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PORTLAND. OREGON.' THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 1919.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
HUNS HAVE OWN PLAN
FOR NATION'S LEAGUE
COOT I5ERXSTORFF SAID TO
BE ONE OF FRA3IERS.
E USE DENIED
COUPLE WED BY LONG
FARMER KILLS BOY,
316TH SANITARY TRAIN
DISTANCE TELEPHONE
TO STOP IN PORTLAND
WIFE AND HIMSELF
MAX IX DENVER TAKES BRIDE
BASE HOSPITAL 4 6 TO BE DE
MOBILIZED IX EAST.
IX ASHLAXD.
FTALY QUITS PARIS
AND PEACE PARLEY
wh
FIUME IJOT ITALY'S
1UI DECLARES
NEW
YORK
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Wilcon Edict on Hume An
gers Latin Delegate,
NOTICE GIVEN BY ORLANDO
Entire Deelgation to Return
Home Today as Result of
President's Stand.
NO DEMANDS ARE YIELDED
Determination to Have Own
Way as to Adriatic Coast
Asserted by Italians.
PARIS, April 23. (By the Asso
ciated Tress.) Premier Orlando of
Italy this evening addressed an of
ficial communication to Premier Clem-
enreau, president of the peace con
fere nee, saying that as a result of
the declaration by President Wilson
the Italian delegation had decided to
leave Paris at 2 o'clock tomorrow
afternoon.
TARIS, April 2T.. (By the Asso
ciated Press.) After a conference
held by the Italian delegation to the
peace conference this afternoon, it
was announced that the delegates
would leave Paris tomorrow
LOXDON April 24. As a result of
President Wilson's declaration on the
Adriatic question, the Italian delega
tion has announced that it has decided
to leave Paris Thursday, according to
a dispatch to the Exchange Tele
graph from Paris.
PARIS, April 23. (By the Asso
ciated Press.) The Italian vice-admiral,
Thaon di Revel, former chief of
staff, has left Paris for Rome. Gen
eral Armando Diaz, commander-in-chief
of the Italian armies, it is an
nounced, will leave tonight.
LONDON, April 23. (By the Asso
ciated Tress.) With reference to the
Italian claims the Associated Tress
learns that under the treaty of Lon
don Italy was entitled to Triest, Tola
and part of Dalmatia, but Fiume was
to go to Croatia.
Italians to Be Backed.
Great Britain has advised Italy in
her own interests to forego some of
her claims, but if the Italians insist
on their rights under the treaty,
Great Britain and France are pre
pared to honor their signatures, in
which case, as pointed out to Italy,
Fiume must go to Croatia. '
It is understood that Tresident Wil
son issued his statement on his sole
responsibility and that Tremier Lloyd
George and Tremier Clemenceau are
till actively seeking to bring about an
arrangement.
I Br The AuocUtrd Pi-.m.)
Italy has the verdict of the United
States government as regards her
claims in the Adriatic. She may not
have her aspirations for Fiume grati
fied, for that would block in from the
tea behind the coast of Dalmatia the
new unall independert nations which
are to become mernjtxrs of the league
of nations.
German Peace Deelsates Will Berlin
on April 28 and Arrive at
Versailles May 1.
PARIS. April 23 (By the Associated
Press.) The German government has
officially advised the allied and asso
ciated governments that the German
plenipotentiaries will not leave Berlin
before April 28 and that they will reach
Versailles May 1, at the earliest.
Seven newspapermen will accompany
the plenipotentiaries, the dispatch
added.
LONDON. April 23. A dispatch to the
Exchange Telegraph company from
Amsterdam asserts that the German
peace delegates have been Instructed
to propose at Versailles a plan for a
league of nations to replace the plan
adopted by the peace conferees in
Paris. The dispatch adds that the Ger
manman plan was drafted mainly by
Count von Bcrnstorff, former ambassa
dor to the United States; Mathias Eri-
berger. president of the German armis
tice commission; Professor Walther M,
A. Schucklng and Karl Kautsky. one
of the socialist lenders.
Telegraph Companies Re
fuse to Carry Story.
BURLESON CRITICISM RrjN
RISE DENIED TO TEACHERS
Tacoma School Board Allows Bonos
foe Next Five Months.
TACOMA, Wash.. April 23. SpeciaL)
Tacoma grade teachers were denied a
wage increase of 110 monthly, retro
active to September, ISIS, but allowed
a bonus of 33 monthly for the last five
months of the present school year. The
board told the teachers that they would
grant the demand for next year if the
taxpayers would authorise 4 mills ad
ditional for the school levy at a spe
cial election to be held next month.
The voters probably will pass on this
added taxation at the same time they
ballot on proposals to pass a $2,500,-
000 road bond Issue and a like amount
for port development.
The teachers complained that they
could not live on the salaries paid now
and that many of them had resigned
to go elsewhere or to enter other lines
of work.
ASSOCIATED PRESS ELECTS
President, Secretary-Manager and
Treasurer Are Held Over.
NEW YORK. April SI. The board of
directors of the Associated Press today
elected the following officers;
president. Frank B. Noyes, Washing
ton. I. C, Star fre-elected).
First vice-president, A. X. McKay,
Salt Lake Tribune.
Second vice-president. J. L. Sturte-
vant, Wausau, Wis., Record-Herald.
Secretary and general manager, Mel
ville E. Stone (re-elected).
Assistant secretary and assistant
general manager, Frederick Roy Mar
tin (re-elected).
Treasurer, J. R. Touatt (re-elected).
Executive committee, Frank B. Noyes,
Charles Hopkins Clark, Charles A.
Rook, W. L. McLean, John K. Rathom,
Victor F. Lawson. Adolph S. pens.
STORKS RETURN TO NESTS
Annual Visits to Strasbourg Resume
After Stopping Since 1914.
STRASBOURG, April 23. (French
wireless service.) Storks, which ceased
their annual visits to Strasbourg in the
spring of 1914. returned this week to
the old nests on a building on the left
side of the Place de Brogiie in the
center of Strasbourg. Several of the
birds, the first in five years, now oc
cupy the nests.
Their unexpected return in the pres
ent circumstances is commented upon
with pleasure by the native population,
who have always held that the storks
brought good luck.
Article Deals With A .nistra
tion of Postoffice r. artment.
SCHEDULE EVEN -REFUSED
Postmaster-General Pictured As
Snoop, Trouble Maker, Disorgan
lier, Autocrat, Slave Driver."
XBW'TORK. April 23. (Special.)
In the Issue of the World of Monday
last there was printed a fairly com
plete and comprehensive analysis of
the conduct of the Postoffice depart
ment by the postmaster-general, the
Hon. Albert Sidney Burleson.
In accordance with the terms of ex
isting contracts the World offered to
transmit by telegraph the article deal
ing with the administration of the
postoffice department under Mr. Burle
son to the following newspapers:
The Springfield (Mass.) Republican,
the Oregonian of Portland, Or.; the
News of Dallas, Texas: the Inquirer,
of Cincinnati, O.; the Express of Buf
falo, N. Y.; the Star of Indianapolis,
Ind.; the Tribune of Minneapolis, Minn.;
the Telegraph of Macon, Ga.; the
Knickerbocker Press, Albany, N. Y.;
the Spokesman-Review, Spokane,
Wash.; the Herald, Rochester, N. T.;
the Commercial Appeal, Memphis,
Tenn.: the Mail and Empire, Toronto,
One; the Herald, Halifax, N. S., and the
Times, Toledo, O.
Schedule Efts Refused.
A schedule paraphrasing' the head.
lines that the World used over the arti
cle and giving a brief outline of the
character and scope of it was prepared
by the night manager of the World
News Bureau and addressed to the
newspapers named.
The schedule read as follows; "3
Washington Selbold Burleson pic-
ured as snoop, trouble maker, disor
ganize autocrat and arch-politician.
Postoffice employes call their chief
slave driver, convict laborers having
been whipped on his farm. Mlsgovern-
ment of mail system alleged. He is cred
ited with having put national prohibi
tion through 5000 (words.)"
The representatives of the two tele
graph companies In the World office
submitted the Burleson schedule to
their respective chiefs. Night Manager
Witnesses at Both Ends of Line Dis
tinctly Hear Services Read
by Clergyman.
ASHLAND, Or., April 23. (Special.)
A wedding ceremony by long dis
tance telephone was a unique occur
rence in AshJand Sunday, when Miss
Rose Thomas, a popular teacher of the
Ashland schools, became the wife of
Robert Throne, who is located in Den
ver, Colo..
The ceremony took place between 10
and 10:30 in the evening, when the
bride, accomrhnled by her brother, A.
W. Thomas, tod wife as witnesses, went
to the local telephone exchange. The
bridegroom in Denver put the call
through, and .Rev. James Thomas, a
Denver clergyman - accompanying him,
read the service over the telephone in
the presence of necessary witnesses
The service was distinctly heard in
Ashland, even by the witnesses.
The bride is the daughter of A. W,
Thomas of Ashland and has been a
member of the Hawthorne school fac
ulty for a number of years. She taught
the fifth grade. Her . friends . in this
city were much Interested in her novel
wedding.
Mr. Throne recently was discharged
from the army service aid is now in
the employ of an electrical company in
Denver. Mrs. Throne will finish her
term of school, after which she expects
to join her husband In Denver.
TWO CLAIM FIRST ROSES
Mrs. Wilcox and Mrs. Loverldge
Have Early Blooms.
Two more claimants to having the
first rose in full bloom are Mrs. Nathan
Wilcox of Linnton road, who has a
number of yellow climbers in full
bloom, the first ones showing their
petals on Wednesday, April 16.
Mrs. R. Loveridge of 335 East Broad
way has a magnificent climber, the
Madame Alfred Carrier, a white blos
som about three inches in diameter.
which Is a profuse bloomer. The first
rose unfurled its petals on April 19,
and Mrs. Loveridge claims the dis
tinction of being the first one to have
roses in full bloom each season. The
climber was pruned last November,
and it is covered with buds, the trail
ers reaching beyond the second story
of the house. -
BODIES FOUND BY RELATIVE
Madras Homestead Scene of
Double Murder and Suicide.
Manv Orpffon and AYahinrtnn Mon
Tragedy Laid to Quarrels so to Land, Bound ror
n.,, tAmnn Camp Lewis.
uvei vvuiiidii o oun.
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OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash
ington, April 23. The 316th sanitary.
train, which recently landed in New
York from overseas, will be permitted
to stop over in Portland on the way to
demobilization camp. Senator McNary
was promised today by the war dc
partment.
It was explained by the department
that base hospital 46 cannot be sent to
Portland as a unit for the reason that
members of this hospital already ar
rived in this country are receiving
their discharges in New York. Other
detachments of Oregon nd Washington
LAD ABUSED IS CHARGE troops bound ror Camp iwis, soon to
Three hundred and fifth infantry,
one officer and 309 men. due on the
Aquitania, at New York, tomorrow: 117
sanitary train, two officers and 25 men,
due on the Leviathan at New orl
April 25; 163d field hospital, 63 men,
sailed from Marseilles for New York,
April 20; 307th infantry, medical de
(achment and third battalion. 39 men,
sailed on the St. Louis from Brest for
MADRAS, Or., April 23. (Special.) New York, April 21; 305th field artil-
After murdering his wife. Mrs. Susie lery, two officers and 25 men, sailed
Reighen Hardwlck Sar, aged 41, and from Brest for New York on the Aga
her son. David Hardwick, aged 16, as I memnon. April 21; 307th infantry, 36
they soundly slept in their beds in their men, on transport Louisville, sailed
homestead abode five miles from this I from Brest for New York, April 21.
place, some time last night, Charles
rifle between his feet, pulled the trig- ALASKA TO CHARTER SHIPS
ger with one foot and died instantly,
shot through the temple. His body was I Territory Plans to Enter Transporta
found on the bed beside that of his I T ...
wife of two years, he fully clothed and S'""-
she in her night clothing. I JUNEAU, Alaska, April 23. By a vote
Sar made a quick job of the tragedy, I of 12 to 3, the territorial house of rep
indications being that he had slain his I resentatives today passed a bill autho
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wue urst. ana gone inio ine room ou- . ,- ... t.rriorv of Alaska to enter
Charles Sar Shoots Wife and Let
ter's Son as They Soundly
Sleep in Cabin.
President Demands Wiping
Out of Secret Pact.
RIGHTS OF PEOPLE UPHELD
Peace Delegates Amazed at
Challenge to Deal Justly
With Smaller Nations.
BEWILDERMENT IS CAUSED
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FLIERS BOOST DR. L0VEJ0Y
Speech at Washington Heralded by
Handbill Showers.
OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash
ington, April 23. Thirty-five thousand
handbills were dropped on the city by
airplanes yesterday afternoon announc
ing that Dr. Esther Pohl Lovejoy of
Portland, Or, will be the principal
speaker at a mass meeting to be held
under the auspices of the women's vic
tory loan workers of the District of
Columbia at Belasco theater Thursday
afternoon.
Mrs. Newton D. Baker, wife of the
secretary of war, will sing. j
cupied by the young son of Mrs. Sar,
slaying him in like manner, the bullet
passing through the brain of each. The
bodies were found this afternoon.
Couple Quarrel Over Boy.
It is said that the couple had been
quarreling for a year past, the domes
tic troubles having arisen over the boy,
Mrs. Sar's son by a former marriage.
Mrs. Sar was divorced about three
years ago from H. L. Hardwick. and a
year later married Sar, the family go
ing to Mrs. Sar's homestead of 160
! loins that of her brother. Sam Reighen,
who found the bodies of the three
today. .
Sar was a naturalized Swede, coming
to this section of the country from the
east some place, but no onn seems to
the transportation business with char
tered ships and appropriating thereto
1300,000. The bill makes the governor
secretary-treasurer of the proposed
Alaska shipping board and authorize
a careful investigation of shipping con
ditions and needs before the territory
enters the business, which is left op
tional.
Passage of the measure in the senate
is believed certain.
10-HOUR DAY BILL PASSES
California Assembly Votes Shorter
pay , for. Domestic Service.
SACRAMENTO, Cal., April 23. Sena
h.. an h otrlv lMi tor McDonald's bill providing for a 10
of whom any trace can be found here
is a sister who lives in Germany. The
Reighens, Mrs. Sar's parents, had lived
here for a number of years, Sar meet
ing Mrs. Hardwick while working as a
ranch hand on one of the Reighen
farms near Madras.
Lad Abusedt Is Charge.
The family had come into town yes
terday morning and started for home'
about 4 o'clock in the afternoon. From
hour day for women in domestic serv
ice passed the assembly today, 43 to 2
An identical bill by Mrs. Doris was
defeated earlier in the session by the
assembly, reconsidered again and again
voted down.
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America's Stand Defined.
President Wilson, in a long state
ment dealing with the controversy
over Fiume, has clearly defined to
Italy the stand of the United States in
the premises and thus has brought to
a climax the crisis that has existed
for many days.
As a result of President Wilsor.
statement Premier Orlando informed
Premier Clemenceau of France that
the Italian delegation weuld leave
Paris today.
With regard to the islands in the
eastern Adriatic and that portion of
(he Dalmatian coast which lies most
open to the sea, which Italy also u
demanding. President Wilson broadly
states that these are not now neces
kary to Italy to make her safe against
naval aggression by Austria-Hungary,
because Austria-Hungary no lontrer
exists, and the fortifications along the
coast are to be permanently destroyed.
Also, the president says the new states
are to complete limitation of arms,
which will further put aggression out
of the question, and that equal and
equitable treatment of all racial or
national minorities throughout this re-
SOUTH POLE FLIGHT HOPE
British Biologic Plans Xcw Ant
arctic Expedition.
LONDON. April 23. Another Ant
arctic expedition is being planned, ac
cording to a statement printed in to
day's newspapers. John Cope, biologist
with the British Antarctic expeditions
of 1914-191, will be leader and expects
the expedition to start in June, 1920.
He intends to take an airplane for
surveying the interior of the continent.
He hopes also to make a flight to the
south pole.
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BUILDING BOOM IS HEALTHY
Chicago Krports Permits to Amount
or . 000, 000 in This Month.
CHICAGO. April 23. A healthy build
ing boom, steadily Increasing, was re
ported today by Building Commissioner
Bostrom. who announced that thus far
in April permits for 36.000.000 in new
buildings in Chicago have been is
sued.
The total fiynra for March was 13,-
OOC.OOO. The commisisoncr said build
ing material couid be bought at less
than the quoted prices.
120,000 SOLDIERS AT SEA
Total of Americans Landed Since
Armistice 7 31.88.
WASHINGTON". April 23. On April
21 an official announcement by the war
department said 120.27S from the army
overseas were at sea en route to this
country. A total of 731.889 men had
been landed in this country up to and
Including that date.
Since tho signing of the armistice the
war department has turned back to the
shipping board 303 vessels, w-ith an ag
gregate dead weight of 2,000,000 tons.
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CREDITS ARE GIVEN ALLIES
French Debt to United States Sow
Totals $2,752,477,000.
WASHINGTON, April 23. Credits t
the allies were announced today by the
treasury as follows:
France 350,000,000 and Roumani
35,000,000, making a total for France
to date of. $2,752,477,000; for Roumania,
325,000,000. and a total for all allies o
39.138,829,000.
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Weather.
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature.
degrees; minimum, 4 degrees.
TODAY'S Showers, cooler; moderate winds.
mostly southerly-
Foreign,
Wilson eaya Fiume is not for Italy. Page 1.
Bremen declared in state of siege. Page 5.
Large bolshevik force makes determined ef
fort to cut Siberian railway line. Page 3,
Soldiers serious just before battle. Page
Saar 'basin question adjusted. Page 2.
Italian delegation leaves Paris fo rltaly,
Page 1.
Cancellation of pre-war contracts large prob
lern. Page 'J.
National.
Use of wire denied to New York "World to
end Burleson criticisms. Page 1.
National guard to be reformed on new basia
Page
McArthur's return to Washington eagerly
awaited. Page 3.
C " Domestic.
More facts, not more law, needed In bill
tary trials. Page 4.
Twenty-five thousand soldiers sal! for home
in one day. Page .
Senator Borah being urged to "throw his hat
into Ting." Page 6.
Pacific Northwest.
Farmer kills boy. wife and himself. Page 1.
Denver man weds Ashland teacher by long
distance telephone. Page l.
Livestock convention at Bend urges stabilized
market. Page 6.
Sports.
Pacific Coast League results:. Vernon 12
Portland S: Oakland 3. Seattle 'z; sacra
mento 4, San Francisco 2; gait Lake 6,
Los Angeles 2. Page 14.
Spokane prepares for northwest golf tourna
ment in June, i-age 14.
Washington high beats Commerce, 9 to 5.
Page la.
Commercial and Marine.
Large potato surplus holds down Pacific
Coast prices. Page L'j.
Stock advance continues with broader de
mand. Page 2."-
Portland recovers . coastwise shipping.
Page 22.
Portland and Vicinity.
Police get council's edict they cannot affiliate
with, unions, page x.
Rural counties top Portland In victory drive.
Page 17.
Mexico land of opportunity, says O. K. Jef-
fery. Page .
Victory loan prize awards are announced.
Page 10.
Timber protectors outline campaign to com
bat pine fungus. Page 7.
Portland to surpass San Francisco in popu
lation by 1933, is prediction. Page IJ.
Luxury tax in effect May 1. Page 13.
Data on dead man sought by police In east.
Page lo.
Battleship Oregon to be greeted here by man
who drove first rivet in ner neei. page as.
Overseas veterans to march in great pageant
today. Page lo.
Democrats battle over state leader. Page S.
Present-day problems put up to business in
terests or nation, page a.
Wtatlier report, data and forecast Page 22. .
American Style of Honesty in
Diplomacy Beyond Compre
hension of Old School. '
PARIS, April 23. (By the Asso
ciated Press.) President Wilson em
phatically declared today that ha
would not yield on the Adriatic ques
tion. His declaration has created the
most profound sensation in the peace
conference. He has thrown down the
gauntlet to the supporters of secret
treaties in a manner which almost
took away the breath of the delegates
who have been urging compromises on
points covered by many secret docu
ments and at variance with the presi
dent's 14 points.
President Wilson's sweeping decla
ration, while aimed directly at the
Adriatic problem, also reaches the
Kiau-Chau controversy, in which Ja
pan relies on secret agreements made
with Great Britain, France and Italy
in 1917 to support her in her claim to
the concessions held by Germany in
Shantung.
Statement Deemed Challenge.
The peace delegates generally re
gard President Wilson's statement as
a challenge which once for all will dis
pose of the question whether secret
documents, of which many nations
participating in te war were ignorant,
are to figure in the peace following
an armistice in which all the allies
pledged gave no regard to secret
treaties.
The Italian situation overshadowed
all other questions throughout the day
in Paris and was the sole subject of
conversation in official and unofficial
circles.
When it became known this morn
ing that the Italian premier, Vittorio
Orlando, was again absent from the
session of the council of four, various
rumors became current.
Compromise Rumors Numerous.
Proposals and counter proposals
were made between the members of
the British, French and Italian dele
gations, and numerous stories of com
promises were circulated. These were
suddenly discredited by the issuance
of President Wilsons statement, show
ing that the president was not a party
to the proposed concession, which
was based on the supposition that
Fiume could be given to Italy.
The idea which had been prevalent
in Paris that the Adriatic situation
was a game of chess in which tho
most skillful diplomats would win re
gardless of the armistice conditions,
was suddenly banished by Pit,"ident
Wilsons action.
Americans Back President.
Since Monday it had been generally
known that he had prepared a state
ment which was presented on that
day to the entire American delega
tion, and that the delegation had ap
proved it. . But there was no suspicion
that his position. was so unalterably
against secret diplomacy.
Declarations by the members of the
American delegation that the presi
dent would not yield on the matter of
Fiume were regarded by most Euro
pean diplomatists, and especially by
the Italians, as part of a political
game until today, and even now many
old-school diplomatists seem unable
to comprehend what has happened.
A member of the Italian delegation
said that the delegates would not leave
Paris tonight. He did not know what
action might be taken tomorrow.
Premier Orlando, Foreign Minister
Sonnino and .Salvatore Barzilai, An-
tonio Salandra and Marquis Salvgo
Raggis, the .other Italian delegates,
have been in conference at their
headquarters examining the" situation
created by the president's statement.
Private Pact Reviewed.
The text of the statement follows:
"In view of the capital importance of
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