VOL. !LIX. NO. 18,1G7.
POltTLAXD, OREGON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1919.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
BIG INTERNATIONAL
1 HIGH PENSION BLAMED
TERROR
PORTLAND TURNS OUT
FOUR WORDS BLOCK
OREGON ROAD BILL
DRESS-SUIT GAMBLERS
ARRESTED BY POLICE
FOR BOCHE IDLENESS
FOOD XOT ONLY ESSEXTIAIi IN
RESTORING GERMANY.
TO WELCOME HEROES
ARMY IS UNDECIDED
OF
RUSSIAN REDS
STRONGLY OPPOSED
45 WOUXDED AXD GASSED MEN
NIGHTLY WINNINGS OF RESORT
PLACED AT S15.000.
ABOARD TRAIN.
IS WEAPON
BIG STANDING ARMY
Ji. S.and Britain Withhold
Approval of French Plan.
RUMORS DECLARED FALSE
Supreme Council Decides
. 1 New Armistice Terms.
on
LABOR DELEGATES CONFER
rrojrres Made In Drafting Plans
for Forming International
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Labor Organization.
PARTS, Feb. 12. (By the Associated
Press.) Lord Robert Cecil, the British
representative on the league of nations
commission, emphatically denied to
night the report spread in Paris today
that tho league of nations commission
had approved the creation of an imme
diate international army and that the
United States and Great Britain had
conceded a point, to France.
The supreme council at its meeting
today decided on tho conditions for
the renewal 'of the armistice with Ger
many, according to an official an
nouncement. Labor Organisation Outlined.
The peace conference commission on
international labor legislation at its
meeting today adopted articles IV and
V of the British draft of a plan for an
international labor organization. At
the suggestion of Samuel Gompenf the
president of the commission, the mem
bers arose and stood silent for a few
moments in honor of the anniversary
of the birth of Abraham Lincoln.
Article IV provides that representa
tives of the governments, employers
and working people be entitled to
speak and vote independently at the
proposed international labo'r confer
ence without regard to the views ex
pressed by other representatives of
their nations.
Article V provides that the interna
tional labor conference trha.ll meet in
the capital of the society ot nations
unless it is decided by a. two-thirds
majority to meet elsewhere.
Director to Be -Named.
It also is agreed that an office
should be established in the capital of
the society of nations as a part of
ine organization of the society.. The
oifice would be under the control of
a director appointed by the governing
body.
'The league of nations commission
says tho Temps, will probably be able
to submit to the council of the powers
the definite texts of its project before
President Wilson's departure.
"In its present form," continues tho
paper, "the project involves the na
tions members of I he league making
a definite engagement to take up
arms for the maintenance of their ter
ritories and the safeguarding of in
ternational treaties."- It would seem
that the conception has been dis
tarded whereby the league becomes a
euper-state in favor of insistence on
the necessity of close mutual obliga
tions furnishing guarantees for the
independence of each nation more ef
licient than the old system of alli
ances."
French Submit Plan.
Tho French , government formally
presented to the league of nations com
mission last night an article creating
an international military fores. The in
troduction of this article for inclusion
ii(C;r" Society lof nations plan closely
followV the eisclosure by Premier
t'lcmcnceau ih his recent interview
with the Associated Press of his con
viction that the league of nations must
, be supported "by the determination of
each nation entering into the agree
incut to be wiHinr" to renounce its tra
ditional aloofness from other peoples
and willing to employ the national
strength outside its own country both
aril time of peace as well as under the
pressure of war."
The contention of Leon Bourgeois
who presented the article in question
is that the interiiational force proposed
must be of sufficient proportions to
prevent Germany or any other country
from breaking the peace, or if the
peace were broken, to restore
promptly again by the collective
powers.
, French Cabinet Approves.
M. Bourgeoi:; is understood to hav
compressed into his proposition the
deeply considered convictions of the
French cabinet and its military and
legal advisers.
The contention of those who do no
believe in a permanently organized in
ternationul army, these including th
An" ican -1 legates, is that to creat
such an army would require changes i
the cons'ilutions of several countrie
which may become members of the so
ciety ant' tlu.t the difficulties in the wa
are not of a character to be solved
quickly. They argue that the eyelet
could be maintained effectively by
members being absolutely bound, th
moment a ho 'le movement was mad
by any nation, to co-operate with thei
forces against the aggressor.
The Paris new spa;, today in thei
discu iion of the- society of nation
question, make frequent reference
President Wilson.
VilKon Deemed Lucky.
Mr. Wilson is decidedly a lucky man,
writes Arthur Meyer, editor of th
Gauluis. "lie had i i his brain of phi
losophcr anil ;uost !c conceived a ccr
aCousluded oa Paso tf Coiuma S.X
Disorganization and Iack of Control
Apparent in All Parts of
Stricken Nation.
PARIS. Feb. 12. The rehabilitation
f Germany cannot be effected alone
by supplying her with an adequate
amount of food, in the opinion of an
American trained observer, who has
ust completed a tour o Prussia for
the supreme council of food ana renei
f the peace conference. A letter re-
eived by the council today says:
It may be that a food supply is
the first and indispensable need, but
am not sure of that. The disor
ganization and lack of control is bo
xtreme that I can without difficulty
ee food, importations leading directly
to new disturbances.
"The people will not work. They are
paid a too high pension for idleness.
They have no real leaders to organize
nd carry them. They have been go
ng down lurtner ana ,iuniiei, anu
with it all, with few exceptions, tney
do' not blame themselves; they re
proach the entente. They are blindly
nsolent."
SEED DEALERS ARE HIT
Assistant District Attorney Uooling
Says Farmers Arc Mulcted.
NEW YORK, Feb. 12. Assistant
District Attorney John T. Dooling, who
conducting the John Ioe milk in
quiry here, toaay acscnoeu me u
situation as one of the worst, as well
as one of the most important, matters
brought out at the inquiry.
The seed men," he asserted, "are
mulcting the farmers out of millions
of dollars. . The seed sold now in
cludes almost anything that can be
soaked to make added weight and dis
guised so that it cannot be discovered
in seed bags. Such seed is being sold
under fancy names and at fancy
prices.'
SHIPPING FIGURES ASKED
Senator Jones of Washington Makes
Inquiry on Foreign Contracts.
OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash
ngton, Feb. 12. As the result of com
plaints from shipyard laborers of the
Pacific coast that the shipping board
has deprived them of employment, as
well as closing down Pacific coast
yards by letting ship construction con.
tracts in Japan. Senator Jones, of
Washington, called on the shipping
board today to furnish complete and
detailed Information as to the number
and -value of all contracts given to
Japanese yards and to ask whether
contracts placed in Japan had been sus
pended as they were in American yards.
BISBEE APPEAL IN COURT
Litigation in Deportation Cases
Reaches Supreme Court.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 12. The Bisbee
deportation cases, resulting from the
sending out of Arizona in 19J7 under
armed guards of 221 men accused or
tempting to interfere with ejnplpyes
of copper mines, reached the supreme
court today.
An appeal was filed by the govern
ment from judgments dismissing in
dictments returned against 25 residents
of Arizona charged with aiding in
their deportation.
EMPLOYES' PENSION ASKED
Measure Provides Reward for
Years' Service to State.
STATE CAPITOL, Salem, Or.. Feb. 12.
(Special.) All state employes who ' .
have served for 20 continuous years '
and have attained the age of 6a years
will be pensioned on half pay under the
provisions of a bill introduced today by I
Senator Nickelsen.
The bill stipulates that the pension
ing of such employes shall be under the
direct supervision of the state board of
control.
TAFT TO VISIT SPOKANE
Party En Route to Portland Will
Appear at Mass Meeting.
SPOKANE, Feb. 12. Former Presi
dent Taft and his party, en route to
Portland, Or., for the northwest con
ference of the League to Enforce
Peace, will slop in Spokane from Sat
urday until Sunday morning, accord
ing to word received today by the
Spokane chamber of commerce.
Plans for a mass meeting here Sat
urday night.Nat which members of the!
party will speak, are being made.
FEATURES OF THE OREGON
LEGISLATURE YESTERDAY.
Senate.
Senator Farrell's bill denying
parole to auto thieves convicted
second time passes by close vote.
Compulsory registration and
voting measure passes.
Bill introduced to pension all
state employes who have served
for 20 years.
House.
Rills passed raising salaries of
corporation commissioner and
state engineer from $3000 to $3600
a year each.
Bill passed providing for return
to Australian ballot system with
chance for elector to vote straight
ticket.
Debate on gasoline tx bill set
as special"" order- for tomorrow
morning nt 10 o'clock.
Propaganda Finds Aid in
United States.
lawless agitation Blamed
Bubiishers of Firing Litera
ture Told Inquiry.
AGENTS BUSY IN AMERICA
Rev. G. A. Simons, Testifying Before
Senate Committee, Molds Reds
and I. W. W. Identical.
WASIirNGTOX, Feb. 12. The bol-
shevjki regime in Russia was described
today by Rev. G. A. Simons, in tes
timony before the senate committee
investigating lawless agitation in the
Lnited States, as a minority military
dictatorship supported by terrorism
Dr. Simons, who for many years has
been head of the Methodist Episcopal
church in Russia, said most of the
bolshevik leaders were Jews, many
from the east side of New York, and
that they had set aside large sums
for the spread of their doctrine in all
countries of the world.
The I. W. W. movement in this coun
try, which the committee has included
in Its general inquiry, was said by Dr.
Simons to be identical with the bol
shevist system.
Bolshevik, propaganda apparently is
being carried on in the United States
Dr. Simons said, by means ot speakers
pamphlets and articles in newspapers
and magazines, lie declared that John
Reed and Albert Ry Williams, Amer
ican writers, had been closely affill
ated with the bolshevik government
in Russia,
Reed Literature Published. v
The 'witness said publishers of bol
shevik literature in the United States
included the Rand school of social
science in .ew York; Charle. H. Kerr
fc Co., Chicago; the Socialist Literature
company. New York, and Novy Mir,
Russian newspaper in New York.
Dr. Simons, whose headquarters were
In Petrograd before he fled the coun
try last October, told the committee
that John Reed and his wife, Louise
Bryant, were very close to the bolshe
vik leaders in Petrograd and spent
much time at their headquarters. Reed
was described as "a persona grata" to
the bolshevik government, "so that
they wanted to make him consul-general
to New York." Albert Rys Will
iams frequently participated in bolshe-
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Majority of Boys Are From Oregon
and Washington, on Way Home
After Se trice Overseas.
Several hundred Portland people,
among them friends and relatives of
members of the 30th Newport News
casual company and the 11th battalion.
20th engineers, turned out to welcome
them when they arrived at the union
station at 6:50 o'clock last night.
Through' the efforts of Mayor George
L. Baker, Superintendent Ed Lyons of
the North Pacific Terminal company
and William McMurray. general pas
senger agent of the O.-W. R. & N.
company. Lieutenant Chittenden, in
charge of the troop train, obtained au
thority to allow the boys liberty until
11:40 last night.
Mayor Baker's announcement that
the heroes would be released for five
hours brought forth a hearty cheer.
And Portland played host to the veter
ans of French battlefields.
Gaued Men Aboard Train.
On the train were 65 men, mostly 1
from Oregon, Washington, Idaho and
Montana, composing the 30th Newport
News caeual company and 77 men who
form part of the 11th battalion of 20th
Engineers, all from Oregon and Wash
ington. There were 45 wounded and
gassed men in the casual company.
The engineers worked behind the lines
abroad.
"Our train left Camp Stuart, near
Newport News, Va., last Friday." said
Second Lieutenant Howard Woodruff
of Portland, who was in charge of
the 30th casual company. "We have
had a very pleasant trip and some
nice welcomes shown us coming across
the continent, but none quite so warm
as the reception here tonight." Just
then Mayor Baker slapped Lieutenant
Woodruff on the back, welcoming him
back to the Rose City. Lieutenant
Woodruff was attached to the 116th
engineers abroad.
Heroes Attend Theater.
The other three officers in the party
were First Lieutenant C. W. Chitten
den of Seattle, 116th engineers; Sec
ond Lieutenant Fred A. Fenton of
Seattle, who was in charge of the
train. First Lieutenant E. A. Llndille,
an army medical officer. Lieutenant
Llndille's home Is on the east coast.
"This is surely western hospitality."
he said last night, as the various re
ception committers were busy dating
the boys out for the Portland theaters..
The ti-i. 'eft (for Ca.no Lewis at
11:40 o'clock " lascnight. All on board
will soon be mustered out of the ser
vice. None of the wounded men was
seriously hurt and all were able to en
joy their stay here.
The wounded men from Portland and
Oregon and nearby Washington cities
follow:
Jesse J. Long. private 1st class.
Marshfield. Or., 362d Infantry, wounded
and gassed In the Argonne forest; Ira
E. Tit's, corporal, Portland, 117th en
gineers, 42d division, wounded at St.
Mihiel; Wilmoth Farron. private first
class. Portland, 147th field - artillery.
THAT WE'LL NEVER SEE OUR LITTLE ARABELLA AGAIN.
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Senate Passes Four Hours
in Spirited Debate.
PATENTED PAVEMENT TARGET
Opponents With Eyes on Seats
in Congress' Air Views.
CHARGES OF GRAFT MADE
Adjournment Is Taken Without Ac
tion and Debate Will Be Re
sumed Early Thursday.
STATE CAPITOL, Salem. Or.. Feb.
12. (Special.) Four words "consid
ering quality and durability" con
sumed four hours of the senate today;
unpent the flood gates of oratory, re
hashed the history of the so-called pav
ing trust and, when everyone was tired
and, settlement still far distant, ad
journment was taken until Thursday
at 10 A. M. It whs the hub of the pav
ing fight which has threatened to
break since the session started more
than five weeks ago. '
Supporters of the addition of the four
words say the sentence is necessary
for the welfare of the highway pro
gramme in Oregon. They contend that
the majority report, which is against
the four simple words, ties the hands
of the commission and is, in effect, an
innuendo on the honesty of the com
missioners. Patented Pavement Target.
On the other hand the opponents of
the minority report, several of whom
are aspirants for congress, did nothing
more than indulge in a tirade about
all the offenses which they have ever
heard committed by.the patented pave
ment people. These opponents said
they reposed confidence in the mem
bers of the highway commission, but
they want to save the commissioners
from the wiles of the pwving people.
There are four bills aiined at patented
pavement. On. two of ti,iese bills the
roads committee is unanimous. There
are two on which a minority and a
majority report have been submitted.
The minority report on senate bill 67
adds the words "considering quality
and durability" and with few excep
tions, none of the 10 senators who
orated spoke on the reports but ranged
far and wide.
Vinton Demands ategnard.'
President Vinton left the chair and
Spoke for the second time since he be
came presiding officer, the other oc
GneMs at Fashionable Den Required
to Appear In Evening Attire and
Wear Rubber Heels.
NEW YORK, Feb. 12. Two alleged
gamblers who maintained luxurious
quarters on the upper West Side were
said to have required their "guests" to
wear evening dress, and whose records,
according to the police, showed even
ing's winnings as high as $15,000 and
maximum losses of $200. were ar
raigned in the police court here today
by detectives, who seized their para
phernalia, including roulette wheels
and loaded dice, and a set of gilt-edge
books listing socially prominent per
sons in various sections of the country
and their occasional movements toward
New York.
The prisoners said they were Frank
Jones and Grant Fisher.
In the house, the detectives told the
court, were costly furniture and paint
ings ranging in value from 11000 to
$10,000, and a buffet well stocked with
liquors and choice cuts of cold fowl
nd other delicacies. A notice in a bed
room, it was stated, requested guests
to appear in evening clothes and to
wear rubber heels. In this room, the
police asserted, were 40 dress suits, and
patrons who came in business clothes
were fitted out from this stock.
"HUCKLEBERRY FINN" DIES
Man Who Claimed Plaec in Mark
Twain's Story 90 Years Old.
EUGENE, Or.. Feb. 12. B. F. Finn.
who claimed to be the original "Huckle
berry Finn" of Mark Twain's stories.
died Tuesday at his home at Belknap
Bridge on the Upper McKenzie river.
45 miles east of Eugene. He was about
90 years old and had lived in the moun
tains of Lane county for 30 or 40
years.
Men who are acquainted with persons
and scenes connected with stories writ
ten .by the great humorist, deny that
Finn . is the original "Huckleberry
Finn," but for many years he contended
that he was, and has recounted many
Incidents of early days on the Missis
sippi river that appear to coincide with
those related by Mark Twain.
AVIATION HEAD. ASSIGNED
Commander of La Fayette Ecadrille
. to Report at Rockwell Kield.
SAN Cal.. Feb. 12. Lieuten
ant - colonel William Thaw. who
achieve! fame as the commander of
me Latayette escadrille, will report at
nocKwen tield here for duty as execu
tive officer Saturday, it was announced
nere today by Lieutenant-Colonel Har
vey Burwell. commanding officer.
Colonel Thaw recently returned fron
r ranee ana is resting at a mountain
resort be Tore engaging in his new du
ties.
GASOLINE BILL UP TODAY
Honsc Makes Measure Special Or
der of Ilusincs.
STATU CAPITOL. Salem, Or.. Feb. 12
ir-peciai.) tomorrow morning at 10
o'clock was the time set by the house
today for making the gasoline tax bill
a special order of business.
The bill provides for a tax of on
cent a gallon on gasoline and half ;
cent on distillate.
BALLOT IS GIVEN WOMEN
Wisconsin Confines Right of Vote to
Presidential Election.
MADISON, Wis.. Feb. 12. Wisconsin
has granted women the right to vote
at presidential elections.
The senate) today by. a. vote of 2
to 4 passed the house bill to this ef
feet.
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Weather.
i bSTKRPAY s Maximum temperature. 43
.decrees; minimum, ,6 desrecs.
TODAY'S Occasional rain; moderate south
erly winas.
War.
Official casualty list, rase 11.
Foreign.
Hlsh pensions blamed for German idleness
iage i.
French plan for International army yet un
decided. Pass 1.
rew uerman president to resent domination
Dy iorce. rase
Slav reds too strong for allies, says Lloyd
National.
Terror is weapon of Russian reds. Pace 1.
House of representatives strongly opposes
bis standlns army. Paso 2.
Domestic.
Dress-suit samblers arrested by police.
Pase 1.
Forty-flmt division soon to bo demobilised.
Fasa 3.
New York radicals fight deportation of
aliens. rags 4.
Butta engineers to consider walkout. Page 3.
Legislature.
Four words block Oregon road bill. Page 1.
Washington prepares to give veterans Jobs.
rags t.
Idaho government radically changed. Page 6.
Sports.
All ten mitt artists In fine fettle for broils
' tonignt. rage j
Pacific Northwekt.
Governor Lister takes rest in stats hospi
tal, rage .
Coos scents fight for Smith holdings.
Paso 18.
Lincoln striking figure in Washington In
auguration, vays veteran In Oregon City
address. Page 13.
Governor Buroqiitst of Minnesota warns
America of threatening menance of I.
W. W. and socialism. Page 14.
Commercial and Marine.
Building of more I'J.OOO-ton steel ships fore
cast, rage lb.
Portland and Vicinity.
Homage to Lincoln paid by city. Page is.
Complaint Is filed asking for readjustment
of freight rates. rage in.
Operators of small lumber mills ask removal
. or restrictions on ties, rage u.
I Dr. Boyd cites authority for recent state
ment. Page 10.
Portland turns out t ivplrnmo heroi-s.
i'age 1.
SVcaUias tospxt, iataji4 fnnoow EACS-32.
Limit of 175,000 Meets
General Approval.
DEBATE TAKES WIDE RANGE
War Department Is Criticised;
Pershing, Soldiers Praised.
NATIONAL GUARD WANTED
No Prediction Made hv Leaders
Wlien Vote Will lie Taken on
Army Appropriation Bill.
WASHINGTON. Frb. 12. General
opposition to a standing army in ex
cess of 175.000 men, as authorized In
the national defense act three years
ago, was voiced in the house today
during debate on tne annual army ap
propriation bill with Its provision for
a military force of 536.000 officers and
men during the period of demobiliza
tion. Chairman Dent of the military com
mittee was questioned closely as to
the future army, w i tji several mem
bers asking if the force provided ir
the. bill was to be the uermancnt
my strength.
Small Army Favored.
The chairman explained that it was
not. and there was soneral applause
from both siiios ft the house when
Kepreseutal ivc McKenzie of Illinois,
republican, taid the military commit
tee favored a small armv.
Mr. McKenzie fa id I he proposal of
the army general staff for a permanent
peace-time military establishment of
500.000 had been rejected by the com
mittee, and Hepresentative Kahn of
California. republican, interrupted to
that not a single member of the
committee favored the proposal. '.
No Prediction a to Vote.
Discussion in the house continued'
throughout the day with leaders offer
ing no prediction as to when a vote
would be taken on the measure, which
carries a total or $ 1,1 v0.00u.00u for tho
war department during the fiscal year
beginning next July 1.
Debate was not confined to the bill
itself. There was criticism of the war
department, praise itn- ' ienei a I Pershing
and various A niericn n units which
fought in I'rain-o, discussion of bol
shevism and protest nuainst President
Wilson accepting a set l(uks as a
birthday gift from Kins George of
Kngla nd.
National t.unnl Favored.
Much of tho discussion whs s;ivcn
over to the national guard. Kcprcscn-
McKenzic said that whatever
tion. praised the work of tho
divisions during the war.
Representative London of New York
directed discussion to bolshevism with
the declaration that "every new
thought or new idea is called bolshe
vism." which he declared was "but a
passing stage of revolution common
only to Russia." He- urged repeal of
the espionage law, declaring that so
cialists had been unjustly imprisoned
by Its application to throttle free speech
and free assemblage.
SoelaliNts Denounced.
Representative Walsh of Masachu
setts, republican, declared that Mr.
London's interest in repeal of the espi
onage law might be with the view of
"prejudging the case of one of his col
leagues," Representative-elect Berger
of Milwaukee, whose utterances, Mr.
Walsh declared, "were not toward
uniting our people during the war or
to aid its prosecution."
"We do not need the urging an.l
teachings of Lenine and Trotzky or
the New York socialist and his asso
ciates in improving our government."
added Mr. "Walsh.
Republican Leader Maun criticised
the delay in casualties reports, saying
that the lied Cross, although having
information, was forbidden from giv
ing it to soldiers" relatives until tho
war department had previously an
nounced it.
Politics In Army Charged.
Charges by Representative Herscy
of Maine, republican, that regular army
officers were unduly favored in France,
resulting in the demotion'of many com
petent national guard commanders, were
answered by Representative Shallen
berger of Nebraska, democrat, who de
clared that "politics was out of the
army." Mr: Shallenberger, in praise of
General Pershing, declared "the United
States was the only country in the war
to pick an army head who ttood tho
test," and added that Pershing was th
first general to declare that the Ger
man army could be beaten and that tha
Hindenburg line could be smashed.
Representative Ramseycr. Iowa, Re
publican, protested against tho accept
ance of a set of books given to the
president by King George, saying
the action was unconstitutional be
cause it had not been aprpoved by
congress. Suggestions that a law per
mitting men of the army to rcccivu
gifts from heads of foreign states cov
ered the case, because the president
was commander-in-chief of the army,
brought a statement from Representa
tive Kahn thut the law applied only to
taiUtaxjt dccoraUoniii .
tative .Mcivenzie said tliat whatever f
the future military policy might be
the national guard should bu retained
and his declaration was vigorously ap- I
plautled. Other members, in urging re-
tention of the guard after dcmobilizav
guard I
r