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Massachusetts Senator
Attacks Covenant. .
OPPONENT AVERS SOUNDNESS
Uarge Crowd Hears Speakers
With Intense Interest.
TREATY CALLED "POROUS'
Constrncthe Criticlrai Orfercd, Es
peclally Fpou Questions of
Immigration and Tariff.
BOSTON'. March 19. "If the league
hall be put in such shape that it will
promote peace Instead of breeding dis
order and will work no injustice to the
United States I will support it." said
Senator Henry Cabot Lodge in reply
ing to a question of President A. Law
rence Lowell of Harvard during their
debate on the league of nations cove
nant tonight.
"I hope from my heart it will be
amended," he said. "I hope that such
a league wilt be framed somewhere. In
my belief it will not be done in Paris."
A demand from Dr. Lowell that Mr.
Lodge say whether he would vole for
the covenant if it were amended ac
cording to his wishes lcdi to the sen
ator's declaration. -Applaue
Liberally Bestowed.
Addressing an audience of 3000 per
sons in Symphony ha.lL the distin
guished speakers were applauded liber
ally, frequently and apparently im
partially. There was Jo heckling, although
cries of -Good:" and "That's right!"
followed telling points in the argu
ments. Senator Lodge outlined his attitude
briefly as in favor of a league of na
tions, but not of the covenant as pre
sented. "The whole treaty should be re
drafted," he asserted. "That is my first
constructive criticism."
Roosevelt Reference Applauded.
The senator's reference to Theodore
Roosevelt's attitude as in opposition to
such a plan as was embodied in the
covenant drew applause. He said he
had d I. "cussed the idea of a league of
nations with Mr. Roosevelt two weeks
before his death.
"The position I have taken," he
added, "in reference to this covenant is
one that had Mr. Roosevelt's full ap
proval. I do not say this to transfer
any load from my shoulders to his. but
it is at the fame time a support to
know that my position in this matter is
in agreement wfth his expressed con
Viction."
CeaatrartiTe Crittclara Offered.
Referring to the charge that criti
cisms of the covenant were not con
structive. Senator Lodge pointed out a
number of ways in which he would
amend the treaty, laying especial stress
on the need of protection of the Mon
roe doctrine.
"The ' hour Is rapidly approaching."
said Dr. Lowell, in summing up his
plea for the covenant, "when we must
decide whether our country shall take
Its place like a great and generous na
tion, side by side, with others as guard
ians of law, order and justice in the
world, or whether it shall turn its ace
away from a world in agony."
Draft 9l Treaty Held Defective.
He prefaced his argument with the
statement that, although he had always
been "an inconsistent republican" and
frequently had been in agreement with
Senator Lode, he could not agree with
his utterances on the league of na
tions covenant and still less with those
of his senatorial colleagues.
Dr. Lowell maintained the correct
ness of the covenant in principle, ar
guing that while "very detective in its
drafting" and "easily misunderstood."
it should be "accepted and improved."
He described it as an experiment in
open diplomacy. '
Dr. Lowell AdT-r(e (ka.cri.
To meet certain objections raised. Dr.
Lowell advocated the insertion of
clause in the covenant permitting-!
withdrawals fiom the league on rea
sonable notice, stipulating that no for
eign powers shall acquire any posses
sions on the American continent, and
making It perfectly clear that immigra
tion and tariff prollems are to be re
garded as purely internal affairs.
The debater approached the general
topic from different angles. Senator
Lodge attacked the covenant "as
agreed upon by the commission of the
peace conference" as a "porous instru
ment" on the interpretation of which
the signers themselves would be at
odds within II months.
Dr. Lowell admitted that the "cov
enant" needed clarification but argued
that In substance, as a plan for the
prevention of war, it was sound.
XtOO I.Utrm tm Debate.
Symphony hall was filled. Three
thousand persons had seats and 300
stood. Halt the audience was made up
of members of' the legislature, federal
and stats Judiciary, governors of New
England states, army and navy of
ficers, members of the Harvard fac
ulty, delegates of the central labor
union and personal guests of the de
baters. The other half represented the
lucky ones who had been awarded ad
mission by chance from 25 times as
many applications.
Governor Calvin Coolldge presided.
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Defense Corps Announces Pro
gramme to Be Adopted to Se
cure Favorable Action.
BERKELET. Cal.. March 19. (Spe
cial.) Unless the committee appointed
by the legislature investigating the
Drice of milk in the bay region brings
forth results whicn will lower the
pricef the Berkeley defense corps of
housewives will caii mass meetings in
Berkeley for the purpose of inaugurat
ing a city-wide boycott on milk dis
tributors. This announcement was
made by the corps today following
heated discussion among its members.
"If we do not get results from the
state milk Investigation committee, we
.ill th.n fail - luiivntt fin til. milk
dealers of Alameda county." said the
secretary of the cluK "During tnis
limn wn will hr- masN meetinCTS
throughout the city and will ask the
citizens to stop buying fresh mint.
Families with young children will not
be included. If this milk strike comes
off. then we of the club will supply
milk at wholesale prices to the boy
cottars. We can make arrangements
to do this anytime we wish with near
by milk producers. Failing in this
we all will use canned milk. It will
mean a tremendous loss to the milk
distributors in Alameda county. This
nlan will Km tint Inln a T T n tt Imm-illatr.
ly upon the expected whitewashing of
tne miJK distributors Dy tne state in
vestigation committee."
RAILROADS T0PAY BILLS
Money Advanced Will Be Used to
Meet Obligations.
WASHINGTON. March 19 The $50.-
001.000 advanced by the war finance
commission to the railroad administra
tion will be used only to pay current
bills and to meet obligations already
incurred with railroad companies, Director-General
Hines announced today.
This loan. Mr. Hines explained, does
not eliminate the necessity for future
appropriations and does not change the
programme for financing purchases of
equipment by use of trade acceptances.
Neither does It modify the proposed
plan of giving certificates of indebted
ness to railroad corporations for past
debts.
Other loans will be made by the war
finance corporation to Individual rail
roads, but the $50,000,000 is the only di
rect loan possible to the railroad ad
ministration under the law.
I. H. NASH OBTAINS PLACE
Idaho State Land Commissioner Is
Elected to Take OTfice at Once.
BOISE. Idaho, March 19. (Special.)
Senator I. H. Nash was today elected
state land commissioner to take charge
of the land department. He will take
up his new duties immediately. When
the reorganization law goes into effect
governing the land board and land de
partment, Mr. Nash will be commis
sioner.
The land board took this action on
recommendation of Governor Davis. It
is likely that C. A. Elmer, present reg
ister of the land board, will be named
chief clerk In the land department
when the new law goes into effect.
BRUSSELS EXPECTS WILSON
Former Residence of Princess Clem
entine Being Fitted Up.
BRUSSELS, March 19. The former
residence of Princess Clementine Is be-j
ing fitted up to receive President Wil- j
son and Mrs. Wilson, who are expected'
to visit Brussels before the end of the
nrou.nt mnn f h
The programme for the entertain-'
ment of the presidential party includes
a reception given by parliament and a
visit with King Albert to Louvain. The
municipality of Louvain is plannng to
present to the president a picture of
the ruins of the city's famous library,
reproduced on leather.
PLANES ALARM EX-KAISER
Appearance of Craft Above Amcron-
gen Castle Creates Excitement.
AMERONGEN. March IS (By the
Associated Press.) Considerable ex
citement was created at Amerongen
castle, where former Emperor William
is staying, when six airplanes appeared
suddenly at noon from behind a bank
of clouds. They came from the east
and after encircling the castle twice,
disappeared in a northerly direction.
The nationality of the machines could
not be distinguished, but it is generally
assumed they were Dutch.
WORKERS GET WAGE RISE
Nearly 1200 Cleveland Strikers Vote
to Resume Posts.
CLEVELAND. O.. March 19. Nearly
1200 of the 4000 garment workers who
went on strike this morning will re
turn to work tomorrow morning on a
30 per cent wage increase and a
44-hour work week basis.
Ten of the 40 firms have agreed to
the terms of their employes, it is stated.
63D DUE FOR DISCHARGE
Washington, Oregon and Idaho Men
Leave Camp Friday.
TACOMA, March 19. Seven hundred
members of the 63d coast artillery, com
posed of Washington, Oregon, Idaho
and Montana "men. will be mustered out
at Camp Lewis Friday, army officers
stated today.
The 63d arrived in camp from over
seas last week.
Millions of Dollars in Im
ments Held Up.
BLAME PLACED. ON COITUS
Failure to Pass Ap' ,riation
Bill Causes Pre. .ment.
YEAR'S PLAto OVERTHROWN
Expenditure of More Than Half Bil
lion Dollars to Give Employment
Cannot Be Carried Out. -
WASHINGTON, March lsWnstruc-
tions issued today by the railroad ad
ministration will result in the tempo
rary suspension or postponement of
millions of dollars of railroad improve
ment work, because of the financial
predicament caused by failure of con
gress to pass appropriations for the
administration's revolving fund.
The suspension of work applies to
many new stations, under erection or
planned, spur tracks, roadbed improve
ments, elevated tracks and construction
of bridges and buildings.
All .ra Work Halted.
Railroad administration officials said
comparatively faw men would be thrown
out of work as a result of the orders,
but admitted that theratlroad improve
ment programme, planned for this year
partly as a means of employing large
numbers of laborers during the read
justment period probably would not be
carried out. The programme called for
the expenditure of more than $540,000,
000 for additions and betterments alone.
The orders sent to regional directors
to be forwarded by them to federal
managers specified that if corporate
officers of railroad companies with
draw or withhold appoval of any im
provement project for financial reasons
or otherwise the proposals are to be
sent to the railroad administration for
further review.
Approval to Be 'Withheld.
Railroad officials here today said
that approval had been or would be
withheld for hundreds of improvement
projects because of the uncertainty of
the present financial situation.
In cases where jhls approval is not
given, procedure is to be as follows:
"Work not started shall not be com
menced without further approval by
the division of capital expenditures.
As to projects already started and ac
tually under way, please see that no
further work is done except when nec-
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San Francisco Is Scene of Daring
Crime, Staged as Crowd
Looks on Powerless.
SAlJ FRANCISCO, March 19. (Spe
cial.) Seized and "ruthlessly bundled
into a taxicab while her shrieks for
assistance startled the entire neighbor
hood, Josephine Castro, 16-year-old
laundry worker, was abducted this
morning by a well-dressed, young man
as she was about to enter the laundry
where she has been employed.
The abduction, which took place in
broad daylight and in the sight of
more than a score of persons, was one
of the most daring that has ever come
to the nbtice of the -San Francisco po
lice, who are now on the trill of the
kidnaped girl. - '
The kidnaping ,waa witnessed by
Rotfert Edgren, manager of the estab
lishment, who- a few minutes before
the girl appeared had noticed the taxi
cab draw up at the curb In front of
the laundry. He paid no attention to
the incident, however, and it was not
until he heard the girl's screams and
it was too late for him to interfere
that he marked the proceedings, t
A passing automobile was com
mandeered by Edgren and others, but
after a short pursuit was outdistanced
by the speeding taxi. Other girl em
ployes of the laundry, hearing the Cas
tro girl's cries, ran to her assistance,
but before they could' reach the street
the kidnaper and his victim sped away
in the machine. '
TEEL PROJECT TO START
Million-Dollar Irrigation Contract
Xear Echo Is Let.
PENDLETON, Or., March 19. (Spe
cial.) Bonds have been sold and the
contract let to the Warren Construc
tion company for the construction
work amounting to $1,000,000 on the
Teel project at Echo, according to the
announcement of the directors here to
day. The work will complete an ex
tension of the project, by means of
which about 16,000 acres under the
project and 4000 acres on Butter Creek
will be" put under water.
For a portion of the distance the
canal will pass through a two-mile
tunnel. The approval of the state irri
gation securities commission is all that
is needed to assure the completion of
the plans. Work is expected to start
within 60 days.
FLIGHT. OBSERVER NAMED
British Select Flyer to Watch Trans-
Atlantic Effort.
NEW YORK, March 19. The Aero
Club of America announced tonight that
it had been notified by the Royal Aero
Club of the United Kingdom of the
appointment of Major Partridge of the
royal air force as of ficial observer at
St. Johns, Newfoundland, for the trans
Atlantic flight, which will start from
Newfoundland.
BLAME JAPAN FOR FEELING IT
Failure American Force
to "Tata Sides" Irks.
NIPPON PROPAGANDA TRACED
State Department Says Mi
, tary Men Obey Orders.
BETTER FEELING EXPECTED
Change in Political Power in Mika
do's Realm Will Aid in Re
ducing Friction.
WASHINGTON, March 19. Reports
of growing anti-American feeling . in
eastern Siberia have for some time been
in the hands of the state department.
This was learned authoritatively today
in connection with an Associated Press
dispsftch from Vladivostok, telling of
widespread criticism in Eastern Siberia
of the operations of the American mili
tary forces there.
The reports, it was learned, came
from both Ameiican diplomatic and
military representatives in Siberia, and
instances of this feeling were cited.
Officials of the state department, it
was said, however, have thoroughly ap
proved the conduct of the American
forces under Major-General William S.
Graves.
Middle Road Followed.
Instructions were issued to General
Graves before he went to Siberia, it
was learned, to avoid carefully any act
which would commit the United States
government to either side in any fac
tional troubles. These instructions, it
was said, have been repeated from time
to time, and strict observance of them
by the American commander has
aroused some of the hostility.
Much of the hostility in Vladivostok
toward Americans is attributed in well
informed circles here to the activity of
Japanese agents. It has been reported
that about three weeks ago a Japanese
publicity agent arrived in Vladivostok.
Japanese Are Blamed.
Within a few days, these reports say.
articles began appearing in the news
papers of Vladivostok, which are said
to be under Japanese influence, reflect
ing upon the United States and its Si
berian policy, or, as the articles de
scribed it, lack of policy.
State department officials said today
that the situation as -regards Japanese
Influence was clearing. The war party
in Japan, to which much of the fric
tion was attributed in reports reaching
this country, has been superseded by
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AN INSULT.
Chancellor of Exchequer Asserts in
Reply to Critics That V. S. Mere
ly Books Order Ahead.
LONDON, March 19. In the house of
commons appropriation bill discussion
today. Sir Frederick Banbury, privy
councillor, warned the government that
continuance of present financial meth
ods meant, eventually,' national bank
ruptcy Other speakers complained
that control of exports permitted Amer
lea to step In and capture British trade
abroad.
Justin Chamberlain, chancellor of
the exchequer, replying to the crltl
cism, said the government was trying
to abolish control as quickly as it was
safe. The export of cotton goods was
free to every part of the world except
the blockaded countries, he declared,
and in this case restrictions were
maintained for reasons of inter-allied
policy. The house, he hoped, would
hardly assume responsibility for act
ing in opposition to Great Britain's
allies.
Mr. Chamberlain said he was advised
it was not a fact that Americans were
sending goods where British goods
were not admitted. What the Ameri
cans had done was to book orders and
give long credits for goods to be de
livered when the blockade wasraised.
It .was open to jSritish manufacturers
to do the same.
TRACE OF RUPERT IS LOST
Posse Continues Its Search for Es
caped Convict.'
SALEM, Or., March 19. (Special.)
Prison officials late today had re
ceived no additional word from the
posse which is searching the southern
Oregon country for Clyde J. (Red)
Rupert, the convict who escaped from
the state lime plant near Gold Hill
Sunday afternoon. 11$ was last seen
about 20 miles from Gold Hill.
Prison guards and deputy sheriffs
are prosecuting the man hunt with a
prison bloodhound, but they have lost
all trace of the former Portland police
man and athlete, who was serving a
term of from one to' three years for
stealing $19,000 in liberty bonds from
the Northwestern National Bank, Port
land, where he was employed as a
guard. '
BETTER ROADS IN SIGHT
s
Highway Commissioner Talks Be
fore Large Crowd in Klamath.
KLAMATH FALLS, ..Or., March- 19.
(Special.) The biggest good-road gath
ering In the history of Klamath county
was held here last evening. Commis
sioner R. A. Booth and State Highway
Engineer Nunn discussed the road pro
gramme for 1919. Delegations were
present from every community in the
county, a special train bringing .many
residents from eastern Klamath.
Construction of a highway running
north and south through the county,
passing through Merrill and Malin, and
another crossing the county east to
west was indicated in an address by
County Judge R. H. Bunnell. He had
been in conference with the road build
ers throughout the day.
; A banquet was tendered the visitors
early in the evening. A reception was
held for Mrs. Booth in the afternoon.
CRANBERRIES GO OUT LATE
Clatsop Yield This Year Averages
, Thirty Bushels to Acre.
AS1TORIA, March 19. (Special.) A
shipment of cranberries was made from
the marshes in this county to Portland
yesterday. This is the latest shipment
of this fruit ever made from the dis
trict. Growers feel that the very fact
of their being able to place berries ii
the markets at this time fully dem
onstrate the excellent keeping quality
of the cranberry raised in this section.
The total crop for the past season
was over 3000 barrels of cranberries.
This average for the 100 acres set out
to vines in Clatsop county, gives an
average of 30 barrels per acre.
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Weather.
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 56
degrees; minimum. 41 degrees.
TODAY'S Fair; colder; moderate northerly
winds.
Foreign.
British complain of export restrictions.
Page 1.
Russian press hostile to America. ' Page 2.
Changes in league pact to be accepted by
IT. S. dc&rates. Taffo. :-t
! Greece looking to United States for solution
or problems in iiasr. , Page 4.
- National.
S Senator- Lodge and President Lowell of
Harvard debate league of na Lions. Page 1.
Five-year control of railroads opposed.
Page 2.
Mr. Hawley protests failure to open all Ore
gon land grants. Page 3.
Domestic,
Berkeley housewives plan boycott to secure
lower milk prices. Page 1. ,
Arrests in bomb murder are near. Page 1.
Laundry girl-abducted in taxicab before
San Francisco crowd. Page 1.
Sports. .
Many new faces 5 be seen on Salt Lake
team. Page1 14.
Beavers beat St. Mary's college, 17 to 2.
Page 14.
O. A- C. football prospects are bright
Page 15.
Pacific No rt Invent.
Seattle gir confesses murder. Page 1.
Commercial and Marine.''
Better prices prevail in potato-producing sec
tions. Page 21.
Corn lower with prospects of enlarged Ar- 1
' gentine shipments. Page 21.
Stock market unsettled with professionals, in
control. Page 21.
Columbia Pacific Shipping company or
ganized. Page 20.
Port land and Vicinity. - r
City school superintendent outlines his pol
icy. Page. 12. f
Employment
bureau
women assured.
Page iv.
For-bire cars limited by council. Pag 9.
I Weather report, data and forecast. Pago SO.
Love for Husband of Se.
attle Women Is Motive,
POLICE OBTAIN CONFESSION
Strychnine Put in Food While
Two Are at Luncheon.
VICTIM QUICKLY SUCCUMBS
Ruth Garrison, 18, at First Denies
Killing Mrs. Grace Storss, but
Later Tells Circumstances.
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SEATTLE, Wash., March 19. (Spe
cial.) Ruth Garrison, 18 years old, con
fessed to the murder of Mrs. Grace E.
Storrs, said Captain Tennaot, chief of
the Seattle city detective department,
at 3 o'clock this afternoon.
"The confession was made to Deputy
Prosecuting Attorney Carmody and my
self,", said Captain Tennant.
"Miss Garrison told us that she had
purchased 35 cents' worth of strychnine
at a drug store on Union street yes
terday morning, and had administered
the poison to her rival for Dudley
Storrs' affection in the food Berved
them at luncheon yesterday, a meal tha
girl had arranged."
The girl reached the department-
store tea room ahead of her guest and
ordered the meal. According to the po
lice, she placed the poison in a fruit
cocktail as soon as a waitress served
it. Miss Garrison, it was said, had
purchased the poison at a drug store
while on her way to keep the luncheon
engagement.
. Poison Is Discovered,
The confession "followed the finding
of strychnine in fatal quantities in the
stomach of Mrs. Storrs by William
Dehn, professor of the department of
chemistry of the University of Wash
ington, who made the scientific an
alysis. Mrs. Grace E. Storrs, 28 years of age.
died yesterday afternoon while lunch
ing with Miss Garrison, admittedly a
rival for the affections of the dead
woman's husband, Dudley Storrs, an
automobile mechanic, fomerly a dep
uty sheriff.
Miss Garrison, who had arranged the
luncheon meeting, was arrested at 2
o'clock this morning on orders of Chief
of Police Warren, and after a night In
jail and a further questioning this
morning by city and county officials,
was remanded to her cell to await an
analysis of the contents of Mrs. Storrs"
stomach by chemists at the. University
of Washington.
Girl Arranges Luncheon.
The ingenuity, daring and resource
fulness of a Lucretia Borgia were ex
ercised by this 18-year-old former
Seattle high school girl in removing
from her path the rival for the man
she loved.
That she arranged the luncheon
meeting to adjust a situation that had
arisen because of her admitted Infatu
ation for the other woman's husband,
but that ner hand had never moved
toward removing the wife from her
path by any sinister methods, was the
first statement of the girl this morn
ing to Deputy Prosecuting Attorney
Carmody-.and captain 'tennant.
The wife and the girl were dining
yesterday afternoon, while, unknown to
Miss Garrison, the mother f Mrs.
Storrs, Mrs. E. B. Glatz, and a sister.
Miss Alice Glatz, occupied a table a '
few feet away. -About 15 minutes after
the meal began Mrs. Storrs suddenly
turned pale, collapsed and sank in a
faint. She diod soon after being taken
to the store's emergency hospital.
It was not until Deputy Prosecuting
Attorney Carmody and Captain Ten
nant "had learned that- Miss Garisdn
was seen by others In the Bon Marche
lunch-room Tuesday afternoon who had
noticed her peculiar actions that Miss
Garison's stout maintenance of her in
nocence was broken. Throughout the
morning Miss Garrison answered the
detective captain and the lawyer at
every turn in a manner that while not
satisfactory to her own case gave
neither of them a thread of tangible
evidence on which to prefer charges.,
She reiterated time and again that
she held Storrs in great esteem,' that
she had an ardent friendship with him
and that her affections were and had
been for a long time keen, although at
all times proper, she said.
Deed at First Denied.
"I know nothing of the strange
death of Mrs. Storrs," Miss Garrison is
said to have reiterated. "I was down
town shopping Tuesday morning and it
occurred to me that it would be a good
time to see Mrs. Storrs. I telephone to
her and made an appointment to meet
her at the Bon Marche tea room. I
intended to tell her that I was going
to Alaska to stay six months and that
during mat time I would not corre
spond with Douglas. I intended to tell
her that I was willing to let them try
it nnt six months and that If at the
end of that time Mrs. Storrs was still
living with her husband that she would
make no further effort to see him.'"
The above is practically the sum of
the information obtained this morning,
with one exception. This was to fix
the time when Miss Garrison had seen
Storrs last. She had said repeatedly
that she had not seen him for somo
time. During her conversation, ac
cording to Mr. Carmody. Miss Garrison,
let slip something about having ra. .
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