VOL. L,IX. .NO. 18,13. PORTLAND, OREGON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1919. TRICE FIVE CENTS. WELCOME FUND BILL APPROVED BY HOUSE II OF BAVARIA'S STATESMEN SHOT COMMUNISTIC REIGN OF TERROR SPREADS BEOS DOING 'GREAT NEW YORK WORKMEN TO STRIKE FOR BEER 3 LOSE SEATS ON REED AVERS PASSED BY SENATE MOX'ET TO ENTERTAIN" OREGON BOYS IN NEW YORK. WAR-LIKE REPORTS REACH 3D ARMY HEADQUARTERS. WALK 6' JULY 1 EXPECTED TO military tra n ng 1 PORT GOBI Minister of Interior Is Felled at Landtag. KURT EISNER, PREMIER, SLAIN One-third of Miners In Rheinlsh Westphallan Industrial Region Are Out on Strike. One Deputy Killed and Other Officials Wounded. LATE PREMIER SOCIALIST .Slayer Member of Well-Known Jamil jr Prominent in Bara ri and German;. MYXICH. Feb. SI. By the Associated Press.) Herr Auer. Bavarian minister of the interior, has been shot. The shooting took place during session of the landtag, while Auer was alluding to the assassination of Kurt Kisner, the Bavarian premier. Auer fell wounded in fhe left side. I'eputy Osel was killed and two other officials were seriously wounded. The shols were fired from the pub lic gallery and caused a panic among the deputies. UleJ Baildlag I adrr .ard. The diet building now is being guard ed by the military. Herr Auer was a member of the ma Jority socialist party. He first . came into prominence last November, at the lime of the revolt In Bavaria, taking ihe portfolio of minister of the inte rior in the new cabinet. me following month, when the pe riod of unrest in Munich became grave. Auer was compelled, at the points of revolvers of revolutionist, who visited his house at night, to resign. Reslgaatloa Declared Void. A short time afterward the ministe rial council of the people of Bavaria expressed Its anger over the forcing of Auer to relinquish his position and leclared that his resignation "natu rally is void and the minister remains a member of the government." The document was signed by Kurt Eisner, as minister-president. Last December IT prominent men, in cluding one nan-Bavarian duke, were arrested in Munich, charged with hav ing been engaged in a conference with the local soldiers' council, lt was as verted that a revolutionary piot was on foot and .hat Auer was connected 'x-ith H. In a speech in the Bavarian chamber of deputies, January 7, Auer raid he proposed to Intervene with arms against Germany if the unsettled conditions in Berlin continued. BT CYRIL, BROWN. (Copyright by th New York World. Pub lished by Arrangement.) COBLKNZ, 'Feb. SI. (Special cable.) The communistic reign of terror con tinues in the RhelnishrWestphalian in. dustrial region. Warlike reports from many strike centers are beginning to reach the third army headquarters as the general strike gains in momentum and magnitude. One-third of miners throughout fhe region are striking. All reVorts apparently agree that the determined Spartaclst 'minority among them, armed to the teeth."i terrorizing millions of the industrial population and seeking to achieve the complete downfall of thetold economic order so as to establish a communistic republic on the wreckage of Germany's iron, steel and coal industries. In Dusseldorff the communistic ex ecutive council decreed that employers be, compelled to pay full wages to all strikes for the number of days they strike, thus forcing the employers themselves to put a premium on strik Ing. Communists, it is known, are al ready operating the ammunition fac tories. The thoroughness of their or ganization Is indicated by the fact that the wives and families of the strikers who are actually fighting against the government's troops, get the full orthodox war allowance for their sup port. The Spartacists advancing from Dusseldorrf. are entrenched strongly on Ihe outskirts of Duiesburg, 15 miles north, and have interrupted railroad traffic bv tearing up the rails, so handicapping the bringing up of government- forces. In Hamborn a gen eral strike was proclaimed "for car rying through a new revolution with the goal of proclamation of a dictator ship of labor and the formation of free social republic on a communistic basis." The strikers there were exhorted by their leaders not to employ sabotage or only as a last resort. It is an nounced that a central strike com mittee and a deren.Ee commission have been organized at Muelheim-on-the-Kuhr, and typically, machine guns have been posted in front of the city hall and miners seeking to resume work are dispersed by the Spartacists. Spartacist reinforcements with artil lery have beerl sent from Storkrade to ward Bottrep for an expected battle th government troops. All miners who voted to resume work are held back by Spartacists who are holding the shaft entrances with machine guns. American Writer Avowed Revolutionist. OVERTURN IN U. S. ADVOCATED Agitator Frankly Airs Views at Senate Inquiry. LIEUT. MEMORY APPEARS-FAULTY Prediction of "Three Million Rifles in Hands of U. S. Workmen " Soon" Is A'ot Recalled. COPENHAGEN. Feb. 21. Kurt Eis ner, the Bavarian premier, was shot and killed today by Lieutenant Count Arcovally. as Eisner was on his way from the foreign ministry in Munich to the diet, says a Munich dispatch. The shooting occurred In the Pranner utrasse. and death resulted from two fchots ired from behind into his head. Kurl Eisner, who seized the reins cf government in Bavaria after the deposition of the royal family early in November. w,s a socialist of the more radical type, and recent reports from Munich have been that he was heading a spartacan movement against the mod erate and conservative factions in Ba varia. ArrIley Faulty Promlneat. The Arcovalley family has been prominent in Bavaria and Germany for ears, a count of that name having died in Rio Janeiro in 1909 while Ger man minister to Brazil. Eisner, a Jew, was born in Galicia and at one time was editor-in-chief of ihe Vorwaerts of Berlin. Eisner was not a delegate to the German national assembly, having been defeated by an overwhelming vote in the elections. -.WASHINGTON", Feb. 21. John Reed, a writer, who described himself as a revolutionary socialist," told the sen ate committee investigating lawless agitation today that he believed the bolshevik regime in Kussia was doing "great work, and that he was a firm advocate of a revolution in the United States. He followed his wife, Louise Bryant, on the stand, and. like her, denied stories of atrocities, related by previous witnesses. On cross-examination Reed could not recall that he had said last Sunday in speech at Tonkers, N. T., that "three million rifles are in the hands of 3,000,000 Russian workmen, and soon 3.000,000 rifles wotald be In the hands of American workmen to do the same thing that is being done in Russia." Memory Appears Faulty. Reed also said he "couldn't imagine" himself stating in another speech in New York that he had started the bol shevist movement and soon expected that there would be "something doing" n New York, Baltimore, Albany, Syra cuse, Boston and other cities of the east. Reed, who spent some time in Russia, freely admitted that he was employed iv the International revolution propa ganda bureau of the bolshevlst ministry of foreign affairs in Petrograd, and told the committee that he expected to start an "information bureau in New York soon. He said he had discussed the matter with some persons there and added: Af A TC D U H 1 IC C niCC in- are some weaiuiy women in W A I tnMUUot Ulto: New York who have nothing else to do with their money." Senator Johixon Rapped. The witness said he did not speak at the meeting In Washington which was largely responsible for the present in vestigation because he "was considered too disreputable, having been indicted for saying things that Senator John son had since said in the Senate.' In a long discussion with Senator Wolcott of Delaware regarding his be liefs In respect to law. Reed declared that the will of the people would be done, if not by peaceful means, then by force. "Unfortunately," he said, "profound social changes usually have been ac companied by the use of force, but I never have been able to see any reason Ace. With Seven Hun Planes to Credit. Victim of Influenza. SEATTLE. Wash., Feb 21. (Special.) Lieutenant Joseph Waterhouse, 26, eldest son of Frank Waterhouse and ice-president and a director of Frank Waterhouse & Co., died suddenly of influenza In a hospital in London, ac cording to a cablegram received in this city yesterday. No intimation of Mr. Waterhouse's illness had been received until the dispatch from . London an nounced his death. Lieutenant Water house went overseas two years ago and was a flight command- -of the British royal air force at the time of death. He had much experience In flying and won rapid advancement, in a few months becoming Instructor at one of the large flving fields near London. Lieutenant Waterhouse during his service on the trench front brought down seven planes, thereby placing himself in the ace division. J t&CT 166,000 MEN. Prl A Appeals Made to Chicag .scorers to Join Revolution and Government Is on Watch. NEW YORK, Feb. 21. Strikes on July 1 to make effective the slogan "no beer, no work" have been voted by the New York iron workers, shipbuilders, longshoremen, hatters, stationary fire men, pavers and rammers' unions, it was announced at a meeting of the Central Federated union here tonight. Erbest Bohm, secretary, who an nounced the strike votes, said that the strike woul affect about 166,000 men. The letter carriers' association, -tie voted to lend their moral support to the fight against prohibition, added, while unable to go on strike, had One speaker declared the prohibition amendment appeared to be a "scheme of a ring to do the liquor, "wine .and beer business out of business, -so that their own may be increased." "Coffee," he added, "Is the natural recourse when pahibition is in force, and that, of course, means the price of coffee would be greatly advanced." NEWARK, N. J., Feb. -21. All the labor unions of New Jersey have been invited to send delegates to a meeting of protest against prohibition to.be held here on March 16, it was an nounced tonight at a meeting of dele gates, to the Essex trades council and the building trades council. Labor lead ers declared that plans for a "no beer- no work" strike on July 4, in the event prohibition goes into effect, have been abandoned. Moser Bill Fixing Terms Passed by Senate. Is PORTLAND SENDS" PROTEST Rowing Among Personnel Is Charged by Senator Banks. FAIR CONSIDERATION URGED R. E. D. , Menefee, Max Houser and Kenworlhy New Addition toPortland Commission. CHICAGO, Feb. 21. Printed appeals to striking union men and other work ers to join in a, revolution- have been circulated throughout the industrial districts of Chicago, it was disclosed today and the local government agents are closely watching the situation. Philip J. Barry, head of the local bu reau of investigation of the department of justice, said: "Whs apparently is going on is that the I. W. W and bol shevists are taking advantage of these strikes to circulate their propaganda for armed revolution." Buttons bearing the slogan "no beer. no work, have Deen mstriDutea among workers in industrial districts for some time. I il'oiioluded on Page Column . ) EARLY BUILDING WANTED Immediate Adoption of $61,000,000 Programme Sought. WASHINTON, Feb. 21. Special con sideration for the bill carrying $61,000,- 000 for public buildings was sought be fore the housa rules committee today by Representative Clark, Florida, chairman of the buildings committee, who urged passage of the measure be fore adjournment, of congress so that work might begin on buildings throughout the country. Representative Cantrill of Kentucky insisted that the bill should be limited to emergency projects, and declared he was authorized by Secretary Glass to say he opposed the measure as a whole. TUMULTY DENIES REPORT President's Secretary Not to Be New- Jersey Candidate. JERSEY CITY, N. J., Feb. 21. Joseph Tumulty, secretary to President Wil son, will not be a candidate lor tne democratic nomination for governor of STATE CAPITOL. Salem. Or.. Feb. 21. (Special.) Three of "the seven mem bers of the Port of Portland commission were eliminated from the commission today when theX senate passed the Moser bill designating terms of the members. The new personnel consists of George H. Kelly, E. W. Spencer. R. D. Inman, W. H. Patterson,-R. E. Mene fee. Max Houser and J. I1. Kenworthy. The last three named are the new ad ditions. Members of the Multnomah delega tion agreed on Messru. Kelly. Spencer, Patterson and Inmanand votes were taken by secret ballot on the others. Senator Moser nominated Mr. Menefee; Senator Huston named Mr. Houser Senator Farrell named Mr. Shaver; Senator Hosford named Mr. O'Reilly: Senator Gill named Mr. Pease, and Senator Banks named Mr. Kenworthy, There were 20 votes cast with this re sult: Messrs. Houser, Kenworthy and Menefee, 15 votes each; Messrs. O'Reilly and Shaver, seven votes each: Mr. Pease, four votes. Four-Year Term Fixed. The measure was steam-rollered through the senate and will be rushed through the house. Members expresed a belief that there would be a row in Portland when the news reached there. Senator Moser explained that Messrs O'Reilly and Shaver should not be on the committee, as they were in a busi ness competing with the Port of Port land, and that the commissioners had a life job until his bill placed a defi nite limit on the terms. . The term is now for four years, beginning June 1. Explanation by .Senator Banks was that there were members on the com mission who never attended meetings, were always rowing among themselves, and the thing to do was to get rid of them. - Captain Hosford, a member of the Multnomah delegation, is hostile over the bill and charges that the best men on the commission are being thrown out. Yesterday Moser explained thatthe bill was intended to get rid of democrats on the commission, but a lobby rumor says that the real under lying motive has not been smoked out Portland Send Protest.., in a telephone message, tonight to Senator Banks and Representative Lewis, respective chairmen of the sen ate and house committees, received the Committee of Oresonians Will Be Earned to Guide Expenditures . at Eastern Port. STATE CAPITOL. Salem, Or., Feb. 21. (Speoial.) Chairman Gordon of the house ways and means committee this afternoon called up the bill providing funds for taking care of Oregon sol diers in New York, secured suspension of the rules and put it over with unanimous vote. The bill carries an appropriation of J5000, which will be taken out of the $100,000 soldiers' and sailors' relief fund already appropriated by the legislature. Along with it will go $2500 of the box ing trust fund held by Mayor Baker in Portland. t .-"Mayor Baker assured me over the phone today that $2500 of the trust fund will be added to our appropria tion." said Mr. Gordon. "We have tak en every precaution to throw safe guards around the expenditure of the fund and see that every dollar of it goes to aid the returned soldiers. "The governor will name a commit tee'of Oregon New Yorkers who will have charge of disbursement of the fund, without expense to the state." Mr. Gordon is personally taking up the matter with members of the senate to secure early passage of the bill on the other side of the capitol, as it is understood speed will be needed if the money accomplishes the object for which it is intended. Word reached members of the ways and means committee that there is great need for state funds, that Ore gon is the only state not making such provision, and that Oregon boys are in hospitals without a hand from home to help them and are arriving in many instances unwelcomed by any one from their state. The bill carries an emergency clause so the money will be available ad soon as jt passes the senate and receives the approval of the governor. High Schools and Colleges in Oregon Affected. DEMOCRATS ATTACK MEASURE Senator Ritner Recalls Warn ing of Colonel Roosvelt. . LEADER WILL HAVE CHARGE United States Senators Chamberlain and McNary Assure Equipment to Carry on Work. 20,700 MEN QUIT FRANCE Seven Vessels Reported as Being ' Way to United States. WASHINGTON, Feb. 21. Departure from France of 700 officers and 20,000 men of the army on seven vessels, in cluding: the battleship Michigan and the cruiser Rochester, was announced today by the war department. The ships are due at Atlantic ports between February 2o and March 5. -The transport Buford is due at New port News March 4 with a detachment of the 63d coast artillery for Fort Loan, Colo. The battleship Michigan . Is due a ewport iews March 3 with the 105tn trench- mortar' battery and another trench mortar battery the number of which was unintelligible in the cable gram as received by the war depart ment today. On board also are casual companies of California and Texas troops and 18 casual officers. New Jersey, he declared in a letter j following protest by Portland business made public here today. , concluded on Page 2. Column 3. SESSION MAY EXTEND OVER l,cgiliiture Srt Little Chance of Otm-lu4i.n Buincs-s Saturday. STATE CAPITOL. Salem. Or.. Feb. 21. '.Special.) Tentative agreement has been reached among legislative leaders to adjourn some time tomorrow until Monday. While the constitutional time for adjournment expires at midnight tonight, there is little, in fact no chance of the house cleaning up its business, and there la scarcely any oT its doing no tomorrow evening if it continued in session ail night and into Sunday morning. Unless some material change is made in the speeding-up programme, the members will adjourn at noon tomor row and come back fresh Monday morning for the cleaning-up process and continue in session until the work is completed. INDIAN WAR SCOUT DIES United States Jackson Passes Away at Copperfield. BAKER. Or.. Feb. 21. (Special.) United States Jackson is dead at Cop perfield. He was born in Halifax. Nova Scotia, in 1852 and when a small boy move4 to the United States. He was a government guide and scout in Arizona during the Indian wars with Geronimo. the noted .warrior chief. Mr. Jackson came to Oregon 20 years ago. He edited and published a newspaper in Green horn. Grant county, some fifteen years ago and bad. lived on Snake river near Copperfield for ten years. His only surviving relative is a brother in business somewhere in .Alaska, ytr. Jackson will be buried In Copperfield. DISCHARGE BADGE CHOSEN IS runic I.apel llutton Somewhat Like That of i. A. It. WASHINGTON. Feb. 21. The "hon orable discharge. emblem to be is sued by the war department to soldiers leaving the army wi!H- a bronze lapel button similar to that of the G. A. TL It was announced that a design had wen st'lected from 1i models submitted I f American artists and sculptuli. FEATTRF.S OF ORF.(.0 LEGIS LATURE YESTERDAY. ' Senate. Tasses bill authorizing $5,000, 000 reconstruction bonds. Senator Hurley's bill for uni versal military training in high schools of Oregon passes by close vote. Senator Ritner's bill to prevent defeated candidates-of one party from' accepting nominations of rival party passes with democrats opposing it. Proposed constitutional amend ment authorising consolidation of Portland and Multnomah county passes senate without opposition. ' Bars bill changing Port" of Tortland personnel. llonne. Adopts resolution to refer ques tion of creating lieutenant-governor after political deoate re volving around governors health. Passes fish and game code. Passes great grist of appropri ation measures. THE SENTINELS. fiii ife U-BOAT CHIEFS MURDERERS Evidence Sufficient to Convict 2 0 Reported Obtained. LONDOX, Feb.. 21. Reuter's. Limited, says it learns that the commission in quiring into German.submarine activi ties has sufficient evidence to convict some 20 German submarine command ers, nearly all of whom are in Germany, of murder. . Seven commanders in particular have bad records, according to Reuters ad vices, and the opinion is expressed that their surrender and trial possibly by an allied naval tribunal should form clause in thearmistice terms. passes senate. -opyright by Chicago Tribune. Published by Arrangement. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS Th IV eat her. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 47 degrees; miiimum, 39 degrees. TODAY'S Rain: moderate to fresh south erly winds. War. Official casualty list. Page 14. Foreign. Two high Bavarian statesmen shot in day. Page 1. Communistic reign of terror spreads. Page 3 Strike in German industrial region is spread ing. Page 2. Omsk government scouts rumor of Japanese lineup. Page 3. Work on military terms hastened. Page 5. Labor unrest grows in Britain. Page 5. Premier Clemenceau reported out of danger. , Page 2. ' National. Reds in Russia doing great work, says John Reed. Page . President plans to spend one strenuous week in America. Page 4. ' Borah frightened at proposed world league. Page 4. Legislatures. Military training, "measure Page 1. Idaho legislators engage In word battles on county aivision enaoung act. Page 7. Washington copies uregon tax measure. Page 7. House adopts lieutenant-governor resolution. Page 6. Welcome fund bill approved by the house. Page . t Three members lose commission seats. Page 1. Oregon road-drive plans take shape. Page 6. Sporta. Lincoln and Jefferson now tied for first place In iijterscholastic league. Page 12. S. Lewis, former Dallas pitoher, purchased - by .Portland. Page 12. . Commercial and Marine. First government auction sale of Portland wool to be held March 6. Page 19. Chicago corn weakened by favorable turn in Argentine strike. Page 19. Pools again in control of Wall-street mar- ket. , Page 19. Four suspended vessels may he reinstated in Portland yards. Page 18. Portland and Vicinity. Rotarians close great conference. Page 18. Divorce mill grind beats Cupid's pace. Page IS. Rehearing on fnterburban car rates set for Myc-h 11. Page 10. Sailors. beat way from Port Arthur. Texas, to Portland. Page 20. "Portland to honor George Washington. - Page 18. Settlement of shipyards trouble predicted by March 1. Page 14. Shipping policy to be framed at conference. -Page 10. , Weather report, data and forecast. Fae 19, : STATE CAPITOL, Salem, Or., Feb. 21. (Special.) Universal military train ing- in the high schools and colleges of Oregron is made compulsory under the terms of a bill bv Senator Hurley of Malheur county, which passed the sen ate this afternoon by avote of 16 to 14. In defending his bill against the ver bal attacks of the two democratic lead ers, Senators Pierce and Strayer, Sen ator Hurley asserted it was natural that the two democratic solons would oppose militajy training, inasmuch as a few short years ago they were firm believers in the democratic by-words. "He kept us out of war" and "Peace at any price." RooMevelt'a Warning Recalled. Senators' Ritner and Thomas spoke for the bill and urged that the young men of Oregon be given an opportunity to fit themselves for service should the ' occasion again arise when this country would be called upon to take up arms. "Had the people of this country heeded the words of Theodore Roose velt back in 1914, when he stood alone urging us to prepare for war, 60,000 of our American boys would now not be sleeping forever under the soil of France," said Senator Ritner, who but recently returned from the war zone, where he went as a Red Cross official. Leader to Head Committee. Senator Hurley admitted that Colo nel Leader, who for the past year has been in charge of the officers training camp at the university of Oregon, will continue in that capacity and will also systematize the military training in the, high schools if the bill becomes a law. Assurance has been given that Colonel -Leader will be appointed a member of the military training: com mission by the board of regents of the university of Oregon. The state superintendent of public instruction shall be chairman of the' commission, and the board of regents of the agricultural college will appoint the other member. Pierce Attack Measure. ' Senator Pierce attacked -the bill, mainly because Colonel Leader is to have charga of fhe military work. He also demanded that the officers train ing jamp, which the bill provides shall be located at Eugene, be changed to Corvallis. Senator Pierce is a member of the board of regents of the agricul tural college. , The vote on the bill follows: Aye Bell, Eberhard, Eddy. Handley Howell, Huston, Hurley, Jones, Moser Norblad, Orton. Ritner, Sljanks, Smith of Josephine, Thomas, Vintorr. No Baldwin, Banks, Dimick, Farrell. Gill, Lachmund, Lafollett, Nickelsen, Patterson, Pierce, Smith of Coos and -Curry, Strayer and Wood. Equipment Is Assured. The bill specifics that military train ing shall be adopted in the high schools of the state at the opening of the new school year next fall. Exemptions to individual pupils who are physically unfitted for the work may be granted and certain high schools which might not be able to" carry on the work prop erly also can be exempted. Each male pupil must have at least three hours' training each week. Senator Hurley informed the senate ' that United States Senators McNary and Chamberlain have given assurances that guns and other equipment sufficient to outfit every high school in Oregon will be supplied by the federal government. STARVING PEOPLE FOUND Wanderers In Andes Mountains Re turned to Argentina. VALPARAISO, Chile, Feb. 20. Tlie mountain police recently found several starving wanderers in the Andes. The people said they had been deported by Argentine police. Some of them bore wounds and declared they had been scourged.' The police fed the wanderers and otherwise relieved their sufferings and sent the,m back across the Argentine border, which is now being guarded to prevent their being returned. HANSON'S CONDITION SAME. Executive Duties Performed at Home by Aid or Secretary. SEATTLE, Feb. 21. (Special.) No change in the condition of Slayor Hanson, who is suffering from an at tack of neuritis at his home, has been reported. He still performs his execu tive duties through the aid of U. A Conklin, his secretary. .... His physician does not believe' that Hanson will be able to take up hi work at his office this week. IT