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THE aiOItN'IXG OREGOXIAX, MONDAY, MARCH 24, 1919. PREMIER OF FRANCE HIS LATEST PORTRAIT. REACTIOW PRESS BITTER AT LEADERS SAFE, SAYS GREGORY Affirmation at Peace Confer Le Journal of Paris Confuses Premier's Remarks. Pillars of Strength ence Held Unnecessary. ITALIAN CLAIMS PROBLEM FUTURE YET IN BALANCE MONROE DOCTRINE IS S' ,'WWMllHM.H !S'C1limW'm1 SIHWW h ,'WS' I f :.,m. I 1 - ' i Comment Eicitcd ny Premier Or lando's Absence From Confer ence for Some Dajr Past. tti Associated TreM- PARIS. March 2J. Thomas W. Grt gory, former attorney-general of the t'nited States, who is advising the peace conference commission on the league of nations with reference to legal phases of proposed amenamenxs to the covenant, takes the view that it is not necessary to introduce a ape cific amendment affirming the Monroe doctrine. He holds that the doctrine Is suffi ciently protected by the instrument as it stands, but as a matter of expedi ency he sees no objection to introduc ing a general provision which wouia safeguard the doctrine without apeciii cally mentioning it. aa specific men tion would Introduce a controversy over the specific wants of various state. Proviso Dram Now Peadlng. Such a proviso has been drawn, but It is not yet known whether ist incor poration In the covenant will be urgea. It affirms in substance that coercive measures of united powers as pro vided bv the covenant shall not oper ate against nations of the western hemisphere unless the l nlted Mates and other western countries shall ap prove. It is held this would give the I'nited States and the western repub lics the final word on applying collec t.ve force against nations on that hemi sphere, and this, in effect, reaffirms tne Monroe doctrine. Going beyond this reneral declara tion, in the view of Mr. Gregory and other legal experts, would introduce "wide controversy on an interpretation :' the meaning of the Monroe doctrine. It is expected that consideration of this and other amendments will be contin ued several days before a final decision Is reached. Itallaa Qaeatlo Difficult, f Comment has been excited by the ab sence of Premier Orlando of Italy from conferences held recently by President "Wilson and premiers of other countries. It Is supposed, however, that he re frained from attending the meetings Vocalise the representatives of the other allied countries derived to discuss the rettlement of the Austrian-Italian ques tions privately, knowing well Premier Orlando's position in the matter. Kecause it might establish a prece dent for Italy's claim to Flume, the various boundary commissions have Ven cautious In treating the status of Danzig and Lemberg which Involves the right of self-determination. The I supreme council yesterday resumed consideration of the western boundary of Poland, and Italian action may in fluence the decision of the council on that question. Some AppreheasloBi Felt. When the council of great powers met yesterday it was in an atmosphere of considerable apprehension over Po land, w hich is the chief subject of dis cussion. This is not on account of l'oland itself, but because of differ ences which have arisen affecting the fundamental question of nationality to w hich President v llson has given his strong approval and also his IMh "point" which called for an independent l'olish state with access to the sea. This last clause has introduced an issue in which there is a wide diverg ence of views. A committee under the chairmanship of Jules Cambon, with Sir William Tyrrell ns the British member and Dr. Kobert H. Lord as the American, has reported the plan giving Poland this access to the sea by means of a "corridor" 0 miles wide running across eanu Prussia, but the effect of this concession is to place about 1,500, 000 t;ermans within the new Poland and to detach the easternmost part of Trussia from Germany. l'laa Considered Faulty. Premier Iloyd George has taken the view that this denationalization of a lari;c body of Germans would cause stirh discontetit as would be likely to bring on another war and it Is under stood that President Wilson also is Tiot entirely satisfied with the pro posal. M. Cambon's committee, there fore, has been asked to revise the ptan and tliis revision is now under dis cussion. The committee, nevertheless, is said to adhere to its organic plan for a wide corridor. SEARLES WINS AUTO RACE 150 MII.ES COVERED IX 2 IIOrKS J MIXETES 5 SECOXDS. Be I'alnia Gives Exhibition, Travel ing Five Miles in 3 Mlnntes 57 4-5 Seconds. T.OS AXGET.ES. March IJ Driving 15u miles in 2 hours 7 minutes and 2 seconds, Koscoe Scarles won the fea ture event of the automobile racing programme at the one-mile Ascot speedway here today. Eddie Hearne finished second in 2 hours 7 minutes and S seconds, less than 100 yards be hind the winner. Eddie Pullen came in third in 2 hours, 7 minutes and IS seconds, going the entire dis tance without a stop. Cliff Durant was flagged down in the 149th lap in fourth position and Omar Toft was flagged down in the 144th lap in fifth place. ,The largest crowd that ever attended an automobile race on the local speed way, estimated at between 40.000 and 50. 00. witnessed the event. Kalpb'De Palma. with a special 12 cyllnder racing automobile, drove a five-lap exhibition, preceding the main event, going the distance in 2 minutes, 57 4-5 seconds. " X At a conference several hours after the race had ended. Eddie Hearne, Ed die Pullen and Cliff Durant announced that they would protest to Referee Terry Greer, the awarding of first place to dearies, declaring an error had been made In scoring and that the first place should go to Hearne. BLOCKADE DECISION GIVEN Anttrla Learns of Action tj Associ ated Powers. BAST.E. March 22. (By the Asso ciated Press.) The Austrian foreign office has been Informed by the Italian armistice commission that the asso- j elated powers ha e decided unanimous- I ly to suppress the blockade of Austria' and Hungary, says a semi-official di' 1 patch received here from Vienna, m ' "'it ' - 4 J! J t If i-- ? , i . 1 ' i ," t -- I il ' - x 4 li r " - , a- lwii-r f- " ' IJB. "-1 Vr .'V .'.fV - --v"- Ty i ... v . s. ,. .. 1 . ' r--r'Mir Jr PREMIER n,EMFrEtr IS HERR LATEST PORTRAIT. THE OLISH PROBLEM PUZZLES IiLOYT) GEORGE IS OPPOSED TO GIVING TP D.VXZIG. Plan of Commlsison Said to Affect Altogether About 3,200,000 Subjects of Germany. BT JAMES M. TUOHT. (Copyright by the New Torlt World. Pub- libiiea Dy .rransemeni.j PARIS, March 23 (Special Cable.) Poland's problem remains unsolved. It is understood that Premier Lloyd George is opposed to giving Danzig to the ew Polish state, although the Polish commission . unanimously recommended and that the premier favors the in ternationalization of the place' or its transformation into a free port. lie also objects to the cession on the ground of self-determination, of which he is an enthusiastic champion. He holds that in the corridor pro posed between the Polish frontier and Danzig- too many Germans would be roIl8n "Je' T,here " 800.000 of them. The acheme of the - - w.",d af.ect aUo,et,he' about .2,200,000 Germans. The Polish commission was asked to reconsider its report. Having done so, it has pre sented the same report again. i-'unzig serves the most extensive -Mirinir district in the world. Lancashire has a big trade with ... u... .m ue aitccted by the new Poland fiscal policy. The difficulty in dealing with the Germans over Poland is that they con sider themselves victorious in the east and they have no armistice with Rus sia to hamper their freedom of move ment in that direction. General von Hindenburg's headquarters are at Kol berg, on the Baltic southwest of Dan zig, and the Germans undoubtedly ap pear to be preparing for a move against Poland. They still refuse facilities for the landing of General Haller's Polish divisions at Danzig, and the allies have not yet decided on measures to enforce their will In this direction. HUNGARY TO DECLARE WAR fOntiniKNl From Flmt Pase.) torship of the workers,' peasants' and soldiers' councils. The revolutionary government council will begin forth with work for the realization of com munist socialism. Soviet Alliance Proposed. "The council decrees the socializa tion of large estates, mines, big indus tries, banks and transport lines, de clares complete solidarity with the Russian soviet government and offers to contract an armed alliance with the proletariat of Russia." AMSTERDAM. March 22. (By the Associated Tress.) When the Hunga rian cabinet, headed by Count Karolyi as provisional president, resigned late in the week the governing party, com prising socialists and communists, pro claimed martial law throughout the en tire country, according to a dispatch from Budapest. Under the title of "Hungarian So cialist Party" the socialists and com munists have combined and will ad minister the country. OOPEXHAOEX. March 23. A dis CO-OPERATION The Chamber of Commerce ap peals to your spirit of co-operation. Your active interest in its endeavors is essential to the furthering of our community's .progress. FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF PORTLAND FIFTH AND STARK STS. SEEX SEATED AT HIS LIBRARY TABLE IJT HIS HOME, THIS BEING HIS PREMIER HAS AOW FILL1 RECOVERED FROM HIS IJIRV. patch from Budapest dated Friday said that at yiat time order was being maintained by the troops and the na tional guards. The revolutionary gov ernment, it was stated, had issued a prohibition against the carrying of arms, making the penalty for disobed ience five years' penal servitude and a fine of 50.000 kronen. Other dispatches announce that or der prevails in the country districts around Budapest. COPENHAGEN, March 23. (By the Associated Press.) The new Hunga rian soviet government intends to ef fect an alliance with the Russian bol shevik!, according to a telegram which the Berlin correspondent of the Buda pest Pesti-Xaplo says be has received from that city. According to this telegram, three Russian envoys already in Budapest declare that a Russian red army is now on a line from Brody to Stanislau and Is advancing on Lemberg, approxi mately 75 miles distant. This army, the telegram continues, is expected to arrive in Budapest within a fortnight In publishing the foregoing reports the Tageblatt expressed, skepticism, comparing them to similar reports fre quently spread throughout Germany. COPEXHAGEX, March 23. (By the Associated Press.) The proclamation by Count Karolyi announcing the resig nation of the Hungarian cabinet, of which he is the head, after referring to the decision of the peace conference at Paris to occupy Hungarian territory, says, according to a dispatch from Vienna: "The entente mission declared that it intends to regard the demarcation line as the political frontier. The aim of further occupation of the country is manifestly to make Hungary the Jump-ing-off ground and the region of opera tions against the Russian soviet army, which is fighting on our frontier. The land evacuated by us. however, is to be the pay of the Czech troops by means of whom the Russian soviet army is to be overcome. "As provisional president of the Hun garian people's republic, I turn, as against the Paris peace conference, to the proletariat of the world for justice and support." Count Michael Karolyi, the Hungarian provisional president, and his cabinet resigned the latter part of last week after, many vicissitudes, including a reign of terror throughout the country on the part of plundering bolshevik gangs. Tne disorders necessitated the occu pation of the greater part of Hungary with the exception of Budapest and the outlying districts by allied troops, ac cording to reports. The resignation of Count Karolyi fol lowed his presentation to the cabinet of a note outlining the new boundary be tween Hungary and Roumania. Six Companies of 91st Sail. OREGONIAX NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington, March 23. (Special.) The headquarters - company and companies E. D, K, I, and M of the 363d infantry. 91st division, sailed from France on I the transport Liberator March 19, Sen ator Chamberlain's office was advised yesterday. Wool ejls for 34 Cents. YAKIMA, Wash., March 23. Ernest Berg yesterday sold 45,000 pounds of wool for 34 cents per pound. It was the first sale of the season and may establish the market for Yakimr wool. Beasoneu siaDwuoa ana Inside wool green stamps, for cash. Holman Fuel Mi- 'h A SSSS Adv. 1 WHEAT PROBLEM AT ISSUE IIAXDMXG OF 1920 CROP TOPIC AT MILLERS' MEETIXG. , Payment of One Cent a Bushel Per Month by Government to Grow ers Until January 1 Urged. ST. LOUIS, March 23. Payment of cent per bushel a month by the gov ernment to the farmers until January, 1920, for each bushel of wheat held in storage on their farms, and a distribu tion of the purchase of the 1919 crop for exportation among the states ac cording to their production, were sug gested as a means of solving the prob leni' of handling "the 1,250,000,000 bushel crop expected this year, in resolution adopted at a conference of 50 millers, representing 13 states, here yesterday. The resolution will be presented at the annual convention of the Millers Xational federation in Chicago, April 10 and 11, with recommendation that the question be taken up directly with the government. The men attending the conference represented millers' or ganizations in Missouri, Illinois, Kan sas, Oklahoma, Texas, Nebraska, In diana, Tennessee, Ohio, Kentucky, Min nesota, Wisconsin and Washington. VILLA MANIFESTO ISSUED PLAXS TO COXQUER XORTHERX MEXICO ALL LAID. Old Rebel Generals Called Upon to Rejoin In Fiirht for "Liberty, Bread and Justice." EL PASO, Tex., March 23. Francisco Villa had laid plans for the conquest of northern Mexico from the Carranza government, which miscarried when Felipe Angeles' staff officers were ar rested here recently and Martin Lopez' ammunition smuggling band was de feated by the federals near La Ascen sion. This was indicated in a copy of a new Villa manifesto, issued March 1 at San Lorenzo, . Chihuahua, and received here last night. In the manifesto Villa calls upon all of his old generals .n the famous divi sion of the north to rejoin him, offering to forgive any enmity they may have against him if they will return to Mexico and fight for what he terms "liberty, bread and justice." He prom ised to restore the constitution of 1857. to reform the judiciary, establish uni versal suffrage and to treat the enemy with consideration, once they were con quered." In Turkestan every wedding engage ment begins with the payment of a sub stantial consideration to the girl's par ents. If the girl jilts her lover, the engagement gift has to be returned un less the parents have another daugh ter to give as a substitute. Extra Grand Ball DE HONEY'S BEAUTI FUL ACADEMY TWEVTY-THIRD AXD WASHINGTON, Olarlark Hcll.t TXESDAY EVKM.VG, March S5h. EXHIBITION DAXCIXG""' will be given in fancy Ball Room Dances, new steps, classic and stage dancing, and Mr. De Honey will give his latest $1.00 book on "Ball Room Etiquette," Grace, peportment, New Dances. New Steps, Beautiful Stage and Classic dances, free to all attend ing this affair. See real dancers and the most beautiful dances. Learn who you should select as your instructor. Extra large orchestra. Don't miss this tell your friends. Admission Ladies, 40c; gentlemen. 75c. SEW CLASSES FOR BEGINNERS start Monday evening, March 24, and Thursday evening, March 27. Ad vanced classes start Friday evening, March 28. AH dances taught in eight lessons. Ladies, 3 gentlemen, to II jolnins; these classes tbis week. Take one or four lessons a week. Tick ets are good until used. The only school teaching from 8 to 11:30. Plenty of practice. No embarrassment. Separate step room and extra teachers for back ward pupils. A thorough printed de scription of all dances free for pupils. We have large and select classes and the social feature alone is worth dou ble the price, and this is the only school where they guarantee to teach yot to dance. Private lessons -iven all hours. Avoid . Inferior teachers who dance and teach only a few simple ballroom dances. Learn correctly from professional instructors who can dance and guarantee to teach you to dance. Call afternoon or evening. Tell your friends. Learn the Glngle Fox Trot and new Jazz Steps. My " valuable book on dancing will be mailed on receipt of Jl or will be iven free to all joining our new i-lanses or taking private lessons this week, ffeoaa Main 7656. Adv. Plan to Include League of Nations in Preliminary Peace Terms Provokes Discussion. BT JAMES M. TUOHT. (Copyright by the New York World. Pub lished by Arrangement.) PARIS. March 23. (Special Cable.) Premier Lloyd George had a conference with the British press yesterday, and today's Le Journal caused some excite ment by saying that in the course of the conference the British premier an nounced that "the league of nations plan will not be Incorporated in the preliminary terms of peace, which are now in preparation." The correspondent of tne world learns that Premier George did not say exactly that. He said the question of including the league plan in the preliminary terms had not yet been decided, and farther, that it had not been discussed either by the British delegation or by the council of ten. When reminded of Lord Robert Ce cil's clear statement to the newspaper men last Tuesday evening that the league charter was essential to peace preliminaries, and that one could not become operative without the other. Premier George repeated that the Brit ish delegatiqn had not yet reached a de cision in the matter. Attitude Is Made Clear. Whether this direct repudiation of Lord Robert Cecil as a spokesman for the delegation may be carried further, is question that is keenly discussed in Paris today. It seems safe to predict that it will not be carried further. Everybody has known all along that the matter of the inclusion of the league plan in the' preliminary terms has not been discussed by the council of ten, as no communique has ever mentioned it. Everybody knows equally well that the matter was dis cussed at a meeting of Premiers George and Clemenceau who decided that the league plan should be included in the terms. On the strength of that decision Lrd Robert Cecil spoke. Colonel House has spoken in the same sense. Allowance must be made for the pe culiar parliamentary situation which Premier George faces at home. He relies for support on the reactionary majority who are opposed to the league and to' every other progres sive measure. Newspaper organs of this reactionary majority have been attacking Presi dent Wilson, notably the Morning Post, the Daily Express and the Globe, in the last week, on the " proposal to em brace the league plan in the prelimi naries. Lord Robert Press Target. Lord Robert Cecil's statement pro vokes specially vehement protests from these newspapers and now the premier is endeavoring to soften their fall and to placate them with vague suggestions that they have been right without com mitting himself directly on the point. Of course, there is no 'doubt about the programme to embody, the. league plan in the peace terms. The Paris anti-league press was considerably heartened by the misleading report of the premier's declaration through the French writers show some glimmering of fear that their interpretation may not be true. PROBE TO BE HASTENED (Continued From First Page.) the Western Union, and the telephone lines of the Bell company. The only escape was to have the government take them over, Burleson critics say, and, accordingly, the ex ecutive heads of the two big systems appealed to the postmaster-general. He took over their lines, put tne govern ment's resources behind them and raised their rates, thus pulling them out of the hole, and made President Carlton of the Western Union Tele graph company head of all of the wire systems, including the Postal Tele graph's. Postal Company Making Money. The Postal Telegraph company, head ed by Clarence H. Mackay, who -was removed from office yesterday, had sroiiinniiinniiHmininiii! Utautiful m Design cJhorouqhlt) This is America's most popular LIGHT-SIX. One look one ride in this model will convince you. All we ask is that you compare z values. If you are looking: for the highest grade LIGHT-SIX oh the market here it is. The LIGHT-FOUR The LIGHT-SIX SEVEN-PASSEftGER SIX $1225 $1585 $1985 All Prices f. o. b. Detroit Oregon Motor Car Co. Broadway at Burnside Don't you want to put by a part of your savings? Do it, and you will be rear ing an edifice that will shield you and yours in the years ahead. Begin today tomorrow never comes. The United States National Bank On Sixth at Stark. Resources Over $30,000,000 "Portland's Bank for Foreign Trade." wasted no money In wrecking com petitors or in illegal combinations, and consequently had been able to make a good return on the investment, and at the same time meet the wage demands of employes. Mr. Mackay would not have protested so strongly at the taking over of his companies temporarily bad it not been for the suspicious evidences of good feUowship existing between Post master - General Bur'eson and New- combe Carlton and Theodore X. Vail, president of the Western Union Tele graph and American Telephone & Tele graph companies respectively. He did not relish the idea or having a business which he had operated sue- cesstuliy piaeea in cnarge or men wno, as bitter competitors, had steered their own business straight toward the wail. Congress to Act Promptly. It is predicted that as soon as con gress convenes the committee on for eign and interstate commerce will get together and recommend the turning back of the wires not later than Sep tember 1. In the closing days of the last congress the committee voted to recommend turning the wires back in December. Burleson's faculty for having rows, political leaders said today, indicated the absolute necessity of freeing these vast properties from his hands at the earliest possible moment. Representative Halvor Steenerson, who will be chairman of the house committee on postoffices and post roads, denounced Pc-stmaster-General Burleson today as "high-handed," and said a.n invetigation must be made. Senator Watson of Indiana, who in troduced a resolution in the last con gress to investigate Burleson, speak ing of the removal of Postal Telegraph officials, said: "It is Burlesonian, it is just another demonstration of his autocratic, high' handed methods. There will be an in vestigation of the postoffice depart ment without a doubt." COUPLE WEDDED 50 YEARS Anniversary Celebrated at Home Site of Marriage. EUGENE, Or., March 23. (Special.) Married on the site of their present home five miles north of Eugene on March 22, 1869, Mr. and Mrs. Palmer Ayres on Saturday celebrated their golden wedding. They have lived con m "Modern 'Mechanically qht ff tinuously on the farm where the cere mony was performed GO years ago. Mr. Ayres came to Oregon in 1S6I from Iowa, his wife having preceded him with her relatives 14 years earlier. From a small beginning Mr. Ayres bo came one of the most prosperous ranch ers of Lane county. The four living children of the vener able couple were among those present at the celebration. They are Ed I. Ayres. Junction City; Mrs. Georce 1". Saunders. Mrs. H. S. Cox and W. A. Ayres." all of Euecne.' GILBERT SAYS'- carrots and pota-' toes were 11113 f ir, so I started my f tory garden this J rning. I Come Today If you want a standard make; a Portland guarantee ; a used piano prop erly repaired; to help me make a greater Portland; to get the most for your money; to be satisfied. Some of these things I give, you can't get at any other piano store in Portland. II KAROLDSGILBERT a-4- YAMHILL ST. 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