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VOL,. LIX. NO. 18,188.
PORTLAND, OREGON, MONDAY, MARCH 10, 1019.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
RED PLANE ATTEMPTS
TO STRIKE YANKEES
SHIPYARD STRIKE
IS DECLARED DFF
AMERICAN CRAFT NOW
PLYING SEVEN SEAS
FOOD NEGOTIATIONS
MOUNT ANGEL BANK
ENTERED BY ROBBERS
GERMANS MOST DE
FED, SAYS PREMIER
SHIFT TO BELGIUM -
MACHINE FIRST OBSERVED TO
BEAR SEW IDENTIFICATION.
TRADE EXTENDED TO FART ? r
CORNERS OF EARTH
AKKTY DEPOSIT BOXES PRIED
OPEN AND RANSACKED.
I
IHfNDENBURC DRIVE
1 eras PROMISED
Field Marshal Plans to Use
r Volunteer Units.
CLOSE SECRECY IS MAINTAINED
I Policy Ascribed to Strong Bol
shevik Organization.
POLISH FRONT NOW QUIET
oman Delegate at "Weimar Assem
bly Goes Home to Organize
Women to Fight Foes.
COBLENZ, March 9. (By the Asso
ciatcd Press.) Field Marshal von Hin
iflenburg is planning; to use volunteer
Units in a dri-e against the Bolsheviki,
with Libau as the base of his opera
tions, it is indicated by information
which has reached American intelli
gence offices.
Accordin-g to the American experts,
who in the line of their duty are keep
ing in touch with the progress of the
Tcitrl justmen t of the enemy's forces,
CJcnnan great headquarters seems to
Ve following a policy of secrecy as re
gards the eastern front troop question.
This Is believed to be due to the fact
"that the Bolsheviki now have a normal
V military organization and so will be
able to utilize any intormation tney
fcnight obtain concerning their enemy.
Apparently the German headquarters
in Kolberg is directing its energies
egain toward organization on the Bai
lie front in the confidence that there
3s no longer any immediate occasion
lor concern over the Polish front.
T'ield Marshal von Hindenburg is in
Kolberg.
The total number of volunteers on
the eastern front or about to proceed
there is estimated at nearly 100,000.
tome of the old army troops are now
ion the eastern front.
WEIMAR, Saturday, March ' 8. (By
the Associated Press.) Frau Broenner,
en authoress and publisher and a dele
gate of the German democratic party
in the national assembly, has left for
liome in Koenlgsburg to organize the
vomen of East Prussia into a horde.
frnilitia against the bolsheviki.
Frau Broenner declares her action
j as prompted by reports that a bol
shevik force a million strong was ad
vancing toward the German frontier
nd her fear that the men alone would
be unable to withstand the bolshevik
liordes.
LONDON, March 9. (By the Asso
ciated Press.) One thousand persons
Lwere k
Ping in
killed and wounded in the fight-
g in Berlin last week, according to
sin estimate of the casualties made by
the Wolff bureau, the leading news
Egency of Germany.
BASLE. Switzerland. March S. The
Leipzig strike has been settled and
erder has oecn restored, the Frankfort
(Gazette announces.
Minister Schwarz. the newspaper
-Rdds, has arrived in Leipzig and an
nounced that severe measures will be
taken against persistent idlers anri
.that order will be maintained with all'
means
Hient.
at the disposal of the
govern- i
BERLIX, March 7. (By the Asso-j
c-iated Press.) The conditions under
nhich the workingmen's council of
Oreater Berlin declared itself willing
to approve the action of the Berlin
federation in adopting a resolution !
calling the strike off, were announced
today. The conditions included the
retirement of the volunteer regiments
from Berlin and the release of in
surgents arrested during the strike.
The council is the body dominated bv
radicals which has been directing the
strike.
WEIMAR, Friday. March 7. (By the
associated Press.) By a law to be
passed immediately the powers and
luties of the workmen's councils.
w liich the government promised to
create as a means of putting a stop
io the strikes, will be defined. These
councils will be the economic repre
sentatives of the workingmen. Each '
industry will have its industrial coun
cil, which ehall be consulted as to
working conditions in all cases, while
workingmen's associations will be cre
ated for control and regulation of pro
duction, and distribution in all
tranches of Industry and trade. The
members will be . factory leaders,
workers and employes co-operating
with employers.
District workmen's council chambers
-will be created for certain sections of
the country and a central workmen's
council for the empire. The members
will be workmen of all sorts. The
employes' council will assist in the
process of socialization and control of
rhe socialized plants and industries.
.All economic and social legislation
must be submitted to them for ap
proval and they' will have the right to
propose such legislation to the gov
ernment. Family Murderer Arrested.
C'A SEVILLE, Mich.. March 9. Paul
Masse, aged 3d, was arrested Saturday
after the finding of the bodies of his
aged mother and thiee children. Magge
told police officers, they said, he killed
the four as a "rcK'-ious sacrifice," and
asked them to ri11 rn to his farm and
kill any livestock still alive.
-"V
Bolsheviki Operating on Railroad
Front Twice Silenced by Power
ful Allied Artillery.
(By the Associated Press.
ARCHANGEL, March 7. The bol
shevik took advantage yesterday of the
first clear day with the thermometer
above the freezing point, by attempting
to bombard the American positions on
ihe Vaga from an airplane.- The ma
chine wae the first one observed to
bear the new red armv identification
mark, a six-pointed red star.
The bombs fell without causing any
damage. Since the beginning of the
campaign last summer there has been
much confusion on both sides of the
line because the bolshevik airplanes
bore the old Russian marking, a red
white and blue circle. This was so sim
ilar to the marking on the allied planes
;hat it was hardly possible to distin
guish the one from the other.
The situation on the Vaga front was
unchanged today. Late yesterday the
enemy renewed bis bombardment on
the Dvina,
On the railroad front the bolshevik
yesterday afternoon twice began shell
ing, but were speedily silenced by the
allied guns. The village of Kadlsh,
which has changed hands six or seven
times, is .igain in the hands of the bol
shevik. The Americans found it use
less to hold the almost destroyed vil
lage and withdrew to their old posi
tions at the bridge across the Ernts
river.
AKCHANGBL, March 6. (By the As
sociated Press.) The lull in the bol
shevik offensive on the Russian north
ern front continued yesterday, all be
ing quiet in the Vaga and Dvina sec
tions. The bolshevik letdown is be
lieved to be due to the severe losEes
suffered by the enemy repulse.
MAYOR PENS STRIKE STORY
Wide Publicity Given Mr. Hanson in
Seattle Resolution.
SEATTLE. Wash., March 9. (Spe
cial.) Mayor Hanson today received
a-copyof a poster Issued by Mc
Clure's magazine to advertise an ar
ticle by the mayor on the general strike
in Seattle, which will appear in the
next number of that publication.
Across the top of the poster is print
ed in large letters: "Read Mayor Han
son's story of the Seattle revolution,"
and at the bottom is the last sentence
from Mr. Hanson's article, as follows:
"All who are for this government are
my friends; all who are against this
government are my enemies; as for the
first, God bless them; as for the second,
to hell with them."
FIRE L0SSIS $5,000,000
Santos Docks. Together With Coffee
and Jute. Destroyed.
RIO JANEIRO. March 9. The dam
age resulting from the fire which
started early last week on the Santos
docks and which is supposed to have
been of incendiary origin, is estimated
at 13,000,000.
The damage was principally to coffee
and jute. Several days previous to the
Santos dock fire the jute factory at
Sao Paulo was destroyed, together with
two Japanese ships anchored at Santos,
35 miles southeast of Sao Paulo, loaded
with Jute.
The damage is estimated at 1 2,500, OuO.
INSPECTION TOUR
BEGUN
'Baker and March to Visit Army
i Camns on Pacific Coast.
WASHINGTON, March 9. Secretary
Baker and General March, chief of
staff, left today on their trip of inspec
tion of various army camps which will
take them to the Pacific coast. They
will arrive in Detroit tomorrow- and
will go directly to Camp CuBter. From j
that camp they will proceed to Chicago.
Mr. Baker and General March expect
to return to Washington near the end
of the month and the secretary then
will prepare for his third trip overseas.
MUCH FOOD SENT ABROAD
250,000 Tons Go to Distressed Pop
ulations Since Armistice.
WASHINGTON', March 9. A review
of the relief work conducted under
Herbert C Hoover since the signing of
the armistice was made public today by
the food administration.
It shows that 250,000 tons of. food,
chiefly flour and fats, has been sent
to the distressed civilian topulatlons
and that staffs to determine needs and
direct distribution of relief have been
esablis.'ed in practically all th coun
tries in Sentral Europe.
63D REGIMENT IS COMING
Coast Artillery Contingent Leaves St
Paul for Camp Lewis.
ST. PAUL, Minn.. March 9
Two
trains carrying the 63d coast artillery.
Seattle's favorite' regiment, left this aft
ernoon for the demobilization camp at
American Lake, Wash., after a rousing
welcome from a thousand citizens at the
Union station here.
Major William C. Shipman of St. Paul
was in command. Most of the soldiers,
former national guardsmen, are from
Everett, Tacoma and Seattle.
Surplns Slock Will Go.
WASHINGTON', March 9. The war
department announced yesterday that a
committee has been appointed tor act
with the government 'in disposing of
surplus stocks of hardwood lumber in
its possession.
Puget Sound Plants Will
Resume Tuesday.
45,000 WORKERS AFFECTED
Wages and Conditions Same
as When Yards Closed.
OFFICIALS RECOUNT VOTES
Union Leaders, Plant Owners and
Labor Adjustment Chief Hold
Lengthy Conference.
SEATTLE, March 9. The strike of
45,000 shipyard workers in effect since
January 21 in Seattle. Tacoma and
Aberdeen, was formally declared off by
strike leaders this evening, following a
canvass of votes cast in a referendum
taken the last three days.
The men are to return to work Tues
day morning at 7:30 o'clock under the
working conditions and wages prevail
ing when the strike was called, accord
ing to statements issued tonight by
strike leaders and owners of shipyards.
Arrangements for the resumption of
work in tho Puget sound shipyards,
marking the end of the strike of ship
yard workers which has been in prog
ress since January 21, were completed
at a conference of strike leaders, yard
owners and Henry McBride. labor ad
justment chief of the emergency fleet
corporation, hero tonight.
Leaden Hold Conference,
Official announcement of the major
ity vote in favor of returning to work
was withheld by strike leaders early
in the day until a consultation could
be arranged with Mr. McBride and the
employers.
President C. R. Barrett of the Tacoma
metal trades council and secretary of
the central labor council of that city,
accompanied by a Tacoma strike dele
gation, reached Seattle this morning
with Aberdeen and Seattle representa
tives. The delegates went into im
mediate conference, which continued
intermittently during the day. with
President James A. Taylor and Secre
tary Bert Swain of the Seattle metal
trades council.
Early this afternoon Mr. McBride held
(Concluded on Pan -. Column l.
ANYONE SEEN" ANYTHING
l ulled States Merchant Ma J- Now
Represents Nearly On- " th
of ben-Gains Tonr
WASHINGTON". March
For the
first time since the days of the famous
"clipper" ships, American merchant
craft are now plying the seven seas,
carrying products of the United States
to the fartherest corners of the earth
and bringing home both essentials and
luxuries.
The shipping board announced today
that the American merchant marine
fleet, built up under, the spur of war's
necessity, now represented nearly one-
fifth of the entire sea-going tonnage
of the " world and- comprised 46 per
cent of all ships clearing from United
States ports, as compared with 9.7 per
cent before the war.
Trade routes not traversed by Amer
lean craft for more than BO years once
more are invaded, with new routes es
tablished to China. Australia, New
Zealand, India, the Dutch East Indies,
the west coast of Africa and ports on
the Mediterranean. Ships flying the
stars and stripes also are running reg
ularly to South America, Great Britain
and continental Europe as well as to
Canada and Mexico.
The fleet now engaged In overseas
commerce aggregates 1.961.Z38 gross
tons. Of this total 315,925 tons are cm-
ployed in trans-Pacific trade.
When the army and navy return to
the shipping board the 353 ships which
they are operating, the commercial
fleet under the American flag will be
increased by 1.783,581 gross tons with
many hundreds of thousands of tons
building or under contract.
BOARD ON COAST CREATED
Joint Conciliators to Act on Sea
men's Controversies.
WASHINGTON, March 9. Creation of
a joint board of conciliation on the
Pacific coast to act in controversies
between the shipping board and mem
bers of seamen's unions in its employ
was announced today by Chairman
Hurley of the shipping board.
Composing the board will be one rep
resentative each of the San Francisco
division of operations, the Water Fron
Employers' Union at San Francisco; the
managers of shipping board vessels, the
sailors' union, the marine . firemen,
oilers and water tenders union, and
the Marine Cooks" and Stewards' union
of the Pacific coast.
All complaints and controversie
which cannot be adjusted immediately
by the parties themselves will be re
ferred to the joint board, and in case i
fails to reach a majority decision, th
matter will be referred to the shipping
board officers here for final settlement,
OF A DARKISH SORT OF HORSE
German Ships Demanded
as Relief Guarantee.
ALL DELEGATES WILL ATTEND
Three Sources of Paying for
Supplies Outlined.
SITUATION IS HELD ACUTE
Icrmany Notified She Most Execute
Conditions of Armistice as
Signed on January 16.
PARIS, March 9. The plans adopted
by the supreme war council tonignt.
under which the negotiations with the
German authorities regarding the turn
ing over of the German merchant ships
will be resumed, after their recent In
terruption at Spa, provide for the
holding of the sessions of the negotia
tions at Brussels. v
The allied delegates will leave Paris
next Wednesday for Belgium, and the
first session in the resumption of ne
gotiations will probably be held Thurs
day in one of the government palaces.
The plans of the council, as already
stated, provide for taking over the Ger
man merchant ships in return for a
food supply for Germany until the next
harvest. The chief difficulty thus far
has been over the manner of payment
for the food supplies, but the new pro
posals are expected to meet the former
objections.
Payment Plan Outlined.
It is understood that the payments
will come from three sources first, in
the form of products such as coal and
potash; second, from credits which Ger
many has in neutral countries which
thus far have been unavailable because
of financial blockade, and. third, from
foreign securities held by Germany. It
is estimated that these three sources
will readily yield about J500.000. which
is the sum required to pay for food
relief to an. extent considered adequate
to carry the Germans until the next
harvest.
One of the main influences In bring
ing about the decision of the supreme
council, was said to be a letter read
by Premier Lloyd George from a Brit
ish general, setting forth the extreme
Concluded on Page Column H.
ANYWHERE A ROUND?
l-'rw Hundred Dollars" Worth or Lib
erty Itonds and Personal Pa
pers Believed SMolcn.
SALEM. Or.. March 9. (Special
Sheriff Needham was called to Mount
Angel today to Investigate robbery of
the Bank of Mount Angel, which took
place some time during the night last
night. The robbery was discovered by
Cashier Joseph Kcber about 9 o'clock
this morning.
Sheriff Needham believes the Job was
done by two men. or man and a boy.
Entrance to tho bank was gained by
the use of a Jimmy through the back
door. The vault on the inside is of
brick and contains a safe and safety
deposit tioicj. A hole was made
through the brick wall of the vault
large enough for a small man or boy
to crawl through. Several of the de
posit boxes were pried open.
It is understood that a few hundred
dollars worth of liberty bonds and some
personal papers were taken. The ex
tent of the loss cannot be determined
until the bank officials have an oppor
tunity of checking up with the owners
of the deposit boxes. The safe was left
undisturbed.
The supposition was advanced that
Jack Lalio.if, who recently escaped
from the penitentiary, might have had
a hand in the robbery, but officers are
inclined to doubt this.
PARIS COUNTS ON WILSON
Press Much Interested In Pennsyl
vania Election.
BT HERBERT BAYARD SWOPE.
tCopyrlsht by the Sfw Vork World. Pub
lished by Arnuiifmrnl.l
PARIS, March 9. (Special Wireless.)
Paris has heard with deep interest
of the election of a democratic con
gressman in a Pennsylvania republican
district, running on the league of na
tions platform. It is featured in the
French papers as an augury of the
general trend of American public opin
ion and as supporting President Wil
son's cable that popular approval rested
with the league's project.
France views with dread the failure
of the plan in which she has come to
see her main hope of future security.
NURSE FUND IS SET ASIDE
Ited Cross Makes Appropriation for
Public Health Traininjr.
WASHINGTON. March 9. Appropria
tion of $100,000 as a scholarship fund
to induce graduate nurses ' released
from the army and navy nurse corps
to train tor pumic neaitn nursing was
announced today by the American Red
Cross. A maximum scholarship of tSOO
will be granted for an eight months'
course of training and J300 for a four
months' course.
1 he fund will be administered by the
Red Cross department of nursing and
scholarships will be granted on the
recommendation of the Red Cross divi
sion directors of public health nursing.
PEACE ENVOYS STARTLED
Shout "Down With Tyranny" Heard
; at Close of Meeting.
PARIS. March 9. As the members of
the peace conference who attended
yesterday's meeting at the ministry of
foreign affairs were leaving the build
ing last night, a man standing nearby
cried out "Down with tyranny:" The
man. who gave his name as Pierre Var-
nay. was arrested.
jn examination or the prisoner
seemed to show that he was suffering
from the delusion that he was being
persecuted. He was placed In the pa
lice hospital
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
Th Weather,
ErTERDAr. Maximum temperature. 30
dettree ; minimum. 41 dfgrfi.i.
TODAY'S Rmin: southerly .winds.
War.
Official casualty list. VsLfr S
Roumanian Quees orka for her peopl.
Page .
Hindenbunr drive, oo reds promised. Pace 1
tlillton-dolir tout on m heat unlikely.
Hoover. Pajce 4.
.Self-protection Paris traffic ru. Pa?e a
Germans must be fed. declares Premier
Uloyd tieorire. Page 1.
Red plane attempt to strike Yankees.
Pace l.
Food negotiations shift to Belgium. Page 1
Constantinople may be placed under Ameri
can control. Page o.
Nation ml.
John Skelton Wifliamii quits railroad admin
1st ratio u directorate. Page 2.
I torn e Or.
American craii now piymg seven seas.
Page 1.
General Crowder replies to critics. Page 4
International Ked Crops Is proposed. Page
Pacific Northwest.
Mount Angel bank entered by robbers,
Page 1.
Seattle strike ends. Page 1.
102d men eager to get home. Pase 0.
Idaho legislature ends unusually boj ses
sion. fas
Sports.
Portland men are busy In army ath letics.
i'ase 1 1.
Joe Jackson la cause of Comtskeys dilemma
Page IO.
Heinle srnmioi. goner, may piay ror A r
decn. Page 10.
Portland baseball team leaves f qt Cixmp
Crockett lor training. Paga .
Portland and Vicinity.
War memoriala to be subject of federation of
arts- Page 8.
Armenian relief campaigners put In busy
frunoay. fmge s.
Overtime pay of commercial telegraphers 1
reduced under new order. Pae 7.
Two Portland mills to reopen with 4.".( me
employed. Page 11.
5electte service, forces to disband. Pajre IS
Federal Land bank at Spokane makes heavy
loan. rg ;
Local Shrinera start drive for g;ftftVHX
Operatic baritone ti'B vacancy in Wilbur
church choir. Page 9. J
Weather re pvt. data and forces page 2.
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French Opposition Swept
Aside by Briton.
ALL CIVILIZATION IS MENACED
World on Edge of Abyss, De
clares Lloyd George.
GUARANTEES TO BE MADE
Kclicf of .sijtrv Ins Teutons Held to
lie Matter of Self-Preservation
to All Other Nations.
BY 1IKRBKRT TSAYARD SWOPli.
fCopyrlcht by th- Ntr York World. ri1
llshed by .Vrrunccment.
PARTS. March 9. (Special wircles?.
Premier Lloyd Goorpt, supported by
Colonel House, in an outburst of im
passioned oratory today, swept atidc
the recalcitrants of the council of ten
reiardmp the plan of feeding Germany
until the next harvest, and when the
sion closed it was announced that
the project would be put into execu-
lon forthwith.
Rut before the final drawing up of
ho method of Germany's payment it
was necessary for the Rritish premier
paint colorfully the abyss, on tbo
eij;e of which the whole world is
poised. With Germany Joining Russia
in anarchy and starvation, every fabric
of civilization was threatened, he de
clared, and the revictualling of the
Teutons became a matter of self-preservation
for the other nations, a duty
to thcmsrlvfa and to their future and
not to Germany, except Insofar as the
allies had committed themselves to hor
aid.
Weimar .overnment otlflcl.
Tonight a communication has gone
forward to Weimar.' informing that
Kuvernmcut that if it vompllp.i with
conditions tnd surrenders Gtrmanj's
merchant flet. full undertaking will
le given by her enemies to ration hu-r
until August.
Another conference Is called for tin
mediately, to be held somewhere in
Belgium Instead of Spa. Since the mat
ter means the life or death of Germany,
a decision Is expected soon.
At the outset of the session Premier
L.loyd George's efforts promised small
result, for Premier Clcmonceau ex
pressed himself as standing with
Finance Minister Klotz against any
proposition that threatened to affect
the German funds that can be used for
French reparations. L,outs Loucheur
of the French ministry offered as a
compro.nise a method which would
have placed the costs of the feedlnn
operations, which will be in excess of
half a billion dollars, upon America.
Premier Piayn Tramp Card.
Thr American mission pointed oui
liiat by congressional action they were
debarred from acceptance of the plan,
and another deadlock was threatened
when Premier Lloyd George, always a
master of strategy, played hit trump
card. He read with dramatic effect a
telegram to him from General Pluni
mer. commanding the British army of
occupation, known as Great Britain's
greatest military leader next to Field
Marshal Haig. which said In substanc:
that the British soldiers would revolt
rather than continue to bo compelled
to see starving women and children on
the streets of German town.
The effect of this telegram was elec
tric. It brought home to all present.
not so much the plight of the Germans
as the reaction upon the men who baii
for four years and more fought against
the very people they now demanded aid
for. The prime minister added that
General glummer would scarcely be ac
cused of any pro-Germanism. His at
titude was based upon reason and jus
tice and vision as to what was right asr
well as sympathy, the speaker said.
Food Will Move Shortly.
Then, as an added stress, records were
produced showing that there had been
general comment on the part of th?
council of ten as well as the supreme
economic body, that Germany was to
pay for her food directly. With thes?
two points before them, the council
agreed unanimously that no further ob
stacles to action existed and Premier
Ciemenceau himself announced fuli
agreeme-nt cm the part of the French.
Accordingly, when the German gov
ernment has been told the conditions
food will begin to flow, the payments
being made In three ways. The first
through raw materials that Germany
will supply: second, through the use of
credits in neutral countries, and third,
if the sums invoWed make this course
oecessary, the outright payments from
the German gold reserve.
Fleet to Be Turned Over.
As a preliminary to everything. Ger
many turns over her merchant fleet,
which will be used to take American
and other troops home at the rate of
T 1.000 monthly and bring back food.
The Italian delegates sat through
the proceedings in ironical mood. Yes
terday they had seen similar perform
ances, only they were in the position
that France holds today.
Reports of the serious extent of tiio
German revolution as received today
by the council had the effect also of
swinging the recalcitrants into action.
Tonight fear is expressed that the re
lief now promised may come too late,
for private advices indicate that the
forces of order are being overwhelmed
and that the population is turning
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