VOL. LIX. XO. 18,189.
rOKTLAD, OltEGON, TUESDAY, MARCH 11, 1919.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
REDS M. BENT ON
ruing REPUBLIC
Radical Elements United
for Revolution.
BRIGADIER -GENERAL
DISQUE IS DISCHARGED
OFFICER TO COXTIXUE HEAD OF
SPRUCE COREORATIOX.
OLSHEVIK GOVERNMENT AIM
Campaign Goes On Unchecked,
Says Solicitor Lamar.
SENSATIONAL FACTS BARED
Vostoffice Department orriclal Iiays
Evidence of Bold Conspiracy
Before Senate Committee.
HUNAHMY-WLLDE
LIMITED TO 10M0Q
WASHINGTON", March 10. Mail mat
ter seized since the signing of the
armistice has disclosed that the I. W.
V., anarchists, radical socialists and
others are "perfecting an amalgama--"tion"
which has for its object the over
throw of the American government
through "a bloody revolution" and the
establishment of a bolshevik republic,
according to a memorandum sent to
the senate propaganda committee by
Solicitor Lamar of the postoffice de
partment. '
This memorandum was made public
today by the committee and Chairman
Overman said it would be read into the
record tomorrow.
Trend of Propaganda Shown.
Declaring that in bolshevism the
radical elements of the country had
for the first time "found 4a common
cause upon which they can unite," Mr.
Lamar said his information showed
that propaganda against the govern
ment was being conducted with great
regularity and that its magnitude could
be measured by the "bold and out
spoken statements" found In the lit
erature. Accompanying his memoran
dum were several hundred excerpts
"from mail matter showing the trend
of the propaganda. These will be
made public later.
Particular reference was made by
the solicitor to the activity of the dis
satisfied foreign element in the coun
try, but he said that perhaps the
I. W. W. are the most active in the
dissemination of the propaganda be
cause they "have at command a large
field force known as recruiting agents,
subscription agents, etc.. who work un
ceasingly in the furtherance of the
'cause.' "
Papers Wield Influence.
To Mr.'Lamar's memorandum was at
tached a list of newspapers printed in
English and foreign languages, alleged
to be regularly conducted and pub
lished by the I. "W. W. Among them
was the Industrial Unionist, a Seattle
weekly.
The newspapers listed were:
The New Solidarity, English, weekly,
Chicago; Ono Big Union, English,
monthly, Chicago; Industrial Unionist.
Knglish, weekly, Seattle; California De
fense Bulletin, English, weekly, San
Francisco; The Rebel "Worker. English,
hi-monthly. New Tork; La Nueva Soli
daridad. Spanish, weekly, Chicago; Go
los Truzenta, Russian, weekly, Chicago;
Li Nuovo Proletario, Italian, weekly,
Chicago; Nya Varalden, Swedish, week
ly, Chicago: Der Industrialer Arbiter,
Jewish, weekly, Chicago; Probuda, Bui
garian, weekly. Chicago; A Fela Ba
dulas, Hungarian, weekly. Chicago.
Robins Again Testifies.
The information furnished by Mr.
Lamar coincides to an extent with the
Etatements reiterated today by Ray
mond Robins, former head of the
American Red Cross mission in Russia,
when he again appeared before the
committee, primarily to answer state
ments concerning him made Saturday
by Ravld R. Francis, American am
bassador to Russia.
- Mr. Robins insisted that it was the
desire of the bolshevikl to overthrow
all the governments of the world and
in their place set up terroristic gov
ernments similar to those in Russia.
He said he did not know of his own
knowledge that bolshevists from Rus
sia actually were engaged in trying to
accomplish this purpose in the United
States, but that he was convinced cer
tain people here were engaged in
propagating bolshevist ideas.
The I. "V. W.. he added, "has been
doing it for 20 years."
Francis Statement Denied.
Turning to Ambassador' Francis' tes
timony last Saturday, Mr. Robins denied
that he had gone to the headquarters
of the bolshevists in Petrograd, asked
about their principles and indicated his
approval of them. He also denied that
lie had ever pretended to represent the
American government in Ruesia. Am
bassador Francis told the committee he
had heard Mr. Robins spoken of in
Moscow as the mouthpiece of tho Amer
lean government and as a consequence
the ambassador thought it wise to make
a. public announcement that state
ments coming from sources other than
the American embassy were not au
thorized. Mr. Robins submitted to the commit
tee copies of cablegrams which he eaid
passed between Ambassador Francis
and the state department, and tele
grams and letters which he asserted
were sent to the ambassador. This wit
ness explained that his purpose in of
fering these documents was to show
that at all times his relations with the
ambassador were valued and cordial,
and that he was authorized by Am
bassador Francis to maintain contact
with the bolshevists.
Important Letter Cited.
One of the letters was given him by
Bidders Complain Because Offers on
Property at Vancouver Are Re
jected by Government.
Brigadier-General Brice P. Dlsque,
chief of the spruce production division.
was discharged from the service yester
day, according to advices received from
Washington and substantiated here by
Colonel C.' P. Stearns, chief of staff.
General Disque has been in New York
recently and is not expected to return
for 10 days or more.
Upon his return to Portland General
Disque will continue, in supervision of
the spruce corporation, as its president.
While in the service he was both com
mander of the spruce division and
president of the corporation, two sepa
rate affairs. Upon his discharge he re
tains the "latter position. The order
relative to his discharge, of March 5,
was amended to read as follows:
"Brigadier-General Brlce P. Disque is
honorably discharged from the service
of the United States for the convenience
of the government, to take effect
March 10."
The length of General Disque's ten
ure of the spruce corporation presi
dency is problematical, according to
Colonel Stearns, who said that the
president is not in any sense the head
of a receivership. A great deal remains
to tie accomplished before the affairs
of the corporation have been concluded,
and policy in this regard has never
been thoroughly outlined.
Since the recent wholesale refusal of
.the bids received by the spruce corpora
tion, on the $10,000,000 worth of prop
erty used in the camps and mills, con
siderable dissatisfaction has been voiced
by individuals and firms who bid upon
various items of the property. The sales
board, as a reason for declining a ma
jority of the bids, issued a statement
declaring that they were inadequate
and ridiculously low.
Many bidders say that their, offers on
items of equipment were full value for
used machinery and material, and pro
test that the spruce corporation should
furnish without delay complete infor
mation on the bids received and the
reasons for rejecting them. No definite
detailed information as to the bids' has
yet been made public.
Supreme Counci' ,oides
Disarmamer jrms.
TROOPS TO Shr.E 12 YEARS
GERMAN OFFICER KILLED
Former Military Attache at Brussels
Tlirown Into River.
AMSTERDAM, March 10. During the
righting last week in Halle a German
army officer named von Ivluokcr, for
merly a German military attache at
Brussels and Paris, was thrown into
the river by rioters. The officer at
tempted to swim ashore, whereupon
the rioters are said to have cut off his
hands. He was finally shpt and killed.
The officer referred to may he Von
Klueber, who was military attache in
Brussels In 1914. At that time he had
the rank of major and was a member of
the German general staff.
Allies to Name Economic and
Financial Representatives.
TAFT'S IDEAS CONSIDERED
Ex-President's Proposed Amend
ments to League of Xations 1
Plan Carefully Studied.
(By the Associated Press.)
PARIS, March 10. The supreme war
council today finally adopted tho mili
tary terms of German disarmament
These .provide for an army of 100,000
men. enlisted for 12 years.
The supreme council settled the dis
puted question of representation of the
small powers on the economic and
unancial commissions of the peace
conference by deciding to name their
representatives itself, thus eliminating
all contention between the European
and Latin-American countries as to
proportionate representation.
Council to Name Delegates.
This decisicm was reached on a re
port of M. Pichon, the French foreign
minister, which recommenced that na
tions like Brazil, Panama and Cuba,
which had special interests involved in
the action of these commissions or
which had taken some .part in the war,
should in any case be represented. The
small nations had asked that their
representation . be increased to ten
members. The council decided to in
crease their representation to seven
members on each commission to be se
lected by the council Itself.
The dispute between Ecuador and
Peru is epected to be among the firs
cases of territorial adjustments to
come before the league of nations
The foreign minister or Ecuador has
requested President Wilson to arbi
trate the dispute, expressing the belief
that Peru will be willing to accept
him as umpire. The expectation here
is, however, that President Wilson will
prefer to submit the matter to the
league of nations. V
Taft's r-roaosals Stodlcd.
The amendments to the -draft of the
league of nations plan which have been
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Weather.
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature 6
degrees: minimum. IIS decrees.
IOBAVS Xlaln; somberly winds.
War.
Official casualty list. Tare 13.
I"orrl-T.
reign of terror
TERROR REIGNS IN
SUBURB OF BERLIN
In
Berlin
to
Blvinc wy
Bible lands.
Reds Inaugurate
suburb. Pag 1.
German people teem to be
despair 1'age 4.
America's wing may shield
Page 7.
German army to be limited to 100.000 men.
rise x.
National.
Radicals bent on wrecking United State
government. Page 1.
Federal control of roads defended by Mr.
nines. Page 6.
Supreme Court- sustains conviction of Eu
gene V. Debs. Page 2.
Hunt tor promising democrat begun by party
- leaders. Page 3.
Type of navy's battleship may ba wholI
changed.. Page 4.
Domestic.
San Francisco may soon see 40,000 men idle.
i'ge o.
United States army system of punishments
scored. Page a.
H ports.
Rudy Kalllo, Portland boy, to join Detroit
Tigers at' Macon, Ga. Page 14.
Programme for smoker of March 18 Is com
pleted. Page 15.
Pacific Northwest.
Clayton labor bill likely to become law In
Washington state. Page o.
Commercial and Marine.
AH classes of stock strong at local yards.
Page si.
Corn advances on predictions of higher
wheat price. Page 1.
Bullish enthusiasm rules In Wall-street stock
market. Page 21.
Strike on April 1 not now looked for by
Portland labor unions. Page 20.
Portland and Vicinity.
Mayor Baker praises soldiers welcome com
mtttee in New York. Page 1.
Armenian drive to go on until quota Is
reached. Page "2.
Third Oregon boys welcomed home. Page 1
Kv. K. p. Murphy returns from overseas
duty. Page .
Brigadlier-General Disq.ua discharged.
j'age l.
Lumber operators are optimistic over out
.ook. Page 9.
Klamath county speakers address Forum
on annexation. Page 12.
weather report, data and forecast. Page 20.
FORMER LIEUTENANT HELD
Army Officer Charged With Imper
sonating Secret Service Agent.
SPOKANE, March 10. Former Sec
ond Lieutenant P. S. Hanabrough of the
United States army was bound over to
the federal grand Jury today by United
States Commissioner Dirks on a charge
of impersonating an officer of the se
cret service. Hansbrough is said to he
from Kansas and saw four years' serv
ice in the army.
Passing of bad checks while imper
sonating a government official Is the
specific allegation.
Concluded on Page 2, Column 3.
MORE GRAND DUKES' SLAIN
Four Alleged Monarchists Executed
by Russian Beds.
COPENHAGEN, March 9. Four more
Russian grand dukes have been ex
ecuted at Petrograd by bolshevikl dur
ing the last fortnight on the charge of
being involved In a monarchist plot,
according to advices to the Bcrlingske
Tidende.
Spartacan Blood Lust
Indulged to Limit.
Is
OLICE QUARTERS STORMED
MAYOR BAKER LAUDS
NEW YORK WORKERS
OKEUOX SOLDIERS RECEIVING
WELCOME OX KETVRX.
THIRD OREGON BOYS
JOYOUSLY GREETED
Officers on Duty All Shot Down
by Insurgents.
MURDER FOLLOWS TORTURE
Story of Wholesale Cold-Bloodcd
Killing Told by Government Sol
dier Who Escaped Foes.
BERLIN'. Sunday. March 9. By the
Associated Press.) Llchtenberg, the
northeastern suburb of Berlin, was to
day the center of the Spartacan resist
ance. A virtual reign of terror pre
vails there.
The Associated Press received a re
port from government headquarters
this afternoon that a band of Spartacana
late Saturday stormed police head
quarters in Llchtenberg and shot all
the officers on duty. Today military
operations against the insurgents in
this district were resumed, as they also
were In the other disturbed suburbs.
Desultory sniping and the process of
wiping out bands of guerillas are con
tinuing in some parts of the old city.
but up to 1 o'clock this afternoon there
had been no heavy fighting. The in
surgents apparently are running short
of rifle ammunition.
Bomb Dropped Into Crowd.
An unidentified airplane yesterday
dropped a, bomb on a crowd standing
In line to buy food.
The explosion resulted in 30 casual
ties among civilians. Including women
and children.
BERLIN. March 10. (By the Asso
ciated Press.) Murders, fighting and
plundering continued throughout Sun
day in various parts of the city. There
was much sniping from the roofs
Many Spartacana were made ' prisoner
during the forenoon and summary exc
cutions began in the afternoon.
Three looters caught In the act were
the first to be executed. The govern
ment soldiers were so embittered by
their opponents' atrocities that Jlcrr
! Noske's decree ordering such execu
tions was welcomed.
Treachery la Punished.
An Instance of communist trrsch-
Comnilttec Handicapped by Lack of
Adequate Quarters Complete
Report to Re Made.
'Splendid results are being achieved by
the members of the New York commit
tee for the reception, welcome and wel
fare of the returning Oregon service
men, according to the contents of a
message received yesterday from Mayor
Baker by his secretary, Hal M. White.
The committee Is handicapped In its
work through the lack of adequate
quarters and new headquarters now are
being sought, according to Mayor
Baker, who states that he will remain
In New Tork until the committee has
been established in its new home.
"The committee is doins splendid
ork," states the mayor. "Each mem
ber is devoting a great amount of time
to assure that every returning man is
given a proper welcome."
Mayor Baker plans to visit all the
hospitals and camps In the vicinity of
New York where Oregon boys are sta
tioned and upon his return to Portland
will issue a detailed report of the work
of the committee, a report which is
now Impracticable to submit by telegraph.-
Thousands Welcome Vet
erans From France.
HAPPY SCENES ARE WITNESSED
Cheers Mark Parade of Troops
Down Victory Way.
GAS DANGEROUS ON FARMS
War Product Will Not Re Used In
Fighting Pests.
WASHINGTON. March 10. roison
gas developed In war will not be used
to clear American farm, of Insects and
rodent pests. Secretary Lane has de
cided aftr investigation.
Experiments showed that while pests
were killed, there was danger of the
gas spreading and destroying livestock
and persons nearby, in case the wind
should carry the fumes.
BANQUET GIVEN SOLDIERS
LAND SPECULATION BARRED
Munich Soviet Prevents Ruylng of
More Land Than One Needs.
MUNICH. March 9. (Via Amster
dam.) The Central Council of Soviets
here has issued a decree forbidding
speculation in real estate. Nobody will
be allowed to buy more real estate than
he needs for his personal use.
The council also decreed a "preventive
censorship" for the press of the Rhine-land.
(Concluded on Puff Column 1.)
HUN CANNON METAL "USED
Liberty Loan Medals to Be Present
ed to Workers.
SAN7 FRANCISCO. March 10. A medal
the size of an American half dollar and
made from captured German cannon
Is to be awarded each worker In the
forthcoming victory loan rampnlfn. the
liberty loan headquarters announced
today.
PORTLAND WELCOMES THE BOYS OF TITE OLD THIRD OREGON BACK FROM FRANCE AND BATTLE.
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Returning Men Welcome; Many
of Soldiers Serve at Front.
BY BEN HIT. LAMPMAN.
Quite a few Portland folk remember
very well when the Third Oregon went
away. There wasn't a great deal of
cheering, although almost everyone
was there. Franco was such a long
way off, the sea so Wide and deep and
tre;ichery-haunted. After that. why.
as a matter of course there would be
battles. Take It all In all, that de
parture was almighty Inspiring, but
it wasn't what any elongated imagina
tion could justly term Joyous.
But when Portland went to meet the
Third Oregon yesterday or tho 16Cd
Infantry, as none of the home people
will call them there befell a study in
contrasts. As such It was an utterly
neglected opportunity, for everyone
was too busy shaking hands with the
whooping, laughing overseas Oregon
men to bother with such piffle as psy
chology. Many Leave Trai. Early.
At 3:40 o'clock yesterday afternoon,
with the union station a bedlam of an
ticipatory kith and kin. four companies
ot me oiu regiment rolled Into the
yards. The troop train windows were
jammed with long rows of tousled
heads and tanned faces respectively
opened In ear-Fplittlng whoops of sheer
Joy at the home-coming. In all there
were about 260 returned troopers, but
scores left the train at Vancouver and
boarded str. .t cars to reach their
homes sooner.
Colonel John May, commander rf the
renlment, lean and dusky and husky,
with his overseas cap perched as Jaunt
ily as any top-sergeant's, stepped Into
the throng and was engulfed. Those
who sought him followed the oriflammc
of his grizzled thatch hither and thiiher
ere they ran him down.
"Yes. sir." laushed the colonel. "I
want to say th.it we are tickled to
Here a matron of decided attractive
ness rushed the circle, carrying the
first, second and third lines without
mussing her coiffure, and pounced
upon the protesting commander.
Warm Urlromr ;lvr.
"Nix: Nix!'" expostulated Colonel
May. "None of that Hobyon stuff!"
Hut she had bussed him fairly and
siua.rcly and was gone.
Looking backward to that day when
the 3d Orrson entrained, it was diffi
cult to realize that this was the same
crowd that bade them good-bye. But
it was. there could be no doubt of that.
Whereas It had wept a little and
cheered but feebly on that October
day In 1917. It now lad down a deafen
hig barrage of noipe and hilarity. If
here and there were eyes a trifle misty,
you may bet your last dollar and
win on tho proposition that it wasn't
from grief.
A rough-and-ready crowd they
seemed o be, those boys of the 2d
i Oregon. From the military standpoint
they were as smart as the best of them.
'The roughness was something that you
! sensed, precisely In the way that Heinle
jdld when he received his first party of
(visitors in tho American trench raids.
.And less than two years ago most of
them were In high-school or tackling
their first tilt with a job.
Troops f.lad to De Home.
It took a deal of straightening out.
that crowd did, before the bugles sflfted
the olive drab out of it and straight
ened the line of veterans behind their
colors on the street a street that
stretched away in two black parallels
of shouting populace. The Multnomah
Guard band and the band of the Salva
tion Army were playing marching airs.
"We're delighted to return," laughed
Colonel May, snatching a moment from
I the onslaught of handshakers. "I
can't express Jirst what we feel in com-
t ing back to Oregon. We "
1 The crowd swirled round him again.
! pounding his soldierly shoulders, shout
j ing commendation and heilos at the
COLONEL JOHN L. SI W'S CONTINGENT OF 250 DISCHARGED SOLDIERS OF THE 162B- INFANTRY CROSSING RI RNSIDE STREET ON PARADE I P LIBERTV WAY. I'lHH ED BY THOUSANDS .
. . . . . . Of 1IAITV HLLAT1VLS AMI l-'Klt.MJS. I
VCunviuded a I'agc S, Column X.)
i officer who led the regiment away and
t who was most astoundingly here again
j with the same boys.
Klae Is Weather-Wont.
j "Remember what I said," shouted
the colonel. "I said we'd come back .
I said I'd come back w ith the boys! And
here we tre!"
Then Colonel May said something to
the effect that such a welcome as Port
land was giving them did not lack for
.appreciation, that It hit a fellow In his
vitals and made him slow to find words
about It all. He stepped to the head
of the column, with Major M. B. Mar
cellus. Captain Howard E. Carruth and
Captain Harry E. Hill. regimental
, adjutant. The colors went dow n the
. street.
j The flag "itself has seen rough wea
i ther since it parted last f-om Oregon.
1 It is tattered and torn, and somewhat
j faded, but it flung out from the staff
:Jut as Jauntily as It had done many
months ago. And Ibrtland took oft its
hats to the colors with a deeper thrill
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