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VOL,. jLVIII. XO. 18,240. Entered at Portland O r r Potofflre aw Fecond-ClaM Matter. POBTLAyP, OREGON, FRIDAY, 3IAY P, flOlD. PRICE FIVE CENTS. 2 OF 3 BIG PLANES ARRIVE IfJ HALIFAX One Machine, NC-4, Fails to Reach Destination. CANADIAN WHEAT TO BE BROUGHT TO U. S. DIRECTOR BARNES TO DISTRIB UTE 4,000,000 BUSHELS. . AUSTRD-HUNGARIAN ONE DIPHTHERIA GERM IE TO UNION DOCK WORKERS CALL FOR STRIKE VOTE TEACHERS' SALARY DRIVE WEARS END MAY DELAY WEDDING GARRISON PACT MADE READY 'eace Delegation Leaves Vienna for France. REACH JURY TODAY BRIDE-ELECT BREAKS QUARAX- ALL PACIFIC COAST PORTS AF FECTED BY ORDER. TTXE IX CALIFORNIA. i SEA IS COMBED FOR TRACE First Leg of Trans-Atlantic Flight Covered Swiftly. RADIO IS USED BY FLIERS Communication Is Maintained With I Shore Stations and With Fassinjr Ships by Xavy Aviators. WASHINGTON, May 8. With two of the three navy seaplanes which started from Rockaway, L. I., this morning on the first leg- of the trans-Atlantic flight arrived safely at Halifax, navy officials were bending every energy tonight to locating the third, missing since early in the afternoon. No report of the miss ing machine, the NC-4, commanded by Lieutenant-Commander A. C. Read, had been received after the machine passed the destroyer McDermut first station Bhip, located more than 60 miles north of Cape Cod and less than half way to Halifax. Orders were issued at once sending the McDermut and the next ship be yond, the KJmberley, in search of the missing seaplane. Commander Read had reported just before reaching the Mc Dermut that the oil pump on one of his motors was giving trouble and he might have to come down. Later the NC-4 re ported to Commander Towers, in the NC-3, that the trouble had been re paired. Planes Snowing; Good. Commander . Towers with the NC-1 and NC-3 made the trip to Halifax in a fraction less than nine hours, the dis tance on the map over the course they took being 525 miles. These two planes went through the test in euch fashion as to convince officers here that pros pects for reaching Plymouth, England, the ultimate goal. of the navy airmen, were exceedingly .bright.' Each of three planes bad a triple radio installation when it left Rocka way. One set was the telephone by which they communicated with each other while In flight at a distance of a. score or more miles. Stations and guard ships "listened in"' on many of these" conversations and reported them, The 6econd set was the regular long distance radio installation and the third was the equipment for the radio com passes. Communication Is .Satisfactory. As the planes approached one of the patrol vessels long before it was eight cd, the long-distance radio was buzzing. Questions and answers flashed back and forth, relating to direction for naviga lion. Important communications were relayed to and from the speeding sea planes, some from Washington. One carried greetings to Commander Towers and his crews from Acting Secretary Roosevelt, who watched the trip with keen interest all day as the depart merit's messages came in. Another re Iayed cabled assurances from London that every facility of the British ad miralty would be at the disposal of the American airmen when they reached British waters. The communication arrangements of the navy department worked out per fectly. Repeatedly messages from Com mander Towers, sent from his speeding flagship of the air equadron, the NC-3, reached the desks of .officers here in a few minute? of the time they were sent. Intercepted by any of the radio stations ashore or afloat on the chain reaching clear to Halifax, they were rushed to .Washington on the navy's leased wire. Log Kept of Flight. The entire operation of the system Was grouped under direction of Lieu tenant T. A. M. Craven. Throughout the day Lieutenant Cra vens kept a communications log on the flight made up from the messages that came. The log pictures graphically the swift rush northward of the big flying boats with their crews. Even the 50 minutes that elapsed after the NC-1 and NC-3 were safely moored for the night at Halifax and before the cruiser Bal timore, stationed there, sent In the of ficial report of the arrival, is shown Had not that slip occurred, it could have been known officially in London that two of the three American sea boats had made the first lap of th transatlantic journey on schedule time almost before the machines themselves had been moored. More difficulty will be experienced In setting word through promptly when the long lap from Newfoundland to the Azores starts. When the fifth o elxth station ship nas been left behind communication will have to speed ahead to be relayed back by cable. The dc etroyers cannot communicate more than 250 miles by radio in day time and they will leave their costs after the last of the fliers has passed. Six Men on Each Plane. Each seaplane carried six men. con eisting of the commander, a navigator, two pilots, an engineer and a reserve pilot. The reserve nilots will go onl to Newfoundland. The planes weighed 8.500 pounds apiece with a full loa and each is driven by four Liberty mo tors of 400 horsepower each, connected with individual propellers. The wing spread is 126 feet. The crews on the three seaplanes are: NC-S Commander J. H. Towers, (Concluded on Page 8, Column Orriclal Says This Will Be Sufficient to Supply Mills Until Xew Crop Is Available. NEW YORK, May 8. Julius Barnes, United States wheat director, an nounced tonight on his return from Chicago that he had completed negotia tions to bring 4,000.000 bushels of Can adian wheat into the United States for distribution to the mills. These negotiations have been In prog ress for several days with the Canadian authorities, it was said. Director Barnes announced further that this qantity of Imported wheat will be sufficient for those mills which have not provided their stocks up to the lime the new crop is harvested. He has reached this opinion, he stated. fter a survey of the entire mill sit ation in this country, in which he found that many mills are stocked with more than they can possibly grind be fore the new crop is harvested. Reports reaching the grain corpora tion today indicated that the nervous ness and excitement heretofore ruling in the flour market in the United States are being gradually allayed and that flour prices have ehown a distinct decline in the past week. Mr. Barnes tonight reiterated that the grain corporation will sell from its current stocks and its current move ment through the ports, particularly Boston, New York, Philadelphia ' and Baltimore, its standard grades of flour at $11.50 per barrel In carload lots to bona fide users, and that the grain corporation offices at all these ports have been instructed to continue to sell on this basis until the domestic situ ation is relieved. A fair reflection on the government's fair-price, resale basis for wheat Is shown by the grain corporation's offers to resell and by the prices fixed for uch resales, Mr. Barnes said. More over, he declared there is no reason why all the domestic grades of flour hould not bear a reasonable relation to that basis. OREGON BOYS COME WEST Slembers of 63d Infantry Leave New fork for Camp Lewis. NEW YORK, May 8. (Special.) Companies D, E, K and headquarters of the 18th engineers left today for Camp Lewis. They are under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel George M. Rics of Seattle. As all the Oregon men" ot other companies were transferred into one of the companies going to Camp Lewis, there are about 380 men and 30 officers of Oregon and Washington men who will make a good showing in pa rades and maneuvers when they reach the coast. Of the five companies, E, I, K, L and M of the 63d infantry, prac tically all Oregon and California men about 300 are going west this week. Today 65 of K company, an Oregon outfit, left for Camp LewiB. EX-CONVICT MAKES GOOD Former Cans Leader of Xew Xork Regains Citizenship. ALBANY, N. Y., May 8. Governor Smith today restored the privileges of citizenship to Edward ("Monk") East man, ex-gang leader of New York City, who had served a prison term. The governor's action was influenced by recommendations 'of army officers who said Eastman's record throughout the war was exceptional. During the attack on Vierstaat ridge Eastman was wounded and sent to i casualty clearing station. Upon hear ing that his regiment was expected to go into the line again he escaped from the hospital, equipped himself from a salvage dump, rejoined his company and was in action throughout the en tire Hindenburg line assault. JAPANESE BUSY. IN MEXICO Oil Prospects lit Tampico Region, and Elsewhere Investigated. MEXICO CITY, May 8. A Japanese government commission headed by Baron Hasegawa has virtually com pleted an , Investigation of petroleum possibilities in the Tampico region. The department of industry and com merce states that the commission plans to conduct surveys in other parts of the republic particularly in the states of Durango and Chihuahua. These activities constitute only one phase of what apparently is an almost frenzied campaign of exploitation of Mexico by foreign interests. HUMBERT HELD NOT GUILTY French Senator on Trial by Court- martial Acquitted. PARIS. May 8. (By the Associated Press.) Senator Humbert, who has been on trial by courtmartial on charge of having had dealings with the enemy, was acquitted today. Captain George Jlle Ladoux. former chief of the intelligence bureau of the ministry of war, a co-defendant with Humbert, was acquitted. Pierre Lenoir, still another of the co-defendants, was sentenced to death, while William Des ouches was convicted and sentenced to five years In prison. EIGHT-HOUR DAY ADOPTED Postal Telegraph System to Pay Time and a Half for Overtime. NEW YORK. May 8. Charles P. Bruch. genera manager of tho Postal Telegraph system, announced here to day that effective June 1 the eight hour day and time and a half for over time had been adopted for all the oys tern's employes in 51 large and small cities in the United States, MUCH CASH TO EE DEMANDED Estimates Fix Indemnity at Five Billion Crowns. ARMENIA WANTS U. S. AID When Peace Is Made With Turkey America May Be Asked to Act as Armenia's Mandatory. (By the Associated Press.) V hile- the Germsn ncarA nlnhwitAn. Maries are digesting the text of the ngthy peace treatv linndtd v.-m Wednesday and communicating with the Weimar government as to the de mands made unon Germanv hv th si. lied and associated powers, the council oi rour is engaging itself with the formulation of peace terms for Austria and Hungary. The German-Austrian MMraiInn fa reported already to have startH rnr St. Germain, France, there to awn It th summons to Versailles to learn what to befall the one-time dual mnn. archy in the-way of the payment of In demnities, the makinar of and the relinquishment of territory. Blar Indemnity to Be Asked. Estimates have been made In Parli that 6.000,000.000 crowns will be de manded as indemnity from Austria Hungary in addition to, the delimita tion of frontiers. The pre-war debt of ine iormer empire and kingdom, it is said, is to be divided among the. newly formed states which have arisen or are to arise in their old territories. It is reported that 'when the term of peace with Turke are concluded the United States is to be requested lo Become the mandatory of Armenia, and that President Wilson will place the matter before congress In orde that a decision may be arrived at. The communist government irt Win. gary is declared to have du;lin4 t accept me terms laid down by Rou mania tor an" armistice' and hm do elded to continue- fighting. The terms of the Roumanians included disarm ment and the surrender of war matert als and also the return of war prison ers without reciprocity. Afghans Came Trouble. Trouble seems to be brewing? for fh Afghan tribesmen, who. aided hv Af ghan regular troops.-have-violutd-'i .British Indian Border by crossing it and occupying certain positions on the Indian side. The British are taking military precaution and also have ad dressed a strong note of protest to the Amir of Afghanistan. PARIS. May 8. The French foreign office received Information late today that the Austrian peace delegation had Concluded on Pajte 8, Column 1.) QUITE. HIGHWAY 1 Health Officer Sends v Warning to Capital' to Hold Girl and r -Mother for Examination. i SANFRANCISCO, Cal.. May 8. (Spe cial.) One little diphtheria germ may stand In the way of a wedding In Wash ington on May 15 of Governor-General Francis Burton Harrison, of "the Philip pines , and Miss Elizabeth Wrentmore, 18-year-old sophomore at the Univer sity of California, if Dr. J. J. Benton, the Berkeley health officer, has ' his way about It. tDr, Benton-. today sent a .warnlng'tel- egra.ro to the health officials of the District. of Columbia that, the girl and her mother, Mrs. Clarence G.- Wrent more, are en route to the nation's cap ital, . after ' breaking quarantine at Berkeley, where they were detained as diphtheria germ carriers. According to Dr. Benton, the bride- to-be and her mother (if her mother is along) will be detained by the Wash ington health officers, a culture taken, and if diphtheria germs are found, will be placed under close quarantine. This will bar a public wedding, he says, and will even prevent the private wedding unless the bridegroom consents to be ing quarantined in the same room with his bride, nearly 30 years his junior. "I do not wish to appear harsh in this matter," said Dr. Benton tonight, "but it is time people were made to realize the seriousness of disease, carriers. They are a menace to the health of everyone who comes In contact with them." BONDS AVENGE SON'S DEATH Father of Major Richardson Sub scribes $50,000. . TACOMA, Wash.. -May S. (Special.) Charles Richardson, father of Major Peter Richardson, who died of pneu monia while serving with the army of occupation In Germany, today sub scribed S50,C)0 to the victory loan. Mr. Richardson, who is a millionaire, was former president of -the Pacific Cold Storage company. Another son. Cap tain Charles Richardson Jr., Is still in Franca. w Among other large subscribers today m. Tacoma were tho . Weyerhaeuser Timber company, $100,000; John S. Baker, $50,000: .Todd Drydock & Con struction corporation. and Pacifio Steamship company, $25,000 each. HUNS TO PUSH INDUSTRY National - Commission Named to Stimulate Production. BERLIN. May . (By the Associ ated Press.) Dr. Bernhard Dernberg, minister of finance, announced today the creation of a national commission of three cabinet members to stimulate industrial production so Germany can pay for foodstuffs - in manufactured articles as well as in gold. WIRES OUT 0FPEK1N CUT Only One Line of Communication ,Left, Sys TJ. S. Minister. PARIS, May 8. American Minister Reinsch at Pekin has informed Sec retary of State Lansing that all wire communication out of Pekin has been cut except one wire which goes to Si beria. DIFFERENT FROM RUNNING THE Closing Arguments Limit ed to Four Hours. MENTAL STATE IS CHIEF ISSUE Ex-Hospital, Head Says Brain Development Is Lacking. GIRL DEFENDANT IS CALM Expert Testimony of Dr. F. S. Bourns for State Riddled Upon Cross-Examlnatlon by Defense. SEATTLE. Wash, May 8. (Special.) Ruth Garrison's fate will be placed In the hands of the jury at about 3 o'clock Friday afternoon. After the close of the afternoon session today counsel for the state and the defense tentatively agreed upon a limit of two hours for each side to sum up their respective cases for the jury. Though the law places no time limit for the argument in trials for a capital offense. It Is a common custom for opposing attorneys to stipulate a time, which needs only the sanction of the court. Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Charles E. Claypool will make the opening argument for the state. He will be fol lowed by Attorney A. R. Hllen of the defense counsel and Attorney Hllen. will be followed by Attorney Thomas M. Askren. his associate. Deputy Prose cutor John D. Carmody will make the closing argument for the state. Girl Defendant la Calm. No question Is taken into the Jury room as to the facts In the case. Ruth Garrison sat on the witness stand and more calmly than even the witnesses for the state, told how she placed 10 cents worth of strychnine In a frilt cocktail and then watched the wife of the man she loved go into a fatal con vulsion. Left for the consideration of the jury Is only the question of whether that act was prompted by a brain that func tioned properly and differentiated be tween right and wrong or by a brain so ravaged by Inherited disease and so subnormal In Its reasoning processes that Justice can not hold Its owner re sponsible for the terrible toll that its incompetency exacted from an innocent woman. State's Testimony Riddled. Further expert testimony submitted by both sides and given by alienists of years of experience in the handling of psychopathic cases, and the annihila tion by the defense of the testimony submitted by the state's last witness. Dr. F. S. Bourns, were developments of the last day before going to the Jury ot the case of the state against Ruth Garrison for t,he murder of Grace Storrs on March 18. Dr. Bourns, called by the prosecutor an hour before adjourn ment, failed utterly to impress upon the court or jury his belief that the (Concluded on paare 14, columu 1.) WORLD. Walkout Resolution Follows Confer ence Held With District Rail road Director. SEATTLE. May 8. Proposal to call a general strike of union waterfront workers in all Pacific coast ports from Prince Rupert. B. C, to San Diego, Cal, In sympathy with the demands of the Seattle longshoremen's union, will be put to a ballot of all coast longshore men's unions. If approved, the strike will be called immediately afterward. This was the unanimous recommen dation of the Pacific coast district. In ternational Longshoremen's association, adopted at its annual convention here today. The strike resolution, followed a conference held with District Rail road Director L. C. Gilman. who was asked by union officials to discharge non-union workers at railroad terminal docks, the cause of the local contro versy. The federal representative, it was said, made only the concession that in future waterfront workers required would be engaged through union halls. This reply was considered unsatisfac tory by the union delegates. Dock operators today asserted that if they complied with the union de mands many soldiers would lose their jobs and that many other capable work ers would have to be discharged. They also charge that the longshoremen's association broke faith with their agreements during the Seattle general strike of February last. Should the strike be called it will af fect stevedores, truckers, checkers, weighers, spotters, cereal and flour mill workers, grain haAdlers. coal and other longshore workers, according to statements of the district association officials. The convention today also recom mended, establishment of the universal card system between all unions, par ticularly between marine and transpor tation unionists. CLAM DIGGERS MAKE GOOD Present Season Said to Be One of Best In. Years. ABERDEEN, Waslu, May 8. (Spe cial.) Auspicious weather and tides have made tne present clam season at the Grays Harbor beaches, which .will end May 31. one of the best in many years. Diggers, who have been paid from $3 to 13.50 a hundred pounds for their clams, have made larger earnings than ever before. In some Instances as high as $20 a day has been earned by expert diggers. Packers and diggers alike believe that the nine months' closed season has been a boon to the Industry, the closed season being sufficiently long to permit clams to multiply and the young to reach full growth. BURNS PREFERS PORTLAND Merchants Would Transfer , Trade Vw Going to Salt Lake. BEND, Or.; May 8. (Special) That Burns merchants are anxious to have their goods freighted from Bend in or der to give them a chance to trade with Portland Jobbers is the statement of Harney county good roads delegates who passed through Bend today re turning to Burns from Portland, where they attended a meeting of the state highway commission. At present most of the Burns business goes by way of Crane to Salt Lake City. Agitation may be started soon for a re-routing of the Bums mail through Bend, instead of through Crane and Ontario. A 24-hour saving would be effected by this change. It is Baid. GERMANS TURN ON JEWS Berlin Citizens Invited to Join in Massacre, Says Dispatch. . LONDON. May 8. An Exchange Tele graph dispatch from Berlin reports that hatred against the Jews has been displayed recently in the German capi tal, and that placards have been dis tributed asking the citizens to massa ere Jews because the notices assert the Jews killed 200 children at Easter. As a result of this feeling and of re ports from Vllna that Jews have been murdered there, it is added, leading Jews have requested the American commission in Berlin to assist the Jews in Berlin and other German cities. CLASH CLOSES AUTO PLANT Strikers and Police in Conflict. Stones and Clnbs Used. TOLEDO, O., May 8. The plant of tne uiya-uvtnand company was closed late this afternoon by Clarence A. Earl, vice-president of the company, following a clash between strikers and police in which bricks, stones and clubs were used as weapons. The trouble resulted when several hundred strikers attempted to talk with employes who had refused to join their ranks. BERGER PLEADS FOR SEAT Convicted Soclaiist-Editor-Lav mak er Issues Appeal. WASHINGTON. May 8 Victor Berger, socialist representative-elect from Wis consin and under jail sentence for war time violation of the espionage law, has sent a personal appeal to every member of the house that ha bo seated while on bail pending appeal to the su preme court. - Representative . Gillett, the coming speaker, declared today that Berger could not be seated under any circum stances.- Taxpayers Tomorrow Will Decide $531,000 Levy. CAMPAIGN ACTIVELY PRESSED Opposition Quiet, But Large Negative Vote Forecast. CITIZENS ATTACK REPORT Educational League Declares Sum or $200,000 Inadequate to Meet Demands. FACTS ABOUT SCHOOL. ELEC TION. Time election Saturday. May 10. from 12 M. until 8 P. M. Excess tax levy to be voted upon 1531.000. Purpose Increasing teachers" salaries approximately 30 per cent. Fund to be administered by present school board at its dis cretion. Those qualified to vote (1) Taxpayers whose names appear upon .the tax roll: (2) owners of stock or members of firms the names of which appear on the tax roll. Election called by school board at request of public school teach ers' central salary committee. With . the special school electiott scheduled for tomorrow, when taxpay ers of the city will vote on an extra levy of $531,000 to be distributed in in creasing teachers' salaries, one of the most active campaigns In the history of Portland is coming to a close. Seldom has any campaign been so well organ ized or vigorously promoted as that in behalf of the teachers. The opposi tion has not been so much in evidence, but it is thought that the negative vote on the measure will be large. There were several developments In the campaign yesterday. One of these was the reply to the special committee report that was filed with the Commit tee of One Hundred Tuesday. This re ply, signed by Clarence M. Eubanks. secretary of the Citizens' Educational league, took issue with figures Included in the report and also attacked the Kerr resolution which recommended that the salary Increases be held to 1200.000. Many Applications on File. Also of interest were figures sup Plied by the superintendent's office yesterday, showing the number of teachers leaving the profession during the year and the number of applica tions now on hand. Statements have been made in the campaign that there has been a great it-crease in the num ber of trachers dropping out the past year and It has also been said that there was considerable difficulty in filling vacancies. Actual figures com Diled yesterday from the school files show that there are at present 939 ap plications for teaching positions, while the board of superintendents Is called upon to recommend not more than 123 new teachers for the coming year. Klfty-two Portland school teachers resigned during the period from July 1. 1917, to June 31. 1918, while 59 teach ers have resigned from June 31. 1918, to the present time. Six weeks of the school year remain and It la possible that as many as 10 teachers may yet resign. Teaching; Staff Knlarffpd. More teachers are being employed this year than last. The number varies from week to week, but on February 21. 1918. only 1145 teachers were em ployed, while on February 21. 1919. the names of 1201 teachers appeared on the payroll of district No. 1. The season is closed for filing appli cations for teaching positions for the coming year. Applications are received from April 1 to April 15, giving the board of superintendents a month In which to consider applicants they will recommend for election by the school board on May 15. Based on the present and probable number of resignations, the board of superintendents has estimated that 90 to 100 teachers for the eleinentar.- or grade schools, one or two special teach ers for domestic science or art and cooking in the elementary schools. 10 to 15 for regular high-school positions and one or two for special courses in the high schools will be needed for the school year of 1319 and 1920. Ac cording to this estimate not more than 125 new teachers will be elected. Qualified Persons Held Few. The following number of applica tions are now on file in Superintend ent Grout's office: Elementary schools Regular teach ers, first to eighth grades, 500; special teachers, for sewing, cooking, etc. 47; total. 547. High schools Regular teachers. 306: special teachers, for drawing, cooking; etc.. 86: total. 392. Grand total of all applications. 939. Superintendent Grout believed the present number of applications on hand will not be sufficient to fill with eli gible and desirable teachers the com ing vacancies. "Out of the 500 applications for ele mentary school teachers, not more than 10 per cent will prove to be of the highest type." said Mr. Grout. With. out doubt we can squeeze out the num ber until our actual needs are filled but during the squeeslng-out process. -.Concluded on page 14, column 3.) )