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TIIE 3IOKXIXG OKEGONIAX, WEDNESDAY, MARCII .2G, 1919.
TO
STRIKE EXT MONTH
Bolshevising Europe as Far
West as Rhine Goal.
SOVIET RULE IS PROPOSED
Ilcd Attack and Strike Coming
.Vimullaneodly Held Danger
ous to Jbcrl Government.
BY ARXO DOtfCH-FLECKOT.
!Copyrirht by the Nr York AorId. Pub
lished by Arrp(rcment.)
BERLIN. March 25. Via Cooen-
gen; Special Cable.) The remmun
1st in Germany, actinir In conjunction
th the iCuMSian bolshevik, covern-
ient, have fixed the middle of April
as the time for the overthrow of de-
jncfracy tn Germany, establishment of
soviet povernment in Berlin, and the
complete bolshevising of Europe as far
vest as the Rhine.
I itfain this information from a great
Variety of source. Two indications of
its truth are so apparent there is tjo
escaping the significance that the
workmen's and soldiers' council has
designated April 18 a.- the day on which
to supersede the Weimar national as
urmbly acf the national lecislative body.
3"he Weim ir assembly has failed to play
any Important role, while the work
man's and soldiers count i Is have the
jnass of the worklngmen behind It.
partaraa Klrneal Feared.
By declarlnsr another genera! strike
It will irive the Etert Kovernment a
Jiard mtluary task in the interior of
the country, and as Colonel Keinhard
Oi the famous Fteii hard division said.
In an Interview I cabled to The World:
'Another time it will mt be as easy
to put down the spartaeitit movement.;
This task will be harder on aci-ount
of the other significant indication, the
Activities of the Russian bolshevik
army. From a sure source I am in
formed that the recent interior changes
in Russia, by which the menhivick
and right social revolutionists were in
duced to cea.se fiirhting the Moscow
government and the Czecho-Slovaks
were sent into Siberia en route home.
haJi released .the best part of the bol
shevik army from other fronts, and it
1s concentrating against Kovro and
The present bolshevik army operat
ing against Kovno numbers about 40.
0'. That i-s moving against Libau.
Th 15.000 troops en route will swell
these forces by April 8 to 75.000
against Kovno, and SO, 000 against
.Li ba u.
Itallroad Traffic Forbidden.
The bolshevik purpose is to compel
Germany to send all her troops to de
fend the frontier there, thus making it
extremely difficult for War Minister
Noske to end the political strike by
force, a-s tfe recently did. A bolshevik
attack and a general strike coming si-
' mu ltaneously will prove a dangerous
time for .the Ebert government and of
this the government is aware.
Civilians have been forbidden to use
the railways in western Russia until
April 8, it is reported. This is sig
nificant, for that date is fixed for be
ginning a national soldiers' and work
men s council in Berlin a soviet con-
The reason fr the suspension of rail-
w ay traffic for civilians is to further
the movement of all available Russian-
iolshevjTfcl troops to the German fron
tier. This activity, is intended to pull
all the German troops to her eastern
frontier, and to make possible a gen
eral strike in Germany and to over
throw the Democratic government.
Radical Teachings Spread.
Reporte also come fron Russia that
what was a growing divergence of opin
ion among the soviet leaders had been
overcome by their united action against
i-rmany. in the hope of setting up a
ifolshcvik government in Berlin. This
would save the Bolshevik dictatorship
3n Russia, which recently was threat
ened again.
Libau is the point where the Moscow
agents and the agents of the German
communist? have their headquarters. ,
The RusMan Bolshevik army, is at this J" " W o'7 .VI V
moment, rctreatn.g from before Libau' An Indictment followed and the tr.
because it is pressed from the west in Progress is a result.
and north by the Anti-Kolshvik and
Keltic troops com posed for t he most
jtart of landowners and Bourgoeis.
The mass of the population is in
active. With the bolshevik army are
the Lettish sharpshooters, who formerly
were Lcnine's t'rctoriuii guards, and
i ho. It was rrported. had gone home
because they had deserted the bolshevik
.aue.
barpbolrr still Fighting.
This report was un founded. The
Fhurpshootf rs are still lighting for the
31oscow government and awaiting re
inforcement, for they know the forces
riw opposing them cannot hold against
the new troops coming from the
X kraine and troenhurr. The fighting
now going on before Libau is terrible
be yond description.
Neither Mrfe is takirg prisoners. As
th jinti-bolshex ik troops advance east
ward the danger :i the rear grows.
Tne burn in se question in l.ibau is the
Kcamcr Sara toff, loaded with machine
runs and munition?, which t he British
control.
IIrilfc 4.QDN Are feared.
If the guns are unloaded from the
Saratoff. both the Lettish and anti
bolshevik troops regard it as certain
that they will be turned against them,
eventually, by the Libau bolsheviki.
When the bolshevik reinforcements
arrive Lettish resistance at Libau will
le futile, and this rampart against bol
shevism will have to be. Moscow hopes,
upheld by tt rman troops, many of
whom are now policing the interior of
ilerinany. Thus will be made easier
the success of a general strike in Ger
many and the establishment of a soviet
government.
EUGENE LAUNDRYMAN DEAD
clMin Benton Priu-liett Resident of
I.ane Since 1883.
KL'GEXK. Or., March 25. Xelson
J'.enton Pnuhett. a resident of lCugene
since 18S3. died here today. Mr.
l'ritcnett came here 'from Junction
"ity. Kan., and had been engaged in
the laundry business most of the time
Fitice. He established the first steam
Jaundry here.
He is survived by his widow and the
following children: Mrs. William G.
White. Mrs. J. O. Burgess and William
3.. I'ntchett of Kusone and Alva K.
rritchctt. a sergeant in the 45th In
fantry, vompaiiy 1 at Camp Gordon,
t.t'urgia.
KID CUPID TAKES DAY OFF
o Application Made for Marriage
l.i-ene. ''
'1 m off to buy Kid Cupid an alarm
lock." flung back TVpuly County Clerk
Thornton, head of the marri.-ige license
l-sk. as he grrabiftU his hat and hur
ried for the door at the stroke of 5
yesterday afternoon.
There was a reason. The lit lit.- bow-
legged god had failed to bring a single
customer for the S3 licenses all day
long the first time this has happened
on a regular work day in many moons.
Yesterday five mismated couples are
involved in suits for divorce filed and
ten couples were separated by the de
cree of Presiding Judge Stapleton. The
suits filed were as follows: Frances A.
James against Edwin Lloyd James, de
sertion : Alodia Butler against Edward
Butler, cruelty; Savillah Poyser against
George W. Poyser, cruelty; Lottie I.
Cook against O. E. Cook, cruelty, and
Anuziata Lambert! against Carle Lam
berti, cruelty.
Default divorces granted were: Pearl
Rowden from G. R. Rowden, Robert B.
Anderson from Dorothy E. Anderson.
Maud E. Bleything from Wallace M.
Bleything. Victoria Kaim from Ludwig
Kaiin. Catherine Wistrand from Walter
Wistrand. Z. Inex Hfbbs from H. H.
Iftbbs, Hilda Reek from A. G. Reek,
Clara D. Wright from John .Wright.
.Metta fangburn from Arthur Pangburn,
and T. S. Christopoulos from Edith
Christopoulos.
RAILROADS PROMISE AID
ADMINISTRATION' WILL ADVER
TISE ROSE FESTIVAL IN EAST.
Tourist Tickets Will Be Sold to Port
land at One, and One-Third
Fare for Round Trip.
The United States Railroad adminis
tration will give publicity to the Port
land Hose Festival, according to a
letter received by Sidney Vincent, man
ager of the publicity bureau of the
Chamber of Commerce, and read at the
meeting or tne festival directors in the
Portland hotel last night. The letter
says the administration will include
the Rose Festival in its pamphlet on
Pacific coast tourist attractions, which
it will issue this summer.
Portland will be one of the points to
which tourist tickets at one and one-
third fares for the round trip will be
sold at Chicago, the "Twin Cities," and
territory tributary to the Missouri
river, according to the same letter.
The festival directors expect that this
help from the railroad administration
will be of great assistance in making
the 119 Rose Festival the most suc
cessful yet staged.
Mrs. C. B. Simmons, chairman of the
committee on contests, announced that
the Judges for tha slogan contest will
be E. J. Jaeger. Mrs. G. J. Frankel and
Dean Collins. The contlst will end
March 31. Mrs. Simmons sakd the
committee would consider the merits
of the various slogans which had been
submitted and would rejiort the names
of the winneTs at the meeting of the
directors immediately following.
ALLEGED FORGER OH TRIAL
JACK HAMILTON ACCUSED OF
FRAUDULENT TRANSACTION.
Chance Recognition oT Witness
Previous Cae Results in In
dictment and Prosecution.
iu
Jack Hamilton, as result of a chance
recognition when he testified for D. A.
Hatfield and Ed DeYoung, real estate
men recently convicted of crooked
deals, is defendant in a suit charging
forgery which opened before Circuit
Judge Morrow yesterday. Jack Fletcher
is the complaining witness.
Jn 1915, according: to Deputy District
Attorneys Hammersly and Pierce,
Hamilton, under the alias of J. Burton
Buchanan, pretended to Fletcher that
he was ill and needed money. He asked
for a loan of $125 for 90 days, asserts
Fletcher, offering as security a mort
gage on a ' homestead in Malheur
county.
When the note became due Fletcher
could not find "Buchanan." He inves
tigated and found there was such a J.
Burton Buchanan firm, but that J. Bur
ton was not the "Buchanan" who had
given him the mortgage. He attempted
to foreclose the mortgage, but dropped
the i-ae after being assured the note
was a forgery.
During t he trials of Hatfield Hamilton
was a character witness for the ac
cused. He was recognized, it is said,
as the man who had swindled Fletcher.
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GIANT SLAIN BY WOMAN
erro
Mrnibrr of Theatrical t'oni-
psmjr Killed by Wife.
MILWAUKEE. Wis.. March 25.
tieorz' Hell. 25, a negro playing the
role of Riant in a theatrical company,
which is appearing here, was shot to
death early this morning by his common-law
wife, Maceo Kaly. Bell was
a Giant in stature, being "i feet 11 inches
tall.
The shooting occurred during a quar
rel. The woman said she shot in self
defense. She is being held by the police.
Ireland's Successor Consecrated.
ST. PAUL. March 25. The Most Rev.
Austin Powlinir. former Roman Catho
lic bishop of the Des Moines diocese,
was today consecrated archbishop of
St. Paul in succession to John Ireland,
who died several months apo.
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91st Division Revelation Not
Alone- to Germans.
BRIEF HISTORY IS GIVEN
Dean of Journalism at University of
Washington Returns From
Overseas Service.
How an army of civilians, but a few
months in the uniform and gathered
from all phases of life, met and
whipped thof lower of the German
forces in the Arjronne, is a dii oi re
cent American history that Lieutenant
i-niin v. Dvment. A. K. C. former
Portland newspaperman and dean of
journalism at the University or wasn
ingrton, is more than proud of. He
served with the 91st division, which
trained at Camp Lewis, and he returned
last night from overseas.
"Those cowpunchers of ours, those
clerks and farmer boys and every
thing," enthused Lieutenant Dyment,
"those fellows who went overseas in
that cosmopolitan frontier division, the
91st, made good with a vengeance!" He
smiled happily.
"After seeinsr the men of the sisi
fight," he pursued, "you cannot tell a
man any longer that it takes special
ized national military training, such as
the Germans had, to make a first-rate
fighting: -man. Tiou bet, you can u
i.iontanani Iivment was dean of
journalism at the University of Wash
ington when he felt the itch to get in
action, and felt It to sucn erieci mai
he applied for a leave of absence, re
ceived it, and turned toward France.
He arrived there in time to am me
u-m.nHeH American troopers wno
streamed back to Paris, the ransomed
from the fight at Chateau-rnierry.
Rut when the 91st arrived in France
he applied for duty with them and was
assigned to the division by the Amer
ican Ked Cross.
Training ot Kxten.lve.
Those boys of the 91st went into
action with just a fraction of the train
ing that the Germans had. he elab
orated the deadly parallel. "They
went in without such artillery and air
craft support as the Germans pos
sessed. They did just that. And they
ran the Germans out of places that
the Germans couldn"t have chased them
from in a hundred thousand years!
1 used to wonder a good many times
how they did it. Those kids and high
school boys, those farmer lads and
cowpunchers. I wondered how they
did it. I never found anyone able to
tell me. Nor do I know, unless it was
that they went at the thing in such
an absurdly unmilitary way thata they
shook the nerve of the astounded
Heinies.
For the Germans couldn't compre
hend what manner of men they were,
those fellows who faced machine gune
fire and artillery, and who went into
action chewing their rations.
Here's something that ought to be
straightened out?" requested Lieuten
ant Dyment. "Curiously enough, the
91st up to as late as December was of
ficially credited, in dispatches from
Washington, with having gone into ac
tion first in Belgium, after training
in England. As a matter of fact, be
fore they were sent to Belgium at ail
they had lost 1000 men, killed in battle.
and sustained a proportionate number
of wounded.
"In fact, it isn't Belgium at all that
the men of the 91st talk about. They
had a hard fight up there, it's true, and
sustained 950 casualties in five days.
Among the men fighting in Belgium
was known as the 'battle of the turnip
patches." Keally it was the drive of the
91st for the city of Audenarde. and
was but a part of the battle of the
Scheldt river.
Areonnc Rig. Kigh.
"But the fighting in Belgium is not
epic in the memories of the men. It
was the fighting in the Argonne tnat
made the strongest appeal to their
imaginations. There were so many
heroic deeds performed by the men of
the 91st in that wild, stubborn scram
ble through the Argonne tangles, so
many fearful experiences, both in en
durance and danger, that the memory
ia indelibly stamped.
"The exhaustions during the Argonne
fighting were terrific. The country was
difficult, yo much o that through the
four preceding years of war neither
Frenchman nor (erman had given
ground. The country itself was not un
like mnny parts of our own west. They
recognissed its wildnepe. And then, too,
they lo.t so many comrades there.
"Yes. when the fellows who fought
with the 91st talk about their experi
ences, it isn't Belgium they speak of.
It's the Argonne.
"The division occupied from Septem
ber 6 to September 20 in getting to a
position just back of 'the front lines.
In brief, this will be a modest history
of the operations of the 91st. From
September 20 to 25 it rested, before
going into action. From September 26
to October 12, parts or all of it were
in action in the Argonne, during the
first phase of the American drive.
"On October 17, after three day?"
march back to the rest area and after
two days' rest, the division was ordered
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to Belgium, where the 37th division,
Ohio troops, was ordered at the same
time. These two fought side by side
in the Argonne. and on the rooming of
October 31 they went into action side
by side in Belgium.
Infantry Dne Soon.
"Fro mthat date until November 4
they were in action, when they, were
given six days rest and sent in again
on October 10. They had failed to
catch up with the foe, so rapid was his
flight, at the time the armistice was
signed.
"From November 11 to January 1 the
division lay part of the time east and
part of the time west of no man's land
in Belgium, within a day's march of
Ypres. The first week in January it
was sent to the embarkation area,
where it was re-equipped and deloused
and held to await transportation.
"Certain infantry companies of the
363d and 364th infantry are now on
the ocean, and are due at New York
within the week. I believe that the
entire division will be home by the
third week in April."
Lieutenant Dyment's son, Donald, en
listed at the age of 17, and recently
passed his 19th birthday, with partici
pation in several major battles to his
credit and without a wound. Father
met son in the Argonne. when Lieu
tenant Dyment hunted up the young
ster, learning that his regiment was
near at hand and ready to go into
action.
Prior to becoming dean of journalism
at the University of Washington Lieu
tenant Dyment was professor of jour
nalism at the University of Oregon.
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PROPOSED APPROPRIATION" OF
$5000 FOR FESTIVAL DELAYED
Joint Meeting ot Council and County
Commissioners Planned to De
cide on Proportionate Shares.
Action on the proposed appropriatio
of $5000 for the Victory Rose Festival
in Portland will probably be delaye
until after Mayor Baker has returnei
to the city. City Commissioner Per
kins will present an ordinance to th
city council today authorizing the pay
ment of the money to the Rose Festival
association. .
All members of the council are agreed
that the city should appropriate some
money and share a portion of the ex
pense for staging Portland's annual
Festival. The members of the council
are also agreed that, inasmuch as thi
year's Festival will be in the nature of
a great celebration in honor of Orego
men who have left the state and gon
overseas to take a part in the finish of
the world's war. that the city should
share a larger part of the expense o
the Festival than has been customary
in the past.
According to several members of th
city council, the county commissioners
will be invited to sit in a joint sessio
and determine what apportionmen
each body shall share in the payjnen
of expenses necessary in staging the
Victory Rose Festival in June.
COOS BAY SEEKING JETTY
Efforts Being Made to Get Sava
Committee to Visit.
MARSH FIELD, Or., March 25. (Spe
cial.) Coos bay, although the proba
clever hats for every
taste.
different cloth hats and
caps.
agent for knox hats,
caps and overcoats.
john b. stetson hats.
imported Italian borsa
Imo hats. '
imported english christy
clothing.
jameson hats.
monroe hats, $4.
new knit neckwear.
superb spring shirts.
I
Ole Sichel
men's furnisher and
hatter
331 Washington street
near broad way
.'.'Youth Will Be
Served"
The young- men all are
enthusiastic concerning-
the seamed-waist
models that I am show
ing. Here are clothes
that are the very acme
of style, smartness
and quality. New gar
ments are arriving
daily, n
$22.50 to $50
Young Men, Second Floor
"DenSellin-
bility seems quite hopeless, has not
abandoned the desire to prevail upon
the house naval affairs committee to
visit this port, and has sent to Port
land Charles Hall, president of the
State Chamber of Commerce, who is
authorized to invite the committee here
and guarantee any expenses in connec
tion. There is a feeling here among finan
ciers and lumber interests that the
operation of a dredge in the summer
time does not give the port necessary
water on the bar, for the channel
shoals every winter and the work must
be done over again every year. In the
winter hindrance to navigation, caused
by narrowing of the b&r channel and
shoaling involves great I03S to owners
of vessels and lumber shippers.
Captain Hall of the City of Topeka
declares that there is but 21 feet of
water on the Coos bay bar, whereas
there should be 31 at least. The shoal
ing and narrowing at the bar has this
winter been worse than usual and there
is constant breaking on the bar, except
in the most ideal weather. At present
the steamer C. A. Smith has been de-
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Valentine Huber, Conducting
(Formerly Concert Master for
D. W. Griffith)
So
layed four days with a lumber cargo
for Bay Point, while fine, clear weather
has been prevailing with the wind in
the northwest.
Coos bay needs, instead of a bar
dredge, a jetty, to insure the proper
depth of water the year around, ac
cording to experienced seamen who
have always held the custom of dredg
ing, interrupted by winter storms,
would not furnish adequate shipping
facilities.
AUSTRALIA PLANS FUTURE
Development of Important Indus
tries Contemplated.
MELBOURNE, March 25. Australia
intends to undertake a revision of her
tariff laws as soon as practicable with
the object of developing her industries,
according to announcement by Acting
Premier Watt today.
The revision of the tariff laws will
proceed with the following considera-
DIRECTION OF JENSEN AND VON HERBERG
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PORTLAND 6
PORTLAND, HUNGRY FOR REAL ENTER
TAINMENT, HAS ADOPTED "THE HEART
OF HUMANITY" AS ITS VERY OWN.
IT'S THE TALK OF THE TOWN THE
TOWN THAT NOBODY CAN FOOL TWICE
IN THE SAME PLACE.
IT IS UNANIMOUSLY PRAISED BY PRESS
AND PUBLIC. SOME SAY ITS "THE PIC
TURE THAT WILL LIVE FOREVER."
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tions in view: The necessity of con
serving those industries brought into
existence through tho war; encourage
ment of contemplated new industries
and extension and diversification of ex
isting enterprises. r
"The war has taught Australia many
lessons," said the acting premier,
"among them being that the common
wealth's isolation and the long ocean,
haul make it necessary for her to de
velop along more self-reliant lines. The
government, therefore, has in view in
the proposed tariff amendments the
promotion of those great key industries,
the raw materials for which are with
in the confines of the commonwealth."
Poindextcr to Speak in Oregon.
OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash
ington, March 25. Tentative plans for
Senator Poindexter's speechmaking tour
against the league of nations, on which
he leaves for the west tonight, include
speeches in Oregon at Portland, Pendle
ton, and Salem.
Read The Oregonian classified ads.
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