VOL. I.IX. NO. 18,190. PORTLAND, OllEGOX, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1919. PRICE FIVE CENTS. DRIVE REDS BAKER FAILS TO ASK CHAMBERLAIN ON TRIP PAIR QUARREL AND HUSBAND IS SROT WELL! WELL! HUNS EVEN OPPOSE LEAGUE BOY KILLED BY AUTO AS HE RUNS IN STREET LD THIRD TWO TOWNS MEET AS ONE BODY CREDIT TO OREGON" SENATOR'S EXPOSE OF SECRETARY HELD REASOX. COMBINE ' OF ARMS AGAINST GERMANY," STYLES ONE. DR. J. O. C. WILEV DRIVER OF MACHINE THAT II ITS CHILD. 1 ' HUMS PORT COMMISSIONS 1 FROM NAT ON Bolsheviki Said to Have Suffered Heavily. BERLIN YET IS IN TURMOIL l Fighting Declared to Be Going on With Great Fury. 'PILLAGE LOSS IS GREAT ;tMiners' Strike in Silesian Coal Fields Spreads and Encounters With Troops Are Reported. ! LONDON, March 11. (By the Asso . fciated Press.) The German govern ment troops, recently reinforced, have Resumed the fighting in Lichtenberg, pays a German wireless dispatch re ceived here tonight. The dispatch adds that the spartacans already have been obliged to evacuate the police headquarters and the post office. BERLIN", March 11. (Havas.) Gr rnan troops have recaptured the towns of Laiden and Schrundenv northeast of Libau. Courland, according to reports received here. The bolsheviki were driven back with heavy losses. Fighting is still going on in Berlin fwith great fury. Witnesses of the fighting in the last lew days say that both the spartacans find the government soldiers acted like wild beasts. Hostilities continue in the northern and northeastern sections of Berlin and the government troops are killing all prisoners who fall into their hands. "Women, the reports add, participated in the cruelties with as piuch desperation as the men. Property Lows Great The reports estimate the loss in Ber lin from pillage alone at 50,000,000 tnarks. Frankfurtferstrasse, a well-known Oewish business section, suffered heav ily. Encounters with troops are reported from the Silesian coal region, where the miners' strike Is spreading. The .movement is partly a Polish separative one in character, the Poles in this region having been left by the allies On. the German side of the line of demarcation fixed by the February armistice. The miners' strike In the Hamborn Essen region also has been resumed. BERLIN, March 9. (By the Asso ciated Press.) Public opinion must be come the real sovereign in Germany, fcut it must be enlightened opinion Jiased upon democratic development and conscious of its great responsibility. JThis was the central idea of a speech jnade tonight by Count von Bernstorff. former German ambassador to the United States, at a meeting to organize the democratic club." ... Public Opinion Blamed. ' The former ambassador toVd his hear . rs that when he returned to Germany from, the United States he endeavored to learn why ruthless submarine war fare, which he said was responsible for Germany's downfall, was decided upon instead of the acceptance of a less se vere course. He added: "The answer was regularly that pub- fie opinion in Germany would not have j Buffered any other solution. I will! ot discuss whether this judgment can 1 1 a :. (I before history, but in any even Jt demonstrates, how highly public opinion was even tben regarded by us. An elemental movement in favor of jpeace at that time would have secured gieace without victory." Other People Disregarded. Public opinion, he added, must be so developed that no government can jtland against it, but it must not dis regard the ideas and habits or thought of other peoples. That German public opinion has failed 40 do this, the count said, was demon strated by the fact that all Germans ju ho returned from America with him, with one exception, were opposed to L'-boat warfare and considered it a fatal mistake, as did also most Germans iicquainted with American views of life and ways of thinking. HOSPITAL UNIT SAILS SOON 4Drcgon Doctors and Nurses Listed for Early Convoy Home. ' OTtEGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington, D. C, March 11. Base hospital Jvumber 46, which includes several physicians and nurses from Portland, Kugene and other cities in western Oregon is on the priority list for early convoy and merely awaiting available transportation facilities. Senator Cham- lierlatn was told by the war depart ment today. The 85th division, to which several Oregon and Washington men have been transferred recently for the purpose of Bending them home, is also on the priority list. PRIMARY SUFFRAGE FAILS ,ona Senate Adopts Resolution for Constitutional Amendment. rKS MOINES, March 11. Woman suffrage lost In the Iowa senate today J when that body voted to postpone in- definitely the .lou-se bill granting ' women primary suffrage and then pr.xsed the resolution proposing full woman suffrage through constitu tional amendment. j War Department Head's Neglect to Invite Senator to Co Abroad Re garded as Intent to Snub. 3 OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, March 11. Doee Secretary Ba ker intend to snub Senator Chamber lain, was the question asked In Wash ington today when it was disclosed that the secretary of war had invited the house military affairs committee to accompany him on his forthcoming trip to Europe to inspect the army of occupation. It was announced that Secretary Ba ker and members of the houee military committee will sail on the George Wash ington from New York April 1. No other reason for inviting the hduse committee and ignoring the senate committee can be surmised except that Senator Chamberlain is chairman of the senate committee. It appears that Secretary Baker's an tipathy for Senator Chamberlain reached the unforgiving stage when in the last few days of the late congress the Oregon senator read into the Con gressional Record what is known as the Baker secret orders, which re vealed the secretary in a two-faced role In the conduct of some affairs. WASHINGTON, March 11. Several members of the house military com mittee will accompany Secretary Baker tc Europe at his invitation to inspect the American army of occupation and American camps. They expect to sail from New York on the George Wash ington soon after April 1. Representatives Dent of Alabama; Fields, Kentucky; Olney,- Massachu setts; Nicholls, South Carolina; Harri son, Virginia; Anthony, Kansas, and Hull, Iowa, have accepted the invita tion. Representatives Quin, Mississ ippi; Caldwell. New York; Wise, Geor gia; Greene, Vermont, and Morin and Crago. Pennsylvania, who are absent from Washington also will be asked to make the trip. Representative Kahn, California, who' will become chairman in the next congress, is already on his way abroad. NEW GUN DEADLY WEAPON Government Places Order for Most Powerful Shooter. TROY, N. Y., March 11. The United States government has placed an order with the Watervliet Arsenal for a gun to supersede the famous 155-millimeter gun. The new gun is larger, shoots further and does more- damage. It is called a "one-ninety-four." ' and two guns were ordered as an experiment. The gun is eight inches in diameter, 21 feet six inches, long, weighs 12 tons, has a range of ten miles and the Droiectile weighs 175 pounds. It is the most powerful weapon of its size in existence. HUN IN BOLSHEVIK PLGT Ex-Officer Accused of Selling Air planes to Russians. LONDON, March 1. Lieutenant Porten. formerly an officer in the Ger man aviation service, has been tried by court-martial, according to Berlin advices received in Copenhagen and forwarded by the Central News agency on a charge of having sold an entire park of airplanes at Vllna to the bol sheviki for 2,000,000 marks. The airplanes were valued at 10,000 000 marks. Porten then fled to Koenigsberg and headed a conspiracy in the local workmen's council against the commander of the German garri son at Kovno. The plot was dis covered and Porten was arrested. SCHOOL TIMBER VALUABLE Idaho Agricultural College Holdings Worth $30,000,000. MOSCOW. Idaho, March 10. fSpe cial.) That the timber owned by the University of Idaho and its kindred branches, including the various schools and the agricultural college, is worth, at present prices, more than $30,000,000 is the statement made today by Dean F. G. Miller, head of the department of forestry. The university probably is the largest holder of timber lands In Idaho, with the exception of the state. Dean Miller is particularly anxious j that some arrangement be made for a j better organization for the prevention and fighting of forest fires. SUFFRAGIST VIEWS TARGET Equal Rights Association Declares Attitude Vnwomanly. LOUISVILLE, Ky March 11. Reso lutions denouncing the attitude of mili tant suffragists as "fatuous, unwom anly and reprehensible" were adopted at the annual convention of the Ken tucky Equal Rights association here today. Another resolution praised President Wilson for his "unswerving loyalty to the cause of the enfranchisement of women," and for bringing the nation safely through the war into the dawn of a new day of peace founded on mercy, justice and good will." UNEMPLOYED COST HUGE New York to Spend $20,000,000 for Reconstruction Work. ALBANY. N. Y., March 11. It will cost New York approximately $90,000, 000, the largest amount in the history of the commonwealth, to administer Its affairs during the next fiscal year. Approximately $20,000,000 of this to- tal will be for construction work to ' Jielp .take Citj-oJ xh unemployed. Jail Is Lot of Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Brooks. GLANCING BULLET HITS -4 AN Wife Said to Have Fired Re volver at Spouse. MONEY TROUBLES BLAMED Mrs. Brooks Is Said to Have Accused Husband of Few Months of Hav ing Squandered Fortune. Mrs. Blanche Brcoks, said to be a member of a wealthy pioneer Oregon family, and her husband. Maurice Brooks, were locked in the city jail last night pending investigation of the shooting of Mr. Brooks during a family quarrel In the Villa St. Clara apart ments yesterday. Mr. Brooks told the police that his wife shot at him with revolver, and that the bullet, strik ing the wall of the apartment. ricocheted off the plaster and inflicted flesh wound in his arm near the elbow. The couple were married last August and came to Portland a few days ago from Los Angeles. They were moving into the apartments, s",t is said, when they quarreled over financial difficul ties, and Mrs. Brooks is said to have accused her husband of squandering her fortune. Itnaband Aika for Arrrnl. Following the shooting, police say. Mr. Brooks secured medical attention from the apartment house physician and then telephoned to his wife, say ing that if she would beg his pardon for her actions he would forgive, her. Police say she refused flatly, where upon, he telephoned headquarters and asked that she be arrested. Inspectors Goltz, Craddock and Gor don answered the call, and took the couple to the police station, where each of them made a statement to Deputy uistrict, Attorney Cahalin. Mr. Cahalin said later that he' was convinced that neither was telling the whole truth about the trouble, but that he was con vinced it was nothing but a quarrel which would be patched up today. Couple Are Reticent. As Mrs. Blanche White, Mrs. Brooks is said to have been prominent locally several years ago. Residing at the Multnomah and Benson hotels succes sively, sihe drove about the city in an automobile, wearing ermine furs worth thousands of dollars. Her acquaint ances say she' had inherited from $50. 000 to JSO.OOO from her father's estate in eastern Oregon. The young coupie refused to talk for publication, Dut their friends say that the financial difficulties arose Concluded on Page Column 1 . i . t M I , , Allied Peace Organization Regarded as Establishing "Anglo-Amcr- . ' lean World Domination." WASHINGTON". March 11. General opposition to the proposed league of nations is reflected in recent German newspaper comment received by the state department and made public to day." Two of them declare the league as proposed would establish "Anglo American world domination," while an other characterizes it as "a league of arms against Germany." The Vorwaerts asserts that the league "is a league of victors without charac ter or trust, despi' the welcome estab lishment of the principle of arbitra tion, and the treaty is pervaded 'with a capitalistic spirit." The Taeglische Rundschau says that the "league simply establishes an Anglo-American world domination, France, Japan and Italy being permitted to assist neutrals." The Germans, according to the Tage blatt, now learn that In the league of nations statutes "established at Paris without consultation, no attention ap pears to have been paid to Germany, evidently considered a second or third rate power. The league Is a draft not of a league of nations, but a league of arms against Germany." " The Leipzig Tageblatt says: "It is our misfortune we are in a disadvan tageous position regarding power, but that should not deter us from approv ing the erection of a league, for the cause is of too great importance for us. Our existence as a national and eco nomic body is at stake, and this is bet ter safeguarded within than without the league. It does not follow that we must swallow the treaty In its present form." The Vosslsche Zeitung terms the treaty "a great disappointment; merely an Instrument to maintain the suprem acy of England and America." FLIGHTS MADE TO HOSPITAL Convalescent Officer Is Carried 18 Miles in 19 Minutes. 1 , NEW YORK, March 11. Bound to a stretcher aboard a naval flying boat. Lieutenant David Gray, a convalescent officer, accompanied by a woman aerial nurse, was carried through space today from the naval air station at Rock away, L. I., to St. Luke's hospital, Man hattan, about 18 miles, in 49 minutes. The flight was taken to demonstrate the .practicability of transfer .-Ing wounded soldiers by airplane. Lieutenant Stevens piloted the sea plane and Major Helen Bastedo of the woman's motor corps, who suggested the trip, was the nurse. The patient was transferred from the aircraft to a dory after a landing had been made on the Hudson river. He was then rowed ashore and taken in a motor ambulance to a hospital. Gas Masks Proved AVorthlcss. . WASHINGTON, March 11. Another warning that army gas masks devel oped for protection against the poison gases of the Germans axe . almost worthless in civil employments was given today by the bureau of mines as the result of reports of injuries to lirenion and miners, who have at' tempted to u.e the mask in their work WITH THE PRESIDENT ON THE WAY TO Change in Personnel to Take Place at Once. TRAFFIC BUREAU DISCUSSED New Era of Maritime Progress for City Outlined. BUILDING PLANS TAKEN UP Drydock Project, Piers and Sheds Are Included In Programme of Waterfront Improvements. Portland's new era of maritime prog ress and rroePer'-,y began yesterday morning, when the personnel of the Port of Portland commission and the commission of publ'.c docks convened hm one body at the former's headquar ters, for ideas of both on what is best for. the city and district received a most harmonious reception. The all-important step contemplated was admittedly the formation of a public traffic bureau, which recently was determined on by the Tort of Port land after a urret1on for Its crea tion that came from the Chamber of Commerce. The expense of such a de partment, probably ranging from 150. 000 to $75,000 a year for a few years, will be borne jointly by the two com missions. At the head of the bureau will be the ablest transportation man available, one who has knowledge of both railroad and water traffic mat ters. One sub-department Under his direction will have to do with public ity, so the world may be Informed of what Oregon and the Columbia and Willamette river district produce and can ship, as well as of the market open here for Inbound commodities. Old Membei-m to Itealga. When the legislature named a new port commission to succeed the In cumbents, it wu stipulated the change take place June 1. but now. In view of the projects :ider way and those to be fostered, it has been agreed by five of the seven now serving that they will resign at tomorrow's regular meeting, the two left being named on the succeeding commission, they being D. C. CRellly and George H. Kelly, n. D. Inman. Captain J. W. Shaver. Cap tain E. W. Spencer, Captain Archie L. Pease and Captain W. 11. Patterson are to leave the board and in their places will be elected Frank M. Warren, J. D. Kenworthy. Andrew Porter, Max 11. Houser and Phil Metsoham Jr. "In the next few years there will be 6. 000.000,000 feet of lumber cut in the Portland district and we can only market about half of that by railroad, so if we move 5,000.000.000 feet by water there will be plenty of ships (Concluded on Page 1. Column 1.1 FRANCE. Copyright. 1919. by John T. McCutcheon. Four-Ycar-OId Son or L. C. llosTord, Walking With Mother, Darts Suddenly in Front of Car. Fred Hosford, 4 years and 7 months old. was injured fatally yesterday by urins eirucK oy an auiomooue onven by Dr. J. O. C. Wiley at King and Washington streets. He died on the way to St. Vincent's hospital in the care of the Arrow Ambulance company. The boy was the son of Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Hosford, 493 East Fprty-third street, and was walking with his mother when the accident occurred. Dr. Wiley reported that the child ran off the curbing In front of his machine, and Patrolman Schad. who investigated, agreed with him. There probably will be up Inquest. Mrs. George Myers, of the Hanover apartments, and C. H. Pearson of the St. Paul hotel saw the accident. GAME WARDEN TRAPS TRIO Telephone Disconnected Ilcfore Haiti on Violators I - Made. BEND, Dr.. March 11. (Special.) After temporarily disconnecting rural telephone lines to prevent the warning of his intended visit being telephoned ahead. District Game Warden Tonkin searched the homes of Harry elllsing. Ed Parks and Clyde Gist in the Sisters country. 23 miles from here and found deer hides, venison and in one instance a beaver pelt, he testified in justice court here today. Heising and Parks pleaded guilty to the charge of violating the state law by killing game out of season and paid fines totaling more than $100. Gist will be tried later. HIGH COSTS PREVENT WORK Building Waits on I-ower Prices of Materials and Wages. WASHINGTON, March 11. High prices of mater'als and high wages re main as the two most Important factors In preventing increased building activi ties, the department of labor announced today after compiling answers to ques tionnaires from 74 cities. Another obstacle to resumption of building In some cities was said to be high Interest rates on capital to finance projects. POLAND ADOPTS DRAFT ACT Law Passed Unanimously to Create Army of 600.000. PARIS. March 11. The Polish na tional assembly, according to a dis patch from Warsaw, has approved by a unanimous vote a law calling to mill tary service the classes from 1S91 to 1S96. Inclusive. It is expected that the measure will provide Poland with an army of 600.000 men. The deputies of the left, it Is added, strongly favored the law. STATE ALSOJJEEDS MONEY California Replies to the Appeal of Dlrector-ticneral Hines. SACRAMENTO, Cal.. March 11. Re newed appeal for reduction of Califor nia Male taxes on gross receipts of federally controlled railroad made by Walker D. Hines. director-general of railroads, was tnet today with the statement from Marshall De Motte chairman of the state board of control. that ''Just now the need of the state for money is as great as the nation's. INDEX . OF TODAY'S NEWS The V rat her. rESTERDAT'S Maximum temperature. 4S decrees: minimum, 41 degree. TODAY'S Haiti; moderate southerly winds. foreign. Even Huns oppowe peare league. Page 1 American overseas tore, is factor In near ee?tern outreach. I'isr . Huns defeat Rede. Pile 1. Allies tace big odds in Ruaia. Pace 1?.. Solution of Austrian situation before con f.-rence. Pace -. ' National. Baker omits Inviting Senator Chamberlain to go abroad. Page 1. Bryan Indorses league or nations but seea aome detects. fage Frank F, Mondell named for floor leader of house. I . Arrangements mane to provide railroads' needed funds. Fate 3. Crowder answered by Colonel Ansell, Pane e. Official casualty list. Pare II. Domestic. Taft declares Knox arguments against league unsound. rasa 6. Sports. Judge McCrerile worried br failure of pilch era to report. Pug. 14. !.lnln wins rifrht to play In state title aeries at Kugene. Page IS. Portland Beavers arrive at Crockett train ing camp. Page 14. Morley's return to coast league baseball not welcomed. Page 14. rarifl XorthwM. Olympia house votes to restore capital pan Ivhment. Pago 4. Shtpvard strikers returning to work disap pointed. Page . I.a, Urande greets returning heroes. Page IS. March 24 last day to file arguments. Page 13 Wood ahlp plant to be aold. Page 20. Portland and Vicinity. Four-rear-oM son of L,. C. Hosford killed by auto. Page 1. Couple quarrel and husband it) shot la arm. Page 1. Old 3d Orcson credit to nation. Page 1. Port commli.ton outlines new era of marl time progietw lor city. Page 1. New Ms!ia legislation the business ba.-,Is. Pagi 10- Thi-d Oregon boya algn white plcdce. rage 1J. Jefferson Hlrh school boys get warm we! coma on return irom r ranee. Page 1 Rumors of Olcott shake-up doubted. Page 11 Interest In Armenian drive slackens. Page 0. Campaign for re!ier or eastern turonc t open f" n-n 11. rice at?f te UL Al XoiCCUS. aac 22. I 22.1 Colonel May Lauds Record of Overseas Men. TWO REGIMENTS IN FIGHTING Work in Training Area Wins Praise From Officers. COURIER SERVICE THRILLS Men Are Widely Scattered and Participate in Many Lines of Overseas Activity. BY BEN Hl'R LAMPMA.V. The record of the old Third Oregon. rom the time it boarded the troop ship o sail for France, until It returned rom overseas, is griven by Colonel John May, commander, who arrived in Port land on Monday, with four companies of the unit. It is an unusual record, broad In Its arlety of service and brisht with an unsurpassed record of efficiency in all details asxisned to it. whether cleaning up a trench port or mopping up a Ger man trench. As Colonel Mat tells It. his voice Is happy with a very proper pride. Infantry la Sent Overseas. "The 16'a infantry was filled up to maximum war strength Qf 3700 enlisted men and 103 commissioned officers on December 1917." said Colonel May. 'Some of them were draft men of the first contingent from Camp Levis. On December 11 the first and second bat- allons. under command of I.ieutenant- Colonel Abrams, went aboard transport. an Ir.nfrlish liner, and sailed for Liver pool. Kn eland. "The first battalion, headquarters company, machine gun company, and supply company, the commanding; of ficer and reelmental headn boarded the transport Susquehanna on December 1J, 1M7. and sailed for St. Naxaire. On arriving in Liverpool, companies K and CJ were put on duty at a rest camp neitr that base. Com pany K and H and the entire 5d bat talion, were sent to France, arriving t Brest about January 4. The 16Id Infantry relieved the 5th and 6th reri mente of marine, and took over their duties at Him, St. Nagalre. Lapallice and Bordeaux. Men Are Widely Scattered. "Colonel Abrams was appointed com mander of the base at Havre. Com pany H was detached for duty at that base. Company K was sent to Chau tnont as guard at General beadquartera of the A. K. F.. which at that time was moved from Paris to Chaumont. The 3d battalion, with Major McCatherin in command, was stationed at Neveraj. and took over the guard and police duty at all points occupied by Ameri can detachments from Nice to Tours. "The first battalion, under command of Major E. Bowman, took over the guard and police duty at St. Naxaire The regimental headquarters, headquar ters company. machinegun company and supply company, with five com- parles of the l3d the Id Montana were sent to Iwvrdeaux. taking- over po lice and guard duty at that base. Two Rr(lsiesti la Kighttac. "The oth and Slh marine regiments, hich we relieved, were sent to a train ing camp and later joined the -d di vision. They were the only regiments of marines to see combat, and it was their men who broke the German thrust at Chateau-Thierry. Jn conjuue tion with the 9th and :3d infantry. "I was appointed commander of camp nd chief landing officer at Bordeaux. Of course I had command of all of the American camps at that base, which had room for Uo.OOO troops. At the time we took over these different bases, con struction work bad just begun, and the officers and men of the 163d had to as sist in the organisation as well as in the policing and guard of the bases. "Selection for such service is bafed. primarily, on the fact that troops are trained in this work, and the assign ment was very creditable to the 163d regiment. Bordrssx la Clearest Pert. "While the 163d infantry was on duty at Bordeaux with the co-operation ot the French authorities, the port bad the reputation of being the cleanest of all ports In France. There were courtesans in plenty they are licensed over there but we put them off the street?, raided their resorts, and re duced the evil to a minimum. "It was odd the way they approached this matter. The mayor or Bordeaux cou'dn't understand our attitude, but rendered his hearty co-operation. We dug up an ancient law relative to courtesans, dating back to the reign of Napoleon. It had not been enforced for many years, but we made it a very lively statute in our port. "In April. 191S, company H was di vided Into two detachments, one de tachment returning to Kngland and one remaining on duty at Havre. Com pany K. the ciilirtcd personnel, was transferred into a permanent guard company at Chaumont and the officer and non-commissioned officers returned to England, where the 3d battalion was recruited up to full strength avnrl placed in charge of all the rest camps ( in England. Major Marshberger com manded the battalion and Lieutenant Colonel Abrams was made assistant j co.nmandrr cf all Knglish camps. 'Til. :t d :ti 1 1 iM 1 I i" f all the iP t aUWiUavltd CA Va0 klUU aVX 1 i I