VOL. LVIII. NO. 18,241. Entered at Portland (OrarenV Pomofflce. as Second-Class Mattsr. PORTLAND, OREGON, MONDAY, MAY 12, 1919 PRICE FIVE CENTS. HUNS ASK RELEASE OF ALL PRISONERS BIG FOUR MAY FORCE GERMAN LEADER OUT PRESENCE OF COUNT RAXTZATT IX PARIS UNDESIRABLE. DIRECTOR-GENERAL CROCKER HAS TOUGH BIG LINER DAMAGED BY FLAMES AT SEA ALLEGED AFFINITY OF MILLIONAIRE MARRIED EX-SAX FRAXCISCAX SAID TO LIVE WITH FRANK GOULD. TIME IN SOUTH SEAS BERATED BY PEEK CRIPPLED BARKENTINE LIMPS INTO SAN FRANCISCO. CLUB HOLDUP TDLD BY DARING ROBBER Immediate Action by Al lies Is Requested. LABOR CONVENTION DESIRED Six Hun Peace Delegates Go to w Berlin for Consultation. F1UME DISPUTE UNSETTLED Italy Inclined to Cease Pressing Claims for Present Franco-Latin Alliance Proposed in Press. VERSAILLES, May 11. (By the As sociated Press.) Additional sealed com munications from the German peace commission were submitted today to the French foreign office. PARIS, May 11. (By the Associated Press.) The- German delegation at Versailles, in notes transmitted Satur day night to M. Clemenceau as presi dent of the peace conference, proposes changes in the clauses of the peace treaty covering labor problems and asks that prisoners of war be returned immediately after the signing of the preliminaries. The notes suggest the holding of a Joint labor convention in Versailles to consider the points raised. Satisfaction is expressed with the labor clauses in general, but it is pointed out that they cover principles already in force in Germany and that they do not go far enough. Prisoner Clauses Criticised. The Germans suggest that the labor agreement be considered at the pro posed conference along the lines of the conclusions to the labor conference of July. 1317. The note relating to prisoners criti cises the clause dealing with the re--turn of prisoners of war and asks that they be returned - immediately after the signing of preliminaries and that adequate supplies Of food and cloth ing be" furnished "them." "It Is . said in peace conference circles that the treaty as it stands provides amply for this point. PARIS, May 11. Two additional notes have been sent by Count Von Brockdorff-Rantzau, head of the Ger man peace delegation, to Premier Clemenceau, as president of the peace conference. The notes, which were for warded Saturday evening, dealt with the subjects of prisoners of war and labor legislation. Wilson. Helps with. Replies. The replies which the council of four sent to the preceding German notes made public Saturday were drawn up. according, to the Temps, with the per tonal and particularly active collabora tion of President Wilson. VERSAILLES, May 11. (By the As sociated Press.) Six members of the German peace mission left Versailles last night for Berlin. They include the labor leader Carl Legien, head of the German trades union confederation; Privy Councillor Eberbacli, representa tive of the ministry of railroads, and Herr Schmidt of the foreign office, who rank as commissioners next in im portance to' the plenipotentiaries. They undoubtedly have been charged with , carrying on direct discussions of the situation with the German government. Count von Brockdorff-Rantzau is still in Versailles, but it is considered possible that he will leave some time this week for Berlin to consult with the government. Counter Proposals Not Ready. The counter proposals on which the subordinate members of the delegation are ousily at work are not expected to be ready before next week. PARIS, May 11. An official note is sued today says that a German corre spondent sent to the Neues Wiener Tag- blatt a dispatch that the hotel at Ver sailles where the German delegates are housed is full of spies acting as hotel attendants and- that microphones have been Installed in all the rooms. The note brands the report as odious and calumnious invention and says that if it is repeated the French govern ment may find it necessary to expel the German correspondents. PARIS, May 11. The council of fou of the peace conference has not ye taken up the question-of Flume or set tlement, according to the Havas agency, The council of foreign ministers has nearly finished the work of delimiting the Austro-Hungarian boundary. Re ports or tne various committees on this problem were adopted in their en tirety. Italy Inclined ts Walt. . Italy, according to Echo de Paris, seems inclined to cease pressing for. the time at least, her claim to Fiume i and to demand fulfillment of th treaty of London, upon which her Dal matian claims -were originally based. In several of the newspapers th view is taken that it is in order fo France and Italy to conclude a formal alliance. As regards the peace situation so far as Germany ij concerned, the allie are firmly resolved to present a firm resistance to the Teutonic protests an IC'onciuded on Page Column 2.) Head of Enemy Peace Commission Hindering Rather Than Helping Work of Conference. BT HERBERT BATARD SWOPE. (Copyright by Ihe New York World. Pub lished by Arrangement.) PARIS, May 11. (Special Cable.) The Big Four will take steps this week to put into execution a plan leading to the withdrawal of Count Brockdorff Rantzau as head of the enemy peace commission. This highly Important action is sup ported mainly by the British, who be lieve that his presence as a plenipoten tiary injects an unfortunate element into the peace-making which would be removed were he to withdraw. How this attitude came about is not clear, but I have received assurances that strong protests have been made against allowing the count to be a German signer if and when the Ger man delegates sign the treaty. It may e that Count Rantzau himself will de cline to act further for the Teutons if e finds his protests disregarded and will resign, permitting a substitute to carry on the work. Developments indicate that the Ger mans plan a demonstration against the treaty, which will be carried out either by the withdrawal of the present del- gates or the resignation of certain members, those remaining In Versailles doing so under the pretense of coercion n the threat that refusal to sign will e followed by starvation of their peo ple. This Is evidence of delay to be sought by the enemy, and there will be diffi culty in making 15 days the strict limit of consideration. CABLE MONOPOLY FEARED Germany Anxious Abont Power Great Britain May Derive. fCoDTrieht by the New York World. Pub lished Dy Arrangement. t BERLIN, May 11. (Special Cable.) Anxious fears are expressed by the Tageblatt that Germany's Atlantic ca bles will never be restored. The com panies which own them estimate their investments at' roundly $25,000,000, the properties including cables part owned bv Germans along the African coast and adjacent to the Dutch East Indies. The Tageblatt says control of Ger man cables by Great Britain would be of incalculable political and commer cial damage to Germany and must be frustrated at all costs. Hopes are expressed that the Ameri cans, in their own interest," win op pose "a British cable monopoly." 15 MILLION BOND BUYERS Number Estimated at Close of 'Vic tory Loan Campaign. WASHINGTON, May 11. Fifteen mil lion Americans bought victory liberty notes in the campaign which closed last night, according to estimates received today by the treasury from federal re serve banks. This compares with about 21.000,000 purchasers in the fourth loan, 17,000,000 in the third, 9,400,000 in the second and 4,000,000 in the first. The treasury announced today that the official total probably would not be known before. May 26. The total as compiled still stood at $3,849,000,000, but later reports emphasized earlier ndications that the loan had been heavily oversubscribed. SALEM "COP" KIDNAPED Portland " Elks on "Way to Albany Take Walter Thompson Along:. SALEM, Or., May 11. (Special.) Walter Thompson, a big, good-natured Salem policeman, was kidnapped last night by a crowd, of laughing Portland Elks and bundled aboard an electric train en route to the Elks" Jubilation at Albany. A crowd of depot hangers-on stood with mouths agape as they saw thei portly guardian of the law spirited way before their startled eyes. Thompson evidently took his adven ture with good grace, as he appeared on his beat again today wearing a reminiscent smile. FLU' ATTACKS 11 IN FAMILY Doctor. Called to Curry County Home Finds All Members III. MARSH FIELD, Or., May 11. The In fluenza attacked the Alfred Miller fam ily residing near Bagnel's ferry. Curry county, and 11 members were ill prac tically at one time. The situation be came so grave a Bandon physician was summoned, who stayed with the fatpily until those members who did not die were out of danger. Mrs. Walter Custer and Frank Hoge. daughter and son-in-law of Mr. and Mrs. Miller, died. BIG SEAPLANES ARE READY Flight to Azores to Start Instant Weather Is Favorable. TR13PASSEY, N. F.. May 11. With the navy's trans-Atlantic flight guard ships at their ocean stations and the big seaplanes NC-1 and NC-3 declared after inspection to have been uninjured by their long trip from Rockaway Beach, New'York, indications were that the planes will start on their 1240-mile flight to the Azores at the first instant Commander John H. Towers decides the weather is favorable. F0CH TO RETURN TO FRONT Commander-in-Chief of Allied Ar mies to Start Today, Reuter Says. LONDON. May 11. Marshal Foch will return to the front tomorrow, accord ing to a Reuter dispatch from Paris.. I Wreck of Price-Fixing Pol icy Deplored. - HINES IS HELD RESPONSIBLE Public, Says Accuser, Will De mand Explanation. HOSTILITY HELD MYSTERY Industrial Board, It Is Said, Could Neither Understand, Reason With Nor Overcome Opposition. WASHINGTON, May 11. George N. Peek, chairman of the department of commerce's industrial board, which was dissolved last week, after a controversy with the railroad administration con cerning steel prices, declared in a state ment tonight that the public would 'demand an explanation of the wreck ing, apparently on the obstinacy of a single individual, of a plan to make an immediate reduction in the cost of living." 'I can only conjecture an explana tion," said Mr. Peek. "Throughout the baffling controversy the board found itself checked by forces in opposition which it could neither understand, rea son with- no rovercome. but which grew in strength until they forced abandonment of the plan. Project Widely Approved. -.in tneory tne plan has been ap proved almost unanimously by business men and associations and by editorial press comment the country over; in practice the plan has been proved by the order books of steel producers, and the buying revival which immediately followed the announcement of steel prices and which ceased immediately upon the railroad administration's re jection' of those prices. "It is inconceivable that the railroad administration's unsubstantial objec tion alone was sufficient to Justify the abandonment of -a. policy of such im portance. Nor toward the end was the director-general alone in thwarting the purpose of the board. The secretary of the treasury, has taken a stand in direct contradiction to his message to the president ' urging the creation of the board. The attorney-general has rendered an opinion that the plan of the board contravenes the Sherman act but the facts assumed as the basis of that opinion are so inconsistent "with the actual course of conduct of the board as to render the opinion inap plicable, yet it has been used as i basis for the abandonment of the board's plan. - Reasons Sought fn Vain. "In all this opposition the board has sought in vain for a substantial reason It has urged the railroad administra tion, first, to aid it by one single fact or argument, to arrive at a lower price for steel, and second, to name a price Concluded on Pas;e Column t.) IT LOOKS Hurricane and Mutiny Among Ship's Misadventures Two of Crew Swept . Overboard. SAN FRANCISCO, May 11. The four- masted barkentine Charles F. Crocker arrived here today, comoleting a voy age of 123 days from Lukualofa, in the South- Seas, ana 70 days from Pago pago, difrlng which the ship lost two of its ficrew In" a hurricane and left seven . others in custory at Pacopato for mutiny. The vessel encountered the hurricane on January 10. Two of the men were swept overboard, the . masts were stripped of all canvas and part of the rigging carried away. At Pagopago the seven remaining white members of the crew refused to work, according to the skipper, on the plea they had been incapacitated by the hardships of the voyage. He said they were turned over to the authorities. tried on charges of mutiny and re ceived sentences ranging from four to 12 months. The ship, with its cargo of copra. was brought here by a crew of natives. The Crocker sailed from Astoria April 25 last year for Adelaide, Australia, witb a cargo of lumber, and after a heavy gale put into Sydney in a badly leaking condition. Hard luck contin ued all the way back. RECOGNITION COMES LATE Mexican Minister to France, Long Ignored, Gets Notice. PARIS. May 11. Alberto J. Pan! Mexican minister to France, today said he had been notified that he might pre sent his credentials at the French for eign office on May 13. This notice came the minister said, at the moment the Mexican press was announcing his de parture for Spain. The Mexican government issued a statement April 23 saying Senor Panl had presented credentials as minister to France since December of last year, but although he had been in Paris for a long period he had been unable to present his credentials to the French government. In view of this, it was added. President Carranza had ordered that Senor Pani, together with the lega tion corps, to .proceed from France to Spain, there to await instruction. GREEK AFFAIRS TAKEN UP Premier Veriizelos" Confers With Clemenceau, Balfour and Wilson PARIS, May 11. (By the Associated Press.) The French premier, M. Clem enceau, the British foreign secretary, Arthur J. Balfour, and Premier Venize los of Greece conferred with President Wilson today. It is understood that the discussion related to Greek affairs which will soon be taken up with the Turkish and Bulgarian treaties. ALLIES DEMAND EX-KAISER Temps Reports Request for Former Emperor Has Reached Holland. PARIS. May 11. (Havas.) The Temps publishes a note from the Dutch legation at Paris declaring that the -de mand for the extradition of the former emperor has reached Holland. AS IF THEY'D HAVE TO USE IT LOOKS AS IF THEY'D HAVE TO USE A DERRICK" Crew Battles With Fire for Two Full Days. 220 PASSENGERS ENDANGERED Manila Maru and Huge Cargo Have Narrow Escape. VESSEL NEARING VICTORIA "Ship Afire Five Days Ago in Hold No. 5; Burned Two Days; Out Now," Is Meager Message. SEATTLE, Wash.. May 11. (Spe cial.) Afire at sea. 1000 miles off Cape Flattery, the big liner Manila Maru of the Osaka-Shosen-Kaisha, now bound from ports in the far east for Seattle with 220 passengers and a cargo valued at more than $2,000,000, had a narrow escape a few days ago, according to a wireless message re ceived in Seattle from Captain M. Ko bayashi. the vessel's commander. Captain Kobayashl wirelessed to Seattle that the fire was discovered last Monday morning in No. E hold and was extinguished only after two full days of hard work on the part of the officers and crew. The . flames were confined to the compartment In which they started after a long battle,' dur ing which the big liner continued to race for Cape Flattery. Cargo Badly Damaged. "Ship afire five days ago in No. S hold. Burned two days. Fire now out." This meager wireless message re ceived from Captain Kobayashl gave representatives of the 'Osaka-Shosen-Kaisha in Seattle' the first news that the big passenger liner had been in danger during her voyage from the Japanese coaet. They Immediately flashed back radio dispatches for more details and were informed that there had been considerable damage to the cargo in No. 5 bold. Captain Kobayashl wirelessed that he expected to arrive in Victoria -this morning and a survey of the liner and her cargo 'will probably be made .in that port before she proceeds for Se attle. The vessel was due here tonight, but her arrival may be' delayed by the survey to be made in Victoria. Many Passengers Aboard. The Manila Maru has 20 cabin and 200 steerage passengers who will dis embark in Seattle and Victoria. She is laden with a cargo of 6000 tons, includ ing 2240 bales of raw silk valued at $1,816,500 and consignments of other products of the far east. The biggest shipments aboard the liner are wood oil, frozen Chinese eggs and Japanese merchandise. The Manila Maru is one of the new est and largest of the trans-Pacific fleet of the Osaka-Shosen-Kaisha. She Is (Concluded on Pate 4. Column 1.) Mr. Gould's Wife Objects to Pro cedure and Names Florence Lacaze in Divorce Suit. . PARIS, May 11. (Special.) Miss Florence Lacaze, who Edith Kelly Gould declared has been living with Frank Gould in Paris, is not an actress, as reported, but Is said to 'be the wife of Henry C. Hyneman, a well-known architect of San Francisco. The Paris edition of the New Tork Herald on October 27. 1916. says: "At the Mairie of the Sixth Arron- discment was celebrated today the wed ding of Henry C. Hyneman and Florence Lacaze. The second service followed at the Palace hotel." When the foregoing was submitted to Charles Gerson Locb, Mr. Gould's attorney, he reluctantly admitted the young woman mentioned in Mrs. Gould's divorce suit is the same per son. Miss Lacaze is favorably known in French diplomatic circles. If she is divorced, it is not known here. Mr. Gould, at the home of Marson Lafitte, refused to make a statement. Miss Lacaze is with him there. The report is current here that Mr. Gould will marry her as soon as the law per mits. Meantime Mrs. Gould and Marion Casasus are awaiting passports to start to New York to fight the case before an American Jury for a larger share in the Gould millions by filing a petition introducing evidence gained in Paris. Mr. Loeb says if Mrs. Gould starts another action before 90 days elapse, as required by the French court, to make vbid the final decree granted Mr. Gould, the question of international law will be interesting. PERSHING VISITS COBLENZ General to Arrange for Withdrawal of All U. S. Forces. COBLENZ. May 11. (By the Associat ed Press.) General Pershing arrived in Coblenz today for what may be his last official visit to the American oc cupation area. He will arrange with Lieutenant-General Hunter Liggett for the complete withdrawal of the Ameri can forces as decided upon three weeks ago at general headquarters. General Pershing confirmed the Washington announcement that all. or at least nearly all. of the Americans would be out of France and Germany by September I. If any Americans are left at the bridgehead by September they will be only --a few assigned to cleaning up and checking property. LATINS AGAIN FERMENTING Costa Rica Invaded by Nicaraguans and Mexicans. SAN JOSE." Costa Rica, May 11. President Tinoco of Costa Rica, on be ing informed of the crossing of the northern frontier by hostile forces, is sued a manifesto in which he declared: "An army of Nicaraguan and Mexi can buccaneers, with a few Costa Ric ans. backed by President Chamorro, has invaded the country." (Kmiliano Cham orro Is president of Nicaragua). General mobilization followed the is suance of the manifesto and the first skirmish occurred between outposts on the Santa Rosa farm. The invaders were afterward reported to have fled to the frontier. NORWAY SEEKS INDEMNITY Pay Asked for Norwegian - Germans. Vessels Sunk b; LONDON. May 11. A wireless dis patch from Christlania states that the foreign minister has sent a request to the peace conference at Paris seeking an indemnity from Germany for Nor wegian vessels sunk by the Germans. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. TESTE RD AY'S Maximum temperature. 6: decrees; minimum. 41 degree. TODAY'S Probably -rain: southwesterly winds. Foreign. Industry held need of stricken Europe. Pace 3. Millionaire Gould's alleged affinity is found to be married. Paso 1. Peace treaty verdict of death, say German people. Page 2. Hundred Hour hill tries souls of men. Dyment reports. Pace 3. Eeveral towns In north Russia cleared of bolshevlkl. Page 4. Dutch newspaper calls peace treaty crime against Germany. Page 4. Germans ask release of all prisoners. Pass 1 Head of German peace commission-may be forced to withdraw. Pace I. National. Director-General Hlnes berated by Mr. Peek. Pace 1. Give young America lift, ssys President Wilson. Page 3. Early adoption of suffrage by senate fore cast. Page a. Domestic. Barkentine Crocker has tough time In South Sea a Page 1. Pacific Northwest. Youth accidentally killed by boy friend. Page 1. Flames damage big liner at sea. Page 1 Ruth Garrison plans to take own life if con vlcted. Page o. Sports. Pacific Coast League results: Portland Seattle 1; Oakland 3-7. Vernon 2-3: Sa Francisco 10-7. I .OS Angeles 5-3; Sal Ltlu 0, Sacramento 4. Page 12. Governor presents Arthur Tuck of Redmon with medals and cups for athletic prowess. Page IS. California golfers to visit northwest. Page 13. Lukanovlo. Crumpler and Bogart released Page 12. Portland and Vicinity. Darin it robber confesses to club holdup. Page 1. Chaplain Tlplady lauds and scores aristoo racy in England. Page 10. Uniform policy aim of Oregon bankers. Page 11. Modern woman greatest of failures, says Dr. Boyd. Page 11. Grave wrong done by allies is Italy's be lief. Page IS. Berkeley teachers' pay plan may be adopted here. Page 1 e. Christianity held need In war sone. Page 10. Oregon In retrospect pleased by victory loan record. Page 0. i WcaUicr .report, Uata and lorcvaaL rss 11. Julius Smith Ward, Shot by Police, Captured. PRISON RECORD IS RECALLED Youth Surrenders When Found Hiding in Basement. LIFE OF CRIME REVEALED Prisoner Attributes Robbery of Jack Grant's Club to Hounding or Parole Officers. Julius Smith Ward. 51, whom police tyle one of the coolest young high waymen who ever visited roniana. fell into the clutches of the authorities esterday and is in jail on a charge of holding up 25 men in Jack Grant's club n the Phoenix building April 28. According to Ward's confession, he kept the victims at bay with a sawed off shotgun and an automatic pistol while his partner searched them, ob taining 1250. Ward says he is a mu- ician and that his illegal mode of life s due to thwarted artistic ambitions. "I wanted to go straight, and I tried hard last summer." the youngster said in jail. "But the parole officer wouldn't let me do anything but work, in the shipyards, and I thought, what's the use?" Yosts Found is Basement. Inspectors Leonard and Graves got information yesterday to the ettect that the fugitive, who was wounded in battle with police Friday, had been hiding in the woods near i-ast rsinety- First and East Ash street since the day he got shot. They finally discov ered him in a basement in that vicin- ty. and telephoned headquarters for reinforcements. Captains Circle and V Moore, with Sergeant Robson and Patrolmen hiii. O'Brien, Rich. Henson, Raney and In spector Gordon went to the house in the patrol wagon. Harry H. Haynes, president or tne Haynos-Fotter Baking company, ana an old acquaintance of the Ward fam ily, had placed Ms automobile at the disposal " of Inspectors Leonard ana Graves and took them to the basement where the fugitive was In hiding. When the patrol wagon full of police arrived Mr. Haynes called upp-n Ward to come out and surrender. The prisoner lookeii out of the window, saw Mr. Haynes and the police and surrendered. He was armed with a .3S-caliDer automatic pistol at the time, but made no show of resistance. Prlssner Tallss of Crimes. .t police headquarters the prisoner talked freely of his crimes, admitting that he was one of the pair'who held up Jack Grant's club, but denying that he had anything to do wttn tne at tempted burglary of Scott e drug store Friday morning, which resulted in the capture of Ward. Jack Schulx and -Walter O'Hara. alt now charged with robbing the clubmen. Ward says he and Schulz merely nap- . . - n. : r-1 q t- d nH penea to oe out .'"" ' that when Patrolman w imams covercu. them with his revolver and ordered them to hold up their hands, he resist ed because he had the pistol with him and realised that, inasmuch as he had the pistol in his pocket, he proDaDiy would be sent to the penitentiary at Salem, from which he won a rarole last spring, for carrying conceaieo. weapons. Wound Dressed ly Pals. Ward broke away while the police man was searching his companion and pulled his pistol. The policeman opened fire and Ward ran. slg-sagging to dodge the shots. One bullet struck him directly behind the heart, but glanced on a rib and went around hi body. Inflicting a slight flesh wound. Schulz was captured. Police say Ward next went to a room in the Carlton hotel, where Marion Murphy and Walter O'Hara dressed tine wound. Then they took Ward to Van couver. Wash. From Vancouver War telephoned to the room occupied by Miss Arvllla Phillips and Mrs Clarice Donahue, sweethearts of Ward and O'Hara. The girls, knowing that their beaux were in trouble, had gone te police headquarters to ask news of them and had themselves been arrested. Falling to get n touch with his friends and lacking money to get to Chicago, where police say he wanted to go, Ward came to Portland. He tocnk refuge in the basement of a house where he had been to dinner last Thanksgiving, although he says he UM not ask permission to stay tfcere. Walter O'Hara Exonerated. "By golly. I'm going to get marric and go straight when I get out nex.t time," said Ward yesterday. "You can" beat the game. A man might get aw-y with it for a long time, but sooner or later they catch him. "Take it from me, a man who Walks the straight and narrow path may not have a roll in his pocket., not ail .tt once, but he has .a clear conscience, anyway." Ward Insists that Walter O'Hara, who drove the automobile to the Phpcn building for the hold-up, had no knowl edge of what the roblsers intend to do. "1 don't want an innocent man to get in bad." the prisoner said. "Walte.r didn't know anything about it. X don't tCuuiluUcvl u i'sse 4, Coiuiua l.A i