia to urge the nec essary legislation. GERMAN LOAN IS DENIED Southern Products Company Men tioned in Propaganda Hearing. DALLAS, Tex.. Jan. 8. The Southern Products Company, which was men tioned In a hearing before the Senate committee Investigating German prop aganda as having participated with the Chase National Bank of New York in loan of $3,000,000 to the German gov ernment, today denied any knowledge of such a loan. The company is owned chiefly by Japanese. WAR POLICIES TO CHANGE Conversion Into Peace Time Insur ance lo Start in 60 Days. WASHINGTON. Jan. 8. Conversion of war risk lnsurar.ee into permanent pe ice time policies will be started within 60 days. Colonel Henry V. Lindsloy, head of the War Risk Insurance Bureau, an nounced today that schedules of rates and forms of policies had been com pleled. to be announced shortly. Nearly four million persens hold policies which may. be converted, ' : ! . : : u . i Tim 7u miMl J . 41 M I via ffefy i i i ax:n m.i i t srv i t J WY JPr TO DO ABOUT TH tS ? It 7 " END OF BLOCKADE TOPIC Wilson Said to Favor Relaxation of . Grip on Germany. (CopyriEht hy the New York World. Pub lished by arrangement. ) LONDON, Jan. 8. (Special Cable.) In the preliminary conferences between President Wilson and the heads of the allied countries, it is said that the Pres ident will emphasize the necessity of relaxing the blockade against Germany. The world correspondents were in formed tonight that informal discus sion of this subject already is under way in Paris, but that until the first conference is convened no new policy will be formulated. During the last three weeks much in formation has been gathered by the American and allied nations on internal conditions in Germany, which probably will have a prompt effect on the delib eratlon. TAKEN BY 1 -TDURA- IMPORTANT ACTIONS T.4 ORKfiO.N STATE Fl TIOX OK LABOR AT A.- I .M'AI. CONVENTION. I Demanded removal of William R. Bryon, special agent .Depart- J nient of Justice, and a further t investigation of the case of Dr. I Marie Equi. J Appealed to Emergency Fleet Corporation to rescind action In canceling contracts for building 1 wooden ships in the Oregon dis- trict. t Recognized the new republic of t Ireland as proclaimed by the Sinn I Feiners, and urged Oregon's del- J egation in Congress to support t move for National recognition. t Declared for weekly payday in all Industrial enterprises, regard less of the number of employed. Requested state legislation that will prohibit white girls from working in Oriental restaurants ? and cafes. Adopted a reconstruction pro- ? gramme demanding remunerative j employment for every man seek- ing work, abolition of public J work by private contract, a grad- uated super-tax on all unculti- vated arable land, a one-house J Legislature, a state marketing system, co-operative insurance, a maximum eight-hour day with a 4 44-hour week. Government own- j ership and operation of all nat- ural resources and public utilities I and abolition of all private em- i ployment agencies. persons SHIP FLAGS AT HALF MAST United States Destroyers Bear Trib nte to Ex-President. NfcW YORK., Jan. s. The United t States destroyers Rowan. O'Brien and T i Ericsson arrived in port shortly afte noon loaay irom yueenstown, carrying their flags at half mast i I the late Colonel Roosevelt.' They flew also nome warrt-bound pennants, while the Ericsson displayed a service flag, bearing two bars and denoting a year's service In foreign waters. The boats were met by members of the Mayor's committee of welcome. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. iimmuai s Maximum temperature, 43 ae&rees; minimum. ;u degrees. TODAY'S Increasing cloudiness; fresh east erly windH. Theodore Roosevelt. Ex-President Roosevelt laid to final rest. Death news withheld as son reads letter. rage o. Foreign. Wilson to waive high rank at peace table. rage l. Prcsrr-ss of peace conference plans are slow Page 4. Jtel armv is crushed by loyal Russians. fage American soldiers may yet get on-to-Berlin order. Page I. Socialists in Italy monopolize Wilson. Page 6. British labor party assumes new place in Parliament. Page 1. National. Ten thousand more soldiers assigned for convoy home, page -. Domestic. Five Socialist leaders round guilty in Fed eral Court, page l. Salt Lake man held for bullion robbery. Page 3. Move to defer dry amendment fails. Page 3. Sport. Marines take slap at grid followers. Page 12. "Fighting Medics' to meet Multnomah Sat urday. Page 12. Pacific Northwest. Salem passes drastic ordinance against flu. Page 3. Idaho Legislators honor ex-President. Pago 5. Portland and Vicinity. Higher automobile licenses contempalted. Page IS. Solution of future is Oregon problem. Page 4. Portland joins in tribute to Colonel. Page 10. Portland "cop" star in educational film. Page 1. Labor condemns Federal Agent Byron. Page 1. State labor calls for radical changes. Page 11. Leard is Identified by bridge-toll taker.. Page O. Weather report, data and forecast. Page 13. Resolutions were unanimously adopt ed by the Oregon State Federation of Labor yesterday condemning William R. Byron, special agent of the Depart ment of Justice, for his recent physical encounter with Dr. Marie Kqul In tho Federal building and demanding the immediate removal of Mr. Byron as the directing head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in this district. Organized labor also included in the same set of resolutions a demand for a further inquiry by the Government into the case of Dr. Kqul, who was convicted in the United States Court last month of a violation of the es pionage act. Immediately following the reading of the resolutions, which were submitted by Joe Thornton, Charles E. Stickler and Floyd Hyde, E. J. Stack, secretary of the State Federation, moved that the resolutions be adopted without ref erence to a committee. Investigation Is "Sought. Amid a chorus of seconds, the mo tion was stated and the resolutions were adopted without an opposing voice. The text of the resolutions follows: We protest against the unbecoming conduct of an official of the Depart ment of Justice, William R. Bryon, who so brutally struck Dr. Mario Equi after her conviction on December 31, n d when she was facing a three years term in the penitentiary: and whereas, the said William J. Bryon was responsible for procuring the evi dence, full of passion and prejudice. which was presented and which was palpably false and convicted Dr. Equi, be it resolved further that the State Federation of Labor of Oregon ask the Department of Justice at Washington, D. C for the removal of Operative Byron and demand an investigation of tho case of Dr. Equi." Ship Cancellation Deplored. During the day resolutions were tel egraphed to Otto R. Hartwig, president of the State Federation, for submission to the Emergency Fleet Corporation demanding that it immediately rescind its action in cancelling contracts for building wooden ships in this J i c L .-i . : t and prohibiting shipbuilding compa nies from accepting contracts to build ships on private or foreign account. Mr. Hartwig is now in Washington, D. C, as the representative of the Ore gon State Federation of Labor before the Emergency Fleet Corporation. The preamble of the resolutions re- ited that within another 30 days ap proximately 10,700 workmen in the hipyards in the Oregon district will have been thrown out of employment through the enforcement of the order restricting shipbuilding. Support of Labor Pledged. Secretary Stack pointed out that the xecutive council of the American Fed ration of Labor is giving its full sup port to the concerted effort of labor organizations throughout the country to cause the Emergency Fleet Corpor- .(Coutluded, on Paso 3, Column l.Ji