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Newspaper Page TextTHE 3IORMNG OREGON I AX. THURSDAY. JANUARY !. Hill. HINDENBURG BUSY IN EX-EMPEROR'S BEHALF PALISADES MYSTERY PUZZLES OFFICERS PRESIDENT WILSON VIEWS MANCHESTER CANAL There's many - a stormy day ahead ; Plans . eRported Afoot to Bring Exile Home. Who Is or Was Major-Husband of Suicide Enigma. MAX MAY BE PRESIDENT ITHREE FENTONS IN ARMY efchias' 'SK. Itt domination of Former Imperial Chancellor by German Social Democrats Is Predicted. PARIS. Jan. 23. (Havas.) Field Marshal von Hindenburg, according to the Kcho de Paris, s endeavoring to bring about the return of former Em peror William after the meeting of the National Assembly. Leading German manufacturers in Westphalia are said to be interested in the plan. The newspaper adds that the former Emperor wrote to Premier Ebert that he would accept whatever residence in tlermany was assigned to him. Ebert is aid to have replied that only the Na tional Assembly would be qualified to decide the question. LONDON, Jan. 29. General Luden dorff. former chief quartermaster-general of the German army, has returned to Berlin and is living in a small vil lage in the Grunewald district under an assumed name, according to an Ex change Telegraph dispatch from Am sterdam, because he fears popular dem onstrations. The general is said to have placed his services at the disposal of the government, which it is added de clined them with thanks. AMSTERDAM, Jan. 29. Prince Max of Baden, the former German Imperial Chancellor, will be nominated by the German Social Democrats and the Ger man Democrats as their candidate for the presidency of the German republic, says a B.rlln dispatch to the Neues Journal of Vienna. AMSTERDAM. Tuesday, Jan. 28. Work of counting the vote cast in Prus sian elections is still incomplete, but partial returns show the majority So cialist vote was cut down in the larger towns, according to advices from Ber lin. It is believed the Social Democra tic party, led by Phillip Scheidemann. will be the strongest in the Prussian parliament. The next party in strength will be the Democratic, with the Chris tian People's party third. BERLIN, Tuesday. Jan. 28. (By the Associated Press.) The coal shortage throughout Germany is so threatening that for the moment all oher questions are overshadowed. The larger factories in many of the cities are already closed and it will be necessary to shut down many of the biggest plants" in Berlin if the situation does not improve within a fortnight. Ttailrnads short of Can. The situation is further aggravated by lack of enough railway rolling stock to transport even the small quantities mined. The situation has been further complicated by labor conditions. A strike epidemic is prevalent in the coal district. The government now Is considering the unemployment question. The daily payments average about eight marks to an individual, and the unemployed, a great proportion of whom did not form erly live in Berlin, prefer to eat their free bread in idleness to working. The farmers are vainly trying to get hun dreds of thousands of laborers. ' BERLIN, Tuesday, Jan. 28. (BV th( Associated Press.) President Wilson's speech of Saturday last before the peace congress contains the following sent ence as transmitted to Berlin and here retranslated from the German: '.ormans Somewhat Disturbed. "The United States would have a feel ing that it could not take part in guar anteeing these European adjustments unless this guaranty included the per manent surveillance of world peace by the associated nations of the world." This sentence, together with the re ported decision of the supreme council at Tuesday's session that the German colonies must not be given back to Germany, has disquieted some German circles. The Boursen Zeitung for in stance, says: "If President Wilson is correctly re ported he confesses openly that he, too, like Premiers Clemenceau and Lloyd Cleorgc, does not desire Germany in the future community of nations as an equal among equals, but as a nation watched by overseers. . .. . The Presi dent cannot wonder if people in Ger many gradually begin to form the opinion that the hopes they placed In him are to be disappointed." Socialist Paper Sarcastic. Socialist newspaper, Vorwaerta, In commenting on the report regarding the division of the German colonies among the allied nations, says: "The league of nations is making a lovely beginning. "The decision of the western powers to take the German colonies for them selves is born of a spirit diametrically opposed to that proclaimed by Prestdent Wilson. It appears more and more as if it were the musical and declamatory roles of the performance and to re serve to themselves the business end of the show. . . . We Germans would prefer an honest policy of stand and deliver, to a policy of imperial ag grandizement adorned with ethical and oratorical phrases. But since America has not yet agreed to the pact we shall later see whether America can do any thing except make speeches." The official text of the passage In President Wilson's speech of Saturday alluded to in the foregoing, as trans- I No Camouflage J In This Story Says corns stop hurting, then lift right off without one bit of pain PRESIDENT WILSON INSPECTS THE MANCHESTER CANAL. ENGLAND'S GREATEST WATERWAY. HE WAS i:THLSIASTICALLY GREETED BY GREAT CROWDS ALONG THE ROUTE. mitted from Paris, Saturday night, reads as follows: "It (the United States) would feel that it could not take part in guaran teeing those Eunopean settlements un less that guarantee involved the con tinuous superintendence of the peace of the world by the associated nations of the world." HOSPITAL PASS DESIHED PERMISSION ASKED TO VISIT OREGON SICK AND INJURED. Sixty-fifth Artillery Contains Many Soldiers From Oregon, Idaho and Washington. Hospital records show that every time you cut a corn you invite lock jaw or blood poison, which is needless, says a Cincinnati authority, who tells you that a quarter ounce of a drug called freezono costs but a few cents at any drugstore but is sufficient to rid one's feet of every hard or soft corn or callus without even one little twinge of pain. You simply apply a few drops of this freezone on a tender, aching corn and the soreness is instantly relieved. Shortly the entire corn can be lifted out, root and all, with your fingers. This drug is sticky but dries at once and is claimed to Just shrivel up any corn without inflaming or even irritat ing the surrounding tissue or skin. Tf your wife wears high heels she will be glad to know of this. Adv. WASHINGTON, Jan. 2L (Oregonian News Bureau.) Permission for Evelyn Peggy) Curtis, of the Oregon Com mittee in New York, to visit hos pitals in New York and ascertain needs of wounded and ill soldiers from Oregon was asked of the Surgeon-General by Senator Chamberlain today. Miss Curtis has been active in arrang ing a reception for the Oregon boys in the 41st and 91st Divisions upon their return. 4 When the 65th Artillery, in which there are many soldiers from Oregon, Washington and Idaho, larids at New York tomorrow, it will be sent to Camp Dix for health inspection, according to advice of the War Department today. This may require several days, after which the regiment will be sent to Camp Lewis for demobilisation. The department so far has failed to act on the request to route the regiment to Camp Lewis by way of Portland. Fresh from one year's overseas ser- vice and active participation with the seventh Division in seven of the big gest battles of the war. Captain T. K. Brown, of Ellensburg, Wash., arrived j here today, stopping long enough to, announce his candidacy for Congress I in the Fourth Washington District' next year to succeed Dr. J. W. Sum-1 mers, of Walla Walla, just elected. Captain Brown was a leader of the Bull Moose party in the 1913 session of the Washington Legislature. BRITISH 0KEH U. S. PLAN Continued From First Paffe.) proposals affecting the disposition of those islands Australia should be eon suited. Day's Proceedings Sketched. "The time for consultation having arrived, the Government should make its views plain, its desire and hope of the Australian Government that the islands of the Pacific formerly held by Germany and now occupied by Aus tralian and New Zealand, should for the future be controlled either by Great Britain, Australia or New Zealand. PARIS, Jan. 23. (British Wireless Service.) Two official communications on tne peace proceedings were issued today. The first says: "The President of the United States, the Premiers and Foreign Ministers of the allied and associated governments and the Japanese representatives held two meetings on January 29. The morning sitting was devoted to hear ing reports of delegates who made gen eral statements on general Polish sit uation and Polish claims. In the after noon the Czecho-SIovak delegates gave their views on the question of the in dustrial basin in Silesia, situated be tween Bohemia and Poland." The other communique says: "Since Monday last Mr. Barnes, Brit ish Minister without portfolio, has been conferring with prominent Brit ish trade unionists and representatives of India and the dominions on the draft of a scheme for the international regulation of conditions of employ ment. The scheme has been closely examined and the experience of all those present at the council has been placed at Mr. Barnes' disposal. Many valuable suggestions have been made and it is felt that full light has been given to the views of organized British trade unionists. "The conference concluded at noon January 29, and the draft scheme agreed upon will be submitted to the international committee, on labor reg ulation, which was appointed on Sat urday last at the peace conference.' PARIS, Jan. 29. The supreme council today heard R. W. Demowski. the Pol ish delegate, and Dr. Kard Kramarz, representing the Czecho-Slovaks with reference to the confilict which has arisen between the Polish and Czecho slovak military forces along their f ronfier. The hearings were a sequel to the council's warning against occupation of territory by force and the delegates of the two countries were invited to ex plain and to take measures to abate the hostilities. General Botha Speaks. General Louis Botha, the South Afri can Premier, was also heard on the former German colonies. The claim of Japan for the retention of Tsing Tao harbor and the German railway concessions in Shantung prov ince, as presented to the conference of the five powers by Baron Makino of the Japanese mission, is based on an agree ment entered into May 25, 1915. which also gave Japan the right to establish a concession exclusively under its juris diction in Tsing Tao. Dr. Wellington Koo, Chinese Minister to the United States, arguing in behalf of China, asserted that the agreement was entered into under threat of hos tilities and is void. He declared like wise that the offer the Japanese are making to restore Shantung province is meaningless, as neither the Germans nor the Japanese succeeding them had actual possession of the province, but merely dominated it through the rail way and port concessions which Japan desires to retain. China Present Views. The Chinese insist that Japan's claims, if granted, would put her vir tually in control of Shantung province just as she controls Manchuria through Port Arthur and the Manchurlan rail way, giving Japan economic and mili tary domination. Dr. Koo told the counoii that there were 30.000,000 peo ple in Shantung province, which was the richest and most valuable strategi cally in North China, and that to de prive China of it, together with Man churia, would leavo Pekin and Tien Tsln difficult to defend. The delegates of the South and Cen tral American nations to the peace con ference decided at a meeting today to create a commission to safeguard the Interests of all these nations before the conference with delegates especially as signed to look after various subjects. Brazil was given the league of nations; Cuba International labor legislation, and Uruguay the internationalization of ports, waterways and railways. Wilaon May Return. Much as President Wilson still hopes to avoid a second trip to Eurpe. it be gins to look as if the trend of peace conference affairs would cause him to feel impelled to recross the Atlantic In the early Spring. Recent statements purporting to an nounce definitely that the President had arranged to come back to Paris after going to Washington in February and even giving the date of his sailing on his return trip, were founded. It may be said, on no definite information. If his present plans hold, he will sail from Brest on the steamer George Washington Rome time between Feb ruary 10 and February 15, going direct ly to the United States. The steamer probably will take the southern route, which she followed on her way over, to avoid bad weather. Secret Treaties Are Problem. In connection with the territorial questions before It, the peace confer ence is confronted by no less than three secret treaties, says the Paris edition of the London Daily Mail today. The first is the treay between Great Britain. France and Italy, disposing of the Adriatic coast, which conflicts vio lently with Jugo-Slav and Czecho-SIovak interests." the Mail continues. "The second is the treaty between Great Britain and Japan, under which Japan gets the German islands in the North Pacific. The third is the treaty between Great Britain and the King of the Hedjaz and in which Damascus forms a part of the territory given to the Hedjaz kingdom. Damascus lies near the border line of the spheres of control in Syria and Palestine agreed upon between the British and .he French. Under this agreement, Palestine from the Sea of Galilee to the Egyptian border is a British protectorate administered for the special benefit of the Jews, while north of the Sea of Galilee to Asia Minor it comes under the French. The latter, however, are most anxious to have Damascus Included within their sphere, while the Hedjaz delegates are equally anxious to retain Damascus, as It Is already under their administra tion." WOUNDED MEN NEED WORK CAPTAIN COXVILLE TO APPEAL TO CLUBS OF CITY. Care of One Soldier by Each Organ ization Asked: 300 Injured on Way to Portland. Captain James O. Convill, head of the Liberty Temple branch of the United States employment service, will begin today before the Progressive Business Men's clubs a series of talks to city clubs urging the formation of close committee organizations to take a di rect Interest in the men seeking work. "We can handle the cases of 9 men out of 10," said the captain. "This 1h for the tenth man. Perhaps he has been wounded or gassed, and he needs a lit tle personal care to place him in the right kind of job, and to see that he gets a chance when he takes the Job. "Then there are wounded men wait ing to take the vocational courses to be provided by the Government, but de pendent on work until tho course Is ar ranged for them. Many oj! them don't want money gifts. They want work. "There are more than 300 wounded men on their way back here. We must use discretion in handling them. I be lieve that committees frdttn each club can handle this situation by each man making the personal care and consider ation of one soldier his patriotic job." W. J. Ogden yesterday volunteered his services to assist Captain Convill with personal work among the men. At the main office of the employment bureau, which does not handle soldier cases, it was reported by Wilfred E. Smith, state director, that there are now five men for every job offered. INDUSTRIAL DANGER SEEN SENATORS APPREHENSIVE RE GARDING UN EMPLOYMENT. MONROE DOCTRINK IS PRAISED Lord Robert Cecil Gives Views on Working Out of Peace Issues. LONDON. Jan. 29. (British Wireless Service.) Lord Robert Cecil, British authority on league of nations, praised the Monroe Doctr'ne in an interview today regarding the interest of neutral countries, especially Latin-American, In a new league of nations. "Neutral countries can, of course. take part in deliberations directly con cerning war problems," he said, "but so far as a league of nations is con cerned, if neutral countries prepare a practical plan for submission to the conference, the representatives of the great powers will be glad to consider it, although it must be a plan contain ing concrete issues and not theoretical solutions drawn upon paper. "The Monroe Doctrine has given sat isfactory results In practice, which justifies its further application as a model of operation. The league of na tions could appoint the American na tions themselves as the mandatories for the execution of its principles regard ing territorial integrity so far as these principles affect American countries. In this manner the United States and the Latin-American republics could act in conformity with their policy already established. Lord Robert added that if the Euro pean action were excluded in the Amer ican continent the occasion might arise when an American nation might un justly damage the European interests. To avoid this it would be advisable that a court or similar institution be formed by the American countries themselves to consider and decide the sanctions applicable in each case. Lewis of Illinois Looks for Tempor ary Distress, but Contends Future Is lirlglit. WASHINGTON, Jan. 29. Prospect of Industrial unemployment in this coun try was discussed briefly today in the Senate. Senators Kenyon, of Iowa, and i-moot, of Utah, Republicans, were joined by Senator Thomas, of Colorado. In expressing apprehension, while Sen ator Lewis, of Illinois, Democrat, dep recated their statements and those of Secretary Morrison, of the American Federation of Labor, and others re garding probable depression. Senator Kenyon, advocating his bill to expend $100,000,000 on public works to prevent unemployment, denied that any "alarming" statements had been made and Insisted that measures by Congress to avert unemployment were necessary. Senator Smoot said ho feared work ingmen may soon be suffering and Sen ator Thomas declared that he had "ap prehensions" of unemployment. Senator Lewis said the statements re garding labor conditions were "start ling, wrong and unjustified." Chal lenged by Senator Kenyon, Mr. Lewis conceded that temporary distress may ensue, but declared the future of American industry bright. Charles W.. Chauncey L. and Ralph A., of Portland, Mentioned. Girl's Family Also Is Mystified. ENGLEWOOD. N. J.. Jan. 25. (Spe cial.) One of the deepest mysteries the New Jersey authorities have been called upon to unravel is revealed by the find ing of the body of a Mrs. Fenton, be lieved to be a wife or wldbw of a Major Fenton, now somewhere in France or Germany, or killed somewhere in France or Germany. The body, which was found Sunday on the Palisades of the Hudson River, was Identified yes terday as that of the daughter of George H. Packwood, a rich resident of Tampa, Fla. The authorities gave out the fact that an autopsy performed yesterday established the fact that the young woman was killed by chloroform, self administered. Ic is believed that she had married without the knowledge of her parents or friends, and on receipt of a cablegram from France that her husband had met death in some man ner she took her own life. She is said by friends to have been despondent for a month past. Identity of the body was made by Mrs. Bradford Ellsworth, of New York City, and bther friends of the young woman, whose names have not yet been made public. Thomas J. Hueklri. prosecuting attor ney of Bergen County. N.-J.. said that it was to Mrs. Ellsworth that Mrs. Fenton, or Miss Packwood, had con fessed her intentions to kill herself In such a manner as to leave her identity forever unrevealed. It was reported that the woman was engaged In Red Cros work In New York City and frequently went to Camp Merrltt, at Tenafly, N. J., when her hus band was stationed there. Mrs. Fenton was richly clad and her age has been placed at 34. but up to a late hour tonight no Inkling could be given as to the identity of her hus band. The suicide was known to have had plenty of money at her command at all times, her father being a wealthy retired merchant of Tampa. It is be lieved that her marriage took place in New York Just before her husband sailed for France. Mr. Huckln said he had been in formed the young woman kept her mar riage secret because she had hoped to Join her husband overseas and knew if her wedding became known she would be prevented by war regulations from going to France. She had taken a nursing course, he said, as she knew her only chance to obtain passports to France was as a war worker. DEAD WOMAN'S FATHER TAXiKS Daughter Wrote Only Occasionally and Never Mentioned Marriage. TAMPA. Fla.. Jan. ""29. George H. Packwood. wealthy real estate dealer here, received through the Associated Press dispatches last night the first news of the death of his daughter. Azeele, whose body was found Sunday on the jagged edge of the Palisades of the Hudson. He said he heard from his daughter only occasionally since she went to New York, early In November, after returning from France, where she served as a Red Cross nurse, and knew of no reason why she should take her life. Members of the family said they had heard she was engaged to marry an Army officer, who was "killed in action," but they could not recall his name. , Mr. Packwood later disclosed the fact that his daughter came here for a short visit in November, but she did not tell him she was married. After she re turned to New York, he said, she ceased writing, and later some of her personal effects were received by express. Mr. Packwood said he then wrote the Red Cross headquarters in New York for information and was informed that his daughter, who had secretly married a A touch of Spring and we're inclined to forget that it's June before the roses bloom. Nothing better to keep away the "ill" than to be warmly clad. Remember the "ill" in chill. MATHIS OVERCOATS $25 to $100.00 Men's and Young Men's Suits $25.00 to $60.00 MENS WEAR Corbett Bldg., Fifth and Morrison Major Fenton a year ago, had been mus tered out of service.. MI.. I ON HAS NO CLEW Portland Major Not Regular Armjj Man and Name Not In Register. WASHINGTON. Jan. 29. (Special.) No news is obtainable nere tonight of the death of a Major Fenton in France, and no clew to the Identity of the sup posed husband of the Florida girl who committed suicide can be found here. It was announced at the War de partment that no Major Fenton, or other officer liamed Fenton. had died of disease or been killed in France. The three officers by the name of Fen ton are Colonel Chaunoey Fenton, of the general staff, who said that he had never known the young woman; Major Ralph A. Fenton.. of Portland, who is now in France at Base Hospital No. 36. and Lieutenant John B. Fenton. assigned to Red Cross work In France. Portland relatives of Major Ralph A. Fenton said last night that Major Fen ton. who is well known here as an eye and ear specialist, has been in Coblcnz. Germany, for some time as eye con sultant of the Army of occupation, and that Mrs. Fenton was at Vichy, France, where she has been stationed for a year or more as translator of communiques. They met there on a vacation together a few days before the armistice was signed. The family has had no word of Major Fenton's death. The last letter from him came about the first of this month. HUGE DAMAGES ARE ASKED Failure to Carry Action lltghol Court Basis or Action. TACOMA, Wash.. Jan. 29. (Special. 1 Suit for $2.60.500 has been filed in Tacoma against Henry Hewitt ami John J. Hewitt, administrators of the estate of Henry Hewitt. Jr.. and th.: Sumpter Lumber Company, by W. F. Hays, who charges that ho lost that amount because the defendants failed to carry the case of the Sumpter Lum ber Company against the Sound Lum ber Company to the United States Cir cuit Court after It had lost in the Fed eral Court of the northern district of Washington. The Washington Dredging & Im provement Company has started suit against the Hewitt estate also to re cover 1500 shares or stock in the company. COST OF LIVING DECLINES v Downward Trend Is Shown in S0111. Produce Prices. CHICAGO, Jan. 29. Victims of the high cost of living round further sat isfaction today in the trend of produce prices. Butter at wholesale dropped 3 to i cents since yesterday and potatoes de clined 5 to 10c a bushel. Phone your want ads to The Orego nian. Main 7070. A B095. Pan-American University Planned. RIVERSIDE. Cal.. Jan. 29. Establish ment of a pan-American University at Riverside was decided on at a meeting here today of prominent educators rep resenting the United States. Mexico and several South American countries. In corporation of the university under the California law was authorized. Onlr One "BROMO QUININE" To get the genuine, call tor full name. LAX ATIVE BROMO QUININE Tablets. Look for denature of E. W. UROVK. Cures a Cold la One Day. 30c. Adv. 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