Morning Oregonian., January 24, 1919, Image 1

VOL. IVTII. NO. 18,130.
PORTLAND. OREGON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 24, 1919.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
RUSSIA'S DESTINY
STILL IS DUBIOUS
EX-EMPEROR KEEPS
HIS BUCKSAW GOING
WOODPILES MELT AWAY IN CAS
TLE YARD.
TEN MILLION ROAD
BOND ISSUE SURE
GALE HURLS POWER
SCK :er on rocks
HUNGARYMENACED
WITH DEEPER RUIN
BUTTER PRICE DROPS
10 CENTS PER POUND
NfSOUALLY RIVER
FLOODS MILLTQWN
JAN
iKRITHEItS WRECKED
AR GRAYS HARBOR.
BJJE8T t Rl MERY NOW A I I -
ABLE AT 5 CENTS.
vs.
Reds Real Problem for
Peace-Makers.
CONFERENCE STILL IN DOUBT
Anti-Bolsheviki Leaders
Paris Are Indignant.
in
ALLIED PROJECT OPPOSED
Many L'iii illing to "Sit at Table
With Assassins"; Work or Con
gress Is Proceeding.
PARIS, Jan. -'3. (By the Associated
Press.) Whether the effort of the
great powers to tranquilize Russia, was
to succeed or fail was still in the bal
ance tonight.
No reply had come from the Bolshe-
v;k:, and as the wireless message em
bodying the proposal of the associated
powers was not send until - o'clock
this morning, some' days may intervene
before anything definite is known.
Jh the meantime prominent anti
Bolshevik leaders in Paris are not clear
on their course, and the first reports
that they were favorable to the plan
have been followed by statements by
such leaders as Sergius Sazonoff that
they would not sit at the table with
Inn
Vigorous Protest Made.
The semi-official Temps also asserts
that the supreme council's proposal
"permits traitors who withdrew Russia
from the war and turned the entire
Jerman strength against France to be
received on the same footing as the
faithful."
The American and British delegates
feel, however, that the proposal was
the only course open.
Information reaching the allies indi-
ates that the Bolsheviki have a power
ful army. In which discipline is being
enforced. In view of this Information
one of the Premiers pointed out today
that the Bolsheviki could only be com
baltcd by a large number of allied
troops, which would have to be on the
spot immediately, whereas none of the
governments could ask people already
wearied by war to undertake another
large military expedition.
Conference Work Ontlincd.
The council of the great powers to
day definitely set forth four main sub
jects to be presented at the full con-
lerence on Saturday. First, interna
tional labor legislation: second, respon
sibility and punishments for the war;
third, indemnities; fourth, internation
alization of ports, waterways and rail
w a y s. 4
The subjects are not to be discussed
in detail, but will be immediately re
ferred to committees for study and re
port. The American membeer of these
committees were selected at an ex
pended conferenc betwen Prsident Wil
son and the American delegates this
afternoon.
The Americans' plans on the first
question are already well advanced.
While there is no definite informa
tion on the second point, relative to
responsibility and punishment for the
war, the sentiment in American quar
ters inclines to a negative attitude,
with some suggestions that those re
sponsible who have fled from Germany
should be returned for Germany to
deal with.
Indemnities Grave Problem.
Third subject, indemnities, will not
be presented in the conference with the
amounts claimed by each government,
burt a committee will be charged witli
the task of assembling these amounts
and also of determining the probable
maximum the enemy powers are able
to pay.
The meeting tomorrow will have add
ed importance in bringing together the
supreme war counci, with Preside t
Wilson, the Premiers and Foreign
Ministers, reinforced by Marshal Foch,
Field Marshal Haig, General Pershing
and General Diaz and the full member
ship of the war council of Versailles.
The subject for consideration is not
Russia, or Poland, as was supposed
but the status of the present military
occupation of Germany, on which the
council desires information from the
military leaders. In some allied quar
ters it had been suggested that the
American strength in the occupied re
gions should be relatively larger than
that of the other forces, as the Euro
pean allies have gone through longer
tjervlce. This view is not shared in
American quarters, where it is main-
tained that the relative American
strength is fully up to requirements.
The presence of the military leaders
tomorrow is expeted to bring a fairly
full understanding on this subject.
CHINA PRESll
GRIEVANCE
Terms of 1915 Treaty With Japan
Held Fnsatislactor y.
WASHINGTON. Jan. 23. (By the
Associated Press.) Revision of the
Chino-Japanese treaties of 1915, signed
after the presentation by Japan of her
21 demands, will be asked at the peace
conference by the Chinese delegation.
according to an official statement is
sued here tonight by the China Agency.
"The Chinese people," said the state
ment, "assert that the Chino-Japanese
treaties of 1915 are in principle as
much a war settlement demanding re-
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Exile I: Making Good, Enjoys His
Work and Has Little Time
for Talk, Report Says.
AMERONGEN, Jan. 22. (By the Asso
ciated Press.) Sawing wood continues
to be a favorite occupation of the
former German Emperor, who spends
several hours each morning and after
noon within the castle grounds working
hard, while eeveral men servants re
spectfully hand him logs and then pile
the short sticks in heaps for use later
in the furnaces of the castle.
The shortage of coal In Holland
compels the burning of wood, plenti-
' ful supplies of which are obtainable
from the surrounding estate.
William Hohenzollern works so well
that he is able to furnish the entire
consumption of the castle fires. The
former Emperor rarely speaks to his
attendants while at work.
The two moats which encircle the
castle are covered with ice sufficiently
thick to bear skaters. The villagers,
however, have been given to under
stand that the accustomed permission
to skate in the moats cannot be af
forded while the former Emperor Is in
the castle.
There are various reports in circula
tion concerning the alleged Intention
of the former German Empress to re
turn to Potsdam. The former Empress,
it is said, has no intention of leaving
her husband in Holland.
For several weeks nothing has been
heard from the former German Crown
Prince, who remains virtually alone at
his home on the island of Wierengen.
Severa. more members of the for
mer Emperor's suite arc about to leave
for Germany, where, as state servants,
they must place themselves at the dis
posal of the government or forfeit their
right to pensions. Lieutenant-General
von Estorff, whose wife is an Ameri
can, will continue to devote himself to
the former Emperor. The General has
resigned his rank in the Germa:; army.
GOLDENDALE SEES MIRAGE
Mount Hood Reproduced in Cloud
Formation.
GOLDENDALE. Jan. 23. (Special.)
Citizens of Goldendale and the Klicki
tat Valley obtained a view of an un
usual sight Tuesday morning, when a
mirage snow-capped mountain, an ex
act replica of Mount Hood, loomed up
in the Klickitat Valley west of Gold
endale. The atmospheric phenomena
was caused by dense clouds of snow
white fog arising slowly through the
air from the surface of a mill-pond in
the Spring Creek country.
The cloud-mountain was visible in an
intact form for about 30 minutes, and
then broke up and floated away.
MINERS RETURN TO WORK
Coal Controller Agrees to Give -0
Minute- for Meals.
LONDON, Jan. 23. The strike of the
147.000 Yorkshire coal miner? who quit
work today when the owners refused to
meet their demands was settled late to
day by the coal controller, who agreed
to concede the 20 minutes "dead time"
for meals while the mines are under
government control.
Serious strikes and threats of more
serious ones in England over disputes
which ordinarily would be considered
unimportant have led to the belief that
the demands are made to revolutionize
the whole condition of labor employ
ment BAKER TO RAISE FUNDS
Memorial to Be Erected in Honor
of Soldier Dead.
BAKER, Or., Jan. 23. (Special.)
Business and professional men of Baker
last night laid the foundation for an
organization to erect a suitable me
morial in lionor of the soldier dead of
Baker County.
Committees were formed and active
work will begin soon in Baker County
to obtain funds. It is proposed to erect
the monument on the Courthouse
square, other meetings will be held as
the campaign progresses.
38 I. W. W. START TERMS
Men Convicted of Conspiracy Taken
to Leavenworth.
SACRAMENTO, Jan. 23. Thirty
eight Industrial Workers of the World
and others are today en route to
Leavenworth, Kan., from Sacramento,
to commence serving prison terms of
from one to 10 years, being convicted
in the Federal Court here of conspir
acy to obstruct the Government's war
programme.
LONE YANKEE IN GERMANY
American Soldier Too 111 to Be Re
moved From Stuttgart.
BERLIN. Jan. 23. (By the Associat
ed Press.) Of the American soldiers
taken prisoner by the Germans on the
Western front only a single one now
remains in Germany, the Associated
Press correspondent has learned.
He is at Stuttgart, too ill to be re
moved at present.
MRS. FITZSIMMONS WEDS
Widow of Former Champion Pu
gilist Becomes Merchant's Wife.
CHICAGO. Jan. 23. Mrs. Fitzsim
mons. widow of the one-time cham
pion heavyweight pugilist. Bob Fitz
simmons. was married yesterday to
Phillip Reiner, a shoe merchant here.
Political Issues of Oregon
Legislators Delay Action.
TWENTY BILLS ARE PRESENTED
Highway Problems Uppermost
in Minds of Lawmakers.
ATTORNEY-GENERAL TO AID
Ideas of State Highway Commission
to Be Embodied in Measure
Now Being Drawn.
FEATl'RES IN OREGON LEGIS
LATURE YESTERDAY.
House.
Resolutions introduced by Rep
resentatives Kubli and Smith, of
Multnomah:
One to ask Congress to permit
Oregon shipyards, to take con
tracts on foreign account; the
other to open a sweeping legisla
tive investigation of why the
Government is blocking the ship
building programme.
Sportsmen's war started when
Representative Childs introduced
a bill to prohibit duck baiting.
Senate.
Introduction by Senator Pierce
of a resolution demanding com
plete investigation of dairying
conditions leading up to a 10 per
cent tax on oleomargarine.
Judiciary committee introduced
substitute bill for two others to
withdraw state aid from Indus
trial Accident Commission.
Multnomah delegation indorsed
move to increase Circuit Judges'
salary from $4000 to $5000 a year.
SALEM. Or.. Jan. 23. (Special.)
There will be a bond issue for about
$10,000,000 and a good road law en
acted by the Legislature, after the side
issues and political campaign material
of certain members have been disposed
of. This is the sum total of what can
be predicted on road legislation for the
1919 session.
Twenty road bills already have been
Introduced in the House or Senate.
Some of these have real merit, some are
unnecessary, as they are covered by
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Sailors Are Missing, hut Cap
tain and Eight of Crew Manage
to Reach Land Safely.
HOQUIAM. Wash.. Jan. 23. (Spe
cial.) The five-masted British auxil
iary powered schooner Janet Carruthers
was driven- ashore four miles north of
Westport. at the Grays Harbor en
trance, here today, after being rendered
helpless by a furious southeast gale
which is sweeping this section of the
Coast.
Six sailors who attempted to reach
shore early today in a small boat were
missing tonight. They are believed to
have been lost, as the boat was found
on the beach at daylight, seven miles
from where the Carruthers came
ashore.
Captain Carney and the eight re
maining members of the Carruthers'
crew reached the shore safely in one of
the schooner's lifeboats, despite the
50-mile gale, which turned the seas Into
veritable mountains of breaking surf.
The Carruthers now lies hard aground
in the breakers. Captain Carney re
ported that the vessel had 14 feet of
water in her engine-room, and It Is be
lieved here that with the present heavy
seas hammering her and breaking over
the vessel she will be quickly pounded
to pieces.
The Carruthers was loaded with 400.
000 feet of lumber, taken on at Tacoma.
and was bound for Portland, where her
cargo was to have been completed prior
to her departure for Japan. The
schooner is owned by P. Griffin & Co.
and has a deadweight tonnage of 2500.
The vessel was working under charter
to Balfour-Guthrie & Co.
The Carruthers' plight was first no
ticed by residents along the coast at
daylight when the craft, then unidenti
fied, was seen enveloped In the break
ers north of the north Jetty at the en
trance to Grays Harbor. She was fly
ing signals of distress. Life savers at
Westport were at once notified and they
hastened to the scene.
Throughout last night the wind blew
with terrific velocity, at times reaching
70 miles an hour. At daybreak the gale
had moderated to 50 miles an hour, but
the seas were running very high with
little sign of an early abatement of the
storm.
The present storm is declared to be
the worst in years. All telegraph and
telephone lines to the beach from this
city are down and the highway is
flooded, making vehicle traffic impos
sible. The Huraptulips Rlve- has over
flowed its banks and mue traffic by
vehicle Impossible. Captain Carney and
his men with the llfesavtng crew are
searching the shore 12 miles from here
tonight in an effort to locate the bodies
of the missing men.
Others Protest Wire Control.
WASHINGTON, Ian. 23. Protests
against continued Government control
of telegraphs and telephones were pre
sented to the House postoffice commit
tee today by the Vermont. Montana and
New Mexico Public Service Commis
sions. HANDLE IT WITH GLOVES.
People Chafe Under Cha
otic Karolyi Misrule.
SERBIANS SEIZE PROVINCE
All Magyars Ordered From Ba
nat in Two Weeks.
BOLSHEVISTS HOLD ARMY
Alies Said to Be Sending Demands
of Vnfriendly Tone. Which Get
No Recognition From Red.
BY BEATRICE BASKERVTLLE.
(Copyright. 1919. by the New York World.
Published by Arrangement. )
VIENNA. Jan 23. (Special Cable.)
Signs have appeared that the Hun
garian government has entirely lost
the" confidence of the country. Attacks
on Its chaotic administration are heard
on all sides, and the press, which was
lavish In praise of Premier and Pro
visional President Karolyi two months
ago, is now filled with abuse of him
and his ministers.
Effects of misrule have become In
creasingly manifest In the last few
days, showing that the government de
serves some part of the blame now
heaped upon it. Plundering has become
common In the interior, and the dis
solution of the army has exposed the
frontier to the ravages of foes.
Magyar Ordrrrt Oat.
Reports from the Banat. brought by
the Serbian press, say the Serbian gov
ernment, following a council in Temes
var. has ordered all Magyar residents
of the Banat to leave there within two
weeks. State employes, railway men
and postal officials are not excepted
In this order. When made effective,
the order will take the administration
of that district entirely away from
the Hungarians. From Marlath and
Ereaienopel alone 10,000 Magyars must
emigrate.
This measure intensifies alarm in
Budapest, for it means not only the
influx of an army o f homeless and
unemployed, but it clearly Indicates
also the loss of the Banat district,
comprising the richest wheat lands in
Hungary or In Southern Europe.
Ml Classes Are Arouiiprf.
Business men. peasants, intellectual
and officials are thoroughly aroused
and are hastily forming new parties,
all of them proclaiming "A strong gov
crnment or Hungary's complete ruin.
Malcontents are saying that the
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Markets Generally Reported to Be!
Slumping as Result or In
creased Production.
The creamery men are doing their
best to cut down the cost of living.
This morning they will reduce the price
of butter 6 cents a pound, which, with
the decline earlier In the week, will
make a total of 9 cents from the high
price of the season, which prevailed
last week.
The retail price of the best grades of
butter In Portland stores will be So
cents a pound this morning. Last week
It was 75 cents. Consumers will now
be able to buy a pound of butter and
a dosen eggs for $1.25, whereas they
have been paying about 11.80 during
the Winter months.
Butter prices are slumping in other
markets as well as Portland, as pro
duction everywhere is gaining fast-
KAROLYI ISSUES WARNING
Actions Since Armistice Said to Help
Mittel Enropa Project.
BUDAPEST. Jan. 22. Count Karolyi.
Premier of Hungary, declared today
that maintenance of the territorial In
tegrity of Hungary Is essential to a
European peace.
"France and England." the Count
' lougnt to prevent the realization
of Mittel Europa. but ir they continue
to act as they have been doing since
the armistice, are going toward the re
constitution of this Mittel Europa."
Count Karolvi declared it w - a mis
take to take territory from Hungary
as It was before the war and give it to
new states "fnr .. n , r
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give these peoples autonomy which will
intm emicai entitles similar to
ine owns cantons.
BLOCKADE KILLS 500,000
Germany Announces Deaths Caused
by Food Situation.
BERLIN. Wednesday, Jan. 22. (By
the Associated Press.) it is an
nounced officially by the German gov
eminent that statistics of mortality
due to the blockade" from the Au
tumn of 1916 until the end of 1918
shows more than 500.000 deaths were
caused by malnutrition or under-nutri
tion.
CEMETERY ABROAD URGED
Proposal Is Made to Buy Land in
France for Soldier Dead.
WASHINGTON. Jan. 23. Permanent
burial In France of American soldiers
killed during the war. was urged In the
House today by Representative Fess o
Ohio, who introduced a bill providing
for the establishment of an American
Field of Honor Association to obtain
and beautify an estate in that country
for the graves.
MILLIONAIRE'S SON DIES
Marry S. Darkness III Only Few
Days With Influenza.
NEW TORK. Jan. 23. Harry
Harkness. only son of the lato Lamon
V. Harkness, Standard Oil millionaire.
died of influenza at his home here to
night. He had been ill only a few days.
Mr. Harkness was greatly interested
In sperts and was the owner of the
Sheepshead Bay Speedway
TORPEDO-BOAT IS SUNK
Craft Hits Mine Off Tunis Coast.
18 Men Missing.
PARIS. Jan. 23. The French torpedo
boat No. 355 has struck a mine and
sunk off the coast of Tunis. Eighteen
men of the crew are missing.
Torpedo-boat No. 325 was launched In
1906. The vessel was 122 feet long and
had a speed of 26 knots an hour.
MALM0UD PASHA ARRESTED
General Held Responsible for Mas
sacre of Armenians.
PARIS. Jan. 23. (Havas.) General
Kyamil Malmoud Pasha, who is said to
be responsible for the massacre of
Greeks and Armenians, has been ar
rested, according to a report received
here from Constantinople.
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
Tbe ttcalhrr.
TEfTERDArs Maximum temperature. 4S
degrees; minimum, 30 decrees.
TODAY'S Rain; southerly winds.
orelgn.
Ex-Kalser's bucksaw keeps cast! furnace
supplied. Pas 1.
National.
Huse loss ahown In railroad earnings under
Xj. s. operation. Pare 3.
Passage of European relief bill today ex
pected. Page 4.
Packer Swift commends work of Pood Ad
mlnlairator. Page 4.
Pacific Northwest.
Niaoually River floods mill town of Ifc
Kesna. Pag 1.
Legislatures.
Road bond issue for Slo.ono.OOO regarded as
certainty in Oregon. Page 1.
Legislature seeks to save shipbuilding ln-
r. Page .
Appropriations, vetoed by Governor, passed
at Olympla. Page T.
Commercial and Marine.
Six-cent decline in local butter market.
Paso 21.
Anti-duck baiting hill Introduced In Housa
to cause fight- Page 14.
Ten-round boxing measure Introduced In Ore
gon Legislature. Page 14.
rortland and Ictwlty.
City creamery men announce cut in butter
prices. Page 1.
Employers to atudy labor problem. Page 12.
D. A. Hatfield guilty of deed forgery.
Pace II-
Houses Surrounded by Six
Feet of Water.
SITUATION REGARDED SERIOUS
Pacific Highway Concrete
Bridge Threatened.
RAIL TRAFFIC IS BLOCKED
Northern Pacific Ilopes to Get Train
to Olympla to Bring Away Leg
islators Over Sunday.
n Riot morm sw kbp! oi mm
picinc north w mm t.
Olympla Torrent pours through
town of McKenna. Wash. Millmen
marooned.
Portland Lightning and heavy
downpour. Railroad lines to Puget
Sound are blocked with land
slides. Willamette overflows low
er docks.
Tillamook Railroad traffic is
suspended.
Oregon witnesses third
thunder storm in January since
1873.
Tacoma-Seattle No communi
cation with each other.
Eugene Lightning strikes.
Wind blows. Damage not great.
Astoria Worst over. Freshets
do much damage and highway
blocked. Rainfall S.3 Inches In
40 hours.
Oregon City Mills forced to
close.
OLTMPIA. Wash., Jan. 23. (Special.
Latest reports from McKenna, a mill
town of several hundred people on the
Milwaukee line in Southwest Pierce
County, are that the Nisqually River
is pouring an overflow torrent through
the town and the houses are surrounded
by from four to six feet of water.
The McKenna Lumber Company mill,
one of the largest In the state, shui
down and the employes are marooned
in groups in the club and other build
ings. While the situation was reported as
extremely serious, officials of the com
pany believed the town would hold onto
its foundations unless the river con
tinued to rise. More rain has fallen
and a slight rise noted, but it is be
lieved that if flooded areas hold out
tonight the worst danger period will
be passed. No loss of life is reported
in this district, but it is believed cer
tain that the total property damage
will be hea ) .
resrrelr BrMge la Denser.
With 100 soldiers from Camp Lewis
piling In sandbags and brush, and
dynamite crews blasting out drift as it
accumulates against the piers, the ncu
concrete bridge on the Pacific Highway
near Nisqually Station is with
standing the worst flood ever
known in the Nisqually River. High
water mark stood at nearly 22 feet,
with a current running that snapped
full-grown fir trees like matches when
they lodged across the piers.
Highway traffic has been retarded
all day and has been stopped tonight
on account of back wash cutting into
the gravel approaches.
The test of the new roadway will
come with high tide in the neighbor
ing bay tonight when the flood cur
rent will be raised several feet. High
way authorities arc satisfied that th;
river will stand the flood without
damage unless a log Jam is hurled
against it from above.
Itail Traffic Uloeked.
Rail traffic has been blocked In all
directions today, but the Northern Pa
cific expects to get a train through to
Tacoma tonight, which will prevent the
Legislature from being marooned over
Sunday. Urays Harbor traffic is badly
demoralised, according to reports avail
able here.
A special train of 4' ' discharged sol
diers from Cam.i Lewis to California
was held here most of the day in mak
ing an attempt to run to Portland via
Gate City.
Chehalls River bottom lands below
Kochesler arc under water, and ranch
ers on the I'pper Skookumchuck are
cut off. Bucoda, on the main line be
tween Portland and Tacoma, is re
ported flooded.
LINES TO SOUND I 1 1 I VP
Willamette River Rises More Than
Two Feet in 21 Hours.
With railroads, telephone and tele
graph companies already struggling
under difficulties to maintain service,
weather forecasts for today promise no
cessation of the storm, which already
has caused numerous landslides and is
raising the Willamette River at a rate
that threatens to flood the lower piers
of warehouses on the waterfront.
Probably the worst trouble has been
experienced on the railroad lines to
Puget Sound, on which transportation
Is completely tied up by landslides be
tween Centralla, Wash., and Tacoma,
Wash. Several small slides have oc
curred ttfis side of Centralla, which
will add to the delay In opening tbe
line to traffic. No trains were expected
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