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PORTLAND, OREGON, MONDAY, MARCH 31, 1919.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
PEASANT POLES HAVE
FAITH IN PRESIDENT
CITIZENS HURRY AS
CLOCKS MOVE AHEAD
WEEK OF
LEAGUE
T I rnS, PEACE DISCUSSION
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EX-SOLDIER SLAI.N BY ANOTHER
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Features Held to Need En
forcement Clauses. .
SEVERAL CHANGES SUGGESTED
Compulsory Conference Provi
sion "Great Step Forward."
J.EAGUE MUST HAVE POWER
GUtered to Meet Views. Measure Te-
minds Support of the I'nlted
tate. Declares ei-Secrecary.
' NEW TOP.K. March 30. Klihu Koot
tonight declared himself an advocate
f the league of nations covenant made
public by the peace conference, pro
vided It Is amended, primarily, by writ
ing enforcement clauses Into the ar
ticles calling for arbitration and limi
tation of armaments, by restricting to
five years the unanimous guaranty of
the present political and territorial
anatus of members and by protecting
from non-American Interference the
affairs of the American continents.
He made his approval contingent also
tjpon amendments assuring periodic re
Vision of international law and a gen
eral redrafting of the covenant In an
atmosphere removed by several years
from the Issues attendant upon the set
tlement of the world war.
To dispel doubt as to the right of
withdrawal from the league, he favored
Specific -reservation of this privilege to
any signatory, coincident with or after
the proposed redrafting conference,
Mi Aaradanta Proposed.
If these changes could be made, the
former secretary of state asserted, it
ould be "the clear duty" of the United
States to enter into the league agree
menu in keeping with what he termed
the apparent general desire of the
American republic that the country "do
Its full share toward the establishment
of an effective International organiza
tion to preserve the peace of the
orld."
Mr. Root reviewed the league project
And propoeed his amendments, sis in
dumber, in a letter to Will H. Hays,
chairman of the Republican national
committee, which the latter gave out
Cur publication. The discussion was in
response to a request by the party
leaders, who advised the former cabinet
member and senator that citizens in the
republican ranks "determine to do all
that can possibly be done toward the
maintenance of peace without sacrific
ing our own supreme nationalism," and
seeking the "beat Judgment" to aid
them In reaching a conclusion, would
appreciate a study of the covenant from
Jtr. Root.
rfcaage Meld Imperative.
Mr. Root proposed that the Monroe
doctrine "the United States" tradi
tional attitude toward purely Ameri
can questions" be withdrawn from
decisions or recommendations of other
powers In a paragraph Inserted in the
league constitution immediately before
the signature of the American dele
gates. Without such an amendment, he con
tinued, "surrender of the Monroe doc
trine is inevitable" under the' terms of
the covenant.
The league's provision for compulsory
International conferences on political
Questions in tiroes of danger was classed
fcv the former secretary as "a great step
forward." But the scheme was not car
ried lar enough, he said. It should not
merely suggest, but compel arbitration.
Excluding only questions of policy or
rolitics. He added that the drafters of
the league plan. In leaving to disputants
te privilege of submitting to arbitra
tion questions "which they recognize as
ultable for submission" had set the
entire subject of arbitration "back
hcre it was 21 years ago."
Uuae Mast Have Power.
Along with compulsory arbitration.
lr. Koot urged adoption of the susges
t on of Leon ftourgeois of the Krench
peace delegation, that the lrague.be
friven powers of inspection and verifica
tion to make effective the proposed
general agreement for reduction of
armaments to the lowest point consis
tent with the national safety of each
riember. Without a weapon such as
fils. he claimed, the disarmament com
mission would be helpless against
'some nations whose public officers
would regard it as a duty to conceal and
mislead and the whole effort to secure
future peace would "go for nothing.
The former senator advocated def
late arrangements In the covenant for
Keeping International law up to date
and for revision of the Instrument it
aelf. by provision for a conference of
the signatory powers on the former
subject within two to five ears. and
on the latter question ftve to ten yers
hence. One of the league's weaknesses,
in Its present draft, he declared, was
its failure to assure perpetuation of
the progress of the present and past
generations In the development and ap
plication of International law."
Rrt bias at Latter aagearal.
In view of uncertainty as to "when
r upon what terms the central or
astern powers are to be admitted into
the league. he contended that the
initial obligations of the members must
not be regarded as irrevocable and
favored Its revision "when the world
5s less subject to exciting and disturb
Ing causes.
And at the time of revision, or there
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Assailant Acting Member of Legis
lature; Alleged Wrong Done
Daughter Given as Motive.
BAXDOJf. Or., March 30. (Special.)
George Sydman. 18 years old. of Den
mark. Or., was shot and killed last
niarht in a dance hall at Langlois. in
Curry county, by George D. Chenoweth
of Denmark, a veteran of the Canadian
army and acting joint representative
for Coos and Curry county in the Ore
gon legislature.
Sydman, with a number of other
young men. was sitting on a platform
near the orchestra. Chenoweth entered
the hall, walked straight up to Syd
man and. without saying a word, fired
three shots. Only one shot took effect,
penetrating the boy's left lung and
ranging downward. lodging in the
side. Death followed within an hour.
Chenoweth. Immediately after the
shooting, left the hall, extracted the
empty shells from his pistol and re
marked to those near by that he had
shot Sydman. was glad of it and hoped
he had killed him. He then gave him
self up to the authorities and was
taken to the county jail at Gold Beach.
Family trouble is reported to have
been the cause of the tragedy. While
Chenoweth was in France his daughter
gave birth to a child, and it is said she
accused young Sydman. The latter was
called in the 18-21 draft, but was re
cently mustered out and returned
home. His father is a prominent Curry
county dairyman.
PRESIDENT WILSON RESTS
Only Conferences Arc With Few
Members of Congress.
PARIS. March 30. (By the Associated
Pnsss.) Except for an hour of con
versation with the American congress
men in Paris and a brief period of
study. President Wilson rested today.
The president and Mrs. Wifton attended
church In the forenoon and motored
about the 'city during the afternoon.
Among the congressmen who called
on President Wilson after luncheon were
Halton W. Sumners, Texas; William R.
Green. Iowa; Addison T. Smith, Idaho;
John E. Baker. California; Burton L.
French, Idaho, and C. W. Ramsay, Iowa.
The conversation was general and It
is said the congressmen assured Presi
dent Wilson of their belief In his abll
ity to effect an early adjustment of the
situation. The congressmen are reported
not to have displayed any spirit of an
tagonlsm sgainst the stand of President
Wilson.
The war and its effects and the prob
lems incident to arranging peace were
freelv discussed, it was stated, but
President Wilson did not commit him
self on any point at issue between the
United States and the allies.
DEBS' FRIENDS STORM HALL
To Hell With Mayor." Cry Social
lls in Street Parade.
TOLKDO, O., March 30. When they
were refused admittance to Memorial
hall, a city building, this afternoon by
city officials, where bugene V. ixios
was scheduled to speak. 5000 persons
stormed the place, broke windows and
doors nd then paraded the streets,
crying "To hell with the mayor."
And all the time Debs was in bed in
Cleveland hotel, where. It wan said.
he was too ill to appear in public
A substitute speaker for Debs ap
peared about 3:30 o'clock, bet when he
attempted to make an address in public
was chased away by policemen.
More than 75 men were arrested, in
cluding Thomas Devine, socialist mem
ber of the city council. Charges of In
citing to riot were placed against them.
but after 300 policemen had succeeded
In breaking up the mob the prisoners
were all released without bail.
BERLIN INDEPENDENTS WIN
Nine Seats In Congress Gained; Ma
jority Socialists Get Five.
BERLIN. March 2S. (By the Asso
ciated Press.) The independent social
ists triumphed in the elections of the
Berlin workmen's and soldiers' council
for the second congress of the work
men's and soldiers' council by winning
nine seats to five for the majority so
cialists and two for the democrats.
The council voted to take steps to se
cure the immediate release of Georg
Ledebour. the former social democrat
leader, who was taken Into custody
during the recent spartacan disorders.
STEAMSHIP IN DISTRESS
Coast Gnard Cutter Roponds
Wireless Calls for Help.
BOSTON. March SO. The Norwegian
steamship Ocean, bound from Liverpool
to New Tork. w-as reported in distress
today about 150 miles off Cape Cod.
The coast guard cutter Osslpee was or
dered to her assistance from Portland,
Maine.
Wireless calls for help were picked up
at various stations along the New Eng
land coast.
NEGRO SLAYER IS JAILED
Andy Jones Shoots Ip Bunkhouse,
Killing One Occupant.
BOISE. Idaho. March 30. After shoot
ing up a Mexican bunkhouse at Bliss,
Idaho, and killlc one of the occu
pants and then disarming a sheriff and
v.i.. j . ..j.. i rv
III. UC'UIJ, II U J afVI.CC
Gooding county jail.
He was taken by L. t (jens. who
employs him. in the kitcheu.of the
hotel which he owns and uuerateV'ere.
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lrr ' .d'nt Results Expect-
, During Present Week.
OBSTACLES NEARLY REMOVED
Disposition of Monroe Doctrine
and Reparations Certain.
NEW IDEAS ARE EXHAUSTED
President
lse
Wilson Believed A bo at to
Ills Authority to
End Delays.
PARIS. March 30. fBy the Asso
ciated Press.) Persistent efforts, main
ly by the American delegates, but sec
onded for the most part by the British
and Italians, to speed up the work of
the various councils and' commissions
preparing the details of the peace
treaty, resulted in better progress dur
ing the closing days of the past week.
That most important results will be
attained during the- present week is
predicted by those who are in a po
sition to speak, including the disposi
tion tit the Monroe doctrine and repara
tions,(the two subjects which have been
the main obstacles to completion of the
treaty.
Arguments Are Reviewed.
It is learned that there has recently
been a revival of certain propositions
and arguments which has tried the
patience of some of the participants in
the deliberations. But apparently new
ideas have been exhausted and there
are signs of the rapid approach of the
end of the discussions. Therefore, it is
expected that President Wilson, whom
some of the French newspapers, as well
as some influential British papers, have
held responsible in a measure for "the
delays, is about to exercise the power
which goes with the responsibility to
make an end to the delays.
The most stubbornly contested sub
ject to make was that of reparations,
and it is suggested that the delay in
this case cannot be charged up to the
Americans, but rather to the pre-elec-!
tlon promises of Premier Lloyd George j
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Protest Against Proposed Annexa
tion of Isolated People to Czecho
slovakia Is Object of Trip.
PARIS, March 30. (By the Assoc!
ated Press.) A quaint petition reached
Paris today through the medium of i
party of Polish peasants from the Oro
wa and Spisz districts in northern
Hungary who objected to the proposed
plan of annexing them to Czecho-Slov-akia
and are seeking an audience with
President Wilson in the hope of having
120,000 isolated Poles incorporated into
new Poland.
The delegation, wearing suits of
thick white wool and felt, gaily deco
rated with red embroidery, and high cos
sack caps of black shaggy fur, attracted
much attention when they arrived at
Hotel de Crillon and sought an audi
ence with the president. The members
of the party, Pierre Borowy and Adal
bert Haboczyn, lived in the United
States years ago and remembered
enough of the language to make their
desires known. Borowy, who lived in
Pittsburg 25 years ago, said: .
"I read President Wilson's speeches
and told my friends that I was sure he
would not let us be annexed to Czecho
Slovakia if we could tell him how loyal
our Polish colonies are to Poland. We
have the same religion as Poland, and
our Driest came with us to help save
us from being swallowed up by a peo
ple of different blood and religion."
Haboczyn, who once lived in Ironton
Mich., and has forgotten most of his
English, said:
"We go on feet two days, then two
weeks train to see your president. Tell
him I got boy 30 years old United
States. I like America. I think she
help us if she only know."
The peasants say they have only
small mountain farms, and their dis
tricts have no big factories and no
wealth which can attract the Czechs.
AIRMEN READY FOR FLIGHT
Trans-Atlantic Trip to Start on April
15 if Conditions F"avor.
ST. JOHNS. N. F., March 30. The
coastal steamer Portia with two air
planes arrived at Placentia Saturday,
and the passengers, with the exception
of two British airmen, who will attempt
a trans-Atlantic flight, came here by
special train.
The airmen, Harry Hawker and Lieutenant-Commander
McKenzie Grieve,
are expected to bring the machines
here tomorrow.
Passengers said the flight was
planned for April IS, it' conditions
.should be favorable.
Lower California to See
Farm Exploitation.
LEGALITY OF ACT IS ASSERTED
Under-Secretary, Says No Pos
sibility of Controversy.
IDEA IS DECLARED ABSURD
Mexican Official Says Monroe Doc
trine Not Violated and No
Difficulties Can Arise.
MEXICO CITY, March 29. That Japa
nese corporations have been granted
concessions to exploit agricultural lands
in lower California was the statement
made late today by General Amado
Aguirre, under secretary, of develop
ment and agriculture.
The affirmation was made, however,
that, the concessions were fully au
thorized by the provisions of the Mexi
can constitution regarding the area and
position of the territory in relation to
the ocean shore and the frontier line.
Monroe Doctrine Unaffected.
There was nothing in the conces
sions, it was asserted by the under sec
retary, that might possibly lead to dif
ficulties as far as the Monroe doctrine
was concerned.
Reports that there is a possibility
of international controversy over the
granting of the concessions to the
Japanese were said to be absurd by
General Amado Aguirre in an inter
view earlier in the day, in which he
said the action was legal. At that
time he would not admit the conces
sion had been granted. The Japanese
egation here denied it had any official
knowledge of the action.
Absurdity la Asserted.
In the interview General Aguirre is
quoted as follows:
'It is absurd to give credit to, or
take seriously, the news published to
day that there is imminent an inter
national conflict because of the fact
that Japanese subjects or companies are
arranging to acquire lands in lower
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Few Travelers Miss Trains, bul
Change in Time Is Made
With Little ConTusion.
The ired business man reached laz
ily out of bed and, taking his watch
from the pooket of the trousers which
he had draped across a chair, squinted
at the timepiece.
"Sufferin" tomcats!" he exclaimed
suddenly. "Get up, Mary! It's 9:30!"
And friend wife scrambled out of bed,
probably with the reflection that when
the suffragette amendment got Into full
sway the government would devote it
self to things higher than meddling
with folks' clocks.
And thus it came to pass that ccr
tain churchgoers yesterday arrived just
in time to receive the pastor's farewell
benediction, and others rose so late that
the utmost admonitions of their wives
could not hurry them fast enough to
make it worth while even to start for
services. A few would-be travelers ar
rived at the railroad stations an hour
late for their respective trains and
went home again greatly ' discomfited
by the grins of the "wise gr.'s."
But for the most part Portland moved
its clocks ahead without confusion. The
fact that the change came on Sunday
probably helped to eliminate possible
difficulties. Some of the river boats
ran on the old time yesterday to insure
the transportation of all their passen
gers. All the churches reported the
greater part of their congregations on
time, and not more than the usual num
ber of stragglers.
One of the oddest features of the new
time yesterday was that the most con
firmed "clock watchers," who always
begin keeping their eye on their time
pieces half an hour before the hour of
quitting, found their day's work com
pleted before they began worrying
about it. Sunday workers began prom
enading the streets about 6 P. M., evi
dently thinking that hpurs of employ
ment which gave them a chance to en
joy the spring sunshine were a decided
improvement on the old schedule.
LOAN SPEECH INTERRUPTED
John Goo I z, German, Kjcctcd From
Klamath Falls Church.
KLAMATH FALLS, Or., March 30.
(Special.) The Klamath Falls pro
gramme for the reception of the vic
tory loan and war trophy special train
was interrupted this morning while
B. F. Irvine was addressing a crowd at
a union service at the Christian church.
The speaker had commented on mili
tary customs prevailing in Germany
for years before the war, when John
Goetz. a Klamath homesteader, ran up
the aisle and attempted to take issue
with the speaker.
The intruder was seised by a dozen
men, elected from the church and
lodged in jail.
Patriotic people of Klamath Falls
are strong in their denunciation of
Goetz, who was born in Germany and
has his first papers. This afternoon a
large crowd filled the Klamath Falls
opera house to hear Lieutenant Clark
Burgard, Private Likens, Arthur C.
Spencer and Mr. Irvine, who are ac
companying the train through west
ern Oregon.
BUDAPEST JSH0PS LOOTED
Much Silver Plate Belonging to
Wealthier Classes Taken.
PARIS, March 30. The American
commission received indirectly last
night a dispatch from Budapest report
ing serious disorders there with the
looting of shops, the confiscation of
personal property and the seizure of
much silver plate belonging to the
wealthier classes.
FIUME IN STATE OF SIEGE
Austria's Port on Adriatic Affected
by Allied Command.
FIUME, March 30. The commander
of the allied troops has declared Fiume,
Austria's big port on the Adriatic, to
be in a state of siege, according to the
South Slav press bureau.
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Weather.
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 61
degrees; minimum. 49 degrees.
TODAY'S Fair; gentle southwesterly winds.
War.
Official casualty list. Page 6.
Foreign.
Mexico concedes agricultural land to Jap
anese. Page 1.
Corea in throes of bloody outbreaks. Page 3.
Peasant Poles count President Wilson their
friend; Page 1.
Darkest week of conference ends. Page 1.
Great progress expected in peaco negotiations
during coming week. - page 1.
Soviet overturn in Hungarian capital com
plete. PagB 2.
National.
Mr. Taft misled by democratic acclaim, say
friends. Page j.
Domestic
League covenant faulty, says ex-Secretary
Koot. Page
Postmaster-general accused of gigantic tele
phone Job. Page 3.
Sports.
Judge McCredie scores demands of Siglin
for increase. Page 1J.
Beavers defeat Olympic club team, 3 to 0.
Page 12.
Status of "United States" Smith puzzles
Judge McCredie. Page 13.
Pacific Northwest.
Ex-soldier slala by another at Langlois, Or.
Page 1.
Portland and Vicinity.
Citizens hurry as clocks move ahead. Page 1.
Local Red Cross to welcome returning sol
diers today. Page a.
Leaven of gospel declared hope of present
day. Page U. ,
Annual run of smelt in Sandy river starts.
Page 4.
Livestock fund campaign opens tomorrow.
Page 14.
Oregon and Washington banks exceed quota
in purchase of treasury certificates.
Page 14.
.Mayor Baker to return tomorrow rrom
montn s visn in easi. ragu ia.
"Save and pay up." is victory loan slogan
for Wasco. Page JS.
Weather report, data and forecast. Page 14.
Peace Treaty Now Further
Away Than Ever.
REPARATION PROBLEM PUZZLES
Rhine Republic Fades Under
Pressure of "Big Four."
COMPROMISES ARE UPSET
Conference Discusses Plans for
Dealing With Bolshevism Reds
Seek New Conquests.
BY HERBERT BAYARD SWOPE.
(Copyright by the New York World. Pub
lished by Ariangf ment.)
PARIS. March 30. (Special Wire
less.) The blackest week since the
peace conference began to sit closed
last night with the final treaty further
away than ever. Not only does the
record show no progress but, instead,
there are distinct setbacks to be noted.
From the top down the American and
British missions are worried.
If the spread of bolshevism was not
enough to bring discouragement to
them, the -.-ecalcitrancy of certain ele
ments within the conference has
brought about that condition. But
there are in this frame of mind certain
beings who are fixed in the determina
tion that po misguided idea of national
interests- shall outweigh the claims of
justice and the rights of humanity, both
of which Would be violated were the
seeds of these conflicts permitted to be
sown.
Ithlne Itrpubllc Opposed.
If the past few days have failed to
be productive in the way of showing
positive results, there have been words
of negation which are not without a
direct bearing upon the final terms.
Perhaps the most important of these
is the definite commitment of the con
ference against the establishment of a
Rhine republic as a so-called barrier
state against Germany. This idea was
born, flourished and grew during the
absence of President Wilson and Pre- -mier
Lloyd George, and now it dies un
der the adverse action of the chief
council of four, which has reached a
substantial agreement . that the plan
would be unwise and inexpedient.
Reparation Problem Perplexes.
There is scarcely a chance for it to be
revived, this statement being made upon
excellent authority emanating from
British sources.
The second negation concerns the
Saar valley, which is now regarded as
being certain to remain in German
hands. French claims on these coal
fields may be satisfied by allowing
France the use of the product for the
time required to restore the Lena re
gion, but it may be said almost with
finality that there will be no annexa
tion o( the district.
Not only do the questions of Hie
Rhine province and the Saar valley
come under the terms of no annexations
provided by the armistice agreement,
but they are further complicated by
the problem of reparation, as was point
ed out yesterday.
Compromises Are Upset.
This problem Is proving daily more
serious for the conference to reduce to
a formula, French ideas on the point
being difficult to reconcile with what
the Americans and British regard as
Germany's capacity to pay. Several
times it was believed that satisfactory
compromises had been reached, only to
have the apple cart upset again by new
insistence on the old arguments.
Going back to the list of negations,
it should be said that the Polish boun
daries are among the points that are
meeting with determined opposition
from the British. Not as regards the
western limits, but on the matter of
the Polish claims to the east, where
the Poles seek to throw their boun
daries far into old Russia.
War Declaration Doubted.
American members of the sub-commission
are inclined to favor Polish as
pirations in this regard, but it Is un
likely that the plans will be permitted
fulfillment.
Angther sharp and decisive note has
been written against the plan of send
ing the allied armies to the border
states to operate against the bolshe
vists. Marshal Foch is credited with
favoring this scheme, but it found
scant consideration in the minds of
others whose judgment rules the pro
ceedings. Reports received last night from Ser
bia that war has been declared be
tween that country and Hungary are
not given much credence here, but too
much reliance should not be placed in .
the conference's attitude, for it took
members three days to realize that
Hungary's addiction to bolshevism was
as serious as it turned out to be.
Foch Orders Are Secret.
There is more than a slight connec
tion between the fighting of bolshevism
and the question of landing Polish
troops at Danzig, against which the
Germans have protested. Marshal
Foch was given final orders on this
point yesterday afternoon, although
just what the nature of these orders
are has been kept secret.
The disposition of Danzig is not yet
final, the question having been re
opened again. Premier Lloyd George
stands opposed to giving the city, with
its German population, to Poland, al
though the chances are that some ar-
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