TTIE MORNING' OREGONIAN, MONDAY, JANUARY 13, 1919.
(SECRETARY LAXSIXG ATTENDS CHURCH WITH SISTERS IN PARIS
FOR FOREIGN TRADE
WITH ALLIED CHIEFS
Rebuilding of Pre-War Com
merce Begun by U. S.
Pirst
Meeting of Supreme
Council Is Held.
JAPANESE CRAFT RETURNED
SCENE AN IMPRESSIVE ONE
Army to Give Cp Tonnage Gradually
as Forces Abroad Diminish; Hol
land Bottoms lo Be Released.
American Executive antl Premiers!
anil J-'orelsn Minitrrs of lour
(treat 1'owers Assemble.
SHIPS
DIVERTED
PRESIDENT
CONFERS
I'ARIi?. Jan. 1J. (By tha Asaociated
Tresa. The Supreme Council of the
lace ConmM. consisting of President
W ilsoii and the premiers and foreign
minister of the four arrest powers
t.r'at Britain. France, the United States
and Italy met at 1 o'clock this after
noon at the French foreign office for
th fl-itt formal erhane of views and
to mike nrrantrementa for tha proce
uurt of the conference tomorrow, at
w hlch the full delegations will be pres
ent. Today's meetlnc was chiefly Inter
e..tlns In Its personal aspects the
hrtncins; together for the first time In
contact of the world's best-known
Mit-smrn. who are now the guiding
dcurrs of the congress. The scene
jii they assembled was one of unusual
activity.
(.reat I Tans Oat.
The day was dark and raw and the
talesmen arrived at the. meetln place
In hraty wraps. The usual Sunday
r4lm across the Seine was Interrupted
by the crest crowds which lined the
jual d'Orsjy. anxious to pay tribute to
tho notable ftrures concerned In the
world's most dramatic function. Bat
teries of phntos-raphers and movlnr
picture expert were drawn up flank
Ins; the entrance of the foreign minis
try. Lines of soldiers and other guards
preserved order.
Marshal Koch was the first of the
Msh plenipotentiaries to arrive. He
ram at 5 o'clock, and ftndlna: himself
In the van of the delegate, waited In
the vestibule. The generalissimo w
tressed In a very heavy field coat.
wore boots with spurs. On his uniform
he displayed the Insignia of his rank
Aarrirts Secretary ext.
Soon after Koch came Robert Lans
ing, the American Secretary of State,
accompanied by his military aide, who
was followed by Mr. Fraser. counsellor
-f the American Embassy, who is now
attached to the person of Colonel
)iouse.
At ::4S P. M.. President Wilson's 11-mou-me
swung up to the entrance. The
J'r'rtdent was accompanied by Mrs.
Wilson and was greeted with -Vive
Wilson!" With the President and Ms
wife was Admiral Grayson, the Presi
dent's physician.
As he alighted. President Wilson lift
ed his hat to Mrs. Wilson, who drove
away with Admiral Grayson. President
Wilson wore a dark suit and overcoat
and a silk hat and carried a large leath
er portfolio.
Conference Is Private.
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Photo Copyright by Underwood.
Secretary of State Robert Lansing. American delegate to the peace conference,
is shown with his sisters. Kmma- and Kate Lansing-, leaving tha American
Presbyterian Church in the Hue. da Berry, In Paris. The Allsses Lansing were
Red Cross Workers In France.
S ONION FIGHTS BURLESON
TELEGRAPHERS PLEDGED TO
CONTINVE WAGE DEMANDS.
Award Vnfalr and Postmaster-General
Fall to Keep Faith With
Emplojes, Says Resolution.
If Postmaster-General Burleson In
tended to toss out the gauntlet for a
fight with the commercial telegraphers
of the country by "disclosures" made
from Washington Saturday, he will be
accommodated. Simultaneous with sim
ilar sessions all over the United States
members of the Commercial Telegraph
ers' Union of America in Portland met
yesterday afternoon and fired a bit
As Mr. Wilson entered the vestibule I of shrapnel at the portly Postmaster-
of the foreign office. Stephen Pichon. I General.
the French Foreign Minister, stepped
forward to greet him and escorted him
into his private office, where the con
ference was held.
M. Clemeneeau. the French Prime
Minister, followed. He was alone and
bore a serious mien. He waa alone and
wax dressed in a business suit and wore
One of the first actions of the mem
bers of local No. 92 was that of con
firming the correctness of the "con
fidential communication of S. J. Konen
kamo. international president, given
publicity by Mr. Burleson with intent to
discredit the union head and his or
ganisation. The sense of the resolution
a derby bat. Signor Orlando, the Ital-I adopted was not only that Mr. Burleson
Ian Premier, came soon afterward, ac-louoted Mr. Konenkamp's confidential
rompanted by Signor Sonnino, bia For-I letter verbatim but also that the union
eicn Minister. I members "will make every effort to do
The list to arrive was tavid Lloyd I the thincs" it urges upon them.
C'.rorge. the British Prime Minister, and I Mr. Konenkcmp's letter, "disclosed'
Arthur J. Balfour, the British Foreign I bv the Postmaster-General In press dis
Secretary, who motored up together. I natches. called the Sunday meetings.
Tha British Premier also was In bus!-1 called for "constant agitation," and
n.es attire. Mr. Balfour. In addition I gave this significant suggestion:
o his workday clothes, wore a soft I wish you would read this with the un
felt hat which was pushed back on his I derstanding that certain plans are now
bead. Military aides followed the I under consideration whereby the teieg
British commissioner carrying a large I raphers may lead a fight In which they
dispatch rase.
I.a-H ailed Wcetlag Starts.
In addition to the rhlef factors an
Tounced above were M. Leygues. the
French Minister of Marine; M. Clemen
t. Minister of Commerce, and M. Lou
i heur. Minister of Industrial Construc
tion. As a result of today's council It is ex
pried formal notices will be Issued
rontoktrg the conference, assigning
rlrgations for each country and the
filing of the hours of meeting.
Today's council ushers In the long
awaited meeting of the peace delega
tion. It Is probable that new conditions
for an extension of the armistice will
be offered Germany at the meeting to
morrow of the Supreme War Council,
according to the Matin.
Trrrlterlal Rights First.
Ths Figaro says the first discussion
cf the peace conference will Involve the
general question of terrltorlaj agree
ments. Immediately afterward it will
deal with a settlement of territorial
n jestions pertaining to the eastern bor
ir of France, the French representa
tives setting forth their views on the
recovery by formal claim of Alsace-J-orralne
and the modus Vivendi they
will raise for the left bank of the
J.Mne. Tha newspaper concludes:
"It la believed that In a maximum of
two and one-half months, consequently
in March, the plenipotentiaries will
hive settled In their details the prelim
inaries of peace and the conference
will have finished Its work. The con
grrsa will have only to work out a
settled project."
LEGILATORS MAY MASK
lo
California Lawmakers Fosslbly
Take Thirty-Day Reces.
SACRAMENTO. CaL. Jan. 15. Early
adjournment, possibly at the end of this
week of the California Legislature, for V " ''V',.
.... .1 ResolvtKi, That it
tu constitutional reces on account or
lnfluenxa. was bring- discussed by mem
bers here tonight. Ths constitution
provides for a 30-day recess during- the
session.
The Sacramento city lnfluenxa mask
ordinance will become effective tomor
row at noon. While authority to en
force the ordinance on state property
was questioned. It was expected vir
tually all the legislators would wear
masks.
will not be alone.
The Portland local, over which Pres
ident William Burke presided, devoted
much time to elaboration of a rcsolu
tion condemning Mr. Burleeon for hav
Ing signally failed in his duty to the
telegraphers of the country, pledging
action against him. denouncing con
tinued discrimination against union
telearranh einDloyrs and riddling the
assertion that salary Increases of
to 10 ner cent have been effected. Com
parison is made of the Burleson award,
shown to make increases of but I to
per cent, with the McAdoo award to
railroad telegraphers. effecting In
creasing averaging 35 per cent.
In part, the resolution follows:
Whereas. Postmaster Burleson has given to
the press a statement disparaging a propa
ganda campslsn alleged to have been Inaugu
rated by the 1 Atnmen-Ul - eiearapners union
of America, wherein he accuses them of mis
representing conditions which the telex-
ranker ara now be i n forced to work and
of rienirina- lo create discord and dissatl:
faction with the Burleson award of 5 and 10
per rent Increases over existing rates ot pay.
Whereas. He cites the necessity of pro-
t.riina' the stockholders In their dividends.
thua subordinating tho welfare of bO.OOO
romme-rial telegraphers to the payment of
flved dividends and la defense of this Prus
sian polirr Is brinslng all the Influence of
his position and his organised press bureau
to bear: be it
Resolved. By I-ora!. No. 1 Commercial
Telesraphers" Union of America, this lay
assembled, that Postmaster-General Burle
son has sirnally failed in his dutr to the
telea-aohers of the country, not only in giv
lna an obviously unjust aaard. but In his
complete failure to keep his promise to have
talea-raphers reinatated where ther had been
discharged throuKh dlscriminatma because
of their affiliation with the aforesaid Com
merclal Telepgraphera t'nton of America, and
thai the position bo has taken that the sign
ing of the armistice all! Immediately af
fect tho cost of living, making a aubatantlal
Increase unnecessary la untenable and not
founded on fact. Their conditions of em
ployment are continually growing worse
through vlrlous discrimination and that this
position is showa to be false by comparison
with the position taken by Secretary Mc
Adoo In the rase of the railroad telegraph
ers, where an increase on an average of
3i per cent was granted, and in view of these
SOCIALIST LEADERS TAKEN:
l.edebour and Ernst Meyer Reported
Arrested In Berlin.
F.KRLIN. Saturday. Jan. II. (By the
Associated Press.) George Ledebour
and Krrst Meyer. Independent Social
ists, hav been arrested by officers and
soldiers. The charge against them has
not been made public. Ledebour has
been one of the most active leaders
against ths Ebert government.
Is the sense of this
local that all efforts to bring satisfactory
conditions be continued with unabated seal
until sueh time as the commercial telegra
phers of America are given a decent living
wage and permitted to exercise their con
stitutional right of organising without dis
crimination and that we pledge ourselves
unreservedly to this end. making use of all
lawful means in Its accomplishment-
One portion of the resolution, omitted
here, shows plainly how the elimination
of time and a half for Sunday work
has decreased many salaries. Details
are set forth showing just how many
employes suffer a decrease of as much
as S4.fl a month, while others meet
small decreases, or an increase as in
significant as it cents a month.
Beer Price Set Record.
ST. LOUIS. Jan. 15. The wholesale
price of beer made a new high record
joiUy. when U went to 20 a bami.
ANARCHY AGAIN RAMPANT
ffontlnucd From First Pace.)
Sixty-nine persons were buried Friday
and Saturday In one cemetery. A
heavy military escort accompanied the
trucks which bore the coffins to the
cemetery, and armed forces stood guard
during- the burials.
BUENOS AIRES. Jan. 15. (By the
Associated Press.) Isolated Instances
of shooting In connection with the port
strike and that by the Anarchistic Fed
eration continued In various parts of
the city during- ths night, including- at
tacks on police stations. Up to mid
night, however, no important clash had
occurred as compared to those which
took place Friday night.
Shortly before midnight an attempt
was made to capture the police station,
two blocks from the government pal
ace, but the attack was repulsed. All
government buildings were heavily
guarded, with strong reinforcements
camping nearby.
The morning papers say the death
toll is heavier than is admitted by the
police, but none is endeavoring to esti
mate the casualties. Several Socialist
leaders place it as high as 1000 and
none under 100.
General Dellepiane, who assumed a
military dictatorship Friday night, took
over direct command of police stations.
which have been the objects of the
heaviest assaults, and filled them with
federal troops. More of these troops
camped in the Plaza Congresso, in
front of the Congressional Palace, to
save time in bringing them to places
where trouble has been most frequent.
General Dellepiane has Issued an or
der prohibiting labor organizations
from meeting. The Congressional Pal
ace is defended by artillery and a con
tingent of troops under direct order of
Parliament. Censorship throughout the
republic, including marine cables, is
expected to become effective tonight.
FRUGCAY
DISCOVERS
PLOT
Fonr Russian Leaders Confess Par
ticipation in Movement.
WASHINGTON, D. C, Jan. 12. (Spe
cial.) Approximately 200 cargo ships
have been diverted to peace-time trade
routes since the signing- of the armis
tice. This represents the net result of
the United States Shipping Board's
contribution up to date toward the
rebuilding of the Nation's foreign
trade. As rapidly as the Army can
spare ships from the work of carrying
supplies to the American Expedition
ary Forces, they be placed where
most needed.
Between December 10 and January
10 the War Department released 148
ships, totaling nearly 900.000 dead
weight tons, which had been devoted
exclusively to the Army supply serv
ice. Others released prior to December
10 and several newly completed ships,
intended originally for Army work,
were released.
Japanese Ships Returned.
About 50 of the 260 ships were under
4000 tons, which were released the
first of the year from requisition. Oth
ers are being operated by the Shipping
Board, while several are neutral ships
the charters of which have expired.
Ths neutral vessels will be chartered
to private firms.
Twenty-one Japanese ships axe be
ing turned back to their owners. These
ships have been used on the Atlantic.
One of them has been started through
the Panama Canal on its return voy
age, while the others will follow at
once. It will cost the United States
Government several million dollars to
send the ships back to Japan under the
rather severe charter terms, agreed to
by the shipping board.
Datch Vessels Released Next.
It was learned today that the next
ot of ships released by the shipping
board probably will be the 87 Dutch
ships seized by the United States Gov
ernment, after Holland had failed to
agree to terms for their use.
Negotiations are pending by which
some of the Norwegian ships will re
main under charter to the shipping
board under more favorable terms than
during- the war. Some of the Nor
wegian ships already have been re
leased.
Owners of American ships which
were requisitioned by the shipping
board are clamoring for their release.
All influence is being brought to bear
in behalf of particular owners. The
shipping board, however, takes the po-
ition that it cannot show any favor
itism and will release ships only by
classes. The first class of requisitioned
hips released were those between 2500
nd 4000 deadweight tons, while the
next class, it is expected, will be those
between 4000 and 6000.
LASTING PEACE IS DESIRED
DUTIES OF WORLD CONGRESS IS
EXPLAINED BV BRITOX.
MONTE VI EDO. Uruguary, Jan. 12.
(By the Associated Press.) The police
have uncovered a plot on the part of
Russians to instigate a Bolshevik
movement here and in Buenos Aires.
Four of the leaders in the movement
are said to have confessed their partic
ipation In a plan to overthrow the
Uruguayan and Argentine governments
and institute Soviets in both countries.
The police, by quick work, prevented
an outbreak here which had been ar
ranged to occur simultaneously with
that in Buenos Aires.
The director of the "cultural center"
is Isaac Molinoff. a Russian, who is
said by the Buenos Aires police au
thorities to have been an accessory in
bomb-throwing plot in the Colon
Opera House several years ago. Since
that time Molinoff had lived here. He
was arrested during the general strike
last August, charged with carrying ex
plosives. He pleaded that he was tak
ing the bomb to sea to destroy it. He
was given a short sentence and recent
ly was released from custody. It is
said that Molinoff since his release has
born engaged in Bolshevist propa
ganda.
Among those arrested with Molinoff
are Moses Kedermann. Numan Patul
yoskl and Marcos Mirnovlch. Keder
mann. when questioned by the police, is
reported to have said that an anarchist
revolution could not be long delayed
In Uruguay and that he would estab
lish a soviet government along the
lines of Nikolai Lenine. He is al
leged to have said that he did not be
lieve the arrest of the ringleaders in
the present movement would hinder
the ultimate success of the plan.
Patulyoski told the police that he
had come to Montevideo from propa
ganda work in Buenos Aires, in order
to aid In the local movement. He said
he knew Molinoff In Russia, where Mo
linoff had been active in propaganda
work.
The police have the names of and
are searching for 42 additional mem
bers of the "centro de cultura." Already
they have arrested two Poles who were
endeavoring to agitata among pack-
ng house employes.
The newspapers here are heartily ap
plauding the efficiency of the police,
who thus far have prevented a repeti
tion of the Buenos Aires disorders. At
he headquarters of Molinoff, the police
seized a large quantity of pamphlets
printed in the Russian language.
TRUCK ROUTES ARE URGED
Auto Transportation Held Means of
Reducing Living- Cost.
WASHINGTON. Jan. 12. Establish
ment of motor-truck routes as a means
of reducing the cost of living by trans
porting farm produce to the cities, was
advocated by Fourth Assistant Post
master Blakslee in asking the Senate
postoffice committee to appropriate
JS. 975,000 in the postoffice bill for that
purpose. Under the House bill 11,000.-
000 was provided o be used in extend
ing nis pian.
Experiments have shown. Mr. Blakslee
said, that such routes would enable
farm products being transported to
cities at much less than cost at present
and yield considerable income to the
Government. His plan, he said, called
for establishment of 600 routes, two in
practically every Congressional dis
trict, employing Army, trucks.
Sir Henry Bablngton Smith Pays
Tribute to cx-Prcsident Roose
velt at 'Victory" Dinner.
NEW YORK. Jan. 12. Sir Henry
Babington Smith, acting British high
commissioner to the United States, in
an address last night at a "victory
dinner" of the Ohio State Society of
New York, declared the world expects
the peace conference not only to mak
peace but to prevent future ware. He
said that in this connection he be
iieve'd President Wilson had rightly
interpreted "the earnest convictio
and desire of the whole world" in hi
demand for a league of nations.
Sir Henry paid tribute to the memory
of Theodore Roosevelt. He then took
up the stupendous importance of unity
in bringing victory to the allies in the
war.
"The one factor," he said, "which
has enabled the mighty force at the
disposal of the allies to be applied with
the greatest effect, and which has con
tributed perhaps more potently than
any other to the winning of the war,
is the factor of unity unity of aim
unity of effort, and unity of direction
and command.
"The business of the peace confer
ence is. no doubt, to make peace, bu
the world expects it to do more than
this. It looks to it to make measures
for the prevention of future wars. In
insisting upon this as one of the prime
duties of the conference. I believe tha
President Wilson has rightly interpret
ed the earnest conviction and desire.
not only of this country, but of th
whole world."
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EFFORT MADE IX WAR LAUDED
BY C. S. AMBASSADOR.
English Are Told That Example Set
Is Help to United States; Na
tions' Ties Deemed Close.
LONDON. Jan. 10. (British Wireless
Service.) The same great ideals and
purpose animate both Great Britain
and America, declared John W. Davis,
the new American Ambassador, in his
first public speech in London at a
luncheon given in his honor today by
the British branch of the pilgrims.
After paying tribute to his predecessor,
Walter Hines Page, and thanking the
English people for their hospitality to
President and Mrs. Wilson, Mr. Davis
said:
'Had I the opportunity I would say
to every American and repeat to every
Briton: 'These are indeed your kins
men, study them; understand them:
learn to give and take with them, and
guard their friendship as a sacred
thing." But after the history of these
last red years, how little need there
seems for such a lesson. Has it not
been burned into our hearts by the
fires of war anl marked in Pente
costal blood on. the lintels of our
homes?
"I would not wish to weaken by any
exageration of phrase the triDute of
America and her people to the manner
in which Great Britain and the Britons
have borne themseves throughout this
war, but it would not be easy to ex
aggerate, i one desires, their admira.-,
tion for your courage, your steadfast
ness and your dogged endurance. . .
"Without taking' so much as a single
leaf from tho well-earned laurels that
crown the victorious blows of a heroic
France, or Italy, or Belgium, or Serbia,
or others of the allies, it is not too
much to paraphrase the words of the
dyinp; Pitt and say that 'England has
saved herself by her exertions and may
well have saved the world by her ex
ample.' The Embassamor outlined how the
example of non-military Britain had
aided the United States in her prepara
tions for war. Canada, too, had in
spired America.
"The world rests on its arms and
breathes in pain, and turns with no
light estimate of tho task to the labor
of peace and reconstruction," Mr. Davis
continued. "Of a certainty it will call
for all we have of wisdom, of courage,
of faith and of self-restraint. It is a
happy augury that already wc have
agreed in terms upon the broad out
lines that the settlement must take and
have proclaimed this agreement before
all the world."
Admiral Wcmyss Cannot Go.
LONDON, Jan. 11. Admiral Sir
Rosslyn Wemyss, First Sea Lord of the
Admiralty, it is announced officially,
will be unable to leave England, owing
to pressure of work, to attend the meet
ing of the armistice commission at
Treves, at which the German armistice
will be renewed. He will be repre
sented by Admiral Sir Montagu Browning.
Pi-icc-l'lxinff Sustained.
WASHINGTON. Jan. 12. Attorney
General Gregory, in an opinion made
public last nig-ht by tho food admin
istration, nas sustained the validity of
the price-fixing and distribution agree
ment between the sugar equalization
board and the supar refiners.
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