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VOL L. VIII. NO.' 18.201.
PORTLAND, , OREGON, TUESDAY, MARCH 25, 1919.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
CZECNO-SLOVAKIA
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MACKAY TO FIGHT TO
END WITH BURLESON
I FOSTMASTER-GEXERATj CALLED
"DESPOTIC AND BRUTAL."
1 PA H IS SILENT' AS TO
Bolshevik Army of 70,000
Crosses Dniester.
SOVIET GOVERNS BUDAPEST
Entente Troci at Hungarian
Capital Reported to Have
Been Disarmed.
SLAV REDS AID REYOLTERS
Solders and Workmen Join
Lenine and Industries Will
Be Taken Over.
COPENHAGEN. March 24. A
Czecho-Slovak army has been sent
against Hungary, according to an of
ficial report received in Vienna and
forwarded here.
LONDON, March 24. A Bolshivik
army of 70,000 men has crossed the
river Dniester, south of Lemberg, ac
cording to a Zurich dispatch received
in Paris and forwarded by the Ex'
change Telegraph company. The army
is said to be composed mainly of Hun
garians and Bulgarians who were
prisoners of war in Russia.
COPENHAGEN, March 24. (By
the Associated Press.) A dispatch
from Budapest says the soviet govern
ment has occupied all theaters and
music halls and arranged for revolu
tionary plays and addresses on" the
significance of the revolution.
BERLIN, March 23. (By the Asso
ciated Press.) A special dispatch to
the Freiheit announces the disarma
ment of entente troops at Budapest.
It is unconfirmed," however, and ap
pears questionable.
COPENHAGEN, March 24. At the
first meeting of the new Hungarian
government in Budapest Sunday, a
dispatch from Berlin says, a soldiers'
and workmen's council for entire Hun
gary was appointed, according to plans
entered into with the agents of Lenine.
Industries to Be Socialized.
The council immediately started
preparation of a bill for the socializa-
tion of all industrial activities.
AMSTERDAM. March 24. The
Austrian central workmen's council
has decided not to join the Hungarian
movement in introducing a soviet gov
ernment in Austria, a dispatch from
Vienna says. Th council, it is de
clared, pointed out that such a course
was impossible for Austria because it
is dependent on the entente powers for
food.
COPENHAGEN, March 24. The
communists of Vienna held a meeting
, of sympathy with the proletariat dic
tatorship in Hungary Sunday morning,
according to a Vienna dispatch today.
The demonstration developed into a
' manifestation against the entente.
There was no disturbance, however,
the message declares.
VIENNA, March23. Asked what
effect Hungarian events would have
on the political situation, in German
Austria, Herr Deutsche, secretary for
military affairs, said today:
"If the entente treats us as it treats
Hungary, no one can guarantee what
will happen. A. people driven to de
spair loses self control. The entente,
by a thoughtless decision, might lose
the bulwark against bolshevisra which
German Austria really constitutes."
LONDON, March2l. via Montreal.
Hungary's adoption of bolshevism is
regarded most seriously by the Anglo
French press, chiefly as endangering
efforts of the entente to build up the
Roumanian, Polish and Czecho-Slovak
states as bulwarks against German
domination of central Europe. All
these states are menaced by advancing
bolshevik armies.
' Neutral Zone Causes Crisis.
According to a Vienna dispatch, it
was the establishment of the neutral
rone on the Hungarian - Roumanian
frontier which- the peace conference
had decided upon which precipitated
the crisis. This zone was intended to
make the Hungarians desist from at
tacking the Roumanians and to close
the gap between Roumania and Po
land. The entente note defining this
tone was datd March 19, the Vienna
advices state.
The lone was fixed as a tx-tt HO
Deliberate Conspiracy to Wrefk Pos
tal 'Wire System to Gain
Monopoly Is Charged.
NEW TORK, March St. Postmaster
General Burleaon'a action in dismissing
Clarence H Mackajr as president of the
Postal Telegraph & Cable company
was characterized by - Mr. Mackay aa
"despotic and brutal" In a statement
Issued here tonight on his return from
Baltimore, where he waa when the dis
missal notice waa served at the com
pany's offices here last Saturday.
Mr. Mackay added that "William
Honenzollern himself could not have
been more arbitrary, despotic and vin
dictive" and served notice on Mr. Bur
leson that he would "fight to my last
dollar and to the last ditch.
He ridiculed Mr. Burleson's state
ment that the dismissal "was the result
of his failure to obey instructions of
the postoffice department." asserting
that the Postal's only two failures to
comply with Instructions were in vases
where "ambiguity" of the Instructions
caused delay and where the company
"would have faced prosecutions with
possible heavy fines," bad It obeyed.
"This act of Mr. Burleson's," be said,
"Is only the continuation of a deliber
ate conspiracy to wreck and ruin the
Postal telegraph system and then es
tablish a monopoly of wire communi
cation in the United States."
Mr. Burleson's principal acts since
taking over the lines, Mr. Mackay as
serted, had "been increasing the long
distance telephone rates in the Interest
of the Bell telephone company, the
proposition to increase telegraph rates
in the Interest of the "Western Union
telegraph company, the seizure of the
cables after the signing of the armis
tice, the ousting of myself and other
officials of the Commercial Cable and
Post:! companies and the order that
the Postal build no lines to compete
with the Bell telephone or Western
Union without first submitting our
plans to officials of those companies."
EVENTS IN HUNGARY
Peace Chiefs Absorbed in
Allotting Hun Cables.
GLOOMY RFfTS f RECEIVED
War Coi; cil Advised of Critical
' . Situation in Budapest. -
GERMANS SHOUT: DEFIANCE
President Ebert Says Teutons Can
not Sign Peace Which Gives
Danzig to Poland.
RUDDER LOSTBY STEAMER
Melrose, Bound Prom France, Sends
Out Distress Signal.
HALIFAX. N. S., March 24. The
steamer Melrose, which left St- Nazalre
on March 9 for Newport News, sent out
wireless calls for help today, saying
that she was in distress. A message
picked up here said that the ship had
lost her rudder. ,,
The message gave the position of the
Melrose as latitude 33:35, longitude
50:50. This would Indicate that the
steamer had drifted far to the south
ward of her course, as the position
given is about 900 miles almost due
east of Bermuda.
The Melrose registers 3391 tons.
WASHINGTON; March 24. War de
partment records show that troops on
board the Melrose consist of a detach
ment of the 317th tank corps company,
the number of men not given; an ord
nance detachment of one officer and 21
men and two casual officers, one of
Uie medical corps and the other of the
air service.
MOUNT ELBRUZ IS SMOKING
Supposedly Extinct Volcano Begins
to Show Activity.
LONDON. March 24. Mount Elbruz.
in the Caucasus, has been discharging
smoke for several days, a Russian wire
less message from Moscow reports Ros
tov newspapers as saying. Blocks of
ice which have been above the snow
line of the mountain for hundreds of
years, it is added, are being carried to
the foot of the mountain in torrents.
Mount Elbruz is 18.500 feet high and
the highest mountain of the' Caucasus.
It was supposed to be an. extinct vol
MAETERLINCK PLAY GIVEN
New York Sees Drama Called "A
Burgomaster of Belgium."
NOT TORK. March 24. Maurice
Maeterlinck's "A Burgomaster of Bel
(tin in." a drama based on the clashing
of German militarism and Belgian pa
triotljm. was Introduced to the Ameri
can public tonight at me Belmont inc
iter.
Presented by an English company,
the performance marked the initial
effort of the lntcr-allied art associa
tion "to hfing about a mutual under
standing of the art of the allied na
tions." '
PRETTY GIRLS ARRESTED
Department Stores Claim to Have
Bern Defrauded.
SEATTLE, Wash, March 24. Two
pretty girls under arrest here are
charged with obtaining, several hun
dred dollars' worth of merchandise
while posing as wives of Seattle and
Tacoma business men.
The girls, it Is said, purchased goods
at department stores and charged them
to the accounts of the men they named
as their husbands.
3 SMOTHERED BY GRAIN
(Concluded on Fsse 3. Column D
Train Crashes Into Elevator and
Contents Engulf Cars.
SASKATOON.. March 24. Three men
were smothered under several tons of
grain here today when a Canadian Na
tional train crashed, into an elevator,
which burst and engulfed the engine,
baggage and express cars with its contents.
PARIS, March 24. (By the Associated
Press.) Results of the deliberations of
the supreme council today are not likely
to be atatedln the official communiques
and probably will take form in their
effect on the conference work, particu
larly with respect to reparations, fron
tiers and the league of nations.
The advocates of the league of na
tions maintain that it is in no way re
tarding the progress of the peace treaty,
. as the league meetings are held at
night and are neaiing a conclusion,
whereas the obstacles to the treaty are
on questions of principle, on wh ch the
premiers thus far have been unable to
secure an agreement.
Troops May Avoid Danzig.
The war council again today dealt
with Poland, which question is close to
settlement It is understood that the
recommendations of the Cambon com
mittee for a Polish corridor across East
Prussia to the Baltic will prevail, de
spite the objections raised by Premier
Lloyd George. The Polish divisions at
present in France probably will pro
ceed to the Baltic and may land at
Koenigsburg instead of Danzig, in or
der to avoid a clash with the Germans
over Danzig.
The league of nations commission re
sumed its sessions at 8:50 o'clock to
night. President Wilson presiding. The
commission is expected to sit until mid
night. It was not believed that the
large number of amendments would be
completed and the revision of the cov
enant concluded without another meet
ing. Senators' Speeches Noted.
The amendments have been divided
into three classes:
First, those by neutrals; second, those
by an American senator; third, those
framed by President Wilson, E. M
House and Lord Robert Cecil. The last
named group includes all points which
the framers of the instrument believe
will clarify its meaning and satisfy
objections in all quarters.
The text of the speech of Senators
PARDON FOR DEBS IS
REQUESTED BY CABLE
SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC LEAGUE OF
AMERICA MAKES PLEA.
Petitioners' Point to "High Moral
Character and Years of Service
' for v Canse of Freedom."
NEW YORK, March 24. A full par
don .for. Eugene V. Debs, former so
cialist. ' presidential candidate, under
sentence - of - ten years' ' imprisonment
for' violation of the espionage law, and
amnesty for all persons imprisoned for
"honest expressions of opinion against
America's cause in the war" were
urged in a - petition cabled today to
President Wilson by the executive com
mittee of the Social . Democratic league
of America.
- The signers included CharTes Edward
Russell. John Spargo, J. G. Phelps
Stokes, Charlotte ' P e r k 1 n s Gilman,
Chester M. Wright and Upton Sinclair.
The release of Debs was advocated
on 'the ground of his advanced years,
"high moral character. and long years
of devoted service to the cause of hu
man freedom, notwithstanding his vio
lation of the law."
In their plea for amnesty for others
convicted under the wartime statutes.
the petitioners excluded "those who de
fied the law or ; purposely aided the
enemy." They added that America
could "afford to be generous to honest
opponents of her course, now that vic
tory has been achieved."
JAPANESE MADE CITIZEN
Steward at Portsmouth Xavy-Yard
Rewarded for Services.
BOSTON March 24. Citizenship was
granted today to Sassunoka Tokunaga,
a Japanese steward stationed at the
Portsmouth (N. H.), navy-yard, and to
several soldiers and sailors of Chinese
birth, because of their service with the
army or navy during the war.
Tokunaga, who was formerly personal
valet to Admiral Dewey, was vouched
for by Rear-Admiral Poush, command
ing the Portsmouth yard, who came here
for that purpose.
CALIF0RNIARAPS- I. W. W.
Criminal Syndicalism Act Directed
at Indnstrial Workers.
SACRAMENTO, Cal., March 24. The
senate passed today without debate a
criminal syndicalism" bill. There
were no negative votes.
Senator Kehoe, who introduced the
bill, said the measure was intended
primarily to "stop t.e propaganda o
an organization known as the- Indus
trial Workers of the World, which
seeks to accomplish its objects by acts
of terrorism."
TRAWSSEA FLIGHT
PLANS BEING LAID
Great Naval Airplanes Will
Attempt Trip.
THREE OF NEW nPE BUILT
STOLEN SILVERWARE
IS HIDDEN IN WOODS
WICKER SUITCASE FULL
LOOT FOUND BY POLICE.
OF
HUNGARY III GRIP
OF RED EH
Extensive Tests' Are Madef51
Passengers Carried.
DETAILS ARE KEPT SECRET
Starting Place Is Rockaway Beach
and "Jumping-Off Place" Some-
where In Jiewfonndland.
Concluded on Pas 2. Column 1.)
I. W. W. FAST IS UNBROKEN
Prisoners at Topeka Refuse Food,
Although Slowly Starving.
TOPEKA. Kan., March 24. Although
growing pale and thin as the result of
their five days' fast, 12 alleged I. W.
W. members . held in the county jail
here continue today to refuse all food
offered them.
WASHINGTON, March 24. Naval
seaplanes which are to attempt a flight
across the Atlantic, ocean ,in May will
start from Rockaway Beach, L. I., but
the actual "jumping off", place will be
much farther up the coast, possibly at
some point In New Foundland. Whether
the machines will steer a direct course
for Ireland or follow the long route
via the Azores apparently has not been
determined. -
Acting Secretary Roosearelt announced
today that the destroyer Barney had
been ordered to proceed to New Found
land to investigate the harbor facilities
along the coast for the purpose of de
termining the best base from which
the planes could put out overseas and
harbors in which landings could be
made if it became necessary to descend
in the voyage from Rockaway to the
flight base.
Report Expected In 10 Days.
The Barney Is expected to return to
the United States within 10 days, when
the officers will submit their report
at Washington.
In disclosing that the planes would
leave the naval aviation station on
Long Island, Mr. Roosevelt said it was
regarded as preferable to fly the ma
chine to the base to be selected for
the flight rather than to transport
them by ship.
Several machines are being prepared
for the flight and two or more very
probably will make the start. Three
planes of the Nv O.-l type have been
completed and a fourth is nearing com
pletion at the Curtiss plant at Garden
City, N. Y. Extensive tests of the
N. C.-l have been made and 61 pas
sengers were carried on one of her
flights.
Fnel Question Discussed.
Whether It will be possible for the
machines to carry sufficient fuel to
drive them across the ocean has not
been made known. They could refuel
at the Azores without difficulty and
some officers believe It would be en
tirely possible under favorable weather
conditions for them to replenish their
Valuable Papers, Bank Books, In
surance Policies and EngTaved
Cards Clews to Owners.
Several thousand dollars" worth of
valuable silverware and jewelry, to
gether with valuable papers; Including
bank books and insurance policies, were
found in a large wicker suitcase in the
woods near Thirtieth and Klickitat"
streets late yesterday by Motorcycle
Officer Russell and Inspectors Hyde
and Abbott and taken to detective head
quarters. Spoons are marked "H" and "C" and
the table knives are engraved with the
Initials "H. & D." A large silver tray
was included in the stolen silverware.
The name of Mrs. Thomas Harvie of
Glencalrn House, Garelochead, Scotland,
is on a calling card found in the suit
case. ' .
It is believed John Campbell of 694
East Stark street, may be the owner
of some of the silverware, as receipts,
bank books and other valuable papers
bearing his name are included.
An engraved calling card bears the
name Chisholm Hunter, 27 and 29
Trongate street, Glasgow, Scotland.
The name of C. H. Brown of 904
Morris avenue. New York City, appears
on several policies and valuable papers.
A bank book No. 82685 of the First
National bank of Portland, showing a
balance due to the depositor of $273.78,
was also found.
The name of Edmund H. Brooks of
.Eugene, Or., appears on several notes
and papers of the First National bank
found in the suitcase, and also the
name, of Loyd Brooks.
Overturn of Government Is
N Reported Complete.
Crisis in Part Held to Be Due
to Peace Conference Ter
ritorial Decision.
CLAIMS HELD INTOLERABLE
Renewal of Hostilities' Threat
ened; Economic Situation
Aggravates Trouble.
CZECHO-SLOVAK CHIEF OUT
President Masaryk Resigns, Accord
ing to Berlin Report.
COPENHAGEN, March 24. T. G.
Masaryk, the president of Czecho
slovakia, has resigned, according to a
report received here from Berlin.
Professor Thomas G. Masaryk was
elected president of the Czecho-Slovak
government October 20, 1918, while he
was in the United States,. He was in
augurated president at Prague on De
cember 22.
The Berlin correspondent of the Lon
don Daily Mail in a dispatch printed
today reported that a bolshevik cam
paign was in progress in Bohemia.
. German, Austrian and Hungarian
agents have been active in BoHtemia in
stirring up opposition to the govern
ment-
concluded on Page 2, Column 4.)
THE TRANSATLANTIC FLIGHT.
. . . .
Copyrigtil: 1919: By John T. McCntcheoa.
THE ENEMIES HE WILL FACE WHEN HE GOES OVER THE TOP
. f Kwo b choppy
TURKISH STATESMEN TRIED
Arrests of Younsr Turk Leaders In
Constantinople Continue,,
CONSTANTINOPLE, March 24.
(French Wireless.) Trial of the lead
ers of the committee of union and
progress has begun and several of the
former Turkish statesmen have been
summoned to appear in court. Arrests
of young Turk leaders still continue.
The economic situation here is im
proving gradually.
MAN DIES AT AGE OF 115
Xcw Mexico Resident Said Never to
Have Been III.
ALBUQUERQUE. N. M., March 24.
Agapito Madrid of Luz Canyon, N. M.,
died at the age of 115 years according
to reports received here today.
His son said he had never been ilL
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
THE RACE.
A PROBLEM THE LEAGUES WILL SOME DAY HAVE TO FACE.
The Weather.
YESTERDAY'S Maximum' temperature. 56
degrees; minimum, 36 degrees.
TODAY'S Fair; gentle northerly winds.
Foreign.
Czecho-Slovaks attack Hungary. Page L
Paris conference silent on Hungarian events.
Page 1.
Germans free Slav red leader. Page 2.
French objectors delay peace conference
work. Page 2.
Captured Britons are confined in Moscow
prisons. Fage 3.
Turkey objects to losing capital city. Page 5.
Public loses faith in peace conference.
Page 6.
National.
Overturn of Hungarian government declared
complete. Page 1.
More Pacific coast soldiers leave France for
home. Page u.
Domestic.
President besought by cable to pardon Debs.
Pago 1.
April 17 date set for trial of Los Angeles
mayor. Page 4.
Trans-Atlantic flight by American aviators
, to b made. Page 1.
Mackay charges Burleson with share in con
spiracy to wreck Postal Telegraph com
pany. Page 1.
French officer confirms execution of Roman
offs. Page 3.
Sports.
Pitcher Lay is first to receive discharge at
Beavers' camp. Page 14.
Field sVial clubs to meet soon in Seattle.
Page 14.
Pitcher Smith asks to be discharged free
agent. Page 14.
Pacific Northwest.
Three members of P. C. LaFollett family of
Cornelius poisoned Dy looa. rage .
Paving repair bond requirement approved.
Page 7.
Commercial and Marine.
Barley strong and active feature of local
grain market. Page 21.
Corn higher at Chicago on export sales.
Page 21.
Wall-street stocks unsettled by news from
Hungary. Page 21.
Sharp advance in hog prices at local stock
yards. Page 21. .
Two Portland boats going to Honolulu.
Page 20.
Portland and Vicinity.
Fifteen-year-old bad man's ambition is
dashed. Page 12.
Fifth liberty loan appeals to loyalty of citi
zens. Page 22.
Story of ex-sailor, charged with attack,
arouses sympathy of court. Page 20.
Stolen silverware found hidden in woods on
east side. Page 1.
Wilson blamed for Ignoring senate. Page 8.
More soldiers will be welcomed home today.
Page 9.
Aviators go south to '.secure planes for Rose
Festival air exhibitions. Page 13.
Weather report, data and forecast. Page 21. '
WASHINGTON, March 24. Advices
to the state department today from
three widely separated European
sources tended to increase the anxiety
of officials over the situation in Hun
gary. Bolshevik-elements apparently
had assumed complete control of the
government of Budapest with a threat
of renewal of hostilities.
There was no indication as to the
extent of the control of the new regime
beyond the capital and, in the absence,
of this and other deiails, officials, werey
reluctant to discuss the situation at
length. It appeared from today's ad
vices, however, that the crisis resulted
from the line of demarcation estab
lished by the peace conference in cir
cumscribing the territory of Hjingary,
and the general economic situation in
Budapest.
Claims Held Intolerable.
The recognition of the extreme
claims of the Roumanians and Czecho- .
Slovaks and the establishment of neu
tral zones between the lines and the
limits allowed to Hungary, which zone
was to be held by the French until
the final peace treaty was completed,
was said to have beea more than the
old Hungarian government was able
to accept and remain in power. It was
suggested that the fact that these
lines were not to be the final limita
tions of the new Hungarian state was
not appreciated by. the Hungarians,
who apparently proceeded upon the
theory that they were to lose even
the neutral zone occupied by the
French.
The safety of foreigners was a fea
ture of the news that appeared cheer
ing to state department officials. A
number of Americans are in what was
formerly Austria-Hungary on various
missions for the peace conference and
the inter-allied food commission, but
most of them are in Vienna.
Crisis May Hasten Peace.
Senator Hitchcock, chairman of the
senate foreign relations committee, in
a statement, referred to the situation
in Hungary, and said he believed it
would do much to wipe out differ
ences between the nations represented
at the peace conference and would aid
in bringing about final adoption of the
league of nations plan.
State department officials, who are
familiar with conditions heretofore
existing in Hungary, were surprised
by the rapidity with which bolshevism
swept, into control in Budapest and
were inclined to doubt that it had suc
ceeded in reaching out of the cities to
include the peasant agricultural class.
The peasants were said to have been
well satisfied with their treatment un
der the land-owning class and conse
ouently would not be a f erti? - field for
the propagation of bolshevik theories.
Revolution Accomplished Fact.
Today's advices came from BcJ-
grade, Berne and Copenhagen and re
lated to different features of the move
ment. Each, however, referred to the
revolution as an accomplished fact.
The Serbian advices declared that the
new Magyar government had an
nounced that hostilities would begin
last Friday night, but they did not
state against whom the hostilities were
ordered, or if they had actually begun.
The Berne dispatches threw spme light
on the personnel of the new govern
ment.
The appointment of Bela Kun as
minister of foreign affairs, was par
ticularly disturbing to officials, 'as he
was for sometime an aide de camp of
Leon Trotzky in Russia. The new
minister of war was described as hav
ing been an orderly in the second army,
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