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THE MORXIXG OltEGOXIAN, MONDAY, MAY 12, 1910. TREATY "VERDICT OF DEATH." SAY BOCHES GERMAN RAIDER OFFICERS HERE ON CAP FINISTERRE. Wail of Protest Sweeps Over Former Empire. ALL PARTIES ARE UNITED leace Terms Nation Is Asked to Ap prove Are Declared to Lack All Elements of Justice. mi mimv M .T-fci- ' r. - nU m .7 aati II 1V1 .rl . n J . In VA - ' " "V t . v m BERLIN, May 10. (By the Associat ed Press.) The protests that come from various quarters In Germany over the peace terms, as they were reported before the official terms became known, are as nothing' In. comparison with the wave of remonstrance ansry. bitter, disappointed in tone that is sweeping' over Germany now that the treaty has been presented. States, municipalities, districts, or ganizations of various sorts, business men's and women's clubs, and the po litical parties, are vieingr with each other in finding words to express scorn and condemnation for the document. Parties United In Protest. For perhaps the first time in his tory all the German parties are united in opinion, each of them assailing the terms Germany is asked to sign, for the body of the independent socialist party fioes not appear to agree with its organ, Ta Freiheit, that Germany should sicrn the peace on the terms presented. The newspapers are utterly swamped with the protests, being able to print but a fraction of them. The government likewise is being overwhelmed with telegrams. In the criticisms President Wilson is 'only mildly assailed here and there since word has grcne to the press from official quarters that he is not to be taken to task. All Justice Held Lucking. The assertions upon which stress is laid are that the proposed peace lacks all elements of justice and conforms In no way to the president's 14 points, while indignation is expressed over terms characterized as unbearable and as spelling slavery for the German peo ple. Some of the protestants declare they are outraged by the provisions of the treaty, while others express deep con tempt for what they call a "brutal peace of force." The expression "a ver dict of death" is one frequently used. COPENHAGEN, May 11. The clause In the peace treaty with Germany pro viding for a plebiscite in southern Schleswlg is causing much excitement in Ijenmark. Dissatisfaction is re flected in the newspapers. The political committee of the rlgs dagr, after conferring with the govern ment, has telegraphed the Danish min ister at Paris that the government and ,tfie rigsdag insist in this connection on the enforcement of the principle of nationality. snt 7f$kk t j f if l-Z. ' S t ' & s - -fCt uA i " vx " r t - i tg - - v . Tkne are the three German offieera irho arrived Monday on board of the S. S. - Cape Ktnlsterre. which la a Hamburg-American liner allocated to the ITnlted States under the armistice conditions. From left to right, they are Captain Cmll Pohlmann of the German raider Moene, which saalc 43 merchant ahipat Second Officer Litcntcnant Richard Ncviakr and Alois Bcrarmann. who was the third engineer on a German destroyer during; the flKht at ZcbruKKe. Aa usual with vessels tnrned over by the enemy, six German officers were taken on the trip to acquaint Its American company with the craft's peculiarities. On board the vessel were thousanda of doughboys returning from overseas. NEW MILL WILL OPERATE Company at Kelso to Engage in- Ex tensive Operations. . J . ,,M . - KELSO, Wash., May ll.v(Special.) Mark and Bert Lane, B. W. Shipley and K. S. Bellows of Kelso and R. K. Cox of Portland have organized the Underwood Lumber & Box company, which will start operations immediately In the "White Salmon river district. Lane Bros., former loggers on the Coweeman, re cently acquired a tract of valuable tim ber on the White Salmon river, and the newly organized company is- taking over the Fisher Sawmill on the North west Electric company pond above the dam on the river. This mill is a new plant of 30,000 feet capacity and is only one mile from the railway at Under wood on the Spokane, Portland & Seat tle. Messrs. Shipley and Bellows have been associated with the McLane Lum ber & Shingle company here. The Underwood Lumber & Box com pany has more than 100,000,000 feet of lumber on the White Salmon river with an immense supply available in addi tion to that which they now own. The company expects to start logging at once and will have the sawmill oper ating by the first of June. The com pany's headquarters will be at Underwood. the administrator's arsenal and in the hands of a non-partisan board? Does the administration plan for 1920 a platform of state socialism which It now finds" inconsistent with the results achieved by the board? Or, after all, am I giving too much credit for acumen that does not exist, and is what the board has encountered merely the machinations of the old railroad guard as represented by Messrs. Lovett and Walters and imposed on a too com placent director-general, or of a director-general too jealous of his own prerogatives to see beyond the con fines of his little czardom? "The board cannot answer. It can only depart more in- sorrow than in anger and in great disappointment from a lost opportunity to serve the country." YOUTH KILLED BY FRIEND SPOKAXE TRAGEDY OCCURS REVOLVER IS EXAMINED. AS GIFT SENT TO WILLAMETTE Brownsville Couple Give $500 To ward Lausanne Hall. WILLAMETTE UNIVERSTTT. Salem. Or., May 11. (Special.) An additional gift of $500 towards the new Lausanne hall fund has recently been announced by President Doney. Mr. and Mrs. Oren Ktratton of Brownsville, the donors, will be privileged to name a memorial room whose cost will be covered by this sum. At present $28,905 has been raised for the new building, but about $20,000 more is needed before actual construc tion will be commenced. Two sets of Plans submitted by architectural firms re now under advisement by the administration. HINES BERATED BY PEEK ' (Continued "rom First Pn.) Ernest Collins Killed, "When, Witn Floyd Lane, He Is Preparing to Go on Trapping Expedition. SPOKANE, Wash., May 11. (Spe cial.) While examining a revolver at the Lorraine hotel last night, Floyd Lane, 16, accidentally discharged the weapon and tilled his friend, Ernest Collins, age zi, almost instantly. The bullet entered between the second and third ribs, severing an artery. On being shot, Collins fell without uttering a sound, and Lane rushed down into -the lobby shouting for aid. When the officers reached the scene Col lins was dead. The two came here last Sunday from Laporte, Ind., en route to western Can ada to hunt and trap during the sum mer vacation. Both have parents liv ing in Laporte, Ind. "We arrived last Sunday and were making preparations to leave Monday," said young Lane, "and I was packing our firearms and when I waj revolving cylinder on a revolver it suddenly exploded, killing my friend." GREEKS GRATEFUL TP 0. S. INTEREST AND SUPPORT OF AMERICA APPRECIATED. RAILROAD HEADS TO MEET Officers of Short Lines Ask for Pro tection of Property. WASHINGTON, May 11. A call was issued Saturday for a convention of officers of short line railroads here June 3-5 for a general discussion of legislation congress will be urged to enact looking to the protection of transportation properties with their return to private control. Among the speakers will be Director- General Hines and Senator Cummins. MORE NOTES SENT ALLIES (Continued From First Page.) Statement Issued by Committee of Unredeemed Hellenes Voices . Hopes of Oppressed. (Copyrlsht by the Nfw Tory "World. Pub lished by Arrangement.) ATHENS, May 10. (Special Cable.) The Central Committee of Unredeemed Hellenes is much gratified on hearing the report of Nicholas Kyriakldes, its special delegate to America, about the heartleft sympathy and keen interest shown by the American people and press to the cause of unredeemed Hellenism. A statement by the organi zation says: t . "The Central Committee of Unre deemed Hellenes deem it to be its duty to express-to - the American- people and press its deep gratitude for American hospitality and that people's undivided support. "The committee firmly believes that the delegates of the American peopie at the peace conference at Paris will gladly and favorably respond to the most democratic aspirations of 3.000.000 of the unredeemed Greeks, with Greek national consciousness who have been groaning for five centuries under the heel of the unspeakable Turk, by con firming and ratifying the minimum claims of Hellenism presented to the peace conference by Premier Venizelos. "Recent reliable reports from Turkey teach the civilized world that the Turks continue their oppressions and their ferocious activity against the in offensive Greek and Armenian com munities in Thrace and Asia Minor, and that unless the peace conference brings forward a speedy settlement of the subject the nations win have to lament more catastrophes of a serious nature. "DR. E VANG ELIDES, . "President of the Central Committee of unredeemed Hellenes. By CONST ANTINE LAMERAS, Sec retary." The Central Committee of Unre deemed Hellenes is an organization built up in Athens to relieve the al most intolerable condition of the tens of thousands of Greeks living under the rule of the Turk. Nicholas G. Kyriakldes, a wealthy shipowner of Athens, and Christo Vassilikaki. a member of the Greek parliament, were delegated to this country by the cen tral committee last autumn to inform the American people and the Ameri can government of the atrocities committed by the Turks upon the Greeks living in Thrace and Asia Minor. Mr. Kyriakldes was & figure in the political revolt which ended in the dethronement of the pro-German Constantine, the former Kaiser's broth er-in-law. which the railroad administration Avould consider fair. "The railroad administration's only answer has been that the steel price an nounced by the board is 'too high.' If too high" means that the railroad ad ministration can force lower prices, by smashing industry, smashing labor, smashing the public interest and throw ing production into the hands of the most powerful and lowest cost produc ers, the board agrees that the price is "too high." but it -vsjas precisely these results the board' was set upon to pre vent and the case stands proved that lower prices without these results are impossible. Director-General Persists. "Still the railroad administration per sists and announces specifically that its only view of a low price is one that shall, by inherent attractiveness, in duce buying not by the railroad ad ministration alone, but also by the old railroad corporations, which are ably represented in the administration by -the director-general himself and Messrs. Lovett and Walters, who have headed the opposition to the board. i' "That the administration would com mit itself against the public interest merely to support the ancient and dis credited railroad slogan, 'the public be damned, is unthinkable. Yet after all it ia the administration, not the director-general alone, who had power to thwart the board. I can only admit the public to my own perplexity among the following conjectures: Some Questions Asked. "In the beginning did the present op ponents of the board fail to foresee the far-reaching results to be achieved and was the growing importance and power of the board's policy too power ful a political engine to leave outside maneuvers, the Figaro declares. The Petit Parisien quotes Colonel Henry, the French liaison officer, as specifi cally denying the rumor that the Ger man delegation was to return to Ger many. He said, however. Count von Brockdorff-Rantzau might go to Wei mar to confer with the government. Advices from Versailles today said the contemplated trip of Count von Brockaorir-Rantzau to Germany was believed to be imminent. Already six members of the German delegation have left for borne. They were tne bearers, however, of reports, etc The Journal des- Debats declares re ports that the -German delegation would go home appear to be ground less. BERLIN, May 10. (By the Asso ciated Press.) The German peace delegation is expected to reply to the entente's terms before the expiration of the time limit, according to opinion expressed here. The reply, according to a Berlin news agency, will declare the treaty in violation of President Wilson's 14 points as regards self -de termination and economic freedom. Hun Delegratea Are Buay. Military delegates, Heinrlchs and Von Seekt, are returning to Berlin from Versailles, for a consultation. LONDON. May 10. The German peace delegates are working hard to expedite examination of the peace terms, says a Reuter's Versailles cor respondent. When the first part has been examined. Count von Brockdorff- Rantzau will. leave for Berlin to confer with the government. Dry slab woo t. and inside wood, green stamps, for cash. Holman Fuel Co. Main 353. A 3352. Adv. Phone your want ads to The Orego nian. Phone Main 7070, A 6035, SAILING FETE IS RECALLED Robert Gray 'First Person to Cross Columbia River Bar. VANCOUVER, Wash., May 11. (Spe cial.) Today is the 127th anniversary of the first crossing of the Columbia bar by Robert Gray, American seaman sailing with Captain Meares, command ing an English vessel. The trip had been tried several times, but the cross currents had baffled every attempt un til Gray succeeded in making it in a small, boat. The first steamer to ply the" Pacific ocean, in 1836. had her paddle wheels Installed at the government dock in this city. She came around the Horn with her wheels in her hold. This ship operated on the Pacific coast and Puget sound until the last or tne past century when she was wrecked. SPOKANE BANS JAYWALKER Persons Stepping Off Street Cars to Be Protected. SPOKANE, Wash., May 11. (Special.) The Jaywalking section of the city's new city trarric ordinance is now in ef feet. Commissioner of Public Safety Tilsley stated today. Officers have been detailed to aid in the enforcement of the'traffic ordinance, giving particu lar attention to Jaywalkers and automo bile owners who fail to respect the rights of persons approaching or de parting from streetcars. On the first offense a Jaywalker will be reminded of the law. On the second he will be asked to visit police head quarters where his name and address will be taken and placed on a card In dex. On the third offense the pedes trian will be booked on the police blot ter and asked to tell his troubles to the court, . 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There are Victors and Victrolas in great variety from $12 to $950. Victor Talking Machine Co., Camden, N. J. Important Notice. Victor Records and Victor Machines are scientific ally coordinated and synchronized in the processes of manufacture, and their use, one with the other, is absolutely essential to a perfect reproduction. ' Now Victor Records dmm iu tr.t.d at sO osalars aa tk. 1st of aaek ssoath Victrola m IDAHO SEEKS LOAN HONORS STATE EXCEEDS ITS QUOTA. IS VICTORY CAMPAIGN. State Chairman to Claim Second Place in Contest Involving Twelfth District, BOISE. Idaho. May 11. (Special.) Telegraph ad telephone reports from all parts f the state received at vic tory loan headquarters Saturday Indi cate that Idaho has rver subscribed its victory note allotment more than a mil lion dollars. Chairman Gwlnn ex pressed the belief that every county in the state had made its quota and the state as a whole has subscribed ap proximately $12,000,000. Notwithstanding: that many counties reached their allotment several days afo, subscriptions continued to reach the banks until late yesterday. '1 ineist that Idaho has won second place In the twelfth federal reserve dis trict." Mr. Gwlnn raid tonight, "and I officially notified San Francisco that our quota was oversubscribed. Owing to the distance of parts of Idaho from main lines of communication it takes some time for official bank returns to reach San Francisco, but out quota is more than protected as final returns will conclusively show." It is estimated that 60,000 subscribers have participated in raising; Idaho's quota of $11,150,000 and the million surplus. WAREHOUSE IS DESTROYED Army Officers Lose Thousands of Precious Keepsakes. DOUGLAS. Arts.. May 11. Many thousands of dollars worth of personal belongings and irreplaceable keepsakes of officers stationed here and of sev eral who are with the army in France, were destroyed here last night when the clothing storehouse of the army quartermaster department burned, with an estimated loss of $100,000. The warehouse was completed re cently at a cost of $13,000. Ground Grippers The warm weather is coming; on. Get" into Ground Gripper Shoes and be comfortable during the remainder of your days. They make a fine-looking street and walking shoe, and cost less than other high-grade shoes. White, tan and black, for men, ladies and children, and carried only at the Ground Gripper Shoe Store 381 Vz Washington Street fDANCE When troubled with indigestion or sour stomach take a few doses of Cham berlain's Tablets. They will invigorate your stomach, improve your digestion. Try it and see how much better you will feel after a few days treatment. These Tablets only cost 25 cents per bottle. 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