' : : 1 VOL. LiVIII. NO. 18,143. PORTLAND. OltEGON. THURSDAY, JANUARY 1919. ritlCE FIVE CENTS. OREGON RATIFIES DRY AMENDMENT DEPORTATION OF ALL ALIEN SLACKERS PLAN PEACE NEWS TO BE OREGON BOYS RETURN LABOR CONGRESS IN FEAH OFI.W.W. SLOW COMPILING OF CASUALTY LIST ROILS GOVERNOR ALLEN, OF KANSAS, SUGGESTS INVESTIGATION. FAILS TO FLU MASKS ON CRUISER ST. LOUIS STRICTLY LIMITS SENATOR D1MICK TO OFFER RESOLUTION IN SENATE. N OF 346TH FIELD ARTIL " LERV ARRIVE IN NEW YORK. 16, COUNCIL 0 1 Senate Adopts Resolution by Unanimous Vote. HEWS IS SENT TO CAPITAL Eighty-Seven Out of 90 Mem bers Support Issue. 35 STATES NOW IN DRY LIST Iowa, Colorado, New Hampshire and Utah Also Act; Only One More State Needed. AMEXDMEXT RATIFIED BY 35 STATES. With the additions yesterday of Iowa, Colorado. Oregon, New Hampshire and Utah to the list of states which have ratified the constitutional amendment sup pressing the liquor traffic, the total number new stands at 35. The number required to make the amendment effective is 36. The states which have voted ratifica tion, in order of accession to the list, follow: Mississippi Virginia Ken tucky South Carolina North Dakota Maryland Montana Texas Delaware South Dakota Massachusetts Arizona Oeorgia Louisiana Florida Michigan Ohio Idaho Tennessee Maine West Virginia Washington California I ndiana Arkansas North Carolina 1 llinois Kansas Alabama Iowa Colorado Oregon New Hampshire Utah Oklahoma The Nebraska House and Sen- , ate have already voted to rat- ify, but the( resolutions are dis- , similar and one more vote is re- f quired for final action. I Other states claimed by the drys are: Connecticut, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, New Mexico, ? Rhode Island, Vermont, Wlscon- I sin, Wyoming. J Expected to vote wet. New Jer- sey. Hopeful for ratification Pennsylvania. York. Even chance, New - STATE CAPITOL, Salem, Jan. 15. Special.) Final ratification of the Nationnl prohibition amendment was effected today when the Senate, by- unanimous vote, adopted Senator Eddy's prohibition resolution, and then a few minutes later concurred in the House resolution presented by Repre tentative Elmore. Senator Tttomas was absent from the Senate when the vote was taken, but through a suspension of rules an nouncement of the vote was delayed until he had returned. Senate Vote I ninlmonfi. He registered an af f irmative . vote, putting the upper house unanimously on record as favoring Nation-wide pro hibition. Announcement of the vote brought forth cheers from legislators and spectators alike. - Immediately after Senator Eddy's resolution was adopted the House pro hibition resolution was presented. After it had been adopted by the same vote. Senator Eddy asked that his reso lution be sidetracked in order that Kepresentative Elmore might have the honor of fathering thef Oregon resolu- t ion. The latter asked that he be accorded this privilege to round out 30 years of active work with the prohibition forces of the state. News Sent to Capital. The resolution was signed by the President and Speaker this afternoon and Governor Withycombe sent the following telegram to Secretary Lan sins: "It is a pleasure for me to inform you that the Oregon Legislature has ratified the proposed prohibition amendment to the constitution, only three dissenting votes being recorded out of 90. Official papers on way." ONE MORE STATE IS NEEDED Race Between Nebraska, Missouri and Minnesota Indicated. WASHINGTON, Jan. 15. Legislatures of 35 states one less than the required three-fourths have ratified the pro hibition constitutional amendment. Several state assemblies, now in ses nion, are expected to take action to morrow with a probable race between Nebraska, Missouri and Minnesota as 10 which will be the 36th one in the list. Ratification was completed today by thjs Legislatures of five states Iowa Co Uti lorado, Oregon. New Hampshire and h making a total of 12 in two days. Of the 35 states that have taken action, only It have certified their action to the Federal State Department. They are Virginia. Kentucky. North Dakota South Carolina, Maryland. South Da kota. Texas, Montana, Delaware, Mas sauhusetts, Arizona, Georgia, Louis iana and Michigan. The amendment, under its provisions, CuutiuJcd on I'ane Column 1. Ninety-Four Undesirables to Be Named In Measure Calling for Their Banishment. STATE CAPITOL. Salem, Jan. 13. (Special.) Deportation of all alien slackers who cancelled their citizen ship papers rather than be inducted into the Army under the draft law Is to be demanded in a Joint resolution being 'prepared by Senator Walter B. Dimick, of - Clackamas County, and which he will introduce in the Senate early next week. Senator Dimick has prepared a com plete list of those men of draft age who renounced their intention of becoming American citizens as a means of avoid ing the draft, and the resoultion which he is preparing will name each indi vidual who displayed these un-American tendencies. The resolution will ask that the Na tional Congress enact immediate legis lation for the deportation of slack ers, and that they be forever prohibited from returning to the United States. According to Federal statistics, gath ered by Senator Dimick, there are 94 such slackers in the state of Oregon. The list shows there were 38 Swedes, 21 Norwegians, 17 Swiss. 10 Spaniards. 3 Danes, 2 Dutch, 2 Bulgarians and 1 Russian. , "Neither Oregon nor the United States has a place for such disloyal persons, and the sooner we rid the country of this class of slackers the better will it be during the critical period" of recon struction," said Senator Dimick today. RUSSIAN REDS GRIP RIGA Murdering and Plundering Begun in Burning City; Mitau Is Refuge. BERLIN, Jan. 13. (By the Associated Press.) Riga is now completely in the hands of the Russian red army, accord ing to a Mitau dispatch to the Vos sische Zeitung. Bolshevik forces have advanced from Dvinsk and occupied the station at Neugut, 31 miles from Mitau. Mitau is overflowing with refugees. German soldiers, the laist persons leav ing Riga, report that the city is burn ing in several places and that the Russians and Letts are murdering and plundering. DOGS HAUL GOLDEN HOARD Alaskan "Mushes" Into Seward With SI 00,000 From Iditarod Section. SEWARD, Alaska, Jan.' 15. Bob"f Griffith, veteran Alaska "musiier, with heavily armed guard and two Iog earns, arrived here today with $40.- 000 worth of gold dust from the Idita rod for shipment to Seattle on the steamer Alameda. Many natives are reported dying of Spanish influenza at Seldovia, at the lower end of Kenai peninsula. The white population thus far has not been affected... 'EASANTS KILL BOLSHEVIKI Imposition of Excessive Taxes Re sults in Uprising. STOCKHOLM, Jan. 15. A violent peasant uprising in the interior of Rus sia against the imposition of excessive taxes by the Bolsheviki and against the "committees for fighting poverty,' which exercise a tyrannical dictator ship in the villages, is reported in a Petrograd dispatch. The peasants in the Tula government mercilessly killed members of such committees. SPRUCE IV.EN OUT FEB. 10 Mr. Poin dexter Informed Delay Due to Assembly of Equipment. OREGON I AN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington. Jan. 15. Men still held in the spruce production division at Van couver Barracks, will practically all be discharged by February 10, Senator Poindexter was assured today. The delay in releasing them the War Department said was due to the large amount of logging equipment as sembled at Vancouver to be sold. FARMERETTES NOT TO QUIT Women's Land Army to Continue Work Though War Is Over. PHILADELPHIA. Jan. 15. Despite the ending of the war, there will be no letup in the movement to have women take more interest in farming, accord ing to speakers before the Women's Land Army of America, which con cluded its first annual convention here today. HUN MINE SWEEPERS QUIT Increased Pay Demanded if Work in Baltic and North Sea Goes On. BERLIN, Jan. 13. Crews of the Ger man -mine sweepers, according to the Cologne Volks Zeitung are refusing to serve unless they receive increased pay and new schedules calling for sums as high as 100 marks daily, exclusive of the insurance guarantee. The In crease would amount to 4 00,000,000 marks. VOTE ON SUFFRAGE MOVED Nebraska Senate Asks Congress to Submit Question to States. LINCOLN, Neb., Jan. 1.5. The Nebras ka State Senate today, by unanimous vote, adopted a joint resolution me moralizing the United States Senate to submit the question of National equal suffrage to the states for ap pioval. . Lid Put on Alljfficial Commun.que. DELEGATES' TONGUES TIED Storm of Protest Raised and Roundrobin Sent Wilson.. HIDEJEN diplomacy scored .-Newspapermen Call. Attention of President to One of 14 Points Specifying "Open Covenants." PARIS. Jan. 13. (By the Associated Press.) The question whether the peace conference is to be secret or wholly open to the eyea and ears of the world, the settlement which has been long awaited, waa brought to a focus today when it was announced an agreement had been made to confine information given to the public to a daily official communique and that a gentlemen's agreement prevailed among the delegates not to discuss, or In anv way give, information of the meetings in the foreign office. No written official announcement of this purpose waa issued, but word was passed out to this effect, and it was followed by an explosion of protests which drowned out the doings of the peace commissioners. Load Protest Issued. The understanding is that the Amer ican and British delegates opposed this decision, but that the French, Italians and Japanese, voting together, pre vailed. The British newspaper correspond ents Immediately joined in a memorial of protest, which they put before Pre mier Lloyd George. The American newspaper correspondents united in what is virtually a "round robin" to President Wilson, In which they pro tested in measured terms against the decision, and reminded the President of that one of his 14 pointa which (specifies "open covenants of peace openly arrived at." The memorial waa before the Presi dent tonight and there is every reason to believe that such a storm has been raised as will force the question be fore the meeting again before the ac tual sessions of the peace conference begin Saturday morning. (tnestloa Long at Tasae. The question, of whether the meet ings are to be open or closed has been (Concluded on Page 2. Column 1.) NOW AND i is f I CLAIM He J TOMMY-RjOTl SOUGHT To MAtft HE SHOULD CI?E ATE ssa ss2!S t THE EGJ, FIRST THE HEN FIRST I f kr CV-t? " 1 t AMD LET IT, ) ANoTETTHt J V Yt El. W 1 I llfp JZy . S 3T7 FvvhV YOU GOSH XNC0 ( IDIOT MAeCE Tri DrA .re CrCI VdCS GALOOT'Ft MAKE LfACaUT F'RST.AC t -Plans fof vv y T pt tjrm& cot that vwui : t & WORLD I STn AND OUT op that a comC tmC J! : I ( Q& jT) iPACueof rT?of ISA) ! Organization, Trained at Camp Lew is, About to Go Into Action When Armistice Signed. NEW TORK, Jan. 15. (Special.) The American cruiser St. Louis brought to Hoboken today 100 officers and men composing the entire 146th Field Ar tillery, which trained at Camp Lewis and which includes a large number of Oregon men. The organization was 30 miles behind the front line when the armistice was signed and in another week would have been in action. The regiment sailed for France on July 13 and arrived there July 26. It went into training until the early part of November, when it was called upon to move to the active region near Metz. It was not until December 13, despite the signing of the armistice, that the regiment was permitted to break camp. The Oregon boys aboard the St. Louis were: Corporal Walter B. Jones, Bat tery B, Richland: John Grope, Battery B, La Grande; Chester Funston, Bat tery B, Gateway; Leslie Ingels, Bat tery B, Twelfth and Oak street, Sa lem; Lewis E. Tillotson. Battery B, Cottage Grove; Jesse L. Kipper, Head quarters Company, Portland; Sergeant Elmer C. Rhodes, Battery C, Portland; George Small, Battery G, Eugene, Lane County; Garland H. Campbell, same battery and town; Harold Bennett, Battery C. 839 Princeton street. Port land; Walter E. Kirk. Battery B, Pen dleton. All are In good health, brawny and ruddy. They were greeted at the pier by Miss Ruth Gilbert, of Newburg, near Portland, who is awaiting a chance to go abroad for the Salvation Army and is meanwhile meeting transports and handing chocolates to the troops aa they walk down the gangplank. After 10 days in quarantine at Camp Merritt, Tenafly, N. J., the regiment will be sent to Camp Lewis to be mustered out. We were all set to go into action when the show busted up." said Pri vate Bennett. "Our training at Camp Lewis had made us fit for any kind of a scrap, but when we got to France they put us through our paces so hard that when they decided in November to ship us to the Metz front we were physically ready to plow right through to Berlin and beyond. "Some of the boys that went to Camp Lewis a year ago had not seen much of Army life and were soft as cloth. Their folks will not know them when they get home. All hard as nails. "We chafed and fumed restlessly in camp waiting for a chance at the Boche, and as the end of the show came in sight we became more and more Im patient to get into action. Finally, they sent us forward with our big guns on camouflaged tractors. "At the end of the first week in No vember we laid up for a few days. Then we advanced again. We were only CO miles from Metz when the armistice was signed. Though the boys were glad the war was over, they w-ere all iort that they did not have a chance to put in their little wallop. (Concluded on Faro 4. Column 1.) EVER" SHALL BE WORLD WITHOUT END, AM EX. : ' : Determined Effort Made to Get Control. RADICALS PACK GALLERIES Unexpected Show of Strength Causes Change of Plans. GENERAL STRIKE IS URGED Socialists Offer Resolutions Em bodying Various Revolutionary Ideas of -Government. CHICAGO. Jan. 13. Socialists and members of the I. W. W-, after defeat in the organization of the National Labor Congress, called to adopt a pro gramme for obtaining a new trial for Thomas J. Mooney and Warren Bill ings, made a determined attempt to capture control or the body later in the day. With the galleries packed with radi cals they did about as they pleased at the afternoon session until the pro ceedings were ended by adjournment. The conservatives were compelled to change their plans in several particu lars because of the unexpected show of strength made by the radicals. Radleala Offer Reaolntloaa. Chairman Nolan this afternoon an nounced appointment of a committee on resolutions, about equally divided between conservatives and radicals. Apparently nearly every radical dele gate had at least one resolution for consideration of the committee. One delegate presented 10. embodying va rlous revolutionary Ideas of govern ment based on Socialist and I. W. W, propaganda. They were referred to the committee on resolutions without being read.. A few of the ideas suggested by the resolutions offered by radical delegates are: For the organization of a National Soldiers' and Sailora Council to safe guard the Interest of labor during the period of the reconstruction. For a referendum vote on terms ef peace. Abolition or all restrictions on iseu ance of passports. Keleaae of Prlor Dcnsaadcd. For a general strike to compel im mediate release of aii political, indus trial and religious prisoners, including Thomas J. Mooney, Warren Billings. (Concluded on Pce 2. Column 3.) Executive Reiterates Statement That Troops Suffered Through Lack of Guns and Aircraft. KANSAS CITT. Mo.. Jan. 15. Gov ernor Henry J. Allen, of Kansas, in an address here tonight declared that the records of the War De partment at Washington should by now contain a full record of cas ualties and actions participated in by American soldiers in France, and if this is so. the records should be made public, and if there are not such records available, there should be an Investi gation made immediately. Governor Allen said that the casualty list has been 'distressingly slow" in coming in. but by this time it should all have been received. . Governor Allen reiterated statements made in a speech at a pofclic meeting at Topeka. Kan., Monday, that the ar tillery and aircraft support of the 35th Division, made' up mostly of Kansas and Missouri men. had been insufficient t the battle in the Argonne forest and that as a result the infantrv losses were excessive. Thu report that should be made public by the War Department. he said, should tell the story of the artillery and aircraft support. FILM STARS MERGE EFFORT Actors Express Apprehension of Combination by Producers. LOS ANGELES. Jan. 15. Douglas Fairbanks announced today that Mary Pickford. William f?. Hart. Charles S. Chaplin and Fairbanks himself, with W. D. Griffiths. the producer, will hereafter produce their own films and operate their own releasing corpora tion. The motion picture actors. Mr. Fair banks said, had been watching "with keen interest and some apprehenstion" a meeting of picture producers which has been in progress here for several days. He said ceraln interests, which he named, were combining, and if they perfected their plans they would be able to dictate the entire future of the film business, and the exhibitors would be the greatest sufferers. LIEBKIMECHT STILL MISSING Wife and Son of German Bolshevik Leader Are Released. BERLIN. Jan. 13 (By the Associated Press.) The wife and youngest son of Dr. Llebknerht, head of the Spartacans, who were arrested when Liebknechfs house waa surrounded by soldiers and searched yesterday, have been liberated. Many incriminating Bolshevik docu ments were seized. Liebknechfs eldest son is ill in the hands of the police. Among others arrested was Fraulein Jakobb, secretary of the Spartacus Union. Still nothing is known of the whereabouts of Dr. Liebknecht. former Chief of Police Eiohhorn. or Rosa Lux embourg. BIG EXPEDITURES SCORED l tali Democratic Senator Warns Party Against -.travagance. WASHINGTON. Jan. 13. A warning against extravagance in appropriations was voiced in the Sen.-Ue today during diweussion of an amendment to the cen sua bin Increasing the directors' salary from 6000 to JTS00. The amendment waa adopted 34 to 27. I warn the Democratic party," aajd Senator King, of Utah. Democrat, that extravagance will react disastrously on the party. No one can tell when a fi nancial panic will occur, and it is about time to call a halt to expenditures." INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. TESTERDAfS Maximum temperature, 50 decrees; minimum. 42 deirreas. TODAY'S Rain; southerly minds. War. Official casualty list. Pas 5. Forelaa. Pee news t be strictly limited. rit 1. waiting; for peaca Is uncertain talk. Pan 5. Berlin'a Ions; week of Bolshevism at endj Pace 3. Lortt Robert Paa 3. outlines worklncs of learua. Lieutenant Joseph Patterson lantry In France. Paso 1' cite for gai- National. Secrets et packers revealed by Heney. Pas 4. Pomietlf. Labor cong-resa atmoat captured by I. W. W. element. Pace 1. Authority of War Labor Board challenced. Pace 12. Oregon boys return from France. Pace t. Nine killed, 50 Injured, in tank explosion. Pace Governor Allen, of Kansas, protects at slow ness of casualty reports. Pace 1. National tacue clubs limit payroll to 111.000 a month. Page 14. Five bouts on card for Helllr smoker. Pace 14. aifie Northwest. Kblpyard men strike. Pace 12. State commission's status questioned. Pace 4. t lcislaturee. Ore con ratifies dry amendment. Pace 1. Withdrawal of slate aid to Accident Com mission recommended. Pace 9. 9enate and Houve cet together tn consoli dation plans. Pace s. Idaho heads named by Governor Pav'a. Pace 0. Deportation of all allea slackers planned Pace 1. Half payments for Interstate bridce opposed by Clarke eoloa. Pace 9. Commercial and Marina. Western onion shipping season alow in open- Inc- Pace 19. Corn turns upward at Chicago with light receipt la prospect. Pace 13. Short covering and easier money cause rise In stock market. Pace 19. Ten wooden snips ordered to Atlantic. race 11. Portland and Vicinity. Mask ordinance, blocked by Cnmmisaiouer Mann, virtually deleated. Pace 1. Chances are bousht in Insurance laws. Pace :u. Nobles ot Mystic Ehrlne on way to Portland Oatds. Page a. Weather report, data and forecast- Page 13. Commissioner Mann Op poses Terms of Measure. RIGID QUARANTINE FAVORED Compulsory Covering of Face Declared Unconstitutional. LIVELY DEBATE IS HELD Opposition Prevents to Emergency Passage for 7 Clause Days. 3 0 Days to Be Effective. Tassage of the emergency ordinance requiring the wearing of masks in all public gatherings was blocked in the City Council yesterday afternoon by ac tion of City Commissioner Mann, who voted against the emergency clause. The "bpposition of one Commissioner to the emergency clause prevents the immediate passage of an ordinance, and. although the ordinance was -passed to third reading at yesterday's meeting, it cannot be finally consid ered until seven days have elapsed, and. if passed then, will not become effective for 30 days. Ordlnaaee Virtually Defeated. Hence the ordinance is virtually de feated, as Dr. Sommer and his ad visory committee in charge of the fight against the influenza epidemiu urged immediate action as a means of combating the disease. Kinal action on the emergency or dinance came only after several hours of debate between, members of Dr. Sommer s committee and members of a large delegation representing drugles healers of various kinds, who opposed the ordinance. The debate became ex ceedingly fiery, and several times Mayor Baker was forced to call the meeting to order. In explaining his reason for oppos ing the emergency clause to the ordi nance. Commissioner Mann stated that he had talked with a large number of Portland physicians since the ordi nance had been drafted, and it was their opinion that by rigid and abso lute quarantine as effective results would be obtained as by masking. Mamk-earlaa- May Be Valaaary. "I object to the imergency clause." he said, "because it is my opinion that an absolute quarantine will bring the results. Those who desire to wear masks may do so. Failure of thts or dinance to become a law today wilt not stop anyone from wearing a mask." The ordinance waa presented to the council by Mayor Baker, who an nounced that the influenza situation was a serious one and that he be lieved the public mind demanded the passage of the ordinance. He an nounced his Intention of voting for the ordinance aa he handed It to Council Clerk Grut.se, but stated that he per-.-onally did not believe that the enact ment of the ordinance would be of any great benefit. Dr. CoTf ey I rcee ONIsssre. Dr. R. C Coftey, member of the com mittee representing the City and Coun ty Medical Society, who perhaps is the first Portland man to suggest the com pulsory, use of masks to fight the epi demic, told the council that he bad instituted the -veering of masks at the Portland JSurglcal Hospital three months ;o and that not one person In the institution had contracted the dis ease. "We require all the doctors, nurses and visitors to don a mask when they enter the building and remove it when Ihey leave the building. Not a solitary case of influenca has developed in this institution. wheras the other hos pitals are full of it." he said. Dr. Coffey urged the mask as the best means the medical profession had to offer to combat the disease. Attorney Vangha Leada Attack. Asserting that the compulsory wear ing of maska by ordinance waa auto cratic and unconstitutional, W. T. Vaughn, an attorney, informed the council that if the ordinance paased he would refuse to "wear a rag" over his face. "I am a law-abiding citizen," said Mr. Vaughn, "but I will refuse to wear a mask. This is class legislation and nothing else. I am Just as deeply con cerned over the health of thia city as are any of the doctors. They admit that they know nothing of the dicease, but are attempting to muzzle us like a pack of hydrophobia dogs." Pssucc Flaally Blocked. After two hours discussion the Council adjourned to allow the pro posed ordinance to be amended. Action on the amended ordinance waa deferred until 4 o'clock, when the immediato paasage of the ordinance was blocked by Commissioner Mann. His action, caused hearty applause from the gath ering opposed to the ordinance, who forecast defeat. The number of new cases reported to the Health Bureau yesterday was somewhat less than the average daily reports during the last few days, 314 new cases being reported. A total of - death were recorded. 13 of these beirc on Tuesday. 9 on Monday and 3 on Sunday. Funeral directors are allowed 10 daya In which to report death, and therefore the reports are not complete until afttr 10 das. V