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PORTLAND. OREGON, FRIDAY, APRIL 23, 1919.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
FIUME OR DEATH" IS
BURLESON FAILS TO
REPLY TO CHARGES
BRITISH LABORITES
; COMMEND PRESIDENT
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KING WOULD PRESERVE
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WATCHWORD IN ITALY
OLD WASHINGTON HOME
BONE-DRY NATION
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ARMY IS TO BE READY TO MAKE
EVERY SACRIFICE.
LEADERS CONGRATULATE WIL-
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MOVE TO RESTORE SULGRAVE
MAXOR IS INDORSED.
OFFICIALS
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PORTLAND
LAGGARD
MM DEPARTS
H VICTORY LOAN
H SIM
Premier Accuses Wilson
of Stirring Up Italy.
RIGHT TO FIUME ASSERTED
Departing Official Says Noth
ing of Intent of Italians
; to Quit Conference.
COUNCIL OF FOUR CONVENES
Questions of Principle Only Are
Taken Up and Territorial
Issues Are Avoided.
' TARIS, April 24. (By the Asso
ciated Press.) Premier Orlando and
Signor Barzilai will leave for Home
tonight. This decision was announced
after Premier Orlando's return from
his conference with the other mera
t bers of the council of four, at which,
according to the Italian premier, only
questions of principle, and no terri
torial questions, were discussed.
This is explained as meaning that
the discussions centered on the ques
tion of prestige involved in the pub
lication of President Wilson's state
ment and that no effort was made to
reach a settlement on a territorial
basis. The conference lasted two
hours.
Other Ministers to Remain.
Baron Sonnino, the foreign mini3
ter, and ths other Italian delegates
and representatives will rcm;n in1
Taris temporarily.
The statement issued by Premier
Orlando today says nothing of the
intention of the Italians to quit the
peace conference. It merely states
Italy's case concerning Fiume and the
Dalmatian coast and does not appear
in the form of an ultimatum.
Attempt to Foment Trouble Seen.
Premier Orlando declares that
President Wilson's proclamation is an
attempt to place the government in op
position to the people.
"He is treating the Italians," adds
the premier, "as if they were a bar
barous people, without a democratic
government-"
The premier rebukes the president
for addressing himself to the Italian
people over the head of the Italian
government and says he never con
sidered America bound by the treaty
of London, but that Italy's case is
based rather on right and justice.
Counter Statement Issued.
"Yesterday, while the Italian dele
gation was discussing counter-propositions
which hid been received from
the British rrirfne minister and which
had for they aim the conciliation of
contradictoy tendencies which were
manifest inceming Italian territorial
aspiratis," said Premier Orlando in
his fcmal statement. "The Faris
pers published a message from
resident of the United States,
hich he expressed his own thought
one of the gTavest problems which
s been submitted to the judgment
the conference.
The practice of addressing rations
directly constitutes surely an, innova
tion in international relations. I do
not wish to complain, but I wUh to
record it as a precedent so that at my
own time I may follow it, inasmuch as
this new custom doubtless constitutes
the granting to nations of larger par
ticipations in international questions,
and personally I have always been of
the opinion that such participation
was the harbinger of a new order of
things.
Attack on Ally Resented.
"Nevertheless, if these appeals are
to be considered as addresses to na
tions outside of the governments which
represent them (I might say even
against the governments) I should
feel deep regret in recalling that this
process, heretofore applied to enemy
governments, is today applied for the
first time to a government which has
been and intends to remain a loyal ally
of the great American republic,
namely to the Italian government-"
Premier Orlando says that he might
complain that such a message ad
dressed to the Italian nation had been
published at the very moment when
the allied and associated powers were
tCsacludcd. ob i, Coitus 1-X
Rome Has Truce of Party Politics
and Press I'nltcs In Blaming
Allies for Withholding Prise.
LONDON". April 14. (By the Asso
ciated Press.) 1-ubllc opinion in Italy,
according to a wireless message from
Home, is much excited against the
peace conference for refusing- to rec
ognize the jtauan claims, .npparcunj
there is a complete truce In party poli
tics and the newspapers are unanimous
in blaming the allies. It is declared
that feeling is running so high that
It might have a disastrous influence
on Anglo-Italian relations.
The Ita'.iana consider that they have
been betrayed by the allies." the dis
patch says. "The wole nation is
aroused and has rallied to the support
of Orlando and Sonnino. There is a
brave army ready to make every sac
rifice for the realization of their pro
gramme. Many popular demonstrations
have tak .a place and the watchword
is 'Fiume or death:1 If the conference
does not accept the Italian point of
view the situation will become ex
tremely serious."
ANTARCTIC TRIP ' PLANNED
Expedition to Bo Under Leadership
or John L. Cope.
BY CYRIL BROWN.
(Copyright by tho New York World. Pub
llshed by Arrangement.)
LONDON. April 25. (Special.) Plans
are being prepared for another expedi
tion to the Antarctic It will be under
the leadership of John L. Cope, who ac
companted the Shackleton expedition
as surgeon and biologist. The new ex
pedition will leave in June of next year
and It Is stated an aeroplane will be
taken along; and a flight to the south
pole is contemplated.
Mr. Cope said today that the expedi
tion will not return until 192G. In the
period between its setting- out and re
turn it will be in continuous communi
cation with centers of civilization by
means of wireless equipment.
COLORADO LAW IS TESTED
Federal Judge Holds Auto Owner
May Bring In Liquor.
DENVER. April 24. Federal Judge
R. E. Lewis today sustained a de
murrer to an indictment against E. L.
Slmoson. who was charged with vio
lating the Keed prohibition amend
ment by bringing five quarts of liquor
ntrt rrti '.on Wyoming lo a mo
tor car which he owned. By his ruling
Judge Lewis held that Simpson was
not engaged in Interstate transporta
tion. United States District Attorney Ted-
row gave notice of an appeal from the
ruling to the United States supreme
court.
COWS ARE TERMED 'I. W. W.'
Hood River Starts Campaign to
F.Iiminatc Unprofitable Animals.
JIOOD RIVER. Or., April 24. (Spe
cial.) R. v. Wright, director of the
agricultural department of the Hood
River high school, has termed the mem
bers of dairymen's herds formerly
dubbed "star boarders" as "L W. "VV.
cows."
They eat their heads off and do not
give any milk." says Mr. Wright. "They
are as undesirable as bolshevlsts."
Mr. Wright has started a campaign
for organizing testing clubs among
cow owners of the valley to get rid of
the unprofitable cows.
ENGLAND HAS RABIES PANIC
All Dogs in London and Vicinity
Ordered Muzzled or Lrd. ....
LONDON. April 31. The first panic
over rabies in -1 years is spreading
through England. Several cases de
veloped In the country recently and two
were discovered in London in tho last
week.
The board of agriculture has Issued
an order that all dogs In London and
surrounding counties must be muzzled
or led and that none can be taken In
or out of these boundaries.
EXPORT LIMITATIONS
Everything Except Munitions
k to Northern Neutrals.
WASHINGTON. April 24. Removal
by the inter-allied economic council of
all ration limitations on exports to the
northern neutral countries, excepting
finished munitions of war, was an
nounced tonight by the war trade
board.
The suspension of limitations be
comes effective at once.
ATTEMPTED REVOLT COSTLY
Mexican Faces Term of Two Years In
Federal Prison.
YAKIMA. April 24. Placido Torres,
Mexican, charged with writing seditious
letters and endeavoring to start a rev
olution in the United States, pleaded
guilty in federal court today.
He was sentenced to two years at
McNeil's Island.
BELGIAN CONGO AFFLICTED
Great Los of Life Among Natives
Caused by Influenza.
BRUSSELS. April 24. Great loss of
life among the natives of the Belgian
Congo as a result of an Influenza epi
demic is reported in dispatches received
here.
Some estimates place the number of
deaths at 600.000,
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GAG-RULE METHODS DEFENDED
Postmaster -General Realizes
Fight for Political Life.
PRESIDENT TO BE SHOWN
Democratic Committee to Take Up
Case of Official at Its Meet
ing Late in May.
WASHINGTON. April 24. (Special.)
Postmaster-General Burleson realizes
that he Is fighting for his political life.
Today he continued his series of state
ments and explanations, but it is no
ticeable that in no case does he answer
the charges made against him.
Today's broadside, issued through
the postoffice Information bureau, at
tacks Clarence Mackay and defends the
application of the gag rule to the
Postal Telegraph Magazine but leaves
unanswered the incidents of his career
as ex-kaiser of the lines of electrical
communication that provoked Repre
sentative Aswell to offer his apologies
for having introduced the measure that
put the wires urder control of the
postmaster-genera L
Conspiracy Caarge Reiterated.
He continues to declare that the at
tacks on him are the result of a con
spiracy of newspaper publishers de
termined to compel the repeal of the
zone system of mail charges on second
class matter, and repeats the tales of
threats and offers of influence, hut Is
careful' to give no names and remains
vague as' to times and places that
might make it possible to refute his
melodramatic recital of a conspiracy
that now embraces the entire country.
Meanwhile the movement to present
to the president the evidence of his
unfitness for his position and the dan
ger he represents to the administra
tion, politically and otherwise, grows.
Democrats to Meet ! May.
There will be a meeting of the demo
cratic national committee the last week
in May and at this session the case of
Mr. Burleson will be brought up. An
effort Is being made to have Chair
man Homer Cummlngs present the
arguments to the president on his re
turn to this country.
Cummings has just completed a tour
of the country and everywhere he has
been told by democrats that the post-'
master-general is responsible for the
gravest dissatisfaction that has been
expressed and that the antagonisms
he has engendered with union labor.
wilh business men and with the rank
and file of the politicians who do the
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crtion Made That Italians, Too,
'WH1 Support Declaration for
Peace Based on 14 Points.
LONDON,, April 24. By the Assoc!
ated Press.) Prominent British labor
leaders have sent a telegram to Presl
dent Wilson congratulating him on
your magnificent declaration for peace
based on the 11 points" and adding:
"We are certain that the Italian
workers will associate themselves with
the international workers In support
ing you."
Among those signing the telegram
are Arthur Henderson, former member
of the war cabinet; Charles W. Bower-
man, secretary of the trades union con
gress; John Hodge, former minister of
pensions; George Lansbury, former so
cialist member of the house of com
mons; Robert Smillie, the miners'
leader; James Henry Thomas, general
secretary of the National Union of Rail
way men, and Sidney Webb, economist.
A message also was sent to Premier
Lloyd George, commending him for the
support he was giving to President
Wilson and another telegram was sent
to Deputy Turati. leader of the Intran
sigeant socialists, at Rome, appealing
to the Italian workers to support the
president of the United States.
NORTHWEST BOYS AT CAMP
116 Men of Third Oregon and Sec
ond Washington Arrive.
TACOMA, Wash., April 24. One hun
dred and sixteen men, members of the
2d Washington and 3d Oregon, who
were transferred from the 41st to the
26th or Yankee division, arrived in T&
coma late last night and were today
assigned to barracks at Camp Lewis,
after being given a benefit in Tacoma
by the Salvation Army and Red Cross
workers and driven about the city in
automobiles.
The detachment is in charge of Ser
geant PVtrks of Portland.
HIGHER PRICES PREDICTED
Canned Goods to Go Up Next Win
ter, It Is Asserted.
CHICAGO, April 24. Higher prices
and better quality of canned goods for
this season and the coming winter were
predicted by Frank E. Gorrell of New
York, secretary of the National Can
ners' association, speaking today at the
meeting of the Western Canners' asso
ciation. The scarcity of labor- and high cost
of materials were named as the chief
causes.
POLES AND
SLAVS AGREE
Tesehen
Mining Region
Dispute
Amicably Settled.
PARIS, April 24. (Havas.) The
question of the Tesehen mining region,
in dispute between Poland and Czecho
slovakia, will have to be settled by
means of an understanding reached di
rectly by the Poles and Czecho-Slovaks,
according to the Petit Parisien.
It says the committee of five of the
peace conference baa so decided.
MSB - I,
Literal Enforcement of
Prohibition Pledged.
ALL BEERS AND WINES BANNE
Whether or Not Drink Is Intoxi
eating Is of No Moment.
BREWERS AWAIT DECISION
Department of Justice Says Mann
facturers Will Act in Peril of
Future Prosecution.
NEW YORK, April 24. The govern
ment proposes a literal enforcement
of the war-time prohibition act, in
eluding a Dan on production and sale of
all beers and wines, whether or not
they are Intoxicating, the department
of " justice announced through a spe
cial representative in the federal
court today.
While no steps will be taken to pre
vent brewing, pending a court deter
mination of the law's constitutionality
raised by brewers of the New York
district, manufacturers will operate in
peril of future prosecution, according
to the statement of William C Fitts,
special counsel appearing for Attorney
General Palmer in the beer ligitation,
Department Doesn't Care.
The attorney advised Judge A. N.
Hand, who heard arguments on the
government's motion to dismiss th
suit brought on behalf of the national
brewing Interests by Jacob Hoffmann
Brewing company to restrain the fed
eral authorities from interfering with
its production of two and three
quarters per cent beer, that the de
partment of justice did not know and
did not care whether the strength
indicated was intoxicating.
The law prohibited sale 'after June
30 of distilled beverages as well as
manufacture after April 20, and sal
after June 30 of "beer, wine and other
intoxicating malt or vinous liquors for
beverage purposes, pending the de
mobilization of the military forces, h
said. The words "beer" and "wine'
were not qualified in the opinion of
the government, he added, and the ap
parent congressional intention to stop
the "waste" of grains and fruit in thei
production In any strength, would be
enforced.
Food Waste Sole Consideration.
With "half the world" looking to
America for food, Mr. Fitts contended,
the necessity of Its conservation was
greater "even than on the ' day of
Chateau Thierry" and it was equally
essential that liquors be withheld from
public sale while the army and navy
were undergoing demobilization.
To this statement Judge Hand added
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Viscount Bryce Says Americans Will
Learn Their History Began Cen
turies Before Mayflower.
(Copyright by tho New Torle World. Pub
lished by Arrangement.)
LONDON", April 24. (Special Cable.)
King George is giving his patronage
to an appeal the Dally Telegraph is
making for a fund to restore Sulgrave
manor, the old English home of the
Washington family. He heads the list
of subscriptions with .a check for $300.
"I most cordially approve," Premier
Lloyd George writes, "of the proposal
to raise a fund for the equipment of
Sulgrave manor as an international
memorial and meeting place for the
two great divisions of the English
speaking: race. The historic figure of
Washington is a common heritage of
our two countries, and anything which
will tend to perpetuate the memory of
his greatness must help to bring into
closer sympathy and co-operation the
peoples of the British isles and of
America." ,
"Our American friends." Viscount
Bryce says, "do not always remember,
and their school books have certainly
failed to impress upon them, that the
history of the United States does not
begin with the Declaration of Inde
pendence, nor with Sir Walter Raleigh,
nor with the Mayflower, but it began
centuries earlier, when the character
of the English people was being mold
ed, and when the foundations were
.being laid of those free institutions
which one part of the people carried
across the Atlantic and developed on a
new continent.
"Sulgrave manor, the ancestral home
of the Washingtons, is a visible monu
ment to remind them of this truth
Americans who visit it will better vis
ualize the scenes amid which the fore
fathers of the old colonies of Virginia
and New1 England dwelt and worked
practicing the virtues which have made
the greatness of both branches of th
stock. In these North Hamptonshire
fields they will feel themselves at horn
and will realize that the traditions an
institutions of old England are part of
their heritage."
ARMY OFFICER HUMILIATED
Suit for Damages Brought Against
Bank Returning Checks.
TACOMA, April. 24. Because five
checks .which he issued, totaling $27.50,
were returned ,to the pajeee by th
Airi'.. Uank irf Greene -Park, Camp
Lewis, when, he declares, sufficient
funds were on deposit to cover the
checks, Lieutenant D. D. Hail, an in
fantry officer of Camp Lewis, suffered
such "humiliation and mental anguish
that he today filed suit in the superior
court against J. E. Chilberg, Seattle,
and O. W. Larson, James Crehan and
J. G. Raley, Tacoma, directors of the
bank, for $10,000 damages.
Woodsmen in Camp on Strike
EUREKA, Cal., April 24. Approxl
mately 100 woodsmen employed in
three camps of the Pacific Lumber
company at points near here, went on
strike today as the result of a con
troversy involving a nine-hour day
agreement and increased charges for
board. They are working now on an
eight-hour basis.
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Weather.
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 69
degrees; minimum. 47 degrees.
TODAY'S Probably fair; fresh crusty west
erly winds.
Foreign.
Orlando goes to Rome, but other Italian del
egates remain. age I.
President Wilson commended by British la-
borites. .rage I.
Villa's army reported to riave captured min
ing camp or parrai. ra.se 22.
Siberian situation seems more harmonious.
Page 12.
Itaiv. course may go before citizens.
Page u.
Field Marshal Mackensen yet loyal to ex
kaiser. - Pago .
King George would make memorial of old
Engllstt nomo or wasnington lamny.
Pago 1.'
Russian war prisoners in Gcrma'ny to be
freed. Page 12.
Fiume op death Is watchword In Italy.
Pago 1.
Mexico attacks Monroe doctrine and recalls
minister to France. Page lo.
Orlando angered ' by Wilson world-wide
publication of position, page 3.
British press divided en support of: Mr.
Wilson. Pago 2.
Italians outnumber other races at Fiume.
Page . I
Second day's deaths in Argonne fight total
high, says Dyment. Page 7.
Thousands of Greek refugees in misery.
Page 4.
All Germany fears harsh peace terms.
Page 4.
National.
Department of Justice officials promise
bone-dry nation. J'age i.
Burleson fails to reply to charges. Page 1.
Domestic.
Railroad administration justifies centralized
tie-buying system, rage o.
Pacific Northwest.
Bids for $1,750,000 highway contract to be
let in May. Page lo.
Sports. '
Pacific Coast league results: Portland 3,
Vernon 2; Seattle z, Oakland 1: bacra
mento 5, San Francisco 4; Los Angeles
7. Salt Lake 1. Page 16..
Multnomah-O. A. C. tracK meet tomorrow.
Page 17.
Officials selected for annual track meets.
Page lo.
Commercial and Marine.
Three million pounds of wool will be offered
at government sale Monday. Page 27.
Highest price known for corn futures at
Chicago, rage
Stock rise, checked by Paris developments.
Page 27.
Second bids on pier work to be opened to
day. Page lu.
Flour exportation steadily on increase.
Page
Portland and Vicinity.
Portland views unusual pageant. Page 21.
Judge Tazweil may have deciding vote in
recommending, appointee lor court oi Do
mestic relations. Pago 28.
Portland lass in victory loan drive. Page 1.
regon towns may see plane flight. 'Page 21.
Forest-fire fighting organizations represen
tatives meet. Page la.
Portland attorney defends administration of
justice is army, rage it,
Average Business Man
Says, "Call Tomorrow."
MOTHERS SACRIFICE AND BUY
Chairman Olmstead Appeals to
Pride of Citizens.
$10,300,825 YET NEEDED
State Director Confident 12 Hours'
Consistent Work Will Complete
Quota in Outer-state.
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HOW OREGOX STANDS IN THE
VICTOV LOAN.
Oregon's vjcory loan
quota SC. $26,747,550
Subscribed to date 14,653,960
rficit, entire state,
.$12,093,590
Portland's quota
Subscribed to date
.. 14,786,325
.. 4,485,500
. .$10,300,825
. . 11,961,225
. . 10,168,460
Deficit for city. . . .
Outer-state quota..
Subscribed to date..
Deficit, outer-state. . . 1,792,765
Portland, the patriotic city that sent
its sons and gave its dollars, both with
out stint, is laggard in its answer to
the fifth and last issue of liberty bonds
the final payment for the victory that
brightened the American flag with new
splendor and significance.
"I'm busy now, please call tomor
row!" is the trench which the volunteer
city sales force are striving to cross.
"The attitude of the average business
and professional man must change if
Portland is to win her quota' thinks
City ' Chairman Olmstead.
With weather that was a blend of
sunshine and shower the city responded
yesterday to the spectacle of the huge
patriotic parade. Business houses and
banks were closed, while the veterans
marched by in review men who had
pledged their lives to the cause, for the
security .and happiness of those who
are asked but to pledge their dollars.
10,300,825 Yet Needed.
At the close of the day's campaign
ing, according to close official esti
mates, the sales force had secured
$722,300 in addition to the $3,763,000
previously reported, making a total
for the city of $4,485,500. With a quota
of $14,786,325 the city lacks $10,300,
825 of attaining its goal. The rate of
progress is enail-like when compared
with that of the fourth drive.
Outer-state counties late last night
had reported $10,168,460, leaving a re
mainder of $1792,765 yet to be sub
scribed before the county quotas are
fully attained. By official report 23
counties have completed their tasks and
are now awaiting the tardy counties
and the city of Portland. The outer
state quota is $11,961,225.
"The reports are dwindling," said
State Director John L. Etheridge. "We
are not making the progress we should.
I call upon every red-blooded American,
who has been connected with this or
any previous drive, to get to work
and stay at work, until every com
munity quota Is raised. Twelve hours'
consistent work will give the outer
state its entire quota."
Pride of Cltlsens Appealed To.
"Every citizen of the city should have
sufficient pride in the home town to
prompt them to subscribe when the so
licitor calls," asserted City Chairman.
Emery Olmstead when the laggard re
port was totaled. "If Portland fails, it
will be tho fault of the citizens and not
the organization. And Portland will
fail in raising its quota untess people
respond more promptly and liberally to'
the solicitors.
"Solicitation is being done In a very
systematic and thorough way. The
workers are giving their time freely.
and it is only fair to, them that the
people of Portland respond promptly.
Many of the workers state that they
had to call several times on business
men of the city before they could even
get a reply. Let these men pause to
consider that this is America's business!
1500 Workers Volnateer.
"There are about 1500 volunteer work
ers canvassing the business district,
and they should be able to cover the
territory In a week's time if the busi
ness men will be ready to meet them.
But if there is not a more adequate re
sponse within that time, no doubt these
workers will become discouraged, and'
we will -fail in securing the amount'
Portland is asked to subscribe."
In conference over the victory loan-
situation in Portland the 24 district
sales directors met yesterday noon at
the Hotel Portland, with City Chairman'
Emery Olmstead and Sales Manager
H. B. Van Duzer. All reported that
their organizations were keen and able.
that they had even prepared Individual
blue prints of their districts, but that
many business men sought to delay the
purchase of bonds.
"Too Busy," Frequent Excuse.
'I'm too busy; call around tomor
row, was the most frequent excuse.
said Assistant Sales Manager Charles
Berg. "Solicitors cannot meet this re
buff without losing heart. For the city
sales staff is largely composed of men
who are in business themselves, and
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